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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
CRIMINAL NEWS.

Serious charges of attempting to
defraud the United States customs by
undervaluation of imports o%ccasioned
the arrest of two prominent importers
of Oriental goods in San Francisco
The prisoners are Carl J. Cutting, who
has a store lin that city. and w. A
Wilson of Oakland. who operates be-
tween San Francisco and Yokohama
as an importer and tea expert.
Mrs. Nellie Elmberg, a prominent
woman of Butte, Mont, treasurer OF
the First Church of Christ (Scientist)
of Butte, chose death by her own
hands in preference to facing her hus'
band with the consciousness that the
several hundred dollars savings which
he had placed in her hands for safe
keeping had been spent by her with
out his knowledge.
In a quarrel between Peter Mccain
of Rice Lake. Wis, and his son Wal
ter, aged nineteen years. the son shot
his father through the heart, killing
him instantly. The father had choked
his son and had torn. a shirt nearly
of the youth, when the latter broke
away, secured a revolver and shot.
The four members of the auditing
committee of the Washington Savings
bank of New York, one of the Robin
institutions which was recently closed,
were indicted IN a charge of perjury.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
THE DEATH RECORD.

Commander John F.TLuby of the pro-
tected cruiser Des Moines died on
board that vessel Jan. 8 in the vicinity
Of Cape Verde islands. The navy de-
partment was advised of Commander
Luby's death in q dispatch received
from the executive officer Of the Des
Moines.
DIR. Charles Kipp, known throughout
the country as a surgeon and author.
ity on diseases of the eye and ear, is
dead of pneumonia at Newark, N. j.
He was seyenty-three years old.
Charles j.. Hughes, Jr.. United States
senator from Colorado. is dead at
Denver after an illness extending over
several months. Death is believed to
have resulted from paralysis.
Father Hugh Crevier, one Of the
best known Catholic priests. Of Chiea.
60. is dead from cancer. He was rec
tor Of st Phillips high school.
Mrs. Aeles B. Quay, widow Of Sena-
tor Matthew Stanley Quay, who died
In 1904. Is dead ut her home near
Pitts5uIy.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
News Of the Week From vaTl-
Gus Parts Of the State.
SWIFT JUSTICE At FARGO
DefauItine County Treasurer Sent to
the State P%enitentiary for a
Term Of Five Years.

Was H. A. McConville of Fargo, the
county treasurer of Cass county, in
sane when he stole $500 of the coun-
t. funds? Two weeks ago he was an
honored citizen and the custodian of
the county funds; now he is an in
mate of q cell in the state peniten-
tiary.
His method was to take cash from
the drawer and put in a slip for the
amount. He kept a private memo
randum showing the amounts that he
lad taken. Despite the fact that he
knew exposure was imminent, he
made no effort to cover up his crime
or to escape.
He took $500, but could have fled
with 100000. It is a matter of as
constituent to his acquaintances that
he stole, but, having stolen, then can't
imagine why he stolidly remained at
his post instead of taking a larger sum
and fleeing.
Attorneys believe that if he had put
up a plea of insanity instead of plead
ing guilty he would have escaped in
stead of going to prison for five years
with a fine of $15, 1000 hanging over
him.
1t more recently developed that as
treasurer of the Sunday school funds
he was also short in his accounts. He
was a home loving man, thoroughly
devoted to his children. =
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
POLITICAL NEWS.

United States Senator Isaac Ste
phenson is charged with a number of
violations of the laws of Wisconsin
in a lengthy statement filed with Gov
ernor McGovern by the 1909 state SEN
ate committee in it's report on the in
vestigation of the primary campaign
and election of Senator Stephenson.
The committee recommends that a
copy of the report be submitted to the
United States senate and that body
investigate Mr.. Stephenson's election.
In spite of the bitterness of the late
Democratic senatorial campaign in
Ohio the victor, Lieutenant Governor
Pomerene, was elected to the United
States senate by the legislature. He
received the vote of every Democratic
member.
Davis Elkins, son of the late United
States Senator Stephen b. Elkins, has
been appointed to the vacancy caused
by the death of his father for the few
days pending the election of a senator
by the legislature.
At a joint caucus of Republicans of
the Wyoming legislature Senator c. D.
Clark was chosen, "A to 80. as the
nominee Of the party to succeed him
self.
Judge John d. Works formally was
declared elected United States sena-
tor from California at a joint session
of the senate.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
BENCH DISTRICTS AN ISSUE
North Dakota Readjustment Of Limits
Offers Problems.

