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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26
OL-lvET.

Rev. Beers held Xmas services at
the church Sunday.
F. B. Churchill is scaling his
lumber preparatory to shipping.
Miss Hazel Jackson has closed
her school in the Reed district for a
two months vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kisner were called
to Rock Elm Sunday by the illness
of their little grandchild.
The Misses Myra and Anna
Patterson accompanied by their
brother Howard are spending the
week with their uncle at Brasington.
There was basket social held at
the school house Friday evening to
raise funds for the purchase of a
clock for the school. $1,000 were
cleared.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26
BELDENVILLE.

F. A. Severance was in Western
last week on business.
Mrs. Featherstone has been visit
ing in Minneapolis the past week.
Mrs. Geo. Hecox has returned
from her visit to her sister up north.
Dell Severance started last week
for Galveston, Texas, and other
points.
Mrs. James Cope, who fell and
broke one of her limbs recently, is
getting along nicely.
Miss Ida Cornelison, who was
clerking in Bert Thompson's store
has gone to Minneapolis and is
Clerking there in Donaldson's.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26

While we regard the financial
question as an abstruse and COM
plicated-one, and that its solution
should be relegated to banking ex-
perts to solve correctly, the propo-
sition of central banking institu-
ton in this country, similar TO that
in operation in England, looks like
the proper thing. The suggestion
seems 10 be Influencing the states
men of the country TO consider the
question with elaboration, and the
idea is gaining supporters.
There are SO insurance companies
doing business in this tate.--Eleven
of these have announced, that in
consequence of the drastic insur-
ance laws passed by the last legis-
lature, they will leave the state Jan.
next. These eleven companies
have nearly 500, 900 in force in
the state and represent some of the
strongest companies in the world.
1t is probable that nine more COM
panies will leave next March. These
companies say the recent laws are
prohibitive.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26
Neighborhood News.


closed for a weeks vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. TT. Moynihan
spent Christmas with Mrs. c. NAL
berg.
Mrs. M. Driscoll visited a few
days with her sons, Tim and ohm
Driscoll.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. Griffith Of Supe-
rior are visiting their sister, Mrs. ].
H. Moynihan.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Finn spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. I. w.
Finn in River Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Tingwall
spent Christmas at the home of their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Peterson
in Clifton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grove Adams and
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Weiss of Kin
nickinnic spent Sunday here with
Mr.. Adams parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. P. Adams.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26

1t would be sheer waste of time
and effort to ransack the stores
looking for wall papers when you
can sit in an easy chair in your own
home while l show you a full line of
the choicest patterns the season
affords.
The line for 1907 contains an end
less variety of wall papers for any
use-papers to suit every taste. If
you desire, l will be glad to offer
suggestions for the best treatment
of any particular room.
AUGUST BEORN. &
N. w. PHONE 81. RIVER FALLS, WIS.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26
Iceland.

Iceland lies near the Arctic circle
but it's climate is not excessively
severe. It is distant 500 miles from
Scotland and $50 from Greenland.
In length it is about 800 miles, in
breadth 200. It's area is about that
of Ireland, $4,000 square miles and
the number of inhabitants at the
last enumeration was about $4,000.
All the people are church members,
Lutherans. Not a drop of alcoholic
liquor is manufactured in the island
and no liquor can be imported.
There is not an illiterate in the
country, not child ten years old
unable to read. The system of pub
lie schools is practically perfect, be-
sides which there are special semin-
aries and colleges. Several news
papers are published and a printing
establishment puts out books on
various subjects. There are no
rich men and there is no proverty
among the people. No cereal is
grown in the island, but vegetables
potatoes, carrots, turr1ips and
several kinds of cabbage are
raised with Indifferent success.
The grasses, wild and cultivated,
are of the greatest Importance to
the inhabitants, The domestic
animals-the cow, the horse and
the sheep are raised, and cattle
and sheep are exported. Fishing
is an important industry.
There is no jail no penitentiary
and no courts in existence among
this ideal people. Noue are needed.
England has the strongest navy
of all the great powers. The ton
mage of its war ships figures up to
1888, Jig. This is greater than the
tonnage of the combined navies of
France, Germany and Japan, the
other three leading naval powers of
Europe and Asia. The navy of the
United States is now second only to
that of England. In battleships
England has So, the United States
%, Germany %, France 19, Japan
IL, Italy 10 and Russia S. While
Germany has the same number of
battleships as the United States,
the latter leads the former in weight
of warships by nearly 100000 tons.
The tonnage of the United States
navy is Gil, GIG, that of Germany is
529 032. When the battleships now
under construction in this country
are completed the United States will
have increased it's navy to a ton
mage of 771,151. In addition to
the vessels in commission and un-
der construction Congress at its
present session will undoubtedly
authorize the building of at least
four more battleships of not less
than 10000 tons each. In a few
years this country will doubtless
have navy of at least 40 prime
battleships. With these ponder
Gus armor plated warships carrying
heavy guns the nation has a large
complement of cruisers, gunboats,
torpedoboats and torpedoboat de-
StrOVerS.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26
FARGO.

