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The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-01
RECOMMEND
MANY CHANGES
SCHOOL SUPERINTHNDENTs
DISCUSS SPELLING
The Next Meeting VIII Be Held In
Chicago st. Paul and Hot Springs
Were Not In the Race 20 Any Great
Extent. .E4

Louisville, KY, March The as
sertion in the convention OF the depart
inent OF superintendents OF the Nation
al Education association, by two or
three delegates in nominating Chicago
as the next meeting place OF the super
intendents that Chicago was the only
Ecity i'll the country we ever have been
treated according to our liking" was
evidently effective despite expressions
OF disapproyal from many delegates
against the claims OF other cities, the
delegates voting at the afternoon ses-
sion to hold the. next annual meeting
in Chicago. Two hundred and eleven,
votes were recorded in favor OF Chica-
go to Io3 for St. Paul and 80 for Hot
Springs, Ark. The date for the con-
yention will be announced later. g..
The following officers were elected:
President-W. F. Stephen, state sup
erintendent of schools, Augusta, Me.
Is First Vice tPresident-R. +. Zerly,
president OF Iowa State Normal school.
Cedar Falls, Iowa
Second Vice President-R. J. Tighe,
Asheville, N. c. 5s%'T 9f55
Secretary--J. Fl. Harris, superinten-
dent OF schools, Pontiac, Mich.
There were four s.'round table" ses-
sions during the day, the most inter-
.esting perhaps being that at which
spelling reform was discussed. Upon
motion of DIR, E. Benjamin Andrews OF
the University of Nebraska, a resolu-
ton was adopted recommending that
the department OF superintendents ask
the National Educational association to
order the twelve phonetic words be
used hereafter in all its publications
and the department "be recommended
to urge that superintendent and teach
ers hereafter in appraising words in
pupils, written work, shall give credit
for those words when spelled after the
style of the National Educational asso-
ciation."
Following are the changes reconI-
mended:
.Bizness for business" aenuf9 for
enough y; fether" Tor feather e snle-
sure for measure" f"piesure for
pleasure; red for read; !" t'ruf's for
trough; "trauf, for trough" thru
Tor through" "tuf for tough"
tttfg for tongue" 'yung" for
young" 81 $2i5 III
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-01
/. DRY DOCK CRUISE.

Washington, D. c., March There
is considerable satisfaction among the
officials Of the navy department over the
reports of the safe arrival Of the Dewey
dry. dock off the Canary islands. It
was not. expected that there would be
any difficulty encountered by the ex-
pedition, for it was knows that the
weather conditions were reasonably
good, the trip of the dry dock having
been timed by the photographers so as
to take advantage Of the fair winds
across the Atlantic IT is now realized,
however. that those who estimated tile
time to be made by the expedition gave
the dock too much credit for speed.
The builders of the structure have in
sisted that under the best conditions the
expedition could not make greater
speed than ninety miles day on the
average, making no allowance for the
accidents to the hawsers and the trans
fer of the stores The officials Of the
navy department maintained that the
Dewey would be able to travel consid-
erably faster. Some officers had been
predicting that the structure could not
make the trip, and it was realized that
the mobility of the dry dock would 60
a long way toward supporting the theory
of the strategic usefulness of the dock
and assisting the plan to obtain an ap-
for another in the present
session of congress. s
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-01
Freneh's Impressions Of Fat Cattle

