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Difference in Crops.

The writer prompted by good deal of curl
osity, took forty mile drive thru the country
Sunday on crop inspection tour. We had been
told by several that their wheat would not aver
age three bushels to the acre, while others liv-
ing not far distant said theirs would likely go
fifteen bushels or more. After looking over the
situation, we can readily see how both can be
telling the truth: We never saw such differ
ence in crops. On one side of the road, the
wheat is hidden by the weeds while across the
read is field Of wheat standing foot or more
high and looking very WE'LL One field was sown
earlier than the other and one perhaps was har-
rowed better than the other. In one field, the
wheat had come up in uniform manner, while
in the other, it had come struggling along. Good
farming tells this year if it ever did, and yet
many farmer who thinks he put his grain in
the ground in the best possible manner, is dis
appointed with the prospects. Flax looks well
all over. True, it is late, many finishing sowing
fax only last week. If the season is late in the
fall, then the late sown flax promises to be a
good yield. All flax has good color and bids
fair to yield as heavy as any year. Its a good
this year; Oats look fairly we'll. Hayiing will
be away late this year. Farmers ought to be
doing some haying now, but we did not see any
hay put up and there will be very little made for
two weeks. Hay will be scarce article and
command fine price this fall The Independ-
end does not wish to make positive statement
as to how we believe the crops will turn out this
season, but many conservative farmers say they
will be pleased if they make half what they or
dinarily do.
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Notice Of Real Estate Foreclosure Sac

Notice is hereby given that that certain
mortgage executed and delivered by Dimidre
Halama, single man. mortgagor, to The Clti-
zens State Bank OF Max. Max, Mclean county,
N. D.. a Corporation under the Laws OF the
State OF North Dakota, mortgagee, dated the
4th day of February. 1905, and filed for record
In the Office of the Register OF Deeds OF the
County of Ward and State of North Dakota, on
the 18th day OF February 1907, at 3 :35 O'Clock
p. NJ, and recorded in book "59'' of Mortgages
at Page ''47'', be foreclosed by sale OF the
premises in such mortgage and hereinafter
described, at the front door of the Court House
in the City of Mnot in the County OF Ward and
State of North Dakota. at the hour of 2 o clock
P. NJ, on the 9th day of July, 1907. to satisfy
the mount due upon such mortgage on the lay
OF sale. The premsesAescribed in such mort
gage and which will be- sold to satisfy the same;
are described as follows, to-wit:
The North East Quarter (NEl If Sectic0
Twenty-Five (Sec. 22) ia Township One u:dr 90
Fifty-two (Twp. 152 NJ of Range EiGhty-two
WesU (Rge. 81 w, containing one hnndrec sixty
acres, more or less, according to Z. .. Govern
ment survey.
There will be due on such mortgage =. the
date of sale tho sum of Five Hundred rty
nine and 90-l0O Dollars, together with cosUs Of
sale and Attorney fees.
CITIZRns STATE BANK OF MAX,
Max North Dakota, Mortgasee.
H. 3. johnson,
Attorney for Mortgagee,
Ryder, Ward County. N. d. 6-20.7-ea
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CONTEST NOTICE

,artment Of the Interior, United States
Land Office, Minot, n. d., May 81. 1907.
sufficient contest affidavit having been
in this office by Jorgen Odlong, con con
ant, against homestead entry No: 2o72l,
le Feb. Is. 1903, for eM nwA, VIZ neA, Sec
9, Township 1883. Range SO, by Mary, v.
g, Contestee in which it Is alleged that
claimant has wholly abandoned said
It of land for more than six months just
to the fling Of this affidavit Of contest;
fact is he never did reside on said land and
ged absence from said land YVES not
to his employment IN the army, navy
arine corps OF the United States as pri-
49, soldier, onicer, seaman or marine, during
in which the United States may be engaged
Said parties are hereby notified to appear,
respond and offer evidence touching said allega-
ton at 10 o'clock a. m: on August 2, 1901, before
the Register and Receiver at the United States
Land Office in Minot, N. D.
The said contestant having, in proper affi.
davit, filed June q. 1907 set forth facts which
show that after due diligence personal service
of this notice can not be made, it is hereby or
dered aud directed that such notice be given
by due and proper publication
L D, MCGAHAN.
6-278-1 Register.
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Not Thru the Newspapers.

