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THE EVENING TIMES
The Brightest, Newsiest and Beat
evening Newspaper In North Dakota.
VOL. 1, NO. 266.
TED' SCOOPED
FINE
His Thanksgiving Proclama
tion Came Ahead of Those
in the States.
HOLIDAY IS PECULIARLY
11 MEM FESTIVAL
History of Thanksgiving, How the
Caslom First Came to be Obserred
in America—How President Roose
velt and His Family Will Celebrate
—Will Hare Customary Big Turkey.
(By E. C. Snyder.)
Washington, D. C., Nov. 19.—Pres
ident Roosevelt "scooped" the .govern
ors of the various states when he an
nounced the date for Thankgining day,
and yet everyone In the country, who
pays any attention to legal holidays
knew long ago that Thursday the 29th
day of November would certainly be
designated as the day for national
thanksgiving and prayer. In fact the
almanac and calendar makers "called
the "turn on the date more than a year
ago.
President Lincoln was the first chief
magistrate to annually name a day for
general thanksgiving and for about
forty years now the last Thursday in
November has been the day selected.
Hiis holiday is peculiarly an Amer
ican festival, for while all Christian
nations, or nations in which the Chris
tian religion predominates among the
people, celebrate the natal-day-of the
Saviour on the 2&tb of December, no
other sets apart annualy a day for
general feasting and thanks for bless
ings received.
Thanksgiving In the abstract is an
annual religious festival suggested by
the Hebrew feast of tabernacles, or
feast of Ingathering at the end of the
year. The occasional observance of a
day tor thanksgiving formerly recom
mended 'by the civil authorities was
not unusual in Europe. Such a day
was observed in Leyden, Holland, on
Oct. 3, 1575, the first anniversary of
the deliverance of that city from
•siege.
in 1608 the Pilgrim church, exiled
from England, went to Rolland, and
remained there till 1620, when it set
off the Mayflower colony to New Eng
land. After the first harvest of the
colonists at Plymouth in 1621, Gov
ernor Bradford set-out four men. .with
fowling pieces that they "might after
a more special manner rejoice to
gether."
In July, 1623, a day of fasting and
prayer, was appointed on account of
drouth. Rain came abundantly while
they were praying, and the governor
appointed a day of thanksgiving, which
was observed with religious services.
The Charlestown records sho wa sim
ilar change of fast day into thanks
giving in 1631 on account of the ar
rival of supplies from Ireland.
In June, 1632, Governor Wlnthrop of
Massachusetts Bay colony, recom
mended a day of thanksgiving for the
action of the British Privy council fa
vorable to the colonies, and Invited the
governor of Plymouth to unite with
him. There is a record of the official
appointment of days of thanksgiving
in Massachusetts Bay in 1632, 1634,
1637, 1638 and 163S. Sometimes
thanksgiving was held more than one
day in the year. In Plymouth such
days were held In 1651, 1668 and 1680.
It was also held In the years 1689 and
1690, when the form of the recom
mendation indicates that it had be
come an annual custom.
Occasional thanksgiving days were
appointed by the Dutch governors of
New Netherland in 1644,1645,1655 and
1656, and by the English governors
of New York in 1755 and 1760.
During the revolution Thanksgiving
day was a national institution, being
annually recommended by congress.
After the general thanksgiving for
peace in 1784, there was no national
appointment until 1789, when Presi
dent Washington, by request of con
gress, advised a day of thanksgiving
for the adoption of the constitution.
Washington issued a second thanks
giving
proclamation in 1795 on ac
count of the suppression of the insur
rection.
President Madison, by request of
congress, recommended thanksgiving
for peace in April 1N15. The official
recommendation of Thanksgiving day
was mainly confined to New England,
where regular annual proclamations
were Issued by the governors of the
states. The day was observed almost
generally with religious services, and
was the principal social and home fes
tival of the year.
The prayer book of the Protestant
Episcopal church, ratified in 1789, rec
ommends for a day of thanksgiving
the first Thursday in November, un
less another day be appointed by the
civil authorities. There were occa
sional recommendations by other reli
gious bodies, and various local cus
toms prevailed in different parts of the
country. However, Ihe day was not
regularly recommended by the gov
ernor of New York until 1817. and its
adoption in the southern states was
much later.
