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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1901
Page
2
The column mixes trivia about the Czar as a smoker, global ship counts via the Suez Canal, and municipal economy in Jackson Ontario. It notes unused funds of 300 dollars from a royal reception in Canada, prophetic storms by bombs once proposed in Riga, details on the Burmese soung instrument, and a Chicago couple's marriage history with fourteen children born in seven years.
The Shah of Persia reportedly owns the world's most valuable kitchen valued at about 5.6 million dollars. Its utensils and dishes are described as gold lined and solid gold, with plates encrusted with precious stones.
Tests on potato cultivation show large potatoes, whether planted whole or cut, produced the highest yields. However financial results favored planting whole large potatoes, with next best profit from whole small potatoes.
The Spencer Massachusetts town sign proclaims Elias Howe Jr born in 1819, noting him as inventor of the sewing machine and a distinguished son of Spencer, visible to Boston and Albany Railroad travelers passing through town.
Alaskan malamutes are cross between dog and wolf. At about two months they learn to draw small wagons and become useful. They do not bark but howl. They have long fur and sleep outside in sixty degree below zero. Their food is fish and seal meat. They are fed once daily, usually at night.
A Carbondale Colorado man travels to Holland to recruit three or four hundred families to Colorado irrigated lands. He believes Dutch expertise with ditch irrigation can help develop a thriving sugar beet industry and expand farming in the region.
Ex Governor Leedy notes in a letter to Dr Pilcher that he practices law in Alaska and sees strong prospects. He is constructing a home in Valdez and believes the town will become the region’s largest seaport with a year round harbor on the all American route to the gold country.
The Maine Farmer notes a rich businessman who runs a pleasure farm but buys on business principles. He refused a corn reaper that left tall stubble, arguing six inches wastes a ton per acre of fodder. It cites Schwab’s remark on attention to small details as core business habit.
The Prussian government drilled the deepest borehole at Paruschowitz near Ratibor in upper Silesia. It extends about 6572 feet with a diameter from 3.6 inches tapering to 2.7 inches. The upper half is tubed.
American shipyards face sustained work for twelve months or more with heavy orders. Construction centers on the Great Lakes and along the seaboard are affected, ensuring continued activity in steel vessel building.
A two kite wireless telegraphy setup devised by Edgar R. Gray will be tried near Boston. One kite transmits the message while the other acts as a charger to boost the signal.
The Morse Hospital trustees of Newton Massachusetts have accepted from Hollis H Hunnewell a gift totaling 15000 in Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad company 4 per cent bonds with no restrictions on use.
Indian Commissioner Jones urges ending government aid to tribes. Dewey reportedly won’t sign censure of Schley. General Miller orders distribution of light artillery batteries. Gulf of Mexico sea serpent sighting reported by hydrographic officials. Holmerod named consul general at Apia. Mrs. Harrison seeks pension amid anticipated opposition. Cubans appeal to Roosevelt over campaign participation. Porto Rico concession signed for two new railway lines. Death of U S Consul James Fletcher in Genoa. born in England, served from Iowa. Two old monitors Catskill and Manhattan condemned for auction. Plague rumors reach Odessa. strict ship inspections at Batoum noted.
A string of criminal incidents unfolds from Memphis to West Virginia. Mrs Maud Hooks faces murder charges over her husband’s death in Memphis. A canal commission ex employee is jailed for stealing final reports. Madisonville miners are detained after a militia raid. Louisville city treasurer Stuart N Young dies by suicide after accounting discrepancies are reported. Leavenworth’s warden reports James Seymour captured in Alabama. New Lexington rail night operator tied and robbed by masked burglars. safes blown in three firms. In Pelton four masked men assault Lindsay Burley and family, looting over 1000 dollars. father tortured to reveal location of money.
Hungarian painter Arthur de Ferrals arrives in New York aboard the Fuerst Bismarck with his family. Irish patriot Martin Hogan dies at Chicago county hospital at ninety three. Major John D. Kelley dies in Brooklyn after chronic illness. Joseph Fisher, New York music composer, dies in Springfield Ohio after toe surgery. Maryland Republicans plan to back Irader Rayner as Senate candidate, contingent on ten Democrats cross voting for him over Gorman.
Twenty workers died and about thirty were injured in a Detroit boiler explosion while two Wabash trains collided near Seneca killing or injuring many immigrants. A coal mine tipple and washhouse near Collinsville burned with an estimated 60 000 dollar loss. An elevator at Townsend Wyatt store in St Joseph collapsed likely fatally injuring three and severely injuring another.
The Equitable Assurance society has purchased a vast property in Paris. Demolition will clear the site for a magnificent new building. In London Turkey protests harshly to powers over Crete.
