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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-05-31
Friday, May 25.

Colonel w. w. Switzler, aged eighty,
seven, recognized as the oldest editor
in the United States, is dead at Co.
lumbia, Mo.
Plans have been completed by the
navy department for the installation
of six new wireless telegraph stations
in the Philippines.
The foreign commerce of the United
States for April aggregated S251, 900.
900, of which $107, 0O0, 900 was in i'm.
ports and S144,000,0 900 in exports.
Chief Engineer Stevens of the 18th.
milan canal commission has arrived in
New York on the steamer Advance
from Colon. He will present a report
to the canal commission.
The summer residence of Rolan G.
Nickerson of New York, one of the
finest on Cape Cod, was burned with
its valuable interior furnishings, paint.
ings and bric-a-brac. The loss is esti.
mated at 5000, 900.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-05-31
cONFEREEs ON RATE BILL.

Elkins, Cullom and TilIman Represent
Senate.
Washington, May 28-The senate
has sent the railroad rate bill to con.
ference, with Senators Elkins, Cullom
and Tillman %conferees.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-05-31
Saturday,, May 26.

Charles E. Casey, a we'll known club
man, was found dead in the Palmer
House at Chicago.
The wheat crop of the Punjab sec.
ton of Indip for this year has broken
all records, being 100000 tons in ex-
cess of the previous best crop.
Much opposition has developed in
the senate committee on privileges
and elections to voting at this session
on the question of unseating Senator
Smoot of Utah.
Henrik lbsen, who died at Chris
tiania May IS, will be given a state
funeral, a motion to that effect hay
ing been unanimously approved bv
the Norwegian parliament.
So far ten states have declined he
invitation sent out by Assistant Secre-
tary Of Wan Oliver to SEND some of
their national guard organizations into
camp with the regular troops this
summer.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-05-31
Saturday, May 90.

House-Diplomatic and consular ap.
preparation bill under consideration,
but most of the day was devoted to
speeches of a political nature on va
rious subjects.
Senate-NOt in session.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-05-31
NEWS CONVERSATIONS
Wednesday,, Nav %.

Gabriel Dumont, who was Riel's
lieutenant in the rebellion of 1885, is
dead at Batoche, Man.
Right Rev. Francis Xavier B%lanchet.
D. d., vicar general of the archdiocese
of Oregon, Is dead at Portland after a
prolonged illness, aged seventy.
William j. Bryan was endorsed for
president by the Democratic judicial
convention of fifteen counties of North
western Ohio, in session at Lima.
Secretary Taft has approved an or
der sending the headquarters and two
battalions Of the Tenth infantry to
Alaska to replace the Third infantry.
Miners and operators of Indiana
met at Terre Haute Tuesday and re
ferred questions in dispute to a com
mittee consisting of twelve men or
each side.
DR.. c. A. Crane, at the Peoples TEN
pie, Boston, made a violent attack On
Harvard students during 4 speech OPP
posing the proposed law to permit
saloons to keep open until midnight.
Thursday, May "a.
The senate has confirmed the nomi.
nation of Charles C. Houpt as district
attorney of Minnesota.
The senate has passed the urgent
deficiency appropriation bill, provid.
Ing. money for the opening of Indian
reservations in the Northwest.
Political action by labor men was
unanimously endorsed by the dele.
gates at the annual convention of the
American Federation of Musicians, in
session at Boston.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has closed negotiations for the sale of
from $3.50 900 to S50, 100000 of
bonds at Paris. The bonds will doubt
less be listed on the Paris bourse.
Very Rev. Patrick j. McHale has
been appointed bishop of Porto Rico
to succeed Archbishop Rlenk, who
held that office until he was recently
elevated to the archbishopric of New
Orleans.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-16

}. K Firth, Jr. and wife, are among
he Hotel Arlington guests, arriving
this morning rom San Francisco.
Miss Denny, private secretary and
stenographer to T. 3. Hickey, return
cd this morning from business visit
in Reno
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-16

