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store believes letting folks know exactly what they may expect to find. Fine comfortables filled with down, rich silk top and back of pretty sateen, measures by feet,-$12.
 Handsome sateen comfortabes filled with down rich of color and tasteful of design durable too for sateen long wearing, by feet $6; 6 by feet, $7 to $9.
 Attractive comfortables made of silkolene and filled with pure white coonof wide range of color and design
 66 by 76 inches,-$1
 72 by 78 inches,-$1.50 to $4
 72 by 84 inches,-$2.50 and $3
 Blankets of pure wool soft and feecy and grateful productive of warmth blanket possibly be- 72 by 84 nches,-$ to SIP. We've very good all-wool blanket at $5 It is of nice weight pure wool is finished with attractive bor der, measures TO by 82 inchesz $5.
 Study blankets made of wool but with warp of cot ton to give extra strength and to prevent possibility of shrnking7O by 82 inches $5 72 by 80 $6; 72 by 84 $ Mixed blankets of wool and cotton, probably about athird wool nice finish and by 82 nches,$3. Handsome all-cotton blankets that look very like wool 72 by 84 inches-$2.75.
 Cotton blankets in from 60 by 78 inches up 68 by so white gray nice weight and soft 50 to $2
 ain
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-25
CITY BRIEFS.

George Williams. aged 19 of S3 High street, received a confusion of the chest yesterday while playing football. The injury is not serious.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-25
PROFESSIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Dr. William J. Mclaughlin whose dental parlors were formerly at State and Main streets. is now located at room 3s. Sanford Building. I 16 'tf.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-25

Lady Cook, the Tennessee Clahin of
 thirty-seven years ago, who went with her sister Victoria Woodruff, to Lud- low street jail for the cause of woman suffrage, is chiefly sponsor for Mrs. Rankhurst, the English leader, now in
 this country, and they are planning crusade that is destined to cut a figure in the news of the next few months if not in the political world itself Lady Cook soon after her ar
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-25

rival with Mrs. Pankhurst took the militant Englisl1woman to Ludlow street jail and showed her where she and her famous sister were locked
 up. Lady Cook said there were so many charges against them that they could not give bond on all and had to stay in the prison six weeks. Lady Cook has announced that she will con tribute a million dollars for the cause of equal suffrage in the United States.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-25
Delightfully."- warm and pretty blankets and comfortables.

