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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-09
NO LIMIT TO ANNEXATION.
Precedent Taft After the Aurora 30
roaIis Next.


President Taft talked territorial ex.
pansion recently at the dinner given In
honor of Secretary Knox by Repre-
sentative David ]. Foster of Vermont,
chairman Of the house committee on
foreign affairs. He said, when asked
to speak, that he wished to emphasize
the Importance Of the state depart
ment and hoped the subject would not
cause surprise.
"Our attention has recently been call
ed to the subject Of annexation" said
the president, turning laughingly to
the British ambassador, who was a
guest, "and that's something Mr.. Bryce
and I ought to have little confden-
tial chat about
"Look out" broke in Secretary Knox;
they'll think next we're after Aus
tralia," and his caution aroused laugh
ter, in which the president and am
bassador Bryce Joined heartily.
But want It distinctly under
STOOD" continued the president, that
II we are going to embark in the an
nexation business we must at the ear
Hest opportunity annex the aurora b.
realis."
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-09
IS PLAYWRIGHT At eleven.
And corneIia skinner's Effort viii es
Produced Too.

Produced Too.
Eleven-year-old Cornelia Skinner
daughter of Otis Skinner, actor, is fol-
lowing in the theatrical footsteps OF
her father. She has written a play,
and, what is much more to the point,
she is going to have it acted.
Little Miss Skinner recently handed
a manuscript to Charles Frohman,
gravely calling his attention to the
fact that 1t was a one act play en-
titled THE Maid" and emphasizing
the fact that 1t contained a typical
Otis Skinner part
Frohman examined the little girls
work and found that indeed she had
written an actable play containing five
characters, based on one Of the King
Arthur legends.
There were several good situations
In it, and Frohman decided that with
q little fixing up it might be present.
ed as curtain raiser to "Sire." So he
accepted it and arranged with his ju-
venile client for royalties.
Little Miss Skinner has been busy
with her pen in other directions. She
has written verses at various times,
and some Of them have appeared in
children's magazines.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-09
BEAUTY AND BRAINS.

I [Do we enjoy hearing 1t said that
it Is a pity that Wellesley girls do
not look so well az other girls
: Vassar people. for instance?-Ffom
Wellesley College News.1
What's beauty. girls? Why should
you care
For rosy cheeks and eilken hair.
For cherry lips and shell pearl ears
And things like that which other
dears
Think are the summa bona which
5 Make womankind most truly rich?
Let Vassar mugs be beautiful
The intellectual has the pull
With Wellesley girls, and, though
they may
+ Look like a last years bale of hay,
! BY heck, they've got the brains,
and those
Is what's the goods with them that
knows!
+ Come. Wellesley girls. cum laude,
And prove that beauty's on the
bum
Compared with your curriculum!
What?
+ w. J. hampton in New York
Tribune.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-09

BILE use in our unpleasantness. The
Great Eastern was then the wonder
Of the world and, in fact, was 90 big
that she never paid and became a
white elephant In her owners hands,
20 that the other shipbuilders dropped
hack to the old scheme.
Great Eastern Surpassed.
Yet she is now surpassed by Other
vessels. The Mauretania has length
Of 100 feet az against the Great East
ems 002, a width of 50 feet to the
Great Eastern's 50 and q tonnage Of
$500 to the Great Eastern's 22,727.
Better still, the modern vessel comes
across In four days as compared With
eleven for the Great Eastern. Vessels
still larger than the Mauretauia are
now building.
There was general peace In the west
ern hemisphere when Lincoln was In.
augurated, except in Mexico. There
Juare1 was winning victories, over.
turning the old order and causing q
CRISIS with Europe that speedily re-
suited in Intervention, which in turn
led to the Ill starred reign Of Maxi
milan.
Washington in Lincoln's day was
not q thing Of beauty and q Joy for
ever. The buildings were low and in
terspersed with vacant lots. Pennsylva-
mia avenue was paved with cobble-
stones and most Of the other streets
with Potomac mud. The capitol was
unfinished, with q great crane over
the uncompleted dome. The natives
for the most part were southern SYM
pathizers.
Time is the great healer and adjust.
er. The old wounds are gone. The
troubled and harassed Lincoln Of that
day has become 1.-THE gentlest memory
Of our world" precious to north and
south alike. The world has moved
onward toward democracy, enlighten'
ment and peace. Our own land has
zone fast and far. Perhaps all the
advance has not been good-lt hardly
ever is-yet in the main It has been
upward and certainly onward.
Fifty years hence will our children
look back on an equal or greater prog
ress9 VIII our day seem a. strange to
them AZ Lincoln's does to us3 Arc
We about to 60 through new crisis
which will bring forth another like
him to pilot the old ship through the
storm to a yet fairer harbor7 How
ever these things may be, We can be
certain Of one thing-that Abraham
Lincoln's memory VIII grow yet more
precious with the passing Of the years.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-09

