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CHAPrER XIII

Bastien was a little late. Judy sat down at her accustomed table and ordered what she wanted. As she looked up into Dams lean face, her smile faded.
 ''Why, Dan, you look sadi What's the matter? And you aren't sing. ing tonight" The lanky. clown-like figure had acquired dignity.
 "Its bad news, miss," he said., "My old mothers dead. She died where she lived; and I haven't the money to go and bring her body back to be buried beside my father. He lies in Calvary cemetery"
 "Oh, Dam" said Judy softly ,as she saw the mist gather in his keen eyes. T understand why you're not singing tonight. I am sorry! Couldn't we do something all of us-so that you could go to Dan shook his head.
 "Im afraid not, miss. It costs a heap of money to get to Italy" Was your mother Italian, Dan? 2" "Yes, miss, but my father was Londoner--born within sound of Bow Bells, as they say. They had an organ first, and then they did better, and got to be quite pros- porous; but when my father caught a chill, and died of 1t, my mother came to America. There wasn't much of a living to be made in Italy. was always saying she must come over and live with me when could save O. bit"
 "Oh, Dan, and she never camel" "But there, miss, it's no good talking. And I haven't told any one else. What'll I bring you, miss?" he asked.
 But Judy's appetite was gone. Her loving, impulsive heart was planning how she could possibly get the money to send Dan to Italy and bring him back with his moth- CTS body.
 when Bastien came in. eager. full of apologies, his ardent eyes devouring her with hopeless wor- ship, she did not speak to Dan. said that he had told nobody else. Already Dan had struck up his mandolin in response to some care- less demand, and his gay, light voice was trilling out Santa Lucia" in way that would have made the heart of a Neapolitan ache with longing.
 T haven't seen you for ages, Judy" Bastien said.
 T have been busy" she an- swered.
 "You've had no time for me, Judy" There was something akin to madness under the ardor of his splendid eyes. "That rich man has taken up all your time."
 Dan here brought her food and coffee. and Bastien had to give his order.
 "Bastien, have you any news?" Judy asked, when he had finished.
 II have, as 1t happens--the first bit of luck for years. I've sold The Dream of the Apache"
 "Splendid!" She clapped her hands. T always said 1t was a fine picture"
 whats the good?" he asked bitterly. What does 1t matter to me? I never see you now, Judy"
 But, Bastien. have to work. I have to live."
 Need you see so much of that brute in order to live, Judy?"
 T don't understand you!" she exclaimed furiously.
 "Oh, yes. you do! mean the man you brought to the Lemon Grove, the man you have dinner and luncheon with in expensive restaurants"
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-07-30
Cars Collide

Noah Tasker, Oakland, was reim-
bursed to the extent of more than one
hundred dollars following an accident
on the Gortner-O Oakland road last Fri
day, when his truck was run into by
a Mr.. Yahre, of Pittsburgh, Pa. No
one was injured.
Two cars collided at the foot of
Martins hill, near Gortner, last Sun
day evening, but, fortunately, no one
was injured. One car was owned by
Phillip Schalonsky, of Thomas, West
Va. Both cars were enroute to Oak
land.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-07-30
WILL AWARD CASH PRIZES
IN YARD-GARDEN CONTEST
To Offer Other Prizes-Civic
Club Holds Regular Meeting

That four cash prizes and other
awards would be made in the second
annual Yard and Garden contest, be-
ing sponsored by the Oakland Civic
club, was announced this morning by
Mrs. Harold H. Harmed, chairman of
the contest committee. This decis-
ion was made following meeting of
the committee and judges last week
and the adoption of their plan by the
Civic club at its weekly meeting on
Tuesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. James P. Treacy.
Besides the cash awards, it is plan
ned to give number of bulbs and
shrubbery to the runners-up in the
contest. The final inspection of the
judges will begin next month, Mrs.
Harmed stated.
All entrants in the local contest are
asked to have pictures taken of their
gardens while they are at their best.
It is necessary to have a picture of
the gardens of those who wish to
enter the national contest, as this is
one of the requirements.
Travellers Talk at Meeting
Miss Priscilla Teytle, New York
City, and Miss Mabel Want, Parkers-
burg, W. Va, who have travelled in
Europe and the Near East during the
past several years, were present at
the afternoon session, and Miss Want
told of her visit to Rome.
Miss Thekla Fundenberg presented
a plan drawn by George Altstetter,
student in Johns Hopkins University,
for bridge across the Little Yough-
iogheny river, which would make a
nearer entrance to Washington Spring
Park for Oakland residents. The
bridge, according to plans, would cost
about $500.
The meeting was well attended and
several visitors were present.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-07-30
MARRIED