Ii N. S. French IN The Dakota Farmer:
The great stock show of 1908 may now
be spoken Of in the past tense. For
weeks before the show the Chicago pa
pers were filled with long invitations to
the farmers and breeders 10 attend the
show. But when they came in such
hordes that even a chair in a hotel lob
BY was considered almost a priceless
boon, they must have felt a little like
the deacon who had prayed for rain
only to see his fences, crops and build
ings destroyed by a flood. They came
all right, and there was probably one
of the biggest and best behaved crowds
that was ever seen on this green old
earth.
There was beauty and Drawn, manly
men and queeRly women, Colorado cow
boys and II Dakota grain sfaisers who
measured their farms in miles and their.
crops in carloads.
q ever so briefly enumerate all the
different exhibits would exceed any.
reasonable space All were grand but
TO me there was no stock shown that
was SO interesting as the human stock.
What a hurryin, jostling, jolly crowd
they were, and how faithfully they
watched and looked and noted for fu.s
.ture reference all the many new and
strange exhibits that were SO lavishly
spread before them.
They were the men and women who;
made Chicago, and their sons and
daughters For without any. real boast
ing, we farmers may trtithfully say that
if II were not for the products of our
farms the weeds and grass would soon,
grow In every city and town in the.
world.
This was a fat stock show, and 4 Big
yield Of dairy products can never be
gotten from a real fat COW. And these
cows were fat all right. Too fat for
comfort. and ii seemed to me, too fat
for utility But no matter, they were
not too tat to- win prizes, and in almost
every instance the fattest animal in the
class carried off the blue. 5ss
Ille American people seem to worship
fat, and in most instances the Judges
as well as the people seemed only foo
willing to bow down before This. idol
Charity covers a multitude Of sins, and
so in some cases does fat
But there were a few cows there that
were not SO fat, and though they took
no prizes, they helped many al beefyB
calf or yearling to win a blue ribbon.
These were the wet nurses Of prize
winners, and some of them showed good
points as milk producers. and Judging
by the sleek hides of the calves
they were nursing and the evident salts
faction they had in drawing the lactea1
fluid from their foster mothers, these
scrub and dairy-bred cows, that were
plrposely kept somewhere il the back
ground. were at least fairly good milk
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-01
CONTRACT + FOR BRAZIL.

New York, March 1.-The Rio Jam
GIRO Traniway, Light & Power Co. il,
which New Workers are considerably
interested, has placed contracts isssse fofl
the initial equipment of a 100 600 horse
power hydroeelectric plant to be built
about eighty-fiye miles from Rio lam
GIRO for generating electric energy TO
be transmitted to the Brazilian capital.
The plant is to be equipped with ma
|chinery capable of, developing $1,000
horsepower Ii is the most important
order ever awarded in this country for
electrical equipment to be shipped to
South America, the Germans and Brit
ish having hitherto executed almost al1
the big electrical WORK in that part Of
the world. n
The Rio Janeiro company is controll-
ed by interests identical with those con
trolling the Sac Paulo Tramway, Light
& Power Coz the Mexican Light &
Power Co, the Trinidad Electric CO.,
and the Havana Central Railway Co,
and the Havana Electric Co. These
companies represent an aggregate IN
vestnent of nearly $Ioo,ooo,ooo. The
present plans will involve an expendi-
tire Of more than $25, 100000. Among
those interested iii the enterprise are
Sir William Van Horne. II. S. Piersoiil
and William f.. Bull
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-01

/ producers. There were many show Wis.
tors who perhaps did not notice these
wet nurses, but We dairy editor found
them easily for ii was no secret, and
those who were handling these pros
lpectlve prize winners were many oil
Them frank enough to own that there
was no other way to win prizes only
to thus wetenurse the calves. @ .a
That looks as if there was some VII
| falityt in milk, don't 1t r? 5:,
1t is no small satisfaction TO me to
learn that the local crearneries here in
Illinois are not paying much,stif any
more for butterfat in cream than j
was getting for mine When / left home
Illinois is all right. With a corn crop
from forty to ninety bushels. pei
acre il IS easy to see why they felt able
! to visit Chicago and the stock show.
But foo many Of them persist in tliril-
ing their cattle id the standing corn
stalks atthe risk of losing some Of them
with what is called corn stalk disease,
for the want Of a better name. No
fflatter what you call III the cattle do
die, and even at the present high prices
of hides there cannot be much profit in
raising cattle for that purpose on 500
land.
Crossing Illinois BY daylight for the
first time in more than twenty years, we
expected to see far more changes than
what were really noted. The trees. both
natural and planted, have grown some !;
some Of the towns may have grown a
little. but compared with the improve
smert from say 1850 to 1870 this great
prairie state seems to be almost stand
ing still.
The best. farmers from the best farms
have generally moved to town; nor can
we. blame them when renters are eager
for the privilege of paying them $5 or
more per acre cash sretlt +. This IS no
doubt a good thing foEtf owner but
we. can hardly see how the renter can
stand its and II is surely bad, very bad
for the buildings and the general ap-
apearaiice Of the country. Il Il 3ss5s
AS seen from the car window or on
most Of the farms the stock of cattle
appear fully as scfubby as they were
twenty-five years ago. Some traces of
3ShorthoTf blood can be- seen iii most
herds, and beef and milk both from the
same animal seems to be the expecta-
ton of nearly all farmers. The aver
age farm hogs are far better bred than
the cattle generally quite good, and.
we hear very little Of cholera or dis
ease
At the stock show the change iii
blood and breed Is far more noticeable
than on the farm A score Of years ago
the Shorthorn breeders were pretty
near the whole thing. while now the
Hereford fellows seem to have the lead
with the Aberdeen Angus a close sec
ond the Red Polls and the GaiIoways
are also sharing honors with the Short
horn fellows.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-01
Welded AS
HORSES RAN
COUPLE FINDS A
REAL HANDY PREACHER
Brides Mother Was Id Hot Pursnit-
Railroad Man Was Made Happy
After Ceremony Bride Played the
Wedding March In Triumph.


