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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-11-17

It is q fact that the nomination
of candidates on the republican
county ticket by the ''Trubshaw
outfit" and the subsequent s.sup.
port" by the same parties, has
been the downfall of the repub-
lican candidates the last two
elections. And it is a truth that
will be driven home good and
hard at the coming election
again. -Hannaford Enterprise.
Comments are unnecessary.
Read precinct returns old man.
According to the Hope Pioneer
Parker only got 63 votes in
Steele county. If this is a fact
the farmers of that county evi-
IDENTIFY are satisfied with the
present condition of affairs and
had turned q deaf ear to the
argument Of 'tRive Us a change"
remembering the change they
got in 1892 when Mr.. Cleveland
was elected. The entire country
seems to have been of the same
mind as the Steele county voters.
The defeat Of Judge Glaspell
can be laid to the work of q few
filthy organs that have tried to
besmirch and blacken the char
acter Of Judge Elect E. r. Burke
and to no one else. Had the
campaign been waged in q clean
and respectable manner the re-
suit would have been different.
The voters will not stand for
rottenness and very emphatically
said so at the late election. Mr..
Burke is to be congratulated up.
on the successful outcome of
his campaign.
Before election it was said
that the COURIER cut no ice in
the campaign and that the
candidates would rather have it
against them than for them.
Now that the campaign is over
the defeated candidates are lay
ing it all to the COURIER and we
rise to ask why this inconsis-
tency? The fact of the matter is
that the people wanted a change
and voted that way, but then the
editor of this paper is gratified
to know that we do cut some
figure once in a while. To the
defeated ones we can only say
that we could only support one
ticket at a time and did the best
we could for the ticket of our
choice. Cheer up, boys, re.
member that the sun can't al
ways shine.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-11-17
Not Guilty.

The case State vs.. Christine
Tande, jury instructed to bring
in verdict Of not guilty.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-11-17

In accordance with the votes
of the people cast a week ago last
Tuesday Judge Glaspell will lay
down the judicial ermine on jan
uary 1st and retire to private
life. For eight years the judge
has been on the bench and twice
q year held court at Coopers-
town. During these years he
has administered his duties well,
has saved money for the tax
payers, and has made the dis.
trict a good and faithful servant.
Whatever may be said of Mr..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09

ell repeats a 30 year old ordinance re-
curing the bond.
The Republican state central commit
tee gathers in Topeka and decides to hold
the state convention in Wichita on
March 9.
w D. Gilpin. a prominent cooperative
society man. died of pneumonia at his
home here.
Rock Island passenger train No. 3, west
bound, collides with extra stock train 1417,
near Willard at lilo a. m. Wednesday,
killing II passengers and injuring a score.
Republican politicians opposed to the
administration hold a midnight meeting
after the state central committee meets
and decide to run E. w Hoch for COVER
nor tover his own protest. Hoch after
ward refuses.
The Topeka council fire protection COM
mittee reports the Crawford theater I'M
safe from fire and the council orders it
closed.
The Washburn college faculty an
nounces the new football rules and re-
Strictions. a-e-
The state authorities buy 80 acres of
land for SO. COO for the use of the Topeka
insane asylum.
Board OF county commissioners releases
Sheep Lytle from the county jail. where
he is serving time for liaaor selling, on
his promise of good conduct.
The Republican district central COM
nittee announces the time of the con-
gressiona1 convention for TIolton on Feb
rIIary 2.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09
A KANSAS POET.
President Roosevelt Enjoys
"Musings of a Pilgrim Bard.'
Written by Scott Cummins,
Founder of Wellington.
TOM M'NEAL'S FRIEND.
Topeka Editor Wrote Intro
ductiOn for the Book.
TOM M'NEAL'S FRIEND.
An Example of the Verse Which
Pleased President.

