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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-03-30
I'm THE SPRING

will be the great test of life and death
struggle on the Western front. In the
everyday walks of life, it is the spring
time that brings i'll health. One of the
chief reasons why the rundown man
finds himself in bad state of health in
nearly all his hours for the past four or
five months penned up within the walls
of house, factory or office. 1t is the rea-
son for our diminished resistance-that
is, lack of outdoor life, coupled with
perhaps over-eating, lack of good exer-
else, insufficient sleep, and constipation.
In other words, we keep feeding the
furnace with food but do not take. out
the ''clinkers," and our fire does not burn
brightly. Always keep the liver active.
There is nothing better for health than
taking an occasional mild laxative, per-
haps once week; such a one as you
can get at any drug store, made up OF
May apple, jalap, aloes, (sugar-coated,
tiny, easily taken J, which has stood the
test Of fifty years of approximately,
Pr Pierces Plea Plea 5; 1T Pellets But for for
condition, the lack of ambition, the
"blues," one should take a course of
treatment every spring; such a standard
tonic as DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery, now to be had in tablet form in
sixty-cent walls. Watch the people go
plodding along the street. There's no
spring, no vitality. A vitalizing tonic such
as this vegetable extract of Or. Pierce's
gives you the power to force yourself into
action. The brain responds to the new
blood in circulation, and thus you're ready
to make a fight against stagnation which
holds you in bondage. Try it nowi Don't
wait! Today is the day to begin. Gain a
little pep" and Ia rgh and live. "Vim and
vitality are the natural out-pouring of
healthy body. It does not spring up in a
night. Try this spring tonic, and you gain
the courage that comes with good health.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-03-30

varying from pin-pOint size to the big
ness of a grain of wheat.
"That's the stuff" Bill murmured
'It looks as if we'd struck it pretty
fair. It's time, too-the June rise viii
hit us like a whirlwind one of these
days."
"About what is the value of those
little pieces?" Hazel asked.
"Oh, fifty or sixty CENTS" he an
swered. "Not much by itself. But il
seems to be uniform over the bar
and can wash a good many pans ir
days work"
81 should think so," she remarked
"It didn't take you ten minutes to dc
that one"
"Whitcy Lewis and I took out ovel
two hundred dollars a day on tina,
other creek last spring-nO, a year last
spring, it was" he observed reminis
Gently. "This isn't as good, but it's not
to be sneezed at, either. I think I'll
make me a rocker"
81 can help, can't II" she said ca
gerly.
"Sure," he smi.ol. "You help lot
little person, just sitting around ant
keeping me company"
"But want to work." she declared
1--WE sat around now till I'm getting
the fidgets."
"All right; I'll give you a job" he
returned good-naturedly. Meantime
let's eat that lunch you packed ur
here"
In branch Of the creek which
flowed down through the basin, BIZ
had found plentiful colors as soon as
the first big run-off Of water had fallen
He had followed upstream painstak'
ingly, panning colors always, and now
and then a few grains of coarse gold
to encourage him in the quest. The
loss of their horses precluded rangina
far afield to that other glacial stream
which he had worked with Whitley
Lewis when he was q free lance in the
North. He was close to his base OF
supplies, and he had made wages
with always the prospector's lure OF
a rich strike on the next bar.
''In the morning" said he, when
lunch was over, "I'll bring along the AK
and some nails and a shovel, and get
busy"
+ That night they trudged down to the
cabin in high spirits. Bill had washed
out enough during the afternoon to
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-03-30

blurred hollow IN the distance. But
he uttered no useless regrets. With
horses they could have ridden south
through rolling country, where every
stretch of timber gave on a grass
grown level. Instead they were forced
back over the rugged route by which
they had crossed the range the sum-
mer before. Grub, bedding, furs and
gold totaled two hundred pounds. On
his sturdy shoulders Bill could pack
half that weight. For his wife the
thing was a physical impossibility,
even had he permitted her to try.
Hence every mile advanced meant that
he doubled the distance, relaying from
one camp to the next. They cut their
bedding to blanket apiece, and that
was Hazel'S lOad--all he would allow
her to carry.
You're no pack mule, little person."
he would say. 'It don't hurt me. I've
done this for years."
But even with abnormal strength
and endurance, it was killing work to
buck those ragged slopes with a heavy
load. Only by terrible, unremitting eff
fort could he advance any appreciable
distance. They were footsore, and
their bodies ached with WEAKNESS that
verged on pain when they gained the
pass that cut the summit of the Klap-
pan range.
swell, we're over the hump" Bill re-
marked thankfully. ''It's a downhill
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-03-30
HAZEL AT0NES FOR HER TH0UGHTLEssNES BY MAX
ING A LUCKY "STRIKE"

