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The Ward County independent., 1906-08-02
Go to Minot to do your shopping Oh
tuesday, August 7th, and take in the
Forest Festival.
Notice to Tax PAYERS.

All delinquent personal pro-
perty tax has been placed in the
hands OF the sheriff for collection
and must be paid Aug. Is. Tax
payers in order to avoid sheriff's
ices, will be required to pay taxes
before that date.
80 SO JAMES MITCHELL,
Treasurer for Ward Co.. N. q.
The Ward County independent., 1906-08-02
Take IN the Minstrels at the Forest
Festival on Tuesday, August 7th.
Nels0n.Ulrich Matched

Nelson. Ulrich Matched.
Curley Ulrich, of Superior. Wis, the.
well.known welterweight champion of
the Northwest, and Mark Nelson, of Mi
not, are matched to meet in the opera.
house, August 8. Ulrich and Potts
fought draw recently in Fargo. Mel
son says he is in fine fettle and will give
good account of himself.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17

along quicker. when the colonel began
to talk back, and say, who is you
talkin' too, sah?" And the usher stood
it as long as he could, when he took
the colonel by the collar and sat him
down so quick he didn't come to for
couple of minutes, and when the
colonel got his senses, and found that
the usher had ushered him into a seat
between two gaily decorated colored
women the trouble began. The colonel
never forgot that he was a gentleman,
for he rose up, took off his hat to the
colored women, ard said: You must
excuse me, ladies, but l shall have to
go and kill the sconndrel who sat me
down with niggers," and he got down
off the seats and struck the usher with
his cane, and the usher yelled: Hey,
Rube!" and all the circus people made
rush for the colonel. The colonel
said, Men of Kentucky to the rescue"
and before I could crawl under the
seats the air was full of baggage,
seats. tent pins and white hats, guns
We're fired, and blood flowed, and the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17
BEGINNING TO DOUBT.
Former Legislator Who Feels That
He Sold His Vote Too
Cheap.

cit beats all about this political cor
ruption," said the old farmer as he
laid aside his country paper. Every
week there is something about expos
ing some big man who was thought
to be perfectly honest, and it's getting
so you don't know whom to trust"
Were you ever in politics your
self" was asked.
"Once, and that's what's bothering
me now. Yes. l was elected to the
legislature once. While l was serv-
ing as a member fellow-member
came to me and said that my aunt in
Iowa had died and left me $4,000, and
he paid the money over to me- / had
never heard about the aunt, and I
don't know how he got the money for
me, and I am just beginning to doubt.
ITO doubt what?''
wall, l voted for a land grab and
we carried it by only four majority.
and I'm just beginning to doubt if /
got enough for my vote. ] think if l
had held out few days I'd have had
an uncle die, too, and got as much as
$4,000 out of the thing Baltimogs
American.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17

ing skeleton and blew him over like a
cyclone, and by that time pa was
blowing off wind in dozen places that
l had punctured, and he was scared for
fear there wouldn't be anything left of
him, and the giant saw the fat woman
slowly fading away, and the coward
had heart failure and lay down on the
platform. Somebody shouted that the
fat woman was all melting away, and
fellow who was watering a camel out
of a bucket came 10 the rescue and
threw the bucket of dirty water all
over pa, and then thought better go
away in tother tent and see the fight.
but pa was taken to the dressing room
and rescued from the shrinking rub
Der balloons that were busted, and he
said he would hunt the man that pune
tured his tire to his dying day, but he
didn't know it was me.
Gee, it looks to me as though pa has
been engaged to act as the easy mark
in this show. Say, they got pa to
practice on roaring like lion, so he
could stand behind the cage when the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17
School of Tropic Medicine.


