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Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-01-18

Given away. The Peoples
Common Sense Medical Ad'
visor Is sent free on rcceipl
Of stamps to pay expense o.
mailing onlp. Tho book con
tains l0os pages, over 200 tilns,
frations and several coiorct
plates. Send p one Cen
stamps for the paDer-bcunt
hook. or 81 stamps for thu
cloth bound Address DR.
z. v. Pierce. Buffalo. n u
Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-01-18
Coachmen in Livery.

Middleton & Morris, Mexico's enter.
prising and progressive livery men,
have introduced their cab drivers In
livery and the appearance they pre-.
sent Is neat and stylish.
Miss Wayne Ricketts, is visiting
Mrs. Howard Bailey, Of st. Louis.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-01-18
, SOCIETY SMALL TALK.

Mr.. Gus Pasqueth left Tuesday
night for Chicago.
Miss Mary Ricketts, is the guest o.
Mrs. Howard Bailey, Of ST. Louis.
Capt, ] @. johnson and wife, Of IT
Tampa, Florida, are the guests Of Mex
leo friends.
]. G wilkins and family have re
turned from pleasant visit to rela'
tives ia Texas
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Tuttle, OF Full
ton. were the guests Of Or. and Mrs
Hinde this week.
Misses Fanny Potts and Fanny
Clark leave next Tuesday for Texas "a
attend the wedding Of Miss Madgt
Potts to Mr.. Ralph Green, Of San
Antonio, Texas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Turner Hinde and
Mr.. and Mrs. VIII Hinde, Of st
Louis, were in Mexico Thursday, 70 b
present at the marriage Of Miss Kath
|erine Hinde.
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Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-01-18

Sub Order A. II. 7. A. No. ISL meets Monday
knt on or before full moon 10 each month
Visiting brethren always welcome.
v. EEDLE. JR.. W. Secretary.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

knowledge or sanction of the mayor or
purchasing COMMITTEES and unknown to-
the council until long after
The Tribune also admits that there
has been a heap done in the past two
years, but it hasn't been done right.
1t has cost the city too much. "a
private citizen, We are assured by
those in a position to know, could
have had done the same work by con-
tract at from one-haIf to one-third
the cost. It is admitted by all that it
is rare that public work can be done
as cheaply as by private contract, but
after allowing very large margin on
this account, the difference is so wide
that at last the people are impressed
with the idea that a change should be
made in methods. u ssss F Nh s53 52 Nj
II street work is done by contract
and under the supervision of the city;
engineer, who is SFaIned id the bust
ness and knows some thing about IT,
Ethere will una oubtedly be no further
kick when II IS en1on strated that the
taxes are producing something al
permanent value. Then all may be
forgiven 1s &;
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26
RESUME OF DONE ON The STREETS in THE PAST TWO YEARS

ton by the contractor. 1t was not:
the city's place to go to great ex-
pense on this account, but it was the
duty Of the council to see, that the
contract vas fulfilled. If the city did
the work the contractor should have
done, the value of it. should have been
deducted from the amount held back
from the contractor for that purpose,
and none, of the street fund would
therefore have been used. 1t is I'M
derstood the city has been reimbursed
for what little expense it was at in
this behalf, and the contractor has
worried himself very little about the
balance of his agreement, for which
the city council and not. the, con:
tractor might be blamed. II he were
to be required to live up to his CON
tract in respect to restoring the high.
ways many of the hills and valleys
CHARACTERISTIC of most of the streets
would not: be III evidence. t5ss
The Tribune did not deny that q
road grader and ) a street sprinkler
had been purchased, but it did cab at
tention to the irregular way in which
the sprinkler was secured thout
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

