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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22
Wants Penrose to Retrset.

Il was in hope that Senator Penrose
would be here this morning. lie made
that statement on the floor OF the Senate
and he ought to be required TO prove II,
or. like a gentleman. he ought to take IT
back. There IL not scintilla OF truth in
1t, from A TO l..
Just a minute" interrupted Chairman
Clapp IAN that is necessary Is that you
deny It. All that the committee can DO IL
to determine proof or the absence OF
proof"
Il want to know where I stand" Mr..
Perkins went on. Il want TO know
whether l can be charged with these
things on the floor OF the United States
Senate and not be given an opportunity
to disprove them"
He insisted that Mr. Penrose should be
brought before the committee and say
whether his charge was mere hot air
He did not believe the Senator should be
allowed 70 get away with the situation"
Did you ever enter into any arrange
ment to underwrite any portion Of Colonel
Roosevelt's campaign" he was asked.
Not one dollar" said Mr. Perkins.
DO you know OF any one else under
taking to do 500"
JO mot
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22
GEORGE LAUDER
PAYS BIG DUTY
Continued from first page.

effort 10 deny the possession Of jew
elry. and when she was asked specifi-
caIly about the pieces said she had
them with her and would produce
them. on leaving the pier the Lau-
ders drove direct to the Custom House
in big touring car and surrendered
the three pieces, which were promptly
sent to the Appraisers Stores.
The jewels, which consisted Of
necklace, a brooch and a layalIiere,
were held by the Appraiser for APP
prslsal. and yesterday it was learned
at the Public Stores that while there
was some difference OF opinion as to
their worth the home value would most
likely be about 100000.
Mr. Lauder, it was learned, was not
represented by counsel, although he is
said 10 have remained in this city UNI
III the disposition OF his wife's jewels
was determined.
Up TO a few minutes before closing
hour II was said that Mr.. Lauder had
not appeared at the Custom House.
Before the Appraisers Stores closed
for the day, however, it was reported
that the jewels had been released, as
the owner had appeared at the Custom
House and settled the case by the pay
ment Of $4,000.
Age end I'll health were taken into
consideration by the customs officials,
il was said, in dealing leniently with
the Ladders.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22
Simply Error, Says Son.

George Lauder. jr., said last night at
his home, in Greenwich, Conn, that
the episode was due TO an error in the
declaration.
MY mother had some jewelry which
was not properly entered on the dec
Iaratlon." he said. She has had 1t
many years and was bringing IT back
from abroad. The jewelry was in 4
case and not on her person. 1t was
not seized. but was sent to the Public
stores. The amount was nothing like
500 600 Ny mother appeared before
General Henry to-day and paid the
duty. but I do not know the amount
There was simply a mistake in en-
terlng the jewels on the declaration
and the incident is now closed
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
NORTHWESTERN
Items Covering North Dakota,
South Dakota and Minnesota,

Bentley Brumbaugh, eleven years
old, o of Professor and Mrs. j. f.
Brumbaugh of Vermillion, S. D., ac-
cidenally shot himself at Grants Pass.
Ore. He was visiting with a boy cc~,-
panion who, having been on a hnl,,
Ing and fishing trip, had retn.~@
home. Bentley had a 12-guar. me-
gun and set the butt of the ia G.
the step and looked into the b.rse. /
see if it needed cleaning. The III
slipped off the step, the jar discha
Ing the gun and the charge blew I'll
the left side of the lads face ana t..
back of his head.
Professor Brumbaugh is at the head
of the law department of the Univer-
s1ty of South Dakota, Vermillion, but
his family has lived at Grants Pass
Ore, for the past two years on &C.
count of the climate. The professor
passes his vacation periods in the
city.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
VESSEL FIVE MILES AWAY
Fourth Officer Of Titanic Says Signals
Were Ignored.


Washington, April 23.-With succor
only five miles away the Titanic slid
into its watery grave, carrying with
it more than 1000 of it's passengers
and crew, while an unidentified steam
er that might have saved all failed or
refused to see the frantic signals
flashed to it for aid.
This phase of the tragic disaster
vas brought out before the senate in
vestigating committee when ]. B. Box
hall, fourth officer of the Titanic. told
of his unsuccessful attempts to attract
the strangers attention.
This ship, according to Boxhall,
could not have been more than five
miles away and was steaming toward
the Titanic. So close vas it that
from the bridge Boxhall plainly saw
it's masthead lights and side light.
Both with rockets and with the
Morse electric signal did the young
officer hail the stranger. Captain
Smith and several others in the vi
entity of the bridge declared at the
time their belief that the vessel had
seen them and was signalling in re-
ply.
Boxhall failed to see the replies,
however, and in any case the steamer
kept On it's course obliquely past the
Titanic without extending aid.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
men STEP ASIDE FOR
WOMEN And CHILDREN
Hundreds Left on Board Be.
cause Of Inadequate Sup
ply Of LifebOats.

