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THE EVENING TIMES
The Brightest, Newsiest sad Best
Evening Newspaper In North Dakota.
1, NO. 289.
Associated Press to The Evening Times.
New York, Dec. 17.—The close of
the great fight for the control of the
New York Life and Mutual Life In
surance companies and their hundreds
of millions of assets is at hand. Since
Oct. 18 the policyholders of the two
companies have been voting for the
election of a new set of trustees in
each companyf The struggle has been
the moBt remarkable in the financial
history of the country, with scattered,
unorganized people of small means on
the one side and the greatest moneyed
powers In the United States on the
•other. That the result Is awaited with
Intense interest goes without Baying.
The election will determine whether
the present management of the two
companies, which were legislated out
of office by the enactment of the re
form insurance laws following the
Armstrong committee's revelations,
will remain In power, or whether the
policyholders will put their own men
In charge of their own funds, amount
ing in the two companies to *970,000,
000.
Irrespective of the outcome the elec
tion will dhow for the first time in the
history of the Insurance business in
the United States a very large vote
by the policyholders, the vote being
due to the wonderful campaign made
by the international policyholders'
committee to bestir the policyholders
to the importance of showing suffi
cient interest in the safeguarding of
their own funds to cast ballots.
That the present managements have
spent several million dollars to retain
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GIRL OK TRIAL FOR MAHSUU6HTER
Associated Press to The Evening Times.
Thornton, R. I., Dec. 17.—Confident
of acquittal and buoyed up by the ex
pressed sympathy of the entire com
munity, Miss Ethel Smith, the fifteen
year-old daughter of Leander Smith a
special policeman, was placed on trial
today on a charge of manslaughter.
The charge against the girl is the
killing of Elmer Briggs about three
weeks ago.
Briggs, who was a worthless char
acter, deserted his wife leaving her
(without means to support herself and
three small children. Special Officer
Smith took pity on the woman, and he
and his wife received the deserted
ones into their home and cared for
them. On the afternoon of November
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CEASES TONIGHT
Close of the Great Struggle for Control of New
York Life and Mutual Life Companies at Hand
Last Votes Were Cast Today—Stockholders'
Money Spent to Elect Administration Tickets
Will Take Weeks to Count the Ballots.
the control of the companies is the
opinion of experts who have watched
the present fight since the report of
the Armstrong committee. During the
past two months the New York Life
is said to have spent upwards of $2,
000,000 to secure the vote of the ma
jority of its million policyholders for
the "administration ticket" headed by
Alexander E. Orr and placed in nom
ination, by the old "McCall ring" offi
cials controlled by George W. Per
kins of the Wall street firm of J. P.
Morgan & Co., and Thomas A. Buck
ner, vice president in charge of
agencies.
The Mutual, having about half as
many policyholders, is saih to have
spent half as much to secure a win
ning vote fop the Standard Oil ticket,
beaded by Charles A. Peabody, which
was nominated at the direction of H.
H. Rogers, and for which members
of the discredited McCurdy regime
have been working with might and
main.
In the New York Life there are two
tickets in the field, the administration
nominees and those, named by the in
ternational policyholders' committee.
In the Mjitual there are three tickets.
One is the ticket nominated by the
present management the second is
the united committee's ticket, jointly
nominated by the international policy
holders' committee and the Mutual
Life policyholders' association. The
third, or .fusion ticket, was nominated
by the agents of the Mutual.
In the New York Life the number
of policyholders Is 977,441. Of these
29, Briggs tried to force an entrance
to the Smith house. Mrs. Briggs and
her children, in fear, locked all the
doors and windows.
Ethel procured her father's revol
ver as Briggs drew a large carving
knife from beneath his coat and cut
away the netting from the screen on
the front door. He then broke a pane
of glass in the door, reached in his
arm on the inside, turned the key in
the lock and threw back the bolt. As
he forced the door open the young girl
fired two shots at him, both bullets
lodging in his body. Briggs hesitated
for a moment and then kept on. The
girl fired three more shots and Briggs
fell dead. The girl was arrested, but
bail was immediately furnished and
she was not'locked up.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE WILLIAM H. MOODY.
