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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-24
POLITICAL NEWS.

Martin w. Littleton, newly elected
Democratic representative from Theo.
dore Roosevelt's home district, has
announced his candidacy for the Unit
ed States senate from New York to
succeed Chauncey M. Depew and he
supplemented his formal statement
with a verbal declaration that he will
take his cause before the people on
the stump.
OF the thirty-four members repre-.
senting The big agricultural states Of
the Observation-Disclosures Iowa, Wis
.consin and the Dakotas-twenty-four
voted in the, house against the Mccall
bill embodying the terms of the reci'
procity agreement negotiated with
Canada by President Taft.
Lafayette Young, who now holds the
seat in the senate made vacant by the
death Of Senator Dolliver Of Iowa, has
withdrawn from the contest for re
election for the balance Of the unex
Dired term.
49, VI 1MH
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-24
THE DEATH RECORD.

Rear Admiral Edward Strong Bo'
CERT, U. s. NJ, retired, is dead at New
York. He became an assistant sur
geon in the navy at the outbreak Of
the Civil war and was in many en-.
gagements in the gulf and on the Mis-
sissippi.
Edwin A. Jaggard of st. Paul, asso.
ciate justice of the Minnesota supreme
court, died in the Bermuda islands.
Although re had gone to the Bermudas
for his health his death var unex-
pected. It was due to heart failure.
Representative Amos L. Allen (Rep,
Me.) is dead of pneumonia at his
apartments in Washington. Mr.. Allen
was seventy-four years of age and
had been a member of congress since
1899.
Rev. Dr.. William S. Freas, sixty-two
years old, a former president of the
general synod of the Lutheran church
of the United States, is dead at Bal
timore.
Rev. Francis lie Baron, pioneer Uni
tartan minister and a first cousin of
Henry W. Longfellow, is dead at New
York, aged eighty-seven.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-24
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Acting under the provisions of the
Valentine antitrust law Attorney Cen
eral Hogan of Ohio has instituted quo
warranto proceedings in the circuit
court to GUST from the state the Hook
ing Valley, the Kanawha and Michi-
gan, the GAINESVILLE and Western, the
Toledo and Ohio Central, the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern and the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad com
panies.
Rev. DIR. Samuel G. Smith, pastor Of
the Peoples church and one of the
best known ministers of st. Paul, ia
accused Of seeking to influence a mem.
her of the grand jury on a matter
pending before that body, in an aft.
davit signed by Thomas l.. Wann, a
member of the grand jury.
Vice President Louis Weyand Of
the Brotherhood of Boilermakers and
Iron Shipbuilders of America ordered
out 800 boilermakers employed or the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
division Of the New York Central rail.
road between Buffalo and Chicago.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-24
NEWS Of WORLD
important Events Of the Week
in Condensed Form
CONGRESSIONAL DoINGs.

President Taft's reciprocity agree.
ment with Canada was ratified in the
house Of representatives through the
support OF an almost solid Democratic
vote. The Mccall bill, carrying the
agreement into effect, was passed, 221
to 80. A majority of the Republicans
present voted against the measure, the
division being rs ayes and 81 noes.
The Democratic was 143 ayes and only
) noes. A majority of the Republican
progressivcS present voted for the bill.
The McC,ll bill now goes to the sem
ate. What it's fate will be in that
body is problematical at this time.
To offset the Canadian annexation
talk which the administration feared
might affect the reciprocity agree
ment, the house committee on for.
eign affairs, by a vote of 8 to l, re.
ported adversely on the resolution in.
1roduced by Representative William
S. Bennett of New York for the open.
ing of negotiations with Great Britain
looking to the annexation Of Canada.
The great majority of the Demo
Gratis in the house voted with the Re-.
publicans. 173 to Az, for the adoption
of a rule providing that all house rules
can be suspended on a two-thirds vote
during the remainder of the session,
so that appropriation and other meas
urcs can be rushed through without
amendment after forty minutes de.
bate.
Representative Macon of Arkansas,
speaking II general debate OH the ma
val appropriation bill in the house,
made a sensational attack upon Cap.
tain Robert e. Peary, d%enouncing him
as a "faker" and declaring that he
should be driven from the naval
service"
The house voted to increase the sal
airy of the chief justice of the United
States from $13,500 to $4,000 a year
and the salaries of associate justices
from $12,5 800 to $14 900. The increase
was made by an amendment to the
bill codifying laws relating to the jill
dietary.
Representative Graham of Illinois,
a Democrat who served on the con.
gressional committee which made an
inquiry into the Ballinger-Pinchot
case, in a speech in the house de-.
nounced Secretary Ballinger, who, he
charged, "a working for the inter-
ests.
Investigation of the SO called copper
trust is contemplated in a resolution
INTRODUCED by Senator Moses E. Clapp
Of Minnesota.
By a vote of 50 to 80 the house re.
fused a increase of $4,000 per year
to the presidents secretary.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-24
FOREIGN NEWS.

