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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-21
An Auton,obiIc RaiIwsv.

IN Columbus, Ind. there Ii the only
concrete automobile railway In the
world. AS vet, however, it il only 4
miniature, but as soon as the inventor.
the Rev. 2. T. Sweeney, fish ana game
commissioner Of Indiana, can interest
sufficient capital ne expects to build
an experimental line Just outside CO.
iumbus, says the Motor World. The
plan y TO build q concrete roadbed, III
the center Of which will be 4 concrete
guide rail twelve inches wide and
twelve inches high. Each car win ba
lifted with two small auxiliary wheels
e prevent It from leaving the track.
4 the scheme gets beyond the expert
mental stage, the automobiles viii Be
built 70 carry fifty passengers and ii
also haul trailer. rs
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-21
The Watch Habit

a !. Amt it funny how little a man
seems to use a watch and yet how he
misses one if he hasn't got it with
him" said a man on the street car
yesterday who had forgotten his. -
don't don suppose really need my watch
more than three or four times day.
ne said. There's always plenty of
clocks in sight, but I must look at my
watch dozens of times without know
ing that / do it. haven't been gone
from home now more than twenty min
utes, and ! feel as If / had left off mr.
collar, and yet know within few
minutes of what time it is. Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-21
SUPREME court DECISIONS

directly to adopt the act by vote, nor
had they any direct voice in the ap-i
pointment Of the commission; in other
words, the taxing power was con-
ferred upon board appointed by a
city council without the assent of the
people. In the opinion of the court,
which is by Morgan, G. j., it is
stated that: cit is conceded and
could not reasonably be doubted, that
the power to levy taxes is a Legislative
power and is, by the constitution,
vested in the senate and house Of
representatives. Whether the legisla-
ture can enact a law authorizing a
person or body, not elected by the
people, or appointed without their
assent, to levy taxes, is the question
to be determined" This contention
has been answered in the negative by
the court, and the opinion goes into
the matter very exhaustively. The act
creating the commission is declared
by the supreme court to be unconstitu-
tional and the order of the district
court sustaining the act is reversed.
George A. Bangs Of Grand Forks
appeared for the appellant and Scott
Rex contra. The syllabus of the
court is as follows:
1. Debts of city contracted for
paving and sewer purposes are not
to be computed in ascertaining wheth-
er the debt limit has been exceeded.
There is no general liability against
the city for such Indebtedness except
for the one-fifth portion of the cost of
paving. p
2. Bonds issued by an Independent
school district of the city of Grand
Forks are not to be computed as debts
of the city in ascertaining whether
the debt limit has been exceeded.
3. A law empowering city council
to determine by a vote whether the
city will avail itself of the provisions
of the law is not unconstitutional as
@ oSASooI1O1l " CuC SOuuSll Ol&iOSlolct-
tive power.
4. The fact that the 1906 law
creates a board to be appointed by the
council whose powers over the con-
troll and government of parks are the
same as those conferred by law upon
the city council by former laws, does
not render the 1905 law invalid
5. A municipality has power to
provide for the payment of annual
interest on bonds to be issued by it
although the law authorizing the issue
of such bonds does not expressly au-
thorize it to make provision for the
payment of such bonds or annual in
terest thereon
6. An act of the legislative as.
sembly authorizing board appointed
by the city council without the con
sent of the people to levy geaeral
taxes is Unconstitutional as a dclega-
ton of legislative power.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-21
DISPENSED WITH STATE DISPENSARY

