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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
KING AND QUEEN ATTEND
Imposing Ceremony Marks Opening Of
British Parliament

London, Feb. 1.-THE formal open
ing of the new parliament was marked
by gorgeous ceremony and was at
tended by King George and Queen
Mary and their suites, most of the
dignitaries of the empire, many men,
bers OF the diplomatic corps and all
others who could crowd within the
doors of Westminster. The speech
from the throne was brief and formal
and made small reference to the great
issues hat underlie the assembling
Of the members for the present SEES
sion.
Both Lord Lansdowne, in the house
of lords, and A. j. Balfour, in the
house of commons, the respective
leaders of the opposition, took occa-
sion to denounce the reciprocity agree
ment between the United States and
Canada, but the evening session of
parliament was mainly devoted to
getting the legislative ship under way.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
MEXICAN REGULARS
MARCH into JUAREz
Doubtful Whether Rebels VIII
Now Attack City,

Ell Paso, Tex, Feb. 6.-Colonel Rab-
ago and his command of 800 federals
entered the city of Juarez unmolested
by the insurrecto forces. They were
received with joyful acclaim by the
people of the city.
The star of the insurrectos' leader,
Pasqual Crozco, who was to occupy
the city Of Juarez, appears to be on
the wanc. His policy of delay has
enabled achievements to reach Ju-
arez and the probability of taking that
city is now considered much more
remote.
Other achievements, in the shape
of Generaj Navarro's column, are N
route from! Chihuahua and it is ex-
pected here the federals will be able
to hold Their city and that knowing
this the insUrrectos will retire. There
is a rumor that the insurrectos are
near Juarez but this cannot he verified.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
E5Ws Of the Week From vari-
Gus Parts Of the State.
POSTAL BANK IS A SUCCESS
Wahpeton Postoffice Enlarged to Meet
the Steady Increase in
Its Business.

The first months business in the
postal savings bank surpassed the ex-
pectations even of Postmaster Myra
and Cashier Voves of Wahpeton.
Working people particularly are pat
ronizing the institution. Heads of
schools here have taken the matter
up, explaining to the students, with a
view to getting them to deposit.
While nothing definite is allowed
to be given out by the department
several persons state that they have
made deposits of $50 several times.
The majority of accounts are from SIS
to $50. The department has ordered
the enlargement of the present post
office to accommodate the larger bust
ness occasioned by the bank.
Foreigners working on the section
believe in the safety of the bank and
are depositing. Before they bought
money orders and then mailed them
to relatives in foreign countries.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
ILEMENCY FOR EMBEZZLER
Former Mill City EmpIoye Sentenced
at BowbeIls.

EN-sEr +HH ~
j. q. Dunwoody, charged with the
embezzlement of $500 from the funds
of the Standard Grain company while
employed by that firm at Columbus,
was sentenced in district court at
Bowbells by Judge Leighton to an
tndeterminate term of from one to five
years in the state p~enitentiary at Bis
marck. This sentence was suspended,
however, and the prisoner remains in
the custody of the sheriff until the
board of parole takes action.
Dunwoody gave himself up at Flor.
ence, Ariz., six months after he had
committed the crime and after plead.
ing guilty before the court, he recited
a complete story of his downfall, pray.
ing that the court be merciful. He
claimed that while visiting friends for
a few days at Walker, Mimi, he drank
and gambled and when he came to
himself in the morning every cent of
the money which belonged to the grain
company was gone. He fled, but his
himself up.
Dunwoody claims to have studied
two years at the University of Mis-.
souri, after graduating from high
school and for a time was employed
in a department store in Minneapolis.
He came to Columbus in February.
1910.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
SHIP SUBSIDY
BILL PASSES
Vice President Casts Deciding
Vote in Senate.
FIRST INSTANCE IN HISTORY
Never Before Has the Presiding Off.
Ger Exercised His Constitu-
tionaI P~rerogative.
FIRST INSTANCE IN HISTORY

