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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
TRUST STEAMSHIPS
CANNOT USE CANAL
Senate Passes Panama Bill by
Vote Of Al to IS.

Washington, Aug. 10.-The Panama
canal administration bill, providing
free passage to American ships, pro-
hibiting railroad owned vessels from
using the waterway and authorizing
the establishment of a one mar gov
eminent when the canal is completed,
was passed by the senate by a vote
Of Al to Is.
The provision for free tolls, which
was fought out in the senate Wednes.
day, was endorsed again just before
the passage Of the measure.
Attached to the bill as it passed the
senate were two important amend.
ments directed at trust or railroad
control of steamship lines. The first
by Senator Reed, would prohibit ships
owned by an illegal industrial com
bination from using the canal; and the
second, by Senator Bourne, would re.
quire railroads to give up water lines
that might otherwise be their com
p%etitors, if it were proved that by their
ownership they were sitting competi
ton.
Opponents of the free toll provision
for American ships, against which
Great Britain made formal protest
carried their fight up to the last mo.
ment Of the bills consideration.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
GREAT LOSS OF
LIFE REPORTED
Severe Earth Shocks Occur
Throughout Turkey.

Constantinople, Aug. 12.-Three re-
newed earthquake shocks were felt
here. 1t is reported that a volcanic
island is forming in the Sea of Mar
mora.
No accurate figures Of the number
of victims of the earthquake of Aug.
0 can yet be tabulated, because tele-
graphic communication is interrupted.
Some estimates place the death list
at 1000 and the injured from 5000 to
5000.
In the town Of Shary-Koy, which
was completely destroyed, sixty per-
sons ere killed and $50 injured.
Fires are reported from many cities
in which umerou buildings were de-
stroyed.
Everywhere in the stricken zone
there is terrible want and distress.
Appeals for doctors and help are con-
stantly being received at the capital
and the government is doing it's ut
most to satisfy them. The hospitals
here are crowded with injured per-
sons.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
FOURTEEN RESIGN OFFICE
Large Number of University Faculty
Will Leave Institution.


Fourteen members of the Univer-
sity Of North Dakota faculty have re-
signed and will accept new positions
at the opening of the coming school
year., according to an announcement
which has been made from the presi-
dents office at Grand Forks. The
number of changes is unusually large.
Those resigning follow: DR.. w. N.
Stearns, to accept full professorship
at Fargo college,; Miss Rutheda Hunt,
to accept position in commercial de-
partment of the Evanston. Gill; high
school; w. F. Harness of secretary's
office; who takes up agricultural stud
les; Arthur G. Hargrave, electrical en-
cheering department, who takes
teaching position in Santa Monica,
CAL; Marsh Brannon, who will do
graduate work in the University of
Wisconsin; Professor H. A. MacAl-
lister, who goes into commercial bust
ness; H. H. Davis, who enters mining
business; DR.. D. l.. Dunlap, physical
director; F. G. Jackson, who goes
East for further studies; Miss Mar
celia Btsbe and Miss Cornelia b.
White, who will go into commercial
business in New Mexico; Miss Edith
Bosard of secretary's Office and Miss
Caroline T. Salisbury, the latter two
of whom will marry.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
News Of the Week From Vari-
Gus Parts Of the State.
CONFIDENT OF GOOD YIELD
Farmers Generally Appear Satisfied
With Crop Conditions as the
Harvest Progresses.

Harvesting operations have been
resumed following a respite because
of heavy rains, which were general
over a wide territory.
The general crop situation contin.
ues satisfactory and the farmers are
confident they will have a good yield,
There is considerable rust on the
grain, but the season is so we'll ad.
vanced that little fear is entertained
unless bad weather should prevail for
an extended period.
Grand Forks implement dealers
handling Irvine, declare there is nc
shortage of that commodity in that
district.
Everywhere there is a general stir
in business circles in anticipation oil
the marketing of the big crop; new
elevators + being built in many
places and increased accommodations
for the crop provided.
From the southwestern section OF
the state comes assurance that the
conditions are good. Bowman county
will be one of the big grain producers
this season, the estimates being that
about 100000 bushels will be raised.
Flax and wheat will lead.
Hettinger, Adams, Stark, Billings
Dunn, Mercer, Oliver and Morton
counties all report first class crop
conditions. In Dunn, Billings and
Stark there has been some hail dam.
age.
Rye harvest in the Red River val.
ley has been completed and some OF
the grain already has been cut.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
SURVEY is NEARING AN END
Engineers Will Soon Finish the Red
River Work,

