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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27

The Chicago Record has prepared a
postal savings bank bill, which will
undoubtedly be introduced in congress
next month. The idea is a good one,
and in a general way will meet with
the approval of adherents Of every po-
litical party. The bill as drafted has
some faults. however, which will I'M
doubtedly be remedied in congress. AS
it now reads it fixes a limit on indi-
vidual deposits, and also fixes a time
limit on Withdrawals. These defects
will undoubtedly be remedied by
amendments allowing the depositor a
limitless account, together with the
privilege of checking out whenever he
pleases. Another defective provision
allows the postof1ce department to re-
loan to national banks. and on state
and municipal improvement bonds.
This section will probably be amended
with the provision that nc money shall
be loaned on bonds bearing date pre-
viouls to passage OF said bill. and that
all bonds shall lie for improvements
made after such bill becomes law.
With these amendments the bill would
undoubtedly give general satisfaction.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27
Official Returllx.

Yankton, s. D.-The official returns
from the judicial election in the first
circuit have been very slow coming in.
The following majorities by counties
are official. For E. G. Smith. Rep.
Bon Homme. 1913: Charles Mix. 96:
Clay, 176; Hutchinson, 274: Turner, 276:
Yankton reservation. II. For Robert
Trip. non-partisan, Douglas, 1o6;
Yankton, 81; Gregory. 3. Smiths to-
tai Majority. SION. D. Miller, agent
Of the London corporation having
charge of Yankton's proposed bridge
and railroad to Norfolk, Neb.. has re-
turned from st. Paul. He insists that
the London capitalists back of the en-
terprise have not abandoned the pro-
ject, but that they will each be built.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27

Since 1868, or during the last twenty
nine years, Cuba has been in open re-
volt nearly thirteen years. The ten
years wal was very costly in blood
and treasure, both to the mother coun-
try and to the island, and there had
not been great recovery from its rav-
ages when the present instruction
broke out in February, 1895. Since
the last uprising the Spanish govern
ment has sent to Havana more than
ESQ, 900 men, the flower Of the youth
and rchivalry Of the nation. OF these
it is admitted more than $4,000 have
been killed in battle or disease, and it
is probable that the number is nearly
double that. Nearly half as many
more have been sent back to Spain
crippled by wounds Or broken by dis
ease, to be burdens upon the commune
ties in which they live.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27
Crime. and Criminals.

The Cologne Volkszeitung says that
two Rhenish missionaries, Mes and
Henle, have been murdered in the
southern part of the Chinese Province
of Shan lung.
At Greenwood, s. G, Mrs. Elizabeth
Huey, a widow 80 years of age, killed
knife. No cause for the suicide is
known.
The trial at Great Bend, Kas., of
William Jetz, colored, charged with as
sault with intent to kill, on J. H. Hill
ton, resulted in a disagreement, the
jury standing four fer acquittal and
eight for conviction.
William Leavitt, a blind song seller,
has been arrested by the Boston police
on the charge of numbering Alice
Brown, who was found dead in a Corn
ing street house. Leavitt lodged in the
same house with the woman.
The Los Angeles engagement Of Nine.
Moultenford, the Oriental lecturer, has
been marred by the suicide of her ad-
vance agent, Rev. W.T.. Veale, q Pres
byterian clergyman. Rev. MI. Veale
shot himself in his room at a Los An
geles hotel.
A handsomely dressed and apparent
~ refined woman about % years old,
committed suicide in Lincoln Park at
Chicago, by jumping from the high
bridge to the lagoon, a distance Of fifty
feet. All clues to Identification had
been removed with the exception of a
small garnet ring.
After eight long days of trial at
Miles City, Mont, the jury in the
case of Spotted Hawk, the principal
Indian charged with the murder Of
John Hoover, the Barringer sheep
herder, after being out seven hours,
brought in q verdict of murder in the
first degree. The trial Of Little Whirl-
wind, his companion in the crime, will
begin in the morning.
Carl Yates Of Oskaloosa, Iowa, who
shot his wife Aug. 4, and who last
week pleaded guilty, was sentenced to
four years at hard labor at Fort Madi-
son pe%nitentiary. Mrs. Yates is still
living, though one bullet is embedded
in the kidneys and may prove fatal at
any time. She pleaded for leniency for
her husband because he is in bad
health.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27
BoOKER's DIsAPPEARANCE.
Has Created a Lively Sensation in
Grand Forks.