There is a great deal Of talk amongst the
farmers that the local newspapers should say
less about the bright prospects Of crop; that
the more it is talked about, the lower will be the
price of wheat-that newspaper reports are
sort of give away to the detriment of the
farmer. There never was more erroneous
theory The local newspaper cuts about as
much ice in making the market price of wheat
as does the individual farmer. The crop condi-
much larger and more complete system though
less reliable one than this.
Every wholesale house doing business in this
territory gets report from its representative
''the drummer every day. Every elevator
line and every railway gets daily report from
their local agent and the several commercial and
organizations send out special repre-
sentative who goes over the country, investi-
gates the conditions and makes report. That
IS the way the crop estimates are arrived at
Walhalla Mountaineer.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
Passing of the Country Girl.

Thursday was the great DAY OF Cne Crd"lOiu,
lnd) county fair-one OF the kind offairs grand
father tells about. the kind he visited when he
was youngster and used to take grandma TO,
only she was not grandma then.
Formerly the farmer came to the fair III his
old. fashioned Jolt wagon. How he comes IN
rubber tired buggy or surrey, and IN the sea
of vehicles here TO-DAY are two or three fashion
able ''traps'' and an automobile or two. He is
better dressed than he used to be, and SO is his
family.
The old-fashioned country girl depicted on
the stage in the socalled rural plays" Is not
seen at the fairs any more. The stage country
girl has passed away. No more loose hanging.
linsey. woolsey dresses and heavy hob-nalled
shoes. no more red sashes knotted about the
waist that makes her resemble an animated
meal sack. The little old sunbonnet has been
laid aside forever -
Handsome gowns true to the latest fashNp1
plates, high heeled shoes and Open-wOrk nose
hose and picture hats; peek "a boo waists, and
for that matter, sometimes little more peek
a-bOO than the peek-a-bOO waist OF her city SIS
ter, three story gloves or elbow sleeves-the
country girl Of today is poem IN dress, and
she knows all the wrinkles in the dressmaker's
art. Times ire good and 'pap has the money
A glance over the great crowd OF women and
girls here today would cause one to imagine
himself in an Indianapolis park.
And you don't get introduced to any more
Charlottes, or Naucys or Betsys. No, indeed!
Now you meet LOtties and Maymes and Bes-
sizes and Maudes
The average country girl OF today is step
or two ahead Of the country boy. But big
change has come to him. also. He doesn't go
around with his trousers in his boots and chew
ing straw. His clothes are not from the top
shelf any more. Once in a while you meet q
youth wearing shirt of clamorous colors and
celluloid collar, and putting a cigar that sheds
the odor OF dried onions, but he is rare. He
soon finds that he is outclassed, and he realizes
Maymes and Lotties and Bessies, he must get
in the procession and be up to date.
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Envelopes Raised.

The postal department have at last seen the
deficiency and where it came from, and this one
from the printing Of envelopes for the different
customers who use government printed envelo-
opes for the different customers who use gov
eminent printed envelopes. Thedepartment Of
fcers have remedied this great loss, and have
raised the price so much as to make wonderful
difference They have really raised the price of
printed envelopes as much as two 81 cents on
box of five hundred envelopes This will make
about as much difference as tho it were left
alone, the main feature, however, being in it
requiring new set of rules for the postmasters
thereby making it necessary to have whole lot
of printed matter gotten out to send over the
country. Gee! but those pigeon hole depart
the country.
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Two Routes via 500.

At last connection has been made by rail via
the 500 from the twin cities to Minot aud two
routes from Washburn to Minneapolis via the
500. This will give Washburn people the choice
of two routes east. Washburn is very nearly
equi-dstant. Coleharbor being exactly the
same distance from the twin cities by either
embellishments or Drake, where the Minot
cutoff from the south and west strikes the
main line Mclean county is now we'll supplied
with transportation facilities, and competing
lines, and Wnshburn and other communities
will reap great benefts.-BismarckT Tribune.
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War and He'll Backed in Corner.