many of the names SO selected were
there suggested, designated and rec
commended by the said Dawley.
The Court heard the testimony of
several witnesses relative to the man
ner Of selecting the trial jurors for
the county for the year in question,
and then made his finding and deliy-
cred his decision on the motion as
follows:
From the testimony produced here
on the hearing of the challenge, the
Court finds that all Of the persons
whose names were put on the jury list
were selected by the Board OF Coun-
u commissioners; that none of them
were selected by Mr.. Dawley as al
legged in the challenge and also find
that it is not true that selections were
not made from old jury lists, although
- jury list had been used by the
Commissioners for the purpose OF
hnding out the names, it would have
been Perfectly proper. The book
Used was a book showing jury service
and it was proper for the commits
5ioners to consult that book. l do
net find that-although Mr.. Dawley
.aca would be good jurymen; l do
nC1 ncd that in any case the Com
miss oners failed to exercise their
cwn judgment in making up the list
4.e-e has been no injury shown to
the defendants. For these reasons
there has been no material departure
~cEl the forms prescribed by the stat
ute. The challenge is disallowed.'
We have carefully reviewed the
transcript Of the evidence in the rec
Ccd upon the motion, and think the
a.ne fully supports the findings and
conclusions of the trial court.
n. Dawley was the clerk of the
cert, as we'll as ( g clerk of the
,Oa,a Of County Commissioners. He
had kept a record of jury service
when covered a period Of nearly ten
years. Although he could not legally
select nor properly urge the selection
5 # any juror, We see no objection t
{ tie Board 81 -ounty Commissioner:
taking advantage of information il
=. the possession of their clerk, so Ions
. IS hey exercise their own judGmen
/ II conformity with the statute, an,
a., We think. the evidence show
). hov 6:t II this case. If any Of Ii,
, --oa WON Mr.. Dawley said won,
: make good jurors were put on tn
# -.ncrai st # two hundred and fifty
2 ",v Tor the year by the commission
: ..<. before or after ne had so s;ates
Va. ncJ sh0wn that any Of theI
II -rr.. amoI- he ;weIve who tried tn
4 t.~d2ufs. 81 were on the pane
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-16

The Royal Hawaiian Band which
was to have appeared at the opera
must have been lost in the shuttle
somewhere as Manager Meder has
had no word from the management
regarding it.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-16
SUPREME COURT DECISION
Continued from Page One)

the light caused by the fire in the tie
mouse. They went to the enclosure
and clmed down in it, finding the
man whom they afterwards Killed,
lying down on some ties. 1ney nrSt
sat down upon tie, and then asked
the man to go and get them some
whiskey Johnny gave him haH
dollar and the man said, Il can't SO
I'D there: l got one leg" What hap
pened next the witness SAD ne olu
not remember because he was 100
drunk He then testified that the
man put the money in his pocket, anu
Johnny asked him to give 1t BACK. he
did not know whether he gave the
money back. but Johnny SAID 10 hlln'
Ibapah, Lets go and kill that man:
| hold both hands and you cut throat
Ibapah said "All right Johnny then
gave Ibapah is knife. and held the
mans hands crossways by the "rls.''
Ibapah then went and got the man ps
his coat The man tried TO raise up
and Ibapah put his knee on MS p!ea','
holding his knife in his rlsh' lt'h'.
Johnny then said GO ahead and cut
him He held his coat with MS lei'
hand and with the rlSh1 manu- n
nut the knife against his throd' anu
Jobnnv saws, "Cut him hard men
he killed him. After they I'd" NJ,
hin, tommy looked into the man
pockets. Johnny then cut on n 1av
mans shoe saying. mere - ,a+i,
in shoe sometimes. men NY so,,
said. Lets put him on TOP u ~. 10.
Johnny said. Lets put on lo's " 10
an1 burn him up. lhey pun Wv
hodv On the fire and pu. me w.
!, DISC, They then LETT ioapa'l o e"M,
with him the dead man oNeleu"t.
ava vent to the camp OF Jonln,
gather. Upon arriving there Nc
aeked for something 10 ea'. CIV, -,on
al, to1d that they had kliiea ,Ii.'-' =
rho testimony of JOHNNY N''o t,,a+
cbcshone Indian. varies 4i"'n a;d
e 1nana,, in that he tesuhea h' VI
,-no,.. much about what happenlu
- NO. too drunk TO 'ehiN M
MA AZ .'iGod mat he rcme'!i N'i
,..1,7i,or the murdered man '.'l a,.o
,,o,,,;no to place him oN '"'
49, r..,+tar than th25 h had ~ ~
'1-.t:n7 Of the 0ccur~c"c5 "''2'z
condition in which t2e n'9E -
7..,9.a7 vae foand the NloFllln@
slf,o,-;,,e +ra murder. IS oescr'oe' ~
If 10 witnesses for TIE : a'e q
--l5a-ye. THE t.trGFt ha1 ">
r-.. oa, +o car The left eye A"'
.~l, .taNfog or.. There @2T q, -
--.--nI ia t@t "'' ''..sN
.,., -, naa- broken So 1ae roHe if@
f.aIea thlou4h Tic c.ochin@- iae-e
..lro n~a,+cs ~ Inc @o4r. no '.A'
t~1 hnr, --,-.-- tern 81" taf
,.t,. ri.or stotr- v.-a .i-i' X 81
-.rl and O. ,a.f go }3ooa we- =
49,. ..,,-., r.,.,er o. the little t.e
..-r =, which --g uer. lay. tn
~-,. had hea., throrr on n coal fir
ana vaa her~ir- The 0ne. \
izr-r-nt OF q hlC"d. hHn1. clearly ~
hnad. was visible on tho ties iEih
ust w"ec O. III" tie hoH@0- sever
ffes had bean thrown into ~" r.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-16

