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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-07-07
Stokes TELLS
Of MISS C0NRAD'S
VISIT To HIM

NEW YORK. July wv. E. Stokes
resumed his testimony when court
convened today for the further exam.
ination of the charge that the attempt
to murder Stokes was made a month
ago by Miss Lillian Graham and Miss
Ethel Conrad. The purpose of these
proceedings is to dtermin whether the
evidence is sufficient to warrant send
ing the case to the grand jury, but the
examination and cross-examination is
conducted with such thoroughness
that it amounts practically to a trial.
Stokes said he was not sure how
many letters exhibited yesterday were
his. He thought about eight. He told
of a visit made to his Office on May
q. last, by Miss Conrad, which was
the first time the letters were brought
to his notice. Miss Conrad, accord
ing to Stokes, proceeded to narrate to
him her family history. She was, &C.
ccrding to this narrative, the daugh-
ter of Russian prince who met her
mother in Louisville, KY, and eloped
with her, Miss Conrad being born in
Bluefelds. Venezuela, where her
father was killed in a riot. Losses of
one kind or another reduced the
widows property, and what was left
Stokes said Miss Conrad told him was
sQuandered by the man her mother
married. The daughter then had to
60 to work.
She said" witness continued, "she
had come to see me on her lawyers
advice to tell me about letters she
found on table with the suicide
note"
NEW YORK, July 1.-THE prosecu-
ton closed its case with the examina-
ton of the policeman who first reached
the house after the shooting.
He said the girls told him that each
of them had shot Stokes. At the close
of the morning session it was rumored
that the defendants would not go on
the stand at this examination.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-07-07
MRS, VANDERBILT and ONE Mr..
DUELL HAVE ENJOYABLE pANCE

LONDON, July 6.-Mrs. w. X. Van
derbilt, Jr., arrived at Plymouth yes
terday under her recently assumed
name-Mrs. Vincent-and sailed on
to Cherbourg to join Mrs. Herman
Oelrichs, her sister, in Paris. Mrs.
Vanderbilt treated the Olympic's pas
sengefs to a brilliant display of dane
ing in the ships ballroom with c. H.
Duell, Jr., a son of former Judge
Duell, who is a cousin of Elihu Root.
On the last night Of the voyage a
Fourth of July ball was given for
the distinguished women passengers,
including Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, Mrs.
Henry S. Redmond, Mrs. William Jay,
Mrs. Hamilton Mckay Twombley and
Mrs. James Speyer.
Mrs. Fish, who is in mourning, did
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-07-07
AnDus@r11@mts
ORPHEUM

The many patrons OF the popular
theater will find a classy bill on for
the last end of the week. Stone and
Hayes, comedy singing. talking and
dancing, were the big noise and
proved all that was expected of them.
lhe New Stenographer," comedy
photcplay, is great. and if you have
the blues don't fail to see it. The
other subjects are good and the illus
trated song is we'll rendered. Com
ing Monday. "A Tale of Two Cities"
MEDORA. n. D.-Bridging the Lit.
tie Missouri for the purpose of bring
ing the eastern and western part of
the state into closer relation is pro.
posed by the business men of all towns
of the Golden valley.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-07-07

COULkE. N. D-Ground has been
broken for a new Congregational
church to replace the one DESTROYED
by fire a short time ago.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-07-07
GUNDERS0N' SARE
bound TO court
Girl Told Several Stories,
She Says, to Keep From
Making Enemies