Those people who are always gossiping are
invited to consider the following, taken from an
exchange: Gossip is like humming bird with
eagle wings and voice like fog horn 1t can
be heard from Dan to Beersheba and has caused
more trouble than all the bedbugs, ticks, feas,
rattlesnakes, billiards, smallpox, yellow fever,
govt and indigestion that this great United
States has known or ever will know when the
universe shuts up shop and begins the final in
voice. In other words it has both war and hell
both backed in a corner yelling for ice water
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will
be received by the School Board OF Gopher
School District. at Maza. in Towner County
North Dakota, up to noon July q. 1907. for FUR
concrete school building about 56x34 feet, in
compliance with plans and specific ations to be
seen at the office of the County Superintend-
tect. in Cando, N. D., on and after July l, 1907.
Each bid for the building must be accompanied
by certified check in the sum OF $4,000 as a
guarantee OF good faith to enter into the con-
tract, The successful bidder to give bonds for
the faithful compile ton OF the building in the
sum of SIC, 900. The building to be completed
not later than September l. 1907,
All bids to be addressed to the clerk
The board reserves the right to reject any
or all bids.
BY order OF the School Board of Gopher
School District
Dated June 20. 1907.
F. A. HUGHES, Clerk,
6-27-7-18 MaZa N. D.
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The Third School House.

It is hard to believe that the school board
upon due deliberaticn, could have agreed to
place a third school house in the Central school
grounds. In the first place it would spoil the
appearance of the Central school grounds that
are sufficiently limited in extent for the build
ings that are now there, and if the space be-
tween the two school houses if filled up with a
third building it will entirely prevent the posi-
bility of making the grounds what they ought to
be-, and what they can be made without this
building: No question of the cost of new site
or question of mere temporary expediency should
be allowed to govern in determining perma-
nent matter Of this kind, for if the school house
is qlce built there it will be impossible ever to
eetffd of it, and the voters should be alive to
this situation and protest most vigorously
against any such action on the part of the
school board.
The Independent has interviewed several
leading citizens on this proposition and they are
unanimous in condemning the proposition To
b. effective however these protests should be
presented to the school board, and at once, be-
fore the matter is definitely and finally settled,
Ward school houses should be scattered through
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May Be Another One.

The two circuses and the street carnival have
come and gone and Minot is back to normal
again The thousands of visitors demonstrated
that they were good ''spenders" and it's likely
that the various attractions took twenty or thir-
ty thousand dollars out Of the country. This is
enough for one year and almost equals Shears
Sawbuck e Co. The Independent hears a ru-
NOR that Ringing Bros. big circus will also show
here this year but hopes that the report is not
true. People like fun all right, and we have
had our share for one season. Give it to US in
smaller doses.
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No Change Yet.

Altho the new rate law for the railroadswent
into effect on July l, it is said that the railroads
went into effect on July l, it is said that the
railroads have not yet placed on sale any mile
age books under the new and it is given out that
they will not put any $50 books on sale at all.
Other people are expected to obey the laws,
and the Independent trusts that the railroads
will not forget to inform themselves of the rate.
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A Squad.
Fewer than 5000 people own all the land Oft
Great Britain. The farmers of North Dakota
alone reduce that showing to squad.
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c. experimenters have uvle anu .l.e 4a'lners
will be greatly benefited by the discovery.
ious weed in the grain fields of North Dakota.
The A. C. workers are everlastingly at work for
the farmers interests and their efforts are GER
tainly appreciated.-Fargo Forum
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out the city in the districts most thickly popu-
lated and with a view to those districts which
will require school facilities in the near future.
The Minot citizens who are interested and Tub
lie spirited enough to desire the permanent good
of the public schools Of this city should voice
their protests to the school board at once
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Kills Weed.

