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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-01-14
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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-01-14


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advice distressing
appear Free put
Pnkham violates the thus to
testimonials
who benefited by her advice and medicine
published such letter without
consent request Of the writer
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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
.LADRONfS KILLED
F0RTY-FlvE OF THEM ARE ,e-
DEAD ON FIELD OF
BATTLE,
SAN MIGUEL AMONG THE. SIAM
LEADER OF THE LApRoNes u,,
PROBABLY MAKE NO NOPE
TROUBLE.
FORT IS CAPTURED BY SCOUTS.
FORCE OF MAcAeEeE SCOUTS
steNALLY DISTINGUISH
THEMSELVES,

Manila, March 3O.-Two commands
Of Macabebe scouts signally defeated
the main body of San Miguers force
It is believed San Miguel was killed
Lieut.. Reese was seriously wounded
The scouts lost three men killed ana
had eleven men wounded.
The enemy occupied an intrencbea
position midway between Marou,na
and San Francisco and Del Monte
and had erected a stone fort, which
was garrisoned by 200 men. The
First and Fourth companies of Mac.
abebes, commanded by Lieut.. Reese
and Lieut.. Nickerson, respectively, at.
tackled the enemy's position, but as
the scouts were exposed to the fire of
the enemy in manner which placed
the Macabebes at a disadvantage, the
lieutenants decided, after an hours
fighting, to surround the position and
charge after having divided their
companies. The two officers then led
a gallant and successful charge, dur.
ing which Lieut.. Reese fell, seriously
wounded.
The enemy then broke and ran,
leaving forty-fve men dead on the
field, including a general officer, who
is believed to be San Miguel, though
his Identification is incomplete.
1t is hoped this defeat will discour-
age disorder in Rial province.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
INSURANCE FOR EDITORS.
Company Starts With Over 200 Pol
icYholders.

Company Starts With Over 200 POL
icyholders.
st. Paul. March 3O.-The Minnesota
Publishers Mutual Fire Insurance
company is the name of new insur'
ance company organized yesterday al
ternoon as the result of a resolution
adopted at the last meeting OF the
Minnesota Editorial association. The
matter has been in the hands OF q
committee consisting of c. C. Whit.
ney. H. S. Saylor. II. l.. Miller, j. l..
Putnam and Elmer II. Dearth, state
insurance commissioner. That COM
mittee and other incorporators met at
the Windsor hotel yesterday morning
and decided to organize an insurance
company to be known as the Mime
sofa Publishers Mutual Fire lnsur
ance company The principal Office of
the company will he in st. Paul. The
company will be managed as purely
mutual concern. Over two hundred
applications for policies are now on
file, representing total OF more than
1927 .OOu worth of insurance. 1t is ex-
pected that tie company will be able
to issue it's first policy within thirty
DAYS
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
SAVES HIS EYE.

New Operation Has Some Likeness to
the Lorenz BIoodIess Surgery.
Morristown, N. j., March 30.-After
two years of total blindness George
Lewis is able to see. His sight has
been restored by a form Of the Lo-
REM method of bloodless surgery.
Two years ago Lewis felt severe
pain in his right eye, which then be-
came inflamed, and finally he could
not see. He went to physicians for
treatment and they decided that in
order to save the sight of the left eye
the right should be removed. The
operation was performed, but it gave
no relief and Lewis became totally
blind. A few weeks ago he heard
that a New Brunswick physician has
been using form of the Lorenz meth
cd, and to him he went. After the
first treatment he could see wen
enough to walk home. and now after
two weeks he is able to read.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
From Other Shores.

Baron Won Herman, first vice presi-
dent of the lower house of the Prus.
sian diet, is dead.
The Germans are providing for the
gradual abolition of slavery in their
African colonies.
Mont Pelee, on the island of Mar
Unique. is discharging dense volumes
OF reddish smoke.
The manufactures of spurious "old
masters and antiques is growing rap
idly in London. Many collectors have
been taken in recently.
The dowager empress has ordered
all appropriation of half million
taels for the Chinese representation
at the ST. Louis exposition.
Cusenier, manufacturer of alb
sinthe, claims that the superiority of
his famous collection of live stock is
due to that liquor, which he has given
them freely.
Owing to the spread of the rebellion
the Morocco government declines to
be responsible for the safety of Euro
pean travellers in the interior of the
country.
Official returns show that the Vic
torian wheat harvest this season will
average only one-quarter bushel per
acre, owing to the drouth. This is the
lowest average in twenty-eight years.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
OF the UJeek

