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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27
OF WORLD
important Events Of the Week
in Condensed Form
WASHINGTON NEWS.

lhe verdict of the naval court OF III.
uuiry which investigated the death OF
Lieutenant James N. Sutton OF the
United States marine corps at Annap'
oils naval academy In October, l9o1'
declares that Lieutenant Sutton IS
directly and solely responsible for MS
wv death, which was self-inficted'
either Intentionally or in an effort 10
shoot one of the persons restraining
him and his death was not caused by
any other injury whatever"
James W. Witten, superintendent IN
charge of the opening and sale OF
Indian lands, announces the opening
of the Cheyenne River and Standing
Rock Indian lands in North and South
Dakota in October. The tract, ninety
miles long, includes 2,019,60 acres in
South Dakota and 217,360 acres IN
North Dakota.
BY direction of President Taft seven
cadets were dismissed from the Unit
ed States military academy for being
involved in the hazing of Rolando
Sutton. Cadet Sutton is a brother OF
Lieutenant James N. Sutton OF the
naval academy, whose death was IN
yestigated at Annapolis recently.
Changes in the Sherman antitrust
law, in the jurisdiction of the inter
state commerce commission and in
the scope of authority vested in the
bureau of corporations of the depart
ment of commerce and labor will form
the bulk CT President Taft's message
to congress next December.
No vacations for employees of the
department of commerce and labor I'M
til their work is done is the latest
edict of Secretary. Nagel. The order
will affect about 10000 employees.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, in
his annual report, says the total val
5uation of farm products in 1905 was
Z Its, O0o, 900, the biggest in the coun.
try's history.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27
BAD FIRE AT DEVILS LAKE
Property Valued at Fifty Thousand
Dollars Destroyed.

Famed by brisk winds from the
south, fire, which started in Flum-
merfelt's dray barn from unknown
cause, swept over a block in the down.
town district of Devils Lake, destroy
ing property worth owe $50, 900, most
of which is we'll covered by insurance.
The fire had a good start In the hay
of the barn before the alarm was
turned in and the heavy wind from
the south made it almost impossible
to stay its course. ,
The whole town turned out to fight
the conflagration and 1t was finally
put under control in Stokes lumber
yard.
The heaviest loser is the Stoke
Lumber company, which carries an
unusually complete line of lumber.
The loss is complete and is estimated
at $4,000, we'll covered by insurance.
Other losers were the Scandinavian
hotel, $4,000; Zuric hotel. $4,000;
Flummerfelt dray barn, $4,000; Mrs.
Hugh Roe, residence, $500.
James Kennedy, the Fargo contrac-
tor, lost a carload Of cement, which
was stored in the dray barn.
The property destroyed is located
within a block and by hard fighting
the blaze was prevented from jumping
the street to Belts livery barn. If
this had happened the entire business
district of the city would u%ndoubted-
~ have gone up in smoke.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27
Fighting Drills.

A sham military campaign may -
supposed to do for soldiers what 4
practice cruise OF warshIps does Tor
sailors. Commander and crew know
their ship In every detail Of equip.
ment. but they cannot know how she
will act in trying seas under trying
circumstances until she has taken the
test pitted against equals. So q given
body Of troops may be all right III
camp, in barracks and IN parade and
prove very inefficient in field work.
A regiment may be splendid for the.
reserve and utterly fail in initiative.
and vice versa. Some men lose their
nerve In inaction, and some are too
precipitate in leading an attack. The
sham campaign gives the general aud
colonel a chance to study the psychol.5
ogy Of a mas under excitement.
In war men often get their best
lessons from failure-failures Of their
own side or the enemy's. Success on
the field often astonishes those who
win 1t. Perhaps the most valuable
lesson in the school Of the soldier.
both for private and general, is. that.
things rarely work out in practice as
they do in theory. 1t takes two to
fight. and 1.-The other fellow" Is NOR
ally certain not to do just what his,
opponent expects him to. It is an,
axiom, in real war never to do what
the enemy is expecting. The value; Of
this axiom a be tried out in mimic
campaigns quite as well us On the,
bloody field. For our establishment
the sham campaign has nearly all Of
the advantages Of the real thing as a
training. The personnel of the milf
tia regiments changes from year to:
year. but human nature is the same.
AS a regiment acts this year It will
probably act next and the year after.
The tendency to make the played.
game always harder and harder puts
the mettie Of the citizen soldicry to
the supreme test.
GEORGE L. KILMER.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27
CRIMINAL NEWS.

