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Vif-:-. i: iw & S-f $5-' #1' 3C if Painted Wood. m,., Wedding bells ere ringing. Nells Petersen called on the Ramey '•f family New Year's. Frank Ramey had his fa'Je badly out on a barb wire fence while skating on the oreek. Mrs. R. C. Olsen visited with her. daughter, Mrs. Ole Frederickson, the past week. Grafton Head spent.Sundas skating .OB Painted Wood. Miss Virgie Davis and friend Bene were callers in Williston Saturday. C. J.-Cook and wife and Miss Flor ence Baynes and friend attended the New Year Ball in Williston. Frank and Sid Fletcher and John Qont were business callers in Willis Ion Saturday. Oscar Holland and brother Henry are spending the holidays at Michi gan City, N. D. W. F. Garretson disposed of a val vable cow in Williston Saturday. Y. W. McMurrin has not given up hopes. He has again started on well BO two. Robert E. Goar began the neWyear right by shooting a rabbit. Dan MoGrath spent Sunday in the •ioinity of Sand Creek. R. C. Olsen, wife and daughter will kp6nd the winter in Williston. Miss Nellie Larsen spent a few days •aoation with her parentis, J. J. L»ar sen and wife. We are informed that the store fit Squires has again changed hands, F. F. Zimleska being the new proprietor. Charles Bergstrom made a commut ed proof on his claim Monday and de p&rtod for A visit with his parents ftt Oaftkis, Minnesota. Nesson George E. Loughland was in Nesson Sunday. G. H. McKay received a letter from bis brother John who is in Canada. He says there is no snow there where he is but very'cold. Mrs. E. O. Westcott went to Beaver Sundsfr for several days visit with her parents. Miss Olie Littlefield from Beaver 'has been visiting with her brother, George in McKenzie county for sev eral days. Miss Grace Westcott has a friend from Huffland visiting wiih her. The masked ball at Hoffland new year's night, was attended, by a large crowd. Deputy Sheriff Matson was in Nes son last week after some evil doers. He got his men all right and took them to Ray and later to Williston where they will board with Sheriff Ol son until court convenes. BonetraSIJ A happy new year to all. The last snow storm did not forget Bonetraill this time but was not a bad one. Oscar Holdahl and Clara Leddel drove over to Mondak, Montana, to spend the holidays. A number from Bonetraill attended the Gladys dance. A Shadow social will be given by the Ladies Aid at Fougner piaoe Sat urday night. The Ladies Aid had their yearly meeting at Bonetraill last Thursday. Misses Thea Buer and Alma Liddel were expected out from Williston to spend the holidays here with their parents. Melvin Rorstad returned back to Williston to attend school after spend in? the holidays with his parents. Auctioneer. I am prepared to do auctioneer work at reasonable prices and4 will guarantee satisfaction. Reference, any bank in Williston. Wm, Keltner, Williston, N. D., R. F. IX No. 2. Every Farmer Makes Money— Who gets his Farm Loan from the Williston Land Company. Spec ial rates and terms this month. 25 E. B. LINK Contractor and Builder CORRESPOND ENCE Cement work of all kinds," Cement Sidewalks, Con crete Blocks for sale. Brick Work a Specialty. ....Estimates Furnished.... Res. 202 W. 44 Street Phne 233 Willfclpii, N. Dak. LATE QUAKE DEVELOPMENTS. Every city In the United *States la busy raising an earthquake fund. Congress appropriates $800,000 for sufferere. Relief train wrecked near Messina live persons killed. Reported that another serious earth quake Is due Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. CONTRIBUTIONS TO DATE. Congress ......... New York Chicago Birmingham, Ala. Washington, D. C. Denver, Col. ...... Houston, Tex .$800,000 500,000 63,200 1,000 .. 10,000 22,500 1,000 which the officers of the vessels were compelled to refuse them. Several of the smaller craft capsized and a num ber of persons were drowned. Parliament to Meet Soon. Rome, Jan. 6.—Parliament will be convoked January 11. The minister of war says that the forts around Mes sina* .which contain tons of ^powder and milli6ns of cartridges, have not been injured. He also says that while he was at Messina at least 15,000 per sons were taken from the ruins, in jured and uninjured, of which number 1,000 were saved by the Russians and 1,000 by the English sailors. The rfalian navy has sent 600 tons of provisions to the affected district. All the treasure found has been placed aboard the warships. •Queen Nurses Small Girt. Naples, Jan. 5.