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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
FOR CURRENCY COMMISSION
House Committee Favors Chairman
FoWIer's Bill.

Washington, April 21.-The house
committee on banking and currency
voted to lay on the table the financial
bill offered by Representative Vree-
land Of New York as a substitute for
the Aldrich bill and decided, to report
favorably the bill recently introduced
by Chairman Fowler providing for a
currency commission to consist of
f%orty-three members, eleven members
Of the senate, eleven members of the
house and twenty-one others, who
must be citizens of the United States.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
Object to Erection of Jail.

A petition. signed by about seventy
"Westenders" of La Moure, some sixty
residents of Edgeley, eight of Kuhn
and two or three scattering has been
served on States Attorney Blackwell
of La Moure, praying that he take
an appeal from the action of the
board of county commissioners in &C
cepting bids and awarding contracts
for the construction of the basement
of a courthouse and the erection of a
Jail in conjunction Herewith. Several
allegations or objections are set forth,
one of them being that the county
has no funds available for the purpose
of such works.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
TURKEY BACKS Down
Grants Italian Demands on Eve
Of Departure Of Warships.
SAILING ORDERS CANCELLED
Porte's Action Results in Calling OIL
the Proposed Naval Demonstra.
ton in Turkish Waters.

Rome, April 20.-Turkey has &C
coded to the Italian demand for Ital-
ian postofices in Turkish territory in
order to avoid a naval demonstration
in her waters. Italy insists, however,
that her other claims against the Otto
man empire be recognized and an
active exchange of dispatches between
Constantinople and Rome is going on.
Turkey has communicated officially
to the Italian government that it does
not object to Italy establishing post
Offices in the Turkish cities where the
other powers have like institutions.
Furthermore, the porte has practically
acknowledged the other Italian claims
in the matter of the right of Italians
freely to purchase property on Turk
lsh territory and with regard to coast
navigation. ..
AS a result of these concessions the
Italian government has issued orders
to the feet that was about to depart
for Turkey to remain in Italian waters
and the incident is regarded as closed.
Paris, April 20.-Discussing the
Italian demands on Turkey the Eclaire
says the real meaning of the incident
is that dark days are ahead for the
sultan on account of the Macedonian
and other veXing questions. The paper
foresees the working out of the his
toric law that is slowly pushing the
Turks into Asia.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
Monday, April 20.

House-Sensational statements at.
fecting a United States senator whose
name was not given and the presi-
dents secretary made by Mr.. Sims of
Tennessee in the course Of a discus
sion of the conference report on the
District Of Columbia street railway
trackage bill.
Senate-Brownsville affair again the
subject of discussion, Mr.. Borah of
Idaho taking the ground that the evil
dence proved the negroes guilty. Ma
val and agricultural appropriation
bills reported.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
Friday, April IL.

house-Attitude of German emperor
toward David Jayne Hill, named as
ambassador to Berlin, the subject Of
comment. Both Mr.. Perkins IN. W
and MIR. Slayden Tex.) expressed the
opinion that the objections to Mr.. Hill
were due to no other cause than that
Mr.. Hill was financially unable to
maintain a certain standard of social
representation.
Senate-Bill regulating the issuance
of %injunctions against the enforcement
of state laws passed after brief con.
s%ideration.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
VIII Test the Law.

The warden at the state peniten-
tiary at Bismarck refuses to accept
Robert Noah, the confessed murderer
Of Gus Johnson, on the grounds that
the law providing for the execution of
criminals at Bismarck, rather than
In the county where they were SEN
fenced, is unconstitutional. The war
den wishes to make a test case of
this. Ward county has no place to
keep Noah and has asked the warden
to hold him until the case is decided.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
SOON TO BEGIN GRADING.
Northwestern Interurban Road Is Be.
ing Rapidly Pushed.

James j. Lunbrecht, president of
the Northwestern Interurban Railway
company, accompanied by George S.
Barnes, Jr., made a recognizant sur
vey of the company's proposed extern
sion west of Casselton connecting with
the 500 line on the west at Gauderlin.
The eastern right of way is rapidly
being Joined up and grading crews
will be in the field within ten days.
Crossing the river south of Fargo, as
the company will. the western extern
sion will be possible because of the
company's ability to get through both
Moorhead and Fargo without great ex-
pense to the company.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
Items of a Week From Various
Parts of the State.
Persisted IN PRAIRIE FIRE
Louis Orian, His Wife and Five Chill
dren Believed to Have Been
Burned to Death.

