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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-01-03
HISTORIC YEAR IN STATES PROGRESS
The Assessed Valuation Of the State Increases S8oO0oOoo in
the Last Five Years.

day that is making so rapid progress
III all things that go to make pros
porous and contented people as that
which is taking place in the north.
west portion of the state.
AS an Illustration, Ward county has
gone from 5000 people ten years ago
to $4,000 people today. From an as.
sessed valuation of $2,0OO,OOO, eight
years ago to that of $12,O0O,O0O today.
This change in this county has occur.
red with the binding swiftness of en-
chantment Go where you will, touch
at any point within this magnificent
county and prosperity is indicated at
every turn. Thousands have come here
within the past few years with barely
sufficient money to pay the land office
fec for filing on 1G0 acres, but to-day
they are all the owners of we'll
equipped. we'll housed and well stocked
farms. Ward county land during the
past five years has produced as much
per acre in its selling value as has the
$3.50 and 5000 acre land in Illinois,
Iowa. Indiana and Eastern and South
ern Minnesota.
And yet We have not begun to learn
how to produce the most out of the
rich soil Of this section. When the
farmer farms less and better, when he
knows the value Of poultry and butter
and eggs, the mich COW AMI tho
creamery, corn and necessarily hogs,
then will Ward county be at its best.
The farmer can then pay for the ma
chinery he buys and for twelve months
in the year and every day in the month
he can dig down in his pockets and
produce the money to buy that which
lie needs.
The city of Minot has had as great
, and as substantial growth as had tie
country in which it is located Two
competing and transcontinental lines
pass through it, The city is the neces-
sary and logical supply point to 225.OOO
people embraced within an area of 40
miles. No city in the state has made
so rapid and continual progress as has
Minot during the past six years. With
wise government and the continued
! progressive spirit which it's citizens
now possess there is no reason why it
should not double it's present popula-
tioE of 1000 within the next seven or
eight years. Well we are living in a
great state, great county and great
| city, and We should all work together
and unselfishly for the good of the
whole. l know as Minot prospers
will get my proportionate share and as
Ward county grows. Minot must neces-
sarily grow, so let us all pull together,
to make the state, the county and the
city in which we live the very best
along the lines which go to make up
good commonwealth and people.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-01-03
Il. M. Devine in Minot optic.)

~
The year 1906 will go down as
great year in the history of North Da-
kota. Prosperity abounds throughout
the state and in degree that is par
ticularly noticeable to every traveller
who passes through the state. While
perhaps the yield per acre was not so
great as in 1905 nor the price of grain
per bushel so good, still the large i'll
crease of acreage under cultivation
give larger income to the people of
the state than last year.
The following statement of a fact
will perhaps better illustrate the rapid
growth in wealth and number of the
state than possibly any other way
Five years ago the population of the
state was estimated at 100000 and it
is now 100000. The assessed valua-
tion five years ago was S12O,000,000;
1T is now $200,000,O00, and the actual
value is not much less than $780,
100000.
1t is doubtful whether another
state in the Union could make such a
showing. The aggregate value CT the
farm products in 1905 was estimated
at about $150,000,O0O, or about $4,000
to every farm. The dairy products OF
the state during the same year
amounted to about $5,Oo0,OOO. The
live stock on the farms and ranges
throughout the state in 1906 was esti-
mated at s6O,OOO,OOO.
One item of especial interest to the
people Of the state is the fact that
North Dakota produced this year
2,250,000 bushels of excellent corn.
The bulk Of it was dent corn. The
acreage in this crop is increasing rap
idly with each year, and predict
that in ten years the yield of corn per
year will reach between seven and ten
millions Of bushels.
presume that the sale value of the
grain and stock raised on the farms
of North Dakota this year would make
$3.50 for every man, woman and child
within its borders. This perhaps is ii
large per capita over that of any other
state in the Union, and it has this 9TH
er very desirable condition that it il;
more equitably distributed than the in
come derived from the products of
any one other state.
There are 500 churches in the state,
! not less than 5000 schools and 425
banks. We have a permanent com
mon school fund today of $8,OO0.O0O
and this fund will be kept increasing
until it reaches S50,OOO,O0O, the inter-
est upon which would be sufficient to
pay all running expenses of the schools
of the state at the cost Of the present
maintenance, which is $2,500,0OO.
There is no portion of the state to-
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-01-03
DEATH IN |LL.FATED TRAINS PATH

