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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-15
No New York Statement.

NEW YORK, November 15.-Concerning
the indictment of John d. Rockefeller and
other representatives of the Standard Oil
Company at Findlay. Ohio, NJ. F. Elliott.
the general solicitor of the company, said:
81 can make no statement until 1 see cop
les of the Indictment The company will
then make proper response. Mr.. Rookie
Teller is hardly likely to appear in person,
but all the requirements of the law will be
PROMPTLY met"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-15
Missouri Custer Suit.

ST. LOUIS. Mo-, November 15.-The hear
ing of dispositions of the defense in the
custer suit of the state of Missouri against
the Standard, Waters-Pierce and Republic
oil companies were resumed today. Special
Commissioner Anthony. before whom the
the hearing will continue for the balance Of
the week.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-23
GERMANY IN CARIBBEAN.
Teutonic Activity From st. Thomas
To Haiti.

st. Thomas may now be reckoned as
a coaling station for the Kaiser's navy.
In Santo Domingo German agents are
reported as buying up foreign claims,
SO that German warships may have
the provacation, if the opportunity
presents itself, of taking SANTANA bay.
At Curacao there is the menace of Ger
many's formal tender for the island of
Margarita.
But in Hayti the Teuton's activity
is SO persistent as to be dumbfounding.
On the eve of the last Presidential
election posters were scattered over
the capital, by which it appeared that
one of the candidates, Cincinnatus
Leconte, had contracted to turn over
the Mole st. Nicholas to Germany for
coaling station. Leconte's cousin,
whose father is a German, has been
the engineer for the railroad out of
Port-au-Prince, and this man, it is fur
Their asserted. supplies Germany's Sc
cret war bureau with charts and maps
OF the country. He is now reported as
taking soundings around the coast il
a fishing schooner.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-23

falfa falling in the great alfalfa Sec
tons of Nebraska. We have seen men
get up In Nebraska institute and
vehemently assert that alfalfa lust
simply would not grow in that county,
and that it was a foolish waste of
valuable time to bring the subject I'M
In the meeting and before these men
were fairly seated others who lived
not ten miles away, jumped up and
said that they had sold from $50 to SIS
worth of hay and seed to the acre from
large fields Of alfalfa that very sea-
son.
All agree that as a rule our clover
Is not sown deep enough, especially
all the drier sections, and nearly all
agree that neither, alfalfa especially,
should be sown with nurse crop, at
least not with very heavy one, and
that this nurse crop should be cut off
high up, and when still green. 1t Is
agreed, too, that the seed should be
fresh, new and gotten as near home
as possible, and that it should be nut
into only clean, we'll prepared ground.
None question but what both of these
plants do much better on land where
1t has previously been grown, if only
for one season, and very thinly, so
where 1t fails is the best possible place
to try it again. These plants mean so
much to every individual farmer, and
to the carrying capacity of the country
as whole, that the greatest pains and
care in getting start made is more
than fully warranted.
We should greatly appreciate short
letters of experience from those who
have tried, or are trying these clovers,
whether it is favorable or unfavora-
BILE,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-23
ESTATE is TO BE DIVIDED.
Crookston Travelling Man Expects
Windfall Soon.

Crookston Times: Attorneys in New
York who have been retained by
Charles O. Roemer, of this city, have
notified him that the estate of Sir
Francis Drake, the famous English
admiral of the Sixteenth century, is
about to be distributed and that the
share of each American heir will be
about $350,0O0, the total estate
amounting to over $2O,0O0,00O
Mr. Roemer, who travels for the
Observation-Disclosures Hardware COM
rany Of Duluth, is not descendant of
the admiral, but Mrs. Roemer is, her
mothers maiden name having been
Miss Nettie Corey, other relatives of
the same name who will participate
In this country being located at Sioux
Falls, s. D., and Colorado.
Attorneys for the American heirs
have been working for years on this
estate in order to protect the interests
of their clients, and the New York
firm retained by Mr.. Roemer announc-
ed in letter received here this MORN
ing that every link of the chain of re-
lationship had been completed and
that the estate would be distributed
in a very short time. All the docu-
nents have been duly signed, sealed
and delivered and the fact that the
attorneys are certain of their ground
is given color because during all their
Slabors they have not asked for any
contributions to prosecute the work,
spending their own money and evil
dencing a willingness to collect their
fees from the money secured.
AS soon as the portion due Mrs.
Roemer is received, portion of it
will be used in the erection of COM
modious club house in Crookston for
travelling men, with an endowment
sufficient to maintain 1t. The balance
of the money will be invested in
wholesale hardware house, which will
be established in Crookston by Mr..
Roemer.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-23
A SAD SPECTACLE.
Insane Patient Taken to Fergus Falls
From Bemidji Wednesday Evening.

