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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-03

Washington May Six republi.
can state conventions. some Of
which will likely assume consider.
| able Importance as showing the di-
rection OF the political wind, will be
held during the coming week The
first OF these will be the New Jersey
convention, to be held in Trenton
on Tuesday. when four delegates at
large and twenty district delegates
will be selected. II Is expected that
Governor Fort, who has been prom
inently mentioned as Taft's running
mate in the presidential race. will be
chosen to head the DISQUALIFICATION
\ delegation favorable to Taft will
almost certainly be selected. and
there is a possibility that the con.
yention may indorsc the war secre.
tary, although many of the party
leaders favor an uninstuctcd dele.
cation.
On Tuesday and Wednesday the
republican state convention of con.
ncctiCut will be in session at Hart.
ford, and it now appears likely that
1t will send delegation instructed
Tor Taft to Chicago The strenuous
efforts made Wy the Hughes boom
ers In New ks neighboring STATE
have met wit. the success antici.
pated. Stamford. which is nearest
to New York of Connecticut cities
and where Governor Hughes was
supposed to have been strongest
indorsed Secretary Taft at a caucus
and similar action has been taken
in many other cities. Both Senator
Bulkeley and Senator Brandagec
Connecticuts representatives in the
upper house of congress. are oppos.
ed to Taft and will probably use
their influence 10 prevent his in
dorsement. II is likely, however, that
their influence will be sufficient to
thwart the object of the Taft aG-
herents which is to tie up the Con
necticut delegation hard and fast
for their candidate
What promises to be the most
interesting convention OF the week
will be that of Kentucky. to be
held in Louisville on Wednesday.
The republican state committee of
the Blue Grass state has not gone
on record as favoring any candi-
date. and a free-for.all fight has
been waged between the supporters
of the various presidential aspir-
ants. The contest is chiefly between
the Taft Fairbanks forces, Hon w.
o. Bradley Kentuckys republican
senator-elect, is leading the fight for
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-03
(By Glenn Guernsey

New York, May 2.-This has been
busy week for those optimistic
near-politicians who follow the for
tunes of Hearst's almost-a party, the
Independence League. 1t began last
Monday night with the second an
nual banquet OF the league and 1t
ends today with the state conven-
tion of the organization. Mr. Hearst,
understand, will not be indorsed
for president. Instead, that honor
will go 10 one Hisgen, a Massachu-
setts man who makes axle grease
for living and fights the Standard
Oil Company as means of grace.
Hurrah for Hisgen!
But let us not be haunted by the
fear that Mr. Hearst intends perma-
nently TO retire from politics. No
such thing. Mr. Hearst merely pro-
poses to wait until the times are
more propitious for springing a
presidential boom Meanwhile, the
axle grease man from Massachusetts
is to be the goat.
Many New York newspaper men
remember Mr. Hearst when he first
came to New York and resurrected
the Journal from the cemetery in
which it was peacefully reposing.
He was then w. r. Hearst. When
his political ambitions began to bud
he became William r. Hearst. and
later, William Randolph Hearst,
Now his morning paper, the Ameri-
can refers TO him as the Honorable
William Randolph Hearst"
Hearst, the Mystery.
From the day he first arrived in
New York and startled the metrop-
oils with the flaming headlines OF his
apers-headline that often served
as "A cloak for a dearth of real news
Mr.. Hearst has been a mystery.
New York has been divided into
two camps, Hearst and anti-Hearst.
He has been alternately praised as
a god and damned as a self-seeking
demagogue. In the last year or two
the familiarity that breeds contempt
has somewhat diminished the fame
that hoyers about the yellow jour.
nalist, but the name of Hearst is
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-03
Rural Telephones

The Hewitt Rural Telephone com,
pany, OF which w. A. Darling OF Hev
itt Is manager, has just completed
the line that puts the sections OF
country around Wheeler, Healdton
Sneed, Keller, Newport, Reck, Orr
Eolian and Atlee in close communica
tion with the outside world. Not only
are those neighborhoods In connection
with Ardmore but about rs farmers
throughout the county have phones in
their homes and can transact bust
ness with the merchant in the city
without the necessity of having n
come 10 town TO do il.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-03

The best people must be all dead.
judging from the tombstones.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-03
IT'S A CHEAP
ROAD MAKER
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
TELLS OF SPLIT LOG DRAG.
a Missourisn is the Inventor Of a
Cheapy Made instrument for
Working Dirt Roads-lt Pre-.
vents the Formation Of Ruts.

