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Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17

Eleanora puse. the actress, who has
been Ill at Genoa with pneumonia
is now declared by her physicians .c
be out of danger.
Edward lie Marty, editor Of London
Judy. has been sentenced to two
months imprisonment for publishing
obscene advertisements.
The German government has author.
lied Gov. Solf of German Samoa to
purchase the former home of Robert
Louis Stevenson at Vailima for gov
eminent residence.
A wealthy land owner in the distric.
CT Jerez, Spain, has been arrested
charged with being in league with
bands of thieves who have been run.
ming off with sheep and cattle. The
bands operations have extended over
a period of twenty years.
The convention of the State Fedora.
ton of Labor at Stockton unanimously
adopted resolutions condemning the at.
titude of President Roosevelt on the
Japanese question and denouncing the
purposed employment of Chinese
coolies on the Panama canal.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
PONCE now SAT- Al ANCHOR
TowEp INTO PORT AFTER DRIFT
ING FOR DAYS WITH DIS.
AeLEo MACHINERY.

New York, Jan. 13.-The steamship
Ponce, disabled but safe. is riding at
anchor in st. Georges bay. the Bermu.
das. and her crew of fifty.two and the
seven passengers are reported "all
WELL"
This assurance was received direct
from Cant. w. a. Harvey by the New
York and Porto Rico Steamship com
pany last evening.
The Ponce was but two days sal,
from New York when her machiner,
was disabled. She sailed from Ponce
Porto Rico. Dec. &c and Dec. 20 broke
the shaft of the stern tube. Roughly
estimated the vessel was then 35(
miles from this port. which or,linaril,
she would have made Oh New Year.
day. Helpless. The Ponce drifrea fo,
ten days, her signals Of distress beine
picked I'M by the German steamer or
Jan, g.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
GAS PLANT BLOWS UP.

Killing Two and injurine Three Play.
ers at Card Party.
Wilmington, ILL.,, Jan. 13.-Two per
sons were instantly killed and dozen
injured here by the explosion of gas
plant in WOt,dman hall.
The accident happened while a care
party was in progress in the hall. The
gas plant was leaking and the two men
killed went into rear room to make
repairs. The explosion followed, and
the two men were blown through a
partition.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
news Of WEEK SUMMARIZED
IMPORTANT EVENTS At HOME
AND an FOREIGN SHORES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
WASHINGTON.

Representative Aiken of South Car.
olina introduced bill in the house for
the adjustment of tho Spanish treaty
claims commission.
The senate has agreed to resolu.
ton directing the secretary of war to
deliver to the state Of South Dakots
two mnzzle-loading cannons.
The military appropriation bill car.
lies $7S,000,O00, which is reduction
of about $6.000,000 in the estimates
submitted by the war department.
Birmingham, Ala, was selected as
The location of the new subtreasury by
a caucus of Southern senators and rep.
resentatives at the capitol in Washing.
ton.
The senate has passed the house
hill, extending the time for homestead
entrymen on land embraced in Sho-
shone Indian reservation in Wyoming
to establish residence.
The senate has agreed to joint
resolution granting to homesteaders
on the public domain three months
lCdVS vi dUSGIlce Ill S6CtlOnS WnefC
unusual climatic conditions result in
physical hardship.
The army appropriation bill passed
by the house included all amendment
opening the hospital at Fort Bayard,
N. NJ, for the treatment of tubercu-
1osis to the officers and men of the
navy and marine corps.
The secretary of the interior has re-
jecled the bids for the construction
works on the lower Yellowstone irriga-
lion project in North Dakota and Mon.
tana, and directed the reclamation
service to secure informal proposals
tor the work.
Sir Aston Webb, architect to King
Edward VII, was presented with the
institutes gold medal for distinguished
professional achievement at recep-
tion given in Washington by the Amer
lean Institute of Architects, on the fif-
lteth anniversary OF the institutes
foundation.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
People Talked About.

