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I I F 'Peary-Cook ' controversy over the dis
: ) 1. , covery of the north pole. Sentiment
f " , in this country and abroad strongly
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i ) I an unbiased scientific commission for
i I . decision. Until some action along this
! E , line is taken the bitter personal war
ill , , i jbids ( fair to spread. Dr. Cook's ad-
! herents are standing firmly , producing
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! . ' Peary's discredit , while the Peary
i \ 'hackers ' , encouraged by his repeated
\ Denouncing of Dr. Cook , acclaim the
; , commander as the only discoverer of
, ' the ; ; pole , and defy Cook to establish
t ! , ! II j ° his ' right to the achievement.
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I i for ! deciding the famous quarrel by
scientific methods.
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It I on the steamer Oscar II. gayly fleco-
! rated in his honor. He mingled freely
; with the passengers and related more
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. ' ' in New York on September 21.
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, . . , J J est reports is still in the vicinity of
I Battle Harbor , Labrador , where the
j1 ) ! . Roosevelt is being repaired before her
J trip to Sydney , c. B. , where Mrs. Peary
1 awaits him. Mrs. v-ook remains in
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1 , ' PRANK FATAL TO SEVEN.
I I .German School Girls Drowned When
I Lads Open Flood Gates.
( Berlin : Seven lives were lost by
drowning Sunday as the result of a
I schoolboys' prank. A teacher in the
! I JNational ! school at Offenbach , on the
Maine , had gone for a walk along the
( rriver ; bank with sixty girls , all about 12
i ; jyears : : : ! old. The water was unusually .
'shallow and a number of the children
: waded into the water for some dis- .
tance. A band of Frankfort school- ]
; boys , to give the girls a fright , opened
the gates of a neighboring weir. The
I water rushed in with such violence
that eight children were swept away.
i Panic ensued among the others , "the .
: teacher and the children screaming for
help. A number of workmen succeed-
i ed in saving two girls , but six others
I and the brave man who attempted to
.save ; them were drowned.
All the bodies were recovered. Heart-
rending scenes were witnessed on the
hank.
TAFT NAMES TARIFF BOARD.
'Three Members to Aid Him in Apply-
ing the Law.
Beverly : President Taft Sunday ap
: pointed the new tariff commission , or
: Iboard which is to assist him in the
. execution ; of the new tariff law , with
: especial reference to applying the
' maximum ! " and minimum clauses to na-
ftions which are unfriendly or friendly
; , in their tariff relations with the Unit-
ed States.
The new board consists of three
. members - Prof. Henry C. Emery , of
{ Yale , chairman ; James B. Re tnolds ,
t ! ! of Massachusetts , now assistant secre-
'lary of the treasury , and Alvin H. San-
ders , of Chicago , at present editor and
proprietor of the Breeders' Gazette.
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I , Army Horses Stampede.
Gross Meseritsch , Austria : During
I the maneuvers of the Austrian army
j here the horses of the Sixth regiment
( of dragoons were stampeded at mid-
' night by a searchlight played upon
j their camp by the "enemy. " They ran
i madly through the camp , trampling
r on the sleeping soldiers. Nineteen
men were s'everely injured and one
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was killed.
Two Asphyxiated by Gas.
I ! Chicago : The bodies of Peter Wolf ,
( aged 56 , and Mrs. Mary Guien , 85 years
I { old , mother-in-law of Wolf , were found
, E in their home. The two had been as-
phyxiated by : gas which was discovered
issuing from three burners in the
kitchen stove.
Robbers Loot Texas Bank. j
Corsicana , Tex. : The Farmers ana j I
Merchants bank at Malakoff twenty :
c miles east of here , was broken into I
by robbers , who escaped with $2,500.
Sioux City Live Stock Market.
Saturday's : quotations on the Sioux
City live stock market follow : Choice
' feeders , $4.50@5.25. Top hogs , $8:10.
New Alaska "Diggings. . "
Seattle , Wash. : Mining men who
have just arrived from Fairbanks ,
Alaska , bring glowing news of prosJ J
I pects in the Innoko district and along :
( the creeks of the Itadarod country , 140 ]
miles from Innoko.
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Charged with Wife Murder.
Milwaukee , Wis. : Ward E. Hedger
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MITCHELL CORN PALACE.
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Structure Dedicated to King Corn Will
Open September 27.
