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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-30
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The appearance of "Sunny" Thorpe
on the university campus this morning
4 for the first time since the Thanksgivin
n trip was the signal for second I'M
z official football demonstration, and
$"Sunny' was greeted warmly by the
|, rooters.; Thorpe and George Case went
4 to St. Louis Immediately after the Iowa
game and they have been seeing the
sights at the fair. Incidentally ''Sun-
N.Y. took in the Carlisle-Haskell game,
acting as head linesman.
In speaking of the game, he said:
I "It was all Carlisle. The Carlisle team
averaged about IT'S pounds and was
1 heavier than it has been during the year,
as several, of the coaches and alumni
& Of the school played. Bemus Pierce
\ was in at fullback and Ed Rogers gave
4 the St. Louis rooters an exhibition of
2 end-playing that reminded me of the
Michigan game last year. Both the
; teams were unusually fast.''
Thorpe reports a reunion OF former
/ minnesota football men and alumni in
tcluding exCaptain- Rogers and Charles
= Warren, the ground-gaining guard of
3 last years team. Rogers, he says, is
enthusiastic over the prospects of a Min.
y nesota- Carlisle game next year, and is
( looking, forward to the trip back to his
Z alma mater. IT,. e. -.
Thorpe will continue his: studies at
z the. university and prepare for an ex,
animation for a commission in the regu,
lar Amy. He has played his four years
on tie Minnesota team and is ineligible
Z for more football. =. - ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-30

.Minot, seat Of Ward county, is one
Of the most prosperous cities in the
west. The past two years have wit
messed remarkable growth in Minot
and this year has been record
breaker. More elegant residences have
been constructed in Minot this year
than in any, three years preceding.
Thus far in the season over eighty resi-
dences have been built and enough 9th
ers are building or are planned to make
the number over one hundred. The
business development has been even
more remarkable.
This huStling young giant is already
the third city in the state. Most of its
growth has come since 1900. When the
empire about it is settled and devel-
oped, it will become one Of the fore
most cities of the great plains of the
west
-Four years ago Minot had common
school with six or seven departments in
operation, with teachers with little or
no. professional training. Today it has
one of the best-equipped high schools
in the state, with corps of fifteen
instructors, each of whom is profess
sionally trained and selected for the
especial character Of the work he is to
do. This change has been brought
chantment, and it is doubtful if any
] county in any state in the union can
duplicate this accomplishment,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-30

j 3
The produce Of all the gold mines
in the United States will not equal the
products of North Dakota g farms, and
as a paying proposition, the North Da-
kota farm will leave the gold mine il
( the rear ninety-nine times out of a
hundred. North Dakota ships over
100000 carloads Of it's products to mar
ket annually and literally feeds the
world.
It's products already go across the
Atlantic tosevery nation, with scarcely
an exception, in Europe, and within a
very few years the state will be ship
ping it's products to the orient by way
of the Pacific ocean.
Y In the early years this state was al
most one-crop section, wheat being
raised almost to the exclusion of other
products; but tbs different now. It is
Z raising more fax than any other state
4 in the union, raising large quantities of
oats and barley, considerable quantities
of rye, corn, potatoes and other root
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-30
Jamestown, the County Seat.

Jamestown is. the biggest town west
LOT the Red river valley, and the undis-
puted metropolis of the James river
valley. 1t has the state insane asy-
lum, a Presbyterian college and large
Catholic convent and school, which now
occupies two large buildings and is Just
about to- build a third. It has the
division headquarters Of the Northern
Pacific railroad, with large shops and
several hundred men paid off there
every month; a splendid -four mill that
sells it's -four all the way from San Fran
cisco to Edinburgh, Scotland, and the
finest operahouse between Minneapolis
and the coast.
Scores Of farmers who didn't have
a thousand dollars apiece when they
Went to Stutsman county are now worth,
cool and clear, over $50, 900, and hun
dreds more are worth over $4,000, and
when it comes to the $4,000 boys a
person can drive you around any direc-
ton and show you one every two or
three miles, frequently three or four in
fanlly, and not sone. ingtWentY of. them
had $500 when they went to Stutsman
leountyA dsInanys Of them only had
the clothes on their backs. There is
just as much room for headwork in
farming as at anything else, and it is the
| man who diver Hes, who raises some
wheat; and AK and some cattle
and plenty Of and barley and oats
and potatoes az ~ side issue who wins
out year afteHsA +, and that is where
IStutsman county shines. b
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-30

