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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
Northwestern Association Op.
pose Parcels Post and
Want Less Postage
Want Rearing Before New
Railroad Rates Are Put
Into Effect

Minneapolis, Mimi, JAM 16. - M.
T. Mahon of Fergus Falls Mimi, will
head the Northwestern Lumberman's
association in 1908. At the final ses-
sion of the convention held here to-
day the following other officers were
elected for the year 1908: Vice presi-
dent, c. A. Sinkbin, DesMoines, Ia;
treasurer, George P. Thompson; Sec
rotary, w. G. Hollis; directors,
Ralph H. Burnside, Oskaloosa, Ia;
John Barry, Cedar Rapids, Ia; o.
G. Sarles, Hillsboro, N. D.
The resolutions adopted by the
Lumberman's association oppose any
further extension of the parcels post
system. advocate the reduction of
the postage rate on sealed correspon-
dence matter from cents to / cent
an ounce; ask the secretary of agri-
culture to establish a timber testing
laboratory at the Minnesota forestry
school and pledge the support of the
association to any proposed legisla-
tion that tends to amend the inter-
state commerce law so as to require
an official hearing before any change
in an Interstate rate or classification
! can be put into effect.
The chairman, John Barry of Iowa,
of the special committee on cancella-
tions, reported that while the associ-
! against the practice of cancelling or.
ders, it ought not to adopt the plan
of attack proposed at the meetings
of the convention by R. W. Douglass
Of Seattle and Geo. w. Hotchkiss OF
Illinois, who had advised a joint
board of arbitration representing
| both the retailers and wholesalers
organizations.
The resolutions state that mas
much as the Northwestern Lumber
mems association had some time age
made such an arrangement with the
4 Missouri association and said ar
rangement had been declared Illegal
by the courts, the convention could
not at this time adopt such a plar
I in the face of legal prohibition. The
committee suggested that the associa
ton study the question with a view
to finding some other solution. It's re-
4 port was adopted without dissent
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
Gold Is Everywhere.

Gold can most proftably be extract
ed from certain mines where the ore is
rich and not too difficult to work, but
should these deposits ever peter out
there is no fear that the world would
suffer for lack Of gold supply, for
there are many other sources which
are as yet untouched, but for working
which profitable methods would be de-
vised if need were. Granite, for ex-
ample, contains an appreciate guam
tity of gold, and if it were not under
present conditions too expensive a mat
ter to extract it we should find Scot
land and Cornwall rivaling the Trans
vaal and the KlondikeS The sea also
contains gold in solution, and the man
who invents cheap method Of get
ting it out will make himself richer
than all the millionaires that ever
lived. Gold is also constantly falling
all OYER the surface of the world, blown
to us in minute quantities along with
cosmic dust, which comes from inter.
stellar space. Black and White.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
EVELYN IHAW
Will TESTIFY
Foundation Has Been Laid
to Permit All Her
Testimony
More Witnesses Tell Of
Harry ThaW's Early E.
CentriCities

New York, Jan. 16-The non-arrival
of important witnesses, who are hur-
rying to New York by steamer and
train, caused an abandonment of the
afternoon session of the Thaw trial
today and cut the morning session
down to less than two hours. Mr..
Littleton, leading counsel for the de-
tense, announced that beginning to-
morrow he would hurry the case along
as rapidly as possible. 1t was neces-
sary, he explained, that all evidence
having to do with Thaw's alleged IRA
tional acts of the past several years
should be introduced before the medi-
cal experts are called to the stand to
express scientific opinions as to the
defendants mental condition at the
time he killed Stanford White.
Mrs. VIM. Thaw, the mother of the
accused, arrived from Pittsburg today
and if strong enough, may take the
stand tomorrow. She has been i'll for
more than month and at one time it
was feared she would not be able to
attend the trial at all.
Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw will not
be offered as witness until some time
next week. All of the indications so
far have been that the district at
torney will make a desperate fight to
have her testimony ruled out this
year. The counsel for the defense are
confident, however, that it will be al
lowed to go in now that they have
entered a formal specification of in
sanity in connection with the plea of
not guilty.
The elder Mrs. Thaw figured indi-
rectly in the evidence taken today. A
letter written by her in 1881 to the
master of the little Pennsylvania school
where her son was a pupil, was iden-
titled by the master and read to the
jury It told of the mothers great anx-
iety over the conduct of her son and
the fear she entertained that his mind
even then was unbalanced. The school:
master, now 70 years of age, was an
impressive witness. He is Abraham
R. Beck, an uncle of former Assistant
Attorney General James M. Beck, and
he related many Incidents which led
him to the conclusion that young ThaW
undoubtedly was irrational. The form
er attorney general was spectator. al
the trial today.
Benjamin Bowman, former door
keeper at the Madison Square theater
where Evelyn Nesbit played in "a
Girl from Dixie in 1903, repeated the
story he told at the first trial of the
threat made by Stamford White to fine
and kill Thaw before daylight.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
TOO HEAVY
CONTINUED from page ~

