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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-11-18
Prediction of EARTHQUAKES,

Although seismologists have not yet
succeeded in finding out any means
of definitely predicting the occurrence
of an earthquake, they are hopeful Of
finally arriving at this desired goal;
and already they can discern danger
by the pulsations which are always
greatly agitating the surface of the
earth. A sudden cessation of these
heart-beats is a danger signal. ex-
IRENE stiffness invariably preceding
an earthquake, whereas constant tre-
mors are good sign. A great earth
quake is almost always followed by
weaker ones, and when it is violent
and destructive the number of minor
shocks following It may amount to
hundreds or even thousands, and con.
tinue for several months or years.
The occurrence of after-shocks is
quite natural and necessary for set
ting down into stable equilibrium 1T
disturbance, each of these shocks re.
moving an unstable or weak point un.
derneath. Further, as a very great
shock would remove correspond.
ingly great underground instability, it
is probable that such shock would
not, for long time, be followed by
another of magnitude comparable
to it's own in the same or a neighbor.
ing district. When, however, the ini-
tial shock is not very great, it may be
followed by another like it, but even
in this case the position of the origin
of the second shock would usually be
quite distinct from that of the first.
Wide World Magazine.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-11-18
MAN PINCHED BY LIGHTNING
Marylander Victim Of ouecr Accident
While Seated on Chair
l. During Storm.

Rising Sun, Md-To be pinched by
lightning where a man frequently
strikes match was an occurrence
that William Conner of Greenhurst,
this county, does not care to have re-
peated. He was sitting on a chair,
dining with the family of James Ar
mour, during storm, when lightning
struck the house. The seat of the
chair split and closed again, catching
Conner by the flesh. The chair had to
be broken before he could be released,
Everyone at the table felt the shock
and the house was considerably dam
aged.
Near the bridge to Harry Englands
creamery, lightning struck telephone
pole, flashed across road to a plow
point that lay inside a fence and
knocked it down the field for dis
lance of 80 feet. making furrow a.
It went.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-11-18
Blind, But Picks Berries.

One OF the most expert strawberry
pickers in this country is blind man.
Robert Jolly of Orcas, Wash, for
years has made his annual expenses
picking strawberries and other fruit
for his neighbors, and so skilled is
he. and so rapid, that he earns as
much on the commission plan as
man with good eyes. Jolly finds his
way along the rows of vines with his
stick. and carries a dozen crates with
him. His nimble fingers find the
fruit and while one hand is plucking
the berry the other is searching for
n4ore. Picking cherries or apples and
climbing around on a ladder is az
easy for him as for a schoolboy.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-11-18
KISSES HIS MARRIED NIECE
by Magistrates Sage Advice
to Complainant.

London.-A young married woman
named Julia Gent of Mare street.
Hackney, applied at Waltham Abbey
police court for summons against
her uncle. She alleged that he had
assaulted her by kissing her.9s 49,.
She. said that her uncle, who is
about IS years Of age, lived at Ching.
ford She visited his house recently
with her father and husband, and
while walking alone with her uncle
in the evening he put his arm around
her and kissed her twice.
Sir POWELL Buxton, the chairman,
said: But you are his niece"
Eyes," answered the applicant;
''but have seen him only twice."
II think you would better go home
and talk the matter over again with
your husband" said Sir POWELL Bux.
ton Then, if you have not changed
your mind you can apply again next
week" f
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-11-18

GIVES MEDALS FOR BABIES
Boston Committee Adopts Unique
Plan for Reduction of Mortality
Among Infants. ~,

