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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-08-15

HAVE You farm to sell on crop pay
ment plan. have several buyers that
want to buy on that system. Let US
know what you have.
A. w. TRACY, "The Land Man.
Office under the postoffice.
WANTED---Farm Tenant for best half
section, 5 miles from Lansford, n. D..
All under plow good buildings, ever
lasting we'll of water by h use and barn.
All necessary horses and farm machin-
cry sold at fall prices; Con years time if
desired owner to furnish. seed and
take 4 of crop. Address,
j M Graves,
7-25tf Lansford, N d,
sTRAyED-- From my place May 9th,
One bay pony mare, weight about 500
lbs: branded circle G Is on left shoulder:
P on left hip; wire mark on right front
leg above the knee Saddle mark on
the back. Finder please notify,
DAVID TsCHETTER.
Garrison, N OAK
And receive reward. Sec. 5, 7 l49 r 81
7-25 S-22p
For SALE-One team of work horses,
weight. 240O. One yoke of oxen, weight
1900. Tom MAHoNKY,
r F D No2 Burlington, N. d.
Sis 29pd
When thinking Of Photographs
think Of Moore, the leading pho
tographer of North Dakota. Re-
member it's the man behind the
If
One-third off on all clothing at
the Leland Department store.
The clothing was marked low in
the first pla:e. These are all
good bargains all good stuff.
Frank & Prescott Co., Minot.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-08-15
New Train Service.

The Great Northern railway
has just issued a circular an
nouncing the installation Of tri-
weekly mixed train service be-
tween Berthold and Ignite, ND.
Under the schedule just estab-
lished the train leaves Berthold
at 1870 a. m, arriving Ignite at
$50 p. m. on Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday. Returning train
leaves Ignite 1000 a. M, arriv-
ing Berthold 500 pm, Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday. Stops
are made at intermediate sta
tons.
Connection is made at Berthold
with Great Northern railway
train No. 4, "Oriental Limited"
eastbound to Minot, Devils Lake,
Grand Forks, Minneapolis, St.
Paul and all principal intermedi-
ate poins; and with No. 5 west
bound.
Complete schedule of the new
service will be contained in the
next edition of the Great North
ern railway folders.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-08-15

Are you thinking of Buying
Minot City Property?
8 Room all Modern House and
lot, 2 blocks from Court House.
One of The Best Homes in Mi
not, 100000 Cash. Balance in
Monthly payments s per lent
interest.
A. w. TRACY, "rhe Land Man"
Office Under The Post Office
Phone $40. MlNOT, N. D..
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-05
Labor Disputes In ENGLAND.

Labor seems to have won a victory in
England whether the discontinued rail
way men win or lose in the final settle
ment Of their dispute The men put up
a proposition to their employers, and
the employers refused to recognize the
employees society at all. They would
treat with individuals only. In the
past the British labor union has been
described as the very embodiment of
narrOwness and even cruelty. Now,
although the railway men had voted
to strike, they listened to third voice
and agreed with the president Of the
British board of trade to reconsider
and talk over their grievances with the
railway management.
For some reason the railways also
backed down from their naughty posi-
ton that the society of employees
would not be recognized. They agreed
to listen to the grievances and in that
acted wisely. 1t is believed that if the
railways or the men had refused to
get together parliament would have
passed a compulsory arbitration law,
limited perhaps to railways. Fear of
public opinion is thought to have in
fuenced both sides to recede from their
decisions. the labor men to strike and
the railways to stand pat. But to the
labor union belongs the credit of being
first to agree to compromise. Cali it
policy or good nature on their part,
time will stamp it as common sense.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-05

THERE are great many people
who apparently do not understand the
reasons for the withdrawal of the
Mutual Life Insurance company from
this state and attribute the course of
the company to anger at the passage
of restrictive laws by the Legislature,
but that is not the case. The COM
panies that propose to- withdraw from
Wisconsin have had no objection to
complying with reasonable restric-
tions and have had little or no diff
Guilty with the laws of other states.
The simple fact is that our brilliant
Legislature in pursuing its more or
less 1audable ambition to do little
reforming or restricting all around
has passed some fool insurance laws
that nobody understands, not even
theexecutive who signed them. There
fore the insurance companies unable
to secure from competent authority
any Interpretation of these laws that
can be relied on to protect them in
carrying out their business naturally
prefer to withdraw from the state
rather than TO take the risk of incur
ring heavy penalties for some unin-
territorial violation of these laws that
nobody understands. They are
simply protecting their policy holders
from unknown perils and nobody can
blame them, not even the policy
holders themselves who in the end
will stand the losses caused by the
withdrawals of the companies from
the state.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-05
Din1omas TOR Apprentices.

