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This Issue 24 Paget if- HiP* ipp WINTERS' JEWELRY STORE WAS ROBBED SUNDAY NIGHT Bold Visitor Entered Place Sunday Night by Crawling Over Transom— Took $400 in Valuables One of the boldest robberies in the history of Minot occurred sometime during Sunday night when the Winters Jewelry store, located on Main street, opposite from the Leland hotel, was entered from the transom over the front door, the burglars getting away with between $300 and $400 worth of watches, mesh bags, pearl beads and other valuables. There is absolutely no clue to the bold fellows and to date no trace has been found of any of the stolen goods. Several things, how ever point to the .work as being that of amateurs. It is probable that the work was done by two and possibly three men. A new front is being built in the store and the door sets back several feet from the walk. Shortly after mid night one of the night policemen went the rounds, turning off the lights in the windows, but one remained in the rear of the store and the place must have been well lighted from the White Way lights. The man who entered either used the step ladder which rest ed against the curb in front of the store, or else he was lifted to the tran som by his companion. The screws were forced out of the hinges of the transom and the burglar crawled over. In getting in and out of the store he went through the transom each time and from the imprints made by his exceedingly dirty hands on the door, is it certain that the fellow possesses hands of abnormal size. Once inside the store, he took his time to look around. He boldly helped himself to ten gold bracelet watches and several mens watches which were in the dis play window. He walked back into the store and confiscated ten or twelve strings of rather cheap pearl neck laces. Opening one of the show* cases he took a mesh bag. He overlooked the case full of silverware which, at present prices, would have made a magnificent haul. The trays of rings and much of the other expensive jew elry had been locked in the big safe. He tried to open the cash register but failed. Any six-year-old. boy could easily have opened the register. He opened the safe where valuables are stored, but ran up against a snag when the heavy inside door failed to respond to his gentle touch. He spent consid erable time taking out the screws of the door only to find that his work wa$T all in vain, for nothing short of a big charge of explosive would open this aafe. This part of the work shows that he was an amateur. The following is a list of the valu ables taken: Ten bracelet watches of the Hall mark, Mauran and Swiss makes, all very small, some engraved and some plain, all solid gold and gold filled. One gold filled open face, 12 size Hallmark watch, 15 jewels, 20-year case, and one gold filled 12 size Swiss gent's 23-jewel watch. About twelve strings of pearl beads Twenty-five officers and 600 men of the Athens garrison went over to the national movement and left for Salon iki, according to a dispatch from Ath ens. Various other reports say that many of the officers of the Greek ar my, hating the Turks and Bulgarians, sympathize with the allied cause. The powers vested in the French officer who has been appointed chief inspec tor at the ministery of the interior by the French and English commanders in Athens are drastic and far-reaching enough to prevent a recurrence of rioting. All orders to the police and gendarmerie and all reports received and four or five mesh bags, black and silver mesh. Mr. Winters is offering a liberal re ward for the return of any or all of this property. PULLETS FOR PROFIT Fall is the time to begin studying the 'best ways to make more money by improving the flock of chickens on the farm or poultry yard. Pullets hatched in April and kept growing during the summer, come in to profit in the fall. They are the win ter layers and by spring are in fine condition for breeding. There is more profit in the eggs from pullets than there is in breeding them, as under a year of age, there is not much stamina to impart to the young. The pullet must not be hatched too early. March hatched pullets are like ly to molt in the fall, with the old hens and then they seldom begin laying be fore the hen does. This time is usual ly some time in January. The fall lay ing pullets come into profit just about the time the old hens are molting, and thus prevent a shortage of eggs. FOR RE-ELECTION AS SHERIFF John J. Nedreloe Who Served One Term Is Asking for Second and Last—Contest Interesting John J. Nedreloe, Ward county's sheriff, who was elected two years ago on the republican ticket, was nominat ed again this year without opposition and is now asking for the. support of the republican voters at the November election. Mr. Nedreloe demonstrated that he was some kind of a campaigner at the JOHN J. NEDRELOE primaries two years ago when he won out in the most spectacular fight for sheriff ever known in Ward county. He has retained all of the friends who Sugpdrt^d him then and besides he has woft a! great many new ones. He has 'bedii11attendihjj to his duties closely and l)as not b£6n' out doing a great deal of'leampai^riitig. His record has been slich as Would justify a second term. Writes from Dixie Land Mrs. Robert Johnson writes from