Boston-The Boston committee on
hygiene will offer gold and silver med
ais to mothers who bring them babies
which conform to the standards Of the
board of health. Mothers who have
the healthiest babies will receive
a gold medal Those whose babies
are healthy, but not in the gold medal
class, will receive silver medals. Then,
too, there is to be some form of rec
ognition for the mothers who start
out with sickly baby and bring it
to high degree of health.
This scheme is a direct result Of
the Huddersfield plan for the rreven-
ton of infant mortality, although a
great improvement upon the Hudders
field plan," says DR.. J. M. Connolly,
the medical director of the committee
on milk and baby hygiene. "The Hud+
dersfield plan arose in the followil.,
way: Mayor Broadbent, of Hudders-
field, England, offered five dollars t.
every mother in the Longwood district
of Huddersfeld who should, during his
term of office, produce at the city hall
a healthy child of one year of age.
At the same time mothers and pros
pective mothers were visited by vol
tary lady helpers, who showed them
the most approved methods of feeding
ing and caring for the babies. o.. .
There are four cities in the United
States which have improved upon the
Budin and the Huddersfield plans.
These four are New York, Cleveland,
Rochester, N. Y, and Boston. Bos-
ton, whose committee has been able to
profit from the experiences of foreign
as well as American cities, has a sys-
tenn for in advance of them ALL
Conditions are different in every
locality, and treatments must be modi.
| fed to suit the conditions"
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-11-18
MAP ON A HENS EGG
TOLD JUST WHERE LONG BURIED
TREASURE COULD BE FOUND.
That j. Why Ezra Burt Holds Price
less the Serawny, Oisreputab'e
Looking Fowl, Though She
Has Never Laid Again.

Ezra Burt, who lives about mile
east of the Corners, has hen which
no amount of money will buy, the New
York World says. 1t is a scrawny, i'll
appearing fowl, with bedraggled featll.
ers and a semibald head, and what
IL more, it has laid only one egg in its
entire two years existence. Still, old
Betsy, as the hen is called, has n
niche in Ezra's heart and gets the
very best grain the farm affords
The secret of all this is that the
one-egg Betsy laid contained on it's
shell a raised water-line map of the
spot where old jeremiah Burt. Ezra's
great-grandfather, buried his gold at
the time of the revolutionary war, and
with the aid of this map Ezra recov.
cred the treasure. Just how much
this was no one has been able to find
out, but it is known that the mortgage
on the farm has been paid off and the
Burt family is living in comfort.
The Burts gave up hunting for the
secreted wealth 40 years ago, after
they had searched and dug until they
ID out. thy knew that the
paternal Burt sunk his gold some
Nhere in the earth and went off to
war without telling his family where
he had placed it further than that it
was on the farm. &C. ~stza
Last summer gypsy came along
selling beads and laces and offered to
go into trance and solve the treas
To riddle, provided Ezra bought a
dollars worth of her wares. Burt
took up the offer and in her trance
scrawny hen would lay an egg on
which would be found a map. If this
were followed the treasure would be
found. Ezra thought he was "stung,"
bit he paid the dollar.
Nothing more happened until a
month ago, when Betsy was found in
the woodbox behind the kitchen stove
Mortified at the idea of having a hen
in her kitchen Mrs. Burt shooed her
out, and was surprised to find an egg
nesting in the shavings. The egg had
peculiar raised lines on the shell and
Ezra was called. He remembered the
prophecy of the gypsy and carefully
studied the shell. Sure enough, there
was map, with a little star at the
base of an old maple tree in the sugar
orchard.
With pick and shovel Burt sat
forth and an hour later returned with
d:scolored copper soap kettle heavy
with gold. The family kept the secret
until the mortgage was paid, when It
became common property. All eff.
forts to get Ezra to tell how much
money he found in the kettle have
failed.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-11-18
Bio Family In Iceland.

The queen of Denmark once paid q
visit to the Danish colony of Iceland.
where the good old bishop exerted
himself to the utmost to show her
everything that was worth seeing.
The queen paid many compliments to
her host, and, having learned that he
was family man, inquired how many
children he had. 1t happened that the
Danish word for children" is almost
identical in sound with the 1celandic
word for sheep" and the worthy
bishop promptly answered: Two
hundred" 1.-TWO hundred children!"
cried the queen. "How can you main.
tain such NUMBER" Easily enough,
please your majesty" replied the pre-
late, with a cheerful smile. In the
summer I turn them out upon the hill
to grass, and when the winter comes
/ kill and eat them"
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-11-18
METHOD THAT ALWAYS WORK
WIfe's Tears ovsrcoms Mans Logic
and Bring Promise Of New
Bowl.

