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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
w.xe scale sixned.

Pittsburg, Pa, June 2o.-The wage
scale of the Amalgamated Association
of Iron and Steel Workers for the en-
suing year was signed Friday by the
officials of the Carnegie Steel COM
pany for the American steel hoop
plants. This is the first time an
amalgamated scale has been signed
by the Carnegie Steel company since
1889, and was due to the recent merg-
ing of the American Steel Hoop COM
pany with the Carnegie company. All
of the companies controlled by the
United States Steel corporation have
now signed wage scales for the year
beginning July 1,>with the AGGRAVATED
association and there will be no stop
page at any of the plants on account
of wage disputes.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
THE bAGDAO RAIL WAY
A New Line That Germany Il to
Build In Asia Minor.
Will O1eP New Possibilities for Ger
man Commerce and Open One
Of the Richest Countries
In the World.

There exists to-day railroad from
Constantinople to Konia, in Asia
Minor. which is called the Anatolian
railway. 1t has branches to Smyrna
and Angora. German financiers have
succeeded in getting concession from
Turkey to continue this route from
konia to Bagdad, and eventually
through to Koweit, on the Persian
gulf. Acorporation for the purpose of
building the road has been formed in
Constantinople, under the name of the
Imperial Ottoman Bagdad Railway
company, with q capital of $1,000, 900.
lts president is one of the managers
of the German bank in Berlin. The
Anatolian line to Konia will not be
merged in the larger concern, but its
cooperation with the new enterprise
has been assured. The approximate
cost of the railroad is 500 600, 900, audit
will be about 1900 miles in length.
1t is claimed that when the enter
prise is completed it will bring India
three days nearer London. It will
shorten by II days the journey by
camel train from Aleppo to the valley
of the Lower Euphrates, where almost
every square mile Of land has its in
teresting ruin or hidden treasure.
Speaking of the country between the
Euphrates and Tigris, the Chemnitzer
Tageblatt, of Germany, says:
"The railway will pass through one
of the oldest and richest countries in
the world. The most fruitful part of
what was once ancient Mesopotamia
is that part of the country between
Ursa and Mosul. So regular and plen-
tiful are. the rains that out of every
six or seven harvests only two fall
short. In other portions of the coun-
try rain is not so frequent, and the
soil must be nurtured by process of
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
CONDENSED SPECIALS.

The United States has broken all
records in foreign commerce this year.
Twenty persons were injured by a
fireworks bomb found in the street
and ignited in front Of 954 Clybourn
avenue, Chicago.
The Mckinley Monument association
will raise $4,000 in addition to the
sum already in hand, for the sole pur-
pose Of keeping the memorial in re.
pair.
Post Office officials believe they have
documents to prove that August w.
Machen, former superintendent of the
free delivery service, has sold positions
in the service.
Count Cassini, Russian ambassador,
reiterates the claim that Russia has
punished the Kishineff rioters and
taken precautions against further mas
sacres of Jews.
"'Charlie" Burns, pugilist. shot him-
self in Washington park, Chicago, after
being surrounded by citizens anxious
to avenge an attack made on Mrs. Ned
c. Bates. He will probably die.
An attempt to murder the car Of
Russia is reported in London news
paper dispatch from Moscow. The
would-be assassin, disguised in police
uniform, is said to have entered Tsar-
skoe-Selo palace.
Extravagant rentals are paid by the
government for pneumatic postal
tubes. The cost at New York is $414,-
145 yearly, while barely 20 minutes is
saved over wagon deliveries, and ex-
pense of the latter is reduced only rs
per cent.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
The Winners.

The closing contests Of the fire
mems tournament were held Mt Wah'
peton. The first prize in the hook and
ladder rescue race was won by Hol.
den of Fargo, time 2-5 seconds; sec;
ond by Simmer of Wahpeton, time
8 3-s seconds; third by Flynn Of
Cooperstown, time 8 As.
In the wet hose test, 200 yards
Larimore won first prize, time IS sec.
onds; Valley City won second in Sc
seconds, and Wimbledon third in sc
Is seconds. In the coupling contest
Lakota won first time in S seconds
Wimbledon second in 3-5, Larinlore
third in 81. The combination hose
cart and. hook and ladder races, the
hose cart making $50 yards and the
hook and ladders 100 yards, was won
as follows: First Cooperstown and
Valley City, 45H seconds; second
Larimore and Fargo, 40 seconds;
third, Wimbledon and Wahpeton, sc
2-1 seconds.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25

