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The Dickinson press., 1905-02-18
Notice..

Any and all persons are hereby warn
ed not to cut or remove any timber from
any of the following described lands un-
der penalty of the law, viz: Sections /,
20, 81, 50, IS and Sc, township 134, range
1872; also the same sections in township
1874, range 1903; township 135, range Io2;
township 1856, range 1903; township 1856,
range Io2; township 1856, range 1903.
LITTLE MISSOURI HORSE Co.
BY A. c. Huidekoper,
1o.8-tf Preside mt
The Dickinson press., 1905-02-18
For Sale

Very desirable residence property on
Van Norden street. Five room house
with two closets, pantry, and full tone
basement with furnace, on corner lot
near high school building. For terms
apply to John Riessbeck at Mrs. I. L,
BROWNS store. 6.4-tf
The Dickinson press., 1905-02-18
OTHER INTERESTING DATA.

Precipitation for 1903, 1888; 1901.
1898; 1000, I1.78; 300, 1877; 1898,
1872; 1897, 1863; 1896, I8.48; 1906, u.74;
The Dickinson press., 1905-02-18
SCHOOL DISTRICT TAXES,

AZ! taxes are payable at the county treas.
4ser g Office at the court house in the CITY -,
Dickinson, N. D. VI
JOHN LEAsK,
County Treasurer,
Decemho,, !, ,o,. Stark County, n. D.
~moeF A4'IaI :l2-17-tf
The Dickinson press., 1905-02-18

most prominent feature in the reports
OF the engineers of some other states,
and is ordinarily the branch of the
work demanding the first attention and
most continuous consideration, for the
reason that without definite knowledge
OF the quantity of water ordinarily
to be expected in the various streams
any plans for the utilization of that
water cannot be properly made. This
is explained at some length in the re-
port but few such measurements are
included this year, for the reason that
Professor Chandler, as one of the Engi-
neering force of the U. S. Reclamation
Service. is in charge of the regular
series Of such measurements made
(under federal appropriation on the
principal streams of North Dakota and
Minnesota, most of which have been
maintained continuously for about two
years now; the results are therefore
reported to Washington for publica-
ton.
One. chapter describes the different
methods for measuring the flow of
streams,-by floats. by weir, by current
meter, etc..-with the advantages and
difficulties Of each, and should be of
assistance to the non.technical resident
who desires some method by which he
can without unreasonable effort or
trouble measure a stream in which he is
interested or make a rough estimate OF
the quantity of its flow. A brief sum-
mary of the different surveys made in
North Dakota by the U. S. Geological
Survey or Reclamation Service with
irrigation in view is included; and some
other topics of interest appear.
In an appendix the articles of incor-
poration of the Lower Yellowstone
Water Users association are printed.
The organization of associations some
what similar to this has been insisted on
by the Reclamation Service as pre-
requisite to the beginning of construc-
ton work on any extensive project in
regions where the land is already largely
in private ownership; this, as we all
know, is the case in most sections of
North Dakota.
A topic forming a considerable part
of many other reports of state engineers
is lacking here. namely, lengthy lists of
claims to water adjudicated or approved
and permits granted; for North Dakota
has no law yet to facilitate the definite
establishment of water-rights. But if
thus early in the irrigation development
of the state there shall be enacted effect
i've legislation for that purpose, it may
be assumed that the numberless claims
that will soon be ready for filing can be
approved and recorded. satisfactorily
The Dickinson press., 1905-02-18

j. q. SHUnuer9,
Attorney for Contestant.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-05-06
German Made First Watch

cally perfect. The iron plates: and
wheels had given place to finely gilt
brass ones. The pinions were of
steel and polished, the cocks artistic
ally engraved. and the pillars neatly
turned. Greater precision was obtain
ed when, about the year 1860, the hair
spring was invented by DR.. Hooke,
and also. but entirely Independent of
the latter, by Huyghens. This opened
the way. for the Introduction Of the
minute hand, which is ffouna Quite gen.
orally around the year 100. Some
of the Oldest watches were already
furnished with a striking mechanism.
About the year 1900 watches with
alarms were made, and in 1891 Bar
lowe, an Eng]ishman, introduced the
repeating watch.
Toward the year 1900 there was
made for the first time the second
hand in watches. The cylinder es
capement is known to be quite old,
for it was originated as far back as
1910, but was not generally adopted
until about 1910. The lever escape
ment, the one used in the majority
of American watches of the present
time, was invented about 1855 by
Thomas Nudge. i .n:
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-05-06

