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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-06
Minneapolis Women Declare
Themselves the Dupes Of a
Heartless Fraud.
INVESTIGATION IS STARTED
Gov. Buchtel of Colorado Is Making an
Effort to Run the Perpetrators
to Earth.

MAAuSdpOl1S, NOV. S.-Several MN.
neapolis women are in Denver, watt
Ing for funds to arrive with which to
make the trip home to Minnesota
They declare themselves the victims
Of a heartless trio of confidence work.
ers. AS result of their predicament
Gov. Buchtel of Colorado has begun
an investigation in an effort to run to
earth the perpetrators of what is al.
legged to be land fraud scheme Ct
considerable magnitude, in which Sew
eral Minnesotans have been victim.
ICED.
OF a party of thirty-eight Minneso.
ia people who left for Colorado Oct.
20 In quest of fortune only one, Mrs.
Mary Milestone, Minneapolis wom-
an, is known to have recovered the
money which she invested in the un-
dertaking.
How Scheme Starts.
So far as the Minnesota investors
are concerned, the story began last
spring, when Charles F. Burnham, a
Spectator, visited Minneapolis. IN
Minnesota he is said to have interest
ed several peaple in the purchase Of
desert claims and water rights in Col
orado.
The plan was simple. Investors
were asked to pay from $3.50 to $3.50.
In return for the payment, the COM
pany agreed to arrange matters so
that the investors could file on desert
land in Custer county, Colorado, on
payment of rs cents an acre.
Perpetual water rights, shares in a
mining company and paper concern,
offers to redeem the land If it was un-
satisfactory and promises to pay the
expenses of investors on trip to Col
orado are said to have been part of
the inducements offered to Minnesota
Investors.
The Minnesota thirty eight arrived
in Colorado Springs on Oct. %. Won
en- composed the bulk of the party.
Pay to Make Trip.
From Colorado Springs the party
went to West Cliffe, Colo. 1t is said
that they paid the promoters $10.75
for the privilege of making the trip.
At West Cliffe they were shown the
land on which they were to make
their claims, but when they went TO
the Pueblo land Office to make their
filings they were told that residence
in Colorado of year was required
before filings could be made. They
were advised to return to Minnesota
to avoid charges of perjury in connec-
ton with their attempt to file on Col
orado lands.
Gov. Buchtel was appealed to and
the Investigation is in full sway. Mrs.
Milestone threatened criminal prose-
cution of the promoters and secured
the money that she had invested, but
other members of the party were NOT
so successful.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-06
Eorolan.

The National Aerial League Of
France has decided to open it, CON
petitions, with q few exceptions, 70
al nationalities.
Ecuador has ratified q sanitary
treaty with Panama looking to pre-.
vention of communication Of diseases
between the two countries.
King Alfonso oficiated at the I'M
yelling of monument to the defend.
ers of Saragossa in 1908. He was given
hearty reception by the populace at
Saragossa.
The Rome Vita states that the min
lister of marine has granted the duke
of the Abruzzi three months special
leave of absence, with permission to
travel abroad.
The honorary title of monsignor
has been conferred by the pope on
Rev. Joseph Soentgenath, head of the
Josephinum, q college for the educa.
ton of secular priests at Columbus,
Ohio
Edward Cook & Co., soapmakers Ct
London, obtained libel judgment OF
$4,000 against certain newspapers
owned by Lord Northcliffe, which
charged that the company was at
tempting to form a trust.
All the private Polish schools have
been closed by the governors in re-
taliation for the almost dairy attacks
made upon Russian university stu
dents in the streets for several weeks
past The Poles have appealed to the
duma.
The death is announced of Giuseppe
Biancheri, former president Of the
italian chamber Of deputies. He was
born in Ventimiglia in 1923, was a
deputy for fifty-three years and pre-.
sided over the chamber for nearly
thirty years.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-06
Won BuELow WILL NOT QUIT.
Imperial Chancellor Relieves German
Emperor Of Great Ebarrassment.

