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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
Bitter Rivalry Of Three Cana
dian Organizations Reveals
Scheme at Detroit.
FORTUNES IN The BUSINESS
Immigration Authorities Have Scant
Hope of Reaching the Princi.
pals in the Plot.

Detroit, Mich, April ~. - Through
the bitter rivalry of three Canadian
organizations for smuggling Chinese
into the United States a wholesale
scheme Of bringing the Orientals lille
gally across the international border
here at Detroit was discovered yester.
day. 1t is said that several comforta-
BILE fortunes have been made at the
business during the past two years by
enterprising young men who have
made Windsor, Ont their headquar-
ters. The immigration authorities
here have scant hope of reaching the
principals in the three competing
agencies, but a man who gives his
name as A. McMann is held at the
Wayne county Jail in connection with
the capture last Tuesday of three Chi.
nese at Adrian. Mich. The Cinnamon
and McMann were found in Wabash
box Car bound for Chicago. There was
q dead horse in the car and the four
men were concealed under the straw.
How It Was Worked.
The plan was to engage freight
car at Detroit for the shipment of a
horse. some worthless animal being
placed in the car for blind. The
Chinese, it is said. have been freely
brought across the Detroit river on
the railroad car ferries. being hidden
with the connivance of employees OH
the boats until the immigration in
spectozs had made their rounds and
then being hurriedly directed to
empty freight cars. The following
day they would be transferred to
freight cars especially engaged. and
usually started west ON train which
makes only one regular stop between
Detroit and Chicago
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
ROOSEVELT TO IRAVFI ABROAD
Will Spend First Year After Retirement
From White House ID For.
: eisn Lands.

Washington, April "a. - Should
President Koosevelt's present desirs
be realized he will spend the first year
after his retirement from office in
travel outside the United States.
Mr.. Roosevelt's itinerary, however,
has not been determined. His plan is
to see some Of the rugged and little
frequented portions Of foreign lands.
as we'll as to travel the beaten track
of the tourists.
That the president will indulge his
fondness for hunting big game is be-
lieved by those to whom he has con-
f1ded his intention.
1t was at the recent dinner of the
Boone and Crockett club in this city
that the president last told of his in
tentions for next year. He was told
of the opportunities for hunting in
Alaska and urged to arrange for trip
there. This, he said, would interfere
with his plan for foreign travel, and
would have to be considered, if at all,
at some future time.
President Roosevelt is quoted as
adding at this time:
IF William Taft is nominated and
elected president, which would be
very gratifying, it would make impos-
sible criticism. if were abroad, to the
effect that l was debating to him or
that had dictated or had been turned
down in my suggestions"
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
FIFTEEN INJURED IN RIOT.
importation Of Strikebreakers at Pen.
sscola Results in Riotinu.

Pensacola, Fla. April -. - The
bringing of carload of strikebreak-
ers from st. Louis yesterday after
noon by the Pensacola Electric COM
pany was the signal for rioting and
disorder, which resulted in the injury
of fifteen of the imported men. No
sooner had the strikebreakers arrived
and started for the car sheds than a
fight occurred between them and the
sympathizers of the union men, and
from the corner of Palafox and Wright
streets, where the first battle occur
red. there was a continual riot, in
which bricks, bottles and shells were
hurled at the strikebreakers, and in
turn the latter fired shots, used heavy
sticks and bricks. For over an hour
the riot continued, the strikebreakers
gradually getting nearer to the car
barns, but before they reached there
fifteen had been wounded.
1t took the police over an hour to
dispense the mob and remove the men
to places of safety.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
PLEASE STOP 1T, SAYS ELk,Ns.
Deprecates Publicity Given Rumorec
Engagement of His Daughter.