IT it would do any good" said the
woman. II would just sit down and
cry" The man looked up from the
book he was reading. He did not ask
what was the matter He knew It
might be anything from burned cake
to the loss of pocket book. But the
expression interested him.
II admire your ability to recognize
the impossible" he said. adjusting the
glasses on his nose and peering at her
over them. but why sit down and
cry?' Is it impossible to stand up and
weep, or to lie down and shed tears?
20, shut up" said the woman: you
talk like a musty old book
But" persisted the man, you seem
to recognize the fact that crying. eth.
er sitting down or otherwise. will not
improve matters. so why consider it at
all? Your philosophy might be ex-
tended beyond mere imaginary relief
from tears to a point where the"
you make me tired" said the WON.
an, not very elegantly The man
smiled.
"That's right" said the woman an.
grily, "sneer at your wife when she
breaks her china bowl"
Nov hold on" said the man placid.
ly, If it wouldn't do any good to cry
over it, what good will it do to worry
over it, or be mad over it? It's brok-
en-. amt it?"
IT you were any sort of husband"
exploded the woman, breaking into
tears, or what seemed to be, you'd
not sit there and-laugh-at-me
There, there" said the man, ''quit
1t, I'll get you new one" The won.
an smiled. 49,.
Il just knew you would she said
The man rubbed his stubby chin.
"Uh huh" he murmured to himself,
20. yes. Her philosophy was all
wrong--but it wouldn't be safe to tell
her it does good to sit down and cry
But shucks, she knows it. 1t was
bluff. "-Galveston News.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-11-18
SCH0OLW|NE0 RG|ES
Charged That Expense Accounts
Padded to Exorblant Degree.
Pittsburg Trustees Hear Stories Of
High Old Times Where Young
Idea Is Taught in the
Steel City.

Pittsburg.-The opening round In
a school scandal of seeming magni-
tude was made public here the other
day, and before it is finished it is
promised that there will be much of
Interest made public, and it is threat
ened that suits will be entered.
1t is charged that expense accounts
in the last year were padded to an
exorbitant degree, and an expert &C.
countant, who has just finished an in
vestigation, has made return set
ting under the head Legitimate ex-
penses," $4,000, while under the head
questionable" he has entered items
aggregating $4,000.
The real sensation came when d.
rector Edward Edwards, who appears
to be most centrally under fire as the
man who had charge of the finances
Of the school, openly accuses Mrs.
w. D. McAuliffe, the buxom janitress,
and her invalid husband, of giving
wine parties in the cellar of the school
building two or three times week.
Mrs. McAuliffe, who 1t appears Is
not only the janitress but the engineer
Of the school building as we'll, came
back later in the afternoon with a
statement that Edwards statement is
ialse-that she never had anything
more than "a little beer" at her par
ties-and she announces that she is
now prepared to 60 into court and
show how certain drunken directors
have in the past been in the habit of
coming to the school when in session
and trying to dance with the
teachers"
The janitress, who is both young and
pretty, received newspaper men at her
home in the school clad in a fine black
skirt, neat white shirt waist and q hat
bearing valuable plumes. She admit
ted that after serious injury to her
husband, who was janitor, she had
taken up the work and that the board
has raised the salary from 500 to
$50; per month. - l. a'ar,r ~ ...
with reference to the story that
we have wine parties here + want to
say it's a lie," said Mrs. McAuliffe.
I'VE have had some parties, it is true,
for my husband, who has been hurt,
and perhaps we did drink some beer,
but what of that? Just let those direc-
tors start something and l will finish
it for them"
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-11-18
CONTEST NOTICE

Department of the interior, United
States Land Office, Williston, N. D.
-.. ...... Nov. 10, 1909.
A sufficient contest affidavit hav-
ing been filed in this office by Oliver
Ruud, contestant, against Homestead
Entry. No. 5000, made July 30ah, 1907,
for NE IA Section 80, township 159
N. range "a, w 5th Principal lMedi-
dian, by Mary Athey, contestee, in
which it is alleged that said. Mary
Athey wholly abandoned said land;
that she has not improved nor re-
sided thereon; that such default still
exists and has existed for more than
six months last past; said parties
are hereby notified to appear, res
pond, and offer evidence touching
said allegation at 10 o'clock a. m. on
Jan. II, 1910, before the Register and
Receiver atthe United States Land
Office in Williston, N. D.
The said contestant having, in a
proper affidavit, filed Nov. IL, 1909,
set forth facts which show that after
due diligence personal service of this
notice can not be made, it is hereby
ordered and directed that such no
tice be given by due and proper pub
LEGATION. .. -.E
M. s. Williams, Receiver.
BrOWnSOn. eg5
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-11-18
One Kind Of Teacher.

