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MAKING RUBBER IN COLORADO.

Newly Discovered Rubber Plant in
 Supposedly Useless Weed.
 The announcement that rubber has been found in supposedly useless weed, growing on the arid plateaus and high mesa lands of the Oolorndo mountains, sets at rest all fears of a rubber shortage, says writer in the World To-day. The rubber tree is product peculiar to the tropics. The newly discovered rubber plant of Col orado, however, grows at an altitude of from 5000 to 12.0OO feet where the climate holds all the rigors of winter and all the whitening force of a rair- less summer. The discovery of the plant relieves the worlds rubber mar. ket from Its dependence on the tropics and makes 1t possible for rubber to be- come stable crop. even in countries where extreme cold prevails.
 To r. E. Marsh, of Denver Is due the credit of the discovery. He went to Colorado two years ago, an invalid, and to regain his health went out on to the range with the cowboys He struck the range near Buena Vista. Col, where he found the cowboys chewing the root of weed they call. ed rabbit bush." After being thor oughly mastlcated the root left gum. my substance. When MT. Marsh first noticed 1t he considered 1t of more than usual interest and at his first oppor- tunity sent samples of the weed to Prot. T. D. A. Cockrell, botanist at Colorado College, for examination.
 The professors tests showed the gummy substance to be gum elastic, or India rubber. When compared with other rubbers 1t was found to be equal to the best medium grade of the trop. teal products.
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Tho Third Division.

A Southern planter employed negro to work some of his land during the last year on shares. On account of the high price of cotton the negro's half of the proceeds amounted to $1,6O0. The plant CT knew that it would ruin any Afro American to get such sum of money, and decided that half of it would be enough. Upon further reflection the con. viction grew upon him that $500 would ruin any negro in the world, so he cut the sum in half again, and, piling four hundred shining silver dollars on his desk, sent for the negro and brother and said that he was ready to settle. The man came in and fairly gasped at the amount of wealth in sight.
 "Fo' Gawd, boss," he said, Ifs dat money all ours?"
 "Yes."'
 "Well, den, divide it in two piles, and you take youah half and I'll take mine. !" Minneapolis Tribune.
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Only Natural.

Speaking of animals, in my opinion the elephant is the cleverest of them all," said the old circus man. T rs. member once, many years ago. when Jacko, who was then under my charge, showed me one day that he could read"
 "Oh, come now," said the listener. {,
 "pll prove 1t to you in about tive minutes," said the trainer. "Wsll, e l was saying, the old fellow got into . scrape with the Bengal tiger, and be. fore we could get them separated, he had his trunk badly damaged. After the scrlmmage was over Jacko broke loose and started down the street fast He's going wildv' somebody shouted. Don't you believe it, says I. Now, where do you suppose that elephant went to?"
 "Went to the surgeons, suppose. Can't you get up better yarn"
 "No, he didn't go to the surgeon'A He went straight to a little shop where a sign said: Trunks repaired while you wait Of course he had made e mis. take; but what do you expect of poor dumb bruteT
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Tho Waitress Scored.

At a London restaurant the other day 6 middle-aged woman entered the place, and, taking Q seat at one of the tables, carefully scrutinized the bill of fare. She concluded to try some ice cream pudding at fourpence a plate After 1t had been served she looked il over carefully, and. calling the wait. ress back, said:
 "Do you call this ice cream pud- ding"
 "Yessum, and it's very nice, too."
 "But where Is the ice cream?"
 "Oh, that's only the name given tha peculiar make of pudding. We are making q speciality of 1t. I'm sure you'll like 1t when you taste it."
 Tt seems to me that you ought to give ice cream with it, as long as you say it is ice cream pudding"
 we don't give cottages with cot tage pudding" quickly retorted the witty waitress. This retort convinced the middle-aged woman, and she or. dered second plate.
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Flight of Big Birds.

Of birds now in existence, probably the one with the greatest expanse of wing in proportion to the body and with the greatest power of flight is the frigate or man-o'-war bird. This bird apparently flies more by skill than by strength, for it has not great carry ing powers. The wandering albatross, the largest of all seabircs, is also one of our strongest flyers. One bird was known to fly at least 3,150 miles in twelve days.
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Got It Finally.

