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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1911-03-09
Continued next week.
CITY COUNCIL

Regular meeting of the Wah-
peton City Council held Mon
day. Mar. 6, 1911 at 7:30 p. NJ.
Meeting called to order by
Mayor Eberley. Alderman pres
ent, Gillen, Friedericks, Fork.
ner, Hess. Braun and Peschel.
Absent, Robinson and Morris.
Minutes of last regular meet
ing read and approved.
Motion carried tn com.
plant of r. H. Cughan in re-
gard to sidewalk on Dakota
Avenue near Milwaukee II. r.
tank be left with sidewalk com.
mittee with power to act.
Motion carried that City
Mayor be instructed to call a
mass meeting pertaining TO city
election.
Motion carried that the poll
ing places for the city election
Monday Apr. 3, be designated
as followed: LIST ward, CONNER
cial Hotel; second ward, Court
House; third ward, City Hall:
fourth ward, Wahpeton Hotel.
Motion carried that an ordi-
nance be provided for the in
spection of milk and dairy
herd and to license the sale of
milk and cream in the city be
left with the ordinance COM
mittee to report at next regular
meeting.
Motion carried that City au
ditor advertise for bids for con
structing cement walks, cross
ings and curbings, bids to be
opened at next regular meeting
Apr. 3. 1911 at 7:3O p. NJ.
Motion carried that City Au-
ditor be instructed to draw a
warrant to pay the annual sew,
er taxes of city.
Bill of w. w. Jameson left
w it h purchasing committee
with power to act.
Motion carried that the fol-
lowing bills be allowed and
paid out of their respective
funds.
CITY HALL FUND
Eckes & Vaughn, framing S
" ....... w
WATERWoRKS FUND
G. l.. Pa,khill, sal. Feb. 20 90
Tbos. McCabe, sal. Feb 60 90
Herman Rieke, sal. Feb. 60 90
Hath Hamerlik, sal. Feb. 80 90
Joseph Votova, labor. II 20
John Maresh, labor 80 SO
L -nith Furnace Co. coal 2O8 81
N. p. Ry. Co. freight on
coal GO 80
e.. N. Rv. Co. freioht on IA 40
Wahpeton Hardware Co.
merchandise. 4 IS
w. L. Forkner, mdse. 4 45
]. Richard & Son, mdse. 16 80
McCulloch & Robinson.
coal and lumber SO %
GENERAL FUND
VIM. ]. Dietz, sal. Feb. 60 90
]. w. Donovan, sal. Feb. so 90
VIM. Junge. sal. Feb. -. 50 90
Chas. Youngquist, SAL. Is 90
&c. J. Kachelhoffer, sal. 20 SO
c. NJ. Olson, cal. $500;
money advanced $2.11 "a IL
Wahpeton Times, City
printing. SO 80
Wahpeton Hardware Co
merchandise. IS
McMicheal Bro. Black
emitting. 16 25
Mich Holman, killing 5
dogs ................. 2 so
Jack Broderick, hos
cart to fire. 3 90
.aazeppa Hook and Lad
der Co. fire service
Feb. 1927. IS 40
Germania Hose Co. fire
service, Feb. 20 ~. 81 60
Reliance Hose Co. fire
service Feb. 1927 81 60
Reliance Hose Co. fire
service Jan. 10, 1911. 8 80
Fl. e. Rice, repairing and
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1911-03-09

"A T fifty-six John Burkett Ryder
~ was surprisingly we'll preserv.
a ed. With the exception Of
tho S1ipht ctnon olroo,l, noted
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
CAN'T Die So EASY
EVEN INlNEW JERSEY

Battle Creek, Mich, Jan. 4.-Thomas
Mckinsey, Battle Creeks blind minis
ter, who leaped into national fame
when he addressed letter to Cover
nors of five different States requesting
the use of an electric chair to end his
sufferings, will not die in New Jersey.
He received the first answer to his
pathetic appeal, in the way of a per.
sonal letter from Governor-elect Wood.
row Wilson, of New Jersey. as fol-
lows:
u have read your letter with gen.
ulne interest and sympathy. 1 wish
with all my heart there was something
could do for you, but it is impossible
for any one outside of your State to
assist you, and I beg that you will
look at life from another point of
view. 1t is not right to desire to have
your life ended in this way"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
STEELE, MILLER CO.
AGAIN IN VIEW
trustee Catches on Board Ship 900
Bales Of Cotton Going to
France.

