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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-29
Trunk Opened.

The mystery deeDened when the eff
fects Of the missing couple We're ex-
amined today Their trunk contained
clothing and letters, including some
from the New York law firm of Ouirg.
Eostwick & Coleman. There were un-
used railroad passes from AsheviIIe
to Washington and from PhiiadeIph.a
10 Bound Brook other effects incIud-
ed a bank deposit book from the Con-
solidated National bank. New York.
Sailed on Cunarder.
That the couple sailed on the Cunard
liner Campania last Saturday is sug-
gested by letter from a steamship
agent of New York regarding passa &c
on the Campania and asking for the
cash deposit required to hold the
room.
Other papers indicated that Rogers
was vice-preside1t of the Compression
al Corresponding company Washing
ton, and was connected with Cali-or-
mia oil fields at Bakersfield. Cal
Probable Forgery.
The attention of the police has been
abandoned papers are what purports
to be the certified checks for 81 .49I
on the Kern Valley bank at Bakers
field, signed with the name Of r. II
Mcdonald. In addition TO these are
three rubber hand stamps made in sep
arate lines with which a check GER
tification OF this bank might be
forged
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-29
MODERN SYSTEM
Is REC0MM ENDED
General McCaskey Noticed the Light
ing at Fort Douglas.
ANNUAL REPORT GIVEN OUT
OFFICERS AND MEN PRAISED
FOR MARKsMANsHIP.
Especial to The Herald0

lRI ASHINGTON, d. c., Aug 2S.-The
wv war department today made pub
lie the annual report of BriSadter
General William o. McCaskey. COM
handing the department of COLORADO.
Without comment General McCaskey
recommended the re-establishmen- %
the army cantsen. lie concuTs IN the
recommendation BY the chief commits
sioner that a depoc be established in
Denver for his department whcrn food
supplies NAY be received and more
carefully inspected before transferred
TO posts The business of the past year
in purchase and distribution of supplies
amounted TO $149.052, and it is believed
the small additional expense called for
by the establishment of a depot would
be warranted by increased efficiency Of
the service that fnIsf result
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-29
Inspection of Rations.

The chief commissary also recon-
mends that each post in the department
be visited by him each year 10 permit
him to examine into the care exercised
in handling ratiOns issues of beef. sales
of supplies, baking of bread and to
gather knowledge of sources of local
supply.
Now that large bodies of troops are
constantly travelling to and from the
Pacific coast. he also recommends that
a standard kitchen car for each COM
mand not less in size than a battalion
should be adopted. This would enable
troops TO be subsisted on regular or
garrison rations and with much great
er comfort and convenience than at
present
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-29
Flour Testing Machines.

TlOGT cSlihS WdSntnSSs
COmmissary supplies furnished were
found satisfactory excepting that at
two posts complaint was made of the
quality of flour issued made from Colo
RADIO wheat and purchased after careful
test by the usual methods. After long
experiments with various flours the
chief cOmmissary recommended the
adoption Of flour testing machines for
use at all purchasing stations with the
result that the commissary general Wis
tied Denver and personally conducted
experiments for two days with the ma
chine and they We're ordered for each
station. Great good is expected to re-
suit to the service by use of the test
ing machines.
The feeding of alfalfa entirely to
stock at Fort Duchesne, Utah proved
detrimental necessitating the issue of
upland or prairie hay in part during the
current fiscal year.
Fort Douglas Lights.
It is recommended that Fort Doug
las. Utah, be furnished with modern
system of lighting. The lamps now in
use are unsatisfactory and not credit
able TO the quartermaster's department.
The department commander desires
to express to the officers and enlisted
men of the department his satisfaction
with and appreciation of the results
obtained during this years target prac-
strength the department is composed
of men with less than one years ser
vice, still reports show a decided in
crease in percentage by most classes
and especially in general average. The
general increase attained under Cite,
conditions could be accomplished only
by careful and earnest attention on the
part of both officers and enlisted men,
and shows that they fully appreciate
the value Of this, the paramount feature
of an enlisted mans training.
Athletics.
Recommendation of increased pay
for craftsmanship are heartily con-
CURED in,
The following recommendations in re-
gard TO athletics made by officers in
charge are cOncuTred in:
First-That there be three post Geld
days during the year; one each in
March. June and September, instead of
a monthly field day now prescribed.
Second-That the annual department
athletic meet be held during October
of each year.
Third-That during the season diff
ferent post baseball teams be allowed
to visit at other posts in the depart
ment at government expense
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-29

The fOreigB Office has said that every
disputed point between Russia and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-29

Mr.. Mcdonald Immediately inquired
at the offices OF the oil company as
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-29

What Japan Must Do.
The Dickinson press., 1905-01-07
Extends Block System.

