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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-19
By Edward Huntington Williams
Drawing by w. Herbert Dunton

Jean7" he said to him one day. SYous the best
but little of little piece Of Canada in
your life. There in Montreal who could
twirl you round one hand. And if you keep with
your sinful Boosting the good Lord will seethat you are
well come up with. Shame you, Jean Leheur!''
Of course Jean couldn't say anything to the father
in reply but his face very red, and when Father
Foley was out of hearing he spoke his mind freely.
Pooh. pooh!" he said scornfully What does
our good father know about wrestling? Those men in
Montreal! Bah! Those white faced fellows who live
in houses all the time and never do hard day work.
What could they do to Jean Leeur who lives out
in the fresh air and can throw the best lumbermen
that come into Canada? Let them come and try me-
and III show Father Foley that there things
he must learn besides those in his musty books"
And that was about what all thought; for
were all strong men. And yet Jean was stronger.
But the factor, who had more of the world than
the rest of u.s. and knew that the good father seldom
spoke unless he of what he said was in
Clned to side with the priest.
All that summer Jean kept with his Boosting,
until we were sick and tired of it and would have
been glad to have some one-even one of those lum-
bermen-fatten his back on the ground. And every
strong man that came to the post tried to do itand
yet Jean always the victor. So when the lum-
bermen came again in the fall he more confident
than ever.
There men, and strong ones, among the
lumbermen of that fall, and they all ready for
wrestling gambling, and carousing; but Jean had
grown conceited and confident that he would
not wreste them simply for love of the sport, but
these men one by one making little pile of money
each time for the sin of betting was great in the
lumber camp and was thriving fairly at the post),
Jean ceased to work at ALL and strutted about telling
us how grand it was to be wrestler and make easy
money while toiled day and night and made little.
THIS the last straw for Father Foley to bear.
He said nothing: but one day he wrote long
letter and carried it himself ten miles to the logging
camp to post. No one suspected then what in
that letter, and one really knows to this day,
although
A month later a came into the lumber
camp to work He was the poorest man with an AK
l ever saw, and he didn't to know much about
trees, logs, or lumber but he was strong fellow,
and willing, and SO the boss kept him. were
and any at all was better than none.
And what do you think? This green lumberman,
who named Connors, had so little sense as to
make the boast one day that no man in the camp
could lay him on his back. Half dozen fellows
offered to show him how mistaken he was and all
tried it; but none of them could show him. To be
sure, he didn't throw them, either; but he so
slippery in lodging and twisting that one could
pin him down.
Send for Jean Lefeur," said one of the men,
I'VE will teach this green chap that there is
in these woods he can't slip away from
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
WHOLE CITY PLACARDED
Foreigners at Marking, China,
in Danger Of Massacre.

Picking, June 4.-The consuls at
Marking report that native d%isturbers
in that city have assumed openly an
insulting attitude toward foreigners
and have defled the walls of the
American consulate in a disgusting
manner
Placards have been posted in the
streets calling on the people to rise
and slaughter the foreigners and de-
stroy their property.
Threats that a revolution will be
launched on June 5, the date set for
the opening of the Marking exposi-
ton, are causing Chinese merchants
to flee with their treasures to the
country districts, where they are bury
ing their wealth.
The authorities at Marking have re-
moved the bolts from the rifles of the
soldiers. The situation is considered
to depend entirely upon the attitude
of the military in the city, which, up
to the present, has not manifested
symptoms of disloyalty.
The United States cruiser New Or
leans and the German and Japanese
men-of-War are lying off the town and
it is believed these vessels will be ade-
quate to protect all foreigners in the
event of an outbreak.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
TRIPLE MURDER ALLEGED
Iowan Charged With Staying
Parents and Brother.

Des Moines, June raymond Har-
dey, aged eighteen years, was taken
into custody at Vancleve suspected of
the murder of his father, James Har-
dey, his mother and his brother Earl,
The father was found in a barn at
the Harley home, four miles south of
Vancleve. His head had been crushed
with a piece of gas pipe. The mother
and the boy, Earl, had been slain in
the house, their heads also having
been crushed.
Raymond Harley spent the evening
with a girl, Mabel Starnes, and claims
to have found the bodies when he got
home, shortly after midnight. He gave
the alarm to neighbors an hour later.
Neighbors say Raymond Harley was
a quiet, i~noffensive boy and are at a
loss to account for a motive.
Bureau drawers in the house had
been ransacked and pocketbooks
opened, but small sums of money
found on the persons of both the faith
er and dead brother and the watch
worn by the latter had not been
touched.
Raymond Harley was to have been
married next Wednesday to Mabel
Starnes of the same neighborhood.
The girl says her fiance was with her
from $3.50 p. m. until after midnight.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
TWO FlREMEN SUFFOCATED
Score of Others Overcome While
Fighting Blaze.