thousand dollars has been spent on
the streets in the past two years.
When the poll tax that has been paid
or worked out in that period is added
to this amount, the sum will be con-
lsiderably augmented. =, ., y,.,.rl .s...:a.l
The Tribune did not . say that a
large amount Of; work had not been
done on the streets in the time men
toned, nor doesSsit deny that about
$2,4005 of the: money was spent for a
greatly needed drain on Rosser street.
It is not to be supposed that the entire
$10,500 was wasted, for It wasn't. A
good deal of it was spent on street
work where it would do the most
good, a fact that is quite well known
Throughout the city. 70, .,.~44. = :,
The Tribune has: asked no, one to
take its@word for the. present condi-
ton of the streets and the absence of
proper mediums for the; escape of
waste water, A visit to almost any
Of the improved streets will show
them eroded in many. -. places as
the result. of not being crowned and
provided with. culverts. ~ This is
the fault of the. council, fort. should
! not have permitted such work to be
done. -
ALL admit that many streets passing
| nEo En- ~, +hny
and seldom used by pedestrians have
been graded, but many persons are of
the opinion that it might have been of
more tangible good if a portion of this
| expense had been devoted to making
| crossings passable on streets used
daily by hundreds of citizens and as
many school children. So.
On some streets property owners
laid their tile walks according to the
grade stakes, which necessitated con-
siderable grading down below the
level of their lots. Today. the street,
| which was among those recently i'm.
proved. is about two feet higher than
the walks, and yet it is said the
streets were graded to conform to
the walks in the absence of anything
else to go BY &ss %5s., - X =: -. =
The bills on file in the city auditors
Office show a number of persons were
paid ten cents a load for the dirt they
put on the streets, (, and a LEADING
l
alderman il authority, for the state
ment that he could have had his ex
! cavating done for ten cents load LEST
if the dirt had gone on the streets in
stead of elsewhere.
According to the sewer contract tn.
streets were to be left in good condi
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

A. Il Mcdonald, street commission
+, in an interview, has the following
9 say in answer to an article whiel
ecently appeared in the Tribune:
When everything is taken into
consid Grafton, itsdoes not seem in
credible that $10,5OO has been
h spent, on Bismarck streets during
the past two years. The Tribune
says the repair work on the.
streets has been a series of patch
Z. work. It is true that some patch
work has been done, but only
where there. were holes to be
filled. Here is an incomplete
summary of what has been done
on, Bismarck streets during the
past two years: (. The following
new streets were graded: The
whole of First street, the whole
of, Mandan avenue -(the longest
street in, the. town. }, the whole Of !.
Avenue A., three blocks on Sixth
;, street, five blocks on Fifth street,
two blocks on Eighth street and
two blocks on Twelfth street. A
number of bridges have been
built, twelve blocks of 1s-inch.
sewer pipe has been laid, a grader
costing in the. neighborhood Of
$500: and q sprinkler costing $3.50
have been bought, and much work
has been necessitated by the ex-
.tensive digging of :, sewer and
water pipe trenches. a.. r.
81 do not, know Of any con-
tractor having been barred from
bidding on. city work. LAS far as I
know, only, one man was paid 10
cents per load for hauling dirt
onto the streets. In his case, he
earned his money, for the dirt was
hauled to upper Fourth street.
While there is. still room for i'm
provement, Bismarck's streets are
in better repair now than ever be-
FORE - ss. ~. f..s<4:@ $3.50 :. :-l..s. e.
The Tribune has no intention {
'ntering into an argument with tn
treet commissioner on this subjee
IS he. IS not responsible for the e,
'enditure Of city funds, being directe
X higher authority to whom the PEI
lie look for the protection Of the
interests. =s.~ -.=S FRI. ~.
However. as this appears. to be tt
councils answer to the statement
made in the Tribune some days ag
hese few comments are made:
The Tribune is satisfied to kno
hat it I is admitted that over te
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26
. H Il /. VA Is S BAD
ALTHOUGH He Is NOT "BLAckiE'
" He BELONGS IN HIS CLASS
II X, - AND GRADE. 4