Jackson, Miss, Jan. 4.-The affairs
OF Steele, Miller & Co., the defunct
Corinth cotton house, has come into
the iimelight again through an iniunc
tion, granted by Judge Rufus Foster
OF the United States court at New
orleans, enjoining the shipment of
700 bales of cotton from that port to
F. Scheuch & Co., which had been dis
counted at the bank of Millhouse.
Havre, France.
The injunction was granted after
several days consideration. at the
request of James A. Pyle, trustee in
bankruptcy for Steele, Miller & Co.
The cotton had been landed on board
snip and was ready to sail when the
injunction was granted.
Steele, Miller & Co., it will be re-
membered, were charged with issuing
fraudulent bills of lading amounting to
over $1,00O.O00 This firm had onerat.
ed extensively, collecting on bills of
fading for which no cotton had been
Shlpped, as was shown in the United
states court in this city last spring.
when the house was thrown into hank.
ruptcy.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
IF CASE IS DROPPED
rice WILL Return

Jackson, Miss, Jan. 4.-W. I Rice
OF Morehead, KY. indicted in 1908 for
receiving deposits in the Central Rank
OF Mississippi, when he knew it was
insolvent, wants Governor Noel to call
on the criminal proceedings against
MIN when he says he will return and
clear his record.
When the bank collapsed, E. f.
Hlndman was made receiver Rice
had in the meantime left the state
but was located at Morehead. XIV
when officers went for him the Ken
lucky governor refused the requisition.
hlce enters protest against his
daughters indictment as assistant
cashier. He claims she was in the
bank simply as a clerk and that she
has been advertised and disgraced by
being termed fugitive from Justice
and criminal
In Rice's appeal he alleges that
when the 1907 crisis came he stood nv
the bank, while others stood from
under" and sacrificed personal money
in trying to stem the tide. He claims
every detail was honest and straight,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
Federal Homestead Laws.

The federal homestead laws begin
with the act of 1862, now a part of the
United States revised statutes. Their
policy Is to give portions of the pub
lie lands to those who will settle. cul-
tivate and make permanent homes
upon them. Any person who is the
head of a family or who is twenty-onc
years of age and ts 0 citizen Of the
United States or who has> died his
declaration Of iqtentieR to become such
may acquire tract Of unappropxiated
public land, not exceeding 100 acres,
ON condition Of settlement, cultivation
and continuous occupancy as home
by him for the period Of five wears
and the payment of certain moderate
fees. 1t is expressly declared that no
lands acquired under this statute shall
In any event become liable to any
debt contracted prior to the issuing of
the patent therefor by the government
to the settler.-New York American.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
An Authors Instant.

There is no surer mark of genius
than the lntuitive insight into charac-
tiers and social conditions of which the
author has no personal experience.
what does. Ben know of dukes? 2"
asked homely old Isaac Disraeli when
he heard the title of his sons latest
novel. TroIlope wrote inimitably of
bishops and deans when he had never
been In a cathedral close In his life.
Young Disraeli wrote so we'll about
the great ones of the earth whom he
had never seen that the critics busted
themselves in finding "keys" to "Vi-
Wan Grey" and The Young Duke
London Saturday Review.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
THEY EAT NO BEAD.
Places Where the Poorer People Hav
to Use Substitutes.

