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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-04

Bismarck. n d.. Jan. 4.-For the
third time John Burke has been in
augurated governor Of the state of
North Dakota, ceremonies formally
placing him IN the executive chair for
another term of two years being con-
Quoted this afternoon in the chamber
Of the house of representatives be-
fore the Joint assembly Of senate and
house members.
Apart from the impressive manner
in which the oath Of Office was admin
istered to Governor Burke in the
presence of state officials and legis-
lators, interest centered about the
message of the governor to the
Twelfth legislative assembly.
The ceremonies of this afternoon
we're witnessed by a very large gath
ering of prominent residents of the
state. While many who were there
probably attended out Of mere curl
osity. others were present because
they had full realization Of the tast
importance and significance of the
occasion to the people Of this great
commonwealth.
Officials of the state elected at the
polls last November were also form
ally inaugurated this afternoon in. the
presence of the solons, the entire
proceeding being marked with dig
nifty wholly in accord with the oc-
casion's bearing upon the conduct of
the states business during the COM
ing two years.
Message is Lengthy.
Governor Burkes message to the
assembly was lengthy, comprising
about 5000 words. and in it he dis
cussed fully a wide range Of topics
Of peculiar. interest to the people of
North Dakota. Appropriations were
taken up by the governor as the very
important topic up for consideration
at this session and in his message he
dwelt at length upon the subject, urg-
ing the assembly that it be careful
in it's appropriations that 1t did not
exceed the revenue of the common
wealth during the biennial period
just entered. He also urges that ap-
propriations be cared for early in the
session, avoiding the confusion al
ways incident to the "last night" pro-
ceedings, so familiar to all who have
IN acquaintance with the manner in
which legislative assembly finishes
its work and adjourns. A complete
statement of expenditures by the
state during the last two years, to-
gether with an estimate Of the reve-
nues during the coming two years, is
submitted by the governor.
Legislative economy is also urged,
and he states that while the consti-
tuition Of the state prescribes that the
assembly shall not. continue more
than sixty days. there is nothing to
prevent adjournment earlier should
the business be disposed of. He
makes the point that the present as.
sembly could establish very unusual
precedent by closing up its business
early and returning home.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-04
HIS BONDS Have
BEEN FURNISHED
Cass County Treasurer Ex-
pected to Be Appointed
Deputy

Fargo, n. D., Jan. 4.-There are no
new developments in the H. A. Nc
Conville embezzling case at Fargo.
The ex-county treasurer was arrested
on complaint of the bond company
and succeeded in furnishing bonds.
Treasurer-elect Ejbort Gilbertson
had promised the deputyship to Mr..
McConville but when he learned OF
the shortage refused to appoint him
Bank Examiner Knutson of Michi-
gan is expected this evening and will
decide what steps to take in the mat
ter.
The finding of the shortage has put
the business of the county behind and
it will be several months before
things can be Strengthened around.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-04
THE GAME BOARD
EXPENDITURES TO
Be INVESTIGATED
Senator Gunderson Asks For
Joint Committee to Look
Into Record
S :NAT0R G. {. DUS OBJECT TO
ITS IMMEADIATE CONSIDERATION
Whole Matter Goes Over to January
12-Board Spent 1850 During the
Two Years and Many Deputies
We're Employed During Summer.
III, ID. pAULSoN.,

Bismarck, N. d. Jan. 4.-senator
j. G. Gunderson (RepD of Aneta Of
fered resolution in the senate this
afternoon providing for joint COM
mittee to investigate the expenditure
Of $42,630 by the state game board OF
control during the last tw., years.
Senator George E. Duis (Dem) OF
Grand Forks opposed the immediate
confederation Of the resolution and
it went over under the rules until
January IL.
A large number of deputies were
employed during the campaign
months, it is said, in the hotel .obbies
and drafts were not issued for their
pay until November n.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-04

