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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-04-30
Wahpeton will have strong

Wahpeton will have a strong
ball team this season.
Order your township blanks
from the Times office.
The only complete set OF
legal blanks in Richland Co. is
at the Times office.
Before letting the contract
for your cement walk get John
Rischard's prices. If.
Special sale on manure spred.
ers for three weeks at t h e
Farmers Supply Co. 81
For sale: A lot of old win.
dows and window frames
enquire of H. D. Landes. 2w
"Bismarck"-best wines and
liquors by bottle or gallon, all
kinds of bottle beer. If.
Supt. F. E. Smith and wife
were guests of E. H. Smith and
family at Fargo over Sunday.
c. J. Frederick of the firm of
Fredrick & Barrett, is laid up
with a bad case of rheumatism
The Methodist ladies will
have home baking for sale in
the old Gazette building Sat-
urday afternoon, May 2.
Mrs. ]. B. Lotzer left We'd
nesday for Hartenville, Wis.,,
called there by the serious
illness OF her sister, Mrs. Anna
Burn.
The Old Settlers Association
of Richland county will hold a
two days session at Paramount
sometime during the coming
season.
Dell Allen, Martin Helline
and Asa Stevens were called
to Wahpeton Friday to assist
the Science school band in
furnishing music at gather
ing held there that evening"
Walcott Reporter.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-04-30

Emil Oberhoffer will conduct
the May Festival in Grand
Forks the second week i'll May,
Geo. Wichman, Wahpeton's
hustling clothier is talking
again. George is great
fellow to talk, but he always
has the goods to back it, and if
you are from Missouri or any
other old place, call at his place
and he will show you.
John B. Hazlett, who was
granted new trial by the
supreme court, for the shoot
ing of L. NJ. Van Buskirk, at
Geneseo, in Sargent county,
has been seriously sick at the
county Jail at Forman, and has
been taken to the hospital at
Cogswell.
The general conference of
the Methodist Episcopal
church convenes in Baltimore
on May 9th. Several persons
are going from North Dakota.
Three ministers and three lay
man as delegates. Others to
get glimpse of the greatness
that wins.
G. NJ. Marsh our worthy tow
mill man dropped in our den
the other day and flashed a
news paper on us that was
printed in the city of Boston
on Monday March End, 1910, by
Edes & ellis. It is quite an
oddly in it's makeup and
much faded.
According to the prognostica-
tons of that celebrated weather
foreteller Ira Hicks, May will
be a stormy month, full of
tornadoes, thunderstorms, hail
and frost. From the 18th to
the 10th, thunderstorms will
prevail and from the 10Th to
10Th it will be very cool.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-04-30

If you want a rubber stamp
send your order to the Times
office.
Phillip Dellinger, manager
of the Miller Dredgeing Co.,
in the west part of the coun-
ty was in the city Monday and
says that the Garborge and
Viking machines are throwing
dirt, and that two more mach
ines will start IN about a week.
On Sunday Rev. w. J.
H utcheson will preach in the
Methodist church at 1890 a. m.
and 8p. m. Subject "Hearts"
and THE Men who Went"
Hearty singing will mark each
service. All having no other
church home are invited to
attend.
A Kansas editor who paid
little attention to punctuation
is now defendent in a libel suit
because he published an item
as follows: 1.-TWO young men
went with their girls to attend
teachers meeting and after
they left, the girls got drunk"
The comma should have gone
after "the girls" but as it is
the girls have gone after the
editor.
The Soil Survey will begin
in this county about the Goth
The postoffice department
had about closed arrangements
to discontinue the stage line
mail service between here and
Great Bend, the intention be-
ing to supply Great Bend by
ru raj carrier from Tyler. The
business men of Great Bend
made a vigorous protest, how
ever that the plan has been
abandoned and the service
will continue as heretofore.
Ham, inson News.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-04-30
LOCAL NEWS.

