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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-04-11
Devil. Lake Wishes
To Cut City Expenses

Devils Lake, N, D., April Ill
Juggling with the problem of reduce
ing the city expenses. the. commission
has decided to make an effort to sell
the old city hall and in some manner
put! all the city Offices under one
roof. The plan most favored issthat
of moving the Offices ofSthe city Of
ficials into the fire department build
ing. Co., ret% 1855
The proposition of erecting a new
city hall building is being considered.
but it is not thought likely that the
building will be built inside of. three
years. 80 50. ..
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-04-11
'MANDANITES PAY .
READILY INTO BIG
CITY BOOSTER FUND

Mandan, N. D., April lin a
drive for $4,000, conducted< My the
Mandan Commercial club, all but
three hundred dollars vas raised in
q few days time.
: Joseph NJ. Devine, former governor
Of North Dakota and. at present SUI
~perintendent OF the state training
school, unable to get down town on
account Of illness. phoned Secretary
he wished to contribute. his share, Mr..
Devine's spirit in the matter being
that Of a great many men not living
i nthe city proper, but who are inter
ested in the welfare of the commu-
nifty.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-04-11
DENIED MCEyNSE.

Supef1or, Wis. April 1.-THE Wis-
eoonsin real estate brokers' board has
denied the application Of the "A. wise
lone of the largest dealers in lands n
north Wisconsin, sfor a license to do
reAlsesfate business in: the state, Glare
sWildners president Of the board, an
snounced here today. s? @
Denial OF the realtya license followed
two series Of meetings at Hayward,
Wis, during which, It Is alleged In
weighed into selling their lands below
a fair price.
Decision to deny the license Va
reached at, q meeting Of the board in
milwaukee Saturday.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-04-11
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Ends All
Corns
Just AS Good For Calluses
Money Back IF It Fails.

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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-04-11
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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-04-11
Noonan Buys Land
For Baseball Park

Noonan, N. D., April la deal
has been closed here whereby the city
of Noonan. has acquired a tract Of
land within the city limits for a base
ball ground. The boys have been
busy rolling and leveling of the sur
face and hope to have a good dia-
mond for the seasons games.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-04-11

tho oars.nen Of. the Duluth Boat
club. Prsident wallace Quimby Of the
Duluth Boat club announced today.
Coach Harry Vail OF the Badger
crews accepted tho local clubs invt-
3tattOn when he decided mot, to enter
his men in the annual. tntercoleS1Ate
sresatfa rs Sc held al Poughkeepsie
June 49,. Mr.. ouimby said. The
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-04-11

E. no SEND TWO CREWS.
versity, Of Wisconsin win send two
crews, a senior eight Ind a Junior
eight, to Duluth to compete against
The Nome nugget., 1921-07-02
ALASKAN WINTERS
 RIGHT FOR GOATS

Joseph T. Bauer owner of goat ranch on Chichagof Island, makes the claim that he has experEnented with the animals during a hard winter without shelter or food and that they came through .he experience in fine shape. He is of the opinion that goats
 will thrive where deer will perish, ac- cortling to The Pathfinder an Alaska magazine. ''Mr Bauer" the journal says.
 thinks that goat raising in Alaska is entirely practicable as he says he
 has been raising thenf with the ut most success for the past five years and is of the opinion that there should be |, goat in every home in Alaska.
 If every island from Dixon Entrance
 to the head of Lynn Canal was fully stocked with goats every ship going
 south would have a capacity load 'of fresh meat and hides
 "He claims that the animals in Alaska are very prolific and that from five goats last year he raised fourte. II kids If the, kids are allowed all the milk they wish, kid will dress thirty pounds in two months, and roast kid is the meat par excellence. he says.
 Coat milk, according to MT. Bauer. if care is taken in the milking. is next .nly to Jersey mil; in flavor. and is one of the best milks both for infants and adults. It is not uncommon for a goat to give q g,llon of milk 2 day"
The Nome nugget., 1921-07-02
ROAD COMMISSION TO INSTALL WIRELESS IN
 ISOLATED SECTIONS

