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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-03-07
CALLS ELMIRA MAN MORMON
Joke Played on q Citizen Who Wa,
Member Of s%uffragist Party at
New York Hotel.

New York.-Practical jokers at El.
mira, N. Y, caused unpleasant mo.
ments for their friend, Col. James M.
Reynolds, who is in New York on a
sightseeing trip. The colonel's wife
came to the city as one of a suffrag-
list delegation of twenty Elmira wo.
men and the colonel was the only male
member of the party. The party reg
istered at an uptown hotel and group.
ed the names on the register with a
large bracket opposite. bearing the ex-
planatory line: "Elmira S%uffragists."
Just outside of the bracket was the
name Of Col. Reynolds.
Soon after the party arrived the fol-
lowing telegram was delivered to the
hotel proprietor-sent by the practical
jokers in Elmira.
Mormon elder with his wives stop.
ping at your hotel posing as a suffra.
gist party. Man short and with whisk.
ers."
The hotel man fastened to find Col.
Reynolds and showed the telegram to
him. He was dumb with astonish.
ment, but eventually succeeded in es.
t%ablishing his identity to the salts.
faction of all concerned.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-03-07
SAVED FROM wATERY GRAVE
Row.Boat Built to Take Woman to
husband Wrecked In Colorado
80. River.

San Bernardino, Colo.-Four men
lettering on the bank of the Colorado
river just north Of Yuma rescued Mrs.
May Hadley from death In the wreck
Of q homemade rowboat in which she
was trying to make her way to a
ranch below the international line,
where her husband lay critically Ill.
Mrs. Hadley lives at Oatman. Ariz.,
opposite Needles. Having no money.
to pay for a passage down the river
she built q boat herself, but 1t was;
too fragile to Withstand the swirling
currents Of the Colorado, and It went
to pieces five miles north of Yuma.
The woman's cries for help WERE
heard by the four mon on tho bank.
When they dragged her to shore she
wal numb from the effect Of the ICY
water.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-03-07
GIVES MAN TO FIRST WIFE
Frau No. 2 Willing to Resign for
Predecessor Who After Long
Absence Returns.

Boston.-With the advice and con.
sent of his second wife, Gustav E. Lar.
sen has petitioned the court here for
the annulment of his second marriage
in order that he may remarry his first
helpmate.
Larsen was married to his first wife
fifteen years ago, and four years later
she disappeared. For eight years he
searched for her without success and
then. believing her dead, he remar.
ried. A few days ago the first wife
hunted up her husband and asked for,
gtveness. To clear the situation wife
No. 2 offered to renounce the man she
loved and give up her home that Lar.
sen might re-wed his first love.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-03-07
RAISED DUCKS IN BATH TUB
Colorado Man Gets Setback by Gold
Weather, but overcomes
Difficulties, -.

Boulder, Colo.-To raise prize win.
ming ducks use the family bath. tub
is the advice of ]. G. Brown, a Boulder
man, who owns q number of Indian
rune ducks. He wanted them to. be
in good condition for the Boulder poul-
try show, but the cold weather came
on and the ducks began to look shay
gy. Brown studied over the situa-
ton. Finally he gathered ups his
choicest ducks and took them to the
house. where he announced to 7fhe
family they would have to r%eturn,to
the tub back Of the range or 49, the
kitchen kettle for their baths, for he
needed the bathroom.
Filling the tub with water and plac-
ing the ducks there, he closed the
door Of the bathroom, a broad smile
wreathing his countenance. The birds
won FIRST prize.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-03-07
THUGS DEcoY HAS DIARY
Every, Step Of Woman's Path From
Home 20 Prison Entered
In Book.

San Jose, Cal.-Every step Of the
path followed by Mrs. Alice Nc.
Bride" from her home in New York
city to the city prison in San Jose,
where she was locked up after serv.
Ing as a decoy for highwaymen, is on.
tered in a little pocket dairy which
she kept with powder puffs, jewelry
and hair ornaments in her suitcase.
Last year she was married to a
young New York man named Young,
and five days after the ceremony she
came west to Grand Canyon, Ariz.
Her husband followed her when she
obtained employment for him, but he
did not stay.
The next entry in the diary was:
September 10, 1911. Met w. G.
Bowman to my sorrow" a
She left Arizona and went to Los
Angeles, and after wandering about
the coast with Bowman finally came
to this city. Almost Immediately she
was sent out as a decoy, and met q
wealthy man from Burlingame waiting
at the Market street railway station
and lured him into the hands of two
companions. Wilson Bowman and
Jesse Cole. who were waiting in the
rear entrance to a hotel in Guadalupe
street.
The girl was sentenced to serve 1876
days in the county prison by Judge
D%ougherty, but the commitment wal
withheld, and she was paroled with
the. understanding that she is tt
be placed in the Home Of the Good
Shepherd in Los Angeles.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-03-07
VIII Not Tolerate Msnobs,"

