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The Wahpeton times., 1912-10-17
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Governors of the seven states
of the Northwest which will be
represented at. the Northwestern
Products Exposition in Minnea-
polls in November, have selected
their special state days when the
entire exposition will be conduc-
ted with special reference to the
state in whose honor the day has
been set aside.
The governors and their repre-
sentatives will speak in the lee
ture halls; the commissioners in
charge of exhibits will give away
samples Of their products and
souvenirs; the biograph halls
will be devoted to the showing Of
motion pictures and steroptican
views, illustrating life on their
farms, in their orchards and the
cities. When it is Minnesota"
day all will be Minnesota and each
in their turn will be paramount.
Here are the special days selec
ted by the governors and set a
side for doing honor to the states
and cities or special interests rep
resented:
Tuesday, Nov. 12-O Opening
and school childrens day.
Wednesday, Nov. i3-Agricul-
tural college day.
Thursday, Nov. 14-Minneapo-
lis day.
Friday, Nov 15-St. Paul day.
Saturday, Nov. 10 Oregon
state day.
Monday, Nov. 18-North and
South Dakota state day.
Tuesday, Nov. 19-Minnesota
state day.
Wednesday, Nov. 2O-Montana
state day.
Thursday, Nov. 21-Washing-
ton and Alaska day.
Friday, Nov. 22-Seven states
day and conservation day.
Saturday, Nov. 23-Idaho and
closing day.
The exposition will be closed
on Sunday, Nov. II, and will not
be open even for sacred con-
cert.
Minneapolis civic and CONNER
cial organizations will attend the
exposition in a body on the af-
ternoon and evening Of their re-
spective days and will put on
special program in the lecture
halls.
The Wahpeton times., 1912-10-17

but, as a citizen and . large own
er Of farm properly, I want laws
suited to the kind Of country 1
live in. ~
To attend the session will cost
me at least a thousand dollars in
the way of loss of time. II l can
accomplish what l want to, it will
be worth it to me. Will it
worth anything to you? - W
very =. sFuly yours,
xE<kr! A. g. D1vET>
The Wahpeton times., 1912-10-17
8avee Lea OF Boy.

ut seemed that my 14-year old
boy would have lost his leg, on
account of an ugly ulcer, caused
by a bad bruise," wrote D. F. How
ard, Aquone, N. G. "All remedies
and odctors treatment failed till
we tried Bucklen's Arnica Salve,
and cured him with one box" {"
Cures burns, boils, skin erup-
tions, piles. 25c at all druggists.
(Adv.)
The Wahpeton times., 1912-10-17
Gays Unimportant Subjects Have
Been Given Undue Attention
and Others Of Importance,
Overlooked.
District Court and Probate Prao.
tioe too involved and Expen.
sive.
Ne Knows What 10 Needed and He
Wants Il,

TO THE VOTERS OF THE TWEL
Eth LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT:
It is perhaps to be regretted
that there is any such thing as
political parties in so far as they
seek to effect state government,
but they exist and a candidate is
necessarily upon some party
ticket. =
/. I am a candidate for the legis-
lature, and, in the course of
things it comes about that 1 am
on the Republican ticket:
1t goes without saying I would
not be a candidate if I did not d.
sire to be elected.
have been asked many times
why I sought an Office that would
occupy my time for sixty days, at
five dollars day, when my time
at home is worth much more than
that: The question is worthy of
an answer. I am a lawyer and a
property holder in the stats md
expect to remain such. In both
capacities, l am interested in the
laws that measure my rights.
find; our statutes full of laws that
are of no benefit to the people
generally but that were passed to
fit someone's special case. They
are full Of laws useless and con-
fusing, many of which are simply
foolish, while others are positive
ly harmful. On the other hand,
/ find woeful lack of laws on sub
jects of vital Importance.
This is essentially farming
state, and its future depends up
on its farming success. We have
no mines, no shipping and but
few manufactures, yet hundreds
of sections of our codes define
the conditions of steamboat trans
portation and the rights and lia-
bilities Of mine owners and opera
tors and manufacturing corpora
tions; but. when it comes to the
farming interests and the rights
The Wahpeton times., 1912-10-17
Of our agricultural produc

