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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-14

modern city. In his day people who
did not enter place by horsepower
or on foot came by water and he made
most ample plans for the water APP
proaches to Washington. But he could
not imagine q time when the great
majority of the visitors to the capital
would be shot in by rail and would
have their first view Of the place on
passing through the doors Of station.
He provided three great central points
for his composition-the Congress
House." the Presidents House," and
the Washington Monument. To these
the Burnham Commission has added
fourth-the Union station. the majes-
tic vestibule Of the city, where visitors
will gain their first and last impress
sions Of the place. It is now under
construction, is to cost 81. 00o. 900 and
will be the greatest Of all buildings
Of Washington in size, and hardly sur
passed by the Capitol itself in beauty
and dignity.
1t is already taking shape as vast
Roman palace Of shining white Bethel
granite in central pavilion modelled
on the Arch of Constantine, and all Of
its outlines preserving the general
idea Of colossal city gate. 1t is about
thirteen feet longer and seventy-three
feet wider than the Capitol. To insure
the building its full effect a semi-cir-
cular plaza twelve hundred by six hun
dred feet, has been created in front Of
1t, with avenues radiating to half tho
points Of the compass. Through the
central of these avenues the visitor
emerging from the main door of the
station sees the vista Of the Capitol
the most imposing and appropriate Of
all possible introductions to the city.
In April last, the corner stone of the
office building for the House Of Rep
resentatives was laid with imposing
ceremonies, and within the last two
months the like work for the senate
building was begun, but without pomp
or circumstance; an iwhen these ma
jestic structures are completed at a
cost Of 100000, the plaza east Of the
capitol will represent a group Of build
ings unsurpassed. The projected
buildings and improvements designed
within recent years, some of which
are nearly completed and others In the
course Of erection, are estimated to
represent an expenditure of $4,000
900.
The administration OF affairs of the
District of Columbia, comprising an
area Of 69,245 square miles, il in the
hands Of a board of commissioners.
two appointed by the president and
confirmed by the senate, and one an
army engineer ofiecr detailed by the
secretary of war. They hold Office 70
three years. Nobody living in the city
Of Washington or elsewhere in the Dis
trict outside the city has a vote Of any
sort. The city and district have no
state politics and no municipal cleo
tons. Polling booths and the mark
ing Of ballots are things unknown.
BY the act Of congress which was
given its final shape in 1873, providing
permanent form Of government for
the city and district, the United States
government pays one half Of the ex-
penses and the citizens (tax payers) to
pay the other half. There are many
safeguards thrown around the con-
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Ghosts Still Hover Over ''Boot Hills
North Dakota
marshal "Muidins" Ito min