New York, April 2O.-The Titanic
disaster. as written into history by
many of the 745 survivors, accounts
for the loss of 1,595 persons at sea off
the New Foundland banks early Mon
day morning and the subsequent death
CT six persons who had been rescued,
bringing the total of lives lost to 1,601.
These official figures magnify great
ly estimates which had come by wire
less and the stories which survivors
tell make certain, as had already been
Judged from the meager wireless re-
ports, that the disaster is the greatest
that ocean travel has ever known.
The big facts which came to the
surface in the flood of narratives are
that 1,601 persons met their death;
that there is hardly the shadow of a
hope hal this grand total will be cur
tailed by a single additional survivor;
that several men of wealth all world
wide prominence are, as had been
feared for several days. among those
who %perished; that practically the
%, x y Y \. = y. . .
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
Witnesses Say Titanic Wreck
Could Have Been AVerted.
OFFICER WARNED OF DANGER
Man on the Bridge Repeatedly In
formed That Icebergs Were
Dead Ahead.

New York. April 20.-"lrresponsible
conduct and ''incomprehensible blum
ders' were immediate contributory
causes of the sinking of the White
Star liner Titanic with more than
1000 souls, if statements by survivors
tell the true story of the disaster.
This view of the event which has
filled the world with horror divides
the immediate cause between the wire
less operators of two steamships, on
the n hand, and the officer in charge
of the Titanic when she received her
death wound, on the other.
The stories told the senate commit.
tee investigating the disaster were
that, though having been warned OF
ice danger and being on the lookout
for foes, First Officer Murdoch of the
Titanic igonred warning after warning
from lookouts that they believed they
sighted great icebergs dead ahead of
the craft, which was hurting it's IS, 900
tons through the night twenty-seven
miles an hour.
AS to the wireless, it developed that
a steamship was within eighteen or
twenty miles of the Titanic, gathered
in out of the skies the cry for aid, yet
delayed positive action for many min
utes. finally being told by the operator
of the Titanic, then sinking, that it
need not trouble itself.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
SEVENTY TWO DEAD
IN RECENT TORNADO
Casualty List in Illinois and
Indiana Growing.

Chicago, April 23.-The storm which
swept over Indiana and Illinois Sun
day evening left seventy-two dead,
nearly 200 injured and nearly 100 des-
titute families in it's wake, figures
show. More than 100 homes were de-
molished and the property loss totaled
several hundred thousand dollars.
Greatest damage was done at Bush,
Wlllsville, Murphysboro, Campus, Free
man and Kankakee, Ill.,, and Morocco,
Ind.
Bush, a village of 600 in the north
western corner of Williamson county,
suffered heaviest. The two storms
which wrought havoc in Central and
Southern Illinois Sunday evening met
ct Bush at 6 o'clock, one coming from
the northwest and the other from the
southeast.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
Work Viii Cost 100000.

A favorable report on the proposed
Improvement of the Minnesota river
at Lac Qui Parle was made by the war
department to congress. Estimating
that the work to be done will cost ap.
proximately $1,000,000 the report rec.
ommends it be undertaken at an early
date, provided the state of Minnesota
or other local interests will bear one.
half the expense. The contemplated
Improvement is the building of a forty.
five-foot dam at Lac Qui Parle, which
will create a reservoir with a capacity
of 10000, $1,000 cubic feet of water.
A large amount of dredging will be
necessary.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
Suffragist Won't Leave Jail.

