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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-08-10
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ILLEGAL SHOOTING

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Some of the hunters out in Ben
Whitehead's stamping grounds are
said to be srooting chickens and deer
promisoously. Deputy Game Warden
Kramer Of Velva was sent there Fri
day to bring the nimrods to time.
The farmers since the heavy rains,
have lost no time getting into the
fields and blowing. They look for
conditions next year to be perfect.
Everything points that way.
Hans o. Severson, for twenty-one
years resident of Ward county, has
moved from Des Laos to Havre, Mont,
where he will engage in ranching.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-08-10
WALTER ROCKWELL
WAS found GUILTY
Fjend Who Assaulted Plaza School
Teacher, Convicted in Short Order
at Towner and Given Fifteen Years.

Walter Rockhold, the brute, who
assaulted a school teacher south OF
Berthold, several months ago, was
found guilty Of rape at Towner, where
his tidal was held before Judge Burr,
and sentenced to serve fifteen years
in the pen. Rockhold filed an am
davit Of prejudice and his case
was transferred to McHenry county.
At the time of his capture at Garri-
son, he practically admitted his guilty
to the Ward county sheriff and 1t was
thought that he would plead guilty
Rockhold was defended by Ben Combs
Of Donnybrook.
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Cut Glass. Special Values

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Writing material We have a lot Of fine bar
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The Washington herald., 1911-08-14

mitting their crime. The fact that moth
ing else in the house was molested leads
to the belief that the deed was the work
of men familiar with the McClintocks
and their home surroundings.
John McClintock was az Union soldier
in the civil war. Originally from Penn
sylvania, he fought in mapy battles
throughput the Old Dominion, and liked
the country and its people so we'll that
when he became a pensioner at the end
of the war he concluded to settle, In
Fairfax County.
Nearly fifty years ago he bought an
estate of nearly 400 acres, mile south
of Annandale, on the road leading from
that place to Springfield, a small station
on the Southern Railway, eight miles
west of Alexandria. The McClintock
place Is about three miles distant in an
air line across the Virginia hills from
Ravensworth, the old mansion of the
Lees, where Gen. George Washington
Custis Lee, son of Gen. Robert E. Lee,
is now living.
Until a few years ago John McClin-
took was an active farmer in that sec
ton of Fairfax, but he had become in
firm, and as his large family of children
had married, he concluded to retire. Part
of the estate is farmed by Charles
Smarr another section by William Potee,
both of whom married daughters of John
McClintock. They are the nearest neigh
bors to the McClintocks, who lived alone
in the old homestead.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-14
AMERICANS IN EUROPE
Morgan Eager to Acquire Possession of Heirlooms.
Kaiser Makes Gift to National Museum

cepted the gift, but at once presented II
to the city OF Munich. More than that,
he had a new museum built to house
the paintings. And all this in spite of
the urgent requests Of his Prussians TO
remove the treasures to Berlin And so
II was when Ernst Won Mendelssohn. the
Berlin banker. in his will bequeathed his
beautiful villa. "Falconieri," near Rome,
to the Kaiser. He at once turned that
fine estate into a home Of rest for
artists.
But the most remarkable thing in con-
nection with gifts OF that class is the
suit which has been brought against the
Emperor for the possession of the castle
of Cadinen, in East Prussia, on the
ground that he had accepted 1t as a gift
from one Arthur Birkner while the lat
ter was mentally irresponsible. II that
was really the case 1t would be the only
instance, during his entire reign, of
keeping any valuable property presented
to him. l happen to know all about the
incident, as it was chronicled at the semi
official Kreuz Zeitung (the Norddeutsche
Allgemeine).
1t was while the Kaiser was riding
turn trip from Corfu to Berlin that some
of Birkner's Italian heirs threw into
his carriage a lot OF documents bearing
on that suit. Soon after the semi-official
announcement appeared in the paper that
the claim was absurd, that the Emperor
had taken over that estate when il had
been mortgaged heavily and almost
ruined by reckless husbandry, and that
he had assumed responsibility for all the
debts and besides had allowed Birkner
an annuity of 1900 marks
Now there is in Italy a family by the
name of Giangrandi, heirs of this man
Emperor received the Cadinen estate as
a gift and not as a purchase at the time
when Blrkner was a morphine fiend. and
that he refuses to part with 1t because
II has since become very valuable, ow-
ing to the discovery of china clay and
the consequent establishment Of a royal
porcelain factory there. They even pub
lish a letter in which Kaiser Wilhelm Is
quoted as expressing his royal graft
tude for the gift and the patriotic spirit
displayed in making him the present.
The Kaiser in his impulsive way, may
have written some such generous words.
despite the fact that he paid dearly
enough for the place in its neglected
condition; but If all was as the heirs
try to represent now, why did they wait
thirteen years until making their claims
and until 1t had been announced that the
Kaiser had made vast and costly i'm
provements on the estate?
The Washington herald., 1911-08-14
LYNCH NEGRO WHO
ATTACKED WOMAN