little money aud no apparent means
for raising the immense revenues soou
to be needed. The ridiculously small
army and navy had been still further
depleted by assertions to the south
and by the turning over of vessels,
forts and military stores to the Con
federate government. Taken all in all,
few new rulers ever faced darker
prospect. The country was divided
and surely drifting into war with no
means at hand or In sight with which
to conduct the struggle. The very
seat Of government itself was on the
edge Of the disadected area.
European sentiment was for the
most part against 10. The north itself
was paralyxed by division and doubt,
one faction being openly or secretly
hostile and a large section of Lin
coins own supporters crying for com.
promise or blindly asserting that there
would be no war It is now plain that
Mr.. Lincoln himself held no pleasant
decisions Of this sort. There were sev.
eral gloomy notes in his speeches de-
uvered on his way to Washington, and,
while his inaugural address appealed
for peace, there was o minor chord run.
ming through 1t prophetic Of conflict.
He was taking solemn oath to pre-
serve the Union, yet division had al
ready appeared.
Lincoln Anticipated War.
The only thing left was an appeal to
force. He knew this and yet in the
precarious situation In which he found
himself went about his work with a
diplomacy and caution that have ellie.
tied the warm admiration Of historians.
Out Of all the chaos he had the su'
preme task of organizing order and
victory. The manner in which he sue
ceeded is one of the triumphs Of pa
tient and farseeing craftsmanship.
The first Lincoln Inauguration
took the largest crowd to Washing.
ton that had yet been seen at q like
occasion, likewise the largest numbez
Of soldiers. Nor were the troops used
for dress parade They patrolled Penn
sylvania avenue and other streets,
were stationed about and in the CAPT
tol, and a squad was concealed under
the temporary wooden platform from
which the new president delivered his
inaugural address. There were picketa
guarding the wooden tunnel that led to
the capitol, sharpehooters on the roofs
of the houses and q squad Of dyine
artillery with General Scott in side
street. There had been numerous
threats that Lincoln would never b
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-09
Gold Production 10 Lees.

Gold valued at approximately $685.
065,214 was mined in the United States
and Alaska last year, a decrease Of g..
1886 from the record output Of
1900, Alaska, Colorado and South Da.
kota producing less than formerly and
California. Nevada and Arizona more.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-09
prep opjum For ciearsttss.

While the native Chinese 10 being
gradually driven from the use of
opium, he is being educated in the
consumption Of cigarettes, the imports
Of which amounted to $9,468, 100 in
1909, an increase Of 14.76 per cent
over 1908. In addition to the number
of cigarettes imported millions are
made each year in the empire.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-09
SHARKS FOND OF euNNERY.
Practice Of Cruisers In West indies
Eagerly Watched.

Eagerly watched.
The detachment Of destroyer cruls-
in9 in West Indian waters for torpedo
and gun practice In the vicinity Of
Media Luna bay, Cuba, recently had
an unusual experience.
The sharks, with which these waters
abound, were keenly interested in the
torpedo practice, seeming to regard 1t
% q performance arranged for their
exclusive benefit. With every torpedo
discharged white sharks, blue sharks,
tiger sharks and dogfish were of in a
bunch down the line full speed, but no
shark was able to do nine seconds
aat, and even the big red nosed ham
merheads arrived pufing and blowing
some time after the torpedo was
preached.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-09
New York Likes Milk,

WV bVTN 0uNVo UusNs
New York city is using i've times as
much milk as it did twenty -four years
ago, when the dairy law took effect.
The consumption now 10 100000
quarts a day.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-09

Penguin Esss Popular.
About coo! 900 penguin eggs are gath
-xed from nearby islands and sold for
food in Cape Colony each year.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-09
Address Generally Approved.