The state Of Rhode Island could be
set down twice over in stutsman county
and then have enough left for one, and
perhaps two, ordinary New York coun-
ties. The county is forty-eight miles
square and has sixty-four townships.
It has land enough to support. 10000
farmers and their families, and then
as he would expect back east, besides
all the tens of thousands Of town and
city population necessary to take care
OF all the trading, banking, doctoring
litigating, church-going, educating and
amusing that these 10000 families can
do.
The wheat crop alone brought in $500
in the whole state of North Dakota
last year, and the flax crop brought in
half that much more. There IS no
money-earner on earth like the fat
steer. He will fatten better on native
grass at nothing a ton than the eastern
steer will on corn at 60 cents bushel.
Red River Valley.
One would have to go a long ways
agricultural section within = the boun-
DIARIES of the Red River valley. The
pioneers Of 10, and, indeed, many who
have located since that data large
proportion of them coming with little
or no capital to commence with, except
the spirit. that brings success, even
in large numbers been able to retire
from actiYe life and give the farms up
to their sons and take life easy with
the wealth they have extracted from its
rich soil.
! The map is dotted with hundreds of
villages and towns, providing local mar
kets for this splendid agricultural dis
Itrict. When the valley was first settled
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-30

3 81 & 4f - F.. p Z g.. :
crops, hay, produce. wool, ETC., as well
as livestock. Still greater progress will
be made during the years to come.
One Years Farm Output.
The estimated value Of farm prod
ucts in North. Dakota for. the year
1908 was $135, 700, 900, or more than
one-half as much as the entire value of
farms, buildings, machinery and live
stock, as returned by the. census of
1900. ..s, IS,
The value Of agricultural products Of
North Dakota per capita is: higher than
in: any other state in the, lnion...Ae,
was $2l4 per capita, or an average of
that amount for each man, woman and
child in! the state 81
No other agricultural district in the
world can show a better record than
North Dakota in the development B of
facilities for the agricul tural population,
such as schools, churches, roads and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-30
HUMBOLDT PLAYERS SHINE
Has Men on All the Big Teams in
Iowa.
Snecial to The Journal,

Humboldt, Iowa, Nov. 3O.-Altho the Hum
boldt high school football team did not live up to
otis past reputation this year, many Of its old
college teams. At Des Moines college,, Lovrien
was captain, while Nelson and Connor, held i'm
portan places. 1t was largely due to the work
of the Humboldt boys that Des A1oines college
was enabled to make the best showing she has
made in years, even holding Ames college down
half. =, =
Roy Wilson has been playing on the second
team at Ames and in another year the coaches
hope to see him make. the regular team. +
Iowa City, Coyle and French nave made good
records. t.. - 14.3- + : ~. Z: : -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-30
. *t@HoGH! DER IRISH
\ Emeralds Will Be Strongly Represented
B in Bicycle Races /. -, = s r.:

New York Sun Special Service. -, r..
New York, Nov. 30:--Ireland will play a
strong part this year in the struggle for .honOrs
at the siX-day bicycle at Madison Square
Garden, Dec. to 10 1t will be represented by
Patrick Logan and Patrick Keegan. Keegan is
familiar figure in the race, having ridden for
the past two years in the six-day grind with
Jimmy Moran Of Boston. Logan will be an anna
teur until the starting gun sends the big field
he was one of the fastest sprinters in the game
With Logan's phenomenal speed and Keegan' S
uphold the reputation Of ''the old sod'' that will
take some beating.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-30
TALE OF VIGIL ON
CLIFF IS DOUBTED

I, Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 3O.-A warrant
was sworn out today on charge of
murder against John Van else, the old
man who was discovered at the foot of
s'an eighty-foot cliff by Lake Erie,
several days ago, keeping watch over
the body OF a woman who had fallen
from the top of the cliff.
Van Cise claimed that the woman
was his daughter, but after severe ques-
tioning by the police he confessed to-
day that she was not his daughter and
that her name was Florence Putnam
and that her mother, Mrs. Alice Mich
! OILS, lived at Millers station, Erie coun-
sity, Pa. II.
Il Van else is still at the hospital,
where he was taken for treatment of his
/ injuries, and is guarded by an officer.
He will be placed under arrest when
sufficiently recovered to leave there.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-30

it's wealth was small, and the splendid
farm, buildings, here and there, the
excellent roads, the neat schoolhouses,
the pretty churches, the splendid school
buildings and other improvements in
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-30

the villages, and, indeed. pretty much
everything that makes the Red River
valley what it is today, have been ex-
tracted from its bountiful soil by the
process Of agriculture.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-30
NORTH DAKOTA BRINGS HEALTH HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY TO The HOMEK

eye of the investor and the homeseeker
| is turned toward North Dakota. They
are particularlyaattracted by it's alubri-
GUS climate, its nearness to market, it's
abundant yields, and it's happy, con-
tented people. It has been demon
strated that good homes can be- made
in StntSman .enlintu NJ u - -------- n =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-30

other convenienees, and no other agri-
cultural district is better situated as to
market facilities. IF
J.. G. Lund's Views.
J. G.. Lund, whose name is synony-
nous with land in all the prairie coun-
try of Minnesota and the Dakotas, is a
great believer in StutsmaD county,
North Dakota, as location for the
homeseeker wanting frst-class farm land
at reasonable prices.
Lund's Land Agency handles more
farm land than any other concern in
the: northwest, and Mr.: Itlnd g long :ex-
with the prairie country makes him q
qualified expert, Besides, he, has
proved his faith in the valley. Of the
s 6 i'm '''ssrivers by investing. heavily.sin
farm lands of Stutsman county. In q re-
cent interview Mr.. Lund said !: ls
The outlook for business turnout
North Dakota never was better. The
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-30
EIGHTH WARD LEAGUE.
Totals ........ 7Q2 $3.50 s24
NAN PATTERSON SICK.

New York, Nov. 30.-Nan Patterson, is
sick with tonsilitis and has a high fever,
but Dr. MCGUIRE, the Tombs physician,
says that in his opinion the young woman
will be able to go to court next Monday
when her case is called for trial again.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-30

See Stockwell soon-That life insur-
ance-The Penn Mutual, Andrus Bldg.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-30
Flanllelette Gowns.

Finest quality,s handsomely trimmed, with
self color Daisy cloth, silk stitched, also
: lace trimmed; an immense as
4. sortment; choice Thursday, only a Oh
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-30
Ready Made Aprons.
Wash Goods Department

a. WASH GOODS DepartmeHu.
32-inch long Aprons. blue and brown
checks, 15c value, the price, each
36-inch long Aprons, blue and brown
checks, zoe value, the price, each.
Extra large Aprons, In blue and brown
checks, Doc value, the price, each. J.
Extra large full Aprons with bibs; a
35c value, the price, each. -. :,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-30
Silk Petticoats.

a Special. Purchase Of More
Than 1000 in black and colors.
Made Of the best quality taffeta,
with deep founce, two extra rows
Of French ruching, group of fine
tucks; 5colors royal blue. navy
blue, light blue, pink, browns, tans
and black, also blue and red
changeable. The handsomest pet
:ticoat ever offered in the North
vest west a :. good ( So SIC 80 s. On,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-09-06

I Someone flash a Light? inquired
the cop.
Light notnin.' Sounded like the
roof fell in
Then what?"
"Nothin,' just the darndest, creep
inest, spine-ticklin silence ever heard.
Not sound. l couldn't breathe, I
wuz so scared, an when l could l
jest went through that window like
shot and didn't loiter SOS you cud
notice it none till | got into me dump
Il found out afterwards that tn
ole guy had been readin in bed an
went to sleep. He turned over some
way and the book tumbled on the
floor.
Mother time / WIZ after some
jools. Got into the plant all right
an wuz bout e foot from the dress
er where the sparkleIs wuz, when
"'Click. Click"
Say, wuz you ever real homesick?
Well, l want to tell you that nothin'
makes the gun long fer home-an
it amt the home he's in either-like
the cllcK OF coCkln reNOlNeT, OF
the fall of book err chair, followed
by jest silence. It's tn greatest ar
gument fer a getaway ever wuz. l
never warn't skeered o fash o lights
er a man grabbin' me. That jest
makes me fightin' hot-'member how
| swatted you over the-sure I'll cut
il out. No Tense.
Give meself away? Nav. Every
body knows we has both of us re-
formed. Goto mother pipe full?'
("Fly bull" or fly cop" means de-
tective; harness bull" uniformed
patrolman; gun" means burglar;
''pinched' arrested; dump" thieves
lodging; Swung the portfolio broke
open the window.-Ed)
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-09-06

