The Wahpeton Times from Wahpeton, North Dakota • 1

THE WAHPETON TIMES A Weekly Newspaper Published in the Interests of Wahpeton and Richland County VOLUME XXXV WAHPETON, RICHLAND COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26 1911 NUMBER HOW TO CURE TRUST EVILS Governor Wilson Says We Must Send Man Behind the Gun" to Jail. Detroit, Mich E. Miller sends the following from Sea Girt, N. to the Detroit News: If Gov. Woodrow Wilson ever becomes President of the United States his message on the subject of truet busting will come to congress with the decisive emphasis of the rifle shots which echo through his library from the range as you sit in conversation with him in the state executive summer home here.

They will if the governor retains the opinions he now holds on the illegal things done by the people char. acterized by Mr. Roosevelt as malefactors of great wealth. Governor Wilson is no hope less despondent. He disagrees utterly With those who believe the law cannot be made to reach such as seek to adjust the business machinery of this country so that all the wealth will fall into a few boppere.

His ideas are sharply defined and his plane simplicity itself. He would send violators of the law to jail. That is the whole of the antidote he prescribes. Fines, he says, place too much of the burden of the punishment up on the innocent. And he scoffs at the idea that the guilty cannot be detected and convicted.

"The managers of corporatione themselves always know the men who originated the acts charged against them as done in contravention of the law; is there 1 no means by which their uames may be disclosed to the officers of justice? Every act, every policy in the conduct of the affairs of a corporation originates with some particular officer, committee or board. The officer, the committee, the board ordering an act or originating a policy contrary to the law, or intended to neutralize or contravene it, is a serious of. fender against society and must be punished if our instiutions are to stand. is neither sensible nor effective to attempt to punish the corporation. We.

do not dict the gun, but the man behind the gun. It is a fatuous and unnecessary fiction to treat a corporation as in all respects a legal person. To control such of its acte as are against public policy we must cease to deal with it by means of the law as if it were only a single individ. ual, a responsible individual, and must handle it for what it is -an artificial agency. You cannot punish a corporation.

Fines fall upon the wrong persone, and more heavily upon the innocent than the guilty. Those who know nothing whatever of the offense for which the fine is inflicted must pay 88 well as those who originated and carried through the illegal act. So the real punishment falls upon the and the customers. "If you will but put one or two conspicuous dummies into the penitentiary there will be no more dummies for hire. You can stop the traff: in dum.

mies, and then when the idea has taken root in the corporate mind that dummies will be confiscated the custom of the business will change. Modern business enterprise makes the corporations indispensable. None of as, I it, has any quarrel with business success, but all of us ought to have an irreconcilable quarrel with business lawlessness. As I told the lawyers of the Ameri can Bar Association in 1 an address last year, corporations do not do wrong. Individuals do wrong.

When we stop that wrong doing we have taken from the corporation all the power of evil of which the people so justly complain." A Now Restaurant. Otto Swank has closed a deal with Wm. Huppeler, for the building now occupied by Wehner Voss. Mr Huppeler will build on. 50 feet, put in large windows on the 4th street side, put in toilet rooms on both floors and make other improvements which are expect ed to be finished so that some time in December Mr.

Swank will open ap a first class res taurant. WARPETON TO HAVE WIRELESS A Wireless Telegraph Station Will Soon be Established and Running in Wahpeton. Our city will 800n have a modern wireless telegraph station in full operation. tracts have been closed with Eastern Managers to have a complete apparatue, transmitting and receiving stations, batteries, brought here and put in working order by an expert, Wm. B.

Patty. He will come the 14th day of November, and on that night at the High School Auditorium will send and receive wireless messages in full view of the audience, ring bells at a distance, start motors, manipulate signals and electric lighte, and give a compreheneive demonstration of the present uses of this much talked of discovery, as well as explaining its future possibilities in warfare. train dispatching. etc. On the same evening he will also show the wonders of Rad.

ium and Liquid Air. He bring. ing a supply of those materials and apparatus for actual experiments. A large house is al. ready assured tor the occasion and it is expected that hunderde will improve this rare opportunity to form a delightful acquaintance with these scientific marvels.

