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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-11
! WORK IVES K
Other News Of 4 Local Char
aeter Gathered During
the Past Week.

a. w. Prewitt, publisher Of the Bad
River News, ct Philip, was in the city
Monday. He is one Of the young men
who has gone out into the new country
in Stanley county with his bride to
make a, fortune. If we are any Judge
Of the young man he will succeed. He
is now having hauled from Rapid City
Black Hills lumber to put up an Office
building at Philip, to be IA by 40 feet
in size, in which he expects to see his
printing business expand as the com.
ing town Of Philip grows. He reports
that tine track is now laid to within q
dozen miles of Midland, and that the
grade for the road and the piling for
almost every bridge is in place as far
up as Philip. The railroad company
!. has bought $50 acres of bottom land at
Philip, OH which it is going to make q
good town, right at the forks of bad
river. The coming city will embrace
4 both forks of the river, and the tracks
. will cut the towns right through the
center. The grading crews are working
]. on several fifty feet cuts on the vicinity
!; of Philip, which is being done to avoid
4 building bridges across Bad river. Mr..
Prewitt gets out an interesting paper,
, and is brother Of a prominent news
paper man at Onawa, Iowa, who is also
! postmaster Of that city. He is located
/ at one of the three towns between
Pierre and Rapid City that will make
a good showing when the Northwestern
railroad is built through. The Free
Press 10 interested in Mr. Prewitt and
his future.
The railroad company now has five
pile driving crews out beyond its tracks
end. about ten miles this side of Mid
land. These crews are putting in the
piling for the bridge up Bad river, and
working in some cases thirty miles
ahead or the construction train. With
1 the grade practically all completed t,
the forks of Bad river, at Philip. and
4 nothing but the bridges to be com Z
pleted and the track to be laid down,
and the construction trains now run
ming from Rapid City east as far as the
1 Cheyenne riveIsa distanceof fifty miles,
lit, looks as ii the railroad company
would be able to surmount the gap be-
! tween the Cheyenne and the forks of
Had river, and have trains running
from this city to Rapid BY the first OF
s'the year. Every effort is being made TO
4 complete; the gap aud get the trains
through, in order that the members of
of the legislature can come across to
Pierre direct, instead of going around
through Nebraska and Iowa, as hereto
fore.
Hi. Wiggam, manager of the Locke
hotel, who owns the new TOWNSHIP OF
Y Wendte, the third on the line of the
N Northwestern from Fort Pierre out,
will soon leave to take charge of his
interests there. The town is named in
for his wife, whose maiden name was
Wendte. MI. Wiggam may be appoint
ed postmaster at the new station, and
start q general store at the place 70
supply the many new settlers going In
20 the country surrounding B.
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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-11
Cash Prize. for Best Farm Products.

Cash Prizes for Best Farm Products.
Thrashing being about over and corn
7husking commencing, am Offering the
following cash prizes for produce raised
in Hughes, Sully and Stanley counties
grown in 1906.
Best 70 earso of dent corn. ...... SIS 90
Second best 20 ears of dent corn. 2 so
Best ~ ears of squaw or flint
corn. J. ...... $50
Second best 20 ears of sqnaw or
E Flint corn. %
Best peck OF red or hard wheat $50
Second best of red or hard wheat 1 co.
best peck Of macaroni wheat. 2 80
Second peck Of macoroni OF
y WheaC. .s.i.s...s. ..........s...l.,.g. w
Beet peck of oats any variety 2 so
Second best of oats any variety zoo
Awards to be made Saturday Nov.
Bird. Come in and bring your best . 4
send it in with your name stating sec
ton and township where raised. A
complete record of all receipts will be
kept and each exhibit numbered and
the judges or no one else will know who
raised it until after prizes have been
awarded, then card will be attached to
each exhibit giving name and residence
OF the produce. Come on and bring
yoar stuff. want this produce for All
advertisement and | want your assist
ance In the deal.
49,. a.. j. w. Laughlin.
Real Estate.
| e Pierre $. ID.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-11


