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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-01-04
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London, Dec. 81. IL many years
since Central Europe geners1ly has
suffered 90 severely from IN aretic VI.
itation az It has this Christmas week
From France. Belgium. witserlsnd,
Germany and Austria;1unKaEy the
same tale Is repeated of heavy snow
storms. the interruption OF railroad.
vehicular and telegraphic communica:
ton, the loss OF life and general dis
comfort and Inconvenience In tho
towns as we'll as In the country dis
tricts.
According to reports received from
northern points in the United King
dom the storm situation ts growing
worse.
Heavy Loss OF Life.
The heavy snow storms are accom-
panied by violent gales and have re-
suited already in serious railroad &C.
cident near Arbroath, Scotland. In
which sixteen were killed. Railroad
traffic in Northern England and in
Scotland is becoming completely tied
up. 55.
Many trains are snowbound and pas
sengers are suffering from cold and
hunger. The gales have caused many
minor casualties along the coasts.
Disasters at Sea.
Among the worst sea disasters thus
far reported is the wreck of the jap.
anese liner Ava Maru. through tie
swapping of her anchor cable. No lives
were lost In this accident. but the
steamer threatens to become a total
loss.
In the mountain districts Of France
there is much suffering. In Belgium
Ice is forming, on the Scheldt and
other large rivers. and all communica.
ton with points in the Hertogen for
est is at standstill.
In Switzerland. Austria and Hunga-
~ the weather is of unusual severity
Germany reports the heaviest general
snowfall in many years.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-01-04
HOLDS PRIESTS WILL VALID.
illinois Higher Court Sanctions $3.50,
900 Beuuests.

600 Requests.
Rock Island, ILL.,, Dec. 3O.-A verdict
declaring invalid the will Of Father
Thomas Macklin, a Catholic priest,
who left an estate worth $3.50. 900. was
Get aside yesterday by Judge Gest on
the ground that the verdict was not in
accordance with the evidence. The
issue hinged on the sanity OF the
priest, who died two years ago Of a
disease that puzzled experts.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-01-04
RUSSIA LIKE A VAST eEoLAM
Gears Mother Declared to Be Insane
Whole Dynasty Crazy.

Gears Mother Declared to Be Insane
Whole Dynasty Crazy.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 1. - A close
friend of the cars household physi-
clan, DR.. Hirsch, says that the dowa-
ger czarina, the cars mother, has
been undeniably insane for three
months.
In fact, DIR. Tschechoff, the superin-
tendent of st. Petersburg's noted asy-
lum for the demented, st. Nicholas
'Tsbuderewitz, asserts that the major
ity of the foremost Russians are mad,
from the Romanoff dynasty down -
sovereign. ministers, generals, aristo.
Gratis, men of affairs.
The dowager czarina has been
'clean daft" ever since Gen. Trepoff
died last September. Gossips whisper
that she loved him passionately and
that losing him wrecked her wits.
Now she sees bombs and gallows
everywhere in her Imagination and is
in constant state of terror.
Czarevitch az Changing.
In her maunderings she declares
that the acknowledged czarevitch, the
two and a half year old Grand Duke
Alexis, is not the true heir to the
throne, but a changeling; that her
real grandson was born an idiot.
She has been taken away from Rus.
STA in the hope that she may recover
her reason.
Count Witte, too, sees ghosts and
hears mysterious voices, it is said, as
the result of the mental strain to
which he was subjected while pre-
mier.
WHOLE CITY IS rERRoR,zEp.
Douglas Island news., 1907-12-18
The NOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody.

