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The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1908-11-07

Tammany usually gives the candidate
it support.
According to tho latest returns. Taft
carried California, Connecticut. Della
ware, Idaho. Illinois. Indiana, Iowa.
Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts. Michi-
gar, Minnesota. Montana. New Hamp-
shire New Jersey, Ncrth Dakota, Ohio,
Ocsson, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island.
Soa;h Dali a. Utah, Vermont, Washing
ton, Wisconsin, Wyoming. West Vir-
ginia, Missouri and Maryland.
Bryan secured Alabama, Arkansas,
Colorado. Floride, Georgia, Kentucky.
louisiana. Mississippi, North Carolina,
Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas. Virginia. Nebraska and Nevada.
In many of the states, the governor
ship question was decided opposite to
the result in the national election. In
Minnesota the state went for Taft but
elected Johnson, the democratic candi-
date. over jacobson by 20, 600 majority.
In this state. the same was true, a Taft
victory and a democratic governor In
Montana the state was carried by Taft
and Gov. Norris, democratic, was re-elec-
ted. Indiana was the same, also Ohio.
On the other hand while Bryan carried
Missouri, republican candidate for
governor was elected. Il
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1908-11-07
Halloween Parties

Saturday evening was Hallowe'e en-
and there was plenty doing in Dickin-
son, in a social way and in more
boisterous method of celebration. How
ever, most of the fun was. harmless and
very little serious damage was done.
Young America had good time without
becoming lawless as has characterized
some Hallowe ems of the past.
Some of the social affairs were held
Friday evening and number enter
tained Saturday night.
Misses Maybe Dinsdale and Mareery
Lytle entertained q party of thirty
friends at Miss Lytle's home Saturday
evening. The time was spent in the
playing Of sall the merry Hallowe' 'en
games and customs. Refreshments were
served in unique manner and there
" ere plenty of hair-raising ghost stories
to add to the fun. !.
One Of the prettiest Hallowe en- parties
last Saturday evening was the one at
the home Of MI. and Mrs. B. H. Cfaw-
ford on Marguerite boulevard. The guests
arrived in the early evening and were
ushered into the darkened rooms BY a
real live ghost. Everything about the
house had spooky appearance and
everybody had ghostly feeling until
it was time for lunch when all the
hair raising stories seemed to have but
very little elect upon the appetites Of
tho happy people who kept. ON telling
creepy stories until the witches fairly
danced around the steamine bowls.
4he suestssleft for their respective homes
s,ortly after tie magic hour. having
gDasseld sagvay pleasant evening. ,..
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1908-11-07

Of this sum So, 500 or less will be re-
quired to make the survey and the re-
mainder will be used toward other
expenses and the purchase Of a right Of
way. Il.
The matter was fully discussed but
nothing more for publication was decided,
tn committee will meet again in few
days at the call Of the chairman. 3
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1908-11-07
MERRY BOUND OVER
Held in $1,000 Bail at Hettinge'
and Unable To Furnish 1t Was
Remanded To Jail. Waived
Examination Thurs day.

Word was received here Friday morn
ing from Hettinger that c. F. Merry had
waived examination the day before and
had been bound over to district court in
the sum of So, 900. He was unable to fur
nish this sun and was remanded to jail.
C. F. Merry, who was arrested last
week on charge of obtaining money
under false pretences at Hettinger, was
taken to that town Sunday morning by
Sheriff E. C. Barry of Adams county.
Merry spent two nights in the local Jail
and left the city in irons He was taken
by auto to Hettinger, accompanied by
Frank Smith. the driver, and r. A.
McGlynn. Mrs. Merry left for that place
Sunday via Terry. so it was reported.
Further details of the case show that
Merry arrived in Hettinger at a time
when the two men who knew him, one
of whom was sheriff Barry, were absent
from town. 1t is alleged that he repre-
sented himself as the advance agent of
the railroad and said that the club was
going to send him to New York to inter-
est eastern capitalists in the scheme.
1t is further alleged that he displayed
list of stock holders in the road with
prominent names on it and pointed to
one as the signature of the secretary
of the Commercial Club.
Dr. Johns does not recall that MIR.
Senour's name was mentioned except
as the secretary of the Commercial
Club. DR.. Johns subscribed 500 and
Merry was about to visit another when
Sheriff. Barry arrived and recognized in
the advance agent of the road" nan
with an unsavory reputation. Merry is
alleged to have had talk with Barry
in which he told him to say nothing,
that everything was all right. Barry,
however, soon learned what was up and
warned some of the prospective buyers
with the result that the promoter made
hurried exit from town by team and
went to Lennon, where he is said to
have continued operations along; the
same line.
Merry is said to have also represented
that representatives of the club were
following him and going through that
part of the country. He, no doubt, took
advantage of the story which was cur
rent here in the city that the railroad
committee of the club and an engineer
were soon to make tour of the country.
Arrangements for this trip were made
but it was given up, owing to the sick
ness Of one of the capitalists interested
in the road, who was to have accom-
panied the party.
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The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1908-11-07
LOCAL NEWS.

