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The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20
Ordered Son to Kill Father.

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 Frederick Cramer, his wife and their children lived at Page, South Da, kota. Husband and wife had domestic differences and it was agreed that he should have the first floor of their home and she and her sons the second floor.
 One night Cramer came home in an ugly mood and tried to break into the second floor of the house. Mrs. Ora mer barricaded the downstairs door, but her husband broke it down.
 'I'll settle you!" he cried, plunging up the stairs Mrs Cramer ran and got her loaded revolver She leyeled it down the stairs, but her hand trem- bled so that she could not aim.
 Take this and shoot him. she said to her oldest son, Arthur, a boy of 16, handing him the pistol I'm too nervous to hold it.
 The boy obeyed only too well. One shot was fatal.
 q only did what my mother told me- he said, and that was to save her life from my father"
 Ezekiel Gregory, an old farmer, of Davidson. N. C., didn't like the hours of his son, David He told him that he ought to rise earlier. He killed his father with an ax and escaped.
 John and James Randall, IA and 15 years old, of Marshall, N. C., found their mother murdered, as they be- e I for their rifles, and one of the boys wanted to kill him then and there when they found him.
 "No," said the other, let's keep him guarded here until we can get the po- lice"
 So while one held his loaded rife against his fathers temple the other telegraphed for a constable Hour aft CT hour they kept their grim vigil, and when the constable came they turned over their prisoner-their father-to the tender mercies of the law.
 Randall had. driven his wife from their home. She sought refuge with friends, and he came for her. Reluc- tantly she went back with him. Later Mrs. Randall was found by her sons dead in the road with her head crushed in So they hunted down their father and, after finding him, kept guard until he was safe in jail.
 Not one son in a million is called upon to do as these sons and daugh- ters have had to do. Few have to make such a choice. But when the call is made what shall it be-
 Father or mother?-New York World.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20
Forced His Way Into House.

Wasser hung around the home and more than once he tried to get in. He was arrested, but each time got free on some plea or another This made him bolder still On the fatal morn ing he knocked at the door of the fiat and demanded admission.
 If you don't let me in I'll kill you and all the brats." he yelled
 There was no answer He broke down the door, Mrs Wasser stood facing him. There was fire in her eye and decision in her voice.
 I'll never take you back, George Wasser,' she said, firmly.
 This was her death warrant.
 Well sneered Wasser, you'll never telephone for the police again"
 Mrs. Wasser started to run. Was ser pulled revolver out of his pocket. Before his wife had taken two steps he fired. The bullet struck the poor woman in the breast. She fell to the floor with her clothing ablaze, so close was the range Mrs Langlotz and little Annie were in a rear room. They rushed out just in time to see their mother fall Re membering the revolver her mother kept in the bureau drawer, Annie ran and got it. Quick as a flash she handed it to Mrs. Langlotz Just then Wasser was raising his weapon to shoot again at his helpless wife.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20

his victim and ran for the door. Twice again the boy fired. This time he hit his father twice in the back of the head The man fell in his tracks.
 A policeman heard the shots and came running up.
 I've killed my father" said Con- stantin, coolly. 'I want you to ar rest me. I had to do it to save my mothers life"
 The mother implored the police not to arrest her son, but law is law, and he had to go to the station house. The son, knowing the choice he had made, was perfectly cool.
 T knew I would have to kill my father some day" he said. He has always been saying he would kill my mother, and I am glad it is over now
 In Bowerton, Miss, it was only a little boy who stood between his moth CT and his infuriated father Frank Mullins was whipping one of his chil- dren unmercifully, when the mother interefered
 Curse you!" cried the husband and father. I'll kill you if you don't let me alone"
 The mother stepped between the child and her infuriated husband. He struck her and knocked her down, kicking her face as he did it. Their ten-year-old boy saw it all from across the yard, and, running into the house, got a rifle and leveled it from behind the woodpile and shot his father dead. But he saved his mothers life.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20
RESUME PLACE IN THE WORLD.
European Tongues, Once Almost For
 gotten, Experience Revival.

