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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
SEVEN PERSONS ARE KILLED
Building at Philadelphia Partially
CoiIapses.

Philadelphia. July l6.-In one of
the busiest sections of the city and
at a time when many pedestrians were
passing, the five-story brick building
at the northeast corner of Eleventh
and Market streets. which was being
reconstructed for the United Gas I'M
provement company, collapsed with a
terrific roar, burying or pinning be-
meath the ruins thirty-two persons,
seven of whom are dead, one missing,
one fatally injured and twenty-four
more or less seriously injured.
Those killed were workmen en-
ployed by Sax G Abbott, contractors.
The two lower Acors of the build
ing had been torn up and the three
floors We're shored up by heavy tim
bers. Steel girder5 We're bracing the
snoring. It is supposed that by NOV
ing ~ Of the @irders. the entire
structure was loosened.
The crash came without warning
and marrow escapes wore many. Be
fore professional aid could be mus
tered automobiles. Transfers wagon
and al sorts OF nearby vehicles were
filled with the dead or injured and
buried to hospitals.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
HOLDS DAKOTA LAW INVALID
Minnesota Judge Sets Aside Verdict
Obtained Against Railroad.

Deciding that a North Dakota law,
regarding the liability of common
carriers for damages to employees by
accident, is unconstitutional Judge G..
l.. Bum of Ramsey count (Minn.)
district court set aside a verdict of
$4,000 against the Great Northern
Railway company and ordered that a
verdict be entered in its favor.
George Kratos, a minor, who sued
through his guardian, John 1. Farley,
Is the loser. He was employed by the
railroad in North Dakota and was in
jured in the course of his work. He
sued and the court in Ramsey coun-
ty gave him a verdict for $4,000,
March 16. 1909.
The railroad asked to have the ver-
dict set aside on the grounds that the
statute under which the suit was
brought is class legislation and
therefore unconstitutional.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
Fargo Is Mecca of Paint Men.

The paint men of the nation are
making little journeys to Fargo for
the purpose of inspecting the paint
tests which have been conducted for
two or three years by Commissioner
Laid of this state. Some of tho
prominent Eastern men are now on
the ground and others are coming.
They are making Fargo a stopover
point on the way to the Seattle eX-
position. The national association has
hao a man in Fargo for months in
speeding the work and assisting the
commissioner. The association fur
Dishes the material.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
Will Run Special Trains.

The Northern Pacific has arranged
to run special trains for the Inter
state fair in Fargo over all it's
branch lines into Fargo. The pres
ent train service u n out Of Fargo
in the morning and back in the after
moons. The new service for the four
days will run opposite this and give
the visitors an opportunity to come to
Fargo in the morning and return in
the evening.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
PIONEERS HOLD MEETING
Attend Annual Gathering Of State ~.
torical Society.

Over 300 delegates attenaos
third annual meeting of tho .as
Historical society in Wahpeton N'a ms
far the larger number We're earlr ns
tiers of the Red River valley ana ssV'
meeting was not only a histor, Im.
convention but a reunion of old va
tiers. 0u SET
The programme opened with an 81
dress OF welcome by Superintendon.
+. b. Smith of the Wahpeton schools
MIR. Smith was followed by presidon.
Frank McVey of the UNIVERSITY ~
North Dakota, who spoke on "uistosu
as an Asset"
The State Park of Walhallan wac
the subject of a paper PREPARED hr
Z. M. Andrews, secretary of the Poi
River Valley Old Settlers association
and read by Professor Libby. n 7
Hagen delivered a fine address on
the state park at Abercrombie NJ
which he is the custodian.
The afternoon session was devoted
to hearing the stories of early SETTLERS
who We're present and the reading NJ
letters from many who could NOT hp
there.
President McVey spoke in the after.
noon in the science school auditorium
as a part of the programme for the
laying of the cornerstone of Burcb
hall, the new ladies' dormitory. The
new building is named after President
Burch of the science school.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
MANY HARvESTERS NEEDED
Early Grain Almost Ready to Cut in
Rich!and County.

Hundreds of harvest hands will be
wanted in a few days in Richland
county. The harvest is coming soo1l'
er than was expected, and a scarcity
OF farE help is noticeable. Many
farmers have been unable to get su11'-
Gent help for haying. The harvest OF
early grain will begin in that county
this week and from 5000 to : 900 men
a get work at good wages until the
threshing season is over. The crop
prospect is the best for several years
The harvest OF winter rye has be-
gun i'll the southern part of the state
The farmers report & large prospec'
tive yield.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
ASYLUM ATTACHE A SUICIDE
Ends Life When Mother Comes t
Accompany Him Home.

