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Willmar tribune., 1904-06-01
SOME VERY QUEER LAKES
One Is of Pitch, Another Is Rose-Col-
ored and Third Has
Crust of Salt

One Of the most singular lakes in the
world is the celebrated Pitch lake of the
island of Trinidad. This lake spreads
over all area of SO acres, and it's surface
is composed of one great floating mass
of asphaltum scanned with veins of clear
water. From it and a similar lake in
Venezuela the worlds supply of asphalt
is drawn
The Pitch lake is hideous place
as far as smells are concerned, for the
air al about it is heavy with noxious
vapors, and from the center of the
lake gushes fountain Of liquid asphal-
tum in which there float and break bub-
bles containing the most horrible gases.
The workmen go out on the surface of
this lake and cut greatslabs of asphaltum.
which are carted away. But this next
morning the hole they left is filled up
again with pitch which has risen during
the night, so that the supply seems to be
inexhaustible.
This curious lake was discovered by
Sir Walter Raleigh when he landed in
Trinidad in 1895, on his way to the
mouth of the Orinoco in search Of Ell
Dorado.
Another strange lake is situated on a
peninsula which juts out into the Cas-
plan sea- The whole surface of this
lake is covered with a crust of salt so
thick and strong that man can ride
across it on horseback with safety.
In central Asia, near the Caspian sea,
is lake OF beautiful rose color, while
the banks are covered with salt crystals
as white at snow. From the waters
of this lake there arises flower-like odor
The color and the odor are supposed to
be caused by vegetable matter in the
depths.
There used to be curious lake on the
top of the Volcano de Aqua. in Guata-
mala, $4,000 feet above the level of the
sea- 1t was not fed by springs nor by
rivers, but was caused by accumulations
of snow and rain-in fact, was an i'm
mense reservoir. 1t lasted for centuries.
Then. one day the sides of the lake
gave way, and down the waters rolled
dealing death and destruction. and dig
ging great barranca, or ravine, in the
mountain side, which is still visible.
Willmar tribune., 1904-06-01
Japanese Proverbs.

! The capital and the fireside have
each their own attractions.
Before we can sympathize with 9th
ers We must have suffered ourselves.
DO not be slaves to your children.
They will have their happiness later.
The wise man shapes himself accord
ing to circumstances, as water takes
the shape of the vessel into which it
is poured. Detroit Free Press. -;
Willmar tribune., 1904-06-01
Cow as Critic of Fashions.

DR.. Edward Martin. who cares for the
public health in Philadelphia, owns
beautiful little country home. situated
in a valley on the banks of shady creek
near Wallingford, Pa. One day last
summer he was entertaining party of
little girls from Philadelphia, for DR..
Martin plays the host most delightfully."-
to children, of whom he is very fond.
and treats the tots with a dignified air
of raillery, which delights them. On
this occasion one little miss was out
walking with the doctor and became
very much agitated at the manners OF
COW which regarded her with a solemn
air of belligerency. 1T must be that
red dress you are wearing. Dorothy"
said the host, smilingly. Dorothy, the
cow doesn't like red very much"
We'll, am surprised" replied the lit
tie girl Il know that red is not quite
the fashion now, but l don't see how a
green old country cow would ever know
enough to know that"
Willmar tribune., 1904-06-01
What Capers Really Are

Capers are the buds of plant which
grows on walls, etc., in the south Of
Europe These buds are picked every
morning before the petals or flower
leaves are expanded, and put into vim
egar and salt. The plant continues to
flower for six months and the harvest
lasts for that period.
Willmar tribune., 1904-06-01
Works and Plays.

Flows your daughter getting ON
now?"
"Oh, fine. She's busy at Beethoven s
works."
"Where's that at? What do they
make?"- "-Cleveland Leader.
Willmar tribune., 1904-06-01
The Village Wag.

