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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-09
HOUSE OF MEMORIES We
indiana Man to Perpetuate Ten
der Associations of His Life.
Ho0sIER WOOD FOR A HooslER

Or. z. lies KerIin Of Chicago to Finish
Rooms In Costly House In Black
Walnut From His sGrandfather's
Farm-stiII Another Recollection.
Two big piles of rough Indiana lum-
Der are now attracting the attention Of
thousands of people who hourly pass
along in the famous Sheridan road Of
Chicago. The material Is stacked up
on big lot in one Of the finest and
most exclusive residence sections Of
Chicago. 49, ,..r.~..-.. ,.s..
An Indiana man is building house,
and in the use of the lumber he has
planned to perpetuate a number of the
most tender associations Of his life, ali
of which he brought from the great
Hoosier domain.
The builder is DR.. e. lies Kerlin
The lumber is fine grade and grain
| Of black walnut, and it came from a
farm four miles out Of Richmond, says
the indianapolis News. 1t was cut on
the farm Of DR.. Kerlin's paternal
grandfather and namesake, e. lies
Kerlin, who settled on the Indiana
farm more than seventy years ago.
On this farm Or. Kerlin's father.
James F. Kerlin, nursed the trees
when they were mere saplings, and he
kept them trimmed until they became
monarchs of the farmyard. 1t was
from these trees that the lumber now
piled up on the Sheridan roadside was
sawed in an Indiana sawmill during
the present year and is to form one of
the most substantial residences on the
| north side. ri
| After the death of Grandfather Ker-
lin the farm went to his daughter, now
Mrs. John T. Alexander of Hunting
ton, whom everybody in the com
munity Knew and knows as Aunt Mat.
| tie. When she was told that her neph.
ew, DR.. Kerlin, was about to build a
! house she suggested that he finish al
least one room from the lumber Of the
| great walnut trees that still were
standing on his grandfather's farm and
which had been carefully nursed and
kept trimmed by his own father. DR.
Kerlin acted on the suggestion at once
The trees were cut and hauled to {
| sawmill, and the product is now seen
on the Sheridan park building lot in
Chicago The material will remain fr
the sun during the summer in process
of drying. Then it will be kiln dried
and ultimately dressed for the use In
store for it. On the first floor Of the
new home will be a large living room
It will have beamed ceiling, wains
coting, bookshelves built in the walls
and large mantel, all Of which will be
built from the Indiana black walnut
material. Two bedrooms also will be
finished from this material that cam,
from the grandfather's farm.
Still another fond Indiana recollec
ton will be perpetuated for all time
In this house Under the big walnu
nantel will be large ventilating crate
It will be furnished by William NJ
Jackson, who was the principal O.
Friends academy at Richmond whe1
DR.. Kerlin graduated there in 1875
To make it still more of an Indian;
production the superstructure is O.
Bedford stone. The architecture O
the house follows the old colonial, will
| a great wide hall in the center
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-09
Novel plea In Murder Case.

The trial at San Francisco of In
Whan Chang for the murder of Dur
ham White Stevens, adviser to the Ko-
rean government was recently post
poned TO Aug. II. Il is understood that
Chang's attorneys will make plea Of
patriotic insanity for their client.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-09
PLEASING SHOW.

A fair sized audience appreciated
"a Good Fellow at the Opera house
last night. The play abounds in in
teresting and amusing situations and
was well put on ~
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-09
Yield of an Indiana Honey rrea

TIE first ''bee tree' found In this
part OF the state for many years was
discovered yesterday near Merom by
James Edmondson, a Terre liaute
man, who, with fishing outfit, is
floating down the Wabash river.
After cutting down the tree, and
smoking the bees oYt Mr.. Edmond
son got thirty pounds of fine Wild
honey.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-09
THE KAISER HELPS.

