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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-19
EVANS FLEET TO
ENCIRCLE GLOBE
VIII Visit Australia and the Phil
ippines, Hawaii and Samoa
on the Way.
RETURN BY WAY OF The SUEz
II Will Be Greatest Naval Undertaking
in History-0fficers and Men
Are Pleased.

Washington, March Is. - Admiral
Evans ~battleship feet is going
around the world.
All doubts as to the final destiaa-
tion of the big sixteen were cleared
yesterday when announcement was
made by Secretary of the Navy Met
calf that the fleet, after leaving San
Francisco, will continue to the Orient
and return by way of the Suez canal
10 New York. II will be the greatest
/ naval undertaking in history.
Secretary Metcalf announced the
future movements of the feet after
the cabinet meeting yesterday. 1t will
leave San Francisco on July 6 for
our Pacific possessions" as Mr.. Met
calf styled 1t. The vessels will first
touch at Hawaii. where they will coal.
After that they will go to Samoa, fol
lowing this up by a visit to Australia,
where they will stop at the cities OF
Melbourne and Sydney, the invitation
of the Australian government to visit
that country having been supplement.
ell by a more cordial one from the
British ambassador, Mr.. Bryce.
Target Practice in Philippines.
Leaving Australia the vessels are
to go to Manila and while in the Phil.
ippines the annual fall target practice
will be held.
Thence the return will be made to
the United States via the Suez canal,
stopping Only at such ports as are
necessary for coaling purposes. The
date of their return to the states is
dependent entirely upon the amount
of time required for target practice
In the Philippines. The visit of the
battleships to Puget sound will be
made some time between the conclu.
sion of the grand review in San Fran
cisco bay on May s and the date of
the sailing over the Pacific.
Officers and Men Pleased.
San Diego, Cal, March 15.-News
that the American ~battleship fleet is
to undertake a tour of the world
within two months after it's arrival at
San Francisco on May 8 was flashed
by wireless telegraph to the battle
ships of Admiral Evans command at
Magdalena bay late last night by the
government station at Point Iona.
There is every reason to believe that
II was received on board the vessels,
by officers and crews alike, with the
greatest degree of satisfaction. K
has general been understood for
some time in naval circles that the
trip back to the Atlantic station
would be made by way of Suez, but
the official announcement, coupled
with the early date of starting on the
second half of the worlds greatest
naval e will give keen pleas.
ure to the men already proud of the
notable achievements OF their fleet.
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From Other Shores.

The Russian police arrested forty
one OF the leading Social Democrats
at Livonia. They also confiscated the
archives OF the party.
An uprising occurred in a barracks
at Caracas, the soldiers killing their
commander, Gen. Mesa. The mutiny
was quelled only after a number Of
soldiers had been shot.
King Victor Emmanuel recently re-
ceived in private audience William
Dean Howells, the American novelist,
entertaining him in a most cordial
ann for half an hour.
The czar has commuted the sen
tence Of death imposed against Gen.
Stoessel for su~rrendering Port Arthur
to ten years Imprisonment in a fort
ress. 1t Is expected that a pardon
will shortly follow.
Mail reports received from the
Congo independent state declare that
the Issages and Declares blacks on
the upper Sanga river in the French
Congo have reyolted. The French
director Of this region has been taken
prisoner. There have already been
several engagements with the rebels.
Prince Ludwig Menelik Of Abys-
sinia has been expelled from Germany
as an undesirable foreigner. The
prince is a ear relative Of the king
of Abyssinia and a negro. He has
been charged repeatedly with drunk
enness and disorderly conduct In va
rious parts Of Germany. He has al
ready been expelled from Saxony.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-19
MAIL CAR LOOTED
BY LONE BANDIT
Binds Two Mail Clerks and
LeisureIy Rifles Registered
Mail Pouches.
COOLLY DOES WORK OF CLERKS
stays on Car Five Hours and Receives
and Discharges Mail at All
Stopping Places.