Mr. and Mrs =. b. Culver were up
e form Gladstone On Wednesday.
Henry Schultz was ia from Dunn coun-
~ this week with load Of fax belonging
70 himself and Oscar Heleesson which
was marketed at s.. 10 pef bnshel. 81
Robert Nsils smadesf i ! Stbsulssineiss visit ii
Beldeld and Aedora tie inst Il ths vel.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1908-11-07
RIESSBEcK VICTORIOUS

Wins Over Hughes By sixtysix Votes Simpson Has Good
Majority Over Lh Full County Republican Ticket Elected.
Larger Vote Cast Than Year. johnson Big
M N Johnson Favoite in the Senatorial Contest
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1908-11-07

third William jennings Bryan of Nebraska las been defeated in
presidency Opted States William Taft of Oh
republican landslide the polls Tuesday carrying all
the electoral The
of the a big lead in Greater New York and in New York
York plurality of and the by
Roosevelts
middle Speaker Joseph reeed also
Johnson candidate Minnesota
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1908-11-07
TAI WINS

Republican Presidential Has Landslide Over
327 Electoral Votes Majority Over His Oppon
ent Taft Caes Both New York State and City, National
House Largely Republican johnson Reelected in Mime
sofa and Gov Norris Montana Speaker Cannon Wins
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to conditions there. .- q; .3;is 55;.,.
It is proposed to make Main street,
which is the extension Of Cross street. \
the central street north and south and
call the avenues First Avenue East,
First Avenue West, and SO on. The
streets running east and west will be
First Street, Second Street ETC.. leaving
Broadway its present name. ~.
In some ways this will be rather. con-,
fusing but the plan was satisfactory to
the club. II win necessitate the dis
tineuishing Of north and south as we'll
as east and west. This will make in the
whole city a First Avenue N. W., First
Avenue n E.. First Avenue S.. W.. and
First Avenue S. E. Likewise! the streets,
will be First Street N. E.. First Street
N. W., First Street S. E.. First Street
S. w., etc. However. it seems the best
possible way to get around the Irregular
tiles of the city streets and the division
of the city by the railroad track into
two separate parts
States Attorney, M 1. Mcbride re-
ported what he had done in regard to
the C. F. Merry case and read a telegram
from Hettinger stating that the hearing
was set for Thursday and, the presence
Of the club secretary, George Senour.
necessary. The telegram arrived too
late for Mr.. Senour to get there so
arrangements were made for postponing
the hearing one day.
The feature of the evening was a
stirring speech by former president Dr..
". H. Stickney in which he urged that
the club work hader in booming the city.
He proposed as the next work which the
club take up the paving Of some of its
principal streets and the erection of a
new court house.
He said that in its two and half
years of existence the club had done a
great deal for the city in the way Of
securing new public buildings and inn
proving the appearance Of the city.
For the last six months however, little
of importance has been accomplished
and aside from the railroad project, it
has little on hand now in the way of
bettering the city. The railroad PROPOSE
tion is, of course, of vital importance.
and if consumated, will be the biggest
thing the club has ever done. The club,
as an ogani zation. can do little toward
the actual building Of the road beyond
interesting capitalists in the move.
n The speaker proposed. for this. reason,
that the club devote its energies toward
securing better streets and q new court
house His idea. is to pave four or more.
blocks on Willard street and some Of the
side streets which are used as business
streets The present cnurt. house is old
and inconXenient and the need Of new
building has:been felt for some time. M
His remarks were well received and
SIC is more than probable that the club
will push these Improvements during the
winter montha sss9 q NJ. Il!
A meeting Of the special railrorad
committee was held after the close Of
the regular club meeting.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1908-11-07
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Il Three unfurnished rooms, block from
postof6ce. Harry Defoe. Io-3r-7t
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-05
THE COTTON R K