Berlin. Aug. s.Emepror William
has given $4,000 to the fund to enable
Count Zeppelin to construct another
airship. &
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-09
BOOSTED l ! /
R|epub. Equalization Board In.
CfedSeS Railroad Assess
ments ${3,946,748
Interests 4 II Of the People Of
North No b Il]Fl| Carefully
Protected
Main Lines Raised $1,000
a Mile and Secondary
Lines $1,000 !.

The equalization board met on
Saturday morning in the auditors
Office and considered the assessment
of the railroads after carefully going
over the material before them they
came . to an agreement and at the
afternoon session Attorney General
McCue introduced a resolution fixing
the assessment which on roll call
passed, every member voting in it's
favor. The following is the assess
ment:
Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Main line at $4,000 per
mile ........ So. .....$ 3,75,350
Red River branch at $4,000 T.. T..
per mile ..,... ........ sec, 1ss
Branch lines at $500 per Fl
+ mile ........... ........ .4,4so, 400
Side tracks at $1,000 per ....
mile -. .......... ;. 1872, 7oe
Second track main line at =a
$1,000 per mile ........ 136,O70
Total assessment $ 9,66O, 719
Great Northern Railway Co.
Main line at $4,000 per
nile ........ .r... .....S 4,2iS,oUU
Secondary main line at 3d., E...s.
900 per mile .......... 1864, 300
Branch lines at $4,000 per -. &
mile ...... .......... 5,547, 23O
Side tracks at $500 per ~
mile ...... ...... ..... 454,59O
Second track, main line,
+. at $500 per mile ...... 11O,S5e
Total assessment SIP, Use, 270
500 Lines 81
Main Line at $4,000 per +
mile ...... 80. y so,492, oOO
Branch lines at $500 per Z.
mile ........ ~. 4,S59,92O
Side tracks at $500 per a.
mile ~. 49,; 1880
Total assessment ......$ S,469, 100
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul.
Fargo branch at 81 800 per- j Fs., :. -. !,
mile ...... G5.s..s..$ 520,5 SOC
Harlem, Edgley and Eur :.
eka branches at $500 per
mile $3.50. -, s...... 53S, 265
Side, tracks at $1,000 per ssA
mile t......t,. ..... l6,26U
'4. u d q. -
Total assessment So. S 75,025
Chicago, Milwaukee, and st. Paul OF
South Dakota.
New lines at, $500 per - IA.
mile .......$ 76S, 100
Side tracks at s1,5oO per ~
mile -. ... 20, $50
| Total assessment 81. .....$ 7S9, 300
r. Chicago and Northwestern.
Fourteen and 2s-100 miles n
at $4,000 per mile ......$ $3.50
Side tracks at $1,000 per-
mile a..... 49,. 2,265
Total assessment .......$ s7,94s
- .
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-09

- ~. , y, Ii
Total increase -. ......$ 1885, 4S
This is an: actual increase on the
roads inclusive of increase in mile
age. It was an Increase of nearly
10 per cent on the main lines. @
The board then considered express
company assessments, after studying
the reports of the companies as to
their gross and net earnings in the
state they. fixed the assessment as
follows: Northern Express com
pany $50 per mile; Western Express
company, $40 per mile; United States
Express company, $50 per mile;
American Express company, $40 per
mile ~
The telegraph companies we're next
considered and they were assessed
on their mileage at the same rate as
last year, but the Western Union
was assessed $4,000 on relay Office
in Fargo, according to the sugges-
ton of Auditor Lewis of Cass coun-
ty, when he appeared before the
board a few days ago
The assessment of country tele-
phone companies and all small COM
panies outside of the big telephone
| corporations were next considered.
Their assessment was fixed at $40 a
mile on companies having one wire,
two and one-half dollars mile to be
added if they have an extra iron
wire, and $40 mile additional for
each extra copper wire, and So for
each phone in the exchanges. At
this point the board adjourned until
Monday morning. T.. ..
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-09

