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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
ESCAPES DEATH
Bomb Thrown at the President
of Guatemala.

Guatemala City, May IAN at
tempt was made early in the day on
the life of President Estrada Cabrera.
While out driving a dynamite bomb
was exploded near his carriage, kill
ing the horses AID wounding General
Orellana, the chief of staff. The calm
ness of the president, who was not in
jured, is universally commended n
the would-be assassins are condemned
on all sides.
New York, May 1.-The Guate-
malan consul general at New YORK,
DR.. Bengoechea, has received the roll
lowing official dispatch from Foreign
Minister Barrios informing him OF the
attempt on the life Of President Ca
brera:
at 8 a. NJ, and at the time that the
president of the republic was passing.
a bomb was exploded in n OF the
streets of the capital. Fortunately
that high functionary was not hurt IN
this criminal attempt and orders have
already been given that the proper IN
vestigation Of this crime be under
taken. The only persons who were
wounded were the chief of the general
staff OF the president, General Jose
Marie Crellana, and the coachman.
Public order is maintained unattered.'
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
WASHINGTON NEWS.

In a letter addressed to Horace
Jaxon of Chicago, chairman of the
Cook county Moyer-Haywood confer
ence." President Roosevelt replies to
the criticisms of his recent letter in
which he referred to Meyer and Hay.
wood, officials of the Western Fedora
ton of Miners, charged with implica-
tion in the murder of former Governor
Steunenberg of Idaho as undesirable
citizens" The president, in his letter,
reiterates Ills statement about the
mine officials. condemns their sympa-
thizers and declares that he is pro-
fourdly Indifferent to the condemna.
ticli of him for his criticism of the
undesirable types of citizens regard
less of the power of either labor or
capital.
Upon the application of the Cuban
government Secretary Wilson has
granted a furlough to Victor H. Ohm
sted, an. employe of the department Of
agriculture, to permit him to supervise
the taking of a census of that island.
Health conditions on the canal zone
are about as good now as they ever
will be, according to a report from
Colonel Gorgas, chief sanitary officer.
Beekman Winthrop, during the past
three years governor Of Porto Rico,
has taken the oath of Office as assist.
ant secretary of the treasury.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
MAY REJECT THE TREATY.
Growing Opposition in the santo Do
minso Congress.

San Domingo, May lit was an
nounced in these dispatches April %
that some of the members of the COM
mittee on foreign affairs of the Domin-
lean congress proposed making a
series of notifications to the new
treaty between the United States n
Santo Domingo, taking the ground
that the Dominican congress was JUS
tilted in so doing in view Of the fact
that the treaty previously before the
United States senate vas modified by
the latter body. 1t is now stated that
other membeAs of the committee pro-
pose recommending that the Domln'
lean congress reject the treaty entirely,
declaring that it is contrary to the
constitution of this republic. Con-
gress will take up the discussion OF the
treaty Nav ).
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
ENTOMBED MINERS ALIVE.
Exist Since Friday Last Without Food
or Water.

Johnstown, Pa, May 1.-"Still
alive" is the report brought to the
surface by the rescuing party that has
been trying. to reach the seven men
who have been imprisoned in the Ber-
wind-White mine at Foustwell, Somer-
set county, since last Friday by a rush
of water that filled all the headings
of the mine. Without food or water
the mel have been able to make
known that they were not drowned by
the tappings on compressed air pipes,
signals that but renewed the vigor OF
the men working at the pumps to
empty the mine sufficiently to enable
the men to be brought out.
Nine pumps have been at work
since last Friday night and another
one of immense size has been added
to the equipment. Chugging away
these ten pumps are emptying the
mine at the rate of 1000 gallons a
minute and it is expected that the
men would be reached shortly. Physl-
clans are at the mine mouth with
groups Of relatives and the families
and friends of the men thought to be
among the imprisoned.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
UNITED STATES WILLING.
No Objection to Proposed Joint Tar.
if Commission.

