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The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1903-07-18
TREAsUREIs,S REPRT.


For Novi Hradec School District No. IL. County
1902-1903
RECEIPTS.
Cash on hand !rso at beginning OF school mo Q,
Total amount received during the year
@ from the apportionmcnt OF the State ,.,o ~
Total amount W received during the year ,' wv ~
i31! from the apPortlonment of the county ,,, &C
Amount received during tho year from "
taxes levied blythe district school board.
including outstanding warrants re-
deemed or endorsed in the collection
OF taxes. 5b3 AZ
Total receipts for the year, including
cash on hand July l, 1902 ............. 1884 40
EXPENDITURES.
Amount paid during the yoar for appara-
Amount paid during the year for teach
Amount Ppeid during the year for services NV
and expenses Of school officers. ......... 81 so
Amount paid during the year for interest
on bonds and warrants.... ........ 81 50
Amount paid during the year for Incl
Amount paid duriug the year for pur-
noses not before mentioned. ...... so %
Total expenditures during The year.. 1853 80
Cash on hand Juue 80. 1903. ............. 20SO 81
Grand total expenditures and cash on
hand, to balance above total receipts 1854 II
RELATING TO SINKING FUND.
Amount of sinking fund in treasury July -. m
!, toi w
Balance in sinking fund June 30, 19o3.... 73l %
o. f. FOOTE,
Treasurer of Novi Hradec School Dist. No. 2.
Approved this 18th day of July, A. u. 1903.
0' ''us' Oh 'n' S'H0c JEFF Eff MCDONALD
President
Attest: JOS. oUKRoP,
District Clerk.
CLERKS STATEMENT OF INDEBTEDNESS.
Whole amount of warrants outstanding
Totat indebtedness of district June 80,
19Uo.... ..............'.... 1'oo w
Approved this 14th day of July, A. d 1908
BY Order of the School Board:
JOS. OUKROP, Clerk.
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DISCUSS JEWISH PETITION.
Important Conference Takes Place at
Oyster Bay.

important Conference Takes Place At
Oyster Bay.
Oyster Bay, L. L., July 15.-An i'm
portant conference was held at Saga
more Hill during the day between the
president and representative Jewish
citizens from the Society Of B'Nai
BIRTH regarding the petition to the
Russian government on the Kishineff
outrages. Besides the president the
parties to the conference were Simon
S. Wolf of Washington, Oscar. 8.
Straus and Leon Levi of New York.
Messrs. Wolf, Levi and Straus con-
cluded their conference with the presi-
dent and left for New York in the af-
ternoon. Prior to their departure they
announced that, while their conference
had been eminently satisfactory, they
were not in a position at this time to
discuss the result Of the interview.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1903-07-18
FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS,

AN OLD AND WELL.TR1ED REMEDY.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been
used for over sixty years by millions Of
mothers for their children while teething,
with perfect success. 1t soothes the
child, sottens the gnms, allays all pains,
cures wind collie, and is the best remedy
for Diarrhoea. Is pleasant to the taste.
Sold by druggists in every part OF the
world. Twenty-Five cents bottle. Its
value is incalculable) Be sure and ask
for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, and
take no other kind
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1903-07-18
Chicago Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, July 4.-Cattle-Good to
prime steers. $5.00@5.5O; poor to me-
dium, s4.00@4.90; stockers and feed
ers, s2.5O@4.50; cows, $1.50@4.25;
heifers, $2.25@5.00; calves, s2.50@
600. Hogs-Mixed and butchers, $5.15
@5.4O; good to choice heavy, $3.50
5.35; rough heavy, $4.90@5.15; light,
$545@5.65. Sheep-Good to choice,
$375@4.00; Western, $2.50@4.50; ma
five lambs. S3.OC@6.5O.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1903-07-18
Wealthy erooklynite Suicides,

New York, July 14.-Edwin D.
Phelps, formerly a well known piano
manufacturer of Brooklyn and re-
puted millionaire and more recently
stock broker and real estate operator,
was found dead at his home there The
room was full of Illuminating gas and
the police and coroner's reports have
his death as suicide.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1903-07-18
DISASTROUS EXPLOSION.
Three Men Killed and Two Others Sc.
riousIy Injured at Lafiin, Pa,

