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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
CITIZENS ATBAY
sAFEcRAckERs LOOT THE SAW.
YER IN. D. STATE BANK
OF $4,000 IN CASH.

Minot, N. D., Oct. 23.-After cutting
the telephone wires and securing all
the guns and ammunition in the town.
a gang of robbers for an hour held at
bay the citizens of Sawyer, while they
looted the Sawyer State bank of $1,000
in bills and currency.
Reports have reached Minot that the
bank robbers have been surrounded
by a posse about six miles north OF
Sawyer, and that a battle is in prog.
ress.
About twenty-five Minot men left on
a 500 train TO help Sheriff Lee and his
deputies capture the bandits. The
Minot men were all heavily armed.
The robbers left Sawyer on foot,
walking along the 500 railroad track
towards Minot. Sheriff Lee was no
titled of the robbery and left with a
posse in search of the hold-up men.
The robbers secured guns and am,
munition from Bassett & Lund's hard.
III store. They exploded eight
charges Of dynamite and shot out
nearly all the window lights in the vi
cinity of the bank.
Fred Fulber, q well-known resident
was knocked down and carried to a
box car by the robbers and locked in
It was several hours before he re
gained consciousness.
A farmer who was driving to town
was hit in the head with a bullet, but
will probably recover. His wager
box was filled with bullet holes and
several citizens had narrow escapes
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
tuesday. Oct. %.

William Lee. aged eighty-four, for.
mel mayor and postmaster, is dead at
st. Paul.
Martin l.. Newell, sixty-eight Years
old, formerly state senator and onca
assistant attorney general of Illinois.
Is dead at Springfield, III.
The American Can company has
made a substantial advance in the
PRICE or most of its products because
OF the advance in raw materials.
AT Houston. Tex, Daniel Van Walk.
enburgh, a wealthy real estate dealer
past middle life. fatally shot his wife
and then sent a bullet into his brain
inticting a fatal wound.
The circuit court at B~ellefon,oi,a
y, has handed down a decision which
~ eHect Gusts from the state OF Ohin
all the bridge companies that failed RI
surrender at the socalled bridge ,r,s,
hearing two weeks ago.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
SWEPTBY HUGEWAVE
SEVERAL HUNDRED PEOPLE RE,
PORTED KILLED ON ISLAND
OFF FLORIDA COAST.

Miami, Fla, Oct. 20.-The steamer
st. Lucie, Captain Bravo command
ing, has sunk off the Florida coast.
~one of the excursion steamers has
arrived in port, bringing sixty wound.
ed, who were taken to the hospital,
and it is said there are twenty-eight
dead bodies which will be brought UP
aater.
Captain Bravo says that he anchored
on the lee side of Elliott Key, twenty.
Ave miles south of Miami, Thursday
morning and that o after a tidal
"a engulfed the island,
He says there were $50 residents on
the island. all of whom were lost.
The st. Lucie was crushed by the
same wave and of the 100 passengers
on board twenty-five were killed. Cap
tain Bravo was seriously injured.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
CRIMINAL LIBEL CHARGED.
Warrant for Fusion Candidate for Gov.
ernor of PENNSYLVANIA.

Philadelphia, Oct. 20.-Counsel rep
resenting State Senator James P. Nc
Nichol of this city has obtained a war
rant for the arrest of Lewis Emery,
Jr.. Fusion candidate for governor of
Pennsylvania, on a charge of criminal
libel. Counsel at the same time en-
Tered a civil suit for SANDER against
Mr.. Emery asking s250,000 damages.
Mr.. Emery will not be taken into Gus
tody, but will be notified to appear be-
fore a magistrate for a hearing next
week, when he is scheduled to appear
in this city to deliver addresses in ad-
vocacy of his election.
The libel charges grew out OF a
speech delivered by Mr., Emery at
Lebanon last Monday, in which he
charged Senator McNichol with brib-
ing five Democratic members of the
legislature in 1901 to vote for William
T. Marshall of Pittsburg for speaker
OF the house of representatives and to
make certain the reelection of NJ. S..
Quay to the United States senate.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
Will Meet at Wahpeton.

