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The Dickinson press., 1913-01-18
MAX LANCE AND BElDEN
BURNED IN BAKERY FIRE

At about o'clock Friday morning
fire was discovered in the Max LANCE
bakery southwest of the sBrodie resi-
dence. The proprietor. M. L. LANCE,
and Archie Belden. who is visiting the
Langes at their home on the lot where
the bakery stood, had their faces and
hands quite badly burned, and Mr.. Bel
den also had one foot burned.
No one knows how the fire caught.
The baker finished work at 9 O'Clock.
When the fire was discovered Mr..
Lange rushed into the bakery to give
the alarm. Mr.. Belden rushed in after
him. The door closed and they had a
narrow escape. For a minute or two il
looked as though they were lost. Mr..
Belden iell over box and lost his shoe.
They finally reached the door and es-
capped. They are being cared for a,
the Lange home and will be out in g
few days.
The building, a one story structure
in the rear of the dwelling, was burned
to the ground. There was $500 insur-
ahce on The building. $500 on stocl
and $500 on oven and other fixtures, al
in the Orchard agency.
The fire department Responded
promptly and kept the flames from
spreading to other buildings.
The Dickinson press., 1913-01-18
FIRE IN MEAT MARKET

The fire department was called out
about s o'clock Tuesday morning to ex-
tineuish fire in the South Side meat
market. The fire caught in the base
ment from an overheated pipe and the
flames succeeded in getting up through
the 6oor and to the roof in the rear of
the building and smoke destroyed much
of the stock. The 6remen got the
flames under control easily. The build
ing is owned by Koch & Messer and
the stock by Johu Renner. who is
awaiting visit from the insurance
adjuster. The johnson & Co. agency
carried $4,000 on the building and
ST, 600 each on fixtures and stock. The
building does not appear to be seriously
damaged.
The Dickinson press., 1913-01-18
A STARK COUNTY FARMER WITH LOAD OF EVIDENCE
OF THE PRoDUcTIvENEss OF OUR SOIL
PARCELS POST SYSTEM
USED BY LOCAL People

On Monday morning Postmaster Law
renee and his clerks thought they had
gotten into city express Office so nu-
merous were the packages coming and
going by parcels post. Dickinson mer-
chants and others are already taking
advantage of Uncle Sans system of
carrying their packages. Every pack
age of merchandise now must be sent
by parcels post and have the special
stamp. Parcels that do not have these
stamps cannot be received at the post
Office.
Each postoffice. no matter how small,
is the center of zone. The first zone
covers the territory within so miles of
the postoffice. the End zone from so to
$50 miles, the third to 300 miles, the
fourth to 600 miles, the fifth to 1000
miles, the sixth to 1,4OO miles, the
seventh to I, 800 miles and the eighth
and last ell places over 1900 miles
away.
The table of rates is as follows:
The Dickinson press., 1913-01-18
n. D. LEADS The COUNTRY
IN NEW RY. BUILDING

According to statistics compiled by
the Railway ARe Gazette. North Dakota
leads all other states in the country in
the number of miles Of railroad built
during the year Of 1912. and informa-
tion at hand indicates that the year
1913 will see an equally large amount
of railway construction in this state.
There are other interesting figures
which are of official interest to the
Northwest. namely, that one must 20
back six years, or to 1906. to find
year in which so large number of To-
comotives and freight cars were order
ed.
The figures presented show that in
1912. three railroad companies built
total mileage of new track in North Da-
kota of 347 miles. Texas ranks second
with 1856 miles, and no new mileage is
recorded in five states and Alaska.
The totals for cars and locomotives
ordered during the year, show the heavy
demands that were made on the railroad
facilities during the last part of 1912,
both for movement of extraordinarily
heavy crops and for the general busi-
ness resulting from greater industrial
activity.
The new equipment ordered includes
226. 1875 freight cars, 3.623 passenger
cars and 4, 424 locomotives. The North
ern Pacific figured heavily in these i'm
provements.
The Dickinson press., 1913-01-18
EASTER FALLS on MARCH e.
ASH WEDNESDAY on FEBY. S

Easter Sunday in 1913 will fall on a
date earlier than at any time since
1900. and earlier than it will fall again
before 1925. and possibly many more
years later than that. Easter..Sunday in
1913 comes on March 23rd. the earliest
date on which it is possible for it to
fall.
The date is regulated by the zodiac.
Easter always falls on the first Sunday
after the FIRST full moon. after the date
when the days and nights are equal.
The days and nights are equal on
March 81. In 1918 there is full noon
on March 22 and March % is Sunday,
thus placing Easter at the earliest date
upon which it is possible for it to come.
1t is possible for Easter to fall nearly
80 days later than it does in 1913.
The dates of other feast days are re &
ulated by the date of Easter and will
accordingly be placed very early in the
year. Ash Wednesday. the be ginning
Of Lent. will be February 5th.
The Dickinson press., 1913-01-18
Many Characters Represe nted

