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The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

THE object of the progress
sive republican movement is
to preserve and perpetuate the
republican party in North Da-
kota' says the call to arms re-
Gently issued by the insurgent
committee at Fargo. We pre-
sumo this can best be ac-
complished by filling the state
house with democrats-as the
insurgents have commenced to
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07
CROP ROTATION

The Fargo Forum has the
following to say upon the sub
jeCt of crop rotation which will
be of interest to every North
Dakota land owner:
Agricultural experts make
the startling statement that for
every bushel of wheat grown
i'm North Dakota sc cents worth
of soil fertility is used up.
IF this is true, North Da-
kotans are merely drawing on
their capital. They are fritter-
ing away the most fertile soil
known to the residents of the
United States. In the seasons
of the best grain prices they
are merely getting back their
original capital-but nothing
for their hard work. In years
of cheap grain, they are losing
not only their labor, but their
soil fertility.
This should not be. That
present conditions cannot con-
tinue indefinitely is generally
admitted. 1t is imperative that
there should be change in
the present farming methods.
THE continued rObbing of
the soil will leave scant in
heritance for the next genera
ton. The effects of present
methods are shown in decreas-
ed yields.
'One of the favorite remedies
suggested is crop rotation.
This, along scientific lines,
Will restore to the soil the
greater part of it's fertility, and
especially when the land is
treated with ordinary farm
fertilizers. A clover crop every
five years, Il certain amount of
grain crop, some cultivated
crops combined with the ferti-
lizer, will not only enable the
farmers to prevent further loss
OF fertility, but to increase it
and the yield.
President Worst and his as
sociates at the North Dakota
Agricultural college and ex-
pertinent station, have been
making Investigations along
these lines for years: They
have worked OH different plats
at the home station in Fargo
and at the sub-stations att
Edgeley and Dickinson and at
a dozen demonstration farms
over the state. Further in
yestigations will be made at
the new station to be estab-
lished at Williston and on new
demonstration farms.
Crop rotation appears to be
about the best way to maintain
yields-and President Worst
leans to that plan. This will
enable the farmers to improve
their lands without the direct
purch hase of manufactured
fertilizers. For those, how
ever, who W':"l, to buy fertiliz-
ers direct SO they can crop con-
tinuously to grain-~the expert
ment station has conducted
soil analyses from many parts
of the state and is able to give
the results to iuu11irprS -
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

The murder of King Carlos
is but another instance of
royalty made to pay the pen
atty for the nisdeeds of the
power behind the throne.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

At the annual meeting of the
North Dakota Live Stock
association, held in Fargo last
week, resolutions were adopted
indorsing the South St. Paul
live stock show and promising
support from the North Dakota
association in the shape Of pre-
miums for the best stock from
North Dakota shown at South
St. Paul.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

A lawyer created something g
of a sensation in the Fargo
police court by thrusting a
heated pipe into his overcoat
pocket. The overcoat was
ruined-and the court room
was saturated with a burnt
cloth OdOr.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

Six business houses at Ryder
were destroyed by fire Thurs.
day morning, the total loss
being about $4,000. The
entire town was threatened
with destruction.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

The Sherbrooke Tribune has
announced a union scale of
$5 per inch for publishing can
didates announcements. At
that rate the most of us would
have to run for a pretty short
office.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

It's estimated that it all the
cards of thanks published
by the official county papers
in the state-this spring-were
pasted together they would
reach from Crosby to Wahpe-
ton.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

Travelling men claim that
the strict enforcement of the
pure food laws is the means
of North Dakota people having
only the highest standard of
food products on the market.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

The jamestown brass band
gave concert in the park the
other day and there were
thousands of people dressed in
linen busters and straw hats
in attendance.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

A recent dog case at Dawson
cost Kidder county $132. 45.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

A woman at Hanpden, n.
d., has raised a lemon tree
successfully and the other day
she ricked a lemon weighin g
Ii ounces:
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

