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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-08-20

FRANKLIN SPRANG IMPETUOUSLY
FROM HIS SEAT CRYING FURIOUS
LY: Il SHALL HOLD YOU TO AC-
COUNT FOR THIS"
had been pawned by Herbert Wright
on the day of the murder.
Franklin changed c%ountenance per-
ceptibly, but answered promptly: ct
is not"
rs this your diamond pin?" hand
ing him the pin that had never been
identified.
1T is not"
ION the day that Mr.. Wright was
murdered, were you in the Bayou
Woods at all?!'
No.
"You were out there the next
day."
Yes"
Did you see anyone that day with
a~rctics on?"
Il did not?"
"Did you wear a pair of them your
self?"
Il did not"
iS vas III ldSU lllllc you Saw
John I. Wright alive?"
Let me see. I think it was the
day before he was killed."
"Were you or were you not present
when Wright was killed?"
Il suppose as the court offers no
objection, I shall have to answer that
question. I was not present."
STc fhic rn,,r -;et,1Cs3 ,,1.,l lC-
Everett, handing him the weapon
with which it was supposed Wright
had been killed.
1T is not"
did you have possession of it at
any time?" e.
Il did not"
81 have only one more question to
ASK" said Mr.. Everett, in a most i'm
pressive manner, while an intense,
silent expectancy pervaded the court
THE witness has the legal
right to decline to answer it,"
well, what is it?" asked Franklin.
turning slightly pale.
Did you murder John 7. Wright"
Franklin sprang impetuously from
" oN'o, NAJihS Au11OuSly. MS
passes all the bounds of tolerance.
and l shall hold you to account for
it"
Here the court, amid the widest
kind of excitement, said: 1.-THE ques.
ton is not proper" but the %utterance
of the judge was like a reproof to a
storm at sea.
Men and women arose from their
seats, so entense was-the feeling. 1t
was a time when pistols were pre-
c%ariously prevalent, and there was
an indetinable dread that they might
be used. Amid it all the voice of Mr..
Everett, singularly clear and ringing,
could be heard:
May it please your Honor, the wit.
ness announces that he will hold me
to account for the charge implied in
my question. I am entirely willing
that he should do SO. Herbert
Wright's defense is that the murder
CT of John T. Wright is James Frank
lin, and"
Here the lawyer paused for a mo-
ment, and fearlessly regarded the
b]anched face of Franklin as he con-
Guided:
"And I shall prove it,"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-08-20
LET THE CHILD BE A CHILD.

Dear little Curly Head, careless and jolly,
Life, as you view it, is play;
Toiling is useless and fretting is folly,
At least when, you're having your way:
Shouting for fun, ,
You romp and you run,
Worrying not over work to be done,
Seeing no tasks that the years are to
bring,
Thinking the future will always be
spring.
Dear little Curly Head, quickly forgetting
Bruises of heart and of limb, -"
Taking your own and unselfshly letting
Your brotheS have is for him,
Thinking that they
Who choose the fair way
Are sure to be fully rewarded some
day
You borrow no sorrow and treasure no
dread
OF heart-breaking tasks that are lying
Dear little Curly Head, shouting and sing
ing,
VIII is it frowns at the noise?
know they not what the gray future is
bringing,
After the play and the toys;
Do they not know
AS they harry you so
That GOD hears the song Of each child
here below
That if children ne'er shouted and never
were glad,
Men never could sigh for the joys they
once had?
Dear little Curly Head, why are they try
ing
To lure YOU AVA from your play,
To fret you with books while your child
hood is flying
Like the blown roses petals aWay?
Before you nave care
And burdens to bear;
Oh, why are they trying to hurry you
there?
Dear little Curly Head, God never planned
That men should be men as they come
from His hand.
IS. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-08-20
Advice From Sadi.N

OF the distinguished authors OF
Persia none, perhaps, has enjoyed a
wider popularity than sadi, who lived
in the thirteenth century, He was
a great traveller and a close observ-
Ell, and his anecdotes and short
stories are described as being found
ed on his w experiences and OBJ
servations. In PERSIAN Poetry for
English Readers" Mr.. S. Robinson
quotes the following from Sadi's
writings:
"A pupil said to his i instructor,
What am I to do, for people in
commode me with the frequency of
their visits to such al degree that
their conversation produces a great
distraction of my valuable time?"
The teacher replieds "To every
one who is poor, lend; and from every
one who is rich, borrow. They viii!
not come about you again"
Another example embodies excel
lent advice: A silly fellow, having
a pain in his eyes, went to a farrier
and asked him for a remedy. The
farrier applied o3his eyes some
thing which he would have given to
an animal, and it blinded him, upon
which they made an appeal to the
magistrate. The magistrate said:
This is no case for damages. 1t
is plain that this fellow is an ass,
or he would not have gone to a
farricr."
No man of enlightened understand.
ing will commit weighty matters to
n of mean abilities.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-08-20
Raised the Rate.