, On September 27 the gorgeous Corn
Palace at Mitchell will again throw
open its doors , and the marvelously
beautiful structure will be dedicated
to King Corn and his proud satellites
-all of the grains and grasses-that
add to the great agricultural wealth of
South Dakota.
No annual event is of such vast im
portance to the state ; for here is as-
sembled , in rich profusion , the vari-
ous products of our productive soil ,
evidencing to the world at large its
great fertility and the glorious possi-
bilities for additional husmandmen to
"come in and sup with us. "
The Corn Palace itself is a marvel
of beauty and it is decoro. d within
and without with native products of
the soil , corn being the chief article
used. To the assembled thousands it
is truly a revelation , and its ornate
beauty appeals to the masses. Add
to this the stellar attractions supplied
by the United States Marine band , of
Washington , D. C. , and the numerous
high , class vaudeville acts by a corps
of famous artists , and the Corn Palace
becomes "A thing of beauty ! and a joy
forever. "
Other high grade attractions are be-
ing secured for the amusement and
entertainment of those who are not
particularly : : fond of music , to relieve
the monotony and to fill in the time
between the two parts of the program.
There will be no tedious waits. There
will be something doing all the time ,
any part of which will be well worth
the price of admission.
The free street attractions will be
superior to those which you have often
paid 50 cents and $1 to see.
The railroads recognize the great im
portance of this annual exhibition , and
run numerous excursion trains at half
fare , a lower rate than ever given any
similar enterprise. More than fifteen
county exhibits will attest the prodi-
gality of Mother Earth in her response
to the intelligent efforts of the tiller
of the soil.
The Corn Palace ope/is September
27 and closes Saturday night , October
2 , 1909.
Every citizen of South Dakota
should attend for at least one day.
IOWA RANKS THIRD.
Illinois and Ohio Only Exceed State in
Rural Mail Routes.
Washington , D. C. : Iowa ranks third
among all the states in the number of
rural mail routes , being exceeded only
by Illinois and Ohio. Iowa has 2,424
rural routes , while Illinois leads with
2,835 , and Ohio stands second with
2,529.
Other states having more than 1,000
rural routes are : Pennsylvania , 2-
173 ; Indiana , 2,118 ; Missouri , 2,054 ;
Michigan , . 1,999 ; New York , 1,853 ;
Texas , 1,835 ; Kansas , 1,769 ; Wiscon
I sin , 1,626 ; Tennessee , 1,618 ; Georgia , .
1,608 ; Minnesota , 1,575 ; North Caro-
lina , 1,278 , and Nebraska , 1,027. ' Ne :
vada has the smallest number of i
routes of any state , only two.
In all there are 41,063 rural mail
routes now in operation in the United
States , served by 40,954 carriers. Of
the 1,451 petitions pending before the
postmaster general 55 have been as-
signed for establishment on October 1 ,
and two on November 1 , leaving 1,394
not acted upon.
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OUR CORN EXPORTS.
Amount Shipped Double That of Au
gust a Year ago.
Washington , D. C. : Double the
amount of corn was exported from the
United States in August over thai
month a year ago , while less than one-
half the amount of wheat and a little
more than one-half the amount of
wheat flour was exported last month
over August a year ago , according to
a statement of the bureau of statistics
of the department of commerce and
labor published Friday.
There was a decrease of more than
$10,000,000 in the values of exports of
domestic breadstuffs , meat and dairy
products , food animals , cotton and
mineral oils from the United States
this August over August a year ago ,
and a decrease of $94,000,000 for the
eight months ending August 31 : over
the corresponding period of last year. ;
To Attack the Moors.
Melilla : Reinforcements to the
number of 11,000 have arrived here.
Gen. Marina : , commander of the Span-
ish forces in Morocco , will advance his
line with the object of outflanking the
Moorish positions on Mt. Guruga. The
Spanish advance columns have encoun-
tered many natives who beg for res-
toration of peace.
Three Children Are Cremated.
St. Paul , Minn. : Three of the elever
children of Robert A. Walsh were
burned to death in a fire which de
stroyed his summer home at White : :
Bear lake.
A Mental Wreck.
Chicago : Alice Webb Duke , di-
vorced wife of Brodie L. Duke , the
tobacco magnate , was committed to
the asylum for the insane at Kankakee ,
til.
Cranberry Crop is Ruined.
