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The Dickinson press., 1908-04-04

APRIL 6 will be city election.
George M. Frye is the only candi-
date for mayor, but the voters
should turn out and indicate their
approval by rolling up a large
vote. Mr.. Frye has resided in
this locality since the early
eighties and for the past five or
six years has been a resident of
and property holder in Dickinson.
He is first class business man,
public spirited, and one who can
be depended upon to conduct the
affairs of his office as he sees it
his duty to do. For police magis-
trate, all will agree that Judge
van der Las is the best man to be
found anywhere; and the same
applies in, the cases of Treasurer
is. White and Justice A. P. Fol-
som. The four outgoing alder
men, Fred Roquette, w. L. Rich
ards, F. w. Turner and ]. R.
Stewart are up for reelection.
They are all good men, who own
homes in and have the best inter
ests of the city at heart. In
Alderman Turner's ward, Robert
Meyer is also a candidate. He is
a good man too, and it rests with
the voters of the ward to indicate
their preference. The other issue
that will come before the voters
next Monday is the proposition
of accepting a fine library build
ing from Andrew Carnegie, the
city guaranteeing to raise annually
for its maintenance 10 per cent
of the cost of the structure, not
to exceed in any event the sum of
$500. The city has an ideal site
on Hannaford street, just north of
the armory building, and the
PRESS is confident that our people
will not lose an opportunity of
getting a free library, while Mr..
Carnegie is in the mood of giving.
1t will mean much to Dickinson,
not only in the line of free read
ing to all and literary attainments,
but in the expenditure during the
summer of thousands of dollars in
wages to laborers of the city.
The Dickinson press., 1908-04-04
NEw, Eke;lA!p.

A number from here attended the
horse sale at Dickinson. 5.sS.::3 '5 ';55s
Asa Gardner sent two teams 10 the
Milwaukee for freight last week.
Hans Steen and Peter Larsen vent 10
Dickinson the first of the week on busi.
ness. 'as3tds-
Fire extinguishers-3 gallon, solid
copper, no better made at what ever
price. For sale at The Racket store.
$3.50. FredThompsop, agt.t ickIineon,
N. D. - '+,st II ssS .53.78-3t
Ole Stenmoen, Carl Johnson aud
Andrew Holten, all Of Mcintosh, Mimi,
arrived here the first Of the week and
will take up their residence on claims
about II miles south of town. All plan
to do some breaking this spring and
brought oxen to do the work.
Jepson Brothers. who had 1 ranch
located near Reeder. have given up that
point as the country has become too
,hickly settled. They passed through
here Monday with loads of supplies and
building material for their ranch, go
miles north of Sentinel Butte. They
were driving bunch of about So horses.
New England is a busy town these
warm spring days. Everyone is going
to do some farming and local merchants
are making large sales of machinery
and implements. A large number Of
homesteaders pass through here daily.
Many Of these are settling along the
Cedar and south of town. These people
will do their trading at New England
and help build up our town.
J.E. Phelan has driven an automobile
for several years and was obliged to
leave his machine on the prairie for the
first time last Sunday night, due to a
broken stearing rod. He left Bowman
in company with three other gentlemen.
After the break down, Charles Mar.
shall's team was enlisted as means Of
transportation to New England. where
another team was procured from the
Star livery. The gentlemen started for
Dickinson and were just settled com.
fortably in their coat collars when the
doubletrees broke and the horses dis.
appeared in the darkness. Slowly the
good natured (i) bunch plodded back to
town for another team. Taking fresh
start they made Dickinson before day.
light. The runaway team returned
home early in the morning. locking as
though they had slept in barbed wire
fence.
The Dickinson press., 1908-04-04

with rheumatism, went 10 Dickinson Sat
urday for treatment. Miss Lucretia
Skinner accompanied her; ;not being able
to procure a room ON At the hospital they
returned on No. Z Sunday. a
James Kehl and John Scott, old time
friends Of Mesdames Shelp, Lee and
Brown, visited here last week. The
gentlemen were on their return from
California and other western and south
ern points. Leaving their home at
Northport, Mich, early in the year thew
went to FL fPaso, Texas then over the:
Southern Pacific to Los Angeles, Cal:
They travelled day times and stopped. Al
whatever town they struck when night
overlook them, in this way seeing more
Of the country than travellers who rush
along night and day. After a pleasant
visit they left on No. Friday for their
home in Michigan. :, .t1.s 4.
The Dickinson press., 1908-04-04
Black B,stts