Copyright. 1901, by the Frank Les
lie Publishing House,
There was no one better known
about Dawson City In the early gold
days than Long John" La Roche.
When | knew him he lived about six
miles out of town, at place called
, Ambrosia City. He was the mayor
of the city. and he was the entire
city most of the time, for there was
only one house beside his in the
place. One night there was a town
meeting, the entire population-five
men and dog-and La Roche told
this story:
Talk about hard luck, the hardest
luck ! ever heard of come to old man
Mcbride. Probably none of you
knew old Danny Mcbride, the man
who was drowned trying to escape
from Blsckwell's island. No offense
intended. Tn not insinuating that
any Of you did know him. l never
knew him myself-leastways not
when he was alive. Well, eight or
nine years ago l was the victim in a
case of mistaken identity. and the
judge sent me to the island for 80
days. And there l heard about Me
Bride. He had hid himself along
the shore one day-they let you out
with only a guard standing round
understand-and at night he found
a boat and was rowing across to the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-09-06
MOST MAGNIFICENT PARADE
EVER GIVEN IN SAN FRANCISCO

tors from other grand jurisdictions,
all in carriages, save the comman-
derry, which was mounted, brought up
the rear of the first division.
The second division was composed
of the Massachusetts, and Rhode Is
land knights, the third of New York,
Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire
and Connecticut; the fourth of Ohio,
Kentucky and Maine; the fifth of
Pennsylvania; the sixth of Indiana,
Texas, Mississippi Michigan, Him
dis, Tennessee, Wisconsin, New Jer-
sey, Georgia, Missouri, Alabama and
Louisiana; the seventh, Iowa. Min
nesota, eKntucky, Maryland, Nebras-
ka, Arkansas, West Virginia, Colo
RADIO, North Carolina and South Da-
kota; the eighth, Oregon, Washing
ton, Wyoming Montana, North Dako-
ia, Arizona, Florida, Indian Terri
tory, District of Columbia, Oklahoma
and New Mexico; the ninth, Califor-
mia Communicates from Sacramento,
Pacific, Ell Dorado, Stockton and Pla-
cerville; the tenth, California com
manderies from Los Angeles, San
JoJse, Oakland, Lassen and Susan
vile; the eleventh. California COM
manderies from Ventura, Vallejo,
Woodland, San Bernardino, San Die
go, Fisalia, San Luis Obispo. River
side, Fresno, Santa Barbara, Pasa-
dena, Eureka, Lassen; and the
twelfth and last division, of Califor-
mia communicates from Oroville, Ne
vada City, Marysville. Chico. Red
Bluff, Ukiah, Napa, Vacaville, Bak-
ersfield and Long Beach.
AS the head of the procession
reached the reviewing stand the
grand master, officers and members
of the grand encampment, the Eng
llsh delegation and other high Off
Gals left their carriages and mount
ed the stand, where were already
seated Governor Pardee of California
and Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco
and distinguished guests.
When within so PAGES of the re-
viewing stand all commands came to
carry and the proper salute was
made. Those in carriages saluted by
uncovering. After concentrating
past the stand the commands were
dismissed and the great spectacle
of the conclave was over.
Immediately after luncheon tine
grand encampment held its first ses-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-09-06
THE HARDEST LUCK
e. CKAMpERLAYME.