The state of South Carolina has
Jumped its job as sole purveyor to
the depraved appetite of the southern
ehiyaIry for soul-destroying rum, says
the Minneapolis Tribune. The senate
has passed with amendments the
house bill putting an end to the state
dispensary system. M
Controversy, ethical and constitu-
tional, has ragged about this novel ex-
pertinent for long time. South Caro-
lima is the only civil division larger
than a city to try the experiment of
state monopoly of the sale of intoxicat-
ed liquors The city of Gothenberg in
Sweden invented the idea. Some fif-
teen years ago it was in practical OPP
Grafton in the city of Athens, Georgia.
The popular party that had then
just overthrown the old planter dy-
nasty In South Carolina was rather
keen for temperance and public NOR
atty generally. Unable to agree on
any other plan Of regulating saloons.
it adopted the state dispensary. Sena-
tor Til1man was its original and con-
slant champion, though his political
fortunes seem not to be bound up with
1T. The legislature that abolished it
reelected him for six years.
The state dispensary was regarded
as compromise between license and
prohibition Its purpose was to abol-
Ish the temptations of saloon drinking,
confne the use Of liquor to persons de-
termined to have it, guarantee the rea-
sonable purity OF the article sold and
convert the profit of the trade to pub
Tic uses. It forbids the sale of liquor
except in sealed packages between
half pint and five gallons, for cash
and to be drunk off the premises. Even
club members must bring in their
Tasks and keep them In private lock-
ers. " 5s.
"A state board buys the stuff and
sends it to county boards, which dis
tribute it to retail agents for sale at a
Fixed price The profit Is about one
half million dollars year Or about is
per cent on the trade, Of which one
fourth goes to the state for support Of
schools. There will have to be pretty
stiff taxation to supply the loss Of this
generous revenue.
Though the purpose OF the law was
moral, It has been highly profitable to
the public. The motive Of the repeal
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-21
Eased His Conscience.

u An amusing story is related Of Johns
Hopkins Honesty was evidently one
of the fundamental traits Of his char
acter. On one occasion he was sent by
his mother to borrow a fatiron of a
5neighbor. The good neighbor gave him
the fatiron and at the same time Of
fered him piece Of pie.
ss No, thank you. I don't want any
pie, said the red faced boy as he
started home. Halfway there the pie
and his conscience were too. much for
him. He wheeled about and knocked
again at the neighbor's door. his face
redder than ever. Il told you a story Z
ne explained 81 did want that pie"
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-21
BIG WEDDING PRESENT.
Charles Nj. schwab's Bridal Gift to His
" 81 Sister to BE $4,000, GOO.

Charles Nj. sehwab's Bridal Gift to His
$ NJ Sister to BE $4,000, COO.
Two million dollars will be Charles
I Nc. schwab's wedding gift to his sis
ter. Miss Gertrude Schwab, when she I
marries David Barry Of Johnstown,
1 Pa, says a Pittsburg special Dispatch
to the New York World. The date for
the wedding has not been fixed abso-
.lutely. It will be soon after easter
and naturally on date when the for
naers president of the steel trust can at
tend.
5 Miss Schwab, well known In New /
York, was recently at the Hotel Scllen-
ley In Pittsburg with Mr.. Barry. his
sisters, Miss Ella and Miss Catherine
Barry, and DR.. r.. j. McAneny, all OF
Johnstown. The party went to Pitts
burg for the annual ball of the Colum-
!, bus club at the Conservatory of Music,
held the other night. AT the ball the
rumor spread that Mr.. Schwab would
give his sister So, 900, 900 to start house
keeping. So large Is the sum that
many who heard the rumor doubted II.
but inquiry dispelled their doubts.
eyes, Charlie Is the best brother any
girl in this world ever had Oh, he's
just too good to me Cor anything!
wish he was here to see how am en-
joying myself!'' exclaimed Miss Schwab
as she Joined the Misses Barry In an
automobile and went shopping She
/. is buying many articles for her trous-
seau in Pittsburg and says patriotic
ally:
II can buy fine enough gowns in
Pittsburg and New York without going
to London and Paris. z
d Miss Schwab looks much like her
generous brother, who Is devoted to
her. She Is plump, not very tall, with
hazel eyes and fine chestnut hair. Her
manner is vivacious and her laugh
catching.
Mr.. Barry is perhaps forty years ole,
the cashier of Johnstown bank and
therefore accustomed to handling mon.
ey. He Is not wealthy, nor is he poor.
Miss Schwab had some business at the
bank and there first met its agreeable
cashier. They fell in love. Her broth
er highly approves of the match, as is
proved by the splendid dot he gives his
sister
She lives with her aged parents at
Loretto, Pa, in the comfortable home
which brother Charlie built for them
near his fine estate, where he spends a
part Of the summer She passes much
time in New York with her brother
and his wife and has accompanied
B them abroad
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-21
Hats Off to The Herald,

Mclean County Miner: OF all the
unfortunate papers in this part Of the
state the Douglas Herald seems to
have had the hardest time. One week
It came out printed on bright red
wrapping paper. But last week capped
the climax The paper was printed on
five 7x9 handbills all Of different col
ors, neatly tied with baby ribbon!
Hats off to the Herald.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-21
NalleIIy vs.. Board Of Park Commits
sioners of Grand Forks.

