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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-11-17
SKINNER'S NEPHEW IN
A BIG forest FIRE
Young Man Well known Here Describes Vvidy
His Terrible Experimentation Were Roasted
Alve-How He Escaped

e. D. Skinner received a letre.
from his nephew, V. A. Skinner Of
DenisOn, Wash, In which ne describes
the forest fires vividly, with which
he had an unusual and very danger
Gus experience few months ago. A
part Of the letters follows:
"You asked about this county
Lave been pretty we'll over Montana,
Washington, Idaho, Oregon, British
Columbia and parts of Wyoming, Col
orado and California and l have seen
nothing anywhere that looks good
enough to me for me to advise one
TO part with nice home, for any of
them. If person has money, he can
buy a lot Of the good things and miss
many inconvenient parts Of the snow.
This company I am working for, has
$4,000 acres Of land which Is divided
into five and ten acre tracts and
which they sell for $3.50 an acre.
agree to set out the trees and care
for them till they bear apples and by
that time you are supposed to be in
dependently rich and a member Of
the church, and a respected citizen.
But it doesn't look good to me.
came out to this country to get . tim
Der claim, but they have all Of It in
the reserve, and besides saw a sight
this year never want to see again.
hired out at Missoula to fight tim
Yer fires. They shipped me with the
rest. about seventy-hve miles into one
of the heaviest timbered countries
ever saw and dumped me out with a
lot of picks and shovels and the rest
Of the crew 1t a side track in the
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-11-17
Short State Stories

Joe Chapman, the negro, charged
with murder near Saltwater, Okla,
VINO escaped from the sheriff near
Kenmare several months ago, by
jumping from a moving train, will
be tried Nov. 25. Chapman was later
captured and taken to Oklahoma. He
is jointly charged with Lorena Mat
hevs with the murder of the woman $
hus band, Lawrence Mathews.
Johnson carried the "Gooseneck" by
63 majority.
The Kenmare Journal notes that
the statement that Ed Kelley is alleg-
ed to have made that he could remain
in the cellar and beat Sorenson, prov
ed about correct.
Williams county voted to divide,
and the name of the new county will
be Divide. The proposition carried
by q large majority.
D. A. Kramer was defeated for
sheriff of the McHenry county by
Sampson, 1896 to 1,427. Kramer may
ask for a recount.
Burke carried McHenry county by
a small majority.
When the returns were finally all
in, it was found that Burke had carri-
ed Ward county by a small majority.
Earlier reports had 1t the johnson
had carried the county by about so.
The street lights ordered by the
county commissioners and the city
council, have been installed at Town
er
The unofficial vote on the county
seat fight in Renville county is: Mo
hall, GAL; Greene, $50; Sherwood,
412; Tolley, 23s; McHenry, 11s. Mo-
hall easily won.
Cavalier was successful in the flgn.
for county seat In Pembina county
by 200 majority.
The Renville county newspaper
boys wonder If M. o. Hall will con
tinue to publish the Greene Reporter.
John /. Moore Of Minot has been
granted the franchise to operate an
electric light plant at Berthold. The
plant must be installed within three
months and the maximum charge for
electricity is placed at IL cents per
kilowatt. Mr. Moore proposes to in
stall one of the late battery systems
The Farmers Elevator at Berthold,
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-11-17
MELINNA hEosTRoM.

Melinna Hedstrom, who recently
filed on a homestead near Hesnauit,
died from typhoid fever Thursday
morning. She had been i'll for sev-
eral weeks. She came from Brainerd,
Minn., about six weeks ago, and think
ing she could prove up a claim with
out any serious difficulty fled on one
near Hesnault. Just how she took
sick we are not informed, but in all
probability she got the disease from
bad water.
Her father and brother have both
lived In this community for some
time, and 1t was no doubt at their go
licitation that she came here.
The body will be shipped to Win
throp, Mimi, for burial.-Des Lacs
Observer.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-11-17
SUNDAY CLOSING Law IN
FORCE At BISMARCK
The Police Have Been Ordered To See That The
Law Is Strictly Enforced 1t Means
To The Town