A0 NtuN " AAVSby AA
Grand Forks.
Grand Forks, N. D. - There vas a
marked sensation in the federal u
here when it was learned that l.. e.
Booker, late president of the suspend
ed Grand Forks National bank, wins
was indicted by the federal grand
jury last spring for Irregularities, was
not present for trial. Judge Amidon
ordered that the names of MI. Book.
er's bondsmen be called, and that the
bondsmen produce him in court. This
formality being complied with and
Mr.. Booker not appearing. his bail
bond for $4,000 was decided forfeited,
and a bench warrant was issued for
his arrest. An officer was sent in
search of him, but he could not be
found.
Mr.. Booker Is an old resident of the
state, having held various offices Of
trust, among them being that of state
treasurer. He has been. a prominent
figure in business CIRCLES, and ut one
time was possessed Of considerable
property. He was president of the
Grand Forks National bank at the
time of its suspension in April, 1896
and, when the deplorable condition of
the banks affairs became known, 1t
was Immediately charged that Presi"
dent Booker had been guilty of GRIM
lnal use of the funds. The subsequent
investigation by the government Of
ticials resulted in several indictments
against him being found. One of these
contains forty-seven counts. The
principal charges are receiving depos.
its when the bank. vas known to be
insolvent, making false statements to
the controller, ssnd embezzlNng and
misappropriating the funds of the
bank. The men who signed the bond
are Fred Falley, secretary of state: j.
p. Baker, 2. G. Remington, Charles
Kupitz and Joseph Hair, all residents
of Bismarck.
Mr.. Booker had retained as his at
torneys Col. John d. Benton of Fargo
and Hon. Alex Hughes of Bismarck.
The former withdrew from the case
a short time ago, illness being given
as the cause of his withdrawal. Mr..
Booker seems to have utterly disap-
peared. and none of his friends will
admit having any knowledge Of his
whereabouts. The general opinion ia
that he has gone to Canada.
H. +. Salyards of Minot is also on
trial on charges similar to those
against Mr.. Booker. At this term there
will also be tried cases brought by
Receiver Tourtelot against sixteen of
the stockholders Of the Grand Forks
National and Second National banks
who have failed to pay the assess.
ments ordered several months ago.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27

Up to the time of this writing, the
yellow fever outbreak in cities near
the Gulf of Mexico has been less dis
astrous than on any other occasion Of
the coming of that plague. The death
rate has been low, and in the larger
cities there has been no panic. It
would be interesting to know how far
this mitigation of horrors is the result
Of the sensible course pursued by the
authorities and the newspapers. APP
parently the precise facts have been
given out each day, with such COM
ments as the situation warranted, and
the people have calmly and heroically
faced the danger whereof they knew.
Secrecy might have caused universal
panic; and the panic is n Of the most
nourishing conditions Of the plague.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27
General.

Brewers will try to repeal the pro-
hibition law in Kansas this winter.
Warren Lewis has decided to retire
from direct interest in boxing affairs
Charley Johnson and Lon Beckwith
are practically matched to fight at But
falo.
There is talk by cable about q match
between Solly Smith and Pedlar Palm
er.
"Pittsburg Phil" says he is a loser
on the seasons battle with the book
makers.
Tho will of Johanna Bliss of Worces-
ter, Mass, leaves $1,000 to the National
Christian Association Of Chicago.
A $3.50 forfeit has been posted on be-
half Of Jack Bonner to arrange q
match with the winner OF the Mccoy
Creedon fight.
John Palmer & Co. Of New York,
retail dealers in fancy goods, have as
| signed with preferences a~ggregating
$16,625.
J. W. Biting Of Manor, Tex, filed q
deed of trust asset set down'at $4,000;
list Of preferences not given. Ltabili-
ties estimated at 100000.
The Canadian Pacific railway earn
ings for the week ending Nov. q, were
$627,OOO; for the same period last
year, $522,000.
The Lovejoy monument was formal
ly dedicated at Alton, III. It is sixty
years ago that Lovejoy was assassin
ated in this city because of his out
! spoken and fiery editorials against tho
| slave trade,
Randolph Guggenheimer, who was
| elected president of the New York
| council last week, says that his ex-
penscs amounted to $7,72O. OF this
sum $72O went to the campaign fund
| Of Tammany. hall.
Peter Maher, as n referee, is said to
have robbed Buck Stelzner in his bout
with Louden Campbell at Wheeling on
| Wednesday night. Peter counted
| Stelzner out in the fourth round, when
he should have received the fight on q
foul.
The following American boxers are
in England at present: Dick O'Bricn,
Paddy Purtell, Spike Sullivan, Dave
Sullivan, Patsey Haley, Tommy White,
Jimmy Barry, Fred Morris, Muldoon's
cyclone: Joe Elms and Australian Billy
Murphy.
Receivers Cowen and Murphy, of the
Baltimore & Ohio, have filed in the
United States court at Baltimore their
report for the month Of August, show
ing total receipts Of $3,627,384 and to-
tai disbursements of 1913 1O2. leav-
ing a balance Aug. 81, Of $494,2S3.
The San Francisco Chronicle says:
Plans have been perfected and the as
surance is given that everything will
be in readiness for fighting the Sugar
Trust on Jan. 1, when the five-year
contract Of the Hawaiian planters ut
the Western sugar refinery will ex-
pire.
Some attorney has discovered that
the new code of iowa prohibits the
%bequeathing Of ones property to
churches. schools or missionaries If
the testator has a wife or children.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27
posrM1srnEss FOR BISMARCK.
The Wsfe of Mayor Patterson IN APP
@ DOinted.

