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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08
Crimes and Criminals.

Charged with stealing diamonds and
tewelry valued at $4,000, Sol Caro-, a
travelling salesman for jewelry firm
was arrested in Chicago.
It. e. Ralston. prominent attorney
of St. Louis, for years chief counsel
Of the Virgins Ferry company, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in
the stomach.
William Van Voorhees, was killed by
his wife in a restaurant in Chicago.
The two were quarreling. and Mrs.
Van Voorhees, fired three shots at her
husband. When the police arrived he
was dead.
Thomas Walshaw, Chicago. is in a
tured skull from the blow of high
wayman while he reached for his
watch. He was robbed of small
amount of money.
Eta Denney after a quarrel over a
love affair at Huntington, w. " He
then shot and killed himself. Miss
Denney had just returned from the
funeral Of her father.
The mystery surrounding the dis
appearance of servant girl named
Clara Dehl from her employers resi-
dence AT Winnipeg was cleared up
when the body OF a young woman was
found in the river. The girl left a note
stating she intended doing away with
herself
Declaring that he was kidnapped from
his home in Buffalo. y. Y. by a man
who seized him and hurried him away
on a train, John Bosch. fifteen, told
the Chicago police a story of how he
had been held captive and tortured by
the stranger during the journey from
Buffalo to Chicago.
Renne Same, Norwegian girl, was
killed in New York by her fiance. Ru-
dolph Williamson, who had paid her
passage from Norway in order to make
her his wife and to whom she had
broken her promise to marry him.
Immediately after the murder William.
son shot himself. He will die. The
tragedy occurred in Brooklyn apart
nlent.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08
Otherwise,

Mayor Charles F. Herrick, aged six.
ty-nine, died at independence, Iowa,
from cancer of the stomach. He was
a veteran of the Civil war and was
a prominent Mason.
United States Assayer Fred Wing,
in charge of the assay Office at Seattle,
has made the statement that his esti-
mate of the gold output of Nome for
the season of 1905 was $10,0OO,OOO.
Abraham Lincoln's birthplace, no
acre farm near Hodgenville, KY, was
sold at auction to R. ]. Collier of New
York. The price was $500, no more
than it would bring for farming pur.
poses.
John Lessor. a farmer near Bufing
ton, Ind, has reported finding near
Chicago piece of the wreckage Of
the steamer Chicora. which was lost
in January, 1895. with twenty-six PEG.
pie aboard.
Samuel A. MCLEAN, Jr., president Of
the National Packing company of Chi
cago, died suddenly in Chicago. He
was stricken during the night With
acute indigestion, coupled with heart
disorder.
While delirious from neuralgia, Iris
Alvord, aged eight, of Pittsburg
wrenched at her teeth with her bare
hands and tore out seven of them.
The loss Of blood and the shock caused
her death.
Medical scientists have had thei1
attention directed to a remarkable
case of catalepsy in Yonkers. N. Y,
where Charles Canopi, eight, has been
in an unbroken trancelike sleep for
more than four months.
James Dewar of Minneapolis and his
brother Thomas of st. Louis are left
only IS in the will of their mother
Mrs. Johanna Dewar, which was filed
for probate in st. Louis.
Among the recruits at Jefferson bar
racks, st. Louis, is Glenn ]. Arnett
who enlisted at Parkersburg, w. v
He is the son of Mrs. w. C. Arnett OF
Fairmont, w. Va, who owns property
to the value of $500, 900. srhis recruit
by his fathers will. has an income 81
81 900 year, and will inherit the en-
tire estate at his mothers death. Fol
the present he will add to his income
the monthly pay Of $13
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08
Washington.


The comptroller of currency has is
sued call for reports of the condition
of national banks at the close of bust
uess on Aug. Is.
Bids have been opened at the bureau
of insular affairs for the sale of 81 $780,
600 Philippines bonds. The highest
bidders were Fisk & Robinson of New
York, who bid 101.64.
Consul General Simmons, at New
chwang, has reported to the state de-
partment in regard to the attempt to
arouse feeling of hostility to Ameri-
can goods. He reports that the move
ment has been a failure.
The state department received a
cable dispatch from Yokohama saying
that the ship Australia, owned by
Claus Spreckles, had been seized. The
dispatch gives no details of why the
ship was seized or anything concern
ing the business in which it was en-
Gagged.
President Roosevelt is being deluged
with letters by individuals in all parts
of the country praying him to do what
ever lies in his power to prevent the
further destruction of the natural
beauties of Niagara Falls by the de-
velopment power plants on both sides
of the river.
Acting Secretary Murray of the de-
partment of commerce and labor per-
mitted Thomas Quinn. interpreter of
the Chinese language for the bureau
of immigration in Arizona courts, to
resign. Charges were made that
had coached Chinese witnesses for a
remuneration.
The census bureau has just publish
ed as a bulletin an analysis by Prof
Walter F. Wilcox of Cornell univer-
sity of the census statistics relating
to teachers. Calculating the school
age as from five to twenty, the report
finds that, taking the country as a
whole, there is an average of one
teacher TO every II pupils, or 140 for
every 10000.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08
DUNNE STICKS TO PLAN.

