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EKALAKA, MONTANA
FROM DAY TO DAY
GENERAL NEWS AND NOTES
FRESH FROM THE WIRE.
A WIDE AREA IS COVERED
Embracing a Condensation or tvents
In Wiiich Readers Generally Ar»
Interested.
Washington.
Montana lands tu tue amount of
<»CR,7t;o acres have been designated
by Acting Secretary of the Interior
Pierce for settlement and entry under
the provisions of the enlarged home
stead act. This brings the total
amount of land in Montana designat
ed up to date up to 30,355,000 acres.
With an increase of $3,27:1,325 in the
public debt and a total deficit of $17,
371,4(18.08, the United States treasury
closed the second month oi the fiscal
year, keeping on even keel, all circum
stances considered, with a working
balance of $ :0,820.0057.23 on hand and
the general fund down to $89,523,
207.50.
Attorney General Wickersham and
Secretary Nagle, who have been in
Alaska all summr, will land at Seat
tle, Wash., on September 0. It is gen
erally assumed they have been in
Alaska making a special investigation
of conditions there for President Tart.
The attorney general will probably go
to Beverly at once on his return.
Approximately 679,555 acres of land
in Arizona and New Mexico, eliminat
ed from the national forests by Presi
dent Taft as being chiefly valuable
for agricultural purposes, have been
opened to settlement under the home
stead laws by authority of tlie secre
tary of the interior. The lands will be
come subject to settlement November
22, but not to entry until December 21.
Foreign.
Thirteen deaths front cholera and
twenty-live new cases of the disease
were reported from the infected dis
tricts of southeastern Italy during
twenty-four hours.
Dr. Hawley H. Crippen, jointly ac
cused with Ethel Clare Leneve of the
murder of his wife, has suffered a
nervous collapse and was removed to
the hospital ward of Brixton jail.
The newspapers in Berlin deny, ap
parently with authority, a story print
ed in a French paper La Vie Nouvelle,
that Emperor William has written a
letter to Pope Pius regarding the re
cent congress of religions.
King George's shooting party at
Balmoral was thrown into excitement
when Ixtrd Kilmarnock, second secre
tary in the British diplomatic service,
received four pellets through the ac
cidental discharge of a gun. The sec
retary was not seriously injured.
In consequence of high price of cot
ton and the general depression in
trade, seven cotton mills in Bombay,
India, have announced that they will
close down September 30. Seven
thousand hands will be affected by
this curtailment and a dozen other
juills are expected to follow suit.
Perfect order prevailed at the
Portugal parliamentary elections
throughout the country. The repub
licans secured a majority of the seats
at Lisbon and Oporto, but it is dif
ficult at the present time to estimate
the results elsewhere, it is believed,
however, that the lull returns will
show a great majority for the iu n
anhists.
General.
New York city has gained over a
million in ten years.
The Black llills forest fires,
threatening great damage, are under
control.
President Ripley of the Santa Fe
defended the proposed increase in
railroad rates.
Mr. Roosevelt discussed state and
national authority before members of
the Colorado legislature.
A presidential boom for "Sunny
Jim" Sherman was launched by an ad
mirer ait Marshfield, Mo.
Ât the commerce commission hear
ing at Chicago railroad men insisted
their revenue was not enough.
Two trans-Atlantis steamships, one
of them the liner Lusitania, were held
up by the New York health authorities
because of the cholera scare abroad.
A cablegram has been received at
the Harvard college observatory from
Kiel stating that D'Arrest's comet
was observed by M. F. Gonnesiat, di
rector of the Algiers observatory, on
August 2G.
One boy was killed and three others
were seriously injured in Philadelphia
when they attempted to imitate the
Swiss family Robinson and build a
cabin in a tree forty fe«t above the
ground.
Mayor Gaynor of New York was
taken from the hospital to his coun
try home.
In a letter to Chairman McKinley
of the congressional committee Presi
dent Taft summarized the work of
congress.
Army men are not in favor of the
O'Rourke plan for raising the Maine.
Roosevelt announced his political
creed, which is that of progressive
republicanism.
Senator Burkett introduced Ex-Pres
ident Roosevelt on the occasion of his
Omaha speech.
From eight to ten thousand people
listened to the speech of Ex-President
Roosevelt in Omaha.