In 1855 Governor Johnson, of Vir
ginia, recommended a day of thanks-
JUDGE C. J. FISK
Who Will Qualify for the Supreme
Court in Near Future.
giving. Two years later Governor
Wise was requested to do so, but de
clined, because he deemd himself un
authorized to interfere in religious
matters. A year later, 1855, thanks
giving proclamations were issued by
the governors of eight of the southern
states. During the civil war President
Lincoln Issued proclamations recom
mending special thanksgiving for vic
tory in 1862 and 1863, and a national
proclamation of the annual Thanks
giving day jn 1863 and 1864. Since
then such a proclamation has been
Issued annually by the president, as
well as by the governors of the various
states and the mayors of some of the
principal cities. Custom has fixed the
time for the last Thursday in Novem
ber. In accordance with this, on Oct.
22, President Roosevelt set apart
"Thursday, the 29th day of the present
month of November, as a day of
thanksgiving and praises, to be kept
and observed by all the people of our
land."
President Roosevelt is in Panama
at present but he expects to be back
in Washington in time to enjoy his
Thanksgiving diner with his family.
The customary turkey is to be sent
from Rhode Island and in addition
there will a possum from Virginia,
sweet potatoes from Maryland, pump
kins from Oyster Bay, concocted into
pies and all sorts of seasonable del
icacies from all sections of the coun
try. The presidential family lives
very moderately under ordinary cir
cumstances. There are no spreads
each day but on festive occasions like
Thanksgiving day and Christmas the
Roosevelt children enjoy exactly the
same kind of feast as do most good
healthy American "kids." They are
usually permitted to indulge in copious
quantities of substantiate and sweets
and like similar youngsters all over
the world they suffer from the same
troubles which invade the couches of
90 per cent fthe American boys and
girls who overdo matters at the table
on Thanksgiving day.
MITOROER
E
District Court Asked to Direct
Issuance of Election Cer
tificate.
QUESTION IS ONE OF LAW
Votes in City of Grand Forks
Bone of Contention—Legal
Proposition.
The county superintendent contro
very took on a new turn today when
application was made before Judge
Fisk at Lakota for a directing injunc
tive order requiring the board of can
vassers to issue the certificate of elec
tion to W. R. A. Calder, the republican
candidate. This action is taken pre
paratory to a regular contest of the
election, Should such a course be nec
essary. It is probable that a contest
will be made no matter which side is
successful in the preliminary fight.
The whole matter will hinge upon the
construction of the law relative to the
votes of the city.
SECRETARY BOOT TO SPEAK.
Aaaoelatod Preaa to The Kvi-nlnn Tlur*
Kansas City, Mo.. Nov. 19.—Secre
tary Root., who is here to attend the
meeting of the Trans-Mississippi Com
mercial, congress, has accepted an in
vitation to deliver the principal ad
dress at the twelfth annual banquet
tonight of the Kansas City Commer
cial club, commemorating the 112th
anniversary of the John Jay treaty
between the United States anil Great
Britain. Another-notable guest at the
banquet. Is to be John Jay Schieffelln.
a gieatgrandson of Jolin Jay, first
chief justice of the United Stutes, who
prepared the treaty between this coun
try and England.
IumMM Prru to The Bveatas Tloaea.
Seattle. Wash., Nov. 19.—The steam
er Dix, Captain Plermon, bound from
Seattle to Port Blakely with passen
gers, sank two miles north of Alki
Point shortly after 7 o'clock last
night after having collided with the
steamship Jeanie, Captain P. H. Mason
of the Alaska Coast company. Forty
one passengers and members of the
crew of the Dix a missing and
thirty-nine were saved. The Dix is
a total wreck. The Jeanie was not in
jured in the least and no member of
her crew was lost. The master of
the Dix was saved. The collision oc
curred while the sound was almost
as smooth as a mill pond and after
the boats had been steaming within
sight of each other for a quarter of
an hour.
The Jeanie was backing when she
collided with the Dix, and the impact
was very slight. The Dix was struck
abaft of amidships on the starboard
side. She listed heavily to port for
a brief period, righted herself, then
sank stern first.
There was hardly time to launch
the life rafts or boats before she was
almost entirely submerged.' Passen
gers jumped from the decks into the
water, women screamed and officers
and men called orders that could
hardly be heard above the diu. The
passengers from the Dix who could
swim made their way to the sides of
the Jeanie and were dragged aboard.
