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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-06-01

Pacific south to the boundary line
and over in Canada the gene. al i'm.
preston is that the line will be ex.
tended over into the states.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-06-01
mo. 7s)

(No. 79)
ABSTRACT OF STATEMENT.
For the Year Ending December 81,
A. D. 1916.
OF the condition and affairs Of the
Indemnity Lite and Accident Company
Of Minneapolis, Minnesota, organized
under the laws of the state of Mime.
sofa, made to the commissioner of in
surance of the state Of North Dakota,
in pursuance Of the laws of said state.
President-P. D. Boutell.
Vice President-Chas. P. lied.
Secretary-B. J. Powell.
Principal Ofice-Minneapolis, Min.
nesota.
Attorney for service Of process in
the state of North Dakota:
Name, Commissioner of Insurance;
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-06-01

location, Bismarck, N. D.
Organized or Incorporated, Aprtl
18th, 1908.
Commenced business, February Srd,
1910.
CAPITAL.
Amount of capital PAID up
up in cash .... ....... @1oo.ooo.oo
ASSETS.
Loans secured by deeds . .
of trust or mortgages
on real estate ....... $132,140.1S
Premium notes and loans. 2,570.83
Cash on hand and in
bank ................. 1898
Interest due and accrued Z,2N 40
Net amount OF deferred ..
and outstanding premi-
umS s.s''''' S1E.-O
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-06-01

l.. ]. Rodman, the Max banker,
brot his wife to this city that she
might take the train for Inkster, N.
D., her old home, where she will visit
Accompanying the Rodmans in their
auto, were l.. J. Kirk and wife, who
reside on a we'll titled farm south Of
Max. They made the trip in an hour
and ahalf, fully thirty miles. The
crops along the way look very prom
Using.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-06-01

what has become of the Demo
cratic program of economy" asks
the Lisbon Free Press.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-12-06
COMING EVENTS.
ELLSWORTH.


Thursday evening, Dec. Z, at Bayside
grange hall-Dance and supper.
Friday evening, Dec. s, at Hancock hall
--''The Squire's Son." by Harold F. Moon,
with Bangor cast. Tickets, 25 and IS
cents, on sale at Moore's drugstore.
Friday Dec. s, at Masonic hall-Sale by
Irene chapter, o. E. s., in the afternoon;
sociable in the evening. All Masons and
and their families invited.
Friday and Saturday, Dec. and 9, at
Dorr store, Main street-Bazar and sale
by ladies' aid society Of Methodist church.
Saturday evening, Dec. 9, at Society hall
Dance.
Monday evening, Dec. IL, p. m. at
Hancock hall-Prize speaking exhibition,
sophomore class Ellsworth high school.
Admission, 10 cents.
Wednesday evening, Dec. 10, at Baptist
vestry Supper by K. F. H. sewing circle.
Wednesday, Dec. 10, at Methodist vestry
class Of the Sunday school. gsi7Y J
February 1924, at Hancock hall Ellis
W orth food fair, under auspices of Els
worth Merchants association.
COUNTY.
Farmers institutes-Dec. 21, with Ala
moosook grange, East Orland; Dec. %,
with Halcyon grange, North Bluehill;
Dec. %, with Nicolin grange, North Els
worth. Sessions at 1880 a. m. and 1.30
p. m.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-12-06
SEARCH CONTINUES.
Colson's Body Still Missing = Proof
That Oflcers Reached Camp.

Colson's Body Still Missing Proof
That Officers Reached Camp.
The body OF Arthur E. Colson, Of Ellis
worth Falls, who is supposed to have been
drowned at Green lake two weeks ago
to-day, together with Sheriff Webster,
Deputy-Sheriff Finn and Joseph D..
Clough, has not yet been recovered.
Search was continued whenever weather
conditions permitted until Sunday, crew
from Ellsworth Falls working faithfully.
The cove is now frozen over, and it is
probab BILE the body will not be recovered
before spring.
Positive evidence that Sheriff Webster
and Deputy-Sheriff Finn did reach Camp
Comfort and were returning home when
the accident happened, has been found.
A few days ago there was found at the
camp paper bag on which some grocer
had written Sheriff Webster's name for
delivery, and which had doubtless con-
tanned the luncheon taken by the officers
on their trip, few doughnuts remaining
in it.
This disproves the theory held by some
that the officers did not 60 around the
head OF Northeast cove, but direct to the
Garland shore, and were crossing to Camp
Comfort when the accident happened.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-12-06
PRIZE SPEAKING.
Ellsworth High. School students to
Contest for Prizes