Turning down in Georgia of two
veteran congressmen may precipitate
a democratic contest.
Medical Washington was stirred up
by a Nebraska physician's discussion
of infantile paralysis.
The financial showing of the govern
ment for the second month of the fis
cal year is satisfactory.
Proclamations announcing the an
nexation of Korea by Japan were
published at. Seoul and Tokio.
T he railroads may make inquiry
concerning the profits of the shippers
as a result of the Chicago hearing.
1 he proclamation of the annexation
Oi Korea by Japan was made public
without ceremony. It was quietly re
ceived by the populace.
Mexicos celebration of the one hun
dredth anniversary of her independ
once began Sept. 1st and will con
tinue until the end of the month.
C. S. L. Brown, former pastor of
the Christian church in Lee's
Summit, Mo., shot and killed Mrs.
Anne Lamphere, and then committed
suicide.
At the close of a meeting of miners
and operators in Chicago, it was an
nounced that the strike situation in
the Illinois coal fields had virtually
been brought to an end.
According to a report received at
Lawton, Okla., five men and one
woman have either been killed or
seriously wounded in a duel which
took place about sixteen miles from
Waters.
Juan Amer, editor of the Satirical
Weekly Chantecleer, of which the
first issue had just appeared, was shot
and killed by Jose Pennino, a liberal
candidate for city councilman in Hav
ana, Cuba.
A gross valuation of the estate of
the late Grover Cleveland in New
York has been filed showing $39,050,
less taxes, commissions, etc. The
residue is $32,408, the bulk of which
goes to the widow and children.
Bishop of Salisbury, England, will
start for "this country, arriving here
September 21. He is to preach the
opening sermons at the Protestant
Episcopal convention, which is to be
held late in September at Cincinnati,
Ohio.
At a La Follette meeting in Madi
son, at which Senator Cummins of
Iowa and Francis J. Heney, the San
Francisco graft fighter, were the chief
speakers, Congressman Norris of Ne
braska was also present and made a
talk.
In laying the corner-stone of the
new Y. M. C. A. building in Beverly,
Mass., President Taft officially an
nounced that Beverly would continue
to be the "summer capital" of the
country, "at any rate for two years
more."
In consequence of the high price of
cotton and the general depression in
trade, seven cotton mills in Bombay
have announced that they will close
down September 30. Seven thousand
hands will be affected by this curtail
ment. and a dozen other mills are ex
pected to follow suit.
After a conference with the forestry
service officials the officials of the
American National Red Cross an
nounced tiiat it would pay the hospital
expenses o!' the government employes
injured in lighting the forest lires in
the northwest. It is estimated that
the expense will amount to about $1,
(100, which will be paid out of the re
lief fund of the Red Cross.
"There's nothing in that story that
the Northern Pacific is buying control
of the Chicago Great Western," said
Presidt nt Felton of the Chicago Great
Western.
A Union Pacific official commenting
upon the report that the Western Pa
cific will cut rates to the far east
when it. gets its line of steamships
through the Japanese in January says
there is no money in the traffic now
and nobody really expects a cut.
After prolonged negotiations, Oscar
S. Strauss, the United States ambas
sador to Turkey, has succeeded in ob
taining a decision from the council of
state approving the act of the council
\>f ministers, in which all foreign
religious, educational and benevolent
institution.-' are exempted from the
provisions of the Ottumwa law.
Tiie Delaware republican state con
vention nu : t at Dover and unanimous
ly renominated renominated Congress
man William H. Heald of Wilmington.
Although Congressman Heald support
ed Speaker Cannon during the contest
over the change in the rules of the
house of representatives, the platform
adopted approves the congressman as
the result of the struggle.
ALLEGE COMBINE
INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER
COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY
ACCUSED AS TRUST.
IN MISSOURI OUSTER CASE
Mammoth Concern Is Pronounced
Merely Selling Agent for New
ersey Company—Report Ren
dered to Court.
Jefferson City. Mr.., Sept. 8.—Special
Commissioner Theodore Brace in his
report to the suurome court in the
ouster suit filed yesterday declared
the International Harvester Co. of
New Jersey a trust and a combine
formed lor the purpose and with the
effect of destroying competition in the
manufacture and sale of harvesting
machinery.
