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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
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LEGALITY Il: g PREs'DENT's Ac--
& TON DiscHARoINa TROOPS
ToBE TESTED.

Washington, Dec. 20. - Politicians,
war department officials and even
statesmen yesterday indicated great
interest in the news from New York
that law firm of the metropolis has
begun suit to determine the right OF
the president Of the United States to-
take summary action to defeat the pur.
poses of a conspiracy of silence, like
that which made Brownsville famous.
TIE New York lawyers have,
brought test case in the United
States court for the Southern district
Of New York to determine the right of
the executive to discharge battalion
of the TW.enty-fifth infantry as an out
come of the rioting at Brownsville.
Tex.
Soldier Sues fer Pay.
Officially. this New York case has
not yet reached the war department.
In due course 1t undoubtedly will do
so through the service of papers on
the secretary of war by an officer of
the district court, directing him to
make answer in the suit filed by tne
New York attorneys in behalf OF Pri-
vate Oscar w. Reid Of Company c,
Twenty-fifth infantry, to recover.
s123.26, the amount of pay which he
claims from the date of the ternina-
tion of his enlistment, July 10, 1907.
The plaintiff sues the government to,
recover pay lost through his discharge
from the army, hut the attorneys in
the case admitted that they were re-
tanned by wealthy gentlemen Of New
England" whose real object is to de-
termine the legality of the presidents
action.
Talks Of His Employers.
Chase Mellen of counsel for the
plaintiff said yesterday:
Il am not at liberty to tell who the
gentlemen back of this action are.
They will disclose their identity at the
proper time and somebody will be sur
prised. They are all men of national
prominence. They banded together in
an informal organization for the pur-
pose of seeing that poor individuals
received the rights guaranteed them
by the Constitution of the United
States.
/ These gentlemen are withholding
their names at present because they
do not want the public to attach any
political significance to their action.
can state positively for them that poll
tics has nothing whatever to do with
it. Their action is animated by some.
thing higher than that" n
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
MYSTERY SHROUDS
DEATH OF WOMAN
SLAIN IN LONELY SPOT ON HACK.
ENsAck MEADOWS, NEAR
NEWARK, N. J..
NUDE BODY FOUND IN POND
WAS SEEN SHORTLY BEFORE THE
CRIME WAS COMMITTED WITH !.
UNKNOWN MAN.
NUDE BODY FOUND IN POND

Newark, N. j., Dec. 2s.-1 kitple,
combining all the elements mykfry
and deliberate cruelty that ake fEout
of the ordinary was comnl tied OF the
Hackensack meadows, in the tovn OF
Harrison, early yesterday, andE the
nude body of the victimI comely
woman of perhaps thirty years, nearly
submerged in the icy waters of little
pond. Only the feet projected when
chance passersby broke the ice in
which the exposed portions were in
crusted and dragged the body ashore
yesterday afternoon.
Body Not Identified.
The dead woman was finely featur.
ed, her hair and nails gave evidence
of recent scrupulous toilet, and such
of her clothing as was subsequently
found suggested in texture and style
an owner of refinement.
The body had not been identified
last night, and it was pretty we'll es.
tablished that it was not that of resi-.
dent Of this city or Harrison. Two
men who occupied a yacht moored
near where the body was found, are
detained by the police.
Important Clue.
The most important clue obtained
was furnished last night by Peter Coo.
gan, a Waterman employed by the Ma
rine Engine company; who recognized
the body as that Of woman whom he
had seen crossing the meadows in
company with a man early yesterday.
Later he saw the man alone. The man
carried a bundle in his arms. The
man was short and stout.
Two girls returning to their home
in Harrison long after midnight yes.
terday morning heard woman's cries
floating over the marsh land. They
seemed to come from the direction OF
the pond, and to the startled girls
sounded like Spare mel" and "Help!"
Aceosted by Stranger.
Nearer home the girls were ap.
preached by we'll dressed stranger
who accosted and followed them until
policeman was met with, when he
turned and fled. .
Life had been extinct, the coroner
said, about twelve hours, when the
body was found. A mark on the neck
indicated that strangulation was the
manner. of death. Scratches on the
leg and trunk and pieces of cinder
forced into the flesh showed that the
body had been dragged along a cinder
path which skirts the pond.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
Crimes and Criminals.


