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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-12-16
TRACES BY DEDUGJ|QN.
dEa,s4s D7rbszi'yyh Il fsvyia,vAl.
SHERLOCK sHptMEs-.l FORM
ERLY A FARMER.

Berlin, Dec. 16.-From farmer to
detective is the unusual route by
which Herr Warnowski, the German
sherlock Holiness has risen to
fame. Herr Wannowski is the bril-
liant young Berlin detective who was
chiefly responsible for the unearth-
ing Of, the evidence on which the
great kiel .dockyard graft" .exposur-
es are based. 1t is due primarily to
his adroitness that the imperial ad-
mirality has run to earth the ring of
contractors and dockyard officials
who are alleged to have secured So
250.000 worth of plunder during a
period of ten years.
Wannowski. the son of Posen
lawyer, was born at Danzing in 1870.
After passing the examination for.
one-year volunteers and serving for
a twelve-month in the eighteenth
artillery, he became an officer of the
thirty-f1fth artillery, rank which he
still holds.
With a fortune inherited from his
father. Wannowski become landed
proprietor in his native province of
Posen ande chose the career of a.
gentleman farmer. Fate. however,
seemed to decree that mysteries, not
agricultural, were to be Wannowski's
life work, for his farming adventure
was not successful, and in 1900 he
arrived in Berlin intent on becoming
a police official: ' s
Promotion Came Rapidly.
Wannowski was assigned to the
detective departments. where he speed-
lily wen the title of commissary. His
first great case was a mystifying
railway wreck in East Prussia in
1908. A passenger. train had been
derailed, three persons killed, and a
score more or less severely injured.
The perpetrator of the Outrage-the
rails had been deliberately torn. up
could not be- traced. by the traffic
authorities
Young Wannowski was sent down
from Berlin. BY pure deduction Wan
nowski decided that the derailment
was the work Of a drunken man; who
did not live more than miles from
the railway line. Donning the garb
OF; an itinerant cyclist, Wannowski
proceeded to canvass all the taverns
In, the region for 8 miles on either
hank of the. line. Within "a hours
he had ferreted out, the wrecker, a
miller, who had the week before un-
successfully sued the railway admin
,istration, and In at Of drunken des-
peration. had revenged himself by
wrecking q train.
Just before the Kiel revelations
Wannowski did a brilliant piece oil
work In tracking the murderer Hell
der. a Berlin apache - who enticed
q Jewish tsilor's apprentice to his
apartments. killed him, and after mu-
tilating the body. hid the remains in
the Tiergarteh park. The trunk.
larms. and legs we're deposited in one
part Of the park. the head, cut and
slashed beyond recognition, was 300
yards away. After. the surgeons Of
Alexander Platz, Berlin's Scotland
Yard. had with rare skill practically
reconstructed the head, Wannowski's
Iendeav0rA succeeded In Identifying
/. ~ : :. ss -
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A SURPLUS OF
;l6,o00,o0o.
Dominion Of Canada Makes a
Good Financial Showing in
Minister'S Report

Ottawa, Dec. 16.-Hon. w. s. Field
ings fourteenth budget speech, de-
l1vered in the commons today, was, in
Its optimistic tone, in its satisfactory
statement Of the financial results OF
the current years administration, and
IN its story OF record revenue, q
splendid surplus and an encouraging
outlook, one Of the most gratifying Of
the progressive series Of good times
budgets which have attended the ad-
ministration of the present govern
ment.
The finance minister was. ablessto
point to an assured surplus at the end
OF the current fiscal year OF at least
$16,500,000, with the probability that
it would be considerably larger. The
revenue predicted would reach the
record mark Of $97, 100000, with. a
possibility of it reaching 800, ,00O;0 900.
. This revenue would meet. the total
outlay on consolidated funds, all ex-
EpedtEKA ion i eApital Il aaeocunt, apart
from the National Transcontinental
railway and In addition payS$ $780,
600 lf the total expenditure during
the year Of $20,000,000 on the Trans
continental. 49,
AS Mr.. Fielding phrased 1t, Canada
has come back once more to the old
familiar story of the general employ
ment, prosperous trade. increasing
revenues and liberal sufpluses.
Predicted an Increase.
For the coming fiscal year Mr..
Fielding predicted repetition of the
record of the present year. The reve-
nue. would probably be considerably.
over $100,000,000 and would meet all
the outlays, apart from an expendi-
ture Of $27,000,OOO on the National
Transcontinental railway. Even .sthe
cost of building the new navy would
be met out Of the income.
Dealing with the general results of
the governments financial admins
tration since 1896 Mr.. Fielding noted
that during the thirteen years there
had been spent on capital and special
account $212,5O0,00 Of which $147,--
100000, or sixty-nine per cent had
been met out of the revenue. During
the. preceding thirteen years the con-
servative administration spent $751;
100000 on capital account OF which
only $49.O00,00O or twenty-nine per
cent, had been met out of the revenue.
The per capita debt on an estimated
population of .7,45O, 900 is now only
$45.85, as compared with $50.82 In
1896.
/ No tariff changes were announced
and Mr.. Fielding's message with re-
spect to the improbability Of any tariff
war with the United States, was of
reassuring nature. .ts
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the youth on wSsse shoulders it had
once rested.

