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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-18
BUYERS PAY $2.O1 FOR
POUND FOR CREAM IN
WAR TO GAIN TRADE.

Norfolk, Neb., April lS.--Prob-
ably the highest price ever receiv-
for cream was paid at Niobra,
Neb.; $2.0l a pound was the maxi
mum price. There are four cream
stations in Niobra. Two are on
the same street and just opposite
each other. One put out sign In
the morning, stating cream was
worth 32. cents a pound. The 9TH
er agent put out his sign Offering
"a cents. They kept this up until
one agent was buying great quafl-
titles and paying $2.01 a pound.
One farmers wife received a
check for ST3. A town woman had
a small churning ready, but went
home and brought her cream to
the station and received enough to
purchase new hat. Seven hun
dred dollars was paid out in
checks at the local bank with per
haps $500 still out Those who
usually ship their cream to city
markets telephoned and had it
brought here or went back after 1t
themselves. Some rnilked their
cows before the usual time to get
ii to the market while the price
was at the top notch.
Business was practically sus-
pended for a time while interests
were csntered at the produce sta
tton,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-18
OCEANIC AlRSHIP
FLIGHT Deferred

Las Palmas, Canary Islands. April
1s.-Joseph Brucker. formerly of Mil
waukee, failed to start as scheduled
on his proposed trans Atlantic flight
to the West Indies In his dirigible air.
ship, the Suchard II.
Just as the preparations were COM
pleted, the gas escaped and the en-
velope suddenly became debated.
Urgent kilograms were sent to Ger
many for al further supply OF gas.
Engineer Kruger, engaged to navf-
gate the dirigible, at the last moment
demurred about the periIous trip, and
the promoters Of the flight took out
$4,000 insurance in his behalf.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-18
ANDERSON
WAIVED HIS
EXAMINATION
Held to District Coz q Charge
of Murdel
Court Win Be Held at T.
burn In June
Andersen Must Remaia In the
County Jan TIL Trial

Washburn, N. D., April 1S.-W. T.
Anderson, charged with murder in the
first degree in connection with the
death OF F. E. Funk, cashier of the
First National bank, when arraigned
in justice court this morning waived
examination and is held to the next
term of district court to be held at
Washburn in June.
Under the laws OF the state of North
Dakota it viii be possible for the jury
to find him guilty of any degree of muir
der or manslaughter.
The crime is not bailable, one and
Anderson will remain in the county
jail until his trial The Funk funeral
was held at IL this morning and the
via Minneapolis.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-18
HARVESTER suit
Still Pending

Kansas City. April 1S.-F'urther tes-
timony tending 20 show the existence
of a normal, healthy and open COM
petition" in the sale of harvesting
machinery, was introduced by the de-
PENDANTS on the resumption of the
hearing of the government antitrust
suit against the International Harves-
ter Co. A number of Missouri and
Kansas dealers were on the stand.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-18
CHICAGO ATTY.
TOOK own LIFE

Chicago, April 1s-ForrnaI investi-
cation by the coroner of the death
of John f.. Wayman, former states
attorney, is scheduled late today.
Wayman succumbed to self inflicted
wounds early this morning, nine hours
after he discharged into his body two
bullets from an automatic pistol.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-18
CARL ". LEWIS
DEPUTY AUDITOR

Bismarck, N. D., April Is.--After
searching for the right man for the
place since the first of the year. State
Auditor Jorgenson has appointed Carl
w. Lewis, of Hettinger. Adams county.
as deputy state auditor.
Mr.. Lewis has been manager OF the
Dakota & Montana Telephone Co at
Hettinger for number Of years, and
was formerly connected with the tele-
phone exchange at Bismarck.
The position of deputy state auditor
pays $2,400 a year and Lewis has no-
titled Jorgenson he would come here
at once to accept the appointment.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-18

Assassins have tried eight times
In ten years to kill King Alphonso
of Spain. He lives a charmed life.
Their bombs and bullets have not
touched him, and the last attempt
made in the streets of Madrid by
Rafael Sanchez Allegro. said to be
an anarchist. was as fruitless as
the others,
The attacks on the Spanish
monarch's life have been as fol-
lows:
June 1S, 1903-A lunatic shot at
him and his mother as they were
returning from church in Mdarid.
January, 1904 bomb was
found just outside the royal palace
in Madrid.
May 81, 1905-A bomb was
thrown at the king and President
Loubet of France as they were
driving through the streets of
Paris.
November, 1905 Cartridges
were exploded in the Church OF
San Pedro, Madrid, where he was
attending service.
May 81, 1906-A bomb hurled at
the carriage bearing King Alphon-
so and his bride from their. we'd
ding ceremony killed eleven per-
sons in the streets of Madrid.
l90S-A bomb was thrown at the
king in Barcelona.
Jan. 5, 1911-An explosion oc-
CURED in the crowd surrounding
the king on q visit to Malaga.
April 10, 1913-RafaeI Sanchez
Allegro, a Spanish anarchist, fired
three shots at the king as he rode
through the capital after public
ceremony.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-18

