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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-14

corn palace city in the world.
Where is there another western city
SO well known, SO widely advertised ?
A city of h Dakota prairies, Mitchell
a few equals and fears no rival.
1t Is the county seat Of Dawson
county, with Sioux Falls seventy-two
miles to the east, a like distance to
huron on the north, Sioux City 1870
miles southeast and Rapid City 323
miles distant, the first city Of any i'm
p~ortance to the west.
Inc surrounding country is exceed
ingly fertile and peopled with an un-
usually thrifty and progressive class
or FARMERS. Although a crop failure
Is unknown, and a large acreage of
corn and small grain is grown, produc-
ton Is not equal to the demand. Here.
IS noted a revision of the general or
der of things. Instead Of grain being
conveyed from the farm for shipment,
1t Is all consumed at home, and with
1t many carloads Of feed are imported
annually to supply the stock growers
requirements. Farms are selling from
$40 to 800 per acre. They are now
being gradually reduced lin size and
now average about 100 acres each, a
condition that has already done much
to Improve farm methods and stimu-
late a healthy interest in an intensive
system of farming. The city, proud of
the country, and the country, proud of
n city, each measuring up to the
fullness of their responsibility. are
working hand in hand for the bette r.
ment OF their common interests.
Mitchell has a population of a tride
over 10000. 1t is In no sense of the
word a boom town." nothing sensa-
tlonal about 1t or Its growth, but 1t is
fortunate in having a citizenship that
have faith in the future and pride in
their institutions; a people who thor
oughly believe in the unity OF purpose.
and who willingly stand ready as in
dividuals to do their part in any. I'M
aertak1ng for the betterment Of their
home hi their country.
Nothing Superficial.
Perhaps the first impression the yis-
itor receives on entering the city Is
the tone Of positiveness. There is
nothing superficial, no shoddy attempt
at grandeur or greatness. Whatever
IS done, is well done; whatever is
builded, is builded on a solid founda-
ton. The streets are wide and run
square with the world. There are
more than twenty miles of concrete
sidewalk Within the city limits, all
bordered with fine parking and spleu-
ASA
didly shaded with maple. boxelder and
other beautiful trees. The main thor
oughfare is paved with a solid con-
crete pavement and 1t is the policy OF
the city officials to extend this system
OF paving to all the streets as rapidly
as possible.
The city is drained by a modern
system of sanitary n storm sewers
a~ggregating nineteen and one-half
miles in length. This system has quite
recently been installed. 1t is complete
In every detail and sufficiently large to
care for all requirements for many
years to come. The water supply is
obtained from artesian wells. The
quality is the very best and the supply
~ sufficient for all needs. Already
more than eleven miles of water mains
nave been laid. The city Is beautifully
lighted with both d and electric
Lights. The cluster lights, as adopted
in many ~ taelslax2er cities ara Used
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-14
Little CordeIia's Request.

Little Cordelia's grandmother had an
old fashioned way Of measuring a yard
by holding one end of the goods to
her nose and then stretching the piece
at arms length. One day Cordelia
found q bit of ribbon. Carrying 1t to
her grandmother, she gravely request
ed: =
Grandma, smell this and see how
long it is" #
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-14
Bringing Town and
Country Together

Northwest Farmstead: Speak of. an
educational center, and our thoughts
revert involuntarily to Boston, where
the funny artists picture the youth of
six summers as a profound student,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-14

The United States exported s $4,000
900 gallons of gasoline in the fiscal
year, ending with June.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-14

We want your Friday and Saturday business. IF posi-
bic get your orders in early to insure prompt delivery.
We will give 20 extra trading stamps on a purchase of
$1.OO or over. Cut the coupon below.
Arizona republican., 1913-10-06
1eanps Almost Unchanged StWCe 101I WOYld .Seyles