once rested. 81 - -
Nan D1Wn Murderer.
Then began along and ft-break-
ing search for the murderer. After
spending ten dsY1 and nights in the
local Whitechap4ls district, the detec-
tive convinced hi1hself that a. certain
Heider was the anlprit A few nights
later Heider w.. arrested by Wan
nowski himself ins q crowd. watching
the garrison church fire. Heider
made full confession.
J A few months later Berlin was ter
rified by a series of mysterious "trip
per" attacks on girls and women. For
weeks local 'wotnanhood was. In a
state of abject tear. Ladies were
afraid to be seengin the streets of
even the most Fashionable residential
districts, and mistlesses experienced
dificulty in gettinE servants to visit
shops in broad daylight. Wannow-
ski was prominently Identified with
the comprehensiyeis" drive" organized
by the police to, wipe out ripper" at
tacks. which SOON ceasen after the
arrest Of a number, of low-class men
and boys, some Of whom were caught
in the act of stabbing girls or pre-
pairing to waylays s;hem. H..
Famous sDSGkyard Case.
After the admiralty authorities
found themselves baffled. in the at
tempt to elicit the source of dock
yard graft" at Kiel, the services Of
Wannowski were requisitioned to the
case. The mannersof his assignment
to the case is interesting. His su-
perior officers at berlin sent him to
Hamburg one might without orders,
except to call next morning at the
Hamburg G. P. o. for letter which
would contain his. dnstructions. They
were to the effect that he was to
''nose about" Hamburg among the
material contractors and then pro-
coed to Kiel, wberelhe was to worm
himself into the confidence of sus-
pected dockyard officials and en-
ployes.
! The arrest and indictment of Mes
srs Frankenthal4 and Jacobsohn,
dockyard oflcials; Heinrich and
Chrunst. and their respective alleged
accomplices in defrauding the gov
ernment. speedily followed. Wannow-
ski is the crown'a. chief buiwark In
the pending Kiel Htal. He has been
bitterly. attacked III the defense. but
his testimony ha1 not been under
mined. The German Sherlock Holm
es' was decorated with the 'Prussian
order Of the red eagle by the kaiser
q few months. ago 6s a reward for his
clever work on the Heider ripper
crime. =, -,
This extraordinary man Is of me
idium build. broaA -shouldered and
and piercing pair oY steel-blue eyes
are his-eyes whichs have more than
seAce, so the story koes. extracted a
ccnteshion from criminals.
Germany. Il aeul eas remembered
has sssno 't1eteeti 56pls and few
Howkshaw traditioAsss sst;until the ad-
vent of Wannowskit there had never
been d detective of nattonafarenown
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Missouri Has Had Nine and q
Half Million Expended
y On It rs
PLENTY Of WATER BUT ITS FLOW
MUST BENARR0WEO AND CONFINED.
Missouri River Navigation Congress-
Heard Some Solid Facts From Old
River Pilot and Army Engineer Who
Was the Principal Speaker. II

Omaha, Dec. 16.-Navigation Of thd
Missouri river was the theme dis
cussed today at the Missouri river
navigation congress-, Bartlett 'rripp of
South Dakota and Majo. Edward il.
Schultz, an old Missouri river ;,ilOt
AID army engineer, being the princ;..
pa. 81 eakers. Major Schulz; told the
delegates the government had already
spent nine and half millions of doll
lars on the big Muddy" since 1876.
There is enough water" said Major
cShultz. "but we must narrow and
confine it's flow. 1t will require $780,
600 mile to construct the proper
kind of channel
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prominent New Workers, among whom
were Mrs. Russell Sage and Mrs.
Clarence Burns, we'll known club
their phraseology but all Of them
sounded the pathetic note Of dispair:
One Of them addressed "to whomever
finds this" expressed the dread Of pain
and concluded, nobody has harmed
me and l have harmed nobody. love
everybody and everybody loves me,
but i cannot endure physical agony"
This letter was unsigned.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-12-16
WAS LUNY
Claimed Presidents Wife and Dauel..
ter Had visited Him.

