Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-03-08

CApIcSS TRAM INO. Id O0 lu0 1LT40 Tall"
road while 1t was running at top
speed between New York and Chica.
go IS being investigated by secret
service men Of the Wells-Fargo Elk
press company. which operates the ex-
press service on that railroad.
The vast fortune left by Winfield
Scott Stratton. the Colorado mining
king. is claimed by woman, who
says Stratton married her in Texas
81 years ago, took $4,000 Of her
money and disappeared. "
No less q sartorial authority than
President Taft has introduced the lat
est in red neckwear. The chief execu-
tive recently appeared with q tie Of
more gorgeous hue than Champ
Clark's.
The immense holdings of the Colo
RADIO Fuel & Iron company In Las
Animas county. Colorado, are attacked
IN suit filed by Attorney General
Wickersham in the federal court here.
About $500 acres Of the most valu.
able coal lands in the state, estimated
to be worth 100000, are involved.
Supposed to have been caused by
the explosion Of a lamp. fire burned
two houses at Oneida. Pa, occupied by
Gabriel Gerotsky and Michael Slovak.
and five members of the Gerotsky
family lost their lives.
Hymns sung into a photograph by
William Henry Taxon Of Ovid, Mich.
two years ago, when he was eighty
eight years old. were heard by the
mourners at his funeral.
Using plain city water as an anaes-
thetic, DR.. Joseph F. Saphir. attending
surgeon Of the Peoples hospital, in
New York, has performed more than
q hundred operations recently.
Aroused from their sleep by shouts
Of fire, 30 guests at the Central house,
Berlin, N. H., made hasty escapes by
stairway and ladder, leaving most Of
their clothing and valuables behind.
There will be no appeal by western
roads from the decision of the inter-
state commerce commission denying
them the right to increase freight
rates, while the eastern. lines, in all
probability, will fight ito the last
ditch" That is the essence of state
ments made by several well-informed
railroad officials in Chicago.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Prouty says that If the railroads do not
obey the law as laid down by the COM
mission they must pass into the hands
Of the government, as government
ownership has no terrors for the COM
mission.
The remains of the last four of If
teen victims who lost their lives in a
fire In the Belmont mine, near Tono-
pah, New, were brought out through a
new shaft and were most frightfully
mutilated. They were taken from
the. bottom of the mine which is 1876
feet deep.
When the Van Buren, county circuit
court convened at Clinton, Ark, for
it's eighty-eighth consecutive term A.
Callen, ninety years old, made appli-
cation for admission to the bar. Mr..
Callen showed license signed by the
supreme court of Kansas dated 1884
and was admitted without examina-
ton.
Failure of the West Virginia legis-
lature which adjourned after an all
night session to pass statewide
primary election law will result in the
calling Of an extra session Of that
body to consider such law.
The safe In the post Office at Grid
ley, ILL.,. was blown open, but the ex.
plosion aroused the town and the
yeggmen were frightened away before
securing anything.
Sporting
Johnny Coulon won the decision
over frankie Conley at New Orleans at
the end of the twentieth round. thus
retaining tho title Of bantam weight
champion.
Personal
John Hays Hammond has been Sc
lected to represent President Taft as
special ambassador at the coronation
of King George v.
William G.. Irwin, father of Miss
Helen Irwin, who was married to TEN.
pleton Croker at San Francisco, pre-.