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Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1907-10-18
STATE NEWS

STATE NEWS
Chief Of Police Hagan of Minot, has
freak in the form of an elk and a
coon on exhibition at the city hall in
that city. ,.
Matt Helten of Frier,. lost his right
hand by getting it caught In separ'
ator. -y -. III
Oliver o'Hara of Denny. rook, was
seriously injured In q fight near Minot
last week. T. -~~s
Some women Of Edgerly reec~s:ly
did the Carrie Nation act on nd
pig OF that town. - . Is ..-~ sS
Frederick Daash. a pioneer resident
Of New Rockford, has been arrested
on a serious charge preferred by his
step daughter. II,
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Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1907-10-18
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J. S. Rosholt of Edmore, was regis
tered at the Sevilla last Monday.
Born.-To Mr.. and Mrs. John Wal
lace, Thursday Oct. 10, 1907, daugh-
ter.
A. R. Walker, the Morris township
farmer who makes his home In Min
neapolis, was in the city Sunday.
J. F. Henderson, junior partner in
the firm of White & Henderson, was
in the city Saturday. MIR. Henderson
returned to jamestown Monday morn
ing.
G. D. Mills, foreman of the Inter-
Ocean Office, was in town last Monday
on his way back to his farm at Toxic,
after being in Cedar Falls Iowa, where
he went last week with the remains
of his father who died ten days ago.
w. s. Rance, who has been here for
the past four weeks looking after the
interests of his farm in Cleveland
township, left Monday afternoon for
his new home in Summerville, Texas.
He says that North Dakota has
Texas beat to death" for farming
country.
w. B. Hawley, an ex-pill-mixer of
Minot, was in the city last Friday. He
spent the day as the guest of c. W.
Green. Hawley says he Is already
preparing to attend the druggists con-
vention in this city next summer, and
when he comes, his capsule dissemin-
ating brethren are sure Of being en-
tertained, for Bill is good fellow.
Pill-Mixer Allie Bond went out to
Doc Crafts pass last week, Wednes-
day, and returned with plenty of evi.
dences Of his prowess as sportsman.
He was accompanied by John Haslam,
and s. H. Bennett Of Excelsior, MINI.
Together they returned with twenty
four ducks, and besides that Allie
succeeded in bagging large black
cormorant, which is now in Minot be-
ing mounted. and will prove valu-
able addition to Allies large collection
of stuffed birds. The cormorant,
though essentially deep sea bird, is
not entirely unknown to these parts,
but is said to be very hard to shoot,
by reason Of it's excessive activity in
getting out of range Of the hunter. He
also had the pleasure OF taking q
couple of shots at a large white swan,
but did not succeed in killing the bird,
by reason of his gun not being of large
enough bore. Allie says he turned
the bird over in the water couple Of
times.
The fur coats, cloth and fur lined
coats, very, very good, good and cheap,
cheap, cheap, at the New York Cash
Store.
Peter Regan, a prominenet farmer
of Sullivan township, was in the city
Wednesday.
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1907-10-18

The First National Bank. Dev-
ills Lake, N. D., loans money on
real estate at seven per cent.
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1907-10-18

E. J. GLASS in Charge of Station
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20
AN ERRAT1o TRADE BAROMETER.

Things might have been different
when the spectators planned their
panic the other day for the purpose of
soaring the country and President
Roosevelt if the manipulators had pre-
vented the Steel trust from making it's
annual report the morning the fire.
works were to be started on the Stock
exchange. Wall street has always
of the country and its recorded varia-
tions in the prices of industrial stocks
have been accepted in many quarters
as indicating the state of trade and
business. Naturally, the stock oper-
ators figured that a slump in railway,
steel and other industrial stocks would
convince the public that the prosperity
train had passed over the crown of
the hill and was getting ready to hit
the down grade-and the brakes not
set.
But it turned out that one of the
barometers went wrong. While the
alleged crisis in speculative stocks was
at an acute stage last Thursday, the
Steel trust published its annual re
port showing an astonishing prosperity
for the past year, with business enough
in sight to make 1907 another record
breaker. The steel company, with a
capitalization and assets of $1,000
0OO,O had net earnings of 1885,
900, 900 for 1906. an increase of 80
per cent over 1905, which was a record
breaking year. Dividends of Z pei
cent have been paid on preferred and
| 2 per cent on common stock, with
$5O,00O,OOO set aside for improve
ments and extensions and a surplus OF
nearly 100000 besides. Chair
man Gary, of the finance committee
reports that the corporation hai
orders ahead that will tax the product
i've capacity of every steel mill II
! the country for more than a year
While it is true that railroads have
limited their orders for steel rails
which used to be accepted as the basis
of steel manufacturing plans, the res
of the country has been going righ
along, planning new enterprises re
curing more structural steel.
AS a financial barometer the stool
exchange is therefore erratic. Stocks
may increase or slump, in respons,
to the captains of the water trough
but the rest of the country has otheI
business on hand.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20
Personal AND OTHERWISE.


