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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-08-31

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any pants, because what pants the Arabs
didn't tear were worn off on the stones,
so when he showed up in front Of the
spinks he was sight, and he bought a
turban of a guide and unwound it and
wound it around him in place of pants.
I was ashamed Of dad myself, and 1t is
pretty hard to make me ashamed.
We went back to Cairo on the cars, and
what do you think, that dead camel that
the Arabs made dad pay fc- vas with
the caravan going back to town, cause
we saw him out of the car window with
the hair wore off where dad kicked him
in the side. The tourists say the Arabs
have that camel trained to die every day
when they get to the pyramids, and they
make some tenderfoot pay for him at the
end Of each journey. Dad is going to try
to get his money back from the Egyp-
tian government, but guess he will
never realize on his claim.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-08-31

Brooklyn for the rest Of its natural
life.
"Germs?" he said at one time. why.
they're easy! Anybody can get germs.
Just dig 'em up"
He didn't talk SO volubly about
germs when Inspector Cross, a few
days since, put him through the
sprouts.
"Germs?" he repeated. You'll have
to ask a bacteriologist about them
things
Carlton has maintained marvellous
bravado since his arrest. 1t is q char
acteristic that is one of his strongest
points. Nothing seems to nettle him,
and he affects good humor at all
times that. with man under such in
tense cross-fire, is hard to understand.
Lack of nerve has never for moment
led him to false step since his ar
rest. Confronted at Raymond street
Jail by Millie Peterson, Jersey City
woman whom he caught in his spidery
web under promise Of marriage, only
to forsake her for another, he gazed
coldly at her.
For Gods sake, don't say you don't
know me-" implored the heartbroken
woman, whose life had been the tor
ment Of thousand hells since he left
her.
II never saw you," declared Carlton,
his eyes dropping to escape her tears.
She tainted, and on being revived her
agonizing screams sent chills to the
hearts of the callous prison guards.
Carlton gazed upon the creature be-
fore him unmoved.
Erred, love you. don't want to
prosecute you"
"Take her away. She's crazy" COM
manded Carlton.
And the woman in CONFUSION of
Mysteries, was taken to hospital.
This is the real nature of the man
whom the Brooklyn police term a
"Bluebeard."
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-08-31
Well. sir, after dad had doctored a

Well. sir, after dad had doctored all
night to get the camel rheumatism and
spinal meningitis out of his system, we
took a trip by boat on the Nile, and saw
the banks where the people grow crops
by irrigation. and where an English
syndicate has built big dam, SO the
whole valley can be irrigated, and tell
you it will not be long before Egypt will
raise everything used in the world on
that desert. and every other country
that raises food to sell will be busted up
IN business. but it is disgusting to take
trip on the Nile, cause all the natives
are dirty and sick with contagious dis
cases. and they are lazy and crippled,
and beg for living, and if you don't give
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-08-31
The Bad Boy and His Dad Climb the
Pyramids-The Bad Boy Lights q
Cannon Cracker in Rameses' Tomb
They Flee from Egypt in Dis
guise.

BIZ HON. GEORGE w PECK.
tEx-Governor Of Wisconsin. Former Edi-
tor of "Peck's Gun" Author OF Peek s
Bad Boy" Etc.)
Copyright. 1905. by Joseph B. Bowles)
Cairo, Egypt--My Dear Old Geezer:
I broke OF my las. letter in sight of the
pyramids. when was left alone on the
desert. my jackass having stampeded
with the camels, on account Of my fire.
works, and presume you think was
all In, but I got to the pyramids before
the stampeded caravan did. saw car
coming along, and just got aboard and
in ten minutes was at the base of
the big pyramid, and the camel with dad
on between the humps, was humping
himself half mile away, trying to get
there, and the other camels, with the
Arabs, were stretched out like horses
In race, behind, and my jackass was
right next to dads camel, braying and
occasionally kicking dads camel in the
stats.
There were about a hundred tourists
around the base of the big pyramid, all
looking towards the stampede of the
camels, and told them my dad, the
great American millionaire, was on the
runaway camel in advance, and asked
them to form line across the trail and
save dad, but when the camel came near
or was ashamed of dad. He had his
arms around the the front hump of the
camel, and he was yelling for help to
stop his menagerie, and his legs were
flying in the air, and every time they
came down they kicked hole in the side
Of the camel.
Well, sir, thought dad was brave
man, but he blatted like a calf, and when
the camel stopped and went to eating a
clump of grass dad opened his eyes, and
when he saw that the procession had
stopped he rolled off his camel like q
bag of wheat, and stuck in the sand and
began to say prayer, but when he saw
me standing there, laughing, he stopped
praying, and said to me: Il thought you
were blown up when that jackass kicked
the can of dynamite. You have more
lives than cat. Now, get hustle on
you and we will climb that pyramid, and
then quit this blasted country" and dad
sat down on hummock and began to
pull himself together, after the most
fearful ride he ever mad. He said the
camel loped. trotted, galloped. single
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-08-31