Chicoso's Mayor Determined to. Give
Municipal Ownership a Trial.
New York. Sept. 6. - J. Hamilton
Lewis, corporation counsel of Chicago,
who is in the city, en- route to New.
port, R. l., where he Will spend va.
cation Of ten days, said in an inter-
view that there was no truth in the re.
ports that Mayor Dunno of Chicago
had abandoned his original plan of
municipal ownership in favor of
qualified franchise to private com.
'pany. He said that before the end OF
the year Mayor Dunno would have in
operation the only completely munich.
pal street railway in the United
States.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08
BIG FIRE MAY WIPE OUT HAvRE.
Flames Threaten to Destroy Montana
Town.

Havre, Mont, Sept. 6.-Fire started
at 1890 this morning in restaurant
and is still burning. All the hotels on
one side of First street are destroyed,
including the st. Paul MOTEL The
Great Northern is working hard to-
save it's buildings. There is no water
available and the fire department is
handicapped In handling the work..
Estimated loss SO far is 100000.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

Whether the decrease in drinking in
England is to be attributed to a
shrinkage Of material prosperity or to
an increase of temperance sentiment
is wide-open question. Maybe bad
business has helped morals, since
prosperity sometimes strikes the other
way.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

In much-discussed society" pub
iication mention is made of one fam
Ny that sometimes gets up before
breakfast. That's not at all smart
selfish; some families only occasion.
ally go to bed before breakfast.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

According to our contemporary, the
Atlanta Constitution, the Shah of
Persia now has but 600 to 700 wives"
and lis quite moral man." The Con-
stitution forgets how many mothers
in-law the Shah must have given the
happy dispatch to in his day.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

Having divorced her hero, Maud
Come should now marry genius.
She can then get rid of the genius and
be happy with plain, properly bal
anced man, one that she can live with
in comfort and happiness all the days
Of her life.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08
Lord curzon to Linuer.

London, Sept. 6.-The Simia cores.
pondent of the Daily Mail says it is ru.
mored that Viceroy Curzon, who re.
Gently resigned, may stay in India i'm.
til March in order to entertain the
prince and princess of Wales.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08
BUYS WHOLE TOWN.
Tract of Nearly $4,000 Acres Is Pur.
chased by C., S. Loveland.

S''USSU W " % @os~'0'I1'
Bemidji, Mimi, Sept. 6. = The en-.
tire town of 1875 has passed from
the ownership of w. r. Tate to Chas.
S. Loveland. The land is located
near the village of Solway, and con,
sists of cut-over lands and is prac.
tically without improvements or clear.
ings of any character. The tract in.
cludes nearly $4,000 acres and the
purchase price was s43,266.62, or less
than 81 per acre. There is a consid.
cradle quantity Of hard wood on the
land and it in time will become valu.
able for agricultural purposes.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

Thirty-two garter snakes have been
born in the Bronx Zoo, calling atten-
ton to the wastefulness of nature in
not providing complementary stocking
snakes.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

George Gould has gone into the poul.
try business, and he is making it pay.
That man has such a genius for
finance that he would doubtless be
able to make living even out Of
Voetry.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

Anyone who complains because he
doesn't own a farm still has chance
to get one without much trouble and
with little expense. One-third of the
area Of the American Ur!on, at the
present time. consists Of public lands.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08
TWO BOYS Drown When FishInu

Lebanon. Pa, Sept. 6. - William
Yordy, seventeen years old, and Geo.
Snyder, tWenty-one years = :, ), were
drowned Yesterday in Sta... $ dam
near Myerstown. They wee fishing
and their boat capsized.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

That Arizona federal court judge
who is charged with sitting with his
feet on the table would be pleased to
have the government inform him what
table is for.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08
HYPNoTisM HIS CELL STUDY.
Capt. e. W. Jones Of Virginia Militia
Held as Murderer.