AS a tragic earnest of what was to
be, the 500 train that was wrecked at
Enderlin Sunday morning crushed out
one mans life and perhaps fatally in
jured his companion near Hecker, a
few miles south of Minot. This trag-
edy was enacted seven hours before
the wreck at Enderlin, which cost ten
persons.
James Murray of Hecker was killed
and Thomas Lundy of Minot danger
ously wounded at Hecker.
The passengers on Inflated train No.
LOG, merry with thoughts of Christmas,
did not know. that behind them were
the PROSTATE forms of two men lying
in a gully near the roadbed in plight
much like that fated for many of them.
They did not know because No. LOG, in
its mad fight to destruction, did not
stop to pick up the dead and wounded.
The two men, who were trying to
lift their little hand car from the track
so that the passenger train might not
be wrecked, were not needed. The
passenger train swept the car and the
men from the track and sped on its
way to disaster. It did not stop to re.
capitulate, but the wife of one of the
men ran from her little home to find
her husband unconscious and his com.
panion dead. James Murray. foreman
Of the section crew, was killed out
right, and Thomas Lundy of Minot is
now in the Ward county hospital with
a broken leg, broken jaw and serious
internal injuries. At an inquest over
the body of James Murray it was al
legged that No. LOG did not carry a
headlight. It did not even stop to see
the destruction it had wrought. The
men might have escaped with their
lives had they not paused to lift the
hand car that the passenger train
might not be wrecked at Hecker
Their heroic act only put the wreck off
a few hours, but had they left the
handcar on the track it is possible that
the more serious wreck at Enderlin
might have been averted.
James Murray gave his life to save
those passengers who few miles
down the track were to have their
lives sacrificed as his had been. The
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-01-03

passenger train swept by while James
Murray's body was pinioned under the
hand car and beside it lay the strug-
Cling form of his comrade, Thomas
Lundy.
Mrs. Lundy was an eyewitness to
the whole scene. She says that the
men had just lifted two wheels of the
hand car off, the track when the pas
senger engine bore down on them.
The passenger engine ripped the hand
car from the track and overturned it
on top Of the two men, who were tug
ging at it in the hope that the passen-
ger train and it's precious freight
might pass in safety. They got tho
car started and the engine did the
rest.
Perhaps not one on the passenger
train knew what had happened. The
train disappeared in the darkness
while Mrs. Lundy knelt beside the
PROSTATE form of her husband until
help came and neighbors removed the
bodies to Minot.
The men had few supplies which
they wanted to take to the car house.
They heard the rumble of the passen-
ger train as it came down at a forty.
mile-an-hour clip. They could not see
any headlight, for the engine was with.
out one. It is declared, and therefore
the engineer could not see them. One
minute more and the men would have
reached safety.
It was impossible for the coroner's
jury, which held a partial inquest on
Murray's body, to complete it's work,
but it is intimated that the company
will be charged with negligence in the
expected verdict. DR.. Newlove, who
attended Lundy and Murray, was un.
able to present his testimony and the
inquest was postponed. The testimony
shows that the engine did not have a
headlight and that the train did not
stop to pick up the men after it had
struck the hand car.
The matter will be presented to the
Ward county grand jury, 1t is stated
on good authority. The coroner's YER
dict practically is drawn, and those
close to the investigation state that
the road will be held guilty of negli.
gence.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-01-03
WAR ON BLIND PIGS.