Necedah , Wis. : Reports received
here from various points in this , the
greatest cianberry district in the west ,
show that the crop ) has been practical-
ly : ruined by frost and fire.
Persian Shah Off to Russia.
Teheran : The deposed shah of Per-
sia left the confines of the Russian le-
jation and started on his journey to
Russia. He is to live in practical ex-
ile , probably at Odessa.
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FIRST LEGAL LOTTERY.
Drawing Attracts Dense Crowd to Cu '
ban ' Treasury Building.
Havana : The first drawing of the
national lottery was held September
10 in the treasury building. The dense
crowd thronged the galleries and the
courtyard of the building from 7
o'clock in the morning until 2 o'clock
in the afternoon , when the drawjng :
ended. Hundreds of negro runners
were employed to carry the' prize
numbers to the various newspapers
and the lottery offices in all parts of
the city as fast as they were drawn.
Order was preserved throughout the
city , but there was great excitement ,
especially with the announcement at
noon of the number winning the capi-
tal prize of $60,000. All the tickets for
the drawing were sold , the amount
aggregating $300,000 , of which the
government's profit is $100,000.
THAT CHINESE LOAN.
State Department Apprised of Near
Completion of Negotiations.
Washington , D. C. : The department
of state is informed that negotiations
regarding the allotment of the Han-
kow-Sze Shuen loan are nearing com
pletion. An official announcement is
expected soon setting forth that the
United States , Germany , Great Brit-
ain and France have each been al
lotted approximately one-fourth the
whole amount ; that the United States ,
Germany and Great Britain will be giv-
en financial privileges in China , and
that each nation will be permitted to
furnish materials for the construction
of the roads and to name the chiefs
of engineers.
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LAST RITES.
Harriman Funeral of a Semi-Private
Nature.
Arden , N. Y. : Arrangements for the
funeral on Sunday September 12 , of
Edward H. Harriman were concluded
at a family council the silent libra-
ry of the great house on Tower hill.
First his family , then the simple folk
of the valley and hillside , who for
twenty years regarded him as their
friend and benefactor , will pay their
tributes of respect. The day's cere-
monies will end with a burial service
and interment , which will be attended
only by relatives and personal friends.
For a period of five minutes during ! ,
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the funeral of Edward H. Harriman ,
the entire Union Pacific railroad sys-
tem was at a complete standstill in
honor of the dead chief.
TIMES LOSES LEGAL FIGHT.
Copyright Restraining Order Nulled
by Judge.
New York : Judge Hand , in the
United States court , settled a novel
legal controversy September 10 bear-
ing on Commander Robert E. Peary's
discovery of the north pole , in , favor of
the New York Sun and the New York
World , defendants in a process
brought by the New York Times. ,
September 9 the Times had obtained
a temporary injunction restraining the
Sun and World from printing any of
Peary's cabled account of his discov-
ery , which he had agreed to furnish
exclusively to the Times , but the
court held that the Times copyright
was not legally hole proof and dis-
solved the restraining order.
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ARRANGE NAVAL EVOLUTIONS. ,
British Cruisers to Maneuver Off the
Coast of Virginia.
Norfolk , Va. : According to ad-vices
received at the British vice consulate
i here sixteen battleships and cruisers
of the British navy are to engage in
maneuvers and tactical evolutions off
this coast , with Hampton Roads as
their base.
The plan , it is announced , is to have
ten British warships that are to par.
ticipate in the Hudson-Fulton celebra
tion in New York come to Hampton
Roads , where they will be joined by
six other warships to be sent direct
from England.
No Evidence of Peonage.
Washington , D. C. : As the result o
a conference at the department of !
justice between the officials of the de
partment , District Attorney Jordan , o' '
Pittsburg , and Special Agent Hoag
land , it was announced that then
have been no clear cases of peonagi
nor any violations of the federal labo'
laws at the Pressed Steel Car com
pan " 's plant at McKees Rocks.
Bibulous Family in Exile.
Holland , Mich. : William Harkem :
was banished from Holland for a yea'
for habitual drunkenness. He wa
put under $500 bond to stay outside th
city : limits for twelve months. H'
wife and son already were in exile fr
Jmilar causes. A family reunion i
not improbable.
Oil Land Litigation.
Los Angeles , Cal. : Suit was file
in the federal court here involving titI
to oil bearing lands in Coalinga , Mid
way and other oil fields of central Cal ,
ifornia , said to be valued at upwarc
of $35,000,000 , and now held by the
Southern Pacific company , of Califor ,
nia.
