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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

8AME oNE4Tlol oINkpt
HERE IS n EAST MI
Northwestern Retail Body u Minnie.
Il apolIs One 81 Thoss Under
Investigation.

lumber trust reveals the extent to
which the department OF Justice haa
investigated the marketing methods Or
the so-called trust in the middle west
during its search for violations Of the
antitrust law. as
It became known that for several
months secret agents from Washing.
ton have been working in nearly every
state west Of the Mississippi, Illinois.
Michigan and the eastern territory
covered by the New York suit, taking
statements Of dealers and examining
books and records Of the associations.
The western organizations investigat
ed are reported to be the Northwestern
Retail Lumber Dealers Association at
Minneapolis. the Western Retail Lum
bermen's Association at Spokane,
Southwestern Lumbermen's Associa.
ton at Kansas City. Mo-, Retail Lum,
Der Dealers Association of Colorado
and Wyoming at Colorado Springs,
Colo; Michigan Retail Lumber Deal
ers' Association of Grand Rapids,
Mich; Lumbermen's Association Of
Texas, at Houston, Texas, and the Re.
tail Lumbermen's Association of I'LL
nois, at Chicago.
Some of the dealers claim that many
of the lumber associations; as well as
local clubs, exchanges and "line''
yards, have been under the close scrut
my of government agents.
Same Questions Involved.
Neither the government officials nor
the agents of this particular work will
admit that the investigations are fin.
tshed or that they have any idea of
what decision the department of JUS.
tice may make regarding prosecutions.
The question is the same as in the New
York suit, involving the right of the
consumer to deal with whom he choos.
es.
A particularly bitter war has been
waged in the middle west by retailers
associations upon manufacturers and
wholesalers who have been selling di.
rect to the consumer through mail
order houses, contracting builders and
farmers cooperative unions. Several
years ago Is members of the North.
western Lumbermen's association were
indicted in the federal court at Mime
apolis, charged with conspiracy in
connection with the campaign Of
the Chicago retailers against the mail
order houses. The indictments were
dismissed upon technical grounds.
Within the last two years prolonged
litigation against the Nebraska Asso.
citation of Retailers was terminated by
the supreme court of that state, which
held that the association was operating
in violation of the trust law.
Managers Of the retail associations
maintain that all their operations have
been directed by the legal opinions of
skilled lawyers. They are prepared to
submit a strong defense to the govern,
ment's attack.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

Lightning Bolt in Chicago Fatal.
Chicago. III. Lightning instant
~ killed Mrs. VIM. F. Cantwell. 40
years old. severely burned Miss Elsie
Ochner and stunned several persons
when the bolt struck double fiat
building.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

>, The interest Of Chicago goods in
matrimony is only academic. But two
per cent. of them signify their inten.
ton of becoming brides upon gradua.
ton.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

!: A Maryland surgeon informs US that
-transplanting human kidneys is az easy
as plumbers job. We presume. al
SO, that 1t Is as costly as a plumbers
Job.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

An aviator has succeeded in flyine
in four hours from London to Paris
without humping into anybody. Travel
still is comparatively light In the I'D
per reaches.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

After the housef1y, the rat and the
common drinking cup have been abol-
fshed something ought to be done
about the street car hog.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

Money" says Banker vanderlip of
New York. sis distressingly easy"
Money is good deal like the painless
dentist. He doesn's suffer any.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

The only trouble now in ordering
your dinner at the restaurant is to de.
eide what to eat with the asparagus
on toast.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26
FOREST FIRES IN JAPAN.