The announcement is made with
much circumstantial detail. Miss
Ross Amber Curran is the daughter
Of the late Clarence Postley, the New
York millionaire yachtsman. whose
widow has home in Paris. AS
Elsie Postley, she married Ross AM
bier Curran six years ago. her moth
er gave her $1,0000O0 and gave her
another million when her child was
born.
Brother.in.Law Steals Heart
After the marriage Mrs. Postley
elected to live abroad and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ross Amber Curran. lived
with her most of the time. This did
not suit Mr. Curran who preferred
America. His mother-in-law would
not consent to reside in America.
however, and the breach widened.
"Too much mother-in-law," was the
verdict of their friends when the first
of the divorce series was announced.
Mrs. Ross Amber Curran made oc-
casional trips to New York and it is
said to have been on one of these
visits last summer that the romance
between her and her brother-in-law
Guernsey, began. The romance ripen-
ed in France when Guernsey Curran
went there on visit.
But Guernsey Curran was married
and according to the story now being
told here, it was this fact that has
tened Mrs. Ross Amber Curran's de-
cisison to get a divorce. The next
move was to be the divorce of Guern-
sey Curran.
Gossips Point to q Marriage
Mrs. Ross Amber Curran and her
sior in Rome and it is believed that
they have come for the purpose Of
consulting the church authorities as
to the avoidance of any possible COM
plications that may arise should the
next move in the sequence be Mrs.
Ross Amber Curran's marriage to
her former husbands brother. Ro-
man society hints that this marriage
has been decided on and that it will
take place in Switzerland.
New York, Jan. Mrs. Guernsey
Curran obtained her interlocutory de-
cree at Patchogue, l.. l., last Tuesday.
] The announcement was a surprise to
all except few of her closest friends.
The principal evidence in the case
was given by John S. Tucker, an old
friend of the family, and two private
detectives.
Mrs. Guernsey Curran was Miss. Ma
rie Harmon, daughter of Frank Den
ham Harmon and a niece of one Of
| the Havemeyers. She was married in
| 1903 and like Mrs. Ross Amber Cur
ran has one child.
| Third Divorce in France
The trouble in this family is said
| to date back to about a year ago,
when the troubles of the Ross Amber
Curans were becoming acute. The
third divorce in the Curran and Post
ley families was obtained in France
a few weeks ago by Mrs Clarence S.
Postley, whose husband is a brother
of Mrs. Ross Amber. Curran. Mrs
Postley returned to New York about
ten days ago and Mr.. Postley met her
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-04
He DIED At THE
AGE 0F:l07 YEARS
Oldest Man in North Dakota
Died in Fargo Hospital
This Morning

Fargo, Jan. Anton Koeni,, q
German and the Oldest man in North
Dakota. died in Fargo hospital this
morning.
Mr.. Koenig was born in Gutenberg,
Germany, 107 years ago. About thir-
ty years ago he came to America. To-
eating at Casselton where he enter
ed the mercantile business, conduct
ing general store until about eigh-
teen months ago. when he conclud-
ed that he was too old to continue
in business and moved to Fargo.
Mrs. koenig died August 30, 1910
at the age of 96 years.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-04
FAMILIES MIXED
Mrs. Ross Curran May Marry Her
Brother.in.Law

L Rome, Jan. A clear head and a
diagram are needed to unravel the
tangled skein of marriage and di-
vorce in which the members Of the
James R. Curran arf Clarence Post
ley families Of New York, seem to
have BEEN ehfneshed. The, latest de-
velopments in this much-mixed affair
is the intimation here of forthcom-
ing marriage of Mrs. Elsie Postley
Curran, who divorced Ross Albert
Curran in Paris on November 26, to
her former husbands brother Guern-
sey Curran, whose wife, according to
a New, York cable, divorced him in
New York state last Tuesday.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-04

thought of London appears to be that
the marshaling Of the great force of
police and military to destroy the lit
tie nest Of outlaws was mistake.
A number Of provincial papers, too,
criticise the authorities sharply. The
Manchester Dispatch today says that
Englishmen have been made to ap-
pear ridiculous and that the affair is
ono which the country will be glad
to forget. The impression is gaining
ground that the policemen should
have dealt with the business without
calling the soldiers and that the sum-
moning of the horse artillery was
particularly an unnecessary move.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-04
GOT
$4,000 FINES
Two Railroads and a Steel
Company Fined in Federal
District Court