At Somerville, Mass, the table
factory of Brown & Simonds and an
adjoining building occupied by Hy.
mon Hillson, manufacturer of tinware,
gas and oil stoves, were burned. Loss,
100000.
AS a result of family feud David
Gaines shot his son Lloyd, fourteen
years old, in the breast at Franklin,
Ind. An older son, who interfered.
was shot through the left hand. The
younger brother will die.
Benjamin Valerie, an Italian of Chi
cago, attempted to shoot his former
sweetheart at her marriage to anoth-
er, took shot at the bridegroom and
some others, and then killed himself.
All the wounded will recover.
Cassimir Ciccione, the aged Italian
who was arrested as one of the prin-
cipals in the New York city insurance
frauds, died in Pittsburg. Cissione
blamed his son for getting him into
trouble. and says he made nothing out
of the frauds.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
People Talked About.

The president has announced the
selection of the Hon. d. B. Henderson
Of Iowa to serve as member of the
board of visitors to the West Point
military academy.
Jefferson H. Nones, a retired naval
officer. died in his apartments in Phil
adelphia, aged seventy-nine years. He
entered the navy in 1910, resigning at
he outbreak of the Civil war.
L. P. Parker of Beloit, Wis. has
been appointed national bank ex-
lminer of the district of Wisconsin
INC Minnesota to succeed S. H. Culver
# Superior, who has resigned.
The National Reform association
met at Pittsburg and protested against
the election of and seating in the SEN
ate of Reed Smoot of Utah. They are
making plans to have him unseated at
he next election.
Noble D. Larner. one of the best
Enown residents Of Washington, died
Of heart failure in the Sunday school
room of the New York Avenue Presby-
.tI IAN CIl ul Gil just dllSl OCi1NC1AAS AiAo
annual report as treasurer.
Mrs Cora II. WILDER. an actress, the
wife of Arthur r. WILDER, manager of
Hoyt's "A Texas Steer company.
and until three years ago the star in
that production under the stage name
Of Alice Roseland. died suddenly at
her home in Washington.
William Miller Collier of New York
mas been appointed by the president
as special assistant to the attorney
general and assigned to duty as So
licitor OF the department of commerce
and labor in connection with the en-
ecrcement of the antitrust laws.
John J. Reilly was found dead in
mis- bed in the Grand Union hotel ia
New York. He went to the hotel on
the 9Th inst. registering as coming
from Ell Paso. Tex. A one-ounce
phial was found beside him in which
was some laudanum. Several papers
relating TO mining deals indicated that
the man was in financial difficulties.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
General.

Mrs. Cora H. WILDER, an actress
known under the stage name of Alice
Roseland, died suddenly in Washing
ton. She was in poor health and it is
possible she took her own life.
Mayor Raymond H. Perry, a lineal
descendant of Commodore Oliver Haz-
ard Perry of Lake Erie fame, is dead
at Bristol, r. L., aged sixty-seven years.
Maj. Perry served with distinction
with Gen. Burnside in the Civil war.
The New York assembly committee
on insurance has decided favorably
the bill providing that fire insurance
companies that combine to regulate
rates shall forfeit their charters and
be liable to punishment for misde
meanor.
w. E. Hoxie, who was expected to
accompany Capt. Coffin in his attempt
to reach the North pole as second
mate of the steamer America, an
nounces that he will not go, as he has
not been able to make satisfactory
financial arrangements.
"The runaway of the legless boy"
now figures in Chicago police annals.
Leaving his artificial limbs locked up
in closet, Thomas Harry, fourteen
years old, stole out of his home at
West Polk and Miller street while his
father slept. He has since been
caught.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
Che neWS
Washington Notes.