This century Is witnessing a revival of neglected languages A writer says: :: There are no less than nine almost forgotten tongues which since the be- ginning of the nineteenth century have retaken their places, politically and in literature, among the languages of modern, Europe. The nine are Greek, Roumanian, Bulgarian, Servian, Mag var, Czech, Finnish, Norsk and Elem ish. This list does not include Gaelic, which is now experiencing resuscita- tion in some parts of Ireland at the hands of the Gaelic league, nor Polish, which achieved a political and literary revival in Galicia. The nine Ian guages first named are ROW used by 50,0O0,00 of peoDle-a fact which does not suggest much likelihood of the approach of a universal language.
 At the beginning of the nineteenth century the statesmen of Europe, al most without exception, held that the extinction of the smaller languages, which had already ceased to hold g
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20

navigator finding his way cautiously by trying the depths. say, in approach ing an unfamiliar shore. Landmark" is not at all nautical-looking word, but it is strictly a mark on land--a tower, building or other prominent ob- ject which serves to guide the marin CT clear of rocks and shoals into a port. To sail close to the wind is to keep directly on ones course when lacking is almost necessary, and so Q run risk of being taken aback To keep ones weather eye open is to keep a sharp lookout on the weather side of the ship (that is, to windward, where the weather comes from) for the signs which mark the approach of squalls. To take the wind out of an other boats sails is to overhaul her (presumably in racing) and pass to windward, thus cutting off her wind for the time being.
 Finally, we have one or two ship building metaphors. We speak of hav- ing piece of work lon the stocks, '' stocks being the frame of timbers which supports a ship while she is building. If she is well built of the best materials she is "A1"-the high est grade in Lloyd's classification.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20

stopped. It was the mothers life or the fathers. The boy had to choose. He let the pistol do the choosing.
 It parked once. On came the fa- ther closing in. Again the weapon spit forth a bullet Filler dropped, mortally wounded The mother swooned in her sons arms But her life had been saved.
 They hurried the father away to a hospital, where the surgeons said he was mortally wounded The boy was arrested and held without bail Had he allowed his mother to be beaten to death he would not have been put in cell; he had his choice to make, and only a moment to make it in.
 What would the everyday son do in such a case?
 Has he a right to shoot down his | father to save his mother? Should he not be impartial? Would it not be better to fight than to shoot? Is a son justified in killing his father to save his mothers life?
 Other sons have been called upon to decide, just as Theodore Filler has had to decide, and in the twinkling of an eye, too. And occasionally even a daughter has been forced to make the same decision in a moments time.
 Only two weeks ago 15-year-old Frank Petersen, cut at Greenport, l.. l., had to face the same dilemma. If he didn't shoot his father then his mothers life would pay the forfeit
 Frank didn't hesitate He fired. brought his father down with a seri- i ous wound in the head and saved his mothers life. Then he ran for the doctor to come to his father, Frank Peterson, ST.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20
EUROPEAN PETROLEUM EXPERT.
Visited American Fields to Establish
 System of Unifying Tests.

New York-Dr. Leo Ubbelohde has sailed for Germany after a tour of the United States. Dr. Ubbelohde is teacher in the Technical high school of Karlsruhe and general secretary of the international commission on the products of petroleum.
 Dr. Ubbelohde was selected as the highest authority on petroleum prod ucts in Europe to visit the Pennsyl- vania oil fields to establish an inter- national system of unifying petroleum tests. The appointment was made with the approval of the German emperor, and President Roosevcs' gave his concurrence, assigning Dr.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20
Plants That Grow in +b. Air

