Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-11-14

President Roosevelt has directed
that reprimand be administered t.
Willis L. Moore, chief OF the weathe
bureau, for his action in the case of {
printer named Cooper in his Office VIII
had been expelled from the Type
graphical union for not paying hi
strike assessments.
Mrs. Esther A. Stanard, wife of fo1
mer Gov. e. O. Stanard, died of net
ralgia OF the heart at St. Louis. Mrs
stanard was 70 years of age.
! Barricading the doors of her home a
Falls City, Neb., Mrs. John Ray sc
IRE to her home. Neighbors disco1
cred the fire and broke in the door
but the woman was dead when found
She IS survived by her husband an
five children.
Suit was filed at New Orlean
against the Standard Oil company t.
compel that corporation to take on
and pay for license as hawker ant
peddler for the years 1903 to 1906, in
elusive. The suit was filed by the STATE
of Louisiana through the state tax col
lector, who alleges that the compan!
owes license fees of $500.
Rev. E. M. Vittum, D. D., of Grinnell
Ia, has been elected president of the
Fargo Congregational church. He
will begin his duties January 1.
The United States transport Sheri
dan, which has twice been stranded
and relocated, left Honolulu for San
Francisco in tow Of the army tug Slo
cum and the transport Buford. The
Sheridan is in an utterly helpless con
dition.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook, Of Brooklyn
explorer and mountain climber, is in
Seattle on his way home after having
made a successful ascent of Mount Nc.
Kinley, in Alaska. The chief results
of the expedition are the verification
of the height of Mount Mckinley as
given by the government, 10000 feet.
! Gregoire Chika, son of Prince Chi.
ka, the Roumanian minister to
France, received a severe wound in
the lung as the result of a revolver &C.
cident in the Luxembour gardens.
| Despite the efforts of four physi-
clans to stop the flow of blood, Clark
Zumwalt, two years old, died at St.
Louis, having bled to death from a
wound caused by crushing his left
thumb with hammer while at play.
There will be no further conference
between Secretary Metcalf and the
San Francisco board Of education
about the action Of the latter in set
ting aside separate school for chill
dren Of Japanese descent. The board
desires that the state law be tested in
the courts, and will not recede from
it's position.
After a stormy scene, lasting sew
eral hours, the coroner's jury at At
lantic City, N. j., agreed to place the
blame for the Thoroughfare wreck
upon Daniel Stewart, the aged bridge
tender.
Unable to eat or sleep under the
pricklng of his conscience, he declared,
John Wachince, % years old, an Aus
trian baker, confessed to Coroner Ju-
Illus Hamburger, according to a state
ment made by the coroner, that he
was the murderer Of Mrs. Maggie Cor
don, who was choked to death at her
home in New York The woman's
common law husband, Alexander Cor
don, had been arrested in connection
with the crime and remanded to the
Tombs prison to await an inquest.
William Broad, commonly known as
kid" Broad, the pugilist, was ar
rested at New York after Thomas
Burns had been stabbed and probably
mortally wounded. The stabbingg oc-
CURED at Broadway and Forty-second
street, where, the police said, Broad
was employed to keep the election
crowds from blowing horns in the no.
tel.
Three companies of negro troops
were dismissed from the army for
failure to disclose identity of CON-
rades guilty of riot
French deputies greeted War Minis
ter Picquart with vociferous applause
when he rose to speak.
The lid is on at Hot Springs, and
Americas Monte Carlo passes with
the fall Of Sheriff "Just Bob" Will
liams.
The reduction of price for the junior
prom" at University of Wisconsin
may lead to the abolition of the
dance.
The Lackawanna railroad refuses
an advance Of wages to switchmen,
but comedies the ten-hour day to the
men.
President G. W. Murphy, of the Chi
cago National ball team, denies he
made an offer for Lumley, of Brook
Ign.
The supreme court of the United
States affirmed the decision of the
court OF claims in the case of Daniel
Red Bird, the Cherokee nation and
others, VS.. the United States, known
as "The White Mans Case" The cases
involved the long pending claims of
2,Ooo and 5000 white persons to par
cltlpate in the distribution of the
lands and the funds of the Cherokee
nation because Of marriage with mem
bers Of the tribe. There are over H.
100000 acres Of land and the tribal
funds are extensive. The decision was
favorable to the Indians.
Mohammed-elTorres apologized to
France for the stoning of a boat load
of Frenchmen in Tangier harbor.
Joe Cans regards the Herman
match seriously, and will take at least
four weeks in which to prepare him.
self.
Coroner Gaskill announced that ex-