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Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-04-05

Mis' j. a. whitaker and Dan Lee
are in St. Anthony's hospital.
The trial Of Fred Williams viii
come up on April II at Colorado
Springs
Attorney Ross spent some time in
Colorado Springs last week engaged
in the trial OF Fred Williams FOR mur.
der.
Mrs. Irene Fife has again assumed
her duties as secretary of the Al.
lance. There will be business meet.
ing and an election Sunday.
Rev. Dyett spent a day in Pueblo
last week, where he was in conference
with Bishop Grant. who dedicated the
new church there over which Rev
Owens is pastor.
Rev. and Mrs. Tolson OF Boulder
came down Tuesday to attend the fun,
eral of Mrs. Jas. Hubbard. Mrs. Tol.
son visited in the city for few days.
Dan Smith, Arthur Jackson and
James Brown left Sunday evening fol
Los Angeles. where they will join the
Floto Shows and again be In the band
OF which Milton Flore is in charge.
The Woman's League will give a
dinner at the home Of Mrs. Irving VIZ
liams. 2221 ArapahOe street. April 10
for the purpose of getting funds for
sending delegates 10 the state meet.
ing. Dinner 25 cents.
Carroll Rumford. Wm. johnson and
Alya Connell were In the city Easter
Monday. the guests OF Clarence Full
bright. He spent Sunday in their city
Il. W. Fields was also Spring,
visitor.
An excellent program given under
the auspices of the alumni Of the
Ebert school at the Eureka Literary
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-04-05

The trial of Fred Williams viii
come up on April II al Colorado
Springs
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-04-05

Rev. and Mrs. Tolson OF Boulder
came down Tuesday to attend the fun,
eral of Mrs. Jas. Hubbard. Mrs. Tol.
son visited in the city for few days.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-04-05

Rev. Dyett spent a day in Pueblo
last week, where he was in conference
with Bishop Grant. who dedicated the
new church there over which Rev
Owens Is pastor.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-04-05

Mrs. Irene Fife has again assumed
her duties as secretary of the Al
lance. There will be Il business meet.
ing and an election Sunday.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-08
to her country's consul at that place
or to some missionary stationed there.
A Cripple Factory.

