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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-06-01
insane MAN
At GLENbURN
Sheriff Kelley Picks up Peter Skillet
Who Imagined that Everybody
Wanted to Kill Him.

Sheriff Kelley and Deputy Dougher-
ty went out into the country south
east of Glenburn Sunday and picked
up an insane man, who had been
frightening the people of that neigh
borhood. The fellow had a mania for
running into farm houses and hiking
down cellar, fearing that his life was
In danger. he gives his name as
Peter Skillet and says his home is at
Crookston, Inn He is nearly so
years old. n effort is being made
to locate h, relatives and he may
be sent to Minnesota.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-06-01
FIRST NORTH DAKOTA
AIR SHIP HAS ARRIVED
4 BEAUTIFUL COLONIAL COTTAGE

F. p. Taylor will occupy his beauti
full Colonial cottage in Eastwood Park
this week. Mr.. Taylor has one OF
the best arranged and tasty homes in
the city situated among the beauti.
full trees in one of the finest residence
districts of the city. The cottage has
five rooms and bath, and is provided
with high light basement under the
entire structure. 1t is 35x42 feet.
1t has large front porch and the
front door is provided with an old
colonial knocker and latch. The
hardware throughout is black.
The living room is provided with
an old colonial fire place with book
shelves on either side. The dining
room has French windows. The
pantry and kitchen floors are covereu
with linoleum. The kitchen is very
conveniently arranged, with hot and
cold water and long work table.
The bath room is white enameled. A
new fiat wall finish was used and ex.
cellent taste was displayed. The
floors are one and half inch hard
maple, highly polished.
There is a large floored garnet,
which easily can be converted into
two fine rooms. .
A portion of the basement will be
used for garage, as the machine can
be run in easily from the rear. The
hot water boiler and ~ barrel cist-
ern are located in the basement. The
cottage has spattered cement found
alton, which extends up to the bottom
of the windows.
The building was constructed in one
month by D. A. Dinnie, and the work
was highly satisfactory.
Miss Velma Cross, the architect dis
played unusual ability in the plans
for the magnificent home.
Jos. Hunt, the real estate man who
has his offices in the John Ehr block,
is advertising some choice pieces OF
farm property for sale this week.
These farms were bought last season
and it might be said they were the
pick of the bunch. Mr.. Hunt says
the farms will move quickly for he is
asking just what they are worth, no
more, no less.
Lieu. Gov. Burdick, wife and child,
passed thru Minot Saturday by. auto
to their home in Williston, from Mum
ich, where Mr. Burdick was super
intending the seeding of some land.
Rep. Tostenson of Voltaire, was in
Minot on business Saturday.
A. J. Stafne of Williston was in the
city Saturday.
E. A. jacques and wife who have
spent the winter at Fairfield, Ia,
have returned.
c. w. Humphrey of Logan was in
Minot Saturday delivering some fine
dressed pullets. Mr. Humphrey raj
ses several hundred chickens each
year and besides as diversion he is
growing ten acres of garden this
year. He will make as much from
those ten acres as some do with a
quarter section oil land.
Pete" Tracy, the linotype operator
is in St. Paul this week spending
some surplus cash and visiting old
friends.
At a meeting of the managers Of
farmers elevators Of the state held
at Devils Lake May "a, w. A. Pitkin
of Sawyer was elected president Of
the association formed. A. A. Lee
of Hatton is vice president and l.. w.
Unkenholtz of Mandan, secretary and
treasurer.
County supt. Warren was 1T Car
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-06-01
YOUNG FISHER
TO WEST POINT
EDGAR Fisher, Son Of our Photograph.
er, Wins Important Place BY ExamI-
nation.

Edgar Fisher, the 81 years old son
Of c.. A. Fisher, Minot's popular
photographer, has passed most sue
both mental and physical, and on
cessfully the West Point examinations
June IA will enter that institution to
become a soldier. Mr.. Fisher has
always wanted to enter West Point,
but it usually takes strong political
friends to get such an opportunity
However, Mr. Fisher unsolicited,
took the Examinations and passed
with such high average that he will
be admitted.
He has attended the state univer-
sity at Grand Forks for the. psst
two year,, In the OWL engineering
department.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-06-01

County Supt. Warren was 1T Car
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
BusIness Conditions

While business conditions throughout the country are quiet at the present time, there is feeling that June will witness considerable activity in the commercial world, and that beginning with July this country will have genuine prosperity for at least a year tocome," said John L. Hainsworth of Philadelphia.
 Tn iron ard steel centers there Is more dullness than usual. This may be att tributed to the effect of tariff politics In Congress. But as far as I can see towns and cities not dependent directly on in- dustrial resources are as prosperous to- day as they were year ago; that is to say, very prosperous.
 Crop prospects were never brighter than they are now, It looks as if we were to nave record-breaking hsrvests. If we have the big crops that are now in sight there will be exceptional bouyancy all over this country next fall. The rail- roads are preparing to equip themselves for an extraordinary traffic demand. Railroad companies will have to buy largely of rolling stock, power and rails, and just as soon as they begin to place their orders there will be a revival in the iron and steel business all along the line The Birmingham district will be wonder fully animated in less than two months from now"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-08
TOUCHED A TURKS CHIN
From the Argonaut.