Ellsworth High. School students to
Contest for Prizes
To increase interest in public speaking
and in high school work, Principal
Mcclellan and his assistants, Mr.. Packard
and Miss Brown, have inaugurated series
of public prize speaking contests for the
school year.
Three of these contests will be given
during the year, the first between MEM
bers of the sophomore class, the second
for Juniors and the third for any student
in the school. Cash prizes are offered in
each contest as follows: first, $5; second,
50; third, y. TIE awards will be made
by three judges.
AS further result of these contests, two
speakers will be selected to represent Els
worth high in the Colby college prize
speaking contest on May % next, to which
any fitting school in the State is entitled
to send two representatives to contest for
the cash prizes OF $50, $25, $15 and $40.
The contests in Ellsworth are not
planned as money-making enterprises,
but to meet the necessary expenses OF the
contests a nominal admission fee-ten
cents-will be charged. The surplus pro-
ceeds, if any, will go toward defraying the
expenses OF the two speakers who will
represent the school in the Colby contest.
The first OF the local contests will take
place at Hancock hall next Monday even
ing at s O'Clock. The members OF the
sophomore class who will speak are !:
Hazel Giles, Goldie Povich, Martha Milli-
ken, Agnes Young, Hazel Lord, Harold
Treworgy, Eben Whitcomb, Kenneth
Royal, Morton Whitcomb, Fred Parker,
Clifford Carter, Reuel Whitcomb.
These contests and the interest it is
hoped they will create among the students
should prove valuable addition to the
educational work of the school. They de-
serve the encouragement ofethe towns
people, and it is hoped this encourage
ment will be shown by large audience at
Hancock hall next Monday evening.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-12-06
Suicide at south Penobscot.

SOUTH PRNoBscoT, Dec. 4 (special)-
Mrs. Warren Bridges, OF this place, who
had been in ill health long time and men,
tally deranged, committed suicide Satur-
day morning, shooting herself in the head
with q rife.
Mrs. Bridges had recently been brought
home from the insane asylum at Bangor,
and seemed improved mentally. Saturday
morning she sent her son to the store on
an errand, and in his absence secured the
rifle and shot herself. She was dead when
the boy returned.
She leaves husband, one son and two
daughters. A4s
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-12-06
East orland Man KILLED.

Herbert H. Robertson, of East Orland,
employed as switchman in the. Bangor
yard OF the Maine Central railroad, was
gine and car last Wednesday.
Mr.. Robertson leaves widow, who was
Miss Ethel Snowman, of Orland. His
parents and several brothers and sisters
live in East Orland.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-12-06
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS raIs WEEK

New England Tel g. Tel Co--Petition,
Ellsworth Greenhouse.
Thadious Sinclair-In bankruptcy.
Burrill national bank-Annual meeting
Ellsworth Food Fair.
H Bresnahan-Tax notice.
Harry Austin & Co-Furniture and under
taking.
SOUTHWEST HARBoR:
Island Telephone Co--Annual meeting.
CAsTINE:
Celia AlexAnder-Notice of foreclosure.
W H Hooper--Notice of foreclosure.
BANGOR:
Eastern Trust & Banking Co.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-12-06
NOTICE!

