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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-01-18
orIain Of Starch.

Tho art Of starching was not intro
duced into England until the ingcnu-
lty OF Dutch women in starching rufs
Induced Queen Elizabeth to turn to
them when she took to wearing cam.
brio and linen cuffs. In 1864 Mistress
Dinshcin Won den Plasse. tho refugee
daughter Of Flemish knight. camo
with her husband to London. accord.
Ing to IN old writer. and set UP m cs.'
tablishmcnt for starchinE. where she
not only piled her trade. but instruct
I'd English classes in her art.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-01-18

Seeing that she was woman"
and that ''he did not wish to be hard
upon her." n Rangoon magistrate re.
Gently fined a Burmese prisoner
for being in Illicit possession of four
balls of opium, s16o, with the alterna.
tive of six months rigorous impris.
onment.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-01-18

Damages of $4,000 because of an ac-
cident that incapacitated her from
dancing should make a Milwaukee
belle satisfied just to think of former
waxed floor triumphs.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-01-18
Prefer Their Own Way.

Prefer Their Own Way.
Thousands OF men do not know
what is good for them. but you might
a. well remember that the majority OF
them do not waat to b told.-John
A. Howland.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-01-18
CLOSING ESTATE
ACTION OF EXECUTORS OF W.s.
srRArToN's WILL.
LEeAclEs ARE NOT YET PAID

Want to Close the Estate and Turn u
Over 70 Trustees Of the w. .. STRAIT
ton Hems-invsntory Reports Over
Five Million Five Hundred Thev-
sand Dollars Assets.
Colorado Springs. 8. Dimes
Of Denver and Dr., d. II. Rice and
Carl 8. Chamberlain Of this city. ex-
ecutors Of the stratton estate. nled
their. annual report with Judge Kerr
Of the probate court Friday. The bal
ance on hand Jan. !. 1906. was S7s.-
s70i2. This. together with the collec,
,lous for the rear. made total revs-
nue. for the year or Ss9s. .ito.s5. There
was paid out e3i7.is7.&l. leaving bal
ance on hand Dec. II. 1906. OF $751;
9s3.&t. or S7s.s73.3: more than the
cash balance u year ago.
or more than passing signihcance
In the petition prepared BY the execu-
tons. which will be fled with Judge
Kerr shortly. The petition requests
permission TO pay ss76.ooo In iesacies
to relatives. friends and Institutions.
~ provided In the will Of tho late w.
s. Stratton. less SIS. .335.6s. state In
heritnncc tax thereon. No leEncies
have been paid except tho compromise
sum to !. Harry Stratton. agxregntinS
S350.000. which was authorized by The
court.
Following arc the ieGacies which
sh. - a-usarn AAaiVa In nay.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-01-18

TOTAL ...........s....... ...vSSo.VVV
The executors desire to close the ss-
tate and turn the Affairs over to the
trustees Of the projected Myrnn STRAIT
ton home. and the payment to tho
various bcncnciarics Is tho nrst step
thereof.
In the petition the executors point
out that litigation exceeding 3:0.O00.-
900 has been settled with the expcndi-
turc OF approximately 100000. This
sum includes legal expenses. etc. The
only cases unsettled are those Of Z. A.
Meredith for S77.G00. pending an ap-
peal by Meredith in the Supreme
Court: PppcJoy. for one-half the value
OF the estate. dismissed by District
Court. plaintiff Ming bill Of cxcep-
tions: Diltx ct al. $4,000. now pend.
Ing In District Court. and United
States W.. tho estate. 3t.SS5. pending
In United States Court Of Appeals.
In tho petition the executors give the
bulk Of the estate as values. emitting
all mention OF the minor assets:
Cash In bank. Dec. 81. 1906. .$l53. .9i3. ~
The Colorado Springs
& Intcrurban Rail-
way Company:
$50 bonds $3.50. 10000
5000 pref. shares. 500.0o0.0o
1896 com. shares. &9.sso.o0
A-l. .sss. $4,000
The International Realty
Company. 1886 shares
At $l3.SO. ................. l.SsV.VVV.ov
The Stratton c. G. NJ. & d.
Company. 1898. 800 shs.. 1875 .000.o 90
The Portland Gold Mining
Company. 504.333 shares
at $l.4O ................ aVo.Voo..o
Brown Palace hotel mort
gnge decree .......... 623. .333.3c
Total :. ...............S5,5 ,53s .s6
The executors announces that since
the death OF the late w. 8. Stratton
(Sept. IA, 1902. they have purchased
from the income OF the estate $780,
600 in bonds OF the Colorado Springs
& Interurban Railway Company. the
same now being part OF the estates
assets. The estate Is In better finan-
cial condition than when 1t came into
the hands OF the executors, according
to their petition. The assets are five
times greater than any probable la
bility.
In this connection. It is mentioned
that the executors offered to the
county treasurer OF FL Paso county
the sum OF s26s. .s2s.65 for state inher-
itance tax. in addition to $13.335.6S tax
on legacies, both amounts being re-
fused.
The principal items comprising the
revenues for the year include the divi-
dends and interest on bonds paid by
the Colorado Springs & Interurban
Railway Company. S67.500: Portland
dividends. $115. .996.59; dividends by the
Stratton-Cripple Creek Mining and
Development Company. $99,996. and
dividends by the International Realty
Company. $11. 1.995.52. The largest dis
bursements were 100000 for the pur-
chase of Colorado Springs & Interur-
ban Railway Company bonds and
100000 in payment to the Interna-
tional Realty Company OF loan to the
Strntton estate April Z, 1903.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-06
When He Is a Real Man