From the Argonaut.
 The German officers employed to drill the Turkish soldiers and to bring them up to the standard of murderous civiiza- ton have. discovered that the Turk has his own ideas of dignity and that they are not the ideas of the German private. Colonel von Schichting has just been shot dead by young Albanian soldier for no greater offense than correcting the pose of the soldiers head by touching his chin with his riding whip. The chin being the seat of the beard Is sacred to the Mus sulman, and that stranger should touch 1t at all is an unpardonable insult. Other German instructors will doubtless take the hint and confine the use of the riding whip to its legitimate purposes, at least while in Turkey. They will do well to remember also that the average Turkish soldier joins the army from a sense of religious duty, and not because of the pay. This is realized by the Turkish of fioer, who invariably treats his men with difference, but it may take few more assassinations to purge the German in- structor from the ideas that he has ac- quired on his own drill grounds, where the private is simply a beast of burden without the value that is the beasts pro- lection.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-08

From the New York World.
 A real witch of Wall street" has been discovered in Brooklyn in squalid sur roundings more typical of witches of the traditional order than of those familiar to the financial district.
 In the dilapidated hovel from which she was removed to the insane asylum were found hidden away, among old news papers and trash, stocks and bonds amounting to fortune, together with heaps of unopened letters containing div idend checks. For quarter of a century she had speculated on the stock exchange, and never, according to her broker with a loss. Other spectators of both sexes have reason to admire her resolute adher- ence to the rule of buying low and re- investing the profits in other ventures It is the simplest of all rules of successful finance but apparently the hardest to mas ter.
 A normal woman under such conditions would have turned to hobble-skirts and the luxuries of life. That Miss Williams chose to live in wretchedness with wealth at her command shows a bent of mind more masculine than feminine. Women often develop miserly attributes in ad- vanced age, but they lack the tempera- rnent which leads men to make hermits of themselves
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-08
Tariff Legislafion

The Manufacturers Records leading editorial in it's issue just received here is entitled "Threatened Tariff Legisla- tion Inimical to the South" After quoting approvingly from J. ". Me Queens letter, which appeared in The Age Herald, says:
 However much it may be regretted that the south must again appeal for protection from ruthless destruction of many of its industrial interests to those of other sections who have for years stood solidly for protection to all Amer lean industries, it seems that 1t is neces- sary to do so again. Unless the public men of the south will stand for a fair protection to It's own industrial inter- ests, the material progress of this sec tion will surely again be halted or seri- ously injured unless men of other sec tions fight successfully against the effort of MT. Underwood and his as- sociates. Every business interest In the south, the lumber people the iron and coal interests, the mica interests. mer- chants and farmers and laborers alike, are vitally concerned in a fair measure of protection to every line of industry in the south. So long as a tariff exists, and 1t must exist so long as we collect taxes on foreign imports, the south should demand equal protection to all of its interests with the protection af- forded to the manufacturing interests of other sections"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-08
In Wall Street

Henry Clews in his Saturday review says in part:
 Conditions underlying stock ex- change securities, unlike those attend : ing mercantile and industrial activities, are showing gradual improvement. These cross currents at the moment are to some extent natural, since in both instances they bear directly on the supply of money and the channels in which money can be employed. Be cause our merchants and manufactur- CTS are not requiring their usual vol ume of working capital and banking facilities in their own special lines, money is accommodating at an excep tionally active rate. Some other profit able use must therefore be found for this great accumulation unless the owners of the funds are willing that they shall remain idle and in turn un- remunerative. The latter would be en- tirely repugnant to all precedent. In normal times people with money seldom allow it to remain idle; the natural course Is to seek the securities mar kets. In this connection 1t is worth C' our clearing house banks. if we ex- clude the abnormal year of 1908 Chat followed the financial upheaval of 1907), are the largest held at this season in any year since 1898, amounting to $40.- 6S3,175. A year ago, the correspond ing surplus reserve was only s6,- 771,150.
 What are usually spoken of as the floating supplies of securities are now very largely in strong hands There has, however, for some time been grad stocks, and particularly bonds, by smaller interests who have decided to use their money in this, the only chan nel that now appears available. It is not only the buying side of this prop osition that should receive considera- tion in this connection. Buying natur- ally advances prices, but when as al present there is an indisposition to sell that feature adds many fold to the stimulative' efficiency of the demand Money is so superabundant at the pres- ent moment that not only is there nc inducement to sell, but distinct en- couragement exists to refrain from sell ing securities, as 1t is freely recognized that 1t would be impossible to utilize the proceeds to advantage.
 "Other influences, though more oi less unsettling, are not sufficiently strong. in my opinion, to counteracl this fundamental feature of strength that has already been mentioned. The trust decisions are. according to the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-08
Voting Direct for President

