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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-05-11

Twelve autos at Sarles with additions
to that number in sight
Farmers in the vicinity of Hannah
complain that gophers are unsusualy
plentiful this spring
Sarles fans are enthusiastic since hav.
ing learned that Vic Hank of Mime
apolis will play on their ball team again
this season.
Andrew Skalet is putting up a new
house on his farm at Mona, which
promises to be one of tbs best in hat
neighborhood
George Wanless, young man former
ly a resident of Hannah, now of Bel
mont Man., is reported very low with
heart and lung trouble
According to the Minneapolis journal
fer May. 1st Hon. H T. Helgeson has
recommended Just Ludwigsen as post
master for the Osnabrock Office
The DEMOCRAT will at all times ap-
preciate items of news phoned from its
readers over the county. When some
thing happens in your neighborhood
call up the paper and tell US about it,
DR.. j. j. Cory, formerly of Hannah
and of recent years practicing at
Antonito, Cal, has sold out at that place
and will move back east again. His wife
and little daughter arrived last week
for visit with their old Hannah friends
and relatives.
Druggist Swanlaw at Milton has some
very attractive signs posted in his store
calling the public's attention to the fact
that "no booze is sold in his establish
ment. The most pltiful tale of woe will
not induce Bob to change his mind
either.
A game of ball was played on the
Milton diamond last Friday between the
"Regulars' and the "Outlaws." The
winners went arouud the track when they
felt like it piliEg up total of8 scores
while the "Outlaws,' through clever
scheming and poor playing, succeeded
in making the rounds twice.
Mrs. Lars Amundrud died at hel
home 2 miles west of Union on Sunday
| April 30. Deceased has been suffering
from cancer for the last three years
Mrs. Amundrud at her death was 4S
years old and leaves to mourn her loss {
husband and six children. The remains
were laid to rest in the Union cemetery
on Wednesday, May S.
The marriage of Miss Mabel Dorga1
to Jack Haight took place at the home
of John Mccullough at Milton, on Wed
nesday last week at high noon, Rev
Alex Karr performing the marriage
The happy couple boarded the after
noon's train for Winnipeg, where they
will spend few days, when they viii
leave for Swift Current, where Mr.
Haight is engaged in business and has
a fine home. Miss Dorgan needs no in
PRODUCTION to Milton people, as she has
resided there for several years past. The
groom is also a former Milton boy, but
OF late years he has been up in the
Canadian Northwest, where he has beer
successful in accommodating nice little
fortune.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-05-11

Don't think that piles can't be cured
Thousands of obstinate cases have been
cured by Doan's Ointment. so cents
at any drug store.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-05-11
MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT.
Report of the langdon City Schools for the
Month Ending May 4. 1911.

Below is given the report of attend
ance and work done in the Langdon
Public Schools for the month ending
May 4, 1911.
HIGH anHnOI. nRp AnrMENr
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-05-11

NJ. l. MEYER, Superintendent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-01
HAS LIBRARY AUCTION.
Expected TO Bring Largest Total OF
Any Collection in the World.

New York, April 1.-The sale of the
Robert Hoe library, which was an
nounced to follow the recently COM
pleted sale of the inventors art treas
ures, will take place in New York
from April "a to May A. The library
includes $1,000 items, and it is ex-
pected that the sale will bring the
highest aggregate totals of any col
lection ever sold at auction, not only
in America, but in the world.
At least one of its literary treasures
should bring a higher price than has
ever before been realized for a single
work in the public market This is the
copy on vellum of the Gutenberg
Bible printed in 1850. 1t will be aue-
toned off the first day of the sale and
is expected to fetch more than $4,000.
Four Shakespeare folios figure promi-
nently in the English literature array,
the first folio. dated 1923, being so far
as known, the second copy extant. 9th
er especially notable articles are the
quarto- Hamlet of 1911; William Rlakes
Milton: A poem in IL books" the or
iginal edition. 1904. Of the rarest of all
Blake's productions, and a first edi-
ton of Robert Burns POEMS" Kill
mernock. 1856.
The collections of autograph letters
and manuscripts, include such names
as Cardinal Richelieu. Oliver Crom-
well, Sir walter Scott, Laurence
Sterne, Thomas Carlisle. Horace Wal
pole, Robert Burns. Edgar Allan Poe
and Washington Irving.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-01
FIRST FASHION WEEK.
state journal Proves Interest
Is Great.