NH MOI To!eFato "Bhobe,"
Princeton. N. 1.-THE Daily Prince.
tantan declares positively there IL no
place ct Princeton for q "snohr' nor
for a man who makes" q secret 90
eisty by "toadying."
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-03-07
KINDNESS WINS HER $4,000
Yeuna Woman Who eefrlended Par
onts Of New York May 10 Made
Heiress by Will.

Philadelphia, Pa.-Helsp Townsend
Engie, aged 18, Of West Lehigh ave
nue., received notice that she was an
heiress to $4,000 left to her by John
Hermer Of New York city, because
she had been kind to his old parents,
who live near Miss Engel's home, Mr..
Hsrmer died recently In New York
1t the age of 26. Miss Engle was too
mpdSst to discuss her good fortune.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-03-07
HAS SERVED NATION So YEARS
Thomas Harrison, Dean Of the. Clerical
Force In WashlnoAsnsslH d.
NsquesA 81 s.

Washington.-In a few days Thomas
Harrison, chief clerk in the naval OBJ
servatory, will have completed proba-
bly, the most remarkable term of CON
tinuous service in the government on
record. He will have been for sixty
three years, q longer period than the
average life time, ct the same desk in
his department.
No record comparable to this OK.
lists in this government, and it is
doubtful If any such record ever ex-
listed before.
And there is another thing about
Harrison that Is unprecedented. He
has asked to be denoted. He has
volunteered to take a position of less
salary and less Importance. and has
insisted upon 1t when his superior off,
GERS were %disinclined to authorize it.
A year ago Harrison went to the
acting secretary Of the navy and
asked to be transferred. He said that
old age had come upon him; that his
faculties could not be expected to re-
spond much longer, and that before
incompetency forced itself upon him
he wanted to take up other duties lSss
responsible.
Mr.. Winthrop listened to tho veter.
an clerk. and then refused the request.
The secretary said that any man with
Harrison's record. was entitled to full
pay to the end Of his life. If not for
present efficiency, then for the work
he had done in the past.
This compliment and tho recognition
Of his services pleased Harrison. 1t
made him feel that he had not spent
his sixty.two years at hard work
without his reward. And he returned
to work and remained at work until
= week or so ago. !"
Then tho old man wrote a letters to
the secretary, renewing his request
that he be relieved of responsibility,
but that he be given some work that
would support him for the remainder
Of his life.
Harrison was obdurate. He had
made up his mind to turn his RESPONSE
BILE work ver to a younger man and
finally convinced the secretary Of the
merit of his plea. This time Mr.. Win
throp stood aside and ordered the
transfer to be made. -.
Harrison Is now eighty years DID,.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-03-07
la We'll Of lev Water,

Alexander, N d.. A. Yockstad,
who fell In a we'll of icy water when
the temperature was Is degrees below
zero. and who was compelled to stand
on his toes to keep his mouth and
nose out, is lowering between life and
death. His daughter, aged ten years,
made a frantic drive of six miles for
help while the father faced death.
Yookstad. fell into the we'll while
trying to recover a cap which had
blown from his head. He was at home
alone with his daughter on their farm
near Berg, N. D., and the child could
not aid him,
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-03-07
Haunted FOR YEARS
Flight Of Defaulter Who Never
Was Pursued.
Guilty Land Man Turned Tramp-sur
rendefins After Eighteen Years,
He Found Indictment Had
Been ouashed.

