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Straight out from the breakwater Baldwin kept her
going,-sow, heavy, pounding work. And two
hours gone and no lghtship yeti He swung her about
ticklish feat and paraleed the beach to the north
and just off the beach, after hour that he
sped the distress signals two three yes and four big
torches.
THE countless white lumed riders charging by;
but straight for the drifting lights, straight down
the line of roaring troopers Baldwin paraded his little
Whist. And when he was near enough, well heave
you ne!" he hailed "And in Gods name get it; for
there maynt be a chance for a second one afore the
breakersI get you'll
Buddy! On deck with your line now7
All right, Badly" Harry turned to his working
mate. $50 long, Pete; see you later
$50 long. Son, and have that open deck"
Harry climbed the iron ladder to the deck shoudered
his way through the wind pressed door and on to the
deck, and started aft.
1t was cold. Under his thin suit of dungaree Harry
was rolling in sweat. The winter wind whipped him like
a cat o nine tails An overcoat peajacket would
have felt pretty good but his would not then be
so free to heave line. He crept aft cooled his heavng
line, and waited in the stern for the word She
jumping that to hold his feet her open icy after
deck he compelled hook hand to the towing
bits
"Only time for try; don't let nothing go wrong.
An watch for any of those big fellows comm aboard
Bud came Baldwin last warning.
IN Lghtship g. drifting broad to the breakers, all
~ hands perched high in her rigging, safe above
any stray seas; all but Nelson and Bowen, who
hanging to her weather rail forward
Bowen first to realize what the figure the after
end of the tug meant to them. "Heave for here. he
shouted and Nelson also awake to the situation held
up of the torches for a mark
Nearer and nearer butted the tug "Stand by!' they
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woke I'D to it he was gone looked out. The was
still rolling up to the clouds sticks my head out the
window to cool it. and to myself says, If there was
only somebody else in this watch could take five
the way felt about it. Yes Sir if it wasn't for you
fellus behind and good old Pete below believe I'd let
everything go. Yes, Sir, Government property or no.
I'd let the old Whist roll up the beach and been
glad to roll up with her. And Bud Baldwin came
suddenly to full STOP and stared out to sea. After
time he turned to Bowen "You him go?"
a did And that time grabbed for him and he went
he said It's all right Just that when the sea washed
over him. and when he up again 1t was as though
he thought ddn understand and he waved one arm.
1t was like he saying Goodby! the way he did 1T.
Yes he was all right-Harty."
"You betcher he all right-an more than all
right An FIR that its poor specimen that am all
right when it comes to a showdown. I've known Bud
can't remember when didn't know Bud Harty. And,
Bowen, he was better man than you or me- Bud al
WAYS let YOU the worst of himself; but you had to
guess at the best of him. And he could hate man;
but Son. he could like you lot better than ever he
hated you"
The two men sat and looked out to in silence At
last Baldwin, with heavy SIGH stood up, and, reaching
into locker brought forth bottle and two glasses.
Il spose we oughter try to forget it for awhile This
stuff here it's against regulations havn it aboard but
lots of things against regulations that never hurt
ANYBODY 1t against regulations our tahn out the
Whist last night and when the Commandments back l
reckon III get mine This here, he laid forenger on
his rating badge, "and we've been shipmates for
fifteen years. that is off and on-mostly or An
reckon I'm due be detached again But let that pass
You don't mind being disrated after you get used to it.
But YOU an me an Bud wasn't the best OF friends since
we'll YOU know when; but you re goln to drink Tor
him now the toast he wouldn't drink last night but the
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leaned far over the lightship's rail.
Nothing there. He called to Nelson
for the torch, and Nelson let it flare
out over the water.
Then Bowen saw him. Almost
under the bow of the lightShip he
was, and the big torch was throwing
a light like blood on his face.
ut is him. cried Bowen.
What iss?" demanded the puz-
zled Nelson, and then under the
light he too saw the face in the toss
ing waters.
Bowen, with lifeline under his
arms. plunged overheard. But he
