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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
DISCUSSES RAILROAD BILL
Senator Ia Toilette Arraigns Depart
ment Of Justice.

Washington, April Ex-senator La
Toilette took the. senate floor for the
purpose of making his long promised
speech in opposition to the admins.
tration railroad bill The speech was
q severe. arraignment of the depart
ment Of justice. The Wisconsin g
ator's remarks were largely devoted
to the provisions of the bill authorize
ing the acquisition of the stock of one
company by another and he used the
merger Of the Boston and Maine COM
pany with the New York, New Haven
and Hartford as the basis Of his ac-
3cusations.
Mr.. La Toilette declared that every
provision had been made by the
Roosevelt administration to prosecute
the merger suit against the two com.
panies and expressed horror over At
torney General Wickersham's prompt
dismissal Of the case within three
months after he came into Office.
ERAM E LAEL 20 A H LM LE AN
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
NEWS OF WORLD
important Events Of the Week
in Condensed Form
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Emphazing the rights Of railroads.
the supreme court of the United States
declared unconstitutional the law Of
Nebraska requiring railroads to build
switches to all grain elevators along
their tracks upon request, and called
a halt on the attempt of the state of
Arkansas to penalize an interstate
railroad for failure to supply cars
enough to accommodate %intrastate
traffic.
AS a result of complaints filed nearly
three years ago by two Twin City men.
George S. Lotus and James M%anahan,
against the sleeping car charges of
the Pullman company, the interstate
commerce commission has ruled that
berth rates must be lowered materi-
ally and makes specific reductions be-
tween st. Paul and the coast, as we'll a.
other Northwestern points.
AS a direct result of the conserva-
ton dinner at the White House mem
bers of congress from public lands
states and others who hold member
ship on the public lands committees
of the senate and house are endeavor-
ing to reconcile their differences over
proposed conservation legislation.
So persistent have become the ru-
mors of impending cabinet changes
that President Taft authorized an an
nouncement on the subject. He spe-
officially denied a report that Secretary
Knox is about to resign and added that
he looks for no designations among
his official advisers.
President Taft has cancelled his en-
gagement to visit Indianapolis on May
5. While no statement has been is
sued in regard to this decision it ia
believed to be the direct result of the
events at the Indiana state Repub-
licon convention.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
IN NORTH DAKOTA
News Of the Week From varl-
Gus Parts Of the State.
CATTLE DEALER IS KILLED
Q. c. Rice Victim Of Fatal As.
sau|t at Rugby.

o. C. Rice, a we'll known live stock
shipper to the South st. Paul market,
died at Rugby as the result of a blow
on the head received in an alteration
with two men at Rugby. Seven physi-
clans we're in consultation and ire
PANIED to remove a clot of blood from
the brain. Rice lived only a few
hours after the operation.
Jack Buoye and Pat Meehan were
arrested, charged with making the ia
tai assault on Rice. and were hurried
out of Rugby to ToWner by the au-
thorities, who feared that the Jail
where they were confined might be
stormed by angry citizens. Feeling
runs high in the community against
the two men since their attack ter
minated fatally.
Rice's death marks the termination
of a feud of more than a years stand
ing, which originated over a horse
race in which the men were inter
ested. The particulars of the quarrel
are not exactly known, but, according
to one version of the affair, Rice, with
two friends, encountered Buoye and
Meehan after dark. Meehan called
Rice's two friends apart while Buoye
engaged Rice in an argument. Sud
denly Buoye struck Rice a blow on
the head and left with his companion.
The blow proved a serious one and
medical aid was summoned, but to no
purpose. Rice was a native of Ken.
lucky, but had resided in the West
for more than twenty years. He Is
survived by a wife and two children
at Rugby. He had a wide acquaint'
ance at South st. Paul, to which place
he frequently shipped stock.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
ASKS DAMAGES OF $4,000
Chicago Reporter Charges J.. MediIi
Patterson With Plagiarism.

