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Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-09-02
RURAL ROUTES
IN OPERATION
Route No. 2 Opened Monday and
No. I to be Opened Soon... Pa
irons Should Provide Boxes

Rural route No. 2, north of
town was opened up last Monday
by the local postmaster, with
George Dilley as carrier. 1t is
requested that all those living OF
or near the route secure boxes and
put them up at once. If the re-
quired number of families do not
patronize the route there is dan
ger Of it being discontinued. As
considerable effort was necessary
to get it established it is hoped it
will be we'll patronized.
The route is 81 miles long and
runs north and east of town, a
plat of which may be seen at the
Beach postoffice.
Route No. 3, southwest of town,
was opened on August LIST, and it
is expected that Route |, which
was discontinued last winter, will
be reopened in short time, as a
carrier has been secured and is
ready to take up the work as
soon as orders are received.
: With No. l again in operation,
the Beach office will have three
we'll laid out rural routes, which
will take a big load off the local
postoffice force, who have been
working overtime to keep up with
the increasing business.
The new postoffice building,
which will probably be occupied
within the next 60 days, will also
be a big improvement over the
present cramped quarters.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-09-02
Rev, Thorpe Receives Call

Friends We're apprised this
week that Rev. c. S. Thorpe, the
pastor of the local Norwegian
Lutheran church, had received a
call from the church of the same
denomination at Tacoma. WASH,
said to be the largest Norwegian
Lutheran church on the Pacific
coast. 1t will be greatly in
creased field for Rev. Thorpe,
should he accept, but the congre-
cation here would have to look
long and far to secure another
man Of equal ability to take up
the work where he would leave off.
While the many friends of Mr..
Thorpe are pleased to see him in
line for such a promotion to a
much larger field, at the same
time they will extremely regret
the departure Of himself and
family, should his decision be in
favor of the Tacoma parish. -
Glendive Monitor.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-09-02
BUSINESS Man
ENDS TROUBLES
Charles voIIer, Popular Butcher,
Swallows Strychnins at Slaughter
House and Dies Quickly

Wednesday forenoon, about
10:30 o'clock, a couple of workmen
engaged in digging a ditch in
the vicinity of Voller's slaughter
house had their attention at
tracted by the agonized screaming
Of man who ran out of the
slaughter house waving his arms
and falling on his face, writhing
in torture. They dropped their
tools and ran to him, to discover
that it was Mr.. Voller himself.
His team, hitched to the wagon,
was tied to the fence nearby, and
they hastily lifted the suffering
man into the wagon and drove
him to the Office Of the nearest
physician, DR.. Slough, who saw
at a glance that he was suffering
from the effects of poison. The
doctor used a stomach pump and
extracted the contents of the
stomach, but the man was too
far gone and died without UTTER
ing anything ineligible.
Later it was discovered that he
had taken an eighth of an ounce
Of strychnine with aid of bottle
of pop. rhe poison was procured
at the Beach Drug Co.'s store for
the purpose of getting rid of
some dogs.
Charlie Voller was a jolly per-
son, with whom it was pleasure
to converse or do business. He
was native Of Denmark, where
he was born in 1862, and had been
in this country about % years.
He was a competent butcher and
meat cutter and had engaged in
the business in various places in
this state before coming here last
November. Early in March he
built a two-story building on the
north side. on The Plaza, where
he had been doing good business
and residing with his family.
He was twice married, both
times in Fargo, and is survived
by the second wife and three
small children, four brothers and
one sister. The remains will be
taken to Fargo for burial.
The only known motive for the
deed Of self-destruction which can
be ascribed is q baselessstory started
by some unprincipled person to the
effect that he was guilty Of kill
ing cattle afflicted with lump jaw.
This had had noticeable effect
upon his business and had doubt
less preyed upon his mind until
he became deranged.
His wife and family are amply
provided for, as he carried about
$4,000 of life insurance. The
stock Of meat and canned goods
has been closed out and the mar.
ket closed up.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-09-02
Only One School Land Sale

There will be but one sale of
school lands this fall, and that
will be held in Billings county,
near Beach. The board of school
and university lands wrote to all
the county auditors in the
state asking their opinion of the
advisability of holding sales of
school lands this fall and almost
without exception the board was
advised to postpone the sales un-
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-09-02
Many Persons Pay Debt Of Nature.
Young as Well as 0ld--.Mfs. J..
0enoyer Suddenly Called

The infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Gordon Shepard, born on
August ID, died at the r. A.
Sprague home Sunday evening,
aged just two weeks. Funeral
services, conducted by Rev. Good,
were held Monday.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-09-02

til next fall. The idea in doing
this is to give the farmers them
selves chance to get the land.
Were the sales held this fall,
there are a number of farmers
who would not feel like making
the investment, but there is no
doubt but what the spectators
would consider it a good chance
to get some cheap land and then
in after years make the farmers
pay good price for it. The land
in Billings county is being ap-
praised now, and as there were
fine crops in that section of the
country there will undoubtedly be
some very spirited bidding Tor
the land that is offered for sale.
bismarck Tribune.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-09-02

18th. A special program is now
being prepared. Rev. E. Il.
Stickney. of Fargo, state superin-
tendcnt, will be present; also
Rev. ]. S. Rood. a general state
missionary.
1t is planned to have an all-day
meeting. The morning service will
be at II a. M, the afternoon ser.
vice at 3 p. M. and the evening
service at 7:30 p. m.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-09-02
BAD Man KILLS
W|bAUx YOUTH
Murder Entirely unpfovoked-- ---vic-
tim Inotfensive Young Man from
Wisconsin NO Excuse Offered

Special to the Chronicle from
the Wibaux Pioneer.-Wibaux
was the scene Of an awful tragedy
on last Saturday afternoon, when
facts were revealed Of a cold
blooded murder, which took place
on Wibaux street, opposite the
Wolfe & Drake livery stable, at 4
o'clock.
The crime was committed by
Max M. Lakey. who used a six
shooter to accomplish his aim,
while Frank Nelson, who has
been in the employ Of Wolfe &
Drake for the past several
months, was the victim of the
fatal shot, which resulted in
death about o'clock the follow
ing morning.
According to the story told by
those who witnessed the shoot
ing Lakey had hired a horse at
the Wofe & Drake barn that af-
ternoon with the intention Of
riding out to his brothers ranch
near lrotters, and had left it tied
on the street for several hours
when he discovered it had been
taken from the place where he
had left it. He then went back
to the barn where he had cot the
horse to inquire if any of the men
there had seen it. Knowing Moth
ing of its whereabouts Wolfe then
sent Nelson up town to look for
the horse, which the latter found
hitched in an alley. In the mean
time Lakey remained at Bush
mans machine shop and when
Nelson returned with the horse.
he had no more than dismounted
when Lakey rushed upon him and
shot him through the shoulder.
He then got on the horse and
started to ride down the street,
when he was approached by Officer
Wynn, who ordered him to halt.
Lakey did not obey Wynn's orders
but Immediately opened fire on
him, and had fired three ineffec.
tive shots before he finally gave
up. Wynn also fired several sim.
liar shots in return.
Lakey was Immediately taken in
custody, and later taken to Glen
dive, where he was given a pre-
iiminary hearing, and bound over
until the next term of district
court. No excuse whatever was
offered by the perpetrator for his
deed, and he positively refused to
talk on the subject when ques-
toned by the county attorney.
Nelson was taken to the hospi-
tai at Glendive on No. 3 Saturday
evening, where he died at $3.50
O'Clock Sunday morning Of hemor.
rhages of the lung. The bullet,
which entered his shoulder just
above the rightsslung, was located
in his back on the left side, hav.
ing glanced when it struck the
collar bone.
A brother Of the deceased ar.
rived from Sparta, Wis.,, and &C.
companied the remains to his
home on Monday evening. Mr..
Nelson, who was about 2l years
Of age at the time of his death.
was recognized by all who knew
him as sober, Industrious young
man, and had made many friends
during his residence in Wibaux.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-09-02