Clifton o. Moore, an attendant in
the state hospital for the insane at
Jamestown, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the brain
with a revolver.
His mother, a resident Of Saginaw,
Mich, had just arrived in the city to
visit her son, and he had planned to
accompany her home. Just before
Moore was to meet his mother ne
went to his room and shot himself.
Moore had been suffering with ma
hgnant tumor of the eye, and was on
the verge of nervous prostration, and
the prospect of meeting old acqualnt-
ances in his nervous condition EVIL
IDENTIFY supplied the motive for the
suicide.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
NOT AS LARGE AS REPORTED
Loss of Life as Result of Earthquake
in Greece.

Athens, July 17.-From reports sent
In by the projects from the province
OF Ellis the casualty list in the earth
quake of Thursday does not appear so
large as was at first feared. Up to
the present time it is known that
twenty-six persons lost their lives.
Twenty-three bodies have been recov-
cred from the ruins of Navari, where
more than $50 houses were demol-
ished. Eighty persons were injured
at this village, three at Ponhioti and
ten at Analaiva. The quakes caused
property damage at other points, but
did no serious injury to persons.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
AERoNAu1 DROPS INTO SEA
Attempt to Cross the English Chan.
mel Ends in Failure.

Calais, France, July 19.-Herbert
Latham made the attempt to cross the
English channel from here with an
aeroplane, but dropped into the sea
after disappearing from view from
land. He was brought back here
aboard the torpedo boat destroyer
Harpon apparently unhurt. A tug
towed the aeroplane in.
The accident occurred after Latham
had covered about sixteen miles.
While at a great height the motor
failed and the machine fell into the
water. The French torpedo boat de.
stroyer Harpon, however, was close
at hand and rescued both Latham and
his monoplane.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
MINERS INTEND TO FIGHT
Will Resist Proposed Reduction Of
Wages in Pennsylvania.

Pittsburg. Kan, July 17.-Thomas
L. Lewis, national president of the
United Mine Workers of America, has
left here for the Central Pennsylvania
coal mining district.
"The operators there have given
notice of a reduction of II cents a ton
In the mining rate" said Mr.. Lewis.
1--WE will resist it to the bitter end.
Before they can establish such q re-
duction they must wipe out of exist
ence every local miners union In Cen.
trail Pennsylvania"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
DREW PAY BUT DID NO WORK
Heney Got S23,ooo From Government
Last Year,

Washington, July 20.-That Francis
]. Heney, special counsel of the de,
naTtment of justice and also assistant
prosecutor in the so-called graft cases
in San Francisco, received from this
government last wear $4,000 for
which he performed no service, was
the frank admission of Chairman Taw-
ney of the appropriations committee
in the house. Nh. Tawney said:
LAS a matter of fact, Mr.. Heney
has not performed any active service
for the past three years. He was APP
pointed Nov. 7, 1905. and his active
service continued for about three
years and for which he received in
all $4,000"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
BULLETS MISSED TARGETS
Women in Shooting Gallery at James
town Wound Lads.

The last night Of the fair in James,
town was married by what might have
been q tragedy, when two boys or
the Midway We're painfully injured by
stray bullets from a shooting gallery.
Ray Mason and Frank Bench we're
passing behind the shooting gallery
when two ONE shooting at IL
moving disk. The shots, aying wide,
penetrated the calf of one boys leg
and the thigh of The other.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
Chicago Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, July 19.-Wheat-July,
$1.1SA; Sept, s1.10% @1.10A; Dec,
$1.O7% @1.073a; May, $1.10M. Corn
July, i0Ac; Sept, 65Mc; Dec, 55M
@56c; May. 5614c. Oats-July. 45Mc;
Sept. 40%c; Dec, 41Ac. Pork-July,
$20.90; Sept, $21.O5: JAN, $3.50. But.
ter-Creameries, 22h @26c; diaries,
20m23Ec. Eggs-1s@21c. Poultry
Turkeys, lac; chickens. 13c; springs,
16W19c.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
CHICAGO Union Stock Yards.