Frank Tsar, fifty-four years old, shot
and probably fatally wounded his wife
In their home at Chicago and then
committed suicide.
The coroner's jury which investigat
ed the death of r. H. Harris, a com.
mission broker of Kansas City, who
was supposed to have been accidental.
ly killed at Chicago by Northwest.
ern elevated train, returned verdict
of suicide.
The body Of Lawrence Finley, a
farmer living near Lemont, ILL.,, was
recovered from the old Illinois and
Michigan canal. At the time of his dis.
appearance Finley is said to have had
large sum Of money in his posses.
sion. When the body was recovered
the money and watch were missing.
Following elaborate experiments to
prevent the recurrence of accidents to
submarine vessels. the French minis.
ter of the navy has issued orders that
all submarines be fitted out with de
tachable telephone buoys, which in
case of accident will permit eommuni
cation with the surface.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
CHINATOWN .RA,DED BY MOB.
Fifteen Hundred Men Wreck Oriental
Quarter in Alberta Town..

Fifteen Hundred Men Wreck Oriental
Quarter in Alberta Town.
Lethbridge. Alb, Dec. 29.-Because
they believed that prominent citi-
zen had been murdered in a Chinese
restaurant, 1900 men raided and
wrecked the Oriental quarter late
Christmas night. Restaurants and
laundries were smashed and doors,
windows and entire fronts of build
ings were reduced to splinters.
The regular police of the town were
powerless and a brigade of mounted
police had to be called out to quell the
riot.
Story MisIeads Police.
A story was circulated that Harry
Smith, we'll known cattle rancher,
had been fatally wounded in a restau-
rant. Curiously enough, neither Smith
nor any one else had been hurt, but
even the police were misled by the
tale, and two Orientals were arrested
charged with the murder.
An indignant mob gathered opposite
the restaurant and there was talk of
lynching. Suddenly some one threw
rock. which smashed front window.
In moment the crowd was beyond
control. Bricks and stones were hurl-
ed and wien the doors had been
broken in the tables and chairs and
dishes were smashed.
Mayor Appeals to Mob.
The Columbia and Alberta restau-
rants were literally wrecked. Later a
detachment Of mounted police appear
ed and the crowd scattered.
Hundreds of the rioters merely
shifted the scene of pillaging. Three
blocks away, opposite the Arlington
hotel, they cleaned out another Chi
nese restaurant and roughly handled
two Orientals who were captured with
in. Mayor Galbraith and Magistrate
Townsend both addressed the mob and
urged it to dispense and as all posi-
BILE damage had been done it obeyed.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
RICH NEW YEAR is ASSURED.
Holiday Purchases Bring Out Horded
Wealth and End Strinoencv.

Holiday Purchases Bring Out Horded
Wealth and End Strinsency.
Chicago, Dec. 2S.-America is pre-
pairing to begin in fact prosperous
new year."
The last of the money boards which
contributed in large measure to the
recent currency stringency were drag
ged from their hiding places and poured
into the channels of trade during the
Christmas shopping period. The mil
lions thus liberated, swelled by nearly
500, 100000 in dividends which will be
paid in Chicago and New York during
the next ten days, will make the clear
ing house certificate rare guest in the
pocket of the wage Garner.
Full Dinner Pail. Too.
The working man, too, has cause to
welcome the coming year. From all
sections of the country come an
nouncements that mills and factories,
closed when the Wall street storm de-
veloped, will be reopened without de-
lay. Around Pittsburg alone $4,000
men will go back to work next week.
Local bankers are unanimous in ex-
pressing the opinion that the total ex-
penditures during the 1907 Christmas
holidays have never been surpassed, a
showing which they said was nothing
short of marvellous in view of the
financial furry. The trade in holiday
goods aggregated $6,OOO,000.
Record Foreign Business.
Although New York has passed
through a period of financial depres.
sion the foreign business of the port
during the year 1907 will break all rec.
ords. With exact figures for eleven
months and an estimate for December
the years business will reach $1,50s,.
330,6O2; an increase over last year OF
$110,127,325. The imports of foreign
merchandise at New York reached the
enormous total of $S37,S92,7 1877 during
1907. as against $776,142, 7O9 in 1906.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
Domestic.