Many farmers around Rugby
were victimized by a smooth
stock food salesman who
worked in Pierce county last
fall. The orders they signed
turned out to be promissary
notes which the stock food
companies are now attempting g
to collect in the courts. They
won the first case.
Manning, the new county
seat of Dunn county, on section
6-143-95, is located on the Knife
river on the latest survey of
the Northern Pacific throu gh
the country north. The site
is the Knife river crossing of
the trail from the Manning and
other ranches north to Dickson
established by Messrs Manning
and Christensen in 1885, and it
is named for the pioneer of
Dunn county, and the first,
last and only mayor of Dickin-
son, Dan Manning.
The Grafton News and Times
tells of farmer who estimates
that he cleared at least 81, 500
by the use of printers ink.
He had an auction sale and
was not satisfied to get along
with 100 or 200 hand bills.
He advertised the sale in two
issues of the News and Times
and distributed 800 extra copies
of the paper. He also gave
big free dinner. There were
5000 people at the sale and he
took in 81, 500. His advertising g
cost $38.
E. G. Enger, who lives three
miles north of Churchs Ferry,
has an orange tree that has
been bearing fruit for the past
eight years. The tree is ten
years old and this season has
over 100 oranges in various
stages, some ripe and lucious,
others just ripening and many
just turning. Mr.. Enger did
not think anything of this fact
until he read in some of the
state papers of a farmer near
Hampden, who had fruit
bearing tree which was though
to be a wonder.
Fargo Call: Frank D. Hall,
of the Children's Home society,
reports that about Christmas
time one of the Children's
Home collection boxes was
stolen from cigar store in
Rugby, and that the miscreant
who stole it was apprehended
and is serving a 80 days
sentence in jail, with a 500
fine which he will be obliged
to serve out. This is one of
the meanest crimes known and
it will certainly have a salu-
tary effect as it becomes known
that such sneak thieves will
have to do time in Jail forl
stealing.
Rolla Star: Freddie, the
second son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Rosscup, met with a
painful accident on Wednesday
evening of last week. He had
cut the third finger of his right
hand with his jack-knife while
a whistle and bound
up the wound with a piece
of white cloth saturated with
turpentine. Upon going up
stairs to go to bed, Freddie
struck a match which set on
fire the turpentine and before
the flames could be extin-
guished the fingers of his
right hand were badly burned.
A man called at the county
judges office at Washburn the
other day and asked for a
marriage license. The man
looked rather familiar to the
judge, who finally asked him
if he had not issued a license
to him a short time ago. The
man said he had not, so one
was made out and he was sent
on rejoicing. The judge was
still doubtful, so looked up the
back records and found one
had been issued just month
ago to the same man, but
another young lady's name
had been inserted. And that
just a month ago.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

Robert Bratton, a son OF
the editor of the Rugby Opt.
mist, is i'll with diphtheria,
following an attack of scarlet
fever.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

ADVERTISING RATES-The charge for dis
play advertising space in the Courant is
based on l5 cents per inch, single column
measurement, each issue: annual rate l2%
cents; special position rs cents. Legal ad-
vertising legal rates. locals" 10 cents per
line; reading matter 10 and cents per line,
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

There is strong sentiment
in favor of building a new
Masonic temple at Carrin gton.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

Mohall's new fire fighting
has arrived.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

The school board at Max has
ordered that all school children
there should be vaCcinated if
they wish to continue school.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

Williston is to have new
city directory and the houses
are to be numbered.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

The Times says plans are
under way for the establish
ment of a wholesale grocery
house at Oakes.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07
Auction Sale.

We will sell at public auction
to the highest bidder, our com
p]ete restaurant outfit, at
Willow City, N. d., on Satur-
day, February l, 1908. Sale
to begin at two o'clock p. m.
Write or call for list of articles.
3-2 Rose & Rose.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

Four Great Northern railroad
men at Minot were seriously
hurt in the round house by the
bursting of a water pipe.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

The Minot public library is
located in the new Optic build
ing.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

The Burns club at Towner
celebrated the great poets
birthday.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

Hettinger is to have a cement
block factory.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

Mabel Clark, a fourteen-year
old Towner girl of giddy in
clinations, has been sent tc
the state reform school.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

Try an ad in the Courant and
get results.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

The entire family of Getty
T. Stromstad, of Sherwood,
were overcome by coal gas
during Friday night. The
father died yesterday and the
mother and one son, Tom,
about 35 years of age, are in
a precarious condition, but
hopes are entertained for their
recovery. Just before retiring
for the night, the elder Strom-
stad filled the stove with coal,
turning off the damper and
leaving the door slightly ajar.
This gave gas fumes a chance
to escape, and the entire family
were asphyxiated. Stronstad
owned a farm about a mile
east of Sherwood.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

