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CLAIMS (hard) are eatable all the year:
clans (soft), from May to October Is, and
crabs Chard). throughout the entire year.
Crabs (soft), from May / to October 10;
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-01-02
Saved $4,000

Devils Lake Journal: The Great
Northern Railway company is giving
no reduced rates in North Dakota and
Minnesota to eastern points as has
been their custom in the past, but W.
IL. Reid of Devils Lake fooled them
a trip. He learned that at Brandon,
Man., where the Great Northern is
competing with the Canadian Pacific
on rates to eastern Canada, he could
buy a ticket to any point in Ontario
for $40, while the rate from Devils
Lake vas s72. He went up to Brandon
and purchased tickets for himself and
wife. He came right down through
Devils Lake, took a three days "stop-
over'' and continued his journey east
over the same road, and in the same
car that he would have taken had he
purchased his tickets at Devils Lake
and paid S72 each for them. He will
use the 1854 for the purchase of Christ
mas presents.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-01-02

the inspection, politics has the con-
troll and in the state where the board
0 ftrade does the inspection favoritism
is shown. The best remedy for this is
the national inspection of grain by
p. ]. McCumber, senator of North
Dakota. 1 think if we actually knew
why the Chicago chamber of commerce
objects to the bill, it is because it will
bring other chambers into the market
and bring the values up much higher
than they are now.
Grain should be tested for it's mois-
ture, then ocular system IA be
used, the color after all being one of
the best ways to inspect grains, The
tester should be put out.of commission
entirely.
The farmers in the spring wheat dis
trict raise 200, 900, 900 bushels. The
average dockage estimated is three
pounds to the bushel, which is 600, 000,-
900 pounds or 10, 900, 900 bushels OF
screenings valued at 81, 0O0, 900. Let
US use No. 2 wheat as the average
grade. The difference between fifty
six ponds test and sixty pounds that
the producer is obliged to furnish,
four pounds, equals 1888, 1873 bushels.
Then multiply by a dollar which
brings the total up nearly to six mil
lion dollars for the three states.
It pays to change the grading sys'
tenn and let the farmers make the mon
ey instead of the mixing houses?
I II. B. Borneman,
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-01-02
Bulletin No. 2

The following, Bulletin. No. 2, is
sent out by E. G. Cooper, Insurance
Commissioner for the state of North
Dakota, under date of Dec. l, 1907:
The Royal Insurance for it's Chicago
Office, has imported $3.50, 900 in gold.
1t will be used for its enterprising
Chicago branch Office, which is under
the able management of Low Brothers,
Insurance companies are noticing a
marked Improvement in electrical con-
struction, the enforcement of the re-
quirements of the National electrical
Code having secured a notable i'm
provement in electrical installations
and inspections.
Following the example of the Com
mereial Union and Palatine, the Nor
wich Union and Security of New Hav-
en- and Glens Falls have eliminated
the earthquake clause from their pol
icies on the Pacific coast.
! The Michigan Commercial has ap-
piled for membership in the Southeast
ern Tariff Association.
The deal whereby the Royal Insur-
ance Company takes over the German
of Freeport has finally been closed
the consideration being 81, $50, 100000,
which puts an end to the litigation d.
rected against the contamination of
the sale. 1t is regarded by those we'll
informed, as a very satisfactory solu-
ton of a complicated question.
The Bankers Life of New York will
increase it's capital from 800, 600 to
5000, 900.
Under date of Oct. 2, the CONNER
cial Union Assurance Company, the
Palatine and the Commercial Union
Fire of New York have issued the fol-
lowing circular through their Pacific
coast manager: "We beg to inform
you that we have been authorized by
our head Offices to delete the earth
quake clause from policies issued by
US from and after this date. We are,
therefore, prepared to resume recipro-
cal relations and to give off and &C.
cept reinsurance as formerly. This
action, it is understood, was taker
without any consideration as to whai
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-01-02
other companies will or will not do.

