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North Star Daily Press Asso ciation, Germania Building, St. Paul, Minn., lor business in Minnesota, Wisconsin and tooth Dakota. papers are continued until an explicit eider to discontinue is received, and until all arrearages are paid. fc MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE88 THE TIMES-RECORD AND THE SCHOOLS. The Tribune is altogether disin clined to be drawn into any contro versy, either with -persons inside or outside of the city, with regard to the superintendency of the local schools. It has published the news with re gard to the doings of the school board without any prejudice or bias, and has conceded to the members of the board of education intelligence, public spirit and honesty of purpose in such steps as they deem best for the schools, conceding to each mem ber of the board the right to his own opinion and his honesty in hold ing it. It seems to have become necessary for some of the parties to whatever controversy there may be, to go to Valley City to find a vehicle for state ments or misstatements, one of which .appeared in that paper a day or so ago to the effect that the Trib une declined to publish a statement signed by the pupils of the local schools regarding the superintend ent. This statement is entirely false. The Tribune published, without com ment, that statement and the signa tures of the children omitting only a statement' at the end of the ar ticle to the effect that the children, should be best able to judge of the qualifications of a saperintendent. With this statement the Tribune can not at all'agree, and as this seemed to lie attached to the statement for the purpose of making it appear that the Tribune was indorsing the state ment, it was omitted. The Tribune believes that the mem bers of the board have the interests of the schools at heart, and that Mr. Cochrane, who has three children in the schools Mr. Will, who has two among the graduates Mr. Wachter, who has several children in the schools Mr. Richholt, who has also several children in attendance, and Mr. Falconer, who has one child among the graduates and one in at tendance in the schools, are good cit izens and above the imputations of "gangism" and prejudice that is sought to be put upon them by the anonymous informer of the Times Record. The Tribune has already stated that it has no quarrel with any of the members of the school board or the teaching staff, unless the necessity should arise for the making of an in quiry into the reasons for employing outside columns to circulate misin formation with regard to its posi tion. TWENTY YEARS OF CHANGE. From the Twenty Years Ago Col umn of Saturday's Fargo Forum: The counties of Bottineau, Burleigh, Griggs, Emmons, Mercer, McHenry, Towner and Rolette had reached the debt limit and could not issue bonds Hoc seed wheat for the indigent far mers within their boundaries. Burleigh county is now peopled with prosperosu farmers, its average of wealth producing is high, and it has many farmers who went through that trying period of pioneering who are wealthy and prosperous. And of Bottineau county the Courant says: "To those of us who have come to North Dakota and more particularly Bottineau county within the last few* years, it hardly seems possible that only two decades ago the county which is now the richest in agricul tural resources in the state should Hare been bonded to the limit for ^^^ff:^imd wheat for the1 indigent farmers Within its boundaries." -^. But that was twenty "years *go: What are the conditions today? From the records in the office of the auditor of Bottineau county we find that last year there were approxi mately 372,000 acres of wheat grown $5,500,000. But. wheat was not the only crop raised. Forty-one thousand acres of oats, yielding 2,275,000 bush els of a market value of $910,000. Barley was sown on 42,000 acres, yielding 840,000. worth $420,000 to the fellows making the Milwaukee beverage. Then we have the flax crop. The. records show that 84,000 acres, yielding 840,000 bushels, which sold for over a million dollars. To taling these figures we ascertain that the market value of the crops raised in Bottineau county last year was nearly eight millions of dollars. And twenty years ago the county was bonded to the limit to furnish seed to those too poor to buy. The meeting at the armory was one of the incidents of the prospective change from the old to the new form of city governmnt and brought out some interesting discussion with ref- erence to candidates