Washington, Jan. $40 have your
verse commended by the president of
the United States would be a great
distinction under any circumstances,
but when the president happens to be a
man of fine discrimination in literary
matters, as is President Roosevelt, the
honor is very extraordinary one.
Such a distinction has been accorded
a Kansas poet, Scott Cummins, who
styles himself the pilgrim bard and
who has written and published book
of verse under the title Musings of a
Pilgrim Bard"
Scott Cummins came to Kansas soon
after the=war closed, and lived in the
state for thirty years. He founded the
town of Wellington, and later went to
Barber county, near Medicine Lodge,
where he lived in the days of the buff
falo and the Indian, and through the
boom days which came to the country
later, bringing a civilization of which
he did not approve, and busy towns to
disturb the wild life which suited his
temperament and inspired most of the
verse which is contained in the little
volume that the president has COM
mended. When this time came Cum
minis left his cabin in Barber county
and went to Oklahoma in search of the
frontier life which had been lost to him.
He is now a resident of Winchester,
Oklahoma.
1t was while he lived in Barber coun-
ty that he met Senator Long, and the
two became last friends, and it was
Senator Long who presented the Mus
ings of the Pilgrim Bard" to Mr
Roosevelt the other day, with the COM
pliments of the author. The president
thinks the man is a real genius and al
ready is quoting his poetry as an evil
dence of the fact that it has proved to
be of more than passing interest to
him.
Most of the poetry was published in
the early days in the Medicine Lodge
Cresset, then owned and edited by Tom
McNeal. now of Topeka. McNea1 had
a high opinion of the talent of the
eccentric old man who lived a hermit s
life in the canyons near Medicine
Lodge. and his oaner seldom went to
press that it did not contain a poem
from Cummins' nen. 1t was not until
several years later that the poekns
were collected and published in book
form, and at that time McNeaI write an
introduction for the author, in which
he said of the Pilgrim Bard: His
poetry has the real apDetizing western
flavor, some of it marked with Quaint
humor, and some filled with remarka Bile
sweetness and 3athos. His are the
songs OF a man who has lived with
Nature all his days. and loved it: a
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man who knows little or nothing of the
so-called culture and artificial life of
the east. In my opinion, the
Pilgrim Bard is a real poet: is entitled
to rank With Eugene Field and James
Whitcomb Riley"
Much of the poetry was written by
the light of the camp fire. and all of it
deals with nature and the out-of-doors.
The Indian is the theme for much of
the poets singing, for when Scott
Cummins went to Iowa as a child the
country was a wilderness. and he had
ample opportunity to study the noble
red man. and he spent much time in
the Indian Cam9S. As boy he played
with the children of the Indians. and
became familiar with their customs and
their legends. Mr.. McNea1 says in his
introduction: This fact was probably
responsible for the story that was set
aaoat that a white baby died and that
the Indian chief Canoe, svmpathizing
with the grief-Stricken mother, brought
to her handsome Indian Daopoose,
which the white mother took and
reared as her own. and that in course
of years this Dappoose grew up to be
poet. This tale however. is legendary.
I doubt its authenticity"
The book, Musings of Pilgrim
Bard contains more than a hundred
poems. some Of them humorous. others
full of pathos.. A quotation from IAN
Address to a Slow Mule is written in
the poets lighter vein:
'fSlow is the wrath of God
Or seven itch continued;
Or promissory note after the debtor
Has shuffled off this mortal coil
And gone to that bright land where
debts are cancelled;
All these are slow, but thou. o mule,
Are slower than them ALL
slower than oxen, even as much as they
Are. slower than the 1ghtning's vivid
Ne'er couIdst thou overtake a snail
Except thou meet it.
And beneath the shade of palm leaf hat
Thou couldst make all day journey.
IF thou vert In land of sudden changes
Where the bowling blizzard in mo-
| Congeals the mud and makes it hard as
neither milestone,
'Twould freeze thy lazy feet fast to the
EARTH
And make thy title good
The following verses are from a poem
called Album Lines.'