Naileliy VS.. Board OF Park Commits
sioners of Grand Forks.
This was an action brought to re-
strain the board of park commission
ers Of Grand Forks from issuing bonds
In the sum Of $4,000 to be used for
park purposes. The commissioners
were appointed by the city council of
Grand Forks under authority of
chapter 143 of the laws of 1905. This
act provided that any incorporated
city in the state might by two
thirds vote of its council, declare a
park system necessary and appoint a
commission to condemn land for park
purposes, and giving the commission
sole authority to maintain and inn
prove the parks, to pass ordinances
for their regulation and government.
The commissioners were also author
lied to levy assessments, and to issue
negotiable bonds Of the district in a
sum not exceeding two per cent of the
value of the property, for purchasing
land and improving the same. The
act further provided that the park
board should have power to "levy
taxes upon all of the property within
said district for the purpose of main
tanning and improving said parks and
defraying the expenses of said board"
The commission Instituted proceed
ings to issue bonds as above stated
and the plaintiffs herein procured a
preliminary injunction restraining
them. The defendants demurred and
the trial court Of Grand Forks county
sustained the demurrer. From this
order the plaintiffs appealed to the
supreme court.
The appellants contend that the
bonds proposed to be issued would
create a debt against the city Of Grand
Forks in excess of the debt limit
Both parties conceded that the pro-
posed Indebtedness of the commission
would be an inde btedness of the city
of Grand Forks. 1T was also claimed
that the bonded Indebtedness of the
school district of Grand Forks, which
district is similar in area to the city
proper, should be included in COM
putting the Indebtedness of the city.
The appellants also claim that the act
is void because it creates municipal
corporation authorized to exercise
powers over territory that is under the
control of the city council, and that
two corporations cannot exercise the
same powers over the same territory.
The main contention. however, and
the one on which really the decision
turns, is that the act authorizes the
commissioners TO levy annual taxes
for the purpose Of making effectual
the objects thereof. The citizens Of
Grand Forks never had an opportunity
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-21
A Last Resort

First Farm Servant Why did the
farmers wife give you notice? Sec
ond Farm Servant she said / was no
good for anything. couldn't even
mind the sheep. So am going into
the town to be a nursemaid feggen-
dorfer Batter. WI
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-21
Preparing For Ii.

Hello, stiniayo cried Knox. Look
ing for anybody ~
Why. yes" replied Stinjay. wise.
man was to meet me here at 6 O'Clock
to go home to dinner with me. and its
g now
Oh, he'll be along! / just saw him
finishing a porterhouse steak In that
restaurant down the street. !. PhiladeI.
9phia Press.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-21
The Latest straw.

Al John, said the woman with nine
chapeaux 81 got another new hat To-
day.
" dear" expostulated her htis-
band, that is the last straw"
q know it, she said. sjust from
Paris. Life.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-21

Riches are like sea water, the more
you drink the thirstier you become
Schopenhauer E
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-08-03
DEATH IN A NEW aulse.
Scheme That Landed a Hungarian
Judge In Town Jail.

In little village on the Hungarian
frontier. not far from Presburg,
peasant woman recently received 400
kronen (sS5) from her husband in
America.
She promptly deposited IL in the
local branch of the postoffice savings
bank, and then the next day went to
withdraw the whole amount.
The bank official was somewhat sur
prised, and asked for an explanation,
when she said that Death had APP
peared to her during the night and
threatened to take her away with him
unless she had the 400 crowns ready
for him the next night.
The gendarmes were communicated
WITH and when Death" made his
promised appearance he was found to
be very much alive, in the person Of
the local Judge.
The womans money is still in the
bank, and the Judge is In jail.-Pall
Mall Gazette.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-08-03
FIVE FALL INTO GRAVE.
Remarkable Incident That Disturbed
Solemnity Of Funeral.

