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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1911-04-07
CHEATED THE MOOSE
Joseph PeltIer Gets off With Sixteen
Years for SeideI Murder.
MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE
Jury Was Out Nearly IL Hours
and on the First Ballot Five
Were for Acquittal.

Joseph Peltier, the halfbreed
Indian who has been on trial
in the district court of Ward
county for the murder of +.
w. Seidel was convicted of
murder in the second degree
after the jury had deliberated
nearly twelve hours and on
Saturday of last week was
sentenced to sixteen years in
the penitentiary for his crime.
It is reported that on the first
ballot there were five votes for
:acquittal and that Peltier
would undoubtedly have gone
free but for the fact that he
took the stand in his own de-
fense and swore that he looked
on while his brother Charles
and the Indian, Little Rising
Sun killed Seidel and his
niece.
At the first trial Peltier was
found guilty of murder in the
first degree and sentenced to
be hanged.
Although the defendant was
tried for murder in the first
degree, the jury found him
guilty of murder in the second.
T. r. Mockler of Bismarck
made strong plea for the de-
fendant. calling attention to
the various discrepancies in
the stories of the states wit
nesses and raising a question
of reasonable doubt.
Little Rising Sun one of the
most important witnesses for
the state, testified Wednesday
that he killed Alexandra Seidel,
and that Joseph Peltier struck
Seidel over the head with
gun causing his death.
Little Rising Sun is serving
a life sentence for the murder
of the girl. He said the man
and his niece had been MUIR
dered in order that the Indians
might gain possession of a
cigar box containing about $50
in cash, besides some jewels.
Joseph Peltier and Charles
his brother, were placed on
the stand by the defense.
They both told a story which
placed the blame for the. MUIR
der on Little Rising Sun.
They said they had consumed
three bottles of Wine of
Life" bought from Seidel,
who himself was intoxicated.
There had been a dispute over
some money one of the Indians
claimed was due him from
Seidel.
They said Little Rising Sun
had picked up rifle barrel
and with it struck Seidel over
the head several times, causing
his death. Charlie Peltier says
he then ran away, and his
brother and Little Rising Sun
soon overlook him. Little
Rising Sun accused him of be-
ing, a coward for running.
The outcome of the second
trial of Joseph Peltier is a
disappointment to justice-1ov-
ing people here. Those best ac-
quainted with the facts in the
case and with the character of
the deceased and his murderers
feel that justice has miscarried
and that the hangman's moose
has been robbed of a deserving
victim. Unfavorable comment
was heard on all sides when
the result of the trial became
known.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1911-04-07
Tatt's Message Read.

Both houses of congress
heard President Tafts recipro-
city message on Wednesday.
He urges early action.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15
MAINE ELECTION
CARRIED BY VETS.
A Small Majority Against
Prohibition.
END OF BITTER CAMPAIGN
Constitutional Provision Forblddin0
Sac 81 Liquor in The State Viii
ee Repeated as Result Of
the election.
END OF BITTER CAMPAIGN

Portland, Me. - Prohibition has
been voted out of the constitution of
the State of Maine by a majority Of
about 1000 votes.
One hundred and twenty thousand
voters cast ballots on the question.
The vote for repeal was 6O,7S2, and
59,87S against change in the con-
stitution.
AS had been predicted, the cities
were the chief strongholds of the re-
peal faction.
The campaign, which ended Sum
day night, was one of the bitterest
ever known in this State. The lie
was often passed by the opposing
sides.
Every effort was made to get out
full vote, while in many of the
cities and villages women were pres
ent at the polling places imploring
men to vote no, while prayer meet
ings were held in the churches and
the bells tolled every hour during the
hours that the polls were open.
The liquor question was the first
one on the Official ballot in the cleo
ton and was as follows:
Shall the constitution be amend
ed SO as to abrogate and annul the
twenty-sixth amendment adopted on
the eighth day of September, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-four, relating to
the manufacture and sale of intoxi-
eating liQuors?"
In 1853 the Maine legislature
adopted statute prohibiting the
liquor business, but it was repealed
after brief experience. In 1857
the law was again passed and has
never been repealed. In 1884 the
question of placing prohibition in the
constitution was put to the people
and prohibition won by majority Of
1898.
Over a thousand meetings were
held in different parts of the State
in the present campaign, under the
auspices of the prohibition forces and
prominent men and women from
other States were called up to assist
in the cause
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15
40 HUNT IN Gar CRASH.
Slipping Trolley Cause OF the