With the exception of a negro who
acted as drayman to cart from the
counterfeit! mint" at Harrods Creek,
KY, the bogus 100-peso Mexican notes
to louisville the police have behinl
the bars. all those supposed to have
been connected with the $1,000, 900
counterfeit enterprise recently un
earthed. A brassbound trunk contain.
Ing 100000 in bogus Mexican money
Is in the hands Of the police.
While hundreds of merrymakers
watched without any feeling of alarm.
thinking the occurren nee a part of the
pyrotechnie display on the water, five
persons Jumped from a flaming boat
into the mississippi river at Burling.
ton, H.. and two women were drowned.
After eight months chase Andy H.
Jones has been captured in Texas. He
was president Of the First National
bank Of Rugby, N. D., and disappeared
Just before the holidays.
Gustave Herring, Sr., a Chicago book.
keeper. shot and instantly killed his
Wife, probably fatally wounded his
On, Gustave Herring, Jr., and then
titled himself.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27
Among the best sellers put the aver.
age summer resort bill Of fare.
"Ower Young to Marry

COVER Young to Marry"
An immense amount Of healthy ro-
nance will be cut out Of the marriage
institution If many girls follow the
example of May Sutton and set up
what may be called a youth limit for
the woman in the case. Miss Sutton
fixes the limit at twenty-five. Her
pronunciamento quickly drew fire
across the ocean. where marriage is
not considered a matter of whimsical
regulation. One Englishwoman frank
~ declares that the fond illusions of
youth should enter into the new re-
lation Of wifehood and motherhood.
European mothers usually decide
upon the time and the mar and are
seldom known to say, Daughter is
too young to marry" If the right man
applies.
When Miss Sutton's theory is re-
spected at all 1t will be by mafdens
still in the thrall Of the Illusion that
they hold the decision on this weighty
subject in their W hands. That
means the voice Of Cupid can he ST.
fenced by the alarm gong of pru-
dence. Here again authorities on the
way of a maiden's heart will. object.
Capitulation to the little god will be
when the hour strikes. and that may
be for one maiden at eighteen and
for another not till after twenty-five.
In spite Of theories and precepts
based upon them. youth limits for
marriage will continue to depend
upon the individual. just as at the
other end of the tether the age limit
depends upon who crosses the theo-
retical dead line.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27

thirty-two miles from the starting
point. MI. Wellman and his party
succeeded in making a landing with.
out injury to any member and re-
turned to Spitzbergen on board the
steamer Fran, which also towed in
the disabled balloon.
General Booth of the Salvation
Army is suffering from septic poison
Of the eye, a condition that has neces-
STATED the abandonment of his relig,
ious crusade in the provinces and his
return to London.
Francis ]. Heney was nominated for
district attorney of San Francisco on
the Democratic ticket at the recent
primary by the narrow margin of 1874
votes.
James c. Dahlman, the cowboy
mayor" Of Omaha, has announced his
candidacy for governor of Nebraska
on the Democratic ticket.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27
LABOR NEWS.