Bills are pending in the Illinois
 legislature providing that delegates to the national conventions shall be
 elected at the direct primaries in stead of being chosen in convention, and providing further for an ad- visory vote for candidates of Pres ident and Vice President. Oregon will early next year in a primary vote name her choices for both of fees, and the movements in that di- rection is spreading, for this country pie, for the people is better than gov ernment of the people, by the peo, pie, for the people is ebtter than gov ernment of the politicians, by the politicians, for the politicians.
 ,>Tshe action of the states will yet inaugurate the direct popular cleo ton of the President and Vice Pres ident, and the change will come with out violating the constitution writ ten over 100 years ago. The country first made presidential electors fig ureheads, and now is is preparing to go one step further by electing them directly and instructing them how to vote.
 Not only would this change give the country better Presidents but it would relieve the head of the nation of obligations to politicians big and little. The President would then be accountable to the people and to no one else. This would mean better public service, and the reform now well started promises to become con- trolling by 1916.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-08

penditure by the government, yet it
 seems destined to secure the support
 of both unionists and liberals. It promises to go through the house of commons almost without opposition, and the house of lords will be in no condition to oppose it. Nor is it cer- tain the peers would desire to oppose it. It is a grand effort to compell workmen to make provision against illness and unemployment, aided as they will be to some extent by the government. The measure is prob ably the best that Great Britain can devise and afford to enact at the pres ent time. It is a great piece of legislation coming from ministry that is making history rapidly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-08
The Music Festival

There seems to be no doubt as to the financial success of the Music Festival. to be held here two weeks hence. Nevertheless, every citizen who has any degree of public spirit should feel himself obligated to buy one or more tickets. The advance seat sale has been highly satisfactory to the management, and it is hoped that before the end of the present week every seat will have been sold.
 The festival is to be held at the Orpheum theatre, with a limited seating capacity; and when it is re- membered that the National Good Roads convention and the festival come together in the same week the wonder will be that even standing room will be offered to those who have failed to secure seats in advance.
 Il IIlt VI ptiSulh 10 pdChSQ dN SdSH festival concert there will be a con- siderable surplus to be carried over to 1912. It is the announced pur- pose of the festival management to apply this surplus, or certainly a part of it, to an opera festival next spring. Birmingham is a masic-lov- ing community. Music festivals are always well attended here, and there is no question but that a great opera festival a year from now would be success from a box office point of view.
 President J. H. Holcombe ofg the | Music Festival association is bending his best energies to make this month festival a record breaker. He gives his time and talents without pay, and il is as little as the citizens of Bir- mingham can do to support him en- Enthusiastically in his efforts to pro-
 mote musical art, and to make Bir- mingham more and more a culture center.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-08
Southern Men At Panama

Four of the seven members of the Isthmian canal commission, all the di- vision engineers on the Panama canal, the heads of the departments of civil government and of sanitation, the chief justice of the canal zone su- preme court and many other off cers of high standing in the canal work are men of southern birth and upbringing. So says writer in the Manufacturers Record, and he goes on to name the southern men who are building the canal.
 First and foremost comes Lieut.. Col. William L. Sibert, who is a member of the Isthmian canal com mission, and to him has been assigned the building of Gatum locks and dam. He went to West Point from a vil- lage in Alabama thirty years ago, and he has ever since been engaged in constructing large works.
 Mai Chester Harding went to West Point from Tuscaloosa in 1885, and he is a division engineer on the Gatum locks. Major Jervey is also connected with the construction of the Gatum locks and dam. He went to West Point from Georgia in 1888. Ben Johnson, superintendent of construc- ton at Gatum, is a native of Green vile, Miss. He was graduated from West Point, and he resigned to en- ter engineering practice. In the off, flee of Colonel Sibert is Robert N. Sands as chief clerk. He was born ii, Montgomery. Colonel Gaillard is } in charge of the work in Culebra { cut. He was born in Sumter county,
 South Carolina, and he has five
 southern men as his chief assistants.
 Sydney R. Williamson, a Virginian,
 his charge of the western end of the
 canal and A. L. Robinson of Louis- vile has charge of the mechanical work done in the canal zone.
 { In every division of the canal con I struction southern men are found, and | as rule they are entrusted with .3 tasks calling for unusual engineer r ing skill and knowledge, and when the work stands complete it will be
 largely due to men of southern birth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-08
pOnular PrOgPam mes