Washington, Feb. 3.-For the first
time in the history of the government
the vice president of the United States
exercised his constitutional preroga-
connection with three successive roll
calls in the senate. By the first of
these votes he saved from impending
defeat the ocean mail or ship subsidy
bill and by the third forced an adj
journment of the senate on a vote hav-
ing direct bearing on the resolution
looking to the election of senators by
direct vote of the people.
The vote on the passage of the SUBJ
sidy bill, both in committee of the
whole and in the senate proper, stood
80 to 80, and on adjournment 81 to 81.
On all three occasions the vice presi-
dent voted in the affirmative.
Another notable occurrence in con-
nection with the vote on the subsidy
bill was the absence of the new Dem
ocratic senator from West Virginia,
Clarence Wayland Watson, who had
taken his seat early in the day as the
successor to Senator Elkins.
After the result became known the
opponents Of the bill, including all of
the Democrats, realized MI. Watson's
absence had prevented the defeat of
the bill, He was the only Democrat
present during any of the roll calls
whose vote was not cast against the
measure.
When, in accordance with the previ-
Gus agreement, the subsidy bill was
laid before the senate at 2 o'clock, Sen
ator Gallinger presented a substitute
for the entire measure as originally in
troduced. The first bill granted a
bounty only to American built vessels
plying from American ports to the
southern half of South America, but
b substitute extended it to the Phil
ippines, Japan, China and Australia.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
DEATH LIST ABOUT THIRTY
Terrific Explosion of Dynamite at
jersey City.

~
New York, Feb. "A cargo of dyna-
mite in transit from a freight car to
the hold of a lighter moored' at pier
No. {, Communipaw, N. j., let go $50
yards south of the Jersey City ter
mlnal of the Central Railroad of New
Jersey and in the widespread ruin that
followed seven men are known to have
been killed, seven more are missing,
hundreds were wounded and varying
reports leave from fifteen to twenty
more u"naCcounted for.
Thirty seems to be a conservative
estimate of the dead and property
damage will hardly fall below $780,
900. The cause of the explosion prob
ably never will be known.
The Jersey Central terminal was
wrecked, three ferryboats in the slips
were torn and spl:ntered, lower Man
haitian across the river was shaken
from the street level to the top Of the
Singer tower; severe damage was
done in Brooklyn and Staten Island
and to the immigrant detention station
on Ellis island; the shock was felt at
Amityville, l.. l., thirty-fve miles dis
tant, and in New Jersey at Long
Branch, forty-ive miles away. The
damage is SO widely scattered that it
is impossible as yet to more than
roughly estimate it, but in Manhattan
alone it is placed at 100000 and on
Ellis island at from $4,000 to $4,000.
In all $4,000 appears to be a fair .es'
tinata
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
NET DEATH IN BURNING OIL
Friend of Accused Man Tells of Hor.
ribIe Crime.

Evidence connecting Louis Summer.
field of Minor, now under arrest and
in Nelson county, with the murder OF
Kenneth Mckenzie of Aneta is con-.
tanned in a statement that has been
made to States Attorney S. G.. Skula.
son of Nelson county by Clyde Sperry,
aged nineteen years, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. AL. E. Sperry of Aneta.
Young Sperry declares that he was
with Summerfield on the night of the
crime; that he saw Sumerfield, after
having thrown the Mckenzie boy to
the ground, pour oil from the lantern
the lad had carried over the little
Sellow's leg and touch a match to it.
The affair started as a joke, so far
as young Sperry knew, and he was
not aware Of Summerfield's intention
to set fire to the Mckenzie boy until
too late.
Fright has sealed the Sperry boys
lips to the resent time.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
Ge|atine Powder House Blows
Up at Ishpemjng, Mich
BODIES BLOWN TO ATOMS
Every Occupant of the Structure
Meets instant Death When
Disaster Occurs.

Marquette, Mich, Feb. Tn n of
the most disastrous explosions eve re-
corded in Upper Michigan ten men
met instant death at the plant of the
Pluto Powder company, in the out
skirts of Ishpeming. Another man was
injured. The bodies of the dead were
blown to pieces.
The dead were: Michael O'Connor,
Robert Askew, Edward Woodward,
George Woodward, Thomas Ripper,
Joseph Ripper, Charles Kemp, Justin
Jordan, George Wallberg and Andrew
Matson.
The one injured employee is Fred
Harris, a teamster, who was thrown
to the ground by the force of the
shock and was slightly hurt.
The explosion took place in the gela-
tine powder house. Every man in this
building was blown to pieces.
What caused the explosion will nev-
er be known. Gelatine powder is
largely composed of nitroglycerin and
it is supposed that the mixture was
being stirred in the big crucible within
the house when it exploded.
Havoc Might Have Been Greater.
About 1000 pounds exploded. Only
twenty minutes before the disaster
5000 pounds of the explosive had been
removed, otherwise the havoc would
have been much greater. AS it was
the plant was little damaged and the
shock felt in lshpeming was hardly
~perceptible. Windows at Winthrop, a
mile away, however, were broken.
Immediately on the reverberations
of the explosion the men employed in
the other buildings poured out into
the open air to learn what part of the
plant had teen blown up.
They FASTENED to the scene Of the
explosion and where the gelatine
building had stood and found a stretch
of bare ground and the timbers splin-
tered into sliyers and scattered over
a wide area. Only a few fragments of
the bodies have yet been recovered.
The property loss is comparatively
trif1ing, compared with the loss of life,
amounting to probably less than
$4,000.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
SWlNDL!NG GAME SUCCEEDS
Bismarck Merchant a Loser in Check
T~ranSaction.