That the first annual fashion week
will be a success there is no doubt
The space the merchants took in this
special fashion number of the State
Journal to tell about their plans for
the week is evidence of the interest
they have taken in the plan.
A number of the stores have already
begun to decorate for the shoppers
week. In fact, some of the displays
were in place today and by Monday
there will be two continuous lines
one on each side of the street-of at
tractive show windows along Kansas
avenue.
Each mail edition of the State Jour-
nal has contained the special an
sociation in respect to fashion week,
and as the association will return the
railway fare to the shoppers. a large
number of out-of-town people are ex-
pected here for the occasion.
: The Commercial club has asked the
merchants to decorate, and the busi-
ness men have agreed that the free
use of the Stars and Stripes will be a
fitting means of showing that there Is
something of an unusual nature going
on in Topeka for the week beginning
next Monday morning.
The fashion week has been the
popular topic of conversation among
the society women of the city, who will
take this occasion for buying their
Easter hats and the other necessities
for making up -'glad attire for the
annual -Easter-which is the
occasion for the display of pretty
gowns, millinery, etc.
The merchants are enthusiastic over
fashion week among other reasons on
account of the fact that it will do
away with the rush that is usually ex-
perienced the last few days before
Easter The stocks of the merchants
are now complete, and it is the most
opportune time to buy, as there is a
larger assortment of goods from which
to select in each department.
In other sections of this edition of
the State Journal are detailed descrip-
tions of the spring styles which will be
of value to those who are particular
and wish to be right up to now"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-01
MARKET MORE ACTIVE.
Speculation Continues to Be Light and
without Decided Tendency.

New York, April Trading was
somewhat more active in the securities
market this week, than in the abnor-
malIy dull week which preceded it.
but speculation continued to be light
and without decided tendency. There
was some renewal of bearish activity,
on account of the belief that the short
interest had been reduced by forced
covering on the rise in the early part
of the week. Support was offered,
however, which kept the market from
declining extensively.
A significant feature of the weeks
speculation was manipulation of the
stocks of the Canadian group in which
London played an important part, re-
sulting in sharp advances of these is
sues. February railroad reports were
unusually varied, but were favorable
in their demonstration of the success
full efforts of carriers to keep down ex-
penses. Possibilities of tariff revision
and decisions in the antitrust cases
were brought to the fore more clearly
by the fact that next week the new
congress is to assemble and the su-
preme court will reconvene after it's
recess. Under the circumstances there
was we'll defined disposition to check
speculative activity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-01
ECONOMY TO RULE.
mouse Democrats Plan to Abol.
ish Useless Committees.
Actlon Will Lessen Number of
Employees One-Third.
SAVE $4,000 A YEAR.
sody Is to Have Entire Set Of
New Rules.
D@sed on Those in Force in the
5Srd Congress.

Washingtoy, April 1-Damocr,
representatives in the sixt,,-saoa,,. $500 =
sehgress who will control the lover
mousse for the next two years met in
eucus at 10 o'clock TODAY. After
prolonged discussion the caucus adont-
~, an ~ economy program, which in de-
-A lIcludeS the abolishment of si,r of
le standing house committees ill
- -, priNate land claims, Pacific rail-
r2aos' levees and improvemnts of fhe
mississippi river. ventilation and 90
Soustlcs and manufactures THE
pruning policy will cut ont nearly one
ss,; -.1,t oI the mouse employees and the
9AHlhg may amount to $4,000.
Inc house chamber was a scene of
-cllVity early in the day, scores of new
DerS arriving more than an hour
mead OF time to mingle with the vet
Stais IN the lobbies and cloak rooms.
r ne caucus was called to order by
tt1eIlIy u. Clayton of Alabama, the
temporary chairman. The principal
contest is over the post of sergeant al
arms, the candidates being u. S. Jack
son OF Indiana and w. II. Ryan of
New York.
The first action was the election of
representative Albert S. BurIeson of
sAeNas, as permanent chairman of the
t4ncus. He had been a candidate for
AfAalrmanship of the committee on an
spropr1ations which the ways and
lars committee report assigns to
representative ]. ]. Fitzgerald of New
york This action, it is believed will
iestore good feeling which was upset
py the contest for the appropriation
committee. The ways and means COM
m1tCee planned to submit to the eau
Gus Its report on the organization of
mouse committees. A list of the COM
mlttees and their chairmen has been
ccmpleted and contests are brewing
over few of these selections
The new rules committee worked
until late last night completing it's re-
port for presentation to the caucus
An entirely new code of rules to gov
arn the next house has been written.
Representative Henry of Texas, chair
man Of the committee stated before
pc caucus that the committee h<d
sed as a basis for the new code the
ules of the house in the 52rd con-
Eress. the last congress controlled by
the Democrats. The organization of
The caucus was completed by choosing
Representative w A. Ashbrook of
TO his associates, Chairman Underwood
of the ways and means committee an
nounced the plan to cut down the big
roll of house employees, and to give
most of the patronage to t\ose Dem
ocratS who had not been given COM
mittee chairmanships. The details of
the economy plan were presented in
a report by Representative Palmer of
Pennsylvania, member of the ways
and means committee to whom the
work had been entrusted.
The scheme not only contemplated
the abolishment of many positions but
the consolidation of others. At 1
O'Clock a recess was taken by the eau
Gus.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-01
AND THEN ELLIS RAN.
You Couldn't Blame Him, for Wife
Had Hand on Butcher Knife.