With warmth woven into every square inch of their surface, here are pretty and at tractive blankets and comfortables. All kinds, so to speak, but only good ones after all. And not one masquerades as anything except !. It's own actual self. No "all wool'' for blan- kets which are but partly wool. Everything is set out at exactly it's true value and in it's true colors. That is the only safe and right way to sell any thing, whether it is blankets or cef- fee = and the n n
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appraised, for the benefit OF the heirs
of the Indians to whom it formerly be-
longed. This opening will add largely
to the taxable property Of our state
and will help the counties out, also, as
at the present time none OF the res
ervation is paying any taxes, either to
state or county. The school lands,
sections 16 and SO, are reserved and
are to be paid for by the United states
government and viii be sold when the
time shall come for the use and ben
eft Of the common school funds Of our
state.
This article is longer than had ex-
pected to make 1t, but as / sit in my
Office writing, can see before me the
faces OF those people in the council,
and it seems as though hear again
the echo OF the words OF the chiefs
who spoke in behalf Of their people.
We sometimes forget that the Indian
is Just emerging from barberism and
expect that they should be where the
white man is today after ages and
ages OF civilization. How TO deal with
them best, to provide for their present
needs and for their future welfare
comfort and health is serious propo.
sition. To keep hquor away from
them, to teach them to take care OF
themselves better IN a sanitary way
to teach them to farm, to help then
to come up TO our standpoint In edu-
cation, morality, and all that goes Il
make life better, Is a serious problem
and is / believe, debt we owe to the
Indians and to their posterity wht
owned this great country before th.
white man saw it.
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they should have. They have been
leasing some Of the reservation to the
white men for grazing purposes and
realized last year between $4,000 and
$4,000 from lease money. I introduce
ed a bill in congress last May for the
purpose Of opening that part of the
reservation which had not been al
lotted to the Indians, lying east and
north of the Missouri river. Under
terms made with the Indians some
years since, 1t was agreed that the
head Of every family should receive
$50 acres OF land and that every other
man. woman and child should receive
so acres OF land. These allotments
have been steadily made for the past
three or four years and are now prac-
tlcally complete. II has taken some
100000 acres OF land to make these al
lotments, including some which were
made to Indians who are now dead.
AT the time the bill was introduced
IN congress, there was some opposition
on the part of the Indians to the OPEN
OF any part Of the reservation and be-
fore anything further was done in the
matter. they wished to have a confer
ence with a representative Of the In
dian department and myself A few
/, days ago, in company with Hon. F, H.
Abbott. first assistant, commissioner
OF Indian affairs and with Jonn
Francis. jr, director Of the bureau Of
Indian lands, both from Washington,
D. c.. with an old friend OF mine, c.
p. Winchell, a wholesale grocer of
North Adams, Mass, and by brother
r. c. Hanna, of Minneapolis, we went
up to the Indian reservation and met
the Indians at the agency at Elbo-
woods. In the going out to the reser-
walton from Garrison on the 500 road,
passed over a very fine farming coun-
try we'll settled and with a splendid
crop. As soon as we came to the edge
of the reservation we found it fenced,
and then for miles, we went through
a beautiful, slightly rolling country
with splendid growth Of grass, very
few stones, and just as far as the eye
could see, a great rolling stretch of
magnificent prairie, but with absolute
~ nothing In sight in the way of a
house, or grain or cattle, or anything
I OF that kind AS we came down near
; the agency, which is located on the
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MURDER SUSPECT IN
JAIL; MOB MAY FORM
THREE MEN ACCUSED or sLAY-
ING MEADOWS FAMILY
TRACKED BY BLOOD
HOUNDS.