The demand for some tangible evil
dence of an agreement or OF. an under
taking performed, something to show
for it." is a notable trait Of Ameri-
cans. It has developed in fact to such
an extent that it has become nothing
less than one of our human nature
evidences. The Importance credited to
this influence, says the Iron Trade Re-
view, is well illustrated by the de-
cision of leading American manufac-
turing association to provide regular
and uniform forms for the drawing up
of apprenticeship articles and for di-
plomas certifying that the apprentice
has completed the term laid out for
him and is therefore thoroughly equip
ped In this particular line of work.
Although the apprenticeship articles
are drawn up in full legal form and
provision is made for a financial pen
atty in case the term is not completed,
the association is not so much concern
ed with these phases of the arrange
ment as with the moral effect which
the signing of legal documents and the
entering into formal contract are
certain to produce upon the mind of
the young prospective machinist and
with the sense of pride which he is
naturally expected to manifest in carr
rying out this contract This appren-
ticeship plan was worked out some six
months ago, and certain manufacturing
concerns which have already had the
opportunity of placing it in effect have
found that the associations estimate
OF the influence of this factor was by
no means overestimated. 1t has proved
a tie which holds where other appeals
fail, all of which is very much to the
credit of the future machinists.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-05

IF THERE is finish fight coming
for the more drastic regulation of the
saloon business in this city, and it
does begin to look as if one was on
the way, the saloon men through their
ganization, the Retail Liquor Deal
ers Association, can strengthen their
side of the case enormously by help
ing the police secure evidence that
will close up about dozen of the
dives that are responsible for about
ninety percent of all the troubles of
the police force. If the Association
does not care to come out in the open
its members can use their influence
with the Council in which body they
are said to hold the balance of power,
to see that certain licenses are re-
voked to stay revoked and that the
disorderly resorts stay closed after
they are once shut up by the police.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-05
Rnssia,s Quiet Elections.

,Che election Of representatives Of the
people to sit in the third douma passed
without extraordinary excitement, and
1t seems to be taken for granted that
there was little revolutionary spirit
shown in the campaign. The autocra-
cy virtually nominated the candidates,
and the people had only to ratify the
choice or ignore the elections. The
men who sit in the third douma must
be acceptable to the government, and
the free will Of the people is sup
pressed.
In view of the fact that the ear
originally invited the nation to share
with him the burdens and responsible
ties of government, the suppression of
the popular voice at this early day
looks like treachery. But the truth is
there never was any intention of CIV
ing voice to the discontinued masses
Of Russia. Money was needed from
the Golfers of foreign bankers, and
they demanded the sanction of the
whole Russian people to the loan. A
parliament was a financial necessity,
and in order to do the work cut out
for it it must be in sympathy with the
cars administration. A packed douma
will stand as legal parliament, and
thus the car will be able to satisfy
the money lenders. Doubtless the re-
suit will be permanent system of
representative government, representa-
tive in form if not in fact. The douma
will be a good school for the develop
ment Of political talent which may
some day pilot the nation through a
real revolution
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-05
BLOW HAS FALLEN
Announcement Is Made That Price
of Beer will Be Increased 81
a Barrel Immediately
SALOON MEN ARE HARD HIT
The expected ,and unhoped for has

