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Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-28
DOUBLES ESTATE
REFUSES HIS FEES
ACTS AS ADMINISTRATOR FOR
TOTAL STRANGER
Rev. B. F. Coulter Accepts RESPONSE
bility of Executor of Workng-
man and Takes Nothing
for His Services

After accepting the responsibility of
caring for the estate of a man whom
he had never known; after straighten-
ing that estate, found the proper rela-
tives and by careful investment doubled
it's value, B. F. Coulter, minister and
millionaire philanthropist, yesterday
filed q petition for final settlement in
the superior court, and refused to ac-
cept one cent of the administrator s
fees to which he was entitled. He
further refused to accept any portion of
the estate left him, and the entire
amount will go to the relatives.
The case is one of the most remark
able in the history of the courts.
Thomas Evans, a laborer in Los An
geles, knowing that the disease from
which he suffered would soon kill him,
made will, appointing Rev. Mr.. Coul-
ter as executor and sole manager of his
estate. He had saved about $4500, and
although he had never seen Mr.. Coulter
he turned all his property into his
hands prior to his death, by a letter
found in the will, as follows:
Gives Executor Control
LOS ANGELES, Cal, March IL. 1908.
Rev. Mr.. Coulter: / have conveyed
all that have over to you. l wish you
would send half or somewhere about
to Mrs. Mary Evans, half sister Of
mine. haven't got her address, but it
can be got from the postmaster of
Ystrad Meirig, Cardiganshire, Wales.
Her husbands name is Thomas Evans,
like mine. Their family consists of
three boys and one girl and there is
daughter of half brother of mine back
there. | want to pay to her one-fifth
of what it be. My sister will do that
and there is carpenters tools and other
things here at 615 North Grand avenue
that belong to me. L want Owen
Hughes, 729 Bernardo street, and Wm
r. Ellsworth, 536 California street, to
sell them and divide what they fetch
and $50 each in money, and r. Krause,
7O5 Bellevue avenue $100, and for Miss
Florence Young 500 for her youngest
brother Matthew. She worked at tele-
phone office. You use the balance to-
the best you know. The Red Cloud
mine 1 paid $780, 1 was to get dividend
some time ago, and instead they are
assessing 1t $25 before April 10, and
you win find that l have $543.S4 in the
bank.
"The property might bring $45O0. The
insurance policies are at my room."
Doubles Estate
Evans died in March, 1906 and the
estate shortly thereafter was appraised
at S4177.50. Mr.. Coulter's account shows
that after paying the funeral expenses,
erecting monument at the grave, pay
ing some debts left by the deceased
and distributing nearly $500 that he has
now on hand $sS69.05. After stating the
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-28
copper mining DiatrIct

The Avawatz mountains Cracker
tack distriet) is reached from Silver
Lake on the Tonopah & Tidewater rail-
road in connection with the Rowan
COPYRIGHT stage company. Stages
leaving Silver Lake every Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday, returning from
Avawatz every Wednesday. Friday and
Sunday
Avawatz is a new townsite In the
CrackerJack district, half a mile from
Crackerjack, one and half miles
from Copper City, four miles from Cave
Springs and eight miles from Denning
Springs. Suitable lhotel accommoda-
tions at silver Lake and Avawatz.
Freight service from Silver Lake semi
weekly. II. 10. Needham, general agent,
247 Pacific Electric building. Los An-
geles, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-28
NHonOrs RequlsItI0n Papers
BY AssocIa ted Press.

SACRAMENTO. April 27.-A requisi-
tion from Governor Frantz of Oklaho-
ma for the return TO that state OF Earl
Williams, who Is wanted for seduction.
was honored by Governor Gillett today.
Detective j. II. Patterson arrived In
Sacramento last night and has gone 10
San Francisco for Williams.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-28
NORTHERN PRUNE CROP
WILL BE TOTAL FAILURE

SAN JOSE, April 27-san Jose grange
at its meeting today reported the GER
tainty Of a poor prune crop this sea-
son and that the apricot crop will be
practically nil.
The grange strongly denounced the
naval and military display at the
jamestown exposition as tending to
glorify war in the minds OF the young.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-28
The Cafe Bristol

Always pleases the most fastidious and
exacting people. Complete Menu-ex-
cellent service-Orchestra the best.
Entire Basement H. w. Hellman
Bldg, Fourth and Spring streets.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-28
win Give COMEDY