New York, June 1.-Two hremen
were suffocated and more than a score
were overcome by Sitting fumes in
fighting a stubborn warehouse fire
near the North river front.
Two of the firemen overcome were
caught in a back draught on the
fourth floor of the building. Two men
who managed to avoid the worst of
the burst of flame and dense smoke
screamed from a window for help.
Ladders were raised and the uncon-
scious lei carried down.
Fireman Timothy Cotter died on the
sidewalk after having been carried
from an upper floor, where he had
lain unconscious for more than an
hour in a pool Of water. Fireman
William Healy was taken out Of the
building dead. Three of the injured
fremen are still in a hospital in a
serious condition.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
QUARREL OVER HORSE DEAL
Followed by stabbing ARRAY That May
Prove Fatal,

Followed by stabbing ARRAY That May
Prove Fatal.
A quarrel over the settlement of a
horse deal may yet cost William Plum
his life. Ira Chapman stabbed Plum
in a fight in front of the %postofice at
Flasher.
Plum received a knife wound in the
back, a half-inch wide and two inches
deep, and, owing to the vital portion
of the body affected, there is serious
doubt as to his recovery. The cut al
lowed the spinal serum to escape.
Some time ago Ira and Ola Chapman
sold a horse to Plum, securing the I'M
paid balance by a mortgage on the
horse, a buggy and a saddle. Later
Plum is alleged to have sold the sad
die to a third party without applying
the proceeds on the balance due for
the horse. When the three interested
parties met at Flasher, a quarrel en-
sued, which soon resulted in blows. In
the mixup the stabbing occurred.
Ira Chapman made his getaway in
the excitement. Plum, after being
stabbed, tried to follow Chapman, but
had only gone about thirty feet when
he fell to the gound unconscious from
the loss of blood. The fighting men
had been separated when the stabbing
occurrsaa Chapman making an mex
pected lush at Plum after bystanders
had interfered. Up to that time Plum
was getting the best of the fight.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
in NORTH DAKOTA
News Of the Week From vari-
Gus Parts Of the State.
BISHOP ORE|LLY INSTALLED
Archbishop Ireland Presides at
the Ceremonies.

Right Rev. James O'Reilly, formerly
of Minnesota, has been installed as
bishop of the Catholic church for the
see of Fargo.
Archbishop Ireland presided and was
assisted by seven bishops and a hun
dred or more priests, while thousands
of Catholics from North Dakota and
Western Minnesota attended. 1t was
an imposing and impressive ceremony
and the biggest Catholic event ever
held in the state. Twenty-one years
ago Bishop Stanley was installed in a
poor diocese with a scattered follow
ing and few churches that were of
anything like a substantial nature. The
new bishop assume his duties under
far more favorable auspices and with
much more ceremony than attended
the induction into office Of his prede-
cessor.
When Archbishop Ireland arrived he
was met at the station by an escort of
the Knights of Columbus, Soon after
wards the priests formed in line in the
cathedral club room and nearly Il
were III Cu0 ~pIOCGSSlOu LudI 6uCSf0u
the cathedral.
Archbishop Ireland escorted Bishop
O'Reilly to the throne and read the
papal bull containing the official ap-
polntment of the new bishop for the
see. Bishops McGolrick Of Duluth,
Wehrle of Bismarck, Corbett of Crook
ston,, Lawler of st. Paul, Forbes of St.
Cloud, Hebron of Winona and Busch
of Lead, S. D., assisted the archbishop.
in the ceremony. Bishop O'Reilly's
chaplains were Fathers Considine of
Mimic and Lemieux of Fargo.
After the ceremony solemn high
mass was celebrated with Vicar Gen
eral Egan, who has been administrator
Of the diocese since the death of
Bishop Stanley, as celebrant.
Immediately following the high mass
Archbishop Ireland delivered his in
stallation address. The Knights of
Columbus acted as a guard of honor.
Later a banquet was held at the
Knights of Columbus hall with the
new bishop as the guest of honor. In
the evening at the same place there
was a reception.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
TWICE ACROSS THE CHANNEL
English Aviator Flies With an Ameri-
can Machine.

