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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
LEAvITT TO FIGHT.
Artist Said to Have Spurned Offer Of
Money From organs.

Lincoln. Neb, March 2. - Further
than the tacit admission that failure
has attended their efforts to effect an
arrangement with William Homer
Leavitt not to oppose the divorce pro-
ceedings instituted here by their ED
est daughter Ruth Bryan Leavitt.
members of William j. Bryan's family
refuse to discuss the approaching trial
of the case.
Only few days it was learned that
the middle of last October an agent
was sent to Paris with an offer of a
money settlement if Leavitt would not
fight the divorce suit.
Why so much secrecy is maintained
at Failwiew is arousing interest among
the friends of the Bryans. 1t is known
that the agent reported that Leavitt
scornfully declined to consider a mon
ey proposition to surrender his wife
and two children, and that it was aft
er receiving this report that Mr.. Bry-
an ordered the institution of the suit
by his brother-in-law, Tom Allen.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
Former St. Paul Woman Found
Guilty Of Attempted Sub.
ornation of Perjury.
WILL APPEAL TO HIGHER COURT
Woman Paints When Verdict Is Rem
dered and Is Supported Dur.
Ing Sentence.

New York, Feb. 2S.-Mrs. Margaret
Teal. formerly Mrs. Toomey of st
Paul and now the wife of Ben Teal,
the theatrical manager. was yesterday
found guilty of subornation Of per-
jury in the divorce action Of Mrs.
Frank Gould against her husband.
She was sentenced to one year in
the Blackwell's Island penitentiary.
A stay of execution was granted
until Tuesday in order that her coun.
sci can secure from the supreme
court writ of reasonable doubt and
carry the case to the higher courts.
shrleks and Falls.
AS the foreman of the jury uttered
the words that meant a prison cell to
her. Mrs. Teal rose to her feet with
a piteous shrek and fell in dead
faint at the feet of her husband, who
himself sat as though paralyzed. AS
socn as she had been restored to con.
seriousness she was half led, half car.
ricd to the prisoners dock, where she
stood, supported by two uniformed
men, while Col. Hare, her counsel, de.
manded that sentence be imposed.
This was for the effect of taking an
appeal. and Judge Foster granted the
request sentencing the woman to
twelve months in the penitentiary.
The Charge.
The crime of which Mrs. Teal was
convicted was committed a year ago.
at the time when Mrs. Frank Gould
was suing her husband, the youngest
son of the late Jay Gould. for divorce.
She was said to have persuaded Ma
bel McCausland to make an affidavit
to a private detective, Harry S. Nous
ley, that she saw Frank Gould in neg
1igee costume in the apartments of an
actress.
She put in no defense, as the de-
tective swore that he had not paid
anything to Mrs. Teal for her serv.
ices.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
ACCIDENTAL HAPPENINGS.

Nine .workmen, who were entombed
In a sewer cave:in in Seattle, were
rescued after having been buried
twenty-one hours.
Three persons were fatally in.
iured and twenty others hurt in col
iision between a Pennsylvania railway
train and street car.
Trixis, the educated horse which
was burned to death in a wreck at
Delmar Del, was the property of w.
H. Barnes of Sioux City, and by him
valued at $4,000.
Edward Morris, president of Morris
& Co., packers of Chicago, is suffer-
fng from cuts and bruises received
in a collision with heavy wagon
while driving home in lighter vehi.
Gle.
]. E. Mighan and W. S. SprEtt,
prominent citizens of Boyne City,
Mich, were instantly killed when a
switch engine on the Boyne City, Gay
lord & Alpena railroad ran into rail.
voad automobile.
Mrs. William Crist, eighty-fve years
old, and John Teear, her hired man,
nearly as old. were cremated when
the cabin on the Crist ranch, six miles
from jefferson, Mont, was burned 1t
is believed that the two were victims
of a double murder, the motive Of
which was robbery.
Three women, unconscious from
smoke were carried from the build
ing by fremen when fire attacked the
Normandie hotel in Chicago. The
flames leaped across the Northwest
ern elevated tracks, which passed the
main building, and ignited a new ter.
minal building being built
Through the formation of a human
chain man was rescued from death
in the river at Chicago. John Ken.
nedy. salesman, while walking along
the edge of the dock, slipped and fell
into the river. Policeman Thomas
Walsh, wiz! the aid of two citizens
formed a human chain and drew the
man out OF the cold water.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
BUILD u GREAT &! PAPER Per: PLANT
Backus.Woods Company = Erect
$4,So0,ooo News Print MIN At
international Falls.

