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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-11

The mention OF sulphur Will recall to
many OF us the early days when our
mothers and grandmothers, gave ,s orr
daily dose Of sulphur and molasses every
spring aud fall
It was the universal spring and fall
blood purifier, tonic and cure-all, and,
mind you, this old-fashtoned remedy was
not without merit.
The idea was good. but the remedy wa,
crude and rnpalatahlc. and a large guam
tity had TO be taken TO get any effect.
Nowadays we get all the beneficial et-
Iects OF sulphur in a palatable, concen-
trated form, so that a single grain is far
more effective than a tablespoonful OF
The crude sulphur.
In recent years. research and expert
uient have proven that the best sulnhnr
for medicinal use is that obtained from
Calcium Calcium Suiphide) and sold in
drug stores under the name OF -Stuart's
Calcium Waters, They are small choco-
late-coated pellets and contain the active
medicinal principle of sulphur in a highly
concentrated effective FORM
Few people are aware OF the value OF
this form OF sulphur in restoring and
maintaining bodily vigor and health. snl-
phur acts directly on the liver and excre
tory organs, and purifes and enriches the
blood by the prompt elimination OF waste
material.
Our grandmothers knew this when .hav
dosed US with sulphur and molasses every
spring and fall. but tho crtldity and i'm
purity of ordinary flowers of sulphur were
often worse thun the disease and cannot
compare with the modern concentrated
preparations OF sulphur, Of which Stuart :
Calcium Waters is undoubtedly tho best
and most widely used.
They are the natural antdote for liver
and kidney troubles, and cure constine .
lion and purify the blood in a way that
often surprises patient and physician
alike.
DIR. r. NJ. wilkins, while experimentj,e
with sulphur remedies soon found tbs,
the sulphur from Calcium was spperia,
10 any other form, He says: Tor liver
kidney and blood troubles, especially wher
resulting from constipation or malaria
have been surprised at the results on.
tanned from Stuart's Calcium Waters Ir
patients suffering from bols and plInples
and even deep-seated carbuncles. | nav,
z repeatedly seen them dry lip and Gis
appear In four or five days, leaving In,
skin clear and smooth. Although stuart,
Calcium Waters Is a proprietary article
and sold by drugststs, and for that reaso,
tabooed by many physicians, yet / knoy
of nothing 80 safe and reliable for con
stioat!on, liver and kidney troubles. AN,
especially In all forms OF skin disease, a
this remedy
At any ratio. people VINO are tired d
r.iis, cathartics and so-caled blood .'pnri
Hers" viii find I'm stuaIt's Calcium Wat
.rs o. far safer. more palatable and effcc
tive preparation
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-11
The Country Doctor.

Yssl he hac sins to answer for,
1yT THIS no question more;
He some times drank till lie was drunk,
When he was angry-Bwore.
A H.boyy yet IT, more n.,, sym,pathcsic heart
He was friend whom you could trust.
For he was ever true.
The poor of his whole neighborhood
Did love him, ono and ALL
Ho was doctor, and his skill
Was ever at their call.
A patient with no bank account
~ II MIN I'm, WAS just. the same,
h VIII tall R o. RsoiSd any s snias
Nay more. when needy ones were sick
From want OF nourtshment,
Bought food and had 1t sent.
Through summers. heat and winters cold.
BOr moro than thirty years.
Up hill and down, by day and night,
lie went at calls of theirS
Hs was no shallow ouaeGk forsooth.
But College-bed and all
No better sheepskin otherg had
TO hang upon their wall.
When no was stricken poor ones came.
1t seemed as IL their hearts would break
To see his face no more.
And when he died was laid away
In humble country grave,
Amid the folks whom he had nursed.
To whom his lie he gave.
Now what want to know is this,
Which for one stranger pleads,
The talking of angelic things.
Or doing kindly deeds.
He- was no saint, made no pretense,
lie ever had a call.
But spent his life In doing good
To others, that was all.
What went with him beyond the grave
Is not for me to toll,
And yet I feel II he was lost,
A good man went to hell.
And this i never can believe,
Against all Holy Writ.
While God is love. He will not send
A good man to the pit.
50 where he Is leave to Him,
Whose goodness answers quite,
The question, that the Judge OF oil
z With him will deal Alright.
-DUYAL PORTER,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-11