and policies. A mass meeting of citizens interested places as members of the commis- economy, and it is- more interested in good results than in who shall or shall not be commissioners. NORTH DAKOTA NOTES A wholesale coal yard is to be es tablished at Devils Lake. Wahpeton has been pestered with a number of burglaries recently. The gun club at Fargo contem plates constructing a rifle range. There will be considerable activity in upper Missouri river, traffic this coming summer. From all reports North Dakota hay had most of the states beat in the line of weather the past season. Taft's inauguration in moving pic tures is among the latest scenes shown in theatres over the state. When postoffices in some of the smaller towns change hands it should be made a point to have it fall to the local editor. There is said to be a hotel trust on at Sentinel Butte. The same par ties own both hotels and are mak ing good. The large number of bills vetoed by, the governor proves what a mis take it is for the legislature to cre ate an overproduction of measures. in the welfare of the city is a good trements, equipments and eibth thing for the exchange of views with reference to public questions, and the suggestion of candidates for the Claiming that he was robbed while Some of the old time North Dako tans, who have recently moved west, are writing to their friends telling how they wished they were back here. Ed Halaas, formerly treasurer of Foster county and an ex-member of the house, is slated for postmaster at Carrlngton. There were not very many serious fires in North Dakota during the past winter, and some of the papers are wondering whether it is a sign of prosperity or whether it is because some of the towns have acquired bet ter Are protection. TRIBUNE WANT he slept, is how the Soo depot agent should write to the county superin- at Drake is attempting to account for a $1,500 shortage just discovered in his accounts. Registration lists are being check ed up preparatory to approaching spring elections in the various cities over the state. The controversy over the lighting proposition at Fargo has reached the tabulated stage. Comparative tables appear in the dailies every day now. There is considerable comment anent the scandal at Valley City, because some of the young girls in volved were sent to the reform school while the young men escaped punishment. Practically all of ,th§ newspapers of the state had a kindly mention for Jud Jordan, formerly c" the Far go Call, who has retired from active newspaper work. MILITIA COMPANIES TO BE INSPECTED ADJUTANT GENERAL PEAKE IS SUES ORDER FOR INSPEC TION OP STATE MILITIA. 3 Local officers of the North Dakota national guard have received from Adjutant General Peake general or der No. 4, announcing that, begin-"" ning March 19 and ending April'12, the various commands of the state will be inspected in their respective armories. The inspection will be un der the supervision of Capt. William H. Simons, 6th U. S. infantry, who xwill be acompanied on his tour by the adjutant general and Col. Wil liam C. Trueman, commanding the First infantry, who will act as sur veying officer. Commanding officers are advised a a a a ing in the best possible condition for the inspection. They will fur ther hold themselves, books, records a a a sion will give the voters of the city officers until dismissed. the opportunity to measure up men and establish their qualifications. The Tribune is interested, first, in having the system, and second, in having as good a board of commis sioners selected as it is possible to get considering all of the matters to be taken into the consideration. It would like to see the city run as a a a a BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 24, 1909. disposition of the "The inspectors," says general or der No. 71 of the war department, "will determine, (1) the strength of the various organizations, including classification of officers and men so as to show the organization of the command and the number present and absent (2) a return showing all' I field pieces, machine guns, rifles, car- business corporation, the injection of revolvers and other arms of new blood, see public improvements, states on hand, together made intelligently and with care and attachments and equipments, ges harness, spare parts, pro jectiles and ammunition, or parts thereof (3) whether the organiza tions are sufficiently armed, uniform ed and equipped for active service in the field." Following is the itinerary of the inspection tour: Co. K—Dickinson, March 29. Co. F—Mandan, March 30. •Co. A—Bismarck, March 31. Co. H—Jamestown, April 1. Battery A, Lisbon, April 2. Co. «—Valley City, April 3. .?