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The Coconino sun., 1910-10-21

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The Coconino sun., 1910-10-21

The members of the banking association who went through Arizona on their way to Los An geles were astonished at Arizona astonished because their train was not held up by robbers or that the Indians did not break out along the route. Some brought hearty sandwiches to eat in waste places. Some of them, who had travelled from New York to Hoboken, oi from Boston to Cambridge, were astonished to find that most people out west wore real store clothes and could speak English plain enough to be understood. In few hundred years some of these wise people will come out and dis cover us. Then all will be lost.
The Coconino sun., 1910-10-21

Entered In the Postofice at Flagstat1 as second
 class matter.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
RAILROAD MEN PROTEST
Object to Proposed Changes in
Laws Affecting Carriers.

Washington, Jan. 4.-The presidents
of six of the biggest railroad systems
in the country called on President
Taft and asked him to postpone his
demand for amendments to the Sher.
man antitrust law and the ate law.
The president refused to do so, yet
announced later that instead of send
ing in one message on Wednesday,
as originally planned, he would divide
the message, sending in one section
Thursday and the other Friday.
The general opinion here is that the
railroad men were rebuffed. Special
interest attached to the meeting be.
cause it was the first attempt made
by the captains of industry to inter
fere with the Taft legislative. pro,
gramme.
The railroad men filed a blanket
objection to the entire railroad legis-
lative plan OF the president. They
said that the country was enjoying a
period of rare prosperity in spite of
the complaint of high cost of living.
Crops were good, the factories were
humming and the railroads were haul
ing great quantities of freight, all Of
which meant national prosperity. 1t
would be a fatal mistake, they argued,
to change this by asking for radical
legislation.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
BEGINS SERVING SENTENCE
Former Ice King in Federal Prison at
Atlanta.

Atlanta, Ca, Jan. 4.-Charles Wy
man Morse, former ice king" and
millionaire banker, has begun his
service Of a tiftecn-year sentence in
the Atlanta federal prison for viola
ton of the national banking laws. He
is registered as convict No. 2S14 and
occupies a steel cell not in the least
different from those to which are as
signed the several hundred other priS-
Oners. His immaculate tailored gar
ments gave way to a regulation suit
of stripes, nor did the distinguished
prisoner escape the Bertillon expert,
the prison photographer, the regula-
ton bath or the barber.
Because he had not been vaccinated
Morse was not permitted to eat in
the big dining room with his fellow
convicts and his first meal was served
In his cell. The prisoner turned over
to the prison clerk $21S in currency.
He was assigned to "class L." which
entities him to the privilege Of seeing
relatives or friends for thirty minutes
in each two weeks of his confinement.
Morse probably will be assigned to
the tailor shop or put to work on the
construction gang.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06

the air and, spreading in all directions,
produce the effect Of a strong aurora
borealis. 1t would be a soft light, but
sufficient to distinguish objects.
Some day soon my idea will be car.
ried out. l would like nothing better
than to undertake to illuminate first
the harbor of New York for a distance
Of, say, 100 miles around.
my present plan is to distribute
this light from a central station,
which is the most economical and also
the best method of obtaining light of
highest quality. My lamps will last
forever, there being nothing to them
to burn out. They are simple tubes
or bulbs of glass Theoretically sealed
and containing nothing but rarified
gas"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
NOW HELD AS ACCOMPLISH
Brother of EngIevaIe Slayer Freed on
One Charge.

Samuel Cant was freed from one
charge, that of being an accessory by
aiding his brother, Daniel Cant, a.
legged murderer of Lewis Maxwell at
Englevale, to make his escape. The
court, on motion of the states attor-
ney, dismissed young Cant, only to
have him arrested as an accomplice
in the crime.
The death of Maxwell occurred OF
the afternoon of Thanksgiving day.
Lewis Maxwell, who was intoxicated
got into an alteration with Daniel
Cant, and called him vile names,
which Cant, who was a cowboy, re-
scented. Cant drew his revolver and,
despite the interference Of Walter
Pharoah, who had cought him by the
arm, succeeded in firing the shot that
killed Maxwell. The testimony of
Pharoah exculpated Sam, the nine
teen-year-old brother, of any overt
act, except that he placed his hand
under his coat as if to draw a revol
yer when his brother Dan told him to
shoot as he was struggling with Pha-
roah.
Sam Cant was captured in a straw
stack near Britton, S. D., but Dan
escaped.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
LIK ELY TO SPREAD
Latest Developments Of the
SWitChmen'S Strike
PERHAN VISITS WASHINGTON
Fails to Induce Federal Media
tors 10 Interfere.

