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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-11
At The Opera House.

JacObsOns Opera House has some
fine attractions the present week and
is playing to crowded houses every
night with Harold Nelson and his ex-
cellant company. Mr.. Nelson Is star
of recognized ability and is we'll
known and highly spoken of in the
larger cities of the East. His COM
pany numbers sixteen people, includ-
ing the talented young actor. Clifford
Lane Bruce. An entire scenic and
lighting equipment is carried for each
play and the costumes surpass any
thing heretofore seen in the North
west. On Wednesday evening, Bulwer
Lytton's masterpiece. "Richelieu" will
be presented, Thursday, Otis Skin
ner's great play, Prince Otto, Friday
the great story of fraternal love, "Da-
mon and Pythias", and on Saturday
evening. Steele Mackaye's stirring
story of the French Revolution, Paul
Kauver" will close the engagement.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-11

Miss Marion Mckenzie has accepted
position in the land office.
Miss Mckenzie is a competent stem
ographer, and was formerly in the
office of the Farm loan mortgage COM
pany
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-11
A Tourist boomer.

W. T. Smith of Kenmare, visited the
City of Destiny" today, and made The
Evening Times branch Office a pleas
ant call. Mr.. Smith was formerly the
manager of the Smith Dry Coal COM
pany at Kenmare, but at present is To-
Gated at Gackle, Logan county, on the
new N. P. Edgeley-Dawson extension,
and is interested in number of town
sites on the new line w. T. takes
an active interest in Ward county poll
tics, and will be on hand when things
warm up little. He expressed him
self as greatly pleased with The
Evening Times and left his subscrip-
ton for year.
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same mileage. and that the Sod people
have offered premium Of 81 10000
each above the market price for new
engines and cannot get them.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-11
WILL ENTERTAIN royalty.
Commercial Club Plans to Give Visit.
Ing Farmers . Warm Welcome.

A meeting of the business men was
held at the rooms of the Commercial
club last night for the purpose Of
appointing committees and making
other arrangements for the entertain
ment Of the visitors to the Farmers
Institute which will be held here in
connection with the Ward County
Grain Growers Convention on Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, Jan. 25, %
and q. Minot merchants will all
make special discount sale on this
day and prizes will be given on
grains, vegetables. etc, as induce
ment for the farmers to attend. A
similar gathering last year brought
thousands of people to the city and
larger crowd Is expected this time.
G. NJ. Cooley at Minot.
Grand Forks people will be inter-
ested in knowing there is good pros
pect of Charles M. Cooley becoming
permanent resident of Minot. Mr..
Cooley was formerly associated in
practice with Tracy Bangs at the
Forks, land has recently come to this
city to assist Palda & Burke in the
trial of a number of cases. Judge
Palda's practice has increased to such
an extent that hesis unable to give
all of his cases his personal atten-
ton. and it is possible that Mr..
Cooley may become a member of the
firm of PaldaS & Burke Mr.. Cooley
is a resident of Minneapolis at the
present time.
Davis.Dinnic Case.
The Davis Dinnie case occupied the
greater part Of the day in district
court yesterday and today. Judge
Davis was injured in 1902 by the roof
caving in over the postoffice building,
carrying the judge in the basement
and resulting in injuries which laid
him up several weeks The case was
tried once before and the Judge lost
out In the lower court, appealed and
1t was sent back for a new trial.
George A. Bangs, of Grand Forks,
appears with James Johnson, of this
city, for Dinnie and ID. G. Greenleaf. L.
w. Gamm0ns, David R. Pierce and L.
j. Palda, Jr., appear for Judge Davis.
An Efficient Official.
r. Q. Warren, county superintendent
of schools, has just given out report
that will be of interest to every tax
payer in Ward county Mr.. Warren
puts heart and soul into his work, and
is always on the alert for further i'm
'provements, in fact, he is specially
we'll fitted for the important position
in every respect. The people of Ward
county appreciate his splendid serv-
ices. and he is an important factor in
the progress and development of the
county.
The Osborne Mcmillan Elevator Co.
will make a proposition to the county
commissioners to instruct the assess
ors in each town to tax all grain on
hand in their elevators on April LIST at
the rate of half cent per bushel. If
the commissioners refuse to accept the
offer the elevator companies will en-
deayor to market all grain on hand
prior to the time it becomes assessable
property. The same policy will be
carried ont IN adjacent counties; and
the question is one of considerable
Importance. The revenue derived by
the different counties in this part Of
the state will amount to a large sum
If the proposition is accepted.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-27
PUT OFF THE TICKET.
a Majority of Independence League
Candidates Are Removed.