Chicago, April ia charge of pla-
giarism has been directed against Jo-
seph Medill Patterson in connection
with the authorship of "The Fourth
Estate" now running at the Stude-
baker theater. His accuser is Eugene
Quirk, a reporter employed by the
Chicago Examiner, who filed in the
federal circuit court a damage suit of
$4,000 against the playwright.
Mr.. Patterson, says Mr.. Quirk, used
in his newspaper play material which
he himself had wrought into a novel
called Drifting" five years earlier.
Mr.. Quirk adds that Mr.. Patterson
must have been familiar with the con
tents of the novel, because he himself
had the playwright a copy after
Its publication and had received short
~ afterward a letter of acknowledge
3ment from Mr.. Patterson.
Mr.. Patterson, on the contrary, de-
MES that he aver read the novel in
question, or that he ever told Quirk
he had done so.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
LABOR NEWS.

Trainmen and conductors employed
on the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern, the Lake Erie and Western
and the Nickel Plate railways have
voted almost unanimously to strike
unless their original proposition for a
wage increase is accepted by, those
roads.
The house of commons, in commit
tee, adopted Premier Asquith's first
veto resolution by a vote of 339 to 237.
This resolution declares it expedient
that the house of lords be disabled
by law from rejecting or amending q,
money bill. IS
The union miners of Western Penn.
sylvania will probably remain on
strike for the next thirty days at least.
With no wage agreement in sight a
coal famine is threatened In the Pitts
burg district before the end of the
month.
The strike of tobacco steamers at
Louisville, KY, for higher wages has
resulted in the closing by the Ameri-
can Tobacco company of two of its
largest plants in Louisville. About
1000 men and women are now on
strike.
Four hundred thousand employees Of
railroad companies and other big cor
porations have received voluntary
wage increases from their employers
since Jan. 80.
A strike of boilermakers in the To-
connective department Of all shops on
the entire Burlington system has been
called.
Five hundred drivers of taxicabs
are on strike at Chicago.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
DEFIEs HIS FA1HER-lN-LAN
Nicholas Lonsworth Openly Declares
Himself a Standpatter.

.L-ErN No ~ r. ..LH.
Washington, April 13.-Representa-
tive Nicholas Longworth of Ohio con-
tinues to defy the insurgents, whom
he pilloried in his speech at the Re-
publican club dinner Saturday night.
Mr.. Longworth says he is a standpat-
ter, that he glories in it and that he
doesn't care what his father-in-law,
Theodore Roosevelt, thinks about it.
"As a matter of fact, does any one
know what Mr.. R%oosevelt's idea of
the present situation is?" asked Mr..
Longworth. Being a son-in-law in
this cas- and trying to keep in poll,
tics is not all a path of roses. l have
a great many constituents who believe
that when I say anything worth re-
peating, If I do, Mr.. Roosevelt inspired
it and when l say things that appear
silly, or are silly, they express pity for
my father-inlaw. The only time they
give me credit for being myself is
when I make a blunder."
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
EXPERIMENTS SUCCESSFUL
Professor BolIey Discovers Cause and
Cure Of Wheat Sickness.

Cure Of Wheat Sickness.
After a series of experiments last
ing fully thirteen years, Professor
H. L. Bolley Of the agricultural college
of the University of North Dakota, al
ready discoverer of the flax sickness
and cure which has "ejuvenated the
fax fields of Russia and older parts
of the United States, announced that
he has discovered the five distinct
types of fungi parasites which cause
the various varieties of wheat sick
ness. This sickness, he says, has
made lands apparently barren through
out the world and is gradually lessen
ing the pro rata crops in the present
wheat growing countries:
Professor Bolley says the fungi re-
semble in some features, in shape and
in reaction on plant life the tuber-
culosis germs which aflict human life,
but that the cure is far easier, being
nothing less than a correct rotation
of crops, chiefly clover, corn and pota-
toes, until tests of land show the alb
sence of the parasitical fungi.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
DECISION IN RUSSELL CASE
North Dakotan Loses Bitterly Fought
Identity Contest.

