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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20

actually be feeder for the higher in
situations, particularly for the agri-
cultural college, with which it must
necessarily be closely allied. 1t will
bring into school many young people
who have quit because of lack of op-
portunity near at hand or lack of
funds to go to the institutions in the
eastern end of the state. Some OF
these can be relied on to sufficiently
contract the school habit to want the
more advanced courses offered in the
older institutions. For the reasons
mentioned the greater per cent of the
young people Of the western part of
the state have had one or two years
of very elementary high school work,
poorly equipped high schools, or, in.
deed, before they have completed the
common branches.
The counties tributary to the school
of forestry, Ward, McHenry, Rolette,
and Bottineau, have an aggregate
population of 7O,7l5; an area of TO-
351 square miles, an assessed valua-
ton of 26,639, 469; a vote of 1O,476,
which is rapidly increasing. Botti-
neau county alone has 119 elevators,
with a capacity Of about 100000
bushels of grain (all now fulD; thir-
ty-four banks of over 100000 capital,
and twelve newspapers. The develop
ment of this part of the state has been
carried forward at rate scarcely
realized by most of us. The state
owes it to herself to furnish these cit
liens with ample opportunity for CIV
ing their children secondary educa-
ton, She can i'll afford to allow the
boys and girls of this vast territory
to grow to manhood and womanhood
beyond the influence of good schools
of this sort.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20
COUNTRY'S SWEET TOOTH.

The official gentlemen at Washing
ton have figured it out that last year
we produced 1905, GOO, 900 pounds OF
sugar here at home, bought 1865 $685.
667 pounds from the foreign (and Fill
ipino) producers, bought 1881, 1884 ,946
pounds from the Hawaiian and Porto
Rico producers, and sold 25,731, 4O7
to foreign coustomers. That left
approximately - 6,50O,O0O,OOO pounds
for home use and enjoyment. IF we
divide into this enormous total the
entire number of people in the United
States We get an average consumption
of 76 pounds per capita" remark the
bureau mathematician. "The average
citizen of the United States seems to
have consumed one-half his own
weight in sugar in the year just end
ed" A greedy national sweet tooth,
If ever there was one, and costly.
What were its outside sources of
supply in the calendar year 1906?
Cuba contributed 2,6S3,S93,O33 pounds
of sugar; our Hawaii, S52,46S,S 67; our
Porto Rico, 42s,916,O79; Java, 5,372,-
1868; Germany, 3O3,43O,122; South
America, 1882, 1O4; the West Indies
(minus Cuba), 163,496,319; Belgium,
65,S61,744 our shamefully neglected
and mistreated Philippines, 26,2s3,929;
Austria-Hungary, 1894 900; Neighbor
Mexico, S,1s6,469; and all other coun-
tries together, 9,575,715.
All the sugar imported from our
outlying islands last year was cane
sugar. So was nine-tenths of the SUI
gar imported from foreign countries.
II you call Cuba with Governor Ma
COON and Uncle Sans regulars in it,
a foreign country. Most of the i'm
ported beet sugar comes from Ger
many. In 1904 we imported 225, 0O0,-
900 pounds of that kind; year before
last, 50,000,OO0 pounds; last year, 375,.
100000 pounds. No explanation of
these queer figures accompanies them.
But due note is made of the certainly
very interesting fact that in 1906 the
production of beet sugar here at home
exceeded for the first time the pro-
duction of cane sugar. The cane fields
furnished. approximately, 6OO,OOO0OO
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20
MISSION OF THE STATE
SCHOOL OF FORESTRY