—Queen Helena is taking particular interest in a six year-old girl who was rescued from the ruins under remarkable circum stances. While some Italian sailors at Messina were climbing over wreck age they heard weak cries of "Maria!" "Maria!" After much work they reached a room where they found a parrot continuing to utter cries of "Maria." The seamen turned to leave, but as the parrot persisted in its cries they broke into an adjoining room and found a girl lying senseless. She and the parrot were taken on board the battleship R^gina Elena. The queen nursed the girl with her own hands. Many Americans Safe. The following list of Americans who were believed to be in Sicily at the time of the earthquake are now con sidered to be safe: Misses Emma S., Katherine E. and C. M. Lansing of Watertown, N. Y. William Elliott Smith, his wife and two daughters, Eunice and Ellen, of Al ton 111. Samuel E. Stokes, Miss Annie Ker, Miss Katherine Davis, Miss May Moss, Miss Frances M. and Miss Eliza beth Botkins, Miss Emily Croasdal Miss Estelle Fagan, Philadelphia Miss Eleanor M. Wood, Miss. Alice E. Batro Miss Mary H. deHart, Eliza beth, N. J. Miss Mary Oberman Miss Margaret Mendell, Brookline, Mass. Miss Lillian Elizabeth Adiggs, Miss Elizabeth Penfleld, Miss Henriette L. Hadelman, Miss Florence Bayard, Miss Kate Florence Clark, Miss Florence Tining, Miss Mary CaTruthers, Mrs. Alfred Harris and daughter Rosalie J. A. Kain and family, Cleveland Thomas Robinson and family, Cleve land Mr. and Mrs. Edmund H., and Julian Garrett, Mrs. Charles H. Hap good, Frederick G. Bates My. and Mrs. Herbert Norris, Philadelphia Mrs. Matha Kittridge and Misses Ethel and Clarissa Kittridge, Brook line, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. John B. Wright, Philadelphia Mrs. Jacob Bauer of Chicago, Mrs. Thornton A. Greene and Miss Marguerite McMillan of Fond du Lac, Wis. and Mr.,and Mrs. Hugo B. Roelker. MERIT SYSTEM IN STEADY GAIN. Annual Report of Civil Service Com mission Is Made Public. Washington, Jan. 5.—The twenty fifth annual report of the civil service commission issued last night is of es pecial interest, containing as it does a resume of the commission's work dur ing the first quarter of a century of its existence, together with a more de tailed statement of the changes brought about during President Roose velt's terms of office. The report shows that since its establishment in 1883 the growth of the merit system has been continuous, and appreciation of its advantages over the patronage system which preceded it, has become practically universal. Both political parties unite in their platforms to in dorse the principles of the system and the workings,of th^ civil service law, and the commission enjoys the support and sympathy of administra tive officers and the federal courts, l/i this connection it is interesting to note that six states and nearly 100 cities of the country have adopted competitive systems for civil appoint ments. As the report says: "The end of a quarter century of en forcement finds the system firmly es tablished and faithfully supported. It is justified as a practicable method of obtaining economy and efficiency in the service, and as a remedy for many abuses." effect of the supreme court decision in the Consolidated Gas Company is to declare the law constitutional.. Fieri.-!* :r :..auyurated. Tallahassee, Fla., Jan. 5.—The in auguratioikof Gov. Albert W. Gilchrist as chief executive of the state of Flor ida took place yesterday. THREE WORDS WORTH $3,000,000. Death of St. Louis Woman Whose In tuition Made Husband Wealthy. St. Louis.—Three words spoken by Mrs. Sue McLure Clark, who died of pneumonia recently, made her husr band, Charles Clark, a millionaire. The worta were: "Let's keep them," and each salable was worth $1,000,000. At that time, nearly 20 years ago, Mr. Clark was well to do, but he was only a private in the army of finance. He had bought and held for a long time several hundred shares of stock in the Granite Mountain Silver mine, near Phillipsburg, Mont. It had depreciated until it was worth only a few cents a share. Going through his desk at his home one day Mr. Clark found the practically worth less certificates in gudgeon hole. "I'll throw these away," he said to his wife.\ "They take up desk room, and the broker's fee for selling them would amount to more than their mar-, ket value." He was about to tear them up and drop them into the waste basket when Mrs. Clark laid a restraining hand on his arm. With a woman's intuition she said: "Let's keep them." So that they would not be in her husband's way, she put them in her desk. Less than two years later the shares were worth $3,000,000, and Mr. Clark was one of the richest men in St. Louis, a position in which he is still secure. Mrs. Clark, who had been ill several weeks, was 69 years old. She was noted for her charitable works. She was the mother of Charles McLure Clark of St. Louis and Vaughn Clark of New York, both well-known stock and bond brokers. DOG HAS WOODEN LEG. Queer Antics ol Canine Who Has Ad vantage" of Artificial Aid. Philadelphia.