An American school of tropic med
icine is naturally suggested by every
newly reported fact relating to infec-
tious diseases. The matter is being
given serious consideration at present
in several parts of the country, notably
in the south. 1t is doubtless the most
important need of human pathology.
says American Medicine, because such
a school would inevitably become an
Institution of research. Teaching and
investigation can be kept separate, to
be sure, and grand work may be done
this way, but there is growing opin-
ion that each is better for the aid of
the other in the same organization.
Whether separate or combined, they
need money for endowment, and money
is not attainable until those who have
it are convinced that they are making
good investment either for them
it was found impossible to convince
the commercial classes that trade
would be improved by every discovery
lessening the diseases which checked
and sometimes stopped tropic com
merce. Anything which would obyiate
the expensive guarantees was worth
buying, and they proceeded to buy 1t
at once. Their contributions toward
the establishment and support of
schools and laboratories for tropic
medicine were thus based upon practi
cal needs. The same conditions exist
in America though to much less ex-
tent, on account of our relatively small
tropical trade, consequently it is not
possible at present to appeal to the
self-interests of tradesmen, and it is
too long to wait until the Panama
canal makes the matter imperative
The men who, from their surplus oil
wealth, are endowing about everything
which can be endowed, should have
their attention called to this neglected
matter. There is probably nothing
which will so greatly react to the fu-
ture prosperity of the country. Indeed
1t is not at all unlikely that without
it we will be unable to reap the full
trade benefits of our Panama venture
BY all means let us seek endowments
for one or more great institutions fol
investigating and teaching tropic medi
cine
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17

police pulled everybody, and the eve
ming performance was given up.
One of the proprietors of the show
got wen on his head as big as a foot
ball from being struck by handle Of
a revolver, and the colonel who started
the row was knocked silly by tray of
red lemonade which the butcher
smashed him with, and the colonel
cried because the lemonade was all
water. and he was afraid it would
soak into him and cause him to warp.
When the lemonade butcher apollo
gized. and the usher told him it was all
mistake his being seated with the
niggers, the colonel wept on their
necks and invited the whole crowd to
go to his distillery and help them
selves.
When we got to the next town every
man in the show dad crouch and a
katzenjammer. and their hair was so
sore it was murder and suicide COM
bined to comb it.
Inc way pa escaped injury was
cause ne had to take the place Of the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17
AWFUL ITCHING ON SCALP.
Hair Finally Had to Be Cut to Save
Any-Scalp Now in Good Con-
dition-Cured by Cuticura.

IT used the Cuticura Soap and Ointment
for diseased scalp, dandruff, and con-
slant falling of hair. Finally l had to cut
my hair to save any at ALL Just at that
time read about the Cuticura Remedies.
Once every week l shampooed my hair
Ointment twice week. In two months
time my hair was long enough to do up in
French twist. That is now five years
ago, and have lovely head of hair. The
length is six inches below my waist line,
my scalp is in very good condition, and no
more dandruff or itching of the scalp. I
mended to me as good but with mo "a.
suits. Mrs. w. F. Griess, Clay Center.
Neb., Oct. %. 1906"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17

lion has sore throat and roar. and
scare folks, and pa has been going
around behind the cages, every eve
ming, when the menagefie is closed.
and the crowd in the main tent. max
ing noises that have made the animals
look at each other Us much as to saw.
We'll, what do you think Of that p"
The rhinoceros was so disguised at
Paducah that he reached out his nose
and took pa on his horn and held him
up to the scorn of the other animals
until pas pants gave way and he was
a sight, and he was so scared that he
got out of the tent and made run for
our train, chased by the police, who
thought he was burglar that had
been eat by house dog.
The worst thing we have had on pa
was at Louisville, where we stayed
over Sunday Another fellow and l
got system on slot machines, and one
day we beat the machines out of q
shotbag full of nickcls, and when we
showed up at the tent all the fellows
wanted to know how we did It, end pa
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17