fell short He heard sound as of
a mans voice smothering, saw a
hand raised and lowered, and then
into the tossing blackness the lone
figure was swept.
Nelson hauled Bowen aboard.
When he found strength to breathe,
he said:
God, Ne1sonl 1t was Harty!"
"Harty, wass it? l don't know
him; but he was one goot man."
THE big hawser strained and
groaned, chocks and bits
crooned their song of stress, the wind
whistled its dirge. while out from the
breakers the Whist hauled her tow.
At the wheel of the tug, Baldwin
glanced ahead and behind, pointed
her nose for the breakwater, gave
her four bells and the jingle, put his
mouth to the tube, and answered,
ayes, Pete, that's right twas Bud
went. And now it, up to you, Son.
Keep steam on her, and if the hawser
holds and nothing else happens she
oughter to stagger home"
Nothing more happened, and the
Whist staggered home. The morning
light saw her safe in the navy yard
with the lightship moored alongside.
Bowen stepped from the lightship
to the tug. Up in the pilothouse he
found Baldwin. The sailor was star
ing through window out to sea.
Bowen waited.
Baldwin turned inboard at last.
Il s'pose you're wonderin' how we
knew. Well, twas Bud passed me
the word, and more than that twas
Bud broke me out of as promisin'
little game as ever man sat into.
Chips? Enough to fill my service cap
afore me, and not all white chips
either! And he comes along, and
just the same as yanks me up by
the collar an says, You got to go!'
and l had to. And of course where
| 60 Pete goes.
aAnd a game thing, Baldwin.
"Game nothing! It's our trade
Pete's and mine. But it wasn't
Buds. But he was bound to 60.
And he went under, and when
vas gone. l looked out. The sea was
the clouds. sticks my head out the
and to myself 1 says, If there was
;e in this watch so | could take five
here and lie down and cry!' That's
ut it. Yes, Sir, if it wasn't for you
good old Pete below, believe I'd let
es, Sir, Government property or no,
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WateTtrOnt-and volunteers they q
come a running. Bud, from every
joint and dancehall-enough to run
a battleship, in no time. yes, Sir.
Why, Bud, even that squash head
of a piano player would a come if
we'd ast him."
"H-m-m-you surely think well
of people, Badly
"No more strain than to think bad
of EN-. But what'd be the use? Us
two an old Pete, who's sleepin
aboard, en- run her, Bud.
And they had put out in the
Whist. and now down in the COM
bined engine and fireroom of her
were HARRY and old Pete toiling to
keep steam up. A notorious little
craft, the Whist, one of those
legacies that sometimes fall to the
service,-the department always
going to fix her up, and always
putting it off until the next appro-
priation. Her old boilers leaked,
and in a seaway her old seams
gaped, and, what between keeping
steam up and her bilge pumped out,
Harty and Pete could hardly find
time to brace their feet whenever
she attempted, as she did every
fifteen seconds, to heave them across
the floor.
At the wheel of the Whist was
Baldwin, and with every dive of the
plunging Whist the spray scattered
high above her bows and through
the open windows of the pilothouse
it came in barrels, and not spoon
full of it, to Baldwin's thinking, that
didn't 60 to his drenching.
"But it's a good thing to get good
an wet at first" he also reflected.
"Then you won't be worryin' any
more about it.
1t was not only wet, but cold.
But naturally, too, when you're a
wrecking to sea of a cold winters
night you've just got to expect a
few little discomforts.
The ancient Whist rolled down,
down, down, and jumped up, up,
up; but mostly she went down, and
while she was down the swoOping
seas piled over her. However, all
right so far: an hour now since
she had left the breakwater, and
there she was still afoat. No telling
always about those wheezy little
wrecks of tugs. Baldwin looked out
and back toward her stern, almost
with pride. Going since the Civil
War, she'd been, and still afloat.
Must have been some little original
virtues in her planks that pleased
old Neptune, and so he passed her
up. Maybe she'd never been caught
in the open seas on night like
this-well, maybe not; but you
betcher she wasn't afraid of it.
Straight out from the breakwatel
going,-slow, heavy. pounding wor
hours gone. and no lightship yet! H
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Morris tribune., 1911-02-10
BALL|NGER CASE
BACK TO HOUSE
Agriculture Committee Returns
Three Reports. 49,

