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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-20
t1fWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ON FOREIGN SHORES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Washington Notes.

The president has appointed Cen.
S. NJ. B. Young, retired who was his
old commander in Cuba. superintend-
ent of the Yellowstone National Park.
According to q government report
just issued pearls to the value of
$500010 were found in the United
States during the year 1906. and other
precious stones to the value of $685..
600 were produced.
The war department has directed
the return &c duty as an assistant mil
itary aid to the president. Capt. Frank
Mccoy. Third cavalry, who has been
spending most of the Summer in Vel
lowstone Park with his troop. This
means that there are not likely to be
any more changes in the presidents
family of military and naval aids at
present.
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BUSINESS SECTION OF kENsAL,
N. D., is ALMOST COMPLETE.
" WIPED OUT.
loss WILL REACH $15o,ooo
RESIDENCE SECTION is SAVED
AFTER DESPERATE FIGHT
BY FlREMEN.

Valley City, N. D., Sept. 15.-Fire
which the townspeople declare was
set deliberately and maliciously, de-
stroyed all the business section of
Keasal early yesterday morning, with
the exception of the hardware and i'm.
plement store. The damage is esti-
mated at not less than $150,000, and
the insurance will not exceed 100000,
most of this having been on the stock
contained in the various structures.
1t was about half an hour after mid
night when the fire was discovered in
the rear of the Farmers Mercantile
company's building. An alarm was
Immediately turned in, but the flames
spread with intense rapidity in every
direction and it quickly became appar-
ent that the local fire department
could do practically nothing in coping
with them.
Outside Help Called In.
Telephone messages for assistance
were sent to Courtenay, and as soon as
possible the fire department from that
place arrived and joined in the fight.
The men were obliged to do much Of
their work within range of the walls,
which every moment seemed likely to
crash down on the fire fighters, but
the departments stuck to their posts
and only the most strenuous efforts
kept the blaze from being commune
Gated to residences.
Among the buildings destroyed was
the Central hotel, the guests of which
were forced to rush out with very lit
tie opportunity of saving more than
their clothing, so fierce was the spread
of the fire. The other main buildings
destroyed were the Farmers Mercan.
tile company store, in which the fire
was first started; the Peterson hard
ware store, the Holmes drug store,
VANS harness shop and the StinsoD
dry goods establishment.
Is Laid to lncendiaries.
Insurance was carried on the stock
III nearly all Of the places burned,
but the loss on the buildings will be
heavy. 1t is claimed that the rapidity
with which the flames gained head
way in all directions from their start.
ing point is evidence that the fire was
not due to accident, and the authori.
ties will make an investigation on the
theory that the torch was deliberately
applied.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-20
BEE TRUST PUTS up PRICES
SENSATIONAL ORDER ISSUED
FROM INSIDE OFFICE OF eia
COMBINE.

Chicago, Sept. IL. - A sensational
order issued Saturday from the in.
side Office of the beef trust hoisted the
prices Of all meats from to cents
pound.
Price lists were sent out to all job
bing. houses in the agreement to main
tain the price schedule, every one Of
these being under forfeit agreement
of $1,000 for violation, the money in
each case being deposited at the trust
office when the agreement is signed.
Cost Cents More Pound.
To the consumer the new schedule
means that meats of all sorts will cost
4 cents more pound across the
counter than at present.
Beef, pork, veal and hams were
raised from to 8 cents in the price
list placed in the hands of all sales.
ment for the jobbers Monday.
The wholesale price on 60O-poupd
cattle is now s 1-2. cents, raise of
- cents; 100-pound pork, loins,
II IL cents, raise of 9 -2 cents; 100
pound calves. - cents, raise of ;
cents; ten to fourteen-pound hams, IA
cents, raise of 2 cents.
Milk Also Goes Up.
Not to be outdone by the great pro
vision trust, the milk dealers of Chi
easo. the central market, added to the
cause for cereal alarmti with the an
nouncement that milk. already at pro-
hibitive price for the poor, will cost
the consumer l cent more per quart
and cream 2 cents more per quart the
first of next month.
The general provision dealers iii
Chicago oined in with the assurance
that canned goods, both vegetables
and fruits, will cost the consumer
from to 6 cents more per can than
formerly.
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EXPRESS TRAIN AND FREIGHT ON
BOSTON & MAINE IN COL,
LISBON.
QUE TO MISTAKE IN ORDERS
TRAIN DIsPATcHER's ORDER
CONFUSE TRAIN NUMBERS
TWENTY.sEvEN HURT:

