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Remarkable Heroism Dis
played by All.
Enforcement of the Rule "Women
First" Sunders Family Ties
Forever-Famous Americans
Show Elements of Strong Man.
hood-Passengers in Lifeboats
Watch Great Steamer Sink.

boats would have a chilly half hour
below, and might later be laughed at.
II was such a feeling as this, from
all accounts, which caused John ia
cob Aston and his wife to refuse the
places offered them in the first boat
and to retire to the gymnasium. In
the same way H. J. Allison, Montreal
banker, laughed at the warning, and
his wife, treasured by him, took her
time about dressing. They and their
Their son, less than two years old,
was carried into a lifeboat by his
nurse and was taken in charge by
Maj. Arthur Peuchen.
The admiration felt by passengers
and crew for the matchlessly appoint
ed vessel was translated, In those
first few moments, into a confidence
which. for some, proved deadly.
lIfeboats Are Lacking.
In the loading Of the first boat, re-
strictions Of Sex. were not made, and
1t seemed to the men who piled in be.
side the women that there would be
boats enough for all. But the ships
officers knew better than this, and as
the spreading fear caused an earnest
advance toward the suspended craft
the order, Women first!" was heard,
and the men were pushed aside.
To the scenes of the next two hours
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WORRY CAUSES TRAGEDY
Insane Man Shoots Mayor Laid of
Sturgis, S. D.

Sturgis, s. d., April 22.-That wor.
ry owe his financial troubles, had un.
balanced the mind of Richard Stahl,
the farmer who Saturday shot and
killed Mayor Elmer Laid of this city
and then killed himself is the settled
conviction. 1t was learned that Stahl
had been cunning for Ladd for sew
eral days and for weeks had threat.
ened suicide.
All his loose money was in the
Meade County bank of which Laid
was cashier until it closed the first
of the year and he was unable to
meet some pending obligations. This
and the advise of Ladd on an abstract
of title which later turned out wrong,
caused the personal grievance.
Stahl shot and instantly killed May.
or Laid here Saturday afternoon. He
surrendered himself a little while
later, cut his own throat from ear to
ear in his cell, and died in a few min.
utes.
Laid, who was about the same age
IS Stahl. was talking with an attor-
ney in the latter's Office, when the
Infatuated farmer entered and fired
four shots from a large calibre re-
volver. Laid was struck by the sec
ond shot in the head. No one wit.
messed the shooting as the others ran
before the shots. Both men leave
families.
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AS THE TITANIC WENT To- IT'S GRAVE

two gongs, a warning OF immediate
danger.
The crash against the iceberg which
had been sighted at only a quarter Of
a mile, came almost simultaneously
with the click of the levers operated
by those on the bridge, which stopped
the engines and closed the water.
tight doors.
Captain Smith was on the bridge a
moment later giving orders for the
summoning Of all on board, and for
the putting on Of life~-preservers and
the lowering of lifeboats.
Many Men In First Boats.
The first boats lowered contained
more men than the latter ones, as the
men were on deck first and not
enough women to fill them.
When, a moment later, the rush Of
frightened women and crying chill
dren to the deck began, enforcement
Of the women first" rule became rigid.
officers loading some Of the boats
drew revolvers, but in most cases the
men, both passengers and crew, be-
haved in a way that called for no such
restraint.
Report Captain Shot Self.
Revolver shots, heard by many
persons shortly before the end Of the
Titanic, caused many rumors. One
was that Captain Smith shot himself,
another was that First Officer Muir
dock ended his life. Smith, Murdoch
and Sixth officer Moody are known
to have been lost. The surviving Of
f~1cers, Lightoller, Pitman, Bothall and
Lowe have made no statement.
Members Of the crew discredit all
reports of suicide, and say Captain
Smith remained on the bridge until
just before the ship sank, leaping only
after those on the decks had been
washed away. 1t is also related that,
when a cook later sought to pull
him aboard a lifeboat he exclaimed:
Let me go!" and, Jerking away, went
down.
llfe-Preservers Effective.
What became Of the men with life
preservers is a question asked since
the disaster by many persons. The
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MOST DREADED PART OF ATLANTIC OCEAN.

