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Evening star., 1928-06-10

Along the entire Fourteenth street front
was erected a high WALL built Of blue
stone, such as is quarried about Wash
| ington. The top was finished with thick
| fiat slabs about 2 feet wide, the wall
varying in height from 3 to possibly 6
| feet. and along its entire length the
| writer, In his youthful days, delighted
to walk. Few people know that very
small portion of this wall Is still stand
ing as the only reminder recall of the
once close proximity OF Columbian COL
lege This small remaining section is
on the Fourteenth street side OF what
Justice John M Harlan of the United
States Supreme Court. The fiat top
has given way to rustic one but below
this remains the original wall.
There were few residences on Four
teenth street from Florida avenue out.
John G. Judd of the firm of Judd &.
Detweiler built residence, about 1884,
on the west side about at the intersec-
ton Of Columbia road. Not many months
later Gen. David G. Swain. the Judge
Advocate General OF the Army, erected
home on the corner of Kenesaw ave-
nue. (now Irving Stree0, and soon aft
erward Brig. Gen. Henry G. Corbin, the
Adjutant General of the Army, took
over the James Gllfllan property. a
little 10 the ncrth. From that time on
gradually tho neighborhood became
built up, though 1t was possible as late
as 1887 to buy ground In this vicinity
for as low as 10 cents a square foot
Mount Pleasant, of course, had been
iaia out sorle time bafcre this, for in
May, 1865, S. P, Brown had a part of
his farm surveyed and put on the mar
ket in building lots. and Washington
Tilley, Ephraim Wheeler and son and
Henry Nicholson were the first pur-
cliasers. Brown gave the subdivision
the name Of Mount Pleasant, but this
was quite likely only repetition OF the
name of the entire tract, as one might
Judge from the following advertisement
appearing in the Globe of October 30,
1886, and which quite likely refers to
this identical piece of property:
"A small farm adjoining Meridian
Hill. called Mount Pleasant, containing
So acres. large part of which is In
wood. and the remainder under culti-
vation. This place Is well suited for the
residence of gentleman of fortune,
having commanding view of the city
and surrounding country, and every ad-
vantage for the display of taste in i'm
provement. IL has in 1t an extensive
collection of choice fruit trees, just be-
ginning to bear, and is in every par
ticular well suited for a dairy and
market farm"
n y n
TT is said that Mount Pleasant was
detached from the patent of Lord
Baltimore, long anterior to the Revolu-
ton, and that it likely descended
through Robert Peter and Eliphas
Douglas to Anthony Holmead." epeak-
ing of the Holmead family and Mount
Pleasant, writer said, half century
ago:
Anthony Holmead had his property
resurveyed April l8. 1795, when 1t ex-
tended across the Seventh street road
on the east, and overlapping the bound
Evening star., 1928-06-10

eiety, of which my father was the
chaplain, and also The meeting place
Of the Mount Pleasant Debating So
ciety. Among the members OF the
society were Frank II. Eoyes, A. A.
Lipscomb, Chaplin Brown, Samuel B.
Milton and many others"
incidentally, Gen. Walbridge's STEP
daughter married Col William B. Cork
hill, Army officer. editor and publisher
OF the Daily Chronicle and United
States district attorney. Col. Corkhill
for a time lived On the Walbridge
estate.
Mr.. Lipscomb says he saw the orig
inal grant to the Hoimead estate In
the library OF William Holmead. "a
descendant Of the patentee, whose
home was about in the center of what
Is now Hoimeads subdivision, where
the Church Base Bail League used to
play some of its most exciting games.
Just few years ago. Like Mount
Pleasant, this subdivision Is now built
up solid. The northeast corner of Park
ROAD and Fourteenth street, where Is
now the Tiyoli Theater, was In the
early days occupied by Holmeads
store.
Nick IN. E.) Young, for many years
base ball leader, lived on Howard ave-
nue., on the corner of what Is now
Sixteenth and Newton streets, the site
now being occupied by tine Eorthbrook
Apartment.
n II k ~
A LWAYS conspicuous figure among
the residents Of Mount Pleasant
for many years. was Maj S. Willard
Sayton, one of the vice presidents oi
the Association of Oldest Inhabitants
and even today he lives nearby at l347
Harvard street. On August l3, Just a
little over two months hence. Mai Sax
ton will have reached his ninety-ninth
year. with every prospect OF bettering
even tha century mark
Mrs. Saxton, who has reached her
Evening star., 1928-06-10
Mongos Swept Down 1000 Miles Through Snow Meet Foe