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-The cotton
market opened steady at a decline of
S16 points in response to disappoint-
ing English cables and bearish senti-
nnent regarding trade conditions. The
market rallied during the early ses-
sion on covering and a renewed de-
mand credited to leading interests, but
after selling at about last nights prices
eased off again. and during the middle
of the morning was dull, with prices
barely steady at a net decline of 6@T
points.
There vas heavy selling during the
middle of the morning with some itoT
loss orders caught and active months
selling Is to 20 points net lower. itu.
mors that English spinners might &c
ON short time appeared to be the ehiet
bear factor, but there was some sooC
buying at the lower level. and later in
the forenoon prices rallied 8 or 4 points
from the bottom. showing a net loss 81
Is points at midday.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-05
SCHOONER "EMMA B."
AGAIN BEFORE COURT.
Struggle in Federal Court Over
Boat Well Known to Pleasure
seekers at ASbury Park.

Judge Cross, in the United States Dis
trict Court, yesterday heard pleadings
in the case of Henry F. Pierce. libel
liant. against the famous fishing
schooner Emma B., and Harry Maddox.
Pierce some time ago filed a libel
against Maddox. both being half own
ers, demanding an accounting. The
schooner was finally sold at Bayonne,
on April II, 1905. and the proceeds paid
into court.
Libels against the proceeds were then
filed by Wilson & Barry, for advances
of $7S4.5S; Herman F. Wilckens, for
stores, $2SS.64; William A. Augur, for
supplies, $26. so: Winfield S. Pendleton,
for supplies, $146.01; John j. Burchell,
for material furnished, SIS; Charles O..
Munson, for furnishing sails, s175.73,
and George b. Evans, for supplies,
1852. There is also the libel for $757.St
Of A. G. Brown & Sons. for repairing
the schooner at their Tottenville yards.
The dispute between theNtwo owners
arose from a difference of opinion as to
what use the schooner should be put
to, Pierce in 1904 and 1905 forbidding
Pierce claims the libels should be
brought against Maddox as liens, ana
that they constitute no lien against the
schooner nor the proceeds of the sale,
at which he bought it in for $1,000.
The libels. if held as liens against
the proceeds of the sale of the vessel.
will consume nearly all of the $500
paid into court.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-05
GREAT ENGLISH HOMES.

