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The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1908-09-11

a skin coat, l never heard of before
and don't believe there is any truth in
it. That Goodspeed died while in custo-
dy at Portal, or somewhere up that
way, shortly after his arrest, is fact,
but to the last he stuck to the story of
the two strangers meeting, overpower-
ing and robbing him of the money and
his supplies.
Speaking of finding rocks bearing
dates and other marks and associating
such finds with the possibility that they
have some reference to the where
abouts of the stolen money, you can
safely put down as genuine nonsense,
for all along the route taken by the
command of General Sibley as he and
his men drove the Sioux Indians
through Minnesota and the Dakotas and
over into Canada after the great mas
sacre by the blood thirsty Sioux at New
Ulm, Minn., you will find the soldiers
left their marks-sometimes their
names, dates, etc., chiseled into the
boulders, and these marked stones are
undoubtedly the work of soldiers of the
Sibley command and what are now be-
ing taken as having something to do
with the robber Goodspeed and the
probable location of the money that he
is supposed to have cached until such
time as he should have served what
ever prison sentence that might be
meted out to him, and then he would
return and get his ill-gotten gains.
There's nothing in it. and the people
over in that country who are putting in
time excavating in hope OF unearthing
this treasure are only throwing away
be expefding in some other direction.
There are others in the country besides
me-the Paradises and others-who
will recall some of the events of those
times and circumstances leading up to
Goodspeed's crime and his capture.
L. P. P.
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THE cAvne FOR MoIoalE1Y

The late Joel Chanler Harris" said
an Atlanta clergyman, fused to laugh
at the way everybody seemed to want
q free advertisement of some sort from
the editor. It was the same, he would
say, with the physician everybody
wants free advice on the health ques-
ton from him.
II once heard him tell about an edi-
tor who served ten days in Jail for lick
ing the mayor. The warden treated
him very kindly, and at tho ten days'
end, escorting him to the door and
shaking him by the hand, said:
Well. goodbye and good luck, ed.
And. say, would you mind giving the
Jail q puff? - Washington Star.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1908-09-11
NOW 0PULENT HOTEL MEN

Two Young Men, Formerly Of this City,
Left a Large Legacy and Now Running
a Hotel in the flour City-Said to be
Doing Good Business and Running
Good House.
All the old-timers, and most of the
recent timers. will remember the broth
ers, Jack and Ed. O'Neill. the wife of
the former dying here some three years
ago, when acting in the capacity of
nurse to smallpox patient, she con-
tracted the disease and, other compli-
cations setting in, died. Since then
Jack had been leading a sort of hap
hazard life, at times among friends
here and at other times-his friends
didn't appear to know where. And Ed.
well, he was a sort of a chap who
didn't care much just where he was, as
long as he had enough to eat and-drink
principally the latter. Now, how
ever, the young men are said by
those who have recently met them in
Minneapolis to be living on the top
shelf, being joint proprietors of we'll
known and popular hotel in that city,
dressed like Russian dukes, and each
wearing a diamond ring that would do
credit to the car of all the Russias.
The boys, it is said, were recently
the recipients Of legacy of some
$4,000 each, left to them on the death
of q relative, and this they used to in
stall themselves in the hotel business as
above stated. They have recently been
met by parties from here having busi-
ness in Minneapolis, some of whom
stopped at the place kept by the
O'Neills, and these latter report them
as running a highly creditable place
and enjoying a good business. Jack
was in Bowbells last some months ago,
and Ed, having about year ago prov
ed up on homestead in the hills, about
16 miles south Of the city, soon sold the
farm and Immediately left here, since
which time nothing has been heard of
him till being met on the streets of
Minneapolis by former acquaintances
from this city. Bill Shockley vouches
for the correctness Of the foregoing.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1908-09-11
NEW INDUSTRY N NORTH STAR