In no other city of the world will
you see more helpless cripples than
in Constantinople.
Sitting all along the parapets that
shield the edges of the Galata bridge
from the waters of the Golden Horn
are beggars-men, women and child
ren-most of them the victim of some:
dreadful malady, all of them winning
out their piteous cry for aims.
There sits little girl with wide
open, sightless eyes, grooming cease
lessly her unintelligible plant. close
to her squats the figure of man with
out legs; farther on another, the VIC
tim to some dreadful disease that
brings a shudder the frame of the
western passer-by.
And look at that man there His
right shoulder is barred, so that all
may see he has no arm. Yet from
the shoulder there protrudes three
fingers-a CHASTITY freak indeed; yet
somehow it is not the ghastliness of
the distortion that strikes you so much
as wonder that such thing could pos
sibly be.
And as You pass along the bridge.
as you notice the various forms of
mutilation and disease that are flaunt-
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ed before your eyes so blatantly, you
will be bound to ask yourself the ques-
ton: Whence comes this dreadful
army of the MANNED, the halt, the blind
the lame? How can it be that here are
so many ''freaks?" For that is the
only word that sums up the lament
able regiment.
Neither is it easy to learn the truth
of things in Constantinople. Your
traveller in Turkey a little while ago
discovered quite by chance a fact that
made his blood run cold. that has
opened the eyes of philanthropists to
the existence of horrors that seemed
at first blush beyond credence.
1t was this: Outside ConstantinAple
hidden away in one of those beautiful
gorges that few Britishers penetrate,
there exists cripple factory, a place
where freaks are manufactured-if the
word will pass-where cripples are
created that they may be sent forth
into the streets Of Constantinople to
beg, to acquire money for the enrich
ment of the vile directors of the hidden
scheme.
These fingers protruding from the
shoulder of the deformed beggar on
the bridge. the sightless eyes of the
little girl, the legless man who whines
up into your face. that being who was
apparently burnt in dreadful manner
are all fakes or rather-for their
deformities are genuine enough, poor
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the Jellu brothers got back to Paris
they wouldn't let them into the fac
tory. The French machinists took the
Jellu brothers ideas bodily and out Of
that grew the automobile.
"At that west side track Johnny
Johnson put the worlds mark down
to 1:40 and it was regarded as mar
velous work. Then Jimmy Michaels
broke few records from fifteen miles
up and the Jellu brothers did few
stunts.
II remember. too, that a couple of
little girls used to come over to the
track and ride one of my tandems
around the cement course. One of
them afterward married Tom Butler,
the cyclist. and is now doing the dip
of death for Barnum & Bailey in the
automobile which loops the loop. She
is also a champion woman skater"
Eek then retold the story of his
grandfather. who was the best skater
in the neighborhood of Scugog lake,
up in Canada, where he had raced
with the Indians. who lived on a res
ervaticn next to his farm.
"My grandfather raced them over
seven hurdles on the ice and when he
got through he had all their blankets
and ponies" said Eek. 1T was pretty
cold then and he offered to give the
blankets back, but the chief said no,
that they had been won fair and
square and had to go. The next day
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1t is sent out in the first place by
the person who is to be it's final recip-
lent, and it travels widely before it
comes back. An ordinary plain postal
card is used. Across the back, rum
ming the short way of the card, the
directions are written.
They simply request the person
whose name appears at the top of the
card to send 1t along to a second
name, and so on, in q sort of chain
letter style. In addition, each recip-
lent puts the date when she received
the postal opposite her name on the
back of the card.
AS the card travels along it's face
is covered with lines where one ad-
dress has been crossed off and a new
one written on, and it is also covered
with cancelling marks and stamped,
for this card must go all the way
around the world to be a success.
When the original sender receives
it back it is torn with travel. One
that started from Scotland went first
to Montreal. then to Worcester, Mass,
next to Buenos Ayres, and before it
reaches Scotland again it will travel
to Melbourne, Australia; Rangoon,
Burmah; Kirakully, South India; Cape
Town, South Africa.
II the girl who longs for an around
the-world postal card has no friends
or relatives in places to which she
wishes 1t to travel, she addresses 1t
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1t turned bitter cold and my grand
father took all the blankets and furs
he had won, drove over to the reser-
walton and dumped them down in front
OF the chiefs door, telling him to dis
tribute them"
Eek says John 8. Johnson was the
fastest skater that ever stepped on the
dee in his day.
"He could beat them ALL" declared
Eek.
"In the quarter, you mean?" inter-
rupted Alan Blanchard.
Any distance" said Eek. "He had
such a tremendous fast sprint. mean
he could beat them in an even start,
On opposite sides of the track l don't
know how the races would have come
out, because Johnson might have got
careless. But racing up the stretch
with his man Johnson had that finish
ing sprint that would win for him ey-
cry time"
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Sherwood in Ward county. Almost ev-
cry line of mercantile and professional
business Is carried on. There is To-
cal and long distance telephone.
Upham is a new and prosperous
town on the Towner-Maxbass branch.
1t has a population of about 200. A
good baseball team always represents
the town. Upham is rapidly advancing
and has good school and two
churches.
These small towns are Easily gaining
prominence through the efforts of their
newspapers, the Bantry Advocate, Dem
bigh Promoter and the Berwick Post.
Denbigh, especially, is booming at this
particular time.
The other towns in the county are
Drake, Deering, Oakland, voltaire,
Amy, Saline, Norwich, Riga, Star, Viii
lard, Lnusville, Sedan, Leine and Ber-
gen.
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WINS RACE WITH DEATH.
Speed of Battleship Connecticut Saves
Lives Of Crew.