PUBLICLY
ATTACKED

Washington. April 1S.-Senator
Works made vigorous attack on the
present day journalism and newspa-
pers OF the United States in speech
supporting his bill to make ii unlaw-
full for the District of Columbia news
papers to publish the details OF
crimes, accidents and tragedies Also
he attacked the newspapers for the
discomfort and embarrassment caus-
ed the relatives and friends Of per-
sons involved.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-18
OHIO TREASURER
Is INDICTED

Columbus, Opril 1S.-Former State
Treas. Isaac B. Cameron, of Ohio,
appeared in the criminal division of
the common pleas court and gave
bonds upon an indictment charging
him with having made illegal depos-
it's Of state funds.
The indictment grew out of an in
Vestigation into the affairs Of the
wrecked Columbus Savings g. Trust
Co.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-18
MRS. COOK SEEKS SEPARATION.
Pastor Who Deserted Wife May Be
Enabled to Marry Miss Whalley.l

New York, April 1S.-After six years
of humiliation and social exile, Jere
Knode Cooke, former pastor of st.
Georges church in Hampstead, Long
Island, and Floretta Whalley, the girl
for whom he deserted his wife, today
believed they had chance for legal
names for their two small boys. .
From Hartford, Conn, where the
former pastors wife has been living
for several years, came a constable to
find Cooke and his companion in their
new Brooklyn home and served papers
notifying him that his wife had at
least relented and instituted divorce
proceedings.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-18
BALKAN
ALLIES
AT ODDS
ACCEPT PEACE TERMS.

Vienna, April 1S.-The Balkan
allies within twenty-four hours will
notify the powers of their accep-
tance of the peace proposals. says
The Neue- -Freie Presse
Bulgaria. Servia, Greece, at the
same time will telegraph King
Nicholas of Montenegro, urging
him to follow their example.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-18
.PITTSBURG SUPT.
Is NOT GUILTY

Pittsburgh, April -Superintend
ent of Schools S. T.. Heeter, formerly
of St. Paul, was declared not guilty Of
two serious charges preferred against
him by Ethel Fisher, domestic EN-
"ployed in his home.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-18
THE WEATHER

Fair tonight and Saturday; cooler
tonight.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-24
COCAINE AND PRISON
CAUSE AND EFFECT
Once Prosperous Man, Now a
Drug User, Sentenced for Hav-
ing Poison in Possession.

As Arthur b. Clifford" man who is
said 10 be Clifford B. Osborn. living at
No. lji Richmond avenue. Arrochar.
Staten Island was convicted in Special
Sessions yesterday OF the Illegal posses
sion OF cocaine. He was found guilty un-
der the misdemeanor section OF the law
which The Tribune was instrumental in
passing last spring.
The prisoner is about forty years old
Although his sagging features and hope
less air caused Justice McInerney In pass
ing sentence to refer TO him as "a pitifu
sight" he showed the remnants OF good
breeding. lie IS said TO be Of New Eng
land birth and TO have inherited a COM
Portable fortune. lie said he was secre-
tary OF a Western publishing company
and had formerly been mining broker.
Fifteen years ago. he said while he
was in Denver. there was a fire, In which
his wife died and he himself was pain
fully burned. While In the hospital he
acquired the morphine habit Later he
turned to cocaine. His second wife. who
had been trained nurse. did her best to
break him OF the habit, he said and his
family spent thousands of dolalrs TO the
same end.
lie vas arrested on December I'm a raid
on house in West 36th street He said
that he had gone there to redeem a foun-
tain pen ne had traded for cocaine.
He was sentenced to three months In
the penitentlary.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-24
WOULD STAY SHIP BILL
Representatives of Steamships
Fear Blow to Commerce.

