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THE WFATBEB
Blair tonight and Thursday, slightly
cooler tonight. Barometer, 28.95
highest yesterday, 40 loweat last
night, a®*- v
FORUM ESTABLISHED NOV. 17, 1891.
PEACE FUND
The trustees of the fund are: United
States Senator Enhu Root, ex-secre
tary of state and ex-secretary of war
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, New
York, president of Columbia univer
sity Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president
of the Carnegie foundation for the ad
vancement of teaching Jos. H.
Choate, lawyer, ex-ambassador to
Great Britain Albert K. Smiley, Lake
Mohonk, N. Y., educator and humani
tarian Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president
emeritus of Harvard university
James Brown Scott, solicitor of the
state department John W. Foster,
lawyer, ex-governor of Virginia Wm.
M. Howard, lawyer, congressman,
Lexington, Ga. Judge Thomas Burke,
Seattle, Wash. James L. Slayden.
congressman. San Antonio, Texas
Andrew D. White, ex-ambassador to
Germany Robert S. Brookins, lawyer,
St. Louis, Mo. Emil Mather, banker,
steel manufacturer, Cleveland,'. Ohio
J. G. Schmidlapp, railroad man,
Cincinnati Arthur William Foster,
regent University of California, San
Francsco R. A. Franks, banker, Ho
boken, N. J. Charlemagne Tower, ex
ambassador to Germany and Russia
Oscar Straus, ambassador to Turkey
hero fund commission and Geo. W.
Perkins of New York, financier and
philanthropist Robert S. Woodward
of Washington, and Grover H. Dodge
of New York, president'and secretary,
respectively, of the Carnegie institu
tion of Washington.
N. DAKOTA TIMN
WILL DE REBUILT
PORTION OF PORTAL DESTROYED
BY FIRE WILL BE REBUILT
AT ONCE.
Taft May Restrict the
Minnesota Dry Zone
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Carnegie Gites Great Sum to
Abolish Warfare
US HOI NAMED IIIISIEES
FUND 18 INVESTED IN 5 PER
CENT BONDS AND WILL BRING
IN AN ANNUAL INCOME OF
1600,000 WHICH IS TO BE USED
A S O E I S E I O N O
TRUSTEES ROOT PRESIDENT
OP TRUSTEES.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 14.—An
drew Carnegie today transferred to
the board of trustees $10,000,000 in 5
per cent first mortgage bonds, the
revenue of which will be used to
"hasten the abolition of international
war and establish lasting world
peace." The formal transfer was
made at a meeting in the rooms of the
Carnegie Research Foundation.
The trustees organized by choosing
as president,
United
States Senator
Elilm Hoot, permanent representative
Of the United
States
at the
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This Is Belief in Washington Now—Con^ ssional Delegation
Swamped by Telegrams From Liq f- Interests
of Northwestern Minneso,!
Washington, D. C., Dec. 14.—Congressional reliet rfi asked by the
liquor interests of northwestern Minnesota in num us telegrams
n
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Minnesota delegation in congress today. The delega, 1* u is observ
ing the customary silence with regard to the situation fearing that
any other than a non-committal course upon their part will bring
down upon their heads the wrath of one or the other elements.
The president has been appealed to take a hand in the situation
And it is evident now that he will issue an order restricting the dry
Eone to the immediate Indian reservation or a few mile limit around
these agencies.
Hague
tribunal.
President Taft has consented to be
honorary president of the foundation.
The method by which the annual In
come of half a million dollars shall be
expended Is left by Carnegie entirely
In the hands of the trustees.
The foundation Is to be perpetual,
and when the establishment of uni
versal peace is attained, the donor
provides that the revenue shall be de
voted to the banishment of the next
most degrading evil or evils, the sup
pression of which would most advance
the progress, the elevation and the
happiness of man.
Austin G. Fox, lawyer, New York
John L. Cadwalder, lawyer, New York at one captain, one lieutenant and
John Sharp Williams, senator-elect twelve soldiers. Twenty-seven of his
from Mississippi C. L. Taylor of men, including two officers,
Pittsburg, chairman of the Carnegie verely wounded.
Portal, N. D., Dec. 14.—That Portal
will rebuild that portion of the city
destroyed by fire on Nov. 18 is assured
by the fact that building material has I
been placed on the lot owned by the
International bank, where a temporary
building will be erected for Ambrose I ONE OF BEST KNOWN CONTRAC
Dally, who will use it this winter for
a candy and iruit store. In the spring!