wan So SsAsS9vs AlSO 1u6h0 u Buzz
cessful pulpit artist. The diamond is .
first-class place to study certain phases
of human nature, and a successful
preacher must have large stock Of
that kind of knowledge. At all events
Mr.. William A. Sunday, formerly we'll
known in baseball circles, has resolved
to make trial of the ministry and,
judging by the excellent record he
made when recently examined by the
Chicago Presbytery for ordination 40
an evangelist, his future usefulness il
beyond question. The ordination OF
Mr.. Sunday took place at the jefferson
Park Presbyterian church, at Chicago,
but he has not taken up regular pas
toral work as yet, being engaged in
evangelistic work, at which he has al-
ready accomplished much good.
The last chapter of the war between
the National and American baseball
leagues was closed the other day when
Lajoie, Bernhard and Flick, who have
been enjoined from playing the game
in the state of Pennsylvania for fall
ing to live up to their contract with tho
Philadelphia National league club.
were formally purged Of contempt and
they are once more free to tread the
soil of the Keystone state.
Harry Vardon has again demon.
strated his superiority over other
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25

irrigation. The land is adapted to
raising wheat, barley, rice and cotton.
A territory as large as saxony and
Italy together will be opened up to
German markets"
To find the shortest way to India il
an achievement which has occupied
the attention of European commercial
nations since the earliest times. The
highway built by the Persian satraps,
the success of Vasco de Cana in finding
water way around Africa, and the
construction of the Suez canal mark
epochy in the development Of Euro
pean commerce with India. The con-
struct.1n Of the Bagdad railway will
probably be fraught with equally great
results, as it will not only serve as a
connecting link between the Black
sea and the Persian gulf, but it will
tap large territory which in recent
times has been Of practically no value
to the commercial world at large.
In 1901 German imports from Turkey
and Asia Minor amounted to 81 ,642, 200,
or five per cent. of Germany's total Inn
ports. During the same year Ger
many's exports to Turkey and Asia
Minor amounted to $500, 900, or eight
per cent. of her total exports.
The Anatolian railway has already
been the means of furthering German
commerce in Asia Minor. Every year
this railroad moves 250,O00 tons Of
grain, 100000 tons of rock salt and
40, 900 tons of wool from the interior to
the seaboard. These same trains re-
turn with $500 tons of ironware from
Germany, 5000 tons Of petroleum from
russia, and $500 tons Of sugar from
Austria. A direct steamship line, con-
sisting Of 20 well-equipped vessels, was
established in 1889 between German
and Levantine ports. A German bank
was established some years ago in
Jerusalem, which exchanged $15,O0o,-
600 worth Of money in 1901. Many
thousand German colonists are earn
ing livelihood in Asia Minor to-day as
merchants and horticulturists.
The claim is put forth by many that
the agricultural development Of Asia
Minor will relieve Germany Of her de-
pendence upon the United States for
her cotton and grain supply, but the
agricultural development Of Asia
Minor need give no American farmer
or cotton grower apprehension. What
India, Egypt and Caucasia fail to do,
Asia Minor will hardly succeed in do
ing. The influence of the Bagdad rail-
way will be confined chiefly to the
orient. II itleads to an increased OUT
put of grain and other necessaries of
life, the capacity for consumption on
the part Of the IL, 000. 900 inha bitants of
Asia Minor will, in all probability, keep
pace with the production.
ERNEST L. HARRIS.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25

f n 6 ii s h and
Scotch devotees
of the game of
golf by keeping
the title of open
champion at the
tournament re-
Gently run off at
Prestwick Sc o t.
land. Vardon fin
ished with the
lowest score that
has ever won the
c h a m pion ship,
beating Tom Var
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
cruiser Ch.ttanooEa sei.ed.

Washington, June 2o.-secretary
Moody Friday received a dispatch
from Elizabethport, N. j., announcing
the seizure by the sheriff, of the
cruiser Chattanooga now building at
the yard of the New York shipbuild-
ing company, one of the companies of
the United States Shipbuilding COM
pany. The secretary took the tele-
gram to the cabinet meeting where the
subject was discussed.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
Made Chief Of STAG.