Milwaukee : , Wis. : The United State
vs. Seven Hundred Sacks of Flour is i
the unique title of a suit started
against a Nebraska flour mill as a re
sult of the charge that the flour is
bleached. The government agents
seized the flour at White Water.
Bowling Green , Ky. : Col. Wm. E.
Hobson , the youngest : colonel in the
union army during the civil war , was
ound : dead in his room at the Mansard
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hotel. :
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COOK : RETIRES.
Matron of the Soldiers' Home at Mil-
ford Becomes Indignant
J. D. Hamilton , until recently cook
at the soldiers' home at Milford , Jias
been retired by order of Commandant
Rowden and Mr. : Hamilton certainly
retired under fire. The fire consisted
of three saucers and two bowls hurled
with telling effect and wonderful ac
curacy by Mrs. C. C. Miles , matron of
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the home. So accurate was her throw-
ing that when Hamilton called at the
office of the governor he wore con-
spicuously one black eye , a' little
swollen , a cut beneath that optic and
a cut over the bridge of the nose.
Mrs. : Miles took Hamilton to task
for failing to get Col. Rowden's din-
ner ready when she thought it should
be served. She expressed herself so
forcibly that finally her temper rose
to such heights that she let fly with
the tableware enumerated above and
Hamilton retired very much van-
quished. I
NEGRO SUSPECT ARRESTED.
Thought He May Have Killed : Omaha
. Colored Do ' .
John Dorsey , a negro , an employe of
i traveling show , was landed in jail
Friday. He was arrested at Shenan-
doah , Ia. , on suspicion of knowing
something of the murder of Othello
Ratliff , the 11-year-old colored bo ;
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whose mutilated body was found un
der the porch of the Kellom public
school , near the show grounds , Tues-
day the day following the exhibition
of the show in Omaha. His arrest was
recommended by the coroner's jury.
Dorsey admits having had a conver-
sation with Emma Ratiiff , the boy's
10-year-old sister , on the show
grounds , but denies any knowledge of
the murder. He cameto Omaha with
out a requisition.
Suit Over Bond Election.
A petition was filed in the district
court of Dawson county by Ira W.
Olive , a resident of the city of Lexing-
ton , praying for a recount of the votes
in the recent : election held to vote
bonds in the sum of $50,000 for two
new school , buildings and which car-
ried by four votes over the required
two-thirds majority.
Complain About Prize Fights.
Attorney Genqral Thompson has in-
structed County Attorney English , of
Douglas county , to arrest Guy Buckles
and another party , who are alleged to
have had a prize fight in South Oma-
ha a few days ago , and also to take
steps to prevent any prize fight during
the session of the Eagles , now being
advertised.
Druggists Are Arrested.
Beck & Bullis , druggists , were ar-
rested at Beatrice on complaint , charg '
ing them with selling Frank Larimore
and John Doe a mixture containing C
93 per cent alcohol. The defendants '
were arraigned and pleaded not c
guilty. The case was set for hearing
September 22 and defendants were
released on bond of $50 each.
Freight on Interurban. .
A representative of the Nebraska
Traction and Power company of Oma-
na called upon the railway commis-
.ion at Lincoln to discuss the question
of rates to be charged for doing an
. express business on its line. The
ompany intends to do an interurban c
ousiness and in connection therewith
t desires to haul freight and express.
Stolen Property Recovered.
Detectives entered the home of i
Mrs. Mary : Alshire at Norfolk and
found $600 worth of merchandise al- t
leged to have been stolen from North- n
western freight cars. William Alshire ,
her son , led the detectives upstairs and t
escaped through a window. He is still 0
at large.
Poliomyelitis Epidemic Over.
The last individual case of quaran- t :
tine on account of spinal meningitis , a
or Poliomyolitis , as It is now deter-
mined to be , was raised at Stromsburg.
The epidemic covered a period of ten
weeks and was a matter of concern t
to the people of that city for a time.
Lightning Strikes Boarding House.
'During an electrical storm lightning h
struck the Enoch house , one of the
iandmarksof Humboldt. and did much
damage to the roof. Fortunately it did i s
not set fire to the structure , and none g
of the inmates , all of whom were a.
sleeping , was hurt. tJ
Traveler's Pocket : Pie ] > : ed.