Mr. Dally will have a substantia] brick I
block constructed.
Bert Pierce, who owned the pool
room and candy Btorfe room, is here i
from Montana and says he will put up
a two-story brick building as soon as
the frost is out of the ground in the
spring.
William Anderson has resumed bus
iness in the Arc-de theatrt
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C. £. uusvtr
AT GRAND FORKS
DR. CREEGAN OF FARGO COLLEGE
WILL BE ONE OF PRINCIPAL
SPEAKERS THIS EVENING.
Grand Forks, N. D., Dec. 14.—The
annual convention of the Christian
Endeavfr society for North Dakota
opened here this morning in the Pres
byterian church. There Is a good at
tendance.
The tessron opened with a devo
tional, prayer and praise service which
was followed by a message to the
Endeavorers and an address of wel
come by Rev. W. H. Matthews of
Grand Forks. The response was made
by Rev. C. H. Phillips of Jamestown.
These addresses were followed by
reports from the state secretary and
treasurer, and a number of interesting
addresses, including one by Traflford
N. Jayne of Minneapolis.
At the afternoon session among the
many interesting addresses was one
by Mrs. Walter A. Snow of Fargo.
This evening Pres. C. C. Creegan of
Fargo college will deliver an address
on A Century of Missions, and Rev. B.
Scott Bates of Forest River, N. D.p will
deliver a stereopticon lecture on Chris
tian Endeavor in All Lands.
Horrible Barbarity Is Reported
From Mexico
THE VOUNDJD BAYONETED
DELAYED REPORT FROM "THE
FRONT" COMING BY WAY OF
EL PASO GIVES GRAPHIC DE­
SCRIPTION OF TERRIBLE AFT
ERMATH OF BATTLE.
At the front, Raneho Santiago, near
Pedernales, Dec. 12, via El Paso, Tex.,
Dec. 14.—In yesterday's engagement
the revolutionists fought General Na
varro to a! standstill, although inferior
in numbers. All told seventy-four per
sons are known by independent inves
tigation* to have been killed.
Navarro took no prisoners—it -Is
contrary to his orders—and in Ills
camp today there were no wounded
of the other side. The bayonet had
completed the work of the bullet.
A horrible instance of the barbarity
of the campaign occurred after the
battle. Every man In the hamlet of
Gerro Prleto (Dark Hill) was brought
before the mayor to prove his inno
cence of participation in the revolt.
Thirty could not do this. As fast as
their identity became known they
were taken out and shot. They are
Included in the number of dead.
General Navarro places his own dead
were se-
There was no fight­
ing today despite the proximity of the
two forces, which in itself indicates a
drawn battle soon. Navarro stated he
expected serious fighting from now on.
Claims Rebels Cleared Out.
Washington, D. C.. Dec. 14.—Mexi
can federal troops have completely
routed the revolutionists in Chihuahua
and captured the city of Guerrero, ac
cording to a telegram received today
by the state department from Ambas
sador Wilson at Mexico city.
"This cleared the state of Chihuahua
and other parts of the country," said
Wilson, "of all organized resistance to
the government",
IS iliUMl FROZEN
TORS OF WEST WANDERS
AWAY TO DIE DURING
FEVER.
Winnipeg, Dec. 14.—The body of
Nell Keith, one of the best known
railroad contractors of America, who
built lines for all the principal com
panies in the west during the past
thirty years was found frozen to
building! death in the hills south of Moose Jaw,
where he hag a JtyUy equipped popllSask yesterday, where he pandered
six weeks ago, while in a fever.
Judge- Bond finished his charge to
the jury In the Le Blanc murder trial
at 9:32. Hattie Le Blanc was in
formed by the court that she might
speak If she desired, and facing the
THEDAKOTAS
STAND HIGH
Second in the Number of "Fi
nancial Corporations"
Aberdeen. S. !., Dec. 14.—The re
port of the ihternai revenue office for
the district of North and South Da
kota shows that while this district
stands twenty-third In the total num
ber of .corporations doing business
within its jurisdiction, it stands second
in the number of "financial corpora
tions," comprising banking institu
tions, public service corporations, mer
cantile corporations, etc., the Kansas
district
only
MURDERER DEAD
VICTIM MAY DIE
80UTH DAKOTA FARM HAND WHO
HELD'POSSE AT BAY ALL
DAY DIES FROM IN­
JURIES.
