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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-03-23
Election In MtVernon.

The following is the result OF
the election held. in MtVernon
township, 15S-S3, last Tuesday
a week: Twp. Trustees, Elmer
Carr, T. r. .Talley. John Cochran,
Vim. Dunbar clerk, Archie Day
ton, assessor, J. W.Riley, road
OVerSeer.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-03-23
Election At Mckinley.

The following is the result o.
the election in Mckinley town.
ship, Tuesday last week: Super.
visos, W. +. Meyers, chairman
3. Solberg, B. J. Anderson,
Clerk, A. v. Swanson. Tres. A. G.
Bjorn: Assessor, Al. Anderson
Constable, A. C. Gamblers; Just
ices Of the peace, w. J. Board
man, Carl Solberg. Road over
seer, r. Reinecke, b. Solberg.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-03-23
Major Richards Dead

Thomas Richards, Sr., died at
the hospital at Minot, Wednes-
day afternoon, at 4:15. He had
been in poor health for TIE great
er part OF the winter and went to
the hospital for treatment some
three weeks ago. Up to the time
ofhis death he held hopes OF re-
covery and was conscious al
most up to the time of his death.
Thomas Richards was born in
the south of Wales, near Cardiff,
and emigrated to the United
States about 1866, first settling
in Penn, where he secured EN-
ployment as superintendent in
the coal mines OF c. l.. Cake,
where he remained eleven years.
During the time .of his employ
ment in the mines he was often
made a target for the bullets OF
the "Molly Maguires" who held
the coal regions Of that state in
a reign OF terror for many years.
His family became dissatiffied in
America and went back to Wales
and afterwards came back to
the United States and settled
with the Major in N. D. in 1879,
locating near Bismarck. Here
they engaged in farming and
ranching until 1894, when Mr..
Richards was elected a member
of the State Legislature, serving
two terms.
He was appointed Indian agent
for the Fort Berthold Reserva-
ton in 1897, and held that posi-
tion for five years, being a longer
time than the position had ever
beed held by any other agent.
After leaving the Agency at
Elbowwoods he established him
self at Underwood Lake where
he has been raising cattle very
successfully for thepast few years.
Four years ago he was injured
in q runaway, having one leg
broken and sustaining internal
injuries from which he never fully
recovered.
He leaves a family Of four boys
and one girl from his first marri-
age, who are living in different
ipt - OF the country. He was
9arried in 1894 to Mrs. Flora
eMevers who survives him and
will accompany the remains to
Bismarck where the funeral will
be held Sunday from the Baptist
church. denwood Budget.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-03-23
Election in Tatman.

The following is the result ol
the election in Tatman Town
ship 1872. Supervisors: R.W
Dalziel, 81, chairman: G. G. Pot.
ter, 30. l. A. Ingerbretsen, 53.
For Clerk, II. G. Detlaff, A
Tres. R.C. Blume, SO. Assessor
Thos. Hoover, 50. Road over
seer, Dist. No. l, +. w. Mann.
c. L. Mattson, Dist. No. ?, So
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Good for Old Soldiers.

The old soldiers of the United
States-and there are not q few
Of them in Waed county-will be
glad to know that G Commissioner
Ware mas ruled that age is suffi-
cient alone for the granting oi
pensions. Soliersd GO years oi
age will receive per month, S; 65
years, %; 6S years, so and 20
years $12.
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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

