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The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-31
PARTY TO VISIT WILMINGTON
M smbess OF Subcommittee ON Pub
lie buildings and GrOlmGs L, Ar
rive Here Ncnday, May 5rri.
LCoH Over Custom House Situa-
ton.

Hhe gratifying information was re-
LIVED in the city yesterday morning
iaat the subcommittee on Public
Z buildings and CFcunds of the Ma
-:cnaI House OF Representative will
Tiai- Wilmington on Monday, the third
daT of May, 10 consider the needs for
Il cIst0ms hoUsz at this port, for which
" measure has been introduced IN both
hIHncheS Of congress aDDropriating
$4,000.
III addition to the entire member
hip OF the Subcommittee there will
Gigso he in the party Congressman
E1artholdt of Missouri. chairman OF the
tnl committee and the distinguished
visitors wil% no donbt be given a most
c0f dial welcome. and IL Is felt certain
that they will be Impressed with the
psed of the new building which is ask
ed fcr.
The -1errhe-s cf the House who are
expected 10 cone u Wilmington are
.CongreGsmen Ba<th. ldt Of Missoari:
Rodenberg, lAsean Norris. Caldwell
and Thomas of Eor-h Carolina.
The committee. [. will be recalled
was expected TO visit Wilmingtoa the
first part of the present month. bat
c1 account Of the yress OF business Ia
the house, they weCc forced TO delay
the trip TO this ssction- The visit viii
be an official one ana every oppor;un-
ity will be furnished the members
Fer fnd,eg tut all the facts In ths
case On which TO base their report and
|, TecoE1Denta.ion-
The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-31
co INTO EFFECT en- AP8|L
New Mileage Books on Various
Southern Railroads
Straight Tickets VIII Be Sold mt q h
Cents Per Nile-Mneage Books I'm
Several FOrms-Coupons Must Be
Issued By Ticket Ageat. Who
Tears Out the Mileage.

The new edition OF the mileage
! books put on sale By the Atlantic Coast
J Line, the Southern and the Seaboart
Air Line and large number of othel
| roads operating in the southern states
will go into effect April 1st.
These mileage tickets are good On
about thirty railroad lines in the
southeast, aggregating approximately
10000 miles.
After April 1st the roads will sell
straight tickets at the rate Of l.,
cents per mile and mileage books Of
500, 1000 and 1000 miles at $1125;
$4,000 and $4,000 respectively TIE 500
mileage books will be good over the
A. G. l.. in each state for the head
or dependent members of a family
The 1000 and and 2 900 mileage looks
are interchangeable, the former hav-
ing been limited to use by one per
son.
The 1000 mile tickets can be used
By Il manager or head of firm and en-
ployes limited to five, but good. for
only one Of such persons at time.
Effective also on April 1st the rail
roads will require conductors to cole t
an excess charge OF Is cents for all
fares collected On trains. The reason
Of this charge is to break up the Gus
tom which has been growing of late
where passengers paid their fares in
stead of purchasing tickets, this iIn-
posing a burden On the railroads. The
roads will also in The future make
minimum charge of five cents per sin
gle mile instead of three cents as here
tofore
The most marked and radical change
which will become effective with the
sale of the new mileage books is that
in the future no mileage book of any
description will be accepted on. the
trains by conductors. 1t will be neces-
sary for the purchaser to go to the
ticket Office and have a coupon issued
there for use on the train, the ticket
agent issuing the certificate to the des-
tination named and taking off mileage
sufficient to pay for the passage. This
change is to relieve the conductors
from the heavy work that will be i'm
posed by the additional use of the
mileage books.
Against this latter ruling there has
been considerable comment and criti-
cism by travelling men and the mat
ter has been taken up by Governor
Glenn with President Finley and the
Southern as was reported in yester-
days paper.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-31
Notified Officers of His Deed.