Wahpeton captured the next meet.
ing Of the North Dakota Federation Of
Women's clubs at the Fargo meeting.
The officers for the ensuing year are:
President, Mrs. Frank White, Valley
City: vice presidents, Mrs. Ira ]. Van
Vleet, Larimore; Mrs. Clark Kelly,
Devils Lake; Mrs. M. A. Baldwin, Gas.
SETON; Mrs. Ross Garfield, Fullerton;
Mrs. T. l.. Beseiker, Fessenden; Mrs.
M. H. Jewell, Bismarck; Mrs. W. L.
Stockwell, Grafton; Mrs. C. A. Leon.
ard, Bottineau; recording secretary.
Miss Hilda Satterlund, Bismarck; cor.
responding secretary. Miss Minnie
Nelson, Valley City; auditor, Mrs. L.
w. CANNES, Minot; treasurer, Mrs. C.
F. Amidon, Fargo.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
STORM HITS HAVANA
SCORE OF PEOPLE KILLED AND
PROPERTY DAMAGE OF ST.
100000 SUSTAINED.

Havana, Oct. 2O.-The recent tor
nado in this city resulted in twenty
deaths and the serious injury of a
dozen or more persons. The damage
is estimated at fully $4,000, 900. The
dead are all Cubans of the poorer
class.
The United States cruiser Brooklyn
dragged her anchor until her stern
grounded in the mud off La Regla.
She got off later without injury.
The storm caused great havoc and
confusion in the shipping in the har-
Dor. Many buildings were badly dam
aged and nearly all the trees in the
city and suburbs We're uprooted.
The 1000 American soldiers and ma
gines at Camp Columbia were put to
great inconvenience by the storm.
Nearly all the 400 tents in camp were
blown down, but there was little actual
damage.
Harry Fosdick, an army teamster
with the T~wenty-eighth infantry, from
Sioux City. Ia, sustained probably ia
tai injuries. He a crushed by a
tree which fell through the barracks
in which he "a sleeping. Fred SUIT,
cliffe of Fort Smelling and Thomas
Shonealt of Reading, Pa, sustained
Injuries.
In Havana city about fifty houses
were more or less injured. The build.
ings OF the University of Havana sus-
tanned damages amounting to many
thousands Of dollars.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
ITEMS OF A WEEK FROM vAR,o,,,
PARTS OF THE STATE.
Investigation Instituted Into AIIeo.t
Discrimination by a Railro,.
Against North Dakota
Coal Mines.

Governor Sarles has Instituted an in
vestigation for the purpose of dot0s
mining whether or not the 500 po;,
road company Is discriminate
against the Ignite mines in the vicin
ity of Minot in favor Of the Easter
coal barons. Attorney General Frich
and the state railroad commission
have been instructed by the chief
executive OF OFT the estate state to %thoroughly in.
age at Minot and, if necessary. sub.
poena local coal men and others inter.
ested in the matter to testify befora
the board, should it be deemed ad.
visable to conduct a public INQUIRY
The investigation Of the local coal sit,
uation was called for by several prom.
inent business men of Minot.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
Fjuht for Townsites,

A sensation has been caused at
Minot by the filing of the first of what
promises to be a series of contests on
all the scrip used in taking up land
in the Fort Berthold reservation. F.
A. Bowers of Towner and eleven 9TH
ers have filed contests for twelve
quarter sections Of land which include
townsites upon which several hundred
people live. Bowers and the other
contestants. through Attorney NJ. H.
Brennan of Devils Lake, base their
contests upon the ground that the IN
terror department enormously allowed
entries other than actual land entries
as provided for by congress within
the limits of the old Fort Berthold In
dian reservation.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
ROBBED AND MURDERED.
Chicago Attorney Found at Bottom of
Elevator Shaft.

Chicago, Oct. 20.-The body OF
Charles H. Stevenson, an attorney,
was found early in the day at the bot
tom OF a freight elevator shaft in the
rear of a building at 96 Washington
street. 1t was at first supposed that
Mr.. Stevenson had fallen down the
shaft, but later developments led to
the opinion on the part of Investigators
that the attorney had been robbed
and murdered and then thrown down
the elevator shaft. Mr.. Stevenson is
said to have been a distant relative Of
ex-Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
DEPOSITS OF $500, 900.
Working People and Children Hit by
Failure of Butte Bank.

Butte. Mont. Oct. 20.-It is admit
ted now that the deposits in the Aetna
Bank and Trust company, which failed
to open its doors Friday morning,
amounted to 5000, 600.
Cashier Garside is the only official
residing in Butte who claims not to
know the condition of the bank. The
depositors are nearly all working peo-
pie and children, who we're induced to
deposit their savings with the Aetna
company on promise of interest.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
OHIO JURY RETURNS VERDICT OF
CONVICTION AFTER LONG
pELlBERATIoN.
Charge of Conspiracy in Restraint Of
Trade Is Proven, the Penalty Being
a Fine of From $50 to 5000, Which
May Be Repeated for Each Day Of
the ofense-Defendant Will Appeal
to Highest Court.

