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lake, would keep them sweet and fresh.
Some time in the wee small hours
Of the next morning awoke TO hear
some one moving on the piazzi, and
my husband and 1 looked from the lit
tie window to see who it was. There
was a dark mass close to the pole on
which the fish were hung. He seemed
TO be on his hands and knees. Then
he stood up, pulled The fish down and
started toward the moonlight IN the
clearing.
las ne emerged he proved TO be a
half-grOwn black bear, ambling off
with the fish in his mouth
Billy, my husband, seized his rifle,
and, poking it from the window, was
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wilderness. From the end of this road
a stage coach runs still deeper into the
forest and then commences the buck
board ride over the rough tote road to
the camps. The road is only used by the
log cutters. and lumbermen in Win
ter and in Summer is deserted save for
bears, deer, moose and caribou.
Riding through the tall pine and
spruce timber on our way to the camp
for the first time we saw young deer
stopping on the road in front TO watch
US out OF their great almost human eyes
till we had nearly overtaken them. when
they ran away into the woods to watch
US again from the deep cool shades of
the young pines and hemlocks.
A Partridge Feast.
1T was night the first time that we
arrived at the camp. The guides helped
US out of the blackboard. built great
fire in front Of the cabin. and dressing
six Daru1dges we had shot on the way
in. spitted them in front of the fire for
supper.
If you have never tasted for a whole
afternoon in the Maine woods you can
have no idea of how good those little
birds, done TO a brown crisp before the
hot flames of pine knots and limbs, can
be. I actually believe that I ate three
Of them before. tired and sleepy, 7 turned
into my bunk TO sleep
BY the time that 1 awoke the next
morning the guides had been up for an
hour or two. leaving my husband and
our party to sleep on in the deathlike
stiffness Of the forest that is so resttul
to tired nerves.
AS I opened my eyes the first sound
1 heard was the excited chipper-chatter
Of q, great gray squirrel that had his
nest in a tree above the camp, and had
come down to see the new visitors.
Then came to US, between the cracks
in the log house. the fragrant, appetiz-
ing odor Of a baking salmon. It was
delicious, exciting, and made Us so ter
ribly hungry that we hurried out of
bed and FASTENED down to the lake 20
wash in the cool, crystal water that
Tapped the white sanded shore.
A Feast of Fish.
The guides had been out in the canoes
and had taken half a dozen salmon and
square-tailed trout just as the suh came
over the mountain tops and kissed the
CLASSY surface Of the lake into life. All.
that first five minutes of the morning in
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the wilderness, heralded as it always is
by the pre-sunrise concert of the wild
birds came TO know it and appreciate
1t afterwards
Having sung before the courts of
every great capital Of Europe, and hav-
ing heard my voice praised by men. and
women Of worldwide fame, 1 came to
realize how even the greatest singer of
all time might well sit at the feet of
natures own woodland songsters and
learn.
I'VE had hshed all day and at sun
set had cleaned our. trout and left them
hanging on the porch Of the cabin,
where the cold night winds. sweeping
through the wilderness and up from the
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II LIFE PRESERVER that viii float
IL a dozen full-grown men I'm the
toughest sea is something cut OF
the ordinary. yet that Is exactly what
has been uone by the Carley life float.
A dozen husky sailormen from L. S. S.
Topeka. averaging 175 pounds in weight,
recently tested this unique apparatus
with such success that it has been Of
hcially adopted for the United States
navy.
The float resembles a huge life pre-
server. and its inventor claims for il
many advantages over any existing
type Of float.
In the first place, unlike a boat, It
cannot be swamped. It requires no
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is greatly broken and the tube acts as
a bulwark to protect its passengers.
Yacht owners are interested in the
device as an accessory to Summer
amusement.
It forms a splendid bathing float
and even those who do not swim may
enjoy salt water bathing at sea by its
use.
The float is so light that two men
can easily handle it, and a nest
of them in varying sizes occupies COM
paritively small deck space.
