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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-31
THE AMERICAN WOMAN

America is full of sad-eyed and well-dressed women, utterly without power, is the statement made by Mary Health Worse in an article in Appleton s Magazine for January. She asserts that American women are better educated, more indulged, but more inconsequen- tial than those of any of the leading nations of che world, and she holds that the women of France, Germany, Italy and England wield infinitely more pow CT and influence than do their sisters in America. She complains that "bns- mess bores most American women" and points out that in other countries women often take an active part in their husbands affairs. She says: "The American man stands alone. The womenfolk of his family do not help him. AS far as his business goes, it is quite immaterial whether he has wife or whether he has not. The wife goes her way, spends the money provided for her, and if there is any saving done in the family it is accomplished by the man.
 All of this may be very true. And the question that this suggests is not What are We going to do about it?" but, Would be have it otherwise?' If there is one thing characteristic of the American character, it is chivalry toward womankind And even if the American woman could be educated to be an aid to her husbands business and affairs. we doubt very much wheth- CT he would allow her to be.
 It is all very well for a young cou- pie just starting out in life to put both their shoulders to the wheel, but in America, at any rate, so soon as there is any sign of getting ahead, it is the husbands pride to allow the wife to drop out of the grueling race for the goal of prosperity. and that part of the profits which in other nations would probably be put into the business is used in America for the pay of hired girl, or in milliner's bills to delight the heart of the wife. In other words, the American woman occupies a position unique. It is not because the woman is the boss that the word obey is so often left out of that part of the marriage service where the woman promises to love and honor her husband It is rather because American men are content to let women live their own lives so far as possible; content if they will make home beautiful, themselves beautiful and prove inspiring mothers to the coming race.
 American womer may not, as Miss Worse says, be of actual help to their husbands in business. But Miss Worse must not overlook the fact that as they are supreme in their beauty, wen-dress ed, tactful, pleasant companions, the envied of the world, they are the force and inspiration back of Americas s busi ness men; and that 1t is for love Of them and because of the grace that is in them that the vast industry, com merce, and art of America has reached a development that is the wonder o1 this century.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-31
The Sayings of Mrs. Solomon
 (Being the Confessions O Hundredth wifeo
TRANsLATED BY MAUDE MARI

TRANSLATED MAUDE MARIE.
 in husband perfectly devoted
 marvelng: ''Ths thing is real love-
 And replied May, For is a good dareh not to be otherwise
 drveand took the whip hand holdeth the altar queld him with mine eagle believe I m She Who Must Be obeyed!''
 questioned wherewha gowns?'
 And other the rent money what must have fulfed thoughts expensive things And he noweth not that he hypnotzed
 and that household baby shall be made to do this for days
 thine valuation and he cher but cheap wife he hode n thing bought with trading stamps
 very verify throne and she that climb that becomeh doormat wth And little bluff workh wonders where great Selahl
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-31

wANTED-The acquaintance of mid dle aged lady. X. Y. Z., this office.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-31

wANTED-Experien diningroon girl at Mountain View Restaurant.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-31

FOR RENT-1S-room house partly fur nished. Apply Real Estate Office, Home Printing Co.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-31

wANTED-Every consumer in Gila county to try soLwICo brand of flour, spices, canned fruits and vegetables. If your grocer is up to date he has them.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-31

wANTED-Cotton rags at the Silver Belt Office.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-31

We think those little de Castellane children should be given real chance somewhere along the line to live 1t all down. E4l,i{%
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-31

We are informed by an erudite con temporary that the king of Sweden pro nounces his name "Goosetarve.' Oh, Gussiel
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-31

A German doctor says Castro's trou- ble is Sue entirely to overlooking, and no operation will be necessary. At the same time we thought it was probably due to ovsrblowing.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-31

WANTED Colored lady wants wori by the day. Mrs. Jones, APO Euclid street.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-31

One thing that establishes Julius Cae. sar's eternal claim to fame, moreover, was that he, too, thrice refused a crown
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-31

Ring up l5s5 and learn of something to your interest.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-05-07
Empty Space Filled