The smooth work of pickpockets
relieved Freeman Lull of Aurora , of
his wallet containing $40 in currency g
and a note for $35S at the Burlington "
station at Hastings. The pickpocket T
escaped. tl
No More : Depositories.
Notwithstanding the large amount
of money on hand the first of the cJ
month , State Treasurer Brian does not ci
desire any more state depositories- and it
turned down the application of one r <
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Printer's Union at . Beatrice.
K. S. Fisher , of Omaha , met with OJ ;
theprinters of Beatrice and organized bl
a union with a membership of twenty- :
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\VILTj CONTEST.
, Relatives of the Late Caroline Ban'etm , i
Not Satisfied.
The will of Caroline Barrett was adi
mitted in probate court at York. , Sht
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grandchildren , and In making hcr will '
she gave $5 to each grandol ' ld,1 cu't . . . : !
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Jenkins and Mrs. Ed Hendrix,6 : wJ th
only $10 each and left tho bUlk ; ft,1Je ;
estate to be divided equally withlthe
four remaining children. Mrs. ' Jen-
kins and Mrs. Hendrix have employed
attorneys to contest the will , claiming -
it was made at the residence of one of
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the sons , where undue influence was t
exerted upon the mother , whom they
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claim I was not of sound mind. ' I
Several years ago there was an1 :
estrangement between the mother and
the two daughters , which recently was
made up , and it was supposed that in '
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the distribution of the property they
would receive an equal share. The
case promises to be bitterly contested
CHILD DIES IX AUTOMOBILE.
Death Not Noticed TJcitil Mottier : Gets
Out of Machine.
The 6-months-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. H. F. Varsaw , of Cook , died
in an automobile while its parents
were on their way home from Tecum-
seh. The mother had the child in her
arms and had not observed anything
wrong with it until she got out of the
car at Cook , when she noticed it
hung limp in her arms. She carried
the child into i the house and laid It on
a bed , and then becoming alarmed at
the infant's appearance she summoned
a physician , who pronounced it dead.
The child had been crying considera-
: bly during part of the trip to Cook and
the physician was of the opinion it hac
broken a blood vessel.
COLORED BOY SLAIN.
Body Found Under Steps of Oinahr
School House.
The body of Othello Ratliffe , a col
ored boy 11 years old , was found un-
der the steps of the Kellom public
school at Omaha Tuesday morning.
The boy's skull was crushed and his
face terribly mutilated , apparently
having been beaten with a brick.
The boy had attended a wild west
show , the show ground being but a
block from the school house. He went
with his sister , aged 16 , but they be-
came separated. She says she last saw
him in company with a colored man
who appeared to be connected with
the show. Othello's mother is a
widow.
Terrible Accident.
August WallenseiK , a young ma- ;
residing with his father near Talmage
met with an accident a few days since
which resulted in his death. He was
in the loft throwing down some hay
and threw down the fork and the han-
dle stood up straight. He jumped out
of the loft , the .handle struck him in
the stomach and was forced into his
bowels.
Young Man-Kills : : Himself.
Ben Cartney committed suicide bj
hanging himself Friday morning at
Tilden. He arose at the usual hour to
tlo : his chores. His father soon be-
came alarmed at his long , absence and
went in search of him and found him
Jangling : from a rope , life being ex
tinct. :
Material : : for New Shops.
The first material for the construe.
: .ion of the new Burlington shops at
Elavelock : has arrived. The new shops
.vill cover sixteen acres ; will cost $1-
500,000 ) when completed and will re-
luire the labor of 300 men for a year
ind a half. The large shops at .
Plattsmouth will be added to the new
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Penitentiary Report. t
The report of Warden Smith for Au
rust shows there are now 439 convicts I
n the prison compared with 443 July
11. : Ten convicts were received during t
he month , of whom one was returned
ifter having escaped from the beet
ields. Seventeen were discharged from
he prison , four while on parole and a
me convict was paroled. t ,
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Speaker Pool Takes Partner. t :
C. "W. Pool , speaker of the house 01 a
he last Nebraska : legislature , has sold a
, one-half interest in his weekly pa- Ii
ler 1 , the Tecumseh Tribune , to Mr. 5' '
loward , of Iowa. It is said that Mr. f J
ool will not devote his whole time l (
o the paper in the future.
Investigating Soldiers' Home.
