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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-02-21
HERO DIES FIGHTING FIRE.
"Big-Hearted Kruger" Best Beloved o.
New York Firemen, Meets Death.

"Big-Hearted Kruger" Best Beloved of
New York Firemen, Meets Death.
New. York. Feb. 1G - "Big-hearted
Kruger best beloved of New Yorls
fire fighters. met yesterday the death
he had defed for thirty-six years.
From the day in 1872, when lad of
twenty years, he entered the depart
ment. Deputy Fire Chief Charles w.
Kruger had never known physical fear
1t was common remark that Kruger
never sent" but always led and
when his CHEEKY call, Come on, boys, -
rang out for the last time dozen men
were at his heels. The situation was
desperate The buildings at PIT and
215 Canal street were in flames. and
the whole block was threatened. Chief
Croke. had refused to order his men
into the buildings, but had consented
to Kruger's venture. Chief there's
no hope of getting into the basement
of 217," the grizzled deputy had said.
Our only chance is to so down into
the cellar of 215 and cut a hole
eiiASA IiAS oSpe1i oCluo "dilS. SOUle>
on, boys"
Into the cellar. filled with water.
smoke and overwhelming fumes from
melted gas pipes the men threw them
selves. Cropping in advances Kruger
stumbled through trap-door and pres.
emily was floundering helplessly in six
feet of water. Unable to see. the other
men heard splash and then cry,
Save me. Andy"
Ten minutes lat~r the unconscious
form of Big, u Charley" was
stretched on the ,ement and Chief
Croker, on his knees beside, begged
the department surgeons, For Gods
sake do something
Rising to his feet Chief Croker slip.
ped his coat from his back and placed
it over the face of his deputy.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-02-21
THREE Town ARE SWlPfD OUT
Small Villages in Mississippi Are Laid
Waste and Six Persons
Killed.

Meridian, Miss, Eeb. Is. =. Three
small Mississippi towns were practi-
cally demolished by tornado yester-
day. Reports of the number killed
range from six to ten, with the small
err number probably correct. Moss
vile, Service and $3.50 are the towns
destroyed. They are all in Jones
county, and all are very small. being
merely handful of scattered dwell
ings. The tornado struck them about
noon, and in most instances is report
ed to have carried the buildings in It's
path completely off the lots on which
they stood.
strewn With Wreckaee.
Nearby fields were covered with
wreckage and the branches of trees
were Uttered with small household
articles. l.. S. Morrison, resident OF
Mossville. who came here after the
storm, said that he was compelled to
grasp wire fence to keep from being
blown away.
The tornado was accompanied by Il
torrent of rain, which caused sudie
rise in the creeks and washed away
several bridges. Roads have become
impossible in the tornado district and
telegraph and telephone wires, We're
not working last night.
Twelve Killed in Texas.
Tyler, Tex, Feb. 15.-This city was
swept by the most disastrous tornado
in its history yesterday morning. The
storm passed over the main residence
section of the city, leaving trail of
death and devastation. 1t is expected
that the death list will reach twelve
and the number of injured will aggre-
gate two score or more. Twelve
buildings We're wrecked. The tornado
tore path through the city 100 feet
wide. Buildings, telephone and cleo
trio light poles were laid flat in the
storms path. while great damage was
done in other parts Of the town. 1t
is known that the tornado swept
everything clean for distance of five
miles around.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-02-21
WAR TOO HELL,sH."
Ambassador Says Japanese Know Of
No Break With America.

AsnoaSSauor says Japanese KNOW OF
No Break With America.
New York, Feb. 18.-Declaring that
war between the United States and
Japan would be "the most inhuman
event in the worlds history" and was
too hellish" to be thought of, Baron
Kogoro Takahira, the new Japanese
ambassador to Washington, said yes
terday upon landing in New York
from the steamer Etruria, that the
Japanese people know absolutely
nothing of break in the cordial re-
lations which have been historic be-
tween the two nations. Talk of war,
Baron Takahira declared with much
emphasis, was utterly unintelligible to-
him unless, as some one had sug-
serve the commercial ends of some
newspapers.
Some Matters to Fix Up.
The new ambassador said there
might be some matters pending in
Washington which would require his
attention. but they were not. serious.
AS to the cruise of the American fleet
W tHe TdCluC ocean, ne regarded IL
purely as naval maneuver on
grand scale, designed to show to the
world at large that America has a
wonderful naval power which can be
dispatched anywhere at a moments
notice, Gin support of legitimate
cause, which always is at the bottom
of American diplomacy"
Baron Takahira leaves for Wash
ington this morning at IL o'clock to
present his credentials to President
Roosevelt.
Warm Fried of Roosevelt.
He is a warm personal friend of
Mr.. Roosevelt, and is looking forward
to his meeting with the chief execu-
tive with great deal of pleasure.
The baron is returning to the Ameri-
can capital after an absence of two
years spent in Rome as ambassador
to Italy. The baron left Washington
as minister, and was subsequently
elevated to the rank of ambassador.
He was one of Japan':s ENJOYS at the
Portsmouth peace conference.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-02-21
Crimes and Criminals.