Wilkesbarre, Pa, July 14.-Three
men were killed, two were seriously
hurt and three buildings destroyed by
an explosion at the Latin powder
works at Latin Monday afternoon.
The dead are: Alexander Moore,
Joseph Gray and Arthur Gray.
The injured are: Thomas Haines
and Josiah Twist.
1t is not known what caused the ex-
plosion. There is a theory that it was
caused by friction from some of the
machinerv
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Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, July 14.-Wheat-To arrive
NO. hard, 87hc; No. 1" Northern,
SEC; No. 2 Northern, 84hc; July, SEC;
Sept, 77Ac; Dec, 75hc. Flax-In
store, to arrive, on track and July,
99Ac; Sept, S1.01; Oct, $1.01A;
Nov, s1.O1h.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1903-07-18
THOUSANDS SLEEP IN PARKS.
Rigid Police Rule Suspended During
Hot Spell.

New York, July 13.-Thousands of
persons slept peacefully in the parks
of Greater New York during the night,
despite the heat, secure in the knowl-
edge that no policeman would awake
them and drive them back to their
oven-like tenements, lodging houses
and thickly peopled apartment build
ings. One of the most rigid police
rules was ordered suspended and the
officers in all boroughs were notified
to see that no orderly person availing
himself of the privilege was disturbed.
The suspension of the rule will con-
tinue during the heated term
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St. Paul Union Stock Yards

St. Paul, July 14-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, s4.25@5.OO; common to
fair, $3.00@4.O0; good to choice cows
and heifers, $3.25@4.OO; veals, $3.50
@5O0. Hogs-$5.15@545. Sheep
Good to choice, s4.10@4.40; lambs,
S5.5O@6.OG
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1903-07-18
EDITORS ELECT OFFICERS.
P. v. Collins of Minneapolis Chosen
President.

President. j
Omaha, July 11.-After a spirited
contest P. v. Collins, editor of the
Northwestern Agriculturist, Minneap.
oils, was elected president Of the Ma
tional Editorial association.
Other officers elected were: w. w.
Creas, Alabama, first vice president;
G. c. Woodruff, Connecticut, second
vice president; c. w. Robbins, Maine,
third vice president; J.. M. Page, ILL
nois, corresponding secretary; R. M.
White, Missouri, recording secretary;
James c. Gibbs, Ohio, treasurer.
The convention listened to! paper
on "The Reporter" by Mrs. iEdyth To-
zier Weatherred of the Portland Ore
gonian, and one on "The Southern
Press" by T. s. Jones Of Alabama.
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BOLT HITS BATHERS.
Three Men at Washington the Victims
of liqhtninu,

Washington, July 14.-During a ter
riblc thunder storm which passed
over the city lightning struck a boat
house near the Potomac river in
which about dozen men had taken
refuge on their way home from the
bathing beach. One man was killed
outright, another SO badly injured he
may die, and still another is in the
hospital suffering severely from the et.
fects of the bolt.
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LABOR PICKET SHOT.

Bullet Believed to Have Been Fired by
Strike Breaker.
Syracuse, N. Y, July 14.-George
Moore, Molders' union picket, was
shot and badly wounded from ambush
at the factory Of E. C. Stearns & Co.
A strike breaker Is believed to have
fired the shot from a Winchester rifle.
A strike has been in progress at the
factory for several weeks.
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MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Minneapolis, July 14.-Wheat-Cash
87Ac; July, 86Ac; Sept, 76hc. On
track-No. hard, 88Ac; No. 1 North
ern, 87Ac; No. Northern, 86Hc;
No. Northern, 83k @84c.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1903-07-18

Nasal Catarrh quickly yields to treat
ment by Elys Cream balm, which is agree
ably aromatic. 1t is received through the
nostrils, cleanses and heals the whole sur
face over which it difuses itself. Druggists
sell the SOC. size; Trial size by mail, 10
cents. Test it and you arc sure to continue
the treatment.
Announcement.
To accommodate those who are partial
to the use of atomizers in applying liquids
into the nasal passages for cc..a'rhal trotl-
1les, the proprictors prepare Cream Balm ia
liquid form, which will 10 known as Ely's
Liquid Cream Ca!m. T:ice including the
spraying tube is Is cents. Druggists or by
mail. The liquid form embodies the med
icinsl properties of the solid preparation. 5
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1000 WotherS.

am prepared to take 1000 wethers.
My ranches are we'll equipped for hand
ling sheep. Address H. o. Baker, Yule,
N. D. 7-II4p
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Board met pursuant to adjournment.
All members present.
classes of personal property was left as
returned by the assessors, namely:
On motion the board adjourned to m,
at 1880 p. m.