Yankton, -ft. D., Dec, 14 —-Daniel
Courtenay, the farmer, who was shot
by George Rossteuscher, a farm haod,
who ha*d been discharged because of
his attentions to Courtenay's niece,
was still alive today, but the doctoA
hold out no hope for his recovery.
Rossteuscher, who was made a
prisoner late yesterday afternoon,
after he had defied a posse all day.
died last night. It has not been de
termined whether he
member's of the posse
self.
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New York, Dec. 14.—Authors, art
tats. statesmen* exemplars of the
learned professions who constitute the
membership of the American Academy
of Arts and Letters aad the institute
of the same name, met, in the New
HATTIE LE BLANC NOT GUILTY,
SAYS JURY IN THE CASE TODAY
HATTIE LE BLANC.
Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 14.—Hattie Le Blanc, on trial for the mur
der of ci&rena* Glow, ni fotmd not gatity by ttte jury this
morning. •.
exceeding the district of
the Dakotas. The tax collected from
the corporations of the district dur
ing the year totaled $60,366.08, and
the average tax was $14.31 from* each
of the 4.218 corporations.
THK FARGO FORUM
AND DAILY REPUBLICAN
Jury with her arms folded she said In
a weak voice and with a strong French
accent: "I did not do it. I want to
go home with my father." The jury
was given the case at 9:45 a. m.
were out only a few
(minutes.
House Again Scrapping Over
Own Government
Washington, renewal of
the fight oh rules which signalized the
past session was precipitated today by
Representative Hughes of New Jersey.
The point raised was whether a bill
considered in the regular order last
Wednesday could be taken up again
today.
The que»tion undet i .consideration
was whether a bill for the codifica
tion and revision of the laws relating
to the judiciary, the consideration of
which occupied all last Wednesday
should again be taken up today simply
on the call of the chairman of the
committee reporting the measure.
The question Was raided by Hughes
after Representative Moon of Penn
sylvania, chairman of the committee
on revision of laws had asked that
the house proceed with the considera
tion of the bill for codifying the judi
ciary laws.
Representative Fitzgerald of New
York led the democratic side of the
house in opposing consideration of
the bill. He declared that the house
under the rules could decide for itself
what business it shall consider. After
the discussion had proceeded for an
hour Speaker Cannon ruled that there
were no precedents exactly fitting the
situation, but that the house should
not be deprived of doing whht it de
sired. Therefore he ruled that the
house settle for itself whether It
would proceed to consider the bill. By
a vote of 146 to 51, the house de
cided to take up the measure.
Bad Flood In Italy.
Rome, Dec. 14.—A heavy rainfall con
tinued today and the flood situation in
northern Italy became more serious
hourly. The Tiber has
riBen
until it
Is twenty-one feet above its normal
was shot by level. Government officials are mak
of shot him- ing every effort to relieve those living
', •. in the inundated districts.
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IMMORTALS OF ARTS AND LETTERS MEET IN NOTABLE MENTAL MARATHON
FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1910. REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHED SEPT. 5, 1578.
ENIO
A
Disaster in Virginia Brings
Death to Many
Twenty-two of Them Believed
to Be Dead
Explosion Caused by Ignition
of Gas in Mine
Norton, Va., Dec. 14.—Twenty
•ix men were entombed by an ex
plosion in the Grenno mine, of the
Bond Coal Co., near Tacoma, at
9 o'clock this morning. The lat
est reports indicate that twenty
two of the entombed miners are
dead. The explosion was caused
by a quantity ce gas bccorrinfl ig
nited in the working* of the mine.
ROOSEVELT DID
NOT OPEN UP
N«w Hivn, Dec. 14.—Bhc-Presldent
Roosevelt's first political speech since
the recent election was delivered here
last night at a dinner given to him by
the New Haven Chamber of Com
merce. Roosevelt made no reference
to the recent elections or to current
political subjects. He confined himself
to a reiteration of the broad political
doctrines to which he has given ex
pression many times during his speak
ing trips the past summer, saying he
was glad to make in Connecticut just
such a speech as he had made at
former gatherings in the west.
Baldwin Was Absent.
Governor-elect Simeon E. Baldwin's
place at the banquet table was vacant.
