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Fergus County Democrat., 1906-11-27
THANKSGIVING FOOTBALL
Fergus High School and Cardinals viii
Battle for Supremacy Thursday.

The big football game of the season
IN this part of the state will be played
next Thursday at 2:2O o'clock on the
high school gridiron. The opposing
teams will be the Fergus county high
school eleven and the cardinal eleven,
which is composed of a fast bunch of
young men of this city
The contest promises to be hotly con-
tested, as each team is determined to
win. Both teams have been in train
ing for the coming contest, and are now
| in the best of condition. Undoubtedly
| this will be the best football game ever
seen in this city. For many weeks
past the boys have been out for signal
practice and scrimmage work. Every
member Is in prime condition for the
great game.
The teams are captained by Earl
Neill and Wilbur Hoffman, of the
school and town teams, respectively.
Both teams have an especially strong
| line, and fast backs The backfield
will be made up of Gideon, fullback,
| and Neil and Wilson, halves, for the
high school. Briggs will oniciate at
quarter. John Campbell is fullback for
the Cardinals. and Ed Crowley and
Hoffman are halves. Ed Johnson is
| quarterback.
Many tickets have been sold for the
| game. and If the weather permits the
Urged on by the demands Of an ever
| crowd.
Fergus County Democrat., 1906-11-27
ttt0rt will Be Made to Have Recent
Order of Interior Depart
ment ReSCinde.
MISTAKES WE'RE MADE
LARGE Area of Genuine Coal Lands
Not Included in the With
drdweiOrder.

A movement Is on foot in this city
business men OF the Judith Basin will
endeavor to induce Senator Carter to
bring pressure upon the administration
to rescnd the recent order Of the de-
partment Of the interior withdrawing
from entry and settlement practically
all Of the land in the Judith land dist
rict In order to secure a withdrawal
of that order, which was made for the
express purpose Of keeping the coal
lands out of the hands OF land grabbers
and corporations, it will be shown that
much of the land withheld from entry
Is not coal land In any sense OF the
term
Frank E Smith will present the mat
ter to Senator Carter, who I'm turn will
consult with President Roosevelt and
present conditions as they exist here.
over 100000 acres of land are affected
by the order I'm this district.
Although II Is understood that the or
der Is but temporary one, immediate
action should be taken to alleviate any
unnecessary evils which may result
from its continued enforcement.
Although the recent order is very
comprehensive, and includes townships
which have no coal Indications, other
townships In this district in which
there are unmistakable evidences of
the presence of large coal beds are still
open to entry. No doubt the depart
ment has inadvertently overlooked this
land which Is situated I'm the south
western part of the county.
gentleman who is well acquainted
with that section or the country saws
that considerable good coal land has
not been withdrawn in the vicinity OF
Yale. That one of the greatest coal
beds exists in that part of the county
cannot be doubted from the testimony
Of those who have seen some of the
veins which crop out in the Yale coun-
try. One vein Is said to be 12 to IA feet
wide at the surface. This coal Is not
of very good quality, but would no
doubt be better at "A greater depth.
rms enormous vein is exposed in what
Is known as Pocket basin, about five
miles east from the ranch OF w A.
Hedges.
Fergus County Democrat., 1906-11-27
JACOB RIIS IS COMING
Noted Lecturer, Humanitarian and
Author Will Be Here Dec. 9th.

Jacob Ris, famous all over the
world as being the best biographer of
President Roosevelt and prominent
writer on sociology. will lecture on
December 8th at Culver's opera house.
No one should miss hearing this great
American citizen, "The most useful
citizen in New York" as the president
himself has called Mr.. Ris The KAN
sas City Star, among other things re-
Gently had the following account of Mr..
Riis' early life:
Thirty odd years ago Jacob A. Riis
was what Is called a tramp. He slept
In police stations and even In grave
yards, his best coat I'm a cold winter
was a linen duster. he was hungry for
davs and was glad to eat mess OF
bread and bones showed to him through
the alley window Of hotel kitchen; he
suffered the misery of poverty and
homelessness In city and country.
But all the time he was looking for
work and the chance came to him to
be newspaper reporter, and what he
did was done so well that President
Roosevelt said not long ago: Jacob
Riis is the most useful citizen in New
York"
1t Is great climb from police sta
tfon lodger to the most useful citizen
in the third city of the world. A man
who can do that is worth seeing and
hearing and 1000 of the best citizens of
this city came out through snow and
cold last night to see and hear him.
The moment Jacob A. Ri grasps
you firmly by the arm, looks deep into
your eyes and begins to talk. you see
why he succeeded in what he UNDER
took. In his every look and word and
act you see his chief characteristic,
persistence-some call it doggedness-
that bulldog tenacity that never let's
go of an aim once started in upon un-
til 1t is accomplished. And when you
have heard him talk ten minutes you
know he is a man of great ability and
individuality.
Fergus County Democrat., 1906-11-27