Durant, Okla, Aug. 13.-The body Of a
negro. who is thought to have been the
one who attacked and shot Mrs. L. r.
Campbell, north Of Durant at noon yes
terday, was taken by a mob to-day from
the posse who had slain him, and short
ly before noon was publicly burned on a
vacant lot near Durant's business CEN
ter.
Little excitement attended the burn
ing. The officers were powerless to pre-
vent the burning, but finally persuaded
the mob to delay the burning until the
body could be viewed by Mrs. Campbell.
The body was brought to Durant in an
automobile from Platter, twelve miles
southwest Of this city, near where the
negro was killed in a running fight with
the posse. The negro was a stranger.
All negroes were driven out Of Durant,
and a Durant mob went to Caddo, Okla,
to aid in driving the negroes from that
city tonight.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-14
WIRELESS SYSTEM
ON LAKES TIED UP
Operators on Strike for Their
Back Pay.

Chicago. Aug 13.-What is probably
the first strike OF wireless operators
on record occurred yesterday. when
the operators at Milwaukee, Ludington.
and Grand Haven quit their posts, be-
cause their pay envelopes We're twelve
days overdue. Two operators at the
Congress Hotel also quit, but one OF
the three there remained on duty.
The operators on the Lake vessels
also remained at their posts. At the
office of F. NJ Mckee, receiver for the
Chicago division of the company, it
was said yesterday that the delay in
the payment of the operators was oc-
casioned by the difficulty in getting ac-
cess to the funds of the bankrupt con-
Germ.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-14

commerce know that certain forms of
combination are illegal, that others may
or may not be adjusted legal under the
rule Of reason" but in the event that
a combination is declared illegal or that
company's lawyers interpret the rule
Of reason" in discordance with the rea-
son Of the United States Supreme Court
no one knows just how such a company
as the American Tobacco Company can
be dissolved and recreated. 1t is obvi-
ously to the public benefit that the great
amount Of business conducted by the
American Tobacco Company and by other
large industrial combinations be con-
tinued. but no method of continuance
has yet been devised.
Business generally seems to be improv
ing moderately or holding its own. Re-
ports from the steel and copper trades
We're satisfactory last week, the Copper
Producers Association reporting de-
crease of 100000 pounds in stocks of
the metal in July and the United States
Steel Corporation showing an increase of
223,O 600 tons in untitled orders in the same
month. The number Of idle cars de-
creased, the crop moving season being
now we'll advanced.
The government report on the grain
crops. indicating, as compared with last
year. a yield of more than SOO,OOO,OO
bushels less In wheat, corn, oats. and
rye combined, was generally construed
unfavorably. but the governments statis-
ticians are this year using new methods
of computation and are allowing such
wide margin for deterioration that COM
parisons are difficult and the reports less
than ordinarily convincing. 1t Is real
iZed that there has been much damage
to grain, but with the promise of
bumper cotton crop 1t may be that the
crops as a whole will prove of normal
value. Nothing more than average val
ue is. however, expected from them.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-14
NIGHT FLIGHTS
IN ARMY PLANES
NEW MANEUVER
College Park Birdmen Will
Tour Air on Scouting Trip.
SEARCHLIGHT is SOUGHT