Imperial Chancellor Relieves German
Emperor Of Great EMBARRASSMENT.
Berlin, Nov. 3. - Chancellor Won
Buelow has relieved Emperor William
of great embarrassment by reconsid.
ering his resignation, brought about
by resentment over his majesty's in
terview in the London Telegraph, in
which the kaiser was put in the atti-
tude of assuming all the credit for
the war plans followed by Great Brit
ain in crushing the Beers. This re-
moves all doubt about the chancel-
lor's remaining in Office.
Prince Won Buelow's reconsideration
was at the urgent request OF the kai.
ser.
Whole Country Aroused.
Chancellor Won Buelow's position
apears to be almost untenable. Far
and wide throughout the empire the
newspapers of all parties discuss with
varying degrees of mockery, amaze
ment and regret the governments ex-
PLANTATION of how what purported to he
enormously important utterances of
the emperor, affecting three great
powers, passed through the hands Of
the chancellor and long line Of for
eign Office officials without seemingly
having been considered by any Of
them or read by most of these respon-
BILE for the delicate foreign relations.
Condoned by Kaiser.
The emperor fully condones Prince
Won Buelow's part in the affair, but
the chancellor's authority and prestige
with the country have been SO shaken
that he may again ask the emperor to
relieve him.
The Radical, Liberal and Socialist
journals utilize the event to urge
upon the country demand for min
istry responsible to the parliament
and people instead of the continuance
of ministerial responsibility to the
crown alone.
The whole subject is likely to come
up for debate in the reichstag, which
will reassemble on Wednesday.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-06
Ice Man Forces Adjournment by
Eyasiye Answers and Sar.
castle Remarks.
IS INSOLfNT TO ATTORNEY
judge Loses Patience When Financier
Refuses to Give Categorical
Answer.

New York, Nov. Practically de-
flying the United States government
and it's court, Charles w. Morse, for
merly ice king and multimillionaire,
owner of chain of banks in this city,
yesterday at his trial for alleged vio-
lation Of the banking laws, brought
the proceedings against him to sud-
den and sensational close after he had
been on the stand six hours. Badger
ed by United States Attorney Stimson
into many damaging admissions,
Morse at last became so angry that he
absolutely refused to give categori-
cal reply to the questions of the pros
ecuting officer. Instead he INDUCED in
witty and sarcastic remarks, slurring
his fellow directors in the National
Bank of North America, until at length
he became so insolent that the dis
trict attorney appealed to the court.
Brought to Climax.
It was a question of whether the d.
rectors of the bank had approved the
loan of $211,OO0 Morse had obtained
from the bank to cover a large over
draft that brought matters to a eli
max.
did the directors approve that
loan?" asked the district attorney.
II don't think they did," answered
Morse.
did they disapprove Of it?"
II don't think they did,"
But you were present all through
the meeting weren't you?"
EYES,"
"Well, did they adjourn"
"They jumped up and ran, but they
did not come back to pay their loans"
chuckled Morse, sardonically.
Launches Into TRADE.
mine was the best margined loan
of any in the bank, better than those
Of any Of the other directors, and
didn't make loan like Havemeyer
did of $4,000 when the total reserve
Of the bank was down to 8 per cent"
IF your honor pleases," said Dis
trict Attorney Stimson as sooon as
Morse, apparently for lack of breath,
had paused, Il should like the witness
to be directed to answer my ques-
tion.'
Answer the question categorically
If you can," said Judge Hough stern
ly, turning toward Morse.
Faces Judge cooIIy.
The little ice man wheeled around
in his revolving chair, looked the
Judge squarely in the face and began
another evasive reply.
Stopped quickly, he calmly leaned
back and politely requested to know
what was the question.
The stenographer was directed to
read it, and Morse said he could not
recollect."
This was too much for Mr.. Stimson.
He asked for permission to suspend
the cross-examintaion until today,
saying he desired more time to study
the testimony the witness had given
on Thursday.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-06
CRUSADE AGAINST DOPE HABIT.

Many Arrests Made in Philadelphia in
Attempt to Stamp Out Cocaine.
Philadelphia, Nov. LIN crusade
to break up the cocaine habit, which,
it has been discovered is prevalent
among children in some of the public
schools in t he Tenderloin district Of
this city, the police last night arrested
eleven men and women, either users
of the drug or persons accused Of sup
plying it to others. Since the first
of the year $50 persons, including
boys, girls and many young men, who
were the victims of the habit, have
been sent to the house of correction
from the same district, and twenty
three have been indicted for engaging
in the traffic.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-06
news Of week SUMMARIZED
Digest Of the News Worth Tellinf Cor,
deased for the Busy
Reader.
WASHINGTON.