Abraham Lincoln seems to
have been very much opposed to
criminal aggression, for he said,
Those who deny freedom to
others deserve it not for them
selves, and, under just God,
cannot long retain it. All honor
to Jetferson-the man who in the
concrete pressure of the strug-
gle for national independence by
a single people had the GOODNESS,
forecast, and sagacity to intro
duce into a merely revolutionary
document an abstract truth. APP
plicable to all men and all times,
and so to embalm it there that
today and in all coming days it
shall be rebuke and stumbling
block to the very harbingers of
reappearing tyranny and OPP
PRESTON"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

ate more than that other. Life
within us is not placed there by
ourselves-it is a gift-but the
life within us is not all that is
required to make us live well.
That comes from learning and
acquiring and striving. One
eager youth once asked How
shall do this ?" when he had q
difficult problem before him, and
his school teacher said, go and
do it." 1t sounds a little unreas-
enable, and yet after all, is it not
true that the victories that we
are going to get are already
within ourselves if we will bring
them out ?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

power of reasonable argument
and of friendly intercourse could
do no more to affect his minds
attitude than all the tortures
ever invented by all the fiendish
fancy of man. Freedom of
thought does not make men run
to wild vagaries; it is repression
of thought that does that. We
have nothing in this day that at
all parallels the extraordinary
ideas of sorcery, of self-punish-
ment, ETC., of the dark ages. A
reasonableness grows more and
more in power, because reason
has its rights and those rights
are recognized. But we must not
forget that there is another gen
GRAFTON to come after we have
gone, and we must contend for
their freedom and we must not
bind them down to hold views
exactly as we hold them. The
constant motion of things tends
to their health and the freedom
that we have, in comparison with
the past, must be sent forward
along the pathway of future life,
so that those who follow us may
rise to bless us for not attempt
ing tc narrow their vision.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31
Martin Travleso.a Porto Rican

Martin Travieso,a Porto Rican
graduate Of Cornell, recently
said in speech THE main pro
duct of Porto Rico is coffee. Be
fore the war we had good mark
cts for il. Spain, Cuba, France
and Germany paid high prices
for it, and the island was pros
porous. When the war ceased
the same countries which had
Heretofore bought our products
began to levy on them the same
duties exacted from goods i'm
ported from the United States.
So the price of coffee has been
reduced one-half of its former
price and many coffee-growrrs
are going bankrupt To be a
colonist Of Uncle Sam is Q costly
privilege.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31
John Mitchell says that in ev-
cry strike, both sides get licked.

There is simple way to read
history, and way that makes it
immediately interesting. Let us
try and realize that the men and
women written about were men
and women very much like our
selves, having similar possess
ions, similar purposes. Ii we
get this idea of history, then pag-
es that would otherwise seem
dull come to read like part of
our own family records.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

graduate of the Cornell Law
School, said last week to the
Twentieth Century Club, Bos-
ION, During Spanish dominion
insular budget was 81, 700, 900,
which included the pay of the
army. navy and church, and also
the pensions. Now the annual
budget is over SO, 900, 900 and we
do n have to pay army, navy,
church or pensions. What be-
comes of the money ? Three
years ago | went to visit my
country, and it broke M heart
to see the change it Ma exper-
fenced, not only financially, but
also socially aud morally" This
is tne way we carry our cIviliza-
ton aud Christianity to Infer
Tor peoples"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

These be prosperous times, &C
cordiGg to the parlouS Lo ige.
But our national cash balance
shrinks every day and tn .re is
pretty certain to be Il deficit in
the Treasury of $40, 000,0 by
the end of June. If the demo-
Gratis should happen to carry the
election in November, our re-
publican friends would, of course,
insist that they handed over a
big surplus to their Successors
who had squandered il an rusu-
ed the nation into bankruptcy.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

1t was recorded that Secretary
Taft laughed when he heard Sen
ator Tillman was prevented from
talking by an attack of topsilitis.
And now Taft himself, starting
out to make campaign speeches,
has been stricken with tonsilitis
and has taken refuge in the sill
ence of the Adrondacks Tillman
says he is real sorry.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

In his last stump speech in
Congress General Grosvenor de-
clared 'the hysterical cry of i'm
perialism has been laughed out
of court by the people as I'M
worthy of consideration Has
the fact been laughed out of
sight that Imperialism has thus
far cost the people about $780,,
900, ZOO, with no dividends either
on republican preferred stock or
"Steal Common ?"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