The Northern Pacific is preparing to
install a block signal system on its main
line between Spokane and Ellensburg.
A. Beamer, superintendent of the Spo.
kane division, while in attendance at
the general conference Of division sup
erintendants of the road held recently a,
the general office of the company in this
city, made d recommendation that such
a system be installed, and it was stated
yesterday in the operation department
that work will be begun soon on the new
system.
The system to be put in on the Spo-
kane division will have blocks from two
and a half to five miles long. There
will be a telegraph operator at the end
of every block, who will issue orders to
passing trains by the use OF semaphores.
Only n train will be allowed on a
block at a time.
If a train comes to a block where the
signal is out, showing that another train
has the right of way on that block, the
train coming up will be put upon the
side track until its turn ome There
will be a side track at each block and
one in the middle of some of the long
blocks. Where a side track is in the
middle of a long block, it will be
equipped with a telephone. Beyond
this point an engineer cannot 60 until
he has orders that the track is clear
ahead.
The system can be readily adapted to
the road. The required number Of
side tracks is already in, and the blocks
will be arranged so that most Of them
will end at a station. The company
already has a block system on n dis
trict of the Pacific division and one
district of the Minnesota division, and
it is the policy of the road to install
similar systems on its other divisions as
fast as practicable.-Pioneer Press.
The Dickinson press., 1905-01-07
The Japs as Soldiers.

Many prominent military men OF
Europe and America have expressed
the opinion that the Japanese are the
best Of soldiers. This assertion may be
somewhat exaggerated, but still their
wonderful showing in the war with
Russia prove them to be we'll trained
and courageous. The wonderful cures
made by the celebrated Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters during the past 50
years prove it to be the most reliable
ton, dyspepsia, constipation, bilious
ness, general debility, kidney and liver
troubles, female disorders, chills, colds
or malaria. W. urge you to try a bottle
today and test it for your W satisfac-
ton, also get a copy of our 1905 Illus
trated Almanac from your druggist. 1t
is free and contains much instructive
reading matter.
The Dickinson press., 1905-01-07
Medora News.

The county commissioners are now in
session. Besides the regular routine of
business the old county officers are
being checked out and the new ones
checked into Office.
J. A. Ferris transacted business IN
Dickinson this week.
J. w. Foley left for Bismarck Tuesday
morning where he will attend the Inau-
gural bali.
Miss Edith Rozell, daughter of J. J..
Rozell, was united in marriage to John
Britt Tuesday evening, the ceremony
taking place at Dickinson. Both are
popular young people of Medora, who
have the best wishes of a host Of
friends.
L. f. Crawford of Sentinel Butte has
been transacting business in Medora for
the past two days.
NJ. L. Ayers of the PRESS was seen on
our streets Tuesday.
Pit seems to be the coming craze OF
the people of Medora. To stand at the
table one would think the participants
were really bucking Leighter.
Bridge Contractors McGeary and
Willard are here putting a third
stringer under the bridge over the Little
Missouri river. Owing to the immense
strain on the bridges by the new engines
it will be necessary to place a third
stringer under all bridges on the divi
sion.
The Dickinson press., 1905-01-07
GLADSTONE NOTES.

The ice crop is a very thin sample at
this time, being scarcely n foot thick.
The seven mill operatives gave their
employer a valuable solid gold watch
chain for a New Years present and it
is safe to say Mr.. Lee is a man to appre-
ciate their kindness.
Mrs. Ira Lawrence and Mrs. George
Sorber returned from Dickinson on
Tuesday after an extended %sojourn at
the home of Birdsall and Eldred. Mrs.
Sorber was accompanied by her daugh-
ter.
Geo. Auld of Dickinson was down on
official business on Monday.
Lefor Bros. are in receipt of letters
from their parents in Hungary who
reached their destination in good health
and spirits after their voyage.
Walter Pelton and wife have been
visiting S. D. Gregg during the holt
days.
Miss Dora Berry is a guest of Mrs.
George w. Lee.
The Roller Mill was shut down the
last day of December for an indefinite
season.
Mrs. Peter Hensel is home from
Brainerd where she has been for some
weeks undergoing treatment for appen-
dicitis and kidney disease.
Those interested in the effort to
establish a long distance telephone
south to the south line of 1904, ten
miles, have received an encouraging
letter from H. L. Lyon, of Mandan.
Mrs. Fred Koesel, Sr., has been visit
ing her sons in Richardton for a week.
w. H. Elwell is at Black Butte build
ing two shacks for homesteaders this
week.
John H. Weiglenda received a severe
injury this week from the kick of a
horse.
Mr.. Rifle of Black Butte was doing
business in Gladstone on Tuesday.
The Dickinson press., 1905-01-07
No Stock in MCGEE.
Medora, N. D, Dec. 20, 1901.

