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Lincoln Center. Kas., Nov. 23.-Ths
defense in the ''tar party" trial rested
it's case shortly before noon today. The
state then recalled Everett G. Clark to
the stand.
With the testimony OF Mary Cham
berIain, the Shady Bend school teach
er, presented TO the jury the crowd be-
gan to lose interest in the case today.
Less than half the seats were occupied
when the first witness, A. N. Simms,
took the stand. Simms' testimony oc-
cupied but few minutes. He was ex-
cused to make way for John Schmidt
Schmidt testified he went to the
Shady Bend mill the night Of the tar
ring and there found crowd, con-
aisting OF James Booze, Jay Fitzwater,
Alfred Lindernuth, Sheriff. Clark. A.
N. Simns. Chester Anderson and Dell
bert Kindlesparger. The subject OF
Earring Miss Chamberlain was brought
up. soon all the members Of the party
but himself, Simms, Sheriff. Clark and
James Booze, Schmidt testified, left
for the spot where the tarring was to
be done.
Schmidt said he had nothing to do
with the tarring. He declared both he
and simms urged the men not to carry
out the plans.
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OF POISON
Doc, and Nurse Arrested In
the Night
HURRIED AWAY In AN AUTO
CHARGED WITH NOT HAVING
TOLD ALL THEY KNEW CON-
cERNINo DEATHS OF FOUR
MEN, WHO ARE BELIEVED TO
HAVE BEEN PUT OUT OF WAY.

Detroit, Mich, Nov. 7z.--A Journal
special from Ubley, Huron county. says
that DR.. Robert McGregor, and Miss
Margaret Gibbs. nurse, were arrest
ed today and taken to jail to Bad Axe,
1t is charged they did not tell all
they know in their testimony at the
Ubley inquest regarding the death OF
John Wesley Sparkling and his three
sons. Suspicious of arsenic poisoning
have been raised in connection with
the four deaths.
The coroners jury today rendered a
verdict Of death by arsenic poison
ing" In the case of Arthur Sparling
DIR. McGregor and Miss Margaret Gibbs
of London. Ont. were taken from their
rooms at Ubley. after they had retired
for the night, and hurried to Bad Axe
in an automobile.
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BOY Showed Nerve.

Devils Lake. NJ %. NOV. 2s.-The
12-year-oId son OF Mr.. and Mrs. p.
Olmstead Of Egeland, met with an
accident two months ago. which came
very near costing him one OF his
eyes, With other boys he was play
Ing with cartridges, exploding them
BY tapping with rocks. piece Of
cartridge shall quarter OF an inch
square struck young Olmstead in the
eye AT first he did not complain
much, and for month continued to
80 to school Two weeks ago he was
brought to the General hospital in
this city where an operation was per-
formed and the piece OF shell re-
moved. While the operation was
necessarily 3 delicate one 1t was suo-
cessful and the boys sight was saved.
The nerve displayed BY the little fell
low has won the admiration DC all
who are familiar with the case.
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VESSEL
!sVORE
& ROCKS
Commoner and Wife Among
200 People Aboard
Said to Be in No Immediate
Danger
U. 5. Revenue Cutter Has Been
Sent to Aid

New York, N. T., Nov. 22,-The
steamship, Prinz Joachim, OF the.
Hamburg American line is ashore on
the rocks off SANTANA island 200 miles
north OF Haiti. A party of eighty !
seven tourists which includes William
J. Bryan, MRS Bryan and their grand
child. are on board
The news of the wrecking Of the
Prinz Joachim came in wire de-
spatch to this city. The steamship is
in no immediate danger.
Wireless communication from this
city with the stranded Prinz Joachim
was practically broken when day
came. the wireless operators reporting
they could only get long distance mes
sages as far as SANTANA island at night.
The New York office, the Hamburg
American line, received q report Of
the wreck early today. The Prinz
Joachim sailed last Saturday on a
cruise to Port Limon and return. The
hrst port OF call was Fortune island,
where the steamer was due today.
Washington, ID. c., Nov. 22--As soon
as word of the accident of the Prinz
Joachim reached the treasury depart
ment a cable instructions were sent to
San Juan. Porto Rico, to dispatch the
revenue cutter, Algonquin, now at that
station, to Samana Key to assist the
stranded steamer and to take off the
passengers, should that be necessary.
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TAFT Will
CUT OUT WAR
VIII no Longer GO After In
surgentS As Party
ADVICE IS not PLEASING
SOME Ill ADVISED EASTERN MEN
WOULD HAVE HIM CONTINUE
TO IGNORE INSURGENTS WHEN
MAKING APPOINTMENTS - NOW
"WIsE" TO REAL SITUATION.