Dover, Eng, June 3.-The Hon.
Charles Stewart Rolls, captain in the
London section of the army motor re-
serve, driving a Wright biplane, vindi-
Gated Anglo-Saxon aeronautics by
crossing the English channel twice
without alighting. He made the round
trip between Dover and Calais in nine
ty minutes.
While two Frenchmen, Louis Bleriot
and Count de Lesseps, have crossed
the channel in an aeroplane it re-
NAMED for an E~nglishman in an Amer
lean machine to perform the double
feat. The distance acros between the
two points named is twenty-one miles,
so that his over water flight of forty
two miles without a stop establishes
a new record.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
LADD RAPS THE MlLLERS
Pure Food Commissioner Replies to
l. Kansas City Attorney.

Answering Edward P. Smith, at
torney for the millers in the bleached
flour s. at Kansas City, Professor
e. F. Ladd, pure food commissioner
of this state, made the following state
ment at Fargo:
"To say that the millers of the
Northwest and not the government
are backing this fight on bleaching
flour is manifestly untrue, and is utter
ly absurd. AS a matter of fact, it
was the millers of North Dakota and
Minnesota who made the first fight
on the a~nti-bleaching law, when they
attacked it in the courts of North Da-
locks court in this city"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
Railroad Heads Agrea to With
draw Increased Rates.
GOVERNMENT TO DROP SUIT
Injunction Now in Force Will
Be Dismissed.

Washington, June IA complete
agreement between the government
and the recently enjoined railroads of
the Western Trunk Line association
was reached at a White House con-
ference which lasted for more than
four hours.
The railroads represented agreed to
withdraw all rate increases filed, to
be effective on or after June 1, and
agreed to file no more increases until
the bill in congress, which gives the
interstate commerce commission pow
err to investigate and suspend in
ease that are not justified, becomes
a law and goes into effect.
President Taft %thereupon stated the
administrations purpose in bringing
the injunction suit had been accom-
plished and the suit would be discon-
tinued. The discontinuance will not
be entered, however, until after the
new railroad law is signed.
The belief was expressed that all
of the other railroads of the country
which have filed increased rates or
have had such a plan under considera-
ton will abide by the agreement
reached with the twenty-four railroads
named as defendants in the recent
suit.
There will be another conference at
the White House, in which President
Brown of the New York Central rail-
road, President McCrea of the Penn
sylvania and other officials represent
ing railroads in the Eastern and Cen
trail territory will participate.
Will Not Increase Rates.
That they will acquiesce in Presi-
dent Taft's proposition and hold up
the proposed increases until after the
new law becomes effective is practical
ly taken for granted here.
Every n connected with the con-
ference seemed gratified over the out
come. All that President Taft has de-
sired is that the Interstate commerce
commission should have authority to
Investigate increases in rates to deter
mine whether or not they are justified
by prevailing conditions and are Just
to the shippers. This power is to be
conferred under the new law.
The railroads., on the other hand, it
is pointed out, are to be relieved of
embarrassing litigation, are assured of
a square DEAF when their case is pre-
sented to the interstate commerce
commission, and are free to resume
the contracts for improvements and
extensions which they threatened to
cancel had the court proceedings con
tinued.
The new railroad bill contains a
clause which gives it effect sixty days
after being signed by the president. 1t
will be necessary to make the provi-
sion as to the supervision of rates by
the Interstate commerce commission
Immediately effective, and for this rea-
son, as President Taft indicated, it
will be necessary to send the bill to
conference.
President Taft summoned Attorney
General Wickersham, Secretary Of
State Knox, Secretary of Commerce
and Labor Nagel and Chairman Knapp
and Mr.. Lane Of the interstate COM
mere commission to the conference.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
BANKERS SENTENCED
Plead No Defense to Charges of Con-
Spiracy and Bribery.

Pittsburg, June 2.-After having
pleaded no defense to charges of con-
spiracy and bribery in connection with
the recent municipal corruption expo
sures two bankers were sentenced to
Jail and fined in criminal court.
e. H. Jennings, president of the Co.
lumbia National bank, and F. A. Crit
fon, cashier of the same institution,
appeared before five judges, the for
mer receiving a fine of $500 and a
sentence of two months in the Allie
gheny county Jail and the latter re-
ceiving a fine of $500 and a sentence
of four months in the same institution.
The two bankers were Immediately
taken to Jail to begin their terms of
sentence.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
DalzelI's Opponent Asks Recount.