%?-• Co. D—Minot, April's. Co. E—Williston, April 6. Co. M—Devils Lake, April 7. Co. C-^-Grafton, April 8. Co. L—Hillsboro, April 9 Co. B—Fargo, April 10. Jf Co. I—Wahpeton, April 12. ••'•M&S-' & ,. 4*,:P' ''"'•33!$!%' STUDENTS LEARN I TO GROW CPRM EXCELLENT METHOD OF TEACH ING CORN CULTURE IN NORTH DAKOTA. Superintendent Wanner of Stuts man county has taken practical steps to teach corn growth and culture by inaugurating a corn growing contest among the school children, and has issued the- folowing conditions of the contest: Every pupil under the age of nine teen, who has attended school in Stutsman county this year, may take part in the contest. Everyone who wishes to take part in the contest tendent, giving full name, age and address, name of school district, and inclose four cents to pay postage on seed corn. A package of corn con taining about 700 grains and a book let on instructions will then be sent on condition that the pupil receiving the same will plant 400 grains of it in a square, four or five kernels in each hill with the balance planted on the south, west and north sides, to fertilize and protect the inside rows that he will cultivate it and harvest it, according to instructions and exhibit not less than ten ears the ears to be selected from the square and nowhere else that he will keep a record of cultivation fro will keep a record of cultivation from the time of preparation until he har vests the same, and write a state ment or not less than 150 words on his experiment. It is further agreed by the pupil receiving this corn that he will comply with the rules govern ing the exhibits of corn, and that he will attend the exercises connected frv^J^g^ ££$££ with the contest if possible, and that he will follow as far as he may be able, the suggestions made in regard to keeping record of growing corn. This contest will probably be held in November in 1909, exact date and place of meeting to be announced later be awardedthat At time thte prices S for the bes ten ears of corn in each district and Mr. Rand lett of the agricultural college will judge the corn, and explain why the prize corn Is entitled to its'place. Besides the prizes given by the school districts there will be three county prizes offered—rfirst prize of ten dollars, second of six dollars, and the third of four dollars—for the three best exhibits from the whole county.^. :v v.-.^ ..-^,,,. •....... ^tw^w^WW^W^W^^^'- I NOTABLE EXPLOfTS~ OF PETROSIHD. New York's Famous Sleuth, Mar tyr to the Black Hand. DARING AND SKILL RECALLED Casea In Which Ha Proved Both In Great Emergencies—An Example of Hi* Watohfulneaa—Desperate Fight With a Thief. Joseph Petroslno, the detective lieu tenant who was recently assassinated in Palermo, Sicily, was the head of what is known as the Italian squad of the New York police department and one of the principal organizers of it. He was the man most feared by Italian criminals classed under the name of Black Hand and was sent to Italy to carry out a plan which was suggested to Commissioner Bingham nearly a year ago by a special agent whom the commissioner had hired to propose ways and means of stemming the tide of Italian and Sicilian crime in New York city. In person short and stocky, with broad shoulders and muscles like steel cords, Petroslno was physically joeapH raxBosrao. equipped for the rough work which I often became necessary for him to do. He had more than a fighter's body. He had the .mind, of a student. In the hundreds of cases which he han dled be had use more frequently for his trained brain than for bis ready hands. Joseph*: petroslno was born In 1860 in the province of Salerno, in Italy, He came to the United States when he was a boy of fifteen years and: starjed his New York career by sell iatliprwiippers at Broome street and: the Bowery. He was graduated as a newsboy and became an employee of the Galo brothers, who then held a city contract as scow trimmers. the street cleaning squad. In those days the street cleaning was done un der the jurisdiction of the police de partment, and so it came about that (^chiwementa mello then ran away, Carbonl didn't see 1 followed. :v^j«?i^fc~Kf*7^p ^V •Apt until S. followed my saw him buy the young Italian came under the when In pursuit of a criminal the story of Paulo Rondo, who shot and killed his wife in Little Italy in eagle eye of Inspector Alexander Wil liams, the original "czar of the Ten derloin" and the right arm of Inspect or Thomas Byrnes. Inspector Wil liams lifted Petroslno out of the street cleaning squad and on Oct 9, 1883, made him a member of the uniformed police force. He served in uniform until he became a regular member of the central detective bureau, in 1895, where be scored his most notable It is difficult to select from the long watchful eye on the house. He spent 4 List of cases Petroslno has handled I those best showing his methods and instancing his success. The Brogno murder, at Baxter and Leonard streets, New York, in July. 1808, will perhaps serve as a good example. Natalo Brogno was found, unconscious, suffer ing from a stab wound in the back. Over him stood Angelo Carbonl, who was in the act of kicking Brogno when Brogno, Carbonl and a man named Ceramello had quarreled in a saloon on Leonard street a while before, but Carbonl was apparently the murderer. Indeed, the police, at his trial, testi fied that Brogno had identified him as his assailant, and Carbon! was con victed and sentenced to death. Petroslno was not satisfied, and this is what he did, related In his own 'words: After the conviction—I hadn't had much to do with the case—I happened to hear of a boy and a watchman who had seen the fight. Some friends told me these two had admitted this. Their story was that Brogno had quarreled first with Cera mello, who was Carbonl's father-in-law, but that Brogno first came to blows with Carbonl. awTy UStS'STi to Philadelphia, then to him HlUerton I Delaware, every time Just too late Nex I heard he was in Mont real, so to Canada I went. In Montreal I heard Ceramello had gone tb Nova JBcotla: I missed him there, too, and fol lowed his trail back to New York. There lost all trace of him. One day, nearly a month after I first wont after Ceramello, I was standing at Elizabeth and Mott streets when I saw His cousin. He knew me, but he didn't See me. So I trailed him up to Cortlandt avenue, in the Bronx. I saw the cousin go Into a house, and I watched outside witn 2 o'clock In the morning: then I made up my mind that he had gone to god, and I went to a place near by aad So I went back to the house alone and knocked at the door. "Come In!" some one said. I went in. There were three men and a woman on my left and a man leaning over a stove on my right. He answered the description I bad of Ceramello. "Anybody sick heref I asked. "I'm from the health board, and I hear you've got smallpox." Then I turned to the man by the stove. "What's your name?" "Flonl." "Come lore." There was an ax standing against the wall, and as I spoke I kicked It away with my foot. Then I grabbed the man by the back of the neck and took him downstairs. On the way to the police station he confessed to having killed Brogno. I brought him back to New York, and he was tried and sent to pris on for life, while Carbonl was pardoned. Four years later occurred the "bar rel murder," one of the most important cases of Petroslno's career. It did not result In a conviction, but Petroslno' always believed he had the right man. The body of a man with the head nearly severed was found in 1902 in a barrel in a tenement on Bast Eleventh street, New York. There was nothing to show his identity, and It looked at the outset like an impossible case. But Petroslno had a rather distinct recol lection of the face of the dead man, and be couldn't«get rid of the impres sion that he had seen it somewhere. Finally he fixed the time and place, re calling him as having attended a trial of a counterfeiter. Giuseppe Diprimo, in the federal court a year or so be fore. So Petroslno went to. Sing Sing to Interview Diprimo. As soon as he saw a photograph of the dead man Diprimo exclaimed, "That's my brother," adding that he had seen him at the prison recently with Tomaso Petto. This man Petto was arrested because he knew Dipri mo, because he lived in Buffalo and because a pair of gloves found In the barrel bore the name of a Buffalo store. Then the counterfeiter told the detective that his brother had carried a watch which he recalled bore gome deep scratches "on the neck." There the clews seemed to end. Back to New York came Petroslno. The pawnshops were raked ovejr^ and Diprlmo's watch waa^foundj w}j& its Scratches "on the neck." More, it was learned that Tomaso Petto had pawn ed the watch. Then Petto was rear rested, and the pawn ticket for the wajch. was found in big. possession. Bul£ though Petto was held in prison for eight months,. the necessary cor roborative evidence was lacking. The