The Jeanie was not moved until arter
all who had reached her had been
hauled aboard. Then she cruised
about picking up several who' had
Sprr.lBl
to
KILLED A FEW.
Two More Russian Disorders Reported
in Warsaw Dispatches.
ImwiMnl Pma Cable to The Rvnlu
llnien.
Warsaw, Russian Poland, Nov. 19.—
A daring terrorist attack was made
.in the street this morning on ths col
lector of government alcohol stores,
who was escorted by two soldiers.
The terrorists killed one soldier,
wounded the collector and seized a
bag containing $1,000. The remain
ing soldier fired wildly, killed one
passer-by and wounded another,
whereupon the terrorists dropped
their booty and escaped.
He Forgot Something.
A Topeka banker has disappeared,
but strange to relate the bank's funds
are intact.—Rochester Post-Express.
A SQUARE DEAL FOR ALL
HE, SB ALMOST
EVENING TIMES
managed to stay above water. It Was
after 10 o'clock before the Jeanie left
the scene of the catastrophe and
steamed to the Virginia street dock,
Seattle, with her thirty-nine sur
vivors.
The Jeanie, of the Alaska Coast
comapny, had finished unloading at
the Great Northern docks at Smith's
Cove and had started for Tacoma
shortly before 7 o'clock just about the
same time as the Dix left the flyer
dock for Port Blakley. There were
no passengers on the Jeanie. The
Dix was making her last trip of the
night and was well filled with pas
sengers. When within about two miles
north of Alki Point the two steamers
were within a short distance of each
other,' steaming ^long converging
lines.
The captain of the Jeanie says he
signalled for the Dix to pass him and
his whistle was answered. The Dix
was then within speaking distance of
the Jeanie and to the port of her.
Suddenly Mate Dennls^n, who was at
the wheel of the Dix, put her hard
over to starboard as if to cross in
front of the other vessel. Captain
Mason of the Jeanie, who was on the
bridge, saw that an accident was im
minent and called out a warning to
the man at the wheel' of the Dix.
Captain Mason gave a signal to re
verse his engines and his vessel was
slowly backing away when they came
together. There was but a slight
crash, the force of the collision from
the Dix coming against the. side of tb«
larger vessel, and not that oi the
heavier craft against the smaller.
Engine Killed Two Italians
Kvc»I»« Tl«ne». men were engaged near the stock They have been emploved on the regu
Minot, N. D., Nov. 19.—Two em
ployes of the Great Northern, Vincenz
yards ln
Ransa and Frank Lagitta. Italians, tracks when they met their death. an inquest will be held over their
were killed here this morning under They failed to notice the approach of remains to fix the responsibility fc.r
the wheels of an engine. The two the engine until too late to escape. their death.
ICE MEN IX SESSION.
tnwIMnl Prnti to The Krealag Tlari.
Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 19.—The an
nual convention of the Middle States
ice Producers' Exchange began in this
city today, with headquarters at the
Chittenden hotel. More than ordinary
interest is manifested in the proceed
ings of this year's meeting owing to
the prosecutions of the ice dealers in
Toledo and other cities of the state
during the past summer for alleged
illegal combination to raise prices.
I Whether the convention will take any
action in regard to this matter the
members refuse to state. The pres
ident of the organization is Robert R.
I Reynolds, of Cincinnati, and the secre
tary, C. M. Klnnaird. of this city.
ONTARIO DEPARTMENT STORE
shoveling snow from the lar section crew for some time and
GRAND F0RK8. NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1906. EIGHT PAGES-PRICE FIVE CENTS.
LOST IN SEA ACCIDENT
For a minute all was still, then
panic followed. When the Dix started
to sink, stern first, the passengers
and members of the crew leaped into
the sound. Some of the passengers
huddled togethar in groups on the
deck while others knelt in prayer.
Women who had little chance for the.
lives, stayed with the sinking steamer
and were drowned as in a trap.
Captain Plermon of the Dix was
among those picked up out of the
water by the crew of the Jeanie. He
said:
"I don't think the vessel was very
badly damaged by the collision. It
was heeling over on her port beam
that caused her loss. She filled with
water as soon as she went over and
took her down.
