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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-21
NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS

Following closely his recovery from
Z protracted illness which nearly
proved fatal Governor Curtis Guild,
IT., of Massachusetts was operated
upon for appendicitis al the Charles
Gate hospital at Boston. The opera
ticn vas pronounced successful by the
surgeons and the governors condition
is said to be most satisfactory.
Miss katherine E.kins will wed the
Duke of the ADruzzi in the autumn
That the duke has overcome the OBJ
tections of his royal cousin, the king
of Italy, against his marriage with the
American girl and that the wedding
will take place soon needs only the
confirmation of the royal announce
men.
Flushed with the successes Of his
new racing yacht Shamrock, which
has won twenty-four out OF the TWEEN
tyseven contests in which she started
In the regattas held this year in home
waters, Sir Thomas Upton is more
anxious than ever to try again for
the Americas cup.
Candidate Taft and party will leave
Virginia Hot Springs Friday, Aug. %.
for a weeks fishing in Lake Erie, at
the end of which he will go to Cincin-
natl Sept. 5 or 6 to remain until cleo
ton day.
Count Okuma, in an interview pub
ljshed by the Toxic Hochi, attributes
the present naval expansion policy of
the United States to the sudden rise
of Japan to the importance of a world
power.
Harry X. Thaw has been formally
adjudged a bankrupt by Referee. in
Bankruptcy w. r. Blair of Pittsburg.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-21
LoWEsToFT CHINA.
Story Of a Factory Whose Products
Are Now Highly Priced.

LLH-
at the end of the North parade
Lowestoft- is the Warren House. g
place of great interest to connoisseurs
OF china 1t was here, in the eight
zenith century. that a discovery OF
n clay vas made which eventual.
led to Lowestofu manufacturing the
china which is now so rare that it il
almost priceless.
Initial experiments made by Hewli1
Luson. Esq. of Gunton Park. near
Lowestoft, with some fine clay dIscov-
cred accidentally on his estate result
ed in complete success and ultimately
led to the opening of a factory at
Lowestoft in 1855 for the manufacture
OF fEe earthenware and porcelain soft
paste"
In 1T5 a finely glazed and decorated
hard paste" was introduced, the eff
fciency and beauty of which beto-
kened a brilliant success for the pro
prietors. Contemporary evidence In
d~ispufabiy shows that from ITO tc
1870 the Lowestoft works were at the
zenith Of their fame. Owing. however.
to the enormous expenses ard, difficult
ty Incurred in procuring china clay
from Cornwall and elsewhere after
the original clay was exhausted and
the rapidly increasing competition of
other makers its prosperity wane&; the
collapse came. and the works: were
closed IN 1S09-London Globe:
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-21
FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL

Charles F. Amsden and Henry F.
Douglas have been appointed receiv-
ers for the Minneapolis and Northern
Elevator company Of the application
Of Albert c. Loring, Charles 8. Pills
bury and Albert C. Cobb. receivers for
the Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills
company. The elevator company is a
feeder for the Pillsbury-Washburn
company.
Efforts are being made to organize
company for the purpose Of supply
ing the Northwestern states with coal
to be shipped in barges via the Ohio
and Mississippi rivers to the Twin
Cities, shortening the railway haul at
both ends and makinamost Of the triE
BY water.
Pullman's (Ill.) mammoth al shops
are to be razed and rebuilt upon q
tremendous scale for the express pur-
pose Of MANUFACTURES Of steel paIaca
cars.
The Hartman roads are II the mar
ket for 5000 steel can, estimated ia
cot bstwsen q .OOo,0Oo and $7so0O.0oo.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-21
News OF THE WORLD
Ispsrtalt Eve1ts Of tie Week
II Confessed Fern
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