living Granville,
Ontario placed cloud for which
entirely bameess To the roundess that
Roaring Bill" Wagstaf weknown of the
while walking the
She Bits"
but she
After
Roaring B finally admits that he taking
o arrival at
wilderness
Roaring Bill treats Hazel with the
In the he takes her Bella Cooa
WagstaH
Roaring Bi is oveoyed and to-
and married After
farther to
destination, Bill
till
stable which
animals death
S shoot them. Is
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-03-30

make respectable showing on Hazel's
outspread handkerchief. And Hazel
was in gleeful mood over the fact
that she had unearthed big nugget
by herself. Beginners luck, Bill said
teasingly, but that did not diminish
her elation.
AS the Gays passed there seemed no
question of their complete s1ccess.
Bill fabricated his rocker. primitive,
boxlike device with a blanket screen
and transverse Stats below. 1t was
faster than the pan, even rude as it
was. and it caught all but the finer
particles of gold.
A queer twist of luck put the CAP
sheaf on their undertaking. Hazel ran
q splinter of wood into her hand, thus
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-03-30

"EOok!"
shoot to the Skeena. I don't think it's
more than fifty or sixty miles to where
we can take to the water"
They made better time on the west
ern slope, but the journey became a
matter Of sheer endurance. Food was
Scanty-flour and salt and tea; with
meat and fish got by the way. And
the black flies and mosquitoes
swarmed about them maddeningly day
and night.
So they came at last to the Skeena,
and Hazel's heart misgave her when
she took note of it's Swirling reaches,
the sinuous eddies-a deep, swift,
treacherous stream. But Bill rested
overnight, and in the morning sought
and felled stable cedar, and began
to hew. Slowly the thick trunk
shaped itself to the form of a boat
under the steady swing of his ak.
In week it was finished. They
loaded the sack Of gold, the bundle of
furs, their meager camp outfit amid
ships, and swung off into the stream.
The Skeena drops fifteen hundred
feet in a hundred miles. Wherefore
there are rapids, boiling stretches of
white water in which MANY a good
canoe has come to grief. Some Of
these they ran at imminent peril. Over
the worst they lined the canoe from
the bank. And in the second week
of July they brought up at the head
of Kispiox Canon. HaZeltOn lay a few
miles below. But the KispiOx stayed
them, Sluice box cut through old
stone, in which the waters ragged with
a deafening roar. No man ventured
into that wild gorge. They abandoned
the dugout. Bill slung the sack of
gold and the bale Of furs on his back.
Its the last lap, Hazel" said he.
"We'I leave the rest of it Cor the first
Siwash that happens along"
SO they set out bravely to trudge
the remaining distance. And as the
fortunes Of the trail sometimes be-
fall, they raised an Indian camp on
the bank of the river at the mouth OF
the canon. A ten-dOllar bill made
them possessors of another canoe, and
an hour later the roofs OF Hazelton
cropped up above the bank.
"Oh, Bill" Hazel called from the
bow. 'Look! There's the same Old
steamer tied to the same old bank.
We've been gone a year, and yet the
world hasn't changed a mite. / Won
der if Hazelton has taken a Rip van
Wrinkle sleep all this timer"
mo fear he smiled. Il can see
some new houses-quite e.v, in fact.
And lool1--by Jiminyl They're work
ing on the grade. That railroad, re-
member?"
He drove the canoe alongside float.
A few loungers viewed them with
frank curiosity. Bill set out the treas
ure sack and the bale of furs, and tied
the canoe.
"a new hotel, by Jove" he re-
marked, when upon gaining the lever
of the town a new two-story building
blazoned with huge sign its func-
ton as hostelry. Getting quite
metropolitan in this neck of the woods.
Say, little person, do you think you
can relish a square meal? Pianked
steak and lobster salad-huh? l Won
der if they could rustic salad in this
mans town? Say, do you know J'p
jrss beginning to find out how hungry
| arr for the flesh-pots. Aren't you,
honp
She was; frankly SO. For long,
monotonous months she had been
struggling against just such cravings,
impossible of realization, and there
fore all the more tantalizing. She had
been year in the wilderness. aud
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-03-30
(TO BE CONTINUED1
"poctorinao Heliotrope.