Held as Murderer.
Norfolk, Va, Sept, Capt E. w.
Jones of the Seventy-ti:st Virginia
regiment, who is said to have killed
Maud Cameron Robertson, waived ex
animation when arraigned yesterday
and was held to the October grand
jury. The prisoner asked to be per.
mitted to have in his cell book on
hypnotism, and his request was grant
ed. Commemorative Attorney Tilton
said he had no idea that any hyp.
notism could be used on the jury
which will try Capt. Jones a month
hence. and attached no Importance to
the request
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

II fewer Americans are born thar
formerly, as statistics seem to show,
there ought to be more time for the
proper training of those that do come
INTO the world.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08
MOB OF 500 AFTER SLAYER.
Armed Force Guards Prisoner in Butte

RFTeu FoTCe GUARDS FFTS0ner n Butte
Jail.
Butte, Mont, Sept. 6.-Patrick Han.
ley, aged fifty-two, a miner. was shot
and killed yesterday by J. F. Barnes,
a barber, after a quarrel on Main
street. A crowd of 500 men followed
Barnes to the Jail, but Sheriff Quinn
armed his deputies with rifles and
they were reinforced by policemen,
further trouble being thus temporarily
averted.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08
FALLS DYING At HIS POST.
Draw Bridge Tender Stricken While
Opening the Draw.

La Crosse, Wis, Sept. 6.-Openine
the draw of the Mississippi river wag
on bridge here Engineer w. E. Boycott
fell dying at his post, and the bridge
being only partly opened, the steamer
G. w. Coyles and raft crashed, into it.
The steamer was badly damaged and
the raft was smashed to pieces anS
scattered about the river. The engi
neer will die,
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

A Chicago man jumped into the lake
and drowned himself because his wife
told him to do so. Good boy! Any.
thing to oblige the ladies.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

John D. Rockefeller is now trying
the Kneipp cure. One fine thing about
the Kneipp cure is that if it doesn't
cure there are NO empty bottles that
Have to be carried away.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

George Smith was fined $25 for kiss
ing a strange girl on street car. He
did not know she was a strange girl,
but now ne is sure of it.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

Just to show that it is really getting
abreast of occidental nations China
dis2loses a plot to assassinate the
dowager empress.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

Bellevue has patient who thinks
himself petrified ant. This case is
unique, although there are many pet
rified ants that think themselves men
New York Journal.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

Prof Ross classes golf as fad. 1t
must be one among the people who
play it with the thermometer at S. or
more.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

The Yaquis are wise to seek peace
while there are some of them left To
sign up the papers.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

People continue to get killed climb
ing the Alps. but swimming the Mag
ara rapids has become comparatively
safe.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

1t is impossible to Judge one
woman's like or dislike for another
by the manner in which they kiss
when they meet.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

Alfred Austin sees England supine
on couch of peace" Well, that's
better than humping the bumps in
south Africa.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

The burglar whose snoring betrayed
him took chances with the never
sleep" variety of detectives.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

Automobiling may be poetry of mo-
ton until the machine breaks down
then it is blank verse.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

Arsenic will ward off yellow fever;
but there is sometimes chance to re.
cover from the fever
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

The sm-rt st has discovered that
many of its fads do not strike tho
popular fancy
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

The Kansas took water" at its
christening from the Governor Of its
namesake, but it will never take wa.
ter from foe.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

A man who claims that he is Russell
Sage is going around on Long Island
giving away money. Yes, he's crazy
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

There was once a woman who knew
when to talk and when to keep still.
But she died.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08
FROST IN NORTHWEST.

Garden Vegetation Suffers IT. Nebrac
ka and South Dakota.
Huron, S. D., Sept. 6. = There was
light frost in this section Of the Jim
river valley Sunday night, but no dam.
age to corn will result. Garden stuff
was injured only in few localities.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

Omaha. Sept. 6.-Several points in
Western Nebraska report light frost
Sunday night. 1t is believed the ex.
tent of damage is not great.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. G.-The ex
pected frost did not materialize in
Iowa. The crop bureau reports that
the corn crop will be safe by Sept. 20
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08
Foreign.