Washington. April IL. - Senator
Stephen B. Elkins. in view of the re-
ports from Rome that the rumored en-
gagement OF Miss Katherine Elkins to
the duke of the Abruzzi had been con-
firmed there and that in fact matters
had progressed so far that the royal
family have placed orders for the we'd
ding gifts, last night sent to the Asso-
clatcl Press Il statement deprecatory
Of current reports. as follows:
IF YOU can consistently. will YOU
kindly cease the publication of dis
patches and rumors of the reported
engagement of my daughter. The mat
ter has occupied the attention OF the
press so long and to such an extent
that | fell called upon TO make this
request.
while making it. wish to state
that ! appreciate the kindly express
siOns that have appeared concerning
my daughter in connection with he:
reported engagement. Whenever
there shall lie any reason to make an
announcement about the matter | will
lie glad to give it to the press in an
authentic FORM
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17

! John. Burr, young negro, was
lyuched near Wesson, Miss, by about
500 men for the murder of a twelve.
year-old white boy.
Charged with shooting his wife,
Charles F. Anderson is in Jail at Crys.
tai Falls, Mich. The woman's condi-
tion is critical. The shooting followed
a quarrel, and it is alleged Anderson
was intoxicated.
While singing as he walked along
Charles avenue, st. Louis, in company
with Mrs. Hattie Bailey and her two
young children, Reese Bell was shot
and killed by an unknown man, who
had expressed displeasure at the
solo.
Temporarily insane because Of
inconsistencies, Ida Waskunkoski, a
Finnish girl on her way from West
field, Mass, attempted suicide at Mar
quette, Mich, with scissors. She tried
to OEen her throat and is in a serious
condition.
j.. A. Hossack, banker of Odell,
Ill.,, jumped from the eighth floor Of
the Auditorium Annex in Chicago
into an open court and was instantly
killed. Hossack had been in ill
health of late. 1t is thought he was
temporarily insane.
Without warning and apparent mo-
tive. Albert Heiser, a baker. suddenly
drew a revolver at the dinner table
in New York, fired two shots at his
young bride and then killed himself.
Mrs. Heiser is fatally injured. Jeal-
cusy was the cause of the tragedy
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
MARSHAL SHOT eY BANDITS.
Two Officers Have Battle With Five
Aju1wa vmen.

Two Officers Have Battle With Five
Highwaymen.
Kent. Wash. April 49, - City Mar
shall Harry Niller of Kent was fatally
wounded in pistol duel with five
highwaymen last night. Night Mar
shall Charles Gulberson, who helped
Marshal Miller in the fight, escaped
unscathed.
Marshal Miller received word by tel
ephone from Orelia that five armed
highwaymen had held up and robbed
Patrick O'Brien in the streets of that
town and that they would reach Kent
within an hour. Instantly Miller and
Culberson started to intercept. them.
They met the men, commanded them
to halt and were answered by a fusil-
lade of revolver shots.
In the first volley Marshal Miller
was shot in the right shoulder and
the abdomen Marshal Culberson
fired upon the highwaymen and they
turned and ran.
Posses are in pursuit of the outlaws.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
General News Items.

The Canadian house of commons
passed resolution unanimously de-
claring that the time had arrived for
the early construction of a railway to
Fort Churchill. on Hudson bay.
The remains of Emanuel Swedbors,
mystic and author which were ex-
numed in London recently. where
they had lain since 1772. have been
| taken to Sweden for final burial.
The British ship Cel1icburn will car
~ wheat in bulk TO Europe. This is
the first time that grain shipment
| has ever been sent in that manner
from Portland Or and is in the ma
| ture Of an experiment.
The Iowa supreme court has de.
| cMed that savings banks have the
| right to trade in commercial paper.
assuming the risks attendant upon Or
binary transactions The decision af-
fects about 300 Iowa banks.
William J. Troop formerly a profes
sional roller skater committed sui
eide in a hotel at Philadelphia by
| swallowing laudanum. He left sever
al letters, in one of which it was in
timated that love affair was re-
sponsible for his suicide
Two hundred and fifty-seven stu
dents of Clemson college at Clemson.
| S. c., were dismissed from the insti-
tuition. This number, with the forty
nine members of the junior class dis
| missed on Saturday aggregate sos
iisnlissals on account of the All Fools
lay escape.
DR.. S. Parkes Cadman, pastor of the
Central Congregational church of
Brooklyn, announced that after con-
sideration of the overtures recently
made to him concerning the presi-
| aency of the Wesleyan university at
M1ddletown, Conn, he has decided to
remain in his present position.
At meeting of La QUESTION: So,
ciale group of anarchists at Paterson,
| N. j., Lldovico Caminita, editor of the
! paper, terminated his connection with
the sheet. 1t was Caminita's whole.
sale virulence and advocacy of vic.
lence which led to the suppression of
the paper by President Roosevelt.
Two hundred members of the I'LL.
nois Manufacturers association, the
strongest commercial delegation that
ever has been sent out of the country,
will 60 to Japan, China and other
Eastern countries to work for the ex.
tension of American trade.
The New York East conference OF
the Methodist church, at its session in
Brooklyn, adopted memorial request.
Ing the general conference to strike
out that section of the church disci.
pline fofbidding card playing. attend.
lnce at the theater and dancing, by
/ vote Of 162 to ~.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
BLOW up WRONG BUILDING
Italian Merchants Store Is Wrecked
Bomb Was Probably ATTENDED
for 4 Neighbor.