AhvCS VI STCWss
Virtually racing with death, the bat
tleship Connecticut put into the port of
New York bearing her company of
typhoid stricken sailors and won a
victory after thrilling run up the
coast from Cuba. The men who were
in the battleship's hospital were hasti-
ly transferred in ambulances that were
waiting at the Brooklyn navy yard,
and the marine surgeons declared later
that the timely arrival of the battle
ship had probably saved the lives of
all the invaded sailors of Rear Ad-
miral Evans fleet.
Captain William Swift of the Con-
necticut declare that he had thirty
two cases of typhoid on his vessel,
the names of sick men being with
held because they had been trans
mltted by wireless to the navy de-
partment at Washington when the
battleship was off Cape Henry.
Members of the Connecticut's crew,
however, emphatically declared that
there We're many more than thirty-two
cases on the battleship and that the
number Of stricken sailors was nearer
seventy-five than the figure given by
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day it stands twentieth in the list of
North Dakota cities in the way of pop
ulation, there being 1900 inhabitants.
Phe surrounding landscape is hilly.
The land Is of the best, is highly pro-
ductive and the farmers are prosper
Gus. Along the banks of the Mouse
river to the north are found some of
the best cattle ranches in the state,
while to the south there are also some
fine ranches.
1t was only within the last few years
that the country has been used for
farming purposes, but as wheat pro-
ducing region 1t is one of the richest
in the entire state. The country Is be-
coming thickly settled and each year
sees more immigration to it from other
states. Last year the immigration into
McHenry county was exceptionally
large, and this year it will no doubt be
just as large. Being the gateway to
McHenry county, all of the immigrants
are obliged to go through Towner.
Many of them stop in that city, and
during the summer there will be a
continual stream of settlers through
there.
That the future of Towner will be
continued prosperity is certain. It is
indeed the Getty of Promise" and it
will not take long before the promise
will be realized. With land values in
creasing and with the country 'becom-
ing more thickly populated, which
means larger acreage. Towner Is
sure to benefit.
Towner Is located on the main line
of the Great Northern railroad. A
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-08
AUTO EVOLVED FROM THEIR IDEA.
Racing Cyclists Credited with Starting
Use of Motive Power.

did you know that the Jellu broth
ers, the cyclists, really started the idea
of the modern automobile?" remarked
Tom Eek, the veteran trainer here to-
day. Americans always called them
the Jelly brothers, and the Chicagoans
who followed cycling we'll remember
the triplet team and the powerful i'm
preston they made at the dedication
of the track at Garfield park.
"They say 10000 people saw that
meeting and l believe it. At that time
there was a call for faster pace and
the Jellu brothers had a triplet ma
chine fitted up with electric power in
Paris. When they tried it out it only
went in something like 1:4O, which
was not much better that human pace
could do it. They left an order with
the finn of machinists in Paris, asking
them to follow their plans and give
them machine to go in / 80. When
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branch Of that road extends northward
to Maxbass, and the country along that
line is also Of tho very host

branch Of that road extends northward
to Maxbass, and the country along that
line is also of the very best.
AS a retail center Towner also ex-
cells. With the excellent country trib-
utary to it, and also commanding the
trade along the Maxbass extension, the
retail business houses of Towner are
certain to be of the best. In the years
to come they will be even better, and
at no great distant date Towner will
be looked upon as the retail center of
the middle northwest North Dakota, a
reputation 1t is rapidly securing.
Towner has some of the best public
buildings in the state. Last fall the
people of McHenry county voted to
bond the county for $4,000 with which
to construct q court house. Plans for
this court house have already been
drawn, the bonds sold, and work on
the beautiful structure will begin this
summer. The court house will be one
Of the finest in North Dakota, almost
exactly the same as the one recently
constructed in Trail county.
The post Office building and the city
hall Of Towner are both modern and
up-to-date buildings. This is especial
ly true in regard to the city hall, which
is one of the best buildings of the kind
in that part of North Dakota, and
which is the pride of every Townerite.
The public schools of Towner are
second to none. A handsome two
story building on a high basement
takes care of the scholars, and the
corps Of teachers include the best it is
possible to secure. The school house
is another monument to the progress
iveness Of Towner people, and is one
that any city would be proud of own
ing. The interior f1nishings of the
building are excellent, and the heat
ing and ventilation plans are of the
latest and up-to-date patterns.
The homes of the various churches
in Towner are also beautiful, and the
architectural designs of the edifices in
which the people worship are of the
very prettiest.
There is nothing that makes town
more than its residences, and in this
matter Towner is one of the best in
North Dakota. The homes of the citi-
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zens are of the very best, and indicate
that prosperity is everywhere at hand.
The County,