"What is 1t, son" said the dealer in paints and oils to the little boy stand. ing hesitatingly near the counter.
 Have you got any crocodile paintT' asked the boy.
 Crocodile paint? What's thatw
 "That ain't what mamma told me to get, but it's as near as I can come to it. I've clean forgot the name, but it's got something to do with croco. dies"
 The dealer reflected.
 "You don't mean nile green, do you P he asked.
 Course I dor! responded the boy. with delightful grin. "Gimme . luart of it."
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PETRIFlED MILK.
It Is One of the Achievements of Mod.
 araa (NhasasisAsx

It ls One of the Achievements of Mod. ern Chemistry.
 "Chemistry Is necessarily at work to create new industrial values from substances heretofore considered value less," says Consul General Guenther at Frankfort in report to the newly invented milk stone," or petrifed milk.
 Tt is well known fact" said he, quoting expert authority, "that the success of creamery, where the chief source of profit Is, of course, butter, does not depend so much upon the cost of production and the selling price of butter as on the profits derived from the skinned milk. The right market for the milk skinned for the purpose of butter making is really the vital question of the milk industry. Skim med milk has been used for various purposes-for the manufacture of su. gar of milk, as food for animals and for milk champagne, which is skim- med milk mixed with fruit juices and impregnated with carbonic acid. A rather large percentage of skinned milk is also separated into its com- ponent parts, which are then worked up. The casein serves for the manu. facture of cheese; also for glue, putty and isolating substances.
 "But all these different uses of skim- med milk did not solve the question most favorabiy. This, however is now expected from the newly invented petrified milk. It is manufactured in the following manner:
 By chemical process the casein is precipitated as yellowish-brown powder, which is mixed with forma- line. Thereby hornlike product is formed, called milk stone. This sub. stance, with various admixtures, forms . substitute for horn, turtle shell, ivory, celluloid, marble, amber and hard rubber. Handles for knives and forks, paper cutters, crayons, pipes, cigar holders, seals, marbles, stone ornaments and billiard balls are now made of skinned milk. The insolu. bility of galalith, its easy working, elasticity and proof against fire make 1t very desirable. Already 10000 quarts of skinned milk are daily used for this purpose in Austria"
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Righteous Indignation.

Mrs. Youngma-Oh! I'm so boiling over with righteous indignation 1 don't know what to do. Pd-I'd like to bite somebody.
 Friend-Whom?
 "Whom? Why, those coarse, brutal, inhuman owners of the St. Quiet fats. They refused to rent to me-"
 "Everybody knows that they object to children, my dear"
 "Yes, of course-but they objected to mine."
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Warned in Time.

Old Dumps-A penny for your thoughts.
 Young Gumps-I am trying to remem- Der what it was my wife wanted me to bring home.
 Old Dumps-My! my! Don't do it. Remembering the things wife wants you to bring home is mighty bad habit. By the time you've been married ten years, she'll be giving you list as long as the tariff law.
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The tests of turbine engines at Fiber. field, Germany, show a steam consump- tion equivalent to about eleven pounds to indicated horsepower, an unparal- leled performance in economy.
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THERE Is PHYslC IN FOOD.
Doctors of the Future May Rely for Cures Upon Diet Instead of Drugs.

