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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-16
LABOR NEWS.

Z. The Labor day parade at New York
brought out more union marchers this
year than have ever before been seen
on Fifth avenue. Conspicuous among
them were 3,100 women, most of them
garment workers. The leaders esti'
mated there were Il 1000 in line.
Arriving at the scene of the recent
street car strike riots which kept Co.
!umbus, O., in a state of disorder for
weeks ~ex-President Roosevelt. in a
speech, denounced in strongest terms
acts of lawlessness and men who com.
mitted them.
The strike of $4,000 coal miners in
Illinois, which has just been settled,
it is estimated cost the miners S12,.
100000 in wages. The loss to the OPP
orators during the five months shut
down is placed at SIS, $1,000.
A riot in which 1000 men were in
volved and as a result of which twelve
arrests we're made occurred at the
conclusion of the Labor day parade at
Portland. Ore.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-16
THE DEATH RECORD.

Solicitor General Lloyd w. Bowers
died at Boston of complications arts.
ing from an attack of bronchitis. The
solicitor general had been ill about
two weeks. He was fifty-one years OF
age. Mr.. Bowers had been prominently
mentioned in connection with one OF
the vacancies on the bench of the
supreme court of the United States
and it was generally believed he was
slated for appointment to an associate
j%usticeship by President Taft.
DR.. S. S. French, a widely known
physician, died at his home at Battle
Creek, Mich, aged n%inety-four years.
DR.. French read the first resolutions
that resulted in the "Under the Oaks"
meeting when the Republican party
was organized.
DR.. John A. chandler, for forty.one
years editor of the Hamlandet, the
Oldest Swedish newspaper in Amer.
lea, died at his home in Chicago, aged
sixty-eight.
Julian Edwards. the composer, is
dead at his home in Yonkers, N. Y,
of heart disease and complications.
He was fifty-four years old.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-16
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

Thirty lives were lost when Pere
Marquette car ferry No. IS, bound
from Ludington, Mich, to Milwaukee,
went to the bottom of Lake Michigan
half way across the lake. The dead
include Captain Peter Kitty of Lud-
ington, S. F. Sezpanek of Chicago,
purser and wireless operator, whose
signals of distress brought assistance
to the sinking steamer, and two mem
bers of the OF a ferry No. II,
who lost their lives in an effort to res
cue the crew of No. IS. The vessel
and cargo were valued at over $780,
900.
At least nine laborers were killed
outright and ten others injured, all of
them seriously, in the collapse of an
overhanging shoulder OF, rock from
above the western mouth of the old
Erie tunnel under Bergen hill, con.
Meeting the Erie terminal in Jersey
City with it's westward divisions.
Two women were decapitated, a
man burned to death by molten Stag
and a young woman suffered cuts and
burns about the body when an auto
mobile in which they were returning
to Chicago from South Bend, Ind, was
struck by a train of cars containing
molten Stag.
An explosion of fuel oil and an en-
suing fire on the battleship North Da-
kota in Chesapeake bay cost the lives
of three men and more or less serious
injuries to nine others, including Chief
Lieutenant Grin G.. Murphin.
Three children of Charles Curry, a
miner in the mining town of Scandal.
Ia, were burned to death by the ex-
plosion of a kerosene can.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-16
SERIOUS CHARGES
AGAINST CARRIERS
Railroads Accused Of Various
illegal Actions

New York, Sept. 14.-Charges of
wholesale dishonesty, of mismanage.
ment, of graft, of overcapitalization,
of gross discrimination, of excessive
rates, of aggrandizement and of eff.
forts to deceive and blk the public
were made against the railroads to
the interstate commerce commission
by the Illinois Manufacturers associa-
ton. That organization interviewed in
the now famous increase investigation
and demanded that the commerce COM
mission make a searching inquiry into
the misdoingsl which are charged
against the carriers before determin-
ing whether or not the roads shall be
permitted to add to their by
increased transportation charges.
The sensational charges were made
through Attorney William D. Haynie
and were filed in writing with the
commission, becoming a part of the
record in the case.
Not content with having made the
charges and asserting that through
misdoings attributed to the railroads
the shippers are burdened with at
least $1,000, 900, 900 annually in excess
of Justice, the Illinois Manufacturers
association pledges itself to submit
evidence to prove that what it says is
true.
Attorney Haynie declared that he
was now in the midst of an investiga.
tion the result of which would startle
the people of the United States and
would show that were it not for in.
1ation of railroad securities, for milk
ing" of railroad property, for dishones.
ty in construction and other wrong
doings the railroads could afford to
lower their freight rates and would
have an abundance of money.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-16
NEWS OF WORLD
important Events Of the Week
in Condensed Form
POLITICAL NEWS.