p~reservers did their work OF support
ing their wearers In the water until
the ship went down. Many of those
drawn into the vortex, despite the
p~reservers, did not come up again.
Dead bodies fioated on the surface as
the last boats moved away.
Band Plays as Ship Sinks.
To relate that the ships string band
gathered In the saloon, near the end,
and played Nearer, My God, to
Thee" sounds like an attempt to give
al added solemn color to a scene
which was in itself the climax OF SOL
emnity. But various passengers and
survivors of the crew agree in the
declaration that they heard the music.
To some of the hearers, with hus-
bands among the dying men in the
water and at the ships rail, the strain
brought in thought the words:
so. by my woes I'll be
Nearer. my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee"
Women and children FIRST" was the
order In the filing OF the Titanic's
lifeboats. How well that order was
fulfilled the list OF missing first and
second cabin passengers bears elo-
quent witness. Mr." is before almost
every name.
Chose Death With Husbands.
Mrs. Isidor Strauss, who chose death
rather than to leave her husbands
side; Mrs. Allison, who remained be-
low with her husband and daughter,
and others who. in various ways were
kept from entering the line OF those
to be saved. are striking examples OF
those who faced the disaster calmly.
To most of the passengers the mid
night crash did not seem of terrific
force. Bridge players In the smoking
room kept on with their game.
Once on deck. many hesitated to
enter the swinging lifeboats. The
CLASSY sea the stariit sky, the alb
sence. in the first few minutes. of in
tense excitement. gave them the feel
Ing that there vas only some slight
mishap--that those who got inls the
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on those decks and in the waters be-
low, such adjectives as dramatic"
and tragic" do but poor justice. With
the knowledge OF deadly peril gaining
greater power each moment over
those men and women, the nobility
of the greater part, both among cabin
passengers, officers, crew and steer.
age, asserted itself.
Straus Held Back by Guard.
Isidor Straus, supporting his wife
on her way to a lifeboat, was held
back by an inexorable guard. Another
officer strove to help her to a seat Of
safety, but she brushed away his arm
and chung to her husband, crying, Il
will not go without YOU"
Another woman took her place, and
her form, clinging to her husbands,
became part Of a picture now drawn
indelibly in many minds. Neither wife
nor husband, 10 far as anyone knows,
reached a place of safety.
Aston and Wife Part.
Colonel Aston, holding his wife's
arm. stood de~corously aside a. the
officers spoke to him, and Mrs. Astor
and her maid were ushered to seats.
Mrs. Henry B. Harris parted in like
manner from her husband, saw him
last at the rail, beside Colonel Astor.
Walter M. Clark OF Los Angeles.
nephew Of the Montana senator,
Joined the line of men as his young
wife. sobbing. was placed in one OF
the craft.
Let him come! There is room!"
cried Mrs. Emil Taussig as the men
OF the White Star line motioned to
her husband to leave her. 1t was with
difficulty that he released her hold to
permit her to be led to her place.
George D. Widener, who had been
In Captain Smiths company a few
moments after the crash, was an
other whose wife was parted from
linn and lowered. a moment later. to
the surface OF the calm sea.
Butt, Hays and Stead Lost.
OF Major Archie Butt a favorite
with his fellow tourists; OF Charles NJ.
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OLYMPIC AT PLYMOUTH
Captain on Arrival In London Denies
Reporting Towing Of Titanic.