Instead of the accustomed quiet
which prevails at the burial OF the
dead. great excitement and fear at.
tended the burial the other day Of
Michael Serene, prominent merchant
Of Westport. when by the collapsing
OF grave the coffin and several per-
sons attending the services were
hurled into a small pit
The final prayer had been said by
the preacher, and the assistant to the
undertaken stepped to the foot OF the
coffin to arrange the rope for letting
the coffin into the grave. At that mo.
ment one OF the pallbearers acct
dentally kicked out the crosspiece
that. supported the coffin. The coffin
quickly descended into the grave, the
body going feet first. The assistant
fastened its descent by tumbling on
1t. Several persons rushed to the
edge OF the grave, causing the soil to
yield, and in few seconds five per.
sons were lying in the pit half covered
with dirt.
They were pulled out, the coffin was
dug out and laid fiat, and after the
grave had been redug the burial was
completed.-N. Y. Press.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-08-03
WHEN THE FISH HURDLE.
Man Wanted to Be Far Away From
-. the Danger Spot. :.

or course at this season the usual
run of fish stories" are going the
rounds. But one relating to the
hurdling prowess Of bass and trout.
which was told in all earnestness the
other night, takes first prize.
Fish always go up stream in the
springtime," said the fisherman, land
scarcely anything will keep the bass
and trout from getting near the head
waters. | have known these two
species to jump over dam eight to
ten feet high and continue their up
stream Journey"
What was that you said?" re.
marked a friend. who also claims to
be somewhat of an angler. The man
repeated his assertion that he had
seen fish jump over dams eight to ten
feet high, and as there was no one
present to deny the hurdling abilities
OF the fish, the only challenge to his
remarkable state rent was a laugh by
all hands.
We'll, trust ] will never be on the
top OF Niagara falls when one of those
hurdling fish you speak of comes fly.
Ing through the air and hits me in the
eye" remarked the friend. That
broke up the fish stories for that even
ing. but the man still insists that a
ten-foot dam can be hurdled by either
a bass or trout.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-08-03

New York-John ID. Rockefeller has
been staged" not in any uncertain
manner and with an alias as in 1.-The
Vanderbilt Cup" or The Lion and the
Mouse, but quite positively even down
TO his own name. James Haviland
has done it In his vaudeville sketch
called The Almighty Dollar" and
Haviland himself plays the part Of
the oil king.
John ID. is shown bewailing the fact
that he has to sneak into his house
like thief In the night, lodging pro-
cess servers. The door bell rings and
he asks sharply, Whats that?" and
then soliloquizes, another of those
idiotic reporters. suppose, seeking
my opinion on the next presidential
compaign. Fools, fools, fools, II mat
tiers not who the man is or may be,
ne Is ours. ours body and soul"
Then he gets note from a poor
doctor who has been stung by the
tainted money microbe and wants a
few days more time on his $4,000
note.
"Bosh!" SCOTS John ID, "the same
old story. More time. more time, bus.
mess is business, and a business man
should not presume on friendship"
so 1t goes. but, though he is hard.
headed business man, this Rockefeller
OF the stage is made so kind hearted
that he gives $4,000 for the rag doll
OF Little Liz. the angel waif, who once
upon time pulled his grandchild
out OF the ocean at Rockaway. and at
the end Liz says, earnest like:
John ID, dem noospaper guys who's
allus knockin' you is bunch OF stiffs.
U Amt got hair on de top of yer
nut. but | love yer-I love yer like
hill"
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-08-03
SUBSTITUTE COPPER ros GOLD.
Bank OF England Branch Swindled In
an Unusual Way.

London.-A remarkable story of
halfpennies being substituted for half
sovereigns was told at the Manchester
city police court the other day, when
Henry Douglas Anderson. who had
been employed at the Manchester
branch of the Bank " England and
after absco' . g had been arrested in
Canada, Urged with stealing
e1,0S1.
In stating .se for the prosecu.
tion, F. e. Sni,.h. ~ p. said that the
prisoners duty was that of separating
light weight gold coins from those
of full weight and lie had to put the
full weight coins into bags which he
had to label and sign. On July 81 he
absented himself, and on August the
bank issued 25 bags of half sovereigns
to Messrs. Williams. Deacon's bank,
and IA of them. which had been made
up by the prisoner. were found to
have been tempered with. half sover.
eigns having been replaced by the nee
essary number of halfpennies to make
up the correct weight Two other
bags in the banks treasury we're also
found to have been tempered with in
the same way, and the total sum
missing was 1881.
On September 10 the bank received
letter from the prisoner in Winni.
peg, in which he practically admitted
bis guilt and made reference to the
mad act he had committed.
Evidence was given by number OF
bank clerks. including a retired de-
tective inspector. named John Wool
ven. who. describing his search for
Anderson, said he went down to Whit
stable-on-Sea and found the prisoners
wife and family living there. In a
drawer he found G647.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-08-03
Have Trouble
with Your Food :?
Try
|Grape-Nuts
Perfectly Cooked,
Ready to Serve.
Delicious and Healthiul

