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Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22
Many Spectators Dumped Into
Chester River as Bridge
CoIIapses.
WATCH RESCUE WORK
Worried Parents Feared for Identity Of
Drowned Baby and Watched Res
cue Work Below With
Fatal Results.

Chester, Pa.-Between % and 30 per-
sons were drowned or crushed to death
and more than score of others injur-
ed when the foot bridge of the Third
street bridge over Chester river col
lapsed.
The dead and injured were part of
a crowd of approximately Is persons
that had gathered on the structure. to
watch the efforts of the police in grap-
ping for the body of 5-year-old boy
who was drowned but half hour be-
fore. Many of the dead are women
and children.
Old Fashioned Bridge
The bridge was an old fashioned
structure 80 feet long and cleared the
water by about 20 feet. 1t carried two
trolley tracks across the steram and
had one foot path. The river was
about Is feet deep where the accident
occurred.
All available police and firemen were
summoned. More than 20 bodies were
recovered within an hour after the &C.
! cident.
The child that was drowned had
been playing on the banks of the
stream and slipped into the water and
sank Police were summoned who
threw out graphing irons from a row.
boat. In the meantime news of the
drowning spread and women and men
rushed to the bridge in fear the child,
whose identity was not known, was
] their own.
No Chance to Escape.
AS the police grappled in the murky
water around coal and ice barges, the
crowd grew and suddenly there was a
cracking sound heard and one end of
the bridge gave way. Those who fell
into the water first had no chance to
escape as others came tumbling upon
them. They sank and the police believe
some We're forced to the bottom of the
stream and are still imbedded in the
mud.
: AS the dead were carried into the
morgue, men, women and children
surged about the place. Mothers
sought children and husbands were
looking for their wives or children.
They were not admitted to the morgue
for some time and the situation be-
came such that police were summoned
from the scene of the bridge collapse
to the morgue. Citizens were also
pressed into service as guards.
| rids NJ Ehh
The accident happened just as the
tide was at ebb. Rescuers realized
that it soon would flow out and posi-.
bly, carry bodies into the Delaware
river. Fire department ladders were
stuck into the water so as to form a
screen and prevent any bodies from go
ing out with the tide. Fishing nets
were also used for this purpose.
Only the f0otway on the bridge col.
lapsed. The rest Of the bridge remain.
ed intact and was sufficiently strong
to permit score of men to do rescue
work from it. On the river 80 launches
and rowboats worked under search
lights.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22

at the date of sale the sum of four
teen hundred and sixty-nine & 11-lOO
dollars ($1469 .l1).
A notice of intention to foreclose
was served as provided by law, more
than thirty days before the beginning
of these proceedings.
Dated this goth day of September,
1921.
CARL S. NEWCOMER and
JAY S. NEWCOMER,
Asudgnees of Mortgage.
H. A. ARMSTRONG,
Attorney for Assignees of
Mortgage,
Hazelton, North Dakota. s22-o27
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22
No Further Murder Evidence.

Chicago.-Bernard ]. Dougherty, au-
tomobile salesman and former all-Am-
erican athlete, has been found slain in
the Des PLANES river, the body of an
other man was being sought in the
river, and 20-year-old youth to whom
they had tried to sell car is under
arrest in one of the most mysterious
murders of Chicago police annals.
Dougherty was chosen as an all-Am-
erican end by Walter Camp when he
played on the Harvard University foot
ball team in 1901 and 1902.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22
Medal for Unknown Dead.

Washington.-General Pershing, act
ing at the direction of President Hard
ing, sailed for Paris, where on Octo-
Der 2 he will award the medal Of honor
voted by congress to the unknown SOL
der Of France, whose body was placed
at the arch Of triumph. The general,
who left France just about two years
ago, after having led the American Ex-
peditionary forces to victory, probably
will be accompanied by a high naval
officer who will also participate in the
ceremonies.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22
FUGITIVE KILLS SELF
Slayer Of Three Hibbino Police
Hunted for Week.
Murderer etaiked by Posse OF Five
to Log Shack In the
Woods.