Segen hundred years ago, Muham-
MAD Shah. the war lord Of Islam.
inquired carioualy, "Wi1o Ii Gengois
Kaan2'' he Was told that Cenghis
Khan was tbe Mongol ch!eftain who
had Led his horde of wild men from
the steppeg OF the Ooh! Desert 10 the
conquest of Cathay. But that meant
3itt1e ~ the great Muhaumad. xll0se
CONAN was then the greatest In the
WpFic Ia1dinegently he put 10 death
sgfne Nofigot traders. Gengf1ag Kilan.
from ms desert camp, sent this nles~
sage ~ t1e gurpriaed ruler. Thou
mart chosen ~aF. That will happen
which Wtll happen" I"
What happened is tod here in the
flftn ~ series oa articles dealing
WITH tlge career Of Gengfig Khan. d
eadef whose coflquests we're more
extensive than ttaoee of Napoleon,
AlezaDGeF gr Caekar.
Evening star., 1928-06-10
Pleasant Inspires Recolectons of Pastoral Condition

as a clerk in the Interior Department,
but gave this up TO practice law. He
was an active citizen and served the
community as treasurer of the Union
Hall Co. t-.
Evening star., 1928-06-10

THE college buildings were finished
around 1922. and for many years
they were the oldest standing In that
vicinity. The college grounds consisted
Of nearly 47 acres of land and extended
from Florida avenue on the south to
shout Columbia road on the north and
from Fourteenth TO Fifteenth street.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-22
New Salem Doctor
Is Still at Large

DR.. Steven Fisher. New Salem
doctor v is wanted on a charge
of performing criminal operation
in Morton county. is still at large,
States Attorney Kelsch, said today.
DR.. Fisher is charged with second
degree murder as the result Of the
death of Mrs. Lawrence Burley,
New Salem schoolteacher-wife, in
Bismarck June II.
Sheriff Handtmann, who arrived in
New Salem Wednesday with a war
rant, found that DR.. Fisher had
learned of the planned arrest the
preceding day and had left.
Lawrence Burley. husband of the
deceased, decided to place the MUIR
der charge against the New Salem
doctor as result of statements
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-22
PIONEER MAY
PULL THROUGH
Casselman Changes for Better
and Continued Improve.
ment Gives Him Chance

A change for the better last
night and continued Improvement in
his condition this morning makes it
probable that WIS. Casselman, Bis
marck pioneer, who has been suffer-
ing from cerebral hemorrhage. will
live, attending physicians said to,
day.
Mr.. Casselman. who was reported
near death yesterday, was stricken
at the fair grounds after delivering
an address Wednesday before the
first crowd gathered at the race
track and was taken to a local hos
pital, where his condition was found
to be critical. He was to have been
an official of the Bismarck Race and
Rodeo association.
Casselman was active last week
in arranging for the institution here
of the Missouri Slope Lodge Of Rose
Croix and in the entertainment of
the visiting clubmen.
Work in this event and arranging
the race meet program taxed his
energy and resulted in his collapse,
physicians said.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-22

Waydeman, Anamoose and Donald
E. Vowles, Towner City.
The examining board is composed
Of F.. w. Gilbertson, Devils Lake.
J. II. Weaver, Bottineau; T. G. Gd
Kennedy, Mandan, and DR.. A. Al
Whittemore, Bismarck.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-22

nual grand lodge sessions in Ma
sonic temple.
Mrs. Guy will succeed Mrs.
Maude NJ. Adams, Grand Forks and
Williams Hall, jamestown, will sue
coed William Shaw, Enderlin. as
worthy grand patron. Mrs. Guy
and Mr.. Shaw have served the
grand chapter s associate worthy
matron and associate worthy patron,
respectively, curing the past year.
Other officers named at morning
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-22

session were Mrs. Mildred John.
son, Killdeer. associate grand
matron; Bruce Mcdonald, as
sociate grarl patron; Mrs.
Ina Crimson, Langdon, grand
conductress, and Mrs. Matilde Kin
nc, associate grand conductress.
Mrs. Minnie Rusk. Fargo, and Mrs.
Cora O. Richmond, Minnewaukan.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-22

license at the annual convention of
the North Dakota Embalmers assoc
citation in Valley City, DR.. A. A.
Whittcmore announced today.
The candidates are Harvey A.
Meddaugh, Wcsthope; Ernest O.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-22
Eastern Star Names
Cakes Woman MatrOn

