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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-06-12
YEGGMAN's MAP FOUND IN PEN.
North Dakota Banks Classified as
Schools for Future Raids.

Word has reached Minot of a dis
covery at the state penitentiary at
Bismarck that reveals plan of CO
operation among the bank robbers of
the state. In the cell of Bert Conroy,
enc of the Sawyer bank robbers,
complete map of the state was found.
Each town was marked with either a
cross or circle, and set of arrows
surrounded each town so marked. In
a lower corner of the map was the
following key:
4 First-class high schools.
o second-class high schools.
Figures mean attendance.
A careful examination of the map
showed that, instead of schools, the
symbols denoted the big and little
banks, and the figures estimated their
capitalization.
How this map was smuggled to
Conroy cannot be ascertained. No
such paper was on him when he was
taken to the penitentiary. In addition,
long knife was found on his person.
1t seems evident that he was planning
an escape and was becoming ac-
quainted with the conditions in the
state before again embarking on his
career of crime.
A special watch has been placed
over all four of the Sawyer bank rob-
bers and the cells have been thor
oughly examined. The map shows
how to get to the banks-their en-.
trance and streets. A smaller diagram
points out the proper way TO break
into different makes of safes. Where
to drill holes, where to use the chisel
and the proper charge to place, are
all itemized. Conroy was quiet pris-
oner in the county Til at Minot, but
was regarded as the wisehead of the
gang.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-06-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN tPiTOMF
important Events at Home and on
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
People Talked About.

Hildebrand Fitzgerald, business
manager and one Of the proprietors of
the Philadelphia Item, is dead.
Nathan Stein, widely known as a
wholesale clothier, died at his home
in Rochester, N. Y, aged eighty
years.
Consequent upon his resignation
handed in several months ago because
of i'll health, President R. H. Jesse,
for many years head of the Missouri
state university, has ended his connec-
ton with the institution.
A document has just been uncover.
ed in the Office of the city registrar of
st. Louis which shows that Gen. U. S.
Grant in 1859 applied to the city of
st. Louis for position as county en-
gineer and was refused the place.
Bishop Edward Wilson OF the Re.
formed Episcopal church died at his
home at Methuen, N. ]. He was born
in Liverpool. England. in 1920 and
came to America in 1910. Bishop Will
son retired some time ago on account
Of ill health.
w. w. Astor. Jr, has adopted the
role of temperance reformer. He pre-
sided at a meeting in London of the
Semi-teetotal Pledge association,
whose members bind themselves to
drink alcohol only at their midday and
evening meals.
Rev. Columbus Polk Goodson, pas
tor of the Highland Park Presbyterian
church of Warsaw, Ind, and Bertha
Irene Chapman, daughter of Rev. DR..
]. Wilbur Chapman, the evangelist,
were married at Warsaw, the father OF
the bride officiating.
Francis V. Kossuth, royal Hungari.
an minister of commerce, has notified
Emil Zerkowitz, the American CORE.
spondent of the royal Hungarian mu.
scum of commerce. of his appointment
as commercial counsellor in this coun.
try. Mr.. Zerkowitz has been three
years in the United States and seeks
to strengthen the pleasant relations
between this country and Hungary.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-06-12