This ssaid to be a locality that has
been farlned to some extent for twenty
years. The same conditions exist far
Their west. Land values are not quite
as high, but the land is good and the
crops satisfactory. The great new ag-
riculture empire Of North Dakota is
Ward County. Ten years ago it held
only a handful Of people. Now It's
population is estimated at over 10000.
1t has $4,000 taxpayers on the county
auditors roll, and about 5000 voters.
It is not only the largest county Of the
state in area, but in population. It
covers 172 congressional townships,
and practically every quarter section
is a homestead claim.
The gateawy to this country the city
of Minot, has sprung UP in halfsa doz-
en- years from a mere railroad junction
point TO city Of 1900 people, a COM
mercial and political center out Of all
proportion to it's size, and with a splen-
did future assured It has become a
wholesale and jobbing center for all
this new region. More than two hun
bred travelling statesmen make their
eadnlarters IN the town. Several
large concers of Chicago and the twin
cities maintain branch houses OF ware
homes in Minot. New Industries and
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-05-07
WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA SETS
PACE ~ DEVELOPMENT
SLOPE COUNTRY IN
NORTH DAKc-..
HAS "ARRivED"

Ebcr the JoIr al s.pt ;lr.
CA.nvs, staff n..,,l to Nnrlh
Dakota the primal. 'o' y
vieS w..: survey oi HE usus1
iy into. sting pCli.ca S.lietp
in tina. STATE. But Ike the 81.
so ,.ssl ewspaper mar that he
is, ~. heney found no lack ct
good ;. yterial out; !. II the
ret' u L, politics. and in the
ar,'cEe which follo rs lie n':s
dr.yn.a truthful picture Of The
wuItel;"l development. which
the mas decade h.'s shown III
Western North Dakota.
His article has not been writ
ten FOR any boom effect, bat
simply for the news value 1t
will have for thousands and
thousands Of readers of the
Journal in wildly divergent sec
tions of the country. The slope
in North Dakota has made
good. but just how good many
will not fully realize until they
have read Mr.. Cheney's article
in full
Interesting indeed are the fig
ures which tell Of the growth
Of North Dakota issued by
Commissioner of Agriculture,
w. G.. Gilbreath, as follows:
Population over 100000.
Postoffices, 8S9.
Free delivery rural mail rout-
es, ,9s.
Miles of railroad, 1855.
Newspapers published, 345.
Ignite coal mines, SO.
Tons of coal mined, SIS, 4S1.
Assessed valuation of all pro-
perty in 1907, s21s,663,S39.47.
Tot1l valuation OF all proper
ty is more than 250,000,0O0.
Number of state banks, $50.
Number of national banks
1870.
Number of acres in crop,
1907, 9,S90,OO0.
Wages paid for laborers, ST.
1887.
Bushels OF grain produced
wheat, 72,534,S12: flax 1905
so1; oats. 3s,94O,122; barley,
1,2s6,S93; potatoes. 1,757,367.
13,2s9,547; rye, 314,663; corn,
,sssssssssssosssssessss Z
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-05-07

income every year Even with the
Ma1d ~ present values, cases are
known where men have bought 9 farm
and paid for It out Of the returns Of
their arst years Drop. Around Minot
and west of there the Sod house Is
occasionally seen, but 1t Is only q,ies-
ton Of time when the settlers first
primitive make.shifts are replaced by
substantional things.
Most Native immigration
Most OF the immigration into this
slope country is native American. The
ssttlsrs are largely industrious, wide
AWAKE young farmers and their fami-
lies who have come from Iowa Wiscon
sin, Minnesota and from older settled
section in the Dakotas to exercise
their homestead right. Much of the
Norwegian @element Is native born
children of parents who came from the
old country to Minnesota, Iowa AMI
Wisconsin. There are some settle
ments OF imported" Norwegians and
Danes, but for the most part they a G
very well Americanized. It is Elm
ated that one-third of the pc ,Llation
ot Ward county is Of Norweg..l birth
Tor parentage. The counties to the
south run more to German as the for
eign element. The ultimate blend Of
these people will make splendid Am
erican citizenship. 81
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-05-07
.
BY Charles 3. Cheney.
(In the Minneapolis JournaD.
.'And the desert shall blossom as the