ingr-for Alice is to be my wife. And
why not2 1 will make her liko thing
OF love and peace, thing set separate
from every care. And now ] am glad
OF my inherited wealth, for money will
buy the sweets OF lin for my Alice
SO oil my days are a song till June
June, our wedding month.
Am I man or hend7 Have l sunk
80 low as to be thing OF scorn even
to myself?
1t Is June. Alice has been away for
weeks. "A letter In her dear, laborcd
hand received to-day, says:
Darling: I have a surprise for you
the dearest, most wonderful surprise
IN the world. All these weeks I havo
been under famous ocullst's care, and
dear heart, I'm going to seel To sect
To see!
I'm going home tomorrow. Como to
me. Como quickly. for shall wear the
pandages across my face until you your
self remove 1t. want tho first thing I
see at home to be the Joy and lovo In
Your eyes. Come. Your own,
ALICE.
1t Is tho end Once moro shall walk
alone. Once moro shall watch my
Darling from afar, for never after this
day Will thrust my face between her
newborn sight and the beautiful, beau
tiful world
so now to Alice
And there tho manuscript ended. I
turned It about and twisted 1t from side
to side, but not another word could I
find.
could neither work nor sleep. At
last, I hurried down to tho little shop
on Third Avenue and sought the pro
prietor.
L bought desk here a week ago
IAN old desk with curious carvings,
and odd little drawers at the SIDE"
began. Can you tell me to whom 1t
belonged?"
Yes. remember" returned the old
man, a peculiar smile on his face 'It
was once the property OF Denton, the
hunchback lawyer"
He must DO wonderful man." 1
vcntured.
He is-rall thanks to tho devoted en-
couragenent OF good wife,
MY heart leaped.
Then he's married. faltered.
To tho. best and truest little wom-
an In tho world. know. for Two
watched her from banyhood up" Tho
old man paused moment, then turn
ed to me, a strange light in his faded
Llue eyes.
Alice. his wife, was blind when he
first knew and courted her; and be-
cause she could not see, he showed to
herand to her alone-the Depths OF
his real self. When Alice's sight was
restored, she insisted that her lover
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-11
TIMES RICHMOND va SUNDAY FEBFUARY III 1905

should be the one to remove the final
bandage from her eyes, and my wife,
who was In tho room at the umc-said
she never enw n man whose face OK
pressed such hopeless misery as Dom
TOMS at that minute. But Alice just
looked at him; long, loving look that
never faltcred
And ho7"
"IIe took her In his arms with q
great sob OF JOY"
And tlien?' prompted cagerly.
The old man turned with mild re-
proof in his eyes.
And then-my wife left the ROOM
he said, gently.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-11
What Sulphur Does
For the Human Body In Health and Disease

The mention OF sulphur will recall to
many OF us the early days when our
daily dose OF sulphur and molasses every
Hnrfnr and fall
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-11

However, there is another thing about
this knee-bagging in the trousers, Sci
entiiic knights OF the goose will tell YOU
mat some men will bag at the knees,
and all the creasing In creation of ali
the pressing clubs combined can't get the
crease TO stay there over an hour, while
another man will carry the crease Mt
least week. But have half notion
that 1t ls all In the cut One OF these
days science Will come In, and the doctor
OF paintings Will find way TO success
ruby remove the knee bag Just the same
as the vcrlniform appendix Is now re-
moved, and when that Is done. the press
ing club artist will find less OF his skill
required to make good. il
As have before Insisted Ram MOI n
pesslmist--not a man who sees only tho
sorrow OF the world but Til insist that
cant see Just why II man should have
q crease In the leg or his trousers. OF
course II the crease Indicated that Vol,
mad on pair OF new breeches. then TN
! IN faVor or letting that fact be known;
Dnt when the whole world Is onto the
1 game OF the pressing club. and II Il
1 known OF men, and women too that mn
oid pair of breaches is creased and
secured every week I dontt sec thai
thht crease adds one bit 10 the liitl j,a.,i,
looms. ''e'f't
lioweNer. when YOU come .iown "a,
Pike These days, and let pamo Jrasi,iar
4 nave sway, you will discover mn,Iy M,
lhaiiS ihl!'ss that are that should no
ne, III inc crease adds 10 tile 10Y or IN,
owner OF the brooches or 10 the ra1et,
Aot nations why let tho artist stiil m,
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-12-13
DR.. WindeIl Wins Easily.

