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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-06
WILL SAVE s2oo, 900 A YEAR.
Department Of Interior to Undergo
Some Drastic Changes.


Washington, Sept IA reform in
the personnel and business methods of
sweeping and drastic nature will be
put into effect in the department of
the interior within the next six weeks
or two months. 1t will result in saw
ing to the government of more than
100000 a year. 1t involves numerous
transfers of clerks, the consolidation
of two big bureaus, the moving of one
Of the largest bureaus in the depart
ment to the pension Office building, a
uniformity in the pension office and
land Office blanks used and the storage
of the patent Office models in the men,
sion Office building.
Although there will be, according to
the present plans no dismissals of
clerks or other employees of the de.
partment, the total number of clerks
employed will be diminished gradually
by allowing unnecessary Offices that
become vacant to remain vacant.
The changes will come as result of
the detailed reports of the government
experts and the outside business ex.
perts named by Secretary of the Int.
rior Garfield to investigate every
branch of the department and recon-
mend changes tending to more econo.
my, greater efficiency and greater dis
patch in the performance of business.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-06
Accidental Happenings.

Four boys were drowned at Oak
land, Kan, in the Kaw river. The
boys were wading and went beyond
their depth.
Frances, the three-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Stoeffel of LIE
Mars, Iowa, was kicked in the stom-
ach by horse and died of the injury.
Two boys, Robert Williams of Bos-
ton and Getchell Cleghorn of Montre-
al, were killed, and a third, Daniel
Denny of West Newton, Mass, is in a
dangerous condition through the cav
ing-in of sand bank at Squaw lake,
near Holderness, N. H.
Four persons were killed and thirty
injured when west-bound st. Louis
& San Francisco passenger train and
an east-bound passenger train, both
heavily loaded with excursionists, col.
lided head-on near sapulpa, I. T.
A tornado struck the towns Of
Woodsfeld and Newcastle, Ohio,
wrecking q number Of buildings and
doing other damage. The home of
Samuel Bartemus. near Woodsdeld,
was entirely destroyed, and . tWo.year.
old child killed. The child was torn
from tn mothers arms and carried
41early QuaFtsr q : mile. 4
i : 4 u
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One man was killed and seven pas.
sengers dangerously injured in the
wreck Of passenger train at Bow
man, Ill. Two cars jumped a switch
and crashed into box car.
While testing a smoke consumer
recently installed in the Slavery hotel
at Des Moines, two steamfitters, John
Price and John Kelly, were scalded
by the explosion of the boiler. Kelly
IS In precarious condition.
Several women and children were
injured during a panic at Cleveland
pleasure resort as the result of lion
making an attack upon Capt. James
+. Briggs, a tanner and performer.
Frank Churchill of Germantown,
Pa, and his eleven-year.old son, Nor.
man, were drowned in Back creek,
Chesapeake City, while grabbing. Mrs.
Churchill and another son witnessed
the. drowning.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-06
People Talked About.

The Earl of Dunmore, a prominent
Christian Scientist in England, who
last December visited Mrs. Baker G..
Eddy at Concord, N. H., died at Trim
ley Manor, near Canterbury, England.
Prof. Mentchikoff of the Pasteur in
stituted in Paris, Prof. Maurice CAB
mette and Prof. Letulle of Lille have
received formal invitations from the
United States government to attend
the tuberculosis congress at Washing
ton next year.
AMI Smith, for forty-three years
connected with the document room
of the United States senate and for
many years in charge of that impor.
tant branch of the senate, died in
Washington of typhoid fever. He was
siXty-four years old.
The marriage of Miss Katrina
Wright, daughter of Luke e. Wright,
the retiring ambassador to Japan, to
Charles Palmer, vice president of the
International Bank of Manila, took
place at the picturesque American en-
bassy at Toxic. The young couple sail
ed for the United States, in company
with Gen. and Mrs. Wright.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-06
FRENCH AMBusAED BY mooRs.
Recommending Party Is Rescued Ate
Three Hours Battle.