London, Eng. - Captain Haddock
of the White Star line steamer Olym.
pic, on arriving at Plymouth from
New York, denied that the Olympic
sent out a wireless report to the ef-
feet that the Allan line Virginian was
towing the Titanic and that all of the
passengers were safe. The passengers
Of the Olympic subscribed $1,000 to
the relief fund of the survivors.
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The list OF survivors given out after
the Carpathia reached port did not
contain the name OF Arthur Ryerson,
formerly OF Chicago, although the
other members of his family were
saved. Miss Elizabeth Isham OF chi.
cago is not In the list OF rescued. K.
g. Levy. Chicago jeweler. was not on
the Carpathia.
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A Chicago man Is being tried for
having married seven women. but
there are those who believe that he
should be examined by a flock Of
alienists.
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A Maryland citizen committed sui
eide rather than submit to an opera
ton for appendicitis. Evidently he
preferred an u~ndertaker's bill to Q
doctors bill.
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It~took a woman to run down New
York's taxicab bandits. Next thing
we know we shall hear of the Adven-
lures OF Mrs. Sherlock Holmes.
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A financier informs us that the man
who earns 1925 a week Is worth
525 900. The only trouble Is that some
fnancier has charge OF the SIS. 900.
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Scientists say II is too cold on Mars
to support life. Perhaps, though, the
planet is like Boston--merely intellec-
tual.
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A Baltimore man has just under
gone his twenty-fourth surgical oper-
alton. In n way he Is qualified to
be tho village cut-up.
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With both poles discovered and
public interest on the wane It looks
az If our professional discoveries may
be forced TO go to work.
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Modern court procedure is said to be
q joke, but the joke is on the poor
wretch who has not enough money to
hire a flock OF lawyers.
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A Philadelphia citizen says he lives
on 81 a week, but he does not say
who feeds and clothes him in the
meantime.
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The average baseball fan cares not
a whit about the malefactions of the
baseball trust as long as the home
team wins a pennant.
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A health EXPERT AYERS that standing
on the head will clear the brain. but
too much OF It Is likely to develop a
race OF fatheads.
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A preacher man tells us that the
saddest hour OF the day comes after
sunset. but u saddest hour comes
when the alarm clock rings.
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a London specialist proposes rs
cure badness By grating hair on the
dome. This will create q demand for
ivory experts.
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Butter can be made directly from
grass, says a scientific sharp, and per
haps 1t can. We have long had apple
butter.
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An astronomer in that dear Paris
informs us that the earth is 100. 000.-
900 years old. What are a few CT
piers more or less?
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A New York woman sent her con-
eratulations to her divorced husband
when be married again. She should
have sent her regrets to the new wife
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In Nyack, which is in New York,
not Tasmania or Saxe-Meiningen. the
best elective Offices are seeking men
10 I'll them.
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Twin City

Minneapolis. April 2s.-Wheat. May,
SLIM: July. SLIPS: No. l northern
s1.13%; No. 2 northern, s1.11%: No. i
durum, s1.0sh; No. 8 corn. sic; No. 3
white oats. SEC; barley, mailing, $3.50;
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Kansas City. - Three persons are
known to have lost their lives in four
tornadoes that visited localities in
southern and central Kansas.
A. Breyless was killed when a
tWister destroyed his farm home near
Waldron, Harper county.
Prockop Kottal and his grand
daughter, Mary Kottal, aged four are
dead. They were killed in the storm
at Bison, Bush county. Mrs. James
Carroll of Chicago, a daughter of Kot.
tai and Philip Scheneran are believed
to have been fatally injured. A total
Of nearly 80 persons are known to
have been injured in the various
storms. The property damage done
by the tornadoes will aggregate more
than 5000, 600.
A tornado did considerable damage
to farm buildings near Caney, Mont.
gomery county after visiting Coan,
an oil town in Oklahoma, near the
Kansas line, where it struck at 10
o'clock. There it killed a girl named
Littleton and injured "a other persons
and destroyed eight buildings.
A race between a Missouri Pacific
train and the funnelshaped cloud was
a feature of the storm that struck
Nashville. Kingman county. Engineer
Fred Mclean and Fireman D. v.
Walker on the train saw the twister
approaching and threw on all possible
speed in an effort to get out of it's
path. The storm crossed the track
only three telegraph poles behind the
train. Passengers crowded the plat.
form to see the novel sight of a tor
nado at close range.
Flood Claims Negro Lives.
New Orleans.-News from the flood
ed area of the Mississippi valley in
Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana
continues to be increasingly grave.
Thousands OF those who were com
PEELED to flee to higher places when
the yellow flood invaded their homes
have been cared for, but there are
still many more who are in impera.
tive need of aid.
1t is estimated that so towns and
villages have SO far felt the effects of
the flood. Some places are under
from two to fifteen feet of water with
little prospects of an early recession.
Reports as to the loss of life differ.
The number known to have persisted
is ten, but all were negroes except
one.
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A dispatch from England tells us
that schoolboys Of Elton are now al
lowed to wear soft shirts. Verify. the
British monarchy 10 falling to pieces
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Some think q Chinese wall should
be built along the Mexican border,
and then let them scrap it out.
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Massachusetts legislators propose
a tax OF So a year OF bachelors and
some OF them claim the freedom is
worth II.
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The druggist WHO boasts that he
has accumulated $4,000 prescriptions
has no statistics to show how many of
them cured.
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The Pulitzer school OF journalism
has refused to admit women. There
will. therefore, be no journalettes.
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Explorers tell US that there are val
liable coal deposits at the south pole,
not to mention the ice
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The Arctic explorer says dog meat
Is delicious. In spite Of which expert
opinion 1t seems cannibalistic to be
eating mans best friends.
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A survivor says the crew acted with
great courage-but not with more
heroism than was shown by John ia.
cob Astor, Jacques Futrelle and Others
Of the noted passengers who pr.
ished.
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A Missouri man hit his wife with a
pound of butter. He seemed to think
q soft answer would turn away wrath.
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Another blow to the popularity OF
the turkey trot. A Judge in Connect.
cut rules that II is o immoral.
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Boston astronomers have discovered
a new star. Second base or short
stop?
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The prodigal son no longer comes
back to share in the fatted calf. He
prefers to wire for a draft.
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Occasionally the weather man for
gets himself and lets US enjoy q
pleasant day.
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Georgia may yet desire to cast its
vote for Tyrus Cobb.
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The gladdest words OF tongue or
pen are: Fair and warmer" weather
man.
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81 DIE IN CYCLONES
SCORES OF OTHERS SERIOUSLY
INJURED THROUGHOUT THE
SOUTHWEST.
Raj RACES WITH STORM
Indiana and Illinois Suffer Most
Southern and Central Kansas
Is Hard Hit by
Twisters.

