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NORTH DAKOTA KERNELS
McHenry is to have an orchestra.
Lintonjhfcshad itsfirst masquerade
ball.
The Flaxton B$£ip ssaid to htve quit
buzzing.
Some menjfla-tent new Willow City
were robbed.
Cando boasts of the excellence of its
telephone system.
There are a number of typhoid fever
cases around Towner.
A pair of "peeping toms" were arrest
ed and fined at Edmore.
Some family rows at Towner result
ed in court proceedings.
The Tribune is working ttj* cream
ery sentiment at McHenry.
Goodrich rejoices over the fact a
physician has located there.
The Hamilton Independent seems to
have np fear of Colonel Hager.
A pair of Berwick men started a lit
tle Sunday fracas on the streets.
The editor of The Dunseith Magnet
seems to take himself quite seriously.
The Binford Times has established a
department containing hews from Jes
sie.
The Finley Beacon denies that Doc
llacharach has a typewriter^-of any
j/ender.
The Bismarck Settler insists that the
-ffice of The Ketisal Journal was—
Settlerized.
The Forman fcews seems to think
there is a "cullud gemmen" in the irri
gation woodpile.
Some of the grain around Thompson
that was stacked turned out rather bad
ly when thrashed.
The Gazette thinks some of the
youngsters at Lisbon ate using very
bum "langwidge."
The Barry murder trial will occur
next month at Langdon—if a change of
venue is not taken.
Bowling contests are the rage be
ween some of the towns in the north
rn part of the state.
The bacterialogical analysis of the
crater from many wells in the. state
hows typhoid germs.
Editor Voigt of Ther, Leeds News
eems to have a difficult task to please
Iditor Bratton of Knox.
The Hope Pioneer's views otle the
ounty seat removal in Steele County
nk-e rather laconically expressed.
Editor Townes of Lisbon seems to
e in the fight against some of the
county commissioners—to the finish.
Two young men were beastly intox
icated at Hamilton Sunday afternoon
and The Independent draws a moral.
A man was arrested near Litchville
who seemed to have wheels. Relatives
came from Pennsylvania to take him
home.
The fact that the Edmore postoffice
Jhas been boosted from fourth to third
'class indicates the,rapil growth of that
town. 'V
The wife and children of the insane
Iman. who escaped in Fargo, are said
to be in almost, destitute, circurnstances
at Portland.
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The men who fired straw pital to get
rid of the stuff, seem to have burned up
about as buch grain and buildings this
year as usual.
Down at Wishek when a man gets
drunk he is accused of taking too much
patent medicine. That mu£t b6 the per
una belt, all right. j.
A merry-go-round was in operation
at Willow City and' Thad Michael re
velled in the excellence of the music
furnished by the affair. v
Some county officials-/ "JiliiRiSady
getting visiting newspapermen to11"in
spect their offices"—preparatory to
next year's campaign.
The Cando Herald discourages the
people who are headed for California—
expecting to find a corner of the Gar
den of Eden all ready to be homestead
ed.
The Devils Lake Inter-Ocean an
nounces that Governor White has writ
ten a letter to a prominent Ramsey County
man there will be no special legislative
session.
The Lisbon Gazette man reports Mike
$)e la Bere was in Lisbon to attend
Church. Now if some one will vouch
for The Gazette- fellow—everything
will be all right.
There are all kinds of mergers but
The Cavalier Chronicle and The Crys
tal Call report a new deal—in a joint
piano contest— the instrument to be
furnished by the two papers.
A skunk got busy under the office ot
The Berwick Post and Editor Leppla
purchased the perfumery stock in all
the drugstores in that section of the
state—to counteract the skunk effects.
When Ralph Wheelock of The Min
neapolis purchases the pump fof the
town well at Wheelock—west of Minot
—the citizens will insist on its being
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lished a card in The Enterprise stating
that any mother in Sanborn who sign
ed a petition granting a license to sell
liquor in Sanborn deserved a drunken
husband and sons.
The man Christamn, shot in Sargent
County by a Kentuckian, seems to
have been under an assumed name and
011 his death bed gave the officials a
fake address as he did not want his
people to know how he died.
The people of the western part of the
state want irrigation, the farmers in
the valley want drainage—and The
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over the fact the farmers in the
counties are willing to let the Wea'jr
bureau man run things—and .{$ke 4!fee
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The' most elaborate investigation into
college football which has been made
for the last several years consists of
carried out by Prof. Edwin G. Dexter,
pf the University of Illinois, at the- end
pf last season, says Spalding's official
Cuide. The thoroughness of this in
vestigation can be gathered from the
/following extracts:
ACCIDENTS FROM COLLEGE FOOT BALL.
"Early in December, 1002. I sent a
letter to the presidents of more than
one hundred of the larger colleges and
universities of the country, inclosing cop
ies of a blank, with the request that
they be filled out by the officer best quali
fied to do so, and returned to me.
