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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

ooh, that's only his way we often
hear pleaded in excuse for some one
But when a mans ways are offensive
to his fellows he's called upon to AZ
ter them.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

Prince Albert Kakailimoku Kumuia
kha, last descendant of King Kane
hameha of Hawaii, is dead. Let us
hope he has gone where the good arc
o. X.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

Great Britain has purchased the
cruisers offered for sale by Argentina
John Bull may be a little bit slow
but he rarely overlooks naval bar
gain.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

Tie messenger boys can never ex
pect to conduct a successful strike
until they invent a scheme by which
they can exercise authority over thci,
mothers.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

England again has been consider
ing the problem OF food supply in
case Of a foreign war. The best way
to dispose OF that matter is to keep
on good terms with the United
States. In that case there viii
always be food end to spare.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01
Aubrey Arrested Again.

Mi.waukee, March 3O--J. Matt Au.
brey. former son-in-law OF Chief
Justice Fuller. has been again arrest.
ed on forgery charge, the fourth
time In two years. He will be ex-
amined for his sanity.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

From recent numerous scandaloul
eruptions in royal circles abroad one
gathers that the sarsaparilla marke,
is on the verge of a boom.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

The big supply of smokeless powder
that the sultan is arranging to buy
in Germany is not designed for toilet
use by the female members of his
happy family.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

Count Boni de Castellane says he is
delighted with America. Evidently
the Gould checks have, been liberal
of late.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

The Louisville Courier-Journal rises
superior to local prejudices in an ed
itorial on the Value of Kentucky
Waterways"
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

The lioness Aesop tells about, you
remember, entertained a somewhat
different opinion concerning large fam.
lilies.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

There would be no talk of race sui.
eide II all married couples were like
Mr. and Mrs. Cormac McCallis OF
Hazleton, Penn, who have just had
their twenty-third child born to them.
Mrs. McCallis is forty-fve She was
married at the age Of sevente o..
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

The news that the author of "Al.
Coons Look Alike to Me- is a bank.
rupt should cause genuine regret ip
!ndianola.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01
FIRE aAT WALKER.
srauIding Hotel Burns ~ Two Other
\ Concerns Burned Out.

Concerns Burned Out.
Walker, Mimi, March 80. - AT 4
o'clock yesterday morning fire COM
pleteTy destroyed the Spaulding hotel
with all it's contents, wiped out G. L.
Logan's restaurant and Albert Carl
sons saloon and gave the court house
scorching. though the latter was
saved by hard work of the fire depart
ment and citizens. The losses are:
John King, hotel, $4,000; Albert Carl
son, saloon, $500: C. L. Logan, res
taurant,s 5000. King was the only one
who carried Insurance.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

Theatrical managers love a full
house, but it is sad sight for the
man whose three aces have induced
him to pay to witness it.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

A Kansas City telephone girl has
been awarded $12,50O damages be
cause the manager shook her, not
figuratively, but literally. Moral: II
is better just to talk to q telephone
girl.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01
HAziNe MAKES INSANITY.
Young Boy Il Badly Used at Z School
in Wisconsin.

IN Wisconsin,.
GAINESVILLE, Wis.,, March 80. Earl
Cleves Of Sioux City, Iowa, has been
taken home In demented condition,
it is said, as a result Of q severe haz-
ing by his fellow students at local
telegraph school. Young Cleves is
Nineteen years of age. After the
hazing he tried to break into several
houses to escape from crowd which
he imagined was pursuing him. It is
asserted that the hazers stole $50
from him.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

Sir Thomas Upton has served no
tee that he is coming for the cup
this time. He is tired Of being merely
jolly good fellow.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

kipling's new poem would seem to
indicate that he wants to hedge on
the fanneled fools and muddied OATS.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

In the matter Of swelling the death
rate the late Dr.. Calling easily headed
his profession.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01
New Pledged Teachers.