Of our agricultural producers
we search in vain for many things
that would make certain their
rights. If a land owner employs
man to plow and seed his field
or to do his threshing and the
work is not done: or, II a man
rents a farm and the land owner
refuses to let him into possession
our statutes are silent as to the
respective rights of the parties,
End. before q! a lawyer 81! can ever
make ali intelligent guess as to
What the rule of damage is, he
has to spend days-perhaps
weeks-studying court decisiehs
in other states and back q hum
dred years into the history of Eng
land. Ten lines Of the statutes
would make it certain-it ought
to be certain.
Every man in the state is 60
ing to die sooner or later, hence
he and his wife and children are
interested in the probate laws.
Our system of probating estates
was old-fashioned fifty years ago.
It is so long and involved that it
is expensive to the parties, and
the lawyer has to do two hundred
dollars worth of work to get a
hundred dollar fee. This law will
be changed in the coming session.
A commission, appointed by au-
thority of the last Legislature,
has been working for two years,
at an expense of thousands of dol
lars, to simplify it, and will rec
ommend reforms to the Legisla-
ture. If these recommendations
embody the best that can be had,
they ought to be enacted into
law. If they are not the best, they
ought to be made the best and
then enacted into law. I do not
know what these recommended
tions will be, but I do know what
changes are needed.
Our procedure in the District
and Supreme Courts is also too
long and cumbersome. 1t makes
too much expense for the parties
and too much work for the law
yers; and, by dragging cases out,
makes too much expense for the
public. There is a crying demand
for a change. There will be
changes made at the coming ses-
sion, no matter who is there, but
changes are not enough. They
must be intelligent changes. It
will be as easy to make matters
worse as to make them better.
There must be men on the job
who know what needs to be
changed and what should be left
as it is, and what kind of changes
Will 90 gOOQ ana Wnat WILL De
harmful.
To answer the question, then,
why I am a candidate, l want to
be in the legislature to bring a.
bout the making of some laws
suited to this state, at this time,
to take the place of q lot fitted to
Massachusetts, and England two
hundred years ago; some that will
have more application to farms
and less to mines and steam
boats.
AS lawyer, I can use any kind
of law any Legislature can make:
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-06-06
San Luis Valley Fair.

Alamosa-The Alamosa Commercial
Club took preliminary steps which in
sure the organization of the San Luis
Valley Consolidated Fair Association.
The capital stock will be $4,000. Co.
operation of nearly all the towns and
communities in the valley is assured.
The exhibit hall will be enlarged to
accommodate an area of country 100
miles by $50 miles. In making up the
directory, one will be given to each
OF the prominent towns. H. B. Trav-
ers, who has had wide experience in
handling fairs, has been employed to
manage the details. and will strive to
make it one of the largest exhibits
ever held in the state. Some of the
best horses in the West will probably
be brought here for the racing cards.
The days of the fair will be Septem
ber is, 19 and 20.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-06-06
Aviator Parmalee Falls to Death.

North Yakima, Wash.-With smile
and a wave of his hand to the thou
sands who watched him. Philip O..
Parmalee, one of the Wright aviators,
took the air in the teeth of a gusty
west wind here, and three minutes
later his broken and lifeless body was
dragged from beneath the wreckage of
his biplane in an apple orchard in the
lower end of the Mckee valley, two
miles from his starting point.
The exact cause of the disaster that
plunged him to death probably will
never be known.
The body of the aviator was
dragged from beneath the wreckage of
the machine by farmers who were
working in the orchard. but his skull
was fractured, and ne must have died
instantly.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-06-06
SPORT.
WESTERN LEAGUE STANDING.