There promises to be a number of
complications in the question of Great
ing new judicial districts, as a result
of the provision Of the constitution of
the state making it impossible to in
crease the number of districts oftener
than once in four years.
Four years ago the legislative as
sembly passed bills creating the Ninth
and Tenth judicial districts and to the
Ninth district thus created Governor
Burke named Judge Burr of Rugby.
Some time after the appointment
there was an action which resulted in
a decision by the supreme court that
the bills would not become effective
until Jan. /, 1908. Thus the place
held by the appointive Judges became
vacant and the. districts were not
created until two years after the en-
actment of the acts in question.
A point arising in connection with a
proposed redistricting of the judiciary
at this time is whether or not the four
year period in which the number Of
districts could be changed was inau.
gurated with the passage of the act Of
1907, or with the election of the judges
for the term beginning Jan. 1, 1903.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
FOREIGN NEWS.

It would cause no surprise II an
nouncement of the death of the
ina of Russia should be made any day.
The hope that the long stay of the
empress at Bad Mannheim would prove
of permanent benefit has been futile.
There was a temporary Improvement,
but her majesty's health failed rapidly
on her return to Russia and in court
circles it is no secret that she is in
worse condition than she ever has
been. Her ailment seems to be a
complete nervous breakdown, accom-,
panied by Authorizations.
Eighteen persons were killed and
twenty-four others wounded during
rioting at Bombay. AS usual the occa-
sion of the Muharram festival brought
about a clash between Sunnites and
the Shiahs and troops called out to re.
store order fired several volleys into
the mobs.
Forty persons were killed and five
injured when a landslide overwhelmed
a gang of laborers at Castro Urdiales,
Spain, bu7ying them all beneath a
mass of earth and rock.
A strike of sailors. affecting every
English port, is threatened. to begin
next May. It is the intention to make
the strike worldwide If possible.
Many fatalities were caused by an
explosion in a gunpowder factory at
San Martin. Argentina.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

Cut off from escape by flames which
barred the exit from the house three
little children, Gladys Roth, three
years old; Andrew Roth, Jr., two
years old, and Evelyn Roth. n year
old, were burned to death in a fire
which destroyed the cottage of An
drew Roth at Minneapolis. Mrs. Roth,
the twenty-three-year-old mother OF
the babies, is in the city hospital in a
serious condition as the result of an
heroic attempt to rescue the children
from the flames.
Three young women missing, four
persons severely burned and about a
dozen girls more or less seriously
burned, represent the known casual
ties attending an explosion and fire
which destroyed McCrory's Five and
Ten-Cent store at Connelsville. Pa.
with a property loss Of about $4,000.
Seventeen men were drowned in a
wreck Of three barges of the Reading
railroad off Provincetown, Mass, &C
cording to officers Of the three life
saving crews that made a frantic eff
fort to reach them. They declare
there were seven men on one barge
and five on each Of the other two.
In a collision between train No. 40
the Boston and Buffalo special, and
train No. % on the New York Central
railroad at Batavia, N. Y, four per
sons were killed and eighteen serious
ly injured, some of them perhaps ia
tally.
Fire of unknown origin. which start
ed in the annex Of the Iowa Contra
roundhouse at Marshalltown, Ia. cor
pletely destroyed the twenty-five stall
building lld most of the locomotives
in it. The loss is estimated at $500,
600.
Entailing a loss of more than 81,
900 Cincinnati sustained it's Secont
great fire within three weeks whel
the Chamber Of Commerce building
was destroyed. A dozen firemen were
injured.
Four persons were killed and three
| perhaps fatally injured in the explo
sion of the gas plant in a hotel a
Niohrara Neh
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20