Fred Wigle, an actor, shot and kill.
ed his wife and then committed sui
eide at boarding house in Cleveland.
1t is supposed they quarreled.
Alvia Newly, prominent farmer
of Valley View, KY, shot and killed
&lis wife and then committed suicide.
No cause for the tragedy is known.
After leaving a note in explanation
that his act was due wholly to finan-
cial reverses, Frank Harris, Boston
broker, committed suicide by shooting.
Joseph March shot and probably ia
tally wounded his wife at New Or
leans. He then killed himself Jeal-
cusy is believed to have been the
cause.
j. G. Doanc. wealthy retired farm
by drinking quantity of concentrated
I've. Dependency was the cause Of
the act.
William Andrews, thought to have
been from Sioux City, Iowa, commit
ted suicide at the county hospital in
Chicago by severing his jugular vein
with Il pair of scissors.
c. E. Beasley, president of the
American Bank and Trust Company of
Houston. Tex, killed himself with a
pistol. Poor health is believed to be
the cause of the suicide.
Worry because of dismissal from
the service after forty years with the
Chicago & Northwestern company is
said to be the cause of the suicide at
Clinton. Iowa, of Conductor George
Goodwin.
Joseph Russ and six Austrian COM
ranions were held up at Pueblo, Colo,
by lone highwayman. In the melee
That followed Russ was killed by a
bullet from the bandits revolver.
l.. c. Hutchins, second vice pIesl
dent of the Fort Worth, Tex, National
bank, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head with revol-
ver III health is given as the cause
Of suicide.
Mark Moran shot and instantly
killed Laura Hermann. a young mar
ried woman at Scranton, Pa, and af-
terward tried to commit suicide. The
motive for the crime is believed to
be jealousy.
Complaint has been filed at Miles
City. Mont, against John Mcpherson,
sheepherder, charging grand larceny,
it being alleged Mcpherson stole $40
from the pocket of Il friend, another
herder, named Joe Smith.
Wilhelm Williams. twenty-five years
old. shot and killed his father in Chi
cage. The son then fired bullet into
his own head. 1t is thought that the
wound will prove fatal. The double
tragedy followed a family quarrel
While her husband was absent from
home and their two children were at
school. Mrs. Charles McGonnigle of
Richmond, Mo-, was murdered by an
unknown person and her body was
burned in a fire started by the murder
or which consumed her home. five
miles southwest of town.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-02-21
Resolution Ordering Suits Start
ed Is Favored by Senate
Subcommittee.
WOULD GIVE SETTLERS CHANCE
No Hope for Passage of National Drain.
age Law at This Session;
Repay Settlers.

Washington, Feb. 1G.--A subcommit-
tee of the senate committee on Judi
ciary yesterday decided to take favora-
BILE action on the Tillman resolution
instructing the attorney general to in
stitute suits to compel railroads in the
Northwest to open to settlement lands
granted them by the government. The
department of justice. however, will
draft a new resolution or bill covering
the subject in order that all phases Of
the alleged violations by the railroads
of conditions prescribed by the govern
ment in making the grants may be
prosecuted.
Manipulated by Railroads.
1t is intended by the committee that
the resolution or bill to be reported
shall authorize the attorney general to
bring proceedings not only to compel
the railroads to open these lands to
settlement. but to forfeit title in cases
have deliberately conspired to defeat
the purpose of the government in ced
ing the lands.
The idea of the government in max
ing grants was to bring about the con-
struction of railroads and facilitate the
settlement of new country. Congress
fixed the prices IT. which the lands
should be sold to actual settlers. This
price was not to exceed $3.50 an acre.
Information was presented to the jul
dietary committee showing that rail-
roads, instead of disposing of the land
to bona fide settlers, had so manipu-
lated the settlement that the railroads
themselves are now in possession of
large tracts of land.
Drainage Chances Poor.
Advocates of the passage of ma
tional drainage law at the present ses.
sion have practically given up hope of
success. The opposition by Speaker
Cannon and other Republican leaders
to any measures increasing public ex-
penditures which can possibly be post
poned to further time is so strong
that bills such as those providing for
payment out of the federal treasury in
aid of a national drainage policy are
regarded as having small chance of
passage.
The house yesterday passed bill
which was reported from the commit
tee on public lands by Representative
Volstead authorizing the return of
money that has been paid by home
where it appears that the railroads
of public lands in all cases where,
through no fault of the person making
the payment, title to the lands failed.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-02-21
Domestic.