The inaugural address was received
with varying comments. Despite its
appeals for peace, the south accepted
1t as challenge to war. The north
and especially the west generally ap.
proved 1t. Greeley's Tribune said. 1T
is marked by no useless words and no
feeble expression" and added, ITO
twenty millions of people it will carry
the tidings, glad or not, as the case
may be, that the federal government
of the United States is still in exist
ence, with man at the head Of it."
While thousands are yet living who
remember the Inauguration Of Lincoln.
it is well nigh impossible for the
younger generation to form mental
concept of the nation ut that time.
There were thirty-six states, but our
population was only one.third that Of
today. The telephone, electric light.
trolley car. automobile, skyscraper,
ocean cable, wireless. aeroplane. steel
clad battleship and innumerable other
devices and inventions were yet to
come into being.
One comparison may serve to illus
trate the contrast between Lincoln's
era and ours. The Great Eastern had
been launched few years before. but
various accidents delayed her first &C.
tual trip to New York till June. 1860.
She came across In eleven days. 9th
er trips followed, and in the winter
Of 1861 the British government en-
ployed the then giant Of the deep to
transport troops to Canada for posi-.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-09

lnaugurated. The military preparation
seemed an omen Of that which was to
be.
The address began at about 100 in
the afternoon. The day had cleared,
and ut the time the sun was shining
brightly. Mr.. Lincoln's voice carried
we'll over the great assemblage. His
references to maintaining the Union
elected cheers, which were redoubled
at the close and again when be took the
oath of Office and the booming guns
announced the beginning Of new ad-
ministration, one that was to prove
the most momentous in the nations
history,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-09
Age Of Reform In Many Ways
Had Begun IN Germany, Italy.
Russia and England. Al.
ready Threatening
Napoleon II.

By JAMES A. EDCERTON.
~ HE first Inauguration Of Abra'
ham Lincoln as president oc-
Cured fifty years ago the 4th
of March. We have had ten
presidents since and not Lincoln in
the lot.
Fifty years ago there was not as
much happening as now, or at least
there was not the same revealing light
of publicity on it, which made it seem
less. The cable did not then suck
Europe dry Of the previous days news
and leave it on our front porches the
next morning. Instead we had to wait
two weeks or longer to find out what
France, Germany or England was do
ing or thinking about. As for Asia,
it was practically out of the reckon
ing, while Australia did not count at
all. and Africa was known only as a
biz and vague darkness out Of which
slaves had originally come.
On March 3, 1861, the very day be-
fore Lincoln began his term, the car
of Russia, Alexander H., emancipated
the serfs throughout his empire. The
event, which would almost seem pro-
phetic Of what was to happen so soon
in our own land, was not known In
America until weeks later.
On Feb. 20, or six days before Lin
coins Inauguration, Victor Emmanuel
was crowned king Of united Italy, sue
ceeding a long struggle by Garibaldi
and others to that end. The new 1tal-
ian parliament, with Cavour as its
dominant spirit, was then but getting
under way, practically its first act be-
ing the elevation of the king.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-11-04
WOMAN WILL Be CHARGED
WITH POISONING 9 PEOPLE
Used Arsenict to Do Away With Her Latest
Victim---Mrs. Louise Vermiya Is Believed
By the Police to Be Modern Lucretia
Borgia.

CHICAGO. Nov 4. President
Russell Hannes OF Rush college, re-
ported TO Coroner Hoffman yester-
day that he had found abundant
arsenic in Patrolman Arthur Bis
sonnette's liver to cause death.
Immediately after the announce
ment that Bissonnette's death was
caused by poison, Chief of Police
McWeeney prepared to swear out
"a warrant for Mrs Louise Yer
milya, charging her with the mur-
der of Arthur Bissonnette and Rich
ard Smith, an Illinois Central con
ductor, who died mysteriously while
la roomer at Mrs. Vermilyas lodging
house.
The first thread in poison
mystery that the police say is like
y to reveal a series of murders,
more willful and eold-blooded than
any in police history here, was
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-11-04
TWO PLATTERS
MAY SOON BE
rendered SHIP
SUBSTITUTE FOR YOUNG DESIGN
TO BE OFFERED COMMANDER
OF BATTLESHIP.