. OF the man arrested here last week
and taken to Valley City on the sup
position that he was 'Blackie," the
mnch-wanted murderer of Policeman
/ Personius, the Valley City Times
Record Of Monday says,
Yesterday the city was thrilled with
the news that the real "Blackie,'
wanted for the Sanborn hold-up and
the. murder CT Officer Personius, had
been arrested and was even then in
carcerated in the county jail. So in
terested were the people of the city
in the matter that the, news spread
like wild fire and Sheriff Oppegard
was. besieged all day by curious citi-
zens both in person and over the tele-
phone relative to the matter. The
prisoner was shown to many citizens
and they all agreed that he was a
tough looking customer. He is about
5 feet nine inches in height, with
brown hair and eyes. His face is
broad, with high cheek bones but
tapers to the chin. His. eyes are
large and sinister. He is fairly well
dressed. s. &
At a late hour this afternoon Deputy
Sheriff Stroh of Sanborn arrived in
the city with Val. sauer, the sanborn
pool room keeper and Thomas Finn,
one of the men held up By Connors
and his pal, for the purpose Of identi-
flying the suspect arrested at Bis
marck last week as the much wanted
sBlackie, !. When confronted with
the two men who knew .Blackie," the
suspect kept al bold front. They sex-
amined him carefully and said he was
not the man wanted.
The man. gave his name as William
AZ Hillman and his home as BIoomer,
Wis. He IS "a years Of age and mar
ried. I, The man will probably be held
for further identification. states Att
torney zuger has, not vet decided
what will be done in the case,
On August 1904. Tom Watts. who
had worked for Ora I.ampnnan, and W.
II. Hillman, then at work with Watts
on the Green farm for Harvey Lock
eight miles southwest Of the city,
were mixed up In 8 horse stealing
case. Il seems the men had sheen Id
the city in attendance On q circus and
became intoxicated. Watts went to
Runyon,s barn and took q pony be-
|aonging to e. A. Bioomberg, stating to
Ehe men at the barn that Bloonn5efg
had authorized him TO take the horse.
|sAs he was known % the men at the
barn. nothiag was though 81 the NO
bceadings He rode. the horse to the
Green farm where Hsllman took d
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

horse from the barn and helping them
selves to two rifles, shot gun and a
gold watch, lit out. 49,
: Tie pony was found the next day
some two miles south Of the Green
farm. Later both men returned to
the city, and gave themselves. up, al
leging that they had been drunk when
they came to themselves, they re-
turned the property. On motion of
States Attorney Burke, the case
against them was dismissed at the
preliminary hearing.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

Z ~ 58GEts. - X
Don't forget the game supper to be
given by the Methodist ladies. Watch
for. the date. -.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

Rathbone Sisters Meeting -Tomor-
row night at 8 o'clock, the Rathbone
Sisters hold their regular meeting. \.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

i Bulbs for fan planting and house
blooming at Wits Seed Store Hya-
cinths, tulips, lilies, etc. Place your
orders early. Stock win arrive about
October list. d. .3;:: a $ .s.@s -. s.ss-
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

sVThe Presbyterian Cook Book Is.
on sale at the Capital Book Store.
Price so cents. s$sss7 81. III: a .s:
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

Nelson & Co. announce a fall open
ing Of millinery tomorrow and call at
t t to their display for this entire
week. See their advertisement
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26
!. THE. II = CIT ]: !: I
-, y - 2 ~ q z ISL
TIE WEATHER.

Fair tonight and Thursda Warmer
Thursday in west portion. MAX. 66,
min. 81. Co., -. ~, ~ 3s
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

Third Degree The knights of
Pythias will confer the third degree
this evening at 8 O'Clock. & ~. :.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

Back Again Jas. A. WEIGH of Bon
ner's Ferry, Idaho, an old time sub
scriber Of the Tribune Is On a visit to
his brother George and relatives Mr..
Welch now has a prosperous business
in his new home and his life is q CON
tinuous picnic. Yet there is still q
warm spot III his heart for the old
haunts.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

" Mclean County Fair III Hcge OF
underwood, secretary 81 the McLean
county fair association, IL III the city
looking Up attractions for the fair to
|'be held al nnderwo ODD next week, Mfs
IIoga expects to get d special 500
Continued on Page 4.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

No School Therrses VIII be no 10 school
Thursday and Friday ii order to per-
nit: the pupils to attend the Mandan
fair. $ r, -. - - -.:ss, >::"<.
4ts{EyT 49, -. -
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