The state board of equalization
agreed upon the assessment of rail.
roads in the state for the ensuing
year. The 500 line was raised to
$1,000 a mile for the main line and
$4,000 for branches. The Northern
Pacific and Great Northern were as.
sessed at the same figures as last
year, $500 for the main line and
$4,000 for branches. The Washburn
road was raised to $4,000 a mile and
the Northwestern and Milwaukee
branches to the same figure. The
board will take up real estate assess
ment tomorrow.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-08-20
News Notes..

Three empty box carr were blown
off the siding at Eldridge the other
day and went sailing down the track.
The fast freight collided with them,
and there were doings. No one was
hurt, but a car load of beer had sew
eral bottles missing.
Work has begun on the excavation
for the basement of the new Odd Eel
lows block at Bottineau. When COM
pleted it will no doubt be one of the
finest buildings in the town, as they
contemplate the erection of a three
story double block of brick and stone
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-08-20

when court had adjourned; and at
one time when they we're thrown ac.
cidentally together in the crowd, it
looked as if a collision were newt.
it at all. put the inclination aside,
and no Trouble occurred. 1t is pos.
sible that he was too much concerned
about the damaging facts brought out
against him and with speculations as
to the proof held in reserve by Ever.
EFT to squander his time in personal
alteration. During the recess he
rushed from place to place, putting a
number of agencies to work to bring
his forces together. He wanted Hills.
man. There was work for Old Tom
and his comrade.. He needed Meri'
vale. But defeat confronted him al
every step. He seemed to be abso.
lutely deserted, for nowhere were his
accomplices TO be found; and when
the recess was over he felt that he
had accomplished nothing.
"Mr. Everett" said Warde, as they
were going together toward the
courthouse, "you have a great dra.
matte instinct. The most skilled
French playwright could not have
arranged a more startling climax
than you did this morning in court
"Perhaps there is an art in this
kind of thing as well as playwright
ing. I have always endeavored in a
case like this to give it color, to make
sharply defined points, to make it IN,
fold itself, to give it 'go.'"
'But wasn't it a little risky to in
troduce your climax in the first act.
as it were?"
mot in this case, which goes from
climax to climax. Even you will be
startled when I get through with the
testimony. 1 have a little surprise
which I have kept in store for you
particularly"
II thought I knew this case inside
out"
"Wai and see if you do"
They had some difficulty in making
their way through the dense crowd
to their places within the railing.
When the court resumed it's sitting
Mr.. Everett said he had no further
questions to ask the witness Frank
lin, and he would turn him over to
the state. The prosecuting attorney
waved cross-eNamination for he was
in some perpleXity as to what he
wanted to learn. Nothing that Frank
lin had said had invalidated his case,
and if he were guilty the prosecutor
did not are to assist him at the ,ex-
pense of an innocent man.
Irving Warde was accordingly put
on the witness stand. He told his
story well; how he had traced the
footprints in the snow that cold
morning in December, how his inter-
est in the case-which was known to
Franklin-had been attended with
personal danger, and an attempt had
been made to murder him at Peters
Rest; how he had obtained the agree
ment from Hillsman and what Frank
lin had said to Hillsman about Nor
ris; how he had himself made 9 copy
Of the agreement at Mr.. Everett's
house when Franklin was announced,
and all that happened with reference
thereto. He also gave a detailed ac-
count of the demands made upon him
for the paper which Hillsman had
given him to read.
WAS anyone pfasent when the de-
mand was made?" asked Mr.}Ever-
EFT.
Eyes, sir; the eastern capitalist,
Frederick Merivale, was present; but
whether he gave any attention to
the conversation I could not say
Lawyer Everett smiled inscrutably
at this, but made no comment.
ITO Be Continued
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-08-20