Douglas Commercial Club Starts Cru
SADIE to Purify the Town.
The Commercial club of Douglas has
begun war to the death on blind
pigs, gamblers and other undesirable
characters and has appointed com.
mittee to drive them out Of the village.
They have also adopted this resc.u-
ton, expressive Of their sentiments
rron the matter:
I'VE, the Douglas Commercial club,
looking toward the future welfare of
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-01-03

Douglas, hereby pledge ourselves to
suppress any movement toward the es.
tablishing or maintaining of question.
able resorts or blind pigs within the
city limits or near thereto. This will
also cover the practice generally
known as bootlegging."
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-01-03
First in Both Worlds.

First In Both Worlds.
A little story is told of the Japan.
csc at the assault on Port Arthur.
which contains a sententious utter.
ance desercin ga place beside Caesars
dispatch. Napoleon's Egyptian speech
and other like military brevities.
Gen. Nogi was about to send q regt.
ment to certain death against LOSING,
ter Hill.
He said to its colonel: "Your regi
ment is the first in all this world"
General" replied the onicer grave.
~, ut will DO the hrs: in the other"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-01-03
Making a False Preten..

Making raise PretenSe.
Friend-Why did you get the gard.
ener to ,iow tobacco smoke in through
the parlor window?
Miss Passay-Oh. 1t makes 1t seem
as II there'd been a man in the house,
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-01-03
Particularly Impressed Her.

You were at the concert last night,
were you?" said the next door neigh.
Dor. "How did you like it," H..
1T was splendid" said Mrs. Paps-
ling. "They played one overture,
with wabbly ghetto by the violinist,
that was the finest thing ever heard
in my Nfe."
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-01-03
No Visible SIGNS.

No Visible Signs.
Mrs. Rambo - Absalom, have you
been drinking again?
/ Mr.. Rambo-Yesh. How ju guesh it,
Nanshy?
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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-10-17
Rapid Transit Co. Is
PerpetuaNy Enjoined

meeting on Saturday night" he said.
There Is not word in the petition
where It speaks of that meeting. The
promoters of the Republican party
nave offered their conditions under
which j. Lor WalIacn should cure the
ro-called lepors, and omitted the vital
points touching upon the mass meet
ing"
A cOmmitte consisting Of j. VI. Poe
poe, VIM. white, J. A. Baker and VIM.
Kahlbaum was appointed to draft a
resolution for the purpose Of calling a
mass meeting, to he given at some
future date, subject of course to the
approval of the Republican and Demo-
cratic leaders, headed respectively by
Jno. Lane and Frank Harvey The
resolution reads partly us follows
Now Therefore, BE It Resolved by
the mass meeting at Aala Park. held
on this 60. day of October A. d. 1907:
That the Territorial Board Of Health
Is requested most respectfully to give
an opportunity to j. Lor Wallach to
engage in the treatment Of lepcrs
under such arrangements as could be
made that would be- satisfactory both
10 the Board and Mr. Wallach
BE II Further Resolved That the
resolution be presented by Chas H.
Motley. John Lane and Frank Harvey,
as II committee of three, to the Presi-
dent of the Board OF Health.
This meeting OF the Home Rule
party was held at Kahiliaulani hall
this noon at II o'clock Chas. X. Not
icy presided.
II decided further not to have any
mass meeting until he above commit
tee arrived at some definite under
standing.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-10-17
KANSAS CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE
PROMISES HELP

The Chamber of Commerce has re-
ceived another answer to its call for
assistance to secure the much-needed
Pearl Harbor improvements. 1t is
from Wichita and reads as follows:
Chamber of Commerce,
Wichita, Kans., Oct. 3.
Mr. II. p. Wood, Secretary Honolulu
Chamber Of Commerce, lIonolu-
In. Hawaii.
Dear Sir:-Replying to yours of
Sept. Sd. yesterday brought your
proposition before the Board of Dl-
! ectors and they voted unanimously
to adopt your Pearl Harbor PROPOSE
ton and instructed me to say to you
that they would do anything in their
power to bring this matter about.
If at any time we can be of any
1ervice to you in sending you any
data or other information you would
ike to have, we would be more than
glad to do so.
We would like very much to visit
YOU some time and see how you do
business over in Hawaii.
Yours for the success of your I'M
dertaking,
CLARK Il. BROWN,
Secretary.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-10-17
WALLACE DENOUNCES
CONTINUED from Pace ~