Chicago. July 19.-Cattle-Beeves,
$4.S0M7.45; Texas steers, $4.5O@6.0O;
Western steers, S4.75@6.15; stockers
and feeders, $3.1015.lO; COWS and
heifers, s2.4O@6.25; calves, $4,000
8.75. Hogs-Iaight, S7.50@8.O5; mixed,
$7.55mS.25; heavy, s7.65@8.3o: rough,
$7.55m7.SG; good to choice heavy,
$7.80MS.30; pigs, $6.65@7.55. Sheep
Native, S2.75@4.9O: yearlings, $3.50
@6.0O: lambs, $4.75mS.25.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22

Arrangements are being made TOR d
Knights of Pytlias day at the open
ing of the Interstate fair at Fargo
July 81. Supreme Chancellor Brown
of the national organization Will Dc
there on that date and pronlinen'
members of the order from all over
the state are expected to be in az
tendance. Members Of the Mlnneso'
ia grand lodge will be there.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
ST. Paul Union Stock Yards.

ST. Paul, July 19.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, $5.5oM6.5o; fair to good,
S4.50M5.50: good TO choice COWS and
heifers, S4.25M5.25; veals, $5.5OM6,5c.
Hogs-s7.25M7.90. Sheep-Wethers,
s4.25@5.0o; yearlings, s5.25@5.T5;
lambs, s6.O0@7.50; spring lambs,
81 s00S nm
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
Two Killed in Storm.

Theodore Thompson. a prominent
farmer near Fillmore, and his son.
Tillman were killed by lightning In a
very destructive hail and wind storm.
which passed over that section. Fully
5000 acres Of grain were totally de-
stroyed and numerous buildings were
blown down or damaged.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
AFFECTS ONLY ONE COMPANY
Fourteen Thousand Miners Quit Work
in Pittsburg District.

Pittsburg, July 15.-Over 1000 min
ers employed in the mines of the
Pittsburg Coal company, located in
the Pittsburg district, have gone on
strike. The strike order was issued
several days ago by the local union
officials and does not have the sane
ton of the national officials Of the
United Mine Workers of America.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22

ers of the Nationalist forces, in the
presence of an immense crowd in
Parliament square.
Mohammed Ali has taken refuge in
the Russian summer legation at Ter
zende. where he is under the protec-
ton of detachments of Cossacks and
sepoys. dispatched to Zerzende by
the Russian and British diplomatic
representatives. The new shah is
yet in his minority, and Azad II
Mulk, head Of the Kajar family, has
been appointed regent. Sipahdar, one
of the most active leaders OF the
movement. has taken office as minis
ter OF war and governor nf Teheran.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
Fire at New Richmond, Wis.

New Richmond, Wis, July 90
Fire in the yards of the Willow River
Lumber company destroyed property
valued at $4,000. For a time the en-
tire town was in danger of destruction
by the fire and aid was asked from
st. Paul. Before the fire apparatus
was started from st. Paul. however.
the fire was put under control.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES
Minneapolis Wheat.

Minneapolis, July 19.-Wheat-July,
$1.31; Sept. $1.11B; Dec, SLOTS.
On track-No. l hard. 1924 @1.33A;
No. l Northern. $1.3lM M1.32A No. 9
Northern, Sl.29a4 ml.3oA; No. 3
Northern, Sl.27Mm1,2SA.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
CROWN PRINCE IS shah
Ahmed Mira Proclaimed Ruler
by National Assembly.

Teheran, Persia. July 17.-Moham-
med Ali, shah of Persia, was de-
throned and the crown prince, Sultan
Ahmed Mira, was proclaimed shah
by the national assembly. composed
Of the chief Mujtehids and the lead
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
viii Be No Special Session.

In an interview Governor B"lho
said there will not be a special sen
sion of the North Dakota legislatu.o
to act on the constitutional amehu
ment providing for an income tax y"
corporations.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
CHASED INTO TOWN By LIONS
Menaer Of Roosevelt Party Reaches
Maivashs in Haste.

Naivasha, d. z. a, July 19.-Leslie
E. Tarlton, who accompanied the
Roosevelt expedition to the Sotik
country, has arrived here. He was
chased into the town by five lions, the
district having been invaded by many
Of these animals.
1t is probable that the Roosevelt
party will arrive here from it's shoot
ing tour on July q.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
Boy Is Killed in Farm Accident.