IN New York at the present time there is a
club called the Friars. 1t meets every Fri
day night at chophouse near the office of
one of the leading newspapers 1t is COM
posed of a number of dignifed young men,
who attend the meetings, dine in evening
clothes, and listen with senatorial gravity to
their own speeches and the speeches of their
invited guests. The club is composed of press
agents. They discuss art, the uplifting of the
theater the superiority of the American
player, and the needs of the drama; but, get
a Friar by himself, with good dinner under
his waistcoat and fragrant cigar in the corner
of his mouth, and he will tell something worth
hearing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-06
CHASING THE RAINBOW

often call to mind the years when |, a simple
child,
With quaint, fantastic stories so happily
beguiled;
And ever, when across the sky a rainbow
behold,
recollect my boyish search to find crock OF
gold
quite believed the story and with eagerness
profound
dreamed of wealth awaiting where the rain
bow reached the ground,
And in nv youthful innocence | started out to
make
My first vain chase for rainbows we can never
overtake
Dull truths have come with fleeing years.
I'm wiser now than then
Yet after all boys strange thoughts resemble
those of men.
We're children of larger growth and love to
chase, In truth,
The same delightful phantoms that beguiled
in our youth
We miss the honest beauty that may hide in
homely facts,
The while vague, romantic hope our longing
gaze attracts;
And none Of life's dull certanties can in our
heart awake
Such dreams do the rainbows we can never
overtake.
Thus we pursue the witching tints of every
hue and kind,
Filled with an eager hope that shall fame
and fortune find,
While kindly opportunities unnoticed pass us
by,
Since all our thoughts are centered on the bow
across the sky.
Just over there Wen grasp the prize! A little
way it seems
To where the bow of hope down to
gladden. all our dreams.
And not until life's sun is set shall one of us
fOrsake
The rare Elusive ranbows can never over
take
Nixon Waterman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-06

unnecessary for him to work. The news
papers worked for him. The forthcoming
attraction suddenly became the important
local news feature of the day The Mayor
was forced to give heed to the women who
petitioned him. and he threatened to close the
show if 1t proved to be as bad they had
claimed. In order to himself of its
true character, the foremost official of the city
engaged box for the opening performance.
All the prominent citizens followed his exam
pie. Apparently everybody wanted to
that horrible production so that everybody
could personally condemn its fragrant wicked
ness. Many people who unable to secure
seats for the opening night obtained them tor
later performances, The press as a unit
agreed that the piece should be suppressed if
it proved to be as bad it had been painted
by the Lady Alicazam of the town, and all the
newspaper men requested tickets. a detail
of police was ordered out to que possible
riOting, and the chief of the department Sc
cured seats in the front row for himself and
wife (the latter insisted being PRESENT. to
direct his men IN case of exciting develop
ments. The indignant members of the womens
clubs engaged a large block of seats well down
front in the orchestra, that they might hiss
the play.
And all the while the strait laced stenog-
rapher followed with a triumphant eye the
movements of the press agent he wandered
about the hotel lobby, apparently i'll at ease.
She did not realize that she was the real cause
OF the c1tys moral uprising; she did not
realize that the press agent had been romano
ing when he dictated the notices; did not
realize that she doing his unexpected bid
ding, when she ran to her sister with her note
book and read to the leader of local female
sentiment the stenographic copy of the flip
pant showman's suggestive stories.
1t was a great engagement. Two days be
fore the play arrived in town the box office
was empty. Every seat for the week had been
sold, and an extra matinee was announced to
accommodate the overflow. Of course every
body was disappointed-e but the
managers of the attraction which enjoyed the
first big winning week of its career and carried
from the town about five thousand dollars in
clear profits.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-08-15