st. Paul, Jan. 3.-Chairman H. B.
Perham of the railway department of
the American Federation of Labor is
quoted in a dispatch from Washington
as saying:
"The only developments in the sit.
uation are the increased likelihood of
a further spread of the strike and the
rapidly growing desire Of the people
of st. Paul and Minneapolis to see the
thing ended.
yet, | am hopeful of an amicable
settlement. Of course, my actions are
dictated entirely by the minds of the
switchmen. l am all for peace now,
but in a few days l may be fighting
for all that is in me.
There does not seem any probable
ity Of the matter being taken directly
to the president"
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, was in
conference with Chairman Perham
over developments in the switchmen's
strike. This was announced in a tele-
gram received from Mr.. Perham by
President Hawley of the Switchmen's
union.
The formal conference between
Chairman Perham and Mediators Neill
and Knapp looking to a %reopening of
arbitration with the railroad officials
has not been concluded.
A dispatch from Washington indi-
Gates that at least Il of the parties
in the conference believes there is no
likelihood of the affiliated bodies in
the Federation of Labor going out on
strike. When this statement was
read to President Hawley he said:
IF any one believes that it must be
either Mr.. Neill or Mr.. Knapp and the
opinion of either must be based pure
ly on information-not on knowledge
of what the federation will do.
know Mr.. Perham has not made any
such statement. In his telegram to
me he said that everything looked
hopeful"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
WENZEL FAMILY REUNITED
Husband Plays Santa Claus for Chill.
dren and Would Take Wife Back.

Husband Plays Santa Claus for Chill.
dren and Would Take Wife Back.
John T. Wenzel of Egeland, who has
been securing the Northwest in
search of his wife, who left his home
Oct. 16 with his three children, was
reunited to his family in a hotel at
Fargo.
Hello, Lizzie" he cried as he
rushed into the room and Rugged his
three little children in his arms all 1T
once. Come back home with me and
/ won't be harsh with you any MORE
Mrs. Wenzel was rather wary of her
husband and was slow to consent to
return with him. The big farmer
loaded his children down with pres
ents he had bought for them in Mime
apolis.
Mrs. Wenzel said she had been
spending her time in Minnesota points
with her three children. She went
to Crookston and Alexandria, at each
of which places she remained in no.
tells, and she visited with her father,
Jules Eickhoff, on his farm near Fer
gus Falls.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
BURIED UNDER FALLING WALL
Four Firernen Killed While Fighting
Blaze at Milwaukee.

1io-S cS NtiiSNo0NSCs
Milwaukee, Jan. Fire in the local
plant OF the American Bridge company
caused the death of four firemen, who
were buried under a falling wall, and
a financial loss of about $3.50, 900. The
firemen who were killed we're:
John ]. Hennessey, captain engine
company No. 4; skull crushed.
Dominic O'Connell, lieutenant truck
No. 4; skull fractured.
William Foley, truckman, engine No
4; skull fractured.
Joseph Sullivan, truckman.
The engine company which suffered
all the casualties was first to arrive
and took it's station under the main
wall OF the factory, a long two-story
brick structure. Without warning, the
wall tottered and fell upon the men
and it was thought by the spectators
that all of the members of the com
pany met death.
Two bodies of injured men were
soon recovered, Foley and Sullivan
and then came Captain Hennessey and
Lieutenant O'Donnell. Hennessey ano
O'Donnell were dead when found, but
Foley and Sullivan lived for nearly
two hours.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
LAMPHERE DIES in PRISON
Alleged Slayer of Mrs. Guinness a Vic
tim of CONSUMPTION.

Laporte, Ind, Dec. 31.-Ray Lam
phere, t~hirty-eight years old, slayer of
Mrs. Belle Guinness and her children,
died in the Michigan City penitentiary,
where he was serving an indeterminate
term for arson. Lamphere on April
%, 1908, set fire to the Guinness home
near Laporte and incinerated the fam
lily. He had formerly been employed
by Mrs. Guinness as a workman on her
farm. Following the fire the bodies of
several persons who had been muir
dered by Mrs. Guinness were unearthed
in the farmyard.
Lamphere was convicted of burning
the house and sentenced on Nov. rs,
1908, to serve from two to fourteen
years in prison. Lamphere always
contended that he was innocent of the
arson. 1t was shown, however, that
Lamphere was probably cognizant Of
some of Mrs. Guinness crimes and that
he was angered at her.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
News Of The Week From Vari-
Gus Parts Of the State.
GRAND FORKS MAN ARRESTED
Greek Charged With Completely
in Alleged Frauds.