st. Paul. Feb. 2s.-Thirty.two acres
OF white news print paper every work.
ing hour, coming from the two largest
paper making machines in the world,
will be manufactured In Northern
Minnesota by the Backus-W Woods Com
pany of Minneapolis, commencing
Dec. next.
The paper factory will be located
at International Falls and will be
driven by water-power wrested by a
$1,500.000 plant from the sluggish wa
tiers of the Rainy river. The dams
and Transforming plants have already
been completed, and by Aug. 1 next
workmen will commence the installa-
ton Of the gigantic wood pulp and
sulphite mills and paper making ma
chimes. which are being made by Pu-
sey & Jones Of Wilmington, Del, es-
pecially for this enormous enterprise.
A colossal organization of wood
pulp machinery. together with the sui
phite mills, whose product is to be
used in the making Of print paper.
will give to the Rainy river mill a
capacity of 200 tons Of news print pa
per day and eighty tons of excess
sulphite. The mills will produce 100
tons of ground pulp wood and ninety
tons Of sulphite a day. The ,machin-
cry is capable of still larger produc-
ton should the mills be run night and
day.
When the mill is ready for opera
ton on Dec. next it will represent
an initial investment of s4,50O,O00 &C.
cording to the statement of Edward
w. Backus last night.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
LEAVES TRAIL OF BLOOD.
With Brains oozing From seIf-inflict
Wound Man Walks Sixty Feet.

Pittsburg, March 2. - With his
brains oozing out from bullet hole
in his temple and unconscious, accord
ing to the doctors. Joseph Greenwald
walked from his Office on the second
floor of the shoe store of Joseph
Greenwald and came to the front door
of the store, leaving track of blood
all the way, and was fumbling with
the lock when he attracted attention
of passersby, and policemen burst the
door in. He had walked fully sixty
feet, including the stairway. On his
desk was note saying:
IN. Lewis has robbed me and my
family of everything.
Joseph Greenwald."
AS the doors were all locked and
no one was found in the building, it is
believed to have been a case of sui
eide. Greenwald will not recover.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
DIES STICKING TO STORY.
"ToId TRUTH" Says Hams Witness on
His Deathbed.


New York, March Flames !. Tier
ney, the principal witness for the de-
Tense in the murder trial of Thornton
Hams, died after five days illness
of pneumonia at his home in Bayside,
L. l., yesterday.
He passed his last conscious hours
upon his deathbed protesting that he
had told the ruth at the trial when he
swore that Thornton Hams did not
draw his pistol until after his brother
had ceased firing at the slain Annis.
II was the only one who told that
right" gasped the dying witness to his
family and the physicians about him,
land was not bribed to tell it,
either. Mrs. Annis was not on the
float when Capt. Hams killed her hus-
band. told the truth about that, too
and I want the world to know it. l
say it again, when know am about
to die.''
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
CRIMES.

Henry Vasey was arrested at st.
Alphonsus' church, in Chicago, as he
was trying 10 steal a purse belonging
to a poor woman who was kneeling in
prayer. ....
Thomas Winters and John Murphy
alleged postoffice robbers, for whom
the government offered a reward of
$4,000, were captured by a posse at
Hale, Mo.
Mrs. F. Richard, aged sixty-eight,
was found murdered in her home at
Detroit, Mich. Frank Bialk, aged
twenty-five, is locked up, charged with
the murder.
A billiard hall and candy store a,
Dayton, Chic, owned by Peter John.
son and Thomas, two Greeks, was at.
tackled by a mob and the front of the
building demolished.
Just when the authorities believed
the recent trouble in Pittsburg be
tween the whites and blacks, as a re
suit Of the many assaults on white
girls, was at an end, another white
girl was the victim Of an attempted
assault last week.
a telephone message from Salem
Ark. states that while awaiting tria
at the court house at that place. j. W
Jores. merchant Of Mammoth
Springs. was stabbed and fatal,
wsanded BY Miss Lizzie Kissee, til,
plainti6 IN the case. Both were mem
j1ess q prominent families q
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
Comb Attire; Head Burns,

Waseca. Mimi. Feb. 28.-Mrs. Ed
win Ewel, wife of the pastor of the
Congregational church of this city,
while putting on her rubbers was Sc
riously burned by an explosion of the
coal stove beside which she sat. Her
head was near the stove door and the
fire from the stove ignited the cellu-
loid combs that she wore in her hair.
She threw her skirts over her head
and with her husbands help extin-
guished the flames.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
Digest Of the News Worth Telling Con-
deused for the Busy
Reader.
PERSONAL.