When William H. Moody becomes an associate justice of the supreme
court, Massachusetts will have two native sons in that tribunal, the other
being Oliver Wendell Holmes, son of the poet. Mr. Moody was born at New
bury, Mass., In 1853. He Is a graduate of Harvard and lias been In public life
since He was United States district attorney for five years, congressman
for seven years, secretary of the nnvy for two years and has been attorney
general since July 1, 1004. His homo Is at Haverblli.
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THE EVENING
783,661 reside in the United States and
Canada. The remainder are scattered
throughout sixty-nine foreign coun
tries, representing every corner of the
world. In the Mutual Life the total
number of policyholders is 592,395, of
which 457,591 live in the United States
and Canada, and tue remainder in
other parts of the world.
In the election the "administration
tickets" have had an incalculable ad
vantage, in that they have been able
to get Into direct touch with the
policyholders not only In America but
throughout the world by means oi
their agents. In addition to working
through the thousands of agents the
present managements are charged
with having employed the medium
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clrcularizatlon to aid them in their
campaign to an enormous extent. At
least five circulars of various sorts,
bearing on the campaign and in sup
port of the administration tickets, are
said to have been sent out since July.
As high as 10 cents postage has been
required to carry some of the bundles
of campaign literature thus sent out,
which means that hundreds of thou
sands of dollars of the policyholders'
funds have been used for this pur
pose.
To combat the electioneering work
done by the agents and other employes
of the two companies throughout the
world the International policyholders'
committee has had io depend solely
upon circulars. Since the campaign
began every policyholder in the United
States and Canada has been circular
ized four times and every foreign
policyholder three times. The com
mittee has expended a total of nearly
$300,000 In this work. Were it not /or
the fact that everybody connected
with the committee except the clerks
has given his serviu'8 without com
pensation of any kind*, the expense
would have reached a figure which
would have made an effective cam
paign impossible. A famous group of
lawyers has given to the committee
free services which would have cost
an ordinary client fully $500,000.
Among these lawyers are Alton B.
Parker, former chief justice of the
court of appeals of New York Rich
ard Olney, former secretary of state
Gen. Benjamin F. Tracy, former sec
retary of the navy, and Judge George
Gray of the United States court.
The indications on the eve of the
close of the election are that a total
of between 600,000 and 700,000 votes
will be cast. The ballots are to be
opened and officially counted tomor
row. It may take two weeks to count
the ballots, and in the event of a close
election, the count may be contested
in the courts.
BANKER A PIGGER!
Associated Press to The Evening Times.
Trenton, N. J., Dec. 17.—Frank
Roma, a wealthy Italian banker of
Philadelphia was placed on trial in
Mercer Criminal court today on a
charge of selling liquor without a li
cense at a colony of railroad employes
at Trenton Junction, near this city.
The charge grows out of a crusade
made some time ago against disorder
ly conduct in the Italian colony on
Sundays.
Special Correspondence to The Evening
Times.
(By E. C. Snyder.)
Washington, D. C., Dec. 17.—A very
peculiar contention has arisen over
the request of Congressman-elect Pet
er A. Potter, of the 34th New York dis
trict, to have his name recorded In
the list of members elected as a re
publican. Mr. Porter's request ap
pears to be without precedent and will
be denied. There have been instances
in the past when members of the
house and even the senate have been
elected by one party who have subse
quently repudiated the platforms upon
which they were elected and the party
which elected them. But these cases
were based upon the fact that the sen
ators and representatives found the
policies of their part incompatible
with their conscientious beliefs.
Mr. Sibley, of Pennsylvania, elected
as a democrat did not agree with his
party on several national questions
and he formally foreswore further al
legiance to that party and upon the
floor of the house announced his in
tention to thereafter afliliate with the
republicans. Senators DuBois of Ida
ho, and Pettigrew, of South Dakota,
were elected to the state as republi
cans. They disagreed with their par
ty's declarations on the silver question
as enunciated in the platform of '96
a souARfc deal rut# all
GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1906.
