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Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05
E DEADLY WEAPON.
- Declared b. . West visoinla
J~Ase Ia = Case Of Assault
a1A battery.

According to . ruling in the circuit
court at WEIGH, Mcdowell county, W.
Va, a negroes head is considered "a
dangerous and deadly weapon" says a
report from that section. Frank Mar
tin brought suit for $4,000 against
James Knox, a prominent attorney at
WEIGH, for damages sustained by being
pounded with a pair Of steel knucks.
Martin is a colored man and has a head
of abnormal proportions. The testi-
mony in the case was that Martin be-
came incensed at the attorney, while
the latter was in his place of business,
and that the negro bowed low and
started to "butt" the attorney out of
his shop.
The attorney swore on the stand that
he regarded the negro's head as "a dan
gerous and deadly weapon" and that
to defend himself and probably save his
life he dealt him a few blows with steel
knucks. Evidence was adduced which
went to show that Martin had at differ.
eat times "butted" people out of his
shop. The judge gave a verdict il
favor of the defendant, ruling that un
der the circumstances he regarded thu
negroes head as a dangerous and dead
ly weapon" and that the attorney act
ed in self-defense.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05
ASSESSING A BRONX LOrLET.
OeMy-1ouF square Inehss of GHound
In New York Valued at Two
Hundred Dollars,

The assessors have been called
upon to assess what is relatively tn,
most valuable piece Of real estate il
the entire city, says the New Yorl
Commercial Advertiser, and have APP
praised it at $500. This may seen
a paradox. Blu. 5000 is full value
for the parcel-and the parcel is in
the Bronx. The "lotlet'' is at the
northeast corner of Third avenue
and One Hundred and F%orty-ninth
street. 1t is triangular in shape and
measures 6 inches on the avenue, IA
inches on the street and 10 inches on
the northeasterly line. 1t, therefore,
contains 40 square inches.
Last May it sold for $500, or SIS a
square inch. That would be $3.50 a
square foot, OF at the rate of 81, $780,
600 for a full lot of $500 square feet,
a price unequaled ever in the finan-
cial section of Manhattan. Prior to
the adoption of the full value as
sessment plan the spot" Of land,
which is about big enough for a man
to stand upon on one foot, was as
sessed at about $50 and the taxes
we're about 70 cents. The assessors
evidently read the accounts of tn,
sale on May 20 last year, tucked til;
clippings away for future use and
swooped down on the owner with al
assessment on January IL of 5000
The taxes this year, therefore, will
be at the S1.45 rate, $ eco.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05

Consideration $4,000. Mr.. Clark pur-
chased these lands three years ago for
$500, and is we'll satisfied with tha
deal as is also Mr.. Greenberg who
needed this land to square OUT his
extensive and we'll improved farm.
On Tuesday of this week MI.
George W. Mooers, recorder Of Devils
Lake ledge, Ancient Order of United
Workman. received from the Grand
Lodge of this jurisdiction a draft to
the amount of e, 600. 90 in payment of
the beneficiary certificate held by
the late Charles Mulholland. This
prompt action in the settlement Of
claims is one feature that commends
the order to all who are seeking
fraternal protection and who want
protection that is safe and reliable
and at actual cost.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05
KING EDWARDS STRAY DOG.
IA Irish Terrier Tha Has D&1onA
. Great Eavorlte VITA
Bngland's RudeD.

Dignity, pomp and etiquette are
particularly strong points with Ed
ward VII. says a London correspond.
ent of the London Herald, and woe be.
tide any light-minded subject who
~overlooks the smallest detail of dress
or department in the royal presence
that is, woe betide all such subjects
rave one. The exception is Jack, q
stray Irish terrier which strol1ed into
Marlborough house not long ago,
adopted the king without leave or cere-
mony, took charge Of his majesty
forthwith and has helped to run the
empire ever since.
It can be said without exaggeration
that no one item of the business OF
the king of England gets so much at
tention daily as the are of Jack. His
food and exercise are personally SUI
pervised by his royal comrade and the
general question Of his health and con
duct r a matter Of personal concern
to the king.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05
THIS SKULL WILL BE FAMOUS,
one Found In Lansing, Kansas,
Seems to Prove Existence Of
PrshistOric Man,