| FARGO, July The three broth
ers, George, Gunder and Carl Gunder
| son. sons of Halvor Gunderson o
| Davenport, this county, were held fol
the district court yesterday afternoon
by Police Magistrate Miller. each il
the sum of $3.50, to answer to the
charge of statutory rape on the per
son of Florence Graveley, who be
came mother in this city before she
had reac led the age of Is years. Bal
was furnished.
In order to shield the three broth
ers, George, Gunder and Carl Gunder
son. and to keep from injjuring the
feeligs of their parents, who had been
good and kind to her, Florence Grave
ley on the witness stand in Police
Magistrate Miller's court yesterday
afternoon. stated that she had told
that the father of her child was a
hired man. employed on a farm near
that of Halvor Gunderson, father of
the three accused men.
Tie cases of statutory rape brought
by the state of North Dakota against
the three brothers mentioned above,
were given hearing in the police
court yesterday afternoon and the de-
PENDANTS were represented by Seth
Richardson of Barnett & Richardson,
while States Attorney Fowler looked
after the interest of the common
wealth.
The defense offered no witnesses
whatever, but will probably make a
bitter fight at the next term of the
criminal court. There is no question
that the defendants will deny in the
most positive manner their guilt. They
will show that Florence Las told in
the presence of score of people that
the hired man at the Headstrom farm
was the author of her trouble and
Miss Gunderson will deny that she
ever suggested that Florence tell
about meeting a man in the road"
The family will testify that they were
panied beyond measure at the condi-
ton of the girl and brought her to
Fargo to shield her if possible from
Ter folly. They will introduce letters
which were received from the young
written while she was in the
hospital here. as we'll as much other
evidence that they hope will prove
their innocence, or at least so cast a
doubt on the girls story as to cause
the jury to bring ina verdict of not
guilty.
COULkE. N. D-Ground has been
broken for new Congregational
church to replace the one destroyed
hy Sro 4 M
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-07-07

not enter the room, but, like school
girl, peered through the pothole and
watched the proceedings.
Mrs. Vanderbilt, attired in purple
satin combined with black, made a
stunning appearance and danced con-
stantly with young DUEL. Suddenly
the orchestra played Teddy Bear"
Presently the floor was cleared while
Mrs. Vanderbilt and Duell executed
the PAS Seul," modified Apache
dance, which Mrs. Fish c&ristened the
"Duell Bunny Cuddle.'
After the dance had been sustained
unit the musicians wearied, the lights
were suddenly extinguished in the
room, and as the passengers chanted
rag time, the pair danced alone on the
floor of the darkened room.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-07-07
BOOZE BUSINESS
GOOD LAST Year.
Over 100000 Barrels Of
Beer We're Sold in j. 5.
During Past Year

NEW YORK, July 6.-No less than
100000 barrels Of beer were sold
in the United States during the IL
months ending June 30, last, or an
increase over the previous IL months
of 6.21 per cent, according to the an
nual report of beer and whisky sales
made public here today by the United
Brewers association. Notwithstanding
the increase which the report con.
tends indicates that the country is
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-07-07

remembered when lie was a boy and
going to school that on one occasion
when the insects were vacating it be-
came so dark, so dense were the crea-
lures that school was dismissed.
1t is believed that the hoppers have
done about all the damage they will
do this season and that their days are
numbered. The damage was not very
great in any location near here.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-07-07

ling discovery the other afternoon.
While under the elevator oiling the
machinery he noticed package back
on one of the stills which. upon being
examined, was found to contain 20
sticks of dynamite, about so feet of
fuse and some caps. How these dan
gerous explosives came there is a
mystery, but it is supposed that they
were secreted there some years ago
by couple OF jailbirds who worked
for a number of the farmers in this
vicinity,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-07-07
TRIED FOR DEER KILLING.

Police Judge Casselman called the
trial of Arthur Small. accused of kill:
ing deer in the bottoms last ebru-
airy, this morning at the court house,
and the morning was spent in impanel-
ing jury The jurors chosen are J.
L. Bell, Jack Hintgen, s. S. Clifford,
S. E. Bergeson, ]. P. French, John
Graham, w. F. Cochrane, Walter
Knott, N. J. Walper and E. H. Wilson.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-07-07

prosperous, the spread of prohibition
has affected trade considerably it is
declared.
The whisky bill of the United States
for the year. according to the report,
is $146,973,000, an increase of nearly
$S,OOO,OO0 or Sc per cent over pre-
ceeding IL motnhs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-22
HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Ed,vin A. Nye