"And the desert shall blossom as the
rose"
II ever this prophecy is fulfilled,
it has been in the sudden transforma-
ton Of western North Dakota from
bleak cattle range to a prosperous and
well peopled farming region one OF
the worlds greatest granaries.
Ten years ago the Missouri slope
and the Mouse river valley were
thought to be fit for nothing but cattle
and sheep grazing. Almost the sole
inhabitants were ranchn1en whose
herds roamed over hundreds and thou
sands of acres But the restless tide
Of humanity, pushing ever westward
in the search for free land, broke past
4he Red River Valley, past the valley
of the Slim, and began taking claims
On the prairie tableland TO the West.
The yenturous homeseeker made a
success right from the start. The soil
repaid them richly, and yielded
abundant increase. Their crops did not
burn up from drouth. While the rain
fall was less than farther east, less
seemed to be required, and one year
after another the moisture came in
sufficient quantities 10 mature good
crops. ~A'.-. ~. II
Opportunity did not knock at the
door III vain for these early settlers.
Going to this new country with little
or nothing. living in sod houses, ana
nutting UP with hardships in those hrst
lonesome days, they won the fight and
now live in comfort, with fertile farms
all their own and future Of indepenu
epce assured. After them came the
rush. Settlers poured into McHenry
ward and Williams counties by train
loads. and later into Mclean, Morton
STARK and Billings. Last OF them al
followed the Milwaukee road int
Adams and Bowman counties and ar
going with it into Montana.
* g. a
The free land days are past. Al
the land that IS worth occupying ma
been fled upon. Nearly every quarte
section in all this western country IS
farm, with a shanty, or at least 80
house, and in most cases a family, TN
there are many claims still occupie
by bachelors, and spirlsters who ar
ytill looking for their affinnities. In
land is rapidly advancing in Valuf
and sales at all the way from SD t
ss5 an acre, according to the IN
provements, amount under tillag'
character of the soil, and distanc
/ from the railroad
Big Little Cities
AS the farms we're taken, town
sDrang 40 in the night like weeds, .pr
I not ike weeds to wilt nndar the sun sun
n 1nerSs sun. They are not Boom towns
1T are built On . sold basis, vat
=
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-05-07

new business houses are being estab.
lished daily. snd al to while ~ tswn
lis attaining substantial growth, putting
on all the airs and assuming all the
burdens that come with greatness. It
Is easily tn ethird city in North Da-
kota today, and before long will give
Fargo a chase for flrst honors
Fuel Wealth Enormous
The resources ofthis country and not
all agricultural. Veins Of Ignite coal
underlie most Of it, it Is believed, tho
| it is being worked only in q few places
as yet. In time thousands Of farmers
will be mining their own coal. At Mi
not they claim that coal unAerlies
3, SOC, 900 acres Of land in Ward county
alone, and there are Ignite deposits
in nearly every county in the western
half of the state. Where the rivers
have cut through the clay they have
barred veins of coal often ten or twelve
feet in thickness @ vi
But the wheat and the fax, the oats
and the barley are the main wealth Of
the slope country" and the kind Of
wealth that is never exhausted. The
Industrious homesteaders who have
been on their land nve years or 50
have gotten nicely 0 ntheir feet They
are building good homes and farm
buildings. buying stock and improving
their possessions. The increasing val
4 ne OF their farms amounts to nice
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-05-07

There is not town IN all the western
region that has built up yet to the
country lying around it.. They all do
business on scale that would aston
ish men from old settled states. The
volume Of business in town Of 800
PEOPLE in western North Dakota -
great enough for q town Of $500 in
Illinois or Iowa. AS Fargo claims to
be the biggest little. city in the
country, Minot may we'll claim to Re
the newest city and the biggest new
town.
The wonderful growth and prosper
ity of this region will impress even
the most causal visitor. It is q. splen-
did object lesson in American push
and Initiative, enough to fire one with
enthusiasm for the country and its
wonderful opportunities.
The writer toured North Dakota a
few days ago for the purpose Of sizing
up complicated political situation.
The trip was begun without any thot
further than the politics Of the new
state, but it was impossible to ig-
more the business side of things. The
material evidence of sudden growth
and solid resources TO back it wera,ob-
truden on every side. Every town Wis
tied was proud Of its prosperity, the
excellence Of it's land, the enterprise
of its people. Every man was boost
er, and every statement made was
easy to prove. 1t was not hot air..
There was too much good evidence to
got awav from
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-05-07
Rainfall Quite Sufficient.

