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|vi:lt kvv '1 ch '***1 ,Jh I K' VOL. XIII NO. 30, •mVL it It ..« Williams County is to have a grand jury at the coming term of eourt. Clerk of Court A. H. Brown received an order Monday from Judge Goss instructing him to draw a grand jury, to meet on Tuesday the 28th. It is not known what special work is before the grand jury but there promises to be something doing. This will be the second grand jury called in this county. The first was called in 1898 or 1899. The names of those who were drawn for the grand jury follow: Claude Devault Madison Wise 'J. S. Ellison D. M. Jetsman J. H. Barger Mat C. Oster Jerry F. Miles M. A. Hewitt B. Zimmerman Rudolph A. Reider Willard Roberts (T. A. Larson J. M. Warfield C. L. Gemberling Frank R. Schwanz W. B. Lukins J. W. Carlson W.C.Smith Bert Biggs L. E. States ,'N. W. Simon S $ i, &*& V^j Cajde^^^^_ Charles Sanderson 'J DEATH OF MRS. FRAZ1ER AND CHILD. Last Thursday the people of Williston were shocked and deeply grieved to learn of the death of Mrs. John Frazier, of Glasgow, Mont., who was so well-known and loved here by her maiden name of Violet Newell. To add to the sor rows of the bereaved husband and relatives, her oldest daughter, little Gladys, died only three days after her mother, and was buried at the same time. Violet Ethel Newell, youngest daughter of Hon. Robert and Mary Newell, was born in Slayton, Minn. June 17, 1880. Her girlhood days were passed mainly in Williston, where her sunny disposition and beautiful character won for her a large circle of friends. She united with the Congregational church in 1898 and was an earnest and devout member. She was married June 4, 1901, to John Frazier, and went to live in Glasgow, Mont. Four beautiful children have blessed the union, the youngest being only a few weeks old. Late last summer she went to St. Paul to receive medical aid, accompanied by her mother and little ones. While there she was stricken with pneu monia, and January 16, death put an end to her sufferings. Three days later her little one who had been calling for her, joined her in the better land, leaving the three younger children to comfort their father. Gladys Irene Frazier was born April 14, 1902, and died January 19, 1908, of spasmodic croup. The double funeral was held at the Congregational church in this city, in which, only a few short years before, the mother had be come a happy bride. Among the large number of friends present were many who had known and loved her since childhood. Besides her husband and cliild- Li f' GRAND JURY CALLED BY ,j •mm *j..i«ii .J .• ••.: v?.!w ORDER OF JUDGE GOSS CLERK OF COURT BROWN RECEIVES ORDER FROM JUDGE GOSS MONDAY TO DRAW GRAND I JURY-JURORS GIVEN BELOW ren, she leaves her widowed moth er, Mrs. Mary Newell, three sis ters, Mrs. J. W. Snyder, of Bel lingham, Wash. Mrs. John Hef fernan, of this city and Mrs. Mag gie Grant, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,and four brothers, Ernest, Archie, Robert and Chester, all of whom except the latter two, came to at tend the funeral. The sorrowing husband and rel atives have the sympathy of the entire community in their double bereavement. A PLEASANT EVENING. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Macken roth very pleasantly entertained the Sixt}--three club at their home last_evening. Six tables were used Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Sharp were the successful play ers and won first prizes, while Mr. Kleinsorge and Mrs. As bury each received consolation prizes. During the evening de licious luncheon was served. The house was prettily deco rated with pink carnations nd fern leaves. Mrs. Mackenroth was assisted in the entertain ment by her sister. Miss Mack enroth. NAVIGATION OF MISSOURI AS St Louis, Jan.