Two weeks ago special write-up
artists trimmed up the Beach
merchants at $40 per head. The
takers took $500 and left about
$50 for the publisher, which is
about the usual way these
"booster fellows work. But
really it seems as though this was
letting the Beachites off easy,
for there are certain number of
business men in all cities who
have to buy exp ,rience of strang-
ers once in so often, and in many
instances it costs very high
Dickinson Press.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-09-02
POOR WHEAT;
ONLY 80 BUSH.
Geo. 0ech Unable TO Raise More
Per Acre, but Quality Excellent
&c. v. Grains at MINI. Fair

j. r. Smith, the we'll known
land man, better known, perhaps.
as the "Flax King" shipped to
the Minnesota State Fair Wednes-
day evening a huge box contain.
ing unthreshed samples of grain
of his own and three other farm
ers' raising. The samples are a
sight for sore eyes. Mr.. Smiths S
wheat averaged 20 bushels per
acre, all of it being raised on flax
stubble and disced (not plowed)
in. Had the ground been plowed
there is no telling how much
greater the yield would have
been.
The other farmers whose grain
samples he shipped are Geo. Oech,
O. E. Whitney and c. Falkner.
The sample bundles were nicely
prepared and properly tagged and
will form quite striking display
in the grain section Of the great
fair.
From Hamline they will go all
over the Northern Pacific system,
and will be followed later by
samples Of threshed grains. Incl
dentalIy the Golden Valley and
city of Beach will come in for a
lot of valuable advertising.
Geo. Oech's wheat samples are
from tracts farmed under two
different systems and show re-
markable difference in the re-
suits obtained. On two adjoining
sections, with nothing between
the fields of wheat, he farmed un-
der the old style and the Campbell
methods. His wheat raised under
the old style method averaged Is
bushels per acre, which is some
what above the average yield for
this year. The Campbell system
wheat, of which there were Is
acres, averaged 33 bushels per
acre, and finer, plumper grain
cannot be found anywhere. The
difference of eight bushels per
acre would seem to be worth
while. Eight bushels amounts to
virtually eight dollars, and eight
dollars will buy several things.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-09-02

Two men in big, 6O-horse.
power Palmer-Singer car were in
the city a short time Sunday.
The machine was piled high with
tires and other repairs and sup
plies. which will probably be
needed before they reach their
journeys end. They were enroute
from Milwaukee to Seattle.
Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-09-02

band and three little boys, she
leaves to mourn her untimely
death her parents in Williams
county. three sisters and two bro
theirs. And in addition to these,
a whole host Of warm personal
friends.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-12
Bates Athletes Are
Ready for B.A.A. Meet

Lewiston. Me. Feb 11.-(SpeciaD. The
Bates College relay team will leave Lew
iston Saturday morning for Boston to
run in the B. A. A. meet Saturday even
ing. Rooms have been reserved for the
relay team and the rest of the track team
at the Copley Square house Manager
Bishop will take seven men as follows.
Captain Williams 10, Peakes IL. Blanch-
ard ~, Woodman '13, Holden 10. Dennis
10 and Coach O'Connor. The relay team
IS trained down to nicely and Coach
O'Conner expects the very best results
from the men in this event 1t is not
known just what order the men will run.
but Dennis will probably start the race
for Bates. Bates also expects results
from her two entries in the hurdles. Both
men nave been doing exceptionally fast
time lately in the 40-yard high hurdles.
Coach OConner has been holding a stop
watch on them for the past week and
although he refuses to give out the exact
time. he has several times announced that
both men were coming very close to the
time made last year in that event at the
b. A. A.
The Athletic Association of Bates Col
lege has voted an amendment to its con-
stitution concerning representatives to the
Maine intercollegiate board, which is ap-
pointed to select officials for games. The
new clause provides that such represent
alive shall not be member of the fac
ulty or resident of the town where the
institution is located Prof. Fred f.
Pomeroy and Horatio N. Dorman 10 left
this afternoon for Boston. where a meet
ing' 1oiioWed by banquet, will be held
SATURDAY OF the Maine intercollegiate
poaro. bates, Colby and University of
Maine will be represented at this meet
ing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-12
Are Made Against South
bridge, Mass, Se|ectmen,
Anonymous Letter Says That
Lives Will Be Forfeited !
II Savings Bank Depositors Lose
Through Halls Defalcation.

