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H. E. BAIRD, PRES.
F. H. ROUTIER, CASHIER
Capital
Surplus
Devils Lake Inter-Ocean
^•Published every Friday at Devils Lake, Ramsey
County, North Dakota.
Official paper Ramsey County and Devils Lake.
All Bills Collected Monthly.
C. D. MILLS, Managing Editor.
Subscription Price $1.50 a Year.
DECEMBER 31, 190&
What promises to be one of the hot
test political battles in the history of
North Dakota Is commencing to open
up. With a governor, two TJ. S. sena
tors, and congressmen to elect it
makes a good starter for a real cam
paign. The holiday season has so far
retarded any outward show of the real
time coming but with its exit there is
every indication that there will be a
start in politics that will continue to
grow in intensity until the final cli
max next fall.
The hegira of 1909 from the United
States to Canada has taken $100,000,
00 of wealth across the Dominion line,
according to a summary completed for
the year. The total number of set
tlers who will cross the border in 1910
Is put up by Col. A. D. Davidson of
the Northern Canadian at 125,000 for
the government immigration reports
for eight months ending November 30
show that a total of 71,988 American
homeseekers settled in western Can
ada, every man. woman and child
bringing into the Dominion, it is esti
mated, an average of $1,000 in cash
and property. This is an increase of
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H. WHIPPLE, VICE PRES.
N. J. HALEY, A. CASHIER
First National Bank
Devils Lake. N. Dak.
$75,000
$35,000
68 per cent over the figures for the startled the country with their astoun
corresponding
previous year.
-come from the United States as from
all other sources combined. The Am
erican immigration means most for
'Canada because of the wealth it brings
•and the skill of those settlers in agri
culture. The total immigration figures
for next year will probably show that
more than 125,000 citizens of thg Un
ited States have settled in Canada.
Without taking into account the num
bers from the states who purchased
railway and other, privately owned
lands, the first ten months of this
year, 9,919 homestead entries were
taken up by Americans Homesteaders
from North Dakota led with 3,464 ap
i-plications, but all states of the union
were represented. Next in order were
Minnesota, 1,741 South Dakota. 522
.Michigan, 514 and Washington, 510.
tional issue. The present system of
taxing the value of timber before it is
cut Mr. Pinchot contended was penal
izing the man who grows trees instead
of wheat or corn, for these crops never
are taxed Until they have been har
vested, and turned into personal prop
erty with a definite market value. "The
land alone should be taxed," said Mr.
Pinchot "Why should growing crops
of timber pay taxes when other grow
ing crops do not?" Mr. Pinchot's
ideas have been approved of by Presi
dent H. U. Mudge of the Rock Island
system, who said: "The government
ought to buy up the cut-over lands
itself and plant them at its own ex
pense. It could easily secure the mon
ey by issuing fifty-year bonds. It is
difficult to see how the government
could lose. If there is government
ownership, as some people seem to
think may be the case fifty years from
now, the government could not do bet
ter than to take measures that would
insure it a sufficient supply of ties
and posts against that time. If the
railroads should then still remain in
private hands, the government could
easily recoup itself at a good profit
by selling its supply of timber to the
railroads for ties and posts."
in "white slaves," which Congressman
Mann of Chicago has introduced in
congress, has had endorsement over
the rival bills Which have been pre
sented by tardy champions of reform.
United States District Attorney Edwin
W. Sims, whose articles in the 'Wo
man's World of Chicago a year ago
eight months of the ding revelations, subsequently borne
Almost as much has out by official reports, said: "I consid
er the bill prepared by Congressman
The taxation of standing timber be-1 year in Illinois. The report of the
fore it is cut, which was denounced by house committee on interstate com
Chief Forester Pinchot in Chicago, merce stated: "This evidence showed
promises to .become a prominent na- beyond a reasonable doubt that there
Mann to be the one which should be
made a law. I have given it my en
dorsement and hope it will be univer
sally endorsed." State's Attorney
Wayman, whose office has recently
prosecuted many cases of white slav
ery, under the new Illinois pendering
law, said: "I endorse the Mann bill
because I believe it will stand the le
gal tests and because it will be a
great aid in the regulation of the traf
fic. It is a needed weapon in the fight
to throttle this evil." The Mann bill
provides drastic punishment for in
ducing or taking women from one
state to another to lead immoral lives
a penitentiary punishment being pro
vided. Progress is being made In Ohio
in the preparations to secure a new
state law similar to that enacted last
To My Friends and
Patrons
In the event of the coming New Year you
will do no better justice to yourself, and your
friends, than selecting this store to satisfy
your jewelry wants. We have had a very
encouraging business the past year, and of
our patrons,
and friends we ask of them to.
continue the same, assuring a prompt and'
ctarteous treatment at all time, ^pd wishing
Alia veiy Prosperous and Happy New Year.
