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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-02-28
BY CHINESE MINISTER.
Jap Aggression in Manchuria Brought
to Attention of Germany.

Jap HSSfcSSIOu III "duStINIio o'SNS's
to Attention of Germany.
Berlin, Feb. 26.-Sun Pao XII, the
Chinese minister at Berlin, received
instructions some weeks ago from
Peking to discuss with the German
foreign office the Japanese treatment
of trade in Manchuria and to breach
the possibility of the United States
and Germany entering into a special
agreement concerning the main
tenance of equal trade opportunities
in all the Chinese territories. Sun
Pao XII communicated his instructions
to the foreign office and discussed the
subject in the most general terms, the
foreign office receiving his sugges-
lions in a courteous, inquiring but
non-committal manner. 1t presumably
has correspondent with the German
embassy at Washington and the lega-
tion at Picking as to the extent of the
Chinese proposal and what was
thought of it. In Washington, it is
understood, WI Ting Fang, the Chi
nese minister, has received identical
instructions and has laid them before
the state department. China's idea of
a special agreement between the
United States and Germany appears
to rest in the belief that these two
alone of the great commercial states
would be likely seriously to oppose
Japan's disposition, as China AYERS, to
discriminate in Manchuria in favor of
her own merchants.
China's appeal has raised the ques.
ton both at the foreign office here
and at the state department at Wash.
ington as to whether such an agree
ment as China proposes would not be
superfuous and if its object is not
already fully covered by international
agreement.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-02-28
CONGRESSIONAL DoINGs.

That congress should authorize and
direct the attorney general to prose
cute land grant railroads in Oregon
for not having complied with the
terms in their grants in %disposing of
land in tracts of not more than $50
acres and at not more than $3.50 per
acre was the subject Of a joint resolu-
tion reported to the senate from the
committee on judiciary.
Washington's birthday was com.
memorated in the house of lepresen-
tatives by a lively debate on the negro
question. 1t arose out of an effort ny
Mr.. TIeflin of Alabama to amend the
District of Columbia street railway
trackage bill by requiring separate
cars for whites and negroes.
President Roosevelt was overridden
by the house committee on coinage,
weights and measures when, by unan-
imous vote, it was agreed to report
favorably the Mckinley GILL; bill re-
quiring the restoration to gold and
silver coins of the national motto,
"In God We Trust"
The Tillman resolution in%structing
the attorney general to prosecute
suits against transportation companies
in Oregon which have received land
grants and have not complied with
the terms of the grants has been
adopted by the senate.
In the house of representatives Mr..
| Waldo of New York made a demand
for the Impeachment of Judge Leb-
bus R. Whitley of the United States
court for China at Shanghai. He pre-
scented and had read articles of i'm
parchment.
T%hirty-four years ago Speaker Can
non delivered his first speech in the
house of representatives and the ami
versary was marked by a tribute to
the speaker by Mr.. Boutell of Illinois.
Senator Knox has introduced O. bill
to establish a system of postal saw
ings banks. The bill embodies the
plan outlined by Postmaster General
Meyer in his annual report.
The senate in executive session
ratified the arbitration convention be-
tween the United States and France.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-02-28
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

Several deaths, many injuries and
much suffering followed in the wake
of one of the worst billiards. expert
enced in Chicago in several years.
Traffic on surface and suburban ines
was practically tied up and down town
hotels were filled with residents of
outlying districts who found them.
selves unable to reach their homes.
With a great roar two brick dwell.
Ing houses at % and "a Penn avenue,
Pittsburg, in the district inundated by
the flood waters, collapsed and fell
into the street. A score Of occupants,
warned by the cracking walls, barely
had time TO reach the street before
tons of brick and plaster tumbled into
the streets. Only one man was in
jured.
Mrs. William Proudft Burden, who
was Natica Rives, daughter of o. H.
p. Belmont and a society favorite in
New York, Newport and Washington,
was found dead in bed at New York
city. Death, the coroner decided, was
accidental and due to gas poisoning.
SiA persons, members of prominent
families of Spring Valley, N. Y, were
killed and three others frightfully in
jured in a grade cros:Dng accident
near hat place, when a party of
merrymakers was run down by an
Ontario and Western express train.
Nebraska has just experienced the
heaviest fall of snow in twenty years
nearly fourteen inches. The storm
was accompanied by a high wind, pill
ing the snow into drifts and interrupt
ing traffic. Missouri and Iowa also
felt the effects of the storm.
The packing house of the Hercules
and in the explosion four white men
and twenty-four Cinnamon were
killed. Ten o of dynamite went UP
in the terrific blast, shattering the
sheds to dust and s%plinters.
All but one of the twenty-eight men
and boys who were entombed in the
Mid-Valley colliery neal Shamokin,
Pa, have been rescued. Frank Or
loskie, a miner of Mid-Valley, fell
down a chute after the accident and
was killed.
One woman was killed and fifteen
persons injured in a collision of cleo
trio cars near Cambridge, O.
Two men were killed and six 9th
ers were seriously injured in a riot at
Dunbar, Pa.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-02-28
MAY COMPEL ACTION
China Likely to Protest to Amer
lea on Jap Aggression.
MADE AT BERLIN
Unofficial Exchanges Of Opinion Now
in Progress With European Diplo-
mats Likely to Be Given a More
Official Character Shortly.