Board met pursuant to adjournment.
All members present.
The board having finished the work OF
equalizing and organized as a board of
county commissioners.
On motion board made the following
tax levy on real and personal property
in Billings Co., N. D., for 1903 3,the bond
edindebtedness being $780, 10000 and out
STANDING warrants &I122c.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1903-07-18
SUCCEEDS COLONEL SANGER.

General Olive" of New York to Be AZ.
sistant Secretary Of War.
Oyster Bay. N. T., July 14.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt has decided to appoint
General Robert Shaw Oliver of Albany,
N. Y, as assistant secretary of war
to succeed Colonel William Carey San.
ger, resigned.
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lao, IO4.
The east q of twps. 1877, 1873, I3o, l4o,
range los,
was reduced from one dollar per acre as
returned by tine assessors 10 fifty cents
per acre.
Board adjourned to meet at 9 a. m.
July 9TH.
9. a. m.
Board met pursuant to adjournment.
All members present.
Board again took up the matter OF
equalization and assessment.
A letter was read from X. Finger re-
garding his assessment. The board de-
cided to leave his assessment as returned
by assessor.
Board adjourned to meet at 80 p. m.
1890. p. m.
Board met pursuant to adjournment.
All members present.
On motion the board again took up the
work of qualization.
DR.. J.C..F. Siegfriedt appeared before
the board in regard 70 his assessment
and on motion the auditor was instructed
to make corrections as asked for by said
DR.. &. r. Siegfriedt.
A letter from ]. w. Follis asking to
have his assessment reduced from l5o
to 100 cows was read and on motion the
auditor was instructed to make the
correction as asked for by J. w. Follis.
Board adjourned to meet at a. m
9 a. m., July 9th
Board met pursuant to adjournmen mt.
All members present.
On motion the valuation of the different
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1903-07-18
TO WORK IN HARVEST FIELDS.
Forty College Students Leave New


Forty College students Leave New
York for the West.
New York. July 13-Forty young
men from the universities, including
Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Cornell,
Columbia and Lafayette, who are CO.
ing into the West to aid the farmers
in the harvest fields. left this city dur
ing the day in special car bound for
Kansas. Said one Of them:
"Our intention in going West is to
get the invigorating exercise and life
in the pure. fresh air. that will put us
in the best possible condition for the
fall work in athletics"
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1903-07-18
MILITARY RESTORED ORDER.

Seventeen Persons Injured During a.
Disturbance at Nagyvarad.
Budapest, July 13.-Disorders broke
out Sunday at a meeting of electors
at Nagyvarad, capital of Bihar pro.
vince, which was being addressed by
DR.. Barabas, the leader of the extreme
Left in the Hungarian diet Seven.
teen persons were injured, and the
military had to be summoned to re-
store order. Many arrests were made.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1903-07-18
THIRTY LIVES LOST.
Flood Causes Great Havoc in an Aus
trian VILLAGE.

Breslau, Prussia, July 14.-Thirty
lives have been lost in flood that
has destroyed thirty houses at Graf
faenberg, "a village in Austria. in the
valley of Ereiwaldau.
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july 10.
Board met pursuant to adjourned. All
members present.
Commissioner Roberts offered the fol-
lowing motion:
Moved that L. A. Simpson, assistant
states attorney be and he is hereby al
lowed $40 per annum from April Ist
1903, as travelling and all other expenses
in connection with his official duties.
A petition to have school district
laid out at Beach, Billings county, N. d.,
was presented before the board. Board
took no action for the reason that the
petition was not signed by the required
number OF voters that would be effected
by the change.
Board adjourned to meet at 1880 p. m.
1870 p. m., July 10.
Board met pursuant to adjournment.
All members present.
A petition was presented to the board
asking to have road laid out running
north from Sentinel Butte, N. D.
The board took no action for the rea-
son that petition had not been posted as
required by law.
On motion the following bills we're al
lowed and warrants ordered drawn:
l.. A. Simpson, assistant states attorney s 80 90
Walker Bros. & Hardy, book ............. 46 Oh
4 4 3. S!oddsrd, GO. commissioner. ss 50 50
s. P. Lowery, ......... 81 so
Board took recess subject to the call
OF the chairman. S. M. FERRIS,
Co. Auditor.
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OFFICIAL.
Proceedings Of The Board Of Commission.
ers Of Billings County.