Richard Croker again denies that it
is his intention to return to the United
States.
w. H. Bailey, who was in charge of
the supplies for the army commanded
by Gen. Grant during the Civil war, is
dead in st. Louis
Oliver F. Lantz, treasurer of the
board Of foreign missions ut the
Lutheran Church of America, died in
Baltimore Of valvular trouble of the
heart.
Prof. E. T. Cox, prominent member
of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, is dead at
Jacksonville, Fla, aged eighty-six
years.
Gen. r. +. Patterson, formerly of
the Fourth Iowa cavalry and Twenty
ninth Iowa infantry, and more recent
ly consul general at Calcutta, is dead
at st. GATHERINGS, Ont.
Leonard McLashan, a wealthy re.
tired manufacturer who was the first
man to use power from Niagara Falls
for manufacturing purposes. died Of
typhoid fever in Los Angeles.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
NO AID TO FAMINE VICTIMS.
Chinese Government Merely Trying to
Break Up Camp.

Chinese Government Merely Trying to
Break Up Camp.
Shanghai, Jan. 13-Capt. Kirton, the
foreign relief commissioner in the
famine camp at Using Kiang Flu de.
scribes the refugee camps as consist.
ing of mat sheds, arranged in rectan.
gnlar groups in street formation, two
miles long and mile wide.
In camps in the vicinity of Using
Kiang Flu of over 100000 refugees, 80
per cent shows signs of distress and
among 10 per cent the suffering is
acute.
The efforts of the government are
confined to attempts to persuade the
people to return to their homes. Some
few comply. One hundred thousand
men are idle.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17

l. p. 4. Kretschmar, county auditor
It ths: county "f Mcintosh. state ri
'rt" Dakota. do hereby certify that
the above list was filed in INV Office
this 5th day Of January, 1907. and is
'"isned III conformity with tho nro-
visions OF section 8 Of chapter of
the Session Laws of 1903.
IN testimony whereof. herewith set
my signature and official sealS&his 9TH,
day Of January. 1907. ~
]. a. McoREGo}t
County Audit%
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
Struggled Jap. Caught.

Ell Paso, Tex, Jan. 13. - Six Japa.
nese, headed by q sailor in uniform,
were captured at Anapra. N, NJ. yes.
terday by immigration Inspector Cox.
The Japanese had smuggled them.
selves across the border by wading
the Rio Grande river. They are being
held. pending orders from Washing.
ton,
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
UNION GIVES UP STRIKE.

Demand for Higher Wages ls Not
Granted by Mines.
Glenrock. Wyo., Jan. 13.-The strike
Of miners at the Big Muddy coal mines
of Gov. B. B. Brooks and associates is
at an end. The union officials issued
orders few days ago, withdrawing
the pickets from the colliery. The
strike was inaugurated last March,
and evas a complete failure for the
union forces. The mine owners were
paying high wages. but the men were
not satisfied and wanted more.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
Guilty Of Murder.

Menominee, Mich. Jan. 13.-James
Lahiti has been found guilty Of muir.
dering Leander lsaacson at Metropoli-
tan Dec. 81. He was found guilty in
the second degree and will be sentenc.
ed to Marquette prison for twenty
years or more.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
Curtis vii, Be Senator.

Topeka. Kan, Jan. 10. - Congress.
man Charles Curtis was nominated for
United States senator to succeed Sen.
ator Benson by the caucus of Repub.
Iican legislators here last night. The
action of the caucus is equivalent to
election.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
BUSINESS BLOCKS SINK.
Dredging in River Affects Piiina Foun
dations and Streets.

SSs"S w ntvef AUeC1S PIIlnQ Eoun.
dations and Streets.
Milwaukee, Jan. IL. The question
as to whether the business district q:
The West side is sliding into the river
is occupying the attention of the city
engineers department. Grand ave
nue. and the adjacent property ana
Wells street as far as Sixth is slowly
sinking.
is asserted that The ground neal
the corner OF West Wafer street anc
Grand avenue has gone down at least
ten inches since computations began
to be taken at the city engineers of.
flee.
For the last ten years a large
amount of dredging has been done in
the river in the down town district.
To these causes City Engineer Poetsch
ascribes the slowly sliding of the
earth into the river.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
TWO suspeeta Arrested.