WASHINGTON, Nov. That
those opposed to the acceptance of
the silver service to be presented
to the battleship Utah in New York
next Monday plan to spring a sur
prise at the last minute was a
persistent rumor in naval circles
here yesterday All of the higher
officials of the navy have gone to
New York for the naval review,
and those left in authority here
profess to know nothing of such
a move.
Nevertheless rumor has it that
in some way an attempt is to be
made to force the acceptance Of
the substitute platter bearing the
figure of a woman instead of the
enc engraved with the likeness OF
Brigham Young.
How it is to be done is told in
various ways, but each reator re-
fuses to be quoted.
One version has it that at the
same time the Utah service is pre-
sented, the other platter will be
offered as substitute for the OBJ
jectionable piece. This presenta-
ton is to follow the other before
the commander of the Utah can
have time to voice his acceptance
of Utah's gift. The commander can
not refuse the second Offering, and
once accepted those opposed to the
Young piece will again carry the
matter to the secretary of the navy.
At the navy department it was
said that hot until after the serv-
ice had been presented to the com.
mander of the Utah could the ques-
ton of its acceptance or rejection
| by the United States government he
taken up by the secretary of. the
navy in an official manner. The
secretary Of the. navy will not BE-
bound by the action of the com
mander of the Utah, and while il
is generally believed that the com
mander's acceptance will be ratified
| by Secretary Meyer, the assurance
of those who have persistently op
posed the Young likeness suggests
that something is in the air.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-11-04

Iunrayeled yesterday, with the an
nouncement that Bissonnette had
been poisoned. Bissonnette died
suddenly week ago. after becom-
ing i'll at the home of the widow,
Mrs. Louise Vermilya, with whom
he boarded The examination of
his viscera showed arsenic in more
than sufficient quantity to cause
death.
Eight other deaths within the last
few years Of poisons related to or
closely associated with Mrs. Yer
milya were recalled by the police.
Smith died a year ago while a
boarder at her home
Mrs Vermilya, for the last few
days, has been under close police
guard at her home. According to
plan, she will be taken at once
70 police station, although her
physician declares she is seriously
ILL.,
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-11-04
WEST END STOCK
IS CERTAINLY A
GOOD PURCHASE

The Bonanza has received 81
letters in the past five days ask
ing information of the West End
Mining company about its known
holdings, width and length of ore
bodies, milling facilities, etc, and
would We advise buying the stock
Here is our answer to all inquiries:
West End owns twelve claims, eight
patented and four unpatented. Have
well defined ledges of good ore.
large ore bodies blocked out and
ready for the mill. The company
has new mill of 120-ton capacity
daily; at the present time is grind
ing out 100 tons each twenty-four
hours and will reach the 120-ton
limit as soon as the new machinery
runs smoothly and bars of bullion
are being sent to the refineries
twice month, and last but not
least, we consider the West End
| one of the best buys in Tonopah
and that the purchaser of this
stock can not lose his money. What
we have written to these people
asking for information is the
truth and no one can deny it.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-11-04
men
IN JURY BOX
OPPOSING COUNSEL IN NINA
MARA CASE CLASH AND
COURT INTERVENES.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4.-The
Mcnamara murder trial dangled for
hours yesteday cn the edge of a
jury completed as to cause.
With eleven men in the' box, op'
posing counsel wrangled over H. V.
Blenkiron, real estate dealer, VINO
might make the twelfth man, un-
til Judge Bordwell, reused from his
usual benignity, ordered them re-
peatedly to be quiet.
Talesman Byron Lisk, miller
from Pasadena, was accepted as
to cause by both sides, making the
eleventh man to be SO accepted.
Only one talesman was left out
side the box in the third venirt
drawn to try James B. McNamars
for the murder of Charles j. Has
gerty, a victim of the Los Angeles
Times explosion.
In the fourth panel summone'
to appear today, is the name o
Harry Chandler, son-in-law of H. G
Otis, publisher of the Times, an
himself vice president of the Times
Mirror company.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-11-04
LUNIBERAIAN
DIES VERY SUDDENLY