Washington, June 2o.-Secretary
Root Friday issued an. order assigning
Mai. Gen. s. B. M. Young as chief Of
staff, with Maj. Gen. Henry G. Corbin
and Brig. Gen. William II. Carter as
the other general staff officers. Brig.
Gen. Tasker II. Bliss is to becomepres-
ident Of the war college. The order
will take effect August IS.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
pefendants Win.

In the case of Miles VS.. the Gaar-
Scott company, the jury in the Unit
ed State court ut Fargo found for the
defendants. Miles was operating a
threshing rig, manufactured by the
company. While on top board gave
way and his foot was ground off in
the cylinder. He sued for $4,000
damages. Judge Amidon's charge to
the jury was of such a nature that
nothing but a verdict for the defen-
dant company could be found. He
held that no verdict could be recover
ed unless it was shown that the COM
pany wilfully or negligently manu-
featured defective rig.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
improvements.

Extensive permanent improvements
reservation these days. A stone ware
house 24x60 is to be put up for the
storage of camp equipage, etc. A
bath house 3Ox3O will be built for
the use of the troops, which is a
much needed improvement. A well
has been dug, a large tank built and
water pipes will be laid with a tap
at each company kitchen. The we'll
is As feet deep and the water supply
is abundant and good.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
Inuuir Begun.

New York, June 2O.-The federal
grand jury in Brooklyn Friday COM
menced an inquiry into the sale Of
cash registers to the United States
government for use in post Offices.
Those subpoenaed to testify include
Post Office Inspectors James F. Old
field and Frank E. Little, Winfield
Scott Strawan, former agent for the
Brandt cash register concern; Ed
ward J. Brandt, and Robert Dent, of
the Brandt company.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
Bogus Check.

Several Fargo business men were
victimized by check forger. All the
checks were made out for $14 and
purported to have been issued by the
Fargo decorating company to John
Dunn. They were Endorsed in the
same name and presented by poor
ly dressed woman, who was accom-
panied by q 5-yea~old child. The
woman made small purchases in each
case and the checks were cashed
without question, wherever present
ed. The woman said her husband
was painter and was ill, and sent
her out to get the checks cashed.
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don. who was Sec Harry Vardon.
ond with 308 strokes, by six strokes.
Harry Vardon is to-day one of the best
il not the best known golfer through
out the British Isles. His fame, though,
is not confined to that country, as he
has often visited these shores and
shown Americans his skill with the
clubs.
In Indiana they believe that the
game of golf deserves better stand
ing than to be known only as pleas
ure or pastime, SO they have formed
the Indiana Golf league, composed Of
Marion, Muncie. Anderson and Rich
mond, and series of 10 matches will
be played during the summer season.
The football rules committee, who
say how the big colleges of the east,
and through them practically all other
colleges, shall play the game, at re-
cent meeting agreed to make two al
terations in the rules. A change will
probably be made in the rules govern-
ing the number of men who are keptin
the rush line and with regard to tho
quarter back. A rule will be drafted
for next season which will require that
between the two 25-yard lines, from
one 25-yard to the other, seven men will
be required in the line. In other words
that will prevent mass plays and heavy
formation on the center of the field.
Inside the 25-yard lines there will be no
such requirement. The new rules will
probably also allow the quarter back
in the same section of the field to run
with the ball, provided he cross tho
line of scrimmage at least five yards
from where it is put in play. Several
coaches who have been interviewed re-
garding the proposed changes are OPP
posed to them.
"Kid" Broad, the Cleveland pugilist,
recently received the first knockout in
his career when Aurelio Herrera, the
Mexican, accomplished the trick in
four rounds before Butte, audience.
The entry Of c. S. Titus, the Ameri.
can amateur champion in the single
shells, to the famous Henley, England.
regatta, has been rejected. No cause
is given for the action.
The Philadelphia cricketers, who re-
Gently went to England to play tho
team from Cambridge university, lost
their first match to the Britishers by
six wickets.
Conditions for an international re-
volver match by cable have been agreed
upon by the United States Revolver as
ISOLATION and the National Shooting
societies of France, and as the result
a contest will be held in the near fu-
ture.
The National Roller Polo league has
been formed and the following cities.
all in Ohio, compose the circuit: Fin
lay. Toledo, Columbus, Dayton, Cine
cinnati and Hamilton.
.Dooney" Harris, an old-time prize
fighter and contemporary of Jem
Mace, Tom Allen, Joe Goss, Jim Elliott
and Others Of the old school of fighters.
died the other day at the age Of 70
years. Harris achieved fame when, in
1864, in England, he defeated "Patsy"
Marley, the then lightweight cham
pion Of the world, in bare-knucklo
fight.
Jockey Winnie o'Connor, the we'll
known American rider who has recent
" been riding In France under the col
ors Of Baron Rothschild, has left hfe
employer and is now riding ~ frees
lance. HARRY MARTIN
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
Threaten to Strike.