"The petition bears no heading, no
uate and no address, he said. THE
Home Rulers. who are always termed
fools, should not allow themselves to
afIix their signatures on the petition.
The Home Rule petition has not been
acted upon by the Board of Health.
Why should we then agree now to
consider this petition. They think we
can be easily fooled. We must show
now that we are not such as they take
us to be. They have shown their care
le ssness in the drawing of this petit
lion Keep this petition out of our
consideration.
at Is better to fumigate this Re-
publican petition" said VIM. White.
lie quoted many Biblical citations and
was loudly applauded. THE Republic
cans lack integrity and good judg-
mcnt. JnO. Lane and his associates
nave been careless in drawing up this
petition. believe In giving Wallach
4 fair trial, and under the conditions
as offered in the petition our doctor Is
limited from having his full liberty
in curing the Iepers. therefore move
that the petition be set aside.
Return that petition to Jno. Lane,
Clc., for REPAIRS" said G. X. Poepoe.
The petition is sort of duplicate.
md the original Is not properly before
This meeting. Return the petition to
them with suggestions to present Il
better and more ably drawn petition
II they can't do that let them come to
rs for guidance. After comparison,
Il is evident that the Home Rule pc
ritiou was properly worded.'
J. Lor Wallach was permitted to
speak. He said that the petition was
a Republican move. He moved 10
turn il down.
VIM. White moved that the petition
he returned on the ground that II did
rot contain anything about the mass
meeting which it is intended to call
Tor Saturday night
This meeting Is called to discuss
the ACCESSIBILITY Of holding mass
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-10-17

The japanese eat three million
POUNDS of sailed whale meat year.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-10-17

The temporary injunction against
the Rapid Transit, restraining It from
changing its I.iliha street schedule
vas today made perpetual by Judge De
Bolt. BY this decision the residents
of Liliha street win their case, and.
what Is more important, a precedent
is established which will have great
influence on the future extension of
the street railway system of Honolulu
The decision means that the company
has not absolute power over its own
lines and cannot do with them as II
pleases. When the interests of the
eople and the patrons Of the street
railway seem to demand It, the AttOr-
hey General and the Superintendent Of
Public Works have the right to step
in and restrain the company from taxi
ing any steps which might prove det-
rimental to those interests.
The decision fixes more definitely
the powers and authority of the Sup
erintendcnt of Public Works over
local transportation companies
The petition for injunction was
brought by Attorney General Hemen-
way, on behalf of George X. Carter,
i. r. p. Waterhouse and i. L. Nc
Candless. representing the residents of
Iiliha street, to restrain the Rapid
Transit from changing its switches
and giving the patrons of the line Il
mixed service,--a ten minute schedule
during the rush hours and fifteen
minute schedule the rest of the day.
The present service Is ten minutes.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-10-17
MEETING OF
RED GROSS SOCIETY

Judge DOlc's court room was COM
iOrtably filled with members Of the
Red Cross society yesterday afternoon
at the second meeting of that institu-
ton. Judge Dole called the meeting to
Order shortly after 4 o'clock.
A large amount Of literature touch
ing upon the aims and purposes OF the
Red Cross Society has been received
by the secretary. Mrs W. w. Hall, and
will be distributed among the schools
Of the Islands.
\ letter received from Congressman
Longworth contained the expression of
pleasure Of Mrs. Longworth and him
self at the organization of the Red
"ross branch in this city.
The report of the special committee
ON bylaws was presented by w. r..
Castle. who stated that said bylaws
must conform with Federal law as the
Red Cross was n part of the United
States government. A general discus
sion of the bylaws brought out the
fact that only American citizens were
eligible to membership, while alien
residents can become only life menu
5ers. This brought ont that already
many members had been accepted who
we're not eligible. II was decided to
carry the settlement Of this question
up to Washington.
Those present at the meeting were
Judge Dole. Mrs. w w. Hall, Miss
Pope Miss G. Hail. Mrs. p. c. Jones,
Mrs Dole, Mrs. Walbridge, President
+ l.. Horne, Professor A. +, Griliiths,
Jas Rath c. II, Cooke and W. Il.
Castle:
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-10-17

