Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-12-18

Five companies OF the Twenty.sec.
ond infantry, stationed at Fort Nc
Dowell in San Francisco and four com.
panies Of the same regiment at Mon.
terey, were dispatched to Goldfield.
New, by Brig. Gen. Fred Funston, COM
handing the department of California,
In compliance with orders received
from the war department.
Capt William Cox, the representa-
tive of Gov. Sparks in Goldfield, stated
that he had Information from the
Mine Owners association that an at
tempt would be made very soon to
Nine companies of regulars went into
camp at Goldfeld.
The Mine Owners association Of
Goldfeld, New, announced that the
mines would be reopened, the wage
scale reduced, no member of the
Western Federation given employ
ment and living expenses in the town
cut down.
The steamer Glenfarg arrived at
Callao from China with II cases of
beri-beri on board.
Commissioner Lane of the interstate
commerce board will begin an investi-
cation of the Pullman company in re-
gard to prices charged for berths on
trains.
Bernard Prentice, a cowboy, was
killed and Dick Moran, a cook, was
seriously wounded in Deadwood, S. D.,
in duel over a woman.
At the annual meeting of the PENN
sular and Oriental Navigation COM
pany in London the chairman said
that the entire trade of the line be-
tween Bombay and Japan had been
wiped out by the Japanese competi-
tors.
Receivers were appointed for the
Electric Vehicle company, a $2O,0O0,-
900 New Jersey corporation, with a
manufacturing plant at Hartford,
Conn.
The costly residence of Samuel
Baum of Danville, ILL.,, retired farm
er, was partly wrecked by an Internal
machine.
The Stock Yards Bank of Com
MERGE, of Kansas City, which closed
because of the failure of the National
Bank of Commerce, resumed business
Rear Admiral Evans formally as
sumed command of the great fleet Of
battleships assembled at Hampton
roads for the cruise to the Pacific.
The White Pigeon (Mich.) carbonite
and gas plant was totally wrecked by
an explosion. Several persons were
severely injured and every window in
town was cracked. The shock was
felt for IL miles.
The special holiday statute passed
in extraordinary session Of the Cali
fornia legislature, to protect the
banks and at the same time provide
for the business of the courts, was sus-
tanned by the United States supreme
court.
William R. Parker, one of the found
ers of the Republican party in Illinois,
died at his home in Sterling.
The Missouri Pacific railway aban-
boned its only passenger trains out Of
Topeka, Kan. Tie officials gave the
two-cent fare enforcement as the rea-
son.
The Dominion Atlantic Railway COM
pany's steamer Yarmouth, bound from
Digby, N. S., went ashore at Black
Point, near st. John, N. B.
One of a battery of nine boilers in
the plant of the American Steel &
Wire company at Allentown, Pa, blew
up, instantly killing two men and in
iuring two others, one of whom died
three hours later.
Alfred H. Smith, vice president and
general manager of the New York
Central railroad, was placed on trial
before Justice Kellogg, in the supreme
court of New York, on q charge of
manslaughter in the second degree;
growing out of the wreck of the
Brewster express at Woodlawn last
February, in which "a persons lost
their lives and 81 were injured.
In the midst of his speech at the
annual dinner of the Minnesota So
ciety of New York, Frank Kellogg, of
st. Paul, Mimi, who is the prosecutor
in the case of the United States
against the Standard Oil company for
dissolution of the corporation, sud-
denly collapsed from fatigue due to
overwork.
Both Cullman and Walker counties,
in Alabama, went prohibition by large
majorities.
William J. Rogers, for 40 years
prominent in southern cotton markets,
died in Lexington, Ky.
Joseph Armstrong, manager of the
Christian Science publications and one
Of the most prominent leaders of that
faith in this country, died at his home
in Boston.
James Henry Stoddart, the veteran
actor, died at his home in Sewaren, N.
J. Mr.. Stoddart was born in England
in 1927.
Assistant Secretary of State Robert
Bacon has been awarded a bronze
medal by the Massachusetts, Humane
society for his bravery in saving two
Harvard men from drowning in the
Charles river October IL last.
l. Mrs. Taft, wife of the secretary OF
war, narrowly escaped death on a ten
der outside the harbor of Boulogne,
the boat being caught in a violent
storm.
Maj. Ahern, head of the forestry
bureau of the Philippine islands, is in
New York to interest lumbermen in
tho fOrosfs IF tho phi1inninoc
Maj. William L. Geary, U. s. A., died
in the army general hospital at the
PresidfO, San Francisco. He was the