The trip pass sensation, as far as
the Great Northern is concerned, ap.
pears to center around the arrest at
overseer of the Great Northern for
that division.
Toscas was placed under arrest on
last Friday on a warrant sworn out
by Great Northern officials and spent
the night in jail. He vas given a
hearing in Judge R. j. Purcell's court
and is now out under $1,000 bond fur
nished by A. f. Turner and Max Ra-
bonovich of Grand Forks. The charge
against Toscas is the obtaining of
passes from the Great Northern and
selling them to Greek !aborers under
his charge. Toscas defies the produc-
ton of evidence to this effect against
him and has retained Attorney George
A. Bangs TO defend him in the hearing,
which has been set for Jan. Z.
Rumors that more arrests would be
made have been afloat, but there
have been no developments, and those
in a position to know claim there will
be no more.
But the sensational part of the Tos.
cas- affair leaked out, and if rumors
prove true the whole alleged fraud
may prove to be a fiasco. The claim
is made from a reliable source that
the whole affair is a conspiracy on
the part Of opponents to secure, if pos
sible, the employment contract held
by the Western Employment agency
of st. Paul, which furnishes laborers
for railroads Of the Northwest.
Part of Alleged Conspiracy.
The arrest of Toscas, it is charged
is part of this alleged conspiracy.
When seer Toscas laughed at the
charge that he had procured passes
and sold them to laborers.
LET them show where I asked for
any passes," he said. Checks have to
be presented showing that a man is a
laborer before passes "a be secured
and I don't see where I could get any
passes in the way charged. However,
this will come out at the hearing"
Attorney George A. Bangs, who has
OCCH 1CId1hCu w 1ooSoo, 11ao I "
say on the subject, but prophesied
some interesting developments in the
case.
On the other hand railroad officials
claim that there has undoubtedly been
considerable graft, but the extent can
only be guessed at. 1t is alleged that
an effort was made by a Greek to
spring a trap on the Hubbard Employ
ment Agency when Fred Hubbard was
asked for a pass. Hubbard, however,
it is said, refused to be drawn into
the net. 1t is believed a similar plot
was laid for Toscas, but with what
success will not be known until his
hearing on Jan. 7.
The case promises sensational de.
velopments.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
MAY SOON GO TO BELGIUM
ZeEaya Not Likely to Linger Long in
Mexico.

City of Mexico, Dec. 30.-"I am pres
ident Of Nicaragua said Jose Santos
Zelaya, who arrived here after turning
the government Of Nicaragua over to
DR.. Madriz and fleeing from Nicara.
qua. Il turned the government over
to MadriZ, as the constitution pro-
vides. Madriz is only an ad interim
official"
Zelaya was frank in his statements
about the attitude toward his country
of Mexico and the United States, but
complained he had been misjudged in
interviews sent out while he was on
his way to Mexico City from Salina
Cruz. Il will not be held a prisoner
by Mexico" he continued. Il am free
to come and go as / please" He did
not say where he would go, although
it is generally believed his stay in
Mexico will be short and he will go to
Belgium in a few weeks. Several
members of his family are already
there.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
Northwestern Roads MuIGted Of
Big Sums Annually.
SCHEME Was EASILY WORKED
Employment Agents Alleged to
Be Leaders in Plot.