Fresh air babies are the aerophytes or epiphytes, the air plants which do not grow in the earth, but in the air. chiefly in trees. These air plants de. rive their nutriment from atmospheric moisture and thus are to be distin. gulshed from terrestrial plants ar those growing on the earth. In SouM America they are to be found growing on the orange trees among the branches. In appearance they re. semble carnations. They blossom freely in the spring and the flowers, plnk In color, grow in small punches on one stalk.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20

car in spite of his verbal and fistic protests, and the turkeys were hand. ed over to the hotel proprietor and his cook to be prepared for the grand public dinner.
 The short winter day came to an end and darkness fell upon the plain, hardly whitened by the snow that had melted as fast as it had fallen. Sud- denly there was great excitement and confusion at the hotel. Nothing was to be found of the cook or of the tur. keys which had been roasting for hours in the oven of the hotel range. The chef had been bribed in advance by a willy Ashtonian, and with the first shades of night he had stolen away, figuratively and literally, with the. turkeys already done to a turn.
 At Ashton all went merrily. The oyster supper began decorously, but when plates bearing small but in- dubitably genuine slices of turkey, and generous helpings of dressing flanked by quivering masses of crim- son cranberry jelly, were swiftly passed down the long table, wild, exultant shout went up that lifted the roof of the frail hotel structure and shattered the silence of a Dakota night outside.
 Among the unspeakable crimes of the great west that are still shrouded in mystery is the bribing of the hotel cook. The briber possibly still lives in luxury, with his secret all his own; in some kitchen far away may still preside the chef who accepted his COT. rupting fund.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20

do 1t to save my mother s life Is he dead?"
 The Police already have all the evi- dence they want against Theodore Edler, 1te f9-year- old boy. They have bullets in1e the body of his father, John Eiber, at their home, 30 Lit fietgn ayeaue, Newark. They have 1he buyis confession; they have his word For it that his married sister gave him the pistol to shoot his fla mother
 John Filler did attack his wife just once too often. The moment he came home oa rilat fatal evening he began abusing hss heIpmeet for 25 years mother of his six children. lie ragged up ard Gown the room. The patient wife mas silent. When she didn't re- pig t5 ta,e mans rawlings Filler picked up an iron matchsafe and flung it at her with unerring aim. It struck her fuH in the forehead; she sank to the floor with 2 cry of agony.
 The hoy upstairs heard the cry. I HRM kE OEdFQ HIS IdlHSF SlOuC out. -sT'n gaing to get my gun and finish yeH right BowI"
 5n the boy's pocket was the pistol. He remembered the injunction of his alder sister, Mrs Frederick Prestler, who had gone out for the evening, as ghe gave it to him: Keep this al ways by yaa. for you will need it to Prosecs yoIr mother Don't be afraid to nse k if father attacks her again in one nf his jealous rages."
 Three steps at a time the lad d2aalled down stairs As he ran into 1he rsemn his mother fell upon him.
 Theodore, Theodore." she screamed rss .saxe me. save mel
 Sfse Rirg her arms around him. He p5f eRe arm around her and faced his father, mho came charging on at the 1wo Gf fbeFu.
 -'1'h kin you both!" yelled the man.
 NSko8t. shoot, if you must; save 'ong Nses," screamed Mrs. Filler.
 FsH an answer Theodore leveled the pistol Lt hss father more quickly than St takes 10 leIl it. The man never
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20
Boys First Shot Fatal.

The Petersons are well-to-do and live in a pretty home at AS Bridge street. Greenport. Frank is the eldest of seven children. But the father. ap- parently has little love for his family and more than once his wife has felt the effect of his blows, so the son said when the shooting was over.
 It was Sunday. The husband had been browbeating the wife. Suddenly he turned and with clenched fists started for her. She screamed for the boy.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20

The Chinese government will pay the expenses of himself and family for the trip to China, and will provide for them house in Picking, with serv- ants, rent and supplies free. He left New York recently to catch the Man. churia at San Francisco for the orient.
 Accompanying him as assistants, MT. Grant took L. J. Hatch and Will liam Gilfoil
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20
TO HANDLE CHINESE COIN ISSUE
Celestial Empire Selects New Yorker
 for Important Job.

