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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-05-19
S N APPS IN F ARM S
Frank w. Youneman Has Few Good Things in
farms--Read This Carefully and See If You
Can Use Any Of These Bargains

800 acres of level rich pillow land,
close to station, unimproved for
sale at "a it's value. Buy this and
you can put it on the market at
once az SO per cent advance with
out waiting for the price to raise.
See Youngman eas
FRANK W. YOUNGMAN's AID A.
800 acres, square nalf section all
level rich pillow land, on crop pay
ment; nothing down to a willing
worker at a low rate Of interest.
Z Price $40 per acre. This is cheaper
than you can homestead. See
Youngman. ~ N.
FRANK w. YoUNGAlAN's AID g.
"A well located REIMBURSEMENT near
Minot with a good SIS shack. Farms
all around It. Price 5000. See
g Youngman. y. ~@7sr, -ss:a:. Z
FRANK W. YOUNGNIAN'S AID g.
We make all azinds of equitable ex.
changes. Farms for city homes and
CITY homes for farms. Vacant lots
for improved property, improved
property for vacant lots. See
Youngman.
FRANK w. YOUNGNlAN'S AID .
"A pretty six-room home well 10.
Gated in Eastwood Park to exchange
for farm of about equal value. See
Youngman.
FRANK W. YOUNGMAN'S AID s.
$40 acre farm in one bunch for
sale right, not far from Des Laos !.
See Youngman.
FRANK W. YOUNGMAN'S AID g
Neat little six room house on East
Fourth street, near Court House
Large lot. For sale cheap or ex-
change for a farm; not too high
priced. House has hot water heat.
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Lansford Mans
Close Call

= + ~ y Y 4 y n d . L Is
Frank Holm, while at work in Ben
VOLTS feed mill last Wednesday at
ternoon met with an accident that
might have cost him Is Life. He
was going down the steps into the en-
CINE room when he lost his balance
and fell forward, the top Of his head
striking the shaft on the gasoline en-
CINE, cutting long gash In his scalp.
Seven stitches were necessary to draw
the wound together.
II Mr.. Holm had fallen into the
rapidly revolving wheels 81 the en-
CINE There would have been fresh
mound in Riverside cemetery today
Lans6ord Journal.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-05-19

Frank w. Youngman has some
things to tell you about in farms and
city property read his ad carefully.
FRANK W. YOUNtfMAN'S AID l.,
We probably have as large list
in good values and snaps In unim-
proved or improved farm lands as
and broker in N. D., and We are
selling these wild lands and unim-
proved farms on very close brok-
erage margin. When a man lists
a piece Of property with us way be-
low the market in Order to make 4
quick sale and get the money We
follow his instructions. That is
why we are doing such a good bust
ness and THAT is why we have such
good list. Every buyer or seller
becomes our friend. shall adver-
tise only a few farms this week.
What I especially desire is to have
placed with me for sale, more lands
of every description, both vacant
and improved. Remember in list
ing property we do not take the
sale of it unless it is listed with us
exclusively and we will advertise it
faithfully and if We do not sell
it it will cost you nothing. l have
cash customers waiting to buy when
I find something that suits their
particular fancy This applies both
to improved and unimproved land.
See Youngman, 107 Reishus st.
FRANK w. YOUNGMAN'Ss AID p
A 800 acre farm all in crop with
good buildings; good water, with
windmill; for sale at a snap. Crop
goes with the land and should bring
nearly half the price of the land.
See Youngman. es
FRANK W.. YOUNGMAN'S AID 8
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MINoT MARKETS
CORRECTED EVERY 9EuRsrAy

Eddie Nehr, official umpire for the
Minot Magicians, received the sad
news that his father, a pioneer drug
gist of Eau Claire, Wis, had died as
the result of an accident, which oc-
CURED recently. Mr.. Nehr. left for
Eau Claire, and will not return for
some time.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-05-19

Ole Rasmussen was found two miles
east of Des Laos few days ago, un.
conscious and very badly injured. His
team had run away throwing him out
of the rig. The buggy was badly bro
ken and one Of the horses was fear
fully cut about the legs.
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FOR TELEQssLATuRE.
I hereby announce myself - . can.
dtdate for the ONCE Of representative
from the goth legislative district, Sub.
ject to the decision Of the Republican
voters at the primaries, June 20, 1910.
WALTER r.. BOND.
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FOR sALE-16O acres 4 IL miles
southeast Of Surrey 81 acres broken.
Buyer get X OF crop If he pays for
seed. Will sell this farm for $4,000
on reasonable terms A good piece Of
land. Lyman Land Co.
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p IS q g r e s