The survey of the Red River valley
by the United States government de-
partment of engineers will be COM
pleted within the next ten weeks, &C
cording to advices received from Con-
gresham H. T. Helgesen of North
Dakota. The survey will run from
Breckenridge, Mimi, and Wahpeton,
N. D., to the international boundary
line.
Congressman Helgesen has advised
the North Dakota hackers of the sur
vey proposition to take the matter up
with the Canadian authorities at once
with the object in view of securing
an early report on the survey of the
valley through Manitoba, from the
boundary to Lake Winnipeg.
:. The proposition in view is the es-
Enlistment of a system Of locks and
dams for the control of waters with
the object Of maintaining navigation
the year around and providing a new
route to tbo foreign markets of the
world for the wheat of the North
west. The Hudson Bay route would
shorten the haul on American wheat
by over 1000 miles from Grand Forks
to Liverpoel.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
Over -Four Hundred Persons Are
Killed Or Injured.
PRESIDENT LECoNTE IS DEAD
Great Quantity Of Explosives Stored
In Cellar Explodes, Completely
Wreckine Building.

Port au Prince, Haiti, Aug. 9.-The
national palace was blown up by q
powder explosion and burned to the
ground and the president of the repub
lie of Haiti, General Cincinnatus LIE.
conte, persisted.
The list of killed and injured in the
terrific explosion will reach more than
400. Many palace attendants We're
killed, together with visitors and per.
sons with business in the building.
Members of the presidents family
who were awakened by the terrific
shock, found themselves almost sur.
rounded by flames, but managed to
make their way to safety. The cause
Of the explosion is not known.
The first explosion was followed by
others when the fire reached the eel.
lars of the palace, where a great
quantity of ammunition was stored
So great was the force of the explos.
sion that a number of small cannon,
fragments of iron and shells were
thrown for great distances in all di.
rections.
For a time a great panic prevailed
and the military authorities immedi.
ately took charge of the situation. The
explosions occurred soon after
o'clock in the morning and within an
hour when the fire, which was con-
fined to the palace, was extinguished
the structure was a mass of ruins,
from which it will be impossible to re,
cover the body of the president.
At a joint meeting of the chamber
and senate General Tancrede Auguste,
senator and ex-minister of public
works, was named as president.
He first gained prominence in Hal.
tian affairs in 1906, when as minister
of the interior in the cabinet of Presi
dent Nord Alexis, he was credited
with ordering the summary shooting
Of ten prominent revolutionaries al
Port all Prince.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
MEXICAN REBELS
AMBUSH TRAIN
Stay 1hIrty-six Soldiers and Over
Twenty Passengers.

Mexico City, Aug. 13.-Thirty-six
soldiers and more than twenty pas
sengers were slaughtered by Zapatis-
tas in a canyon one kilometer north
of Ticuman, 10 miles southeast of
Mexico City, when a passenger train.
southbound from this city, was at.
tackled from ambush. Only meager
details have reached this city. So far
as known only a part of the train
crew escaped.
Mexico City, Aug. 13.-Two hundred
dead were lying in the streets of
1xtapa after Genevevo de Laos band
of Zapatistas halted on it's march to
Toluca, the capital of the state of
Mexico, only fifteen miles north. The
town was garrisoned by about 100
rurales.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
SAVES GIRL FROM DROWNING
Tramp Later Arrested and Her
Friends Deny Story.

Tramp Later Arrested and Her
Friends Deny Story.
Miss Jessie Mckenzie of Minot was
saved from drowning In the Mouse
river by a tramp.
Miss Mckenzie. in company with
friends, was bathing in the river and
she waded beyond a bend and out of
sight of the others. Falling into a
deep hole she had gone down once
when a tramp appeared on the scene.
Without hesitation he jumped into
the river and soon had the girl safely
On the shore.
Two hours later the tramp was ar
rested for vagrancy. He. told his
story, explaining his dripping clothes,
but friends of the girl, called in by
the police, denied the story for fear
it would reach the girls parents and
the tramp, refusing to give his name,
was ordered out of town.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
PLAN BIG CHURCH MEETING
North Dakota conoregationallsts Will
Gather at Grand Forks.