New York.-After a search over the entire civilized world, the government of the celestial empire has come to New York to find man with the fundamental requisites for the hand ling of the Chinese currency issue. That man is William A. Grant, whose business career has been focused on the bank note business.
 Mir Grant accepted the invitation, and signed a contract for five years.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20
See Future Profitable Industry

The bureau of science, Manila, has published bulletin by Warren D. Smith, chief of the division of geology and mines, and members of that staff, on the mineral resources of the islandf and their product in 1907. It is be. lieyed that a sure, profitable and steady mining industry may in time be built up in the colony, but this re. port shows that little more than a be, ginning has yet been Daade.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20
To Use Both Coal and Oil,

The British admiralty has decided tnat In future all small naval craft snail be constructed to use both coal ana oil fuel The oil-burning system mas been used for a considerable time ana many of the destroyers and tor pedo boats are designed exclusively TOT the oilburning system. All the modern battleships and cruisers of the navy are also constructed to use either coal or oil
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20
Just in Time to Save Mother.

The boy wriggled away from his fathers clutches-the man was too busy holding his wife by her hair-and ran into the bedroom, where he knew his father kept loaded revolver un- der the pillow. Constantin got back into the dining-room just in time to see his father about to slash his moth rr across the throat with his stiletto.
 He fired twice, as quickly as he could. Both bullets hit the would be murderer in the left side. He dropped
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20
Daughters Aim Deadly.

His daughter fired first. The bullet grazed his face. Wasser returned the shot, but he missed, though they were but F feet apart. Then the daughter fired again and both emptied their re- voivers. Every shot of Wasser's missed, but the daughters last shot found it's mark. It made an ugly hole in the mans forehead and he sank to the floor with a groan. Then the young widow dropped her revolver and fell in faint after the duel with her father
 The police came in; the two wounded persons were taken to the hospital. The wife died in the after noon at three o'clock; the husband an hour later. The daughter was ar rested, only to be freed next day.
 She wasn't a murderess," said one of the coroner's jury. She was a heroinei"
 And for all that, facing her fathers loaded revolver, firing shot for shot, the young widow hadn't been able to save her dear mothers life. But she had made her choice between the two, and she did the best she could.
 Constantin Pellegrino, barely r years old, had hardly as much time to make up his mind whether he should sec his mother stabbed to death or kill his father.
 The family lived at No. 19S East TWenty-third street Brooklyn The father, Anselmo, came home one eve ming crazed with drink. He attacked his wife and began to drag her around by her hair. The boy sprang to his mothers aid and the father knocked him to the floor.
 "Now I'm going to kill you both!'' yelled Pellegrino, drawing a knife.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20
|De. LEO LZMREZOHDS

David T. Day, chief of the geological survey to accompany Dr. Ubbelohde on his tour.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20

China has asked six prominent mis. sfouafles there to accept chairs in it's universities and teach Christianity.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20

ES, I shot my father; I hoped to kill him." sobbed fhe boy as he bowed his
 head in his hands, sitting there in his cell. T had to
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20

That once fellow wins girls hand he ie under her thumb?
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20
FORCED TO TAKE
 LIFE OF PARENT
SHALL IT BE MOTHER OR FATHER?

Terrible Alternative That Has Been Presented 10 Children in Various Parts of the Coun- try---Tragedy Made the Daughter the ln- strument of Vengeance Duel with Father.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-20

HEN the railroad builders invaded the great north
 west, not seeking a passage to the Pacific coast but
 rather anticipating the de- velopment of an agricul-
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1908-01-16

of merit in his contention, for it may
be that there is sometimes Il too
jealous effort on the part Of officers
to create the impression that they are
always studiously guarding the rights
of the voters. Still. we believe Mr..
Hill is accorded now more than in the
past his rightful place as Il builder
and developer and that in time to
come he will continue to be looked up
to as one of the country'S masters Of
transport alton. 1t is not to be ex-
pected that all this can be accom-
plisled without occasional fierce and
severe criticism but in the final an
alysis Mr.. Hill will not suffer either
us builder Of railroads or as public
man with all eye to the commercial
development of the nation.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1908-01-16
NORTH DAKOTA
Ignite COAL