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davits, and is launched by pitching it
overheard in any fashion most conve-
nient
The buoyancy Of the noat is secured by
a pinch tube Of thin copper, covered
with a Pinch layer Of cork, over which
is a double thickness Of strong canvas,
heavily coated with non-corrosive paint
The cylinder is thus not only abso-
lutely waterproof. but its floating power
is very great and its construction is
such that a very heavy blow, even from
some very sharp object, would be neces-
sary to injure it.
The fact that the interior of the tube
is separated into 12-inch compartments
by water-tight buIkheads, adds to its
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assumes a horizontal position, the buoy
ant cylinder riding high on the waves
and the platform dropping through.
Thus it Is at once ready to receive its
cargo, regardless Of accident in landing.
In other words, it is always right side
up. Numerous life lines, inside and out,
offer every opportunity for safety and
enable any one coming near the float
to help himself on board.
Once there the float sits so high in
the water that the force of the waves
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advantages, as several of these sections
might be pierced without seriously di-
minishing the floats carrying capacity.
II addition, the bulkheads strengthen
the whole tube, and render it very
much less liable to be crushed.
A rope netting three feet deep is at
tached to the cylinder and supports a
platform Of Stats. upon which the
weight is carried.
Thus, no matter at what angle the
hoat strikes the water, it Immediately
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The guides had been out in the canoes
and had taken half a dozen salmon and
square-tailed trout just as the sun came
over the mountain tops and kissed the
CLASSY surface of the lake into life. All,
that first FIVE minutes of the morning in
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-30
sWINDLED A WIDOW
Requisition Papers Received at Yank-
ton for a man With an Alias.

YANKTON, S. D.-A confidence
man and expert forger by the name Of
Joseph Fisher is wanted by the sheriff
of Battle Creek, Mich, and a man an
swering to the description, who calls
himself John H. Beckman, has been
arrested by the Yankton authorities.
Requisition papers were received yes
terday and the warrant read to Fisher,
alias Bechman. =
The crime with which he Is charged
is the old story in new dress In
this case, the victim was widow liv-
ing on the interest Of a few thousands.
Fisher made all arrangements to buy
a neighbours farm. He was to pay
two-thirds of the purchase price down
and arrangements were made with the
widow to borrow the remainder,
amounting to $4,000. Fisher and the
farmer went to a neighboring town,
where Fisher expected to receive the
money he was to invest. The money
failed to come and Fisher assured the
farmer that it would be along in a
few days and that he would remain in
town and come out with 1t as soon
as it arrived. The next day he ap-
peared at the widows home with a
edged, conveying to him the farm in
question. The widow readily made the
papers for the loan and Fisher signed
the mortgage. Soon 1t came to light
that the deed was a simon-pure for
gerry. Now the farmer is seeking to
clear his title and the authorities are
looking for the man who turned the
trick.
Fred Henderson,, the 19-year-old
boy who was injured in runaway
accident Tuesday evening, died today.
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high school building, which was
recently destroyed by fire. and to
AS new brick is worth IS thousand,
the city will make good saving.
JOLT FOR CLERKS OF COURT
Effect of Court Decision Is to De-
priye Them Of Fees.

LONG PRAIRIE, NINA de-
cision Of Importance to clerks of
court and abstractors of title has just
been handed down by the supreme
court, on appeals from this county.
The abstract company brought an
action in naandarnus against the clerk
to compel him to make and deliver
certain transcripts Of judgment dock
ct entries The clerk refused on the
ground that the abstract company in
tended to use the transcripts for the
purpose of certifying as to the exist
ence and non-existence of judgments
on abstracts of title and that he had
a right to do this, certifying himself,
upon payment of certain fees. The
supreme court grants the relief de-
handed.
Under this decision an abstract
company can procure certified
transcripts of any and all judgment
docket entries and thus deprive the
clerk of a large part of the fees Of
his office. A petition for a reargu-
ment has been filed in behalf Of the
clerk. The decision seems to be
against the principle laid down in a
recent case from Clay county.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-30
BETTER SEED
FOR PLANTING
TRI-STATE GRAIN DEALERS TO
MEET. AT MITCHELL.
