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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
vETOES THE GRAIN
INSPECTORS BILL
Governor Disapproves Measure
for Several Reasons.

The governor vetoed house bill 1T,
by Englund Of Ward. The bill pro-
vided for the appointment OF two
grain inspectors, n in Minneapolis
and n at Duluth, to look after the
interests of the North Dakota grain
shippers.
The reason given for vetoing the
bill were that the state had maintain
ed two inspectors in Minnesota for
the past two years and that a great
deal of information is contained in the
reports submitted and that the state
could not expect to gain much more in
that line, and for the further reason
that the appropriations were already
overdraWn and the bill carries an ap-
preparation for the biennial period of
$4,000, and that the representatives
have no voice or vote on the board of
appeals.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
ELLIOTT At VALLEY CITY
Northern Pacific President Hopes I,
Settle Trouble.

Declaring his desire for a speedy
and mutually satisfactory adjustment
of the differences between the North.
ern Pacific railroad and the city OF
Valley City, President Howard Elliott
of that road, for the first time, ad'
dressed an audience there when the
closing meeting of the Farmers 500
an Acre club brought to the armory
an audience of more than 1900 PEG.
pie.
President Elliott, touching upon the
passage of trains over the high line
north of the city, expressed a desire
that representatives of the road and
the city should get together and dis.
cuss the various phases of the case
and come to an amicable adjustment
Following an address bby President
Worst on dry farming the officials of
the road and delegates to the conven.
ton adjourned to the rooms of the
Commercial club, where President Ell.
lott, General Manager Goodell of the
Northern Pacific and A. M. Burt, SUI.
perintendent of the Fargo division,
met the business men of the city.
The first meeting of the Farmers
club has been a tremendous success,
not only in the opinion of local pro.
motors but also according to the state.
ments of the visiting speakers. Pro.
fesor Thomas Cooper of the Minnesota
state farm declared it to be the best
meeting of its. kind he had attended
in many years. Professor Thomas
Shaw said it was the best meeting of
the kind ever held in North Dakota,
with the possible exception of the tri.
state meeting at Fargo, and suggested
that future meetings include discus.
sions and addresses on live stock
breeding.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
BURKE yETOES FIVE BILLS
Governor of North Dakota Uses Axe
on Legislative Measures.

on Legislative Measures.
Governor Burke vetoed the primary
election bill, which provided for the
election of candidates for election by
popular vote and relating to their
nomination. The features of the bill
related particularly to the percentage
of votes required to nominate can
didates.
Among the other bills which fell
under the governors veto axe were
the duplicate house bill providing for
the STAT, 600 appropriation for the
state university at Grand Forks and
Fl. B. AS, which is the duplicate house
bill providing for the appropriation
for a state hospital for the insane at
Jamestown.
The DISCARD bill, the famous con-
gressional apportionment bill over
which there was a three days dead
lock at the close of the session, vas
another vetoed.
Another bill killed was H. B. 293,
which would have appropriated SIS
600 out of the capital building fund for
the extension of the State street rail
way line to the p~enitentiary. The
bill was vetoed on the ground that it
was unconstitutional and the governor
explained his action in a 5000 word
veto message.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
MIDWlNTEE FAIR PLANNED
Grand Forks Agricultural Society
Backs Corn and Clover Convention.

Through ths action of the Grand
Forks County Agricultural society in
voting to back the corn and clover
convention movement in North Dako-
ia the North Dakota Corn and Clover
convention, Feb. 5 to -, 1912, will be
held as the cess of the Red River
Valley Corn and Glover convention,
held in Grand Forks the last two
years.
In addition to the convention the So
ciety has also voted to hold an annual
midwinter fair and for it a premium
list totaling about $4,000 will be ar
ranged.
Heretofore the corn and clover con
vention has been backed by the Grand
Forks Commercial club, but with the
Grand Forks County Agricultural So
ciety behind it it will assume new i'm
portance. The society will also con
tinue its affiliation with the North Da-
kota fair association of Grand Forks
and will hold fairs bbiennially when
the state fair is held at Fargo.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
News Of the Week From Vari-
Gus Parts Of the State.
EXPENSE OF C0WAN TRIAL
Legislature Made No Provision to Pay
the Costs of the Impeach-
ment Proceedings.