Count Won Moltke, the new Danish
minister to the United States, has ar.
rived in Washington.
The scout cruiser Chester, which
naval officers have declared to be the
fastest naval vessel afloat, has com.
pleted her final acceptance trial.
Henry A. Buffers, president Of the
Northern Electric Railway company.
died at Berkeley, Cal. Mr.. Buffers
was widely known as a mining map
and capitalist.
Carriers will not be permitted to
perform clerical work in the future,
as the result of an order issued by
Postmaster General Meyer, amending
the postal regulations and defining the
duties of employees in this branch of
the service.
The secretary of war has appointed
q board of officers. consisting of Mai.
Gen. w. p. Duvall. Brig. Gems. Fred
rick Funston, w. H. Carter, w. S.
Edgerly and William Witherspoon, to
In the general staff corps of the army.
The internal revenue bur eau is
strongly opposed to the contention of
the California grape growers for a re-
versal of the commissioners ruling of
March 25, 1908. which inhibits the use
Of fortified American sweet wines in
the manufacture of patent or proprie.
tary medicines Or compounds.
Declaring that complaints continue
to come to the department alleging
violations of the postal regulations
concerning the disposition Of regis
tered mail indorsed for delivery to
the addressee in person, an order has
been issued directing that such mail
maltter must be delivered to no one
but the addressee in person, not even
upon his written order.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-06
General.

Cyclone" Johnny Thompson won
from Rudolph Unholz in the eleventh
round at San Francisco.
Ossian Guthrie, one of the oldest
and most interesting of Chicago pic
neers, died in his eighty-second year.
The sixty-irst annual session of the
grand lodge of Iowa Odd Fellows ad.
journed at Marshalltown, Iowa, after
L. W. White of Woodbine had been
installed as noble grand.
One hundred and fifty dollars an
acre, spot cash, is the new record set
for Iowa farm land in the sale made
last week of the w. L. Brown farm,
south of Hampton, Iowa, for that
| price.
Temperance forces won county op.
ton elections in Greene, Williams
and Trumbull counties, in Ohio. A to.
tai of 1,045 saloons have been voted
out under the new county option law
to date.
At meeting of the Southern Field
and Adjusters' association, comprising
every Southern state, held at Mobile,
Ala, the association went on record
against night riding. Announcement
was made that one prominent compa.
my had withdrawn their insurance on
all posted gins.
Judge Smith Mcpherson, in tho fed,
eral court at Kansas City. granted Z
restraining order preventing Edwin
Cockrell. prosecuting attorney fol
Johnson county, Missouri. from prose
cutting cases against the Missouri Pa,
cific railroad to enforce the maximum
| freight rate law.
The supreme court Of the United
States has fixed Jan. 1 as the date fol
hearing the argument in the commodt
ties clause cases, and gave directionl
for the consolidation into one Of all
the twelve cases for the purpose a
argument.
Drs. Tomarkin and Carriero O,
Berne, Switzerland, after experiment.
extending over many years. have dis
covered Q serum which cures choler,
IN animals. A quantity Of tho SERUM
has been sent TO st. Petsrsburs %,
trial on human sufferers there. Thu
result y anxiously awaited.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-06
Accidental Happenings.

Accidental Happenings.
A $4,000 IRE destroyed the plant
Of the Tropical Ice company at Tam.
pa, Fla.
Fire destroyed the plant Of the Ellis.
vile Lumber company at Ellisville,
Miss. Loss, 100000.
Fire at Toldeo. Ohio, wiped out the
wholesale grocery store of R. A. Bart.
ley. LOSS estimated at 100000.
Fire at Mullins, s. c.. destroyed tho
factory Of the Imperial Tobacco com.
pany. About 100000 pounds Of Leaf
tobacco was destroyed. The loss ID
estimated at 100000.
Robert Lincoln, a interchangeable
De Witt boy, was drowned in the
swimming pool at the Y. M. c. A.
building at Clinton. Iowa. during the
night, the janitor finding his lifeless
remains in the pool in the morning.
James Thorn, farmer of Russell
vile, Ala, while attempting to run a
mule out Of the yard, picked up q
small stone and threw it at the ami.
NAL. He missed the mule and hit his
two.year-old son, killing him instantly.
Dispatches received at Manila from
the sections visited by the typhoon
and resultant floods that devastated
Caygan province recently place the
death roll at 800 and the damage ia
property at $1,000,O00 in gold. There
were no reports of damage in Isabelle
province.
Two men were killed and five in
jured, one fatally, in a wreck Of q
gasoline speeder on the Newton &
Northwestern, near Gowrie, Iowa. The
speeder, loaded with nine men Of Ri
nard, dashed into box car which had
been moved from a siding onto the
main line.
Hollis Miller, eight years old, swal
lowed piece of slate pencil while al
school at Bellefontaine, Ohio, and aft
err returning home swallowed a button
When he went to bed he was seized
with a fit of coughing. The button
came up, but he strangled on the pen
Gil and died.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-06
TWO KILLED By TRAIN.