Six sets of wireless apparatus have been secured from the Government by the Ala ska Road Commission for use in Alahka. according to Southern AL aska journal. which says: Two of these sets will be installed at McGrat h and ophir. in the Innoko district: two at Cache Creek and Talkcetna, con- meeting the Cache Creek district with the Government railroad telegraph line; and two sets to Riley Creek. in the k.lntishna district
 The public will be permitted the use ofthese wireless stations, as there are no other means of communication from these points, except by messen- gers, who are compelled to make long and arduous trips to reach the nearest
The Nome nugget., 1921-07-02
REINDEER THRIVE WHERE
 CATTLE WOULD FREEZE SOLID

Alaska. along with is o.her many re sources, has been mentioned more than once as the futur, supply source of meat for the markets of the world because of it's possibilities in raising reindeer. In the recent Weekly News Letter published by the United States department of agriculture is the fol- lowing interesting sketch about the reindeer industry. says an Alaskan ex- change.
 When Alaska becomes so cold thai an ordinary Jersey COW would freeze solid without struggle. the reindeer blows a cloud of steam over his shoulders and wonders when thereil be an end to the muggy weather. Nor is the reinder dependent upon corn filled silos and cottonseed meal for his winter ration. He asks only q chance to get out on the frosty bar ren. where he can scrape the snow from the frozen moss. and he'll obtain his own ration for the long eight months of cold weather. These are the attributes which make the rein deer the domestic animal of the ma lives of Alaska. to whom some form
The Nome nugget., 1921-07-02

ness will rank with the fishing and mining in importance in the North. says the Juneau Empire.
 Alaska shipped last year into the markets of the country and to the Government hints and assay offices products to the value of s6s. .oO0. 900, mostly fro mour mines and fisheries which are capable of almost unlimited further development. It s estimated by the Forestry Bureau that South eastern Alaska alone is capabIe f producing for export 1,5o0.0O0 tons Of, paper Il year. At present prices this would be worth about s200.000,010 at the mills Now Dr. Nelson estimates that the reindeer industry will add it's f0.0O0.000 or more. We have no. yet begun to ship coal or oil. and there are possibilities in the agriculture line. Then millions should be coming into the Territory from Tourists each summer. It is not outside the realms of possibility that q half billion dol lars ;t year will be coming 70 Alaska each year within the next score of years or less without taking into ac- count money seeking investment.
 No country in the world offers greater promise to her people than Alaska offers to those who stay with her
The Nome nugget., 1921-07-02
TRACTORS WILL SOLVE
 FRElGHTING PROBLEMS

"A solution of the transportatio United States railroad will be found in the five and ten-ton tractor. thinks Colonel J. C. Gotwals, of the Alaska Road Commission. who besides mush- ing dogs all over the hard places in fnterior Alaska to ascertain winter conditions, is also making study of the question of transportation after roads are built. according to the Path finder of Alaska.
 Tn the Interior with the light snowfall and continued cold weather says Colonel Go.wais. the f1ve> and ten-to tractor of the army type would be of great use. especially where the freight haul is large. Assuming tha. the five-ton army tractor with five four-ton trailers is used. the entire cost would be about $r0.000, The train would be capable of transporting twenty tons at not less than three miles
 
 miles pe- hour This, in addition to the fact that the tractor standing idle consumes TO gasoline or oil. as the horse standing consumes hay and grain.
 "'rherc gre places where such ship ments are needed. and g. real economy over horse and dog freishting is pos- Broad Pass by the A. F.. C. is 1lium- mating in illustrating the possibility of the tractor. Indeed, the hauling of only twenty tons at certain places in Alaska would make q swing in one trip almost equal to the cost of the outfit"
The Nome nugget., 1921-07-02
HISTORIC TOWN OF THE
 YUKON TO BE SluIcED
Grand Forks Will This Summer Give Wey Before Hydraulic Machinery

