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Jerome Precinct No. IS.

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thence up sasd Sake river TO inler.
section u north and south center
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miles 20 poin, ~ satsvseellon Nth
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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-29
WHEN HIS TERM is ENDED
Charles F. Merry May Be Sent to
Prison AGAIN,

Charles F. Merry, now in custody of
Adams county officials to serve a SEN
tence of eight months imposed in dis
trict court aud affirmed by the SUI
preme court, will have a long time to
wait for freedom if the plans of the
authorities in several other counties
in this state and in South Dakota, are
carried out. The present plan is to re-
arrest Merry the moment he finishes
his sentence in Adams county and the
other charges against him will then be
pushed.
He was accused of attempting to
steal an entire trainload of sheep.
The trainload in question was being
shipped from Montana to South st.
Paul, and was rnloaded in Dickinson
for the purpose of grazing. Merry is
alleged to have reloaded the sheep,
shipping them out under a bill of lad
ing showing the property as his own,
and it was not until the train had
passed St. Paul that it was stopped
and the rightful owners gained pos
session. He had billed the sheep to
Chicago.
AS a railroad promoter, Merry has
been prominent for years. He is still
making an attempt to evade the serv-
ing of the Adams county Jail sentence
but up to the present has been unsuc-
ceSsful.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-29
LAUDS BOYS IN GRAY"
Head Of Grand Army Praises
Southern Soldiers.

Atlantic City, N. j., Sept. 23.-With
a fine tribute to the soldiers of the
Co%nfederacy Commander-in-Ch Chief Sam
uel R. Van SAINT, former governor of
Minnesota, formally opened the bust.
ness session of the national encamp.
ment of the Grand Army of the Re-
public. The commander spoke ear
nestly as he expressed his gratifca.
ton at the increasing determination
of the "blue" and the gray"
When ne said that no drawer troops
were ever marshaled for conflict than
the Southern soldiers and that the
Union veterans now realize that nc
men ever made greater sacrifices for
what they believed to be right than
their former foes the commander was
%applauded.
At the beginning of the present
year, Commander-in-Ch HE Van SAINT
said, the Grand Army had 1880
members in good standing. as com
pared with 220,6OO at the beginning
of 1909. The loss during the year was
6,7S1, of which 1928 was by death.
John E. Gilman of Boston was chosen
commander-in-chief and Rochester, N
Y, for the next place of meeting.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-29
SIXTEEN PEOPLE KILLED
Rock Island Train P|unges Into
,.'1sh0ut in Kansas.

Clayton, Kan, Sept. 24.-Sixteen
persons lost their lives and eleven
others suffered injuries in the wreck
two miles east of here of the west
bound Rock Island passenger train
No. p.
The wreck occurred at a fill, a thou
sand feet OF which had been washed
out by a clOudburst.
The train was running practically
on time and was proceeding on q
straight track. Evidently the first in
timation the engineer had of danger
came when he realized the forward
portion of the train was running i1
water which spread out over the
tracks near the fill. Reversing, he
checked the speed Of the train, but
not enough to prevent the engine, bag
gage car and the smoker going ovel
into the depression.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-29
News Of the Week From Vari-
Gus Parts Of the State.
MURDEROUS ASSAULT IS MADE
Publisher Brennan of Devils Lake Shot
and Wounded by an Un-
known AssaiIant.

A tragic cl max topped off a series Of
raids in Devils Lake, when Dan Bren
nan, publisher of the Devils Lake In
ter-Ocean and a leader in the citizens
movement for a clean city, was muir
derously assaulted while leaving his
offices.
A man, supposedly of the "blind-pig
faction" met Brennan just outside OF
his Office door, putting a revolver tc
the editors left side. Brennan acted
quickly, jerked away slightly and the
bullet went through the f1eshy part oil
his arm.
Whipping out his own revolver
Brennan returned the fire, but missed
his man. The would-be assassin es
capped by slashing a screen window
teen feet.
In the raids made on alleged blind
pigging," disorderly and gambling
houses A. D. futile, John Wallace, H
Merry, Thomas Flutz, William Foote
William Reid, Sam Goldberg and Mel
lie Rogers were arrested and numerous
inmates of the Rogers place also were
taken up. The raids were participated
in by Acting States Attorney Traynol
and Dan Brennan, who was deputized
by Sheriff Bedford. The sheriff, Dep
uty Flumerfelt and about twenty citi
ems made up the rest of the raiding
party.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-29
HIS SELECTION REAFFlRMED
New York State Committee Insists on
Sherman for Chairman.