Among the new state institutions of
which comparatively little is known in
this part of the state, is the School of
Forestry at Bottineau. 1t is the young
est institution of learning in the state,
having only been opened January z
last, at which time it had an enroll
ment of thirty pupils.
The course of study involves the
following subjects, with their subdl-
visions:
Forestry and -Silvicul-
ture, soil physics, forest photography,
entomology, plant pathology and field
work in horticulture, nursery work
and forest planting.
Elementary Agrfculture-As recon-
mended by President Worst of the
state agricultural college.
Supplementary Studies-The above
work is supplemented by courses in
other sciences of the university as 20
ology, botany, physics, chemistry,
photography and meteorology, math-
ematics. languages, history and CIV
.cs. One years work in the common
branches will be given in the prepar-
atCry department.
The course has been arranged with
the cooperation Of President Merri-
field of the university, and President
Worst of the agricultural college, and
students finishing the work offered in
the forestry school will receive due
credit at the university or the agri-
cultural college.
Being so far removed from the other
educational institutions of the state,
as we'll as situated in section of the
state SO different as to soil, rainfall,
temperature and prevailing winds, this
school will not draw students
from any other institution, and will
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20
Drummer: 5 Sauce
What Is a Piker9


A "piker" Is cheap sport who bets
two dollars at time. Does he win?
Yes, and when he does tells everyone
what killing" he made. Does he
lose? Yes, and when he does goes
home and weeps. If he should lose
his twos twice in succession he turns
on his bitterest tears, and we'll, look
out for suicide. 1t Is heartrendine
to hear him tell about the "pile he
dropped on that turtle in the last
race" How can you tell a piker? A
piker wears ten-dollar imitation pad
dock coat, a lofty. dirty collar, and s.
pink in his buttonhole. Dope-books
are sticking out of each pocket. He
can be found between the hours of two
and six p. m. in dingy poolroom,
strutting about like a plhnger. 1t
costs carfare to go down to the track,
so he prefers to stay DIN town and listen
to telegraph instrument. He is
very, very cheap skate. The woods are
full OF 'em. Short sports!
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20
NO MERCY FOR HER

CONTINUED from Page ~
when she was posing for artists in
Philadelphia and New York. He per-
sisted in certain questions, even after
Delmas had objected, and insisted on
having definite answers, though Mrs.
Thaw usually said she could not ex-
actly remember.
"Was there any exposure of per-
son or did you wear the so-called ar
tistic draperies?"
Il would not say that" replied the
witness.
II posed in Greek dress and Tur-
kish costume"
Attorney Garvan sat behind Jerome
studying his notes and from time to
time prompted his chief He made
very full notes of the witness testi-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20
pounds; the beet fields, $4,000, 900
pounds.
MEN WHO ARE TRUSTED.

This melancholy affair iD New Brit
ain shows up in its worst light in such
incidents as that reported yesterday
when men said that if they could not
trust Mr.. Walker they did not know
whom they could trust This is an
indirect way of saying that every man
who holds position of trust is thrown
into doubt by this revelation of dis
honesty.
Such result is probably inevitable,
but 1t is for the moment only. In
fact the very shock of this pitiful af-
fair is in its surprise and its uneXpect-
edness. AS rule, the men who are
trusted keep the faith. Look around
for moment, and see how many men
are occupying positions of trust, and
think how rare is defalcation. They
do not march the street in professions
bearing banners inscribed, 1--WE are
honest" They go right on, day after
day. doing their duty in a modest,
humdrum everyday manner, and when
at the close of uneventful lives their
trusts are handed over to their sue
cessors everything is all right and the
next man keeps it So
Imagine what shock it would give
community if a newspaper on the
death of some citizen of prominence
who had carried important trusts
should announce that his accounts
were believed to be all right! The
statement would be absolutely correct.
Nobody would deny that the accounts
were believed to be right; but the mere
intimation that it was necessary to
stop and think of the matter would be
taken as an insult. 1t would be like
saying a clergyman is believed to
have been sober when he preached his
last sermon.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20
DOG SHOW AT BLOOMINGTON.
Associated Press to The Evenlns Tlme.