Washington, Feb. 3.--By unapi-
nous vote of the committee on agri-
culture the house was requested to
discharge that committee from further
consideration of the report of the in
yestigating committee on the Balm
ger-PinchOt case.
! The committee held that it has not
jurisdiction over areport made by an
other committee or commission Gre
ated by act of congress.
The three reports on the Ballinger~
Pinchot case, one generating Mr. Bal
lingef of any wrongdoing,, another
recommending his dismissal from the
cabinet and the third severely arraign-
ing his administration of the interior
department. thus go back to the house
and take their place on. the calendar
Opponents Of: Mr.. Ballinger are thus
placed in position to air the case in
the house r'"%
=, 1t is the purpose of Representative
Madison, the Kansas progressive, and
the Democratic members of the COM
,mittee to. insist. that, action shall. be
taken on the case. by the house
Whether they will be able to press it
to a vote remains to be developed.
Morris tribune., 1911-02-10
Citation for Hearing on Final
Account and for Distribution.
Estate of William Moorcr

Estate of William Moorcroft
State of Minnesota, County of Stevens,
in probate court.
In the matter of the estate of William
Moorcroft, Decedept.
The State of Minnesota to James III.
Moorcroft Nettie Lowery, Alice Moorcr0ft.
Elizabeth Moorcroft and George w. Moor
croft, and all persons interested in the
final account and distribution of the es-
tate of said decedent:
The representative of the above
named decedent, having filed in this
court his final account of the
administration of the estate of said deced-
ent, together with his petition praying
for the adjustment and allowance of said
final account and for distribution of the
residue Of said estate to the persons there
unto entitled; therefore, you, and each
of you, are hereby cited and required to
show cause, if any you have, before this
court, at the probate court rooms in the
court house, in the city of Norris, in the
county of Stevens, state of Minnesota, on
the 9th day of February, 1911, at 10 o'clock
A. NJ, why said petition should not be
granted
Witness the Judge of said court and the
seal of said court, this End day of Febru-
airy, 1911.
(SeaD A. L. STENGER,
Probate Judge.
GEO. w. BEISE.
Attorney for Petitioner.
Morris tribune., 1911-02-10
KING AND QUEEN ATTEND
Imposing Ceremony Marks Opening of
British Parliament.

London, Feb. 1.-THE formal open
ing of the new parliament was marked
by gorgeous ceremony and was at
tended by King George and Queen
Mary and their suites, most of the
dignitaries of the empire, many mem
bers of the diplomatic corps and all
others who could crowd within the
doors of Westminster. The speech
from the throne was brief and formal
and made small reference to the great
issues that underlie the assembling
of the members for the present SEES
sion
Both Lord LansdoWne, in the house
of lords, and A. J. Balfour, in the
house of commons, the respective
leaders of the opposition, took occa-
sion to denounce the reciprocity agree
ment between the United States and
Canada, but the evening session of
parliament was mainly devoted to
getting the legislative ship under way.
Morris tribune., 1911-02-10
Estate of Philip Daubenberger.

