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Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1910-03-24
Boosters For Four Per Cent. Bonds For Williston.

handled it develops nearly as many
units of heat as anthracite coal.
Not only that, it has other prop
critics which render it of more
value for use in plants with mod
ern equipments. ..z.
The mining experiment SUBJ
station at Hebron is under the
direct charge Of Prof William
Blaine Snyder. He is now active
ly engaged in installing model
plant which he has designed.
This plant will be made effective
in demonstrating the value of lig-
mite in the manufacture of gas.
Professor Snyder expects to have
all of his machinery and labratory
equipment installed at an early
date and will then commence a
series of tests to determine the
actual value of Ignite. He has
done much original work in this
line, the results of which have
demonstrated the great value of
Ignite for heat and power pur-
poses.
Prof. H. Bachelor of Fargo is
authority for the statement that
North Dakota Ignite will COM
pare favorably with the average
coal used in the world. 1t is his
opinion that North Dakota will
become leading manufacturing
state and that power can be fur
nished cheaper here than it can
elsewhere. A fact of Importance
is that the mines in North Dakota
are wet and the danger from ex-
plosions is almost eliminated. In
Pennsylvania and in the coal
regions of other states, owing to
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Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1910-03-24
SPEAKER CANNON TURNED
| DOWN IN FIGHT IN HOUSE
SPEAKERS RULING REPUDIATED BY MAJORITY OF
TWENTY.TW0--H0USE TO NAME COMMITTEE
: ON RULES SPEAKER MAY Be REMOVED.

Washington, March 19.-The
house Of representatives, by vote
of 1872 to 100 today repudiated
Speaker Cannon and his commit
tee. By this unexpectedly large
majority it overruled his decision
insisted upon considering the res
olution of Representative Norris
of Nebraska providing for the re-
organization of the committee on
rules with the speaker eliminated.
No doubt remains that Speaker
Cannon is to be shorn of whatever
power has attached to his mem
bership on the rules committee OF
the house Of representatives. The
authority which gave to him the
cognomen of the ''czar of the
house, will be taken away. The
X test Of the strength between his
Organization and the allied forces
of the insurgent Republicans and
Democrats came shortly after 1
o'clock today and the speaker lost.
1t was upon an appeal from the
speakers ruling declaring out of
order the Norris resolution to
amend the rules that the test
came. Representative Dalzell OF
Pennsylvania, a member of the
present committee on rules, moved
to lay the Norris appeal on the ia
ble., Against this motion the
Cannon forces mustered every
vote they had but the tide was
against them and they could not
stem it. The vote against laying
the appeal on the table was deci-
sive-164 ayes and 181 noes.
Thirty-fve members of the speak
er's party voted against him on
the issue that meant his dethrone-
ment from the craftsmanship of
the committee, which for so long
has controlled the proceedings of
the house. Norris then moved
Ghe previous question. It was or
dered and at LAO o'clock began
vote on the Nebraska's appeal.
The vote was 1872 ayes, 100 noes.
This would bring direct to vote
the appeal from the speakers rul-
ing, and that vote was the one
that apparently registered the
speakers fall.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1910-03-24

cles here this morning that plans
on the line proposed to run from
Fargo to Minot were hung up for
the time being or until the Great
Northern company could run a
servey from this city to Minot.
1t is understood that the rumor
originated from good authority at
the Great Northern headquarters,
at St. Paul. #
The new road, as given out in
railroad circles here and at Breck-
enridge, woald leave Richland
county at or near Coburn and pass
into and across the northeastern
section of Ransom county, where
the 500 would be crossed at Lucca.
The road would cross the main
line of the Northern Pacific at
Sanborn and enter northeastern
Stutsman, passing through Ed
monds and cutting diagonally
across Wells from southeast to
northwest. From there the pro-
posed road would either enter
southern McHenry county or
swing south, thence into Minot.
It is probable, however, that the
road would again cross the 500 at
Bergen in McHenry county, thus
making the road more direct.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1910-03-24