The Sunday closing law Will DC
strictly enforced at bismarck. Toe
chief Of police and the patrolmen
have been notified to this effect. Just
TO what extent the law will be en-
forced is problematical, but if it is
enforced to the very letter, no the
atres will be allowed to run on Sun.
day. All pool rooms and cigar stores
will remain closed. One cannot Uuy
a Sunday paper, and the hack lines
will be put out of business. 1t is
even possible TO put the telegraph
out OF commission for twenty -four
hours, and perhaps tickets will not be-
sold at The station.
the laws of the state of North Da-
kota are very strict on the Sunday
observance and if enforced even as
indicated in the order issued by the
police commissioner of Bismarck
there promises to be some excitement
when the first efforts are made to en-
force the law on Sunday morning al
1901
Just to show how far the officers
can 90 with the order if they care to;
Section 800. Day Defined. Under
the term day." as employed in the
Enrase first day of the week. in the
seven sections following, is included
all the time from midnight to mid
night. (Pen. c. 1877. Sec. 40, r. C..
1899. Sec. $780,
Section $50. Acts of Sabbath
breaking enumerated The following
are the acts forbidden to be done by
the first day Of the week, the doing
Of any of which is Sabbath breaking:
|. Servile labor.
2. Public sports.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-11-17

woods, 700 miles from nowhere. We
walked up creek thru jungle for
55 Idaho miles at last to the blaze and
she was a dandy. Couldn't see the
sun in the day nor the moon at night
SO dark all the time, you couldn't see
ten feet away. We worked two days
and one night with very little to eat
and no sleep, and then we discovered
the fire coming up the same way We
had come, with a good wind behind
it and no way to get out. Then the
crew got excited and started to pray
and cry like bunch Of maniacs. I
and fellow that knew dug hole
near spring deep enough SO we
could get water over our bodies, and
wet our blankets and crawled into
this spring and lay in that ice cold
water for four hours and a half and
the burning timber falling around US
every little while. Big trees that
would smash a house If they fell Oh
it and when the fire had gone by we
saw something damnable. Men roast
I'd Just like the stumps. There were
twenty-seven out of 119 of us got into
Wallace, Idaho, which place was
about half burned. There we had a
relief committee and they gave us q
new suit Of clothes and Is cents an
hour from the time we left Missoula
and sent us on our way rejoicing.
That Wiley fs 126 miles long and
now is a dreary ruin. saw timber
claims go pretty fast without much
pecuniary benefit received, and hardly
know whether the dance 70 worth
the music or not"
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-11-17

Mrs. }. p. Mccarthy has put in an
application as chauffeur for Mrs,
Codmary on the OK cart.
Mrs. Sylvester having resigned her
position
Faulkners spent Sunday with Cur
ley.
Mr.. Shaferleab took a. load of fax
to MinOt Monday of this week.
Mrs. Mccarthy spent Sunday even.
ing with Mrs. Landphire.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-11-17
JOHN WALuN ANSWERS
THE N|N0T REPORTER
Senator Shows That The Reporter Editor Has
Qualified For The An'nias Club-Wan Not
Tied To Jim kennedy's Apron Strings

that l did, and | suppose the same
rule applies to them. Why should ii
not? But let me tell you that every
senator and representative who voted
against that measure voted against
the Declaration of the platforms or
botL the Republican and Democratic
Parties, who had pledged themselves
to the people for the passage Of this
measure.
machine, let ME say that have been
in Tolitics more or less for the last
25 years, and l have always a;liated
myself with the Republican party.
] congratulate myself that l have
been able to steer clear of "bosses."
| stand today for progress in politics
more than ever, and | defy the Re-
porter to show one instance where !
repudiated those principles in the
last session of the legislature.
Let me also state that ! voted the
opposite of Mr.. Kennedy on many
occasions, and ] will relate one in
stance, the so-called salary bill,
which provided for a raise in salary
of the state officials, and which has
been talked OF so much during the
recent political campaign. Mr.. Ken
nedy and a large number of progress
sives and stalwarts alike. voted for
this bill Only three voted against
it and l was one Of them, not be-
cause l thought that all those that
voted for it were in the wrong, but
because I did not like the bill.
In conclusion let ne say that
have not written this article to the
public because I would feel it dis
grace to be affiliated with Mr. Ken
nedy, providing 1t was true that was
so. The truth is that I am not
affiliated with Mr.. Kennedy any more
than with any other member of the
senate. As far as the character of
Mr.. Kennedy is concerned from
what little 7 know Of the man | would
take his words thousand times
rather than those of the clustering
demagogue that edits the Minot Re
porter.
| Neither have | written this article
with the idea of changing the course
of the Reporter. From observation
and study of the man who edits that
sheet,I have come to the conclusion
that this man is capable of anything
and in the line Of mud-slinging he is
In expert. He seems to be especially
fitted to blacken the character of mel
whom he takes dislike to. I expect
nothing but abuse from this source
and let me say that I do not care.
have written this article because
do not feel that I should be misrepre
sented. believe that the people an
entitled to know the truth about theil
public servants, but 1t should be given
! as it is, and not misrepresented OF
perverted.
The following lines from the pen oi
the Norwegian Author and dramatist
Henrik 1bsen, perhaps fits the editor
Of the Reporter. AS have no trans.
lation of it give 1t in the origina
language
"6eiier iom Mrrte llsleloomstlube
Ssaer fin 9Gre i 5luet ca i6alp
| Da er bet 8iip Nitolaus. iom cr roe
yaQlerbilpen, lom rsQter iii &ba(
Yours truly,
JOFEN WALI1N.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-11-17

