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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
THREE BANDITS LOOT BANK.
Secure $4,000 and Make Their Escape
Armed Posses in Pursuit.

ARMED Posses in Pursuit.
Coffeyville, Kan, March 15.-Three
bandits yesterday held up and robbed
the bank at Tyro, this county, secur-
ing $4,000, after which they fed to-
wards the Oklahoma line. One of the
robbers guarded the outside while the
other two secured the money. There
were three men in the bank when the
outlaws entered. With drawn revolt
vers the bandits ordered the three
men to hold up their hands and the
order was obeyed. The robbers then
gathered up all the money in sight,
rushed out of the bank and rode
away.
At late hour last night the three
bandits were headed for the Usage
hills, near Bartlesville, Okla. Posses
are closing on the robbers from every
direction and it is not believed they
can escape. 1t is believed they will
be intercepted when they reach the
Caney river, north of Bartlesville,
and that battle will be fought there.
A special train left Coffeyville last
night for Dewey, Okla, with a hun
dred armed men, determined to run
down the outlaws.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
From Other Shores.

The Russian police arrested forty.
one of the leading Social Democrats
at Livonia. They also confiscated the
archives Of the party.
An uprising occurred in barracks
at Caracas, the soldiers killing their
commander, Gen. Mesa. The mutiny
was quelled only after number OF
soldiers had been shot.
King Victor Emmanuel recently re.
ceived in private audience William
Dean Howells, the American novelist,
entertaining him in most cordial
manner for half an hour.
The car has computed the sen.
tence of death imposed against Gen.
Stoessel for surrendering Port Arthur
to ten years imprisonment in a fort.
ress. 1t is expected that a pardon
will shortly follow.
Mail reports received from the
Congo Independent state declare that
the Issages and Declares blacks on
the upper Sanga river in the French
Congo have revolted. The French
director of this region has been taken
prisoner. There have already been
several engagements with the rebels.
Prince Ludwig Menelik of Abys,
sinia has been expelled from Germany
as an undesirable foreigner. The
prince is a near relative of the king
of Abyssinia and negro. He has
been charged repeatedly with drunk
enness and disorderly conduct in va
rious parts of Germany. He has al
ready been expelled from Saxony
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
IS LONGEST TRIAL on RECORD
State Claims There Were Frauds Amount.
ing to SIS, 900 ii Parrish /
ing Of Capitol.

Harrisburg, Pa, March is. - The
jury in the first Of the capitol con-
spiracy cases to be tried gave yer.
dict Of guilty last night as to every
one of the four men who have been
on trial here for the last seven weeks.
The men found guilty are John H.
Sanderson, contractor; William p.
Snyder, former auditor general; w.
l.. Mathues, former state treasurer,
and James M. Shumaker, former su.
perintendent Of public buildings and
grounds.
Motions for new trials were made
in each case. Maximum penalties for
each defendant in this case is two
years imprisonment and $1,000 fine.
Longest Trial on Record.
The four men were convicted of de-
frauding the state in furnishing the
new capitol. which cost the state
about $13.O0O,000, instead of $4,000
0CO, the figure at which the contract
was estimated.
The present case constituted one
of the longest Jury trials in the his
tory Of Pennsylvania courts, and it at
tracted much attention throughout
the country. The prosecution of the
alleged frauds was the outcome of
the political upheaval in Pennsylvania
in 1905. which resulted in the election
of William H. Berry. a Democrat. as
state treasurer. in the fall of that
year.
Stole Over $5,ooo,ooo.
Berry threw open the books of the
state treasury and showed that the
cost Of building the capitol was more
than three times the amount of the
contract. The case was laid before
the attorney general and indictments
were found against fourteen persons.
When the cases now pending
against the four persons who were
convicted yesterday are concluded
the other defendants will be heard.
The state claims that there are
frauds amounting to nearly $4,000
in the furnishings of the capitol.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
WALSH GETS FIVE YEARS.
Judge Anderson OverruIes Motion for
New Trial.