Don't forget the home cooking
and apron sale in Odd Fellows hall
Saturday afternoon, April and.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1910-03-24

Washington, D. c., March %
The house republicans will hold a
caucus Wednesday night for the
selection of six republican mem
bers of the new committee on
rules. The house democrats def
nitely decided today to caucus on
Thursday night to select their
:. four members of new committee
Oh rules. .. ~..
Speaker Cannon is not taking
any leading or dominating part in
the proceedings of the house, nor
is he talking for publication as to
his attitude on the subject. From
source near the speaker it was
learned today that he felt that the
majority which had taken control
of things last Saturday was now
responsible for legislative mat
ters, and that it might be poor
taste for him to make suggestions
or to attempt to have anything to
do with the affairs.
One thing which was of greatest
interest today and which is ex-
pected to grow in interest until
finally settled, wa the compost
tion Of the new rules committee.
The fact most prominent in the
situation seemed to be that large
Aumber of insurgents will insist
upon knowing in advance of the
caucus who the republicans are tc
be.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1910-03-24
Third Ward Caucus.

A caucus for the purpose of dis
cussing candidates for aldermen
for the Third ward, to be elected
at the annual election on April 4th
will be held in the West Lawn
school house tomorrow night at
eight O'Clock. All voters in the
Third ward are requested to at-
tend. Two aldermen are to be
elected from this ward.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1910-03-24
Moved to Idaho.

Jonas Hostetler, wife and fami-
ly, including his son, John w.
Hostetler and sister-in-law, Miss
Maggie Beeghly, left Tuesday
evening for Idaho where they ex-
pect to make their future home.
E. R. Brownson closed deal for
them Monday whereby they dis
posed of their three quarters Of
land west of this city.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-04
Keep Land Covered Next Winter.

You can SOW rye at any time from September to Christmas. If you wish to improve the land and SOW something in the cotton for a winter cover, you should SOW crimson clo- yer, 15 pounds of seed to an acre. If the cotton is we'll fertilized, you will not need to use any more, but if there was only little fertilizer put in the furrow for cotton, you had better apply some acid phosphate between the rows broadcast. Sow the clover after corn and cowpeas in September. That is, SOW the seed among the peas. Then you will have the best thing for sweet potatoes next spring. Sow the clover seed, too, or rye. after peanut and sweet potatoes. It will probably be rather late for the clover, and rye will an- swer as a winter cover. w. F. Mas sey, in Starkville Miss. Progressive Farmer and Gazette.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-04
The Express Company,s Graf.

It looks as if the Wells Fargo stock. holders have been able to ''eat their cake and have it, too" After in creasing the capital stock 200 per cent and declaring 300 per cent casi dividend some time ago, quarterly dividend has now been declared on the increased amount of stock at the same rate as prevailed before that increase took place. This is the real argument against parcels post. and yet the consumer remains ungrateful, Wall Street Journal.
 Yes, the enormous profits of the express companies has been the real argument the parcels post, for the beneficiaries of these profits have been more powerful with Congress than the people who elect it's mem bers.
 But the time is coming when the people will knock the graft out of the express business or abolish that business and institute a parcels post to carry it on at a reasonable cost City Star.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-04
Boys Kept Faith.

Out of fifteen thousand cases Tn which street urchins of this city have been arrested for violation of the city ordinances respecting news sell ing and peddling. President Lindsay of the Children's Society says not one broke faith with his organiza- ton. When taken into custody each youngster was pledged to appear in court when wanted and released upon his own parole. Without an exception every one of them ap- peared when cited and took their medicine like little men. As a rule the medicine proved to be a kindly admonition not to offend a second time against the majesty of the law. The disposition of the urchins to keep their word with the society is looked upon as an encouraging sign, indicating a sense of honor among the growing generations that give hope for a healthy, wholesome citi- zenship for the future. In former years the youthful prisoners used to be locked up over night in the soci- tvs rooms, the really wicked with the good and made to take their place next morning in line in the police courts with thieves, murder CTS and malefactors of high and low degree. The new arrangement ad. mirably vindicates the judgment of those who for years protested against these conditions. Franci: Phillips in Gotham Gossip.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-04
Another Case of Technicality.

