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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25

ly. and it was due solely to circum-
stances beyond their control that they
did not secure the contract. Low as
their bid was, 1t meant an outlay by
the government of $1,173,6O0 for GEM,
ent alone. or more than 81 per acre
for every acre Of land included In the
project. A pretty heavy burden you
will agree to put on the farmers of
Salt River Valley who had mortgaged
their lands to the government as Sc
curity for the repayment of the en-
tire cost of the work, estimated at
the enormous sum Of $6,50O,00O.
AS every dollar saved by the gov
eminent was dollar saved to the
farmers, the Secretary could hardly
do otherwise than proceed to manu-
facture cement when 1t was easily
demonstrable that by so doing he
could save half million dollars.
Finally. upon the advice of the in
gineers the Secretary of the Interior
authorized the purchase of a mill hav-
ing a capacity of $50 barrels a day.
The equipment was furnished by the
Allis-Chalmers Company of Chicago
and was installed and put in opera
ton as quickly as possible. From the
day in which the first run was made
to the present time there has been no
reason to question the wisdom of the
Secretary's decision. Notwithstani-
ing the occurrence of frequent and
unusual floods which have retarded
the work of the contractor who is
building the dam, rendering it impos-
sible for him to utilize the full cap
acity of the mill, the cost of manufac-
turing has seldom exceeded so per
cent of the lowest price at which it
could have been purchased
Constant and careful tests of the
product have proved the excellent
quality of the cement. and the accu-
rate cost keeping methods employed
show conclusively that Uncle Sam ac-
tually will save about half a million
dollars on the cost of the project by
reason of this experiment. The fol-
lowing table summarizes the cost of
manufacture for the months of Oct
ober and November, during which
PSiiou uuc luAA WdS WOThluS dL only
half capacity:
Salaries and labor, Oct. IS cents, Nov.
| 20 cents; maintenance material Oct.
IA cents, Nov. Is cents; quarry ex-
plosives, Oct. is cents, Nov. cents j;
clay digging, Oct. cents, Nov. 3.4
cents; clay hauling, Oct. cents, Nov.
"A cents; miscellaneous supplies,
Oct. 5 cents, Nov. cents; miscellan-
eous labor and materials, Oct cent
Nov. 1.6 cents; fuel wood, Oct, / cent
Nov. 6 cents; fuel oil, Oct. SO cents,
+, Nov. SO cents; electric power, Oct1 Is
cents, Nov. 20 cents; total Oct. $2.125
Nov. $213.
| The average cost of $2.13 per barrel
is a trifle less than the government
Is now paying for cement f. o. b. mills
in several parts of the west. With the
government plant working full cap
acity, it is estimated that the cost of
the manufacturing will not exceed
$3.50 per barrel. Up to the present
time, the mill has turned out 10000
barrels of cement. Much of this has
been utilized in canal lining, head
works, pressure pipes, aqueducts, and
crossings Now that the dam has
been erected to river grade, it is ex-
pected that the mill will be running
at full capacity in the near future.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25
A DISCUSSION OF PURITY
Will be Held This Evening in the
Public Library-Parents Are
Invited,

The evils Of high living and the in
fictitious diseases resulting will come
up for share OF the talk at the
purity meeting tonight in the public
library. Prominent clergy and ply
sicians will be present and address
the session and question box has
been arranged for the occasion. Ply
sicians of the city have come into
some very startling information of
late and are helping in the reform
work. Mothers and fathers are par
ticularly urged to attend.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25
SWIFT ACTION.

