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RILEY STATEMENT
JABS AT OSBORNE
Prison Head Says Charges
Were Inspired in Ex-War-
denis Hotel Headquarters.
DEFENDS DRAFT ORDER

ALBANY, ~. Y, Jan. 14.-That the
complaint against state Superintendent
of Prisons John d. Riley to Gov. Whit
man by Warden George w. Krchwey
OF Sing sing was inspired In Thomas
Mott Osborne's "Hotel Belmont head
ouarters' Is the contention Of Supt.
Riley in a statement given ou to-day.
The Governor has been misinformed
about the order OF transfer Of sixty
six prisoners from Sing Sing to Gin
ton, upon which he based HE charge Of
misconduct In office against the Superin-
tendent." Mr.. Riley said.
Upon examination OF the records
Supt. Riley declared. he has found that
the thirty-seven men In the draft addeo
to a list submitted by former Warden
Osborne were properly Included" al
though any changes would have beer
made had the present warden presented
God reasons.
at IL apparent" said Mr.. Riley. that
the demand for my removal came from
Mr., Osborre's headquarters at the Hotel
belmont. The order OF transfer. which
Is the basis for the charges made by
the Governor, was sent by mail from
the Office OF the Superintendent OF State
Prisons on January 4 and was received
at Sing Sing on the 9Th. Warden kirch-
wey Immediately proceeded 10 Osborne's
headquarters with the order n spent
the evening OF the 5th there.
while there an appointment was made
with GOV. Whitman for tho following
morning. Warden Kirchwey admitted
at the hearing before the Governor that
he knew the Superintendent of Prisons
was In New York that evening on his
way to visit Sing Sing the following day.
pursuant TO a n appointment made with
him the day he received his commits
sion as warden"
Supt. Riley quoted letters from War
| den Klrchwey TO himself and to a New
York newspaper praising the Superin-
tendert's methods and reforms highly.
In one dated November II. 1914. Or.
K!rchwey called atient!on to approval
by a committee OF the Prison Association
OF his letter commencing Supt. Riley and
| added
you may he sure Il represents the
conviction OF al, the friends OF prison
reform who know the facts and that
| any attempt on the part Of the pres
ent Governor or his successor to
deprive the State OF your services in the
position you now occupy Will he stou'ly
| resisted by the Prison Association and
| all similar bodies"
Supt. Riley and his counsel. ex-senator
| Edgar r. Bracket. will file afidavits
with the Governor tomorrow. They will
| include. 1t IL said. statements FROM Supt.
Riley himself and some of his subordi-
| mates. The Governor Will return to Al
| bany from New York probably Sunday
and IL expected 20 go over the new data
In the Riley case on Monday.
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Did the boys tell q number OF dir-
fercnt stories az TO where they threw
their guns and didn't they, while on the
road. Jolly YOU
NO, ] lold ,he DOVE to point out where
they threw their guns and they did so.
When they got ou, OF the car they wen,
into the field bordering on the lake ar |
showed where they threw the guns"
Robbins was asked II he knew Heals
had "a gun. The witness replied that
Heals told him he had one in the ga
rage at Newport. from which an officer
recovered II. Robbins denied that at
Bristol he asked the men about their
tell al about them before they "got
out of here meaning the jail.
In redirect examination Chief Robbins
said that the boys told him that after
the accident" they left Washington road
and went toward the Nayatt station.
A hat was here handed to the witness.
who pointed TO a hole In the back OF II
and declared This was the hat worn
by Dr. Mohr the night he was shot"
Mrs. Mlohr looked AT the hat. finched,
but did not break down. She closed
her eyes tightly.
Tomorrow and Sunday the jury will
he taken out for a walk and otherwise
he made comfortable. Monday the fish
ermen who saw the two negroes come
out of the path and rush off toward the
Nayatt station and others who saw the
men cross the track and pedal toward
Riverside will be called
Late Monday afternoon or early Tues
day morning Heals will taxi the stand.
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POSTAL CLERK IS ARRESTED.
shortage ~ $4,000 At New BrIsh-
ton Post once IL Reported.