would Ne used in specializing in tax
sales. On that he stands indicted.
The second charge for which he is
under indictment in Manhattan is the
accusation of DR.. G. A. Goldsmith, of
Stamford, Conn.,, who has sworn that
Carlton drugged him with a cup of tea
and robbed him of $500 at the st. Clair
hotel, Park Row, in January, 1900.
The third, for which he is accused
jointly with Mrs. Eleanor Van Deven-
ter, with whom he lived, is having in
his possession improper photographs of
women.
At present DR.. Charles P. O'Connor,
pathologist of the health department.
is conducting a chemical analysis of
the stomach and organs of Mary Cor
man Carlton, his wife, who died in
March of this year, supposedly from
tetanus, for the purpose of ascertain
ing whether the woman died from poi
son.
The authorities at Washington stand
ready, it is reported, to exhume the
body of Jennie Smyth Carlton. wife,
who died in June, 1904, from tetanus,
it was supposed, for the purpose of dis
covering if she died from the effects
of poison.
Suspect Tetanus incubation.
In both of these cases the authori-
ties are proceeding on me assumption
that in applying modern scientific
methods to murder, the man may have
actually inoculated the women with
the germs of tetanus. They have the
testimony Of two persons already in
their possession that Carlton not only
often spoke of germs, but apparently
had cultures OF them in his apartments.
A motive for the murder easily proven,
the police declare, would be found in
the insurance he collected on the death
of both wives.
Photographs of Carlton have been
identified by Mrs. John E. McCandless,
living in q small town in Nebraska
who declares that they were married in
1890, after which she was despoiled of
her savings and deserted.
Mrs. Fred Carlton, of Yankton, s. D..
has written to the police that she rec
ognizes Cartons portrait as that of
the man she married soon after the
McCandless episode. She declares that
she was robbed and deserted.
Mrs. James Martinez, of Covington,
KY, is positive that Carlton and the
Martinez she married in the early nine.
ties are one ana the same person.
Mrs. Lulu kettering, of Rochester, N.
Y, now using her old name, was court
ed and wed in 1897 bysone Eduardo de
Rodriguez, self-styled brazilian plant
er. They came to New York city i'm
mediately after the wedding and Mrs.
Kettering swears she recognizes in
Carlton the man who few days later
took all her money and jewelry,
amounting to about $500, and desert
ed her.
Bigamy Charge Likely.
Rose Cerier, Of st. Louis, has sent
word that she recognizes in Carlton
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-08-31
Shall M1f 6prak tllr
Trmth ~ a Etr !?
By DIR. GEORGE z. sfIRADY.
New York Specialist.

would be uncvlzed the and unchstian.
The motive of truth people and when be available
wisdom its 1t perfectly right suppress
when tell patient he going die Suppression helping
him along and giving him
morality people wouldn't understand in its
naked aspect Truth be ted when does good suppressed
1t wicked thing destroy faith humanity
contains deal of
adapt itself ordinary agaon of life but
adequate endure the shock injuries of days telling
percentage of asyu filled people suffer-
ing meanchoia who time their been the VIC
of dsagreeabe truth when wholly unprepared
Truth telling praciced with improper spirit would neither
individual the community and whether told
elsewhere would certainly find a disastrous end
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-08-31
Red Hair.

When red hair makes It's appearance
on human head all lukewarmness u
at an end. 1t is either loved or loathed.
Its admirers, with artists in the van, are
almost Historically enthusiastic. They
call it golden, though the gold that
comes out Of the earth is not often ex-
actly that shade. A red-haired woman
IS sure of a success III some quarter.
however plain her face or insignificant
her figure. The detractors of red hair
say it ia sign Of bad temper or immor-
atty or both, and therefore to be scru.
pulously ayoided.-Queen.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-08-31

