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The Dickinson press., 1909-02-27
Taylor

Sheriff Wiech was down on business
Saturday.
Webster Schodeld was up from Ante
lope Saturday.
Miss Lillian Schofiield visited in Me-
dora on Friday.
Otto F. Hennings of Dickinson spent
Sunday in Taylor.
v. A. Baker is %transacting business
in Halliday and Connolly.
Mrs. Jack Wiech from Dickinson
visited with Mrs. Leutz on Friday.
Col. Williams and H. Leutz trans
acted business in Bismarck the first Of
the week.
Mrs. H. Leutz and children visited
her father in Richardton Sunday and
Monday.
Miss Ada Baker was surprised by he,
school friends Tuesday evening and all
had a nice time.
Llewllyn Roquette and Victor Chris.
Jensen from Dickinson visited the Brad.
emeyer boys Monday.
C. C. Tweed returned Thursday from
his claim and resumed his duties will
the Mandan Mercantile Co. 4
Miss Martha Rotchild returned Sunday
from Dickinson, where she has been
successfully treated for appendicitis.
About 40 little folks gathered at tn.
home of Aug: johnson Saturday. 1t was
Hugo's sixth birthday anniversary.
MI. Brademeyer and daughter, Chris.
tena. and son, Twins. and Albert, at
tended a play in Dickinson on Friday.
Tuesday evening John 4Laubscher re.
turned from a three weeks visit with
relatives in Wonenoc, Wisconsin,. ant
Edmore. N. D. h
Knute Berg is ill with typhoid fever
and vas taken to the hospital at Dick
inson Sunday. His many friends hope
to hear of his speedy recovery.
On Sunday Mrs. l.. I. Lewis returned
from Bismarck, where Mr.. Lewis has
been ill. Mr.. Lewis had recovered 81
that he was able to come home Tuesday.
Miss Thea Torgerson was surprised a
| the home of her sister, Mrs. liner, last
Thursday evening. The evening was
spent in games and music and all wished
Thea many more happy birthdays.
The Taylor Progressive Literary met
at the school house Friday evening and
a very nice program was given. The
next program will be given March S and
everybody is cordially invited to come.
On Monday DR.. Hennings arrived here
from Grand Forks and has ordered lum
Der for a house and drug store at Con-
molly. where he will move his family at
soon as his house is completed. For the
past three years Dr.. Hennings has been
practicing in Taylor where he made
many friends who are pleased to see him
return to North Dakota. .r
The Dickinson press., 1909-02-27
LAME SHOULDER

This is a common form of muscular
rheumatism. No internal treatment is
needed. Apply Chamberlain's Imminent
freely three times day andS#a quick
cure us certain. This linir1ent has
proven especially valuable for muscular
and chronic rheumatism. Sold by all
druggists.
The Dickinson press., 1909-02-27
Notice

The partnership, heretofore existing
between James G. Campbell and J.. H.
Field, under the firm name of Campbell
&Field. was dissolved on the first day
of February. A. D! 1909. All those
indebted to the firm Of Campbell & Field
are requested to settle their notes and
accounts, due the to late firm of Campbell
& Field, at the First National bank Of
Dickinson, where they have been left foa
JAMES G. CAMPBELL
2-6-4p =. H. FIELD!
The Dickinson press., 1909-02-27

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Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-05-06
DEALS DEATH IN GEORGIA
Storm Leaves Trail of Destruction in
Its March to the Sea.

Atlanta, Ga.-The storm which Tor
three days swept eastward across the
Southern states passed out of the South
Atlantic states into the Atlantic ocean
On Saturday night.
Despite three days of snufting out OF
human lives, crushing habitations, doing
perhaps millions of dollars damage and
for few hours in some extensive sec.
tions well-nigh demoralizing business
and communication, this atmosphere dis
turbance practically had lost none of
the yieiousne>s. Late Saturday after
noon wires suddenly regained flashed the
news of thirty-four more deaths in Geor-
gia, lives taken by a storm of the com
ing of which some of the victims had
been reading for two days in the news
papers.
When the news of the extent of de-
struction in Tennessee, with between 80
and 100 deaths, was speeding by train
from the presses toward Albany and
Cedartown, Ga., and when even old hands
at predicting the course of tornsdoes
were drawing a sigh OF relief, and say
ing it was all over, the winds were rae
ing with the trains toward these towns
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-05-06
HONOR MEMORY OF DAVIS.
North Beginning to Form True judo.
ment Of the Man.

