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PART II. 7 to lO. si' I" ,'. i "i REPUBLICAN, ESTABLISHED SEPT. 5, 1878. illBY WAS W1N1R BLIND MOTHER FORGETS MIS FORTUNE IN BOY'S VICTORY. Pathetic Case From Chicago in ^hieh Mother Has Never Seen the Face of Her Baby, the Most Beautiful Child in the City. Chicago, May 14.—"If I could only Bee my baby's face." Mra. Mary Couch, blind fcor eight years, sat last night at a new piano in her home at 1408 Fulton street. In one arm, a chubby fist pressing her cheek, lay her year-old baby boy—a baby boy her sightless eyes have never seen. The fingers on the other hand sank •with the facile grace of an accom plished musician among the keys, making soft music. Happy smiles wreathed tlie mother's face. She paused in her playing now and again, and bent down her head to kiss the child. "If 1 could only see my pretty boy," she reiterated, again and again. William Couch, the baby its mother has never seen, won the piano offered as the grand prize at the baby show at the First Regiment armory from 2,000 babies. He also won the second prize as the healthiest baby in the show. "I am the happiest woman in Chi cago tonight," said Mrs. Couch. "There is no woman in the world with whom I would change places. And yet, there is always one thing lacking, I cannot see my baby." Eight years ago Mrs. Couch's sight began falling. The man who was to marry her saw her first at a piano and loved her. His friends warned him that the girl was going blind. It made no difference to him. So they were married. Only a few weeks aft er the ceremony, the failing eyes be came dark forever. A year ago a baby was born. The sightless mother permitted no to tend it but herself. She made its clothes. i She crooned it to sieep with lulla bies. She tucked it into its trundle bed at eventide. She dressed it in the morning. Her husband told her what a fine boy it was. Her friends and neighbors told her it was the prettiest baby in Chicago. fler eyes could not tell whether they spoke the truth. She did not know it ivas the prettiest boy in town. Her mother's heart knew only that It was the dearest. When the earthquake- wrecked San Francisco and the fire consumed what 4he earthquake had left, one of her girlhood's friends perished in the flames. The agony of that lawful death was one .sight her sightless eyes saw clear ly. When the baby show for the San Francisco sufferers was planned she seized an opportunity to do something for the unfortunate ones left among the ash heaps. She entered her baby In the competition. "There are many pretty babies here," they told her, "but yours is prettiest of all." The mother thought they were only warming her heart with kindly flat tery. Grand ladles of society, with flash ing diamonds and plumes and silks, stopped before her. They patted the baby's cheeks. They held it at arm's length to admire the laughing of its eyes, the healthy pink and white of its skin, the silkiness of its fair hair. "Here is the finest baby In the Show," they told the mother. Still she was unconvinced. At last came the election, when the great crowds voted for their choice among the 2,000 babies. Long streams of men and women filled the booths where Miss Lina Small presided over the ballot boxes. When the polls had closed and the votes had been counted the blind mother's baby had won the grand prize by 1,904 ballots. Almost as sooqs as the mother and her baby arrived home the $650 grand piano given by A. V. Steger & Sons, was unloaded at the door. This is the reason that the little borne in Fultqn street is bright today with a happiness that even blindness cannot shut out. GRAYER THEN LK3EN8E. GounoM Opened With Prayer and then t.- Whisky License Was Voted. Wheeling, W. Va., May 14.—At the Urst regular meeting of the council of •the new town of Patterson, adjoining this city, Mayor-elect Williams invited the village clergyman to offer prayer. ,^The pastor performed the duty and .then remained to hear the regular Business proceedings. The first matter taken up was the .granting of a saloon license for a sa Jron which had previously been doing business under a county license. -.r« v, Brazilian Volcano. Wn de Janeiro, May 14.—fti-atlT Is experiencing Its share of seismic dis- tenly iirbances, a new volcano having sud made its appearance at Poco ^'Anta, in the state of Mlna,s-Oaraes. fte he town of Poco d'Anta was built at base of a high conical hill, which Was covered with trees to the summit. JL short time ago the inhabitants were SLushing wakened by a terrific detonation. from their houses they dis Covered that the top of the hill had Igeen blown away, leaving a great cra ter, from which smoke and flames Hl'ere issuing. The course of the river 'toqulta, which flows past the town, Was completely changed by the thous ands of tons of eUsTth t^at filled the Original channel. mi I The United States Senate will keep on with the rate bill this week and no one can say how long that meas ure will continue to receive atention. Senator Tillman expresses great anx iety for a vote, tut the probabilities are that many of the senators will de sire to speak further on the section that deals with the makeup of the interstate commerce commission. Further debate upon the general feat ures may also be expected and it is not at all improbable that the dis pute over Senator Tillman's negotia tions with the president will be reviv ed. With the rate bill disposed of the senate probably will be very quiet for a few days. The first legislation of importance which may be undertaken is the leg islative, executive and judicial ap propriation bill. The measure is still before the committee on appropria tions, but is in such shape that it can be reported out any time. Senator Dillingham, chairman of the committee on immigration probably will make an effort to get action on INDIAN PRINCE ARRIVED. He Will Investigate the Colleges of the United States. ff«W York, May 14.