Heaven guard thy footsteps, little maid,
So mayest thou shun each ambuscade
And temDtors snare:
'MongSt roses lurk full many a thorn,
Fond idols oft to dust are borne
Mid grief and care.
Virtue lends hope immortal light,
| Unwavering, ever, ever bright
| Meier dim nor pale;
EVER 90 with conscience free,
| And fa5rer treasures wait for thee
Beyond the vale
From "Reminiscences of Early
Days. in which the writer protests
against the onward march of civiliza-
ton:
ITO whom the green sward is like bed of
down,
/ With no pavilion save the starIit sky
Upon whose locks the evening dews have
shone-
Who often sleeps among the wiIds alone
The while the coyotes sing his lullaby.
Gladly would I backward turn times
mystic wheel
And make this land again desert wild:
/ | care not what the future may reveal
steal:
Again / would be natures reckless
child
Incarnation from Como, an Indian
Legend:
Come. ftful muse, with fairy fingers
sweep
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The hidden Tyre in fancy's archives
lying,
While twilight shadows DER the land
scape creep;
Beyond the rugged hills (somber heap,
Glimmers the last faint flush of sunset
dying.
Il wait thy coming and long vigils keep,
AS 1oyelorn maiden waits an absent
lover;
The feathered songster folds his wings
to sleep,
While careworn mortals rest in slumber
deep,
IT'S then I bid thee come and round me
hover.
The volume also contains a consider
able quantity of the authors prose
work.
LESLIE WALLACE.
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their hall last Monday night The new
officers were started upon their duties
in good shape.
A considerable party of Woodmen of
the World went down to Leavenworth
last Wednesday to attend the instaIla-
ton of the officers of Lincoln camp No.
IS at that place. As this gathering was
attended by several of the national Off
GERS of the order from Omaha and as
the drill work was put on by the most
perfectly trained drill team in the or
der, that of the Omaha lodge, the gath
ering was altogether successful The
work of the Omaha drill team particu-
larly impressed the Topeka visitors The
account of the gathering given IN the
Leavenworth Times is as follows:
Sovereign Commander J. C. Root and
Sovereign Clerk John T. Yates of Orna-
ha, Captain p. H. Coney of Topeka, and
peka, St Joseph. Atchison, Fort Scott
and St Marys were present at the an
nual installation of officers Of the Lin
coin camp No. Is, W. o. w, in the
Times building last night There was
speaking by the sovereign officers, an
exhibition by the degree team of the
Omaha camp, supper and dancing
Twenty-one candidates were initiated
into the camp.
The officers for the year 1904 who
were installed last night are: Consul
commander, John Fitzgerald; adviser
lieutenant, ]. G.. Ramey; banker, J. J.
St Clair; clerk. Fred Heis; escort. D.
w. Richardson; Waterman A. ]. De-
veries; sentry, e. D. Knapp; physicians,
Charles J. MCGEE and J. D. Miller;
managers. Charles Wandermaker, John
T. Riley, and Louis Hoffman; past
consul commander. E. r. Snodgrass.
Among the delegates here from out
of the city were:
Phil Miller, deputy; John Kuehn,
adviser lieutenant; Mel Rer6eld, past
consul commander; John Simpson; E.
d IL
escort, and Captain r. o. Forgen and
the degree team of 16 members as fol-
lows: Burstall, Peterson, A. johnson,
W. Johnson, F. Lowery, A. Lowery,
Murray, knight, Tembrink, Gabrio,
Grimes, Polcer, Funnonson, Hendricks,
Crowley and Doane, from Omaha: n.