!
Chicago, March 15-John r. Walsh
former president of the Chicago Ma
tional bank of this city. and vonvicted
of illegal use of the funds of that in
stitution. was yesterday denied new
trial by Judge Anderson of the Unit
ed States district court and sentenced
to serve five years in the federal pen
itentiary at Fort Leavenworth.
AS soon as the court had announced
his decision refusing to grant a new
trial, the attorneys for the defense
entered motion in arrest Of judg-
ment, on which they argued for some
time. 1t was generally thought about
the court room that they would con-
sumo two or more hours in giving
their lessons for the granting of this
motion, but Attorney Hart, who pre-
sentei it, ceased speaking in about
thirty minutes. Judge Anderson then
promptly overruled the motion, and
sentenced the banker to five years in
Fort Leavenworth.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
LocHREN WILL QUIT BENCH.
Federal Judge Makes Announcement
of Retirement.


Of Retirement.
Minneapolis, March 17.-After TWEEN
ty-four years of service as Judge in
the state and federal courts Judge
Lochren of Minneapolis will soon re-
tire. He will tender his resignation
as a Judge of the United States dis
trict court at the end of the month.
Rumors that Judge Lochren intend
ed to resign have been current a num-
Der Of times during the past few
years, but in each case they were
denied by the judge. The information
this time comes from the Judge him
self. He will be seventy-six years old
next month, and for the past year or
two his health has been failing, and
it is on this account that he has de-
cided to resign. The resignation will
be in effect March 81, but he will con-
tinue to serve until his successor IL
appointed.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
Domestic.

Capt. Daniel Stewart, ninety-fou1
years Of age, died at Upper Alton, Ill.
after lying in bed twenty-sevcn years.
during the greater part of which time
he smoked pipe.
William E. Dodge, Jr.. city editor of
the Missoula Daily Muscular, died
after brief illness from ptomain pois.
oning. He worked on Twin City pa.
pers before going West.
John T. Dover, secretary of the Y.
M. c. A. at Worcester, Mass, has been
notified that he is heir to fortune of
$1o,000.000 left him by an uncle who
died in Melbourne, Australia.
The anti-tip ordinance, measure
designed to prevent the publication of
information on races and betting fea-
lures was passed by the Los Angeles
city council over the mayors veto.
Mayor Busse and the heads of the
Chicago police department decided
last night to take steps for the estab.
lishment of municipal alien bureau.
Its purpose will be to prevent an
archists from coming to Chicago.
In sending the skin of an albino
deer to a taxidermist to be mounted,
Elias Ahola, farmer living near
Maple Ridge, Delta county, Mich. got
into trouble. The deer being placed
on exhibition, Investigation of the rec.
ords disclosed the fact that Ahola was
not provided with hunting license at
the time he shot the animal. The
farmer was arrested and fined and his
white deer was confiscated.
The program Of campaign to
bring about prohibition in Louisiana
when the legislature meets next May
has been announced by the Louisiana
Anti.saloon league.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
KILLS WIFE IN DREAM.

Treasury Department Clerk Shoots
Her and Drops of to Sleep Again.
Washington, March 15.-Hugh Hol-
lis, treasury department clerk, shot
and killed his wife at their home
early yesterday. About 3 a. m. his
wife arose to attend to the child and
as she returned to the bedside Hollis
awakened, pulled the revolver from
beneath his pillow and fired, instant
ly killing the woman. Immediately
he went to sleep again and knew
nothing Of the shooting until he was
afterward awakened. He has always
borne an excellent reputation, and he
declares he was dreaming of burglars.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
LILLEY BEREFT OF LEGAL AID
Submarine Investigating Committees
Attitude Disgusts Lawyers.

Attitude OIsgusts Lawyers.
Washington, March 15.-Represent-
alive Lilley of Connecticut next Mon
day will face the submarine investi-
eating committee without legal coun.
sci to advise him.
1t was learned yesterday that Frank
T. Brown and Stiles Judson, the Con-
necticut attorneys engaged by Mr..
Lilley and who appeared with him at
the committee hearing on Thursday,
last night threw up their engagement
and went home.
They gave as their reason the re.
fusal Of the committee to permit ex.
animation or cross-examination of
witnesses by persons other than mem.
bers of the committee, except for
written questions first submitted to
the committee for it's approval. They
fe,t that under such a restrictive ar.
rangement legal talent could be of no
assistance to Mr.. Lilley.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
TRA,NLoAD OF WOUNDED.

