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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22
Claims q Libel,

An important suit has been started
in the United States district court by
the Association of Manufacturers ana
Distributors of Food Products, whose
headquarters and principal Offices are
in Camden, N. j., against +. B. Ladd,
of Fargo, pure food commissioner Of
the state. The suit is for libel. The
object is to recover damages for the
alleged publication by Prof. Ladd Of
an article which is said to have
caused great injury to the business
of the plaintiff, and the sum isked for
in the complaint is 100000.
The article was published, it 10
asserted, on Nov. "a, 1908, in the Com
mercial Bulletin and Northwest
Trade, published in the Twin Cities.
1t is contended that it was false and
defamatory in that it alleged that tho
members of the association were un-
able to sell longer in the Northwest
ern states the class of products here
tofore shipped to the markets of this
section. s@
Furthermore, it is charged that the
article asserted members of the asso-
citation were putting out money to-
overthrow the food laws of North Da-
kota.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
"Durum" Wheat.

The term ''macaroni" has been abol.
ished by state board of grain appeals
In referring to varieties of wheat. and
In its place the name "Durum" has
been chosen. In eastern markets
grades of macaroni have been known
as Durum for some time, and that is
now the official name in Minneapolis.
Macaroni wheat now occupies promi-
nent place in the grain business of the
country. 1t was originally produced
In comparatively small quantities and
was used for the making of macaroni.
1t has gradually como into use by the
m'llers, however, and is more of fac
Tor every year in the manufacture of
hour. The farmers look on it with
favor, for it yields more bushels per
acre than the other kinds of spring
wheat. and will stand more rust and
drouth without serious damage than
any other variety.
The board of appeals has established
an extra grade for Durum. Last year
they were Nos and and rejected for
macaroni wheat. A No. 3 Durum has
been established. The new grade was
made in view of cases where macaroni
may be mixed with other varieties Of
spring wheat. A slight change has
been made in the rule for grading No
. northern spring.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22

ham, reprimanded Cephus Hemphill, q
negro laborer. whose duty it was to
feed fuel to the stack of the furnace,
for neglect of work. Hemphill cursed
the foreman, who carried the case be-
fore his brother. Superintendent ].
S. Parkinson. The Parkinson broth
ers decided to climb to the top of the
stack and interview the negro.
When they reached the top of the
stack Hemphill sprang upon the fore
man and sunk his teeth deep into his
cheek. A desperate fight followed, In
which Parkinson was badly hurt.
Superintendent Parkinson sought to
help his brother, who was unable to
shake loose the hold the negro had on
him. Finally Foreman Parkinson
managed to draw . revolver, and he
shot the negro twice as they were in
q deathlike grapple on the very brink
of the little platform high in the air.
At this juncture the desperately
wounded negro grabbed the revolver
and fired twice at Superintendent
Parkinson, but the latter fell fiat on
his face and the shots missed him.
Then Hemphill released the foreman
and sprang upon the superintendent,
biting him terribly. BY this time
Hemphill was growing weak from the
loss of blood from his wounds, and
releasing his hold, dropped to the mar
row platform and died.
The two white men who had fought
for several minutes at the high ele.
walton were horribly bitten and Sc.
verely lacerated in the struggle Al
Hemphill died he turned over and his
body dropped to the ground far be.
low. The coroner's jury decided that
the killing was done in self-defense.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22
Land Going Fast.

"Every acre of the 5000, 900 acres Of
land in North Dakota that is fit for
farming and subject to homestead en-
try" said John Setterland of Bismark,
receiver of the land office at Bismark.
Agricultural lands are going rapidly
in North Dakota. More than !, 900, 900
acres were taken up in the Bismark
district last year, so you can figure how
long the remaining acres in the state
may last.
"Praotically all the land fit for agri-
culturture at the land offices at Fargo,
Grand Forks and Devils Lake has been
taken by settlers. There is some at
the land Office at Ninot, but good
deal of it is not suitable for agricult-
ure There are 3, 600, 900 arcres in the Bis
mark district, and good crops can DO
raised on nearly all of it. There are
5000, 900 acres in the Dickinson land
office, which was opened last year, but
PROBABLY not more than 3, 200, 900 acres
of this will ever be taken up under the
homestead law. The rest is in the bad
lands and is not fit for agriculture pur-
poses"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22
Rapid Growth Of Universities.