Everybody had q good time at the
masquerade ball on Wednesday evening
and the music was excellent. Quite a
large number were in disguise and
many characters were represented.
Prizes were given as follows: Mrs. E.
D. King. italian maid, best rented Co.'S
tune MIS-. Roy Crandall, Russian maid.
most comical costume Miss Lena Bleth,
cowboy girl. as best home made make
up. To gentlmen: Laudie Vranna as
Prince of Silver. best rented costume !;
c. S. Hodgson. Negro. hest home made
and Irving Stanton as dude, most
comical disguise. The judges were
Mrs. Ed. Partridge, H. X. Nichols and
Ed. Steinbrueck. A lap supper was
served by Mrs. SARGENT which was en-
joyed by all and the hall was made
pretty with decorations in the Maccabee
colors and symbols.
The general committee was Mrs. J..
Leonbereer. Mrs J.P. Berringer and Mrs.
Frank Lish.
The Dickinson press., 1913-01-18
DUNN COUNTY MAN STuNe
BY A MAIL ORDER CUPID

A dispatch from Des Moines, Iowa,
tells of the arrest of Mrs. Florence Gam
BILE, 32-year-old woman. who confess
sed 10 having correspondent with more
than 500 bachelors over the country,
some of whom she f1eeced out of sums
ranging from SIS to $50. Two North
Dakotans. one of them resident of Dunn
county. are victims of misplaced conf
dence-Bert Gates. of Coeswell. and
Louis Golwitzer. of Halliday. The
woman's scheme to defraud the lone
some bachelors was personal appeal
through the advertising columns of the
matrimonial agency papers. In answer
to inquiries from those matrimonially
inclined she wrote a touching appeal
for few dollars to tide her over a tenn
porary financial embarrassment and to
help pay railroad fare to meet her in
tended lord and master. In most cases
the money was sent. and the lonely
bachelor put on his ''biled' shirt and
sat down to await her early arrival-but
the charming Florence did not arrive
she and her hubsand were busy opening
letters and extracting ereenbacks from
other bachelors just as lonesome.
The information flied against Mrs.
Gamble charged that she had misused
the mails to defraud j. L. Prater, of
Arlington. Texas. out of $50. and ad-
ditional charges may be filed against
her. After some correspondence Prather
sent the woman his picture and here is
her reply:
Il have almost worn out your picture
kissing it. Yes. dear, l know you are
the one for me. Send me $50 and will
come"
Prather sent the thirty and Florence
came not.
Louis Golwitzer, the dispatch further
states, wrote that he was anxious for
his sweetheart to come at once, and
that he could hardly wait for the time
when she would be his wife.
Golwitzer is we'll known in this
county. having lived in the vicinity of
Halliday for several years.
The Dickinson press., 1913-01-18

STARK MEMBERS GET PLACES
ON GOOD COMMITTEES

Both presideh!1etr bel of the senate
and Speaker Fraine On the house have
had big task on their hands in ar
ranging the committees for the thir.
teenth legislative assembly but it is
believed the selections they have made
and announced on Tuesday will be
satisfactory to all the members.
The name of Senator M. L. Mcbride
appears on. the following important
committees: Agriculture. Apportion-
ment, Cities and Municipal Corpora
tions. Insurance. Judiciary, Mines and
Minerals, Railroads and chairman of
the State Library committee.
In the house Representative Fred
Turner of Dickinson was given place
on the committees of Appropriations.
Municipal Corporations, Military
Affairs, Tax and Tax Laws and chair
man of the Committee on Educational
Institutions.
Representative c. c. Turner of Glad
stone was selected on the following
committees: Game and Fish. Insur-
auce. Judiciary, Labor. Supplies and
Expenditures and chairman of the Irri-
CATION Committee.
Stark. county's third representative.
Henry Klein of Richardton, is men,
Der of the committees on Apportion
ments, Coal Lands and Mining, Educa-
tion. Election and Election Privileges
and Federal Relations.
Thus it will be seen that Stark
county is we'll represented on some of
the most important committees. and it
is certain that our Legislators will
take good care of their end of the work.
Representative r. j. List of Bowman
county and brother of Mrs. George
Mawhinney of Dickinson, is member
of the following house committee, Ap-
propriations. Banking. Coal Lands and
Mining Education, Election and EIec-
tion Privileges.
Senator Ed. Hughes of Bismarck in.
troduced the first senate bill on Tues
day. This proposes to create a highway
commission and that convict labor, un-
der guard, should be used for road
building. It also creates two state
highways, one from Fargo to Beach and
the other from Grand Forks west to the
Montana line.
The Dickinson press., 1913-01-18
OUR FIRST COLD SNAP

