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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-05-06

Miss Edith Anderson has been Wis
iting with Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Dow
ney for several weeks and returned
home to Ashton Monday afternoon.
T. j. Spangler arrived home from
Gregory county Sunday afternoon.
He has been down there TO attend the
session of the circuit court.
Get your mind fixed up in fine
shape for Tag Day, the day that the
Carnegie library will ask for a hene-
fit from the public. Tags viii be sold
all day Saturday and for once you
cannot buy too much Of a good thing
The more tags that YOU have attach
ed to your clothes on Saturday VIII
in licate how much you believe II
perpetuating and helping the library
l.dies. President Buttertield II
her assistants viii be on hand bright
and early Saturday morning TO sell
the tags. X
Miss Clara Hathaway went to Chi
cago Friday to remain a week and
Will make her appearance before the
Methodist board of foreign missions.
1t is Miss Hathaway's ambition to
go to India as a missionary, and it is
likely that the board will send her
some time this summer.
The Y. M. G. A. meetings closed
for the season Sunday afternoon with
an address by DR.. S. F. Kerfoot of
Dakota Wesleyan University on
Mothers Day." The address wasa
splendid one and fully up to the pos
sibilities of the theme. Every man
present was presented with a white
%carnation symbolic of the occasion.
The warm weather of Wednesday
induced the lawn tennis players to-
formally open the season in the
evening and both courts on the east
and west side of town were occupied
DR.. Ray Smith, a member of the
Crescent club on the east side, will
be out of the game this season, ow-
ing to an injured knee, which he.
received during the winter months
while playing basket ball. Dr.. Smith,
is a great enthusiast over the game
and is among the top notchers in the
sport in this city. The dentist, how
ever, is %consoling himself with the
thought that he can take some pleas
ure in his e automobile, which he
purchased this spring.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-05-06

e. w. PARCELS and family moved
Friday in the residence at 7O5
Lawler street.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-05-06

WANTED-One hundred acres
broken ON the southwest quarter of
section %3l-lo4-61. Badger town
Ship FOR cash. To be finished by
June 10th. Will furnish flax seed and
give share of crop. Downs and Dick
son. MI. Vernon, s d.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-05-06

t. j. Spangler arrived nome rom
Gregory county Sunday afternoon.
He has been down there to attend the
session of the circuit court.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-05-06

Miss Edith Anderson has been Wis
iting with Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Dow
ney for several weeks and returned
home to Ashton Monday afternoon.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-05-06

Prof. c. E. Evans, principal of the
Pierre high school, arrived in the
city Saturday on his way home
from Sioux Falls where the Pierre
high school debating team was de-
between the two schools. Mr.. Evans
graduated last year from Dakota
Wesleyan and was on the intercol-
legiate debating team which defeat
ed the Hamline University.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-05-06

Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Nickers re-
turned home Tuesday from their
trip out to California. They spent
practically the entire ten months
at Los Angeles m fell very much in
love with that country. Their daugh-
ter, Grace, who is attending a col
lege at Los Angeles will not return
until the close OF the institution in
June.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-05-06

An accident that might easily
have had a fatal termination hap
pened in the ice cream room at the
factory of the Turner Produce Com
pany at $3.50 Tuesday afternoon. L..
II. Jahns had been fixing some pipes
and in moving away backed into a
revolving shaft. He was instantly
drawn against the shaft and prac-
tically all his clothes were torn from
his body. If his clothes had not given
away he probably would have been
killed. Frank McLain, the assistant
engineer, saw the ~predicament in
which Jahns was placed and threw
the belt off, which released him. DR..
Robb was called to examine the In
jured a whom he found to be BAD
ly shaken up and bruised about the
head and shoulders.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-05-06