Andrew A. Fetherston. chief clerk
IN the New Brighton Post Office Oh
Staten Island, who says he il a cousin
OF Commissioner Fethcrston of the
Street Cleaning Department, was locked
IN the Raymond street Jail. Brooklyn.
last night on a technical charge OF
violation of tine postal laws.
Fetherston is said to have made dis
closures to United States Attorney Mel
vile J.. Frame which nay result in
arrests to-day. Frank Mulligan. as
sistant postmaster at New brighton.
was suspended by the postal authorities.
Inspector Jacobs and other Federal
Investigators have been looking into the
accounts OF the New brighton post office
and are said to have Nound irregularities,
chiefly In tine money order department,
A shortage OF $500 10 reported.
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Mr.. Estabrook II n lawyer-chairman
OF the important committee on judicial
administration and remedial procedure
of the American Bar Association and a
director OF the New York County Law
yers Association. lie IL also a descend
ant of the Puritan John Alden. lie
was reared In Nebraska. where, says
q pamphlet entitled Henry -. Esta-
brook, the New Leader" he developed
the vigor OF the wind swept prairies'" y.
He practised law in Nebraska and In
Wisconsin. where he became Attorney
General. and in Chicago. and came to
New York ~ 1907 rs general solicitor
for the Western l'uion Telegraph Conf
pany. lie Is now "A member or the firm OF
Noble, Estabrook a McHarg, whose Of
fees AZ ll5 broadway are on the same
'cor as the boom factory.
Mr.. Estabrook was out OF town when
q Sun reporter called AT his Office yester-
day. but Ormsby MciIarg vas per-
suaded to set forth the hopes OF the
t~,stabrook candidacy. Mr.. Mcffarg, who
IL always identiicd by orthodox polit-
cal writer's as "thc man who rounded up
the Southern delegates for Roosevelt
before the Republican national conven-
ton Of 1912. dis laimed participation in
the Estabrook campaign as It's
He said he was helping II Along merely
&c Mr.. Estabrook's admirer. partner and
friend.
Let me give YOU the atmosphere
FIRST said MIR. McIiarg. 'ln Septem-
Der. when Mr.. i;stabrook spoke In De-
troit. the Fro" PRESS spoke Of him a. the
man To- whom credit * given for the
election of William Mckinley IN 1896,
and reminded its readers Of the cam
paign OF that year when Nv t.stahrook
sprang into national fame as a master
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You won't go through one
Of our overcoatS in a Winter
Most men get two or three
Winters wear out of them
All wool, fast color fabrics
- the best our money, the
best your money can buy
and your money back any
time if you want il.
Generous values alWays,
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Speaking of Presidential candidates.
there are twenty girls in Isoom i425 at
115 Broadway who have been toillng for
weeks and weeks with typewrlters. stem
ell cutting machines and a mailing list
of 200, 900 names, keeping the nation from
Penobscot to Coronado acquainted with
the speeches. personality. principles and
general availability OF Henry d.. Esta-
brook.
Mr.. Estabrook. a first class orator,
who has personally sounded the senti-
ment" In nearly every state, is going
himself forenslcally In Eastern cities al
most every night.
Little az New YoiNcrs have heard Of
the Estabrook boom. stacks of press clip
pings testify to the solemn consideration
accorded IL In Western and middle Vest
ern States. lie Is the one New York Re-
publican who is actually and openly a
candidate for the nomination. flihu
Root and Justice Hughes have discour-
aged their supporters. Gov. Whitman
dwells on the delights of existence in
Albany: Col. Roosevelt has publicly con-
fessed no ambition to mount the White
House steps again. But down AT ll5
broadway there il n fever of activity,
and none of the zoe 900 persons on that
mailing list, most OF them political work.
ers. Is allowed to forget for "A moment
that Henry u. F.stabrook thinks there Is
a safe road between unmltigated radical
ism and the abhorrent 'Bourbons" which
the next President of the United states
must travel. and that. all things con.
sidered, he's the nan who ought to make
that journey. So much mail Is going
out OF Room laps that IT literally has
to be carried through the corridors on
a hand truck.
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We certainly cut some