Polo grounds, the scene of this years 1911 was played October IA on the first encounter before crowd the like of which had never seen a base ball game before There were 3S.2S1 paid spectators. The day was brilIi- ant with the tang of autumn in the air WheR- the New York pIavets trotted out on the field in their black uniforms with touch of white nere and there they were greeted with a roar of welcome such as had never arisen in a ball park before The Athletics clad in their customary grayish red travelling uniforms were welcomed almost as warmly.
 On q diamond sleeked and groomed to perfection, the two teams played ? to 1 game, New York scoring the winning run in the seventh inning when Meyers clouted the ball to left field for two bases and scored on Devore's two bagger. Mathewson and Bender were the opposing pitchers
 The second game was played at Philadelphia October 16 Marquard took the slab for the Giants. Plank for the Athletics. Cranda1 supported Marquard in the eighth inning after John Franklin Baker had lifted one of Marquard's curves in the seventh
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Arizona republican., 1913-10-06
TARIFF BILL |S
 FAR REACHING
 IN REV|S|ONS
Underwood-Simmons Meas
 ure Puts into Effect Most
 Important Changes of Duties and Revenue Laws Enacted for Many Years
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 WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.-PresIdent Wilson's signing of the Underwood Simmons bill brings into effect one C. the most ar-reaching revisions of tariff rates and revenue laws enacted fer many years.
 A new income tax, applying directly to the incomes of citizens; the aboli- tion of all tariff on scores of items of immense importance to American industry and American consumers and a heavy reduction of tariff rates On most of the articles in general use in this country are it's chief features.
 While certain portions of the new law do not take effect at once. most CT it's provisions and almost all the direct tariff reductions, do.
 At every port collectors of customs, appraisers of merchandise and hun dreds of other employees of the treas ury department will plunge at once into the task of collecting thte na- tiOn's revenue on a new basis, and with hundreds of new classifications and new provisions of law to compli- cate their activities.
 The federal government has been spending nearly billion dollars a
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Arizona republican., 1913-10-06
rAssocIArED PREss n1sPArcn1


 NEW YORK, Sept 3-Veterans of the memorable struggle of the Giants and Athletics for the worlds cham pionship in 1911-which the Athletics won by four games to two-wfll form the backbone of two teams when they face each other again in worlds se- ries on the afternoon of October '
 Of the fourteen Athletics who went on the diamond in the worlds series games of 1911, thirteen are in the list of twenty-five which Connie Mack has prepared as eligible for the forthcoming games. Lord is the only man who played in 1911 who will not play on the Philadelphia team this year Twelve of the fifteen play CTS who fought for New York in 1911 will fight for it again in 1913. The obsentees are Ames and DeVore trad ed to Cincinnati and Becker. releas- ed The worlds series of 1913 will therefore be in large measure a con test between the same men who en- gagged in the series of 1911.
 What these men did in 1911. their past performances in the six games of that series are of unusual signifi- canoe and bearing on the present con- test
 The first game of the series of
Arizona republican., 1913-10-06
Henry Spencer is Arrested Suspected of Murdering Mrs. Rexroat, and Tells Story of a Long Life of Sensational Crimes
ROBBERY ALWAYS
 WAS THE MOTIVE
Eleven Other Women and Two Policemen Are In cluded in the List Pris- oner Gave Out as Victims of His Fiendishness
ASSOCIATED PRESS D1sPATcHI

CHICAGO, Oct. 5.-Mrs. Mildred Allison Rexroat the dancing teacher who was shot to death at Wheaton, H.. week ago, was the victim of a murderer who, according to his own confession, had killed thirteen others in as many years.
 Henry Spencer who was arrested iE a room near the South Side levee district tonight. confessed he not only killed Mrs. Rexroat bur had slain fourteen others. He was positively identified as the mysterious MT. Spencer" with whom Mrs. ReXroat left Chicago on the night that she vas killed. Her bloodstained rattan suitcase was found in his room as was the revolver with which he said he had killed her.
 All the murders except two, he de- clared, had been for the purpose of robbery. Two policemen. FenneH and Devine, were shot to death twelve years ago. He said he killed them in escaping being arrested.
 Spencer tolC the police that he has killed ten persons since his last re- lease from the Illinois state peniten- tiary, September 19. 1912. four women and two policemen before that time
 The police cannot account for all the victims that Spencer said he killed. Only one was he able to name. Fannie C Thompson. who probably was the woman killed before he entered the penitentiary Spencer told the detectives and newspaper men:
 I've been thief all my life; I found it an easier way to live I killed all these women to get their money. It cost me about four or five hundred dollars to enjoy my self" He said he had married four women; the killing of his first wife was near West Point. N Y
Arizona republican., 1913-10-06
ENDS OWN LIFE WITH RATA AND
 RUNNING HORSE
Ray To1npkinson, Probably Mentally Deranged, Said to Have Committed Sui eide in Most Spectacular Manner

Ray Tomkinson who lived near the corner of Seventh and Jefferson street chose the most horrible manner of his taking off, being dragged to death by a horse. The suicide took place near Cave Creek yesterday morning and word of it was brought to the office of the sheriff in the afternoon by a boy who was with him and saw him going to a mangling death
 The boy said that he and Tomkinson were rounding up some calves. They were going through a small canyon and TomkinSOn who had no rope asked the boy for his saying that they would drives the calves through a flat beyond where they would rope them. He di- rected the boy to ride over the hill to gather what calves he could find and they would meet on the open space
 AS the boy came out upon a ledge looking down upon it he saw Tomkin- son with the loop of the riata about his neck the other end tied to the horn of the saddle. He was beating the horse, urging it into the paroxysm of fear and as it started to run he ran with it beating it for a time until he lost his footing
 The boy rode after as fast as he could but his pony could not keep the
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Arizona republican., 1913-10-06
.ytsteYlOuS Five
 DamageS Plant
 Of Seattle Times
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArcHl

SEATTLE. oct. 5.-Fire today damaged four of the large presses and destroyed thirty three motors in the press room of the Seattle Times, in the basemen of the Times build ing, causing a loss of seventy five thousand dollars, all fully insured. Eight firemen were injured The fire originated in the coat room of the stereotyping department
 Colonel Alden J. Blethen. editor of the Times and Clarence B. Blethen. mana ging editor, said they were con- vinced the fire was or incendiary origin The fire chief could find no trace of mechanical device used to start the fire. Judge Humphr;es, when he learned of the fire, sent a long statement to the newspapers, saying: 'In my opinion those per sons who signed the resolutions Of defiance of my court are guilty of the fire in the Times building
 Six women and thirty-two men, convicted of signing the resolutions of defiance" of Judge John E. Humphries, spent Sunday in the county jail The socialist central committee met today to devise means of supporting the wives and children of the men confined in the jail.
Arizona republican., 1913-10-06
WEATHER TODAY.

WASHINGTON. Oct 5.-For Arizo- na: Fair and cool.
Arizona republican., 1913-10-06
Is COmiqg He1e
 As Missionary
 To Talk Suffrage
Especial to The Republican,

tSGCCldl 10 ne ebuDIcdn)
 PARIS, oct, Mrs Emmeline Fankhurst. the English militant lead er. Is now with her daughter, Christ abel. in Paris. Christabel who edits The Suffragette. has given out some of her mothers plans.
 Mother will surely sail on the Provence, October H. and she ex- pects to be permitted to enter the United States" said Miss Pankhurst. she is going primarily as a simple missionary to talk about suffrage to American women. just as American suffragists come to England to speak of suffrage
 She will also explain the meaning Of the militant movement to Amer jeans, who. according to reports reaching us. don't understand it. Since Mrs. Pankhursts last visit to the United States many things have happened. Our policies have devel- ored and grown. She will explain the reasons for this development and will emphasize how suffrage can help check the white slave traffic A E4onth will probably be given up to lectures in the United States. leaving mother no time to tour Canada"
 Concerning the conjectures in the press that Mrs. Pankhurst is going to America primarily to make money. Miss Christabel said that all the proceeds from the lecture tour will go to the Womens social and political union fund.
 Mrs. Pankhurst has quite recover eG from her illness caused by starva- tion and imprisonment, and. according |" her daughter has will power to pull her through most anything.
Arizona republican., 1913-10-06
CONSTITUTIONALISTS
 CAPTURE TOWNS s

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 5.-Mexicans coming from lower California re- ported tonight that on Friday two hundred constitutionalists under General Ortega had captured San Quintin. Two hundred others are reported as crossing from Sonora and taking Port Filipe
Arizona republican., 1913-10-06
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Arizona republican., 1913-10-06
STRANGLER AT WORK
IAssoC1ArED PREss DIspArcH1

CHICAGO. Oct. 5.-The body of a q woman, the clothing torn to shreds and scattered about her. was found on the Prairie avenue near Argo. H.. suburb, today. She apparently had teen strangled with a heavy cord which was found near the body Automobile tracks indicated how the body had been transported Papers on the body caused the belief that sEe was Miss Ida Leegson, but identi- fication was uncertain tonight
Arizona republican., 1913-10-06

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Arizona republican., 1913-10-06
DISAPPOINTMENT IS ASKED
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArcHl

CONCORD. Oct. 5.-New York state officials have asked Governor FeIker to postpone his decision in the matter of the eXtradition of Harry K ThaW from New Hampshire The governor said tonight he probably would grant the request. As the governor under stands the situation the move is taken in view of the investigation to be made by Attorney General Car HOdV
Arizona republican., 1913-10-06
GOVERN MENT IS BUSINESS
 MANAGE MENT

Growing Tendency of Mu- inequalities to Adopt the Methods of Successful Business Men in Govern ing Cities and Towns
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-22

merely a buyer from the Middle West, who got here to find the city's hotel accommodations exhausted.
 Every hostelry that caters to the out-of-town-b buyer trade is packed.
 To make the invasion complete, the army from the South and West seems to have usurped the best seats at the theatres, the best tables in the restau- rants, the taxicabs, the sightseeing buses, and everything else that helps to make New York 1iveab1e in summer. The larger hotels are in state of com plete and unconditional surrender, and the patrons they have been obliged to turn away have brought an, unepxected crush to the lesser hostelries that used to be content with a comparatively small share of the out-of-town-buye patronage.
 Inquiry in the local New York field shows that from every quarter of the wholesale and retail trades the fore cast is for active autumn business. Buyers from all over the country, of whom there are a greater number in New York today than ever before, are exercising only such restraint as is inn posed on their firms by the banks of the West and South in the matter of discounting mercantile paper. Were credit to be freely extended at rates of less than 6, 1-2, and per cent, it was said, there would undoubtedly be a greater volume of buying even than that which is now going on.
 Stocks of goods on merchants' shelves, according to universal testi- mony are everywhere to unusually low that heavy buying at this imn edi- ate time is almost imperative. Goods pur chased now will be delivered in the autumn and early winter, when the eountry's merchants are making ready for their spring trade Failure to se- cure supplies now would place them in decidedly unfavorab1e position.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-22
PROSPEROUS SEASON AHEAD
Remarkable Change in the Outlook Favorable Symptoms Prepon-
 derate.

