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Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The number of men employed on
British railways is nearly 100000.

The number of men employed on
British railways is nearly 100000.
| Relatively to its population. Hart
ford. Conn.,. is he richest city in the
| union.
The cost of carrying a pair of shoes
from New York to London by English
steamers and railways combined is
less than the cost of transit by rail
from Liverpool to London.
AT present the greatest distance over
which electrical power is being trans
mitted by wire is SIS miles, being car
ried from waterfall at Redlands, Cal,
to the city of Los Angeles to run a
street railway. to light the city and
to furnish power for several municipal
undertakings. The plant was set up
in 1897. 1t has a capacity of 400 horse
power and $4,000 volts.
The cutters of the great glove houses
at Brussels and in France earn even
higher wages than the cutters of the
most fashionable tailors in London and
New York. So difficult is this art of
cutting gloves that most of the prin-
SlIttl cutters are known 10 Ine lraQe
by name and by fame. and the peculiar
knives which they use in the business
are so highly priced that they are hand
ed down from generation o generation
as heirlooms.
Some wrought-iron girders in a
building in Chicago had TO be cut dur
ing repairs to make room for a steel
column, and it was decided to use elec-
tricity instead of the old method of
saving. The girders to be cut were
six in number and IA inches deep, with
one-inch web. To accomplish the
work it was necessary to melt about
225 holes in the girders and the actual
time spent in cutting all was three
and one-half hours.
Tree planting in the streets is to be
encouraged in Baltimore The munic-
lpal board of estimates has determined
to abandon the absurd charge of o5
cents for the privilege of planting trees
along the public streets. and to encour-
age the improvement by growing the
trees, presenting them free of cost to
those desiring tree before their
home, planting them and keeping them
trimmed and in order. This plan has
worked successfully in Boston.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-29
CURIOUS TYPE OF CRANK.
The One Who Confesses Crimes He
Never Committed AnnOys
the Police.

The most curious type of crank
in the world, in my humble opinion
said an old police officer, according to
the New Orleans mesDemocrat, lis
the fellow who makes fake confess
sion. The outside public has no idea
how frequently that sort of thing oc-
ours. Whenever we have a murder
mystery the authorities are absolutely
| certain to hear from one or more
persons who assert positively that
they have committed the crime. and
whose stories are general. self-evi-
dent fabrications. AS rule the con-
fession crank writes letter, and now
and then communications are so plaus-
| IDLE and circums1 antial that the po-
| lice would be thrown completely off
| the track We're it not for the fact
that they are always on their guard
at just that kind of false leads. 1t is
very strange. and there seems to be
absolutely no motive beyond an in
sane passion for meddling. Occa-
sionally the crank will present him
self in person and insist upon being
locked up. but HIS first few words
will usually betray him, and unless
he is violent. he is quietly escorted
to the door. \ ve.y singular incident
of that kind took place seven or eight
years ago in connection with mys-
terious murder in the 'Tenderloin' dis
trict.
'One evening young man who be-
longed to an excellent family of this
lost Had \
ished everybody by declaring he had
committed the crime. \ little ques-
| tioning showed that his story could
not possibly be true. AID finally he
admitted that he was lying. My curl
osity was highly excited, and. taking
| him to one side ! tried to draw from
him the reason that had prompted
such an extraordinary and danger
Gus piece of folly. He told me, with
hysterical tears, that he had brooded
about the case and found a strange
and pleasurable excitement in max
ing believe that he was the man who
had done the deed. That grew upon
him until. | suppose. it became next
door to an hallucnation. At any rate
he could give no other explanation.
OF course. such man should have
been placed under restraint as a dan
gerons monomaniac, but the police
have no facilities for handling cases
of this kind and the family We're averse
to sending him to an asylum. ! see
him frequently on the streets. Some
few false confessions are made for the
deliberate purpose of misleading the
authorities. and. again. they are some
times made b. prisoners solely to Sc
cure a transfer to another city. 1t
is a brand of crankiness that might
we'll interest a specialist.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-29
FORTUNE IN ONE OIL WELL.
Three Old Irish People In West yir-
sinia Who Are Getting
$1,000 Day.