Jack Johnson has commenced train
ing at Las Vegas for his battle with
Jim Flynn.
Tommy Ryan has taten charge Of
Jim Flynn, who has begun training for
his fight with Johnson on July at
East Las Vegas, n. NJ.
Jimmy Walsh of Boston fought
Johnny Kilbane Of Cleveland. worlds
featherweight c h a m mp i on, twelve
rounds to a draw in the Boston arena.
Champion Ad Wolgast and Young
Jack O'Brien fought fast six-round
bout in Philadelphia and the advan-
tage, If any, was with the champion.
Each member of the Irish-American
Athletic Club team which competed at
the annual games for the Manhattan
State Insane Asylum was given a
check for 100000, signed by one of
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-06-06
REVOLUTIONARY FORCES, Da.
VOID OF MONEY, FACE
SERIOUS SITUATION.
FOREIGNERS HAVE FLED
ONLY ABOUT 80 AMERICANA
REMAIN IN CITY OF
CHIHUAHUA.
western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
chihuahua, Mexico.-Devoid of am
munition and money, the Mexican
rebels, gathered in northern Mexico.
are confronted with the most critical
situation they have encountered since
the revolution began.
II the rebel chiefs can delay the
expected battle at Bachimba. south OF
here, for at least two weeks, check
ing the advance of General Huertas
federal forces by destroying the rail-
road in front of him, and harassing
his rear. they may be able to concen-
trate enough strength to deal for
midable blow to the government.
Failing, however, to get money and
arms, the Liberal chiefs fear disaffec-
ton among the men and disorganiza-
tion.
The money situation is by far the
most serious, and foreign residents
have fled, taking large sums with
them. Only about thirty Americans
remain here. and hardly any women
eign families have left
The Liberals believe there is money
enough in the city to supply the needs
OF the campaign, and the local busi-
ness men place conservative esti-
mate on the amount of money actually
left here as less than $500,000 gold.
The rebels have resorted to desper-
80 ~lt t,,. nd
more than the fear of an expected At
tack from the federal cavalry Of Gen
erals villa and Rabago, who were re-
ported to be making detour over
land from Parral, has caused the ex-
odus from here.
At one store $4,000 worth of sup
plies were taken after Luis Qlvares.
bne of the principal owners. had been
sent to the front with n rifle to COM
pei him to deliver the goods. One day
at the front was sufficient for Olvares
as he telegraphed the order for deliv-
cry.
The rebels say he will lose nothing,
however, as they discovered that Felix
Diaz and Miguel Dominguez. both
strong government sympathizers. had
$4,000 worth OF credit in the store,
and the Liberal chiefs are chucklirg
over the fact that they rudely confis-
Gated the credit of the two Nader
istas.
Saloons and gambling houses have
been closed. as in the last few days
more than 1000 rebel troops have
been in Chihuahua receiving their
pay. The city was quiet as a result.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-06-06
Gigantic Irrigation Scheme.

Pueblo.-Plans were laid before a
meeting of business men for the con
struction of one of the most gigantic
irrigation projects in the world.
The proposition came up as sug
gestion from r. j. McGrath, Paul
Swaggert and John p. Sanborn OF
Towner, who propose to build canal
from Pierre. S. D., through Nebraska
and eastern Colorado, terminating near
Ell Paso, Texas, utilizing water that
would be diverted from the Missouri
river.
Under this scheme about 25,000,0oo
acres Of arid land would be reclaimed
and the heart of the western dry sec
ton would be penetrated.
The Towner men submitted their
proposition to Congressman Taylor
who has referred it to Pueblo citizens
for Endorsement.
It will be submitted to other cities
in Colorado and in the states affected
for Endorsement before it takes or
tangible proportions.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-06-06
WASHINGTON.

Representative Roddenberry intro
duoed.a bill to prohibit the interstate
transportation OF moving picture films
OF prize fights.
The Senate passed the pension Ap-
preparation bill. already passed by the
House. 1t carries $164, SOC. 900. an in.
crease of $12.b00.000 over the amount
appropriated by the House.
By the decisive vote of 45 to IL the
Senate passed the House bill extend
Ing the eight-hour principle to con-
tracts involving labor on government
work. A penalty OF IS is provided for
each violation OF this provision.
Senator Lorimer has telegraphed to
Senator Kern, one of his leading op-
ponents. requesting that his case be
not called up for the present and say
ing that he wanted to speak and did
not feel able to do SO now.
In uncontested delegates, Roosevelt
has a representation OF 429, all OF
whom are either instructed, pledged
or favorable to his nomination. In
uncontested delegates Taft has 371.
who are favorable. instructed or
pledged to him.
Ultimate adoption of the Borah-Tay-
lor three-year homestead bill was
clinched by the approval in the Sem
ate of the report of the conference
committee. 1t is expected the House
will take similar action without delay
and the measure will go promptly to
the President for his signature.
A charge that members OF the
House were gsilty OF petty grating
was made on the floor by Represen-
tative Fitzgerald. chairman of the ap-
propriations committee. A wordy war
was precipitated, in the course of
which Fitzgerald himself was accused
Of having submitted for payment bills
for material for which there was no
provision by law. The clash marked
the consideration of the emergency ap-
preparation bill. carrying $2O1.0O for
the expenses of the House.
Attorney General Wickersham in a
recent statement declared the govern
ments suit against the Southern Paci-
fic Company for the recovery OF valu-
able oil lands in southern California
has developed sensational and start
ling disclosures Testimony by wit
nesses subpoenaed by the government,
he says. presents a remarkl Die pic
ture of criminal conspiracy among high
officials of the Southern Pacific Com
pany to acquire from the United
States under an agricultural grant oil
lands valued at $15.0O0.OOO."
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-06-06
FOREIGN.