Thos. Browell. has three sick
horses.
Teachers from here are home to
spend the holidays.
Among the Xmas presents receiv-
ed by Melvin Ross is fine mando-
lin presented him by the Ladies'
Aid Society.
Ray Nc Cueaccompanied by
Mrs. Frank McCue were over
from Minneapolis recently visiting
relatives here.
There was no school last Friday
as Principal Laughnan went to
Trenton to attend the funeral of a
little nephew.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike McCue OF
Diamond Bluff, who have been visit
ing their children here for the past
five weeks, went to Minneapolis
Tuesday to spend Xmas with their
children who are living there.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26
w. E. WINTER,
General Sale Agent for the
AMERICAN GRAPHOPHONE GO.

Creators of the talking machine
industry. Owners of the Funda-
mental Patents. Largest talking
machine manufacturers in the world.
Grand Prize, Paris, 1900; Double
Grand Prize, st. Louis, 1904; High
est Award, Portland, 1905; Grand
Prize, Milan, 1906.
Careful and repeated tests
prove that Columbia records retain
their wearing and musical qualities
twice as long as any other recordsy
Columbia Graphophones sold on
easy payments.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26

The annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Forestry association will be
held in the city of Washington, Jan.
20, 1908. The question of forest
preservation and reforesting is be-
coming to be widely considered and
definite and effective action taken
along this line. The general govern
ment has already set aside millions
of acres of timbered lands in the
mountainous regions of the country
as national reserve and it is also
doing good work in replanting GER
tain regions denuded of timber and
transplanting young trees in arid
prairie regions.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26

Following are the officers, elected
and appointed, of Kinnickinnlc
Chapter, No. 80, of the Order of the
Eastern Star.
w. M-Mrs. Helen Fuller.
w. Pc r. Morse.
A. M-Mrs. Elvina Harshman.
Sect.-Mrs. Sarah Sanderson.
Treas.-Mrs. Rhoda Campbell.
C.-MisS Florabell Allen.
A. C.-Miss Helen Pratt
Ada-MisS Blanch Allen. n
Ruth-Miss Edith Bailey.
Esther-Miss Sadie Johnson.
Martha-Mrs. Sadie Hawkin.
Electa-Mrs. Henrietta Carroll.
Chaplain-Mrs. Lydia Freeman.
Pianist-Mrs. Lou Haddow.
Warder-Mrs. Evelyn Chinook.
Trustee-Mrs. Marion Brier
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(Tex.) Echo.

Meetings every Sunday evening
at $50 O'Clock in the parlors of the
Congregational Church. Topic for
December 20 Foreign missions;
The coming Triumph of the Cross;
How may we Hasten it?" lisa. II:
l-IO."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26

stinginess, equal parts. Whatever
children cry for must be bad for
them, according to the pure doc
trine of original, sin besides, it costs
money. l know families in the
rural districts yet where the head
of the family groans over every
dollars worth of sugar that comes
into the house as sinful and un-
wholesome luxury"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26
|. N. Nichols w. r. c.

