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Amador ledger., 1906-06-15
says Crawford was in good health and
good spirits.

says Crawford was in good health and
good spirits.
While Mr.. Crawford was in Beirut
American missionaries attempted to
dissuade him from entering on the
trip, and pointed out to him the great
danger of the undertaking. He was
firm in his resolve, however, and left
on January 9th.
Before departing the skater left his
itinerary with DR.. Williams, an Amer
lean dentist, whose guest he was tenn
porarily. Crawford's intention was to
strike out over the hard road to Bag
dad, which Is about 600 miles from
Beirut. Thence he intends going
southeast 300 miles to Bassorah, at
the mouth of the Euphrates and near
the Persian coast. He was undecided
whether he would travel by land or
sea over the 1,200 miles to Belooch-
istan.
His plans included many excursions
through Beloochistan, a-journe
across the Gulf to India, and a year
or more in that country. He purposes
to accomplish all this on money he
may earn along the way.
Amador ledger., 1906-06-15
WARSHlPS NOT WANTED.
"FIGHTING BOB'' EVAN'S SHIPS
ORDERED TO LEAVE NEW
YORK HARB0R.
United States Battleships and
Cruisers Distractions to Naviga-
tion-ThousandS of Gallons of Oil
Released by Fouled Anchor.

New York City in its hurry and rush
of business did not seem to stop for
patriotic reasons to enjoy the sight of
a dozen United States warships an
chored in her harbor. The American
fleet riding majestically at anchor in
the North River, attracting the at
tention of thousands of sight-seers,
was requested to "move on" The
stalwart battleships and armored
cruisers with their great length ami in
command of no less a parsonage than
Amador ledger., 1906-06-15
SHERLOCK HOLMES.
CREATION OF MOST WONDERFUL
AND PUZZLLNG OF DETECIIKE
CHARACTERS.
Sketch of Discouragementso of Conan
Doyle to Break into the Field of
Literature Manuscript, Regularly
Returned.

The author of "The White Com
pany," "Sir Nigel" "Study in Scarlet"
and other Sherlock Holmes stories
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-was born
in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Mar
%, 1859. He comes of an artistic
family, and is the grandson Of
John Doyle, the famous political
caricaturist, whose pictoria
sketches appeared for more than
thirty years under the initials of ''H.
BE- without disclosure of the artists
Amador ledger., 1906-06-15
Traversing Russia ON Roller Skate.

A caravan which recently arrived
at Beirut from Bagdad reported hav-
ing passed near the city of Unah
about 100 miles east from there, an
American named Arthur Crawford,
who left that port early last month
with the intention of proceeding
through Asia Minor and India on in
struments which he called road
skates. The leader of the caravan
Amador ledger., 1906-06-15
President Believes in Exercise

President Roosevelt once rather
shocked a mothers meeting by an
nouncing that boy who wouldn't fight
was not worth his salt. "He is either
a coward or constitutionally weak.
have taught my boys to take their own
part. 1 do not know which I should
the more punish my boys for, cruelty
or finching. Both are abominable."
Amador ledger., 1906-06-15

will be devoted especially to touring
parties throughout the West. The cars
will be run eit'er separately or in
trains. In the latter case one car can
easily be fitted up as combination
observation dining car. Later on
equipments for Transforming the cars
into palace sleepers will be installed
Amador ledger., 1906-06-15
NEW RAIL AUTOMOBILES.
Each Machine Runs Independently by
Its Own Motor.

