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Closing Quotations.


At the close of the stock market the fol,
above quotations. there being no chant1
in balance of the closing prices:
Am. Beet Sugar Co., 2OiA.
Am. Cotton OIL Co.. 34ss.
Am. Ice Securities. 3OA.
American Locomotive. 5J%.
American Smelling, 94k.
American Sugar, 135.
Anaconda, 46&.
Atchison, Top. and 8. Fee, s..
Atlantic Coast Line, 9O11.
Baltimore and Ohio, 81.
Brooklyn Rapid Transit, 81
c. c. c. and st. l., 5511s.
Chicago, MIL and st. Paul, 142.
Chicago and N. W., 1884,.
Colorado Fuel and iron, 3S,s.
Colorado Southern. 33;S.
Consolidated Gas, E36.
Delaware and Hudson, 1851
Erie. common, %.
Erie. LIST pfd., 70.
General Electric, las
Great Northern. pfd., 1854.
Interboro Metropolitan. pfd.. 81
Mo-, Kan & Tex, COM, 31,z.
Missouri Pacific, SIS.
National Lead, &k.
New York Air Brake. 75k.
New York Central, 1Ol&.
Pennsylvania r. r., 1231f.
Peoples Gas Of Chicago, 943z.
Reading. l24.
Republic Iron & Steel. pfd., IS.
Rock Island. pfd., 32ls.
Southern Pacific, 97H.
Tennessee Copper, $751;.
Toll. st. Louis & West, 261k
Toll, st. L. & West. pfd., 57A.
Union Pacific. 1854.
u. 3. Rubber pfd., 100.
L. 9. Steel. An.
y. s. Steel. pfd.. 1851.
Utah Copper, -.
Westinghouse Elee. Man., toy.
Wisconsin Central, %.
Wisconsin Central pfd., 43h.
BONDS.
b. n. T. Is. 1914.
marlborough Met. 4Ms, 61h.
United States Steel So. 100
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THE BAIT1MoRE nARKErs
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE. Md. August la.-wHEAr-
western. SSaS8x: August. S1Has7&: September.
o7naS7J Decembss. ee1aese$; steamer No.
e COO bushels:. southern By sample, STATS;
southern on grade. sSN a80s..
$50 .s1es ys.l seesS ,sePsses
exports. 500 bushels; southern waite com,
S3as7; southern yellow corn. sSaS7.
OATS-Steady; new No. white, S3a63h; new
No. white. 6la52Hs: new No. mixed t6LaSi !:
receipts. q. 043 bushels
RYE-Firm: No. 2 western domestic 0Oa0l :
receipts, 1871 bushels.
HAY-Steady, unchanged.
GRAIN FhEiGHT&- Dull. unchanged.
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30 French.
From London Ideas.

FROM London Ideas.
Thousands of visitors go to France
every year to buy French articles Of tot
let. They come home again laden with
hats made Of italian straw, dresses OF
English cloth. American boots. oriental
scents. japanese sunshades. and leather
goods made in Austria
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Government Securities.


From the Yopkers Statesman.
BILL understand Bryan's hopes are
ON the presidential chair.
JilI-Well Taft won't do thing TO
hose hopes when he sits in that chair.
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Liverpool Grain Prices
Treasury Statement.

Today's statement OF the Treasury
balances in the general fund. exclusive
of the $4,000. coo gold reserve. shows:
Available cash balance. S101 sos 19.
Gold coin and bullion, $50. 331 1888.
Gold certificates, $33, 74S,0Oo.
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From the London Madame.

can never understand why women
have. such q craze for scarlet hair. It Ia
by no means generally becoming. and
when unnaturally procured, it is usually
obtrusively vulgar, while as to its sim
cerity, 1t could not deceive the veriest
babe or sucking. Why wear a mass of
scarlet. almost cerise. curls. when your
face is wrinkled and the hair on your
temple grows greywards?
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Smith Gift aged about fifty years. en-
ployed at Bryon's tannery, Williamsport,
Md, was arrested on the charge Of at
tempting to assault his stepdaughter,
Miss Eulice Oliver. thirteen years old.
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Women Have Changed.
yron the Montreal Witness.