Ralph Wheeler, while working on
his fathers farm near Carpio, wa0
struck in the back of the head D9 +"
swinging HAY bucker" with su1flclen.
force to crush his skull. He wa
dead before medical aid reached hlln'
The boys parents are farming I"
Canada.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
Masons Meet at Summer Resort.

The Masons held their annual out
door conclave at Lake Metigosh, BOY
.tineau's famous summer resort. Ine
attendance was large, among llose
present being Grand Master Bender.
of Grand Forks. The meeting lasteu
three days, and there was degree
work each day.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
Further Shocks In Greece.

Athens. July 15.-Further earth
shocks were felt at Analaiva and the
neighboring region. but no casualties
reported.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-07-22
SPANISH PRETENDER DEAD
Don Carlos Of Bourbon Expires After
Iona Illness.

long Illness.
Rome, July 19.-Don Carlos of Bour-
bon, the pretender to the Spanish
throne, is dead at Varese, in Lcm-
hardy. He had been i'll for a long
time and the latest reports indicated
that he was suffering from apopleNy
with the accompanying paralysis.
Don Carlos, duke of Madrid, who
claimed under the special law of sue
cession established by Philip V. to be
Evening star., 1909-02-05
SMOKY DAYS IN GEORGIA.
Raging Fires Sweep Timber Tracts
and Turpentine Farms.

ALBANY, Ga, February 5.-Yesterday
will be long remembered as smoky day
throughout southwest Georgia, caused by
the raging fires, which have swept vast
timber tracts and turpentine farms.
An unprecedented drought has prevailed
for six months. Ponds and swamps that
have not been dry in the memory Of liv-
ing man can now be trodden dryshod.
Everything is so tinder dry that train
crews are compelled to make frequent
stops to extinguish cross-ties and wooden
bridges Flowing has been abandoned.
Wells are drying up in rural communities
and many families are forced in some
sections TO use the same well, carrying
water many miles.
Evening star., 1909-02-05
Literary One-Timers.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
In the current magazines, as we'll as
in the history of literature, one comes
across the e-timers." No other ex
preston describes them SO well. They
are the writer's who make one really sue
cessful effort and then sink to oblivion
or a painful mediocrity.
Who has not read good story, signed
with an unfamiliar name In one of the
magazines, and henceforward looked in
vain for that name in the list of con-
trbutors? Or if by chance it again ap-
peared, was it not, in nine cases out of
ten, appended to lamentably unsuc-
cessful effort to reproduce the first sue
cess"
The magazine one-timer is often easily
discovered in the very moment of sue
cess. One can see that he is full of one
subject, and that he is saying all he
has to say about it. There is no plot
worth speaking of; the constructive talent
is distinctly wanting. There Is no knowl-
PIE are mere lay figures, as stereotyped
farce.
But the writer's knowledge of and joy
in the subject. his full conviction that
it is worth while smooth over these de-
fects and carry one forward i'll the full
tide of his own enjoyment to the con-
cluSion. And when one reaches 1t one
has the sense of having received not
only the whole matter of the story, but
the single and full expression of all the
writer from d decent literary standpoint,
has in him.
Evening star., 1909-02-05
The Barber and His Tip.
hicago Record-Herald.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
The international agent of the BARRIERS
Union has been trying to persuade the
local members to join in an effort to do
away with tips from patrons. Higher
regular wages and no tips is his platform
Let the boss handle the finances and
get all the money that comes from
patrons, he urges, and then you see to 1t
that the boss pays you every week what
is right.
Practically, and a matter OF common
sense the organizer is right beyond any
question. Even when he says that the
tipping system drives many men away
from barber shops who otherwise would
be regular patrons he doubtless does not
exaggerate. But he himself sadly admits
that he sees little chance of reform at
present
Why is it? Probably the tip gives a
sporting element to his employment which
the ordinary barber would sadly miss. In
stead of having just SO many dollars at
the end of every day added to his credit
on his employers books, he has in addi-
ton the prospect of an uncertain amount,
which he hopes will be big. though it may
be small. There is excitement in that.
Possibly he carries his weeks wages pa
tiently home to his wife and trusts to the
tips to give him something on the side
which he can spend in his full capacity of
a free man without answering any un-
pleasant questions involving the relative
importance of drinks and cigars on one
side and Of the baby's shoes on the other.
Evening star., 1909-02-05
PHOTOGRAPHERS TEST.
He Discovers That in Some Ways the
Whole World Is Kin.
From the New York Sun.