Will soon be known all over the
northwest and we hope consumed
wherever it is known. While not
claSsed among the mineral bearing
states, North.Dakota has q 900 square
miles of Ignite coal field, with 80 or
more mines in operat ion, from which
there was al output in 1903 of over
200. 900 tons. and this has been contin-
ually increasing. While in this state,
during the big shortage of coal last
winter, we were constantly surprised
at the amount Of this fuel being used
everywhere. All the state buildings
were using it, and many small homes
Of beginners had piles of Ignite coal
near or up against them nearly as
high as they were. 1t was Il comfort
ing and most reasslring thing to see
how unconcerned many well supplied
settlers were, whether outside coal
reached them or not. The Dakota
Farmer.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1908-01-16

CAPTURED
Walhalla Thieves Ar
rested at St. VIM
cent, Mimi.

Hall0ck, Minn.. Jan. l3. very
clever capt IRE was made by the vii
lage marshal Of st. Vincent. Mimi.
lie took in tow the robbers hat broke
into the jewelry store in WalhalIa, ,
n. ID. The jeweler who was robbed
identified all his stolen property. The
robbers had three heavy gold watches
that the jeweler had no claim on.
Besides this they had IA fun set of bur-
glar tools, twenty-rour st ickS Of dyna-
mite, half Il coil OF fuse, twelve caps
and a map showing the places that
had been robbed
The burglars are undoubtedly the
gang that has been working Through
the state of North Dakota for / he last
two years, robbing poSto|l'ces and
banks. Pictures are being taken of
them SO they can be scattered all over
the state Of North Dakota.
Detective Crawford Of the Pinker-
ton agency believes it is the great est
catch of the season.
The officers started Monday for
Bismarck, y. d., to procure ext r;l-
dition papers.
The burglars had a plan mapped
out to work northern Minnesota but
failed.
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1908-01-16
The Printers Devil

\ c0mpoSitOr is Il man who sets type
for the paper: Il cOmpositor can also
be a boy and yet also again girl. Girl
compostors are generally equally as
good as men and sometimes, indeed,
better. They don't have to stop in
the middle Off line to light pipe or
send the Office boy to the store after
fine cut. They make mistakes like
other compoSitorS and occasionally
marry the foreman. Cases of this
kind lave been known and inst cad Of
setting type the girls set bread, and
on press night set up late for the fore
l1sllt'to come home and lock the door.
When u boy st arts to work in a print
ing office. he is Immediately made
general manager OF Il broom. he also
carries wood and water until his back
aches. but he gets ticket to the cir
Gus and is never absent at Uncle
The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1908-01-16
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f;st & G !. I ! I|liist [
North Dakota's
l9O7-8 Winter

Just why anyone should go to Cali
roruia in search of 4 pleasanter clin!-
ate when winter seasons are as pleas
an, as this one in North Dakota is
not quite clear. In the current issue
Of the North Dakota Magazine are
some facts and figures with reference
to lie winter season Of l901-9S that
should prove interesting to those
North HakotanS who have gone 10
California for 4 miIder and pleasanter
winter climate, and who, when they
read Of the nature Of the winter in
this state, must look back regrttfuiy
and wish they could be again jn the:
land Of chinOok>. lnlmy days and
c risp, exhiIimting temperature. \
table of temperature at Bismarck
from October IL TO the end of the
frs, week in December. prepared by
Direct or Roberts of tlln local weat her
bureau, makes remarkable showing.
that should put North Dakota in HE
lists as Il winter resort. II is shown
tllat on only one day il, the last filteet,
days Of October was the mean tenn
perat llre below freezing and then only
one degree. On only ten days in
November was HE mean temperature
below freezing. The lowest mean TEN
peral ure during November WAS fifteen
degrees above zero. The therlnoInei
er from October l3 to December did
not rcacl, within fifteen degrees o'
. zero and that on the sunny side. On
the first day of December the meai
> tcnlpera, IRE was IL degree above frecz
ing. The wind record during the fall
and winter up to the first week in
: December shows light winds and
there were only four days on which
there was snowfall, and then only il
SnaIlamolnt. Altogether the winter
, record which has continued Of the
same sort since December to t|c
present time is difficult to excel