The democratic platform will
demand self-government for the
Filipinos, whoever heads the
ticket. General Miles in his
speech before the Iroquois Club,
Chicago. remarked incidentally
that about two hundred days
would be long enough to effect
the transition from an atrapy to
a republic
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

Right on the top wave of pros
perity we exported to Great
Britain last year only two-thirds
as much wheat and -four as we
did the year before, the deficiency
being made up by a do BE ex-
port from Canada, Russia, India
and Argentina. The question
recurs, under prosperity who
prospers
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

There is anxiety is some quar-
ters lest the democratic conven-
tion at 81. Louis may be STAN
peded by q mere Incidental men
lion of the name of Folk. The
way he has knocked over the
boodle-snatchers without regard
to party is certainly calculated
to attract attention and even ad-
miration.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

Prof. james of Harvard Uni
'versity writes Secretary Taft's
scheme is desperately Utopian.
The Philippines for the Filipi-
nos is aa admirable watchword,
but it reveals the whole prig-
gishness and spuriousness of the
situation. Countries that really
are for thsir inhabitants have no
such watchwords and Mt ed none. 2
This is the gist of the whole
mnttor.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

If you want to be something,
wanting will not bring it. You
must yourself help to create
yourself. A man by constant
thinking on subject can make
that subject part of himself, and
tae desire to be and to accomp-
fish, if accompanied by effort in
such direction, cannot fail of
fruit. The mind must be in us
by gift of nature if we are to re-
ceive mental training, but it is
aspiration of the mind and its
strong purpose that will lead one
man with just the same number
of hours as another to accumul-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

How grand thing it is to re-
alize that we live in a day when
the forward march Of the mind
is Almost altogether unhampered.
Imagine ourselves living back
wuen freedom of thought was
forbidden, when we had to wear
the clothes that somebody else
decreed, when we had to say over
slavishly the words that others
tlld us to say Even though
our own lives may be hampered
at the present time, it is easy to
conceive of their benz in very
much worse condition. The
restlessness that would come to
4 u ould be tort re if we were
compelled to restr tour thought
in this day TO / G ! aid down by
other men. We liye in a day
when the triumph of the mind is
here, and yet we live in a day
when men were never more will
ing to acce u "a right ida and
live up to it. The compulsion OF
thought always il arouse OPP
position; the freedom of thought
tends to produce more unanimity
OF opinion. A man may be bound
and torn asunder but his thought
will remain unchanged; yet the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

There may be in Challis those
who are having hard times along
the way of life, do not waste
your spiritual force by envying
those who seem to have easy
times. Common sense tells us
that if our way is hard, to seek
in the hard way for. some pos
sible good. Believe us, there
can be good found, if our spir-
its are determined to be cheerful,
in every circumstance of life no
matter how hard it may be. Of
course, l am presuming that we,
each of us, are convinced that
we shall not live on earth indie
6nitely. With that knowledge
in our hearts and the belief that
the earth life is not all, we can
look upon all the hardships of
life as testing, proving and edu-
cation. If our burdens seem to
be more than fall to others, we
might even go SO far as to say
that upon the pupil from whom
most is expected most care will
be bestowed. 1t sounds some
what conceited to say this of our
selves when we are going
through the hard school of diff
cult experiences, but at any rate,
if such an argument cheers us
up, makes us take up our duties
again, and brings us to the belief
that we have work to perform
for which we are in state of
preparation, and makes us never
satisfied until we reach that work
and do it, such a cheerful argu-
ment is good one.
Perhaps sometimes we think
OF the easy way along which 9th
ers seem to glide as something
that would just suit us exactly.
The better view is to conclude
that it would not. The easy
gliding one may have quite diff
ferent task to perform in the
world, or may be one of those
rare spirits that needs no chast-
enlng. Aud any way, who are
we that we should consider an
other persons road better than
our own ? We don't know the
circumstances of any life except
our own and the one or two with
whom we come in absolute heart
contact. The life Book Of the
rest of our fellow, is a closed
one. A way that seems to us
sunny and easy may indeed be
far from it, and if it is easy it
may have so many weakening in
huences in it that, did we realize
all the failure it involved, we
would prefer our own hard road
with its daily growing strength.
These seem reasonable views to
hold.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