Hibbing-Death at his own hand
ended the search for John Webb, who
shot and killed three members of the
Hibbing police force last Thursday
afternoon.
With FIVE Hibbing policemen stalk
ing him in log shack two miles east
Of here, the fugitive blew of the tor
of his head with q 1890 rife, the same
weapon he used in his triple staying
here.
Five patrolmen approached the log
cabin. which rested on knoll in q
wide clearing in the woods. Ever eau
tious of the dead.shot desperado, they
got within 200 feet of his hiding place
before he saw them.
Just moment his head showed at q
window, a gaunt face peering out al
them like an animal at bay. Then he
dropped from sight, and second OF
two later the shot rang out that ended
the search for the man who had struck
terror to the countryside around Hib
bling.
The five patrolmen in on the fugi
tive's last stand, and who will share
equally in rewards totalling $4,000
were N. e. Tutles, Elmer Johnson, vii
liam Lundberg, Thomas Moore and
Alexander Nunter. They had been in
the hunt continuously since Webb
killed their three fellow officers. When
the body was brought to the Hibbine
court house 1t was met by crowd Of
more than 5000 persons, so quickly
had the report Of Webb's death spread
From the court house the body was
taken to 9 local undertaking establish
ment, where It win be held pending
burial arrangements.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22
Yanks Held az Bandits.

Tfoyes, France-Three men wearing
khaki uniforms and alleged by the po-
lice to have admitted being deserters
from the American forces at Coblenz,
were arrested by French gendarmes at
Laignes. They are charged with burg
larry.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22
ADVERTISER
Intelligent Advertising

Is more important to keep your business
going during hard times than it is when
crops are fine. When business is booming,
you get your share anyway. When times
are hard, the money you spend in advertise
ing does you the most good.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
THE KINTYRE STATE BANK

at Kintyre. in the State OF North Da-
kota, at the close of business Septem-
w. RESOURCES
Loans and discounts. ......$13O, 919.13
Overdrafts. secured and UNI
warrants 1rs stocks, tax certif. $40
icates, claims etc 49,. 664 90
BANKING house. 's furniture i'l00'o0
Other real estate .......... 6,904.56
Current expenses, taxes paid,
over undivided profits -. 1880. 80
Checks and other
c, cash and items ans from '1sss.ss
other banks -. 4337. 06' 1913 20
Total ........ ........$154,7s2.5o
Capital stock paid in $3.50. $4,000. 90
individuai deposits ''''''''
subject to check$21 ,943.28
icates Of deposit 25s2.5s
sa SfDesit deposits is 1885,? ssss:ss
Certified checks :. 500. 90 11O.942.50
Bills payable. 100000. 80. 26,850 90
STATE Tot 81 NoRrH DAKOTA is'5+'7'2'So
named bank do solemnly swear that
the above statement is true, to the
best of my knowledge and belief:
S. r. DAY.
Cashier.
(SEAL.)
subscribed and sworn to before me
this 18th day. of September, 1921.
FRANK A. BARTA.
Notary Public, n. II.
My Commission expires April 10, 1924
Correct. Attest
FRANK SIMON,
$. r. DAY,
Directors.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22

The temperature on the island of
Majorca, near Spain, is said to remain
at about 76 degrees the year round.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22

STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA,
County of Emmons-ss.
I, NJ. A. Klein. president of the
above named bank, do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true. to
the best of my knowledge and belief.
NJ. A. KLEIN,
President.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 18th day of September. 1921.
Notary Public. Emmons County, N.
Oak.
NV Commission expires June Bird, 1922.
Correct. Attest
nAATTAN LAIIINGER.
JOHN j. BAI1MGARTNER,
Directors.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22

NO. wv
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
GERMAN STATE BANK,
at Strasburg, in the State of North
Dakota, at the close of business Sep
TENDER 6, 1921:
Loans and discounts ...... $80,2O3 81
Overdrafts secured and I'M
secured ........ ......... lO63.5 90
Warrants, stocks, tax certif-
icates, claims, etc.. ...... 1910. 20
and fixtures. ... .......... 5.2o2.e7
Other real estate .......... 7,344.00
Current EXPENSES, taxes paid,
over undivided profits. -. 1866. SO
Checks and other
cash items 49,. $34O5.36
Cash and Dive from
other banks >. :. 216s. 80 1913 65
Total $500. ...... ..$1O6,124.
Capital stock paid in. ....... $1O.O00.0O
SurnlrS fund. ..... ........ 5000 90
Individual deposits
subject to check 1O,21s.S2
Time certificates
of deposit. 80. 67,789.54
Cashiers checks
outstanding 1861 1924. 81
Bills payable .......... -. $4,000 90
Total $3.50. 5000. .s106,12 81
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22
Display Advertisements

