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The San Francisco call., 1908-09-24
SPEED THE SOLDIERS LETTERS

National and state troops at Atasca-
dero will enjoy special mail accommo-
perintendent of Railway Mail A. n.
Stephens has arranged for the INSTALL
ing of a temporary postoffice at the
camp. Mail sent to the officers
and men will be sorted by the rail-
way mail clerks on the trains and sent
direct to the camp.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-24
THREW LIME INTO cIRL,s EVE

Florence Bryson. a child of s, NAV
lose the sight OF her right eye as the
of her home at 105 De Long avenue
She was romping with some playmates
when Roy Silva. one of her companions,
threw a handful Of lime into her face
She was treated first at the park hos
pital and then at the central emer-
gency hospital.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-15

we're fine
SWINDLERS
Reaped a Harvest Of Quarter
Million From Easy
People
Sold Stock in Bogus Electric
| Inventions Through Good
Advertising

Chicago, Mar. 14-Benson BidweD
and his son Charles f., promoters OF
the Bidwell Electric company, So
called cold motor concernf' were
found guilty tonight of operating
confidence game and obtaining mon
ey under false pretences. The form
er is penitentiary ofense while the
penalty for the latter includes term
in a house of correction and fine
of $4,000 or less.
Benson Bidwell, who is brother
of Geo. and Austin Bidwell, who de-
frauded the bank of England out of
100000, started the electric con-
| pany in 1906 He declared that he
had invented an electric motor that
would not burn out. He also claimed
that he was the inventor of a trolley
car and an electric fan. Investors
from all parts of the United States
answered these advertisements, send
ing into the company $225,000, &C
cording to the books of the concern
Charles Bidwell was appointed sec;
rotary and general manager of the
company and given $366,000 shares
of So, 5OO,O 900 stock.
j 1t was claimed by the prosecution
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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-15
GRAIN BUYERS SAY M'CUM-
BER'S GRAIN BILL IS UNNEC.
ESSARY and UNWARRANTED

Washington, D. c., Mar 14-Resolu.
tions in opposition to the principles
expressed by the grain inspection bill
now pending in congress were adopt
ed at conference here today, of rep.
resentatives of the grain growing and
exporting interests, from the princi-
pal cities of the country
A committee was appointed to con
vey to representatives in congress
the voice of the convention thus ex
pressed.
The resolutions further recommend
that an effort be made on the part of
the grain exchanges to secure the
adoption of uniform wording in. the
rules relating to grain inspection an
also as near to uniformity in the prac-
tice in grading as practicable under
the varying characteristics of the diff
ferent sections of the country in soil
and climate.
| The convention was called to con
slider measures pending in congress
providing for the establishment by
the secretary of agriculture for the
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-15
MANY SUMMONED TO TES-
T|FY IN SUBMARINE CASE

Washington, D. c., Mar. 14-The
special committee appointed by
Speaker Cannon to Investigate the
charges made by Representative LII
ley Of Connecticut, concerning alleg.
ed efforts to influence legislation by
the Electric Boat Company, has SUM
mcned number of witnesses to ap-
pear before it Monday morning, when
the investigation will be resumed.
A subpoena was issued for M. G..
Butler, former senator from South
Carolina; 3. w. Creecy, G. P. B.
Sands and DR.. w. R. Kerr, all of this
city: Frank L. Marlborough, Bay City,
Mich; and w. d. Gordon, Midland,
Mich. Subpoena duces tecuma, which
were sent by the committee to Mr..
Lilley for President Rice and other
officials Of the Electric Boat company,
have not yet been served.
The name Of former Senator Butler
of South Carolina was not among the
list of the witnesses handed the com
mittee by Mr.. Lilley.
Mr.. Buffers name, however, had
been mentioned by Mr.. Lilley before
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-15

