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gp if II' PEMBINA, NORTH DAKOTA. The Hon. Wos Gill will now havi to be put on the list as one who wos ———————__ The British must have heard of tb discovery of something valuable ii Thibet. A man's ideal of a love affair progress. A woman's is to have stay where it is. Do not laugh at the "war" in tb Pour Hundred. It is really serious— lor the Four Hundred. A man whose blood is as richly sup plied with iron as Lord Kitchener'* cannot be an invalid long. If it be true that women love mosl intensely at 22 why are more than 18 in they nevei the official records? "Hysterical women," according tc Dr. Shrady, "tell and act lies." Jusl like some men who are not hysterical. "The Bartenders' Blue Book" is the title of a recent Chicago publication. Let literary Boston look to its laur els! The Philadelphia Press is trying to discover the best American poem. What* the matter with "Casey at the Bat"? Train robbers have begun to operate In South Africa. It must be true, after all, that Pat Crowe has settled over there. Corbett and Fitzsimmons are talk ing about fighting next fall. Why not have a law limiting the talking to one mpnth? Blessed are they who care more for the fight than for the finish, for their expectations shall never be stepped on. Proposals of marriage made on Sun day, however, are just as binding as those made at summer resorts on any day of the week. Somebody has written a book of "Sonnets of the Head and Heart." Now let's have some "Sonnets of the Lights and Liver." The largest steamship in the world is to be called the Baltic. Some other vessel, presumably, has a copyright on the name "Pacific." Cleveland doctors have succeeded in making a dead man's heart beat, but they failed to make it necessary for him to go on paying rent. Gold has beeiL-4ismKAJMid.UnrCL». land, but the natives are trying to conceal the fact until they get their boundary lines and canal sites pat ented. A literary society has been formed to study Milton. It is only by band ing together that the people can carry on the fight against "the literature ol to-day." With the New York women indulg ing in face paint and the men in nose paint, we may expect some highly colored stories of social happenings in that city. The railroads of the United States killed 3,554 persons during the year ended June 30. Still some people gc around worrying because of the hor rors of war. If It is true that people lose their religion who live in flats it will be necessary to abolish speaking tubes and other easy devices for swearing at the janitor. Since the danger of war between Russia and Japan has passed the sul tan finds, much to his pain, that the powers are disposed to hand him a tew more warnings. The diamond company at Kimberley sold its product last year for $26,205, RG0, making a profit of $11,511,490. Thus does the diamond trust grind the faces of the rich. It Is plain to be seen that that wom an back in Albany, New York, who was kissed 1,236 times and kept a record of the performances wasn't worth the effort on the part of the kisser. The ony V** iVtf '1 former crown princess of Sax utterly repudiates the authorship of the book, "The Confessions of Prin cess Louise." Not writing that book Is the best thing sometime. she has done for It-has been shown that an automo bile at full speed can be stopped in less than half the distance required by two horse team and a carriage. Bui usually hits a great deal hardei when it stops. Germldine Bonner says that after -inany attempts no one has succeeded In making a successful romance with ont woman in It. She might have added that no one has succeeded in making toccessful romance without man in It* either. In divorce esse back East a few days ago lt was shown that the fair defendant fcadbeenkissed by repre •entatlv e* cf tfce army, the navy and roe lighthouse service. What was the matter with the revenue service and Resume From the Capital. Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans has dispatched the gunboat Annapolis to Tamsui, Formossa, to investigate the attack on the crew of the American ship Benjamin Sewali on Oct. 5. The naval academy authorities are making every preparation for the grad uation of the first class in February Instead of June, the regular time, on account of the pressing need for naval officers. Representative Tyrrell of Massa chusetts has introduced a bill to pro hibit the sale of intoxicating liquors in buildings or on premises owned or controlled by the Uinted States gov ernment. The cruiser Buffalo is at the Brook lyn navy yard loading supplies for the vessels of the Asiatic squadron, and in a week will proceed to Hampton Roads to convey the torpedo boat flotilla to the far East Raphael G. Zion of the bureau of for estry has concluded his Investigation Into the possibility of finding a sub stitute for spruce for making pulp pa per, which will be reported in a for estry bulletin shortly. A statement sent to the house shows that customs duties aggregating $906, 320 were collected in Minnesota dur ing the fiscal year 1903. Of this amount $442,226 were collected in St. Paul, $428,259 in Minneapolis and $35,-1 242 in Duluth. Also and $73,876 in South Dakota. North Casualties. A six-year-old Kenosha (Wis.) girl rescued her brother from drowning. Two horses and two riders fell in a New Orleans race and one rider was severely bruised. Father Fulham, the priest who was injured at the Ottawa (Ont.) univer sity fire, is dead. The British cruiser Flora, which ran ashore on Denman island, near Victo ria, B. C., will be a total loss. In a fire at Washington, Pa., Benja min Miller, a fireman, came in con tact with electric arc wires and was electrocuted. Clayt„„ Poler, nldren were burned to death in a the Quaker ruv •'», fire which destroyed their home at children were burned to death in fire whic" Clarksburg. N. J. A wagonload of Chinamen who were being smuggled into this country from Canada was overturned and fell into the Erie Canal at Buffalo. Four of the Chinamen were drowned. While Fred Olds, a farmer of North Coventry, Conn., and his wife were vis iting friends, his house caught fire and four small children who had been jeftjn bed were burned to death. ^reui^eznw-erewa«3flsriir6a *in Sacra mento river at Redding, Cal. They were Charles McCreery. John White, William Weiner and William Smith! All were employed in the smelter at Keswick. Sin and Sinners. Harry J. Hoover, former cashier of the People's National bank of Newark, Ohio, was indicted for making false entries. An orphan boy. Irvin Miller, was kidnapped from school at Hampshire, 111., by a man and woman whose iden tity is unknown. The saloon of Ayres J. Taylor at Vincennes, Ind., was partly wrecked by his wife, who smashed bottles, pic tures and furniture because of domes tic troubles. A burglar who attempted to enter through a bath room was captured by Albert Miers of Salt Lake, who was bathing, and ran the man in without stoppinig to get on his clothes. Men who robbed the Girardville and Erockville stations, and who are also believed to have robbed and murdered the operator, Clendennin, at Brown tower, have been jailed at Pottsville Pa. Sheriff Brainerd of Springfield, Ohio, has barred all women from en trance to the Sangamon county jail to see Fred Strube, the youthful mur derer of his sweetheart, Alice Henin ger, at Havana. After serving less than two years of a five-year sentence in Auburn prison «Analing 560,000 worth o? bonds and $10,000 in jewelry, Charles D. Norris formerly a car inspector at Ithaca, touching appeal to Gov. Odell. n! Y., has been freed through the efforts of his nine-year-old son, who penned a Notes From Abroad. The minister of war has been ezfr cuted at Seoul, Korea. Anew custom* tariff for the Nether lands will go into effect on Jan. 1. Herbert Spencer, the famous writer Is dead. He had teen, ill for some timei •«^sJV,ctoir Emmanuel ha« given $2,000 from his private purse to the fund for the relief of William Jennings Bryan was tained at the National club in by Irish and Liberal members a house of commons. Crown Prince Frederick Willlis to be appointed regent during th i peror's Southern tour and prol period of retirement. Ryan and Deckert, owners ole fishing vessel Kittie D., have reco $500 damages from the Dominioi r- ernment for wrongful seizure, The authorities at St Peteifg say no new rules have been issi connection with the admlssiof American or other Jews Into Rue Eleven coal miners were kill it the Gasson-Laquadse mine at a tegne, Belgium, through the breig of a rope by which a cage was. ig hauled up. An attempt was made to floJie stranded