—There is a little dog out In Germantown which has been the cause of much amusement and all because he wears a wooden leg. About a year ago the dog, which be longed to a young lady of about five years, was run over by a trolley car, its leg being cleanly amputated at a point about half way down.. The young lady was, flf course, grief stricken, so her father, instead of shooting the dog, as he had at first intended, bandaged up its leg, with the result that in time the ahimal re covered. For a while it limped around on three legs, but its progress was painful to behold. Then the little girl's father evolved the idea of constructing a wooden leg He did this with great care and at tached it by straps so as to make it absolutely secure. Now he can get around on it as well as most dogs can on the legs that nature gave them,' but the sight is strange one, and -the little girl and her dog excite mirth wherever they go. Marries to Escape a Debt. Pittsburg. Dr. Gebhart Stine, charged by Isadore Seitelman with false pretense, gained his liberty in Alderman Mclnerney's court Jjy con senting to be married to Seitelman's ,sister-in-law, Miss Sadie Finger. The prosecutor said Dr. Stine had borrowed money from him to open up an office and failed to make good. It developed that Dr. Stine had been en gaged to Miss Finger and had been slow in carrying out his part of the agreement. Upon his consenting to being married the falsi) pretense eharge was withdrawn. SCHOOL AT WHICH MEN ARE TAUGHT TO FLY Near Lille, France, an aeropianist has established a school to teach men to fly. The aeroplane used Is built to carry a single person,* who operates the wings with hi* arms and legs../ That the flying man may not be injured by a fall from a great height, the aeroplane is anchored to the ground by a rope which prevents it from rising higher than a few yards. 1. A would-be flying man about to. begin a restricted flight. 2. The first fluttering of the wings. 3f Coming to earth again. The pictures sketched in by the artist, showing men flying over housetops and living in treee, represent his Idea of what the school may do for future generations. FIRST OF WOMEN'S CLASSES BE ING TRAINED FOR SERVICE. Nineteen Now Taking Instruction at the Medical School in Washington Are Reported as Making Sat isfactory Progress. Washington.—The 19 young women now taking instruction at the Naval Medical school, Washington, for en trance to the new female nurse corps of the navy are making splendid prog ress in their studies. At the end of six months they will be graduated and will be competent to take positions in naval hospitals, hospital and ambu lance ships or at any special po&t of duty to which they may be assigned by .the surgeon general of the navy. Before taking the course in Wash ington the nurses who enter the navy nurse corps must have been graduated from some recognized training school of at least, two years' duration. It may therefore be seen that the graduates of the school for nurses just established by the navy under a law passed last session will be un usually well fitted for their work, and, tn consequence, the sick and wounded who come under their care will prob ably fare better than if they were dis abled at home. The 'proposition to assign women nurses to the navy did not win Its way to official approval and legal en actment without a red hot fight. There were many who opposed it on the ground that the nurses would be thrown among a "rough class of men," and that they would be subjected' to many hardships as well as insults dur ing the performance of their duty. This argument was successfully com bated by the friends of the idea, prominent among whom was Surgeon Genera] Rixey of the navy, who de clared that woman nurses were better than man nurses during both war and peace. The result was an appropria tion for the establishment of the cur riculum in the Naval Medical school. The course of instruction of the first class' was begun less than a month ago. Miss Esther V. Hasson, a gradu ate of the New Haven hospital and a nurse in both the Spanish and Philip pine wars, is superintendent of the corps. Many of the graduates of the first class will be assigned to duty in remote parts of the world. Some will go to the Philippines, some to Porto" Rico, some to Hawaii and others to outlying naval posts within the United States. This Cow Is Mail Carrier. Little Rock, Ark.—Mrs. Edward Martin of Nashville, Ark., owns a cow which, in additipn to furnishing milk for the Martin family, is acting daily as a rural letter carrier. The cow was "given to Mrs. Martin by her mother, Mrs. George Humph reys, wlio lives four miles from Nash ville. Notwithstanding the cow's calf died and she has been moVed twice she still, goes to the Humphreys home each morning to spend the day in the pasture, being turned out each even ing and returning to her new home. A few weeks ago Mrs. Martin no ticed when the cow came home in the evening that a small sack was at tached to her neck by a string. She Investigated and found- that it 'con tained a note from her mother, and she sent the answer to~tt by the cow the next morning. Since then the cow has been delivering messages 'W 1 .. STUDY POLJUt SEAS PROBLEMS OF ARCTIO REGION TO BE PROBED. Knowledge of Par North and Its Mye» terlfs to Be Increased If Possible by Dr. Amundsen's Expedition. Christiania.