New FIedgcd cachers'
Menomonie, Wis, March so. the
Dunn county normal school graduated
a class OF twenty-three teachers yes
sterday. All Of them will teach school
in the county. Another class OF twelve
will be graduated in June.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

There are plenty of men who viii,
never grow round-shouldered from car
rying their brains.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01
People Talked About.

The president has announced the
selection of the Hon. D. B. Henderson
Of Iowa to serve as member Of the
board of visitors to the West Point
military academy.
Jefferson H. Nones, retired naval
officer, died in his apartments in Phil
adelphia, aged seventy-nine years. He
entered the navy in 1910, resigning at
he outbreak of the Civil war.
L. p. Parker of Beloit, Wis, has
been appointed national bank ex-
lminer Of the district of Wisconsin
IND Minnesota to succeed S. H. Culver
# Superior, who has resigned.
The National Reform association
met at Pittsburg and protested against
the election of and seating in the SEN
ate Of Reed Smoot of Utah. They are
making plans to have him unseated at
he next election.
Noble D. La7ner, one OF the best
known residents of Washington, died
Of heart failure in the Sunday school
room of the New York Avenue Presby-
terian church just after delivering his
annual report as treasurer.
Mrs. Cora H. WILDER, an actress, the
wife of Arthur r. WILDER, manager OF
Hoyt's "a Texas Steer" company,
and until three years ago the star IN
that production under the stage name
Of Alice Roseland, died suddenly at
her home in Washington.
William Miller Collier of New York
nas been appointed by the president
as special assistant to the attorney
general and assigned to duty as so
licitor of the department OF commerce
and labor in connection with the en-
eorcement Of the antitrust laws.
John ]. Reilly was found dead in
mis- bed in the Grand Union hotel ia
New York. He went to the hotel on
the 9Th inst, registering as coming
from Ell Paso, Tex. A one-ounce
phial was found beside him in which
was some laudanum. Several papers
relating to mining deals indicated that
the man was in financial difficulties.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

English earls and American poker
never have become thoroughly &C
quainted
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

Some people are already beginning
to fldget for fear panama hats may be
stylish again next summer
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01

Cornell professors will get pensions
of $1,500 per year if they escape ty'
phoid until they are seventy.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01
ORE SEASON OPENS.
Load OF Metal is Dumped at the Great
Northern Docks.

+ @4 NoFtnerU OUCNS.
West Superior, Wis, March 30. -
The local ore season opened yesterday
with the arrival of forty-five cars OF
ore at the Great Northern dock. This
is the earliest opening Of the ore
season in the history of the local deck,
the earliest heretofore being on April
3. Between forty and fifty train crews
will be employed throughout tire sea-
son. The work en- the new dock is
progressing rapidly, ard it is thought
that by the time the other two docks
arc full new ono viii be ready.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01
Sailors Lost in a Forest.

Sailors loSt ia TOTSss'
Victoria, B. c., March 80. ~ Three
sailors Who deserted from the seal
ing schooner Triumph at Bamfield
creek. are lost somewhere In the for
ests hetween that point and Victoria.
Two Indians have also been lost.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01
OF the Ueek
-At.... IN

At Somerville, Mass, the table
factory OF Brown & Simonds and an
adjoining building occupied by Hy-
mon Hillson, manufacturer Of tinware.
gas and oil stoves, were burned. Loss,
800, 900.
As a result Of a family feud David
Gaines shot his son Lloyd, fourteen
years old, in the breast at Franklin,
Ind. An older son, who interfered.
was shot through the left hand. The
younger brother will die.
Benjamin Valerie, an Italian of Chi,
cago, attempted to shoot his former
sweetheart at her marriage to anoth-
er, took a shot at the bridegroom and
some others, and then killed himself
All the wounded will recover.
Cassimir Ciccione, the aged Italian
who was arrested as one OF the prin-
cipals in the New York city insurance
frauds, died in Pittsburg. Cissione
blamed his son for getting him into
trouble, and says he made nothing out
of the frauds. a
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01
nro4h 80 plead ed Guilty.