Addresses by Bremen, NIcCaull, stib-
bens, Holden, Chilcot and Others
Movement for Careful Planting in
the Interest of Larger Yields for
Farmers of Northwestern Grain
Ctofoc
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Mitchell, S. D., July 30.-The South
Dakota meeting of the Tri-State Grain
Dealers association will be held in
this city on Tuesday, Aug. 2, in the
rooms of the Mitchell club. One of
the main objects is to get the farmers
of South Dakota, Minnesota and Ne
braska interested in using better seed
for planting, it being the opinion of
leading members Of the association
that SO per cent more grain can be
raised in these states by planting bet
ter seed. The following program will
be presented in the afternoon:
Invocation = Rev. Thomas Nicholson,
president Of Dakota university
Address of Welcome-Georg A. Silsby,
mayor Of Mitchell.
Response for Association. M. Doyle of
belmont.
Address-A. F. Bremen, Minneapolis,
president Of the association.
Relations of the Grain Dealer and the
Farmer. l.. McCaull, Minneapolis.
Improvement In Grain Crops'-Profes-
sor e G. Chi1cott professor of agricu1-
ture, South Dakota experiment station.
In the evening two addresses will be
made, as follows
1.-THE Work of the National Association
George A. Stibbens, president Of Grain
Dealers National association Of Chicago.
Corn Culture"-Professor P. G. Holden
Of Iowa Agricultural college, Ames.
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CAss LAKE DISAPPOINTED
Pine From the Chippewa Will Be
Manufactured at Other Points.

CAsS LAKE, MINN.-All doubts
as to where the pine to be taken from
the Chippewa reservation will be
manufactured have been set at rest
by the acts of the lumber companies.
1t had been hoped that at least one
more large sawmill would be erected
at Cass Lake, or in this immediate
vicinity, but the companies, with one
exception, have made arrangements
to have their logs hauled to Grand
Rapids and from there driven down
the Mississippi to points in Iowa, or
hauled to Cloquet and sawed at the
mills there.
The Standard Lumber company,
which was one Of the largest purchas-
ers, let the contract for the con-
struction of several miles of railway
grade and tracks within the confines
Of the forest reserve, at Cuba, about
five miles east Of Cass Lake, and 200
men are at work cutting out right-of-
way thru the forest, grading and lay
ing the rails. This railroad will be
known as the Leech Lake & Northern,
and the main line will connect with
the Great Northern at APPOINT a mile
east of Cuba. There will be several
smaller branches of this road The
Standard company has almost 2OO,-
O00,0O0 feet Of pine to cut In that
vicinity the next four years.
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FIRE IS TAKING
MONTANA PINE
DOZEN CONGREGATIONS IN
HEAVY TIMBER SECTIONS.
F1athead County is Covered with
Smoke So Dense that at Times the
Sun Is Obscnred - Forest Super
visor and His Men Check Blaze
Near Bolton.

Kalispell, Mont, July 3O.--No less
than a dozen fires are raging in diff
ferent parts Of the timbered sections
or Flathead county and the DANCE
already done is beyond calculation.
Forest Supervisor Raines has final
~ succeeded in checking the fire on
the north side of the track, at Bolton.
but the IRE on the south side is. still
raging and several hundred acres of
timber have been destroyed.
There is serious fire on the north
of the Kintia lake oil fields. and I'M
less this is soon checked great dam
age will be done to the growing tim
Der in that section.
The fire at Athens, just west of
kallspell, has been burning for six
days and at one time threatened the
destruction of the large sawmill of
Hundley & Schagel. Another fire
which is doing much damage is at
Marion, another at the east end of
Haskell tunnel and one west of the
tunnel, while still another is in the
fine timber near Atlantic. Another
large fire !, has IS made its appearance
valuable pine timber. Fires are
burning seven miles northwest of
Kalispell and still others have brok-
en- out in the forest east of Kalispell
In the fine timber on the west slope of
the Kootenai range.
The whole region is covered with
smoke so dense that at times the sun
is obscured. Added to this the In
tense heat and ashes make it dis
agreeable in this section. It is esti-
mated that at least 5000 acres of
timber have already been burned over.
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MINNESOTA
LUMBER PRICES
CONTINUE FIRM
SHIPMENTS ARE HEAVY, THO
FREIGHTS ARE HIGH.