For more than six months Levi T.
Ellis tried being husband No. T. but it
wasn't a success and this morning
Judge Dana granted Ellis permanent
relief. Ellis is an old soldier He is
20 years old and almost blind. Con-
Jugal bliss didn't exist in the Ellis
home. he declared, and the man want
ed his liberty restored
1t was Ellis first experience in the
matrimonial world-and he declares
it's the last. Not SO with Mrs. Ellis
When she was welded to Ellis in
June, 1910, it was her seventh ven
ture. She at once undertook to train
her late husband to walk in the
straight and narrow path and to take
his orders from headquarters, he says
But Ellis balked. For 20 years he had
shaped his own destiny and didn't care
to make changes at this late stage of
the game.
'You see. judge" said Ellis. as he
told his story this morning in the dis
trict court, you see, she sort of roped
me In as you would say. Why, when
she told the preacher that 1 was her
seventh man, I almost tainted. There
| stood innocent as a lamb in my best
Sunday clothes and held her hand
while she told the minister that she
had tried it six times before. 1 knew
right then and there that was in for
it, but couldn't back OUT
Then Ellis delved in the family's do
meSIlc dudlrS- he LOlQ the court how
his better half had tried to hang
kitchen utensils on his dome of
thought and that she attacked him
with butcher knife. There We're other
things, Ellis said, to keep up interest
in the home, but he thought it would
MT be necessary to tell all of them
''She got awful mad one morning.
Ellis recited, land scolded and cursed
me something frightfuL 1 drummed
on the stove pipe to drown the noise,
picked up sharp butcher knife and
started for me. After thai I left. I
think I had enough"
Ellis further declared that it was
hard to keep real money in the house
and locate it the next day.
zone time when she was sick,' the
henpecked hubby said, SCI looked under
her pillow and there was lot of
money-my money. She had stolen it
from me in little dribs and laid it
away. I gathered it up and after that
L kept my money in the bank where
she couldn't get it,
'I guess" remarked the court, s'that
there will be no conjugal bliss lost
here. You may have a decree"
Ellis smiled when he received his
divorce and walked from the court
room with a much lighter step than
when he entered the building. The
Ellises were married at Cottonwood
Falls June Z, 1910. After little more
than six months experience Ellis filed
suit for divorce. Mrs Ellis is now
living on a ranch near Matfeld Green,
in Chase county. She did not appear
at the trial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-01
STACK DISAPPEARS.
Takes Advantage of Verdict of Ao-
quittal and SIxips Out.

