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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-06-03

FOR SALE-Shetlard pony. cart,
sled. harness, saddle. Inquire this
Office.
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FOR RENT7rEiye room. cottage.
electric lights. furnace and bath: In-
Quire at sos u 3rd Ave.
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FOR RENT

FOR RENTFurnished modern
room one block from Main Street.
4entieman preferreds liz RoSley.
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HELP WANTED

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. girl for
general homework. Mrs. George Az
mes. 311 West 4th Ave.
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BEST-Sweet clover (scarifed(
Now Is proper time to sow. Weller
Land Co. Mitchell.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-10-28
BRIEF STATE NEWS

The different churche in Crane
Forks will celebrate Ego to church
day on Sunday, the 3Oth inst.
H. J. Bessesen, of Harvey, vel
known in political circles in the state
will remove to Minneapolis, to enter
into the practice of law with his broth
err.
Plans at Williston to construct /;
high power transmission line from
the government plant north of the city
to several points east as, far as Stan
ley, have been completed.
Glendale has called special cleo.
ton for Saturday, Nov. Goth, to vote
on the question of issuing bonds
amounting to $4,000, to be used in the
extension of the water works system
in that city.
The government has just planted
300 black bass in Spiritwood lake for
future use. The fish were consigned
to w. M. Stroud. They were from
two to three inches in length and very
active.
A Federal Grand Jury has been
called to meet in Fargo on November
End. There will be large number of
cases before the jury, most of which
will be for the introduction of liquor
on reservations and selling it to the
Indians.
Peder Peterson, who has one of the
finest farms and farm homes in the
mountains just east of Metigoshe, re-
ports an average of Al IL bushels off
70 acres of wheat and "A off of 46
acres. A pretty fine yield.-Bottineau
News.
Alfalfa with more than 60 stalks to
the single plant has been grown this
summer near Watford by J. Raze,
by means of the row method. Mr.. Raze
has a 2O-acre field that was seeded
last year in rows four feet apart. The
plants branched so luxuriantly that
the tops have interlaced and the field
has been a solid mass of green from
3 to 4 feet high.
Three years ago several buildings
were burned at Clifford, N. D., which
had the appearance of being of incen-
diary origin, but proof was hard to
obtain and the matter was dropped,
tho the county officials have been on
the watch ever since and have secur-
ed information that will land the gull
ty party in the pen. States Attorney
Lyche and Sheriff Wulf, who have sue
ceeded in locating the guilty party,
made trip to Portland, Oregon, to
get their man, who proved to be Geo.
Lee, q former resident and business
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man at Clifford, and in whose build.
ing the fire originated. Lee was ar.
rested and convicted in Oregon one
year ago on charge of bigamy under
false name, and his term of impris.
onment will expire within few days.
He will be arrested and taken ia
Trail county, N. d., and tried for
arson.
Information received has developed
the fact that dog belonging to the
Pearson family, of Besse, N. D., led
Mrs. Pearson to the body of her hus-
band in small pasture, where he had
been killed by an Infatuated bull.
Besse is small place near Bowman,
down in the southwestern part of the
state.
A bad accident occurred down at
Portland this week. The boiler of a
traction engine blew up and Anton
Brend, farmer living near that town,
was hurled several rods and terribly
burned about the face and hands. He
was standing behind the engine when
the explosion took place and got the
most of the escaping steam in his face.
The machine was total wreck. .
From Watford to Mary in McKen-
zie county is distance of twenty
miles "as the crow flies," but the
postmaster reckons that it is 800
miles if you want to send a parcel,
and the actual route travelled is some
what as follows in sending a piece of
mail from Watford to Mary: North to
Williston, east to Minot, southeast to
Valley City, west to Dickinson, north
past Grassy Butte-an actual distance
of 600 miles.
w. O. Gordon, a farmer living near
Ray, recently sold his 800 acre place
for the advanced sum of 1900. T.
O. Langagor was the purchaser. The
farm was originally homesteaded by
Mr.. Gordon and was only half under
cultivation. Gordon contemplates re-
turning to Indiana, his native state,
and living on the interest of the mon
ey received for the property.
A party of Disguised harvesters,
who passed thru Henning, MIMI, last
week, had the following words paint
ed on their rigs: Sixty miles to wat
er, one hundred miles to wood, to h.
with North Dakota, we are out of it
for good" It is well also for North
Dakota to get rid of such bunch
Warren Sheaf.
From 1O2 acres of farm land in Nc
Kenzie county, T. G. Buchanan raised
300 bushels of wheat, which he
threshed prior to the rainy season,
and marketed direct from the machine
all but 400 bushels, The 1900 bush
els thus sold brot the owner "a cents
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per bushel, or a net amount of $1,700,
which paid for the land on which it
was raised, besides having left for
seed 400 bushels which he will use in
the spring.
Claiming that Nick Cassin, ex-coun-
ty commissioner, of the Glen Ullen
district, Incorporated county funds
amounting to from $1,000 to $4,000,
States Attorney VIM. LANCER, Of RAIL-
eigh, has instituted proceedings to COL
lect the amount which he claims is due
the county.
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Five Austrians were arrested near
Wheelock last week by the Canadian
officials, for having left that country
after they had registered As "Alien
Enemies" They were lodged in the
county Jail at Williston, and await the
coming Of the United States Immigra-
ton Inspector, whose duty it is to
turn them back to the country from
which they came. These men are said
to be sober and industrious and we'll
liked by those for whom they have
worked.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-10-28