Carried with us at cost of from 20 to
Is cents per inch per week will carry your
message to all these people. If you have
something to sell that they want, the adj
vertisement will do the work.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22
When Times Are Bad

We often find means of gathering in q
little coin by disposing Of things we have
and do not need At ten cents per line,
fifty cents week will inform hundreds of
your neighbors of the things you have for
sale.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22
How About Your Job Work.

Are you building up confidence in your
business by using your own printed sta
tionery, or are you using the false economy
Of writing your business letters on scratch
paper, with rubber stamp corner card on
your envelope?
The spectator., 1921-05-10

selling the Red Tower plants ts the Citizens Storage X Warehouse people after the boss got back. That move went into the discard in hurry. and the Consolidation outfit was busy get ting into it's fighting clothes and try ing to chock the wheels of the C. $. X w. with all sorts of legal obstacles.
 Franchise contracts with the rail- road were flashed up, and injunctions were prayed for. Ripley waded in, and what little sleep he got for week or two was in Pullman cars. snatched while he was rushing around and try- ing to keep his new clients, the c. $. X w. folks, out of jail for contempt of court He did it. Little and quiet and smooth-spoken, he could put the legal leather into the biggest bullies the other side could hire. Luckily, we were an interstate corporation, and when the local courts proved crooked, Ripley would find some way to jerk the ease out of them and put il up to some Federal judge.
 Around home in Portal City things were just simmering Between two days, as you might say. and right soon after Mir. Norcross got back, we acquired new chum on the head
The spectator., 1921-05-10

his little den on the third floor of the newspaper building across the avenue.
 Mrs. Macrae telephoned you?" he asked, pushing his bunch of copy pa per aside.
 Yes, just a minute ago"
 '.Tll give you what I have, and you may do what you please with it. One of our young -Branderby--has diseoyered-in some way that he didn't care 10 explain over the phone-that there was a plot of some kind con cocted in the back room of dive on lower Nevada avenue on the night Mir. Norcross disappeared. From what Branderby says, l take 1t that the plot was overheard, in part, at least. by some habtue of the place who was too drunk to get 1t entirely straight and intelligible. The plotters were four of Clanahan's men, and, as Branderby got 1t. they were planning to steal locomotive. Do you know anything about thatT
 T do. The engine was stolen all right, that very night. kirgan, our master-mechanic, has known 1t was gone. but he has been keeping quiet in hopes he'd be able to find the en- zine without making any public stir about it."
 '"The story, as It has been handed on to Branderby. is pretty badly mud dled," the editor went on. ''There was something in it about an attempt to wreck and rob the Fast Mail, and something else about sending note to somebody at the Bullard-a note that would do the business,~ was the way 1t was put"
 That note was sent to Mir. Nor cross! '" broke in excitedly, taking a running jump at the guess.
 If you will wait until Branderby comes in, he may be able to give you more of the particulars" Cantrell was beginning to say; but good gosh !- I couldn't wait. l was scared stiff for fear I shouldn't be able to get back to the round-house before kirgan started out on that engine rescuing trip.
 That's enough" I gasped; I'm gonei" and I tumbled down the two flights of stairs and sprinted for the railroad yard. reaching the round house not one half-seeond too soon. Kirgnn was there, with Gorcker and two firemen. They had light engine out on the tank track and were fill ing her with water.
 "They took Mir. Norcross with them on the Ten Sixteen!' v was all could say and then l guess my late electric knock out got in it's work to pay for the quick sprint down from the news paper office. for l keeled over into
The spectator., 1921-05-10

been so roughly handled that he had lost count of time. The next order was shot at the two firemen.
 You boys kick that packing-b box to pieces and then pull the straw out of that bunk and touch a match to it. We'll make sure that they'll never lock anybody else up in this d--d dog hole."
 The two young huskles obeyed the order promptly. In half minute the dry slab stuff that the hunks were built of was ablaze and the boss herded us to the door, and minute or so later we. were all clin ping into the cab of the waiting engine.
 We had to run so slowly Gown the old track to the "Y" that tbere was plenty of chance for the boss to talk. if he had wanted to. But apparently
The spectator., 1921-05-10
CHAPTER Vfl.-Continued.