ssoSooOssSS " ssso OOosU " NOsUsUl0SuOU-
ers Of Billings County.
Medora, N. D., July E, 1908.
The board of county commissioners
met in regular session on the above date
at 9 o'clock a. NJ.
Present Commissioners Stoddard and
Roberts.
On motion they resolved themselves
into board OF equalization for the pur-
pose of equalizing the assessment for the
year 1903.
On motion the board adjourned to
meet at 1880 p. IN.
1880 p. m.
Board met pursuant to adjournmen mt
All members present. .
On motion the valuation Of the taxable
lands in Billings county for 1903 was
made as follows:
In townships 1877, 1873, I39, I4o, range
Ic6.
The west 75 of twps. 1877, 1873, I3o. I4o
range lo5.
The east n of twps. 1877, 1873, I3o. 40,
range 100.
Twp. 14I, range os.
:" liz,
The south u oil twp. I42, range %.
The above lands we're valued at one
dollar per acre as returned by assessors.
On motion taxable lands in
Townships 1885, 49, 1885, 49, range 9s.
%.
100
IOi
was reduced from one dollar per acre as
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YEAR---ONE---DOLLAR

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THIRTY-sIx DIE FROM HEAT
Eiahty-three Others Frustrated In and
Around New York.

New York, July 11.-Thirty-six
deaths and SO prostrations in and
around New York and Brooklyn tell
the story of Fridays heat. The tenn.
perature was "a degrees and the hu.
midity 46 per cent.
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PLAGUE SPREADING IN CHILE.
Disease Now Prevalent in Nearly All
the Ports.

Washington, July 14.-United States
Minister Wilson makes, from Santiago,
Chile, a rather long report by cable
to the state department touching the
plague. He says the disease has
spread to nearly all Chilean ports;
that the postal service is disorganized
and that no American mail has been
received at Santiago for nine weeks.
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CHICAGO Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, July 14.-Wheat - July,
76Mc; old, 75Bc; Sept. 7k@77%c;
old, 77Ac; Dec, 76% @77c; old, 77hc;
May, 78Ac. Corn-July, 49%c; Sept,
5O%c; Dec, 49A @49%c; May, 49A q
49Mc. Oats-July, 39Ac; Sept, 33Nc;
Dec, 34% @34kc; May, 36h@36Ac
Pork-July. $685.; Sept, $14.20. Flax
Cash, Northwestern. $1.O2; South.
western, 97c; July. 97c; Sept. $1.01;
Oct, $1.01k. Butter-Creameries, IS
@20c; dairies, 14@18c. Eggs-13@
14kc. Poultry-Turkeys, 12c; chick
ems, 10k @11o.
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lowed ana warrants ordered drawn:
Geo E. Burgess, register of deeds. 80. $3.50 Go
II. Gilbert. clerk of court............... $50 90
Dr. c. F. Siegfyiedt, CO. physicau.... lOO OO
y. TomamtcheI. CO. judge .............. 100 OO
Joseph Gamble, states nttoJnay ......... $50 w
=. NJ. Ferris co. auditor ............... go co
j. Is. Harmon, fuel. .................... 50 90
Chas. Wills, asse-sor.... 1855 10
Samuel White, inspector election and re.
turning poll book. ................... 500
West LIE Sueur. judge OF election. n....... 200
II. Gilbert. inspector election .......... 200
David Nichols, jutlg OF .Icctior aud re.
turning poll book. k....................... 80
Fred Gilbert. judge Of c!erton........... 200
W. ]. Gilbert clerk OF - ........... 200
Chas Gilbert, " " .......... 200
J. B. Harmon, inspector - ...... 200
J.J. Roz.Il, judge Of election and return
ing poll book. ok..:.................. ...... 400
q. ". Myers. judge OF electinn......... 2OO
J. \. Arbuckle, clork ........... 200
}. j. Tomnmichel, " " ....... 200
Peter McQnillen. inspector of election
and returning poll book. .............. 500
John Leakey, judge of elcction.......... 2oo
M. d. Cook, ...... 2OU
W. WOODBURY. clerk ....... ECU
Alden Mxsher, g I" ......." 800
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standing warrant.