Mrs. Frances Stafford, of 243E.
Hath St., NY. City, adds her tes-
tifnony to the hundreds of thou
sands on Mrs. Pinkham's files.
When Lydia E.. Pinkham's Rene
dies were first introduced skeptics
all over the country frowned upon
their curative claims, but as year
after year has rolled by and the
little group of women who had been
cured by the new discovery has
since grown into a vast army Of
hundreds Of thousands, doubts and
~skepticisms have been swept away
as by a mighty food, until to-day
the great good that Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
and her other medicines are doing.
among the women of America is:
attracting the attention of many Of
our leading scientists, physicians
and thinking people.
Merit alone could win such flames
wise, therefore, is the woman who
for a cure relies upon Lydia E..
Pinkham'sV Vegetable Compound.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-08-20
M liners Strike.

Miners in the Davis mine, near Mi
not, to the number of about So, are
out on a strike for salaries due them.
The amounts range from $40 to 5000
and over and the strikers threaten to
institute foreclosure proceedings if
the trouble is not adjusted within two
days. The owners of the mine are in
hard lines for money.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-08-20
Mystery Of the
Bayou Woods
BY WALKER KENNEDY.
Copyright, 1903, by A. N. Kellogg NewspaperCo .
CHAPTER XIV.-CoNTINUED.

AA>A AHAs ILL.,
eve ask no other indulgence, your
Honor" said Mr.. Everett, than the
permission to tell our whole story in
our OWL way" &
Call your first Witness" said the
Judge.
81 believe 1 will take Col. James
Franklin first" said the lawyer, ex-
aiming a memorandum. II am not
certain whether a subpoena has been
served on him or not, but he is pres
ent, and I presume will accept service
now
Franklin looked darkly at Everett
a moment, and then bowed gravely to
the court, took the witness chair,
stolidly faced the lawyer, and twirled
his thumbs. Mr.. Everett asked him a
few playful questions about his pro-
fession, his age, etc., which put him
ina subdued' passion, and then began
in earnest:
DO you know the condition of Mr..
Wright's estate at the time of his
death?"
81 do"
what valuation would you put on
it?"
"About s5,00o."
"When did Mr.. Wright dispose of
most of his estate?"
About 20 years ago he disposed
of all his property to the Shelby
County Real Estate & Investment
company, and, I believe, to some
western company"
1.-The Diamond Mining company?"
'"I believe it was.'
"You are interested in the Shelby
County Real Estate G. Investment
~company?"
eyes"
t'Own about nine-tenths of the
stock, don't you?' ...
t"Can you tell me what all this fol-
de-rol has to do with this case?"
E'Well, yes, I could tell you," said
Everett blandly, "but hat is not ma
terial. Answer my question, please"
ggAnswer the question, Colonel"
said tho judge.
Eyes; I do"
4tYou also OWE virtually all the
stock in the Diamond Mining COM
pany?"
ayes"
ksThen you are to-day the owner of
nearly all that has been regarded as
the Wright estate?"
Ct suppose I am"
assWill you please tell US what that
estate consists OFF" t
After considerable haggling Frank
liz mentioned the various city lots
aud plantations, but omitted any
mention of the Colorado tract.
There was a tract in Colorado,
was there not?"
EYES,"
ut. was purchased by your mining
company?"
SIT was"
1.-THE consideration for all this was
about how much?"
*"Twenty-fve thousand dollars"
HWas it a bona 1lde sale?"
1T was"
:"And you paid Wright $25,o00?"
about that sum-"
s'What do you mean by that?"
HE owed me something for legal
services, which was credited on the
amount?"
HeNVhata is all this property worth
1ow?"
at has increased very largely in
value IN 20 years, as a matter of
course"
"What figure do you put upon it?"
81 should say that it was worth
between 100000 and 100000"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-08-20
Frightened by a Calf,

Frightened by a calf attached to a
picket rope, a team being driven by
Ed. Clamp became unmanageable at
jamestown and Mr.. Clamp was
thrown from a wagon. One of his
legs vas broken between the ankle
and knee. The bones are badly shat
tered and it will be several months
before he can use the member again.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-08-20
CHAPTER XIV.