Chicago, Illinois. - T%hirty.two per
sons are known to be dead, half a
score are so severely injured they
may die and a hundred and fifty 9th.
ers hurt in two tornadoes which swept
over southwestern Illinois in one in.
stance and across northern Illinois
into Indiana in the other.
Twelve were killed at Bush, Ill.,;
five at Willisville; three near Muir.
physboro; three at Reddick, H., and
nine at Morocco, Ind.
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Notice of Mortgage sale.

Notice is hereby given that certain
! mortgage, executed and delivered by
! George Edwin Butts and Thomas E
Smith, mortgagors, to w. w. Wedge,
mortgage, dated the 26th day of Jan
uary, 1910, and filed for record in the
office of the register of deeds in and
for County of Ward, and state of
North Dakota, on the Bird day Of Feb
ruary, 1910, at 3:45 p. M, and record
ed in book Isl Of mortgages, on page
BAT, will be foreclosed by a sale of
the premises in such mortgage and
hereinafter described at the front door
Of the court house in the county of
Ward, at the city of Minot, North Da-
kota, at the hour of two o'clock p. m.
on the 18th day Of April, A. D. 1912,
to satisfy the amount due upon such
mortgage on the day of sale, the said
mortgagors having defaulted in the
payment of principal and interest in
the sum of Sixteen Hundred and Sew
enty-flve $500 ($1e75 3s) due on the
LIST day of October. 1911, no part Of
which has been paid. save and ex-
cept three hundred and Forty-two and
5O-100 ($342.5O). This mortgage fore
closure also includes az part Of the
indebtedness secured by this mort
gage 5000 interest paid on the first
mortgage described in this, the second
mortgage, on July 21st, 1911. and
which the mortgage herein vas com.
PEELED to pay, and did pay, to protect
himself by reason Of the default of
the mortgagors herein. The premises
described in such mortgage and which
will be sold to satisfy the same, are
described as follows:
The North East Quarter Of the
South West Quarter, and lots One and
Two Of Section Twenty-six, and lots
Three, Four, Five, Six and Seven in
section Twenty-seven, all being To-
Gated in Township One Hundred and
Fifty-Two North of Range Eighty
Five West.
There will be due on such mort
gage at the date of sale the sum Of
Fourteen Hundred and Twelve S5-1O0
($1412.85), together with costs and
disbursements of this sale and sta
tutory attorney fees.
Dated at Granville, North Dakota,
this 10Th day of February, A. D. 1912.
W. w. WEDGE,
Mortgagee.
Woodward & Ulsrud,
Attorneys for Mortgage. .-.-
Office and post office address, Gran
Vile, North Dakota. '... )
z-29-t6 "
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Notice Of Mortgage Sale.

