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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
HEiNZE'S GENEROSITY,
Donates 100000 to Depositors Of De.
funct Bank.

Butte, Mont, Dec. Receiver Will
son of the wrecked Aetna bank of
Butte has announced that he received
a check from Augustus Heinze for
$780, 1000.
Mr.. Heinze formerly was president
of the bank, but withdrew in 1903.
Believing, however, that many depos-
itors had not known Of his withdrawal,
although it was widely advertised at
the time, and that through confidence
in his reputation many of his friends
may have lost their money, Mr.. Heinze
says in his letter to Mr.. Wilson he
contributes 100000 towards the
banks assets and forwards his check
for that amount.
The contribution should increase
the banks assets so per cent.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
Car Famine.

The state is suffering just at pres
ent from a car famine. Shippers can.
not get cars for any purpose and the
result is a congested wheat market
and a scarcity of coal, wood and fall
goods for the retailer. Local business
Is depressed. While there is a big
crop in the state, it cannot be market,
ed. collections are slow and business
generally depressed. The farmers are
demanding a reciprocal demurrage
law and a bill will be introduced pro-
viding for such a law.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
COAL FAMINE IN NEVADA.
Great Suffering Follows in Wake of
Severe Storm.

Reno, New, Dec. 1.-Unless the fuel
famine in Nevada is broken imme-
diately suffering and sickness and
perhaps death will follow in the wake
Of the storm which has ragged for the
past two days in Southern Nevada.
Coal cannot be obtained in Goldfield
or Tonopah and wood is bringing *
orbitant prices. Ties and telephone
poles are being burned. The fuel
famine extends over the entire state
and even in this city coal cannot be
purchased.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
FolLED BANDIT SUICIDES.
Tries to Steal $4,000 From Bendenda
(kan.) Bank.

Bendenda. Kan. Dec, While
President Dillon and Assistant Cashier
Selby were counting $4,000 In the
Bank Of Bendenda Jesse Harris, II
farmland OF Westport. entered, thrust
his gun into their faces and ordered
them TO enter the vault quick.
DILLON started 10 comply. but Selby
escaped TO The street, Realizing that
he would be captured the robber
turned the gun on himself and blew
out his brains.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
Asphyxiated in His Shack.

Samuel Hanback, was found dead In
his bed In a shack on his Homestead
near Turtle Lake, having been asphyx.
lated. The condition of the room in.
Dictated that the man had gone to bed
after filling his stove with Ignite and
closing the shack tight. There was a
poor draft in the chimney, and a
change in the wind during the night
sent the gas from the coal back into
the room, suffocating the man as he
slept. To make death certain, the
stove exploded, filling the air with
the noxious vapor.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
LIFE INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS
President Determined That Money
Shall Be Refunded.

Washington, Dec. 3.-Before he re
tires from office President Roosevelt
intends to have refunded to the policy.
holders Of the big three" insurance
companies the money contributed to
the Republican national committee in
1904 by the Equitable Life, the Mutual
Life and the New York Life. The ag.
gregate Of the contributions, made out
of the yellow dog funds of the com.
panies, was $14S, 900.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
d Will Resiqn.

1t is announced that Associate jus
lice Engerud will resign from the ~
preme bench early in the year. lA,
announcement was made seveEa,
weeks ago, and prominent attorneys "
the state united in urging him 10 y
main on the bench. After consldeElus
these requests he has announced la'
his resignation will be rendered uo'
ernor Burke soon after the inausu,a
ton. Judge Engerud will enter 'U'
practice of law at Fargo.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, Dec. 3.-Wheat ar.
rive and on track-No. 1 hard,
1890; No. l Northern, 77Ac; No. 2
Northern, 76%c; Dec, 1880; May,
79c; July. 1880. Flax-To arrive and
on track, $1.2O%; Dec, $1.2o; Jan.
$1.20%; May, $1.24A.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
Chicago Grain and Provisions,

Chicago, Dec. s. Wheat - Dec,
73hc; May, 7Sc. Corn-Dec.. 42Ac;
May, 43Rc. Oats-Dec., 33lAc; May,
35c. Pork--Jan, sl4.SO; May, $15.O5.
Flax-May, $1.18. Butter-Creameries
22A @30c; dairies. 20A @2GAc. Eggs
-24@2Sc. Poultry - Turkeys. l2c;
chickens, SC; springs, 8Rc.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
Larger Than First preadnouaht.

