Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-01-21

Indian reservation in the state OF
Washington.
Bills were introduced in the house
by Delegate Kalanianole of Hawaii
appropriating $4,000 for building
at Hilo. 81 900, 900 for building at
Honolulu, s225000 for a revenue
cutter and authorizing contests of
election in Hawai-.
By a decision of the United States
general appraisers, the privilege of
entry free of duty has been extended
to practically everything imported in
good faith on the order and for the
use of any educational institution,
except ordinary furniture.
The house committee on foreign
affairs authorized a favorable report
on the bill creating consuTates and
providing for consuls at Mukden and
AntuDg, China, and instructed Chair
man Hit to call the Dill up in the
house at an early day.
James Little Plume, who pleaded
guilty to the charge of numbering
seven members of the Indian tribe of
Blackfoot, enc of whom was his WI,
was sentenced by Judge Knowles of
the federal court at Helena, Mont, to
| 40 years in the penitentiary.
| Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Jones will recommend to the president
the issuance of a proclamation open.
ling to settlement the tract of land in
Nebraska, ten miles long and five
miles wide, adjoining the Pine fSsGGge
agency, across the line in South
Dakota.
| The national board of directors of
the Knights of Columbus, whose head
, quarters are in New Haven, Conn, has
made arrangements for the presenta-
ton to the Catholic university OF
Washington d. c., of fund of $4,000
for the endowment of a chair Of
secular history.
| Chinese inspector Joseph Wright OF
Rouse's Point and James Hodges OF
Malone were killed in a freight col
lision on the Rutland railroad near
Rouse's Point, N. Y, ana Frank
Mitchell was probably fatally injured.
Wright was on the train watching for
Cinnamon crossing the border.
Representative Sibley of Penn
/ sylvania introduced bill providing
that no officer of the government
shall in behalf of the United States
of America purchase or enter into
contract for any material or article
of whatsoever kind or nature manu-
featured or to be manufactured by
convict labor"
Secretary Root has addressed
letter to Baron Sternburg, the German
ambassador, inviting him to a drive
over the site for the new war college,
where the statue of Frederick the
Great is to be placed. The presidents
direction that the statue is to have
the most prominent position on the
esplanade will be observed and the
ambassadors opinion on this point
will be requested.
! While several mormons were wend-
ing their way across the prairies near
Garland. Wyo., one to qu1nch his
thirst rolled a SNOWFALL and noticed a
strong odor of gas. Scraping the
snow aside he found steady current
of gas issuing from a cleft in the
rocks. Lighting a match to test the
substance, the mormon ignited the
gas, causing an explosion, which
scorched their faces and sent a
column of flame many feet high.
Judge Mcconnell of the county
court at Greensburg, Pa, granted
preliminary injunction restraining
Sheriff Trescher from issuing more
! than twenty tickets to the execution
iof Charles Kruger. 1t was alleged
that over 1000 passes had been given
! out. Sheriff Trescher said he had
issued only $50 passes and had the
J tickets numbered in order to fool the
people who were clamoring for ad.
mission.
Leon Soeder, brother-in-law Of
Joseph Blaise, the young German
whose lifeless body was found at the
| base of high cliff in San Francisco,
has been arrested upon suspicion of
having committed the murder. The
evidence against Soeder is circum-
stantial, but it has been ascertainei
! that within month he had induced
Blaise to take out two insurance
policies on his life, one for $4,000
With Mrs. Blaise as beneficiary, and
another for $4,000 accident insurance
which names Soeder as beneficiary