Our cold weather came the past week,
the record for the 10th being 8 below
zero. During the day q few inches of
snow fell. 1t turned much colder at
night, the record Saturday evening 80
below. Sunday morning it was 38 be-
low and Monday morning %. 1t warm
ed up Tuesday and the record was but
below. No one seemed to mind the
cold: Teams were hauling grain to the
local markets on Monday and Tuesday
the same as ever. OF course the roads
have not been quite as good since the
little fall of snow. If few inches
more of snow should fail there would be
good shedding and the farmers could
handle larger loads of Drain over the
roads. d
The Dickinson press., 1913-01-18
TO temper THE WINDS
SET TREES on E AND " LINE

For many years President Worst of
the Agricultural college has advocated
the planting of trees east and west
across the state to stop the effect of the
hot winds and to prevent the soil from
blowing. Such a barrier on every Sec
tion line would also stop the migration
by wind of the weed seeds and it would
do much to break up the hail storms in
summer and the billiards In winter.
1t seems that his talks have been to
some avail as he received letter re-
Gently from the western part of the state
stating that such bill was to be pro-
posed at the present session of the leg
islature and asking for advice in re-
gard to the matter.
President Worst wrote, advising that
the best way to accomplish results
from such plan would be to plant an
elm and an ash treee alternately every
sixteen feet apart, then to plant four
golden OF gray willows between each Of
these two trees.
This. he states, would make the row
look we'll and would make it very
compact. and if fire ever attacked the
row. the willows would grow up from
the roots. One other advantage of will
lows is that they never blow out of the
roots and tits very easy to make them
live. The elm and the ash would grow
up straight and strong. and have good
trunks.
To insure these trees living, he states
that ground should be cultivated at reg
ular intervals to conserve the moisture
and to keep the ground clean. This
would also help to give the trees as
nearly forest conditions as possible.
The following spring another row of
trees should be planted in the cultiva-
ted space and cultivated five or six
times the first year and three or four the
second year.
Such shelter woulo not be for timber,
but would be protection from the hot
winds. It would also break up the air
currents and prevent hail storms in the
summer and billiards in the winter.
President Worst, in speaking of such
a law, stated that ''one conservative
law of this kind would be worth more
than one-half of hundred of the med.
dlesome bills that are always intro
duced. OF course. the law could only be
applied to cultivated land
The Dickinson press., 1913-01-18

& Simpson ranch, and will make the
people Of Billings county a good men,
Der Of the board.
The register of deeds matter is still
up in the air, and it does not seem as
though the commissioners look with
much favor upon the candidacy of
Charles McCloskey Of Sentinel Butte.
However, the courts may shed light up
on the tangle In due time.
The Dickinson press., 1913-01-18

rectors: s. G. More. E. E. More and
Walter S. Morris. Officers S. G.
More. president E. E. More. vice pres
ident; Walter S. Morris. cashier; r.
{. Stroul, assistant cashier. The bank
has capital stock Of SO, 600. The
sum Of 81. 900 was carried to the surplus
fund and good dividend declared.
At the time of soine to press the
1913 election for the Farmers Merchants
State Bank Of Taylor and the Richard
ton State Bank had not been received.
The Dickinson press., 1913-01-18
AMlD0N May
BE GO. SEAT
Railroad Moves Both North and South
Keep People Guessing. PheIan's
Bank May Be on Mil
waukee Extension

