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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04
FREIGHT Cars DeraiIed.

Miller, s. d.. Dec. 31.-On account
of an unfastened switch three cars of
the west-bound freight train were de.
rallied yesterday. Nobody was hurt.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

Cato learned Greek at so, and now
a Chicago man 80 years old has Sc
cured a marriage license. Another
slap at Osler!
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

Getting up in the middle of a winter
night to run ninety miles might not
seem such great sport to some peo-
pie.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

The Kansas City Judge who decided
that silk skirts are not a necessary OF
life should have consulted some mar
ried man.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

The most effective argument a
charming woman can use TO a man is
an appealing Don't you think SOP
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

Any one can muster courage to meet
great trials, but it takes a genius of
patience to endure the little ones.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

Some mar has just thrown a rock
at Gen. Shafter." The extraordinary
thing about it is that he missed him.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

Even disagreeable people serve a
good purpose, for they teach us how
not to be.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

Unfortunately the change in the
British cabinet doesn't give England
a new poet laureate.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

Ever since the pencil sharpener was
invented women have felt that they
could get along without men,.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

Sir Alfred Charles H~armsworth's
peerage entities him to rank as Lord
Of Thirty-one Newspapers.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

Queen Alexandra has written a
book. She won't have to look long for
4 publisher.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-19

The Norwegian parliament has
conferred upon President Roose-
velt the Nobel peace prize for
this year in consideration of his
services in bringing about the
treaty of, peace between Japan
and Russia. The prize amounts
to about $4,000. The president
announces that he will use the
money to establish in Washing
ton a permanent industrial peace
commission. The purpose of the
commission is thus stated by the
president: 'The object will be
to strive for better and more
equitable relations among my
'countrymen who are engaged,
whether as capitalists or wage
workers, in industrial or agri-
cultural pursuits. This will
carry out the purpose of the
founder of the prize, for in
modern life it is as. important to
work for the cause of just and
righteous peace in the Industrial
world as in the. world Of ma
tions."~ -.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-19
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1906
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS.

Again has Times resistless
tide carried US around to the sea-
son of the worlds greatest relig-
ious festival-greatest, because
it breaches a message that all
can understand. People may
differ on creeds and dogmas, but
the message of peace and good
will carried to US by the spirit of
Christmas is something that ap-
peals to the best there is in every
human heart. It binds more
firmly the ties of home and kin
dred and friendship; it often
wipes out the memories of hatred
and enmity, and makes everyone
that harbors this gentle spirit a
better man or woman. Let us be
thankful that such a season of
true spiritual uplifting has been
given to US, and let US all strive
to. get the true Christmas feeling
into our hearts and keep it there
during the coming year.
To each and every one of it's
readers the TRIBUNE extends
wishes for a really happy Christ
mas.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-19

winter and in order to prOtekt my
stockholders I am going to put up a
big sylow.
Me- ekspekt yew figger that the
establishment of this model farm will
be of CRATE valew to other farmers
hoo kan thareby lurn how to farm ak
kording to modern idees?
Jack-Well, I CESS not. Do yew
fgger that I am going to invite kom-
petishun for onners in farming? Not
if no what 1 am abowt. [ am going
in for modern checkbOOk farming
just to show what man kan do when
he don't hav to fgger on the kost.
The ordinary farmer has to fig ger on
making living off his farm; I fig
ger on ewsing it as an amewsment,
and sumthing that will maik peepel
sit up and talk motifs of the fakt that
I am a highroller and hav monny to
burn. I don't want no skrub kompe-
tishun for me.
And with this deklarayshun of inde-
pendens Jack started off, going down
the road and into town with his he'd
bye in the air and stepping 50 hye
with his feat that travelling horse
docktor offered him never-failing
kewr for stringhalt.
JINdMINNY CRCKETTs.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-19