Secretary Root replied to Bartholomé Masó of Havana stating that U S officials are taking no steps for or against any Cuban presidential candidates. The message notes Root based his reply on letters from General Wood.
The officer commanding the lines of communication in South Africa reports two privates were taken prisoner at Bordrecht Cape Colony on November 16 and were subsequently shot by Boer commandant Fouche. Their bodies have not been recovered.
Quotations from St Paul Minneapolis Duluth Milwaukee Chicago Sioux City and South St Paul show mixed grain prices for wheat corn and oats with No 1 Northern and No 2 red ranges. Livestock values vary with cattle hogs and sheep trading at widely different levels by city and class.
Edwards Woos Co reports heavy Western primary receipts and drought in winter wheat districts influenced last week. World supply growth but strong coarse grains keep wheat bearishly pressured while December corn and oats gain on strong demand and shorts covering. Flax prices fall as Northwest receipts stay high. A separate brief notes Alfonso Bulger, a four year old missing boy in Deadwood SD located after an all day search atop a hill near Van Buren Avenue.
Capt Perry with marines from Panama arrives as Liberal forces surrender to United States troops occupying the Quarter Pier. Gen Alban leads government troops, French troops occupy Christophe Colon, and De la Rosa surrenders his sword. About 400 killed or wounded overall. Colon now quiet with minimal American detachment guarding Panama Railroad property.
Pretoria reports Boer forces dwindling at a steady rate with several districts clear. In the last fortnight progress is seen in the southeast Orange River Colony where nearly 200 Boers are accounted for. Commander Ackerman lost about 90 men and only stragglers remain. Boer supply shortages grow and anxiety among leaders rises.
Denver on December 1 Prof C C Wynn who announced a process to extract immense gold from low grade ore died last night at St Josephs hospital His claim though discredited by many mining men had created a sensation Partners of Wynn decline to discuss the matter and his death may not affect plans.
The Fair Play weekly reports a large American syndicate considering acquiring all Clyde shipyards. It could buy outright or form a big combine like the United States Steel model. Doubts exist about operating under British trade conditions, but the move is under serious discussion in Liverpool.
Theodore Duddleston, confidential clerk at the National Stock Yards Bank, East St. Louis, admitted to president C. G. Knox that his ledgers show a shortage of about 11 000 to 12 000 dollars. He attributed the loss to speculative cattle dealings, causing a local sensation.
A Vatican letter from Rome states Mgr. Falconio, papal delegate to Canada, will succeed Martinelli as head in Washington. His Canada replacement will be Mgr. Zardetti, former Bishop of St. Cloud Minnesota, now titular archbishop of Mocessum.
Letters from Merrimac participant Osborn Deignan of Merrimac fame in Seattle report he is hospitalized in Ukiah for a nervous breakdown from overwork in service. His mental condition is described as perfect.
A Rio Janeiro dispatch says Marie Louise, a 160 year old woman, is the last remaining representative of Africans imported as slaves directly from Africa.
Des Moines Iowa December 1 The north part of the village of Waukee was destroyed by fire last night Both telephone offices were burned Waukee is fifteen miles from Des Moines Details are unavailable
Racine police search the city for Col William L Hagman part owner and secretary of White Star Laundry a firm formed May 21 by merging three laundries He is about forty a colonel in the Knights of Pythias born and educated in Racine The cause of disappearance is thought to be business reverses
Word reached from Hayton that a game warden identified as F. M. Bissinger of Green Bay was shot east of Chilton while pursuing two violators of state game laws. He was wounded but not killed, described his attackers, yet names remain unknown as locals doubt details of the incident.
Yankton South Dakota reports a hundred thousand dollar blaze that wipes out the Union block the citys largest business structure. City Marshal William Pierson sleeping in the building leaped from a third story window and is severely injured. Other inmates were lowered by rope. The brick building housed stores offices and sleeping rooms.
Samuel Willert watchman on the steamer Berlin was found dead on the Nemadji river tree under the Fourth street bridge in West Superior Wisconsin Official inquest planned three men who were with him last Thursday night are in custody Willert was a Buffalo New York resident and the incident is treated as foul play
Mathias N. Coffing of New Prior died after a wagon wheel hit a gully and toppled him. The 48 year old businessman, town clerk and justice of the peace, also farmer, left a wife and family. In Sioux City, Private Harry Boyce confessed desertion from the US Army, saying he prefers prison to soldier life and will face court martial in Omaha.
Des Moines Iowa November 30 Yester day morning Charles Meinkey of Fontanelle Iowa juror in the Balliett mining case now on trial in the United States district court was found dead in his room in the Greffe hotel He blew out the gas and was asphyxiated His death will not interfere with the trial and the case will proceed with eleven jurors Meinkey a farmer is valued at about $50000.