State of Minnesota, County of Stevens.
In Probate Court,
In the matter Of the Estate of Philip
Daubenberger.
The State Of Minnesota to Martha Dau-
benberger, H. A. Daubenberger, E. ".
Daubenberger, Vim. Daubenbenge Della
Daubenberger. F. X. Putnam as admins
traitor of said estate, and all persons in
terested in the sale and conveyance of
certain lands belonging to said estate.
The petition of O'Brien Land Company,
setting forth that certain lands belonging
to the estate of said Philip Daubenberger
deCedent, anddeScribed' in said petition
should be. conveyed to- said petitioner
pursuant to a contract entered into tor
the sale of said lands to said petitioner by
the said Philip Daubenberger by his
guardian, F! r. Putnam, prior to the de-
cease of said Philip Daubenberger; and
praying that this Court make its order
directing the administrator of said estate
to convey said land to said petitioner.
. Now, therefore, you, and each of you,
are hereby cited and required to show
cause, if any you have, before this court,
at the probate court rooms, in the court
house in the city of Morris, County of
Stevens, State of Minnesota. on the 9Th
day OF. March, 1911, at o'clock p. M, why
the prayer of said petition should not be
granted. -, - -, ~ ~
Witness, The Judge of said Court, and
the seal of said Court, this 9th day of
February, 1911 49,.
Court SeaD A. L. STENGER,
Judge of Probate Court.
Morris tribune., 1911-02-10
Order Limiting Time to File
= Claims, and for Hearing
Thereon.
Estate of Herman Zahd

State of Minnesota, county of Stevens.
in Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Herman
Zahl, decedent.
Letters testamentary this day having
been granted to Robert Lahl and Matt
Ehlen,
1t is ordered. that the time within which
all creditors of the above named dece-
dent may present claims against his es-
by is, limited to three months from and
after the date hereof; and that Monday the
1st day of May, 1911, at 10 O'Clock a.
M. in the probate court rooms at the court
house at City of Morris in said County Coz
pointed as the time and place for hearing
upon and the examination, adjustment
and allowance of such claims as shall be
presented within the time aforesaid.
Let notice hereof be given by the pub
LEGATION of this order in the Morris Tri-
bune, a weekly newspaper printed and
published in said county, as provided by
law.
Dated January 23rd 1911.
probate Court SeaD A. L. STRNGER,
Judge of Probate.
Morris tribune., 1911-02-10
Citation for Hearing on Petition
for Administration.
Estate of Ann Spain

State of Minnesota, Coun ty of Stevens
in Probate Court. -,
In the matter of the Estate of Ann
Spain, decedert.
TIE State of Minnesota to: Nellie NJ.
Flaherty, Annie B. Hawkinson and Will
liam Spain and all persons interested in
the granting of administration of the eS-
tate of said decedent: The petition of
Nellie NJ. Flaherty and Annie B. Hawkin-
son, having been filed in this court, repre-
senting that Ann Spain then a resident of
the county of Stevens, State of Minnesota
died interstate OH the 18th day of January
1911, and praying that letters of admin istra-
ton of her estate be granted to Sheridan
FIlaherty, and the, court having fixed the
time and place for hearing said petition;
Therefore, you, and each of you. are
hereby cited and required to show cause,
if any you have, before this Court, at the
probate court rooms, in the Court House,
in the City of Morris, County of Stevens,
State of Minnesota, on the Goth day of
February. 1911, at 10 O'Clock a. m" why
said petition should not be granted.
Witness, the Judge OF said court. and
the seal of said court, this 23rd day of
January, 1911.
Court SeaD A. L. STENGER,
Probate Judge
Morris tribune., 1911-02-10