Representatives Of ocean steamship lines
IN New York at a meeting yesterday ia
vored the suggestion Of President Wilson
in his recent message TO Congress. that
legislation 10 regulate the status OF sea-
men and allied subjects should await the
result OF the international conference for
the promotion of safety at sea. The sub
.ect is at present being discussed at d
meeting Of steamship officials in London.
A bilI prepared at the instance Of mem
bers Of the Seamen's Union. is now pend
ing in Congress. The measure has passed
the Senate. but steamship men say this
biz fails TO accomplish the purpose OF in
creasing the safety OF ocean travel 1t is
said TO discriminate unjustly against GER
tain classes among steamship crews and
inhicts needless loss and hardship on
trade and commerce.
I'VE all agree" said Paul Gottheil,
chairman. at the meeting yesterday, Ito
adopt and carry into effect any practical
method of securing the utmost efficiency.
Such legislation, however. should be we'll
considered. 1t is all important that the
laws Of all maritime nations should be in
accord, and ii would seem best TO await
the results OF deliberations now under
way before committing this country to ILL
considered and impracticable legislation"
New-York tribune., 1913-12-24
MUST PAY STATE S108,500
Ex- County Clerk of Westches-
ter Loses Suit for Fees.

Leslie Sutherland. former County Clerk
OF Westchester, who was sued by the
State Of New York for fees that 1t was
claimed ne had no legal right TO collect,
will have to pay back about sl0S,Joo The
profits OF the Office for six years under
Sutherland were about S5 .oo0 so that
when the judgment is filed next month by
the Attorney General against Mr.. Suther-
land It will wipe out all the fees which he
collected and leave him to pay costs,
legal fees and interest amounting TO about
$4,000
AS Sutherland received no salary and
collected the fees for his services. the
same as other clerks for half a century
had done he will be without any compen-
sation for the years he was in office. II
is now said that an effort will be made by
the board OF supervisors to try TO reim-
burse Sutherland for the term he held
Office when the judgment is satisfied.
Sutherland is now the manager of the
Yonkers Railroad Company and for years
was Republican leader Of Yonkers.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-24
CONVICT MAY BARE
BLACKWELL'S CRAFT
SwindIer, 1t Is Alleged, Put
False Entries on
Island Books.
SAY FRAUD COVERED
OFFICIAL THEFTS
Many Prisoners Will Tell OF
Daily Diet of Blows and
Kicks Dealt Them.

BY the testimony OF George l.. Lewis.
who will be brought down from Sing Sing
to-day on a writ OF habeas corpus ad
testlficandum, the District Attorney hopes
to bare the methods Of penitentiary graft
ers. Lewis. who was sent TO sing Sing
for grand larceny, served a term In the
penitentiary last year. While there he
was put To work on the books.
He is said to have made false entries
I'm the books at the direction OF officials.
He has expressed his willingness to aid In
the inquiry into conditions on Blackwelrs
Island, and will go over his memoranda
thoroughly with Joseph Du Vivier, AS
sistant District Attorney, before the grand
jury meets on Monday.
Lewis has been convicted several times
OF swiniling. and his skill At figures re-
suited in his being drafted as bookkeeper
on his arrival AT the penitentlary HIS
last conviction. a few weeks ago, was the
result OF Withholding part OF the money
he received for an automobile belonging
10 Mrs. George H. Barrett. His counsel
produced poems which Mrs. Barrett sent
TO him.
TIE Investigation OF alleged abuses will
be prosecuted vigorously. and II Is thought
that il the alleged corrupt officials are
removed brutality on the part OF keep
ers will cease More instances OF prison
crs who suffered at the hands OF keepers
I'm tnF' a
tion Yesterday II was said that in many
instances complaint had been made 70
Warden Patrick Hayes and that in few
instances keerers had been brought up on
charges before Commissioner Whitney.
The charges were dismissed in every in
stance
The reason for the dismissal OF the
charges is said 20 have been that the
prisoners. who OF necessity were complain
ants. were I'm state OF abject terror by
the time the cases came up before the
Commissioner.
The cases Of four prisoners. who are
said 70 have been abused within the last
Few months. were called 10 Mr.. Du Vivie's
attention Yesterday One vas n young fell
low who was slow with his washing I'm the
morning. The keeper, who stood near
him. ordered him 10 hurry up. and because
ne thought the job was still too slow is
alleged 10 have struck the prisoner with
club. The prisoner turned to a deputy
warden.
"Do YOU think that was right" he Is
said 20 have asked.
With the deputy warden looking on il
is said that the keeper struck the prisoner
another hard blow as lesson not 20
"squeal"
Another prisoner is said 70 have been
struck with club because he dropped his
bread while At dinner and leaned over 20
pick II up. \ prisoner. who was on his
way TO the cells between two keepers
IS said 20 have been stunned BY blow
from one Of them delivered without the
slightest provocation. II was not AT all
unusual. II is said. for n Anal Kick TO be
administered as the prisoner was put into
his cell.
Mr. Du Niver has the names not only of
the prisoners who are said 70 have been
beaten. but also Of the keepers who struck
them and OF the deputy wardens TO whom
unavailing complaints were made.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-24
RUBBER PRESIDENT LOSES
Court Denies Colts Motion to
Dismiss Stockholders Suit.