An imperial edict declares that tele-
phones and wireless telegraphs
throughout China are government
monopolies. .
There is great increase in the
agrarian agitation in various part OF
Russia. notably in the Caucasus. whel e
there have been serious disturbances.
The court-martial of 1877 mutineers
of the battleship KniaZ Potemkine has
just been completed at Libau, Russia.
Eight of the prisoners were sentenced
to be shot
Rear Admiral Rojestvensky has so
far recovered from the effects of the
wounds received at the battle of the
Sea OF Japan that he will be brought to
kioto early in September.
The Japanese correspondent of the
London Daily Telegraph at Moii, ia
pan. sends report that Gen. Kuro-
patkin has resigned his command and
that his health has given way.
The session of the conference with
the agitators for the independence of
the Philippine islands developed the
fact that the Filipinos are altogether
unfit for immediate independence.
The former Russian battleship Pol
tava, now known as the Tango in the
Japanese navy, was brought to the
naval station at Maizuru on Aug. 20
from Port Arthur under her own
steam.
A special courier from Fee an
nounces that the French-Algerian mer-
chant has been set at liberty. Accord
ing TO later advices he is i'll as the re-
suit of bad treatment received while
in prison.
In the provinces of Saratoff and
thousands OF men supplied with arms
and all enormous peasant movement is
being organized for the autumn. A
force Of Cossacks and infantry has
been sent to Terijoki.
The French military and naval au
tlorities at Toulon received instruc-
lions respectively for the mobilization
of the colonial regiments and to hold
the warships in readiness. in connec-
ton with the threatened invasion of
Moroccan territory
During a rehearsal at the Metropole
theater in Berlin terrace sixteen
feet above the stage collapsed and
twenty people were injured. Panic
stricken actors and actresses rushed
into the streets in stage attire. 1t is
feared that four Of the injured will
die, Max Steiden, the most popular
comic singer in Berlin, being among
the number. Nearly all the others in.
jured were young girls.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

Only women over thirty may wear
the hoopskirt, fashion says. That set
ties it.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08
PHYSICIAN IS ARRESTED.
Health Officers at New Orleans Take
Drastic Measures.


New Orleans, Sept. 6.-Oficial re-
port to p. m. yesterday:
New cases IS
Total cases to date. o. POP
Deaths yesterday .............. S
Total deaths .................. 292
New fOc1 ................... 10
Under treatment .............. 321
Discharged ................... Il, 469
DR.. Grady, the medical inspector Of
the state board of health, reported
that many country physicians were
not reporting mild cases of yellow
fever Two causes contributed to an
increase in the number of new cases
yesterday. One was the fact that
there is never complete cleanup Of
cases on Sunday. leaving some to find
their way into the Monday list. The
other was the arrest and incarceration
of DR.. Philip Berg, physician Of
standing, on charge of having failed
to report two Charles street cases.
DR.. Berg was arrested at midnight
Saturday, spending fourteen hours in
a cell. Rather than undergo a similar
experience physicians We're particu.
larly prompt yesterday in reporting
cases.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08

Even silk hat is useful to cover .
,bald spot.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-08
RESUME OF THE NEWS
Reliable


Two men We're fatally and three Sc.
riously burned at Danville, ILL.,, by the
bursting of steam pipe at the Dan
vile electric light plant.
A horse belonging to Wallace Jamie.
son of Bellefontaine, Ohio, dropped
dead in the road from fright at the
sight of the first automobile it had
ever seen.
a tornado swept Carbonate, Pa, re
Gently. Before people who live in
frame houses could escape from them
the houses were lifted up and carried
away. The swirling hurricane hurled
some of them 200 feet. So great was
the winds force that it overturned
railway trains. Many persons were
wounded, but no one was killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-03
NO NEED OF TROOPS.
To Settle the Trouble About Tribal
Tax in the Territory.

Washington, June 3-secretary Hitch
cocks advices from bIuskogee. I. T..
confirm the Associated Press dispatches
from that place in regard to trouble
concerning the collection Of the tribal
tax but the secretary said there is no
intention to call for troops.
II do not believe he stated. that
Ehe people viii 90 to such an extreme
course. I am, however, determined
that the law shall be enforced"
He also said that the matter is large
ly in the hands of the department of
Justice but that the interior department
would do all that is possible to assist
It, The secretary fully approves the
action Of Inspector Wright in suspend
ing Acting Agent Wilson.
Agent Shoenfelt, who is absent from
his post on account Of sickness. viii be
asked to return or designate some other
agent acting for the government.
The long expected order from the
government to enforce the collection of
tribal taxes in the Creek nation came
with the result that j. F. Wisdom. act
Ing agent, was peremptorily suspended
from Office and ". w. Bennett was ap-
pointed acting agent; two business
houses were closed by the Indian po-
lice; the Indian police were arrested by
the city authorities and the district at
tOrney is preparing warrants for the ar
rest of all the city officers.