Rainfall Quite Sutficient.
When wheat farming began in, the
slope country and the first crop or two
was a success the farmers farther east
shook their heads and said: They
have had a wet year or two, but just
wait. In an ordinary year they will
burn up. They can't mature a crop
with the normal railfall of that coun-
try
Year by year they kept on raising
good crops, however, and even in sea-
sons when rainfall was light, it came
at the time when it would do the crop
the most good, and was enough to ma
ture it. 1t seems beyond question that
there is more precipitation in that
country since the soil was broken and
titled.
Mayor E. 1. Walton, of Darlington.
who came into that region west OF the
jim river in 1882 believes that cen
trail and western North Dakota have a
great future, and have only begun to
come into the birthright. He pre-
diets that land values in all the newer
sections of the state will advance con
siderably within few years, and what
is most interesting, he AYERS that the
climate in that section has changed
materially since he first came in.
'.We have three times as much rain
here as We had twenty years ago." Mr..
Walton said, while, on his way to his
big farm over in Wells county, near
Lemert. "The difference is due to the
cultivation of the land. When it was
wild prairie there Was very little
evaporation, SO we got little rainfall.
After cold winter and fair amount
of snow we didn't need rain until late
in the spring, because the frost works
out slowly, al das the ground thaws
the moisture works up to the roots of
the grain It doesn't escape much be-
cause the tor of the ground has been
worked and there is no cracks to help
evaporation. We had it dr. yfor quite
while this spring butt hat just suited
us, because it gave us good chance
to w7ok the ground and seed early.
we had our ups and downs here
for long while. We had few bad
years then, and we had mighty little
money to work with. The east was
afraid to loan it to us. They are willing
to loan us money now, but around here
he don't need it. We can take care
of ourselves. We are On our feet in
good shape Land around here will
sell at $50 an arce, and is worth more.
1t will be higher before long, because
it will raise just as much as land far
ther east that sells for two or three
| times as much"
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-05-07
Big Little cities

AS the farms were taken, towns
sDrang up in the night like weeds, put
mot ike weeds to wilt under the sum
m ss sun. They are not Boom towns,
~ are built On solid basis, vain
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1908-08-08
Grand Jury Finds Fraud in the
Democratic Primaries.
Votes Changed, and Votes Thrown Out
Improperly.
Indictments Would Have Been Found Had the Primaries Been
4egaized One, Everybody Supposed it Was.

as they voted them then. We al
so find one ticket that has heen
changed by erasure from EVatt
to Robinson and on examination
of the voter of said ticket he ties.
titled that he voted for Evatt.
From the hest evidence we
have been able to gather we find
that the poll books. tally sheets
aud ballots were delivered by the
judges of the various townships
To the chairman of the County
Central Com mittee properly
placed III envelopes. After care
full examination ef the poll books,
tally sheets and tickets, We find
that the poll books and all the
ballots in all the townships in
the county except Sugar Loaf
and Washington have been gone
through by some party or par
ties since they reached the hands
of the Central mittee aud II
code Of figures and signs placed
on either side of every voters
name which indicated how he vo.
ted in the race for sheriff aud
prosecuting attorney as the tick
cts shows since they were chang.
ed. The following is the KEY To-
the code used X ut the left Of
the voters name indicated he vol
ted for Robinson, O at the left inE
Dictated he voted for EVatt, X at
the right of the voters name n-
Dictated that he voted for Pace.
o at the right Indicated lhat he
voted for Sewell and at the
right that he voted fer Gilmore
The name of every man ir the
eighteen townships who voted
for sheriff or prosecuting attor-
ney is marked according to the
above system of signs and figures
We further find that through
carlessness or design the officers
Of the said County Central Com
mittee failed To file with the
County CLERK the certificate TWEEN
ty days before said primary as
required bv law, and hence SAID
primary was not legalized and for
that reason we return no indict-
ments.
Respectfully submitted
W. S. ALBRIGHT, Foreman.
J II. N. CRUMPLER, Clerk
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1908-08-08