Few persons realize the rapid growth
Of our American universities. Harvard
and Yale have stood for more than 200
years, but their growth has been most
marked in the last 80. One hundred
years ago Chicago was trading station
protected by rude log fort. The north
west territory, where are now five lead
ing universities, was then wilderness.
The Pacific coast has become the home
of universities within the last 25years.
Statistics show the enrolment for the
year just closed to be as follows: Har-
ward, Cob; Columbia, 1850; Chicago
4.14e: Northwestern, 1907: Michigan,
1926; California, $3.50; Illinois, 1861;
Minnesota, $3.50; Cornell, 3.43S; Wis
consin. 1921; Yale, 1890; Pennsyl-
vania, 1864; College Of City of New
York 2,511; Nebraska, 2,24Y; Syracuse
2,207; Leland Stanford. Jr, A,S70;
Princeton. 1888: Johns Hopkins. 6s5.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22
Declared Crazy.

With his mind intent upon nothing
but self-destruction, William Raven is
now trying to defy the officers by re.
fusing to eat, perhaps with the view of
ultimate starvation.
His first unsuccessful attempt at sui
eide was made at Buffalo, when he
tried to throw himself in front of a
fast moving train. His second was
after he had been taken to the county
Jail at Fargo to await the meeting of
the insanity board. He secured a razor
and cut both legs near the artery, but
he had not cut deep enough. The next
day, while lying on his cot in his cell,
he tore up his blanket into strips, but
was unable, on account of the wounds
on his legs, to stand up and reach the
ceiling. His, intention was to hang
himself,
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22
News Notes.

The crop of Macaroni wheat raised
in North Dakota this year is placed al
10, 900, 0Oc bushels by one authority.
w. &. Carpenter, farmer living sir
miles west Of Bowbells, fell dead from
heart failure.
Watermelons have ripened at Bal.
four, where good many of them were
planted.
A committee of Rugby business men
is investigating the creamery question
with q view to building. The plans
under consideration call for q plant
costing 3d. 300. y M
Another free delivery route has been
laid out northwest from Fairmount.
It will start Sept. As, with E. NJ. Grit
fifth as carrier.
The Paramount rural telephone is in
operation, and is giving excellent salts
faction.
Joz H6bbins, an expert we'll digger,
has just completed an s43-foot artesian
well for Frank Argersinger, at For.
man.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22

made himself known to the world in
several conspicuous ways--as finan-
cier, a philanthropist, and On industrial
promoter. He was associated with the
late Cecil Rhodes in the development Of
South Africa, and is executor of the
will under which the Rhodes scholar
ships are assigned. He vas admins
traitor of Rhodesia in 1896 and 1897. At
various times he has been concerned in
the river tunnels of New York, having
interests in the Hudson river tunnel
in it's earlier stage and with tunnel
that was planned from the city hall,
Manhattan, to the Flatbush avenue sta
ton, Brooklyn, project that apparent
ly has fallen through.
Eary Grey is also widely known
among temperance workers at home and
abroad as the protector of the scheme
known as the Public House Trust COM
pany, by which it is proposed to miti-
gate the evils of saloons by turning
them, so far as possible, into decent re-
sorts, and making the sale of strong
drink a secondary feature and without
profit. The earl is a brother-in-law to
the earl of Mimic, whom he succeeds.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22
NORTH DAKOTA GROWS.
William II. Brown Estimates thai
$685. 900 Settlers Have Como
in Five Years.

1.-THE influx of settlers into North
Dakota in the last few years, in pro-
portion to the population of the state,
has exceeded the immigration into any
other state in the union" said William
II. Brown, of Mandan, secretary of the
North Dakota Irrigation congress
''More than $4,000 settlers have come
into North Dakota annually for the
last five years.
This is due largely to the good
times that have prevailed in North d.
kota. The soil is among the best in
the United States, there is very little
waste land, and large crops in wheat,
oats, fax, spelz and macaroni wheat
have been harvested. All classes of
people are prosperous and the good
tidings have been sent to homeseekers
ers are the best class of farmers in the
United States, and come from Iowa,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri
aud Ohio
''During the last year or two there
has been plenty of rain in that portion
of North Dakota west of the Missouri
river, which is out of the rain belt, and
the need for irrigation is not SO appar-
emit to the people just now rs it was q
few years ago, The rainfall, however,
is not evenly distributed, and in some
years it is too dry to raise much of
anything. When the irrigation plans
are carried out, thousands of acres of
land, on which farming is precarious
now, will become the best agricultural
lands in the country. Government en-
gineers are looking over the country in
search of sites for irrigation reservoirs.
They have surveyed the Cannon Ball,
the Heart and the Knife rivers for this
purnoSe.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22