cruiser Flora near Vic a, B. C., but the wreckers were unal to move her. She still lies in a nt|al cradle of rocks. Mabel Russell, formerly com s, wants to divorce her husband, Wi Brown, a coachman, who marrlei er in December, 1902, en"re'y under the ti^of Prince Aphrobald Stuart de Mode: As a result of extremely bad h er, with a violent wind, which pr 11 ed for some days, Venice was al st under water for a few rs recently, and gondolas were used shop to shop. Otherwise. Budd Doble says that Kinney |ou will trot in 2:04 next season. A pared containing $10,000, seijby mail from a bank in Winnipeg to m- couver, has been lost. Silver ore running 10,000 ouncito the ton has been struck in the Afri can mine near Minaca, Tex. Miss Minnie Ashley, an actress,las married to former Congressman ill lam Astor Chanler. in New York Harry Forbes is trying to get a match with Abe Attell at 122 pot ds the legitimate featherweight lim. sfx &t the *ge °f th Stockholders of the Danville & Be se- mer company met in Camden N and decided to dissolve the corp ra tlon. ill Curley, the former 126-po nd °f EnsJand, SMee* ref. ogees. Count vbn Ballestrem has bti&'re elected president of the jreiefistag, Tlr ttalljr unanimously. The Danish ministry has recom mended that King Christian recognize the Republic of Panama. At Ebol,near Florence, Italy, a peasant woman decapitated her daugb ter.ofwm she was jealous, A man who wishes to remain mous es given University collece of London $250,000 to be used for the •romotios of higher scientific eduea» tk» ast4 research has depos ,ed $500 to meet any one in England oi America at that weight. Mike Schreck is after a fight with Joe Grim. Schreck would have a Sna in England, Jan. 25. This upsets Dix on plans of returning to the United States, which he intended doing. The highest peak in the Wahsatch range was discovered and scaled re cently by J. E. Raymond, a civil en gineer. The new peak is 14,449 feet high. Concert Master Franko of the New York opera house has been notified to unionize his harpists, Mesdames Tag liava and Weile, or expect trouble from the Musical Mutual Protective union. A $16,000,000 loan for general im provements passed both branches of the Philadelphia city council, and if approved by the mayor will be sub mitted to the electors for ratification. Capt. R. J. Ewen, principal witness against White and Jett in the Breath itt county assassination case openly walked the streets of Jackson recently though all the soldiers have been re' called. Former President Cleveland denies the report that he is about to foreclose on the Bradford, Bardell & Kilzen rail road in Pennsylvania" because of de- fa 1 u.lt- George Dixon will fight Joe Bawker' with the land frauds were fully known interest payments on bonds which he holds. Hughey Murphy, the little Eastern featherweight, is due to arrive at Chi cago. Murphy is coming West in high hopes of besting Benny Yanger. whom he meets in the wind-up of the Watita leagues next show. Prof. Frederick Starr of the Univer sity of Chicago has had a silver medal inTiP 7r uh,be °ffers to case. any Person in the United States who each year most distinguishes himself in research work among the American Indians. Rev. E. J. Bod man, pastor of thp River Christian church at Fall River MasB., announced he had vol untarily cut his salary «down 10 per ccnt to correspond with the reduction of the wages of the mill hands, who compose the bulk of his congregation As a result of the increase of tem perance sentiment among the anthra cite miners, nearly one-third of the 1.100 saloonkeepers of Schuylkill coun ..Pa., will go out of business next year. This Is shown ythe decrease the number of ^applicants tor li censes. In the United States court at Grand Rapids, Mich., Judge Wanty banded dow^a decision that the state fish CO,^m .B,on had ?fs 4 right to interfere wltl| the United States fish commis sion lot catching whitefish in Like Su perlor during the close season for the purpose of securing spawn: & Both M|ke Ward and Willie *lteg& aid, who will meet In the main event before the Metropolitan Athletic club el Detroit on Dec. 16, have started hard training for the bout. Ward Is nndl* P»tel lightweight champion of IM' A BIG ONE WEALTHY SAN FRANCISCO REAL ESTATE MAN ARRESTED IN .