st. Paul, ] &C. 31.-That nearly ev-
cry railroad running through the
Northwestern states has suffered from
frauds perpetrated by the employment
agents to the same extent as the
Great Northern is the belief of those
interested in the Investigations being
conducted under the personal direc-
ton of President l.. w. Hill Of the
latter road. Special Agent AL Ray
has discovered that Office collision on
the part Of a Great Northern employe
made the plots of the labor agents
easy to carry out on that road, but it
is understood that the other COM
panies have suffered to a great extent
for lack of investigation.
Estimates of the AMOUNT of money
said to have been lost to the North
western railroads through the manip-
ulations of certain employment agents
in all parts of the country run as high
as $500, 900 annually. The past three
or four years have seen much new
railroad construction in the Dakotas,
Montana, Idaho and Washington. In
lion dollars have been spent by the
companies in improving the track
beds, laying new rails, Strengthening
curves and other similar work. The
demand for laborerS has exceeded the
supply at all times and every appli-
cant who appeared at a local employ
ment Office was given transportation
to some point in the Northwest.
Wholesale arrests along the line OF
the Great Northern as far west as SnC-
kane are expected. False pretenscs
and violations Of the federal anti-pass
laws will be the charges laid.
Plan of Employment Agents.
The plan under which the employ
vas to secur a contract with the
railroad companies by which the
agent agrees to furnish so many labor
ers, usually for track work, which re-
quires only common labor. The agent
does not have to make an eXamina-
" VI liz hAdA, Ill Dody VII VIZ W
work on a railroad grade. That makes
it easy for him to accept any person
who enters the Office.
a A man who desires to go to Mon
tana for any reason can go to the en-
ployment agent and tell his troubles.
The nearest railroad work is selected
and the mar is ostensibly hired to
work for the company at that place.
He is given a pass by the agent,
which takes him to the point desig-
mated. After he arrives there he for
gets to appear at the railroad Office
and goes to the point for which he
started. All he paid for his trip was
the Office fee Of the employment
agent, which varied with the appll-
cant.
The roads which are the principal
sufferers in the Northwest are the
Great Northern, Northern Pacific, 500
and the st. Paul. Each of these lines
enters the grain fields Of Western
Minnesota and the Dakotas. The farm
laborers annually imported to harvest
the crops are hauled by the railroads
and it is estimated that less than 1G
per cent Of the laborers pay ever the
reduced rate put into effect by the
transportation companies.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
NEARLY FROZEN TO DEATH
New Rockford Mar May Not Recover
From His Injuries.

no tSo
Thomas Godfrey, a well known char.
acter about New Rockford, was almost
frozen to death. The unfortunate man
was sleeping at his home, when some
of the other inmates of the house
spilled some gasoline, into which a
lighted match was accidentally
dropped and the house set afire, but
500 eXtinguished.
Godfrey and the others left the
house at once and went to the neigh.
bors, as the house was without fire.
but in some manner he became sep.
arated from the others. He reached
an unoccupied house less than 200
yards from his own house and sat on
the steps, where he was found some
hours afterwards almost frozen stiff.
Medical aid was at once summoned
and his life was saved, but it was
necessary to amputate a part of n
foot and the other foot at the ankle
His condition is still serious and he
may not o
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
COLLINS" SET AT LIBERTY
Supreme Court Justice Of Minnesota
Helps st. Paul Boy.

Allan collins" of st. Paul, who
since last July has been in the county
Jail at Fargo on a charge of picking
pockets at the Cass county fair, was
released by order Of Judge Pollock.
collins" is of a wealthy family Of
st. Paul and influential friends worked
in his behalf. He entered a plea of
guilty, but it was shown that he had
been an inmate of a hospital for the
cure of the morphine habit and that
he doubtless was irresponsible when
he committed the crime in Fargo.
He was released on a bond of $500
for his appearance in Fargo at the
April term of court. In the mean
time his friends will place him in q
Twin City hospital for treatment. He
must report by letter to Judge Pol
lock at least once a month until April.
He is twenty-three years old, and tits
Is said to be his first offense.
Justice E. A. Jaggard of the Mime
sofa supreme court was instrumental
in securing the boys release.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
AFTER YEARS OF WORK
Tesla Said TO Have Invented
Wireless Electric Light

New York, Dec. 30.-Nikola Tesla.
who has been at work on wireless
electric light for twenty years, has
announced that he has brought it to
a state of perfection. He says a plant
for it's production is now nearing COM
pletion at his laboratory on Long
Island.
ut would be possible by my wireless
transmitter Of great power said Mr..
Tesla, ito light the entire United
States. The current would pass into
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
KENTUCKY JURIST ENDS LIFE
Memory Fails Him While Making Ad.
dress at BANQUET,

Georgetown, KY, Jan. 3.-Because
he could not remember part Of his ad-
dress which he vas to deliver at a
banquet Judge John Voris, aged thirty
two, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the brain with a re-
volver.
Judge Voris, who was n of the
most brilliant members of the Ken
lucky bar and well known as an after
dinner speaker, was one of the orators
at a celebration here. When he arose
to address the audience his memory
failed him and, after several attempts,
to continue, he abruptly left the room.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
PERISH IN WRECK
More Than Two Score Others Sustain
Injuries.