The Tribune is pleased to learn that
Mr.. Fred Koehler, out at his farm in
North Star township and IL miles north
of Bowbells, is now manufacturing
cement hollow blocks with his own ma
chinery. Mr.. X. will make hollow
blocks of any size and shape wanted
and only the best of material will be
used in their manufacture. He is a
mechanic and expert in all kinds of con-
crete and cement work. and therefore
knows just how to produce the best
goods in his line of business.
Mr.. Koehler also uses the best meth
Cd of making chimney blocks, Of all
sizes, ever; put on the market. This is
what is called the ''slush lock system. !"
From these can be built the very best
fire-proof chimney. No. fire can escape
through the joints, where most fire is
generally caused by bad brick. Mr.. K.
has the latest and best machinery to
make anything in this line that may be
called for. Every block will be found
true and neat and of the latest artistic
designs. Next season, he informs The
Tribune, he will also make the rein
forced fence post, q new article in ce-
ment that is destined to supercede the
wooden post. Citizens and business
men of Bowbells when out that way
are invited to call and inspect the
blocks now being turned out. 5&
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CussEDNEss At AMBROSE

BIsd.Pissers Do . Few Stunts aad tx
citement Runs High for . Tine Citizens
Resolved on Making q Cleanup = One
Pisqer Makes Effort to Excape But Was
Caught-The Other Escaped.
A message from Ambrose says that
on the evening of the 7th inst. Marshals
johnson and Bakken discovered rough
house in the upper story in the Red
Front Pool Hall, owned by Gust Reste-
vad of the Ambrose Mercantile COM
pany and being run by William and Tom
Caldwell. 81 The officers Immediately
placed all of the occupants under ar
rest. The Caldwell brothers were
complained for selling wet goods con-
trary to law of the state of North
Dakota, and two strangers, man, and
q woman, were placed under arrest for
disorderly conduct in violation of the
village ordinance.
They were taken before Squire Aus
tinson and plead guilty, paid their fines
and left for greener fields. ii
The Cladwells were negotiating for
bonds to appear in district court when
william 8 fertile brain devised a smooth
scheme of escape. Walking close to
the kerosene light under the pretext of
reading the bond, he knocked the lamp
to the floor, evidently thinking that the
building would, take fire and panic
would follow, in which he could make
his escape. The light was extinguish-
led as the lamp struck the floor and
William made bolt for the back
window of the office, shattering the
glass as he went through. He was
captured, however, before he went
any distance.
& He made desperate effort to escape
hut was soon in irons and behind the
bars Of the village Jail at Williston.
Tom Caldwell was not SO well known
in Ambrose and as he was not 80 close
~ watched he made good his escape.
The authorities are pleased that they
have rid the city Of this bunch and
have been successful in landing one Of
the most desperate Of the gang, as is
shown III the methods he employed IN
his attempted escape. ..s;
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REVlVES OLD MEMORIES
An Old Time Rancher After Having Read What Was Said
In These Columns Recently Anent The Robbery of
Hudson's Bay Company Paymaser a,sr'.
And the Chase and Arrest of the Bold Bandit Near Big Butte
IA Miles South of Bowbells Writes The Tribune Some
thing of the Times When the Robbery Occurred.

country and having the hardihood to
tackle the job. I never heard the name
of this trapper, but he impaired the
information that he had met man
answering the description of the hunted
party at point not far north of where
he met the posse, and as they placed
confidence in the statement of the
stranger they packed up and made
away in the direction indicated.
After six days my father and several
of his neighbors who had joined in the
chas returned without the provincial
officers, and explained that they had
overtaken and placed under arrest the
party wanted, having found him at or
near the foothills leading down to the
Des Lacs valley, the Canadian officers
taking their quarry west, heavily
shackled, and substantially. thanking
my father and the others for the valu-
able assistance rendered in locating the
alleged robber- Goodspeed by name, if
my memory serves me, and man
thoroughly English, though he had been
in this country for some time, and had
been a trusted employee of the Hudson
Bay Co., as well as having put in some.
time as ranch hand on this side of the
line. this latter, as was later learned.
after he had done some wrong and fall
len from grace with the Hudson Bay
people. It is true that the stolen mon-
ey, said at that time tc be in the neigh
borhood of $50, 900. was never recovered,
or at least not at the time Of Good
speeds arrest, nor was any clue ever
got as to it's hiding place, the robber
saying that he. himself had met two
men who had overpowered him and TAX
en- not only the stolen money, but also
most Of his supplies, leaving him in q
condition Of dreadsfrom starvation, so
that, according q, his own story, he
was praying for arrest when his cap
tors overlook him. That part Of the
story telling Of his having plat, sup
posed TO- refer to the whereabouts Of
his booty, traced on the tanned side Of
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1908-09-11