The International Harvester Co. of
America is declared t■ > he used merely
as a selling agent by the New Jersey
company in evasion of the Missouri
laws which prohibit the licensing of
; lie New Jersey concern by reason of
its enormous capital of $120,000,000.
The subsidiary corporation, accord
ing to Commissioner Brace, once had
a capital and now it has none. its
existence as a separate corporate en
tity is a mere fiction to evade the
laws of slates whose policy is not to
encourage such vast accumulation of
wealth and power in the hands of a
few as may injure the welfare and
prosperity of the many whose policy
is to keep open the field of commer
cial and industrial enterprise to all
citizens.
EVIDENCE IS DAMAGING.
Chemist Swears to Selling Deadly
Poison to Crippen.
London, Eng.. Sept. 8.—At the re
sumption today of the trial of Dr. Haw
ley H. Crippen and Kthel Clare Lenec-!
for the murder of the former's wife,
Public Prosecutor Himphreys intro
duced evidence to establish the claim
of the crown that parts of the muti
lated body found in the Crippen home
once formed the part of the person of
Belle Elmore, the missing wife, and to
strengthen what has been popularly
regarded as a missing link in the chain
of circumstantial evidence against the
accused.
The first witness called was Mrs
Adeline Harrison, whose acquaintance
with Belle Elmore had extended ovr a
period of twelve years. Mrs. Harrison
was asked to examine the strands of
hair found when the dismembered b«dy
was uncovered, and having done so she
swore that she recognized the exhibit
as similar to that worn oy Belle KI
more.
When Mrs. Harrison left the stanu
the prosecution called a chemist who
claims that he sold hyoscine, a deadly
poison, to Crippen. The witness testi
fied the doctor had purchased live
grains of drug on Jan. 19, explaining
that lie required the poison for use
in homeopathic preparations.
Inspector Dew, who arrested the fu
gitive, re-entered the witness box to
day and read a lengthy statement
signed by Crippen when the police lirst
asked him to make an explanation of
his disappearance from London after
suspicion had been directed against
him. The gist of the statement had
already been covered by Humphreys in
'lis opening address.
Tlie statement which Crippen mad<
to Inspector Dew concluded: "My be
lief is that my wife has gone to Chi
"ago to join Bruce -Miller.''
Conservation Congress to Close.
St. Paul, Minn.. Sept. S.—It is pos
sible that the national conservation
congress, which i>y the programme
should continue tomorrow, will close
tonight. President Baker said that ht
would crowd the programme as muci.
as possible to this end, and perhaps
hold a night sesion. It has been a
strenuous convention and the delegates
and visitors want a rest.
The presidency of the congress is ex
pected to go to J. I!. White of Kansas
City, tili- present chairman of the
executive committee. Clifford Pinchot.
who is president of the National Con
servation association, told bis friends
that he would not be a candidate.
'I he members of the resolutions com
mittee met early lo whip the mass of
recommendations into a platform.
Refused to Attend Banquet.
Freeport, 111., Sept. 8.—Colonel Roose
velt refused flatly today to attend a
banquet to be given tonight by the
Hamilton club in Chicago unless Unit
ed States Senator Lorimer is excluded.
He demanded that a telegram to that
effect be sent to the senator.
A committee of sixteen members of
the Hamilton club, headed by ex-Judge
John H. Hatten, came to Freeport from
Chicago in a special car today and met
Colonel Roosevelt, who is here to at
tend the county fair. They came to
make arrangements for the dnner to
night. The committee met him at the
fair grounds and the colonel at once
asked who was to attend the dinner.
Insurance Men in Convention.
Detroit, Mich., Sept. S.—Insurance
underwriters from every state in the
union gathered here today for the
twentv-flrst annual convention of the
National Association of Life. Under
writers. Chicago is making a strong
campaign to secure next year's con
vention.
PINCHOT GETS OVATION
CLASH AT CONSERVATION CON.
VENTION IN ST. PAUL
Senator Beveridge Argues for National
Control of Natural Resources and
J. J. Hill Says Impracticable.
St. Paul. Sept. 7.—Two opposing
ideas of conservation of natural re
sources met fairly and squarely today
when Senator Beveridge, in an elo
quent address declared for the na
tional control, while James J. Hill ar
gued contrary.