Findlay, o., Oct. 19.-By the YER
dict of a jury the Standard Oil com
pany of Ohio is guilty of conspiracy
against trade in violation of the Valen-
tine antitrust law of Ohio.
The penalty is a fine of from $50 to
$4,000. which may be repeated for
each day of the offense, or imprison-
ment Of from six to twelve months.
The Standard Oil company of Ohio
has given notice that it will file a
motion for a new trial. Under the
practice OF the court the defendant
has three days to put this motion in
form. The next step will be for the
court to impose the penalty. The de-
tense will then take their bill of ex-
ceptions to such rulings OF Judge
Banker as they have objected to to the
circuit court of the state. The appeal
from this court is to the supreme court
of the state, in which tribunal there
is nc doubt the issue will ultimately
be decided.
To the state, the suit. the verdict
and the ultimate appeal is important,
particularly because it initiates an en-
tirely new method of proceeding
against alleged trade monopolies-
that is. by information and affidavit
instead OF by grand jury Indictment.
The verdict was rendered at 4:35
a. M. and resulted from a continuous
d~eliberation by the jury during thirty
two consecutive hours. The trial occu-
pied seven days prior to this %delibera-
fiOn
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
Epidemic of Diphtheria.

Worcester, Mass, Oct. 22.-The
most serious epidemic OF diphtherla in
this city since 1900 was reported by
the board of health for the week just
ended. In n day eight cases came
TO the notice of the officials and fifty.
two families are nov In quarantine,
affecting the attendance OF fifteen
schools OF the city, The total number
OF cases for the week was forty.two.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
Two Jump From a Train.

Held UP sy four masked men at the
point of revolvers, beaten and robbed
of their earnings, E. j. Wilson and a
Finlander of unknown name finally
were compelled to jump from a moving
train into the river at Valley CITY,
Wilson almost drowned before he sue
ceeded in getting to shore, but the
more fortunate Finn landed in the
mud and escaped injury. The men
were harvest bands and We're working
their way East on a 500 freight tram
Wilson was robbed of $12 in cash a4
a check for $50. The Finlander gave
up $35 and a watch.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
Killed by His Own Gun.

The coroner's jury returned a 'H
dict that j. j. Merry, the insurance
man. whose body was found in a nv
tel at Medina. came to his death VI
the discharge of a revolver in his OWL
hand, either by accident or deslsH
The widow of the dead man !nsls''
that her husband was murdered. "Htn
last seen alive Merry had a s9a,|
watch, a diamond pin and ring anu
SIS in cash, but a thorough seaF''|
after his death failed TO reveal a'
trace Of jewelry or money.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
st. Paul Union Stock Yards.

ST. Paul, Oct. 22.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, s5.50@6.25: common to
good, S3.25@4.OO: good to choice COWS
and heifers, s3.50G4.50; veals, s4.506
5.25. Hogs-s5.S5@6.35. Sheep-Weth-
ers, s4.5o@5.10: good to prime spring
lambs, s6.2566.6O.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
Chicago Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, Oct. Dec.
72S @T2Ac: May, TIC. Corn-Dec.,
41B@42c; May, 43143lsc. Oats
Dec, 323s@32ac; May. 34h 634%c.
Pork-Jan., S3.671a. Flax-Nothine
doing. Butter-Creameries, 19G25bc;
dairies, 1871 @22c. Eggs-l962lc.
Poultry-Turkeys. lac; chickens and
springs. SIZE.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
Methods. Conference Closed.

The Methodist conference OF No''u|
Dakota closed its annual session III
Valley City last week. The ch",D
has a membership of nearly sou" !"
the state and has made rapid progress
In church building as shown by the
ports The conference is se!f.suppos.I
Ing this year for the first time III VI
history
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
Chicago Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, Oct. observation-disclosures.
$4.lO@7.30; COWS and heifers, slG5m
5.25; stockers and feeders, s2.5om
450; Texans, s3750430: Westerns.
S3.90M5.SO; calves. $600975O. Hog,
Mixed and butchers. $6IOG655.
good heavy. $G30M6.55; rough heayy.
bMg6lb; light, SloG660, pigs.
s5soG6.2O sheep, 81 505 40. lamb.
s4G0Q7G6.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
Girl Ends Lie Win Moose.