Another Serious Break Between Me-
groes and Whites.
New Orleans, March 17.-Ancther
serious outbreak is reported in the
lumber camps in Grant parish, where
friction was recently brought about by
negroes accepting cut in wages, the
whites standing out against the reduc.
ton.
A number of persons are reported
to have been shot and that a special
train is carrying TIE wounded away.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
TWO DIE IN DUEL IN HOTEL.
Iowa Men Kill Each Other in Battle
in Their Room.

Sheridan, Wyo., March II. - Mys-
terry surrounds the death OF w. S.
Buncker and Herman Hanken, who ar.
They registered at the Pepper hotel
and retired to the same ROOM Guests
of the hotel heard some loud talking
between the two men, followed by a
number of shots in quick succession.
Buncker was found lying dead
across the foot of the bed. {, revolver
in his hand and a bullet hole through
his head. Hanken was lying on the
floor, dead from bullet through the
head. But one empty shell remained
in each revolver.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
AGREES WITH THAW.

Head Of Commission Declares Prison.
err Has Gained Twenty Pounds.
Albany, N. Y, March 17.-Accord-
ing to statement by DR.. A. w. Fer
ris, head of the state lunacy commits
sion. Harry K. Thaw has become a
model prisoner at the Matteawan asy-
lum. DR.. Ferris remarks that one Of
the noteworthy effects Of Thaw's con-
finement at Matteawan is that in the
time in which he has been confined
there has gained twenty pounds in
weight.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
HARTMAN APPEAL FILED.
Order to Answer to Be Reviewed by
Supreme Court.

Order to Answer to Be Reviewed by
Supreme Court.
Washington, March 15.-The appeal
of Edward H. Hartman and Otto H.
Kuhn of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb &
Co. OF New York from the decision
of the United States circuit court for
the Southern district of New York,
requiring them to answer certain
questions regarding the ownership of
stocks in the Chicago & Alton, ILL.,
nois Central and other railroads ao.
quired in who.e or part by the Union
Pacific railroad, was filed in the SUI
preme court of the United States yes
terday. That court will be asked to
review the case on the theory that
the circuit court ruling was errone.
Gus.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
KNIFE PoIsoNs SURGEON.

Physician Who Cuts Self During an
Operation May Die Of injury.
Waterloo, Iowa, March 17.-Dr. Pei
letter, a pioneer medical practitioner
of New Hartford, is dying from an ag-
gravated case of blood poisoning con-
tracted while performing an opera
ton. The virus was communicated
from the patient to the surgeons sys-
tenn by means of a small cash on the
doctors hand, received while .operat-
ing.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
news OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
Digest of the News Worth Telling cea.
densed for Tie Busy
Reader.
Washington.

"a8uJuUIoUs
A bill to create new executive de.
partment of transportation and public
works has been introduced in the
house by Representative Ransdell of
Louisiana.
Senator Nelson proposes to do away
with the use Of irons as a form of
punishment in the navy. He has in.
PRODUCED in the senate an amendment
to the naval appropriation bill provid.
ing for the abolition of such punish
ment.
The civil service commission an
nounces an examination on April %
and "a to secure eligibles to fill vacan
cies in the position of assistant forest
ranger in the forest service Of the de-
partment Of agriculture at Cass Lake
Mimi, and Camp Creek and Dead.
wood.
The far-reaching character Of the
recent decisions of the supreme court
of the United States affecting labor
organization has led President Comp
ers of the American Federation of La.
Dor to issue call for meeting Of the
executive council OF the federation in
Washington the early part of the
week.
Acting Secretary of State Bacon
communicated to both houses of con-
gress dispatch from Charles Page
Bryan, United States minister to Por-
tugal, conveying the acknowledgment
OF the Portuguese government of the
condolatory resolutions adopted by
congress at the time of the assassina-
ton Of the king and crown prince of
Portugal.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
THIEVES GET sic.

Blow Up Safe in Grocery and Arouse
the Town.
Clinton, Iowa, March 17.-Yeggmen
broke into the Folkert-Kadyk grocery
store in Fulton. across the river, in
Whiteside county, Illinois. and with
nitroglycerin blew open the safe. The
explosion was heard and an alarm
was given, but the yeggmen got away
after taking the contents Of the safe,
SIG.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
L-'.tf. f.t4 M n ~ d y Fit. q -
Escaped Prisoner From North
Dakota Prison Is Shot by
Sheriff in Pistol Duel.
TWENTY SHOTS ARE EXCHANGED
Second Convict Is Wounded and Cap.
tured After an Exciting ALL
Day Chase.