"You note,' said the photographer,
that in pictures taken anywhere, in any
part of the globe, the humans face the
camera as if they wanted to be taken.
1t may be curiosity that prompts them
or it may be vanity, but they all seem to
like to get into the picture.
Take a group picture made anywhere
saw among our own tribe. Note the people
in the rear with necks craned to get
their heads out from behind blanketing
people in front. so that their faces will
show Shyness or modesty may keep
some who are in the background from
doing this, but unless the photographer
has personally posed every member of
the group SO that he will show you will
always find in such pictures some figures
of persons who would otherwise have
been more or less obscured but who have
so disposed themselves as to make sure
that their faces show.
$50 of any set group, and the same
would be true of any sort of picture in
which many persons were taken, as at
a banquet or wedding, and 1t would be
true of some of the onlookers in a picture
taken of a funeral. People like to get into
the picture.
Just how true this is appears in many
ways in all sorts of pictures; in pictures
in which people are not the main but
only incidental or subordinate features,
as of accidents, or ruins, or scenes of a
great variety of sorts. In such pictures
where the presence of the camera was
known you will always find some per-
sons facing or turning toward the pho
tographer, with an evident desire to get
into the picture. and it is easy to imagine
that the qualification of seeing them
selves there may give them pleasure.
Look at pictures taken Of semi-savage
or semi-civiiZed people in remotest
countries. where perhaps they had never
seen a mirror or heard of camera, but
YOU may be sure that human vanity
exists as it does with US, and you may
see somebody trying to get into the pic
ture or smiling to look well in it.
Seriously. this pleases me as no other
one minor thing that 1 know of does. 1t
brings the whole world closer together
for it shows that however far apart in
land and tongue and customs the races
of the wide world may be. yet in some
at least of mans underlying human traits
we are all kim
Evening star., 1909-02-05
The Tablet to Edmund Burke.

From LeslieS Weekly.
The scholarship and historical knowl
edge of Whitelaw Reid, the United States
ambassador at London, are displayed ef-
fectively in his recent address at the un-
yelling of tablet at Bath, England, to
the memory of Edmund Burke. With the
history of England S thirteen colonies on
this side of the Atlantic Burkes name is
SO closely linked that there was an emf
nent propriety in the selection of this dis
tingulshed and eloquent American diplo-
mat to render the tribute on this occa-
sion to his memory. Il am here on
Burke's Threshold said Ambassador
Reid, Ito utter the voice, feebly and in
adequately it may be, but the authentic
voice, of that people of now nearly 9O.-
$1,000, in reverent and affectionate graft
tude for the memory, the undyIng memo
~, of their foremost friend in Great Brit
an." Three generations of children in
the schools of the United States have
read Burke's speeches on American Tax
ation, and Cancellation With America,
and his Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol,
in all of which he p4eaded the cause of
the colonists in words which will not be
forgotten in this country. Moreover, on his
American addresses very largely depends
the reputation which Burke holds as the
most learned and eloquent of all of Eng
lands statesmen of his period. The
United States has been fortunate in the
character of it's representatives at the
British court, and Americans are proud
to know that Whitelaw Reid is worthy
Of association with this distinguished
company.
Evening star., 1909-02-05
INVENTORS POORLY PAID.
British Admiralty Niggardly in Re-
wards to Workmen.
From the New York Sun.


The lords of the British admiralty issued
a circular to the officials of the various
naval dockyards some time ago in which
system of payment for suggestions made
by the workmen employed in all depart
ments was introduced. This. it was hoped.
would encourage the men, but the scheme
is now practically defunct owing to the
extraordinary parsimony of the admiralty
officials
The workmen manifested keenness in
applying their minds to mechanical ap-
pliances for saving labor and cost, but
after waiting for months received a few
paltry dollars as their rewards. Some of
the inventions are valuable and will save
the country large sums of money, but in
no case has any man received more than
S25 for his ingenuity. The men complain
that they have spent their spare time in
patient study to receive in return grants
which are ridiculous.
AS an instance of the admraltys mig
gardliness one man submitted an invell-
ton which enables diver in difficulties
under water to attach another air pipe
and cut the pipe which is entangled in
wreckage. Until this ingenious device
was submitted such thing was thought
impossible. The admiralty officials adopted
the idea and awarded the clever inventor
the sum of S1J.