J, E. Petit, chief operator OF the
Postal Telegraph Gable company. died
In Chicago of Bright's disease.
o. F. Sprague. prominent business
man and capitalist of Chicago, died at
Pasadena, Cal, after short illness.
The University of Paris announced
that Theodore Roosevelt had accept
ed an invitation to deliver an address
there in 1910.
Eugene Tompkins, prominent for
many years as a theater manager and
owner, died at his home in Boston
lfter long illness.
Rear Admiral Samuel r. Franklin
retired, died at his home in Washing
ton, aged eighty-four. He was ma
tive of Pennsylvania.
Abram English Brown, author Of
sJohn Hancock, His Book" the stand
ard biography Of the Revolutionary
statesman, is dead in Boston.
Celeste Venard, Countess de More
ton de Chabrillan, the we'll known
French authoress and actress, died in
Paris at the age of eighty-fve.
George R. Hough, for fifty-two years
O conductor on the Wabash in Illinois
and Iowa, died at Keoluk, Iowa, from
a stroke of paralysis, aged seventy.
uine.
Eugene Delmar, one of the leading
American chess experts for the past
fifty years, died suddenly of heart
failure at New York, aged siXty-seven
years.
Capt. James Blackburn, brother of
Gov. ]. S. C. Blackburn of the Pana-
ma canal zone, fell at Versailles, KY,
and broke his right leg at the thigh.
Owing to his advanced age, seventy.
five years, he may not recover.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
Burden Falls on the Farmers,
Says L. w. Page, Federal
Highway Expert.
LOSS FELT IN MOVING CROPS
Minnesota Should Appropriate at Lesst
$5O0,000 a Year for In.
provements.

st. Paul, Feb. 27.-Minnesota farm
ers pay $7.15O,O0O in bad roads taxes
annually. according to L. w. Page OF
Washington. d. c.. director OF the
United States Office of public roads
He spoke to the senate yesterday att
ernoon, and last evening addressed a
Joint meeting Of both bodies in the
house chamber.
Necessary to Progress.
Nothing retards the agricultural
development of a state SO much as
poor roads," said Mr.. Page. There
are $4,000 miles of road in this state,
and the people of the state cannot
neglect to improve them If the state
is to prosper as it might"
He showed from the cost per ton
mile to haul products in this and
other countries that the cost could be
cut down three and one-half times If
our roads were as good as those in
Europe.
He complimented Minnesota for
adopting the highway commission
plan of taking care Of the roads, and
of having an able and capable man
in charge of the work. State aid and
the commission plan embodies the
most advanced ideas in road supervi.
sion.
Loss Is $7,f5o,ocD.
He showed that it costs at least 49,.
G00.C00 to maui an average Minnesota
crop to the markets at % cents ton
l. Europe it would cost 10 cents a
ton, or S1.50O.000 less than here. This
excess in cost of marketing the wheat
comes directly from the pockets of
the farmers. In the same way there
is an excess of $45O,09O in handling
the corn crop. and total of s7.15O,00O
more than is needful for all the crops
of the state. This does not take into
account the other large loss from ina.
bility to market when the prices are
highest.
He pointed out that farmers can
control the markets with good roads,
and that no other state is in such
good condition to take up good roads
work. The debt of Minnesota is small
two hundred times smaller than
that of Massachusetts,. Mr.. Page
thinks that 100000 a year spent by
the state would put Minnesota in the
front rank in road construction.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
BILLY SUNDAY HoRsEwHlPPED.
Evangelist Attacked Before Monster
Audience by Religious Fanatic.