Chicago, June. pa general strike
of freight handlers and warehouse
men in three wholesale houses and
on four railroads is threatened, the
arbiters chosen by both sides to tho
dispute being unable to decide on ,
fifth member.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
Death Of Judge Wilb.nk..

Washington, June 22.-Judge R. A.
d. Wilbanks, of Mount Vernon, ILL.,,
died here suddenly Friday night Of
heart disease, ages 50 years. He was
30 years clerk of the supreme court of
Illinois. Judge Wilbanks had lived in
Washington the past year.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
First American child.

New York, June 2o.-Advices from
Guam announce the birth there Of the.
first American o1ild on the island. It
is a girl and its father is Paymaster
Ryan. The christening was marked
by Q big celebration in which the en-.
tire community joined.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
A Rich Tramp,

Three men, who it is learned had
arrived at Fargo from Casselton the
morning before, attempted to catch
on to a moving east bound extra
freight on the Northern Pacific road.
William Knight, one of them, in rum
ming to catch the train, caught his
foot in the switch frog and fell, with
his head across the main line rails.
Two cars passed across his head and
face, crushing them beyond recogni-
ton. His body was found lying out
side of the track with his head to
the west.
On his body were found $12.35 in
currency, three bank books with en-
tries made in the name of William
Knight, balanced as follows: First
National bank Of West Superior,
April. 1902, $374.75; Farmers & Mer-
chants Savings bank of Minneapolis,
March, 1903, $241.2O; Savings bank of
Duluth, December, 1902, $l05-and a
few small trinkets.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
Sentenced to Death.

Berlin, June 22.-The trial Of the
so-called 'female Bluebeard," Frau
Przygodda, who poisoned four hus-
bands with arsenic, and who was de-
tected by the fifth putting the same
poison in his coffee, at Allenstein,
East Prussia, ended in verdict of
guilty. She was sentenced to death.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
PeeulIar. Accident

H. III. Miller was the victim OF a
working on the Northern Pacific
track with number of other men,
and all were prying on piece of
track, using a heavy plank on which
they were bearing down. Miller fail
ed to let go when the others did, and
he was thrown high in the air, and
came down with his head against the
rail on the opposite side. He was un-
conscious for some time, but re-
covered.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
New York, June %.

New York, June 90
FLOUR-Quiet but strong.
WHEAT-1rregular and generally easier.
July, S2N@83Ac; September, 79AQs0 Lice;
December, 1a-l3-1S@s0 1-16c.
RYE-steady. State 561zG5ec c. !. I. New
York; No. western, 5sAc I. o. b. afioat.
CORN-Opened easy, but rallied. July.
575s@57Nc; September. 56G56Ac; December.
55A@66Ac.
OATS Quiet and steady. Track white.
42046c.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
SPORTS AND
ATHLETICS
While the pursuits and. associations
of the professional baseball player are

not specially COM
ducive to that
calm, meditativo
and serious cast
Of mind most be-
fitting q candidate
for holy orders.
there is no good
reason in the M.
ture of things why
o young man who
has been q Shin
ing success as =
pitcher or q short
stop should not
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
Raises Only Black shee,

The raising Of black sheep is .
hobby with John D. Wing, Of Mills
brook, n. y. He has q flock of 20. and
they are perfectly black.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
THE MARKETS.
Grain. Provisions, Etc.