Fire which broke out in the sheeI
sheds Of the Nex York Central stool
yards at East Buffalo. n. Y. destroyed
MI of them and some adjoining build
ings. Between 1900 and 1000 sheel
and calves e burned. The loss Il
estimated at 100000.
Escaping gas in a building at Wheel
ing, w. Va, occupied by Mrs J. S
Gavin as a millinery store and resi-
dence caused a fire which resulted in
the death of three persons and the
possible fatal injury of another.
More than fifty automobiles and tax.
icabs were destroyed in a fire at Chi
eago which consumed a one-story
brick building occupied by c. A Coey
& Co. az a garage. The total loss was
estimated ii nearly 5000, 900.
North Coast limited No. 2 On the
Northern Pacific was wrecked shortly
after leaving GlendiYe. Mont. The
fireman and an unknown tramp were
killed and a dozen :rainmen and pas
sengers were injured
Vine men were killed, nearly a Ecore
ct others were more or less seriously
injured and thousands of dollars worth
OF property wac damaged by the ey-
piosion OF a boiler in the York rolling
niEi al York, Pa
Three persons were killed and eight
cen others were injured, six fatally,
in a head On collision between two
limited cars On the Western Ohio
Traction company line between Sid
ney and Piqua-
RiDeton, a Nevada mining camp with
a population OF 800. was almost COM
pIeteiy destroyed by fire. The FIRE
started in a saloon by the explosion
Of 4 lamp. There vas no insurance.
Forest fires have destroyed the town
of kootenai, 3. c., rendering 300 PEG
pie homeless. The property loss Is
heavy, several big lumber plants hay-
ing been destroyed.
Mrs. Mary Rowden and Mrs. Rose
BeckIith were instantly killed and F.
Beckwi:h was perhaps fatally injured
BY the explosion of a steam auto near
PainesyilIe. o.
Four Chicago people were drowned
by the capsizing Of a pleasure launch
gu the Wisconsin river near Kilbourn,
Wis.
J. Montgomery Sears, a young Bos-
ton millionaire, was killed in an auto
mobile accident in Rhode Island.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-21
Clerical cIothe. In New. Work

To-day l encountered a whfm Of
New York tailors that astonishe6 me,''
a a western clergyman. ST ordered
a suit Of clothes from a man who re
fused to work for me.
What's the reason you, folks are
passing me along to another taHor?:'
l asked DO I look hard to, fir Are
Jon afraid You won't get your money?
The tailor explained that neither Of
my guesses was correct He declined
to make my clothes simply because l
am a clergyman and require. a clerical
cut. He let me down easily by stat
ing further that he never undertook
to make ecclesiastical garments, that
very few of the lay tailors IN New
York do undertake them. They do
not have enough of that kind Of work
to keep them constantly informed ON
the requirements Of the different re-
fgfous orders. A mistake, would be
embarrassing to the clergymen and to
the tailor, SO they hand all such eus-
toners over to tailors who make q
speciality Of such work"-New York
Sun.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-21
CRIMINAL NEWS.

Two white men were killed, q ne
gro was lynched, seyenty-dye persons
we're injured and two score houses
mostly occupied by negroes wers
burned as the result of an attempt by
q mob at Springfield, Ill, to lynch &
negro who had assaulted a white NO
man OF the seventy-five person.
wounded several have since died. The
majority Of the others were skcss in
the legs or feet by the soldiers who
dispersed the mob. -Four thousand
troops are now on duty at Springfield
and no further rioting Is likely.
Captain Peter Cooper Hams, son Of
General Peter Cooper Hams, Sr-, and
one of the best known younger ON
GER in the United States army, shot
and MORALLY wounded William e
Annis, a magazine publisher and ed
itor OF New York city, at the pier of
the Bayside Yacht club at Bayside, l.
l. Annis died a few hours later in
the Flushing hospital-the victim of
a husbands revenge for a wife led
astray.
A New York grand jury has found
indictments accusing Mrs. Benjamin
Teal, Harry M- Mousley, a private de-
t~ective, and Julia Fleming, a seam
stress. Of attempting s~ubcrnation OF
perjury in inducing Mabel MacCauslan
TO give false evidence against Frank
]. Gould in divorce proceedings
brought by Mrs. Gould.
After having prepared three graves
in a cemetery and caused headstones
to be erected, enc for himself, one fer
his sol and one for his married daugh-
ter, Henry ]. Duty of Los Angeles,
Cal, killed his two children with an
axe and attempted to kill himself with
a butcher knife. An effort 10 kill his
wife also failed
Mrs. Alice L Webb, divorced wife
of Brodie L. Duke. the millionaire to-
bacco manufacturer, was found guilty
at Chicago OF defraudiDg the Great
Northern hotel by passing a worthless
check Sentence was deferred pend
ing argument on q motion for a new
trial
Night riders made their appearance
in Indiana just opposite Owensboro,
Ky, along the banks of the Ohio river. |
and warned the farmers that they had
better pool their tobacco this season
or there would he trouble.
Crazed with Jealousy Stephen Pc
triE, twenty-five years old, probably |
fatally shot Marie Petrik, eighteen
years cid. his bride Of seven weeks, |
al their home in Cleveland and then
committed suicide. |
Stale Bank Examiner ". E. Gordon |
has discovered a shortage of approx. |
mateiy $4,000 in the accounts OF
Thomas ii. Reynolds, the missing
cashier of the Bank of Alton, Okla
A Northern Pacific transcontinentaI
train was held up by bandits on the
outskirts of Spokane. Wash, and the
mail car looted. The amount of
booty secured is moi known
John ]. Carroll. a veteran member
of the New Orleans police force, was
to death by a negro cook, who was
afterwards killed by the police,
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-21
Iabor,f Eorwsrd March.

