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Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-09-21
HARVEST HOME FESTIVAL

Sunday harvest home festival
was celebrated at the NJ. E. church.
In preparation for the event tables
and shelves were placed in the front
of the church and a display of the
field products of the county was ar
ranged. The exhibit consisted of
fruit in great variety, vegetables,
corn, grain, flowers and canned fruit
and jellies. The arrangement of the
display was very tasteful as was also
the decorations that were placed all
over the room.
The morning exercises consisted
of special music by the choir and
the male quartette and sermon by
the pastor. Mr.. Rowden spoke from
the text "And Jesus Said Unto His
Deciples Truly the Harvest is Plen-
teous'." 1t was a harvest sermon
of gratitude for the plenty of the
season and all the blessings that are
given US.
Monday evening the ladies served
supper in the basement dining room
to a large number of people. After
the bounteful supper was partially
cleared away Auctioneer Berry
mounted chair and proceeded to
sell the articles shown in the exhibit
At times the bidding was very lively
and everything offered was sold al
good prices. The total proceeds
from the sale and supper amounted
to $500 which will be added te
the church improvement fund. The
affair was very successfully carried
out and reflects much credit or
Pastor and Mrs. Rowden.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-09-21

81 have world of confidence in
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for
have used it with perfect success. +"
writs Mrs. M. l. Basford, Poolesville,
Md. For sale by II. j. Pier.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-08
The Inconsistencies
OF a Prime Minister

MS "reminiscences of George Hapers April Mr. T.
nslHs
guests ~ anu hi"i9'lOns were frequent
Du Maurier well accomplished singer and
INTO friendship with those Who by
aheconae
the H.
the Fory detached
he Sunday
quatre sous to the delight people
be
Sunday afternoon
Court of
denied admitance
and only remember lie
called his
Academy
English school
had
al added
rong the galleries.
the Prime Minister
wall
a of in
about
helsh in
Commons Mr. Gladstone could
heish'
Huxley
had
would
thinks"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-08

On one occasion Sir William 5
Gilbert went to the theater for the
express purpose of encouraging a
young actor who had shown signs NJ
nervousness in a new part in one OF
the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.
When the promising young man made
his exit into the wings, perspiration
was streaming, rivuleting, and guliing
down his face. Sir William looked
at him a moment and said in tones
of intense admiration; How wei
your skin acts"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-08
INVENTORY FILED OF THE
ANNA sPREcKELs EsTHT

SAN FRANCISCO, June 3O.-The
formal appraisement of the estate of
the late Anna c. Spreckels, filed with
the probate department of the super
ior court yesterday, shows that the
decedent left property, aside from that
standing in the name of the Anna c.
Spreckes Company, valued at $685.
.35S.75. Mrs. Spreckels' interest in the
Claus Spreckels estate, valued at 3d.
370,8S4, is not included in the inyen.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-08

gave him little whistle that he
and other house detectives of hotels
understand, and he cooked his ears
and looked my way. The doll there
upon picked up her dear little toots-
les and beat it as fast as they'd
carry her to the steps of the Fifth
avenue bus, which luckily for her
happened to be halted just then at
the curb. SO | got out of the mess
with a whole skin. But | had a dem
onstration of how perfectly simple
and effective the scheme was in or
binary circumstances without the in
tervention of any such a miracle as
the. timely appearance of a house
detective in a doorway.
AS to this stick-up scheme, by the
way, there was another plan operated
/ here with great success some years
ago by a big, handsome, overopI-
lently heshed blonde woman, who
also made Fifth avenue her stamp
ing ground, Her hold-up game con
sisted of the same preliminaries as
those described, except that she was
going to have him pinched for being
her runaway husband unless be
came over with the price, which she
usually fixed at anything from $40 tc
$50, according to the looks of hel
man. Shed frankly tell him that she
knew perfectly we'll that he WASH
her runaway husband, but that sh,
could always say, after having hin
arrested, that she'd made a mistak
owing to his wondrously close re
Esemblance to he r recreant spouse
that her word was and would be a
good as his in a police court; tina
she had drag in the police court
anyhow, and so on.
This, too, was winner virtual
: every time. The stuckup male coul
see himself logged off to the cali
= boose by an unsympathetic cop an
hailed before a gloomy-eyed magi
trate, and then he would preigul
r how it would be remorsely up to hil
to square himself and to prove thu
! he was not any such thing as II
l accusing blondes renegade mat
\ Also he could picture himself, eve
e after being discharged from custod
e getting the long. low rakish haw ha
/. from his buddies and acquaintance
g not to say the singing suspicion
n eye of the really-and-truly wife, if
be as he happened to be united
the holy bonds of wedlock; and
on each and every occasion the mi
It thus pinned to the stanchion by Il
e blowsy blonde drew his loose n
? into the kale pocket and produc
J. without an audible whee2e. She, tC
n Big Bills Child" as the crooks sa
o that is, Big Bill drove her out
d town and she made for Chicago.
I CLARENCE L. CULLEN,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-08