Through foruna. purchase 6ne Chnaware direct from tn.
pottery giving customers unusual opportunity supply
with this household necessity These the
br.ted Lmoe': War; beautiful 42Pc dinner classy and
and ousve propose to eve to our customer. the benefit
Of our purch::; With every sc purchase will give
them with $29S and receive one of these sets
worth at retail S. These will only be sold
With We invite examination Of this exhibition
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who .ios certain rpacc to fill ana
knows he can get just what he wants
by calling on this particular writer.
Il get orders for stories laugh
inciy observed Mr.. Jackson yesterday,
Just as a gardener gets orders from
a grocer. started writing when in
a prep school at Washington. Pa.
NY first story was accepted and the
editor promised me 80 for 1t. but the
magazine went bust before / could
collect. | don't know whether my
story was the cause Of this calamity
or not. Anyway. I was not discouraged
and sent another story to a flourish
ing magazine. | got SIS for that. II
was the first money ! ever earned. IL
came so easily hat | resolved to make
a living az n writer. Accordingly |
went to Columbia University and took
special courses to fit me for the writ
ing game and all the time I was there
I kept turning out yarns and making
them pay my way. ! have been at
the game now for nine years n l
find 1t a paying business"
, Besides "A Full House Mr.. jack
son has written two 10000 word
novels. One of the original charac-
teristics OF his fiction is that he never
employs n villain. To the rose
! oolored view of this author there amt
no such animal"
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posted on the big issues OF the day
and should have a voice in their
husbands fathers or sons votes.
Why not? Men always consult their
wives or mothers before buying
new home or moving to another part
Of the country or on any other m
portant event in their lives. so why
rot on political matters?
Women have to live according to
the laws hat are made as well as
men and why shouldn't they have
something To say about the passing OF
these laws? But II is not necessary
for them to vote II the men will give
them credit for having as good judg-
ment about political matters as they
have about everything else.
THE trouble is to-day hat the
majority OF women have little or no
interest in politics, though they feel
that they are being X pit from using
the power swayed by men"
Much more interesting than Miss
Ncndum's social views, IN spite of her
intelligence. l. her theatrical descent.
Miss Mcndum is a member Il the
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MISS VIEWS.
Descendant Of an old stage Fnmii.
Talks Of suffrage for women.

George Drew Mendum. who plays
the role Of Mmc. C~GSCndiCr in "a
Modern Eve" at the Casino Theatre
with such a keen sense Of humor, had
the following to say in a recent inter-
view with "A representative of TIVE
Sun:
"The subject of the modern or
e|manCipated woman is nc that Is
holding what we players all the
centre Of the stage in all discussions
of to-day. and she has boldly swept
INTO some OF our most popular novels
and plays. Indeed, the sweet, old
fashioned heroine would seem to no
n thing Of the past, and In her place
We would find a strong, asscrtivc.
Lra!ny Woman demanding equal
rights as IL she belonged to n sex
Union that MAS on a strike
Il certainly do not believe in giving
votes to women. My work is that
! shall never like to see the day when
men do needlework and women run
the government. Women have trouble
enough in the world without getting
into politics. Imagine ONE woman
running for office and her opponent m
another ticket tearing her reputation
To shrcds.
AS far as | can sec women do not
really want 10 vote. they only th,nk
they do, Just as little boys think
they would like to smoke because they
are forbidden 10 do so.
II do hold, however. that women
should keep themselves thoroughly
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ducinS managers named Gilbert d
sullivan. ran MS follows:
May l6, 1915.
Mr. Gilbert, 18th ST, Theatre. New
York.
My Dear Sir: | am n young girl not
quite eighteen years Of age, though
very short possess a high soprano
voice, and would like to have YOU place
me in your company II possible.
Hoping 10 hear from you real Dor
and thanking you for the courtesy Of
an interview In the neal future. | re-
main, Yours very truly,
ROSE o.
II IL very much feared that the short
young lady with the high soprano
voice viii hc unable to personally eX-
press her thanks to Mr.. Gilbert "for
the courtesy OF an interview in the
near future" foe reasons easily APP
parent to many II not most OF the
English speaking population.
Yet not To al, for, in the early eve
ming OF the same day that marked the
receipt az the Brooklyn inquiry. the
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THE NEW RIALTO.
4 Moving Picture Theatre where
the Old Victoria Theatre stood.