conference. Mr.. Notson will not res
turn to Pierre the coming year, much
TO the regret of the people who have
learned to know and like him and his
excellent family during his several years
pastorate here. Mr. Notson carries the
best wishes of Pierre people to his new
charge, wherever it may be.
Thomas b. Wikoff, yiolinist of note,
. piano tuner, and graduate Of the
Chicago Conservatory of Music and
Art, ia in the city to become a resident,
and will assist Professor Hendry in the
orchestra work the coming season. Mr..
Wikoff will make one more Of several
professio nal musicians who have come
TO town to take hand In orchestra and
band work. This class Of men should
be encouraged TO become citizens Of
Pierre.
U +. ]. Perry has bought the COngroga-
tional parsonage for 81, 100, and will
move It from the site where It now
stands as soon O. lit ID vacated. The
highest priee offered for it az auction
Nas 89l5, but the brice was considered
tOs low and MI. Perry bought It At pri-
lyate sails a good brick block viii pro
baby stand On it's location : year from
now.
W. z. Horr, one OF ths old-timers az
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-08-10
State of North Dakota, County of Mclean.
In District Court, In Sixth Judicial Distric
n M niuan plaintiff

State Of North Dakots. County Of Mclean:
q. NJ. Digen, Plaintiff.
Lydia s. staley, Robert D. Robson,
B. Neveux, r: D. Robson, Joseph
SON and all other persons unknown
claiming any estate Or interest in, or
lien or incumbrance upon the prop
erty described in the complaint, and
their unknown heirs; DEFENDANTS.
The State Of North Dakota to the above named
defendants.
You are hereby summoned to answer the COM
plant in this action, which complaint will be
filed with the clerk of the district court of the
sixth judicial district in and for the county of
Mclean and state of North Dakota, and to
serve . copy Of your answer upon the subscrib::
ers within thirty (3O) days after the service OF
this summons upon you, exclusive of the day
o. service; and incase of your failure to appear
or answer judgement will be taken against you
by default for the relief demanded in the COM
plant.
Dated at Washburn, N, D., this eth day of
80 Hyland & Nuessele,
Attys. for Plaintiff,
P. O. Address W~ashburn, N. u.
To the above named defendants:
complaint has been filed with the clerk of the
district court in the county of Mclean and
state Of North Dakota. and that said action is
brought for tho purpose of q%uieting title to the
northeast quarter (neA) section twenty (2O) IN
township one hundred and ~forty-six (146) north,
5th principal meridian in Mclean county North,
Dakota. Hyland e. Nuessle,
- Attys. for Plaintiff,
800 Washburn. Nj D.
VS~E ~. d. .I4r HH-
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-08-10
ALIAS O TEST NOTICE.
Department of the Interior,

Department of the Interior,
United States Land Office, Minot, North Daio-
A sufficient contest affidavit having beea filed
in this office Minnie Hill, contest, against
homestead entry No. 1858, made July IA. 1902,
for the Sc seA. lot 1 Of Sec. y and lott of Sec.
rs. Twp. 149. Range 81 by Martin Seavcrson:
consestee, in which it is alleged that said
conrcstce has wholly abandoned said tract of
lnnd fer q period of more than six mouths since
making said entry and next prior
to the date hereof and is still abandoning the
same: that he has wholly failed to establish a
residence on his land or to make any improve
ments thereon and that the said alleged alb
scence 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 Uclted
States may be engaged.
Said parties are hereby notified to appear, re-
spond and offer evidence touching said allega-
ton at 10 o'clock q. m, on Aug. Is. 1906, before
the Register and Receiver of the United States
land office in Minot, N. d.
Thesaid contestant having, in a proper afa-
dayit filed May 80, 1906, set forth facts
which show that after due diligence, personal
service of this notice cannot be made, it, is
hereby ordered and directed that such notice
be given by due and proper publication.
7. E. FOX, Receiver.
johnson Nestos,
Atty. orContestant, Minot. N. D. 6-22
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-08-10
PAUL MORTON IN EUROPE.
Gays Fight on American Insurance
Companies Has subsided.