Bloomington, ILL.,, Feb. 20.-The first
bench show to be held under the au-
spices OF the Bloomington Kennel club
opened today and will continue until
the end of the week. The exhibits
number several hundred and include
'high-bred dogs from several states.
The work of judging the CANNES was
commenced soon after the opening TO-
day under the direction of the we'll
known Judges, Crabb of Milwaukee
and Donahue of La Sale.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20
BOERs LIKELY TO WIN.
A:sociated Press Cable to The Event,

Times.
London, Feb. 2O.-A dispatch from
johannesburg says that the first cleo
tons to parliament under the new
Transvaal constitution takes place
at that city today. 1t is expected that
it will be month before the polling
is completed, though outward indlca-
tons are already abundant that the
Beers will succeed in securing a USE
full working majority in the lower
house.
The campaign has been a heated
straight fight between the Progress
ives-composed of the mining inter-
ests-and the Hetvolk, or Boer party.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20
TROUBLE WITH PORTE.
As.ociated Press Cable to The Eveni,s

Constantinople, Feb. 2O.-The settle
ment of the American school question
is still delayed, owing to obstructive
tactics of certain high placed officials.
Ambassador Leishman continues to
press for a solution and has again
sent letter to the porte, couched in
more vigorous terms. demanding early
action In the matter.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20
TWENTY-FIVE IN ALL,
Associated Press to The Evening Time,

New York, Feb. 2O.-Elsie Sniffen.
aged -, of Englewood, N. j., who was
injured in the wreck of the White
Plains express on the Harlem division
of the New York Central railroad on
Saturday night, died today at Ford
ham hospital, bringing the number of
fatalities from the accident up to
twenty-five.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20

mony and compared what she said to-
day with what she said on her direct
examination.
Jerome continued as on yesterday
to jump from one part of the story
to another, keeping as far as possible
away from the sequence of events.
Jerome persisted with questions as
to exposure Of person and Mrs. Thaw
replied:
~ posed with low neck draperies
after l was on the stage"
'"The pictures were like those Or
tlinarily seen in photographers win
dows?"
Delmas objected to this and Jerome
withdrew the questions.
Mrs. Thaw denied that she had ever
had cast made Of her nude figure.
She testified that she gave fourteen
letters to Thaw in Paris in 1908. AZ
forwards she received them from
Thaw's valet, and gave them to Thaw
again, presumably after he had shot
White. All of these letters, she said,
was abroad in 1903.
where are those letters now?"
asked Mr.. Jerome.
II don't know"
How long were you unconscious
in that oath street house at the time
of your experience with Stanford
White?"
~ don't remember"
Was it after midnight that you
became unconscious"
Yes, think it was"
Was it before daylight"
Mrs. Thaw hesitated and then re-
Piled:
Yes before daylight"
Jerome read from Mrs. Thaw's
direct testimony the statement that
she sat up all that night. She replied
that she meant the rest of the night
after she had been taken home.
Tuesday Afternoon.
Towards the close of Tuesday after
moons session, Mr.. Jerome handed
Mrs. Thaw large number of papers,
checks, ETC., and asked her to select
the ones she knew she had signed.
She did so and handed them to the
district attorney.
What day was it you sailed from
Europe in 1902"
II don't remember the exact day"
WAS it on Saturday,"
Il don't know"
when you left the steamer did you
go to hotel?"
Yes"
"And register?"
Yes"
Would, it assist your memory if
showed you the hotel register?"
There was no audible answer.
When YOU refused Mr. Thaw in
Paris in 1908 did you tell your moth
err"
Yes"
Did you love him enough to have
married him if it had not been for
the event in your life which you have
related here?"
"Yes?"
There was no other reason for
Your refusal?'
No"
1T was out of your great love for
him that you refused?"
1T was"
You were not thinking of marry
ing anybody elseo'
NO"
You rejected him for no other rea-
son than what you have told us about,
and YOU gave him no other?"
NO"
What part of the year was this?"
I'm the spring."
Your early life, you say, was
spent in Pennsylvania"
YES"
after your fathers death you lived
in much poverty?"
YES"
THE surroundings of your home-life
at that time were pure and good?"
YES"
You grew up to be Is or 16 years
old so simply that after all the trials
you afterward went through you re-
membered the incident of the cat and
the conductor trying to put it off the
train?"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20

The Beers have gained an advantage
by getting the support of number
of Colonials, largely British labor men
and mine workers, who are bitterly
opposed to the policy of the Progress
ives in fostering Chinese labor.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20
Paper Man,

Henry "Sauerkraut" Meier repre-
senting the Mcclellan paper company
is in today for the first time since the
storm scared him away.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20
Down From Milton.