Rienzi, Miss. "Dixie Land is all right. Lovely weather, like summer. I am having a very good time here. I find it so different from the North, but rather like the change. Do not think I would care to live here always for I like the north better and will return when the winter is over." mmmmimmm GfcEEK and FRENCH OFFICERS FCATEfcNIZE IN ATHEN5 must pass through his hands. He will determine whether orders are in con formity with the laws of the country and the policy of benevolent neutral ity which Greese promised to pursue. A list of the names of all the police and gendarme officers will be submit ted to him, and none can be dismissed or transferred without his consent, though any dismissal or transfer he orders must take place without dis cussion. The list of all officers and gendarmes of special service for the protection of the king must be sub mitted so that the number may not exceed the legal eighty. The number is now stated to be 4,000. THE WARD COUNTY INDEPENDENT INDEPENDENT BUYS ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT The Independent this week placed an order with the Amer ican Type Founders Co. of Min neapolis for a brand new Whit lock, four-roller, two-revolution Premier cylinder printing press, capable of printing a sheet 25x38 inches, equipped with a Kimble variable speed cylinder press mo tor, three horse power. That the press is a large one may be known from the fact that we have engaged an entire car in which to ship it from Chicago to Minot. This press will be used exclusive ly in our job printing department and it will cost us to install it about $3,100. Two years ago we invested in what we considered was a job press large enough for our needs for ten years to come, but business has grown so rapid ly that this press no longer has the required capacity. The Inde pendent will have one of the -very best equipped newspaper and job printing shops in North Dakota when the new press is installed. We are also throwing out all of our old cases and case racks, having bought a number of beau tiful, modern type cabinets for our job department and ad alleys. Minot is going along some and we find that we must do the same. $$$§$§$$$&<§$$$ DRADY MAN PRESENTED WITH WATCH AT FAREWELL Chas. J. Piatt, a prominent farmer who has resided in the vicinity of Drady for the past six years, and who leaves next week for his farm at San ish, where he will reside in the future, was tendered a flattering farewell re ception at the Farmers' Hall at Drady Wednesday evening, the affair being a complete surprise to the genial Mr. Piatt. A large number of the neighbors and their families gathered and spent a most enjoyable evening. An enjoy able supper was served, after which Harry Blom, on behalf of the assemb lage, presented Mr. Piatt with a beau tiful gold watch. The recipient re sponded as ably as he could under the crcumstances. Mr. Piatt has been prominent in the affairs of Burt township. He was president of the farmers' club for two years and was the leader of the Piatt orchestra which has furnished music for the various entertainments. Both himself and family will be missed from the community for they are held in very high esteem. Recently Mrs. Piatt was tendered a surprise at her home by members of I the Unity Ladies' Aid, at which time she received a number of valuable ar ticles. THREE-HOUR DAY FOR HORSES The horse has a three-hour day, ac cording to a Minnesota investigation carried on under the direction of Thos. Cooper, now director of the North Da kota Experiment station. It was found that a farm horse averaged in the neighborhood of 100 hours labor per year, or about 3 hours per day. It was also found that the cost of main tenance for the horse was $85.00 per year. This emphasizes the need of watching closely to see that too many horses are not kept. It also empha sizes the need of keeping brood mares and raising colts, so as to get more returns from the work horses than the three hours of labor per day. I THE INDEPENDENT HAS HE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY WEEKLY PAPER IN THE STATE Vol. 15i No. 28. n^^i Minot, Ward County* North Dakota, ^Thursday, October 26, 1916. Subscription $1.50 Per Annum ."** The inspector will have power to dismiss or arrest any self constituted agent of public order and will have the right to appoint inspectors in any part of Greece. It has been arranged that a French contingent will remain in Athens, but it will not patrol the streets unless the chief inspector considers it necessary. As for the military situation, the un trained classes recently called up will be disbanded, together with the 1913 class, while a portion of the troops concentrated at Larissa will be with drawn. In the picture may be seen Greek and French officers fraternizing in Athens and discussing the war. soppfcnsM jiiiiliiai •M Northwest News .AYEIt'S DEATH ENDS HIGH'S GRID SCHEDULE 'imber Lake, S. D., Oct. 26—The lo op high school athletic authorities h%ve cancelled the remaining games on toe school's football schedule, follow ing the death Saturday of A. Wood iatg, left tackle, who fell dead in the fourth period of a game with Lem n|on high school. ALLEGED TIMES DYNAMITER ON TRIAL SECOND TIME Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 26—The sec ond trial of David Caplan, alleged dy mmiter, is to begin in the superior &urt here today. Caplan was, arrested February 21, 1915, near Seattle, charged with com plicity in the dynamiting of the Times building in 1910, when twenty men were killed. PRESIDENT ASKED TO FREE AGED IOWA WOMAN PIGGER Sioux City, la., Oct. 26.