Chicago, April 12.-Following sim
liar outrage in the same district
Thursday, the explosion Of bomb in
front of H. E. Doose's grocery at 163
Larrabee street yesterday spread re-
newed terror throughout Italian resi-
dence districts of Chicago. Doose is
prosperous Italian of the merchant
class that has been sought out, by the
Black Hand for Matchmaking opera
tons.
1t is believed. however, that he was
the victim of a mistake, the bomb hav-
ing been intended for Peter Schmec-
la, peddler living next door.
Schmecka has received a number of
written threats, whereas no previous
effort has been made to intimidate
Doose.
When the bomb exploded in front of
the store 1t blew out several windows
and shattered fixtures and stock, but
nobody was injured.
Merchant Sick in Bed.
Doose had been ill in bed for the
last three days. He lives with his
family in the rear of the store and
the building, which is two-story
frame structure.
The explosion was heard about 8
o'clock, followed by the crash of glass.
Doose jumped out of bed and ran into
the store. He found nothing to dis
close the identity of the author of the
outrage.
Policeman James Carney was three
blocks away. When he heard the
noise of the explosion lie ran to the
store and found 100 Italians excitedly
discussing the affair.
Many of the Italians were question.
cd by policemen, but refused to talk,
while others said they did not see
anybody run away from the place.
Letters Demand Money.
Doose denied he had received any
threatening letters. Later the police
learned that Schmecka had received
several letters demanding $500 under
penalty of blowing up his house.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
Accidental Happenings.

The fashionable Shinnecock Inn, in
the Shinnecock hills, near Southamp-
ton, l.. L.. was destroyed by fire. Loss,
5000.
Mrs. Joseph Keller. twenty-eight,
living four miles north of Traer, Iowa,
while raking leaves into a bonfire
was SO badly burned that death re-
suited four hours later.
Edward J. Downing, proprietor OF
the Hotel Abbotsford of Irving. N. Y,
was instantly killed in collision be-
tween an automobile in which he was
iding and a trolley car.
The Barrett block at Joliet, Ill.,, was
destroyed by fire. the loss being more
than 100000. There We're about
eighty persons in the building. all of
whom escaped uninjured.
Fire in the Colonial Office building
st Richmond. Ind. damaged the build
ing $4,000 and caused $4,000 loss
TO the tenants. Nine firemen were
overcome while fighting the flames.
Albert Johnson and George Calvery
were suffocated in the construction
Shaft of Civic Well No. at Winni-
peg The accident is said to be due
I'd the failure Of the air compressor
TO work.
While a moving picture exhibition
was being held at Solomonville, Ariz.,
In the court house in lieu of thea
ter building, the gas tank exploded,
practically wrecking the room and in
iuring number of spectators.
The Ainsworth farm. one of the
best equipped in the vicinity of Fort
Dodge, Iowa, suffered a 100000 fire
Sunday. A bucket brigade of farm
ers. summoned by telephone, saved
only two dwellings and the horse
barns. There is little insurance.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
MAN SHOT DEAD BY WOMAN.
Big Social Sensation Promised as Re
suit Of Tragedy in Michigan.