A Southern Pacific passenger train
was wrecked near Forest Grove. Or.
Three passengers We're killed and
eighteen injured.
Two men were fatally burned and
five or six others injured in two ex-
blossoms at the Monongahela Furnaces
at Mckeesport. Pa.
While at play. knocking icicles from
the caves, Willie Evans. aged seven, of
Waterloo. Iowa. failed to dodge a
heavy one. which penetrated his right
eyeball. Surgeons removed his eye
and hope to save his life
The Jefferson county, KY. board OF
tax supervision has raised the assess
ment of the Southern Pacific company
from 100000 to S1OO00,O00 The
Southern Pacific company, which is
incorporated in Kentucky, has an Of
flee at Beechmont. a suburb of Louis
vile.
Caruso is vindicated. Mrs. Hannah
Stanhope. who caused the arrest of
Enrico Caruso, the Metropolitan opera
house tenor. on charge of annoying
her in the Central Park monkey house
in New York last year, last week was
fined ] cent for intoxication and dis
orderly conduct.
B. S. McCnllic cashier CT the de.
Iunct Princeton (Iowa) Savings bank,
was arrested on the charge of making
false entries in the banks books. The
bank was closed recently on order of
Tie state auditor and receiver placed
N Charge. A shortage of about s1O.-
400 has been discovered.
-Four men blew open the vault Of the
Bank of Sulphur Springs at Sulphur
Springs, Ark, and secured over 1900
in cash, besides notes and other valua-
bies. Officers reached the scene lust
1T time to see four men mount their
horses and ride westward. 1t is be.
.ieved they have made good their es.
..ape.
Vice President Murphy stated that
the Arrangements of the Cincinnati,
New Orleans & Texas Pacific railway
and Alabama Great Southern railroad
have determined to put into effect on
March 1, 1908, a reduction of 10 per
cent in the pay of the president, vice
presidents and other general officials
and employees receiving monthly sal.
aries of $3.50 and over.
NJ. w. Brest, night Waterman at a
paper mill at Kalamazoo, Mich, found
a $500 diamond in the refuse from the
rag cleaning room of the mill. Two
diamonds had already been found In
the paper mills within two months.
Locked up in freight car for two
weeks, without food, little fox ter
rier was rescued near Sterling, Iowa
by trainmen who CHANGED to enter the
car. The dogs ribs nearly protruded
from its little body and it was toe
feeble to rise. The car in which the
animal was Imprisoned came from the
steel mills Of Pennsylvania. u
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-02-21
Annual Flood Spreads Ruin and
Disaster in Path at Pitts
burg and Vicinity.
loss WILL REACH MILLIONS
Thousands Living in Upper Floors OF
Their Homes; Water Receding;
No Casualties.

Pittsburg, Feb. 1S.-The annual
food of the rivers and small streams
Of this section has spread ruin and
disaster in it's path. The damage and
suffering is widespread. The loss in
Pittsburg alone will reach several
million dollars. The danger mark was
reached early Saturday, and the water
continued to raise until noon yester-
day. when it reached. thirty and seven
tenths feet. 1t remained at that
stage for three hours, and the flood is
now slowly receding. The danger
mark in this city is twenty-five feet
No Fatalities Reported. :.
A remarkable feature is the absence
of fatalities. AS far as is known
there has been no sacrifice of human
life and this is attributed to the early
warnings of the local United States
weather bureau.
Live stock has persisted in consider
able numbers and there are many re-
ports of persons having narrowly es-
capped death in an endeavor to save
their property and live stock.
Miles of territory in Greater Pitts
burg and vicinity is submerged, and
it will be some time to-day before the
water will be back in the channels of
the rivers and numerous small
streams.
Loss Will Reach Millions.
The actual monetary damage can
not be ascertained at this time, but
from all accounts it will run up to
several million dollars.
The suffering caused by the high
water is intense. Thousands of per-
sons are living in the upper floors of
their homes, using skiffs as means
of transportation to and fro. The
lower portions of their homes are
filled with water. In many instances
the household goods were not re-
moved owing to a lack of time, and
chairs, tables, pianos and bric-a-brac
are floating about the rooms.
Suffering Is Intense.
To add to the suffering of the vic
tins the weather grew cold yesterday
and snow fell. The gas connections
of the houses have been disarranged
and in their present damp condition
life is made miserable for the unfor-
tunate occupants.
Charitable institutions, making use
of many skiffs and RATS, have been
busily engaged throughout all of last
night and to-day serving hot coffee
and food to the families. most of whom
are at best very poor.
The damage to the manufacturing
plants of the Pittsburg district is
great
Flee for Their Lives.
Steubenville, Ohio, Feb. 1S.-Two
hundred people were compelled to flee
through water, and there were many
narrow escapes from drowning yester-
day afternoon at Mingo Junction
when a cinder bank thirty feet high,
built by the Carnegie Steel company
for protection of lowlands from flood,
gave way under the pressure of back
water. Fifty houses in the bottoms
were inundated.
The Ohio river is at flood stage and
rising All railroads but one have
suspended train service and many in
dustrial establishments have shut
down because of the flood.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-02-21
Accidental Happenings.