DOWNlEVILLE, Sierra County,
Nov. Al. r. Titus, millionaire
lumberman of Duluth, Mimi, who
came here a few days ago to look
at large timber holdings in this vi
cinity, died last night and his re-
mains have been taken to Grass
Valley to be embalmed. prepara-
tory to being shipped to his home
in the east While in the woods
Titus was seized with chill and
was taken to his room at the hotel
and Or. Muller of Nevada City was
summoned. He found Titus suffering
from severe attack of pneumonia
and spent the day and night with
him and left a trained nurse in
charge
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-11-04
PLAGUE FIGHTERS
HOLD A MEETING
AT BERKELEY
CHAS. l.. BIEDENBACH is THE
SPEAKER AT SESSION IN
MKINIiEY SCHOOL.

BERKELEY, Nov. A meeting
was held in the Mckinley school in
Berkeley last night under the aus
pices of the Alameda County So
ciety for the Study and Prevention
of tuberculosis. Charles l.. Bieden-
bach, principal of the school, made
a brief talk, and Dr. Gilliland, the
president of the board Of health OF
Berkeley, also spoke.
Dr. Edward Won Adelung, vice
president of the society, gave a lee,
ture on tuberculosis which was il
lustrated with stereopticon views.
This evening a lecture on tuber-
culosis will be given in the Wash
ington school in Berkeley under
the auspices of the Mothers club
of that school
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-11-04
TONOPAH COUPLE
KEPT MARRIAGE A
CLOSE SECRET

That some people can keep Il
secret and guard it well. is proven
in the marriage of two well-known
young people of Tonopah On Sep
tember 26, of this year, Mr. c.
w. Spencer, a popular young resi-
dent of our city, quietly and un-
assummingly boarded the south
bound train for Goldfield, and upon
arriving in that busy, but quiet,
little city was met by his ideal
lady in the person of Miss Alice
H. Smith, the charming stenographer
of w. D. Forster, general manager
of the Tonopah & Goldfield rail-
read, and who prior to going to
Goldfield to reside was official stem
ographer at the railroad Office in
Tonopah. The happy pair hied
| themselves to the Presbyterian
manse where the Rev. J. Creigh-
ton pronounced the solemn and
impressive words that made Miss
Smith and Mr. Spencer man and
wife. This vow the newlyweds
have kept inviolate until yesterday
when Mr. Spencer iourneyed tc
Goldfield and he and his wife were
so happy that they just couldn't
keep the secret any longer, ant
told it to all of their friends, ant
today their friends and acquaint
ances in both cities on the deser
are rejoicing and wishing then
untold happiness through life
journey.
Mr.. and Mrs Spencer will short
ly make Tonopah their home, Mr.
Spencer having accepted a position
with the Tonopah & Goldfeld rail
road in this city
The Bonanza extends congratula
) tions to the newly married coupl
land may JOY forever be theirs.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-11-04
NATHAN Hale"
At The BUTLER
SUNDAY night
HISTORICAL PICTURE ENTITLED
NATHAN HALE" WILL BE
PUT ON SUNDAY.

Sunday afternoon and evening at
the Butler theater Nathan Hale"
a great historic picture, by the Edi-
son Picture company, will be pre-
sented. This picture is as true a
Reproduction of the events in con-
nection with the death of Nathan
Hale as can be produced, and shows
all the views that we have read
about in history. Perhaps one of
the most startling and interesting
pictures ever seen is the last one,
where, just as he is being hung,
the picture desolves into his statue
now in Central Park, New York.
Across Polar Seas" is a scenic
picture of the far north.
Bell Ring of the Abbey" is a
| Pathe drama.
One on the Masher" is good
comedy
Scenes On United States War
ship Connecticut is picture of
life on board Uncle Sans vessels.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-11-04
URGES PROSECUTION OF
THE SLAYER OF HER son

RENO, Nev., Nov. Mrs. Otter
mother of William j. Otter who
was shot by Dr.. Eikner at Mason
some time ago, returned from Ma
son last night and continued on to
the coast this morning. She spent
some time in Mason seeing about
the prosecution of her sons slayer.
Eikner was out on $4,000 bail, but
the mother of the dead man COM
planned to the authorities and Elk
ner is at present in Jail as a
result. He will be held there pend
ing the time of his trial