Trenton, Mo-, Jan. 1.-Three people,
two of whom are women, were killed
and at least fo%rty-three injured when
the Rock Island passenger train No. g.,
the "California Special" was wrecked
two miles north of here.
The cause of the wreck is not
known. The engine suddenly jumped
the track, and, blowing through the
roadbed, landed upside down.
When the chair car, the tourist and
the first of the Pullman sleepers
reached a point opposite the disabled
engine they left the track and piled
up. The cars at one caught fire
from the engine. The second stand
ard sleeper and the observation a
were practically unchanged.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
ESCAPING GAS FATAL TO TWO
Des Moines Theatrical Man One Of
the Victims.

Des Moines, Dec. 30.-William Eos
ter, a pioneer Des Moines architect
of Spencer, Ia, aged seventeen, VINO
was a guest at the Foster home on
Grand avenue, were found dead from
asphyxiation in adjoining bedrooms at
the Foster residence. A leaking a
stove in the bathroom, into which
both bedrooms opened, was the cause
of the deaths.
Mr.. Foster was the owner of the
two largest theaters in Des Moines.
Young Bemis is a grandson of George
w. Bemis, formerly state treasurer of
Iowa.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
White Still in Jail.

The tangle in the office Of the Stark
county auditor has been under inves.
tigation by State Examiner S. H. Will
son. He checked up the Office of
county treasurer and found everything
in good shape, but in the auditors Of
fee the situation is a bad one and will
require several weeks to unravel. ].
S. White, former county auditor, is
still in the county jail, not being able
to furnish bail.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
FIRE NEARLY RAZES TOWN
Only One Business House Left Stand.
ing in Holland, Va.

Richmond, Va, Jan. 3.-Fire de.
stroyed the Majestic theater, the post
Office and all but one of the twenty
six business places in the hamlet of
Holland, twelve miles from Suffolk,
Va, and rendered half Of the towns
200 inhabitants homeless. Only TWEEN.
ty-one homes are left in the town and
these are housing the homeless.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
SPENCER TRASH is KILLED
Prominent Financier Victim Of Rail
road Collision.

Wv
New York, Dec. 31.-Spencer Trask,
one of the leading t%inanciers of the
United States, was killed by a freight
train running into the real of the New
York Central passenger train on which
he occupied the drawing room section
at the rear end of the last car.
The accident occurred near Croton,
N. Y. One other passenger was seri-
ously injured and the negro porter of
the sleeping Car was also severely
hurt.
MI. Trask, who vas coming into the
city from his home at Saratoga, was
dressing in his compartment when the
freight train plowed into the heavy
passenger train, which is known as
the Montreal express. When his torn
body was removed from the wreckage
it was found that he had only partly
dressed himself.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
Woman Burned to Death.

Mrs. Catherine Gordon, seventy
years old, was burned to death at her
home in Glen Ullin. Mrs. Gordon was
subject TO epilectic fits and, while
there were no witnesses to the acct.
dent, it is supposed she was carrying
a lamp about the house when taken
with one Of the fits, and fell to the
floor, the lamp setting fire to the
house. The charred remains of the
woman we're found In the ruins.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
JAMES HUSTON is INDICTED
Former United States Treasurer Ac-
cused of Mail Frauds.

Washington, Jan. 3.-James Huston,
was indicted by the federal grand
jury on the charge of conspiracy and
fraudulent use Of the mails, resulting
from his connection with the National
Trust company. Together with Hus-
ton are indicted Samuel Graham, a
wealthy broker of Montreal, Can;
Everett Du Four of this city and Har-
vey NJ. Lewis, connected with the
same oncern.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-01-06
Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, Jan. 3.-Cattle-Beeves,
$4.20@7.85; Texas steers, $4.O0@5.O0;
Western steers, $4.0O@6.2O; stockers
and feeders, $3.OO@5.25; COWS and
heifers, $2.10@5.50; calves, $7.25@9..
so. Hogs-Light, $S.1O@8.5O; mixed,
$8.15@S.6O; heavy, $8.30@8.6O; rough,
$S.30@8.40; good to choice heavy, 49,.
40@8.60; pigs, $7.30@S.35. Sheep
Native, $3.60@6,00; yearlings. $4,000
1856; lambs, $5.75@8.66.