"The response was more general than
•even the most ardent advocates of the
method could have hoped for, and I wish
."here to thank many in all parts of the
country for the interest they have shown
in this study, as experessed in various
days. In all, more or less complete re
turns were made from sixty institutions,
including with very few exceptions, all
the larger colleges and universities of
the country.
"1. The following institutions have
figured in the present study, in most
cases having furnished exact data which
could be used in the tabulation: Alle
gheny Annapolis. Bowdoin, Brown, Carl
ton, Cincinnati, Colgate, Colorado (Col
lege,) Columbia, Cornell (College,) Del
aware, Ewing, Franklin and Marshall,
Hamilton, Hampton-Sidney, Harvard,
Haverford. Howard, Iowa State (Col
lege.) Kalamazoo, Leland Standford,
Lombard, Marietta, New York Univer
sity, Ohio (Athens,) Pennsylvania,
Princeton, Purdue, Ripon, Rochester,
Swathmore, Syracuse, Trinity. Tufts,
State University of Arkansas, Colorado,
Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota,
Michigan. Missouri, Montana, Nebraska,
North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Vermont,
Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wy
oming, Western Reserve, Williams, Yale,
Returns from the State Universities of
California. Kansas and Ohio, Lake For
est and Wesleyan (Conn.) were re
ceived too late to be included."
Professor Dexter found during this
period no less than 22,766 students play
ed the game and that during these ten
years, while 654 men were sufficiently in
jured to lose time in their classes, only
eight were permanently injured, and
three were reported as having died from
the direct effect of the game. That is,
less than three per cent, were so injured
as to lose time from their studies, or as
Professor Dexter, put it in one other
form, the probability of any student on
entering any contest of suffering an in
jury would keep him from his work,
provided each member of the team play
ed six games, would be as 1 to 200. Of
the three men reported as having died,
No. 1 has bene forbidden by the director
to play on account of a weak heart and
had been refused any place on the team.
His injuries were received in a class
game into which he went in direct dis
obedience of orders. Tne second death
was not on any regular team, but Vyas
in the case of a law student who placed
in a match without any training. SiMce
then at that university no one is allowed
to play on any team without the per
mit of tjie medical director. The third
reported death Professor Dexter was
unable to secure the particulars of.
Of the eight permanent injuries, No.
1 leg was broken and badly set, causing
a limp No. 2. bones in ankle misplaced,
but can probabjy pe set right by opera
tion No. 3, the man threatened with
loss of sight, but this did ont turn out
to be the case No. 4. typhoid fever,
recovered with abscess believed to have
been caused by bruise on leg while play
ing. Of the other four injuries there
are no particulars.
In closing Professor Dexter writes as
follows:
"Serious as this seems we can but de
preciate the tendency of the public press
to cater to a timorous public by over in
flating their foot ball news. Twice in
two years, one of the foremost daily pa
pers of our country has appeared with
the scare lines 'Foot ball Player Killed'
in the heavies of black type, for no more
ABOyi MACARONI WHEAT.
The Modem Miller Defend* the Action of Secre
tary Wilson and CereaBat Carleton.
Modern Miller: Secretary Wilson of
the department of agriculture denies"
that the bread-making tests recently
made, which Resulted so favorably to
macaroni flour, was unfair. It would
have been manifestly unfair to have
used an inferior quality of spring wheat
flour against the best grade of mac
aroni wheat flour, and Mr. Wilson says
no such unfair method can be charged.
In response to an inquiry by The Mod
ern Miller, the secretary says rigid
tests of nearly a hundred good spring
wheat patents were made, before a'
flour was selected for, a test against the
macaroni flour. Mr- Wilson's letter
follows. '.
THE FARGO POHTTM AND DArLT KEPTTfctlCAJT, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER n, mt
FOOTBALL ACCIDENTS IN 1902.
23,
Washington. D. C.,- Sept.
1903.
Editor Modern Miller:
Dear Sir:—The flour used in our
bread-making contest, in co-operation
with a Washington bakery, was the
best grade of hard spring wheat patent
made by a ndrthwestern mill. It was a
flour selected by this bakery, after a
long series of rigid tests with nearly
1 hundred good patent spring wheat
flours. On the other hand, after mak
ing a number of preliminary experi
ments with different grades of macaroni
wheat flour, it was determined later on
that the particular grade used in this
test was somewhat inferior to several
that had been used in the preliminary
tests. It is seen, therefore, that the
actual facts are more likely just the
opposite of what has been, alleged, con
cerning the comparative grades of the
two flours used. It is expected to pub
lish1 a report of this' text in d$tatil as
Soon as it can 1e done.. Ti
/Respectfully,
James Wilson.