Preferring Jail to freedom, through
the payment of a fine by friends who
would come to her rescue, Mrs. Laura
M. Allen of Valley City, authoress of
The Lost Art" a book on suffrage,
declares she will remain in Jail till
the end of her sentence of a week,
given her because she was peddling
books in Valley City, N. p, without a
license. The police contend that the
woman was warned of the law and
that she entered a plea of guilty to
the charge when it was lodged against
her. They claim that there was no
ether alternative than the arrest.
Mayor Plateau offered to pardon the
woman, but this she refused.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
CAPTAIN SMITH TAKES
CONTROL OF SITUATION

One of the most stirring narratives
of action and description of scenes
that followed the collision was told by
L. Beasley, a Cambridge university
man who vas one of the surviving sec
ond cabin passengers.
"The steamer lay just as if she were
awaiting the order to go on again
when some trif1ing matter had been
adjusted" he said, "but in a few min
utes we saw the covers lifted from the
boats and the crews allotted to them
standing by ready to lower them to
the water.
presently we heard the order: All
men stand back and all ladies retire
to the next deck below
"The men stood away and remained
in absolute silence leaning against the
end railing or pacing slowly up and
down. The boats we're swung out and
lowered from A deck. When they were
to the level of B deck, where all the
ladies were collected, the ladies got in
quietly with the exception of some
who refused to leave their husbands,
In some cases they were torn from
them and pushed into the boats.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
PRAISE FOR THE ORCHESTRA
Titanic's Musicians Play Lively Airs
Until Vessel Goes Down.

OnIll vessel OOeS DOWN.
New York, April 20.-Of all the
heroes who went to their death when
the Titanic dived to it's ocean grave,
none, in the opinion of Miss Hilda
Slater, a passenger in the last boat to
put off, deserved greater credit than
the members of the vessels orchestra.
According to Miss Slater the orchestra
played until the last. When the ves-
sci took it's final plunge the strains of
a lively air mingled grewsomely with
the cries of those who realized that
they were face to face with death.
From the moment the vessel struck,
or as 0 as the members of the or
chestra could be collected" said Miss
Slater, there was a steady flow of
lively airs. 1t did much to keep up
the spirits of every one and probably
served as much as the efforts of the
officers to prevent panic"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
PASSENGERS SLOW TO.
REALIZE THE DANGER

"All this time there were no trace
of any disorder; no panic or rush for
the boats and no scenes of women Sob
bling historically. Every one seemed
to realize so slowly that there was i'm
mlnent danger. When it was realized
that we would be presently in the sea
with nothing but our lifebelts to sup
port us until we were picked up by
passing steamers, it was extraordinary
how calm every one was and how COM
plete the self control
With the last hope gone of seeing
their loved mes alive many women
in the lifeboats seemed to be indif-
ferent whether they were saved or
not. They were nearly 1000 miles
from land and no knowledge that a
ship of succor was speeding to them.
There were sixteen boats in the pro-
cession which entered upon the terri
BILE hours of suspense. The confidence
that the ship on which they had start.
ed was sure to bring them safely here
was now turned to utter helplessness.
But the shock of learning that their
lives were in peril vas hardly greater
than the relief when, at dawn, a large
steamers smokestack was seer on the
horizon.
The rescue ship proved to be the
Carpathia, which had received the III
tanic's distress signals. BY 7 O'Clock
in the morning all the Titanic's six,
teen boats had been picked up and
their chilled and hungry occupants
welcomed over the Carpathia's side.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
Desires Twin City Jobbers.

At a meeting of the MONDAY club
of Watertown the matter of obtaining
a special train to bring the Twin City
jo5bers there on one of the days when
the big 8" conventions are to be
held, May 20, 80 and 81, was started,
with but little doubt for success. AL.
ready special trains from Pipestone,
Mimi, Sioux Falls, Pierre and Aber-
deem have been arranged for. On
these dates the annual conventions of
the South Dakota Travelling Mems as
ISOLATION, the Retail Dealers ~associa-
ton and the state council of the Unit
ed Commercial Travellers are to be
held.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
TRIBUTE TO HEROIC DEAD
All Religions and Creeds Honor Vic.
TINS of Titanic.

New York, April 22.-Chimes of Old
Trinity, of st. Patrick's and Of the
Cathedral of st. John the Divine tolled
In unison a requiem for the Titanic's
heroic dead. Bowed by a common
grief men and women of every religion
and creed assembled in the places of
worship, where memorial services
were conducted, to join in paying
tribute to men who died %fearlessly
that the women and children on board
the sinking ship might live.
Nearer My God to Thee the
strains of which were heard by the
survivors as the Titanic took her final
plunge, was sung In all churches of
the city.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
Jordan Withdraws Contest.