New York, Oct 27.-The appellate di-
vision Of the supreme court reviewing
the decisions of the board of election
on contested nomination cases in New
York county, has handed down a de-
eision removing from the ticket a ma
jorIty Of the candidates nominated by
the Independence league for congress.
the state senate and the assembly. IN
a few instances contested candidates
win have places on the ballot for the
reason that objection to their candidacy
was not made within the prescribed
time
To these will be added several against
whom no protest was entered. and 9TH
ers stin viii be placed not under the
balance scales, the emblem of the
league. but IN column beneath a dis
tinct symbol. The decision affecting the
local nomination is based on technicaIi-
ties. the petitioners IN each instance
failing 70 observe the letter OF the law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-27
We Solicit Your Trade In Good Faith
at These Prices.

~ toO-A~Au 4OAAA HI ANOJA LAlAAn
at These Prices.
While we know that this proposition
viii be a happy surprise to the tax-pay-
ers of Kansas, still the price We are ask
ing you is a fair one TO the stockholders
Of this company and to the consumer. We
solicit your trade in good faith at this
schedule of prices. At these prices the
Uncle Sam Oil Co. can pay increased sub
stantial dividends and in time increase in
solid values the value Of its stock to par
We are offering you this oil at what we
call white mans price; The weil-known
oil trust threatened to leave the state in
darkness If Kansas dared TO pass the pro-
tectlve oil laws, and put UP q lot OF other
BLUR talk just as though Kansas could
bine. The Uncle Sam Oil Co. has been
backed by Kansans from the word go.
and the same Hansans are at its head to-
day that We're with It at the beginning.
As kansans We have great faith in what
h-ansans VIII DO and the eItort on the
part Of the management of this company
to place cheap fuel within the reach of
all kansans has been a consistent effort
from the start and you will help to fur
Their the cause and final triumph of right
and justice in the oil fields If YOU stand
by this Kansas organization and refuse
to buy a single gallon Of the oppressor
trusts oil or support single merchant or
a single man who Is aiding or abetting
the criminal combine in looting the Kan
sas-I Territory oil fields, which has made
its brags that it was bigger than the
american rag and that money would buy
anything, and that regardless of law it
could do as it pleased anywhere in the
world. Kansas included. The oil trust for
a month past has had different people
travelling over Kansas lying about the
Uncle Sam Oil Co, attacking the charac-
ters and belittling in every possible man
ner the men who have stood at its helm
and been its cOlor-bearers. We ask every
Kansan in the name of Justice and a
square deal that when these pilfering, I'M
principled scOundrels come into your To-
cality with bribery in their hearts and a
lie on their tongues, to stand by this com
paTy " htch is standing for the interests
Of Kansas The Uncle Sam Oil Co, back
ed by the common people in general. has
smashed the trusts monopoly on natures
own fuel in Kansas and is setting the
price today to the consumer and giving
Kansans the benefits due them The much
despised trust no longer can say how
much you shall pay for oil as in the past
Uncle Sam has secured these results and
will secure more.
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set when the trip viii be taken.
Despite the assurances on the part
of the management of the road, the
reason for which is obvious, it can be
certainly stated that the collapse of
President Cassatt is complete and that
his condition is dangerous in the ex-
IRENE; that he went to his Office and
again assumed control of affairs of the
giant corporation this week in direct
defiance Of the orders of his physi-
clans; and that it is probable that he
viii never set foot within them again.
Prick to Succeed Him.
So certain is the management secret
ly that the big mans days are ended
that a strong battle is even now on for
the presidency
Henry C. Prick Of Pittsburg, An
drew Carnegie's old partner, will be the
next president of the road unless all
signs fail. His support is strong within
the board of directors and his oppOsi-
ton is weak. AS far as q thing in the
future can be certain his election as
President Cassatts successor is sure
1t was while at Bar Harbor, Ne.
last summer that the collapse which
had been long threatening. came to Mr..
Cassatt. It was announced that he had
contracted the whooping cough from
his grandchildren and that his illness
was trivial. AS a matter Of fact, he
caught cold, and this IN his weakened
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-27
NEW MINING QUADRANGLE.
Government Survey to Be Made al
Baxter Springs.