The statement made recently by AL bo't J. Peck that the famous old placer townsite of Bonanza. better Known in the Dawson district as Grand Forks. is soon be hydrauliced
 and thus buried beneath thousand of
 tons of gravel, serves 10 recall the
 Discussing the work that is to be q ,nc this coming summer. MT. Peck sta. cd that scores of men will be employed
 in the hydraulic work. and regarding the old town of Grand Forks. he said:
 "The Fo'ls surely has history seldom excelled in frontier romance. The colorful days when the old Cola Hill. and the Northern. and many other resorts, and big department stores and
 elaborately furnished cafes, theatres
 and other tokens of intensive life con trfbuted to the setting. finger only in the memory of the old timers. Mil lions used to come ont of the creeks and hills. and money flowed like water ever the bars and counters in the old Bonanza town.
 "Now the only hostelry of note re-
 maining in the town is the Northern
 where :he genial and indomtable Luke Carlson. of the vintage of sour
 dough days. remains rivited to the
 helm, happily assisted this winter by Miss Nellie Razee. who is charge d'affairs de cuisine.
 The famous old Gold Hill Hotel which was erected in the rush days over a year ago. and the old logs which could tell tales of old time high rollers and aatitud inous stacks of chips or red. blue and white. and the chang ing luck of argonauts at blackjack.
 poker and the spinning wheel, wera tossed into the stove to keep the last of the Mohicans safe against the at tack of 60 degree below zero weather
 last winter.
 ''Old timers who still cling to the
 lure and garner the grains of gold
 from some of the best remaining indi
 vidual claims in the district never tire
 of recalling the spirits who once con
 tributed to the gayety of life in Grand
 Forks. They recite the stories of the
 picturesque life of Harry Bridges Cafe.
 mans and Sylvester's. .and the enter
 taining ways of Frank PhiScator.
 Charley Anderson, Big Alex, and the
 hundreds of other characters of the
 day. The big hotel erected by the
 Countess Carbonneau. the several fiourishing churches, the crimson lights along the hills are gone, and the
 only big buildings remaining are the Northern, the old Kearney building which I have occupied. the Clindnin building and Dright's building, whe@e Cha rley Bell had his headquarters in the distribution of the Dawson News to every man in every cabin. A few
 scattered shacks complete the closing we
 'Eoys still mining on the creeks in an individual way, however. have good pay. and are getting out dumps very
 much worth while, and deserve every
 credit. Their perseverance, and their faith is constantly rewarded"
The Nome nugget., 1921-07-02
AIAskA's PROMISE
 TO HER PEcPl E

Dr. E. W. Nelson of t'.es United States Biological Survey. estimates that within afew years Alaska's ref :. deer industry will be fu, nishing for export more than forty million dollars worth of meat and hides annually :. When that stage of the industry shall
The Nome nugget., 1921-07-02

telesraph@NsQd telephone fines. The stations will lrove of great benefit to the miners and prospectors of the sec tions where located, as well as facil- tate materially the work of the con- mission. '
The Nome nugget., 1921-07-02

25c and Soc Bargain windows will be ready Saturday.
 A bailon free tO every child in Nome 4th July.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-06-16

/, Harry X Ellis do hereby make this vol
untary statement without promise of inmuni-
~ or threat of violence
Il met Henry B. Smith in Liberal on the
evening of May 23rd, 1921. We put quart of
oil in the car at the Ford filling station. AL
Buchanan put it in. Then we went to Frank
Millers to get some money. l owed Henry
Smith $40, and we were going to collect some
money from Frank Miller. He owed me $13
And then was going to pay Smith out of that
We drove west III miles and then we turned
south and overtaken Frank Miller horseback,
about 100 yards south of the corner. l didn't
recognize Frank until we got right at him and
then he hollered at us. We stopped the car.
spoke a few words to him while | was in the
car and then l got out and we stepped around
behind the car and told him what come out
there for, and he said he didn't have it and
couldn't pay me then and told him that he
had promised to pay me and told him he
ought to pay me that evening He said he want
ed to see me minute, and he rode over to the
fence and tied his horse and called me back
away from the car, and he said he was glad
] brought Smith out, il was worth thousand
dollars to him. He said he was going to kill
him and asked him why and he said him and
Smith had had trouble up here in town, and |
talked with him and tried to reason with him
and tried to talk him out of it, and he said |
had to kill him myself. Then told him |
couldn't; that me and the omltn boy nau
been friends and went to school together. He
said that if didn't that he would kill me and
the Smith boy. Then he pulled out a gun
and said had to do it or he would kill me.
Then asked him how would kill him and he
told me to knock him in the head with some
thing. asked him for his gun and he said he
wouldn't let me have 1t and I went back to the
car and Miller followed me and stood right be-
side the car and Smith looked off to the east
and shot him in the back Of the head. l got
out of the car and Miller pulled Smith out and
drug him around the hill, OH the west side of
the hill, then he came back and wanted me to
help him and told him / wouldn't do it and
got me to drive the car around there, and Mil
Ter says "he aint dead YETI. He says 'give me
your pistol and will finish him up" | hand
ed him the pistol and he shot him in the side
of the head. Smith was not dead yet, he was
still breathing Then Miller handed me my
gun back, then Miller gazed at him minute or
two and then took his pocket knife and made
two or three slashes at his throat; then Miller
loaded him on the side of the car himself, and
1 held one wrist and Miller the other Miller
had one foot on the inside of the car and his
other leg out around Smiths body to hold him
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-06-16
Second Confession