Fargo, June 22.-(R-Mrs. Kate
Guy. Cakes, was elected grand
worthy matron of grand chapter,
order of E. stern Star, at 34th an
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-22

were reelected grand secretary and
grand treasurer, respectively.
Embalmers Quiz Is
Given to Three Men
Three North Dakota men took ex-
aminations for the state embalmers
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-22

Healy, also Of Grand Forks, who
resigned.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-22

made to him by his wife while she
lay near death in Bismarck, the
states attorney sid.
Funeral services for the deceased
were he'll Wednesday at New Salem.
MULLIGAN SUCCEEDS HEALY
DR.. Thomas Mulligan, Grand
Forks, today was appointed BY Gov
c-.c- A. G. Sorlie be a member
of the state board Of medical ex-
aminers. He succeeds DR.. H. H.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-22
Make this Test
in Your Own Home

Try this wonderful new coffee, and ness
way to prepare more healthful coffee to.
day. Tell your grocer to send you Dripco
Filter and one pound Of Atwood's Coffee,
specially ground for DHpco Filtering.
New Britain herald., 1928-05-04
THE VICTOR" Reproduction of Old English Sporting Cloyns Cocl
terrifying Cockfisht,ng.

eye of an eagle.
 First the heads of the two birds Vsr. sharply brought together, then the hand iers iiers retreated with them to the pitting lines. Then tho referee gave the word. the handlers released their fighters. Both birds strutted warily for a moment, then both flashed into the air at each other.
 They crashed with beating wings, rip- ping feet, slashing peaks; fell back, clashed again. Then suddenly one of the cocks lay still and bleeding - the black fighter. The handlers rushed in.
 "Next came 30-second rest, while the birds e'ere freshened up, wounds were laved, gaffs tested. Then they went at 1t again, and this time the Red Quill made quick work of his adversarv. He shot at the Roundhead like . falcon. Twice he slashed, and both eaifs wers buried in the black birds throat. The wounded cock gurgled, sank forward, aimed last despairing blow at his con. queror. A stream of blood came from bis open beak and he died!
 During that afternoon l saw eleven birds killed outright.
 "The final bout was the most cruel. Two heavyweight roosters had fought nard and clean for five minutes, but they
 "os ouV~eu 70 tt0p.
 One was . White Dom. the other | Warhorse. At the ninth round neither was able to stand up. Then the handlers. by placing their hands under the breasts of the bloody birds. held them . fev inchss apart. This aroused the old 6rhtin1 in- stinct, and the two began slashinr furi. ously at each other with their besks,
 Then they were released, but the Warhorse had given too much. Hs vas game, but his head lolled on one side. and he collapsed again. The White Dom made the final slash. % he won"
 Tho birds are matched according ts weight, and . rooster is eligible for 6sht- ing at the age of ten months, when hs h known as . stag. After another year- If he lives that long>-hs can stick ont nls chest, for he becomes . full cock.
 Here ts . quotation from m aditori.i In one of tho leading magazines devoted to the game: To-day the future If cocL. fighting in America seems briehter than at any time within the memory of man. During the past few years the number of pits in the Northern States has greatly increased: Never before hsve .s many ladies been seen at the fehts"
 The writer calls his favorits nastim. 'one of the most ancient and cer+.;.Iv one Of the clsansst of sports," but hs suggests earnestly that thers should bs no "rowdyism. brawline md drnni.r. ness. , to mar tho fine, brave spirit of the killing contests.
New Britain herald., 1928-05-04

forehead with a knife. Dana was ar- rested and sentenced to serve one year in the House of Correction.
 The story they both told was about as follows: Pedro met Maria few months ago and, from the first, was an impetuous wooer. His love was first expressed (n violent declarations. Then, ss . mark of his ardor. he cut the first initial of her name, M. on his chest, over his heart. After that he suggested that she submit to . branding. Maria demurred. she said, but fin ally her young adoreY forced her to submit He took . sharp pen knife and carved his initials, P. D., on her forehead. just above her left eye. Az she appeared in court the letters, about thres-quarters of an inch high. glowed faintly red.
 This astonishing branding of Maria Thomas b . typical case. Here's another.
 ln Burbank. California, fifteen year-old Mary Gerard was branded by the twenty.year-eld boy she loved, Tony Ssnti, with the initials IN R." Then thess children told the ginS parents that night riders had put their mark on her and that Tony had tried te fight them off. They confessed aftsrward that they conceded this story to make Tony appear . hero 70 Mary's parents would eonsent te his mar. rying her.
 Other cases might De cited with differing details, but with the game evidence of tho "submission com
New Britain herald., 1928-05-04