FRANK LUECK
The bill against the interstate traffic the reason that they avoid coming in
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was in existence an.organized system'
or syndicate, having for its purpose
the importation of women from for
eign countries to Chicago and other
cities in the United States for immor
al purposes. This syndicate had head
quarters .and distributing centers in
New York, Chicago, Omaha, Denver,
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle
and Nome, Alaska. It is conservative
ly estimated from an examination of
the data and information at hand, that
the syndicate has imported annual
ly for the preceding eight or ten years
on an average of about 2,000 women—
mostly French.
The end of charity balls in Chicago,
foreseen in the outburst of attack up
on the last one, will put "finis" to so
cial events that have been for years
the most elaborate and conspicuous
that the city has boasted. More splen
dor has been lavished upon the
settings for these balls and more dis
play of gowns and jewels made than
at any other event of the year, and in
cidentally they have been the means
of raising for charity's uses about
$200,000. Mrs. Poter Palmer has an
nually returned from Europe, and
its royal, semi-royal and petty
courts to take up the no
light task of guiding the Chicago
charity balls to success, each year suc
ceeding in outdoing the previous one.
She is reported to be hurt incurably by
the stinging criticism which has fol
lowed her latest and greatest triumph.
The dispensing of charity by means of
a brilliant ball has been branded as a
sham and as an ointment for con
sciences troubled by the knowledge
that poverty and misery exist beyond
the narrow horizon that bounds their
life of ease. One preacher said: "The
charity ball is a second-handed and
roundabout way of doing the thing that
Christ taught should be done first
handed." Another said: "A ball un
der the cloak of charity is bad and
without excuse." Those who buy a
box in which to display themselves
have little right to assume credit for
the good their money may do. No
clergyman or charity worker has re
fused to dispense funds provided by
the ball. However, the general theory,
expressed is: "It is the best way to get
money out of them." The spirit of
charity has almost been lost sight of
by hundreds of the contributors to
the charity ball funds, it is said, for
contact with the suffering and the
need that they are presumed to de
plore and .try to alleviate.
The witchcraft or electricity wUl
reach its height in Chicago in the re
producing of writing across a span of
2% miles when "telautograph" con
nections are completed between the
down-town office and the general of
fice of the Consolidated Casualty com
pany, which has led an exodus of in
surance and other offices away from
the congested district of high rents
to the old residential district two
miles south of the elevated loop. By
means of this modern devise all the
peculiarities of a signature to an ap
plication for insurance or other docu
ment will reappear as if by magic, si
lently, mysteriously, at the other end
of the electric line, the longest line
for the purpose in the world. This is
the device which the United States
navy has installed on battleships to
transmit orders and messages in the
din of firing when the telephone would
be useless and speed of communica
tion all important. New York has put
the telautograph to worfc in clubs and
hotels in transmitting orders from
cafe to kitchen silently and instan
taneously, but Chicago will boast the
boldest obliteration of distance where
accuracy and autographs are essential.
The figures of an accident policy or
an. indemnity bond with the name of
the applicant affixed will be received
at the Consolidated company's main
office, although the applicant Is miles
away. Metropolitan banks" have their
telautograph communication between
officers, tellers and bookkeepers for
silent inquiry regarding the.balance
of a customer or maturity of a note,
and many a customer has marveled at
the prodigious memory of a bank pres
ident who knew his balance to' a cent,
and wondered whether the banker
could also recall all the thonBands of
other balances. The operation of the
device Is only explained by technical
phrases, but in its simplest terms,
when the pencil is moved by an opera
tor currents of varying strength go out
upon the line wire and these currents
pass through two light vertically mov
able coils, suspended :)n magnetic
fields, and the colls move up or down*
against the pull of retractile springs
according the strengths of the line
currents. The mottons-of the colls are
communicated ot levers similar to
those at the transmitter.-.! At the Juno-'
tion of the levers Is mounted tbti re
ceiving-pen, which by the motions of
the coils, is caused to duplicate the
motions of the sending pencil*
Tetter, Sa* team and ham
A certain amount of pleasure is
necessary for the relaxation of mind'
and body, but a certain amount of
work is just as necessary lor the ap
preciation of pleasure.