Miss Carlota Meyer arrived in the
city Monday evening via the Omaha
road from st. Paul, where she attend
ed the Y. w. G.. A. convention. Miss
Meyer comes direct from Honolulu,
Hawaii, where she has been for the
past four years as the general secre-
tary for the Y. w. G. A. OF the city,
and she is assisted in the work there
by her niece, Miss Ethel Meyer. as
house secretary. Miss Meyer says
she likes her work fine and that much
interest is demonstrated in that coun-
try. She will remain here for two
months before returning to her post
of duty. Mrs. r. P. Hall and daugh-
ter, Miss Hall, are also residents of
Honolulu, and she reports that they
are both we'll and like the country
immensely. Miss Meyer will be the
guest of her brother, Frank Meyer,
and wife, while in the city. Her
many old friends will be very glad to
see her.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-09-24
FOREIGN NEWS.

The fall maneuvers of the French
army, in which 10000 men are en-
gagged, are attracting particular atten-
ton on account of the work Of the
dirigible balloon Republique, attached
to the army of defense.
French exports to the United States,
instead of diminishing, have increased
rapidly under the new tariff. The to-
tai for the month of August shows an
increase Of 76 per cent over that of
August, 1908.
The Irish land bill, which was in
troduced in parliament March 80 by
Augustine Birrell, chief secretary of
Ireland, passed through it's final stage
in the house of commons by a vote Of
ia to 81.
Edward Majoribanks, second Baron
Tweedmouth, who was first lord of the
admiralty in the Campbell-B annerman
administration and later lord presi-
dent of the council, is dead at London.
Disastrous floods have occurred in
many parts of Spain. Great damage
was caused in Valencia, San Sebas-
tian, Gijon, Santander and Malaga.
According to reports from Sebasto-
pol the cars health is very bad.
The emperor and the empress intend
to remain some time in the South.
A bomb explosion in q fireworks fac
tory al Riacre, Calabria, killed at least
twelve persons and injured a numbe,
of others.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-09-24
LABOR NEWS.

sAfHf IA EHF HL. EL- We AaLn LL EM lA ENA
The second strike of workmen em-
ployed at the plant of the Pressed
Steel Car company ut .McKees Rocks.
Pa, ended in a dramatic manner.
The American workmen, 1000 strong,
marched back to work in q body and
the foreigners followed.
The striking weavers at the Iron
Works cotton mills at Fall River,
Mass, have accepted a 5 per cent in-
crease in wages and returned to work.
They struck to enforce q demand for
q 10 per cent increase. 5s
Bys5a decisive majority the street
car employees Of Chicago voted to end
the wage controversy, which has last,
ed more than two months, and accept
the latest proposition offered them by
the companies.
The employees Of the Omaha and
Council Bluffs Street Railway COM
8Sprauny have walked out to enforce a de-.
'Smland for increased wages and all the
lines In both cities are tied up.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-09-24
RECEPTION TO JAPANESE
People Of Fargo Unite. in General Wei
come to Oriental Guests.

People OF Fargo Unite in General Wei
come to Oriental Guests.
The distinguished party of japanese
scholars and business men represent
ing the commercial clubs of the Japa
nese empire were entertained at Far.
60.
Forty local autoists with decorated
cars took the Nipponese visitors to
the North Dakota agricultural college
and afterwards for a drive through
the business and the residence. dis
tricts of the city. Later the entire
party assembled at the big Masonic
temple, where there was a public re-
ception.
At the college the visitors took a
great deal of interest in the expert
ments and studied closely the methods
of teaching agriculture. The North
Dakota farm school had been recon.
mended to the visitors as one of the
four best in the United States and
they were especially anxious to gain
all the pointers possible on the meth.
DDS of instruction. They were very
much interested in all the practical
features. The visitors were literally
human interrogation points and fairly
bristled with questions about things
they wished to learn.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-09-24
CRIMINAL NEWS.