The new Rialto Theatre. which is to
stand on the site occupied for so long
by the Victoria. will be opened in the
autumn II will be devoted to moving
pictures and S. l.. Rothapfcl. respon-
sible for the success OF the Strand.
will be its manager. Nothing Of the
old Victoria will remain but the bare
walls. and in this fact there should he
grounds for gratitude. The entire
seating arrangements will he changed.
There will be but one large gallery.
As IL is to be built on the cantilever
system every one OF the $500 seats
will afford a complete view of the
stage.
In addition to an orchestra there will
be a pipe organ installed. Mr.. Roth
APPEL Will as usual see that the music
is made artistic and an aid to the
enjoyment of the pictures. lie is vice.
president and general director Of the
Rialto Company.
! 81 believe | can say that I have
lifted motion picture presentation to
n higher plane said Mr.. R~othapfel,
anu lDf iNldilp - 10 pf lHt dpoE'e VI
my efforts. | am going TO do things at
the Riaito as yet undreamed 81. and
my plans show that the old Victoria
when completed VIII he the most con-
%spicuously beautiful structure. outside
and inside, in America. To have
brought such men as Mr.. Livingston
and Mr.. Kahn into motion picture
presentation Is in itself no small
achievement. ana has raised the bust
ness t. a higher level.
Il have been accused Of being n
screen pur!st, and | am proud of tho
distinction. ! have ~ allowed a
picture To- he presented under my
management that | wouldn't have my
wife and my children see. and what,
more ! never will. As strongly as
believe that a thing OF beauty is n joy
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comprehensive Drew family which
has given so many talented actors to
the American stage. She is a grand
daughter of Mrs. John Drew n a
cousin OF Ethel Barrymore and Louise
Drew. Her father was a theatrical
manager in Boston and she was edu-
Gated there. Naturally she took to
the stage, and Charles Frohmln gave
her an opportunity at the Garrick
Theatre when Annie Russell produced
Catherine there. For three seasons
she acted with John Drew and then
tried for a time in a Cleveland stock
company. She has acted considerably
in Chicago. was with Joseph jefferson,
and returned from tim to time to act
with John Drew. She has also acted
frequently with Ethel Barrymore. But
she was never more amusing than she
is just now at the Casino in "A Mod
I ern Eve"
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SUCH, THEN, ~SELEETINGFAME

The extremely feeting quality Of
human came is frequently illustrated
in various branches of life. but rarely
TO a more incredible extent than re-
Gently at the Forth-ciEhth Street
Theatre. where De Wolf Hopper has
been presenting interesting and crcdi-
table REVEALS of the Gilbert and Sulli-
van operas.
Last Monday afternoon a letter in
feminine handwriting, bearing the
Brooklyn postmark. was received, ad-
dressed:
Mr.. GILBERT Personally
iSth st. Theatre.
New York.
Scar Broadway,
The enclosure in this envelope,
written under the obvious conviction
that Mr.. Hoppcr's company was being
conducted by a Arm Of theatrical pro-
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THE NEW FARCE'S AUTHOR.
Fred Jackson, who Has written
ucccs for the Iongacrr.