Line Of Flame Sweeping Path Sixty
Miles Wide.
Toxic, Japan. - Forest fires in Hok-
kaido, the northernmost of the islands
Of Japan, are devastating vast terri
tory of the land. A number of villages
already have been destroyed. The
troops have been called out and every
available man is fighting the flames.
The fire line is almost sixty miles in
length. 1t is impossible to estimate
the number of fatalities or the amount
o. damage resulting from the conflag-
ration.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

A Pennsylvania man filled his pipe
with gunpowder thinking 1t was to-
bacco. We presume he got one good
puff. anyhow. +
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

Since an aviation school has been
established in Spain students will BIO
enabled to get to those castles in the
air for which Spain has long been
noted.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

Whether the world is seventy or ten
million years old makes little differ
ence to US. 1t Is a nice old world.
anyway.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26
1910 Us =, 4 urnbsr lTrust.,

& Biwabil, Mimi. May "a Peter YER
banich, q homesteader. who lives on
Water creek. eighteen miles south Of
here, has for two days held up log
cling operation Il against subsidiary.
;of the Weyerhouser people. He; de-
imands 8 900 for the privilege Of float,
Ing logs through his land.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

A tunnel nine miles long through
the Alps was hurled up out of the fear
that the airships will soon take all of
the transportation business.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

Germany's idea of a universal Ian.
guage probably consists Of words of
several syllables spoken with leu.
tonic accent.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

In New Mexico a women subdued
wildcat by jumping ION its back. Per-
haps she had been practicing on her
husband.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

It is a sad but unmistakable fac.
that the average constituent prefer
garden seeds to copies of speeches.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

Another Chinese cabinet smashed.
but then 1t must be remembered that
China cabinets smash easily.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

That New York man who wants to
exterminate trout will find plenty Of
volunteer assistants.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

The expert who finds germs in the
cats whiskers would do we'll to look
to his own.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

They have found a diamond weigh.
ing 244 carats in South Africa. Who
will be the lucky hotel clerk?
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

Il II fully @ painful to be shot on
ahN border - elsewhere.
What has become Of the old.fash.
aoned Balkan war cloud7
Relief at last! Boston reports that
the lobster famine ID broken

Tho man that tended the furnace
will not be expected to push the lawn
mower.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26

war.
The Injured.
Antoine Emmanuel Ernest Monis,
premier and minister Of the interior.
Antoine Monis, son Of the premier.
Henri Deutsch De La Mourthe, the
aged patron of aeronautics.
A large number of other persons of
note had narrow escapes from injury.
The accident occurred on the aviation
field at Issy Les Molineaux, where
100000 persons had gathered to see
the start of the race.
M. Train was plotting the mono
plane that wrought such havoc. With
him in the car was M. Bounier. pas
senger. Neither of these men was
injured. The machine was wrecked.
Minister of War Berteaux was hor-
ribly mangled. The swiftly revolving
propeller cut off clearly his left arm,
which was found ten feet away from
the spot where he was struck; the
back Of his head was crushed in, his
throat gashed and the whole of his
left side cut and lacerated.
Premier Monis was buried beneath
the wreckage of the monoplane. He
was taken out, as quickly as possible
and examined by military surgeons
who found that he had sustained COM
pound fractures of two bones in the
right leg; that his nose was broken,
ais face badly confused, and that there
were bruises on the breast and abdo-
men. .
M. Deutsch and M. Monis were not
seriously hurt.
Among those who had narrow es-
capes from injury was M. Lepine, the
project of police.
The breeze had been steadily fresh
ening and the meteorological observer
n the Eiffel Tower telephoned that
his gauge showed velocity OF close
20 30 miles an hour.
Train, however, left the ground.
Ascending swiftly, he circled the great
ield, curving round to the starting
inc, and then, flying down the course
1T 40-mile-an-hour gait, the machine
locking in the gusty wind.
The pilots attention seemed mo.
nentarily to have been diverted from
ais course, and he made quick turn
20 the left, toward where the party of
officials were standing. Then he lost
control Of the craft altogether and it
dashed violently into the ministerial
group.
The impact knocked M. Berteaux 10
.eet away, where he lay in a pool of
blood, badly mangled. while under the
wreckage Of the monoplane lay Pre-
nier Monis, his son and Mr.. Deutsch.
Train and M. Bounier emerged from
he wreck uninjured.
A scene Of frightful confusion fol-
lowed the fall of the monoplane.
From all parts of the aviation field
arose cries Of alarm and dismay, and
:ens of thousands of persons broke
through the lines and moved toward
he scene of the accident The caval-
", by repeated charges. managed to
clear the field, and the injured men
we're given first-aid-to-the-injured treat
nent by the field surgeons.
There are various versions as to
he cause Of the accident, but every.
one seems agreed that it occurred with
such frightful rapidity that there was
40 time for Mr.. Berteaux, M. Monis
and the others injured to escape.
M. Berteaux' body was placed in
closed automobile and escorted from
the field by a squadron of dragons,
With swords at salute, while tens of
thousands of persons stood uncovered.
The body of the late minister Of war
lies at the ministry in the same room
rom which his predecessor, General
Brun. was buried.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-26
HENRI, u. sERTEAllx DEAD,
PRiME6MlfsisTERsNoNi AND
CON injured:
.2O0,0OOSFf The TRAGEDY
% Ia Mourths, We'll Known Sports.
man, Also Hurt-Pilot and Passen.
ger Of Inflated Craft Escape
Without Scratch.