Justice Cohalan denied yesterday the
application Of Samuel F. Colt, president
Of the United States Rubber Company
to dismiss the suit brought against him
by Mrs. Caroline De Wolf Theobald, a
stockholder in the company who de-
manded that Colt repay 7s1, ,2ss wrong
fully, she said, taken from the corpora
ton. Justice Cohalan said: "Graver
questions than that Of policy or expedi
ency are raised. II is the inhexible rule
that directors cannot exercise the corpo-
rate powers for their private or personal
advantage or gain. The law stringently
and vigorously forbids them the use or
disposition Of the funds or assets of the
corporation for their individual enter
prises or r.acquisition. and for any malfeas-
ance or breach OF duty or trust resulting
In damage to the corporation they are
subject TO be called 10 account by the
corporation in an appropriate action.
These principles are based upon sound
public policy and morality"
New-York tribune., 1913-12-24
MONEY FLEW BY WIRELESS
Radio Defendant Tells Of Ex-
travagance Of Company.

James Dunlop Smith, who. with Lee De
Forest. Elmer r. Burlingame and SamueI
r. Darby. is on trial I'm the Federal Dis
tr!ct Court on charge 81 using the mails
20 defraud investors into purchasing stock
in the Radio-Telephone Company, told his
story on the witness stand yesterday
He testified that when De Forest went
abroad in hrrn. 1908. De Forest sent him
a number Of encouraging letters about
the telephones future.
When you received a letter from De
Forest saying II would be possible -
communicate by telephone from New York
across the Atlantic did you believe TT"
81 had implicit faith in him." said the
witness
Smith gave as his reason for resigning
from the company that the assets were
being wasted. particularly In building Il
tower AZ Albany
The extravaganza OF the Radio com
pany was so great could not stand 1t"
ne said
one OF the witnesses. an inventor, testi-
fed that he knew Of no infringement By
the Radio company on others patents
New-York tribune., 1913-12-24
PIGS WON'T BE SALAMANDERS;
LOOSE, MAKE TOWN SQUEAL
400 Pokers Break Out Of Burning Pen and Make Arlington
Residents Root for Safety-Persons with Shotguns
and Christmas Appetites Philosophical

morning, and then started out to gather
food.
The borough soon knew OF their
presence. They butted into kitchens.
through back doors and bowled over
the servants and ate the food. They
slipped into cellars and destroyed what
was in their power to destroy, and two
Of them followed William Riede, son
Of the Chief OF Police, into school. The
efforts of Riede and other schoolboys
to drive the pigs back were without
effect and they sped through the build
ing from classroom 10 classroom with
a full disregard of the fact that knoWl-
edge is power. The sessions had TO be
called off for a half hour, in which time
the janitor and an assistant. armed
with two big street brooms, whanged
the porkers into the street.
Ore delegation strayed off to the
meadows. Though the hunting season
wound up on September 10. there Is
variety Of wild duck 10 which the Ia"
does not apply. Gunners, seeing the
black bodied animals meandering amid
the grass were surprised. but. Ike the
Adirondack and Maine deer hunters
who always shoot first and then IN
yestigate. these hunters decided to 90
the same. They were not heartbroKen
when they learned what their pui'e'S
had brought down. for pig is often SUI
stituted for turkey on Christmas.
Not one of the pigs not retrieNeu US
its original owners was returned
Householders who were visited by pigs
kept them FOR use on Christmas anu
New Years Day.
Barnard & Eckhardt are not oh'y
distressed by the event, but Mt no
denburC and his guests believe the con :
Germ should pay for the dresses anu
suits that were ruined.
The police arrested Ralph fefm'
fourteen, and Peter Morreli' hi'een' ."
susnjcion Of having set fire to the p's
pen. The boys deny it.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-24
WIRES HUM JOHNSON OUT
Medals, Signal Tests and Pro.
motions Speed Departure.

