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The Adair County news., 1907-08-14

The Washington correspondent
of the Louisville Times has seen
the light that has assumed the
appearance of confagration to
every body else he writes: 1T
is becoming more apparent every
day here that Mr.. Bryan will be
the certain choice of the Dem
ocrats for the presidential NOM
ination if he will acceptit Dem
ocratic leaders from every section
coming to Washington concede
that it is inevitable. They admit
that the rank and file of the par
ty the country over is for him,
and that there has been no salts
factory response to the sugges-
ton that a southern man be
named. Politicians here are be-
ginning to realize that, after all,
Mr.. Bryan has been advocating
just the things that Mr.. Roosevelt
has been carrying into effect, the
credit of their origination belong
ing to Mr.. Bryan.
The Adair County news., 1907-08-14
| AM LONELY Since MY GRAND.
FATHER DIED.

I'm lonely since my grandfather died,
Though friends and kindred gather
near,
/ cannot check the rising sigh
Or stay the silent heartfelt tear.
Of earthly friends he was the best,
My erring youthful steps to guide,
Oh do not smile because weep,
I'm lonely since my grandfather died.
I'm lonely since my grandfather died,
Though friends and kindred gather
near
/ cannot check the rising sigh
Nor stay the silent heartfelt tear.
You may not deem it brave or strong
To let these tears so often flow,
But those who have lost grandfather S
love,
Can tell the pain of my sad woe.
Could / but call him back again
And kneel once more down by his
side,
= I'd love him better than before,
I'm lonely since my grandfather died.
o you who haye grandfather dear.
Let not word or act give pain,
But cherish, love him with your life,
You ne'er can have him back again.
Then when he's called from you away
Across deaths dark and troubled tide
In pain with me you need not stay,
Pm lonely since my grandfather died
VISTER ROYSE.
The Adair County news., 1907-08-14

Keep the pores open and the skin
clean when you have cut, burn, bruise
or scratch. Dewitt Carbolized Witch
Hazel Salve penetrates the pores and
heals quickly. Sold by Page & Do
honey, Columbia, KY.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-05-24
plot 10 WRECK JAIL fOIlfD
CAN OF NlTRoaLYcERlN FOUND
IN THE CELL OF a MUIR.
pERER. /

Chicago, May 21.-Decisive action
on the part of the authorities frus-
trated a jail delivery plot that might
have resulted in many deaths by the
blowing up the wall Of the Cook
county Jail.
Jailer Whitman recently became
aware that plot was being perfected
and close watch was kept. Develop
ments showed that the ringleader in
the scheme was Charles Hansen, un-
der sentence for life for the murder Of
Luke Fitzpatrick, policeman.
Several notes referring guardedly to
yesterday when Jailer Whitman was
certain that certain prisoners contem-
plated blowing a hole in the wall Of
the jail Hansen was brought into.
court without warning and ordered
sent Immediately to the penitentiary
at Joliet. He was not allowed to re-
turn to his cell.
Finding he could not return to his
cage, Hansen said to the guard de-
spondently: well, you'd better look
in there and be mighty careful.
There's can of nitroglycerin in
there"
An investigation was made and the
explosive discovered. The nitroglyc-
erin was concealed in fruit can, a
number Of which, to lull suspicion, had
been delivered to Hansen.
The plot, according to confession
made by Hansen later, contemplated
blowing out the wall Of the old part
Of the jail. According to Jailer Whit
man there were about sixteen men in
the plot.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-05-24
KELLOGG SHOWS
UP Rail OCTOPUS
DECLARES COMPETITION SUP.
PRESSED IN oNE-THlRD OF
THE COUNTRY.
CONTRACTS DECLARED ILLEGAL
PROSECUTIONS ARE URGED AND
NEW AND EFFECTIVE LAWS
RECOMMENDED.