••w* 'WASHINGTON, ALLEGED HEAD OF LAND FRAUDS CHARGED WITH BRIBING AN OF FICIAL IN THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE. MANY IMPLICATED IN FRAUD GOVERNMENT DEFRAUDED OF 100,000 ACRES BY VARI OUS SCHEMES. Washington, Dec. 19.—John A. Ben son, a wealthy San Francisco real estate operator, charged by the in terior department with being the head of the alleged land frauds ex tending over a dozen Western states and territories to which Secretary Hitchcock referred vigorously and at length in his annual report, was ar rested on a charge of bribery yester day at the Wlllard hotel by Secret Service Officer J. M. Burns. It is al leged in the warrant that Benson paid $500 to Woodward D. Harlan, formerly chief of ths special service division of the general land office and now a clerk in that office, on March 15, 1903, to extract information regarding an in vestigation of his operations by the land office. An officer of the government yester day said that the information obtained regarding the alleged conspiracy im plicates a rumbcr t-f persons at pres ent employed in the interior depart ment at Washington and elsewhere. Numerous arrests are expected to fol low that of Beuson, and some em ployes who may not be arretted Will Be Dismissed from the sorvice. It is said that Secre tary Hitchcock and the several t torneys in the case hold it absolutely necessary to a successful working out of the case that no action be taken with reference to any of the alleged offenders unth the principals in the case have been apprehended. Arthur B. Pugh, who has been the special attorney for the interior de partment on the land frauds, and Oli ver Pagin, assistant attorney of the department, in asking for large bail bonds for Benson,, said that he had been guilty of bribery during his pres ent visit to Washington since last Monday in the interior department he the department. Another assertion the government officers is that Bfenson came to Washington in an swer to decoy letters and with the in tention of bribing people in the land office, who were in. reality acting for the secret service./ The information on which the war rant was issued said in brief that Mr. Harlan, in his capacity as chief of the special service division of the general land office, had charge of the investi gation of the land frauds, sending out special agents in Suspected Cases of Fraud, and receiving the reports of such agents on the cases, and that Benson had paid to him the sum of $500 in re turn for being allowed to examine the reports of the special agents in his own Attorneys Pugh and Pagin were sworn in as assistant United States at torneys for the purpose of prosecuting the case against Benson. Mr. Benson is said to have been taken entirely by surprise. He had no lawyer in Washington and when he was taken, immediately after his ar rest, before United States Commls-' sioner Taylor, a delay of an hour or more occurred while a lawyer was sought for him. Mr. Benson made a formal plea of not guilty. Benson declined to make any state ment further than to say he would ap pear when wanted. Mr. Benson is the senior member of the real estate firm of Benson & Hyde of San Francisco, and it is asserted, has defrauded the government out of at least 100,000 acres of land by various schemes since the passage of the forest reserve act of 1897. TWO MINERS SUFFOCATED. Fire Raging in a Mine of the Lincoln Coal Company. Lincoln, Neb.,. Dec. 19.—Fire which ^started in the engine room at the bot tom of the shaft of .the mine of the ^Lincoln Coal company, was still rag ing late last night. Ot the fourteen miners in the mine, two wer$ suffo cated. The fire is under ground, and, owing to the smoke the miners are unable to get at it. 1 1 MANY TOWNS WILL MOURN. Public Buildings Bill Will Be Plgeoft* •/ji Holed This Session. Washington, Dec. 19.