Washington, May 1.-While the
Recommendation from Ambassador
White, at Paris, that a tariff commits
sion be appointed by the United
States to endeavor to effect an ar
rangement with the French govern
ment, such as was made in the case
of Germany, has not yet formally
come before the state department 1t
can be announced authoritatively that
if the French government desires such
a commission there will be no opposl'
ton in Washington. Moreover, as the
agitation in France in connection with
the American tariff seems to be based
In part upon a fear that Germany Will
secure certain advantages over France
in the matter Of trade through the
arrangements which have been acted
upon favorably by the upper house in
Berlin, it may also be announced that
the state department is prepared to
grant to France any concessions made
to Germany provided the concessions
are even on both sides. AS a 20 per
cent reduction of duties on German
champagne is provided for in the
pending German-American arrange
ment the same privilege can be en-
joyed by French champagne If the
government Of France is willing to
make concessions to America in re-
turn similar to those made by Ger
many.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

The wooden lumber barge Arcadian,
which left Manistee, Mich, April IL for
Two Rivers with a cargo of hardwood,
has undoubtedly been lost in Lake
Michigan with her captain and owner.
Harry May, and about thirteen others.
In a series of fires in New York city
Tuesday four men were burned to
death, $50 horses killed, twelve fire.
men injured, two of them seriously,
and two engines overturned and
wrecked by collisions with street cars.
A new pier under construction at
Locust point, South Baltimore, col
lapsed Saturday, carrying down thirty
o. more workmen. Six bodies have
been recovered, two men are missing
and a number were injured.
Three young ome employed at T.
c. Wheaton & Co.'s glass factory at
Nillville, N. j., were killed by the col
lapse of a smokestack which crashed
through a room in which they were
working.
Seven men, all foreigners, are i'm
prisoned in the Foustwell mine of the
Berwind-White Coal Mining company
In Somerset county, Pa. All hope Of
rescuing them alive has been aban-
dOned.
Fire has destroyed the Port Blakely
Mill company's lumber mill at Port
Blakely, Wash, the largest lumber
manufacturing establishment on the
coast and one of the largest in the
world.
Twelve persons were seriously in
iured and as many others more or less
badly hurt in the wreck of Great
Northern train No. 4 one mile east of
Blaisdell, N. D.
Four miners were killed and nine
severely injured by an explosion in
the Black Diamond mine of the Pa
cific Coast Coal company near Seattle,
Wash.
The fishing tug Searchlight Of Har-
Dor Beach, Mich, is missing and is
believed to have sunk in Lake Huron
with her crew of six men.
About 100 summer cottages and q
summer hotel at Lake Pleasant, Mass.
have been destroyed by fire. The loss
is estimated at $115,O00.
Three children are dead as the re-
suit of a fire which destroyed the
home of Charles Bredwell at Mystic
Ia.
Fire totally destroyed the Wiscon'
sin Central freight depot in Minneap'
oils, entailing a loss Of 100000.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
MAY END MINE HEuP.
Canadian Strikers to Vote or Proposal
Submitted,

Ottawa, Ont, May 1.-Mr. La
mereaux, the minister of labor, has
received the following telegram from
Mackenzie King, the deputy minister
Of labor, who is now at Fernie, B. e.,
endeayoring to settle the labor trou'
bles in that and surrounding districts:
"Am pleased to be able to INFORM
you that as the result of negotiations
between the parties during the past
two or three days the outstanding
points of an agreement have been SO
adjusted through Cancellation as to
make it acceptable to the operators
of the seven companies comprising the
Western Coal Operators association
ami to the district executive board OF
the United Mine Workers association.
The district executive board has
agreed to strongly recommend this
agreement for acceptance by the men
at all the mines. A referendum vote
will be taken On Thursday OF this
week.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
the DEATH RECORD.

