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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-13
500 COMING FROM
GRANDFORKS ALONE
MIGHTY DELEGATION FROM UP
STATE CITY WILL STORM FAR
GO AT CONVENTION OF
FEATHERED oRDER-ARE AZ
TER THE 1911 CONVENTION.

Grand Forks Times: If a delegation
of 500 Grand Forks Eagles can land
the 1911 convention of the North Da-
kota aerie, this city is assured of at
least one good sized convention dur
ing that year. Such delegation will
journey to the state meeting in Fargo
this year and will do everything pos
sible to capture the prize for next
year and they are extremely hopeful
of being successful
Grand Forks Eagles will travel in
a special train, also arrangements
to that end now being perfected. At
first 1t was only intended to secure
special car accommodations but as
the number of delegates who will
attend has been increased 1t has been
believed advisable to secure an entire
train to carry the crowd into the city
up the Red.
In the competitive drill work Grand
Forks Eagles also propose to take
front rank, and they are going IN to
win the prizes that have been Of
fered. The team work of the Eagles
lodge here is said to be of a high or
der and the members of the team are
working hard with the prize at the
coming state lodge meeting as the OBJ
ject they are Sc king.
The days of the Eagles meeting in
Fargo this year are July IL and 13,
and about the same dates will be set
aside for the 1911 meeting, which
Grand Forks is hopeful of securing.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-13
A union BOOTH FAIR
Ladies of Label League Propose Unique
Feature to Raise Funds for
Entertainment.

President Coombs of the Label
league, announces that q booth fair
will be given at Union hall Thursday,
May g. The affair is given for the
purpose of raising funds to entertain
the lady delegates to the federation
convention here.
An enthusiastic meeting of the
league was held last evening which
was attended by Pres. Geo. Howley of
the state federation and Pres. Chas.
Fraser of the local Trades & Labor as
sembly.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-13
DOING BUSINESS
Fire Loss of Patterson Millinery Co.
Adjusted and Store Is
Open.

The Patterson Millinery Co., have
satisfactorily adjusted the loss oc-
casioned by the fire May 1st in their
store at three Broadway and the store
is now open for business again. A
large and fashionable stock of trimmed
hats and untrimmed shapes were
damaged somewhat by smoke and
these will be closed out at once.
The prompt adjustment and pay
ment of this loss is complimentary
alike to the ladies who comprise the
Patterson Co, and to the fire COM
panies.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-13
ORGANIZE MUSICIANS
President Howiey Goes to Detroit To-
morrow to Line Up Band and
Orchestra Men There.

For the purpose of organizing the
musicians of that city, Pres. George
Howley leaves tomorrow for Detroit,
Mimi. 1t is stated that band and or
chestra men of that place are ready
to form a union to protect their own
interests.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-13
WITH HARRY CARPENTER

The rapidly increasing insurance
business Of Mr.. Carpenter has made it
necessary for him to have more Office
help TO be in line with the other in
surance offices of the city, of course,
he wanted Dakota Business college
pupil. Miss Pearl Plat secured the
place.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-13
ANOTHER REQUEST.

Aaker's Business College received
this morning another request for a
bookkeeper and stenographer from a
local firm. Position III pending. a. B.
G. graduates have been making good
and have set new standard Of pro-
ficiency, SO that other schools have had
to bring UP their work to meet compe-
titi0
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-13
IT COSTS NO MORE

To take the Dakota Business college
course than those of other business
schools-yet the difference in results
must be plain to most people. All
local banks, wholesale houses and ma
chine firms employ these d. B. c.
pupils-the evidence of superiority is
not lacking.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-13
GET BUSY! IF YOU
ARE NOT COUNTED
TOMORROW is THE LAST CHANCE
CENSUS WILL BE CLOSED
THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE U.
s. TOMORROW NIGHT-Do 1T
FOR FARGO.

