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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-03-15
Niger Bill Cleans House.

Officer kimbaD arrested Niger.
Bill Miner early Saturday morn
ing. Bill was charged with as
sault and battery. The other
evening Bill ordered a meal ut
the European Restaurant. He
claimed that he had paid for the
meas. but the waiter reminded
s,im that his memory was some
what impaired. Bill is a,sort OF
q Peter j Jackson among the ne
grUes, SO hauled OF and put the
waiter to sleep. Officer kimball
carried the warrant for Bill for
several days. and finally landed
his man. Bill was given five
days in the county jail. and ar
rived at Lees boarding house
just in time to assistin the spring
house cleaning. Bill is now
armed with Il mop stick and is
doing good work.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-03-15
To Erect Large Building.

The Minot Machine Shop and
ReTaii. Co, will erect Il large
frame building near the Dolloff
tIoteI, which will be completed
not later than April 20. A large
lathe, and other machinery for
the repairing Of all classes of
machines, traction and gasoline
engines, automobiles ETC., will be
Installed. The shop is some
thing which is needed badly, and
this company will be able TO
handle any kind Of work which
can be done anywhere.
The concern will also handle
automobiles.
The building will be lSx6O
faet, covered with imitation
brick. Dewitt Dorman. the we'll
known machinest will be the
manager, while such men as
Peter Vandenoeverare interested
II, the company. This is one Of
the strongest concerns OF the kind
q the Northwest.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-03-15
Shafer ! Gosd Town.

Devine, Stenersen 4 Co., who
are interested in the upbuilding
OF Mckenzie county, especially
Shafer, received news from that
place telling what has been done
down to date A livery barn has
been completed, and a bank has
been about organized $4,000 be-
ing, subscribed bv parties living
right in Shafer. Lumber is on
the ground for % hotel, and a
blacksmith shop and u notion
store have been Installed. A
subscription list for . new Nor
wcgian church has hrenllberally
signed. A printing pEi!ce, land
office, butcher shop, shoe and
harness shop and a school build
ing are to be erected almost inn
enediately. Much free land can
be secured around Skater yet.
Devine, Stenerson & Co.. sent six
men from Pembina county there
10 file last week and each secured
d fine homestead.
Mr., Stenersen went to Ryder
Saturday where the firm is in
terested in the townsitp, aud
assist in the installation of a
new bank.
Write DR.. Shoop, Racine, Wis, for his
free book on Rheumatism. 1t tells
about rheumatism, about the causes
the way to live to avoid and free The sys
tenn OF rheumatic po:sons-e even in DIES
rerate cases-with DR., Sh oops Rheu
matte Tablets Sold by A. P. SLoCUM
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-03-15
CONTEST NOTICE.

YIN Ed NIL CC.
Department ri tho Interior, United
States Land Office, Minot. n. D., Feb.
20, 1906.
sufficient contest affidavit having
been fled in this Office by Peder Balstad,
contestant, against homestead entry No.
25752, made October q, 1865, for sell
Section l, Township l54, Range SO, by
Philip Wild contestee. in which it is
alleged that said entryman has wholly
abandoned said tract and changed his
residence therefrom for more than six
months since making said entry and
next prior to the date hereof, that he
has not established residence
thereon that said tract remains in
its natural state, wholly abandoned
and unimproved, and that said
alleged absence from the said land
was not due to. his employment in the
army, navy or marine corps of the
United States as a private soldier officer,
seaman or marine, during the war with
Spain, or during any other war in which
the United States may be engaged, and
said parties are hereby notified to ap-
pear. respond and offer evidence touch.
ing said allegation at 10 o'clock m. on
April II, 1906. before the Register and
Receiver at the United States land Office
in Minot. n D.
The said contestant having. in a
proper affidavit, filed March /, 1905, set
forth facts which show that after due
diligence personal service If this notice
can not be made. it is hereby ordered
and directed that such notice be given
by Que and proper publication.
L. D. McGAHAS, Register.
T. E. Fox, Receiver.
G.. AUkLAND. Attorney,
Minot, North Dakota. 3-S-4-12
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-03-15
Good Farming Pays.