tainly had the facts. But If you
could o. seen him sitting there,
laughing. with the green light from
the starboard side of tug shining
right through him. you would q
wanted something better than his
word for it.
Then what are your says /.
This says he, tapping himself
where the light shone through him.
This is my astral body. You under
stand?"
Well, l couldn't see much differ
ence between a ghost and an astral
body at that time O night. hut /
didn't say nothing to offend him.
You want to get over to Long
Island shore?' says he. All right,
get in here with me- l know how
IT is myself"
l didn't want him to think | was
green. so ! put my hand on the gun
mel o. the boat and threw one leg
over the side. cool as anything. But
my foot went right through the bot
tom of the boat back into the water
again. The boat wasn't anything but
kind o fog.
Hold on says old Danny, that
won't do. Do you reckon | carry
ing stones? Take off your body and
leave il in them weeds over there"
So l done what he told me to, and
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-09-06
CALVES SUPERSTITION

Nine. CalNe is as superstitious as
any voodoist of. the West Indies. All
who have met the prima donna have
noticed on her chatelaine a peculiar
meerschaum bonbonniere.
II always wear this she exclaim-
ed. Cant help it. A fortune teller
in Bohemia gave 1t to me and told
me that so long as l wore it and kept
it crammed full of roseleaves l would
never sing in an opera that would
be Kissed Once, in Madrid, I lost it,
That very night, in the first act of
Carmen l tainted.
Now, in this country, when any
thing goes wrong in an opera, people
do not hiss. In Spain and Italy. how
ever, the slightest defect in the per-
Torrance calls forth the most horri-
BILE Kisses. So that Spanish audience
Kissed.
THE incident convinced me that
my little box of roseleaves was real
ly charm, and I offered a fabulous
sum of money for its return. 1t came
back, 1 kissed it, and never since
have l tainted or sung in an opera
that gave a chance to the hissers.
Again, on the train between Paris
and Cevennes, where 1 own a farm,
l dropped n hand-mirror, SCATTERING
it into bits SO fine that the porter
swore when he had to pick up the
debris. Now to me that shattered
mirror meant certain misfortune So
obedient to a still, small voice with
in me, 1 left the train at the next
station, though many miles from my
destination. / simply felt that some
thing was going to happen to that
train.
Surely enough, I was right. An
hour after l left the train it and an
other tried to pass on the same track,
and there was sinister effacement
Of passengers.
so l say-respect your supersti-
tons and you'll avoid accidents"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-09-06

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. G.
Swords ahash, figuratively breathing
defiance to the glittering decorations
overhead and all around, plumes
dancing gently in the light bay breeze
belted and sashed uniforms of somber
black playing picturesquely against
a background of admiring humanity.
the Templar host, 10000 strong
marched through San Francisco's
streets today, formally opening the
29th triennial conclave of the Or
der
The sun had hardly set it's crown
above the eastern horizon before the
various Communicates were prepar-
ing to march to their appointed places
and be ready to fall in line with the
bugle's blast Commandery after
commandery, with the precision OF
clockwork, went proudly to it's cho-
sen spot, and when the hour for the
start had arrived there was nothing
to cause delay in giving the order
Attention"
Almost on the hour, the grand cap
tain general gave the signal and the
grand pageant was in motion. From
the streets, choked with people from
curb to building. went up a shout,
louder than the blare of the brasses
in the bands, increasing in volume
as the notables hove in sight.
At the head of the imposing coll
umn was = plat-c:, OF mounted police
commanded by Sir Knight Chief of
Police Whitman of San Francisco.
Following the police came the grand
captain general, Eminent Sir Charles
L. Field, surrounded by his aides, all
mounted on horses as black as night.
The first grand division, preceded
by California commandery, No. 1, act.
ing as special escort. then swung into
line. The cheers increased in vol
ume as the dense crowd caught its
first glimpse of the notables of which
the division was composed. In the
front carriage were Most Eminent
Sir Henry Bates Stoddard. grand
master of the grand encampment' of
the United States, and Most Emil
nent the earl of Euston, grand mas
ter of the great priory of England
and Wales.
other officers of the grand encamp
ment, Golden Gate commandery, No.
l6 of San Francisco, and members
Of the grand encampment and visi-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-09-06
P0S10FFlCE CLERKS
IN SESSION

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Sept 6.-The
United National Association of Post
office Clerks began its fifth annual
convention in st. Louis today with
delegates present from many states.
The four days sessions will be TAX
en- up with matters pertaining to the
interests of the clerks and the gen.
eral good of the postal service The
worlds fair officials have set aside
tomorrow to be known as Postoffiee
Clerks day. and the delegates to the
convention will attend the exposition
in a body.