"Is that congressman what you would
call national f1gure?'
"Well," answered the village wag,
'when he's in Washington he's national,
but when he gets back here he's ex-
lanatiCnal."-WasD.
Willmar tribune., 1904-06-01
Rich Bird Food

A Philadelphia canary bird ate
diamond and died of indigestion.
Willmar tribune., 1904-06-01

HE craze for elaboration is
increasing. The best frocks
as is always the case, look
simple, but in reality they
are a mass of intricacieS. For
Willmar tribune., 1904-06-01

Thin white wrapping paper is a good
kind
The solution is colorless. and leaves
no stain, though the picture is really
there. drawn in saltpeter. Now, salt
peter, which is also called inter and
potassium nitrate, is, as you may
know, one of the ingredients of gun
powder, and it is used in making
powder for the same reason for which
we use it in this trick-because it
contains a great deal of oxygen and
is easily decomposed. When gunpow-
der explodes the oxygen from the
saltpeter combines with, or burns, the
sulphur and charcoal. so that no air
is needed from outside. Just so the
saltpeter makes the paper easier to
light and burn along the lines of the
drawing. BY the way, these lines
should be all connected. If a part of
the picture is entirely separate from
the rest, it will be left out in the
cold" Of course, you must apply the
match to one of the lines, which you
can do easily enough by moving it
across the paper near where you
know there are some lines, until the
spark catches.
And then don't throw the match
down carelessly. for it might set
something on fire, even without salt
peter You cannot be too careful in
handling fire. The saltpeter solution
should be very strong-as strong as
Hot
Billy-Goat in a Hospital.
Doctors and nurses in the receiving
ward of the Pennsylvania hospital in
Philadelphia were very much amazed
when Jack McGeehan, boy of II,
walked in leading little billy-goat by
string tied around it's neck. Jack ex-
blamed that the goat had been suffer
ing for some days past with an abscess
On the front leg, which had crippled
the limb so badly that it could hardly
walk, and asked the doctor in attend
ance if he could do something to re-
lieve the sufferings of his pet. The
goat was taken into the operating
room and laid on table, where it re-
cuired two doctors to hold it, while the
abscess was opened and cleansed by g
third member of the staff The patient
experienced immediate relief from the
operation, and was led out by his
young master, who thanked the doc
tors warmly for their services.
The Castor Oil Plant.
No sort of bird, beast or creeping
thing will touch a castor-oil plant. L
seems to be rank poison to all th'
animal world. Even a goat will starvt
before biting of leaf, and a hors'
will sniff at it and turn up his uppel
| lip as though it had the most detestabl,
| odor on the face of the earth. Arm!
worms and the locust will pass it by
though they may eat every other greer
thing in sight, and there is no sure
way to drive moles away from law
than to plant a few castor beans her
and there. Even the tobacco worn
will refuse to be fed on it's leaves
| There is hardly another instance il
natural history of plant being 81
universally detested by the anima
world.
Willmar tribune., 1904-06-01


May was upon us with it's buds and
flowers and the old French part OF
town was alive with little yelled fig
ures. The children making their first
communion trooping to the various
churches and notably the St. Louis
cathedral whose square in front of the
ancient towers and belfry was one mass
of odorous bloom.
l came home one day, driven thither
by slight indisposition, a languid
spring fever, which required a dark
ened room, and the cool quiet of the
quarter where the nearest car line was
block away, and no jangling cotton
floats or drays ever Jared the silence
OF the clean, ill-paved street.
My man Harris served dinner. which
| thought a vast Improvement on that
OF the club in which I had INDUCED for
the past ten months, and stretched out
comfortably on sofa and with cigars
close at hand fell to dreaming of the
sweet girl face I saw that afternoon,
now long ago.
Why had I not seized the opportunity
fate so obviously thrust upon me?
Why had I been such senseless fool
>as to let her sweet vision slip in and
out OF my life? Why had sat supine-
ly watching the dainty figure, graceful
and erect, until it was lost to view ?
Why, ah why? (,
Just as I reached this point in my
mental interrogations, which were
grown familiar for being constantly
gone over, Schumann's inimitable
"Why?" drifted over tn me from my
neighbor's room. ,:.t. i.
The fingers playing It were firm and
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-09-30
statement can be verified by Bill
Morgridge Of Grand Harbor. and
all the other country postmasters.
! RAILROAD NOTES

The Farmers railroad brought
in eighteen loads of grain at one
trip Monday.
Conductor Reed has been
transferred to trains Nos. 307
and 308, the runs formerly made
by Conductor House.
The amount of freight being
handled at this point is larger
than at any corresponding period
in the history of the Great
Northern.
Conduc tor Lannin carried
nearly a carload of tfreshers up
the line of the Farmers road
Monday without charge. He
offered to carry all who would 60.
The Great Northern surveyors
are surveying a new railroad
commencing on the Larimore
and Hanna branch about two
miles north of Inkster and tax
ing a northeasterly course to Ed
more on the Lakota branch. The
farmers all hope they mean bust
ness.
Capt. Harry Walker, the popu-
lar passenger conductor, has been
transferred to the Rugby branch.
He viii probably remove to
Westhope in a few weeks. The
change enables him to be at
home every night and on Sunday.
He will leave Westhope at $50
a. m. and arrive at 600 p. m.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-09-30
ORREnr aIME TABLE.
West Round