United States Senator Stephen b.
Mallory died at Pensacola, Fla.
An ordinance increasing the license
fee for saloons from $3.50 to $500 has
been passed by the board of council.
men of Louisville.
The American board of commission
ers for foreign missions has received
advices from the interior of Turkey
showing unusually severe famine con.
ditions.
Mrs. John Burns. whose husband
died suddenly week ago at Glad.
stone, Mich, is dead, death being caus.
ed by grief at the passing of her aged
husband.
With impressive services, the cathe.
dral Of the newly constituted Catholic
diocese Of Seattle was formally dedi.
Gated and opened for worship. It was
erected at cost Of 100000.
The Missouri State board of health
ordered strict quarantine of the Mis-.
souri, penitentiary, the vaccination OF
convicts, the employees of the state
and factories with it and fumigation OF
all material taken into the institution
or from it. The action results from the
discovery Of four mild cases of small.
pox within the prison.
David Marshall of Florence, Ky.
died at Chicago of hydrophobia. Mar
shall and Calvin Rice, also resident
of Florence, were bitten by a mongre]
dog, and few days later both show
ed symptoms Of hydrophobia. Rice Is
now in serious condition in a local
hospital.
Without dissenting vote the Phil.
fppine assembly passed a bill provid.
ing for the appropriation of $1,000, 600
for the erection Of schools in Barrios,
This is the first law passed by the
Philippine legislature, and it's adop
ton is regarded as matter of great
interest,
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
NEW COURT DISTRICT.

Congressman steenerson Working on
the Federal Authorities.
GAINESVILLE, Mimi, Dec. 20. - Dis
patches from Washington state that
Congressman STEVENSON is inquiring
with regard to the possibility Of secur.
ing the recommendation of the depart
ment of justice for the creation of a
new federal district in Northwestern
Minnesota, with Fergus Falls as court
town. His inquiries thus far has not
resulted in anything that looks like
success, as the department does not
regard a new district necessary.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
news OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
DIGEST OF THE NEWS WORTH
TELLING CONDENSED FOR
BUSY READERS.
Washington.

The secretary Of the interior sent
to congress an estimate for an appro-
priation of $4,000 for the survey and
preparation of plans for an irrigation
system on the Flathead Indian reser-
walton.
Senator Nelson has introduced res.
olution appropriating $4,000 for the
reconstruction of the Sandy Lake dam
at the headwaters of the Mississippi
river, in accordance with the recon
mendations of the chief of engineers
in his last annual report.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
People Talked About.

Alonzo Wygant, general superintend-
ent of the United States Express COM
pany, died at Chicago after an illness
of several months.
Charles F. Wise, chief operator of
the Western Union at Evansville, Ind,
for many years, died after an illness
of two years of tuberculosis.
Mrs. Harley Lyon, one of the Oldest
residents of Grand Rapids, Mich, died
suddenly of heart failure. She was
prominent in society and club circles.
Mrs. Ann Mulischer of West Liberty,
Ohio. who celebrated her 106th BIRTH
day last month, is dead of paralysis.
She retained her faculties until a
week before her death.
John Paley, editor of the Jewish
Daily News, was found dead in his
home in Brooklyn, asphyxiated by gas
which escaped from an open burned in
the parlor. No motive for suicide has
been established.
Thomas Walhurst, widely known as
a theatrical manager for nearly sixty
years, died in New York from grip.
He was eigrty-one years of age. Mr..
Walhurst was the first manager to ex-
plot Artemus Ward.
The will of the late Michael Gilleas,
who was vice president of the Illinois
Central railroad, disposing of property
valued at $1,OO0.O0O, was probated at
Los Angeles. A widow and seven chill
dren receive the estate. It is located
In Iowa and other states.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
Casualty.