Washington, D., c.. Nov. 22.-soms
Of President Tafts standpat republic
can friends are again advising him to
ignore abe progressIves In matters of
patronage. declaring that there really
is no insurgency in the west and adj
yising the president to exert his strong
arm vigorously and wipe the insur-
gents out Of American politics. Com
ing as it did Immediately after his
long swing around the circle, this ad-
vice has not been particularly pleasing
to the president, who is fully aware
that there Is some real insurgency
throughout the west, and little here
and there In the east.
1t is a safe bet that Mr.. Taft will
not heed such advice. He did so once,
thus causing a wide breach between
the White House and the progressives
Of the senate and house. At that time
he relied upon the advice of standpat
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Howard Elliott, president Of the
Northern Pacific railroad. win be a
speaker at the Tri-state Grain Crow
ers' convention, to be held here Jan.
16 to 1s.
This announcement made public to-
day by the programme committee,
means a great deal TO the success OF
the coming convention. Mr. Elliott
will speak on Thursday. Jan. is, the
third day of the convention, and his
subject will be. Relations Between
Railroads and Farmers. He IL broad
minded man, vitality interested in bet
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j. 5. TROOPS
TO China
Reported That Fifteenth In
fanry Will Be Sent

Manila, Nov. 22.-The Fifteenth In
fantry. due to arrive here Dec. /.
probably win be sent at once to
China. The soldiers viii arrive on
the transport Thomas and leave for
China on the same boat. The resi-
ment will be reinforced to its full
war strength by transfers from other
regiments.
Tang shao vi a Rebel.
Toxic, Nov. 22.--According to re-
liable advioes received from China,
Tang Shao vi. former minister of
posts and communication. who re-
fused to continue in office under the
law regime has Joined the revolu-
tionaries and declared for republic.
He Is one of the most prominent of the
younger Chinese progressives in Pc
kin and is well known abroad. He
is a graduate of Yale.
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ter farming methods In North Dakota.
and he will have a message for every
farmer OF the northwest
The preliminary programme for the
convention has been announced and
though still somewhat incomplete as TO
details, promises TO be one OF the
most interesting that has been given
here In years. A number OF very fine
speakers of national reputation have
already consented to speak at the con-
vention and Superintendent Hover
stad, who Is arranging the programme
Continued on Page Three.
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SUFFRAGETTES
Sent TO JAIL

London. Nov. 22.--Unrepentant sufS
fragettes TO the number of 22s, many
Of them still In their teens, appeared
at the Bow street court today to an
swer for depredatiOns Of yesterday and
were sentenced to fines or alternative
terms OF imprisonment varying from
. fortnight to a month. Counsel Tor
public prosecution said he could not
adequately describe the "disgraceful
and understandable orgies Of disorder
OF which the accused we're guilty.
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| AM INNOCENT
CRIES BEATTIE
ON EVE OF DEATH

Richmond. Va, Nov. ea.-'T ann
innocent"
Henry clay Beattie. jr, con-
dauned to die ct dawn OF Friday
for wife murder, announced
through Rev. j. ]. FIX, his special
advisor. today. that he would
make no confession. In q formal
statement Or. Elk told Of Beat
tie'g declaration OF innocence
II have to die sometime and IL
might az well be now the pris-
oner exclaimed. Il reckon there
Ii no use putting Il Off. II would
Just make 1t harder for father
Or. Fix said Beattie was thor
eughly reconciled to hts fate and
would SO TO the death chair
quietly.
Beattie's father today said he
appreciated keanly the many kind
expressions OF sympathy no and
his family had received and the
kindly consideration OF the prison
ofIicials-
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DEFENSE RESTS
in "TAR PARTY"
CASE IN KANSAS
sAR5ARous, coWARDLY
AND BRUTAL TREATMENT