The agricultural
ten proven its grea
mers of the state t.
ed as one Of North
new case in point il
made by Professor
college on the destj
strange that chem
spray that would X
the wheat amony V
but reCe 1t tests del
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-07
GENUINELY HOT
BY END OF WEEK
WEATHER EXPECTED Nv THE
BUREAU. ACCORDING TO
ANNOUNCEMENT.

WASHINGTON. June s.-Ths
Weather Bureau reports that while
the mercury has scared considerably
in the last twenty-tour hours, gener.
ally east Of the Mississippi, except in
the Northeast. the temperature is still
much below the seasonable average
everywhere except out in the West
Gulf States. A fall of 10 10 20 de-
grees has occurred in the Middle Mis-
sissippi Valley and the plains States.
The oficial forecast for tonight
phophesies warmer weather tomorrow
in the lower lake region and Atlantic
Coast States. north Of the Carolinss.
but coler out in Missouri, and thence
southwestward to North Texas.
The temperature Wednesday will
not change materially except in the
Middle Gulf States, where it will be
cooler. In the Northwest the temper
ature will rise.
The Bureau looks for genuine sum-
mer weather in many sections by the
end of the week.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-07
MURFREESBORO IN
ANTI-JUG LINE
CITY COUNCIL PASSES DRASTIC
ORDINANCES AGAINST THE


AURFREESBoRo. Tenn. June 4.
The City Council tonight passed
four stringent ordinances aimed at
the jug trade covering the whole neld
OF inter and intrastate shipments.
One Of the ordinances makes 1t un-
lawful to receive more than a pint OF
liquor from another State. II is IN
derstood the express company will not
receive any intrastate shipments at
all in the future. The Mayor, it Is
pretty certain. viii approve the ordi-
nounces. which passed the Council by
an overwhelming majority and are in
dorsed by nearly everyone here.
A coincidence attending the passage
of the ordinances tonight was that.
while they were being voted on. Caleb
Jordan. negro, was arrested for
brandy out of a jug.
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FOUR THOUSAND KILLED,
EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA

VICTORIA, B. c., June 4.-The
steamer Shawmut brought news of a
disastrous loss of life following an
earthquake at Hsing Kiang. A tele.
gram received from Pekin by the
Noshi Shimbun at Toxic shortly be.
fore the Shawmut sailed, reported that
1000 persons were crushed to death.
vast number OF houses destroyed
and many persons left starving. The
Empress Dowager has telegraphed
urgent instructions to the local Gov
ernors to take measures to relieve the
distress.
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500 REWARD, 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages. and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
Is the only positive cure now known
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh be
A Ing constitutional disease, requires
IA constitutional treatment. Hairs
tCatarrh Cure is taken internally. act
sing directly upon the blood and nue.
1ous surfaces of the system, thereby
destroying the foundation of the dis
ease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work.
The proprietors have so much faith In
its curative powers that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that II
tails to cure. Send for list OF testi-
Enonials.
Address F. ). CHENEY q CO.. To
edo, o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
sAation.
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,essssssesseess'
WATER VALLEY
sssssssssseseeses

WATER VALLEY, June 3.-Rev
Houston T. Allen will conduct serv
Eice# ant Alexamier ON ms1t Samazs
morning at IL O'Clock and at Goshen
at 5, in the afternoon.
Mrs. Ellis Woody and little son
hurry, who have been the guests OF
Mr.. John Kinzer and family for sew.
eral days. have returned to their home
near Santa Fe.
Mrs. Wess Cook visited friends near
Santa Fe, last week.
Mr.. Omar Harris and Miss Matte
Dodson were the guests of friends in
Williamson county, recently.
Mrs. Claud Rogers has returned to
her home in Paducah, KY, after a
visit to her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Kinzer.
Mrs. John Fleming, of Mt. Pleasant,
was the guest of Mr.. James Pigg and
wife last week.
Eula Mai and Everett Johnson, of
Enterprise, are with relatives near
Goshen.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Oakley and chill
dren and sister, Miss Alice Mays. have
returned from pleasant trip to
Franklin.
oREsTRA.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-07
THE EARTHQUAKE
SPIRIT
louisville Times