The person who can see nothing
but good in anyone shows a charitable
disposition, but iB too credulous to
make much of a success in this age of
frenzied finance.
There is nothing to the story that
bat been going the rounds to the ef
feet that after January 1st those1
drawing checks for less than a dollar
.would be subject to a fine of $500,
but if it was true there are many who
could draw one for the smaller amount
with less risk than for the amount of
the fine.
In the discussion of whether a stat
ute of that greatest of southern pat
riots, General Lee, should be placed
in Statuary hall at Washington, it
might be well to remember that this
would be very little for the north to
give the south in comparison to what
the south has given to make this a
united nation.
A smile improves a man's appear
ance if it isn't one of the kind tha/t
is liable to slop over.
Discarding peek-a-boo waists during
a North Dakota winter is not necessar
ily a sign of modesty.
•We wouldn't object to Rockefeller
pouring oil upon the waters if he didn't
turn around and palm the mixture off
for kerosene.
The boy who tries to talk with his
mouth full isn't any more disagree
able to listen to than the man who
tries to say too much in one adver
tisement.—Rusty Mike's Diary.
An exchange says that the farmer
moves the world. If the editor had
said the farmer moves the earth he
would have made a statement that
could not have been contradicted.
It is funny how a man will hang
patiently around the church door for
an hour or so to take his girl home,
and kick up a terrible hullahalloo a
year or so later when his wife delays
him five minutes.
The man who knows can demand a
good salary, but some men who don't
know milch get well paid for not tell
ing it
By F. A. MITCH EL.
tCoj yright. 190S, by American Press AM*
ctation.J
Out of Lake Magglore, in northern
Italy, rises a sheer rock to a height of
several hundred feet. On a park
where the eminence slopes is an es
tate acquired by the Peretti family
daring, tbe middle ages, when Italian
territory was beiug divided np be
tween tbe gentlemen robbers of that
period. The stronghold bnilt by Pe
retti is now a ruin, and of this little
remains. Tet one may climb .the as
cent from it to the summit of the
rock, proceeding here and there over
short spaces of tbe old path by which
the Perettis frequently ascended to
hurl missiles down on an attacking
foe. There remain on this pinnacle a
few weather beaten stones Which tra
dition calls "Lovers' bower."
Of all the daughters of the house of
Peretti, Rianca. who lived at a tim$
when the Borgias were eminent at
Rome, was tbe most beautiful nnd the
most celebrated. Report said -that her
heart was as cold as her face was
heavenly. Indeed, there were whis
perings that danger lurked opder her
snowy bosom as tbe bee Is bidden
within the flower. Several young nfc
bles who bad met her at foreign courts
traveled to her home on Lake Mag
glore to propose for her hand. There
they met misfortune. One -was said
to have fallen ill of a fever, and, al
though the barber on the Peretti es
tate let nearly all the blood out of his
body In an effort to save him, the
young man died. Another was said to
have left the castle as a storm waa
rising. His boat was wrecked, and h«
was drowned It was rumored that
a third suitor had been accidentally
killed la fencing with the lady he
wooed, she having declared that abd
would marry blm if he could vanquish
her with the foil. But' there ^were
those who averred that this man waa
sent to his death purposely by the Icy
hearted Blanca.
Whatever of truth there was" la
these sinister reports, certain It la
that none of these three young men
ever returned from the wooing.-' Then
Pietro Calleonl, count of Malpaga.
who had Just succeeded to his family
estates, met Blanca at Rome, fell un
der her thrall and begged her to marry
him. She replied that 'she -would give
him his answer at her father's castle
on Lake Magglore, where he was to
'vlt$d to be her guest the following
month at the full of the moon.