In a running battle with John
Schneider at Des Moines. Ia, City
Detective Frank Delmege. one of the
best known detectives IN the West.
shot and instantly killed. Schmel-
ger received two bullets, bnt, 1t is
thought he will recover.
The grand jury at New York has
dismissed the charge OF felonious as
saqlt> against Mrs. Mary Scott Castle.
who Q Aug. 3 at the Waldorf.Astorla
shot William B. Craig. q New York
lawyer. The grand jury's reasons
were not made public.
Despondent because Of his wife,s
illness John F. Reich, thirty-6ye years
old, wrenched q gas fixture from the
wall Of his home at Chicago and end
ed his life and that of his six-year-old
son by asphyxiation.
Mrs. julius Trip and her sister-in.
law, Mrs. Jacob silvers Of New York,
are dead as the result OF a pistol and
knife battle between the two women
in Mrs. Trips apartments at Chi
cago.
John Washburn, fourteen years old.
shot and killed himself "a the woods
near Freeport, Mich, when about toy
be arrested Tor burslaliSing Agrocery
and hardware stoFe.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-09-24
A Job For Arbitrator.

The dispute between China and ia.
pan about the Antung-Mukden railroad
seems to be one for arbitration. There
is the germ of a feud in it and per.
haps Of war. Japan built a narrow
gauge military railroad to transport
army supplies from the lower Y:lu
northward in the campaign Of 1904.
There was no railroad in the region,
and there is but this one now. 1t is
provided in the treaty of 1905 between
Japan and Russia that Japan should
have the right to improve the road
and operate it for a term of years.
then turn it over to China at cost.
Japan has begun to improve the
road and make it efficient for the pres
ent Of interior Manchuria
This seems reasonable. China objects
on the ground that Japan's act will
make a large bill for China to pay
when the road is turned over at the
end of the term of years named in the
treaty. The road seems to be needed.
and Japan alone can maintain 1t. ia.
pan has some rights in the matter
which have been stated in writing.
China also has rights which have been
stated in writing. A liberal interpre
tation of the railroad clause in the
treaty would be likely to safeguard
the present and future interests Of
10th nations.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-09-24

street estimates that Mrs. Hartman
will inherit in realty and personal
property between SIS, 000,0 900 and
500, OO0, 900, making her n of the
richest women in the world.
Miss Anita Stewart, daughter of
Mrs. James Henry Smith of New
York, became the bride of. Prince
Miguel of Braganza in the little Ro-
man Catholic chapel at Dingwall, Scot
land. The chapel was beautifully dec.
GRATED for the occasion.
Mrs. Edward H. Hartman has in.
timated to her friends that the es-
tate of her late husband will probably
value about SGT. 100000. OF this total
New York state receives 1 per cent,
reach nearly $500. 900.
Chang Yin Tang, the newly appoint
ed Chinese minister to the United
States in succession to WI Ting Fang,
has left Picking for his post. Chang
Yin Tang expects to reach Washing
ton some time in November.
Four constables, operating an au-
tonobile speed trap" at Newbury,
Mass. held up the presidential auto-
mobile for alleged speeding and de-
tanned President Taft a few minutes.
Orviile Wright made a new record
at the Tempelhof field near Berlin for
sustained aeroplane flight with a pas
senger. He remained in the air for
one hour and thirty.fve minutes.
Glorious weather land big crowds
greeted President Taft on his visit to
the Twin Cities. but the critical ILL.,
ness of Governor Johnson cast a
gloom over the affair.
In a speech at Dallas, Tex, William
j. Bryan denounced as al embezzler
of power the man who would violate
a party pledge, ratified by the voters
of his party.
Lieutenant General Arthur MacAr-
thur is doomed as q candidate for
United States senator from Wiscon-
sin to succeed Senator La Toilette.
4 Orville Wright, flying in his aero
plane at Berlin, broke the record for
high flying. He attained a height OF
2S3 meters GIGS feet).
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-09-24
THE DEATH RECORD.