New York, May ia portion of
the recommendations of Attorneys
Frank B. Kellogg and G. A. Severance
of st. Paul to the interstate commerce
commission concerning the Hartman
railroad investigation has been pub
lished here 1t reviews the testimony
and holds that railroad competition
has been suppressed in an area equal
to one-third of the United States; that
the contracts between the Union Pa
cific and Rock Island for the control
of the Alton railway, as we'll as the
contracts between the Union and
Southern Pacific, and the control of
the Illinois Central and the San Pedro
road. are all in VIOLATION Of the Sher-
man antitrust act.
Urge Prosecutions.
1t recommends that the attorney
general institute proceedings to annul
these agreements. 1t also decommends
that there should be new and effective
laws to prevent imitation of securities,
and declares that the profits of the
great railroads of the Far West are
being used to buy stocks and control
systems in the East instead of build
ing more roads for the development of
the West, as they should be.
Report Is Awaited.
Washington, May II. - The recon-
mendations of Messrs. Kellogg and
Severance in regard to the Hartman
railroads are not yet accepted and
confirmed by the interstate commerce
commission, so that they stand at
present merely as recommendations to
the committee and not the report of
the committee itself Commissioners
Harlan and Knapp of the interstate
commerce commission say that the
commission has not yet made it's re-
port.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-05-24
People Talked About.


H. S. Fairall, for many years a we'll
known newspaper man in Iowa and
Wisconsin, died in Milwaukee after q
weeks illness.
John Duryea of New York died at
Stanton, Va, aged eighty-one years.
He had accumulated a fortune in the
starch industry.
Edward Kemeys, distinguished as
an animal sculptor, died at his home
in Washington after a prolonged i'll
ness, aged sixty-four years.
Charles H. Kimball, a prominent
lawyer former member of the Kansas
legislature and a we'll known railroad
organizer, died at Parsons, Kan.
Brig. Gen. Orlando B. Wilcox, u. S.
A., retired, former governor of the ma.
tional soldiers home at Washington,
died at Coburg, Ont, aged eighty-fve.
State Senator Charles N. Hughes Of
Illinois died at Excelsior Springs, Mo.
Senator Hughes was thrown from his
horse two weeks ago and sustained
the injury which caused his death.
Elias Hartz of Berks county, Penn.
sylvania, widely known as "the goose
bone weather prophet" whose fore
casts were religiously believed and
looked forward to annually by thou.
sands of people all over the county,
died at the Friends asylum at Phila-
delphia. He was ninety-two years
old.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-05-24
1900 SWEAR they're ILL.
Make Affidavit and Get Liquor at Drug
Stores.

Make Affidavit and Get Liquor at Drug
Stores.
Bismarck, N. D., May 19-Temper-
ance Commissioner Murray says that
in the month of April there were 1000
aftidavits made at drug stores in this
state in order to secure pints (the
maximum to be had in any one day
under the law Of whisky for the cure
of the disease of cold" and disease
of stomach"
The commissioner has been looking
over the affidavit books in the county
court and feels constrained to remark
that he does not propose to shut up
the blind pigs and then allow the drug
stores to sell the goods under cover
of aftidavits. He is working out a plan
to catch the druggists. Before the
pigs were closed the sales by all the
drug stores showed but 200 or 300 afi-
davits per month.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-05-24
PUT UP TO PRESIDENT.
Must. Decide Question Of. Bringing
Criminal Prosecution.

Washington, May 19.-The question
OF bringing criminal prosecutions
against E. H. Hartman, and suits to
dissolve the railroad combinations he
has effected must be decided by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. This is a matter in
which no subordinate will NEEDLE.
The president must figure out his own
deductions and assume full RESPONSE
bility for the consequences.
Commission Divided.
The interstate commerce commits
sion is divided into two factions. One
believes that successful suits can be
maintained to break the Hartman
combinations under the Sherman anti
trust act, which might permit the SUBJ
sequent criminal prosecution of Mr..
Hartman. The other is convinced that
legal proceedings for the dissolution
of the combina ions would prove an
ignoble failure.
Afraid of Panic.
The president is regarded as being
just trifle lukewarm on the subject
of prosecuting Mr.. Hartman and his
associates. He is apprehensive that
business will be disturbed and panics
may follow. He is anxious that there
shall be no diminution of prosperity
during his term of Office He wants to
ascertain the approximate cost of
seeking to break up the Hartman
combinations before taking final steps
in that direction. If it is apparent
that too much of an upheaval will be
caused in financial circles he will de-
fer action until such time as he be-
lieves the country can stand a sharp
shock without a disastrous panic 1t
was with this end in view that the
president arranged to hold off prose.
cutions until next winter or later
date.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-05-24
PANIC CAUSED BY INDICTMENTS
TIMBER WOLVES OF NORTHERN
IDAHO ALARMED ~ LAND
INVESTIGATIONS.