NEW YORK, June 23.-Of late
there has been a great TODD over
here about the street Washers. That
tribe has increased prodigiously dur
ing recent years. Most of them, it is
fair to say, are males of foreign
birth. The native-born American
very rarely is masher. This is not
to say that his inclination for that
sort of thing may not be quite as
strong as the foreigners, but per-
haps he is actuated, in refraininS
from MASKING, by more caution coo-
| pied with a better knowledge OF the
! American laws and ordinances for
the protection Of women, and more
particularly of the way such things
are looked upon by honest folk in
this country.
There are two sides 70 this masher
business. Magistrate McAdoo voiced
the other side of it the other day
| when he said:
81 am going to send every justly
convicted masher to Jail. But l am
| going to be very careful to see that
these men are fairly heard and tried.
To convict offhand every man arrest
ed on this charge on the complaint
of a woman would put too danger
Gus a weapon of revenge into the
hands of INSCRIPTIONS and vindict-
i've women of whom, unfortunately,
there are too many in all communl-
ties like New York. l have seen
thoroughly respectable men hailed be-
fore magistrates on the charge OF
mashing-men wholly incapable Of
engaging in that sort of thing-and
investigation of these cases has al
ways shown that the charges were
preferred by women who sought only
to get even with these men for
Sights or fancied sights. No case
of that kind will get by me. The
bona-fide masher will get no mercy
here; but the man arrested on G
trumped-up charge of that kind VIII
R6I every DlOIGNllOll ASiN Nhiet' :" 49,
hearing can give him."
Which was a pretty sensible little
piece of talk out of the mouth q
Magistrate McAdoo. The under
signed has as little use for the sure
3 enough masher as he has for tht
large-paunched Norwegian rats tina
infest the downtown Chicago streets
during the dark watches O. nights
He has, in fact. cheerfully submitted
to the inconvenience of appearing
Y against no less than three honest
Injun Washers.
n But it is highly desirable and nee
essary and, finally, just, to be dea'
G right about your masher. You wan
to know, that is, that he is a mashei
% not merely a man accused of mash
ing.
Some years ago there were a nun
Der of singularly audacious girls an
women in this town who derived
highly plethoric income from threa
enlng to have perfectly on-the-leve
men pinched for alleged mashin'
No less q police chief than Bill De-
- cry ran them out of town by tn
Blackwell's Island route. These pr,
fessionals haven't reappeared; bu
there is reason to suppose thu
there are plenty of women still lei
here who frame up jobs to have me
against whom they have grudges a
rested on the MASKING charge
One of these professional stick-u
girls of whom l write used to ope
I ate in the neighborhood of the FIT
avenue hotels. She was a petit
black-eyed, pretty creature, with
babyish mouth and the most indu
ate nerve imaginable. Her dress
only reached her shoetops-thoua
she was older than all that came
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-08

tory. A claim against the Claus
Spreckels estate appraised at $54,SOS
is, however, included. OF the other
amounts, $4,000 is in cash, the rest
being stock, bonds, jewels and house
hold furniture at the Spreckels man.
sion on Van Ness avenue.
The appraisement was made by
William A. Magee, Joseph c. Hooper
and G. A. Berton.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-08

Your grocer carries Swastika
Royal Sodas, manufactured by the
American Biscuit Company.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-09-07
pictures.
SLASHES DEPUTY WARDEN
Convict Subdued After Fight ir
Prison.