Mr.. Everett's startling announce
ment terminated the morning SEES
sion of the court. A scene more dra-
matte and thrilling had never been
witnessed in that room and during
the recess for dinner the excitement
communicated itself over the entire
city. Franklin was credited with be.
ing a man Of nerve, and many thought
he would attack Lawyer Everett
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-03-11
Reed Enjoyed 1t.

Thomas B. Reed was once the victim
Of printers error the unusual aptness
of which, after the first flush of indig-
nation had subsidized. appealed so strong
~ to his sense of the comic that he
never failed to refer to the matter with
the keenest gusto whenever he met the
man whom he, with the utmost mock
solemnity, always held responsible for
it.
The late Colonel John A. Cockerill' S
handwriting in the heat of composition
was sometimes liable to lose, itself in
an almost interminable tangle, deci-
pherable only with the greatest difficult
ty. On one occasion he undertook to say
that "any one can see Tom Reed has
the face Of an honest man." but was
horritled when he opened his paper the
following morning and found that the
types made him say that "any one can
see Tom Reed has a face like harvest
moon"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-03-11
NEGRO PLANS FOR 1904.
in New York to Work for Presi-
dents enOminatiOn.

New York, March THE attitude
assumed by President Roosevelt to-
ward the negro has been Endorsed in a
rousing mass meeting Of colored peo-
pie held in the Bethel Methodist Epis-
copal church in this city, at which
Bishop w. B. Derrick made stirring
appeal to his people to turn their eyes
to the .door of hope opened by the
president" to the black race. The men
ton of the name of the president by
the speaker drew forth tremendous
applause from both men and women.
The bishop INDUCED in bitter denun-
citation of Senator Tillman, of South
Carolina.
!, The meeting was the first step to-
ward the formation Of "Roosevelt's
Invincibles,' which organization will
favor the denomination of President
Roosevelt. Bishop Derrick will speak
in Philadelphia on similar mission,
and will address the colored men in
many of the principal cities of the
country and organize them into local
branches of ''Roosevelt's Invincibles,"
who will use every effort toward plac-
ing the colored men as delegates in the
next national convention.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-03-11
Tue bachelor.

A western editor pays this tribute TO
type which has not its fair share OF
song and story: The bachelor repre-
sents the most congenial and big heart
ed type Of our commonwealth. His
name, while held in public derision by
host Of people, will always remain
closely interviewer in the history Of
pioneer life. He 1t was who pushed
out into the wild and woolly west at a
time when the buffalo. Indians and
coyote We're lords of the prairies and
by persistent efforts and under priva-
ton and want led a heroic life by
converting vast areas of the barren
wilderness into fertile lands Of peace
and plenty. Then, without aid Of femi-
nine piety to keep vigil over his every
day acts, this sturdy empire builder
remained at his post, blazing out the
path Of fame and introducing thrift
and civiliza ton in his wake. Like the
cowboy he is slowly passing into his
tory, but bis fame is as farreaching as
civilization. lis name indelibly stamped
on the pages Of history, while the hum
BILE dugout with it's original environ
ments will appear in scenic pictures
above the footlights Of future genera
tions.'' %f<ss
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-03-11
IN EXTRA SESSION.
senate Convenes In Obedience to the
Preside nt's Proclamation -Tshirty
Senator's Sworn Are In.

Washington, March Sin obedience
to the presidents proclamation the
senate Of the Fifty-eighth congress-
convened COZ 7'e &c in extraordinary session at
noon yesterday. Presid emit Pro Tenn
Frye called the body to order and the
oath was administered to 80 senator's
who take office for six years. OF these
II were. reelected as follows:
Allison Qa.), Clay (Ga,), Dillingham;
(Vt.), Fairbanks Ind }, Foraker CO.,,
Gallinger IN. H. J, Hansbrough On. d.,
Kittredge Is. d., McEnery (La.), NAL
Tory (Ha.), serving on appointment
until the legislature meets; Penrose
4(Pa.), Perkins (Cal3, Pettus Gala. J,
Platt COMM, Platt (N.Y.), spooner
(Wis.) Teller (Gol.).
The oath was admins tered to the
following 10 new senators: Ankeny
(Wash.), Clarke (Ark.), Fulton (Ore.),
German (Md.), Hepburn (Idaho),
Hopkins Qn.), Latimer Is. ca, Long
((Kan.), MeCreary (Ky.), Newlands
New, Oyerman IN. CO., Smoot Utah
Stone (Mo.). II
After listening to speeches answer
ing Congressman Cannon's charge of
Legislative blackmail,'' an executive
session was held and all the treaties
were referred to the committee on for
eign relations. Adjourned to Monday
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-03-11
LABOR'S BIG LEGAL BATTLE.
ON Wabash Preparing to Have
Injunction Dissolved.