The delicate heliotrope is scarce and
improbable to the perfumer. He de-
tects in its odor, however, the aroma
of vanilla combined with the sharper
scent of bitter almonds. Therefore, he
adds to a tincture of vanilla a small
quantity of the otto of bitter almonds
and rose and orange flower essence,
and thus easily makes extract Of lelio-
trOpe.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-03-30
Mot So Rad

"Target No. was the one to shoot
at and you hit target No. ~ said the
captain.
eyes, sir" replied the cross-eyed pri-
vate.
Didn't you look where you were
shooting?"
mo, sir, shot where l was looking"
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-03-30

Bill suddenly realizes that
Hazel is tired of the wilderness
and he decides on move that is
to have big effect on their
later lives. A hint of what is to
come is given in the next INSTALL
ment.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-03-30
CHAPTER XIII.
The Stress of the Trail,

Roaring Bill dumped his second pack
on the summit of the EIappan, and
looked away to where the valley that
opened out Of the basin showed its
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-13
COOPERATIVE
STORE ATDETROIT
IN LIQUIDATION
Stockholders of Farmers
Store Decide to Quit
Losing Business
Especial to The Forum. }

Detroit, Mimi, Feb. 1S.-The De-
troIt Cooperative Store Co. is in vol
untary liquidation after two years OF
unsuccessful business. H. s. Ericl0-
son. cashier of the Security State
bank, the trustee selected by the
stockholders. has asked for sealed
bids on the stock and fixtures to be
opened on Fec. 20. It will be neces-
sary to levy an assessment, estimated
at from 25 to 80 per cent on the cap
ital stock, to pay up the deficiency.
Liquidation was decided upon at the
annual meeting Of the stockholders in
January, after the manager of the
store had reported that the business
had been a losing venture practically
all the time 1t had been in operation.
Much of the wooden goods, bought be-
fore the war, could not be duplicated
today in quality, is the opinion of
dealers familiar with these lines.
There are over 100 stockholders in
the company, most of them Becker
county farmers. The company was
organized about two years ago. and
the store formerly conducted by
Munson Bros. was purchased.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-13
UNITED STATES
TERM OF COURT
OPENED TODAY
Wahpeton Damage Suit
First Called Great
Northern Defendant
GRAND JURY
BEGINS WORK
Four Cases Dismissed and
One Continued Over to
Next Term

The federal grand jury and the
petit jury began their respective sit
tings in the United States district
court this morning. The impaneling
Of the grand jury was completed
Tuesday morning, and that Of the
petit jury this morning.
From the large number of wit
nesses summoned to Fargo on sub
poenas in connection with violations
Of the bone-dry act and their desire
to have their evidence before the
grand jury as soon as possible in or
der to return to their homes, it is be-
lieved that the body is today hearing
liquor violation cases. This is given
further credence by the officers from
the different cities who arrived with
bottles in their possession to offer as
evidence.
The case Of Frank J. Schmitt of
Wahpeton, administrator Of the estate
OF Anna Schmitt, deceased, was be-
gun in the federal court this morn
ing, the Great Northern Railway COM
ton for $4,000 damages. 1t is al
legged that the woman was killed when
struck by Great Northern train at
the Second street crossing in Wah-
peton on Nov. IL. 1915. She was with
party Of six going to a wedding by
auto.
The plaintiff claims that the wo-
man leaped from the automobile to
the crossing and that her left foot
became wedged between the rail and
n plank. She was struck by the en-
CINE and died several days later The
car containing the other members of
the party was carried a distance of
q block, none of them suffering SER
ious injuries. The plaintiff alleges
that the train was running at an ex-
Cessive rate of speed.
Wolfe & Schneider Of Wahpeton,
are appearing for the plaintiff, and
Murphy e. Toner Of Grand Forks. for
the defendant. The case will be con-
cluded Tuesday, half the plaintiffs
testimony being in at the noon hour
today.
Cases dismissed in the federal
court this morning were Northern
Pacific Railway company against B.
c. Kennedy; Chicago, Milwaukee g.
st. Paul VS.. Earl Harnish; Great
Northern Railway company against
M. A. Hildreth and others. and An
ton II. Miller against Murray Broth
ers & Ward Land Co. The case of
John Lowery against Leroy H. Lab !
bitt was continued over the term.
There are sixteen civil cases, eight
criminal actions and seven cases
in equity to be tried at the term.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-13
Moorhead Notes