Crookston journal: One of the
most revolving sights witnessed in this
city in many months was presented
last evening by an insane patient
taken to the insane hospital by Sheriff
Bailey assisted by Eddie Brennan from
Bemidji. The unfortunate creature is
from pear Pemish lake, and for
short time has been kept at the Bel
trami county >poor farm. His condi-
ton has been growing worse of late,
Ills mind having given away complete
ly. He cannot speak a word, his face
being paralyzed, and he cannot walk
without assistance. He frothed and
drooled at the mouth and his silly
rawlings were piuable and resulted in
a shudder running through the crowd
at the depot.
The unfortunate man cannot eat
anything, but drinks milk, or rather
milk is poured down his throat. His
condition was horrible in every way
and the task Of taking such a patient
on q railroad trip was about as often
siye as ever fell to the lot OF a sher-
ID. He was left at the hospital early
this morning and Sheriff Bailey and
his deputKreturned to Bemidji on the
Duluth train. ssS
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-23
A PRAIRIE IDYL.
They Loved in Michigan and Now They
Live In Prairie Shack.

Bismarck Tribune: The happy Gull
mination Of quite a pretty romance
occurred in the Office of County Judge
Mckenzie this morning when he mar
ried George Robb, a fine looking
young man, and Miss Adelina L. KEEL
logg, the handsome young woman who
sat up most of the night to be the first
one to select a homestead when the
irrigation lands were opened about a
month ago. 1t appears that the young
folks went to school together in Mich
igan and it is said Cupid did a good
stroke of business at that time. AT
any rate the young lady went to South
Dakota in search of land, and not
finding what she wanted, and hearing
of the intended opening of the lands
that had been withdrawn in the Bis
marck district for irrigation purposes,
came to this country and looked the
ground over. She found an excellent
piece of land about ten miles north of
Sterling and squatted upon it. She
built a house and made other improve
ments while waiting for the day for
making filings.
Meantime Harry Robb had come to
this state and secured school to
teach at Goodrich, and Goodrich is
not so far away but that he could
Drive over on Saturdays to the friends
house where his inamorata resided
while awaiting a chance to file, and
bask in the smile that made life worth
living for him.
After the claim had been duly filed
upon as recorded by the Tribune at
the time, more Improvements were
made upon the homestead. Last Sat-
urday was the last day of school
teaching. for Harry Robb and here
after he will help his fair wife reap
the golden grain from the fertile soil
of Burleigh county. The happy couple
went to Sterling today to take up the
new life and none seemed happier than
they.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-23
OLD.FAsHIONED CLOCKS.
Still Made, to Be used in Houses SUP.
piled With Old Fashioned Furniture.

Conspicuous by their simplicity, or
their sample clocks of more modern
designs shown in the salesroom of a
clock manufacturing concern were "a
few of old styles. There were. old
time so-called Gothic clocks, once a
favorite style; not very big clock,
and with the top not fiat but carried
up to ridge line, like a sharppointed
roof, with the gable end to the front,
and having at its base, on either side,
at the top Of the body of the clock,
little spire, the lower section of the
door of the clock, below the dial, paint
ed with some sort of design.
There were cottage clocks, these
smaller than the Gothics, and, like all
these .old-time clocks, with cases of
wood. The cottage clocks are simple
and trim looking, with upright,
square-cornered cases.
And then there were bigger clocks,
larger than the cottage clocks and
larger than the Gothics, clocks with
their long door deeply recessed within
wide bordering molding, tall, square
cornered, prim looking and yet en-.
gaging old clocks, such as once, made
of mahogany or mahogany veneer,
stood on many and many a maptel-
piece; clocks with big dials and long
hands and with a sondrous tick.
Among these larger clocks there
were some with cases less severe in
design and finish, with some orna-
mentation about them, and with gilded
half columns, one on either side of
the case, In front, clocks such as once
adorned the shelf of many an old-time
parlor.
These old-style clocks were not old
clocks, but new ones. Such clocks are
still manufactured and sold
Clocks are now made of many ma
terials, as to their cases, and in in
Vulnerable Styles said the salesman.
"and we are adding new styles all the
time, and the great majority of people
buy these clocks of later designs.
But we still continue to sell clocks Of
a few of those once familior old
styles. Some of these old-style clocks
we make with modern spring move
ments within their old-time cases, and
others of them we still make, with the
old-time clock weights.
"Of all these new old-style clocks
comparatively few are sold in the city.
They go mostly to smaller towns and
to the country. But it would not do
to say that they are bought by old-time
people, clinging to old-time ways and
styles. They may find such buyers,
and other buyers anywhere may fancy
them for their quaintness or for old
time associations; but they are as
likely to be bought by people still liv-
Ing In old-time houses with old-time
furniture. who buy them because in
such homes they will be homelike in
fashion and appearance appropriate,
and 1t may be artistically SO. to their
surroundings.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-23
ing for a time. is a lesson to bunch