Every little frontier town in this
state. Montana, and other typical
tough" neighborhoods has had its
FOOTHILLS" in days Of the past when
buffalo and redskins roamed over the
plains. These "boothills" were used
for the interment Of those who lived
BY the gun and died by the gun, the
name originating from the fact that
all boots, clothes and weapons were
consigned along with the body to the.
last resting place by sympathetic pals.
It is now very difficult and almost
impossible task to find one of these
unique and romantic burial places.
Fourteen miles east Of Portal, N. d.,
ON the west shore of Des Laos lake
and in close proximity to the Canadian
border, rises with majestic head
hill or knoll, reputed by old residents
Of that section as genuine "boothil1,"
and even at this late date inklings Of
ghosts lowering over the boot" and
Of recent murders are rife among the
farm folk. This curious hill Is known
as Scout HILL" the name arising from
a legend concerning the brutal killing
Of United States scout by Indians
in the year 1880. At about this time
the two governments, acting jointly,
were running the boundary line be-
tween King Edwards dominions and
the United States, and the crews spent
an entire winter In what is now known
as Stalker's Landing, surrouned by
wolves and Indians and realizing in
every detail the awful horrors Of a
fierce northern winter.
Other neighborhoods have their his
torical cemeteries and the adjunct
legends connected with the same.
Montana, too, is replete with tales Of
early days. the buffalo runs, the trials
and tribulations of frontier days. That
state, perhaps. has more of the typical
boots" than any other in the union.
Kansas, too, comes in with her share.
The gunfightcvs cemetery at Dodge
City, Kan, Is now the site Of a fine
school. and school children romp ever
the ground where many a cowboy wis
buried at the time when the little town
at the end of the cattle trails seldom
saw O day pass without it's murder.
But at Billings, Montana, If one cares
to take walk Of two or three miles
TO a hill overlooking the flats. OF the
Yellowstone, there is frontier grave
yard just as it was left years ago.
"Boothill" Is survival Of the old
town OF Coulson. which was estab-
lishcd on the Yellowstone about six
miles above the site of Billings, long
before the bustling little center Of the
wool trade was ever thought of. Coul-
son was one Of those wonderful mush-
room towns Of the frontier. Steam
boat traffic on the Yellowstone ended
there. and. like Topsey. town "just
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superb structure. In the dignity of it's
proportions and design, the richness
and harmony Of adornment, in the per-
feet adaptation to the purpose for
which it is intended. the library of con-
gress is magnificent architectural
achievement. The bookshelves con-
tain more than 100000 books. Any
one may use the library, but books
may be drawn out only by members
of congress. the president, supreme
court, and government officials.
The presidents residence, the White
House, is familiar-at least the front
view Of 1t is-from photographs. 1t
was the first public building erected
at the new seat of government. The
architect was James Hoban, who drew
his plans closely after those of the seat
of the dukes Of Leinster, near Doublin.
Washington himself selected the site,
laid the cornerstone in 1892, and lived
to see the building completed; it is
told that in company with his wife he
walked through the rooms, but few
days before his death, in 1899. John
Adams was the first occupant, in 1900.
In 1914, in John Quincy Adams term,
the house was fred by the British
troops, when they captured the city,
and only the walls were left standing.
With the restoration the stone was
painted white to obliterate the marks
Of the fire, and outside of official usage
it is as the White House that the ex-
ecutive mansion is universally known.
The surroundings of the White
House are worthy of note. In front
is historic Lafayette square. On one
side is the treasury; on the other, the
state, war, and navy building. The
house is set amid the presidents
grounds, with trees and flower beds,
and fountains and sloping lawns. The
grounds merge into the mall and
stretch away to the monument and Pc.
tomac. To the slopes south of the
house Washington children repair for
their Easter egg rolling on Easter
Monday, where scores of brilliantly
colored eggs are sent rolling and
tumbling down the banks. The Gus
tom Is of European origin, and comes
from an earlier one known to the chill
dren Of the Pharoahs. Concerts, open
to the public, are given in the east
grounds by the Marine band on Sat-
urday afternoons, from June to Sep
TENDER, inclusive.
Lafayette square is rich in historical
associations. At the southeast en-
trance Is the bronze and marble men,
orial erected by congress to commem-
crate the distinguished services of La
fayette and other French officers in the
Revolution. On the northeast is the
Rochambeau monument. In the center
of the square is Clark Mills eques-
trian statue Of Gen. Jackson, as the
hero Of the battle of New Orleans.
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dering the building back where It be-

00rlng the D0lld1hg Dack where It be-
longed.
Congress expected this Agricultural
building to cost $1,500,000, and fixed
was finally ended by the Presidents
that limit in the law authorizing It's
construction. 1t has Just discovered
that the money is all going into two
wings, and the central structure still
remains to be provided for. This is one
Of the little methods the departments
at Washington have of making a
small appropriation go a long way.
Before very long the department Of
Agriculture will find itself housed in q
three or four million dollar palace.
The National museum is installed at
present in what the late Professor
Langley called "the cheapest building
which was ever produced in any coun-
try for such purpose" 1t Is an en-
ormous rambling brick warehouse, and
was so overcrowded five years ago that
Professor Langley compared it then
to "a place In which rubbish had been
thrown" It cost quarter of q million
dollars.
Now a new National museum is ris-
ing on the eastern side of the mall
great pile Of creamy granite over five
hundred feet long and more than three
hundred feet wide, costing $500, 900,
and providing equally for scientific
workers and for the admiring public
The architects for this and the Agri-
cultural building, ON the other side of
the parkway, made their plans after
consultations to secure harmony.
One Of the chief features of the
Bournham commissions plans was to
be a gigantic building, nearly quar-
ter of mile in length, filling the entire
space Of three blocks between the Mall
and Pennsylvania avenue. facing the
white Lot" or Presidents park, back
Of the White House. As the oppo-
site side of the White Lot is occu-
pied. except for one block, by the
George Washington University, the
new building Of the Daughters of the
American Revolution and the Corcor.
an art gallery, the third side by the
White House, the treasury and the
state, war and navy department build
ing. and the fourth by the Washington
monument and it's grounds, this would
practically complete another imposing
architectural composition, with a bit
Of discord, to be sure, but effective on
tho whole.
The senate has been trying to carry
out this part OF the plan by securing
a site for building for the depart
ments OF state, commerce, labor and
justice, and this year it put an item
in the public building bill authorizing
the expenditure Of three million dollars
for that purpose. But the house struck
out the paragraph under the leader
ship of Speaker Cannon.
II this site could have been secured
now a good part of the work Of re-
deeming the district south of Pennsyl-
vania avenue would have been accom-
plished. AS 1t is, there is talk of
building gigantic hotel on a part of
the land, and II that is done there will
probably be gap in the splendid plan
for a generation to come.
There was one respect in which the
prescient genius of the French engin-
eer who was designer of Washington
could not possibly foresee the needs Of
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-14
Washington. D. C.-The visitor IL