And the next morning I renewed my search There were so few smiling faces! Finally as I passed the little park I saw my old acquaintance the cripple. Good morning." he said Isn't this a lovely morning? How I do enjoy the sunshine and the grass and the flowers! You know, I can't get around much, but I just sit here and drink in the beauty and the sweet smells" His face beamed.
 had found the happiest man in town.
 AS the French would say, Tt is to laugh"
 A reputable New York newspaper tells how one of the Vanderbilts had two men watching two turkeys which the Wander bilts were to discuss on Thanksgiving Day.
 One of the men twas on the day watch and the other on the night shift.
 And the "deathwatch" of the turkeys included their fit feeding and exercise.
 A proper occupation, truly, for two able-bodied citizens who might better have been blowing a field or digging a ditch or making shoes or garments, but
 What would you?
 Of course, nobody watched the turkey that you and helped to eat on Thanks giving were we so lucky. That gobbler gobbled at his own sweet will almost to the day of the sacrifice.
 But then our stomachs are but ple- beian.
 And perhaps there is nothing more fool ish in watching two turkeys than in the employment by the lords of Europe of their game wardens and foresters and keepers of the horse and master of the hounds and all that retinue of retainers that cater to the pleasure of "the mo- bilty"
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whom I knew by sight as the traction magnate, looked tired and worn and pal lid.
 He was not happy.
 That day I was in the outer office of great lawyer who had many clerks I had often heard him in the courts and admired his great ability. He was not only prosperous, but wealthy. While I was there the lawyers daughter swept into her father sanctum. The door was some ajar. and by and by I heard her voice: You are just mean and stingy! That cloak costs only $250."
 He was not the happiest person.
 Then I looked into the windows of a great retail store. Argosies from across the seas, rich garments, beautiful fabrics. were there. As I looked the owner of the establishment stepped from his automo- bile and hastily entered. One glance suf- feed. There were dark circles under his eyes and a great frown distorted his face
 He was not the one looked for.
 All that day I searched in vain. Late at night I passed the theatres. From one of them issued an old man dressed ia youthful garments, and he had on his arm his wife. Her opera cloak, flung back, displayed gems of purest rays. And as they waited for their limousine I over heard her say, 'T forgot to take my head ache tablets, and my head is bursting And he, "Well, whose fault is it?"
 No, neither of them was the happiest.
 And little farther along I watched a young man in evening clothes who stag- gered as he walked. His white tie was awry, and his opera hat was shapeless. The hilarious stage of his intoxication was past. His eyes roved like an idiots. He was white a ahout tba 1ips
 No, no; he was not the one.
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in the Christian era, only attendants at the temple being left in all the scene. When Paganism fell even that shrine, too, was soon forsaken, and it is more then amazing that Captain Bobadil should. on the strength of his mere spear-handle, seek to compel us to believe in a resuscitated Apollo shrine at Delos in the years of Ottocar II, the 18th Chris ton century! I must quote the 'ipsissima verba" of this mistake real or appar- ent.'
 Now what time Is historically repre- sented in this play ('The Winters Tale'D ? I answer" ye gods and little fishes, mark the audacity !-'I answer: A time when the oracle of Delphos spoke, namely, two or three hundred years before the Eliza bethan perod.'
 These are the words that carry per- haps the greatest original "bull' ever rerpetrated by man. Anachronism and anachorism here welter like Alice's gi- gantic mock-turtles, as in a sea of tears. Doubtless he meant 1.-two or three thou sand years" But that has no help from Ottocar II, A. D. 1255. This astonishing splash is not without it's lessons. Who told the captain that Shakespeare so much as dreamed of historic settings for his romantic play? Here surely is the il- iustration. par excellence, of the vicious assumptions that make the fortunes of Baconianism. The Baconians, as Dr. Richardson has most apty shown, seem destitute of imagination in the poetic sense. In revenge the ficlSle god plays tricks upon them. and their discouraged wits go wool-gathering. The absurdity O. finding time historically represent
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Manifestly I should let them rot in my soul, not in yours.
 Therefore when you meet a man or woman who seeks by suggestion or speech to drag your mind through the sewer of filthy mind flee from such as from a confgion.
 When you come across an unclean thought in a book take up the foul vol ume with the tongs and throw 1t into the fire.