tGontinued en- Page j.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-09

ance is a conservative one-the num-
Der OF tons mentioned will be about
right"
The hasty man stroked his mustache
thoughtfully and put aside the piece of
vulcanite.
Ihose figures stagger me-" he said.
But let me learn little more. Thes.
two long iron things are"
Magnets. They are made of steel
Not every kind OF steel, however. will
give satisfactory results. A Penn
sylvania mill FORCES the material for
these magnets.
This plumet between the magnets"
went on the telephone man. us made
of American lead. We no longer have
to send abroad for that metal. The
United States Is now the largest lead
producing country In the world"
What do you call that bit of steel
at the end of each magnet?"
"A pole-piece. 1t is not steel. but
iron from Sweden's noted bog ore,
though commerce calls it Norway
iron"
What is this tissue paper used for?"
To insulate these spool heads. 1t is
far stronger than any tissue paper.
A mill in Il Western Massachusetts viii
lase manufactures thousands of dol
lars worth of it yearly for the Bell
lines"
is this little disk made of iron?"
Yes. of iron japanned. Notice how
thin 1t is-thinner than writing paper.
indeed. This disk. or diaphragm. set
vibrating by means of electrical i'm
pulses, vibrates the air in consonance
with them. and thus the wards uttered
at the other end Of the wire are repro
duced."
Pointing to two little rolls of silk
wound wire near the diaphragm, the
telephone man asked:
How many feet of wire should YOU
think there are in these bipolar coils?"
The hasty man turned the coils
around in his hand. At last he
answered hesitatingly:
We'll. perhaps twenty feet"
Each coil contains go feet of
wire," said the telephone scientist
quietly. During the first half of
1906 the Western Electric company
sent out. in new receivers. wire
enough to go around the globe"
"Phew!" exclaimed the hasty man.
The telephone business is pretty
large one isn't it,"
Larger than most people imagine"
replied the telephone man.
Where do you get silk thread?"
1T comes from Italy The silkworms
of that country produce the strongest
silk known" The scientist reached
for his hat
You didn't tell ME where the rub
Der comes FROM" urged the hasty man
Some Of it is imported from North
Brazil-the rubber tree grows wild
in the superheated marches of the
Amazon The Guarani Indians tap the
trees. smoke the visoid liquid. mold it
into cakes ana sell it to Brazilian
traders on the Amazon. About 10000
tons of rubber are produced yearly
in the humid valleys of the Congo
state. In certain districts of that vast
territory the natives. smearing their
bodies with the sap, walk. swathed
with the dried rubber. into the nearest
tax collecting station of King Leopold
of Belgium, who owns the country"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-09