White River Junction. VT, Sept. 16.
A fearful head-on collision between
the scuth-bound Quebec express and a
nolth-bound freight train on the Bos-
Ton & Maine railroad occurred four
miles north of Canaan station early
yesterday. due to mistake in the
train dispatcher's orders, and from a
demolished passenger coach there
were taken out twenty-five dead and
dying and, twenty-seven other passen-
gers, most of them seriously injured.
Orders Are Confused.
The conductor of the freight train
was >given to understand that he had
plenty of time to reach a siding by the
night operator at Canaan station, re-
ceiving, according to the superintend-
ent of the division. a copy OF a tele-
graph order from the train dispatcher
at Concord which confused the train
numbers 80 and "a.
The wreck occurred just after the
express had rounded into straight
stretch of track. but owing to the early
morning mist neither engineer saw
IllS Ollei > uGdullSlC ulllll tOO ldlS.
Coach Is Torn Asunder.
Both engineers set their brakes and
then jumped. while the two great loco
motives crashed into each other and,
locked in firm embrace, rolled into
the ditch.
The baggage car in the rear was
hurled back into the passenger coach
like a great ram and tore it asunder
from end to end Fortunately. with
the engines off to one side, the wreck
age did not take fire and add further
sorrow to the already dreadful scene.
The train hands. ably seconded by the
passengers from the sleeping cars.
CROPPED their way among the ruins and
began the work of rescue.
Msneled Bodies Dragged Out.
Great beams we're lifted. broken
joists were thrown aside and the
bleeding and nlangled forms were
dragged out. Wounds We're hastily
bound up and cuts stanched by strips
of bedding from the sleepers.
The neighborhood is sparsely set.
tied one, but the few farmers were
aroused and lent every aid to the work
of succor.
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General News Items.

Creditors of the Seldenberg-Steifel
company, one of the largest cigar
manufacturing companies in the coun-
try. have filed a petition in New York
asking that the company be declared
bankrupt and a receiver appointed.
State Railroad Commissioner Glas.
gov has issued statment that all the
railroads in Michigan have agreed to
adopt the 2-cent passenger rate law
when it takes effect, Sept. %.
SHIPMENTS of hard coal by the lake
from Buffalo during August amounted
to 4G5,373 tons, breaking the record of
July, when ,525 tons were forward.
ed to the upper lake ports by boat.
Former President Palma of Cuba, in
an interview given on his estate in
Byamo, stated that he is keeping aloof
from politics and is devoting all his
lime to agricultural interests.
Chairman Thomas K. Nedrlinghau
of the Republican state committee of
Missouri has resigned and Walter S.
Dickey of Kansas City has been elect.
9Q III HIS place.
The high tent of the Rechabites of
America, in annual convention at New.
port News, adopted a strong resolu.
ton against the restoration of the
canteen.
Stricken with apoplexy at Galilee
N. j., Brig. Gen. Samuel N. Mills, u.
S. A., retired, is dead. Gen. Mills was
born in Pottsville, Pa, in 1S43 and
was graduated from the military acad.
envy in 1865.
The great council of the United
States Improved Order of Red Men, in
sixtieth annual session at Norfolk,
adopted an amendment to the laws OF
the order prohibiting membership In
the future to all saloonkeepers and
bartenders.
The United States army transport
Thomas sailed from San Francisco
last week for Honolulu, Guam and
Manila, with nine troops of the Sixth
cavalry and a detachment of field ar.
dllery for the Philippines on board
in addition to large number of cabin
passengers.
Rev. A. T. Tillinghast of Minneapo.
Lis stated at Waterloo, Iowa, that he
expected to make his headquarters at
Waterloo on account of its central 10.
cation for the discharge of his duties
as superintendent Of the Universalist
churches Of Iowa, Wisconsin and Min.
nesota
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A 100000 shortage was discovered
in the accounts of the state tax COM
missioner in New Orleans. The police
are searching for Charles E. Letten,
clerk in the office, who is charged
with the defalcation.
A bald daylight robbery of the bank
in the village of Marley, Neb., occur.
red last week. The lone robber got
between $4,000 and $4,000 and escap-
ed, but is reported surrounded in a
cornfleld near Murdoch.
Edward ]. Hildebrandt, a painter
thirty years old, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head in
Chicago when about to be arrested for
the murder of Mrs. Maude Westerield,
at whose home he was to be board.
er.
When Mrs. Arch Fesman, revolver
in hand, burst open the door leading
into her husbands room in the Wilson
ho7el at charlottesville, Lucy Logs
den, waitress, who was in the room,
jumped out of a third story window
and was crushed so badly in the fall
that she will die.
Frederick L. Stone, chief of police
Of Dillon, Mont, was charged with
perjury in complaint fired against
him by County Attorney Melton.
Stone is accused Of perjuring himself
in a suit for divorce which he brought
against his wife, Carrie E. Stone.
Stone was arrested and his bond was
fixed at $500.
Masked robbers broke into and blew
open the safe in the Royal Savings
bank at Chippewa, Ont. A posse was
organized and at once set out in pur.
suit Of the robbers. Officials Of the
bank say that the safeblowers were
frightened away before they got into
the safety deposit box inside the vault,
where the most of the banks money
was kept.
Owing to the fact that on account OF
the great influx of homeseekers into
Billings, Mont, all of the hotels and
rooming houses being crowded.
an unusual number of robberies have
been reported to some Of those of the
cheaper class. One of the policemen
from Miles City ran upon some pick
pockets and as result lost not only
his roll of $50 but also his revolver.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-20
BIG GUNS IN LAND FRAUD NET.
Graft Probe Reveals Stealing That
Rivals Thefts in OREGON.