Jefferson Davis was the idol of the
people and almost equally of the army.
This is no time TO dissect the bicker-
ings. jealousies, and spites that TO
mented unjust judgment of this man
and of his motives. Some of them are
contentious that can never be settled;
all of them had best be buried in his
grave. TO lie untouched forever by
either prying, itching. or loving hands.
The bitterness of the past has los, its
pungency; tho respect and goodwill
and love of econd thought have ire
placed that. o-day. even though rat
lorth which once hated and longedl to
hang him-the verdict of the world is
hat here is just man who has goNe
% sleep.
Neither is there space. were there
aeed. to rehearse the long and bitter
search of the Inhorsed knight for an
,ther saddles Released from priz h.
after durance too vile and needI, IS
aot to raise . national blush at its
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-05-06
DEATH LIST GROWS
WITH EACH REPORT
NUMBER KILLED MAY GO BE-
YoND $50.
Most Destructive Storm Ever Known
in This Section cyelc,. Took
Wide Extent Hundreds
of People Homeloss

Memphis. Tenn.-lncomplcte rspor,.
from the storm-swcpt scctions &C Ten
nessee, Alabama. Arkansas and Missis-
sippi give death list Of 100 aud more
than 500 more or less seriously injured
d the latter Il Is thought that fully
'ne hundred will die. running the loss
1p to the neighborhood OF $50.
In casualties, in property loss. in ex-
Tent OF territory covered. and in freakish
things done, Thursday nights storm is
the most remarkable aud the most de-
structive ever known in this section. II
IL not possible 10 estimate the property
loss, for there ia no way OF computing
It. Many noble forests that have stood
for generations are laid in waste; nu-
merous fine old country homes have been
blown away; churches, school houses,
stores and inuumcrahle barns and out
houses are in kindling.
Late reports show that the worst dam.
age was in Eastern Arkansas. South
eastern Missouri. West Tennessee and
along Duck and Elk rivers in Middle Ten.
nessee and North Alabama. Shelby
county, Upton county and the counties
to the east OF these, notably Crockett,
Gibson, Madison and Chester, were the
scenes of the storms fury, and whole
settlements were laid in ruins. Two or
three small towns ON the Arkansa > Mis-.
souri, line, an equal number on the Ten
nessec-Alabama line and several in Mid
die Tennessee were wholly destroyed. It
is remarkable that the loss OF life in
them was so small.
The cyclone seems to have originated
in Southwestern Arkansas. jumped over
the intervening space TO Van Buren, and
Cleburne counties, aud split, one fork 60
ing north into Missouri and the other
coming due west to lizard and Crittcn-
den counties, then crossing the Mississip
pi into Shelby and Upton counties
thence northeast into Middle Tennessee ;
thence southwest into Northern Ala.
bama, where it disappeared in the mourr.
tains of Lawrence county.
At each place the cyclone lasted only
about ten minutes, and was followed by
heavy rain and hail storms and an clec.
trio display that was said to be unusual.
ly terrifying.
Hundreds of people, mostly negro ten
ants on devastated farms. are homeless,
but the white people in each OF these
communities are taking care of the das
titute.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-05-06
WELCOME AWAITS SHIP.
FIRST TIME MAN-oF-WAR GS,Es
SO FAR UP STREAM.
Trip of Bsttieship Will Marx an
Epoch in the Navigation Of
the Mississippi River.

New Orleans.-Soon after the United
States hattlcship Mississippi comes into
the Mississippi river, on May 6, it will
steam into a harbor the hospitality of
which will he heartily evidenced by word
and deed
Receptions and fetes which will at
tend the visit Of the ship at New Or.
leans. the first stop the man-of-war will
make on its journey up the river, viii
be only the initial round Of welcome,
which the Mississippi will be accorded
during the time il hests In the great
stream.
The trip OF the Missi-sippi to Natchex
will mark an epoch in the navigation OF
the Mississippi river by a firstclass bat
tleship. being the first time that fight
ing ship OF this class has proceeded 80
lar up the river. The occasion will give
thousands of people their first ap,or-
tunity of seeing a battleship, and indi-
cations are that they will fully avail
themselves OF the opportunity.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-05-06
Unwilling OF LEES STATUE
To Be. Feature of the Confederate
Reunion.