Roanoke Va, March ga Times
special from Wytheville, Va, says:
w. w. Pendleton. a well-kno wn
citizen, fatally shot James Spoon
this afternoon. Pendleton went to
Spoons house. which is near his own
home, called him out and shot him
flve times. He then went back to his
home and notified a doctor and the
onicers. saying:
"I have shot James Spoon.
1t has been thought for some time
that Pendleton's mind was anbal-
anced.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-31

Charles Hall. alias Stewart the
young negro man who was arrested
IN New York city by detectives on the
might Of the 18th instant, charged
with the murder of James Singleton
which occurred in this city about six
years ago, was brought to this city
last night by Sergeant c. S. Burnett
of the local police force and County
Superintendent Of Roads Hocutt, who
was sent to New York last Monday
to take the alleged murderer in Gus
7ody
The officers reached New York on
Tuesday and after visiting the prison
and identifying the prisoner, Mr.. Ho-
Eatt left at once for Albany to have
the requisition papers issued by Gov
ernor Glenn Of this state signed by
Ehe chief executive of that state. When
xhis fOrmality had been gone through
with Mr.. Hocutt returned to New York
Und the prisoner was turned over to
him and Sergeant Burnett and they
left New York on Friday night with
their prisoner in custody, having arriv-
I'D on the 6 o'clock train from the
north last evening.
Hall was taken at once to the cOun-
Ey Jail aud incarcerated.
The officers report that they had no
&rouble with the negro on the trip
&rom New York here. He was man
acled and handcuffed and one officer
was with him every moment of the
"trip
When the Wilmington officers first
saw Hall they identified him as the
man wanted. He denied at first that
he knew anything of the tragedy but
Lott of
9air.
The arrest of Hall or Stewart was
brought about by one of his former
pals who save him away to de-
tectiye. This man. whose name was
not learned, formerly lived in Whining
ton and since he moved to New York
he and Hall have been chums. Re-
Gently they had a falling out and as
n method OF revenge the negro told
a detective Of the murder committed
in This city s:X yCars ago for which
Hall was wanted The matter was
placed in the hands of detective Jos
eph +. Tower, of the Mulberry street
<station, and he soon had Hall under
arrest.
The local authorities were then no.
tified the requisition was secured from
Governor Glenn and the officers were
sent for the alleged murderer as re-
lated above.
Hall was only 10 years of age when
he committed the crime and he fled
from the city Immediately, having
successfully eluded arrest until recent
Iy. The prisoner is a son of the for
mer well known colored undertaken
and he comes of a respectable fam
aly
The murdered man was James
Singleton, the crime having been COM
mitted in front of store on Seventh
and Castle streets. on the night of
March 31st. The bullet entered the
abdomen and perforated the intestines,
the negro having fingered until April
9Th ut the hospital where he had been
carried shortly after the shooting for
treatment Both the negroes had been
drinking and the fatal quarrel was
over some trivial matter
A ceroner's inquest was summoned
at the time and a full investigation
of the killing was made, but for the
reason that Hall had not been arrest
cd, nothing was given out for publ
@ation as to the verdict.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-31

vice under the 49, limit before really
much could be reaIlSed from their full
feet training It must not be for
l gotten that In addition TO the massed
feet there are four more active dfyis-
ions In the Pacific to be commanded.
and q new battieship division almos1
ready for assembly here ~ honet
Just prior TO the sailing OF the neet
from Hampton roads. Il win be re-
membered that the elder captains were
relieved and replaced by younger men
but there were two exceptions made.
Capts- Wainwright and Surrey both
belonged to the category OF older
captains. and we're near their regu-
lar time for advancement 70 the grade
OF rear-admirals- As Evans and
Thomas retire. Wainwright and
Shredder came naturally aheadto fill
the vacancies In division command.
air the better fttel for the positions
from their feet experience Sperry
has the great advantage OF eighteen
months OF active service still ahead OF
him in addition to his natural senior
ity. Thus the solidarity OF the di-
yisionaf and feet command is main
tanned. and the efficiency of the feet
stood steadily advances.
A TUNING UP
II is only now that every one is
beginning TO wake up to the fact that
the cruise Of the fleet has not been a
mere experimental procession or a
travelling show. but thoroughgoing
tuning up Of an already we'll trained
mass; so we'll trained that the feet
arrives in more effective condition
than when it started. Sperry will in
creases its efficiency beyond the sligh~
test doubt. He knows the business Of
naval work OF today; all through his
life, come good or come i'll. ne has
not only had the faculty but, as
shown in his work. he has exer-
cised il to the full of keeping up with
the times, and making use of expei-
ence in the most effective way; and
under all circumstances doing his
work with the ease and steadine5s of
the trained athlete
or course, there is the other factor
! nthis extension of the cruise to the
uttermost ends Of the earth, that
Americans take to heart We know
that the ships and the men are all
right Socially, also, when 1t comes
to showing the national character. We
want to show at equal advantage. At
this end of the line no better repre-
sentative could be chosen than Sper-
ry. No one could talk with him two
minutes without being impressed with
respect for his courteous dignity his
familiarity with all the matters that
are OF interest in world progress. and
he possesses to the full that quiet -
surance OF the American who needs
no aifectation to impress his critic A
better example of quiet, impressive
American character could not have
been chosen. Take it all in all, the
coming extension of the cruise may
serve as an invaluable lesson to the
far-away world as to what kind of
people the Americans ~eall, are. not
what hice-bound foreign writer's think
we are.--E. w. Very, late u. S N,
in New York Evening Post
The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-31
PYTTt,Ns AT SOUTHPORT.
Three ',;'"'-S Conferred 07i t..-sribcrs
OF Cas'vs!i Lode by Eora! knights