Five years ago Hiram ?. Blanch-
ard moved from fancy county, Mo,
to Boone county. Ark, and settled
on quarter section near the Hill
Top post office. which is 90 miles
from Harrison. He was separated
from his wife, His sister kept house
for him. When she died he went
away. When he returned a year ago
his wife and son were with him.
This son gave it out that he was a
physician, registered in Nebraska,
where he had been living The Hill
Top residents ehristened him doc. "
In the year that followed the COM
ing of doc Blanchard to Hill Top
there was one event that was out OF
the ordinary. That was the organi-
cation of a Sunday school at the Hill
Top school house. The expoundings
of a Baptist preacher from time to
time, suggested the need of a Sun
dav school.
Word was sent out, and the Gar
Their mountaineers and their families
gathered on a Sunday afternoon to
organize the school. doc" Blaneh.
ard was there. By universal assent
he was the logical man for superin.
tendent. He had the education, and
so far as any of them could see. he
was as pious as the rest, if not a
little more so.
Although he declined the supern
tendency, he accepted the secretary.
ship, and at once became the gener,
al manager OF the institution, to
whom the superintendent and all
the rest looked as to natural
leader.
The Sunday school was thriving
under his direction. By virtue of his
profession, his intelligence and his
forcefulness he has been an acknowl
edged leader. He added to his pop
ularity by the performance of leger,
demain, at which he $50 clever as
to command the awe of country au
diences, and he made many trips
through the section, during which
he is supposed to have distributed
his bogus money quite literally.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1908-08-08

A careful examination of the bills
fof material captured at the Blan-
chard home last week, convinced U.
S. Marshal Sutterfeld that, not
withstanding the equipment and
counterfeit money found amounted
to fair wagon load, there should
vet be in hiding a considerable guam
tity of metals in some form or other
ready for the business.
Acting on this theory, Marshals
Sutterheld and Harp armed them
selves with a search warrant, and
hurrying out to Hill Top before old
Mr.. Blanchard and his wife had an
opportunity to return on Friday
last. they raised the floor of the
house at places where appearances
were suspicious, and probed the
ground beneath with an iron crow
bar.
UNDER THE e0oR-SToyE.
Several hours of hard work of thi
sort at last brought its reward in
the shape of the discovery of sack
containing fourteen hundred German
silver blanks cut to the size and
weight of dollar, buried directly
beneath the family cook stove.
These blanks were evidently cut
from sheets of specially prepared
metal were smooth and bright, and
gave out a ring when struck. even
more musical than the genuine dol
lar itself.
MRS. BLANcHARD's STATEMENT.
Following this find, Mrs. Blanch-
ard, who had arrived in the mean
time made statement in which she
said that the dies were cut and fin
ished about year and a half ago,
at Toilet, Montana, by DR.. Blanchard
and his partner Gohall, the black
smith. 1t was then agreed that
| both were to continue their expert
ments on differont features of the
work-Blanchard here and Cohall
at Red Lodge, Montana-and when
all details had been worked out, Co.
hall was to come here. and together
they would go into the business ex-
tensively,
| Fo WORK THE FAIRS.
L was their plan to work all the
fairs Of this and surrounding states
this fall. and they were pushing mat
tiers to get ready by that time.
Blanchard had only perfected his
part OF the work about two weeks
before, and it is supposed that Co.
hall is on his way to this country
now, if he has not been captured
Ell route.
In addition to the fourteen humid
red blanks, the Marshals brought
in with their last capture, a pouring
ladle and large and small crucibles.
The bag Of prospective coin was so
heavy that one man could scarcely
carry it.