So many features enter into the
parchment trial that will open March
Is that it remains the chief topic of
interest in the state Of North Dakota
at the present time. One of the new
questions that have been brought up
in connection with it is that of expense.
Just what method the state will adopt
in making provision for the payment
of the Impeachment trial appears hazy
at the present time.
No appropriation was made at the
time the Legislative assembly came to
a close. March 8, to take care of the
Impeachment expenses. The question
as to how these expenses will be
cared for includes, among other plans,
the making of an appropriation by the
assembly at the time the trial opens,
as the legislature has not in reality
till March %.
Recently there arose the question
whether the governor, in failing to
sign or veto bills within three days
after the time of the assembly recess,
had lost his power to veto, as the con
stitution provides only three days in
which that power may be exercised,
at the end Of which time the bills
would become laws without his sigma
ture. That is the situation existing
while the legislative assembly is in
session. The point that would be
raised in this connection is that the
legislature is, in reality, in session.
The other contention raised is that
while the assembly did only take a re-
cess it had lost the power of doing
any further legislative work.
Should it be decided that the legis-
lature still has the power to appropri-
ate money for the impeachment trial
expenses then the other question of
the veto would be raised and become
operative.
At an angle the situation is viewed
it appears complicated and there
doubtless will be much discussion of
the question by the senate, when it
~reconvenes, as to the plan of action
that must be taken.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
PENSION IS LONG DELAYED
Soldier Who Applied in 1862 Just
Awarded Claim.

Senator McCumber has secured the
allowance, of a pension claim for
Frank Lane, a we'll known Richland
county man living in Wahpeton. to
date from July 2, 1862.
Last year Lane, through some
friends, called the attention of Senator
McCumber to his pension application
that had been filed for some time and
upon investigation it was found that
he had applied in 1862. The records
in his case are peculiar.
1t appears from the records that at
the first battle of Bull Run on April
81, 1861, Lane, who was in Company I,
First Michigan volunteer infantry, re-
ceived a gunshot wound through the
right breast and was left on the field
of battle, as shown by the war depart
ment's records, "mortally wounded"
From affidavits secured from COM
rades it appears he was picked up and
carried to a little brick church that
was used for a hospital.
They took his watch and money
and forwarded them to his relatives
in Michigan. Lane was captured by
the C~onfederates and taken to Libby
prison, where he was confined until
the spring of 1862, when he was pa
rolled and sent North and mustered
out at Detroit, Mich.
He then put in a claim for pension,
Int tho claim has hoaD dra ooino all
these years without being acted upon,
for the reason that Lane never fur
nished the necessary evidence showing
actual incurrence of disability.
The amount of back pension allow
ed him about $4,000.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
FAIR TREATMENT PROMISED
Americans Held by Mexican Govern
mert in No Danger.

Washington, March 1S.-American
citizens held as prisoners of war by
the Mexican authorities at Casas
Grandes, VINO have been reported in
danger Of execution, and Henry Whit
tie, who vas arrested at Ciudad Por-
forlo Diaz Thursday are safe and as
Sured of fair treatment, according to
Geographic advices received by the
state department from American con-
sular officers in Mexico.
The American consul at Juarez tele-
graphed the department that General
Navarro, commander Of the federal
forces at Casas Grandes, had assured
him that the report that the men were
In danger was without foundation and
h a the prisoners would receive every
possible consideration.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
Former President Principal Fig
ure at Celebration.
ONE OF LARGEST IN WORLD
Reclamation Project Has Cost Nine
Millions of Dollars and Several
More Millions Are Needed.