—The Mahara jah Gfaekwar of Baroda, accompanied by his wife, the Maharanee, and his brother, Sampatras, landed Sunday from the steamer Celtic, which arriv ed from Liverpool. The Maharajah Gaekwar is the second greatest prince in all India and the direct descendant of one of the Mahratta generals who were the moguls or rulers of India when the East India Co. wrested con trol from them. He is the ruler of Baroda, which has a population of 2, 000,000 and an area of 8,000 square miles. His brother acts as his sec retary. "During my stay in the United States," said the maharajah, "I shall visit most of your large colleges. I am most anxious to see Yale, Prince ton, Harvard and Cornell, for I under stand that there are a large number bf Indian students at those institu tions. After I have spent two weeks In New York I shall go to Boston, from th,ere to Philadelphia and then through the west to Yellowstone park, and on my return I Intend to visit President Roosevelt at Washington." While here the maharajah will buy gifts for his young daughter, the Princess Indirarapa, who is now 13 years of age and is to be married in the fan to the wtjiah of Dharthe, ruler of Dhar. The maharajah takes deep interest in the development and uplifting of his fellow countrymen and toward this end has established a college In Baroda. He will send some of the graduates to the United States to 1«WJ® the customs of the people here. Republican Celebration. Santa Cruz, Cal., May 14.—Republi cans from all parts of the state are gathered here to attend the golden jubilee celebration In honor of the fif tieth anniversary of the first national republican convention. This celebra tion is to be held in connection with the fifth annual convention of the State League of republican clubs of California, which opens in Santa Cruz Casino hall today and will last two days. There was a short business meeting this forenoon and in the aft ernoon the Union League club of Stockton, will present an oil portrait of Gen. John C. Fremont, the first re publican nominee for president. This will be followed with greetings to the pioneer republicans who voted for Fremont in 1856. Tomorrow there will be a reception to the veterans of the Mexican, civil and Spanish-American wars. This will be followed by exercises commem orating the services rendered to the party by distinguished national and state republicans. Tomorrow after noon there will be a meeting with short speeches, general business, elec tion of officers and election of dele gates to the National League conven tion. In the evening there will be a social reunion at the Sea Beach hotel, in honor of the retiring and the newly elected officers. The biennial convention of the Na tional Republican league will be held in Philadelphia and on that occasion the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the First National Renubllc&ncon ventlon will be celebrated. Chamois for New Zealand. Vienna, May 14.—A chamois drlvf* was held on the Schneeberg, in the Austrian Alps, not, however, with the idea of shooting but of netting the quarry. The result was eight animals, out of which only two were considered young enough to be kept, the rest be ing let loose again. The emperor has the intention Of presenting at least twenty-four of these fceautlful animals to the government of New Zealand, in return for several specimens of Aus tralian fauna, such as the kiwis, ground parrots, etc., which have been promised for the zoological gardens at Schoenbrunn. The exchange is a result of the visit of the Austrian gunboat Panther last year.to New Zealand. It is hoped to ship the chamois in the course of a month or so, in order to avoid the great heat of a summer voyage. Some curiosity is expressed as to how the creatures will bear the change from forty-seven degrees northern latitude to forty-two south, especially the crossing of the equator. Once in their new island home, it is not anticipated that they will find any difficulty in acclimatizing themse.lve.s, any more than Hungarian partridges have done. J&, Jwr Important Events •v i V/ the Immigration bill, but the present prospect is that that measure will arouse little If any controversy. Sen ator Clapp hopes to bring in the con ference report on the Indian appro priation bill and there are so many subjects of difference in that measure that the* report will not escape criti cism. It is generally agreed that some re port of the conferees on the joint statehood bill will be demanded soon, but the conferees themselves are in clined to believe that it will be post poned beyond the present week, as there is as yet no prospect of a de cision. The prospect for a report on the type for the isthmian canal is somewhat better, but it is very much befogged by the entanglement in the committee. In the national house of representa tives, fhe naval appropriation bill is still on the ways, the five days given to it last week being sufficient to com plete only the first half of the bill. Chairman Foss estimates that the measure can be passed Wednesday if Tuesday is given up to its considera tion. I i.. OFFICER LACKED TACT. The Record of the Court-Martial of Captain Koehler. Washington, D. C., May 14. —The war department has received the rec ord In the court martial case of Capt. L. M. Koehler of the Fourth cavalry, who is on,duty in the Philippines, and who got into trouble by making base less charges against Maj. H. L.