Chicago, Jan. 13. - William Purtell
and Lawrence Seaman were arrested
here on statements by the police Of
Rapid City, s. D., that they are wanted
there for setting fire to box car and
burning two men to death.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
Mano1)ed Beyond Identification

Bismarck; n D.. Jan. 13.-An un.
identified man was killed at Driscoll.
He was evidently run over by a west.
bound train. HIS head was crushed
TO a Jelly making Identification impos.
sible. -
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17

Washington, Jan. Is. - A general
service pension bill was passed by the
senate yesterday which, IL it becomes
law, will give to survivors 0f the
Civil and Mexican wars who have
reached the age of sixty-two years
$12 per month; SIS to those of seventy
and $50 to those of seventy.five years
of age.
The first argument il behalf Of Reed
Smoot was made by Senator Hopkins
of Illinois, who commended that the
senate had no authority to pass jMdg
ment on the private acts of its mem
bers.
The legislative appropriation hill
was taken up and read. Amendments
to this bill, including the proposed in
creases In the salaries of the vice pres.
dent, speaker and cabinet members
were not considered yesterday, but
will be taken up later.
House Breaks Record.
The house yesterday in an hour ana
thirty-five minutes passed 62S private
pension bills, an average of seven bills
per minute. exceeding the highest rec
ord ever made before.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
Friohtened 10 Death,

Philadelphia, Jan. 13.-Albert Lind.
say was frightened to death and two
men were severely burned by an explo.
sion Of molten metal in the finishing
plant at Baldwin's locomotive works
yesterday.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
Domestic.

Iowa college, at Grinnell, has been
notified of second gift of $4,000
from Andrew Carnegie.
Col. John E. Thayer of Lancaster,
Mass, has sold the great trotting stal.
lion Baron Wilkes to b. Knoll of Car.
thage, Mo.
The emigration for 1906 via Ham
burg and Bremen amounted to 381 1926
persons, an increase over the proceed.
ing year of 51,595.
Eighteen Cinnamon who had been
struggled across the river at Ell Paso,
Tex, were caught by immigration of:
ficers and will be deported.
A unique feature of the funeral OF
Mrs. w. T. Richards in Bozeman was
that the six pallbearers were the
grown sons Of the deceased.
The Northern Pacific railroad will
build central disinfecting plant at
Laurel, Mont, where the new yards OF
the company are to be built.
w. A. Sutherland. agent for the
Jamestown exposition, is in Manila
arranging a Filipino industrial and
chronological exhibit as private enter.
prise.
Rev. w. H. Foulkes Of Clinton, Iowa
who recently declined the presidency
of Fargo college, will go to the First
Presbyterian church at Portland, Or.
on March Is.
The American National Red Cross
has ordered, through the commissary
generals department of the army, the
purchase of 800 tons of flour for shin.
ment to China.
The United States now ranks thru
in the value of manufactures entering
the worlds commerce, the amount Of
its exports for the past year aggregat.
ing more than $700,000.0O0.
The first suit growing out Of the re
cent wreck on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad at Terra Gotta was filed in
| Washington by Mrs. Fannie Austin,
who asks for $4,000. alleging that she
received injuries while a passenger on
the train in collision.
Young Corbett severe beating in a
six-round bout before the National Ath-
letic club in Philadelphia. From the
first to the sixth round Murphy out
fought the former champion at all
stages.
The Tennessee house Of representa-
tives, under suspension of the rules,
unanimously adopted a joint resolr,.
tion indorsing the action Of President
Roosevelt in dismissing from the army
battalion of negro soldiers in con.
nection with the rioting at Browns.
vile, Tex.
That her husband, Louis Dingfeldt.
sought to sell or lease her. SO he could
get another woman" is alleged by Liz
zie Dingfeldt. aged twenty-five years,
in divorce proceedings in Milwaukee
She was granted a decree by Judge
Halsey upon testimony in support of
her statement.
A train loaded with coal was raided
! at the station at North Yakima, WASH,
BY citizens and almost twenty cars
we're carried of. The engineer started
to pull out, when the levers holding
the false bottoms of the coal cars were
pulled and the coal let down on the
tracks. Hundreds had been without
fuel for days, with zero weather pre-.
vailing.
New Hampshire's long.fought con.
lest for United States senator culnlina.
ted in the denomination Of United
States Senator Henry E. Burnham OF
Manchester by the Republican meLr
bers of the legislature. ~
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
Santa Claus In = flat.

