Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-16
The National Editorial association

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city.
Stockraising must be generally fol-
lowed II the farmers are to remain
prosperous and the people are to have
cheap meat according to Louis P.
Swift, president Of Swift & Company,
packers. Mr.. Swift is one of tho
leading packers in the country and
his statement of the case for the pack
er, issued at South st. Paul is sig
nificant.
Scores Of villages in Costa RIGA
have been destroyed by the sudden
eruption Of the volcano Poas, which
long has been dormant. The loss of
life cannot as yet be estimated, though
1t Is believed that a great number
persisted. Thousands fed in terror be-
fore the stream of lava and the burn
ing ashes that are thrown out in great
density.
DIR. Ludwig Hektoen at the inques,
over the body Of Col. Thomas H.
Swope at Independence, Mo-, testified
strychnine had been found in minute
quantities. in the stomach of Col.
Swope, and that one-sixth Of grain
OF strychnine had been found in one
seventh Of the liver.
A narrow gauge railway IL to be con.
structed to the site Of the Garden of
Eden, which Sir. William Willcocks,
British adviser to the Turkish min
istry Of public works claims to have
located. According to Sit Williams
measurements the homestead of Adam
and Eve was situated in the Haritah
district, about ESQ kilometers north Of
Bagdad.
Henry Pinckney, who was steward
at the executive mansion under Pres
ident Roosevelt, declared that no unfit
and unwholesome meat ever graced
the table Of that president. That was
in answer to the charge made before
a special committee which is investi-
eating the cost Of living in the District
of Columbia by Inspector Dodge OF the
district force.
For the first time in Missouri the
death penalty for an attack upon a
woman was imposed upon two negroes,
George Reynolds and John Williams,
who were hanged at Kansas City fol-
lowing Judge Ralph 8. Latshaw's de-
cree that he would not "desecrate"
Friday, the day on which legal hang
ings usually take place.
Three Nome merchants. who have
arrived at Seattle, Wash, report that
the temperature in Alaska has often
been 70 degrees below zero and that
upon the trail from Nome to Valdez
and Fairbanks they found four per.
sons frozen to death in a roadhouse.
Dynamite has been employed near
Kady, w. w.. to rout large bear
which has been disturbing the COM
munity, but the explosions failed to dis
lodge him.
At Calcutta, India, the press bill, de-
signed to suppress the dissemination
of anarchistic literature, was passed
by the imperial council.
New car shops, costing 100000,
are to be built by the Big Four rail-
road at Beach Grove, near 1ndianapo-
lis, Ind, swelling the value of the
company's property at that center to
100000.
Gems. Mena and Chamorro, of the
revolutionary army, have reorganized
their forces and are only 40 miles
east Of Managua. The government ia
making frantic efforts to organize an
efficient fighting force to defend Ma
nagua, but there are not more than
600 soldiers available. All foreigners
were warned to seek safety in the le-
cations.
The state Of Michigan has agreed to
stop suit against the Michigan Central
railroad for $4.000,000 back taxes and
the road has promised to drop its
$6,000,000 suit against the state for
revocation of its three-cent fare char
ter.
Five hundred clerks employed in
the general Offices of the Boston &
Maine railroad In Boston, received
notice of 10 per cent increase in
wages to-day.
Peace having been restored and
arbitration undertaken, the girl shirt
waist makers of New York will return
to work Wednesday.
A murder was revealed when the
body of Mrs. Agnes Anderson was
taken from under the basement floor
Of an abandoned house on West oath
street, New York.
Ten days before the expiration Of
temporary truce, the On Yicks and
zee family, Chinese tongs whose war
in the last four months have cost ten
lives, signed permanent peace pact
at San Francisco.
Attorney General O'Malley of New
York is accommodating evidence that
the Chicago packers have for nearly
eight years def1ed a state supreme
court Injunction against their prevent
Ing competition, fixing prices and 9TH
erwise violating the anti-monopoly law
and the meat trust officials are now
confronted with fine and imprison-
ment or both for contempt of court.
An attack on the report Of the Chi
cago chemists in the Swope poison
mystery is predicted when the coro-
ner's jury hears the evidence in the
case at independence, Mo-, this week.
To prevent the lynching OF a dying
negro, members Of the state militia are
guarding the Jail at Hope, Ark. The
negro, who is charged with having in
suited white woman, was shot on the
way to prison.