police were morally, sure of their man, but had to consent to bis discharge. It Is interesting to note that among case were three who, it was learned later, were "wanted*.' in Italy for mur der. As an example of Petroslno's watch- New York six years ago, may be cited. Petroslno tracked the murderer, who was shielded by his countrymen, to a little village on the outskirts of Long Island City and located him in a house on the ground floor of which was a grocery store. All attempts to get at the murderer* proved unavailing. The detective climbed a convenient tree jand, hidden by the foliage, kept a a 8 the police arrived. It was learned that covering burst, and'up sprang the mur derer. A desperate fight ensued. Cap tor and ^captive rolled over and over on the ground, the friends of the mur derer crowding around and cheering the man they had sought to conceal. EM Than 1 got back on watefej man back downtown a ticket for Baltimore. I telephoned to headquarters I was going out of town and bought a ticket for Bal timore too.' I ww afraid I would be recognised. Then I wore no mustache, and I pulled a beard out of my pocket and put it on. You couldn't see my face at all after that, and my best friends wouldn't know me. In Baltimore my man went to Cor ooran alley. Let me see, this Was about 6 o'clock In the evening-. Oh, 1 should have said before that Ceramello, I had beard, was going under the name of Flonl. Well, his cousin went Into the house, and I stayed outside, so as not to scare them. The next day I went out at 5 o'clock to got the chief of police to send a man with me to arrest Ceramello, for I felt sure ho was there. But no It was too early. The chief said I must wait until the de tectives came In. ortable. night, but was rewarded at daylight by seeing a wagon drive up to the door. A large bundle was carried from the house by eeveral men and carefully deposited in the wagon. Petroslno came down from the tree and as the wagon started away grabbed the tailboard and, seizing the bundle, dragged it tp the ground. The They were about to Interfere when Detective Sergeant Krauch, who had. also been watching, appeared with a revolver in each, hand.' Then the crowd fell back, the subdued murderer was put into the wagon from which he had been dragged, and in the vehicle brought for his flight he was taken to the nearest Police station. He expiat tenced to eleven years in Sing Sing. Petroslno could fight as well as "sleuth." This he proved when, on March 30, 1806, be arrested Giuseppl GulUano on a charge of grand larceny. of the blow ceramello stole up behind Gulliano had enticed a homeward Him ana stabbed him in the back. Cera- .»..„.d* ««.H,OT ..„_„*-_.«-.. _*~_~ feU«»w the stabbing, but got up as Brogno feu Sperduto by name, to a dive and had and was kicking him when the police I given him knockout drops. A week's „„, „,„,- „., I search located the guilty man in a I couian get these witnesses to repeat i. *. «»_«_ their story, so I went to the dlstrlctat- house on Park street. In New York. torney. who said I'd better go into the .The pair wrestled and rolled down the £!5.!£?.l?ugThIy\ a 1 countryman, Antonio *o I stairs fro thehis third floor the street Petroslnomgot prisonerto as far as a sewer opening, over which they fought for fully ten minutes. Finally the de tective, with a viselike grip on the man's throat, forced his head into the sewer opening and swore he would burl him into the sewer if he did not at once surrender. Not until the man became unconscioys was be dragged from the sewer opening, and it was necessary to call an ambulance., Galli ano, who secured only $102 by giving knockout drops to his victim, wi sen tenced to serve eleven years in Sing Sing Strange Ideas of the Ancients as to Their Causes. WARNING SIGNS OF SHOCKS. Pliny Says They Were Shown In the Air, Clouds and Watsr and by Anl-. mala The Two Mountains That Crashed Together and Then Receded. If we search history to find to what causes the ancients attributed earth quakes we find that the Babylonians believed that all occurrences of the kind were due to the Influence of the stars, especially of the three to which they ascribed thunder—namely, Sat urn, Jupiter and Mars. The seers of the day believed that these disturb ances were caused by the stars mov ing with the sun or being In conjunc tion with it. more particularly when the stars were in the quartlle aspect. Pliny chronicles the report concern ing one Anaximander, a Milesian, who warned the Lacedaemonians to be ware of their city and houses. And