ice" with skaters!
Rink, hockey and figure
skates; also skating shoes IN
sizes, they tell us, they're all
out Of elsewhere,
puchs, hockey sticks. sweaters rr Al
slaves uauntlr,s stocks
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bushes while waiting for the car, how
and by what route they fed, and where
they threw the revolvers into Echo Lake.
After this came the introduction Of DIR.
Mohr's bullet pierced hat and the ad-
jou-nment of the cour until Monday.
Removal Of HeaIis.
Mr.. Fitzgerald questioned Chief Rob-
bins as to the removal OF Heals to Bar
rington the night of the shooting. He
said that Heals was not removed until
= A. VI. and that he did not talk with
him until 0 o'clock at night. when the
prisoner told OF the intended robbery
which had resulted In the shooting.
BY reason of this Robbins called Chief
O'Neill n asked for Browns arrest.
After Heals a been arraigned Robbins
took him to Warren because the Bar
rington Jail was so unsafe In event Of
fire. Robbins did not see Brown until
several hours after his arrest. when he
was told that all three had confessed"
when you were told OF their confess
sions the police asked them the questions
and they acquiesced?" the witness was
asked.
They said they were true" was the
reply.
when these fuen were asked the ques-
tions before Mrs. Mohr they hung their
heads and YOU took that to mean 'Yes'T'
NO"
what did Mrs. Mohr say"
Judge Stearns then interviewed and
said: II I'VE already ruled three times
that the confessions could not weigh
against Mrs Mohr, nor could h jury
consider the a C that she failed to an
swer anything as tending to incrimi-
nate her"
Chief Robbins val asked by Mr.. Lewis
II. when he returned to the Jail the night
after Hea!!s's arrest, he found him cry
ing. The court ruled this out.
"Didn't you say to Heals when you
put him in the cell down cellar. Bake,
boil or confess?' the witness was asked
The State objected and was sustained
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county returned recently from
Decatur, Ind, where he spent his va
cation.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. H. Moore of Me-
dora departed for Sentinel Butte,
where they will make their future
home. ~
Twelve carloads of cattle were
shipped from the Medora stock yards
last week by John Lakey and Ed.
Manorgh.
Elmer Gordon of Bowman recently
sold a steer, three years old, which
tipped the scales at exactly 1,700
pounds. It was sold by weight and
brought $127.5O.
H. C. Gilbert, the Bismarck cleo
t~rician, was at Werner last week in
the interest of the electric lighting
proposition there. Werner hopes to
secure Mr.. Gilbert to install the
system in that town.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. J. Christensen of
the Karinen neighborhood near Bow
man, both have to 60 to the hospital
soon, Mr.. Christensen for appendicitis
and Mrs. Christensen for a serious
operation.
The Better family of Werner had
their share of trouble last week.
Douglas stepped on a nail, Mrs.
Better suffered a severe attack of
cholera morbus and Mr.. Better was
confined to his bed a couple of days
with ptomaine poisoning.
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W..Ttasy,;4John eHerrcnnC7
C. Tweek, Chas. Wierson, Perry
Marker, Killdeer; Ed. Herbert, Simon
Pulver, Werner; c. ]. Larson, George
Fairbanks, Herman Rebishke,, Emer-
son; John A.. Whitman, Willmen; X.
o. Kline, Fayette; Thurman Harvey,
Dodge; Sever Skjefte, Renville; C..
Jines, Libby Butte.
While threshing operations were
in progress at the farm Of Charles
Davis west of Marmarth on Monday
afternoon of last week, a flame was
noticed by Eddie Moss issuing from
one Of the grain stacks and with the
high wind blowing it was but a
moment until the grain stacks, sepa-
rator ard straw were all ablaze. The
wind swept the flames over the separ.
ator into the straw and On to the
barn and the hay, all of which was
burned to the ground along with the
newly threshed oats and speltz which
had been stored in the barn. Some
$50 bushels of wheat had just been
started off to town before the fire
occurred and this grain represented
all that is left of Mr.. Davis 1916
crop. He estimated his loss at from
$500 to 5000. The separator belongs
to Robert Cooper and probably repre-
sents a loss of $50 Otto $500.
The Dickinson press., 1916-09-16