The craze of autoists to build pal
ace touring cars for pleasure trips
has caused railroad corporations to
|dabble in the novelty of motor vehicle
transportation. Some of the unique
cars that patents have been applied for
are certainly freak products.
A car that resembles a huge steel
battering ram has been completed at
the shops of the Union Pacific rail
road, at Omaha, Neb. 1t is a big
steel structure especially designed
for climbing grades and run by its
own gasolene motor, over standard
gauge rails. On it's trial trip it de-
veloped speed of forty miles an hour,
climbing, it is said, a grade of 20 per
cent.
RACED THE STEAM CARS.
It was given it's first long-distance
trial on April 18th, when it left Omaha
as the second section of train No. l.,
known as the Overland Limited.
The motor car gained on No. / to such
extent that at Fremont, 46 miles from
Omaha, the motor car was held on the
block six minutes. Owing to q
heavy wind and meeting trains from
this time on, No. rs schedule was not
maintained; however, the total time
of the motor car from Omaha to
Grand Island, 1885 miles, was 5
hours and IL minutes, with delays
amounting tc 40 minutes on account
of orders, meeting trains, etc. The
ACTUAL running time for the 1886
miles was hours 80 minutes. or "a
miles per hour. There was no delay
whatever on account of the motor car,
and the machinery was in almost con-
slant motion from Omaha to Grand
Island. On the return trip April 10
the actual running time was hours
10 minutes, or 1868 miles per hour.
From Elkhorn to South Omaha, a
distance Of 24.3 miles was covered in
SO minutes, or AZ miles per hour.
A maximum speed of So miles per
hour was attained on this trip.
Railroad officials witnessing the
machines trial trip expressed much
qualification. Some of the officials
go even so far as to predict that the
gasolene motor will ultimately revo-
lutiOniZe interurban railroad trans
portation.
SCHEME OF VENTILATION.
This machine has several new ar
rangements, the most conspicuous Of
which is the ventilation of the cars.
The windows are round, similar to
port holes on steamships, and are air,
water and dust proof. The cars have
entrance in the middle instead of at
the end.
The new method of ventilation fair
Il. Il
foul atmospheric conditions so often
encountered in electric and other trans
portation cars, sufficiently so as to
predict complete success in this di-
rection. The vibration and noise of
the engine were largely eliminated
and mechanism of the car worked
splendidly on this trial run.
The cars will accommodate sixty
passengers each, with comfort. They
have every modern convenience, and
Amador ledger., 1906-06-15

Daring Horse Woman and Fond of
Exercise.-Five Million Dollar Eng.
fish Estate a Wedding Present.
A "Gibson Girl' is the talk of all
England, for she has married a young
man of that country, who is heir to an
estate of more than $400,OOO,OOO.
The bride is none other than Mrs.
Waldorf Astor, and a sister-in-law of
Charles Dana Gibson, the celebrated
American artist.
Mrs. Astor is one of five sisters, all
natives of Virginia and belonging to
q family numbered among the F.F.V'S.,
standing high in the aristocracy of the
South. She was a Miss Mamie Lang
horne and later the wife of Bobby
Shaw, from whom she was divorced.
ALI of the Langhorne sisters are re-
markable beauties, paying particular
attention to every detail of face and
figure. A Virginia lady who knew
them in their girlhood days stated that
their rules of living were something
like this: Breakfast early and exercise
briskly for an hour or two. Have a
luncheon and exercise again, this time
riding. Luncheon again and then a
y
ride to hounds, just for the pleasure
of it, then hearty supper, then long
walk in the southern twilight, and then
bed"
SPLENDID WOMAN RIDER.
With a strong horse beneath her, and
the pack in full cry, to see Mamie
Langhorne riding to hounds was
sight for men and gods. In the days
of her girlhood, at the Deep Run, in
Virginia, she was Diana stirruped, and
| it is no stretching of facts when
one avows that men came from far
afleld just to see her, with her pink
cheeks aglow and her fair hair loos-
ened to the breeze, pound the sod in
madcap abandon for the brush.
Nothing daunted this young Virginian
in the way Of ditch or fence, hill or
hollow, and at 16 she was famed as
the most intrepid and brilliant horse
woman in her native State.
Two things won for Mrs. Langhorne
Shaw the heir of William Waldorf
Astor: the beauty of her being, when
on horseback, and her bubbling ir-
repressible Americanism. Young As
tor, when be beheld her in her glory
Amador ledger., 1906-06-15
AUTOMOBILE CAR OF UNION PACIFIC R. R. CO.

Standard oil went skimming down the
Hudson into the ocean. There appears
to be no way in which the oil company
can collect for fhe petroleum thus
wasted, as there is no official chart
showing the location of the line in the
river bed.
Amador ledger., 1906-06-15
An Expert Opinion.

will alcohol dissolve sugar?"
1T will" replied Oalde Soaque; "it
Will dissolve gold, brick houses, and
horses, and happiness, and love, and
everything else worth having"
Amador ledger., 1906-06-15
OFFENDED THE PoPULACE.