While being reprimanded at the
state prison at Bismarck by Deputy
Warden Gray a negro convict named
Simpson, from Cass county, serving
a tWenty-year sentence on the charge
of murder, pulled out a razor-edged
knife which he had concealed in his
clothes and slashed the deputy repeat
eddy on the arm.
Guard Mason, who was with the
deputy, grappled with the man and re-
ceived a deep cash under the arm.
Another guard, Thomas, saw that
something was wrong and ran to the
rescue. The negro held them at bay
for a moment, until the deputy picked
up a long club and forced him to drop
the weapon.
The clothing of the officers was
slashed to ribbons and it was neces.
sary to take several stitches in the
wounds of Deputies Gray and Mason.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-09-07
LIBRARY SITE is CHOSEN
Jamestown Prepares to Utilize Be
quest of MINNEAPOLIS Man.

The contract for a site for the new
Alfred Dickey library, willed to the
city of jamestown by the late Alfred
E. Dickey Of Minneapolis, was signed
by the library board and DR.. R. G.. De-
puy, owner of the property, at a meet
ing of the board. The city council
has agreed to make a levy to pay the
$4,000 for the site.
The site is opposite The South Side
school building and nearly opposite the
high school. 1t is in the same block
with the armory, O in course of con
struction, and within a block of the
location selected for the new post
Office.
The will Of Mr.. Dickey provides 500,
900 for the new building, $4,000 as
an endowment for maintenance and
$4,000 for the support of the reading
room. 1t is expected the money will
be available in the winter and arrange
ments are being made by the library
board to have the plans drawn and
contracts let ready for actual work as
early as weather conditions will per
NIT next spring.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-09-07
ROADS REJECT
MEMS DEMANDS
Hartman Lines Refuse to RecOg-
nize New Federation.
SITUATION is VERY GRAVE

Vice President kruttschnitt Declares
Recognition Of Federation Would
Hamper Company in Performing Its
Duty to the Public-Union Leaders
Considering Strike Vote and DeveI-
opments May Come Soon.
San Francisco, Sept. 1.-THE South
ern Pacific Railroad company, through
Julius Kruttschnitt, vice president and
director Of maintenance and operation
of the Hartman lines, rejected a de-
mand for recognition of the fedora
ton of shop employees, comprising five
shop crafts unions and $4,000 men.
That such recognition, with it's i'm
plications, would hamper the company
in performing its duty to the public
vas the position taken by it's officials.
Union leaders asked for it on
grounds Of economy and expedition
and, admittedly, because of a feeling
that greater Capitalization of capital
and power made corresponding CEN
tralization among unions desirable.
The unions involved had asked their
general officers for permission to
strike in the event of the refusal to
grant recognition of the federation.
A conference lasting three hours
and twenty minutes was terminated
by Mr.. Kruttschnitt's final answer and
following it the union representatives,
sober faced, went into session by
themselves to consider the strike vote,
which they may accept as binding or
may reject, refusing to sanction a
strike.
President Kline, it was learned, pre-
scented the case for the unions aud
replied to questions put to him by the
formal spokesman during the discus
sion.
Mr.. Kline based his pleading on eco,
nomic grounds and n of the officials
said "held his own" in the questioning
from his angle of the case Once or
twice the discussion became lively,
but it never ranged beyond cool
headed argument.
The railroad officials in their turn
took the position-already publicly jan
nounced by Mr.. Kruttschnitt-that the
federation's power and demands would
render it impossible for them to per-
form the duties and carry the respon-
sibilities which are imposed upon
them by law and which make them,
in the words of Mr.. Kruttschnitt,
'quasi-public officials"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-09-07
PLANS FOR lBsEN MEMORIAL
Leading Norwegians Will Speak al
Wahpeton celebration.

Arrangements for the Ibsen memo
rial celebration which will be held in
Wahpeton Sept. 26, the first day of
the Richland county fair, are progress
ing. A bronze bust of Henrik Ibsen,
the great Norwegian dramatist and
poet, has been ordered and the ar
~rangements in connection with the un-
yelling are in charge of DR.. H. O.
Fjelde of Abercrombie.
One of the principal, Norwegian
speakers will be the secretary of the
Norwegian Society of America, Waldo
mar Ager of Eau Claire, Wis.,, the
Norwegian-American poet. The saga
writer for Telelaget, Torkel Oftedie,
also will say a few words. Professor
Julius E. Johnson of the Wisconsin
state university has been invited to
make an address. Sigrud Ibsen Of
Christiania, Norway, son of the great
poet, also has been invited to be pres
ent. Professor Bjarne Svanoe of De-
corah, Ia, is to deliver two lectures
about the land Of the Midnight Sun,
which he will illustrate with moving
pictures.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-09-07
Charleston Suffered Immense
Loss by Storm.
CITIZENS REPAIRING HAVOC
Much Of the Debris Has Been Re.
moved, but Danger of Pesti-
lence Has Not Passed.