Boise, Idaho, May 10. - The North
Idaho timber wolves who are indicted
for conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment of timber lands valued at $1,000,
600 are in a panic. The federal grand
jury, which recently conducted inves
LEGATIONS here under the direction OF
Attorney Ruick, returned seven indict
ments against the leading business
men in and around Lewiston. They
were made public yesterday and are
the second batch leveled at these same
leading citizens.
Men Are Prominent.
The men named in new indictments
are:
w. F. Kettenbach, banker; George
H. Kester, banker; J. B. West, lawyer
and politician; I. N. Smith, one of the
best known lawyers in the state; Will
liam Doller, banker at Occur d'Alene
City; Clarence Robnett and William
Dwyer, timber dealer.
Would Avoid Trial.
Trials on the first indictments were
set for this term of the federal court
now in session in Moscow. The de
tense is making every effort to evade
trial. Dryer and Robnett, who were
tried for subornation of perjury at the
last session, are under conviction.
Senator Borah, who was counsel for
all the defendants, has withdrawn on
the ground that he was misled by his
clients. They told him, he says, that
the government had no evidence
against them.
Want Rounds Dismissed.
The bankers are accused of putting
up the money for dummies" who
filed on timber lands and then turned
the claims over to the Weyerhaeuser
syndicate. The lawyers who repre-.
scented the bankers and the syndicate
are indicted for conspiracy. The de.
tense is making desperate efforts to
have United States Marshal Rounds
removed because he gave out the
story of how the fraud was worked.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-05-24
.SCHM|Tz ACCUSES
/ BRIBERY PROBtRS
MAKES SENSATIONAL CHARGES
AGAINST sPREckELs AND
ASSOCIATES.
JUDGE dunno IS INCLUDED
MAYOR SAYS THEY SEEK CON
troll OF CITY so THEY CAN
GET FRANCHISES.

San Francisco, May 81. - District
Attorney Langdon was served by May
or Schmitz's attorneys with notices OF
a motion for substitution of trial judge
on the ground that Judge Frank H
Dunno is disqualified by bias and pref.
udice.
Accompanying this motion is q
lengthy affidavit by Schmitz, in which
/, charges of an extremely sensational
nature are made against Rudolph
Spreckels, his associates in the brib.
cry graft prosecution and Judge
Dunno himself.
The Allegations.
Among Schmitz's allegations are the
following:
That Mr.. Spreckels and those who
are with him, the financial guarantors
of the bribery graft investigation and
prosecution, long since exhausted the
original fund of 100000 pledged by
Spreckels and have expended nearly
$1,000,000 in municipal reform cam
paign.
That the expenditure Of this vast
sum of money is by way of an invest
ment from which actual moneyed re.
turns are expected.
That Spreckels and his prosecuting
associates plan to overthrow the
present administration in order that
they themselves may assume the reins
of government and secure for them
selves street railway and water fran
chises that will net them millions of
dollars of the public money.
Says Judge Knows It.
That Judge Dunno is aware Of this
intent and purpose, and is Herewith
= in accord.
That the conviction of Schmitz is
desired as means to these ends, and
that it is the wish of Judge Dunno
that a biased and prejudiced jury be
selected to secure such conviction.
That for that and various reasons
set forth recently by Abraham Ruef in
his application for a substitute for
trial Judge, it is impossible for
Schmitz to have fair and impartial
: trial at the hands Of Judge Dunno.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-05-24
From Other Shores.

Grand Duke Nicholas was married
at Yalta to Princess Anastasia of Mon.
tenegro.
Emperor William and Emperor
Nicholas have arranged for an early
meeting on the Baltic sea.
A decree dissolving the Portuguese
chamber Of deputies has been publish
ed. The date of the new general cleo,
lions has not yet been determined.
At least 100000 inhabitants of the
Midi met at Beziers, France, to pro-
test against the lamentable state into
which the wine industry has fallen.
The French academy has awarded
Henry Vignaud, secretary of the
American embassy at Paris, a prize of
$500 for his work on Christopher Co
lumbus.
It Is asserted in we'll informed cir.
cles in Brussels that the question of
the annexation Of the Congo Independ.
ent State to Belgium probably will
come up in the chamber of deputies
within a week.
The British government has acceded
to the wish of Australia to rescind her
annual contribution of 100000 to.
ward naval squadron for Australia.
The commonwealth will equip and
maintain its own navy.
The French bark Martha Roux has
been in collision with the German
steamer Osiris at Hamburg, and had
her plates stove in and rail damaged.
The Martha Roux will be surveyed.
The damage to the Osiris is believed
immaterial.
1t is rumored at Melilla, Morocco,
that the army of the sultan has won q
victory over the forces of the pretend.
er near Marchica. The casualties on
both sides are reported to be heavy
and the government troops are said
to have captured 200 prisoners.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-05-24
BOMB IN STREET CAR.

