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Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28
Sen. SMOoT flAYS POlIGAMY
SAYS PLURAL MARRIAGES ARE
CROWNED UPON BY NOR.
MON CHURCH.

Washington, Feb. 81. - Speaking in
his own defense before the senate
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah condemn.
ed polygamy in the strongest terms.
declared that polygamy does not now
exist in Utah. and insisted that he had
never taken an oath as apostle in the
church which would in any way pre-.
vent him from discharging the duties
OF q senator and citizen with the ut
most fidelity. He himself had never
had but one wife. and would not think
Of giving his personal sanction to any
other arrangement in the case of other
members of the Mormon church.
PoIygamy Dead Letter.
In support of his contention that
polygamy was dead letter among the
Mormons, Mr.. Smoot took up in great
detail the early campaign against the
practice by the government and the
tacit agreement on the part of the
church to abandon it. The Mormons,
he said. at first defended their rights
in this respect as part Of their reli.
gion. Finally. wishing to obey the law
Of the land. they agreed to stop tho
practice. and in 1890 manifesto was
issued disseminating plural marriages.
In closing" he said. "let me say
under my obligation as senator that
have never taken any oath or obliga.
ton. religion or otherwise, which con.
tlicts in the slightest degree with my
duty as senator. owe no allegiance
to any church or other organization
which in any way interfere with my
supreme allegiance, in civil affairs, to
my country-an allegiance which
freely, fully and gladly give"
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28
People Talked About.


Isaac NJ. keeler, for more than fifty
Years editor of the Fremont (Ohio)
journal. died, aged eishty-five years.
Bishop Edward Fitzgerald, Catholic
bishop Of Little Rock diocese, died ut
st. ,loseph's infirmary at Hot Springs.
Ark.
Dr. Fri 3. Hubert, dean of the d.
vini,y school of the University of Chi.
cage, died of pneumonia after a brief
illness.
Robert A. Telford. an old settler OF
Olmsled county. Minnesota and vet
cran of the Civil war, is dead at Byron,
MINI. His wife died within the last
year
Gen. George z. Bryant, political god
father Of Senator La Toilette and one
of the most prominent old settlers OF
Wisconsin. died at his farm near Madi.
son.
Robert Lindblom. for many years q
leading business man of Chicago, is
dead Mr.. Lindblom was president OF
the civil service commission for four
Years.
Francis J. Carmody, assistant Unit.
ed States district attorney for the
southern district of New York, died in
Washington as a result Of nervous
breakdown. He was a son-in-law OF
Senator Plat
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28
GORGE IS THREE MILES LONG
BOTTOM LANDS ARE MANDATES
AND CONDITIONS ARE VERY
SERIOUS.

Vermillion, 8. D., Feb. 20.-With lit
tie prospect of the ice gorge breaking
here for several days and reported
gorge near Springfield that may break
at any minute. conditions are very Sc
rious here. The river fell eighteen
inches yesterday afternoon, due proba-
bly, to gorge farther west. The pros
poets for warmer weather are good,
and under hot sun for two days that
gorge might go out. The ice is piled
up for three miles in length.
Three miles of railroad track is un
der water southeast of this city.
During the day the water rose rap
idly, backed up by an immense ice
gorge at Burbank, inundating all bot
tom lands. The water has made a
breach in the grade of the Milwaukee
track between Yankton and Sioux
City, interrupting traffic between the
two cities.
Thousands of hogs and hundreds Of
cattle were caught and drowned.
Hundred Homeless families.
One hundred families have been
made homeless and farmers along the
river are greatly alarmed. Not since
the great flood of 1881 has the water
been so high as yesterday.
The ice in the Missouri river began
moving at Chamberlain yesterday aft,
ernoon. During the last forty-etght
hours the river there has raised more
than six feet, record for February.
The Milwaukee company has large
force at work there strengthening the
trestle railroad crossing, which is con-
sidered to be in danger.
The steamboat Bachelor and ferry
boat owned by Capt. Joe Leach We're
sunk at Yankton by ice running in the
water. The loss is $4,000. There is a
large ice gorge above here, but there
is no damage yet.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28
Casualty.