M. C. Long, curator Of the Kansas
City public museum. has photographed
the Lansing skull' from different
view points. The prehistoric skull is
now in the possession of MIR. Long.
After a thorough investigation, Mr..
Long is satisfied the skull is that of a
prehistoric who in all probability
lived during the glacial period, $4,000
years ago. and this opinion is fully
shared by Prof. S. w. Williston, of the
Kansas university, reports the Kansas
City Star.
On March 20 OF this year workmen
found the skull while digging a tunnel
deep into the side of a hill on a farm
near Lansing. Kan. Mr.. Long CHANGED
to hear of the finding of the skull and
went to Lansing. If the opinion of
Curator Long and Prof. Williston is
correct, as they feel assured it is, the
Lansing skull". for the first time Of
fers tangible proof Of the existence
OF prehistoric man in North America.
In Europe several prehistoric skulls
have been found. but this is the first to
be found in America. The Lansing
skull was found deep under we'll de-
fined strata OF earth and rock, and was
imbedded in what is called river loess.
This prehistoric man was probably a
contemporary of the mastodon and
giant sloth.
The photograph does not give an ade-
quate idea of the peculiarities of the
prehistoric skull. 1t slopes back imme-
diatelv from the eyes. and there is
practically no forehead. Over the eyes,
however. are well developed ridges.
which are taken to denote that the per
ceptible faculties were considerable.
The back of the skull. as seen in the
illustration, is almost abnormally de-
veloped, and there the skull is very
thick. Pieces Of stone are attached to
and imbedded in the skull. and these
pieces of stone are identical with those
found attached to the bones of mas
todons. The cracks seer in the skull
were caused by the workmen who
found it. for they attached no impor-
lance to the find and allowed several
heavy boxes to fall upon it, breaking it
into half a dozen pieces.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05
How Assassin. Increasa

July 29 is the second anniversary of
the murder of King Humbert, of Italy,
the last Of the ~ chiefs of state
whoTwere assassinated in the last CEN
ttuIy. It is a noteworthy sign of the
growing tendency to these crimes that,
while in the first half of the nineteenth
century Gear Paul was the only VIC
tim. in the third quarter rulers of Par
ma, Montenegro, the United States and
Servia were 80 "removed." and in the
last quarter no less than seven thus
perished-rule1s of Turkey, Russia,
the United States, France. Persia, Aus
tria and Italy. And this, be it OBJ
served. in spite of the fact that the
number of states has diminished con-
.s;9e-ah!y. Further. the first year of
the presen; century was marked by the
murder of President Mckinley, as was
1901. by that of Gear Paul.-London
Chronicle.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05
DUTCH IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Are Better as Farmers and Politi-
clans Than the English. Says
an English Writer,

The Dutch are better men on the
land than the English. Mr.. Rhodes
athrmed it as strongly as Benjamin
Kidd. Not only are they better men
u they are much cleverer politicians,
writes w. T. Stead in Bookloyers Mag
azlne. DR.. Gordon Sprigg, the pres
ent premier of Cape: Colony,-told me
last year that the rough Dutch farm
ers from the back country had such a
natural intuitive genius for politics
that after three weeks in parliament
they could give points to any British
member who had been in the house
Tor months.
Not only are they better men all
:ound on land, not only are they ADLER
politicians all round in the houses OF
parliament, but, what is far more i'm
portant, they are better breeders of
men. The British colonist, following
the example Of the Frenchman and the
New Highlander. shrinks from the
primal task of multiplying and increas-
ing and replenishing the earth. The
Dutch cradle is never. empty. If the
hand that rocks the cradle sways the
world, it is not less true that the race
that fills the cradle will possess the
world. Hence the destiny. Of South
Africa seems tolerably certain to be
that OF a federation of >e~lf-governing
states, preeminently Dutch, which will
or will not be sheltered by the union
jack, according to the readiness of the
imperial government 10 recognize
tho it has no authority over African.
ders. b
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05
INTRIGUE FOR AN ESTATE.
Polish Countess Charged with Sub.
, stituting Child Which She
i3iii Claims as Her Own. II