School Apportionnent The last
school appo rtionment by the state
gives Burleigh county $2.4s7. being
s1.54 for each OF ,658 children who
have attended school for 60 days or
more. The county superintendent
could not be learned owing to the
absence Of the county perintendent
in the country. 5.5ss
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

Al Mail i'm His; Foot- Henry Reade has
Been troubled with d game foot the
past few. days owing TO- having r run i
nail into: it last Friday. He is not so
much stuck on nails dis he was. M f5.::ss s
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

#s Guild Social The ladies' of the
Guild will hold a social at Mrs. Walter
Browns on Mandan and Rosser
streets on Thursday. Oct. at 2:30
}p q. The ladies of all denominations
are, Invited There vii be special
and interesting program and refresh
ments. 1
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

4 Marble Works7A branch Of the
Fargo Marble Works has been estab-
Iished in the building on Broadway
opposite. the Hinekley barn and a
large quantity Of stone has already
been received. One or two men will
be employed and marble and stone
cutting work Of all kind done.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

: Granted A !. Charter = The local
Socialists have been granted i charter
and at once proceed TO organize 4
council, which will be known as Bis
Inarck Council No. 43. ,ss.,. -
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

Greatly Improved In HeaIth-Ge George
Gussner has returned from his outing
at the Hot Spring in Montana and hts
improved appearance bears testimony
| to the benefit received. y Georges
many friends are glad that he is. so
much better in health. 49,. II A.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

n Suspect Released The man ar.
rested yesterday by the chief Of
police was released upon word from
Valley City that De was not wanted
there in connection with the Person
Jus murder I S.s:s... :4ss- -: .@
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-09-26

Il Delinquent Tax Sale County
Auditor Healy calls attention to the
fact: that the delinquent real estate
taxes will be sold December 18th with
out regard to ownership and that
those who are in this list had best get
up to the treasurer's Office before that.
date. s. :.:g S5 Isl I. ....s zr..% t.,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-12-19


William Hicking Prescott, who was
born Mt Salem. Mass, on the 4th of
May, 1896, was the son of a prosper
GUS lawyer, entered Harvard college in
1911 and graduated in 1914. Early in
his college career he had his left eye
blinded by II piece of bread playfully
thrown at him by fellow student, and
the other eye soon became sympathet-
ically affected He Travelled in Eng
land, France and Italy and then de-
voted himself to severe study, but it
was not till the beginning of 1926 that
he found the work of his life within
the range of Spanish history. Fortu-
nately his means We're ample, SO that
he was able to procure the services of
assistants and to live amid conditions
OF comfort. BY constant habit he gain
ed the power of carrying Il great deal
In his memory. and after he had revolv-
ed the whole Of a chapter-in his mind
he quickly transferred it to paper by
means of his stylus and an ingenious
writing case especially constructed for
the blind. He published his History OF
Ferdinand ana Isabella" in 1898, which
carried his name across the ocean to
the old world. This was followed by
his History of the Conquest of Next
CO.. in 1913, and of Peru" in 1917.
These gave him great reputation.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-12-19

A fruitarian diet consists of the
fruits of trees dixie apples, oranges,
bananas and olives, the fruits of bush
es Qike currants and raspberries), the
fruits Of plants Qike Strawberries and
melon, lentils and beans and cucum-
bers), the fruits of grasses dixie wheat
and barley and maize and oats, the
fruits of nut trees from tilbert to co.
coanuD, together with some earth
fruits Qike potatoes), and modicum of
vegetables and salads. To these may
be added butter, milk, honey and
cheese. although their production is not
so free from risk of contamination and
animal infection as is the case With the
products of the vegetable kingdom and
the world of fruits. Grown under
healthy conditions, with diseased speci-
mems easy to detect and remove, it is
far more possible to live healthily and
well upon fruitarian dietary than
upon the products of the slaughter
house.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-12-19