Paris, France. ~ "A monoplane, the
driver Of which lost control, plunged
into a group of members Of the cab
met, who had gathered to witness the
start Of the race from Paris to Ma
drid, killing the minister of war and
injuring the prime minister, his son
and a we'll known sportsman.
The Dead.
Henri Maurice Berteaux, minister Of
war. -
The Prescott daily news., 1911-01-09
SENATOR ELKINS BURIED
Obseques Held in National Capital and Interment Made in
 West Virginia.

Elkins, w. Va. Jan. 9.-Senator Stephen B. Elkins was buried in beau tiful little Maplewood cemetery while roughly dressed workmen from his es tate stood side by side with repre- sentatives of official Washington and West Virginias executive family.
 The funeral train reached Elkins at S30 from Washington Members of the family, the Washington legisla- tors and the state officials had sepa- rate cars.
 Funeral services were held in the Davis Presbyterian church, which has a seating capacity of about 400. Two thousand persons crowded into the church and stood lined up far down the road.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-01-09
MUTlNEERS PUT TO DEATH
Leaders Say Brazilian Government Has Started Drastic Policy of
 Determination.

Buenos Ayres, Jan. 9.-More than one hundred Brazilians who took part in the two recent naval mutinies have been secretly put to death, according to leaders of the colony of Brazilians who fled here after the inauguration of President Fonseca. These Brazil ians declared they received private advices from friends in Rio Janeiro that the Brazilian government had entered upon a drastic policy of ex. termination.
 The mutineers, who were confined in the prison fortresses upon the islands of Cobras and Villegainon and who were supposed to have died sud denly from blood poisoning and sun stroke were in reality executed by being shot to death
The Prescott daily news., 1911-01-09

over Senator Delivers seat in the senate, with the first vote only few hours away.
 There are three camps in the legis. lature. The largest is composed ol Progressive Republicans; the second in numbers is composed of Democrats who have held a caucus and will vote for Dan Hamilton of the Sixth dis trict through thick and thin, and the third crowd is composed of Standpat ters, who will back Senator Lafe Young, now holding the seat by ap pointment of Governor Carroll. The Standpatters refuse to enter the party caucus.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-01-09
TAFT WILL NOT INTERFERE
SAYS PRISON IS ONLY REMEDY
 FOR PEoNAGE.
President Refuses to Commute Sen. tence of w. S. Harlan, Wealthy
 Lumberman.