Lincoln Center, KAN, Nov. 22--
Branding the tarring of Miss Mary
Chamberlain as barbarism, cow
ardly, and brutal, thing almost
unbelievable In a civilized COM
munity, Prosecutor McCanless
here this afternoon. in his closing
address to the jury, demanded the
severest penalty it was possible to
inflict be melted out to her de-
famers.
"To think. he Numbered, that
a crowd of men should attack q
defenseless girl. even dog de-
served better treatment"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-11-22
TEN YEARS
FOR JOHNSON
Minot Man Found Guilty Of
Numbering Cash

Minot. N. D.. Nov. 72.--Auxust John
son, charged with killing John Cash.
neighbor, was found guilty Of muir
der in the first degree and given o
sentence OF ten years by the jury in
the district court today. johnson was
charged with murder In the frst de-
gree.
The Jury deliberated on the case
twenty four hours. Johnson was
charged with shooting Cash with a
shotgun as Cash was approaching the
Johnson home. last September.
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SLOW WORK WITH
COOPER JURY

Grand Forks, N. d., Nov. 22--With
seventeen jurors passed for cause but
not g single juror finally selected,
work in getting the panel to try Me-
Lain Cooper for the murder Of Frank
Ross ut Hillsboro drags slowly. 1t il
possible that jury will be selected
late today but It does not appear prob
able.
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p. Their charge is that Mr.. Bryce by
his attitude in cooperation with
President Taft at the initiative of the
reciprocity contract and throughout
the discussion acted as a politician
rather than an ambassador, and entire
ly failed to inform the British and
Canadian governments OF what seem
ed to them as jeopardizing the imper-
ial interests. Sir Edward Grey, coll
onial secretary stoutly and almost an
grily defends Mr., Bryce.
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Preacher persons tell ns that there
are more temptations IN America than
europe, but up to data there has heen
no movement for the conservation or
cur rational temptations.
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Montreal, Can. Nov. 22.-Specula-
ton is rife here as to whether Lord
James Bryce, British ambassador at
Washington will resign. It is under
stood that Mr. Bryce feels himself
placed in an embarrassing position by
the elaborate attacks on his conduct
made in parliament and In the press
by English public men. Prominent
among his critics are Lord Ampthill,
ex governor or Bombay and protein
viceroy of India. and F. =, Smith. M.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-11-22
A REVOLUTION
in PARAGUAY

Buenos Ayreg, Nov 22..--It is re-
ported here revolution has begun In
Paraguay,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-11-22
STANLEY
PROBERs
MAY QUIT
May Await FurtherInstructions
From the House
Brother Tells How Family Lost
to Rockefeller
Father in Fifties Predicted
Future Of Mesaba Range
RACES AT RockErELLER.

Washington, .. c., Nov. 22.--
With bitterness that lent emphasis
TO his utteranoes and at times fair
Iy besides himself with pent up
rage, Leonidas Merritt, told the
Stanley steel trust committee to-
day the personal narrative Of his
dealings with John n. Rockefeller,
and how the latter had forced him
out Of the mining business in Min
nesota.
He declared ii was after he had
turned down . proposition from
Rockefeller, which he oharacteriz-
ed as Stealing" that Rockefeller
called upon him to pay a $1,000
600 loan and brought about his
downfall. The proposition, Msr-
rift said had come through Rev.
DR.. Gates, Rockefeller's aImoner.
At one tirne during the remark
able recital . physical encounter
between the witness and George
w. Murray, counsel Fcs the Stand
ard Oil nagnate, narrowly was
averted.
Merritt said Gates told him
Rockefeller was "hard up" He be-
lieved him at the time but today
he said Gates "had lied" During
the controversy betwesn the witt
ness and Murray, chalrmAn Stan
ley declared, "RooksfeIier ought TO
be summoned here and hi. will be
summoned"
The COMMITTEES, however, up 70
the noon hour had taI<sn 40 action
looking TO that end.
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Washington, Nov. 22.-lwitnesses
who have been subpoenaed to testify
before the house steel trust investi-
cation committee, have been notified
by Chairman Stanley mt 10 come to
Washington at present and 1t is prob
able the inquiry will cloile for III
present, after Leonidas Merritt u
Duluth, Mimi. gives his tentimony nv
relating about the Rockefeller loans
on the Mesaba ore properties In
1898.
1t Is probable the full committee
cannot meet until December to act
on the protest of the steel corpora
ton against the continuanae of hear
ings In view Of the governments
suit. Several members Of the COM
mittee, including Littleaon. Beall and
Danforth. believe the house should
be consulted before further testi-
mony is taken
Leonidas Merritt. brotheis Of Alfred
Merritt. who yesterday tola the story
Of the family loss OF valuable ore
and railroad property to John d.
Rockefeller. reiterated befose the com
mittee today many Of his brothers
statements.
He described how his father, back
Continued on Page Ten
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The Preliminary Programme for the Big Tstate Convention
Has Been Announced
Dry Farming, Livestock Horticulture and Country Life Prob
lens, Features for Different Days
Coming Session Promises to Be Best Attended YearsKeen
Interest In the Corn Show
FEATURE TOPICS FOR DIFFERENT DAYS,

