The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-03-04

Post Office Inspector Swenson Of
Iowa has uncovered a gigantic swindle
by fake foot racers, horse racers, pugi-
lists and wrestlers at Council Bluffs,
Ia.
BILLY" Sunday, the baseball evange-
list, was horsewhipped by Sherman
! Potts of Lovington, ILL.,, in the taber-
nacle at Springfield, with 5000 per-
sons as witnesses.
Cardinal Gibbons, in a magazine ar
ticle, defends Catholics as loyal citi-
zens of the United States, In answer
ing charges by Lutheran and Baptist
ministers.
Secretary Newberry of the navy
department said there is no intention
of relieving Admiral sperry from COM
mand of the battle fleet"
A suit to recover blood money OBJ
tanned by Mrs. Belle Guinness from
her victims was filed at Laporte, Ind,
by a brother of Andrew Helgelein.
Excitement in Iowa is running high
over the assaults on white women by
negroes and a lynching is not unlikely.
Prohtbitionists in a convention at
Jackson, Mich, nominated a full ticket
for state officers.
Two thousand jackies and marines
of the feet, which has just completed
its world cruise, marched and were
entertained in Norfolk, Va
Arkansas has been assigned as the
name of n of the new battleships
authorized by congress-. The monitor
by that name will be given a suitable
designation.
A new Office, that Of general in.
spector of navy yards, has been
created by Secretary Newberry and
Rear Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich,
commandant of the New York navy
yard, has been assigned to perform it's
duties.
President Roosevelt was scathingly
denounced by Representative Cook of
Colorado, in a speech on the secret
service question In the house. Mr..
Cook is a Republican.
Officers of the battle fleet deny
reports that they attempted to SNUG
gle valuable articles gathered in for
eign lands into the country.
Evidence to show that an organiza-
ton of white ~slavers" in Chicago
sends young girls to French Lick
Springs, Ind, resorts has been OBJ
tanned.
The secret service department was
severely criticized by Representative
Smith, a Republican of Iowa.
The weather bureau at Washington
sent out a warning against floods Of
the Ohio and southern rivers, which
are rising rapidly because of heavy
rains.
The United States probably will be
involved in a diplomatic tangle over
the assaults on Greeks in South
Omaha.
Fearing an attack on the jail to lib.
crate three alleged burglars, the sher.
III at Lima, o., asked authority to call
out the militia if necessary.
The state department has made in.
quiry of the governor of Nebraska con-
corning the mobbing of Greeks at
South Omaha.
DCA1OCIdLS III COuVeuIlOu ~
Lansing, Mich, rejected a plank de-
claring for statewide prohibition.
James J. Hill, in a speech at Mime
apolis, ridiculed the work of the farm
commission appointed by President
Roosevelt.
Austria has concentrated it's war
vessels and sent bridge material to
the army in preparation for war with
Servia.
Judge Anderson, in the Federal
court at Chicago, held that the gov
eminent cannot prosecute the Stand
ard Oil Company on more than &c
counts. This would cut Judge Lands
famous $29,240,000 fine down to s720,
600 if the maximum penalty was
given.
Members of the house cheered Rep
resentative Hays of California, who
threatened the election of ~orientals
from his state.
Senator-elect Root, in a speech al
Albany. N. Y, declared organizations
are necessary to political parties.
Discovery Of the body of an unin
Identified man, who had been shot
gave the police of Canton, ILL.,, a mys
terry to solve.
President Gomez has sent to the
senate the nomination of Carlos Gar
cha Velez as minister. to the United
States. The present minister, Senol
Queseda, has been summoned to Ha
vana to consult with the presiden'
relative to his future assignment.
Orville Wright at Pau, France, mad,
his first ascension since the acciden
at Fort Myer, in which he was sever
ly injured. Accompanied by his sis
ter, he was a passenger in the balloon
1carus, which was piloted by Marquis
de Kergariou.
A train struck a street car in Cleve
land, O., fatally injuring three person,
and hurting many others.
After having been missing from tn,
city for 40 years, the famous dealt
mask of Napoleon, which recent,
l came to light in the possession o