The two-yearold daughter of John
Beddow of Manchester, Iowa, is dead
from eating strychnine pills.
John hilbert, Ralph Schertner ana
Laurence Nye, boys, broke through
the ice and were drowned in Rock riv-
err at Dixon, Ill.
Foreman Sutton and three Of his
crew were killed by a dynamite ex-
plosion near Hazel Patch, Ky. The
bodies were blown to atoms.
The Chicago Pavific express was
wrecked in the yards at London, Ont.
One trainman was killed and the 400
passengers received severe shaking
up.
The two-year-old daughter of ]. T
O'Connor of Iowa Falls, k1wa, is dead
as the result of burns received in over
turning a vessel containing boiling
water and I've.
One woman was killed and two 9th.
er persons were fatally injured when
the buggy in which they were riding
was struck by passenger train at
Adrian, Mich.
Mrs. Joseph Various and Mrs. Hell
en- Ignat were instantly killed at Fin.
leyville, Pa, by train. The women
stepped off a side track to avoid a
freight train and were run down by
the express.
While assisting in removing tires
from locomotive drive wheels at the
Milwaukee shops at Mason City, Iowa
Albert Zilke was pinned under one
which slipped from its fastenings and
had his legs crushed.
The fact that spreading rail caused
the wreck of the White Plains express
on the New York Central railroad, III
which twenty-one persons were killed
was developed at the coroner's inques,
in New York.
The barge Girard, coal laden, went
ashore .eaT the Highland Light life
station and two of her crew were
drowned. Capt. Larsen and another
member of the crew were saved by
the life savers. The barge will be {
| total loss.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28
war IS DECLARED !
BY HONDURAS.
ACTIVE POSSIBILITIES IN CENTRAL
AMERICA HAVE COM.
MENCED.
MARCH AGAINST NICARAGUA
MOST FORMIDABLE uPHEAvAL
EVER KNOWN IN CENTRAL
AMERICA,

City of Mexico. Feb. 24.-"War is an
actual condition in Central America.
said Under Secretary of State Algeria
last night
we have received a message from
me MeXican consul general at Gegu.
ctgalpa, Honduras, which saws:
Minister of Foreign Affairs Dillon
announces that active war has heen
declared against Nicaragua. President
bohllla is now at the head OF the Hon.
aufas troops and marching to the
!rohtler to meet the forces of Presi.
dent Zelaya.'"
Salvador Will Get Into 1t.
In response to question as to the
attitude of Salvador in the struggle
Mi. Algeria was reticent. but when
assured that the Associated Press had
received information that this republic
would become involved as an ally of
Honduras he admitted that the denart.
ment had received kilograms corrobn
rating this.
A high official. who asked that his
name be not used at this time, said-
Involve All Central America.
You may state that this upheaval
perhaps will be the most formidable
that has ever occurred in Central
America. At first it will be Honduras
and Salvador against Nicaragua, but
from information which we have oh
tanned we know that Guatemala will
be the ally of Nicaragua.
This will mean that all Central
America will be in state of war, with
the exception of the republic of Costa
RIGA. AS to her attitude we are uncer.
tain"
1t has been officially stated that the
proposed Intervention of the United
States, Mexico. Guatemala. Salvador
and Costa RIGA in the Nicaraguan dis.
pue was initiated too late to secure
the desired results.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28
General.

Harry Lewis of Philadelphia receiv
ed the decision over Twin Sullivan in
tel.-round bout in Denver.
Charles Hackenschmidt of Des
Moines. Iowa. was defeated at wrest-
ling at Denver by NJ. J. Dwyer.
In the Democratic primaries in Chi
cago Mayor Dunno won victory in
the mayoralty contest. His opponent
was Former Mayor Harrison.
Plans for new city hall at Des
Moines to cost not more than $350.ooO
and containing 100000 cubic feet have
been asked for by the city council.
Officials of the Waterloo, Cedar
Falls & Northern Electric railway
have summarily dismissed all of the
officers of the union recently formed
among its conductors and motormen.
According to the report of the state
examiner, who has been investigating
affairs in Fairfield, Iowa, the people
OF that place seem to break l cents
worth of law day. The investigation,
which covered a period of three years
anu nine ulOllluS, UioClOoCu lilc IeCt
that during that time just $13 in fines
had been paid into court and turned
over to the city treasurer.
Residents all over Central and East
arn Washington, Northern Idaho. in.
GLIDING the Panhandle, and North
eastern Oregon, are evincing great in
terest in the proposal to create new
state in that territory.
Because of lack of proper subsidy
encouragement the Boston Steamship
company's vessels Lyra, Hyades and
Pleiades will be withdrawn permanent
~ from the Oriental run. The steam
ships fremont and Shawmut will con
tinue to visit Oriental ports until
June 1.
Mrs. c. NJ. Whiteside of St. Iynace.
Mich. has hen that recently laid an
egg that was a decided curiosity. 1t
was seven inches in circumference
one way and eight and three-quarter
inches the other. The egg contained
three perfect and full-sized yolks.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28
From Other Shores.