He remained at home, retiring early.
There were no developments in Roose
velt's controversy with Baldwin dur
ing the colonel's stay hero.
To Deliver Nobel Lecture.
morning.
Length of Construction Period
to Homesteader
IS FAVORED BY COMMITTEE
TO HELP DROUGHT STRICKEN
HOMESTEADERS ALL OVER THE
COUNTRY PERIOD OF CON
STRUCTIVE RESIDENCE EX
TENDED TO AFTER MAY 16.
Washington, Dec. 14.—The house
committee on public lands today
unanimously voted in favor of a joint
resolution offered by Representative
Mondell of Wyoming, providing for
the extension of the construction peri
od of residence on homesteads until
after May 15, 1911.
Mr. Mondell offered the resolution In
the interest of drought i-tricken home
steaders all over the country. Under
its provisions homesteaders will not
be required to begin actual residence
on their homesteads until May 15, 1911,
the resolution probably will be adopted
by congress at an early date.
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Pprsmost exemplars tfcs Iwwwd profession Jitter at session of the AwieHfoan Academy and Art Institute. 'Left to right, (sitting)— H. Morris, secretary of
institute R. U. Johnson, secretary of academy James T. Rhodes, received gold medal Henry Van Dyke, president of institute William
Dean Howeils George W. Cable J. A. Mitchell Arthur Twining Hadley.. Right to left—second row—Charles Dana Gibson Micholas Murray
theatre, Central 'Park? West and Sixty
third* street, and bestowed a reward
of intellectual toil, a gold medal, on
James Ford Rhodes, a Boston his
torian.
Butler T. R. Loundbury B. Matthews W. C. Brownell W. Morton Payne St. Clair McElway H. Mills Alden G. W. CHadwick. Left to
v right—third row—Daniel C. French Hamilton Wright Mabia Bliss Perry Augustus Thomas Edwin H. Bashfield F. E. Milet.
It was a notable gathering of «LX*
IVs" with not a "T. B. M." in sight.
The venerable John Bigelow. 93 years
old and hale In body and mind,
was the lion of the day. Addresses on
modern tendencies were ntade by men
prominent in ail branches of learned
PREDICT8 MONSTER
CROP FOR NbXT YEAR.
IVvils Lake, N. D., Dec. 14.—
Hon. T. W. Conyers. who is in
town from Cando today, says the
farmers of Towner county are
coming through the winter in good
shape. The crop was by no means
all that could be desired this year,
but fortunately most of the farm
ers were in a position to stand a
shortage or a total loss for that
matter. "The farnrts were never
In better condition for seeding
than they will be next spring."
said Mr. Conyers. "A word of
summer and fall plowing was done
this year, and I predict that more
grain will be raised next year than
ever before In this section of the
to corn raising by degrees, and
acreage will be more than doubled
next year. It is years like this
I that bring the farmers face to face
I with the proposition that corn and
[.hogs are a good thing to have
around the farm."
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STILL WORK
N. D. Delegation After Circuit
Judgeship
Washington, Dec. 14.—Undismayed
by their failure to land United States
District Judge Amidon of Fargo as a
member of the new commerce court,
initial steps were taken by the North
Dakota congressional delegation to se
cure Judge Amidon's promotion to the
circuit court of appeals.
The delegation has in mind the va
cancy in the Eighth circuit created by
the appointment of Judge Vandeventer
of Cheyenne to the supreme bench.
James D. Elliott of South Dakota
has been prominently mentioned for
the district judgeshiu of his state to
succeed Carland, who goes to the new
commerce court. Former Senator A.
B. Kittridge of South Dakota is also
mentioned for the place, but Elliott
has the endorsement of the state bar
as well as the congressional delega-
Boston. MasB., Dec. 14.—Theodore
Roosevelt, who came today to deliver tion.
the Nobel lecture at Harvard this Counsel for Milwaukee.
evening, attended the regular monthly -Aberdeen 8. D., Doc. 14.—Senator*
meeting of Harvard overseers here this Crawford and Gamble will recommend
to the president the appointment of
James D. Elliott of Aberdeen to the
position of United States judge for
the district of South Dakota, follow
ing the promotion of Judge John E.