Recommending Party Is Rescued After
Three Hours Battle.
Casablanca, Sept. 1.-Fighting yes
terday near the French camp between
the Moors and the forces under Gen.
Drude was one of the most serious en-.
gagements since the occupation of
Casablanca. The Moorish attack was
quite unexpected, and the tribesmen,
as on previous occasions, showed abso.
lutte fearlessness.
This engagement, like that of Aug
IS, began with the ambushing of a
French accommodating party by Moor
ish cavalry. The French at first drove
the enemy off, but the natives received
reinforcements and this obliged Gen.
Drude to send out a detachment to
extricate his accommodating party.
After the first contact it was be
lieved that the engagement was over,
but as soon as the natives had been
reinforced they reappeared in great
numbers from two directions. The
Spahis and irregular Algerian cavalry,
who composed the accommodating par
ty. found themselves almost surround.
ed by the second attack, but they form
ed square and slowly fell back until
the reinforcements arrived.
Then the tide of battle turned. Ma.
tive auxiliaries charged the Moors, sa-
bering them furiously, and the enemy
finally broke and fed in disorder. In
the meantime the French warships
l., ,1,@ 49,
where the natives were sheltered.
The engagement lasted three hours
The line of battle extended over two
miles and it is estimated that over 49,.
600 Moors were engaged. The loss of
the Moors is not known, but it is be.
lieyed to have been heavy.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-06
MANSFIELD DEAD:
GREAT WORK ENDS
PREMIER AMERICAN ACTOR Ex.
PlREs At SUMMER HOME IN
CONNECTICUT.
LONG STRUGGLE FOR FAME
DEATH DUE TO DISEASE OF THE
LIVER, AGGRAVATED BY COM.
PLicATloNs.

New London, Conn.,, Sept. 1.-Rich-
ard Mansfield, the best known actor
on the American stage, passed away
yesterday morning at his summer resi-.
dence, Seven Oaks, Ocean avenue
Death was directly due to disease of
the liver, aggravated by complications.
DR.. A. H. Allen, local physician, who
has been in charge since Mr.. Mans
fields arrival here from Saranac Lake.
N. Y, states that death was not entire
ly unexpected, although this fact had
ont been made public. Mr.. Mansfields
condition had been reported as being
excellent.
There were quite number of condi-
tons that prevented his getting we'll.
During the great actors last moments
he was lying in a condition of coma
and did not recognize the loved ones
at his bedside There we're present at
the time of his death his wife, his
brother Felix, his young son Gibbs and
the physicians and nurses.
Studied in England.
Richard Mansfield was born on the
little island of Heligoland on Nav "a,
1857. His mother was Nine. Mansfield
Rudersdorf, famous prima donna.
and it was from her that Mansfield in
herited his love for the arts The &C.
tor studied at several schools on the
continent and then went to England to
study art. The young artist made a
precarious living painting pictures,
and many times his only meal in those
early days in London was a hot potato
bought from street peddler.
Il used to hold the potato to warm
my hands, said Mansfield in relating
his experience, "and then eat it,
Played Many Parts.
Mr.. Mansfield's first work on the
stage was in the Gilbert and Sullivan
comic operas. His dramatic genius
did not manifest itself until chance
gave him the opportunity to play the
part of Baron Chevrial in the paris.
Ian Romance" He lifted what at first
seemed to be small eccentric part to
one of all absorbing interest. The pub.
lie and the critics forgot the play to
le1An VI MausueluS great W0fK, and
from that day he become leading
actor on the American stage. Among
the more important IF the parts in
which Mansfield distinguished himself
were: Prince Karl" CDR. Jekyll and
Mr.. Hyde" Richard ILL.," "Cyrano de
Bergerac," Ivan the Terrible" Hen.
ry w." "Shylock" and Beau Brum-
MEL" The last effort of his genius
was displayed III a remarkable produc-
ton of Ibsen's peer Gynt."
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-06
General News Items.

Fifteen hundred coal miners went
on a strike at Buxton, Iowa, because,
as they charged, the mines were not
ventilated properly.
James Mcllroy, eighty years old, a
resident of Menominee, Mich, claims
to have participated in the charge of
the Light Brigade at Balaklava. in the
Crimean war of 1854.
Drivers and stablemen employed at
the wholesale beef packing houses in
New York went on strike. They de-
manded uniform working week of
sixty-fve hours and an increase in
wages.
The new armored cruiser Washing
ton made 21.38 knots an hour in her
speed trials recently. The Tennes-
see. sister ship of the Washington.
made 20.82 knots under forced
draught in her trial.
Frank Grattan, attorney for the Kan
sas board of railway commissioners,
has issued statement favoring the
calling of an extra session of the leg
islature for the purpose of passing
straight 2-cent fare bill.
Made suddenly insane by news that
his brother, E. r. Hancock, had been
killed in railroad accident at Gales.
burg, Herbert Hancock of Omaha be.
came so violent when travelling on a
Burlington train that it was necessary
to place him in a straight jacket He
was taken to the asylum at Mount
Pleasant, Iowa.
Director General James :. Barr of
the jamestown exposition has an.
nounced the appointment of Charles
w. Kohlsaat as director general of
ceremonies in the entertainment of
distinguished visitors, position here
tofore held by President Tucker. It is
an open secret that the Official family
Of the ter.centennial is not a happy
one.
The Consolidated Stock Exchange
In New York took possession of it's
new building at Broadway and Beaver
streets. The site of the new building
is advantageously located in the heart
of the financial district. It was pur.
chased at cost Of $4,000, or at the
rate Of $3.50 per square foot.
e. +. Noel Of Holmes county has
been nominated for governor Of Missis.
sippi In the Democratic primary held
last Thursday. Earl Brewer. his Oh
ponent, IN an address to the people 81
Mississippi, conceded the nomination
Of Noel and asks Ill Democrats to surs
mort him.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-06
GERMANY FINDS TREASON.