 No man or woman or book has any right to wrong you in that way
 Do not retail your woe.
 Smile And if you cannot smile grin and bear 1t.
 troubles It has troubles of its own.
 Even though you may feel bad hold up your chin and present to the world a smiling face. When you can no longer be cheerful with your afflfc- ton take 1t home with you and hide 1t.
 Smile.
 Your troubles should teach you to be more ympathetic with your troubled brother Do not add your woes to his.
 A nobleman of ancient times, It IS said. constructed a great aeolian harp bv stringing wires from one tower of his castle to another. And then when the summer zephyrs blew he listened for the music.
 There was not murmur.
 But by and by came the chilling blasts of winter. Under the influence of the cold the wires grew taut the strings of keyed violin, and, To, there came from the harp the most thrilling harmonies
 So let it be with the harp of your
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date-post, sending poor Bobadil head long into qualSing mire of incongruities so that we pass our hand across our eyes to wipe away the horrid nightmare. But no! Did we not identify her as a mule?
 Thus Bobadil: "- the oracle at Delphos spoke two or three hundred years before the Elizabethan period. o Bobadil! How are the weapons of war rerished! Am I grieved for thee, Bobadil, and the scraping of the tnfol from thy speary staff? No, not grieved, only great ly surprised. Advocate of classcism to find a historic basis of a visit of Bo- hemians to Apollo in the year 126O or thereabouts, Anno Domini! Didst not know, fair sir, that Delphi was despoiled by Roman emperors during several cen- turies and then became the site of a Christian church, so that at last the very ruins vanished and were not excavated till 1892? And didst not know, brave cap tain with the mule, that the Bohemians were converted" in the ninth century, and that in the tenth the Bishopric of Prague was constituted? Why islander these Czech or Magyar chieftains to whom Greene and Shakespeare give pseudo-classic names) by supposing that they could turn from Christ to Apollo in the 18th century? Nay, good sir! Prod not so heedlessly thy too cratic mount! Let him amble less perilously, less val orously. Prithee remember John Gilpin' s fatuous ride.
 But perchance 1t was not Delphi, but Delos, that was in the captains eye, the isle whose notable shrine to Apollo was at least almost as ancient as that at Del phi. Alas, Delos, too, was deserted early
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 Note the fact The Vanderbilt must pay good wages to the men who fed and sat up with his turkeys. And the Euro pean aristocracy must pay it's retainers It was not always so.
 In France 100 years ago peasants were brutally punished if they did not stand by the side of the ponds at night with fails and beat the waters so that the croaking of the frogs might not disturb their masters sleep.
 For which cruelty and other unspeak- able atrocities the French grandees dear ly paid later at the guillotine. Yes, the world grows better
 Doubtless there always will be the fool ish rieh but nevermore will there be starving slaves of the foolish rich. Let us hope-always provided some prowler with appreciation failed to get the turkeys while the hired guard slept that the Vanderbits enjoyed their tur- keys.
 And certainly their digestion waited up- on an appetite no keeper than that of the two watchers when they got theirs. When French child is born its bank account is opened. The parents may be poor and the sav- ings small, but nevertheless there must be some money set aside for the chld's bank account. No sacrifice of the parents Is esteemed too great if it be for the sake of the child
 And it is really wonderful how the small savings will accumulate through the years. so that the daughter may have her marriage "dot' and the son his little start in business.
 The French people are the most thrifty of the race. It is the standing wonder
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Prescott also tells us of the form of cials, the solicitude, of Montezuma for his subjects, etc. They made gold and silver plates and various articles of adornment out of these precious met als. They were not ignorant of the use of metals" as Macauley says, as their whole history shows, especially their gifts to Cortes. They lacked fire- arms, true; but they, like our ances- tors at the battle of Tewksbury, made good use of the bow and arrow in their wars. Instead of their being savages, they had their judicial tribunals, their judges. and their parliament. Prescott says their civilization was certainly equal to that of our Saxon ancestors in the time of King Alfred and far be- yond that of the present Mexicans.