Spokane Wash, March IA lone
bandit boarded the mail car on the
west-bound Oriental limited, the fast
transcontinental train Of the Great
Northern railway, at Bonner's Ferry
Idaho, before daylight yesterday
morning, bound the two mail clerks,
robbed the mail and escaped.
The robbery was not discovered un'
til the train reached Spokane at 9:2O
a. m, more than five hours after the
bandit boarded the train.
Mail Clerk Bound.
The train carried the through trans
cen mental mail, much Of it register
ed letters. The amount stolen viii
not be known until the registered mai
hes been checked up by the postal
authorities.
When the train arrived here at 9:2O
O'Clock the mail car was closed. EN-
ployes at the station opened the car
and found one of the mail clerks ly'
ing bound on the mail sacks. The
other clerk was locked in a closet,
As soon as the men were released
they said that a bandit boarded the
car at Bonner's Ferry, a town of $50
people, a division point about 100
miles east of Spokane, where the
train arrived at 4:04 a. m.
Bandit Handles the Mail.
The bandit, said the mail clerks,
he'd them up, then bound them and
went through the registered mail. He
then said he would work the regular
mail and proceeded to do so.
At all regular stops he threw off the
mail and took on the outgoing sack,
though at some of the smaller places,
where the train does not stop he did
not throw off the mail. He stayed on
the train for nearly five hours, jump
ing off at a junction two miles east
of Spokane.
AS soon as the robbery was discov'
cred the postal authorities here and
also the local police were notified. 1t
was discovered that all the mail had
been badly mixed.
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Accidental Happenings.

While boating on the Appalache
mill pond near Greers, S. c., a skif
carrying ten people capsized and three
young ome were drowned.
A Pere Marquette passenger train
collided with an extra train near the
Wyoming yards at Grand Rapids
Mich. One person was killed and sew
eral were injured.
II. II. Hit accidentally shot himself
In the left groin at Los Angeles. The
bullet was extracted and it was stated
that his recovery is probable II blood
poisoning does not set in.
Eight firemen were injured and the
business section OF Williamsburg, an
adjoining suburb OF Pittsburg, dam
aged to the extent OF 1926 600 by fire.
Assistance was sent from Pittsburg.
Fire practically destroyed a build.
ing in the heart of the shopping dis
trict at New York. Adjoining build
ings were somewhat damaged. The
loss is estimated at from $4,000 to
$125, 900.
Beulah Bandfeld, fifteen years old, a
waitress In the Iowa soldiers home
at Marshalltown. Iowa, was drowned
in the Iowa river while boating. She
jumped into the water to get an oar
she had dropped.
A score of firemen were injured,
three perhaps fatally, by a fire which
destroyed Apollo hall, a three-story
structure in Chicago. The Il Of
the fire is unknown. The total dam
age is estimated at $4,000.
Napoleon's Union school at Toledo,
Ohio, the largest building of the kind
in the state, which was completely re-
modelled only last April and had cost
the county $4,000 altogether, was de-
stroyed by fire before school opened
In the morning.
"The loss of the lives of the little
children I'm the Collinwood school fire
was absolutely inexcusable,' Coroner
Burke declared, after making a thor
ough investigation. II am not prepar-
ed yet to say upon whom the blame
should be placed"
Louis Klein, aged fifty, a county Of
fetal for over thirty years; was run
down and killed while crossing a
street at Cincinnati by an automobile
driven by Mrs. Charles Haas, wife of
a cigar manufacturer. Mrs. Haas was
arrested, charged with manslaughter.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-19
Personal.

The mother of Joseph Santos Re
laya, president of Nicaragua, is dead.
William Conroy Evans. manager OF
the foreign department OF Armour &
Co., died at his home In Evanston, ILL.,,
Of pneumonia.
John Teagle. formerly n of the
best known Independent oil refiners
in the country, IS dead at his home in
Cleveland, aged sixty years.
John BURY, a well known electrical
engineer and inventor of the BURY
printing telegraph system, died sud
denly at his home on Staten Island.
Gen. William Clendin, aged sixty
three, inspector of the Peoria internal
revenue district, is dead of heart fail
ure. He served with distinction in
the Civil a
Fred Ketchum, who for several
years played center field on the Lin
coin. Neb., baseball team. dropped
dead from heart disease In his room
at Binghamton, N. Y.
John l. Smithmeyer, a noted archi-
tect, dled or carcinoma at washing
ton. Mr.. Smithmeyer designed and
superintendent the construction Of the
congressional library. He was sew
enty-six years Of re.
Mrs. Catherine Backus, widow of
Charles Backus and a daughter OF the
late Col. Thomas A. II. Edwards. u.
s. A, OF the Black Hawk and ether
Indian wars, died in her sixty-seventh
year at Yankton, s. ID.
Edmonde de Amicis. the noted Ital-
fan writer OF travels, died at Bor-
dighra from congestion of the brain.
He travelled extensively and was a
master in the art of describing the
life and natural aspects of foreign
countries and cities.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-19
The Airship In War.