DR.. J. D. Windell of this city
won out hands down in his mall
practice case at Towner. The
doctor attended John Wehr Of
Anamoose when Wehr's leg was
nearly shot off with gun shot.
The bone was shattered and
when it healed, one of the legs
was shorter than the other. The
surgeon who attended Wehr af-
ter Windell was discharged, tes-
titled for the plaintiff and his ex-
pert testimony entirely vindicat-
ed DR.. Windell. '
At the completion of the plain
tiff's testimony, the case was
dismissed, before it went to the
jury at all. p. H. Woodward Of
Fessenden represented the plain
tiff, while DR.. Windell was rep
resented by LeSueur & Bradford
of this city.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-12-13
FREIGHT TRAINS TIED UP
The Great Northern Was Out of
Coal Friday and Stopped All
Freights That Passenger
Trains Might Run...Minot
Sheds Cleaned Out.

While the farmers of the coun-
try are cursing the railway COM
panies for not bringing in plenty
of coal, the railroads are cursing
their own luck for never since the
Great Northern was built into
Minot was coal so scarce as it
was last Friday, or is today for
that matter.
The passenger trains had to
20, 40 coal was carried in has,
kets from the freight engines to
the passenger engines and the
freight trains were stalled in the
local yards that day. For the
first time since the coal sheds
were built, the coal was scraped
to the very bottom Of the bins
and still the supply was not ade-
quate. Five cars OF hard coal
Sunday were procured from a To-
cal coal dealer. There was no
coal at Williston and none this
side of Grand Forks that the G.
N. could corral. While there was
plenty of it at Duluth, there was
a scarcity of coal shovelers and
the wages of those fellows were
raised to six dollars a day to
keep the coal moving. The situ-
alton is likely to be relieved in a
few days.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-12-13
JAKE. MAY BE A FREE MAN
''lf the People of Minot Knew the Cir.
cumstances," Receiver Swords De-
clared, "They Would Demand
Erickson's Complete Pardon

years, he did so, in order to shield
some Of his so-called friends,
who were not such good friends
after all. In making this state
ment, we make no reference to
anyone living in Minot, but we
are not at liberty to state who
they are at this time. Had
Erickson stood trial and told all
of the facts in the case, he would
have had company at Sioux Falls,
no doubt.
George w. Swords, the receiv-
er, was seeen by an Independent
reporter this morning. He said;
"You know am not at liberty
to give out any details regarding
the recent investigation before
the federal grand jury at Grand
Forks, but if l dared to tell you
all, the people of Minot would
rise and demand Erlckson's re-
lease from the penitentiary.
|. Erickson will remain with me
|for several days. We are look
ing over the books, and he is in
a position to give me a great deal
of assistance. In a few days
something will happen which
will be a surprise to everyone. "
When Swords was asked if any
effort was being made to secure
Erickson's pardon, he said that
up to the present time, there was
no effort made, but that there un-
doubtedly be in a short time.
Erickson is in the custody of no
one, save Mr.. Swords, who him
self is a United States officer, and
is allowed to go about the city at
will. ''Ersckson would return
to Sioux Falls alone, if allowed to
do so," Mr.. Swords stated, "for
he has no desire to do anything
else at the present time. It is
quite generally believed that
Erickson will be a free man in a
few days. That Judge Amidon
would be perfectly satisfied to
see Erickson walk out a free man,
is quite certain and may use his
influence in securing a pardon.
Erickson is held simply as a
witness, and will testify at a
criminal action to be taken
against a former bank officiat at
Grand Forks soon.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-12-13
A Real Live Santa.

A real live Santa Claus put in
his appearance at the Golden
Rule store Monday afternoon
about four o'clock. He came
from the mysterious realms and
stated that he would make that
store his headquarters until
Xmas eve when he would leave
for his annual trip. The little
boys and girls who want to see
a real Santa are asked to call at
the Golden Rule. There he sits
in the window, dressed in furs
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-12-13