This Office for COOP job work.
Times office for all kinds of
Legal Blanks.
For paints, oils and white
leads, call on John Rischard. If
Found: A ladies belt, for
particulars call at Ali Ka-
mones.
Automobile for sale in first
class order. G. w. Horton 9TH
street. If
How do you like the make
up of the Times this week
all home print?
IL your dog decorated with a
tag? If not the dog catcher
will be after him.
Wanted: Girl for general
house work, four in family,
Mr.. Geo. Wichman.
DR.. Zimmerman, d n t i 8 t,
Office in Miksche & Benesh
Building, Brock n ri d g e.
Phone 228 J. If
Good Pasture-You should
engage pasture for your horses
and cattle. Will open large
pasture May 4th., See S. T.
Dakin, Breckenridge, MINI. 2w
Assessors have received
proper instructions and the i'm
plements of their offices and
put to work. The valuation of
the county will show a con-
siderable increase this year.
Our old friend John Holthu.
sen, we'll known all over the
county, has announced himself
in the Times this week as a
candidate for the nomination
for the office of register of
deeds.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
FOR THE RAILWAY BEAUTIFUL
Good Progress Being Made on Most OF
the American Lines.

Much is heard-not too much--about
the house beautiful and the city beau
tiful, but what about the railway beau
tiful? Sylvester Baxter discusses it
interestingly in the Century Magazine.
With the aid of a profusion of magnifl-
cent illustrations he makes an inn
pressive appeal for the Identification
of the American railway.
TO Germany he awards the palm for
this sort of work. The way stations
are artistically designed, the terminal
stations are monumental and imposing,
and the railroad grounds are every
where decked out with flowers and
shrubbery. The way stations in Eng
land, he says, are without archi-
tectural pretensions, prosaic and com
monplace and disfigured with adver-
tisements, though there is an attrac
tive neatness displayed along the way
side as we'll as at the stations.
Mr.. Baxter's treatment OF the rail-
way beautiful in the United States is
optimistic. He takes pleasure in show
ing the immense improvement that has
taken place in late years and that is
now in progress. He spreads before
his readers a series of charming views
of particular way stations east and
west, and makes it perfectly plain
that before a great while this country,
despite its immense spaces and dis
tances, will be the real home of the
railway beautiful
Nowhere is this improvement more
visible than in the suburbs of Chicago.
Thirty years ago any shanty was good
enough for the suburbanites, but now
many of them take their trains from
buildings and grounds that would be
a credit to any park and that are not
often surpassed in any country of
Europe. There is a good deal to be
desired yet, but the actual improve
ment is remarkable.
Mr.. Baxter has not much to say
about terminal stations except to de-
scribe the new union station in Wash
ington as the grandest in the world.
But he might have said, also, that
there are some great terminal stations
in this country and that others are
projected. in Chicago and New York,
which will leave very little to be de-
sired in that line.
The day will come when the railway
beautiful will mean the whole railway,
from end to end. There is no reason
why positive ugliness should not be
banished from every railroad track,
and much of it give place to neatness
and even beauty.-Chicago Record
Herald
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
No Pockets in His Garments.

The story of A Man Without a
Country" is familiar to almost every
schoolboy, yet 10 many ways an
idiosyncrasy of an employe of the gov.
eminent printing office at Washington
takes the cake" when considering the
fixed habits of the male gender. The
peculiarity of this man-and he is old
enough to be a grandrather-is that he
has not had pocket in any of his gar
ments for 20 years. And thereby
hangs d tale:
Twenty years ago young man was
wearing an expensive overcoat for the
FIRST time on the streets of Kansas
City. He was also smoking Il pipe
Invited into a friends house the pipe
disappeared into pocket Of the over
coat, and half an hour afterward the
coat was a smOldering ruin. The young
man swore a fearful oath that thence
forth he would not have a pocket in
his garments, and he has kept his VOW
Nereing into old age, yet his tailor is
instructed not to place a pocket in
coat vest or trousers.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28