Board adjourned to meet at 9. a. NJ.
oa.m., July 9th.
Board met persuant to adjournment.
All members present.
On motion the board proceeded to check
up the county treasurer. The board
finished checking up the treasurer and
found his accounts correct.
Board adjourned to meet at 1890 p. m.
1880 p. m.
Board met pursuant TO adjournment.
All members present.
On motion the board proceeded to fill
the jury list for 1903.
On motion the following bills were al
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Miss Mary ]. Piercey, said to have
been one Of the smallest women in the
world, is dead at her home in Bayonne,
N. J. She was thirty-one inches tall,
weighed fifty pounds and was forty
years Of age.
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was reduced from one dollar per acre as
returned by assessors to seventy-fve
cents per acre.
r, .aIlo lands l., %
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For Novi Hradec School District No. IL. County
of Stark, State OF North Dakota, for the year
10O2.1903,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-30
EXCURSION AND PICNIC.
Mt. Pleasant Sunday School Spends
Day at Bay Ridge.

The Sunday school of the Mount Pleasant
Congregational Church had their sixteenth
annual excursion and picnic at Bay Ridge
yesterday. Notwithstanding the threaten
ing weather at times, the day proved TO be
an ideal one for the occasion. and every
enc agreed the affair was a decided sue
cess. More than $50 members Of the school
with their friends attended.
Upon arriving at Bay Ridge there was a
game of base ball between a select team of
young ladies and the boys OF the church,
the latter playing with their left hands as
a handicap. After lunch program of field
athletic games, under the direction OF Mr..
Norton NJ. Little. was presented. attracting
great deal of interest. especial enthusiasm
being manifested over the races in which
the girls and young ladies participated.
The winners of these events were fol.
lows: Boys tifty-yard dash first. Earl Hem
derson; second, II. +. Simpson. Boys one
hundred-yard dash, first, A. X. MCDOWELL;
second H. E. Simpson; sack race, first,
Charles Eastwood; second, NJ. Strawn. Po-
tato race first Miss Edith Fisher; second,
Miss Imogene lexis. Three-leg race, boys,
Mr.. p w. Gibbon and Mr.. NJ. w. Baldwin;
girls, Miss Alice Fisher and Miss Louise
Sleman. Girls fifty-yard dash, first, Mar
garet Strawn; second, Gertrude Thomas.
Following these events was base ball
game between the match teams from the
senior department. This game we'll
played ana greatly enjoyed. Following this
was an open game between two scrub teams
of men in the party. some of whom had
not played in many years. This fact added
| much to the interest in the game, as did
| also some of the rulings of the umpire who
was manifestly novice I'm his position.
The pastor of the church. Rev. NJ. Ross
Fishburn. played in the center field with
one of these teams and proved to be quite
good base ball player, being especially
handy with the bat.
Those not particularly interested I'm these
events enjoyed boating. grabbing. fishing
bathing and dancing. A great quantity of
lemonade and ice cream was furnished free
to those present.
Through the courtesy of Miss Hilda
North, superintendent of the primary de-
partment, assisted by parents of the schol-
ars, special program was carried out for
the entertainment of the small children
The excursion was under the direction of
the following committees
Committee arrangements-James E
West, chairman; Rev. NJ. Ross Ffshburn,
John b. Sleman, tr, Marcus w Baldwin,
w. ]. Bowman.
Committee on refreshments-M T. Moo
NAV chairman; Miss Rebecca Miller, W. J..
Bowman.
Committee on athletics-Norton NJ. Little.
chairman; Albert F. Fisher DR. A NJ Far
rington, Maurice Moore. John d. Morgan.
committee on games for girIs-Mrs M T,
Moomaw. chairman; Miss Fanny III Stock.
ing, Miss 1mogene r. lexis.
Committee on care and entertainment of
small chldren-Miss Hilda North chair
man; Mrs ]. d. Morgan, Mrs NJ B. Nav
field Miss Elton Ronsaville, Miss Nav
Davis.