In the matter Of the estate of Chas.
4. Gault, Judge De Bolt has appointed
job Bachelor, NJ. T. Simonton and At
axander McBryde appraisers. The
game three are appointed appraisers of
the estate of NJ. 5 Pereira.
The Supreme Court handed down an
opinion this morning In the matter OF
the Oahu Railway a. Land Company,
Ltd, VS.. James Armstrong, affirming
the decree of the Circuit Judge.
Makia Kalima has filed suit for di-
vOrce from his wife Ekekele Kekunl
Kalima.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-10-17
Watch this paper for date of dance
and reception to pc gwen by the Roy.
al Hawaiian Hotel to the Bulletin
girls on their arrival home.

Last night about - o'clock High
Sheriff Henry captured Ching Tai
down in Palama. Ching is one Of
the more unfortunate of the famous
6S Chinese caught about year ago
IN the Grand Jury raid on gambling
house. He was sentenced to six
months Imprisonment. The case has
been fought through the coGrts, and
recently by a Supreme Court decision,
all but All Sing lost out. The GS
were all out ON bond, but when Ching
was wanted, he could not be found.
The search for him has been long
one, but he is landed. All Wal, the
ether unfortunate who got a Jail sem
tence, has not been caught yet.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-10-17

Asa, the diminutiye japanese bur-
elar, who achieved fame some years
ago by committing wholesale burg
larry and carting of his booty in a
wagon, was caught today by Detect
i've Reeves. A couple of ladies living
ut "MignOn," on Beretania street,
some days ago complained to the pO-
Ice that their place was being sys-
tamaticalIy entered during their alb
gence, and that several articles had
roen taken. Reeves watched the
rlace and caught the burglar in the
act of entering the house by means
OF false key.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-10-17
MORE CONGRESSMEN
PROMISE
TO ASSIST HAWAII

Another batch of letters from Con-
Gressmen In regard TO the Pearl Har-
bqr improvements proposition was re-
Ceived by the Siberia mail yesterday.
Loring p. Manager Of Pennsylvania
writes that he Is heartily in favor of
the proposition. Jas. \. Tawney, the
chairman Of the House Committee on
Appropriations, comes out strongly in
favor of a drydUck ut Honolulu, stat
ing that he will support II in prefer
Cnce to q proposition of the same ma
ture at another place.
Letters wherein the writers prom
ised to, give the matter their careful
attention. were also received from the
following:
Geo w. Smith, Illinois, chairman Of
House Committee on Private Land
Claims: q. Washburn and Ernest w.
Roberts, Massachusetts,; Nicholas
LOngworth, Ohio; G. T.. Waldo and w.
Bourke Cochran, New York: Ernest NJ.
Pollard, Nebraska; w. B. Lamar, Flor
Via.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-10-17

In the matter Of |. X Sheldon vs..
Wahamana widow petition for
foreclosure of mortgage, Judge De Bolt
las granted the petition asked for and
orders the property in question sold to
satisfy the amount due on the promis-
sorry note-S399.S5. The land is stu
We'd at kamakela, Honolulu.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-10-17

The Supreme Court today rendered
an opinion in the matter Of Wo Sing
4 Co. VS.. Y. Akau Company, in which
the decree of the lower court In favor
If the plaintiff is sustained. The mat
ter was an assumpsit for small
amount