A rather interesting deadlock be-
tween the county auditors Of the state
and the states attorneys developed
at the recent meeting of the two bod
les in this state. The point at issue
was regarding the COLLECTION of the
primary election fees. The county
voring strongly the collection Of the
fees, while the states attorneys ad-
vised them not to collect. The audi
tors, however, have figured that it is
best to be on the safe side, and do
not propose to 60 down in their jeans
If they can help it.
Cheap Tot Eastwood park. Will
sell for $3.50. Lyman Land Co.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20

their remains lie in the old abandoned
Catholic cemetery, adjoining the federal
prison quarry on Government hill.
Both Richard c. Kerens and his brother
obtained employment at Fort L~eavenworth
as teamsters, or. as it was more fanil-
iarly called In those days, mule whack-
ers," and his was their means of gaining
a livelihood during the years they spent
there. Finally Richard c, gained promo
ton. and left there as assistant wagon
master under Jack" Wilson, father-in-
law of r. II. Bradford of st. Louis, and
who died in Chicago a short time ago, for
Fort Smith, and Leavenworth knew him
no more.
The house where his father died in OF
tawa street is still standing and is occu-
pied by a cOlured family, while the last
place occupied by the family, a one-story
frame with a stone wall in front, in
Seneca street, bids fair to last for many
a year TO come.
But what a change! The erstwhile mule
whacker," who had to earn a livelihood
by manual labor long after he had reached
manhood, and only after four years steady
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20
Chinese of Singapore.

The Chinese are monopolizing the
Straits Settlements. AS soon as the Eng
llsh established a stable government they
began to come in, and they now move
back and forth to and from the Straits
at the rate of several hundred thousand
a year. They are thrifty and the best of
everything is rapidly going into their
hands. They W stock in every corpora
ton, and the British tell me that they
can beat a European In any business deal
Since England has taken possession Of
the federated Malay states the Chinese
have been going there in great numbers.
They are %crowding out the Malays, and
this is so with the natives of all the
islands In this part of the east. On the
Malay peninsula and in the Straits Set
dement's there are now more thar 1000, 900
Chinese. There are 3,OOO,0 900 in Formosa
and 100000 in Siam. There are large num-
bers in Burraah and something like 800, 900
in the Dutch East Indies. They are rap
idly going into Sumatra, and nearly every
settlement in Borneo has it's Chinese col
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20

Twenty-Five years ago Robert H.. Bailey,
elevator operator at the indian state
house, then a coal miner in southwsstern
Indiana, conceived the idea that II would
be a good hing to select at each Christ
mas time some worthy and needy child
and by solicitations among his friends coll
lect a little money and spend IL in giving
that child 4 merry Christmas. He put his
plan into execution and selected a small
boy whose Christmas outlook was not very
bright, and gave him the merrlest Christ
mas that the little home had ever known.
A few days ago, relates the Indianapolis
News, Bailey received a letter from the
little boy, who is nj longer a little boy,
but a man, a prosperous landowner in
Nevada. Il think that Christmas was the
happiest l nave ever known" wrote the
boy" Il don't believe l will ever be able
to make you understand how much that
kindly act of yours meant to me then,
or what II means TO me now
Knowing that Bailey stll continues his
long ago adopted method of helping Santa
Claus, the first beneficiary under the plan
inclosed a donation for Bailey's current
fund. which Is to go toward making merry
the Christmas Of two little children whose
holidays otherwise would be well-nigh de-
Void OF cheer, h.,
more which Bailey has received from
those whom he has helped in the past.
some Of them men and women and some
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20
In he Tin Minea.