Omaha, Neb.-Elmer r.. johnson
was . fugitive from justice for eigh.
teen years. In that time he wandered
through every state in the Union but
one. and visited every country in the
world In an effort to evade the fed
eral inspectors and secret service
men. The other day he walked into
the once of the United States mar.
shall at Omaha and surrendered. He
then learned that the case against
him was quashed fifteen years ago;
that he had fed when none pursued
and that the army OF federal officers
who had been chasing him over the
globe were only creations of his own
guilty conscience.
johnson sat down and Dried when
told by the marshal that he was q
free man; that the government did
not want him and that for the last
fifteen years he might have settled
down and lived an honest man in
stead of wandering as a hobo over
the world.
: I'm too old to make a new start
now" said Johnson after he had
braced up. IF l had only known this
years and years ago l might have
amounted to something. II I had
stood trial and taken my medicine
would have been u Of prison fifteen
years ago. My punishment would
have lasted two or three years. AS a
fact, it continued eighteen years and
Its effect will continue throughout my
life"
=. Cant you lend me a quarter to get
something to eat WITH" And with
the ascent piece in his hand he shut
led of toward, a restaurant.
johnson was an official in the pub
lic land Office in Del Norte, Cal. In
1893 he was found short $780,. He
was ;i~ndicteds:on a charge Of embez-
slement, forfeited his bail and es-
capped. For three years the govern
ment inspectors kept a lookout for
him. Then the case was dismissed
and thereafter no further efforts were
!. made to capture him.
:. ION a cattle ship l, worked my way
; to Liverpool" said johnson. II was
absent from the states about five
years, during which time visited
practically every country in Europe,
/: and many in Asia and Africa. was
simply a hobo but l watched keenly
for government detectives who my
conscience told me were always after
me.
For eight years I have been wan
derfng yer the country from the At
lantic to the Pacific, from Winnipeg
to the gulf. I have worked a few
days In actually hundreds Of printing
Offices. But I made 1t an absolute
rule eve to work in a place for
more than a week. Then I would move
to the next stop. thus throwing the
detectives off of my trail.
The morning l struck Omaha l
walked up the street and by the post.
Office. And the thought struck me
that had l stood trial, took my medi.
cine and served my time I would
have been a free man many years ago.
But you would have been an ex-con.
vict,' l told myself. That's no worse
than a tramp l answered myself.
"'Well, why not go In and surren.
der? l asked myself. And before i
had an opportunity OF saying no,
there I was in the United States mar.
shal's Office"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-03-07

The stebbins family and most Of
the town stayed up all night search
Ing. Then the next morning a note
that explained everything came from
Uncle Horace.
II went away to get married." he
wrote in his Grabbed hand. II have
been corresponding for some time
with a most estimable widow of forty
five, who wants to make a home for
me in my old age. She has four chill
dren. and we will all come to visit
you soon. for l know you will be as
fond of Sally and the children IS you
are of me-"
They revived Mrs. stebbins three
times before she quit fainting. Then
she remembered that Mrs. Cromp was
Lit Just as hard As she was and that
made her feel better.
1T serves that designing, self-seek
ing woman exactly right" she told
the nsishbers. Pretending to care
abou4 tho doddsring, foolish. tiresomt
old mani As for me, I took him II
| because I felt 1t was my dutyl"
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-03-07
Rrothers Given surprIse.

Chicago.-John and Jerry Heating.
who have served side by side for ten
years in the 9th United States in.
fantry, learned they were brothers
when Jerry mentioned his mothers
name.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-03-07
she Wears Mems Clothing.

spartansboro. N. CATER she had
been masquerading as a man for
eight months, the identity of Mrs.
Mary Owens has ben discovered and
che has been forced to leave the fac
tory town of Saxon Mills. The young
woman had become engaged to q 10.
year-pld girl who 10 broken-heayted
over the revelation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-12
FATHER MURPHY
HAS TESTIFIED
Man of Unquestioned lnteg-
rity Endorses
TONIC HELPED HIM
"As Far as My Voice Can Reach l
Will Speak in Favor of What
Has Done Me So Much
Good" He Says
TONIC HELPED HIM