- Scott, the cavalry officer who has been dis tinguishing himself at Jolo, who made a fine record In Cuba and who was one of the old Indian fighters. Captain Koehler appears from the record to have been lacking in tact and to have produced a disturbance in the garrison where he was stationed. He was sen tenced to be reprimanded by the re viewing authority, who chanced in this case to be Gen. T. H. Bliss, who re garded the sentence as altogether in adequate. General Bliss added: "The evidence shows that Captain Koehlei has been guilty of conduct which In dicates that he is seriously wanting In those clean-cut and well defined con ceptions of a soldier's duty which should be found in every officer of the army that his conception of the stan dards of conduct and uprightness as they exist In the army are distorted to a degree not found in the just and fair-minded. In administering the reprimand the reviewing authority would remind Cafctain Koehler that he should cultivate those habits of true* soldierly subordination which the evi dence in this case shows him to Costly Blaze'at Dickinson. Dickinson, N. D., May 14.—Fire caused a $6,000 loss on the J. C. F. Parker store and stock and the City bakery store and stock. Damage to the Parker store will be nearly $1,000, fully covered,and his stock of grocer ies was damaged about $3,000, also covered by Insurance. The bakery building, owned by Senator Simpson ,nd Attorney Field, is damaged about $1,500, fully covered. LJt *i' i i Vs a c* o A N A I Y E U I A N FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1906. of lack." Red Men's Carnival. Peoria, III., May 14.—Several thous and visitors have arrived here, at tracted by the big Red Men's carnival, which opened here today and will last to .the end of the week. Every tribe of the Red Men in this state has sent delegations and the greatest enthus iasm prevails. The celebration will begin this afWnSn with a big general parade of the Red Men and will close on Saturday night with a parade for traveling men. ... S WoW' y i rV in, a v- SENATOR 'i V v the World for This Week Then will com,e a contest between three bills which, under special orders, have the right of way over appropria tion bills. These are the pure footl bill, in charge of Representative Hep burn of Iowa the naturalization bill, In charge of Representative Bonynge of Colorado and the bill amending the immigration laws, made a special order at the instance of Representa tive Gardner of Massachusetts. Each will endeavor to get up the bill In his care. Chairman Hepburn appears to have the better chance of success. The foreign affairs' committee last week completed the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill and this, a short measure, will undoubtedly bo sent on its way to the senate before the week is over. The sundry civil appropriation bill is still a subject of daily consideration by the appropriations committee. It Is cxpeeted to ba completed about the end of the week. A committee of the lower house of the Russian parliament having been chosen to consider and make a report on the possible solution of the agrar ian problem, it is said that the ses FAMOUS LAND CASE DECIDED. Long Winded Legal Action Finally Terminated in Kansas City. Kansas City, Mo., May 14.—By a decision rendered by the Kansas su preme court property located just ov er the Missouri state line here and running to Kaw Point, on the Kaw river, valued at between one and two million dollars, was awarded to the heirs of the original owners. Much of the property, which is in what is known as the west bottoms, is occu pied by big business concerns who must now vacate or purchase the land. The case in its various phases has been In the courts for half a century. The land originally was settled upon in 1857 by Silas Armstrong, an Indian of the Wyandotte tribe, living at Up per Sandusky, O. Several whites set tled upon some of the land. Suits fol lowed, ending In Armstrong disposing of the greater portion of his property, in time the river cut a new channel and left part of the land an island. Later the river resumed its natural channel and the island, with accre tions, was settled upon by numerous business enterprises. Those who will lose the heaviest by the decision are the Fowler Packing Co., the National Water Works Co., and Hunter M. Merriwether, all of whom had settled upon the land and claimed the accretions when the river returned to Its old channel. Hearing Arguments. Frankfort, Ky„ May 14.—The state railroad commission today began the hearing of arguments in the case of alleged discrimination and extortion ate freight rates. The commission has been engaged for several months in taking testimony and an immense quantity of material has been accumu lated. It is expected that the hearing will consume several weeks, as a large number of witnesses will be lieftrd. Pure Food Show. Columbus, O., 1ffay 14.