—It will be dis couraging news to the many cities and .towns of the Northwest for who4e ben* ellt bills have been offered ln congress at this session providiac for tbe ere* tlon of federal buildings, that aft tbef meeting iof the senaOTcommittee oit pohllc buildings yesterday it derel-' IoskM that tbe sentiment is Adverse to ,aiir attempt to get through bill tor i*m, huiidiMsjrt Jgjs fy V"*- NINE PERSON8 INJURED. Western Train Wrecked by Striking #reken Rill. Red Wing, Minn., Dfec. 19-rThe local/ passenger train ni the Great WesteTn road which left St. Paul at 8:30 yester ,day morning, was wrecked a short dis tance n'orth of Northfleld, and nine persons were more or less seriously Injured. The cause or the accident has' not yet been determined, bqt, it is be lieved to have been a broken fall. The train was proceeding at about twenty miles an hour when the wreck occurred. Two of the three coaches were derailed, overturned and dragged a short distance. The engine and baggage car did not le^ve the tracks. GOLD BOOM AT LUCAS Ore Found Assays $145 to the Ton— Land Prices Rise. Menomonie, Wis., Dec. 19—Gold was discovered this week on. the Hickman farm in the town of Lucas, near this city, that assays |145 to the ton. This assay was made from rock taken out at intervals of five feet for eighty-five feet in a well, and thoroughly mixed so as to determine the average amount of gold carried by this rock. Much excitement was caused by the receipt of the analysis,, and land in the vicinity of the Hickman farm has ad vanced in price very rapidly. A com pany will be organized to develop a surface mine. TO RECLAIM 30,000 ACRES. Huntley Flats Irrigation Canal Project Launched. Billings, Mont., Dec. .19.—The first shovelful of dirt was .turned yesterday afternoon on the Huntley flats irriga tion canal project, which has for its purpose the reclamation of 30,000 acres of land. The scheme is the most extensive of any on which work has actually started. John. Schram, a Se attle capitalist, is at the head of the project, and associated with him are several Washington and Portland men. Local capital is also interested. RAID MILL CiTY RESORT. Robbers Were Fashionably Dressed and Secured Large Booty. Minneapolis, Dec. 19.—Highwaymen dressed in the height of fashion held up the inmates and a number of vis itors at Ida Coats' resort, 900 First av enue north, and robbed them of jewels and money aggregating $3,500. It is suspected that Pat Crowe, the notori ous Omaha kidnapper, who is said to have lately been making. Minneapolis his headquarters, led the highwaymen. ST. PAUL MAN HONORED. C. R. Mandigo Wins Sales Scholarship at Harvard. Cambridge, Mass.. Dec. 19. C. R. Mandigo gales 'prize, scholarship for the year 1903-4. The sajes prize scliok.. ship was founded in 1893. with a principal of $4,916, by Francis Sales of Cambridge, A. M. (Harvard), 1835. Mr. Mandigo is a graduate of the St. Paul central high school, class of 1902. IS IT GAMBLING? Court Grants New,Trial in the Case Against Commission House. Fargo, N. D., Dec. 19.—In the dis trict court Judge Pollock granted a new trial in the case of Beidler & Robinson vs. the Coe Commission com pany on the ground that the Coe Com mission company is a gambling insti tution. The remai'ks of the court were of a sensational nature, and created considerable comment. TREAT DEPUTY COLDLY. For Arresting Butchers, Hotels With hold Accommodations. Sauk Center, Minn., Dec. 19. A deputy game warden swooped down upon every butcher in town yesterday and had them arraigned for selling venison unlawfully. There is consid erable ill feeling over the manner in which he secured the evidence, and liecause of it the hotels withheld from him accommodations. TRIPLE TRAGEDY AT LE SUEUR. Woman Drowns Herself and Two Chil dren in a Cistern. Le Sueur, Minn., Dec. 19—Mrs Anna Krenen, wife of Fred Krenen, drowned .herself and two children in the cis tern at her home some time Thursday night. The bodies were discovered at 3 o'clock yesterday morning by her husband, who returned at that hour from a night out with the boys. Insurance Suit Dismissed. Pierre, S. D., Dec. 19. r- The suit brought by the Commercial Mutual In surance Company of Mitchell against Insurance Commissioner Perkins has been dismissed in the fourth clrcuiti court on motion of the plaintiff, andi at its expense, the suit having filled its intention as an assistant to the old! line companies ¥in their attempt to 'again get Into court in the aatt-oom pact case. 1 Dies Alone in His Apartment.. 