Saratoga, N. Y, Sept. 27.-By a
vote of % to Is, the Republican state
committee at a special meeting reaf.
firmed it's selection of Vice President
Sherman over Theodore Roosevelt as
temporary chairman of the state con-
vention.
This action, a victory for the old
guard. was taken after Vice President
James S. Sherman had created a sen.
sation with a letter asking that the
committee investigate the charge that
his selection as temporary chairman
was brought about through trickery
and stating that if the charges were
s~ubstantiated he would not serve.
After a heated argument lasting
nearly two hours, in which the lead,
ers of both the old guard and the pro-
gressives gave sharp expression of
their convictions, the committee by a
vote of % to Is resolved, That Mr..
Sherman be informed that his selec-
ton was made without misrepresenta-
ton as an answer to his letter."
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-29
FORTY ARE KILLED
Horrible Wreck on |nterurbdn
Road in Indiana.
DISREGARD Of RDERS ALLEGED
Crew of One of the Cars Accused Of
Having Caused Collision by Dis
obeying instructions.

Fort Wayne, Ind, Sept, 23.--The au-
thorities of Wells county and officials
of the Traction company are making
a rigid investigation to attach respon.
sibility for the collision of two cars
on the Bluffton line of the Fort Wayne
and Wabash Valley Traction company,
in which forty persons were killed and
eight injured.
Frank /. Hardy. superintendent of
transportation of the Traction COM
pany, stated that disregard of orders
caused the wreck and that B. T. Cork
well, motorman of the southbound
train, probably is the II to blame.
The disaster, rated as the worst in
all interurban history, occurred at a
sharp curve neal kingland, six miles
from Bluffton.
1t is said that Corkwell was to wait
at Greensboro, a station between
kingsland and Ossian, for the north
bound train, but that instead of doing
this he tried to meet the other car at
Kingsland.
The crash came soon after the
n%orthbound car had left Kingsland
The cars were t%elescoped almost their
entire length.
Practically all of the dead persons
were living in the vicinity of Button
1t was a holiday throng bound for
Fort Wayne to attend the state fair
The local was filled to the last seat
and there were many persons in the
aisles or on the platforms.
All but One Killed or Injured.
Out of forty-tive or fifty persons
passengers and trainmen, but one mar
capped entirely unhurt.
Most of the deaths we're instan
%taneous.
The dead We're laid in rows in a
grove nearby. The bodies were hor
ribly mangled. Legs and arms were
severed and in some cases heads near
iy cut from the body.
The Identification was slow. The
dead were loaded into two cars and
taken to Bluffton, the wounded to
Fort Wayne.
Conductor Spiller of the Bluffton
local was not seriously injured and
his presence of mind averted another
accident. When Spiller saw the ex
tent of the catastrophe he ran back
toward kingsland and tagged and
stopped the Indianapolis limited
which was coming full speed. Had
1t not been stopped it would have
crashed into the struggling and dy
ing mass of humanity left in the
wake of the crash.
John R. Boyd of Marion, Ind, was
probably the only passenger aboard
the i'll fated local car who escaped
without any injury.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-29
ISLAND FOR GAME PRESERVE
Bismarck May Grant State Lease on
Several Thousand Acres.

Several Thousand Acres.
That the state game and fish board
of control will be successful in it's
efforts to secure Sibley island in the
Missouri river below Bismarck for use
as a game preserve is the opinion of
Secretary D. l. Armstrong.
At a recent meeting of the game
board at Bismarck the matter was
taken up with the city commission,
but in the absence of General Will
Jams the body did not care to take
final action. The other members of
the commission were favorable to
turning over their ninety-nine-year
lease to the island to the game and
fish board and felt certain that Gen
eral Williams, who is president of
the Bismarck commission, would also
favor the transfer.
The commission promised to sub
nit to the state game board at it's
meeting in Fargo on Sept. 80 a definite
proposition relative to the matter.
The island is heavily wooded and is
an ideal place for a game preserve.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-29
LOR|MER PROBE ON
Committee Begins Inquiry Into
His Election to Senate
WHITE is THE FIRST WITNESS
Long WrangIe Over Admission of Tes.
timony Relating to the Legis-
iative slack Pot"