Washington. D. C.-The visitor to
Warrington who desires to ascend to
the top Of the Washington monument
may either climb the stairway of 900
steps or 60 up In the elevator, holding
thirty persons and making. half
hourly ascents. that takes five minutes
to mount to the top Of the great obelisk
OF white Maryland Marble. Its height
from the ground to the tip of the pyra.
mid OF pure aluminium that caps it
10 666 feet and FIVE and an eighth
inches-there is nothing like being ex-
act It is the highest masonry struc-
ture In the world. Cologne cathedral.
624 feet, the pyramid Of Cheops, $40
feet. and st. Peters at Rome, 518 feet,
coming next in order. When the visitor
from Grand Forks ~ steps out from
the elevator on to the top landing place
he is as high above the ground as il he
were standing upon the top of a pile
made up Of three buildings of the
height of the Union bank with the
Free Press building on top of the
three.
The city which he looks down upon
from the pinnacle of this saring shaft
Is q vastly different Washington from
the one that the poet Tom Moore visit
ed In the first decade of the last cen.
tury and wrote such an amusing &C.
count Of, and different from the Wash
ington that Charles Dickens described.
Among the poetical souvenirs of
Moore's visit to this continent in the
hrst decade Of the last century is the
familiar Canadian Boat Song" "Row,
Brothers, Row; the Stream runs Fast"
Another, not so well known, is his
poem to the city Of Washington, in
which he says:
This famed metropolis, where fancy
sees
Squares in morasses, obelisks in trees;
Which travelling fools and gazetteers
With shrines unbuit and heroes yet
unborn"
Now there is such an obelisk as Moore
never dreamed of. Some Of the shrines
have been built, and the supply of
heroes exceeds all requirements. As
to the material part Of the city. even
m 1910. the buildings were few and
tar between, and the city was no credit
10 Stars and Stripes. Charles Dickens
visited the United States in that year,
and his description of Washington in
his american Notes." may here be
quoted in the light Of the city's growth
from 10000 inhabitants, as it had then,
to its present population of 323,123,
and its much more remarkable archi-
tectural growth.
1t is sometimes called the City of
Magnificent Distances but it might
with greater propriety be termed the
City of Magnificent Intentions, for it
Is only by taking a birds eye view of
It from the top Of the capitol that one
can at all comprehend the vast de-
signs OF it's protector, an aspiring
Frenchman. Spacious avenues that be-
gin in nothing and end nowhere;
streets, miles long, that only, need
houses, roads and inhabitants; public
buildings that need but public to be-
come complete, and ornaments of great
thoroughfares which only lack great
thoroughfares to ornament-are it's
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chief features. One might fancy the
season over, and most of the houses
gone out Of the town forever with their
masters. To the admirers of cities it
Is Barmecide Feast, q pleasant field
for the imagination to roam in; q
monument raised to q deceased pro-
3ect, with not even a legible inscription
to record the departed greatness"
Few people would live In Washing
ton, take 1t, who are not obliged to
reside there; and the tide of emigration
and speculation, those rapid and re-
gardles currents, are little likely to
flow at any time toward such dull and
sluggish water"
More than twenty years after Dick
ems visit q senator introduced a bill
for the removal of the capital, be-
cause the pigs had rooted up the
terrace about his new house. and 1t
was that catastrophe which gave Wash
tngton an efficient board of health IL
Dickens was in the flesh today and
could revisit Washington he would find
that some Of the designs of the aspiring
Frenchman have been carried out to
the letter. and Washington is beginning
to lay the foundation for the title she
Will hereafter earn of "The City Beau
tiful."
Washington was originally planned
by Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant, a
young French engineer of great pro-
mise. President George Washington
and Secretary Of State Thomas Jefter-
son exercised an oversight of his work,
and President Washington submitted
the plan to congress in December, 1871.
L'Enfant's superb conceptions were
, fully appreciated at first, but as decade
after decade passed without any indi-
cations that the raw southern village
was outgrowing It's unkempt infancy
they fell into neglect. Instead Of so
massing the public buildings as to
make each enhance the attractiveness
of the rest. or placing them at the
points at which they would have fur
nished imposing views from all direc-
tons, the authorities scattered them
anywhere. Some of them were wedged
directly across L'Enfant's avenues,
spelling some Of his finest vistas.
Nevertheless two things saved the
great plan from complete obliteration.
One was that property rights were &C.
commodated at the start to L'Enfant,s
street system, and anchored most Of It
in place. The other was that when
the early government buildings were
i constructed, classic architecture for
such purposes was in fashion, and the
later buildings, as q rule, followed the
custom. There we're a few melancholy
exceptions, such as the pension night
mare, concerning which General Sher-
tdan murmered what a PITY" But
in general the United States govern
ment has followed classic lines In
housing itself, and most of Its build
ings will At very we'll into the scheme
Of the ideal city.
BY the end Of the nineteenth century
Washington had grown to such an ex-
tent that its magnificent distances"
were no longer ridiculous, and the
plain, maas eye could see some of the
things it had taken the eye of genieus
to see hundred years before. In 1898
it occurred to the residents there that
it would soon be time to celebrate the
hundredth birthday of the capital, and
Arizona republican., 1906-01-24