TOwnshend Ray - Announcement
has been made by Mrs. Myrtle Reese
of the marriage of her daughter, Miss
Eugenia May Ray, to Singleton Lewis
Townshend, of Oakland, which took
place at Mt. Lake Park, on Friday,
July II. Rev. William Anderson per-
formed the ceremony.
The groom is son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Townshend and has been as
ISOLATED with his father in the plumb
ing business for several years. He is.
member of the local lodge of
Knights of Pythias and the Oakland
Fire department.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-07-30
Crellin Loses to ROwlesburg

Crellin was defeated for the first
time in the second-half schedule last
Sunday by Rowlesburg by the score
9 to z. Baker the starting pitcher
was relieved by Fretwell in the fifth
inning. Melouse started for Crellin
but was relieved by Shaffer at the
end of the sixth inning. Shaffer dealt
up a neat brand of ball holding the
Rowlesburg sluggers to one single in
the last three frames.
Next Sunday afternoon Rowlesburg
returns to Crellin for another game
which will get under way at 2:30 p. m.
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PAGE FIVE

This promises to be a good game as
the Crellin nine will be out for re-
venge. Shaffer who has won four
straight games for Crellin will prob
ably be on the mound for Crellin.
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of the North Dakota organization
and Miss Hazel Hanson, Wahpeton,
is secretary.
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PUSHED OFF BRIDGE NEAR SCHAFER
WITH MOOSE AROUND NECK

CONTINUED from page onel
James F. Bannon, who was wanted for questioning.
He was arrested Dec. l3, near Toledo, Ore, at a tourist
camp and returned to North Dakota. He has denied
any connection with the killings.
Bannon's body was cut down some time after and
brought here.
art WAY
Bann0ns body was still warm when it was found
by authorities. Indications were that he had been
dragged part of the way to a bridge over Cherry
Creek. One-auarter of a mile east of here.
In the Jail when the mob entered were Charles
Bannon. his father, another prisoner, and Fred
Make, held in connection with a theft. The deputy
was the only officer there at the time.
Asked if he had anything to say, James Bannon
declared lit is too bad it had to happen" He would
not comment further.
The leaders of the crowd, after the deputy refused
to give up the prisoner, broke into the cell block. by
battering down the door, and then forced the lock on
Bannon's cell.
When he realized that the mob had come to get
him. Charles Bannon protested the innocence of his
father.
The crowd apparently was welLorganized. from
the story told by E. E. Hildebrant, proprietor Of the
Schafer hotel. across the street from the Jail.
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The body was returned to Watford
City where a postmortem was con-
Quoted by Coroner Larson and DR..
P. o. C. johnson. Commissions about
the arms and legs indicated Bannon
had been dragged part OF the way.
The coroner held death vas caused
by a fractured neck. So tightly were
Bannon's arms tied behind his back
that severe bruises we're caused to his
wrists.
Make said that the mob worked
for some time in trying to effect
entry into the cell. He declared the
leaders nearly gave up the attempt
and talked of departing, but some
members of the crowd prevailed on
the others to remain until they had
opened the cell.
Charles Bannon. when he was first
arrested last November on a charge
of embezzling hogs from the Haven
farm, was held in the Schafer jail.
Later when, during his trial he re-
vealed that the Ravens had been
slain. he was taken for safe keeping
to Williston. =
Authorities a few days ago returned
him to Schafer in the belief that he
would be safe there. and would be
available for his arraignment to-
gether with his father Friday.
Make and James F.. Bannon were
taken to Williston Thursday for safe
keeping.
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Williston Lynching Affair in 1913
Similar to That of Charles Bannon