for the Longacre.
Fred Jackson. author OF "A Full
House" at the Longacre, is a rapid
fire magazine contributor. He would
make some OF the old time fiction
writer's seem like sluggards to COM
pare his annual output with theirs.
Mr.. Jackson writes to order. He
TO the rescue of more than a
few magazine editors every month.
He will turn of any sort OF yarn on
Gemand and deliver 1t at the specified
time.
Writing stories is just like any other
kind OF labor, according to Mr.. Jack
son, and If you are di.igent and stick
to 1t YOU are sure to meet with sue
cess. At any rate that is the only eX-
PLANTATION he gives as to his own fame
as a writer.
Mr.. Jackson and the editors he
writes for estimate that he dashes off
more than 1000. 900 words a year.
Forty thousand words a week is a
conservative guess at his output. He
KEEPS this average up ffty-two weeks
in the year. lie does not dictate his
stories because he cannot DO so. or at
least has not vet attained the knack
OF being able TO talk as fast as he can
pound out words on a typewriter. He
writes all of his fiction on a machine
himself. and furthermore does Il with
two fingers.
II he ever learns to dictate to an
other he may he able to double his
output. But for a youngster he is
| doing very we'll in the writing line and
has No trouble in keeping up a
try home in Bay Side and supplying
gasolene and tires for his automobile
Mr.. Jackson is n slender. dark com
pleXioned young nan. His quiet man
ner md keen eyes suggest a strain Of
Spanish ancestry. Yet he is an Amcri-
can through ana through, halls
originally from Pittsburg. and is any
thing hut n dreamer. lie docs not bc-
lieve in the eight hour day for story
| writer's. He often spends ten hours
a day az his machine. digging u rush
order fiction. 1t makes NJ difference
10 him what kind of "A story You want
"A love romance or n detective yarn
come forth at the appointed time of
delivery and every n is happy, in
Guiding the harassed magazine editor
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gagement at the Forty-eighth Street
Theatre IL has been found expedient
by reason Of general demand to cN-
tend the run of operas. each intended
To remain on view for "A single week
only. This was true of The ieo-
men Of the Guard" and The MikadO."
and now apples to The SorCerer"
and Trial by Jury" which will he
continued until next Saturday night.
on the following Monday evening,
June :, the deferred production OF
The Pirates of PenzanCc," with Alice
Brady added to the cast, Will be made:
on Thursday afternoon "Pinaforc" and
Trial by Jury" will hc given. with
Miss Brady and George MaCFirlane
specially engaged, end for the re-
mainder Of the week ~'Iolanthc," with
Miss Brady in her former role, Dur
ing the following week Miss Brady
and Miss Ait will alternate in the
prima donna parts in uae general
repertoire.
1t is interesting To observe mat
, our Manuel Klein, for 50 nan years
at the Hippodrome. was the conductor
of the first performance of "To-night's
the Night" in London. But Mr.. Klein
in view of the state OF feeling in Lon
don just now spells his name "Clyne.'
Charles Forester, William A.. Hanna
and John Higham. n new firm Of pro-
ducers, what is probably the
most p~retentious vaudeville offering
to date. in preparation for initial pres
entatlon in this country at a leading
vaudeville theatre In about on" week.
II is entitled the Colbert and Sulli-
van Revue" and consists of popular
selections from a variety Of operas
by the celebrated lihrettist and COM
poser, woven into a novel story by
Charles Forester and interpreted ny n
cast of owe fifty players. This in
a%uguration of the vaudeville summer
operate season aims to render tho
most representative hearing of Gill
bert and sullivan works yet attempted,
for il combines in ono piece early
and mature compositions. II uses oX-
cerpts from "Pinafore." THE Condo
liers," THE Mikado." Patience" "The
Pirates NJ Ponzancc" and %"Iolanthc.''
Among the principals engaged Ia
present the Gilbert and Sullivan
Revue" are Kathryn Irving and Yer
o Dalhart. Frances Golden. Louise
Kay, Betty Smallcy. Vera Roberts,
Charles Hampden, George j, Williams,
William c. Reid and Thomas Lewis.
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AT THE
DE DAHSE &.

