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The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1906-07-14

the West Indies in 1892 and located the
landing place of Columbus, marking the
spot with huge stone monument. In
1894 he made his first dash for the pole,
reaching the latitude of 81 de-
grees northeast of Spitzbergen. In 1893
he tried the same fascinating quest
again, penetrating as far as Franz Josef
Land. On both trips he had wonderful
success in discovering new islands and
securing new scientific data which has
been of great value to the American
Geographical Society. His voluminous
writings for scientific periodicals and
popular magazines have shown the same
incisive thought and keen insight that
have marked his journalistic work.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1906-07-14

WeuOra, N. D., July 2, 1000. 7
Board in regular session; Commission
ers I. F. Roberts and S. p. Lowery, were
present. The following bills were allow
ed:
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1906-07-14
Warning Notice.

All persons are hereby warned not to
trespass, cut hay or run stock on section
%. twp. 144, range 96, under penalty of
the law.
PARMErER & Sons, Dickinson, N. D.
June 20, 1906. 7-7-2t
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1906-07-14
Notice..
To whom it may concern:

10 whom 1t may concern
You are hereby notified not to take
any sod or soil from or dump any ashes
or refuse OF any description on any lots
or lands owned by the James c. Young
Land Co. or the Empire Real Estate &
Mortgage Co., especially in sections 4,
Q, II and l5-I3o-o6, and sections II, 80
and 35.I4o-o6, or you will be prosecuted
according to law.
EMPIRE REAL ESTATE & MORTGAGE
Co., 7o5 Guaranty Bldg. Minneapolis.
4-28-tf
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1906-07-14
$500 Reward

For the return of one sorrel gelding 6
years old, branded NV and n with bar
under it on left shoulder; 900 lbs weight.
Return to Mandan Mercantile Co., Dick
inson. 6-3o-tf
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1906-07-14

On motion the county auditor was d.
rected to place all taxable lands in Bill
lings county on the tax list.
Board of equalization adjourned to
meet July IS.
]. A. McGREGOR, Auditor.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1906-07-14
Your Wind-MiII..

l am prepared to oil and take care Of
your wind.mills. make all necessary re.
pairs etc.
4.l4.tf E. WHITTIER.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1906-07-14
State Health Report.

DR.. H. H. Heaty, Secretary of the
State Board of Health. has given out
the following report OF births and deaths
for the month OF Nav:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-01
HIuh Iron Prices.

The Tennessee Coal and Iron con-
pany has just sold 5000 tons of No. 2
foundry iron at $3.50 a ton for deiiv-
cry in the second quarter of next year.
The high prices that prevail do net
ers seem to have no confidence in the
coming of lower prices next year, for
they are Fastening to cover their re-
quirements in that year az present
prices. 1t is conceded that the full ca
pacity of the rail mills of this country
in the coming year will be placed be
fore New Years day, and that any new
requirements beyond that day Will
have to be met by importations.
The firm condition of the iron mar
ket means great deal to this district
1t means another year of active con-
struction and high prosperity. When
iron is being placed at $3.50 delivara.
BILE as late as June 80 of next year, we
have good reason to feel seciD e. We
have every prospect of busy year in
which trade and employment and gen.
eral business will be at their best, and
this district will get the big END of the
excellent and promising situation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-01
WOES OF COLLEGE STUDENTS.

From the New York World.
The college student seems to be be-
coming an educational 1shmaelite, with
every mans hand raised against him and
his against every man. If he has dog
he must send it away from the Univer-
sity of Syracuse or the portals of the
college are closed to him. If he chews or
smokes tobacco the University of Nebras-
ka is not to be his alma mater. If he
wants to celebrate a Yale defeat of Har-
ward he would do well to stay away
from a New Haven theatre.
President Eliot of Harvard and Presi-
dent Butler of Columbia have reached
the conclusion that football is not the
alpha and omega of the higher educa-
ton. Harvard's head has gone even fur
Their. He has declared tennis the only
honest college sport in which a ball fig
ures, suggesting the discontinuance of
basketball and hockey, and condemnng
baseball, although unwilling because of
its popularity to urge it's abandonment.
There is some balm of Gilead, however,
for Dr. Butler is now advocating the ces-
sation of instruction at 4 p. IN. in order
that the students may have opportunity
for outdoor exercise and the use of the
funds of the university itself for ath-
letic purposes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-01
Feminine Fans.