—Since the be ginning of the popular agitation for the improvement and deepen ing of the Mississippi river, which of late has assumed the propor tions of a national movement, there has arisen among the people of the states bordering on the Mis souri, the greatest tributary of the Father of Waters, a similar and sympathetic agitation in favor of improving that majestic stream to such an extent as shall render it a worthy feeder to the Mississippi when the latter has achieved its coveted depth of "14 feet through the valley" from St. Louis to New Orleans. Indeed, within the past year or two several attempts have been made to establish successful river navigation between St. Louis and Kansas City, which have Owed their inception more or less direct ly to the awakening sense of the commercial possibilities of our in ternal waterways. These at tempts have been undertaken with much enthusiasm by their promo ters, but they have been attended thus far by only indifferent suc cess. EXPERIMENTAL VESSELS TOO LARGE Several causes have contributed to the unsatisfactory results at tained. Indifference on the part of congress to the needs of the Missouri has of late years cau'sed the appropriations for its improve ment to be so much reduced, that the work already done along its banks has of necessity been prac tically abandoned, while even the government vessels employed for keeping the channel free from snags have been obliged to lie idle FORGOTTEN EXPERIENCES OF THE PAST MAY COME AS A GUIDE TO THE FUTURES-OPERATING IN NORTH DAKOTA. The brides were neatly gowned in travelling suits, carrying prayer books, while the grooms wore the conventional black. The Graphic joins with their many friends in extending congrat ulations. a great part of the time. Conse quently the stream is in poor con dition for navigation. Another cause of failure may be found in the fact that in the attempts re cently made large Mississippi riv er boats of deep draught and hea vy capacity have been impressed into service for experimental freight-carrying purposes. Ves sels drawing three or four feet of water and capable of carrying from 800 to 1200 tons of freight have been sent into the Missouri in the late summer or fall, when the river was low, instead of boats having about two feet draught and capacity ranging from 200 to 400 tons such as would be suited to the service. The natural result has been that the large vessels have constantly grounded on shal low bars, where so much time has been lost^in floating them again that they have consumed weeks in covering distances which they should have covered in as many days. In the present state of the river boats of the size used in the Mississippi can not hope to run successfully between St. Louis and Kansas City except during the few spring months when the water is abnormally high. On the other hand, smaller vessels, such as were used in past years when the Missouri river was of great and real importance, could navi gate successfully throughout the open season that is, for nearly, if not quite, nine months in the year. NAVIGABLE TO MONTANA. In consequence of the late, fee ble and unsatisfactory attempts at operating steamboats on the Big ,v i- --:k '-vf Wl^:'W91 FALLING TREE GEORGE ARMSTRONG, MCKENZIE COUNTY MAN IS KILLED BY FALLING TREE ONLY LIVED TWO HOURS, jg George Armstrong, a McKen zie county farmer who lived near Alexander, was killed Monday by a falling tree. The unfortu nate man only lived a couple of hours after the accident. Dr. J. H. Belyea was summoned but the inan was dead when he ar rived. Armstrong and a man by the name of Emil Peterson were cutting wood about three miles from the Banks ranch, when the former was killed. The tree upon which they were working lodged and was thrown in a different direction from the one in which they thought it would fall. Armstrong was struck upon the back ot the head and died from. concussion of the brain. DOUBLE WEDDING. On Monday, January 20th, a pretty double wedding took place at St. Joseph's Catholic church in this city, whereby Miss Anastacia McCarthy and Mr. Vernie Mc Mur rin, and Miss Agnes McCarthy and Chris. J. Cook, all of Williston, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony by the Rev. S. J. Arse nault. ril y,\WILLISTON, WJLLIAMS COUNTY, N. D., THURSDAY JANUARY 23, 1908 MAN KILLED BY, ,-r "j? .!