H. Wolf, clerk; w. J. Matter, E. r.
Hayes, Col. G. W. Reed, A. NJ. Stitt,
A. L. Duff and w. H. Reeme from To-
peka; and T. ]. Bakule, deputy, from
St Marys. Two carloads of visiting
Woodmen from Kansas City arrived at
10 O'Clock. Among these was J. e
Fitzgerald, sovereign commander of the
state of Missouri
with the twenty-one additions last
night the membership of Lincoln camp
is brought up to two hundred
Affairs around the headquarters of
the grand lodge of Odd Fellows are
very quiet at present. All the interest
of the grand officers is centered in the
outcome of the litigation which is in
progress at Ottawa, involving the De
Boissiere estate. The latest feature of
this contest is the argument yesterday
of motion filed by Troutman & Stone
of Topeka, to have the administrator
removed from the charge of the
Orphans home property. The admin
istrator was appointed by the probate
court at the request of Waggener &
Orr. attorneys for the Odd Fellows
grand lodge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY

TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY
Coroner's inquest on the victims of
the Chicago Iroquois theater fire be
gins.
Fire attacks the Iowa capitol at Des
Moines and damage of 100000 results.
z. H. Hartman is elected president
of Union Pacific railroad.
Princess AIathilde, the only daughter
of Prince Jerome Bonaparte, dies.
Mayor HalAisons closes four hundred
public halls and dance halls in Chicago
until all the building ordinances are
complied with.
plice killed in revolt against President
Nord of Hayti during his absence from
Port au Prince.
War between Japan and Russia can
not be delayed much longer; latter's
fleet has sailed from Vladivostock;
cation.
Davis and Powers. the managers of
the Iroquois theater, Chicago, with
Buildings Commissioner Williams of
that city are held in $4,000 bail each. in
connection with the disaster at that
theater.
Demurrer of the counsel of United
States Senator Dietrich in the bribery
cases in Omaha is sustained by Judge
Vandevanter.
United States supreme court de-
clares that Porto Ricans are not aliens
of the United States, though they are
not necessarily citizens.
Ruth Cleveland, eldest child of ex
President Cleveland, dies at the family
home in Princeton, from heart failure
due to diphtheria.
United States Senate on reassembling
devotes its session to a discussion OF
Panama affairs. President Roosevelt
transmits a special message to con-
gress in which he pleads for an 18TH
milan canal and explains why the
United States recognized the Republic
of Panama
LOCAL SUMMARY.
Guilford Dudley closes the Dudley
bank at SIG Kansas avenue after "a
years of continuous and successful
operation, turning over all his deposit
ors to the First National bank.
Kansas experiences a touch of zero
weather on Sunday.
Jacob A. Guffey, a Topeka brakeman,
is killed on the Santa Fe near Olathe.
L. M. Crawford, at the head of the
Crawford Ausement Syndicate, arrives
in Topeka to oversee the plans for the
transfer of theatrical attractions to the
Grand opera house as the Crawford
house is ordered closed by the city
council
George L. C1othier. representative of
the u. S. department of agriculture,
visits Topeka on a trip for the purpose
of persuading farmers to plseat flooded
areas in timber.
Judge q. T. Hazen upholds the wide
tire wagon ordinance in the district
court.
Chief of Police McCullom fails in his
effort to secure bond and the city coun
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a. m. and I:3O p. m Morning subject
Communion; evening subject, The
Exposure of Sin"
Third Christian church. corner of
Third and Lake streetsf F. e. Mallory,
minister. Lords Supper and sermon
rias of Life Evening sermon and wor-
ship at 7:30 p. m: subject of sermon,
Apples of Discord.'
First Church of Christ. Scientist.
corner Huntoon and Polk streets. Serv-
ices at II a. NJ: subject. Sacrament. "
Children's Sunday school. IL noon. Free
reading rooms, 1O6 West Eighth street,
open afternoon and evening.
"The Revelation of Criticism is the
subject of a talk to be given by Rev.
P. w. Cranne1l on Sunday afternoon at
association rooms. All women invited.
Oakland Presbyterian church; Rev S.