acted as special prosecutor. said
Thursday that he recalls the cir
cumstances of the lynching well.
He says that mob, after hanging
Cadotte, Ireland and Holy T:'ac!.,
started up the west side CT the
river with the express intertion
of hanging the other two Indians
implicated in the case and who
we're being held in the Eurleigh
county Jail awaiting a decision Of
the supreme court. TheJ had
proceeded as far as Mandan when
they decided to stop at a resort
to get a drink. The leader Of the
mob, a man named Mckenzie,
after having been given a drink
of whiskey, snatched up a glass
containing ammonia and thinking
it to be water, swallowed it at a
gulp. The shock to hts system
was so great that he fell to The
floor dead. The mob, Allen says,
lacking q leader. lost most of its
venom and gradually dispersed
A man. whose name could not
be determined. was lynched north
of Washburn about the year 1883,
according to pioneers who recall
the event. He had been con-
victed Ct stealing horses.
w. G. Worner, securities repre-
sentative for the insult interests,
was an eye witness to a lynching
at Wahpeton over 40 years ago.
Worner, a child of five or six
years. was driving through the
streets in a carriage when the
mob appeared dragging their vic
tim. He was hanged from the
Wahpeton bridge, the force Of the
fall being so great that his head
was severed from his body.
There were a number Of lynch
ings in the territorial days OF
which there Is no record.
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Hiidebrant said he counted Is au-
tomobiles and two trucks. Telephone
wires between Schafer and. Watford
City, six miles away, were severed.
Plans for the lynching were care
fully guarded. and authorities had no
knowledge that any attempt would
be made until after the hanging had
occurred.
Hans Nelson, Watford City chief
Of police. however, gained the first
indication when he was asked by a
Watford City man whether he had
heard there was to be a lynching
bee." Nelson's informant .aid that
he had seen numerous cars On the
way to Schafer and the circumstances
appeared suspicious.
Nelson said he believed that the
automobiles were carrying members
to an Odd Fellows meeting which he
believed was being held at Schafer.
He. however, went to Schafer and on
his way found a phone wire across
the road.
When Nelson arrived at the Jail,
the deputy was sweeping broken glass
from the floor and Strengthening out
the disorder caused by the crowd.
Used Half-Inch Rope
Sheriff F. A. Thompson, States
Attorney j. S. Taylor, and Coroner
II. j.. Larson went to the scene of the
lynching and found the body sls-
pended from the bridge. Ha.f-inch
rope was used, and a regular hang
mans knot was tied.
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Believe Lynchers Waited
Hoping for True Account