"As to the cause of the accident
I cannot say. I was not on deck and
don't know how it happened. I heard
my mate signal either one or two
whistles, I am not sure which. I also
heard him ring the stop bell. I can
not understand myself how it could
have happened.
"The night was almost as clear as
day and the sea was smooth. This
is the first accident that has hap
pened on any ship of mine during the
thirteen years I have been running
on the sound."
Captain Plermon is a well known
navigator and has the reputation of
being one of the ablest sound pilots
leaving Seattle.
The Dix sank in 100 fathoms of
water. The Jeanl?, a "government
launch scout and several tugs have
gone to the scene of the wreck to
search for bodies.'
ALLEGES ILLEGAL RESTRAINT.
Providence, R. I., Nov. 19.—Consid
erable interest is being manifested ln
the case of Simon G. Croswell, of Cam
bridge, Mass., who was before the su
preme court today with a petition, pre
pared by himself, seeking a writ of
habeas corpus. Croswell is a Harvard
graduate and the son of a distinguish
ed legal authority. He alleges that
he is illegally restrained at the But
ler hospital for the insane here, and
he charges abduction front Massachu
setts. He was sent to the asylum in
April of last year, his relatives stat
ing that he suffered from hallucina
tions, the result of mental overwork.
Croswell claims that the certificate of
commitment contains no statement
that he is insane and needs restraint,
lie says that he has been under close
guard and that he was prevented from
writing to his friends.
ONLY 39 PEOPLE SAVED
CHARLES A. GROW
One of Minot's Prosperous Business
Men, Formerly of Grand Forks.
IN MEMORY OF HAMPTON.
Aaaoetated Preaa to Tho Rnalai Tlan.
Columbia, S. C., Nov. 19.—The hand
some statue erected by the state of
South Carolina in honor of her dis
tinguished warrior and statesman.
General Wade Hampton, will be un
veiled tomorrow with ceremonies on
an extensive scale. Visitors are al
ready arriving in the city to attend
the ceremonies and the morning trains
are expected to bring many more from
all over the state. A military parade
will precede the unveiling and the ad
dresses will be delivered by speakers
of wide prontinence. Gen. Marion C.
Butler, who fought with Gen. Hamp
ton and was one of his most Intimate
friends, haa accepted an invitation to
deliver the principal adress at the un
veiling.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
AuHMriat*4 Pftit to The Kraala* Ttaeo.
New Haveij, Conn., Nov. 19.—Many
public men of prominence were pres
ent today at the formal opening of
the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the
National Civil Service Reform league.
During the quarter of a century since
it was founded the league has seen
civil service rules supplant the "spoils"
system in numerous departments of
federal, state and municipal govern
ments. the success of the movement
being due in no small measure to the
earnest work and, continuous efforts
of the league. The program of the
present meeting covers two days and
provides for addresses by President
Daniel Coit Gilman, of the Carnegie
institution Henry F. Greene, of the
United States civil service Commis
sion Mayor W. F. Henney, of Hart
ford President Hadley, of Yale uni
versity, and Secretary of the Navy
Bonaparte. Secretary Bonaparte is
one of the pioneer members of the
league, as it also President Roose
velt.<p></p>FEDERAL
COURT TO
I
Few Civil Actions and Crim
inal Actions Will be
Tried.
MANY RAILROAD SUITS
Walker Was Shot and Holds
Railroad Responsible for
the Fact.
The federal court convenes here
tomorrow. There are three civil ac
tions on the calendar.
A. Walker vs. the Great Northern.
Clara Clark vs. the Great Northern.
Frank Jones vs. the Northern Pa
cific.
Walker claims that a Great North
ern brakeman shot him while a*
Michigan. Mrs. Clark claims to have
received injuries in the depot at Hills
boro and Frank Jones claims to have
had his feet cut off by a Northern
Pacific train. The John Bystrom suit
against the Soo has been continued
over the term. The federal grand
jury at Fargo returned twenty-eight
indictments Saturday evening, and the
following eight, who will probably be
tried here were announced:
George lx»sey, of breaking into the
postofRce at Lisbon.
Alex Peltier, charged of selling
liquor to Indians of the Turtle Moun
tain Indian reservation. He is In jail
at Rolla.
John Kappelston, charge of smug
gling across the international bound
ary line.
W. B. Libby, charge of stealing
property seized by the customs offi
cers at Portal.