Father Murphy of st. Joseph's church,
Mobile, made the following statement re-
Gently. Father Murphy, who Is known
throughout the south as man Oh un-
questioned integrity, said:
"A friend has sent me some or your
Stummatone. 1 have found II to benefit
me very much. To date I have taken
three bottles and am feeling much bet
ter. | have been troubled with vomiting
spells after meals, and a general break
down, having lost forty pounds during
the last few years. / had stomach trou-
bile of long standing-ten or twelve years.
/ will continue to use Stummatone, and
as far as my voice can reach will speak
in favor of what has done me so much
good"
Thousands of other statements from
people in all stations of life have been
received by the neurologists who are in
Producing the remarkable new tonic in
the United States, who state that Stun
1natone eannet help but benefit those who
suffer from stomach and bowel troubles.
headaches, backaehe, poor digestion, I'M
sound sleep, gas formations, nervous
fimidity, poor circulation and who have
no appetite, when experiments with Stun
matone have proved that it not only
provides you with the proper nerve food,
with the necessary proteid matter. but
reduces the unfriendly germs generating
poisonous Accommodations and improves
your general health by putting the most
important organs of your body, the stom-
ach and intestines, in perfect shape.
The Stummatone neurologists are sta
toned at the Gum Drug company, Goth
st. and 3rd ave, the birmingham agents.
to meet the public and explain the ma
ture of their remarkable new tonic. Stun
matone is positively guaranteed to do all
that Is claimed for it-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-12
ALDR|CH BILL TO Be
BONE OF CONTENTION
Opposition to Measure More
Pronounced In House
Than Senate

Washington, November 1.-THE Aldrich
currency bill bids fair to be a bone of
contention in both houses during the next
session of Congress, Although strongly
recommended by the monetary commits
sion, of which former Senator Aldrich
was chairman, the currency bill received
no attention from either the Senate or
the House during the session Immediately
preceding the recent campaign Its friends
thought it most expedient to lay it aside
until after the election, but the expecta-
ton is it will be pressed during the short
session, and the report was current at the
capitol today that there would be an
effort to reorganize the House commit
tee on banking and currency, so as to
insure favorable action by that commit
tee early in the next Congress in case
of its non-success this winter
Opposition to the bill is more pronounced
in the House than in the Senate, ind it
is understood Chairman Henry of the
House committee on rules, would exert
the influence of his position to the ut
most to prevent the bringing in of rule
for the consideration of the measure I'M
less it should be recommended by a
House caucus. His position is, that be-
cause of the attitude of the Baltimore
convention, the bill should not be acted
upon by. the House without the positive
approval OF majority of the democratic
members given in advance of such ac-
ton.
Opponents of the bill already are lining
up for Representative Carter Glass of
Virginia as the next chairman of the
banking committee. Craftsmanship now
Is held by Representative Pujo of Louis
lana, but he will not be a member of the
sixty-third Congress Mr.. Glass now
holds second place on the committee, but
1t is expected he will be antagonized by
the supporters of the Aldrich bill.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-12
NORWOOD WADUCT
. NO GRADE CROSSING
Sewer States Southern Ry.
Wishes to Cooperate
With City

That no force ever was used on the
Southern Railway interests by the city
commission in regard to the Norwood
that line were purely voluntary and for
the purpose of cooperating with the city,
was a statement yesterday OF L. SEWER,
general agent for the Southern railway
and allied interests.
Mr. Sewer also said in an informal in
terview that there was absolutely no
grade crossing evil or danger in Norwood.
He stated that the southern railway built
some time ago the bridge now used, sim
ply to aid in the betterment of the con-
ditions in that community.
"The Southern railway" Mr.. Sewer
said, holds its right of way along Twen-
ty-seventh street by deed to the prop
erty and not by any contract for the erec-
ton of any bridge or the payment of any
money. We have no agreement with the
city or any other interest to build that
viaduct. However. as | have informed
the commission, we are ready and willing
to start when so directed by the inter-
ests participating in the work
1.-THE Southern railway erected that
bridge of it's own accord some years ago
and is only participating in the construc-
ton of a new viaduct because il is
planned to replace a wooden bridge with
a more substantial concrete one. / fail
to see where any editorial such as one
that appeared few days ago In refer
ence to grade crossing dangers, can apply
to Norwood. There is absolutely no grade
crossing dangers there so far as l know
and the Norwood viaduct question has
nothing in it resembling grade cross
ing The Norwood work is simply a
bridge over ditch which has never been
a grade crossing
There We're no further developments at
the city hall yesterday on the Norwood
viaduct proposition, except short state
ment by Commissioner James Weatherly
to the effect that he would get that
viaduct"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-12

roads and was not lateral branch
I'VE remark that the commission
stated in-=its report that it based its
conclusion more largely upon their own
investigation than upon the testimony
of Witnesses said Justice Holmes. 1T
would be a very strong proposition
to say that the parties would be bound
in the higher courts by finding based
on specific Investigations made in the
cases without notice to them. Such an
investigation is quite different from a
view by a jury taken with notice and
subject to the order of a court and
different again from the question of the
right of the commission to take notice
OF results reached by 1t in other cases,
when it's doing so is made a part
of the record and the facts thus noticed
are specified SO that matters OF Law
are saved
The court did not pass upon ii
question of the power of the commi
sion to require steam roads to graz
connections with electric lines as ssd Z
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-12
COMMERCE COMMISSION IS
WARNED BY SUPREME COURT