Louis .Orian, his wife and five chill
dren are believed to have persisted in
a prairie fire which swept the country
twelve miles west of Cogswell, in Sar-
gent county. Their buildings were
burned and no clue can be found of
their presence anywhere.
Tho flames were scattered all over
the countryside by a wind which trav-
eled at the rate of forty miles an hour.
Dozens of farmers lost barns and
granaries and hay. Live stock was
burned to death on several farms.
Sargent county has never known so
destructive a fire.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
Miner Commits Suicide.

John Jones, a miner in the Vonnei.
da mines at Kenmare, committed sui
eide, For some time the man, who
was fifty years of age, had appeared
to be mentally depressed. Ever since
the Johnson murder he had appeared
worried and talked constantly about
the tragedy. He left the clubhouse
Ut about IL o'clock one night and did
not return. The next morning one Of
the drivers discovered him lying
across the tracks with his throat cut.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
TO FIGHT WAGE REDUCTION
Federation of All Shop Employees Of
Canadian Roads,,

Winnipeg, Man., April ia fed
GRAFTON of all unions employed in the
shops of the Canadian Pacific and
Canadian Northern railroads has been
completed. 1t will fight reductions in
q new wage schedule to a finish. The
companies claim they are not going to
pay all men the same wages, but will
pay according to competence of each
individual workmen, similar to the &C.
ton to be taken by all American rail
WAYS
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
Bloody Battle in Hotel.

Warrensburg, Mo-, April 2O.-James
Ryan, chief of police, and Byron Hall,
aged thirty, a son of j. e. Hall, a
farmer, were killed and James e..
Basham and Robert Pollock, night Off
GERS, were wounded in a pistol duel
in the corridor of the Estes hotel. The
three officers were attempting to take
a revolver from Hall when he shot all
three. The officers returned the fire
and Hall was shot twice.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
Railroad to Plant Trees.

The Northern Pacific has decided to
plant 100, 900 golden Russian willows
along it's right of way between Fargo
and Valley City. They will be sub
stituted for nov fences. The de-
cision was reached after a conference
between General Superintendent Gill
bert, Division Superintendent Craver
and Professor. Waldron of the agricul-
tural college, who has had a great deal
of success with willow planting in this
state.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
Chicago Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, April 2o.-Wheat-May.
94c; July, S7A @S7Ac; Sept, $3.50
Corn-May. 66@66hc; July, 62Hm
62%c; Sept, 61@61hc. oats-May.
old, 53Ac; May, size; July. old
4bhc; July, 4SAc; Sept, 36Mc. Pork
May, $3.50; July, $13.12M 013.15:
Sept, $lS.45. Butter-Creameries. Fl
@2sc; diaries, 2O@2sc. Eggs-l4Ac.
Poultry-Turkeys. 14c; chickens and
springs. 11ho.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
NO ONE SERIOUSLY HURT
Great Northern Train Wrecked and
Burned i'm Montana.

Spokane, Wash, April 20.-The ORR
entail limited No. 2, the Great North
ern's fast passenger train, eastbound,
was wrecked and burned near Sum-
NIT, Mont. At almost the highest
point in the Rocky mountains the train
struck a landslide, demolishing the
engine and upsetting or derailing ev-
cry a The wreckage caught fire
and every car except the standard
sleeper and the observation car we're
destroyed. No one was seriously hurt
by the wreck.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
ALDRIcH BILL KILLED.
House con.mittee Tables Measure by
Unanimous Vote.

Washington, April 18.-The house
committee on banking and currency
has voted unanimously to table the
Aldrich currency bill, already passed
by the senate.
The discussion in committee was
brief. The only point debated was
as to whether or not the committee
should make a formal report giving
its reasons to the house for its un-
favorable action and that the conclu-
sion was finally reached that no rea-
o n should be given. Consequently
the committees report will be a mere
statement of the action of the COM
mittee.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
Senate Favors Two Battie,hips.

Washington, April 2O.-No change
will be made by the senate in the
house programme providing for the
building of two battleships. The SEN
ate committee decided not to follow
President Roosevelt's recommends
ton for an appropriation to build four
~S&ttleships and to leave this item just
as It wa agreed upon In the house.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
Toss Of Coin Decides Election.