Ou1ICk. SoulpoAACo L VI VII A1Ou w.
Numerous inquiries have, been made
of this department as to the standing
of the American Registry Company
and the Great Eastern Casualty g.
Indemnity Company. The American
Registry Company is not licensed by
the Insurance Department of this
State. They claim not to be an insur-
ance company, and therefore not
amenable to the laws governing insur-
ance companies. The Great Eastern
Casualty Il Indemnity Company has
complied with the laws of the State
and is licensed by the department to
transact the business of accident in
surance within the State. We are now
investigating the status of the Registry
company to ascertain whether or not
they are amenable to the insurance
laws.
The Royal of Liverpool has reinsur-
ed the entire business. of the Columbia
Fire of Washington, D. G. The Col
umbia will retire from business,
The National Mutual Fire Insurance
Co. of Omaha, Neb., has gone into the
hands of the receiver. The petition
asking for the said receiver states that
the liabilities of the company are
1858, 843, 80. This company was re-
quired by the department to cease do
ing business since last May. and have
written no 9 business in the state
since that time.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-01-02

Wamberg is making a special
discount of rs per cent on Ill
holiday goods, except that found
on the &c. Counter.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-01-02
On
Wheat Grades

H. B. Borneman, formerly of Col
gate, N. OAK, under date of Hallock,
Mimi, Dec. 81, sends the following
articles to the Fargo Forum, anent the
Minnesota Wheat Grading and the
work of the North Dakota Grain
Commission, ETC.:
I have noticed from time to time. the
different articles and the workings of
the grain commissioners appointed by
Governor Burke, also the bankers OF
North Dakota headed by W. G. Nc
Fadden, who deserve great credit in
the successful battle to establish Wis
consin inspection for North Dakota's
benefit. The action taken by bankers
and the late North Dakota legislature
will mean dollars in the hands of the
North Dakota farmer, or the trio Of
states.
First the proposed terminal elevator
to be operated by the state will have
the same effect as the farmers houses
. have now, that are scattered through
out the. state and which will have to
be run on the same plan as the CO.
operative elevators are beingmanaged.
Look out so it's not filed up at the
beginning of the season and put out
of commission.
A work about inspection, which I
hope the North Dakota Inspector will
adopt on that line:
First the system that Minnesota has
is wrong, namely that of using the
brass kettle. The word brass is
enough and explains itself. This test
ing of grains is wrong, and the pro
ducer is or rather the entire country
outside of the terminals are the losers.
I have before me the Minnesota in
spection rules which are as follows:
No. l Northern wheat must test 81
pounds.
No. 2 Northern wheat must test sc
pounds.
No. 3 Northern wheat must test 81
pounds.
No. 4 Northern wheat must test As
pounds.
Rejected wheat must test Al pounds
No. barley must test 46 pounds
No. 4 barley must test A. pounds,
No. S barley must test AZ pounds
That kettle of brass derives it's uni
from the struck bushel standard. Con
s%equently we are not selling b.
weights, but by the bushels, although
we do not use the struck or volume
measure bushels.
BY the above method the millers ant
maltsters figure an increase.
Many a brewer, farmer, miller and.
guess it is safe to include the grain
inspectors think that malt shoult
weigh thirty-four pounds in the vol
ume measure but forty-eight pounds 0
barley produces thirty-eight pound
of malt when properly matted, insteat
of thirty-four pounds, SO you see tn
producer has to make up the differenc
namely two, four or eight pounds
The maltster gets an increase in malt
ing because he buys his barley by tn
hundred weight standard and tn
farmer stands the gain of the maltste
by selling his barley by the bras
kettle route, or volume measure.
But if we were allowed the ties
weights to figure a bushel with, TO
instance whensbarley tests %forty-foul
pounds the farmer should be above
to figure his load of barley forty-fou
pounds instead of forty-eight pounds
Consequently under the brass kettl
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-12-04

