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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-04-23

IS survived by a widow and three chill
dren. Miss Marjorie, the only daugh-
ter. is seriously i'll at st. Joseph's hos
pital.
Was Born in Sweden.
MI. Rcsing was one of the most
prominent men in the state. He was
born in N1almo, Sweden, on Aug. 20,
1861. and came with his parents to
Minnesota in 1869. In 1886 he mar
ried Miss Mary B. Season of Cannon
Fails, where he made his home. In
1888 Mr.. Rosing became a member of
the firm of Rosing & Kraft, retail
shoe dealers, and remained in that
business until 1905, when he became
member CT the state board of control.
He took an active part in politics
early, first as Republican, but left
that party on the tariff issue in 1890.
He was Democratic candidate for
state senator in 1894, and in 1896 be-
came chairman of the state central
committee. In that capacity he man.
aged the three Lind campaigns for
governor and developed high order
of managerial ability.
Candidate for Governor.
When John Lind was elected in
1898 he made Mr.. Rosing his private
secretary, and he served in that ca
paclty for two years. He returned to
his business in 1901, but in 1902 was
made the candidate Of his party for
governor. He contended against the
second-term candidacy Of Van SAINT
and was defeated.
In 1904 Mr.. Rosing was associated
In the management of the campaign
when John A. johnson was first elect.
ed governor, and In the following
spring he was appointed by Gov.
johnson to the state board of control
on the expiration of ]. F. Jacobson's
term. On taking this appointment he
retired from his business in Cannon
Falls and moved to st. Paul.
Was an Active Citizen.
Mr. Rosing has always taken a deem
interest in public questions and was
the first president Of the Minnesota
Municipal and Commercial league,
After assuming membership on the
board OF control he spent much of his
time in visiting the state institutions
and looking after the comfort of pris.
oners and inmates. He took promi.
nent part In meetings of the National
Association Of Corrections and Chart
ties and the National Prison congress.
After going on the board of control
he kept out Of active participation in
politics.
The funeral will be on Friday after.
noon at Cannon Falls, and will be at,
tended by number of friends from
state Offices and institutions.
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news OF THE WEEK IN fpIIOMt
Digest Of the News Worth Telling Con.
densed for the Busy
Reader.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

woodbury. Point" is to be tho
"Oyster Bay" Of the new administra'
ton. Official announcement has been
made that President Taft has leased q
cottage in the vicinity of Beverly.
Mass, for his summer home.
President Taft has directed Director
North of the census bureau to disre-
gard party lines in obtaining suitable
men for supervisors and other APP
pointive places under the new census
act. The instructions, it is said, have
especial reference to the South.
The supreme court of the United
States denied the motion for a re-
hearing in the case Of the Waters
Pierce Oil company in which the SUI
preme court affirmed a decision by
the Texas courts imposing fine Of
$1,600,O00 on the company and ousted
1t from the state.
The construction of fifty expert
mental mounds on which the people
living along the banks of the Missis-
sippi river may take refuge, together
with their live stock, during seasons
of flood, is the proposal that Repre-
sentative R. NJ Wallace of Arkansas
Is preparing to urge upon congress.
Between now and July l the serv-
ices of about sixty temporary en-
ployes of the forestry bureau will be
dispensed with. the dsnnissals being
made necessary by the fact that much
of the work Of the bureau formerly
done in Washington has been trans
ferred to the six recently established
field districts.
The New Orleans board of trade
and ship companies in New Orleans
asked the secretary of the navy to
make a resurvey of the water and
coasts of Central America and ada
cent islands. 1t is declared number
of vessels have been stranded in that
region in the last few years because
of imperfect surveys and defective
charts.
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TIL: MARKETS..
Latest Quotations From Grain and
Live Stock Centers.