Fl. A. Hurd received the appoint
ment of alderman from the First ward
at the regular council meeting at Mi
not. Mr.. Hurd and Mr.. Smallwood,
his opponent, both received the same
number Of votes, 81, at the election
held April 6, and the matter was de-
Iided by tossing a coin. MI. Hurd
called heads and heads came up.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
WORK OF CONGRESS
Wednesday, April is.

House-President's appeal for four
battleships turned down by a vote of
1919 to SO and provision made for the
construction of two such ships.
Senate-Session devoted to bills on
the calendar. Among the measures
passed was one su%ppressing betting
on races and games of various kinds
in the District of Columbia.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
Nayigation on the Rcd.

Navigation opened on the Red river
last Monday, when the Red River
Transportation company started the
steamer Grand Forks to Belmont for
the first cargo Of wheat.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
Milestone Kills Farmer.

A. E. Leadbetter, a resident of Cass
county, near the village of Ayr, met
death in a peculiar manner He and
a hired man were grinding feed with
a mill with two stones. when n ex-
ploded and a piece struck Leadbetter,
causing instant death. 1t is supposed
the stones were being revolved too
rapidly and became overheated, which
resulted in the explosion.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
First Case of sunstroke.

Frank Halverbeck, an employee at
J. l. Moore's mine, was overcome by
the heat while in Minot. About 4
o'clock in the afternoon he was stand
ing on Main street, and dropped. This
is the first case Of the season and can
probably be accounted for by the fact
that Ha%lyerbeck works under ground
in the mine.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
Chicago Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, April 20.-Cattle-Beeves,
$4.50@7.25; COWS and heifers. $3.50
$40; Texans. $4.50@5.40; calves, $3.50
@6.OO; Western cattle, $4.50@6.50:
stockers and feeders. So. 25@5.25 Hogs
Light, s5.45Q6.00; mixed, $3.50
sos; heavy, s5.45@6.00; rough, s5.45
@6.65; pigs, $5.90@6.95. Sheep, S 500
@6.75; yearlings. s6.3o@7.16; lambs,
S6.OO@770.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
Eleven Known Dead at cbe,..,

Boston, April 17.-Three more
corpses have been recovered from the
ruins of Sundays fire in Chelsea, max.
ing the total number now recovered
nine. In addition two persons have
died this week Of causas incident to
the fire.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, April 2O.-Wheat-To arrive
and on track-No. 1 hard, $1.05M; No.
l Northern, $1.03M; No. 2 Northern,
$500; May, $1.01; July. $1.01%; Sept,
90Mc. Flax-To arrive, on track and
May, $1.17%; July, s1.19h; Sept. and
Oct, $1.2O.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
St. Paul Union Stock Yards.

st. Paul. April 2O.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers. $500 @6.75; fair to good,
S5.00@5.90; good to choice COWS and
heifers, $4.00@5.00; veals. $3.76@5.0o.
Hogs-$5.55@5.75. Sheep-Wethers,
s6.00@6.25; good to choice lambs,
s6.75@7.25.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
Saturday, April 1s.

House Diplomatic appropriation
bill under consideration, during which
several members criticised American
diplomats to foreign courts for their
lavish display of wealth.
Senate-Session devoted to eulogies
upon the late Senators Morgan and
Pettus of Alabama.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
MARKET QUOTATIONS.
Minneapolis Wheat,

Minneapolis, April 2O.-Wheat-
May, s1.oS; July, s1.o1M; Sept, 90Ac.
On track-No. 1 hard, S1.O6A@
1.o7A; No. 1 Northern, s1.o4M@
1.05A; No. 2 Northern, s1.O2M@
l.O3A; No. 3 Northern, 94Mc@S1.Ol.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
TWO MORE BODIES FOUND
Recovered From the Ruins of the Fire
at Chelsea. Mass.

Boston, April 18.-Two more bodies
have been found in the ruins of the
Chelsea fire of April IL, making
the number recovered eleven and the
number of known victims thirteen.
which includes two who died in hos
pitfalls.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
Thursday, April 16.