on the long line and on the people
who do shipping at stations at inter.
mediate points on the long line AS
it is now the long line is allowed to
meet the rates on the short line. I'm
der a rigid distance tariff law this
could not be done. For instance, there
are two roads between Minneapolis
neapolis and st. Louis road is eighty
eight miles. The distance by the Chi
cago and Northwestern railway is LOT
miles. It is plain that on purely
mileage basis the Chicago and North
western railway could not compete
with the Minneapolis and ST. Louis at
Waseca. So far as traffic between
those points is concerned the Chicago
and Northwestern railway: would be
driven out of business The rates at
intermediate points at no greater dis
lance from Minneapolis in a straight
line; On the Chicago and Northwestern
would necessarily be greater than the
rates at intermediate points on the
Minneapolis and St. Louis and, with
the same maximum tariff, higher than
they are now.
+ 1. i =.
The point Mr.. eastman makes 10
this case is that Waseca need not nee
essarily do all it's business with Min
neapolis. Under fair rates Mankato,
which Is in direct line over the
Northwestern, could compete with the
Twin Cities. 1t is his contention that
at practically every station In the state
where the greater distance would shut
out trade to the Twin Cities it would
be of corresponding advantage to
some interior jobbing point and thus
have tendency to build up business
IN the smaller cities While this is
doubtless to great extent true it does
mot entirely overcome the objections
to an inflexible distance tariff and, so
lar as one can judge, the general opin-
ion seems to be, except on the part of
those bent at all hazards on maintain.
ing the present determinations in ia
r.of the Twin Cities, who would op-
pose any tariff based on mileage, that
the bill might prove of advantage if it
Morris tribune., 1911-02-10
Citation for Hearing on Petition
to: Sell, Mortgage or Lease
Land.
Estate of Philip Daubenberger.

Estate of Philip Daubenberger.
State of Minnesota, County of Stevens.
! in Probate Court
In the matter of the Estate of Philip
The State of Minnesota to Martha
Daubenberger, III. A. Daubenberger, E. V.
Daubenberger, VIM. Daubenberger and
Della Daubenberger, and all persons in
terested in the sale of certain lands be-
The petition of F. II. Putnam as repre-
sentative of the above named estate, be-
ing duly fled in this court, represents
ing that 1t is necessary and for the best
interests of said estate and of all inter
ested therein that certain lands of said
estate described therein be sold
and praying athats license be to him
granted to sell the same:
Now therefore you, and each of you. are
hereby cited and required to show cause
IT any you have before this court at the
probate court rooms, in the court house in
the City of Norris, County of Stew
ems, State of Minnesota, on the 9Th day
OF March 1911, at 2 O'clock p NJ, why
the prayer OF said petition should not be
Witness. the Judge of said court. and the
seal OF said court, this 9th day of February
Court SeaD A L. STENGER
GEO. w. BETSE,
Attorney for petitioner.
Morris tribune., 1911-02-10
GeIatine Powder House Blows
Up at Ishpeming, Mich
BODIES BLOWN TO ATOMS
Every Occupant of the Structure
Meets Instant Death When
Disaster Occurs.

Marquette, Mich, Feb. TN one of
the most disastrous explosions ever re-
corded in Upper Michigan ten men
met instant death at the plant of the
Pluto Powder company, in the out
skirts of Ishpeming Another man was
injured The bodies of the dead were
blown to pieces. .-
The dead were: Michael O'Connor,
Robert Askew, Edward Woodward,
George Woodward, Thomas Ripper,
Joseph Ripper, Charles Kemp, Justin
Jordan, George Wallberg and Andrew
Matson.
The one injured employee is Fred
Harris, a teamster, who was thrown
to the ground by the force of the
shock and was slightly hurt.
The explosion took place in the gela-
tine powder house. Every man in this
building was blown to pieces.
What caused the explosion will new
er be known. Gelatine powder is
largely composed of nitroglycerin and
it is supposed that the mixture was
being stirred in the big crucible within
the house when it exploded.
Havoc Might Have Been Greater.
About 1000 pounds exploded. Only
twenty minutes before the disaster
5000 pounds Of the explosive had been
removed, otherwise the havoc would
have been much greater. AS it was
the plant was little damaged and the
shock felt in Ishpeming was hardly
perceptible Windows at Winthrop,
mile away, however, were broken.
Immediately on the reverberations
of the explosion the men employed in
the other buildings poured out into
the open air to learn what part of the
plant had been blown up.
They fastened to the scene of the
explosion and where the gelatine
building had stood and found stretch
of bare ground and the timbers splin-
tered into sliyers and scattered over
wide area. Only a few fragments of
the bodies have yet been recovered.
The property loss is comparatively
trifling, compared with the loss of life,
amounting to probably less than
$4,000
Morris tribune., 1911-02-10
MEXICAN BATTLE.
LIKE FRENCH DUEL
Many Shots Fired but No One
Is Even Injured.