told her about the wreck, and said l was afraid he hadn't got back yet. I heard something that sounded like il muffled and half-impatient. "Oh, dear!' and then she went on. "I have just had phone message from Mir. Cantreli, the editor of the Noun taineer He called the house to try to find Major Kendriek He has heard something which may explain about Mir. Norcross. He said he didn't want !o put if on the wire"
 That was enough for me. "fll go right over to the Mountaineer office" l told her: and in just about two shakes of dead lambs tail. I was standing at Mi. Cantrel's elbow in
The spectator., 1921-05-10

kirgan's arms and sort of half tainted, 1t seemed
 Because, when I came to, right good again, kirgan had me up on the fire mans box, with an arm around me 10 hold me there: Billy Gorcher was on the other side of the cab. nigging at the throttle: and the light engine was clicking ii off about fifty miles an hour on the straight piece of track between Portal City and Arroyo.
The spectator., 1921-05-10
THE BOSS IS BACK ON THE JOB.

Sheia Macrae andhe smanco a in IS o He and of s
 
 
   a Tonee  the Citizens Storage and Warehouse He begins
 
  hasst that
The spectator., 1921-05-10

the engine headlight showed us the remains of the old sawmill camp ly- ing in a little pocket-like valley from the sides of which all the mill timber had been cut. The camp had been long deserted There were perhaps a dozen shacks of all sizes and shapes, and with q single exception they were all dilapidated and dismantled. some with the roofs falling in.
 The one exception was the stout log building which had probably served as the mill-gang commissarys and store. The ties at this end of the line were so rotten with age that our engine was grinding good half of them to powder as she edged up, and a little below the switch that had formerly led in to the mill, Kirgan gave Gorcher the stop signal.
 After We had piled off, there wasn't any question raised as to what we should do. kirgan had taken a ham mer from Gorcher's tool-box, and he was the one who led the way straight across the little creek and up the hill to the commissary.
 When We reached the building we found the windows all boarded up and the door fastened with strong hasp and a bright new brass padlock-the only new thing in sight Kirgan swung F shis hammer just once and the lock went spinning off down the slope and fell with a splash into the creek Then he pushed the door open with his foot, and showed in; and for just one half second l was afraid to follow-afraid of what We might find in that gloomy looking log warehouse. with its blinded windows and locked door
 While I was nerving myself and stumbling over the threshold behind kirgan with the lantern. I heard the boss voice and it wasn't the voice of any dead man. not by long shot {! From what he said, and the way he was trimming it up with hot ones, it was evident that he took us for some other crowd that he'd been cussing out before.
 The light of the lantern showed us long room. bare of furnishings. and dark and musty from having been shut up so tight. In the far end there were couple of hunks built against the log wall On what had once been the counter of the commissary there was lot of canned stuff and box of crackers that had been broken open and on bench by the door there was bucket of water and Il tin cup.
 The boss was sitting up in one of the hunks, and he was still tearing off language in strips at Us when we closed on him. He recognized Kirgan first, and then Gorcher. l guess he couldn't see me very well because I was holding the lantern. When he found out who We were, he stopped swearing and got up out of the bunk to put his hand on Mart kirgan's shoulder. That was the only break he made to show that he was a man, like the rest of us. The next minute he was the big boss again, rapping out his orders as If he had just pushed his desk button to call us in.
 You've got an engine here. sup poser he snapped, at Kirgan. "Then we'll get out of this quick. What day of the week Is it?"
 told him it was Friday. and by his asking that, knew he must have
The spectator., 1921-05-10