10. Horswill lost i fine pedigreed
mare last week.
]. E. Strang and o. c. Belt have been
busy the past week digging rocks for a
granary.
School commenced in the Cotton dis.
trict last week, with Mrs. H. c. Cotton
as teacher.
Mrs. William Piper. Mrs. o. c. Bel,
and son, Dane, visited last Monday with
Mrs. F. M. cass.
Mrs. Geo. Cass and son, Edward, and
daughter, Laura, took dinner at c. A.
Piper's last Sunday.
Quite number from this locality at.
tended the Huffman auction south oi
the Cannon Bali last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. r. Bayman Of Iowa
are visiting friends in this neighborhood
They intend to locate in this vicinity.
Miss Annie Tupa returned last Frida,
from Rochester, MIMI. having fully re,
covered from an operation for appendi
citis.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Prairie
chapel church held social at the Cottor
school house last Thursday evening
The proceeds 20 to missionary work.
F.M. Cass, c. w. Cass, E. F. Cass
G. E. Cass. o. c. Belt, O. R. Bayman
Mr.. Lundeen, Ed. Berg, Mr.. Beuthner
w. o. Moore. A. H. Piper, John Sharf
A. H. Gibbs and M. McKeen were busi
ness visitors in Dickinson the first of the
week. .!:$> IS.
The Dickinson press., 1908-04-04
GLADSTONE NOTES.

With rattle and roar,
That shook every door,
March gave up the aoor-to April.
Miss Mary Schnebly is visiting rela-
tives and friends near Gladstone this
week.
R. B. Lee and w. L. Prindle were
business visitors in Dickinson Friday
evening.
Frank Lefor and Mr.. and Mrs. Mike
Engle were expected home from Hun.
gary Wednesday.
w. D. Keeney left Tuesday evening
for Minneapolis, where Mrs. Keeney is
being treated by DR.. Gates.
Mrs. Turner is reported as doing very
nicely at Bismarck, although under the
doctors care, she is not at the hospital
at present.
Jos. Tupa and daughter returned Fri.
day from the Mayo hospital, Rochester
Minn., where Miss Tupa underwent a
successful operation for appendicitis a
few weeks ago.
Anton Duckhorn is loading a car ol
wheat for Minneapolis this week and
although the roads were in bad shape
after the storm on Tuesday, he came to
town with eleven loads of wheat.
Mrs. Emma Jutzler returned from a
trip to St. Paul Saturday and visited hel
daughter, Grace, and her sister, Mrs
Birdsall, between trains, returning tc
Hebron on her way to her home on
Spring creek.
The Dickinson press., 1908-04-04
R0CxsPRN6 NEWS.

Mrs. Laura Harrington went to Dick
inson last week.
Jim Christensen and family spent Sum
day at Harry SCOTS.
Lars Hanson and wife recently visited
at Jim Christenson's.
Miss Josephine DeLong has been
building an addition to her house. #
Rena Brown has returned from Dickin-
son and is building on her claim:
Budd Gard has purchased = haM sec
ton Of fine land = i mile ast3of Hesse y =
nose butte. ~ .5 Ss II /. ts.s:3
Mr.. Rhody recently moved his family
from Madison Lake, Mimi, to his home.
stead near here. :e5 :fs 4
Lottie French came out to her claim
last week. after spending several weeks
with her father in Taylor.
Irene and Ivy Silyernail and Mn
Alderman visited at the home Of theil
friend, Pearl Hart, last Tuesday.
The Rennc Bros. ne busy drilling
wells. They have iately drilled wells stoi
John June. Mr.. Hallack and HARRY
Green. S 3l
The Dickinson press., 1908-04-04

This week the announcement
of George A. Senour for a men,
Der of the legislature from the
31st district, is made. Mr.. Senour
is one of the old settlers of the
county, a large property owner
and successful business man.
He made good legislator two
years ago and his many friends
will be glad to give him their vote
for another term.
The Dickinson press., 1908-04-04

HERMAN LEuTz of Taylor at
tended the county central COM
mittee meeting in Dickinson on
Thursday. The people of the
3rd district are fortunate in hav-
ing this wide-awake business man
in the field for commissioner.
He is practical man, and it
would be hard to find a better
person to fill the Office of COM
missioner. From all reports, his
candidacy must be meeting with
general favor.
The Dickinson press., 1908-04-04
Look!