The North DAKOTA Congregational
conference will hold its thirty-lrst an.
nual meeting at Plymouth church in
Grand Forks Sept. "a, rs and rs. The
program has been completed and 1t is
featured with addresses, by some OF
the most prominent men of that de.
nomination. among them being Rev.
3. S. Winchester, D. D., Of Boston,
Mass; President G. G. Creegan, D. D.,
of Fargo college, and Rev. Lucius o.
Baird, D. D., of Chicago.
The first afternoon will be given
cve to the meeting of the board of
directors and, after that, there will
be three sessions a day, concluding
Thursday evening. Rev. w. Knighton
Bloom of Williston, moderator, will
preside. The election of new officers
is set for Thursday morning, the last
day Of the convention.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
Two Postoffices Robbed.

AS the result of the rush Of harvest
hands into North Dakota there has.
been an influx of petty crooks. At
Argusville, fourteen miles north of
Fargo, the postofice and four places
of business were b%urglarized. Rob-
bers entered Mclean Bros, Kennedy
Bros. and Erickson & Sons stores and
Platt's meat market, getting from IS
to $40 in change and merchandise in
each. At the postofice they took
postage stamps and razors. The post
office at Erie, in Cass county, was also
robbed. More than 800 in money and
some stamps Yer secured when the
safe was blown.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
Hand Cut OF by Mower.

Clifford Olson, thirteen years old,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. H. O. Olson,
prominent farmers residing three
miles south of Alpha, had his left
hand completely severed at the wrist
while repairing a mower. The boy
unhitched his team with his remain
ing hand. tied them to the mower and
walked half a mile to a DOCTORS house,
where he fell. weak from loss of
blood. His arm vas bound and he
was restored TO consciousness u a.
said he will recover.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, Aug. observation-disclosures,
$5.75@l0.25; Texas steers, $5.0O@6.9O;
Western steers, $6.00@S.30; stockers
and feeders, $4.0O@7.OO; COWS and
heffers, $2.65@S.15; calves, $4,000
9.75. Hogs-Light, $7.90@8.47h;
mixed, $7.50@8.45; heavy, $7.35@8.30;
rough. $7.35@7.60; pigs, $6.O0@8.15.
Sheep-Native, $3.20@4.70; yearlings,
Sd A0GHs q lambs 81 406D7.50.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
Minneapolis Grain.

Minneapolis, Aug. 13.-Wheat-
Sept, 92%c; Dec, 92%c; May, 96%c.
Cash close on track: No. 1 hard, $1.O6;
No. 1 Northern, $1.06k; to arrive, ST.
00A; No. 2 Northern, $1.O4k; to ar
rive, 9Skc; No. 8 Northern, $1.OOh;
No. 3 yellow corn, Tic; No. 3 white
oats, 35@S6c; to arrive, 29c; No. 3
oats, &c; barley, 37@68c; fax, $1.83;
to arrive, $1.79.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
Congressman catIin Unseated.

Washington, Aug. 13.-Representa.
tive Theron E. Catlin of Missouri, Re-
publican, was unseated as a member
of the house of representatives and his
Democratic opponent, who contested
the election, Patrick F. Gill. was seat
ed. amid wild enthusiasm from the
Democratic side. The vote was III
to II.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
M ON THE COMMITTEE
Jane Adams and Three Others to
Serve With Pr~ouressjves,

Jane Adams and Three Others to
Serve With Progressives.
Chicago, Aug. 9.-Woman suffrage
was insured voting strength on the
Progressive party national committee
when four women were officially elect
ed members of the committee. They
were:
Miss Jane Adams, noted settle
ment worker, Chicago.
Miss Frances Kellar, chief of the
immigration inspection bureau, New
York.
Mrs. Charles D. Blaney, San Fran
cisco, woman suffragist and delegate
to both the Republican national con
vention and the Progressive party ma
tional convention.
Miss Jean Gordon, New Orleans.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
Boy Holds Up Three Women,