Il aug AOT q um0, ID lesson 10 nunCn
\ players.
One of them said to the other: "You
know that last night I could dream Of
nothing but bats. Bats, bats, bats; 1,
could see them flying around in the
dark all about me, and was standing
waving my hat to keep them away
from me. had the. same dream three
times. l believe it's a hunch."
The two of them studied the boards,
looking over the entries at Oakland,
Los Angeles. Crescent City and City
Park. Finally one of them shouted:
There's the horse. Bats. Leave us
bet the roll"
The horse was in the first races at
Los Angeles, and the two regulars"
scrapped up 81 between them and bet
1t on Bats at 10 to 1.
"A moment later the telegraph opera
tor shouted: They're on at Los An
geles. All in a bunch"
Tick-tick-tick tick tick tick, went
the telegraph sounder.
"Ati the quarter, Bats by one length.
George R. second, Tessie third, head
back"
Tick-tick-tick.
Same at the half"
The two began to hug themselves.
Into the stretch. Bats by three
lengths. Tessie second by half
length, George R. is third"
Then the wire got into trouble. The
touts stood first oh one foot and then
on the other.
lit looks like a pipe." they whisper
edAin unisai.
Meanwhile whole race came over
the wire from New Orleans, but the
Los Angeles wire was still in trouble.
Finally, when the touts were shak-
ing from excitement like couple If
live wires the operator sang out:
Finish at Los Angeles: Fly-by-
Night wins"
The tout who had the bunch nearly
tainted. Then he turned on his pal t.
relieve his mind.
wait minute" said the pal.
That's not official yet. The Judges
won't stand for it. Don't you see the
awful ride that boy gave Bats in the
stretch?"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-23

quickest way to get the required sum
of money was to win 1t at the track,
but as he had settled down to business.
he could not get out to the RACES only
on Saturdays except by a special cf-
fort, Therefore, he told me: III yo,l
have anything good leave note for
me,in Watson's and / will get 1t when.
I drop in for lunch. l don't want any
tip, but good one, and one that will
be at q price"
Weeks hoped by, as they have a
habit Of doing, and left no hote for
Jim. Then / heard something that
made me believe Glenrice, a no ac-
count, was in right on Thursday in
the third race at Hawthorne and,
would be at a long price. So l, left
the tip for Jim Thursday morning,
Glenrice was 200 to 1 in the betting
AND my betting heart turned to water,
The mutt was beaten several blocks,
and ! casually mentioned to myself
that Colomon's wisdom compared to
my own was baby thought.
On the following Saturday Glenrice
was In the third race again. laughed
when noticed that few bets were
made on the horse to win at Is to 20 o
1. l walked into the paddock and
watched the race from there.
4. Did the mutt win? OF course. There
was no doubt about it. Swinging his
Head and leisurely eating his chin
strap Gelnrice just rolled home.
rushed up to man who had some
connection with the horse. You're
something don't care to say" said
l. 'sWhy didn't you put me wise that
this was the day and not Thursday?"
Get away from me-" said he. Don't
come worrying me. Do you suppose
knew? l bet Thursday on Glenrice
and on another one today"
While we were still discussing the
matter up came Jim with the big coz
graduation.
You're all right" he shouted, slap
ping me on the back. ct won $4,000. It
doesn't seem much to you, perhaps,
the way you cleaned up, but it is
enough for me to- get married on. The
racing game is of for me from now on.
Il have been sick in bed since last
Monday, but dreamed the house was
on fire last night, and it gave me the
bunch to get up this morning and
come down town. 1 found the note
you had just left me and got here in
time to put down a bet"
Jim cannot understand to this day
how It was kept SO calm and showed
SO little enthusiasm over the race.
The experience of two touts who
were playing the ponies in the Ken
lucky club poolroom at Hot Springs
last summer during the week of
weather SO cold that. Essex Park, the
local track, had to suspend its meet
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-23
State and Northwest