The dentists chair was tipped SO far
back that escape for the village seam
stress, Il lady Of remarkable conversa-
tional ability, was impossible. Wads
OF absorbent cotton We're tucked be-
meath her tongue, some patent appli-
ance held her jaws apart, and all the
lower half Of her countenance except
one back tooth was concealed under
a decidedly damp rubber dam. The
patients mouth was full of water,
speech was impossible, and the poor,
naturally laxative lady was suffering
agonies OF discomfort.
The ensrossed dentist paid no heed
to her squirmings or to the appeal in
her eyes. Fortunately, however, the
patients hands were free. Cropping in
the reticu!e that hung from her belt,
she brought forth paper and pencil and
wrote:
Help. Help! I'm drowning."-
Youths Companion.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-12-19

Rossini was one of the most indolent
of men and i'll his younger days used
to do most of his composing in bed.
Once lie had almost completed a trio,
when the sheet fell out of his hand and
went under the bed. He could not
reach 1t, and, rather than get up, he
wrote another. The lazy man, if he
works ut all, does so by spurts, and
Rossini, working against time, wrote
THE Barber of Seville" in thirteen
days. When Donizetti was told of this
he remarked, at is very possible He
is so lazy.' The overture to the "Gazza
Ladra' was written under curious cir
cumstances. On the very day of the
first performance Of the opera not a
note of the overture was written, and
the manager, getting hold Of Rossinl,
confined him in the upper loft Of. La
Scala, setting four scene shifters on
guard over him. These took the sheets
as they We're filed and threw them out
of the windows to copyists beneath.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-12-19
Mcclure's for 1907.

In the January number of Nc
Clure's will begin the life of Mary
Baker G. Eddy and the history Of
the Christian Science Movement.
For the first time a complete, i'm
partial and true story of Mrs. Eddy
and Christian Science is to be had
it will run throughout the year.
Georgine Milmine has written the
story-for nearly three years she
has pursued her study of the sub
jects. Five other writers of Nc
Clure's staff have worked with her
to make this story accurate, fair, I'M
biased and complete. In view of
the fact that for some months the
press has been full of diverse and
conflicting news and statements re-
garding Mrs. Eddy, it is evident that
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-12-19
THIS YEAR 1T is THE
REGISTER AND LEADER.

The tremendous growth in the
circulation of the Des Moines Daily
Register and Leader during the
past year is not surprising to judges
ola good newspaper. The Regis
ter and Leader is first and last an
Iowa newspaper for Iowa people.
More Iowa news than, any other
paper. Will print the best and
most complete reports of state legis-
lature. Full Associated Press re-
ports. Unexcelled market and
sporting news pages. "Ding's"
cartoons are daily feature. A
clean and reliable newspaper for
every Iowa home.
Both the daily Register and Lea
der and the Manchester Democrat
will be sent by mail to any address
one year for $3.50.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-12-19
The Arab War Chant.

Captain Won Herbert describes how
the sacred chant was sung by OsmaD
Pasha's force in that last dreadful sor-
tie from Plevna. He knows, for, as he
says, las II youngster of seventeen, be
Ing then in the Turkish service, l took
part ln the charge" 1t is solemn
four part chant for deep male voices,
with intervals. the melody recurring
again and again. of alternating har-
monies hummed almost pianissimo. to
the words Gala Akbar," and then
again rising "to great outburst on the
fifth note" There is more than sug-
gestion Of plain song, that song which
drifted westward from the east.-Pall
Mall Gazette.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-12-19
A Poets Curious Compliment


1t was the habit of Richard Henry
Stoadard, the poet, to always speak
well of every one No matter how bad
the character Of a person, the good
gray poet invariably found some trait
to praise. One day in his office on
Park row some friend entered and
asked him whether he knew so and so
and, il so, what was the mans reputa-
ton 1t happened that the man had q
shady reputation and was well known
as a gold brick" operator. The aged
poet lighted his pipe and answered.:
Yes, know him. He is the most
energetic, progressive, irrepressible,
good natured, artistic kind Of an I'M
mitigated rascal that L, ever net
Leslie's Weekly.