In a school near Concordia." said
State Superintendent Fairchild of Kan
sas in discussion of school work, "a
little French boy was found by his
teacher down under seat trying to
catch grasshopper. The teacher
got down, too, and assisted the little
fellow in catching the hopper. What
q chance to have done the wrong
thing-to have frightened the little
foreigner, to have scolded and lee
tured the whole school. How wisely
this young man acted under the cir.
cumstances. He would have been
~ choice for tsssSRsr Tor mx h. !.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-11-18
PAINT THAT DESTROYS GERMS
Days by Invention at Chem
nitz, Saxony.

Berlin.-An invention to destroy
bacterial disease is reported from
Chemnitz, Saxony.
It is a highly lustrous paint, applied
to all surfaces in the ordinary way,
with a basis of white lead or zinc
white
The German ONCE, after exhaustive
tests of "vitralin," says that when in
contact with vitralin coating the
bacilI Of tuberculosis are destroyed in
three days. Diphtheria baciiii require
i've hours and typhoid becilh eight
hours. ~
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-11-18
"Rats" Passe, Says Actress.

New York.-Miss Lillian Russell re-
turned the other night from trip
abroad on the steamer New York.
do you know, puffs and rats are
doomed forever?" she asked, land you
must wear your own hair parted in
the middle and draped down over
your ears and then brought around
the head in coil. Simplicity ITSELF
That is. II you have the hair. If you
don't happen to have hair enough for
|that, 70 out and buy some"
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-11-18
More Of 6uddha's Ashes Found

more OF 6uddha's Ashes Found.
Excavations conducted by the Ar
theological department of the Indian
government near Peshawar have re-
suited in the discovery of an ancient
Buddhist stupa or memorial mound
containing bronze casket, within
which are some of the ashes of Guat-
anna Buddha, the founder of Buddhism.
They are Enclosed in wrought hex
agonal rock crystal receptacle sealed
with royal seal of the Emperor Kan
ishka, who was ruling in Peshawar at
the opening of the Christian era.
The discovery is reported to have
taken place on site described by the
Chinese traveller Hieun Tsang in the
record Of his journeys in the early
years of the Christian era as being
the position of large Buddhist mon.
astery. & Prof. A. Foucher of the Sor-
bonne,. an authority on Buddhist arch
eology. noticed five years ago some
curious mounds in this spot, but had
no appliances for excavation. This
elew has since been followed up by
DR.. Marshall, head of the Indian Arch
Biological department.
when Buddha died in 49, B. c.,
his body was cremated and the ashes
divided in eight parts among his dis
ciples," said DR.. L. D. Burnett, keeper
of the Oriental books in the British
museum. "One of the vases contain
ing these portions, known as the Pip
rahwa vase, was discovered few
years ago by government survey.
The other six are yet undiscovered.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-11-18
Cat Saves Mans Life.

Franklin, Pan. G. Cole, farmer,
living near Tionesta, perhaps owes his
life to the family cat. Cole was sleep.
ing under tree near the house
when four-foot rattlesnake emerged
from bushes and crawled toward him.
The cat sprang at the snake, which
was too quick and sank it's fangs into
the animal.
A daughter of Cole, who heard the
warning rattle of the snake. saw the
incident and reused the father. Cole
killed the snake. The cat died from
the bite 1t received.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior, U. S.
Land Office at .Minot, North Dakota.

Department of the Interior, U. s.
Land Office at Minot, North Dakota.
Nov. 16, 1909.
Notice is hereby given that Everett
f. Cline Of Mino:, North Dakota,
who ON April 9, 1907, made Home
stead Entry No. 44625 (serial No.
04197), for s 142 NV Ia, Section IS,
Township 153 N. range SO, w Fifth
Principal Meridian, has filed notice of
intention to make final communication
proof, to establish claim to the land
above described, before the Register
and Receiver of the United States
Land Office, at Minot, North Dakota,
on the oath day of December, 1909.
Claimant names as witnesses:
W. E. Caswell, B. c. Withal, ]. P.
Mccarthy, c. L. Cline, all of Minot,
N. d.
Thomas e. DISCARD. Assister.
11-18 1923
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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-11-18
He Wasn't Twins.

my friend Woollen-William Yves.
ley Woollen," said Speaker Cannon
twas starting on trip to Europe
V "He needed a steamer rug in a
hurry and telephoned] for one to be
sent to his house. The clerk took the
order, but couldn't understand the
name.
"'Spell it out he said, and ri
write it down
$50 Woollen started.
"'W.' said he.
EYES, said the clerk.
"W.'
Eyes
"W.' X
"'Ye-es.'
"Double o.
"'Ye-e-es.'
"'Double L.
"'Say,' interrupted the clerk. what
do you think you are-twins?' "-Har
per's Weekly.
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Believed in Accuracy.