DEGREE OF HONOR.-Meets in the Work
man hall on the first and third Friday'so of each
month.
MES. BELLE BIRMINGHAM, Recorder.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-08-15
Daring a painful of June apples and see
what he was up to.

Daring a painful of June apples and sex
what he was up to.
notwithstanding his excitement
Teddy went at his work very judi
ciously. His plan was to swing the
boat up by the tackles, hauling al
ternately at the bow and stern and
making each line fast to Its Delaying
pin before he went at the other, until
she was free of the checks and high
enough above the floor for the trap
door to open, then, keeping a couple
Of turns Of the ropes around the be-
laying pins so that the boat would
not get away from him, to lower her
first at the bow and then at the stern
until he had her safe in the dock be-
low. This was q good plan, but it en-
countered serious difficulties in exc
cutting it. The bow anne up all right,
but for the life Of him he could not
bulge the stern. This was discour-
aging, but Teddy was a lad Of expe-
dents and had not lived all his life
on the seashore without learning
something about rigging. There were
plenty of blocks and ropes lying
around, and it did not take him long
to rig a snatch block to q bolt and to
the end Of the line he had been haul
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-08-15

KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.-Meet on Wednes.
day evening of each week at the x. of P. hall.
E. H. GORDON, G.. G.
F. w BLEAKLEY, Recorder.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-08-15

First rd....... Morris Orion. Jas. Brosnahan
second Wsrd.......N n. Morrison, A. f. Gardner
Third Ward ........ Chas. Haugh, Jno. Crawford
SCHOOL BOARD.
Members of Board of Education-H: D.
ALERT, Chas. Hunter, Jno. McGauvran, f.. j.
Fox, j. j. Mahoney.
Treasurer. Mllne'
4. irua4'
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-08-15

search. And Miss Ruth spent oil Of
her youth and most Of her energy In
searching, and here she is now, forty
years old and looking fifty, with her
fortune as safely hidden as ever and
herself as poor as anybody could be
outside the town farm.
For Theodore RodfordEwidely and,
I am panied to add, somewhat IN
favorably known as that Terry Rod
ford"-the old oil house down on War
ble's wharf had a wonderful attrac-
ton. He had peeped through the
chinks in the boards time and again,
and what he had seen inside had made
him wildly eager to explore it thor
oughly, for strewn about the floor
were old harpoons and piles of de-
lightful ropes and big and little blocks
and oars. He was almost certain that
he could make out among the shad-
ows under the stairway leading to the
sail loft that was over the storehouse
a little brass n n partly covered
| with a bit of old sail.
Thinking of that cannon and Of what
he could do with 1t If he only could
get hold of it sometimes kept him
awake all night. He even had tried on
several occasions to make friends with
Miss Ruth, to the end that he might
gain permission to investigate this
delectable place. Once, when he dis.
covered the Barkums' pigs in Miss
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-08-15
6he Hidden
Treasure. :
By ROLLM HUME.
BY ROLLW HUME
Copyright, 1907. BY. Thomas Clark.