One state trooper, deputy sher-
iff and three foreigners were killed,
two state troopers and seven foreign
ers were fatally injured and a score
or more of persons seriously hurt in a
riot which began in an attack on the
Pressed Steel Car company's plant at
%Schoenville. Pa, where a strike has
been in progress for some weeks. The
riot ragged for two hours, with the
constabulary galloping through the
streets and pounding the mob and
taking scores of prisoners.
The efforts of strike pickets to call
out employees of A. w. Cowen & Bros,
neckwear manufacturers Of New York,
resulted in a riot in which more than
200 men. women and girls took part.
Police eserv were called into action
and e~ighty-five men were placed under
arrest.
Rejection by the North and West
Side Street Car Mems union of the
proposed wage schedule offered by
President Roach of the Chicago Rail-
ways company again brings within the
range of possibility a strike of all
street a men in Chicago,
The threatened strike of St, Paul
and Minneapolis freight clerks and
handlers has been averted by an
agreement with the railroads by
which the men secure a S per cent in.
crease in wages. About 1000 men
are affected.
The United States Steel corporation
has begun the process of eliminating
from its mills all those with pro.
nounced union tendencies who might
with reason be suspected of scattering
seeds OF unionism among the other
Workmen.. .s..
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27
Tho Exaltati0n Of Labor.

Out OF the confusion TINT has ~
tended Industrial agitation and con
aict the past twenty years there ba.
come an e~xialtation d Tabor which so.
ciety ihgseneiral can rejoice over. The
term ,s,lab0r.'Sahas acquired distinctive
meaning aud stands for d regulated So
cial force. Gravesresponsibilities have
been placed upon.the warriors assem-.
bIed under Its. banners, and they have
bravely accepted them. 10 the worlds
cry for help labor responds. "Here"
Industrial activities need mo longer be
spasnodic OF chaotic. Workers are
organized, and capital representing
the other side can have just what It
pays for. No pay no work. and no
work no pay. alike give the square
deal. -
In a sense labor has been CONNER
cialized by unions. But that is not
strange in a commercial age. For in
stance, under the old way the farmer
.eked out" BY aid Of his immediate
family, plus q outsider. usually a
relative or neighbor. Extra harvest
work was swapped among neighbors
and relatives. Often the death or dis
ability of one man upset the work on
half q. dozen farms. Now labor is on
the market at fixed quotations. II
must be paid for and the farm so han.
died as to meet the outlay. Thus or
ganized supply ~necessitates organized
demand. Labor puts capital on its
mettle. Capital can indulge in no
idle years. Production must be steady
and feed commerce in order to be fed
by 1t.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27
ldlo Rs.ourcee.

EH
The Ballinger-pinchot incident has
an importance to the whole country
beyond that Of the q s Immediately
involved. It provokes discussion and
opens up the question as to whether
conservation Of natural resources
should go to the extent of. %insuring
non-use for a long time perhaps for
ever. Of something Of timely value.
1t might happen that resources of adj
vantage now would be snved for the
future and never used. Steam put
water power out. Electricity restores
it to favor. The next. motor agent
may render water power valucless.
So 1t might be argued that existing
water power should be utilized to the
fullest extent by the generation which
finds 1t profitable.
As to the withdrawal and locking
up Of natures bounties. the people
keep two broad principles in mind
first. 1t Is well TO avoid prodigal
waste now which viii bring on future
scarcity, and. second. every phase of
material development has its p%articu-
lar needs. SO It is all right to put
everything In and take chances Oh the
investment turning ont well. Re-
sources are not necessarily being con
served because they are left un'
touched.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