legend has it that the city was soon afterward destroyed. Pliny, who wrote his natural history In A. D. 77, conceived that earth quakes were caused by the winds, as "the earth never trembles except when the sea is quite calm and when the heavens are so tranquil that the birds cannot maintain their flight, all the air which should support them be ing withdrawn. Nor does it ever hap pen until after great winds, the gust being pent up, as It were, in the fis sures and concealed hollows." Many scientists have observed that all great convulsions of nature are' likely to be preceded by calms also that birds and animals generally ex-. hlblt certain presentiments ot the event, facts which the wise men of ancient days noted and accounted for in their different ways. Pliny says: "When an earthquake occurs there is often, sound•• without any motion. When there is motion it is tremulous and vibratory. The clefts of the earth sometimes remain, dis playing what has been swallowed up, sometimes concealing' It, the month being closed and the soil brought over it, the city being, as it were, engulfed, devoured. Maritime districts are more especially subject to shocks,. Nor are, mountainous districts exempt, I have found the Alps and the Apennines fre quently shaken by them. The shocks happen more frequently hi the autumn and the spring. They also tappen't more frequently in the night .than in the day. The greatest shocks are in the morning and the evening, but they often take place at daybreak. They also take place during eclipses of thej^. moon, because at that„ time storms are lolled. are most frequent whe great heat succeeds to showers oi showers succeed -to-great A it Pliny further says: re no. doubt that earthquakes are felt by^| persons on shipboard. There are 'manjrsy signs for the mariner beforehand, how- M^ even The timbers of the vessel creak. The birds that settle on the vessel are 0 not without their alarms. There Is $ also a sign in-the heavens, for when a/M .shock is near at hand, either in the daytime or a little after sunset, a cloud is stretched out in the clear sky like, a long, thin line. The water in wells Is more turbid than usual, and it emits a disagreeable odor." j^J In describing the various kinds of shocks and expanding on his invest! gations on the subject Pliny remarks.* that "arched buildings are the safest also the angles of walls and walls made of bricks suffer least.. The earth movement that resembles the rolling of waves is the most dangerous,' or ~7 when the motion Is Impelled in one direction. Tke tremors cease when the vapors have burst forth, but If there be no escape of vapor of a kind then the tremors may continue for forty days. They have been known if to continue for two years." The historian records the greatest "prodigy of the earth" as having oc- in curred in the district of Mutlna during the consulship of Lucius Martins and Sextus Julius, when "two mountains rushed -together^ failing upon each other with a very loud crash and then .11 receding, while in the daytime smok* fl::. and vapor issued from them." Pliny says the wonder wag witnessed by **a i|v great crowd of Roman knights and 4 travelers along the 'Aemillan way." ,f The same writer says: "The greatestf*f earthquake which occurred, in our |f' memory was in the reign of Tiberius. 5 by which twelve'cities of Asia were ^fe laid prostrate in one night. During the Punic, war we, had accounts of fifty-seven earthquakes in one year, Nor is, it an evti merely consisting in ,|g| the danger which Is produced by the |f||§^f ••!?. *K« :. •%••.• msi :y motion it is an equal or greater evil when it is considered as a prodigy, The city of Rome never experienced a f? shock that was not the forerunner of some great calamity." Pliny, of course, takes a good many of his accounts from Aristotle, but his ||»..,vy, 1ft references to events are confirmed by other writers.. Herodotus describes a great, disturbance in his day. when.|gp&K?S#&' "the sea came beyond Memphis, as far |$Mli^i^ as the mountains of Ethiopia, and also from the plains of Arabia. The -sea I also surrounded Blum and the whole $ S of Teuthranla and cbtered the plain f*^* through which the Meander nows." S .. Pliny makes actual mention of one of the Aeolian Islands having "emerged from the •ea."' It was aKn&ttiJir of common belief among the scientists of Pliny's day that Sicily was torn from Italy by such a d1st«b«nce.--H«fr York World. f:m 1§lffe He who sows brambles must not go barefoot-Germas Proverb,, ., '.. •'•.: "ii" ::v: F-.?' .'••'• S