Otto J. Grover, the Moland township
farmer and Holstein breeder, was one
of the county seat visitors today.
Ash Wednesday service will be held
at st. Johns Episcopal church at 1880
o'clock this evening by Rev. S. J.
Hedelund. rector.
Mrs. H. J. Harris, secretary OF
moorhead chapter Of the Red Cross,
returned this morning from Airing
ton, O., where she was called by the
death of her sister several weeks
ago.
Miss Lulu Wagner is expected back
this afternoon from Wadena, where
she has been conducting a surgical
dressings class for the local Red
Cross chapter.
Mrs. w. A Brendemuhl, of KraEnes
township, was q business visitor in
the city this morning.
Lieut.. Eugene Randall visited yes
terday with Mr.. and Mrs. r. c. Doug
las. He was on his way to Camp
Dodge, having been on a ten days
leave Of absence.
Peter Grassland. proprietor Of the
Lake Park hotel, and his son, S. A.
a jeweler OF the Becker
county village, were business visitors
in Moorhead this morning.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
James F. Fay early this morning.
Victor Johnson, Oakport township
farmer, was a business visitor today.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-13
A. N. BALDWIN,
COOPERSTOWN
MAYOR, DIES
Pneumonia Results In
Death in Fargo Hospi-
tai early This Morning

A. NJ. Baldwin, IS, prominently
known Cooperstown, N. D., attorney,
mayor for three terms, former presi-
dent of the North Dakota Firemen's
association and member Of the North
Dakota house Of representatives in
1915, died in a Fargo hospital at 4
o'clock this morning from pneu-
monia.
Mr.. Baldwin was brought to Far
go January 28 suffering from
rheumatism. Pneumonia developed,
and though an improvement had
been noted in his condition to within
a few hours of his death, a sudden
turn resulted In death. He was I'M
married. Two sisters. Mrs. M. A.
Hartman, Cooperstown, and Miss
Harriet f. Baldwin, San Diego,
Calf. survive. Mrs. Hartman has
been at her brothers bedside, and
guest at the home Of her son, Frank
Hartman, Forum apartments.
p. r. Moore Will ship the remains
10 Cooperstown Thursday morning
where funeral services, arrange
ments for which have not been
made. will be held. The body will
he shipped to the former homo at
Ridgefeld. Ill, for interment.
Mr.. Baldwin had been a resident
of Cooperstown 90 years, and was
serving his third successive term as
mayor Of the city. CooperstoWn
residents attested their regard Of
him by sending him to the state
legislature in 1915. He was former
Iv president OF the North Dakota
FTremen's association.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-13
DAVID MORDEN
DIES AT AGE
OF EIGHTY-FOUR

David II. Morden died Of old age,
Tuesday afternoon, at the home Of
his daughter. Mrs. Emerson H.
Smith.
He was 81 years Of age and had
for the last eight years made his
home with his daughter. His ances-
tors were among the early colonial
settlers who located in New York
state When a boy of Is his grand
father crossed over into Canada and
founded the home of this branch of
the family in Prince Edward county,
Ontario. 1t was there that Mr..
fMorden was born and from there he
went as a pioneer into the uncut
forests Of Bruce county, locating at
.WaIkerton, where he spent the great
er part Of his life. He is survived
by two Of his three children: T. 7.
Morden OF Colgate, Saskatchewan,
and Mrs. Emerson Fl. Smith Of Fargo,
and a granddaughter. Mrs. H, F.
Horner OF Fargo.
Funeral services will be held from
the Emerson II. Smith home. 402
Ninth avenue south, Friday afternoon
at $50 o'clock, The body will be
taken to Walkerton where IL will be
inferred beside that of his wife and
other daughter.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-13
Big DEMAND FOR
FARGO'S BONDS
Fifty Firms Have Asked
About 1918 Issue, Shure
Commission

Improvement bonds of the city of
Fargo, despite war conditions, are
not likely to be a drug on the mar
ket in 1918.
Fifty bond firms have made inquiry
regarding the 1918 issue, and rs have
offered to send representatives with
purchasing propositions, according
to report made to the city COM
mission by w. III. Shure, city attor-
ney, this morning.
Fargo will have approximately
100000 in improvement bonds for
sale this year, representing unhnish-
ed work OF 1917. Less than $4,000 in
bonds have been issued thus far. and
in the absence of contract with any
bonding company, are being held by
Fargo banks.
c. s. Ashman, representing the
Wells-Dickey Co., Minneapolis, which
handled. Fargo's bonds in 1917 and
several years previous, was a visi-
tor at the commission meeting this
and said that while he was
not in a position to make an offer
at this time. he advised the commits
sion against going shopping, add
ing that it might tend to hurt the
market value Of the bonds.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-13
MoorheQd NewS
ANNUAL SHOW AT
CROOKSTON OPEN
Preliminary Features of
Annual Affair Staged
On Monday