1t is now proposed to have all pub
tic buildings done under contract.
Attorney General Knox has re-
turned from short vacation spent ut
Palm Beach, Fla. Secretary Shaw
also has returned from trip through
he South.
Plans have been started on a dredge
for Lake Erie which will cost $175, 900.
Dredges will also be built for opera
tions on the Fox and Black rivers in
Michigan, and for the eastern shore of
lake Michigan.
Treasury officials are convinced that
there is so improved feeling among
the financiers regarding the money
market that no difficulty will be ex-
perienced on account of tight money
when the situation is presented to the
country early in the fall.
1t has been discovered that the orig
lnal emancipation proclamation was
burned in the great Chicago fire. Lloyd
Griscom, United States minister to
Japan, now in Washington, has pre-
sented the state department with two
photographic copies. 1t is believed
that these are the only two exact
copies of this document now in exist
ence.
The international syndicate, headed
by the Seligmans, has renewed on
larger scale than at it's first venture
the offer to assume Venezuelas debts
to the powers, on conditions. l. N.
Seligman has been in Washington two
days in that pursuit and he has been
at the White House and has communi-
Gated with some members of the diplo.
matte body.
Realizing that every city in the
Omitted States has a vital interest in
the new militia law. Secretary Root
has made public the report which the
war college board has prepared. ex-
planning and commenting upon the
various provisions of the law. Under
thelaw theorganiZed militia is given
until Jan. 81, 190S,to adopt the or
ganiZation, armament and discipline"
Of the regular and volunteer armies.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
Sin and Sinners.

Three white men at Birmingham,
Ala, are charged with kidnapping and
selling to a contractor twenty.one ne
groes.
Three men charged with murder
made their escape at Nashville, Tenn,
by saving through iron walls. locks
and bars and succeeded in getting to
he river, by which they escaped.
Bert and Jesse Hills. section men
on the Vandalia railway, who live at
Browns Valley, Mo-, attempted to
clean out the town, and after holding
a posse at bay all night were finally
-un down.
Joseph Brady of Battle Creek. Mich,
a farm hand of unsound mind, shot
and killed Mrs. F. E. Bowerman, dan
gerously wounded her fourteen-year-
old daughter and attempted to kill her
son. aged seventeen. He then COM
United suicide.
George Willard, sought by the po-
lice of two continents for years for a
daring $4,000 robbery committed in
Paris, was arrested in a revolver fight
with two detectives on crowded
North Halsted street car in Chicago.
Alexander Holland, a society man,
clubman and golf player we'll known
in both New York and Chicago social
circles, was arraigned before Justice
Martin in Chicago charged with mis-
appropriating funds belonging to the
]. S. Toppan company, doing railway
supply business
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
POLICE USE AXES
SENSATIONAL RAID ON AN A.
LEGGED POOL ROOM IN
NEW YORK.
PLACE CUNNlN6lY FORTIFIED
ELABORATE SYSTEM OF SIGNALS
AND SENTRIES TO GUARD
OPERATIONS.
DETECTIVES HOLD CROWD AT BAY
WHILE OTHERS CHOP HOLE IN
THE CEILING AND DROP
THROUGH.

New York, March 3O.-ln erecting
an entrance into an alleged pool room
In the basement of six-story bust
ness building on West Third street
yesterday, two detectives were forced
to chop a hole through the floor in the
rear room Of saloon and drop into
the room below. where other de-
tectives were holding the men inside
at bay with their revolvers. William
DAILY, said to be the proprietor, and a
dozen others were arrested.
The raid was sensational one.
According to the story told by the po'
lice, the place was cunningly fortified
and guarded. An elaborate system of
signals had to be given by several
sentries before would-he bettor
could gain entrance to the room.
Pocket telephones. electric buttons,
"buzzers," secret slides and a maze
figure in the story When the visitor
finally
Satisfied the Sentries
that he was all right, he was passed
along to a room. the door of which
was Immediately bolted. There were
five of these rooms leading directly
into the alleged pool room, and in
some of the Enclosures there were
three or four doors built to bewilder
an invading party.
Detective Sergeants Kerr and Fog
arty, disguised as truck drivers. had
frequently visited the place, where
they claim to have placed bets Oh the
races at Bennings. They were there
yesterday when Detective Sergeants
Valley and Collins dropped through
the ceiling. Valley and Collins.
dressed as laborers. entered the cafe,
which is an deliberately decorated one,
Valley had a crowbar and a sledge
hammer and Collins was equipped
with two axes and a sledge hammer.
Each carried a Jimmy" They went
at once to the rear room. There they
arrested the outer sentries, and while
one detective watched the prisoners
the other
Battered Down Door.
AS soon as the blows were heard in
the inner room, Kerr and Fogarty
drew their revolvers and. backing to
corner, covered the crowd.
Meanwhile Valley. after battering
down one door, came to a second.
This, though built of oak. soon gave
way, and the detectives found them
selves in a room which had three
doors. Cutting through one of these
doors, the detectives and their pris-
oners entered another room, which
also had three doors. They were in
the "maze" 1t was then the de-
tectives decided to go upstairs to the
rear room of the saloon. where VAL
lely and Collins and a uniformed po-
into the alleged pool room.
Those arrested besides the alleged
proprietor were his alleged manager
and employees. The others found in
the place were allowed to go.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
Casualties.