the Preside at San Francisco; Cap
tain Solomon P. Vestal, Ninth caval-
ry, now in general hospital at Fort
Bayard, N. NJ; Major p. NJ. B. Ira
Wis, Eleventh infantry, now in the
general hospital at Washington bar
racks, Washington, D. c., and Cap
tain Frederick v. Krug, Twentieth
infantry, stationed at Honolulu.
These officers were included in the
list of officers examined by the Davis
retiring board of this city, because
of their failure to qualify for the rid
ing test prescribed by President
Roosevelt.
In response to an inquiry, Secre
tary Taft said today that it had been
decided to retain Colonel w. L
Marshall, corps of engineers, on the
active list in charge of harbor i'm
provements at New York, for the rea
son that he was fully capable tt
perform the important duties, despite
the fact that his size and weight pre-
| vented his taking part in the recen
ride at Fort Myer. Col Marshal
stands ready at any time to ride witt
his brother officers, but so far arm!
quartermasters have failed to pro
| vide horse strong enough to carr.
one of his weight with safety.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
The Sawfsh.

More energetic than any other sharks
are the sawfish. whose shouts are pro-
longed into a broad blade Of cartilage,
which is horizontal when the fish is
swimming in normal position and
has both its edges set with slightly
curved teeth about an inch apart. The
end of this formidable looking weapon
is blunt and comparatively soft. SO
that it is quite incapable of the feats
popularity attributed to it Of piercing
whales bodies, ships timbers, etc. It
attacks other fish by a swift lateral
thrust Of the saw beneath them; the
keen edge disemboweling them. Then
it feeds upon the soft entrails, which
are apparently the only food it can
eat from the peculiar shape of its
mouth. 1t has an enormous number
of small teeth, sometimes as many as
fifty rowssin one individual, but they
are evidently unfit for the rough
duties required of their teeth by the
garbage eating members of the fam
lily.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
Owing to Continued Absence
Of Noted Promoter Re.
CeiVer Is Named
Richards Started Many Com.
paDieS Containing His
Name and Wind

Boston, Mass, Jan. 16.-Through
the failure of George Livingston
Richards to return from Europe,
where he went last July on permits
sion of the court, and dissatisfaction
of many investors in number of
Richards companies, Francies w.
Hunnewell was today appointed re-
ceiver by Judge Lowell in the United
States circuit court, for the George
Livingston Richards company, and
Agnew Auto Mailing Machine Co.
Richards, from the time he came
here ten years ago penniless, has had
meteoric career and is now be-
lieved to be a millionaire. He built
a magnificent residence in Brooklyn
and his reputed 100000 stable of
racing horses received wide atten-
ton.
He attracted small investors from
all parts of the country and started
numerous enterprises, the golden
tide constantly flowing in as new
propositions were launched.
The Brown Book was the first
publication which brought Richards
name prominently before the people
| of the country, the magazine having
| claimed circulation of over half a
million. Tt was used to; advance the
interests of the later companies pro-
NOTED by Richards. The Brown
| Book" was succeeded by Modern
| Women" 4s
| In turn appeared the Bernard
Richards company, the Richards Pub
fishing Company, It'd, Richards Syn
dictate, George Livingston Richards
company, Agnew Auto Mailing Ma.
chine company, and Automatic Ad-
| dressing company.
According to the last statement
filed in July of last year, the George
Livingston Richards company had a
capital stock of $1,OvO,OOO, assets OF
81, 676,215, and floating indebted.
ness of $1S7, $3.50.
] The statement of the Agnew Auto
Mailing Machine company showed q
capital of $3,OOO,0OO, assets of So.
/ $50, 1873, and floating Indebtedness oil
$36, 391.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
WENT TO THE WALL