Live Stock centers.
st. Paul. April 20. - Wheat-No 1
hard, s1.27 14@1.27 IL; No. I North
ern. 1928 1,4@1.2e IL; NO. 2 North
ern, s1.24 1-4@1.24 12. Corn-No. 2
yellow. 81 3-4M63 1-tc. Oats - No. 2
white. so j-2G51 1-2c.
Minneapolis. April 90 - Wheat -
No. hard, $1.27 1-iM7"7 -; No. l.
Northern. s12G 1-401.e5 i-2; No. 2
Northern $l.24 1-4@124i-2 Corn -
No. yellow, 62 3-4Gre2 1-4c. Oats -
No ? white, so 1-2M5l 1-2c.
Duluth April 20. - Wheat-No. 1
hard. s1.2e ii; No. l. Northern,
81 IA: No. Northern, $1.231-4.
FlaX-$1.66 "a Oats - No. 2 white,
81 1-2c
Chicago, April 20. - Wheat-No. 2
red. S1.39@1.4o; No. hard. s127@
1.31. Oats-No. 2 white, 52@54 1-2c.
Corn-No. 2 yellow. 66 1906 3-4c.
Milwaukee, April 20. - Wheat-No.
Northern, s1.:5M1.2s: No. 9 North
ern, $1.24@1 25. Barley - Standard,
Csc.
Chicago, April -Cattle-Beeves,
s4.G0@7.25; stockers and feeders.
s9.35@5.40: cows and heifers. $1,000
$50. Hogs--Bulk. $G.50@6.75. Sheep
Natives. $3.!5@5.65; lambs, $500
765.
Sioux City. Iowa, April 2O.-Cattle
-Beeves. $4.75@6.50; stocl:ers and
feeders. $3.s5@5; calves end year.
lings. $3.50@4.45. Hogs-Range, $500
@660.
South St. Paul. April 20. - Cattle
Granted steers. scoops; cows and
heifers, s4@5; veal calves. $3.50
$50; good to choice stock steers.
$375@425. Hogs-Bulk. $6S0@6.9O.
Sheep Yearlings, $6@6.85; spring
lambs, $6@6.S5.
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Personal.

Prof. Anton Hess, sculptor, is dead
in Munich. He was born in 1888.
Thomas J. Hanks, first cousin of
Abraham Lincoln, died at Blooming
ton, Ill. He was eighty-four years old.
Miss Caroline Holman Huidobro,
we'll known lecturer and writer on
South American subjects, died in New
York of heart disease.
James B. Platte, one of the publish
ers of the Poughkeepsie On. W Daily
Eagle from 1869 until the time of his
retirement in 1907 is dead of apo
plexy.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier premier of Can
ada, and Joseph H. Choat have ac-
cepted elections to membership in the
Optimists' club recently organized in
New York.
j. Russell Jones, United States
minister to Belgium from 1869 to
1875, died of acute bronchitis at Chi
cago. Mr.. Jones was born in Con.
neaut, Ohio, in 1928.
While preparing to celebrate early
mass Rev. Joseph H. Singer, o. p,
the Oldest member of the Dominican
order in America, and for many years
the rector of st. Vincent Ferrers.
New York, suffered a hemorrhage Of
the lungs and died before doctors
could be summoned.
Mrs. Anna Jones, ninety years old,
who was said to have been a play
mate of Queen Victoria, is dead at her
home at Catskill, N. Y. Her father
was head gardener for Lord de Lisle
and Dudley at Penshur, Tunbridge
Wells, England, where Queen Victo-
ria spent much of her early childhood.
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SINS AND SINNERS.

Chief OF Police Shafler Of Evanston
ILL.,, was stabbed in the face and Sc
verely injured in a conflict with q
demented woman.
Elmer CHM of Indianapolis shot and
killed William Walker. CHM had re-
turned home and found Walker with
his wife. He was arrested.
Ernest Morris, formerly of Bethany.
Mo-, Is under arrest at Regina, Sask..
charged with the murder of his broth.
Or. Charles s., a farmer with whom
he lived.
Ellis Bartholomew Of Toledo, a pro.
moter of banks and railroads, was
found guilty in the United States cir
cult court at Cleveland of using the
mails to defraud.
During the voyage of the Cunard
liner, Lucania, which sailed from
New York April z, two young women
who occupied a second-class cabin
together committed suicide by shoot
Ing.
Oswald Roberts, an actor from Liv.
erpool, who has been playing the part
Of the villain in the Sheriff of Angel
Gulch," was found dead in his room
In Philadelphia with bullet in his
brain.
After forty years in the service of
The government as letter carrier,
Ben James Holland was arrested in
New York on the charge of stealing
money from letters given to him for
delivery.
Edgar B. Lare, cashier at the Tren.
ton Office of the Mutual Benefit Life
Insurance Company of Newark, was
arrested in Newark and brought to
Trenton, N. j., to answer a charge
Of embezzlement.
Two masked robbers entered the
nome of Aid. A. H. Rogers, in Temple
street. Springfield, Mass, bound and
gagged a daughter, Miss Neil Rogers
who was alone, stole all the silver.
ware and escaped.
Louis P. Allard was arrested at
New Orleans upon landing from the
steamer Parisiana, from Colon. 1t is
charged that he defrauded merchants
of Peoria, ILL.,, of about $4,000 on BIO,
gus drafts and checks.
Three young men were arrested at
Erie. Pa. charged with having sent
blacllmailing letters to Charles H
Strong, president of the Erie & Pitts.
burg railroad, demanding $500 on pen.
atty OF death. The men were bound
over
Because he could not get possum
which he had ordered in restaurant
IN Chicago, James Green. a colored
man, walked into the kitchen and at
tackled the cook with meat carver
The cook was taken to hospital and
Green to a police station.
Samuel Kline, twenty-five years old
recently of New York, and his bride
OF three weeks, Ida Branz Kline, aged
tWenty-one years, were found lying
dead from bullet wounds on the foo,
or their room at Portland, Me. The
coroner believes it was a case of nun
der and suicide.
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OTHERWISE.