r'aces Where the Poorer People Hav
to Use Substitutes.
There are regions wherein the Door.
er classes or peasantry eat little or no
bread. Baked loaves of bread are
practically unknown in MANY parts of
southern Austria and Italy and
throughout the agricultural districts of
Roumania.
1t is said that in the village of the
obersteiermark, not far from Vienna
Dread Is never seen, the staple food
peing sterz, kind of porridge made
from ground beech nuts, taken at
breakfast with fresh or curdled milk.
at dinner with broth or fried lard and
with milk again for supper. This dish
is also known as heiden and takes the
place of bread not only in the Aus
trian district named, but in Carinthia
and in many parts of the Tyrol.
In northern Italy the peasants affect
substitute for bread called polenta.
porridge made of boiled grain. Pc
lenta is not, however, allowed to
"granulate," like Scotch porridpe or
like the Austrian sterz. but is boiled
into a solid pudding, which is cut IN
and portioned out with string. 1t is
eaten cold as often as it is hot and is
In every sense the Italians daily
bread.
A variation of polenta called mama
iiga is said to be the favorite food of
the poorer classes in Roumania. Ma
mal1ga is like polenta in that 1t Is
made of boiled grain, but it is unlike
the latter in one important respect
the grains are not allowed to settle
into solid mass. but are kept dis
tlnct' after the fashion of oatmeal
York Herald.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
A Prosaie Interpretation.

Professor Brander Matthews of Co.
lumbia in one of his brilliant addresses
on the drama said Of an unimagipatlye
and prosaic dramatlst;
He It was, / ap sure, who in his
youth on being asked in examination
what Shakespeare meant by the phrase
sermons in stones wrote In reply:
when passing by tombstone you
may learn the name and the dates Of
birth and death of the departed one
and also from the inscription valu-
able moral lesson from his or her life.
walking along a road you may see
from the milestones the number of
miles to the nearest towns and thus ac.
quire geographical Information. HEAPS
of stones by the roadside indicate that
repairs are to take place and SO indi-
cate lesson in neatness.' "-Detroit
Free Press,
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
'NAP0LEONS HEART
FOUND in ST. DENNIS

Washington, Jan. 4.-Apropos of
the investigation being conducted by
the French parliament as to the right
OF Naundorff to consider himself the
grandson of Louis XVII. an interest
ing discovery has been made in the
cathedral of st. Denis, where the in
vestigation committee went to search
Tor the heart of Louis XVII. This
discovery is nothing less than what is
believed to be the heart of the great
Napoleon.
Recently M. Boisy d'Anglas. the
chairman of the committee, discover
ed some documents which pointed to
the Cathedral of ST Denis as proba,
Die source of further information on
the affair, and, having obtained spe-
cial leave from MIR. Dujardin-B Beau
metz, minister of the arts, NJ. d'Anglas
guided the committee through the an
clent cathedral All the historic
tombs of the kings of France, which
are now restored as well as possible
after the damage they received dur
ing the revolution, were visited and ex-
amined with minute care. In the
vaults another tomb was found, which
is not mentioned in the official inveu-
tory of national monuments. If hears
the initial an"
me verger then opened the vast
iron recess which contains the hearts
and collins of the kings. This relioua-
y mad not been opened for fifty
years, and is only briefly described
In the official description of the
building. The committee was sur
prised to find large chamber, which
looked very much like a disordered
lumber room, or the storehouse of
cheap secondhand furniture dealer.
Inc collins, all in wood. and now in a |
very bad state of decay, stand on iron
trestles of the simplest nature, and on
each side Is a row of small stone De-
destals, each of which supports the
neart OF one of the kings, incIosed in
neart-shaped casket of gold. The
name of each sovereign is engraved on
the pedestals.
There was no pedestal reserved
lor the heart of Louis XVII, but in
me middle of one of the. others bore
me initial M without crown. The
,asket was in gold NJ. dAnglas. with
iome support from the authorities.
nat this is the heart of Napoleon.
placed there by those who served him
n 81. Helena, and having been taken
rom the body after the autopsy.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
BUSINESS LETTERS.
Write to Man Just as You Would
Talk to Him at Your Desk.


Business letter writing is no longer
merely correspondence" but ''litera-
ture," and the correspondent who for
merly wasted his precious breath on
such inanities as Yours received and
contents duly noted" is now relegated
to the "old school, class, and unless
he Is willing to adopt the new rules of
letter writing he is likely to change
not only his position, but find it neces-
sary to change his vocation as well.
The up to date business man does
not waste time INDUCING in the pre-
liminaries of Il beg to acknowledge
receipt or '1n reply would say" but
goes straight to the subject at issue
firmly, without frills, even eliminat-
Ing the time worn advice, Awaiting
your early reply" and closing without
the absurdity of Begging to remain"
Write to man exactly as you
would talk TO him If he were sitting al
your desk" is the maxim of one OF
the best authorities on letter writing
In Chicago. BY eliminating useless
phrases having no bearing on the sub
Ject the business man not only saves
his own time in debating but that of
his stenographer in transcribing the
notes. BY the old method of letter
writing the opening and closing of
letters contained almost five lines of
useless form" matter which would
average on 100 letters just 500 lines Of
superfluous effort.-Chicago Tribune.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
THE CRESCENT.
Legend of Its Adoption as an Emblem
by the Turks.