Philadelphia. Jan. 4.-Judge Hol-
land in the United States district
court inflicted fines of $4,000 each on
the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
way company, the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road company and the Bethlehem
Steel company. charged with unlaw-
full rebating. The government was
prosecutor, the charge being tl'at the
railroad remitted demurrage charges
on freight cars used by the steel COM
pany. The defendants announced they
will appeal the case to the supreme
court.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-04


Governors n*s'" <ls.a: ss.t''':
s;evea appropriation
0 showing why was veto H. items
printing of legislative bills until recon-
mailing bills be dl c,ed with
that number employees Of the egslath ma
terialy reduced
buildings the several state
institutions
outside the
built
Of making adjutan OF the
board which the military and favos ppro
priation for taking Of the
Wants money for attorney general in coal rate case
Urges tuberculosis sanitarium
glandered horses kill
Of veterinarian
Endorses Of Hebron experiment station.
Wants exhaustive antipass legislation.
United States
constitution providing for income tax
Wants the cohcaton Of school laws enacted recommended
by commission.
improving the dairy laws Of the state
all be built by
contract BY experienced contractors
Advocates q commissioner.
capitol buildings improved
a judiciary districts
bill providing removal Of public
officials
Asks initiative referendum and recall laws be enacted
Republican practice
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-04
BAD BLIZZARD
Regina Suffered From Real Biz.
gard Yesterday.

Regina, sask.. Jan. 4.-Yesterday's
snow storm was so bad in the capital
Of Saskatchewan that at o'clock in
the afternoon it was decided the lady
clerks in the legislative buildings
should remain in the Offices all night,
the street liveries being out of busi-
ness. The Y. NJ. c. A. new building
fell down. A dozen plate glass win
dows were blown in in the business
establishments.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-04
GIBBONS WAS
FOUND NOT GUILTY
Shot His Wife and a Priest at
South St. Paul-Declared
Insane

Hastings. Mimi, Jan. 4-Patrick
Gibbons. who shot and killed, first
Father f. J. Walsh and then his wife
at South st. Paul last May, was to-
day found not guilty on the ground
that at the date the act was COM
mitted he was insane and had
homicidal insanity" He was sent to
the insane hospital.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-04
THE LEGISLATURE
TOOK A RECESS
Resolution in Senate to Reduce
Session to Forty-Five
Days
IN. D. PAULsoN.)

Bismarck, N. D., Jan. 4-The legis-
lature adjourned this afternoon unit,
Thursday, January IL.
Senator Pierce offered resolution
in the senate making the session only
forty-five days instead Of sixty. Tho
resolution was referred to the COM
mittee on state affairs.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-04
AN EARTHQUAKE
DESTROYED CITY
Communication With Stricken
Territory Broken and the
Details Meager

Tashkent, Asiatic Russia, Jan. A.
Violent earthquake shocks were felt
at various points of Russian Turke-
stan from to 4:30 o'clock this
morning. Many buildings were de-
stroyed and there were number of
fatalities, though the loss of life is
not yet known.
Great assures opened in the
ground. Practically all of the stores
and residents. at Vyerny. the capital
Of the territory of Somiryetchensk,
were destroyed or damaged. The city
has population Of $4,000. Communi-
cation with the district is interrupted,
London Records.
London, Jan. Am earthquake of
gigantic proportion was recorded by
the seismograph at the observatory
at Westbromick between 1885 O'Clock
last night and 1856 o'clock this morn
ing, apparently 5000 or 1000 miles
to the eastward. The foscillation was
so violent that the needle of the in
strument collapsed.
Tashkent, the capital of the gen.
eral government of Russian Turkes-
tan, is an important trade center with
la population of about $4,000. Wy
erny, which appears to have suffered
the most, Is fortified town situated
at the northern foot of Trans-Illi-
Alla-Tau, about fifty miles from the
River Illi and about the same dis.
tance from Lake Issyk-Kul. It wae
badly damaged by an earthquake in
1897. %
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-04
Baldwin Sworn In.