''It is reasonable to say that no festi- val management ever presented five con- cert programmes so varied or so popular as those announced for the festival to be held at the Orpheum theatre May 2, 2S and 24," said man who has been con- nected with many large musical move ments
 "Hundreds of our music lovers will at tend all of the five performances, but some will take in only one or two. If had to limit my attendance 10 two con- cert 1 would secure seats for the open ing night and for the first matinee. At the initial performance we are to have Beethoven's beautiful 'Leonore' No. 3 overture; Salnt-Saens symphonic poem 'Rouet D'Amphale;' Schumann- -Heink in two numbers. Evan Williams In two num- bers, Tschaikowsky piano concerto with Mrs. Aldrich as soloist; the Meistersinser prelude Massenets Meditation from 'Thais,' and the Rackoczy march. That Is unquestionably a rich programme.
 'The first matinee programme is almost, if not quite. as attractive. It includes Tschaikowsky' 'Pathetique' symphony, Massenet's Neapolitian Advertisement music, and songs by Evan Williams. If one could attend three of the concerts, but no more, would say hear the last nights bill, which includes selections from Vic tor Herberts latest opera, Natoma.'
 'tOn the programmes will be found many little gems. For instance. Dvorak's 'Hu- moreske' will be heard on the second night, and the largo movement from Dvorak's New World symphony on the third and last night. 'Humoreske was composed as a little piano piece It was afterward arranged for the violin, and it has been played by all the great violin ists in the world. Sousa told me that a few years ago when he heard Maud Powell play 'Humoreske' he sat himself down and arranged it for his band. He said it was one of the most popular things he played. Victor Herbert only recently arranged it for his orchestra. Dvorak wrote the title in German 'Humoreske'- but it usually appears on programmes in the French spelling, 'Humoresque.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-08
AMAZING
From the Chicago Post.

fTOI1 lHc NHlCdSO IOst.
 Come, let us go a-Maying adown the dewy glen, where breezes soft are playing and blossoms nod again; come, let us pluck the daisy and eke the violet-but as 1t seems quite hazy, your gums do not forget.
 How bright the sun is gleaming, how velvet is the grass; observe the dewdrops seeming to greet us as we pass; the dan delion golden is as star of day, rich with a glory olden-lets find a dryer way.
 The breezes gently murmur the blithest songs of spring-Ah, now the breeze grows flrmer and has a wintry sting But who cares though 'tis chilly? We're forth to greet the spring. Your cold? Now don't be silly and spoil the whole blamed thing.
 An, see the petals drifting-what? Can those flakes be snow? The clouds soon will be lifting and the sunshine be aglow. so puff upon your fingers and button up your throat. Iris odd how winter fingers. Where is my overcoat2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-08

ises tricks" This may be said to be
 the common sentiment of a diseon-
 tented country. The war must now
 20 gon on until Diaz is firmly seated
 or is driven out of the country atlo-
 gether.
 The situation is inexplicable. To
 an outsider it would appear that Diaz has small chance indeed to recover lost ground. He seems to be destined to reap more and more trouble, for he has been an autocrat of great harshness and the republic is full of graft and wrongs that need the hand of reform.
 It will not do to say that Diaz is acting individually. No man 80 years old could cope with the situation in Mexico as it stands today. Diaz is surrounded by such men as De La Barra and Limantour and it seems to be their judgment that the revo- lution in dozen states can be put down without involving the resigna- ton at once of President Diaz.
 It seems to be seen which side is in error. The war is to go on. The country is to be torn and disfigured by an intense civil conflict, and the Americans in Mexico are greatly dis tressed. Many have all their money invested in that country, and it is this money and. the lives of Americans in Mexico that the American army along the Rio Grande is watching. The situation could not we'll be worse. Congress is in session and 20 ,000 soldiers are near the scene of war. Congress will not sanction any scheme of intervention that is not actually necessary, and we must await the passing of time for the develop ments of bitter civil strife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-08
FUNNY THINGS IN CHINESE THE-
 ATRE

From the Kansas City Times.
 In her account of her visit to San Francisco the princess writes:
 q had already visited the Chinese the atre with Semper and other friends who, like most people settled in San Francisco, were the happy possessors of a Chinese restaurant I had. however, been most unpleasantly struck by the internal noise made by the instruments used there. l had never been able to stand it for long, in spite of the magnificent costumes. One could never understand anything, be- cause & Chinese tragedy always plays on through many years, therefore one can hardly gather anything from their ac- ton.
 "The actors, according to our notions strike us as rough, grimacing and un- natural, on account of their grotesquely painted faces; also their scenery and other adjuncts are too naive. table with chairs piled on 1t represents moun- tain, and if the actors climb oyer 1t, they mean to represent the traversing of a mountain pass. Wild shrieks and clash ine of swords moan battle, etc.
 "The play lasts uninterruptedly for 2l hours"