Tuesday 16-Corn culture good roads dry farming.
Wednesday, Jan. 17.-Live stock day
Thursday, Jan. 1s-Hortculture day.
Friday 19.-Country life, and
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Continued on Page Ten.
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THE WEATHER

Generally fair tonight and Thurs
day; cold wave tonight.
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falling top, covering them with rugs and
lighting his pipe. answered briefly: They
will come.
Never will forget the half hour while
the sleigh. was being showed under in
that bad black. twilight says the moth
er-in-law of worldfamed creations. And
never was ] so glad to see human beings
as those three big dogs that advanced to
us formally out of it, gravely, politely. l
cannot think of them as dogs. They Were
more than persons. They seemed super
natural creatures sent to save us, perfect
~ sure, perfectly easy! l understood
their wishes. They ranged themselves
three abreast, just far enough apart for
us two women to walk between, resting
our arms on their backs. Armand took
an outer edge.
Up they went, dragged, sustained and
encouraged by the three dogs alone-as
they affirnl-for mile and half, the
sleigh man leading his horses behind and
keeping mighty close. He left sletga and
valises-t was no moment for fancy
work. When canon with two brown
brothers and four more dogs came hurry
ing down to them after that canine first
aid 1t was possibly a little earlier than
they remember. The two miles or more
of 10 per cent climb UP the windings, over
the Comb of the Dead and through the
avalanche gallery seem to them a fan
tastic dream OF blizzard and darkness.
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boulder-strewn pastures shrouded in white
like ghosts. How different from vulgar
August trippers! They still affirm that a
three-horse sleigh can take three restau-
rant fattened Parisians and SWISS driver
up and s per cent in strength ana
beauty-had not a blizzard struck them
just before the Cantine de PROF.
give more miles to climb, said the
cantine folks; better hurry. We shall
telephone the hospice.' (This is where
they always telephone for help to come
down, in bad weather.a But the driver
had swigged his lsirsch and hot water
and started off with them. placidly re-
fusing an extra horse and man. This is
why, three-quarters of an hour later. they
were fioundering in drifts at the entrance
to q black defile. amid the twilight of a
blizzard that darkened the sun like night
from minute to minute-and past preci-
pices that had turned their stomachs."
With jolt the sleigh stopped.
Must watt said the sleigh man, blan-
keting his horses. Where are WEI" cat
the Pas de Marengo. three miles below
the hospice. Drive on" go back -
NO, armand, he'll take us over preci-
pice. can't see two yards ahead!' To
all of which the sleigh synan, lifting the
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and snow fields, merging in an all-snow
world, which they could see beginning up
there-different from the scene in Au-
gust, not like common touristsi On the
vast curve beyond LiddeS village they
felt chilly. Beyond the Torrent de la
Croix they struck snow. And at Bours
st. Pierre the sleigh was waiting for
them.
The sleigh had been engaged by tele-
phone, and by the same warming the good
monks would have hot dinner and fires
burning for them in their bedrooms.
.!ingl;ng across the Gorge of the VaisOrey
with its deep snowbanks unmelted, they
chntted int 'ligently of Napoleon's su-
perhuman difficulties in CITING 10000
men, cannnns and camp impedimenta over
that historic sticking pont-in that very
month of May. the year beinS 1900. Pa
risian embonpoint was doing it beautifully
in three-horse sleigh without baggage.
The modern road. hewn in the rock,
avoids the old steep slippery route. scarce
marked by Jagged stones sticking out of
the ice. 1t must be a % per cent incline.
They had struck nothing worse than z
per cent, and through the forest beyond.
almost level. the snow we'll packed II
was celebrating. What sleighing. wha1
beauty! A world of snow. with glimpses
of spring away down below! Up. up!
Five per cent.>6 per cent. They jingled
through q long defile and up into vas!
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Through it's strength. its conservative
methods and its training the new army
promises to be soon such military
force as will command the respect of
foreign nations It's insignificant navy
is to be largely increased. and has al
ready given signs of efficient activity
by it's participation in diplomatic mis-
SionS and in international reviews.
The foreign policy of China promises
to be insistent, and perhaps aggressive,
where the interests of its subjects are
concerned. Especially significant is It's
late reported demand on Mexico for an
adequate indemnity, amounting to tens
of millions of dollars, for the massacre
and destruction of the persons and
property of Chinese by the Mexican
revolu tionists
Perhaps the most impressive action of
all is the regard for aliens within its
own borders shown in recent days by
the Chinese government. Confronted
by a most serious Gin appearance. at
leasD revolution in its greatest prov
ince tSze-Chuan, with its 100000 of
people), the government on Its own
motion takes early and efficient meas
ures to preserve the lives of foreign
missionaries and alien traders operating
within the disturbed and dangerous
areas
In a period Of such transitions it is
well worth the while for occidental
nations to keep well Informed as to the
progress of affairs in China. Few people
are aware as to either the extent or as
to the methods by which such marvellous
changes have been wrought in the gov
ernmental conditions of the celestial
empire during the first decade of the
twentieth century.
It has been universally recognized
that from the conjoned standpoints of
area population and productivity China
stands unequaled among the nations of
the earth. AS the standard authority,
the >StateSmans Year Book, 1911, does
not contain the results of the late
census of China, it seems advisable to
give them here. While it is known that
the methods employed in the census do
not insure the same degree of accuracy
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EMPER O