Pittsburg, June 7.-Dr. Robert J..
Black, former mayor of McKeesport,
announces that he will ask for a re-
count of the votes at Saturdays pri-
maries, in which Congressman John
Dalzell of Pittsburg claims to have
won the Republican nomination to
congress for a thirteenth term. I'm
official returns in the Thirteenth dis
trict have given the veteran Dalzell a
majority of 402, according to the claim
of his managers.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
Child Badly Injured.

The little child of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
]. Frazier, residing near Kenmare,
was thrown thirty feet through the
air and received a double fracture Of
the leg in a runaway. The horses
were attached to a lumber wagon and
the child was riding with her father
when the accident occurred. The
horses IN running away smashed
things up badly. Finally the wagon
pole dropped, becoming stuck in the
dirt road, and throwing the wagon
ove like a c%atapult, pitching the child
high in the air.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
Dahl's Sentence Delayed.

John Dahl, charged with being i'm
plicated in the burning Of about $685.
900 worth Of elevator and other prop
erty in Kenmare recently to cover up
an embezzlement of $1,000, will not be
sentenced until July II, and in the
meantime he has been allowed bail.
Fritz P. Hanson, also mixed up in the
deal, has already received sentence,
being given q year in the penitentiary.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
Frost at Grand Forks.

Although a heavy white frost oc-
CURED in the Grand Forks section of
the valley, no damage was done to
such grains as wheat, except to retard
the growth, which has already been
slow. Potatoes and corn we're frozen
down, but corn vas not very far ad-
vanced. Warmer weather and steady
rain followed the frost and did the
crops an immense amount of good.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
Administration Railroad Bill Is
Passed by Senate
PROGRESSIVES GET IN LINE
Many Amendments Made During
Prolonged Discussion.

Washington, June 4.-The senate
has passed the so called administra-
ton railroad bill, thus ending a con-
test between the progressives and Re-
publican regulars which has run on
more Or less regularly for almost
three months. Not a progressive voted
against the bill, which went through
by a division of SO to IL. All who
voted against the bill were Demo-
Gratis, SO that President Taft will have
the satisfaction of rejecting that, not
withstanding all the dust and smoke
that has been kicked up in the long
senate fight, the bill has finally
emerged a real party measure.
The bill will o go to conference,
the house having already acted on a
similar measure. To gain a parlia-
mentary advantage the senate, after
it had passed the bill, took the house
bill from the table, struck out all after
the enacting clause and substituted it's
own bill as an amendment. This will
permit the house to disagree without
delay and ask for a conference.
The long fight over the railroad bill
in the senate ended with both pro-
gressives and regulars in good humor.
The proggessives, in explaining their
rush toward the band wagon, declared
that the bill contained many good fea-
lures and that they alone were en-
titled to the credit for them.
The Democrats who voted for the
bill were Chamberlain of Oregon, Clay
of Georgia, Gore of Oklahoma, Payn-
ter of Kentucky, Simmons of North
Carolina and Stone of Missouri.
Many Changes in Original Bill.
The bill as it passed the senate con-
tains only three or four propositions
in the same form as they appeared in
the administrators original bill. The
commerce court feature is retained,
with slight notifications, and so also
are the propositions authorizing ship
pers to select their own routes, the
provision imposing penalties for incor-
rect statements of rates by railroad
companies, and that authorizing the
commission to begin investigation up
on it's own initiative and to control
classifications. These are practically
the only elements of the original bill
left.
To these have been added, chiefly
through progressive and Democratic
votes, a long and short haul amend
ment, an anti-injunction amendment, a
provision giving the interstate COM
merce commission power to suspend
increases in rates for eleven months,
a provision allowing the interstate
commerce commission to become a
party to litigation in regard to it's or
ders before the new commerce court.
an amendment shifting the burdens of
proof in regard to the reasonableness
of increases in rates from the shipper
to the railroad itself, an amendment
including telephones and telegraph
companies as common carriers under
the interstate commerce law, and sew
eral other amendments of minor i'm
portance.
In addition, the progressives, acting
in concert with the Democrats, forced
out of the administration bill the sec
ton legalizing traffic agreements and
the four sections providing for govern
ment investigation of stock and bond
issues nv railroads.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
Will Build Chapter House.