The Young Ladies' sodality of st. Jo-
seph's church win give an evening of
comedy and music tomorrow at the
parish halk "a Bachelors Dream
win be presented by some Of the most
talented members Of the dramatic club.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-28
Quick Consumption Cured
Three Years Ago
The Bensonizer Cure:


in
regular
N
1 can aid
m
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-28
tuberculosis and Asthma

] was a One-Dung.
and Asthmatio for
six long, miserable
years. Left so by
two severe attacks Of
typhoid pneumonia,
which left my right
lung solid. I had the
best medical talent
in Philadelphia, my
home. I paid these
doctors $500 and
then I hunted health
resorts from the At
lantic to the Pacific,
gradually working
my way to the grave.
1 finally landed in
Los Angeles over a
year ago. Here, last
December, I found
the BBNs ONIzER
INIIALING GU r %,
and today l am as
we'll as any man in
the world. Have
gained Al pounds in
flesh and work hard
every day, breathe
natural, eat and sleep
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-11-11

The young lady from Boston was
explaining: "Take an egg,n said she,
"and make perforation in the base
and corresponding one in the apex.
Then you apply your lips to the aper-
ture and by forcibly inhaling the
breath the shell is entirely discharged
OF it's content3."
"Well," exclaimed the old lady who
was listening, sit beats all how folks
do things nowadays! When I was a
gal they made hole in each end and
| sucked
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-11-11

Had teams to let, and perhaps a
hack,
He made up his mind twas the place
for him
To hire horse and carriegs trim
And show his dear wife around the
town
And ont where Runaway Pond
came down.
This wise action on the part of Billy,
Although to some it m Y seem silly,
But it touched spot in Annie's
heart;
So that nevermore will these TWO
part,
And as through life they smoothly
glid9,
They'll start from Flanders for
their ride.
Long years have passed since I saw
Billy;
The tears are dropping-do think
me silly
But I've just heard through their SON.
inlaw
They had stopped taking the
MONITOR.
That shows Weakening of their
mind,
And throughout the land you'll
always find
That this is true-and this alone
The MONITOR should be 10 every
home.
This last is true and you all know it
And here's last goodbye from the
Barton poet.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-11-11
LEARN TO EAT.
Few People In Barton Really
Know How.

Few People in Barton Really
Know How.
Slow eating will solve onehalf the
problem of i'll health. Those who
suffer already with indigestion and
weak stomach can with care and the
use of Mi-o-na stomach tablets
restore their digestion to healthy
condition, so that they can eat what
they want at any time without fear of
distress or suffering.
After a few days use of Miro ma
stomach tablets, the headache, dizzy
feeling, drowsiness, bad taste in the
mouth, coated tongue, nervousness,
sleeplessness, distress after eating
all these symptoms of weak
stomach-will disappear, and perfect
digestion and good skin will show
that the vital machinery is once more
RI ming smoothly.
Take a little Mi-o-na tablet before
each meal so that it will stimulate
the digestive juices and give strength
to the stomach, and then it will take
care of the food that is eaten, with
out Indigestion and the unpleasant
full feeling with which so many suffer
after meals.
| Fred D. Pierce has 80 much conf
dence in the power of Mi-o-na to
cure indignation and all stomach ills
that he gives guarantee with every
| 50-cent box to refund the money i
the remedy fails to give satisfaction
l Sold and guaranteed in Barton
Landing by F. j. Kinney.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-11-11

The Postmaster of Gs sconado, No, Daniel
A. Bug b. says, 81 cannot say too much for
your Kidney and Bladder Pills. feel like a
new man." DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder
Pill are sold by f. D Pierce, Barton; F. j.
Kinney, Barton Landing.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-11-11
A Wen Advertised Poultry Food.

a satisfied customer is the best ad-
yertisement any business house can
have. Such expressions as are given
in the following letter from Asahel
Puffer Of Jericho, Vt, are indicative Of
the kind of advertising Pages Per
fected Poultry Food" receives. 1t also
accounts in a large degree for the enor-
nous sales of this staple article. Here
is the letter: Il wish to keep the agen-
cy for Pages Perfected Poultry Food
another year. l call your Poultry Food
the best I ever. used, and the neighbors
all speak very highly of it. !"
Any one sending his address on a
postal card to c. S. Page, Hyde Park,
Vt, and mentioning this paper, will re
ceiye by mail, free. postpaid, a sample
package of Pages Perfected Poultry
Food"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-11-11
The was not large-T've seen them