The County.
McHenry county, of which Towner
is the judicial seat, located in the IA
NOUS valley of the Mouse river, is the
central county In the state, being mid
way between the eastern and western
boundaries of North Dakota. It is ex-
ceptionally fertile and prolific for farm
ing, while stock raising opportunities
are unexcelled. The Great Northern
railways main line traverses the coun-
ty from east to west, while two
branches emerge from Towner and
Granville. Along these branches towns
have been established, and also on the
500 railway, which penetrates the
county at the southeast.
Anamoose is on the main line of the
500. It has three banks, lumber
yard, several machinery warehouses,
hotel and we'll equipped general stores.
A new school house was erected year
ago at a cost Of $4,000.
Balfour Is also on the 500, fifteen
miles west of Anamoose. 1t has two
banks and several general stores, two
churches and spacious brick school
house. A successful creamery is in
operation there.
Velva is one of the best towns on the
500, with splendid tributary country.
1t is we'll supplied with. business
houses and has graded and high
school. The population is about 600.
Granville is on the main line and
west of Towner. A branch line d.
verges from this town and runs 10
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along its banks. The business blocks
in Towner are substantially construct
ed, showing that the people located
there have every faith in the future of
that growing city. The river, which
runs near it, gives an abundance of
fresh water for use in the city, and the
dense woods along its banks will pro-
vide fuel for long time to come.
Less than a quarter of century
ago the site where Towner is now To-
Gated was nothing but bleak prairie
land, utilized by the ranchmen in that
vicinity for grazing purposes. Twenty
one years ago the town was started.
During the years following it has con-
tinually forged to the front until to-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-08
The Elevator Boy.

The elevator boy is from IA to e5
years of age and he probably has
more ups and downs in life than any,
one else. 1--WE use this joke with
apologies to the author, Rameses ~
You get in his car and he starts it
up before your person has completely
transferred itself from the solid floor
to that of the lift. And he very much
dislikes to let you off again. Usually,
he carries you beyond your floor.
If YOU complain to him, when he
growls that you called out your floor
to him in plenty of time, he will give
you look of contempt that makes You
feel very much Inundated. You dis
like being so rebuked before the other
passengers.
But you must not say anything
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cross to the elevator boy. If you do,
ne won't stop his car for you at all,
when you want to get on, and If he
can't lick you himself he'll call in the
janitor and they'll both accomplish it.
Do not pity the elevator boy. He
does not need it. Pity yourself.
we once pitied an elevator lad of
some thirty-f1ve summers because he
mad 70 stand on his feet all day and
push the lever back and forth. After
wards, we learned that he made $1O,-
OOO on North Butte and that his wife
was spending the winter in California.
This, in view of the fact that we
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-08
Iowner. N Dakota is a Prosperous Gty--Favorabv
Located. It's Future Will be Steady March Forward

Towner. the county seat of McHen-
ry county. is probably one of the most
progressive cities in the entire state
of North Dakota. Nowhere, perhaps,
are the citizens more proud of their
town, and nowhere can there be found
business men who are more interested
In advancing the interests of their
home town and county
Towner is a beautiful city, located
on the banks of the Mouse river, one
of the sprettiest streams of water in
North Dakota. Winding in and out of
the hills, with dense woods along the
way, many pretty drives can be made
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-08

Captain Swift.
Rear Admiral Evans, according to
Captain Swift, is in the very best of
health and has no thought of retiring.
The navy hospital reported that none
of the men are in a serious condition.
The admiral was asked to assigne a
cause for so many cases on one ship,
and replied that this was impossible
as it might have been due to any one
of number of things. He declared
that so far as he knew there would
be no board of inquiry into the ships
condition, that she would proceed to
Tompkinsville tomorrow, where she
would coal, and that then she would
Immediately rejoin Admiral Evans
fleet at Guantanamo
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Ate $50 Worth Of Lace.