gins, and mounting horse, she added
two big revolyers to her equipment.
Then. she stationed herself at turn Of
the road where she was concealed by
timber and thick underground. Just
before dusk the stage. filled with eastern
tourists, came along. Miss Pulsipher
rode her horse into the middle of the
road and, pointing both pistols at the
driver, commanded him to halt.
Bill Ripley, the driver, is grizzled
old frontiersman, famous as an Indian
fighter in the early days. Without q
word he drew his own revolver, leveled
it at the figure in front, and was in tho
act Of firing when Miss Pulsipher, with .
wild shrek, dropped both her weapons
and begged him not to fire.
Ripley, in solemn tones, warned the
young woman Of the danger she ran by
playing jokes with guns in the western
mountains. SD. ~
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22
JAPAN RULES KOREA.
HERMIT KINGDOM NOW Is NJ
KADo's vAssAL STATE.
American Practically Put in Charge
Of Foreign Policy Of the Unhappy
Little Country-English
influence Dead.
Washington ID. c. Special.

Washington ID. CO. Special.
Korea is now a vassal state of the Jap
anese empire. Under the treaty signed
at Seoul August %, and just made public
in Toxic, Japan will control the finances
and foreign relations of Korea. The
foreign relations will be under the di-
rection of Durham White Stevens, coun-
selor of the japanese legation at Wash
ington, d. G.
The treaty marks the retirement of
]. McLeavy Brown, who for several
years last past has acted as the financial
adviser of the Korean empire. Mr..
Brown is an Englishman, and his word
has been almost law in Korea. Under
the new treaty NJ. Megaly, director of
the revenue bureau at Toxic, will sue
coed him.
The appointment Of an American to
act as adviser" of Korea in all matters
Affecting the foreign relations of Korea
is likely to cause marked comment.
The Japanese government, in an Of
fetal explanation, intimates that Mr..
Stevens will exercise supervision Of all
concessions granted to foreigners in the
sphere of commerce and industry.
AS heretofore cabled, under the agree
ment, the Korean army will be disband-
ed and the kingdom safeguarded by Jap
anese troops. Korea coinage will be dis
placed by Japanese. japanese police
will take the place of Korean.
The main features of the agreement
are officially stated to be as follows:
First-The Korean government shall en-
gage as financial adviser to the Korean
government a japanese subject recon.
mended by the Japanese government and
all matters concerning finance shall be
dealt with after his counsel has been taken
SecoEd-The Korean government shall
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22

engage as diplomatic adviser to the de-
paftment Of foreign affairs a foreigner
recommended by the Japanese govern
mont, and all important matters concern
Ing foreign relations shall be dealt with
after his counsel has been taken.
Third-The Korean government shall
previously consult the Japanese govern
ment in concluding treaties and conven-
lions with foreign powers and in dealing
with other important diplomatic affairs.
such as the granting Of concessions To or
the making Of contracts with foreigners.
The japanese explained the foregoing
agreement as follows:
This agreement is. nothing more
than a natural and logical sequence to
he protocol of February %. It will be
remembered that in this protocol the
japanese government undertook to
give advice to the Korean government
With regard to the Improvements of adj
ministration, which advice the latter
agreed to accept with full confidence.
1.-THE financial embarrassment Of the
Korean government has in the past
been q constant cause Of internal
trouble. and the chief hindrance to the
development Of foreign commerce.
This serious aspect of Korean admins
tration naturally attracted the first at
tention of the Japanese government.
"Article No. 3 is not intended to place
an impediment on the legitimate enter
prise Of foreigners in the sphere of COM
merce and industry, but is calculated to
serve as a precaution against the con-
clusion of improvident and dangerous
engagements, which, in the past, have
proved to be sources of serious compli-
cations, such as was shown conspicu-
ousy in the case of the Russian lease at
Yongampho."
At the Japanese legation Of Wash
ington it was stated that the story
given out in Toxic was fully known to
the minister and that Mr.. Stevens Sc
lection had been made after consulta-
ton with him. Mr.. Stevens will leave
Washington for Korea at once and will
take up his residence in the capital Of
the country. He has been in the service
of Japan for % years and his standing in
the diplomatic corps Is high, he being
steemed as man Of .attainments and
sound judgment.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22
Broke His Ankle.