Industrial activity in Russia has reached
the overtime stage in bomb-making and
undertaking.
The latest explanation Of circular in
sanity would be more comprehensive II
restricted to the simple word wheels"
Washington is partly consoIed for the
adjournment of congress by a reduction Of
fire insurance, ranging from to 90 per
cent.
A New York court holds that teachers
have a right to spank unruly children. espe-
cially when the seat of trouble cannot be
reached by vocal persuasion.
High living and right thinking is meas
ured by the coin in the new Women's
Colonial club in New York. 1t costs 500
to get in and $3.50 to stay in year.
Mr.. Hartman is reported to have cleared
100000 during the Wall street shake
down, thus verifying his assertion that
panics Gin. the street" are beneficial
Supplementary the plucking Of the Gould
fortune by the French count comes the
lawyer who secured Anna Goulds divorce
with a bill for $4,000 The lawyer is a
former American who didn't leave any of
his nerve at home.
Well, did you ever! Here is a report from
Kansas City asserting that women stuffed
the ballot box at an election. Yet some
mossback males insist that women wouldn't
know what to do with the elective fran
chise II they got IT,
Indiana craftsmanship goes to the limit
of regulating things by requiring horse
traders to tell the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth" In their pro-
fessional deals. If the constitution can
stand that. the country is safe.
A Wisconsin professor noted for his vocal
zeal In behalf Of restricted families has
suddenly altered his tune Just as the
fifth addition to the professors household
arrived the servants struck for higher
wages and fewer babies and quit their
| jobs.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania de-
cldes that the plea of "transltory frenzy
as an excuse for murder WILL be more
impressive when the murderer gives dem
onstration at the end of a rope, and or
dered the execution TO proceed as sched-
| uled
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20
RAILROAD nEsPERAr1nN.

The Nebraska railroads are still en-
gagged in a desperate effort to head on
the terminal taxation bill that has
passed the senate and is about to come
up for endorsement Of the house, In
this supreme effort to perpetuate their
long enjoyed privilege of tax Sinking
the regular paid railroad lobby at Lin
coin has called to its assistance all the
other departments of the combined
roads, as well as a large retinue of
corporation cappers from all over the
state, variously disguised, who stand
at the beck and call of the railroad
bosses.
The task before the railroad agents
is to persuade republican members of
the legislature, who are in honor
bound by the platform pledges of their
party, signed and subscribed by a large
majority of them as a guaranty of
good faith to their constituents, to re-
pudiate these pledges and line up with
the railroads as against the people. 1t
goes without saying that no man with
sense enough to occupy a seat in the
Legislature would go back on his prom
Uses to the people-promises in con-
sideration of which he received the
votes that elected him-unless to use
a vulgar phrase, there were Some
thing in It" for him. This does not
charge any of the repudiationists with
having been bought with money, al
though reports are rife at Lincoln that
money can be had. but the railroad
lobbyists could secure obedience to
their commands only by promises of
personal favor because they have no
other argument to offer.
The railroads, of course, figure that
they must fight every proposed legis-
! lative measure that affects them on
the theory that by fighting one they
hold off all the others. If they can
induce the members to repudiate one
platform pledge, they will have a hold
upon them to get them to repudiate
other pledges and thus upset the whole
reform program which the people of
| Nebraska dccreed at their last cleo
| ton. II is a safe assertion, however,
that the railroads will not be permit
ted to nullify the expressed will of the
people by any such corrupt and ques-
tionable methods.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20
THE PERvERsTTY OF JACK.