It is right and proper that a question
involving such important issues should
e settled definitely and at once, |hi»
epartment cannot afford to stop
ibis moment in making tests to est
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valid reason in one case than this killing
of an ex-foot ball player by the cars at
a grade crossing and the other the eloc
trocution of a player on a scrub team
who had climbed an electric pole to re
move the ball, which had by accident
odged in the lamp. Such mishaps should
»not be charged up to the game. Although
this correspondence has shown that grave
injuries resulted from the game during
the season just passed, it is interesting
to note that of the tyenty-three college
players receiving newspaper notoriety,
twelve were not in any way incapacitated
for work, and every one has been on ihs
feet for more than two months now.
"In an attempt to supplant this study
of accidents from college football by
means of data covering other forms of
sport, I wrote to several daily papers
and a number of accident insurance
companies for comparative figures. From
one of the latter I received a little book
let in which more than 31,000 claims
paid during the last five years are classi
fied under several hundred heads. Al
though there is no valid basis for a com
parison between these figures and my
own, since there is no means of knowing
the number participating in the various
activities without accident, they are nev
ertheless suggestive. They have, I may
say no direct bearing upon our study
since college students are not accepted
as risks in the company.
"The exact number of claims paid dur
ing the five years for accidents in certain
sports were as follows
Horseback riding ..,
Base ball
Swimming
Wrestling
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Hunting ^.
Tennis ...
Gymnasium .........
The newspaper reports of injuries
to college foot ball played seem to be
•grossly exaggerated.. Not so much so
in the case of players upon other teams.
"9. Accident insurance statistics would
lead us to believe that many other forms
of sport are more dangerous than foot
ball."
baking purposes, either good or bad.
Additional tests to corroborate those
called in question should be made by
the department. The Modern Miller
believes that a violent demonstration
is not necessary for the trade to ar
rive at a proper undet standing of the
facts, and for some time has been in
communication with the department of
agriculture relative to these facts.
We believe the position of the de
partment so far is not subject to criti
cism, unless the plain facts set forth
by both Secretary Wilson and M. A.
Carleton can be shown to be in error.
The department is it* a position to
prove that it has only advocated the
introduction of^ this wheat in arid
lands. It also shows that it distinctly
discouraged its introduction where oth
er wheats were successfully grown.
The work of the department is cer
tainly to be commended if the macar
oni wheat flour is as good as the bak
ing test indicates, and the opinions on
this test, coming from all sections 01
the country, from flour experts, millers
and bakers, support the contention of
the department as to the quality of the
bread turned out in the department
test.
We believe the correct position to be
taken in this matter is for the depart
ment to discourage, and the millers to
combat the introduction of macaroni
wheat in any milling section where the
ftobr from the wheat now grown has a
distinctive value.
Tests as to the value of: macaroni
or any other kind of wheat should be
encouraged, and there Is certainly
atwnLd®nt opportunity-to improve the
of wheat grown in certain sec
tions. If further tests conclusively
prove the department's contention, as
shown in the previous test1, and well
snftported by trade opinion, macaroni
wlieftt should be judiciously encourag-
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Boxing
"As is se&tl, foot ball
"Seems'"far down
even in this list, from which have been
purposely omitted recreations like driv
ing and bicycling, which are very gener
ally participated in and with which com
parisons would be manifestly unfair. We
must conclude from the figures that un
less five times as many play base ball as
foot ball the former must be considered
the most dangerous form of sport.
Whether this ration would prove true or
not, I have no means of knowing.
"In conclusion I would say that al
though I believe most emphatically in
college foot ball, I have no intention of
pronouncing an .encomium upon it in this
paper. Although the advantgages of the
game have been pretty fully measured
in the past, its disadvantgages have been
largely unmeasured quantities. In the
present study serves, through a qualifi
cation of the single element of danger to
life and limb, to make the sum total of
opinion a larges plus quantity, I shall
feel repaid for my labor.
"The following summary may serve
in bringing together the main points
of the paper:
"1. About one college man in ten, the
country over, plays foot ball.
"2. About twice as large a proportion
of the men in the small colleges play the
game, as in the large.
"3 The proportion of men playing
seems to be slightly decreasing.
"4. About one player in thirty-five is
sufficiently injured each season to nec
esitate loss of time from college duties.
"5. The number of college foot ball
players who are permanently jnjured or
die from the effects of the game is so
'small as to be practically a negligible
quantity.
"6. College foot ball is adequately su
pervised in nearly all the institutions.
"7. The opinions of college officer re
garding the value of the game are,
roughly, 17 to 1 in favor (weighted in
terms of enrollment.)
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North Dakota Press Association would
be held during the first half of the
month of November.
The exact date for the holding of
the meeting and the place for hold
ing the same have not yet been an
nounced as the president is desirous
of hearing from the members of the
committee before finally settling on
these two matters.
If the meeeting is held in this city
it will inconvenience the members from
the northern part of the state. Presi
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