Weston. w. Va. is the center of the
most wonderful Oil field that has been
opened in the United States in years.
Three old Irish people of Weston, as
poor as the farm on which they lived
have become suddenly possessed.
through no effort Of their own, of an
income of over $1,000 day, says the
Philadelphia Record.
That income of ST 900 day is all from
one Oil well. There are three other
wells nearing completion within few
hundred yards of this one, each of
which is sure to pour out as much
money. And the end is not yet The
land is so unproductive of vegetation
that only very poor people would own
it. so the Copley heirs, being poor, have
a big acreage. room enough for 200
more wells to be sunk.
No one knows in what direction that
lake Of oil, away down 2.2OO feet below
the surface. extends. Such pools are OF
varying size and shape; sometimes only
a few hundred yards wide and miles
in length: sometimes circular and
miles in diameter. There is but one
way of finding QUITO drill holes down
below that lead.
To-day the Copley we'll is the only
one tapping he pool Everybody want s.
TO risk his money in an effort to ge,
hole into the pool. To that end thou
sands of people are buying. begging,
bulldozing and badgerng farmers for
miles around the big gusher for the
privilege of sinking wells.
The Copley we'll, which has wrought
all this change to Lewis county, came
in from the Gordon oil sand at depth
of 2.2oo feet on September "a. 1t was
unexpected. and. like shot from ten
inch gun. blew away the oil saver and
casing head and sent solid stream OF
oil six inches in diameter clear over the
top of the s0-foot derrick, nearly drown
ing the workmen.
1T flows continually. but, like the
geysers, has certain hours out of everv
"a to put forth its greatest force.
When the oil came 200 250-barrel tanks
were pu, up. They were filled in lit
tie more than an hour
Three dams were built in Sand Fork
creek bed. which, thanks to drought,
was dry. the lower dam two miles from
the we'll. These hold pond of oil two
miles long, averaging 60 feet wide and
six feet deep. \ two-inch pipe line has
been carrying away 60 barrels an hour
all this time. \ four-inch and six.
inch line have been completed Be
sides what the pipe line has carried off,
and what is in the dam, the we'll has
produced enough to fill 6S 25O-barrel
tanks, one 1.20O-barrel tank and one
Soo-barrel tank. all erected since the
we'll was struck.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-29
STABBED TO DEATH.
Leonard Day, Iell Known In Minneapolis,
WAS Killed In the West Hotel---
Frank H. Hamilton L.
Under Arrest.

Minneapolis, Nov. o6.-Leonard A..
Day, son of Leonard Day, the late
millionaire lumberman, and young
man we'll known about town, was
stabbed to death in the West Hotel
billiard hall, about 2 o'clock Sunday
morning.
Frank Hamilton. Minneapolis
Times reporter, with whom he was
engaged in an alteration just previ.
Gus to the time when the fatal blow
was struch, is locked up at the Cen
trail police station, charged with MUIR
der.
All witnesses, and men who partici-
pated in a general row that resulted
from the differences between the two
men, agree that the men engaged in
two scuft1es. They were separated by
friends in the first. and shook hands,
and it was believed the trouble was
over. About five minutes later they
resumed Quarreling and friends made
another attempt to seperate them,
During the general melee the fatal
blow was struck and almost without
word, Day fell to the floor.
One scene marked the death of Day
who was unable to talk to those about
him from the moment he fell bleeding
on the billiard room floor until the end
came, so minutes later, which to say
the least, was strange one if Hamil-
ton committed the murder. The lat
ter it was who tried to revive the DIV.
ing man, and who after assisting in
this work, knelt by the side of his al
legged victim and prayed fervently.
Day was stabbed in the neck and
bled to death.
A knife was found near Days body
covered which undoubtedly caused the
death. Hamilton disclaims ownership
of the weapon.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-29
News In Brief.