The Wife of Mayor Patterson In APP
pointed.
Bismarck, N. D.--Considerable sur
prise was caused by the announce
ment Of the appointment of Agatha
Patterson as postmistress at this place.
The appointee is the wife of E. G. Pat
terson, mayor of this city, and a poll
tician Of considerable notoriety
throughout the state. The present
postmaster, Frank Reed, was appoint
ed to succeed 1. p. Hunt. first APP
pointee of President Cleveland, and
he had a commission for four years.
which would not have expired until
1899! He had no intimation that he
would be removed before his time had
expired. The appointment of Mrs.
Patterson. it is presumed, was made
at the request of Senator Hansbrough.
She is the first woman postmistress
since Mrs. l.. w. Slaughter, who was
the first p~ostofficer appointed after the
office was established.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27
More Fore.ter..

Buffalo, N. D.-"Count Buffalo," Of
the Independent Order Of Foresters,
has been instituted here by e. H.
Payne, deputy supreme ranger, with
twenty-five members and officers as
follows: silas g. Guilford, court
deputy: Frank s. Talcott, chief rang
er: Charles H. Martin, past chief
ranger; Charles g. Owens, vice chief
ranger; Henry X. Carver, recording
secretary; James A.. Winsloe, financial
secretary; Harry d. Ruettell, treasur-
er; William w. Merrill, chaplain; DR..
s. B. Clark, court physician.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27
Col. King Answers.

Sioux Falls, s. D.-Col. J. H. King,
state agent as Washington, has his
answer to the attack made on him by
The Aberdeen News. The News
charged that King is collecting money
from settlers in the Sisseton country
for the purpose. allegedly, of aiding
the passage of the free homestead bill,
but really to work a confidence game
on the settlers. The article intimated
that Senator Pettigrew is interested in
Col. Kings move. Col. King claims
his work to be done entirely in the in
terest of the settlers on the Sisseton,
Yankton and Sioux reservations, who
have agreed to pay from $ up to aid
in the passage of the free homestead
bill.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27