fat woman on the platform with the
freaks, as the fat woman was over
come with the heat and had to stay in
the car.
The way they fixed pa up to resem-
BILE the fat woman was scandalous
They have some rubber things in the
wardrobe tent that you can blow up
and make big arm, and big leg.
and a big stummick, so anybody
couldn't tell the difference, and they
fixed pa up with bowed up clothes of
flesh colored rubber. and but for his
chin whiskers you couldn't tell him
from the fat woman. He said he
wouldn't cut off his whiskers for any
body's circus, so they fixed veil to
cover part of his face and put the fat
woman's dress on pa. and put him up
beside the skeleton, the midget and
the giant.
Pa said he didn't want to do it.
cause it seemed too much like fraud,
but they told him the fate of the show
depended on our all being willing to
take any part assigned to us, and SO
pa sat down and began to fan himself.
and tried to look firty like woman.
The other freaks never noticed but
what it was the fat woman until the
show was half over. 1t was too much
for me. and l just LATED at pa. 1 got
up behind him and told him in a whis-
per that 1 wanted a dollar to play the
slot machine, and he told me to go to
thunder, and get out of there l
couldn't stand it to be insulted by my
own father, so I took hat pin out of
the hat of the bearded lady and
punched it into pas blowed up rubber
shirt, and pa began to sis, like soda
fountain, and the wind struck the liv-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17
Our Stock of Money!

According to the annual report of the
comptroller of the currency at the close
of the fiscal year ended June 80, 1905.
the stock of money in the United States
amounted to S2,SS3, 1O9,S64, of which
81, 031, 296,042 was in coin, including
bullion in the treasury, and 1851. S13. 1922
United States and national bank notes.
The coin, bullion and currency in the
treasury as assets amounted to 1926.
27,211, the remainder, 2,5S7,05O, being
in circulation. The estimated popula-
ton of the country on this date was
S3,26O,O0O, giving an average circulation
per capita of S31.OS. The amount of
money held by national and other re-
porting banks at date of reports near
est to June 80, 1905, was 1887, 800. 900.
which leaves $1,000, 100000 outside of
the treasury and the reporting banks.
Stated in percentages the money in the
treasury represents 1924 per cent. of
the stock; in reporting banks, 34.27 per
cent, and elsewhere So. 40 per cent. The
per capita unaccounted for appears to
be 1892. From midsummer of 1900 to
June, 1905, the increase in money in
banks was from $749,9OO,OO0 to $751;
100000, or 100000. In 1900 the
banks in the eastern states held 1922
per cent. of the total, the proportion
falling to 46.61 in 1902, 1901 in 1908:
increased to $3.50 in 1904. and do
creased to AIS in 1905. Banks in the
New England and eastern states held
5147 per cent of the aggregate money
in all banks in 1900, and 56.62 per cent.
in 1904, where as in 1902 and 1909 the
proportion was but 54.56 and $685. per
cent, respectively. In 1905 the average
held by banks in those sections was
54.22 per cent.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17

A veteran bookseller, basing his
conclusions upon a wide experience of
many years, finds among other tenden-
cies of the day, marked increase in
the intellectual life of America. Not
only have business and professional
men come to be reckoned in great
numbers among buyers of good liter
allure, but large clientele of women
readers prefer a well-written story
OF only moderate interest to a badly
written romance of absorbing theme.
He also finds a growing appreciation
of really good poetry, tendency to
pay more attention to book reviews
in periodicals of acknowledged stand.
ing and demand for books of Sc.
rious import to be read in" instead
of read through"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17

Both the Carmania and the Caro-
MIA, the latest additions to the Gu
nard fleet, are equipped with subma
rine signaling apparatus. 1t seems
to be question of only short time
when all passenger steamers in the
transatlantic service will be protect
ed by the latest and best equipment
for receiving underwater warnings
of the proximity of the shore or OF
other vessels. when fogs or like con
ditions make it impossible for ever
the most watchful navigators to see
such possible perils.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17
Grand Prize Alfalfa Seed.