Charleston, S. c., Sept. 1.-'Dry out,
clean up, disinfect and repair" is the
watchword in storm stricken Charles
ton. Mayor Rhett, having hurried
from New York on hearing of the hur-
ricane, has taken the helm and is di-
recting the work of rehabilitation. The
death list has reached seventeen and
the property damage is conservatively
estimated at $1,000,0 00.
Reports are getting in from the ex-
posed sea islands, where only two
lives were lost on James island, but
the property damage is very heavy.
1t is said by planters that long staple
cotton and rice have been almost
wiped out. Houses have been wrecked
and cattle and live stock killed. Road
ways are impossible, as the bridges
have gone and trees have been felled.
First reports of damage at the Isle
of Palms, a resort directly on the
ocean nine miles from here, were ex-
aggerated. Buildings were not as Sc
riously damaged as believed. In
Charleston things are approaching the
normal with splendid progress. The
railroads, though their yards are Grip
piled, are giving much better train
service for passengers and freight.
The trolley cars are running on all
the city lines and the cars on the sea-
shore division will be in operation
regularly shortly. The telephone COM
pany reports most of it's system in
working order. Electric light and
power service is being rapidly extend
ed over the city.
Much of the storm debris has been
removed and all the streets are clear.
The board of health is imploring
h%ouseholders to get their premises
sanitary without delay, citing the dan
ger of sickness from continuance of
present conditions. The damage about
Beaufort and Port Royal is placed at
81, 900, 900. There was no loss of hui
man life in that section.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-09-07
.BEATTIE FACES
HARD GR|LuNG
Prosecutor Vigorously Cross-Ex-
annines Young Virginian.

Chesterfield Courthouse, Va, Sept.
5.-Through six weary hours in a
stuffy little courtroom Henry Clay
Beattie, Jr., indicted for the murder
of his wife, battled for his life. Night
Interrupted a vigorous cross-eXamina-
ton by the commonwealth.
The prisoner, always cool and col
lected, told the gruesome story of the
attack of the ~highwayman, the wild
ride to the Owen home at a speed of
fifty-fve miles an hour with the life
less, blood covered body of his wife
On a seat of the motor car beside him.
Beattie, by request Of the prosecu-
ton, donned the blood stained coat he
wore the night of the murder and at
tempted to explain why blood spots did
not appear on certain parts of, the
garment if his wife was reclined
against him in the way he described.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-09-07
WILL TOUR EASTERN STATES
Governors Special" Train to Adver-
tise West and Northwest.

Governors Special" Train to Adver-
tise West and Northwest.
Governors of Western and North
western states, officers of the Panama
Pacific exposition and members of
congress, headed by former Governor
James H. Brady of Idaho, will make a
4,O00-mile tour through the East this
fall as a part of a comprehensive plan
to bring people who must move" to
the West and Northwestern part
of their own country in preference to
going into Canada or the Far South to
seek homes and investments.
The train will move from Omaha in
October, going to Chicago, St. Louis,
Cincinnati Cleveland, Toledo, Pitts.
burg, Philadelphia, New York city, UP
into New England and returning by
Washington in order to bring back
with it senators and representatives
of Western and Northwestern states.
On the return trip the congressman
will be expected to do the talking and
hand shaking, relieving the governors,
who will perform the service while
going east.
This tour will be made on a special
train, which will not only carry half a
dozen or more Western governors, but
four or five exhibit cars to "show" the
people of the East the products of
Western and Northwestern states; re-
sources of their soil, rivers, lakes,
mines, forests and factories. 1t will
be known as the western Governors
Special" The chief executives of the
following states, several of whom are
already booked to 60, will be invited
to accompany the party; Washington,
Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah,
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado,
Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dako-
ia and Minnesota.
Back of this tour are the develop
ment leagues, commercial clubs and
other organizations in the states rep
resented, which are seeking to do
more thar depend on natural develop
ment to advance the progress and in
crease the wealth of their states.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-09-07
LAUNCH IS SUNK
BY Big STEAMER
Accident at Toledo, O., Costs
Lives Of Seven Men.