Gus johnson, a young man twenty
two years of age, who lives at Duluth,
had his left leg crushed just above the
ankle as he tried to board west-going
freight train on the Niagara hill. He
and his brother, Alfred, and several
companions, gathered at the foot Of
the hill to catch the west-bound local
freight, and several of the party sue.
ceeded in boarding. the train. AS Gus
johnson made the attempt he slipped
and fell and his left foot was caught
under the wheels and crushed. He
was taken by his brother for st. Vim
cents hospital at Crookston, on which
the injured man had a ticket. There
is little question but he will loose his
foot
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22
TALES FROM ESOPUS.
WONDERFUL SNAKES LIVE IN
THAT QUIET LITTLE TOWN.
Maria, q Big Blacksnake, Was Foster.
Mother to All the Chicks Raised
BY Ike Burger, a Truthful
Beer Man.

The Esopus correspondent 81 the New
York World says that when Fred Par
ker. the candidates brother, killed a
four-foot copperhead snake on the West
Farm road the other day he stirred up
Is fine batch of snake stories as Pike
county, Pa, ever produced.
Ike Burger, who sells beer made from
real hops, had black snake which he
had trained to keep mice and rats away
from his broods of chicks and setting
hens. The blacksnake came to regard
herself as sort of foster mother to
the chicks. She watched over them
from their earliest appearance until
they were weaned and big enough to
look after themselves.
The motherly blacksnake had become
so verEed in chicken lore that she kept
track of the days the hens were set, and
on tho twentieth day thereafter would
come around and watch the little chicks
appear and count them over to find out
whether it was successful hatch.
All went we'll with Maria and her
foster chicks for several years, until
Ike Burger put setting of duck eggs
under, one Of his hens, Maria came
around on the twentieth day for the
chicks to hatch as usual, and showed
great disappointment when none ap-
peared. She called several times during
the day at the nest and finding that no
chicks appeared waited around for Ike
Burger to come and take the eggs away
as bad. Maria did not know that duck
eggs take four weeks instead Of three
to hatch and could not understand the
situation. She lost interest in that hen
and went on attending to the other
broods.
On the twenty-eighth day eight little
ducklings appeared. Maria looked them
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22
A New Town.

The Great Northern Edmore extern
sion will be built this year to new
town to be known as Wakefield, and it
promises to be very fourishing viii
lage. Postmaster Bulge, of Grand
Forks, is the owner of the townsite,
and it's location should make it valu-
able one. Work on the extension is
going forward rapidly, and before
many months Wakefield will be one of
the thriving communities of that SEQ.
ton of the state.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22
HoNoRED By HER SISTERS
Mrs. Fanny Minot Elected National
President Of Woman's Relief
Corps for 1905.
Boston (Mass.) Special.

BOston lMass.J Special.
Mrs. Fanny Minot, the national presi-
dent of the Woman's Relief Corps, is q
native of Concord, N. H. She is q char
ter member of Sturtevant corps, "a, OF
that city, was its first treasurer and has
also served as corps president and in
subordinate positions. She was depart
ment president in 1893. Her executive
ability has been proven in the capacities
of national inspector and member of the
national executive board. She is well
known throughout the national organi-
cation as a most earnest worker.
Born September 20, 1848, Mrs. Minot
is a descendant Of John Pickering, who
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22
MRS. FANNY MINOT.
(Nev National President Of the Woman's
Relief Corps)