Postmaster-general Cortelyou
in his annual report gives the
following rap at politicians who
wish to hand out postmaster
ships as reward for political
workers.:
Nearly two years of administration
confirm me in the opinion that the
postmasters of the country should be
appointed by no party primarily as
rewards for political activity, but pri-
marily on the basis of fitness for the
work and regard for the wishes Of the
communities they serve.
II know of no one thing that will do
more for the postal service than con-
tinued insistence upon the policy of
substituting business for politics in
the administration of its affairs"
Respectfully referred to GER
tain Willmar politicians who
thought they could dispose of the
postmastership here without con-
sidering "the wishes of the com
munity he is to serve. y
The postmaster-general advo-
Gates certain reforms intended
to make the administration of the
department more businesslike
and economical, and then adds
these significant remarks:
progress towards these i'm
provements will open the way
for investigation to determine
the feasibility of the adoption OF
many important policies of ad:
Observation-Disclosures of post
age, both domestic and interna
tional, POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS,
PARCEL POST, POSTAL TELE.
GRAPH AND TELEPHONE, and
others, the merits and defects Of
which should have in the not dis
tant future the fullest considera
tion.'
Talk of transmigration Of the
soul! The populist party is sup
posed to be dead, but its SOU
goes marching on" and seems tc
have entered the government de-
partments at Washington.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-19

. hat means this out break of
anticipation Of var with Japan
among: q. certain class of papers
and their : Washing ton CORE
spondents? Are the ! owners of
stswollen fortunes and direct.
crates Of great corporations made
uneasy and, apprehensiYe blythe
proposed methods Of the Man in
the White House, going to try TO
stir public sentiment here into
hostility to Japan, to foment in:
Japan the irritation caused by
the San Franciscan outrage and
thus bring on a war that will set
people to thinking: and talking
about something else than cor
poration@ control and the pairing
down of ''swollen fortunes? Is
a diversion incubating?-St. Paul
Dispatch.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-19
Tho Road Question.
Mr.. EDITOR:

MFss IID1IOR.
My humble views of the so-called
"good roads" movement are so likely
to be misconstrued that I hesitate to
express them. If one frankly admits
that he is not in sympathy with it he
is open to the charge of being an enc
my to good roads. The Good Roads
movement had it's origin not with the
farmers, who make them good, by
working their taxes on them, but by
those who dodge their own taxes and
scheming to create more fat Offices and
safe investments for capital, thus add
ing to the farmers burden under the
specious pretense of giving him better
roads. Today scores of miles of
bottomless sloughs are graded high
and dry above water; hills by the hun
dreds have been cut down; respectable
bridges span our streams almost
wherever needed. And this for the
most part has been accomplished with
out encroaching upon our scanty
purse-done in work by those who are
supposed to know no more aboutroad
work than they do about teaching
school; done at times of the year
when the farmers had most time and
at So per day for himself and team. If
those who clamor for good roads be-
tween puffs of their ill-smelling auto
mobiles had been stuck in the mud
many miles from market with half a
load of wheat Is or 30 years ago where
today threshing engines pass in safety,
they would doubtless wonder that any
farmer would turn his back upon a
system of road work that had &C.
complished so much and SO cheaply.
If all our laws were as good, when
properly enforced, as our road laws,
every farmer, at least, ought to be a
standpatter. 1t is system free from
graft-and t. at may be the reason why
our kid-gloved friends of the cities
want to abolish it - and moreover
measurably free from expense. The
farmers have just voted to centralize
the poor system and to support the
poor of the cities, with all the graft
and fat offices it implies. Are we
going to vote to centralize the coun-
tvs road system with all it implies?
Let the voters at town meetings see
that Intelligent, wide-awake men are
elected supervisors: men who are more
interested in good roads than they are
in the good roads tumult. Then the
overseer of highways, who work under
the supervisors, should be chosen for
their fitness to keep their crews at
work. In a word, fill the Offices with
men who know what our present road
tax laws demand and who are more
interested in executing them than they
are in legislating new ones.
D. j. PRICE.
New London, Dec. II, 1906.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-19
A Good Suggestion.