Portsmouth, Eng, Dec. 3.-The keel.
plates of another Dreadnought were
laid here by Admiral Sir Archibald
Douglas, the commandments at
Portsmouth, during the day. The new
battleship Will be larger and more
powerful than the first Dreadn0ughi.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
PEASANTS STARVING
MILLIONS OF RUSSIANS IN THE
voLGA DISTRICT IN NEED
OF ASSISTANCE.
Crops in Seven Provinces Are a Total

crops IN seven provinces Are a total
Failure and in Twenty Others the
Harvests Are Very Poor-Estimated
That Seventy-tive Million Dollars
Will Be Needed to Relieve the
Distress.
ST. Petersburg, Dec. 3.-Princes
Lvoff and Orbeliani, the representa-
tives of the Moscow zemstvo famine
relief organization, who have just re-
turned from the stricken districts.
have furnished the Associated Press
with the following facts regarding the
conditions in the famine provinces:
The crops in the sever provinces
of Samara, Saratov, Sembirsk, kazan,
Penza, Tambov and Ufa were practi-
caliy total failures. In twenty PROV
inces the harvests were very poor.
About 20,000.000 people will need as
sistance for from four to ten months
to stave off starvation until the new
crops are available. Though affecting
100000 900 persons the restitution is
far less intense than it was in 1891.
In some regions the inhabitants have
been suffering from starvation for ten
years, passible crops having been gath
cred in only two of the ten years.
Prince Lvoff believes the government
estimate of $50, 600, 900 for famine re-
lief is inadequate. The Moscow zemst-
vo relief organization calculates that
$75,O OO, 900 and possibly more will be
necessary.
Though the conditions in the famine
regions are now distressing far worse
may be expected in January. The
Zemstvo organization funds will then
be exhausted and the relief commit
tees will be compelled to cease their
efforts for the starving peasants. Prince
Lvoff complained that the local Off
Gals, for political reasons. are inter-
fering with the establishment of soup
kitchens and the rendering of medical
assistance.
He reported cases where petty func-
tionaries prohibited assistance being
given to famine sufferers. Epidemics
of hunger, typhus and scurvy, which
usually began in February, already
have appeared in three provinces
Tulla, KaZan and Samara.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
MAJOR MURPHY FOUND GUILTY.
North Dakota Politician Convicted of
Forgery.

Fargo, N. D., Dec. 4.-After being
out forty-eight hours the jury in the
case of Major J. S. Murphy Of Minot,
N. D., charged with forging county
road warrants, found the defendant
guilty. The convicted man has been
a leader in the politics of this state for
a score of years till defeated in his
own county two years ago.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
Run Down by Switch Engine

Henry Young, belonging to a 'a al,
road gang. was run over in the !"',
at Valley City and badly mangleo' oIl
leg was cut away above the knee a w.,
the other was crushed. He was 49,,
hurt internally. The doctors 40 w,
believe that he will live. lie W.,
working at the coal sheds ana S'epps1
back on the track for some rc''" 4
The escaping steam hid him Hun
switch engine, which ran him ho""
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
M urderer Sent Up.

Richard Kane, who has been on trial
at Towner, charged with the murder OIL
one Riordan or Kelly at Drake last
summer, has been convicted Of man
slaughter in the second degree and has
been sentenced to two and a half years
In the penitentiary. Both men were
"tinhorn" gamblers and became TO-
volved in a quarrel over a deck 81
marked cards, Kane claiming thai
Riordan had cheated him. Kane shot
Riordan. killing him instantly.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
MARKET QUOTATIONS.
Minneapolis Wheat.

Minneapolis. Dec. 3.-Wheat-Dec.,
75c; May, 1850: July, D%c. On
track-No. hard, 7sMc; No. l North
ern, 77ac; No. 2 Northern, 75Ac; No.
3 Northern, 1914 @73Rc.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
Chicago Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, Dec. 3.--Cattle -Beeves.
$AOOW7.4O: COWS and h%eifers, $l.GOm
6.25; stockers and feeders. $2.35m
$50: Texans, $375m4GO; Westerns.
$33OUG.OO, calves. $5.2 5 al. 90. Hogs
Mixed and butchers. $5.9O06.32h
good heavy, IS, rs m635 rough heavy
$bs0@605; light. $685. mG g7M pigs,
sb.6o46,lO. Sheep, s3.75 V5.40; lambs,
s4b0U7 go.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
St. Paul Union Stock Yards.

st. Paul, Dec. 3.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, $5.5O@6.25; common to
good, $3.25@4.00; good to choice COWS
and heifers, $3.5O@4.5O; veals, $4,000
SIS. Hogs-s5.8O@6.O5. Sheep-Weth-
ers, $4.5O@5.15; good to prime spring
lambs, $6.5O@7.25.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
Consul Miller Denies Report.