The capture of the Highest Award at
the st. Louis Exposition by Messrs Nc
Beth & Kinnison, of Garden City, Kas.,
the well known dealers of alfalfa and
other seeds, was a notable achievement,
as the competition included not only
every state in the Union, but all alfalfa
conclusively that seed from that part OF
Kansas, where all conditions are most
favorable to the growth of this remark
able drouth resisting forage plant, is by
far the most valuable
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17

Thousands t e l o
cures made by Doan's
Kidney Pills. John c.
Coleman, a prominent
merchant of SWANS
boro, Ga, says: "Fo1
several years my kid
neys were affected,
and my back ached
day and night. l was
languid, nervous and
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17

lame in the morning. Doan's Kidney
Pills helped me right away, and the
great relief that followed has been
permanent"
Sold by all dealers. SO cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17

N w. Aver & Son, Philadelphia, the
" keeping-Ever-La advertis-
ing agents, have sent out their calendar for
l9O6 which as usual is very handsome and
useful Office accessory. The edition is limited.
While they last copies may be had by send
ing % cents to the firm named above.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17
Conmercialism.

'fDo you think this government is
safe?"
Zone of the best investments l know
off, answered the sordid politician. Its
possibilities for paying dividends haven't
been scratched as yet."-Washington Star.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17
Kidney COssspLaii,fs

and Backache of either sec the Vegeta-
BILE Compound is unequalled.
You can write Mrs. Pinlham about
yourself in strictest confidence
LYDIA E. PINKnAM MED. CO., Lynn, Mass.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17

Good housekeepers use the best. That's
why they buy Red Cross Ball Blue. At
leading grocers, 5 cents.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17

You always get full value in Lewis Sin.
gle Binder straight DC cigar Your dealer
or Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17

| Clothes don't make the man; they make
| the mans friends.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17

4 preferred creditor is best described as
one who makes no fuss about waiting until
you get ready to settle.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17

Ever notice how much harder thu
wooden pew of a church is than TIT
wooden chair in an opera house?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17

Heaven won't be nearly exclusive enougl
to suit lot of people.-N. Y. Times.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17

1t is a bad idea to put friendship and
love to the test 1t is better to believe
that they really exist.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17
DOES YOUR BACK ACHE T.?
Cure the Kidneys and the Pain Will
Never Return.

Only one sure way to cure an aching
back. Cure the cause, the kidneys
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17
To Cure a. Cold in One Day

Take LAXATIVE BRoMo Quinine Tablets.
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure.
E.W. GROVES signature is on each box. 25c.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17
Beas.is,g-d0wn EeeLinu.
Dizziness, Eait,flsess,

Extreme Lassitude, "don't-care +" and
want-to- be-left-alone feeling, excit-
ability, irritability, nervousness, sleep
lessness. fiatulency, melancholy or the
blues" and backache. These are
sure indications of Female Weakness,
some arrangement of the organs. For
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17

This has been an eventful week with
the show. We have had heat prostra
tons in Kentucky, nearly the whole
show got drunk on l6-year-old whisky
and if it hadn't been for the animals
keeping sober this show would have
been pulled for disorderly conduct.
Nobody knows how the row started
but pa says every man in Kentucky
carries a blue gun and a bottle of red
Ticker, and they wear white hats. so
the red, white and blue business is all
right, only it is a combination that is
death on a circus. l think one of the
ushers, at the afternoon performance,
told an old colonel that he must move
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17

Don't spoil your clothes. Use Red Gross
Ball Blue and keep them white as snow.
All grocers, cents a package.
Simple Process.
Sharpe-Want to borrow my pistoly
What fer?
Simple-To blow out my brains.
"Poof! A pair of bellows will do that!"
IN. Y News.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17
rs ~
PECK'S BAD
BOY WITH
THE CIRCUS
By HON. GEORGE w. PECK
Author OF 'Pecks Bad Boy Abroad Etc.
By HON. GEORGE W. PECK
Author of"Peck's Bad Boy Abroad"
Copyright by ]. B. Bowles,J

Pa Takes the Place of the Fat Woman
with Disastrous Results-A Ken
lucky Colonel Causes a Row-Pa
Tries to Roar Like Lion and the
Rhinoceros objects-Pa Plays the
Slot-Machine and Gets the Worst
of It.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-17
Lydia e Pinlfk1as1s,S
Vegetable c0s,,n0uncf