The officers of I. N. Nichols w.
r. c., No. 81, elected for the ensu-
ing year are as follows:
PreS.-Emma Sweet.
S. v. P.-Abbie Maier.
Nv. P.-Emma Burnett.
Treas.-Christy Wales.
Chap.-Judith Rogers.
Con.-Ella Tomlinson.
Guard-May Hyatt.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26

Shoe your horses with the Steel
Center Heel and Toe Corks at H,
w. Thomson's Horse-Shoeing shop.
These corks sharpen as they wear.
No extra charge for these. Thorn
son also has on hand the Never
Slip shoes and corks.
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DONEGAL.

Frank Kolar is visiting friends at
Minneapolis.
Chairman John Finn made bust
ness trip to Martell recently.
The schools in this vicinity are
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-26
CHRISTMAS
SUGGESTIONS

Gold Watch
Diamond Ring
Fountain Pen
Cut Glass
Silver Knives
Forks and Spoons
Sewing Machine
Violin,
Mandolin
Guitar
Electric Table
Lamps, Etc.
c. F. Winter, ,sr re:
Sign of the Golden Star.
River Falls, - Wisconsin
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Saved the Prize.

Here is a camplete sentence in
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Stand
Took
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To
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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
STATE FAIR TENTS FALL.
Canvas Torn, Goods Scattered and
Timbers Broken by Hard Wind.

Canvas Torn, Goods Scattered and
Timbers Broken by Hard Wind.
A terrific wind storm struck the
state fair grounds Saturday afternoon
shortly after 3 o'clock. Nearly all the
tents of the Barker Amusement com.
pany were leveled, as we'll as half of
the tents occupied by persons having
fair concessions.
Only two were reported injured.
"Slim" Hirsch. an employee of the car
nival company. sustained sprained
ankle. and little girl had her face
cut oy flying glass.
The wind struck the tents with it,
tie warning. Heavy pieces Of timber
were smashed, tents iron and goods
scattered. The Parker company was
hit the hardest, the storm so damaging
the tents that it was impossible to
give any performance Saturday even
ing.
Following the wind which lasted
only few minutes, there was fall of
hail. Most of the people had secured
shelter in the buildings and SO escaped
injury. No performances were on in
the Parker tents. as on other after
moons, or stampede and loss of life
must have resulted.
The fair close; Saturday night and
was the most successful ever held in
North Dakota. There was grand dis
play of fireworks at the close.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
BROTHERS ARE MISSING.
Two Men Are Believed to Have Been
Drowned While Swimming.

Two wen Are Believed to Have Been
Drowned While Swimming.
A man named Bloomstad, who has
claim close to the Cannon river fer.
ry, near Mandan, reports his two
brothers missing and the indications
are that they have been drowned.
The two missing men had adjoining
homesteads close to the Missouri riv-
err, about mile from that of their
brothers., whose claim was near tho
hills. About week ago Bloomstad
went to his brothers claims but could
find no sign of them. The houses were
closed; stock in the corrals; dogs
chained up and horses in the barns.
Indications were that the animals had
not been fed for several days and that
the owners of the homesteads had not
been around for some time
A search has been made for the
missing men, but up to the present
time they have not been located. It
is the general opinion that they went
swimming and in some manner were
drowned.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
BRITT WINS FROM NELSON
CALIFORNIAN GETS DECISION At
THE END OF TWENTY
ROUNDS.