A. Alt, pastor. Sunday school and Bible
drill at 10 a. m. The celebration of the
Holy Communion at IL a. M; subject,
1.-The Lords Supper as a Means of
Grace" The Junior subject at $50,
THE Animals God Made; the Senior
C. E. subject, TESTS of Repentance"
At the evening service the pastor will
preach to young women.
First Presbyterian church. Harrison
street, OppOS1tC CdpliO1s INSN- y. Il. SOoAi-
| termine, D. D., pastor. Preaching by
the pastor at II a. M, communion and
reception of new members; 7:30 p. m.
subject, "Scriptural Truths Illustrated
and Enforced by the Burning of the
Iroquois Theater in Chicago
Lane Chapel G. M. E. church. Four
tenth and Van Buren, streets. Revival
meetings every night. Sunday at II a.
M, preaching by Rev. J. r. McLaine;
subject, THE One Thing Needful. -
7:30 p. m, preaching by the pastor, A.
Berry; subject, Who Shall Deliver Me
from this Body of Death?"
Walnut Grove M E. church, corner
Sixteenth and Harrison streets, Rev.
ship at II a. m. The pastor will con-
duct the service and a sermon by Rev.
T. E. Prout, secretary of the R. r. Y.
M. c. A. Solo by Mrs. L. G. Thorpe
Evening service at 7:30 p. m. Music by
r M A HIl9rtpffR Lecture
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Topeka tent "a. K. o. T. M, held its
meeting in Security hall last Thursday
night, taking in several new members
and having a general good time. so-
cially. Preparations are being made
for another installation and the MEM
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Reformed Presbyterian church, cor
ner Clay and Tenth, E. Mclean Cole
man. pastor. 10 a. m. Sabbath school.
1880 study of church's testimony. HIS
sermon.
First Congregational chuch, Seventh
and Harrison street, Francis L. Hayes,
D. D., pastor. Worship and sermon II
sage Which We Have Heard of Him.
Evening subject, Enthusiasm The
pastor is regularly at home to all every
Tuesday evening, but an engagement to
preach at the organization of church
and installation of a pastor will oc-
casion his absence next Tuesday.
Second United Presbyterian church,
Fillmore and Huntoon streets. Preach
ing by the pastor, Rev. John P. White,
the morning, Thy Kingdom Come
Evening subject, THE Holy Spirit
Evangelistic meetings all next week.
First Cumberland Presbyterian church,
corner West Fifth and West streets, A.
H. Kelso, pastor. Sunday school 9:45
a. m Preaching at II a. m. and 7:30
p. m. Rev. R. M. Tinnon, D. D., pastor
Of the First Cumberland Presbyterian
church of Denver, Colo, and moderator
of the general assembly of the Cumber-
land Presbyterian church. will begin a
series of evangelistic meetings Monday
evening.
First Christian church, Topeka ave-
nue. between Sixth and Seventh streets;
Charles A. Finch, minister. Bible school
at 9:45 a. m. Communion and preaching
at II a. M: theme. THE Work of the
c. w. B. M" Evening discourse al 7:30
A.
Second Wesleyan church. corner of
Fifth and Leland streets. Sabbath
school at 10 a. m. Preaching at II a.
M by the pastor. Young peoples meet
ing at $50 p. m. Preaching at 1880 p.
m. Glass meeting will follow the II
O'Clock preaching.
First United Brethren church,
Twelfth and Quincy streets; Rev. T. D.
Critics, pastor. Preaching at II a. m.
and 7.3o .. IN. Morning subject. 'Van-
ity Fair; or, The Conflict Between Good
and EVIL: evening subject, zone of
the Worlds Fvie Greatest Powers"
Cottage prayer meetings: Tuesday, 7:30
p. m. at H. c. Kurtz's. Quinton
Heights, and Mrs. Belle C1ark's, S25
Chestnut street. Friday. 7:30 p. M, J.
c. Kevans POPS Van Buren,, and Jno.