Minnie Bambough. twenty'one ''"
old. committed suicide by hanelNs W.
self In a barn at Clements, A sun
town northeast OF Ellendale, a. "
home OF her sister. Mrs. Otto lOor
There IL no known reason for tue !"
eide.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
BURTON NOW IN PRISON.
Former Kansas Senator Begins Serv-
ing His Sentence.

Ironton, Mo-, Oct. 23.-Former
United States Senator'Joseph R. Bur
ton of Kansas arrived from ST. Louis
at night and after dining with his
wife and niece, surrendered himself to
the jailor and was assigned to a cell
in the Ironton Jail. Mrs. Burton ac-
companicd her husband to the sheriff's
Office and then went to the cottage
she has rented, where she will remain
until her husband has served his sen
tence of six months.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
FIVE MEN ARE Il 10
Quarreied Over Money Left by candi.
dates to Buy Drinks.

st. Joseph. Mo-, Oct. 2O.-As a finale
to a political meeting in the suburbs
of st. Joseph five men were shot. two,
William Doty and Perry Stephens, IA
tally, by a ward worker named Oscar
Luschei. The trouble was over a divi-
sion of money left by candidates to
buy drinks. Luschei escaped and is
being pursued by a posse of police Off
GERS.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, Oct. 22.-Wheat-To arrive
and on track-No. 1 hard, 76Ac: No.
1 Northern, 1880; No. 2 Northern,
737sc; Oct, 75Bc; Dec, 1850; May,
TSc; July, 7Sc. F1ax-To arrive and
on track, s1.13B; Oct, s1.131a: Nov.
$1.1312; Dec, Sill; Jan, s1.o1k;
MAY, Sl.14N.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
ROADS REFUSED DEMANDS.
locomotive Engineers Voting on Cues.
ton Of Rejecting Reply.


Chicago, Oct. 22.-Railroad engi-
neers in Chicago and all over the West
are voting on the question of accept
ing CT rejecting the refusal of the
arrangements of the great trunk line
railroads to grant the demands re.
Gently made by the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers. The demands
made by the men were as follows:
Equalization of wages on roads west
of the line of Winnipeg, Chicago and
New Orleans; abolition of the age re
tirement limit so long as men are
physically able to fulfill the duties of
engineers; adoption of field tests in
stead of scientific tests to determine
the efficiency of vision.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
DR.. BRoUWER ACQUITTED.
Found Not Guilty of Having Murdered
His Wife,

Toms River, n. j., Oct. 1S.-After a
trial lasting about ten days DR.. Frank
Brouwer, indicted for the murder of
his wife by poison, was acquitted. The
evidence was all in Tuesday and
Wednesday the arguments were made,
followed by the judges charge. The
jury brought in a verdict of not
guilty" inside of an hour.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
MARKET
Minneapolis Wheat.

Minneapolis, Oct. 22-Wheat-Dec.,
72Bc; May, 1850; July, 775sc. On
track-No. l hard, 1910; No. 1 North
ern, 7514c: No. 2 Northern, 73Ac;
No. 3 Northern, 71@72c.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
CAGE DROPS 1000 FEET.
Twenty.three Chinese Killed in South
African Mine.

johannesburg. T%ransyaal. Oct. 90
The rope of a cage which was de.
scendlng into The East Simmer gold
mine here snapped and the cage fell
1000 feet. Twenty.three Chinese la,
borers who were being lowered into
the niue were dashed to pieces.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
Friday, Oct. 19.

The twenty-irst annual convention
Of the Brotherhoou of st. Andrew as
sembled at Memphis Thursday, over
200 delegates from all parts of the
United States being present.
Rev. J.. P. W. McMullen, eighty
years old, n of the pioneer Meth
odist clergymen of Indiana, is dead at
Lafayette. He was one of the best
known preachers in the Middle West.
The Illinois Federation of Labor has
passed a resolution condemning the
Democratic candidate for state treas
urer, N. l.. Piotrowski, on account of
his alleged unfair attitude toward or.
ganized labor.
The president has decided to rear
range the military divisions, making
Chicago the headquarters of the North.
ern division, under command of Major
General Greedy, and st. Louis the
headquarters of the Southwestern divi
sion, under command of Brigadier
General Funston.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
TAFT BACK FROM CUBA.
Secretary of War and His Party Ar
rive in Washinoton.

tive III W~dSfIn9toH.
washington, Oct. 1S.-Secretary and
Mrs. Taft, Assistant Secretary Of State
and Mrs. Bacon, General Funston and
others composing Secretary Taft's
party, have arrived in Washington
from Cuba
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
SUICIDES BY HANGING.