Reports of damage to the peach crop
from the drop in temperature are com.
ing in from Western Michigan.
A collision occurred near Evanston
Wyo., and Brakeman ]. A. Getchell.
twenty-eight years old, was killed.
A street car ran down a hill at East
Liverpool, Ohio, and was wrecked, in
Turing fifteen persons more or less Sc.
riously.
The wholesale and retail furniture
store of William Heyns at Evansville,
Ind, was destroyed by fire. Loss
over $4,000.
Hentsch's bonded warehouse at Sgd,
ney, N. S. W., containing 10000 tons
of merchandise, was burned, and the
loss is estimated at s2,500,000.
The entire plant of the Jennison
Iron and Engine works at Jennison,
Mich. were burned. Loss, $50, 900;
fully insured. The origin of the fire is
unknown.
The carelessness of Alexander Ken
perty in smoking pipe near a can of
powder in a quarry in West Rutland,
VT, caused an explosion which cost
him his life and injured seven others.
AS result of an explosion in Do
minion No. colliery at Glace Bay, C..
B., four men are missing and seventy
eight horses were suffocated by fire
damp, and property estimated at half
a million dollars was destroyed.
The breaking of coupling followed
by runaway of a string of loaded
coal cars in the Sunshine mine at
South Fork. Pa, caused the death of
three men, the fatal injury of one and
serious injuries to nine others.
The main portion of the smelling
works of the United States Reduction
and Refining company at Canyon City,
Colo, was destroyed by fire, the loss
being 100000. Immense new build
ings 2O0xs0 feet in area were dc.
stroyed.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
IN DANGER OF LYNcHlNG.
Negro Assaults Little Girl and
Leaves Her for Dead.

Bluefelds, w. Va, March so. -
Harvey Williams, negro, yesterday
assaulted Mary Jones, the thirteen
year-old daughter of white miner,
and left her for dead on the mountain
between Pocahontas, Va. and Cooper,
w. Va. After regaining conscious
ness the child managed to reach her
home. Several posses Immediately
went in cearch of the negro and he
was located near Pocahontas, taken to
Bramwell and lodged in jail. The Jail
is heavily guarded, but information
from Bramwell points to a lynching.
Williams victim will die.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
FIRE At WALKER.

srauIding !Hotel Burns - Two Other
Concerns Burned Out.
Walker, Finn. March 80. - AT 4
o'clock yesterday morning fire COM
pletely destroyed the Spaulding hotel
with all it's contents. wiped out c. l..
Logan's restaurant and Albert Carl
sons saloon and gave the court house
sccrching. though the latter was
saved by hard work OF the fire depart
ment and citizens. The losses are:
John King, hotel, $4,000; Albert Carl
son. saloon. $500; c. l.. Logan. res
taurant, 5000. King was the only one
who carried insurance.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
REAPPo,NTs LEAvETT.

Chairman of the State Board st Con.
troll Succeeds Himself.
st. Paul. March 80. - Chairman S.
w. Leavett was appointed by Gov.
Van SAINT yesterday to serve for an.
other term on the state board of con
troll. The governor said he reappoint
ed MIR. Leavett because he had proved
during his incumbcncy to be a con.
scientious public servant and much Of
the good work OF The board was at
tributable to his guiding hand.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
ORE SEASON OPENS.

Load of Metal Is Dumped at the Great
Northern Docks.
West Superior. Wis. March 80. -
The local ore season opened yesterday
with the arrival of forty-five cars of
ore at the Great Northern dock. This
is the earliest opening of the ore
season in the history of the local dock,
the earliest heretofore being on April
8. Between forty and fifty train crews
will be employed throughout the sea-
son. The work on the new deck is
progressing rapidly, and it is thought
that by the time the other two docks
are full the new one will he ready.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
FIGHTING THE TREATY.