on the running board and he told me to drive
over to them trees. l drove over that way and
drove up to that old hole and he told me toI
stop and when got there at the hole and he
got out and pulled him in the hole. He caught
hold of Smith with both hands and drug him
in the hole and when he pulled him in he got
blood on his left knee and then he covered him
up with them old tumble weeds. Then he got
on the side of the car and backed out to that
old angle and | went northwest on that angle
and when | come to the road running east and
west turned east till came to the corner
where we had first turned south and went
straight south to Miller's house When | got
the car out to the angle Miller got off and walk
ed over to his horse and, Miller told me to make
this circle around so as to cover the tracks OF
the car, and when got to Miller's house he
had got there with his horse He was Just
turning his horse in the lot when got there.
He come out to the car and talked to me. He
told me to go up to Parkers and let on like
was inquiring where he was and he would 60
up to RUDE Rawlins And stayed up to Park
er's about twenty or thirty minutes and come
back to his house and he hadn't got back yet,
and drove on over to Mr. Folks and stayed
over there until about II o'clock and ! come
back to Frank Millers and he was still up out
in the yard west of the house, north of the Gel
lar. He come out to the car where was and
talked with me about Is or 20 minutes. He
asked me where had been and told him
had been over to Mr.. Folks We went in the
house and stayed in there about Is minutes
before we went to bed. He asked me about
the rest of Henry Smiths folks He asked me
how many brothers and sisters he had and l
fold him then about going TO school with Henry
Smith, He said he would take the car to Hook
er the next morning and then we went IN and
went to bed. told him just befor we went to
bed that felt like we was both going to get
caught, and he said that if didn't tell he didn't
think we would ever get caught He said for
me to never tell no difference what was done
to me and he said he would never tell, then we
went, to bed. We got up little after sun-up
and went over to Sam Green's for breakfast
We went from there to Clarence Browns and
come back by Mr.. Bray's and stopped there
little while and then came back to Franks and
stayed there about 30 minutes, then he said he
thought we had better try and get that car into
Hooker. He drove it from here to Shumway's
and we stopped at mud hole before we got
to Shumway's and he washed some of the
blood off the car and put water in the car at
Shumway's and throwed another dipper full
of water on the car where the blood was and
drove the car after we got to Shumway's until
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-06-16