Washington.-More than 40 per-
sons. all excursionists returning from
Saturday afternoon outing at
Chesapeake Beach. Md, were injured
in rear-end collision of electric cars
of the Columbia Street Railway Com
pany, near Chesapeake Junction.
The cars wrecked were the first
two of string of about seven long
pay-as-you-enter coaches which left
Chesapeake Junction, the District
terminus of the Chesapeake Beach
Railway, shortly after the arrival of
the 7.15 train.
Car 327 was at the head of this
line of cars, all flied with passengers
and travelling in close order when
they left the junction for the city.
At the Sixty-first street crossing,
about a quarter of mile east of the
junction, the trolley pole of the lead
car few OF the wire as the car was
rounding a curve. This darkened
the interior, into which were TANNED
about 100 passengers, and car 256.
travelling at lively speed, crashed into
the rear of the other with terrific inn
pact, knocking it on the tracks into a
field.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15
.FRENz|ED PEOPLE
MOB HOSPITALS
Cholera Panic in Several
Italian Towns.
THE PATIENTS CARRIED OUT
Dying People Paraded About Streets
by lsorant Popuiace, Who Be-
lIeved the Unfortunates Were
Being lnoculated.

Chiasso, Switzerland Gioia del
Collie, a city with population of 20.-
900, in the Italian province of Bari
Della Puglie, has, according to Off
cial advices received here, been the
scene of savage excuses in conse-
quence of the cholera epidemic now
raging in Italy.
The disease is said to have reduced
the inhabitants of Gioia del Collie to
condition of desperation. The au-
thorities in an effort to stamp out the
infection, ordered that all persons at
tackled by cholera should be taken to
hospital, and that those who had
been in contact with cholera victims
be isolated in a neighboring building.
The population, incensed by these
measures, and convinced that it was
the intention Of the authorities to
kill the patients and also those under
observation, gathered to the number
of several thousand for the purpose
of liberating their relatives and
friends.
The hospital was stormed and the
building threatened with incendiary
destruction should the mob be inter
fered with in releasing the cholera
stricken inmates.
A small force of carabineers, aided
by few policemen. attempted to
control the crowds, but the ferocious
attitude of the demonstrators soon
made it apparent to the authorities
that the police were inadequate to
cope with the situation, and in order
to avoid bloodshed the doors of the
hospital were thrown open.
The crowds rushed into the build
ing, brought out the cholera patients
and carried them in CHASTITY pro-
cession through the town. The
thoroughfares were lined with people
who acclaimed the cholera victims
and shouted imprecations against the
government. The cholera suspects
under observation were also set free
amid similar scenes of frantic enthu-
siasm enacted by the people.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15
SEEK SOUVENIRS
OF MAINE TRAGEDY
Scenes Incident Upon Raising Of
the BattIeship.
uNDERTAKER's EXPERIENCE
Seaman on the BattlessIp Connect
cut Took Everything They Could
FInd-- Morbid American Who
Wanted A Skull

Washington.-Mr Oliver e. Jen-
kins, an undertaken, has returned to
this city from Havana, where he was
employed by the government to pre-
pare for burial the remains of the
sailors who were killed by the ex-
plosion Of the battleship Maine. Mr..
Jenkins stated that at present the
weather is such as to make it impos-
sible to search the wreck for bodies.
There are times, he said, when the
water and the spray dash loo feet
high. Mr.. Jenkins is out-spoken in
his criticism of morbid Americans
who seek to obtain souvenirs of the
tragedy.
There were people in Havana"
said he, who would have taken any
thing from the Maine just to have a
souvenir of the wreck. met one
man who told me that there was just
one thing he would like to get off the
Maine, and that was the skull of some
sailor or oflcer. / told him that if
ever he got skull off that ship he
would have to take mine with it.
never knew that Americans were SO
forgetful of respect for the dead.
Mr.. Jenkins stated that no one was
allowed on board the Maine, because
of this fear of relic-hunters. He
commented sharply on the conduct of
the men from the battleship Con-
necticut, the ship which brought Sec
rotary Stimson to Havana from
Panama, and then brought him up to
Washington. II never was SO sur
prised and disappointed" said Mr..
Jenkins, when found that those
American sailors were themselves
ransacking the battleship from end
to end for souvenirs. They broke
into boxes and pried open desks and
tried to carry away everything that
wasn't actually nailed down.
1--WE found IL bodies under the
turret which had been blown over by
the force of the explosion. They
were men who had laid down there
for a nap. In the pantry we found
the body of boy leaning over a
dishwasher. Lieutenant Merritt's
body we found in the wardroom. Al
togther we have found 81 bodies SO
far
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15
COLON e. AsroR Welded.
United to Young Girl at His Sum-
meP Home.