1t is a pathetic fact, says London Tit
Bits, that there are several men in the
United Kingdom who would consider
themselves on the brink of bankruptcy
if they were reduced. by any evil stroke
of fate. to a mere pittance of Fl 600 a
week-who would find 1t simply in1pos-
sible to rub along anyhow on the in
come Of a simple millionaire, which
would be barely sufficient in some
cases to pay the expenses of the lordly
pleasure houses which they have in
herited from their ancestors.
The Duke Of Devonshire, for example,
has nc fewer than seven of these
stately homes-six in England and n
in Ireland-each of them fit for the re-
ception of a king, and in not n of
which, as he confessed the other day,
has he lived long enough to explore
thoroughly. Probably he himself does
not know within $1,000 how much these
palatial homes Cost yearly to maintain,
but the annual cost has been said to
make a very big hole in E100,O 900.
In Wentworth, Woodhouse, which is
only one of his four palaces, Lord Fitz-
william owns the largest private house
In England. 1t has a frontage of 500
feet, its hall is so enormous that four
suburban villas could be built inside ii,
and its owner could live in a different
room every day for six weeks and still
leave several rooms unseen. The Duke
of Portland owns FIVE regal homes in
England and Scotland, the value Of
which runs into millions, and which,
with the attached gardens and estate,
keep hundreds of servants employed.
At Walbeck he has more than thirty
acres of kitchen gardens alone; in the
glass houses and garden proper he en-
ploys about seventy men and boys, and
his horticultural bill for this one house
Is said to exceed $4,000 a year.
Blenheim Palace, the Duke of MARI
borough's oxford seat, is so colossal
that the late duke used to declare he
spent $500 a year on putty alone for
his window panes. 1t actually cost
1900, 900 to build in days when money
was more valuable than 1t is today
1t is 34S feet long, has fifteen stair
cases, and when 1t was repaired some
time ago his grace found it necessary
to- sell his pictures and books to pay
the cost, which amounted to than
$50, 900.
The Duke of Northumberland owns
five stately seats, at II of which
Syon House. Bentford-a staff of thirty
or forty men is kept busy, largely IL
the magnificent kitchen garden an6
lighthouses. And yet the duke spend:
only a small portion of the year ir
this princely home, the rental value OF
which probably exceeds the lord chan
c~ellor's official income.
The Marquis of Butte has five seats il
England, Scotland and Wales, and on'
of them, Mountstuart. Rothesay, cover
an acre of ground. has $50 rooms ant
has actually cost over $4,000, 900, repre-
senting even at a moderate 4 per cent
a value of $4,000 a year One cal
easily understand hal his lordship''
income OF $4,000 0 a year is not a penn.
! too much fer the demands Of 1t.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-05
Movements IN
PRICES UNDECIDED
EITHER WAY
After a Strong Opening Market
Became Weak, with an
-, Easy Tendency.

The stock market was steady at the
opening, and very light orders we're
executed, and the movements in prices
seemed undecided which way to turn.
st. Paul advancing Is of a point, while
Shelters and Western Union dropped
u of a point.
AS the first hour wore on Shelters
showed signs of weakness and later
dropped 2A points, which caused the
general market to go off from / to IA
points.
The general direction of prices be
came upward and continued so until
selling of American Smelling devel-
oped. Northern Pacific had been up
a point and several others nearly as
much, but these advances were prac-
ticaily cancelled. American Smelling
receded III and Delaware and Hudson,
Corn Products preferred and National
Biscuit /.
In the last two tours increased SELL
ing orders extended the decline, Ameri-
can Smelling leading with a decline OF
8. Central Railroad of New Jersey sold
at a decline of 5 with a rally of ,.
American Shelters preferred 3 fell Ia,
American Car 1ss. American Locomo-
tive ~ and Reading, Union Pacific,
Northern Pacific, Brooklyn Transit,
Amalgamated Copper and National En-
anaeling preferred 1. Activity dimin-
ished al a small rally. Bonds were
Rrm. The market acts with a tendency
to further weakness.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-05
JOHN DIS BONDS TO BE LENT.

NEW YORK. Feb. 5.-Reports were
circulated in Wall Street yesterday att
ernoon to the effect that john ID.
Rockefeller, through his counsel, was
quietly striving to regain 100000 OF
bonds loaned the National Bank OF
North America prior to its failure last
week. The Washington authorities are
said to hold the bonds in pledge as
security for public deposits, apd as the
attorneys who have been working to
regain them for Mr.. Rockefeller were
unable to make all their moves in
secret the story became public.
Interest attaches to this as the first
case of a big bank failing while hold
ing tho bonds of wealthy men who
make a practise of lending such socur-
tiles to national banks to pledge for
public deposits. In such cases the
banks usually pay the lender lie per
cent. a year for the use of the bonds.
The lender. in addition to holding the
banks receipt for the securities and
getting the fees for the use of the
bonds. receives his interest regularly.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-05
UNDERMINING THE ORIENT.