Chairman Cousins of House
Committee on Appropria
tions Resigns Job.
TO TAKE THE HEM OF
FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
His Committee "Went Through" From
Three to Four Hundred Million
Dollars Annually—Good Story Told
on Iowa Congressman's Tete a Tete
With a Farmer.
(By E. C. Snyder.)
Washington, Dec. 17.—Congressman
Cousins of Iowa, has resigned the
chairmanship of the house committee
on expenditures of the Treasury De
partment in order that his entire time
may be given to his committee of
which he has become the head, foreign
afTairs, succeeding the late Robert
Roberts Hitt, of Illinois. Mr. Cous
ins became the chairman of the com
mittee having to do with expenditures
of the Treasury Department during
Speaker Reed's administration having
traded with General Grosvenor who
desired a place on Mines and Mining.
Mr. Cousins speaking of the resigna
tion told an exceedingly funny story of
how one of his good farmer friends
looked upon the chairmanship. Dur
ing one of the congressional cam
paigns in the fifth district Mr. Cous
ins was stumping in a friend's, district
while the friend came Into Hh Cous
in's district At one of the towns in
the district an old farmer came up to
the member of congress after his
speech and asked' whether lie knew
Mr. Cousins well. The representative
replied that he did.
"My that fellow Cousins must han
dle an awful amount of money. I see
that he is the head of the conunittee
on expenditures for the treasarr -de
partment." The congressman appre
ciating the situation and the slncerity
of the farmer replied that Cousins did
handle an all-fired lot of money.
"About how much do you think the
congressman handles a year."
"Well, Its pretty hard to tell, off
hand. There's the Pension appropria
tion mill which carries about a hun
dred millions and the War Depart
ment, Budget and Navy Department
supply bill, they run about fifty mil
lions each, so that I should say that
Cousins must handle in a year thjee
or four hundred millions of dollars."
"Good gracious," repied the Iowa
farmer. And I knew that fellow when
he was just about as high as my knee.
He must dream of money nights. Do
you know I would hate to go to sleep,
because I'd be afraid that some of it
would leak out of the committee room
in the night time."
SIX SPECIAL MESSAGES.
Roosevelt Will Keep Congress on the
Jump During This Week.
Washington, Dec. 17.—Six special
messages are to be sent to congress
this week by President Roosevelt.
They Include one on the naval person
nel bill which contemplates the more
rapid retirement and promotion of the
officers of the navy, a message trans
mitting Secretary Metcalf's report on
the alleged discrimination against the
Japanese in San Francisco a special
message on Panama a message on
the public land transmitting Secre
tary's report on Cuba and a reply to
the senate resolution calling for in
formation regarding the discharge
without honor of the soldiers of the
25th regiment of colored infantry.
Makes a Request Without a Precedent
and thereafter affiliated with the dem.
ocrats. Senator DuBois was subse
quently elected to the senate as a
democrat and is still serving as such.
But the case of Mr. Porter is differ
ent. A copy of the official ballot, upon
which he was elected shows that be
was the candidate of the regular dem
ocrats and the Independence League
and that while he also appears on the
ballot as an "independent" he did not
claim, officially, anywhere that he was
an independent republican. So far as
the memory of the oldest official of
the house extends back there has nev
er been a time when a member elected
on one ticket claimed the right to be
rcorded as a member of the opposing
party.
One of the best posted parliamen
tary advisers of Speaker Cannon in
discussing the Porter request today
said:
"To grant the request of the member
elect that he be formally admitted as
a full-fledged republican would be sui
cidal, even if compliance were possi
ble. It would open up too many com
plications. How? Well I will enclgpv
or to explain. Suppose that there
should be two candidates for speaker.
And two candidates for each of the
elective offices of the house. Now
Imagine a hot contest and an even di­
M.P. PRESIDENT I
OH THE FUEL
SUPPLY
Howard Elliott Denies Roose
velt's Intimation That
Famine Was The
RESULT OF EXFRMIW
DELAYS OY RAILROADS
Blames Dealers, Who, He Says, Were
Urged by Railroads as Early as Last
July» to Anticipate Possible Short*
age and the Increased Demand
Caused l»y Xew Settlers.