solved, That William Lorimer was not
duly and legally elected to a seat in
the senate of the United States by the
legislature of the state of Illinois,"
Before the report was filed Senator
Lorimer made a brief speech declar'
ing his innocence of bribery and the
innocence of his friends of any par.
ticipation in corrupt practices in con
nection with his election.
The house of representatives has
passed the Sulloway general pension
bill, which grants pensions ranging
from SIP to $36 a month to all sol
diers who served ninety days in the
United States army in the Civil war,
or sixty days in the Mexican war, and
who have reached the age Of sixty-two
years.
In an exhaustive and specially pre-
pared speech Senator Crawford Is. d.
denounced the alleged methods en-.
ployed by agents of Senator Lorimer
in the Illinois legislature and declared
it his convection that Mr.. Lorimer was
not entitled to retain his seat in the
upper branch of congress.
Testimony before the house COM
mittee on naval affairs tended to show
that Captain Robert E. Peary had not
succeeded in getting closer than a
mile and a sixteenth of the North pole.
The house passed the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation
bill. carrying approximately $35,00O,-
mn
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
CONGRESSIONAL D0lNGs.

Another hot fight over the rules OF
the house has occurred. In ruling on
a rules resolution by Representative
Fuller of Illinois the speaker held that
the action taken by the house last
spring when his power was broken
after the famous battle over the Nor.
ris resolution was not a precedent
but a revolution" This defiance was
answered by an appeal from the deci'
sion of the chair and the house sus'
tanned the speaker by a vote Of 233 to
SO. The progressive Republicans voted
to ovcrrule the speaker, but got little
Democratic support.
The Bates bill providing for the ele-
walton of Captain Robert E. Peary to
the rank of rear admiral in recogni-
ton of his attainment Of the North
pole was reported favorably to the
house by the committee on naval af-
fairs. The vote of the committee was
unanimous, though Messrs. Roberts
and Macon, who have opposed Peary,
were not present.
Senator Gallinger Of New Hamp-
shire introduced a revised ocean mail
subsidy bill which eliminates from
present consideration all transpacific
lines and applies only to the establish
ment of ocean mail services on routes
to South America, south of the eQua.
tor-that is, to Brazil, Uruguay, Argen-
tina, Chile and Peru.
Senator Beveridge has submitted a
minority report in the Lorimer case,
declaring that this election was in
valid under any possible view of the
law. If the senate so concludes it is
our duty so to declare. Therefore
submit the following resolution: Re
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

An injunction restraining w. z.
of Indian affairs, from interfering with
the liquor traffic under the provisions
of the Indian cession treaty Of 1855,
was issued by Judge Willard of the
United States circuit court at Mime
apolis. The reasons given for the de-
cision are sweeping in their character.
If the decision holds there will be no
more of the federal Indian liquor Ad'
in Minnesota outside of the limits of
the actual Indian reservations.
The efforts of the indicted Chicago
meat packers to have criminal prose
cution against them nullified on the
ground that the government has elect
ed to proceed by injunction and the
only course open is to cite them for
contempt of court, came to nothing
when Judge Carpenter of the United
States district court at Chicago denied
the motion of the packers and or.
dered a stay of ten days in which to
enter further motions before pleading
to the indictments.
Splashe1 with the traditional bottle
of champagne the battleship Arkansas,
the largest warship ever constructed
in this country, was launched from the
yards of the New York Shipbuilding
company at Camden, N. J. Miss Mary
Macon, daughter of Representative
Robert b. Macon of Helena. Ark, was
the sponsor for the ship.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
NEWS OF WORLD
important Events Of the Week
in Condensed Form
NEWS Of NOTED PERSONS

