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Some Of His Political TrIps.

Already he had gone some" but
then he made a few Of his long po-
hucal trips. on one OF which he made
the famous Akron. Ohio. speech. IN
February, 1906 he made another swing
out as far as St Louis and shortly
sfterwarG saved the President & trip
at the celebration OF an anniversary
at Tuskegee Institute BY going him
self
II is scarcely fair. however. to single
out a single trip on which the War
Secretary went in place OF the Presi-
dent, Tor he has made so many such
trips as personal Official and political
ambassador. Not only has he gone
out through the highways and by
ways preaching the gospel Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. but he has addressed
conventions and big commercial or
CARNATIONS as the Administration
mouthpiece.
And so the first part OF last year
psssed. with no official foreign Journey
or even domestic journey OF conse-
quence, since the Panama trip that
followed the one TO the Philippines.
Then came his Second memorable Do
HticaI speech-not quite as sensa tional
al that at Akron. perhaps. but one IN
which he presented in a most inter
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so the summer passed. wlth the SEQ
rotary going somewhere 10 make .
speech or writing magazine article
on one OF his pet insulsr projects every
few days. till the new situation loom
ed up in Cuba. and then he began
piowing through ocean waves again.
HIS trip 20 Cuba and return made
about 5.0oo miles. while this spring his
trip TO Panama. GIBBS. Porto Rico. and
return has aggregated about 500
miles His Journey 20 the Philippines
70 open the new Legislative Assembly
next fall viii mean fully 1900 miles
more. II politics does not consume
too much OF the secretary's time he
may yet carry out his desire 20 visit
Alaska and inspect the army posts
there. which would make about 5000
miles more.
In the meantime. after his return
from Cuba last fall. the secrstary
made an important speech-makinE
trip from Baltimore 70 Idaho. speak
ing in the Western State just before
election day. Then followed a long
tour q inspection Of army posts for
the purpose 70 determining their suit
ability Of orrnlng brigade posts. This
trip led from Fort D. A Russell, near
Cheyenne. Wyo, 10 Fort Robinson,
near Crawford. Neb: TO Fort sher-
idan. near Chicago; TO Fort Leaven-
worth, al Leavenworth. Kan: 70 Fort
Riley. near Junction City. Kan; 10
Fort Sill. near Lawton- o. T; to Fort
Sam Houston. At San Antonio. Tex.
and thence home by way Of New
Orleans.
That trip was begun AZ Cheyenns
on November 2 Just after he had
made his last political speech in Idaho.
and was ended IN Washington Noveu1-
Der IL. Aside from that there are q
number OF less important trips fe has
made up 10 the present time. most Of
them being TO points not farther than
New York
In the meantime the Secretary has
not Sworn of travelling and IL IS safe
70 say that before be leaves the coun-
Try again on the Philippine fournev
he will have added several thousand
miles more &c hts HIST
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Surprised at His Own Record.