Mrs. Esther Hoge Patterson. aged
1O2 years, died at Philadelphia. She
was a member Of the most exclusive
society circles in Philadelphia.
Gen. Matthew Butler of Edgefield.
S. c., former United States senator,
and one of the last of the Confeder-
ate cavalry generals, is dead, aged
seventy-three.
Samuel Gompers announced that he
would sail for Europe on June % to
investigate conditions of the labor
class in England, Germany, France,
Sweden and Italy.
William H. Howick, seventeen
years old, died at Pittsburg as the re.
suit of running a Marathon race three
weeks ago. Howick won the race,
but never has been we'll since.
Reserves of Alberta red wheat are
SO low that a Calgary broker was
unable to fill a 25O,OOO-bushel order
from Liverpool. Only small lots are
available in scattered elevators.
At a special election Fort Dodge
men and women voted 1913 majority,
out of 97S votes cast, for levying q
$4,000 bond issued for the erection
OF school house in the Olsen Land
company addition.
The knell of the bucket shops in
Chicago was sounded by Chief of Pc.
lice Shippy. Upon evidence fur
nished by the board of trade detect.
ives were sent out to notify nine
bucket shops to close up.
Locked in a banana car for three
days, Jack Johnson, colored youth,
feebly called for aid when a train
from the South reached the Clinton,
Iowa, yards. The lad, thinly clad.
got in the car south of Jackson and
was locked up, nearly dying of expo.
North.
Frank Gotch of Humboldt, Iowa
succeeded in retaining his title as
champion wrestler of the world by
defeating Yusiff Mahmout of Bulga.
ria in fast and furious match in
Chicago. The much-touted Bulgarian
was as a child in the hands of the
American master of mat strategy
Gotch won both falls with crotch and
Ealf-Nelson holds, respectively. in
eight minutes and nine minutes and
te nseconds.
The first Canadian west crop report
was issued last week, showing a 100
per cent increase in the seeded ares
In Southern Alberta. Little seedins
has been done outside that district
and will not be until the end of the
month.
Voted at a church bazaar at HOOP
er. Neb., to be the "homeliest man il
town. s. J. Hall. a blacksmith. ha,
disappeared. He left note declar
Ing his intention ito seek q comlnini
ty where he can divide his distino
ton with some other looking-slas,
breaker"
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CASUALTIES.

Mrs. Wilbur Baker, twenty years
old. was shot and instantly killed at
Shenandoah, Iowa, by her younger
brother, aged about ten years, through
the accidental discharge Of gun.
Three persons are dead and three
others are at the point of death in the
German Lutheran hospital at Sioux
City as a result of eating trachina
infected pork sausage. All are mem
bers Of the family of John Kolpin, q
Galva Qowa) druggist.
In a natural gas explosion in Co
1umbus, Ohio, the front wall of q
roomtng house was blown out, John
Welsh, ledger in the room where
the explosion took place, was divest-
ed of his coat, but did not receive q
burn or scratch.
The steamer w. E. Small of the Ma.
con & Brunswick Navigation com.
pany struck a snag in the Ocomulgee
river, fifteen miles below Macon, Ca,
and Immediately went to the bottom
in midstream. The cargo of mixed
merchandise is total loss.
The Illinois Central flyer struck
and instantly killed Anna, Mabel and
Ruby, aged seven, eight and fourteen
respectively, daughters Of Fred Fol.
dorf. four miles west of Dubuque
Iowa. The girls were walking on the
track.
Spontaneous combustion in the
glazing room OF the City Sash and
Door company's factory at Sioux City
started fire. which did 10000 dam.
age to the building and contents
Fireman Lew Humphrey was envel.
oped in flames when a barrel of oil
exploded and was seriously burned.
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Member of State Board of Con.
troll Passes Away at Hos.
pital in st. Paul.
PROMINENT IN STATE AFFAIRS
Worked His Way to Front and Was q
Democratic Leader-Once Can.
didate for Governor.