The jamestown city council turned
down the proposition to grant the
Hughes company an electric light
franchise.
The handsome new Congregational
church at Wahpeton was dedicated
with appropriate ceremonies on Sun
day Nov. II.
A rail broke on the n. p. near Cakes,
and the engine and three cars left the
track. There We're 40 passengers on
board, but no one was hurt.
The new settlers in the northwest
crn counties are said to be heartily in
favor OF the prohi bition law.
The fusionists will have hardly
enough members in the 1901 legisture
to furnish one for each committee.
There is tie for the office commits
sioner in the Third district in Ramsey
county. One Of the candidates is con-
stitutionally opposed to shaking dice
or drawing straws, as the law provides
for the settlement of tie votes
On election night some one stole the
clapper of the high school bell at
jamestown. 1t has been returned and
riveted on. ready for another election.
One of the cases before Judge Pol
lock. of Fargo, was SO warm that he
ordered the court room cleared while
it was going on.
Judge Lauder received one vote for
supreme judge. The vote was cast at
Abercrombie. Richland county.
Superintendent Stock wells son at
Grafton began to chew cake of cor
rosive sublimate, but was relieved be-
fore much damage was done.
The Union hotel in Fargo was badly
damaged by fire.
Building is still going on at Walhal-
la, Notwithstanding the approach of
winter.
jamestown has SOC pupils enrolled
in its public schools-aS5 boys and 81
girls. There are just as many boys as
las: year, but there are four girls less.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-29
THEY NOW KNOW BETTER.
biologists Have of Late niscard..
the Old Notion About Gla-
cial Movements

few years ago geologists confident
~ asserted that at one period of the
world history great ice car came
moving down from the polar regions
and swept over North America as far
south is latitude IS. carrying with it
great boHlders-which lie about on
slopes and hilltops TO this uay to
prove it-and scratching the record of
| Its movement upon cliffs and lodges.
Then this ice cap Kindly mel.ed and
disappeared. This was taught i'm the
schools. and to doubt it was heresy;
for science, when it takes up with a
theory, is dogmatic, and all biologists
said: Behold. how wonderful is our
knowledge; what secrets we can
wrest from the past" After awhile
science rather gave up the polar ice
cap theory and land down a new dog
ma-that of single continental ice
sheet for North America
The recent Investigations of officers
Of the Canadian geological survey
prove that the scientists evolved their
glacial theory out of a vivid magma
ton. 1t has been found that in
northern Alaska there is no evidence
that that part Of the country was
ever covered by a glacier-in fact,
conclusive evidence exists that it was
not. At the mouth of the Mckenzie
river is plenty Of evidence OF glacial
action, and also that the glacier
which left its records came from the
south. On the western SHORES of Hud-
son bay are marks of glacier which
came from the west, and on the east
ern shores of one which came from
the east. East Of the Canadian Rock
les is long belt which shows no evil
dence OF ever having been exposed to
glacial action.
These and similar discoveries have
put the biologists "all at sea" and
they now have evolved a new theory
regarding the glacial period 1t is
that one big glacier did not at one
time cover all the North American
continent, but that several glaciers,
moving at different times from diff
ferent centers Of distribution. made
their way in different directions and
left the glacial records which are now
found. They have e en- given names
to these glaciers, such as the Cor
dilleran glacier the la bradorian
glacier" and the "Keewatin glacier"
Prof Lawson. of the University of Call
ifornia. in writing on the subject in
the international Monthly. says that
as yet it cannot be said that the sue
cession of these great glaciers in time
has been established we'll enough to
warrant an unqualified acceptance,
but he seems TO have lit.le hesitation
in accepting the theory of different
glaciers moving from different points.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-29
A Delight to Hou.ew,xe.

A new needle, which must be de-
light to housewives, has been invented
in Germany. 1t has prolongation be.
hind the eye of smaller diameter than
the bored part of the needle. with
grooves in it to receive the thread
The object of it is to facilitate the pass
ing OF the needle through the holes in
buttons, when sewing them on. The
thread lies in the grooves, and hence
the needle passes much more easily and
RAPIDLY
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-29
BIG RAILROAD DEAL.
the Control of It's Old Rival, the
Great Northern.

The New York Mail and Express re-
Gently printed the following:
1.-TWO gigantic railroad deals, involv-
ing the Northern Pacific, Great North
ern and Union Pacific on the one hand
and the Atchison and Southern Pacific
systems on the other, have just been
completed and will shortly be an
nounced. This statement is officially
made by one of the highest executive
officials of the Northern Pacific rail
way. who admits his company is about
to pass under the control of the Great
Northern.
president Hill, of the Great North
ern. is acting in close harmony with
j. Pierpont Morgan, who is the chief
factor in the management of the
Northe Pacific, and it is for the
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-29
A BEAUTIFUL CHURCH.
Savannah's New Cathedral One of the
Finest Gothic Edifices in the
Country.