A dapper little man was making his
exit from the dining-room of fashion
able hotel when the head waiter
stepped up to him, took him by the
arm and said: II have tumbled to your
little game, you rascal. This is the
fourth time you've had your dinner
here without paying"
"Sir," exclaimed the little man,
breaking loose from the walters
rasp, and looking the oficial sternly
h the face. you are mistaken; it is
he fifteenth"
Before the waiter had recovered
rom the shock the man vas.1n he
0Rt street
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-11-18
Two Smokers.

II had big surprise today" said
a bellboy In Denver hotel. ".This
morning l was called to a woman's
room to bring her some writin' paper.
When I handed it to her she slipped
me q dime.
cts for cigarettes she says.
"'Much Obliged says. droppin' the
coin in my pocket. I'll spend it for
cigars; don't smoke cigarettes
"Well, I don't care what you
smoke she says. Those cigarettes
are for me-. 81
sAn' rot EN- fer her. too.s
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Drawn from Long Experiences.

Who has learned to obey will know
how to command.-SOlon. g--s
Heaven helps the man who helps
himself.-Sophocles.
Incidence is stagnation; employ
ment is life.-Seneca. a.
Anger drives the mind indoors and
bolts the door.-Plutarch.
Who knows most grieves most for
wasted time.-Dante.
OF two evils the less is always to
be chosen.-Thomas Kempis.
There is nothing cheaper than civil
!ty.-Cervantes.
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Office Of County Auditor
Notice Of Expiratisa Of Time of Re.
dempdOn.
sta:e OF North Dakota, County Of

Ward,-ss.
Minot, N. D., Nov. 9, 1909.
To Joseph Roach, the person in
whose name certain real estate stu
ate in Ward county, North Dakota,
and hereinafter described, now ap-
pears of record in the Office of the
Register Of Deeds Of Ward county,
and which said real estate was ass
essed in the year 1905, as follows
SW IA of Sc Ia. Section %,
Township 155, Range 80. said real
estate being assessed in 1905, to E.
D. Kelley.
You are hereby notified that said
above described real estate was sold
as provided by law, at the annual
sale of lands upon which taxes had
become delinquent, after advertise
ment thereof, as provided by law,
which sale was made at the auditors
office at the court house in the city
Of Minot, county of Ward, state Of
North Dakota, on the 4th day of De-
cember, 1906, and the amount of the
delinquent tax due upon the proper
ty aforesaid at the date of sale was
nine and O9-100 dollars, including
penalties, costs and interest to make
which amount the said property twas
then and there sold, as provided by
law, (was duly offered for sale, and
no one offering to pay the amount of
said unpaid taxes, wa bid in for the
county of Ward and subsequently as
signed,) for nine and 09-1O0 dollars,
and a certificate of said sale (assign-
ment) was issued to the purchaser
thereof under the hand and seal of
the auditor of said Ward county, and
you are further notified that the own
err and holder of the certificate so is
sued has presented the same to the
undersigned as auditor of said coun-
ty and demanded a deed for said
property as provided by law, and said
certificate being and remaining un-
redeemed, and there being ten and
36-100 dollars, due and unpaid there
on, including subsequent taxes for the
years --penalties and interest,
and there being due to Ward coun-
ty, North Dakota, the further sum of
---dollars, as subsequent
taxes, interest, penalty and costs,
and there appearing no legal objec-
ton why a tax deed should not be
issued as demanded. You are there
fore notified that ten and 61-1OO dol
lars, exclusive of accruing costs, is
necessary to redeem said property
from said sale, and that unless the
said amount and the costs of this
proceeding are paid on or within
ninety days after the service of this
notice upon you, tax deed will be
issued therefor as provided by law.
Period of redemption expires Feb.
9, 1910.
Given under my hand and official
seal this 9Th day of Nov. 1909.
(SeaD Louis A. Larson,
Auditor of Ward County, N. D.
BY John H. Nelson, Deputy.
Ills 1872 au
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Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office, Williston, N. D.
Nov. 10, 1909.