Chicago, June 20.
wHEAT-Du1l. New July. 7eA@7sNc:
new September, '74ss 074Nc; new December,
741s075c.
CORN-Feeling bullish. July, 4eN@6CAc.
OATs-steady to firm. July, aeA@401zc.
BUTTER-Decline in market. Creamer.
ies. 1600Ac; diaries. 1511G1sc.
EGGS-Feeling easier. Fresh eggs, at
mark, new cases included, 121A@13Nc.
LIVE POULTRY-Quiet. no change.
Turkeys, s01Oc; spring chickens. 121s018c;
ducks, 12012hc.
NEW POTATOEs-Firm. North Caro-.
lima. white. per bbl. $36o@3B; Tennessee.
medium white, 800
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25

Said That Majority Of Jury Favored
AeQuittal, But ut Least One Held
Oat-Naae Of llan who Attempted
to Bride Even Known-LatterI IL to
Speak ut Lex1ngton.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
Omaha. Neb.. June 20.

Omaha, Neb., June 20.
CATTLE Nominally steady. Native
steers, A.6G5.&; COWS and heifers, $3.50
$50; Gamers. 32O0@3.00; stockers and feed
ers. $3.0oG450: calves, $3.0006.50; bulls.
stays. ETC., 3275@4.1o.
5.95; mixed. $6s606.9 30; light. 69od6.o0; pigs,
}525@6.75: bulk Of sales. 6.s606. IN.
sHEEP-Unchanged. Fed muttons, 500
45.75; wethers, $a5o6e.9; ewes. $3.7604.6 g:
common and stocksrs. szs0G37s: LAMBDA
6H@616
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
Live stock.

Chicago, June 20.
HOGS Good to prime heavy shipping.
s.. 1O@S.20; good to choice heavy packing.
S. O01615; plain to choice heavy mixed.
sS00Q6.15; assorted light, $610G6.25; COM
mon to good light mixed, $6.00@6.1 Is; thin to
choice, $5,70@6.16; stays and rough lots. 400
05.85.
cATTLE-Plain beeves. sa4o@5.e 5; choice
steers, $4.40a4.e5; plain Beef steers. A.2o@
49,; common to rough. &3.15G410: good to
choice fat heifers, a. 10@5O 90; good to choice
feeders, $3.s5@4.75; poor to plain stockers
and feeders, $2S0g400; fair to good cows
and heifers. $32004.00; corn fed western
steers $3&@5.25; Texas bulls and grass
steers, $2.75@s.50; Texas steers, fair to COM
mon, $3.s504.6Q
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
Honored.

At Fargo college. Congregational
institution, conferred the degree of
Doctor of Divinity upon Rev. c. H.
Dickinson, of Fargo, Rev. A. Cush-
ing Dill, of Niagara Falls, and Rev.
G. s. Rollings, of Minneapolis, in hon.
or of the completion of the Parsons
endowment of $25O,o0O. This years
graduating class was composed of
twelve young men and women. Only
one other doctor If divinity degree
he's been conferred by this college.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25
News Notes.

News notes.
William Clifford, of Leroy. Penn
bina county, suicided by taking car
bolic acid. He was aggrieved over
the division of the estate of his de-
ceased father, and took this very UNI
satisfactory way of getting even.
The officials of the Pembina Coun-
ty fair association has invited Gov
ernor Van SAINT, of Minnesota, to de-
liver an address at the opening of the
fair at Hamilton and arrangements
are being made for amusement en-
terprises galore.
Lew Wright, member of the force
of the Minot Reporter, has had an
offer of $50 month to play ball with
the Towner team.
While running to catch freight
train at Fargo, William Knight, of
Saginaw, caught his foot in a frog,
| and fell beneath the wheels being
killed instantly. He had deposit
books on several banks, showing Gre
dts of about $3.50.
The state commissioner of agricul-
ture has just issued his new state
map, which, in addition to giving
the usual map features, gives a great
deal of interesting information about
the products and resources of the
state.
A portion of petrified stump has
been found in q Ward county coal
mine. Judges of wood say that the
stump was oak.
Wool is coming in slowly from the
ranges. At jamestown but two lots
have been received. The price runs
about IS cents a pound.
in the vicinity Of Hamilton, none of
them serious.
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Harry vardon has again demon.
strated his superiority over other
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-06-25

State Inspector Hines went to
Frankfort Friday, returning from his
investigations of the conditions at
jackson. He was expected to make