Willmar tribune., 1909-09-29

OPeueu dI NEW 1OrK Win u8V6l
parade of merchant marine vessels led
by the replicas of Hudson's Half Moon
and Fulton's Clermont. and the as
sembling of moro than 20 warships
from the navies of the United States.
the Netherlands, Great Britain.
France. Germany and other countries.
The fortieth anniversary OF the
birth Of the Prohibition party was
celebrated in Chicago with a monster
parade of temperance, church and law
and order organizations.
The Japanese Commercial commits
sion. comprising Is persons. arrived in:
Chicago and began an inspection of
the industries Of that district by visit
ing the stock yards and the steel
works at Gary, Ind.
The completion of the Gunnison
river tunnel project was signalized by
the presence of President Taft, who
opened the gates which admitted the
waters Of the Gunnison river into the
Uncompahgre valley.
Prof. Edgar s. Hewitt, president Of
the School of American Archaeology.
who has been excavating near Santa
Fe, N. NJ. believes the ancient cliff
dwellers abandoned their homes be-
cause the land dried up and were
mixed with the lower order of Indians.
Estimates of the Tanana, Alaska.
gold output this year place it at more
than $12.000,000. Scarcity of water
curtailed the yield.
Arguments for the two disinherited
sons of Claus Spreckels against distri-
button of a part Of the estate. opened
the will contest at San Francisco in
volving from $5.000.000 to $1O.000,0 900.
During August 10000 new settlers
entered western Canada. $500 being
from the United States. This is an in
crease OF 81 per cent. over August last
year.
1t Is said that three men under ar
rest at Chicago on the charge of tam
per1ng with jurors have confessed that
they had taken part in fixing" juries.
and States Attorney Wayman prom
ises more startling sensations in the
near future.
Three men were killed when the
Montreal express, bound for Boston.
crashed into the rear of the disabled
Quebec express, from Quebec for Bos-
ton, about mile and a half from
Pattee, N. H. The dead are: En-
gineer John P. Callahan, Fireman
George Parmenter of the Montreal ex.
press and tramp.
Three men were seriously shot in a
fight betwene Tammany factions in
Tuesdays primary at New York. All
the Tammany leaders were retained.
Nat Nakala and Isaac Santi were
killed in mine 800 feet below the
surface near Bessemer. Mich, when a
miners candle accidentally set OF
quantity Of dynamite. Two others
were cut of by gas.
"Stop thief" shrieked by a parrot
as it was being carried down the
street at San Francisco caused the ar.
rest Of Terry Rooney, who was fleeing
with the bird.
Catherine Bradley Bigelow, IL years
old, Of New York, has been left one
third interest in her grandmother's es-
tate of $500,000 on condition that she
be not married to a divorced man or
an actor.
More than 400 miners narrowly es-
capped death when fire destroyed the
t1pple of Ellsworth coal mine No. 2
OF the LackaWanna Steel Company at
Ellsworth, Pa.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook. the arctic
explorer. arrived at his home in
Brooklyn and was given demonstra'
tive welcome by his friends that evil
denced their faith in his assertion
that he was the first man to reach
the north pole.
Opera singers in New York have
been the victims of a company of
blackmailers with inventive minds,
who obtained money through threats
OF Kissing at performances and prom
1ses of applause.
Three-quarters Of an hour was cut
from the time between New York and
Queenstown for the east-bound voyage
by the Mauretania, which reached the
Irish port after crossing the ocean in
four days. 13 hours and Al minutes.
Count Leo Tolstoy. whose eighty
first birthday recently was celebrated.
is visiting Moscow for the first
time in several years.
Striking street car employees and
their sympathizers derailed a car at
Council Bluffs. Ia, and severely in
jured the conductor with a brickbat.
Five strikers were arrested. Fifty.
four strike-breakers have reached
Omaha from Chicago and 400 more
are expected.
Col. George Harvey, editor of
Harper's Weekly. was seriously in
jured near Manhawkin. N. J.. by the
overturnfng of an automobile in which
he was riding.
The Nicaraguan government has
agreed to pay 100000 to the George
E. Emery Company of Boston because
of previous annulment of the COM
pany's timber concession in Nicara-
qua.
At its convention at atlanta, Ca,
the United Brotherhood of Car Men,
comprising employees of many of the
large railroads, decided to affiliate
with the American Fodoration M TO-