suit OF Tragedy in Michigan.
Cassopolis, Mich. April 12.-Carleton
Morgan of South Bend, Ind, was shot
dead here yesterday morning by Mrs.
George A. Motsker Of the same place.
The shooting took place at the door Of
the residence of Mrs. Mary Green, and
Morgan at the time was accompanied
by Mrs. Motsker's husband for whom,
it is said, the bullet was intended.
The woman had followed the two men
here from South Bend. Mrs. Motsker
and her husband both we're arrested.
Morgan. who was thirty-five years
old, was of a prominent family in
South Bend. He had a wife and a
year-old child. and is said to have re-
Gently inherited considerable sum
of money. Motsker is a proinent liq-
uor dealer of South Bend.
The two men came here Thursday
night and Mrs. Motsker followed them
on a later train. She is said to have
gone directly to the Green house, at
the door of which she met her hus-
band and Morgan.
.urs. Motsker at once drew revol-
yer and fired, and Morgan dropped,
mortally wounded
From developments last night it is
claimed that several prominent fami-
lies are concerned in the affair and
that there was a plot. as a result of
which Mrs. Motsker followed her hus-
band and Morgan to Cassopolis. Two
nj har women ara said tn he directly,
concerned and big social sensation
is promised. with a probability of a
series of striking suits for divorce.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
Crimes.

A man supposed to be Abner Bos-
worth of Hazelwood, Pa, committed
suicide at Columbus, Ohio, by jump
Ing from the State street bridge into
the Scioto river.
Clarabe Hayes. aged twenty-five
years, of Alton, ILL.,, was given a life
sentence in the penitentiary after he
had pleaded guilty to the charge of
numbering his wife Jan. 1s, this year.
John Webb, a business man of
Butte, Mont, must serve five days in
the county Jail and pay the county IS
as penalty for contempt of court.
Such was the finding of Judge George
M. Bourquin. Webb was found guilty
OF jury tampering in the case against
G. M. Boucher, another merchant.
Counterfeit dimes and quarters and
q drug that has the same effect as
opium are made by prisoners in the
penitentfary at Chester, ILL.,, accord
ing to testimony given by guards be-
fore the legislative Investigating com.
mittee.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
news OF THE WEEK IN tPI1OMt
important Events at Home and on
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
Washington Notes.

BY vote of to Z the house COM
mittee on postoff1ces and post roads
virtually tabled the ocean mail sub
sidy bill.
Out of 1,O53,992 pieces Of mail mat
ter received in the dead letter office
during the month of March, over 60o,-
600 were returned to the senders,
breaking all records for this office.
Alvey A. Adee, second assistant sec
rotary of state. has left Washington
ON his annual bicycle trip of Europe.
Mr.. Adee is expected to be away from
the state department for two months.
Examinations for the naval acad-
envy will be held on April p in the
leading towns and cities of the coun-
try under the auspices of the civil
service commission. to fill $50 vacan-
cies in the next fourth class.
After years of unsuccessful effort
to introduce Egyptian cotton into the
United States, the bureau of plant in
dustry Of the department of agricul.
ture reports that promising results
have been secured in New Mexico
and Arizona.
Believing that the government
could save approximately $4,000 a
year by establishing at the navy yard
in Washington its own plant for the
manufacture OF iron. steel and brass
fabrics. Representative Carey has in
troluced a resolution for the build
ing of such plant.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
Foreign.

PHO Guerra, the leader Of the last
Cuban revolt, was named as COM
mander of the armed forces in Cuba,
with the rank of major general.
One of the principal tax collectors
OF the province of Almeria, Spain. has
fled from the country, having. it is
charged, embeZzled 100000 of the
public funds.
Advices from Seoul say that insur.
gents are showing increased activity
In the neighborhood of Seoul. several
minor fights having occurred lately.
The insurgent element has been en-
couraged by the attitude of certain
members of the Korean court.
Count Leo Tolstoi has written to the
Tolstoi birthday committee express
ing appreciation for the honors which
are being arranged for him, but final
ly declining to accept them. AS a
consequence the birthday committee
has ceased it's preparations TO cele-
brate the event
1t is believed thar great scandal in
the commissary department of the
French army has been discovered and
Developments are awaited with keen
interest. 1t was learned recently that
the rations sent to some of the gar
risons on the eastern frontier were I'M
fit for consumption.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
Personal.