Public sports.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-23

than pay any difference in the cost Of the imple-
ments A#
Any two one-horse farmers can, therefore he
come two-horse farmers by the purchase of one
two-horse pillow and reversible disk and a
smoothing harrow and do at least one-haIf moro
work than they are now doing, and do 1t better
They may be two-horse farmers in so far as the
breaking of the land and preparing 1t for the crop
is concerned Furthermore by the use Of tho
smoothing harrow they can be two-horse farmers
in the early cultivation OF their crops. By the
use of the weeder they can still further continue
methods OF cultivation resembling the npproved
practice of the two-horse farmer
After ihis by the use of light one-horse Guilt
vators. they do about as satisfactory work as
the two-horse farmer. although at higher cost
This is an age OF combination and cooperation
WIN the one-horse farmers who really wish to do
better farming consider this plan? win they CO.
operate to the extent ot buying the indictments
In combination and preparing the lands by ioin.
ing their team force? Such a plan is not eouar
to individual ownership Of Two horses and the
needed implements. but II is infinitely better than
the one-horso methods now In use II NAV be
made the means OF amy two neighborlne one-horse
farmers doing better farming than they can possl.
bly, do working separately with one horse.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-23
Progress in Southern Education.

/" HE RECENT meeting Of the Southern Edu-
Ms cational Conference at Little Rock, Ark
NJ was matter of probably more real import
TO which greater attention given in the news
papers. The conference well attended and
was notable for the interest manifested in the es-
adjustment of an adequate system OF practical
training In connection with those subjects now
taught In the public schools 1t was made evident
that the interest In better schools and better
school methods is increasing all over the South
and that 1t is the purpose of the Southern people
10 develop a system OF education suited to their
special needs. and one that will fit the boy and
girl for the practical duties Of life Speaking of
the conference, State superintendent Joyner of
North Carolina said:
II especially impressed with the i'm
mediate necessity of arousing the people upon /.
the question of providing for the simple and
practical instruction in our public schools of
the country boys and girls in subjects relat-
Ing to agricultural pursuits and homemade
ing, such would fit them for life on the
farm and upon the question Of providing
for the better preparation OF teachers for
these and other subjects"
sz~And this may be taken the spirit of the
Conference The percentage Of iiterates in the
South is being steadily reduced and the work is
bound to go on with increasing celebrity The
Southern schools of the near future will, we be-
leye also teach the pupil how to live and how to
worltfas well as how to read and cipher" a..
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-23