Boston, April 13.-Dan Russell Of
Dickinson, N. D., loses his seven
months identity fight for half Of the
estate Of the late Daniel Russell Of
sMelrose. In a decision handed down
NY Judge George Lawton in the Mid
sdlesex probate court the ranchman is
declared to be "Jim" Rosseau, the
French Canadian from the Adiron-
dacks who disappeared years ago. The
courtroom was in an uproar at the de-
5cisIon.5 Hundreds of persons gathered
outside and when the verdict was an
snoa1nced it was greeted with Misses
md cat calls. =
II declaring the claimant to be
ssR0s1eau, Judge I.awton based his de-
seilion on the testimony Of Horace
syNhltnure Of Minneapolis and the
snosseauti family, who claim him AZ son
ma brother.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
FAILED TO FIND
COOKS COOKS RECORDS.
Party Of Alaskans Reaches
Top Of hount Mckinley.
GET TO SUMMIT APRIL )

Expedition Left Fairbanks on Dec. f5
and, Was Thirty Days Climbing
From the Base to the Highest Point
Of the Famous Observation-Disclosures and
Data of Dr.. Cook Found to Be Of No
Value to Explorers.
Fairbanks, Alaska, April 13.-The
Fairbanks expedition to Mount Nc
Kinley, the tallest peak in North
America, reached the summit April 3
after a climb Of one month from the
base. No traces of DR.. Frederick a..
Cooks alleged ascent were found.
Thomas L. Lloyd, leader of the expe-
dition, has arrived here His compan-
ions we're Daniel Patterson, w. r.
Taylor and Charles R. McGonhigle
and all reached the top, of the great
mountain.
The expedition, which left Fair
banks Dec. Is, while the controversy
over DR.. Cooks disputed ascent vas
still raging, was financed by August
Peterson and William McPhee of.this
city.
The plan was to go into camp on
the mountain as high as possible and
probably about the middle Of May
make a dash for the summit.
The obstacles encountered were not
SO great as had been predicted. -Four
camps were established during the as.
cent and a trail was blazed all the
way to the crest. Up to 10000 feet
the climbing did not present unusual
difficulties.
Encounter Steep Ice Field.
For the next 1000 feet the way led
over a steep ice. field, which at first
seemed to forbid further progress, but
through which upon exploration it was
found possible to locate a path.
The final dash to the top was made
from the 16,000-foot camp. Mount Nc
Kinley terminates in twin peaks Of
equal height, one somewhat round and
covered with snow, the other com
posed Of bare and wind swept rocks.
On the rock peak the Fairbanks
climbers placed an American flag in q
monument of stones,
The expedition, which was provided
with DR.. Cooks maps and data, en-
deavored to follow his supposed route,
but utterly failed to verify any part
Of his story Of an ascent. IL
The members, Of the party were all
experienced m%ountaineers and agreed
to forfeit $4,000 If none Of them
reached the summit.
One Of their objects was to verify or
disprove to their W satisfaction the
claim Of DR.. Frederick A. Cook that he
reached the summit in the fall of 1906.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
FOREIGN NEWS.

A terrific explosion occurred on the
British steamer Cairnrona off Dun
geness, Eng, which wrecked the w0-
mems quarters, killing n child and
injuring a number of women and chill
dren. The steamer caught fire and q
panic ensued, in which men fought
for the possession OF, the boats and
had to be beaten back by the ere
to allow the women and children to be
taken off first.
That 10000 people are starving in
Armenia and will die unless outside
help reaches them before the next
harvest season, two months hence. is
the statement made in a cablegram re-
ceived by the Armenian Relief 8
citation at New York.
Fourteen battalions of Turkish sol.
diers have been ordered to North Al
bania. where a revolt has broken out
The trouble is attributed to resent
ment against the new taxes imposed
and is causing the : Turkish govern
ment much anxiety.
The American steamer Minnesota
arrived at. Yokohama with an eight
een-foot hole in her bottom and minus
her rudder. She proceeded to Hong
kong for repairs.
Six people persisted In an incendiary
fire that destroyed 207 houses, prac-
tically the whole town. in Bezesno.
silesia.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
uNcLEsAM's LATEST FIGHTER
RattIeship North Dakota Placed l,
Commission.