Milkmen in Dennison Minnesota held a mass meeting to decide whether to submit to an ordinance requiring cows to be tuberculosis tested or halt milk shipments to St Paul and Minneapolis. They passed a resolution to stop shipping milk to the Twin Cities rather than incur the testing costs.
W F Reynolds of a Sioux Falls music firm was arrested by an Ireton Iowa officer on murder charges in the Samuel Crofter case. Crofter, a negro clergyman, was found dead October 26 in a cornfield near Ireton. Reynolds denies the accusation.
H L Frank a mining man and former United States senate candidate last winter sold a two fifths interest in his British Columbia coal mines to the Canadian Pacific railroad for half a million dollars.
Racine Wisconsin November 30 Florence Blake twenty two died in a hospital from arsenic taken in a personal crisis. The act followed the refusal of a young man in the city to marry her.
Nov 30 in Red Wing Minn report Mrs Brita Monson nearly 100 dies at her son's Vasa residence leaving hundreds of descendants into the fifth generation.
Two boys named Douglass and Mattison drowned while skating on the Wisconsin river near Wonewoc and their bodies were recovered.
Faribault Minnesota November 30 George Westerman a former well known businessman here died suddenly at age forty five He leaves a family.
The Hotel Mitchell at Wheatland North Dakota burned at 3 o clock yesterday morning. The fire cause is unknown with a loss of about 10000 dollars and insurance of 11600 dollars. Salvage is expected to total around 8000 dollars.
Parker November 30 The county commissioners met and voted to secure building plans for a new thirty thousand dollar courthouse. They aim to let a contract and start work next spring.
A large hay barn at Champion Iron company in Champion Michigan burned last night. The blaze was incendiary and marked the fourth deliberate fire in eighteen months targeting the barn, with attempts also on the warehouse and other company buildings. The town lacks firefighting equipment but hundreds of residents restrained a major blaze with buckets.
Representative Jenkins of Wisconsin aides a drive to stamp out anarchists, backing a national bureau of identification and deportation plans. Senator West of Missouri triggers a judiciary probe into existing anti anarchist laws as a constitutional basis.
The National Club of London condemned Hall Caine for praising the Roman Catholic church during a speech at a Manx bazaar and for calling the pope his holiness. A committee meeting was summoned to consider the matter with a potential resignation or expulsion if the explanation is unsatisfactory.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld the legislature’s act creating Gates County. Opponents argued it violated the 1901 appointment law by altering assembly districts across county lines, with Chippewa County originally allotted two districts. Gates County formed from part of Chippewa’s second district.
Rome November 30 Much excitement in Roman society over Count Camillo Pecci nephew of the pope at the Thanksgiving reception by George von L Meyer the United States ambassador to Italy. This marks the first time a pontiff relative attends a ceremony of a foreign representative. The count’s wife is Cuban, but that is not deemed full explanation for the milestone.
In Des Moines on November 30 the Balliett jury was dismissed after a juror died. With eleven jurors remaining the parties could not agree on proceeding, and the case was continued to the next term. Balliett, owner of the White Swamp mine in Kaer Oregon, is charged with using the mails to promote a fraudulent stock sale totaling about 250000 dollars.
Nov 26 report from Cleveland’s physician says the former president is rapidly recovering from a severe cold. Mrs. Cleveland issued a bulletin stating he is still gaining.
Three masked men robbed The Mint, a gambling shop in Chickasha Ind T, at 8 am on Sunday, forcing patrons to yield and taking 700 dollars in currency.
The Supreme Court orders Judge Lauder to arrange for trial of civil cases filed by McCumber Forbes and Freerks Freerks after affidavits of prejudice. Costs taxed against Lauder. he must report actions by December 20. Opinion by Judge Wallin spans twenty pages.
G B Taylor of Haven North Dakota sold fifty seven hogs averaging 328 pounds for 5.80 each, 15 cents above the next sale and 25 cents over the big end. The hogs, fed entirely on ground millet, show North Dakota can produce quality pork without corn. Taylor, a long-time wheat farmer, started hogs last fall with little capital and millet feed, turning a net 1020 dollars from the sale and planning more hogs as a profitable alternative to wheat.
Chicago reports a 45 year old German kidnapping case. John F. Zimmerman was abducted at age five near Luebecke Minden. If alive, he would be entitled to part of a large estate from his mother's late husband.
General Agent Techtonius of the J. I. Case company visited Grand Forks and closed a purchase of valuable real estate. A large 40 by 150 foot building will be erected in the early spring, making Grand Forks the transfer point for business in the northern and western portions of North Dakota.
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