Murdock Mcleod, farmer
forty years of age, perished in
a fire which destroyed his
home near Calvin.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

There are fourteen banks in
LaNoure county and it is
possible the fifteenth will be
located at Dickey soon.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

SUBSCRIPTION PRICE copy three
months In advance, 50 cents; one copy, six
months in advance. rs cents: one copy, one
year In advance. $3.50.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

Editor Disney of the Williston
World has been mentioned as
a candidate for representative
from Williams county.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07

John Smith of Rolla has
been appointed government
blacksmith at Fort VIM.
Harrison, Montana.
The Bottineau courant., 1908-02-07
FHckertQn Facts dHd FQncies

Hettinger is to have a cement
block factory.
Mohall's new fire fighting
has arrived.
A recent dog case at Dawson
cost Kidder county $132. 45.
The Minot public library is
located in the new Optic build
ing.
The Burns club at Towner
celebrated the great poets
birthday.
Williston is to have new
city directory and the houses
are to be numbered.
There is a strong sentiment
in favor of building a new
Masonic temple at Carrin gton.
The Times says plans are
under way for the establish
ment of a wholesale grocery
house at OakeS,
Murdock Mcleod, farmer
forty years of age, perished in
a fire which destroyed his
home near Calvin.
John Smith of Rolla has
been appointed government
blacksmith at Fort VIM.
Harrison, Montana.
Editor Disney of the Williston
World has been mentioned as
a candidate for representative
from Williams county.
There are fourteen banks in
LaNoure county and it is
possible the fifteenth will be
located at Dickey soon.
Mabel Clark, a fourteen year.
old Towner girl of giddy in
clinations, has been sent to
the state reform school.
-Four Great Northern railroad
men at Minot we're seriously
hurt in the round house by the
bursting of a water pipe.
The school board at Max has
that all school children
there should be vaccinated if
they wish to continue school.
Robert Bratton, son of
the editor of the Rugby Opti-
mist, is i'll with diphtheria,
following an attack of scarlet
fever.
A woman at Hampden, N.
D., has raised a lemon tree
successfully and the other day
she picked a lemon weighing
IL Qui1N4S.
The Jamestown brass band
gave concert in the park the
other day and there were
of people dressed in
linen busters and straw hats
in attendance.
Six business houses at Ryder
were destroyed by fire Thurs
day morning, the total loss
being about $4,000. The
entire town was threatened
with destruction.
Travelling men claim that
the strict enforcement of the
pure food laws is the means
of North Dakota people having
only the highest standard of
food products on the market.
It's estimated that if all the
cards of thanks published
by the official county papers
in the state-this spring-were
The daily sentinel., 1908-10-07
REMARKABLE NERVE
DISPLAYED BY YOUTH
Especial to The sentinei. l


New York, Oct. Handicapped
physically by the fact that for days
he had been slowed away in freight
car, and had suffered acute hunger.
on trip from Baltimore. his home.
Benjamin f. Hill, in the Presbyter-
ian hospital Sunday gave an exhibit
tion of stamina which astounded the
surgeons.
Broke as he termed it. the
young fellow gave for Just $40, ap-
proXimately is ounces of his blood
to be infused into the veins of a dy-
ing patient.
Hill was told, optimisticaily, that
perhaps in four days after his vital
fluid had been extracted he would
be able to walk and return to his
present lodgings in the Mills hotel.
For more than one hour young
Hill lay still on his back on the
operating table. Then, with an ex-
clamation of disgust at his enforced
inactivity, he arose unassisted, and
practically giving medical authori-
ties slap in the face and ignoring
the protests of the doctors, walked
out.
AS Hill took his first steps in the
little operating room after the tube
| connecting his artery with an artery
in the right arm of the patient had
been disconnected, the patient turned
and made some incoherent remark.
| Hill looked at the form on the second
| table and saw a hand thrust toward
him. He grasped it and pressed IL
warmly, though silently
Then Hill walked to a Madison av-
enue car at Seventy-first street, and
rode down town, where he met
friend. Hills home is in Baltimore.
The patients name was not given.
Despite the heroic treatment ad-.
ministered and the obvious tremen-
dous vitality of Hill's blood the pa
tient died
When surgeons in several other
hospitals learned of Hills getting up
and walking Off, they declared it was
one of the most remarkable incl
dents they had ever heard of.
The daily sentinel., 1908-10-07
AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS
HE COMES BACK RICH
Especial to The Sentinel. ]