The dirigible balloon, or airship. as
1t is usually called, is now an estab-
iished success, and is sure TO play an
important part in future wars. The
French government is taking the lead
In the matter. and will soon have a
whole feet of aerial cruisers, capable
Of sailing ove the enemy's defenses
and dropping hundreds of pounds OF
dynamite into their Notifications; o.
of gliding quietly out at night over a
battleship, and dropping down on her
enough dynamite to send her, a shat
tered wreck, with al Ion board, to the
bottom of the sea.
Germany is also making rapid
strides in this work. Count Zeppelin.
working under the patronage of the
government, has built the largest and
probably the most scientifically plan
ned airship ever constructed.-From
Henry B. Hersey's Experiences in the
Sky" in the Century.
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Domestic.

Capt. Daniel Stewart, ninety-four
years of age. died at Upper Alton, ILL.,,
after lying In bed twenty-seven years,
during the greater part of which time
he smoked a pipe.
William f. Dodge, Jr., city editor OF
the Missoula Daily Muscular. died
after a brief illness from ptomain pois-
oning. He worked on Twin City pa
pers before going West.
John T. Dover, secretary Of the Y.
M. C. A. at Worcester. Mass, has been
notified that he is heir to a fortune Of
sl0.0O0,o00 left him by an uncle who
died in Melbourne, Australia.
The anti-tip ordinance, a measure
designed TO prevent the publication OF
information on races and betting fea-
lures was passed by the Los Angeles
city council over the mayors veto.
Mayor Busse and the heads of the
Chicago police department decided
last night to take steps for the estab-
lishment OF a municipal alien bureau.
Its purpose will be to prevent an
archists from coming to Chicago.
In sending the skin OF an albino
deer to a taxidermist to be mounted.
Elias Ahola. a farmer living near
Maple Ridge, Delta county, Mich. got
into trouble. The deer being placed
on exhibition, investigation Of the rec
ords disclosed the fact that Ahola was
not provided with a hunting license at
the time he shot the animal. The
farmer was arrested and fined ana his
| white deer was confscated.
The program Of a campaign to
bring about prohibition In Louisiana
when the legislature meets next May
has been announced by the Louisiana
Anti-Salocn league.
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AUSTRALIANS ARE DELIGHTED.
Remarkable Demonstration Greets An
ouncement of Visit of Fleet.

Sydney, March II. - There was a
dramatic scene yesterday at a great
gathering of citizens, when at the
conclusion of an address on the sub
ject of national defense, the premier,
Alfred Deakin, read a cablegram an
nouncing hat the American fleet of
battleships would visit Sydney and
Melbourne. He called for three
cheers for the United States and the
audience arose en- masse and respond
ed with deafening hurrahs.
The prime minister said that he was
sure that such a welcome as an Amer
lean feet had never known outside of
its own country would be accorded 1T
by Australia, and the cheering that
followed this statement seemed evil
dence of the fact that the Australians,
ore and all, have a feeling stronger
III mere friendship for the Ameri.
can people and their navy.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-19
Crimes and Criminals.

w. w. Mckay Of Tenino, Thurston
county. Wash. killed his wife and
three children and then shot himself.
Charles White, a prisoner under
sentence for Ave years at Fort Madi-
son, Iowa, for b~urglarizisg ]. Fl. An.
drew's residence, sawed his way to
liberty during the night.
Charles ]. Vanni, an importer Of for
eign newspapers In New York. was
fined $3.50 for violating the penal code
In selling blasphemous literature.
Vanni was arrested by Anthony Com
stock for Offering for sale French and
italian anti-clerical publications in
which were alleged blasphemous car
toons.
A Japanese was arrested at Riepe-
ton. New, after a hard struggle. in
which he almost chewed on TWO fin
gers OF a man named Clinton. Clin-
ton. who is a drafstman. was APP
preached by the Japanese. who asked
him If he would go with him to San
Francisco to get drawings of the for
tiications there. Clinton Indignantly
refused. he says, and held onto the
Japanese until officers arrived.
James Rathbon entered the kitchen
In the home of Judge r. Hall at Oma-
ha, where his wife worked as a serv-
ant. shot and killed her and then
committed suicide. The couple had
been separated.
With q bullet wound In his fore
head and a cheap revolver and a b.
BILE at his side. the dead body of a
man supposed to be Andre Mitchell
was found In an empty freight car
IS the Wabash yards at st. Louis.
Apparently the man had committed
suicide and had been dead a couple
Of days.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN tPITOMt
Important Events at Home and or
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
Washington Notes.