Tbe young count was warned to dis
regard tbe invitation and keep away
from hue wheat suitors Had been, to
say the least, so unlucky/ But no on#
on 'whom Blanca smiled ^ld ever i$
Ugtaced to heed a warning. Pfeto
could barely wait for the days (o
•lapse wrfean he should vhdt tbegirt
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Have You Rheumatism?.
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Dr. HARNESS Can Cute You.
Have Vou Spinal Troubles,
ed Muscles, Stiff Joints?
If
Dr. Harness Successfully treats such complaints by
Mechano-Therapy. Mechano-Terapy is, today, the only
known cure for Infantile Paralisys.
Dr. Harness is permanently located at Devils Lake and is meeting
with wonderful success in the cures of the above named diseases and many
other chronic and nervous ailments. His treatment of Rheumatism, is un
excelled at any Hot Springs, as many will testify here in Devils Lake^ :c
and be moon was no sooner haTf full'
than be set out from Rome on his jour
ney northward. Reaching the lower
end of the lake, he embarked and soon
saw the rock of the Perettis looming
up abend of him. He was received by
Count FeretH. Rlancn's father, and en
tertained sumptuously.
(J Call on or write Dr. Harness and tell him of your case and he
will soon tell you if he.can clire you or not. It costs nothing to consult
him.
After dining Pietro drew Blanca
away on to a terrace and begged for
her reply. "I will give It," she «aid,
"on the summit of the rock." Darting
forward, she led the way in the min
gled twilight and moonlight to the
path, which zigzagged upward. Pietro
followed and. was soon started on a
mad chnse The girl, light as a bird,
kept always the lead. The lover now
andagnin up to see her on the
road abi :.t!, v. liieb to gain height had
TELEPHONE 374. LOCKE-GRAN BLDG.
DEVILS LAKE, N. D.
been turned iu an opposite direction, to the author's surprise, although the
She gazed down on him. an enchanting other four, wlnuing stories were pub
witchery in ber eyes. Though be bur- lished. that of tbe time lock failed to
lied to bis utmost ability, be could appear. After a few weeks a repre
never catch ber. One moment be would sentative of the paper called upon Mr.
be looking out oh to the bine lake, the Burton, explaining that tbe editor waa
silhouette mountains and thp full pale anxious to know what authority he
orb beyond. Tbe next his glance wonld had for his story and whether it would
meet those eyes that were lifting him really be possible to rob a bank after
as tbe tnoop draws tbe ocean. And all the fasblou that he had set forth,
tbe wbile within hitn was a fever that! With the help of a pencil and a few
was consuming blm. At tlmes wben diagrams Mr. Burton easily proved
he turned a sharp angle in the path the accuracy uf the method to tbe ap
ras like to parent satisfaction of hlB interviewer
fall.hundreds of feet below. But there, and thereafter looked forward to a
always above biro, was that,beautiful prompt uppearance of tbe story. But
face to steady him. and. grasping the a few days later tbe secret of the de
guard rail, be stumbled on. lay was revealed. A special envoy ot
At last tbe top was reached, a pinna- the paper waited upon bim. full ot
cle of circular rock...And there. In the consternation and apology, and (re
depths of Loveife* bower, reflecting the pared to make any amends within rea
rn
were two bright eyes. The son, but was emphatic in announcing
count approached^, and Blanca shrank that it was absolutely impossible to
back. His hand touched hers. A thrill publish the story, because after ex
shot to bis very heart. pert Investigation they bad become
There remains a fragment of the convinced that If It should appear in
slab with tbe two stone supports on print.it would destroy the protective
Which Blanca Peretti and Pietro Cal-1 power of every time lock safe in the
Measured by ths Human Standard..
Those people on Mais most bo a
very stupid lot"
«What makes ydu tblnk sor
"Wby. If tbey haven't time to flash
as signal or two they might at least
drop us a picture postcard."—Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
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Dr. Harness can give you almost instant relief.
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C| Dr. Harness makes it his business to remedy those
afflictions.
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Headaches, Wast-
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.i country, and the representative of the
"Ob. Blancar' cried Pietro. "Have newspaper did not take his leave un
yoo brongb't me to this pinnacle the til he had obtained what Mr. Burton
"easier to lift me into heaven?"