The relations OF Russia and Chins
are strained to the breaking point
Russia has notified the governments
of Great Britain, France and Germany
of her intention to- make a military
demonstration On the Russo-Chinese
frontier owing to China's persistent
violation OF the St. Petersburg treaty
of 1881. Russian troops will be sem
forthwith to the district of Iii. The
extent of the demonstration. it II
added in the diplomatic note, will de
pend entirely upon the attitude as
sumed by China.
The viceroy of Manchuria estimates
that the fatalities in Manchuria from
the bubonic plague already have
reached $4,000, while the foreign Of
flee believes that inside the great wal
there have been 1000 more deaths
According to the general belief, how
ever, the number of fatalities will be
nearer double those of the official es
Inmates.
China's 'ultimatum," unsatisfactory
in almost all its conclusions, has been
received at st. Petersburg. The an.
swer falls so far short of Russia's de
mands that the war Office has already
concentrated a large Russian force on
the frontier, preparatory to Selling
the Kuldja district of Chinese Turkes.
tan.
During the preliminary home rule de.
bate in the house of commons Pre-.
mier Asquith reiterated his declara'
ton that the governments first task,
after the veto bill" had been disposed
of, would be to carry out a policy of
full self-government for Ireland.
Haytien government troops, after
recapturing Ouaniminth from the reb.
els, got out of control of their off.
GERS, pillaged and burned the town
and massacred those of the inhabit.
ants who were unable to escape.
1t is estimated that 100000 are dead
from starvation, fever and exposure in
the provinces of Anhui and >Kiangsu,
China, an | that at least 2,O0O,0 900 more
are In danger OF meeting the same
fate.
A violent earthquake was expe-
rienced at Monastir and elsewhere
throughout the vilayet of Monastir.
There vas some loss of life. Several
mosques and houses were demolished.
Japan has renowned the Anglo-Jap-
anese convention of 1906, regulating
the commercial relations between
Canada and Japan. The convention
will thus expire in July.
Captain Preuss and three members
of the Philippine constabulary have
been wounded in an encounter with
the Moros. Twenty of the Moros were
killed.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-24
FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL

officials of the Armour Packing
company served notice on Secretary
of State Roach that the company
would withdraw from business opera.
lions in Missouri. The Armour com.
pany Is one Of the defendants In custer
proceedings instituted for alleged VIC.
lations Of the antitrust laws Of Mis-.
souri,. The suit is pending in the ~.
preme court Of that state.
BY the .capitulation Of George J.
Gould the Rockefeller Kuhn-Loeb inter.
ests will secure control Of the Missouri
Pacific railroad. Il 10 the understand.
ing in financial circles that Howard
Elliott, president Of the Northern PA.
cihc. is considering an offer Of the
rrAatAArcv and probably will ACCEPT It
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-24
NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS

Philander c. Knox, secretary of
state, in an address delivered before
the Chicago Association of Commerce,
advanced arguments in support OF the
proposed American-Canadian reciproc-
ity agreement, portrayed the rise OF
conditions which he said made such
a pact inevitable and pointed out adj
vantages ID be derived by both our
tries through the lowering of the tar
if barrier.
Formal announcement was made of
the engagement of Jay Gould to Miss
Annie Douglas Graham. Jay Gould
is the second son of George Gould.
Miss Graham was a bridesmaid at
the Decies.Gould wedding recently.
A feeling of uneasiness pervades
Wall street because of the illness of
William Rockefeller, brother Of the
oil king and credited with being the
moving spirit in the speculative oper-
ations of the Standard Oil coterie.
Standing in the wings of a theater
at Peoria, ILL.,, awaiting her cue just
before the rise of the curtain Blanche
Walsh, the we'll known actress, fell
to the stage in a faint. Her condition
s considered serious.
Henry #. Gage, United States min
lister to Portugal, now in this country
on leave OF absence, will not return to
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-24
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