Richmond, va, March j - Miss Eliz-
abeth Clark and N. M. Tate we're mar
ried at Bristol by Rev W. III, &
Squires while the carriage III which The
couple and preacher were riding wa:
Sdashing along the streets at a gallpp
and another vehicle containing the
brides irate mother was closely pur-
SUNG l
Miss Clark, who IS a beautiful young
girl or Max Meadows, Nytlle county,
discovered on her way to Bristol that
her mother who was Bitterly opposed
to the match. was on the same train,
She wired her lover to have a carriage
Sin readiness. Mrs. Clark adopted
similar tactics. When the train arrived
Miss Clark left the Pullman on the op-
posite Side from depot. The two car
riages appeared simultaneously upon
the street ana the lovers and mother
had a wild race.
in the lovers carriage was Rev. Mr..
Squires of the Central Presbyterian
church, who finding the pursuing car
riage too close for comfort performed
the ceremony while the carriage was
going at top speed.
Later at their hotel the bride played
the wedding march on the piano with
an air 81 triumph, while her mother,
vowing vengeance, was cropping for the
lost trail in the darkness Of a suburban
street. a. III
Young Tate is an ernploye OF the
Southwestern railway
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-01
GIRL RIVALS THE
FAMOUS SHERLOCK HOLMES

Philadelphia, Pa, March 1.-Elsie
Miller, pretty eighteen year old VIII
|nlifigton girl, opened the eyes Of the
Central Station detectives here by the
exhibition of Sherlock Holmes tactics
she gave in effecting the arrest Of Bald
win Straus. who she says robbed her Of
l!ewelry valued at several hundred dol
lars. y .5s'
Miss Miller, with a determined air.
walked into the detective bureau and
told Detective Bunting that she wanted
hlm TO arrest the man who robbed her.
II have to find him first said
bunting. Tell me all about it,
II ind him for you, Just YOU come
with me, replied the girl as she flashed
IA warrant for the fugitive.
Without further explanation Miss
Miller plotted Bunting to the Baltimore
and Ohio depot, at Twenty-third and
chestnut streets, and pointing to a we'll
dressed youth who stood By the ticket
window She told him to place him under
arrest Bunting took Straus to the civ
hall. Miss Miller then explained to
a circle Of admiring slelitlis how she
caught her man. s
lie lived next door to me in Will
n1ington, she said, sand after visit
he paid TO my home missed my dia-
mord ring and brooch i thought he
took them, but wanted to be sure. The
next day watched his house and saw
his trunk shipped away. i followed Ii
and learned at the railroad station tllat
II was shipped here. / came here and
was told that the trunk was to 60 To-
CINCINNATI this afternoon I just learn
ed what time the train would leave and
then took this gentleman along to catch
Straus: 4 got the warrant iii Whining
ton before 1 came here
Miss Miller's deductions as regards
the thiet was correct. as the stolen Jew
elry was found on the prisoner
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-01
WESTERN FEEDER ATION OF
MINERS NOT IMP TED


sas Boise. Ida. March Fred Miller,
the attorney employed some weeks ago
to act as counsel for Harry Orchard,
today secured an order from Judge
Smith, who is to try the Steunenberg
case at Caldwell, permitting him TO see
his client. Mr, Miller expresses doubt
that Orchards 5 confession duplicates
the Western Federation Of Miners.
Floyd Thonpso representative Of
the Colorado Mine Owners associa-
tion, who is here IS said to want the
prisoner Vincent ST John III connsc-
tion with the murder Of Arthur Collins
at Telluride. Detective Me Parland
has stated that ST. John IS not inlplicat-
ed By Orchard s confession iii the
Steunenberg assassination.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-01