"Jake' Erickson, former pres
ident OF the Minot National bank,
now defunct, is back in Minot to-
day, shaking hands with hun.
dreds Of his friends, and we say
friends, because practically every
business man in Minot is Erick-
sons friend at heart, even if the
bank president was indiscreet
and apparently went wrong.
Erickson is dressed in tho
height of fashion, wearing a
black derby of the latest style,
and a handsome black overcoat
and carries himself in the same
graceful manner as OF old. He
looks exceedingly we'll, being
smooth shaven and his clear COM
plexion shows that he has the
best of everything that the pris-
on fare aft ords. In fact "Jake"
is having a good time at Sioux
Falls, at the government pe,li-
tentiary for he has won the es-
TEEN and confidence of everyone
and is shown many liberties. File
is now private coachman for the
warden, and as such is out most
of the time. At other times, he
has the freedom of the whole
penitertiary.
He is stopping at the Leland
hotel, and room 1872, where he
makes his headquarters, was
thronged with old time acquaint-
ances all day today. He arrived
on one of the early morning
trains, and after sleeping several
hours breakfasted and went at
once to the Office of George w.
Swords, the receiver of the old
bank. He is now engaged in
going over the books with the re-
ceiver and is able to show up
many irregularities, Of which he
is entirely innocent. @tnrs,
We do not mean to say that he
is guilty Of no irregularities, for
he likely was, but there are many
things laid at the door of Erick-
son of which he is not guilty in
the least. Many believe that
when he plead guilty to the char
ges brot against him before
Judge Amidon more than a year
ago in Fargo and left for Sioux
Falls to serve a term Of five
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-12-13
Ran Through Round House.

An engineer on tbe Maxbase
branch ran his engine clear chru
the round house at Maxbass,
Friday night, smashing in the
doors. The engine and coal car
went clean thru the brick wall Of;
the round house out onto the
ground. When the engineer ar
rived at Maxbass, he noticed 4
large pile Of snow in front of the
doors. He planned that if he.
wanted to enter the round house
he would have to back the en-
gine and 60 into the pile with
full force. The snow was light
and easily gave away.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-12-13
JAKE ERICKSON RETURNS TO M|N0T
WIPER WRECKS BIG ENGINE
Attempted to Shake Out the Fire
but Pulled the Throttle In.
stead and Ran Engine Into
the Turn Table Pit..-Hundreds
of Dollars Damage.

Thru the thick headedness OF
one OF the wipers at the round
house, a huge passenger engine
No. 141S, went into the pit at
the round house Sunday and was
smashed into a worthless lot OF
scrap iron. After the engine was
driven into the pit the wheels re-
volved around and around at a
tremendous speed for sometime,
and the employees at the round
house did not know for some
time whether it would be safe to
venture near the engine or not.
The main and side rods were
twisted like SO much paper.
The hostler was on the ground
doing some work a short time
before the engine started and
told the wiper who had been in
the round house but a day or
two, to get up In the engine and
shake out the fire. The wiper
OlQn Know lusC Where the Shak-
er was so pulled some sort OF a
lever and away the engine start
ed. The hostler stood with eyes
sticking out and hands apart.
The wiper had sense enough to
Jump but not enough to stop the
engine. Unfortunately the wiper
was not injured.
This is the first time that an
engine was ever run clear into
the pit. There have been numer-
Gus accidents at the place, but
little damage done. The turn
table was badly broken and the
railway company lost a good
many hundred dollars. The poor
wiper lost his lob,
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-12-13
Will Get Engines Out.

The Great Northern has solved
a way of getting the twenty en-
gines out of the round house.
The broken turn table cannot be
replaced for some time, a new
table being ordered from Havre.
The pit for the present will be
filed, and an improvised track
will be laid across it. A ~"
will probably be laid 80 that the
eng ines can be- headed in any d.
rection desired.
There is some talk OF putting
in much larger table, a thing
which is. badly needed. This
would be 9 good time to put in
the larger table.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-12-13
To Get sI5O,OOO Federal Building

Senator McCumber has intro
duced a bill to congress provid-
ing for a $15O,O0O federal build
ing for Minot. At a banquet
given in this city sometime ago
by the Commercial club, &. 5.
Senator Hansbrough promised
that he would use bis inHuencejn
securing for this city large fed
eral building and it now looks as
tho the Senior Senator were try
ing to ''make good Winot
needs such a building and III case
that the bill is passed, it will not
be long before work will start on
the immense structure
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-12-13
No Pump Handles Frozen Off.

Monday was the coldest day OF
the season thus far, the govern
ment THERMOMETERS at the home
of Johu Bates registering thirty
degrees below zero at eight
O'Clock in the morning.
At an early hour, it must have
been a good deal colder. There
was little wind and the people
did not seem to mind the cold in
the least. Business went on as
usual and people stepped a trife
faster if anything. No pump
handles we're frozen OFF.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-12-13
JAKE ERICKSON BEFORE
THE GRAND JURY
Former President of Min0t Ma.
ti0nal Bank is Taken From
the Penitentiary at Sioux
Falls to Grand Forks to Tes.
tify Against Former Officials.