mant for any person so inhumanly neglectful and boys who are caught throwing their ropes in a field with out authority should also be treated as the worst kind of tresspassers.
 EXPEDITION TO FINAL COUNTY -E. H. Amet, J. Ernest Walker and D. D. Horning, left Monday for a trip to Pinal county. expecting to return Thursday They went prepared for any emergency from ducks and white wings to real estate snaps.
 EAST END MOTHERS CIRCLE The Mothers Child Study Circle of the East End school will meet Thursday afternoon at 3:3O o'clock in the school house. There will be election of off cers and it is earnestly desired that there will be a full attendance.
 TO LAY OUT TOWNSITE-Author- ization was received from Washington yesterday, at the office of the sur veyor general for the plating of a town site at Martinez, also known as Congress junction. A survey was or dered ct o~ce after which sixty days must elapse, when the town site may be officially created.
 TUCSON VISITORS was q sort of q Tucson family reunion in Phoenix yesterday. Messrs. Albert Steinfeld ard Alfred Donau, the lat ter being tha brother of Mrs. Stein field, arrived hare from Tucson. The former came fo- the dl1al purpose of watching tie progress Of a case in which he is interested in the supreme court and to meet Mrs. Steinfeld who came from Scn Francisco to join him. arriving yesterday morning also Mir. Donau came expressly to meet Mrs. Donau, vSo came from San Francisco with Mrs. Steinfeld. The quartet, with MT. Francis J. Heney of San Francisco attorney for MT. Steinfeld and himself a former Tucsonian. formed a jolly party at the Hotel Adams last night. CHINESE NEW YEAR-Unless the precedent of some thousands of years shall be departed from, Chinese new year will arrive today in all it's glory and the next two weeks will be devoted to the burning of powder by the Chi nese population of Phoenix. It is like l ly the Mongolians have other festivals of importance but this is the one big function of the year which seems to l include Christmas, Fourth of July and ! Thanksgiving all rolled into one. Just
 why it takes them two weeks to get ] the year properly started is not clear 10 an American but it does ueverthe-
 less and perhaps it is no business of other people. It's big time and that's
 all that need to be known. It's the time when the Chinamen are good na- tured above all things and their cus-
 tom of honoring their friends with sweetmeats, candies, cigars, China lilies
 and other tokens of good feeling is equally as much in evidence as Christ
 mas gifts are among the Christian pep
 ples of the earth.
 "CAPITOL" PUNISHMENT-AI let
 ter was received yesterday at the of
 flee of the governor from an orEaniza-
 ton of women in the cast. the purpose
 of which is to abolish, as the letter
 said "capitol' punishment. The gov
 ernor and all his official family with
 out hesitation agree wich the women.
 that there should be no capitol punish
 ment. other than what naturally fol-
 lows in the discharge of their duties, ! though they have given no expression
 of their views concerning the hanging lof murdererS.
Arizona republican., 1906-01-24
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Arizona republican., 1906-01-24

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 The pattern 5219 is cut in sizes for a %. 24. 26. 2S and 30 inch waist mea- sure.
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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-11-16
NEW UNCLE REMUs STORIES
BY JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
South Recognized by Southern Newspa,
per in Departure from the old
Connie Supplements.

Joel Chandler Harris, the loveable
Southern writer, who has given to the
world Uncle Remus, is about, to receive
substantial recognition in a new form.
The Memphis News Scimitar announces
the closing of deal by which it will be
able to publish exclusively in this terri
tory, beginning Sunday, June "a, series
of new Uncle Remus stories, illustrated
in colors by Artist Condo, who has
drawn the pictures for the Uncle Remus
books of the past
This is step in the right direction for
comic supplements which are devoid of
any Objectionable features, yet are anus
ing and instructive to the young and in
teresting to grown people. tt is also a
source of congratula!ion to the South,
whose merit is being more and more
recognized.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-11-16
CONSTIPATION.

Health is absolutely impossible.
if constipation be present. Many
serious cases of liver and kidney
complaint have sprung from neg
lected constipation. Such de-
plorable condition is unnecessary.
There is cure for it. Herbine
will speedily remedy matters. G.
A. Lindsay, postmaster, Bronson,
Fla, writes, February IL, 1902:
Having used Herbine, l find it a
fine medicine for constipation .
Sold by the Fry Drug Co.