Ellis and Joseph Williams, noted sur
Iveyors of the time, 10 lay out on the
north bank of the charming West
Branch a town, which he named Will
Transport and which he proposed to
make the county seat. Ross had two
rivals, who also laid out towns iii close
proximity to the proposed Williams
port and which they named Jaysbtlrg
and Newberry. Both these towns now
form part of Williatiispo There was
considerable rivalry between the three
towns for awhile, as. each aspired to
become the county seat, but Williams
port finally won tile victory
James Russell built the first house
in the new town. corner east Third
and Mulberry streets 1T was long fa-
mons as the Russell Inn. The. first
cotirts were held there and ii was a
pioneer landmark down to its destruc4
ton by the big fire of 1871. Here was
born William Russell, the first native
of Williamsport. John Moore erected
the second building which was also a
public house and called the White
Horse Inn The first brick building was
erected BY Andrew Tulloci in 1900 and
1t is still standing oil Front street. be-
low Market. The first store was open
ed in 1901 BY William Wilson. Andrew
q. Hepburn was the second merchant
who opened a store in the new town
There was no drug store until Henry
Lenhard opened one i'll 1875. Peter
Vanderbilt was the first blacksniith and
on Aug. I2, I7eo the first postoffice was
established ait Willianlsport with Sam
Euel Grier as postmaster.
3 In 1904 the first courthouse was built
on the present: site. Iii 1874 an acad-
envy was opened iii the building on west
Third street. which is still standing.
Third street # near West stree
which is still standing. The
Rev Samuel Henderson, pastor OF
the Lycoming Presbyterian church was
the principal and Thomas Grrier his as
sistailt. The first newspaper; The Ly-
coming Gazette was established IN 1867
by William +. Buyers. a young printer
from Sunbury in 1860 it became The
Gazette and Bulletin. At the time Of
the illcorpo alton there were only sixty
taxables in the new borough, against
16,ooo in the present year. The first tax
duplicate showed a total taxation of
$3.50, against the present sum of $I6,-
2oo.o7. Iii 1880 the saWnill, known
as the Big Watermill, was erected at
the foot Of Hepburn street and the river
damned and doomed and this formed
the foundation for Williarnsport's S great-.
est industry It soon became the Saw
dust City and the greatest lumber mar
ket east OF Chicago The highWater
mark IN fla Iiitf1bs,. business St,ac aact
ed in 1880, when more than 5000, 600
feet Of logs were RATED out Of the big
boom. The food of 1880 broke the,
boom and sent the logs down the bay
Since that time the lumber industry
has steadily declined until today there
are only two mills left in operation.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-01
OR CliARD'S BOMB WAS
MADE in DENVER

Denver, March IL According to Har-
|ry Orchards alleged confession. IT was
learned here today, the bomb with which
EexG Governor Steinenberg was killed AT
Caldwell Idaho, Dec. 80, last. was man
here Orchard. it IS said,
confessed to having secured the lead
receptacle iii which tile explosive was
placed from Charles g. Roach, plumb
ser. whose shop is diagonally across the
street from The furniture store Of George
A. Pettibone, one of the suspects now
under arrest in Idaho, Mr.. Roach said
today that he recoilected having made
this lead receptacle, and gave de-
scriptions of the man who ordered II.
which tallies with that of Orchard.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-01
PREPARING For IMMIGRA ANTs.

Winnipeg, Man, March The local
officers Of the Salvation army are busy
making preparations for the large body
inaniie rants who viii wi Il arrive here from
England during the coming summer.
About $500 British people will be
brought west directly under the care
of the army and the FIRST steamer with
part of these immigrants started from
England today This ii all undertaking
Iof the Salvation army, prompted ~ the
double intention of relieving tie sit-
slatiotl In Great Britain caused by tile
existence Of a large number Of unesrl-
ployed III the large cities Of Great Brit
ain and ID suppl y much needed help to
the faflilefS and business men iii the
west Of Canada of the 1880 To come
to Winnipeg It Is expectsd that about
500 viii be located Id Manitoba, while
the rest viii go to Sask afcl1eVan. The
Salvation army does not intend to bring
Abe palpcrs aud The scum of the British
population 10 this country and deals
only with hard working and willing
people, who may be temporarily dit of
s:lpp!oynneiit 81 wish to better their corr
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-01
ST DAVID'S DAY.