J. w. Pomeroy of Milton, who it is
stated, will go to Bismarck with the
International Harvester company as
assistant general manager of the new
branch house, is in the city TODAY.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20
Sentiment to be Inculeated.

Let reverence of law be breathed by
sssttles In her i lap Pr let t be taught n IN
eAe schools, semfnaries and colleges;
let II be written in primers. spelling
socks and almanacs; let 1t be preached
eAttve halls and enforced in courts Of
1uetsce;. in short, let 1t me the
Oolitical religion Of the natio.
Abraham Lincoln.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20
With Coffee.

+. w. Cooke of st. Louis, represen-
ting coffee house is in the metro
polls today looking after business.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20
FLANAGAN Was

i. NJ. Flanagan of the International
Harvester company was in last night
going out again this morning.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20
v. v. DUNN WAS IN WRECK
Has Just Recovered After Being Laid
Up for Twenty-Five Weeks
as q Result.

w. w. Dunn, who formerly repre-
sented the Mcclellan Paper company,
but who for the past five years has
been associated with his father, rep
resenting the Brunswick-Balke com.
pany of Minneapolis, is making his
territory again. Mr.. Dunn was one OF
the victims of the New Prague wreck,
which occurred some time ago. He
was seated with three other gentlemen
playing game Of cards in one of the
sleepers when the accident occurred.
The three other men were killed out
right and Mr. Dunn was seriously in
jured, just having been discharged
from the hospital a few days ago, after
twenty-five weeks. He suffered a
broken leg and several other injuries,
but the most interesting part of the
story is that Mr.. Dunn is alive and
we'll. The company made satisfac-
tory settlement with him a few DAYS
ago. Mr.. Dunn was also fortunate
enough to carry four accident policies.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20

Charles Lazier came in Yesterday
afternoon to attend the funeral of the
late B. o. Seymour.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-20
Tailor Man.
Cllas. Lazier In.

Ford Naylor the St. Paul tailor is 9
guest at the Dacotah today.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-09-20
JUDGE HUMPHREY
DIES SIN Topeka.
One Of the CIeaneSt Men In The State
Of Kansas Ever Knew.
MEMBER TAX Commission.

Topeka. Sept. 1S.-Judge
James Humphry of Junction
City, a member Of the state tax
commission, died here early to.
day. He had been sick three
weeks. Judge James Humphrey
was one of the leading democrats
of the state, and was a member of
the first board of railroad com.
missioners.
Note-In the death of Judge
Humphrey the state of Kansas
loses one of its cleanest and ablest
citizens. He served an honorable
career on the bench, also fer a
number of years as a member of
the state board of railroad com.
missioners, having been appointed
by Gov. Click when the first
railroad law was passed. As a
member of the board it was Judge
Humphrey vino heard and
considered complaints as to rates
and determinations, who ordered
the companies to change. and they
generally obeyed. Not only did
he make an order correcting the
cause Of the complaint in hearing,
but he made an order correcting
the ratio all along the line. His
reports and decisions furnished
very interesting reading now. in
those times of rate legislation
agitation.
Judge Humphrey was born in
England. and was passed "A years
of age. He has lived in Kansas
for more than fifty years, having
made his home for the greater
part of the time in Junction City.
1t was our pleasure to form bis
acquaintance during the last state
campaign, and to accompany him
on some of his trips. and We can
truthfully say that one has gone
whom the state can not afford to
lose.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-09-20
OKLAHOMA DEMOCRATIC and DRY.
HaskelrS Majority viii be Upwards Of.
$4,000