Rev. Leroy Bell, D. d., aged sew
enty-one, e%x-president Of the Ohio
Northern university and one of the
prominent men in the Methodist Epis-
copal church of the United States, is
dead at Kenton, O.
David Wilcox, former president of
the Delaware and Hudson Railroad
company, committed suicide at sea
while a passenger on the North Ger
man Lloyd steamer Barbarossa.
Maud Harrison, the actress, while
alone in her apartments at Hotel VIII
lard In New York, was stricken with
paralysis and died a few hours later.
Rev. John Fulton, p. d., IL. d.,
editor Of the Church Standard and
professor of canon law at the Phila-
delphia divinity school, is dead.
Dennis K~earney, who in the late
seventies headed the sand lot" agita-
ton against the Chinese in California,
Is dead at Alameda, Cal.
DR.. Nelson G. N. Randolph, aged
seventy-three, a great grandson Of
Thomas Jefferson, is dead at Charlotte
vile, Va.
Former State Senator Richard 8.
McNamee is dead at st. Paul, aged
fifty-twO.
Former Governor Rufus B. Bullock
of Georgia Is dead at Albion. N. Y.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
RUSSIAN ARMY WORTHLESS
Socialist Member Makes Savage At
tack in Duma.

st. Petersburg, May 1.-The lower
house of parliament has adopted the
recruiting bill by 220 to 1874 votes.
The house also adopted a resolution
setting forth the necessity of decreas-
ing next year the number Of men to
be called to the colors and passing a
law abolishing the custom of providing
soldier servants for officers and the
using of the troops for police purposes.
Prior to the adoption Of the meas
ure a savage attack was made on the
army and the government by a Social
list member, M. Zuraboff, in which he
declared that because of an autocratic
regime the army was worthless except
against it's own people and that it was
beaten whenever it engaged in a for
eign war.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
Flood Situation Improved.

Oklahoma City. Okla, May l.
The North Canadian river and Light.
ming creek are receding rapidly and
the food situation is greatly improved.
But one person remains un~accounted
for. Forty families on Capital Hill,
across from Oklahoma City, are home
less. The loss in railway bridges,
tracks, live stock. farm and other
property is estimated at $1,000
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
OF Two:.cENT FARE
Railroads Forced to Readjust Inter
state Rates.

Chicago, May Reductions n
passenger rates to hundreds of points
in Illinois. Indiana, Ohio. Michigan,
Pennsylvania and other states are to
be decided upon at a special meeting
Of the Central Passenger association
now In session here.
The railroads are forced to make
the reductions in rates on interstate
traffic because Of the 2-cent fare laws
adopted by Indiana and Ohio.
This action will reduce the Chicago
Cleveland rate from $7.75 to 81 and
make corresponding reductions to hun
dreds Of other places. Generally
speaking the fares will be reduced half
a cent a mile for the mileage in In
diana included in any trip.
No change will he made in the Chi
cago-New York rate by the 2-cent laws
of Ohio and Indiana, but when the
Pennsylvania law goes into effect Sept.
80 the railroads must make a reduc-
ton Of about $3.50 in the Chicago
New York rate and like reductions to
all other Eastern points.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
DIFFERS WITH DOCTOR
President Reiterates His Views on
Subject Of Race Suicide.
W MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Declares That the Decrease of Births
in Well to % Families Tends to the
Elimination Instead of the Survival
Of the Fittest.
New York, May In a letter to
che editor Of the Review Of Reviews
President Roosevelt takes exception to
pertain statements made in an article
on 1.-THE Doctor in the Public School,"
published in the April number Of that
periodical, and takes occasion to re-
new his expressions on the subject of
ace suicide.
"Thfs writer states clearly" says
the president, that it Is an erroneous
idea to u that the average fam
ily should have a larger number of
healthy children than the present
birth rate showed. The vital statis-
tics Of a state like Massachusetts
show that there the average native
American family of native American
descent has so few children that the
birth rate has fallen below the death
rate. This. of course, e race sui
eide and it ought to be understood that
il after a while there are no children
to 20 to school the question Of their
health in school would not even be
academic"
elimination Of the Fittest.
Continuing, Mr.. Roosevelt says:
"-,he greatest problem of civilization
is to be found in the fact that the we'll
to do families tend to die out; there
results, in consequence, a tendency to
the elimination, instead of the sur
vival, of the fittest and the moral atti-
tude which helps on this tendency is,
of course, strengthened when it is
apologized for and praised in a maya.
zine like yours.
"Our people could still exist under
all kinds of iniquities in government;
under q debased currency; under OIL
cial corruption; under the rule of a
s~ocialistic proletariat or a wealthy
oligarchy.
"Afi these things would be bad for
us, but the country would still exist.
But it could not continue to exist if
it paid heed to the expressed or i'm
piled teachings of such articles as
this"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
sWETTENHAM CASE CLOSED
Definite Refusal to Furnish Additional
Correspondence.