The tin Is largely from alluvial deposits.
The dirt is washed out by hydraulic pumps
and the ore also won I'm ruder ways by
the poorer Chinese. The Celestials hunt
for mines with crooked sticks as we seek
spots for well digging. The hunter holds
the two ends of the stick firmly, and whom
he reaches a tin deposit the stick Is sup
posed to turn in his hand and point down
ward. Tin is usually found about twenty
five feet below the surface, and the earth
containing 1t may be from a few inches to
many feet in thickness. The tin grains are
mixed with all sorts of gravel, from pebbles
to powders and ordinary sand. They lie
on a bedrock of limestone, slate OF clay
and are taken out and washed.
The mining is done by Chinese on shares.
When the mines are deep they use ladders
to so up and down, carrying the ore out in
baskets on their backs. They stack It up
In heaps near the mines and then wash II
out in coffin-shaped troughs through which
water runs.
After IL Is cleaned It is smelted in char
coal furnaces. the best ore yielding about
20 per cent OF pure tin, After smelling the
tin is run off into bricks of about the size
OF a scent loaf OF bread. II then looks
like silver and Is ready for shipment A
ton OF these bricks is now worth 500 ana
IL has been much higher.
FRANK g. CARPDrETnA
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20

No...~- I'm a corner or the country the
most remote from the national capital and
in consequence draws the biggest mileage
fee of any member. AS is perhaps b~efltting
in his case, relates Norman e. Mack's Ma
tional Monthly, he has also been assigned
to n room In the office building which is
fartherest away from the house. 1t Is as
far as from the grandstand to the center
field fence and back again twice over from
his office through the tunnel to his seat
in the chamber.
The Judge hadn't learned the meaning of
the house signals at the time the incident
herein related occurred, but he knows
them perfectly well now. Two rings means
a vote by ~tellers, three a roll call and four
adjournment. The judge was busy with
correspondence, writing home to admiring
constituents and telling them what a fine
old gentleman "Uncle Joe" Cannon is, and
paid little attention to the bells until they
rang four times. Then thlnking he was
wanted for a record vote he seized his hat
and hurried toward the house. Now while
the Judge is a hard hitter. he carries too
much weight to run bases well. Wheeling
and blowing as II he had just crossed the
home plate on a f~our-bagger, he burst
through the folding doors of the
my name been called?' he asked Of a
clerk as soon as he could get breath.
why, the house adjourned five minutes
ago, judge" replied the courteous employe.
"HeaVens!" exclaimed the judge, and /
thought / was wanted to tie the score. l
hope though they'll allow me mileage for
making the trip
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20
singapore's Shipping.

Big business blocks extend along the
shore for a mile or more. The city has
about five miles Of docks and the harbor
is one of the busiest of the world. The
wharves are so built that ships can steam
RICH up to them, and scores were at an
Choir discharglng or taking cargo. My ship
was in the p. and o line and we had to
go to the upper end OF the city before we
came to the pier. We passed vessels going
out on their way to Australia, great liners
coming in from Ceylon and a royal Dutch
packet vessel bound for Borneo, the Celebes
and New Guinea.
AS we neared our anchorage we could
see the Chinese coolies working on the
new docks. Tens of millions of dollars
have already been spent to improve the
facilities for handling cargo, an the
government is now laying out millions
more. Within the last two years 1t has
entered upon a scheme of expansion which
comprises about forty million gold dol
lars, ana the work OF carrying this out
is now under way. Included in 1t is a
dock for repairing vessels which will take
in ships almost 800 feet long and accom-
modate the largest steamer afloat.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20
Author of The Bees New Serial Story

There was an old wooden settle In the
kitchen: the seat was hinged and one day
underneath 1t she struck reasure trove.
Under Fox's Book of Martyrs" were about
ninety-fiVe Of Nick Carter nickel novels,
dripping with crime and oozing with gore.
They had pictures, too. They belonged to
the hired man, a ~pale-eyed, pale-haired
creature, mcekness itself. who reveled in
crime on the sly and dreamed OF making
redskins tremble at the mere mention of
his name. Some go to The Had" for
their inspiration. some to Shakespeare or
the Bible. Mary Roberts Rinehart cheer
fully confesses that she got hers from
Nick Carter at the age of 1G
ideas and hard work are the keys to
all success'-that is the motto which hangs
over Mrs. Rinehart's desk In her Pittsburg
home. Mrs. Rinehart herselfjs an irregu-
lar worker. She can go cheerfully for two
weeks and never pen a word, and then,
once the start is made, once the Ice is
broken, she can tear off copy like mad.
She wrote the 10000 words OF The Circular
Staircase" in four weeks. The Man in
Lower Ten was a slower growth. It is
harder to do the second book than the first.
More people await the result. 1t will not
do to repeat or echo, Versatility as well
as originality is to be shown.
Mrs. Rinehart took no chances of failure
with The Man in Lower Ten" but ex-
pended on its construction the utmost care,
She does her best work in the morning,
and never works at night, no matter how
insistent may be the demands Of importu-
nate editors and publishers, She cannot
dictate, writes her stories out in long hand
and takes entire care OF her own CORE
s%pondence, which has grown almost be.
yond her reach. All sorts OF people from
all sorts of places write letters to her
some of them anonymously. And at least
half a dozen people write that they recog.
nized the original OF Aun Rachel in 9TH,
Circular Staircase"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20