Washington, Feb. 26.-Chinese dip
lomatic activity in the European cap
itals and cable news of the calling of
conferences of the great viceroys and
provincial governors in Manchuria, all
bearing upon the relations between
China and Japan on the n hand and
China and Russia or the other, have
led the state department to expect the
delivery by Mr.. WI, the newly ap-
pointed Chinese minister, of some spe-
cial message on this important sub
ject soon after he arrives in Wash
ington, which should be in the course
of a fortnight. AS already stated in
these dispatches there is nothing
tangible before the state department
which would serve az a basis Of rep
resentation to Japan on this subject
beyond the protests of American tex
tile manufacturers and exporters
against the serious blow which has
been administered to their trade by
the Japanese administration of the
railroads in Manchuria. But there has
been much unofficial talk between Off
Gals here and some of the members
Of, the diplomatic body and all of this
has prepared the state department for
the reception of an appeal from China
in the nature of that referred to as
having been presented in Berlin re-
Gently. When the matter is thus for
mally brought to its attention it is
probable that the state department
officials will feel obliged to give to
these exchanges of opinion that have
been in progress a more official char
acter. but as far as can be gathered
from the utterances of responsible
persons there is no present intention
of making any effort to secure joint
action in the nature of compulsion
directed against Japan.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-02-28
FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL

The marching Of nearly 1000 for
eigners upon the Philadelphia city
hall, where they said they intended
to make demands upon Mayor Rey-
burn for work, precipitated a riot in
which twenty persons We're injured
before the police dispersed the march.
ers and arrested fourteen of them.
The Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe
Railway company has ordered a re-
duction of 10 per cent in the mechani-
cal departments all over the system.
The Market Street bank at San
Francisco has suspended. The bank
had deposits amounting to S1,132.200.
Deposits in national banks of Chi.
cage are now the largest in their his
tory.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-02-28
NEWS OF THE WORLD
Important Events Of the Week
in Condensed Form.
FOREIGN NEWS.

General Stoessel, charged with sur
rendering Port Arthur to the Japa-
nese, has been condemned to death
by a Russian ~courtmartial. General
Fock has been reprimanded and Gen
eral Smirnoff and General Reiss have
been acquitted. The court recon-
mends that the death sentence upon
StOessel be committed to ten years
Imprisonment in a fortress and that
he be excluded from the service.
A representative OF the Russian for.
eign Office declares that Russia has
received definite that the
Turkish military preparations in
Northwestern Turkey in the vicinity
of the Russian border were not di-
rected against Russia, but were made
necessary by the threatened internal
situation in hat region.
The memorandum of the japanese
government in reply TO that of the
grafton has been handed to Ambassa-
dor O'Brien. 1t is understood thai it
agrees in general terms with a num-
Der of suggestions made by the Amer.
lean government.
Ten persons were killed and a
score OF more wounded, including
several ecclesiastics, as a result of a
riot in the main street of Teheran,
Persia, during the passage of a relig-
ious procession celebrating the Mo-
hammedan Muharam religious festival.
The greatest precautions are being
observed in Lisbon, Portugal, to in
sure the maintenance of order. 1t is
evident that the government fears an
outbreak of some kind. The soldiers
are being kept in their barracks and
all public buildings are under guard.
Charles B. Cllmo, an ensign in the
French navy, has been found. guilty
by a courtmartial of attempting to sell
naval secrets to a foreign power and
sentenced to life Imprisonment in a
fortress and 10 be degraded from his
rank.
Chief Justice Hunter of the supreme
court OF British Columbia has ruled
as the subjects OF Japan are con-
cerned, though he did not hold that
the act is imperative as a whole.
The American battleships under
Rear Admiral Evans have arrived al
Callao, Peru, on the western coast of
South America. A ten days stop will
be made there.
The German imperial treasury de-
partment is considering the POSSIBLE
ity of a government petroleum monop-
oily.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-02-28
FIRST TIME IN MANY YEARS
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Dimes
Diplomatic Corps.