London, May LIN giving a def
mite, final refusal to furnish the house
with further. correspondence en-
changed between the ex-governor Of
Jamaica, Sir Alexander Swettenham,
and the colonial Office the under Sec
rotary for the colonies, Mr.. Churchill,
stated in the house of commons that
the only point upon which fault was
officially found with Sir Alexander
was in regard to the propriety of his
letter to Rear Admiral Davis. The
propriety of the governors action in
dispensing with the services of the
American naval contingent was never
called into question and therefore to
set forth the governors reasons for So
doing would not serve any useful puc-
pose, but rather the reverse.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
GERMANY OUT OF IT
will Take No Part in Discussion Of
Limitation Of N
RElcHsTAG OPPOSES PLAN

claring That the Government Dele
gates at the Coming Peace Confer.
ence Must Hold Aloof.
Berlin, May 1.-The question of
the limitation of ornaments received
a thorough ventilation in the reichstag
during a general debate on Germany's
foreign relations. Speakers of various
parties pointedly suggested to Chan
celior Won Buelow that Germany
should take no part in the discussion
of the limitation of armaments at The
Hague peace conference. Won Buelow,
In reply, said that Germany did not
object to letting other powers discuss
the matter, but would hold aloof. This
statement was received with approval
by the house.
Continuing, the chancellor referred
to the recommendations of the first
peace conference at The Hague.
Germany" lie said, "has complied
with these recommendations, but has
not found a formula which takes into
account the diversity in the g%eograph-
icai, economic and military positions
of the various states, or one which
would be calculated to remove these
diversities and serve as a basis for a
treaty."
Andrew C%arnegie's recent utterances
to the effect that the decision between
wal or peace lies in the hands of the
German emperor called out a decided
protest during the debate from Baron
Won Hertling, Clerical. He said he
recognized the fact that Mr.. Carne'
gie's speech was thoroughly friendly
to Germany, but it was a illustra-
ton of the misconceptions entertained
abroad respecting Germany as being
an automatically governed country"
Germany, lie added, was a complicated
political mechanism, in which a for.
eign policy which opposed the will OF
the German people al impossible.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
Congressional Visit to Hawaii.

San Francisco, May Among
the passengers on the transport Blu.
ford, sailing at noon, were a party Of
thirty-three persons, including twenty
Ave congressman and their wives, vino
are going to Honolulu at the invitation
Of Delegate Kalanianiole.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
Great Rush Of Coal Vessels.

SUPERIOR, Wis, May With ev-
cry coal dock at the Head of the Lakes
working to it's capacity there are over
forty boats waiting in the harbor for
a chance to unload. The situation is
without precedent, the receipts of the
past twenty-four hours being the heay-
lest ever known, about 10000 tons.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
Heavy Snowfall in Wisconsin.

Milwaukee, May IA rain and
sleet storm developed into a heavy
fall Of snow and during the night six
inches of snow fell in Milwaukee and
vicinity. The storm extended from
Milwaukee and vicinity southwark
and was principally confined to the
lake section.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
Name camels After RooseveIt.

Washington, May Nv. w. New
ell and E. S. T%ruesdale of Broome
county, N. Y, who have been recently
travelling in Europe, Africa and else
where, were among the presidents Wis
itors. They told the president that
he was the best known man in the
world and chat in Egypt they found
at least 10000 camels named after
him.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
Saws Ice Trust Exists.

Kansas City, May Judge Wal
ter A. Powell, in the circuit court at
independence. handed down a de-
cision reversing the finding Of Special
Commissioner w, s. Flournoy in the
SO called ice trust cases. Judge Pow
eli holds that combination does exist
among certain Kansas City retail Ice
manufacturers in restraint Of trade.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
PASSENGERS and Crew Saved.