the murderers. There were about for.
ty men concerned in the l%ynching.
The Jail in which the prisoners were
confined is q substantial stone struc-
ture and was in charge Of Deputy
Sheriff Thomas Kelly.
About 2 o'clock in the morning there
was a rap at the outer door of the Jail
and Kelly arose quickly and turned
the key in the lock, thinking that
some persons he expected to meet had
arrived. No had he opened the
door than the members Of the mob
crowded into the small Jail corridors.
All of them were masked and the
leaders carried ropes, purchased new
for the occasion. Kelly at once real
lied that the mob had come after his
prisoners. The lynchers We're quiet
but determined. The leader presented
a revolver at the head of the deputy
sheriff and told him they wanted the
prisoners, and demanded that he open
the cells in which they were confined.
Kelly saw that resistance was useless
and unlocked the cells. Two Of the
prisoners were confined in n cell,
and the other in a separate cell. They
had been aroused from sleep by the
entrance of the men and sat up half
awake and trembling with terror.
HOLY Track and Ireland were dragged
from their beds, ropes were fastened
about their necks and they were
dragged out Of the Jail building after
being told to prepare for death.
The mob had more consideration for
Coudet, since the other two had con-
fessed their crime, but Coudot had not,
80 A.. ~ool> Ioo}u15 IN 1oo,,o f~o~, him
whether the two others who are under
arrest for the crime are guilty. The
self-confessed murderers were dragged
across the space intervening between
the jail and a beef, windlass several
hundred yards from the Jail upon
which they were hanged without GER
emory. COudot was the first man to
be hanged. 1t is reported that he was
asked before he was hanged whether
Blackhawk and Defender had also
been concerned in the murder, and he
answered that they had been. Holy
Track and Ireland were SO nearly un-
conscious from the effects Of the drag
ging that they did not realize what
was about to happen. When the ropes
about their necks were tossed over the
beam of the windlass they were I'M
able to stand and were slowly raised
from the ground on which they lay
until their bodies swung into the air
and dangled from the windlass with
that Of Coudot.
The mob then dispersed, mounted
their horses and rode away. There
were two other men alleged to have
been implicated in the murders for
which the three were lynched, and
they were saved from the same fate
only by the fact that they r con-
fined at Bismarck, forty miles away.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27

Annie Besant discovers that the
women of this country are too restless,
and that it is a natural result of their
growing superiority to the American
man. Apparently restlessness, in her
view, in an affection; but the cure Of
1t, through some process looking to in
feriority, is not to be thought of for
q moment. The man must do his
share. He must make it the chief OBJ
ject of his life to grow up to her SUI
periority, and it is melancholy to re-
feet that on the whole he can't do it.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27

Walter J. Howard Of South Bend.
Ind, is no longer a detective. Last
summer he started out on his own
hook to run down" thieves, and after
varied and fruitless experiences in
Council Bluffs, Superior and Buffalo,
the thieves at last run him down. The
other night Walter j. was held up in
Chicago and robbed of his pocketbook
and valise. The only thing Of any
value about him overlooked were two
gold filed teeth. Mr.. Howard says the
criminal classes will henceforth have
full sway-for all of him. He has re-
turned to South Bend.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27

Bismarck, N. D., Nov. 16. = Alec
Coudot, an Indian half-breed, and
Paul Holy Track and Philip Ireland,
full-booded Indians, the first Of whom
was sentenced to death for the u
der Of six members of the Spicer fam
lily last February and had just been
granted a new trial by the supreme
court, and the latter two self-confessed
accessories in the murder, were taken
from Jail in Emmons county and
lynched by a mob. The l%ynching had
been apparently coolly planned and
was carried out without a break in the
programme, and sudden and swift ret
ribution was melted out by the mob to
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27

Sarah Bernhard refused several
years ago to play in Berlin because
she hated the Germans. Now she wants
to play there, but the proper authority
refuses her a license, remarking with
chilling politeness, Il will not be so
impolite as to permit a lady to con-
tradict herself" There is only n
thing to do if war is to be prevented.
The president and the car must kiss
each other over again, and keep at it
until they make the little kaiser Ill.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27
Fireman's Dreadful Suicide.

Mandan, N. D. - Fireman Joseph
Williams, who went west on the pas
senger train, committed suicide near
Marmont by jumping into the firebox.
Engineer Burke was Mortified ut see
ing the fireman disappear into the fire,
and endeavored to rescue him from
his sad fate but his head and the top
part of his body were consumed be-
fore he could be pulled out. Williams
was married, and nobady suspected
he had any cause for trouble.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27
Lisbon Notes.

Lisbon, N. d. Mrs. Caroline Cra-
mer, widow of Henry Cramer, form
erly of Wisconsin, has been granted a
pension of So per month. Mr.. Cramer
was a member Of Company E, Nine
teenth Illinois infantry.-The Ender-
lin Folkeblad. the new Norwegian pa
per, has Just made its bow to the pub
lie. 1t is published by H. Egeberg,
who is a graduate of a high-class col
lege in Denmark, and formerly an IT.
icer in the Danish army.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27
Pullel a anit ee cIothc

Pulled q Salt Of Clothes,
Rolla, N. D.-Ohlcer Cain searched
the trunk Of Joe Pull on the return of
the Pull Hypnotic company from st.
John on q search warrant by Wesley
Taylor, proprietor Of the Taylor house.
A missing suit of clothes were found
and young Pull paid $25 and left town.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27
Personal Mention.