Dallas, Tex, Jan. 16-The Western
Bank and Trust company of Dallas, the
largest savings deposit bank in Texas,
has been placed in the hands of re.
ceivers. @
Its total liabilities are $1,054, 104. "A
complete statement of the assets have
not been filed, but officials of the bank
declare that depositors will lose moth
ing. There is some doubt, however
about the fate of accounts of other
creditors.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
A. Walters Amazing Wall.
The waiter spoke Indignantly.

The waiter spoke Indignantly. MIf
ssMen go about" he SAID, complain-
ing of being mistook for walters, but
it is on the other foot really. that the
shoe rests. Us walters are the real
compliments in these cases of mistak-
en- identity. Our kicks are sincere.
The others ring false. For at dances
and balls and such like brushes many
a young man makes money by being
mistook for a waiter. How does he
make money? Why, he is tipped, and
all them tips he pockets, never think
ing of handing them over to their
rightful owners. At every big affair
we count on a loss of 5 per cent
through the dishonest advantage that
impecunious young swells take of be-
ing mistook for walters" g. Philadel-
phia Bulletin.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
OH HOW She
Loved HIM
Duluth Woman Confesses to
Killing Her Husband
With Big Axe

Duluth, Mimi. Jan. 16.-Mrs. Elias
Matsen, arrested Tuesday on a
charge of completely in the murder
of her husband, made complete
confession today to Chief of Police
Madden. Tuesday morning Matsen's
lifeless body was found on a bed in
room over a saloon at Chisholm,
with double-bitted axe implanted in
his skull. Mrs. Matsen's excuse for
killing her husband was that she
thought she was killing the devil.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
Damned Both Ways

Havana, Jan. 16-All radical papers
here praise President Roosevelt's or
der providing for the evacuation of
Cuba by the United States forces be
fore February, 1909. All conservative
papers censure the president for issu-
ing the order. La Lucia, the most in
fiuential liberal organ, declares that
Governor Magoon is right in stating
that existing parties are too weak to
promise a stable government.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
Minneapolis Pioneer Dead

Minneapolis, Jan. 16-H. R. Drew, a
prominent real estate man and one
of the pioneer residents Of the city
is dead at his home in this city, after
an illness lasting several weeks De.
ceased came to Minneapolis in the
early sixties and since that time was
actively engaged in business in the
city. Mr. Drew was born in 'Danvills
VT, in 1897.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
HIS HEAD LEVEL
CONTINUED from page H.

food equivalent to twenty sections of
range. He said that the money lost
last winter in eastern Montana and
North Dakota through lack of feed for
sheep and cattle, if spent in reclaim
ing land and seeding it in alfalfa,
would raise enough feed to have fed
every hoof of stock in the state six
months, and further that land so i'm.
proved would be more than doubled in
value.
Papers were also read by R. A. Ram
sey of the bureau of animal industry
A. J. Knollin of Chicago; /. D. Titus
of Minneapolis; and G. F. McCabe, OF
Washington.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
PROIEC1IONISI
American Protective Tariff
League Want That Kind
Of Man

New York, Jan. 16-In resolutions
adopted today the American Protective
Tariff league asks congress to investi-
gate the German tariff trade agree
ment with a view to determining both
its practical workings and the question
of it's legality. It was declared that
the next nominee of the republican
party for the presidency must and
will be a protectionist.
Charles A. Moore of Massachusetts.
was elected president of the league. Il
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
Opening Of School For Blind