satisfactory flour for every purpose.
Farmers Elevator.
BE sure and see the line of har-
ness at Chase's new harness shop be-
fore you buy.
The Farmers Elevator has a
supply of the best rye -four, Those
desiring this article should secure a
supply at once.
Thursday, December 18th, is the
next Lake Preston date of DR.. Fruden-
field, the Madison Hospital eye, ear,
nose and throat specialist.
We failed to mention last week
the arrival of a daughter at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Campbell.
Mother and child are doing nicely.
The city of Pierre has been suf-
fering from an epidemic of typhoid
fever, and now the report comes that
an Investigation by the board of
health disclosed several dead bodies
in the reservoir from which the city's
water supply is taken.
DR.. Riley, the evangelist who has
been working at Sioux Falls, it would
seem, had accomplished one good
thing. The ladies of that town have
declared var or cigarattes. All the
newspapers, physicians and many of
the town have joined the crusade.
--Nels l.. Spilde, one of the old
residents of North Preston, started
last Wednesday for his cd home in
Norway for an extended visit with
relatives and friends of early days.
Hope he may have an enjoyable trip
and a pleasant winter across the
water Times.
-Wouldn't you enjoy your bread
more if you knew the wheat had been
washed before it was ground into
-four? Every grain of wheat in
Washburn-C rosby's Gold Medal Flour
is washed in cold, sparkling water
and secured at the mills before going
to the grinding rolls. Farmers
Elevator.
Mrs. Eva Coolidge and son
Victor arrived from Philip, this state,
Saturday morning and are once o
settled in De Smet. Mrs. Coolidge
bad proved up her claim only a short
time before. During the last two
months she experienced an attack of
fever which made that part of her
residence on the claim anything but
pleasant, She is glad to get back to
De Smet and her many friends are
glad to welcome her.
Mrs. B. A. Dill of this place has
received notice that she has been
granted a widows pension from the
government. The pension dates from
June 1905 and amounts to over three
hundred dollars. This claim was til
ed after the death of the lady's hus-
band in 1905 and the pension depart
ment consumed nearly four years in a
simple matter of transferring the pen
sion to the widow. Swift people,
those government clerks!- Bancroft
Register.
The Doland artesian well that
has been flowing for over twenty
years has failed and the town is fore
ed to drill another well. Iroquois is
up against the water proposition right
now, the old we'll having perceptibly
decreased in flow and pressure dur
ing the past few weeks and the new
well being too light to afford much
relief. At present it is necessary to
pump from the new well into the
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-12-04
THE INDEPENDENT.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.
LOCAL NEWS.
From all Around the Town and
County.

F. L.. Albrecht is a new sub
scriber to the INDEPENDENT.
20. V. Munger was out the first
of the week after an illness of several
days.
The NJ. E. Aid will meet with
Mrs. Anna Ruskell next Wednesday
afternoon.
Mrs. NJ. S. Cary returned last
week from her visit with friends at
Grantsburg, Wis.
Miss Kate O'Hora returned from
Pierre Monday and has taken a posi-
ton in the store of the De Smet Mere.
Co.
Herman Groth and his sister
Lena departed Wednesday for Pres
ton, Mimi, where they will visit rela-
tives for a few weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. HI. Sheets
went to. Washington to spend Thanks
giving with their daughter and family
nine miles from that town.
Miss Charlotte Stimson, who
spent several weeks with her brother,
H. Y. Stimson and family, departed
for her home at Chicago Friday even.
ing.
-Peleg Jones has purchased the
Fletcher Mann residence property
and will utilize the vacant lot by
erecting thereon another dwelling
Chief.
This Friday evening at 1870 the
Christian Endeavor Society will meet
at the Congregational parsonage for
the monthly business meeting and
social.
Miss Mary Wright, Leslie
Coolidge, Herbert Latin, Vance
Crane, and Harry Mitchell were home
from Brookings to spend Thanksgiv-
ing with their people.
Tim Healy was down from Huron
on business Saturday. Tim says he
has purchased two farms in Beadle
county and he will now become a
permanent fixture Of the Gem City
on the Jim.
Mrs. Poole returned from Madl-
son last Saturday night where she
had taken ID. f. Wilmarih's baby boy
for the purpose of having his eyes
treated. The little fellow returns
much improved.
Mrs. VIM. Robinson returned
from Minneapolis Thanksgiving morn
ing after undergoing an operation at
one of the hospitals. Mrs. Robinson
is greatlysimproved we are glad TO
report.
Il. j. Miller wishes the party who
borrowed his stove trucks would re-
turn the article at once. |. j.. needs
them every day and several times
each day. Says the party now hav-
ing it can borrow it some other time
if necessary.
The finest selected wheat from
the greatest wheat belt in the coun-
try-the best millers and the largest
flour mills in the world-make Wash
burnt rosby's Gold Medal Flour the
very highest quality and the most
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DIR. j. @. Parsons, of Sioux Falls,
Oculist and Aurist, will be at Syndi-
cate Hotel on Tuesday, Dec. 18th.
Practice limited to eye, ear, ose and
throat. Glasses fitted.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-12-04
Notice

Meat prices in st. Paul and Sioux
City have gone up. But in Erwin
they have taken a drop.
Good beef roasts. or
Boiling meat. IS .5
Sausage &c or 3 lbs. for. ......$ .25
Other meats at prices SO every n
can live but the butcher. Plenty of
hams, bacon, salt pork, bologna,
wieners, cooked meat and fresh fish
all the time.
Us. TALLER Il SON.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-12-04
OR STOLEN.