John w. Castles, president Of the
Union Trust company of New York
city, a director in other well known
corporations and prominent in club
and social life in that city and the
South, cut his throat from ear to ear
in the Grand Union hotel and was
found dead stretched across a bed
He had been in i'll health for some
time.
Right Rev. William G. McCloskey-
bishop of the Catholic diocese of
Kentucky and the Oldest Catholic
bishop both in years and in point of
continuous service, is dead at Louis
vile of ailments incident to old age
The bishop was in his eighty-sixth
year.
burlington Walker Harvey, n OF
Chicago's pioneer lumbermen and At
one time the greatest retail lumber
dealer in the world, is dead in a hos
pital at Littleton, N. H., Of injuries
caused by a fall six weeks ago while
entering a ferryboat in Jersey City.
Mrs. Nelson Morris, widow of the
Chicago packer, is dead at Saints
Rleu, a small town near Paris, as 4
result of injuries received in an auto
mobile accident. The machine in
which Mrs. Norris was riding was
overturned.
Mrs. Angeline E. Newman. widow
Of the late Bishop Jonn p. Newman.
is dead at Jerusalem. aged eighty. For
several years she has been conduct
ing a school, for kindergarten mission
ary work there.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-09-24
IN NORTH DAKOTA
News Of the Week From Varl.
Gus Parts Of the State.
FATAL WEAKNESS IN Law
Apparent Defect in State Prohi.
bition Statute

An apparently fatal weakness Of the
North Dakota state prohibition law is
openly admitted by Attorney General
Andrew Miller in a letter written te
an inquirer of McClusky. in which the
attorney general says, the statute fails
to prohibit shipments of intoxicants in
unlimited quantities. The letter Of
the attorney general is brief and to
the point and says:
Replying to your recent. favor in
which you ask my opinion on the fol
lowing questions, namely:
els there any provision of law In
this state prohibiting the shipment
of intoxicating liquors into this state
to private parties for their own con.
sumption?
els there any limit fixed by law as
to the amount that may be received
by private parties; if so, what is the
limit?'
ITO both Of these questions 1 an
swer No."
According to this holding, the state
authorities are powerless to prevent
the shipment of liquor to private par.
ties in North Dakota even in carload
lots unless it can be positively proved
that such liquor is for other than pri
vate consumptton-a very difficult
matter.
This letter of the attorney general
Is the first official acknowledgment OF
the shortcomings of the prohibition
law in this particular, and accounts
for the unassailed open shipment OF
liquor daily made on trains through
out the state. These shipments have
been excessively heavy of late on &C
count of the large number of well-paid
harvest hands in every county,, men
who are easy spepders and who to a
considerable degree are heavy absorb
ers of alcoholic beverages. The beers
especially are being received in large
quantities, 10Y shipped in openly
labelled and being received by
those to whom they are consigned
without any remonstrance by the au.
thorities.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-09-24
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

President Taft, in q speech at Bos-
.cn. accepted the Issue promulgated
nv Governor johnson Of Minnesota In
his KEYNOTE speech ut the Seattle ex-
position. Governor Johnson argued
that the East has a predominattng In
tluence In the government and he
called on the West to rise up and de-
mand its rights. President Taft de-
clares that the whole country Is IN the
same boat. He stands for the oblit-
Grafton of sectional lines.
In the most important u%tterance he
has made since his occupancy of.the
White House President Taft, at WI
mona Mimi, in a state which Is the
hotbed OF the "insurgent" movement
within the Republican party, defend
ed the Payne tariff bill az the best
tariff measure ever passed by q Re-
publican congress and hence the best
tariff bill the people have ever KNOWN.
In his fair grounds speech at Mil
waukee President Taft devoted almost
his entire time to the subject OF pos
tai savings banks and aroused a quick
response of applause when he de-
clared that he stood firm for a re-
demption of the promise of the Re-
publican platform for the establish
ment of such q system of banks.
Resolutions condemning in strong
terms both guaranty deposit laws and
the establishment of postal savings
banks were adopted by the American
Bankers association at Chicago.
The public schools of the five bor-
oughs of Greater New York opened
with 60, O0O children unable to gain
admittance for the full courses.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-09-24
High Tribute to the Country Press.