Port Huron, Mich, May 1.-The
small passenger steamer Pilgrim, val
ued at SIG, 900 and carrying four pas.
and a crew of twenty-six PEG.
ple. was u ashore al the lifesay-
ing station. The little steamer was In
danger Of laundering in deep water
when Captain Gotten put her ashore.
The crew and passengers were safely
taken off by the lifesaving crew.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
RUSSIAN RIVERS OVERFLOW
One Hundred Thousand People Rem.
dered Homeless.

Odessa, Russia, May lone hun
dred thousand people are estimated to
have been driven from their homes by
the overlooking of the Dnelper, Dnies-
ter and Dvina rivers. The foundations
are more widespread than usual and
have caused extreme distress over All
enormous area.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-28
Prize Money Won at Last.

Nearly so years have elapsed since
'Uriah A. Boyden, a Boston engineer,
deposited $1,000 with the trustees of
the Franklin institute to be awarded
as prize for determining by expert
ment whether all rays of light and
other physical rays are transmitted
with the same velocity. 1t was not
until this Aeufnmer that the prize was
won. Mr.. Boyden doubted the &C.
curacy of the experiments of Baron
Won Wrede in 1910. tending to show
that light and radiant heat travel at
different rates of speed, and he hoped
to have the matter established by
more careful series of tests. DR.. Paul
r. Heyl of the Central high school of
Philadelphia experimental on the rays
OF Algol, a variable star in the constel-
lation Perseus, and established to his
own satisfaction and to the satisfac-
ton of committee of expert phys
icists that the visible and the ultra
violet rays of the spectrum travel
with the same degree of speed, and
the prize has been awarded to him.
His paper on the subject was printed
in the Journal of the Franklin insti-
tute. The accumulation of the fund
for nearly so years remains, and the
judges in the contest have recon-
mended that the sum be set aside as a
prize for similar successful expert
ments regarding the speed of the in
fra-red rays.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-28
Shy One Fare.

Inspector Johnson, of the Columbus
Railway company, tells the following
story of one of his new conductors:
The inspector had boarded a car on
one Of the East Side lines and glanc-
ing at the register, noticed that there
were nine passengers on and only
eight fares. He touched the conductor
on the shoulder, green man from
the country, and said:
you are shy one fare There are
nine people on the car and only eight
fares collected"
"By gosh," said the conductor,
that's right" and hastily grabbing the
bell cord, he stopped the car and yell
ing at the passengers ordered one of
them to "git of" columbus Despatch.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-28
COMING DOUBLE EAGLES
The Mint at Philadelphia Will Turn
Out $50, 100000.
This Shower of Yellow Cash is to Be
Distributed to Sub-Treasuries to
Relieve Money Stringency.

Philadelphia, Pa. - The United
States mint Tuesday delivered $1,000
600 in gold double eagles to the sub.
treasury in this city. 1t is stated that
within the next three months the mint
here will coin $50 ,0O0,O 900 in double
eagles.
This enormous amount of gold will
be distributed among the sub-treas-
uries in various parts of the country
and will be employed to relieve the
money stringency.
The local mint is well equipped to
contribute its share of the shower of
gold that has begun to fall upon every
part of the United States Many OF IFS
employees are working overtime how
yer, it being nightly occurrence for
coin counters, weighers, adiusters and
others to work as late as 10 o'clock,
the usual hour for quitting work be-
ing 4 o'clock
New machinery has recently been
installed in the mint and its efficiency
was demonstrated in the operation Ct
the "split collar" a device for put
ting stars on the edge of the newly
designed eagles. There are 46 stars
on the edge of each piece because OF
the approaching advent of the new
state of Oklahoma to the union
The machinery at the mint is cap
able of grinding out 1000 of these
pieces in an hour. There is now at
the mint enough bullion for the manu-
facture of s20,O00,OO0 in double eagles
but more bullion from various sources
is being diverted to the big institution.
AS soon as s150,000 in half-dollar
pieces and similar amount in quar-
tiers are sent out from the mint, with
in day or two, the attention of the
working force there will be devoted
exclusively to the task of meeting the
requirement for gold