bargain. but the land is selling at prac
ucally S25 per acre, which shows what
value conservative business men place
u2on Judith Basin land.
IT is not known Just what MIR. uar-
low intends to do with the land, but un-
doubtedly the Investment is made pry-
marily for speculation. That the lands
VIII be titled and cultivated to a larg.
er extent than ever before is certain
and perhaps 1t will be cut up into
smaller ranches. 1t is also said that
MI. Harlow expects the ranch to con-
tain coal deposits.
The land included in this purchase is
or the very finest black loan soil, deep
ana FERTILE. producing from rs to 100
bushels OF oats to the acre every year
without fail, being Invariably sure of n
crop. From two to five tons of tim
othy are also produced upon the land
wheat is not grown with such uniform
success in that region, as the early fal,
frost is apt to affect the delicate kerr
nels of the cereal. But the land will,
always be valuable for it's large and
unfailing crops of oats and timothy.
good market, one which promises to
become better each year, Is found in
the wheat growing belt immediately
north of the fertile foothills of the
SnoWies. and the Rock creek farmer ia
assured good ana permanent market
on the wheat benches farther distant
from the mountains.
sale which NAV throw some l;pht
upon the much mooted question az To
where one of the several new towns
which will doubtless spring up on the
line or the Billings & Northern railroad
within the bounds of Fergus county
VIII be located. was negotiated last
week whereby $. s. Hobson. president
or the Bank Of Fergus County, acquired
half interest in the 2,4OO acre ranch
or w. B. She'll. The terms of the sale
are private, but the amount must have
been large one as the ranch Is a berry
ueslfable piece of property good crops
being raised upon the place every wear
without failure
me tract is situated ON Buffalo creek
near the mout of Ross Fork. about
one ana one-half miles fro mthe pres
eht town Of Straw Whether or not
any considerable tow nmay be built
there remains to be seen but II Is GER
tam that the railroad company will
nave station upon the tract. A rich
agricultural country surrounds the
proposed station and in all proba bility
town Of some consequence will be
built i'm that vicinity.
Fergus County Democrat., 1906-11-27
REPORT OF BARNFS-KING MINE
SALE CONFIRMED BY PURCHASERS

All question in
c has been
ownership of the
ments have been made The following taken m from h M Anaconda @ snnas
Sunday tells of the formation
Of the stock on the New York
Subscriptions the stock of the King peveopmen manv will
be received by H. c. Brown
knicerboSer Trust
Monday 2e
s5
will be H. Carroll Brown Baltimore
Wall street New York: A Camnbel Rne w r HARDNESS Ma
York.
Of company
shares a
county Montana about miles
from Iewistown has
$ in Kendall
amount
Organization will be extensive development
ing facilities and
The following announcement
gives all details at pubiton
The
terested in the
York eaniaiSts is now co.,,v M closed T w ~ hi t @ @ n % ,
ready been made the
The third payment which will several hundred
will be made the
half million dollars Of
The following
Of he is
asked he anything
Yorksy syndicate
De Lamar patsy cIark and othe New York neone ncdne nv % -,
thinks new
will a will
min
unlimited
| veopment of
This Kendall
capital
o
district attempted to boom the
justify
few months
participated
working In the district !.
Fergus County Democrat., 1906-11-27
SERVICES AT STRAW,