Sergeant Of Army Is Arrested for Re.
veaiing Military Secrets.
Coblentz, Germany, Aug. 31.-A ser.
geant of the Twenty-third regiment Of
artillery has been arrested here on
the charge OF treason. He was detect.
ed through the discovery on the per.
son OF a traveller at Herbesthal, on the
Belgium frontier. Of copies of secret
instructions regarding artillery firing
as practiced in the German army, and
which are only confided to certain OH,
GERS under strong safeguards.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-06
cRAcksMEN BREAK JAIL.
TWO Convicts Escape in illinois by
Saving Window Bars.

Two convicts Escape in Illinois by
Saving Window Bars.
Joliet, ILL.,, Aug. 81. - Edward Quinn
and Harry Harmon, two convicts at
the state penitentiary, made a sensa
tlonal escape from the prison last
night and are still at large.
Quinn, one of the most expert safe.
blowers in the country, was serving a
twenty-year sentence from Knox conn,
ty for burglary. He had eight wears
to serve.
Harmon was received from Chicago
July IL. 1902. for burglary, under an
indeterminate sentence.
me men were nurses in the hospi.
tai and sawed through the bars Of tho
hospital window, dropping into tho
prison yard, and with an iron hoon
and rope made from sheets scaled the
walls.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-06
RoBeER LICKED" TWICE.
One Of Victims Knocks Gun From
HoId-up Artists Hand.

One Of Victims Knocks Gun From
HoId-up Artists Hand.
Chippewa Falls, Wis, Sept. 1. - A
hold-up man had the experience of be-
ing twice pummeled at two different
times in the town of Wheaton last
last night.
First he held up Claud Koran and
his would1be victim threw up his
hands so swiftly that he knocked the
revolver from the hold-up mans hands.
Koran then pounced upon him and
give him a sound thrashing.
The highwayman next visited John
Schaefer's home nearby, and while he
was taking an inventory of the family
silver Schaefer woke up and confront
ed him. The two men had a fast and
furious fistic encounter, with the re.
suit that the burglar was defeated and
thrown through. the window.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-06
NEWS Of THE WEEK IN .tPIT0Mf
DIGEST OF THE news WORTH
TELLING CONDENSED FOR
BUSY READERS,
Washington Notes.

All records for excavation on the
Panama canal were broken during
July, despite a reduction in the force
of employees The work in the Culebra
division was nearly five times as much
as for the same month in 1906.
More than 100 complaints were
filed with the interstate commerce
commission, each asking reparation
from the various railroads in the
Southeastern territory on account of
the yellow pine decision of the su.
lTene court of the United States.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-06
fish AND HARAHAN
IN fierce FIGHT
4!
PRESIDENT AND FORMER sPREsl,
DENT OF ILLINOIS CENTRAL
IN SCRAP.
R-PRfS|DtNT CALLED LIAR
FlsH's DEMAND FOR lNvEsTIcA,
TON OF ADMINISTRATION
STARTS TROUBLE.