Wrangell has been visited recently by heavy winds.
 The season for reports of rich placer strikes is again here.
 The Klondike Mines railway has been closed down, until April.
 S1OO,OOOis asked for establishing a light and fog signal at Resurrection Bay.
 Juneau has designs on the head quarters of the Rush, which is now at Sitka.
 The headline, "Sold to the Guggen- heims," appears frequently in Alaska papers.
 A Ketchikan church recently gave a free pic social. No wonder that town grows.
 Seattle mail landed in Dawson in ten days, is pretty good for this time of the year.
 A second wire will be strung on the government telegraph line from Valdez to Fairbanks.
 The Cottage City will be on the Southeastern Alaska run again, just after Christmas,
 The Ketchikan freighter, Alaskan, ran on the rocks at Cape Nudge, Vancouver Island.
 UP to Decem Der, 9th the winter weather in the Yukon had been the mndest ever recorded.
 The only governor that seems to please all the people of Alaska, IS Elk oficio Governor Distin.
 The Fairbanks Banking Company bank failed to open it's doors on the morning of the 18th inst.
 The Niblack Copper Company is in financial difficulties, and the laborers were not paid for October.
 The mine owners and employees at Fairbanks have settled their difference, on the open shop principle.
 Delegate Gale has introduced a bill, providing for a modified form of terri torial government for Alaska.
 What is known as the Mother Lode mining claim, near Valdez, was sold the other day for half million.
 According to a letter published in the Tribune, President Roosevelt was sorry that Wickersham resigned. Yes?
 The Atlin Consolidated Gold Mining Company, operating on Pine creek, in the Atlin district, this year took out s8O,OOO.
 Thos. Tugwell, pioneer hotel man of Log Cabin, died in Victoria of catarrh of the stomach. Deceased was at one time postmaster at Log Cabin.
Douglas Island news., 1907-12-18


 
 According to the Seattle Trade Heg- ister the total salmon pack Of 'ba Pacific coast for 1906 was 3.5 ,olL cases, op wbiche 2,2o9,555 were p'g rp in Alaska, an increase 2or this tcrritc / of 318,788 cases over 1905.
 The sealing industry, says Hhe Vic toria CoIonist, was only C. few years ago one of the most hourishing and profitable enterprises ou the continent Of America, seems to have fallen upon very evil days. The total catch of the British Columb bia fleet for the season just closed is little more than half that of the previous year, and on top of this it is stated that it is probable that low prices vii! obtain at the forthcoming sale of sea- skins in London. That the law of ompensation is working with it's customary eXactitude, however, is shown by the fact that the whaling industry, orly recently inaugurated on a comprehensive scale, is proving immensely profitable.
 The following taken from che daily press may be of interest to the mining fraternity at large: Judge DeHaven has handed down a decision whereby H. Cascedeu IS awarded third inter st in mining claims in Alaska sggreRating in value about S10O,O00. This decision is of great interest to mining men, as it involves the traDsaction commonly called "grub staking." Cascaden was authorized 6y George F.. F. Dunbar, Charles Sect and J. Bonnet to locate mining claims on Cleary creek, which he turned over to Dunbar, Scott and Bonnet, with the understanding that they would record the claims. This they neglected to do until the original stalking of the claims was declared void because of the lapse of time. After wards they recorded the claims ill CheiT own names.
 Restrictions incidental to life in quarantine did not prove fascinating to several of the Indians in tho village of Moosehide, and they left the hos- pital yesterday, and hurried to their own cabins There they remained, and refused to be coaXed back to the hos pital. The fact was reported to the police, and last evening Captain Rich ard Y Douglas marched on Moosehide, commanding a force comprising Con- stables Mather and Murray. Tho run away patients, comprising two or three women and che brxom tanned mai2sn, had failed to get back into the hospital by the time the military forces arriH at, the runaWays were rounded up, and all but one marched back at the command of the officers. But there was one charming Moosehide maidon who resisted with all the oostlnacy of the famous Maud, and she made it neces- ssry for heroic measures to be adopted. The valiant officers were equal to the occasion. They seized the maiden and they carried her to the hospital. There was some 5ickipg, squirming and wing work to be contended against, but the lads were too many for the damsel. Constable Mather was left in Moose hide to see that the inmates of the hospital did not again violate the rules of the quarantine. In the meantime the anti-toXin supply will continue to be reduced by the dutiful dansels of Moosehide.-Dawson News.
Douglas Island news., 1907-12-18