BAR had formed of Marbles
~ wharf, SO that q whaler could
. not lie at 1t o. anywhere near
it. But this was not a matter
pf any special consequence, for more
dian thirty years had passed since a
khaler and that wharf had had any
thing to do with each other.
1t was a wharf in ruins, and almost
as badly d~ilapidabed was the oil house
that stood on the end of 1t, with great
doors that opened out over the water.
But these doors were never opened
now, nor was the little sliding door
that shut down fairly into the water
and when 1t was raised opened a chan
mel into which a boat could be foated-
Both Of these doors fastened on
the inside, and the door that opened on
the wharf was fastened with q paddock
as big as a small cabbage and as rusty
as If 1t had been lowed astern Of the
Harmony Home during q whole cruise.
The Harmony Home was the whaler
that used to discharge her cargo into
the Oil house. She had been owned and
sailed by Captain Tranquil Marble,
and for a long while she and her COM
mander had the reputation Of being the
lpekiest ship and the luckiest captain
Raoat.
Captain Marble was coming money,
the Greyshells people said-Greyshells
was the name Of the little portland
was getting richer and richer every
year. Moreover, he was boarding his
money in coin.
~No banks for me-" said Captain
| Marble, IAN no reel estate, nuther.
I tried banks in 1887, an whar was !
after they all broke, I'd like t know
An I tried reel estate in 1850, an after
TIL nan I'd bought it frum got clean
off to Californy another man come
along an proved a mortgage on it
an where was l then? No, no! Hard
dollars hid about in a place that no
body but me knows ~about-thet's my
style!"
This was all very well as long as
good luck attended the HarmonS
Homes cruisings, but when the news
came down from the northern seas thai
the Harmony Home had been ntpped
in the ice and had gone to the bottom
with every soul on board Of her the
captains financial methods did mo-
make quite so satisfactory a showing
for the captains widow had not the
least notion in the world where thu
fortune in hard dollars that now wa
hers was to be found. She looked IL
all the likely places for it and In al
the unlikely places she could think O
and she thought Of q good many
but not a trace Of it did she find A
last while she still was looking TO
1t, she died. Then her daughter, Mis-
Ruth Marble, who was then a young
girl and very energetic, though tina
seemed hard to believe now, began tn
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-08-15
SOCIETY DIRECTORY.

LODGEOF N.-Langdon NOT
holds regular communications on the first and
third Thnrsdays' of each month at the Masonic
Aemple. -
RoBExr WORK, Sec'y.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-08-15

A.. FLA. M.-Lebanon Lodge holds regular
COMMUNICATION at the Masonic Temple on the
second and fourth Fridays OF each month.
II. MCDONALD, w. NJ.
ROBERT WORK, Secretary.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-08-15

O.. E. s.-Langdon Temple holds regular com:
munications on the first and third Tuesdays OF
MRS CRU MRS. R. WORK, w. NJ.
Sec'y. s. g. KERR, W.P
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-08-15

A.. O. O. W.-Langdon Lodge meets in the
Workman hall the first and third Mondays of
each month. u
THos. SHEEHAN, Recorder.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-08-15

CO. r. No, $685.. Alphonsus Court, meets
on the first and third Wednesdays of each
month in their hall over the Mooney State
Bank. JOHN Y. n.
Jos g. ScH1LL, Sec'y.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-08-15

LADY G. o. Est. Mary's Court, meets at
the Forester hall on the second and fourth
Tuesdays of each month.
MRS. WIN. FLuMERFELT, C. R.
MRS. Al. KoEHMsTEDr, Rec. Sec'y.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-08-15

10. F.-Langdon Court, Independent Order
of Foresters. meet in the Workmen hall. the
first and third Tuesdays, of each month.
w. A. FERGUSON. c. r.
III. Balm, Rec. Sec'y.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-06

Many of the residents of Be.
midi have received invitations
like the above within the past
week, to attend the formal open
ing of the new Hotel Miles and
Vaudeville Theatre at Hibb bing,
and will attend the function.
The HotelMlles and Vaudeville
Theatre is owned by G. H. Miles
and George Markha n, both we'll
known in, this city, and they
have provided Hibbing with one
of the very best hotels to be
found in the north half Of the
state, not excluding Duluth and
Crookston. The Vaudeville
Theatre is one of the finest Of its
kind in the state, elegant in its
appointments and in the con,
struction of which money, has
not been spared.
Many from Bemidii will un
doubtedly attend the formal
opening, which will be given next
Monday evening. -.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-06
GIRL DISAPPEARED
AND CANT BE FOUND
Worried by Trouble Until Nearly Demented johanna Oak
stad Wanders From Camp Near Wilton and Her
Whereabouts Are at Present Unknown.

thorough search for her was
made in the vicinity of Wilton.
No trace of her could be found,
and it was feared that she had
made away with herself. How.
ever, the girl appeared at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. L. Fort,
four miles south of Wilton, Tues.
day evening and was given
supper.
She had no hat on her head,
and wore a pair of rubbers on
her feet, covering her head with
an apron which she had been
wearing.
Miss Dakstad seemed greatly
worried and almost demented,
her trouble having evidently
worn on her mind to such ex.
tent that her memory was al
most giving away.
Mrs. Fort got a promise from
the girl that she would return
to Wilton, and she accompanied
her a short distance on the road,
but she has not put in appearance
in Wilton and no one has seen
her since. The search for her
has been continued since Tues
day night, but still there is moth.
ing to indicate where she has
gone, and many still maintain
that she has become Respondent
and committed suicide.
Miss Dakstad, who is 20 years
old, is Scandinavian, but
speaks the English language
perfectly. She is darkroom.
plected, with dark hair, and is
Of medium size.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-06
GEMMELL TRANSFERRED
AGAIN TO BRA|NERD
General Manager of the Minnesota &
international Railway to Establish
+ Headquarters There.