Yes big car load of Furniture
at prices that will sell them now.
Dressers from $500 and up.
Commodes from 200 and up.
Chiffoniers from 400 and up.
Rockers and Chairs, SOC and up.
Folding Chairs, lots of them from
4Oc to SOC.
Fine Oak Revolving Office Chairs
So. and up.
Mission Chairs, Rockers and Set
tees $3.50 and up.
Heavy Oak Pillar Dining Tables
$1,000 and up.
Good Extension Dining Tables
$500 and up.
Kitchen Tables $1.5O each, and
Iron 'o': Beds sa s'l:I:; $500 and up.
Stoves $2.2o and up,
Ranges So. so and up.
Bed Springs $1.5O and up.
Mattresses $1.5O. and up.
, Spring Wagons cheap. y
Sewing Machines at your own
price. 81
All kinds of Harness S.. 90
and up.
Bicycles, Guns, Watches, galore.
r. AZ CIJRRI IE.
A CLOUGH STREET. ~
The Dickinson press., 1908-04-04
For Sale

For sale or lease, mex, n, sl3o, q6
situated one mile from Dickinson. f..
a. Pottle. IIo South5th 81 Quincy, ~.
AZ 4 4, g 4. A.; 7.I4f
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-04

Dispatches from Louisville indicate a general withdrawal of the Are com r,anies from not only tobacco rimlks of aIl character over the State, but that the exclusion would apply, to all con- tfruous properties. There is no esti- mating the results of such q calamity. It w.li keep the nerves of the tobacco dxaIers on c tir gle. Some say it will encourage at this tfne more frequent attacks of night riders. who would realize tlie added vengeance of destroy inr property of their enemies which was not protected.
 This is /the reason for tobacco to move. Tn many quarters t has be- gun 10 move Tn large quantities. It exposes the tobacco to the de re lations of the rider elan who are certainly on the alert everywhere. It gives them a chance to see just who of the asso- citation has remained loyal and who has not. and the indepen dents are the e. by Identified. So there Is no hope that inc war is at an end. Rather may we exoect more collisions than ever nov that the crop is moving from the barns to the market places.
 Nowhere at this stage Is tn ere fnli sense of security among the citizens, of the district. All l. depen dent ware houses have established guards about tf emselves. The citizens of this nerve racked little city continue undaunted in their patrol of the outer roass and tie military Is still on duty. >S ssBen Hurs Moving Pictures Crescenf Theatre todny and tomorrow. Admis- sion .Oyc. Doors open 10 A. N.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-04

the suffofk Distributing Company. the New York concern whose si5o.aeo bid for white paper for ahe Government. Printing once for the next fiscal yeesr has been held up by Aifs committee on suspicion that that seoyDpany is ssvun .v : nous with the Audit System and Sup plies Company. The offices of the for msr are at No. 1s7 Duane Street: the nff~e~ If the iatter are at No s2 pu- ane Street.
 M-. Aw~ea Teried that he hrd any husirA~s iwte~ert cr held any of7fce in tho sr6oik Die--ihutiue Company. Tn a~~~-e~ tN snuertf,ns nv the chairman na ssssf fhef his iiret knNwstedre of the audit svstern w-sr in fos5. when Mfr. tss~vor ststsr,ftted it to rsyr ss 2 vood th'rR t> i~staii In the J ". Pratt Com euv. The idea was acceDted ard the '~staiiation was conpieted in May of 19os.
 TT. v.st~e.~ ard Mr. rfaudv then su~~ested Hhe incnrporst,nn df the audit svstern and of the Audit System Srrr,ia~ t-nn,ra~v "witr the intention ~ nuttt~e tNe svstern into prtnttng ~f1ce~ ~enerafIv throueiIout the coun- t-v Ire incorporationS were made iard Ravror came to wssh'nV'rr srd -erotiatsai a contract with the Govern went pkirter. This was by authority If on annrorriation which oriR'nated in the House Committee on Appr0pria- tinrs and was mt through with the aSv,re of the Printing Committee. The entire Force of the audit system was nut to work in the Government Fp-'ntine ofn-e ana ts now ernnf"ved there. no .effort having been made to regotiate any ether contracts It appeared from the testimony that this force Is not carried Individually on the Government nay rolls. but ls maid by the audit swsten, out of call r,orevs rec~tved weekly by that con. cern from the Government.
 William A. Root. local agent of the Audit System Supplies Company and once in a while the representative of the Suffolk Distributing Company, was examined. He testifed that hts total sales to the Government Printing Off, flee of the suffo1k Distributing Com" pany goods have not sxcesdsd $soo.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-04
InENTEg4HsD As kaHNA,N.