1t was understood in railroad circles
some time ago that the Northern Pacific
had let the contract for grading Ger
tain number Of miles of new road west
of Mott. The engineers of this system
were very active in the country be-
tween New England and the Tepee
buttes and around Marmarth last fall.
According to reports. Amidon. which
is located about thirty miles northeast
of Rhame. is to have quite boom this
year. The Milwaukee is said to have
purchased land for townsite there. and
the statement is made that a lot sale
will be pulled off there in the early
spring.. All depends upon whether the
MP. starts 10 build their line west
from Mott. In case they do. the Mil
waukee is expected to build line
across from Ives or Marmarth to New
England. and as it is only short
stretch of road, and they can build from
both ends of the road. it will not take
long to have their line in operation.
The N. p. extension is expected to
pass through the country some eight or
ten miles south of New England and
about that distance north of the town
of Bowman. Hence. if the Milwaukee
is to hold the trade from around Midway
and west. after the extension of the N.
p. it must push it's line west from
New England.
Amidon is near the center of the
southern section of Billings county,
which will some time be a separate
county, and already has county seat
aspirations, though nothing will be
done about division until the next GEN.
eral election.
The fact that J. E. Phelan has just
organized the First State bank of
Amidon gives rise to the belief that the
Milwaukee is getting ready for the ex-
pected extension. The incorporat0rs
Of the bank are: J. E. Phelan. Dugald
Stewart. Emil Scow and Geo. A. Bran
son. MIR. Branson, who lives few
miles northwest of Rhame. is to be
cashier of the new institution, which
will be ready for business some time
next month.
A recent report from Mandan says that
the Northern Pacific has abandoned
the extension of the Mott line for this
year and will push its line from STAN
ton west through northern Dunn county.
This does not look feasible in every
particular as the report speaks of the
line going north of Oakdale and west
through the Bad Lands. The route o. the
Great Northern through Mckenzie
county would seem to preclude this
course for the Stanton branch. 1t would
seem most likely to build southw est
from the Halliday country to Manning.
However, a great many wild auesses
are made regarding new railroad build
ing at this time of the year. A few
months later when the graders get in to
the field the people will know better
about the work.
The Dickinson press., 1913-01-18
JOHN TESTER Is TREASURER
AUSTIN MEAD on co. BOARD

AS forecasted in these columns last
week, John Tester. commissioner in
Billings county from the first district,
resigned and was duly appointed treas
urer to succeed MI. Arnold of Beach who
was no longer eligible on account of
having served two terms. Arthur Swan.
who was elected in November, could not
qualify on account of being resident
Of the territory now known as Golden
Valley.
John Tester is substantial farmer
from the country northeast of Medora.
not far from Snow. He came to this
state with his family from Cannon,
Wisconsin, about seven years ago.
Treasurer Tester does not expect to
move his wife to Medora until spring
as it does not look as though he would
be able to rent suitable house. in
which event he will build as soon as
it gets warm enough.
It is likely that E. F. Davis will con-
tinue as deputy in the treasurer's Office.
Price Arnold who had been in the Office
with his father for some time. re-
mains as clerk, and John Tester. Jr.,
goes in to help his father during the
busy winter months of the Office. return
ing to his homestead near Snow in the
spring. This Young gentleman was
formerly in the employ Of the Mandan
Mercantile Co. in Dickinson.
Austin Mead is engaged in stock
growing in the vicinity Of Quinion. He
was fornerly foreman at the Massacre
The Dickinson press., 1913-01-18

The package must not exceed II
pounds nor be greater in size than II
inches in length and eirth combined,
nor in form or kind likely to injure the
person of any postal employee or dam
age the mail equipment.
The Dickinson press., 1913-01-18
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

Sunday, January 18th Sermon and
communion at 10 80 a. m. !; Sunday
school at II AS q. m. Junior C. E. at
3 90 p. m. Young Peoples c. E. at
s 80 p. m. evening sermon at 7 80 p.
IN. Mid-wee meeting on Wednesday
at Z 80 p. m.
A. c. HACKE, Minister.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-08-14
Poop Q in the News

orvall overall OF the Chicago Cubs,
was released TO the San Francisco
Pacific Coast league team.
Taking OF testimony has begun at
San Francisco in the first OF the Diggs-
Caminetti trials. that OF Maury l.
Diggs, former state architect.
Thomas F. Lockhart. an ossifisd
man, died at Wellington, Maine. after
spending 27 years in bed. practically
in one position.
Thomas J. Cogan of Cincinnati. O.,
was elected president of the Fratsrnai
Order of Eagles, during the conven-
tion at Baltimore.
When in Chicago on his way to Nil.
waukee 20 preside at the meeting OF
the Federated Catholic societies. Car
dinal Gibbons said that he was oppos-
ed 10 womens voting.
Or. Sun Vat Sen. fleeing from the
wrath of President Yuan Shi Kai OF
China after the failure OF the secession
movement OF the south. arrived in
Japan.
"Gunboat" Smith of California de-
feated Jim Flynn. the Pueblo fireman.
In the fifth round OF THAR scheduled
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-08-14
MUCH OREGON LAND
TO Be THROWN Open