Newport, r. Col. John Jacob
Aston and Miss Madeline Talmadge
Force were married Saturday at
Beechwood, the Astor home here.
The ceremony was performed by
Rev. DR.. Joseph Lambert, Congre-
gational minister of Providence.
William Force, the brides father,
gave her away.
Just before leaving Beechwood
Colonel Aston gave out the following
statement:
Nov that we are happily married,
do not care how difficult divorce
and re-marriage laws are made.
sympathize heartily with the most
straight laced people in most of their
Ideas, but believe re-marriage should
be made possible, as marriage is the
happiest condition for the individual
and the community"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15
The Midland Journal
FAiTHLEss CORN.

Corn has decided to do without the
respect and admiration Of 1.-THE people.
The promise Of the crop at the period
following early seeding was unex-
celled, and every eater of meat and
eggs in the land could congratulate
himself that this promise was equal
70 the realization of last year. The
immense crop Of 1910 had cheapened
food considerably, and another large
one this year would have had q ten
dency to settle prices for couple
Of years or more, provided no real
shortage occurred In the crops OF
those years. says the Providence Jour-
nal But the current stock Of informa-
ti0n about the 1911 crop makes the
prospects for such substantial ar
rangement for trade and business
wherever dependent on the crop any
thing but bright Beef and hogs. with
poultry, will be the corp-eaters most
directly affected. There is danger OF
repetition Of the highest prices for
them, and of the possible maximum
charge once more for eggs and fresh
fowls. Three months ago the promise
under which these all have been sold
since last fall brought large supply
Of cheap corn into the market Today
the indications are of q rise to the
Mgures Of last summer and Of Septem-
Der and October of last year. It is pos
eible that the warm weather and
drought conditions have not seriously
hurt the crop and that the quotations
for corn viii fall on CORRESPONDENCE
when the real facts are shown to be
mcre propitious.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15
DEATH CHAIR FOR BEAT7IE
Verdict Of Murder Returned Against
Wife-S layer--To DIE In
Chair Nov "a.

Chesterfield Courthouse, Va
Twelve Virginia farmers knelt at
dusk Friday night in the obscurity of
the small jury-room of Chesterfield
Courthouse, praying feryently that
they might pass judgment Alright on
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., indicted for
the murder of his wife. Grimly de-
termined they arose a moment later
and silently, one by one, recorded a
unanimous verdict of guilty
Pausing in solemn contemplation
for So minutes, weighing carefully
the meaning of their decision and
once more on Bonded knees beseech-
ing Divine assistance that they might
not err, they filed into the hushed
stiffness of crowded courtroom, and
with startling suddenness IL voices,
instead of the usual one of the fore
man, spoke the single word guilty"
1t was almost shout.
The spectre of death, which stalk
ed Midlothian turnpike on July IL
last, when the life of Mrs. Louise
Owens Beattie was taken away with
the single report of shotgun, stared
hard at the young husband ready to
claim his victim by electrocution on
Friday, November "a, next. But the
prisoner returned the gaze, unswerv-.
ing and unafraid.
To Court Of Appeals.
The Court Of Appeals, to be sure.
will be asked to grant writ OF error
and a new trial. Young Beattie.
cognizant of the legal weapons yet at
his disposal, did not surrender. In
stead, he consoled his broken-down
father, white-haired and wrinkled,
and comforted him as he whispered
Il haven't lost yet, father"
Unusual as has been the tragedy
and the gruesome stage where it oc-
CURED, the 10 jurymen did not hesi-
tate to admit to their friends that
they stpod in judgment not only over
the cold-blooded murder but upon his
marital infidelity as we'll.
1t perhaps was the dramatic climax
of Virginia justice which in the last
half century has swiftly sent to
death such famous murderers as
Cluverius, Phillips and McCue.
At. the close of powerful address
by L. o. Wendenburg, the voluntary
assistant of the Commonwealth in the
case, the suspense was felt not alone
in the courtroom, but in Richmond.
where thousands Of people awaited
the outcome.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15
ur,oaded Gun Aoain.