Memphis, Tenn.-Aeeording to present
plans, the officers of the United Con-
federate Veterans will make the unveil-
ing OF the statue OF Gen. Stephen ID. Lee,
late commander-inchief,o one of the prin-
cipal features OF the reunion in Mem
phis early IN June. The site of the
statue is in the Vicksburg National
Park, but arrangements are row being
completed to run special trains to the
park from Memphis as soon as the final
ball is over, early On the morning OF
June IL, and the unyeiling will take
place at = O'Clock that afternoon. The
ceremonies in connection with the un-
yelling will form part OF the official pro-
gram of the reunion.
Gen. Vim. L. Miekle, adjutsnt gen
eral and chief Of staff, has completed ar
rangements with the railroads for spe-
cial rate from Memphis to Vicksburg.
As result, veterans and others attend
ing the reunion will be- able to made
the round trip from Memphis to vicks-
burg for So.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-05-06

memory. he went abroad, returned, and
was male president OF an unsuccess-
ful insurance company. the debts OF
which he assured and struggled for
years to pay by hard. IL congeniai.
labor at his Beauvoir home. The re-
suit OF this was his autobiographic
history: Rise and Fall of the Confed-
crate Government" in 1881. OF this
the financial result was not fattering;
probably because of lack OF money
among those most interested, and from
the richer north having grown some
what weary of war views at short
range. Then, on December G. 1889.
the worn and weary man of many sor-
rows and hopes and disappointments
died In New Orleans. while visiting
an old and tried friend. He was laid
to rest In the state he had battIed for
so long and well in two countries.
Shortly after his body was claimed by
the state which had volunteered him
home and castle is years before Mrs.
Davis acceded to the request and not
old people recall the triumphal progress
of that drsped catafalque through the
states OF his late-eonfederacy. And at
last noble monument has been
reared in the city Of his burial.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-05-06
THREE NEGROES LYNcHED.
Assailants of Marshall (Texas) Officer.
Strung Up.

Marshall, Tex.-A mob entered the
county jail here at o'clock Friday
morning, dragged cut Creole Nose, Pie
Hill and Mat Chase, negroes, and lynched
all three. The militia which has been
guarding the jail for the last three
days was dismissed at midnight and the
citizens formed a mob Immediately, tax
ing the authorities by surprise. Nose.
Hill and Chase were charged with firing
upon and killing Deputy Sheriff Mark
Huffman and wounding Constable Alex
Cargill few days ago while the officers
we're raiding a craps game.
The mob numbered forty men. and
they battered in the north wall of the
Jail, grabbed the keys from the jailer and
rushed the trembling blacks to the street
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-05-06

hrmly on the presence on Mars Of
vegetable life. and. because Mars pos
sesses water and an atmosphere. we
find 1t provided with two OF the es-
sential conditions for the develop
ment and maintenance Of vitality.
The mind naturally turns further
sfeld to the question of the existence
on Mars of animal life. and. moreover
to that of the possible development
on the planet of intelligent beings
DR.. Lowell argues that il the polar
ice caps OF Mars have to be tapped to
revivify its arid wastes such ACTION
must postulate intelligence with the
primal motive Of self-preservationN for
an incentive. This view hinges natural
;y On the assumption that the Maftian
canals are the work Of Intelligent be-
ings, who constructed them to Save
the planet from desiccation
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-05-06
ROOSEVELT KILLS 3 LIONS
Mighty Nimrod Did Not Waste q
Single Shot.

NAIROBI, British East Africa.-Four
lions are trophies OF former Presiden
Roosevelt's camp in the Mau hills, and
the 200 or more native followers are
joining within the American party in
the celebration of the luck
The lions were bagged Friday, and
Col Roosevelt's mighty gun brought
three of them to earth, each on the first
shot. Thus one of the presidents fond.
est ambitions has been realized, and he
is proud, too. that the fourth of the
jungle kings fell before the rifle of his
son Kermit, who, however, took four
shots to kill his quarry.
Both father and son are jubilant. 1t
was their first lion hunt, and so mag
nifieent a kill was far beyond their cx.
pcctations.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-05-06