Daughter of Bishop Potter Takes Her
Own Life.
Cromwell, Conn, Oct. 19.-It was
stated here that Mrs. Lena Cowdin,
daughter of Bishop Henry C. Potter
of New York. committed suicide by
hanging at a private sanitarium here
Tuesday night.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
Saturd ay, Oct, 20.

Colonel W. l.. Hibbs, n of the few
remaining ex-Confederate congress.
men, is dead at Dalton, Ga, aged
ninety-two.
Fire which started in the new five.
story building of Oliver Rothert at
Altoona, Pa, destroyed property to
the value of nearly $500, 900.
At a meeting of ribbon manufacture.
ers in New York city it was decided
to advance prices from one-eighth to
one-half cent per yard on all lines of
ribbons.
William Dutton, a widely known cir
Gus rider, was assaulted at Cincinnati
and probably fatally injured. His as.
sallants, who apparently sought to rob
him, have not been captured.
Brigadier General William Hemp.
hill Bell. U. S. A, retired, is dead at
Arvada, Colo. General Bell served
through the Civil war, but the greater
part of his military service was on
the western frontier and in Alaska.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-25
Monday, Oct. %.

Grover Cleveland is i'll from a Sc.
we're cold at Westland, his country
home near Princeton, N. J.
The government yacht Mayfower is
being overhauled in the BROOKLYN
hayward preparatory to being fitted
out for service in the West Indies as a
dispatch boat.
Brlgadier General Pershing. who
mas been assigned to the command Of
the department of California, has been
ofoefed to proceed to the Philippines
ABOUT Jan. l to relieve Major General
Lee, who retires on that date.
President Roosevelt has heartily ap-
proved the suggestion that Georgia
snail reproduce as its state building
at the jamestown exposition the old
colonial Bulloch hall at Roosevelt. Ga
the birthplace of Martha Bulloch. the
presidents mother.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-26

mayor and councilmen of any city
adopting this act shall cease and ter
inmate.
The said board of commissioners shall
have and exercise all such rights, pow
ers and duties as are conferred upon
them by this act, and such other pow
ers, rights and duties as are now or
shall be hereafter conferred by the
laws of the state of Kansas upon the
mayors and councils of the cities of the
first-class not in conflict with the pro-
vision of this act.
Section THE mayor shall be ex-
officio the commissioner of the po-
lice and fire departments, and shall
have under his special charge and be
city ordinances and police regulations
of such city, and have general supervis-
ion over the fire department.
The board of commissioners shall, by a
designate from among their number one
commissioner who shall be known as COM
missioner of finance and revenue, VINO
shall have under his special charge the
preparation of an annual budget and the
revenues belonging TO such city, from
whatever source the same may be de-
rived, and the management Of the finances
Of such city; ana one commissioner VINO
shall be known as commissioner of wa
terworks and street lighting, who shall
have under his special charge the con-
struction. maintenance and operation of
any WaterWOrks owned by any such city,
and any lighting plant or city or street
lighting in use therein; and one commits
sioner who shall be known as commits
sioner of streets and public improvements.
who shall have under his special charge
the supervision of streets and alleys. and
the repair, construction and maintenance
Of sidewalks bridges. and sewers, and all
other public improvements, not herein
otherwise provided for, and shall have
general supervision over the engineering
department Of such city, and he shall also
see that all contracts for public improve
ments under his supervision are faithfully
compiled with, and that the conditions OF
all permits to excayate in the streets and
alleys Of the city and the grant Of any
franchise or privilege are faithfully per-
FORMED; and one commissioner who shall
De known as commissioner of parks and
public property, who shall have under his
special charge the public parks and all
property of such city and shall have sup
ervision over the health department of
such city, and shall keep the streets al
ieys and public grounds of such city in a
clean and sanitary condition, and shall
ENFORCE all rules and regulations neces-
SarN 10 these ends, and shall protect the
health OF the inhabitants of such CITY
said board of commissioners so cOnstf-
tuted shall have control and superyfsion
over all the departments of such city. and
10 that end shall have power to make and
enforce such rules and regulations as
they may see fit and proper for and con-
corning the organization, management
and operation of all the departments OF
such city. and whatever agencies NAV be
fairs = - a.