New York, Dec. 16.-So persistent
was Ellis L. Rossen, former Bronx
school principal, in his assertion that
President Taft's wife and daughter,
Helen. visited him in Bellevue hospi-
tai last Saturday. night. that Henry
w. Taft. the presidents brother, ap-
peared in court today to disprove his
statements. Mr.. Taft said neither
Mrs. Taft nor her daughter, we're in
the city on the day or night in ques-
tion. Rossen is fighting attempts
that are being made to have him
committed as $ incompetent. The
court reserved decision.
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DESIGNATED FLAG
Used to Take. OF His Hat to a Dirty
Rag

Kane, Dec. -""Desecration" OF
tADdag Is, the charge which Frank
Reed must face in court.
Reed in accepting the craftsmanship
of a meeting Of the Industrial Work
ers OF the World last Sunday is al
legged to have said:
H, Fellow workers, / used to be a
soldier, and had to take OF my hat
to dirty rag, but l am free man
now. We will sing a song about a
flag that ID a nag.
This was as far as he got before
being arrested and marched out of the
hall, while the audience sang "The
Starless Red Banner" ~
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JIM CROW CARS
Representative Heflin Wants Them II
WASHINGTON

Washington. Dec. 16-Representa.
tive Heflin of Alabama again intmduc-
ed his bill today making it manda-
tory for the street car companies Of
the District of Columbia to provide
Jim Grow" or separate street cars
for whites and negroes. His bill pro-
vides fine of 500 for permdttinx
whites and negroes on the same carr.
Mr.. Heflin few years ago had an
alteration with negro on Wash-
tngton street car. as result Of which
he drew q revolver and shot the =.
gro.
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STAMP SELLERS 7. !.
ELECT 1. | OFFICERS
Annual Meeting ef Third and
Fourth Glass Postmasters-
Comes to an End

Fargo. N. d.. Dec. 16.-The third
and fourth class postmasters of the
state adjourned today after holding
their annual meeting. Devils Lake
was selected for the next meeting
place and the following officers were
elected: ~,
-President-A. w. Spencer, -Oberon.
Vice President-O. f. Ganders, Bin
ford.
secretary-w. H. Stevens, wimble.
don.
Treasurer-C. 70. Langsr, sanborn.
The executive committee is COM
posed Of: H. C. Plumley, Fargo; w. c.
Schodelle, Glendale; e. H. Badger,
Colgate. and the president, and secre-
tary. ex-ofncio.
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KING LEOPOLD :. " \.
,-e
IS IMPROVING
..-4 ---
Change for Better So Marked
That Fears of Yesterday
Are Dispelled

Brussels, Dec. 16.-The physicians
consider the condition of King Leo
pold improved today. 1t was an
nounced verbally that the kings con-
Htfon was 80 good this morning that
the fears entertained yesterday had
been nearly. dispelled.s "A medical
man said: We must not forget that
the king ISIS years DID, .f
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MEETING "a SUCCESS
Ramsey sCounty School Officers Held
Fine MeetinR 10y

Devils Lake, N. D., Dec. .16-The an
nual meeting of the school officers
of Ramsey county was held in this
city this week, being pronounced a
complete success from every point of
view. The attendance was especially
large and the various addresses that
were given were of an especially high
order.
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HAS NO EVIDENCE
st. Louis Court Refused to Issue ON
AGAINST LabOrers

st. Louis, Dec. 16-Judge Dyer Of
the United States court refused today
to issue temporary Injunction against
striking union brick layers and stone
masons, restraining them from inter-
fering with men who took their places
on the new Roman Catholic cathedral
here. Judge O'Neill Ryan was APP
pointed special master to take testi-
mony and report to the court
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not approve of that section of the bill
as 1t had been amended by the COM

Before the house arose from the
committee of the whole the reading
of the bill had begun with the under
standing that 1t would be taken up
again soon after the holiday recess.
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3 THE WNfT0ER 4. q,
Il North Dak0taA..Partly h .cloudy 4
ard eslder tonight. Friday fair. 4
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-12-18
Local Items.