The following regarding an
Illinoisfarm goes to show that
good farming always pays,
whether in Illinois or North Da-
kota:
w. II. Howe owns an eighty
acre farm near Jacksonville. This
is not a very big farm as Illinois
farms 60, hut Mr.. Rowe keeps
$50 hogs on it and makes mon
ev. But he farms right. His
place is divided into four fields
,,'ont equal in sizp-onefor small
grain. tMo for corn and one for
clover pasture. Soy beans and
tow peas are raised on a portion
Of the land The average Weld
of co~'jpi> eighty-one and Il half
bushels Curing the past three
wears. This crop is cultivated
late in .Jpiv aud later a man with
a hoe kin, all the big weeds left
Standing-fhere are not many.
Mr.. Rowe npver feeds corn alone
TO pigs, breeding stock orfatten-
ing hogs This little farm makes
more clean ms,npv for it's owner
than many Illinois farms four
times as hig, because it is we'll
farmpd while the big ones that
are failures are not
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-03-15

Indigestion is much of habit. Don t
ger the habit. Take little kodol Dys.
pspsia Cure after eating and you will
quit belching, putting, palpiteting and
frowuiug. kodol digests what you eat
ans makes the stomach sweet. Sold by
nE,,St-.., e. ~,
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-03-15

One would think the Laxative idea in
a cough syrup should have been ad-
vanced long before it was. ltseems the
only rational remedy for Coughs and
Colds would be to move the bowels and
clean the mucous membranes of the
throat and lungs at the same time Ken
ueAys Laxative Honey and Tar does
this, 1t is the Original Laxative Cough
Syrup, the best known remedy flor
Coughs, Colds, Group, Whooping Cough,
etc. Tastes good and harmless. Sold
nv MI,Ioy &.ro
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-03-15
S. B. Shute is Dead.

s. B. Shute,: one OF the mem
bers of Bovey-Shute Lumber Co.
did Of typhoid fever inMinneapo-
lis, Sunday evening Of last week.
Mr.. Shute was a young man Of
great business ability. Hewas we'll
known in this city where he
visited in a business way many
times.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-03-15

Tie best safeguard against headache,
constipation and liver troubles is De-
Wits Little Early Risers. Keep vial
of these famous little pills in the house
and take dose at bed time when YOU
feel that the stomach and bowels need
cleansing. They don't grippe. Sold by
Mccoy & Co
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-01-02
A YEAR OF RUSSIAN REFORMS

It now seems probable that the Rus
sian revolution will fail and the gov
eminent will put down the revolt with
a strong hand. In such an event what
the future will hold for the Russian
people is a problem. Many reforms
have been promised but they have IN
the main been forced from the car
by the direst extremity. Will he live
up to his recent manifestos or will he
let the government drift again into the
hands of the autocracy?
A little more than a year ago the
ear issued his long expected ukase, "A
scheme for the improvement of the ad-
ministration of the state" This was a
promise of mild reforms, the most i'm
portant Of which was more liberty to
the press Of the resembling of "unnec-
essary repressive laws" the granting
of religious freedom and the pledge
of equality before the law and from
immunity from arbitrary arrest, Eek
cept in the cases of persons known to
be conspiring"-a proviso which OF
course left the police much power.
Zemstovo organization was to be en-
eouraged but there was no hint of re-
laxing the grip Of autocracy.
In 12 short months what has happen
ed? The NOISY meetings. which the
ukase declared must be stopped, have
developed into red revolt and the gov
eminent Of the empire seemed for a
time to be lettering. In his extremity
the car has promised more reforms
than his ukase of year ago ever
limited, but with the crushing Of the
revolt what will happen?
This much is true. the fight is a fight
for liberty and the progress has been
toward freedom. If a wise hand guides
the Russian ship of state the hand OF
the revolution may be stayed and the
disorders quieted without further
bloodshed but Russia cannot drift
back to the despotism of the old au-
tocracy without universal uprising
which will crimson the land with blood
and In the end will bring the reform:
that are now demanded
The present movement, II II fails
will be because of able leaders. bu
the spirit of unrest will not be downet
by tyrannic oppression and able lead
ers will arise as necessity demands
But the economic grievances of tn
peasantry Of the Baltic provinces ar
undoubtedly well based and the chic
ultimate benefit likely to result fror
the present uprising will be the fina
overthrow of that system Of feudalisti
hand tenure which Is condemned by tn
progressive spirit and insight Of mod
ern times.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-01-02
Tailoring Artistic
Your Clothing Should BE the Result
Of Careful Study IL You Are to
Dress We'll.