Prelfminaries of the Seventh An
nual Farm Crops show, under the
auspices of the Red River Valley De-
velopment association, were held at
Crookston on Monday. The official
program was reached yesterday
with the consideration OF livestock
problems.
The corn and potato contests, open
to all high, graded and consolidated
schools, and the stock judging con-
tests by high school students, were
held on Monday. Clay county was
represented by teams from the Glyn-
don consolidated school, in the corn
and potato judging contest by Rus
sell Fitzsimmons, Max Greening and
Joseph Tabs, and in the stock judg-
ing by Veral Deach, Miller Tate and
Edwin Erickson
Miss Evelyn Johnson, Lake Park,
was the winner of the grand sweep
stakes in the farm crops show essay
contest.
Among the county prize winners
were the following:
Clay County.
Rose Brown, Glyndon. first; Jennie
Grant, Glyndon, second. and Arthur
Glyndon, third.
Becker County.
Ruby Crosby, Usage. first; Ray An
derson, second, and Adele Elton,
Audubon, third.
ottertail County.
Bessie Butler, New York Mills,
first; Edwin Rasmussen, New York
Mills, second, and Emma Andrews,
New York Mills, third.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-13
HOFFMAN and
JOBO GUILTY

Kane Hoffman and Mike Jobo
(Juba), two of the principals in the
coffee case which stirred police cir
Giles last week, were found guilty OF
assault and battery by jury in the
county court Monday afternoon. Both
will be sentenced by Judge A. O..
Hanson Friday afternoon at 2
o'clock.
The complaining witness was Fred
BTazo who stayed at the Hoffman
place. Brazo and Juba refused to
listen to peace overtures from Hoff-
man when they became angry over
a discussion as to the proper length
of time that coffee should boil Hoff-
man, according to the police, then
stepped into the battle. Brazo was
taken to the police station a week
ago this evening smeared with
blood from open cuts.
Olaf KVitten, charged with assault
and battery, was acquitted by the
county court Monday afternoon.
With these two cases disposed of,
the term of county court was adj
journed by Judge A. @. Hanson.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-13

ey which is now attempting to con-
quer the world.
Attorney. O'Connor read from
documents which showed the kaiser
was preparing his country years ago
for "our next war Some OF these
documents were of as recent date
Of 1912. The speaker said the taxa
ton system was changed in the en-
pire so that only the imperial gov
eminent could levy taxes, When this
change was made the government
levied the largest war apprOpria-
tons made by any country in the
history of the world up to that time
and when the country was still at
neaca with the other nations Of the
world.
THE standing army was nearly
doubled at that time" said the
speaker. Then in 1913 despite the
fact that the country was more
prosperous than ever before in its
history the German government
made several loans from other ma
tions and boarded vast sums Of gold
in its vaults. One Of these loans
was for 1000, 900 marks, while an
other was for 350,0OO,0OO marks.
Why DO you think the kaiser was
borrowing this money in 1882"
r Judge Young Speaks.
Judge n. c. Young OF Fargo,
state director for the American Red
Cross, declared in his address at
the loyalty celebration in the af-,
tsrnoon that II the brave Belgiums
had not DECIDED to stand up for
the defense of their rights against
the guns OF the invading Germans,
and had France not unhesitatingly
sent her million and a half men to.
certain death in defense OF her hon.
or. there would be no war to-
day.
s'Thsrs would be no war today"
aafa Judge Young. Instead we would
be raising money to pay heavy in
IDENTITIES to Germany" Judge Young
aid the United States would have
been helpless with England con-
duered. and would have been the
next victim Of the lust Of the Ger
man kaiser and his autoCratie sys-
tenn of conquest and world greed.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-13
PLACE SUPPLIES
UNDER ONE HEAD
j. J. Jordan Named as Pur-
chasing Agent For City
of Fargo Today

The city commission, by resolu-
ton today, named J. J. Jordan, COM
missioner of finance, purchasing
agent for the city of Fargo.
MIR. Jordan, under the resolution,
will have charge OF purchases for
all city departments, and requisi-
lions for supplies will hereafter be
made to him. He will canvass the
local market to secure the best
prices, and will purchase in the
wholesale market when advisable.
Action was taken after a number
of commissioners and department
heads had reported that they believ-
ed they were paying too high a price
for supplies. ..
The commissioners are confident
that hundreds Of dollars will be
saved the city each year under the
new arrangement.