This thing of having young ladies act
as sponsors of football teams has given
rise to a new mania which threatens
what the law would call the peace and
dignity of society,"" said clubman yes
terday
There was a time in my life when girls
met and talked about fashions and mil
lirery, and magazine ,stories, but, now
they can tell you about fumbles' and
''buckng a line and a whole vocabulary
of a sporty. slangy nature which is any
thing but charming.
Even more Objectionable than the lisp
ing young fop who bangles around
among women is the athletic young wom-
an who talks about wearing a sweater
and undertakes to be boon companion
in the discussion of football and such like
games.
These are topics that / like to talk
about among men when seated at a table
with glasses and cigars laid out; but in
a parlor, the subject is as much against
my grain as talking politics in a the
atre.
IF girls think they make themselves
more attractive to men by assuming
mems manners and style of CONVERSE
ton, they are greatly mistaken, because
the great charm of woman's society
IS the difference between her talk and
mans No man cares to leave G jolly
crowd of his fellows to discuss with
woman the same subject he has just
thrashed out to a FRAGILE somewhere
else"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-01
A Great Change.

'Since l was here the first time, Bir-
mingham has changed more than any
other southern city" said William War
mington, an old theatrical man. when
| first saw Birmingham l was man
ager for Sol Smith Russell. There was
a box car over where the station stands,
and there was nothing but field where
the Morris hotel, the Chalifoux building
and other large structures stand
1--WE had the second show to play in the
old O'Brien opera house, now the New
Gayety theatre and peculiar thing hap
pened at that time. The gas supply
failed for some reason and we could not
give performance. Captain O'Brien
called me into the theatre and handed me
$780, the guarantee. He also wanted to
pay for my baggage out of town, but |
would not stand for that. will never for
get the way he acted in that matter for
many manager would have begged me
to split it with him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-01
Election OF Senators.

The representatives of thirty states
are to meet at the invitation of Gov
ernor Cunmns of Iowa at Des Moines
to consider ways and means Of install
ing the popular election of Senators.
The Des Moines conference undoubC
edly looks to a constitutional conven-
ton to which twenty-four states stand
committed although but seven have
formally petitioned Congress en- that
subject. Nearly all the states favor,
however, the movement, and Il may pc
possible to coppel Congress to call a
convention. Thirty states can compel
Congress to call a constitute nal con-
vention. We need one worse than a
boy ever needed whipping.
But, after all, is it worth tse while
to call a convention when every state
can repeal the senatorial scheme of
the constitution? Fifteen states have
already done so, and fifteen more will
soon follow suit.
True, the boss-ridden, ciique-gov-
erned states will not fall into line. New
York, for example; but New York is
taking her medicine in the form of
Platt and Depew pills. She begins to
want TO put Root and Roosevelt in
their seats, and possibly, few more
months of machine-made Senators may
lead even that state to favor popular
selection.
The constitution says, The Senate
of the United States shall be composed
of two Senators from each state. che
sen by the Legislature thereof, for six
years." All that is needed is to put
the word people" in the place of the
word Legislature" and the evil would
be undone for all time. A constitution
al convention is the better rene dy, but
in the absence of it each state should
act independently by nulllfy;ng the
word Legislature" whenever a Senator
is to be elected.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-01
Our Three COLLEGES.

The Methodist district conference
did well and wisely when il elected DR..
Mccoy president of the conference col
lege at Owenton. He is comparatively
young, and it is TO be hoped he will be
content to spend the remainder of his
life in conducting and developing the
chief school of his church in this state.
No one is better qualified thar he Tor
this important task, and the college
needs a man of high capacity and earn
est convictions. DR.. Mccoy fills tue
bill in every respect
When the Methodist college at Ow-
enton and the Baptist college at East
Lake are properly built into great ed
ucational institutions, and between
them is placed a modern technical
school we'll endowed, Birmingham will
be equipped educationally FOR it's great
work throughout the century. We
neeQ all tnTee COlleSeS, anu every u
fort should be made to strengthen the
hands of President Montague aud
President Mccoy, IS we'll as to estah.
lish the all-needful tech aical school.
The three institutions viii just meet
our educational needs, and tho patriot
ic should promote 10 the utmost Que
or all of them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-01
THE PRAYER CHAIN.
From the New York Sun.