Bluefields. Va. Sept. 25.-Alexander
Blankensllip and his two sons. barri-
caded in their mountain cabin ten
miles from the scene Of the sextuple
murder in which George Meadows, his
wife and their three children and Mrs
Meadows aged mother were slain.
surrendered themselves to posse OF
several hundred citizens last night
after hours OF parley
Blankenship and his sons were
tracked by bloodhounds They were
working In field when they heard the
baying Of the hounds and Immediately
ran to their home.
When the posse arrived and called
for the men to surrender, they were
defied and told that IL members Of the
posse tried to enter the house, they
would be shot down. The barrels OF
three shotguns protruded from loop
holes in the house.
The commemorative attorney and q
score Of special deputies were hurried
to the Blankenship farm and when the
men inside were promised they would
not be lynched, they surrendered.
Farmers from Buchanan and ad.
/ Joining counties are gathering at Hur-
ley and It is believed they will attack
the Jail and lynch the suspects. 1t Is
declared bloodsoaked clothing was
found at the Blankenship home.
Fargo Rubber Stamp Wlxs. Phone 1Ss4J.
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Missouri river, we came into some
very rough land, called the Breaks,
which make back from the river.
Along the river there is a fairly good
growth Of timber, although in some
places the fires have got into it and
destroyed some of 1t.
At the agency there is quite a little
cluster of buildings, day school for
Indian scholars, a mission, under the
charge of Rev. G. L, Hall, Congrega-
tionaa minister, and another mission
under the charge Of Rev. Father L.
Favreau, a Catholic mission. The In
dian agent is G. W. Hoffman. We were
treated with the utmost courtesy by
every one at the agency. we arrived
there Saturday and it was arranged
that the council, or conference, with
the Indians should be held Monday
morning beginning at 3 o'clock.
The Indians kept coming in Sunday
from the various parts Of the reserva-
tion and on Monday morning practic-
ally ali of the male population and
some of the women and children We're
present. 1t. had been intended to hold
The council out OF doors, but on ac-
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ing the conference together, and then
introduced Mr.. Abbott, who acted as
the chairman of the meeting for the
balance of the time. Mr.. Abbott made
very fine address to the Indians. He
would speak few sentences and then
stop and the interpreter would inter-
pref the sentences first to the Man
dams and eros Ventures and then to
the Rees, then when he had done That,
Mr.. Abbott would go on with a few
more sentences, and in that way made
HIS speech to the Indians. 1t was very
interesting to watch the Indians to see
whether the sentiments expressed met
with their approval, or not. 1t was inn
possible from the expressions of their
faces to tell one way or the other, but
it was possible to tell In another way,
which was this, II they approved, you
would hear all over tine room the word
How" uttered in a gutteral tone of
voice, and the more "Hows" there
were, Of course, the more they approx
ed Of the sentiment expressed. If
they did not approve, there was abb
solutely no expression whatever. we,
white people, have an old saying which
says IildL Sll6uC6 gives consent, DuT
from what / have seen of the Indians
on the Berthold reservation, find that
they take absolutely opposite view
from us Of that old saying. After Mr..
Abbott finished speaking. Mr.. Francis
spoke and told something of the for
nation of the reservation and of the
customary way in which reservations
are opened and gave very nice talk
along those lines and explained many
points to both the Indians and the
white men in reference to Indian land
matters, which were not known to us
before. The third speaker, was my
self. and I gave the reasons for in
trducing the bill. Explained to the
Indians that it was not in any way to
deprive them Of their land, but that
they were, in sense, land poor, as
while they had an immense tract of
land, it was bringing them practical
ly nothing, the revenue derived from
it, being only some $4,000 or $4,000,
which was an average of only about
$11 a piece for every Indian on the
reservation, less than 81 month, and
as the government no longer furnishes
them rations and things of that kind,
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sent automobiles to the agency for our
party, as Mr.. Abbott and Mr. Francis
were to go on to Montana and visit
some reservations there. Upon our
arrival at Ryder we found a most
substantial supper furnished by the
commercial club of that enterprising
city. After the supper there was an
impromptu reception held In the Office
at the MOTEL at Ryder and some short
speeches made by the members OF the
party and by members of the conner
cial club. The next morning the peo-
pie at Ryder took us over to Plaza.
where we met the Plaza people who
treated us with the utmost kindness
and courtesy and after. a short visit
there, they furnished us with autorno-
biles to take us to the lines of the
Great Northern that we might return
to our homes.
The opening OF this reservation
means much to that part Of our state.
There win be between 1900 and 1000
homesteads OF the very best of land.
The land will probably be disposed of
4 by lottery as has been done. upon the
other reservations. In the reservations
that have been opened up within the
last year in the west, there have been
from thirty-fve registrations to one
chance OF getting piece OF land upon
one reservation, up to as nigh as one
hundred and ten registrations 10 one
chance of getting piece OF land upon
another. Should twenty Ave people
register for every chance there was OF
/ getting a piece OF land on the Berth
- No. nt
least $4,000 people would register, The
greater part of these people win bt
from outside our state. They would
come in over the lines OF the Grea'
Northern, the Northern Pacific anc
the 500 roads. mostly from the east
lin crossing over our state they would
get some idea of its resources anG
what our people have done here with.
In the last twenty-five or thirty years
and believe that many OF those who
fail to get land by fling upon 1t from
the reservation, win go into some par
of our state and buy land and tina
the opening of this reservation will b'
the greatest advertisement which We
have ever received and that it will no
only benefit those people who live II
and near the reservation. but that /
will be Of benefit to our whole. state
The first thing to do next spring, !
the bill passes congress tlais winter
as 1t probably viii, as It now has tn
endorsement OF the Indian department
and the consent of the Indians, viii b.
to finish surveying the reservation
then to allot the Indians the balanc
of their land, then the appraisement Q
the lands which are to be opened an'
il everything works smoothly and well
as 1t. is hoped that 1t will. the reserva
tion will be opened sometime next fall
1t was also agreed at the conference
that the sale Of intoxicating LIQUOR
should be absolutely prohibited upol
any part of the reservation, eithe
that which Is left with the Indians o
that part which shall be opened I
I the white men.
IN ADDITION to the 100000 acres o
? more which will be opened for home
stead fling. there is about 81. 600 acre
OF land known as Dead Indian land
i and which can be sold after 1t has beel
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Hanna Tells Of Fort
BerthoId Reservation

Continued from Page one.
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DOCTOR WILL GO EAST
Fargo sanitarlum Being Improved
and Or. cavanash Spends Time
in New York at Study.