Muskogec, |. T.. Sept. l9.-In.
dications point to an increasing
majority in the State election for
the Democratic ticket. 1t is be-
lieved that prohibition has carried
by S0,ee0. The constitution has
been indorsed by a vote of three
to one.
c. N. Haskell claims today that
Governor Frantz will not carry
more than fifteen counties in the
State. He bases his figures on
his unofficial reports received
from seventy of the seventy seven
counties in the State. He says
his majority will reach 10000 and
this is borne out by the estimate
of }. E. Thompson. Democratic
State chairman.
Mr.. Haskell says be is satisfied
that the Legislature will be
strongly Democratic. Relative
to prohibition. he believes the
State will carry for prohibition by
10000 and says that if the people
vote prohibition, he will see that
the law is enforced. Democrats,
here are claiming that they will
elect every congressman in the
State. unless the official count
very materially alters the present.
count. Colonel Robert l.. Owen .
and Senator 7. P. Gore will bs
elected United States Senator's.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-09-20

Mrs. Ellen Coughlin went to
Hoisington Tuesday evening for a
short visit.
A new sidewalk is being built
along the north side of Block Is
in the A. V. 7. Co. addition.
Mrs. John Fansheir of Seward
left Tuesday morning for Jetmore
to visit relatives, for several days.
Mrs. Marte Swift left for Hut.
Crimson Tuesday evening and will
visit her sister Mrs. John Cochran
several days.
Bernard McGintv has bought
another lot of Jacob Rediger as
an addition to his home property
in the Atm ward.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-09-20

LIBRARY ASSOCIATION DATES.
Kansas State Meeting al Newton With
Good Program, Oct. GIL.

Newton, Kan. Sept. IS. The
Kansas Library association has
announced its seventh annual meet.
ing to be held in Newton, October
9 IL. An important matter to be
presented is the proposed bill
asking the Kansas legislature to
create the Office of state library
organizer. 1t will be presented
BY j. l.. King, state librarian.
Book Selection and Book
Buying" is to be the subject Of
an address BY Miss Mary Cornelia
Lee, public Librarian at Manhat.
tan, and discussed by Miss Sara
Judd Greenman. Other addresses
Will be:
Public Documents in Small
Libraries. Miss Katharine P.
Stuckey. Emporia. State Normal
library.
Foreign Libraries" Miss
Jesie Dean, topeka, librarian"
Boswell library. Washburn col.
lege.
Libraries in Federal Institu-
tiOns," Lieutenant Colonel E. b.
Fuller, Fort Leavenworth. libra
rian United States Staff college.
Libraries in State Institutions.
Miss Clara Francis, Topeka, State
Historical society.
Report of the A. L. A. Meet.
ing" Mrs. Della E. Brown,
Salina, librarian public library.
Library Associations in Gene.
raj and the American Library
Association in Particular" Ar.
thur Elmore Bostwicb. chief of
the circulating department OF the
New York public library and
president A. l.. A.
Miss Ida n. Rlooming public
librarian of Abilene, is president,
and Mrs. Nellie u. Beatty, the
Lawrence public libra rian. is sec.
retary of the state association.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-09-20

Oscar Brown is in Hutchinson
seeing the fair
John I. Unruh is very sick
with typhoid fever.
Howard Torrance, the Ellinwood
attorney was here Tuesday on
legal business.
"Ollie Miller" who won a pref
ty little race here last Friday.
won in the same way at Hutchin
son Tuesday. She lost her FIRST
heat and then took the next three.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-09-20
GERMAN EXPEDITION LOST.
Almost Twenty Days Overdue and No
TldipgS Received al all.

Berlin, Sept. 1S.-A telegram
from Advent Bay states that
nothing has been heard from the
William Bruce expedition which
left the base of supply almost a
month ago with the intention Of
returning on August 2Sth. Bruce
was accompanied by Captain
Boages Ormer, a companion of
the Prince of Monaco. and Cap.
tain John, former companion Of
DR.. Manson.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-09-20
His Alfalfa Paid Well.

Wellington, Sept. l7.-"Macd"
Ferguson has just finished thresh-
ing the alfalfa on 16 acres south
west of Slate creek. Out of the
hay which he cut during the sea-
son be received S275. The last
crop he cut was threshed last
week and the seed sold, for which
he received 1920. This is over
S4S per acre and he has his land
and alfalfa field left.