The most important church service
held in the United States for many
years was the recent dedication by
Most Rev. Sebastian Martinelli. arch.
bishop of Ephesus and papal delegate
to the United States, of the Cathedral
of St. John the Baptist at Savannah.
Ga. 1t attracted to the city the most
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-29
Boy Stock Grower Fails.

Some $50 head of 2-year-old steers
were sold by virtue of chattel mort
gage to secure SIG, 1868. given by
John +. Mcknight of Sheldon, Ran
som county, to Messrs. Simmer &
Thomas of st. Paul, Mimi, last April.
They were bid in by the mortgages.
Young Mcknight. with much enthusi-
asrn, embarked in large way last
spring in the stock business, buying
when prices were excessively high.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-29


Mrs. Hingso awoke suddenly
''John?"
''Whashyouwant?' sleepily
There's burglars in the house."
LET EN- burgle."
You're coward. They'll steal al
the silver"
"Um-um."
They'll take my jewels"
"All right"
Silence for moment.
John"
Cant you let me sleep?''
"They aren't in the dining-room, in
an awful voice; they are in the cellar
stealing the coal"
What" leaping out of bed. 1.-THE
scoundrels! Where's my revolver?"-
Syracuse Herald.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-29
ReDartee.

There's no use mncing matters nv
dear; the fact is you are not an expert
cook"
She-I think the trouble is that YOU
do not know what good cooking is.
He-And evidently you do not intend
shall ever become any wiser.-Bostoa
Transcript,
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-29
Stampedeti.

While heavy wind was blowing. a
band of 5000 sheep on D. L. Davis
ranch in Wells county was stampeded
by flying Russian castus, which
abounds in that county. Many of the
sheep were driven into the Pipestem
river and drowned. and the wolves
killed off number that had sought
refuge in the coulees The loss to Mr..
Davis will be heavy.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-29
He Leads a strenuou. Life.

Job Castlett, of Edwardsvile. Pa, is
busy man. Until recently he held six
Offices in the town. He was burgess.
ianitor of the town hall. keeper of the
lookup. town clerk. driver of the Dor
ough team and street commissioner.
The court thought he was entirely too
busy. and removed him as burgess. but
the other five positions he still fills.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-29
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
Will Make Fuel.

). o. Edison. IA cousin of the "Wiz-
ard, Thomas Ed son, has built man
ufacturing plant at Mccain. n. d., in
winch he proposes to make fuel out of
hay and straw that will equal in heat
ing properties any coal on the market.
McCanna is a town in Grand Forks
county, just eight miles from Lari-
more. 1t is in the center of a great
wheat raising country, and Mr.. Edison
can get plenty of straw, after the
threshing is completed, to run his
plant for several months, if not for
the entire year.
The farmers have heretofore, at the
end of the .hreshing season, set fire to
the big stacks of straw, and have con-
sequently derived no benefit from
them. They are as anxious as Mr. Edi-
son for the success of the plant, as it
will furnish them a market for their
straw.
The straw, when it is being manu-
featured into fuel, is first boiled to q
pulp much the same as in making
straw paper. 1t is then treated with
chemicals and placed in presses and
nodded i'll hollow cylinders, which are
dried and placed on the markets ready
for use. The cylinders are made in
stove OF in furnace lengths.
MIR Edison claims he can place it
on the market at one-half the price of
coal. If the fuel is as cheap as he
promises. for it has already been
proved to be satisfactory, it will prove
godsend to the farmers of the North
west. Mr.. Edison intends to establish
plants, similar to the one at McCanna.
in several places throughout the
Northwest, as soon as he has demon
strated the value OF his invention
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-29
Too Far Behind,

Milly-I understand that Miss Elder
ly is getting to be very fast.
Willy-Yes; but she'll never make up
the time she has lost-Smart Set.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-29
Good Thing for Mariners.