10. 8, the Puset Sound Elk
press via Mayville and
Larimore daily T-25 q. m.
No. 25, Local lsssnger via
Fargo e. Wilmar frm
St Paul and Minneapolis
daily a2s45 p. N.
No. 1.-The flyer via Far
go and Grand Forks daily18:47 pm.
No. 307 Local freight to
Rugby and internediats
points Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday 7:30 am
East Bound
No. 4. Puget Sound Express
via Larinore, Mayrille
and Willmar daily 1915 a. m.
No. 2 arrives 1:3s, 1.-The
Flyer via Grand Forks
& Fargo daily 4: Ssa. m.
No. 20, Local passenger TO-
Minneapolis and st. Paul
via Fargo &Willmar daily 1882 pm.
No. BOA, Local freight to
Larimore and intermedi-
ate points daily except
Sunday TBS a. 70.
Trains 25 and % make connections
at Churchs Ferry for Cando and St.
johns branch and at Rugby Junction
for Bottineau branch and at Gran
vile for Granville and Mohall
branches. Branch trains run daily
except Sunday.
Full information from
P. s. Dunn. Agt.,
Devils Lake, n. D.
No stops on No. 4 between Devils
Lake and Larimore. No. stops only
at Lakota between Devils Lake and
Larin,ore.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-09-30
SALE OF LAND.

STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA,
County of Ramsey.
liz DISTRICT CoURT.
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
F. Il. Stoltze. Plaintiff is
Lena n Hagen and Martin Hagen, ct al,
Defendants.
Pursuant to Judgment and decree of fore
closure and sale, duly entered in the Office of
the clerk of the District Court, in and for Ram
sey county, North Dakota, in the above entitled
action on the 18th day of September, 1904, and
special writ of execution duly issued thereup-
on by the clerk of said court, bearing date
of September 18th, 1904; / will, on the 18th day
Of October, 1854, at the hour Of 1870 O'Clock Ia
the forenoon of that day, at the front door of
the Ramsey county Conrt House, in the city OF
Devils Lake, in the county of Ramsey and
state of North Dakota, offer for sale and sell at
public auction to the highest bidder. for cash,
those certain premises situate in the county
OF Ramsey snd state of North Dakota, and de-
scribed as follows, to-Hit ~
The west half of the Southwest quarter and
the west b Aft of the northwest quarter of see.
ton nineteen. in township one hundred ffty.six
north, OF range sixty one west.
4 There viii be due upon said Judgment and
execution upon the day of sale the sum of
ES9.39, besides the costs ard expenses of sale.
Dated September 18th, 1904.
Herman Rutten,
f Sheriff of Ramsey County,
North Dakota.
Attorneys for Plaintiff,
Devils Lake, NLrth Dakota. 2SS2
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-09-30

The advertiser win reach more
people in Ramsey county through
the columns of the Inter- Ocean
than in anyother Ramsey county
IaDer.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-09-30
LAWTON

Homer Davidson, of Chicago,
is spending a few weeks with
his brother, Daniel Davidson.
The train service on the branch
is decidedly bad in fact the
train is often several hours late.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nell Able of
Park River, Were the guests of
friends in the village last week.
Wheat in this part of the
county is yielding ato1t 20 bu-
shells and grading No. ! north
ern.
The village schools are having
an unusually large attendance
and are making splendid pro
gress for the opening weeks.
Abraham Able, age Is years,
son, of Mr.. and Mrs. P. P.
Able, died at his home in this
village September 20, Of con-
sumption.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-09-30
NOTICE OF SALE.