The Collector of Taxes for
1911 is now preparing the list
Of unpaid taxes for advertis-
ing, and all who do not wish
their names to appear on the
list must make payment be-
fore Dec Is. Settle at once
and save costs.
j. III. BREsNAHAN,
Collector for 1911.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-12-06

SCHEDULE OF MAILS
AT ELLSWORTH posToFPrcR.
In effect Dec. 8, 1911.
MAILS RECEIVED.
FROM WRsr-7.13 a m; 4.14, 625 p M.
FROM EAsr-l1o6, 11.57 m; 5.47, 1882 m.
MAIL CLOSES AT PosroFFrcE.
GOING WEsr-10.3o, 1l.30 a m; Sis, 9pm.
GOING EAsr-6.45 a m; 3.45, p m.
Registered mail should be at postofice half
an hour before mail closes,
No Sunday trains.
Postofiice open on Sunday from to 10 m.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-07-20

The usual rumors of shake up In
the police department by the board
of police and fire commissioners are
going the rounds, but no one on the
force against whom complaints of any
nature have been made need have the
slightest fear that any action will be
taken by the commission before the
fullest investigation of all charges has
been made and the accused officer Civ
en- chance to defend himself at an
open hearing. In this connection it
might be well for some of the people
who have announced their intention to
'get'' certain officers to remember
that the board requires something
more than the unsupported word of a
complainant before proceeding against
any officer; that testimony which the
commissioners have any reason to be-
lieve may be prejudiced is thrown out;
and that when an officer is shown to
have been in the right when a COM
plant has been made against him it
raises his standing with the board.
Nothing pleases the commissioners more
than to find that an officer has done his
duty as he saw it without fear or favor
and the petty politicians whose feel
ings have been ruffled because they
were shown no special consideration by
the police when found violating the
law may find that they have benefited
an officer rather than injured him by
filing complaints with the board. The
government of the police and fire de-
partments by commission is designed
to do away with the degrading and dis
rupting effects of this political pull
business and no officer who attends to
his business need have any fears that
anybody can get his place through any
political influence, with the board of
police and fire commissioners consti-
tuted as at present.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-07-20
TO TAX TELEPHONE LINES.
Governor Sends Special Message to
Legislature on the Subject.

Governor McGovern today sent a
special message to the legislature re-
questing the enactment of law to
tax telephone companies under the ad
valorem system. The governor in his
message called the attention to the fact
that the legislature recently passed an
act increasing license fees for tele-
phone companies Although he signed
the bill, the executive expressed seri-
Gus doubt regarding its constitutions
atty.
Members of the state apportionment
committee arrived at the capital today
for the purpose Of drafting new ap-
portionment measure. The sentiment
of the members is rejecting the idea
of many in the plan to reapportion
Milwaukee county only covering the
objections of Governor McGovern
which, caused his veto of the former
bill.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-07-20
ALIENS GETTING BUSY.
Many of the Foreigners of the City
Seek to Antedate New Election Law.

There is decided increase in the
number of aliens seeking full citizen
ship at the present time on account of
the fact that the foreigners are now
seeking to have second papers issued
to them before the first Of December
Of next year. There will be but two
more chances to get the papers after
September of this year. Already IS
petitions for second papers have been
filed to be acted on by The circuit
court in September and ten aliens have
filed petitions to be acted on at the
March term of the circuit court next
year. These petitions will be heard
late in February. Under the laws of
the state the right Of suffrage will be
denied aliens if they have not secured
their second papers prior to the first
day Of December of next year and for
this reason it is expected that there
will be several hundred petitions filed
for hearing in February and Septem.
Der of 1912. The new law goes into
effect right after the presidential cleo
ton of 1912.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-07-20
ALL CONTRACTS SIGNED.
Slow Payments by Subscribers Causes
Delay in Building of Plant.


All the contracts necessary for the
location Of the plant of the McComber-
Whyte company in Kenosha have been
signed and the only delay in the mat
ter at the present time is being caused
by failure of people who subscribed for
lots to make their initial payments.
The lines of the new factory are be-
ing laid out today and the work of
installing the switch tracks viii be
started just as soon as the railway
company can be given these lines. The
officers of the industrial association are
being badly handicapped on account of
the fact that some people are holding
out payments on lots pending the cree
tion of the factory buildings. The
money subscribed for the lots is need
ed to start the work at the present
time. Under the contracts the plant
of the company must be in operation
by the first OF March. The first work
along the line of locating the plant was
done today when q great sign was put
up on the site of the plant on which
it is stated that the new factory will
be opened early in 1912. 1t is planned
to make it one of the largest wire rope
making concerns in the world.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-07-20
Court Has Plenty of Comedy
in Trial for Damages for
Personal Injuries
HAT PIN STARTS VILLAGE ROW