IN a recent paper published by the
Association of International Concilia-
ton Edward Cary deals with the re-
.sponsibility Of the press IN interna-
tional affairs and its relation to the
peace movement. Mr.. Cary speaks. of
course, from tile standpoint Of a peace
advocate, but he does not take the IL
liberal attitude of some of the peace
advocates who charge the newspapers
with the responsibility for most mod
ern wars. Indeed, lie denounces many
Of these vague and sweeping denuncia-
lions as being due TO lack of informa-
tion and inability to make definite and
accurate statements. In a quite intel
ligent manner he treats of the two
functions of modern newspapers-that
Of gathering the news and commenting
thereon-and shows that owing to the
great news gathering agencies the
average newspaper is precluded from
coloring the news even II it desired to
do SO He goes further to show that
practically all newspapers are careful
in their comments and for the most
part merely reflect public opinion. In
deed, his main criticism of the press is
aimed at the headline writer's of a GER
tain section of u big city dailies.
who inject misleading and sensational
matter into the captions which is not
borne out by the text. From this he
goes on to pay a tribute to the country
press that is the more gratifying In
that 1t comes from so high a source.
He says: wa
As has already been intimated, the
question of the responsibility of journal
ism in international affairs Is quite as
important for the smaller papers. incluo-
ing the weeklies. as for the larger. and IN
the United States 1t is even more impor-
tant. These papers have q very large to-
tai circulation. They are usually read
more deliberately, with closer attention.
and enter more intimately into the minds
and the lives Of their readers. Their In
depreciation of current events may o
carry more weight. but they make a more
continuous and probably a more effective
Impression. on the whole. the contents
Of these papers correspond to this view
Of their function. They are less ,ephem-
eral and sensational. 1t was these jour-
nails that DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler
president OF Columbia university, largely
had in mind when he said in one OF his
addresses before the University OF Co
penhagen in 1906. ''At its best or eve
it's average state the American newspaper
IL conducted with sobriety and with
due sense of responsibility as an institusi
ton powerful for good or evil in a demo
cratic community"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-09-24
Of NOTED PERSONS

President Taft met the nifty mem
oers Of the japanese commercial mis-.
sion to the United States at Minno.
apolis, babe them a hearty welcome
10 the country, assured them Of the
lasting friendship Of the American
people, paid a tribute to their qualities
Of industry and patriotism and in con-
clrsion drank a toast to the emperor
Of Japan as "the warm and sincere
friend Of America" amid great enthu.
siasm among botn his japanese and
American hearers.
Governor John A. Johnson of Min.
nesota has successfully passed through
another round of his battle for life.
DR.. McNevin, in charge of his case,
seems more hopeful than at any pre-
vious time. The governors physical
condition is growing slowly weaker. of
course. This is to be expected. But
he is retaining the carboEated water
and plain water that is given him for
nourishment and that is q very good
sign.
President Taft, during a stay Of
twelve eventful hours in Chicago,
plunged with a will into the long pro-
gramme Of entertainment that awaits
him on his Western and Southern
itinerary. With perfect weather and
crowds that fairly fought to catch a
glimpse of the chief executive Chicago
set a high mark Of enthusiastic well
come, which the president seemed
deeply to appreciate.
All of Edward H. Harriman's prop
erty, real and personal, is bequeathed
without restrictions Of any sort to the
widow, Mary VI. Hartman. Wall
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-09-24
INVESTIGATION OF CHARGES
Those Against Poor Farm superin
tendent to Be Probed.

The charges made by States Attcr-
ney Tracy R. Bangs against Superin-
tendent P. J. Mahon of the Grand
Forks county poor farm in which it
was alleged that Mahon had treated
inmates of the county institution in a
brutal and inhuman manner were
given their first airing before the
board Of county commissioners last
week.
The evidence taken was given be-
hind closed doors, so that little of it
has gained circulation.
The county board, it is believed, will
adjourn without taking any action in
the matter so far Is the removal of
the present incumbent is concerned.