The state board of public lands and C
uildings will go to Grand Island next
'eek . to investigate the reports of in-
lates of the home that the institution sia
conducted and that a :
; not properly
oods delivered to the home are not si
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Separator Burned. kir kr <
A separator belonging to W. W. ir
Pilson , living southeast of Diller , toc \
ether with several stacks of wheat , ti
-as destroyed by fire the other day. ai
' ' caused by in
The blaze was a spark from
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Short Crop for Factory. fa
The Grand Island canning factory ai
! losed down on the canning of sweet tl
orn : after one of the shortest runs in
s history , the smaller crop being the
ssult of the long drouth.
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Broke His Arm. M
Harry Norton , the 10-year-old son ro
E Will Norton , editor of the e Hum- th
oldt Standard , suffered a broken arm th
nd dislocated wrist as the result of th
etting his hand caught in a job _ press. . ri (
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Edward Henry Harriman died at hi ; 'I
home at Arden , N. Y. , some time be
tween 1:30 and 3:35 o'clock Thursday '
afternoon. .
His end removes from the railroad '
world of the day its supreme figure ' , .
It leaves the greatest railroad system '
I in the world-a system which he him i
self built up and welded together-
without a head. It marks the closing t '
financial his li
of a career unique in the ;
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tory of this country. At !
riman was an office boy ; at 23 ownei I
of a seat in the Stock Exchange of . .
New York , and at 35 a millionaire. A1 ,
49 , though wealthy , he was still a me
diocrity and in the wider sense un
known. In the ensuing twelve years
occurred the meteoric rise that made
him the undisputed emperor of the
railroad business of the nation. His
death at 61 is an event that will make 4
itself felt throughout the entire finan
cial fabric of the world.
While it has been known for weeki
that Mr. Harriman was a doomed man
the greatest mystery surrounds the .
nature of the disease from which he
suffered. Stomach trouble was the
name given to his illness by his doc
tors , but during , the last three or foui
weeks the rumor gained wide circula
tion that he had cancer. It has been
intimated by men who were in a posi
tion to know that he was afflicted with
the same ailment that caused the
death of the late William Rainey Har
per , president of ; the University of Chi
cago.
The death of Mr. Hirriman removes :
from the world its greatest single rail. " ,
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road and financial power of modern , '
history. Like a story from "The Ara. I - . ,
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bian Nights" reads the biography oJ . . , . . , -
this magician of steel rails and stock
markets. In forty years , from poverty
and obscurity to almost fabulous
wealth and colossal power , from bro- -
ker's clerk to master of more than
75,000 miles of railroad and steamship
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EDWAKD II. HAKBIMAX.
ines , enough to belt the globe with
i triple girdle ; from market "scalper"
o arbiter of more than $150,000,000 in )
ash : and with nearly a billion dollars
n stocks and securities at his beck ;
ind call-such is a bird's-eye view ol f
he career of the "Napoleon of the f
ailroad world , " as they call him , who
las just gone the way of all flesh.
How Harriman got his
start has
.Iways been somewhat of a mystery
o Wall street. The methods by which
he bounded into
command of the cap-
ains of industry have always been '
n enigma to his rivals and associates :
like. Taciturn , mysterious , sphinx.
ke [ , but still
wielding a wand
that
eemed to turn everything it touched
ato : gold , Harriman was the psycho
Jgical puzzle of the "street. . ' '
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FARMERS TO KEEP BECOEDS.
ensus Director Durand'n
Appeal 101 _
Accurate Farm Data.
It will be suggested by U. S. Cen-
us Director Durand to the farmers
U over the country that the work of .
scaring accurate returns
at the com-
ig census of agriculture will be
neatly : facilitated if the farmers will
eep or provide some sort of written
zcord of their
farm operations dur-
ig the year : 1909. This
effort
to se- 1
ire the farmers' /
personal
co-opera-
on / s but one of . a number of ways
id means chosen by ; Director Durand
L the effort to secure an
accurate , ex-
editions and economical
census con- -
raing , population agriculture , manu- }
ctures , mines s and quarries , which
e the subjects
of inquiry defined in i
he census law.
Rob Bank
; Escape on Handcar , R
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teen First State Bank at Foxhome \ ,
. miles west of Fergus FaUs '
inn. . J _ ,
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early Monday : The . . , '
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bbers
blew ;
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open the safe and got al1 " *
e money in it , about
$2,000. They
en escaped on a handr.ar , which '
rew into the they
river
Ige. near Brecken-
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