The last edition OF the farmers
bulletin issued by the United States
department Of agriculture is devoted
to description and use of the split
log drag for building earth roads
The article is by Ward King of
Maitland, Mo. the inventor Of the
drag. At present MIR. King is an
expert In the department of agri.
culture.
When the split log drag was first
used by Mr. King In building good
roads his ncighbors treated IL as n
joke. In short time. however. II
Was generally used by them. and
declared to be a success.
The split log drag can be- made by
any farmer. The instructions pre-
pared by MIR. King follow:
\ dry cedar log is the best ma.
tcrial for drag Red elm and wal
nut when thoroughly dried are OK.
oellent, and box elder, soft maple
or even willow are preferable to
oak, hickory or ash.
The log should be seven or eight
teet long and from ten to twelve
inches in diameter and carefully
split down the middle. The heavi-
est aud best slab should be selected
for the front At point on this slab
four inches from the end that is 10
be at the middle OF the road locate
the center OF the hole to receive a
cross stake and twenty-five inches
from the other end of the front
siaD locate the center of. another
cross stake. The hole for the middle
stake will lie on line connecting
and halfway between the other two.
The back slab should now be placed
In position behind the other. From
the end which is TO be at the mid.
dle or the road measure twenty
Inches for the center of the cross
stake, and six inches from the other
end locate the center of the outside
stake. Find the center of the middle
hole as before When these holes are
brought opposite each other. one
end Of the back slab will lie sixteen
inches nearer the center of the road
way than the front one. giving what
Is known as "set back The holes
shrould be two inches in diameter.
These two slabs are then to be
fastened together by three cross
beams about three feet. six inches
long. The drag chain is hitched to
the implement in such way that
the implement follows the beam at
an angle OF 45 degrees.
by hauling the split log drag over
perfectly smooth surface the earth
Is forced toward the middle. After
this operation is repeated on both
sides OF a roadway crest is form
ed which serves AS a water shed,
preventing ruts and mud holes.
The average cost OF maintaining
mile OF road with the split log drag
is estimated from experiments in
Eastern Kansas and Missouri. at
H2.5O a year. In Ray county. Mo,
on road five miles long the cost
was 81 60 mile, This road. how
ever. WAS of clay and rpouirpd lit
tie attention.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-03
Catarrh cannon pc Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
canot reach the seat OF the disease
Catarrh is a blood or constitutional
disease, and In order TO cure ii you
must take internal remedies. Hall's
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, anC
acts directly on the blood and ma
cuous surfaces Halls Catarrh Cure
is not a quack medicine. II was
prescribed by one OF the best physl,
clans in this country for years and
is regular prescription, II is com
posed OF the best tonics known, com.
bined with the gest blood purifiers,
acting directly on the mucuous sur
faces The perfect combination OF the
wo ingredients is what produces such
wonderful results in curing Catarrh.
Send for testimonials free.
f, j. CHENEY q CO, Props,
Toledo. o.
Sold by druggists, price 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con,
stipadon.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-03
May lake Normal Chair.

Edmond, Okla, May at Is an
nounced here that Miss Lucy Haskell,
daughter OF Governor and Mrs. G. n.
Haskell, will be selected by the board
of regents as assistant instructor In
the department of English of the Cen.
tral state normal to succeed Miss
Overstreet. who has been transferred
to the Northwestern state normal at
Alya.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-03
NEWS, VIEWS
AND GOSSIP FROM new YORK