Washington, Dec, 3-Emphatic de.
NAL has been made by IT. y, Miller,
American consul general AT Yokoha.
ina. M the reports emanating from San
Francisco that he had predicted a
var between tho United States and
Japan,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
WEALTHY MAN ENDS HIS LIFE.
No Cause Assigned for Suicide of
Prominent Pittsburgh.

Pittsburg, Dec. Al. Lee Dillworth,
hfty-two years old and a bachelor, a
member of one of the Wealthiest fami-
lies of Pittsburg, committed suicide
by shooting. No cause can he as
signed for tho deed.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
OF A WEEK FROM Ma.
GUS PARTS OF THE STATE
Husband and Wife and Their tn.
Children Lose Their Way and tn.
Father and One Child Freeze
to Death.
to Death.

Vincent Spinler and wife and tr.
children of eastern Wells Countv 1 I"o
their way while driving home from '' "
neighbours and Spinler and one ch, .
were frozen to death. Mrs. spjn1ar ~
In a precarious condition. The mon ~
bers OF, the family were out ahou,
twenty-four hours before thew wors
found by the neighbors. WY
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
CONGRESS- AT WORK
LAST SESSION OF THE PRESENT
BODY OPENS IN PRESENCE
OF MANY VISITORS.

President Sends Long List Of Ap-
continents to the Senate and Sew
eraI Resolutions of Inquiry Are In
troduced Regarding the Discharge of
Coiored Soldiers of the Twenty
fifth infantry.
Washington, Dec. 4.-The Fifty
ninth congress began its last session
at noon. 1t took the senate fifteen
minutes to arrange its preliminaries
and the house an hour. The senate
received from President Roosevelt a
aong list of appointments for its con-
sirmation, and in an executive session
of nineteen minutes decided that as
the nominations had been received be-
fore the body had been organized for
mally to make no combinations until
the presidents annual message had
been received and the session fairly
started.
Senators Penrose of Pennsylvania
and Foraker of Ohio came forward
with resolutions of inquiry regarding
the discharge Of the negro troops of
the Twenty-ffth infantry. One was
addressed to the president and the 9TH
er to the secretary of war. After the
ripple of surprise had passed and Vice
President Fairbanks had suggested
that it was unusual to transact any
business until the presidents message
had been received. the resolutions
went over" by unanimous consent.
Senator Dupont of Delaware took the
oath of office.
witnessed by an animated throng,
which filled the galleries to their ca
pacity. Hundreds went away disap-
pointed in not gaining admission to
witness the session of either senate or
house.
Not in years has a larger number Of
members-elect of the lower house Of
congress presented themselves at the
speakers desk to take the oath of Of
ice. Death has been unusually active
among the, membership during the
closing days of the last session and
the beginning of the present and Chap
lain Couden feelingly called the atten-
ton of the body to the work of the
grim reaper during the months since
adjournment.
Mann Appointed to Succeed Hit.
Speaker Cannon appointed Repre-
h member of the board of regents of
the Smithsonian Institute, vice Robert
r. Hit of Illinois, deceased.
The galleries of the house were
crowded at an early hour. The alb
sence of flowers from the desks of the
members was much commented on,
but the order Of the speaker prohibit
commended for its good sense. a
similar rule was made in the senate
two years ago.
The routine work of the house Incl
dent to the opening day was quickly
dispatched, the roll call showing near
ly 300 members present.
Representative Bourke Cochran of
New York. who recently married Miss
Ide, was the subject of hearty laugh
ter when his personal request that he
be permitted to absent himself for an
indefinite period on account of bust
ness was laid before the house by the
speaker.
After the aDDointment of the usual
committee to wait upon the president
and inform him that the house was
organized and ready to receive any
communication he might desire to
make of interest to the public service,
the house adjourned out of respect to
the memory of the deceased members.
No bills were introduced in the sen.
ate. In the house there was 80 public
measures and $50 of a private charac.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-12-06
Miser Has Money In His Vest

Lot M%agnussen, a miser gray, asa
ger, was found dead AT '%,'el
Tho man lived alone and hnd ''" 4,
to "A passing boy, When the o' m
tered M%ngnussan was shhlli'h ID
breath Graenbucks amoun''hs \
Slbb were found sewed into the wv"
IN The dead mans vest,
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-04-28