—The annual pure food show under the auspices of the Retail Grocers' association of Col umbus opens here tonight at the new Memorial hall. It will last two weeks and is on a much larger scale than any previous 'show of that kind ever held in this city. The attendance promises to be very large, as more than 150,000 tickets of admission to the hall have been distributed among the grocers of the city, to be given away free of charge to their custo mers. X- s/4-s ''/fj&fyfy//#' fr:* 'M i /r v v illSfSS SENATOR ARTHUB PUE GORMAN, WHO IS VERY ILL. GORMAN, who is suffering from a complication of ailments which permit little hope of his recovery, has not been in his seat in the senate for many inonlhl. His illness began with an attack of the grip, which Is so often the forerunner of more sen trouble. Mr. (Jwajau id jaLtti-sav eo years of age and Is serving bis fov term In the senate. .... v /-£.* .* v. i -J ,V v ~-\*x t\, r--. •V' V -V n. Vs Y* 1 UiTl. sions will continue regularly until this all-important question is solved. The cry of "amnesty for political prison ers" has been raised and undoubtedly will be kept to the fore. The emperor has shown such a desire to act in ac cord with the parliament that order may come sooner than even the most sanguine had hoped. This week will see also the preparation of the dourna's reply to the speech from the throne, after which it may be considered that the struggle of Russia's represonta tives for the rights of the people has begun. The members of the American ten nis team which will compete in Eng land for the Dwight F. Davis Interna tional trophy will play in an invita tion tournament at Bay Ridge May 14-16. Secretary Taft will be the guest of honor at the eleventh annual conven tion banquet of the National Associa tion of Manufacturers In New York May 16. He la expected to speak on the Philippine tariff. The general assembly of the Pres byterian church will meet In Des Moines May 17. SULTAN LOSES HAREM. Many of the Inmates Are Taking to the Woods. Constantinople, May 14.—Aft anti hare epidemic seems to have broken out among the Turkish women and girls of the better classes and a* strike is on. A few months ago two daughters of Nouri Bey, secretary general of the ministry of foreign affairs, fled from the harem and went to Paris. Later a daughter of Redvan Pasha, city pre fect, recently assassinated, fled to Broussa. It Is now learned that the daughters of Memdouh Pasha, minis ter of the interior, and of Turkhan Pasha, minister of pious foundations, have fled from the country in order to escape the deadly dullness of harem life. The sultan is uneasy over the mat ter, and In consequence he Is likely to sanction a law forbidding the intrus ion of foreign women in the harem. Lord Cromer's Report. London, May 14.—The earl of Cro mer's annual report upon Egypt and the Soudan has just been issued. In the light of the dispute between Egypt and the porte special interest attaches to a detailed statement on the barbar ism and degradation prevailing among the tribes of the SInal peninsula and the efforts made to introduce more hu mane usages and better order. The measures taken Include the erection of barracks and organization of police, while a telegraphic line and a road for motor carts are projected. The econ omic condition of the country Is de clared to be good, and Lord Cromer says there is every reason to believe that the steady and uniform rate of progress will be maintained in future years, but nowhere must there be un due haste. As to the Soudan, the population Is estlpiated at 1,853,000, including a con jectural figure of 400,000 for the Bahr nel Gazal. The labor question in the Soudan already presents considerable difficulties, and these difficulties are likely to Increase as time goes on. The rate of wages has risen every where, and the demand both on the part of the government and of private individuals, is greater than the sup ply. During the past year only one slight accident occurred to an European. An officer was charged by a leopard, which he had wounded mortally, but after receiving some severe bites, he managed to throttle the animal with his hands. Among the natives who are less well armed, accidents are more frequent. Mr. Butler reports the case of an Arab who attacked a lion with only a spear, and killed It with a single thrust, but was himself killed by a blow delivered by the paw of the animal. The report concludes with the warning that If the Soudan is to be effectually reclaimed from savag ery, there must be no undue haste. The progress of the Soudan depends upon steady, continuous, unostenta tious, and combined efforts along the lines of a well defined policy, from which there should be no divergence. Must Wait. York, May 14.—The Attorney general has rendered an opinion to the secretary of war In the case of the Hudson Highlands Bridge & Rail way Co. in the matter of alterations required in Its bridge across the Hud son river. The case has been pending for a long time, and involves an im portant point. The bridge, when first built, was erected before the enact ment of the law authorizing federal control of such structures, and the company claims that alterations made in the bridge are still exempt from federal supervision. By virtue of the opinion of the attorney general the war department must approve the plans of any changes contemplated in the structure. The attorney general says on that point: "The question of the right of the company to construct a bridge without the express authority of congress, which may have existed prior to the passage of the act of 1899, has been conclusively settled by that act. The failure of congress to anti cipate from the provisions of that act cases like this, which It had been held were excepted from the act of 1890, is controlling as to the Intent of con gress. I therefore advise you that you are not authorized to act upon the application of petitioner to pro ceed with the construction of thf bridge until the consent of congress to the building of the bridge Is first Obtained." A V .»