There was real comedy in the NUM-
cipal court ON Wednesday afternoon
when Judge Randall and a jury heard
the facts in a civil action brought by
George G. Hamilton, a mail carrier in
Somers, against DR.. George Betting,
a well known young physician Of the
village. 1t was a suit for personal in
juries from an assault and after hours
of humorous testimony the jury return
ed a verdict allowing Hamilton dam
ages to the amount of twenty-five dol
ars. It was the nature of the assault
that brought the fun into the case.
The Beltings and the Hamiltons were
neighbors and the evidence showed
that the trouble started when Mrs.
Hamilton was alleged to have iabbed
Mrs. Betting with a hat pin. Mrs.
Betting was declared to have been
watching her husband at work clean
ing an automobile when Mrs. Hamilton
slipped up behind her and poked her
with the hat pin. The women did not
fight, but the valor of DIR. Betting was
aroused and he demanded satisfaction
from Hamilton when he met him on the
road a few hours later. Henry Bulla-
more and Mat Schiller, both widely
known in the village told the story of
the fight and the story was sufficiently
racy to keep the court and jurors
laughing all during the afternoon. The
evidence left no doubt as to the fact
that Hamilton had been assaulted, but
before the fight was over it deteriorated
into a running race and the witnesses
declared that it was a hard matter to
tell which one of the men run the fast
est. It is probable that DR.. Betting
will appeal the case as he still asserts
that he was the aggrieved party and
that his action in assaulting Hamilton
was fully warranted On account of
the prominence of the people in Som
ers the case has attracted wide atten-
ton in that part of the county.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-07-20

One thing that is going to have
most important effect in operating to
delay many manufacturers and large
employers of labor in taking action to
come under the provisions of the work
men S compensation act for some little
time, is the fact that the liability in
surance companies which insure the
employers against liability for acct
dents among their worlingmen and
which companies now defend most Of
the actions for personal damages
brought in the courts are renewing the
employers policies, for another year at
the old premium. That is the condi-
ton in this city and we presume that
it viii be the same all over the state
in which case employers carrying these
Liability insurance policies will not
have much incentive to come under the
operation of the compensation act until
the year has elasped and their policies
are either cancelled by the insurance
companies or the rates are raised. The
action of the insurance companies came
in the nature of surprise to MANY
employers who have been carrying this
form of insurance for years, but it will
give those employers with these policies
chance to observe the workings of
the new law for time before they are
forced to make up their minds whether
or not they care to go under it, The
law takes away two of the principal
and most effective defenses in personal
damage suits, that of contributory neg
hgence and the co-employee or fellow
servant rule, and it was expected that
the taking away of these defenses
would force the liability insurance
companies to abandon business in this
state or raise the insurance rates to
prohibitive figures, but the companies
have evidently decided to test the eff
feet of the law on their business before
abandoning their hitherto lucrative
field in Wisconsin. BY the time the
policies now being renewed expire the
insurance companies will be able to tell
whether or not they will be able to
continue along old lines and the effect
Of the law so far as they are concern
ed will be figured out to -Four points
of deeimals and in the meantime the
employers protected by their policies
will observe closely the effect of the
law and of the rulings of the indus
trial accident board on the business of
the employers who elect TO become SUBJ
ject to The terms Of the act immedi
ately.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-07-20
COMMISSION TO Be SOUGHT
Leading Men of the City Taking a New
Interest in the Plan to Secure More
Parks for the City and Large Gifts
May be Received.