Southbridge, Mass, FEB. 11.-Thrcats
against the lives of c. Fred Hill and
Harry +. Colburn, selectmen of this
town. in case the depositors of the
Southhridge Savings Bank lose any
money as the result Of the alleged de-
falcations of former Treasurer John
A. Hall, We're contained in an anony-
nous letter received by Mr.. Hill yes
terday. The wording of the letter indi
Gated that the writer was of the opin-
ion that the selectmen were RESPONSE
BILE for the affairs of the bank as well
as of the town.
Since the beginning of the bank
trouble, the selectmen have been sub
jected to considerable criticism and
some abuse but not until yesterdays
anonymous letter was received had any
threats been made. The third member
of the board of selectmen. DR.. Joseph
q. E. Page was not included i nthe
members can explain the omission.
Messrs. Hill and Colburn are inclined
to treat tie matter as a joke.
As Il result of the suspension of the
bank it is thought that the town of
Uxbri1ge may be Obliged to negotiate
q loan in order to finish payment on its
water bonds The town had $500 de-
posted in the Southbridge institution.
but the money which was to have been
used to retire the water bonds is tied
up and cannot be used.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-12
WIRELESS PHONES,
Dispatches and Engineer Nav Yet
Talk With Each Other.

Hello, BIN, this is the train dis
patcher'S office; better slow down a
bit; there's washout about n mil,
ahead"
All right, Tom; glad you called up:
I'll put on the brakes
This is not quotation from Jules
Verne. 1t is an illustration of con-
versations between train dispatcbors
and locomotive engineers which NAV
become of almost daily occurrence if
the plans Of Frederick H. Brown. in,
ventor of the wireless magnetic tele
phone are realized.
The instrument, calculated to reyo-
| lutionize modern railroading, has been
patented by Mr.. Brown and is on ex-
hibition at 10 Randolph street.
Financial hackers of the inventor in
sist that the magnetic continuance will
supersede not only modern telephony
and biography. but it will replace the
wireless electric telegraph and tele-
prone systems as well.
A small box containing a magnetic
battery and gagged to transmit the hu-
man voice, without the aid of electric
currants and through any physical OBJ
struction to a similar box--constitute
the component factors of the invention.
The continuance, consisting OF a
small magnetic battery and receiver.
is capable of transmitting the human
voice, without the aid of electrical cur
rents. any distance and through any
obstruction. The instrument, it is said,
has been so perfected that a receiver
may be attached to a railroad train or
lake or ocean steamer, with the re-
suit that conversation may be had at
any distance.
IF for instance" explained Mr..
Brown, "a business man EN- route to
New York should desire to talk to an
associate in Chicago, he merely would
ask the porter to get his office 'on the
magnetic phone and when this had
been accomplished he would stroll into
the telephone booth at the end OF the
car and talk to his hearts content to
the man at the other end of the wave
while the train Was whizzing along at
a 40-mile an-hour clip.
Il am confident that before many
years of the railroads will have aban-
doned trains and that they will have
installed, instead, the magnetic tele-
phone"
The magnetic phone also is capable
of transmitting harmonic vibrations, a
test OF this feature having been mad,
by Mr.. Brown and his associates,
whereby patrons of a downtown res
taurart were entertained by music
program carried on four blocks distant.
The mechanism of the transmitting
box, according TO Mr.. Brown, consists.
of five or six magnetic batteries, each
battery being immersed in wire coil. A
similar box is used as the receiver. each
instrument being attached to an ordin-
airy telephone transmitter and receiver.
Chicago Record Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-12
AUGUSTA LOCALS.
ADJUSTMENTS.
HTha Hreutzar Sonata"

Miss DeLacy scored another triumph
at the Opera house last evening in her
production of THE KreutZer Sonata
d drama adapted from the Yiddish Of
Jacob Gordin and which proved to be
of a type which held the close atten-
ton of the audience throughout the
evening. The play has a touch of sad
ness running through it which, were
it not for the drollery of some of the
Russian characters, would render the
production rather heavy.
The story is that OF the life of a
daughter of a wealthy Russian con-
tractor, who has loved not wisely but
too we'll. The father, in order to save
his daughter from disgrace, her lover
having killed himself, forces her to
marry musician and leave the coun-
try for New York. Before leaving,
however, the musician falls in love
with his wife's sister, which later on,
as might be expected, proves the
source of endless trouble and at last
tragedy. After the arrival of the
musician and his wife in New York
her child is born and from that time
the husband never loses an opportuni-
ty to upbrai>, his wife and abuse the
boy.
Matters arc more complicated by the
arrival of the parents of both the hus-
band and wife and also the wife's sis
ter, and from that time matters go
from bad to worse. The final climax
is brought about the wife learning
that her sister. too, has become
mother and that her husband is the
father of the child. The wife accuses
them and upon becoming convinced Of
their guilt attempts to take poison,
and being thwarted, shoots both and
then falls dead.
Miss DeLaCy was very strong in her
part of the daughter, and w. II. Dim
ock, as her husband was equally so.
Miss katherine Clinton as the sister.
shared the honors of the evening. John
Meehan as the contractor Charles
Stevens as the musicians father and
Marion Chester as the old Russian
servant. were especially good and the
balance of the support was satisfac-
tory.
The company will give it's final pro-
auctions today. The Prisoner of Zen
ga being given for a matinee. In the
evening new play will be given mn
DER the title of The Reformer."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-12
LAW COURT DECISION.
City of Augusta Loses Pauper Case
Against City Of WatervIIe.