Baxter Springs, Kan, Oct. 27.-That
the Baxter Springs mining district IS
attracting the attention of others than
investors and IS taking high rank as
a mining area is evidenced by a move
ment now on foot by the government at
Washington in sending a corps Of engi-
neers into this locality to make a geo
logical survey of the camp and con-
tigous territory and creating new
mining quadrangle.
c. E. Stebenthal. assistant geologist
of the United States geological survey.
has just arrived at Baxter Springs to
begin a survey Of the Wyandotte quad
rangle, which includes the Baxter
Springs mining camp IN the Quapaw
reservation south Of this city This
area reaches from the Kansas line on
the north to a line six miles south of
Grove on the SOUTH and from two miles
west of Alton to and including a strip
five miles wide in Missouri and is 30
miles long north and south and q miles
wide east and west.
Several maps on double the usual
scale have been made OF the regions
where mining IS or has been IN pro-
gress. In addition to the features shown
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Cost Of FneI needed.

From actual tests made three gallons Of
Uncle sam kerosene will run the largest
one of these stoves an entire week for an
ordinary family. Or IN other words so
gallon barrel of Uncle Sam kerosene
would run the largest one Of these stoves
nearly four months. No matter in what
part Of Kansas you live, the Uncle Sam
Oil Co. viii lay down this kerosene where
you can load it into your wagon by the
barrel or ship it to your station at prices
mentioned below, which range from IA
cents per gallon to 9 cents per gallon at
the most far. away points ia Kansas Or,
in other words your fuel necessary to
run your cook stove can not cost you
more than 80 cents to 81 20 per month. OF
course, you must remember that the IN
Gle Oil company is making you a ieid
down price on Uncle Sam kerosene which
is far superior to the inferior trust goods
formerly forced on Kansans, when any
old oil was good enough for Kansas" at
prices from 80 to 70 per cent less than the
trusts former monopolistic demands.
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and desire for heat in bedroom all the
time.
Heater No 2, s7.0O-This heater, while it
can be used for a cook stove from praetl-
cal tests, we can consistently advise any
one to secure for heating stove where
the stove has a good draught. This heater
will burn only fuel oil and, of course, the
fuel oil being much cheaper,you can make
your heater redhot at very little expense.
At the following prices on fuel oil as
specified in this announcement you can
furnish an ordinary heating stove from
81 40 to $3.50 per month. We believe you
viii find that this heater will furnish you
by one-haIf the cheapest fuel that any
Kansan can secure. There is no need of
any kindIing and you do not have to get
up and empty ashes in the snow No trou-
bic to start fire. In fact, you can have
your stove going and redhOt in a very
few minutes after the fire is lighted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-27
Where You Can Buy Uncle sam Oh
in Kansas

Where You Can Buy Uncle sam OH
in Kansas.
The following is a list of the Uncle Sam
distributing stations completed in Kansas,
giving the name OF the Uncle Sam repre-
sentative opposite each station. The Uncle
Sam Co. is shipping coal oil cook stoves
and Uncle Sam heaters to all of these sta
tons this week. You are requested to call
on these different. representatives,, which
ever may be the nearest to you, and make
arrangements with them for your cook
stoves and heaters and for your supply Of
kerosene and fuel oil.
STATION-REPRESE
1-Ch=rryvale. Kan. Harry Hornback.
3-Wichita, Kan, G. II. Eads, i37 Spruce
4-Leavenworth Kan. A. T. Colvin.
5-Atchison, Kan, S NJ. Mcbride
6-Pittsburg, Kan. l. G. Bumgaruer. 2f2
South Joplin street.
l-Sallnas Kan, A. II. Stevenson
s-Winfeld, Kan, G. NJ c. Andrus.
9-Concordia. Kan. F. A. Bardweu.
1o-Anthony, Kan. c. z. Wing
ll-Topeka, KAN r. A. Rightmire, Lock
Box 175
12-Kansas City. Kan. L. T. Franks. 12ls
North Third street.
l4-N ellington. Kan, c. T. CRUDE
l5-Hutchinson, Kan. Henry Holt Box 225
16-Ottawa. kan. J. c. Hollingsworth.
17-Iawrence. Kan. G. S. Freeark.
1S-West Mineral, kan, G. Nelson.
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Prices of Heaters