1t Is just as essential that the tailor
who aims to excel in his work should
be master Of the effects Of shades and
colors as for the artist who paints a
beautiful scene or portrait.
To know just what style and pattern,
what color and finish. must go into
each garment, so that the apparel
when finished shall be suited to the
wearer is an art not possessed by all.
II is only obtained through long and
close study of the subject.
little observance OF the style Of
dress one may see each day upon the
street, will be all that is necessary TO
convince that the study of dress re-
ceives but little attention.
This is the fault, mostly. of the
tailor or dressmaker, for it Is too true
that frequently the art in their work
is lost in the desire To hurry: to turn
out quickly the product of their work
men, irrespective of style or quality.
visit, however, to the tailorin :
apartments of H. Berg. in the New
Idaho Trust Building. Rooms 221-226.
will prove that the product of that es-
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-01-02
BROAD SIDEWALKS At HANNAH
Large Sum Available for Street I'm.
provement and Road Work.

Deputy Sheriff W. c. Foresman
who returned Saturday from a trip to
the Nezperce country. reports good
sleighing out of Kamiah. All his trips
to the prairie We're made in a sleigh
The new buildings in the tow moi
kamiah are all occupied but that OF
the kamiah Trading company, which
will be completed in a few DAYS. This
structure is 50xS0 and contains a
large wareroom for displaying buggies
and farm implements. There is also
large hardware department
Ten-foot sidewalks have been COM
pleted To all parts of the town. Tie
townsite company has over Sl.1O0 in
the treasury, which in addition To that
which vigil be received from the sale
OF the balance of the lots. will he util-
lied in street improvements and work
on the roads leading out of the city
This is the desire of r. L. Spiker. one
OF the leading spirits of the Townsite
company.
The property purchased from the In
dams has all been paid for.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-01-02
JUST SOME STORIES.
oooooooooooooooo oooooooooo

A western exchange publishes the
following connundrum: A banker
sauntering home for his dinner saw a
$40 bill on the curbstOne. He picked
it up and took the number in order to
find the owner. While at home his
wife remarked that the butcher had
sent in bill amounting to $40. The
only money he had with him was the
bill he had found which he gave her,
and she paid the butcher. The butcher
paid to "A farmer for a calf and the far
mer paid 1t to a merchant, who, in turn.
paid it to a WasherwOman and she,
owing the banker note of SO went TO
the banker and paid the note. The
banker recognized the bin as the one
he had found. and which up to that
time had paid $50 Of debt. on careful
examination he found that the bill was
counterfeit Now. will some of our
friends kindly tell us what has been
lost in this transaction and by whom?
we'll to do Chicago real estate
owner went into q hardware store in
that city and asked the proprietor for
a pound of nails. says the Minneapolis
Journal The small package was made
up and the price, a nickel, handed TO
the merchant when the customer asked
if the purchase could be sent to his
house. which was in distant part OF
the city. SThe merchant assented and,
calling an errand boy. handed him the
parcel. with the nickel he had just re-
ceived for it, and said:
Here. Johnny; take the car and take
this parcel out to Mr.. Blanks house..
What" said the customer Are
you going to give the boy the nickel to
take the parcel out?'
"Why. certainly said the merchant
II wouldn't think Of asking him to
walk so far
We'll" said the meanest man in Chi
cago. "if you would just as soon give
me the five cents will take it out my
self"
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-01-02
EXPENSE OF CITY
$1,000 A MONTH
Semi.AnnuaI Reports Be-
fore the Council
Tonight.