A meeting is suggested, as will ap-
pear from communication in another
column, of all "of those interested in
good roads" and we concur with the
writer of the article in his view in
the matter The people generally be-
lieve, that much of the money spent
on our roads for years has been
wasted, and it is up to them to meet
and invite propositions for the better
m aking of the roads. The meeting in
no sense is intended as a reflection
either upon the supervisors or road
machine managers and will doubtless
have their approval. All of us want
good roads-how to get them is the
question. The supervisors, it is safe
to predict, will endorse any plan look
ing to that end recommended to them
by representative gathering of the
people of the county.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-04-28

Encouraging reports are being re-
ceived from the Western Shore of the
candidacy of Mr.. Ohio F. Mears and
backed by the people of AccOmac and
Northampton as he should be, it is
believed, he will be our next repre-
sentative in Congress.
No one questions his fitness for the
position or that he would discharge
the duties if nominated and elected
in a way that would be creditable to
himself and in the best interest OF the
people of the district-and can we
Withhold from him our support?
The Eastern Shore does not get
much in the way of favors politically,
and now that many on the other side
of the bay are willing to stand by us
shall we not be true to ourselves in
giving our support to one Of our
citizens in every way qualified for the
position, which he is seeking at cur
hands?
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-04-28
The Extent of 'FrIsco's Calamity.

The magnitude of the damage
wrought by earthquake and ire III
San Francisco is shown by compari.
son with the great Baltimore fire OF
two years ago
A rouph count of the blocks in the
burned area in San Francisco, as de-
fined i'm the latest dispatches, shows
that between 800 and 1000 BLOCKS are
in ashes.
In the Baltimore fire 70 blocks were
dies, rOved, and 20 isolated sections
around the water front, not classed
as squares, were burned over, making
total of 9S. .
The total number of buildings de-
stroyed in Baltimore was 1343.
The insurance paid on fire losses
was S32, 900, 000
If i343 buildings were burned i'll
Baltimore on 9S blocks, then nearly
~ times that number, or about To-
600. have gone up in smoke in San
Francisco.
If the insurance paid in Baltimore
totaled So. OOO, 900, an extension of the
same comparison would make the IN
surance loss in San Francisco more
than $500, 00C, 900. However, greater
portion of San Francisco's fire area
was in the tenement section and the
poorer residential part of the city
where the insurance loss per block
was much lower than the average per
block in the Baltimore fire. Therefore
fair estimate of the insurance to be
paid in San Francisco would be
about a quarter of billion.
The total number of acres burned
over in the Baltimore fire was 139.
Measurements of San Francisco's ap-
proximate burned area on a scale
map shows that about seven square
miles have been burned over, or over
1000 acres, or more than twenty times
the area of the Baltimore fire.
The loss of life is estimated al
about 1000.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-04-28
SATURDAY, APRIL %, 1906.

The Senate of Massachusetts,, by Il
majority of 10 to 4, has amended the
House bill appropriating $4,000 to the
jamestown Exposition by putting 4
rider upon the bill to the effect, thaV
the Governor of that State shall nrsV
satisfy himself that the people of that
State will be treated in Virginia as
they are in their own State; and this
means if the amendment is cOncurred
in by the House that Massachusetts
will have no part in the Exposition.
Indeed, we believe, it is now i'll
order for the people of Virginia
through the officials of the Exposition
to say, that they do not want any APP
preparation from that State.
No one believes, that decent peo-
pie visiting Virginia could be treated
in any other way than decently by
our people, and the people of Massa-
chusetts have shown too ugly a dis
position towards us to accept then
views in the matter.
AS the News-Leader says: "Nlr
ginia is not suppliant on her knees
to her sister sovereign State of Massa
chusetts begging her fifty Thousand
dollars for the jamestown Exposition
or for any other sum for any other
purpose. We invited Massachusetts
to be represented here at the celebra'
ton of the first permanent settlement
of white people on this continent
Naturally we expected her to respond
because the second settlement was OF
her shores and as the colonies grew
in strength Massachusetts, and Nir
ginia, although separated widely by
distance and in measure by cOndl
tons and the sentiments of their re-
spective peoples, were side by side as
leaders in thought and in the
vanguard of the march toward liberty
and greatness.
We would rather have no apprOpria
ton at all and, no representation from
Massachusetts than to have them ac
companied by any such proviso a
was suggested. Our self-respect i
worth very much more to us than an!
imaginable sum of money or than TIT
exposition itself. We believe Nir
ginians would be unanimous in pre-
fering to have a quiet little celebra
ton of their own without single out
slider present than to have visitor
and money contributions along witt
fiouts and jeers or assumptions o
superior virtue or expressions of doub
of our integrity"
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-04-28
Counties In the New lst District.