Barrows can fit them from chin to
toe:
Ladies, the moral here, as you have
guessed,
Is. Trade with Bsrrows and be well
dressed.n
Annie had a laundering thatwss fierce
For the chocolate bonbons sold by
Pierce.
And if Fred was out she enjoyed the
honor
OF trading with the clerk, one Harry
Conner.
The soda fountain was her delight
Z Aud she went there most every
night;
She liked to watch them mix the
"fizz,"
They worked as though they knew
their 'sbizu
Billy thought this wouldn't do
And so he thought he'd go there too,
So Billy made up good excuse
About buying cigars or good grape
Juice.
AT Barron's big department store
They have all these things and
something more.
Billy heard of them somewhere, so
there he went
Before all of his hard-earned coin
was spent.
Lo and behold! everything was there
From meerschaum pipe to fold
ing stair.
Money talks there, and they're there
to listen.
SO the prices they quoted made
Billy's eyes glisten.
There is one price there for the good
and the bad,
And an endless variety made Billy
glad
That for once in his life he had found
store
Where business is business and
nothing more.
Now heed this lesson and heed it well
And see what the Barron company
have to sell.
At Willey's lunch he often ate,
When business matters kept. him
late,
And tentimes did he declare
His praises of its bill of fare,
| n l. 4 -,r
well,
And ham and eggs, he loved to tell.
The pastry, too, when he'd partake,
Reminded him of mothers make.
Another thing, not always seen
In other places-this was clean.
So, no matter whether saint or sinner
We all enjoy we'll cooked dinner,
And the best of all, which all can
share,
Is at Willey's lunch, upon the
square.
L. A. Wilson his harness made
From leather of the highest grade.
Who is Wilson? Well, I'll tell you,
He's just the man to sell to you
A blanket, lap robe or whip;
I A harness that will never rip,
, Made from best of oak tanned leather
Warranted to stand all kinds O
weather,
. Blankets for both barn and street,
, And which for quality can't be beat
Carriage trimmings of various kinds
To suit the most fastidious minds,
And repairing done in manner neat
. By L. A. Wilson on Main street.
With Drown, the blacksmith, 'twa
agreed .
To have Turcot or Plunkett sho
:, his steed,
a No better man the country through
To treat foot or fit a shoe.
I Many horse has his undoing
By reason of imperfect shoeing,
But here's man, it is but just
d To say that all can safely trust.
He does his work in such a way
4, You'll come again some other day
Three men are here, right on the
job,
Ready when you bring your "cob,
Each man an expert none can beat,
lg AT Drown the blacksmith's, upp'
Main street.
When Billy felt well he would Ia
for hours
About the things he could buy
ID Towers,
The corn for his hens, and his hors
ce he said
He'd always declared they should
well fed
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-09-19
Coming! Coming!

DR.. Charest, specialist IN nervous and
chronic diseases for the last ten years,
and a resident of Fargo, has made ar
rangements to visit this place at regular
intervals. DR.. Charest ire is most sue
c%essfully, by a new method known to.
himself only, diseases of the eyes, ears,
nose, throat, lungs, stomach, liver and
bowels, kidneys and bladder; rheu-
matism, diseases of men, female weak
nesses, catarrh, skin diseases, facial
blemishes, etc, etc. Do not give up hope
before trying DR.. Charest's new system,
Consultation one dollar.
Next professional visit to Langdon
will be Tuesday, October LIST, remaining
until one o'clock p. m., on Wednesday,
October End, at the Columbia Hotel.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-09-19
n
POtterSville
Episode.
BY Frank II. MeIoon.
Copyright, 1907, by Frank H. Meloon.
BY Frank II. MeIoon.
Copyright, 1907, by Frank H. Meloon.

T was at the fall elections that the
feud began in Pottersville. John
Grant, the village blacksmith, a
big, rawboned fellow Of enormous
muscle, whose family had hailed from
Nova Scotia, had dared to oppose
Judge Weaver, candidate for the legis-
hture. From the judges point of view
The worst feature of this presumptu-
BUS antagonism was its success. Judge
Weaver had been defeated by the mar
row margin of mt vote, and bitterness
was ever thereafter to rankle in his
heart
Another source Of vexation for the
Judge was the attachment which he
could not fail to see existed between
his daughter Nellie, a girl of pretty
face, medium height, plump person
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-09-19
CARE OF CEMETERIES
Suggestions For Beautifying Ru-
raj Homes of the Dead.
LITTLE LABOR NECESSARY.