Transaction.
The police of the state are looking
for Ed Clements of New York. Glenn
ents, as he was registered at a Bis
marck hotel, purchased more than $500
worth of goods at a local jewelry store
and presented a check for $46 more
than the purchase called for and in
change was given a check made out
by the local firm. Clements left word
for the jewelers. to deliver his pur-
chases at a hotel after they had found
out about the check. Later in the
day it was discovered the man had
made a 81 purchase at another store
in town and presented the jewelers.
check in payment. 1t was found
Clements had no account at the James
River National bank at Jamestown,
upon which institution his check was
drawn.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
st. Paul Man Lost in Storm.

After a second narrow escape from
freezing in a storm OH the prairies J.
w. Nockles of st. Paul and his driver
were taken into the home of E. G..
label, the cashier of the new bank at
SELF, and made comfortable. The two
men started to drive from Odessa and
were soon lost in the blizzard. They
finally discovered a light and reached
the label home. They warmed and
received directions and then started,
out a second time. Their experience
was repeated, however, and after tray.
cling about in a circle for some time
they again found refuge at the label
home. Both were severely chilled.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
TRAIN STRIKES AUTOMOBILE
Two Persons Killed and Several Seri-
ously Injured.

st. Joseph, Mo-, Feb. EDNA Coop
er was killed and five companions
were injured, probably fatally, m Of
whom, Stanley Clark, has since died,
when a Chicago Great Western motor
car ran down an automobile in which
the six young people were riding.
The automobile belonged to Judge
o. M. Spencer, general solicitor for
the Burlington railroad, and was in
charge of his son Tom, seventeen
years old. The others were Leila
Cooper, Roger Morton, Stanley Clark
and Myrtle Smith, members of lead
ing families.
The accident occurred at the foot Of
a deep cut and the automobile was
struck in the center and dragged a
distance of 200 yards.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
ELEVATOR BILL is PASSED
North Dakota Senate Favors State
Control,

An amendment to the state consti-
tuition, which vas passed two years
ago and referred to the present legis-
lative assembly, under which it would
be possible for the state of North Da-
kota to construct terminal elevators
at Minneapolis and Duluth, passed the
senate after a spirited debate. The
concurrent resolution providing for
such a constitutional amendment al
passed two years ago as the Duis bill,
while this year it bears the name of
Senator Plain of Cavalier as sponsor.
The majority report from the senate
railroads committee on the anti-pass
bill was adopted by the senate. The
majority bill follows closely the fed
eral law and makes no exceptions.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
WOMAN FOUND NOT GUILTY
Acquitted on Charge of Numbering
Her Husband.

Mrs. Justine Gaztke, who was on
trial in the district court at James
town on a charge of the murder OF
her husband, was acquitted.
The verdict was read in court i'm
mediately after it was returned by the
jury and the woman, accompanied by
her three little girls, who had been.
with her throughout the trial, went to
the home of her attorney G. S. Buck.
She says that she intends to get a
home in Jamestown and start to work
soon to support her children.
All of the evidence against the wom-
an was circumstantial.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
Short Course at MayviIIe.

The farmers institute and short
course in agriculture held at Mayville
We're a decided success. They were
conducted by Gordon w. Randlett. di.
rector of college extension work, as.
sisted by Professor Lanxon and Pro.
lessor Donahue, both from the North
Dakota Agricultural college. The
short course consisted of lectures and
demonstrations on soil problems, corn,
clover, crop rotation, tree culture, care
and management of live stock, etc.
This served as an introduction to a
course in agriculture which will be
given at the high school the rest of
the year.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
FAIR FOR SAN FRANCISCO
Coast City Wins Over New Orleans in
House Fight.