San Francisco, Aug. Jimmy Britt
of San Francisco gained the decision
over Battling Nelson at the end Of
twenty rounds of as fast and pretty a
fight as has been seen in San Fran
cisco in many years. At no time was
either man in danger of a knockout
until near the end of the last round,
when Britts right and left swings and
uppercuts, which he landed one after
another at will on Nelson's face, all
but put the Dane down and out. Mel.
son did the greater part of the leading
from start to finish, but he was out
done by Britt in cleverness, ring gen.
eralship and everything but gameness
and ability to take punishment.
eritt's Defense Perfect.
Referee WEIGH, after announcing
his decision, gave Nelson only two
rounds out of the twenty-five second
and the seventh.
BY his game fight Britt wiped out
finally the aspersions that some for
mer battles had placed upon him. He
showed that keeping away from his
adversary is the chief part of his ring
generalship. His defense showed up
better than ever before, and has accu-
racy was never as marked. He found
his man almost at will, and from the
tap of the opening gong to the end of
the last round there was no lack Of
steam in his blows.
Nelson Disappoints.
If anything, he showed up stronger
In the last five rounds than in the first
fifteen, while in the last half of the
fight Nelson's hitting powers obvious
ly diminished.
While Britt took no foolish chances.
he gave Nelson plenty of close-quarter
opportunities to put him out If the
Battler had been been able to land.
Nelson disappointed many of his ad.
mirers by his wildness. In the last
eight or ten rounds he swung right
and left for the face scores of times,
and missed by small margin.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
MAGI[L AND HIS
BRIDE INDICTED
CHARGED WITH CAUSING DEATH
OF THE BANKERS FIRST
r WIFE. So,
SIX COUNTS AGAINST EACH
CROWDS FOLLOW THE PRls'
oNERs IN THEIR WALK TO
THE JAIL.

Clinton, ILL.,, Aug. 4.-The grand jury
which has been investigating into the
death of Mrs. Pet Magill, the first wife
of Fred Magill, banker, who with his
second wife is in Jail here, having been
brought back from California to an
swer the charge of having caused the
death of Mrs. Pet Magill, yesterday
returned one indictment against Ma
gill and one indictment against Mrs.
Faye Graham Magill.
The indictments were exactly alike,
each containing six distinct counts.
The six counts in each are as follows:
That Mrs. Pet Magill was murdered
by the administration of strychnine
poison; that the murder was done by
arsenic; that she was smothered with
quilt; that she was strangled to
death by chloroform; that she commit
ted suicide as the result of compact
and agreement with the defendants
and by their advice and counsel; that
her death was caused by the defend
ants, by some means unknown to the
grand jury.
Followed by Crowd.
Magill and his bride of four weeks
were in the crowded court room when
the indictments were returned.
AS soon as the indictments we're
filed the prisoners were hurried out of
the court room and locked in an ante
room with the sherlff's wife, where
they remained until court took re-
cess. AS the prisoners, escorted by
the sheriff and his wife, came out of
the court house thousand men, wom-
en- and children surrounded them,
eager to see Magill and his wife. Sew
eral men called out, Hello, Fred!" to
which Magill replied, but neither of
the prisoners paid much attention to
the crowd that followed them during
their walk Of five blocks to the Jail.
Ask EARLY Trial.
During the afternoon session Judge
Cochran sustained motion to quash
the sixth count of both indictments
He overruled the motion to quash the
other indictments, holding that they
were good.
The defense Immediately filed mo.
tion to consolidate the two cases, so
that both husband and wife would be
tried together, and the court took this
under advisement.
The defense then asked that the
cases be set for trial as speedily as
possible, and Judge Cochran announc-
ed that Nov. 9 would be the earliest
possible date, but after considerable
argument of this subject the Judge ad.
journed court until to-day. when he
will decide whether the trials shall be-
gin next week or in November.
The defendants were then arraigned
and pleaded not guilty.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
MRS. HeooER,cH WINS CASE.
Court Says Indian Marriage Never
Took Place.