In demanding to be carried in the
shortest possible time between, say,
New York and Chicago, do travellers
relinquish their right to the exercise
of due caution by the carrying corpo-
ration? Even if they choose to SO
relinquish, is the company justified
in neglecting properly to guard them
against the fatal effect of their own
inclinations? A man is forcibly re-
strained from committing suicide
when the attempt is discovered in
time. The railroad officials say they
are using the best machinery and the
most perfect type of equipment and
are constantly trying to secure the
most complete safeguards against ac-
cident But, meantime, the proportion
Of fatal accidents, when compared to
numbers of people carried, increases.
Official statistics have shown that the
ratio of passengers killed to those
carried is nearly six times greater
here than in Great Britain. The rail
roads in Great Brit"'n have faster
trains than ours, but the accidents are
far less
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
UNUSUAL NAMES on SIGNS.
Many to Be Seen in the National Cap
ital and Elsewhere.

"Some day, when | get time" said
Representative Ryan, of Buffalo, re-
Gently as he seated himself in a com
Portable chair in the Republican cloak
room and applied light to a long
black cigar, II intend to write mag
azine article or something on bust
ness and professional signs
Mr. Ryan said that the jotting down
of odd and unusual names he beheld
on signs had become quite a tad with
him
Frequently" he continued, the
names on the doors of business places
are exceedingly appropriate, and then,
again they are quite the reverse. For
instance, ! have often noticed on my
way to the capitol the sign of to-
bacconist 1t is Plugge. Another
speaking sign is that of Needle, a
tailor DAILY & Knightly, en- another
street. announce that they are en-
gagged In the business of plumbing.
Yet in spite of their implied willing
ness to attend to the wants of their
customers at all hours, | understand
that their establishment is closed
promptly at six o'clock every evening.
"Barnwell Robinson is veterinary
surgeon, and his name should appeal
to the owners of live stock. There is a
tailor on a side street by the name of
Makeover. A man by the name Of
Garden is florist, and | have been
told of a saloon over in East Wash
ington conducted by man named
Booze, a very appropriate name. Re-
minds me of a similar place in my
town OF Buffalo kept by a German
named Sauerwein' But / never could
understand why two of my constitu-
ents at home. Drinkwine and Mumm.
by name, formed a partnership and
opened a tonSorial parlor instead of a
sample room. Overturf would seem
to be very appropriate name for a
real estate dealer, and a gentleman
of that name in Buffalo appears to be
doing a thriving business in that line,
when Representative Steele, of
the Hoosier state, was defeated
for reelection he formed a law
partnership with man named
Robb. OF course, there is moth
ing in a name, but-er-Robb &c
Steele does not seem to have exactly
the proper sound for a firm of at
torneys! And | don't know that an.
other sign, Chew, Chew, Chew, At
torneys at Law, sounds much better,
When | get the time | shall prepare a
brochure on this subject. In the mean
time, | should like to know how the
firm of Irish & English, in Buffalo,
got mixed up; English is Irish, and
Irish is English. The matter would
almost seem to warrant a diplomatic
inquiry"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
British Trainmen's Pay Small.

British railroads increased their
gross receipts by $18,5O0,OOO in 1907,
but the holders of ordinary stock re-
ceived $685., 900 less in dividends than
the previous year. Neither do the
employees fare so we'll as in the United
States. The latest issue of the Rail-
way News, London, contains statistics
showing that the expenses of the 2S
leading railroads rose $16,900,000
which nullifed the greater gross rev.
enue. Compensation of employees re-
quired but $145 100000, as compared
with 81, ,O43, ,4O1 ,267 paid to railroad en-
ployes in the United States for the
corresponding period. In America the
employees receive 41.6 per cent. of the
operating receipts, while in Britain
they get but 26.S.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
PITTSBURG TO TAX PIRATES
City May Impose Assessment of SIS
Per Game.