Chairman Cowherd, of the
Democratic Congressional Com
mittee, gives notice that the
democrats expect to carry New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Indiana, and Illinois besides
those states which Mr.. Roose-
welt comedies. All of them are
warming up.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

Senator Fairbanks of Indiana
is worth SO, 100000. If he will
pat it up where il can be got at
instead of putting it up where it
cannot be got at, he can have the
Office with all is emoluments.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

Dave Henderson has posted
back to Iowa with his crutches,
reputation and rheumatism. His
ambition for metropolitan meth
DDS has vanished. He says that
all the time he was in New York,
like Josh Whitcomb, he kept ask
ing where is the fire ?''
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

The administration has decid-
cd that Porto Rican cannot be
admitted to the bar, cannot be
furnished with - passport to
travel, and cannot work il the
navy yards because he is not an
American citizen; and that he
cannoi nc naturalized because he
Is not orcigner. Q, what a
tAas eb we weave when we
Tee 9n landmarks leave
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

Senator Scott must expect to
be persona non grata with the
President after coneeding the
possibilitylof New York. and
such other states as New Jersey,
Connecticut, Indiana, and Neb-
raska being carried by the demo
Gratis in November.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

1t may be just as we'll for
Judge Parker to say nothing
most of the time as it would be
for him to say the identicall same
thing all the time.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

The Car threatens to start to-
wards the front next month. The
front started towards the Car
last month.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

James r. Garfield, of the De
partment of Commerce, says he
has enough evidence to enable
him to destroy the beef trust as
soon as President Roosevelt is
elected, Why not before =?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31
avin fought

W aving folght with
chairs .or an hour on two the
Eorrick- Dick faction of republi-
cans captured the Cleveland, o.,
convention and drove out the
Foraker iactio with yels f
"Filipinos. /" insurgents and
Traitors" What have the Fill
ipinos done to deserve this fresh
insult
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

William Randolph Hearst de-
MED the yarn that he is getting
ready to bolt and fatty declares
that he VIII support the demo
cratic nominee, whoever he is.
He says that no politician can
expect to always have his own
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

In his allegations against Mr..
Bourke Cochran, Mr.. Da'zell
virtually declares that Senator
Hanna was engaged in a secret
intrigue to hire gold democrats
to vote and speak for Mckinley.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

1t will be comparatively easy
for the republicans to get a can
didate for Vice President willing
or otherwise. Let's have an ex-
ecutive order
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

Mr.. Roosevelt demands "a
very short platform" at the Nat
tional republican convention.
Why doesn't be issue a decree
that the platform shall consist of
a mention of what Congress has
done +?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

Marconi came from Europe
last week on lie Gun pania and
kept up wireless Communication
with The shore during the entire
voyage. This makes o daily
newspaper at sea an incident of
the future Atlantic voyage.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

The Treasury surplus entirely
disappeared last week, and I'M
til after election the deficit will
be increasing into millions. If
this is prosperity, what is adj
verSitv :?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

A Mexican smuggler was shot
five times while trying to swim
the Rio Grande last week. The
way of the trans Greaser is hard.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

The republicans have got to
nominate some cheap man for
Vice President. Nobody who is
able and popular will take it.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

1t has been noticed that on
moving day the Russian army
was in the van.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31

Entered ut the Chains post-orce as second
class mail matter.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31
SILVER MESSENGER.

M. M. SWEET, Proprietor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-28
NEGRO GIRLS CHARGED
WITH FURNITURE THEFT
Three of Tender Age Alleged to Have
Stripped a House of Belongings
and Sod Them.