Upon receipt of numerous kilograms
from business men in several western
towns to our wholesale houses to the
effect that something, must be done
at once towards getting in supplies
or there would be extreme suffering
the matter was laid before our Com
mercial club who at once telegraphed
J. ]. Hill conditions and as result
OF this concerted action the several
wholesale houses are busy loading fif-
teen cars with the necessaries OF life
as rapidly as possible and will hurry
them on with all possible speed 10
their destination to as many different
towns
That the railroad companies are
doing everything within their power
to meet the demands of the public is
quite evident.
Our Commercial club deserves the
highest compliment for it's efforts
in behalf of our western citizens. No
money nor labor is being spared in
getting these fifteen cars loaded and
the Commercial club has the assur-
ance that this train will have the
right of way and preference over all
other trains
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SIX JURORS IN BOX
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is prepared to combat such efforts in
a way that will be decidedly SEN
sational. The district attorney, it is
said, is in a position to call witness
who will testify that every allegation
Thaw may make against White is but
a Pigment of his imagination and not
based on fact. There are witnesses
available for the prosecution who are
ready and willing to swear that IL
Thaw conceived any peculiar notions
regarding Stanford White after his
marriage to Evelyn Nesbit they were
insane delusions and entirely without
foundation. 1t has been whispered
among the medical experts whose SER
vices have been enlisted in one way
and another that Thaw imagined all
sorts of things of White, and that he,
Thaw, had been delegated to act in
the capacity of avenging angel.
From the standpoint of the prosecu-
ton the killing of White was nothing
more than cold-blooded, deliberate
murder, without cause or justification.
and confidence is expressed In Mr..
Jerome's Office that Thaw will PROMPT
ly be convicted of murder in the first
degree.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25

in a deep cut in Montana. The acety-
lene gas plant which furnished the
train with light gave out, and train
mems lamps and tallow candles were
requisitioned. Fortunately" said Jel-
lip, (some readers may object to his
interpretation) I'VE had pretty good
supply of liquor on board which was
husbanded and used to heat out blood
once in a while.
The press representative requested
the loan of one of the copies of eek
periences" which had been drafted but
was unable to obtain one. He was in
formed that an account would appear
in the st. Paul Daily Dispatch during
tho week.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25

The establishment of shooting gal
laries in the public schools of our
nation is the next step in the march
of progress recommended to congress
by the most masterful man of the
western hemisphere says the Wash
ington Herald, ''in the march of pro-
gress." O., we gods and little fishes!
What an idea some people have any
way of what constitutes progress. The
greatest schooling the native Ameri-
can received was in the practice of
shooting and what did he accomplish?
His race is almost extinct, made SO
by those who couldn't hit the side of
a barn. Why do we want our chill
dren to shoot we'll? Does this mas
terful man" sniff the smoke of battle
afar off? Would he have us to pre-
pare our boys to become proficient in
killing off his fellow man? 1t were
far better if less number of people
could shoot as well as they do. The
time is past for beating our pillow
shares into weapons of war and
destruction. We have reached stage
OF civilization when our weapons of
war should be beaten into pillow shares
and pruning hooks; when the spirit.
of greed and selfishness should be
supplanted by spirit of charity and
gratefulness. Z,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25
E. 1. B0lTE IS PROMOTED
Former Representative of Milwaukee
Harvester Company at Fargo
Goes Higher.

E. H. Bolte who has been assistant
general manager of the International
Harvester company at St. Cloud has
been given boost having been offered
and accepted the position of general
manager for one of the largest agen-
cies of the State of Wisconsin.
MIR. Bolte started in as travelling
man for the Milwaukee Harvester
company in 1892 and after very sue
cessful three years was transferred
TO Fargo from which point he opened
up the state Of North Dakota for the
Milwaukee people. He is we'll and fay-
orably known in Grand Forks and his
friends predict for him a bright future
IN the machinery business.
When at the general Offices of the
company at Chicago recently Presi-
dent Mccormick handed him a check
ior $500 saying: This is in apprecia-
tlon OF your faithful work; you have
been good soldier"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25
4 HINT.