Cordova wants lumber and wants it bad. The man who will ship in lumber in large quantities should reap a fortune
 Congress is asked to appropriate S5O,OOO more for marking the boundary between the territory of Alaska and Canada.
 In the collection of the Dawson city taxes during the half month of NOv9m- Der total of more than S49,OO0 was received.
 The latest chaining shows the Valdez, Fairbanks trail to have been shortened 15 miles this year. The total distance is now but 354 miles.
 The postofhce at Woedsky has been closed, and patrons will get their mail at Petersburg at the other end of Wraugell Narrows.
 If nothing happens between now and spring, Cordova will be the center of attraction, and we will again witness a village transformed into city in few months.
 The WraDgell Sentinel says, "lets have a spellin' skule, and do something besides dance" The editor of that paper is probably too awkward to enjoy the dreamy waltz.
 At Whitehorse, Mrs. P. R. Peele and little daughter Vivian were both at tackled and quite severely bitten by dogs in their own yards and without the slightest provocation.
 The Tanana Tribune urges that the newly appointed district judge be given a chance. If he is like most of the judges that come to Alaska, no second opportunity will be necessary.
 S3OO,OOO in gold dust, shipped from the Fairbanks Banking Company to a Seattle bank, has been tied up by an injunction, based on phase of the Causten .Barnette controversy.
 Reports from the various denomina- tions which are supporting churches in Alaska show a substantial growth in the territory, and also in the number of members added says the Nome News.
 Alfred Williams, who we understand will be chief engineer on the 0. R. x N. w. By, came over from Katalla on the Altona. Mir. Williams is one of the best engineers on the coast.-Cordova Alaskan.
 Yukon will welcome the installation of wireless telegraphy or any other system that will work at least half the time in the winter season, which is more than can be said of the present one.-Star.
 Gov. Hoggatt is quoted by the Seattle Times as having said, in speaking of the opposition to the appointment of Judge Reed: "No real knowledge of the country is needed, to render legal decisions"
 At Knik, native named Beldic, whose sanity has been questioned for some time, became suddenly violent and made ferocious attack on U. s. Commissioner John Goodell, with 3O-3O rifle. He proved to be poor marksman and missed the Judge. He was sent to the Mt. Tabor sanitarium.
Douglas Island news., 1907-12-18

An expedition of the Royal North west Mounted Police will be dispatched from Dawson for Fort Macpherson and Herschel island, on the Arctic ocean, at the mouth of the Mackenzie river, sometime the last of this month.
 The sale of the property of the Ha- saan Bay Mining company by eXecu- tion sale on judgment of foreclosure of mortgage to the New Haven Trust company was made on the 5th inst, the judgment creditor bidding in the property for the sum ofS72,685.00.
 F. E. Butler, one of Ketchikan's active politicians, of the republican persuasion, walked off the approach at ChomIy, in the dark, and fell twenty feet into the water, but without sustaining any injury, other than it may have been slight dampenlng of his political ardor.
 It appears Chat signal corps men have other ways of adding to their in- come besides jerking lightning, judg- ing by the following ed in the Wrangell Sentinel: of you wish to buy venison, bear, ducks or geese, in any quantity, apply to Sergeant Williams at the cable oflce."
 The Chambe of Commerce of Far banks has raised fund of S1, ,0OO to ad- vertise the resources of the Tansna valley, and the money will be expended in publishing pamphlets filled with facts and figures regarding Tanana, which will be widely distributed throughout the States.
 w. A. Reid, the popular secretary of the Y. M. c. A. in Alaska, his work be- ing connected with the U. s. army with headquarters at Fort William H. Seward, arrived from that place We'd nesday evening and spent yesterday here arranging for the construction of a launch to replace the Helen Gould which he sold last fall on the lower Yukon.-Whitehors Star.
 The overland mail, northbound and southbound, is transferred over the Yukon river at Yukon Crossing in canoes during the period of running ice in the fall and spring. It is a dangerous proceeding. No mail has ever been lost at the crossing, but the suggestion is made that in order to facilitate the transmission of mails and at the same time insure their safety at the crossing at these seasons that a cable should be stretched over the Yukon, and a basket on trolleys or pulleys used as a conveyor.
 Hans Hansen, formerly United States commissioner at Yakutat thinks that it is high time for the government to take steps to protect the Alaska h. dians from destruction, or else it is slmply ulaICer oL 10" yeaA9 N0AOA0 they will all be dead and gone as a race of men. The official count of 1900 shows that the Yakutat village at that time had 295 Indians and Dry Bay vil- Iage 69 Indians. But today Yakutat has only 2QO indians, 13O of whom live in their own village, the other seventy at this time being in Katalla. This shows a decrease of 95 in only seven years. During the last two years that he has been away from Yakutat, forty eight Indians have died in Dry Bay and Yakutat, while only twelve births have occurred.
Douglas Island news., 1907-12-18