Heater No. /, S400-This heater you can
use for a bedroom and you can secure
similar heaters from most any hardware
store. This heater burns with a wick,
while the cook stoves above mentioned do
not have Wicks. We recommend this
heater only to furnish certain amount
of heat. The heater is portable, light and
is easily moved from room to room as de-
sired One gallon of Uncle Sam kerosene
will run this heater u hours. In other
words 1t will cost you about cents a
day for continual fire in this heater
while for ordinary use you would prOba-
bly, not consume to exceed three gallons
per week. unless in the case of sickness
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-27

The Uncle sam Oil Co win deliver to
you at any of the distributing stations
mentioned below, or ship to your depot,
freight prepaid, with burners Grated and
IN good condition, as follows:
IWo-burner cook stove, No. /, S5.25.
This stove has two burners, or a place
on which to set two cooking utensils.
There is an oven to go with this stove
which can be had for an additional 81 %
II ordered at the same time the stove is
ordered.
Cook stove No. 2 ST.
This stove is exactly the same as No
1, but has three burners instead of two,
and an oven twice as large as the other
which we will furnish for an additional
$50 If ordered at the same time the stove
is.
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a BROKEN Man.
President Cassatt of Pennsylvania
Railroad said to Have Collapsed.

Philadelphia. Pa. oct 27.-Presi-
dent Alexander J. Cassatt Of the
Pennsylvania railroad spent one long
day at his desk Wednesday. the first
for months, and Thursday was re-
ported too i'll to leave his home at
Haverford.
The report of his condition did not
come from Pennsylvania railroad Of
acialss who persisted in the policy they
have maintained ever since the news
Of the great railroad mans breakdown
became public Instead 1t came from
trades people and friends not bound
b. ths same motives as the officials of
ths road are.
Immediately after the news Of his
collapse was brought to the once it
was officially announced that the pro-
zased trip Of Inspection, upon which
President Cassatt and number of
fhe directors ana other officials Of the
foad were to have started Friday, had
asen postponed. No definite date was
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on the general maps, such as topo-
graphy drainage. roads, houses, etc,
these special maps show the mines,
mills and shafts. together with the to-
geographic features in greater detail
The geological work will include the
investigation Of the whole area. the
aerial mapping Of the different forma-
tions, and the gathering of specimens
and fossils to aid IN the accurate Htho-
logic description of the formations, as
well as the mineral contents. IN the
regions where prospecting and mining
have been engaged in, a special economic
survey will be carried on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-27
Prices for Fuel for Cook Stoves Nos.
and 2 and Heater No. 1.

You can secure Uncle Sam kerosene at
any of the distributing stations as given
in this announcement or at any of those
which will soon be completed, in barrel
lots of 80 gallons each. Our representatives
this kerosene. but will wholesale it to
Kansans by the barrel You can deposit
an additional one dollar and Il half over
the following prices with the Uncle Sam
representative, which this company guar
antees viii be returned when you return
the barrel to the distributing station in
good condition where you buy your oil.
As before stated. this company viii fur
nish you a 60-gallon steel tank at cost.
You should get the steel tank and your
barrel of Uncle Sam kerosene at the same
time and when you get home empty the
oil out of the wooden barrel into the 60
gallon tank and. as before stated you
will have supply which will run one
stove from three to four months, and at
any time you can go and secure another
barrel of the oil. Price of oil is as fol-
lows. laid down at any hamlet or city in
every county in Kansas;
Allen $40o
Anderson Observation-Disclosures 4.95
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10 fhe PeonIe OF kansas:

Months ago, when the Uncle Sam oil
ca. announced that It was preparing to
fns1ish the people OF Kansas cheap fuel
FOR their homes the oil trust hirelinss
and the purchased trust press ridiculed
sha announcement as a fake, but now as
"a an other things, the Uncle OIL Sam Co
Is prepared to make good and to give to
the plain people OF the state the full ben
EFT Of the great and inexhaustible supply
q cheap fuel which nature has placed be
neath her soh However, it is no wonder
thai the trust press and the trust hire
Hnss yelped at the very suggestion be-
cause they knew that once cheap fuel was
supplied the people it would break the
sTangls hold which the trust has on the
% market and emancipate the people
from its robber prices
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Price Of Fuel for Heater No. ..