Miss Lillian Mccormick entertainer
of ..5OCn last Saturday evering. l
The East End card Club has inde-
fnitely POSTPONED their CLUB mee''hsS
Arrangements are being comp'e'eo
Gov fbe annual Charity Ball to be G'V-
-, Of Hotel Superior on Dec. 81.
Mrs. Harry Hal of the Albany fI''s
o.to,toined the Agenda club on last
Monday afternoon.
Miss Mary Brooks was hostess 'o'
St Cecilia's Guild on last Non'"y
evening.
MIRO I l. Lenloot was guest o'
honor at a luncheon gwen ~ ''''
Martin Pattison Tuesday.
M;ss Isabel McCabe was guest u
Mr. and Mrs. Wm Mccarthy tues
day.
E,;za Shaw Guild of II G
Church of the Redeemeer n'e'
49,, Nr0 n 9. Mclean on Thursday
afternoon.
Miss Borshild sparby of MINNIE
ono,,s is here to spend the ho'io"S
.,.,, Nor mother, Mrs. Louise Spard.
w 10Th st.
Mrs. II. l.. Warthman Will en'ei
tain her parents Mr.. and 'd's' n '''''
ord sis,er Miss Peall, Of 81. PAU gu
ing the holidays
Miss Edith Wood who has been ct
caged as seemstress Eere ior 80"
time returned Wednesday 70 "
home in GalesviIle, Wis. wheie :
will remain permanently
very successful sale and s"P'
was given by the ladies OF the + 81
ter;an Church on Wednesday eNe"'
A Chichen pie supper "'' ~ w.
yed.
Mr. and hrs. Mark Flower
daughter, Marion will arrive -
city next week to spend o"''''
18th the families Of I. G, Mclean
A. Kelly. Mr.. and Mrs. rio
were former resideh'7 -
Mrs. Flower is daughter o. )
Kelly of the Euclid Hotel
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heath CLAIMS r. B. DEAR.

Richard b. Dear, one OF 'he 'ho''
widely known contractors anu '''' '''
men VI '''o = -, ,e
sunday morning '' :, ,iv,h
fanny .....o No hsd
street, where wee" an
undergone 1t" - ..;,nso,.
esion resulting Il CIV WV o.,...a,
era''oh7 'o' ayr NJ,
the operation was 9 90 1850
, Dear see'''" " =" .,.,.
and all hopes 'o' ''' n,.,,,.
i, were e'''' '"' ,aa ,,r ,ho
when No''c"''' .-,a.
worst SET ~ '" ,.. :,
evening be r"ln'' anu - .,
the fanny 49,. ,,,
rose Tue c''"E' '',' ,;,
ia b'iei uH'e a." '''' = Ia,
at night II "'' see" .'''' ,...','..,r. SAM
Is we"" '''S "'' "
n. into his i's' s'''P'
= Mr.. Dear was neaJ|l 6o l'"7 Wv
9 the tim, Of bis dcmiscpnd nad elan
go ed Superior az his home city 'of u
nost quarter Of century lie w
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scALDED BOYS ShRiEKS

Mortified his grandmother, Mrs MARI"
Taylor, OF Nebc, KY who writes '''"'
u,he, a,l tho, he w,uil die, Bucklen's
Arnica SAVE wholly cured nm III
a,libfa for Burn, Scalds, cuts COR =
wounds. Bruises. Cures rover SORE sore.
eo;Is Skin Eruptions thlo'a'l'S
Chapel Hand seen louis ''''
25c at all druggist.
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N.,ue Recd'- new revei 'oli Re-
.a u,l,e,,, i. a oae otthcse charming
,u,e, anc altogether Wholesome love
SORES fun Of delicate touches -
,,rcyand humor. A book mt I'aV''
mea MT taste in the memory ""'
one that people will fo1 most 'Pp'o
pirate az a dainty gift
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The Publishers
Claims Sustained
,,ai7ED STATES CouHT OF CLAIMS

HATED STATES COURT OF |e@''"'
mao publishers Of Webster's lnterns, ,.',
nlti 0 nlcsethat It "is, III fact,tEc pow
ipr nabTdgci thoroughly, ree dIy nit wh
ug ,,rnnse adapting it 10 meet me
, s6 P sereTer raqGrenents of anoter genera
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lhe -, ET,n Which demands more 81 p p.,nr
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xxx lie world naseScr oa,, s1a Hat We rrfor
IS p ettai@ IN our Judicial work a ~
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ton; and that in The fn l,.,r't I,sfcrcnce
VIII W 'AO CHARLES {. EC1-, c.. !lrl'e'
IvRrHCI WELDON,
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-10-19
THE FINISHED PRODUCT.