"A sensation has been caused among
the Polish and German nobility by the
arrest of Countess Isabella Weisierska
Kwileski, wife of a great Polish mag
nate, on the charge of substituting a
child as her own for the purpose OF
securing for her family an estate OF
$4,000 acres.
The story reads like an old-fashinned
romance. The incidents were first
made public in 1896, when the countess
claimed hat she had borne a male
child. She was then so years old, and
had not borne a child for 17years. The
remarkable, though not impossible,
occurrence excited the suspicion OF
Count Mirjislaw Kwileski, a member
of the upper house of the Prussian
diet, and the head of a collateral
branch Of the family, which, in the
event of the countess and her husband
dying without a son, would have in
herited the estate.
When the child was four years old
Count Mirjislaw thought he had OBJ
tanned sufficient evidence to prove the
substitution. He brought a civil ac-
ton to set aside the boys rights, and
lost the case. This was two years ago.
He continued to gather evidence,
which is now abundant enough to have
induced the police to arrest the
tess, the charge against her being sub
stitution for the sake of gain, to which
a penalty of ten years penal servi-
tude attaches. The trial will take
place in Berlin. Two hundred wit
nesses have besn subpoenaed.
Both branches of the family have
many friends in exalted circles, and
the case has caused great excitement
among them. !
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05
Domestic Wireless. Telegraph.

larconi believes that at some fu'
ture time-he will not fix a date fo1
it-wireless telegraphy will become
available for domestic and office use,
thus performing the functions al.
lotted to the telephone. He has al.
ready made experiments which con.
vince him that it will be possible,
with the aid of small models, or min.
iatures, of his sending apparatus, as
now erected on a gigantic scale at
Poldhu and elsewhere, to transmit
messages from the interior of rooms
which car be received in other rooms
in the same city, Or in the neighbor-
ing towns. The walls of the houses
will form no obstacle, but one of the
chief problems will be that of a prop
er attuning of the instruments to
prevent interference of waves, and
to secure privacy for the messages.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05
THE 7
DssAous Relic in the City Of Aexieo
That Was Carved Over Four
i! Centuries Are.

One Of the %curiosities of all ages 10
built in the wall of the cathedral in
the City of Mexico. 1t is the Aztec
calendar, carved in 1912. While being
carted to its destination it broke down
a bridge and fell to the bottom of the
lake in which the city was built, kill
ing priests and people. With great
difficulty it, was raised out of the wa
ter. With other objects Of heather
worship it raj afterward buried in the
marsh, as the best way to get rid of it,
and there it lay hidden for two CEN
turtles. I'm 1890 the Spanish viceroy al
lowed it to be built into the cathedral
on condition that it should be pre-
served and exposed always in a public
place. 1t is now, however, held as the
property of the National museum, says
the New York Press.
The Aztec calendar is a solid piece Of
stone, IL feet in diameter. 1t divides
time into cycles, years and days. Fifty.
two years constitute a cycle; the yeal
sos days, with five %intercalary days
wholly devoted to human sacrifces
Each yeor had 10 months Of 20 days
each. and each month four weeks o.
hve days each. The days had such
names AZ Sea Animal, Small Bird
Monkey. Rain. etc, and each Of the q
days had a different name. The point,
of the compass we're named Reed
House, Flint and Rabbit, instead o.
east, west, north and south. When at
Aztec said: Il I'm going House ON SCI
Animal" he meant that he was start
ing west on Monday. The month o
March was called Victims Played Alive
while July's title was Garlands of Corr
on the necks Of Idols.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05
SURE DEATH TO wooDcHUcKs.
OaaAda,s DeDArtnent Of Agriculture
Tells How to Do AVA with
the PeS40. ~

In many parts of Canada a good deal
Of damage is annually done in grain.
hay and pasture fields by the common
woodchuck, or grounding. Not only
is q considerable amount of grain or
fodder consumed by these animals,
but much more is trampled upon and
destroyed, while the open burrows are
occasionally responsible for accidents
to horses employed in harvesting.
Many ways, of. destroying these ami
mails have been devised, but ordinary
methods frequently fail to keep them
in check. Probably the simplest and
most satisfactory method is that Of
the use of bisulphide Of carbon, an in
fammable liquid which, on exposure
to air, volatilizes into q vapor that 10
very destructive to animal life. A bull
letin has been issued by the depart
ment Of agriculture. telling how to APP
ply the remedy, reports the Toronto
Star. One special advantage of carbon
bisulphide is that its vapor 10 more
than twice as heavy a. air, so that in
. w%oodchuck burrow it will follow
along the hole until it reaches the bot
tom, crowding the air above it to the
top. As the animal is likely TO be in
,he lower part of the burrow, it 10 al
most certain to inhale the poisonous
vapor and be killed.
The equipment. necessary for this
sort Of w%oodchuck hunt consists of q
bottle of carbon bisulphide, a bundle
Of old cotton or other cloth, a pail and a
spade. The pail is filled with dirt and
set near the hole ready to turn in; then
a piece of cloth is held between thumb
and finger, saturated with about an
ounce Of the liquid, and Immediately
thrown 40 far into the burrow al
possible. The pail of dirt is quickly
thrown into the hole, and the entrance
carefully closed. If there is more
than one entrance, all but one should
be flledsin before the treatment This
method not only kills the old wood
chuck, but destroys in a humane man
ner the young in the burrow. 1t has
too, the additional advantage that the
animal is O. only killed but is buried
and the hole is filled. so that consider
able time is thus saved.
1t should be distinctly understood
by everyone who uses carbon bisul
phide for any purpose that it is high
ly volatile, infammable and poisonous
and it is also highly explosive. Will
any reasonable care in its use, how
ever, out of doors, no i'll results cal
follow.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05
GltU in Brl6t
G. F. Simms, of Grand Forks, was
a visitor in our city last Monday.