rooted ana Snled all at the same time,
and when one hump was not jammin.,
him in the back the other hump was
kicking him in the stomach, and if he
had gun he would shoot the camel, and
the Arabs, and bust up the show.
BY the time dad got so he could stand
up without leaning against pyramid
the Arabs came up and they all talked
at once, and drew knives, and it seemed
as though they were blaming dad for
something. We found an interpreter
among the tourists, and he talked with
the Arabs, and pointing to the camel dad
had ridden, which was stretched out on
the sand like he was dead, he told dad
the Arabs wanted him to pay for the
camel he had ridden to death, and foun-
dered by letting it drink wagon load Of
water, and then entered in race across
the desert, and the interpreter said dad
better pay, or they would kill him.
Dad settled for the camel for hun
dred dollars, and promise of the skin
Of the camel, which he was going to take
home and have stuffed. Their man
who pretended to be justice of the
peace had dad arrested for driving of
Of a walk, and he was fined $40 and costs
for that, and then all the Arabs struck
him for money for one thing and an
other, and when he had settled all
around and paid extra for not riding
back to Cairo on the camel, we got
ready to climb up the pyramid. Dad
said he wouldn't ride that camel back
to Cairo for million dollars. for he was
split up so his legs began where his arms
left off. and he was lame from Genesis
to Revelations.
But never saw such II Of people to
pray as these pirates are. Just before
they rob man they get down on their
knees on a rug, and humble something
to some god, and after they have got you
robbed good and plenty, they get down
and pray, while they are concealing the
money they took from you. Gee, but
when l get home am going to steer
the train robbers and burglars onto the
idea OF always being on praying
grounds.
Well, I told dad he hadn't better try to
climb up the pyramid, that would go
up, cause could climb like goat, and
when got up to the top would fire a
salute, SO everybody would know that a
star spangled American was on deck, but
dad said he would 60 up or quit the tour
:sr business. He said he had come thou
SANDS of miles to climb the pyramids,
and SIT In the shadow Of the spinks, and
BY ginger he was going to do it. and so
We started.
Well, say, each stone is about four feet
high, and dad couldn't get up without
help, SO an Arab would go up a stone
ahead, and take hold of dad s hands, and
two more Arabs would get their Shout
ders under dads pants, and shove, and
he would get up gradually. We got
about half way up when dad weakened,
and said he didn't care so much about
pyramids as he thought he did, and he
was Ieliy to quit, but the guide and
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-08-31
Deaths Of Zoo Animals.

In the rfoort Of the Zooogical society
Of Philadelphia for the last year, much
attention is paid to the causes of deaths
which take place in the menagerie. IL
140 instances pathological examination
showed that tuberculosis is by far the
most fatal ailment, next to which comes
Inflammation of the stomach and IN
testines, followed with a considerable
diminution in the numbers by neph:iti=
necrosis of the liver and non-tubor, U O.
pneumonia.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-08-31
Rhapsody on Railways.

A writer to the New York Mirror
Of 1910, in the course Of a rhapsody on
the railway, says: "Dueling and
changing horses and separate rooms
are at an end-our light literature
must now become woven with steam
our incidents must arise from blow.
ups. and love be made over broken
legs; while here the novelist will have
to record the falling in of tunnel,
the only chance left for a touch Of the
sublime"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-08-31
Many Women Claim Him as
Their Welded Husband.
HELD ON MANY SERIOUS CHARGES
Suspected of Poisoning Two Wives by Unique
Methods to Collect Their Life Insurance
HE Puzzles the Brooklyn
Police Force.