General Manager W. H. Gem
nell, of the Minnesota & Inter
national, has been transferred
from st. Paul to Brainerd, where
he will have his headq quarters in
the future and from which point
he will direct the affairs of the
M. & 1. Mr.. Gemmell has for
the past two years or more been
private secretary to President
Elliott, of the Northern Pacific,
as we'll as attending to the
duties of general manager of the
northern road. With the ex-
tension of the line to the border
it has increased the response
bility and labor in his Office.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-06
Run Over BY Wagon.

Mr.. Schultz, who lives on the
j. H. French's farm, west of
the city, was injured this morn,
ing by being run over by a
wagon.
Scultz was on top of a load of
tim bers, driving a team into the
city. While crossing the bridge
over the Great Northern tracks
the timber slipped and began
falling from the load. Schultz
fell from the load behind the
horses and two wheels passed
over his body, from his hip to his
shoulder on the right side. He
was picked up and brought to
town, and after an hour was
taken home. Although quite
badly jammed by the wheels,
Mr.. Schultz's injuries are not
serious.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-06

keeping Mr.. Buffers head above
the water. The Butler 10y baled
some of the water from the. boat
and padded to the shore. He
saw A. A. Carter and another
gentleman passing at "a distance
in a launch and hailed them, but
they were too far away to hear
him.
The little fellow then ran
through the woods and succeeded
in heading off the party in the
launch. The boy was taken in
and the boat was FASTENED to
where Mr.. Butler and Hugh
Broomfeld were battling for
their lives in the waves.
Mr.. Butler had given up twice,
but had been encouraged by
Hugh to chang on" which he did
with great difficulty, the boy
giving him every assistance
possible inkeeping afoat.
When Mr.. Carter arrived on
the scene they found that Mr..
Butler was about to succomb to
the cold and sink to the bottom
of the lake. He had a death grip
with his hands on the boom
post. and it was with difficulty
that his fingers could be unloos.
ened. The old gentleman and
his youthful companions were
brought to the city and taken
care of, and have suffered no Ill
effects beyond being slightly stiff
from their hours stay in the
|ccld water.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-06
TWO YOUTHS SHOW
PRESENCE OF MIND
A. C. Butler Aged 20 Years. Narrowly Escaped Filling
Watery Grave in Lake Irving Tuesday After
noon-Was in the Water an Hour.

Through the heriosm of Cyril
Butler and Hugh Broomfeld,
two little boys aged respectively
II and 10 years old, A. G. Butler,
aged 20 years, was saved from
drowning, Tuesday evening, on
Lake Irving.
Mr.. Butler, who is the father
in-law of Mrs. A. Butler of this
city, and who is here on a visit
from Mizpah, Mimi, took the
little Butler boy, who is his
grandson, and the Broomfeld
boy and went to the south shore
of Lake Irving in a boat to do
some fishing. They tied the rope
on the end of the boat to a boom
post and began fishing, in a spot
about twenty rods from the
shore, where the water is at
least twenty feet deep.
In some unaccountable man
ner, the boat was overturned,
throwing all three of the occu.
pants into the water. Mr.. Butler
grasped the boom post and the
boys took hold Of the log that
was lying beside the post. The
old gentleman was chilled to the
marrow by the water, but was
greatly encouraged by his two
little companions, who beseeched
him to have courage and they
would certainly be rescued.
The Broomfeld boy got on
Mr.. Buffers shoulders and
climbed to the top of the post,
from which place he assisted in
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-06

officials is to replace all tamarack
poles, and the cedar poles will be
left. It is estimated that fully
1000 of the old poles will be re.
moved, and the work will not be
completed inside of six weeks
Horace Durham of this city
has charge of the gang Of men
who are replacing the poles
which is being done under the
suggestion of W. A. Ferris, line
man for the M. & I.