.L ID re- @+LH E-=DtlgH.
Four women and one man, the
driver Of the a met death and Two
Young women narrowly escaped 9 sim
liar fate at Seattle when q large tour.
ing a r going at a high speed, rasnSa
through the railing of the long tresele
ever the Tide flats at the point Known
~ automobile drivers as dead Mans
curve"
seven men. including the captain.
of the three-masted schooner Ariins-
son of Boston were rescued from their
nar,lous position on the bowsprit OF
that craft. stranded on a sandbar on
long Beach, L. l. Lifesavers ron
the shore effected the rescue after SIX
hours battle with a heavy "a.
Miss Hilda Peterson of Lakeland
Mimi, aged twenty years; Miss slgria
Peterson, her cousin, OF MOSS AaNe,
MINI. who was visiting her, inc
louis Wendell, aged eighteen years.
of Lakeland, were drowned IN me ..
Croix river while crossing from Huo
SON. Wis, to Lakeland.
The barge shawmont, with a crew
of five men, bound from Ph1ladelpnla
for Portsmouth, N. H.; broke away
from the tug Valley Forge on Shlnnl-
cock. j.. L., during a heavy gale. II Is
feared that she went to the BOTTOM
with all hands.
Two lives were lost during the In
aupuration of the Indianapolis motor
speedway. William A. Bourque, driver
of the Knox car in the 250-mle race,
and Harry Holcomb, his mechanician,
were killed in the frenzied carnival
of speed.
Ella Bullock, aged nineteen. and her
two small sisters we're burned to
death in a fire which destroyed the
family home near La Crosse, Kan.
The fire was caused by a gasoline ex-
plosion. The parents were absent at
the time.
Unusually intense heat, officially
recorded by the government bureau
as high as ITO degrees, caused at least
three deaths, numerous prostratlons
and much damage to crops in Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Oklahoma.
Seven men and three women, two of
whom may die, were injured when an
explosion of natural gas Quilted the
four-story building at Cleveland occu'
pied by the Wirick Moving and Stor-
age company.
While driving to church at Frisbie
Station, Mo-, five children of A. H.
Hyde, a farmer, we're killed by a st.
Louis and San Francisco train, which
struck the wagon on a crossing.
Fire which started in the Moore
house & Wells hardware store at De-
catur, Ill.,, burned for fourteen hours
before it was gotten under control.
The loss is placed at 100000
Ten persons were injured seriously
and twenty others had narrow escapes
when $50 feet of the Twelfth street
bridge over the river and viaduct at
Chicago collapsed.
James Mcdonald, his wife and their
eight-year-old son were drowned In
Rock river at Beloit. Wis. They went
out in a boat, which was found later
upside down.
Floods in the Upper Arkansas val
ley in Colorado caused suspension of
railroad traffic and resulted in dam
age estimated at $250,00
The Gloucester fishing schooner
Orinoco capsized at Lunenburg, N. S.,
and eleven men, all Nova Scotians,
drowned.
A disastrous forest fire is sweeping
over the country in the territory tribu-
tary to Grand Forks, B. c., in the Koo-
tenay country.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27
FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL

Alleging illegal practices by the to.
oacco trust. designed, it is charged, to
destroy the plaintiffs independent
business, the Ware-Kramer Tobacco
company has brought suit in the Unit
ed States circuit court at Raleigh, N.
O., against the American Tobacco
company, claiming 100000 damages.
Under orders, Of court the CHICAGO
Great Western was sold at st. Paul
by Special Master Albert r. Moore "a
fred W. Stevens and George H. Gar.
Diner OF New York. representing !. i,
Morgan & Co, for ;11.ooo.ooo.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27
FARM STUDY IN SCHOOLS
County superintendents Plan for
fvr Rural Glasses.

The semi-annual meeting of county
superintendents Of North Dakota,
which was held in Valley City, on
cluded it's two days session after ap-
pointing a committee to formulate a
course of study of elementary agricul-
ture in the rural schools Of the state.
This committee will report about
Oct. 1. If the course proves satisfac-
tory an effort will be made to make
It compulsory by state law.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27

The teeth of the Angora goats have
done SO we'll at eating fire lanes
through the Iassen chaparral that it
might be we'll to set them to cutting
all kinds Of lanes through the tariff
Jungle.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27
NEWS Of NOTED PERSONS

Walter Wellman's second attempt
to sail over. the North pole in a bal
loon has resulted in failure. The giant
dirigible balloon America, in which
MI. Wellman and his party of three
set out from S%pitzbergen, Norway,
upon their perilous fight, met with a
pishap after 1t had proceeded about
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27
interstate Fair It Beach.