Caracas, Venezuela, Feb. 26.-Jose
de Jesus Paul, the Venezuelan for
eign minister, gave a dinner in this
city to the members of the diplomatic
corps. The occasion was noteworthy
as the first time in many years that
the government has entertained in
this manner the representatives of
the powers. :
The dinner occasioned some COM
ment because it followed closely the
expulsion from Venezuela by Presi-
dent Castro of the Spanish vice con-
sui at Carupano, as we'll as eight
French merchants who were engaged
in business at that port. The reasons
for this drastic action have not been
i}ivulged,
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-02-28
EMIGRATION TO SIBERIA.
Unprecedented Movement Under Way
in Russia,

st. Petersburg, Feb. 26.-The emf
grafton to Siberia this year is expect
ed to assume unprecedented proper
lions. The colonization department of
the ministry of agriculture, whose
agents throughout Russia have fin
ished their preliminary. investigation
of the situation and are preparing to
cope with a rush of 100000 home
seekers, has elaborated, in co-opera-
tion with the ministry of railroads,
detailed plans for the transportation
of %colonists to their new homes on
special trains. The bulk of the emf
grants will be forwarded between
March 22 and May %, the last train
load leaving for the East on June %.
Over $500, 900 acres of land in all
parts of Siberia have been surveyed
and are in readiness for the colonists.
The land has been divided into 100000
individual allotments.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-02-28
BLOODY FIGHT AT WEDDING
Four Men Fatally Stabbed and Fiji
teen Others SEVERELY Cut.

sSSN StuerS severely Cut.
chicago. Feb. 26.-Four men were
staoped in a manner that is likely to
prove fatal, fifteen others, including a
policeman, were severely cut and sew.
eral others slightly injured in a riot
between two factions of Polish cele-
orators. The fight marked the end
Of festivities in the saloon of Joseph
Kuta.
The rioters were guests at the we'd
alng OF Leo Chasski and Mary Wadya.
Inc conflict had it's origin in an old
controversy between the two factions
OF Poles and a free for all fight, in
which knives, beer bottles, chairs and
tables were used, followed several
quarrels which occurred early in the
evening. The men who will probably
die are James Grimm, John Lubet-
zoski, John Wadya, brother of the
bride, and Stanley Wudasek.
all OF these men were fr%ightfully
cut, the lips and ears of Wadya being
slashed off. Policeman John McDon-
ough, who was detailed at the we'd
ding, was cut on the hands and his
Uniform ripped to pieces.
A riot call was sent in and a strong
detachment of police was sent to the
saloon, where, after a severe fight,
they succeeded in arresting twenty of
the rioters. After being taken to the
police station John Wadya attempted
to kill Stanley Wudasek, who was un
conscious from loss of blood. Wadya,
however, tainted while struggling
with two policemen. The bride and
he bridegroom were locked up in a
cell. but were later re1ea sod
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-02-28
Outcome Of Family Quarrel.

Lamar, Mo-, Feb. 2e.-Lee Hart. q,
coal hauler, shot and killed Mrs.
Joseph Edwards, his mother-in-law;
shot and seriously wounded the lat.
ter's husband and then committed
suicide by lying across the tracks and
letting the st. Louis and San Fran
cisco fast express run over his body.
Hart fired two shots at his wife fol-
lowing a family quarrel, but she es-
capped with a slight flesh wound.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-02-28
THE HOME OF ANARCHY.
Priest Slain at Denver Formerly Sta
toned at Paterson, N. j.