Bismarck, N. d., March II. - In a
pistol duel at dusk Saturday night,
after an all-night chase, the sheriff Of
Mclean county shot and killed Jo-
seph Bassanella, the convicted muir.
derer who Friday escaped from the
penitentiary here. The fatal combat
occurred in Mclean county. A few
hours earlier, Alfred Woolens, the Sec
ond escaped convict, was captured by
a posse fifteen miles west of Mandan.
In the capture and death sensation.
al manhunt was closed.
Twenty Shots Exchanged.
When Sheriff Reck confronted him
Bassanella opened fire on the officer
and his companion. The officers re-
turned the fire and Bassanella fell
after about twenty shots had been ex-
changed. He was shot through the
head.
After escaping he and Alfred Wool
ems, his comrade in crime, parted,
Bassanalla going north on foot and
Woolens west on horse he had
stolen. During the day Bassanella
stole a small target pistol and suit
of clothes at farm house. Eight
miles further northwest he stole a
horse. Nothing more was heard from
him until former jailer at WASH
burn. who mad seen Joe at the trial OF
his brother for murder, met him on
the road. The Washburn jailer in
formed Sheriff Beck and together they
took up the pursuit.
Fugitive cornered.
When cornered the fugitive made a
dash for the river timber. Arriving
at the brink of a steep ravine. he dis
mounted and dashed down, followed
by fusillade of bullets. but he man.
aged to gain the shelter of a scrubby
suers hunted for him. Finally he was
located and ordered to surrender but
replied at a hundred yards range with
shot from his revolver
Under the fire of an automatic re-
volver and Winchester he was soon
killed. The stolen plumber was found
ON him.
The Pursuit Of WooIens.
Woo!ens was tracked across the
river to the Sunnysile stock yards of
the Northern Pacific. five miles west
of Mandan, where he got breakfast at
a farm house. The farmer had heard
of the escape and went to a neighbor
and telephoned the sheriff, who went
out with posse.
Meanwhile Woolens had taken
alarm and fled to a grove brush, where
a crowd of men saw him moving about
but failed to capture him.
Later Woolens was shot in the right
thigh ky a young farmer. He rolled
down steep bank into the creek and
the farmer jumped after him. A ter
rifle struggle for possession of the gun
followed. but Woolens was finally
overcome and turned over to the
prison guards. His wound is not Sc
rious.
Says He Will Do for Sheriff.
Mandan, N. D.. March 17-Vowing
that he will yet escape from prison
and kill Sheriff Beck. who shot the
prisoner who broke out of the prison
with him last Friday, Alfred Woolens,
the convict who was captured by a
farmers son, was taken from here to
Bismarck after having a wound in his
leg dressed by a local surgeon.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
Says He Will Do for Sheriff.
PREFERS DEATH TO ARREST.
Educated Indian Ends Life With Sho

Educated Indian Ends Life With Shot.
Sioux Falls, S. D., March II. -
Rather thcn submit to arrest, and
fearing violence at the hands of off,
GERS who were pursuing him, Moses
Iron Cloud, an educated Sioux Indian
belonging at the Yankton Indian
agency, placed the muzzle OF shot
gun to his breast and pulled the trig-
ger. The heavy charge. fired at close
range, tore a great hole in his chest
and he died instantly. He was want
ed for getting drunk and making a
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20

-Four negroes in all have teen
lynohsd In connection with the dou.
bic murder Of Warren Hart and his
wife near Hawkinsville, Ga. Two
were shot for interfering with the
mob. Other negroes are implicated.
and It is feared more lynchings will
follow. Many Of the negroes are
leaving and the others are all in hid
ing.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
Fiywheel Fracture. sku,l,

Huron, s. D., March II. - James
Whalen. who was injured In his black
smith shop Friday morning by being
caught in the belt OF gasoline en-
CINE, his head coming in contact with
the hywheel, resulting in a fractured
skull, died OF his injuries Saturday
morning.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
Accidental, Happenings.