The governor of the port of Baku,
Russia, has been murdered.
Princess Clementine of Sake Coburg.
Gotha, mother of Prince Ferdinand OF
Bulgaria, died at Vienna.
a house at Campo Basso, Italy, col
lapsed during heavy storm. Three
persons were killed and several in
iured.
AS result of the prolonged strike
by the men employed in the largest
factories at LODI, Russia, not less than
$4,000 families of LODI are in dire
straits for want of food.
Alexander Fullerton, secretary OF
the Theosophical society, announces
the death at Adyar, India, of Henry
Steel Olcott, co-founder with Nine.
Balvatsky of the theosophists in this
country.
A bill having been introduced in
the house of commons to give the SUI
frage to married and rate-paying wom-
Ell. the suffragists have decided to
cease their campaign pending the dis
cussion of the bill.
The refusal of the Rothschilds to
float the coffee loan has caused a sen.
sation at Rio Janeiro. The Journal de
Commerce. says the rebuke should
convince the government that the cof-
fee scheme is dangerous adventure
which should be dropped.
In spite of the daily bulletins issued
by the government announcing i'm
provement in President Castro's
health, he has gradually weakened
since he underwent the recent opera
ton, and his condition is now more
serious than ever before. 1t is even
affirmed that his physicians entertain
no hope of his recovery.
Archbishop Vilatte, head of the in
dependent Catholic movement in
America, who recently made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to organize a national
French Catholic church and who has
been denounced by the Vatican, has
announced he will bring suits for libel
against newspapers that have called
him a fraudulent prelate.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28
TELLS SON TO KILL FATHER.
Tragedy at Page, N. D., Grows Out Of
Standing Family Quarrel.

Long.Standing Family Quarrel.
Fargo. N. D., Feb. 20.-Fred Cramer.
a painter Of Page, this county. was
shot and killed by his sixteen-year-oid
son.. Arthur, who says he acted under
instructions from his mother who al.
mits that she told the boy to shoot.
Mrs. Cramer and the boy are in the
local Jail awaiting trial, which will
probably occur Feb. &c.
The family relations of Mr. and Mrs
Cramer had been strained for a long
time, and recently Mrs. Cramer and
the boys resided on the second floor
and Cramer OH the first floor Of their
home.
The night of the tragedy, she ano
her son insist, Cramer came home an
cry and threatened to invade the Sec
md floor and attack Mrs. Cramer, and
he was coming up stairs to their apart
ments when he was shot. Mrs. Ora
mer says she would have shot him. but
was too nervous to hold the revolver,
and ordered her son to fire on the
father. The boy obeyed only too well
and the one shot was fatal.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28
NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
IMPORTANT EVENTS At HOME
AND ON FOREIGN SHORES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
WASHINGTON,

Representative Davis Of Minnesota
has introduced a bill to add 20 per cent
10 salaries of all civil employees OF the
government not receiving more than
S.. 500 a year, whose salaries have not
Otherwise been increased at this SEES
sion of congress.
1t was openly admitted in the state
department that the United States
government is negotiating a treaty
with Japan. under which the Japanese
.ovrlnment will refuse to issue pass
ports to Japanese coolies desiring to
one 10 the United States.
President Roosevelt gave what is be-
lteve,, 10 be his final word on the sub
iect oi tariff revision at SPECIAL ses'
sion Of congress this summer. He will
not call special session. He has as
serted that in his opinion there is not
sufficient general demand for tariff re
Vision.
COL. Simon Michelet, United States
Indian superintendent at White Earth,
has been ordered to Washington for
the purpose OF settling the additional
Indian allotment at White Earth,
Mimi. The allottees claim that they
are prevented from selling or dispos-
in@ of their timber.
The senate passed house bill pro-
sding that the secretary of the inte'
1.or may select any individual Indian
who may he deemed capable of man.
aging his or her own affairs and place
To the order of such Indian the amount
Of his or her share OF the tribal funds
in the treasury. 1t also provides for
such allotment to Indians who are
blind, decrepit or helpless from Ole
age.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28
SAVAGE BATTLE IS
FOUGHT IN CHURCH
BLOOD FLOWS IN PHYSICAL
CLASH BETWEEN FAcr,oNs
At WAusAU.
MINISTER IS BATTERED UP
PASTOR STARTS THE CONFLICT
AND IS NOW LAID UP FOR
REPAIRS,