White Earth, N. D., Sept. l, 1908.
Editor of Bowbells Tribune:
Dear Sir:-My attention was called a
few days ago to an article appearing in
your paper and which had to do with
the robbery Of man in the Hudson
Bay Co. 8 employ some years ago,
which robbery is said to have occurred
at point about 80 miles west of Por-
tai, on the Canadian side of the line.
The reference made in your paper car
ried my memory back to boyhood days,
when I well remember my fathers
stock roaming at will all over the coun-
try between the Missouri river and the
body of water lying east and north of
Bowbells and known as Des Lacs lake.
The robbery referred to occurred while
was quite small lad, but ! remen-
ber the circumstance well, as well as
the fact that many of the then ranch
men turned out and gave The Canadian
authorities what assistance lay in their
power in locating and running down the
robber. For days he was followed
along the Missouri bottoms, but the
thick undergrowth afforded him shelter
and hiding place from his followers, and
at one time when it was thought by the
posse that they had him hemmed in in
a bunch Of undergrowth 20 miles up the
river from Williston, and spent several
days '..beating the BUSH in which he
was supposed to be, the highway man
was in reality some 20 miles away, for
it was afterward ascertained, from the
man himself, that while the posse was
raking this piece Of bush as with g fine
tooth, comb, he was comfortably camp
ed some 20 miles inland from the river
and the first intimation of his where
abouts was gotten by the officers and
ranchers posse from q hunter and trap
per who was making his way across
country and heading for the Yellow
stone, there to prepare winter quarters
for: q season Of hunting and trapping,
which at that time was q mighty prof
table business to 9 party knowing the
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At Il meeting Of the Minnesota Mil
lers club, held in Mi eapolis ons Satur- 1.
day lat, the recent 4 decision of the
. Minnesota State Board of Appeals, II
placing y4ltet chsR wheat "a g grade
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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-14
OPIUM Use
IN HONOLULU
CHINESE MAKE A LOCAL INVES-
TIGATION FOR USE OF REV. E.
w. THWING.

China is awake and on the way to
true advancement to her right place
among world nations She means to
get rid of things that hinder, one of
these is opium.
China has appointed Jan. LIST, 1909,
for the opening of the International
Conference at Shanghai to consider the
anti-opium movement and to make
further plans for the suppression OF
the opium smoking habit Special
commissioners from England and Am
erica will be there. The International
Reform Bureau of Washington, D. c.,
has invited Rev. E. w Thwing of
Honolulu to go to Shanghai and aid
in presenting some of the facts on
opium before the commissioners at the
coming conference. Mr.. Thwing will
also represent Hawaii.
The Chinese Anti-Opium League of
Honolulu has given the following
facts regarding the use of opium in
Honolulu, to Mr.. Thwing, and has also
prepared petition for him to present
at the conference.
/. From investigation we find there
are SO places in Honolulu for smok-
ing opium.
2. There are IA importers of opium,
each year, importing about 400 boxes.
/ 8. There are about $500 Chinese
who smoke ODium
4. There are about SO American
men and women who use opium in
| Honolulu.
5. There are over 80 Hawaiians who
use the drug.
4 6. Many use the drug on the plan
tations and at other places in Hawaii.
| 7. Over 5000 opium users are found
in Hawaii.
Mr.. Thwing leaves Monday in the
Manchuria for the Shanghai Confer
ence. He will visit Picking and 9TH
er large cities and Interview manv CID
nese officials before the meeting of
/ Jan. list, 1909.
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ALLOTMENTS FOR
THE MILITIA

WASHINGTON, D. c., October 2S.-
The War Department has announced
allotments to all states and territories,
on account of militia organizations, of
the 100000 appropriated by the act
of May 27, 1908.
The allotments are based on the en-
listed strength reported by officers Of
the regular army at the last annual in
spectiOn.
They are as follows: District of Co
lumbia, 1913, sos; Alabama, $5S,S13; Ari-
IONA, $6,643; Arkansas, s22, 939; Cali
fornia S49,6 $50; Colorado, $12,5SS; Con-
necticut, $49,356; Delaware, $6,S19;
Florida, $22,665; Georgia, $54,S27 Ha-
wall 1881; Idaho, $9,163; Illinois,
$113,5S1; Indiana, Sal, 442; Iowa, SAT-
96S; Kansas, $24,912; Kentucky, $751;
OCT; Louisiana, $22,313; Maine, S22,-
999; Maryland 34,O17; Massachusetts,,
$99,6S9; Michigan, $51, 739; Minnesota,
$51,OS6; Mississippi, $21, 161; Missouri
$54,924; Montana. $7,542; Nebraska,
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AUCTIoNEER AND
STOCK BROKER