Chicago. Sept. 27.-Testimony from
State Representative Charles A.
White, the first witness in the Lorimer
election inquiry, was heard by the sen
ate committee investigating the
charges of bribery and corruption in
the election of the junior senator from
1llionis. After hours Of argument by
the opposing counsel the committee
left undetermined the question of the
admissibility of testimony relative to
the alleged Jack pot" a fund for the
payment of Legislators voting for or
against bills pending before the Hi
nois general assembly.
Attorney Alfred S. Austrian, repre-
senting the Chicago Tribune, which is
pushing the charges against the cleo.
ton of Senator Lorimer, contended
vigorously that the alleged participa-
ton of legislators who voted for Sena-
tor Lorimer in the spoils of the So
called jack pot was pertinent and
necessary in the investigation of the
charges of the use of the corrupt
methods and practices in the election
of Senator Lorimer as showing a gen
eral corruption of the legislature, of
which the election of the senator un-
der fire was an integral part.
Opposed by Lorimer's Attorney.
Attorney Elbridge Henecy, counsel
for Senator Lorimer, stoutly opposed
the admission of testimony relative to
brides which might have been paid to
or received by Legislators for their
votes on legislative matters apart
from the election of a United States
senator.
On the strict understanding that the
action was not to be considered a
precedent admitting the whole jack
pot subject, Chairman Burrows per
mitted Witness White to answer
some of the questions touching on the
funds which have been referred to as
the Jack pot"
Representative White declared that
he was met in the st. Louis hotel by
Representative Robert E. Wilson, also
a Democratic representative, who paid
him 5000 as his share of the jack pot,
White detailed his meeting with other
Democratic legislators in Wilson'S
room, and testified that the payment
was made to him in the bathroom by
Wilson, who before that had conferred
with another of the legislators in the
same bathroom. His testimony was
essentially the same as given by him
in the two trials of Lee O'Neil Browne
on the charge of bribery.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-29
WINTER WHEAT AND ALFALFA
Can Be Grown West of the Missouri
River.

Superintendent Waldron of the Dick
North Dakota agricultural college, has
given out an interesting statement of
the results of the year.. The impor-
lance of the proper handling of the
soil as shown in the good yields OBJ
tanned this year, despite the fact that
there was less than half the normal
rainfall, is one matter that has been
put to the front.
There has always been a strong
suspicion that the territory lying west
and south of the Missouri river is I'M
fitted for agriculture and is adapted
only for ranging. This view has been
shared by many of those living in the
district as we'll as outside" says Pro
fessor Waldron, in discussing the sea-
sons operations.
"The farming results in Stark coun-
ty are of peculiar interest and value
for the season of 1910. We have had
an almost perfectly normal year and
the results ought to indicate more or
less fairly what may be expected for
q pSllou VI SColo. Sou1Co op-
ply not only to this county, but for a
goodly portion of the state. The re-
suits gained in Stark county can be
achieved in other portions with the
same rainfall and similar evaporation
and other conditions.
ga study Of the yields of grain sent
to the dry farming congress, which
meets at Spokane next month, will be
of interest. Three wheat, one barley
and one alfalfa are included. Ku-
banka, one of the best-known varieties
of durum wheat, was grown on spring.
plowed wheat stubble, packed once
with a subsurface packet. The pack
ing increased the yield slightly. The
five plots of that variety yielded 28.S
bushels, one going as high as 81 bush
els. The girka, a Russian wheat, went
% bushels an acre, grown on corn
stubble. This is a very good wheat
for dry years. The turkey red, a
winter wheat, went % bushels an
acre, although having a bad winter.
"Swan-neck barley went 40 bushels
ar acre on corn land, while alfalfa also
showed up we'll, being in seed pod but
not yielding this year. Alfalfa prom
ises to be a good crop for seed produc.
ton in western North Dakota"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-29
INVESTIGATING SITUATION
Attorney General of North Dakota tc
Assist in Prosecutions.

Attorney General Andrew Miller has
taken a hand in the prosecution of the
several cases of alleged law violations
brought to the front in raids made by
Sheriff Belford and a posse of citizens,
at the close of which Dan V. Brennan,
a leader in the reform movement,
was made the mark for a would be
assassin's bullet at Devils Lake.
The attorney general has been con-
Quoting a thorough investigation of
the situation. He is satisfied that
there is sufficient evidence on which
to base the charges that have been
preferred against at least some of the
men and will remain to prosecute the
actions, assisting the local officials.
For some time, it is said, Devils
Lake has been run on the wide OPEN
plan and conditions have been far
from satisfactory to the law enforcing
officials of the state. The matter was
brought to public notice a day prior
to the raids made by citizens through
resolutions drawn up by pastors of
leading churches.
Just how far the prosecutions to
be fought by the attorney general will
extend is uncertain, but it is said the
dragnet may get certain officials.
Dan Brennan, the young newspaper
publisher who was wounded by a bull.
let in an attack following the raids,
has been made the victim of three
unsuccessful murder attempts in a
short time. On one occasion he was
held up while going to his home late
at night, but he proved the master of
his opponent and escaped uninjured.
About a week ago he was made the
target for a heavy stone that was
thrown at him in the dark, it only
missing his head by a few inches.
Since that time he has been armed
with a revolver and when attacked
in his office did not hesitate to use it.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-29
TAWNEY DEFEATED AT POLLS
Prominent Member of Congress Fails
to Secure denomination.