The federal grand Jury conven-
ed Grand Forks Monday morn
ing. One OF the principal wit
nesses before the Jury is j. A.
Erickson, former president OF the
defunct Minot National bank
who is serving five years in the
penitentiarX at Sioux Falls, S.
OAK, for sending false reports to
the omptrofler Of currency re-
garding the condition of the
bank.
Erickson was brot from the
penitentfary TO Grand Forks by
Deputy United States Marshall
Gill Stout and while in Grand
Forks will be detained at the
Dacotah hotel. Erickson seems
very quiet and does not seem in
clined to talk to anyone" That
he is"s a changed man by his
years imprisonment is apparent
and that "Jake' will lead a far
different life when once more
breathing free air, is believed by
everyone. In fact, he has writ
ten his friends more than once
that he has done wrong and that
he intends leading a different
kind of a life in the future.
Just what Erickson will testify
to is not known, but it is certain
that he is a witness in a case
against some of the former Off
GERS Of the bank. Its a fact that
Erickson was sold stock in the
bank when ne did not have the
money to pay for it, and he paid
some Of the old stockholders de-
positors, money for the stock,
giving his personal note in the
place Of the money. AS the
notes we're worthless, the depos-
itors lost considerable money
and for this reason mainly Erick-
son was sent to prison. Many
believe that Erickson is not
ly so guilty as the men who sold
him the stock, for they must
have known at the time that
they took the money that they
were aiding Erickson to become
a criminal.
George W. Swords, the receiv-
er of the defunct bank, recently
started suits against three OF the
men who sold Erickson the stock.
Mr.. Swords has great hopes in
refunding much OF this money
thru the means Of the suits and
il he does so, he hopes to give
the depositors a big dividend IN
q short time.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-12-13
MIN0T MAY GET the
DUNKARD COLLEGE
Business Men are Going After
the Institution for An They
Are WORTH. Grow Offers VAL
liable Site-=.Means a Big
Thing for Minot.

From the present appearance
of things, it looks as tho Minot
stood an excellent show of secur-
ing the new college which is to be
located somewhere in the state
by the German Baptist brethren.
At a meeting OF the business men
at the Commercial club rooms
Thursday night. c. A. Grow, one
Of theleading merchants, made
public an offer to donate to the
college beautiful grounds a mile
and a half east OF the city, con-
sisting of twenty acres and
enough stone for the foundation
Of all buildings to be erected by
this concern in the years 1907
and 1908. The offer of Mr..
Grow is worth fully $4,000 TO
this institution and if the other
business men will come forth
with but quarter as much, MI
not can get the college hands
down.
The land which Mr.. Grow pro-
poses to give is the richest that
the sun ever shone upon, With
good black soil and level. The
school can have an agricultural
department if it likes, and give
willing boys a chance to earn
their way thru college by raising
garden vegetables, etc.
The rich soil is d guarantee Of
a beautiful campus with a little
trouble and the proposition to
furnish the native stoneis agood
one.
The proposed school will en-
brace North and South Dakota,
Minnesota and Montana besides
provinces in the southern por-
tion of Canada. Bringing this
school TO Minot would mean an
addition Of fseveral hundred good
farmers, and there are no better
tillers OF the soil thau the Ger
man Baptists or the Dunkards
as they are commonly known.
They are a thrifty class of peo-
pie and the facts that hundreds
would flock to this part of the
state would mean that hundreds
Of more acres OF idle land would
be broken up and put into crops.
This would mean a igincrease
in the price of land, so that the
land men of Minot ought to be
interested in securing this school
as well as the other business men.
A committee composed of Paul
V. Mccoy, j. f. Smith and j. N.
Devine was appointed to wait
upon the busl1ess men and see
what can be done. 1t is believed
that ten thousand dollars can be
raised in this city towards the
project and if so, that ought to
land the school.
This institution ultlm ately viii
have a membership of fifteen
hundred Or two thousand stu
dents.
| There are other cities in the
state that are after this college.
but the Independent has explicit
faith in Minot and feels almost
certain that the college will be 10
cated here.