. been in some of the notices. or calls
something to indicate that 1t was the
first OF the sort in the state.
These facts taken together with the
| following letters from the lady who
| claims TO have done this noble work
first. and added to these. the positive
statements of several OF the parties
who were present at the home of Mr..
Boyd tstill standing as 1t was on that
/ memorable day upon the afternoon
referred to. convince me that it is to
my own city that the credit should be
accorded. But II there are others who
do not see it as | do. they must ac
knowledge tfor the proofs are there to
be seen of all men who will 20 into
the Hall Of History OF the Mississippi
Archivesl that Mississippi was right
along with all the rest and. II not q
whole year ahead of them. had at
least - hours start along the path
Of famc-thanks to the devoted Ia,
dies Of Columbus, As to the facts of
the Jackson decoration. which Mrs
Sue Landon Vaughan claims TO have
instituted. the story taken very brief
ly from her published history OF Deco
ration day Is that on the evening OF
April 90. when rumors of disaster and
defeat were thick and dark, a party
of young men and maidens were gath
cred in the parlor OF Mrs. James II.
Boyd. on North jefferson street. try
ing. by music and other diversions. TO
pass the heavy hours. Suddenly. Just
before midnight. two young men.
scouts. rode in with the dread news
that the federals were coming.
Gen. Lee had surrendered at Apo
mattox; Gen. Johnston's forces were
surrounded. and disaster was immi-
nent
As she stood at the piano. Miss
Adams (as she was them seized
pencil and wrote a call to the people
of Jackson to meet at the cemetery
the next day. bringing with them all
the flowers that they could gather. for
the purpose of decorating the graves
of the soldiers who wore the gray.
This call. Mrs. Vaughn says. in a per-
sonal letter. was printed in the Missis-
sippian OF the next day. and she says
that she has a copy OF the paper in
her possession. II this paper could
but be shown to the doubling public.
1t would forever settle the question
as to what city the credit for Decora.
uon day belongs. But the lady is
naturally reluctant to have the pre-
cious document leave her possession.
After receiving the letter from her.
we visited many OF our older citizens
and sought corroboration Of all the
statements made in her letters. This
we had in fullest measure. but always
accompanied by the fatal words: Il
think II was at that time" or some.
thing Of that sort.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-05-06

The girl in the millinery store was
walking around with a large ring on
her arm. Finally. hat in one hand
and the ring in the other, she ap
proach the customer. All the other
clerks wore the same large ring or
rim on their arms.
Il will place this on first" she said.
whereupon she carefully laid the ring
on the customers hair.
"why?r asked the customer. Are
they wearing halos this spring.
This is not halo" the girl re
Piled 1T is simply rim to raise the
hat little. so it won't trail all around
on the ground
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-05-06
Planting Orange Trees.

New Orleans, IA.-Fully five million
orange trees are being planted in Louis
lana and East Texas, as a result of the
inroads Of the boil weevil. One nrm has
sent out 100000 budding stocks of the
trifoliata seeding, and has shipped seeds
enough for 100000 more to points in
Louisiana and in a large part of the
adjoining Lands of Texas, Another re-
markable result of the boll weevil incur.
sion is the heavy planting OF rice, espe-
cially foreign varieties, in the river bot.
tom lands.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-05-06
MORE LAND THAN WATER
ist Explains in What Msnnsri
Planet Mars Differs from
the Earth.

Dntainless Mars has inspired the
Prof. Percival Lowell. who de-
that Martian landscape
seem to us remarkably tame.
at the scenery would be chiefly
, for the lack of everything that
y goes to make il up. That
relates Mars to the earth in
)nse Is the distribution OF land
Is: but while our earth has
ea than land. Mars. on the con-
shows more land than sea-
billy possessing its own share
er. the fiuid constituents have
20 far absorbed. and this fact
es another point freely con-
that Is. Mars has proceeded
inwards in that pathway Of
pry evolution. which, beginning
sbulous mass. ends In a dead
Ing down to q certain extent
rh was fitted to become the
of lifs~ Prof.. Lowell decides
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-05-06

sed by an address by DR.. Benja-
II. Trueblood. secretary OF the
ican Peace Society. on The Pres
position of the Peace Movement" d"
That Has Been Accomplished.
y Trueblood said in part:
1T me sketch in the barest out.
> what has already been accom-
I'D. The Interpretation will take
4 Of itself.
4 The men and women, now a
host, who believe that the day
Bt when blind brute force should
the policies of nations and pre-
at the settlement of their DIFF
ices. are now thoroughly organ
A hundred years ago there was
society in existence organized
Promote appeal to the forum OF
n and right in the adjustment of
national controversies. To-day
are more than 500. nearly
important nation having
Foup Of peace organizations. Their
ttuents are numbered by tens OF
lands, from every rank and class
Observation-Disclosures. men OF
and commerce. educators and
p. workingmen. statesmen. rulers
pc organized peace party has It's
national Peace bureau at Berne,
erland, binding all its sections
pne world body. II has its Inter
bal Peace congress which has
IL meetings in 20 years-con-
% over which statesmen now feel
honor to preside
Triumph Of Arbitration.
The position which the peace
nent has reached is no less dis
determined by the practical at.
ents Of arbitration. We are this
celebrating what is really the
pndredth anniversary of the birth
movement. for 1t was In 1909
David L. Dodge. a Christian mer-
Of New York city, wrote the
hlet which brought the move
into being. and led six years
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-05-06
GREAT CONGRESS OF PEACE
WORKERS HELD in CHICAGO
7ousands of the Opponents of Warfare, Including Many
Distinguished Diplomats and Statesmen Gather to
Discuss Disarmament and Worldwide
Arbitration.