yet one to conjure among many mil.
lions.
Mr.. Hearst is well described by
William Salisbury, formerly a re.
porter on the Hearst papers, in a
recently published book, The Ca
reer of a Journalist" He says.
we all looked up in awe when II
was whispered about one evening
that Hearst was in the ofice, | saw
tall youngish-looking man. He
must have been six feet in height
and his weight was near two hun
dred. Yet he was not powerful built
His shoulders were not broad, his
frame not sinewy. His eyes were
clear and penetrating, but his eyes
were narrow, and his chin in6rm
He was neither blond nor brunette,
neither handsome nor homely, neith-
er strong nor weak. He would not
have attracted attention anywhere
save in a crowd of understood peo
pie"
SO much for Mr.. Hearst's physi-
cal peculiarities. His intellectual
ability Is another matter There Is
a wide variance of opinion, even
among the men who are on Mr.
Hearst's payroll. Some consider him
mediocre, others look upon him as
a genius. In any event, 1t Is reas-
Onably certain that the voters of
the country will some day be asked
to pass upon Mr.. Hearsts fitness
to act as president of the United
States. Not yet, but soon.
Cannon on Newspapers.
In the book mentioned above, the
author gives vent TO some pessi-
mistic utterances regarding the
newspapers OF the large cities OF the
country. After a decade spent as a re
porter and editor on the great jour.
mails OF New York, Chicago, Kansas
City and Omaha, ne clothes himself
in sackcloth and bewails the mer-
cenary spirit that pervades the great
'mouders OF public opinion" in the
great cities Of the land
Mr.. William Jennings Bryan, at
the recent dinner of the Associated
Press, also scolded the metropolitan
press severely, declaring that they
had sold their birthright for a
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-03
Burned to Death.

McAlestcr, Okla, May Mrs vii.
liam Dwyer and her tive-year-old son,
wife and child of William Dwyer oil
this city, We're burned to death in a
fire at Amarillo, Texas. yesterday
morning. The message that bore the
news contained no details of the fre
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-03
DanderIne

Works wonders. II produces hair
just as surely as rain and sunshine
produce crops. II produces a thick
growth OF luxuriant hair when all
other remedies fail We guarantee
Danderlne. All druggists sell II csc.
SOC and 800 per bottle. To Prove
its worth send this al and 10 cents
in stamps or silver and we will mail
YOU large free sample Know, on
Danderine Co.. Chicago, Ill. Dtf
Willmar tribune., 1908-05-13
Sunday School Convention.

Programs have been mailed to
the Sunday schools of the county,
giving full information regaring
the Kandiyohi County Sunday
School convention which will be
held in the Swedish Baptist church
of this city Friday and Saturday.
The first session will begin on Fri
day afternoon at two o'clock. Rev.
W. H. Payne will be present and
speak. On Friday evening at 7:30
the Song and Devotional service
will begin, and at eight O'Clock
State Secretary A. M. Locker will
speak on 1.-The Dawn of a New
World Power" ''The Sunday
School Pastor, twill be discussed by
Mrs. T. M. Findley on Saturday
morning at 9:l5, and 1.-The Super.
intendent" by A. M. Locker at
9:45; "The Sunday School Teach
er," at 1915 by Rev. w. H. Payne.
Other pastors and workers will par.
ticipate at this session.
Willmar tribune., 1908-05-13

MAKE GOOD
Company Drawing Big Houses
Each Night This
Week.

The advance promise Of the Sped
den-Paige Stock company have been
fulfilled to the letter. This splen-
did company of players opened the
weeks engagement at the Willmar
Opera House Monday evening to
about the largest audience of the
season. The initial performance
was ''When The Bell Tolls" and in
a very few minutes after the rise
of the curtain on the first act the
company had established themselves
as competent to please beyond the
ordinary. Mr.. Spedden and Miss
Paige as the leading actors are we'll
constituted to fill their position at
the head of the supporting cast.
Each Of the remaining members is
likewise an actor possessed of more
than the average amount of ability.
The specialties are not the latest
worthy Of note among the evenings s
pleasant impressions. The capacity
houses these players have so far
drawn, and so we'll deserve, will no
doubt continue to the end of their
weeks stay. A matinee will be
given on Saturday afternoon.
Willmar tribune., 1908-05-13
New Svea PARSONAGE.