Mayor George w. Guthrie of Pitts
burg, Pa, has refused to accept an an
nual pass from the Pittsburg Baseball
club and refused to allow any of the
city employees to take a pass.
AS a peculiar coincident to his ac-
ton Common Councilman Hugh Fer
guson at a meeting of that body intro
duced an ordinance which provides
that for all professional baseball
games played within the city limits
tax of SIS shall be paid. Inasmuch as
the Pittsburg team plays 20 games at
home, this means that the Pittsburg
Baseball club will have to pay total
of $5250 for the season if the or
dinance passes. Up to the present
time it has paid $3.50 year and the
city of Allegheny, where the games
are played did not make any special
effort to collect, as each councilman
was provided with a pass.
This year, because of the consolida-
ton of the two cities, the games are
being played in Pittsburg Barney
Dreyfuss, president of the Pittsburg
club, did not send passes to the coun-
cilmen of the greater city for the sea-
son. In a statement he issued re-
Gently, in refusing to issue passes,
Dreyfuss said:
it has mapped out or close its game"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
Accusation a New One.

Secretary William Loeb, who car
ries as many Official secrets under a
tall silk hat as any other man in
Washington, walked back to the White
House Offices the other day smiling
in spite of the fact that he had been
visiting the dentist.
You must have had a good time"
aas suggested to him.
The dentist told me | kept my
mouth open too wide" said the faith
ful secretary, "and l told him it was
the first time had ever been accused
of it,"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
Railroad Built on Ice,

The most curious railroad in the
world is built on ice. 1t is laid be-
tween Cronstadt and Oranienbaum,
and is in use only during the winter.
It's success has suggested the con-
struction of a similar winter railway
between the two important CONNER
cial centers, Krementchug and Ekat.
arinoslav, which are united in summer
by the steamboat traffic along the
Dnieper river. This means of COM
munication is closed in winter by the
ice. A costly, roundabout journey has
to be made between the two towns,
though they do not lie far apart
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
Southern Railroad EXPANSION.

Texas has for some years led all the
states in railway mileage, having at
present total of 18, 021 miles round
thousand in excess of Illinois, Missis.
sippi and Tennessee. Florida and
Arkansas have each a greater mile
age than North Dakota, where con.
struction has been pushed within the
last decade. Railway expansion in the
south is keeping pace with, if it is not
forging ahead of, industrial develop
ment.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
6OBBY WNLLBCE

keeps him as long as he can play any
sort of ball, because it is hard to find
a youngster who can take his place
OF all infielders the game has ever
producci John McPhee, who a few
years ago quit the game, has the
greatest record. He played 10 seasons
on the Cincinnati team at second base,
and for II years wore a glove. He was
playing as good ball as he ever did
when he quit, but found it a hardship
to get himself in condition in the
spring. Baseball men claim there is a
scarcity Of catchers now. Fewer good
backstops are being developed and
more pitchers than guardians of any
other position. This no doubt because
the boy, when he starts to play ball
soon finds out that catching is not an
easy job.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
Show SIGHTS and Celebrities.

Did you ever notice" asked the
visitor TO Washington, that this is the
city where every one is always point
ing out something? Whenever you
take a walk with a resident or a
friend who knows the place and the
people it is a constant Identification Of
persons or places.
"'ThaGs So and SO, the senator
from X, your friend will tell you
"Then he'll indicate to you SUI
preme court justice or some other
celebrity what time he isn't pointing
out houses and buildings of impor-
tance. Almost every one down there
does that mechanically. It's the great
poiHting out place
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28