The epidemic of grip at New York
health department records show a
large increase in the number of deaths
from grip and pneumonia over last
year. lnclement and changeable
weather is the cause of the unusual
number OF cases of grip.
Mrs Francis Espec, 10S years old,
said to be the oldest woma in Colo.
RADIO, died at Florence, Colo, in the
arms of her 1%11-year-old husband from
burns received when her clothing
caught fire from IN open CRATE. Mr..
and Mrs. Espec had been married
ninety-one years.
Fire destroyed the Calumet eleva-
tor at Chicago, a six-story structure
containing 100000 bushels of grain,
causing a loss estimated to be $780,
400. Seven firemen We're injured while
escaping from the building following
an explosion of grain dust.
Seven persons lost their lives in a
fire which destroyed the home of j. d.
Hardin at Sutton, w. Va. Only Mr..
Hardin escaped, the six remaining
members of his family and a little girl
who made her home with the Hardins
perishing in the flames.
At least six persons were drowned
off the coast of California in an at.
tempt to smuggle a party of Chinese
ashore, according to a report at the
Angel Island immigration station.
Fire at Lexington, KY, destroyed
the Thompson stock yards. Sixty
horses and forty mules were cremated.
Peter Gludt, a business man of Lake
City, Mimi, and his son Elmer were
electrocuted by a live wire.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-24
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Concentration of the control of the
standing timber in a very few hands,
vast speculative holdings far in adj
vance of any use thereof" an enor-
nous increase in the value of this di-
m%inishing natural resource, with great
profits to it's owners, and. incidentally,
IAN equally sinister land monopoly"
and a CLOSELY connected railroad DOM
ination"-these are the findings re-
ported to the president by Herbert
Knox Smith, commissioner of corpora
tions, in The first installment of his
long awaited report on the lumber in
dustry in the United States.
President Taft practically has won
his fight for the fertilization of the
Panama canal. On this proposition
he has routed Representative Tawney
of Minnesota and the other %watchdogs
of the treasury who insisted it would
he useless to expend money for forti-
fication when naturalization of the
property would serve just as we'll.
President Taft, in a special message
to congress on the Minnesota Indian
liquor question, urged legislation with
drawing government control of the
sale of liquor from all of the territory
covered by the Indian treaties except
those portions in which a considerable
number of Indians still reside as wards
of the government.
President Taft has begun twisting
the thumbscrews on the anti-reciproc-
ity senators and he got immediate re-
suits. He exacted a promise from
those in charge of the bill that it
would be reported to the senate with
reasonable promptness and unamend-
ed.
Through Representative Samuel w.
Mccall of Massachusetts President
Taft has notified congress and the
country of his intention to call a spe-
cial session of congress in the event
| of failure by the senate to vote on the
Canadian reciprocity agreement.
That an extra session invites a gen.
eral business calamity is the answer
of the old guard opposition to Presi'
dent Taft's plain ultimatum that an
extra session will be called unless
there is a vote In the senate on Ca
madam reciprocity before March 4.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-24
IT'D HGMary TI1nlinxs

alpA1nG a
The recent death 81 owen Kildafe -
! New York asylum Tor the insane IS
calls a :cnreersof highly dramatic inter.
est land y which shows that the re-
generation i sfhe outcast is not an
irid4srsnltss dream kildare, who wrote.
four books and two Rlaysso consider:
able merit, could not read a sentence
Until ilc was past thirty years Of age.
He was born III one Of the toughest
districts in New York city. His father
died months before his birth and his
mother a few days after. He grew up
as a typical .'Bowery bum" He sold
newspapers at seven. became a prize
fighter at fourteen and later worked
us bartender and grand bouncer in the
notorious saloon of Steve Brodie, the
bridge Jumper. He was a tough, but
within him resided something Of that
spiritual essence which uplifts and
glorif1es the lowest.
One day when a gang Of Bowery
toughs attempted to insult a young
woman sc~hoolteacher who was pass
ing Kildare dispersed them and pro.
tected her. he was thirty years old
then, The schoolma'am became inter
ested in him. She started him upon
the road to education and uplifting.
For years Kildare studied. He got
into a better environment He be-
came a lover of good literature. Also
he became the lover Of the girl who
had helped him to see the light. and
they were to be married. She died a
week before the date set for the wed.
ding. Kildare's first book. published
eight years after he began to learn to
read. was the story Of his regeneration
and his love for this girl. 1t took first
prize in a competition. Kildare then
determined to be an author. For years
he made his living by his pen. He be.
came known rs "the Kipling of the
Bowery."
After a time he married a woman
who had aided him in getting literary
recognition. Three years ago he had
a severe fall. injuring his head. His
mind became affected. He died Of
paresis. His wife had the marriage
annulled and was married to another
man. but she visited Kildare frequent.
~ in the asylum and remained loyal to
him as a friend.
In that story. only partially outlined
here, is food for a romance. But. more
than that. there is concrete evidence
that UNDER proper influence the lowest
Of men may attain ''the upward look
ing and the light"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-24