st. Louis, March 6.-Ne change in
the Wabash situation developed
Thursday. President Ramsey had
nothing new to report, saying that
all his force was at work as usual,
and that the matter Of a strike was
now up to the United States courts.
Some progress was made by the
union leaders, who have secured as
associate counsel F. N. Judson, a
prominent attorney of this city, to
aid their lawyers, Messrs. Pinney and
Irwin, in the preparation of the mo-
ton and affdavits to be fled in Judge
Adams court for the purpose Of Sc
curing the dissolution of his sweep
ing Injunction. These formal papers,
which will be carefully prepared,
will not be ready for presentation
for several days. Until then there
will be no change in the situation, it
is believed. +. e..
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-03-11
Persian Athletes.

Strong and skilled as western ath-
letes are, there are some respects in
which the athletes of the east, and es-
pecially those Of Persia, surpass them.
Their skill is due to the fact that
they do not rely on brute strength, but
on adroitness, which they have ac-
quired after years of strenuous train
ing. They know the function Of every
muscle in their bodies, and they are not
regarded as experts until they are so
we'll trained that they can perform
with ease any feat Which depends for
success not only upon their strength,
but also upon the proper play of their
muscles. ,r.
They are not as bulky as some Of the
we'll known athletes of Europe and
America, but, on the other hand, their
bodies are wonderfully symmetrical,
and all their movements are most
graceful.
In wrestling and swinging clubs they
especially excel, and no matter how
expert they may be, not day passes
that they do not practice for several
hours.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-03-11
SadirOn and Tailor's Goose.

A ''sadiron" is the style in which the
common f1atiron is spoken Of in print,
says the Syracuse Herald. Sad" is an
old English synonym for heavy, and
Spenser wrote, "A1ore sad than lump of
lead" A "sadiron" was heavy iron
and long ago was applied to the fatiron
now in common domestic USE The
tailor's "goose" was so called because
the handle bears a fanciful resem-
blance to the neck Of goose. This
name because it had a reason for be-
ing still survives.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-03-11
Wonders of the Human Heart.

The workings Of the human heart
psychologist, and he has demonstrated
that it is equal to the lifting of 12O
tons in twenty -four hours. Presenting
that the blood is thrown out of the
heart at each pulsation in the proper
ton Of sixty nine strokes of nine feet,
the mileage Of the blood through the
body might be taken at POI yards per
minute, seven miles per hour, 1913 miles
per day, 61,320 miles per year, or
5,150,OO0 miles in a lifetime Of eighty
four years. In the same period of time
the heart must beat 1855, 10000 times,
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-03-11
PRAISES CONGRESS.
President Sends Letter of COnEratu.
Iation to Speaker Henderson.

President Sends Letter of OnEratu-
1ation to Speaker Henderson.
Washington, March 5.-President
Roosevelt yesterday afternoon sent a
letter, Of which the following is copy,
to David B. Henderson, late speaker Of
the house of representatives:
s'White House, Washington, March 4.
1so3.-My Dear Mr.. Speaker: AS / did
not see you to-day at the capitol, I
wish to write you a line to congrat-
ulate you on the work accomp lished by
the congress which has just closed.
There were certain measures of inn
portance, the failure to act upon which
greatly regretted, but it is neverthe-
less true that, taken as a whole, no
other congress of recent years has to
its credit record Of more substantial
achievement for the public good than
this, over the lower branch of which
you presided. / congratulate you and
it. and wish you well wherever your
future may lead you. Sincerely yours,
ssTHEODORER OOSEVELT.'''
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-03-11
Michigan Republicans.

Detroit, Mich, March Judge
Frank A. Hooker, of Charlotte, was
renominated for justice,of the supreme
court Of this state for a term of ten
years by the republican state conyen-
ton yesterday and for regents of the
University Of Michigan Peter White,
of Marquette, and Loyal p. Knappen,
of Grand Rapids, were nominated.
The platform reaf6rms allegiance to
republican principles and policies and
indorses the administration of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Gov. Bliss. @