Rates Are Out of Proportion to Those
on Other Traffic and Cut Is Prob
able-Tracy Laying Soon to Be
Started ON Messabe Southern Road
Extension From Mountain Iron.
special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal
Duluth, Mimi, July 30.-Lumber
prices continue firm. There have been
several sales, possibly the largest OF
which was by the Leisure Lumber COM
pany, which has placed $500, 600 feet,
of which 100000 feet is thick stock
time. This is all being taken off the
docks Immediately, and practically the
entire sale will have been shipped east
before the close of the week. fact
that argues for the position taken by
head of the lake lumbermen that the
eastern yards have no surplus stocks
on hand.
Other sales have been closed during
the week, but no single deal In any
large amount. Prices have been bet
ter than could have been secured a
few months ago. Shipments continue
heavy and the procession of ships at
docks show no diminution from week
to week. There Is talk of cut in
lumber freights and it is probable
these freights are out Of proportion to
other commodities.
It is expected that the Messabe
erhaeuser interests, will be extended
north from its present terminus from
Mountain Iron. Some grading has
been done and track laying will soon
commence. New headquarters camps
are being built west Of Virginia, in
place of those at Weyerhaeuser, in
the northwest corner of township So.
range Is, which have been occupied
since the road was built. More than
200 men are at work on the extension.
Roadway Is being made by the
Swan River Logging and the Standard
Lumber companies in their logging
operations on the reservation. The
Standard was the successful bidder for
a large tract of pine, and under the
rules but five years are allowed for
removing it. The Swan River COM
pany is near Wilkinson, twelve miles
south of Cass Lake, and has 100000
feet to take out at once. with more
to follow. Logging trains are hauling
the daily cut to Grand Rapids, where
1t Is dumped into the Mississippi river
The Standard company Is getting a
start on its holdings near Ball Club
lake, thirty miles east of Cass Lake
where it has some 100000 feet.
The st. Louis River Logging COM
pany has commenced driving out the
logs in Ely lake. About 100000 feet
have been sluiced out, but the water
is low and 1t Is doubtful If the rest
can be taken out before heavy rains.
These logs have been in the courts a
long time on account of trouble be-
tween the owners of land on Ely lake
and the companies that have attempt
ed to lumber there.
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BANKERS FILE PETITION
Bankruptcy Proceedings Of Unusual
Interest from Browns Valley. &

FERGUS FALLS, MINN.-A bank
ruptoy petition Of unusual interest
was filed here today the petitioners
being George I. Becker and William
M. Becker, surviving partners Of the
firm Of Becker & Chadbourne, bank
ers of Browns Valley. The firm as
sets are given as $4O,646.58, of which
$4,000 is property held in trust"
while a large percentage of the re-
mainder is in individual notes. The
liabilities are $39,856.31. The part
ners also file individual schedules.
George I. Becker placing his assets at
$11,99o, largely in real estate, and his
is given as 800. William M. Becker
places his Individual assets at 5000
and his liabilities at $601.65. Fred w.
Ladd, the foreman for a granite
company at Ortonville, also filed a
bankruptcy petition today, placing his
nsse1s as 81 ts1oi an exempt ana MS
Mrs. Bertelson, wife Of Osulf Bert
elson of the firm of Bertelson & Hille,
died from heart disease. She was 55.
Four boys, ranging in age from 8
to 10 years, were arrested for stealing
they had been doing wholesale bust
ness about town and selling the
chickens to the butchers. They were
given suspended sentences.
MeSSrS. Denn1SLOn az hllLS nave Q1S-
solved partnership, and the former
will move his family to Foxhome,
where he has recently started a bank.
A peculiar bankruptcy case was
filed yesterday, the petitioner being
o. Torrison of Fisher, Polk county.
His assets are given as $4,000 and
his liabilities at the same figure, the
assets consisting of a threshing out
fit and the liabilities being notes CIV
en- in payment for it.
Ben Barbeau has taken the con-
tract to tear down the walls of the
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Just 1ol miles south OF Ninneapo-
lis, on the Chicago, milwaukee, & ST.