Women have changed since Wordsworth,
who was with reason an infinite admirer
Of women, spoke Of them q century ago
as creatures for transient sorrows sim
pie wiles. praise. blame. love. kisses. tears
and smiles +"
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CHICAGO, August 1s.-Wheat was
about steady at tho opening today. owing
to moderate buying by some Of the lead
ing bulls, but eased of later on selling by
commission l1ouse1 which was baseb
mainly On weakness In northwestern mar
kets. September opened Is lower to
higher at 92A to 92h, sold up to 1Ist and
asai1 to 1a1ts higher at 1914 to TN and
for a time held within that range.
September oats opened q shade to gan
higher at 41H to 4Si4 and advanced to
ls1h
september pork opened 2h off at 14.7o.
lard Sc lower at 0121s and ribs 21sc OF at
&87,4.
remainder Of the day: The high point Tor
September was reached at 93A. Small
country acceptances in the southwest
helped to strengthen the market. The close
was Arm, with September AaH higher. at
89,sa9S1l.
last half, the market closing firm, with
September up MaK at TIN.
Close: Wheat-September, 9Sha93k: De-
cember. 94ssa94h: May. 9eh
September. TIN; December. 65ta
osts-september. 4sx: December. 4sA;
Pork-september. A.77ts; October 1870;
IArd-september. s.22sl; october. e.s2s4:
January. 9.1Oa9. 12h.
Ribs-September, $40; October, s.Tha
$50; January, S.1O
Rye-Cash. 1871
Barley-Cash, 61a67.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., $3.50.
Liverpool Grain Prices.
LIVERPOOL, August 19.-Closing:
Wheat-spot quiet; No. red western WIN
ter, Is e,sd: No. l California, 7s 1O31d;
futures quiet; September, 70 3Ad: Decem-
Der. 7s Sd.
Corn-Spot firm; American mixed, Is I'D;
futures dull; September, 5s end.
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There are things which you can't get For
love or money. They are substantially
the same things which you can't set tes
money.-Puck.
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Motive Power on the Land.
From the Country Life

The time is probably not far distant
when we shall see a great development of
motive power as applied to agricultural
operation
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AS a nation we probably carry more con-
tinued stories in our heads than any
people in historT-Puck.
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Am. Sugar.
Am. Sugar, pfd.
Am. lob, pfd. go. .
Anaconda .........
At, Top. & s. Fee. .
A. T. & S. F.. pfd. .
At. Coast Line. . .
Baltimore & Ohio. .
B. & O.. pfd. .......
Brook. Rapid Tran.
Canadian Pacific.
&c. c.. c. & st. l.. .
Central Leather.
Cen. Leather. pfd. O..
Chesa. & Ohio.
Chi. Great Western
Chi. Mil. & st. p. .
c.. NJ. & ST. p, pfd.
Chicago & n. W.
Col. Fuel i: Iron.
Col. Southern. ......
Z. IL H. G. & I.
Consolidated Gas.
EOrn Products. 800.
Corn Products. pfd.
Delaware q Hudson
Del, Lac. & West. i.
Den. & Rio Grande.
DistillerS' Securities
Erie, common. ......
Erie, LIST pfd. .......
Erie, I'd pfd. ........
General Electric. g.
Great Nor. Ore.
Great Nor, pfd.
Hooking Valley.
Hooking Valley, pr.
Illinois Central. go.
Interboro Met.
Interboro Met. pfd.
International Paper.
X. c. Southern. 49,.
X. c. Southern. pfd.
Louisville, & Nash. /.
Mackay Co.'S.
Mackay Co.'S, pfd. .
Mexican Central. 90.
NJ, X. & T.. conn.,.
NJ, X. & T.. pfd.
NJ, s. P. & 8. 8. NJ.
NJ. g. Pc S.S. NJ, pf
Missouri Pacific. 80.
National Biscuit Co.
Nat. Biscuit Co., pr.
National Lead.
N. Y. Air Brake. -.
N. Y. Central. ......
N. Y, Chi. & st. l..
N. Y, C. & g. L.. ID
N. V. Ont. & W.
Norfolk & Western.
Northern Pacific. -.
Pac. Mail Steam. %.
Pennsylvania R.R. {.
Peoples Gas Of Chi. /.
Pressed Steel Car. .
Ry. Steel Spring Co.
Ry. g. 8. Co, pfd.
Reading ............
Rep. Iron & Steel. -.
Rep. I. & g., pfd.
Rock Island, com.
Rock Island. pfd.
Sloss-S hemeid Steel.
8. L. & S. F.. ID pr.
st. Louis S. W., pfd.
Southern Pacific. -.
SO. Pacific. pfd. 80.
Southern Ry. .......
Southern Ry., -pM. I.
Tennessee Copper. =.
Toll. st. L. & W.
r., & l.. & w, pM.
| Union Pacific. ......
Union Pacific. pfd. q.
| u. 8. Rubber .......
L. 8. Rubber. pfd. i.
Z. s. Steel. .........
L. g. Steel, pfd.
| Utah Copper. .......
| Va. Car. Chem. Co.
| Va. L., G. e. G. Co. /.
| Wabash ....... .
Wabash, pfd. .......
Western Union.
West. Elec. Man. .
| Wisconsin Central. .
Wisconsin Cen, pfd.
Wooden Goods. 800.
Wooden Goods, pfd.
Am. Tob. AZ. .......
Am. Tob. 8s. .......
B. r. T. AZ. ........
Inter. Met. AVS.
Rock Island 4s.
| U. s. Steel 5s. $500.
Union Conver. 4s. .
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The Safest Investments