Old Jacly Frost au revoir:
What you hangin' round for?
The robin has come and the bluebird, too,
So, old Jacky Frost, skiddoo!
Old Jacky Frost, farewell;
We're done with you for a spell;
The wild ducks "honk" we hail with glee,
So, old Jacky Frost. twenty-three!
Old Jacky Frost, adieu,
We're done shakin' hands with you;
Each coming day is more mild at the dawn,
So, old Jacky Frost, begonel
Old Jacky Frost, ia, ia; ..... ....
The winds are becoming less raw:
The grounding, they say, is out on a strike,
So. Jacky Frost, you just hikel
Little Jacky Frost bye-bye,
Don't you see how blue grows the skyS
Why linger around what's the use?
Dear little Jack Frost, vamoose!
Jacky Frost, aufwiedersehen!
Don't you know that the hens are all layin'F
The plants all around are beginning to
shoot,
So old Jacky Frost, better skoot!
Old Jack Frost goodbye,
Plain English at last I'll try
To take gentle hints you are certainly slow
Old Jack Frost you go!
Omaha, -BAYOLL N. TRELH
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20
LAUGHING GAS.


IL admires a man." said Uncle Eben, dat
Keeps nopin' fob de best. But / doesn' like
to see him sit down an call It days
wuk.'-Washington Star.
Cholly-Doctor. tell me the worst! Am
/ suffering from a brain storm?
His Physician-Calm yourself, my dear
fellow. You have some OF the symptoms
but the conditions are totally lacking
Philadelphia Press.
"Absalom," said Mrs. Rambo. you smell
hoIIlpiy OF t2DaCCo'
"Nanshy, m dear" mumbled Mr.. Rambo,
maintaining his equilibrium with an effort,
Il came home in tn smoking car so you
wouldn't smell tn banquet on me."-Chi-
cago Tribune.
II understand you claim to have caught
a. fish here last spring with about 800
plunks inside It,"
You got the story wrong said the
fish contained about 500 bones. Washing
ton Herald.
The Judge had rebuked the lawyers at =
murder trial for their righteousness.
M you think trial Of yo this s,S sort Is
template the manner in which the costs are
pillng up"
perts the attorneys lapsed into a less
hilarious Observation-Disclosures Ledger
Some day. my little man. you may be
president OF the Ohileu olates;
I'm in no hurry" answered the preco-
cious child. II have to listen to enough
advice now. Star.
Ibid your friend who travels so much
get the grip this winter?'
Very much so; he got two of mine and
one of my brother s."-BaltimOre American.
1T seems to me I've paid this bill" said
Mr.. Thredbaire, looking at the grocer's
statement of account
''l ou've paid one just like It several
times" explained the collector. Mr.. Wrig-
ley's orders are that your account mustn't
be allowed to run any higher than this."-
Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PANIcs.