of goods Is the cost of this service.
They are many items that go to make
up this cost-such as the first price
OF horses, wagons, harness, ETC., wages
OF drivers or delivery men, repairs on
wagons and harness, feed and medical
services for horses, time lost by rea-
son of holidays and Sundays, or for
the rest and recuperation of energies,
which every horse has to have fire.
quently-all this time eating his
head Off"
Modern methods demand quick and
good service in delivery. The longer a
horse travels, the loss is his efficiency;
consequently the trips must be mod
crate in length and time, in order to
keep him in good condition. A con-.
siderable reserve of horses has to De
kept for these reasons. The larger the
business necessitating transportation
OF goods, the more important this
question becomes, and up to date bust
ness men, doing business in the mod
ern way, have tried to lower the en-
pense Of this branch of their opera
lions.
The first commercial automobiles
were crude in design, hardly fitted for
the duty and expensive to run; but
the obvious saving in the cost of oper-
alton over horses was the incentive for
increased endeavor to- perfect these
vehicles. The modern gasoline auto
wagon costs from 2 cents mile up-
wards to run, according to the weight
carried, number of stops made, quail
ity in design of all the parts of the
machine, and the skill shown by the.
operator In running. A good ma
chine, well adapted for this duty, has
SHOWN an average cost, from several
months use, of 27 cents per mile, do
Ing the work of three on-horse de-
livery wagons for the same time, and
with carrying capacity of a 1000
pounds load. The repairs in this in
stance were more than usual, so this
may be accepted as safe estimate. A
grocer who has brought the cost of
horse delivery of his goods to a low
amount, says that this is slightly over
5 cents mile.
The ideal automobile for delivery or
trucking should be designed SO that
every pound of material entering in
It's construction is SO placed that the
maximum of strength is obtained with
the minimum of weight. Excess of
weight has decidedly detrimental eff
feet on tires, bearing surfaces, en-
gines, etc., with the cost of adjust
ments and repairs or requirements u.s.
ually getting higher, month by month.
The cost of running is an important
item, and all parts subject to strain
or wear should be made of the best
material obtainable, designed. with
proper balance between efficiency and
economy.
The engine and all the power
plant" as the whole driving mechan-
ism is sometimes called, should be
easily accessible, so that no time need
be lost when adjustments or repairs
are necessary, and the electrical
equipment should be placed SO that 1t
can be viewed at once. One of the
newer manufacturers brings all the
parts of this to the side of the car, and
furnishes an incandescent light at
tached to the battery, for inspection.
This year there are many more MAX
ers of commercial automobiles than
there were last year, and the next two
years will see an enormous increase
In this important business.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-23
Reflections Of . Bachelor.

New York Press: The only way
most Of us can get rich is to inherit it.
For some people there is comfort in
not letting others have any.
81 It makes q man awful proud to feel
he has no pride the way other people
have. A.
No matter how many times you lose
your temper. you always find It again,
for the next occasion.
"a man who stays unmarried is a
good deal smarter than he will ever.
know unless he gets married.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-23
Growing Glover and Alfalfa in n. d.