Notice rs hereby given that default
having been made in the payment Of
a certain mortgage, executed and de-
llvered by Girshon D. Gleason and
Florence A. Gleason, his wife, mort
gagors. to John Hoellinger, mcrtga.
gee, dated the Gath day of February,
1910, and fled FIR record in the office
of the Register of Deeds Of tn Coun-
ty Of Ward. c,l State Of N,.h Da-
kota, on the oath day Of reo 1910,
and recorded in Book ia Of Mort
cages at Page 255, will be :orcclosed
by a sale of the premises In such
mortgage and hereinafter described
at the front door OF the Court House
In tho City OF Minor in the County Of
Ward and State Of North Dakota, at
the hour Of 2 O'Clock p. NJ, on the
9th day Of March, y. D. 1912, to sa.-
tsfy the amount due upon such mort
gage on the day Of sale. The prem
Uses described in such Mortgage and
which will be sold to satisfy the
same are described a. follows, VIZ
the South East Quarter Of the North
west Quarter, Use IA NV 1-4) and
the Southwest Quarter of the North
East Quarter (sW IA NE 1-4) and
the North West quarter of the South
East Quarter INV "a ID 1-4) AMI the
North East Quarter Of the South
West Quarter one IA sW LAY Of Sec
ton Twenty Two (22) Township One
Hundred and Fifty-three (153) Range
Eighty-four (S4), west Of the 5th P.
M.
There Will be due on such mortgage
at the date Of sale tho sum Of Twelve
Hundred and Seven Dollars and 49,
100 Dollars.
JOHN HOELLlN0ER,
Mortgagse.
James johnson,
Attorney for Mortgaeee. 1-1-to-
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To the Democrats of North Dakota:
am candidate for delegate to
the democratic national convention,
to be voted on in the presidential
primary the 10Th day Of March. I
have been an active democrat in this
state snce 1896, when cast my first
presidential vote for Williams j.
Bryan, and for ten years past have
published a paper in which the prin-
ciples and policies of that great citi-
zen have been faithfully and consist
emily advocated. favor ticket
composed OF Woodrow Wilson for
president and John Burke for vice
president. Tho platform is Of Sec
ondary importance. MEN ars of
greater importance than platforms.
Carl Nelson. Cando, N. d.
? - ~
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OF such mortgage not yet due.
There will be due on such mort
gage at the date of sale the sum of
(S131.95) One Hundred thirty-one and
95-100 Dollars besides attorneys
fees and costs of foreclosure. WA
e. D. KELLEY,
Sheriff Of Ward County, N. D.
Dated Feb. s, 1912.
INTERSTATE SECURITIES
COMPANY,
.. Mortgage,
B]afsdell, Murphy Il Blaisdell,
Attorneys for Mortgage,
Minot, N. D. 2-S-t6-
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NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORE
CLOSURE SALE.

Notice is hereby given that that
certain mortgage. made, executed and
delivered by A. w. Tracy, Mortgasr,
to George 8. Stewart, MORTGAGE, dated
the 1st day of May, 1909, and fled tos
record in the office of the Register
of Deeds of the County Of Ward.
State of North Dakota, On the LIST
day of May, A. D. 1909 at 1886 O'Clock
P M. and recorded in Book 100 of
Mortgages on Page 2, Will be- FORE
closed by sale of the premises IL
such mortgage and hereinafter de-
scribed, al the front door of the
court house in the County Of Ward,
State Of North Dakota, at the hour Of
Q o'clock p. M. On the 10Th day Of
March, A. d. 1912, to satisfy the
amount due on such mortgage on the
day of sale; the premises described in
such mortgage and which will be
sold to satisfy the same are situate
in tho County Of Ward, State Of