New York.-Gahoriau, Poe or conan
Doyle might have thought of it for
their heroes, but never in the world
of real life before, it is safe to say,
has a detective force found its strong
est clew in the effort to prove man
one of the most remarkable criminals
OF the age in the simple art of brew
ing a cup of tea.
Yet to-day that may be called the
principal connecting link by which
they are hoping to obtain stronger
evidence to show that Frederick E.
Carlton, now a prisonersin Raymond
street Jail, Brooklyn, has been guilty
several times over of murder, repeated
grand larcenies, many bigamies, whole
sale blackmail and swindling of insur-
ance companies.
Their first cup of tea has been found
almost at the time one James E. Nc
Candlass, farm boy, left his home
at Louisiana, Polk county, Mo-, in
the latter part of the eighties, and the
last sees Mary German Carlton dying
Is years later in a furnished room
house in Sands street, Brooklyn, from
tetanus. During those 1S years they
have found tea brewed in half the
states Of the union, in 90 Of it's great
cities, in the army and in the navy,
and always in the same way. The tea,
OF course, is only the first step. The
second is the conformation and that,
the police promise, will be for the liv-
Ing.
Inspector Cross Puzzled.
Police Inspector Adam A. Cross,
known as one of the most intelligent
and best educated of the uniformed
after an hour and halls searching
cross-examination of Carlton the other
day turned to the meA waiting, and,
with smile that was not wholly that
OF triumph, pointed at the retreallng
figure of Carlton departing between
two policemen, saying:
There goes, in my opinion, one of
the remarkable criminals of the age.
confess cannot wholly make him
out. A very high degree OF cunning,
q smattering of education along pecul-
lar lines and criminal instinct
driven by an inordinate desire for
notoriety have combined to produce a
man who would stop at nothing, who
could cover his tracks we'll for years
and then when discovery did come sup
ply him with the effrontery to stand
undismayed before overwhelming EVIL
dence.
Il have just talked to him for an
hour and half. He declared to me
he would answer frankly, and yet
when questions were put to him that
he did not care to have asked he
would vail his frankness under re-
fusal or the plea that his counsel had
instructed him to keep silent. He
laughs at all charges except perhaps
one. that of having improper photo
graphs in his possession. He declares
he has an ample defense to every other
accusation, and yet he will not even
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-08-31
Poor Willie!

Just outside of Berlin crown of
Somerset young folks on their way to
White Horse were attracted by the
bawling of COW whose calf had got
down over an embankment. The calf
was returned to its mothers side and
one Of the young men was telling his
girl how the COW actually licked his
hand in gratitude, when she told him
that it wasn't gratitude at all, the COW
only thought she had twins.-Myers-
dale (Pa.) Commercial.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-08-31

listed in the United States army at an
years imprisonment in Fort Leaven-
! worth, the military prison. 1t is there,
it is asserted, that he learned to cook
1t is there, it is thought, he learned
to brew q cup of tea by pouring hot
water upon the tea leaves, upon which
lay slice of lemon. That is COM
mon enough way nowadays in cities
and abroad, but it is not the way they
make tea in the country districts,
where the old-fashioned boiling or
sleeping Is still used. 1t was strange
enough to have Helen Murray remem-
Der it of John E. Candless; for Jennie
Andrews, of South Dakota, to use that
as one of her means of Identification,
and for Lucia Mitchell, Mrs. Kettering,
Rose Cerier, Mrs. Kingrey, the Peter
son girl, the parents Of Jennie Smyth
Carlton, and the mother and brother
of Mary German, as we'll as the Mrs.
Hattie Schultz and her bandmaster
husband in Sands street, Brooklyn
where Carlton boarded, all of them re-
fer to it.
Schaub, who has accused him of
grand larceny, alleges that he was Of
fered tea to drink. DR.. Goldsmith has
sworn that the drug which De Martinez
administered to him to produce uncon-
seriousness was in cup of tea. The
McCandless of the army and the Carl
ton of the navy brewed the tea.
| The foregoing is the arraignment by
the police. There is something to be
said for the man around whom so pow
erful net is closing. Carlton himself
can talk for himself and talk quietly,
intelligently and logically; that is,
where there does not intervene date
or place or name he desires at this
time to withhold.
A Dangerous Man.
"He is dangerous man to have
loose" is the way Inspector Cross puts
it. "How many woman have fallen a
prey to his greed and viciousness it
would be hard to say. How he won the
love and confidence Of these women is
beyond comprehension. He is man
of low, petty practices, a man of the
meanest type. He fascinated innocent
women and they were as toys in his
hands,"
Miss Marie Breslin, upon whom Carl
by means of an obnoxious photograph,
fell under Cartons hypnotic eye.
HE asked me to marry him before
his second wife was dead" says this
pretty Brooklyn miss. II was her
bridesmaid, and l was shocked when
he spoke to me. felt myself under
his terrible influence. had hardly
the strength to refuse him. but, thank
God, did. Then he told me he would
get me by foul means, and don't know
what might have happened if he had
not been arrested. l always hated him,
but his influence over a woman was so
strong that no one without desperate
effort could get away from him."
Cartons feverish anxiety for fem
inine love has not deserted him since
his incarceration at the Brooklyn Jail.
Mrs. Vandeventer, who was herself
thrust into cell when Anthony Com
stock heard of her having posed for
photographs found in Cartons trunk,
and who later gained temporary free
dom through the kind Offices of a
bondsman, calls on him every day and
they exchange most endearing conf
dences.
"I'll marry her when l get out"
says Carlton. "She's the best friend
have in the world"
II love Fred devotedly and wouldn't
marry anyone else If had to wait
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-08-31

There r ! wlse ~
benc6oent policy n ON
ccalrricnt when Il softens
the troubles of others,
and if your question I'M
plies that the truth
should be told with an
insensibility to the sor-
rows OF others, then /
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-08-31
Very Likely.