 But other writers must be mentioned. Sometimes writers fail at those points of Knowledge with which they are most familiar. In his day, I suppose, tn ere was no one more able to write critically about the dramas of Shake speare than Warburton He is re- ferred to and consulted by all students of the immortal plays even to this day. In his edition of Shakespeare he makes curious mistake Pope, in a note to Measure for Measure, says the story was taken from Cinthio's Novels, Dec. s. Nov. 5. By which he meant, Decade s, Novel 5. Warburton, misunderstand- ing the abbreviated words, says, "De- cember s. November B." It is small thing, a mistake of this character, but it is a mistake, nevertheless. Pope in his edition of Shakespeare has mado greater ones ehan this of Warburton's.
 Upon examining one of the latest en- cyclopedias I looked to see if the name of the Arctic explorer, Peary, was given. found 1t, and, following brief biograph- ical account, the statement Is made that he reached the north pole April 6, 1909 then turned to the name of Frederick A. Cook After a few biographical items there follows: Climbed Mt McKnley 1906 Discovered north pole April 2l, 1s1S." These two latter statements are now dis not know whether or not reached the he did not. There are many who do not as to reach the pole. Nevertheless, the gard to WIT. Cook.
 A Imaginable mistake was made by An thony Trollope. He describes Andy Scott, one of his characters, as coming up the street "whistling with cigar in his mouth." What an enormous mouth Andy must have had. If the reader be man,
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space of five minutes. put himself at the head of all American orators
 Oratory is from the pen as well as from the tongue. Sir Walter Scott, who could not speak at all, put in the mouth of Jeanie Deans the supplicaton before Queen Carolina that is one of the most powerful orations in any language. He that will read it without a tear has a callous heart. I wish I had space to copy 1t here.
 And that same Sir Walter Scott puts into the mouth of the mendicant, Edie Ochiltree, at the time of the threatened invasion by Bonaparte, a tribute to the British government that I regard as 8 greater orator than Bourke Cochran ever delivered in the American Congress-:
 Me no muclSe to fight for, sir? Isna there the country to fight for and the burnsides that I gang laundering beside, and the hearths O the gude-wives that gie me my bit bread, and the bits O weans that come toddling to play wi me when I come about landward town :? Dell! An I had as gude pith as I ha'
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let him place a cigar in his mouth and try to whistle-but stay, I'll try it myself. There! I have made the experiment with a "Rothschid's Especiales,'' made in Tampa. I cannot whistle with cigar in my mouth. If Andy Scott could do 1t, so could l. for I defy Andy Scott to ex- cell me in latitudinal length of labial lines!
 There lies before me a copper coin of rare value. I have had 1t in my pos session for years. and value it. Tt is about the size of the old fashioned United States cent. also of copper. In the center of the obverse side of the coin there IS stamped the head of King James II, around which is the legend: Iacobus II. Def Gratia. On the reverse side, in the center, there is mitre-lilxe crown sur mounted by a cross below the crown the word May is clearly seen. and above the crown there are XXX, and just above them is the date, 1890. All this Is em braced within circle of abridged words which run thus: Mag. Br. Fra. Et. IIib. Rex. All which means. taking both sides of the coin: James 1T, by Gods favor, King of Great Britain, France and Ire land, May 30, 1890. When the coin fell into my hands. I said, "Why, here is a mistake; for William and Mary were pro- claimed King and Queen of Great Britain, etc., in February, 16S9;. therefore. on May 30, 1890, James could not have been King Yet, I thought it quite impossible that the authorities of a great nation could make so egregious a mistake, and, there fore hastened to my books. I found no single book that contained the informa- ton that I sought, and. therefore, had to ransack all sorts of volumes. But at last I had synthesized these interesting facts:
 The revolution against King James began in 168S On tho eleventh day of December 1889, James secretly left his palace at Whitehall, intending to leave the kingdom. It was held that his reign then terminated. 1t was the Kings purpose 60 reach the coast and sal for France, but instead of abiding on French soil. he is found in Ireland early in 1890, indeed. in the month of March. By the Irish. his co-religion- ists and protestants, he was still con sidered their King. James was in sore need of money and there being a royal mint in Dublin he gave order for the minting of as much money as was pos sible. The coin before me at that time came into being on the 30th of May. It was in circulation for 30 days or so only; for with the opening of July the be tile of the Boyne was fought and the last hope of King James died within preserved. There Is not an obscure