gether and their heels out, and near
by was a flock of geese and goslings
waddling up toward the house. Very
soon the horses broke ranks and with
heads down started along toward the
geese and then saw that they we're
following fox. The fox stopped and
faced the horses, which Immediately
whirled with their heads together and
their heels out, as though to repel the
attacks Of an enemy. The fox then
trotted along after the geese, and the
horses broke ranks again and followed
It.. called to the people in the house
to come out and get the geese, which
were then near the road. The fox
heard me, and Of course bolted for the
woods.
Now, regarding weasels. They may
Kill chickens, but II so I have never
had positive proof of it. A friend who
raises chickens was losing a chicken
or two every day, and he laid it to
the weasels. His barn and outbuild-
ings were overrun with rats, and a
couple of weasels had come in among
them; one OF the weasels he found in
the yard. killed, bitten through the
head. One morning he saw strange
cat jump out from the yard with
chicken In its mouth. He shot this
cat and lost no more chickens. and the
remaining weasel soon cleaned out the
rats and is evidently now living on
mice. as 1t does not modest the poultry.
A near neighbor Of his was also
troubled with rats about the barn. A
mink came in and cleaned them out,
and last fall the farmer foolishly shot
the mink for its pelt. Before spring
the rats were back again as thick as
ever. He now wishes that he had let
mink remain, as the price that he re-
ceived for the mink skin does not nay
for the damage done every month by
the rats.
Any observing farmer in this vicinity
will admit that it is only during the
years that foxes and weasels are
scarce that their fields and orchards
are overrun with mice, and the dam
age the mice do amounts to far more
than the value of all poultry on their
farms. Again, take the ch-maligned
skunk; he can be classed among the
friends of the farmer. While we have
seen instances Of his taking eggs and
even poultry, his principal diet is
grubs. grasshoppers, crickets, wire
worms, and when near the potato field,
potato bugs. But for all this let him
be caught in potato field. he is sure
~ logged or stoned to death, and per-
haps by the very farmer he is befriend-
ing. Then this same farmer will pay
out dollars for paris green and in hired
mans wages to destroy the very bugs
that the skunk would have eaten II left
alone.
We are living and learning. though
some Of us learn slowly, and it is hard
for US to get over early prejudices.
Nevertheless, we may expect at no
very distant date to see laws made
and enforced to protect the farmers
friends, each Of the above named ami
mails.
Among the large number of dogs
that are in the country, there Is an oc-
casional one that will kill sheep, so
there may be few foxes and weasels
that have fondness for poultry and
young lambs. Though, If so, they have
never come under my personal obser-
walton.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-09

overshoes. He heard that powdered
sulphur would dry the soft gum. A
small cake of this sulphur-dried rub
Der fell one day from Goodyear's
hands onto red not stove. There
1t hardened instead OF melting, as he
expected. That accident gave him a
clue to the secret sought so long. The
more sulphur mixed with the gum.
and the higher the temperature to
which the mixture is subjected, the
more zonelike grows the rubber. This
grade of vulcantite, you see, is as hard
as ivory and takes as beautiful a
polish"
ut does look WE'LL" admitted tn.
hasty man. as much of this material
used up every year in making tele-
phone instruments?"
The telephone man reflected.
More than four hundred tons. 1
should guess" he finally replied. "The
Western Electric company of Chicago
and New York makes for the Bell COM
panies over 100000 receivers annually.
If we allow four ounces of Volcanic
to- each instrument-and that allow
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-09
SUSPECT Su|C|DEO
Young Married Man Suspected
of Crime Takes His Own
Life.

Annotated Press to The Evening" Times.
Bristol, Va, Nov. 9.-As a sequel to
the cold-blooded assassination OF Mrs.
william Garrett, young divorced wo-
men. at Arlington last night, came the
suicide today at Arlington of John Haw-
kins. near neighbor of the woman.
His suicide followed his learning that
ne was under suspicion for the killing
OF Mrs. Garrett. Hawkins is married
man. about thirty years old, and leaves
wife and three small children. His
reputation had been excellent, and he
had never before been under suspicion
OF any crime. Hawkins became con-
nected with the case by the discovery
OF a letter which he had written Mrs.
Garrett. and which is now in the pos
session of the commonwealth attor-
ney. This letter, 1t is said, in a man
ner incriminates the dead man and
Mrs. Garrett. although the woman is
said to have lived in a way not to in
vite suspicion. Mrs. CARROTS assass-
ination was a horrible affair, her head
being partially blown of by two loads
from a shotgun.
Told His Wife About II.
Hawkins learned this morning that
he was under suspicion in connection
with the murder Of Mrs. Garrett, when
an officer went to his home to inquire
what he knew of the tragedy. The
officer left Hawkins in a highly ner-
vous state, and it was but few min
utes thereafter that he seized his gun,
and hastily telling his family goodbye,
ran some distance from the house, and
by the use of a stick, pulled the trig-
ger, sending heavy charge of shot
into his neck, cutting the jugular vein,
from which he died.
Hawkins told his wife that he was
charged with the murder of Mrs. Gar
rett, and that he was going to commit
suicide. His wife, with her three chill
dren, followed him for some distance.
begging him to come back, but going
some three or -four hundred yards
from the house, he planted the muzzle
of the gun against the back Of his neck
and discharged 1t.
shot was fired. His wife and children
were within a hundred yards of him
at the time.
Letter Told Story.
The suicide of Hawkins is generally
accepted as the true explanation Of the
tragic end of Mrs. Garrett. The nature
Of the letters, which we're found in the
woman's trunk, appears to fix the
crime upon the dead man. 1t is pre-
sumed that jealousy was the cause of
the assassination of the woman. The
letter indicates that Mrs. Garrett and
Hawkins had been on very friendly
terms. The woman is said to have
been very quiet and reserved of dispo-
sition. Both of the parties were we'll
known in the community in which they
lived
The coroner's inquest over Mrs. Gar
rett, which was to have been held
this morning, was postponed until
Wednesday next, as a result of the sui
eide OF Hawkins.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-09
IN A TELEPHONE RECEIVER,
What the Hasty Man Learned During
His Talk With the Telephone
ExDerf.