—President Wilson has been asked to pardon Mrs. Marie Bolteau, an aged woman who was sentenced in the Federal court here to serve sixty days in jail for selling liquor to Indians. DRINKS QUART OF STOLEN BOOZE—HE'S ON HIS WAY 1 Keokuk, la., Oct. 26.—Frank Wil liams, one of the prisoners who raided a cell Saturday in which confiscated liquor was stored as evidence in blind pig cases, died Monday as the result drinking a quart of whiskey. BANK TELLER OF BEMIDJI DROWNS WITH HELP NEAR Bemidji, Minn., Oct. 26—After hold ing to his capsized boat for 45 minutes And when his rescue seemed apparent, Merle Spencer, 21 years old, teller of the First National bank here, gave up the struggle and was drowned in Four Legged lake, near Leonard, 20 miles west of Bemidji. Spencer was out duck hunting and was tipped from his boat. EIGHTEEN INJURED AS CAR CAPSIZED ON STEEP GRADE Oakland, Cal., Oct. 26.—Three wo Ihen probably were fatally injured here last night and 15 other persons were giore or less seriously injured when fine street car in which they were rid ing capsized at the end of a steep grade down which it had run away aft er the air brakes had been put out of commission in a collision with an automobile. FARMER REFUSES TO PAY THRESHER AND IS SHOT Aberdeen, S. D., Oct. 26.—D. H. Brown, a thresher near Mcintosh, S. D., is held at the Fort Yates jail as the result of a shooting Monday, said to have 'been caused by the refusal of John Stevens to pay a threshing bill. On reaching the Stevens farm, Brown demanded the money and when refused opened fire with a shotgun, it is said. Stevens is in a critical condi tion. GAS DRILLERS STRIKE A FLOW OF SALT WATER Baker, Mont., Oct. 26.—Drillers for the Montana Petroleum company have struck a salt water flow noar here at a depth of 2,300 feet. George Laucomer, foreman of the crew, ordered a cessation of the drill ing and made arrangements to with draw the casing to a point near the gas line, nearly 1,400 feet distant. The flow of gas is reported to have suffer ed no interference from the salt water MONTANA OIL OPERATORS FORCED TO BLAST WELLS Billings, Mont., Oct. 26.—Blasting for oil is a development in the oil busi ness worked successfully by a group of Colorado capitalists operating in eastern Montana. When drilling was started in Sweet grass county a big boulder field was encountered and the big rocks crushed the tubing and made drilling impos sible. The operators went after the job with dynamite and soon went thru 200 feet of rock. As soon as the boul der deposit was penetrated the drills were put to work again. QUAKES SHAKE UP CITIES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Fresno, Cal., Oct. 26.—According to reports received here, two earthquake shocks felt through Southern Califor nia last night were severe at Bakers field and in the oil fields in that dis trict. Power lines between Bakersfield and Los Angeles are said to have been damaged, and it is reported that a Santa Fe railroad ticket office at Teha chapi was wrecked. Two Shocks at Los Angeles Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 26.—Two slight earthquake shocks were felt here and in neighboring towns last night. The first shock was felt at 6:45 p. m., the second ten minutes lat er. Each lasted several seconds. Chicago Operatic Co. at Normal Nov. 1 The Minot Normal school Lyceum course is much stronger this year than ever. The second number will be giv en at the gymnasium Nov. 1. The Chi cago Operatic Co. comprising seven artists will give a very high class voc al and instrumental program that eve ning. This number comes at a cost of $200 so should be one of the best of the entire year. •«pp RURAL CREDITS LAW FAKE GIVES FARMER NO RELIEF The Rural Credits law was passed to make platform timber at the St. Louis democratic convention in 191G. It was rushed through in a hurry to help the Wilson administration cover up some of its failures to make good on pledges of 1912. John Burke said in a speech opening his campaign for the senate, "It would seem as though that was sufficient to go'before the people." Cumbersome and Costly The rural credits act is pictured to the public as a farmers' act. It is really a bankers' act. It is unthink ably cumbersome. It establishes a governing body of five members (at $12,000 each) a number of districts and separate sub-governing bodies for each (all at high salaries) an army of counsel, land appraisers, experts, secretaries, and others—for what pur pose? To help farmers borrow money at the same old rates of interest on the same old kinds of security—'but only after unwinding reels of red tape. It Gives No Relief It gives not a single tenant farmer one cent of relief. Only the owners of land or those who can prove they are immediately going to own land can get its "benefits." To get these "benefits" they have to turn around and pay back five per cent of the money they borrow for bank stock. Bankers Still to Rule But anyone else can buy this stock also, and with it participate in the management of the Rural Credits banks. Thus any banker can buy this stock and continue to rule the