The additions 70 and the remodel
ing OF the Fargo sanitarium on Third
avenue south are under way ana this
makes 1t necessary to close. the insti-
tuition for few weeks.
During this period OF reconstruction
DR. Cavanagh, director of the SAM.
tarium will attend lectures and take
q postgraduate course in New York
city along the latest lines and methods
Of curing TIN ills OF mankind without
drugs. DR.. Cavanagh expects tc
leave Monday Tor the east.
The contractors in charge have an
agreement to finish the improvements
on the Sanitarium within a certaif,
time by which time DIR. cavanash will
return and the Fargo Sanitarium will
then have an even wider field OF use.
fulness.
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except to some Of the older ones. and
they were farming but little and had
few cattle, there was not enough for
them to live on. That their homes
were unhealthy; all of the Indian
houses on the reservation being built
of logs and most Of them without any
floor and with dirt roofs and with very
few windows in the house, the conse-
quence being that the health of the
Indians was not what it should be, and
that they were very subject to tuber-
culosis, which was the scourge Of the
Indian race. That they could seel Of
the reservation north of the Missouri.
of the lands which had not been all
lotted to them, at least 100000 acres.
This land would put a very large sum
of money into the treasury Of the
United States for their beneft and the
United States government would do
with them as it had done with other
Indians on other reservations all over
our country allow them interest at the
rate Of per cent per annum This
would bring them from $4,000 to $780,
600 year in the way of interest II
was estimated, and they would still
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count Of a nigh wind blowing. Father
Faveau very kindly offered the use OF
one Of his buildings which had plenty
of seating capacity for everyone.
There were quite number Of the
white people who were interested in
the opening Of the reservation from
the towns of Ryder and Plaza, on q
spur OF the 500 road. which cuts the
northeast corner Of the reservation.
These people were much interested as
the opening Of the reservation Will
mean much for their towns, which al
ready have a splendid start. The eros
Ventres and the Mandans understand
each other fairly well, but in talking
to the Indians 1t was found necessary
to have either two interpreters or have
one who spoke fiuently two Of the In
dian languages and also the English
language. Sam Newman, who is the
chief of Indian police, and is an In
dian himself, acted as interpreter,
speaking first to the eros ventres and
the Mandans and then repeating again
in the Rec language. The meeting
was opened by the Indian agent, Mr..
Hoffman, who stated the object Of call
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Continued from Page One.
who served as scouts under General
Reno, and who have honorable dis
charges from the army, as scouts, and
showing that they had good records.
Many years ago these three tribes
Of Indians were almost annihilated by
the smallpox. For mutual protection
they Joined together in order to pre-
serve themselves from humiliation by
the Sioux, and have lived together in
friendship, side by side. for more than
fifty years. There are only lila men,
women and children all told in all
three Of the tribes, and yet in spite of
their small number and that they have
lived together for half a century, they
nave kept their language intact in each
tribe and the larger part of them can
only speak their own language.
They have 965,00O acres in the res
-ervation which was set apart by exc
cutive order good many years ago.
They cultivate but little of the land
The whole reservation is fenced on
the outside and the Indians have some
cattle, but no where near as many as
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II you attend q Business College at
tend modern school Manlato Com
nercial College building OF Mankato
Mimi. is pronounced the finest in the
country. Send for their profuselv ii.
Illustrated yearbook. 1t is free.
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Hatcher srQs. Pay. Again--s15o.
Byron N. some was named d draf
for $3.50 yesterday to pay for an acct
dent claim caused by runaway.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-19
Missing Seaman
Pierson Saved
PICKED UP BY FISHING VESSEL
IRENE AND MARY.
27 HOURS ON CRAZY RAFT
Sixteen Vessels Passed the Ship
wrecked Man but He Could Not
Attract Attention.