Hartford, Conn.,. Jan. 4.-The oath
of office as governor Of Connecticut
was taken by Judge Simeon e. Bald
win this afternoon before the general
assembly in joint convention. Cover
nor Baldwin is the first Democrat
who has occupied the executive oftlce
of Connecticut since 1895. He 10 q
descendant of Roger Sherman.
signer of the Declaration Of 1nde-
pendence.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-04
GOVERNOR EBERHART Urges
SOME SENSATIONAL PLANS

at the pier. She has gone to Cali
fornia with her little son, who is not
we'll, and it is rumored in New York
that the boy will be the means of ef-
fecting reconciliation soon.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-12-21

in thirty years, and had TO fry some more In such
a hurry to put on her "other dress" and to
Mrs. Pratt's to tell her: MY boy Is coming home "
The boy came home. When he took mother in
his arms and held her for full minute, she couldn't
speak. All choked up. So glad to him, she
couldn't say word. And when she did speak, the
first thing she said, she looked up into his brown
eyes, was: "oh. my boy, how pale you are!"
He was pale. He knew it. Subway air makes no
red od-corpuscIes Kills some of the red ones
that exist. Nor does the electric light of the sub
way brown the cheek as the sunlight browns the
cheek of the farmer All the year that he had
been away, mother had carried in her mind the pic
ture of her farmer boy. Never had dreamed that
her farmer boy would come home with grayish-
white face Didn't need to say she was shocked.
Looked it. The boy caught the message and laugh
ingly replied:
"Oh, mother, all city folks are pale"
During the week that he remained at home the
boy was kept talking Father and mother CON.
stantly asking questions. Seemed to mother as II
she couldn't ask questions enough Wanted to get
first-hand information about everything of which
she had read.
Six months after he returned to work. his mother
had opportunity to see for herself, just how big
New York. telegram told her that her boy
had been hurt She and father found him In hos
pita with his head bandaged until they could bare
ly see his eyes. At the end of his rum he had
tried to the tracks to catch another train back
and get to dinner more quickly. Didn't see a train
running III Tue OppOslI6 ulTeCLlOH Gar BtruCk MIN.
Picked up for dead Seemed to have fractured
skull. Fortunately, did not. Revived in the hos
pital and would get we'll
b. Oh, but the mothers heart was glad when she
heard the best instead of the worst Glad until she
and father went to the boys room. Not his room
in the hospital but his room in a lodging house.
Glad until she saw how miserably he had lived. A
dirty street. dirty house. A dirty hall. A cheer.
less room. Little light Bad air. A skinny bed A
frayed counterpart. Not a decoration, save her
, own picture, stuck in the edge of a mirror.
Her boy could afford no better place to live His
pay was only 1925 day. That is, his pay from
the company only $225 a day. The lure of
New York made up the rest that was needed to In
duce him to stay
Such is life for millions in New York Not life
as the newspaper dispatches describe It. Not life
as the stage pictures it. Life as 1t is.
few draw colossal prizes few more draw
good prizes. But if only those should come to New
York who can earn better living here than they
can elsewhere, handcar, running once day, would
almost bring them in. Ninety-two per cent. of the
population have not drawn apaugh prizes to enable
them to own their own homes. Yet people come
Come from every state in the Union. Come from
every town in every state-every hamfet Come
from italy, Norway, Sweden, Turkey-csme froDs
everywhere.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-12-21
AERAZD cS2lI4RE