Evangelist Attacked Before Monster
Audience by Religious Fanatic.
Springfield. ILL.,, Feb. 2S.-Rev. w.
A. (Billy) Sunday. a former baseball
player who is now an evangelist, was
horsewhipped last night by religious
fanatic at the Sunday tabernacle,
where, in the presence of 5000 per-
sons. he was conducting the opening
meeting of a religious revival meet
ing.
The evangelist had just made his
opening remarks and %as leaning
against the pulpit on an elevated plat
form while hymn was being sung
by Fischer and Butler, his choir lead
ers, and Miss Edith Anderson, a So
prano of Springfield, when a powerful
man. who said his name was Sher-
man Potts, sprang forward with a
buggy whip and struck Mr.. Sunday
several terrific blows.
Sunday Fights Back.
Sunday leaped from the platform
and dashed at his assailant, whom he
ANAAOS1>No uO"h III IAC CCulGr aisle.
The audience was on the verge of n
panic. with women weeping and chill.
dren screaming. while Potts and Sun.
day rolled and tumbled in the aisle.
Mr.. Fischer directed the choir and
the audience to sing and in few
minutes the entire audience was
Gained, few leaving their seats. Sew.
eral men soon seized Potts and held
him until policemen came and took
him to Jail. Mr.. Sunday said he sui.
Tered several painful bruises from tho
buggy whip.
Religious Fanatic.
The prisoner said that his home
was one mile east of Lovington. I'll.
According to his statements at the
jail he was once declared insane and
committed to the Jacksonville asylum
whence. after a brief confinement he
was released as cured. He said he
came to Springfield from Decatur
yesterday to horsewhip Sunday: that
he had purchased a whip in snrane
field and went to the tabernacle ear
lly.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
KILL LUCKY GAMBLER.

Man Wants to Quit After Winnina
Steadily and Is Killed.
East Liverpool, Ohio, March BE.
cause he wanted to quit playing the
roulette wheel after winning steadily
all day, Theodore Raeffen, an Italian
laborer, was yesterday shot and kill
ed. Pete Stizza of Chester, w. Va,
was taken into custody, but escaped
with two companions, who crossed the
river by forcing ferryman at the
point of gun to help them. Later
one of the men was captured by the
posse chasing him. Eight other Ital.
lans were arrested as witnesses, but
none will say who fired the fatal shot,
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
POPE WORKS ALTHOUGH ILL.

Attending Physicians Say Hoarseness
Caused Suspension Of Audiences.
Rome, March 2. - The indisposition
OF the pope continues, but it did not
prevent him from arising yesterday
morning and working several hours in
his library. The attending physicians
maintain that the suspension of audi
ences was brought about chiefly be-
cause of the hoarseness, and they ex-
pect that his holiness will be entirely
recovered in few days.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
MOTHER AND CHILDREN PERISH.

Burning of Home in California Be-.
!ieved by Police to Cover Murder.
Parkerfield, Cal, Feb. 28.-Mrs. M.
w. Beekman, widow, and her four
children, residing seven miles from
this city. en- the Unior: avenue road,
lost their lives in fire that destroy.
ed their home early yesterday.
1t is believed they were murdered
an; the house set on fire to hide the
crime.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
Ashamed Of Parents; Kills Self.

Ashamed Of Parents; Kills Self.
Louisville. KY, Feb. 28.-vandyke
Stops, son Of Finlay Stops of Pitts
burg. Kan, was found dead in his
room late yesterday. He had shot
himself through the forehead. Stoops,[
who was twenty-nine years of age and
student at a local business school,
left a note declaring that he could
not live through the shame his par
ents has cast on his life.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
Fire pestrov. MINI.

Iowa City. Iowa. March 2.-Fire ear
ly yesterday completely destroyed the
oatmeal mills at Coralville. LOSS was
$1,000. Of which $1,000 was on build.
tngs and $4,000 On machinery. There
was no insurance.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
Loses Finaers.

Menomonie. Wis. Feb. 27.-Fred Z,
Curran Of Westheld. an instructor IN
manual training at Stout institnte
lost the first and third finger Of his
left hand in The jointer at the school
yesterday. Mr. Curran was graduated
from Stout last year.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
GET JURY FOR OIL RETRlAL.

Twelve Men Are Tentatively Accept.
ed in Federal Court.
Chicago, Feb. 2S.-The jury in the
re-trial Of the Standard Oil Company
of Indiana was completed tentatively
at the end of yesterdays session, but
both the government and the defend
ant corporation reserved the right to
re-examine the men in the jury box
when court reconvenes Monday morn
ing. OF the twelve men in the box
three are retired farmers and the 9TH
ers are small merchants. Five are
Chicago men. Eighteen men were
examined in all.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
Bound Over for FORGERY.