Several times the Democrat has pointed out some of the absurdities and technicalities of the law which is operating to liberate men who are guilty of crime.
 A case has just come to light in Alabama, which tends to emphasize the position the Democrat takes on the question.
 Near Gadsden in that state, man who was most undesirable citizen, often nearly convicted of crime, but alway fortunate enough to secure an acquittal, was finally convicted of stealing some hides from the Nash vile, Chattanooga and St. Louis rail- road.
 He was sentenced to term of six years in the state penitentiary.
 But he took an appeal, and just as the people thought they were rid of him for few years at least, the ease was reversed, and he was released on bond, with the probability of never suffering for his crime.
 He stole the hides. no doubt about that-he was guilty, and that was hardly questioned, but the indict- ment failed to specify whether he stole COW hides, goat hides, sheep hides, mule hides or coon hides.
 It was grand larceny, toor mo ques- tion about that---for the value of the hides was established.
 The absurdity and the technicaIity of the law turned the man loose on the community, and he can steal more hides now, just so he takes care not to let the kind of hides he steals creep into the indictment.
 Another incident:
 In Toledo a man named Metzer was charged with embedding S4 GOO Tn money from bank.
 It developed that what he really took was a New York draft for S4 : 900, and converted it into money.
 But the court held draft was not money, took the case from the jury and gave verdict of acquittaI.
 The man was guilty ali right; he had taken that which amounted to S4.o00. the property of others. 1 and converted it into his own use. l
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-04
Has Hopes Anyhow.

That the management of the Ar kansas Forest Reserve has been un- duly antagonistic in it's attitude toward the homesteader up to July l, 1910, was clearly brought out in the hearings before the Committee on Public Lands. Since that date we have had q new forest supervisor. Have you noticed the changed coun- tenance of the rangers? It may be that you have not had an opportunity since the daily before-breakfast visits to your homestead have been cut out After all, great deal of dissatisfac- tion in the past may have been due to mIsmanagement. Give the aver age homesteader square deal and you have the most peaceable citizen in the world. Montgomery Times
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-04
 TAKES LIBERAL. VIEW.

Editor Sherman of the Montgom- cry County Times believes that any enterprise that is good for any Vest ern Arkansas county reflects credit on all neighboring counties. He therefore devotes several dollars worth of good space boosting Mena and Polk county fair to be held Au- gust IF to 20. In part he says:
 The fruit and vegetable exhibit will be the finest you have ever seen. The Kansas City Southern Railway has donated literally to make this portion of the exhibit grand success, and already hundreds of jars are filed and labeled ready for the big show.
 If you want to see the finest horses and cattle, the largest hogs and the choicest varieties Of select poultry. then it's up to you to take in the Mena- Polk County Fair. There will be enough to see, enough entertainment, and enough of everything to keep you busy the entire four days of the fair, and if you get to see it all in that time, you will have to hurry.
 Thanks, Brother Sherman. If you have any good thing over your way that you want boosted, call on us.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-04
STARBEAMS.

Irwin: Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.
 A mans appetite usually lasts long, CT than his stomach.
 Parkhurst: Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
 Too many old people are imposed upon by young and vigorous kin.
 Now comes a conservative trusted bank employee" in New York who swiped only S600,000
 Stories of cannibalism comes from Haiti. This is one way, anyhow. to get ahead of the beef trust.
 The wife of an Atchison railroad man speaks of her men folks who come home to dinner, as "empties. !"
 lou may have noticed that the preacher who is opposed to circuses will risk a look at the street parade. It may besuggested that coast de- fense gun that shoots backward as we'll as forward is almost as bad as none at all.
 President Tafts declaration in favor of longer vacations is calculated to improve his popularity to every one except the employers.
 A Wichita dispatch says the intense heat of the last few days is dsmag- | ing the corn. For the bulk of the Kansas corn crop is not popcorn.
 By the tim. woman remembers the size glove, shoe, shirtwaist, col lar, corset, hose and belt she wears, she hasn't enough mind left to be burdened with further statistics.
 When a man goes home to find a cold kitchen stove and his wife hur- rying around with can opener, it makes hIm feel proud to learn that she has been away from home "agi- tating" public playgrounds for chil- dren, and the hiring of teachers to instruct them in playing. Cod po- tatoes eaten in such cause. taste az good as hot and fresh cooked.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-04
ONE LUCKY TOWN.