One bay gelding, one white hind
foot, fore top cut short, weight be-
tween LOO and 1000, 3 years old.
Will pay reward for recovery of
animal. James Clancy, Bancroft,
S. d. BIT
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We want to close out about two dozen
skirts SO have divided them in four lots as
follows
OF oo,c;c+c &c eI,~+c +bc -au,Ior
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-11-05
A Profitable Upset.

A young artist In Washington
generally makes up for his lack Of
technique by spreading color reck-
lessly and counting on distance for
the effect. At an amateur exhibition
he once hung one OF his most extra.
ordinary performances.
"Well," said a friend whom the
artist had taken to see the work, 81
don't want to fatter you, old chap,
but that is far and away the best
stuff you have ever done. Icongrat.
ulate you"
The artist was receiving the com.
pliment with becoming modesty
when he CHANGED again to glance at
the picture. The committee had
hung 1t upside down. Hurrying to
the head OF the committee, he was
about TO launch into q loud com.
plant when he was informed Of she
good news that an hour before the
picture had been sold for SOL. The
original price mark had been s19.-
Hppincott's.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-11-05
To Stain Floors.

Linseed oil and burnt lumber, in
the proportion Of a pint of oil to q
tablespoonful Of umber, thoroughly
mixed, make an excellent stain for
floors and any one can apply II.
Thoroughly clean the floor OF all
dust, dirt and grease spots, else the
stain will be streaked and spotted.
When the floor is thoroughly dry sp.
ply the stain with an ordinary paint
brush, rubbing It In evenly; after
three days apply q second coat. To
have the floor present q smooth and
unbroken appearance fill all cracks
with putty before staining. The
shade can be varied by increasing or
diminishing the amount OF lumber.
Material suffiient to stain q room
floor can be gotten at a drug store
for 20 to 80 cents Except the brush)
according to size Of oom.-Ruralist.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-11-05
Dill Prospects Are FIattering,

The well being put down by W. A.
Newton on his land adjoining the
city on the southwest has reached a
depth OF 800 feet, and the prospects
Tor gas and oil are said TO be flatter
ing. The drlllers are now In what is
said to be oil sand, the big drill lie
going down fast. A gentleman who
is familiar with the conditions that
exist In the drilling OF gas and oil
wells In Kansas, visited the Newton
we'll yesterday and he said that indi-
cations there pointed very strongly
to oil. He says In Kansas after 60.
Ing through this sand, a ledge Of
rock Is penetrated, and under that
the oil is found. He thinks that is
the case here. The drillers them
selves are very sanguine OF success.
The we'll will be put down 200 feet
deeper.-Rich Hill Review.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-11-05
Jumps Into Water After Cat.

Hobart, Ok, November.-That she
might save her pet Kittens life, Mrs.
N. E. Humphreys jumped into a els.
tern at her home, q few miles west Of
Hobart, only to find nothing but the
cats reflection.
Mrs. Humphreys was passing the
cistern, which was open, and, look.
Ing In, she thought she saw her pet.
She jumped into the cistern, the wa
ter almost covering her head, only
to find the shadow OF her pet, which
was summing itself on a roof, 80 the
reflection was thrown upon the wa.
ter OF the cistern. The woman's
screams attracted others in the
house, who pulled her out.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-11-05
To Keep People OF New Cement
Walks.

Technical World.
The problem Of keeping people and
animals of Of q newly laid cement
sidewalk, usually a difficult task, lie
sometimes solved in this manner. A
few hours after the sidewalk Is finish.
ed soft dirt Is thrown over It and q
little ridge built along each side. The
dirt is then we'll saturated with wa.
ter. Such treatment was found to
be effectual In keeping intruders off,
and also furnished moisture for ad.
vantageous setting Of the cement.
Very often in walking along q cement
sidewalk footprints OF man and beast
are found.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-11-05
A Lake Boosts Nevada, Mo.