Swan Rasmussen of Whitefeld
was a caller in Willmar last Satur-
day. Mr.. Rasmussen has had the
work of soliciting funds for the
new parsonage at Svea. He says
that the bids of the contractors
were such that the total cost will
reach $500, instead of $1,000 as
first expected. This will give Svea
very creditable parsonage. One
of the contributors was Hans Han
son of Hartford, Conn, who sends
a contribution of $4,000 to assist
his old home church.
Willmar tribune., 1908-05-13
e. ~vWk
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Pennock, May 12.-Misses Alma
and Laura Nelson of Arctander
visited in Willmar last week.
From there Miss Alma went to the
cities to spend the summer there.
Rev. Franklin, the new minister
at Salem, arrived here last week
with his family and household
goods.
Adolph Berglund was pleasantly
surprised by number of his
friends last Thursday evening, the
occasion being his 21st birthday an
niversary.
Miss Dena Edberg went to Will
mar last week.
Mrs. E. L. Thorpe visited in
Willmar between trains Thursday.
John Edberg of Willmar visited
with C. E. Bergquist and family in
Arctander last week.
A grand entertainment was given
here last Thursday evening by Mr..
Brose. Everybody went home with
a smiling face.
Adolph Norman started to buy
cream Saturday.
Wedding bells will soon ring in
Pennock.
Mrs. Carl Carlson took her little
girl to Willmar last FRIDAY to un-
dergo an operation for appendicitis.
The operation was successful and
the little girl is recovering nicely.
Mrs. E. F. Lindgren has gone to
Minneapolis with her little girl to
seek medical aid for the latter, who
has been suffering for some time
with some eye trouble.
Gust Lind went to the cities Fri
day.
Gust Bergl1nd is passing the ci-
gars on account of the arrival Of a
baby boy at his home.
The Pennock school closed last
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. Larson OF
Mamre went to Waverly Saturday
to visit relatives and friends.
Miss Lorentz closed a successful
term of SCHOOL, n Dist. Is, Mamre,
last Friday. She left on Saturday
for her home in Willmar.
Miss Lena Botnen of Willmar
sister of Mrs. E. L. Thorpe, il
clerking for Floren & Lindgren.
The new steel gang came into
Pennock Monday morning.
John Lindberg is the happy faith
er of a baby boy, and the cigars are
going around. Magne.
Willmar tribune., 1908-05-13
Court House Briefs

Quite few taxes are being paid
into the county treasurer's office.
A. F. Nordin went to Minneapo-
lis yesterday for a few days stay.
N. L. Ericsson, the Raymond at
torney, transacted business in the
Clerk of Court Office yesterday.
Edward Feig made visit at the
courthouse yesterday. He was on
his way to Raymond to transact
business in the interest of the Kan
diyohi County Fire Insurance Co.
J. w. True, representing the
Free Press Printing Co. of Manka-
to, Minn., visited some of the coun-
ty officers yesterday.
Auditor Feig went to Olivia yes
terday to confer with the Renville
county auditor regarding the affairs
of Judicial ditch No. 2.
Deputy Public Examiner C. E.
Johnson arrived at the courthouse
last Monday and left yesterday.
He was here for the purpose of
checking up the different county
officers.
The viewers on county ditch No.
27 are here today and making an
amended report Of their findings.
The original viewers report was
referred back to them for correc-
tion at the last special session Of
the county board.
The annual tax judgment sale
was held in the county auditor s
Office last Monday. Several bid.
ders appeared. Bank of Willmal
was represented by A. E. Rice and
Kandiyohi County Bank by L. O.
Thorpe, who also represented the
Netherlands American Land Co. ot
St. Paul. F. H. Welcome of Min.
neapolis was represented by w. D.
Frederickson. Harold Swenson o1
New London was represented b,
Peter Bonde. Several scattering
sales were made. The total Of tn,
Isales amounted to $2248.64.
Willmar tribune., 1908-05-13

The one-hundred and twentieth
general assembly of the Presbyteri-
ans will be held in Kansas City
from May 21 to June 2. Mission
aries of the church from Africa, In
dia, China, Japan, Korea, the Phi.
lippines, South America, Siam,
West India and many other climes
will attend the convention and tell
of the growth of the Presbyterian
church thruout the world. MIR. j.
H. Styles of this city will represent
the St. Clound Presbytery at the
convention.
Willmar tribune., 1908-05-13
Synod Young People.

The Y. P. S. of the Synod church
will meet in the church parlors on
Monday evening, May Is, at 8:15.
The following program will be Civ
en-:
Hymn
Scripture Reading
Vocal Solo. Helen Sather, with vio-
lin obligato by Edgar Sather
Reading, Edith Thorpe
Piano Duet, Minnie Nelson and
Mary Botnen
Violin Solo, Amy Jorgenson
Reading, Carl Amenrud
Piano Duet, Inga Grangaard and
Inga Olson.
Refreshments will be served.
Willmar tribune., 1908-05-13
In the Churches
SW. LUTH. BETHEL CHURCH.