THE ordinary breakfast cereal
cooked few minutes in half-hearted
way will in time weaken the stomach
OF anything short Of an OK.
ANY preparation of wheat or oats
put into water that is below the boil
ing point and cooked as mush is usu-
ally served remains a pasty, indi-
gestible mass. The cells are tough
and unopened. In addition, the stom-
ach of person sensitively constituted
refuses to do anything with the pasty
mass 1t is sent into the second stom.
ach, the Duodenum, where In conse-
quence of the long time OF the first
process of digestion, is fermented and
soured. As an eminent medical man
pertinently states, the stomachs of half
the people going about the streets are
about In the condition of an old vim
egar barrel.
Intestinal dyspepsia is the direct
consequence of such feeding"
Knowledge Of these facts and wide
experience in the preparation and use
of cereals brought out the product
known as Grape-Nuts. manufactured
with special reference to having the
heterogeneous and starchy parts of the
grains, of which the food is composed,
perfectly and scientifically cooked at
the factory, ready for immediate use
and therefore not subject to the ma
nipulations OF any cook, good or bad.
The starch of the grains, changed to
grape.sugar, can be seen glistening on
the little granules, and gives forth a
delicate sweetish taste. very palatable.
Children and adults obtain fine re-
suits from the use OF Grape-Nuts food.
II is so perfectly adapted to the wants
of the human body and so easily di-
gested that many cases are on record
OF nuroing babes being fed very sue
cessfully on t. There's Reason"
Made at the pure food factories OF
the Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich,
: Read THE Road to MELVILLE" in pkgs
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-08-03
PRISON FOR THEFT OF STROUD.
Undertaken Sent to jail for Buryina
Man In an Undershirt.

Little Rock. Ark.-For the alleged
theft of shroud from dead man and
burying him in the scanty white un.
dershirt furnished by the county hos.
pital. despite the fact that the rela.
tives had paid for the shroud, w. b.
jackson. an undertaken on West
Ninth street was fined $3.50 and sen,
teaced to six months In Jail.
John Parnell died and his two sons
arranged for the funeral. They asked
jackson how much he would charge
TO furnish their father with coffin. a
shroud and grave. The price agreed
upon was $25. When the day for the
funeral came both brothers say they
went to the Jackson undertaking
rooms and there saw their dead par.
ent, properly laid out in his coffin and
dressed In long black shroud. They
made ARRANGEMENTS to return after
dinner for the trip to the cemetery
and on leaving the parlor were warned
by a woman, who said:
Il hope Jackson won't treat your
father like he did my SON"
The two men became suspicious and
when the grave was reached they or.
dered the coffin opened. To this the
driver objected, saying It was against
Mr., Jacksons orders, but this only
strengthened their suspicious. The
brothers insisted, and finally the lid
was removed. The black shroud had
disappeared. The arrest OF the un.
dertaker followed.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-08-03
Chinese Jews.

American interest in China since
the Boxer rebellion has extended to
the Chinese Jews, who settled at
Kaifungfu during the Han dynasty,
that ruled China from 200 b. C. to 200
A. ID. The Kaifungfu colony is men.
toned occasionally by European trav-
elers, among them Marco Polo in the
fourteenth century, while in 1000 and
'1704 they were visited by Jesuit mis-
sionaries. To-day. according to AL
fred X. Glover, writing in the Over
land Monthly for May, the Chinese
Jews are almost extinct, but their rec.
ords and historical tablets are care
fully. preserved.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-08-03
Economy Carried to Excess.

Inhabitants of well-known region
Of the canton of Bern, Switzerland, a
district famous throughout the Alps
for It's large breed Of cattle and its
brand of milk, are spoken Of as
coffee faced and fiat chested." At
the last military draft eighteen young
mountaineers were called up, and of
these all but four were rejected. This
result is said to be not uncommon in
these all but four were rejected. This
milk are the main sources of income.
The peasant feeds himself too much
on the milk and grudges himself the
meat.