WHCn ne NceCS TlTHs
Connie Mack is a sure enough win
ner.
When it comes to digging up bush
| league phenoms. you must hand the
hero medal to Connie.
When Mack needs man to
strengthen his team, it seems he
knows just where to get him and nine
times out of ten he delivers.
Connie Mack discovered Jimmy Dy-
CERT in the Hudson River league and
sent him to New Orleans for years
seasoning before bringing him into the
big league.
Jack" Coombs was discovered by
the old fox in the wilds of Maine.
Jacks home Is in Kennebunk, Me-,
wherever that happens to be, and the
only pitching he had ever done be
fore joining Mack was for Colby uni
versity
When Monte Cross showed that he
was about ready to drop out Of the
majors, Mack started to hunt around
for a shortstop. He secured Nichols
from the Southern league, carried him
year and then made him regular,
allowing Cross to become a minor
league manager.
When Rube Waddell was sold by
Mack to the ST. Louis team, critics
all over the country figured that the
pitching staff of the Athletics would
be weak The slim manager evil
dently knew what he was doing
when he made the sale for the Ath-
letics look better than ever. The
team is playing fine ball, harmony
reigns supreme and the pitchers arc
working better than ever.
Mack figured that "Rube" Vickers
was due to deliver this year, and 1t
looks as if the dope is right. "Rube"
has been showing up in great form
and gives every indication of becom-
ing a regular. Bender, Plank and
Dygert are slowly rounding into
shape and several of the heaving re-
cruits look mighty classy.
The latest Mack find is Pitcher
Nick Carter, no relation to the fam
Gus dime novel detective. The MEM
bers of the Phillies, however, are
willing to testify that his assortment
of curves is more perplexing than
any case the original Nick eve
worked on. Carter was used in the
first game of the city series at Phila-
delphia and made good with a ven
geance. The Phillies were shut out.
getting only two hits, the first one
in the seventh inning.
Nick Carter is a big husky chap
and has great speed, good curves
and an excellent splitter. He was
with Syracuse in the New York State
league last year and his work made
big hit with the tall manager Of
the Athletics Mack evidently kept
him under cover in the south, for he
received less advance notices than
any of Mack's twirlers. Carter, how
ever, made good right off the reel
with vengeance and now he has all
the fans in quiet Philly whispering
his name.
1t is true that the other managers
pick up star players in the different
leagues, but no manager manages to
get players as cheaply as Mack and
sign them to as small salaries. 1t
seems as ii Mack had scouts every
where, for he picks up stars that no
other manager ever heard of.
Catcher Smith, who received Car
ter in his debut game, is said to be
a great catcher He was dug up by
Mack in the Southern league and is
an improvement over Mike Powers.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
Building TweIve.MiIe Tunnel.

A 12-mile tunnel under the Cas-
cade mountains is what the Great
Northern Railroad Company is now
building, according to a statement
made by a man who has returned
from the hills. He states that two
large camps are in the vicinity Of
Leavenwortn developing electric DOW
er for j. j. Hills line.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
OF Peculiar Construction.

A railway through the mountains
north of the Adriatic sea, constructed
by the Austrian government to build
up the trade of Trieste, though only
130 miles long, has 679 bridges and
viaducts. 1t also runs through 49 tun
nels.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28

Statistics show that shortstops last
longer than other infielders, and yet
it is always said second base, for in
stance, is easier to play than short.
There are more veterans playing short
than any other infield position. Dab
len of the Boston Nationals, Wallace
of the ST. Louis Browns, and George
Davis, who until this year played in
the short field are veterans in the
game, and no other infield position
can claim men of as much experience.
Good shortstops are scarce, and when
a club gets suitable man it usually
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
Winns a Contract Jnmner.

Jimmy Wiggs, the former Detroit
pitcher, has been refused reinstate-
ment by the national commission and
has been proclaimed contrsc
jumper.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28

Monte Cross, manager of the Kan
sas City club and formerly with the
Philadelphia Athletics, when asked
for his opinion on the American
league race, said: Il pick the Chi
cago White Sox to land the pennant
this season, with the New York Amer
leans a close second. The Detroit
Tigers and St Louis will fight it out
for third place. The Browns are ex-
ceedingIy fast and will cause all the
clubs lot of trouble"
Cross thinks the Athletics will not
figure largely in the race. He is
pleased with his berth at Kansas City
and says if he can ever get his club
to playing the inside ball he tells
them to, Kansas City easily will win
out.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28

duets ought to
qualify Uncle Sam
for admission to
the guild of auc-
tioneers. T h G s e
sales are the real
thing, too. red flag
and all.
The tourist in
Washington gets a
shock when he is
passing the back
of the Department
of Agric t Il + e
huilding and see a