Get Busy! Do It for Fargo, This
is the slogan for the last day Of
census counting in Fargo.
Too much stress cannot be laid
on the fact that today and tomor-
row are the last days that the
census enumerators can work.
Saturday night will close up the
taking of the census for the city
of Fargo and the entire United
States and those of the citizens of
Fargo who have not been enumer-
ated will not again have an OPP
portunity for the next ten years.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-13

The above is the sentiment that has
been expressed by the secretary and
other members of the Fargo CONNER
cial club, all of whom are very anx-
ious to have every person in the city
counted. In case there is a single
person who has not been enumerated
it is his or her duty to notify the COM
mercial club just as soon as possible.
The enumerators have worked faith
fully at the very difficult task that
they had in hand and it is believed
that each one did his work we'll, but
there is every reason for believing that
they might have skipped some, and
this should not be, for Fargo wants to
have every person counted.
Be sure at this, the eleventh hour,
and see that you are counted if there
is the slightest suspicion that you are
not.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-13
PLEASED HIS AUDIENCE
Large Number Heard Anton Sannes
Give Entertainment in Nor
wesian Tongue.

Those who attended the entertain
ment in Columbus hall, Broadway, last
night were more than pleased at the
literary performance of Anton Sannes,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-13

Jack Field, successor TO E. ]. Har-
rington, Plumbing, Steam and Hot
Water Heating, Gas Fitting and Elec-
trio Wiring. 201 Fifth street north
Tel. lat. .M.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-13
Two unfinished Rooms.

Two unfinished rooms with bath,
apply this evening at fiat 6, operahouse
annex or to Fred Krogh, Front street.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-13

CANARIES
For sale, the very" est. Ben Hart.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-13

Nashold's Hat SHOPS Eighth st. So.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-10

stability of the republic. The mem
bers of the new administration assert
that adherence to the new principles
has been given by many outlying
towns and provinces. Openly there
are no royalist troops to oppose the
forces of the republicans, and Lisbon,
after two days of bloodshed and a
further brief period of disorder, is
quite as peaceful as it was the week
before the rising took place.
King Leaves Yacht.
Gibraltar, Oct 1O-The royal fam
lily of Portugal left the yacht Amelie
yesterday and are now the guests of
the governor at Government house
The yacht sailed for Lisbon last night
1t will enter the harbor without dis
playing any flag and be turned over to
the government.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-10
FIFTY Men ENTOMBED IN
MINE AT STARKvILLE. COL.

pie river, in the Wisconsin wilder
ness, for six years. During that per-
iod there have been numerous pitch
ed battles between the Dietzes and
deputy sheriffs, three sheriffs have
resigned their jobs rather than at
tempt to serve papers on the out
law" and the Dietz children have all
become expert with the rifle.
The trouble all grew out of a dis
agreement Dietz had with the Chip
pewa Lumber and Boom company.
He holds title to an 8O-acre tract of
timber land. On this tract is locat-
ed the Cameron dam, on the Thorn
apple river. The Chippewa Lumber
company transferred its lumber in
terests to the Mississippi Logging
company, an Iowa corporation. Dietz
refused to give up the dam. Fur
thermore, he insisted that the Iowa
company pay him 10 cents a thous-
and feet for all the lumber that pass
ed over it. The lumber company re-
fused to pay the toll and made sew
eral attempts to seize the dam by
force. Dietz resisted them all and
succeeded finally in driving the in
NdOS10 away
Court Order Ignored.
The logging people then went in
to the courts and got an order direct
ing Dietz to give up the dam. Dietz
paid no attention to the order. The
court turned the matter over to the
local sheriff and the latter, with a
posse, attempted to arrest DietZ. A
fight followed, in which the posse
was badly whipped and several per-
sons were wounded.
This thing was repeated again and
again. Many more men were shot
and some of the Dietzes were wound
ed. Then the sheriffs gave up trying
to enforce the orders of the court,
several resigned and one served a
term in Jail for contempt.
For more than year up to a few
weeks ago, Dietz had been left in
peace.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-10
DRIVING MONKS
OUT OF PORTUGAL
Several Hundred Nuns Also AS
sembled to Be Sent From
the Country.
REPUBLIC MORE STABLE
King Leaves Yacht at Gibraltar and
1t Is Sent Back and Turned
Over to Government.