Phoenix, Ariz., March 19.-The for
nal dedication of the great dam named
after former President Roosevelt oc
Cured in the presence of the colonel
who was the principal figure in the
celebration of the completion of the
leading feature of the Salt river recla
nation project, which has cost the
government about SO, 1000, 900 anC
which will probably cost $2,O0O,O ZOO
more to complete.
The Roosevelt dam reclamation
project is situated a half mile below
the confluence of Tonic creek and up
per Salt river, at the head of a canyon
through which Salt river flows fol-
many miles. 1t is the most imposing
feature of the Salt river project, the
first one undertaken by the United
States reclamation service under the
provisions of the reclamation act, ap'
proved by President Roosevelt June
II, 1902, and after whom the town at
the dam site is named. 1t is seventy.
six miles east of Phoenix, which is sit.
uated in the center of a valley OF
which 240, 900 acres is signed to the
Salt River Valley Water Users asso,
citation. This corporation represents
the farmers in their dealings with the
government, guaranteeing payment OF
the construction cost of the project.
Creates Immense Reservoir.
The dam creates a reservoir extend
ing twelve miles up Tonic creek and
thirteen miles up Salt river nearly to
what is known as the intake dam, 400
feet long. The capacity of the reser-
voir is 1,2S4,204 acre feet, the largest
artificial lake in the world. Though
the dam is not the largest in the world
it is among the largest. The founda-
ton rests on bed rock forty feet below
river level.
1t is 235 feet long, between the can.
yon walls, and ITO feet wide. From the
river level to the crest of the spillways
at either end of the dam the height is
220 feet, that being the greatest depth
of storage possible. The spillways are
bridged and over the bridges and the
top OF the dam runs the only highway
in that region connecting the mountain
country on the north and south sides
OF Salt river. This roadway is twenty
feet above the highest storage and a
coping four feet high protects the road
way. From the bottom of the founda-
ton to the top of the coping is 2S4
feet.
The dam is curved, arching up
stream, and at the top is $50 feet long
and sixteen feet wide. The spillways
at either end are 200 feet wide, so the
length, inclusive of the bridges over
the spillWayS, is 1,08O feet.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
ECHO OF THE GORE INQUIRY
ormsby McHarg May Lose Job of Spe
ciaI Attorney.

Ormsby McHarg, formerly of this
state, the $4,000 a year special attor.
ney of the Choctaw nation, has been
asked by President Taft to show cause
why he should not give up this lucra.
tive position. If Mr.. McHarg can con.
vince the president that he is doing
$4,000 worth of work for the Choc.
Jaws he may be allowed to stay on the
job. Otherwise, he must step out.
This is an echo of the Gore investi.
cation. Mr.. McHarg is a member OF
a we'll known New York law firm.
Prior to his employment as special
counsel for the Choctaws he had been
assistant secretary of commerce and
labor.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER
Oscar Benson Sentenced at BowbeIIs
for Killing Henry Johnson.

An indeterminate sentence of from
ten to fifteen years in North Dakota
penitentiary was given Oscar Benson
at Bowbells, confessed slayer of Hen
~ Johnson. Benson pleaded guilty to
a. charge of manslaughter.
Benson was accused of killing John
son in a fight on a county road near
Columbus. The two had been en-
ployed on a threshing crew and had
been drinking and it was when Ben
son took a team of horses owned by
johnson for the purpose of securing
more liquor that the trouble arose.
Meeting on the highway the two men
fought and Benson used a knife. John
son died before medical attention
could be given.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
PeItier to be Tried in Minot,

Joe Peltier, once convicted of muir
der and now to be tried the second
time, will not nave his trial in Rolette
county, but, instead, will be taken to
Minot. Because of the stir created in
the Second judicial district, by reason
of the impeachment of Judge Cowan,
Judge Burr made a new order and
Peltier's case will consequently come
up in Ward county. Peltier is ac-
cused of the Somber murders about
two and a half years ago.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
GAYNOR DEN0UNCES STRIKE
Says District Attorney Should Take
Charge of Situation.

New York, March 21.-The district
attorney ought to take charge of the
situation precipitated by the strike of
drivers employed by the Adams,
Wells-Fargo and United States Elk
press companies, in the opinion of
Mayor Gaynor, expressed in a letter
to General Organizer William H. Ash
ton of the strikers, commencing his
opposition to the calling of a general
strike.
1T may well be a criminal offense to
conspire to scare anybody in any such
way as this" the mayor writes. "The
present strike is only for the most
frivolous reasons and unjustifed and
bound to fail after causing commerce
and the community great loss and
trouble, thereby injuring the cause of
labor
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
IN POOR HEALTH
South Carolina Senator Admits illness
Will Prove Fatal.