his post. He has not filed his resig.
nation, but 1t is understood will shortly
do so, His leave expires this month.
Joaquin Miller, the poet Of the Sier-
ras," is in a critical condition in an
Oakland (Cal.) hospital. Physicians
diagnose the aged poets illness as a
general breakdown.
John B. Mcdonald. the subway
builder, is seriously ill at his home in
New York city.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-24
CRIMINAL NEWS.

The express safe on Southern Rail
way train No. SO, %northbound, wal
blown open by four meL at White Sui
phur Springs, Ga, and about 800
stolen
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-24
Georges aud Marys.

II your name we're George and all
the other Georges In the United States
were going to contribute to a fund for
your endowment on your birthday
wouldn't you feel right nov like buy
ing an automobile or a yacht or a Dun
ty or two in Arizona just on pros
poets. or If your name we're. Mary
and all the other Marys had agreed to.
toss coins into your pin money pile at.
your marriage wouldn't you immedi-
atelys order a set Of the costliest furs
and n few Kohinoor diamonds?
King George and Queen Mary Of
England are lucky persons .te have
such familiar and popular naAzes. It
is announced that coronation gifts to
these rulers are to be made next June.
all the Georges contributing toward
the kings gift and all the Marys to-
ward the present for the queen. Per
haps the queen could not be luckier
with any other name than the beauti-
full one she bears. for that is the most
generally bestowed upon girls in Eng
fish speaking countries But King
George perhaps will be regretting that
he wasn't named John in view Of the
impending gift.
Parents hereafter in earning their
children should take account OF the
possibility Of this 1911 British idea be:
coming general, Let no helpless male
infants future prospects in life be
narrowed almost TO nothing by nam
ing him Algernon " Percival or Regi-
nald.: Let no female baby be handi-
capped In the race for bridal, gifts by
calling her Helene. Heloise,, Hortense
or Constance. Name your children-if!
you expect them to get "the name gift
royal"-John. James. George. Mary.
Anne. Elizabeth or something az fa-
miliar. All these are coed old names.
and many. there be that bear them.
~ Na1HH+ A&G NV
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-24

The lightning that struck the Mis-
souri, capitol wasn't the presidential
kind. and Champ Clark and ex-Govs
ernor Folk were not in the vicinity
anyway.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-24

Recovering from disaster sseuns To-
have been Just the sxerciGs that San
Francisco needed 70 put Il into the
pink Of condition.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-24

There a 10 b Ahotsl trust but no
20 facilitate The Scashlngfo f ehseks 50
guests. ss53S
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-24

New Orleans has failed to set the
big show in 1915. but II viii continue.
to exhibit its Mardi Gras festivals With
IT. customary grace ana eclat.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-24

Depesed kings Of the present century
are lucky begsars. instead Of having
their heads chopped OF. as used to be,
the rather violent practice. they are IA
tired on pensions.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-24