Gays Fight on American Insurance
Companies Has subsided.
Berlin, Aug. 8.-Paul Morton, presi-
dent Of the Equitable Life Assurance
society. accompanied by George T.
Wilson, third vice president of the
society, spent the day in Berlin going
over the records Of the company's
German business. He left for Paris
at night and will sail for America
from Liverpool on Aug. Is. Mr.. Nor
ton said:
my Investigations in Europe Justify
me in believing that the campaign
against American insurance companies
on this side of the Atlantic has prac'
tically subsidized. I believe all of US
will shortly be doing our old time bust
ness here.
II have been giving much attention
to the new French insurance regula'
tions and the more I think of them
the more I am inclined to believe we
shall find it possible to continue to op
crate in France"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-08-10
Notice of Mortgage Sale by Adver.
tiSement,

Notice is hereby given, that that certain mort.
gage, executed and delivered by Jacob Otto
unmarried, .Mortgagor, to Henry A. Barnes
Mortgage, dated the %, day of February, A. D
nineteen hundred and five, and filed for record
in the office Of the Register of deeds of the
county OF Mclean and State of North Dakota,
on the 18th, day of March A. D. 1906, and record
ed in Book F8 of Mortgages, at page 1877, will
be forcclosed by a sale of the premises in such
mortgage and hereinafter described at the
front door Of the COURTHOUSE in the village Of
Washburn and State of North Dakota, at the
hour of two o'clock P. M, on the 18th, day OF
September, 1906, to satisfy the amount due
upon said Mortgage on the day of sale.
The premises described in said Mortgage and
which will be sold to satisfy the same, are
those certain premises situated in the county
OF Mclean, and State of North Dakota, and
described as follows, to-wit:
The West half of the Southeast one quarter
and the East half of the Southwest quarter Of
dred and forty-eight G4s), range .Seventy-siz
l76), containing 100 acres more or less accord
ing to GOvernment survey.
There will be due Mortgage at the date Of
sale, the sum Of Ninety.three and 06-100 $685. 6)
Dollars, and the costs Of foreclosure and sale.
Dated at Harvey, North Dakota, this 31st,
day of July, 1905.
Henry A. Barnes,
Hanchett& Wartner, Mortgagee.
Attorneys for Mortgage,
Harvey, N. D. $40
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-08-10
Contest Notice,
Department of the Interior
United States Land Office, Minot, N. D.

department. OF Cn0 luteTlOT
United States Land Office, Minot, N. D.
June II, 1906.
A sufficient contest affidavit having been filed
in this office by Ole Thompson Contestant,
June 20, 1904, for sla neA ,neA neA section Z,
nwA nwA! section s, township $50, range g, by
that Fred solberg has wholly abandoned said
the filing of this contest; the fact is he never
did reside upon the said land and never did
make any valuable improvements thereon; and
that said alleged absence was not. due to EN-:
ployment 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;
Said parties are hereby notified to appear re-
spond and offer evidence touching said allega-
ton at 10 o'clock q. m. on Aug. 81, 1905, before
the register and receiver at the United States
land office in Minot, N. D..
The said contestant having, in q proper af1
davit filed June %, 1905, set forth facts which
show. that after due diligence personal service
Of this notice cannot be made, it is hereby Or
dered and directed that such notice be given by
due and proper publication.
T. E. Fox Receiver.
James johnson Atty for contestant.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-08-10
SERIOUS FLOOD IN TEXAS
TWENTY-FIVE PERSONS. SAID 70
HAVE BEEN DROWNED ALONG
COLORADO RIVER.

st. Louis, Aug. S.-A special to the
Post-Dispatch from Fort Worth, Tex,
says:
Twenty-Five people are known to
have been drowned, hundreds were
rendered homeless and 100000 worth
of property was destroyed as the re-
suit of a food in South Texas when
the Colorado river was forced out OF
its hanks by heavy rains.
The death list is growing hourly
and it is believed that the worst dis
aster since the Galveston food has
visited Texas. Relief trains r cut
OF, telegraph and telephone wires
are down and the fate of the inhab-
itants of several isolated towns Is I'M
known.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-08-10
NO o IS SHED.