Philadelphia, Pa, Oct. John
McAdams of 5000 Ludlow street, af-
ter 8 years of mourning for his bro
ther Edward. whom he believed to
be dead, yesterday received visit
from Edward. who is possessed of an
abundant share of this worlds goods.
His meeting with his brother was
followed by the bestowal of costly
gifts on his brothers family.
Two children. John McAdams, Jr.,
and Anna, 6 and 4 years old, are
richer by $1,000 each through the
arrival of their uncle.
The money is to go for the educa-
tion of the little ones and will make
complete change in their lives,
which heretofore have been pinched
by poverty.
Twenty years ago the brothers
We're students together at Dublin.
John came to this country with a
third brother, while Edward became
a civil engineer. and. casting about
for a place to start in life, selected
Alaska.
Five years later word came to John
that Edward had died in Alaska. But
yesterday he came to Philadelphia,
bringing a fortune of several hun
dred thousand dollars that he had
wrested from the rocks.
The daily sentinel., 1908-10-07
HIS FATHER is DEAD.

William G. Wilson received mes
sage this week from the old home in
Walker, Ia, announcing the death of
his aged father. John Wilson. one of
the pioneer citizens and one of the
most widely known residents in the
section of Iowa in which he has lived
for many years.
The deceased was sc years of age
All his long life he has been hale
and hearty. rarely ever knowing a
day of illness. He was an energetic
enterprising man and one who held
the highest regard of all who knew
him.
John Wilson was one of the pio-
neers of Iowa. He went to that state
to make his home long before the
railroad entered the Hawkeye state.
The deceased is survived by sever
al children and many grandchildren.
His wife died a number of years ago.
The funeral took place yesterday
afternoon at the old home.
The daily sentinel., 1908-10-07
IOWA DOCTOR ASSAULTED.

Choked nearly to insensibility and
sack thrown over his head, DR.. ].
Benadom of Davenport, Ia, now stop
ping at the Grand Central hotel was
robbed of $500 last night while pass
ing the alley between the Oxford
hotel and saloon on the Seventeenth
street side in the sight of hundreds of
pedestrians. The method is exactly
the same as that employed in the
very same spot three weeks ago when
a Denver visitor was dragged into the
alley. the sack thrown over his head
and $3.50 taken away from him. The
police are making every effort to ap-
prehend what is evidently an organ
lied gang of clever crooks who are
working near the depot.-Denver Re-
publican
The daily sentinel., 1908-10-07
IN DESPERATE STRAITS.

Mr.. Loeb's statement that, while
MIR. Roosevelt has not yet resolved to
take the stump for his protege, zone
cannot tell what circumstances may
justify" shows the plight to which
the Republicans have been brought
by empty campaign chests and II gem
tlemanly presidential candidate. The
White House oracle says in substance,
that, as voters must be amused, and
as Mr.. Taft cannot divert them, and
funds are wanting for barbecues and
brass bands, the Great Original vi
| tuperator may have to take the field
But is even that hair-trigger speaker
sure that his oratory will help his
friend? Has he heard former wor-
shippers growing about his eternal
intrusiOns? Taft, he may but iIIum-
mate Bryan the more? If, after
weighing these considerations. the
President still resolves to tour the
country, his act will testify to the
desperate straits in which his party
finds itself. And such testimony can
scarcely fail to reflect seriously upon
MIR. Taft.
The daily sentinel., 1908-10-07
WIFE'S CLOTHES
BELONG TO HUSBAND
Especial to The sentinel.l