Thought to Be Attempt to Blow Up
Car Barn.
San Francisco, May 21.-A satchel
containing bomb was found late last
night in Suffer street car at the
barn at Oak and Broderick streets.
The fuse had been lighted but the
spark died out before reaching the
powder.
The United Railroad officials believe
that the Internal machine was left in
the car by strike sympathizer.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-05-24
General.

Smallpox has broken out in numer-
Gus places in Southwestern Iowa, and
guarantees are being established in
different towns. ....
The Illinois legislature raised the
salary of the governor from $4,000 to
$4,000. The salaries of the other state
officers were increased proportionate-
ly.
The steel freight steamer Henry
Phipps, 600 feet long, was successfully
launched at the yards of the American
Shipbuilding company at Bay City,
Mich.
The Geary street road at San Fran.
cisco has granted the demand of the
striking carmen and resumed opera
lions on basis of So for an eight
hour day.
The street car strike which has
been in progress at Waterloo, Iowa,
more than two months has been
amicably settled, both sides having
made concessions.
Nearly 1000 members attended the
eleventh annual convention OF the Ma
tional Cotton Manufacturers associa.
ton in Philadelphia. "The labor stu
alton Is the most important problem
said President Lowe.
After having dissipated 100000 he
had earned AZ a steeplechaser, Joseph
Norris. stxty-five years old, applied al
tho Chicago police station last night
for nights lodging.
At the commencement exercises II
Union Theological seminary III New
/ York, President G. G. Hall announced
that an unnamed donor had made q
fit q 100000 to the institution.
i contract for $50. 900 tons 81 stee,
rails, representing . gross business d
close 70 IS. 000. 900, for the use of Til
Hartman lines, has bean SVEN "a III
sTslne11ee Ceal ~ Inn oosnp1 n. & a
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-05-24
EUROPEAN WAR is EVENTUAL,
Franco-Jap Entente to Contain Clause
Regarding Such Emeraency.

Franco-Jap Entente to Contain Clause
Regarding Such Emergency.
st. Petersburg, May 19.-The Paris
correspondent of the Russ, in a dis
patch published yesterday, announced
that he had obtained information from
authentic sources to the effect that the
Franco-Japanese agreement, now in
course of negotiation, will contain Sc
cret conditions applying to the even
tuality of European war and binding
Japan to place at the disposal of
France 100000 men, while the British
will land contingent of 100000 to
100000 men. Great Britain and France,
it is added, not only guarantee the in
volatility of Japanese territory, but
also engage to float several loans. The
statements made are received with in,
credulity in diplomatic circles here.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-05-24
KuRokl At GRANTS TOMB.

Jap Places Wreath Upon American
Generals Tomb.
New York, May 81. = Twenty-eight
years ago Gen. Grant, in his tour of
the world, was guest of the emperor
of Japan. One of the officers assigned
to attend him was a young colonel,
who yesterday, as Gen. Kuroki of
world renown, visited Riverside drive
and there with impressive Oriental
ceremony placed laurel wreath upon
the Americans tomb.
To Gen. Kuroki yesterdays pilgrim
age to Grants tomb was the chief
event of his stay in New York and a
part Of his program which he repeat
eddy said must be carried out, no mat
ter wheat feature was sacrificed.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-05-24
DEATH FOR euArEmALANs.

Prosecutors Demand for Alleged Stay.
ers Of BarriIlas.
Mexico City, May 81. - Declaring
that Florence Morales and Bernardo
Mora, Guatemalans, are guilty of the
assassination Of Gen. Manuel Barril-
las and that the murder was done with
generalization, with malace afore-
thought and in a most treacherous
manner, the public prosecutor has
formally petitioned the court before
which the case was tried to pronounce
the death sentence on the prisoners.
The bitter arraignment of the ac-
cused and the demand for the death
penalty have created sensation here.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-05-24
Crimes and Criminals.