GuO N. DJ DeC. ~ l9O4.
The Tribune: l was surprised to see
that the Tribune would print such
slush, as ii lately published, about one
MCGEE, who has been posing in New
York lately, as the only true survivor OF
the Custer Massacre. 1t is a fact,
which appears to me should be well
known to the Tribune, that the mar
who carried the last order from General
Custer to Major Reno, was Trumpeter
Martin, or, to use the Italian name OF
this man, for he was an Italian, Mara
tene.
The writer was we'll acquainted with
Trumpeter Martin. We we're both
stationed at Fort Abraham Lincoln
winter of 1850 there was a court Of
inquiry at Chicago, convened at the
request Of Major Reno, to investigate
his actions during the battle of the
Little Big Horn; many of the officers at
Fort Lincoln were ordered before this
court to give testimony. Trumpeter
Martin was also ordered there, but who
ever heard of MCGEE?
MCGEE, or your account of him.
makes him say that he was very young
at the time of this battle; that he knew
much about Indians; that he enlisted as
a sort of civilian packer; that he was a
sort of orderly for General Custer, all OF
which is, to an old soldier, nonsense.
Perhaps the best ever written
of the battle OF the 25th of June, 1870,
was written by Captain Godfrey, for
merly of the 9TH cavalry; but he does
not mention MCGEE. This man MCGEE
is a liar and a fraud.
learn that Martin is now on the
retired list of the army.
JAMES w. FOLEY.
The Dickinson press., 1905-01-07
EXPRESSING THE INDIANS.
Simon Fraser's Methods With the On.
tutored Redskinv.

Simon Fraser's Methods With the On.
tutored Redskins.
Even MS late as the year 1905 there
were Indians on the North American
continent who had never seen or heard
a gun, had W see tobacco smoke
and were capable of worshiping the
white men who controlled these won
ders. The Rev. A. G. Morice tells Of
some Of the adventures of Simon Fra.
ser, who has stamped his name on
Canada. Father Morice writes as fol-
lows: "On landing Mt Lake Stuart Fra
ser's men, to impress the natives with
Il proper idea of their wonderful re-
sources, fired n volley with their guns,
w%hereupon the whole crowd Of In
dians fell PROSTATE to the ground. To
allay their fears and make friends to-
bacco was offered them, which, on be-
ing tasted, was found too bitter and
thrown away. Then, to show. its use,
the crew lighted their pipes, and at
the sight of smoke issuing from their
mouths the people began to whisper
that they must come from the land Of
ghosts, since they were still full Of
the fire wherewith they had been Gre
mated. Pieces Of soap We're given to
the women, who, taking them to be
cakes of fat, set upon crunching them,
causing foam and bubbles in the
mouth, which puzzled both actors and
bystanders. All these phenomena,
however, were o explained away,
1oovinp Drofound admiration for the
foreigners and their wares"
The Dickinson press., 1905-01-07
Taylor News.

John Knutson returned from Mime
sofa last Saturday where he has been
spending Christmas with relatives and
friends.
We understand that Call Flint is at
present staying on his claim a few miles
northwest from Taylor. Perhaps he
has some other business interest to look
after also in the same neighborhood.
Leutz & Co. are o moving into the
new store building.
]. F. Christen has bought the old
Leutz store and intends to move it to his
present location in the spring.
DR.. Seaberg has had several profess
sional calls during the week. He will
undoubtedly find Taylor a good location.
We wish him success in his practice.
B. w. Stephenson, manager of the
Missouri Valley Mining Co., was in
town Wednesday looking after the
business interests of that company.
I1tUTy DIcuIl Was Ill AlChllSOu IdSt
Friday Strengthening out the affairs of
the Lindahl estate.
On Monday evening Mike Lally had
a COW killed by a west bound freight
train.
The Taylor Public School began its
second term Tuesday. Teachers and
pupils all seem filled with new energy
and enthusiasm to take up the work of
the new year.
John Bang End Robert Pleggmeyer
were Dickinson visitors last Friday.
A lurge number of young people from
the neighboring towns came to Taylor
to take in the grand ball, given by some
of the popular young men of this COM
munity on New Years eve, at Tracy
hall. The music was furnished by the
Glen Ullin orchestra.
We understand that John Courtney
will replace the burnt lumber yard with
a new one and carloads OF lumber are
expected to be here at any time.
Capt. Siverts is wintering a fine bunch
OF young cattle in town this winter.
The Dickinson press., 1905-01-07
BOOkWORMS.
Not the Human Kind, but the Grubs
That Tunnel Volumes.