Are those that do not ductuafe during DE-
markets. First deed Of trust notes {1fSt
mortgagesl, well secured on real estate u
the District OF Columbia. constitute ''61lt
edge" Investments. They Do not depend
upon the financial responsibility Of iodivid-
uals OF corporations for their stability. and
are exempt from TAXATION a. personal
property. We can supply such invest.
send for booklet. "Concesnisg Lsaas saa
Investments"
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The World of
Finance and Trade


Furnished by W. B. Hibbs 4 Co.. bank
ers and brokers. Hibbs building. members
New York Stock Exchange. Washington
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Trade.
Open. High. Low. $40.
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Liverpool Cotton Prices.
CURB QUOTATIONS..

Quotations furnished BY E; F. Hutton 4 Co.
members Sew York Stock Exchange; G. Bowie |
Cbinman manager, 1901 1T. NV
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Open. High. Low. $50.
76N 781s 77H 77is
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1908-11-28
MAIL SERVICE

The local mail service between Dick
inson and jamestown has been consid-
erably improved during the past week.
Commencing with last Saturday, both
trains No. S and No. E will carry mail
between these two towns This benefits
especially the small towns along the
line where the faster trains do not stop
The principal benefit to the people of
Dickinson is in the service from the east.
No. S arrives at AS p. m. and brings
mail from the small towns and also
mail that in some way or other did
not. get on No. 3. arriving at ESQ.
which. otherwise, would not reach here
until No. 1. nearly IL hours later.
While the mail car starts at jamestown
at II SIS a. m. it often brings mail
from points further east, which has been
transferred at that point.
Going east, the principal benefits are
to the small towns No. 2 leaves here
at 8 90 p. m. and does not drop mail
at the small way stations, so that hither-
to practically the only mail train from
the west has been No. 4, leaving here at
10 so a. m. The new arrangement makes
about hours difference as the mail for
local stations leaves at 80 q. m.
The mail car arriving here on No. S
at night holds over until No. s the next
morning, going no further west. And
in the same way the car reaching James
town at 3 40 p. m. is held over there
until II :55 q. m. the next morning.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1908-11-28
BASKETBALL GAME

The opening basket ball game of the
season will be held in the armory Satur-
day evening. Two games will be
played. one between the regular Co. X
team and a team representing Dickinson
and between the halves the two teams
of high school girls will play against
each other. AS all the players will be
local people, it is to be hoped that the
public will turn out in large numbers
and give them hearty support.
1t was hoped that Beach would play
against Co. X and several attempts
were made to arrange a date. Several
dates were selected but each time Beach
asked change, finally getting cold feet
altogether and refusing to come down.
1t is to be hoped that game can be
arranged later in the season.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1908-11-28
SEED HOUSE NEEDED
Work at the Dickinson Experiment Station Would be
Greatly Augmented If Such Building Could Be Added
to Its Equipment. Results from Study of Plant
Breeding Would Greatly Benefit the Farmer