The city council will meet tonight in
the regular monthly session. Most of
the regular session is devoted to the
consideration of bills, and is in it's de-
tails embarrassing to the general
reader.
1t is worth while however. to note
that the general expense account of
the city Is running now about $4,000 a
month. This is excessive of the interest
paid on the bonded Indebtedness. which
is about $500 per year Last month
the city paid out $1o.190.sS. but $4,000
of this was for the semi-annual inter-
est just due.
Monthly Expense Of City.
The big items of expense are the
maintenance of the water, street and
police departments. 1t costs the city
| i'm round numbers about $500 per
month to maintain the water depart
ment. about $500 per month for the pO-
lice department. and $500 for the
streets; the latter does not include the
springkling, which in the summer
months runs as high as $500 pei
month. The city's light bill ispracti-
cally $3.50 per month"; and the city II.
brary costs about 800 per month fol
its maintenance.
Miller Defends His Plans.
communications filed to come before
the council tonight One Is a supple.
mental report from G. n. Miller. who
has already made a report on sewer
for the eastern part of the city. HI
designed system and gave it's APP
proximate cost at 100000. Later thu
city officials had Engineer Walter H
Graves make a report on t he SAM
question. and Miller's supplemental re
port is in the nature of a defense o
his original plans. In which he set
out the fact that they are adequate AM
fully cover the needs of the city.
Plumbers Enter Protest.
The other communication is in tn
form of a protest from the plumber
of the city against the annual licens
, of $o5 charged by the city for making
connections with the Normal Hi
sewer. They claim that they alread
pay general license for conductin
, their business and that this special II
cense Is too high. They ask that 1T b
made nominal merely and be fixed a
} sum Of from 81 to IS.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-01-02

Starr ]. Maxwell is In the city today
from Lapwai
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-01-02

tahlishment is the result Of careful
study OF the are of tailoring.
You will notice the artistic i'm the
beautiful line of imported and donnes-
tic weaves of all styles of cloths IN
hand. from which to select. The same
is true of the Innings and finishings.
me product of Mr.. Bers,s establish
ment will be found to he correct
stylish and artistic
From small beginning some two
and a half years ago at S6i Main
street the business has been built up
to such proportions as to call for larger
quarters. These have been secured in
the New Idaho Trust Building. Here
the visitor will find an establishment
second to none In the west.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-01-02
RAPID INCREASE OF luNAcY.

From clipping sent by Consul Heit-
field, OF Freiburg, Germany. to the
Daily Consular and Trade Reports, the
following startling figures are cleaned
concerning the rapid growth Of lunacy
In the city Of London and England in
general.
London has 26.739 persons on its list
Of lunatics. or these 24,2S2 are sup
ported by the rates. The county coun :
ell Is at Its wits end trying to devise
accommodations for the rapidly in
creasing number of the city's insane.
January I, 1904. England and Wales
with about $4,000 900 inhabitants, had
1913 insane persons--an increase of
1924 over 1903. The ratio Of the In
crease to every 10000 of the population
went up from 34.14 to 3471 in IL
months. This almost incredible and
dangerous increase Is far beyond the
recorded increase in the Kingdoms
population. Indeed, the decade 1894
1904 shows that the number of the in
sane was as l to 1927 in 1894 and as
TO 2ss IN 1904. At this rate Of Increase
the end Of England's supremacy in
many lines Is in sight. Luckily. befor.
1t Is too late. legislation may devise
some methods Of meeting the matte,
and securing remedy.
Up to date all efforts at a successful
explanation have been unavailing. The
expense of fitting up quarters for thes.
people has forced London and othe,
places to serious. consideration ant
investigation of the whole problem ant
all points connected Herewith
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-01-02

Several Idaho newspapers seem Ia
think this state should adopt the d.
rect primary nominating system. Ore
gon will nominate all her state and
county officers under this plan some
time during the months of April. AL
ready there are grumblings from aspi-
rants to office that the direct primary
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-01-02

This is the first collection day Of the
new year and it is presumed everyone
paid his bills with the usual good
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-01-02

is not what it was cracked up to be.
Better wait and see how the system
works in our sister state before en-
courag ing the scheme here.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-01-02

BY actual count President Roosevelt
shook hands with 9,052 people at the
New Year day reception. This Is
a strenuous extension of the glad hand.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-01-16
Railway Values.