FROM the New ofk sun,
Last week the prayer chain" which
| has caused the Right Reverend Bishop Of
| Massachusetts so much annoyance dur
ing the last year or so reached Long Is
land. The prayer is a short petition. of
which the recipient is asked to make nine
copies and to mail each copy to a friend
1t is prophesied in the letter accompany
ing the prayer that whoever neglects to
utter it will suffer some misfortune.
Bishop Lawrence, whose name is used
in the letter without authority. has de-
MED many times that he had any re-
sponsibility for the so-called prayer chain
lin fact, SO numerous have been the
inquiries regarding it that he has adopted
set form of answer. This document has
had wide circulation in secular and relig-
ious publications, but APPARENTLY it has
had no effect. If it breaks the prayer
chain in one community the nuisance soon
develops in another. 1t would seem that
the whole country must have seen prayer
and disavowal by this time. but such is
not the case
Meantime the prayer and the threat
accompanying it have caused many good
persons much anxiety to say nothing
of great annoyance Absurd as it is, some
men and women have felt themselves
compelled through fear to obey the anony-
nous Friend" who signs the letters, and
several cases of serious nervous disorders
produced by it in delicate persons have
been reported 1t has been not only
bothersome, but positively harmful in its
effects.
Bishop Lawrence has done his utmost
to put an end to the chain, with small
results. 1t is likely to run its length.
regardless of what he may do to say
it. and its persistence throws a curious
sldelight on the frequently repeated state
ment that religious faith is waning in
this country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-01
Publishing Campaign Expenses.

The republican papers have dwelt
upon the fact that Mr. Hearst sdmitte,
in his official statement The expendi
ture from his own pocket in his cam
paign for governor of $256,c00. He had
nc trusts behind him, and yearly al!
his campaign expenditures we're mex
by himself. The money was contrib
uted openly and spent lesitimatcly,
publicity marking every step in ac-
cordance with The spirit of the New
York law.
How about the other side? NJ.
Hughes says he spent a title over $500
and he no doubt tells the truth so tar
as his own pocket is concerned. But
he did not tell the whole truth abou;
the funds used in his campaign Tie
Brooklyn Eagle, paper OF high stand'
ing that never INDUCES in sensational
statements, says the Hughes campaign
fund was s2OOO.0O0. The republican
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-01
LESS FOR JUNK MAN.
Economies In Manufacturing Make Use
OF All Waste Material.
From the Chicago Post.

From the Chicago Post.
Stricter economy on the part of big man.
ufacturing concerns. as well as improved
methods and new discoveries in the arts,
is threatening to put the junk dealer out
of business.
That there is no immediate danger Of
the extinction of the junk man, however,
is apparent from the fact that this BUSH
ness amounts to $30000,0OO a year 1t is
fact, nevertheless, that the volume of
business has decreased largely within a
few years.
The reasons for the falling off lie in
the fact that manufacturing concerns now
use much larger proportion of their
refuse than they did formerly. The
scraps that went to the junk man in the
olden days now go into the manufacture
of something else, or else they go to a
special shop run by the manufacturing
concern for the purpose of reducing the
refuse material to some profitable form.
The bulk of the junk business is the
handling of metals. The huge heaps of
discarded iron and steel articls of vari-
GUS sorts, such as one may see in the
junk yards represent large sums of
money. In one heap on the ground of a
Desplaines street dealer there is said to
be fully $4,000 worth of iron Much of
1t looks as if it had been there for years.
AS a matter of fact the pile has been
carried away and renewed many times
during the year. The scraps and dis
carded articles are taken by the train load
TO the blast furnaces Brokers buy the
junk from the local dealers.
just as the packing houses have learned
to use every scrap of matter that was
wasted formerly, so the other manufac-
turers are developing their capacity for
using the waste, an example of which
may be seen in the Chicago City railway,
which now has its own brass foundry
This foundry robs the junk man of a
profitable item. The scraps are made into
window catches for cars and other de-
vices used ON street railroads.
Another example of new economy is the
making over of cast-off bolts and nuts
into smaller sizes. For years it was the
custom to toss a WORKOUT bolt into the
scrap heap. Many other similar econo-
mics are being adopted all over the city,
and each new one means less business ior
the junk man.
The San Francisco fire was a bonanza
for junk men, who focked to the Pacific
coast in numbers almost Immediately
after the fire. Fortunes will be made out
of the twisted iron beams
II is said that the number of junk mon
in business in Chicago has decreased by
30 per cent within five years. In addi-
ton to the falling off in business there
has been decided tendency toward the
Capitalization Of the junk trade. Com
petition has caused many little fellows
to quit, and has brought about the or
ganization of concerns with large cap
ital
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-01
LONG AGO.