Sometimes the branding i, done as a mark of shame to msrf .c.."' v one who has betrayed tho seerss, ol an organization, but at othsr tunes 1t is . mark of distinet;cr
 Certain tribes of American m. dlans used to force young brsve. to submit to painful brandinss on the day they became full-fied~Isd I warriors. The brandinss Wers considered a test of their abiiitv to bear pain.
 For the same reason younr Mgr. quessan warriors of the South Sess submit to . most painful ordesl of tatooing as the time of msnheod approaches Their bodies snd thighs are literally covered vith intricate designs and they eo through agony while the tribe tatooer wields his needle andpricks the colors of tho designs info the skin. This ordeal lasts for davs.
 A Fire Cult" in Cslifornia used to brand its member7 on the chest with the 1etter Y: applied with white-hot irons. This went on until . particularly violent burning caused the death of an unfortunate applicant for membership. Then the police broke up the cult.
 Psychologists gay these strange manifestations reveal the close kin ship between modem men and ve. men and their savage ancesteu of 100000 years ago. The 'ssukmis- sion complex" in women b onIv one phase of that astenishine rels. tionship.
New Britain herald., 1928-05-04
Strange Submission Let Themselves Be Branded "

WY HY do beautiful women W sometimes submit to ter.
 " ribly painful Hove brand. ings" from the men who adore them?
 The recurrence of this amazing rite, recently among different peo- pie in different parts of the United States, has induced psychologists to study the cases carefully and to coin . new medical term - the "submission complex"
 A woman who is the victim of . "submission complex" say these experts. wants to feel herself com. pletely tn the power of the man she loves. The brand h the mark of power and the pain inflicted by burning or cutting 1t into the woman's white flesh, gives her the feeling that she is sacrificing her. eelf for the man.
 . The scientists add that when . woman says, "I can only love . man whe can dominate me com pletely." or "l like the csve-man type" she indicates that che has . slight submission complex. How. ever, 1t is . far cry from this per fectly normal feeling to the obses. sion that forces other women to osg men to brand them, or causes them to submit to "love brand ings" with slight resistance.
 A few weeks ago in Baltimore. Maria Thomas, . pretty sixteen. year-oId girl, allowed her twenty. two-year-old boy friend, Pedro Dana, ts brand his initials en her
New Britain herald., 1928-05-04

Bets were made con. stantly on the var. ious birds scheduled to fight. It is safe to say that these bird lovers,' as they like to call themselves, would lose interest in their sport if the gambling were elimi. mated.
 "All talk stopped as the referee en- tered the pit and announced the first bout, which was be. tween my frlen q Jones' Red Quill and a Roundhead rooster, at five pounds, two ounces. The birds handlers tered, bearing the armed battlers. The Round. head was a beautiful, slim, black bird with the fearless, cruel
New Britain herald., 1928-05-04

0Vy0t N4l0 above fowl are bred to fight, and are second to no fowl on tho market today" Another writes that his roosters are "excellent cutters, fast, strong and healthy"
 Another of these magazines carries &C., counts of cock lights in Nebraska, Indiana, Ken. lucky. Tenneisee, Ala, bama, Georgia. Florida, Louisiana, Miss issippi, Texas, Missouri, Ohio, Illinois, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, North
New Britain herald., 1928-05-04

breed 0C CnlS time.
 "J o n C 8 fshed from his pocket a C a 8 e e n. taining t " o needle sharp steel prongs. a b 0 U t two inches long, 8 liz h t tly bent. These W e re tn e gafs. T h e y were to be strapped to the back of the rooster's t1-
New Britain herald., 1928-05-04
SPECIMEN.

Part of as Article From . Periodical on Cockfightins Describing . Secret Bout Held in Alabama In Ds6ance sf the Law. This is Only Ons ef Scorss of Such Articlss
 Publishsd In Different
 Numbsss of the Magazine.
New Britain herald., 1928-05-04
and South Carolina.

and South Carolina.
 The East is represented by men in New York, Penn sylvania and Connecticut, who write that their birds arc the best fighters in that part of the country. They expound their theories or training and battling.
 This is the cockfighting season In the South. Every Sunday n o Tn ing
 men in different
 States put their s;;;;;sk birds in cases and s1. : ca Try the m to
New Britain herald., 1928-05-04
GRIT ND STEEL
having held another meeting durjnl that year."