! Labor has trfumphs to celebrate q
n1b time irrespective Of those asso-
GATED with organized effort Less than
two centuries ago man didn't even OVID
his labor. This time 200 years ago
LAndgraye Carl Of Hesse-C assel took
4 notion to construct a magnificent
| playhouse near his summer place to en-
tertafn his royal friends, and the whole
elaborate structure was created with.
ont expense except for foreign talent
to design and superintend All the Ia.
Dor Of quarryfng. carving, digging.
hosting. grading. etc, was wrung from
his people something in the way mod
en road taxes are worked ont. Every
subject was assessed 80 many days
work a year to build a toy for the
prince. The burden lasted many years.
This piece of folly IS still to be seen
By the tourists who visit Wilhelms-
rhoehe.
Imperial Germany now has about
2.215.@ organized worktngmen, and
labor unions are even mor influential
there tran in any other country on the
globe Germany has developed sys-
TENS OF woFkingmen's~ insurance which
are the models of the world. 1t is also
active in insuring employment and i'm
proving the standard of labor among
its members.
An evidence of the strides made by
labor is the act which went into effect
Aug l in this country granting con-
pensation for injuries received in gov
eminent employment. Carl of Hesse-
Cassell got his government work done
for nothing. Today labor is paid for
on government works. and the laborer
Is practically insured against injury
when 50 employed. This principle of
liability for injuries incurred in the
service of others is gaining strength
everywhere and in more or less modi-
fed form will doubtless become the
rule generally in this country. The
frequency with which the term "labor
legislation" is used indicates that hui
man toll must not be confscated under
any guise. A single labor law is an eu.
fering wedge. and more will follow.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-21
WASHINGTON NEWS.

With a view to bringing about bet
ter social, sanitary and economic o
ditions on American farms President
Roosevelt has requested five experts
on country life to make an investiga-
ton into the whole matter and to re-
port to him with recommendations for
improvements. The report, with any
additional recommendations which the
president himself may desire to make.
will be incorporated in a message
which he will send to congress prob.
ably early next year.
At the Turkish legation at Wash
ington It was oficially announced that
Mehmed Ali Bey, the Turkish minis
ter, had been recalled.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-21
Trade I. Deadly DrsH

After a long battle the pure food Jsv
b on trial, and. while its effectiveness
IS yet to be proved public opinion sus.
fains 1t as a just easur and one tina.
should be amended until it is Thorough.
iy effective Recent reports as to the
use Of opium and cocaine in this coun-
try-indicate that there is also abundant
missionary work to be done in eradi-
eating banefui habits. which are OF
comparatively recent modern deyeiop-
ment here. by regulating and restrict
ing the trade in drugs which foster
them 1t Is now declared that the i'm
portation Of smoking opium into this
country has increased over 80 per
cent the last thirty years notwith-
standing that or Chinese population
has decreased during that time The
importaHons Were greater in the four
years from 1903 to 1907 by nearly a
million pounds than during the four
years Immediately preceding Stats
tics gathered in our great cities show
that there are ten white smokers OF
opium to one Celestial given to this
habit Only 25 per cen of the products
derived from opium are devoted to
legitimate uses. Physicians report a
dangerous increase in the use of the
drug By nerve worn men and women
who prefer it 10 tobacco or alcohol
The showing al 10 the Legitimate
use Of cocaine Is also startling Re
Gently the secretary Of the New York
Medical society declared that uaprincI-
pied PHYSICIANS foster the cocaine hab-
it. knowing that it leads to divers
physical ills and hence increases their
calls from this class Of patients This
is q horrible charge. but there is little
o to doubt that physicians are
sometimes too ready to prescribe in
emergencies drugs that are liable 10
fasten habits upon their users. The
use OF apparently harmless drugs
makes the step easy to morphine and
cocaine. Stricter Surveillance over the
retailers Of drugs might check the re-
sort to habit forming drugs By the
weak or the unwary. Some drugs are
peculiarly tempting for those who seek
a present good and are Indifferent tc
future results. Sufferers are often
una ware that some favorite remedy &c
which they resort because it is cheap
or agreeable contains a dangerous e,e-
ment- All goes well until the habit is
formed, and then warning comes toe
late The only safe way to escape
wreckage OF nerves and will. through
the drug habit is to avoid the step that
costs and not be misled by reliance
upon the SO called drug habit antidees.
only a swapping Of evils.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-21
POLITICAL NEWS.