Three negro girls. Mary Lewis and
Nellie Marshall. each nineteen years old,
and Rose Marshall. fifteen. were last
night arrested BY Detective Muller and
Cornwell. charged with the theft of
furniture valued at $50. from the home
Of Charles W. Eyeart. a sergeant in the
Marine service. at COZ NJ Street south
east.
Mr. Eveart and his family were on q
visit 10 Baltimore. and placed the little
Marshall girl in charge Of the house
during their absence from the city
When AIr Eveart returned he found that
the lower story Of his house had been
stripped OF its furniture. Not content
with stealing the more valuable articles.
it is said. the girls pilfered even the
pOrtieres and a broom and are alleged TO
have sold them 10 the proprietor Of a
secondhand furniture store for Sl2e5
each signing "a receipt for the money
but giving false names They are be
lieved To have divided the cash realized
from their spoils.
Mr.. Eveart had been housekeeping for
only "a few weeks, and all of the furHi-
ture stolen by the girls was practically
new.
When arrested the negresses made n
fun confession. and were sent TO the
House Of Detention. TO await a trial in
Police Court tomorrow.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-28
CALLIGAH duplicates
FIVE IN ATHENS MURDER
Private Of Fourteenth Artillery Makes
Confession on the Killing Of
Corporal Clark.

ATHENS. Ohio. Aug. Elm cOufes-
sion made today by Private William }.
Calligan OF tho Fourteenth United States
Artillery. which H. now at Fort Sheri-
dan. H.. five additional members OF the
battery have been implicated in the
killing OF Corporal Clark in the fight
here on the street between regulars and
National Guards. last week. during the
State encampment. They are Privates
Johnston. Snyder. Barnett Y. Davidson.
and Sergeant Lott.
a telegram received late this evening
from Captain Newcomb, at Fort Sheri-
dan. TO Prosecutor Foster. says that
the men have been arrested.
Calligsn says the affair was premedi-
tated. and that while Il was not the
desire OF the members OF the Fourteenth
Battery TO commit murder ,hcy went
prepared for trouble. and With the
avowed purpose OF releasing Private
Kelley. who. early I'm the morning. had
been beaten into insensibility by mem
bers Of the provost guard.
Callisan says he will tell more about
the murder II the Government Will
transfer him 70 another command wher
he Is given his freedom by the authori-
ties at Athens. He says he would not
return 10 Fort Sheridan for that would
mean certain death 10 him, as his com.
redes there would Kill him on sight
The prosecutor has already asked thai
TIE transfer be made.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-28
in Bloody
Battle in Mountains
Natives Try to Extermnate Norfolk and West
ern Crew-KnNes, Pistols, and Bricks Used.
Three Dead and One DYING

HUNTINGTON, ". Va. Aug. o.
North Fork, village on the Norfolk
and Western Railway. in Mcdowell
county, was the scene Of a general fight
between Frank Hudson. Harry McIn-
tyre. and Solomon Dangerneld. all rail-
road brakemen. on one SIDE, and VIII
liam Hodges. Bert Hodges. ard Frank
WysOning on the other.
Revolvers, knives and brickbats were
used
William and Bert Hodges were killed.
and Harry Mcintyre is thought 20 be
dying from "A fractured skull Tho
others engaged were also injured, but
VIII recover.
The Hodge boys. il is alleged q few
days ago hurled stones at a passing
freight train when Frank Hudson. a
brakeman, fired at them with "a revolver.
Were Waiting.
This afternoon the same freight pulled
into North Fork and the Hodges boys
and some friends were at thC station 70
resent the shot fired by the brakeman
Hudson was sighted first by william
Hodges, who hurled a brick at him.
Telling him 10 the ground. Hudson.
stunned, arose and as he did so drew
his gun and quickly fired. His shot