soufis NJ N auto inventor.
Z The cooperstown creamery IL to be-
improved. 5si 4 " {.
Jamestown has q lot Of mushrooms
mo toad stools. IN l5 j :.
8 Gypsies were chased out Of Wal
halla to Manitoba.
There were q pair Of diphtheria
cases at Kindred.
Wells county is enjoying wide de-
gree OF prosperity.
An attempted burglary at Valley
City was frustrated.
Work has been started on the new
race track at Williston.
A. ]. Johnson of Kindred had a leg
broken while he was fishing.
Gopher hunters are busy in coun.
ties where tounties are paid.
A Grand Forks girl tripped on a
shoe lace and broke an arm.
Brinsmade has fast baseball team
and licked the countyseaters.
Returning fishermen tell widely diff
ferent stories of their "luck."
Soaking rains west of the Missouri
put that country in fine shape.
Small grain is growing some-and
the dandelions are also hustling.
Smallpox in mild form is reported
in some parts of Bottineau county.
The quarantine on stock in Wells
county-for scabies-has been raised.
Darlington is getting started on a
bigger and broader basis since the
fire.
The good roads meeting at Lari-
more was step in the right direc-
ton.
The water works problem is even
a more serious matter at Minot than
in Fargo.
The Masons are planning big sum-
mer meeting at Lake Metigoshe, near
Bottineau.
At Ashley many of the citizens i'm
proved their property by setting out
shade trees.
The ALTERNATING business in this
state is getting to be more Of busi-
ness proposition.
The Velva band may furnish the
music for the old settlers picnic In
Towner next month.
G. F. Mudgett was appointed county,
commissioner in Barnes to succeed
the late William Coop.
The people of Mannering are rejoic.
ing over the completion of the tele-
phone line to that point.
An attempt was made to hold up q
Great Northern engineer in the
railroad yards at Minot.
Mrs. William Cosgrove of Wheat
land suffered internal injuries as re-
suit Of fall from buggy.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-06-12
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Kenmare is to have a fair.

A. nursery is to be established nesr
York.
+ Glendale gets weather bureau
station.
i A street faker did some clever work
at Bismarck. .,
Fargoans will start a new store at
Darlington.
There can't be any split tickets at
the primaries.
Grand Forks has organized com.
pany Of cadets.
The hotel change at Egeland made
an improvement.
Gypsy fortune tellers did big bust
ness at Bismarck
At Finley IS wildcat bill was
passed at a store.
Work is hurried on the creamery
building at Palermo.
The Milwaukee is charged with
backing the Midland.
There was false report of the find
ing of body near Sawyer.
Wahpeton complains that the dan.
delions are worse than ever.
There have been light hail storms
at several points in the state.
The people of Walcott rejoice over
the opening of another street.
Many farmers in Towner county are
raising strawberries this year.
Valley City did itself proud at the
Inauguration of the lodge of Elks.
The work of grading the railroad in
Cavalier county is now in prog 'ess.
4
The new home of the Cakes Nation
al bank is an elegant looking build
ing.
Carpio had a fire scare as result
of an explosion of gasoline blow
torch.
The merchants of Langdon have in.
augurated a system of free street car
nivals.
The 500 dam at Harvey is to be
raised SO the water supply can be in
creased.
The people at Mott are hopeful of
getting the Northern Pacific branch
there soon.
More fish are to be added to Spirit
wood lake and to the James river at
Jamestown.
Grand Forks expects the Great
Northern to run branch to Edgeley
from the Forks.
The people of Coteau are sore be-
cause the mail comes by star route
instead of by the train.
The new settlers in the western
part Of the state have set out thou
sands of trees this summer.
The Sentinel Butte band gave some
open air concerts that made big hit
with the people of that town.
Electric light and telephone wires
at Kenmare were crossed and the tel
ephone girls were rudely shocked.
Tom Schula of Courtenay had Peter
Kupka arrested on charge of ma
licious mischief in cutting wire
fence.
Conductor Callahan of the 500 was
injured at Fessenden by fall from a
car against which some others
crashed.
The officials of the state fair, to be
held in Fargo July 20-z5, are planning
to make the event bigger and better
than ever.
The North Dakota Artesian Well
Company of Cakes has way of land
ing the juice when it makes hole in
the ground.
The Campbell circus paid some
damage claims at Wahpeton as a re.
suit of injuries to people when the
storm struck the tent.
Farm laborers get about IS per
month less In North Dakota than last
year-and the number was sufficiently
large for the spring work.
County Superintendent Black pi
Richland county will retire from Office
and become one of the faculty of the
School Of Science at Wahpeton.
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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-06-12
General.