On a platform erected on the, cap
ftol grounds at Lincoln William ].
Bryan was formally notified of his
ocratic national convention Congress
nan Clayton of Alabama made the
notification speech and Mr.. Bryan re-
sponded with his speech of accept
ance.
The Democratic national campaign
fund of 1903 will be raised through
appeals made to the individual states
for contributions. Each state, under
the direction of its national commit
teeman or a financial representative
designated for the purpose, will deter
mine its own method of raising money
In a ten-minute session the New
York Democratic state committee
adopted a resolution which endorses
the candidacy of W. J. Bryan and j.
w. Kern and commends the platform
adopted at Denver. The state conven-
ton will be held at Rochester on
Sept. Is.
Three million Methodists have been
called upon by the church leaders to
join a fight for the overthrow of "Un.
Gle Joe" Cannon and the election Of a
speaker who will allow congress to
vote on the interstate liquor shipment
bill"
Bishop Alexander Walters, president
Of the National Afro-American cour.
ell. has come out strongly against Mr..
Taft. the Republican nominee for the
presidency.
The New York Republican state
convention to nominate a candidate
for governor and a state ticket vii,
be held at Saratoga Sept. IA.
William H. Taft will make no
speeches outside of Cincinnati during
the camnaign.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-21
The Uplift For the Farm.

There is a great deal Of truth in the
presidents claim that social and other
conditions of farming life might be i'm
proved Why the.agricultural districts
are in deeper need than other commu-
mites is not clear. however. Yet if
the federal government is going into
the business OF looking after the So
efal welfare of the masses the farm is
as good a place tosbegfn as any other.
Perhaps the presidents committee will
report that farmers are abundantly
able to improve their own condition in
step with the rest Of the country.
How to keep the. boy on the farm
bus been a problem for agricultural
theoFizers for many years without any
widely applicable solution being found.
One way evidently is not to send him
to college, but the. farm father has a
right to decide whether 1t shall be
books or the pillow handle for his son.
The other end Of this same question of
boys leaving the farm is found in the
evercrowding Of cities. While the
farmers are crying for harvest hands
the cities T overrun with men seek
ing work, some Of whom have been
reared on farms.
It boys born on the farm could be
induced to take up the life in earnest
the farm work would be adequately
done and there would be less wage
competition in the cities. If the presi-
dents able committee Of students of
agricultural suggests some way to keep
farm boys at home its report will be.
interesting reading. As for the rest
OF It. the results Of the inquiry should:
prove Of some use Il check the next
census by. which is coming along o
Meanwhile the. farmer will concern.
himself with improving transportation,
crops. stock and markets and leave the.
social uplift end to the women Of hfs
household and; neighborhood.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-21
~. ~, Am1,fssn woman.