Priest Slain at Denver Formerly Sta
toned at Paterson, N. j.
Denver, Feb. 2G.-Most Of the
priests of the Roman Catholic church
in this city believe that Father Leo
Heinrichs, who was murdered by
Giuseppe Alto, an Italian anarchist,
while giving a communion in st.
Elizabeth's church here on Sunday
last, was a marked mar from the
or even before. The dead priest was
stationed previously in Paterson, N.
j., and it is believed that he may
have incurred the enmity of the an
archists there and hat a plot was
laid to kill him, perhaps prior to his
leaving Paterson, but that the ma
chinery of the reds" failed to get
into working order until Alto carried
out orders. A who witnessed
the tragedy told a prominent Catholic
priest that two weeks ago, during an
early mass, she saw two evil appear
ing men, one of whom she believes
was the assassin, standing in the aisle
of st. E%liZabeth's church. They were
conversing in a low tone, but she saw
one of the men point to two priests
who were in the sanctuary.
The priests, one of whom was
Father Leo, were separated several
feet and the MAJ who did the point
ing directed his finger toward Father
Leo and remarked in a low tone,
THAT is the man.
The woman thought it odd that the
two men should hold a conversation
in the church and this, together with
their ruffiian like appearance, made a
deep impression upon her. When she
saw the assassin running down the
aisle Sunday she declared she imme-
diately recognized him as. the man to-
whom Father Leo had been pointed
0uf
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-02-28
COAL NINE COMBINE
Plan to Centralize Control Of En-
tire American Product
GIGANTIC HOLDING COMPANY
Movement the outgrowth Of Recent
Federal Dictum That Railroads Can.
not Hold Stock in Mines That Make
Shipments Over Their Lines.

oIIPJlCtIS WI b"S" "'S
Chicago, Feb. Decentralization of
control Of practically every coal mine
in the country in the hands of one of
the most gigantic holding companies
in the history of American business Is
predicted as the outgrowth of the re-
cert federal dictrm that the railroads
cannot hold stock in mines that make
shipments over their lines.
The company, according to rumor
is being secretly formed and it is
planned to take over all the coal in
terests in Indiana, Illinois, West V1r-
GINA and Western Pennsylvania
This action, those who are familiar
with the movement say, will place the
properties on a better paying basis
and at the same time reduce the price
to the consumer.
Many large operators complain of
dilferentials against mines Of a GER
tain thickness OF seam, against mines
working remote entries and against
other difficulties known to the mine
operators.
1.-THE plan to unite the great mining
interests is not a new one," said r. r.
Hammond of the Deering Coal COM
pany. ut is one of those large
projects that Of necessity must be
slow of development, but some Of h
larger operators included in the
scheme think hat union, with free
dom from the competitive conditions
that now exist, will cheaper coal to
the consumer, operate the profitable
mines and close down the Improbable
workings, while controlling the mar
! ket to the advantage of both the pub
the present system"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-02-28
c~onfesses to Train Wrecking.

Sedalia, Mo, Feb. 26.-Walter W..
Cox, a woodchopper whose home Is at
Franklin Junction, Mo-, confessed to
Missouri Pacific railway officials T
that he removed the rail from the
track on the top of otterville hill,
fifteen miles east of here, on Friday
night last that resulted in the deratl-
ing Of a freight train from st. Louis.
Cox said he had intended to wreck
and rob the fast Missouri Pacific Kan
sas City-St. Louis passenger train.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-02-28
MONARCHY At STAKE
Violent Political Struggle in Por.
tugal Near at Hand.
REPUBLIC MAY Be RESULT
Although Country Is Bankrupt the Blu.
reaucracy and Court Are Main.
tanned on Same Extensive Scale as
In Days Of Portuguese Prosperity.