Peter Henlein of Nuremberg, in Ger
many, about 1900, is now generally
credited with the invention of the
portable watch. The earliest watches
were naturally rather crude; this is
shown by the few specimens still in
existence. They were circular in
shape, not oval or egg-shaped, and en-
tirely made of iron. In place of the
round balance was a straight one
called 'tfoliot.'' Like, almost all
watches up to the year 1870, they were
provided with the verge escapement.
The hair spring is absent; it was not
invented till $50 years later. In order
to obtain tolerably uniform rate an
upright hogs bristle was used, against
which the, foliot strikes. The uneven
traction of the spring they endeavor-
ed to prevent by means of a brake.
Great, accuracy was not aimed at
which is shown by the fact that the
oldest watches with very few excep-
tions up to about the year 100 indi-
Gated only the hours, the minute hand
being entirely absent.
While the first watches were rath-
eT crude, there appeared only twenty
or thirty years after their invention
works that are termed almost techni.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-05-06
When Giants. Roamed Earth

found a skeleton whose head held "a
bushel of corn and which was nine
teen feet in height. The giant Baert
was twenty-five feet high.
In 1923 near the castle in. Dauphine
a tomb was found thirty feet long, six
teen feet wide and eight feet high, on
which were cut in gray stone the
wards, "<Kentolochus Rex" The skel-
eton was found entire and measured
twenty-five and one-fourth feet high,
ten feet across the shoulders and five
feet from breastbone to the back.
But, France is not the only country
where giant skeletons have been un-
earthed. Near Palermo, Sicily, in 1916,
was found the skeleton of a giant
thirty feet high. Near: Magrino. ON
the same island. in 1916, was found
the skeleton of a giant OF thirty feet
whose head was the size Of hogs
head and each tooth weighed 1,ve
ounces 5s4SS<. E, $%s,s<y @. 81
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-05-06
DR.. Osler's Quick Diagnosis

Dr.. Williams Osler of Baltimore
the famous medical specialist Of
Johns Hopkins, who set the country by
the ears because of his assertions con-
cerning the uselessness of men after
they reach the age of &C, has the
reputation among his brethren for
getting the biggest fees for the least
work of any man in the profession
A story which is current among
Washington physicians is about a
rich old man whose wife has been all
ing for months. All the local doctors
had tried their hands without much
result. The old lady had passed the
allotted term of life, 70 years, and
was suffering from the general break
ing up of her vital organs.
The old man, genuinely fond of his
wife, thought the doctors did not
know what the trouble was, and when
some one suggested the renowned
Giagnostician of Baltimore he jumped
at the chance. He telegraphed to DR..
Osler, but that learned gentleman was
very busy and could not come. The
distracted man wired again, telling
DR.. Osler to leave his work and come
no matter what the cost. The doctor
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-05-06
From Simplicity to Pomp

Boston newspapers heard the news
and announced Mr.. Jefferson's ap~
pointments, one of them adding that
1--WE understand these appointments
have received the unanimous sanction
of the senate"
An account more in detail was Civ
en- in July by Augustus Foster, Brit
ish minister in Washington at the
time. In one of his letters home he
said: :.
Il don't know whether I have yet
transmitted to you an account OF the
installation of the successor of Monte
yuma in last March. On the 4th he
proceeded on horseback from the pal
ace, which is of white stone and the
largest building here, and attended by
his secretary and groom, rode up the
long avenue of Pennsylvania to the
capitol, which is an unfinished rival
in stone of the Roman building of that
name, and dressed in black and silk
stockings, delivered a speech of some
length to a mixed assembly of sena-
tors. populace, representatives and
ladies. It was too low spoken to be
heard we'll. He then kissed the Book
and swore before the chief justice to
be faithful to the constitution, then
bowed and retired as before. When
he received all who chose attended
the levee, and even toward the close
blacks and dirty boys drunk his wine,
and lolled upon his couches before us
all. There was nothing dignified in
the whole affair. r."-Birmingham Age
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-05-06