Card of Thanks. We wish to express throrgh the columns of The Times our appreciation and thanks to our neighbors and friends, who 80 kindly assisted in allevating the distress of our sister, during her last illness and for the sympathy and assistance at the time of our sorrow, Mr. and Mre. G. A.

R. Nickel. Gates, the spotter, swore out warrants against H. Burke and George Goolebey of Lidger. wood for purgery.

Sheriff Moody went out and brought them in. They were taken be. fore Justice Jurgensen. They gave the required bail bond and' were released. The entertainment given at the Opera House last night by the pupils of the Sistere School was a success in every way.

The entertainment was good and played to a good house. WALSH THE BANKER, -DEAD Did Not Long Enjoy Freedom From Prison. Chicago, Oct 23 -John R. Walsh, the former banker, publisher ard railroad owner, released a week ago from Leav enworth penitentiary died today of heart disease. Walsh had been in bed, under the care of a physician most of the time since his arrival 1 from Leaven worth, Oct.

15. Reports of Walsh's failing health during his incarceration had been denied at the peniten tiary. On his release he gave up plans for a resumption of his position as a financial leader and took to his bed. GIRL TELLS PITIFUL TALE Says She Was Held in Virtual White Slavery. Minot, N.

Oct. ed with holding Miss Irene Sweewart in a condition of vir. tual white slavery, David Arm. strong of Glenburn was arrested today by the Minot police and will be given a preliminary hearing before Judge William Murray. Armstrong was arrested in company with the girl, his wife and chiid, who were given a revere examination by State's Attorney Nash.

The girl told a pitiful tale. She said she came to North Dakota from Wisconsin last FOUR GENERATIONS Mrs. Barbara Marsch; her daughter, Mrs. John Schmitt; Granddaughter, Mrs. John Walcher; and Great-Grand daughter Anna Walcher Mrs.

Marsch Passed Away Mrs. Marsch died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Schmitt last Saturday about noon. She has been gradually failing for a long time and apparently had no definate affliction, except her age, she was nearly eighty-three at the time of her death. The funeral was conducted by Fr.

Ridder in St. John's church Tuesday morning and the burial was in Calvary cemetery. Six grandsone, Frank, Mike and Willie Schmitt, Tony and Leo Miksche and Nick Theede were the pall-bearers. Mrs. Marsch was born in Germany and came to America with her mother about 66 years ago.

They located at Fon-duLac, and was married three years later. To this union twelve children were born, the hueband and father dying in 1868. She came to Dakota in 1881 with her daughter Mrs. John Schmitt and has made her home with them since. There are five of the children living.

They are Mrs. Henry Theede of Fairmount, Nick Marsch and Mrs. Frank Miksche of Breckenridge, Mre John Schmitt and Mre. M. ZanZinger, of Summit Township.

MOODY LANDED LIDGERWOOD MEN Forum's Old Friend Was One of the Men That Was Gathered in. Wabpeton, N. Oct. Henry Burke and George Goolsbey, both of Lidgerwood, were arrested by Sheriff Moody, Tuesday, on charges of bribery and preventing witnesses from July and since then Armstrong has exercised a strange influence over her. She said she was afraid to do anything or go anywhere contrary to the in.

of Armstrong, whom she said is her firet cousin. The crime, it is alleged, was committed in both Ward and Renville counties and the case may be sent to Renville county for trial. Coffee Price Goes Up. The price of coffee hae gone up 5 cents a pound in all local stores. The best grades, which were selling last week at 40 and 45 cents a pound, were set this week at 50 cents.

The retail men say if the rise in the New York market continues there are still higher prices in store for the St. Paul buyer. Some of the retailers deny there is a shortage in the Braz ilian crop, and intimate the high state of the New York market is due to a combination between eastern dealers. TWO WIN AND TWO DEFEATED Judge Allen Hands Down Interesting Decision in the Famous Fee Cases. Judge Says That Auditor is Within Rights and That Judge is Also Within Righte, But Dealares Against Register of Deeds and the County Treasurer- Actions Have Aroused Wide Interest.