Rev. Henry Quickenden of the Pres
byterian church of this city will hold
services at Straw on next Monday ev-
ening. November 26th. at 7:3O p. M Tho
meeting will be held in the Straw
school building and everybody is invit-
ed to attend.
Fergus County Democrat., 1906-11-27

Good for everything a salve is used
for and especially recommended for
piles. That Is what we say Of Dewitta
Witch Hazel Salve. On the market for
years and a standby in thousands OF
families. Get DeWitt's. Sold by
Phillips Drug Co.
Fergus County Democrat., 1906-11-27

Stokes VS.. Doherty, December 10th
Humphrey VS.. Sloan ct al. Decem-
Der 11th
State VS.. McEvony, December 17th
Birsch VS.. Citizens Electric COM
pany. December 18th,
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T E r NJ S

between Port Huron and Saginaw.
The greatest need of the town is
for wide awake newspaper, there
being two weeklies, one of each
each party, trying to do business,
with small success, owing to lack
of facilities.
Mr.. Sleeper has an elegant home
in this village where he spends the
winter, his summer home being in
Lexington, on Lake Huron, which
is the family home of Mrs. Sleeper.
Mr.. Sleeper, we were told while in
Bad Axe, was the leading citizen
there, he was looked up to and res
pected by everyone as a man of
most courteous and amiable bear
ing, of fine business judgment and
the soul of honor; that there was
hardly a state or county position
in the gift of the people that he
could not secure should he so desire.
He is connected with more than
fifteen banks, being president of
ten or more, they being at Apologize,
Bad Axe, Brown City, Croswell,
Gladwin, Harbor Beach, Lexington,
Mikado, Owendale, San
dusky, Standish, Turner, Ubly, Yale.
Thursday, the 9th, we took the
train for Croswell, arriving
there at 9 o'clock and went through
the beet sugar factory at that place.
Captain Scranton, superintendent,
gave us the following interesting
data: Employs two hundred hands;
runs each season about one hundred,
twenty-four hour days; uses about
$4,000 tons sugar beets; the plant
cost, S750,0OO; the beets bring the
farmer from So to $50 per ton; the
raw beets are run through about
three and one-fourth miles of pipes
and machinery before coming out
the finished product, pure unadul-
terated graduated sugar,
MIR. Sleeper's carriageIbeing in
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readiness, we rode four miles over
a good road to Lexington, which is
situated on the shores of Lake HUI
ron. 1t was at this place that Mr..
John L. Woods laid the foundation
of his great fortune and we visited
the store where he and Mr.. S. G.
Tewksbury were in trade, also the
Memorial Library which the three
daughters of Mr.. Charles Hunting
ton Moore, Mrs. Hanley, Mrs. Miles
and Mrs. Sleeper, have erected to
their father, and equipped with
$500 books. My visit there was
brief but exceedingly pleasant, only
having time for dinner at Mrs.
Sleeper's home. As | had made
arrangements to take the train
East that night, we drove back to
Croswell in the early afternoon and
took in the fair. Lexington has
seen its best days, being rather on
the decline, as Croswell, which is on
the line of the Pere Marquette rail-
road, has taken its business, largely.
We were disappointed in not be-
ing able to visit Mrs. Ira Clark, who
was Susan Bliss, but had moments
talk with Dan Clark, her son, who
said his mother was in very good
health although she was very deaf
and unable to hear anything that
was said to her.
At Croswell, the local fair and
horse trot was in session and nearly
the whole population of the vicin-
ity, to the number of probably five
thousand, was there. The crowd
was a similar gathering to those
seen on our own fairgrounds. The
racing was rather slow, 2.59 "a
being the best time recorded, and
there being no distance flag, and
in no race more than four starters,
the last horse was some time in
finishing as it made no difference
with its share of the purse, if it only
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kept on going until the mile was
completed. The display in floral
hall was extensive and interesting,
the fruit and garden sass" ex-
hibit was way ahead of ours at
home.
Reluctantly, l babe Mr.. and Mrs
Sleeper goodbye and embarked on
the five p. m. train for the East on
the homeward trip. 1 arrived at
Toronto in the early morning of the
28th, and rode through the day
along the shores of Lake Ontario,
arriving at Montreal at six o'clock,
on time to the minute, in season for
a fine course dinner at the Windsor,
and ready for the $40 train for
home, which was reached safely in
due course, tired but feeling that the
seeing of this, to me, new country
had amply repaid for the time and
expense incurred. H. r. 7.
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If the legislature is going to
pass on any automobile laws, they
should be favorable ones. We be-
lieve in throwing out inducements
to automobile owners, especially
those who reside outside our
state. We want this patronage.
They bring money into the state.
Best of all, what better advertise
ment can Vermont have than to
have city people journeying
through our state these autumn
DAVIS
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three stories high with Main building II AZ feet with ell
attached SO 80 feet Above building sc 25 heated
by seam also Kitchen pantry dnnroom for help guests dining
reading and writing large hail. office and double
pao ground floor with veanda back and 'front.' II feet long each
Toilet rooms, sample and billiard rooms, with ample cellar
and laundry basement Two fire places ground floor and two
first floor.
Barn 60 AZ feet with shed 80 16 feet attached Barn two
high with high basement % stalls housing
carriages hay grain with office and harness Four-auo-
mobile built ground
With exception the these buildings all built in
18890 at of $4,000 and good repair and very
well and completely furnished the of which has been $4,000
This property will be offered the highest bidder but bids
for the real will be accepted under $780, and to enable the
purchaser buy going business the furnishings will be put in at
$4,000.
In other words understood and agreed by party bidding
the real estate that doing he they obgate himself them
selves the the furniture $4,000 cash for said furniture
the they take the deed the real No bid will be
considered except on the above conditions "*+s3
The for the unpaid 1t understood and
agreed that the purchaser and this obligation
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keeping the fee to oil and coal lands
OF the Indian tribes on the public do
main in the government, the lands te
be leased only on such terms and FOL
such periods as will enable the govern.
ment to entirely control them.
Cheered in the House.
Washington, May Sat the begin.
ming Of yesterday 3 session of the house
some delay ensued due to the under.
standing that the president desired to
send message to congress in reply tc
q resolution of the house.
The message in relation to Standard
Oil was received at 1915 p. M, and
was Immediately read.
The clerk completed the reading at
1880. On it's conclusion applause
rang through the chamber, both sides
wing in their demonstration OF ap-
prevail.
Washington, May SIN the senate.
after the reading of the president g
message, on motion of Mr.. Foraker,
the message was ordered to lie on the
table. In making his motion Mr..
Foraker said:
cit covered nearly all Of the ques-
tions under consideration in connec-
ton with the pending bills"
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ALASKA DELEGATE BILL
SIGNED By President