WQlle our commercial clup Is puSE
planning for greater industries by
which Grand Forks is to become
great city let not the small establish
ments which afford constant and
respectable employment TO girls and
women be overlooked. Such es-
Establishments should be literally sup
ported for the vast amount of good
they can do can not be measured
alone by the earning capacity, for il
is just such institutions as these that
exert strong moral influence upon
any community.
As city increases in population so
does the number of women who must
work, increase. As rule they are
wives and daughters of hard working
men who are unable to supply their
families with the little comforts which
add to the pleasure of living. 1t would
be philanthrophy joined with good
business management to establish
sufficient number of such industries
to give remunerative employment to
all who wish to do their part in help
ing to make both ends meet.
In nearly every large city there are
many respectable poor girls and wo-
men who must either do some respect
able work or enter disreputable
places to gain a livelihood. Let it
not be said of Grand Forks that any
woman or girl has ever been COM
PEELED to enter a life of shame be-
cause she could not find respectable
employment within our city. We be-
lieve the Commercial club of our city
has noble mission to perform along
these lines.
The wooden mills at one time an in
dustry in this place furnished many
girls employment at a remuneratve
salary. For some reason the machin-
cry has been removed and this factory
shut down and many forced out of
employment. This matter should have
been looked into by the Commercial
Club and sufficient inducement held
out to make it paying proposition.
Will the Commercial club please let
the public know what they have done
and what they are going to do for the
city of Grand Forks? A little more
publicity in this matter might be of
general interest to all our citizens.
Our city papers should have a column
or two every day of the "doin's of the
c. c." If We are building too many
air castles let there be concerted ac-
ton and results will follow. AS the
poet remarked: do noble things,
not dream them all day long"
NEW CANAL ERA.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25
Slow Travelling.

Crookston Times: Tony Johnston.
fomerly resident of this city now
travelling for an implement house with
headquarters at Grand Forks was a
visitor in the city over night going
out on the north line this morning.
Mr.. Johnston states that owing to the
snow blockade That it is almost impos-
sible to travel in North Dakota and
that he is going to spend the greater
portion of his time in northern Min
nesota where the trains are running
with their accustomed regularity.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25
FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY sS. 1907.

revolutionary war and this lasted until
the railroads came when the canal
transportation became too slow and
financial interests Jagged in canal
building.
Freight rates by rail have been
much higher than py boat and the
immense amount of freight transpor-
tation all over the country has made
this cheapness of freight rates a mat
ter OF considerable Importance. Those
who have shipped goods by lake from
New York have been able to lay their
goods down at such reduced rates
over all rail shipment that they have
become very strong competitors in
trade with those who ship all rail
route
a new development of the trans
portation problem is under way and
of such magnitude that few persons
realize it.
There are two schemes TO connect
Ohio river and Lake Erie and another
10 connect Pil1sburg with Chesapeake
Bay. When we are informed that it
costs more to haul ore $50 miles by
rail than it does to carry it 500 miles
by water we can easily understand
how heavy goods can be more cheaply
manufactured if the raw material can
be shipped in by the water route, and
how in turn goods can be sold cheaper
if shipped out by water instead Of by
rail.
There is a scheme on foot to build
a ship canal of twelve miles across
Cape Cod and other cut offs to shorten
ship routes and give less dangerous
course for ships along the Atlantic
| coast The same schemes are in con-
temptation for shortening routes on
the Great Lakes, one of which is to
connect Georgian Bay with the Ottawa
river and down that to the st. Law
renee avoiding the dangers of Lake
Erie's rough waters and escaping
Lake Ontario, making more direct
passage for grain shipped from the
| northwest TO the sea.
/ Nearly all the other canal projects
| have to do with the Mississippi val
| ley, connecting the Great Lakes with
the Mississippi river, by running one
canal from Chicago to the Mississippi,
and one from Ashtabula to Pittsburg
and one from Toledo to the Ohio river.
When the river improvements now in
contemplation are completed it is es-
timated that more than 1000 miles of
inland water transportation for freight
in bulk will be added to the Transport
tation facilities This will very ma
terially lessen car shortage no doubt.
1t has been found that heavy ship
ments can be transported so much
cheaper, in fact, for about one-fourth
the cost of car shipment that there
is great awakening along the line OF
river Improvements and canal build
ing.
Counting the Panama canal and
Erie canal improvements there is in
contemplation an expenditure of near
ly billion dollars or about the
amount j. ]. Hill says is necessary
to expend in railroad equipment each
year for five years to overtake the
present demands.
The federal irrigation in the west
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25
BOUGHT A. LARGE TRACT
Francis Daily Of Houston, MIMI.
Purchased Half Section Land
Near LarimOre.