Generals Andres and Negrier Fight
Duel With Pistols.
Paris, Aug. S.-Generals Andres
and Negrier fought q duel with. pis-
tolls in the park surrounding the resi-.
dence Of Prince Joachim Murat. Gem
eral Andres fired without hitting his
opponent and General Negrier de-
clined to fire. The principals left the
field unreconciled. "a k,a
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-08-10

Strayed or Stolen-from my
place June 9th one iron gray geld
ing, weight about 1900, age about
S years, light forehead, had halter
on with strap. $40 reward for his
return. Philip Mayer,
Sec. 1-149-S4 Garrison, N. d.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-08-10
ZION DEBTS NEARLY 100000.
Proposed to Pay indebtedness by 10
sue of Bonds.

sue of Bonds.
Chicago, Aug. S.-The first detailed
statement of the Indebtedness of Zion
City was given to the investors at a
meeting in the college building at Zion
City during the evening. The table
showed a total of nearly $5,0O0,0O0,
which. it is proposed by Overseer Vo-
Iva, to pay by funding the entire in
debtedness for eighteen years and to
issue bonds bearing 6 per cent inter-
est. The proposition was accepted by
an almost unanimous vote of the $50
investors present, there being but
two dissenting votes.
It is purposed to relieve the present
financial difficulties by a mortgage on
the 1000 acres of undivided land of
the city. twenty-five per cent of the
gross earnings of the city will be set
aside for a sinking fund to pay off the
principal Indebtedness.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-08-10
THREE VICTIMS OF FIRE.
pemented Woman the Cause Of
Triple Tragedy.

ss'f'S s'oSSNy
South Bend, Ind, Aug. 8.-Dr. E. H.
Denslow, husband of the demeated
woman who saturated her clothing
with gasoline and set fire to it, is
dead from burns received while trying
to save his wife's life. Miss Eugene
Balfour, sister of Mrs. Denslow, is
also dead from the burns she received
in an effort to extinguish the flames
that were burning Mrs. Denslow to
death.
After s%aturating her clothing with
gasoline Mrs. Denslow threw a pan of
the liquid on her husband and when he
endeavored to smother the flames en-
veloping his wife he was instantly a
mass of fire. Mrs. Denslow was
burned to a crisp.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-08-10
Denies Guilt on scaffoId.

Springfield, Mo-, Aug. 8.-Edward
sBateman, a negro. found guilty q as
saulting ! young woman at Aurora
last February, was. hanged at Mount
Vernon during the day. Bateman., On,
the scaRold, denied his guilt. He3was
nronounced dead fifteen minutes after
the trap was sprung. i X
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-08-10

black horse
weight about go, branded circle @
on left shoulder; one bay mare, 8
years old, branded LEE on left
hip, weight about 1850.
w. B. Brownell,
St Garrison, N. D.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-08-10

Came TO my place, one bay horse
branded UF on left thigh, both
ears cut of on ends, about 10 years
old, weighs akeut~l30Q LBS. Own
er please call, pay changes and
prove property and take same. )
Glenn Smith,
Fort Berthold Reservation, n. D.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-08-10
ASKS BIG SUM FOR SERVICES
Physician Sues Laura eisgar Bennett
for $299,9e0.

Pittsburg, Aug. 8.-Dr. G. G. Hen
bricks of Atlantic City, N. j., entered
suit in the county court here during
the day against Mrs. Laura Biggar
Bennett, widow of Henry M. Bennett,
a former theatrical manager Of Brook
lyn and Pittsburg, claiming $299,98O
for professional services. DR.. Hen
bricks alleges that he attended Mrs.
Bennett in his private s%anitarium in
New Jersey for two years and that
he was only paid 500 during that time.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-04-26