• 44 44 44 rsn? Ladies' Skirts ^Ladies' $ 5.00 Skirts now $ 3.75 6.00 Jt 1 .U I 44 8.00 20.00 44 44 Ladies' Coats 'Ladies' $ 5.00 Coats Now $ 3.75 6.50 44 44 io.oo 12.50 I 44 44' 15.00 8.50 1.50 2.00 2.50 Our Great Pre-lnventory 4.50 44 44 IO.OO 6.00 44 44 12.00 15.00 7.50 44 44 9.38 44 44 11.25 44 44 8.00 6.90 44 44 20.00 15.00 .Misses' & Children's Coats AH Our $ 3.00 Coats Now $ 2.25 6.50 44 4.50 44 44 44 12.00 Comforters $1.10 Fancy Comforters Now 1.25 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 3.00 3.50 4444 25 V1 4 .v^vfiw rm* ifa. vt Now On A chance for everyone to pick up odds and ends at very low figures., Next month we take our annual inventory of everything on hand. From now until then we are offering grand bargains in every depart ment of this store. Call and see for yourself. Below we mention only a few of the many to be found. 44 7.50 9.38 44 44 11.25 3.00 44 44 6. 50 14 44 3.38 4.88 6.38 44 9.90 83c 94c .. Boys' Suits Now $2.25 3.00 3.38 Bruegtfer Muddy, a curious misapprehen sion seems to have arisen regard ing the navigability of the stream. Much space has been given in the newspapers to discussions of the efforts under way "to prove the Missouri navigable as far as Kan sas City," and when some ill-adap ted vessel, after struggling for weeks through the shoals and chutes of the river, at last stag gers into the deserted levee of the city by the Kaw, as great a shout goes up over the performance as might arise if Peary or some other explorer should succeed in attain ing the north pole. As a matter of fact, the Missouri is navigable for the right kind of steamboats, 4.50 $1 PER YEAR IN ADVANCB Blankets 75c Cotton Blankets Now $1.00 44 44 $2.25 All Wool Blankets Now 3 00 4 4 4 4 44 4.50 44 44 5 .00 15.00 4.88 4 4 44 6.00 4 4 4 4 44 8.00 44 44 44 Boys' Overcoats Boys' $ 3.00 Overcoats Now 44 44 6.00 44 10.00 12.00 44 Men's ti $1.13 1.50 1.88 2.25 2.63 Boys' Men's Overcoats Men's $8.00 Overcoats Now 10.0(1 "H 12.50 15.00 16.50 20.00 25.00 Mens Suits $ 7.00 10.00 13.00 15.00 18.00 20.00 25.00 Suits Now $ 5.00 8.00? •io.oo§~ Per Cent off on Ladies' Hen's and Children's Wool Underwear/ 25 Per Cent off on all Dress Goods. not merely to Kansas City, distant by river 391 miles from St. Louis, but to Fort Benton, Mont., 2285 miles from St. Louis. The most casual glance into the history of the northwest will serve to show of what vital importance to the development of that vast region the navigation of the Mis souri was before the railroads hail entered it. For twenty-five years previous to the out-break of the Civil war, all the valley of the Mis souri, from its mouth to Fort Leavenworth and St. Joseph, de pends upon the steamboats for the ly-ansportation of both its supplies from and its natural products to the markets of the south and east. •i1'/1 -J 57c! 75c I 'K $1.69 2.25 3.38 3.75 4.50 6.00 I 'A A- 2.25 3.38 4.50 7.50 9.00 0.: \i T* $ 6.00 T.50 9.38 11.25 12.38 15.00 18.75 V» $ 5.25 7.50 8.75 11.25 13.50 15.00 18.75 Suits Now $3.75 6.00 •f 7.50 At the beginning of the period mentioned it was a sparsely set tled region of pioneers, with here \. and there a tiny halmet struggling up in the wilderness at its close it was a country of flourishing towns and vast agricultural inter ests, all made possible chiefly by steamboat industry. The advent' of railroads destroyed the com merce of the lower river, but for years after the war the boats con tinued to prosper between Omaha, Sioux City, Yankton and Bismark until the building of the Northern Pacific railroad across Dakota and Montana robbed them of their last field of activity. (Continued on pagre four.),^ W Wi -,yt $ WMStitl*'