A. Links, 1921 Monroe.
First Baptist church, corner Tenth
and Jackson streets: Rev. P. w. Gran
neil, D. D., pastor: Rev. Matthew
Francis, assistant Seward avenue Sun
10
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Pythias. held very well attended
meeting last Wednesday night. Several
new members were brought into the
fold and speeches were made by the
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First United Presbyterian church.
Services in knights and Ladies of Sc
curity hall, corner Seventh and Kansas
avenues, Rev. J. A. Renwick, pastor.
IL a. m. preaching by the pastor, sub
ject, Pleasing God" 10 a. m. Sabbath
school No evening services.
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bers of the Uniform Rank are working
hard upon their preparations for their
journey to st. Louis.
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LODGE NEWS.
Newman Banquets the Members
of His Woodman Camp.
SunfioWer Camp Also Installs
lis New Officers.
ROOT AT LEAVENWORTH
National Commander of w. @,
w. at Installation.
Odd Fellow Interest Still Cen.
ters at Ottawa.

County Clerk A. Newman paid for all
the oysters that Sc members of Camp
$780, M. w. A, were disposed to eat at
the Oxford restaurant Thursday night.
The feed was given as the windup
to installation exercises at which New
man was officially placed in the next
to the highest Office in the lodge. At
the next election, in accordance with
precedent long established, Newman
will probably be promoted to the office
of venerable consul, now occupied by
J. r. Carter. The exercises were held
in the lodge rooms. Speeches were
County Auditor Charles D. WEIGH.
County Clerk Newman, l. NJ. Penwen
Francis Curry. j. E. Shaffer, ]. r.
Carter and others.
The newly installed officers are as
follows: Venerable CONSUL J. R. Carter;
worthy advisor, A. Newman; clerk, Ed
T. Hearick; assistant clerk, Francis
Curry; banker, Harry Jones; manager,
Ed T. Croker; escort, r. w. Stockwel1:
Waterman, J. E. Smeltser, and sentinel,
w. %. McCarter.
On Tuesday night of this week the
members of Sunfiower camp No. $50,
NJ W. A, installed their officers as a
part of the celebration of the twenty
first anniversary of the establishment
of the order A large crowd turned out
TOT the gathering ana look part IN the
banquet which followed the entertain
ment for which a very good programme
of speeches and music had been pre-
pared. AS a closing feature of the
gathering the following officers were in
stalled: Venerable consul, o. K
Swayze; worthy advisor, r. F. Hayden;
banker, Willis Coates; clerk. M. w.
Saxon; manager. George w. Porter:
escort, George Adamson: Waterman,
George Dougherty; sentry, w. R.
Weible.
The newly elected officers of Topeka
post No. II, G. A. R.; Topeka Relief
corps No. "a. and of "old Abe camp
No. 16. Sons of Veterans. will be pub
lic1y installed at the hall of Topeka
post No. II. at 11s West Sixth street,
tonight at 7:30.
An unusually large gathering of
members took place at the January
meeting of the Ohio club last Monday
night. A programme of speaking and
music was given and several numbers
were furnished by the kazoo band.
Topeka tent "a. K. O. T. NJ. held it's
meeting in Security hall last Thursday
night, taking in several new members
and having a general good time. So
cially. Preparations are being made
8 =,
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Sunday morning at the English Lu-
theran church Miss Daisy Warner will
sing Rartlett's Just for Today" The
quartette will sing BE With Us, Lord -
Ashford.
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First Lutheran church, corner Fifth
and Harrison streets. Rev. H. A. OFT,
pastor. Services with sermon at IL a.
m. and 7:30 .. m.
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CHURCH NOTES.

Westminster church, College avenue
and Huntoon street Preaching at IL.
a. m. and 100 p. m. Morning subject.
Communion evening subject, THE
Exposure of Sim
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by the pastor, subject. 1.-THE Destiny of
the Rum Traffic" Sunday school at
9:45 a. m. Epworth and Junior Leagues
at $50 p. m.