Whatever you think you are going
to be, you will be, unless you get, on
the wrong car. I've learned one thing
when you want work, take the first
thing that is offered That's the way
I got into this place. It's easy enough
to get a job when you don't want it.,
but when you have got to have work,
and go after it with a gun, it is about
as sly as an old coyote that every
farmer in the county has had shot
at We are all cheerful losers on
this job, but I'd hate to have the boss
tell me to go out and lose myself. i
know one thing that you can't lose
OUT and that's the values in our
granite ware. We have all the good
kinds, such as Vandykes, German
White and White CHATS: white out
side and white inside), Chrysolite
and Stransky,. and they are all the
best in their class. We don't keep
an. green goods" in our granite ware
department, excepting the Chrysolite
ware, and we don't ask fancy prices
for that stuff. either. Well, when are
you coming in?
Willie, With The A.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-09
AMENDMENT is VOID

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
y PROVIDING FOR CITY AND
Z COUNTY BOND PURCHASE BY
STATE SCHOOL FUND is VOID,
SAYS ATTORNEY GENERAL, BUT
DECLARES INVESTMENTS OF
THIS KIND ALREADY MADE ARE
NOT Affected.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-09

# he who hesitates is lost, IN
As some old sage has writ,
Il surely is a. fearful cost
To pay for lack of grit.
Don't hesitate if you would win );
TO save yourself is best.
Just put your Advertisements in
Crates Furnished on Request)
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-09

Other Lines.
Brandon, Devils Lake and
Southern $50. . ~. IS, 666
Farmers Grain and shipp-
ing company ....... .... 1920
Devils Lake and Chatauqua 81,
Company $50. ...... 2.s7e
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-09

Total assessment Of all
railroads in the state 1913, 06S, 1881
There was an increase made on
the main lines Of the Northern Pa
cific, the Great Northern and the
500 as follows: 5@. Il
Great Northern -. ...$ 2,OO6, 1T
Northern Pacific ). ...... 1872 ,126
500 Line 800 .2O5
New Chicago, Milwaukee & Hss.s 4
st. Paul ~. 1856, 2o5
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-09

USE TRIBUNE WANT COLUMNS.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-01
Selections
: GREATEST OF PORTS.
New York Has Four Hundred and
Four Miles Of Dock.

New York Has Four Hundred and
Four Miles Of Dock.
More than twice as many vessels
clear the port of London, to be sure,
one every fourteen minutes as against
one every half hour for New York, but
the average cargo value is only SAL.
242, whereas that OF New York is $92,-
307. In point Of tonnage New York ex-
ceeds London by 100000. This is due
to difference In the character of the
ports that must be borne in mind in
comparing them. London is Eng
lands one commercial center and aside
from Liverpool its only great place Of
export and import.
On the other hand, New York is not
the commercial center of America.
When the manufacturer of shoes In
Boston sends his goods to Baltimore
he either sends them by rail or by YES
sci direct without entering New York.
II he wants to send his goods to
France or Germany he sends them
from the port Of Boston. That is, the
chief ports of the Atlantic seacoast,
New Orleans, Charleston, Mobile, Nor
folk, Philadelphia and Boston, engage
In coastwise and foreign trade in en-.
tire independence Of New York. Less
than 2S per cent of New York's ton
mage is represented In coastwise trade.
Fully so per cent Of London's COM
merce, amounting to S1,370 100000 an
nually, or $685., 100000, represents for
eign trade, whereas of New York's ST.
200000.000 annual commerce $S64, ,000,-
900 represents foreign trade, or an ac.
tual excess over London of $179000,-
900.
To accommodate this enormous trade
New York has 404 miles Of improved
water frontage-that is, 404 miles OF
docks. This is half the distance be-
tween New York and Chicago. Lon
don has less than 200 miles of similar
water frontage, Liverpool has less
than 100 miles, while Hamburg, Ant
werp. Rotterdam or Havre has each
less than Liverpool. Practically all
the available water frontage Of these
foreign ports has been absorbed by
their docks, while New York has i'm
proved only little over one-half Of
its available shore. When all the
available coast is improved, as 1t must
be rapidly, 1t will measure nearly as
many miles as lie between the Allan
tic seaboard and the Mississippi river.
Broadway Magazine.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-01