Lisbon, Feb. 26.-Whether or not a
republic is soon to supplant the mon
archy in Portugal it is practically the
unanimous opinion here that the near
future will witness a violent political
struggle in which the life of the mon
archy may be the stake. The com.
~parative tranquility since the assas.
sinations is simply a breathing spell
in which the forces of the monarchy
on the one hand and popular govern.
ment on the other are being mar.
shaled for the coming fray, the battle
field of which will be Lisbon. The
masses of the people in the country
are ignorant and have hitherto been
entirely Indifferent to the political
battles which have convulsed the CAP
ital. Lisbon, for political purposes,
is Portugal and the Republicans are
confident that the influence of the
capital, which they assert is almost
unanimously Republican, will sound
the knell Of the monarchy.
Since the assassinations of King
Carlos and Crown Prince LUZ the Re-
publicans have been Joined by the Dis.
sident Progressists and they intend to
make their campaign for a.change of
regime openly in the coming cleo.
toral contest. Ex-Deputy Almeida,
who is at the head of the Republican
organization, declares that their cam
,paign has virtually been made for
them by the revelation of the scan
dalous abuses of the old parties. The
exposure of the political corruption,
the manner in which an army of eli.
fents was maintained at the
Expense of the Public Treasury
and, above all, the secret advances
made to the royal family, he claims,
shocked the people from n end of
the country to the other and destroyed
forever the prestige of the monarchy.
They anticipate an easy and complete
victory. D~isinterested opinion, how
ever, does not consider Portugal ripe
for a republic; it believes, in fact,
that the country under a popular re-
gime in the present backward state Of
the masses would become a prey of
the ambitions of politicians and, like
the Central American republics, would
be without stability. Nevertheless,
the fear exists in these quarters that
the monarchy is doomed.
The real weakness of the monarchy
in Portugal seems to be that it is top
heavy. With its territory shrunken,
its wealth withered, the people
crushed down by taxes, the national
credit bankrupt fifteen years ago the
bureaucracy and the court are main.
tanned on a scale almost as extensive
ias in the days Of Portuguese world
dominion and splendor. Seven mag
nificent royal palaces are kept up.
with all the expense involved in the
constant transfers of the large court
from one place to another. The court
itself has a hierarchy and a cere'
monial etiquette second only to that
of Russia and Austria and the person
mel is considerably larger than that
of Germany.
1t is here that the pruning hook
must be applied in the reorganization
of a country where half the taxes col
lected go to pay the interest on the
-I-.- 1-I
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-02-28
stoeeseI Asks Full Pardon.

st. Petersburg, Feb. 26.-Lieutepant
General Stoessel, who on Feb. 20 was
condemned to death for the surrender
of the Port Arthur fortress to the
Japanese, has petitioned Emperor
Nicholas for a full pardon. The court
recommended that the death sentence
be committed to ten years imprison-
ment in a fortress and that the gen.
eral be excluded from the service.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-02-28
Strike at pes Moines Probable.

Des Moines, Feb. 26.-The wage
controversy between the street rail-
way employees of Des Moines and their
employers is approaching a crisis and
It is believed that unless an agree
ment is soon reached there will be a
strike, The representatives Of both
sides have failed to agree on the de-
mand for an increase Of 40 per cent
presented by the men
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-02-28
Morse pemurs to Indictment.

New York, Feb. 26.-Charles W.
Morse, in the supreme court, with
drew his plea Of not guilty to the IN
dictment charging perjury, which was
recently returned against him, and IN
Its place filed a demurrer to the IN.
dictment.. Arguments on the demurrer
will be heard on March 3.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-02-28
Six Persons injured in Collision.

Des Moines, Feb. 26.-six persons
were injured in a collision between in
terurban cars at Moran Junction, thir.
teen miles from Perry. The Moran
car was filled with passengers and
was on it's way to Des Moines. The
Perry car, also on its way to Des
Moines, was standing at the junction
at Moran. The Woodward cal re-
fused to answer its brakes and crashed
into the Perry car. Both cars were
badly damaged and the passengers
yer thrown about in confusion.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-02-28
THIRTY PERSONS INJURED
Excursion Train Of Northern Tourists
Wrecked in Texas.

VCSCNS0 III VA0os d.
Laredo, Tex, Feb. 26.-Thirty per-
IONS were injured in the derailment
of an excursion train carrying a num-
Der of Northern tourists at Orville,
twelve miles north of Laredo. Sew
eral cars were thrown from the track
and piled up in a ditch. The Pullman
cars, however, remained on the rails.
The e~xcursionists, most of whom were
from Toledo, O., were travelling under
the direction of Charles Gates of To-
ledo.
In addition to the Toledo people on
the wrecked train there were q num-
Der of passengers from Chicago and
San Antonio. They had planned to
make a tour through Mexico.