Fairmont, w. Va.-"Throw up
your hands was the laughing re-
mark of Morton Freeman, an en-
ploye of the Fairmont Times Office,
as he came toward Frank Parker, a
fellow-employe. with % rifle and
pulled the trigger of what he sup
posed was an unloaded gun. Parker
fell to the floor with a bullet wound
in his body. The ball entered his
back at the end of his spine, glanced
downward through one limb and
into the other limb, where it lodged
The injured boy was taken to Cook
Hospital He will recover. Free
man had been to Wild West show
and was going to show Parker some
of the tricks of the circus shooters.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15
Gem. Stolen In Dining Car

Cleveland.-Lake Shore and Michi-
gan Southern Railroad detectives re-
ported that woman giving her name
as Mrs. A. A. Mccormick. Of Chicago,
was robbed of handbag containing
$4,000 worth of jewels in the dining
car of Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern passenger train somewhere
between Toledo and Cleveland. De-
tectives are looking for a young man
who sat opposite Mrs. Mccormick
and engaged her in conversation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15

Hunnewell, Kan. - Hunnewell
must not play cards on Sunday dur
ing the administration of Mrs. Ella
Wilson as Mayor. To discover this
fact four young men paid $40 each
in Judge Bonfall's court at South
Haven. The complaints against them
were sworn to by Mrs Wilson. She
charged they played cards on Sunday
in house on the main street of
Hunnewell without even closing the
front doors.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15
$50. 900 Wedding Fees

New Orleans.-That the ministry
is paying proposition from world
ly standpoint was borne out by a
statement made Monday that from
wedding fees alone in his 81 years
as rector of Trinity Episcopal
Church, of this city, Rev. A. Gordon
Blackwell has received $4,000. Rev.
Mr. Bakewell's statistics show that
during his passionate here he has per-
formed 10,036 wedding ceremonies,
for which he received an average fee
of So. He has baptized 1909 babies
and has oficiated at 2.0O1 funerals.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15
More Postal saxIna. esnk..

Washington.-All of the approx
mately 1900 postoffices of the second
class and many of the first class hav-
ing been designated as postal savings
banks, Postmaster General Hitchcock
has begun the designations in the
third class Offices. 1t is his purpose
to extend as rapidly as practicable
the postal-savings system to the
smaller postofiices of the country A
beginning was made when one hum
bred Offices in smaller commercial
towns. needing such special banking
facilities, in IL different states, were
directed to be open to receive de-
posts by October z.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15
j. a. Solely Deed.

New York.-James Russell Solely,
formerly assistant secretary of the
Navy, member of the New York
bar, and we'll known as an author,
died Monday at Roosevelt Hospital
from pneumonia. He was taken i'll
August % last. Mr.. Solely was an
authority on international law. and
was counsel for Venezuela in the
arbitration at Paris in 1899 of the
boundary dispute between that coun-
try and British Guinea.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15

Among the other interesting pieces
news set afioat this summer is one
ming from the shoemakers of Bos-
tiUN to the effect that women's feet
are growing larger. The shoemakers
do d pt like this. az more leather is
thus REQUIRED for every pair OF shoes
TUNED out. Chicago. having heard the
word from Boston, has explanations
ready. A large retailer Of woman's
footgear in the Windy City admits
that women's feet are growing larger.
but says this is due to outings and
athletics. For several years. he de-
clares, women have been taking more
exercise. doing more walking, playing
more games.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15

Last year there died in the United
States Of pulmonary tuberculosis
about 10000 people! Multiply this
number by three and a fraction-the
ratio Of midas population to our own
land you viii find that these terrible
algures covering the loss Of life from
the plague in India. when analysed.
show that out Of thousand men.
women and children in the United
States, practically AZ many die Of
consumption in the ordinary year as
died Of the plague in India during the
past SIX months Of epidemic. It real
~ seems as II civilized America ought
20 be able to do little better than
thatl
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15
TREATIES SCORED
BY R00SE WELT.
Ex-President Attacts Pending
Peace Agreement.
DECLARES IT A HYPOCRISY
Country Would RepudIa4e Il When-
ever Suggestion Was Made That
Il Refer q QUESTION Of National
Honor 60 OussIdera.