Bathgate, N. D., JAM 16-Arrange-
ments have been made for the opening
of the school for the blind in Bath
gate. During the past week the fur
niture, bedding and movable material
required for the school have been plac-
ed in the building. The school is one
of the finest Of its kind in the west
and is credit to the state.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
NO REDUCTION
Wire and Hoop Products Stay
at Old Price. Mills
Resume

Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. 16-Wallace H.
Rowe, president of the Pittsburg Steel
company and Seamless Tub Company
of America, notified the Associated
Press to day that prices for all wire
and steel hoop products have been re-
affirmed and there would he no reduc-
tion for the spring trade.
All the plants of the company re
sumed operations today affording en-
ployment to thousands of workmen.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
EAST ST. LOUIS FIRE

East st. Louis, Ills, Jan. ia fire
which started in the Pendleton-C Cor
bett Grain company's grain storehouse
tonight destroyed the Montgomery q"
elevator, controlled by the Mobile and
Ohio railroad, the storehouse itself and
between fifteen and twenty freight
cars standing in the Mobile and Ohio
yards. The loss is estimated at $780,
900.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
Well Pleased

Nearly every seat at the Bijou thea
ter was occupied last night and the
crowd seemed well pleased with the
new line OF pictures and illustrated
songs. The program is up to the usual
standard in every respect.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
piaaers Dynamited

Duluth, Jan. 16-Joseph Chinoci and
Gust Erickson were fatally injured
and Ernest Molten and P. Johnson
seriously hurt by a premature explo-
sion of dynamite blast in sewer
excavation this afternoon. All four
men are in the hospital, and it is
thought Chinoci and Erickson cannot
survive the night.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
CHASTENED BY FIRE

East Grand Forks, Mimi, Jan. 49,
Fire this evening destroyed the dis
orderly resort mo. 255," of Carrie
Barney. The loss is $500 with insur-
ance Of half that amount. The fire
started in the furnace room in the
basement and several inmates had no
time to secure their belongings, the
place being seething mass Of flames
almost instantly after it was discover
ed. The resort known as "1900'' and
located nearby was In danger but was
saved by the fire department.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
Beer. Capacity Of 81 Munich Porter

Beer Capacity Of a Munich Porter.
( An English, family touring ID Ba-
varia called at the world famous Hof
brauhaus, the pride of Munich. writes
our correspondent, 10 theEa itress
serving them The head ofssfthe family
fl a; .matter Of fact way Simply held
up his five. fingers. no the famiiys
astonishment, the waitress came back
with FIVE quart pots filed to the brfm
with beer. The Visitors bravely strug
gled with the Deer, but managed to
dispose efsonIy about a quart between
them Knowing that it would be con;
sslderad an insult to leave beer, they
called porter and ordered him StGI
finish It. In less time ttlaA it takes
to relate it the Bavarian accSmplished
the task. Wiping his mustache. he
demanded sixpence; for the sob" and,
having obtained the money, Instantly
ordered and emptied yet another quart
pot.-London Mail. fF.i
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
Pen Portrait Of Grieu.

Here is as vivid a picture of Grieg the
man as any that has yet been drawn.
A correspondent who saw the noted
Scandinavian composer when he re-
ceived his honorary degree at Cam
bridge, in England, in 1894, makes 1t
for the Manchester Guardian: 1T was
a sad and a strong face that we saw,
one might almost have said a grim
face, but that there was nothing Of
hardness in 1t, face which must have
inspired both respect and affection in
all who met him. Yet as the little.
old looking man stood there in the red
and yellow gown Of doctor of music
there was something homogeneous
about his appearance, the head, en-
circled with long, straight, white hair,
appearing above the still sitter.
straighter lines Of gaudy brocaded silk,
which descended to the ground in the
form of regular cone. and the smile
Of one visitor, who remarked that they
made him look just like a penwiper.
was irresistibly accurate
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17

Read the ad. in this paper of G. w.
Wolbert Hardware Co.. and this dis
count. sale closes this week, Saturday.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17

80 percent discount on Mems and
Boys Suits at The Fair Department
store.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17
Always the Way.

m mad clean through" %
What's wrong now?"
Took my boy out to teach him how
TO shoot rabbits, and he killed four
to my one"
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17