we got to the Tyrone road that led into Tyrone
from the west and then he got out and told
me to write that letter, the second one, and he
said he was going into Tyrone and he said for
me to take the car into Hooker that they know
ed him in Hooker and he couldn't 60 down
there He told me to leave the car in the name
of H. H. Brown and he told me to have it wash
ed and have the batteries charged. and he told
me TO mail the letter when got to Hooker,
left Miller there and don't know where he
went from there. I haven't seen him since. l
got into Hooker about II O'Clock and en-
qllired of man by the name Of Murphy where
could leave the car to have it washed and
shined and the batteries charged and he show
ed me the garage and | took ii down there and
give them the order and give in the name as
H. H. Brown and went from there to the res
taurant and eat my lunch and then | wrote
this other letter and went from there to the
barber shop. just set there in the barber shop
/ didn't get shaved, and went from there to
the depot and bought me ticket for Liberal.
| come in Liberal on No. 2 when got in my car
and started home and was caught in the rain
at Art Franks and drove in there and there
is where stayed all night Tuesday night /
went home Wednesday evening and we went
fishing and never got back until about II
o'clock Wednesday night, and Thursday morn
ing l listed for papa and Thursday evening
about four o'clock me and Ted PUNK went
out to Mr. Folks to take the Folks girls to
Hooker to show. Me and Ted got back home
night and Friday morning taken
sick and was brought to the hospital Friday
evening and here is where have been ever
since.
Question by Mr.. Morgan: Was there a
;ream can in the car. Yes there was; Miller
aiken it out and throwed it out south of the
Dad
0. What became of the tag off the car?
A. taken that off Tuesday morning be-
ore got to Hooker
O. What did you do with it?
A. | threw il out i'm the wheat field. |
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Third Confession

the money. That is all that was done about
that until this come up about Henry Smiths
murder. On the Friday before Smith was
murdered, was out in the Folk neighbor-
hood. saw Miller Friday morning, and he
told me to bring Henry Smith out there Mon
day evening and he told me that he was going
to murder Henry Smith himself He told me
to bring that gun of papa's along. | met
Henry Smith here in town Monday then
talked to Henry about it. He was anxious to
60 out there himself told him would put
the oil and gas in the car and he said, no, he
would pay for il himself. II was about an
hour by sun when we started out and he was
murdered just as have told you in other
statement, right south of the corner where we
overlook Miller on horseback. Miller told me
to come out of Liberal on the road straight
west and he says to come late Monday even
ing. That night when Miller and went to
bed. Miller laid his gun up on the shelf.
The above statement is made by me free
ly, voluntary without threat of violence or
promise of immunity or favor
HARRY X. ELLIS,
(The above statement was made by Har-
ry X. Ellis in our presence and read to him in
our presence and signed by him in our pres
c. F. Parker. b. L. Rezeau, C. E. Prime.
On Wednesday. May 25th. 1921 heard
the Smiths ring on the telephone and listened
in on the conversation and it was Pete Smith
and his mother talking. Pete told his mother
that they had found Henry; that he had been
Knocked in the head, but he was alright. and
all he remembered was that somebody
knocked him in the head and took his car
from him.
Witnesses:
C. F. Parker, B. L. Rezeau C. E. Prime.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-06-16

Q. Did you start to take that tag off at
any time before this?
A. Yes started to take it off at his place
and he did not want it taken off there. he start
ed to take it off himself when he got off the
car on the Tyrone road, but there was wagon
coming from the east and he didn't do it and
ne told me to take it off before | got into
Hooker.
Q. When you got in the car and started
off did you look back to see what had become
of Miller? ,-,-,....-'-.---',-
A. looked back twice and he was still
standing there by the corner.
q How close was this wagon to him
when you last saw him? ,,~afsn
A. About $50 yards. "a
Q. But it was going right toward him y
A. Yes
.. What became of Smiths cap?
A.. Miller threw it out beside the road
where Smith was shot
2. On Thursday following this murder
did you stop at any place between Liberal and
Folks?
A. | stopped at Parker's
Q. What for?
A. To find out where Miller was.
Q. What did you want of Miller?
A. | wanted to know where he was so
wouldn't meet up with him with those girls
Q. Did you find out anything about him?
n lHcy tOlu Tic lie llau leIt the mlQuIe
of the evening, horseback.
Q. Did they say what way he went?
A. They didn't know.
The above statement consisting of five
typewriter pages, was given by me in the pres
ence of w. S. Morgan, Carter Prime and C.. T.
Parker, freely, voluntarily, without and threat
Of violence or promise of favor or immunity,
and is true and correct statement of all my
actions so far as they concern the murder of
Henry r Smith IN Nav O9rd 100
Liberal. Kansas, June TO- 1921
HARRY X. ELLIS,
Witnesses
CT. Parker, w. S. Morgan Garter Prime