BY Eugene Field
| once knew all the birds that came
And nestled in our orchard trees;
For every flower | had a name
My friends were woodchucks. toads and
bees:
| knew where thrived in yonder glen
What plants would soothe a stone-
bruised toe
Oh, | was very learned then
But that was very long ago,
/ knew the spot upon the hill
Where checkerberres could be found;
I knew the PUSHES near the mill
Where pickerel lay that weighed Z
pound,
| knew the wood-the very tree
Where lived the poaching saucy crow,
And all the woods and crows knew me-
But that was very long ago.
And, pining for the joys of youth,
| tread the Old familiar spot
Only to learn this solemn truth:
| have forgotten. am forgot.
Yet here's the youngster at my knee
Knows all the things 1 used to know
To think | once was wise as het-
But that was very long ago.
know it's folly to complain
OF whatsoever the fates decree:
Yet. were not wishes all in vain.
! tell you what my wish should be:
I'd wish to be a boy again.
Back with the friends used to know;
For | was. oh, so happy then
But that was very long age!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-01
President Roosevelt's Message.

| A deal of interest is felt In the al
nual message that President Roosevelt
will send to Congress on Monday next.
All know the coming session will be
but three months long, and nj know,
too, it will do nothing against Privilege
unless driven to it by the President
himself.
1t is known that he believes in bring.
ing all corporations doing an interstate
business under the supervision of the
federal government; that he desires
the regulation of the divorce evil, and
that he openly says that fortunes
which have reached unhealthy limits
should not pass from generation to
generation. He would stop the last
named through a progressive inheri-
lance tax How many of these reforms
in the mind of the President will fini
| place in the message now nearly due.
no one knows, and this is why that
paper is anticipated with unusual in
terest.
The President is powerful. The
present Congress is Roosevelt Con-
gress, and if the President gets behind
| any or all of these measures he ca1
force Congress TO pass them. This
may be usurpation on the part of the
executive, but it Is an usurpat'on that
! the people will endorse, for in no other
way can they secure any Protection
| against the trusts and other monopo-
| lies that afflict the land sapping its
substance and even buying its cleo.
| tons
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-01
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
owenton,s New President.

"The Rev DIR. James II. Mccoy, pas
tor of the Five Points Methodist church,
who has been elected president Of Owen
ton college. will not be released from
his pastorate until next june" said a
prominent Methodist. "Dr. McCoys selec-
ton by the board of trustees of Owen
ton was made after his fitness had been
considered carefully. Under his able lead
ership the Five Points church has been
built up wonderfully in membership and
is now engaged in erecting a handsome
place of worship.
Prom expressions already heard from
leading Methodists and others in Blrming-
ham, it is very evident that the board
of trustees of the college could not Lave
secured a stronger man to be at the
head of this institution. DIR. Mccoy has
risen rapidly in his chosen profession I'M
til he is held in high esteem by his
brethren in the North Alabama confer
ence.
"He represented that conference in the
general conference which met here last
spring and was delegated to make the
speech of welcome in behalf Of the Biz
mingham Methodists. That address
showed him to be man of broad mind
and a close student. He was honored by
the general conference in being chosen to
represent that body as it's fraternal Gele-
gate to the general conference of the
Canadian Methodist church.
Birmingham is to be congratulated that
DR.. Mccoy Is to remain as one of its
esteemed citizens; and the fact that lie
will be at the head of Owenton college is
regarded that that institution will soon
take a leading rank Dr. Mccoy has the
respect and esteem of all of the Method
lists in North Alabama conference, and Il
is believed that he will have the sun
port of the entire conference and that
Owenton college from this time on will
make rapid strides. It has indeed bright
future"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-01
Decrease In British Shipping.