The Fargo mayoralty case was dis
missed on motion of the PLAINTIFF at
torneys. On the face of the returns
w. D. Sweet was elected by a major
ity of five. J. j. Jordan contested on
the ground that several students Of
the agricultural college had voted il
legally. Owing to the decision of the
court holding that the votes were
technically legal Jordan's attorneys
concluded to abandon the case.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
More Postal Banks Comma,

Fifty-one postal savings banks will
be established at once in fourth class
postoffices in Minnesota and the Da-
kotas, according to advices received
by Rush D. Simmons, chief postofice
inspector for the district. These are
the first banks to be established in
fourth class offices in the Northwest.
Minnesota now has 252 postal savings
banks in first, second and third class
offices, North Dakota has 131 and
South Dakota 131.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
ROOSEVELT GETS OREGON
Majority Estimated It More Than
Five Thousand.

Portland, Ore, April 21.-Returns
are coming in slowly on the statewide
presidential primary and the early
lead shown by Colonel Roosevelt is
being maintained. The Roosevelt up
porters predict his majority will be
in excess Of 5000. The race between
Senator Bourne and Benjamin SEEMING,
who is seeking to wrest his toga away,
remains exceedingly close.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
STILL PICKING UP BODIES
Steamer Cruising in Vicinity of the
Titanic Disaster.

st. Johns, N. F., April 23.-More
bodies were picked up by the cable
steamer Mackay-Bennett, which is
cruising near the spot where the tt
tanic %foundered last Monday morning,
according to word that reached here.
How many bodies have been recovered
in addition to the fifty that already
had been taken aboard has not been
reported, nor is any information OBJ
tainable here as to any identifications.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
South st. Paul Live Stock.

South st. Paul, April 22.-Cattle-
Steers, $5.00@7.75; COWS and heifers,
$4.0G@6.50; calves, $3.OO@6.OO; feed
ers. $2.25@6.25. Hogs-$7.4O@7.5O.
Sheep-Lambs, $4.OO@7.5O; wethers,
S4.00@6.25; ewes, $3.50@6.00; clip
pers, $2.75@5.25.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
Search for Hidden Treasure.

Several days ago Charles Rasmus-
sen, a river hermit, who has occupied
a tumble down cabin on the river
bank at Pierre for more than twenty
years, died at the hospital in Pierre,
S. D., and persons digging about the
old pile Of logs and dirt he calleG
home rnearthed a tin can containing
shout $500.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
Senate Passes Nursery Bill.

The United States senate, on mo-
ton of Senator Gronna, passed a bill
appropriating 100000 for the estab-
lishment of an agricultural, plant and
shrub tree experiment station to be
located at Mandan. The senate also
passed a bill offered by Senator Craw-
ford authorizing the construction of
a fish hatchery in the valley of the
Sioux river in South Dakota at a cost
of $4,000.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
MINNEAPOLIS Grain.

Minneapolis, April 22.-Wheat-May,
$1.1O%; July. Slips. Cash close on
track: No. l hard, $1.14%; No. 1
Northern, $1.13R; to arrive, $1.13M;
No. 2 Northern, $1.11h; to arrive, ST.
11h; No. 3 Northern, $1.09A; No. 3
yellow corn, Sic; No. q corn, 76@SOc:
No. 3 white oats, 55@56c; to arrive,
55hc; No. 3 oats. 53@54c: barley, zoe
01.30; flax, $2.15A to arrive, $2.15.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
NEBRASKA FOR ROOSEVELT
Carries State by Twenty Thousand
Plurality.

Omaha, April 21.-Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt seems to have been the
overwhelming favorite of the Republic
ans in the statewide presidential pref
crence primary held in Nebraska and
indications are that Champ Clark was
the choice of the Democratic party.
Roosevelt's majority probably will ex-
coed 10000.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
CRASH CAUSES LITTLE
ALARM ON STEAMER,

But it was a clear and starlight
night and the great ship sped through
the quiet seas with officers confident
that even though an iceberg should
be seen the vessel could be controlled
in ample time.
When the crash came there was
practically no excitement. Many who
felt anxious enough to go on deck to
inquire what had happened were but
little perturbed when they learned
that the ship had only struck an ice
berg" 1t appeared to be a glancing
blow and at first there was no indica-
ton of a serious accident.
The stoppage of the engines was
noticed more than the collision, the
effect being, as one survivor put it,
like the stopping of a loud ticking
clock.
The over confident passengers were
not brought to the slightest realiza-
ton that the collision might mean Sc
rious danger until the call ran through
the ship:
Cali passengers on deck with life
belts on"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
CHICAGO Live Stock.