BY the birth of the little son and
heir to Prince and Princess Alexander
Of Teck the number of unmarried Eng
lish princes is now increased to eleven,
and II to these are added the two SONS
Of Prince and Princess Louis of Bat
tenberg there may be said to be thir-
teen princes for whom wives will have
to be found at some time. 1t is note
worthy that at the present time Eu-
rope is suffering from a dearth Of
young princesses. OF late boy babies
have appeared In all the royal fami-
lies, and even as matters now stand It
is difficult to see how these little
princes are to be mated in the future.
Such princesses as there are likely to
be seem too old for the small boys who
are coming so quickly on the scene.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-01
When the Elevator Stops.

In some Of the downtown skyscrap-
ers the elevator service Is suspended
on Sunday, and the janitors and their
families, who In many buildings are
Quartered on the topmost floor, have to
descend and climb from twenty to thir-
ty flights of stairs whenever they want
to get in touch with the outside world.
In one building, which is twenty-four
stories high, the ten-year-old daughter
Of the janitor. makes three round trips
each Sunday-one when she goes to
church In the morning, one when she
attends Sunday school in the after
noon and another when she goes to
meet her playmates after dinner. Each
fight consists of twenty steps, making
800 steps to round trip. Three trips
make 1t 2,Ss0 steps, mountain climb
ing record.-New York Tribune.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-01
san.os. pumont Make, a aat.

NJ. Santos-Dumont has made a bet
that In eight months he will have con-
structed hydroplane capable Of trav-
cling at speed Of sixty miles an
hour. This idea of gliding craft or
hydroplane is no new one. SO long ago
as the year 1881 a Frenchman named
Garpon built sort of fat bottomed
boat for river navigation which was to
all intents and purposes a hydroplane,
In that 1t drew less than an inch Of
water. Its means Of propulsion, how
ever, consisted Of small, old fashioned
engines working a ridiculous apparatus
at the rear that resembled flsh's tail
and fins combined.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-01
GAMBLING DIVE IN CELLAR.
Boise's Secret Den Is Uncovered by
Worlmen.

The grave OF "Jack Pot" once the
rendezvous of those who rolled the
high cards while concealed within the
cellar room under the old Senate sa-
loon, which has recently been razed
to make way for the modern building
which will be erected at the corner OF
Eighth and Idaho streets, is gradually
being desecrated and divested of Its
original appearance by the pillow and
scrapers of the force engaged in ex-
cavating for the foundation OF the new
business block, says the Boise Capital
News
Around this cellar chamber, which
was exposed with the removal of the
floor of the old Senate saloon, centers
history connected with the losing and
making OF fortunes in a night at the
most enticing of all games of chance,
stud poker.
Many are the tales of big games
where fortunes changed hands in a
single night that are whispered about
the streets by the old-timers, who,
observing the grave of Jack Pot" as
disclosed by the razing OF the Senate
saloon and excavating for the new
building, gather about the historic
spot and become reminiscent.
The cellar chamber, which was To-
Gated directly under the bar OF the
Senate saloon, was, until within a few
years the resort Of the professional
gamblers who drifted in and out of
the city, and who composed a large
per cent of the floating population of
the city.
The cellar chamber was finely fur
nished and fitted. afforded conceal
ment and protection for the gamblers
who played night after night without
fear of interruption from the officers
of the law.
\ few years ago the den was dis
covered, the wall next to the sidewalk
on the Eighth street side caving in
so that passersby in the street could
look down into the apartment. After
that time the cellar chamber was con-
verted into a store room and used for
that purpose until the building was
razed.
The excavating which is now in
progress will. when completed, entire
ly destroy all semblance of the cellar
chamber and nothing will be seen to
mark the grave of the historic Jack
Pot"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-01

