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Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1909-07-09

w. A. Sprague returned this
week from Forest River where he
and his family have been visiting.
Atty. John Keohane was at Me-
dora attending the county COM
missioners meeting this week.
Frank Kvech, the newly appoint
ed postmaster at Yates, was bust
ness caller at Beach this week
Tuesday.
Fred Brock, one of our enterpris-
ing farmers, was at Medora Tues
day, having business with the
county officials.
Henry Sunders had a new sign
put on the front of his store this
week. The Big Store, ]. R. Wa
tiers and Atty. Andrews also have
new signs.
Henry Odland arrived Tuesday
from Hurley, S. Dak., and will
make an extended visit with his
brothers here. He may remain
permanently.
FIVE ROOM COTTAGE FOR
SALE on the south side; $50 barrel
cistern with Is by $50 foot lot.
Will be sold at a bargain. Inquire
at this office. 34tf.
C. A. Ludolph and Paul Meyer,
bankers Of Davenport, Ia, are in
the city this week looking over
the country. They are the guests
Of j. R. Waters.
F. B. Chapman, of Budford, a
national bank examiner, was in
the. city last Monday on business
in connection with the national
bank which is to open here soon.
Eli Cole, president of the Golden
Valley State Bank, returned to
Bellvue, Ia, last Monday morning
after spending some time here on
business in connection with his in
stitution.
NOTICE.: A friend of mine has
placed $4,000, with me to loan on
Golden Valley farm land. Special
terms and privileges on this block
of funds while it lasts. No delay
j. money in bank.-J. r. Waters,
Beach, N. Oak. 28-tf
Otto Stensrude returned from
Sentinel Butte Wednesday where
he has been for some time looking
after his interests there. His
Butte store is now in charge Of q
new man, and Otto will remain in
Beach again.
FOR SALE: A new steam pillow
and threshing rig; 35-horse Mimi
i; eapolis enigne with Minneapolis
separator; inquire Of H. A. Lull,
: Sentinel Butte, N. Oak. Also
have section and half Of gooc
farm land, nine miles north Of
Sentinel Butte for sale. 34-37.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
CONGRESS HAS LOST
MANY MEN OF NOTE
Retiring II Senators and II Repre-
sentatives Include Familiar
Faces.
AND TELLER BOTH GO.
Hepburn Of Iowa. Bourke Cochran
and J. Adam Bede Also to Be
Among the Missing.