the committee on rules, and that gen.
tleman wrote Chairman Boutell, re-.
questing that he be heard.
Replying to Chairman Boutell's
statement, published today that Mr..
Lilley had retracted before the spe-
cial committee the charges which he
had made before the rules committee
concerning members of the house, Mr.
Lilley says:
Mr.. Boutell says told the commit
tee on rules that expected to prove
that large sums of money were con.
tributed to the campaign funds of the
political parties in congressional dis
tricts, but that before the investiga-
ton committee, said that / did not
charge corruption of any member of
the house. Now, it is well known that
the contributions to campaign funds
heretofore have been comon prac-
tice and are not legally corrupt.
do expect to prove, if the committee
will give my attorneys opportunity to
do SO, that the Electric Boat company:
through its agents has contributed to
the campaign funds Of both parties
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-15
BASSSANELLA KILLED BY THE SHERIFF OF MLEAN COUNTY
PhST Wshbm North
Which the Convict Shot the Head and Instantly Killed After He Fires Officers ssneNa Had Stolen
Pistol From Farm House. Wooden Captured Two Brave Morton County Farmers After Being Shot m
But Puts Up Hard Fight for Farmers Gm-B Again Pe-N0 Badly Hurt

beneath the surface at the prisons
outer wall was feet. So nicely
had the men guaged the excavation
that the outside tunnel opening was
close to the wall. The earth from
the excavation was carefully spread
on the ground under the floor and
covered with sawdust and shavings,
SO they had the best chance in the
world to cover their tracks. From
hints cleaned from other convicts the
men were six weeks working on the
tunnel, but no definite information
on the point can be secured.
There was quite a crowd at the
depot when No. 2 came in from the
west last night to see the convict
Wooden, who had been captured in
Morton county.
1t apepars that Wooden had twice
escaped the pen guards and farmers
who had been patrolling the line of
the N. P. west of the stock yards and
had reached a point about Is miles
west, where he had got dinner at the
farm house of R. Austin and paid fol
| it. He had secured an old suit Of
overalls somewhere. but his makeuI
aroused the suspicious of the farm
er's son, E. Austin, a strapping young
/ fellow, who, after Wooden had lief
the house, went. after him with "A
Colt Catching up with his man h
ordered him to throw up his hands
but the convict, instead ran and wa
shot in the right leg just below tn
thigh He then ran about 20 rod
when R. Austin caught and fell Q
him, resulting in his capture. Fathe
and SON then carried the man thre
miles to where they caught a trail
which they took to Mandan. Just a
they got off Wooden made a grab fe
Austin's gun and nearly secured
and put up an awful fight before b
was overpowered and placed in ia
until train time, when he was safe
brought here.
Warden Hellstrom was promI
with his reward and the Austins wei
paid the $500 at the depot
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-15

reported to Warden Hellstrom that 4
while he and his family were away |
from home thai day his home had
been ROBBED of a 20 target pistol, 4
ammunition, a razor, a field glass and
a suit of clothes. There were rifle
and shot gun with ammunition in 1
the house, and from the fact that
they were not removed made him
believe Bassanella. had stolen the
other stuff. About the same time
word came from a poi.lt eight
miles west of Keefer's that a horse
had been stolen from the pasture of
Peter Luyben. On this clue guards
were sent north of where they had
been scouting and word wired all,
along the northern country
Soon after noon Fre.l Pfister,
was on his way to Washburn with a
load of coal when he met Bassanella
and recognized him. On arriving at
Washburn he notified the sheriff
and with him went at once after the
convict. The events as narrated
above followed.
1t now appears that when the con-
victs stole the two horses from the
farmer five miles east of town early
Friday morning the one Bassanella
rode threw him and got away, so he
then left woo 'rns and struck out
north on foot. Keever left his home
at a. M, and was back at noons
SO Bassanella must have made good
time. The articles stolen from Mr.
Keever were found on him, he has
/ ing pulled on the clothing over his
prison garb, as the suit was far too
large for him.
| Woollens was captured by two
farmers near the railroad arack Of
| the N. P. about eight niles west Of
Mandan Saturday p. m. after an all
/ day chase by officers and guards. He
was brought back to the pen on No
!. 2 Saturday morning.
After he left Bassanella he rode tt
the river by wide detour south Of
the city and turned the horse loose
hiding in the bushes until dark
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-15