Some Warden or Committee Should
Be Put In Charge of the Work, With
a Small Fund to Draw Upon-How to
Keep Lots In Order.
In the "tidying up that takes place
by oil e%nterprising and public spirited
citizens along streets and ON private
grounds, country residents should bear
in mind that there is another spot in
which many of them have q tender in
terest that is usually in great need Of
their attention and efforts, writes a
correspondent of the Farm Progress.
This is the little rural cemetery.
Very rarely nowadays is 1t In con-
nection with church OIL chapel, and
this tends to its greater isolation and
neglect, so that in most cases, as OBJ
served from passing railroad trains,
trolleys and wagon roads, the observer
is depressed by the forgotten, forlorn
and dismal aspect it presents, with
long grass and weed stalks covering
the mounds and washing clay or
gravel obliterating the walks and
drives.
Fortunately such burial places are
no longer very frequent in thickly
populated districts.
There is no reason why the rural
cemetery should not, on a less extern
Sive and pretentiouS scale than that
adopted by the city cemetery, manifest
the same remembrance and taste in Its
appointments and be made q beauty
spot instead of q blot on the land
Scape. Some warden or committee
should have the matter in charge with
q small fund to draw upon for labor
and required materials for keeping the
inclosing fences and gates in repair,
the trees neatly trimmed and the
walks and drives we'll defined and
clear of weeds.
Owners of lots should attend to the
matter of keeping curbings and head.
stones in place, the grass neatly clip
ped and flowers cared for. 1t would
then be a comfort to mourners and q
pleasure to others to visit it frequently,
and the thought Of being laid to rest
under the shade of beautiful trees in
whose boughs birds would nest and
sing with the summer air perfumed
by flowers interspersed among the me-
mortal marbles would not seem repel-
liant to the most sensitive natures.
To avoid the sense of loneliness
| which one OF two might feel in work
ing here by themselves, IN arrange
ment might be made by which repre-
sentatives, both men and women, from
the different families interested could
go out together upon certain days of
| spring and summer and put their re-
spective lots in order and also those
that had no one to care for them. AS
an entire day two or three times dur
ing the seaso would not be too long
for the work required, arrangements
might be made for q quiet dinner
either within the grounds or on some
adjacent spot and neighborly sociabil-
ity be thereby promoted.
By some such plan a great and most
desirable transformation might be eff.
fected in all our rural burial places.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-09-19

open the conveniently arranged door
it occurred to him that at midnight the
sixtieth day of his Imprisonment had
been completed. His face wore a sat
isied smile.
His e%quanimity was u%ndisturbed the
next morning when Judge Weaver
drove over, f%uriously accusing him of
stealing the Jail and demanding that
he return it to the place he had taken
it from. The easy grin on the features
Of the blacksmith grew to broader di-
mansions.
II whipped you at lection, judge"
he drawled slowly. IAN you sent me to
that place." indicating the floating Jail,
when you had your turn. Then I
wouldn't put the shoe on your horse
SOS you could stop your daughters
marryin' young Wenham. Now you
say / stole the Jail. Judge, it's this
way. I've got a chance to sue the
town Of Pottersvi!le FIR false imprison-
ment. ought to have been let out o.
Jail at 12 o'clock last night. More'n
that. the jail's mine!"
The judges face grew blank and
purple with Amusement.
eyes. stree! The jail's mine. /
didn't 60 to sea FIR nothin' when I was
young. Pottersvi!le Jail is flotsam-
F-L-O-T-S-A-M-aa' If the town wants
1t back it'll get it by payin' good
money. An. judge, If you should want
Kelleck shod in a hurry don't f'rget
I'm dom business at the same OF
standv'
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-09-19
THE BACK YARD.
Suggestions For Making It Attractive
and Not an Eyesore.