Two or three fires. were set re-
Gently by railway engines northwest
of RhaIne- One was on the Roden-
kirk land and burned so acres of
wheat shocks and spread over on the
H. L. Bruce farm, where it burned
more than 1900 shocks of wheat. aa
Peter Carney, a Mandan carpenter,
had a narrow escape from death one
day last week, while working on the
new Presbyterian church. A carpen-
ter, who was working above him, &C
cidently dropped his hammer which
struck Mr.. Carney on the head, cut
ting a deep cash in the skull.
The Publicity Film Co. of Bismarck
is planning to take motion pictures
of the buildings and industrial life
in Killdeer on September 9th, 28th
and 10Th Nearly all of the visitors
to. that hustling little city on the
above dates will appear in the movies.
The films will later be shown in Kill
deer and other points which the Com
mercial Club may name.
AS a result of a cinder in the eye,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Mccormick of
Bowman attended the state fair in
Minnesota. last week together follow
ing their recent marriage. McCor-
mick is a rancher ard his wife was
Miss Resale Morton of Lennon.
The couple were travelling on the
train as strangers, acros the aisle
from each other. He got a cinder in
his eye near Aberdeen end she helped
him to remove it. Love followed and
they were married upon their arrival
in st. Paul.
c. G. Johnson, Golva implement
man, was hit by a spent bullet while
driving his a on the streets of
Beach and for a few moments lost
control of the machine. He managed
to apply the brakes, however, and the
a came to a stop at the side of
the street. AS he heard no report, he
did not know what happened until his
fingers encountered the bullet. in the
folds of his clothing. Aside from
having the wind knocked out of his
body, and suffering a painful bruise,
MI. Johnson suffered no serious
handicap. No clue has been obtained
as to who fired the shot.
CITIZENS OF the town of Cannon
are up in arms:over a number of
.robberies in the past week which ap-
parently have been perpetrated by
home talent, some one familiar with
the homes and habits of the people.
Last week the E. F. Underhill resi-
dence was entered and small sums of
money taken from the purses of Mrs.
Underhill and Miss Lily Thorberg of
Mandan, her guest. Toilet articles,
nail files, tooth brushes and the like
were taken. Other residences have
been entered while persons were
away. So far no. clue to. the robber
has been uncovered. i
The regular fall term of district
court for Dunn county conpenes at
Manning, Monday, September 18th,
with the following list Of jurors: Paul
Paulson, Joe Murphy, Fred Tucker,
Chas. j. Fox, Jr., A.. j. Bretzlaff,
Dunn Center; Chas. Hernee, p. Fl.
Fjosne, John Fritz, T. v. McCullan,
Robert Bryan, John Comstock,
Thomas Mcmahon, Ed. Roe, Halliday;
George Metcalo, James Mackey,
Anton Fleck, Manning; VIM. Gage,
Anton Sadowsky, w. p. Beatty, Dick
inson; Carl Kyseth, Gregory Vestag,
Henry Madison, Marshall; George
Layton, Oakdale; Martin Hoyden, Ole
The Dickinson press., 1916-09-16