The expected land unhoped for has
happened.
Beer has gone up.
Result LESS will go down; schoon-
ers will be smaller; "can" will de-
crease in size;s more air will be
pumped into7 the tanks, ETC., etc.
and nobodyQknows where it will end.
Instead Of thegwave of prohibition
which is sweeping theacountry, hav-
ing the effectaaof lowering the price of
beer, the raise predicted some time
ago has arrived and therefore the
prohibs are wondering just what the
cause is.
Kenosha wholesalers of beer have
received notice that beginning Janu-
airy the price of beer to them would
be raised 81 barrel.
The raise is the largest ever made
to local dealers and just what the eff
feet will be is not known. One deal
er said: "We just can't stand it
that's ALL
The cause of the big raise. is said to
be principally the high price OF malt.
But no matter what the cause, the
effect will be same-decrease in the
size of schooners, less beer drinking
etc.
The prohibs felt that when the wave
of prohibition began to spread sit has
lately, the result would be that beer
would be cheaper in order to induce
| consumers to patronize it and this
fear was one of the greatest the mem
bers Of the white ribbon party had.
Now that they hear the price is to GO
up instead of down they are pleased
because they feel that with the price
up the desire to consume will be less
and their wave will continue to ex-
pand the faster.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-05

The state willlose large amount in
taxes by the withdrawal of the big life
insurance companies but that is not
the most serious phase of the present
muddle by good deal. The holders
Of policies are those that stand to lose
the most unless the present muddle is
the aggregate of their losses because
of de creased dividends will be far
higher than any losses suffered by
the state. Policy holders in Wiscon
sin companies need not congratulate
themselves that they are to escape
either, for che losses to the companies
Of this state by means Of the retail
iatory laws that will be put in force
against them Immediately upon the
withdrawal of the foreign companies
from Wisconsin will equal or possibly
exceed the losses of the companies
forced out. The policy holders will,
of course, stand all losses in both
cases. Governor Davidson remarked
that he did not understand these in
surance bills that are forcing the com
panies out of the state and that he
doubted if anybody else could when
he signed them, but the holders of
life insurance policies are going to
get pretty fair idea of what such
fool Legislation costs them unless
something is done to stop these with
drawa1s. Chairman Roehr of the
joint committee on insurance hastens
to deny esponsibility for the situa-
ton and suggest remedy. He says:
Gov. Davidson should get us out of
this insurance muddle by at once
calling an extra session of the
Legislature for the repeal of these
laws. We passed fourteen OF
fifteen bills which were excellent in
their regulation of our home com.
panies, doing away with proxies,
regulating salaries, etc., and there
we should have stopped. | stopped
there, but in spite of warnings of the
effect of Wisconsin's course in setting
up insurance laws which companies
organizing in other states could moi
comply with, others went on and
foisted upon our statute books laws
FOR which there was no necessity, nc
occasion and no reason"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-05
Prices Thirty Years Ago


The Cleveland Leader recently dug
up a retail grocer's bill for supplies
delivered TO a family in the seventies
which throws light upon the coppara-
tive cost Of living then and now The
necessaries of life, Of course, figure
heaviest on a bill for the table. Flour
was retailing in Cleveland in 1874 at
almost double the price ruling today
Markets had then barely recovered
from the high war prices on certain
imported articles, notably sugar, coffee
and tea, and these indespensables as
well as lemons and imported dried
fruit were higher than at present In
crease of production has made peaches
cheaper today than they were thirty
years ago.
Aside from peaches, the products of
the home soil are GENERALLY higher
now than in the seventies. Eggs now
cost double, and all products of the
dairy are higher. Formerly the condi-
ton of a crop had direct effect upon
prices, but in spite of abundant crops
fruit and vegetables now command
prices higher than formerly for the
reason, probably, that the consumption
per capita is greater.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-05
Saving Wild TvDes.