~ AO ILL., x4OxlOxIs
There will be services next Sun
day morning. Sunday afternoon
Rev. Peterson conducts services at
Pennock. Midweek services Thurs.
day evening. The Ladies Society
meet on Thursday afternoon, May
2l. They will be entertained by
Mesdames John A. johnson and Au-
gust Hoglund. Next Monday a
mission meeting will be held in the
New London pastorate, beginning
Monday evening. On Tuesday
evening there will be services at
Spicer by some of the visiting pas
tors, and the mission meeting will
be continued there on Wednesday.
The subject for discussion will be
''The Importance Of Organization
in Christ's Church. "
Willmar tribune., 1908-05-13
Farm Lands Cheap.

Hardwood timber land in Aitkin
Co., Minn., close to the new 500 R.
R., $500 per acre down, balance in
ten or fifteen years, 6 per cent, on
or before. This is not cutover or
stump land; virgin forest Of hard
wood, timber will more than pay
for land. Good soil, best dairy
country in the world.
Safer than bonds, better than life
insurance. There has been but one
crop of land; there will never be
another: the crop is getting short,
you will have to hurry. For maps
and price see l. T. Cramer, Will
mar, MINI. 1922
Willmar tribune., 1908-05-13
District Convention at At,vate1

D1Str1Ct convention At AtvV0ter.
The w. C. T. U. of the Eighth
district will hold a convention in
Atwater on Thursday and Friday of
this week. The first session will be
held on Thursday afternoon. Mrs.
Bessie Laythe Scvoell, state pres
ident, will give a lecture on Thurs
day evening. On Friday there will
be sessions of the convention all
day. On Friday evening there will
be talk by Mrs. Scovell and prob
ably other speakers will address the
meeting. A program will also be
rendered, consisting of a couple of
orations, musical numbers, and
Mrs. Cairns of Willmar will sing.
The convention will hold its meet
ings in the Presbyterian church,
except on Friday evening, when the
meeting will be held in the Town
Hall.
Willmar tribune., 1908-05-13
THREE BOYS
BURNED IN G. N.
BOARDING CAR
lnqvald Strand of Benson Dies
from Injuries Sunday After
noon at Frost Hospital.

A boarding car of the Great
Northern carpenter crew was burned
at DeGraff last Thursday evening.
One of the inmates, Ingvald Strand
of Benson, was fatally burned !;
Magnus Anderson of Benson and
Theodore Rosby of Willmar were
severely burned and Odin Wigdahl
and a fifth boy escaped with slight
burns. The boys had all turned in
to their hunks for the night, except
Strand. He sat down to write a
letter-one Of the reports says that
the letter was to his sweetheart.
After a time he got up and tried to
revive the fire. The weather be-
ing cool, the boys had tried to keep
fire in their stove in the car dur
ing the evening. It had gone out
and Strand tried to revive it, pour
ing kerosene on the embers from a
five-gallon can. An explosion fol-
lowed and the burning oil was scat
tered about. It was only with the
greatest difficulty that the inmates
of the car managed to get out thru
window. The Benson Times
states that one of the boys smashed
the sash Of the window with keg
and with the utmost difficulty the
men escaped from the burning car,
the inside of which was one mass
of flames. The clothes both on
their bodies and in the car were al
most consumed, including several
sums of money belonging to the
men. The car burned very quickly
and nothing but a shell was left by
the time the gasoline engine had
got out to it to put out the fire.
The fast freight came along and in q
few minutes the. injured men were
placed aboard and rushed to Will.
mar in twenty-four minutes from
the, time they started. Here they
were taken to the Frost hospita.
and the Great Northern surgeons
did everything possible to relieve
the sufferers in their terrible pains.
Strand, who was most severely
burned, lived until Sunday after.
noon. Anderson and Rosby are do.
ing as we'll as could be expected
and their recovery is confidently ex'
pected. Young Wigdahl returned
to his work yesterday.
The deceased, Ingvald Strand
was one of seven brothers, who
came from Norway to make thi.
country their home. One of the
brothers is H. H. Strand of Benson
who was with his brother during
the last hours and after the remain.
had been embalmed, took them tt
Benson for burial. The funera
services are held this afternoon
The unfortunate young man was O:
an upright and industrious charac
ter and his mourning relatives hav'
the sympathy of the entire com
munity.