Not the Human Kind, but the Grubs
That Tunnel Volumes.
Blades, in his interesting volume,
'"The Enemies Of Books" has shown
that several very real bookworms are
undesirable tenants of old libraries,
and he has studied closely several
specimens sent him and described their
ravages.
Two grubs in particular richly de-
serve this name, the anobium, peril
max or eruditus and the oecophora.
The anobium, a small, light colored,
brown headed grub, with a body like
thin ivory or transparent wax, bears
a close resemblance to the white mag
,gots of a Stilton cheese. Working
with a pair Of strong jaws, like IL steel
bit, the grub begins at the wooden
boards and if allowed will perforate
the whole volume. The oecophora,
similar to the anobium, except for the
possession of six legs, is not unlike
the so called deathwatch.
NJ. Peignot asserts that he found
twenty-seven volumes in n row
pierced from end to end by a single
worm tunnel. Mr.. Blades doubts this,
but has himself seen two volumes so
treated, with no fewer than 212 dis
tinct holes on II cover.
The Dickinson press., 1905-01-07
THE BIRDS SONG.
1t Is Produced by a Unique Voice
Organ In the Syrinx.

1t Is Produced by a Unique Voice
Organ In h Syrinx.
Birds have no vocal chords in the
larynx, but they possess a unique voice
organ in the syrinx, which is provided
with what are really vocal chords Of a
very effective and complicated kind.
This syrinx lies in the lower part Of
the windpipe and the upper part Of the
branching bronchi, but varies much in
it's exact position and details of struc-
ture in different birds.
Briefly it consists of a varying num-
Der Of muscles, as many as from five
to seven being found in the best song
sters, attached to folds Of membrane
and the bony half rings, which at this
part Of the throat form a sort Of en-
larged Adams apple.
D%istinctness Of the several muscles
and the mode Of their insertion indi-
cate Il birds musical capability. The
syrinx of the skylark and nightingale,
for instance, is a marvel of adjusted
muscle and membrane, while, on the
other hand, the ostrich and some vul-
lures have no voice organ, the pigeon
has but little to show, and the common
fowl has no muscles to modulate it's
cry.
The Dickinson press., 1905-01-07

That deadly implement, the hatpin Of
modern times, is a descendant Of an
equally formidable toilet article used
by Roman women. The Aspasias and
Julias and Claudias who decked them
selves a couple of thousand years or
more ago, to the undoing Of the par
ticular Balbus or Marcus they desired
to fascinate, wore bone hairpins Of
prodigious length. Yet, like the wo.
men Of this present time, they seem to
have experienced the same difficulty In
keeping them in place. This fact came
to light during excavations at Silches-
ter, near Reading, England, a hundred
or so Of these bone hairpins being
found in the Roman bath, collected
maybe by the bath attendant, to prove
all these centuries later that there is
nothing new under the sun and that in
all ages the same little foibles have
been possessed by women.
The Dickinson press., 1905-01-07
Beech News.

Mr.. and Mrs. Anderson of Medora
were in town the first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlson of Wibaux were
in town last week.
Mrs. Anderson of Demares was in
town Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Anderson and
family were here from Medora last
week.
The Carmel boys were here thu
week.
Rev. Mr.. Austvold of Helena, Mont,
held services in the school house Mon.
day afternoon.
Beach school has 81 pupils registered,
with an average daily attendance OF
rs.
Miss Ruby Wilson is here from Dick.
inson, the guest OF the Misses Jessie and
Cora McKibbin.
Rev. MI. Austvold left for Minnesota
Monday evening.
Mrs. McKibbin played for the dance
at Sentinel Butte Monday evening.
Mrs. Richards was in Sentinel Butte
and Medora the first OF the week.
Tom Dunlap and Mr.. Kline have
each shipped a car load of hay this
week.
There was a surprise party at Mr.
Delevin's last Friday evening.
Miss Rcavig left for Minneapolis
Sunday morning.
Mr.. Fowler of Siston, S. d., is here
staying on his claim.
There was a basket social in the Hal
stead district school house Friday even
ing.
Frank Clark is hauling lubricant on
to his potato patch.
Noble Stith attended the dance a
| Sentinel Butte Monday evening.
Mrs. Keltner was in from the south
Wednesday.
The Ladies' Aid meet with Mrs
Fleet next Thursday.
The Dickinson press., 1905-01-07
Garrick and the Bishop.