a GU "a ~ SACy 1dSU IAOQudS.
The Devils Lake baseball club will
go to York Sunday to play the club al
that place.
Mrs. Ole Serumgard represented the
local lodge Of Rebekahs at the state
annual meeting Of the assembly held
at Grand Forks on last TUESDAY and
Wednesday.
There are always opportunities tc
buy town property at a bargain.
The trouble is to find them. M. P.
Nef & Co., will save you the trouble
they have found them Call and
see them.
Miss Marion Adamson and Miss
Bessie B. Currie of Merriam Park,
Mimi, who have been the guests OF
Mrs. w. Fl. Lackey, left last Monday
evening for an extended visit to Sc
attic, Wash.
The sinking in Of the earth over
the water mains has left the streets in
bad condition and accidents resulting
in damage suits are not in the list of
impossibilities. The fault should be
remedied at once.
The baseball game between Devils
Lake and Starkweather on Decoration
day resulted in a score Of ID to 8 in
favor of Devils Lake. A large crowd
vas present. In the game Sunday
Devils Lake beat the same club by a
score Of 20 to 5.
E. A. Bryn, one of the Oldest
settlers in Grand Harbor township,
was in the city Tuesday on his way
to his claim near Rugby. Mr.. Bryn
has been helping his brother seed the
big plantation near Grand Harbor and
now returns to his homestead to finish
seeding there. He reports crops look
ing finer than he ever saw them be-
fore.
Land Man Powell: 1 have Just
made out the papers for Hon. C. E..
Clark Of Warrensbury, Mo-, in the
transfer of $50 arces OF land in Sulli-
van township this county to Phillip
G%reenberg, postmaster at Benzoin.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05
FOR SALE ON CROP CONTRACT
At q Low Price Any of the Lands Dsscrib-
ed Below, or Will Sell any of Said
Lands at 4 Bargain For Cash or
Part Cash.

NELSON COUNTY.
N E x Sec. 2s-154.59.
VIZ Sc Il and E u W Il 32.154.50.
RAMSEY COUNTY.
S E Il Sec. 3-155-6O.
s E X Sec. 25-155-eo.
W u N W a Sec. 1913 81.
S w a Sec. 6-155.61.
SH Sec. 2O-155-e1.
NJ NV 4 Sec. 7,155,s2.
s E a Sec. 31-155-e2.
NV d NEA Sec. ss-155.e2.
S F Il Sec. 4-156.82.
N IN d and N HNEA Sec. l.
1888.
S E u Sec. 2-154-es.
E IS 4 2, and E14 N w Il Sec.
11-155-62.
EE N W ID Sec. %12-155-63.
Lot 2, Sec. 1-156-63 Csc acres.
S E "a Sec. 6-15G-63.
VIZ W 4 Sec. 31-156,63,
S E 4 Sec. Island N E Il Sec. 49,
1878. 2
One hundred acres under cultiva-
ton. None cropped this year can be
summer fallowed and prepared for
next crop. Good buildings. Good
meadow, excellent land, only three
miles from market.
VIZ Sec. 1-153-64.
EH S a and S W a Sc Sec.
15.154-64.
Lot 4, Sec. 4 and lots /, 9, 3, and SH
a Sec. 5-156-64 (3O3 acres.
S VIZ Sec. 17-15G-64.
N W a Sec. 16157-64.
N w a u Sec. 21-157-64.
Lots, s., 6, and 7, Sec. 1 and NJ N
w a, Sec. 1s-155.65 (16O acres.
$ w n, N E ID, N w Il Sc Il and
lots 3 and 4, Sec. 7-156.G5 (151 acres.
VIZ Sec. 35-156-G6.
i also have a few bargains in Eddy,
Bottineau, Pierce, Rolette aud Towner
counties that I can sell at a low figure
or on crop contract.
Write or call on me at Devils
Lake, N. D. John W.. Maher.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05