Washington, Feb. 2.-The house of
representatives, by a vote of 1873 to
1859, decided in favor of San Francisco
and against New Orleans as the city
in which an exposition to celebrate
the opening of the Panama canal in
1915 shall be held. This vote was
taken on a roll call to determine
whether the San Francisco resolution
or the New Orleans bill should have
consideration in the house. On a final
vote the San Francisco resolution was
passed by a vote of 259 to 43.
The advocates of San Francisco are
claiming that their fight is won and
that the senate will ratify the action
of the house.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
PRESIDENT DAVILA TO QUIT
BoniIIa Will Shortly Assume the
Presidency of Honduras.

New Orleans, Feb. president
Davila of Honduras will abdicate his
office Immediately and fee to Mexico,
according to a cablegram received
here from Tegucigalpa, the capital of
Honduras.
According to this message Davila
has asked President Taft to secure
for him a safe departure from Hon
duras.
Bonilla, it is expected, will enter
T~egucigalpa within a few days and
assume the presidency, to which he
was elected in 1906 for a term of six
wears.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
Fishing Village Adrift.

Helsingfors, Finland, Feb. 6.-An
entire fishing village of 253 men which
had been established on the ice out.
side of Bjorko sound was carried out
to sea in a gale. The disaster was
not discovered until the village was
already out of sight. Boats have been
sent to the rescue, but have not yet
returned.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
GRONNA TAKES HIS SEAT
Senator Purcell of North Dakota Steps
Out Feb. 2.

Senator Purcell, who was serving
by appointment of the governor OF
the state. quit the upper house
Feb. 2, although it was his earnest
wish to remain in the senate until
March 8.
Mr.. Purcell sent an emissary to Sen.
ator Elect Gronna, expressing a de.
sire not to be relieved until the end
of the current session. Mr.. Gronna
sent back word that it was his inten.
ton to present himself to be sworn in
Thursday.
Mr.. Gronna added that he felt it to
be his duty to qualify as soon as he
had cleared up certain matters in the
house in which he was interested. He
could not see his way clear to remain
out of the senate until March 3 to
oblige Mr.. Purcell.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
Walks in His Sleep in Snow.

Trygve Vigessa of Cooperstown had
a remarkable experience while in a
somnambulistic condition. He walked
to the home of his uncle. more than
a mile and a half, in the middle of
the night, and clad only in his night
clothes. He was barefooted and the
snow was deep and the temperature
below zero. He did not awake until
he had entered the home of his uncle.
While his feet are frozen no serious
effects are expected.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
TEN NEGROES SMOTHERED
Air Pump Breaks Down While Work
men Are in Caisson.

Newark, N. j., Feb. 2.-Trapped Like
rats ten workmen, all negroes, were
suffocated here in a caisson in the
Passaic river. The victims constituted
a night shift engaged in work, pre-
paratory to the erection of the Center
street bridge, between here and Harri-
10 The accident occurred on a
floating p%ontoon anchored off the New
ark bank of the river and close to the
bridge. While the entire night gang
was in the bottom of the caisson the
steam engine broke down. AS a result
the air supply to the men was cut off
and they .~suffocated. The bodies were
recovered,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
First Pastor at Silver Jubilee.

The congregation at the Trinity
Lutheran church of Grand Forks cele-
brated tho twenty-ifth anniversary of
it's establishment and. an anniversary
address was delivered by the church's
first pastor, Rev. G. G. Gjerstad, who
Is now located in Southern Minnesota.
Only three of the first members of the
church were present, Mrs. j. c. Olson
and Mrs. K. A. Hofto of Grand Forks
and Mrs. Sven Furre of Inkster, and
an address on the church history was
delivered by City Treasurer T. ].
Hagen.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
BussE OUT OF CONTEST
Will Not Seek Another Term as May
or Of Chicago.

Chicago, Feb. Mayor Busse has
put at rest all rumors that he would
be a candidate for reelection.
Il long ago made up my mind not
to seek another term as mayor" the
city executive said.
1t is expected the mayors announce
ment will be followed by a launching
of the boom of John r. Thompson,
former county treasurer, for the Re-
publican nomination.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
Jamestown Man Set Free.

Ben Baker, who has been confined
in the county Jail at jamestown for
the past two months on a charge of
highway robbery, was found not guilty
in district court. The robbery of
which Baker was accused was the
first of a.series of thefts in which the
Smith & Rose safe and Lambert
Smiths residence were b~urglarized
early in December. The Baker jury
was out but fifteen minutes.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
chicaoo Live Stock.