With a red bandanna handkerchief
tied over his yes and with the proper
Sits cut in it a boy about sixteen
years old held up three women three
miles north of Grand Forks, enforc.
ing his demands for money with a pis-
toll. The boy holdup, of whom the
police have been unable to secure
any trace, secured SO from the thor
oughly frightened women. The hold
up took place in broad daylight.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
STUBS TURNS OUT WINNER
Carries Nearly 100 of 1865 Districts
for Senatorial Nomination,

Topeka, Kan, Aug. 10.-Returns re-
ceived from over the state indicate
that Governor w. R. Stubs has car
rted nearly 100 of the 165 legislative
districts. The governor issued a
statement in which he declared he
easily has won the senatorial contest.
w. H. Thompson also issued a
statement in which he claims the
Democratic nomination for senator
owe Hugh P. F%arrelley.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
SEVEN SLAYERS PAY PENALTY
Murderers Go to Electric Chair at
Sing Sing Prison.

Ossining, N. Y, Aug. 13.-Seven
men were electrocuted in the little
brick annex to Sing Sing prison.
Five died protesting their innocence
with their last breath. One, the sixth
to die, collapsed in a faint from the
strain of waiting back in the little
death house while his companions pre-
coded him, one at a time.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
GR0NNA AGAINST NEW PARTY
Not Wise to Put Third Ticket In
North Dakota, He Saws,

North Dakota, He Says.
Senator Gronna of North Dakota,
Progressive Republican, in a state
ment made at Washington, said 1t
was not the part of wisdom to organ
lie a third party in his state.
"The Republican party is not reac.
tionary," he declared, but the great
majority of its members are progress
sive."
The senator declared that the plac.
ing of a third party in the field would
not only split the Republican forces
but in all probability would turn
North Dakota over to the Democrats.
He asserted that, as far as progress
sive legislation in congress was con-
cerned, the bulk of the work had been
done by the p~rogressives in the Re-
publican party.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
j. B.. Folsom of FARGO Dies.

J. B. Folsom, of the Oldest and
most prominent citizens Of Fargo and
q resident OF the state since 1882,
died at his home at Fargo. Death
w~asicaused by apoplexy. Mr.. Folsom
had large land holdings throughout
the state.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
REACH PARTING OF WAYS
Taft and Roosevelt Forces Split Over
Ohio Governorshin

Columbus, O.. Aug. 13.-Taft and
Roosevelt men reached the parting of
the ways in Ohio politics when, fol-
lowing the nomination of General r.
B. Brown of GAINESVILLE for governor
at a meeting of the Republican state
central committee, eight members of
that body, led by State Chairman
Walter F. Brown and Secretary /. M.
Foster, resigned.
Walter F. Brown also gave notice of
his resignation as member of the Re.
publican national committee for Ohio.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES
South St. Paul Live Stock,

South st. Paul, Aug. 13.-Cattle-
Steers, $1.00@S.50; COWS and heifers,
$3.25@7.00; calves, $3.00@S.5O; feed
ers, $3.50@6.25. Hogs-$7.75@8.O5.
sheep-Lambs, $3.25@6.75; wethers,
$3.75@4.00; ewes, $1.25@3.5O.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
Chicago Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, Aug. 13.-Wheat-Sept.,
92%c; Dec, 92%c; May, 95%c. Corn
Sept, 69kc; Dec, 54Ac; May,
54kc. Oats-Sept., 31%c; Dec, 32A
@32%c; May, 34%c. Pork-Sept.,
$17.S5; JAM, $3.50. Butter-Cream-
cries. 22@24c; dairies, 20@23c. Eggs
-16@1874c. Poultry-Turkeys, 12c;
chickens, 13c; springs, tic.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
HOLDS UP TWO MORE WOMEN
Boy Bandit Is Terrorizins People

Boy Bandit Is Terrorizing People
Around Grand Forks.
Two more Grand Forks women have
been held up by the boy bandit who
has held sway near the city. Jessie
and Minnie Blakeley, sisters, were
victims of the boy, but he failed to
get any cash.
The boy is described by them to be
about fourteen years old and he wore
the regulation bandanna kerchief,
which completely masked his face,
and he forced his demands for money
with a revolver. The officials have
not been able to secure any clue to
the holdup's identity.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
SAVES HER LITTLE BROTHER
But North Dakota Girl Dies From
Eurns Received.