Huron, S. D., March 80. ~ Roy and
Riley Hartwick, two married men
from Sioux Falls, entered pleas OF
g,silty to charges OF adultery. Sen
tence has not yet been pronounced.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01
And get rich quick investor also Is
born every minute.

Mr.. Kipling prefers the 'bagpipes, but
he can also touch the lutte.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-04-01
casulIalties.

Ca8uAIetee.
4 Reports of damage to the peach crop
from the drop in temperature are com.
ing in from Western Michigan.
A collision occurred near Evanston
Wyo., and Brakeman ]. A. Getchell.
twenty eight years old. was killed.
A street car ran down . hill at East
Liverpool, Ohio, and was wrecked, In
juring fifteen persons more or less Sc
riOusly.
The Wholesale and retail furniture
store of William Heyns at Evansville,
Ind, was destroyed by fire. Loss
over $4,000.
Hentsch's bonded warehouse at sgd.
ney, N. S. w., containing 10000 tons
of merchandise, was burned. and the
loss is estimated at $2,5OO,00O
The entire plant Of the Jennison
Iron and Engine works at Jennison,
Mich, were burned. LOSS, $5O, 1000;
fully insured. The origin OF the fire is
unknown.
The carelessness Of Alexander Ken.
perty in smoking pipe near can OF
powder in a quarry in West Rutland,
VT, caused an explosion which cost
him his life and injured seven others.
AS result of an explosion in Do
minion No colliery at Glace Bay, G..
B., four men are, missing and seventy
eight horses were suffocated by fire
damp, and property estimated at halt
a million dollars was destroyed.
The breaking Of coupling followed
by runaway of a string of loaded
coal cars in the Sunshine mine at
South Fork, Pa, caused the death Of
three men, the fatal injury of one and
serious injuries to nine others.
The main. portion Of the smelling
works of the United States Reduction
and Refining company at Canyon City,
Colo, was destroyed by fire. the loss
being 100000. Immense new build
ings 2oOxsO feet in area were de-
stroyed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-02-20
A WAR TIME HERoINF.
How the, Daughter of John NJ. raIu,,-
er Stood-OR II Hand of
GuerilIns.

There is story connected with the
earlier life of the late John NJ. Palmer,
of Illinois, that, though told before,
will bear repeating, says the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
1t was nearing the close of the civil
war Gen. Palmer, on one of his Wis
it's to his home at Carlinville, had
brought with him negro boy, Martin,
from the south, and had turned him
over to the care of his family when he
went back to the army.
1t was not long before it became evil
dent that the whole proceeding was
obnoxious to the southern sympathiz-
ers living in the little town, and there
were many. The Palmer family heard
vague whispers about the "guerrillas,"
then flourishing about the country,
and they kept Martin close at home.
But early one morning, when the
sun was just reddening the east,
band of about 80 masked men rode to
the house to demand the boy. Con-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-02-20

hour passed without halt. Twenty
minutes for dinner was the only halt
in more than 35 miles. With the aft
ernoon the pace of the hurried march
increased. The reason thereof was
evident. Great clouds of white smoke
rising over yonder Ground tops" and
the boom! boom! boom! of distant
cannon told that the battle was on.
The heat increased. Thirst was in
tense. The power of endurance was
almost exhausted, when refreshment
came in an unexpected manner. Farm
ers having spiked boards on top of
their door yard fences were drawing
water in barrels, and the women and
children, God bless them, with cups,
bowls and basins, were dipping the
cool water and placing it within the
thirsty soldiers reach. Men would
rush from the ranks, drink the re-
freshing draught and double-quick
back into place. Among the many
monuments that mark deeds of valor
on that field of carnage should be one
to the women and children who served
cold water to the soldiers on that
memorable march.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-02-20
dJs2H1 Ga7zkAM-