Every doctor of industry from the
newly graduated hedgeling to the vet
eran is rushing into print with q dag
nosis of the disease from which Wall
street and the frenzied financiers seem
to be suffering and, as usual, the doc
tors fail to agree either as to the sig
nificance of the symptoms or the rem
edies TO be applied. The railway physi-
clans are fairly we'll united in the opin-
ion that the outbreak Of the panic
epidemic is due to Rooseveltitis mi
crobe, while the good old-fashioned
country doctors insist that it is a plain
case of water-phObia. In the mean
time, the immune spectators are en-
joying the dispute. confident that an
ultimate remedy for the general good
will result from the discussion.
President Ripley of the Santa Fe,
President Woodrow Wilson of Prince
ton university and Hon. Leslie NJ.
Shaw, late secretary of the treasury,
are the latest to prescribe on the sub
ject of panics, their causes and cures.
DR.. Ripley asserts that the panic
was caused by a brush fire started by
Roosevelt that developed into conia-
grafton, now burning itself out. but
which got hot enough to scare a lot
of folks and drive them to cover. He
believes the scare is about over and,
while his railroad will be cautious
about future expansion, Improvement
plans now under way will not be inter
rupted.
DR.. Wilson places the blame upon
the tariff and does not believe any
Improvement possible until the swollen
fortunes built up by the protective sys-
tenn are reduced to normal size by leg
islation calculated TO restore old-fash-
toned equality and harmony of con-
ditions-a purged business and a
purged law.
DR.. Hartman, just back from a re
treat in Virginia, adds that the Wall
street furry was due to a combination
of men and circumstances, a combina,
ton by which some men made a lot
of money without seriously affecting
conditions.
DR. Shaw's diagnosis will come
nearer meeting the opinion and ap
prevail Of the public. He declares the
panic the result of psychological and
not logical causes-a case of Wal
street getting sick by the mere pro
cess of being told from various sources
that IL looked sick He might hav,
added that a hypochondriae is fire
Quently cured by getting a good scare
So long as the farmers are increas
ing their acreage each year and rails
ing larger crops, so long as factories
are buying more material and employ
ing more labor In an EFFORT 10 meet IN,
growing demand for their product
and so long as active and proftabl,
investment is found in the develop
ment OF mines. forests and other ma.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20

to 3O5 policemen and the pensions of four
others were increased by sos. one matron
and fifty-four widows and twenty-five
children were added to the pension roll,
while eight widows had their pensions In
creased in the total sum Of $3.50, making
the grind total of new pensions for the
year $780, 500.
Eighty-flve polcemens pensions closed
because Of death, hfty-three policemen
were restored to the force and ceased to
draw money from the fund coincident with
their reinstatement One widow lost her
pension by taking to herself a second hus-
band and twenty-five children attained age
at which their pensions ceased
On December 81, 1906, the total number
Of benehciaries was 1910 policemen, 1883
widows and 1853 children.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20
FRAUDS and PUBLIC OFFICIALS.

Ethan Allen Hitchcock, whose ad-
ministration of the Affairs Of the De-
partment Of the interior in the last
eight years has been marked by the
expose Of gigantic frauds in the dis
position OF thc land. timber and min
eral possessions of the nation. has
been discussing the results OF his
strenuous work in this direction and
the causes which have made impera-
tive such vigorous activity in prose-
cutting Offenders of the federal law
Mr.. IIitchcock's conclusions are to the
point and worthy of consideration by
the people who have the remedy in
their hands but have long neglected
to use 1t. In a word, the former sec
rotary asserts that the fraud, conni-
vance and conspiracy which have been
and are being used to loot the public
domain can be stopped by the elimina-
ton Of politics from appointments.
Mr.. Hitchcock wisely recognizes the
futility of attempting to change human
nature by legislation The anglo-saxon
is a natural born land grabber and
the condition of existing laws offers
large opportunities for irregular. If
not illegal, methods of securing con-
troll Of public lands Public sentiment
In the regions where government land,
timber and mineral resources exist,
has winked at these perversions Of
the law and prevented execution of
the policy of protecting the public
lands from exploitation by private
monopolies and greedy evaders of the
law. Mr.. Hitchcock cites instances in
which Indian agents, convicted in the
mind of the secretary of the interior,
of violating the law have banded to-
gether and by the use of political in
fluence prevented their removal or
punishment He calls attention to in
stances in which the United States
district attorneys who either failed
to do their duty or who sought to min
imize the guilt of influential men they
were prosecuting and secure for them,
If convicted, the lightest sentence, in
some cases bringing great pressure to
bear to prevent the prosecution Of
persons holding high offices under the
law.
Two remedies suggested, one being
the removal of such appointments
from politics and the other more activ-
ity at the polls by honest citizens. The
proper solution of the problem will be
found in the adoption of both sug-
gestions. While it is desirable, of
course, to have men in apDointive Of
fees free from party shackles, such
contamination will be slow. We can
have integrity made the prime requis-
tie for such appointments even though
partisanship be retained. II citizens
do their duty, they can select good
men for candidates and then see that
they are elected. Decent and law abid-
ing people are in the majority every
where and when they discharge their
civic responsibilities both elective and
appointive officers will be quick to real
ize the necessity of bringing the crooks
| to Justice whether high or low, rich OF
| moor
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20
Remarkable Change OF Front.
washington Herald.