here was supposed to be a painter. He
o'clock to go to the carriage factory,
in which he was interested, but instead
of going there he went to No. 256 Riv-
ington street, where his brother John
lived, and where the counterfiting
plant was located. The neighbors at
No. 256 Riyington street believed Bal
| lard to be a Tatchman in the custom
house, and he left there regularly in
the evening to go ito work." but in
reality went home. He lived this dual
life without detection for years.
The government at that time had a
contract with the Glenn mills, at West
Chester, Pa, for it's entire output of
the celebrated fiber" paper, the mills
being run under supervision of govern
ment officials to prevent the paper or
the secret of it's manufacture being
stolen. Ballard, in addition to being a
high-class engraver, was the only man
in the world who could successfully
make this paper outside of the Glenn
mills. AS an engraver, chemist, paper
maker and ink manufacturer, Ballard
was unexcelled. The treasury officials
| and money experts generally believed
the fiber" paper to be a complete
guard against counterfeiting, and they
were amazed at the product of Thomas
| Ballard long before such man was
known to the secret service. The
presses of Hinman, Miner and Ballard
turned out bogus money in such
amounts that the lawful currency be-
came disparaged, and the capture of
the makers of the clever counterfeits
became a matter of imperative impor-
tance. He was caught in 1871, broke
jail soon afterward, and his subsequent
history would fill good-sized volume.
Arrested in Buffalo for engraving a
plate of a $500 treasury note, which
was pronounced superior to the gen.
uine, Ballard was sent to Auburn peni-
tentiary, from which institution he es-
capped. While in Buffalo he had also
worked on a plate with which he said
he was going Ito bankrupt Canada, "
and from the perfection of the work he
seemed in fair way to make good his
| intention.
In 1875 he was sentenced to serve 80
years in the penitentiary, after having
been at large about three years with
n standing reward of $1,000 for his cap
ture. In 1873 he ripped open his own
abdomen and seyerad an intestine in
trying to take his life, but recovered.
A year later he drew a sharp knife
across his throat, severing the wind
pipe and muscles OF the neck. and again
recovered
II was during the wanderlngs follow
ing Thomas Billiards. first arrest and
while the reward Of $1,000 was hang
ing over him. that ~he and his two
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-04-26

engraverS and producers of the 500
Wilkesbarre, Boston and New Bedford
bills should be bestowed on A. l..
Drummond and other operatives in the
eastern division of the service. In the
west we had first found the bills, de-
termined beyond doubt their eastern
origin, showed the connection between
Conway and the Ballards and indicated
that in Conway'S associates while i'll
the east the secret service would prob
ably find the producers of the bills.
AS | have pointed out, the Ballards
had given Conway credentials when he
started east which, with his arrest and
conviction for horse stealing, was suf-
ficient to satisfy the eastern contingent
that he was safe man with whom to
do business" l had carefully pre-
served Conway's testimony at his
Springfield trial, in which he told of
his places of residence and some of his
movements in New York, and forwarded
them to headquarters, although Con-
way probably had no idea that the in
formation he gave at that time would
be of any value to us. 1t proved, how
ever, to be of much service to the east
ern operatives in unearthing the crowd
that issued the bills which Conway had
"shoved" in the west.
There were in the United States in the
year 1879 but four men capable of pro-
ducing such high-class plates as these
from which had been printed the $10O
bills received in Chicago from several
western points. These were Charles +.
Ulrich, Benjamin Boyd, Thomas Bal
lard and Charles H. Smith. Each of
these men possessed a distinctive style,
which was familiar to the members of
the secret service who had made these
things the subject of long study. Ul-
rich's method was to lay before him a
genuine bill of the issue he intended to
counterfeit and laboriously and as faith
fully as possible copy it on steel.
Boyd was the inventor and sole owner
of a process whereby he transferred by
the use of acids reproduction of the
genuine bill on TO steel plate, after
cutting the plate by the lines trans
ferred. Ballard used the copying proc
ess, but his work was much finer than
ulrich's, and had distinct character
under the microscope. Smith was at
that time an engrayer in the employ of
the United States treasury department.
and his work showed clearly the dis
tinctive character of government en-
craving. Boyd was In prison, and the
work on the bills was apparently not
that of Ballard nor ulrich.
For some time the secret service Off
GERS had had pretty accurate informa-
tion Of the operations of the band TO
which Smith belonged. w r.. Brock
| way was the leader of this crowd and
enjoyed the distinction Of being the
first man who used the electrotpYs
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-04-26

clear that such a man as Conway. who
had never been east before his arrest
for horse stealing, could not have
formed such connection without TAX
ing with him first-class references from
counterfeiters in the west who were
well acquainted with the more promi-
nent men in that line in the east.
From all that could gather of Con-
ways record he had not been asso-
ciated before his eastern trip with men
in the west who were on close terms
with the eastern counterfeiting aristo-
Gratis. The high artistic character of
the 500 bills he had showed" in the
Mississippi valley was indication sufii-
Client that they had come from the
hands Of artisans OF much skin. In
establishing the identity of the Wat
son" brothers, therefore, we hoped 10
90 be able to determine who had placed
Conway In touch with the eastern coun-
tcrfeiters and eventually 10 uncover the
makers Of the 500 plate.
To relate the details OF this inyesti-
cation would consume more time and