Portland.--Thousands OF acres of
Oregon agricultural land heretofore In.
cluded in the national forest reserves
will be thrown open for settlement be-
fore the end Of the year.
Most OF this land is In the Siuslaw
and In the Paulina national forests,
but acreage In other districts also may
be affected.
Within the last year the federal
Forestry bureau has been developing
more liberal attitude toward PROS
pective settlers. This new attitude is
finding expression in the apparent pol.
Icy OF the forestry officials to return
all agricultural land within the forest
areas to the public domain.
The recent visit to Oregon Of Henry
8. Graves, chief forester OF the United
States. and the approaching visit Of
David Franklin Houston, secretary Of
agriculture, are for the purpose OF In.
terpreting to the people Of this state
the meaning OF this newly developed
policy.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-08-14
Apple Talks to Be Given

Representatives OF the
United States bureau OF plant industry
and fruit growers OF the northwest
will hold "A series OF meetings TO dis
cuss In general way the subject OF
apple storage and refrigeration. and
TO report something OF the progress OF
the governments Investigations as TO
the behavior of fruit In cold storage.
The meeting places and dates are
scheduled as follows; Medford. Or.
August 2: North Yakima. Wash. Au.
gust 4; Prosser. Wash. August 8; We
natchee. Wash. August Z; Freewater.
Or. August o; Payette. Idaho. August
IL; Hood River. Or. August ~ or 13;
Portland. August II.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-08-14
Rsmor.s Makes Fugitive Surrender

Albany.-A fugitive from justice
since December 3, 1912, since when
the county has offered reward OF
siOO for his arrest. Paul Ackerman,
who shot and seriously injured Jack
Leib In n road near shedd, while the
latter was buggy riding with his sweet
heart. gave himself up to the authori'
ties. Although his victim has recoy'
cred from the injuries, Ackerman said
that the incident continually preyed
upon his mind and he assigned this as
the reason for giving himself up. lie
has been tramping through California.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-08-14
IDAHO PROMOTER IN JAIL
w. A. Matthews Must Answer Charge
Of swlndllng Denver Bank.

Dolse.-Another chapter In the case
OF w. A. Matthews. alleged defaulting
promoter OF the Overland Insurance
company has been added through tho
confession OF Matthews that he swim.
died the First National bank. OF Den.
yer. out OF $3.50,
After organizing the Montana Fire
lnsuranoe company. OF Montana, Mat
thewB came TO Idaho for tho purpose
OF organizing the Overland Insurance
company. james II. Clinton. Jr.. and
y. y. Johnson. yice.president and cash.
Ter respectively OF the Boise City Ma.
tional bank OF this city as president
and treasurer respectively. Matthews
also interested George Fletcher. presi'
dent OF the Idaho National bank. lilo
absconded before the company was
organized and II was said he took with
him $4,000 collected for stock pur'
chased by Southern Idaho bankers and
business men. Most OF the payments
made to him we're In certificates OF
deposit aud these he had cashed at
tho Idaho National bank.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-08-14
Education Board Convenes.

Moscow. J. Rossi. secre.
tary of the state board OF education
and chairman OF the subcommittee
which has as part OF It's special euty
the supervising OF the business of the
University OF Idaho. is In conference
with Acting President w. L. Carlyle.
AZ this conference II is understood
that Mr.. Rossi after comforting with
Dr. Carlyle. will make recommends
tons to the committee for the chair
OF economies and political science and
II agreeable the committee then Is to
submit It's appointments to the full
meeting OF the state board for It's con.
flrmation.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1913-08-14
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George Carroll Todd. a New York
lawyer. was nominated by the presi.
dent TO be assistant TO the attorney
general. and will be in direct charge
of antitrust prosecutions.
A women's municipal party has been
formed 1t London. The Duchess OF
Marlborough. formerly Consuelo Van
derbilt. is understood TO have accepted
the presidency OF the organization.
The estate OF the late Lucky Bald.
win OF California grew In value from
sll 100000 TO s2O.OOO000 in the four
years since his death. according to the
order OF the distribution made at Los
Angeles.
In a speech at Los Angeles. Secrs-
tary Daniels OF the navy department
declared that every state in the union
should pass law making the exercise
OF the franchise compulsory on the
part OF every qualified voter.
An explosive called Totol has been
perfected by Lieutenant Harold Chase
Woodward. an officer OF the national
guard OF New York. after three years
OF work Il is said TO be the safest
explosive the world has ever known.
and yet TO be equal in power TO the
strongest dynamite made.