Joe Bassanella, aged 26, the es-
capped murderer, from the state pen
here was shot and killed this after
noon in pistol duel with Sheriff
John A. Beck Of Mclean county, and
a farmer named Fred Phister, while
the convict. was resisting arrest in
a clump of bushes near the Missouri
river in Mclean county, sixty miles
from Bismarck.
Alfred Woolens, his comrade, who
escaped at the time, was captured by
farmers fifteen miles west OF Man
dan, he having no arms with which
to put up a fight.
Bassanella's end came after a
lively chase by the sheriff Of three
or four miles, he being on horse
back and the officers in a buggy. Com
ing to a ragged coulie leading to the
river Bassanella abandoned his
horse and ran down the steep banks
just as the officers reached the edge
and fired eight shots at him without
effect.
Bassanella gained the shelter of a
patch of timber and scrubby under
brush and for two hours the hunt
ers searched before they located him
They commanded him to surrender
and he replied with a--hot from q
small target pistol aid stolen
earlier in the day fr shack of 9
farmer. The pursue closed ingor
him and when about hundred fee
! away Bassanella fired again, saying
he would die before he would sur
render. Thereupon the officer
opened fire with an automatic pisto
and winchester and after few shots
Bassanella fell dead, having beer
shot through the head as he was re
loading his pistol, which was one
shot affair. 1t is not know ii NOR
than one shot hit him as the bod
has not been examined and lies il
the jail at Washburn awaiting tn
coroner's inquest.
Early Friday morning farroe
named M. L. Kearer, living l mile
north Of the city, came to town an
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-15
GREAT PORT
All First Glass Steamers En-
ter New YOrk-.Smaner
Boats Elsewhere

Washington, d. c., Mar. 14-In the
report of the speech yesterday Of
Senator Simmons of North Carolina
Mr.. Simmons was made to say that
there are in the whole world but TWEEN
Continued on Pare 81
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-15

when he tried to catch freight train
but was fired on by the guards at
the railroad bridge and got away.
He crossed the river on the ice and
had breakfast at the house of one
Anderson, close to the stock yards
at Sunnyside, five miles west Of
Mandan. Anderson suspected him
and went to a neighbours and tele-
phoned to the sheriff, who at once
responded with a posse. Meantime
Woo1ens offered to pay for his meal,
showing he had secured money in
some way. He asked Anderson's son
if the neighbor had phone, and
when told that he had, he at once
fled to some brush near by. The
officers and farmers are said to have
corralled the fugitive in the brush
and even saw him moving about, but
instead of going after him, wired
Warden Hellstrom to come over
with the bloodhounds, which he did,
but by that time Woollens had es-
capped. Later he was seen by a wo-
man four miles west, SO the pen
guards in that neighborhoed were
notified and later captured as detail
ed below.
Thus ends one of the most sensa
tional man hunts this section has
ever seen. The entire Missouri Slope
had been apprised of the escape OF
the desperate men and half the men
in the country were on armed watch
for them. It is fortunate that Bias
/ sanella had no better weapon or 9th
err crimes might have been added tt
that for which he was imprisoned.
Further investigation shows tina
the tunnel made by Bassanella ant
Woollens, and through which the.
| escaped, was about eighteen inche
in diameter and forty-four fee
long. The floor of the carpente
/ shop was made of two-inch plank
and was about two feet above tn
| ground. A short length of planl
4 near the middle of the floor was re
moved and the tunnelling began il
a sloping direction so that its dept
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-15

classification and grading of grain
prohibition of the use of other grades
and appointment of federal inspect
ors. The grain interests are opposed
to the proposed plan upon the ground
that it would require a very large
number of inspectors; that it is i'm
possible to have one set of grading
rules to apply to the whole country
and merchants consider the proposed
interference with their business as
unnecessary and unwarranted."
A hearing will be given by the
house committee on interstate and
foreign commerce on Monday to the
interests represented at the confer
ence in opposition to bills pending in
congress.
The conference was presided over
by A C. Reynolds of Crawfordsvin
Ind, president of the Grain Dealers
National association and among those
who participated were Geo. A. Wells,
DesMoines, Ia, Iowa Grain Dealers
association, and j. F. Merrill, Chicago
board of trade.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-15
FINES TRUST
100000
Venezuela SOaks the Ameri-
can Asphalt Coz 'bine for
Helping Rev l tito

Caracas, Venezue March IL
Via Willemstad, CT o)-The SUI.
perior court Of uela today
handed down a verdi nfrming the
judgment Of the lower court, which
condemned the New York B Bermud.
ez Asphalt Co. to pay a fine of S..
100000 to the Venezuelan government
for having extended assistance to the
Matos revolution, which was directed
against President Castro. This sum
is the estimated cost of putting down
the reyolutio The company will ap.
peal to the court Of cessation.
It was from an American witness
testimony taken before the judges in
United States courts that the Venezu
elan government obtained its most
important proof OF the part alleged
to have been played by the asphalt
company in Matos revolution, the fur
nishing Of money with which to start
the fight.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-15
THE AUTO RACERS

