Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-05-31

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bly, at Atlantic City, N. j.. has tele-
graphed protest to President Taft
against the acceptance by the navy
department Of the silver service for
the battleship Utah because the COT
fee tray has upon it an etching of
Brigham Young and a view of the
Mormon temple at Salt Lake City.
A scout sign language is being
evolved by the officers of the boy
scouts. After studying the crude signs
Of many peoples, particularly the
American Indian, code of signs en-
bodying many points in which all the
sign languages are alike is being TOR
mulated.
Two strangers are dead and a brake
man, Dave Platek, is in hospital in
Fargo, N. D., as the result of a wreck
one and half miles west of Stock
wood, MIMI, when Is freight ears
rolled down forty-toot embankment.
President Taft has signed q proc-
lamation establishing the Harvey ma
tional forest in South Dakota. It
embraces oS3,S20 acres, formerly in
the Black Hills forest, and 5S,727
acres taken from the public domain.
Through hypnotic suggestion Melch-
Tor Luysterborg, q man Of giant stat
ure, who for more than three years
has been completely paralyzed from
the waist down. was able to raise him.
self from the operating table in St.
Marks hospital, New York city, and
walk around the room.
Fire which for an hour endangered
the entire Kansas City stockyards and
the Live Stock Exchange building, de-
stroyed sheep pens covering square,
burned 1000 sheep and partly de-
stroyed two mule barns.
Five daughters Of Mr." and Mrs.
Harvey Roach Of Utica, Kan, ranging
from seven to sixteen years of age.
were burned to death. The mother
had filed lamp with gasoline by mis-"
take.
Six negroes held for the murder Of
a white man were lynched at Lake
City, Fla, after a party Of more than
a dozen men, masquerading as officers,
appeared at the county Jail and got
possession Of the men by presenting
bogus telegram to the sixteen.year-old
son Of the sheriff, ordering the release
Of the blacks to the alleged posse.
Beginning July 1, the Wells-Fargo
Express will displace the Pacific Elk.
press company on the Missouri Pa
cific, st. Louis. Iron Mountain &
Southern, Texas & Pacific and Wa.
bash railroads.
Postmaster General Hitchcock, i'm.
pressed by the reports Of the success
full operation of the postal savings
system, has decided to designate here.
after, for considerable time, 100 ad-
ditional postal repositories each week,
instead Of so. as announced q month
ago.
In a collision between a motorcycle
and an automobile at Redlands, CAL,
Gerald Purvis, chauffeur, was killed,
and Porter Adams, son Of Charles A.
Adams, wealthy Bostonian, was Sc.
verely injured.
Impressive ceremonies marked the
unveiling OF the memorial to Major
L'Epfant, the French engineer who
laid out the plans for the city of Wash
ington, at Arlington. President Taft,
Senator Root and the French ambas-
sador, M. Jusserand. delivered brief
addresses.
The Boston Wood Carvers' associa-
ton will send $1,000 to aid the $50
wood carvers on strike at Grand Rap
ids. Mich.
A strike begun In New York four
months ago by a union of bank CLERKS
employed In private banks on the
East side has ended in victory for
the strikers. They win 52-hour
working week and a Is per cent ad-
vance In wages.
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