:, ~, TT . held in place by steel ring, which fits snugly over the back spur of the bird.
 After leaving the street car on the outskirts of the town we walked to . huge white barn. Inside, in the center of the floor. was the fighting pit-a bowl eighteen feet in diameter, surrounded by padded wall three feet high The whole was surrounded by ten tiers of un. finished pine seats, where about three hundred men sat smoking and talking.
New Britain herald., 1928-05-04

My host took me to my first cock. fight in a street car. He carried long box which cackied and clucked with alarm at each jar. Jones, as shall call the owner. informed me that the fighting rooster inside was a Red Quill, popular
New Britain herald., 1928-05-04

Owners of cockfightins
 arenas hold matches openly in s%&.S:s some States, while tn others
 the battles are kept . dark secret to avoid police raids. In one Oklahoma town. it is said, the local cock-hghting club calls in the police to keep quiet and order.
 Cockfighting has been referred to as . pardonabls sin above the Mason and Dixon line. and . gentleman's preroes. tive below that line.
 There are several hourishing periodi. calls in the South which are published in the interest of cockfighters. You can see on this page reproductions from one of these magazines, illustrating advertise. ments of the wickedly piercing gaffs, and of gamecocks offered for sale.
 One raiser of the birds says in his ad-
New Britain herald., 1928-05-04

A CANVAS pit, with blood stained A feathers and cruelty sharp, broken
 eafs scattered about Nearby . tiny. latticed cage. with several badly gored gamecocks bleeding to death from their wounds.
 That's what the police found when they raided cockfighting den recently. The audience had Aed.
 This den was not on the Mexican Dor. der, 1t was in the heart of Chicago. It might have been in Boston, Atlanta, New York or Los Angeles, for the savage slaughter of eamecocks goes on contin. gIously in almost every State in the
 This is not sn opinion: 1t is an amaz- ing fact.
 Most States in this country do not al. low cockfighting; and where State laws fail to outlaw the daughter, city councils often pass ordinances prohibiting it. But these laws and ordinances arc defied; an expert on the "sport" dsclarss that there are at least 1000 arenas through. cut the United States where men-and, occasionally. women gather to watch and bet as the birds engage in life-and. death struggles.
 For the game, blue e-blcoded creaturss are practically doomed to death. 4 handler" who has been conditioning and matching birds for twenty years asserts that the average fighting cock lives through three battles. Champions. of course. "snnd the saff" much longer.
New Britain herald., 1928-05-04

plex" fn the woman. In some instances the man seemed to plan the branding. in others it was the woman's idea. Sometimes each branded the ether.
New Britain herald., 1928-05-04

arenas. In country places the arena is generally in Q barn; in cities 1t may be over a garage or In . warehouse.
 An investigator for this newspaper gives the following graphic account of a cock fight held near Chicago:
New Britain herald., 1928-05-04
Forty.six
Eorsy.sx GRIT AND STEEL
 Selma Bets Fifty Thousand On Cock Fights and Loses.
City Council Forbids But Spectators Come From
 Miles Around and Huge Sums are Wagered

The following recently appeared in the Selma (Alabama) Times-Jour- nal, but was first published in [ Sa|pa
New Britain herald., 1928-05-04
Select Pit Cocks

Ir Of my old WHIrEHACKLE EVERETT CLAIBORNE stock
 They " being properly walked and carefully tast aggressive fighters that will claim main of these to reliable parties at $1o0o each
New Britain herald., 1928-05-04

the property of one man.
 Branding was used as a mark of shame and punishment until com.
 paratively recent times. There
 was the 6eur de lys branded
 on the white shoulder of milady in "The Three Muske. ] teers." Branding still goes
 on as part of the ritual of cer- tain religious cults and secret organizations.
New Britain herald., 1928-05-04

TRAINING. The Three Photographs Above and at Left Show Two California Women Putting Their Birds Through Preliminary Paess to Prepare Them for an Actual Bout The
 Birds Wers Leather Gloves Here. On the Day of Battle Such Birds
 Wear Steel Caffs.
New Britain herald., 1928-05-04
EVIDENCE.

sPf"soeuen e Fart Advsrtemsnt
 Openly Advsrtisins Fighting for Sale