Washington, May 9.-The president
has signed the bill authorizing dele
gate to represent Alaska in congress
This is the Cushman bill providing for
the first election to be held in the ter
ritory on the second Tuesday OF next
August and making provision for the
necessary election machinery.
The president affixed his signature
to the measure with silver pen pro-
vided for the purpose by Represents.
tive Cushman, who, as champion Oh
the legislation in four congresses, was
in the presidents Office when the slgn'
ing took place. =.
It was intended that all members Oh
the Washington delegation and sev-
eral members. Of the house commlttee
on territories should be present, ou''
owing to q series Of MISUNDERSTANDING
they did not arrive in time. !.
It now remains to carry the news u
the signing Of the delegate law ln,u
every corner Of the territory with 81
possible speed, as in little more tnsn
three months the first election WILL 70
held.
Representative Cushman will senu
the pen with which the delegate OIL
was signed to his former law partno.'
Charles 3. Claypool. who is now piao
ticing his profession ct Fairbanks
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dispute, only the differences are dis.
puted. The Standard Oil Company
furnished the facts and man with 9
muck rake dug out such as under hia
manipulation he felt would prove
damaging.
..The Standard Oil Company has
been Investigated over and over again
at the instigation Of it's rivals and It
always welcomes such investigation
when conducted in good faith and
fairly. We are engaged in q large
and honorable business. We are con-
Quoting it honorably and We sincerely
believe in conformity to law.
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CARRIERS MUST QUIT
DEALING in PRODUCTS