NAV"H6 SAVvCA anu 1Alldllu Ill Ne lbs
Dakota Farmer: The amount of al
falfa and clover being sown in different
parts of the Dakotas would be an eve
opener, could they see it as we do, to
many who still insist that clover and
alfalfa will never amount to anything
here. We do not wish to make light
of the opinions of these excellent men,
many of whom have tried and tried in
diligently to grow these plants, nor
would we deny that there are large
sections where it seems very doubt
full If either can ever be made to do
we'll, but clover and alfalfa are going
10 be, next to corn, the great forage
crops of the Dakotas. Not farmers
institute the past fall and winter do
we recall, where someone has not re-
ported both clover and alfalfa doing
well. One hundred tons of alfalfa
from twenty acres has been reported
several times and similar yields on
larger acreage. Both yields and acre
age have simply astonished us, and we
are used to seeing alfalfa in Nebraska.
Colorado, Montana and farther west
Clover is moving west and north even
faster than corn, though not in so
many acres.
At the Parker institute, we asked a
young farmer, G.. w. Wolfe, whose
splendid farm is but mile out of that
place, and to which be moved from Me-
braska some years ago, if he had tried
clover or alfalfa since coming north
Tried It," was the reply, 81 have
thirty-five acres of as handsome al
falfa as ever grew, and 100 acres of
clover" A neighbor of Mr.. Wolfe
spoke up saying, my alfalfa is as good
as want, and cut $50 tons of SPLEEN
difhay from my forty acres of clover"
From Parker to Pierre, from Cham
berlain to Aberdeen, we are constant
ly stumbling onto small, and some
times large, fields of these clovers
that astonish US in both yield and vi
tality.
We know that both clover and alfalfa
come into some lands very slowly, that
a dry windy spring will sometimes do
away with q very promising stand of
either, and that not infrequently a
whole field will completely winterkill,
but all these things, particularly the
latter, happen to these crops in more
eastern states. We have seen a series
Of most discouraging years with clover
IN Wisconsin, the very home OF clover,
and We have heard pitifui tales Of al
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-23
90 % % o. o b o. % o o % o o o q! o 10 o
@ THEsHUNCHs AT RACE TRACKio9

900 % o. % b o. % o. o o o o O o o. o %
% THRssHUNCHs Al RACE TRACKto
900 q soE q g q q s. 10 q q u Q % .
It's the >hunch. the dear old bunch
that really counts on a race track
wheen you get down to figuring out
how "a man can play the horses and
win, sayssa writer In the Cleveland
Plain Dealer. Every deuce that has
followed the sportsof kings knows that
and every one 81 them has felt the
electric thrill along the spinal cord
which has tapped the name OF win
ming horse on the brain so that 1t
could not be erased
Bnt oA all hunch players that ever l
saw Jim Railway VAS the greatest. He
was the marvellous Jim; when every
one else was broke at the end of q
hard days sport, Jim always was there
with the means to procure supply
money or supply itself. We used to
call him Railways Ready Relief, he
4 had such a pleasant way Of saying:
II lost hundred or two today my
self, SO know you're broke. Come
along with me and try some of our
Spaghetti; they are fine.
AS have said, Jim was the great
est bunch player that ever cashed q
ticket. Nothing could happen to him
that did not have some meaning In
regard to q race. 1t was he that play
ed Robert Waddell when he won the
American derby, because he got a
black eye the night before and con-
cluded the discolored optic was a
bunch to follow Pa Bradley's colors.
He didn't always win, Of course, but
when he lost he always could figure
out afterward that he had not prop,
erly interpreted the bunch. He played
Dick Welles all through his and g.
year-old seasons because a sick tout
friend of his. whom he was stalking,
had a dehrium in which he thought
he was digging wells all the time.
The sick man had high fever, and
the doctor would not allow him to
have any water, and all day and night
until he died he tossed on his bed cryr
ing: Water! Water! Dig Wells! DID
Wells!"
This was the spring that the great
colt first made his appearance on the
track and before Rome Respess had
bought him, Jim said that the last
words of his sick friend undoubtedly
were arranged for by Providence
anxious to reward him for taking care
of the sick man.
But as year went by Jim began to
lose faith in lunches. He had become
SO sensitive to them that sometimes
he would get two or three lunches for
a single race, and SO it gave him brain
flag attempting to figure out which was
the real, reliable. bunch and which
was the phoneys. Then he got paying
attention to his tips, and one of these
finally led UP to his winning nice
chunk Of money and his retirement
from the racing game as patron.
It happened last summer in Chicago.
For long time Jim had been trying
to break away from the game. He had
decided to marry and settle down to
the slow. tedious life Of decent citi-
zen. but his fiancee refused to marry
him until he had a certain amount OF
money in the bank and had gone with
out playing the races for three months.
Naturally Jim concluded that the
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