Gifford Pinchot received an ovation
that furnished the most dramatic mo
ment of the congress. The i former for
ester, the object of a wild demonstra
tion by the audience, stood with tears
streaming from Iiis eyes until the out
burst of cheers subsided and the spec
tators were again in their seats.
Just what Senator Beveridge was
trying to say complimentary to Pin
cho* was drowned in the roar that
rose the moment the end of his re
marks became appari nt.
"Gifford I'inehot!" said the speaker,
and the outburst started, ft grew un
til every one was yelling and the wlim •
lieuse w is en its feet waving hats and
handkerchiefs.
Senator Beveridge had no sooner re
ared than cries of "Pinchot, Pinchot,"
rang through the house. He was
dragged forward by President Baker.
His voice shook as he spoke.
"It is magnificent," lie said, "to bear
sound policies of conservation acclaim
ed as has been done here today. Con
servation has won out. I thank you."
Senator Beveridge sounded his key
note in the statement that this is one
nation, not forty-six nations.
Hill said that there are dangers in
separable from national control. The
chine is too big and r< mote, he said,
and its operation too slow and costly.
Dr. Frank L. McVey, president of
the University of North Dakota, dis
' ussed Rational Taxation of Resources.
Woman's Influence in National
Questions was the subject of a paper
b\ Mrs. Kmmons Crocker of Massa
chusetts, chairman of the conservation
department of the federation of wom
en's clubs.
VOTE TO OUST BALLINGER.
Republicans Leave Claiming Full Com
mittee Should Be Present.
Minneapolis, Sept. 7.—At an execu
five meeting of the Ballinger-iPnchot
investigation committee today Senator
Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida, demo
crat, introduced a resolution holding
that the secretary of the interior was
an unfaithful public officer and should
he removed. Representative Madison,
republican insurgent from ansas, offer
ed a resolution holding that charges
which have been made by Gifford I'in
ehot and Louis R. Glavis, former chief
of the field division of the general land
office, wer»» sustained.
Rep. < »llie M. James, democrat oi
Kentucky, offered an amendment to
Representative Madison's sub: titute
resolution providing for the removal <>f
Ballinger from office and Madison ac
cepted the amendment. The vote came
upon th - substitution of Madison as
amended by the motion of James and
tlie roll was called. Those voting for
the substitute were: Fletcher, Pur
cell of North Dakota, democrat; Rep
James Graham of Illinois, democrat;
Representative adison, republican; and
Representative James.
When this vote v.' a s being taken
Sen. George Sutherland of Utah, re
publhan, and Rep. Samuel W. McCall
of Massachusetts, republican, left the
committee room in.-isting that the full
committee should he present.
La Follette Wins Out.
Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 7.--United
States Senator Robert . La Follette
carried Wisconsin at yesterday's pri
mary election by ;m overwhelming ma.
jorit.v over Samuel A. Cook of Neenah.
The ligures are incomplete even in
Milwaukee county and will not bo
known pi rliaps f"r a day or two.
There is no doubt that La Follette
will have control of the candidates'
platform convention at Madison and
that he will have the next legislature
back of him. So big was his vote that
it carried with it a large majority of
'lie legislative nominees.
The "insurgent" congressmen were
renominated and added to their
strengh by the nomination of Henry
c, Cochems.
U. S. Wins Arbitration.
The Hague, Sept. 7.—The United
States wins oil five points out of seven
points submitted to the international
court of arbitration in the Newfound
land fisheries dispute with Great Brit
ain.
Great Britain wins points 1 and r>.
The decision was handed down today.
Girls' School Investigated.
Red Wing, Minn., Sept. 7.—The board
if control is in Red Wing today in
vestigating the conditions at the girls*
training n-hool and charges of insu
bordination made at the school. A
number of persons have been subpoe
naed to appear as witnesses this after,
noon.
Report of Cotton Gnned.
Washington, D. C., Sept. S.—The
number of bales of cotton ginned to
Sept. 1 from the growth of 1910 was
bales, round bales counted as
half bales, according to the report of
the census bureau made this morn
ing. The 1909 total was 388,242 bales.
CRIPPEN ON TRIAL
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PROSECUTION ANNOUNCES POI«
SON WAS FOUND IN BELLE
ELMORE'S BODY.