House-Provision in naval appropri-
alton bill limiting the secretary of the
navy to purchase only submarine
boats of the Holland type stricken
out after a long and exciting debate.
Senate-Not in session.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-23
ONLY ONE STORE LEFT.
Fire Destroys Business Portion of
Schaefer,

The business portion of Schaefer,
county seat of Mckenzie county, was
destroyed by fire and the courthouse
is among the burned buildings. Fire
started in Kurtz' drug store and COM
m~unicated to adjoining buildings. The
only large store left in town is the
Bruegger store, which was saved by
the iron sidings after every we'll in
town was pumped dry. Kurtz was
fully insured and the others only par
TALLY.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26
Are Amenable to Reason.

Farmers are usually amenable to
reason, the same as any of the rest
of the human race They do not buy
Of peddlers or catalogue houses be-
cause they want to snub their own
home town and home merchants, but
because the article is brought par
ticularly to their notice, embellished
with a flow of convincing language
calculated to impress them at once
with the superior merits of the article
so presented and with the alleged fact
that they are saving considerable
money by buying in that way.
The fact that the article is not SUI
perior and is really considerably
higher priced does not appear, for the
reason, perhaps, that the local dealer
has never taken the trouble to adver-
tise his wares, or has never called
the farmers into his store and shown
them the article, made comparisons
between it and the peddled article
and showed them that he, the dealer
is actually the one who is saving them
money, not only in the first cost, but
in repairs and wearing qualities as
WELL
There is too much of a disposition
on the part of most dealers to take
it for granted that their customers
or those who might and should be
their customers all about their
stock, it's qualities and prices, as COM
l.
to them by the peddler or the mail
order man. Instead, they should make
it their business to throw flood Of
light on these questions at every op-
portunity. In other words they should
advertise, in the way that their judg-
ment and experience dictate, or in
various ways, so there will be no ex-
cuse, at least, for any possible Gus
toner remaining in ignorance.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26
Use Fire to Combat Fire,

The average retailer does not en-
ploy enough printers ink, and employ
it in the proper direction, in dealing
with the trade for his community.
The enemies of the retailer, the mail
order houses, are products of printers
ink and know full we'll the value of
it. They are not anxious that the re-
tail dealers of the country wake up
They are satisfied to allow conditions
to go on and allow them, the mail
order house, to get the benefit Of the
trade which is coming to them
through their aggressive advertising
campaigns. If merchant would fol-
low out their schemes of publicity
upon small scale in his immediate
territory, would get out some adver-
Using matter in the form of circulars
with prices and descriptive matter, it
would win. The way to fight fire is
with fire, and the retailer has had the
shortcomings of his anti-mail.order
house campaigns thrown back upon
him with little or no satisfactory re-
suits. Campaigns he has set up in
opposition have in a measure taken
the edge of the catalogue houses cam
paigns, but why not get right into the
game and fight them with the same
ammunition that they are using to ex-
terminate the retail trade of the coun-
try? Use local papers literally ana
get out circulars, letters and price
lists, we'll printed and illustrated.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26
.t||A|p|GI||E'||E|:::.Bf.NlEE.
STORY OF RISE OF FRENCH RE.
PueLlc's PRESIDENTS =.
FalIieres Was an IndoIent Young Law.
yer Till Wife, Stung by Sneers Of
Relatives, Planned Future
i for Gifted Husband.

LondOn.-The recent visit to Eng
land of President Armand Fallieres Of
France at time when the public
hadn't ceased wagging about the rise
of H. H. AsQuith to the prime minis
try and the amount of credit due his
tactful and friends-winning wife, Mar
got Tenant that was. have given the
active friends of the other sex re-
newed room for boasting.
President Fallieres isn't self-made
man. He lacks the initiative, the en-
ergy and the ambition for that some
times sorely miscarried process. Presi-
dent Fallieres is the product, so you
are told, of his ambitious aud ener-
getic wife, Nine. lie Presidente.
Madame is all that the president Of
the French republic is not, and it is
entirely through her desire TO be re-
venged upon certain sneering relatives
that her distinguished husband is not
to-day the mayor of the Sleepy old
world town of Nerac, in Gascouy. Had
it not been for Nine. Falliere's force
and diplomacy her gifted other half
would now be leading the sheltered
and stinted life of an ordinary legal
practitioner in his modest country
home instead of the luminous career
of head of his nation, entertained by
royalty across the channel, paid $780,
900 year, forced to live in the CREST
white Elysee palace and be slot at
by anarchistic muddle brains On COM
mon with most of the blessed CT mod
ern greatness).
The true facts about Clement Ar.
mand Fallieres sometimes also called
Eugene by those who know the full
ness of his sundry cognomens), nave
been greatly exaggerated. You may
be told, if you care to read, that Fal-
Heres was born in a smiths shop, but
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26
German Move Against Fraud.