Lisbon, Oct. 10.-The expulsion of
the monks from Portugal has begun.
No time will be lost in driving them
across the frontier. Several hundred
nuns have been assembled and will be
deported out of the country. Cardinal
Neto, ex-patriarch of Lisbon. the bish-
op of Bejadarota. the ecclesiastic, has
been expelled.
The authorities utter a warning
against the fantastically exaggerated
reports constantly finding currency
among the excited and imaginative
populace.
Grows More Stable.
Each day apparently adds to the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-10

ter of John F. Dietz, brought to an
end Saturday afternoon the stubborn
resistance of the man whose stand
for the last six years against what
he considered injustice has attracted
widespread interest.
Blood is Shed.
The surrender did not come with
out death and bloodshed One man
is dead, three men and a woman
wounded, and much property has
been destroyed.
The dead:
OSCAR HARP, aged 35, deputy
sheriff
The injured are:
John Dietz, aged 40. defender of
Cameron dam, shot through the
hand.
Chet Collepitch, deputy, aged 35,
right ear shot off.
Clarence Dietz, shot through the
arm.
Myra Dietz, shot through the body.
will recover.
The last named are children of
John.
Dietz was shot last week by depu-
ties.
William Rankin. 2S, ear grazed by
a bullet
Harp was found on a hill behind
the Dietz cabin with a bullet hole IN
his head.
Just His Ruse.
Dietz had not been wounded dur
fy,r h.
His drop to the ground
was merely a ruse to fool the depu-
ties. He was injured while firing
from the barn, when a bullet went
a crack and passed through
his left hand.
Dietz denied the wound caused
him to surrender.
To Father Joseph PiIon, the priest
who was largely instrumental in
bringing the long drawn out contest
to a close, he whispered that a baby
is about to be born to his wife, and
he feared both she and the infant
might die.
The whole Dietz family were
brought to Winter in an automobile,
but John Dietz and his son, Leslie,
were taken to the Hayward county
seat for safe keeping.
Mrs. Dietz broke down and weep
ingly asked reporters to say that she
and her children did not fire a shot.
"If / hadn't argued and argued
with John we would all have been
dead before morning" she said.
History of Fight.
Dietz and his family have baan
hasiaRad in THAR hnna ON Thnrnan-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-10
SNUB FOR CARRIE
BY METHODISTS

Dixon, Ill, Oct. 10.-The Leek-Lav-
ender-Crawford case will come before
the Rock River Methodist conference
if Rev. Mr.. Leek, who was allowed
to withdaw from its membership last
year, can bring it about He is MAX
ing every effort in that direction. Car
rie Nation" was in town today and
was refused permission to address the
cnnferanca because of "lack of time"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-10

line feed pipe landed in ditch and
damaged his machine.
Long Trip Begun.
Chicago, Oct. 10.-What probably
will be the longest aeroplane flight
ever made was begun yesterday after
noon when Eugene Ely, in Curtiss
biplane, ascended from the Hawthorne
race track on his way to New York for
the $4,000 prize offered by the Chi
cago Evening Post and the New York
Times.
Two slight accidents, which delayed
the first lap of the flight, the goal of
which is half way across the continent,
prevented the aviator from reaching
South Bend, Ind, before night, as he
had planned The start was auspicious
and Ely sailed through the air, 1,400
feet up, at a fast clip until the stop
ping of the carburetOr of his engine
forced him TO descend.
Lands on Golf Links.
The aviator landed safely on the golf
links of Beverly Hills, Is miles south
OF Jlo race TRACK L ne CdIUuT6lOT SOOH
was repaired, but while the aviator
was trying to ascend again one of the
front wheels of the machine struck
stone and broke. After telephoning
back to Hawthorne for repairs Ely pre-
pared to spend the night in the special
car in the Rock Island yards and make
a sunrise start from Beverly Hills this
morning.
81 shall fly through to New York
whether it takes me seven days or
seven weeks" Ely said last night. MY
trunks and supplies have been sent to
the Astor house in New York, and I
expect to be with them not later than
Friday"
Went Up at 4:1O.
Ely went up at 4:10 o'clock, circled
the race course once and started on his
long flight at All.
In Az minutes he had disappeared
over the southern horizon and IL min
utes later had landed on the golf course
Continued on Page Eighty
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-10
BUBBLE is PRICKED
United Insurance Company,
Laid Out on Big Lines,
Insolvent.
VAN LANINGHAM CONCERN
Planned for Greatest in World 1t Is
Wrecked at Outset-by the Cost
of Promotion.