Ogden. Utah, Mar. 1.-THE Ameri-
can car in the New York to aPris
race reached Castel Rock. ten miles
east Of Echo, Utah, at $3.50 o'clock
tonight and continued west. having
sent orders ahead for accommoda-
tons for the night at Echo. which Is
45 miles east OF Ogden: The car will
remain at Echo until Sunday morn
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-15
o'clock this morning. It made only
about six miles an hour until late in
ing.
800 Miles Behind

Hanna, Wyo., Mar. 1.-THE Italian
car reached Hanna at 2:45, mountain
time this afternoon, having maze 20
miles in six hours. The Italians are
nearly 800 miles of mountainous roads
behind the Americans.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-15
TURKISH STEAMERS SEIZED

St. Petersburg, Mar. IA rumior
has reached this city b. way of vi
emma that two Turkish steamers witt
arms and ammunition on board ha
been seized in the Black sea by Rus.
sian warships.
Z No confirmation of this report could
be had at either the foreign Offices
or admiralty.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-15
THE INDEPENDENTS

New York, Mar. 14-Announcement
was made to day at the headquarters
of the independence party in New
York of the appointment of commit
teemen from twenty-one states to the
national committee of the independ-
ence party. Further appointments
will be made soon.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-15
PROPERTY IS VAL
ABLE in DICK

Dickinson, Mar. l4-Special to Trib-
ne-The Dakota National bank Fri
day sold the old Messersmith corner.
twenty-five feet frontage on Willard
street, to A. H. Arnett for $4,000
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-15

This is supposed to be the highest
priced business property in the city.
the lot being practically unimproved
Joseph E. Messersmith and Miss
Christine Holemo were married Fri
day evening in St. Johns church. Mr..
Messersmith is rising young attor
ney and brother in law of Senator
L. A. Simpson The bride is talent
ed young musician of the city.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
REPUBLICANS WIN
BY ABOUT $4,000
ELECTION IN VERMONT SHOWS A
SMALLER VOTE THAN FOUR
YEARS AGO.
PLURALITY is THE SMALLEST
Of Any Presidential Year Since '92-
Republican Vote Per Cent Less
and Democratic Per Cent
Less Than in 1904.

White River Junction, Vt.-The
Republicans won the election in Yer
mont Tuesday by carrying the state
for Lieut.. Gov. George H. Prouty Of
Newport for governor by about $4,000
votes over James E. Burke of Bur
lington, his Democratic opponent. The
plurality was the smallest in presi-
Dental year since 1892, when it was
only 1886, and was followed by a
Democratic national victory, but it
was larger than in 1883 and only
slightly less than in 1900. There was
a falling off in four years of about
8 per cent in the Republican vote,
while the Democratic vote fell off
about 2 per cent.
The Independence league appeared
for the first time and polled about
1000 votes, while the Prohibition and
Socialist vote remained about the
same. An unusually large number of
local contests for members of the leg
islature, although bringing out heavy
vote and resulting in Democratic
gains in the lower branch of the leg
islature, apparently had no bearing on
the gubernatorial fight.
AS Vermont Is the first state to
vote during the presidential campaign,
there was much interest throughout
the country in the size of the Repub-
lican plurality.
The Republicans retain complete
control of both executive and legisla-
tive branches of the government of
Vermont, the voters electing to con.
gress from the First district David
]. Foster of Burlington for another
term, and from the Second district
Frank p. Lumley of Northfield for the
first time, and choosing a majority of
the state legislature which will select
a successor to the late Senator Red.
field Proctor.
In an unusually large number of
local contests the Democrats were, as
a rule, successful. The Republican
majority in the next house will be
considerably reduced. The voters
were urged to support the Republican
ticket by speakers of national i'm.
portance who stumped the state dur.
ing the past two weeks.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10

Robert Vernon Harcourt who was
elected to the British parliament to
succeed John Morley, elevated to the
peerage, is half-American. His mother,
the second wife of the late Sir William
Harcourt, was the daugher Of John
Lothrop Motley, the historian Of the
Netherlands. There are in parliament
n number of other Englishmen with
American mothers, not the least con-
spicuous of whom is Winston Church
Ill, grandson of the late Leonard Jer-
ONE of New York.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
The Wisdom of Bryan.