answered that it would require S1Ou
TO bring him to Washington on that
particular morning and the old man
wired:
,"All right; only come at once"
The doctor arrived in due season
and was met at the station by the
husband. During the drive to the
house the doctor told the man" blunt
ly that his fee must be. paid in ad-
vance, and the cash was promptly
produced.
After listening to a few details OF
his patients Illness from the trained
nurse, DR.. Osler was ushered into the
sick room. He felt the woman's
pulse, listened to the heart and took
the respiration after the approved
method. Then he went down stairs,
where the husband was anxiously
waiting for him.
'*The trouble with your wife," he
answered coolly, as he carefully ad-
justed his gloves, '<is that she is 70
years old. That is all''
And before the astonished man
could get his breath, he heard the
cab door bang and the doctor was on
his way back to Baltimore.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-05-06


The past was more prolific in the
production of giants than the present.
In 1880 one of these giants, who was
exhibited at Rouen, was ten feet high,
and the giant Galabra, brought from
Arabia to Rome in the time of Claud-
rus Caesar, was the same height. Fan
mum, who lived in the time of Eu-
gene II, was eleven and one-half feet
in height.
: The Chevalier Scrog in his journey
to the Peak Teneriffe found in one of
the 'caverns of that mountain the head
of a giant who had sixty teeth and
who was not. less than fifteen feet
high. The giant Faragus,, slain by
Orlando, the nephew of Charlemagne,
according to reports, was twenty-eight
feet high. In 1914 near st. :Gernad
was found the tomb of the giant Iso-
lent, who was not less than thirty
feet hish. In 1890 near Rouen was:
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-05-06
THE HEN.

The hen is not an animal.
Nor fish, and doesn't sing:
It's 5ust a feathered sort of bird
And yells. like everything.
Whene'er it chances for to lay
An egg in any place,
Just ~cackles round and up and down
And never cracks it's face.
And n it wants family
1t doubles up it's legs
And sets on anything in reach,
Woodpiles, or. stones, or eggs.
One time hen set on an axe,
Her pride!-no hen could match II!
But96nally her poor heart broke
Because she couldn't hatchet.
hll children should be good to hens
Till goodness is habit,
No other thing lays eggsfor them
Except the Easter rabbit;
A rooster is man hen, but
This between me and you
The hen climbs on roost to Sleep
So it's a rooster, too.
-. M. Lewis in Houston POST
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-05-06
One Dollar a Year Per Hen.

One Dollar Year Per Hen.
The above is the popular estimate
OF the cost of feeding a hen year.
At twenty-four cents dozen, fifty
eggs should pay for the cost of keep
ing her and the balance of the eggs
should be an offset against the ex-
pense of sheltering and caring for
her. That some flocks do not pay a
profit is due to careless management
by the owner, for whether on the
farm or in an establishment devoted
to the raising of poultry it should not
cost more than the sum mentioned to
supply the food the hen consumes
annually.
In the light of this, the reason why
some f1ocks do not pay is that they
are SO badly taken care of that the
losses from diseases. rats, mites, and
preying animals and birds is very
great. We say that it costs only a
dollar to feed a hen year. On that
estimate it costs man to feed 100
hens half a year $50, and the fowls
do not begin to lay before that time
in most cases. Now on many farms
the farmer has lost half of his fowls
by fall and thus the food that was
put into them has been wasted. This
runs up rapidly into money, and the
rest of the hens have to pay abnor
NAL profits to make a good showing
for the flock.
If we but take an account of the
situation we find that the mortality
among the poultry is something enor
nous. What would we think if hall
of our calves died off before they
were six months old, or if we shoulc
habitually have steers drop dowI
and die or perish from the numerous
causes that cause losses in the feath
cred flocks?
It has been said that we can make
profit of 81 a hen easily, and so w
can on the hens that live. But tn.
unfortunate fact is that we make les:
than nothing on the hens that die be
fore having laid the eggs they art
supposed to lay in a year.
think this is the source of mucl
of the encouragement in poultry rails
ing. However it maybe said :ha
most of the mortality among tn
fowls comes from things that can b.
| prevented by little care and fore
thought.
Allen Co., Ind. Sophia Belknap.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-05-06
AGRICULTURE
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H. |@aI MS: :e}nI/ VQ1lIsI7;;z5|
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. e -: :::: ~:se~~"@
Experimental Plots.