The Langdon chapter of the Amer
lean Woman's league has purchased
four lots opposite the courthouse and
is soon to commence the erection of a
$4,000 chapter house. Mrs. Fred Alp
stag, Mrs. Thomas Finerty, Mrs. E. A.
Pennock, Mrs. Mcknight, Mrs. Plum
mer and Mrs. Florence Prinyer have
gone to st. Louis to attend the con-
vention of the founders of tic chap
ter and while there will perfect plans
for the new chapter house at Lang
don.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, June 6.-Cattle-Beeves,
$5.70@8.60; Texas steers, $5.3O@7.25;
Western steers, $5.50@7.75; stockers
and feeders, S4.0O@6.45; cows and
heifers, $3.90@7.10; calves, $6.0O@8.-
so. Hogs-Light, $9.05@9.30; mixed,
$9.05@9.30; heavy, $8.95@9.35; rough,
$8.95@9.05; good to choice heavy, &c.
06@9.30; pigs, $8.S5@9.25 Sheep
Native, $3.25@5.40; yearlings, $4,000
7.40; lambs, s5.25@8.50.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
Killed Robbina Birds Nest.

Chicago, June Ton a challenge by
his brother Charles to climb an iron
post Of the sanitary district to rob
a birds nest Harry Eulberg, seven
teen years old, accomplished the feat
and as he did so met death by coming
in contact with an electric wire.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
GOvERNME NT TROOPS BEATEN
Driven From Vicinity of BIuefieIds by
the Insurgents.

Washington, June 2.-The Nicara-
guam governments army, under Gen
eral Lara, which has been in front Of
Bluefields for several weeks, has been
defeated by the insurgent troops of
General Estrada and Ire now in full
retreat.
This information reached the state
department in a dispatch from Com
mander Gilmore of the United States
gunboat Pudacah, now at Bluefields.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
South Davis.

New Orleans, June 4.-The birth
day anniversary of Jefferson Davis,
president of the Confederacy, was eel
ebrated throughout the South. In
Louisiana the day is set apart as a
memorial, or decoration day. It is a
legal holiday in Florida, Georgia. Ala
bama, Mississippi. Tennessee. Texas.
South Carolina and Louisiana.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
Duluth Wheat and Flax,

Duluth, June 6.-Wheat-To arrive
and on track-No. 1 hard, SLOT; No.
1 Northern, $1.06A; No. 2 Northern,
$1.04k; July, $1.O4A; Sept, 93Ac.
Flax-On track, to arrive and July,
$2.O5; Sept, Sill; Oct, $1.61.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
NUMBER OF ARRESTS MADE
Members of Japanese Ministry Marked
for Assassination.

Toxic, June 1.-The government is
using the utmost secrecy in its inves-
tigation of the reported socialist plot
against Premier Katsura and other
members of the Japanese cabinet.
No one besides the governments trust
&c agents is permitted to see the half
dozen alleged conspirators who have
been arrested.
The extreme caution taken has
given rise to alarming reports of the
extent of the plot and cabinet mem
bers and other government officials
make no attempt to conceal their fear
of assassination.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
Blind Man Badly Hurt.

Silver Serumgard, who is a can.
didate for the office of supreme court
judge, accidentally fell into an eleva-
tor shaft in the Gram block at Devils
Lake and plunged two stories to the
bottom Of the shaft in the basement.
He was picked up unconscious, but
may recover He had the misfortune
to lose his sight some years ago, but
has continued to practice law.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-06-09
WILL IMPORT CANADA GRAIN
Grand Trunk Starts Surveys on Line
From Weyburn to Crosby.

Grand Trunk Starts Surveys on Line
From Weyburn to Crosby.
The Grand Trunk Pacific railway
has started work surveying a line from
a point on the Regina-North Portal
route through Weyburn, Sask, to
Crosby, this state. There it will link
with the Great Northern system this
year in conformity with an agreement
arrived at between the provincial gov
eminent and General Manager Cham
berlain.
The nature of the country to be
traversed and the ability to support
a line of railway running in the direc-
ton stipulated will be carefully OBJ
served. 1t is felt that large quantities
of wheat will be shipped from Sas-
katchewan into North Dakota this fall
if the line is built.