NV HE TENNESSEE Supreme Court by q vote
M>l of three to two confirmed the sentence of
W. Duncan B. Cooper to twenty years in the
pententiary for the murder of Edward w Car
mack. The case of Robin Cooper was remanded
for new trial While the minority opinion in
the case was being read, however, Governor Pat
terson ssueds "a pardon to Cooper. There is much
feeling over the matter, the Governors action be-
ing generally condemned AA&sA sf-sA RA5@R
In the United States Senate last Thursday, SEN
ator Burton, of Ohio, made a strong attack on the
Rivers and Harbors Bill as reported by the COM
mlttee Senator. Burton. who is probably the
foremost American authority on such subjects, de-
clares that the "dribbing' policy of making par
t1al appropriations year after year for project is
ruinous waste. He cited as example Sandy Bay
Harbor, in Massachusetts,, where work has been
in progress for twenty-five years, and where at
the present rate of progress, it will require fifty
years yet to complete it. Mr.. Burton's plea for
a scientific and practical system of waterway i'm
proyement rather than for the present pork
barrel" arrangement under which 1t Is the object
OF each Senator and Representative to get as large
an appropriation as possible for his district, is
certainly worthy of consideration. 1t s admit
ted by all that hundreds Of millions of dollars
have been virtually wasted on appropriations for
projects of value and in piece-meal construc-
ton of work that should have been appropriated
for whole. - - = e 1900
From Fairbanks, Alaska, party headed by
Thomas Lloyd has made ascent of Mount. Nc
Inley, and report that trace found that
Or. Cook had preceded them to the summit of the
mountain.
April / 5th the 10000 census enumerators be-
gan their work Of finding out all about everybody
in the United States We have on two or three
occasions asked our readers to lend these enum-
orators every service in their power and to be pre-
pared as far possibe,rto answer fully all sques,
tons that might be asked
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-23
The Brighter Side.

INV HE FOLLOWING extract from the Rich-N
MS mond Va, Times-Dispateh of April 9Th,
-%=I deserves more than passing notice. because
after all that the extremists of both sides have
to say about the race question in the South, the
one great fact remains indsputable that the large
majority of white people have honestly and earn
estly endeavored to help the negro to a higher
plane of civilization. and that the great majority
OF negroes have considering the disadvantages
under which they labored and their lack of pre-
vious- training, wrought well and made wonderful
progress: es+AN& eSkA&&E AIS &E&#&
"Forty-fve years ago yesterday Richmond
was an earthly purgatory. Falling walls and
exploding missiles; on-sweeping fire and dis
mai want; twenty thousand Federal troops in
the city; ten thousand defenceless women and
children; more than five thousand slaves,
wild with excitement and crazed with JOY, ~ 4
dancing about the streets and sacking stores
these made scene beside which the worst
horrors of the battlefield paled. Yesterday
the negroes of Richmond celebrated this
event which brought ruin into a thousand
homes and despair to ten thousand hearts. 4
Yet they marched through the streets, pa
raded at the ball park, had their speech
making and their feasting without harsh 81
word from their former masters without
taunt or jeer from the people of Richmond.
The celebration yesterday made possible
as much by the conduct of the negroes as by
the good neighborhood of the whites. The
negroes have shown, in Richmond, that they 4
deserve the freedom given them at the point
of the bayonet, and they have justified the 4
confidence reposed in them by the white peo-
ple."
Much is said of the sporadic examples Of race
hatred and race friction, but it needs only little
sober thought to convince any one that the great
masses of both races live together in the South in
mutual goodwill and confidence The Negroes
limitations too evident to be denied but these
init at p,olo he %t>o
the white race exercise a patient charity as we'll
as guarantee strictly administered justice to this
child race, for whose education and development
they have been made responsible.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-23
What The News 2"
The Mississippi Bribery Case,
nv HE INVESTIGATION into the charges OF
HN bribery made by State Senator Blbo, Of
BY E. E. MILLER.


N bribery made by State Senator Bilbo, of
mississippi, in connection with the recent
United States Senatorial election has resulted, it
would seem, in leaving everyone of the same opin
ion as before. BY a vote of % to Ii the Senate
asked Senator Bilbo to resign declaring him un
worthy of belief. A motion to expel him had pre-
Viously been defeated by the same vote it reuuir-
Ing two-thirds vote to expel a member It is
notable that the division was on strictly partisan
lines, the supporters OF Governor Vardaman sup
porting Bilbo, while those favoring Senator Percy
voted Tor his expulsion. Later, after the Varda-
man supporters had left the Senate chamber. Bilbo
was again asked to resign, this time by vote of
20 to !. and his actions strongly censured. Reso-
lutions were also adopted expressing confidence in
senator Percy and in the honesty of the election
II is unfortunate that the affair took on so much
OF partisan tone; but it is gratifying to know
mat any wrong doing in the matter was confined
10 very few men-and women-and that the
wholesale corruption of legislators, so common in
some States, has not reached the South
There are great many ugly features connected
with the investigation. and 1t is to be hoped that
the matter will yet be taken out of the realm of
partisan feeling and that the real facts in the case
may be ascertained. Bribery has been practically
unknown in the South and such cases as this
show the necessity OF the greatest care in eecting
men TO the State Legislatures 1t has been too
often the case that the men who have had the
making of State laws have been elected solely be
cause they asked for the place. as a recognition
~ political services. and not because they pos
sessed any especial fitness for the work The
laws made at the State capital usually affect us
much more vitality and directly than those made
at the National capital. and no man whose charae-
ter Is at all questionable and who is not endowed
With a fair degree of ability and good share of
independence. should be sent to make these laws
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-23
A Thought for the Week.