The German government proposes
to stamp out the fraudulent and dis.
honest advertising which has crept
into the business methods of many
firms of that country. For instance,
when a man advertises a bankrupt
stock for sale, he has got to be pre-.
pared to prove that there is absolutely
no misstatement as to the source from
which he receives the goods. Michi-
gan, New York and other states have
laws on their statute books which are
intended to suppress dishonesty in ad-
vertising, but it is question whether
the law has ever yet been invoked
against those concerns, particularly
in the clothing business, which from
one years end to another have their
store front plastered up with adver.
Using matter, announcing the purchase
Of another large bankrupt stock, or
the catalogue houses, whose success
chiefly lies in the misrepresentation
made as to the quality of their wares.
The law recently passed in Ger.
many Is also intended to prevent q
merchant from adding goods to his
stock in order to increase sales, after
he has announced that he is selling
out OF business. The penalty of 5000
marks, which is equivalent to nearly
$1,000 in American money, or i'm:
prisonment up to - months, should
have a salutary effect in preventing
the class of frauds at which the hill
is aimed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26
GIRL IN AUTO BEATS EXPRESS
Risks Life and Imperi|s Passengers,
But Wins Five-Miie Dash.

New York.-Imperiling her own life
and the lives Of scores Of passengers
on a Long Island railroad express
train. Marjorie Bourne, daughter of
former Commodore Frederick G..
Bourne Of the New York Yacht club
in an automobile engaged in a five
mile race with the train between lslip
and Oakdale, l.. I.
In response to her urging her chauf-
feur drove the high power auto with
such reckless disregard of the speed
laws that he beat the train to the
crossing at w. Bayard Cuttings place,
four miles from the start, and dashed
across the track at breakneck speed
only few feet ahead of the locomo-
tive
Passengers on the train said it was
one of the most reckless feats in
which they had ever known woman
to engage. and if anything had hap
pened to retard the automobile, even
slightly, when it reached the crossing,
Miss Bourne and her driver unques-
tionably would have been killed and
the express train might have been
thrown off the track, bringing death
or injury to many passengers.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26
THREE. MOI IN
A CHINESE PRISON
NEW YORK MAN WAS FALSELY
ACCUSED OF NUMBERING
HIS COMPANION.
BLACK CHOLERACAUSED DEATH
L. c. Stewart Thrown Into Dunoeon
That Was Dark, Wet and Dirty
- Food Was Scant and
Nauseatinq.

Denver, Col. - Homeward bound
from China, l.. c. Stewart, of New
York city, has reached here and will
remain for few weeks in the hope
of regaining his health which was
broken by three months confinement
in prison in the celestial kingdom.
1T seems like a nightmare to me
now, said Stewart, as he told of his
experiences. up here in Gods coun-
try where the air is clean and the Gun
is bright one can scarcely imagine
that this world contains such nell
holes as that horrible Chinese dun
geon. AS look back upon my three
months living death it almost seems
as IT owe my life to some miracle.
Il had been in the British customs
service for about eight months 1t
was my duty to go hundreds of miles
into the interior and collect revenues
at different points. My starting place
was Canton and l deposited my COL
lections at Rangoon. 1t was an awful
trip made on foot, on horseback, by
canals and by coolie trains.
IN nttle CnlneSe town, whose
name l have forgotten, far in the in
terror, ran across young English
man named Charles Frank. met him
at the house of French padre. Frank
was broke and was anxious to get
out of the country. He begged me to
take him along. had we'll equipped
coolie train and plenty of provisions
and, as | felt sorry for the poor fell
low, I agreed
1.-THE trip started favorably enough
and Frank seemed to be in good
health and overjoyed at the prospects
of getting back into civilization again.
We safely reached the mountain pass
between Rangoon and the river front,
whose course we had been following,
and were about half way to the sum-
NIT. We We're riding, as is customary