Judge Frank P. Allen of the district court of Sargent county handed down his decisions in the famous Sargent county officer fee cases. He holds in favor of the county auditor, the county judge, and against the county register of deeds and the county treasurer. The actions have state- wide interest because fee questions have arisen in many counties, and these are looked upon as tests. In the case against the auditor fees received for certifying abstracts, certifying deeds and for recording township bonds were in controversy, the total amount being about $1,000.

Attorney George A. Bangs of Grand Forks appeared for the auditor. Against the county judge tion was brought to recover fees collected for marriage licenses, but the court holds that such fees belong to the judge and that their collection is optional with that official. Also, certain fees claimed to have been collected by him for certified copies of records are held to belong to the judge, and not a fee provided by law. The treasurer loses on fees collected on court house bonds, but wins out in the case of fees for making collections of school moneys.

The register of deeds loses out on tees collected for registration of deeds and other papere, the law making provision for a record of such fees and the covering of the same into the county treasury. The Magazine Club meets Saturday night with Mr. and Mre. W. A.

Farne worth. Mrs. Louis Christensen and her mother, who have been visiting at Mr. and Mre. Hans Christensen left Tuesday for Chippewa Falle, where they will visit relatives before returning to their homes in Washington.

HANNA ANNOUNCES FOR GOVERNOR Declines to State Favorite for Presidency--Outlines Platform. "I made my decision to become a candidate for the publican nomination for gov. ernor of the State of North Dakota last Thursday afternoon," said Congressman L. B. Hanna, last evening in answer to a question by the CourierNews.

I thought best not to make it public, or rather to give it to the press, until Saturday. "As to my platform. I dictated the following to my stenographer which you may say is the platform I will stand on: I hereby announce self as a candidate in the aries to be held in June, 1012, for the republican nomination tor governor of North Dakota. "I have lived in North Dakota for over 30 yeare and my businees life is well known generally to the people of the state. As a member of the state legislature for ten years, I introduced and cated such laws as I believed were for the general good.

In the years I have been a mem. ber of congress, I have given my undivided time and attention to the duties of the office and have tried in every way to represent equally every part of the state and all of its citizens. "Should I be nominated and elected governor of North Dakota, I would give to that office the same care and attention that I have given to the office which I now hold; would give to the state a clean, honest, economical, business adminis. tration. I will do all within my power for the enforcement of all the laws of the state, and in every way try to make it a better state in which to live and to bring up our children.

"Upon my record in the state legislature and in congress, and as a business wan and citizen, I ask the support of the people of the state of North Dakota." "Mr. Hanna, who is your preference for president?" was asked. "Well, I do not think I should answer that question, at least at the present time. You can say that I shall be for the nominee of the republican party, be it La Follette, Taft, Roosevelt, Cummings- fact no matter who it may be, 80 long as the party nominates him." "The Sunny Side of Broadway" attending court. It has been customary with the officers, when they were going to Lidgerwood to arrest law violatore, to take along a small army of deputies, well armed, but the sheriff dropped quietly into Lidgerwood and turned the trick alone.

He arrested both Burke and Goolebey and brought them to Wahpeton. They waived examination and gave bonds to appear at the next term of district Fargo Forum. If you enjoy real comedy, dainty dancing capped by the class of music that you hum and whistle for days you should see "The Sunny Side of Broadway" at Wahpeton Opera House Friday evening, Oct. 27. Max Bloom who plays the leading comedy part certainly possess every propensity for extracting hearty laughter from his audiences There is a bunch of young and comely girlies in the show who are good to look upon and they include the six dancing "pippine" the girle who created such a furore with their sensational dancing daring the plays run in Chicago.

There will be many song hits and a evening of rare pleasure is promised all who attend. Manager Kellogg assures us of a splendid entertainment..