A brakeman was killed and an en-
gineer and fireman were fatally in.
jured in a collision near Mcleod, B. G.
Prof. Oskar Lassar, we'll known as a
dermatologist and member of the
medical faculty of Berlin university,
died as the result of an automobile &C.
cident.
Five persons were killed by an ex.
plosion of compressed air in the un-
completed Metropolitan subway tunnel
under the Seine river, near Notre
Dame, Paris.
The Burton building in Chicago was
damaged by fire. The structure was
occupied by number of small manu-
featuring plants. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
The big powder mill of the Happy
Thought mine at Creole, Colo, belong
ing to the United Creole Mines COM
pany, was destroyed by fire. Loss is
estimated at 100000.
Capt. Henry Scribner Of the barge
New Haven and his wife were drown
ed off New Haven, Conn.,, when seven
barges in tow OF the tug James Nc
Williams sank. Six men were rescued
by the McWilliams.
While Miss Elizabeth Hatfield, sew
enteen years old, of Washington,
knelt at her bedside in prayer, upon
arising, her nightdress ignited from a
gas stove and she sustained burns
from which she died.
Frightened by burning fuse which
he saw on the tracks ahead, Fireman
William Irwin leaped from a Chicago
Great Western railway engine near
Hanley, Iowa, and received injuries
from which he may die.
While she sat in the lap of her cous-
in at the family home in Reid's Sta
ton, Ca, Sedora Bryant, the ten-year-
old daughter of ]. D. Bryant, was in.
Ilstantly killed by stroke of lightning
that wrecked the house and injured
fifteen other persons, though not seri.
ously.
The two-year-old son of James Cath.
rea OF Aydenham township, near Owen
Sound, Ont, after watching his par.
ents SINCE the down from some pluck.
ed fowl lit roll of paper when left
alone with his baby sister and applied
it to the child's dress. The baby was
SO badly burned that it died half an
hour later.
Mrs. John Myer, an elderly woman
who came to Des Moines few months
ago with her family from Red Oak
Iowa, was found dead, presumably
from the use of patent medicine, to
which she was addicted. It is believ
ed that she took doses of different
medicines which united to poison her
Chauncey, aged four years; Ada
aged three years. sister and brother
children of Wendell Stull, near Greer
Mountain, Iowa, climbed up to the tor
pantry shelf, secured box of NOR
phine pills and ate all of them. The
boy died two hours later and the cir
is in serious condition and may moi
live.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
ALICE LoNewoRTH BETTER.

Rapidly Recovering From Operation
for Appendicitis.
Washington, Dec. 29.-Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth, who was operated upon
two weeks ago for appendicitis, was
able to be moved yesterday from her
room at the White House to her own
home. The young invalid is recover
ing so well that in few weeks she
expects to take up her usual active
life.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
kuLP IS REPRIMANpEp.

Result Of court-martlai Of Davenport
(Iowa) Captain.
Des Moines, Dec. 20. = The court.
martial trying Capt. Kulp Of Company
B. Fifty-fourth regiment, for alleged
failure to stop a prize fight upon the
orders Of Adjt. Gen. Thrift, on the
night of Nov. 81. returned a verdict
yesterday holding that, while Capt,
Kulp may not have Intentionally dis.
obeyed the orders Of Adjt. Gen. Thrift.
he did 50, and the court recommended
that he b reprimanded.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
Find 124 Bodies.

Jacobs Creek, Pa. Dec. 2s-Rapid
progress is made in the removal Of
bodies from the Darr mine. All of the
entries except No. q have been cleared
and total of 1874 bodies brought from
the mine. A number of other bodies
have been located, and it is expected
that they will be brought to the sur.
face during the night.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
From Other Shores.

Pierre Jules Caesar Jansen, the eel.
ebrated French scientist and director
of the Meubon observatory, is dead.
He was born in 1924.
The late Queen Garcia bequeathed
to charitable organizations the larger
part of her fortune, which in all is
estimated at about $5,O0O,O0O.
Delegates from all the British West
Indian islands will meet at Bridge.
town, Barbados, B. w. l., on Jan. II
to hold an agricultural conference.
The British admiralty has decided
to establish, next May, a Pacific and
North American squadron, the base of
which will probably be at Esquimalt.
Charles M. Skinner, author and
playwright, is dead at Proctorville,
VT. He was fifty-five years old and a
brother of Otis Skinner, the actor.
M. Guido, formerly minister of Nor
way and Sweden to Denmark, has
been appointed to succeed the late H
C. Hauge as minister of Norway to the
United States.
Victorien Sardou and one of the the
aters Of Paris have brought suit fol
$4,000 and $4,000. respectively
against the Matin for publishing crit
icism of a play before its first produc
ton.
Mrs. Joseph Nelson Patterson Of
Philadelphia, who was taken in charge
by the Paris police because of eccen
trio behavior, has been taken to a pri
vate asylum, where she will be treated
until she is in condition to be taken
to the United States.
Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimer
who renowned his rank upon his mar
riage to the widowed Countess Luc
chesini, the daughter of a Luebecl
hotelkeeper, in 1891, is dead. Ate,
his marriage Prince Bernhard assum
ed the title of Count Grayenberg. .
Just at the moment when the agita
ton against the high price of coal IL
extending the coal syndicates, with
headquarters at Dusseldorf, Germany
publishes its price schedule for twelve
months. beginning April /. BY this the
price Of nearly every. quality of Goa
will be increased 10 to IL cents a ton
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
Hurt by Explosion.