Three ''.,"'-s Conferred o11 Ec.4nIbcrs
Of CasVsH Lot;-a by Lora! knights
A party of Pythians reDresenting
three of the local lodges of that order
went to Souri, on Friday night
Tor the c-5' .' 3. c0r@ ring three
ranks = -..J e.. .r. e pro-
sresslve .--.'jr'. :.'-.~. . go. No.
153, K. ~ T. .' f.. .-sr md the
impressive eXerc4aCa ...la - carried out
in an interesting manner being wit
messed by practically all Of the mem
bers of The Caswell lodge.r
After the ranks had been conferred
a social session was held and this
proved a most delightful occasion. The
pleasant affair was presided over by
Rev. G.. d. Langston of the Methodist
church at Southport a loyal Pythian,
and clever speeches were made by
several members of the Wilmington
delegation and of the Southport lodge,
after which delicio IS. refreshments
were served
The party from this city was compos-
ed Of Messrs. ]. d. Kelly aud L. G..
Grant of Stonewall lodge; L. b. Bell
and g., s. Holden of jefferson lodge,
and II. H. Ford of Clal endon lodge
Those in Caswell lodge Dn whom
the raRks we're conferred Were Messrs.
J. ]. Loughlin, ]. F. Smith, c. L. Bell
J. S. Craig, J. W. Barriss and G.. H.
Ruark
CaSwell lodge expects to send full
representation to the district meeting
to De held at Wallace on April 3rd.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-31
A Card.

This Is to certify that an druggists
are authorized to refund your money
tf Fnley's Honey and Tar fails to cure
your cough, heals the lungs and pre-
rents serious results from q cold. Cur
es la grippe coughs and precents pneu-
monia and consumption. Contains no
epiates. The genuine is in little
yellow package. Refuse substitutes. X.
q. Bellamy.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-31

IelIa-Ys can get suit just like.
yoh missis' velvet van foo tin dol
Lars in Bargain Brown Brothers.
Sorah-Yes, an can get wan fur
nathin. by tellig me missis about the
van in Bargain Brown Brother -
farper's Weekly
The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-31

Why are you fellows worrying
about the new ruling cn mileage
books. The man who Is able 20 buy
mileage book does not beIong 10 that
class that is entitled 10 on protected
by the eg.siature.-Dphan Herald.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-31

One OF. the things to he tried out in
the presidential campaign IS between
Bill Bryan and Bin Hearst Is. which
of the two is big BiuT-New York
Nail
The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-31
LOCKED UP IN JAIL
2 "
Charles Hall Brought From
New York
CHs5CED WITH MURDER
Alleged to Have Been Committed
Six Years AGO

Sergeant Burnett and Road Superin-
tendent HOcutt Went to New
York to Bring the Prisoner to
This City-OGicers Had No Trou-
BILE with Hall and He Confessed
TO the Killing.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-31
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SANE MORTAL
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Not n Person Locked Up Between
Noon on Thursday and Seven
O'Clock Last Night-NO Mayors
Court Yesterday.
Willmar tribune., 1908-08-12
. e Z ~ A s=2 "
MRS. ANNIE NELSON

Mrs. P. H. Nelson died at Svea
last night about 10 O'Clock. She
had been sufferer with cancer of
the stomach for the past two years
or more, but was taken seriously
i'll last Thursday and from that
time she failed rapidly.
Mrs. Nelson was born in Sweden
and came here when a young girl.
In 1880 she was married to P. H.
Nelson and they made their home
in town Of Whjtetield. The follow
ing are left to mourn the death of
a kind wife and mother: her hus-
beand, daughters Hanna and Jose
phine of Minneapolis and Lille,
who stays at home; sons, Emil, at
home at present, Eddie, Of Maple
ton, N. D., and Albin, of St. Paul.
Hanna and Josephine arrived yes
terday from Minneapolis and Eddie
and Albin are expected home to at
tend the funeral.
! Funeral Sunday afternoon at 1890
from the house. Baptist church
800. Rev. Berglund.
Willmar tribune., 1908-08-12
CONDUCTOR McCaBE is
INJURED AT DASSEI