1T was curious accident. But as
broke the instrument, of course, I'll
pay for 1t. Does one of these things
cost much? This one seems to be-
nothing but-but-"
The hasty man paused.
"Say," he continued in a milder tone,
what is telephone receiver made of
anyhow? Is this outside part black
bone or some hard wood, or-what?
And what's inside?"
The telephone man, who knew hui
man nature, smiled as he took up the
damaged instrument.
LET me see," he said. With a
screw-driver he separated the heceiver
into several pieces. Handling one to
the nasty man, he remarked:
THAT is called vulcanite or ebonite.
Charles Goodyear had been seeking
some means of hardening the rubber
gum with which he had been coating
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-09
THE SANITY FOX.
Finds Friend at Last Who Brush.
es Up His Reputation.

g, @ (. o @ @ q @ @ q p @ @ o @ @ q
have hunted foxes for nearly three
score years, and have yet to see where
they have ever caught or killed a do
nestle fowl or ruffled grouse, or
young lamb, though in the winter
have often seen where they have tried
to catch grouse that were roosting un-
der the snow, but never saw where
they succeeded in catching one. I
have very often seen where they have
caught our common northern hare,
and only once have l ever seen them in
the vicinity of the numerous focks of
geese and turkeys that are roaming
about our fields.
One evening. years ago. driving in
the town OF Highgate, near the Can
ada line, as approached farm house
I saw down In the pasture a group of
horses standing. with their heads to-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-09

interest in a movement to raise $500.
goo to endow Baptist schools throneh.
out Kentucky. The 100000 In pron.
erty recently donated to the Baptist
education board by DR.. A. Gatliff Of
Williamsburg. is to be used as a mn
cieus OF the proposed fund.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-09
FUNDS FOR EDUCATION.

Associated Press to The lcvensns Times.
Louisville, KY, Nov. 9.-Baptist
minister's, educators and laymen are
much interested in tonight's big mass
meeting in Broadway Baptist church.
The object of the meeting is to stir up
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-09

Young man, put money In your
pocket by reading Kelsey Development
Co.'S ad In this issue.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-09
Long Years Ago.

An old bachelor bought a pair of
socks and found attached to one a
paper with these words: II am
young lady of 20 and would like to
correspond with bachelor with a view
to matrimony" The name and adj
dress were given. The bachelor wrote
and In few days got this reply:
Mamma was married twenty years
ago. Evidently the merchant of whom
you bought those socks did not ad-
vertise or he would have sold them
long ago. My mother handed me your
letter and said possibly I might suit.
am 49,"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-12-19
ELLSWORTH FALLS.

Oscar Staples was home from East Ma
chias one day last week.
Misses Millie and Lura Treworgy spent
Monday and Tuesday in Bangor.
James Lymburner, who has been work.
ing on the N. E. L. & L. Co. g line for sew
eral years, spent Sunday at home.
The Christmas tree will be held in the
vestry on Christmas eve instead of Christ
mas evening as stated in last weeks
AMERICAN.
Loren Franklin cut his foot quite badly
on Monday of last week while working In
the woods at Branch pond for the Branch
Pond Lumber Co.
The ladies' sewing circle will hold its
annual Christmas sale IN the vestry Thurs
day afternoon, beginning at 2 O'Clock. II
will include fancy articles, cooked food
and home made candy.
Helen NJ, widow of Richard Perkins,
of Lamoine, who had been living with hei
niece, Mrs. Helen Fox, for some time, died
Sunday. Mrs. Perk ins was an elderly lady
and had been ill for some time. Funeral
services were held at the house on Tues
day. Mrs. Perkins had made many friends
since coming here who regret her death.