Boston, April 13.-In the presence
Of a distinguished body Of state and
civilian dignitaries the new dread.
nought North Dakota, Uncle Sans
last word in big gun battleships, was
placed in commission at the Charles.
town hayward.
Several hundred bluejackets and
officers stood with bare heads upon
the deck of the big sea fighter, while
Lieutenant Commander Nathan Cook
Twining, aide to the yard comman.
dant, read the formal orders from Sec.
rotary of the Navy Won Meyer placing
the %battleship in commission and as
signing Commander Charles Peshall
Blunkett to temporary command.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
SEATS OF the ''0LD
GUARD IN DANGER
.DaIzelI and Tawney Go Home to
Look After Fences

Washington, April 13.-The admin.
istration and other circles were stirred
by political matters fully as much. as
by the developments in the supreme
court regarding the antitrust cases.
Attorney General Wickersham had
a long conference with President Taft
and, while part of the conversation
may have had to do with judicial mat
tiers and further plans with reference
to corporations, it was admitted that
the political situation, as the head of
the department found it from observa-
ton in Chicago, was discussed,
Regularity is not having all its ftrou-
bles in the Middle or Far West. From
that aforetime rock ribbed center of
standpatism, Pennsylvania, has come
a hurry call to John Dalzell, for years
one Of the house leaders, second on
the ways and means committee and
member of the old. rules committee,
to. come home and look after his
fences,
Mr.. Dalzell had scarcely finished
reading Senator Beverage out of the
party when he received this call to
come and save his own bacon. A man
who is strong with the labor vote and
an anti-C Cannon exponent is out for
Dalzell's seat and the latter is fright
ened.
Chairman. Tawney Of the house ap-
preparations committee, in whose dis
trict President Taft made his cele-
brated speech in defense of the Payne
Aldrich ACT, also left for his home in
Minnesota. He saw the president
just before leaving town. There is
great hustling on the part Of the "old
guard" all. along the line. their
anxiety to be returned not being d.
minished by the protested belief that
the next house will be Democratic.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
WILL ACCEPT
HIS CHALLENGE
Insurgents Decide to Depose
Speaker Cannon.
LEADERS IN CONFERENCE

agree to Make the Effort as Soon az
the Taft Bills Are Out Of the Way in
q the House-Majority Of Those Who
Weakened in the Memorable Battle
Of March 10 Now Eager to Square
81 Themselves.
Washington, April 13.-The bold Re-
publican insurgents of the house have
decided to accept Speaker Cannon's
dare and make an effort to knock the
chip off his shoulder. Several of them,
at a meeting, agreed to bring up a res
olution to depose Cannon from the
Sspeakership. The move will be made
after the Taft legislation is out of the
way, at the flag end of the present ses-
sion. 49,
Cannon has given the insurgents the
opportunity they have been wishing
for. Ever since the insurgents weak
ened in the memorable battle of
March 10, when they refused to vote
to take Cannon out of the speakership,
they have been hearing from home.
The folks back there who have been
led to believe that Uncle Joe is the
%wickedest man in the world haven't
been able to understand why the in
surgents didn't jump at the chance to
put him out of the speakership.
The men who voted to keep Cannon
in power, and who had been talking
for months about the baleful influence
he exerted in congress, have been do.
ing a lot of explaining during the past
three weeks.
Anxious to Clear Their Skirts.
Now these men see an opportunity
to clear their skirts. They are urg.
ing that Speaker Cannon's dare should
be accepted. In it the insurgents were
tainted, in effect, with being afraid to
vote with the Democrats and put him
out.
At a meeting of some Of the insur.
gent leaders it was determined to
make this enOrt as soon as the Taft
bills are out Of the way.
Before the resolution of adjourn.
ment has been adopted it is planned
to introduce a resolution declaring the
speakership vacant. Nobody will be
proposed for the place, which will be
kept vacant until next December. II
is figured that by that time the cleo
stions will be over and everybody will
know the sentiment of the country or
Cannonism. Also the president is ex
pected to give a free rein to this pro
gramme after his bills have been
adopted. This is the plan Of the in.
surgents, or of most of them. Some
are afraid of making a martyr of Can.
non and are urging that things be left
as thew now stand.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
DIES IN POVERTY ABROAD
Baroness dc Roques, Mother Of Mrs.
Florence Maybrick.