Kandiyohi, Dec. II. 1905.
Being a patron of rural free delivery
route No. 2, Willmar, would suggest
that all of US who are patrons of said
route play Santa Claus for our mail
carrier and leave him each a sack of
oats. He has been very faithful in his
work and has done many favors to- us
not included in his regular duties, and
therefore deserves some recognition.
The work is hard generally, and has
been unusually hard the past year, and
the wages are none too high when TAX
ing expenses into consideration. Each
one OF us can do this without feeling
it, butt viii be a greatshelp to him.
RURAL ROUTE PATRON.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-19

The u. S. Land Office, at St
Cloud was discontinued last
Saturday, the records being
transferred and consolidated
with the Duluth Office. These
records include the archives of
the old Sank Rapids, Minneapo-
lis, Forest City, Greenleaf and
Litchfield land Offices, which con-
tain the entries of the early SET
Element of this county.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-19

I kood tell the moment Jack PARROT
slept into my kitchen last mite that he
had struck sum new skeam. He woar
-chearfull smile and a furtrimmd
overkote, besides other articles too
noomerous to menshun, and was
smoaking ten sent sigar. When he
had settled himself in "a plais WHARF
the full lite from the Vbrackett lamp
kood illoominait his klassick feetewrs
the following dyalog took plais be-
twean j ack and me:
Jack-Say, Jim, I hav struck a
skeam that will Civ me undieing faim
and lots of noospaper motifs. 1 am go
ing to start model farm.
Newell, Jack, hav no dowt you
will sucksead in attrakting attenshun
in that line, for with yewr crate fund
OF ignorans in regard to farming yew
awt to maik a nifty interesting show
of it. WHARF ar yew going to lokait
yewr farm?
Jack-That's mynor detale that 1
haven't had time to konsidder yet. Il
am bizzy just now with the name pre-
limminarys. I am going to organize
a stock kompany to put in wireless
tellephoan sistem awl over the north
west.
Me-What has that got to do with
model farming?
Jack-To supply the funds. of
koars. Yew diddent suppoas I kar-
rid enutf stuff arownd in my pockets
to start model farm with and keap
it up, did yew. A model farm is
very kostly institooshun, l want to
tell yew.
Me-Do yew think thare is so mulch
money in operating wireless tele-
phoan sistem that it will finnish yew
monny for this farming skeam?
Jack-As far as I no I haint sed
nothing abowt operating sutch a sis
tenn. But T am konfidently looking
for kompetishun in that line in my
territory so that I kan sell owt at
reesenabel tigger. That is the ownly
rely abel way of making monny owt
of kompany ennyway, and it is ab-
solootly saif, espeshelly <if yew let
yewrself in on the grownd floor and
get yewr stock for nothing. In that
way emmy price yew get in selling owt
is kleer profit. AS soon as | hav at
tended to this important matter l will
| begin to fgger on the less important
detaleS abOwt the farm. n -
\ Mel suppOas yew will run a day.
RE in k0nnekshun with yewr farm so
we can buy good butter and milk from
yew.
Jack-I don't no abowt that. am
of koars going to put in sum very fine
bludded stock of the kind that will
talk a good piktewr to run in the pal
pers. I am going to konsult a pho:
tographer in regard to what. kollors
talk best in making photos and kutts,
and kan therefore not pay mulch At
tention to thare milking kwallitys.
Milking kows is nifty slow way of
making monny. hav konsulted a
|grate menny phinanshel awthoritys,
and that ar awl agread that milking
stockholders is a mulch shewrer and
moar remewnerativ employment. Be-
sides, when q kow kicks it is lyabel to
hurt: the kickee, but a stakeholder kan
kick awl he wants to without doing
ennybody emmy harm,
Mel suppoas yew will hav sum fine
| bildlngs on yewr farm?
Jack-Now yew ar showing! Yes
sur, the bildings ar going to be ak
kording to the latest and most i'm
proovd models, drawn by skilld ar
kitekts and bilt regardless. # -kost.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-19
The people of.the northwest. asnec !;

The people of the northwest, especial
ly in the Dakotas, are. facing q con
dition that does not promise q merry
Christmas for them. A fuel famine lis
imminent and some towns have not "a
ton: of coal on hand. With the: tenn
perature below zero and still sinking
the condition threatens the very exist.
.ence of life in some localities, There
is an: abundance Of coal at the; Duluth
docks, but for some reason or other
the railroads do not furnish cars or
:motiyespower enough to take the coal
where it is needed Nor. are the people
OF the DakOtas able to send their pro-
sduce to market. The elevators are
full and thousands of bushels Of wheat
are piled. on: the ground II seems
the srallro ads in their mi ID scramble
forzdiVidends have tried to reduce the
expense account By pro viding mad
ECU ate motive power and are unable
10 & move freig ht$ as fast as needed.
The interstate commerce commission
has started an 81 Vestig ton and tie
railroad Is are begin inning to hustle
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-19