postman deposited In the nox Office a
letter carrying this typewriter super
scription:
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN.
4Sth 81. Theatre,
New York City.
22j Fifth Avenue.
New York, y. Y,
u. s. A.
An inserted visiting card revealed
the interesting fact that the writer
is a representative of the Orient, and
the letter inscribed upon the handsome
official stationery Of a Consulate run
thus.
225 Fifth Avenue. New York.
May -. 1915.
Sir Arthur sullivan, New York city.
My Dear Sir: Having received auto-
Graphed photographs from numerous
prominent men Of America. among them
President Wilson. Theodore Roosevelt.
Thomas Edison. Frank Knight Sturgis.
Joseph II. Choate, Elihu Root, Seth Low,
Andrew Carnegie. John ID. Rockefeller.
!. ?. Morgan, | desire very much To pos
iess your photograph also. | shall al
ways prize II very highly and place IL
NJ a handsome frame among my treas
ures.
Slpllu EItdNN appreciate u you
would kindly indicate or the photo
graph that It is presented to me by
YOU. the other photographs I have mem
toned being so inscribed.
Thanking you in advance, ! remain,
Faithfully yours,
Supplementing the missive and Wis
ting card was a long. printed biogra-
ply and eulogium with the writer
as its subject. and prepared in the
most ornate OF we boys terms.
From his document the reader learns
that the writer has been in bust
ness in New York city since 1857:
that under his careful and astute
management" this business has pros
pered amazingly; and that he is "a
d~escendcnt Of one OF the oldest Ar
menian a~ristocratic families"
Still further. he is a generous donor
to charities. especially for his "
countrymen. besides taking are II %
orphans'-identity OF the orphans not
specified.
And finally. ne is very democratic
and broad in his views. of tho highest
character. with an enviahle reputation
in the business world above reproach
In his own country he is looked upon
as a statesman of great ability. and
particularly in the Oriental colonies
in America he is considered a man Il
high ability. lie is considered an art
c%onnoisscur and world renowned "X-
pert on Persian rugs and tapestries
Mr.. Brady's press department arises
10 remark that when 1t comes ~
knowledge of the present state Of W
s. Gilbert and Arthur sullivan there
does not seem to he a wide margin
Of difference between "A very short
Brooklyn girl with n high soprano
voice and n foreign apotNoosis Of the
virtues and many Of tho gifts oi
supernatural greatness denied To tho
common herd,
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forever. so strcngly do : cons,n,
sensationalism o' any sort, and NJ.
l!evc that | have demonstrate tr3t 6
has no place In art. | think thar p,.
been part of my That ! ls.
been able in eve years to gradps,,
from a small miaing town to- my ,.b
theatre in New York gives m. Pic
right to believe IN my " thc.rn
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some production, my resolution took
me out West, where, in Chicago, I
finally succeeded in getting a manager
10 have sufficient confidence in my
female acting quality. ] played the
opposite parts to those OF Eddie Foy
for several seasons, and at last sue
ceeded in utterly eliminating the
prejudice in favor OF trousers" Miss
Rawlston cites her own experience as
an object lesson OF the danger OF an
actor specializing, particularly In an
extraordinary line of business. While
the popularity lasts 1t is all right, but
afterward nobody will believe that
the artist can do anything else n
he is often left high and dry in IVA
sequence.
wearing trousers on the stage for
so many years had its disadvantages
in another way, for when l did at
last succeed in getting a manager to
entrust me with a petticoat part l
found 1t very difficult to accustom my
self to the encumoiance. For quite
a time ! felt awkward every time !
went on the stage, and on n occasion
remember being a little late for one
Of my entrances. and In the hurry. for
getting that | had skirts on, I caught
my foot In the train and made a pre-
cipitatc entry onto the stage, landing
On my uose. which some people out in
the front thought was a very humor-
Gus fea., but which horribly discon-
certed me, as you may wei judge.
However, I got over the strangeness
OF them, and now. provided that they
are wide enough. / am generally able
to navigate in them"
Probably the first presentation in
America of a play of Euripides in a
Gilbert Murray translation was "Elec-
ira given by the Coburn Players at
the Hudson Theatre, New York city.
In November, 1910. The production
was simple but impressive and Greek
in effect. The Coburn Players have
since presented this play, as well as
"Iphigenia in Tauris,' by the same au-
thor and translator. under the aus-
pices OF most OF the important uni
versities and colleges in the United
States.
The New York public has surprised
De Wolf Hopper and his manager,
William A. Brady, by its responsive
ness to the Gilbert and Sullivan call
Thus upon no less than three occasions
since the opening of Mr.. Hopper's EN-
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Dainty Marie has been engage. f,-
the .Jardin de Dlnsc on the N"N Yorl
Theatre by william Morris. Dainty
Marie has just completed a 'onr rapic.
vile engagement. Among other r,.
with the Jardin do Dansc arc 1lrs.
M~cIlwaine. Gladys Lester. |l.ar-'.e
Matthews, Dave Gcnaro. Tholmu c.,
ton. Helene Wohlford, j. HcrYcy Hum,
and Lucie Carter.