When, in 1896 and 1900 Bryan's
policy, if it had succeeded, would
have placed the silver trust in virtual
control of the government, he was
preaching the doctrine of the rule of
the people. In those two canvasses,
he in substance declared, in his plat
forms and on the stump, that so
cents was 100 cents. BY endeavoring
to force the people of the country to
accept half a dollar where a whole
dollar was due to them, he showed his
devotion to the principle that each in
dividual is entitled to the reward of
his labor. He went up and down the
highways and byways of the country
preaching his political hypocrisy and
denouncing everybody who stood for
the elemental demands of honesty by
the government in meeting it's obi
cations, and in paying the laborer dol
lars worth 100 cents, as enemies of
the human race Louis Globe
Democrat.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
SEVEN PEOPLE DROWNED.
sIoop capsized in Penobscot Bay and
Only Three of Its Occupants
Escaped.

Deer Isle, Me. - Seven summer
visitors out of party of ten
were drowned by the capsizing of a
35-foot sloop in Penobscot Bay, off
this island, Tuesday. The drowned:
Miss Alice Torro, Washington, D. c..
Miss Eleanor Torro, Washington,
d. C.
Miss Kellogg, Baltimore.
Lutte Kellogg, Baltimore.
Mrs. Lucy S. Crawley, Philadelphia
Miss Elizabeth G. Evans of Mount
Holyoke seminary, Mass.
Jason c. Hutchins of Bangor.
The saved: Capt Haskell, Deer
Isle; Prof. Edwin S. Crawley, Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
husband of Mrs. Crawley; Henry B.
Evans, Mount Holyoke, brother of
Miss Elizabeth Evans.
With Capt. Samuel Haskell, the
party started out for sail in Penob-
scot Bay. 1t was drawing near the
close of the vacation season for most
of them and they had planned this as
their last outing together. The sloop
was of the "open" variety. 1t had no
deck forward and no cabin, and it
contained no ballast, as the party of
ten weighted the boat down quite
heavily.
The party had scarcely been gone
an hour before the wind freshened
up, heeling the sloop we'll over and
dashing the spray upon the occupants.
There was no thought of danger un-
til the afternoon was drawing to a
close when Capt. Haskell decided
that the wind was too heavy for his
boat and the sea too choppy, so he
brought the sloop around and started
homeward.
All the party were perched high up
on the weather side, as the sloop cut
through the waves with the water
almost coming over the gunwales on
the lee side, when Capt. Haskell gave
shout of warning that he was going
to tack and then threw over the tiller.
Just at this moment the boat rose
high up on wave, exposing her to
the full brunt of the wind. An unusu-
ally heavy gust struck her and in
twinkling the sloop went over on her
beam ends and the party of ten were
thrown into the water
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
IN SIGHT OF $4,000 PEOPLE
An Aeronaut Falls 500 Feet and Is
Killed.

Waterville, Me. - In full view
of $4,000 Mortified spectators as
sembled on the Central Maine fail
grounds here late Wednesday Charles
Oliver Jones, aged 40 years, the well
known aeronaut of Hammondsport. n
Y, fell a distance of 500 feet to his
death. Among the witnesses of the
'frightful plunge were Mrs. Jones and
child, and they were almost the first
to reach the side of the dying man.
The aeronaut died an hour and a half
after the accident.
Jones had been at the fair grounds
with his dirigible balloon Boomerang,
known as a Strobel airship, since
Monday. Wednesday he arranged to
make fight between 3 and 4 o'clock.
but such a high wind prevailed that
delay was necessary. At 4:30 con-
ditions had modified and he gave the
word to have the machine released.
When the aeronaut reached a height
of more than 500 feet the spectators
were amazed to see small tongues of
flame issuing from under the gas bag
in front of the motor.
Many persons in the crowd endeav-
ored to apprise Jones of his danger,
but several minutes elapsed before he
noticed the flame. Then he grasped
the rip cord and by letting out gas
endeavored to reach the earth. The
machine had descended but a short
distance when sudden burst of flame
enveloped the gas bag, the framework
Immediately separating from the bag.
Jones fell with the frame of his
motor, and when the spectators
reached him he was lying under it..
The gas bag was completely de-
stroyed