The postm stership i ii. not settled &C
Washington, IS rtainl Y settled ny
the Peep All the Top ositi on to
birch can dol t. beg, beg, Tor q let
ter, while hund reds come Birch Ito
gn;to=dozanything that vii him.
The days Of po LTD al com ines have
seen their power taken and hence.
forth the common people rule.,,
Ill olstead. Get :his. ear the
ground
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-19

the bill of fair, and the food will be
selekted with view to maik the stock
as fat and slick as possibel. I under
stand that kattel like green stuff in
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-12-19

EVERY annymal will hav it's own bed
room and sittingroom, and hav its
oan Wallet or maid to kair for it. A
French cook will be engajd to fix up
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-10
JUDGE SMITH FAV0RS
GRAND JURY SYSTEM

Judge john Day Smith in charge Of
the criminal calendar this term, went
on record today, when charging the new
grand jury as being opposed to the re-
cent constitutional amendment permit
ting the abolition of the grand jury.
After reading the statutes and in
structing the jurors very fully along
the line Of their duty, the court said:
have been thus particular, in Civ
Ing you these instructions upon your
duties and the limits to your sphere Of
investigations because an impression
seems to prevail in some quarters that
the institution Of the grand jury has
outlived its usefulness. This impress
sion may have arisen from a. disregard
Of the proper limits Of inquiry and in
vestigation by a grand jury. It is the
belief of the court that the elimination
Of the grand jury from our system of
jurisprudence would be public calani-
ty. >"
E.. B. Saunders was appointed fore
man. There were twentythree jurors
sworn in, the first time in several years
that the maximum number appeared for
duty. The personnel Of the jury is:
Edward B. Clement, Hamilton r. Kear-
ney, Herbert Pearce, Adam Hannah
Fred R. Salisbury, Joseph Kiddall, Lu.
cius P. Dolliff, Augustus T.. Crocke
Walter A. Frohman, Albert D. Meader
s. R. Spates, Sam J. Nicholson, Charles
H. Ross, III. S. Gilkey, E. B. Saunders
Seth M. Hewett, Charles A. Robinson
Arthur J. Dean, H. M. Puffer, Nathaniel
Met arthy, Walter Gregory, Owen B.
Kinnard and Edward P. Capen,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-10
HAS NEW EVIDENCE
IN INSURANCE CASES.

State Insurance Commissioners r. D.
O'Brien was the first witness called be-
fore the January term grand jury when
the lnquisitors convened this morn
ing. q. FL. Austin, A. G. Timme and a
number of other witnesses who have
figured in the prosecution of tRe for
mer officials of the Northwestern Ma
tlonal Life Insurance company were
under subpoena and are waiting to be
Gained before the Jury
What the nature of the new evidence
is remains carefully guarded secret.
1t is self-evident, however, that there
is new. evidence against the former
Northwestern National Life Insurance
company officials and that the pres
ent jury is inserting the probe into the
old affairs in hitherto unknown and APP
parently tender spots.
County Attorney Al J. Smith evi.
IDENTIFY has unearthed facts that he
thinks will make the accused ex-officials
sit up and take notice. The prose
cutor had all Of the insurance company
witnesses ready to 60 before the last
grand Jury, but from expressed senti
ments of that body he decided that the
matters had better be held over unit
!. they could be submitted in better form
to another body Of investigators. He
wasted no time in getting the witnesses
| before the present jury.
1t is not known whether any new mer
will be implicated by the new evidence
1t is believed that it only affects tn
! same half dozen who are now under
indictment, but that it throws ligh
on some transactions of the old boar(
| OF directors that the members will hav,
| trouble In answering.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-10
OIL TRUST AGAIN
DELAYS The LAW
Standard Oil Secures Postpone
ment Of Supreme Court and
Missouri Hearings.