A machine for condensing sea fog
into drinking water has been invented.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-29
Committee Appointed.

President }. S. Watson, of the Bar
association of North Dakota, has APP
pointed legislative committee made
up of Seth Newman. E. Engcrud and
d. G. Maclay to confer with the COM
mittce on Jurisprudence Of the Bar as
ISOLATION of North Dakota relative to
legislation of interest to the profess
sion in this state. The state commit
tee is made up of Seth Newman. j. NJ.
bartholomew, c. F. Templeton, Roder-
lck Rose and David Bartlett. The as
ISOLATION will recommend a number Of
changes from present laws at the COM
ing session of the legislature. One of
these is bill that will place the court
reporters of the state on Il salary Of
s., 900 per year instead of so much per
diem for work done and will regulate
the prices that shall be charged for
transcripts, the sum thus paid to be
turned over to the state treasurer.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-29
Will be Busy.

Gov. White will have busy two
months during the session of the legis-
lature. Financial matters will be
first, and the governor. state auditor
and treasurer will have to make ar
rangements for funds for the payment
OF Legislative expenses. This requires
$4,000 to $50, 900 in cash, and the funds
will probably be raised by the sale Of
warrants as has been done before.
The legality of these warrents has
sometimes been brought into question
but as each administration practical
ly pledges itself to see that they are
paid, they are pretty good investments
especially as they draw u good rate of
interest
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-29

The jamestown city council turned
down the proposition to grant the
Hughes company an electric light
fropcbisa
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-12

Toward Mecca the thoughts and as
pirGtions of all pious Moslems are
turned. and at least once in his life
time the good Mohammedan is expect
ed to make n pilgrimage TO that city.
One of the duties of the pilgrim i'm
mediatcly after his arrival is to make
n journey seven times round n holy
porticO outside the mosque.
I'VE went at n great pace" says an
EnElishman, who, disguised as n Mo
hammcdan. paid Il visit to Mecca at
the risk OF his life, and the day was
growing hot. When the procession
was over. we came back to the mosque
and were each given n bowl of limpid
water. | was so thirsty that L drank
mine at a draft and asked for more.
which | noticed produced Il very good
impression, for. as afteTward learned.
this was the sacred water of TcmZen,
which an intidel cannot drink without
being chokCd.
This was supposed to be the water
which was supplied to Hagar when
she was perishing in the DESERT
Christian EndeaVOr World.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-12
A Mountain of Alum.

In China, 12Ia miles from the village
of Liou-Chek. there is a mountain of
alum which. il addition TO being n nat
ural curiosity. is a source of wealth
for the Inhabitants of the country, who
dig from it yearly tons of alum. The
mountain is not less than ten miles in
circumference at its base and has a
height Of 1910 feet The alum is OBJ
tanned by quarryinS large blocks of
stone. which are first heated in great
furnaces and then in watts filed with
boiling water. The alum crystallizes
out and forms layer about six inches
in thickness. This layer is Subsequent
ly broken up into blocks weighing
about ten pounds each.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-12
Ii Man Were n FIen.

Snyder, the calculating barber, had
not opened his lips for fully four min
utes. and it was plain to be seen that
he had something on his mind. Finally
he swallowed twice, breathed hard for
q moment and gave vent TO his feelings
in this manner:
''I've been thinking what 1 could do
If 1 were only a flea l read in scien-
tific paper the other day that if n man
were built on the same lines as flea
he could jump from Philadelphia to
Pittsburg in one leap. l mean, of
course, If he had all the power OF q
flea increased in proportion TO his size.
Think how quickly he could circum-
navigate the globe. II might be possi-
BILE TO get around the world in an hour.
The distance from Philadelphia to
PittSburG is 3J4 miles, a-.d the equato-
rial circumference of the earth is "a
9O2 miles.
a simple calculation in mental arith-
metic will show you that this would be
fraction over 30 leaps. 1t surely
wouldn't take minute for each jump.
judged from the liveliness of the flea.
Think of coming in here. with three or
four customers ahead of you, and, in
stead of sitting down and waiting, just
taking a few jumps around the world
to kill time. There you are, sir. Witch
hazel or bay rum ?''-Philadelphia Rec
ord