Charles H. Parker, ninety-two years
nus, died at his home in Boston Ee
was a member of the class of 1888
Miss Anette Loeb, daughter OF
Charles Loeb CT New York. was mar
ried in Rome to Signor Arturo Luzza-
to, a member of the Italian parlia-
ment
Langdon Smith, newspaper CORE,
spondent and one Of the best known
special writer's in New York, died of
malignant erysipelas at his home in
Brooklyn.
Jack London and Mrs London have
resumed their worlds cruise on the
yacht Shark. They sailed from Pa
peete, Island of Tahiti, on March %.
bound for the Island of Morea, in the
Pometu group.
Father" l.. S. Coffin of Fort Dodge.
Iowa, founder Of Hope hall for ex-
convicts, known nationally as tenn
perance worker and benefactor was
married quietly at Detroit. Mich, to
Mrs. Nellie Inges. Mr.. Coffin is
eighty-fve years old and his bride is
much younger
William E. Shut, ST., died at Hot
Springs, Ark. He was former mayor
of Springfield. Ill.,. twice senator and
under Clevelands second administra-
ton was United States district attor-
ney for the Southern district Of ILL
nois. He was the law partner at the
time of his death of Gen. John NJ.
Palmer
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
HIDE SCARLET FEVER.
Cause Of the Spread of Disease in
Lead, S. 3.

Lead. S. D., April 14-That the de-
liberate action of parents in this city
who fail to report cases of scarlet fe
yer in their families to avoid the loss
of time is causing spread of the dis
ease that has reached serious proper
tons is the charge of the physicians
of Lead. They have now appealed to
the city through the public press to
cease concealing cases and prevent
the continued increase of the disease.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
OPEN SHOP ON LAKES.

Carriers Association Votes to ignore
Organized Labor This Season.
Cleveland, April IL. = The "open
shop" policy will be adhered to by YES
sci owners in the operation of boats
upon the Great Lakes this season. A
stand of this character in dealing with
organized labor was unanimously
agreed to at the annual meeting of the
Lake Carriers association here.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
D. r. MOVES DEAD.
Prominent st. Paul Business Man
Passes Away,

st. Paul. April IA. - Daniel r.
Moves. head of the firm of Moves Bros.
& Cutler. wholesale druggists. died at
his home. He was taken i'll Thursday.
1t was not thought at first there was
any grave danger, but a sinking spell
followed shortly and he failed to re-
spond to treatment.
Mr.. Moves had been in rather poor
health for several months, but his con-
lition did not become serious until
Thursday. The chief trouble was heart
failure.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
Wager Results in Death.

Sulphur Springs, Ark, April 12.-As
result Of a wager Ed H. Galloway
of New York city, noted athlete,
lost his life here yesterday in Butler
creek in the presence of hundreds of
spectators, who had gathered to watch
his sensational attempt to ride the
dam in frail rowboat.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
Creamery to Be EstabIished

Shevlin, Mimi, April 14.-The farm
ers and business men of our commu,
nifty decided that If they want to
prosper they must go into diversified
farming, and acting on that plan a
meeting was held here the other day
and creamery association organized,
which will be known as the Shevlin
Cooperative Creamery association.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
BURGLARS At PAvNEsv,LLE.

Blow Department Store Safe and Get
Small Amount OF Cash.
st. Cloud. Mimi, April 12.-Burglars
entered the Lund department store at
Paynesville last night, dynamited the
safe and scured $25 in cash. Thy also
entered the Young saloon and carried
of a consignment of whisky. They
tried to break into the postomce, but
were scared away by the barking Of
a dog. Two suspicious characters
seen in town yesterday are being
sought. !.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
SCHOOL HAS BUT ONE PUPIL.

Finally Closes After Two Years and
Student Is Sent Elsewhere:
Chippewa Falls, Wis.,, April IA. -
After being in session two years. with
an attendance of only one pupil, the
smallest school in the world, located
in Sampson, closed. The one pupil
will be sent to a New Auburn school
and his tuition paid by the school
board.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
cashier Kills Himself.

Spokane, WASH, April 14.-George
w. Thomas, cashier of the First state
bank Of Newport, WASH, committed.
suicide last night at the Colonial no.
tel in this city by taking strychnine.
Domestic troubles and failing health
are said to have prompted the act.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17

Diamond Robbers Get $4,000 Loot. .
San Francisco, April Ia. In the
best patrolled district Of the city
thieves entered the jewelry store Of
r. Lundy and robbed 1t Of diamonds.
watches and other jewclry amounting
!. 70 $4,000. d II
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-04-17
Fiji Closes Lists.

Chippewa Falls, Wis, April IA. -
John Till has closed his patients reg
lister, which now contains 1890 names
Of people from all parts of the coun.
try. He will leave May Is for his old
home in Austria, to spend two months