In the "Realities of Irish Life" by
w. 8. French, is this anecdote: Il have
heard a story that upon IL occasion
the bishop Of London asked the cele-
brated actor, Garrlck, if he could ex-
plain how it was that he and his cler-
gy failed to arrest the attention Of
their audiences, although they preached
every Sunday Of the realities of the
world to come, while he (Garrick)
filed crowded houses with the most
rapt attention, although they knew
perfectly we'll that all he was saying
was fiction. The reason is very plain,
my lord replied Garrick. You deal
with facts as if they were fiction; I
deal with fiction as if they were
facts.'"
The Dickinson press., 1905-01-07
4 PACIFIC OCEAN.
How It Camo to BE So Called By the
Explorer MAGELLAN.


Explorer Magellan.
Magellan, practically the first to cir.
cumnavigate the world, set out from
Spain in 1919 to find a western route
to the famous Moluccas, or Spice is
lands. Vague rumors of a pacific ocean
were scattered through Europe. To
test these Magellan, following the
coast of South America, passed
through the strait which now bears
his name, formerly the strait of the
Eleven Thousand Virgins, tossed all
the time on a most tempestuous sea.
Emerging into the broad waters on
the west, he sailed northwest for three
months and twenty days on a placid,
almost unruffled sea, which he chris
tened then and there Mar Paciico, or
Pacific ocean, the name it will now
forever bear Notwithstanding it's
name typhoons in the west and else
where make this ocean as perilous a
path as any other to those who tempt
its vast expanse and comparative soil
tude.
Magellan himself fell in the Philip
pines, but the Victoria came home to
tell the tale. Drake was the first Eng
lishman to sail on its wide waters
London Standard.
The Dickinson press., 1905-01-07
Mage Was With Custer,
Beicegel, N. D., Dec. 80, 1904

Ue1CeBeI, N. Ia DEC. 80, I9O4.
Editor of the Press:-As l was look
ing over the PRESS | noticed an item
taken from the Bismarck Tribune saw
ing, as they understood it, Comanche
was the only living thing that survived
the Custer Massacre. / knew of one
other, Mage, a black horse, ridden by
Lieut.. John ]. Crittenton. l knew Of
this horse in 1875 at Fort Abercromb bic.
He was sent to Fort Lincoln for Lieut..
Crittenton to ride on that expedition,
and when the Indians were dismounted
in 1877 he was brought into Standing
Rock with a herd of Indian ponies.
He was afterwards condemned by the
government and shot.
C., O, ARMSTRONG.
The Dickinson press., 1905-01-07
Fast Coast Train.

Another overland flyer soon will be
put into service by the Northern Pacific
Railway company. 1t will be for the
purpose of affording increased facilities
to travellers who will go westward on
account OF the Lewis and Clerk exposi.
ton at Portland.
The train will make few stops and it
is thought that it will reduce the run
ming time Of the North Coast Limited
by at least one hour. Such a train was
considered feasible at the recent meet.
ing of the division s%uperintend and the
adoption OF such a running schedule is
the outcome of a discussion of the
matter at that meeting.
The Dickinson press., 1905-01-07
The Dragon FIy's Eggs.

Any n who has watched a dragon
fly fitting about the surface Of small,
reedy ponds or near the shores Of
large ones during the summe and ear
ly fall months has noticed it's fire.
quent dipping of the extremity Of it's
long body in the water as it skins
along. The dragon fly thus engaged is
always the female, and every time she
dips her body In the water she de-
posits III egg. The specific gravity Of
the egg Is such that it sinks to tho
bottom among the weeds.
The Dickinson press., 1905-01-07
Strayed.

Five heifers and two steers, all com.
ing two years. Heifers and n steer
branded NJ on left hip and one steer
branded OK on right hip. Suitable re-
ward will be paid to anyone informing
the undersigned of their Whereabouts.
MAIDS JEsPERsoN,
I-7-3t Taylor, N. d.
The Dickinson press., 1905-01-07
For SaIe--Sates and Vault.

Hubbard 4 Richardson Co., General
Agents Cary Safe Co., constantly carry
at All Milwaukee street, Milwaukee
Wis. the largest stock OF new safes aud
vaults in the northwest. Second hand
safes of the different makes always on
hand. I2-3.llp
The Dickinson press., 1905-01-07
Her

Mother thinks you'll make me a
good wife," said the girls intended.
"Indeed?" replied the girl with the
determined jaw. "You tell your moth
err I'll make you a good h%usband."-
Philadelphia Ledger.