General.
Rev. S. A. Coffman. who murdered
his wife two wes':s ago, died in the
city hospital at Fairmont, w. Va, from
nervous collapse.
The American Administrations
league, coIpo:el of physicians and
laymen from all parts of the country,
whcse purpose is the stamping out Of
tie white plague" held it's annual
convention in St. Louis.
Daniel RitcAey. aged ninety years,
is dead at Corning, Iowa He was a
veteran of the Black Hawk war. He
kept q hotel in Adams county, Iowa,
in 1865. and when John Brown and
Jim Lane were running slaves north
into Canada his hosiery was a rendez.
| vous for them.
]. J. Hill has announced to the as.
| ISOLATED boards Of trade Of Saskatch-
evan that as soon as the gaps in Brit.
| ish Columbia are closed and line
butt to Calgary it is the intention to
extend the Great Northern syste m
from Winnipeg to Calgary and through
Northern Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Jacob Fishel of Nashville, Tenn.
has just sold to Virgie McBrand, pres.
ident of the Chicago Numismatic so.
Getty, a SO gold token issued in 1849
by the Cincinnati Mines and Trading
company, Mr.. McBrand paying $1,75O
for the piece. There are but two 9th.
er specimens of the token in exist.
ence.
Judgement on forfeited bail bond
of S1CO was entered in New York
against Kingdom Gould, who was not
in court when the charge against him
of automobile Speeding was brought
up for trial. A bench warrant was is
sued for Mr.. Gould's arrest, but the
police learned that he had sailed a
week ago for six weeks vacation in
Europe.
A number of influential English
women, including the countess of Jer
sey, Mrs Humphrey Ward and severa
prominent writer's and social reform
ers, have started and organized
movement to oppose the granting q
suffrage to women.
/ Former President Grover Cleveland
who has been confined to the Lake
wood hotel for two months with an al
tack Of rheumatic govt and acute in
digestion, had sufficiently recovere,
I from his illness to return to his HON,
in Princeton. The trip was made in
touring ear.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-06-12
From Other Shores.

1t is reported from Vienna that the
emperor and empress of Russia will
pay a return visit to Windsor in the
autumn
A large barge laden with Chinese
prisoners has been capsized in the
Amur river and eighty-nine persons
were drowned.
One fatal case of bubonic plague
has been officially reported at ST.
Thomas, D. w. l., and two suspected
cases are being watched.
Henry Farman, the British aero
naut, has renewed his challenge 10
the American aeronauts, the Wright
brothers, for a match for $4,000. He
expressed surprise that his original
challenge was not accepted long ago.
Advices received at Rio de Janeiro
state that the Brazilian training ship
Benjamin Constant, which is on voy-
age to Yokohama, picked up twenty
| shipwrecked men on Wake island, a
possession of the United States in the
| Pacific ocean.
King Gustaf Of Sweden and queen
/! arrived at Berlin last week anil were
/ met by the emperor and members of
| the royal family. The route TO the
castle was lined with troops and the
royal visitors were greeted enthusi-
astically all along the way.
Three girls and eleven men were
sentenced to death by court-martial at
| Warsaw for attacking a post car at
Sokolow, on the Vistula railroad, last
January. A bomb thrown at the car
killed two and wounded ten soldiers
and railroad employees, and after the
car was wrecked the safes were loot
| ed.
According to special dispatch re.
ceived at the City of Mexico floods
have wrought great damage in the
neighborhood of the city of Pachula
the last few days. Eighteen people
are said to have been drowned and
the village of Pachula entirely wiped
out The flood was occasioned by a
cloudburst.
Twelve gendarmes, while attempt,
| luS W dilSSl SlliNCl az
France, were surrounded BY $50 of the
workmen. Believing hey were in
danger of their lives, the gendarmas
used their weapons. Reinforcsments
of both narties soon reached the scene
and in the fight with revoivers two
workmen were killed and six d.
ed. Four gendarmes were wounded
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-06-12

There IL some criticism at Valley
City over the fact that the exits Of
the armory are not according to the
DEGREES Of the omcials there. Danger
81 feared should the building catch
q nrs With 4 lars crowd inside.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-02-27
To Make Red River Navigable.