Miss Giulia P. Morosini, heiress OF
most of the $1,000, 900 left by the late
Giovanni p. Morosini Of New York
and famous throughout the world as
the young woman who for years has
spent 500. 900 a year on her clothes,
eloped and was married to Arthur
Maurice Werner. The bridegroom is
an ex-policeman, formerly an honor
man" of the force and n of the four
original members of the traffic squad.
For several years he has been man
ager of the Morosini estate.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, the pioneer Kan.
sas saloon smasher, suffered a nervous
collapse in her home at Eureka
Springs, Ark. Her condition was such
that Mrs. Nation expressed the fear
that her career as temperance lecturer
and the active enemy of intoxicants is
ended.
George J.. Gould, the head of the
Gould family, will soon retire from
the presidency of the Missouri Pacific
Railway company, it was stated in
financial. circles, and will be succeed
ed by a representative of the Rockefel'
ler-Kuhn-Loeb interests.
Frank A. Gotch, the wrestler, and
Miss Gladys Oestrich, the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. r. F. Oestrich of Hum
boldt, Ia, were married by Rev. Hor'
ace d. Herr, pastor of the First Con.
gressional church of that city.
Governor Carroll. in his inaugural
address to the Iowa assembly, urged a
cessation of political and fractional
strife in the state
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
STATE IS BEING DEFRAvoED
Importation Of GIandered Horses Into
North Dakota.

Importation Of Glandered Horses Into
North Dakota.
The state of North Dakota is ex-
terminating glandered horses at a
very rapid rate, but, it is said, the
state is paying indemnity on animals
shipped here from neighboring states
by enterprising owners This is the
contention of state officials who have
interested themselves in the situation.
In the border counties this condition
would be most marked and in some of
them direct evidence is said to have
been found showing the horses or
dered killed by the state veterinarians
board, and for which killing the state
will pay the owner up to half of the
value of his animal, were imported.
There are certificates in the state
auditors Office calling for the payment
Of more than 100000 in indemnity,
while two years ago the amount was
$4,000, indicating some progress has
been made since the establishment
four years ago Of the board of veterin-
arians in the hands of which the cam
paign is waged. 1t will be for the
present legislative assembly to make
provision for the unpaid certificates
held by the state auditor.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
WASHINGTON NEWS.

President Taft sent to congress q
special message urging the fortifica'
ton of the Panama canal and recon-
mending that an appropriation Of S.,
900, OO0. for the initiation of the work
on the proposed defenses be made at
the present session of congress-. He
forwarded with the message the re-
port of the special army and navy
board recommending fertilization OF
the canal.
President Taft has decided that com
mander G.. S. Sims, the United States
naval officer who at a recent dinner
given in London by the mayor of that
city, declared that If Great Britain
ever was seriously threatened she
could depend on every man. every
dollar, every drop of blood" in this
country, should be publicly. reprimand.
ed.
In his opening argument before the
interstate commerce commission at
Washington Louis D. Brendeis of Bos.
ton, on behalf of the shippers of the
Atlantic seaboard, contended that the
present rates charged shippers are
ample, but that the expense of opera
ton is excessive and the management
unscientific.
Thousands Of records and docu-
ments in pension destroyed
in a fire which originated in the ONCE
Of the United States pension agency
in the pension bureau building. The
damage vas mostly done by smoke
and water.
One of the most vigorous and impress,
sive legal arguments ever presented
before the ssaprc.re court OF the Unit.
ell States was delivered bs Frank 3.
Kcsg@g {: Las government suit to dis.
solye tie S:.ndsrd Oil company.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
N ORGANIZE A cLuB
Will Work for the Betterment Of Land
Sales,

Will Work for the Betterment Of Land
Sales.
Farmers residing in Barnes county
gathered in the Commercial club.
rooms at Valley City recently to Or
ganize a farmers club, the object Of
which is to make the value of Barnes
county land 500 an acre. The or
ganization will endeavor to educate
oil land owners and tenants along the
lines of diversified, intensified or any
other methods of farming which will
bring enlarged returns and enhance
the values of land. An effort will be
made to secure township organizations
which will be branches of the general
club. One of the most important
functions of the club will be a cam
paign of education to secure greater
returns from the lands Of the county.
Fifty prominent bushes men and
farmers signed as charter members.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL

The number of passengers that came
to the United States via New York in
1910 as 1,1O4, 900. OF these 100000
came in the steerage and of this num-
Der 1t is estimated that over zoo, 900
were immigrants seeking homes in
this country or Canada. A majority
Of the immigrants embarked from.
Mediterranean ports.
. Molders and coremakers to the num-
Der Of $50 walked out ct the plant Of
the Northwestern Malleable Iron CON-
pany, striking against a reduction of
10 per cent in wages and In hours.
The entire plant, employing 1900 men,
has been made idle by the walkout.
james A. Farrell Of Brooklyn IL the
choice Of the, finance committee Of the
United States Steel corporation to sue
ceed William Ellis Corey a. prssldSnt
sof. the cosIoratiop.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
Telephone Company Prospers.