rest shrilly-"cut down one O. Dan'l
Sears cherry trees"
"Why, Luther Ben Keep! You
celebrate any way but honest, same as
George Washington did. You don't
s'pose he'd we cut down anybody's
cherry tree but his pas, do you? l
should SMILE"
This nice bit of ethics was lost on
Luther Ben. He had his own doubts as
to the eminent respectability of cut
ting down ones own fathers cherry
tree. But Hannibal was indisputable.
Just then the door opened and Black
Auntie's shiny face wedged through
the crack and regarded the Keep twins
Indignantly.
"Dar now, you come long in an get
yo' supper, honeys," she said, genially,
when the work was done. 'Yo' NAM
ny's got de mis'ry in her haid an yo'
pas done gone to town. Dey ain on'y
you lii chillens 10 eat Black Auntie's
hoecake dis night"
And so for awhile the question of cell
ebrating Washington's birthday hung
in allegiance. But only for little while.
The Keep twins never thought of Civ
ing it up They had been accustomed
to excepting" all holidays with strict
impartially since they graduated
from pinafores. They had just cele-
brated Saint Valentines day, and when
Luther Ben had asked: "What next ?"
Hannibal had answered promptly:
"Washington's birthday, of course, you
goosie!" Eut the old celebration,
with flags and "mass meeting" as
Luther Ben called it, was not in good
favor this year. That's old. It's got
to be something new," Hannibal de-
clared, stifIy.
He was still struggling with the prob
lem when the twins went to bed, and
long after Luther Ben's peaceful
sncres sounded softly in the small,
Inoon-lighted room, he was still think
ing. Suddenly he sat upright in bed
and tweaked Luther Ben's uppermost
ear
Luther Ben! Lu-ther Ben!" he
whispered, sharply.
Luther Ben was dreaming, and the
sky of his dream was all at once rent
with storm clouds. A bitter blast was
nipping his ears-an earthquake, cy-
clonel
"Luther Ben Keep, why don't you
woke up? Here I've been a-pinchin
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-02-20
Gen. nutIer mt New orIean..

Representative Meyer, of New Or.
leans, was in group of former con-
federate soldiers, who were telling
war stories in the democratic cloak
room. Somebody mentioned Gen
"Ben" Butler and the historical
spoons.
"Spoons!" snorted Meyer. "Did !
ever tell you what those soldiers OF
Buffers did to my folks? was away
fighting when they entered New Or
leans. A squad of them came into
my house, where my mother was
cooking dinner. What do you sup.
pose they did?"
"stole the dinner" said Represen.
tative Spight, of Mississippi.
"Stole the dinner, my eye!" said
Meyer. "They threw the dinner or
the floor and stole the stove,"-
Washington Correspondence N, Y
World.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-02-20

Keep twins sang all the verses OF
Hail Columbia" between every plant.
ing.
A year went by, in which the three
trees grew thriftily, and the Keep
twins learned wisdom. For, instead
of cutting down the cherry trees for
the next celebration, according to
the programme, they planted another
three! That made six. And the
third Washington's birthdays trees
made nine. Nine hearty little cherry
trees make quite "a many" as Black
Auntie said admiringly. And Mother
Keep grew SO enthusiastic over the
solemn rites and ceremonies, and so
aroused pas enthusiasm, that, at the
fourth celebration, five little trees
set foot in the kind Virginia soil and
took root.
BY that time, the Keep twins were
growing up at great rate and be-
ginning to talk about going to col
lege! College?-the little "Nibble"
and Luther Ben going to college!
Black Auntie spread their bread with
jam persistently and refused to rec.
ognize their superior inches. Mother
Keep went in at night to see if they
were tucked up; and the Keep twins
themselves filled Black Aunties chip
basket-or didn't fill it, as of old.
But it came just the same-the day
when Mother Keep and pa and Black
Auntie and "little" big Alaric stooA
on the doorsteps and waved good by
to the Keep twins, going to college!
1t had to come-like the measles, pa
said.
That Washington's birthday the
cherry trees were planted by proxy,
and Alaric sang Hail Columbia"
alone. But it was a worthy celebra-
tion enough, for pa-as he had done
for several years-added apple and
peach and pear trees to the planting
for "Keeps," you know. And in
that wise, how the orchard grew!
How the country's great father Its
godfather-would have smiled be.
nignly upon it's straight rows, and,
in his great heart, been hono.ed!
When the Keep twins came home
the first long vacation, Black Auntie
was making cherry preserves in the
| little out-of-doors kitchen, and, on
the table in the hall, pyramids of
y-jacketed little fellows greeted
them-and vanisbedl-Country Gen.
tleToan.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-02-20
an a-shaking you'll Wake up! I tell
Il