Twelve Senators and seventy-seven
Representatives will be absent when
the SiXty-frst Congress assemblies in
special session on March -. These
changes in the personnel of the Senate
and House include many whose names
are bywords to every reader Of news
papers.
OF the seyenty-seven Representatives
who retire on March 3. one. Mr.. Hep
burn Iowa-, has served twenty-five
years in Congress, and another, Mr..
Sherman IN. ", who becomes Vice
President. has served twenty years in
the House. Mr.. Cousins (Iowa) and
Delegate Smith (AriZ. have served SIX
teen years. while Jenkins (Wis.), Coop
er (TeX.), Oyerstreet (Ind.), Williams
(Miss.) and Achesen (Pa.) each have
served fourteen years. OF the other
Representatives. who retire eight served
twelve years two, ten years; six, eight
years; nine. six years; fifteen. four
years. and twenty-eight two years, or
a single term.
NBA'oCItbllNt liz l)blll II VI AVA 49,
been cOnspicuOusly interested in all
matters relating to interstate COM
merce, his connection with public af-
fairs going back to antebellum days,
he having been Il delegate to the Re
publican national convention of 1860
John Sharp Williams, former minority
leader of the House, retires to enter
the Senate two years hence. Repre-
sentative J. Adam Bede Of Minnesota.
who has contributed to the humOr of
many campaigns, and Bourke Cochran
Of New York, who h.as figured in many
oratorical contests. also retires.
In years Of service Senator Teller
of Colorado is the nestOr of the retir
ing statesmen, having been elected Sen
atOr upon the admission of his State
to the Union, taking his seat Dec. 4.
1876, since which time he has been
continuously and prominently in the
public eye. Senator Platt Of New
York served in the FOrty-third and
FOrty-fourth Congresses as a member
of the House. entering the Senate in
1881. Senator Foraker. whose political
career is fresh in the mind of every
one, has served in the Senate twelve
years. Senator Hemenway succeeded
Vice-President Fairbanks He had been
a prominent member of the House since
the Fiftyfourth Congress, being chair
man of the committee on appropria-
lions. when he resi- gned to go to the
Senate Senator McCreary also had
long service in the House of Represent
atives. Other Senators who retire are
Ankeny of Washington. Fulton of Ore
gon. Gary of South Carolina, Hans
brOugh of North Dakota. Kittredge of
South Dakota. Long of Kansas and
Milton of Florida.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
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Dorando defeated Percy Smallwood in
a twelye-mile race at Philadelphia.
At Pittsburg Rodney Powers, of st.
Louis. broke the one-mile roller skating
record, the time being > As %.
Objections to the driving of hobbled
horses in races have given rise to a bill
i'll the Minnesota Legislature prohibiting
the practice.
Frank Gotch, worlds champion heavy
weight wrestler has signed articles to
meet Rauel de Rouen. in a match for the
worlds title and a purse of $4,000. win
ner to take 60 and loser 40 PEI cent, at
Kansas City.
When Delaney's challenge to Jeffries
on behalf of Kaufman was made known
TO Jeffries. the eX-champion laughed and
said Why, Kaufman couldn't lick
postage stamp" Kaufman had challenged
for $4,000 side bet
Brown University has asked Chicago
for a foot ball game this fall. and the an
swer of Stage is eagerly awaited in
Providence. Brown wants two Western
games. Chicago. Minnesota and St Louis
being preferred. but Chicago especially de-
sired.
A report from Boston says that John
CIarkson, the famous pitcher. Gied there.
CIarkson was the original Ten thousand
dollar beauty and was generally deemed
the best pitcher in the history of the
game. He had his greatest fame with the
Chicago team under Arson.
At Mason City Drivers Charles Har-
die and O. b. Swift now have their fine
strings of horses on the new driving
course, and drivers from other cities AMI
towns in Northern Iowa and Southern
Minnesota are arranging to bring their
strings as soon as the weather will per
NIT
James r. Keene the dean of the Amer
lean turf. has no thought of retiring from
particinatio in American racing - an
evidence Of his loyal support he hats in
training at the Sheenshead Bay track
seventeen of the finest thoroughhredS that
were ever foaled in this country. Other
owners will follow suit.
At Los Angeles. Freddie Welsh played
with George Memsic in n ten-round fight.
in which the British kid never had Is
exert himself
After practically leading all the way,
King James. one of the stars in the sta
BILE of Sam Hindreth. gained a head vic
tory over Dorante in the Burns handicap
al Oakland. Cal.
At Los Angeles. Cal. Jack Akin. car
rying the crushing weight of 13S pounds
moved himself the champion srrinter Of
america, when he won the Alhambra
handicap al Santa Anita park in a hard
drive by hale a l.ngth from Dominus Ar.
vi The six f&.='ngs were run II he =.
markably fast si.ie of IL GJ
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
The other Side.

An article clipped from another pa
per recently appeared in our columns
in which the name of well-known
chemist and pure-food authority was
used in a way that might lead one TO
suppose that he had condemned Calu-
that this is not the fact. and that the
truth in regard to the exposition
award given the Calumet is as fol-
lows:
When the Worlds Pure Food Ex-
position OF 1907 was organized. a Com
mission on Tests consisting of twelve
most eminent scientists chemists,
PSYCHOLOGISTS and physicians) was ap-
pointed which had entire control of
the granting of awards
The Commission on Tests directed
the chemists as to the nature and ex-
tent of the tests to be applied in the
case of each particular product. The
reports made by the chemists were the
basis of facts upon which the Commits
sion granted the awards. Every pos
sibIe safeguard was placed about the
granting of awards to prevent crook
edneSS.
Under these circumstances the Calu-
met Baking Powder Company feels
justly proud of having received the
highest award for Calumet Baking
Powder
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
PILES CURED IN & TOI4 DAYS

PAIO OINTMENT is guaranteed TO cure any
case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding Protrud,
Ing Piles In to IA days or money refunded
50c
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS.