st. Paul, April 16.-Leonard A Ros
Ing member of the state board Of con
troll and once candidate for govern
or on the Democratic ticket, died al
st. Joseph's hospital early yesterday
after lingering illness. He had been
sinking constantly since last Friday
when an operation was performed for
the removal of a blood clot on the
brain. For nearly year Mr.. Rosing
had been incapacitated from work by
partial paralysis, and his condition
became so. grave that the operation
was performed as last resort. He
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Wheat Receivers From slump

Wheat Receivers From Slump.
Chicago, April 18.-A large part Of
The loss sustained On the severe
slump in wheat prices Thursday was
regained yesterday and the market
closed strong, with prices 3-8@1-2c
lower to 11-4@1 $50 higher, compar-
ed with the previous close. Corn
and oats displayed unusual strength.
the May delivery of the former
touching new high point for the
season. Provisions also closed firm.
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WILL NOT DELAY TARIFF BILL,

Democrats Will Let Republicans
Take Entire Charged.
Washington, April 1S.-The Demo
cratic senators will not delay the
passage Of the tariff bill. They held
their second conference yesterday,
and while no formal conclusion was
reached on any point there was a
general consensus of opinion in favor
of permitting the Republicans to take
entire charge of the measure with the
understanding that they assume, as
they necessarily must. the entire re.
sponsibility for it.
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PRIZES FOR BARLEY GROWERS.

Brewing Association Starts a Move.
ment for Quality Improvement.
Wabasha. MINI, April 16.-The An.
heuser-Busch Brewing association of
st. Louis will distribute $500 in prizes
IN various sections of Minnesota this
season, which will be open to competi.
ton to all farmers in this state rails.
ing 1000 bushels or more Of mailing
barley
The details Of this competition and
distribution Of prizes will be publish.
ed later.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-04-23
TALK WITH TAFT.
Representatives Of Federation of La.
Dor Lay Matters Before President.

Representatives Of Federation of La
Dor Lay Matters Before President.
Washington, April Is. - President
Taft discussed the problems of the
workingman for two hours yesterday
with the members of the executive
council of the American Federation
of Labor, which is in session in this
city.
The labor leaders, headed by Sam.
uel Gompers, president of the fedora
ton, called at the White House to
present to the president a number
of matters of vital interest to organ,
lied labor.
Gladly Gives Ear.
Mr.. Gompers declared that the
president not only gave the spokes-
men of the party all the time they
desired to lay their matters before
him, but Joined himself in the dis.
cussion from time to time to bring
out fuller information on the various
subjects as they were reached.
When the conference had reached
its close the president told his call.
ers he would investigate such of the
matters presented which seemed to
him to require such action, and that
he would be glad to help, as far as
his opportunity would permit, in ar.
irving at a proper solution of the
difficulties in which the working PEG.
pie found themselves, while at the
same time keeping the interest of the
whole people in view.
Imposing Array Of Problems.
The labor leaders seemed pleased
with their reception. They took up
with the president an imposing array
of problems, including the matter OF
Injunction, the eight-hour law, con.
vict labor, the recent indictment OF
labor leaders in the South for alleged
violations of the Sherman antitrust
law, the danger of dissolution Of
all labor organizations under strict
Interpretation of recent decisions by
the supreme court, the maintenance
of international peace, labor prob
lens on the Panama canal, the ad
herence to the right of asylum il
this country for political offenders
from other lands and child labor.
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ATTACKS AMERICAN CONSUL.

Central American Wounds Represent
alive at Tela, Honduras.
Mobile, Ala, April 20.-Itwas learn.
ed yesterday from an authentic source
that an attack was made on American
Consul Hutchinson at Tela, Honduras,
April g. while the consul was walking
with friend. who Was attacked by
native.
Hutchinson assisted his friend, and
the native used knife, cutting
Hutchinson on the head, inflicting a
scalp wound.
The native was chained and sent to-
Port Ceiba. ;be authorities assured
the consul that justice. would be
meted out &C. his IS e:i2lt
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Dependent Horseman Kills Sc