around my waist, and I knew that my
pupil was prepared both for college
and to be my lover.
He passed his entrance examination
without a condition and gave me all
the credit for enabling him to do SO.
.sBut you do father an injustice"
demonstrated. "You must admit
"What! That old bookworm? he may
know d lot, but he has no ability what.
ever to impart knowledge to any one
else. Why, do you know, he spent
months trying to teach me to conju.
gate the verb to love without my be
ing able to catch even the mood a
for 4 am loved, I didn't know any.
thing about II" Es
I laughed and remarked that ! wal
the only one Of the three who at that
time knew all about that mood.
4 have saidssthat, having boys Of my
own, I would mot like to have them
fall under the same induencs that theii
father fen undsrs ct eighteen. I "a
needsssto Is quaiidsd. II depends q
the girl. Re any Of my cons should %
that arc fail n love with gti WIKI
would have in her the traits 70 hold
his affection when he has grown oldel
and to make him ! valuable life help
meet shonld b very siadsto hsys
him do believe that early niatinl
u mot only natural, Int beneficial. pro
yided the persons mating are ntted fol
.sNN "REMINISCENCES
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-08-22
Folk Pleases Ioxans.


The following excerpt was taken from
IN editorial written by w. M. Ward in
the Herald of Newton, Iowa:
OF the men whom Mr.. Bryan men.
toned as being available for the Dem
ocratic nomination for president next
year, former Governor Joseph W. Folk
of Missouri, was given the first place.
Other men were mentioned, but it was
Folk who was named first and given
the mark of distinction. There is a
reason for this: Governor Folk is the
one man in the whole country of presi-
Dental size who stands closest to Mr.,
Bryan in ideas and actions, in thoughts,
acts and utterances. Bryan and Folk
are as one in mind and one in heart,
Hence, when MIR. Bryan named Coy
ernor Folk first on the list of men
whom he thought worthy of the conf
dence and support of the Democrats of
the country for the office of president,
he acted from and for the principles
which he himself advocates and de-
tends. If MIR. Bryan persists in his
determination not to permit his friends
to consider him in connection with the
nomination in 1912, Governor Folk is
the man upon whom the militant Dem
ocrats of the West must unite. There
10 no other Western man-west of the
Mississippi river-upon whom they can
unite"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-08-22
1871 MILES IN 1856 MINUTES
ATWOOD COMPLETES ANOTHER
LAP IN HIS ARlAL JOURNEY.
Reaches Elkhart, Ind, Against Wind
In Little Short Of Time II Takes
Fastest Train.

Elkhart, Ind, Aug. 16.-Skimmin9
over the southwest corner of Lake
Michigan and then over the sand hills
of northern Indiana. Harry N. Atwood.
Of Boston, in his aeroplane, few the
101 miles from Chicago in 2 hours
and 16 minutes, without a stop, thus
completing 1897 miles of his 1,460-mile
cross-country fight from ST. Louis to
New York and Boston.
Atwood made the 1O1 miles from
Chicago in only q minutes more time
than the fastest train service In the
United States, which covers the dis
lance between Chicago and Elkhart in
! hour and 55 minutes.
The Boston aviator, arising in his
Burgess-Wright biplane on the lake
front in Chicago. circled over the
thousands gathered there at the avia-
ton meet and at 1881 p. m. shot out
on his long Journey eastward. He ar
rived here at SAT p. M, calmly set
Ting down into hay field. His high
est altitude was 1000 feet, reached
over South Bend, Ind, but generally
he kept low in order to follow the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern rail-
road tracks which fixed his course.
Lands In Hay Field.
At Elkhart the aviator was unable
to locate the grounds arranged for his
reception, SO he landed in hay field.
but later rose again and was received
in the driving park. He resumed his
flight. going to Toledo, and to Sandus-
ky, Ohio, for the night.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-08-22
DISCOVER CURE FOR LEPRosy
Doctors Discharge Two Patients and
This Disease Held Less Dangerous
Than Tuberculosls.

New York.-That leprosy can b
cured is apparently demonstrated BY
the discharge Of two patients Ut tho
Blackwell's Island hospital here after
several years treatment In isolation.
The first patient. an American. vas
allowed his freedom eight months ago.
but no announcement was made until
this week. as 1t was feared II any
publicity were attached to the case lie
would be made unbearable for the par
tient.
The second patient. q woman. also
was discharged some time ago, and
deported to her old home In the West
Indies. where she has since married.
There still are six lepers under the
care Of the city physicians at Black
wells island.
Tho New York Institution for many
years past has welcomed the lepers.
who are driven out of other cities.
While the public still labors under the
old delusion that leprosy Is highly
dangerous. the Blackwell island doc
tors declare that the leprosy cases are
far less dangerous than tuberculosis
cases. Of which there are more than
nine hundred on the island.