The Cast Thread Company's plant in
Seneca Falls. y. Y. was destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000
Committees of the chamber of COM
merce and of the Legal Aid Society of
Cleveland are at work on system of
courts for Ohio cities and have taken the
Chicago Municipal Courts as a model
Thirteen persons We're killed. several
seriously injured and much valuable prop
erty destroyed by tornado which swept
across Lonoke. Prairie. Woodruff and
Poinsett Counties. Arkansas.
The bill providing that counties may
vote local option by an even majority, in
stead of two-thirds, has passed the House
in Arizona.
Two thousand negro farmers and teach
ers attended the eighteenth annual negro
conference at the Tuskegee Institute in
mously demanded the enforcement of anti
liquor laws.
The international conference which
opened in Shanghai Feb. l is making pro-
gress in the discussion of the limita ton
and control of the opium traffic. Resolu-
tions drafted by DIR. Hamilton Wright of
America have been taken up.
Serious alarm was caused in Bellevue
Hospital. New York, when it was discov-
cred that for the fourth time in two
months 100 feet of fire hose has been
slashed with knife.
An amendment proposed for the agri-
cultural appropriation bill directs the
President to reserve not to exceed 10000
acres of land within the Flathoad Indian
reservation in Montana as a permanent
bison range
Authorities at Yonkers. y. Y. are in
vestigating the death of Phillip B. Under
hill. aged 10. a schoolboy, who died while
being operated on for mastoiditis. 1t is
charged that the boy was struck on the
ear by an instructor in school.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
CONGENIAL WORK
And Strength to Perform 1t.

A person in good health is likely to
enjoy work.
On the other hand. if the digestive
organs have been upset by wrong food,
work becomes drudgery.
Until recently" writes a Washing
ton girl, Il was a railroad Stenog-
rapher, which means full work every
day.
Like many other girls alone in a
large city. lived at a boarding house.
For breakfast it was mush, greasy
meat. soggy cakes. black coffee. etc.
After a few months of this diet |.
used to feel sleepy and heavy in the
mornings. My work seemed a terrible
effort, and l thought the work was to
blame-too arduous.
"At home I had heard my father
speak of young fellow who went long
distances in the cold on Grape-Nuts
and cream and nothing more for break
fast
Il concluded if 1T would tide him
over a mornings heavy work. it might
help me. so on my way home one night
I bought a package and next morning
[ had Grape-Nuts and milk for break
fast.
II stuck to Grape Nuts. and in
less than two weeks / noticed improve
ment. I can't just tell how well L felt,
but l remember l used to walk the
II blocks to business and knew how
good it was simply to live.
'tAs to my work-well, did you ever
feel the delight of having congenial
work and the strength to perform it?
That's how l felt. I truly believe
there's life and vigor in every grain Of
Grape-Nuts.'
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Creek. Mich. Read ''The Road to Well
ville," in pkgs. There's a Reason
Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true and full of
human interest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
Well Put.

"The late Walter A. WyckOff, the
tramp professor of Princeton" said Il
magazine editor. had, in his tramp
ing days, many a quaint experience.
He was talking to me one night about
political economy. He wanted to
prove that | was wrong in my claim
that labOr-saving inventions robbed
poor men of work. He said, at the
arguments end, that he was reminded
Of a conversation he overheard i'll 1900
on tramp IN Pennsylvania.
They were digging. he began. filter
beds Oh the outskirts of Philadelphia
with a steam shovel. The wonderful
shovel, whistling and grunting would
dart into the earth, jerk out again, and
swing up merrily towards the waiting
car loaded with a ton of dirt. Two
labOrers stood besides Wyckoff. They
watched the quick and tireless shovel
scooping up and dumping into the car
a ton of earth at a lick. Finally the
younger IabOrer said with an oath:
Amt it a shame. George. to shovel
dirt that way:'
''IIow so?" said George, the older
labOrer.
why. that there machine is takin'
the bread out of the mouths of 800 men
what would be required to do the same
work with hand shovcls.'
George laughed
60 on he said: you don't rea-
son right. LoOk-a-here. if this steam
riggin' would give work to 800 men
with shoyels. why not get 5000 men
with teaspoons for the jobT"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11

About Is cents a square yard is spent
a year to keep the streets of Paris clean.
Berlin spends 4 cents for this.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
BABY HORRIBLY BURNED

by Boiling Grease-skin All Came
on One Side OF Face and Head
Thought Her DisEGured for Life
Used Cuticura-No Scar Left.
My baby was sitting beside the
fender and We were preparing the
breakfast when the frying-pan full of
boiling grease was upset and it went
all over one side of her face and head.
Some one wiped the scald with tow
el. pulling the entire skin off. We took
her to doctor. He tended her a week
and gave me some stuff to put on. But
it all festered and ! thought the baby
was di$igured for life | used about
three boxes Of Cuticura Ointment and
it was wonderful how it healed. In
about five weeks it was better and
there wasn't u mark to tell where the
Scald had been. Her skin is just like
velvet Mrs. Hare, l, Henry St, South
Shields. Durham. Eng March %. 1905"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole
Props. of Cuticura Remedies, Boston.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
The silk HIT Coal ScuttIe.