Washington, Sept 1.-THE govern
ment hopes to turn up some land
frauds within the next few months
that will rival the gigantic frauds un-
earthed in Oregon three years ago.
While Secretary Garfield and Commits
sioner Ballinger have not made much
noise about it, the fact is that they
have been doing more work in fer
reting out frauds connected with the
public lands of the West than their
predecessors did. 1t is said that sew
eral persons of national prominence
will be caughe in the net.
Investigations have been going Oh
in nearly every state in the West, and
it is said that the frauds unearthed
are appalling.
Steal Vast Area.
For the last two months E. P. Hol
combe, a special agent of the land Of
fee, has been in New Mexico making
a quiet investigation of alleged land
frauds perpetrated there by govern
ment officials and some big Eastern
capitalists. While the department will
give out no detailed information con-
corning the New Mexican investiga-
ton, it is known in general way that
some big corporations of the East,
through their influence with past ter
ritorial officers, have been able to COB.
BILE up vast area Of public land.
Big Guns in It..
The next most important investi-
cation is at Umatilla, Or. It is said
that the inspectors have found that
most of this big reservation has been
corraled through fraud by bankers.
lawyers and politicians of Oregon, and
that the grand jury which meets in
October is liable to indict some men
who are we'll known throughout the
country.
Two or three millionaires in Califor
mia are also slated for indictments this
fall. The department claims that they
are tangled up in land frauds perpe-
trated within forest reserves of Cali.
fornia. They would get dummies to
enter rich mineral lands as agricultu.
raj lands and then take over the land
from the dummies after patents were
issued.
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Accidental Happenings.

Clarence Henry, an employee of the
Fort Dodge, Iowa, Light company, was
electrocuted while changing a trans.
former.
William ]. Mulhall, farrier for the
First City troop of Philadelphia, and
we'll known college football player and
athlete, was killed by plunging head.
foremost over mustang he was at.
tempting to mount.
Fifty persons were injured at Tou
ion, ILL.,, by the explosion Of powder
or gas In the hardware store Of Wheel
er & Co., when firemen were trying to
extinguish a blaze in the basement.
BY the derailment of an east-bound
seaboard Air Line passenger train at
Wilcox creek, Ca, five persons were
seriously injured and many others cut
and bruised.
Venice, the ten.year-old daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Creveling of Leon, Iowa.
fell beneath a wagon heavily loaded
with lumber and died ten minutes az.
Tar @ the result Of her injuries.
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BOTH LOSE CHILD.

Parents Sue and Are Declared Unfit
for Her Custody.
Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 15.-De
Gliding that both Mrs. Alfred w. Colt
and her divorced husband, William
MCGOWAN, were unfit to have the Gus.
tody of their twelve-year-old child
Becnice, Judge Charles F. Templeton
yesterday awarded the child to Mrs,
Grace Lloyd, the widowed mother Of
Mrs. Colt, who resides in Grand Forks.
MCGOWAN failed to show that he
was not guilty of contempt of court in
taking the child to Canada for a year
and three months, in defiance of the
courts order that she be kept in this
jurisdiction, and the court fined him
$40.
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Foreign.