No one, before this article was writ
ten-not even Secretary Taft himself
had any definite idea OF the immense
total distance he had Travelled in these
seven years. He was even surprised
when Il Was suggested that possibly
he had Travelled 10000 anilss altegeth-
er; and his private secretary was
amazed 20 find that the distances Of
his chiefs foreign travels alone IN
seven years would equal fully 10000
miles Then there were the hundred
or more important trips that had been
made 30 every corner Of the country.
These have come since Mr. TAFT be-
came Secretary OF war, in 1893. While
most OF them have been political jour
neys. on which he took part in differ
ent campaigns. several Of them were
on business confined strictly to the
war Department.
II Is a surprisingiy interesting rec
ord. Go back TO the beginning, when
the nan who may become President
was given the difficult task OF ad-
ministrstion in nev and hazardous
field. From Cineinnat 20 Manila is
approximately $500 miles. After serv-
ing as head OF the Philippine com
mission. he returned In 1902 and came
20 washington to confer with Presl-
dent Roosevelt. That trip covered
approximately 1900 miles. Then from
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hands are digging a big ditch as an
outlet for the rest of the plantation.
while Porto Rico Is the new tract TO
southeast where the hands want to
come in and sit at the same table with
the others.
Although each section is in charge
of a ranch or plantation boss, Taft.
as all good general overseers must.
finds it necessary to keep his eye on
each and pay more than the Sunday
afternoon off-day visit And so he be-
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hedIu tne lotioWlng incident OF
Mrs Hooseeelt's girIhood.
At that time. in company with A
cousin and his wife. Mrs Roosevelt
spent some weeks among the fishing
folk Of Grand Manan The South Head
is n precipitous elf that drops straight
into the sea. When the high tides
peculiar to the Bay or Fundy are out,
a narrow beach is exposed at the base
Of the cliff. 10 which visitors are in the
habit Of descending by means Of a
narrow. circuitous path Mrs. Roose-
welt and her party made this trip. but
when the girl looked up at the face OF
the clin h occurred to her that she
would much prefer 10 climb IL than TO
return by the pain Consequently. she
and her cousins began the ascent OF
the urecipice. a feat that had been ac-
compiished bat once OF twice before.
and then only by the hardest fisher
men.
The old South Head lifts straight
into the air and is almost as difficult Of
ascent as a polished wall. Their perii-
Gus venture once begun. however. they
we're forced 10 continue IL. for the tide
returned. and the sea cut them of
beneath.
Il never had a more thankful mo-
ment IN my life. said old Walter Nc
Laughlin, the lighthouse keeper. Than
when reached down and drew the
young American girl over the edge 81
he cliff
1t had happened that. Just the day
preceding my visit 10 the South Ughr
Mrs EOOsevelt's cousine COW on his
second visit 10 Grand Manan. had
called there.
Mr.. Mclaughlin" he asked. do
you remember the girl who climbed
South Head years agO2"
OF course, Walter Mclaughlin re-
membered IL.
DO you know. asked his visitor.
dent OF the United States2''
I am going 10 send her this on thu
next mail that leaves Grand Manan''
said the old lighthouse keeper. his eyes
glowing with pleasure He showed me
photograph. on which he had drawn
In red ink the course she took in the
ascent. And I am going 10 ask her
II she remembers old Walter Mel auZh-
lin, who drew her UP over the edge q
the clitf'
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comes the official globe-trotter. But
he had travelled some before he be-
came the general overseer. When he
went out to boss the back west for;y"
job. 1t was necessary for him TO go
into the general overseer's house to
talk over the crops. how TO manage
the men. and so on. Also. it became
necessary for him to visit some Of the
neighbo-s about line fences. the graz
ing of cattle, and the Growing of game
cocks on Sunday mornings. On one
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here ne went to Rome. where he ar
ranged for the purchase Of tie friars
lands. and returned TO Manila. having
Travelled about 22,Ooo miles from here.
Returning 10 Washington IN 1903 to be-
come Secretary of War he travelled
the S.OOe miles over again. In the fall
or that year. nc went to Panama. to
see about digging the big ditch That
round trip was >about 1900 miles. in
round figures. and he repeated it in
1904 and again IN 1905. after his re-
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or these trips he came back by way
OF Rome. and thus his real travels be-
gan Before that he had merely gone
out &c the Philippines and back; after
that. he had made Il around the globe
and was a Travelled man.
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turn from his Philippine trip. adding
5000 more to his list. In the sumner
OF 1876. the Philippine Dattoes and
others welcomed him back 10 the
Islands. at the head or the famous
"CUDid's Junket" That time he visit
ed japan and points in China. which
made fully 1000 miles for the round
-
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His First Trip to the Philippines.

n ECRETARY TAFT was leading a
quiet and peaceful career in Gin
cinnati. when, as plain Judge
Taft. he was picked off OF the
Fedora! bench by President Mckinley,
ana sent out to Manila TO put the screws
in the lid on the Philippines. Things
were boiling out Manila way. and
big man was needed. Others had tried
the lid, cut 1t took a man OF Judge
Tafts physical and mental weight to
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mold 1t down. Judge Taft had seen
but little travel abroad at this time.
and Manila was still far away for the
average American Now. the Philip-
pine archipelago is only the back
west forty of the Taft ranch. Cuba
is where the hands" are building
picket fences in the field on the main
lane to the south; Panama is the
LEASED twenty through which more
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Jumper as Wen as TrOtter.

From political speech way down
in North Carolina to a talk on the
canal on an island out in Lake Erie is
a long jump. but the War Secretary
is a jumper as well as trotter And
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estinS manner some views known tn
be held at the White House. That
was at the openingsof the North Caro- I
Ina State Republican convention at
Greensboro. July 9.
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Mrs. Roosevelt
As a Young Girl
Cliff Climber

URTNG visit % Grand Manan
Island, IN the Bay Of Fundy.
heard the following incident Of
Mrs. Igooseeelt's girlhood.
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An Records Conc TO Smash.