Harry Lauder. at a dinner in wash
ington, said of his kilt:
Speaker Cannon tells me that the
kilt would never be popular on the
Wind-swept prairies of Illinois. Why
not: The bare knee bardens to the
cold like the bare face. But TO hear
some people talk, you'd think the kilt
as intolerablc as Sanders MCDowell's
top hat. Sanders Mcdowell. a coal
HEAVIER of PEBBLES, said angr;.E TO his
wife one night:
"'Havers. Lispeth. hoo manEz times
am to tell We | Wilma hae tps chill
dcrn bringin' up coal in my top AAt?'
"'Hoot, Sanders. mon, he rsasona-
BILE said Lispeth. We've spo1lt tia
shape o the top hat wi yer tunny head
u'rcady; an since we're heavin' coal
all day, wot can little extra coal dust
in the head-piece matterE
Woman. ye dinna grasp ma argy-
mcnt,' said Sanders. l only wear that
top hat in the eveniu' an if. whites
I'm DOT, TAX it off, it leaves Il black
band round ma forehead. WHAT'S the
rasOolt? Why, I'm accused on all sides
o washin' ma face wi ma hat on ;
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
An ElecfriC Raf kiner

An electric rat killer is the latest
means designed for Strengthening ro-
dents. Recently it was tried in
Trieste, France. and it is claimed that
it produced good results
The killer" is made so that il can
be lowered into drains ana other in
tested places. 1t consists of a shallow
tray, with Il bottom lined with closely
spaced metal points, alternately CON
nected to the positive and negative ter
minals of a high tension electric cir
cult. The animals are promptly cleo
trocuted as they step on the points in
attempting TO reach the bait. The ap-
paratus destroys only rats and similar
yermin. and it is affirmed that there is
no risk to cats and other domestic ami
mails
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
$500 Per Acre.

s. Fl. Rodger. Orofino. New Pierce
Co. Idaho, has this to say regarding
onion seed obtained from the John 4.
SalZer Seed Co. Box c, of La Crosse,
Wis:
Il bought garden seeds of you last
year and was more than pleased with
same. especially the onion seed. |
raised some of the finest Silver King
Onions that l ever saw, being over
51a inches in diameter. and SalZer's
PriZetaker were, if anything. even
finer. They paid me over $500 per
square rod. or figuring it by the acre,
it would be $4,000 per acre
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
DECISIONS AGAINST TRUSTS.
Rights Claimed by Combinations Are
Affected Unfavorably.

In the six different cases before the
Supreme Court at Washington the
rights or advantages claimed by cor
porations known as trusts were affect
ed unfayorably. The two leading fea
lures Of these decisions. taken as a
whole, were the unfolding Of the law,
which prohibits common carriers from
granting special privileges to any one,
and the holding of the corporations re-
sponsible to the governments and laws
of the States in which they operate.
In three cases the New York Central
Railroad was involved, that railroad
corporation being required to pay S134.
600 in fines for rebating TO the sugar
trust and to the Brooklyn Cooperage
Company.
In various cases Of the United States
against the express companies, the
court held that under the Elkins law
the companies could not grant franks
for the free transportation Of the
property of their own employees or of
the employees of other companies.
In the case of the Hammond Pack
ing Company Of Chicago, charged with
fixing the prices Of meats in Arkansas.
the antitrust law of that State was
upheld and a fine of $4,000 affirmed.
Justice White in rendering this de-
cision said: 1T is the duty of cor
poration to live in the light of day
and TO be prepared at any time to ex-
hibit its proceedings to its creator. the
state"
The right of a State public service
commission to regulate the rates
charged by common carriers, including
telephone and telegraph companies.
within the State, was affirmed the case
being that of the Cumberland Tele-
phone Company against the Railroad
Commission of Louisiana.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
PERISH IN TENEMENT FIRE.
Women and Children Are Cut Off by
Burning Stairway.