ST. Paul, Sept. 21.-One of the i'm.
portant results of the primary election
in this state "a the defeat for renom.
ination for congress of James A. Taw.
ney of the First district, chairman of
the appropriations committee of the
house and n of Speaker Cannon's
supporters. He was defeated by Sid,
ney Anderson, a young attorney, whose
candidacy was aided by Clifford Pin.
chot, Francis ]. Heney and other nota.
Bile progressives. ~Ex-President Roose.
welt also took occasion to criticise Mr..
Tawney in his speech at the St. Paul
conservation congress. 1t was in Taw.
ney's defense that President Taft
made his Winona speech about a year
ago, when he upheld the provisions
of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-29
Cabinet Members Meet.

Washington, Sept. 27.-The cabinet
house party at the White House is in
full swing. Eight of the nine mem
bers of the presidents official family
moved in. They held a formal session
in the cabinet room of the executive
Offices during the forenoon and con
tinued their informal discussion o.
affairs of state. During the late after
noon the cabinet officers returned tc
their respective departments. but gath
cred again at the White House fol
dinner. and a long evening talk or
the south veranda.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-29
GRAND FORKS is AFTER 1T
Would Entertain the 1911 Session of
:, Methodist Conference.

When the North Dakota Methodist
conference is held at Bismarck, Oct.
4 to I, the Grand Forks delegates will
extend an invitation to the conference
to hold its 1911 session in Grand
Forks. On that occasion the twenty
fifth anniversary of the establishment
OF the ]ay1nen's conference in North
Dakota will be celebrated and, mas
much as the organization was launched
in Grand Forks, it is deemed only fit
ting that the silver anniversary should
be observed here.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-29
CAUSE OF MUM EROUS DEATHS
Statistics Covering Ravages of In.
fantiie Paralysis.

Washington, Sept. 25.-The mortal
ity report of the censu bureau cover.
ing Investigations for 1909 takes
cogniZance of infantile paralysis Gan
terror ~pofiomyelitis) and pollagra as
diseases to which the flesh is heir.
The record shows $50 in the former
and 116 in the latter class.
The statistics cover only Slightly
more than half of the population, ex.
tending only to states or cities which
require the registration of deaths.
Owing to the fact that the deaths
from infantile paralysis were widely
distributed, the inference is drawn by
the report that the disease exists eli
Their in epidemic or endemic form in
many parts of the country.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-29
AUTO PLUNGES INTO CANAL
Six Persons Lose Their Lives al New
Orleans.

New Orleans, Sept. 25.-Six persons
are believed to have been drowned
when a large touring car, returning
from West End, a lake resort. to New
Orleans, ran off the road, crashed
through a fence and fell into a canal.
Three bodies have been recovered.
one as that of John Freeman of New
York city. He was a travelling sales
man for a New York perfumery manu-.
featuring company and had been stop.
ping at a local hotel for several days.
The other was that of Thomas Boet.
tier, an automobile dealer.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-29
INDIcT LEADING IMPORTERS
Alleged to Have 6ribed Customs
House Weiqhers.

New York, Sept. 24.-The federal
grand jury has voted a batch of in
dictments against leading importers
who are alleged to have bribed the
weighers to return short weight on
cargces of imports.
These indictments are the direct
outgrowth or the amazing revelations
developed during the trial of a former
chief clerk OF the appraisers Office
and the assistant weighers jointly in.
dicted with him.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-29
Wound Proves Fatal.

D. c. Welther, painter of Glendale,
who was accidentally shot in the knee
by Basil Barnes of that place while
the two were hunting ducks a few
miles north of there some time z
died of the effects of the wound. His
knee was so badly shattered that am
putation of the leg was necessary.
That, however, was not done in time
to save his life.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-29
North Dakota Man Robbed,

John Ecke of Lauriate was robbed
and beaten by thugs in Minneapolis.
He was found at Third street and
Sixth avenue south in a dazed condi-
ton. At the city hospital he sufi-
GENTLY recovered to tell the police of
the assault. He said he was attacked
in another part of the city early in
the evening and had wandered about
in a dazed state until he dropped.