Wausau, Wis.,, Feb. "a. - A savage
battle occurred in the basement of St.
Paul's Evangelical church in this cit,
last evening.
AS result Albert Nehmer and John
Schultz are out OH bail of 500 each.
Rev. Frederick Schauer, pastor of the.
church. is lying at his home in a pre-.
carlous condition. His left eve is
closed by a cut just below it. he has
three or four large bumps on his scal,s
and his left arm is injured. His son
Fred is nursing two bad scalp wounds
and Bert Pagenkopf is suffering with
bad cut several inches long just
above the right eye. The trouble has.
been brewing for some time past.
Fall Out Over Teachers.
In September Hans Herfuth came
here and took charge of the parochiar
school of the church. Since that time
Rev. Mr.. Schauer. it is charged. has
constantly made trouble by interfering
with the teacher. The laboring class
of the church was in sympathy Wit,
the teacher
Last evening meeting of the board
OF directors Of the church was calle.L
to take action against discharging He:.
futh. About $50 people were in attend.
ance. about two-thirds of them bein::
in sympathy with the teacher.
When Miss Vehlow testified HerfutEa
arose and called her liar He afsn
accused her father. Fred YELLOW. OF
being liar. Vehlow threatened to
throw Herfuth out of the church, AMI
the teachers friends retorted with the
same threat against YELLOW.
Minister Leads in Fight.
Eye witnesses say that the preacher
Immediately began hitting right AMI,
left and the fight became general.
Aid. r. Schmidt ran out and turned
in the fire alarm and both the fire de-.
partment and the police responded.
After considerable difficulty they clear.
ed the church.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28
JAP SQUADRON At HONOLULU.
Enthusiastic and Hearty Welcome
rendered the Visitors,

Enthusiastic and Hearty Welcome
rendered the Visitors.
Honolulu, Feb. 81. - The japanese
training squadron arrived here yester.
day. At 10 o'clock yesterday morning
Admiral Temika, from the flagship
Natsussista, communicated his ap.
proach by means Of wireless telegra.
ply. Rear Admiral Very replied, wei.
coming him.
AS the Japanese warships entered
the harbor national salute was fired.
The admirals then exchanged salutes
and the Japanese vessels locked at
the naval wharf.
All the shipping in the harbor Is dec
GRATED and American and japanese
flags are floating everywhere. Five
thousand Japanese, in holiday attire.
were on the harbor front awaiting the
arrival Of the squadron. While the
welcome was demonstrative, it was
none the less enthusiastic and hearty.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28
SEEKS AIR; FALLS; DIES.

Asthma Victim Plunges From Mkii:-
dow in Second Story Of Home.
Mitchell, S. D., Feb. "a. - Ernest.
Malloy. is dead as a result of a fall
from the second-story window of his
home. Malloy was a sufferer from
asthma, and after retiring for the
night he opened the window to get
fresh air. 1t is supposed that he was
taken with fainting fit, lost his
balance and fell, striking his head on
the cement sidewalk below.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28
Crimes and Criminals.