And There in country and perbaps
other country equal it,
trips he has made but the greatly vered nature
official career of the Secretary of War
100000 miles in and of his political business
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Heres Man Who "Has
Secretary Taft this after
service not quite truly
has travelled If trips
whose distances would equal three other
sides making within
globeand all this within
the boy, verncuar might
remark, That's going some
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-02-21
CONTEST NOTICE.

Department OF the Interior United States
Land Office. Mipot. N. D.. Feb. &. 1906
A sufficient contest AFFIDAVIT having been
fled in this otiice by Robert Miller. contest
ant. against homestead entry No. 23c45, made
June II. 1909, for Lot Section e, twp lo4.
Range g. by John Kelsey contestee in whichit
is alleged that the said John Kelsey has
wholly abandoned the said land and changed
his place OF residence therefrom and that he
hos boon absent from the said land continu-
OuSly for period of more than six months i'm
medii 'ly proceeding the date OF the said
contest AFFIDAVIT: that there are no improve
ments whatsoever on the said land but that
said land remains in it's natural wild
state, and that said alleged absence
from the said land was not due to his employ
ment In the army. navy, or marine corps OF the
U. S. as private soldier. officer. seaman or
marine during the war with Spain or during
any other war in which the Q. S. may be or has
been engaged.
Said parties are hereby notified to appear.
respond and OFFER evidence touching said ALE
cation at 10 O'Clock q. M. on April TO- 1907. be-
fore the REGISTER and Receiver OF the United
States Land Office in Minot, n. D.
The said contestant having. in proper Adi-
davit, nled Feb. Is. 1901. set forth facts which
show that after due diligence personal service
Of this notice can not be made 1t Is hereby or
dered and directed that such notice be given
by due and proper publication. l.. D. McGahAn
G. B Bach, Minot. N. D.. Register.
Atty. for contestant. 23l-33S
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Coy. Deyine on Lincoln.

Gov. Devine gave a notable
address on Abraham Lincoln at
the Methodist church Saturday
night. Captain Blakey and the
other members of Co. D., Minot's
new military organization, at
tended in a body, and in uni
form. The boys, forty or fifty
in number, made an excellent ap-
pearance. The Captain has sur
rounded himself with a lot of
good clean cut young men.
The High School chorus un-
der the leadership OF Miss Ella
Durham, sang The Battle
Hymn OF the Republic in a very
pleasing manner. Several old
soldiers we're present at this
meeting.
Gov. Devine has made a great
study OF Abraham Lincoln and
the conditions under which lie
was born and raised. The GOV
ernor compared Lincoln with
Douglas, Clay and Webster. No
more finished address was ever
heard in Minot. We would that
we could reproduce the entire adj
1tnSc
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Fatally Injured.