I%5N3' I06 n6Dk
Professor Herrick's recent sweeping
Indictment Of Americas wOmen is not
calculated to increase the public re
.pect for the fraternity which he rep
,esents. Only a small percentage Of
the women OF this country 8 greedy
md fnordinately ambitious and wfthal
shameless IN their greed and ambition
The professors remarks apply perhaps
10 certain Of the swagger and smart
,ets Of the great cities who have been
.nttced from allegiance to the prevail
ing standards Of taste and conduct BY
vanity, a failing IS old AZ the human
race.
Reports Of the dofng Of women
which get into the news and society
press are a poor index Of the ideals
ind the morals Of American women
Every aggregation Of women where
the serious life of the day Is being
manifested contradicts the notion that
the sex fs far gone in frivolity, fnsin-
| SerlCV dIu SUdISG 6CAAoAASoos SOA0AO~
sring the freedom Of action allowed to
young women by their guardians and
to all women by the common consent
Of society, the discretion and modera-
ton observed by the a of Amerf-
can women are not only noticeable, but
commendable. They give the lieto that
I----f-:.- ~~,l,;ot, w fhnf 1fho~>- S~
|yariably runs to license.
All over the country women number
ing many millions are devoting their
time and their talents to the noblest
pursuits which are fostered in this age.
If they We're asked to practice the sor-
lid economies and grinding industries
Of their grandmothers they would do it
and succeed. It seems at times in
this matter of moral. conduct as though
the great body Of women make it a
point to distinguish themselves before
the world as the very opposites Of
those weak and foolish sisters whose.
doings furnish texts for the authors
u SCuS1llOuSs IL hdol OS o0A11klCu
that far too many young women who
might be better occupied are inclined
to initiate the swagger element. But
the depression is brief and really
amounts to no more than. the sowing
Of a CROP Of wild oats" that are not
very wild except in appearance. But
for every one of these misguided girls
there are ten whose ideals are Of the
nobIest and whose performance is in
all respects conscientious. fruitful and
praiseworthy. The glory Of the ma
ton IS its women. because our institu-
lions foster a noble type Of woman
hood If Professor HeFr1ck would
find out the facts and learn the real
occupations Of our women he would
know that a larger proportion of the
female population is engnged in ac-
tive pursuits in America than in any
other civilized land.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-21
Hunting Lions In a Palace Ca.

Hunting Lions In q Palace. Car.
Two women have just been touring
the jungle where Roosevelt is expected
to revel in deeds Of derring dOr and
tell the world all about it at a. dollar
q word. Oap of the women an. Ameri-
a I. has JUS: published a book: which
takes tie reader into the wild hannts
4 zebras. gnus- giEa9es. hyenas and
lions in central Africa. The whole
trip was made in palace cars and in
STEAMBOATS,. and all the terrors Of the
jungle, except perhaps that lonely feel
ing when one is nailed there By fate.
were experienced.
One lion shooting described by the
writer Is a match for RooseyeIt's bear
Staying feat in the wilds Of Louisiana.
A huge lioness engaged in a raee with
the train and when the train pulled
up crouched in a clump of grass sev-
enty feet away. All the men on the
train rushed for their guns and looked
to their ammunition. and mo one was
frightened" is the naive remark of the
traveller. to whom this scene was very
exciting. But the men were too slow
or too long disputing over the honor OF
the first shot, and the lfoness cooily
!eaped across the track behind the
train and disappeared in the jungle
A little later another lion was seen
close to the track near the station. It
only remains to imagine Roosevelt on
the train and all the men giving way
to the mighty American hunter who
naturally must be the hero IF his own
lion shooting stories in order to earn
/ his money.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-21
Our Respect For La.

People who are fond Of comparing
what they choose to call English re-
speet for law with u alleged disposi-
ton to lawlessness must have read
with establishment the calm endurance
OF the woman %sufragists recently turn
ed back in an effort to take their cause
Into the privacy of the summer capital
at Oyster Bay. The entire sufragist
mission was conducted with a show Of
decorum vastly different from the dem.
%onstrations Of jealous sufragettes
which have recently marred; the peace
Of British statesmen.
The suffragist party which attempted
to reach President Roosevelt was led
BY q woman who is said to have par
mctpated in demonstrations. against the
British house of commons and else
where in London. She found that the
usually accessible president of the
United States has meansse f safeguard
ing his privacy. Had. the tactics Of
the London sunragettes been followed
at Oyster Bay the presidents secret
service men would have. had their ears
boxed. and perhaps there would have
been some window smashing, followed
BY Incarceration in the. local jail. Aft
er all. it may be that our suffragists
gained more In being repulsed and in.
accepting their repuise with calmness'
and dignity than. would have been Dos
sible had they been. rough and obstrep-
erous.