THE first city to be moderniZed by
the introduction of electricity was the
one with the oldest continuous exist
ence known to human history; the city
which is as 1t has been through the
ages-Damascus, the kaleidoscope of
the near Orient, with Arab and Greek,
Jew and Christian. Moslem and infidel,
Kurd and Circassian, Turk and Tartar,
jostling elbows.
See the panorama of Oriental life as
it flashes by! There goes a huge fiat
nosed negro from Mecca, wrapped In
an ample cloak, tunic n blouse TO
keep warm, for the breeze from the
towering white apex Of Mt. Hermon or
from the gray anti-Lebanon range is
not always as the hot caress from the
sunbeaten sands of the Arabian desert;
his broad, good -natured face radiates
childish delight, and it must be his first
visit to Damascus.
Here wanders a lone stranger from
Bagdad, tall and SLIM with a small,
well-formed head, and meditative in
tellectuaI features, wearing a silk
tunic, a black undervest or Jacket, his
turban noticeable by it's fine filet of
golden threads. He. strolls with curl
Gus yet condescending superiority.
Yonder pass Withholding Kurds who
do not belle their looks, driving the
sheep that they have brought from
Mesopotamia. Following them go stray
Circassians with their astrakan caps,
their loose sheepskin cloaks girdled to
the body, their belts studded with
knives and less warlike implements
tail, ungsinly and unbearded, they are
the real rustics of the Orient.
Here, in the coffee houses and khans
or wayside inns, sitting cross-legged,
smoking their nargilehs, are Bedouins
from the four corners of the desert
differing markedly in appearance.
There pass a group of heavy-bearded
Druzes, powerful frames, strong physi-
ognomies. Their sheik Is in richly
brocaded scarf and blouse, tunic worr
with the grace of a Roman senator
and more than the dignity of an Eng
fish chancery judge, turban of en-
broidered silk surmounting a massive
head set on square shoulders, a heavy
nose and the jaw of a mastiff.-Fron
THE West in the Orient-Electricit.
the New Force in Old Lands" b.
Charles NJ. Pepper, in Scribner's.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-05
A SEAG0ING WAY.
Difficulties Encountered in Finding a
Route to Key West Across the Keys.

The first plan for extending the rail-
road south of Miami attempted to find
a way across the Everglades to Cape
Sable. the southernmost tip of the
Florida Peninsula, eighty miles from
dry land. Engineering parties spent
months at a time in this, the most
hostile and inaccessible wilderness left
in the United States. They suffered
such hardships and torments as have
been endured elsewhere only in the
heart of Africa. One outfit had to
be rescued by a relief expedition and
was found on the edge Of starvation.
The survey was carried through 10
Cape Sable, the land was found i'm
practicable for railroad building. and
the field of action vas therefore shift
ed to the route across the keys. Lo-
eating this erratic line was an Alice
in-Wonderland task of itself. The sur
veying party had to do most of it's
work afoat, and some of it's mel were
lost among the hundreds of keys for
days at a time. They wished to utilize
as many of the keys as possible, and
finally selected forty-one across which
to run the road. There were gaps be-
tween them so wide, however, that
towers had to be built for sighting the
Instruments. In other words, these dis
tances which must be, bridged we're so
great that the curvature of the earth
hid the rodman on the key from the
man with the transit.-Ralph D. Paine
in Everybody's.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-05

Nothing in all the realm of political
economy is more extraordinary, and in
Its way more p~erplexing to the theorists,
than what we call the per1odicity Of COM
mercial panics. The fact Of that perio-
deity is quite incontestsble; occurrences
of the larger disasters Of this sort, IN 1881,
1857, 1873, 1898 and 1907 in this country. and
in 1925, 1874, 1865 and 1890 in Great Britain.
has fixed as a maxim both of practical and
theoretical finance what we call the
"twenty-year cycle of prosperity" Inter
walls of exactly twenty years such a period
does not observe-of this the above-cited
dates are themselves evidence-but that
approximately Two decades elapso between
these successive wercks of financial and
industrial credit; that the intervening period
is made up of slow and toilsome recovery.
followed by renewed prosperity, then by
returning speculation and extravaganza,
and finally, after several more or less plain
warnings, by another breakdown of 1.-THE
credit system-to this the whole. history
Of Anglo-Saxon finance and trade bears
Witness,-Century.