Doctors of the Future May Rely for
 Cures Upon Diet Instead of Drugs.
 1t is well known that nearly all plants contain the essential elements of medicine, and q large majority of the drugs found in the pharmacopae of the present day are vegetable ex- tracts. The quantity of any character istic element in plant varies with its richness in the soil. This Is, of course, a correlative of the well-known bene. ficial action of fertilizers in increasing plant growth. It Is now proposed. however, to attempt the cultivation oi medicinal plants-that is, common vegetables containing abnormal quan- titles of substances 1t Is desired to ad- minister. It Is evident to every one at all acquainted with the laws of physiology that the assimilation of mineral elements by the body is much more readily accomplished when these are partaken in the form of food in vegetables.
 In the past, if the body has needed an excess of iron 1t has been supplied by iron tincture taken through a glass tube after meals. The modern idea Is to supply this want by certain veg etables, such as spinach. Experiments looking to the demonstration of this scheme have been undertaken recently in Europe. Ferruglnous plants were grown in soil neriched by the addition of hydrate of iron, and upon ana 'ysis 1t was found that plants grown in such soil contained a much larger percent age of iron than similar plants grown in natural soil. Of course. it is not to be supposed that this increase in the percentage can be increased indef- initely, but 1t can be carried to max imum point which is very much great CT than the average.
 This same demonstration has also teen carried out in connection with tea cultivation. Samples of tea leaves from several plantations having sim. far climate and altitude conditions, but different soils, were gathered. and AlIcI LII lHS WCiC uhdiy LSu III thC ioo' oratory for their content of iron, nitro- gen, prosphoric acid, silic acid, cancir and ash. The various soils in which the several plants yielding the sample leaves had been grown were also analysed for similar elements, and it was found that the chemical compost ton of the soil, especially the quanti- ties of those substances taken by the plant, has an influence, clearly demon stratable by chemical analysis, on the composition of tea leaves produced on such soil.
 A very interesting vista opens up to the prophetic eye in giving free rein to the imagination on this fascinating subject. Will the doctor of the future. instead of ordering nauseous dose from the druggist, prescribe course of medicinal vegetables, furnishing the iron or potash, or manganese, etc., by means of these "doctored" or "medi- cated" vegetables? Certified milk, which, with its guaranteed proportion of milk fat, milk sugar and solids. might have seemed an improbable com. mercial article fifty vars ago, and, if 50, why not certified vegetables in the immediate future?
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Tho Cabs of Paris.

By day and night 15,OO0 cabs ply in the streets of Paris A few hundred of them, blue, drawn by young, mer- rurlal horses, driven by liveried coach men, bearing neither numbers nor placques, make snobbish pretense of being private carriages.
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Another Story.

Miss Arabella Leapyear-I don't mind your poverty. George. Until your fortunes mend, I could be happy in your wealth of affection, and in some vine-clad cottage-
 MT. Wardoff-Pardon me, dear; you know am only poor city clerk, and cottages are out of the question. Do you think you could be happy in a fat, with a sewing machine buzzing overhead and some flend below cooking cabbage?
 Miss Arabella-Maybe, George dear, we'd better tarry awhile after all.
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New novels are scarce. Evidently the best fiction writers are devot1na their time to booming mining stock.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-12-21
Pride Causes Death in Poverty.

A tragic fate was that of the Prin.
cess Eleonora Massaiska, who died the
other day at Warsaw. Her father, one
of the wealthiest men in Lithuania,
lost all he had in 1853 and committed
suicide. The princess went to War.
saw and endeavored to make her liv.
ing by giving lessons. For time all
went well, but as she grew older she
could get no more pupils and was
finally reduced to the necessity of liv.
ing on aims in suburb of Warsaw.
Not long ago a relative of hers died
In Florence. leaving 100000 rubles to
his poorest relative A prominent
lawyer offered to take her 60 Italy and
press her claims, but pride induced
her to refuse this offer, and the other
day she collapsed in the street and
was taken to a hospital, where she
died in a few hours.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-12-21
Cadets Have We,l-Known Names.

Student officers Of the staff college
and infantry and cavalry schools In
Leavenworth have among them sever
al members of noted military families.
The grandfather of Lieut.. Heintzel-
man was noted union general in the
civil war. Lieut. Paul H. McCook Is
of "the fighting McCooll" family, his
father being Gen. Alexander McCook,
a distinguished Indian fighter and
civil war hero. Lieut.. J. d. Tilford'e
father, Gen. J. d. Tilford, now retired,
was in the service forty years. Lieut..
w. D. Forsyth is son of Gen. James
W. Forsyth, the Indian fighter, who.
with Gen. Miles, Gen. Merritt and q
few other officers, received commits
sions for Specific distinguished serv-
ices
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-12-21
Cured by Life in Open Air.

J. D. Smith, ex-commodore OF the
New York Yacht club and a million
aire resident of the eastern metropo-
lis, has effected remarkable cure of
what was believed to be fatal illness.
Early last spring Mr.. Smith. who is
rs years old, was taken i'll with a
complication of govt and Bright's dis.
ease. By the month of June he had
lost flesh until he was { mere skele.
ton. Then he insisted on being taken
on board his yacht, on the deck of
which he had a special hammock
rugged. In this he lay all summer,
day and night. About the middle Of
August he began to improve and has
continued to mend ever since. He Is
now hearty once more and attributes
his recovery entirely to life in the
open air.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-12-21
Christmas Tree at sindlinger's.