While switching in the yard at
Dassel yesterday morning about
$50, Conductor r. E. McCabe met
with q serious accident. He was
switching three cars to the back
end Of fast freight No. 400, vest
bound, but using the handbreaks
and going down grade, he did not
succeed in making the stop, with the
result that the cars collided with
the train so forcibly that he was
hurled from the top of the car to
the ground, striking on the right
side. Conductor G. W. Pipe and
others who saw the accident hurried
to his aid. He was taken to the
caboose and made as comfortable as
possible while the train proceeded
to Willmar. Here he was removed
on d stretcher to his home at 421
First street. DR.. Harold Frost was
summoned and upon examination
he found that McCabe's back was
severely strained and bruised. At
the present writing the patient is
doing nicely and no serious conse-
quences are looked for.
Willmar tribune., 1908-08-12
ature.

l walk hand in hand with Nature
By the wooded hills and the streams,
Where the sunshine Sits through the
narrow riffs
OF the leaves and tints my dreams
Where the cooling airs Of the mountains
A breath Of the pines bring down,
Where the free heart sings and the sou,
grows wings,
Away from the sweItering town.
10 thy mothering arms, o Nature,
receive me again, l pray,
And fill my heart with the old delight
L knew when 4 boy at play.
Lean over me cool and tender
And quiet me with thy calm,
My passions qucll with thy magic spell
And heal my wounds with thy balm.
For | am thy child, o Nature,
BOrn, nurtured and reared with thee
The rush and heat Of the throbbin- street
10 me are an agony.
In the crowd of my kind l am lonely,
But voice in my spirit sings
A song OF glee when ! dwell with thee
An&@;alk with the soul of things.
l am sick to the DEATH 0 nature;
I am sick Of the sordid strife:
1 am sick of the greed and the grinding
need,
The cheats and deceits of life,
And L come as a child to it's mother
To renew my faith again,
To regain the good in the solitude
have lost in the haunts of men.
AS man athirst 0 Nature,
BY thy cooling springs kneel,
And deep soul draft by my lips is
Quaffed,
A water whose touch will heal
AS man who is weary of doubling
From the worlds unfaith = flee
TO grasp thy hand and to understand
The God that's revealed in thee.
Willmar tribune., 1908-08-12
Judges OF Election.

Council Doings Monday Evening.
1t was decided to extend the
water main from Litchheld avenue
and Ninth street two blocks south,
to Trott avenue, east on Gorton ave-
nue. to Seventh street and north on
that street to Lake avenue. Twen-
tyfour new crossings were ordered
to be put in this fall. The Street
Fair association was granted per
mission to use the streets Of the
city. M. 0. Thorpe was appointed
appraiser to assess damages from
construction of sewer on Seventh
street. D. N. Ta|Iman, Rev. G.
Peterson and W. J. Pinney were
appointed as members Of the lib
rary board. The following were
appointed judges Of election: First
ward--J, 3. Boyd, C. Hennings and
J. l.. Johnson; Second ward-C. A .
Nelson, E. M. Stanford and John
Williams; Third ward--Atty. Chas.
Johnson, e. Ohsberg, L. A. Tjos-
void; Fourth ward-Swan Ander-
son Geweier), G. Freeberg and Hen
ny Stenson.
Willmar tribune., 1908-08-12
Darkey Takes His Leave.