at a meeting of stockholders and
plans were made to laupch.the,w work
Of the organization as early as pos
sible. M. E. Murphy is president; r.
B. Griffith, vice president; C: W.
Graves, secretary; j. A.. Dinnie,
treasurer. The company proposes to
establish an entirely modern packing
plant in Grand Forks.
Petitions asking the division of
Morton county and the creation of
the county of Grant, were filed with
the county commissioners yesterday.
Grant would be made up of AZ town.
ships in the southern end of the pres
ent county, leaving Al townships in
Morton county. This is the third CON
secutive time that county division
has been before the people at a gen.
eral election.
His nose sliced off as clean as
though with a surgeons knife, and
with two deep gashes in his cheek,
Archie Reynolds, police officer, is laid
up at a Mandan hospital, as a result
of a fight in the Mandan fire hall.
The battle was the climax of a social
partyHindulged in by frenfen and their
friends. Adelbert Heinz was
Reynolds opponent, and it is said that
a glass tumbler, hitting Reynolds in
the face caused his injury.
When Edward Larson, transient,
appeared before Judge James Murphy
at Jamestown to answer to the
charge of being drunk and d%isorderly,
the court asked the prisoner whether
he was a bull dog or a man. Larson
was the man who bit off a portion
of the thumb on the right hand of
Captain Briggs of the jamestown
police force this week, while the Of
fcer was in the act of searching the
prisoner.
Williston's recently completed pom
toon bridge across the Missouri river
is proving successful, in the matter
of bringing new trade to. this city,
that being the purpose for which the
bridge was constructed. Up to. the
present time, the daily traffic across
the bridge has averaged forty farm
ers, from the territory lying across
the river, heretofore cut off from d.
rect communication with this city.
Tolls, are charged, So cents being. coll
lected from each vehicle that is
driven across, and in this manner
it is expected that the bridge will
be successfully financed,
Ernest Newman, a young man
about Is years of age, who escaped
from the Sargent county jail on No
vember 7th, 1912, by breaking
through the bars in a window, is
The Dickinson press., 1916-09-16
Older BUT STRONGER