and as an economy move after be-
coming convinced that sentiment for
mob violence was dead.
At the time that Bannon confessed
feeling ran high in Mckenzie and the
adjoining Williams county, but MOTH
ing came Of 1t.
BannOn'S arrest first came about
on a charge OF embezzling property
belonging to the Ravens. He said
the family had disappeared in Febru-
airy and that he had been asked to
care for the farm, which was a few
miles from his mothers place.
During the preliminary hearing,
however, Bannon admitted that the
Haven six weeks-old infant was dead
and directed a search for recovery OF
the body. Subsequently he con-
fessed he killed the other members,
but steadfastly had maintained that
his father was innocent.
Displayed Great Fear
When he was taken to the Willis
ton Jail, he displayed great fear Of
mob violence. He related, after his
confession, how he had hallucinations
of a mob waiting outside the Jail to
hang him.
States Attorney j. s. Taylor said
Thursday that a thorough investiga-
ton of the hanging will be made. He
declared that the lynching i%nterferes
with the states plans 20 prosecute
James Bannon.
Young Bannon held the key to his
fathers innocence or guilt, according
to Taylor. It was hoped that the
youth who had told many conflicting
stories, finally would give q plausible
account to indicate whether he had
any accomplices in the crime.
Although Taylor claims that in
vestigation and circumstantial EVIL
dence indicates the elder Bannon had
some connection with the crime, he
looked toward the youth to ultimately
tell "the real story"
Sheriff F.. A. Thompson would not
comment on the lynching, except to
saw that it was greatly d~iscouraging.
Thompson took office early this
month. and the retiring sheriff, G. A.
Jacobson, who had previously han
died the case, was retained as a spe-
cial deputy to continue his work In
the case.
The time of the lynching is set at
between 1890 and l a. m. Sheriff
Thompson, aroused by the noise,
came from his nearby home, but was
overpowered by IL men. They took
him behind the jail and held him
there, handling him roughly.
Leaders of the masked mob, how
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ever, appeared and instructed the
sheriff's guards to use no rough tao
tics.
A large. plank hammer and q maui
were brought into the jail BY the
crowd, after an effort to dislodge the
bars from the jail windows had
failed. Deputy Sheriff Peter s. Hal
Ian, VIII ) had custody Of the jail, was
oyerpowered and tied to q chair.
The LOB brought their moose into
the Jail and In the sheriff's office
tied it around Bannon's neck. They
then roughly took him from the jail,
while a number remained behind to
guard the sheriff and the deputy.
After Bannon's confession, author
tiles expressed surprise that citizens
had kept their heads and had moi
attempted any violence.
When no attempts were made, Of
ficers we're of the belief that the SEN
timent of the people in this section
was to allow the law to take Its
course and not to interfere with 1t.
Expected True Account
Many persons were OF the belief
that Bannon was spared earlier vio-
lence because of the feeling prevalent
here that he would ultimately give q
true account of the killings. A few
days ago, Bannon told another Of his
many conflicting stories, declaring
that he had an accomplice. On the
same day he repudiated this story
Possibility that his last "confes-
sion," regarded by authorities as an
other Of his presentations, had acted
to arouse sentiment was seen by
many.
One other belief expressed here was
that had Bannon killed members Of
a pioneer family he would have be-
come an immediate victim to moi
violence.
The Hc.vens were reserved people
who fraternalized little with theil
neighbors. There vi not the strong
bond between them as there exists
between the many settlers who came
to this section to pioneer.
So little was known OF the Ravens
affairs that when Bannon said they
disappeared his story was first &C.
cepted. For nearly nine months
Bannon lived on the farm, and 1t wa.
not until they failed to pay q farm
loan that had come due that an op'
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Hanging OF Charles Bannon by
all armed mob at Schafer early
Thursday morning adds another
grim chapter to the history of
those who have been tried and
found wanting in the court of
that memorable magistrate Judge
Lynch" ~.
On Dec. II, 1918, Cleve Culbert-
son. convicted of the murder of
his former wife, her husband, and
their l2-year-old daughter, "a
hanged at Williston under cir
cumstanccs that were much the
same as those surrounding the
lynching of Bannon. Culbertson.
was taken from the county Jail
by a masked mob, who had over
powered the sheriff. and dragged
him to a waiting automobile.
Driving to a nearby railroad
bridge they hanged their victim.
In November of the previous
year. George Baker, Dawson.
awaiting trial for the murder of
his wife and father -in-law.
Thomas Glass. was spirited away
from the Kidder county Jail at
Steele by an armed mob who had
stormed the Jail. They melted
out mob justice by summarily
hanging him to a pole In the
Steele stockyards and Kidding his
body with bullets.
Alexander Cadotte, Philip Ire
land. and Paul Holy Track were
1ynched by an Emmons county
mob at Williamsport in 1898 fol-
lowing the Staying of a family of
six. The three Indians. together
with two others, had been tried
for the brutal killing of the fam
lily after they had been refused
money and whiskey. according to
the contention of the prosecutor
of. the case. E. S. Allen. who
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Pioneers of Badlands Admins
tered Own Justice Earlier
in Past Cases