came from England and settled in
Portsmouth, N. H., about 1888. She was
educated in the schools of Concord, and
after graduating from the high school
attended Wheaton seminary, Norton,
Mass, where she graduated in 1867 as
yaledfctorian of her class. In 1874 she
married James Minot, a veteran of the
One Hundred and Fortieth New York,
and q past commander Of the G. A. r.
in the department Of New Hampshire.
Mrs. Minot is connected With several
other patriotic, benevolent and mission
airy societies. She is president Of the
New Hampshire Female institution and
Home Missionary union, which was or
ganized in 1904; treasurer Of the Con-
cord Female Charitable society and the
Woman's club. She is also q member Of
the Daughters Of the American Revolu-
ton. 4fS
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22
FATAL FIGHT IN THE AIR.
Two Brothers Engage in Fierce strue.
gle with Negro on Stack 125
Feet Above Ground.

At Birmingham. Ala. Coroner Paris
the other day concluded the investiga-
ton of a killing which involved sem
sational features. According to the
evideace the homicide was the result
of q desperate hand-to-hand encoun-
ter between two white men. brothers,
on one side, and a negro on the other,
the fight occurring on a narrow plat
form at the top of a furnace stack, 125
feet above the ground.
Foreman ]. p. Parkinson, of the
Vanderbilt furnaces at East Birming-
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22
KILLED A BIG coPPERHEAD.

over with amazement and her faith in
hen chronology was shaken. She re-
garded them as freaks. From time to
time she would come around to see how
they were progressing until one day to
her establishment when the mother hen
was scratching around in the grass near
the pickerel pond, Maria saw the duck
lings glide of into the water and start
to swimming.
Both Maria and the mother hen were
startled. The hen expressed her feel
lngs In loud squawks and Maria waited
to see the little ducklings drown. No
harm came to them and after paddle
they came ashore to lunch on the grass
and the worms and bugs the hen found
for them.
Maria spent the rest of the day in
thought. It was plain to her that the
education of the other chicks was being
neglected, and that they, too, should en-
joySthemselves padding around in the
pickerel pond.
The next morning Maria went to q
brood of Plymouth Rock chicks about
three weeks old, and taking them one
By one tenderly by the scruff of the neck,
g1fded out to the bridge and dropped
them into the pond. The chicks one by
one. disappeared, but Maria was not dis
couraged. She was determined that the
chicks should begin to swim, and she
spent the day dropping them into the
pond one by one.
Over 40 chicks had disappeared among
the turtles before Ike Burger found out
what was going on. Then he took Maria
to the chopping block.
Conductor Emmett runs the Esopus
local on the West Shore road and lives
IN Kingston, near the West Shore sta
tions Some time ago he found pretty
garter snake which he brought home
md built a little place for in his back
yard. The snake was harmless and
everybody liked it. After it became ac-
customed to its quarters it was allowed
TO come into the house and feed from
saucer of milk in the kitchen.
The snake grew fond Of Emmett and
came to await his return home.
IL Il was not many months before the
make learned the sound Of the whistle
on,C conductor Emmett's train. It used
tost4ke him about seven minutes to get
tosthe house after closing up his train
aadgthe snake learned to keep the time
qswell as to recognize the sound Of the
whistle. So one day Conductor Emmett
was surprised to find that Is he was
about to unlatch the front door the door
Unmatched ITSELF Turning the knob and
'koing in he found that the garter snake
had climbed up the door and turned the
la&ch and was waiting to be thanked for
HE pleasant surprise.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22
Pure Food.

The crusade against violators of the
state pure food law among the BUTCH
srs is still in progress. G. E. Green
and Charles Voller, each proprietors Of
meat markets at Fargo, have been ar
rested This makes five arrests in the
city, and others will be gathered in.
Evidence has been secured against
markets over the state, but Commits
sioner Ladd began the prosecution at
home, so no favoritism would be
shown.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22
cANAoAs NEW GOVERNOR.
Appointment Of Earl Grey Il Ap-
proved by King Edward and the
Home Government.
London (Eng.) Special.

London (Eng.) Special.
King Edward has approved the ap-
pointment Of Earl Grey as governor
general of Canada, in succession to the
earl of Mimic.
Albert Henry George, the fourth Earl
Grey, has been lord lieutenant of North
cumberland since 1899. He was born In
1851 and was married in 1877. He owns
about II 600 acres of landed estates.
He is one Of the most notable men in
the present British peerage, and has