Ell Paso, Tex, Feb. S.-The first bat
tie of Juarez between federal troops
and insurreotionists was exhibited
here. Exhibited" is the proper word
for no one was hurt on either side and
the exhibition" was viewed by a
thousand or more Ell Pasoans who
lined the bank of the Rio Grande on
the American side about three miles
west of here.
The exchange of missiles occupied
about fifteen minutes, in which about
200 shots were fired According to
Pascual Orozco, leader of the insur-
rectos, his men fired only fifty of
these. He declared the federals got
away so fast they were out of range
before more could be fired at them.
Morris tribune., 1911-02-10
eastman BILL IS
MUCH DISCUSSED
Distance Tariff Measure Subject
Of A5sorbing Interest
OPP0'YiE. rs MAKING HARDFIGHT
DecIare Such a Law Would Be Unfair
to Lc1gcr Line of Railroad at
Competitive Points.
OPP0YiTT. IS MAKING HARDFIGHT

St. Paw. Feb. 6.-The eastman dis
lance t>.rt.l bill has been subject of
absorbing interest during the past
week Generally it is little understood;
yet its. underlying principle is simple
aid its Jyuyisions' are plain. Under
1t raiIrOui rates in Minnesota would
be UntU. IL for equal distances. The
rate is not so much a mile for any
given class Of freight. The shorter
tie distance the higher the mile rate
and the LONGER the distance the lower
the mile rate. But for any given dis
lance the rate would be the same on
any given class of freight on all roads
and to and from all points. Thus it
would cost The same to haul a carload
of grain OF of coal a hundred miles
whether it were handled between Du-
luth and st. Paul, between Mankato
and St Cloud. Or between Duluth and
Fergus Falls There would be no dis
criminatiO2 as between localities or as
between slippers.
=. - :. r
Although the opposition to the bill
is very active, especially among the
milleTs. manufacturers and jobbers of
the Twin ties and on the part of the
railroads themselves, and although the
bill has leen bitterly attacked, the
public argument against it has been
confined up to this time largely to a
single point. The unfairness Of the
alleged railroad discrimination in IA
vor of the Twin Cities as at present
practiced has not been defended. The
one point that is insisted upon, and it
Is a strong one, is that such a law
would make railroad competition i'm
possible and work hardship. where
there are two railroad lines of unequal
length between any two given points,
Morris tribune., 1911-02-10
CHICAGO Live Stock.

Chicago, Feb 7.-Cattle-Beeves,
$4.90@6.SO; Texas steers, $4.1o@5.35;
Western steers, $4.40@560; stockers
and feeders, $3.S0@5.S0; cows and
heifers, s26O@5.SO; calves, $650@s.-
%. Hogs-Light, $7.60@7,S5; mixed,
$725@7s0; heavy, $7.20@7.7O; rough,
$7.20@7.40; good to choice heavy, ST.
40@770; pigs, $760@7.s5, Sheep
Native, $250@4.40; yearhI gs, $500
$50; lambs, $4.25@6.25.
Morris tribune., 1911-02-10
Fishing Village Adrift.

Helsingfors, Finland, Feb. 6.-An
entire fishing village of 253 men which
had been established on the ice out
side of Bjorko sound was carried out
to sea in a gale. The disaster was
not discovered until the village was
already out OF sight. Boats have been
sent to the rescue, but have not yet
returned.