Washington Feb. 20. Plans fer comprehensive improvement of the Red river are forming and vigorous campaign will be carried on hy Congressmen Cra- vens and Wallace of Arkansas, Sheppard and Randall of Texas; Waik ns of Louisiana, aud Carter and Ferris of Oklahoma, who to- day met 10 organize for the pur- pose. Saturday another meeting will De held when a sub-commit- tee, consisting of Craveus, Ran dall and Carter, will report the result of their investig aiious into the status of the Red river i'm. provements before the war de partment.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-02-27
SHOT FROM AMBUSH.
Man Who Had Record as Slayer Also Comes to Violent Death at Hands
 of an Assassin.

Beebe, Feb. l9.-Tom Wilkes was shot and instantly killed last eveaiug about dusk one mile south of McRae as he was on his way home from Beebe. Seven buckshot, fired by an unknown person, entered his back.
 Wilkes was a somewhat noted character in White county. Abou, F years ago he killed a young man by the name of McAtee near McRae, but was never tried for the killing, as it was clearly a case of self-defense. At the time McAfee was killed there was a man by the name of Clayton llv. ing at the home of McAfee. Clayton swore that he would avenge the death of young Me- Alice aud armed hlmself to kill Wilkes. Two days after McAfee's funeral Clayton was shot from ambush and killed. Suspicion pointed 10 Wilkes as the assassin and he was indicted, but alter trial in the White county circuit court he was acquitted.
 Recently Wilkes has been a witness for the state in several criminal cases and it is believed that 1t was some one of his enemies made recently who killed him Tuesday evening. He leaves family.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-02-27
THE EVENING STAP

Furnishes ths Best 6-Ddy-a- Weee Se~s Ser0iee For PolA County Readers
 40 cents Month. 70 cents q Week.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-02-27
PINDALL DENIES CHARGE.
Governor Refutes Statements Made by
 Senator Jeff Davis.

From Arkansas Gazette.
 Governor Pindall yesterday denied the charge made by Sena- tor Jeff Davis to the effect that he had contemplated being a candi- date for United States senator. Senator Davis alleged in his speech at Ozark that Governor Pindall had once prepared the announcement of his candidacy to succeed Senator Clarke, and that the governor had given It to a Gazette representative, and that. furthermore, II had taken nearly four hours for Governor pindall's friends to get the am nouncement withheld. Governor Pindall yesterday denied that he had written an announcement that he had given one to the Ga zette, or that he had given Il to anyone to deliver to the Gazette.
 Ii any such an announcement was ever given to a representative of the Gazette he kept 1t to him self, for no such paper was ever received at the Gazette office.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-02-27
FIRE AT FORT SMITH.
Pony Express Livery Barn Burned
 Horses Saved.

Fort Smith, Feb. 20. The two story brick livery barns, corner of Tenth and A of the Pony Ex- press, with all contents, were tie stroyed by fire Thursday morn ing. Loss, 9,5O0; insurance on building, S3,000; on contents, LOGO.
 Shortly after s o'clock fire was discovered in the harness room, which quickly spread over the upper story. The fire depart ment was summoned and was quickly on the scene but, with the equipment at their ommand, the fire was beyond their control. All horses and other animals were safely gotten out of the building save prize dog which had been left with the proprietors Tuesday for sale.
 In the yard adjoining were the cages and pens in which were kept the wild animals of Williams X Sons show, of which they had fine collection. The animals were frantic until they were all gotton to places of safety.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-02-27

When in need of auy kind of Hardware. or Harness and Sad dies. do not forget our new store.
 Milham X Copeliu, C 4t Next 10 Vandiver's.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-02-27
Home and Education.