Fred Foster, after weeping over the
grave of his sweetheart, Estella Cos
tello, at Mount Olivet cemetery, at
Joliet, ILL.,, committed suicide by TAX.
ing poison.
Charles Rumble, who, on Nov. rs
last, killed Frank ]. Emery, proprietor
of the Kentucky hotel, Kansas City.
Kan, was found guilty of murder in
The second degree.
After shooting his divorced wife
three times and inflicting serious in.
juries, Louis Mazoretski Of Vancouver.
Wash, sent a bullet through his own
head, killing himself instantly.
While escorting young woman at
Calumet, Mich, James Fisher was
shot in the eye and blinded by an un.
identified assailant. 1t is believed that
'he shooting was inspired by jealousy.
Seating herself upon the steps at the
front of her home at Coin, Iowa, Mrs.
George Holcomb cut her throat with
her husbands razor. Mrs. Holcomb
had been in i'll health. 1t is believed
she cannot recover.
G. S. Corridor, professional base
ball pitcher, who played portion of
last season with the Philadelphia Ma
tional league club, is under arrest at
Kansas City, charged with passing
worthless checks.
Robert Lewis and Henry Allen
charged with grand larceny. escaped
from Il cell at the police headquarters
in New York by knocking down. the
turnkey. Allen was recaptured after
a chase. but Lewis got away.
Frank Hoffman, under death sen
tence with Mrs. Aggie Myers for kill
ing Clarence Myers, the woman's hus-
band, attempted to commit suicide in
his cell in the county Jail at Kansas
City by stabbing himself in the breast
He may die.
Alexander Baccio, an Italian, was
shot and killed and Tony Rimalby seri-
ously wounded at New Galilee, Pa.
Michael Brackney, accused of the
shooting, is still at large. The killing,
1t is said, was the result of jealousy
over a young woman.
A woman giving the name of Mrs.
Anderson tried to desert her month
old baby at the Travellers home at
Webster City, Iowa. She left on the
train. presumably for Minneapolis,
where she claimed to live. She was
apprehended several stations north.
An electric line between Missoula
Helena and Butte now seems to be an
assured fact. More than $4,000 al
ready has been raised by subscription
for the project.
Word has reached Zion City that
practically all of the Christian Catho.
lie churches located in South Africa,
Great Britain and China have seeded
from the control of the present head
of the church, Voliva.
Congressman John E. Reyburn
(Rep.) was elected mayor of Philadel-
phia, defeating William Peter, the
Democratic anu City party candidate,
BY about $500 plurality.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28
COLLEGE 1. Quarantined.

College 10 Guaranteed.
Grand Forks, N. D., Feb. 24.-With
view of preventing the further spread
of scarlet fever, from which disease
two pupils have died within the last
fortnight, the board of health has
placed Grand Forks college under.
quarantine.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28
SHOOTS GIRL IN EMBRACE.

lifted Sutton Mortally Wounds Maiden
and Then Kills Himself.
Pomeroy, Ohio, Feb. "a. - Emerson
Misner, twenty years old, went to the
home Of his former sweetheart. Julia
Archer, aged sixteen, called her to the
front door, threw his arms about her
neck and shot her in the left temple.
He then blew out his own brains. 1t
is said the parents of the girl objected
to Misner and she Tilted him. The girl
is still living. but there is little hope OF
her recovery.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28
ONLY .1s IN FINES.

Four Years Record Of City Shows Lit.
tie in Law:breakins Tax.
Fairfield Iowa, Feb. 20.--According
to the report of the state examiner,
who has been investigating affairs in
this city, the people of this place seem
to break cents worth of law day.
The Investigation, which covered a pc.
riod of three years and nine months,
disclosed the fact that during that
time just $13 in fines had been paid
into court and turned over to the city
treasurer.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28
PLAN INTERuReAN LINE.

suarta.Melrose Electric Company IL;
incorporated.
Madison, Wis, Feb. 42.-The Sparta
Melrose Electric Railway and Power
company of Sparta has filed articles of
incorporation with the secretary Of
state. The capital stock is placed at
5000 900, and it is understood that the.
company intends to build an electric
interurban line between Sparta and!
Melrose, distance of twenty miles.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28
Spreading Rail Caused Wreck.

Spreading Rail Caused Wreck.
New York, Feb. 21.-The fact thas
spreading rail caused the wreck OF
the White Plains express on tho New
York Central railroad last Saturday
night, in which twenty-one persons
were killed, was developed at the cor.
oner's inquest yesterday.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28
Exclusion Treaty.

Washington, Feb. 21.-It was openly
admitted in the state department yes.
terday that the United States govern
ment is negotiating treaty with tEs
Japan, under which the Japanese gov
eminent will refuse to issue passports
to Japanese coolies desiring to come
to the United States.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28

Promptly Give for New Church.
La Crosse, Wis.,, Feb. 20.-Norwe-
gian Lutherans of Holman raised ST..
900 toward a new church in that vii
lage within half an hour after the ne.
tition was started. Donations besides
cash included three lots for a site.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-02-28
TRIPLE ALLIANCE.

Great erItaIn, Russia and Japan Max.
ing an Agreement.
London, Feb. 21.-A st. Petersburg
dispatch to the Times says that some
of the newspapers make the sensa.
tional announcement that the govern.
ment Is on the eve of concluding an
agreement with Great Britain and ia
pan. 1t is true. adds the correspond.
ent, that negotiations with both Japan
and Great Britain have been progress
ing very satisfactorily.