The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-05-19


badly shaken up.
Domestic.
The thirtieth biennial convention OF
the Order of Railway Conductors com
menced in Portland, Ore.
Dr. Samuel Jackson Barnett, assist
ant professor of phvsics at Leland
Stanford university, has resigned to
become head of the department OF
physics at Tulane university, New Or
leans.
Death due to nicotine poisoning
caused by cigarette smoking, was the
record ia certificate filed with the
health department by DR.. A. B. Ishanl
of Cincinnati. The victim was seven.
teen years old.
The trading schooner Triton. jus,
arrived at San Francisco from the
Marshall islands, reports sighting a
floating mine adrift on April 81, in
latitude 81 degrees 81 minutes north,
and longitude 1853 degrees west.
A special from Wewaka, the Semi
mole capital, says the Seminole coun.
Gil has impeached Acting Gov. ]. Har.
rison and elected John Brown unani.
mously to succeed him. Brown will
serve until 1906, when tribal form of
government terminates.
The Carnegie Steel company has
prepared plans for the construction at
Youngstown, Ohio, of five new blast
furnaces of 500 tons each daily, fifty
open hearth furnaces OF 100 tons ca
pacity daily, and will add several plate
and structural mills to it's Ohio plant.
The Weyerhaeuser Lumber syndi
cate has let the contract for the build
ing of its Washington, Idaho & Mon
tana railway for distance of forty
five miles into Idaho from Palouse,
Washington. to open it's vast timber
holdings. The railway alone will cost
about 100000.
Information received at Portland,
Ore, says that Marie Ware. one of the
most important witnesses in the land
fraud cases, was married in Chicago
on May to Horace G. Mckinley, one
OF the defendants indicted for alleged
frauds. The marriage makes it i'm
possible to compel her to testify
against Mckinley.
Judge I.anning, in the United States
district court at Trenton, refused to
grant writ of habeas corpus applied
for by counsel for Anna Valentine, who
was to have been hanged at Hacllen-
sack on May IL for the murder of
Rosa Solva. An appeal to the United
States supreme court has been taken,
which will probably postpone the exc
cution for some time.
A 9.00O-ton iron freighter, christen
ed by Mrs. Frank Hoover of Chicago
the Hoover and Mason, and built for
the Tomlinson line of Duluth, was
launched at Detroit at the shipyard
of the Great Lakes Engineering
works. The new boat is 524 feet long,
80 feet deep and has 81 feet beam.
She has been chartered by the United
States Steel corporation.
The San Francisco board of educa.
ton has taken determined stand
against the admission of Chinese and
Japanese pupils to schools where
white children are educated. 'rhe
board unanimously adopted resolu-
lions declaring itself opposed to the
promiscuOus association Of white and
Monaghan pupils. and in favor of the
establishment of separate schools for
Chinese and Japanese pupils.
All records were broken Sunday in
the number of immigrants passed
quarantine at New York. Within
twelve hours 1903 foreigners, arriy-
ing in steerage, were permitted to en-.
ter New York, indicating that the
spring influx of immigrants this year
will probably exceed the records of
former years. Ten transatlantic liners
brought this army of immigrants to
the United States.
When an elderly man restored to her
the $500 lost by Mrs. Mary Slayin OF
Brooklyn few days ago she fell in q
faint. The people who restored the
money refused to accept a reward.
A certificate of Incorporation OF the
Carnegie foundation, membership
corporation, to manage the fund ot
$10,00O,000 given by Andrew Carne.
gle for pensions for teachers in uni.
versities, colleges and technical
schools in the United States. Canada
and Newfoundland, was filed in the
county clerks Office at New York. Il.