Schafer. N. D., Jan. 29.-(P)-On
an isolated prairie bridge, a mob OF
80 person recruited from this western
ranching country early Thursday
hanged Charles Damon, 22-year-old
confessed slayer of the six members
of the A. E. Haven family.
They dragged him from the small
one-room Mckenzie county Jail TO
the span Owe Cherry creek one-quar-
ter of a mile east of here and suS-
pended the body from a railing.
The lynching came six weeks after
Damon had confessed that he killed
Mr.. and Mrs. Haven and their four
children who lived on a farm six
miles from here. The youths father,
James F. Bannon, held in the same
Jail in connection with the crime,
was not molested.
Last Friday authorities brought the
two BannonS from the stronger jail
at Williston to Schafer in the belief
that possibility of mob violence was
remote. On several occasions, OPP
portunity for lynching had occurred,
but was not attempted.
When Charles Bannon confessed
Dec. 13 he was taken from the Schaf-
err Jail by authorities to WillistOn for
safe keeping. Officials had encoun-
tered no difficulties, and last Friday
brought the youth and his father to
the Jail here preparatory to their ar
raignment Friday.
A spirit of pioneer justice had pre-
vailed in this section not SO many
years ago when the seat for the
county was located at Dickinson, a
distance of more than 100 miles.
Administered Own Justice
Pioneers administered their own
Justice often, rather than hazard a
journey over wild trails to Dickinson
to notify the sheriff. Too often pris-
oners escaped before an officer could
be brought to take them into cus-
tody.
At Williston, about so miles north
west of here, a lynching occurred IA
years ago. Cleve Culbertson, con-
victed of killing three persons, was
taken from the Jail and hanged to a
nearby bridge. 1t was in this same
Jail that the Bannons were held up
to last Friday.
Schafer is in the midst of North
Dakota's ranching country, a frontier
section where prairie wilderness
| merges with we'll developed farms
Within sight Of the jail is the farm
and ranch where Governor George F.
Skaters father pioneered and where
the governors mother and brother
still reside.
Authorities brought the Bannons
to the Schafcr Jail for convenience
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Secretaries to Meet
In Bismarck Feb. Is

Between 20 and 30 secretaries,
members Of chambers of commerce
and commercial clubs in North Da-
kota will attend the annual meeting
of their organization in Bismarck
Feb. Is, w. p. Chestnut, secretary of
the Fargo Chamber of Commerce,
announced Thursday.
The session was called to coincide
with the date Of the conference Of
army engineers and others OH the
Missouri river diversion project, and
which the secretaries are to attend.
James Barrett, Minot. is president
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Rev. J. A. Fjeldstad, Edmore, was
named to present = definite proposal
regarding the camp to the conference
Thursday.
Prof. w. F. Schmidt, president OF
Luther college, st. Paul, was. to speak.
Mrs. Peter Anderson, Fargo, was
named president Of the Fargo circuit
Of the North Dakota district OF the
woman'S missionary society OF the
church Wednesday. Mrs. =. H. Gil
bertson, Finley, secretary, outlined
the work and is In charge OF oreani-
cation proceedings. Rev. II. Q. Shur-
son. Minneapolis, executive secretary
Of the church. addressed the women.
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pcrtunity was afforded to investigate
their disappearance.
Even then Damon was not mo-
Tested and remained on the farm,
where, in q COW shed he had buried
the bodies Of his victims. Later he
took the body Of Mrs. Haven and
placed it in an old Indian burial
mound, and these remains were not
discovered until he directed authori-
ties to the place.
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bible CAMPS GET
LUTHERAN SUPPORT
Purchase OF Land in Turtle
Mountains for Purpose
Is Authorized

Fargo, N. D., Jan. 29.-(P)-The
pastoral conference of the North Da-
kota district of the Norwegian Luth-
r church of America has formally
endorsed the Bible camp movement
and authorized purchase Of land sur
rounding Lake Barbara In the Turtle
Mountains for establishment Of an
organized encampment.
A committee composed Of Rev. Ru-
dolph Ofstedal, Valley City, Rev.
George o. Loftness, Devils Lake, and
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TOO LATE To CLASSIFY

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