$25,3S1; New Hampshire, S2S, New
Jersey, S77S05; New Mexico, S4,74S;
New York, $269,641 North Carolina,
$35,S54; North Dakota, $12, 4S5; Ohio.
$99,630; Oklahoma, $12,S95; Oregon.
$26,241; Pennsylvania, $1S2, 594; Rhode
Island, $1S,777; South Carolina, $685.
400; South Dakota, $Iv,9S1; Tennessee,
1884; Texas, $39,7O3; Utah, $6,447;
Vermont, $15,260; Virginia, $35, 229;
Washington, $12,4S5; West Virginia,
$19,265; Wisconsin, $55, 19S; Wyoming,
$S,557.
A new regulation which has been
adopted by the department in respect
to the allotment of clothing under this
act allows IS. 33 per man, for the en-
tire organized enlisted strength of the
militia.
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to last night had received no official
news other than a cablegram from the
consul general at San Francisco re-
patches.
Chief Clerk Conkling holds the blue
ribbon as an electioneering economist
with a record of $4,000 as the total
cost of the Territorial election. Not
so many years ago the cost was S25, 900
with but little more than half the num-
Der of precincts. But to take the cake,
Conkling will have to come to the
County of Hawaii where County Clerk
Sam Pua can show him how to make
profit of 5000 out of the transacti0h.
Hawaii Herald.
One encouraging feature of the re-
cent campaign on this Island was the
fact that, in the two districts of Ha-
makua and South Hilo, where the
most road money was spent in Octo-
ber nearly $4,000 out of a total of S15,-
900, the two Supervisors who sought
reelection were defeated. This shows
that the road workers, the voters, We're
not influenced by bis pay envelopes
Hawaii Herald
Sam Johnson has made good in ev-
cry position that he has ever occu-
pied in these Islands The latest tri-
butte paid to his worth comes from
Honolulu his old Kakaako precinct,
which used to be full of Republican
wage earners, having gone Democratic
and turned the tide sufficiently to elect
Fern as the first Mayor of Honolulu
Hawaii Herald.
Arriving by the Mauna Kea this
morning were the Salvation Army Off
GERS from Maui and Hawaii, to attend
the officers councils held by Col. Miles
in Honolulu on Monday The Kauai
officers will arrive tomorrow morning
In connection with these councils, pub
lie meetings will be held at the Army
hall tonight, Sunday at 1890 a. M,
p. m and p m. and on Tuesday at
s p. m.
William Kai, a Hawaiian vocalist,
died at Appleton, Wisconsin, on Octo-
Der 2S, as the result of an accident.
He had fallen while trying to climb
between two box cars that blocked a
a few days before, his right
foot being crushed in the couplings
as the cars started. Four toes were
in hospital and the wounds
were healing, but it appears Kai had
sustained internal injuries causing ia
tai hemorrhages Kai had lived on
the mainland for twelve years.
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Defensive
PROTEST OF RETAIL TRADE
AGAINST POSTAL SAVINGS BANK
. AND PARCELS POST SYSTEMS.