II the house and the senate concur
In an action just taken 1t will cost $40
instead of SIS after July /, 1908, for a
foreigner to become a citizen of the
United States.
Secretary Taft has signed an order
for the abandonment of the military
post known as Fort Keogh. Mont. The
post is not needed for the accommo.
dalton OF the troops in that section.
A favorable report has been ordered
by the house committee on public
lands OF the bill which passed the SEN
ate making available under the Carey
act additional arid lands within the
state of Idaho.
An official denial has been made to
the state department of the recent re-
port that the German government in
tended to go into the petroleum bust
ness and monopolize that industry
within its territory.
Senator Nelson of Minnesota has Civ.
en- notice of an amendment he will
propose to the Aldrich currency bill
requiring national banks to pay 2 per
cent interest on weekly balances OF
government deposits of money.
The house committee on Indian af-
fairs has ordered a favorable report
on a bill authorizing the secretary of
the interior to lease allotted or un-
allotted Indiar lands containing min
erals in any Indian reservation for
mining purposes.
The house committee on merchant
marine and fisheries voted to report
favorably the Goulden bill providing
that every vessel of American regis.
ter entering ports of the United
States shall carry such complement of
licensed officers and crew as in the
judgment of local inspectors may be
necessary for her safe navigation.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-19
CLIMATE IS IDEAL
GREAT WEALTH ACQUIRED I'M
GROWING GRAIN.

Writing from Saskatoon, Sa0katche.
wan, Canada, w. II. Ellwanger. who
was formerly a resident of Green
Mountain, Iowa, says: The climate
in summer is ideal for growing grain.
Long, clear days of sunshine, no bad
storms. We never need to guard
against cyclones; | never saw a better
climate in my life. We made more
money during the season of 1906 than
any previous five years in central
Iowa-one Of the best districts in the
state" But Mr.. Ellwanger was a resi-
dent of the town, and it might be more
interesting TO read what a farmer has
to say about Western Canada. From
hundreds OF letters all filed with
words of praise. r~ecounting success in
Western Canada there has been one
selected. 1t is as follows:
Paynton. Sask., Canada,
Dec. 10th, 1907.
TO Whom This May Concern:
moved to this address February 3,
1907, from Montgomery, Iowa, and
took a homestead 35 miles north OF
Paynton. 1t was cold when | moved
here but it did not stay cold long; it
broke up the Sth Of February, and was
not sc cold after that but the spring
was late on account of the heavy snow
fall, but in spite of the late spring I
saw better grain than / ever saw in
the states, raised this year.. / helped
a man finish sowing oats the 4th Of
July and they made fair oats. In a
good year oats will go 100 bushels to
the acre and wheat 25 to so; all root
crops do we'll here. saw turnips weigh
Z and 8 pounds. l raised potatoes this
year that measured liz inches
one way and 1874 the other in cir
conference. This is a fine stock coun-
try; hay in abundance, good water,
plenty of fuel, free and plenty OF
building material-the government
gives US timber to saw into lumber
and we can get it sawed for about
$500 per thousand. All small fruit
grows wild here, then there are ducks,
geese, grouse. pheasants, deer, moose,
elk and fish in abundance. | was over
to Turtle Lake yesterday where there
is lots of fishing being done this win
ter. | saw about a carload of white
fish in one pile. I gave % cents for
Sc pounds of fish. What do you think
Of that, Brother Yankee? | think this
Is a fine place both to make money
and to live. There was an old man up
here visiting his brother-in-law. Now
this man owns land close to Des
Moines, Iowa. and is in good circum-
stances, but he took a homestead and
says he will be c%ontented If he can
only put in the rest of his days in
Canada. He would get up in the morn
and look out of the door and say:
We'll, who wouldn't live in Canada?"
Now / have been in 13 different states
In the United States. and / never saw
the chance that there is here for a
man that has a little muscle and a
little brains. Three cheers for Cana
da! (Signed.)
w. A. SPICE"
This is the temperature through
November. I took it myself so |
know it is right, in the shade:
Morning at
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-19
WALSH GETS FIVE YEARS.
Judge Andersen OverruIes Motion for
New Trial.