While boating on the Appa.ache
mill pond near Greers, S. c., a Shift
carrying ten people capsized and three
young women were drowned.
A Pere Marquette passenger train
collided with an extra train near the
Wyoming yards at Grand Rapids,
Mich. One person was killed and sew
eral were injured.
H. H. Hit accidentally shot himself
in the left groin at Los Angeles. The
bullet was extracted and it was stated
that his recovery is probable if blood
poisoning does not set in.
Eight firemen were injured and the
business section of Williamsburg, an
adjoining suburb of Pittsburg. dam
aged to the extent of S125,000 by fire.
Assistance was sent from Pittsburg.
Fire practically destroyed build
ing in the heart of the shopping dis
trict at New York. Adjoining build
ings were somewhat damaged. The
loss is estimated at from $4,000 to
$125,OOO.
Beulah Bandfeld, fifteen years old, a
| waitress in the Iowa soldiers home
at Marsha!ltown, Iowa, was drowned
in the Iowa river while boating. She
jumped into the water to get an oar
she had dropped.
A score of firemen were injured,
three perhaps fatally, by a fire which
destroyed Apollo hall, a three-story
structure in Chicago. The cause of
the fire is unknown. The total dam
age is estimated at $S5,OOO.
Napoleon's Union school at Toledo.
Ohio, the largest building of the kind
in the state, which was completely re-
modelled only last April and had cost
the county $4,000 altogether. was de-
stroyed by fire before school opened
in the morning.
The loss of the lives of the little
children in the Collinwood school fire
was absolutely inexcusable," Coroner
Burke declared, after making thor
ough investigation. II am not prepar-
ed yet to Say upon whom the blame
should be placed"
Louis Klein, aged fifty, county Of
fetal for over thirty years; was run
down and killed while crossing a
street at Cincinnati by an automobile
driven by Mrs. Charles Haas, wife OF
cigar manufacturer. Mrs. Haas was
arrested, charged with manslaughter
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
Says He Killed; oets One Year

Says He Killed; Gets One Year.
Elk Point, 8. d., March Is. ~ One
year in the penitentiary is the sen.
tence imposed on John st. Pierre.
who by agreement pleaded guilty to q
charge Of manslaughter in the second
degree for the killing Of Clarence
Shay four years ago.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20

@ institute Fine Success.
Pelican Rapids, Mimi. March IT.
The farmers institute corps, under
the direction Of Forest Henry, closed
2 successful series Of meetings here.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
FIGHT At A DANCE.
One Farmer Slabs Another and Both
Are Arrested,

Are Arrested.
Annandale, Mimi, March 17.-At n
country dance held about two miles
south of Annandale, Bernham Gray
ham. who works on farm in that vi
cinity, drew his jackknife and made
an assault upon julie Deficiency, also
resident in the locality. The assail-
ant inflicted a wound above the collar
bone, just beside the jugular vein.
Grayham was arrested and held to
await the action of the grand jury.
A countercharge of assault i'll the
third degree lodged against julie De-
cheney re.,;:lten y: his being given a
fine of IS ara c..cts. -
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
Fiahtinu Deer. Killed,

Eve!eth, MIMI, March IL. Dr..
Farmers PET deer, famous with its
twin for being able to rout any dog
In Mckinley and also for it's tasge for
lager, was killed BY the evening train
to Eveleth. 5 81. Il. IT 4 I. 81
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
"cENTRAL" TRAINS COLLIDE.
Two Lines eiockaded at Chippewa
Falls.

TWO ItheS 6IocKaoeu az chippewa
Falls.
Chippewa Falls, Wis, March 15.-
A head-end collision between a Wis.
consin Central passenger train and
a freight train occurred at the cross
ing of. the Central and Omaha tracks.
Beyond being shaken up none Of the
passengers was injured. The engi-
sneers and firemen jumped. Two pas.
senger coaches and several freight
cars we're derailed. Trahic on both
railways was blocked a d.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-20
Postoffice safe Blown.

Postomce safe Blown.
Cameron, Wis, March IL. When
Postmaster G. e. Bartlett went to the
postofice yesterday morning he found
and taken $500 worth of postage
stamps and about $40 in money.