quarters force He was young fel. talked and acted like a cow-punch just in from riding line. He was carried on Mr. Van Britt's payroll as an ''extra" or relief" telegraph operator; though we never heard of his being sent out to relieve anybody.
 sized this new young man up, right away, for a special of some sort, and the proof that I was right came cone afternoon when Ripley dropped in and fell into a chair to fan himself with his straw hat like man who had just put down load that he had been carrying about a mile and a half farther than he had bargained to.
 Thank the Lord, the last of those injunction suits is off the docket" he said, drawing a long breath and wag- ging his neat little head at the bOss- I'll say one thing for the Hatch peo- pie Norcross; they're stubborn fight CTS"
 'We'll beat 'em," predicted the boss. They've got to let go. How about our C. s. X w. friends? Are they still game?"
 ''Fine!' asserted the lawyer. "rhe stock is over-Suhscribed everywhere, now, and C. s. X w. is a going concern. The building boom is on. l venture to say there are over two thousand mechanics at work at the different centerS, rushing up the buildings for the new plants, at this moment. You ought to have monument. Norcross It's the most original scheme for breaking monopoly that was ever devised"
 The boss was looking out of the window sort of absently, chewing on his cigar, which had gone out.
 Ripley, l wonder what you'd say if I should tell you that the idea Is not mine?" he said. after little pause.
 Not yours?"
 No; it, or at least the germ of it, was given to me by a woman; wo- man who knows no more about busl- ness details than you do about driving white elephants"
 I'd like to be made acquainted with the lady" said Ripley, with tired little smile. "Such gems are too valuable to be wasted on mere lumber yards and fruit packeries and grain elevators and the like.'
 You'll meet her some day" laughed the boss, with a sort of happy Hit in his voice that fairly made me sick knowing what did and knowing that he didn't know it. Then he switched the subject abruptly: About the other matter, Ripley: I know you've been pretty busy, but you've had Tar bell nearly a week. What have you found out?'
 Ripley briefed the general situation as it stood on the night of the engine theft in a few terse sentences. Aside from the fight on Red Tower Con- solidated, the new railroad policies were threatening to upset all the time honored political traditions of the machine-governed state. An election was approaching, and the railroad vote and influence must be whipped into line. As the grafters viewed 1t. the threatened revolution was one- man government, and if that man could be removed the danger would vanish.
The spectator., 1921-05-10
"For Gods sake, be carefulw

(TO BE CONTINUED
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-03
distinguished Red Cross
INeIal 10 Speak Here

u.a8ri Rogers. head OF the Allan
ri, ION oY the Red Cross. who is
f.. ar 4 short visit with his daugh-
Mrs IS f.. Han. has kindly con-
.ael ,o speak TO the Annapolis and
,.. Arundel County Chapter of the
CROSS tomorrow morning at IL
lack a, ,he Red Cross headquarters,
no.. tbc State Capital Bank.
Tins viii DEE "a notable opportunity
members of the local chapter to
,s heir head All members are in
s.ei 10 hc present and committee
hartman are particularly urged to
.al themselves of this chance of
.iking with one OF the leaders of the
gd Cross, who has done much 10
bring The organization to its present
trh state Of efficiency.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-03
Initiation And Halloween Party

Last Monday evening three of the
Y. W. c. A. clubs. recently organized
met for joint Halloween party and
initiation service. The Busy Bees
the Wild Flowers. and the Ready
Workers initiated sixty members dur
ing the evening. and gave two plays
as part of the social program. They
have formed the delightful plan of
meeting together in open forum each
week, after which they divide into
three separate groups to study raffla
and fancy work. Their meetings are
to be held on Monday afternoons from
three TO five, at the Graded School
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-03
Will Celebrate
Wedding Anniversary

Mr. and Mrs; W. Bladen Lowndes, OF
Glen Elg Manor" will give sup
per Saturday night in honor of their
wedding anniversary. and will have a
adhlber of weekend guests with them
who were members of their wedding
party. Included among them will be
Mrs. Lowndes' sister. Mrs. John NJ
Gates; Mrs. Luke McNamee. and Miss
Margaret Tracy Brown.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-03
bliss Richards Back
rom Europe

Miss Janet Richards. the dean of
current Events Glasses in this coun-
y Who last year conducted a very
Successful course here. has returned
bon Europe and will resume her
|Teth,y talks on Public Questions
IH0mc and Foreign" in Washington,
Monday morning, November Z. at
Eo.l5 o'clock al the knickerbocker
Flatcr Eighteenth street and Co
I1mb9 road
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-03
Engagement
Announced

An engagement just announced is
that of Miss Margaret Mary PARROT.
daughter of Mrs John T. PARROT and
the late Mr.. PARROT. of South River.
to John Francis Duke. of Baltimore,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Roland Duke.
been set for the wedding