New. York, Feby. E.--The body of . man found saturday in the wreck of . dereIick aloop off naFth beach. Long Gsaand has been identified as that ot Martin 4xlehah, wen known in Wall street The police ere st work on khe case and bslteve 1t to be one of mur- lieT
 The wounds ln the neck are thought to have been made by . sttletto or some sffaufAr instrument and the po- lice do ssck believe they cDalid have been self f-intiicted.
 Kienan is supposed te have been wealthy ak one time &nd AkteAn years ago Is said to have parted from his wife and daughter. zt is eaad that of late he had l6sf his fortuhe but he was cchstant1b seen an wan BEr6et and on Broadway.
 The police are searching for wo- man whom they believe can give thenl some information regarding K1enans' death.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-04
RA.LR0ADNSOLV-NI
RECEIVER APPOINTED ron THE
 MACON AND BIRMINGHAM.
samuel F. Parrott, vice-President of the Georgia ssuthern and Flor ids is Named as Receiver
 by Atlanta Judge.

Macon, Ga. Feb. s.---on the petition of the. old Colony Trust Company of Massachusetts. the Macon and Birming- ham Railroad was placed in the hands oS d receiver today by the order of Judge W. D.. Ellis of Atlanta. samuel F Parrott, vice-President of the Geor- rla Southern and Florida WAS named receiver. The application for rAceiYer was the result of the company's avowed inability to meet payments. In iBes the road issued per cent bonds to the extent of s500.000 which were taken up by the old Colony Trust Company of Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Company alleges that the railroad is '.hopeIessly insolyant" and asks for an accounting Of the bonds and the eoa- pons secured by the $5o0,000 mortgage held upon the railroad.
 F.sM. Edwards of Boston, Mass, is President of the road, which extends from Macon to Lagrange, distance of tOs miles.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-04
lpRoaEs PRINTING OFFICE.
Gsssrnment sayestikataag the Auait
 System. ,

BH8HEtus t-f
 washington. Feb e--The -forfnai in. vastikation of charges of irreEuiar4ttss in the Government Printing 0fice. in. voivinR bids for furnishing suppiisH was begun today by Representative Iandis of Indiana Senator whyte oi Maryland, and Representative Perlkfni ut New York, composing the sdb-cotn. tnittee of the joint Committee on Print. ing InvgHtigafibn.
 Frederick Alfred, the New York prft- eipal, who failed to appear at Satuf- days meeting, was represented by his counsel. R. Golden Donaldson. of Washington
 Sworn by Chairman Landis. Adr. AL fred testined that he is presiaenf ot the andit system which is installing in the Government printing ofiice a sys- tenn of cost asoertafnments: president of the Aaadit System Supplies Company, which fnrni6hes the supplies flecsssary to the conduct of that system ana soc retary of the ". Pratt Co, a New York printing and stationery concern.
 He said that the secretary -trezbnrsf of the audit system and of the Alaaft system Supplies Company Is J. F. Handy. Of New York. who is to arrive here today from Cincinnati and to tes. tify before the comnalttse tomorrow The vice~prssident and manager of these two eofnDanies, said Mir. Alfred is ". M. Rsynor. who has charge oi the work of installing the system h the Government printing oflc@
 Chairman Landis drew from Che wfts ness that the account sheets ueed in the audit system were printed by the Pratt Company and obtained by Ahs Audit System Supplies Company from
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-04
TOBACCO MEN
 IN CONTROL ---s-- Giant Organization of
 Farmers. TIE SITUATION IN KENTUCKY Cause of The Night Riders is
 Analyzed. Growers Have Aavanced PFSaaet Six Gents PssaA But People Are Tsrrsrssea A.s fa.srsasss
 is caassses.
HE SITUATION IN KENTUCKY