st. Louis. April deputy sheriffs
are hunting high and low for Richard
B. Stack, multi millionaire lumberman
of Escanaba, Mich, who, though ac-
quilted by the jury which tried him on
charge of kidnapping his 7-year-old
son, Richard III, is not yet through
with the courts here.
At o'clock the verdict was given
and so minutes later Circuit Judge
Grimm issued a forthwith attachments
appearance to show cause why he
should not surrender the son to Mrs.
Roy E. Burbank, the boys mother.
Deputy sheriffs lost no time in be-
ginning a searcE for Stack. but when
they arrived at the hotel where he
stayed during his trial they found he
had settled his account there and re-
moved his baggage.
While 1t is thought he has left the
city, the searchers are taking no
chances and are keeping q watch on
all the larger hotels. During the trial
the boys whereabouts were never dis
closed.
AS the jury's verdict was announced
Mrs. J. K Stack, mother OF the de-
fendant, and her daughter, Miss Nancy
Stack. arose in their seats and clapped
their hands. with cries of "Goodie,
goodie."
Judge Taylor raped loudly and
said:
sTf the court room doesn't preserve
order somebody may go to Jail after
aIl.''
Richard B. Stack and Miss Orion
Allen, who now is Mrs. Roy E. Bur
bank, were married in 1901, separated
in 1904 and were divorced in 1908.
when Mrs. Stack, at Spokane, WASH.
was awarded a decree, alimony OF
$4,000, custody of the child and 5000
monthly for his education and $1,000
for attorneys fees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-01
NUDGE IS COMING.
viii Be Guest of Commercial Club
April H.

H. U. Nudge, president of the Rock
Island lines, has sent word to his Off
ciaIs in Topeka that he will be here
with his staff Tuesday, April II, and
that he will be glad to meet with the
members of the Topeka Commercial
at that time.
For some time the Commercial club
has attempted to secure a date with
President Nudge and hold harmony
meeting in the Commercial club
rooms between the Rock Islands staff
and the business men and railroad
officials of Topeka.
President Ripley and his staff of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe met with
the Commercial club and citizens not
long ago. Now Topeka will make at
tempts to extend the right hand to her
next most important railroad-the road
that has recently established general
headquarters in this city.
The meeting will be held in the Com
mercial club rooms in the evening. If
the president arrives in the morning
a motor car ride and a smoker will be
given for him at noon.
The president staff will include the
vice president and other executive Of
ficialS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-01
UNCLE JOE OUT OF RACE.
He Will Not Be Candidate for Speaker
of the Next House.

Washington, April Speaker Can
non has announced his intention not
to seek the Republican leadership in
the next house of representatives,
stating that he would not be a candi-
date for the minority nomination for
the speakership.
Remarking on the fact that he had
held the office of speaker for longer
consecutive time than it ever had
ever been held by any other person,
the speaker said:
'Of this singular favor of my asso-
ciates in the Republican party 1 am
deeply appreciative. But as 1 said at
the adjournment of the recent con-
gress, / do not intend to seek the
speakership again; and not SO intend
ing, it seems most proper that I should
avoid even a remote appearance of
such intention"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-01

this monument was 81 Il rods south of
where the correct corner of Kansas
and Nebraska should be. A new mon
ument was erected to mark the real
corner and this is the one by which
the lands were sold.
There is considerable controversy,
several lawsuits and one or two shoot
ing affrays in Nebraska on account of
the surveys in that section and the
Nebraska legislature recently made an
appropriation to have the lands re-
surveyed. The Kansas surveys are all
right and Mr.. Harvey wanted to look
at the field notes and get some of the
figures given for Kansas for compari-
son with the Nebraska notes in max
ing the resuryeY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-01
CRUMBINE IS PLEASED.
victory of tt 1ei Firm in Govern
ment Pro - Delights Him.