Toledo. O., Sept. 3.-Seven men
were drowned in the Maumee river
when the thirty-five-foot launch Memo,
owned by Michael Mayer, was struck
by the 5O0-foot freighter, Phillip
Minch, inbound for the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton docks. The
drowned are:
Harry Batch, city councilman;
James Wisler, superintendent of wa
terworks; Thomas Purcell, master
mechanic at the waterworks plant;
Fred Shane, secretary Of Service Di
rector Cowell; William Blatt, water
works Inspector; William Carroll
bookkeeper at waterworks; Rudolph
Yunker.
The party was bound for Kelley's
island, where they expected to dc
some bass fishing over the Labor day
holiday. With the exception of Mich
ael Mayer, owner of the launch, al
were drowned. Mayer was saved by
members OF the crew OF the MlQCn
None of the bodies have been recov
cred.
Captain Cummings of the Minc1
says that the wheelman was throwing
the searchlight across the river chan
mel, looking for channel stakes, whe1
they first espied the launch, which
he thought was a mile and a half dis
tant. The launch was then $50 fee
out of the course of the channel to thu
westward.
The steamer blew the danger sig
nails, but before the launch coult
change it's course the freighte
crashed into the small boat, capsizin,
it and throwing the occupants into tn
water
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-09-07
IN NORTH DAKOTA
News Of the Week From Varl.
Gus Parts Of the State.
PARENTS MAY CONVICT SON
information From Wales Appears
Likely to Clear Up Mysterious
Murder Case.

When Roy Bancroft faces the dis
trict court at Dickinson on the charge
of having slain a man yet unidentified
one of the most peculiar murder trials
in the history of the entire country
will be under way.
And, should he be convicted of the
crime, it will be another exemplitica-
ton of the old adage that murder will
out"
For, when the body of a man was
found on the railroad tracks neal
Dickinson about two years ago, letters
in the pockets indicated that it was
Roy Bancroft, whose parents reside in
Wales. The authorities eventually got
into communication with the parents
and from them learned that it could
not be their son who had been killed,
since he was alive and working in
Vancouver, B. C.
This set the authorities to work on
a new line and after some difficulty
they succeeded in locating Bancroft in
Vancouver. An Indictment a re,
turned by the local grand jury, chars.
ing Bancroft with murder, and he wa
~extradited and brought back to Dick.
inson. He is at present lodged in the
county Jail without bail.
While the authorities have nothing
more than circumstantial evidence
against Bancroft it is considered a
strong chain. He will be obliged, the
prosecuting attorney says, to explain
the manner in which letters addressed
to him came to be in the possession of
the mar who was killed.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-09-07
Hanna Will Draw First.

Robert Hanna of Fargo was ap-
pointed by Judge Witten to draw
the first application for a homestead
in the Bertholdian reservation at 10
a. m. Sept. 6. 1t was at first announc-
ed that two little girls would draw
the applications, but this plan was
changed as a matter of respect to thsA
North Dakota congressman. An elab-
crate program has been arranged for
the day of the drawing. Congressman
Hanna and Governor Burke have been
invited to attend and make addresses.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-09-07
ALL WILL HAVE A CHANCE
Baptist Ministers Invited to- "Speak
Their Minds" at Conclave.

- "liiiAS at SoIISldVCs
Every Baptist church in the state
will be represented at the annual
North Dakota Baptist convention,
which will be held in Grafton Sept. 10
to %.
One of the features of this years
program is the fact that a place has
been made for every Baptist minister
of the state who feels that he has
any problem that would be of inter.
est to the general body.
In conjunction with the general con
vention the North Dakota Baptist Min,
isterial union will also meet. Among
the speakers at the ministerial union
sessions will be Rev. F. w. Walker
Pugh of Grand Forks; Rev. L. l..
Mann of Lisbon; Rev. H. A. Buell. of
L~idgerwood; DR.. D. D. Proper of Oma-
ha, Neb.; Rev. c. 3. Hemans of Grand
Forks and A. E. Peterson of Fargo.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-09-07
Collect Claim in Unique Way.

Collection of claims against the
farmers of Ward county held by the
county for seed grain furnished last
spring will be brought about in a
unique manner, the commissioners
having decided to place all claims in
the hands of the local elevator agents
over the county, In this manner
the county will receive the money
for the seed grain it has furnished
direct from the elevator to which the
farmer sells his product and another
result will be the elimination of no
small amount of red tape and a great
deal of unnecessary work for county
officials.