New York, Oct 10.-Another big in
surance promotion bubble has been
.pricked by the New York insurance
department. The department examin-
ers have just completed an investiga-
ton into the affairs of the United In
.surance company Of Chicago and New
York, one of the Van Laningham en-
terprises and find that of the $4,000
contributed in cash by the investors in
it's stock. sold at So for each 81 share.
only $4,000 remains. The rest has
all been consumed by the high-pres-
sure methods of the company's pro-
moters and stock statesmen. The COM
pany cannot start until it has at least
100000 in cash.
Statesmen Expensive.
The United was the conception of
Otto L. Van Laningham, who has made
a business for years Of organizing in
surance companies for the profits Of
promotion. He developed a corps Of
high-pressing expert statesmen who
could sell anything, including blue sky
and hot air, but they were high rollers
and very expensive. and in nearly ev-
cry case it cost more to sell the stock
than the stock amounted to.
Whether anything was left to oper-
ate the company on as an insurance
proposition depended upon the prem
ium at which the stock had been sold
and the proportion of this which had
been left unabsorbed
Two Companies Fail.
Two of Van Laningham's companies,
the State Agency company of Indiana,
and the Great Western Life Of Kan
sas City, went into the hands of re-
ceivers. The Consolidated Casualty
company of Chicago, also organized by
him, was found to have its capital i'm
paired before it began business, and
was never able to get a license from
the Illinois insurance department.
The United. however, breaks all his
records for cOstliness Of promotion.
The cost of actually selling the stock
was 140 per cent of the par value. and
the total cost, including salaries and
other expenses, was 242 per cent.
The United was to have been the
greatest insurance company I'm the
world according to the story Of its
promoters. 1t was to have s10,OOOOOO
capital and $4,000 900 surplus, and
was TO write co different kinds of in
surance. only those who subscribed
lucky man was to be able to write all
the insurance of any kind his commun-
ity might want.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-10
FARM ERS' CONGRESS
FOR PARCELS POST
Experimental Service on the Rural
Routes Demanded in ResOlu-
tions Adopted.

Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 1O.-An expert
mental parcels post service on a few
rural routes is demanded in a resolu-
ton passed today by the Farmers Ma
tional congress. Resolutions were
also passed favoring a law forbidding
shipment of liquor into prohibition ter
ritory, favoring conservation of ma
tional resources, demanding a soil sur
vey. and endorsing the tariff commits
sion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-10
Explosion Places Lives of
Half a Hundred in
Jeopardy.
GAS BALKS RESCUERS
Many Trying to Go to Relief of
Victims Are Overcome by
Black Damp.

Starkville, Colo, Oct. 1o.-Rescue1-
at work in the Starkville mine are
hopeful of reaching the entombed men
during the day unless their efforts are
further blocked by wreckage.
Are More systemntic.
The desperate dashes in the face of
death and the abandonment of every
consideration of self by the rescuers
gave way TO more effective and infinite
ly less dangerous methods of rescue
work today. The work is moving
steadily but none of the men entombed
have been reached. The crowd about
the mine settled down TO a day of
waiting, with prospects of no news
from the depths of the mine before
night.
Try Many Plans.
Every plan the ingenuity Of the ex-
perts can summon is being put into
use 10 penetrate the black depths of
the mine and reach the imprisoned
men. The fact that the mine is fairly
clear of black damp is shown in the
report brought that all is well with the
rescue party and they are making rap
id progress in the direction of the vic
TINS of the explosion.
Increases Number.
A rechecking of the employees at the
Starkville mine adds four names to the
list of the missing. These make the
total 55 missing, according to the COM
pany's showing.
EntOmbed by Explosion
Starkville. Col. Oct. 1O.-En-
tombed by an explosion in the Stark
vile mine Of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron company. at least SO men are
the objects of heroic efforts of res
cuers, who worked throughout yes
terday trying to penetrate the black
depths of the mine in the hope that
some, or probably all. OF the i'm
prisoned miners might be rescued
alive.
The presence of black damp,
which almost invariably follows in
the wake of coal mine explosions,
made the work of rescuers extreme
ly hazardous and time and again
yesterday members of parties were
overcome, necessitating retreating to
the open air in order that their lives
could be saved.
Portable Fan Installed.
Late in the afternoon those super
intending the work Of rescue decided
that none should enter the mine un-
til a medium Of protection in the
shape of a portable fan was INSTALL
ed and rescue work was called off
for the time being.
The fan reached the portal OF the
mine at 4 o'clock and under the
supervision of the chief electrician
of the Fuel and Iron company was
mounted upon an electric motor car
and gradually pushed forward into
the new slope, working as it went.
driving the gas ahead and, as was
hoped, TO an air shaft thousands of
feet inside the mine where IL might
escape into the open air.
The greatest caution possible was
exercised that the motor carrying the
fan should not be advanced too rap
idly and a sudden rush OF gas, or
kick-back overwhelm the men oper-
ating the machine and snuff out their
lives.
According to statement given out
officially by the coroner, there are
known TO be in the mine 2S Poles.
three Russians, ten Americans, four
Mexicans and one Servian.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-10