• I THE FROM THE HUMMIfS TUBERCULOSIS WAS CAUSED IN EGYPT BY DISINTERMENT. Bacilli, Thousands of Years Old Lib* erated to Curse the World—State ment of a Noted Fre«ich Physieian on Results of His Investigation. Chicago, May 14.—Egyptology Ver sus Health is the title of a monograph received at the headquarters of the Tuberculosis institute, of Chicago, In which it is alleged that the great spread of tuberculosis in Europe and America in the last 100 years found Its causation in the disinterment and shipment broadcast over the land of the mummies which had reposed so long in the tombs of the Pharaohs. The monograph was written by Dr. Rafaelle Sorgnac, one of the lecturers at the Sorbonne In Paris, who was an Interested visitor at the recent tuber culosis exhibit In this city. "That the disinterred mummies started the spread of tuberculosis germs In Egypt cannot bp doubted." says Dr. Sorgnac In his monograph. "There are more tuberculosis germs In the almost impalpable dust around a mummy case than In many cuspidors of effluvia. "These germs live thousands of years, as has easily been proven and the exhumation of (he bodies, even the well preserved ones, caused an epi demic of consumption among the workmen and scholars who first ex humed the cases. It Is also well known that the keepers of the mummy cases have been subject to the disease. 'The start of tuberculosis In France, In a serious sense, may be traced to *he great Importation of mummies and mummy cases at the time of the Napoleonic Invasion of Egypt, and this Ktart gave the disease Its first great foothold In Europe, whence It has spread all over the western world. Dead bodies may not secrete the germs, but dead bodies are undoubt edly a favorite lodging place for the tubercular bacilli. "The bacilli from the mummies are undoubtedly of great age, and It has been shown by experiments In Paris that these aged bacilli are infinitely more deadly than these obtained from the sputum of live persons who are infected." Went Out Alone. Philadelphia, May 14.—John T. Yar nell, 80 years, and his wife, only eight years his junior, had lived long and happily together, but the old man longed for the rest the grave gives. He turned to herand said quite sim ply: ... -jy "Sarah, I'm tired. I've lived too long, but I don't want t© go out alone." Then he shot her, and, thinking she was dead, turned the revolver on him* self and ended the life that had grown, wearisome. Yet the old man went out alone, for the doctors say his wife will live. The home of the couple's otily daughter, Mrs. Joseph J. Wyww, tvas the scene of the tragedy. Widow Charged With Murder. Worcester, Mass., May 14. -Mi** Myra A. Bemis, a well-to-do widow, whose comliness of face and figure and liking for fast horses have made her a striking figure in the community of Barre, where is situated her farm, has been arrested on a charge of mtu1 der. Her arrest Is the result of several weeks' investigation of the death on her farm of John Hammond. Detec tives working on the case have re ceived reports of at least two other cases of sudden death of men engag ed to work for the widow. Hammond entered into an agree ment by which, It Is said, he was to leave Mrs. Bemis all his property for the privilege of passing his declining years on her broad acres. Hammond's body was exhumed and the stomach and intestines were sent to Professor Whitney, Harvard col lege, for analysis. Traces of arsenic and morphine were found. Professor Whitney recently analyzed the stom ach of Mrs. Erich Muenter. wife of Professor Muenter, and it wa,s on his report that Professor Muenter was ac cused of murdering his wife with arse nic. JUDGE LOCHREN. Veteran Jurist Will Continue Hi« Dil* ties on the Benoh. Minneapolis, May 14 —Judge liam Lochren will continue on the bench of the United States district court. For some months the Judge has been in doubt as to his course. He has been on the federal bench ten years and had felt for a time that the state of his health might not permit hl.m to continue. On May 21 It will become optional under the law whether he retires from active service. f. Judge Lochren's health has been steadily Improving of late, and mueto of his old-time vigor and enthusiasm for his work has returned. He has been attending to his duties as regu larly as of yore and shows no «»g«f of needing a protracted vacation. Accordingly the veteran juriat htm decided to retain his seat for an in. definite period. The Independent Order of B'rtth Abraham, which is holding a conveii tion in New York, has voted to ap point a committee which should take steps toward organizing an American Federation of Jews to begin the con struction of a sanitarium for the sick of the order and to make the 'V i .* 1 I PEOPI.E*® fAfll FORUM ESTABLISHED NOV. 17, 189L it ... English language the Ungual medium of the order. V