The following rescript from the law
court has been handed down:
kennebec, SIS. Superior court-City of
Augusta VS.. City of Waterville-Re-
script, Peabody, j.
This is an action authorized by stat
ute brought by the city of Augusta
against the city of Waterville to re-
cover the amount expended by the
overseers of the plaintiff city for the
relief of a pauper alleged to have a
settlement in the defendant city.
The case comes to this court for de-
cisior on an agreed statement, which
shows that the account sued for,
amounting to $54.10, was for pauper
supplies furnished by the city of Au-
gusta to one Peter Nigue and We're re-
ceivcd by him with full knowledge that
they were furnished as such, and that
these supplies were necessary, and rea-
sonable. Proper notice was given to
the city Of Waterville and denial made
by the city OF Waterville as required
by statute.
Peter Vigue is an alien, born in Can
ada. never having been naturalized. He
lived in Canada until after he became
Il dSt, 1T INV Su u w me ana Iol'
10 consecutive Years prior to Jan. /.
1907, made Watervlle his home, during
which time he received no pauper sup
plies. In May, 1909, he fell into distress
in Augusta, and received the supplies
sued for.
The decision of the case depends up
on the legal construction of Chapter
142 of the Public Laws of 1905, ap.
proved March %, 1905, which is as fol-
lows:
Section l. The Revised Statutes
shall not be constructed to make any
town liable for relief furnished to an
alien or his family since said Statutes
went into effect, but relief furnished
any such person shall be within the
provisions Of Section SO of Chapter o.
The Revised Statutes referred to in
Chapter q, Section l, Paragraph vi of
this section is essentially the same as
the provision in Chapter 122 of the laws
OF 1921 relating to the relief of the poor
and pauper settlements.
The statute of 1921 repealed all form
er laws made enacting and ascertain
ing what shall constitute legal set
tlelnent of any person, in any town
within this State. so as 10 subject end
obllge such town to support such per-
son. in case of his becoming poor and
standing in need of relief, so far as
they relate to the manner of gaining a
settlement in future"
1t was constructed by the court in the
case of Knox VS.. Waldoboro, 3 Me. ass,
TO embrace aliens as we'll as citizens,
and the doctrine of that case was re-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-12
ROMANCE AT PORTLAND.
0. A. Nichols, Augusta, and Gertrude
Emery, Carmel, Both Blind, To Wed.

The Maine Institute for the Blind at
short time put it has already developed
a romance, which Thursday reached a
stage approaching a happy elimination
when Orville \. Nichols Of Portland,
formerly of Augusta, and Miss Ger
trude Emory Of Carmel, both totally
Mind, filed their intentions of marriage
at the Office of the Portland city clerk.
Mr.. Nichols went to Portland from
Augusta. where his widowed mother is
living, and has been giving instruc-
tons at the Institute for the Blind. His
age is 81 years.
= While at work in the institute he met
his bride to be who came to the city
from Carmel and the acquaintance
thus formed soon ripened into love.
Miss Emery is also 81 years old and
neither of her parents are living.
Mr.. Nichols has recently opened a
little grocery store on Myrtle street
ana it is understood that his bride to
be viii look after the store while he
will continue his work in the institute.
Some of the friends of Miss Emery
have endef,yored TO 1issuade he~ from
marrying the man of her choice be-
cause he is blind, but as she and Mr.
Nichols are both self-supporting and
care for each other, she says she can
see no reason Why they should not be-
come man and wife.