tSiNNAoi u me H..
London, Oct. 1T has been ONLY
rev weeks since an English Judge
decided that wife mad to live wher-
ever her husband said, and now the
Brompton county court has gone
much more than a step further and
decided that a wifes dresses are the
property of her husband, particular
ly II ne has given them to her.
The action causing this decision
arose from seizure of dresses and
other articles of apparel supplied by
costumers to woman living in Chel-
sea. Her husband asserted that the
seizure was illegal, as he had given
his wife the money to buy the dress
es and they accordingly were his.
The judge, in summing up. said
that. according to law. if a man pre-
sented his wife with articles of Jew
elry and clothing for her use only
during his lifetime. such did not be-
come the wife's absolute property.
AS was to be expected. this decis-
ion has aroused the ire of the suf-
fragettes, and Miss Pankhurst CON
demns 1t in unmeasuered terms, and
the secretary of the suffragette So
c1eties calls it positively wicked.
However, nobody seems to think il
Will lead any woman to prefer to re-
main a spinster If she has a chance
otherwise.
The daily sentinel., 1908-10-07
BEFORE MOTHERS EYES
A BEAR KILLS BABY
Especial to The Sentinel. I

Tucson. Ariz.. Oct "A terrible
tragedy was enacted at Elysian
Grove, pleasure park near mere,
Sunday afternoon when an immense
black bear escaped from cage and
charged upon throng of visitors.
The animal. which had been raised
in captivity from a cub. had been in
the habit of being given soda pop at
the bar, and when it escaped il went
there.
1t was driven out by the attend
ants, but returned, and. when it was
again driven away and an attempt
made to drive it into its cage. it be-
came enraged and charged the crowd.
The wife of Southern Pacific en-
ploye named Buss Laird ran with a
eo-cart containing 1-year-old in
FAINT. The bear pursued and snatched
the infant and crushed it to death be-
fore its mothers eyes. 1t was at
tacking the woman when a shot from
policeman's revolver dropped it.
The bystanders opened fusilade
and filled the brute with score of
bullets
The beast had been closely con-
fined since the week before. when it
had attacked small boy.
The daily sentinel., 1908-10-07

perience in teaching. or, efficient and
practical training in pedagogy.
D. We earnestly recommend to
boards of education, principals and
teachers the continuous training of
pupils in morals and in business and
professional ethics, to the end that
the coming generation of men of af-
fairs may have well developed alb
horrence of unfair dealing and dis
elimination.
6. The bureau of education at
Washington should be preserved in
its integrity and the dignity of it's
position maintained and increased.
Z. The National Education Assoc
iation notes with approval that the
qualifications demanded of teachers
in the public schools are increasing
annually, and particularly that in
many localities special preparation is
demanded of teachers. The idea that
any one with a fair education can
teach school is gradually giving way
to the correct notion that teachers
must make special preparation for
the vocation of teaching.
s. 1t is the duty of the state to
provide for the education of every
child within its borders and to see
that all children obtain the rudiments
of an education.
.. The National Education Assoc
iation endorses the increasing use of
school buildings for free vacation
schools and for free evening schools
and lecture courses for adults and for
children who have been Obliged to
leave the day school prematurely. We
also approve of the use of school
grounds for play grounds and the
use of school gymnasiums and bath
rooms for the benefit of the children
in the crowded districts during sum-
mer.
IA. The National Education Assoc
iation wishes to record its approval
of the increasing appreciation among
educators of the fact that the build
ing of character is the real aim of
the schools and the ultimate reason
for the expenditure of millions for
their maintenance.
IS. 1t is apparent that familiarity
with the English Bible as the master
piece of literature is rapidly decreas-
ing among the pupils in our schools
| This is the direct result of concep-
tion which regards the Bible as a
theological book merely, and thereby
leads to its exclusion from the schools
of some states as a subject of reading
and study. We hope for such a
change of public sentiment in this
regard as will prompt and encourage
the reading and study of the English
Bible as a literary work of the high
est and purest type, side by side with
the poetry and prose which 1t has
inspired and in a large part formed
IS. The highest ethical standards
of conduct and of speech should be
insisted on among teachers.
10. In teaching, as in every Other
kind of work, the best service i:
secured by finding the individual bes
fitted to the particular place. as in
dicated by training, experience anc
meritorious service; the Nationa
| Education Association therefore
heartily approves merit system o
promoting teachers and filling vacan
/ cies.
The foregoing principles and aim
have been fully considered b" Tho
committee ana unanimously recon-
mended to the rotivc members of tht
National Education Association foi
adoption.