Paul railroad, in the banner county
Of Minnesota, lies nestled, in a maple
grove, the little city Of Mapleton,
known for it's enterprise and progress
siveness: Altho having a population
of but LOO, it has several miles Of
water mains, an electric-light plant, a
modern sewerage system, an excellent
high school, five churches, represent
ing the leading denominations, a $50
barrel fourmill, six elevators with
a combined capacity Of 100000 BUSH
els of grain, public library and two
banks, besides institutions in all lines
Of trade. No less than dozen tele-
phone lines enter the village, includ-
Ing the long-distance systems of the
Twin City company and the North
western. The local exchange has over
a hundred phones in active use and is
growing rapidly. III
Mapleton is village Of homes. It's
residents own their own homes, 80
per cent Of the inhabitants being
property owners and not renters. It's
homes are all substantial, and in
the architects skill. The home Of
l.. Troendle, one Of the leading mer-
chants, q, cut Of which is shown here
with is the finest residence in the
county. It is thoroly modern and is
probably not equaled in another town
Of it's size in the state.
Mapleton is a home loving commu-
nifty, its citizens believing that the
home is the cornerstone Of the social
fabric, and as consequence, Maple
ton is an ideal place for those desiring
to be free from the temptations Of the
larger cities. Only about AZ per cent
of the people of the United States
own their own homes, and while the
west does not lead in this direction,
Minnesota is we'll in the fore front
with percentage Of 65, and it is such
villages as Mapleton that enable the
north star state to hold it's position.
The Commercial league, an organi-
cation among the business men, has
recently taken hold Of matters with
a view Of pushing the commercial i'm
portance Of the. village. Located in
a purely agricultural section, no one
looks for any great growth in the
way of manufacturing, altho the town
is we'll located for some industry
which might utilize flax straw or corn
stalks. Another industry that might
proftably be considered would be the
manufacture Of tile; as with each re-
curing year the Farmers are putting
in more thing, and there is no rea-
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SUIT TO GUST A
DAKOTA SHERIFF
MOODY CASE BROUGHT TO TRIAL
AT WAHPEToN.
Charges OF CoMusion With Blindpig-
gers and Collecting Illegal Fees
|. States Case Materially Weakened
by the Rulings of the Court ~ Lit
tie Left of Complaint.
Snaoial "a Thu Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Wahpeton, N. D., July 3O.-After
several adjournments, postpone
ments and about four months delay,
the celebrated Moody case is on trial.
The case was called today at 10 am.
selecting jury States Attorney
Schiller appears for the state and
Purcell, Bradley & Divet and w. H.
Redmon for the defendant.
Owing to the rulings of the court
before the last adjournment and the
rulings ~ TR made To-Day there is little left
brought to GUST the sheriff from office
for alleged misconduct consisting,
first, of collecting Illegal and ex-
orbitant fees as sheriff and, second,
for protecting blindpiggers and con-
Quoting blind pig himself.
Before the last adjournment the
court ruled that nothing in the COM
plant relating to acts committed
during the sherifr's first term of office
or during 1901 and 1902 could prop
erly enter the case. The court held
from office for an act committed dur
ing previous term. In the trial to-
day the court excluded all evidence
relating to exorbitant fees collected
by the sheriff except in cases where
the fee is fixed by law.
This materially weakens the states
case as It claims 1t has evidence that
the sheriff collected several hundred
dollars in illegal fees for work done
for which the law provides no fee.
ad Sioux Falls, S. D. D head
A suit which promises to be the
most important ever tried in the
state is in progress in United States
court in this city. It was lne+.
by the Standard Oil company, for the
purpose Of testing the validity of an
oil inspection law enacted by the state
legislature.
Testimony will be taken in four
states, and the special examiners will
be required to submit their reports TO
Judge Garland not later than Nov. 1.
The members Of the state board of
regents, at a meeting held in this city,
considered contracts for furnishing
machinery and equipment for the de-
partment of engineering at the state
university at Vermillion. Bids were
opened for printing the bulletins of
the Brookings experiment station and
John Longstaff of Huron was award
ed the contract