Colombian Congress May Yes WV
turn the Whole Years WORK. -,
Washington, March 30.-Dlsqu. satoa
reports have reached Wash'ns sotv
concerning the Panama canal urea; y
in the Colombian congress. ,uo
learned beyond doubt that the t .he
last ministers from Colombia ~ nr
United States, DR.. Concha anu IONS
Silva. are now in Bogota laying p''"
to defeat the treaty.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
t!E CAN PRACTICE NOW.
State Senator Simpson is Again Ad.

State Senator Simpson is Again Ad.
mitted to Supreme Court Work.
Fargo. n D., March 30.-State Sen
ator Leslie A. Simpson OF Dickinson
has been restored to practice in the
courts OF the state by the supreme
court. He was disbarred on some
charges filed three years ago. Poll
tics was mixed UP in the case and the
friends of Simpson always felt bitter
toward eX-Chief Justice Bartholomew.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
Must Tell Time.

Madison. Wis, March 80. - In the
assembly yesterday the senate bill re-
quirng railroads to post a bulletin
board at all stations having a telc-
graph Office on which at least twenty
minutes before the schedule time for
the arrival of train. shall be posted
the fact whether it is on time. and if
late. how much. was concurred in.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
Enter by skyIiaht.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, March 3O.-Ly-
man Bros wholesale millinery house
was robbed of silk valued at from
$4,000 to $4,000 The thieves climbed
up the fire escape and entered the
building through the skylight.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02

There would be no talk of race sui.
eide if all married couples were like
Mr.. and Mrs. Cormac McCallis of
Hazleton, Penn, who have just had
their twenty-third child born to them.
Mrs. McCallis is forty-five She was
married at the age Of sevents O.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
DISCHARGED and Rearrested.

Eau Claire Wis. March 80. - Cir
cult Judge O'Neil discharged John
Roche, charged with the murder of
LUXE Scheller five years ago. The
ground of discharge was that evidence
on the preliminary examination was
not sufficient. After being discharged
Roche was Immediately rearrested on
the same charge, and second pre-
liminary examination will be held in q
few days.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
Aubrey Arrested AGAIN.

Milwaukee, March 3d.. Matt Au.
brey. former son-in-law of Chief
Justice Fuller. has been again arrest
ed on forgery charge. the fourth
time in two years. He will be ex.
amined for his sanity.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
Emerald Is Alive.

Emerald, Wis, March 3O.-Rumors
are rife here that the Omaha branch
will be extended this spring. and that
q grain elevator will be built here.
Dunham's new monthly magazine will
fOon begin it's issues.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
FAST TRAINS CRASH TOGETHER.
Three Passengers Burned to Death
and Nineteen injured.

and Nineteen injured.
San Antonio. Tex, March S0-Three
passengers were burned to death ana
nineteen persons were injured IN
rear-end collision at La Costa station
twenty miles west of here On the
Southern Pacific last night. Ine I'M,
tied crashed into the Eagle fass
express which was running as rle
first section of the former train. fne
Pullman sleeping car and private Ca.
of Gen. Geronimo Trevino, military
commander of the department Oh 'ne
State of Nuevo Leon, Mex, wei0
splintered and three kinsmen OF oen'
Trevino were burned to death Delo1e
they could be extricated from 'he
burning cars which were ignltee =.
escaping oil from the tender CT 'n'
limited engine.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
HAzING MAKES INSANITY.

Young Boy Is Badly Used at School
In Wisconsin.
GAINESVILLE, Wis. March 80. - Earl
Cleves of Sioux City, Iowa, has been
taken home in a demented condition,
it is said, as a result of a severe haz-
ing by his fellow students at a local
telegraph school. Young Cleves is
Nineteen years of age. After the
hazing he tried to break into several
houses to escape from a crowd which
he imagined was pursuing him. 1t is
asserted that the hazers stole $50
from him.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02
e.;,or. !, at in a Forest.

Sailors Lost in a Forest ,,,.oo
Victoria, B. c., March ~. .o.1.
sailors who deserted from the su
ing schooner Triumph At .nn for-
creek, are lost somewhere IN w. .oria.
ests between that point ana s'e@N
Two Indians have also been ios''
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-04-02

Baltimore's new city director,
gives the city population of 664 1925
-155, 768 more than the census enum-
orators found in 1900. Evidently the
Baltimore directory publishers are en-.
terprising people