lars annually instead of the two and
one-half millions at the present time.
Of course a good deal of the tillable
virgin prairie is now running stock and
thus producing something of an income,
but the roughage Of the grain crops
would probably fatten as much stock as
the wild prairie is doing.
1t is difficult to estimate how valuable
improved seed is to the farmer; it de-
pends so much on the man. From our
trials at the experiment station, it
would seem that the wheat, oats and
barley crops would very easily be in
creased one dollar per acre by the use of
improved grain. For instance, we have
q fife wheat, not yet ready for distribu-
tion, which yields from two to three
bushels per acre better than the best of
our other fife and blue stem wheat
and which has an added advantage of
maturing four or five days earlier than
other wheat. This is new wheat for
this region and probably none is grown
in this state. Now this wheat, although
apparently decided improvement over
the wheats that are commonly grown
here, is still in raw condition. so to
speak. Although apparently uniform in
quality, it is made up of number of
strains that are recognized only by one
accustomed to see small differences in
plants. Though two strains may look
quite alike. yet there may be decided
difference in their yielding power
At the present time our cereals are
being improved largely by the method
of selecting the best plant and increas-
ing it. The method looks easy and it is
in way. However it takes good deal
of trouble to determine which plant is
really the best A plant breeder goes
through field of grain that he desires
to improve and picks out perhaps two
hundred heads that look desirable Each
head is planted by itself and watched.
A number can be discarded the first year
but large number will remain to be
tested the second year. It may be
necessary to carry dozen or fifteen
strains to the field for further test.
There may be three or four that will
yield about the same. In such a case. or
in any case, it will be necessary to de-
termine their milling and other qualities.
It NAV be necessary to carry out this
method v it'll two or three quite different
varieties of wheat and of course that
would involve two or three times as
much work and two or three times as
many samples to be saved each year.
Does all this pay? 1t certainly does
for it would not be difficult to add two
bushels per acre to the wheat crop solely
by means of improved seed. That per-
haps would mean an increase of 500, :
900 per year to the income of the west
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1908-11-28

Tbs theme of plant breeding has been
pretty well worked by the papers during
the last two or three years and many
of the lay readers must have hazy sort
of notion that plant breeder is able to
perform wonders at the very least and
perhaps on those days when good luck
is especiallv attentive, miracle may
be expected. Unfortunately this notion
has not been as quickly frowned upon
by the plant breeder himself as good
ethics might have dictated; especially
is this true when the breeders own work
was in question. When the charlatan
and the ignorant began to improve
plants a thousand times faster than
they had ever been improved before,
some of the public began to tumble
though probably not before thousands of
dollars premium had been paid for
Alaska and Miracle wheat that was
certainly worth no more than wheat at
market prices. In spite of the fact that
plant breeding has been considerably
overworked. in the papers, there re-
mains vast field. yet almost untouched,
of this valuable line of station work.
This statement is especially true of the
region in which we are interested,
western North Dakota.
There are no division lines in North
Dakota but for the sake of argument let
us take that portion of the state lying
west of the Missouri River. 1t is a
small empire in itself with territory
aggreeating 18, 600 square miles or more
than ii. 500. 600 acres. No one knows
what percentage of this is plow land but
perhaps an estimate of Is percent would
be conservative one. Let US say that
there are 5000. 600 acres of tillable land
west of the Missouri. According to the
latest report of Commissioner Gilbreath
there were 400. 600 acres of this under
cultivation. or trifle more than 13 per
cent. According to the same report these
400, 600 acres produced in round num-
bers S, 00O0. 90 bushels of cereals and
potatoes which at only fair market price
would be valued at say 81, 500. 600 or
Sc. rs per acre. This is not a high in
come per acre for the land actually under
cultivation. The figures of this report
give an income of S.. 90 per acre for the
entire state. 1t is quite certain that
the income of the land might be in
creased one or two dollars per acre with
out any considerable time or expense.
This increase miRht be brought about
either by improved seed or by better
methods of cultivation or more properly,
by combination of the two methods.
Now if the tillable land west of the
Missouri River were all under the plow
and if it were bringing in an income of
So. 90 per acre in crops, which think it
ought to do. then the total crop income
for the West Missouri country would be
something like twenty millions of dol
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1908-11-28
BERRY-BolCE
RANCH SOLD

A large ranch deal was closed this
week whereby Phil and Charles Duff
became the owners Of the Open A ranch
about fourteen miles north of Bel6eld.
The ranch comprises 4, 600 acres of land.
and the new owners. well known as cat.
tie growers in the country southwest,
will stock the ranch with thoroughbred
cattle the coming spring, when they
are to take possession.
R. c. Davis and j., L. McCutchan of
Belfeld and W. B. King of Gladbrook.
Iowa, sold this well-known ranch, for
merly the Berry-Boise property, for the
sum of $14, 600. NIX
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1908-11-28
NOT IN THE RACE
Judge Crawford Proposed as Can
didate for Appointment as New
Supreme Court Judge. Un-
willing to be Considered.