an a-shalting you'll Wake up! tell
you I've got it'll"
guessyou've got fits, 'Nibble Keep
that's the way you act! Lemme lionel"
grumbled poor sleepy Luther Ben. But
Hannibal bolstered him up beside him,
and patiently punched and prodded
him into a degree of wakefulness.
"We'l plant one" he announced
then, with cheerful brevity, "I've been
thinkin' it out"
"Plant a--plant-oh, cherry tree!"
murmured Luther Ben, with brave
effort.
can then next year we'll cut it
down, you know" ran on HannioaPs
brisk little voice. "That1l make cele-
bration 'nough for two Washington's
birthdays"
Spring opens early in Virginia. II
treads on the coat tails of old win
ter, and usurps his rightful place au-
daciously. Already the blowing had
begun on the little Keep farmstead,
and the soil was rapidly loosening
itself from the grip of the white old
maN's fingers. 1t would be very
spring presently.
1t was decided to plant two cherry
trees-one apiece; and, later still, lit
tie Alaric was taken into partnership
and graciously permitted to take an
active part in the celebration. The
Keep twins, however, earned all the
money to buy the trees.
The time between st. Valentines
day and Washington's birthday be-
ing short, it was necessary, as Luther
Ben said, "to hustle" Besides, there
was little Alaric's tree to earn, too
Perhaps it was fortunate for the
Keep twins soft little muscles and
bones that the nurseryman at Eagle
Lake sold his wintered stock of
young trees at unwonted low rates
or was it that he did it spontaneously
at sight of his small customers?
They were so unwontedly low Al
any rate, on Washington's birthday
the Keep twins, with grave cere'
mony, planted three spindling little
cherry trees in one corner of the
Orchard" Alaric trotted at the tail
of the short procession, and was al
lowed to steady the trunk of his OWL
tree, while Hannibal planted it. The
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-02-20

sternation reigned inside when the
family heard the noise, for there were
no men in the house-a fact the band
outside very probably knew.
Then Miss Bette, the 1S-year-old
daughter of the house, took command.
Her brown eyes flashed as thel knock
ing became imperative, and taking
down pistol from the shelf, ordered
the ashen-hued Martin to go to his
room and lock himself in. She said
afterward that he had turned from
coal-black to leaden gray. after the
manner of frightened darl<ies. Then
to the door she stepped and opened it.
"What do you want?" she demand
ed bravely, but with quick-beating
heart.
"We want the boy, Martini" the
spokesman answered, "and be quick
about it, too. We know he's here"
"Well, you can't have him." said
Miss Bette, "and I'll shoot the first
man that tries to step into the house!"
and she flourished the revolver un-
flinchingly. The men cursed little
and made threats, but, no one offered
to move toward the determined little
lady, and, after whispered consulta-
ton, galloped away.
Then Miss Bette went into the
house-and wept. But she was called
"the daughter of her father" and n
heroine, and was presented with fine
pistol that to-day she shows to grown
up children.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-02-20
snw LINCOLN Shot.

Washington's body servants and the
men who saw Lincoln shot will all die
some day. 1t isn't in the nature of
things for them to live always. One
of the last-named has just passed away
in Oswego, N. Y. He was real one.
too. His name was b. w. Loring, and
he was a lieutenant in the United
States navy at that time. He witnessed
the tragedy, and helped to carry Lin
coin to the house in which he died, just
across the way from the theater where
Booth committed the dastardly deed.
National Tribune.