In view of the division Of opinion which has been displayed, this month, as to the probable course of American business affairs, and of American pros perity generally, this autumn, the New York Evening Post has made tele- graphic inquiry from number of mer- chants and financial correspondents, all over the United States, as to just what their individual expectation is. Until a month ago, predictions were generally gloomy
 This pessimistic attitude had mani festly undergone a considerable change since the early weeks of July. The fact that money rates have been grow ing easier instead of tighter, this month, and the prolonged recovery on the Stock Exchnge, had much to do with the feeling of reassurance The prospect for a wheat crop possibly breaking all records also sad its eff feet. More recently, however, the growing spirit of cheerfuIness was checked by the severe drouth in the Southwest causing a loss of four to five hundred million bushels of the growing corn, and the cut in the price of some commodities in the steel trade revived the earlier doubts
 The questions telegraphed by the Evening Post to interior merchants and correspondents, and put also to New York merchants, asked for a | tuInn outlook, after making full allow ance for all such unfavorabe factors as the drouth in the corn belt, the poe- sibi1ity of high money, and the tarim uncertainties. The replies indicate a strong consensus that the good points far evertop the bad, and that a, pros porous trade season is ahead of us Some of the merchants predict an ex- treme1y favorable business. Most of them point to the smallness to which retailers have allowed their stocks of merchandise to fall in the period of nfsgiving earlier in the year, fac tor which supersedes all others. The only distinctly gloomy forecast comes from firms which directly serve the drouth-stricEken Southwest.
 The testimony of New York nercan- tile circles is, that New York city has within the past week or so been in vaded by an army of men and women armed with order blanks. The influx has broken all records and if one of these nights man unlirnTbers a camp ing outfit and pitches his tent right in the middle of the busiest part of Broadway, you will know that he Is
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-22

been. But he goes hence with his friend. His baggage will also follow him.''
 "I will attend to that for them both, g said Mistress Lucy, growing strangely and firmly resolved again, and even I could guess the tremendous constra1nt she put upon herself. Enough of Ar cest1r. am we'll rid of him and of his companions. Summon the servants to bring my fathers body to the cas- tie. I suppose the crowner will have to be notihed.''
 ''YeEr" said I; 'T will attend to that"
 ''Of all my friends2 said she bite ously, you seem to be the only one left, Master Hampdon.''
 ''I have been your faithful servant always, Mistress Lucy,'' I answered as I ushered her into the hall.
 I delivered my little mistress to her woman, who came at my call, and then I summoned the butler and steward and told them what had happened. In a moment all was confusion. They brought the body of Sir Godfrey back to the castle, which was no longer his. As the duke had said it was mort gagged to its full value. Everything that he could get his hands on had been sacrificed to his passion for play. F After the inquest and after a due fn- tervaI for decent respect for the dead
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-22
LITTLE BEAUTY CHATS
Your Hair and One Way to Dress It
Bx BLANCHE BEACON

Fashions were made that women might be enhanced by then-not that they might be made freakish by them.
 Please, oh please, remember this The hair has been called @wonan's crowning glory for so long, that the phrase has degenerated into a mere term. I wish we would take it more literally.
 am aware that am dealing with a f1ackneyed subject-b1it let me draw an example from my illustration of to-day.
 In the first place, cover up the hair in the picture and study the face Note how extremelp youthful a. counten- ance 1t is. The eyes are the wide open, candid kind. The nostrils are haring childish1y, and the mouth is plump, and the chin is dinp1ed.
 Now uncover the hair, and note how delightfully."- the mode of dressing be- comes the style of face.
 It is so prettily puffed out at the sides, with g. very youthful feature in the suggestion of a pompadour. The loose coils placed with seeming care 1essness but infinite cunning are en- tirely ingenue.
 As a matter of fact, it is an appro- priate head dress.
 Try to imagine some other style with that face. It is hard to irnag- inc another, and that is entirely as 1t wear their hair in any style whatso- ever and have it become them are hard to hnd-although many lay claim to this distinction. And this is why we see so many impossibly dressed heads.
 one who for years-in fact, ever since she has worn her hair "up'' has not