The crescent has been known since
time out of memory. In ancient my
thology it decorated the foreheads of
Diana and of Astarte, the Syrian We
nus. In the days of Rome's greatest
glory the ladies wore it as an orna-
ment in their hair.
Since the foundation of CONSTANT
nople, the ancient Byzantium, 1t has
been the emblem of the city and as
such adorns its walls and public build
ngs, besides being stamped on its
coins and postage. The legend which
accounts for its universal adoption in
Turkey, and Constantinople in par
ticular, Is as follows
Philip Of Macedon laid siege to the
city in the year $40 B. G. He chose a
night Of unusual darkness for the pro-
posed assault, but was foiled by the
moon suddenly breaking from behind
a cloud. In cOmmemoration of this
providential deliverance the crescent
was adopted as the symbol Of the city.
The Mohammedan sultans were slow
to assume this emblem until some one
mentioned that 1t was the symbol of
increasing greatness, power changing
as rapidly as the phases of the moon.
Gazette
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
GROOM dies Az Y
- LEAVES BRIDE OF q

Philadelphia. Pa, Jan. Aeon A.
Canter, 70 years old and a Civil War
veteran, was taken from a cot in the
Jewish Hospital in October to his
wards home, that of Miss Emma A.
Moore, on North Twentieth street
where he was married to Miss Moore
by Magistrate Hanies. A few days
later he was returned to the hospital,
where he died Monday.
Last May Mr.. Canter entered the
hospital suffering from an incurable
disease, His ward, Miss Moore, q
years old, and the daughter of an old
wartime friend, visited him daily. To
the surprise of friends she announced
their wedding in September. Both
were well known, and a number at
tended the ceremony.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
Cheap Family History.

Even in political defeat there are
compensations. A Washington heights
man who aspired to Office tells of one
that he discovered
Must have cost you pile of money
to run, didn't it?" friend asked.
About $1,000, but still came out
$500 ahead"
How said the friend
"On genealogical research. My wife
has society bee in her bonnet and
had about agreed to pay a man $1,000
to look up my family history, but
when l became a candidate my oppo-
nents did that for me and saved Us
the mOney."-New York Times.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
A Touch of Family Life.

When the country youth proposed to
the city girl he received the conven-
tional assurance that she would be his
sister 1t happened that this youth
had sisters at home and knew exactly
his privileges. SO he kissed her. It
this juncture she availed herself of the
sisterly right to call out to father that
brother was teasing her. Father re-
sponded In good, muscular earnest.
Then the new brother and sister rela-
ton was dissolved by mutual consent.
Judge.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
NOT A mile LAST YEAR
FUTURBIHS BRIGHTER

jackson, Miss, Jan. 1.-The new
map of Mississippi being prepared by
the railroad commission will show
that not single mile OF new railway
was constructed In the state during
the past year
This is the first time in ten years
mat Mississippi has not made some
addition to her mileage, and, ordi-
narily it would be the basis for pessi-
mistic view of Industrial conditions.
However, there was much rlaneuver-
ing in the railway world during the
year. and Mississippi was vitality con
cerned therein, and the result is ex-
pected to be considerable amount
of new mileage built during the cur
rent year.
The Frisco or Burlington will take
control of the right-of-way for the
proposed line up the Pearl river val
ley from Jackson to Birmingham or
some point in Tennessee.
One of these trunk lines is after the
New Orleans Great Northern. while it
is equally certain that the Gulf & Ship
Island will pass to one of them.
The Burlington will also build from
Memphis to Jackson, if railroad re-
ports are to be credited.
Edward Hines. the Chicago lumber
man, wants to build road from his
timber holdings in South Mississippi
to the Gulfport harbor, if an adjust
ment of pending litigation can be Sc
cured, and the Mississippi Central
road made surveys two years ago for
line from Hattiesburg to Pascagou-
la.
There seems to be little hope for a
revival of the proposed Mississippi
River Western road from Natchez to |
Meridian, for which surveys were |
made last year, although the project
has been regarded in every way FEAST
BILE The proposed Tombigbee Valley
road from Columbus to Pensacola also
appears to be an abandoned project.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
COMPRESSED ICE.
Sinks In Water and CrumbIes Into
Powder When Warmed.