Augusta, Ga, March 1~7.-Senator
Tillman of South Carolina admits his
fitness will prove fatal and that he is
only waiting for the end.
The senator was in Augusta and
said he never would recover when he
was told he was looking better.
Il am weak" he said, "and not able
to do much. ] shall never recover
from the stroke which caused my col.
lapse ut Washington"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
M'vEY CITES CYNIC'S ADVICE
University President Says All Educa.
ton Isn't in Studies. /.

"In many a college dormitory
hangs the cynical mandate, DO not
let your studies interfere with your
education No truth is supposedly
contained in this statement, but there
is a considerable philosophy back of
it," said President Frank l.. McVey
of the North Dakota State university
in his speech at the dedication of the
Fargo college library on "What Is
Education" He went on to explain
what value lay in the different expert
ences incident to getting an education.
Educators from all over the North
west were present at the dedication.
The money for the construction of
this library was donated by Andrew
Carnegie and the cornerstone was laid
by Theodore Roosevelt.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
STEALS TO AID HIS MOTHER
Ray IN. d. Man Pleads Guilty to EN-.
bezzIing $1,000.

At Williston, A. Hougen entered a
plea of guilty to a charge of embez-
zling funds from the Linwell Lumber
company at Ray. Hougen's case was
peculiar, as it appears that the money
he stole was sent by him to his mother
in Norway, she being aged and in
want. A total Of about $1,000 is said
to have been taken, being sent away in
various amounts.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
Burlington to Change Route.

Burlington express trains AZ and 4S
are to run through Devils Lake on
their way to the Pacific coast, accord.
ing to reports. The new "transconti.
mental trains will pass through Will
mar, MINI, Grand Forks and Fargo.
These. trains have formerly run to BIZ.
lings, thence or the Northern Pacific
TO the coast. The new trains will he
two Of the finest In the Burlington.
Great Northern system,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
HERMOSILLO is MENACED
tnsurrectos Reported About to At.
tack the City.

Nogales, Mex, March 21.-Hermo-
sillo, capital of Sonora, is believed to
be in danger of an attack by rebel
forces.
On orders of the Mexican govern
ment federal forces are being hur-
rled from various points along the
northern boundary into Nogales and
thence south over the Sonora railroad
to Hermosillo.
A special train bringing troops from
Cananea was brought into Nogales on
rush orders and dispatched southwark
to augment the federal forces at the
state capital.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
Sheriff Suddenly Stricken.

Sheriff R. L. Bond, while engaged in
locking the cells in the county Jail at
Botineau, suffered an apoplectic
stroke and within twenty minutes was
dead. He was a half brother of Rog-
err Allen of Walsh county. former gov
ernor of the state. He had been a
resident Of North Dakota since 1887.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
PRACTICE MARCHES BEGUN
Two Cavalry Regiments Take Hikes
at San Antonio.

San Antonio, Tex, March 19.-The
first regimental hike of the modified
troops at Fort Sam Houston was made
when the Ninth and Eleventh cavalry
went on a practice march. The
Eleventh started at 6 o'clock and the
Ninth left half an hour later, both re-
turning at noon. The camp is now
ready for the beginning of the actual
maneuvers.
General Carter has made an order
regulating bugle calls. Reveille, will
be called at $50 o'clock, assembly at
6, tattoo at s p. M, and taps at 10
p. m. Within these limits brigade
commanders will regulate calls for the
respective brigades.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
More Federal PIums.

Judging from an announcement
made at Washington Senator Gronna
has nc standing at the White house
in the matter of patronage. The pres
ident has appointed R. N. Stevens to
be register at Bismarck land office
and J. G. Q%uinlaven to a like position
at Dickinson. Messrs. Stevens and
Quinlaven were endorsed by Senator
McCumber. The recommendations
made by Senator Gronna were ig-
nored.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
Ends Life In Skating Rink.

Roland Monroe. twenty years of
age, whose home was at st. Vim
cent, Mimi, was found dead in the
skating rink heating room at Pembina
by Manager Myrick, Monroe had
committed suicide by shooting himself
in the head with q revolver. No rea-
son can be assigned for the young
mans act.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
KILLED BY GASOLINE FUMES
Electric Light Superintendent Over
come While on DUTY.