To prevent the extinction of sea lions
and other aquatic animals and of the
birds that make their home on a large
number of rocky islets useless for ag-
ricultufal purposes on the coasts Of
Oregon and Washington, one preserve
has been created in the former state
and three in the latter.
If now the wardens to be appointed
do their duty the kind of birds and
animals resortingy thither will doubt
less be found there i'll future years
Otherwise they will probably share the
doom of the dodo of. Mauritius, in the
Indian ocean; of the gigantic moa Of
ancient Australia and of some other
birds and animals once plentiful on the
face OF the globe, but not now to be
seen except in museums in fossil form.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-05
PAYS Up THE NOTE
Racine Man Sued by the Wrought
Iron Range Company Settles
Case in Court tuesday
COURT APPROVES CO. BOND

A suit of great interest to many
farmers in Racine and Kenosha
county was settled in the Circuit Court
at Racine late Tuesday afternoon.
The suit was the action brought by
the Wrought. Iron Range company
against William II. Ellerich, well
known farmer of the town of Mt.
Pleasant. The suit was to collect the
value of lost note which had been
given to a representative of the plain
tiff company in payment for range
sold three years ago. 1t was admitted
in court that the note had been stolen
and the company filed with the court
bond to protect Ellerich against
any effort to collect the note in the
future. It was thought that the suit
would be bitterly contested, but when
the case was called E1lerich appeared
in court and proffered the amount of
the note with the interest and it was
accepted by the company.
Judge Belden approved the bond
filled by the company to insure the
defendant. It is thought that this
settlement will be followed by fifty
other farmers in Racine county, who
gave similar notes to the Wrought
Iron Range company, and the long
contested business transaction will be
settled up at once.
There are fifty other similar notes
held against farmers IN Kenosha
county and residents of Kenosha, and
it is possible that some way will be
found for the settlement of these
notes. The trial of the Wrought Iron
Range company VS.. John Herzog in
the Kenosha county Circuit Court re-
suited in -erdict for the defendant,
but it is thought that with the settle
ment of the cases in Racine county
negotiations. will be opened for set
tlement with the farmers of this
county and that the cases will be
eventually settled out of court By the.
farmers paying the notes and TIE
company giving bond, approved by
the court, to protect them against any
further effort TO collect on the notes
alleged to have been stolen.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-05
RECALLS EARLY DAYS
Former Pioneer Citizen of Southport
Tells Story of Early Times

Tells Story of Early Times
EDITOR OF KENosHA NEws:-I was
very much interested in report in
the Evening Wisconsin of Milwa ukee
of the life history OF ]. L. Stevens,
who came to Wisconsin IN 1885.
This brought to my mind the early
life and hardships of that pioneer
time right among the Indians, when
Resigue sold them the ''firewater"
that made night hideous.
My father, Austin Kellogg, and
family (wife and Ave children landed
on the beach from the schooner Him
ois, Captain Pickering, Sunday after
noon, Aug. 3, 1885. The place was
then known as "Pike River" after
ward Southport. then Kenosha.
The few families there gathered on
the beach to welcome us. 1t was Sun
day, and my father, staunch Metho-
dist. enquired if they had had any
meetings. The answer vas no. He
then gave out prayer meeting for
the next Sunday and these meetings
continued, resulting in the fact that
my father built the first NJ. E. church
in Kenosha.
Among the early settlers l remem-
Der the Bullens, Durkees, Demings,
Hales, Quarles, Stevens, Collwells,
Stetsons, Jordans, Manns, Fisks and
hosts of others.
The Indians had not received the
full payment for their lands and one
juliet August day was sitting on the
bank near the lake when saw thirty
nine canoes with Indian families
passing toward Chicago for one of
their payments. They landed at the
mouth of little creek mile below
and staid there for weeks, and passed
back and forth to the Island for
whisky. I we'll reco1lect one who
called, painted in war co1ors, with
bow and tomahawk. We had a 10
gallon key of mo1asses, and he would
not be convinced it was not whisky
till my mother drew some IN a cup.
At this time we lived in a claim
shanty, without door or windows or
chinks, and we often looked up to see
them looking at us through the cracks.
We lived three weeks on the bank
of the lake (which bank long years
ago was washed into the lake, while
my father was helping Mr.. Collwe1l
build log house three miles north
on the prairie; then both families lived
there while they helped my father
build on the bank of Pike River two
and one-ha1f miles north. We then
thought .the harbor would be at the
upper mouth of the river which had
been cut in two by the lake. but the
more generous land owners at the
lower mouth,won the town.
My early boyhood was spent in the
woods Often l was lost hunting COWS.
My education was obtained at Keno
sha and the best of it was gained
while attending Gov. Harvey's acade-
my when he Taught under the old M.
E. church. The last exhibition took
part in was held in sthat church.
Afterward l spent two years in the
Wisconsin pinery; taught school two
years; drove five yoke of oxen to Cal
ifornia in 1849; mined for three years;
settled at GAINESVILLE in 1852, ard have
been in the nursery business ever
since. GEO. J. KELLOGG.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-05
MAsoNs ELECT OFFICERS