President George Holmes, Of the
University Of Virginia. is dead.
Gen. Hans Won Werden, formerly
German ambassador to Russia, is dead
at Berlin.
Patent Commissioner Butterwarth,
who is a guest Of Senator Hanna In
Cleveland, is i'll. but not seriously so.
Ex-United States Senator Nathan
F. Dixon died at his home at Wester-
ly, r. l., after an illness Of about three
weeks.
DIR. James Carey Thomas, q widely
known member of the Orthodox Socie-
ty Of Friends, suddenly died at his
hoEla in Baltimore.
The iowa Agricultural college, at its
annual commencement, has conferred
on James Wilson, secretary of agri-
culture, the degree of master Of agri-
culture.
Col. G. Ross Smith, many years Sec
rotary of the Commercial Exchange OF
Philadelphia, is dead of cancer. He
al sixty-seven years old and served
as a Union cavalry officer.
Charles w. Reiff, travelling passen-
ger agent Of the New York, Philadel-
phia & Norfolk, and the Pennsylvania
railroads, died at Philadelphia of ty-
phoid fever, aged thirty-nine.
Mrs. Margaret Boughan, the Oldest
person in the section, and probably in
the state, died at her home in Chicopee
Falls, Mass. She was born in ireland,
and claimed to be 1914 years of age.
The Rt. Rev. Tablet, LII. D., has
been elected bishop Of the Episcopal
diocese Of Pennsylvania. -Four bal
lots were necessary to a choice. DR..
Talbot is at present missionary bishop
of Wyoming and Idaho.
Charles D. Fair, Sol Of the late Sen
ator James X. Fair, has announced
his retirement from the turf. Mr.. Fair
has been a liberal patron of racing for
several years, but has met with moth.
lug but hard luck.
James Ponder, former governor of
Delaware, died at his home In Milton,
Sussux county, Del, Of paralysis,
aged se%venty-eight years. He was for
years active in state politics as a Dem
ocrat.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27

Charles Frohman, manager Of tho
Empire, Garrick, Knickerbocker and
Garden theaters, New York, will es-
tablish cafes in his theaters. He pro-
poses to take out music hall licenses
and sell all kinds OF LIQUORS.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27

The controversy over the use of Lies
Miserables" in the girls high school
of Philadelphia has resulted in the
adoption of an abridged edition of the
famous work. This leaves the young
women to get the unabridged edition
for their personal use.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27
Ammonia Killed Him.

Mandan, N. D. A man named Nc
Intyre died from the effects Of drink
ing ammonia a few days ago. He had
Just taken a drink of whisky over q
bar. and. the b%arkeeper poured out
some ammonia in a side glass, think
ing it water. Two others, who were
drinking with Mcintyre, did not drink
SO deeply, and they have recovered.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27

Even the snail will turn. We refer
especially to the Philadelphia Ledger,
which says New Workers have become
accustomed to sitting two or three
hours in the Broadway cable cars,
waiting for the cable to start up
again.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27
Of a Wrccl

Southampton, Ont, Nov. TO- Capt.
lambert, lighthouse keeper at Chan
try island, reports that wreckage con-
sisting Of the upper works Of a steam
er, also a board and life preserver
with the name Steamer E. B. Hale
on them, came ashore on Friday night.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27

Barn and Contents Burned.
Minnewaukon, N: D. Martin Hof-
strands large barn was burned. Four
teen horses, besides cattle, hay and
grain were destroyed. The loss will
reach $1,000, with no insurance.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27

They say the German emperor
thinks his future peril lies in the d.
rection of England; and do We not
know that his imperial grandmother has
frequently thought that a sound
spanking would do him and Germany
great good?
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27
New ..hinet Nnrmed.

st. Johns, N. f., Nov. 16.-The cabi-
net of Sir James Winter will formally
assume office tomorrow at noon, Sir
William Whiteway and his colleagues
in the retiring ministry resigning their
portfolios two hours earlier.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-27

:, There was nothing in the fervor with
which the Christians and Friends COM
mingled in a joint service in Indian
apolis to indicate that they were spirit
ual brethren.