The principal topic of speculation in
the political camps of this state at the
present time is the question who will
receive the appointments as supreme
court judges from the hands of Governor
Burke. In accordance with the amend
ment to the constitution of North Dakota.
as approved by the voters at the last
general election, the governor must
select two additional judges for the
supreme court. Already wires are being
pulled in all directions and rumors as
to the possible candidates are rife.
Among the possibilities which have
been mentioned, is the name of Judge
w. C. Crawford, the newly elected judge
of the 10th judicial district.
From conversation with Judge Craw-
ford and some of his closest friends
and admirers. it is learned that he has
been asked to enter the race. 1t is
maintained that one of the appoint
ments should be from the slope country
and that Judge Crawford is the man best
fitted to receive the honor.
However, the judge has steadily re-
fused to enter the competition and does
not have nylintention of seeking the
office. He feels that he has been honored
by the voters of this district with an
election as district judge, and that until
he shows them what he can do on the
lower bench, he is not in position to
work for the higher judicial appoint
ment. In this opinion. although they feel
that Judge Crawford's abilities are
marked enough to make success of the
supreme bench were it offered him. the
friends of the Judge here in Dickinson
concur.
From dispatches east of here, it is
learned that Mandan people are work
ing for Judge Crawford. with view to
securing the district judeeship for B.
w. Shaw of that city, the man whom the
present incumbent defeated at the
primaries last June.
Judge Crawford is still young man.
He has chance to distinguish himself
on the district bench. If he makes good,
which there is no question but what he
will. it will then be time to think about
something higher. He is not working fo1
the position and has asked none of his
friends to work for him.
1t is generally the opinion locally that
Ward county will receive one of the
appointments, from the fact that, even
though the home county of Governor
Brke's opponent. it gave the democratic
candidate for reelection handsome
majority BY appointing some one
from Minot, the governor would, in a
way, consider that he had fulfilled
the demands of the voters on the Slope.
that the western part of the state receive
recognition. It is highly improbable
that the governor would recognize the
Slope in any other way in the light of
the recent election results. By selecting
the other judge from Williston. prac-
tically all parts of the state would be
represented, the other judges being from
DEVILS Lake, Fargo and Bismarck.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1908-11-28
BIG SNOWFALL.
Worst Thanksgiving Storm Since
November 26. 1896 When Id In
ches of Snow Fell.-Six In
ches of Snow This Week.

Winter began in real earnest Monday
evening of this week when binding
snowstorm set in, lasting throughout the
day and night Tuesday. During the
storm, according to the records at the
Dickinson experiment station, six inches
of snow fell on level but driving
wind, which blew all the time, kept
the snow on the move and badly drifted
it in many places. On some of the
streets. the drifts were as much as four
feet deep. The storm was more severe
east of here, and in Mandan and Bis
marck there is from IA to 18 inches of
snow. In the country surrounding Dick
inson, the storm was also considerable
worse Train service was not badly
hindered. The temperature recorded at
the station showed l9 degrees above zero
the night of the storm and IL above on
Thanksgiving night.
The storm was the worst at this season
of the year since November 26, 1896, II
years ago, when the whole state was
snow bound and great hard ships suffered.
At that time IA inches of snow fell,
which severe wind piled into drifts
many feet deep. The flying snow was
so thick that it was impossible to move
about the streets On the open prairies
it was even worse and eight people were
frozen to death, although none were
west of the Missouri river. During the
month of November in that year 26K
inches of snow fell. 1t was unusually
cold. the mean temperature being 81
degrees above zero. The average Novem-
Der temperature is 26. 6 degrees and the
December average is 18 above and the
January II above. These figures are
the average of all the years during which
this station has recorded temperature. In
Dickinson that year the storm was very
severe. People who took Thanksgiving
dinner at the homes of others, were in
some cases, held there for four days.
unable to breast the severity of the
blizzard. From the files of the Press at
that time, interesting stories are gath
ered
The Press of December S, 1896 says !:
THE snow blockade on the through line
of the Northern Pacific was raised Tues
day, the first mail coming from St. Paul
since Thanksgiving, period of five
days. 1t was reported at Sims that
stretch of track several miles long was
buried under drifts from three to twenty
feet deep. On the Missouri division it
was almost as bad and the work of
clearing the tracks was very slow as
there were no rotary plows to be had
At one time four passenger trains were
stationed between Glen Ullin and Man.
dan. 1t is said that at jamestown the
engines could not leave the round house
but no such trouble was had at Dickin-
son. Trains were kept moving about
the yards and the people about the streets
to some extent. The storm was much
more severe east of here. No human
lives have been reported lost west of
the Missouri. The storm began in Dick
inson Thanksgiving day and by 10
O'Clock the wind was blowing gale
until person could scarcely see few
feet away. By Friday afternoon the
storm let up and it was possible to dig
out through the drifts -
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1908-11-28

Joseph Basker was in this week from
his homestead in the Missouri river
country near Elmgrove.
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