Court Says Indian Marriage Never
Took Place.
Judge Goss, in the district court at
Williston, has decided the famous He'd
derich will case in favor OF the widow,
Mrs. Grace D. Hedderich. The amount
involved was 100000, and there were
many unusual features in the case
which caused it to attract much at
tention throughout the Northwest.
When he died in May, 1906, He'd
derich left a will bequeathing his en-
tire estate to his widow, but when the
instrument was offered for probate
half-breed from the Fort Peck Indian
reservation in Montana interviewed in
the proceedings, claiming to be son
of Hedderich by previous marriage
to his mother, a fullblood sQuaw. The
marriage is alleged to have taken
place at Woody Mountain, Can, in
1879, according to the Indian rites and
customs. This was seven years before
the marriage to the present Mrs. He'd
derich. Judge Butler. of the probate
court, denied the right to intervene on
the ground that the relationship was
not proved, and from this an appeal
was taken and jury trial demanded.
The case was tried before Judge
Goss and large number of Indians
and half-breeds attended the trial.
which occupied two weeks. Among
the Indian witnesses were Old Thun.
dering Bear, who was participant in
the Custer massacre of 1876; Kid
Moran, who was official interpreter for
the Canadian government upon the
trial of Louis Riel in the Canadian re-
bellion of 1885; Joseph Legare, the
French Canadian who brought Sitting
Bull over the line and surrendered him
to an army officer in 1881, and many
other characters prominent in the
early history of North Dakota, Mon
tana and Western Canada.
The evidence showed that He'd
derich was teaching school in Indiana
at the time the marriage was alleged
to have taken place and that he did
not go to the Northwest until the con-
testing half-breed was about a year
old. Judge Goss now decides the case
on all points, holding that there never
was any marriage and that the half
breed is not the son of Kedderich nor
entitled to any share in his estate.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
BLOODY BATTLE IN CHINATOWN.
Three Cinnamon Killed and Seven In.
jured In Boston Street.

Three Cinnamon Killed and Seven In.
jured In Boston Street.
Boston, Mass, Aug. 4. Burning
with hatred for their deadly enemies
belonging to the rival On Leong Tong
society, band of New York China.
men, numbering a dozen or more, and
said to be members of the notorious
Hop Sing Tong organization, entered
a narrow alley in Chinatown last night
and drawing revolvers opened fire up.
on half a hundred Cinnamon, killing
three and injuring seven. At the first
volley the Cinnamon rushed for their
quarters, stumbling over one another
in their haste to reach shelter.
Shot in Own Doorways.
The Hop Sing Tongs chased their
victims into their own doorways and
shot them down. Then, casting away
their guns, the strange visitors ran
through the Chinese quarter, most Of
them escaping the police.
Immediately after the shooting one
of the Hop Sing Tong men from New
York was captured as he was running
away. He gave the name of MIN Sing.
Later Hong Woon of New York, whose
hands were powder stained, was taken
into custody. Both prisoners are
charged with manslaughter.
Fifty Shots Were Fired.
The police arrested seven other
Cinnamon on suspicion, who are stran.
gers in the local colony. The shooting
occurred in Oxford place, in the center
of Chinatown. Fully fifty shots were
fired.
The trouble is attributed to the
shooting which occurred in Philadel.
phia recently, for which it is said Bos.
ton Cinnamon were partly to blame It
is thought the Cinnamon who did the
shooting last night came from New
York to punish the On Leong Tongs
for the Philadelphia outbreak.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
Injured Catcher Dies.

AS the result of injuries received at
ball game at Marston Moor last Sun
day Thomas Holmes. twenty-five years
old, who has been holding a claim near
Medina, is dead. Holmes was catching
for his nine when runner Cannon
ed" into him. Holmes was thrown
and his leg broken. The injured limb
was set and everything seemed to be
going all right when interna: injuries
suddenly developed. Wednesday
Holmes sunk into stupor and did not
again regain consciousness.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
Liquor Sale CHARGE.

Charged with selling Intoxicating
liquor, Mat Sandie, who has been run.
ming pool room at Doyon, has been
arrested and now awaits trial before
the district court. He YVES found to
have a government liquor license in
his place of business, SO he cannot be
proceeded against by the federal au.
thorities. From what can be learned,
Sandie has not been selling beer or
whisky, but, it is alleged, has been dis.
pensing beverage said to have intox,
icating properties.