Ten OF twenty passengers were in.
jured in a wreck OH the Pennsylvania
railroad two miles south of Franklin-
vile, N. Y. No one was killed.
Warden Haddox of the West Vir
GINA penitentiary was killed at Battle
Creek, Mich, by falling from fifth
story window of local sanitarium
A young man. supposed to be Deli
Randel of Devon Iowa. was cut to
pieces by south-bound train on the
Great Western road at New Hampton,
Iowa.
AT Grand Cascapedia. a Quebec Dor
der town. four members of the family
of Andrew Campbell were burned to
death by a fire which destroyed their
home
Fire destroyed the northern section
OF the village of Fredericka, Iowa,
One store, Il blacksmith shop. the
town hall and several dwellings, were
burned
Engineer John Lyman of Hoboker,
was killed and 1870 passengers were
shaken up when five-car local train.
bound from Jersey City for Dover
over the l-ackawanna railroad, was
derailed.
l. j. Eaddeman, a teamster. was
Killed by an Illinois Central engine at
Waterloo, Iowa His wife is too i'll to
be told OF the accident. Heddeman
was crossing the track in a sleigh.
The team was unhurt.
Ten firemen were injured. one prob.
ably fatally, by the explosion of q
2asolne tank OF an automobile while
hghtlng fire in garage ut Chicago.
Inc men were on a ladder almost di-
rectly over the automobile.
Joseph Hitch, blacksmith of Lohr.
vile. Iowa, was struck down by vic.
1ous horse, which planted its front
feet on his forehead, crushing his
Skull before bystanders could inter
fere, causing fatal injuries.
Charles CyraEe, journeyman
baker, was burned to death at Read
ing, Pa, in fire which destroyed the
bakery of William H. Berries. He slept
in the building and his cnarred re-
mains were found in the ruins.
A large rock fell on Charles Haapa
ia, miner working in the Champioo
mine at Calumet, Mich, breaking his
back, both legs and several ribs
crushing him to death. A wife and
three children in Finland survive him
Frederick Miller, German laborer
was instantly killed about five miles
east OF Billings, Mont, as the result
of being struck by fast freight train
and his companion, who gave his
name as Daniel Schmidt, was perhans
fatally injured.
While passing sleigh which wa,
being loaded with logs at the Esca
naba Woodenware company's camp
Alexander Gordisuk, a teamster. wa,
struck by log and instantly killed
The log rolled from the top of til,
load, striking the teamster on tn,
} head. crushing his skull.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-02-21
DUKE IN THE FAMILY.

Theodore shonts Becomes Father-in-
Law Of de Chaulnes.
New York, Feb.t1S.-Miss Theodore
Shonts, daughter of Theodore p.
Shonts, formerly chairman of the
isthmian canal commission, was mar
ried at noon Saturday to Emanuel
THEODORE Bernard d'Albert de Luy.
mes, due de Chaulnes, of Paris. The
wedding took place at the home of the
brides father.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-02-21
TRIES TO WORK SMELL.
Sensational Letters of Fifteen-Year-O'd
Girl Are Read in Will Case.