Washington, Jan. 9.-President Taft has denied application for commuta- tlon of sentence in the case of w. s. Harlan, manager of a great lumber and turpentine company doing busi- ness in Florida and Alabama. who was indicted and convicted on charge of conspiracy to violate the peonage statute of Florida.
 Harlan must serve IS months i'm prisonment, in addition to paying a fine of $5,000
 The offense for which he was con- victed grew out of the alleged effort of his company to obtain 1S0 laborers from New York, including a number of recent Hungarian, Bulgarian and other immigrants. They were taken in parties of 12 to 25 by sea to Sa- vannah, thence to the company's plant.
 "The evidence clearly shows" said the president in his opinion, "that on the way from Savannah to the company's settlement a number at tempted to escape and were physical ly detained and brought to the place of work.
 ''It is kind of offense that is re- garded lightly in some communities. If permitted to live at all, it will spread rapidly its demoralizing influ- ence.
 Fines are not effective against men of wealth. Imprisonment is nee essary"
The Prescott daily news., 1911-01-09
BOOKS OF TRUST COMPANY WITH $s,9oo,Coo DEPOSITS BEING Ex-
 AHMED CY OFFICIALS.
STATEMENT Is GIVEN OUT
dent of Institution Organized in 1e07-Capital Was
 $1,5o0,o0o.

New York, Jan. 9.-The Carnegie Trust company, with deposits of statement, was closed by State Su- perintendent of Banks Cheney. State banking officials immediately took charge of the institution.
 The company had a paid-up capital of s1,5OO,O00 and surplus and profits of about $7S0,O0o
 After closing the bank, State Su- perintendent Cheney issued the fol lowing statement:
 "The superintendent of banks has taken possession of the property and business of the Carnegie Trust com pany, located at 115 Broadway, Bor- ough of Manhattan.
 An examination of the affairs of this company has caused the superin- tendent to conclude that it is in an unsound condition to transact busi- ness. and that it is not safe for it to continue.
 "The examination is not complete and no further statement can be made at present"
 Some of the Banks History.
 The institution was in trouble in the panic of 1907 and has never fully recovered. It's late president, MT. Dickinson, died last year under pc culiar circumstances.
 The institution was organized in 1907, and after the retirement of Les lie M. Shaw from the office of secre- tary of the treasury he became its president.
 The name of Carnegie as applied to the institution attracted great deal of attention, but the adoption of this name was without MT. Carnegie's authority or approval. It is under stood he was not a stockholder and not. immediately identified with it.
 MT. Shaw's connection with the bank ceased after few months be- cause of differences with the other of ficers of the institution.
 Reichmann Is President.
 The present officers are: President. Joseph B. Reichmann; vice presi- dents. Robert l.. Smith, James Ross Curran secretary, Robert B. Moor head; assistant treasurer, w. l.. Sam son; assistant secretary, A. E. Chand. Ter: cashier, P. J. Josey, Jr.
 The directors are: David H. Bates A. w. Burchard, w. J. Cummins A. B. Chandler, M. J. Condon, George M Court, George D. Crabbs, John Cuda' hy. James Ross Curran, w. A. Keen CT, Samuel H. Kress, L. l.. Lewis, Frederick Lewishon, Bradley Martin Jr., c. A. Moore, Jr., B. F. O'Neill, Jo- seph B. Reichmann, J. Rupert, Jr. Charles M. Schwab, George c. Smith John D. Stanchfield.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-01-09
SCHENKWITNESSFORW WIFE
State Will Not Put Wealthy West Vir ginan on Stand in Mur-
 der Trial.

Wheeling, w. Va, Jan. 9.-The case of Mrs. Laura Farnsworth Schenk charged with administering poison to her wealthy husband, John O.. Schenk, will be caleld for trial in the criminal court of Ohio county al once.
 Schenk will not be called as wit ness for the state, but will be put or the stand by Mrs. Schenk's attor neys. Mrs. Schenk has been i'll jai. since her arrest.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-01-09
A. O. TRUSKETT, RICH MAN, SUR. RENDERS AFTER SHOOTING
 J. D. S. NEELEY.
TROUBLE OVER OIL LEASE
Lltluation Over oil Holdings, 1t is Believed, Caused Member of Prominent Family to Brood
 Over Alleged Wrongs.