From the returns by Lloyas Register
it appears that, excluding warships there
were 512 vessels of 1,264,7b7 tons gross
under construction in the United King
dom at the close of the quarter ended
September 80. 1906. The tonnage under
construction, which had shown steady
increase since December, 1908, and had
reached at the end of last June to within
1000 tons of the highest figures on record
(September, 1900, is at the present time
more than l44ooo tons less than that for
the previous quarter.
No such striking decrease within one
quarter has taken place in the shipbuild-
ing industry of the country for the past
twenty-five years. it being necessary to
go back to June. 1884. to find so rapid a
dimuniton of the work in hand.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-01
Christmas Trade.

Most of the holiday shopping will be
done between now and the 18th of Deem
ber,' said Third avenue merchant yes
terday. "The rush will begin early dur
ing the coaling week. Some people put
off buying Christmas presents until the
latest possible moment and this fact ac-
counts for the crush and confusion ON
Christmas eve; but the shopper who waits
is unwise, for all the stocks of holiday
goods are picked over long before Christ
mas. The sensible woman gets through
with her purchases as early in December
as possible
christmas trade promises to be ex-
ceptionally brisk this season."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-01
ALABAMA PRESS

Montgomery Times: Birmingham Is
short of sand. Why not just set the brakes
and let her slide?
Montgomery Times: Most men die poor
without first being compelled to give away
much good money.
Pine Belt News: Watch the fur fly
when Senator Vardaman rubs up against
the Fifteenth amendment.
sylacauga Progress: Plain, ordinary
every day robbers and sandbaggers are
so thick in Pittsburg these days, that
the millionaire cut-up hardly gets any
showing at all.
Huntsville Mercury: The first plank in
Oklahoma's constitution demands . cent
fares on the railroads. The young state
enters into the railroad fight early and
with spirit.
Elba Clipper: Senator Plat was only
"fooling, fooling" us; he now says he
don't think he will resign. Does not make
much difference any way, as he cuts very
little figure in the Senate.
Montgomery Journal: If the proposed
new daily at Birmingham takes the
Hearst Syndicate News service it vii
not be so bad; but it would do still bet
ter by getting some OF Hearst's money
say a half million.
Prattville Progress: The present Ala
bama law forbids the employment OF
children under the age of u years, but
is strictly academic. 1t contains no fines
or other penalties-no provisions for its
enforcement 1t was not passed to be
enforced, and few cotton mills pay any
attention to it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-01

=
= -
frhe same firm gave 5000 to the
nominators judiciary ueket)
Timothy L. Woodruff of the Type
writer trust and SAT- Trust'...... lo'og1
H. L. Hollins. trust director. 5000
Johh y. koeke1eilef' Jr''.... ''....,.. S'ooo
Chauncey NJ. Depew ...... 2,5o3
Ihomas r, kyan''.. 49,. ...'''-..... 2'9oo
Charles NJ. schwab. Steel Trust..... 200
w \. Cores' president Oh the steel 40
Others who co,tr,,,n,od t,o a,,,annts no.
ing as yet unknown, were w. *. Wander
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-01
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES.

JEFF DAVIS of Arkansas says that
(OJI he will never wear a dress suit
We are not one to worry, if he
never does. Certain theatric statesmen,
politicians or demagogues-take your
choiee-in this big country of ours have
way of making such statements as If
they expected everybody to forthwith
worry themselves sick. What in the name
of the esteemed razorback hog, which
made Arkansas famous, does it amount to
il jeff Davis never does wear a dress suit
and never did? Odds bodkns! he talks like
man who threatens us with disaster.