Amandus johnson, aged ~
years, employed by the 6. n. in
the local yards, was struck by a
switch engine Tuesday after
noon, as he was picking up scrap
iron under the viaduct and so
badly injured that he will die. A
freight train was fpassing on a
track nearby and he did not
hear the switch engines ap-
proach.
He was taken to the hospital
where it was found that his right
arm was broken and almost sew
cred from the body. His left leg
broken, knee dislocated, hip bro
ken, three ribs broken, several
large scalp wounds and internal
injuries. The right arm will be
amputated today.
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was committed and that they as indeed
they were seemed to be expeced to bring
in a verdict of guilty.
81 feel sure that it was the influence
OF the court chat brought about the yer.
dict; verything else was insignificant
compared to that.
''When a man is out in the woods in
storm where lightning is striking
about him and trees are falling, he does
not mind the bite OF mosquito on bis
wrist
"From the great mass Of stuff you ad-
United with the case, stuff / might say
that it took twenty days to 60 through,
while only two days we're employed on
the case, and all this Jumped before the
jury, who can say even outside your in
huence, upon what state Of facts the
verdict was rendered, those properly in
the case, or those as believe improp-
erly brought in.
AT the beginning Of the case you laid
down certain lines, outside of which you
said the attorneys for the state could
not go.
"You either changed, modified or ab.
rogated every rule you made at the be-
ginning. "And I feel, your honor, that
l am not alone in my belief that the YER
dict was brought about by over enthus-
iastic judicial acts Of yours. It is
sometimes hard to appreciate the state
Of mind aud heart that lies back Of out
ward manifestations:
During tho course of the trial I Of
ton heard your honor make use Of an
expression the import, OF which was
Not being able to got mental photo
graph Of mans mind when certain
act was done, We must try to arrive at
the state Of his mind by taking in the
circumstances and surroundings"
II would very much like. Judge Pol
lock, to have mental photograph Of
your mind when five minutes before the
jury came in, you went to the jury room
and said to the jury:
Have you yet agreed upon a verdict!
and the foreman said No. and you re.
Piled, Well, you better, l bid you good
night.
II cannot impugn your intelligence by
believing that you did not know better.
You must have known your act was
highly improper.
anyway the supreme court will con-
slider it, Now have said more than
expected to say, and can only say that
ask no mercy or favor from this court. +"
Perhaps no other trial in the state
has received so much attention as this
one. Major Murphy was first arrested
July 7, 1905, and the first trial began
Jan. 5, 1909, lasting tventy-one days. AT
that time six were for conviction and
six for acquit:al and ultimately the jury
disagreed. The second trial began Nov,
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Major J. 8. Murphy, ono Of the fore.
most politicians Of the state, was SEN
fenced to the penitentiary at Bismarck
At hard labor for period Of eighteen
months by Judge Pollock ct Fargo Fri
day afternoon at o'clock. The Major
.fter Z second trial, was found guilty in
district court at Fargo last December,
on the charge Of forgery in the third
degree, forging road receipts in Ward
county.
Thru his attorneys, Barnett 4 Rich
ardson Of Fargo aud J. 8. Callahan OF
/Casselton, the defendant q! oace gave
notice Of appeal from tho verdict OF the
district court, to tho supreme court OF
state, AID asked for stay Of sentence
which was granted. The Major return
cd to Minot that night.
Judge Pollock allowed 30 days for
preparing Transcript Of tho evidence,
aud will extend the time il it Is desired,
Mr.. Murphy's new bonds wore placed
At q, 500, which were given at once. The
supreme court viii convene ct Fargo on
March 18th and it is expected that the
case will como up ct that time.
At tbs time Of the sentence the state
vas represented BY B. D. Townsend,
Murphy's bitter enemy, who by the
way. assisted the state throughout the
second trial.
In passing sentence on tho Major,
Judge Pollock said:
"In passing sentence upon you, Mr..
Murphy, the path Of duty leads tho
court into ways extremely painful.
The court recognises The fact that
there stands before it an cd time and
! prominent citizen Of the state. One,
too, who BY your genial good nature
and genuine good fellowship has sur
rounded yourself with many friends.
Naturally they have not deserted you in
this, your hour Of trouble. They believe
in your Innocence, Mr.. Murphy, and
through the press and elsewhere have
expressed surprise at Jour conviction.
Feeling that you could not get fair
trial in the county OF Ward, your resi-
dence, and before the judge Of that dis
trict, you filed affidavits Of prejudice
against both. This was your statutory
right. Thereupon the venire was
changed 70 this county. Tho publica
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PUBLIC NOTICE OF SALE OF ESTRAY.
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA,

T. William Murray. Justice of the Peace in
and for Ward county by virtue OF the Statutes
inside and provided in such cases. I will expose
at public sale and sell to the highest bidder
ct the hour OF 9 p m. at the home OF Andrew
jacobson on the south east quarter OF Section
nine township one hundred and ffty-hve OF
Gray Mare branded W on left shoulder weix-
5
hit about 500 pounds. TIE same being an estray
which came and was found on the premises of
John Rahroedder on November the IS. 1905. in
said Ward county.
Dated at Ainot this Goth day Of February,
A. ID. 1907. WILLIAM MURRAY.
Justice OF the Peace in and for Ward county
North Dakota. 2-2i-36
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MAJ0RlMURPHY SENTENCED
EIGHTEEN MONTHS in PENlTENTlARY
Judge Pollock, Before Whom He Was Tried,
Passes Sentence Friday--Defendant APP
peals to Supreme Court--Stay Of Sentence
Has Been Granted.