Modest Kaplette, charge of introduc
(Coatlaaed oa Pace 8.)
THE EVENING TIMES
Stands for North Dakota at all Times
and Under all Circumstances.
IS
AT
CITY
Trans-Mississippi Commercial
Convention Begins Four
Day's Session.
OVER 1,500 DELEGATES ARE
EXPECTED TO BE PRESENT
Secretary Root Will IN- One ot princi
pal Speakers—Irrigation an Iri
portent Topic to be Considered. Also
Trusts and Their Relation to Busi
ness—Comercial Union Proposed.
A»*ociotrd Preaa to The Bralag Tlmea.
Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 19.—Every
thing' is in readiness for the opening
session of the Trans-Mississippi Com
mercial congres, which is to begin a
four days' session in Kansas City to
morrow. it will be the seventeenth
annual meeting of the congress.
Secretary A. F. Francis estimates
that there will be in the neighborhood
of 1,500 delegates present when Chair
man F. W. Fleming, of the executive
committee, calls the meeting to order
Every state west of the Mississippi
river is expected to send its full quota
of delegates and several of the com
monwealths will be represented by
their governors, congressmen and oth
er public men.
Tomorrow's sessions wit be devoted
for the most .#Brt to the making o£
Welcoming addresses and responses:
and the formal organization of the
gathering. The sessions are to con
tinue until Saturday.
Secretary Root is to be the chief
speaker before the congress. He has
selected as his topic, "The Possibili
ties of Establishing Direct Trade Re
lations Between the Mississippi Val
ley States and South and Centra I
American Countries."
The subjects scheduled for discus
sion at the congress cover a wide va
riety. As heretofore, irrigation and
the opening of western rivers to nav
igation will receive much attention.
Trusts and their relation to business,
government ownership of railways and
other public utilities, the preservation
of the forests, levees in Texas and
Louisiana, harbor improvement, mer
chant marine, drainage of public land,
statehod, and Pan-American commer
cial union, deep water from the lakes
to the gulf, and naval construction on
the Pacific coast are some of the other
topics that will receive the attention
of the congress.
N
TEXAS CLUB WOMEN.
El Paso, Tex., Nov. 19.—The advance
guard of delegates has put in an ap
pearance for the ninth annua! conven
tion of the Texas Federation of Wom
en's clubs, which is to be held in El
Paso this week. Tomorrow will be
taken up with the reception of the vis
itors and the regular business of the
convention will begin Wednesday
morning. Advices received by the ar
rangements committee indicates that
there will be a good attendance from
all parts of the state.
URGE RETIREMENT IN GRADE.
Commission Firm Falls and Losses*
Are Said to be Heavy.
Washington. D. C.. Nov. li).--ln mil
itary circles much interest is mani
fested ln the forthcoming report of the
special 'board on Personnel, of which
Assistant Secretary of the Navy New
berry is chairman. It is believed the
principal features of the report will
be the recommendation of a retire
ment in grade for ago and the crea
tion of a reserve list in addition to
the retired list.
THE SALOON MUST GO.
Auti'Saloon League of America Meet
ing Today at St. Louis, Mo.
St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 19.—Temperance
advocates of national prominence arc
here In attendance on the annual con
vention of the anti-saloon league of
America, which has its formal open
ing in the First Presbyterian church
tonight.
Tha national organization of the An
ti- Saloon league was started more
than a decade ago in Oberlin, Ohio, by
the late Rev. J. H. Kynett of the
church extension board of the Meth
odist church, and Bishop Ireland.
The object of the league, as is indi
cated by its motto, "The Saloon Musi
Go," Is the suppression of the liquor
traffic. The league Is now organized In
every state of the union. During the
past few years it has taken a more or
less active part ln politics and in some
states, particularly in Ohio, it has
made its influence felt in elections.
Among the men who will be heard
at the present convention are Judge
Ben B.. Lindsey of Denver. Hon. John
G. Woolley of Chicago, Rev. Ward
Beecher Pickard of Buffalo, Governor
J. Frank Hanly of Indiana, E. S. Chap
man, D. D. of California, Dr. E. O.
Taylor of Boston, and Bishop Luther
B. Wilson, who is president of the
league.
The new mill in Wishek will be in
operation in about two weeks. At.
present there are ten men at work day
and night in order to finish the struc
ture.