The board Of commissioners of the
Gilbert M. Simmons library have taken
lively interest in the plan to pro-
vide more parks for the city of Keno
sha and at q recent meeting of the
board it was formally decided that the
board viii turn over to the city all
surplus funds on hand with the under
standing that this money is to be a
starter for the building of a park sys-
TEN in the city. With the annual levy
of a mill tax the library receives more
money than is actually necessary for
It's demands and each year goodly sums
have been handed back to the treasury
of the city, but even with these re
bates to the city the board of com
missioners have been thrifty and have
gotten together a small surplus. The
amount of money in the library fund
at the present time is close to $4,000
and the members of the board believe
that from this fund with a little
economical management it will be pos
sible for the board to turn over $4,000
to be used in the purchase of park
property. This will make it possible
for the city to make the first payment
on the new park near the city cemetery
on Ashland avenue and in addition
leave small balance on a park fund.
The members of the commission are
anxious to have a park commission es-
tablished. z, G.. Simmons, who is tax
ing an active interesting in the affairs
of the Kenosha Cemetery association,
has interested himself in securing a
park commission for the city and he is
now sending out call to other cities
to get copies of ordinances under
which the park commissioners in those
cities are established and it is expected
that within a short time an ordinance
providing for a Kenosha commission
will be sent to the council. Three
years ago the council received such an
ordinance, but it was not acted upon
as at that time the, members of the
council thought that it would be Just
as well to have the park problems
handled by the various council commit
tees. The sentiment of the council is
rapidly changing and it is thought that
at the present time large majority
of the members of the council would
be favorable to the naming of a park
commission. Members of the council
are planning TO take trip to Racine
and to other cities to study the work
ings of the park commission in these
cities and it is thought certain that
Kenosha will have a park commission
with limited powers before the end of
the present year. It is limited that
wealthy men of the city are ready to
purchase land for parks for the city
just as soon as a proper governing
board is provided by the city council
and the aldermen will not lose any
chances for gifts of park land by fail
ure to provide the commission to re-
ceive and improve these lands.
The option ON the property needed
for the park on Ashland avenue has
been taken up by q. G.. Simmons and
the improvement of the property will
be left in charge of the officials of the
Kenosha Cemetery association.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-07-20
WIFE ASKS DECREE.

Mrs. Katie Lynch Demands Release
from Her Husband Richard Lynch.
Mrs. Katie Lynch has fled suit in
the municipal court demanding a di-
vorce from her husband, Richard
Lynch on charges of cruel and inhu-
man treatment, failure to provide and
other statutory causes. The complaint
states that the couple were married in
Chicago eight years ago, but they have
resided in Kenosha for number Of
years. Mrs. Lynch asks the custody
of two minor children.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-07-20

Also when they are working on the
bicyclists, the police can go step
farther and discourage the riders either
with or without lights from using the
sidewalks. Any effort in that direc-
ton will be appreciated by the people
who cheerfully make way for the
wheelmen in winter when the streets
are impossible for them.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-07-20
CARVER GRADE TReTTER.

Formerly owned by Ed. G. Shepard
of Kenosha, now the property of A.
F. Mcneil of South Bristol, Kenosha,
Co., Wis. Carver will make the sea-
son at the stables on the Barker Pic
kens farm in South Bristol. Registered
No. 1874. Terms: so to insure live
foal. WITT
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-07-20
BUILDING MATERIALS.

The Dunnebacke company, corner
Of Market and West Main streets han
die building materials such as brick,
lime, cement, hair, plaster and all sizes
of farm drain tile, sewer pipe and con-
nections, also sand and gravel WITT
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-07-20
HOLDS UP DECREE .
Court Hears Evidence in Wettwer Di-
vorce but Decree is not Signed.

Judge Randall heard the evidence in
the suit of Mary Wettwer for divorce
from her husband, Charles G. Wettwer,
in the municipal court this morning.
Wettwer was arrested a short time ago
on charges of threatening to kill his
wife, after seeking reconciliation.
He was not in court and was not repre-
scented by an attorney and it is under
stood that he is no longer living in
Kenosha. The case was held open in
order to permit the divorce counsel TO
make a further investigation into the
facts in the case.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-07-20

The abstract of the reports OF the
condition of the state banks made by
Commissioner of Banking A. E. Kuolt
shows the banks under the supervision
Of his department in very satlstac-
tory condition as a whole.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-07-20

Partisan Sage will drive every pit of
that disagreeable dandruff from your
scalp, will stop the hair from falling,
and make your scalp Immediately
clean, or your money back. so cents.
G. II. Hurd guarantees it.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-07-20

At the annual meeting of the United
States Masters association, held in
Chicago Wednesday, G. E. Remer of
this city was elected treasurer Of the
association for the tenth consecutive
term. The association now comprises
practically all of the mailing industries
in the United States. The funds
handled by the treasurer amount to
more than $4,000 year