1t is probable that, if certain prom
inent gentlemen in San Francisco
could have forcasted the result of the
earthquake, the number of refugees
would have received some prominent
additions.
Compared to what has come after
wards, Ruef, Schmitz and practically
every San Francisco politician above
the grade Of heller got off easy in
April, 1906.
Apparently, the end is not yet, as
Mr. Patrick Calhoun, the head of the
San Francisco railway, was compelled
yesterday to try the effect of his closed
digits and tense knuckles on the chin
of a gentleman who had been using
it for the purpose of expressing the
hattering opinion that Mr.. Calhoun Is
a liar as we'll as a briber and thief.
These are hard names for man with
at his back to stomach, but,
there seems abroad in San
Francisco a spirit which rather en-
joys shocks. It's a live town, and
rowging one, but it cannot be said
even by its friends that the spirit of
repose shows any striking indication
Of soon revising it.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-07
TENNESSEE
BANKERS MEETING
WILL De HELD AT LOOKOUT
MOUNTAIN, JUNE 1918.

| NASHVILLE, Tenn, June 5.-The
bankers of Tennessee will meet this
year on Lookout Mountain, June 18th
and 10th in 18th Annual session. The
program for the occasion has been
completed and includes many fea-
lures that will be attractive to the
financiers of the State.
Mr.. w. w Finley, President of the
Southern Railway, will come from
Washington to make an address on
THE Relationship between Railways
and other Business Enterprises.
Senator Carmack will speak of I'm
dustrial Progress and Future of the
South" The address of welcome will
be made by Senator Frazier, to which
Mr. w. H. Gass of Knoxville. will re-
spond on behalf of the visitors.
Other speakers are Messrs. ]. H.
Watkins, Memphis; w. G. Dillon,
Tracy City: Rutledge Smith, Cooke
Vile; and Clay Herrick, Cleveland,
Ohio.
On June 10Th the steamer Chatta-
nooga, will carry the entire Conven-
ton down the beautiful Tennessee
River for an all-day excursion to the
Government lock and dam. Speeches
will be made and business transacted
en- route; this will include the election
of officers and appointment of dele
gates to the American Bankers AS
ISOLATION. An orchestra will be in at
tendance, and dinner will be served |
on romantic spot some thirty miles
out from Chattanooga. The Conven- !
ton will close with the Bankers Ball
at Lookout Inn Wednesday night.
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PHONOGRAPH AS
A WITNESS
(London Chronicle. J

NANON@AOAA
The monograph as witness in the
law courts was bound to come sooner
or later, and 1t did SO the other day in
Brussels A lawyer Of that city had
been continually annoyed by the noises
OF hammering. ETC., at an iron fouE-
dry in his near neighborhood. Finding
that complaints were unwilling, he
brought the matter into court. Just
before doing SO he placed a phono-
graph in his library for one whole
day. When the case came before the
fourth chamber he produced the phon-
ograph and set ssthg the specially
prepared cylinder. An uproar and din
as from the forge of Vulcan was the
result. and the ingenious lawyer won
his case hands down."
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CHILD WAS FOUND
WALKING ON TRACK
AFTER FALLING FROM WINDOW
OF TRAIN RUNNING FIFTY
MILES AN HOUR.

WATERLOO, Ia, May 30.-The Ave
year-old son of Kate Kartinelli fell out
of a car window of an Illinois Central
limited west-bound train running at
fifty miles an hour last night between
Peosta and Epworth while his mother
was asleep. The child was found
walking on the tracks at o'clock this
morning by the train crew Of an east
bound train. Except for a slight cut
on the face the boy was unhurt.
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Tn. important Thing.

During the salmon fishing season
an Englishman was the guest Of q
Highland laird and one day he hooked
a flne salmon. Being inexperienced
as a fisherman. he became excited
and in the struggle with the fish fell
into the river. The keeper, seeing
that he was no swimmer, hooked him
with the gan and started to drag him
ashore. "What are We shoot. Donaf'F
cried the laird Get baud O the rod
and look tae the flush. Ma friend can
Dade wee, burt the fsssb wiuuas"--
Kansas City Independent.