The De Queen Bee, after reprint, ing Star editorial on the impossi bility of progress and prosperity ir a town where there is dissenting element whenever a move for prog. ress is afoot. says:
 The Bee is glad to say that in De Queen. at least, the influence referred to by The Star is of such a dimin.l. tive quantity as to have little if any effect on the progress of the city. Our re-organized Commercial Club is wide-awake, active, and guided by the wisdom of bunch of energetic business men that canuot and will not be discouraged by trining dissensiens.
 That is happy claim for any city to be able to make. May all of Western Arkansas become soos. im- bued .ith such a spirit of knity and progress.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-04
The Poor Mans Price for Justice

There is a dramatic quality to a B. million dollar attorneys fee which attracts attention. Persons see at once that a system of attorneyshin which exacts such sum from Indian tribes is wrong, whether or not there has been sculduggery in the specific case.
 Has not justice been slapped just as violently, though, when a poor person, who has been injured by a railroad through negligence. for example, has to give half of the damages he recovers to his lawyer ? Say that for violated right man IS entitled to $5,000 damages, should he give up half of it as his price for justice? At present he cannot even enter his appearance in court until he has first made an agreement to divide with an attorney--and the usual shares are half and half. Re- member, this is justice for the poor man is not able to pay his lawyers outright.
 The courts should be arranged so that every man would have his rights without cost to him. Lawyers t,
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-04

but the indictment against him said he had taken money"
 Just this week in an Arkansas court, a large number of indie tments were quashed because, while charg- ing in detail the offense against the men, the indictments failed to use the word unlawful"
 There was no doubt of the pur. pose, intent, and context of the in- dictments. but technicality stepped in the way to defeat justice.
 When will there be an end of such farces?
 When will the courts, which are really responsible for these absurdi- ties and technicaiities of the law determine to demand of legislatures that common sense laws be written on the statutes, laws that will con- vlct guilty men when their guilt has been established, laws that will not derend upon technicality, and from which the guilty cannot escape ?- Arkansas Democrat,
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-04
SunflOwer Philosophy.
(Atchison lknql f!lohe

Ns%NN''p''t th19fj otVbt.j
 The greatest man is common enough.
 Every man has great idea he never carries out.
 Most men are very vain about their worthlessness; they think peo- pie are always talking about it.
 When you hear that man talks mean about you do you consider the source" or do you go to him about 1t?
 It IS pretty difficult to convince an old-fashioned person that good be- havlor IS possible without going to church.
 If bust head hurts others as much as 1t hurts me there would be less beer drinking, and no whisky drink ing. "-Parson Twine.
 Charity may begin at home. but many woman can tell you that it doesn't get much of start, so far as her husband is concerned.
 A man who has kept accurate count says that of ten men you meet eight will say something disagree able, while nine out of ten women will say something agreeable.
 A man who believes that fortunes are made by trickery, instead of by ability and industry, will never make one, for the reason that he goes about 1t Tn the wrong way.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-04
BITS OF EVERY DAY PHILOSOPHY
tAtchIson Globe