The rush of the railroad interests to the
cover Of the federal government is one Of
the most remarkable episodes Of our eco
monte history. Resistance to federal regu-
lations has suddenly become acquiescence
I'm il; President Roosevelt who has infused
life into the theory and practice Of cor
poration control through governmental
agency, is now sought after by railway
managers as possible savior Of vested in
terests from the onslaughts Of state legis-
latlon His vivid warning that II corpora
lions would not accept with good grace
the legitimate supervision Of the govern
ment they would be confronted with the
rule Of the mob, seems TO have been taken
very seriously by our financial magnates. to
whose excited visions the mob appears 10
have taken the tangible form Of the state
legislator.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20
The Home ana the school.

Cleveland ram Deo'Si'
Parents and teachers have a strong com
mon interest in the welfare Of children
who can be properly trained only through
complete sympathy and unremitting en-
deavor on the part Of both. Unwisdom or
Indifference on the part of one Will do
much to neutralize the best intended and
most intelllgently directed efforts Of the
other. II the highest results are to be ac-
conplished for the children there must be
no working at cross purposes by parents
and teachers, between whom effective CO.
operation is as easy as 1t is desirable
Their respective fields Of activity are
clearly defined and both are moving to-
ward the same goal by different paths.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20

The bill to prohibit judges from
sitting in cases in which their relatives
are interested as litigants, or lawyers,
would not affect any of the judges of
this district appreciably. But we have
had judges who would be affected If
the bill were broadened to include
former law partners with whom they
had been associated within a year or
two prior to elevation to the bench.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20

Tom Johnson of Cleveland has been
selected as Colonel Bryan's campaign
manager and is already telling what
the next national platform should he
and what the democrats must do to
win. Mr.. Bryan may find himself on
the road with a TOO Much Johnson"
show
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20
The Day of Reckoning.
Washington Pest.

Il is Just as honorable 10 operate rail-
road as It is to cultivate garden but our
roads have been manipulated dishOnorably
reaping where they had not sown and gath
ering where they had not strewed. A day
OF reckoning was bound to come and 1t Is
nearly here. All the grand things the roads
have done TO build up the country are
nearly forgotten. Gratitude for that Is
swallowed In rage engendered by watered
stock.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20
Preaching and Performance.


The wide difference between declaring
reformation and actually reforming was
succinctly illustrated by Mr.. Hartman the
other day. He smoothly declared that he
was going to give more attention to the
public" and also give the newspapers
more information" Then the practical re-
porters promptly asked If he had bought
the Reading road and received the terse
reply, II never answer questions of that
sort "
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20

Mr.. Jerome shot a 15.000-word hy-
pothetical question at the expert wit
nesses in the Thaw case. He'll hold
the record until we get a report OF the
questions President Roosevelt will put
to those railroad alienists when they
call at the White House.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20

The mayor and council are now
trying to back up on their street sign
ordinance. BY the time the ordinance
is amended to please everyone its
power for improving the appearance
Of the streets will be completely NULL
6pd
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20

Some of our democratic councilmen
are said TO be incensed at a bill pro-
posed at Lincoln to vest the State Rail-
way commissioners with regulating
powers over certain fIanchised cor
porations in Omaha. If such a law
should pass the position of councilman
would slump on the stock market as
If in a Wall street panic.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20

The newspaper mouthpiece of the
railroads at Lincoln contents Itself
with answering the logic of facts by
calling out Liar; Liar" This is the
chief stock in trade of the railroad
apologists and hired defenders.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20

Star
That settles it. This is surely a
conclusive argument why the railroads
should continue forever to evade pay
ing municipal taxes on their property
within city limits on the same basis as
do the owners of other property.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20

"The country still lives and its pro-
ductive strength is mistaken" says
the Wall Street Journal in summing
up the story Of the recent stock panic
Wall street bases its estimate of the
country's productive strength" on the
size of the lamb crop.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-20

The "hands-across-the-sea" may
clasp again. The House of Commons
cheered when Admiral Davis name
was mentioned in connection with that
Jamaica incident