One Man Dead and Another Dying as
Result Of Being Struck by Trains.
Minneapolis, Nov. 1. - Two men
were struck by freight trains in Min.
neapolis yesterday and one of them
died of his injuries and the other is
dying.
George Cerwas died at st. Mary's
hospital after being run over by a
freight train at Minneapolis junction
Mark Winkenwerder is dying at the
city hospital as the result of being hit
by train at First street and Third
avenue north.
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Ex.PREMIER is DEAD.

Hon. Thomas Greenway, Foe to Rail-
road MonopoIies, Expires.
Winnipeg, Nov. /. - Hon. Thomas
Greenway, former premier of Manito-
ba, member Of the railway commits
sion of Canada, died unexpectedly in
Ottawa yesterday morning, aged sew
enty years. He was the head of the
government which broke the Canadian
Pacific railway monopoly in Western
Canada and brought the Northern Pa
cifc railway into Manitoba twenty
years ago, the first rival railway to
the Canadian Pacific railway to enter
this country.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-06
Crimes,

While playing noonshiner at their
home near Whitesburg, Ohio, Charles
Morgan, six years old, shot his brother
Sammy, aged eight years, in the fore.
head, killing him instantly
Frederick w. Gross, former nav.
master of the Colorado national
guard during the great Cripple Creek
strike, under the Peabody administra.
ton, committed suicide at Denver by
firing a bullet into his BRAIN
While seated in his home with his
family at Springfield, Ill.,, Ransom P.
Stowe. veteran of the Civil war,
aged sixty-five years, drew a revolver
from his pocket, turned to his wife
and said: "Good-by; I'm going now!"
and blew out his brains.
An indictment was returned by the
federal grand jury at Omaha against
Theodore Kharas, charging the use
of the mails for fraudulent purposes
The charges grew out of Kharas' ex
ploitation Of mechanical street car
advertising device. Eight years ago
Kharas was the candidate for govern
or of Nebraska on the Socialist ticket
A man giving the name of George
B. Carter and believed to be a crank
was arrested in Chicago when he call
ed at the home of Chief of Police
Shippy to see the chief. Miss Georgi
ana shippy met the man at the door
He said Chicago men owed him S.,
100000 and he wanted the chief to
help him collect it, Miss Shippy
called q policeman.
After quarrel with his wife
Charles Smit, an aged farmer of Pc
SEVILLE, Midland county, Mich, shot
and killed William Duchan. neigh
Dor, at whose home Mrs. Smith had
taken refuge, and then committed sui
eide.
e. J. Martin, proprietor of saloon
ct Cover, Mo-, was shot and killed in
the Cover depot by Wood Arnold
Arnold had been drinking in Martins
saloon and wore Martins hat away
When the saloon man asked for thu
hat Arnold shot him through tn
AeaTt Arnold escaped on . tran.
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Personal.

The British Aero club has awarded
its gold medal to the Wright brothers
Of Dayton, Ohio, for their remarkable
achievements.
DR.. David Doherty, who, while prac.
ticing medicine in Chicago during the
last twenty years, won recognition for
his chronological and pathological work,
died in Chicago as the result of 9
stroke of apoplexy.
The engagement of Mrs. Dorothy
Hurlburt, widow of a prominent socie.
ty man of Chicago, to Pierce Fish, q
Boston clubman, is just announced.
The secret became known through q
postal card written by Mrs. Hurlburt
which got into the wrong hands.
Rev. E. Jay Cooke, rector of St.
Stephens Episcopal church at Schuy.
lerville. N. Y, dropped dead Of heart
disease at Schenectady. DR.. Cooke
was nephew of Jay Cooke, the great
hnancier of Civil war times, after
whom he was named. He had held
pastorates at Mortified, Mimi, St,
Paul and Clinton, Iowa.
King Frederick has honored c. h.
Hansen, who lately resigned the Dan.
ish consulship in Chicafo, with the or.
der of Danneborgsmand. AS Mr.. Han.
sen already had been made a Knight
of Dannebory, this new honor is re.
garded as unusual and as showing
that his good work for his country.
men in many quarters of the globe is
appreciated.
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KILLED BY EATING PICKLES.