Judge Andersen OverruIes Motion for
New Trial.
Chicago, March 15-John r. Walsh,
former president of the Chicago Ma
tional bank of this city. and vonvicted
OF Illegal use of the funds of that in
stitution. was yesterday denied a new
trial by Judge Anderson of the Unit
ed States district court and sentenced
to serve five years in the federal pen,
itentiary at Fort Leavenworth.
AS soon as the court had announced
his decision refusing to grant a new
trial, the attorneys for the defense
entered a motion in arrest of judg.
ment, on which they argued for some
time. II was generally thought about
the court room that they would con-
sumo two or more hours in giving
their reasons for the granting of this
motion, but Attorney Hart, who pre-
sented 1t, ceased speaking in about
thirty minutes. Judge Anderson then
promptly overruled the motion. and
sentenced the banker to FIVE years in
Fort Leavenworth.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-19
Escaped Prisoner From North
Dakota Prison Is Shot by
Sheriff in Pistol Duel.
TWENTY SHOTS ARE EXCHANGED
Second Convict Is Wounded and Cap-
tured After an Exciting All.
Day Chase.

Bismarck, N. d., March II. In a
pistol duel at dusk Saturday. night,
after an all-night chase, the sheriff of
Mclean county shot and killed Jo-
seph B~assanella, the convicted muir.
derer who Friday escaped from the
pe~nitentiary here. The fatal combat
occurred in Mclean county. A few
hours earlier, Alfred Woolens, the sec
ond escaped convict. was captured by
a posse fifteen miles west OF Mandan.
In the capture and death a sensation
al manhunt was closed.
Twenty Shots Exchanged.
When Sheriff Beck confronted him
Bassanella opened fire on the officer
and his companion. The officers re-
turned the fire and Bassanella fell
after about twenty shots had been ex-
changed. He was shot through the
head.
After escaping he and Alfred Wool
ems, his comrade in crime, parted,
Bassanella going north On foot and
Woolens west on a horse he had
stolen. During the day Bassanella
stole a small target pistol and a suit
of clothes at a farm house. Eight
miles further northwest he stole a
horse. Nothing more was heard from
him until a former jailer at Wash
hurn. who had seer Joe at the trial Of
his brother for murder, met him on
the road. The Washburn jailer in
formed Sheriff Beck and together they
took up the pursuit.
Fugitive cornered.
dash for the river timber. Arriving
at the brink of a steep ravine, he dis
mounted and dashed down. followed
by a fusillade of bullets, but he man.
aged to gain the shelter of a scrubby
wood, where for two hours the pur-
suers hunted for him. Finally he was
located and ordered to surrender, but
replied at a hundred yards range with
a shot from his revolver.
Under the fire Of an automatic re-
| volver and a Winchester he was Don
killed. The stolen plumber was found
on him.
The Pursuit Of WooIens.
Woolens was tracked across the
river to the Sunnyside stock yards of
the Northern Pacific. five miles west
of Mandan, where he got breakfast at
a farm house. The farmer had heard
of the escape and went to a ~neighbor
and t%elephoned the sheriff, who went
out with a posse.
Meanwhile Woolens had taken
alarm and fed to a grove brush, where
a crowd Of men saw him moving about
but failed to capture him.
Later Woolens was shot in the right
thigh by a young farmer. He rolled
down a steep bank into the creek and
the farmer jumped after him. A ter
rife struggle for possession of the gun
followed, but Woolens was finally
! overcome and turned owe to the
, prison guards. His wound is not Sc
rious.
Says He VIII DO for Sheriff.
Mandan, N. D., March 17.-Vowing
that he will yet escape from prison
and kill Sheriff Beck, who shot the
prisoner who broke out of the prison
With him last Friday, Alfred Woolens,
the convict who was captured by a
farmers son, was taken from here to
Bismarck after having a wound in his
leg dressed by a local surgeon.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-19
c T OF Il SEA.
Steamer Silvia Is Expected to Go to
Pieces.

Woodhole, March 1.-THE steamer
Silvia of the Red Cross line, bound
from New York for Halifax, N. s., and
st. Johns, N. F., which struck on Sow
and Pigs lodges, at the entrance to
Vineyard sound, just before daylight
yesterd ay morning. remains hard and
fast on the reef and the prospect OF
saving her looks very slight.
At sunset the seas, driven by a
southeasterly gale. were making a
clean sweep over the steamer. Her
crew. who came ashore to spend the
nieht expressed a tear that she would
90 TO pieces before morning.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-03-19
CENTRAL" TRAINS COLLIDE.
Two Lines 5lockaded at Chippewa
Falls.

Chippewa Falls. Wis.,. March is
A hesd-end collision between a Wis.
consin Central passenger train and
a freight train occurred at the cross
Ing of the Central and Omaha tracks.
Beyond being shaken up none of the
passengers was injured. The engi-
neers ard iremen jumped. Two pas.
senge- co2ches and several freight
ears wc-c dereiied. Traffic on both
railways was blocked.