New York, Aug. 81. - It became
known yesterday that hand-to-hand
fight between Stuyvesant Fish and ].
T. Harahan broke up the meeting Of
the Illinois Central directors Wednes.
day.
There were hot words between the
deposed president of the road and his
successor, and when Mr.. Harahan
shouted out the word "liar" Mr.. Fish
leaped upon his opponent and clutched
him. A struggle followed. Some re.
ports of the affair are that blows were
struck and that Mr.. Harahap was
knocked to the floor by terrific
smash from Mr.. Fish's fist.
Whether or not fists were used, it is
certain that the two men struggled
about the board room until their hor.
rified colleagues stopped the squabble.
Fish Proposes Inquiry.
The trouble between Mr.. Fish and
his successor at the head Of the big
railroad system arose when Mr.. Fish
attempted to get before the board
resolution which in effect demanded
complete investigation Of the admin.
1stration Of the company since the ele.
walton of Mr.. Harahan to the prest.
dency.
The reading Of the resolution was
interrupted by motions calling for an
immediate adjournment of the meeting
and despite the protests of Mr.. Fish
that he had a right to be heard to the
END the motion was declared carried.
President Harahan arose with the 9th.
er directors and prepared to leave the
room. Mr.. Fish protested that the &C.
tion was illegal.
Fish Is Called a Liar.
"The meeting stands adjourned" re.
torted President Harahan across the
table.
"But it is not adjourned" Fish re.
piled holly. "You are tools of Harri.
man and puppets and"
You're liar" said Harahan.
springing to his feet.
An instant later the big ex-president
mad reached across the table, grasped
his successor by the arm and showed
him back into his chair. Then the
other members of the board rushed
in, separating the two men and rushed
them out and away for separate
routes.
one of the directors who attended
the meeting said that no actual blows
had been struck, no blood had been
spilled and no furniture broken.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-06
OPERATORS STRIKE NEAR END.
Both Sides Say the End Will Come by
Middle Of Next Week.

New York, Sept. 1.-The strike of
the telegraph operators will come tc
an end by the middle of next week, &C.
cording to the prophecies made by
strike leaders and company managers
yesterday. The opposing leaders are
by no means agreed upon the condi-
tions which will bring about the set
Element. On that point they appear
to be as widely apart as at any time
since the strike began. Daniel l.. Rus
sell of the telegraphers' union said he
is confident that next Wednesday will
see complete capitulation OF the
companies. Supt. Brooks of the West
ern Union, said he believed that the
empty pockets of the strikers will lead
to a solution of the trouble. Some of
the men already are returning to their
old places, he said, and he looks for
general break next week.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-06
DEAD NuMB[. SfyfNTYN NINE
GOVERNMENT APPOINTS coMM,s-
SION TO INVESTIGATE CAUSE
OF ACCIDENT.

Quebec. Sept. Although twenty.
four hours have elapsed since the Que.
bee bridge crashed into the st. Law.
renee river, three score of bridge
workers are still held in the debris at
the bottom of the river. A roll call
yesterday afternoon confirmed early
estimates of the losses. Seventy.nine
men failed to answer to their names
and were not among the injured at the
Levos hospital. Nineteen bodies lie at
the morgue awaiting the coroner's in.
quest OF the seventy.nine dead or
Missing, sixteen were skilled American
mechanics, brought here by the Phoe.
nix Bridge company of Phoenixville,
Pa.
Some of the corpses can be seen be.
low the surface, tightly wedged in an
inextricable network of steel, where
it is utterly impossible to reach them.
Only One Body Recovered.
Although tugs, rowboats and RATS
were used throughout the day to pa
work was the recovery of only one
body at low tide last evening. This
victim was cut in two and the body
was taken out in two parts. Another
body was located near the Anchor
pier and an effort was made to remove
it, but it was found that the lower
limbs were held in grip Of steel that
it was impossible to break. The body
is headless.
The federal government has appoint
Ell a special commission to investigate
the causes of the accident.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-06
TWO CRUSHED IN SHAFT.

Painters Are Killed When Elevator
Gets Beyond Control.
Milwaukee, Sept. 1.-Two painters
lost their lives in an elevator shaft at
the Public Service building yesterday
by being crushed to death. The dead:
Oscar Schauer, aged twenty-five,
lived at 1914 Twenty fouth avenue.
Frank Napierali, thirty-fve, resided
at 1893 Second avenue.
The men were painting the shaft
while the elevator was being operated.
The elevator man lost control of the
car, and the painters did not have time
to heed a warning.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-06
Foreign.