The whirl of aeroplane propellors and
the rays Of aerial searchlights will in
the near future. probably within week.
add to the disturbances that help to
keep residents of College Park, Nd,
awake at night, for the aviators of the
United States Army Aviation School are
to make midnight flights, and are now
loking for a satisfactory searchlight that
will enable them to guide their machines
over the country surrounding the aviation
field without danger
Night Flights Valuable.
Moonlight flights have for sometime
been discussed by the young officers who
comprise the first generation OF army
birdmen, and the experience to be had
from expeditions after imaginary enc
mics will. 1t is thought. be invaluable.
Probably the most important part of the
night flights Is the selection OF a search
light and fuel that will be reliable, COM
pact and easily operated.
So far the search for a light has been
confined to acetylene gas, which can be
carried in small tanks. but there has
been talk of the invention OF special
fuel for the work that will enable the
aviators to make flights of almost in
definite length.
When the night flights are started II
is planned to keep bright bonfires at each
corner of the aviation field, for even in
the daytime II is difficult to select a
smooth landing place. In this way, II
is argued there would be no chance for
an aviator, confused by the darkness
surrounding him, to lose his bearings
and be forced either TO descend in igno-
rance OF the ground or to remain in
flight until dawn.
A searchlight attached to an aeroplanc
could he operated by the aviator, or.
preferably, by a passenger.
New Sheds Are Built.
A touch of permanency Is being added
to the government school, for. in addi-
ton to the four hangers now finished. It
is proposed to build several additional
sheds, and as soon as the number of
troops now detailed at the field is in
creased quarters probably will be built.
as the soldiers are now crowded.
The only flights at College Park yes
terday were made by Aviator Harris, in
the Fox biplane. He made five runs
across the aviation field, but did not
ascend more than about ten feet. as he
is not yet ready to attempt a real flight.
Monday is usually the busy day at Col
lege Park, and the army aviatOrs will
probably attempt cross-country flight.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-14
UTILITY SHOWER
CAUSES DIVORCE
Bride Stops Utensils with
Body, Then Sues.

New York, Aug. 13.-Estelle McDevitt.
of 11O6 Southern boulevard. wife of Will
lam ]. McDevitt, a wealthy clothing
merchant, has sued her husband for
separation. She says she has always
been a dutiful wife and endeavored Ito
live in peace and quiet and conduct her
home with prudence and economy"
She charges that her husband pre-
vented her from living peacefully by do
ing these things:
i. Swearing at her and calling her
names.
Q Slamming a door so that It cut off
a part Of one of her fingers and refus-
ing her medical aid.
8. Throwing a heavy dish so that It
hit her.
l. Hurting a coffee pot so that it hit
her.
5. Throwing an egg at her head
6. Throwing a vase and crockery at
her.
McDevitt made no defense to the ap-
plication for alimony.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-14

New York, Aug. BIN the readjust-
ment of the countrys business affairs
some progress was made last week, but
the progress was not great or reassur-
ing. There was again a great deal Of
criticism. but the criticism came out in
the course Of investigation and prosecu-
ton and none OF 1t was constructive. It
consisted of complaints and Of endeav-
ors to discover further evils Tin business
conduct
One or two suggestions We're made as
to the manner in which business might
legally be conducted in accordance with
the law or in accordance with economic
laws relating to the strength Of union.
But nowhere was there a clear note
No one expressed with any clearity
whatever a method whereby business
men may get together and undertake
big enterprises with prospect of obtain
ing recompense in either money or rep
utation.
Before the Congressional committee,
which is investigating the United States
Steel Corporation, and which was the
busiest of governmental bodies last
week. one OF the committeeman declared
that Congress proposed to institute a
thorough investigation of all business.
including the relatiens of employer and
employe. with the purpose of framing
legislation under which both might pros
per. Embryonic as this development is,
1t is the first suggestion Of constructive
craftsmanship that has been uttered lat
terly by legislators discussing the affairs
of corporations, and indicates that the
men engaged in politics are learning that
a diagnosis is of no value unless there
is a remedy for whatever Ill is discov-
cred.
At prestent men engaged in interstate
The Washington herald., 1911-08-14
MASS FOR PONTIFF.
Weather Continues Pleasant, Graft
flying Physicians.
he Washington Herald.