State Of North Dakota In pi stas t GsETs
County of RamEey-S District.
Fred a. Stoltzs, Plaintiff.
against
j. W. Wheeler and e 4 Wheelsr, Defsnaauts.
Pursuant TO Judgment and decree of lore
closure and sale duly entered ID the Office OF
the Clerk of the District Conrt in and for RR1n-
ser County. North Dakota, u the above jeu1i-
tied action on the 18th day Of September, lSOz
and special Writ of Execution duly issued
thereon by the Clerk of said Court bearing
date of September il 1850 i vii. ON the Eth day
Of 0cbobsr. 1904, at the hour Of lD-l5 In the
forenoon of that day, st the 'front.' door Of tine
Ramsey County court house. IL tins city OF
Devils Lake. in ths County OF Ramsey and
State IF North Dakota. offeT Tor sale and sail
at plblic auction 70 the hlgnesT bidder 70
cash those certain premises situate IN the
County of Ramsey and STATE uf North Dakota
and described as follows. ro-wn:
The building upon. and al right title es-
tate and interest of the defendants at the time
of the furnishing of the building materials d.
scribed in the complaint il this acElon, and at
amy time since, in Lot lumbar Is, In Block 10
of The village Of Edmors In the County of Ram
sey and State of North DAKOTA; the legal title
of said Lot Is, Block %. bsing in the plaintiff
Fred T. Stoitze. and the defendants being in
possession of the same under and by virtue OF e
contract between the plaintiff and the defend
ant z. Il. Whssler for the purchase of said Lot
As.
There viii be due on said Judgment and exc
cution On the day of sale. the sum of Sl464. II
Herman Rutten.
Sheriff of Ramsey County.
North Dakota.
Dated September Is, 1904.
Burke d. Middaugh,
Attorneys for the Plaintiff, -
Devils Lake, North Dakota 2s2
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-09-30
SHOP TALK

The circulation of the Inter
Ocean is an even 1000. If We
don't bust hame string it
viii be 1900 before another year.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-09-30
!: STARKWEATHER !;

Charles Olson is attending the
university.
Considerable building inn
provements will be made at this
point this fall.
Mrs. E. A. Crommett is enjoy
ing a visit from her sister, Mrs.
T. C. NeWconb.
Attorney Lewis was at Grand
Forks several days recently on
professional business.
Miss Lillian Saunders of st.
Paul is the pleasant guest of her
aunt, Mrs. 7. 3. Morgan. !.
Misses Marguerite and Ellen
McLarty are attending college at
Bellevue Nebraska this year.
o. P. Anderson has painted
his meat market building, which
adds very materially to its ap-
pearance.
The amount of grain being
marketed ait this place is almost
beyond comprehension. Strings
OF wagons waiting their turns to
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-09-30

be unloaded at the elevators
make the people happy
MFR. and Mrs. I'd Elliott left
this week for fhe Lake. where
Ed VIII assist T. u. PrOsser dur
ing the rush.
Willard Briggs is visiting his
parents at Neville. He holds a
responsible position as agent
and operator at Antioch. III.
Mrs. NJ J. Kennedy Of Mis-
souri,, is visiting her children at
this place and from here she viii
go to Underwood where she has
a valuable claim.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-09-30

Read the ads in the Inter.
Ocean The firms are all relia.
BILE, and you viii certainly gel
your moneys worth by patroni.
zing Inter-Ocean advertisers.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-09-30

The Inter-Ocean has a larger
list of paid subscribers in Ram
sey county than any other three
papers in the world.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-09-30
Public Notice for Construction of Sidewalk

Be it resolved BY the City Council city of
Devils Lake. N D.,
That the sidewalks in front of. and along the
following described property be condemned
and new sidewalks Constructed, and that pub
lie notice be given to that effect, to-wit:
On south side of Fifth street, from Hill ave-
nue. to Ullne avenue avenue. On south side
of Sixth street from Kelley aEenue to Far
rington avenue. 1
Now, therefore. notice is hereby given to all
owners and occupants of lots and parcels of
land to construct and build sidewalks along
a ID in front of and adjoining the same at their
Own cost and expense before the first day of
October. 1904. Said sidewalks to be constructed
of cement and conform TO ordinance No. as
amended by ordinance No. Il. viz:
Lots l. 2, 3, 4, SIS. Z. 6. 8. 10. Ii and u, block
26.
Lots 1, 2,s,45,6,7,s,s. 10. ii and L. block
Ia.
Dated Devils Lake. Sept :, 1904.
By order of City Council.
Attest: I'D, IF. II. Whitman,
Ole Skratass, Mayor
City Auditor. z7-2s
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-09-30