Two masked robbers entered a sa,
loon at Saltese, Mont, and after gag
ging and binding the bartender, robbed
the cash register Of 500.
B. F. Peter and Cecanus Van Trees
both from Butler, Mo-, pleaded guilty
in the federal court at Kansas City to
violations Of the homestead law and
were fined $1,000 each.
The mutilated bodies Of two men in
the Chicago river have furnished the
Chicago police with double murder
mystery. The police believe that the
men were murdered and their bodies
thrown into the river.
Angered because her son-in-law,
Frank Albright, had come home drunk
and run the family away from home
by his violent actions, Mrs. Connolly
of Huntsville, Ala, murdered the man
as he lay In drunken stupor on hia
bed.
w. r. Fulton of Wichita, Kan, who
Friday night made an attempt on the
life of his former wife, committed sui.
eide early Saturday BY shooting him,
self. His body was found in the rail.
3road yards four blocks from where be
attacked Mrs. Fulton and shot her
three times. The woman IL not dan.
zerously injured.
UnknOwn persons get Oh Q charge
sof some high explosive at Ruston, u,
under the holiss Of Samuel Cook, q ne
grp. blowing the house to pieces and
killing Cock and four other negroes
sleeping = q front room. Theirs issne
jAlns u ~ 1sspst5sto
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-05-24
CORPSE ON FENCE.
Chippewa Falls Attorney Dies Of
Heart Failure.

Chippewa Falls, Wis, May 81. -
Hanging by his vest to picket fence
in front of hospital Attorney Martin
Angwick was found dead yesterday
morning.
A post mertea revealed that the
man had died from heart disease. He
had shouted for help about II o'clock
the night before, but the hospital at
PENDANTS thought that the cries were
those of drunken tramp and paid no
attention to them
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-05-24
Casualty.


Fire broke out in the Centennial
block at Cresco, Iowa, entirely con.
Stunning the structure.
Three men were killed by Lake
Shore Train No. 10, which hit a hand
car about mile west of the station at
Ashtabula, Ohio.
Fire at Mason City, Iowa, destroyed
the dressing room of the Wilson thea
ter and for time endangered the en-.
tire block, including two large hotels.
One man was killed, two were seri.
ously injured and third had a re.
markably narrow escape from death
when a scaffolding gave way at De-
troit.
Earl Hoar, the three-year-old son Of
Walter K. Hoar of Council Bluffs, a.,
mistaking I've crystals for sugar, ate
a quantity Of them and probably will
not recover.
Frank Husemir, formerly Of Menom-
inee, Mich, met death by drowning at
Oconto, Wis, while fishing in the
Oconto river. His companions in the
boat, which capsized, were saved.
The distillery and grist mill of the
H. Corby company at Belleville, Ont,
were destroyed by fire originating, it
is believed, from spontaneous combus-
ton. The loss is placed at $250,OOO.
North bound Portland Passenger
Train No. II on the Southern Pacific
was run into by two light engines at
Copley, Cal. William Jones of Sacra-
mento, brakeman, was, killed. No
other was injured.
While its mother was busy with her
household affairs the eighteen-months-
old son Of Clyde Smiley of Atlantic,
Iowa, wandered into the barnyard and
fell into tank used for watering the
stock and was drowned.
Three hundred people were crushed
to the ground by collapse of the
seats in circus tent at Mount Pleas
ant, Iowa, and nearly fifty were hurt.
Cecil Traut and Miss Alma Lessenger
were most seriously injured and may
die.
A story has reached Los Angeles of
the accidental burning of stage
coach in Death Valley, near Ash Mead
ows. in which $4,000 in bank bills
and $4,000 in registered mail were
consumed. The stage is supposed to
have caught fire from a cigar which
the driver, Ed Love, was smoking.
o number Of boys were engaged in
digging tunnel into sand bank at
Guthrie Center, Iowa, when the earth
caved in and buried Richard Ellis,
aged eighteen years. The other boys
made frantic efforts to dig their COM
rade out, and finally succeeded, but
not until he had been smothered.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-05-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPITOMf
DIGEST OF THE NEWS WORTH
TELLING CONDENSED FOR
BUSY READERS.
Washington Notes.

The president has appointed Law
renee Y. Sherman of Illinois to sue
coed G. J. Diekma of Michigan as q
member of the Spanish treaty claims
commission. Mr.. Sherman is now
lieutenant governor of Illinois.
That the trade of the United States
with Germany and France will proba
bly, reach about 100000, 900 in the ifs
cal year ending June 80 next is pre-
dictcd in statement issued by the
bureau of statistics in Washington.