Special Cable to The Washington Herald.
Rome, Aug. 13-The Pope passed q
quiet and restful Sunday. although he
was not permitted TO sit up. Owing to
decreased fever. bis condition was con-
sidered so much better that Father Bres-
san. at the request OF Cardinal Merry del
Val. celebrated mass In the sick room.
The Pope's sisters and nieces knelt at
the bed Ode and were participants In q
touching scene. weeping when the pontiff
partook Of holy communion. The pontiff
urged that he be permitted to sit up In
bed during the saying OF mass. but he
was not permitted TO do 80, The weather
continues pleasant, and this fact 10 espe-
cIaliy gratifying to his holinsss physi-
cianA
The Washington herald., 1911-08-14

Howe met them with a drawn gun. He
fired two shots, but the infuriated men
did not notice 1t. They brushed the po-
liceman aside and pushed the hospital
attendants who tried to interfere out OF
their way and went on.
Walker lay helpless on his bed in the
right wing of the hospital. Into the
ward the leaders rushed patients faint
ing and screaming from fright. Some
one produced a rope. They tied the
shackled negro to his cot. Then a score
of men laid hold of the rope and ran
down the corridor. Out Of the hospital
they dragged the bed and the negro with
II.
Walker couldn't make an outcry. His
self-infiicted bullet wound in the mouth
had made this impossible. His eyes
glared the terror that was his.
The crowd outside gave a cheer as
they saw their leaders come out with
the negro. Chief of Police Olmstead
tried to push through the crowd to aid
Policeman Howe, but he was pushed
aside. The cot bumped over the road
waY.
A bowling mob, now increased to a
thousand or more persons, followed. A
half mile to the south the men with the
rope stopped. They were now Just op-
posite the place where Edgar Rice was
shot the night before. Three or four
brawney arms pitched the negro and his
cot over a fence into field. They put
hay over the cot and Walker. Some one
touched a match to the mattress, and
the cotton and hay were all ablaze
Suddenly the negro gave a jump out of
the blazing hay and leaped over the
fence, with the bed still roped to his
back. The crowd gave a yell. Men with
fence rails showed the bed and the negro
hack into the blazing hay. Three times
did the negro attempt to escape in this
manner. Each time the men with the
fence rails showed him back into the
fire. The third time the flesh was hang
ing from the negros bones In a few
minutes all was over, the fire died away,
and the mob disappeared.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-14
BUTCHERS FEAR
MEAT PRICE RISE
Drought Causes Shortage in
Western Supply.
DEALERS GET SMALL PROFIT

Washington housekeepers may look for
a rise in the price of food articles, espe-
cially of meats, within the next week
that will break the record for all prices
that have ever been known. If the predic-
tiOns made by Western packers repre-
sentatives come true. and there seems to
be little hope that they will not come out
as predicted.
Some of the largest dealers in meats
said yesterday that the breaking point of
conditions that they have long been
struggling against has now come One
dealer epitomized the hard situation by
saying that he does not know what the
poor people are going to do.
The cattle dealers say that there is a
scarcity of suitable cattle. due to the
drought, which has had the effect of cut
ting down the crops OF food products and
of making the fattening of cattle the
greatest problem that they have yet had
to face
Failures Are Caused.
Local dealers say that the pressure has
been hard on them for a long time, and
that they have been running along for
weeks at a margin of profit that was not
big enough to pay expenses 1t is point
ed out that some meat dealers have failed
in business in consequence of hard condi-
tions imposed on them.
One large dealer said that the first i'm
preston that the consumer gets when
he sees the prices asked for good meat
is that the butcher Is making a barrel
of money and that his profit is most
enormous. The real situation has been
that the wholesaler has for a long time
been steadily raising the price of meat,
due to the scarcity of supplies, while
the retailer has not been able to raise
his prices, because they were now as
high as the consumers can be asked to
pay.
But now, with the later rises that the
wholesalers have made, it is impossible
for the retailer to sell at his old prices,
and the prices for good meats, meats Of
the better quality, must soar within the
coming week. The situation is such
that meat dealers can no longer hold the
prices down.
Along with the rise in the wholesale
price of meat, the meat men complain
that the price that they used to get
for the fat and the trimmings has gone
down. A dealer said that where he used
to get cents a pound for the fat he
now only gets cents. He has, there
fore, to get cents a pound more for
his steaks or be less careful about the
trimmings.
Vegetables, too, will be higher. Pota-
toes have gone up in price nearly % per
cent, and all vegetables this year are
higher in price and of poorer quality than
has been the case for years. The local
supply has been far below the demand
this year, and the foreign potatoes of
the Northern States are not yet coming
in. The drought has been the cause of
this condition, and there is no immediate
prospect that the prices will be lower for
a time.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-14
FEARS FEUD IN PARTY.
senator Bailey Would Avoid the
Prohibition Question.