—Dr. Fritjof Nansen, in his leeture before the Geological So ciety in London, pointed out that the principal problems of geographical ex ploration in northern Arctic regions consist in the scientific examination of the extent, depth and general charac ter of the polar basin. This task could to an important extent be fulfilled, he intimated, if a future expedition would let itself drift over the polar basin, as did the Fram expedition of 1893-96, but with its route laid further to the north. These words contain the nucleus of Capt. Amundsen's scheme, which was explained in a lecture before the Geo graphical society at Christiania. Dr. Amundsen' said: "We have apparatus now by which it Is possible to obtain samples not only of thtf surface of the bottom itself but also of the underlying strata at a depth of two meters or more. Per haps of even greater importance, how ever, is .the examination of the tem perature of the water at different depths of the sea. We'are now able to measure it with exactness at any depth. We know of three different water bulks in the polar basis they represent at the least three different current systems which are not yet suf ficiently examined. We will be able to do this through the Nansen pendulum current measure apparatus and Dr. Ek born's propeller current measure ap paratus, both Invented within the last four or five years. "Another problem which has not been sufficiently examined is the exis tence of tidal waves and tidal currents in the polar basin, a question of great importance not only to science, but to navigation as well. Influence of the winds on the currents of the sea and their importance in organic life, the role of light In different depths below the ice and the physiology of the sea. "We have no ambition to establish a record in the race to reach the geo graphical north pole. The object of my expedition is the scientific examination of the polar basin, its bottom and con figuration, and the different oceano graphic. problems in connection with it. The manner in which I hope to ac complish my scheme is not an original one. The scheme of my expedition is aa follows: "On the Fram, with a selected equip ment and provision for seven years, I will leave Norway in the beginning of 1910. We start for San Francisco, go ing around Cape Horn In San Fran cisco coal and provisions will be taken. .• ANNOUNCEMENT Froth there we set out for Point row, where I hope to aivive ln July or AUguat, and from whence* the tut news will'g» home. From 'Point Bar row I'will1 start'with the smallest pos sible crew. The course for the drift lee is north-northwest. We- wilt try to enter the compact ice at the most favorable point to commence ourdrift, calculated to1 last four or five' yeam over the polar basin. During all' tai« time we will make oceanographlc aafl Other observations, through which I hope to solve some of the yet unex plained problems of the polar s» glons." SEEKS ENGINE fN HIS FEVER White Robed Railroader Playa Gheet to Li^re of Whistle. Wilmington, Del.—Attired only night shirt, William M. Rogers, a loco motive engineer, was found at two o'clock the other morning, wanderhv about the railroad tracks. It was' rainiag hard and he was drenched, but he dM not appear to mind his condition. Rogers is a typhoid fever patient ta a private hospital. When he partly regained consciousness, he said ho thought he heard the whistle of engine, and, thinking in his delirium that it was his train, he jumped from a window of the hospital and made hla way to the railroad. The beating ef A the rain upon his thinly clad body partly brought him to his senses ail he started toward the French strert station. A negro saw the white robed flgare coming along the tracks and almost fainted from fright. He managed to get to the police patrol station and notified the patrol driver who cap tured Rogers and sent him to the police station. Later he was returned to the hospital. Town Digs for Cash. Caddogap, Ark.—The citizens of tfch town are in a state of excitement over the contents of Mrs. Bessie Reynolds' will, filed in probate court, which states that "$10,000 was left to the public buried In the ground." Proceeding on the grounds that finS ers are keepers, the whole communltir turned out but less than $500 in gold was found near the old homestead. Currency in amounts of $200 waa an earthed In the garden. Indians Trap Turtles. Winona, Minn.—The Indians around here have taken to trapping mud tur tles this winter. The turtles, accord ing to the Indians, find a, ready mar** ket in the'east, and good prices are paid for them. The trapping of musk rats, beaver and other fur bearing animals is not so good as in somo previous years, and the Indiana aro glad to add to their income-throat the sale of the turtles. I wish to announce to the people of Williston and vicinity that I have opened a new MEAT MARKET on Broadway just west of the Stewart resi dent I expect to run a strictly first class up-to-date market and solicit a fair portion of your patronage. A. H. Vohs PHONE 28 WILLISTON, N. D. CHESTER Take-Down ReJjeatlng Shotguns •The Winchester Repeating Shotgun has stood the trying practical tests of sportsmen and the rij^id technical trials Of the U. S. Ordnance Board. Its popularity with the for mer rind the official endorsement by the letter are conyinc ing proof of its reliability, wearing and shooting qualities. Send for Catalogue of Winchester—the Red W Brand—Cnns and Ammunition. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. NEW HAVEN, CONN. --y?ams»BSBassmm*eesei 1 I 14.