Aimoelated Pre** to The ESvenlnic Timed*
Washington, Dec., Dec. 17.—In re
sponse to telegrams of inquiry ad
dressed to the presidents of several
western railroads by the interstate
commerce commission as to the causes
of reported shortage of cars for trans
portation of fuel, by reason of which
great suffering had been entailed,
President Howard Elliott of the North
ern Pacific company, telegraphed the
commission from St. Paul as follows:
"There is a scarcity of fuel in some
parts of the country served by our
line, but we do not know of any
shortage of other necessaries of life.
Our company has done and will con
tinue to do all that it can to prevent
suffering. The company realized In
June and July last that the fuel sup
ply was likely to be inadequate and,
therefore, urged all dealers at that
time to look ahead and provide a stock
of coal early and to try to find new
sources of supply. I think the reason
given in your message, namely, the
extraordinary delays in moving cars
is incorrect so far as this company is
concerned.
"In North Dakota and Minnesota,
the difficulty in part is due to trying
to move too much fuel In a very short
time, and in part to an increase in
consumption of fuel that is greater
than the increase in facilities for
handling, moving and storing. Also
to a general Increase in the movement
of miscellaneous commodities, which
cannot be ignored without subjecting
ourselves to charges of discrimination.
We know of only one case on our line
in North Dakota where there has been
serious difficulty, and I believe that
has been relieved, fhe very serious
blizzard of the last few days In Njrth
Dakota has caused delays because of
snow blockades, and it is difficult to
move freight promptly for that sec
tion. I will be glad if you will name
in detail any complaint in territory
served by our line, so that we may
take up each one and the best we can
to furnish relief. We have, in a num
ber of cases, turned over company
coal to protect local demands, and we
are doing everything we can to take
care of the situation and will con
tinue to do so."
AIKIX LAW TEST CASE
AmwrliiM Press to The Evening Times.
Cincinnati, O., Dec. 17.—The case in
stituted by the liquor interests to test
the constitutionality of the Aikin law
which increased the license to such
an extent as to drive a large number
of saloons all over Ohio out of busi
ness was called in court here today.
The breweries who are backing the
test case, allege that from March 20
until after April 10, Governor Patti
son was utterly incapacitated from
performing or exercising any of his
powers as governor and that the Aikin
bill was never presented to him.
vision of the republicans elect between
the two tickets. The admission of a
democrat, or a man who owes his elec
tion principally to democratic votes,
to the republican caucus might result
in that member deciding the result.
And if one democrat should be so ad
mitted, why not ten or a hundred?"
"Not only would such a course af
fect the organization of the house it
self, but it would follow that one vote
or those of the democrats so admitted
to an opposition party caucus would
naturally affect the organization of
every committee of the house and inci
dentally would have a direct and im
portant bearing upon the legislative
policies. Never yet has a member of
this house been elected by one party
and immediately admitted to the coun
cils of the opposition and there is nt
likelihood that the speaker will en
deavor to create a precedent for thb
political benefit of Mr. Porter.
The members of the Democratic
Congressional Committee are "sore"
on Mr. Porter. That gentleman ask
ed the support of the committee but
the day following his election he an
nounced himself as a republican. He
will probably have a very cool recep
tion by the democrats and if he is
not permitted to enter the republcan
caucus he will be the only man in the
house without a party.
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Associated Press to The Evening Times.
St. Paul, Dec. 17.—Professors
Thomas Shaw and T. A. Hoverstad,
judges in the competition for the J.
J. Hill prizes for model farms in
Minnesota and the Dakotas, have made
their report to the donor of the
awards, and cash prizes will be
awarded according to their recom
mendations.