4 quarantine against all vessels
coming from Cuba is being enforced
at all Costa RIGA seaports.
Cardinal Emilio Taliali died at Gas.
coli of heart disease. He formerly
was papal nuncio at Vienna.
The battleship Lemaire, third of the
Dreadnaught class, was launched at
the dockyard at Davenport, Eng.
Fire broke out in the flimsy native
structures of Hakodate, Japan, and be.
fore it could be got under control near.
~ 20 per cent of the city was in ashes.
The international socialists con-
gress closed its session at Stuttgart
after adopting resolutions opposing
ornaments for conquest and imperial
ISM
Grave agrarian disturbances have
broken out in the province of Kursk,
in Russia, where the crops of several
of the richest landlords have been
burned.
A sharp earthquake was felt on the
Islands of Guadeloupe and Dominica
Several strong shocks have been re-
ported from the island of St. Lucia
the past week.
The Chinese legation at Paris has
been informed by cable from Pekin
that there is no truth in the reports
that the dowager empress is suffering
from an incurable disease. Her
health is stated to be perfect.
Mr.. Quelch, an English delegate to
the international Socialists congress
at Stuttgart, has been expelled from
Germany because he referred to the
Hague peace conference as a gather.
ing Of thieves and murderers."
The flood caused by torrential rains
is reported to have done several
million yen damage in Central Japan.
Two pipes furnishing the water sup
ply of Yokohama were seriously dam
aged, entailing water famine which
continued ten days.
The death is announced in Paris of
Gen. Caffaret, who was involved in the
decoration contract scandals in 1886,
during the administration of President
Greyy. H. Wilson, son:in-law of the
president, was involved in the scan.
dals with Gen. Caffaret.
The chief secretary for Ireland, Mr..
Birrell, announced in the house of
commons that the government was
prepared to accept some, but not all,
of the amendments of the house of
lords to the Irish evicted tenants bill,
whereupon John Redmond, chairman
of the Irish parliamentary party, said
he declined to take any further part
in the discussion of the measure.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-09-06
Crimes and Criminals.

A mob lynched John Lipsey, a ne
gro who criminally assaulted Mrs. Ed
Windham at her home near Pickens-
vile, Ala.
Eugene Cargell, marshal of Cairo.
was shot and killed by Cohen Simms,
a negro, near Moccasin Gap, Fla.
Simms surrendered.
Dock Barnes, aged ninety-six, killed
his aged wife at their home eight
miles southeast of Tulsa, I. T. No at
tempt has yet been made to arrest the
old man.
George Armitage and Charles Dee,
two young men, have been arrested at
Billings, Mont, charged with shoot
ing up the restricted district a few
lights ago.
Albert Stmmelen became insane at
Detroit, and, taking his two-yearold
daughter to the Belle Isle bridge,
threw her into the Detroit river and
watched her drown.
w. A. Farren, alias M. D. w. Adams
former cashier of the Farmers Bank
VI SACdAAC1u, AOWd, was o4ASoISu az
Kansas City on the charge of embez-
cling the school funds of Taylor, Iowa.
A man under arrest at Osceola,
Neb, was positively identified as Ben
jamin Cravens, who escaped from the
Kansas state penitentiary at Lansing
on Nov. 16, 1900, during a mutiny of
the prisoners.
Thomas M. Sumerall, boilermaker,
was shot and killed by Wade Hamp-
ton Hunter in saloon at Montgom-
cry, Ala. Both men had been drinking
and there had been ill feeling between
them growing out of differences over
union matters.
Mckinley Richmond, negro aged
ten years, was found guilty of murder
in the first degree at Oil City, Pa. On
account of his youth the court ordered
him sent to the reform institute. The
lad shot younger sister because she
struck him with stone.
Discovery has been made that
ghouls visited the grave of Margaret
Kuhlewind, the eight-year-old girl who
was killed ten days ago in an automo-
bile accident at Bernardsville, N. j.,
exhumed the body and removed there
from certain parts. The CHASTITY work
was evidently done by hands skilled in
surgery.
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ROAD ADMITS EXCESS CHARGES.
Hearing Before Commission Comes to
Close.

st. Paul, Sept. 1.-The hearing be-
fore Special Examiner John H. Marble
of the interstate commerce commits.
sion in the federal building yesterday
on the complaint of the Hennepin Pa
per company against the Northern Pa.
cific railway and the Oregon Short
Line was brought to a sudden close
when the attorneys for the defendants
filed amended answers, in which the
principal allegations of the complaints
are admitted. The action was brought
to recover an overcharge of $1,76O.62
on shipments of print paper from Lit
tie Falls to Boise, Idaho.
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PICK PREACHERS POCKET.

Rev. J. e. Baker Is Robbed Of S110 in
Circus Crowd.
Waterloo, Iowa, Sept. Rev. ]. e
Baker. aged seventy-fve years. and for
half century preacher in the Meth
odist church, was robbed of $11O yes
terday while about to board Chicago
Great Western train for La Cygne.
Kan, where he will make his future
home.
There was a big crowd of circus
patrons ready to board the train, and
while they were crowding and push
ing Rev. Bakers wallet. containing
currency in the amount of $110. disap-
peared