Wainwright, Alberta, sustained a
100000 fire Monday.
The movies" have invaded Vesu-
vius. A cinematograph operator de-
scended into the crater and took pic
lures of the descent and the vapor.
BY the explosion of a moving picture
film at Villareal, Spain, Monday night
eighty persons are reported to have
lost their lives in the fire that re-
suited.
That General William Ecoth, the
head of the Salvation Army, who re-
Gently underwent an operation for the
removal of a cataract from his left
eye in London. will henceforth be total
ly blind In his physicians report
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-06-06
Lamb. Tenure of Life Not Long.

A party of privileged sightseers
we're admitted to private view of a
menagerie between performances,
and among other things were shown
what was called Happy Family"
that is to say, in one and the same
cage there was a toothless lion, a
tiger, somewhat the worse for wear.
and half-famished wolf. Beside
these wild animals. curled up in one
corner, was a diminutive lamb which
shivered as 1t slumbered.
How long have the animals lived
together?" asked one of the party.
About twelve months" replied the
Snowman.
Why" exclaimed a lady, 81 am
sure that little lamb is not as old as
that"
oh" said the Snowman. quite un-
moved. the lamb has to be renewed
occasionally"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-06-06
GEN ERAL.

DR.. Harvey w. Wiley is seriously Ill
in Washington.
Paul Studensky, a Russian aviator,
sustained broken rib and other In.
juries when his aeroplane fell about
fifty feet at Chicago.
United States Supreme Court anti.
trust and interstate commerce cases
which were expected to be decided
upon Monday were left over for two
weeks.
The Methodist General conference.
in session at Minneapolis, has adopted
majority report which compels the
retirement of bishops at that general
conference nearest their seventy-third
birthday.
Captain Rostron. commander of the
steamship Carpathia. came ashore re-
Gently at the invitation of Mrs. John
Jacob Astor. for luncheon at the AS
tor home on Fifth avenue in New
York.
By an aye and nay vote of 446 to
369, the Methodist conference voted
to leave unchanged paragraph 26O in
the church discipline. which prohibits
dancing. card playing and kindred
amusements.
Applications for pensions under the
new "dollar-a-day" pension law are
being received at the pension office at
Washington now at about the rate of
$4,000 day. The total number re-
ceived to date is 123,234.
Indications based on incomplete re.
turns are that Roosevelt carried every
congressional district in New Jersey
as we'll as the state at large and that
all the twenty-eight delegates New
Jersey will send to Chicago will be
Roosevelt men.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-.
gineers have adopted a pension plan
for members of the order. Pensions
will be allowed only for total disability
or on retirement at the age of sixty
the amounts being graded from $40
to $50 a month.
The American Bible Society has is
sued its ninety-sixth annual report.
and announces an increase of 459,479
volumes the past year over last. The
total number of volumes issued
amounted to 3.691.2 POI. and consisted of
43O,O9s Bibles. 670,72S Testaments and
2,590,375 portions of the Bible. Over
94,000,000 volumes have been issued by
the society during its existence. The
budget for which the board of man.
ayers has this year undertaken to pro
vide amounts to $4,000.
The first serious strike New York
hotels have experienced occurred when
the walters walked out of the Waldorf
Astoria, the Gotham, the Breslin and
Rector's in the midst of the evening
dinner hours, leaving hundreds of pa.
irons in the lurch.
With the pronouncing of the Epis-
copal benediction by the venerable
Bishop Warren, the centennial quad
rennial conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church came to a close at
Minneapolis. 1t was Bishop Warren's
last appearance as presiding officer.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-06-06
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EvENTs
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Splendid harvesting prospects in
Texas has brought about cheaper
prices for wheat.
Mammoth oil well west of Cortez,
Colo. is now down 1,400 feet. and
there are splendid indications of oil.
Dan Davis, a negro, was burned at a
stake In the streets in Tyler, Texas.
after he had confessed to assaulting a
young girl.
AS they were digging in trench at
Price, Utah, Ray Jeweks and Andrew
Thomas were buried by a cave-in and
suffocated.
All the troops at Fort. d. A. Russell.
near Cheyenne. Wyo.. have been
ordered by wire to be ready to move
to Cuba on days notice.
To be the first woman probate judge
in America, to have served two sue
cessful terms and to be a candidate
for reelection without opposition is
the distinction of Mrs. Mary H. Cooper
of Beloit. Kansas.
Three heavy explosions recently
shook the downtown districts of San
Francisco. The first and second ex-
plosions were located at Tom Cor
belts pool room and saloon at Fourth
and Stevenson streets. The third oc-
Cured ten minutes later.
A conference between officials OF
the Reclamation Service and railroad
men was held in Chicago to devise
plans to induce residents Of the East
to settle in the Wect. A national bu-
reau for the dissemination of facts re-
garding Western lands was suggested.
The Indians of the Wind River res
ervation in Wyoming not having taken
to the cultivation of the large acreage
brought under irrigation facilities by
the system completed year or two
ago. the government is preparing to
sell or lease $1,000 acres to whites.
Some of this land is very desirable.
The first State Legislature of Ari-
zona has adjourned. having passed
about a hundred bills Among those
signed two relate to mining; elections
four, court procedure five. land laws
four, labor sixteen, reformatory three.
municipal improvements three' osif
culture one. corporations six. appropri-
ations for state departments six, rev.
enue and taxation eight, county affairs
four. education seven, miscellaneous
twelve.
More than a million dollars in cash
and a still larger amount in clothing
and supplies have been devoted to the
refugees of the Mississippi flood dis
trict and there is almost half million
dollars in sight for their urgent needs.
or approximately 10000 persons who
have been driven from their homes by
the floods. the United States army re-
lief corps is dispensing rations daily to
nearly 100000. and such of the others
as need assistance are being cared for
by local relief committees.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-06-06
Easy to Lick Rusala.