W. r. Foster performed the
important mission Of chaperon-
ing a party Of five women from
his locality to a Christmas shop
ping trip to Minot Monday.
They were Mrs. W. R. Foster,
Mrs. Julien, Mrs. Nordcris, Mrs.
Sindlinger and Mrs. Kuckenbak-
er. The ladies constituted the
purchasing COMMITTEES Tor Il
Christmas tree which will be dis
played in Liberty township Sun
day afternoon at the Sunday
school. Foster is not u minister
but has two brothers who are,
and he takes a good deal Of in
terest in church work. The tree
will be arranged at the Sindlineer
home.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-12-21
Causes Of Tobacco Heart"

1t is estimated that about 20 per
cent of the young men who recently
applied to enter the naval academy
have failed in the physical test, and
the failure was largely due to the
use of tobacco, resulting in the irregu'
lar beating Of the heart. Nowadays,
says the Baltimore Herald. physicians
speak OF the tobacco heart trou'
BILE caused by the excessive use OF the
weed. When the smoker develops In.
to cigarette fend" the services Of
a physician are necessary, but before
this point is reached the heart may be
permanently injured.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-12-21
NOTICE or SALE. MORTGAGE FoREoLo


notice is hereby given that that certain
mortgage. executed and delivered by Benja-
pin H. Evers, single man: mortgagor to A.
D. Murphy, MORTGAGE. dated the 9th day Of
Nay. a. d. 1903. and fled for record in the Of
fee of the Register of Deeds of the County OF
Ward and State of North Dakota on the 7th
day of May. 1905 at $50 O clock n. M, and re-
corded in Book M of Mortgage Deeds. on
page 270 will be foreclosed by sale of the
premises in such mortgage and hereinafter de-
scribed at the front door OF the Court house in
the City of Minot, in the County of Ward and
State Of North Dakota. at the hour of ten
o'clock in the forenoon on the oath day OF De-
cember A. d 1901. to satisfy the amount due
upon such mortgage on the day OF sale. The
premises described in such mortgage. and
which will be sold to satisfy the same. are de-
scribed as follows: The south half OF the
northwest quarter and lots 3 and I. in section I,
Township lbs north. Range 81 west of the Fifth
Principal Meridian. in Ward County. North
Dakota.
There will be due on such mortgage at the
date OF sale, the sum of thirty-nine dollars and
twenty cents.
Dated at MinOt. North Dakota. this 18th day
of November. A. d. 1904.
AID. MURPHY. Mortgasee.
John J. Bates: Attorney for MORTGAGE.
Lilo l2-sl
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-12-21
He Had Not Heard It.

Bourke Cochran is a capital story
teller, but a good many of his latest
yarns have himself for one Of the lead.
ing figures. A Kentucky Democrat
who sat in the Riggs house headQuar.
tiers in Washington was aware of this
popularity in the distinguished New
Yorker Therefore. when Tammany
man asked Have you heard the latest
story Cochran tells?" he answered.:
mo, / don't believe have: was 1t
about himself?" mo" Then I have
not heard it. And then the New
York politician went over to a corner
seat and studied over the situation.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-12-21
NOTICE Fur PUBLICATION.

LHIItI ONICC EHIH'1t' ~. d, NV'I y Ioot.
Notice is hereby given that the following
AIMED settler has filed notice of his intention to
make final proof in support of his claim and
hat said proof will he made before the register
nd receiver of the U. s. Land Once ut Minot.
MD. on pee 10th. 1901, viz: Robert G. Evans,
II. =. NO. l3 for the ca OF sw14, and 81. of nwi4
sec. 10, twp. l53. range 81
He names the following witnesses TO prove
bis continuous residence upon and cultivation
Of said land viz: George Nixon, Bert Larson.
Andrew Eadahl. Robert f. Evans, all of MinOt.
n. D.
r. c. Sanborn, Register.
LcSucur 4 Bradford l2-1
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-12-21
F,llino OF in shipbuildino.