DR.. S. J. Cr4o .,4lie, secretary of the
state board of health returned from
Trenton. N J., today. He attended
tlla trial OF the egg case brought by
Packing company of Topeka and was
highly pleased at the vindication of the
kansas egg and the helpful hen.
THE DECISION of Judge Cross in the
United States district court has far
reaching effect and significance and it
is Haieyed that had the government
won the case the great egg industry of
fhts country and of Kansas in parti-
eufar would have suffered an enor-
neus financial loss.
1T Is said that Is per cent of the
eggs as usually found in commerce are
what is known as checks or
lcracks' that is. the shell becomes
cracked or injured in handling or
tvensnortation The shell of the egg
ts nafure's method of protecting the
fnterIor product from contamination.
H,If when this becomes cracked or
broken contamination takes place
readily and the egg will soon become
1,n5t for food.
ssIt is to the credit OF the ehterpIls-
s,1 and far-seeing Kansas concern,
az seymour Packing company. to in
a,,e11rate scheme for saving this
1.rga amount of a most wholesome
GOOD product that otherwise might De
desfroved by Immediately breaking
aRRS ana II6CNl46 TIC ~ -
esns thus removing them from the
.'.s,e, of contamination and making
enormous saving of this product
FOR food consumption. -
.srt was a shipment of these eggs
.t.,t MAS seized by the government on
- -ro,Ind that a bacteriological eX-
..sst ~ tion revealed a considerable
a..ttse-. Of bacteria present. The gov
II n'..,,,,ent set up the claim that the
a-s~ce of bacteria proved decom-
pzstia,, of the product In which they
are found. r.o,1;ne cornnanv and
sL essociates. the H. ]. Keith com
tneiL ~ boston, proved to the salts
pal,g of the court by large num-
- ~ expert bacterioIogists: incrII- lS,llioI-
.neE ,,cb men as Professor Sedgwlek
ilss - Massachusetts, School OF Iecn-
o. ~ professor Jordon OF the Cnlr
nolosyyff University. Professor "1nsloW OF
sns5tl1 III the Massachusetts t6a 4sr-
leeitaIoev- leeisl DR.. Rosenai- OF tne lar d4t.
.I ,,nedical school ana ~. ,,soa1 ot.Y
ya,el. yaro ~ ~ the Harvard medlcaI scnool.
leolsn ~ = ,nresence of bacteria IN an ess a
trat = 1ies eee products did not prove os+
pr "a 1nsftion and showed to the coerr sa,
tPa5 y i.id eggs to contain large nun num-
alssA ~ ie bacteria, many OF tnell Oeioiis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-01
Union Carpenters of st. Louis
Lay Down Tools.
Demand a Wage Increase of &
Cents an Hour.
WOOD WORKERS QUIT.
Will Go Out Tonight Unless
Their Pay Is Raised.
Employers Will Not Try to Fill
Vacant Places.

st. Louis. April -Four thousand
union carpenters struck today because
of a refusal of a demand for an in
crease of five cents an hour in wages.
Five hundred union woodworkers have
notified their employers they will not
work after today unless an increase
of seven cents an hour is granted. The
employers have announced no effort
will be made to fill the strikers places
for the present.
Extends to Kansas City.
Kansas City, Mo-, April About
one thousand union carpenters failed
to appear for work today at various
local shops. They announced they
would not return to work until a FIVE
cent an hour raise in wages had been
agreed to by the contractors. The
men now receive fifty cents an hour.
Two large local firms signed up for
the increase. Shops where nonunion
men are employed were running as
usual today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-01
TWO N. Y. HOTELS CLOSE
The Hoffman House and Gi1sey House
Adjudged Bankrupt.

New York, April 1.-Two of New
York city's famous hotels-the Hoff-
man house and the Gilsey house-will
close their doors Immediately. At a
meeting of the creditors of the Hoff-
man house last night, the Misses Cad
digan, sisters of the late proprietor,
relinquished control and the hotel will
be closed next Monday night. The
corporation was adjudged bankrupt
last fall.
The Gilsey house will close the end
of the present week, and is to be con-
verted to business purposes. Both
hotels in their day have had the names
of many men of national prominence
upon their registers. The Hoffman
house has been the virtual headquar-
ters of the Democratic party here
since the passing of the Fifth Avenue
hotel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-01
0. J. WOOD IS SICK.
Taken Suddenly With Pleurisy at
Marceline.

While on his way to Chicago from To-
peka o. j. Wood assistant solicitor for
Kansas of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe railway was taken suddenly i'll and
was removed from train No. 10 at Marce-
line, Mo. He left Topeka Friday after
noon for Indianapolis with his wife. DR.
Raster, chief surgeon of the road, was
on the train and is attending Mr.. Wood.
While in Marceline he was taken to the
home of the claims attorney, E. D. Halde-
man.
Relatives in Topeka have been informed
that Mr.. Wood was attacked with pIeur1sv
He will probably return to his home in
Topeka on train No tonight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-01
METEOR IS WRECKED.
Two Coaches in the Frisco's Fast Train
Are Burned.

Springfield. Mo. April 1.-Nine per-
sons were injured when eastbound
passenger No. 10, a fast train known
as the Meteor, on the st. Louis & San
Francisco, was derailed on curve As
miles east of this city today. Two
coaches were burned. L. E. Rugh,
fireman of Springfield. was badly
burned. It is believed none of the in
iured will die
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-01

ing to the colon or gas producing type,
and yet the egg remain perfectly
sweet and wholesome. Samples of the
frozen product, the melted product
and cakes baked from the eggs were
submitted to the court and it was quite
evident to all of those who witnessed
the trial that the Kansas eggs were
entirely pure and wholesome and were
free from decomposition"