are resplendent in diamonds and pearls
saw a party OF Celestials at the steamer
as 1 landed. 1t comprised four women
whose ears sparkled with diamonds and
whose long silk gowns were buttoned at
the front with brooches Of diamonds and
pearls, while on their bare ankles, above
their loose slippers. were great bands OF
pure gold.
1 see Chinese riding in automobiles. Some
have carriages with coachmen and foot
men in livery. They wear silk gowns and
felt hats, and lie back on their cushions
smoking their cigars, as their brown Malay
coachmen drive them about. 1 see them
in the billiard rooms and on the cricket
grounds, and now an then 1 pass n
flying over the roads on an American
bicycle, his silk gown floating in the
breeze. The biggest stores of Singapore
are owned by them, and they are the
cashiers and accountants Of the principal
banks.
Our former Chinese minister, WI Ting
fang, came from this part of the world.
His father was a Cantonese merchant
and his mother a Hakka. Both were
Christians, and they were living at Singa-
pore when WI Ting-fang began his ca
reer as interpreter in the Hongkong police
courts, and later on went to England.
where IL studied law and was admitted
to the bar. Upon his return he was taken
up by Lii Hung Chang, and since then he
has been one OF the leading men Of the
new China
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20
stanley Not an Orator.

SN~ wv an OEANOF
William II. Rideing tells in McClure's of
a dinner of the Papyrus club in Boston, at
which Henry NJ. Stanley, the explorer, was
the guest Of honor:
Whether he (Stanley) sat or stood, he
fidgeted and answered in nlonosyllables
not because he was unamiable or unap-
pI eciative, but because he-thisf mar of
iron, Gods instrument, whose word i'm the
field brooked no contradiction OF evasion,
he who defied obstacles and danger and
pierced the heart of dsrkness-was bashful
even in company of fellow craftsmen!
His embarrassment grew when. after
dinner, the chairman euiogized him to the
audience; he squirmed and averted his face
as cheer after cheer confirmed the speak
eT's rhetorical ebullience of praise. Gentle
men. 1 introduce to you Mr.. Stanley, Who
etc. The hero stood up slowly, painfully,
reluctantly, and, with a gesture Of .depre-
cation, fumbled in first one n then an
other OF his pockets without finding what
he sought.
1T was supposed that he was looking
for his notes, and more applause took the
edge off the delay. His mouth twitched
without speech for another awkward minute
before. with a more erect bearing, he pro-
duced the object OF his search and put II
on his head. 1t was not paper, but a rag
Of n cap, and, with that on. he faced the
company as one who by the act had lone
all that could be expected OF him, and made
farther acknowledgment OF the honors he
had received superfluous. 1t was a car
that Livingstone had worn. and that Liv-
ingstone had given him."
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20

the tropical sun. They wear little more
breechcloths around their waists and
carry great loads upon their bare Shout
ders. They load and unload the coal,
and do the heaviest work of all kinds.
Here is a ship taking on fuel. A plat
form has been built from It's deck TO the
wharf. 1t is an inclined roadway, with an
angle of ~forty-five degrees; but up n
down 1t, as busy as ants. the yellow labor
ers trot. They work in twos, each couple
carrying a great bag of coal, slung to a
pole which rests on their shoulders. There
are 1000 tons Of coal in those warehouses
at the back, and a ship can be loaded in
two hours. That coal comes from England,
and 1t has Travelled over 5000 miles to the
Strait of Malacca.
Among the other workmen are Killings,
as black as coal and as straight as pine
trees. 1t is they who drive the bullock
carts from wharf to wharf, or back into
the city. They are lean. wiry fellows. with
long hair on their chests and limbs and
straight black hair coiled around their
heads. They nave regular features, and
their lips are as thin and their foreheads
as high as our own. They dress in white
cotton. a single sheet Of which forms a
whole suit. There are hundreds OF their
race in the city. They are noted for their
thrift, and many of them are bankers, who
have thousands to lend. although their
daily dress costs less than one dollar. and
they sit half naked on the boxes in which
their money is kept.
The cart that man is driving is pulled
by two bumped cattle like the sacred bull
locks OF India. Thu animals are as white
as snow and as clean limbed as Jerseys.
They walk like aristocrats, and were they
In Holy Benares. on the banks of the
Gar ges, they would be fed daily upon rose
buds and garlands of flowers. Down here
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20
Warehou.en 81 snn,h A.,n