Handley, Tex, Aug. Ex-senator ].
w. Bailey does not want the prohibt-
ton question to be made a factor in
the coming contest for United States
Senator In a letter to DR.. William NJ.
Shoemaker, of this place. he says:
You may be entirely right in think
ing the Democrats of Texas intend to
make the prohibition question a test
of fitness for every Office, but II they
do adopt that policy they will regret
it soner or later, for 1t must inevitably
produce a bitter feud within our
party"
The Washington herald., 1911-08-14
Hibbs Building.
REAL ESTATE LOANS.
w. H. WALKER, 729 18th st. NV.
THE RAIN.

II was 50 wet up In tn sky
tn rain came down where II was dr.
An cause he was all drippin' wet
He went a-huntin' round to get
Some place to stay in-'s wy. s'poss.
He liked our Katie's clean white cio'es
But abe jus ,erked EN- OF tn line.
Cause Katie amt a-going to min.
II all his feclin's does get hurt
Men he Jus tumbled In tn dirt
Bime-by he saw tn folks a-sittin'
On our piazka-Gramma knittin'.
But soon es he climbed up IN stain
wy everybody pulled their chairs
Away hack IN. "Oh-hof' says he.
They're 'fraid TO 'sociAte with mer
50 be went on an bad some fun
A-makin' all IN chickens nun.
But he'll set IN In spite of that,
'Caue hero comes GrampA an his haiti
tn Ole Rain rode long on tn hrtnl
An wen my Gramps he sAw him
He slapped his hank'chuf, 20 he'll 90
The vosste<t whippin' he's had ystl
Aazis Lsssa TenpshA n AAsp9s &snN
The Washington herald., 1911-08-14
WOMAN HELD AS WITNESS.
Man Killed in Woods After Being
Out for q Drive.


Out for q Drive.
Raleigh, N. c., Aug. 13.-Mrs William
r. Yerby twas arrested tonight and
held as a material witness In connection
with the murder Of ]. B. Bissett, who
was shot and killed IN the woods a mile
and a half east OF here early to-day.
The body was found by a farmer sever
al hours later.
Under cross-examination Mrs. Yerby
said she was out driving with Bissett
and had reached the spot where Bissett's
body was found when some men whom
she said she could not recognize. rushed
upon them and shot Bissett. Bissett's
outer garments and some woman's cloth
ing were found near the body. Mrs
Yerby's husband was also arrested, but
he denied all knowledge of the shoot
ing.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-14
CAPTURED IN CORN FIELD.
Man Who Shot Wife and Sister
Caught by Posse.

Cape Charles, Va. Aug. 13.-Ames L.
Polk, who shot and probably mortally
wounded his sister-in-law. Mrs. James H.
Lawrence, OF 515 West 111th street, New
York City. and then turned the weapon
on his wife, inficting a shot wound in
the arm. at his home in Pocomoke City,
Nd, while under the influence Of drink,
was captured by sheriff and posse in
q cornfield near the town limits, where
he had fed after the shooting, and
placed In jail at Princess Anne, Md.