inceS had promulgated similar restric-
tionS against the drug.
The action of the yiceroys and the force
of public opinion caused the imperial gov
eminent, by an edict of November IL 1906
not only TO forbid imperial officials TO use
opium. but also to very materially re-
strict the use and sale of the drug by
the public al large. In addition, under
recent treaties with Great Britain ex-
porations of opium from India to China
are to be decreased one-tenth annually
until 1917, when they cease entirely.
However. importations from India are to
stop at such earlier date as China may
wholly suppress the production of native
opium
The imperial and provincial authorities
of China have labored earnestly and I'M
Temittingly through edicts. regulation
punishment. regis ration. degradation and
prohibtory taxation to utterly destroy
the growth, production. importation and
use of the drug, and now declares that
the reform viii be complete by 1912
Under its treaties Great Britain exer-
cises tie right TO verify the progress
made in restricting the native crop. OF
the progress made by China, an English
report of May, 1911 says:
''The; evidence amounts almost to a Ger
tafnty that in this the greatest and most
daring-and to all appearances the most
hopeiess-of all the reformations sane
toned under the yermillion pencil in
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proper and destined position as one OF
the great civilized nations of the earth
In the last decade affairs oriental have
been series of surprises to the world,
and in this respect the transformation OF
China has not been the least wonderful
In late years the Chinese government has
astonished the Christian peoples of the
occident by its political audacity and per-
sistent activity in suppressing not only
foreign trade in opium, but also in abol-
ishing throughout its vast provinces, the
prevalent growth of the poppy plant. To-
day it confounds the predictions of for
eign politicians by Fastening. instead of
della wing, the formation of a central con-
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as obtains in the enumeration of Europe
and America. Yet the results may be ac-
cepted generally accurate. at least
as far as they relate to the eighteen
provinces of China proper.
1t may be noted that the population of
China has been for centuries a problem
of the greatest interest, which success
fully defied solution. In 1904 Mr. w w
ROckhill, American minister to China
made a careful investigation of the sub
iect through the most reliable sources
with which he was familiar. He came to
the conclusion that the population of the
eighteen provinces of China proper was
somewhat less than 27O,O0OOOO. In appor-