education advise the uniting of
small schools into large schools
wherever practicable. Two schools
often each furnish on an average one.
half as many recitations if united as
they do when separate, owing to the
possibility of pairing or classifying
pupils of the same degree Of advance
ment. Four such schools united into
one will give forty pupils, with
CLASSES which can be more efficiently
taught than before, because the pupil
can learn more in a class of several
than in class consisting Of himself,
alone.
1t requires no exaggerated flight of
imagination to predict that within a
very few years there will be many
central schools in this country where
pupils shall receive instructions not
only in the several branches of learn
ing, but also practical training in
cooking, sewing. gardening, farming,
AMI the trades; where there will be
not only good school buildings, but
also a residence for the teachers, and
an assembly hall and library for the
use Of the pupils and parents; where
the school grounds will furnish object
lessons in tho planting and care Of
trees and flowers with a model garden
and farm in conjunction; where boys
and girls will form a taste for both
work and study-essent,al elements
in tho making of useful men and
women and good and patriotic citizens
for the preservation of our nation; and
where specially constructed automo.
bile a hall afford a means of safe
and rapid transit for all.
I have not attempted to quote
statistics at length, to weary with
comparison, or to enter into detailed
descriptions, but rather to review
the most salient features of the
system.
North Dakota schools are by no
means inferior to those of other
states and they will not hesitate in
the adoption of such improvements
as may be found necessary to keep
them in the vanguard of the edu-
cational institutions of this great
and glorious nation.
Note.-The needed legislation re-
ferred to in this paper was enacted
last winter and will become effective
on July 1, so that it will then be pos
sible by a majority vote either tc
consolidate the schools of the district,
or. to convey pupils at the expense OF
the district to and from schools al.
ready established. The school board
is authorized to pay for the transpor.
tation of pupils to and from a school
in an adjacent district Also, two OF
more adjacent school districts may
join in the establishment and support
of a high school, a graded school, OF
both, when empowered to do so by
the majority of the voters i'll eacl
district.
Great credit is due State Supt.
Stockwell and leading legislators OF
the state, including those from Ram.
sey county, for the important school
legislation enacted by the eighth leg.
islative assembly. l.. B. F.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05
Treasures of the Sea.

Divers recently raised from the
Mediterranean, off Sicily, about thirty
old guns which, they say, belonged to
the Dutch and Spanish ships sunk by
the French in 1876. At any rate, nine
of the guns are adorned with the
ancient insignia of the Netherlands.
There is greater treasure in the sea
than out-of-date guns, and when sub
marine navigation has become safer.
one may expect exploring expeditions
in the great deep which vii! yield re-
suits as rich as any which crown the
efforts of explorers on land.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05
To Encourage Tree Planting.

There are many historic trees in
the country. and it is believed by
the department of agriculture that
interest in tree planting can be slim
ulated by distributing a limited num-
Der of these trees under proper di-
rection. The seedlings, when grown,
will be sent to schools in various
parts of the country, and there will
accompany each tree a concise state
nent setting forth the historic events
connected with the tree itself and the
growing of the seeding.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05
TAKEN UP.

Came to the Monastery pasture,
about two weeks ago, a black COW
with few white spots. Has had calf
since taken up. Owner will please
call, prove:property, pay charges, and
take animal away. 1915
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05
international Telephones.

Great activity is now being dis
played in the extension of interna'
tional telephones. Brussels and Lon
ion and Paris and Rome are already
connected. Negotiations are now IN
progress between the Russian and
German governments to still further
enlarge the area of international
telephones by 4 direct line connect
.ng St. Petersburg and Berlin.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05
American Railways.

Railway mileage in the United States
has passed the 100000 mark, which is
considerably o than two-ffths Of
ithe entire railway mileage Of the
'World.-Railway News.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-06-05
handkerchief for Soldiers.

The Russian government has de-
creed that in future all soldiers of
the empire must use handkerchiefs
heretofore not one soldier out of
a thousand has INDUCED in this lux
ury-and that all the handkerchiefs
must contain pictures emblematic of
a soldiers life, both in battle and in
time of peace. ---- =