The Interstate Fair association Of
Billings county is building a race
track and exposition buildings and will.
have them completed for the fair,
which will be held at Beach Sept. ri
to "A. Good prizes r offered on
horses, and a fast programme is as
sured.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27

China is to install the telephone. and
after a few seances with the hello
girls the calm Celestials will never
again be saying "a thousand years is
the same as one" .
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27

II railroad men were as good hus-
bandmen as the farmers the car crop
would always even up with: the out
put Of the earth.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27

After a little more practice at climb
ing the highest mountains Abruzzf
should be able. to scale the Elkins pile
Of "rocks."
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27

A reformed pugilist has become
porter on a Pullman coach. Now for
a reign of unprecedented politeness
on the part Of muscular gents" who
take a Pullman.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27

Swinging around the CIRCLE is no
new stunt for a president. but there's
80 much Of Taft that his trip is GER
tain to size up as a record breaker.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27

Mark Twain's doctor limits him to
four cigars a day. Now IL the humor-
list chooses cigars u s "long as a piece
of string the hardship won't sit very
heavily on him.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27
Shallow Wei, Is Death Trap.

A shallow well, located in a depres-
sion filled part of the year with wa
ter and used as a pond to water the
cattle, proved a death trap for the
two and q half year old son Of P. ].
McQuillen, a farmer living near Cros-
by. The recent hot weather dried up
the pond and left the unprotected well
accessible to the little fellow and he
fell in.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27

If the soldiers Of all countries viii;
surrender when they are theoretically
whipped the universal peace crowd
can tackle some other uplift job.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27

When the daughters of the veterans
Of these mimic wars come to organize:
they'll e more fighting than their
daddies.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27
KILLED BY THE CAR STEP

Aged Grand Forks Resident Possibly
Foul Play Victim.
A. w. Cunningham, aged ~ffty-seven
years, an old resident of Grand Forks,
was struck and killed by the a step
of an incoming Northern Pacific pas
senger train. He a lying by the
side of the track.
AS the dead mans pockets we're
found cut to shreds, foul play is sus-
pected by the police.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27

The new Lincoln pennies can fool
some of the Observation-Disclosures teie
phones all Of the time. but here the l1a
parallel ends.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27

What Ia 80 rare as 2 vacant town.
lot without . baseball game on II any
sunny afternoon7
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27

The proof of ths tariG pudding VIII
be III ths eatfng.not 4 the com,
plants. ofs the dlasappcsntedl "A
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27

A bumper apple crop II Canada IS
good news. for the American con.
sumner, butSas apples are on the stana
pat. rarin schedule the American pro.
Queer needn't WORRY.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27

This has been just the a when
the rain prayer man would be likely
to overdo It.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27

Now for a thrilling poem with the
refrain, "Trustman, spare that water
fall"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27

Bumperscrops have the right Of way
over everything except the high price
Of living.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27

Sad that so many public men must
be pilloried for things they didn't
say"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27

By fixing eighteen years as tne ase
limit for cigarette smoking e. LOUIS
stamps the habit asa manly art.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-08-27

4 cent too thick to drop into a slot
machine will drop all right on the
savings bank counter.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-05-04
NATURES WARMING
Bennington People Must Recognize
and Heed II

Kidney ills come quietly-mysteri-
ously.
But nature always warns you.
Notice the kidney secretions.
See If the color is unhealthy
If there are settings and sediment,
Passages frequent, scanty, painful.
It's time then TO use Doan's Kidney
Pills.
To ward off Bright's Disease or dia-
betes.
Doan's have done great work in
Bennington
Mrs Oscar Ketchum living at 100
Park street, Bennington, VT, says:
My kidneys were in a disordered con
dition for over six years. the first
symptom Of my complaint being pains
in the small of my back Later on /
had a difficulty with the kidney secre-
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and was annoyed by feeling of Ian
guor and depression. Reading OF
Doan's Kidney Pills | thought they
might be of benefit to me and procur-
ed them. They acted at once on my
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contents of the second box. was
without sign of backache and could
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am confident that better kidney rem
edy than Doan's Kidney Pills does not
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iqOh