Esurns Received.
A lighted match, thrown into a u
containing gasoline, resulted in the
death at Lidgerwood of Edith Elem
ing, nine years of age, but she
saved her three-year-old brother while
receiving the fatal burns.
Both children were in the room
when Ethel, supposing the cup con-
tanned water. threw the lighted match
in after she had lighted a lamp. The
oil exploded and the flames were
thrown over both children. Ethel, dis
regarding her own danger, carried the
little fellow downstairs, put him under
the cistern pump and quenched the
flames. Then she turned attention to
herself, but her burns were so serious
that she died within forty-eight hours.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
FIVE KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK

Passenger on Milwaukee and Puget
Sound Goes Through Bridge.
Seattle, Aug. 13.-Five persons
were killed and several injured when
the westbound Olympian train of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound
railroad broke through a bridge half
a mile west of Keechelus, sixty-seven
miles east of Seattle.
The train was a double header and
the engineers and firemen of both en-
gines were killed. Mrs. Simon Zurich
of Seattle vas the only passenger
killed. The railroad officials say none
other was injured.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
VETOES WOOL TARIFF BILL
President Says Low Rates Would In.
jure Industries.

jure Industries.
Washington, Aug. 1O.-For the Sec
ond time within a year President Taft
vetoed a bill to lower the wool tariff.
With a message of disapproval the
president returned to congress the bill
evolved as a compromise between the
house and senate, holding that its low
rates would bring disaster to home in
dustries. He appealed to congress,
however, not to adjourn until it had
enacted a measure to substantially re.
duce unnecessary existing duties"
without destroying protection for the
wool industry in the United States.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
BULGARIANS ARE FOR WAR
Enraged by Massacre of contrymen by
Turks.

Turks.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug. 9.-Enraged by
the massacre of scores of their coun-
trymen in Turkey, Car Ferdinand's
subjects all over Bulgaria are clamor.
ing for war. A conference of the min.
istry was held and the military au-
thorities' activity was most sugges-
tive of a contemplated mobilization.
No answer has been received to
Bulgaria's protest against the slaugh-
ter Of her subjects by Turks or the de-
mand for indemnity. The excitement
at Constantinople is intense and it is
thought likely the matter has been
wholly overlooked.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-15
Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, Aug. 13.-Wheat-On track
and to arrive, No. 1 hard, $1.04%; No.
1 Northern, $1.03%; No. 2 Northern,
s1.01%; Sept, $3.50; Dec, $3.50.
Flax-On track and to arrive, $1.79;
Sept, $1.79; Oct, $1.69h; Nov, ST.
67b
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-11-28

ne mountain. You'd just let things
Side and not care"
And all this because you won't
nave turkey for Thanksgiving" he
flung out.
her eyes met his squarely. You
Aao" u isn't that" she said. you
nAo" It's because l want you to show
,ua' you are different from the others
before marry you, ; d."
heE hand was on his arm, mutely
s@'Hg his forgiveness for her criti-
'Sa' But he jerked himself away.
before I'd make such fuss about
turkey he said. and was gone.
'II afternoon he tramped the
tOUu' N futile search. He ragged at
n l @falsnment of his manhood. In
-V uepIhs Of his soul, however, he
@s" mat she was right. He had
~, 'ue Gays before Thanksgiving pass
',AouI worrying himself nightly
80 lne turkey, and now, at the
,- s' moment, he would have to dis
'DDoint her.
ana all her life little Mandy had
49, \. appointment. Motherless, and
-. 'olr small sisters, she had lived
=. ~' mountain. the household drudge
~ "9' shiftless father. When he
r@ won her love Jed had. for the
5- --., ooen inspired with a greater in
~! tdan that of the men about
S.r "ll gradually he had dropped
M. ,"' ana he knew, and Mandy knew,
rr before them both stretched the
!, - vi saTlaoss that was the common
" l"e mountaineer Of that Sec
,,. t9u could get out of 1t if you
r Mandy had said. And when
'.~ Questioned her helplessly.
She had flung out, "Oh, if you
~ man you would find a way"
--l had been the first quarrel.
! Nh, mat, there Lad been many
~ "a'Fels, and Jed knew that
NV. was chatting under the thought
l,s. competence. And she was
M by all the vigor of young man.
b s, wat was in him, he knew that
U''Ia be doing mans WORK