.S
This is an important subject. A
visit to a farm in almost any state
will emphasize its Importance. A de-
scription Of a typical back yard is
hardly necessary, writes a correspond
ent of Kimball's Dairy Farmer. All
that you need to do is to go to your
neighbours and see his. Yours, Of
course, is clean.
Instead of having chicken coops,
wood piles, cesspools and rubbish
heaps around the kitchen door, why
not have a nice, clean turf? 1 know
it is difficult to get grass to grow in
places that are SO much Worn by the
necessary travel in the vicinity Of
the back door, but by providing an
abundance of walk it seems to me
that the travel might be confined to q
limited territory, so that it would not
be impossible to have a good sod here.
This should be we'll cared for. 1t
should be kept free from litter, and the
grass should be mown as regularly as
in the front yard.
If it becomes tall the wet grass is
disagreeable to the housewife. On
wash days it is preferable to hang the
clothes over a we'll sodded tract than
over one which is bare. In case the
line should break less damage would
be done. This and the comfort of
hanging out the clothes both demon
strate the value of a sodded back yard.
In a rainy a such a yard keeps
the kitchen much heater than one
which is nothing but bare ground.
OF course stuff will accumulate, and
some place must be found for it, but
there is nc reason for saving a lot Of
old rubbish. Burn it up as fast as it
accumulates, and then see that the
wash water and Stops from the kitch-
en- are carried away and destroyed.
AS for the wood, that should be piled
under shelter in order that it may be
protected from summer rains. The
chips are no good SO long as they are
in the yard. If you r to use them
they must be put where you a burn
them in the kitchen stove.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-09-19
WEAK WEARY M
Learn the Cause of Daily Home Life Woes
and End Them at Once

and End Them at Once
When the back aches and throbs.
When homework is torture.
When night brings no rest nor sleep.
When urinary disorders set in.
Women's lot is a weary one.
There is a way to escape these woes.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure such ills.
Mrs. A. A. Smith of 1896 First avenue
south, Fargo, N. D., says: 81 know the
value of Doan's Kidney Pills through
the experience of my sister. She had
doctored and treated for kidney COM
plant for years without any radical.
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recommended to her by a friend she be-
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lief that increased continually until she
was completely and permanently cured.
From what 1 know of Doan's kidney
pills they always bring satisfactory relief
and can always be relied upon"
For sale by all dealers. Price SO cents
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York,
sole agents for the United States. Re-
member the name-Doan's-and take no
other.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-09-19

A>N'N " SASS aSA OCS0lAS q
source of annoyance to the judge.
Sympathy in Pottersville, as it is apt
to be In any town, was with the young
people. In some way it got rumored
around the town that Nellie's life at
home was made non of the pleasant
est by her father. Further comment
was aroused when the postmaster gave
out that Miss Nellie had returned one
of Wrangle's (the wealthy summer Wis
itor's) letters unopened. The incident
showed a further progress in the stand
taken by the energetic young lady
against the plan of her father to mar
ry her to the aforesaid Wrangle in
stead of to young Wenham.
The crisis was reached early in April.
There had been an ice storm during
the night, making the roads as Slip
perry as glass. Unfortunate indeed was
The horse that with unsharpened shoes
had to venture on them. Trade was
brisk at the improvised blacksmith
shop, and John Grant had all the work
he could handle. Judge Viewers trot-
ter Kelleck was late in getting into
line, so that it was nearly nightfall,
with u bitter wind blowing from the
northeast, when the prisoner black
smith at last stripped Kelleck Of his
shoes and commenced with his usual
expedition the task Of reshoeing.
Three shoes had been nailed to KEEL
leck's prancing hoofs when an excla-
nation from the judge drew the atten.
ton Of the walters and loafers to q
couple dashing by at high speed in a
familiar sleigh. They were Willis
Wenham and Judge Weaver's daugh-
ter Nellie. AS they turned up the road
where, two and a half miles distant,
the house of the minister was situate,
1t dawned on the company that they
were witnesses of an elopement.
There was ample time for the angry
Judge to overtake the couple, provided
John Grant drove the nails of the
fourth shoe with his customary quick
ness. The judge commanded him to
hurry. Instead Of doing so he laid
the shoe down and said that, as he
was a prisoner, working only to oblige
folks, he'd be hanged If he'd do anoth-
er tap Of work for q man so low down
as to swear at him. The judge plead
ed and apologiEed in vain. 1t was only
when the young couple returned and
rendered Judge Weaver speeches.
with rage by the announcement OF
their marriage that John Grant would
consent to put on the other shoe.
The very next day came an April
thaw. The travelling was 80 bad that
the prisoners only visitor was Jailer
Gibson, who brought him his meals.
In the night when the blacksmith re-
tired the rain was pouring outside in q
monotonous drizzle. The Pottersville
Jail was situated on the bank of q
small but deep river, and the waters of
this stream were yellowed and swollen
by the freShet.
In the early hours Of the morning
there was a slide and a fall and q
splash. Over into the river went a
section Of banking, the Pottersville
Jail and the prisoner therein. The
structure did not float far, but ground
ed on the shelving shore opposite the
blacksmith shop where John Grant
had practiced his trade prior to his
latest departure from the narrow path
Of sobriety. AS John Grant forced