At the annual meeting Of the stock
holders of the Red River Valley Tele'
phone company in Buxton it was voted
to increase the capital stock from
500, 900 to 100000, and G. H. Tolan
was retained as superintendent. The
company reported 1890 patrons and
paid IL per cent dividend this year on
its old stock, besides keeping $3.50
for the reserve fund. M. F. Hegge OF
Hatton was elected president; liver
Thompson of Sherbroke vice presi-
dent, and j. G. Odegard of Northwood
secretary and treasurer.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
Man Found Frozen.

Dead so long his body was frozen
Jacob Olschlager, a single nan who
lived alone fifteen miles southwest of
Harvey, was found by neighbors
who had become aroused after not see.
ing a stir about his home for several
days. The was at. one sum.
moned from McClusky. and a post
norton examination revealed the fact
the deceased came to his death from
an attack of acute appendicitis.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
Laundrymen Complain.

The state railway commission held
q session at Fargo with laundrymen
of the state over the matter of ex-
press rates. The state laundrymen's
association was represented by mem.
bers of Wahpeton. Devils Lake, Fargo.
jamestown and Grand Forks. The
Northern, Great Northern and West
ern Express companies had attorneys
at the meeting looking after their in
terests. The laundrymen insist that
express rates are exorbitant.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
Freezes on His Way Home.

DR.. F. l.. Goodrich, an aged physi-
clan living five miles north of Fargo,
was found uncons cious in a snowbank
between the city and his home. He
had been in town and is supposed to
have become beMumbed and fallen
from his cutter. His horse went on
home and the family instituted a
search, but the man had lain in The
snowbank five hours before being
found. II he lives it is probable both
arms will have to be amputated.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
Rich Man Dies in Jail.

John Limiger, q wealthy farmer of
Binford, Griggs county, died in the
Fargo city jail. He was arrested
on q charge Of drunkenness and was
being held until his grandchildren ar
rived to care for him. He was at
tackled by heart failure. He had sew
eral thousand dollars worth Of grain
checks. He came to this state about
six years ago from Boone. Ia.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
Editor Gets. Venue Change.

District court convened at Medora
for the regular term with twenty
criminal and fifty civil cases on the
docket. Actions charging criminal
libel and assault with dangerous
weapons against J.. w. Brinton, the
editor Of the Golden Valley Chronicle,
were transferred to Morton county on
AMdayit Of prejudice. There is also
libel snit against Brint0n growing
out 81 the libel case which will be put
over the term, as Attorney Simpson
= = member Of the legislature now in
session.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
EXPLOSION At PEMBINA
One Man Dies Of Injuries and city's
Liuht Plant Is Damaged.

Light Plant Is Damaged.
Thrown against a building by, tie
force of the explosion of a tank Of
Pembina's acetylene gas plant Thomas
Lund died from his injuries. William
Hart, who was working by his side
escaped uninjured. The damage to
the plant amounts to $1,000.
The city had beer without carbide
for two days and the men were re-
pairing the machinery, using a gaso'
lene torch for soldering, when the
explosion occurred. The tank was
disconnected and was supposed to
have been free of gas. Lund leaves a
wife and three small children. His
remains viii be t.aken to Nepanee
Ont, for burial.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-01-20
W HAVE GRIEVANCE
Grain Men Desire Change in Grading
System.

System.
Grain grading on its value from
the milling point of view. care in the
placing of car weights inside of the
car, together with the establishment
of state terminal elevators in Duluth
and Minneapolis as the solution of
the evils declared to exist in the
present methods of inspection by the
Minnesota grain board, are points set
forth in the report of the grain COM
missioners of the state, H. o. Brown
and T. J.. Clifford, who have been To-
Gated in Minneapolis and Duluth for
two years.
Accurate chemical analysis and bak-
ing tests are the methods by which
the commissioners believe the grades
should be determined.