According to the redistricting bill
which passed at the recent session of
the legislature, the following counties
now compose this congressional dis
trict:
Accomack, Northampton, Lancas-
ter, Richmond, Northumberland, West
moreland, Gloucester, Middlesex,
Matthews, Essex, King and Queen,
Caroline, Spotsylvania, Elizabeth City,
Warwick, York and the cities Of New
port News and Fredericksburg,
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-04-28

The farmers will continue to get
free seeds through their representa-
tives in Congress. A poll of the House
shows, it is claimed, that two-thirds
of its members, including every
Democrat, favor an appropriation Of
$24O, 200 for the purpose. The agri-
cultural classes, they say, get prec-
ious little from this government for
the privilege of contributing to it's
support and they will not Withhold this
from them. The farmers are expected
to be thankful for small favors and,
of course, will be duly grateful to
their representatives for the interest
in their welfare.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-04-28
Inspectors Named by Fisheries Board.

The State Board of Fisheries in SEES
sion in the city of Norfolk last week,
adjourned in the afternoon OF FRIDAY
10 meet next month at Hampton,
when oyster navy officers will be APP
pointed. ....
At the close of the executive session
Friday afternoon, following the sec
ond public hearing of the day, the
board gave out a list of the inspectors
it had appointed. Only IL changes
were made.
Following is the list of appoint
ments made for the Eastern Shore;
Accomac: District l, o. NJ. Jones; ;
District ,, w. E. Lewis; District 3, j.
X. Harmon; District 4, J. r. brewer;
District s, divided into two-(a) Cor
nelius w. Parks; (b) Samuel f. Mar
shall; District 7, j. H. Walker.
Northampton: District 23,two chan
ges; (a) A. f. Dennis; (b) Walter
HURT, new; T. B. Smith, new.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-04-28
BUSINESS NOTICES.

FIVE DOLLARS REwARD.-For any
leading to recovery of
small dog (black and tan rat terrier
by name of pet" May
be located in vicinity of Painter, Va.
Owner will pay large reward for pos
session of same. Address
Miss Olivia Spady,
The Winona,
Baltimore, Md.
For SALE-Iron railing for grave
yard, good as new; cheap for cash.
w. B. Coxton,
Accomac G. H., Va.
LosT-Went adrift in Pocomoke
Sound, Monday, April 23d, u foot
yawl boat. Reward for delivery or
information to owners.
A. E. Tull Oyster Co.,
Marion Station, Md.
WANTED-Man to solicit passengers
at train and to do livery work.
H. T. White & Son,
BloOmtown, Va.
Wishing to change my
business l will sell my entire stock OF
Also offer for sale, cart,
road cart and harness, 400 nice locust
posts, rs bushels of seed oats, and a
fine Bursar colt, 8 years old.
Jno. M. Doughty,
Belle Haven, Va.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-04-28
Baseball.

The Parksley baseball team, COM
posed entirely of players residing in
or within a gun shot of the town OF
Parksley, bred and born there, none
of whom are paid or compensated
will play a series of games with any
team on the Eastern Shore of Virginia
which is composed of home players as
the above team. Address all com.
munications to the manager of the
Parksley Baseball Team, Parksley,
Va.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-04-28
The Body Of Paul Jones Inferred At
Annapolis.

Annapolis, Md, April 21.-Rever-
entity attended by the official head OF
the nation he loved and served so
well. by the ambassadOrial represen-
tative of the land in which he died,
bv the chief executive of the state
beneath whose sod his bones will find
their final rest, by naval representa-
tives of the United States and France,
and by thousands of the men and
women of the country whose first ad-
miral he was, the remains of John
Paul Jones were today given sepul-
chre in the crypt beneath the grand
marble stairway of Bancroft hall,
there to rest until the completion of
the chapel in which they are to be
deposited.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-04-28

Senator Daniel has introduced the
jamestown appropriation bill without
change from the bill introduced by
Mr.. Maynard in the House. 1t is
possible that the bill may be got
through the Senate before the House
takes action, in which case the bill
would stand a better chance of pas
sage, it is thought by some of its
friends. 1t is more than likely that
the bill will be placed on the sundry
civil appropriation bill in the Senate,
as rider, in which case its passage
would be almost assured.