After acquiring it, Astor had an
opportunity to show himself more ex-
elusive than the Duke of Westminster.
That potentate and all previous owners
Of the estate had allowed the common
Amador ledger., 1906-06-15

the beautiful country house from the |
Duke of Westminster and paid ST.
250,000 for it. Cliveden is situated in |
the heart of the boating and picnicing
region of the Upper Thames.
Amador ledger., 1906-06-15
GIBSON GIRL Welded.
MRS. NANNIE SHAY, SLSTER-IN-
LAW OF ARTIST, BRIDE OF
WALDORF ASTOR.

|One of the Five Virginia Beauties.-A
Daring Horse Woman and Fond of
Exercise.-Five Million Dollar Eng
Iish Estate a Wedding Present.
Amador ledger., 1906-06-15

JOB PRINTING, CITY RATES
You can get your Billheads
Letter Heads, etc. printed at |
the Ledger for less than Won
can buy blank stock for else
where.
Envelops, per 1000 $500
Posters, IA sheet, so for 1.5O
Half sheets e zoe
Arizona republican., 1906-09-04
moment doubt.

moment doubt.
 It is now less than two years since the forest service was established It had great task before ito create or reorEauize the service on a hundred forest reserves and to ascertain and meet the very different local conditions
 and local needs ali over the west This task is not finished and of course it could not have been finished in so short a time. But the work has been carried forward with energy and in telliSence. and enough has been done to show how our forest policy is work ing out.
 The result of first importance to you as irrigatOrs iS this The forest ser vice has proved that forest fires can be controlled, by controlling them. Only one-t tenth of 1 percent of the area of the forest reserves was burned over in l9O5 This achievement was due both to the forest service and to the effect i've assistance of settlers and others in and near the reserves. Everything the government has ever spent upon it's forest work is small price to pay for the knowledge that the streams which make your prosperity can be and are being freed from ever present threat of forest fires.
 The long-standing and formerly bit ter differences between the stockmen and the forest officers are nearly all settled. Those which remain are in | process of settlement. Hearty cooper ation exists almost everywhere be- | tween the officers of the forest service i and the local associations of stockmen. ! who are appointing advisory commit l tees which are systematically consulted ! by the forest service on all questions in | which they are concerned. This most satisfactory condition of mutual help i will be as welcome 10 you as it is to ! the administration and to the stock | men. To the stockmen it means more. i and more certain, grass; to you be- cause of the better protection and | wiser use of the range. it means stead i fer stream flow and more water.
 The sales of forest reserve timber to
Arizona republican., 1906-09-04

rock have been moved. Detailed topo- graphic surveys have been extended
 over 10000 square miles of country
 within which the reclamation work is
 located. and 10000 miles of level lines have been run. Three hundred build ings, including offices and sleeping quarters for workmen have been erected by the reclamation service. and about an equal number by the con tractors. over 10000 men and about 5000 horses are at present employed
 The period of general surveys and examinations for projects is past. Effort is now concentrated in getting the water upon a sufficient area of ir- rigable land in each project to put it on revenue producing basis. To bring all the projects to this point will require upwards of $4O,0OO,0 900, which amount, it is estimated, will be avail able from the receipts from the dis posal of public lands for the years 1901 1908
 We may well congratulate ourselves upon the rapid progress already made and rejoice that the infancy of the work has been safely passed. But we must not forget that there are dangers and difficulties still ahead. and that only unbroken vigilance, efficiency in ltSTity, ana good sense Will suffice to prevent disaster. There is now no as to where the work shall be done, how it shall be done. or the pre- else way in which the expenditures shall be made. All that is settled There remains, however, the critical question of how best to utilize the re- claimed lands by putting them into the hands of actual cultivators and home makers, who will return the original outlay in annual instaIlments paid back into the reclamation fund; the of seeing that the lands are used for homes. and not for purposes | of speculation or for the building up of l large fortunes.
 This question is by no means sim i pie. It is easy to make plans and spend money During the time. when . the government is making a great in
Arizona republican., 1906-09-04