New York, Jan. 1O-The hearing be-
fore commissioner in the quo war
ranto proceedings brought by Attorney
General Herbert s. Hadley of Missouri
to GUST three oil companies from that
state, was put over until afternoon to-
day. This was done in order to allow
Mr.. Hadley and his counsel and coull-
sci for the Standard Oil company to
appear in the supreme court and make
an argument on the order issued by
that court to II. H. Rogers instructine
him to show cause why he shall not
answer the questions asked him by
Mr.. Hadley.
The questions were in the main in.
tended to bring out whether or not the
Standard Oil company Of New Jersey
owns or controls a majority Of the
stocks of the Waters-Pierce company OF
Missouri, the Republic Oil company OF
New York, and the Standard Oil com
pany Of Indiana.
When the order to show cause was
taken up before Justice Gildersleeve il
the supreme court today, William V
Rowe and Frank Hagerman, counsel fo1
the Standard Oil company, asked thai
the hearing be put over until Friday
morning: Justice Gildersleeve granted
| the motion.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-10
GASHES HIS THROAT 49,.
AT HOME WITH RAZOR

A. M. Johnson, stonemason, living
at 4008 Lyndale avenue S, attempted
suicide today by cutting his throat
with a razor, He was taken to a. hos
pital, where he lies in critical condi-
ton.
The Johnson family, consisting Of the
husband, wife and two children, live
in g. building which was originally built
for barn, but which the family was
to occupy until their house was built.
In the attic there was stored quantity
Of supplies, including meat. g.,
Between 5 and 6 am. Mr.. Johnson
told his wife that he was going up;
stairs to cut some meat. She offered
to 90 herself, but Mr.. johnson insisted
on doing the errand. After he had
been absent half an hour Mrs. johnson
went upstairs and was shocked to find
her husband unconscious on the floor,
with a deep cash in his throat, from
which the blood was flowing. An open
razor lay beside him. -l...
. Mr.. johnson has suffered from in
somnia for two weeks and has hardly
slept in that time. He is believed to
have been temporarily deranged.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-10
READY FOR FLORIDA
Minneapolis Automobile Club specla
Starts on Evening Of Jan. 20.

Minneapolis Automobile Club Special
Starts on Evening Of Jan. 20.
Arrangements are complete for the
running of the Minneapolis Automobile
club special train to Ormond, Fla, for
the races on the famous beach course
The necessary number for the running
Of the train has been secured by Colonel
F. M. Joyce and Ri Smith and it was
announced today that the train will leave
Minneapolis according to the original
plans.
The start will be made on the evening
of Jan. 20 and the train will run thru to
Chicago From there the route will
carry the excursionists to Cincinnati, to
Chattanooga, to Jacksonville, to Ormond.
Returning the excurslonists will arrive
in Minneapolis on the morning OF
Jan. 20. ~, ,s....5,#..
This is the most pretentious UNDER
taking ever conceived and executed by
an automobile club and the. members
Of the organization are highly pleased
at their success There is still room or
the train and a few reservations can be
made with Colonel Joyce.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-10
FOR DAY SANITARIUM
Tuberculosis Committee Of Associated
Charities Favors Installation Of One.

The possibility of installing a day
tuberculosis sanltarium in Minneapolis
was the chief subject of discussion at
a meeting Of the tuberculosis committee
of the Associated Charities held at the
Commercial club today. The day sant-
tarilm has been tried with great sue
cess at Boston and the committee is
much infavor Of building such an insti
tuition here. B.. - - g.. -
The cost of the proposed sanitarium
would be slight, as it would consist only
of a group of shacks open to the south
and placed somewhere on the outskirts
Of the city where pure. fresh air Is
plentiful. The patients could assemble
at the sanitarium each day and receive
treatment and at the same time receive
'. the benefits to be derived from the open
air. Such an arrangement would mate
rally tighten the labors Of the visiting
nurses as it would enable them to see
all their tuberculosis patients at once
instead of having to make trips to widely
separated points.
| DR.. P. M. Hall, the city health officer
and DIR. Bracken OF the state board
| were the principal speakers and botl
expressed themselves as being heartily
in favor Of the installation Of a tuber'
culosis hospital along the lines fol
| lowed in Boston. .%.s.