According to the Seattle Trade Heg- ister the total salmon pack Of the Pacific coast for 1906 was 3G-0 ,1iA cases, op wbiche 2,2O9,555 were p'I ID in Alaska, an increase for this tcrritc / of 318,788 cases over 1905.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-02

have it understood that he began life
as a poor boy and owes his rise to
wealth to his own efforts. According
TO Golfers, however, the first position
Mr.. Fairbanks received after leaving
college, was. given him by a wealthy
uncle. And the next position he re
ceived was from another wealthy IN
Gle that paid him $1,000 a year.
If this is true, the self-made idea
won't work any longer in the vice pres
ident's case. Golfers also scores the
vice president on account of his own
ership of the great state dailies, the
News and the Star. the latter being
owned. according to Golfers, in con-
junction with D. G. Reid. And in this
connection Golfers used d point
which the Palladium and Sun-Telegram
called the attention of it's readers to
week or so ago. 1t stated that the
vice president tried to make people be-
lieve that he favored the policies of
President Roosevelt and that his pa
pers. the Star and News, were giving
knocking the policies of the president.
AS a whole, the article is very in
teresting one and we'll worth the atten-
tion of Indiana readers as it deals in
no uncertain way with one of the fore
most citizens of the state and one who
may be the next presidential candidate
of the republican party.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-02

The present issue of Golfers week
IL contains one of the bitterest person
al attacks on Vice President Fair
banks as a presidential candidate, that
has as yet appeared. 1t is written by
Gibson Gardner, one of the brightest
writer's of the day, and is a powerful
arraignment of Mr.. Fairbanks. At
the beginning. the article declares that
just as Charles w. Fairbanks conceals
his badness by training what hair re-
mains over the bare spot, so does he
draw a thin veil across the bald spots
in his business and political career"
The article then goes on to rake the
vice president for having had at his
own expense. his LIES history written
in the way it is, in the Life and
Speeches of Charles Warren Fair
banks" by William Henry Smith.
This book. which is altogether in favor
of Mr. Fairbanks. and presents him
in the most favorable light, Golfers
declares to be nothing short of a mis-
statement from beginning to end. IN
it the vice president is set forth as
beginning as a poor boy and working
his way JHIOuSu GOItSc. 1O1lIG1
disproves this statement by the testi-
mony of the vice presidents mother,
who declares, according to Golfers.
that Mr.. Fairbanks never wanted for
anything during his college career as
he was well provided for by his par
ents
AS to his working, Golfers tells an
amusing story about that 1t seems
that Mr.. Fairbanks upon returning
home during a vacation announced his
determination to his family of work
ing as a roofer to get enough money to
pay for some law books. The family
tried to dissuade him, stating that they
would buy the books for him when he
got ready to use them. But Mr.
Fairbanks would not listen and accord
ing took a position as a roofer. And,
here is where the good point comes in.
Mr. Fairbanks worked at his new oc-
eupation for half a day-and then quit
According to Golfers, another pet
idea which the vice president has
given out is exploded. Mr.. Fairbanks
so Golfers states, has always tried to
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-02
c. r. G /. NEW ENGINES.

Two of the new engines purchased
by the G. r. & l. viii be placed in
service on the road next week, accord
ing TO the reports reaching Richmond
as they have been completed at the
Pittsburg works of the American Lo-
connective company and are now on
their way TOW ard the G. r. & /. line.
Both engines are passenger calibre
and viii be used in that service
These engines are somewhat heavier
than the passenger engines now in SER
vice, having twenty-ineh cylinders,
where the old were nineteen inches
The new engines will carry a $500 gal
Ion water tank against 5000 gallons
on the old engines. The other re-
naming two engines will be placed in
service in the course of the next two
weeks.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-02
HOME FINANCING.
Tho Ever Present Probtsna> of Prcsfdiu
Fer ShosFuture.