8L Paul, Dec. .19. Col. John R. Hastings, one of the best known of the ofliclalB of the Burlington road, died 'suddenly of valvular beart trouble in bis rooms at the Marlborough sonie time Thursday evening. He» was alone. -~,m Probably Fatally Injured: Reedsburg, Wis,, Dec. 19. Tester* dsy while felling a tree on his father'4 t*m near Valton, south of here, All bert Good iras seriously injured- Tb«| tree splint, pinjt the young mart 'to tbf ground, breaking his leg. VY»',V COLLEGE OR YOUNG' NEGRC^' .! |P »,N ,N DESTROYED. fti RUINS MAY CONTAIN VICTIMS: W* FOUR KNOWN TO BE DEAD AND NINETEEN ARE FATALLY, INJURED. M... v. EIRE CAUSES WILDEST tM PANIC BREAKS OUT WHILE STUDENT8 ARE ASLEEP—MANY JUMP FROM WINDOWS. Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 19i—Four per sons are known to have been killed and perhaps thirty others injured, nineteen of them fatally in afire here, last night which consumed the Central: Tennessee college for young negro women, a department of Walden uni versity. It is possible that the ruins may contain the bodies of other vic tims. The property loss is estimated at $25,000. The fire started about 11 o'clock in, the top of the building, which was four stories high and without fire es capes. It was occupied by about sixty studentB, who were asleep when the alarm was given. The wildest panic^ ensued, the women and girls rushing* screaming to the windows, from which' they jumped in droves, the dead andj injured lying in heaps where they fell,' to be fallen on by those following them from the flaming windows.! Every ambulance in the city was soon! on the scene and the injured were hur ried to hospitals. When the flames! were first discovered they seemed to entirely envelope the building, and it| is considered almost certain that soiqej of the terrorized occupants were over come by smoke before reaching the windows. FIND POPE LEO'S MILLIONS. Cardinal Gotti Lays $9,000,000 at the Feet of Pius. Rome, Dec. 19.—Cardinal Gotti yes ferday was admitted to the pope's apartments, beariug a bag which he and a secretary had great difficulty in. carrying. When he entered the pres-j encs of the pope he sank to his knees and, pointing to his burden, said: "Your holiness, the lamented Leo,' just before his death, confided to mei the money which I now lay at your feet,' saying-that i£vl succeeded him Ij •»s .to U39 it -ae thought .b.est," but that if another took his place I was to turn the money over to him after a period of four months had elapsed.^ This I now do in the presence of Mgr.! Marzolini, who has been the only! other person to share the secret." The bag contained |9,000,000 in! bank notes. The pope was much affected. Justj about the time this scene was being) enacted in the papal apartments an electrician, while removing the hang-, ings in.the late Pope Leo's cliamber.| found in a hole in the wall several bags which were carelessly tied. These bags were found to contain 9,250,000 francs ($1,850,000.). GIRL CHASES ROBBERS. Stolen Theater .Tickets .Afterward Lead to Their Arrest. New York, Dec. 19. Having sur prised two burglars rifling the home of, &er father, yesterday afternoon Miss Isabelle Cameron, daughter of Roderic' McLeod Cameron of Madison avenue chased the robbers out of the house They carried with them quite a lot ofj booty but were obliged to drop some1 of it in order to make their escape.' The fact that among the articles! stolen were two theater tickets led to the detection'of the thieves. Inspec tor McClusky sent detectives to the theater to watch at .the door and ar~! rest any one attempting to use. the! Cameron tickets. Shortly before the curtain went up two young entered] and offered the tickets for which the' detectives were looking, arrested. They were CLUBBED TO DEATH. Saloon Quarrel at Greely Ends In a Murder. Greely, Neb., Dec. 19. Charles Woodward, farmer, living near here was clubbed to death last night andj Edward Hurley is under arrest! charged with the crime. Woodward,} while in a saloon, became involved inl a quartel with Hurley's father. The! two men stepped outside to settle it! and young Hurley followed. Wood ward's body was. found a few moments) 'later. There were no other witnesses to the fight. .WM TWO WANT TO LIGHT CITY. Rival Companies Seek Franchises In Woonsocket. Mitchell, S. D.. Dec. 19. Without? any lighting fecilltlesfor streets,' Woonsockpt is liable to h§re two com-i jpanies struggling for business nexti year. A gas company and an electric) •light cpmpanyi both baVe application* before the clty-epuncll asking forftaa* chises, without the exclusive tor it period of twenty yean. Thei .companies'-'«jfe made up of k"* A.*