destin ies of the farmers, as bankers do now. The difference is that direct dealings between farmer and banker are super ceded by a roundabout way that will cost a lot of more money, but bring no atom of improvement. The law lets the Rural Credits banks have govern ment money at three per cent, but the farmers can borrow it from the Rural Credits banks at six per cent only. Nonpartisan Leaders Opinion The Nonpartisan Leader said of this law: "The substance of this bill is said to have come from a well known house in Wall street. Anyway it couldn't have been worse for the farm er or better for the money trust." The law prescribes minutely the only ways in which these rural credit branches and associations can be form ed. it smothers the spirit of co-oper ation by which farmers in the Equity society, in the Farmers' union, the Grange, and through stock shipping associations and co-operative stores have been learning to solve their eco nomic problems. It discourages all development of self-help among farm ers in solving their financial problems. It is a bankers' law, and the Equity state convention at Minot this year branded it as such in this resolution. What the Equity Said About It "Resolved, That we are opposed to the Moss-Hollis Rural Credit bill now before congress, because this bill is a deliberate and premeditated attempt on the part of Wall Street bankers to fasten upon the farmers a counter feit Rural Credit law, oije that would retard the getting of favorable Rural Credit laws for years to come." (Pol. Adv.) McEwen Brothers Back From Maine Bert and William McEwen of Sur rey have returned from their old home in Maine where they were called by the serious illness of their father, who was not expected to live. He is some better and there are hopes that his life will be prolonged. This queer looking craft, looking altogether unlike the newer types of submarines in the American, German and other navies, was the first Holland submarine built for the United States navy. It was photographed a few days ago in Philadelphia, where it lay like a stranded whale in an empty lot OUCE 5UBMRRINE, HOW ft CHILDREN'S PLRYGfSQUND 'H 11 w' -W FIRST SECTION MINOT'S BANNER BUILDING YEAR NEXT YEAR BRIGHT Many Immense Structures Erected at a Cost of Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars—Six Foundations This has been Minot's best building year but next year bids fair to sur pass the record. Last spring there was but one basement to start work upon, which had been completed the fall before. Basements for seven large buildings will be completed by the be ginning of the winter season and work will start on these buildings early the coming spring. Among the buildings to be erected and for which the found ations are now being built are the $85, 000 new high school building, the Smart three-story block, the Eby & Young garage, the new McKinney Fuller garage and the new Fauchald block. These improvements will run away into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Besides there are a num ber of propositions that are being con sidered, and which will without ques tion go through. Among those who will in all probability build are J. W. Rowan, a three-story block to replace the one he now occupies on South Main street a three-story block to replace the one now owned and occupied by the First International bank a mag nificent new block, perhaps six stories, to be built and occupied by the Second National bank an immense new ware house to be built by the Hodgins Transfer company a mammoth gar age to be built and occupied by the Minot Auto Co., and in addition a num ber of flat buildings and three or four hundred houses. The Dwire flats, J. B. Reed Storage house, the Epstein grocery block, the Shaw-Brunner block, Anderson 3 story block, Peter Ehr 3-story block, North American Storage Co. block, are all under the course of construc tion, while the Moline Plow Co. build ing, Blakey block, Roell block, Piper Howe office and warehouse, Ellison apartments, Dakota Bakery business block, A. Baker block have all been completed. Large additions have been built to the Minot Transfer building, Winter Jewerly building, Minot Suit and Cloak building and the Wolworth building. This year four hundred residences have been built in our city, besides in the neighborhood of a dozen large business blocks, and several more are now under course of construction. It is hard to keep "tab" on all of the im provements. The buildings are all of the most substantial kind and right now busy Minot has the aspect of a young Chicago. P. J. Kavanaugh, the Carpio hard ware merchant, stopped off in the city a few hours Monday. He was on his his way to St. Cloud, Minn., to attend the celebration of the golden wedding of Mrs. Kavanaugh's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Noel, who were among the early pioneers of Minnesota. The event will take place on Saturday of this week, Mrs. Kavanaugh and little daughter are already in St. Cloud, having left several days ago in order to assist in the preparations. opposite Franklin field before being taken to New York for display at an exposition. The youngsters seen playing on top of the queer craft are pupils of a nearby school who found the submarine a "dandy" play-ground. It appealed strongly to their imagina tions. *'•:V li' I] .'i 1 a 1 1 A