Chicago, April, 22.-Cattle-Beeves,
s5.60@8.75; Texas steers, $4.75 @6.1O;
Western steers, $5.60@7.1O; stockers
and feeders, $4.30@6.65; COWS and
heifers, $2.60@7.25; calves, $5.OO@7.-
SO. Hogs-Light, $7.50@7.S7k; mixed,
$7.55@7.95; heavy, $7.6O@7.95; rough,
$7.6O@770; pigs, $4.85@7.10. Sheep
Native, $4.00@6.50; y%earlings, $1,000
1875; lambs, $5.25@7.90.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES
Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, April 22.-Wheat-On track
No. / hard, $1.14M; No. 1 Northern,
$l.l3B; No. 2 Northern, Silly;
May, $1.12%; July, $1.13. Flax-On
track, in store and to arrive, $2.1SM;
May, $2.18h.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
Three Killed in Explosion,

Fred Krehn, wife and infant daugh-
ter, farmers residing twenty miles
southwest of Aberdeen, are dead and
a farmland was injured as the result
of an explosion of a lamp in the
chicken incubator in the kitchen Of
their farmhouse. Details of the acct
dent are unobtainable, as the victims
are dead or unconscious, bat it is sup
posed Krehn filled the lamp with gas
oline by mistake for wood alcohol. An
explosion followed and the house was
DESTROYED.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
Chicago Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, April 22.-Wheat-May,
$1.14B; July, $1.10; Sept, S1.06. Corn
May, 78h@78Ac; July, 1880; Sept,
74Rc. Oats-May, 57Ac; July, 54Ac;
Sept, 43kc. Pork-May, $18.O5; July,
$3.50. Butter-Creamery, 2S@31c;
dairy, 22@2Sc. Eggs-17@18hc. Poul-
try-Turkeys, 14c; chickens, 12hc;
springs, 15hc.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
Seven Dead in GEORGIA.

Newborn, Ca, April 23.-Six persons
were killed and a score of others in
jured by a tornado which tore a track
three-quarters of a mile wide through
Jasper, Newton and Morgan counties.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
NOTABLES LOST,
JOHN JACOB ASTOR.
WILLIAM T. STEAD,

WILLIAM T. STEAD.
MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT.
lSlDOR STRAUS AND WIFE.
GEORGE D. WlDENER.
FRANCIS D. MILLET.
HENRY B. HARRIS.
JACQUES FUTRELLE.
JOHN B. THAYER.
BENJAMIN GUGGENHEIM.
CHARLES M. HAYS.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25
EXPLODING BOILERS
AID IN DESTRUCTION

The Titanic struck an iceberg about
ninety feet high, which ripped the lin
tser2s sides open and made the water
tight compartments useless and while
the vessel was gradually sinking the
s3cy water reached her steaming boil
ers, causing an explosion which sent
her to the bottom.
Among the hundreds on her decks
to the last were Colonel John Jacob
Astor, Major Archibald Butt, BENJAMIN
Guggenheim, Jacques Futrelle, George
-. Widener, Henry B. Harris and
scores of other we'll known persons.
tsldor Straus was among them also,
with Mrs. Straus, who refused to leave
Ter husband behind when she had the
opportunity to v herself.
Major Butt, with an iron bar in his
hand, is said to have stood at the
steerage passage and defended the
women and children from maddened
men.
Colonel Astor also is said to have
met his fate bravely, after seeing his
bride to a lifeboat, drawing aside to
watch other women step to safety and
awaiting his own fate.
1t was only because the maximum
capacity of the steamers %lifeboats was
barely a third the complement of the
ship in crew and passengers that hun
dreds of despairing passengers had to
be left to their fate.
STEAMSHIP MANAGER
HAS LITTLE TO SAY.
4. Bruce Ismay is said by some of
fthe passengers to have been one of
the first to get into the %lifeboats, but
this is denied by Mr.. Ismay.
Slammed by the immensely of the
tragedy he had little to say except
that he had heard of the investigation
which the United States senate had
begun and expressed his full willing.
ness to assist the inquiry.
The surviving passengers are unani
!mous that the unbelievable" hap
pened. The voyage had been pleasant
and uneventful. The Titanic had been
making good time and all accounts
agree that on the night of the disaster
she was apparently going at her usua
rate Of from twenty-one to twenty-five
knots an hour.
Qu~artermaster Moody. who was a
the helm, said that the ship was max
dng twenty-one knots and that the
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-25

only women who were not saved we're
those who chose to die with their hus-
bands; that nearly all of the survivors
saw the Titanic sink and heard the
music Of the orchestra playing Nearer
My God to Thee" mingling with the
.shrleks of the drowning as the vessel
sank in 1000 fathoms.