Fire Commissioner Joseph Johnson re-
tired Officially from active service in the
city Fire Department yesterday and COM
memorated his departure by the operation
Of wireless telegraph service and an I'M
proved system OF alarm signals. The
work Of the wireless and signal apparatus
was demonstrated TO an audience OF in
vited guests at Fire Headquarters, No. lJ7
East 67th street.
In addition TO Commissioner Johnson,
three veterans in the department were re-
tired They were Battalion Chief John p.
Howe. Captain Malachi Donahue, and
Moses Morgan. engineer Of the freboat
Seth Low. The officers were retired on
their own request.
The Commissioner, before departing, ap-
pointed two new battalion chiefs. nine
new captains. eleven lieutenants, ten en-
gineers and forty-five fremen. Many OF
the friends Of the retiring officers and the
promoted members OF the Fire Depart
ment were present at the ceremony.
Joseph Siegel in recognition OF his
friendly interest and helpful acts TO the
department. was given the title OF honor
AIRY officer OF the department.
Another event OF the day was the pres
entation Of twenty-five gold medals to
officers and hremen for acts Of heroism
while on duty.
Commissioner Johnson was presented
with chest OF silver and responded with
a speech expressing his gratitude.
Mayor Kline. city heads. borough presi-
dents and magistrates were among those
invited TO attend the ceremonies.
New-York tribune., 1913-12-24
trrom The Tribune Correspondent.

North Arlington, y. j., Dec. %
Prior to ten minutes after midnight
Monday 400 big and little pigs were
imnured in Barnard & Eckhardt's COW
cred pen on Schuyler avenue, content
to remain there as. long as life lasted.
At the moment hereinabove referred
TO fire gripped the frame building. con-
sumed its walls and gave exit TO the
pigs hereinabove mentioned.
Nearby is the home Of Henry Roden-
burg. water purveyor, and wealthy
He and Mrs. Rodenburg were giving
a reception, which came 10 halt when
one Of the guests saw the flames and
suggested that it would he good
sport TO run out and gaze at the fire.
All the other guests were OF similar
thought. so out they went.
The pigs. exhilarated by their free
dom, had become careless in their
choice Of highways and byways, and
they swept along in the direction OF the
Rodenburg home. Therefore. but few
minutes elapsed before tney TOOK
deep interest in the Rodenburg guests
and the Rodenburg guests in them.
From the various outbursts that fol-
lowed ii was safe to guess that trouble
was in the making, for with every
squeal came scream. All Of the
women were knocked down, and a
great majority Of the men. Wonderful
gowns were soon covered with mud.
and beautiful white shirts so adorned
with hoof prints that they resembled
the results Of a finger print test. Even
ing clothes changed 10 mourning
clothes.
1t is not to be understood that the
pigs were at all disturbed Victory
theirs. they continued on their way
with employees of Barnard & Eckhardt
in feverish pursuit.
Some hours later one hundred Of
the porkers were taken into custody,
but the others had sought cover. They
remained hidden until late yesterday
New-York tribune., 1913-12-24
SPREE AGAIN PUTS
LEEHAN IN JAIL
Has Argument with Wife at
White Plains, Gets Drunk and
Spurns Farm Offer.

William J. Leehan. recently acquitted
Of the murder OF Mrs. Caroline Turner,
and who upon his arrival here Mon
day was arrested for being drunk, is
now locked up in the White Plains jail.
Leehan, after being discharged in the
West Side court. started for White
Plains. At 2:30 o'clock yesterday
morning he tried TO get into the apart
ments of his wife, at No. s South Lex
ington avenue. White Plains, but was
shooed away. Later in the day he had
another interview with his wife.
You don't want to be parted from
me. do you?" he said 10 her. She re-
piled: You promised you wouldn't
drink any more after the jury found
you not guilty. l will not live with you
until you make a man Of yourself. You
must so away and prepare a good
home for me-"
Leehan visited half a dozen saloons
in White Plains and drank consider
able whiskey. When his uncle, Daniel
Leehan. of Manchester. y. H, arrived
in White Plains yesterday afternoon
for the purpose Of taking William TO
his New Hampshire farm, Leehan
baked and made a scene.
Il am a free American citizen. | will
not go on any farm. Somebody is try
ing TO steal my wife away from me, -
he shouted He refused to be quieted,
and the police were called to restrain
him.
He was then locked up in the county
Jail on the charge Of being drunk and
dsorderly.
This is a frame-up. the same as the
murder charge was against me-" said
Leehan, Il am going to- ferret this
whole thing out and find out the guilty
parties
He will be arraigned before Judge
Lamb this morning.