The Uncle Sam Oil Co. is now pumping
oil over its own pipe line. It has in stor-
age right now and ready for shipment
over 500 car loads of barreled oil 1t is
daily securing additional fuel oil and is
absolutely able and could do it, if neces-
sary, to furnish all the fuel necessary to
supply every home in Kansas As before
stated we especially advise Kansans to
buy this fuel oil heater. Put 1t in your
heating stove and get a few barrels of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-27
AGAINST ADULT COACHES.
Prof. jacobs says They Make GIadia-
tors of school Boys.

Springfield, Mass. oct. N-Adult
coaches for sehoolboys' football teams
were condemned as making 'gladiators'
rather than "sports1nen" out Of the play
ers and fraternities in high schools were
upheld as a means of developing good
citizenship in an address yesterday be-
fore the Hampden County Teachers as
ISOLATION by Prof Walter BaIlou Jacobs
Of Brown university. On the former
question Prof. Jacobs said that he thought
adult coaches were wholly responsible for
making gladiatorss Of the members Of
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the teams and teaching them to strive to
win the game by fair means or foul or
rather than developing many qualities IN
them. He thought that this condition
would not prevail If the boys were al
lowed to make and enforce their own
rules t-The coaches" he said should
be of Just as high a standard as anv
teacher in the schools
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9Oc 10 S1.4O Per Month for Cook Stoves

on an Uncle Sam representative again
and secure another barrel. The 60-gallon
tank is ten gallons lager than the 50-gal-
lon barrel, so that you viii have nearly
month fuel on hand for your cook stove
ana still have storage for another barrel,
which you should secure as quickly as
you have storage for Il in the tank.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-27

Is giant Kansas company has the oil and
a
robbed
nane
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within haul distance Of one Of the distEuns stations
meno yOuar to O
distributing station completed in your
write order
home or
drilling rigs pipe
oil enough
supp a and sever
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S1.8O to $3.50 Per Month for Heaters

fuel oil on hand and have your winters
fuel. You can club together with eight or
ten Of your neighbors and the Uncle Sam
Oil Co. will make a small reduction in car
load lots of this fuel oil under prices
mentioned below provided you can not
haul from some Uncle Sam distributing
station The company has all of these
heaters and cook stoves on exhibition in
Kansas City, Kan. and everyone is in
vited to come and inspect them. Also at
all the distributing stations When you
come to Kansas City with your cattle or
other produce it will take you only ten
minutes car ride to land at the home Of
fee of the Uncle Sam Oil Co, and you are
sOlic4lSu 70 come ana See~us- you can Sc
cure this fuel oil from any Uncle Sam
stations mentioned herein by driving your
wagon direct to the station, and if you
are even within twenty-five miles Of an
Uncle sam distributing station, II VIII
pay you to club together and send a big
team with wagon or hayrack and secure
a load of this barreled fuel oil. You should
call I'D the Uncle Sam man over the
phone or drop him a postal card telling
him the day you will be on hand to Sc
cure a load of oil, and he can have it
already barreled for you to load up. By
making a small venthOle about the size
~ = ICli PStA4S nan IL tAlS tOP VI d DatI e
when stood up on end you can keep this
fuel oil in the barrels you buy It until
you have used the same. even though it
takes several months to empty the bar
rel You will be required to deposit with
the Uncle Sam representative SIPS for
each barrel containing fuel oil, and after
you have used the fuel oil you can return
the barrel in good condition to the near
est Uncle Sam distributing station. either
by wagon or by local freight, and this
company viii guarantee the return to you
of the 81 IS for each wooden barrel. You
viii ind it but very little trouble to load
up a barrel of oil when you go to town.
and before you know it you viii have a
winters supply of fuel on hand. Prices
on fuel oil laid down in any hamlet OF
any town in Kansas, or at any of the dis
tributing stations completed or being
built by the Uncle Sam Oil Co. in 50-gal-
Ion lots in a barrel, as follows: