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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-02-27
Physieian.' Fee. are Uniform.

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The Minot physicians have adopted
9 uniform system of charges, which
are the same as those in Grand Forks.
Fargo and other cities of the state.
and about the same, we believe, as
Minneapolis. The charges have been
in force for some time, and while in
some cases they are a trifle higher
than the old ones, they seem to be
fair in every way. You will note that
the doctors charge five dollars for
calls in the city between the hours of
10 p. m. and Z a. m. This was not
done to add expense to the sick ones,
but rather to induce them to call in
the doctors at seasonable hour.
Since the charges have been in effect,
the night calls have been reduced to a
minimum, and the doctors are getting
the rest that they so richly deserve.
There are very few cases where it is
necessary to call doctor out at night.
The prices are as follows:
Part Of fee bill adopted by the ply
sicians of Minot, N. d., Oct. IA, 1907.
Once consultation. ..........$ 100
Day calls within city limits.... 200
Day calls to contagious diseases 800
Night calls within city limits,
between 10 p. m. and a. m. 500
Emergency or urgent calls re-
curing the sacrifice Of Office
hours or other engagements 800
to ................... 500
Attendance on normal labor. Is. 90
Consultations calls. -. 10. 90
Telephone consultation same as
in Office 100
Administering anaesthetics-
Minor operations. ............. 500
Major operations. ............. 10. 90
Statements Of all accounts will be
rendered monthly.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-02-27

Jake Goldberg, one Of the wide
awake Glenburn merchants. came in
with q load Of fat hogs last week."
You See" Mr.. Goldberg explained.
money may be little scarce about
Glenburn, but the farmers are raising
many hogs, and I take them In trade"
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-02-27
BUYS a New Hearse.

H. c. Raycraft, the undertaken, has
received a new $4,000 hearse from Cum
ningham of Chicago. The hearse ar
rived this week and is a beauty. Mr..
Raycla reports his business increas-
ing rapidly, which necessitated the
new outfit.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-02-27

FARM FOR RENT-4SO acres OF
land eleven miles south of Minot,
$50 acres under high state of cult
walton, barns for ten horses, gran
airy for 5000 bushels of grain, good
two room house, good water. Will
sell horses and machinery at right
terms, and rent for half of crop. Oats
and hay on the place for sale. Great
lay out. Act quickly. stephen Gull
seth, at Scandinavian Hotel, Minot.
st.
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Tolly on the Soc.

/ have been to lots of picnics
And basket socials too,
But the best one that I've taken in
Was down on the Mouse River
East Of Tolley on the 500.
The baskets numbered AZ
The girls were not so few
The boys they had the money
And the greenbacks fairly few,
Last Wednesday on Mouse River
East OF Tolley on the 500.
The girls that got the social up
Surely must feel proud
OF having such q lively time
And such a jolly crowd,
Some baskets sold for dollar bill
Not many hess than 2
Last Wednesday on Mouse River
East Of ,Tolly on the 500.
Last fall they say the crops were poor
And money kind of tight,
But no one seemed to care a snap
At the social Wednesday night,
1 came up from Minot and
To me it's kind of new
The way they handle money
East of Tolly on the 500.
One and quarter, paid for mine
OF course that was too cheap
Cause in 1t there was everything
That any two could eat.
My partner she was pretty too.
Perhaps her name I'll tell to you
When you see me on Mouse River
East of Tolly on the 500.
The funds were for an organ
At the Joslyn Sunday school
The people around folly believe in
doing right
Have Sunday school on Sunday and
Services at night
AS for myself I like it too
The way they handle money
East of Tolly on the 500.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-02-27

Andy Haverstad was arrested at
Dogden, fined $50 and given 80 days
in Jail for a delinquent board bill. In
the evening, Andy was given an OPP
portunity to play game Of pool while
waiting for the train, when rig drove
up quietly in front of the building, and
the man made dash for liberty. He
got into the rig and was quickly driv-
en- of, accompanied by volley from
the officers guns. He caught the train
at Balfour and got out Of the country.
The driver Of the rig, however upon
his return to Dogden, was arrested and
given the same sentence as that OF
the man who escaped.
A young Romainian girl IS asking
for a separation from her husband,
simple minded Fessenden farmer. The
girl arrived last summer from Ro-
mania and began working on the farm,
where she was made to milk and do
work in the field as man. She was
courted by the simple minded swain
and she accepted him. She now finds
that she is nothing more or less than
FOOLS slave and a divorce is prob
able.
C. B. Tibbetts, that sturdy Foxholm
farmer, proved up on his claim Fri
day, his witnesses being Frank
|, schloer and M. Keough. Mr.. Tibbetts
made five year proof. He's an OLD
theatrical man, and a good one too'
but of all the acting that he has done,
he enjoys the stunts that he performs
out on the open prairie, with only the
fickertails to applaud him.
A daughter was born to Mr.. anu
Mrs. w. Proctor Thursday.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-02-27

Fred Wheelock and G. e. Eastwood
were down from Ross with H. z.
Crosby assisting him to make a FIVE
year proof on his fine farm two miles
from that place.
Williston is quite metropolitan, all
Of the houses having been numbered,
Minot style.
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Don't fail to attend the
mammoth sale at A. A.
Segerstrom's Depart
ment store at Sawyer, N.
D., at 50 cents on the
dollar. Sale begins We'd
nesday, Feb. 26, and
lasts ten days only. IN
der the management Of
the Hodgins Sale system
of South st. Paul.
Lost in court house, Wednesday
pocketbook containing $40 in currency
and $50 note. Reward to finder. Leave
word at this office.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-02-27

FARM FOR RENT-Five miles
south of Minot, 60 acres broken. In.
quire Of G.. n Martin, SIS Main St.,
Minot. @ TIP
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-03-20
WiIlie's OHense.

According to a country editor here
abouts, the school authorities of a. GER
tain: town took it into their heads late
ly that they would have the children's
eyesight examined by an oculist, This
was done, and the parents of those
children whose eyes were found to be
in any way affected were communi-
Gated with. Accordingly the head
master wrote to the father Of Willie
thompson: Dear Sir: I beg to in
form you that your son William shows
signs Of astigmatism, which ought to
be attended to at once. Yours faith
fully Willie's father replied: Dear
Sir: I don't quite understand what
it is Willie has been up to now, but
. ! have Walloped him tonight; you
can do it again tomorrow morning.
Yours faithfully, +. II
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but you were all so good to make me
hope. Don't worry about me any
more, dear friends. I am all right
now. 1t is much better to know. l
hope they didn't hang him. You think
they shot him, don't you?"
Little girl, little GIRL" cried Lang
ford, on his knees beside her, 1T is not
that! It is only that we have not
found him. But no news is good news.
That we have found no trace proves
that they have to guard him well be-
cause he is alive. We are going on a
new track tomorrow. Believe me,
little girl, and go to bed now, won't
you, and rest?"
EYES," she said, YEARLY, as one in
whom no hope was left, II will go. l
will mind-the boss"
AS he laid her gently on the bed,
while Mrs. White, aroused from sleep,
futtered aimlessly and drowsily about,
he whispered, his breath carressing
her cheek:
"You will go to sleep right away.
won't you?"
Il will try. You are the boss"
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:
Louise to1uis slipped into the sad life al
the Whites easily, sWeetly, adaptably,
Mary rallied under her gentle minis.
.trations. There was--would ever be
"a haunting pathos in the dark ewes.
but she arose from her bed, grateful
for any kindness shown her. strong
in her determination. not be a. trouble
to any one by giving way to weak and
unavailing tears.
Mary, because of her Astounding
health, healed of her wound rapidlv.
Langford took advantage of the girls
absorption in each others comnanv
to ride often and at length on quests
of his own creation. With October.
Louise must join Judge Dale for the
autumn term of court. He haunted
the hills He was not looking now
for living man; he was seeking a
cleverly concealed grave. He flouted
the opinion--held by many-that the
body had been thrown init the Mis-
siuri and would wash ashore some
later day many and many a, mile be-
low. He held firmly to his fixed idea
that impenetrable mystery clouding
the ultimate close of Williston's earth
ly career was the sought aim of his
murderers, and they would risk no
rivers giving up it's dead to their un-
doing.
1t had been ascertained beyond rea-
sonable dooubt that Williston could
hot have left the country in any of the
unual modes. His description was at
(To be cont:nued)
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very selfish. forgot that you had not
slept for nearly two days and were
riding all the while incur behalf r
:; forgot I was tired, and I went to
sleep. I want you to forgive me. T
want you to believe that do apnre-
ciate what you have done. NV faith
er-"
"Don't, don't, little girl" cried
Langford, forgetting his new awe of
her maidenhood in his pity for the
stricken child.
my father" she went on steadily,
would thank you if he were here I
thank you, too, even if did forget to
think whether or no you and all the
men had any sleep or anything to eat
last night. Will you try to believe
that did not forget Willingly? 1 was
so tired"
When Langford answered her,
which was not Immediately, his face
was white and he spoke quietly with
touch of injured pride.
IF you want to hurt us, Miss Will
liston, that is the way to talk. We
cowmen do not do things for thanks"
She looked at him wondenngly a
moment, then said, simply, Forgive
me-" but her lips were trembling and
she turned to the wall to hide the
tears that would come. After all,
she was only woman-with nerves
and the reaction had come.
The sheriff and his party of depu-
ties made diligent search for Willis
ton that day and for many days to
come. 1t was of no avail. He had
disappeared, and all trace with him,
as completely as if he had been spir-
tied away in the right to another
world-body and soul. That the
soul of him had really gone to another
world came to be generally believed
MARY held no hope after the return
of the first expedition; but why could
they find no trace of his body? Where
was it? Where had it found rest
ing place? Was it possible for man,
quick or dead, even west of the river
in an early day of it's civilization when
the law had winking eye, to fall
away from his wonted haunts in a
night and leave no print, neither a
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-03-20
Uncle Josh,

Eyes, went t. taown to hev M
pitcher took. I didn't care nuthin'
about it m'self, but wife SEE: Land
sakes, Jonathan, what eff We should
die off suddint like an nothin' fer tn
boys t. remember We BY and I SEE:
We'll, I'll be god darned eff tn boys
has got to have m photygraft fer to
keep m mem'ry fresh an green, I
guess it won't make much difference
arter tn novelty of the pitcher wears
off,
"But, wife, she's jest like all tn;
wimmin folks when onct they git sot
on anything, so dressed up fit t. kill
Hadn't had on a billed shirt fer six
years, that bein' when run fer school
director. TIL paper collar Bill
CHATS my boy) loaned me didn't ride
sidesaddle very good, but we tied 'en
daown with red an yeller necktie!
my wife had fer scarf when she was
a young critter, an off we went t. tn;
photographers, my Sunday boots maxi
in me mis- able an that thar dummed
collar chokin' tn seeds outen my
Adams apple.
"Well, sir, we got there, and the
Photographer was t hum.
-Four dollars fer dozen and three
dollars fer half seq he, I begin to
back out, but Miriar she got tween
me an tn door and argued!
cart allus does come high she
SEE, shooin' me back inter the photy-
grafter's tentacles!
well, bum-by they got me ready
fer 'sett in and tn Photographer he
smoothed my weddin' suit about tn
shoulders and seq t. look right about
here on the door-jamb, an then he
put tn back o. my head in a vice
and SEE to keep cool and look nat'ral.
"Then he pressed one of them there
injia-tubber balls in his hand and
'Click!' went tn dumb thing, anil
jumped up, smilin' an triumphant! :
Never hurt bit,' SEE T, laughin',
and he SEE: i:
"Wait, I amt took it YETI and sot
me down agin an put me in tn iron
vice and got behind buggy robe, a
machine cover, er somethin' like that
pintin' straight at me!
MIR. Photographer I sez we don't
kalkilate it'll break tn glass, do YEP
An I haw-hawed right out.
HE didn't pay no 'tention to me,
but all to onct he grabbed hold of tn
handle of tn cannon-thing an started
right down tn room towards me.
could see tn muzzle pintin' right at
my heart, an with one blood-curdlin'
Whoop, | up an jumped!
"Ye. see I'd been shot at in tn bat
tie O Gettysberg, an I want takin'
no chances on having tn thing repeat
ed IN times o peace - but, somehow,
when 1 jumped that dummed vice
on tn back O my head hung on like a
puppy t. a root and in less than a
mint we was all down on the floor
photographer, pitcher-machine, seem
cry an mean them there clamps
a-hangir on fer dear life!
well, t. make a long story short, I
finally got loose and clumb through
tn side window into tn alley an cut
I fer hum!
An 1 reckon that them kin git shot
that wants to. Anyhow, fer me, I'd
ruther be a forgotten father than a
dead photygraft!'
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The Sheriff and His Deputies Made a
DIigent Search for WIliston.


bone nor rag nor a memory, to give
mute witness that this way he passed,
that way he rested bit, here he took
horse, there he slept, with this man he
had converse, that man saw his still
body borne hence? Could such a thing
be? 1t seemed so.
After gallant and dauntless search,
which lasted through the best days of
September, Langford was forced to
let cold reason have it's sway. He had
thought, honestly, that the ruffians
would not dare commit murder know.
ing that they were being pursued; but
now he was forced to the opinion that
they had dared the worst, after all.
For, though it would be hard to hide
all trace of dead man, infinitely
greater would be the difficulty in: GOV.
ering the trail of living one-one
who must eat and drink, who had a
mouth to be silenced and strength to
be restrained. It came gradually to
him, the belief that Williston was
dead; but it came surely. With it
came the jeer of the specter that
would not let him forget that he
should have foreseen what would
surely happen. With it. came also, a
great tenderness for Mary, and a re.
doubled vigilance to keep his unruly
tongue from hurting out things that
would hurt her who was looking to
him, in the serene confidence in his
good friendship, for tbrotherly counsel
and comfort
In the first dark days of his. new be.
lief, he spoke to Gordon, and the
young lawyer had written second
letter to the "gal reporter II re-
Spouse, she came at once to Kemah
and from thence to the White home.
stead in the boss's own private.
This time the boss did the driving
himself, bringing consterna ton Is the
heart Of one Jim .Munson, coW-punch.
er. who viewed the advent Of her and
her mouse-color hair with serious
trepidation and alarm. What he had
dreaded had come to pass. Twas hut
e step now to the Three Bars. a fus.
issy woman would be the. means 81
again losing man his Eden Ii was
3 nstrous. He sllked, aggrieyedly.
/ systematically.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-03-20
CHAPTER XII.

Waiting.
The man found dead the night the
Lazy was burned out was not east
ly identified. He was a half-kveed,
but half-breeds were many west OF the
river, and the places where they laid
their heads at night were as shifting
as the sands of that rapid, om1nous,
changing stream of theirs, which ever
cut them of from the world of their
fathers and kept them bound, but rest
less, chafing, in that same land where
their mothers had stared stolidly at a
strange little boatload Juggling up the
river that was the forerunner of the
ultimate destiny of this broad north.
west country, but which brought in
incidentally-as do all big destinies in
the great scheme bring sorrow to
some one-wrong, misunderstanding,
forgetfulness, to a once proud, free
people now in subsection.
At last the authorities found trace
Of him far away at Standing Rock.
through the agent there, who knew
him as of an ugly reputation-a dis
sipated, rowing profiigate, who had
long since squandered his government
patrimony. He had been mixed up in
sundry bad affairs in the past, and
had been an inveterate gambler. So
much only were the Kemah county
authorities able to uncover of the way
ward earthly career of the dead man.
OF his haunts and cronies of the
period Immediately preceding his
death, the agent could tell nothing.
He had not been seen at the agency
for nearly a year. The reprobate band
had covered it's tracks we'll. There
was nothing to do but lay the dead
body away and shovel oblivion over
it's secret
turn of the men from their unsuccess.
full man hunt, Gordon, gray and bag.
gard from loss of sleep and from hard
thought, stepped out into the kitchen
to stretch his cramped limbs. He
stumbled over the figure of Langford
prone upon the floor, dead asleep in
utter exhaustion. He smiled under.
standingly and opened the outerdoor
quietly, hoping he had not aroused the
wornout boss. The air was fresh and
cool, with hint of autumn sharpness,
and premature Indian summer haze,
that softened the gauntness of the
landscape, and made the distances
blue and rest-giving. He felt the need
of inauguration after his nights virgil,
and struck off down the road with
long strides, in pleasant anticipation
of coming appetite for breakfast.
Thus it was that Langford, strug-
cling to sitting posture, rubbing his
heavy eyes with a dim consciousness
that he had been disturbed, and won
dering drowsily why he was so stupid,
felt something seeping through his
senses that told him he did not do
we'll to sleep. So he decided he would
take a plunge into the cold artesian
pond, and with such drastic measures
Danish once and for all the elusive vet
'all-pervading cobwebs which chung to
him. Rising to his feet with unusual
awkwardness, he looked with scorn
upon the bare floor and accused 1t
blindly and bitterly as the direct
cause of the strange soreness that be.
set his whole anatomy. The lay of the
floor had changed in a night. Where
was he? He glanced helplessly
about. Then he knew.
Thus it was, that when Mary Ian.
cr11i6lv ononod hor ovoc - s1,++1o 80
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-03-20
Caught ia the Crush.

Bud Garrett is nursing the great toe
OF his right foot, it having received 3
crush h. from q horses hooff. Hinckley
s(Okla.) Eagle.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-14
sEx rights TEX dividend. unlisted
CLOSING prices Of active ponds dealt in. with
STOCK MARKET OPERATIONS.

Strength and weakness alternated in the prog
ress of the stock market yesterday. but the close
was relatively strong, last prices however, oelns
in most instances under the best of the session
The news developments were of favorable
character except for the afternoon announce
ment of the failure of Stock Exchange house,
which had no apparent influence on prices, the
most striking being the replacing of the deficit
in reserve of the local Clearing House banks
with a surplus. That excellent showing, though.
which was maze public at the end of the day on
Saturday, probably G6 a large extent dis
counted by the rapid advance in stock earlier
in the week just ended. The Bank of Germany,
following the lead of the Bank of England and
the Bank Of France, yesterday reduced its mini
mum discount rate from : Il TO 6a per cent, and
that action is expected both here and abroad to
be followed in turn by another lowering on
Thursday of the official rate of the Bank OF
England. These reductions signify the end of
the money stringency in Europe, and the action
of the Berlin Institution may be regarded as re
lieving the long felt apprehension of the occur
renee of a financial crisis in Germany.
Time money reported offering in some
quarters at a trife under the per cent rate
which is now ruling for loans up to six months,
and was in large supply. Call money was easy
to obtain all day, at rates between and per
cent with Y per cent the figure at which most
of the business of the session was arranged.
From Chicago came word that the banks of that
centre had suspended the Use of the clearing
well received here. indicating that the i'm
provement in conditions in the West has been
as satisfactory in the East. on the Stock
Exchange. where a few weeks ago it was Stipu-
lated by the owners Of money available for loan
ing call that their funds should be diStrib-
uted in small amounts among borrowers, funds
now being loaned on call in large lots, an
other proof that call money is once more in
fairly abundant supply.
The bond department of the Stock Exchange
was decidedly active, the heaviest trading being
in the United States Steel sinking fund bonds,
the Union Pacific convertible As and the Inter
borough Metropolitan 12s The Improvements
in the bond market, which is among the most
encouraging symptoms of the situation, was
stTiknglN shown in the disposal in a single day
by J. p Morgan & Co. of fOur-fifths of the
s30.000000 equipment trust certificates of the
New York Central Lines, a large part of the Sc
curities being sold to European investors. The
Rock Island refunding As recently sold to Speyer
& Co. it learned, are also being rapidly re-
sold 10 investors.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-14
MONEY AND EXCHANGE.

MONEY MARkET.-Money call opened at
AZ per cent. highest, per cent; lowest per cent:
closing per cent last loan, AZ per cent: ruling
rate, Il. per cent Time money opened the week
with offerings in increased iberay, meeting with
q moderately good demand. Rates. GIa per cent
sixty days and per for four, five and six
months. Mercantile paper also in improved
demand and absorption of higher grades quite
good. Rates to : per cent for sixty and ninety
days Endorsements well for choice four to
six months single names
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.-The foreign exchange
market opened steady. with rates virtually un-
changed 4SGfI4 for ca bles. 4S5l5a4 5000 for
demand sterling and ASIA 61l2 for sixty-day bills.
Short 5.lSs4 4d5ISS. plus 1-32 and short
reichsmarks ~ 1l-l6094 ll-I6 plus 1-32. The mar
ket held steady throughout the day at about the
opening quotations. Business duh. In tie
afternoon cables quoted 4.S6. demand ster-
ling ASH. siXty-day bills AT 4S1l. short francs
al 5iSs. and short reichsmaT6s n ~ 1I-16.
Bankers posted rates were as follows
New-York tribune., 1908-01-14
AMERICAN SECURITIES ABROAD.

London. Jan. l3. 4 p m-The market for Aineri
can securities was irregular Final prices follow
New-York tribune., 1908-01-14
NEW YORK CITY BONDS.

FURNISHED by Eyer & Co. No 81 wan street,