Hopkinsviile, Ky, Feb. s.--(sps- ciAi.)--Through all the smoke and tel : rcr of this community the student oi economies may see fruitful aeid for
 The perspective of the turbulent sit. uation in the Dark Tobacco Fateh furnishes wonderful example 2, reasons. chief of which Is the fact that it has been done by organised farmers. That sounds kind of rare we must admit, farmers organizing ef- Actively to meet the buyer firmly on their own grounds.
 The Dark Tobacco District Planters Protective Assassination will, no doubt have to bear some odiunn on sccoun. riders. As their dastardIy deeds havs now gone on for over a year. culmi' mating in the destructive raid on Hop kfnsville on the early morning or De cember 2, the association has been el. ready handicapped by the lawlessness The association. extending throughout twenty-flve counties of Western Ken lucky and e little of Northwest Ten. nessse, does not present as clean and moral front as their members would ike. It is due, of course, to the sense less operations of the Rider clan with : whom large contingents of the public both interested and disinterested in the tobacco business, associate the legal organization.
 Remarkable Organization.
 As the civil. or military authorities have been unable to detect and bring to justice a single member of the Rider clan there will always be an irresistt- ble stain perhaps on the association Taken apart from the deeds of Night Riders, as they should De. removed from the aerkening clouds which nov 2 threaten it., the association must bt regarded as one of the marvels oi agricultural history. So the economist at least is privileged to view the thinG without prejudice. He may be al lowed to look upon the admirable suo. cess which an Organization of farmeri has wrought, forgetting the unwar. ranted outrages of set of men whe differ from theft fellows in that ths methods Of the one are inhunan and those of the other perfectly legiti' mate.
 Briefly. the Dark Tobacoo Districl Planters Protective Association ma, be said to have snatehed the growei frAn impending poverty and plaest him on the high Aaount Of prosperity By agitation Of inspired and Abl' leaders. the growers of the spArh Patch" have within three years unttes themselves In an orgasiiaat tioR rapg f fectuAl that the average price Of thi weed" in these wide parts has afisei from trifling three cents to profit able average 0f eight and nine ana ten cents q pound The orsanisetiRs
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-04
CIVIL VISERVICEREPOST
FEW ELIGTBLEs FOR HIGHER
 GRADE PROMOTIONS.
Young Men Regard seryiee AS A Make shift Instead or Possibility or . Career As fs fn-
 tended.

Washington, Feb. s---In its twenty fourth annual report, made public to- day, the United States Civil Serviee Commission places the number of of fcers and employees of the executive civil service on June 30, 1907, at ap- proximately s7.000. Of this number lss.9lS were subject to examination an increase of 12.7Os as compared with the number for the previous year. oi the l40.0O0 persons not subject to ex- animation S,147 were Presidential ap- pointees, 6,S14 of whom were post masters of the first, second or third classes: 52,345 were fourth class post masters; 10000 were clerks at post offices having no free delivery ser vice. 22.704 were minor employees on the Isthmian canal work and .56,Uut were mere unakilled laborers.s
 During the year lS6,lob spersons wert examined. of whom 99,621 passed and 44.2SS were appointed.
 The natural growth of the sers fec the report says. has been the greatest in the postal branches, there having been all increase of 4.S73 employees ir postoffices. 1880 rural carriers apd 6st railway clerks.
 The report deplores that while the statistics show that the number oi eIigibies has been more than three times as great as the number of ap- pointments during recent years. there has been lack of eligibies to the higher grade positions. The higher positions are usually filled by promo ton, and there is not sufficient induce ment for the most capable men to en- ter the examinations either into the salary immediately offered or the pros poets of advancement The govsrn. ment view, therefore, instead of of fering a screer. Is thus being regarded as a mere makeshift by many capable young men who leave if for .pri ate employment at the earliest ,opportu- nifty. Many men eithey will not ac. cept the low entrance salary pr having once entered and finding little chance of increase. pass out to more remnner- ative fields of employment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-04
HEAVY CEMENT SHIPMENT. .American vssseis win Carry Cnrxo I'd Canal

: Washington, Feb. 3.--sScretary Taft appeared Fin the sennte cisanber today and conferred with Senators Hale. Frye and Lodge rsgarding the trans portation by sea of EnatsriaI and equip rnefitf Tor use tn the eongtrncaiun of the Panama canal.
 it was agreed that 6 joint fresolu- tion recently offered by Eenatxr Frye and referred to the Committee aon Cosusnerco, should be re-assfroduchsd and sent to the Committee Dn interr0 0ceanic Canals for, report. IL provides that all materials for the e@nA1 shall be rgrrfei in vessefs 'owneu$by the gov ernment or of American registry.
 fpbm the United States to the .Isthmus in the near future ar three miIlior barrnas ox cement and 1t Is largely for the transportation of this material that the legislation is sought.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-04

aBen Hurs Moving Pictures Crescent Theatre todny and tomorrow. Admis- sion .Oyc. Doors open 10 A. M.