When a growing inland city has no
natural beauty spots, nor anything
besides business enterprises to at
tract men, II lacks an important
feature. That is what the residents
OF Nevada, Mo-, decided when they
urged public spirited men toimprove
q lake and spring and make OF 1t a
public resort, says the Kansas City
Times.
III there is a prettier lot Unnatural
scenery In Missouri than that which
surrounds Lake Park spring In Neva.
de, l have never seen IT," said
Edward Clark, OF that city, in the
lobby Of the Hotel Baltimore. 1.-THE
lake, the spring and the hills which
surround them, are as pretty az can
be imagined them, are as pretty as
can be imagined. But the system
employed by citizens who took in
hand the work Of improving Ii has
made the place much more beautiful.
They built rustic bridges, pagodas
and shelter houses.
"There are $50 acres In the park.
The spring water contains some
sulphur. The springs feed a double
lake, large enough for splendid boat
ing and even small yachting. And
fish! They seem to glory In the sui.
phur water. It lie the first place I
ever saw bass 90 plentiful In sulphur
water. The fishing there IL great
sport, as the lake has been we'll stock.
cd for several years. It's q good ad-
yertisement for the toyn."
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-11-05
MOcking Birds Killed Coach
Whip Snake.
From Forest and Stream.

From Forest and Stream.
Ed. Neal and his sister, Miss Jessie
Neal, OF Alma, tell a strange story,
and vouch for the truth OF IL. They
had been spending she last month
wish their father, Younger Neal, at
their old home In the country near
Alma, and one day last week we're
out driving when they saw In she
road In front OF them a large snake
OF the kind known as the coach whip.
Stopping the horse In order to kill
the snake they discovered that.s
pair Of mocking birds we're flying at,
and striking the reptile with their
besks, first from one side OF the road
and then from the other. They
watched the battle, as they call Il,
for something like hall an hour when
the snake entirely ceased to attempt
to avoid the angry onslaughts oithe
enraged songsters.
Ed. Neal got out Of the buggy and
going to the scene Of conflict found
that the snakes head was almost
severed from It's body. The neck,
just back OF the head was cut down
to the skin on his throat, and when
he picked IL up the head fell down
limp. The snake was dead. Il meas.
ured five and one.hali feet, and seem.
ingly had just swallowed haligrown
rabbit, which was in the stomach
undigested.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-11-05
A Peasant Snubbed a Kinq.

Rome, November. king Victor
Emanuel tells this story on himself:
He went out hunting alone the 9TH
er day early at Mona, and was
lucky enough to. shoot fine noun.
tain sheep. The animal fell into q
deep abyss and the king was just
contemplating climbing down and
rescuing his trophy when a peasant
boy came up, offering to do II for
him.
GLOW much?" queried the king,
who suspected that he might have
been recognized and would be held
up Tor large ransom.
"One lire (twenty cents) and hall
OF your breakfast"
The king sssented, and after Ia.
borious three quarters OF an hour
the lad returned with bis load, but
before putting it down, held out bis
hand Tor the coin.
"Now, breakfast" he said.
The king opened a fancy hunting
bag, which he carried on q strap
hanging from his shoulder, and took
out q loaf Of black bread, q biz
onion, few chunks Of garlic and q
hall a bottle Of red wine.
As the nature Of the breakfast dis.
closed Itself the boy eyed the king
susplciously, making no attempt to
sit alongside him.
"You shall divide, to make sure
that I don't cheat you" said Victor
Emanuel, handing the lad HE knife.
mo, thank you" said the boy. 81
thought you were q gentleman, car.
rying something decent to eat. Such
stun e. you have we get at our cabin
any DAN
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-11-05
The Critical Day Passed.

The critical period IN the condition
OF Jos. Huff, the boy crushed in the
wreck north OF town some ten days
ago, is said to have been safely pass
ed to-day, and now, II complications
can be avoided, It Is expected he will
pull through. A report on the street
that second amputation OF the in
jured limb would be necessary has
been proven unwarranted. The boy
still suffers as a result OF the smpu.
tstion, but otherwise is reported al.
right.-Rich Hill Review.