SIrI Arc nSd0 N VIII Vase.
Clinton, ILL.,, Feb. 16.-At the close
of the presentation of evidence in the
contest of the 100000 estate left by
the late Col. Thomas Smell there came
to light for the first time yesterday the
letters written to the aged millionaire
by Edna Hamilton. the fifteen-year-
old daughter of Rev. E. A. Hamilton.
whose wife, Laura Hamilton, offered
her daughter to the old man for $500
cash.
The child's letters were as sensa.
tional IF not as depraved as her moth
er's. The little girl was as keen as
the mother to lure money from the
old man, and every line of the epistles,
most of them written from school, beg
ged for money. with frequent protesta-
lions of her love. In one, dated July
q. Edna wrote:
know you will get me a lot of nice
clothes if will be your sweetheart.
Mamma says you are going to get us a
home in Bloomington and that we will
all live with YOU will be so good to
you.
"PIease Send Me $780,"
please send me the $3.50 you told
Mamma you would give me and write
me a long letter. l will try to make
you happy. My dresses are getting
shabby Please send me some money.
| will be so nice to you. Lots of love
and kisses. pet"
Again the little girl wrote:
Darlington are the incest and
BEST man on earth. will do all can
to make you happy. When you told
me you would send me $50 I could
have kissed you a hundred times. l
will try to make you happy as long as
l live. Now have to go to my German
class. so good-by, with lots of kisses,
Pet
Asks Diamonds and Money.
Then followed requests for frater.
nifty pins. diamond ring. plaid silk
dress, more money and more money
In one letter she said:
What makes you think 1 dislike
you? l think you arc the incest man
en- earth. l will do anything to make
you happy. l don't show my love
much, but do love you. Yours with
kisses. Pet"
Edna Hamilton, until the day her
mothers letters to Col. Smell were
read in court. was a student at the
Illinois state university. She has gone
South with her parents.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-02-21
BANK TELLER HELD.
Minneapolis Man Must Answer for
$3,450 Shortage.

Minneapolis, Feb. 16.-Ater having
worked his way up from Office boy to
custodian of large sums of money,
Adolph Stamwitz, paying teller of the
Minneapolis Bank of Commerce, is
charged with having taken $3,45O Of
the funds belonging to the institution.
He has been found over to await the
action of the grand jury.
Irregularities in the banks accounts
were discovered by National Bank Elk
aminer c. H. Bosworth.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-02-21
CALLS DEATH ACCIDENTAL.
coroner's Jury Passes on Killing Of
William Hackett in Scuff1e.

Brownsville, Mimi, Feb. 16. = A
coroner's jury decided that the. death
of William Hackett, aged twenty-nine
years. was accidental. Hackett had
been quarreling with his brother in the
Yahn saloon. and Yahn sought to put
the combatants out. In the struggle
which ensued the men fell to the moor.
Hackett's head struck upon the ce-
ment floor and his skull was fractured.
He died . few hours later. Y
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-02-21
WOMAN FROZEN TO DEATH.

Snow Drifted Over Mrs. Peterson
When She Was Overcome.
Fergus Falls, Mimi, Feb. 16. - The
body Of Mrs. Martha Peterson, who
disappeared from her home at AS.
bury during "a heavy snow storm ten
days ago, has been found in a drift in
railway cut short distance from
her home. She had been drinking
and had lain down beside the track
and had frozen to death, the snow
gradually drifting over her. and bury
ing her.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-02-21
DEATH AFTER LONG CHASE.

Man Hunted for Ten Years Hangs
Himself In a Cell.
Philadelphia, Feb. 18.-After being
pursued for more than ten years by
detectives, the search taking them
three times around the world, Karl
Rapp, who was being held here to
await further hearing charged with
setting fire to a factory and dowelling
In Rosswag, Germany, in 1898, was
found dead in his cell at Moyamen.
sing prison. having committed suicide
by hanging himself.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-02-21
CANDIDATE KILLS SELF.
III Fortune Pursues PENNSYLVANIA Al.
derman.

Newcastle, Pa, Feb. 18.-T. P. Will
Jams, for many years an alderman in
this city and a candidate for re-elec-
ton next Tuesday, committed suicide
at his home here by firing a billet
through his right temple. Williams
was arrested few days ago charged
with extortion and had given bail for
court. This and the failure last
month of brick manufacturing com.
pany in which he was largely inter.
ested, it is said. worked heavily on his
mind.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-02-21
JIM CROW INJUNCTION.
Suit Against the Cars Is Started In
Oklahoma.

Guthrie, Okla, Feb. 18.-Suit was
filed in the United States circuit court
late Saturday night asking for an in
junction against the railroad compa-
MES to restrain them from carrying
into effect the "Jim Grow" law. The
petition states that it is in violation
Of the enabling act, which provides
that there shall be no distinction in
the state on account Of race, color,
etc