Chicago, Feb. 6.-Cattle-Beeves.
s4.85@6.80; Texas steers, $4.0O@5.25;
Western steers, $4.30@5.5O; stockers
and feeders, s3.75@5.75; COWS and
heifers, $2.60@5.75; calves. $6.50@8.-
90. Hogs-Light, $7.55@7.85; mixed,
a$7.40@7.80; heavy, $7.10@7.65; rough.
80; good to choice heavy, ST.
3O@7.65; pigs, s7.60@7.95. Sheep
Native, $2.50@4.30; yearlings, $4,000
$50; lambs. $4.25@6.10.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES
Minneapolis Wheat.

Minneapolis, Feb. 6.-Wheat-May,
s1.O2A; July, $1.03A@ 1.O3%. On track
No. 1 hard. $1.03%; No. 1 Northern,
$1.01A@1.03B; No. 2 Northern, $3.50
@$1.01B; No. 8 Northern, 96% @99kc.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
Rear Admiral sperry Dead.

Washington, Feb. Rear Admiral
Charles Stillman Sperry, u. S. NJ, re-
tired, who commanded the Atlantic
feet on the last leg Of it's round the
world voyage, died suddenly at Gar
field hospital here of pneumonia.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, Feb. 6.-Wheat-To arrive
and on track-No. 1 hard, s1.03A; No.
1 Northern, SLOPE; No. 2 Northern.
99%c0s1.00%; May, S1.0s%; July,
s$1.04%. Flax-On track and to arrive,
$2.65; May, $2.65.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
SHOT DEAD ON THE STREET
Persian Minister of Finance Is AS
sassinated.

Teheran, Persia, Feb. 5.-Sani-Ed-
was shot dead in the street here. His
assassins, two Armenians, escaped.
The minister was returning home
from a meeting of parliament when he
was attacked. Death was almost in
Simultaneous. The murderers also
killed two policemen.
AS he fell the murderers turned and
fed. They were quickly pursued by
persons who had witnessed the kill
ing.
There was great excitement through
out the city as the news spread.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
North Dakota Veteran Dead.

Colonel William w. McIlvain Of
Enderlin, former commander of the
North Dakota Soldiers home at Lis.
bon. died at Denver, Colo, at the home
Of his daughter. DR.. Mauds M. Sanders.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
Chicago Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, Feb. - Wheat - May,
s5Ac; July, 93kc; Sept, 92Ac. Corn
May, soc; July, sic; Sept, 51Ac.
Oats-May, 32A @32Mc; July, $3.50
32Mc; Sept, 32hc. Pork-May,
1882; July, 1866. Butter-Cream-
cries, 17@25c; diaries, 16@22c. Eggs
-17@23c. Poultry-Turkeys, 800
&c; chickens, 13@13kc; springs, 13c.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
St. Paul Live Stock.

st. Paul, Feb. 6.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, $5.50@6.5o; fair to good,
$5.O0@5.50; good to choice cows and
heifers, $4.50@5.25; veals, $5.75@6.50.
Hogs-$7.55@7.60 60. Sheep-Wethers,
$3.25@4.0o; y%earlings, s4.O0@4.75;
spring lambs, SIS. 00@5.6Q
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
PLAGUE RACES UNCHECKED
Thousands of Chinese Victims of the
Epidemic.

Picking, Feb. Reports received
here from the health expert sent to
Hardin to investigate the pulmonary
plague now raging there say the sit
uation is serious.
Thousands of natives are dying and
efforts to check the disease have
failed.
It is not believed there can be any
adequate move made in stamping out
the malady until the arrival of warln
weather.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
Lengthen Treasury Inquiry

Extension of time to the forty-ifth
day Of the session in which to report
the results of the investigation into
the state ~treasurer's Office was asked
by the committee and will be granted.
The thirtieth day vas fixed In the
original resolution.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
Thirty Dead In Spanish Wreck.

Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 3.-The de-
railing Of the passenger train at Va
lencia was caused by a washout of the
roadbed. Thirty persons were killed.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
House Passes Medical Act.

The new proposed law for the CON
troll OF the practice of medicine and
surgery vas passed by the house
after an unsuccessful attempt had
been made 70 postpone consideration.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-02-09
Bishop Honacum Dead.

Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 5.-Right Rev.
Thomas Bonacum, bishop of the Cath.
Ole diocese of Lincoln. is dead OF
pneumonia.