Washington. November 11.--A word
of caution was dropped today by the
supreme court of the United States to
the interstate commerce commission
against issuing orders based upon its
own Investigations rather than upon
the testimony of witnesses.
The court, speaking through Justice
Holmes, cited the commissions state
inent that this had been done when It
issued an order requiring the Balti-
more and Ohio Southwestern Railroad
company and the Norfolk and West
ern Railway company to grant phys
ical connections in southern Ohio 20
the Cincinnati and Columbus Traction
company, an interurban electric road.
The commission held that the electric
was lateral branch line of railroad
within the meaning of the law, but
the court sustained the commerce court
i'll holding that the electric line ap-
peared to have been built without re-
gard to the existence of the steam
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-12
HOLD SERVICES
THIS AT TERNOON
DR.. Plunket's Remains Will
Be Inferred at Nashville
WILL LIE IN STATE
Private Services Will Occur at 3
O'Clock and Public Services at
$3.50 at South Highlands
Presbyterian
WILL LIE IN STATE

Funeral services over the remains of the
Rev. DIR. j. T. Plunket late pastor of
the South Highland Presbyterian church,
who died Sunday, will be held this aft.
ernoon. At o'clock there will be a
private service for the immediate fam
lily at the residence, 1880 South Twentieth
street, conducted by the Rev. w. D.
Mooney of the Second Presbyterian
church, and the Rev. Preston Blake of
the southside Baptist church.
Public Services
The remains will then be borne to the
South Highland Presbyterian church,
where a public service will be held at $3.50
p. m. The following pastors of Birming
ham will offioiate: the Rev. DR.. L. C.
Branscomb of the First Methodist
church.; the Rev. U. D. Mooney, of the
Second Presbyterian church, and the
Rev. j. D. Foster. OF the Second Preshy-
terrain church. The Rev. DR.. d. r. Riley
will also take part in the services.
The church service will be attended by
all the ministers of the Birmingham dis
trict, and many others throughout the
state. The deacons of the South High
lands church will act as active pallbear-
ers, while the elders will be honorary
palbearers. Following are the deacons:
Sidney w. Lee, H. U. Sims, M. J. Dill
lard, A. j. Gilmore, Henry Howze d. T..
Anderson, II. N. Archibald, " s. Gage,
w. f.. Hooper, A. j. Martin, c. p. Orr,
II. j. Porter, Borden Burr s. J. Bowie,
H. r. Samson, c. M. williamson and
+. r. Ballard. The elders: A. w. Allen,
Caldwell Bradshaw, Joseph Hardie, w. @.
Oslin, John II. Frye, J. X. Brockman,
G. G. Heidi J. w. Sibley, H. r. Jacobs,
A. H. Ford, l.. f. Lyman and s. d.
Weakley.
Pastors Union to Attend
The pastors union will attend In a
body but through the Rev. ]. w. john
son, vice president, the following pastors
have been especially designated to rep
resent the organization: the Rev. Preston
Blake, the Rev. Z. d. Mooney, the Rev.
DIR. l.. c. Branscomb and Rev. e. c. Nc
Voy.
Following the public services the body
of the beloved pastor will lie in state
at the church until o'clock tonight,
when it win be conveyed to Nashville,
the interment taking place there tomor-
row.
Throughout yesterday many messages
of coincidence were received by the be-
reaved family, all expressing heartfelt
sorrow over the sudden taking off Of the
distinguished divine who stood as n tower
of strength for civic righteousness, as
well as Christian faith
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-12
COREY COMMERCIAL Y
CLUB HOLDS MEETING

A very interesting meeting was held
last night by the Corey Commercial
club. The session was largely exec
utive, however. and there was little
to be given out.
After the meeting 1t was announced
that a smoker would be given at the
next meeting of the club, which VIII
be on the fourth Monday in the month.
Plans are also being made for ban
quet to be given by the club on the
second Monday n December at which
several out-of-tqwn speakers will make
addresses and 4 general lot Of boost
ing will be dope for Corey.