settlers, miners, lumbermen. and other users are increasing very rapidly. and Tn that way also the reserves are suc- cessfully meeting a growing need.
 Lands In the forest reserves that are more valuable for agriculture than for forest purposes are being opened to settlement and entry as fast as their agricultural character can be ascer- tained. There is therfore no longer excuse for saying that the reserves re- tard the legitimate settlement and de FeIopWent of the country. On the con trary, they promote and sustain that development and they will do so in no way more powerfully than through their direct contributions to the schools and roads. Ten per cent of all the money received from the forest re- serves goes to the state for the use of the counties in which the reserves lie. to be used for schools and roads. The amount of this contribution is nearly S70,OO0 for the first year. It will grow steadily larger and will form a certain and permanent source of income, which would not have been the case with the taxes whose place it takes.
 Finally a body of intelligent. prac- tical. welI-trained men. citizens of the west, is being built up-men in whose hands the public interests including your own. are and will be safe
 All these results are good; but they have not been achieved by the forest service alone. On the contrary. they represent also the needs and sugges- tions of the people of the whole west They embOdy constant changes and adjustments 10 meet these suggestions and needs. The forest policy of the
Arizona republican., 1906-09-04
ROOSEVELT
 FAIRBANKS
Their Messages to the Irri-
 gdtiOn Congress
Letter of President Read
 Yesterday and Speech De- livered by Vice-President

Herewith is given in full the mes sage of President Roosevelt to the ir- rigation congress. read to that body yesterday by Clifford Pinchot, and the address in full of Vice President Fair banks. who is in attendance:
 To the Officers and Members of the IT,
 rigation Congress:
 Operations under the reclamation act, which I signed on June Y. 1902. have been carried on energeticaIIy dur Ing the four years since that date The reclamation service, consisting of over 4oO skilled engineers and experts in various lines, has been organized. and 1T is now handling the work with rapid fly and effectiveness. Construction is already well advanced on twenty three great enterprises in the arid states and territories over 10000 acres of land have been laid out for irrigation. and of this 20O.OO0 acres are now under ditch; 500 miles of canals and ditches and 3O,OOO feet of tunnel have been completed; and 16,0OO.OOO cubic yards of garth and 3.O0O,OOO cubic yards of
Arizona republican., 1906-09-04

vestment like this, the men in charge are praised and the rapid progress is commended. But when the time comes for the government to demand the re- fund of the investment under the terms of law then the law itself will be put to the test. and the quality of it's administration will appear
 The pressing danger just now springs from the desire of nearly every man to get and hold as much as he can. whether he can handle it profit ably or not, and whether or not it is for the interest of the community that he should have it. The prosperity of the present irrigated areas came from the subdivision of the land and the consequent intensive cultivation. With an adequate supply of water farm of acres in some parts of the arid west, or of 40 acres elsewhere is as large as may be successfully titled by one family. When. therefore a man attempts to hold 16O acres of land com pletely irrigated by government work he is preventing others from acquiring a home, and is actually keeping down the population of the state
 Speculation in lands reclaimed by the government must be checked at what ever cost. The object of the reclama- tion act is not to make money but to make homes. Therefore. the require ment of the reclamation act that the size of the farm unit shall be limited in each region to the area which will comfortably support one family must be enforced in letter and in spirit This does not mean that the farm unit shall be sufficient for the present fam fly with it's future grown children and grandchildren, but rather that dur ing the ten years of payment the area assigned for each family shall be sufficient to support it. When once the| farms have been fully titled by free holders, little danger of land monopoly will remain.
 This great meeting of practical irri- gators should give particular attention to this problem and others of the same kind. You should. and I doubt not that
Arizona republican., 1906-09-04

you will give your effectual support t0 the officers of the government in mak- ing the reclamation law successful in
 all respects. and particularly in get
 ting back the original investment, so
 that the money may be used again and
 again in the completion of other pro
 jects and thus in the general extension of prosperity in the west. Until it has been proven that this great investment
 of S4O,OO0,000 in irrigation made by the soveI nment will be returning to the
 treasury, ii is useless to expect that the
 people of the country will consider df-
 rect appropriations for the work Let us give the reclamation service a
 chance to utilize the present invest ment a second time before discussing such increase. I look forward with great confidence to the result
 By the side of the reclamation ser vice there has grown up another ser vice of not less interest and value to you of the west. This is the forest service, which was created when the charge of the forest reserves was transferred from the interior depart ment to the department of agriculture
 The forest policy of the administration which the forest service is engaged in carrying out is based. as I have often @diu on the vigorous purpose to make every. resource of the forest reserves contribute in the highest degree to the permanent prosperity of the people who depend upon them. If ever the time should come when the western forests are destroyed, there will disappear with them the prosperity of the stock man. the miner, the lumberman, and the railroads. and. most important of all. the small ranchmau who cultivates his own land. I know that you are with me in the intention to preserve the timber, the water and the grass by| using them fully, but wisely and con- Servatively- We propose to do this through the freest and most cordial CO., operation between the government and every man who is in sympathy with this policy the wisdom of which no man who knows the facts can for
Arizona republican., 1906-09-04