Baudette and Spooner-have been
wiped out almost as though they had
never existed. The property loss is
as difficult to estimate as the loss
of human life, but, like the latter, it
is known to be tremendous.
With the exception of the destruc-
tion of the mills and stock of the
Rat Portage Lumber company,
Rainy river, although in the course
of the flames, escaped great damage.
The flames touched a corner of the
town, but the principal loss is con-
fined to the south side of the river
and chiefly sustained along the
American border.
Is No Communication.
Railroad and wire connections
from the west with the scene of the
great disaster is cut off by a burned
district extending from Warroad,
Mimi, on the Canadian Northern
railroad, distance of 40 miles. The
road is open to the south and east.
however, and relief is being afforded
from Fort William.
The fires have been smoldering in
that district for months and were
started anew by the terrific wind
which began to blow two days ago.
The wind increased in velocity until
a wave of flame over a hundred feet
high and a half mile wide leaped up.
1t was this that caused so many to
perish on the railway tracks. They
sought the only opening in the bush,
but were burned to a crisp by the
fiery wall leaping this barrier of some
800 yards.
SearcberS Find Bodies.
For hours searchers have been
working in the burned district, re-
covering bodies. The victims re-
mains have been found in every con-
ceivable position.
The known dead are:
Six unidentified residents of Pitt.
Unknown woman and boy; homes
at Leader near Pitt.
Seven unidentified settlers, found
on tracks west of Pitt.
Two entire families, one of eight
members and one of seven, who liv-
ed 10 miles east of Pitt; recently ar
rived from Grafton, n. d.
John TuIley and five members of
his family, recently arrived from
Fullerton, Neb, burned to death west
of Spooner.
One servant of Albert Berg of
Spooner.
Four land spectators from Dav-
enport, Iowa, recent arrivals at Bau
dette; caught by flames while out
for homesteads on south side of Bau-
dette river.
John Simmons of Red Oak. Iowa,
timber ranger; caught by flames on
railroad track while trying to es-
cape to Rainy river.
Matson Berg and five members of
his family; burned to death on out
skirts of Spooner when house was
destroyed. They attempted to wealth |
er the sea of flames in a big stone |
cellar and were suffocated.
John Rolin and family of eight, !
from Pitt.
Severt Hagen, George Weaver,
Charles Baker and Patrick Omera, (
Of Arlington, Mimi.
Many Die While Fleeing.
The flames struck Pitt early in |
the afternoon and everything was
destroyed. Previously Baudette and /
Spooner had burned and the people .
fed across to Rainy river. Many !
we're overtaken as they fed from /.
Pitt and perished The identifica-
ion of the dead is most difficult be-
cause the people have scattered so
widely.
The prompt work of relief engin-
,ered by the Canadian Northern rail-
'oad officials preserved thousands of
ives. as practically all the residents
If Spooner. Baudette and Pitt who
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-10
RIVER BULLETIN.
IE1- 40 La-rc
JIM. sHERIER, Local Forecaster.
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.

From noon today to noon tomorrow)
Sun sets 5:24. rises 6:03: moon sets
9:46 p. M: S:32 a. M, eastern time,
moon at first quarter in constellation
Sagittarius: Mercury visible; asteroid
Vesta diameter $50 miles, visible,
passing degree north of star Gamma
in Cetus in southeast in evening; suns
declination degrees 40 minutes south
of celestial equator.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-10
CANADIAN WOMAN
SHINES AT GOLF

Flossmoor, ILL.,. Oct. 10.-The wo-
mans national golf tournament op-
ened today at Homewood. Miss Dor
othy Campbell of Hamilton, Canada.
made the remarkable score of S5 for
the qualifying round.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-10
EX-GOV. HUGHES NOW
ON SUPREME BENCH

Washington, Oct. 10.-Former Gov
ernor Hughes of New York was today
sworn in as an associate justice of the
United States supreme court. The
death of Chief Justice Fuller was an
nounced, and out of respect to his
memory tha court adjourned