Pittsblirg, Pa March The Welsh
men III all parts Of the world are Gel.
ebrating St. David's day today. The
Canbrian society Of Pittsbtirg will give
a dinner and entertainment at the. First
Congrega gational church This evening in
honor Of the patron saint. Many prom
inent Welshmen from this city and the
surrounding districts viii attend. There
will be some good speeches and rnlsi-
cal numbers on the programme. Pres
ident ID Lloyd Jones will preside.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-01
lin CLEVELANDs

Cleveland, O., March The Welsh
men Of Cleveland viii celebrate ST
David's day with an elaborate banquet
and entertainment under the auspices
lof the Welsh American club this even,
ing. There will be some Welsh speak
.ers on the programme. The banquet
will take place in the Coliseum hall and
IL Is expected that nearly GOO Welsh
men will attend President John Evans,
of the club, will preside at the banquet.
Cong ressnlan w. Aubrey Thomas of
Niles will be among the speakers.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-01
DAKOTA, THURSDAY EVENING MARcH /. 1906.

northern boundary was the Gila river
the territory included being the Gads-
den purchase. 1t took i'm what is now
Dona Ana county, N. NJ. Dona Ana
county being, by the way, the previous
name Of Arizona. #5s .8
M Mr.. Goodwin had never heard Of Ari.
zona territory before its establishment
iti 1868. He therefore wondered how
IA map made in 1858 could have it shown.
He went to Phoenix TO see il he could
throw any light on the matter. He
found in Bancroffs history that in his
message 10 congress, early iii 1857, Pres
ident Buchanan recommended the form
alton of a separate territory out of the
.Gadsden purchase, and that late in the
same month Senator GWin OF Califor-
MIA introduced a bill to organize such
a government.
fhe legislature of New Mexico, .;s.
February, 1853. passed a resolution fav-
ofing the measure, though recommend
ing a north and south boundary line on
the one hundred and ninth meridian, and
also the removal of all the New Mex
leo Indians to northern Arizona The
residents of the territory proposed TO
be included in the new territory antici-
pated the passage of the Gwirl bill and
held an election in Tuscon, at which
Sylvester Mowry was elected delegate
TO congress. The n1apnakers evidently
the passage of the bill. ~
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-01
lEARL y S SEEDIN(s.

Arlington, March Tbe favorable
weather prevailing the past two weeks
indicates that seeding operations iii tllis
part Of the state will commence early.
Many farmers contemplate increasing
the wheat acreage over that Of last
season, There IS a demand for COM
petent farm help at good wages. and as
spring approaches the demand will M
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-06-08
WILL SOON EAT MEAT AGAIN.

How long will those whose stomachs
have been turned by the beef report,
stop eating meat? Not long, we trust.
America is an emotional nation which
weeps bitterly when she weeps, gives
generously while she gives, diets rig
idly while she diets, but forgets quick
ly after all and goes on laughing and
chatting and eating meat very soon
again.
After the lroquois tragedy in Chi
cago, which cost half thousand lives,
a wave of reform in theater ordinances
swept over the country, from shore to
shore. Every state in the union got
out its building inspectors, and fire
escape makers did a wonderful busi-
ness, backed up by enforcement of
the laws Cities passed theater exit
ordinances, and all that sort of thing,
while the people, themselves, cut out
going to the shows and made a disas.
trous year for the theatrical compa.
MES. This year, however, the mem.
ory of Chicago has faded away and
now the box Office receipts are run.
ming normally high again.
A few weeks ago San Francisco lost
lives and property through earthquake
and fire. America joined in and sent
trainload after trainload to the suf
ferers, each town in the country ap
parently trying to outdo the others in
point Of speed with the train. Dis
patches told of the arrival of this train
and that. Then the people, having
given, forgot about the coast and went
on with other business and with in.
vesting in California.
The meat report tells OF instances
of things that are not as pleasant to
think on as they might be. A good
many people will quit eating meat for
time. But before very long it will
be rare steak that can not tempt
the hungry vegetarian.