government in the west has now I..- come what the west desired it tn h-. IL is national policy-wftIer thai tEa boundaries of any state. and Iare-- than the interests of any single Indus try or course it can not give any s-- of men exactly what they would cho1se Undoubtedly the irrigator would 1ffrr. like t0 have less stock on his water sheds. while the sJockmau wants rnrr The lumberman would like to cut u1or. timber tine settler and thy miner vut1rH often like him tO cut less The couut- authorities want to see more uuue- coming in for schools and ruad~ urfI. the Iumberman and stockman object f1 the rise in value of timber and grass. But the interests uf the r--ouIe 4s "a whole are. I repeat safe iu th. hauIa of the forest service
 By keeping the public forests in rha public hands our forest policy substI- tutes the good of the whole people for the profits of the privileged few With that result none will quarrel except fh- men who are losing the chance of r.-r- sonal profit at the public expeuse-
 Our western forest policy is based upon meeting the wishes of the hes- public sentiment Of the whole west I- proposes to create new reserve wherever forest lands sJiU vacant arr found in the public domain. and tn give the reserves already made the highest possible usefulness Co aII th= people So far cur promises ta rh.. people in regard to it haN- au been made good. and I have faith rhat thfz policy will be carried ra SucceS-fu-
 Continued on Page
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-01-25
WHEAT MARKET.
Prices corrected up. to noon Thursday, Jan.
Z; 1919, by Agent Morrison, OF the Northwestern
Elevator Co., Langdon, N. Oak.

j. G. Stable has been looking after
business matters at Dresden for a couple
OF weeks since closingt the Chicago Store.
Miss Connie Truax has been spend
ing the week staying with Grand Forks
friends while visiting her sister at the
state university.
Archie Wheeler's illness took quite a
serious turn during the week, but though
still a sick boy is now thought to be
safely on the road to recovery.
j.. b. Mcneil and bride arrived on
Saturdays train, returning home from
a trip east enjoyed since their wedding
OF two weeks ago at Faribault, MINI.
Hannah is now looking forward to the
ct. Northern making that town a
division point with the prospects now
indicating that the road will cross the
line into Canada there. A large round
house capable of housing six engines
will be built in the spring.
Manager Burke of the long distance
telephone line has been notified from
St. Paul that one of their construction
crews will be here as soon as spring
opens to run a line north from Langdon
to the boundary, tapping the towns of
Mt. Carmel and Elkwood. Residence
phones will be put in at a number of
farms along the route.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-01-25
TOM SMITH,.
DENTIST
Donovan Block.

Local star students and moon gazers,
and you can find some here, say there
will be but one eclipse this year of in
terest to Langdon people, and that is to
be an eclipse of the moon. This will
take place on the night of Thursday
February 8. The beginning of the
eclipse for local observers will be about
11:57 p. m. and will be viewed during a
part of two days, three minutes before
midnight on Feb. 8, and a few minutes
after the beginning of February g..
1t is noted hat Rev. Turcotte, of st.
John, formerly priest of the Catholic
church atOlga,is planning to build three
new churches in his parish which in
cludes a greater part of the Turtle
Mountain region. While visiting Grand
Forks last week he had plans drawn by
Architect Ross for an $4,000 church at
Tarsus, a $4,000 church at Mohall and a
church costing $4,000 at Lansford. All
are to be erected during the summer OF
1906.
Tomorrow, Friday, the Goth, inst, it Is
expected that a good sized trainload OF
Hannah sports will pass down the line
to Grand Forks. The attraction will be
a matched game of hockey between the
end-town players and the Grand Forks
team. They also think; of sending
along the crack players of their bowling
club. Hannah is always all there, no
matter whether it Is u Jack pot or 1
prayer meeting, and it's a safe bet the,
will give II good account OF themselves
on their retura from tho Forks where
it is easy 70 set ihe latest remedy fol
snake bite.