Frank Kaiser, superintendent of the
light plant at Mott, is dead as a result
of inhaling fumes from a gasoline en-
CINE while on duty at the plant.
1t is supposed that he lay down to
rest and was overcome by the gas. A.
shepherd dog was also found dead in
the same room.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
ESTIMATES ARE EXCEEDED
institutions Lack 100000 of COMING
Within Appropriations.

The conference between heads of
different state educational, penal and
charitable institutions and Governor
Burke to determine where necessary
cuts in appropriations for the bien-
NAL period should be made was with
out result.
All the pairing thought possible by
members of the conference amounted
to only $4,000 and it will require
100000 more than that in order to
make the appropriations ever with
money available.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
Girl has scalp Torn OF.

Bessie Morson, employed In the
laundry Of a Fargo restaurant, had
her scalp entirely torn from her head
when her hair became entangled in
some machinery. Other employees
were compelled to watch her agony,
helpless to render aid, until NIL the
hair and skin ON her head was slowly
pulled OH.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
GRANTS RUSsIA's DEMANDS
China Agrees to Terms Set Forth in
Recent Uitimatum.

Picking, March 1.-THE Chinese
government declares it's intention of
agreeing to points at issue with Rus.
STA and is now drafting a reply to the
recently received ultimatum along this
line.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
Carrie Nation Growing Weaker.

Leavenworth, Kan, March IT,
Mrs. Carrie Nation, the militant Kan
a temperance worker, who is at a
sanitarium here, Is gradually growing
weaker. Her condition, which Is due
to a general breakdown. Is regarded
az serious.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
KENYON GAINS FOUR MORE
Deemer's Ranks in Iowa Senatorial
Race Further Depleted.

Des Moines, March 18.-Four more,
all progressives, deserted the Deemer
standard on the forty-second joint bal
lot, Judge Kenyon coming within nine
OF receiving enough votes to elect.
The vote was as follows: Kenyon,
60; Deemer, SO; O'Connor, 81; Por-
ter, 1; total votes cast, 1853; necessary
to elect. n.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-03-23
SEVERE BLOW TO REVOLUTION

A''SSS% dIio SSvSH TO'iOwSFS SlaIn
in Lower California Skirmish.
San Diego, CAL, March 1S.-With
the leader, Luis Rodriguez, and seven
of his followers dead on the field of
battle, at Tecate, Mex, and the rem
nants of his band scattered in the
mountains, and with the Mexican fed
eral infantry holding the passes and
hamlets, the revolution on the west
side of the mountains of Northern
lower California received a severe
blow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28

From "The Story of Modern Book Ad-
 vertising." by Algernon Tassin, in the
 June Bookman.
 R. H. Davis in London sent a messen- ger boy, Jaggers, to Chicago with a let ter. The boy landed in New York and went at once to the stock exchange to wait for his train. This striking prefer enoe on the part of a messenger boy nat urally caused much discussion In the pa pers The Arthur Sterling >rdevice-that the book was an actual autobiography and the writer had in despair committed suicide by plunging from the deck Of a Hudson river boat-entirely deceived the newspapers, and they gave the book great Sunday stories; it was some time before this ruse was discovered. A firm once decided for private and personal reasons to withdraw a book. Seeing themselves at a dead loss of several thousand dollars. they thought they saw a chance to make some of 1t good. They induced a certain person to sue both them and the author for libel; and thereupon announced that while both parties had been quite unconscious of the offense, they would withdraw the book. The re- suit was that they got an immense amount of advertising for nothing, more perhaps than the original cost of the hook. The cleverest publishers device of our day was, however. entirely unsophis- tfcsted. incredible as it appears. lady really did write to Hampers that as the doctor had given her only few more weeks of life she would be very grateful if they would tell her how "The Mas ouerader' turned out. Harpers obtained permislson to publish this letter, but II was later withdrawn by request Of the lady,s relatives But facts rarely play so neatly into the hand, and the advertising stan is driven to constant invention Some years ago the public was informed through the advertisements in the papers that in one of the enormous stack or hooks in a certain department store was hidden a s1oO bill-the edition was cleaned ont before evening.