Birmingham, Ala. April SO.-Free
lance politicians OF Alabama and
representatives Of various labor and
reform bodies met here today in what
is called a state convention of the in
dependence party of Alabama. The
convention will name an electoral
ticket, select delegates TO a national
convention and perfect a permanent
organization. The party is affiliated
with William Randolph Hearst's In
dependent league and will act with
that body in national elections. Its
objects and purposes are set forth in
the following language:
I'VE believe that the time has come
for Independent political action. and
that q great national party is imper-
atively demanded, that will unite in
one solid phalanx the farmer the
wage-earner and the non-privilege
seeking business man. These three
elements represent the worth produc-
ers of this country and are its back
bone and sinew, but. remarkable as
it may seem, they have no voice in
making laws.
Both old parties are controlled by
the same power, and no genuine re-
form can come through either. Wit
ness the futile efforts of President
Roosevelt in the republican party
the failure to effect reform under
Grover Cleveland. when the demo-
cratic party was in power. and the
failure of Mr.. Bryan to prevent the
nomination of Judge Parker three
years ago. and subsequently his weak
surrender TO the politicians on the
question of government ownership Of
railroads.
Genuine reformers are helpless so
long as they remain in the ranks of
either Of the old parties, and II has
been the policy of predatory wealth
and its political henchmen to keep
the people divided into two parties,
both being under the same control
And so long as this can be done all
this hue and cry against trusts and
monopolies and special privileges is
but as sounding brass and tinkling
symbal unless accompanied by inde-
pendent political action.
"The farmers, wage-earners and
non-privilege-seeking business men
have hitherto been divided between
the two parties of plutocracy, and II
is the purpose of the independent par
ty to unite these three elements and
gain control of our government
which has long been in the hands of
the representatives of predatory
wealth. In no other way can we have
the government of the people, by the
people and for the people"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-01
A COLD WEATHER PLANT.

Priscilla James a helpmate, worth hef
honest weight in gold
A wife who ,corns fault finding and who's
never known to scold,
OF calm and even temper. meek and quiet
as lamb.
Who whate'er the aggravation, never
gives the door a slam.
Yet her mood doth oft annoy me when
from work at night / come
And cold draft from the parlor on the
threshold strikes me dumb
With experienced conviction, born Of my
ten welded years
The furnace isn't working, and Priscilla
James In tears!
II takes but one wee moment to assure
me OF the fact
That since midday or thereabouts Priscilla
James been racked,
Chilled, worried, grieved and frozen, SCOT
ed grimed and smudged in turn
By a cranky furnace fire that would do
all else but burn.
That first cold draft convinced me, so
feel naught OF surprise
At her choked, subdued boohooing, with
her apron to her eyes.
On a cold day l expect IT, and there's
ground for all my fears
That the furnace isn't working. and Prls-
ella James in tears.
The mild warm days Of winter never give
me great concern.
know such days our furnace, all uncared
for, is sure to burn!
When it's too warm for much fire. yet too
chill to do without
Twill. raging, feed on nothing-sheer per-
versity. no doubt!
But wait until the mercury's at zero or
below,
And Just as sure as preaching when from
work at night go
/ find cold reception. and fruition OF my
fears
Our furnace isn't working, and Priscilla
James In tearsl
Roy Farrell Greene in Puck.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-01
New Kind Of Mud at Moscow.

Phenomenal weather conditions
have existed during the past four
days, the mother earth about Mos
COW being converted into six inches
of mud by drenching rains of the past
week and being covered with a yell
low soil, foreign to that vicinity or to
the Palouse country, deposited by a
dust storm that swept over the city
the rain storm of the past
several days, says a Moscow item.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-01

Partly cloudy weather prevailed
during the week, with considerable
Wind. 4 high northwest wind blew on
Friday. The rainfall was light.
ontario, Malheur county, william
o'Brien.-The fore part of the week
was clear and the latter part cloudy
High winds prevailed, with a particu-
larly severe gale on Friday.
Paisley, Lake county. L. c. Wood
ward.-The weather was generally
threatening with occasional showers,