There is one problem that dominate
the home-an ohtrusive. pervasiv
problem that Outlines fills&the who'll
horizon of life-one that. like Banquet
ghost, Twill not down. It is the eve
present question of home financing
When we have mastered the Ito have
the problem of the Ito hold confront
US. II is the question of providing fol
the home which can never be properl,
answered until we realize that PRO
vide" is verb that should ever b,
corrugated in two lenses. present ant
future.
There is in our American life too Of
ten blind optimism in living up TO ar
income. in assuming that because III,
sun of prosperity shines warmly toda,
there is no need Of providing umhrel
las for : possible rainy tomorrow
Those who wisely live within an in,
come rarely have 10 face the problem
Of trying 10 live without one. There
are two simple guarantees against fu,
ture poverty and dependence on 9th
ers. two great safeguards for home
and family-a bank book and an insur
ance policy. They represent the ma,
terial defense of the home. a bulwars
of loves foretheught standing strong
and firm in the hour of need.-Delinea.
tor
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-02
SHOWS A FALLING OFF.
NOT so MUCH BAGGAGE HAND
LED IN MAY AS a MONTH AGO.
However, There Was an Increase in
The Excess Receipts, Due to
Large Commercial Travel.

About 1850 pieces of baggage were
handled by the local baggagemen at
the Pennsylvania station during the
month Of May. This record is not as
large as that of last month when 5000
pieces were handled. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that there has been a fall
ing off in the number of pieces of
baggage, the excess receipts last
month increased over the month pre-
vious; in fact they We're the largest
ever taken in at the local Pennsylva-
MIA station. The large commercial
travel during the past month was
greater in and cut OF Richmond than
ever before and 10 this is attributed
the reason for the increase in excess
baggage receipts
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-02

The automobile club of Wayne coun-
~, in offering its help to the officers
in running to earth the two young men
who so disrespeetfully dashed through
a funeral cortege near Earlham GENE
terry last Tuesday. in an automobile, is
acting in the best interests of decent
automobilists. These two young men
showed their disrespect for the dead
by dashing through the funeral cor
teGe. and then showed their small con-
sideration for the living by turning
round and laughing at the confusion
they had caused. A well administered
dose of strap OIL would be good for
such contemplate nonentities.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-02
DETERMINED IN STAND.

The officials of the Big Four. Penn
sylvania and Monon in Cincinnati have
acknowledged that the c., c.. d L. can
raise quite rumpus over differen-
tials in case it sees fit, but these Off
Gals think nothing will come of the
squabble. The officials admit also
that every increase made in the
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-02

The Wall street plutocrats are SO
anxious to relegate Theodore Roosevelt
they are inventing a place where his
future activities will hold forth. This
time we are assured the president will
become head of Harvard university up
on the expiration of his present term.
The people will let him do that or any
thing else he wants to when his pres
ent work is accomplished, and that will
not be before the expiration of his
present term.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-02
EXPECT BIG TRAFFIC.

The local Pennsylvania ticket Off
ees are receiving requests for James
town rates from various points sur
rounding Richmond From the num-
Der of inquiries reaching the office a
Pie nomenal traffic out of Richmond
is expected in July and August.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-02

An Earlham student is said to have
stated that President Kelly has threat
ened to convert Earlham into a college
for women alone unless hazing ceases
Immediately. Gaar. Scott and Co. of
ficials might take hint from this and
notify their striking boiler makers that
unless they return to work immedi-
ately, their places will be filled with
women.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-02

4 youls lady haviaS ASKED a sur
seon WY woman was m,sGe from eh.
rib of u nan IN preference 10 anothe.
bone. ke gave her the following gallant
answer:
she Vas tot taken from the hes,
lest sic should rule. nc. from his fee.
lest he should tranple upon her. bu
she was taken from his side that sh,
might be his equal; fron under hi
arm. that he might protect her; froa
near t fist be might cherlsl
Hr aston Chronicle.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-02
SOLDIERS INDIGNANT.

The g. a r. department of Ohio is
numerically scoring the railroads be
cause the latter refused to grant the
old soldiers a one cent rate to the
state encampment. The circular issued
arraigns the railroads and states that
the present actions of the public serv-
ice lines. is the thanks the old soldier
is getting for protecting northern rail-
road property during the civil war.