The first Jewish synagogue to be
erected in Moscow was opened last
week.
The situation in German Southwest
Africa has improved to such an extent
that the repatriation Of the troops is
about to commence.
Work has been resumed at Antwerp
on all the steamers, where 1000
strisebreakers are employed. No fur
Their disorders occurred.
The chamber of deputies of Peru
has approved the contract Of Alfred
McCune of New York for the construc-
ton of the Cerro de Pasco, Huacho &
Tcayali River railroad.
The Krupp works are building for
Japan about thirty twelve-inch guns
for use on board battleships, and they
are continuing the fulfllment of
contract made soon after the war
with Russia ended in re-equipping tho
Japanese field artillery.
The withdrawal Of DR.. Jose Gilfor.
tout, the Venezuelan representative
from the Hague peace conference
Sept. 4 was due to misunderstand-
ing. He will not only remain as a del.
agate, but President Castro has cabled
him how to vote on many questions.
The Chinese throne appointed
Taschon, Wang Ia Hsi and Ting She
Hmei to be imperial commissioners,
with instructions to separately visit
Japan, Great Britain and Germany for
the purpose of reporting on the con-
stitutional systems Of those countries.
Deputy Pinero has been challenged
by Senator Benito Villanueva, presi.
dent of the senate, to fight duel at
Buenos Ayres. Pinero, in the cham
Der, made the charge that the revolu-
tons in the provinces were fostered
by certain senators, among them the
president of the senate. Hence the
challenge.
An automobile in which Queen Vic
toria was driving from San Sebastian
to Bilbao was suddenly confronted by
large BULL which planted himself in
the roadway Immediately in front of
the queens car and compelled the
chauffeur to put on the brakes hur.
riedly and stop the machine. No col.
lision appears to have occurred, but
her majesty is said to have been
greatly affected by the unexpected
meeting of the bull.
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Tea time at the club. my 1ius.
band" said q little thing with golden
postiches- postiches are those new
sausage-shaped curls-"m my husband Il
a self-made man" Mine" And the
speakers grim lips lelaxed in . smile.
"-minc was made to ORDER" Above
the tinkle Of the tea things sounded
the heartiest applause.
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Wrono Bottle Fatal.

Deadwood, S. D., Sept. 17.-Word
has been received here of the acciden-
tai death of N. B! Cameron, a rancher
living on upper Redwater, near Farrell.
Wyo. Cameron had been ill. While
taking dose of medicine he got hold
of the wrong bottle and swallowed
carbolic acid
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-20
WOMAN LEADS MOB IN PARIS.
Protests Against Pardon Of SoIIeiIlant,
NioIator of Children.

protests against PARDON OF SoiIeIIiant,
NioIator Of Children.
Paris, Sept 1.-THE increasing in.
dignation of the masses against the
escape from the guillotine of Soleil-
liant, known as the "monstrous vio-
lator and murderer" whose sentence
to death for the atrocious murder of a
twelve-year-old girl was committed
last week by President Fallieres to life
Imprisonment, was expressed Sunday
in a series of the most curious public
manifestations that have occurred in
France for long time.
The demonstration, despite the fact
that several arrests were made, was
almost entirely an orderly one. Many
women participated. 1t was organized
not so much against Soleillant as to
express the voice of the people against
the wave of unspeakable crimes COM
mitted on little girls, which lately
have increased to an alarming degree.
Several thousand persons were en-
gagged in demonstrations at various
points Of the city, and especially large
was the crowd in the Place st. Am
broise, near which lived little Martha
Erberding, the victim of Soleillant.
The rage of the women of this dis
trict has been great since President
Fallieres showed clemency to Soleil-
liant. They assembled yesterday after
noon with their husbands and others
of their sympathizers, and were aug
mented in numbers by crowds of Gu
rious persons.
Their orderly cries for justice were
quickly changed to cries of Death to
Soleillant!" and Down With Fall
lieres!" as the procession, led by a
woman who carried little girl on her
shoulders with the purpose of indicat-
ing the obpect of the manifestation,
moved toward the Place de la Repub-
lique.
Soon the streets were choked by a
vast mob and the police reserves were
called out to dispense it.
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BATTLES FOR LIFE.