Lydia e. Pis,kltan,,s
Vegetable Compound
is a positive cure for all those painful
ailments of women. 1t will entirely
cure the worst forms of Female Com
plants. Inflammation and liberation.
Falling and Displacements and conse-
quent Spinal Weakness, and is peculi.
arly adapted to the Change of Life,
1t will surely cure.
Backaches
It has cured more cases of Female
Weakness than any other remedy the
world has ever known. 1t is almost in
fallible in such cases. It dissolves and
expels Tumors in an early stage of
development. That
BeasZng-d0Wn Feeling, 4
causing pain, weight and headache, is
instantly relieved and permanently
cured by its use. Under all circum-
stances it acts in harmony with the
female system. 1t corrects
Aregukasify,
Suppressed or Painful Periods, Weak
ness of the Stomach, Indigestion, Bloat-
ing, Nervous Prostitution, Headache.
General Debility. Also
Dizziness, Eainfness,
Extreme Lassitude, "don't-care and
want-to- be-left-alone :" feeling, excit-
ability, irrita bilitv nervousness. sleep-
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13
ONE MANS VIEWS.

A member of our board of trade aud
a practical business man Tuesday de-
plored that more is not being done to
promote the growth and development
Of our town. Our present industries,
all Of which are booming, these pros
porous times, he held, should see their
way clear to expand, as result Of
which our population would grow.
The municipality should be carefully
looked after in all its relations and he
be formed as exists in many other
places to see that there is no derelic-
tion of duty ON the part of those in
office. A spirit of enterprise and of
civic pride should be encouraged and
this should extend to land owners in
the immediate vicinity of town, whose
property must rise or fall in value as
Danville grows and prospers or stands
still and retrogrades.
This suggested to the gentleman
that while the residents of Columbia
county are prospecting for all sorts of
minerals and are actually finding some
land owners in the vicinity of Dan
Vile seem to feel no curiosity to know
what may lie under their farms. In
these days when drilling has taken the
the place of slow and expensive me-
thods in digging into the earth he
thought there were few farmers who
could not afford to do little prospect
ing. Coal in some quantities is known
to exist as near as Kipp's run and it
is not beyond the range CT probability
that underlying this immediate vicin-
ity are both oil and gas. 1t might be
several hundred feet below, but the
probability is that the outlay required
to bore down in the end would be
pretty good investment.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13
Blue Print Ready.

The blue print relating to North
Mill street, prepared by Borough
Engineer Keefer, which failed to ar
rive in time for the regular meeting
Friday night, was acted upon at a
special meeting of council ON Monday
night. 1t was approved in all respe cts
and delivered over into the hands of
Borough Solicitor E. S. Gearhart, who
will see that it gets to Harrisburg in
due time.
The borough solicitor will make an
other trip to Harrisburg to hurry up
affairs in the State highway depart
ment. Council has now decided to
pave North Mill street along it's entire
length, provided aid comes from the
State. 1t will be fine improvement
and will add much to the value of
property in the northern end of town.
The same change will occur that took
place in the other portion of Mill
street. The driveway will be made
narrower. which will result in cor
responding widening of the sidewalks.
In addition to this sewer will be
laid along the east side of North Mill
street from Center to Chambers street.
The sewer will be of S-inch terra Gotta
pipe to connect with each of the dwell
lings and from Mill and Centre streets
it will be carried down to the rear of
the armory where it will connect with
the northern terminus of the present
sewer
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13
In New Quarters.

Adams & Company's express with
William NJ. Sechler as agent has taken
possession of its new quarters in the
building adjoining the Baldy House,
Mill street.
Electric light was put in the build
ing Monday but all the furniture is
not yet installed that is required to
accommodate the business. 1t will be
several days before the office will be
fully equipped. Only one wagon is in
use up to the present. Whether or not
another wagon will be added will de-
velop later.
The new quarters are probably not
as convenient as Grone's book store,
which has rear door on the alley,
through which the goods could be
loaded and unloaded directly ON and
off the wagon. In the new quarters
the goods handled will have to be car
ried across the pavement and the front
door will have to be used exclusively.
Miss Elizabeth Fischer. daughter of
School Director Jacob Fischer, has ac-
cepted position with Adams and
Company as clerk. She entered upon
her duties Monday.