United States Senator Robert NJ. La
Toilette, in the contest for renomlna-
ton on the Republican ticket, swept
the state of, Wisconsin by a veritable
landslide, it being estimated that he
will have at least 4 to l against his
opponent, Samuel A. Cook, candidate
of the regulars. Francis e. McGovern
was nominated for governor.
The reform wing of the Republican
party in New Hampshire, which first
asserted itself in state politics in 1906
and figured again in the state cam.
paign of 1908, has, in the first state
wide primaries ever held in New
Hampshire, nominated its candidate,
State Senator Robert p. Bass of Peter
boro, for governor.
: Without a single negative vote or
any question that came before the
state convention the progressive wing
of the Republican party in California
took over the organization manage
ment, endorsing the nominees chosen
at the recent primaries, and adopted
a party platform.
United States Senator Julius c. Bur
rows of Michigan was defeated for re-
nomination at the primaries by Cor
gresham Charles E. Townsend. Mr.
Burrows has served eighteen years in
the lower house of congress and III
teen years in the senate.
Mrs. Frances E. Beauchamp of Lex
ington, KY, state president of the
Women's Christian Temperance I'M
ion and widely known in women's club
circles, has announced her candidacy
for congress.
John Lind has refused to accept the
Democratic nomination for governor
of Minnesota,
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-16

midst of a brilliant reception given in
his honor by the Canadian govern
ment.
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger,
at the Arctic club smoker at Seattle
given in honor of Secretary of Com
merce and Labor Nagel and Attorney
General Wickersham, spoke bitterly or
his dctractors. with my conscious
ness of rectitude of my every act, in
private and public, and my determine
ton to go forward in the same path
l do not fear the criticism Of any man
or set of men," said the secretary.
Prior to the banquet of the Hamil-
ton club at Chicago, given in his
honor. Colonel Roosevelt refused fatty
to attend unless United States Senator
Lorimer was excluded. The commit
tee in charge of the banquet then re.
called the invitation to the senator.
A notable party of Irish leaders will
leave for America Sept. II on a tour
which will take in most of the large
cities of the South and West. The
chief figure of the mission will be
John T. Redmond, the leader of the
Irish party.
After an absence of three weeks
Colonel Roosevelt is home again,
weary from his Western trip, but we'll
satisfied with the result. He enjoyed
every minute of it, he said.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-16
MISCELLANEOUS E "

The Ballinger-Pinchot investigating
committee, on a party vote, Represen-
tative Madison of Kansas, insurgent,
siding with the Democrats, adopted a
motion declaring Secretary Ballinger
an unworthy public servant and calling
for his retirement from public life.
There was protest from the Repub-
lican members, who tried in vain to
make the point of no quorum, but were
Overruled. The resolution asking for
the removal of Ballinger was passed
by the votes of Senators Fletcher and
Purcell and Representatives James,
Graham and Madison. The four first
named are Democrats and Mr.. Madi-
son is a progressive Republican.
With an overwhelming majority Of
the delegates standing solidly for fed
eral control in conservation the second
National Conservation congress at st.
Paul came to an end. The final hours
were a turmoil from start to finish,
with vigorous speeches from a small
but lung-powerful coterie of states
rights men from Washington, Idaho
and Montana. The resolutions adopt
ed advocate federal control of natural
resources and follow closely the ideas
of Roosevelt and Pinchot. Henry Wal
lace of Des Moines, Ia, was elected
president of the congress, Clifford Pin.
chot declining the honor.
Using his power as chairman of the
Ballinger-Pinchot committee, called to
meet at the West hotel at Minneapo.
lis, Senator Knute Nelson adjourned
the committee meeting until Tuesday,
Sept. IL, when the members are di-
rected to meet in Chicago. The action
of the chairman angered the minority
members of the committee and they
held a meeting and at once made pub.
lie their findings in the case, which
condemn the actions of Secretary Bal.
linger and call for his remove from
office. The minority then adjourned
until next December.
That the vigilance of the customs
agents at the port of New York is
profitable is shown by a report from
Surveyor Henry, showing that owe
100000 worth of jewelry has been
seized from alleged smugglers in the
last two months. More than half Of
the gems were taken from women and
about half is still in the hands of the
authorities awaiting confiscation or ad.
judication.
One hundred thousand people were
in the great Eucharistic congress pro.
cession at Montreal and participated
in the carrying of the host. The most
solemn professional known in the Ro.
man Catholic church throughout the
world was held for the first time in
the history of this continent. The
spectacle was witnessed by 500, 000
people.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-16
FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL

Special Commissioner Theodore
Brace, in his report to the Missouri
supreme court in the custer suit just
filed, declared the International Har-
vester company of New Jersey a trust
and a combine formed for the pur-
pose and with the effect of destroying
competition in the manufacture and
sale of harvesting machinery.
James ]. Hill cannot see why the
business men Of the country should at
present fear to engage in new enter.
prises, nor can he see any reason
whatever for the semi-paralysis which
is gradually creeping over the United
States. "Jt's only a senseless lack of
confidence" said Mr.. Hill.
Raw linseed oil, which comprises
about two-thirds the composition of
paint. reached the highest point in its
history, closing at 81 IN the Chicago
board of trade, an advance Of SO cents
over the high point Of September last
year, when oil sold at AZ cents.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-16
CRIMINAL NEWS.

The special grand jury which had
been investigating charges against for.
mer Representative Joseph c. Sibley
and four c~o-defendants in connection
with Sibley's nomination as the Re.
publican. candidate for congress at the
June primaries returned true bills
against each of the defendants. Ali
ARE charged with conspiracy to bride
debauch and corrupt voters of Warren
county, Pa.
Lee O'Neil Browne, a minority lead.
er in the Illinois legislature, charged
with bribery in connection with the
election Of William Lorimer to the
United States senate, was found not
guilty by a jury in the criminal court
at Chicago. This was Brownies sec.
ond trial. The jury disagreed in the
first trial.
The Lucas Bridge and Iron com
pany's large plant at Peoria, ILL.,, was
completely wrecked by dynamiters
Three terrific explosions reduced the
plant to ruins and six adjacent build.
ings, including three saloons, were
wrecked. The Lucas company has
been operating an open shop.
Gold bullion valued at $57,500, part
of a consignment of $4,000 from the
Washington-Alaska bank of Fairbanks
to the Dexter-Horton National bank
of Seattle on the steamship Humboldt.
was stolen in transit. Lead was sub
stituted in the strong box that con.
tanned it.
Crazed by jealousy H. v. Harveson
a drug clerk of Redfield, S. D., shot
and killed Dale Kiser, a prominent
young lady, seriously wounded DR.. F
E. Clinite, a dentist, and then killed
himself.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-16
NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS

In his speech before the National
Conservation congress at st. Paul for
mer President Roosevelt declared him
self in favor Of a rational and practi.
cal conservation programme which
should give those who are living today
the benefit of our national resOurces
as well as those of later generations,
He warned the people against the in
sidious activities of agents Of the spe'
cial interests, who, as victory draws
nearer, are redoubling their efforts to
defeat the conservation movement. He
added that it would be no small mis-
fortune if a meeting such as this
should ever fall into the hands of the
open enemy or false friends of the
great movement which it represents.
Mr.. Roosevelt strongly urged federal
control OF water power sites and
pointed out that most of the "preda-
tory corporations are interstate and
therefore out of reach of effective
state control. One of the prime oh.
jects of those corporations that are
grasping and greedy, he said, is to
avoid n effective control, either by
state or nation, and they advocate at
this time state control simply because
they believe it to be the least effec-
tive. He further declared that we
have passed the time when needless
waste and destruction and arrogant
monopoly are any longer permissible.
Henceforth we must seek national eff
ticiency by a new and better way, by
the way of the orderly development
and use of our natural resources. Mr..
Roosevelt urged the establishment OF
a federal board of health and in this
connection said hat the needless loss
to our people from premature death
and avoidable disease each year has
been calculated at nearly twice what
it costs to run the federal govern.
ment.
Cardinal Vannutelli, the aged repre-
sentative of Plus X. at the Eucharistio
congress at Montreal, tainted in the
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-16
COLONEL ROOSEVELT SILENT
Refuses to Discuss Result of Election
in Maine.