"There is no place like home. '
 The first lasting impression l had about the duty of our newspapers was when l first came to the United States. After some light writing to to one of the leading German papers got called down by a German pas tor: Our duty Is to educate.
 Which is the first medium towards education? Our schools. The prin- cipal of our free school system can not be surpassed. Now are the ideas and aims of it carried out to their destinies? say, no.
 The eternally spelling and spelling matches, the smelling in to past history. forgetting our present, neg lecting writing and reading, the so- called practical education, is very much to be regretted. Still more so the ignorance of the knowledge of and esteem for foreign nations. most teachers utterly failing to im- plant in the hearts of our young sters the love for home.
 The first sign in any savage tribe towards civilization is the sound of language; the second, the establish ment of homes, and the third, their songs.
 Dear reader, if you want to study the character of any nationality, study it's poetry, it's songs. What nation has more beautiful combi- nation of poetry and home than we have in Home, Sweet Home !"
 How often have we the pleasure of hearing it? Seldom. Don't dis courage songs. How often we hear any. What songs are they out of the old hymnbook? They are dear to us; they are proper, perhaps, at any time, but their right place is the church house. Where are our popular, our patriotic songs? Home and honesty go hand in hand. Impress our children at home with the love for same: pre- pare home for them; lead their character toward honesty; teachers, take it up; editors. complete it-and we soon will get at the root of dis honesty, corruption and---" high finance"
 When agriculture begins, other arts will follow. The farmer is .he foundation of our country. Some. times it seems that people forget the good old times-.-the pleasure our parents received from primitive love of country and home.
 Simple love, simple heart---God bless them. Oscar Ziewitz.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-02-27
eeorae Tennxson eoes Eree.

Marysville, Feb, 21.--Judge Kimble Thursday instructed in the case where in George Tennyson was being tried for the murder of his father to find the defendant not guilty. The jury was then dismissed The attorneys for the prosecution made vigorous protest against the action of the court. They asked to have the hearing pro ceed and insisted that the purported confession of Flora Tennyson, coupled with the facts proven required the court to submit the case to the jury. The court replied to the request stat ing as matter of law that he could not allow the genuineness of the con fession to be disputed or questioned in the case.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-02-27

Washington, Feb. 21.-A proposition very serious to many thousands of people residing at, and in the vicin- ity of small railroad stations through out the country is presented to the in terstate commerce commission in an informal petition in which the Wabash Railroad company asks for an exten- sion of the time of the going into ef- feet of the 9-hour law, which applies to railway employees who have the di rection of movements of trains. It IS declared in the petition that unless the order of extension is made either by the commission or by the congress, the only alternative will be closing of a large number of stations on the Wabash railroad. This action, it is said, will impair the efficiency of the service and result in public incon- venience and interfere with the prompt movement of trains, but the Wabash officials assert that they see no way out of the difficulty into which they will be plunged by the opera tion of the law.
 It is pointed out in the petition, that In order to comply with the provisions of the law the company would have to employ an additional telegraph op- orator at each of 245 stations on its line. Thus far the company says that it has not been able to secure the services of efficient and competent operators in such numbers as will en- able 1t to comply with the act.
 The Wabash officials maintain that the application of the law to their line would result in great hardship and expense to the company, seemingly unnecessary, even if it were able to secure the necessary number of eff cient and competent employees for the purpose Other railway companies have taken substantially the same ground as the Wabash. They main tain their absolute inability to secure a sufficient number of competent tele' graph operators to man their wires as the law after the fourth of March will require. It is pointed out that in complying with the law their only recourse will be to transfer operators now in their employ to stations oi greater importance and larger traffic thus practically closing many small stations where now the operator per forms the duties of ticket agent freight agent and telegrapher
 The seriousness of the situation presented by the railroads Is realized fully by the interstate commerce com mission, which will endeavor to react some satisfactory adjustment of the matter before the law becomes effec tive.