New York.-Former President
Roosevelt deals with the arbitration
treaties recently presented to the
Senate in an editorial article appear
ing in Outlook" He says in part:
1T is one of our prime duties as
a nation to seek peace. 1t is an even
higher duty to seek righteousness.
1t Is also our duty not to indulge in
sham, not to make believe we are
getting peace by some patent con-
trivance which sensible men ought
to know cannot work in practice,
and which If we sought to make it
work might cause irretrieyable harm.
Il sincerely believe in the prin-
ciple of arbitration; believe in ap-
plying that principle so far as prac-
ticable; but l believe that the effort
to apply it where it is not practicable
cannot do good and may do serious
harm. Confused thinking and a
willingness to substitute words for
thought, even though inspired by an
entirely amiable sentimentality, do
not tend toward sound action"
Mr.. Roosevelt cites the Revolu-
tionary War, the Civil War. and the
Spanish-American War as instances
in which 1--WE put righteousness
above peace" He also cites the ex-
listing arbitration treaties between
the United States, Great Britain and
France as better than the proposed
treaty, because they make no false
pretenses and exclude questions af-
fecting our vital interests, independ-
ence or honor.
He continues:
THE wording of the treaty is so
loose, 1t SO lacks explicitness, as to
allow one set of its advocates to an
nounce that 1t binds US to arbitrate
everything, and another set to say
that under it we would not have to
arbitrate anything we did not wish
to. Now, no moral movement is per-
manently helped by, hypocrisy.
ut is our duty, SO far is now pos
sible. so far as human nature in the
present day world will permit, to
try to provide peaceful substitutes
for war as a method for the settle
ment of international disputes. But
progress in this direction is merely
hindered by the folly that believes
In putting peace above Righteousness.
1.-THE history Of our country the
peace advocates who treat peace as
mere righteousness will never be.
and never have been, Of service,
either to 1t or to mankind. The true
lovers of peace, the men who have
really helped onward the movement
for peace, have been those who fol-
lowed even though afar of, in the
footsteps of Washington and Lincoln.
and stood for righteousness as the
supreme end Of national life.
"Only by acting on these prin-
ciples, only by following in the foot
steps of these great Americans in the
past, can we Of the present genera
ton work for and secure the peace
of Righteousness"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15
She Devised New wespon.

Fremont, Neb.-Armed with an
umbrella filled with long pins, Miss
Grace Bassett, of this city, revenged
an alleged insult by beating M. M.
Sankey, Of Lincoln, a city employee,
on the street here. Accused by Miss
Bassett of spreading a false rumor
concerning her sanity, he denied the
story and turned away laughing.
Miss Bassett fell upon him from be-
hind and belabored him with the
umbrella. The pins severely lacr-
ated his flesh.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15
TRAGEDY at . waddIna.

Nashville, When William
Fisher opened fire on wedding
party near Springfield, Tenn, Sum
day in an attempt to prevent the we'd
ding of his piece to Benjamin Manic.
of Schhohah, KY, young Manic re-
turned the fire, killing the objecting
uncle instantly. Then the party pro-
ceeded to the home of preacher
where the wedding took place. 1t is
said there will be no prosecution Of
Manic.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15

Athol, Mass.-Townspeople chal-
lenged the statement of Albert Els
worth. prominent citizen, that Mary
Hooker. his prize bun Orpington, laid
two eggs every day. To prove it
Ellsworth appeared at the Athol Fair
and placed the hen on some straw at
the feet of the judges. She laid two
eggs, one of them double-y olked,
chirped triumphant cackle aud dis
dainfully strobe away. Hundreds Of
visitors to the city applauded the
OrDineton's vindieation Of her owner.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15
Corn arInas $3.50 a ION

Bloomington, Ill.-The new crop
of broom corn is moving and some
of the sales recorded are the high
est in 80 years. One farmer of
Douglas county sold nine tons for
$3.50 per ton. Harvesting will be in
full blast by next week. 1t is said
that the supply of broom corn this
season will be limited, and some
growers are predicting that $500 per
ton will be paid before the season
ends.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-09-15

A rich woman from New York an
grlly declined to become patron Of
D Los Angeles hotel when she was in
formed that her doggie would not be
permitted to receive massage treat
ments in the barber shop. Aren't
some hotel keepers independent!