Powder When Warmed.
All know that ordinary ice will float
This relative lightness of ice with re-
spect to water is due to expansion of
the water at the moment of freezing.
If water is frozen under immense
pressure it seems that this expansion
Is prevented and ice heavier than wa.
ter is produced.
G. Tamman has prepared this modi-
ncation, which he calls Ice Ill, as
follows: He compressed water to 5000
kilograms (6,614 pounds) and cooled
1t In solid carbon dioxide snow and
finally in liquid air. Under these con-
ditions a colorless, transparent ice is
formed. 1t is much denser than ordi.
nary Ice and heavier than water; con-
sequently it sinks when placed in wa
ter. Ice III. is very unstable. and on
slight warming it swells out and
breaks up into a dense white powder.
The volume of the resulting powder
is apparently four to eight times that
OF the original ice. This powder form
ed by the breaking up of the dense
form Is nothing more than ordinary
Ice In the form of fine crystals, which,
or course, on further warming melt at
zero degrees centigrade.
Experiments on Ice III. show that II
is impossible to obtain it by separa-
ton from water at atmospheric pres
sure and then suddenly cooling. There
would never be possibility of this
unstable form of solid water being
FORMED In nature.-New York Tribune.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
CAR INSPECTOR
MEETS HORRIBLE DEATH.

Meridian, Miss, Jan. 4.-Richard
Spalle, the Northeastern car inspector
VINO was caught by switch engine
as he attempted to cross the track
IN the yards here, met horrible fate.
lie was literally ground into pieces
by the locomotive wheels. The en-
gineer of the engine which killed
Spalle did not know until the next
day of the accident.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04

There are eight lions known the
world over-the lion Of st. Marks In
Venice, the four lions at the base of
the Nelson monument in Trafalgar
square, the lion of Waterloo, the lion
of Lucerne and the lion of Chaeronea.
Ruskin In his Stones Of Venice said
that the lion of st. Marks was the
one lion the fierce expression of which
no artist had ever been able to repro
duce. Tbs beast of bronze has the
distinction also of wearing pair of
wings. Graphic
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
Why He Left.

Longevity did you leave the place
where you formerly boarded?
Short-Because the landlady had too
much curiosity.
sLong-In what direction?
Short-Oh, she was continuously ask
ing me when / was going to pay my
board bill.-Chicago News.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
Only That.

II don't know whether | ought TO
recognize him here in the city or not
Our acquaintance at the seashore was
very slight"
you promised to marry him. didn't
your
Eyes, but that was all."-Louisvfll
Courier-J Journal.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
LEAPS FROM WINDOW
WOMAN STRIKES NEGREee

Wilmington, Del, Jan. 4.-When a
IRE broke out in the home of Matthew
ponque, his wife ran and leaped from
= second-story window, falling on
Mary Moore, a negress passing by the
house. The negress ran into the house
and saved two children. Mr.. and Mrs.
pQue and boarder, Joseph Armen-
tF1k were badly burned, but will re
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
The Next Question.

"Dora's invited to swell party"
said the mother.
How much will the gown cost? 2"
asked the father, who knew what was
coming-Detroit Free Press.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04
Not a Freshman.

Caller-I didn't know your son was
At college. Is this his freshman year?
Mrs. Bunderby-Oh, no. indeed. He's
sycamore.-B Boston Transcript.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04

The spirit of wrath--not the words
is the sin; and the spirit of wrath
Is cursing. We begin to swear before
We can talk.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-01-04

The only failure a man ought to fear
ID failure I'm cleaving to the purpose be
sees to be best.-George Eliot