Farm Hand Wins In Test Of Strength
Against Shaft.
Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 15.-A test
Of strength which meant death if he
lost was INDUCED in yesterday on the
farm of Robert McGroch, near Devils
Lake, by big Gus" Olson, in charge
of the separator. In working around
the separator his coat cleeve caught
in the set screw on a rapidly revolving
pulley and his arm was being wound
into the gearing. With all his
strength he resisted the strength of
the shaft and pulled so that his coat
was torn from his back. He escaped
with dislocated shoulder and several
slight bruises.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-20
BANDITS RAID STATE BANK.
Robbers Dynamite Safe, Take $f,2ot
and ESCAPE.

Aberdeen, S. D., Sept. Is. - Three
bandits broke into the First State
bank early yesterday morning at Leo
la, wrecked the safe and escaped with
$1,000. The robbers were seen by the
Waterman, but no accurate description
can be given. They went through
from Wetonka in a box car, it is be.
lieved, and made their escape on a
handcar. coming in the direction of
Aberdeen. The police here are on the
watch and arrests are expected to be
made in few hours. The entire coun-
try was notified, and it will be impos-
sible for the bandits to escape. The
office and bank building were badly
wrecked,
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Crushed to Death,

Minneapolis, Sept 15.-John Eber.
harrison, young engineer on the Mil.
waukee road. was crushed to death
yesterday when his engine crashed
into freight train. A mistake in sig.
nails is said to have been the cause Of
the accident.
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THROWS HIMSELF UNDER TRAIN

Pat Noon Of Toledo Attempts Suicide
at Lake City.
Lake City, Mimi, Sept. Is. - A
stranger giving his name as Pat Noon
and his residence as Toledo, Ohio,
threw himself under the wheels of an
east-bound train and was badly hurt.
Dependency over his unsuccessful at.
tempt to stop drinking is the cause Of
the attempted suicide.
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DRAGGED BY HAY RAKE.

Farmer Falls Under Machine in Run.
away and Is Badly Hurt.
Sioux Falls. s. D., Sept. 15.-John
Vanecek, farmer residing in Bon
Homme county, was seriously injured
as the result Of runaway while en-
gagged in raking hay. The farmer lost
his balance on the rake and fell I'm.
der the machine.
One of Vanecek's ribs was broken
and his body was covered with cuts
and bruises. The physicians who are
caring for him have hope Of saving
his life.
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To Bust Doctors Trust.

Dubuque, Iowa, Sept. Is. - The
grand jury of Bremen county yester.
day returned indictments against four.
teen physicians for violation of the
state antitrust law, the medical So
ciety having raised fees some time
ago.
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WOMAN MADE INSPECTOR.

Miss Rose Purdut Of Madison Gets
State Job.
Madison, Wis, Sept. is. - Commits
sioner of Labor and Industrial Stats.
tics J. D. Beck yesterday appointed
Miss Rose Purdut of Madison state
factory inspector, to take the place of
Miss Odessa Kunz, who resigned to
get married. The salary is $1,000.
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5000 Pounds Of Powder ExpIodes.
Alton, ILL.,, Sept. 17.-Fifteen thou
sand pounds of powder exploded at the
Equitable Powder works at East AL
ton, killing Charles McGinnis AMI
shocking Charles ellison 80 that his
mind is temporarily gone.
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Prominent St. Paul Doctor Dead,

st. Paul, Sept. II. - DR.. Gottfried
Stamm, aged sixty-four, one of the old.
est and best known physicians in the
city, died at his home at 11:45 last
night, after an illness Of more than a
year. Death is believed to have re-
suited from cancer of the interes.
tines.
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Bolt Ienltes GAINESVILLE.

GAINESVILLE, Mimi, Sept. ia Sc.
we're electrical storm passed this place
early yesterday morning, doing great
damage. The barn of John Spect was
struck by lightning and burned to the
ground, with five head of horses.
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Killed at Same Moment,

Odip. ILL.,. Sept. 16.-Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Pool. hfty-six and flfty-two
years old. were killed at the same mo.
ment. the husband by an explosion in
a coal mine and his wife in the rail.
road yards ct Centralia. III. s.
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Fair Closes at ARLINGTON.

SsS0 - 5VH110SUUs
Arlington, MINI. Sept. is. - The
thirty-eighth annual fair Of the Sibley
County Agricultural society closed
here yesterday. The exhibits as well
as the races and other attractions out.
.classed all Of its previous fairs.