Of the one hundred farmers who
are eligible for the competition,
fifty-one were in Minnesota, thirty
six in North Dakota and thirteen in
South Dakota. The conditions re
quired the farms entering to have
twenty head of cattle and the same
number of sheep or swine. The re
port gives the following winners in
North Dakota:
Division No. 1, six counties, nine
teen contestants: First prize, John
11EI0MRIIEIAW
Bill Introduced in Congress
Permitting Newspapers to
Accept Transportation.
Washington, Dec. 17.—Representa
tive Garret of Tennessee has intro­
Associated Press to The Evening Times.
New York, Dec. 17.—According to
advices received 'by the Times, the
Norwegian Storthing did not bestow
the Nobel peace prize on President
Roosevelt without opposition. For
some months before the bestowal of
the prize, it is stated, there had been
considerable agitation in favor of
awarding the peace prize to the so
called "Karlstad Commission," a group
of Swedish and Norwegian statesman
who arbitrated the differences between
Sweden and Norawy at the time of the
breach, and who negotiated the peace
ful separation of the two countries.
The well known Norwegian author
ess, Elizabeth Schoyen, led the fight on
the Norwegian side. The keynote of
her argument was that an ounce of
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Stands for North Dakota at all Times
and Under all Circumstances.
EIGHT PAGES—PRICE FIVE CENTS.
PROPS. SHAW AND HOVERSTAD, JUDGES IN THE
COMPETITION, ANNOUNCE THEIR RECOMMEN
DATIONS—THREE WINNERS IN GRAND PORKS
DISTRICT, DIVISION NO. 1—$2,100 TO BE DISTRI
BUTED IN THIS STATE.
Donnelly, Grafton, $300 second prize,
T. H. May, Larimore, $150 third
prize, John Hunig, Webster, $75.
Division No. 2, six counties, ten
contestants: First prize, W. W. Brown,
Amenia, $300 second prize, J. D.
Power, Power, $150 third prize, C. W.
Williamson and Bros., Havana, $75.
Division No. 3, thirteen counties,
four contestants: First prize, E. H.
Heine, Ellendale, $300 Second prize,
H. M. Smith, Fisher, $150 third
prize, J. Swensgaard, Bo wen, $75.
Division No. 4, five counties, three
contestants: First prize, H. A. Nel
son, Ray, $300 second prize, George
Dorn, Ross, $150 third prize, Hans
Hansen, Carpio, $75.
Wherever there was an absence of
strong competition, no awards were
made to farms unless they reached
the standard of merits entitling them
to the recognition given.
duced a bill amendatory of the rail
road rate bill, permitting publishers
of newspapers and periodicals to ac
cept transportation from railroad com
panies for advertising. It provides
that transportation will be issued at
regular public rates.
REICHSTAG ELECTIONS.
Associated Press CaMe to The Bvenlaa
Times.
Berlin, Dec. 17.—It has been official
ly announced that elections to the
Reichstag will occur Janfrary 25.
IN SECURING THE COVETED NOBEL PRIZE
prevention was better than a pound of
cure, and she pointed out that the joint
commission had halted on the brink of
a dangerous crisis, a situation which
would have led to a war that would
have been disastrous in its conse
quences to both of the Scandinavian
countries, while President Roosevelt
merely was the means of ending war,
after all the damage 'had been done.
NINE SAILORS DROWN.
Associated Press Cable to The Evening
Times.
Portsmouth, England, Dec. 17.—Nine
sailors belonging to the crew of the
battleship Hindustan were drowned to
day, owing to the up-setting of a cut
ter in wihich they were returning to
the warship.
BUST OF CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH BY MAJOR GENERAL BADE*
POWELL
One of the highly interesting things to be seen at the Jamestown exposi
tion, which opens near Norfolk, Va., next April, will be a bust of Captain John
Smith by Major General Baden-Powell of the British army, hero of Mafeklng
during the Boer war. General Baden-Powell is a skillful modeler and sculp
tor. His Interest in John Smith as a subject is augmented by the fact that be
is descended from the same family which gave to the world the heroic colonist
But for Captain Smith's Intrepidity and wisdom the little English settlement on
Jamestown island must have perished.
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