Pompton. N. J.. Dec. 29.-Emil Flo
matno Of Brooklyn, N. Y, was proba.
bly, fatally injured and three other
men were seriously hurt by an explo-
sion In the mixing room Of the Never.
nice Powder company at Riverdale
yesterday.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
Dewey Seventy Years Old.

Washington, Dec. %. = Admiral
George Dewey was seventy years old
yesterday. Numerous officers of the
navy and army and other friends call.
ed on him at his office and later at his
home.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
Shot by strikebreaker.

Binghamton, N. Y, Dec. 2S.-John
L. Sullivan, a switchman, was shot and
killed yesterday by an unknown strike.
breaker. The ball passed completely
through Sullivan's skull and he lived
less than an hour.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
Kills Child and SELF

Rome, Tex, Dec. 20. = Mrs. j. W.
Brammon administered carbolic acid
to her infant child and swallowed a
dose herself. Both died almost in.
stantly.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
Bankers to Hear Shaw.

>SsS " t0SdC SnaW.
Des MONIES. Dec. 29.-Former secre.
tary OF the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw
has been invited by the bankers Of
Des Moines to attend their banquet
next week and deliver an address.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
Wounded omesr Dies.

Minneapolis, Dec. 2s.-Donald J. Nc.
Call. the shakopee constable who was
shot on Christmas eve while attempt
ing to place a man under arrest at
Prior Lake, died yesterday in st. Bar
nabas hospital in Minneapolis, where
he had been brought Immediately after
the shooting.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-01-02
ExuIoslon Fatal 70 Two.

Dayton, Ohio. Dec. %. g. The third
explosion in as many weeks at the
King powder mills fatally injured tws
employees last evening.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1908-10-28
SAW MILL, AND TIMER LAND
FOR SALE.

Twenty million feet of fine saw
timber. Saw Mil. capacity twenty
thousand feet. FIRST class machinery,
logging wagons. horses. and harness
complete. Now planning mill. cost
Ing 100000. latest improved ma
chincry. New Shlnglo mill. capacity
10000. Between eight and ten thou
sand dollars worth Of lumber on hand
planning MIL. Saw MN. Drying House
Bunk House. Cook House. and other
buildings are all good buildings. This
property In situated In the heart Of
the klamath Irrigation Project. nice
ly located and n splendid market for
the lumber. The entire property Is
offered for short tim" for $4,000.
Il IL easily worth SGO.OOO. For full
soc. or write.
r.. r.. FITCH. Merrill. oregon.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1908-10-28
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department OF the Interior, U. s.
Land oGcc at LakeyIew. Oregon.
October :. 1908.
Notice is hcrby given that Herbert
~. McLano. OF klamath Falls. Ore
gon. who. on Sept. lG. 1908. made
Timber and Stone Application. No.
O6G2. for VIZ SWA. Section 81. Tp.
81 $. Il. 3 f.. W. NJ, has filed no.
ticc Of intention TO make Final Proof
to establish claim TO the land above
described. before County Clerk OF
klamath County. at his Office at
klamath Falls. Oregon. on the .sd
day OF December. 1905.
Claimant names as witnesses:
G. W. McI.anc. Mary +. McLane.
J. $. Mills. l.. II. Lawrence. all OF
klamath. Falls. Oregon.
J. n. WATSON.
1912 Register.