To be healthy at seventy, prepare at
Forty, is sound advice, because in the
strength of middle life we too often forget
that neglected colds, or careless treat
ment of slight aches and pains, simply
undermine strength and bring chronic
weakness for later years.
TO be stronger when older, keep your
blood pure and rich and active with the
srength-building and blood-nourishing
properties of SCOTS Emulsion which lisa
Hood, a tonic and medicine to keep your
blood rich, alleviate rheumatism and
avoid sickness. No alcohol in SCOTS.
Scott & Bovine. Bloomfield. NJ.
The Dickinson press., 1916-09-16
o O q @ 9 q q o 9 o O o q Q
) NEGHBORHOOD NOTES :
o O o Q o o O o o o o . . o

Miss Elsie Rupert of Bowman
will teach school near Belfeld during
the coming term.
J. G. Bryant of Amidon is assisting
in the abstract office at Medora dur
ing the absence of Miss Follis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence McGregor
of Medora will leave soon for Monroe,
Wash, where they will make their
future home.
Auditor ]. A. Berry of Billings
The Dickinson press., 1916-09-16
STATE NEWS T
o 9 8 @

VAASS LAoACA 1<OOp, u y. J..
Roop of Bismarck, had the misfor-
tune to break her arm. Miss Roop
was at Wilton an in attempting to
crank the automobile it kicked.
Melissa, the 9-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. S. Davis of Golden
Valley, was kicked by a colt and for
a while it was thought seriously
hurt.
The Farmers bank of Garrison re-
ceived a new manganese steel burg
lar proof safe. Ten of these safes
have recently been installed in the
various farmers banks of this state.
The two old watch towers which
for years have guarded the lives of
individuals crossing the Northern
Pacific track. on Fourth Avenue at
Jamestown, we're placed on a fat
car and shipped to Bismarck, where
one will be placed on each end of
the bridge over the Missouri.
The dynamo from the Langdon
light plant, which was recently re-
placed by a new one, has been loaned
to the Walahall light company until
they can secure a new one to replace
the one destroyed in the recent fire,
which has left the city without light
for some time.
A charter in the Journeymen's In
ternational Union of America, has
been granted the BARRIERS of James.
town, who have organized with the
| following officers: President, w. r.
Bailey; vice president, A. G. Sim
mons; treasurer, G. A. Bundy; re-
corder, Wallace Ruud; guide, E. W
Berg, and guardian, H. l.. Snider.
The Farmers State bank with {
capital stock Of $4,000 will be estab'
lished at New Leipzig in the very
near future by Adolph Frasch, Der.
nard Frasch, Alex Eberhardt anC
M. C. Rausch. The latter three arr
old residents of the New Leipzig dis.
trict, while. Adolph Frasch is in the
banking business at Memo, South
Dakota.
His arm caught in a s~elf-feede1
and so horribly mangled that it only
hung by a shred, Tony Weick was
taken to a Devils Lake hospital Mon
day, the arm being amputated the
same day. Weick was working about
a ~threshing machine a Crazy when
the accident happened. He may sur
vive the shock.
Reinhold Suko and his hired man
were conveying a pickle barrel into
the cellar Of his home at Gackle when
the hired mans foot slipped, allowing
the barrel to rest disastrously on MI.
Suko's upper lip, cutting and other
wise rendering the flesh fold which
surrounds the orifice of the mouth in
active and very painful.
The old old story, IS old as fire.
arms, II didn't know it was loaded"
was repeated at Sentinel Butte when
George Snyder and Lyle Martin were
looking over guns in the, latter's
store. Snyder picked up a % rifle,
pointed it at Martin and pulled the
trigger. The bullet ploughed through
Martins left arm and into the body,
being stopped by a rib. He will re-
cover, ~,
Unconscious, A. E. Clare, chief
clerk in the office of the roadmaster
at the division headquarters of the
Northern Pacific, was found by an Of
ficer at Jamestown. While returning
to his home, Clare bumped into a 2x4
foot plank used as a brace, the force
of the impact knocking him to the
ground where he lay an hour before
discovered.
Organization of the Northern Pack
ing Co. of Grand Forks was completed
The Dickinson press., 1916-09-16

again in the clutches of the law.
While at; rrGwinner to clean :iout the I.
w: w. gang, Deputy Sheriff Jackman
met the young fellow on the rail-
road track. After giving his name,
he was promptly informed of the fact
that he WIS wanted for jail breaking.
He was loaded in the sheriff's auto
and taken to Forman, and is again
"enjoying" looking through the bars
from the wrong side.
Der taÌˆgliche Demokrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 186?-1918, 1916-07-12
M6tun9sboIlt nnterbreitet
gbmarb 6 nIIins.
COUNTY. = Mtbitnr.

bur6 gilbert 9. alrtb, Gertretcr.
Snlsenber 8eridt bes County zanbi<
TORS, seigenS Sic altsseiteIlten Mnipei~
Iungen fir Miitter aur l%lrterbaltuns
ibrer, 'minSeriabriacn @iuber tpurbc
bprselcgt nnb sl Ben Mften gez
monument:
1tmterbalt min6criabriser &i,tbcr.
Nn Sew g%brenipertben Snperpilo<
renratbr scott gountb, Spipa:
Meine &crren: Mnliegeno Ser 8cS
ridt iiber al1sgcitellte @t1tpciiungen st
@uniten ser Miitter sllr l%tnterbalttng
ibrer minberiabrigen &ir,bcr It. @nr
nrbnlng bes. 9iltrift : @eridts 1nb 1t.
@e1olution bes Gtperbiiorenratbes
fir Sic Geriobe, beginncnb nit 1. SUM-
nnb enbiseno am 80. SUM- 1916:
Der taÌˆgliche Demokrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 186?-1918, 1916-07-12

9rmd . arbettcn aler art
Ii.fert Die Sobzgruderei bes Ser
9emotrat" su niebrigen Rreilen uul
b.i alfmerfiamiter Be6ieuuna.
Der taÌˆgliche Demokrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 186?-1918, 1916-07-12

1OE1 ''ss !. UOO.IC
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD COLLINS,
County Auditor.
Sic f%olgenoen Mniprii1e, bpn1 @oaro
'gepriift nno auf geb6rig nnteritiieten
nib ansenommer,et M1trag betpilligt,
1ollen Nnipeiiunsen fir Sic betr. Sltn1z
men al1s9elteut iper0en llnb baB audi
bic. bur6 getitinn lt1lb N%elolution in
oieler Sibu19 erlallbten Inlpriide in
bieic nabfolsenoe Site einseldlolen
ipcrDeu.