ACCESSORY AFTER FACT
Ethel Leneve Is So Held According to
Statement of the Crown—Fam
ous Case Now Started in
London.
London, Sept. 6.—At the opening to
day of the triai of Hawley H. Crippen,
who is charged with the murder of
his wife, Belle Elmore, tho prosecu
tion announced that large quantities of
poison had been found in the woman's
body and that there were evidences
that she had been subjected to an
operation.
Kthel Claro Leneve, the doctor's
typist, who accompanied him in his
flight to Canada aftr the disappearance
of Iiis wife, and who has been held on
the same charge, also was brought to
the bar today, but the crown slated
that it had been decided to confine tho
allegations against the girl to being an
accessory after the fact.
This relieves Miss Leneve of any
foreknowledge of the crime and is in
line with thu belief of her family and
friends that she did not share Crip
pen's confidence up to the time *hat
his wife dropped out of sight and was
said by him to have died in California.
Interest in the Crippen case, which
was intense during the search for tlie
doctor, has by no means worn out, as
was shown by the crowd which gath
ered in the vicinity of the Bow street
police court when the trial was opened
today.
ANOTHER MEMBER.
Colonel Roosevelt Makes Addition to
Ananias Club.
The most sensational episode of the
tour of Colonel Roosevelt through tho
west occured in Fargo yesterday. John
Andrews, a painter employed by An
drew Nelson, the 'local decorator,
climbed on the platform and pushed
his way to the front of the stand.
A number who were standing neai
tho ex-president and who saw the man's
actions, remembering the recent Gay
nor affair, interfered with the man
who was not known to a single per
son in the crowd immediately sur
rounding Roosevelt.
"I have a right to ask questions,"
said Andrews to those who attempted
to stop him, and then ho said to
Roosevelt:
"Tell the people who is paying your
expenses on this trip and what for."
"You are an Important fool," re
sponded Roosevelt, "and it's my busi
ness, but I will tell you. The Outlook
Publishing Co. is paying my ex
penses."
Those near Roosevelt could not hear
the man's reply, but Roosevelt shout
ed, "You're a iar," and he took him
by the arm.
Sheriff H. T. Boyle at once placed
the man under arrest and took him to
the county jail. This morning he
was released at 9 o'clock and he im
mediately went back to work at tho
new Stone building, where be is do
ing work on the interior decorations.
There have been a dozen different
stories of the affair all conflicting, but
the above is the way that Colonel
Roosevelt gave the affair to newspaper
men at the Waldorf hotel last evening.
John Andrews is a .small man, a
painter, .'10 years of age, employed by
Andrew Nelson and now working on
the interior decorating of the Stone
building. He says he simply asked
Roosevelt who was paying his ex
penses on the trip and what for. Ile
says that Roosevelt replied that ho
was an impertinent fool and that a
syndicate sent him to ask the ques
tion. He says lie replied to that "Oh,
No Sir!" and that it was then that
Roosevelt called him a liar.
Dishonesty of Business.
New York, Sept. (>.—Clement J.
Driscoll. who has conducted a vigor
ous crusade against short weights as
Now York's commissioner o I weights
and measures, addressed the annual
labor day dinner at the Labor Ly
ceum last night.
"Some of the so-called reputable
merchants of the great city o£ New
York," he said, "who at a time when
labor was struggling with its employer
for fair play, would be the first to de
nounce labor, could not stand a very
searching inquiry into their business
methods.
"The dishonesty of the push cart
peddler and the dishonesty of the small
merchant is as nothing compared with
the dishonesty in short weight ajid
measures with the largo corporations
>f this country."
"Short weighing and short measur
ing, in the city of New York, has
grown to be a habit, and the con
science of tho great army of the mer
chants has almost been deadened by
this disease—and it will continue un
less the public is willing and eager
to co-operate with the municipal gov
ernment to rid this city of the evil."
As it was Labor Sunday, pastors
throughout the city dwelt upon some
topic of labor in their sermons.
Deputy Sheriff Fined.
Mason City, Iowa, Sept. 6.—Because
he assaulted a Greek laborer whom he
placed under arrest, Deputy Sheriff
Holdren of this county was fined $10
and costs by a magistrate. The plain
tiff in the case swore that the officer
was intoxicated.