must acknowledge that have
oeen slow in taking advantage of my
opportunities. I farmed the old place
or many years without attempting to
ind out what it needed in the way OF
fertilizer. In fact, robbed a part of
The farm and kept up another part
and did not know what was doing.
! used to haul out the manure every
spring and put it all onto the fields
n which I grow potatoes and corn.
That was very good for those parti-
:ular fields, but was a little hard on
The. land that did not get any of the
manure. l put it on the same fields
every year because I believed that
every year the corn and potatoes
ook out all I put on. am now salts
led that there was a residue left that
was not really needed on those fields
md would have been paying me bet"
er interest had it been put on some
ot the fields that have never had any
oarnyard manure.
In attending a farmers institute I
heard the matter of experimental plots
discussed and thought I would try
one on some of the poorest parts OF
my farm. l measured off two acres
and put no fertilizer on one and var
lous kinds of fertilizers on the other
in strips. I left the first acre for a
check. put on the other acre about
l,OOO pounds of lime and some phos'
pilates, and strip on that acre was
treated with nitrogen and another
with both phosphorus and nitrogen in
commercial form.
The results were remarkable, and
nave since been wondering why I did
not do it before. l found that the
phosphorus and nitrogen were both
deficient. I made an application pei
acre of about $50 pounds of bone mea
IN a forty acre field and put on some
oarnyard manure, enough to give {
| little more nitrogen and humus tt
each acre.
1t lis astonishing how we Will sru1
along in the same rut for many ye'ar:
and never think of what is and wha1
might be, till we have an object les
son that brings the truth home to us
am but just beginning to teach my
self by the help of experimental plot:
and intend to continue the goot
work.
Adams Co., Ill. Augustus Mihill.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-05-06
Johnnv's SAVING Bank


Our son Johnny has taken great
fancy to poultry, and he calls his lit
tleHfocl5 his savings bank. He bought
a hen and rooster with the pennies
he, saved and since that purchase
two years ago, he has been investing
about all of his extra pennies IN more
hens Hens have been selling at
thirty-five cents in the vicinity 10Y
years, and every time he gets tnat
amount of money new hen comes
to the farm. Incidentally might
mention that Johnny has an uncle
whom he has interested in his saw
ings bank, and from him he succeeds
in getting many a dime for errands
run. I have a strong suspicion that
the said uncle has more errands TO
do than he really need have, as. ne
has a strong leaning towards Johnny.
The surprising thing is tha1
aJohnny's flock has now grown to- be
bigger than the family flock. johnny
is only twelve years old, but he has
an aptitude toward handicraft, and ne
has built his own hen house and hen
yard. He wouldn't De dependent on
his father, so he purchased his lum-
ber from a neighbor for small sum
of money. That neighbor got tired
of having board fences and bought
wire for fences of that material. That
threw on the local market (Which was
Johnny a considerable amount OF
lumber in the form of boards, and the
owner sold them at just what they
would have been worth for fire wood
The house that Johnny built has
| only an earth floor and two good
| windows on the south side. some
roosts nest boxes, and plenty of straw
but the hens are contented in it, and
all the hens seem to take an especial
pride in making their chicks live
and develop into mature biddies. The
owner is a hard dealer and will not
sell his fowls or eggs under price
| Already he has turned over" his
money several times.
His father told him he might have
| all the land he needed for his flock
and that the hens could run and picl,
all the grass and gather all the scat
tered grain without charge for same
Now the ''old man" is beginning tC
worry lest Johnny take possession OF
the whole farm in a few years on the
| said agreement. The bank stock
now totals about $50 and is paying
four hundred per cent.
J. H. Watkins.
La Sale Co., Ill.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-05-06
Seed Corn in the Ear.