PRIV HAT Is WHAT Lie means ~ ne-a place
ms whore Father above dsals differently
with his different children. bat With all In
loVei place where true joys do not hang on ma
'eriai pega and whore al the white the met THAT
dod our Father Us ON his throne lines every cloud
with gold. Nay. more, 90 tell the truth, the
Heaven l. Ike others. look for Is not "a place to
rest and be idle in" but Is place whore I'VE
shall run. and not be weary"-Dr Wlfred T.,
'fenfel The Labrador missionary. Ms
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-23

nv HE RECENT meeting of the Southern Edu-
lGfSl cational Conference at Little Rock. Ark
- was matter of probably more real nnnrt-
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-23
Miscellaneous Matters of Interest.

INV HE TENNESSEE Supreme Court by vote
Ms OF three to two confirmed the sentence Of
Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-06-08
LOCAL MASONS
PARADE WITH
The SHRINERS

Masonic orders of this city and
vicinity were well represented at the
demonstration given in Newark, last
night, when members of the Ancient
Arabic Order, Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine, gathered TO honor W. Free
land Kendrick, of Lulu Temple,
Philadelphia, who was recently made
imperial outer guard The celebra-
tion, in which approximately $500
members of this great order took
part, was without a doubt one of
the finest of its kind ever held in
the state.
Clancy d. Boynton, Fred j. Cox,
Frank l.. Guile, Wilson r. Voorhees,
and Morgan F. Larson, of this city,
were installed into the order, besides
110 others from various parts of the
state.
The parade was a feature of the
celebration. Wearing bright colored
regalia, the thousands OF members
OF the,.order marched through the
streets, escorting Mr.. Kendrick from
the Pennsylvania depot to Kruger
Auditorium. Members of the Salaam
Temple, of Newark, appropriately
received the official and acted as
hosts to the many visitors. The pa
rade was a succession of surprises,
picturesque tableaux being separated
by companies Of men wearing red
fez caps. At the apex of Military
Park 1T was reviewed by Mayor
Haussling, of Newark, together with
Judge Simon Hahn and Wilson J.
Vance, in an automobile. Lu Lu
Temple, OF Philadelphia, led the
procession with band of sixty
pieces. Each bandsman wore an
electric light. Borne in the centre
of the delegation was a stuffed
camel. the symbol of drought, while
to counteract the influence the mem
bers carried umbrellas. The uni
forms were white and originally
used at the Imperial council meeting
in New Orleans. A specially cos
tuned band of Oriental dancers
came up in the rear.
At the gathering in Kruger Audi
torium many of the officials were
presented with jewelled caps. Mr..
Kendriek presented Louis " Aaron
son, potentate of Salaam Temple,
with diamond pin, emblematic of
the order.
Most of the Amboy visitors went
in automobiles, few going by train.
Among those on hand from this city
were: Clancy ID. Boynton, Fred j.
Cox, Morgan F. Larson, Frank l..
Guile, Wilson r. Voorhees,. Eugene
Cross, Harry Conard, Ira R. Grouse,
Peter Kroeger, Emil Warter, Frank
Warter, Hans Greisen, Robert Car
son, Mr.. and Mrs. William F. Van
Pelt, Thomas Waters, Dr. ]. s. Hay,
Mr.. and Mrs Adolph Greenbaum,
MIR. and Mrs. Louis Kreiesheimer,
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Leon. Among
those from South Amboy were:
Richard C. Stephenson, Charles
6afran, Max Kaufman and Newell
James.