During the first nine months of the
current year S21,OOO,OOO worth Of cot
ton mill equipment has been added to
the manufacturing facilities of the
south, and these projects continue to
multiply, evidencing the fact that
there are good profits to be made at
the prices which the raw material has
commanded" says the Atlanta Con-
stitution.
This means the addition to south
ern textile equipment, according to
The Manufacturers Record, of S4S,-
42S spindles and 16,4SS looms, within
a period of nine II onths, which is in
dicatiye of the tremendous strides the
cotton manufacturing industry is max
ing Immediately within the cotton
belt
The addition of spindles and looms
to established mills continues to be
the predominating feature of the
growth of southern manufacturing
factories" The Record continues. for,
of the total contemplated investment
in the third quarter of the year, about
$500. 900 represents 1OS,SS6 spindles
and 1878 looms to be added to ex-
isting mills, and about S1,S25,OOO rep
resents $4,000 spindles and 1,SOO
looms in new mills"
The New south" is manufacturing
cotton as well as raising cotton and
the states of Dixie are prospering ac-
cordingly. It is as sensible to manu-
facture cotton in the south as it is to
manufacture wool in the west. The
country or section that handles only
the raw products and allows another
section to make that product ready
for use looses the best part of the
business. It is the finished product
that is of value.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-10-19
TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH.

Much of the trouble in new irriga-
ton districts is due to the fact that
people expect too much Of the country.
Buying raw land under ditch they
apparently expect it to be transformed
by magic into fertile orchards and
fields without work or expense upon
their part. Of course this is an un-
reasonable hope To bring about the
transformation requires several years
O. work and some expense.
Some Of the literature issued by ir-
rlgation companies deceives intending
purchasers. It is therefore pleasing to
see literature in which the difficulties
10 be met with are treated Of as well
as the other features. The following
selection from circular at hand is
fair to the intending purchaser and
vet is good advertising too.
"It were absurd, Of course, to expect
70 make an oasis in the desert without
trouble. with sufficient capital one
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-10-19

may buy the fruits of others labors
and secure an irrigated farm that will
be delightful to live on from the start.
But for the man of limited means
there are, If not lions yet difficulties
in the path to be overcome. There
Is omnipresent dust to become ac-
customed to; irrigated methods must
be learned thoroughly; there is the
possibility of partial failure at first
from lack of experience. There
should be careful study of all the
questions involved-the climate, the
altitude (upon which the length of the
growing season depends), the charac-
ter of the land offered. Large capital
is not needed but without sufficient
capital it were unwise to attempt irri-
CATION farming. Careful investigation
and first hand acquaintance with sur
rounding conditions should establish
what amount of capital is necessary
and. lastly, for the best results, en-
ergy, application and intelligence are
called for, as in farming elsewhere
When the fullest allowance is made for
all these things, the advantages Of irri-
CATION farming will not appear other
wise than exceptional"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-10-19
ABOUT COOK.

(From the st. Louis Post-Dispatch)
DR.. Cook reached the pole. Hav-
ing seen him, We have made up our
minds No impostor could have stood
in his shoes at the Coliseum last night
and faced it out. So much misplaced
confidence would have shamed him
to death. Such an ingenious display
of mayors would have been too much.
The whole atmosphere of the place
was one of confidence and unsuspi-
cion. 1t was as If every dear old lady
in the house were his mother, and we
were his brothers-hs children-his
friends. There was trust in the music
and waving flags. 1t would have
killed a liar.
Conscience makes towards of us all,
A man might lie to a few helpful re-
porters He might deceive foreign
ers; but among his own people-and
Mr.. Nugent sitting right there behind
him with the check for the $4,000
Safely buttoned under his vest! No
man could have carried pretense that
far Conscience would have shrieked
at him in the music. 1t would have
threatened him in every y flag. It
would have pointed at him from every
post, and hung heavy-heavy over his
head, to mash him flatter than Ana
Mas.
A liar would have run. He would
have turned from the trustful multi
tude and dashed by the artless may
ors. Into Locust street he would
have gone like a whitehead, the whole
colossal structure of falsehood clat-
tering about his ears and the great
pack of lies he has told barking and
belling at his heels. That would
have all assumed the appalled, coun-
tenance of confidence outraged. The
shocked mayors would have shaken
their heads. Mr.. Smith would have
stepped forward and apologlzed for
the Business Mems league, and Mr..
Nugent would have torn up the check
exclaming with Shaw that "you nev-
er can tell"
But Cook had really found the pole,
and having found it, the rest was
easy. What no man lying could have
done, he did with grace in the strength
of truth. The world may, if it likes,
wait for the scientific proofs; we are
content. We have seen the man in
the crucible of human nature, to
which that of science is not patch
en-. CLARK MADAMS.