A couple of little newsies stood in
front of the Youngstown (O) Tele-
gram bulletin recently reading the
printed lines and making comments on
the press reports.
Gee. it says here at there's liable
to be some O. troubles 18th Russia on
account OBJ de treaty" said one.
Whats de difference?" said the
other dis country don't need to
worry"
"Oh, don't know" said the first
speaker. "it might bring on a war"
HUH" shifted the second boy "Un-
Gle Sam could lick Russia wild de Sal.
vation Army"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-06-06
Rio elaneo Wants Auto Highway.

Meeker.-The keenest possible inter-
est is now being evidenced by the peo-
Pile of this section in the contest be-
tween Meeker and the southern por-
ton of the Western Slope for the rout-
ing of the transcontinental automobile
highway.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-06-06
New Road for Plat. Canon.

Platte Cahon.-Platte canon will be
opened to automobile travel this year.
A highway is to be built from the
mouth to Estabrook. conpecting with
the road already constructed from that
point up the canon. Through the lower
portion there is nothing more than a
most difficult trail, and the tracks Of
the Colorado & Southern over a right
OF way hewn out of rock
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-06-06

me and finally the stone itself, partly
dissolved. but still as big as a pea.
With 1t disappeared all symptoms of
dizziness. rheumatism and headache.
/ have gained about so pounds since
and feel well and hearty"
when Your Back Is Lame, Remember
the Name-DOAN'S. Soc all stores.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-06-06
Mother Of &c Children.

Marshall, Mich. - Mrs. William
Moore of Burlington township, being
the mother of twenty-six children, has
written to Col. Theodore Roosevelt to
tell him she has advanced twenty-six
arguments in favor of his anti-race sui
eide doctrine. Mrs. Moore is forty-six
years old.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-06-06
SUGAR Factory for cortex.

Cortez.-Farmers in the vicinity of
Cortez have contracted to plant 5000
acres of beets next year. More than
1000 acres in addition will be guar
anteed soon. This means sugar fac
tory at Cortez and a railroad to Man
cos or Dolores.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-06-06
kidnappers In jail.

Delta.-Robert Brooks and Lester
Aldrich are in Jail charged with kid
mapping. while Gladys Cole. 13, and
Gladys Crowley. IA, daughters OF
prominent orchardists of Paonia, are
closely watched as result of an at
tempted elopement.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-06-06
German Air.hip Make. Long Flight.

Hamburg-The new military air
ship Zeppelin H., arrived here, having
covered the course from Friedrichs-
haven to Hamburg, approximately 46O
miles, in 10 hours and 25 minutes.
Count Zeppelin piloted the airship.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-06-06
100000 Mine Suit Filed.

Central City.-Suit for 100000 dam
ages has been served by the Threewit
Mining Company. lessees and owners
of the Federal lode. against the Pc
wabic Consolidated Mining Company,
Reese and company and Edwards and
company, lessees on the Iron mine.