Returning home at midnight and
laboring under the stress of heavy
weather, man asked his wife where
she had put the cold cabbage.
"On the second shelf in the pantry"
she replied.
The husband found the cabbage"
got the oil, mustard and vinegar, cut
up the cabbage" dressed it to his
taste and eat it all.
In the morning the wife noticed the
cabbage where she had put it and
innocently asked: Dear George. why
didn't you eat the cabbage?"
Il did" he responded.
On further investigation Georges
wife discovered that a bowl which con-
tanned lace valued at $50 which she
had put in starch was missing.
Times Want Ads get results.
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old moss-grown game of a rich noble
man in prison, who was willing to give
half his estate to the person who
would advance enough money to get
him out of prison.
"Say, don't you know that is an
old bunko game?" they asked the
youth.
1T isn't anything of the Sort" said
the Chicagoan. This nobleman is in
a prison in Grenada, Spain, and it only
takes $4,000 to get him out. He has
castle and vast estates and l get half
of his wealth when he is freed. I've
got the money with me, and I am go
ing through with the deal"
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NKUUNU THE WUKLD PUS1ALS.
The Latest Pest in the Souvenir Post.
al.Card Fad.

The around-the-world postal card is
the latest thing in the souvenir postal
card fad, and although it is Joy to
the recipient, the postal clerks call
it only another pest, for its face is so
covered with addresses that it takes
valuable minute to figure out what
it means.
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souls!-all owe their ailments to the
fiendish ingenuity of the cripple man
ufacturers. Suggest such thing as
this to anyone in authority in Con-
stantinople and you will probably be
laughed at. Yet there can be little
full truth.
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were suffering from ready money
famine, made us very angry and we
resolved never to pity anyone again,
except ourselves.
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INSISTS on BEING B1LkED.

chicago Youth Uf to Spain with $500
to Spend on Castle Game.
The French liner La Provence has
sailed with $4,000 of easy" money
from Chicago, bound for Spain. De-
tectives tried in vain to open the
eyes of the gullible youth who is TAX
ing it over.
The detectives learned from cable
agent that the youth had bitten on the
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-03-14
Isenns Ia Chestnut Culture.

We are glad to say that we have nev-
er seen a chestnut tree infested with
san Jose scale. Fer this reason If for
no other we would rather plant chest
puts than any other variety Of decid-
nous trees. Please do not understand
the writer to say that the chestnut Is
immune against this worst pest that
has ever visited our fair land. For thu
chestnut weevil there are several rem
edies suggested. Growing chestnuts III
the poultry yard under the keen eye of
the old hen is absolute protection. l
am speaking from experience. The
hen seizes the larva as soon as Il
bores through the fallen nut and be-
fore it can enter the ground Nature
has prompted this grub to vacate tho
nut as soon as it feels the shock Of the
fall to the ground. u Albertson, New
Jersey.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-03-14
Growth In Massachusetts.

The Springfield (Mass.) Union speaks
editorially as follows concerning the
growth of the Order in that state,
which, it says, has broken all records:
1T now has POI subordinate lodges and
over q. 00o members in the state. Per
haps the most notable feature of all IS
the wide range of activities in which
the members engage Started primarily
to advance the interests of the farms,
there is scarcely worthy cause that
this organization does not engage in.
In this way its membership has come
to embrace not only farmers and their
women folk, but many city residents.
The state lecturer says that the best
citizenship of the state is enlisted In
its ranks, aud who can dispute him?
The records show that 1908 discus
sions were had during the year, par
ticipated in by 5,745 members, besides
essays, readings, music and other fea-
lures of the grange programmes.