Girl Devoured Scores Of Big Ones
Daily and Finally Succumbed.
Pittsburg, Nov. 3.-After remaining
in a condition of coma for 142 hours,
Miss Mary Thompson, fourteen years
old, who came to be known to the at
taches of st. Johns hospital as the
pickle girl" is dead.
The girl was employed at pick
ling establishment. She developed a
passionate fondness for pickles and
since the picking season started had
eaten nothing but pickles. Most of
them were the big ones and she would
eat scores of them every day.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-06
FUMES TAKE FIFTY LIVES.

Scores Perish in Poisonous Gases
Over Burned Oil Fields.
Mexico City, Nov. 1.-Reports from.
Tampico show that over fifty lives
have been lost in the oil fields as a
result of the poisonous gases caused
by the recent fire. Following the
death of a score of men a few days
ago. another party went into the field
and it is said thirty men persisted,
among the dead being several SOL
diers.
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FEEBLE MINDED IN PERIL.

State Asylum Building in New York
Destroyed.
Rome, N. ", Nov. 3.-Ward building
B of the state custodial asylum here
for feeble minded women was burned
yesterday. There were about $50 pa
tients in the building, including the
old and decrepit, about thirty of whom
were confined to beds. All the sick
and helpless were safely removed. It
will cost 100000 to replace the burn
ed building and $4,000 to furnish it.
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Jackies Are Dined.

Annoy, Nov 3.-Two thousand men
of the second squadron of the Ameri-
can fleet were allowed to land yestar.
day and were, served at the reception
grounds with European luncheon and
a Chinese dinner. Admiral Sab of the
Chinese navy yesterday gave lunch.
con in honor of Rear Admiral Emory
and the fleet commanders.
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Cadet Killed In Football Game.
Lexington, Nov. 3.-Cadet G. Cook
Ferebee. son Of G. B. Ferebee Of Nor.
folk, Va, died yesterday from concus
sion Of the brain, due to an injury re.
ceived in a game of football between
Virginia military institute and Roam.
oke college.
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BIG ELEVATOR TO BE BUILT.

Contract Let for First Unit in 100000
600 1ushel Elevator.
Winnipeg, Nov. l. The Grand
Trunk Pacific Railway company yes
terday let a contract for 100000
bushel elevator at Fort William. This
is the first unit of what will be 49,
10000 bushels capacity storage plant
in that city. The first unit is to be
ready one year from next month.
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Attempted Suicide.

Webster City, Iowa, Nov. Twill
Kriel, a farmer north Of this city, at
tempted suicide last night with o.
caliber revolver. He shot the ball
into his forehead, but It did not enter
tho skull and he will recover.
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Is MysteriousIy Killed.

10 WyStStt0Uo1y Nt1eu'
Memphis, Tenn, Nov. 3.-The body
of Lee Marshall. travelling salesman
of Mayfield, KY, was found in an
empty coal car attached to an Illinois
Central train near here yesterday.
Death had resulted from two bullet
wounds, and when found by the train
crew the body was still warm. No
weapon was found which would indi-
cate suicide.
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Wrjoht Motor Blows Up.

Lemans, France, Nov. 1. - While
Wilbur Wright, the American aero.
pianist, was making fight the motor
Of the machine exploded. Mr.. Wright
landed without injury and the aero
plant was not otherwise damaged.
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susnected Of SmuooIinu.

Pensacola, Fla, Nov. 3.-Suspected
of having engaged in smuggling Chi
nese from Mexico to the United
States, the American schooner Fred
die w. Alton of Boston is detained
here by customs officials. The master,
Capt. Daily, disappeared when the in.
vestigation began. ..--
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Court Holds Sunday Session.

Court Holds Sunday Session.
st. Joseph, Mo-, Nov. 3.-Court was
in session yesterday to take up cleo.
ton frauds discovered by police and
court officials. Nearly fifty arrests
have been made and a number of con.
yictions secured. The police say they
have found $50 STRAW men" in three
wards.
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SPECTATORS ARE DIsARMED.
Serious Trouble Probably Averted IL
Court Room by Order.


Court Room by Order.
Norfolk, Nov. /. - Serious trouble
probably was averted at the coroner's
inquest at Holland, Va, yesterday to
inquire into the murder Of Tyberius
G. Jones several days ago, as result
of an order to search all spectators
in the court room for concealed weap.
ons. Seven or eight persons were
caught with pistols in their pockets
and score or more of guns were
found on the floor and window stills.
The order to search the spectators
was issued as result Of an attempt
by J. B. Jones Of Norfolk, brother Of
the dead man, to assault Hardy while
he was on the stand. Two concealed
weapons were found on him.