Despondent Horseman Kills Self.
Los Angeles, April 20.-Despondent
over i'll fortune with his horses this
season and grief over the passage Of
the California anti-gambling law, G.
w. Foole, Familiarity known as "Bish-
op," committed suicide at the Santa
Anita track.
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Tug Lost With All on Board.
Cleveland, April 1S.-That the fish.
fng tug George A. Sloss was batter
ed to pieces by waves and it's hulk
with crew of seven men SUNK to
the bottom Of Lake Erie in the storm
of April was established yesterday.
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Warlike Activity In NICARAGUA

Mexico City, April 18.-Private ca.
BILE dispatches received here confirm
the advice. received from Washing.
ton on military activity in Nicara.
qua. Troops are said to be concen.
trating in the bay of Fonseca, and
two small expeditions are reported
to have been turned back by the Sal.
yadOreans.
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Jealousy Leads to Murder.

st. Clair. Mich, April 2O.-George
B. McKinnon Of Mooretown, .Ont.,
across the river from this place, was
shot three times and killed early yes
terday by Capt. Ralph Pringle, we'll
known vesselman. Jealousy Is said to
have been the cause.
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Boat Upsets: Boy prowns,

Washington. April 20.-Elmer Lacy.
aged thirteen. was drowned yesterday
as q result Of the capsizing Of small
rowboat in the waters Of the tidal
basin Of the Potomac river. near the
GEORGETOWN channel.
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MERCHANT is SHOT DOWN.
Discharged Empioye Said to Have
Been AssaIant.

Discharged EmpIoye Said to Have
Been AssaiIant.
Elmira, N. Y, April 10. - Joseph
Mccain, a business man of this city,
was shot down on the street here
yesterday while on his way to his
store. Two bullets entered his body.
He was taken to the hospital and Is
not expected to live. His assailant is
supposed to have been Raymond Hill,
young man who had been employed
by Mr.. Mccain and who had been
discharged because of alleged short
ages in his accounts. The assailant
fed on a bicycle.
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Noted PIckpocket Nabbed.

Pasadena, CAL. April 10. - A man
known as Benjamin Addison, said by
the police to be one of the most not,
ed pickpockets Of the country, was
captured here by ]. S. Brady, a G.. A,
R. veteran. Brady told the police
Addison attempted to steal a dia,
mond from him during a parade.
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corbett NAV cet Chance.

corbett May Get Chance.
Chicago, April 20.-If Jack Johnson.
heavyweight champion of the world,
defeats Stanley Ketchel in their fight
on Oct. 10, he will be matched with
James ]. Corbett for battle at San
Francisco on Thanksgiving day.
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Convicted Of Kidnapping.

Mount Vernon, Wash, April 10. -
Donald Boyd was convicted yester.
day of kidnapping Patrick Mccoy, a
wealthy Seattle lumberman, in the
woods near Bow. last autumn, with
the intention Of holding him for q
ransom.
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Bank Robbers Secure 5000.

! Harrisbille, Mich. April 10. - Bur.
glars last night blew the safe in the
Altoona County Savings bank here
and escaped with $1,000. The thieves
overlooked $4,000 in currency. There
10 no clue to their identity.
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AMERICANS FLOCK TO CANADA
An Average of 200 a Day Crosses the
Border.


Border.
Winnipeg, April Is. - immigration
figures for this spring, given out last
night, show that the number and
class of Americans coming into this
country have never been cqualed in
Western Canada's history. Since the
season opened the average has been
200 AMERICANS day, excluding chill
dren. Three thousand came in Feb
ruary, 1000 in March and 5000 for
the first half of this month. Esti-
mates value of the cash and effects
was $12,0O0,000. North Dakota led
with $500; Michigan, Minnesota and
Iowa, 1000 each: Illinois and South
Dakota, 800 each. The Americans
are the best settlers coming into
Canada.
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Aged Man Loses Both Leos.

Aged Man Loses Both Legs.
Estherville, Iowa, April I'D. l..
Patton of Des Moines had both legs
amputated yesterday at the city hos
pital as result of being run down
by freight train in the yards at sib-
ley, Iowa. He is nearly sixty years
of age.
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Aged Woman Killed by Hoas.

Aged Woman Killed by Hogs.
Elkton, Ma, April 18.-Miss Eliza,
beth Woods. aged seventy-five, be:
came lost while going from a neigh.
boris home to her own last night and
was attacked by hogs permitted to
run wild. Her dead and badly mutt.
lated body was found by her nephew.
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-Four Men Hold o. Min.r.

-Four wen FtoIo Up Miner. 81
Duluth, April 18.-Louis 'Helverson.
a miner, was held up at the Hull 10.
cation, near Hibbing. last night BY
four men and was relieved Of Z gold
watch and 50 cash.