She rose and, walking band in htiind
with blm. advanced to tbe'edge of the
cliff. Twice, she paused and directed
bis gnze to tbe entrancing scene above.
about, beneath them, and ibrice again
she turned those witch eyes upon his.,
Theni standing with him on tbe verge.
she suddenly stepped back and gave
him a push.
Men in the little boat below, which
by this time had approached tbe cliff,
saw {he moon glitter on something
doubtless an ornam?nt worn by tb*
count—falling from tbe summit of thf
Peretti rock and heard a splash. PuU
Ing In the direction, from which the
wound came, they drew a dead body
from the lake.
There is no record of any subse
quent wooing of Blanca Peretti. A
mystery hangs over her- end. It is
written that aha suffered death for the
murder of Count Calleonl. and It is
written that she married one of the
most powerful robber barons in Italy.
under the circumstances easily grant
ed—a'signed agreement releasing the
paper from its obligation to publish
the story and solemnly pledging him
self not to attempt to publish it else
where. Accordingly the curiosity
piqued by this bit of inside history la
likely never to be gratified.—Bookman.
Notice of Mortgage Foreclosure sale
Notice is hereby given that that cer
tain mortgage executed and delivered
by Ernst F. Zimmer a single man, mort-
f:ank
agor, to the Ramsey County National
of- Devils Lake, mortgagee, dated
2? day. of February, 1905 and
filed for record in the office of the Regis
ter of deeds of the county of Ramsey in
the state of North Dakota on the 25th
day of February., 1906 and recorded In
Book 29 of Mortgages at page 490 and
assigned by said mortgagee to one Mary
u. Cole and by her assigned to the un
dersigned Charles M. Fisher, which as
signments have been duly recorded will
be foreclosed by a sale of the premises
Li .!.u^h mortgage and hereinafter de
scribed at the front door of the court
house In the city of DevilB Lake, county
of Ramsey and state of North Dakota at
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Molt longed tor slender grace
And said it would be wise
Te seek some outlines to eOue
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Br constant exercise,
And so she-walked and rode In hops
To ebeat relentless" fate t
And tugged In patience at the rope
That held the pulley weight.
•he pushed the dumbbells right and left.
But found-oh..cruel plight!— j.
Ttet jrhen shi? lojtt a Wt to haft
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•he walls life's WttSwp-^
Vbs.msre she has to hold bar fcnath
Te get her dress hooked up.
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Y«t
A 8tory That Won a Prise and
Was Never Published.
A number of years ago a series of
prizes for tbe best detective story
was offered by a certain well known
western newspaper, uud tbe late F. B.
Burton, in collaboration with a fellow
craftsman, entered the competition.
Their story, the theme-of which In
volved an ingenious method of rob
bing a safe in spite of the protection
afforded by a time lock, was one Of the
five which won prizes, and the authors'
portraits were duly published in the
Issue of-tbe paper which announced
the result of tbe competition. The
prize money, constituting a considera
ble sum, was promptly paid over, but
forenoon
on the 14th day of February, 1910, to
satisfy the amount due upon -said mort
"ff® "je day of sale. The premises
lescribed in such mortgage and which
SLlLi ti. ^ttefy the same are slt
inx.the county of. Ramsey and
gtff? of North Dakota and described as
follows: Lots vone (1) aitd two (2) in
southeast
quarter_jgE34) of the northwest quar-
1
ter.
lots, one (l) two
WWVr ana i°w one (l) two" (2)
and three (3) in section thirty-five (SS)
due orT^fo.
tn V*®8 and the mortgRKor h&v
loff xftlled. to pay tho
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seven .hundred eleven dollars
.-eight Cents (1711.6.8) besides the
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hundred Qfty-four (164)
"Jf4**,?1* i.#6) west to-4
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gether with all the hereditaments and
appurtenances thereunto belonging or in
any wise appertaining.
"tfpulattd 4n said mort
gage that If any default-be made hy the
mortgagor in. any of the provisions of
the..mortgage that the mortgagee or its
!S declare the wftcrte sum
secured thereby due and default having
b«enraaae in tie payment of the iMtell
ment or interest which
fell
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tterefor, the un-
dersigned has elected to declare and doea ll
hereby declare the whole amount secur-
and
Voath and eatpenses of aiie *nd 'the at
torneys fees allowed by Jaw.^^
December l«£5, 1901..
—ChirJef H. FIshe:
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