A warranty deed has been filed with
Register of Deeds Hancock involving
consideration of $12,sOO. James H.
Matthews of Larimore sold to Francis
Daily of Rouston, Mimi, half section
of farming land located in Arvilla
township four miles south and east
Of the city of Larimore.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25
Got Dueking,

The Y. NJ. c. A. building was the
scene of much mirth last evening
when Ben Hultgren travelling repres-
entative for Park Grant and Norris
was given a cold plunge into the wat
ers of the large swimming tank.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25

Forks, where he reports everything
tied up. He says that all travelling
men this winter bear a sort of play
ed-cards-all- look On their faces.
this being their only vocation during
the long hours spent on trains. 1t
took Mr.. Sulzbach nearly eight hours
to come from Grand Forks to this
CITY
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25
WINNIPEG POPULATION.
Henderson Directories Estimate It As
13G,953-A Most Remark.

Winnipeg's 1907 directory has Just
been completed and was this week
distributed.
Using the multiple system, the pub
fishers of the directory have figured
that Winnipeg's present population
numbers 1888 persons. The direc-
tory contains the names of 47,636 per-
sons. Z.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25

Food and drug Inspection chemist,
Feb. S.
Electrician, Feb. 20.
Manuel Training teacher, Feb. 20
Fl.
French translator, Mar. 6.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25
Up From Fargo.

H. J. Meier with the Mcclellan pa.
per company came up last evening
from Fargo.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25
0Narc0 Men luf

The travelling men with the Mer-
camille company are still taking ordcrg
over the state despite the blockade in
conveniences.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25

Many mans happiness is due to
his inability to realize when he is
getting the short end of it.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25
To Grafton.

f. G. Berg who is "Alloyer" with ,he
ol'ver intended to make Grafton to-
day.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25

The bunko man appoints himself a
divorce judge for the purpose of sep
arating fool from his coin.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25
BEN Coonerman IN.

Ben Cooperman came in Thursday
afternoon from Larimore where he
had been stalled since Wednesday at
4 o'clock. A train from this city was
turned around at I.arimore and run
back to this city as a special No. 2.
j. B. Streeter and wife of Larimore
and John O. Fadden of Arville also
came in on the No. 2.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25

is in the city waiting for a chance to
get back to his work.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25
Jack Taylor Stalled,

Jack Taylor representative OF the
John Gund Brewing company at Oslo
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25
@k6i6al0fE zSMSED
se.tinent to be 1nc.lc.ted

0e1timent to be Inc1lcated.
Let reverence Of law be breathed by
every mother to the lisping babe that
erattles in her lap; let 1t be taught in
let 1t be written in primers, spelling
cooks and almanacs; let it be preached
from pulpits and proclaimed in legis..
lative halls and enforced in courts Of
Justice; in short, let it me the
Oolitical religion Of the nati0.
Abraham Lincoln.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25

A Funny Look.
Fargo Forum: Dave Sulzbach re-
turned Saturday evening from the
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-25
NEW CANAL ERA.

The first canal era was after the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-18

you have heard the chord of the harp of
life smitten; when the soft Heaven born
notes of our southern hooking bird wit
its trills, its whistle. its meanings its
muluform sounds of joy and sorrow
commngling, as 1t trolls it's soft. match
less, delicate waves of melody over the
stiffness of the night sweeter than a
mothers lullaby, drawing the weary soul
of the toiler away from the earth and
its cares, nearer to Heaven; closer to the
omnipresent spirit of unfathomed love, to
rest and peace; nearer our Fathers home
Your lives and the lives of your CO.
toilers, your beautiful, unfaltering faith;
your work is at once, now, as in ages
past, of society, past, present and in the
years to come; the stronghold of the
family tie that binds with unbroken links
the highest aspirations of men, and the
richest ideals and realities of this world
with the loftiest ideals of man for the
endless years to come.
1t is living answer to atheism, and
corroding, undermining unbelief: an OBJ
jeet lesson and sustaining power for all
that is good and beautiful in the simple
faith and hope: a pillow Of cloud by day
and a pillow of fire by night, comforting
and strengthening mankind along the
weary pilgrimage to a better land;
mighty resistless influence and impulse
for good in the present and hereafter 10
the children of men.
If many of the distinguished, learned
authors, scholars, and so-called higher
critics" of the Bernard Shaw type, many
of whom are apparently thirsting after
truth. even If that truth carries them
ages agone to an atom of protopasm in
a mud pond, or forces the self-imposed
confession of the developed atom, man, 10
admit how little he knows, and into de-
NAL of every sustaining faith and doc
trine that alone render human, reason
able, conscious existence, worth the liv-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-18