The children are sleeping, the stoc,;.
ings are here:
IT'S time for old Sazia Claus soon to
appear.
Hark! Hark: 'Tis the whistle; t;,r
dumb waiter rises:
TITS dearest old Sanity. with lots o:
surprises!
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17

Does Santa Claus have much
trouble to get all his preseatsos" asked
little Tommy.
mo my boy replied his father,
sadly. 1.-THE only trouble he has is Il,
ray for ttenl.'
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
caal Famina In oman,e

Coat Famine In omemee.
Chicago, Jan. Is. - The interstate
commerce commission last night re-
:eived q telegram from Secretary
Loosely reporting that the town OF
Omemee, N. D.. is entirely out Of coal
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
Assyrians FiRe o,, Land.

Pierre, S. D., Jan. 13.-The party of
Syrians which went out into the vicin.
ity of Ottumwa several days ago to
look for homestead locations have re.
turned after looking over the country
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
Drowned Trying to Save eov

DroWned Tying to save Boy.
Riverside, Mich, Jan. Is. - Ebert
w. Gibson, principal of the schools
here. was drowned while trying to
save fourteen-year-old Harry Valance,
who had broken through the ice while
skating.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
MANY PERISH IN TIDAL WAVE.

Hundreds Washed Into Sea From
Dutch East Indian Islands.
The Hague, Jan. Is. - A tidal wave
has devastated some of the Dutch
East Indian islands, south of Achin,
The loss is very great.
According to a brief official dispatch
800 persons persisted on the island of
Tana. while forty are known to have
been drowned at the Island of Simalu.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
MUST TURN OVER $1,000, 900.
Missouri State Treasurer Directed In
Trust COMPANY Case.

Trust Company Case.
st. Louis, Jan. IL. - United States
Circuit Judges Sanborn and Hook yes
terday directed that State Treasurer
Gmelich turn over to the Mississippi
Valley Trust company's receiver some
81 100000 which he holds to guarantee
the payment of claims of the defunct
American Reserve Bond company Of
Kentucky, the American Reserve
Bond company of Delaware, the Colo.
NAL Security company and the North
Investment company.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
Crimes and Criminals.

William E. Church was hanged at
Warrentown, Mo-, for the murder Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Yeater on Aug. 80, 1903.
Two masked bandits held up an in.
terurban car near Brooklyn, ILL.,. rob.
bed the conductor and made, their es.
cape.
w. Dean Hayes, well known bank
err of Meeteetse, Wyo., was shot and
killed by w. l.. Smithson, an attorney.
The cause of the shooting is unknown.
Harris A. Allen, charged with EN-.
bezzling $1,000 as recorder Of the Kan.
sas City temple of the Mystic Shrine,
has been bound over 10 the criminal
court.
Charles Peterson, a laborer OF Chica
go. is charged with having crer:ated
the dead body of his child. He says
that he did not have sufficient funds
for funeral.
Richard Mccain shot and killed
Mrs. Sarah Graef at Dayton, Ohio.
Then he turned the weapon OH himself
and fired a bullet in his temple, but the
physicians say he will survive.
John S. Harris, former cashier OF
the Bank of Bass, Johnston & Co., at
Ashland, Mo-, recently found short in
his accounts, committed suicide al
Ashland, shooting himself.
James Price, a negro. was arrested
at Higbee, Mo-, on charge of having
killed Thomas Albright, a mine op.
orator at Frazier, Iowa, in 1902.
Price denies any knowledge of the
killing.
Some time during the night the safe
ty vault at the public library at Peoria,
ILL.,, was blown open and all records OF
the N. c. Dougherty case were stolen
and afterward burned in the furnace
IN the building. Dougherty is now in
the Joliet penitentiary and the destruc
, tion of these records may be the means
of releasing his bondsmen. The police
have no clue to the perpetrators.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
NO DRINK WITH SANDWICH.

New YORK Court says whole Dinner
Must 1e Ordered.
New York, Jan. 10. - Alcoholic bev
erages may be served at hotels on
Sunday only where food desired in
good faith for a meal is served, under
a decision handed down yesterday by
the appellate division Of the supreme
court. This ruling is a blow at the
"Raines law sandwich" Under pre-
vious interpretations Of the law liquors
have been served on Sunday to Gus
toners who ordered a sandwich.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
TWENTY DIE IN EXPLOSION.
Are Boiled in celuloid in strassburo
Bookbindery.