A circular letter sent out from the
ottawa, Canada, station, says:
The cost of the small quantity of
seed corn that is required to plant an
acre, in comparison with the cost for
labor in cultivating and handling and
the ultimate value per acre of a good
crop, would seem to make it clear
that the best available seed of the
most satisfactory type and variety
should be obtained at any reasonable
cost. 1t would be much better for
Canadian farmers if they were able to
obtain their supplies of seed corn in
the ear; they would then have fair
idea of what they were getting. While
in the ear, the danger of injury to
the vitality of the seed from damp
and it's after effects is reduced to a
minimum. Corn that is shelled by a
machine and left in sacks for six
weeks or more will seldom germinate
more than Is per cent, unless the
conditions for storage have been ex-
ceptionally good. The average VITAL
ity OF seed corn, tested in the seed
laboratory last year, were, for corn
received in the ear, IS per cent. and
cor shelled corn 68 per cent. It is
much to be recommended then that
wherever possible, farmers obtain
their supplies of seed corn in the ear
only. To meet the demand for seed
corn in this condition growers would
do we'll to adopt the style of Shipping
crate that is used for this purpose in
the states of Iowa and Illinois, This
crate is two feet nine inches long. one
foot wide, and one foot deep, and is
made of >alf inch lumber three inches
in width. Its capacity is one blshel.
or between one hundred and one him.
dred and twenty ears. If the corn
can be planted in hills, this crate will
hold sufficient seed for five acres.
While it is true that there NAV be
some additional cost for freight. on
account of the weight of the cob and
Of the crate, and that extra work is
required In she1ling the corn. these
become Insignificant when the differ
ence in value between an acre of
good matured corn and an acre of un-
satisfactory corn is considered.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-05-06

, President Roosevelt was inaugural
ed with great "pomp and circum-
stance" There was spectacular pro-
cession with banners and brass bands.
There were hundreds of thousands Of
people to witness the procession and
when the president took the oath of
Office he looked upon the upturned
faces of multitude The newspapers
printed page after page of descrip-
tive articles, later on the weekly pa
pers showed it in pictures and then
the magazines had their say.
In what strange contrast all this
is with the Inauguration of Thomas
Jefferson, just one hundred years ago.
The National Intelligencer, the lead
ing newspaper of Washington at that
time, gave the following report of
MIR. Jefferson's Inauguration:
"On Monday, after Thomas Jeffer-
son had taken the oath of Office as
president of the United States, the
oath of Office was likewise admins
tered to George Clinton as vice-presi-
dent of the United States. After the
delivery of the speech the president
was waited on by a large assem-
blage of members of the legislature,
citizens and strangers of distinction,
and a procession was formed at the
navy yard, composed Of the several
mechanics engaged, which marched to
military music, displaying with con.
siderable taste the various insignia OF
the professions
On the 18th of March following. the
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-05-06
Exercise and Feed,

No doubt hen will get along we'll
without exercise if she be very scien-
tifically fed. BY that kind of feeding
is meant the giving to the hen of a
perfectly balanced ration and in linn
tied quantity. The increase of the
quantity beyond a certain point
means injury to the fowl, which will
eat more than she should, just as
men will eat more than they should.
The fowl is developed by nature
with the idea of being we'll fed and
having a great deal of exercise. All
the functions of the body are ad-
justed with the idea of consuming a
great deal of food and having it
worked off in the natural exercise of
the bird. Now, when exercise is not
given the laws of nature should pre-
vent the bird from eating more than
is necessary, but the laws do not
work that way.
We must give the poultry exercise
if they are to be kept healthy. We
have experiments that seem to show
that flock of poultry will lay as
many eggs without exercise as, with,
but, like most experiments, these are
confined to a limited number. eof
months 1t is possible for fowls to
be deprived of exercise for months
and not show the effect, but the .er.
feet is there, just the same. We can
accept it as well pigh universal law
that the domestic bird or - animal
must have exercise Is we'll as good
food, to remain healthy. ~..s