A girl idea of modesty is to decide that only $1 a~ ticket is enough to charge the neighbors to hear her sing.
 The easiest thing in the world is to make $50 promise that is to be filled in the indefinite future.
 Do not regard the flea with great contempt; it is about the only creature that gets any work out of a dog.
 The next time you are feeling tough look yourself over, and see if you haven't recently been a fool about eating.
 The man who has found out that he himself is to blame for the most of his trouble has learned an important and useful fact overlooked by lot of peo- pie.
 Talk about gold mine: An Atchi- son doctor has found a woman patient who has all kinds of money, and im- agines she has seventeen different diseases.
 The man who begins by telling you how absolutely fair and impartial you are, is probably figuring on fiattering you so you will give him the best of the decision.
 When a host and his wife stop being polite to each other before a guest it is sign the strain has been too great upon them, and that the guest should be going home.
 The great objection to women play ing cards in the daytime is not it's inn morality, but it's loafing. Women should have something to do in the daytime and if they have not they are imposing on someone. Women have no more right loafing than men.
 An Atchinson girl. who has always longed to live in the country that she might walk out in the early morn and pick roses still wet with dew, is en- gagged to marry farmer, and he has promised her folks to make the awak- ening easy by not asking her to slop the hogs for at least three months.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-04
What Causes Malaria.

Perhaps there is no idea more firmly fixed in the minds of most people than that malaria is caused by breathing the air from swamps or marshes. There is likely to be malaria in swampy regions, but it is due to other causes than the air from these swamps. Malaria is contract cd only through the biCes of mosoui. toes by means of which the mos quito is able to inject into the blood of the patient small living bodies present in the saliva. These living bodies are very minute animaie which when injected into the blood multiply rapidly, producing disease symptoms which the medical man is able to recognize and has termed malaria. Mrs. L. F Stevens in Starkyille Miss. Progressive Farm. CT and Gazette.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-04
OFF FOR GALVE,ll|
Excursion Train Left Mn, !. day Afternoon With ss.l \
 2sO Aboard, '''

n,,,'Ds The big Galveston EScur.i,, pulled out on time Monday st'. \ with WI : about 25O passenger, '''l \ ft. smith sent down ST. Sl z ',s' z ana ana more nor! were picked up sn m x N { Mena. went ils train left Shreveport # ,@s ss.'@ ''9'A sIst of four sleepers, ten 'sa'a ss'l. ' and a baggage car. ''''ls
 :. The Robert Bottl.Dv wo,.. pied the train with 2Oo ..' ' N soda pop and 20 gallons If Y '1s| and nearly all the supple, I'''' < way of food and refreshmes,, Y taken on here, leaving bund,., ' dollars in Mena. ''''A
 M. B. Shanberg, the .o...,
 curslon agent, accomuaai ',' ! train.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-04
HEAT, CRIr1E AND A REMEDY

In speaking of heat and it's con nection with crime and disorder, the Arkansas Democrat says that in Lit tie Rock recently there have been some shocking tragedies, including two suicides, one double murder and another altercation or two that have almost resulted fatally" Its advice is to keep cool. and right here let it be rubbed in." that Polk county. Arkansas, is the best place in all the Sonth for those who would keep cool" in the heated season. Here if the sun is hot in the day time the breezes are constant and invigorat- ing, and when the sun goes down there's neither sweltering heat nor mosquitoes to interfere with sweet sleep and rest. Try it.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-08-04

people up and doing. Instead find inactiou, petty jealousies and lack of cooperation among the people. When some one does really try to do something, there's always afew who, either because they want to shirk their part, or because they are afraid someone else might make something out of it, refuse to do anything un- less it is to knock the proposition or those who try to put it through"
 No, reader, this was not said about Mena. Mena was not under discus sion. But it was the opinion of a we'll posted man as to what is to be expected of town in which such a condition exists.
 It may safely be said that in al- most every community there are men so narrow and selfish that they fit exactly the description given above. They are the clogs to pro- gress. They will not push. If they pull it is backwards. They care for nothing and can see nothing beyond merely their own personal interests, and sometimes even fail to get the best for themselves be- cause they can't see that it is only by allying themselves with the move ments for common veal that they reap the greatest harvest.
 Let us not be blind to the lesson in the words of the visitor quoted.