I'VE thought" said the reporter.
that you might car. to say something
about these charges against you"
NO." replied the crooked public Of
fetal. Il believe TINT 'silence 10
golden"
WELL" replied the reporter. "pa>
haps the public might bssieve It's
merely gilt in this Catholic
Standard and Times.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-08-31
One Not ENOUGH,

TIE average girl believes in amnities
and lots of them.-N. 7. Times
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-02-08

Condensed Statement Of Funds and Accounts Of the Gen.
era| Ledger, followed by Detailed Statement
Of Warrants on Each Fund.
COUNTY REV ENUE FUND.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-02-08
Florence R. Porter, auditors. clerk


G06S Vera NJ ossbcrg, clerk for Judge of pro- .
Gos2 do do Ici. " tx GG
$3.50 do do Murc1, q GG
653I A. r. Nortn, clerk hire for judge Of
probate, April 1866
G62S Agnes Nordin, clerk for Judge of BRO.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-02-08
Deputy Sheriff's Fees.

1891 Wm. Q. Johnson, services. ........... s. 81 80
6lS9 j.. .. Mal'nherg SERVICES Jan. term
Dist. court. Observation-Disclosures. $500
Dist. court. 5000
G2Ok Isaac NordStrom, services Jan. term
Dist. court. .::.:......"... 1900
G261 Isaac Nortlstronl. services Adj. Ian.
term Dist. court 900
G+S6 Isaac Nordstrom. services Adj. Ian.
term Dist. court 800
GSlS Isaac NOrtstroni Services........ $50
6S67 J. 0. NJ amberg. services June term
Dist. Observation-Disclosures. 1900
6S6S ]. Z. FreeSe, services June term Dist.
court Observation-Disclosures. 1900
6o62 J. O. Malmber<,, services June term
Dist. court $500
6o7+ Isaac Nordstron, services Jnne
Dist. COurt..................... 5000
'o9S. Isaac NOrdSlrOm services June
Dist. court. 800
los J. 4. FrccSt, services. 100
Tot al $2G5. go
G22S IL ans Enslcstad, const able tees...... 0.65
.i++t II. Nj. Angler do ......... 1.&U
1888 Peter Blonde, do ........ 2.oO
1910 do do 3.35
1911 Geo. II. Stephens do ......... 600
1'lii
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-02-08
To Whom For What
~ Issued Purpose

No: Of To Whom F"r What
War'nt Issued Purpose Amount
osos f. p Glad ca1Gsnter work i" Jail M
6sO7 DR.. Z: S. Frost, professional services
w.. :, to prisoners. 500
5000 Ohsl,crg, Sclvg 4 Co.. iitrdware... .S5
GSl3 ]. Aim, labor in court house .yard..... 90
% sa5 wr 1vis ,Senc rent for 1894
May ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1900
7OtO Ole I.undqust, board for prisoners. IA
7o63J J. $. Ekhe'g, labor ON court house
7oc4 labor on court house
1914 J. Aim labor on court house yard...:. 11:7s
7ls2 john Aim, labor On court house yard 5s1s
1893 u. F. Bergeson, laying tile sidewalk
around court house yard $4,000
71+o Axc Il. Ellstrum, assisting surveyor
in surveying court house
yard .....................".. $50
7142J S. Ekberg, labor on court house
Till Peter Magnuson, labor on court
house yard ..-........... IL 3S
grounds. ........... aO4 80
71t7 Ole Lundquist, boarding prsoners..... 1859
1853 J. $ Day engineer in grading court
1907 ThoS. II. Olson suI'crint ending grad
ing on court mouse
1894 Erickson & Co.. grass seed tor court
house 15.+4
1909 Isaac Nordstrom, putting up iron
fence around court house
1000 Ole Lunduuist, board for prisoners cso7
76D4 Lewis Hardware CO., repairs and
1906 Peter Anderson, cleaning cess pooi.. 500
7GO7 Wlllmar Tel. Exci., phone rent for
county officers, June,
July and Aug............. 5000
1910 Lundqust Bros, repairs and supplies 1853
Jail ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1000
761 Ole Lundquist, board for prsoners..... 1881
7 az; G 5a' Ka*nSn board for prisoners -