Faribault, Mimi, March 2.-Martin
Ketchmarch, a young man, forged two
checks on his employer and cashed
them at D. F. Munroe's and Henry
Kleven's stores. He was arrested,
pleaded guilty and was bound over to
the May term of court. One check
was for $40 and the other for $50.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05

Freight Train Kills Barron Youth.
Barron. Wis, March 2.-Lee West,
aged nineteen, son of John West, city
treasurer, was killed by freight train
at Turtle Lake. The manner in which
the accident occurred is unexplained,
but the suppositfon is that he fell
from a train.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
SEEK REPEAL OF ROAD LAW.

Otter Tail County Commissioners Do
Not Want State Money.
Fergus Falls. Mimi. Feb. 2S.-Otter
Tai! county commissioners do not
want any Of the state road money. A
special meeting was held here to con-
slider the matter and the board decid-
ed that this county did not want any
roads Of the standard called for by
the state. as such roads were too ex.
pensive and might lead to jealousy on
the part of localities where they could
not be located. The board adopted
resolution calling on the Otter aTil
delegation in the legislature to work
for the repeal of the law.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
Killed by Straw Stack.

Thorpe, Wis, March 2. = Michael
Drummer, prominent farmer, was kill
ed by falling straw stack while do
ing chores. and when found by neigh
bors, short time after the accident.
life was extinct from smothering.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05

Three on Errand Of Mercy Killed.
Scofield. Utah. Feb. 2S.-While on|
an errand Of mercy to sick woman
Mrs. Otto Pahlke and two children. I'M
a sleigh. were run down by severalI
runaway cars loaded with supplies
for coal mine. All were Instantly
killed.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
DASH OF LIVE KILLS BABY.
Child Throws Cup Of Powerful Liquid
on Infant.

on Infant.
Parkersburg, Mimi. Feb. 2S.-Mrs.
Duseman made some liquid I've with
which she intended to scrub the
kitchen floor. In a cradle was five
month-old baby. Playing about the
home was a sister, three years
old. The mother had stepped out
for few moments. leaving the
I've where the older child could reach
it. When she returned she found the
little baby in terrible agony. The
sister had secured the I've and play
fully had thrown some of the liquid
on the baby. Physicians were called.
but the little one died a short time
after in fearful agony.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
Rioters to Be Pro.ee,,t.d

Rtoters to Be Prosecuted,
Omaha. Feb. ~. - Chief Of Police
Briggs Of South Omaha announcesi
that he has given the names OF TWEEN.
ty participants in Sundays anti Greek
riots to the county attorney ana that
about hundred IN Ill viii ,bei recon-.
mended for prosecution.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
Fish Perlshinu for Air

GAINESVILLE. Mimi. Fef. 2s.-Ice gath
erers at Lake Elysian were surprised
on going to the lake to find hole
they had cut filled with hundreds of
fish of all kinds. It is thought that
the fish in the lake have no air SUBJ
pl:: and that before spring nearly all
will die.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
Approves Captains Sentence.

Approves Captains Sentence.
Washington. Feb. %. - Secretary
Newberry has approved that portion
Of the sentence Of the court-martialI
which, at Gibraltar sentenced Capt.
Edward F. Qualtrough of the battle
ship Georgia to loss of ten numbers,
in rank following trial on chargesI
Of intoxication and conduct unbecom1
ing an officer.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
ACCIDENT MAY PROVE FATAL.

William Essen Of osceoIa Shot While
Returning From charivari.
Osceola. Wis.,, Feb. 28-William Es-
sen was accidentally shot in the right
shoulder while returning from chart
vari party by young man named
Nehring. A physician was summoned
but was unable to locate the bullet.
Essen was taken to a st. Paul hospital
for treatment. His recovery is doubt
full.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
Provjnce "a own EI.v..o.

Province to Own Elevator.
Winnipeg, Feb. 2S.-Premier Ruth.
erford of Alberta has asked the Do
minion government to confer power
on the province to enable It to build
and, operate huge elevator system to
store. transport and grade grain.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
Hazsd Student Coo. ,n..n

80 - = 'SS Sssss 49, b1lONyUvs
Portland. Or, March Ralph Bris
tol, a student Of the University Of ore.
gon. Is insane AZ the result, It IL u.
legged, Of hasing to which he was sub.
jected last December ~ his fellow
students. I. I. b. u. )
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-03-05
Boys Raid candy F.cterv

Eau Claire. Wis. Feb. 2s.-Meader.s
candy factory was broken into three
times by boys Of this city. An invests.
cation showed that tho boys possessed
Of 9 sweet tsoth were Matt Haus aId
Tommy Mckee. =