Bookhindery.
Strassburg, Jan. 13.-Sixteen girls
and four youths, from fifteen to eight
eel years old, were burned to death at
the village of Geispolheim, near here,
in fire at Hubert's factory. A basket
Of celluloid scraps caught fire from
spark and exploded in room where
forty persons were employed. The
flames spread quickly, cutting off the
exits. Twenty Of the employees were
driven by the fire to the end of the
room and persisted there
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
BRYAN IN A WRECK.
Thrown From Seat in Collision in Mon.
tana.

tana.
Great Falls, Mont, Jan. IA Mon.
tana Central train on which Mr., and
Mrs. William ]. Bryan were passen.
gers collided with switch engine and
stone cars in the Great Falls yards
yesterday. NJ. Connolly of Glasgow
was injured, while several others were
bruised.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan were thrown
from their seats, but not injured.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17
Casualty.

Inc censor has forbidden the pro-
duction Of a comedy entitled Captain
Won Koepenick" at a Berlin theater.
The store of the Henkin Mercantile
company was burned at Plainview,
Neb., the loss being estimated at $780,
900.
One man was killed and two in.
jured by the collapsing of two floors
of a partly demolished building in Bal.
timore.
A spark from a locomotive fell into
a key of powder at a mine at Wana-
mie, Pa, causing an explosion in
which eight mine workers were burn.
ed.
Roy Tabler, brakeman of Fort
Wayne, Ind, awoke in terror from a
dream that he had been killed in a
wreck. He was run over and killed
the same day.
While trying to rescue her cousin,
Joe Waniski, aged three years, who
had broken through the ice at Spring
Valley, ILL.,, Frances Moroweski, aged
sixteen, was also drowned.
Foreign.
The miners strike in Belgium Is ex;;
tending and there are many reports of
disorders.
The queen of Hanover, who has
been suffering for some time from in
guinal hernia, is dead at Gmunden,
Austria.
James Bryce, the new British am
bassador to the United States, has def.
nitely arranged to reach Washington
Feb. "a.
France has population of $685..
267, according to the latest census
taken. This ia an increase of only
290.322 over that shown by the census
Of 1901.
At meeting Of the Aero club in
London it was decided to send chal-
lenge for the James Gordon Bennett
aeronautical race to take place in St.
Louis in October.
AT the trial of the vicar of the ca.
thedral at Toulon, France, the court
decided that masses celebrated with.
out making declaration dc not con-
stitute violation of the law of 1881.
Mount Etna is evidencing signs of
activity. Smoke. ashes and flames are
emerging from the top of the volcano,
which is covered with snow, and the
people Of Catania are showing consid.
cradle apprehension.
The governments trade report just
made public at Buenos Ayres, shows
that during the first nine months Of
1906 imports from the United States
we're 27,O00.000 pesos in gold, an in.
crease of 100000 over the preceding
year. From Germany the imports were
$4,000. 900 pesos, an increase of 6,O00,.
900 pesos.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-01-17

Washington, Jan. -. - After more
than five hours spent in lively con,
sideration OF the subject of limiting
the hours Of service of railway EN-.
ployes, the senate yesterday passed a
substitute for the pending bill and
amendments on that subject, of which
Senator La Toilette was the author, as
he was Of the original bill. The sub.
stitute limits the time of train EN-,
ployes to sixteen consecutive hours OF
service, to be followed by ten hours
of rest. There was but one negative
vote to this action, that of Senator
Pettus Of Alabama. :
Exceptions Made.
The bill provides that under certain
contingencies and In case of accident
the time fixed may be exceeded. This
enforcement of the law is placed in
the hands Of the interstate commerce
commission and the federal courts, the
penalty provided being a fine of not
less than 500. nor more than $1,000.
The act is to apply to trains doing an
interstate or foreign commerce-busi.
uess.
Row In House.
The house yesterday not only was
the center Of a threatened personal
encounter between Representative
Gaines (Tenn.) and Representative
Mahon (Pa.). growing out OF Mr..
Gaines bill to dock" members for
chronic absence. but it also passed the
army appropriation bill and began the
consideration Of the Notifications bill.
Several amendments were made to ths
army bill.