New York, Aug. 1s.-"By golly, l
thought 1 was a goner," said Madden
Pierson, the missing seamon of the
wrecked schooner Arlington, when ne
was picked up today by the fishing
schooner Irene and Mary, after drift
ing without food, drink or sleep for
twenty seven hours on crazy raft Of
lashed spars.
Washed Overheard by Comber.
Refreshed, fed and in dry clothes,
Pierson rhodestly told his story. He is
a big blonde Swede, 4s years old.
Il had just made fast lifeline shot
out to us by the coast guards he said,
when / was washed overheard by a
comber. didn't jump or have time to
think of it.
Rapidly Carried to Sea.
when I got my head out of the
smother of foam saw a bit of drifting
wreckage near me. There were iron
bolts on it and loose ends of cordage.
With these I lashed myself fast, leav-
ing play enough so that / could stand
erect and wave my shirt. 1t was early
morning and 1 could see that / was
rapidly being carried out to sea.
Shouted All Day Tuesday.
"All day Tuesday l shouted and
waved my flag. All last night fought
off sleep and the numbing cold. Six
teen vessels, one revenue cutter,
passed me, but could not attract their
attention and / was often out of sight
in the trough of the seas.
AT last 1 could see by the way the
Irene and Mary changed her course
that the lookout had sighted me.
have been sailor for twenty-five
years, but no schooner ever looked so
good to me as the Irene and Mary,
beating up to windward."
Entire Crew Accounted For.
The rescue of Pierson, ten miles off
Atlantic Highlands and about eighteen
straightaway from the spot on Long
Beach, on the outside Of Long Island,
where the Arlington went ashore early
Tuesday morning, accounts in full for
her captain and crew of nine.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-19
THAW BACK IN ASYLUM,
HAS NO SPECIAL PRIVILEGES.
Has Special Room Because the In
stitution Is Very Crowded.

Matteawan, n. Y. Aug. 1S.-Harry
X. Thaw ate his supper tonight at
the Matteawan state hospital for the
criminal insane He arrived at the
institution ten minutes before seven
O'Clock this evening after a trip un-
der escort from the White Plains jail,
where he was forced to leave after
several days respite following the ad-
verse ruling of Justice Mills on his
appeal for release on habeas corpus
writ as sane man.
Beginning tomorrow the slayer OF
Stanford White will resume the mo-
notonous routine of the asylum life.
Superintendent Lamb of the hospital
issued the following statement to-
night:
There will be no changes at all re-
garding Thaw's Incarceration here.
He will DE subjected to the same rules
as before he left to go to White Plains.
He will have a special room, not be-
cause he is Harry X. Thaw. but for
the reason that this hospital was
built to accommodate five hundred
patients. and we now have nearly 500.
We are very crowded and some of the
patients have small rooms, which we're
built for the attendants. Thaw has
one.
II did not take it from Justice
Mills decision that Thaw was to have
any special privileges. We Will fol-
low the courts orders. however. and II
Thaw is not satisfied he can appeal to
the courts. At present we will adhere
to the old routine"
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-19
SENATE

The senate was called to order at
1916 by Clerk John A. Spafford who
stated that the president pro tenn. was
acting as governor and was therefore
disqualified from presiding at the ses-
sion of the senate. On the motion Of
Senator Able, Senator Fem was
chosen president pro tenn. Chaplain
Sexton offered prayer.
In Concurrence.
In concurrence with the house the
senate passed resolution appropriat-
ing $6735 to Walter d. Hastings, the
clerk OF the committee on excise, for
the expenses of the committee, and a
resolution appropriating $4,000 for ag-
ricultural societies.
A bill reported by the committee on
appropriations was passed making APP
propriations to provide for increase in
salaries made at this session.
Sale of Electricity.
The committee on engrossed bills
reported an amendment to the bill
concerning the sale of electricity.
Senator Latimer said the amendment
had been adopted by the house.
Senator Chase said the amendment