| wish l could take you to the wharyes
OF Singapore and show you this great
warehouse OF south Asia. The port is
free. and II has become a distributing CEN
ter for the countries about. 1t is lao miles
from Hongkong, 5000 miles from London.
and only two or three days from Java.
Borneo and others OF the Dutch East
Indies. Sumatra is in plain view from
where I am writing, Bangkok. Siam, is
only four days away. and Burma is lust
around the corner. This island lies midway
In the straits OF MalRcca. II is the chief
stopping place between the Pacific and
lLdlan oceans, and It is just half way be-
tween China and India. 1t is the gateway
Of the east. where the shaved heads OF
the celestials and the unrbans OF the Hin
aus bump against one another. To the
north and east all is Monaghan, TO the
west and northwest everything Indian.
l came to Singapore from Hongkong. We
Askirted French China, went by the Gulf
OF Siam and then eoasted the Malay PENN
sula, whose palm trees could be seen
auivoring In the hot breeze. We passed
wooded Islands and entered a sapphire sea
surrounded by a green archipelago, at the
back OF which Singapore lay like a picture
before us. 1t was afternoon and heavy
black clouds hung over the palms, The
mighty steamers coming in and going out
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20
Medley of Humanity.

Medley of Humanity.
Going on into the city, we see strange
characters at every turn. Each street is
a spectacular extravaganza, composed or
every tribe and strange costume. We pass
Mslays in velvet caps, short Jackets and
gay figured sarongs, the latter a strip Of
bright colored cotton which falls from the
waist to the feet, and is fastened at the
top in a knot. The Malays walk with a
swagger, and they invariably smoke cigar
cites. They are too lazy to work, and the
most of them live from hand to mouth.
We see Indian Mohammedans in turbans
of white, red and yellow. They wear
gowns which reach TO their feet. There
are tall Sikh policemen in uniforms with
turbans of red, Persians in white caps and
Indians, who have caps embroidered with
gold. There are shcrt-haired Siamese. as
brown as tobacco: shaved headed Hindus,
as black as your boots, and willy Cingalese
peddlors, with their long black hair done
up in a knot Just back of the, crown, and
a lalf-moon child's comb TO keep it in
order.
There are Brahmins in jinrikishas, hauled
by yellow coolies clad In short tight trunks
of blue paper muslin and little palm hats
which end in a cone. Their backs are bent
double as their yellow legs trot along in
side the shafts. There are also Parsees
with tall hats which look for all the world
like Inverted -coar 'scuttles, and with long
coats buttoned UP tight to the throat, and
there are Javanese with gay colored hand
keI chiefs tied around their heads, who wear
skirts of lightning cottcns.
There are also whites from all parts OF
Europe. They wear great helmets, which
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20

extend far out behind and suits or white
linen or cotton. They are English, Frehch'
German, Italian and Spanish, with now
and then an American tourist or trader
Altogether the crowd is as cosmopolitan
as any you will find in the world. sing
apore has about 100000 inhabitants, and or
these only 5000 are Europeans. The rest
are Asiatics, and the bulk are Chinese,
Malays and East Indians. There are hum
dreds of Japanese, a few Arabs and nu-
merous Jews. The colony is governed by
the English, with a small garrison and a
police force of about 1000 men. 1t is well
governed, too, and life and property are
quite as safe here as In New York or Lon
don.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20

longer than that preserved by the gov
ernors of North and South Carolina, the
governor and the senator cast about for
a means to the alienation Of their con-
Stunning thirst. In the course of time an
old coffee pot and other necessities fell
into their hands and from their rations
they managed to save out a little corn
now and then.
From this point it as well to let Hunts
man tell the story in the words of Gov
ernor Harris:
We'll, sch, We made three quahts of
the finest whisky yo' evan sampled. But
what do yo' think, sch? One of the in
human guards, sch, found two OF them
wheah we had secreted them an took
them from us at tn pint of his bay'nlt,
seh!"
And what did you do with the other
quartz" Huntsman asked.
w aged 1t and drank it, Sch, said the
governor.
How long did you age it, GOVERNOR
said Huntsman.
"FO' days" was the dignified response