After considering data furnished by
Postmaster j. G. Pratt in a letter to
President Geo. W. Smith, the Homo
lulu Merchants Association decided TO
oppose the postal savings bank and
parcels post extension propositions
The following information is extracted
from the local postmaster's letter:
Domestic money orders issued at Ho-
nolulu postoftice in 1908 Fiscal year
ending June 3G) numbered 23,493 and
amounted TO S496,23S 81, as compared
with q ,479 and S4O1, 3O7 Is in 1906.
International orders, 1908 1923,
amounting to 1926, O75 10, as compared
with 6O56 and $139, 275 25 in 1906.
Surplus money order funds received
from all other postoffices in Hawaii in
1908 amounted to $2,52S, 423 rs, as COM
pared with $2,O77,1 SO in 1906.
Money orders paid at this office
were 81, 052 amounting to Last 1927 II
as compared with 56,25O and $1,576,-
351 .25 in 1906.
Transmitted to U. S. treasury in 1908
money order funds amounting to ST.
67S,1OO as compared with $1,O44,34 20
in 1906. aRIR
Money orders issued by all offices in
Hawaii in 1908 were 40, 4O5 amounting
to $1,16S,173. 81 as compared with 3D.
4S5 and 5000, 1927. 81 in 1906. To Japan
the number of orders was 39,0SO
amounting to 81 Isl, $50. AZ in 1908 as
compared with 22,135 and 1904, OS5 81
in 1906.
Parcels post packages received in
1908 numbered 52O6, duties collected
thereon being $3,55S so, as compared
with 294S and $2,47S rs in 1906. Pack
ages dispatched were 9S9 in 1906 and
1861 in 1908.
In 1908 there were 1913, $40 registered
articles handled against 1877, 173 in 1906
Letters dispatched in 1908 numbered
6,223, 465, an increase of 1,169, 493 over
1907. Newspapers, circulars, etc, dis
patched were 3,776,O27 in 1907 and g.
72O,7S6 in 1908.
James Wakefield, Robert f. Lange
and Frank Hustace, the committee Of
the Merchants Association whose find
ings were adopted, argued that domes
tic postal savings banks would moi
materially check the drain OF remit
tances to Japan, the higher interest il
that country, the provision the Japa
nese make for relatives at home and
the patriotic motive being all opposed
to the attraction of domestic posta
banks. Another reason against thu
proposition is that the private saving
banks in Hawaii are adequate, offeI
higher interest than the government
would pay and ought not be subjected
to the thus unnecessary competition
of postal savings banks.
On the parcels post proposition they
say:
"The establishment of a domesti,
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parcels post system, with low rates of
postage and a considerable increase i'll
weight limit would no doubt be adj
vantageous to a small section of the
community, particularly to large main
land corporations conducting what are
known as catalogue business, and large
department stores.
"These corporations with the assist
ance of Federal parcels post system
could enter so far into competition
with the small but responsible local
traders in all branches of business, as
to make it exceedingly difficult for the
local traders to remain in business at
a profit to themselves.
This condition would be readily
reached without any corresponding
benefit to the purchasing public"
In conclusion they consider the pro-
posed bill to establish a parcels post
system in the United States so danger
Gus to the interests of all retail dealers
in this Territory that they recommend
the directors to address each member
of the Association individually on the
matter, so as to secure a vigorous and
unanimous opposition to any such a
proposal becoming established on the
statutes of the United States"
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE WEATHER.
Local Office, U. S. Weather Bureau,
Young Building.
Honolulu, 4. II. November If, 1905.

TemperatLr s, a. m; a. m; 10
d. m; and morning minimum.
g.; IS; a. II; &c.
Barometer reamng. absolute humid
iy (grains per cubic FOOT; relative
and dew point at a. m:
27.O2; 5.SO1; G2; 81.
Wind: Eeiocity anG direction at a.
m; 8 a. m; ~ a. m; and noon:
5 NE; NE; SW.; S.
Rainfall 0urins "a hours ending a.
M: none.
Total vino movcment during "a hours
ended at noon 122 miles.
VIM. y. STOCKMAN,
Section Director.
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DEMONSTRATION
Of FIRST AID

The committee on nursing of the To-
cal branch of the rational Red Cross,
through the courtesy of Major Wad-
hams, is going to invite the public to
a demonstration of first aid to the in
jured-being a drill of the sanitary
corps at Fort Shafter-which will take
place at 3 o'clock next Saturday af-
ternoon.
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GURlO S
HAWAIIAN and SAMOAN
Largest Assortment in Town
WOman's Exchange
Hotel & Union SITS.
w. g. Irwin Il Co., Ltd
SUGAR FACTORS, CONMIsSloH AGENTS
AGENTS FOR

Oceanic Steamship Co., San Francisco,
Cal.
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Phila-
delphia, Pa.
Hakslau Plantation Co., Hilo Sugar
Company, Honolulu Plantation Co.,
Hutchinson Sugar Plantation Co.,
Kilauea Sugar Plantation Co., Oloz
walu Company, Paauhau Sugar Pan
tatiOn Co., Waimanalo Sugar Co.