New York, April 13.-Cable dis
patches received here tell Of the re-
cent death in Paris Of Baroness, de
Roques, mother Of Mrs. Florence May
brick, who spent many years in a Brit
ish prison under q life sentence.
The baroness died in poverty, It is
said, and was buried at the expense
Of nonrelatives.
The French authorities have been
endeavoring to communicate withsMrs.
Maybrick, who iss supposed to be In
America.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
Braves Death Tor Young Son.

Kenmare. N, D., April 13.-With q
rope tied around his feet Knute An
der'son jumped. head foremost into q
well on his farm near this city torres
cue his two-year-old son Walter from
death. Hanging with his head Just
over the water Anderson managed to
secure the child in his arms and IN
that position he remained for twenty
minutes while his wife went to get az.
distance. 81. IN
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL

The Borough bank Of Brooklyn has
closed itssdoors and the state super
intendent Of banks has taken possss-
sion Of the institution. The bank has,
q capital OF 5000. 700. with deposits az
gregating over $2,00o.O00.
The sudden falling away ii cotton
prices costsJames A. Patton sometime
like s'S500,0eO-possibly more-acsora-
ing to reports heard about Chiclap
brokerage houses. "a.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
gerakeman Crushed d Death.

Harry Olson. q brakeman on the
east branch Of the NortheBn Pacific.
while switching in the 1yards ct
Oakss. was crushed between two cars.
He was Immediately taken to the
cakes hospital, but was pa.st human
aid and died about two hpu.s later.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
Hiqh Prices Que "a Tfrusts.

49, 49, q! 7ssSy sSs' 49, .1sI8-
Cleveland. April 13.-The high cost
OF living In Ohio and elsewhere is d.
'rectly due to an arbitrary scale OF
prices enforced by the big food prod
ucts corporations. according to testi-
mony given here before the legisla-
tive committee which IL investigating
food prices
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
Youth Drowned.

James Hall, son of N. w. Hall of
Oak Grove, was drowned in the Bad
river. After a search of more than
five hours the body was recovered by
the police, who were directed in their
work by the boys father. who was al
most frantic with grief. The lad had
been searching for q COW that had
strayed.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
Colt prads Boy to Death.

Tying the halter rope to his waist
to lead a colt to water the nine-year-
old son Of Alexander Gross, a farmer
ten miles north Of Anamoose, McHen-
ry county, was dragged to death. The
colt became frightened and dragged
the boy half a mile across q field and
to the father of the child, who was at
work.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
Falling Derrick Kills Workman.

Falling Derrick Kills Workman.
Wesley Willard. a welldigger. was
fatally hurt by being struck, by q
falling derrick near Cayuga.s The acci-
dental falling Of a big iron coupler
was the direct cause Of. death. az It
threw the derrick over. Willard lived
only fifteen minutes after being
struck.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-15
CAUGHT IN WINDMILL FAN
Farmer Fatally Hurt in the Presence
of His Wife.

Of His Wife.
While he was attempting to stop
a windmill that was moving by plac-
ing his foot on n of the fans, Rein
hold Wisbaar, a young farmer resid-
ing near Linton, was caught in the
huge wheel, swung around two or
three times and then thrown a dis
lance of thirty feet through the air.
Falling on his stomach over the side
of a water trough he was MORALLY in
jured and death followed ten hours
later. His wife was the lone witness
of the accident.