Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-07-13

the cause of Representative Miles
Poindexter, foe of Secretary Ballinger,
and will take an active part in the
fight Of the Washington insurgent con-
gresham for a seat in the United
States senate. The former president
made clear the fact not by direct
statement, but by implication so strong
that 1t admits of no inisinterpreta-
ton.
James J. Jetfries, sad.faced and ev-
identity suffering from an intense men,
tai strain, motored in from his quar-
ters at Moana Springs to Reno, and
took the train for Oakland, Cal. He
was accompanied by his wife, his
brother Jack and Jacks wife.
The constitutionality of the reclama-
ton act was upheld in decision by
the United States court Of appeals at
San Francisco. The decision estab-
fishes the right of the secretary of the
interior to acquire by condemnation
or otherwise, lands and waters in the
furtherance Of any reclamation pro-
ject.
Three more persons injured in the
wreck of the Big Four Limited near
Middletown, Ohio, have died, making
% killed. Two others are not expect
ed to live.
DR.. B. c. Hyde, convicted of hav-
ing poisoned Col. Thomas Swope, the
millionaire philanthropist, was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment at hard
labor by Judge Lathaw at Kansas
City. An appeal to the state supreme
court was filed by Hyde's attorney.
William Beckert, former chancellor
of the German legation at Santiago,
Chile, who last September was con-
demned to death for the murder of
an employe of the legation February
5, 1909, was shot at Santiago.
The Great Northern ticket Office at
Everett, Wash, was looted of $2,537
by bandit, who knocked the agent
down with club and carried of
three sacks of gold and silver coin.
Premier Canalejas will submit to
King Alfonso a bill forbidding further
religious orders to enter Spain until
the pending negotiations with the
vatican for the revision of the Con-
cordat are ended.
John c. Wurst, former treasurer of
the Debolt Building and Loan associa-
ton Of Cincinnati, who was found
guilty of embezzling $4,000 from. that
institution, was sentenced to serve
nine years in the Ohio penitentiary.
Everett Carleton Crear of Albany, N.
Y, a cadet at West Point, denied that
he was chewing gum when asked by
the officer of the guard. Crear was
tried and found guilty of making a
false statement and was dismissed.
Chief Justice Melville Weston Full
Ter, for nearly twenty-five years the
presiding officer of the United States
Supreme court, died suddenly July 4
at his summer home in Sorrento, Me.
His death, which was wholly unex-
pected, was caused by heart failure.
All the rooms of the White House
will be accessible to the public during
the coming summer for the first time
in many years. Before leaving Wash
ington President Taft gave instruc-
tions that the buildings should be
thrown wide open.
Members Of the Order of Red Men
from northern Indiana and Ohio went
to Roanoke, Ind, to celebrate the one
hundredth birthday of Mrs. Anthony
Revarre, an Indian princess whose ma
tive name is Kil-so-quah.
Freight rates on lemons from south
ern California to eastern destinations
were reduced from $1.15 to 81 by the
Interstate commerce commission, to
take effect September 1.
Engineer E. B. Jolley and Fireman
H. Mitchell of west-bound passenger
train No. of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad, were killed at Cedar
Point, Kan, in a wreck caused by an
| open switch.
John William Hallahan ILL.,, promi-
nent Junior member of the Philadel.
phia bar, husband of daughter of the
late Daniel O'Day, Standard Oil mil
lionaire, was killed by being caught
between the floor and an elevator in a
hotel at Cape May, N. J.
Two negro men who robbed and
killed white man were taken from
the county Jail at Charleston, Mo-, and
lynched by a crowd Of $50 whites,
most Of them being farmers.
! The failure of the First National
bank and the First Trust and Savings
bank at Billings, Mont, which closed
their doors, came as a great surprise
to commercial and industrial circles
of the state. It is believed they will
pay every dollar.
| Pleading for a united party and
urging the elimination of rancor and
strife, many county conventions in
Iowa adopted resolutions calling upon
President Taft to remove from his cab.
met those who have attempted to read
out OF the party the Insurgents.
w. J. Bryan returned to Lincoln,
Neb., from his six weeks trip to Eu.
rope. He will remain ten days in Ne
braska, devoting his time to state poll
tics. Just what form his political &C.
ttvlty Will take Mr.. Bryan is not pre-.
pared to say.
Prof. William F. Babe of the Uni.
versity Of California will soon under.
take an expedition into the Klamath
region of Asia Minor to excavate
cities Of the ancient tribes of Hitties,
which 1ourished several thousand
years before the Christian era.