Isaac Crossley, the darkey lad
who got into trouble some time ago
on account of stealing a pair of
shoes, left jail yesterday morning
after 80 days stay. Before leav-
ing he thanked the sheriff, and his
wife for their kind treatment and
"de dandy grub which they had
provided for him. Isaac also said
to the Tribune reporter that he was
much obliged for the great sendoff
he got "in de papahs.' AS to his
future plans he was not sure. He
regretted the fact that the fates
had been so hard on his trail and
that since he left Missouri his chase
after the dollar had only brought
it further away from him. Re-
minded Of the old adage, every
dog has his day. he said: Guess
| amt had not only one Of dem
days; amt had muffin else since /
come up heah." Isaac left Wilt
mar some time last night ION a
special' bound for the harvest
fields. His departure leaves Henry
Lothare Won Schenck alone in jail,
where he will remain for another
month. When interviewed yester-
day he was busy reading The Maid
and Her Money! in Ains!ee's Maga-
zine, and confded to tie reporter
that that was the kind of a maid
he would WOO next time. He still
swears everlasting hostility toward
certain parties for whom he will
"make it hot'' as soon as he gets
out, and he has decided to continue
shining" for the North Star Liq-
uor Co. when at liberty. "But, -
he added, it will of course be
mostly in North Dakota
Willmar tribune., 1908-08-12
A New Style In Agriculture.

~ " ~ AAA AA3 AASOA GA1
Farms are Good for other things be.
Sides raising potatoes, corn and cab
bages. On American farms we have
raised a large crop of presidents.
About all of them were country boys
except Roosevelt, and he made up by
becoming Il cowboy.
A farm is also a good place to raise
JOY, honesty. tentment and the sim
pie life. Since acquired a side hill
OF my own have been not only cul-
tivating these, but have also grown a
crop Of tan, mosquito Welts and en-
thusi2sn. Later plan to raise straw
berries, grapes, apples, hens, a mort
gage and some goats. have already
harvested Il large yield of anticipations
about what I am going to harvest in
future
The particular piece of real estate
On which now have the privilege of
paying interest and taxes consists of
twelve acres. IN consequence cen
template 4 book on "Twelye Acres
Enough The only reason the title
viii not te "lfifteen Acres Enough or
'"TWenty Acres Enough" is because
there is not that much land in this
place. I have observed that most men
think the world should be regulated by
their own regulating machines and
measured by their measuring sticks.
There are more sour grape philos-
ophers in this world than is generally
admitted. A whole lot of people are
proud of what they haven't got. That
is Oh par with folks putting on airs
over having had what they didn't
want. The most conspicuous case Of
this on record was an exclusive social
set composed Of those who had sur
vlved smallpox. And how those folks
did look down on the poor unfortu-
mates who had not been thus distin-
guished! They even shifted at vari-
olold victims. 1t was like a boy who
is proud Of a stone bruise. There was
no wild rush of outsiders, however,
who sought to make themselves eIi-i-
bic to membership in the smallpox
club.
~ NC lLAASSIiS ILtLAA, I uO IOL Know
how much land is enough for one man,
but suppose it is what he can pay for
and is satisfied with. Anyway, the
question Is not up to me, and / refuse
to decide it. l am not going to write
that book after all. Instead l propose
to become author of work >entitled
"Cne's Own Affairs Enough It is
none Of MY business whether the other
fellow OWNS twelve acres or twelve
thousand
This farming proposition is fine. Out
here man can not only eat his
own vegetables, but think his own
thoughts. Moreover, he is master Of
his own time, having no boss except
his wife. The only thorn in the flesh
is the New York Central railroad.
That is too modern and citifed for a
strictly rural effect, besides being too
noisy for high thinking. 1t is as
though his Satanic majesty should
disturb paradise by making frequent
noise like shoveling coal.
This is not much of a farming sec
ton, but has plenty of scenery and
history. Every morning l can hear
the drums and guns at West Point,
where the shoulder strap blossoms
and they raise crops Of men for the
harvest of war. Within sight three
poets wrote-Morris, Willis and Drake
but they, are all dead. All the great
poets are dead A poet never gets to
be great till after be dies, and some
not even then
Willmar tribune., 1908-08-12
f. III S ~RCSE=LAND
(. ~ ,TErlfi

Roseland, Aug. 10.-Anothe er
Chicago business man has bought a
farm out here. Lambert Dykema,
Drother-in law Of Albert Knoll, has
bought the John S. Bu farm. Mr..
Dykema intends to move out here
in the early spring and begin farm
ing. He is welcome among US.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Rynhard
Kohls last Friday, boy. Both
mother and babe are we'll.
DR.. Lumley and wife, of Rem
vile, spent Friday evening with
the H. F. Bruss family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Korteling
and son, and Grandma Knott visit
ed with relatives in Raymond last
Wednesday.
Rev. j. Dragt was absent from
his congregation last Sunday,
preaching in Clara City.
Willmar tribune., 1908-08-12
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