Chicago.-Every civilized country on
Nc globe was represented in the sec
I'D National Peace Congress. which
DPgan here Monday. The gathering
vas the greatest OF its kind ever held
- America. and brought to Chicago
nc $4,000 persons who are jealous
UDrkers in the cause OF worldwide
nce. Among these were eminent
fesmen and diplomats of this and
Der nations Unfor,unaeeiy. Official
eies prevented both President Taft.
honorary president. and Secretary
War Dickinson. the president of the
Dgress. from being present.
On Sunday there were special serv-
- in most OF the Chicago churches,
ace meetings under tire auspices of
risiist and labor organizations, and
)arge mass meeting which was ad-
essed by President Schurman OF
rnell university. Rev. Jenkins Lloyd
pes and DR.. Emil @. HIrsch OF Chi
b.
Welcome TO the Congress-
Orchestra hall was filed to the
Dft Monday when the first session
called to order by Robert Treat
ne OF Boston. the presiding oficer.
governors. mayors and hundreds Of
bs had been asked to appoint dele
les. and most OF them had re-
nded- President Dickinson's ad.
ss. the same he delivered several
eks ago before the Hamilton club.
, read. and the congress was then
mally welcomed by Gov. Charles s.
Deen for the state. Mayor Fred A.
pc for the city and Rev. A. Eugene
Ptlett. chairman OF the reception
hmittee. The secretary then read q
d letter from President Taft, in
ch the chief executive heartily
mended the aims OF the congress.
iss Anna b. Eckstein of Boston
was introduced to the meeting
read a World Petition to the
I'd Hague Conference" This was
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-05-06

~ dark clouds OF death and
N loss and grief had rolled
AN away from these fail
wv lands sufficiently for tn,
~ tear-diaimed eyes OF ths
women TO look forth ant
see the unmarked graves OF those who
had fallen. for home and loved ones
men who had been as truly heroes as
Were many of those lying beneath
stately shafts. which told to all who
ran the noble deeds of those beneath
the marble
Since that sweet day. when
thoughtful. tender woman-hearts
went out in sympathy to those Sc
lonely lying. and gentle woman-hands
reached forth and put upon graves,
unmarked texcept with a pail of vel.
Vet green which generous nature laid
above them the flowers of memory
and of love
Since that far time there has been
somewhat of bitter in-mingled with
the sweet OF that remembrance. and
among the women of the southland.
the beauty of the deed which will
live in song and story. as surely as
ever in days of old the deeds OF love
and daring lived in songs OF min
strelsy-is marred by the rivalry
which has arisen as to whose hands
first laid the commemorative blooms
upon the breasts of the boys who
wore the gray, writes Kate Markham
Power
Before proceeding let me say that
IL is TO my native state. Mississippi
IL not to my native town-that the
credit belongs. of having instituted
this beautiful ceremony Of Memorial
day--a custom observed in the south
on April 26. and in the north on May
81. and the credit Is. of course. wom-
an's-but whether ii Is a woman of
Jackson or a woman OF the town that
lies by the inland river"-Columbus
Il cannot swear-though | am Ger.
tain. after years of thought and search
ing among old letters and papers. that
II is to the former that the fair fame
is due.
In the Jackson Clarion of the date
of April 20. 1866. Is most exquisite
editorial. all of which should like
to give you. but have not the space.
It begins thus: Yesterday being the
day set apart for the decoration of
the graves OF the dead who yielded
up their lives in the service OF their
country was very generally observed
here" etc.
Nowhere have | been able to find
any reference that would lead me to
believe that the observance of this
date was the first, or an innovation
among the people of Mississippi Sure
ly. had 1t been so. there would have
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-05-06
Tippecanoe Goes Wet.

Lafayette, Ind.-Local option sus-
tanned the most severe setback il has yet
encountered in Indiana when Tippecanoe
county voted "wet' by majority little
short of thousand The result was a
surprise to all, for Lafayette, being the
home of Purdue University, was ex-
peeted to Join the list of dry" counties
in the State by at least small major
ity. President W. Z. Stone and the
faculty of Purdue co-opersted with the
"dry" organization in the campaign to
wipe out the 103 saloons in the city.