Carland to a place on the new com
merce court. Mr. Elliott is at present
general counsel for the Milwaukee
railroad, but was formerly United
States attorney for South Dakota. He
removed to Aberdeen from Tyndall,
S. D., a year ago. Mr. Elliott and
Senator Gamble have long been close
!8tate
an3 with
flcatlons for the position are pro-
ONE MORE ARREST
N KUKGER CASE
THREE NOW TN TOILS IN
NECTION WITH BRUTAL
QUADRUPLE KILL­
ING.
Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 14. One
more arrest will be made in connec
tion with the Bernhardt quadruple
murder case. Chief of Police Zimme»
.jf Kansas City said today. Sam Bailey
ind Ike Whithell, former employes of
the Bernhardts, and jomi ..
neighbor, who are being h«ld for in
vestigation, were questioned by the
jollce and all denied any knowledge of
the crime. A coroner's jury met at
Olathe, Kansas, today to investigate
the case.
(Photo Copyright, Paul Thompson.)
LAST EDITION
THIS ISSUE 1J PACiES
State Canvassing Board
Completed its Work
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personal friends, and Elliott is per-
MAJORITY OF
BURKE,' 2450
Hanna Was High Man in the
Vote for Congress
Brightbill Leads State Candi
dates in Majority
Full and Complete Official Vote
of the Slate
The canvassing board met in the of
fice of Secretary of State Alfred Blais
dell yesterday afternoon to canvass
the votes cast at the November elec
tion and found and reported the re
sults Mr. Blaisdell acting as chair
man of the meeting. The other mem
bers of the meeting present were Audi
tor Brightbill, Treasurer Blcktord and
Superintendent of Public Instruction
St(i kwll, with F. E. Behounek, state
printing expert, acting as secretary of
the board. The ballots had been pre
pared and the count made and there
was little left for the board to do ex
cept go over the results and verify
them.
The tabulated returns show that E.
J. Taylor, candidate for superintendent
of public instruction, who practically
Continued on Page Eight.
Duluth Han Was Found Dying
in Chicago
WIFE HAD DIVDHIED HIM
JOHN CHRISTIE IN CRITICAL CON*
DITION AND WOMAN ACQUAINT
ANCE IS ALSO SUFFERING FROM
THE EFFECT# OF TAKING
POISON.
Chicago. Dec. chiOtlfc
whose
in a
aif factions. His quail-
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achievement There was prepared as
fine a programme for this joint meet
ing as anyone might wish, but those
who came to view and listen were few.
Especially not there was the T. B.
M.," the tJred businessmen, at Walter
Damrosch called him.
home is in Duluth, Minn., lies
hosPital
I sonally very popular throughout the from the effects of poison which
he
ment
nounced first-class, and there is little ^ct
doubt but that he will receive the ap- i police investigation developed
pointment. I woman acquaintance of Christie
'was also a sufferer from poison ap-
here today In a critical
swa'l°w«d
last night in an apart-
'n a fashionable north side de­
I parently taken at the same time. The
woman was not seriously injured.
I According to the police, there Is
ground for the theory that the poisou
I was taken in a suicide agreement.
Wife Had Divoreed Him.
Duluth, Minn., Dec. 14.—Mrs. Jobs
Christie, jr., wife of the Duluth man
who took poison in Chicago, obtained
a divorce in this city six months ago
CON- and now la In Indianapolis with %f
child.
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD
SUICIDE FOR LOVE
GIRL WRITES NOTE AND THEN
HANGS HERSELF IN
BARN.
Lake City, & c, Dec. 14.—Susie
Gore, aged 16, of Vineland, N. C., who
was visiting here, went into a bam
mounted a barrel, tied a rope around
her neck and jumped oflT. When found
she was dead. She left a note men
tioning the name of a young man for
love of whom she was supposed to
have tended her life.
IMS IAS
DIES FROM GAS
Aberdeen, 8. D., Dec. 14.—A stranger
who was registered at the Keystone
hotel last night, was found dead from
asphyxiation from gas this morning.
He gave his name as Mike Styles, but
did not give any address. He is ap
parently between 25 and 30 years of
age. He had a hare lip. He wag
ed in laborer's clothes.
IUE INAUGURAL
BALL ON JAN
Bismarck. N. D., Dec. U^Tb*
committee h%r!ng In charge the inaug
ural ball held a meeting this evening
and decided the dance will be Friday
evening, Jan. 6. Details of the ar
rangements will be announced later.