The British shipbuilding trade is
very much depressed. 1t is sixteen
years since business was SO bad on the
Tyne. All the furnaces are out and
clerks are the only employees at tho
yards of the Palmer company, which
has hitherto employed 5000 men there.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-12-21

out to give the old townap proper
kind OF a farewell and lost 5000
mysteriously. Soren is back at
Bowbells. a little ashamed of his
experience.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-12-21
BEWARE OF CoUNTERFEITs.

"DeWitt's is the only genuine Witch
Hazel Salve', writes j. L. Tucker, Of
Centre, Ala. 81 have used it in my fam
lily for Piles, Cuts and Burns for years
and can recommend it to be the best
Salve on the market. Every family
should keep it, as it is an invaluable
household remedy, and should always be
kept on hand for immediate use Sold
by Mccoy & Co.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-12-21
Uses 100000 Bricks.

Two million bricks will be used in
the new Rockefeller building in Cleve.
land; 10000 square feet of glass will
be put into windows and the steel
alone will cost $3.50 900.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-12-21
Get your shoes at Samuelson's

List your houses. iots and land with
johnson IL Nestos. They will sell them
or YOU. tt.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-12-21
Farewell to Minot.

Soren Anderson came down
from Bowbells last week with a
big roll of bills, intending to 60
TO Seattle, Wash. He started
The Meeker herald., 1904-02-27

a year the Official should be the slave of
his slave. The sentence was duly carried
OUT
not abused his power over his former
tyrant. Thereupon he set the slave free
and gave him high office In the govern
ment service.
Europeans who visit Menelik are sur
prised to hnd thnt he. knows all about
they tell him anything. That III due to
the elaborate system of espionage which
he maintains throughout his country and
at the seaports through which travellers
have TO pass.
An Enslishmnn game, to. him once TO
wanted. but asked "ourteously;
What is the motive OF your visit? Why
, hdyn You You come 20 many Thousands of
Thinking he would be diplomatic tho
llnglishman replied that he wanted tn
meet a great monarch of whom he had
Menelik turned from him coldiy.
nv r ron,I arc Already too v many liars IN
turn"
But straightforward European. are
warmly welcomed by the Negus Eagasti
and treated with courtesy and kindness,
When Renncil Rodd visited him to con-
elude a treaty on behalf of Queen Victoria
Menelik discussed the art of medicine and
surgery as II he We're doctor, and ex-
pressed regret that. among his numerous
X-rny apparatus. Mcnelik entertained
the envoy and his companions at lunch
con. giving them real European meal.
served on fine china as correctly as ut n
London club. But the king fed abstem-
ionsly on raw beef and stale bread. which
are all he eats.
Menelik stands about five feet ten
Inches high. but looks shorter. because of
his great breadth of shoulders. He is
dark In face and his features are me-
gtoid and decidedly ugly. He has a
frank. open, intelligent countenance. a
pleasant smile and n courteous. winning
manner.
He is only lfty-eight. lie has no heir
and when he dies Abyssinia, in the .opin-
ion of Eurnpean travellers. will almost
certainly fall back into chaos. He is about
the only man In the country who really
Mene,ik nscri,e, ann n,uc n o ~ ~. s,c.c.s
o. his government to the wise counsel of
his consort. Queen Taitu. Her stand
against Italy Is only one OF many brave,
patriotic deeds. Menelik is her fifth nus.
Danu. but they are very devoted
couple. She Is now over Iifty and weighs
nearly 300 pounds.-New York Sun.
The Meeker herald., 1904-02-27

lnck had hecn running against her ever
since dropped onto her trail.
her body In front of her hips. and saw her
reaching for more gum. Then the sinful
ness and folly of what | was trying TO do
came 10 me So strong that you could not
have hired me to shoot again-no. sir. not
for u thousand dollars.
"A week later when / landed on tho
shore of Ripogenus lake to build a FIRE for
dinner ! saw u lean bear lying dead close
under the rocky bluff. Though she had
been cold and sim for days. her cubs
were still nosing her over In the hope of
finding nourishment and crying so loud
that took pity on them and shot one for
dinner.
When went to pick him up and skin
him. looked at the dead mother and saw
the Jumps OF spruce gum sticking TO her
sides. then knew that she had gone
home to die with her children.
ION the whole, think she was the
toughest and most resolute animal ever
hnd anything to do with."-New York
Times.