Caney Kas., Jan. 9.-J. D. s. Neel- ey president of the Wichita Pipe Line company, president of the Lima (O.) Trust company, and the head of several large oil companies, was shot and killed at the Palace hotel here by Al o. Truskett, a prominent business man of Clancy. The shooting was the result of litigation over an oil lease. Truskett surrendered immediately and was taken by automobile to the county jail In Independence, Kas.
 Circumstances of the Shooting.
 The shooting occurred at the rear of the hotel. Medley had been sit ting in the lobby reading a letter. Truskett, sitting opposite, had been watching him closely. When Medley rose and walked toward the rear of the hotel Truskett hurried around to the sample room. As Medley passed the door of this room Truskett fired at him twice from inside. One bullet passed through Neeley's heart and the other through his left arm. When 
 prostrate man he was dead.
 President Medley was here on his regular monthly inspection of his oil and gas interests and of his pumping plant recently erected here.
 The killing is believed to have been largely the result of lawsuit now pending between Truskett and the Wichita Pipe company.
 Slayer Refuses to Talk.
 Truskett refused to make a state ment following his arrest. His friends, however, say the lawsuit weighed heavily on his mind and that ire Quently advisers had told him he was being deceived by the corporation.
 Truskett's Is one of the oldest and wealthiest families in southern Kan sas.
 The lease which led to the litiga- ton between Truskett and pipe line company was to a tract of oil land four miles south of this city. Robert f. Goodman, a minor Indian, who owned the tract, leased it several years ago to Hugh B. Bronson, an oil man, who later disposed of it to Winkler & Hicks, a local oil firm. for S40O. Truskett paid this firm s9.100 for the lease
 Shortly afterward the Wichita Pipe Line company claimed the lease, say Ing they had come into possession of It through the lease by Goodman to Fred c. Loser and Herbert Scott, who were interested in the Wichita com pany' The company asserted that the leasing of Truskett had been illeagal- ly done.
 Owen Owen of Caney. a nephew of senator Owen of Oklahoma, travelled with the Indian boy, Goodman, from the time the rival claims arose until the boy became of age, September 24 last. It Is said Owen was in the em- pioy of the Wichita company. On the date Goodman became of age the wichita company began action in the federal court to clear their lease to the land. Litigation has been in prog fess ever since. Truskett asserted the pipe line company used undue in huehce on the Indian boy, spirited nun away and finally bought from nm the lease for $5,oO0.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-01-09
BOY BANDITS ARE CAUGHT
After Holding Up Hotel, Cap tured in Logging Camp.

Duluth, Minn., Jan. 9.-After chase of several hours, William Mug gary and Algol Johnson, who held up and robbed the Hotel Mckay of this city, and after being arrested for the robbery, shot and killed Patrolman Chesmore, were captured at Isaac Browns logging camp, IS miles north of here, by Duluth police.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-01-09
Trains Crash in Texas.

Waco, Tex, Jan 9.-Missouri Kan sas & Texas flyer No ran into flyer No. at Abbott, 27 miles north of here, wrecking both trains and kill ing two persons. The dead are: H. D. Reynolds, Pullman conductor. and Dr. King of Dallas.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-01-09
Auto Company Burns.

Syracuse, N. J., Jan. 9.-Ffre, sup posedly starting from spontaneous combustion, in the automobile supply store of J. A. Seitz & Co.,, caused damage of $3OOOO, and for a time threatened the destruction of the en tire block in which it was located.
The Prescott daily news., 1911-01-09
IOWA FACES A DEADLOCK
Standpatters Refuse to Enter Party Caucus in Senatorial Fight and
 Tie-Up Is Expected.

Des Moines, la, Jan. 9.-A combi- nation deadlock as to the outcome is the indication of affairs in the fight
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-10-14

Mrs. W. W. North's Bridge.
Mrs. w w. North VIII entertain at
three tables of bridge next Tuesday
afternoon, In honor of Mrs. Il. c.
Brown, All of the Invitations have not
been issued. but the invited guests will
include only intimate friends of the
guest OF honor.