USE TRIBUNE WANT COLUMNS
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-17

USE TRIBUNE WANT COLUMN
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-26

1t is certainly true that in America
a man is bound to the Will Of his
neighbors to far greater extent than
in Europe. The community may dictate
that he shall not smoke cigarettes
And there is the vast. unacceptable
body OF moral and social convention
the dogmatic agreement Of ones
neighbors as to what one shall wear
and eat and how one snail spend his
time; there are the tyrannical standards
Of aesthetic taste, OF religious and eco
nomtc thought, and the automatic re-
gulation by public opinion, of nearly
all of the niceties of life.
Americans who go gadding to Europ
may never have formulated this diff
ference in personal freedom: but they
feel It. In Germany there may be
political tyranny, bur the atmosphere
is to the average American full Of
mental ozone. In America he thinks
he Is free: but In Germany he feels
the. freedom. 1t is so in France, Italy
and elsewhere. Even in England there
Is probably more liberation than In
America. And SO the American, strug-
Cling to express himself" feels the
call Of Europe as strongly as he feels
the call of the wild."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer. a. M =
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-26
THOSE ICE SCALES.

In April, 1907, by ordinance, there
was created a City Inspector of
Weights and Measures BY June of
that year the market houses had been
warned TO give good measure, pressed
down. shaken together. and running
over" This injunction was enforced
by destroying s,Soo short measures and
substituting full size galvanized iron
quarts, pecks and bushels-in the place
of serviceable and well-worn but far
from abundant wooden vessels.
Not content with this forcible i'm
provement OF the morals of marketers
tho Inspector Of Weights and Meas
ures, mindful of the biblical observa-
ton that men were altogether lighte.
upon the Weights than vanity, set forth
to test the pounds used on many scales
To such good effect was this work
done that 400 light weights We're
consigned to the scrap heap.
For ai this work the city is duly
thankful; but why does moi the in,
spector call upon the ice wagons Il
come TO his Office and then and there
have their scales tested? AS IT is now
the inspector goes out into the byway'
OF Richmond though unfortunatel'
not in the hedges of Henrico, ane
pounces on the ice men unawares
Doubtless this catches some shor
scales. But why not get drag ne
and catch all?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-26
Pegasus in Politics.

One of the most depressing develop
ments of the presidential campaign
now beginning in the early appear
ance of a spavined and wind broken
Pegasus OF such sorry breed as almost
TO warrant the determination Of the
Parnassian strain of horseflcsh.
This degenerate brute emerged upon
the scene at the Chicago convention
Immediately following the first rise Of
the curtain, his rider singing Taft
campaign song that well-nigh amount
ed to murder in the first degree. Lat
er. he entered bearing bard who per-
petrated Sherman ditty Nor which no
human law provides punishment
sufficiently awful to fit the crime.
Finally, veritable Wild ASS of Olym-
pus, he bore into the arena Mad Null
lah of Minstrelsy chanting a Taft and
Sherman combination roundelay that
must surely take rank as the un-
pardonable sin against the sweet Muse
OF Song. Thirty prostrations, falsely
charged to the days heat. followed the
last appearance of this beast in the
Coliseum.
And the Denver convention, exploit
ing Mr.. Bryan, always provocative of
the most acute outbreaks of campaign
doggerel, is still to pc heard from.
Help! Help!-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-26
neputed Father OF bad child.

Eugene PrIpgle, who conducted thu
massrmeetins at which the Republi-
can party was formed, under the oak
In. Jackson, Mich, in 1854. died tho
other day. He lived to see the party
which II espoused at Its birth and up
teld for years and pass under an en-
tirely new regime.
Twenty years after the new party
was formed Mr., Pringle left 1t because
interests which had only selfish ends
70 serve had secured control of It, He
saw In tine Democratic party the hope
ot me people for better things. and
from that tine on he acted with It.
There Is hardly vestige left OF the
shepuplican party OF Pringle and his
associates OF 1864. II was then proud
y called the party of patriotism and
progress Now II Is the party Of plu-
tocfaey and plunder.-Buffalo Times.