. Cut off from escape by burning
stairway, ten persons persisted i'll 4
tive-story tenement house at 3T2-314
It'll avenue, New York. The victims,
who were Italians, with the exception
of Frenchman. ranged i'll age from
so years to Il girl of +. Five persons.
including a policeman who was cut by
flying glass, and boy about a year
old, were injured and taken to hos
pitfalls.
There were about thirty families in
the tenement house and policemen and
tiremen rescued many of them by lad
ders and by swinging them across from
windows to neighbOring buildings. Sew
eral babies were thrown from the win
dOws and caught by tiremen who were
standing on extension ladders.
Antonio UrSo, a barber, received a
'black hand letter about two months
ago, demanding the payment of about
5000 to Il man whom he was to meet
in the street. The fire marshal. how
ever, declared after an investigation
that the fire was not incendiary.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
TELLS OF ENORMOUS sWINDLE.
Postoffice Inspector Thinks Leader
of Band Is Under Arrest

Postoffice Inspector Thinks Leader
of Band Is Under Arrest.
Postoffice Inspector Swenson, who has
returned to Council Bluffs from Little
Rock. Ark. has given out part of the de-
tails he collected while here of the mon
umental swindle which was perpetrated
by an organization of men, the head of
which he believes is under arrest in that
city in the person of J. G. Maybray The
first clew to the inside of the workings
of the confidence men came to the Post
office Department through the return to
the Council Bluffs postoffice of a letter
which was wrongly addressed. The post
Office department believes the operations
of the organization brought them consid
erably more than a half million dollars.
More than a hundred persons in various
parts of the country were fieeced out Of
amounts ranging from $1,000 TO $4,000
From documentary evidence secured
from the trunk of Maybray it is appar-
ent that a diary was kept of all opera
tons and the inspector has secured the
names of more than a hundred supposed
victims of the swindlers. These include
the name of Thomas Gale, delegate from
Alaska to the national congress and men
of wealth in all parts of the country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
TO PRISON FOR KIDNAPPING.
WeSterner Is Found Guilty of Hold
ing IL Millionaire in Forest.

WeSterner Is FOund Guilty of Hold
ing Millionaire in Forest.
After being out twenty hours jury
at Mount Vernon. Wash. declared Lee
BCzemer guilty of kidnapping for the pur-
pose of holding for ransom Under the
statute the court has no discretion and
Bezemer will be sentenced to an inGe-
terminate term of five to twenty-One
years imprisonment. Oct. 26 last Beze-
mer held up Edward English. million
aire logger on the highway near Mount
Vernon. The logger was forced to drive
into the woods. and was then ordered
from his carriage at the point of a pistol
and bound to a tree, after having been
coerced into writing an order to his wife
to pay bearer $1,000. Before Mrs. En-
glish could secure the money her husband
escaped BPzemor was captured two
weeks later within a few miles of Seat
tlp
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
Last Aztec Rulers Tomb.

\ dispatch from San Juan Bautista..
Mexico, says that Captain Antonio Esco-
bar, of the Mexican Army. who is inter
ested in archaeological studies. announces
that he has certain proofs of the exact
location of the resting place of the bones
of the last Aztec Emperor. The docE-
ments which disclose these facts will be
presented to Minister Sirra.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
MANY PERISH IN A BOAT FIRE
No One Escapes from Flower Fleet
Held I,y Chafs,s. nj Canton

\ disaster on the Canton River. involv-
ing the loss of more than 1000 lives. fol-
lowed the overturning of Il kerosene lamn
on a flower boat while the steamer Ali
ma Maru. which reached Victoria, B. c..
the other night. was at Hong Kong. The
boat burned to the waters edge. the
flames reaching the other boats and pep
hitting no one to escape. because of the
difficulty of moving the cumbrouS flower
beats lying along an unbroken line made
fast by iron chains
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
One Sided Obligation

The fat passenger accidentally stepped
on the street car conductors foot
Il beg your pardon, sir" said the con-
ductor.
Not at all; beg yours
But you don't have to do that. yor
know Passengers are not expected to
be polite to conductors"
Besides. the unexpected apology fus.
tered the conductor, and he rang up two
Chicago Tribune.