1t has been estimated that should
anyone desire to purchase the rail.
ways of the world his outlay would
amount to something like $42.440,0 900,
600. That sum would represent the
entire revenues of Europe for eight
years, or one-tenth OF the entire
money wealth of the world 1t is re-
markable that in so short a time as
the steam engine has been in exist
ence railways should have become so
valuable. yet no one source of the
worlds wealth exceeds the railways
in impor lance, and none is so general
ly distributed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-01-16
Horseback Ride Of 500 Miles.

The most wonderful straight away
ride ever made by a man was the
gallop of Francis Xavier Aubrey--ci-
devant Canadian voyageur, and
famous Pony Express rider-from
Santa Fe, N. M, to Independence,
Mo, in 1S53-S0O miles in Ave days
thirteen hours.
In 1852 he had covered the same
distance in a little over eight days,
and his record was on the wager Of
81 900 that he could do it in an even
eight" In the whole distance he did
not stop to rest and changed horses
only with every 100 or 200 miles. He
was a stocky French Canadian, light
hearted. genial, adventurous, abso-
Idtely fearless.
For some time he was an overland
freighter; and he also made the enor-
mously difficult and dangerous drive
of a flock of sheep from New Mexico
to California across the deserts of
the Colorado. He was killed in Santa
Fe=McClure's Magazine.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-01-16
Idaho Joins.

Fraser, Idaho, Nov. 9th Especially
Mrs. Martha ]. Lee has given for pub
lication the following statement, con-
corning Dodd's Kidney Pills:
II was down with Rheumatism
three times" she says, "and each
time Dodds Kidney Pills helped me-.
The last time they cured me, and now
i am able to get around and do all
my work, though am fifty-eight, and
can walk to Sunday School every
Sunday. Before took Dodd's Kidney
Pills was SO bad I could use neither
hand nor foot. shall keep Dodd's
Pills on hand all the time"
Rheumatism is caused by Uric Acid
crystallizing in the muscles. Healthy
kidneys remove all Uric Acid from
the blood. Diseased Kidneys cannot
remove this Acid which collects in
the blood and poisons every vein and
artery. Dodd's Kidney Pills cure
Rheumatism by curing the Kidneys
by healing and strengthening them,
so that they can rid the blood of all
impurities.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-01-16
Rlce at Weddings.

The Chinese have a curious legend
as to how the custom of throwing rice
at weddings originated. A famous sor-
cerer named Chao became Jealous of
the power of another sorcerer. a wom-
an, and. conceiving a plan to destroy
her, he persuaded her parents to be-
stow her upon his supposed son. The
crafty Shoa chose the most unlucky
day for the wedding, the day when the
Golden Pheasant" was in the as,
cendant, SO that when the bride en-
tered the red chair the spirit bird
would destroy her with his powerful
beak. But Peach Blossom gave di
rectionx to have rice thrown out at
the door, and she passed out un.
harmed while the spirit bird was de;
vourina it.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-01-16
John quincy Adams House.

open to visitors. 1t contains many In.
teresting articles owned by the Ad.
ans family and used during the period
when the house was occupied by John
and Abigail.
This house has more than passing
interest from the fact that 1t was
there Abigail wrote the famous let.
ters to her husband while the latter
was attending the continental con.
gress in Philadelphia. Alone with her
son, John Quincy Adams, she passed
many lonely days and nights waiting
for the return of the husband and
father and the close of the war that
was to mean so much to them.
AS related in her letters, the house
was besieged with weary soldiers ev-
cry day on their way to Boston. AS
she wrote to her husband: my house
is in confusion; soldiers coming in for
lodging, for breakfast, for supper, for
drink Sometimes refugees from Bos
ton, tired and fatigued, seek an asy
lum for day, night, week"
This old house, like all buildings
Ell ected in its day, is provided with
ample fireplaces, but even those glow
ing hearths were not sufficient to
keep the place warm during the terri
bly, cold winter of 1775-1776, when Mr.
Adams was away, and Abigail, writing
to him, often had to stop in her cor
respondence because the ink had fro
zen and her fingers were numb with
the cold
And yet, despite the difficulties I'm
der which she lived, it was in this
house that Abigail Adams wrote at
this time to her husband: LET us sep
arate from the kings party. Let us
renounce them, and instead of suppli'
cation, as formerly, let us beseech
the Almighty to blast their counsels
and bring to naught all their devices.