break deep the furrow, harrow the SOIL
and calmly eonhdingly and patiently wait
until the golden grain at harvest, and the
great seas of spotless fleece, clad in gar
ments of white, unite in waving their
benediction to Heaven, beckoning the
world to a higher plane of faith, and
laying the foundation, more lasting than
granite, in immovable truth to irmer
trust in the living God of life the God of
the seasons, and OF all the vast worlds
rolling through unfathomed space and of
all nature, that make for humanity $
noblest condition, now and in the years
to come; charging mans conceptions of
this vitalizlng Divine force, by sustaining
those principles of habits of life that up
build the moral character.
Through the sweat and the toll even
with perhaps the painful recollection of
the sinister refractory, and "Maudlike,"
"Ole Beck" hesdlessly moving among the
tender emerald blades breaking, nipping
swapping and popping corn stalks which
calamities, mulelike, with needless reck-
lessness, she persistent refuses to con-
slider, under the pressure of thirst and
sunshine; with pillow shares disregardlng
the natural laws of gravltation and well
ordered plans of keeping in the middle
OF the row." and with rude and reckless
persistence for making for the nearest
stream and shade tree; yet above it all
and out of all of the perplexities of farm
life comes the music of babbling brooks
and birds, at morning, noon and night,
and we hear them ALL with bob whites
calling and answering to their mates from
hill and vale; where even in the dusk
of twilight through Its frightening
shadows, Its gloom and darkness, as you
have lain your weary bodies down to
rest. when the dust and the toll of the
day is spent, and the soul in silence is
communing with Nature and her God,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-18
The Magic Queen of Iron Welcomes the
CfivaIrOuS Sons of King Cotton
"HOWdy' Southern Cotton Association?

Here's to you" Southern Cotton asso-
citation We quaff to your health, happi-
ness and prosperity; from the crystal,
fathomless fountains of hope, which your
life and calling sustains, and fills the
broad earth with the grand, silent lessons
of faith and peace, and, as the years
glide away:
May your shadows never grow less. and
as the borders of your lives enlarge, In
the fullness of time, may its darker lines
grow whittier and winter, and the fiber,
the warp, the wool and the staple, grown
longer and more beautiful; and fruition,
stronger and more abiding, until that
prosperity of soul; that fullness Of basket
and store, which the toilers in the fleece
deserve above all others, crown your lives
with Heavens choicest blessings; peace,
happiness and plenty.
You are the major part of that salt
of the earth that has not lost its SAVIOR;
the susta.ners of the real, practical, beau
tiful, dependable, simple faith and life +;
the bulwark of government; the strength
of religion; an impossible barrier to the
flood of evil influences that threaten to
overrun our great cities the typical full
fllment of the souls purest ideals and
noblest types of manhood, the most
charming types of the sacred family cir
Gle that hold together the grandest evili-
cation this world has ever known.
Away out there, in untrammeled COM
munion with Nature and her God, among
the virgin hills and wales, fields and for
est; among her loftiest visions of the
pure and beautiful, the true of this world,
you live close to the great heart throbs
of creation; and by your firm, abiding
child faith in Gods appointed seedtime
and harvest, by your patient toll and
trust, that the steadfast sunshine and the
never failing seasons will sustain: you