Refuses to Discuss Result Of Election
in Maine.
New York, Sept. 14.-Theodore
Roosevelt, up bright and early from
Oyster Bay to pay his first visit to
his editorial offices since his return
from his Western trip, was not in
clined to comment for publication on
the result of the Maine election. Asked
to express himself on the subject the
colonel said:
Nothing to say"
Colonel Roosevelt was no more COM
municative. either. on political topics
in general. Pressed for some state
ment on the general situation he re-
sponded:
mo. I have just returned from a
hygienic tour to steep myself in lit
erary calm. With that the colonel,
who had momentarily emerged from
his private quarters, beat a retreat to
his offices.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-16
EFFECT FELT IN MISSOURI
Republicans May Draft Platform on
Progressive Lines.

Jefferson City, Mo-, Sept. 14.-State
committees of the political parties in
Missouri began meetings here in
preparation for the fall campaign.
New chairmen of the committees were
elected.
The Democratic, Republican, Prohi-
bition and Socialistic Labor parties
will draft platforms before adjourn
ment. The Democratic committee
will, according to the leaders, endorse
Joseph w. Folk for the presidency.
Alarmed by the result in Maine the
Republican committee, composed
largely of standpatters, intended, 1t
was said, to draft a platform on pro-
gressive lines.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-16
SWEEPING CUT IS ORDERED
Canadian Railroad Commission Re.
duces Alaskan Rates.

Vancouver, B. c.. Sept. IA
sweeping reduction of freight rates on
the White Pass and Yukon railway
was ordered by the railroad commits
sion of Canada.
In a rate hearing at Seattle last
year, when the railroad was charged
with discrimination in favor of GER
tain steamship lines, the United States
interstate commerce commission up
held the contention that the jurisdic'
ton of the commission, being limited
by law to the United States and its
territories, did not extend to Alaska
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-16
BIG DINNER FOR LoRIMER
Friends Of Senator Resent Action of
Colonel Roosevelt.

Chicago, Sept. 14.-United States
Senator William Lcrimer is to be the
guest of honor at what is planned to
be n of the biggest dinners given
in Chicago in many years. The occa-
sion is to furnish a rebuke by the
friends of the senator to Colonel
Roosevelt. who recently declined to
sit at the same table with Senator
Lorimer, and in order to accentuate
the disapproval with which the friends
of the senator regard the action of
Colonel Roosevelt they intend to ask
President Taft to sit at the head of
the table.
All of the plans for the dinner are
tentative and neither the time nor
place of it has as yet been determined
uDOn.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-16
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Attorney General George W. Wick.
ersham, who returned from a tour of
Alaska in company with Secretary Of
Commerce and Labor Nagel, declares
himself strongly in favor OF Alaska's
development.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-16
Republican Members of Com.
mittee at Chicago.
ONE OF QUORUM
Said Chairman Nelson Has Proxy Of
Senator Flint, the Absentee, and a
Report Exonerating the Secretary
of the Interior Is Expected-Partici-
pants Unable to Say How Long SEES.
sion Will Last.

pants Unable to Say How Long Ses-
sion Will Last.
Chicago, Sept. 14-Shortly before
noon Senator knute Nelson called to
order the meeting of Republican mem
bers of the Ballinger-Pinchot investi'
eating committee which he had ap-
pointed to be held in this city. The
committee was called to gather at 10
o'clock, but the train on which Senator
Nelson came. to Chicago was delayed
and he arrived nearly two hours late.
Senator Nelson declined to say on
arrival just how long he thought the
meeting would last or when the report
of the members of the committee now
in session here would be made public.
AS was expected the Democratic
members and Mr.. Madison of Kansas,
the progressive Republican, who on
Friday, in Minneapolis, made public
their findings which condemned the Of
fetal acts of Secretary Ballinger, failed
to attend.
All the Republican members, with
the exception of Senator Flint, were
here. Senator Flint is not expected
to return from a trip abroad for some
time. His absence will result in no
quorum being maintained.
However, it was reported that Sena-
tor Nelson has a letter from Senator
Flint authorizing him to cast Mr..
Flint's vote with the majority of the
Republicans. If this is done action
on the question as to whether the
Republican findings in the controversy
shall be made public now may be
expected. The Republican members
were non-committal before they met
regarding this phase of the dispute.
Luncheon was sent to the commit
tee room and the executive session
continued during the afternoon. Sena-
tor Sutherland left the meeting for a
few minutes, but declined to discuss
the deliberations.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-16
Invited to Good Roads Meet.

st. Louis, Sept. 14.-Mayor Freder.
lex H. Kreismann sent letters, to the
mayors of 1000 cities and towns in
the st. Louis territory asking them
to attend the National Good Roads
convention to be held in st. Louis
Sept. 20, 20 and 80. The governors
of the several states have appointed
delegates. The attendance is expect.
ed to reach 5000.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-16
Wisconsin Lumberman Dead.

Hudson, Wis, Sept. 14.-Henry P.
Svendsen, president of the Central
Lumber company at Hudson and own.
err of large timber interests in the
West, died of diphtheria at Spokane,
Wash. He and his family left Hudson
last Thursday for Spokane after a
months visit in this city.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-16
Former Broadway Star Dying.

New York, Sept. 14.-Deserted by
the hosts of friends whose idol she
was only a few short years ago, when
she was known the length of Broad
way as the Little Magnet" Lottie
ellison is reported dying in Bellevue
hospital.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-16
DEMOCRATS GET
LEGISLATURE
Have Complete Control Of
Affairs in Maine.
ELECT HALE'S SUCCESSOR

AS Result Of Victory at Polls Demo.
Gratis Will Name First Senator
From That State Since 1s63-Win
in Two Of the Four Congressional
Districts, the Two Victorious Repub.
Leans Narrowly Escaping Defeat.
Portland, Me-, Sept. lathe Dem
ocrats of Maine are having difficulty
in contemplating the magnitude of
their victory in the struggle with the
Republicans. With two score of little
obscure forest towns and island plan
tations to hear from additional revised
returns give Colone; Fred w. Plaisted
(Dem.) 72,711 votes for governor and
Governor Bert M. Fernald of Portland
(Rep.) $4,000. Plaisted's total plural
ity is estimated to be $500. Revised
returns show the election of Asher G.
Kinds (Rep.) in the First district by
200; of Daniel J.. McGillicuddy (Dem.)
in the Second by 5000; of Samuel w.
Gould (Dem.) in the Third by 1900
and of Frank E. Guernsey (Rep.) in
the Fourth by 300.
While the election of Colonel Plais-
ted. and two Democratic congressman
seemed a great feat interest centers
in the makeup of the legislature,
which has a decidedly changed COM
plexion.
Complete returns on the vote for
state senators show the Democrats
have won twenty-one out of thirty-one
seats. The last senate was made up
of t~wenty-three Republicans and eight
Democrats.
With but four representative dis
tricts to be completed the Democrats
had elected eighty-four representa-
tives and the Republicans sixty-three.
This gives the Democrats los votes in
publicans seventy-three and they COM
pletely control both, as ninety-two
votes is sufficient to command a ma
jo1ity.
May Mean Resubmission.
AS the legislature has been cap
tured by the Democrats it probably
will mean the resubmission to the
people of the vexed prohibition liquor
law and a chance for local option in
the sale of intoxicating liquors. The
Sturgis act, which has proved so OBJ
noxious to many and was denounced
in the Democratic party platform, can
be repealed. Certainly the act can be
made imperative by Plaisted with
drawing the present commission and
%neglecting to appoint their successors.
The legislature will also choose a
successor to United States Senator
Eugene Hale and give Maine her first
Democratic senator since 1868 and
New England the first since the cleo
ton of William D. Eaton in Connect
cut in the late seventies.
The next legislature will have full
charge of redistricting the state.
Control of the legislature is of
more Importance to Maine than in
some of the other states, because IN
der the constitution a number of the
highest state officers are appointed by
that body. These are treasurer, at
torney general, secretary and commits
sioner of agriculture.
The Democratic overturn extends
even to minor state offices. Late fig
ures show that the Democrats elected
thirteen of the sixteen high sheriffs in
the state.