The Inter-Ocean has a larger
list of paid subscribers in Ram
sey county than any other three
papers in the world.
The advertiser win reach more
people in Ramsey county through
the columns of the Inter-Ocean
than in anyother Ramsey county
paper.
Read the ads in the Inter-
Ocean. The firms are all relia-
BILE, and you viii certainly get
your moneys worth by patroni-
zing Inter-Ocean advertisers.
As an inducement to new sub
scribers who want the best
county paper, the Inter- Ocean
will be sent from now to Jan. /,
1906, for 81, cash in advance.
This is better than any premium
offer that could be given. Call
your neighbours attention to this.
The Inter-Ocean this week con-
sists of 16 pages. all printed at
home, the pages numbered and
properly folded together. There
lis not another weekly paper in
the state that can do this, and in
this, as in many other things,
Devils Lake is far ahead of her
sister cities
The Inter-Ocean is never sent
to a subscriber who does not
want it. A request to discon-
tinue a subscribers paper is
promptly granted without any
questions asked, and he dosen't
have to pay up, either, in order
to get off the list. But he pays,
just the same sooner or later.
The Inter-Ocean desires to
thank it's many subscribers for
their promptness in renting in
response to bills recently sent
out. All of them are paying in
advance for another year. New
subscriptions are also coming in
at a very gratifying rate. We
are proud Of our subscribers
they are the best people in the
country.
Once there was a new dog
came to the town. It had never
seen a railroad train. The flyer
came along and the new dog tool
after it with all the speed il
could muster, but the flyer soor
distanced the strange animal anG
never knew it had been chased.
But the dog, to put himself in
the light of appearing to know
his business, remarked to q
bunch of old dogs he met W he
had lived along the railroad q
long time: Say, did you see me
make that flyer 60 some? am
new in this neighborhood bat
claim the sole credit of making
kilat IdSL Cfdln 90 a llCLle IaSter.
Moral: IL you don't want PEG.
pie to think you are foolish, DOM
make claims that everybody
knows are false. Somedims W
make foolishness NV ourselves,
watts de matter, amt it, yes?
Any paper can get an alleged
circulation by sending out copies
to people who have never sub.
scribed. In fact, the list could
be padded to the limit of the
press in printing them, or the
extent Of a fat bank account in
buying print paper. Such a cir
culation is yalueless to the adver.
tiser. A subcriber will not take
a paper from the postoffice very
long that he has not ordered.
There are papers in Ramsey
Il county that have respectable cir
culations on their book, but the
country postmasters use then
for fuel. The subscribers are
dead on have moved away, but
the paper goes on forever. This
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-09-30
BIDS FOR COAL

Monday. October Sd, 1904. BY the board OF
County Commissioners of Ramsey county, Il.
y for the furnishing of $50 tons lmore or less i
q Native Ldgnite Coal In car load lots. deliY.
County Court House in Devils Lake, N. d.
All bids must be sealed, addressed TO the
County Auditor and plainly marked bids
The board reserves the rightto reject any or
I BIZ order Of the board Of County Commission.
ers. Emil 8. Eich,
y Z, Y, County Auditor.
Dated at Dsyils Lake, n. D., Sept 10, 1904.
2830
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-09-30
PUBLIC LAND SALE.
United States Land Office,

Notice is hereby given that in pursuance OF
etai Land Office, under authority vested in
MN Of section 2A55 y. 8. Revised Ssatntee. as
amenasd by the Act Of Congress- approved Feb
nc sale on the 10th day OF November next, as
this othee, the following tract OF land, to-wit:
NM hE1M Sec "a, T. 1Ss y, r.. 60 w. 5th r. ii.
above described lands are advised 20 file their
claims IN this oitice on or Eetore the day above
designated for the commencement OF said sale,
Ole Serumgrrd,
4. q, !. 3, Register.
august ~, 1904. sgS ~ 26-31i
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-09-30
TO CURE a COLD In ONE DAF.

Take laxative Bramo QuiniTe
Tablets. All druggists refund the
money If il fails 10 cure E ",
Grore's signature is ON each box. 25r
, 1904-02-16

Washington. d c., Feb. l6.-Reports
OF officers and committees and ad-
dresses OF state presidents occupied
most of Saturdays session of the Ma
tional American Woman Suffrage as
ISOLATION.
At the morning session Henry B.
Blackwell. chairman of the presiden-
tial committee, reported that h at
tention of the state secretaries has
been called to the fact that every
state Legislature may at any session,
by a simple change in its election law,
enable womel citizens to vote in the
presidential election on the same terms
as the male citizens Or on any other
qualifications of education or property
which it may see fit to prescribe.
During the year federated Australia
has conferred the national suffrage on
all women Of that continent, and over
500, coo of them have just exercised
their right for the first time.
The committee reported that the
near approach of the presidential cleo
ton increased the difficulty of secur-
ing affirmative action on the suffrage
question here. but that during the lull
that succeeds the presidential CAM
paign next year a special effort should
be made.