Washington, May 1O.-The senate
spent the greater part of the day again
in the consideration of the question of
divorcing production of coal and other
commodities from their transportation
and closed that branch of it's work by
adopting a modified provision formally
offered by Senator Elkins but orig
inal]y suggested by Senator McLaurin,
as follows:
"From and after May !, 1908, it
shall be unlawful for any common car
rier to transport from any state, terri
tory or district of the United States
to any other state, territory or district
of the United States or to any foreign
country, any article or commodity
manufactured, mined or produced by
it or under its authority, or which it
may own in whole or in part, or in
which it may have any interest, direct
or indirect, except such articles or
commodities as may be necessary or
used in the conduct of it's business as
q common carrier.
Senator Carter opposed the entire
proposition because of it's antagonism
to the copper industry of his state.
Senator Clark, of Montana, concurred
in this, and said that in addition it
had been necessary for all the trans
continental railroads to open up coal
mines not only for their own conven-
fence but as necessity for the people
along their lines.
Senator Tillman spoke of the diff
Guilty of getting vote and of the slow
progress being made.
The Elkins amendment, as modified
by it's author, passed by vote of 81
to 6, the negative votes being cast by
Messrs. Ankeny, Bulkley, Clark, of
Wyoming, Mollard, Pettus and War
rem.
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INJUNCTION AGAINST
DRUG TRUST WANTED

Indianapolis, May 1O.-Acting un.
der instructions received from Attor.
ney General Moody, Joseph B. Keat-
ing, United States district attorney,
has filed in the district court, before
Judge A. B. Anderson, petition fol
an injunction against several corpora.
tions and individuals comprising what
is alleged to be the drug trust. The
defendants named in the complaint
are:
National Association of Retail Drug
gists, and its members, agents and OIL
GERS; the Tri-Partite Proprietors and
its members, agents and officers; the
Blacklist Manufacturers and it's agents,
officers and members; The Wholesale
Contract Proprietors' Association, its
agents, members and officers, and the
Eli Lily Company, Joseph IONS, W. j.
Mooney, John N. Carey and Frank
Holiday, of Indianapolis.
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HOLDS EQUITABLE
DIRECTORS LIABLE

Albany, N. Y, May THE appel
late division Of the third department
Of the state supreme court has handed
down decision holding that the di-
rectors Of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society are liable to the policy holders
for all money voted and wrongfully
spent by, that society.
This decision, which was given in q
suit brought by Mary s. Young, OF
Saratoga Springs, against James Hazen
Hyde and other directors Of the soci-
ETY., affirm the interlocutory decree
rendered by the special term.
Mrs. Young sued to recover all the
sums due on her policy wasted during
the three years prior to 1905, either
By the affirmative acts Of directors Of
By reason Of their negligence.
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Constantinople, May Tt is re-
ported here that the sultan has decid-
eo 90 give way to the British govern
ment on the Egyptian boundary dis
pute, having been Influenced to that
decision by hint from the French.
Italian and Russian ambassadors, who
nave told him that he could not ex-
pece any sympathy from them in the
matter: France, it is understood, took
= positive stand for England and hen
ambassador told the sultan that she
vas With Great Britain in any action
snat nation should zee at to take.
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STANDARD OIL AND RAILWAYS
Government Plans to Look Into Rebate
Charges.

Washington, May THE statement
is authoritatively made that the de-
partment of justice will Immediately
begin an investigation of the so-called
oil trust and number of railroads.
with view of determining whether
there have been violations of the anti
rebate law.
The basis for this investigation will
be the information recently submitted
to the president in the report of Com.
missioner Garfield, of the bureau of
corporations, which is soon to be
made public.
This report, it is learned, deals only
with the subject of rebates and does
not go into the question of violations
of the antitrust law.
1t it is found that rebates have been
given by the railroads and accepted by
the Oil trust, steps will be at once tax
en-, it is asserted, to bring the matter
before the grand juries in the local..
ties where the alleged violations took
place, with view to prosecutions in
the courts.
1t Is said that Mr.. Garfield in CON.
Quoting his own Investigation travelled
extensively and visited all important
sections of the country covered by the
operation of the so-called oil trust,
from New England to California and
the South and that the evidence OBJ
1ained is ample to warrant the depart
ment In taking the course decided on.