ton in the press Of that order was my
first knowledge that the responsibility
Of trying the case would fall upon me.
1.-THE action Of Judge Goss in sending
the case here for trial was fully review,
cd and affirmed by the supreme court Of
the state, l could not therefore shrink
from performing the duty thrust upon
me-
"You have been twice tried. The first
trial resulted in . disagreement, sthe
jury standing practically six to six
throughout their entire deliberations
"The result Of the last trial, conduct
ed under all the forms Of law, vouch-
safed to defendant in q criminal &C.
ton, under the laws and the constitu-
ton, has been that you were found
guilty Of issuing . forged road over,
seer's receipt OF Ross township, Ward
county, North Dakota, for tho sum Of
$23l.3O to which you admit having sign.
ed tho name Of William Crowder.
''The court now asks you, Nj. Muir
ply, il you have any legal reason to as
sign Why tho judgement Of tho court
should not b pronounced against your
MAJOR MURPHY REPLIEs.
Temptation to say much at this time
is strong, yet don't KNOW that actually
ought TO say anything. fudge Lauder,
my attorney, suggested to mo that you
would likely ask the question you have
nov put 70 mo and that I would better
say nothing ct this time.
II repeat, however, that temptation
to say : word, is strong. I will simply
say that am absolutely and entirely in
nocent Of the crime for which / stand
convicted-as innocent, sir, Is . man
who never heard Of the case.
"Of course, I realize fully tho useless
moss Of demonstrating the physical i'm
possibility Of placing big stones on the
top Of the pyramids. They are there,
and seem to gbe here-here for SEN
tence-impossible as it may seem.
''In my own mind and conscience, 1
want to say to you that Fl am as far
above the thing of which am convict
ed as tho poles are apart, and while l
have strong likes aud disliKes, feel
myself SO much above the little fellows
who brought this about and the miser-
able tools they employed-so far above
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them that l cannot even dignity them
with my hate-I don't.
This has been to me an awful expert.
ence. My good name, good opinion Of
my fellow men, good opinion of my
friends, neighbors and those who know
me best are everything tome. l. how
ever, have this consolation my friends
and associates are as absolutely con-
WINGED Of my innocence as myself and
I might add that they are also Is abso-
lutely sure Is am that ultimately I
will be exonerated and vindicated.
"But do feel that those who brot
this on me, and their abettors, who used
every means. foul or fair, must some
how, sometime. somewhere, DO made to
suffer as much as I hsys suffered. The
law Of compensation can't % far mis-
carry.
"There are people. ,yonr homer and !
possibly would not have b 60 lar To- nd
them. descended Is I believe from an
cestors, who heat pinoers and work
thumb screws for the inquisition, As
hired men, who delight in their small
souls, to do mean, hateful.l furnishing
things to their fellow men, il they can
but call it "doing duty"
"rhe word duty, like the venom of .
serpent, is ever in their mouth and by it
they break hearts, destroy hopes and
ambition, create blackness and despair,
blot out light, forbid happiness, foster
grief, and plant pain and resentment in
breasts innocent Of crime-except that
OF helping fellow mortals.
II have learned that it is better be
to blackmailed, ct times.
II have learned that 1t is better to
give tho path to dog than to be bitten
by him-for even the killing Of the dog
afterward will not cure tho bite.
"The effect Of the bite cannot be
wholly obliterated in my case.
"1f loft my primary-my elementary
feelings get away with me my heart snd
soul and brain would be full Of strong
emotion, Of hate and sorrow and re-,
vengs. Bnt try to live above that. l
am above it though sometimes my hard.
est fight is with myself to keep above it.
1t is easy to conceive, your honor, how
twelve ignorant mon, and l use that
term in no offensive way-I mean twelve
men whose mental horizon is extremely
limited, could, after being locked up for
thirty days. their minds warped and dis
torted because Of the surroundings,
which were exactly as though . great
murder trial was being tried or million
dollars was at stake, Instead of charge
of the most minor ofense if may use
the term.
81 can, say, conceive how sstwelve
men, like I have described could con-
clude from the surroundings, not from
the facts or evidence, that q great crime
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Material Arrives for New Mill.

Several car loads of large
slabs, for the foundation of the
800 barrel -four mill to be erect
ed north Of the 500 depot by the
Russell-Miller Milling Co. have
arrived and work will begin on
the structure Immediately. B.
Fl. Stair, a contractor from
Minneapolis, is here to superln-
tend the work. The mill will be
six stories high. made from
brick and will be 36xSO feet with
a warehouse 4OxS0 feet. lit is
expected that the mill will re-
quire 1000 bushels of wheat a
day.