" S'lTZ<rT/T%
classic The Two Orphans" In the cast were
extremely few persons besides the orphans them
selves as railway transportation and board were
both high But the show made up in scenery what
it lacked in cast. One scene, in particular, ap
pealed to the chuckle-faced youth. 1t was scene
in which the two orphans were sitting on the
steps .. Trinity church. The snow drifting
down over their thin shoulders. Broadway was
thronged with pedestrians. Horse-ears few along
at eight miles an hour. Nobody looked at the or.
phans. But the orphans silent as little sphynxes
looked straight ahead-straight up the street.
There was Broadway! The infinite skill of the
scene painter seemed to have carried the street
clear to the horizon Nothing but buildings and
people and people and buildings till they blended
at the finish, into an indistingushable haze of
paint.
The Nevada youth could hardly keep his seat
The painted scene had fired his mind with an
intense desire. He must be off to New York.
All during the show, which he saw not though he
looked straight at the stage, he kept his eyes
riveted to the splendid vista of Broadway. The
whole thoroughfare seemed to him to be treas
ure-house of opportunity. And, at DUSK when the
lights begin to blaze up along the Great White
Way'-ah, 1t is all just as he had dreamed 1t to
be! All grand! All surprisingly great!
But, kind friends, he dimes at no lobster palace
that evening. Nor do his magnificent Jewels glis-
ter in the horseshoe crescent at the opera. With
the money that he spare for his evening meal
he couldn't buy a Holsters tail and a drygoods
box in an alley would fit him better than a box at
the opera So, he dimes poorly for sixty cents at a
side-street restaurant, gets CLASSY eye from the
waiter for not giving tip, finds in which
there is no light by day, pure air night or day
and goes to sleep to dream of home and mother
The next morning, he is awakened by mis-
cellaneous assortment Of noises ranging from
elevated car wheels to horses hoofs AS he puts
on the shirt that mother laundered for him. his
heart takes sudden lurch back to the old roof
He calls his heart back He is in New York to
make good. 1t is up to him to do it. And by the
time he is ready to go out to hunt for breakfast
his nerve is all back
With nothing to do but get Job or starve he
looks for work. He hears that motormen are
wanted on the subway Half afraid to offer his
services, he nevertheless decides to do So On the
way to the company's offices, he considers all of
the situations glorious possibilities Never in
the country did he dare dream that some day he
might make battery of motors bite of 1000
horsepower Of electricity and snatch eight loaded
cars through the subterranean night.
The good news goes home to the old folks that
their boy is going to run a train in the New York
subway oh, II the boy could only see the min
gled sorrow and pride that light up his mothers
eyes when she reads the letter II breaks her
heart to have her boy away but it mends It to
know how emphatcally he has made good in the
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-12-21

do not think we have reached the limit,
by long way" he remarks, conf
IDENTIFY, and there are thousands who
are familiar with that country who
are ready to echo the assertion.
The fact is that large profits from
potato raising in Idaho are the rule,
not the exception. Fl. P. Frodsham, a
farmer In the American Falls district,
commonly takes 500 bushels from an
acre, his yield per acre thus being, at
~ cents per bushel, S210.
Someone who knows the conditions
in and the possibilities of Idaho has
said that ut is a maxim in southern
Idaho that the new settler, with little
or no capital or implements, but with
a willingness to work, can plant pota-
toes on his irrigated farm the first
year and make a good living for his
family, besides laying aside money to
make all necessary payments on his
land"
William B. Kelley, who owns a
ranch near Gooding, says: 1--WE get
so many potatoes to the acre that we
don't stop to count the sacks"
Samuel Lewis, also living near Good
ing, reports as follows: Potatoes
grow large and thick. Six potatoes
from my field weighed 21 pounds. The
crop runs 500 to 600 bushels to the
acre, and can Always be depended
upon"
The price received by Mr. Snyder
for his prize winning potatoes does
not by any means represent the top"
of the Idaho market Much higher
prices have been commanded at vari-
Gus times, yet at the Accent rate re-
ceived by Mr.. Snyder his profits were
very large.
Scores of instances may be cited to
show what the lands of Idaho hold in
store for those who will put forth the
effort that must precede success
Those who have succeeded in this
one task of potato raising, trace their
accomplishments to industry, of
course, and to a study of conditions
and needs. But they could not have
reaped such harvests If industry and
determination had not been fortified
by ideal conditions of climate and soil.
Such conditions prevail in the agri-
cultural districts of Idaho. There the
ground is rich and eager. There the
climate is conducive to the outdoor
task There the scheme of irrigation
has been so we'll prepared and Is SO
unfailing in It's supply that growing
crops have water when they need 1t.
With water, sunshine and cultiva-
ton to bless the crops at proper in
tervals, the growing of potatoes, or
any other agricultural or horticultural
industry in Idaho, is as sure of abun.
dant cash returns as any of mans
tasks can be.