At the annual meeting of the Ke-
nosha Lodge OF Royal Arch Masons
held on Tuesday evening, the follow
ing officers we're elected for the en-
suing year:
High Priest-H. L. Whitbeck.
King-Fred Fisher.
Scribe-D. o, Head.
Sec.-John Hughes.
Treas.-Thos. Dale.
Trustee Gail.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-05
TRAVELLING MAN ROBBED
Tony Housner,.of Milwaukee. Is Robbed
of His Samples

Tony Housner, a travelling man en-
ployed by Milwaukee candy factory,
met with misfortune in Kenosha on
Tuesday afternoon when some sneak
thief laid IN supply of Christmas
candy at the expense of Housner.
The Milwaukee man had just started
out with a new lot of samples and he
left his two large grips LOADED down
with sweet things at the station of
the Chicago and Milwaukee Electric
road
While he was walking about the
station some one managed to get
away with the grips. They were val
ued at SIS. The theft has been re-
ported to the police.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-05
WILL CONTEST TOMORROW
GreatsFight TssExpected Over Wealth
of Late Leander Merrick

The great fight over the fortune Of
$4,000 left by theslate Leander Mer.
rick, the formersR andall,recluse. is to
begin IN the County Court here to-
morrow when the will will be proposed
for probate. RThescontest against the
admission of the will shas been filed
by sister and it is stated that fifteen
witnesses 'willGb e,broughtIfrom Wood
stock, Ill.,ssto testify mi the case.
There aressmore than twenty heirs
under the iwillsandnit is expected that
ali of them 'willtmake fight to have
the will upheld.
The contestsof the will is made on
the grounds that the deceased was not
of sound mind when the will was
made and that undue influence was
used to secure the disposition of the
property.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-05

ANY decrease in the tax levy to ten
mills will be appreciated by the
hundreds of people in Kenosha who
are trying to pay for their own homes.
Now, if ever, is the time for the city
fathers to go easy on appropriat ions
and improvements and let the. tax
payers off as easily as possible. The
collection Of the taxes is going to
come harder next spring than for a
good many years.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-05
The Hand Behind the Pen.

In the current Atlantic Walter Ell.
Page casts a side light upon the back
ground of modern literature When he
says:
The journeymen writer's write almost all
that almost all Americans read This is
a fact that we love to fool ourselves
about We talk about literature and
we talk about ''hack writer's" implying
that the reading that we do is of litera-
ture. The truth all the while is we read
little else than the writing of the hacks
living hacks-that is, men and women
that write for pay. We may hug the no.
ton that our life and thought are. not
really affected by current literature, that
we read the living writer's only for. ntili-
tartan reasons and that our real intel
lectual life is fed by the great dead writ
ers. But our hugging this delusion does
not change the fact that 8the intellectual
life even of most educated persons and
certainly of the mass Of the population is
fed chiefly by the writer's of our own
time. Let us hope that the great writer's
of the past do set the standards whereby
q few judge the writing of the present
But, even if this be true, it is still true
also that the Intellectual life Of the Amer
lean people is chiefly shaped by current
writing.
n ~
1t is indeed strange that the reading
public should ever hold in disrespect
the trained or professional writer
whose field is romance or poetry. In
other departments of writing, as his
tory aud the sciences, the practiced
hand is supposed to be the only one
able to turn out pages worth reading
The novelist and the poet must know
his material and also have a mastery
of the art of making his point clear
1t speaks we'll for modern literature
that it is read at all when the produc-
tons of venerated 'geniuses'' are
abundant and cheap
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-05

THE directors of the jamestown ex-
position hope to be permitted to re.
sumo and get little more money
from the government to help out with
but the cheapest way out in the end
would be to have careful receiver
gather up the fragments and divide
them up fairly.