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A Change of
Ownership
J. P. Reeve Now Proprietor of
the Meat Market and Grocery
Business Formerly Owned by
,J. C. Gile.
A deal was consumated
last Saturday whereby J. P.
fteeve became the owner of the
market and grocery business, to
gether with the slaughter house,
feed yards and' land formerly
owned and operated by J. C.
Gile, one, of the pioneer mer
chants of this city.
Mr. Reeve is one of the big
farmers of the north country and
last year started the manufac
ture and put upon the market a
brand of sausage known as the
"J. P." brand, or in other words,
just pig sausage, from which he
gained a state wide reputation.
This particular brand of sauAe
will be on sale at the market on
ly three days of each week, as
the outside demand is of such
volume that it is considerable ot
a task to make the supply equal
the demand.
The other business interests of
Mr. Reeve demands his atten
tion and he has placed M. D.
Sarver in charge of the business
in Beach and with an &ble corps
of assistance will endeavor to
win first place in the state on the
sanitary conditions of his shop
and products when examined by
the pure food inspectors. He
took charge of the business last
Monday morning.
We have not learned ju3t
what Mr. Gile will do, but it is
very probable that he will con
tinue the raising of stock with
l^.is son at the ranch just west of
the Cedar pest office in Mon
tana.
AFFIDAVIT.
State of North Dakota
ss
County of Golden Valley
Billy Clark being first duly
sworn on oath deposes and says
that he is more than 21 years of
Vage, that he has been working
around Beach for about two
weeks and that he is the same
party who signed an affidavit'
that was published in the Beach
Advance over his signature, that
said affidavit was signed in th»
office of States Attorney Halli
day, at the request of John Jep
son, R. O. Zollinger and State's
Attorney Haliiday affiant furth
er says that he only told them
that he said to Smith when call
ed upon, that he was a stranger,
ifcbut would be glad to do any
thing he could, to help stop any
trouble. Affiant further says
that he did not say that it was
the most outrageous thing he
had ever seen, meaning the arrest
of Jepson and Stockwell, affiant
^further says that the affidavit
•published in the Advance, was
not correct and that it contained
considerably more than affiant
told them, all of which affiant
says is true.
Signed) BILLY CLARK.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 10th day of August,
1914.
(Seal) J. R. Waters.
Notary Public, N. D.
The Help of
Farmers Needed
An Effort Will Be Made to Have
a County Exhibit at the Big
Exposition at Bismarck.
A state exposition will prob
ably be held at Bismarck during
October of this year and Golden
Valley county should be repre
sented.
Plans are under way to repre
sent our county there and to do
so it will be necessary to have
the best possible samples of our
county's products for exhibition.
Therefore, we appeal to you, Mr.
Farmer, to save the best you
have in the following: Wheat,
oats, flax, barley, rye, both
spring and winter, spelts, corn,
alfalfa, millet, clover, both sweet
and red top, bromus, any other
tame or wild grasses, and a good
line of vegetables of all kinds.
Also as many nice varieties of
potatoes as possible.
It is hoped that an excellent
exhibit can be made, showing
the resources and advantages of
Golden Valley county, and with
as little expense as possible. To
do this will require the combin
ed efforts and interest of every
one in the county. Let us. have
your help, farmers. Begin right
now to save the best you have
and out of the entire (ot we will
be able to put up a display that
everyone in the county will be
proud of.
All sheaf grain bundles should
be at least ten inches in circum
ference where tied below the
heads. All threshed grain should
be in peck lots. Vegetables
should be in half dozen lots and
potatoes should be in peck lots.
This is necessary as the judges
do not consider less in quantities
and measurements than is above
stated.
Bring your sample to J. B.
Slosson, secretary of the Beach
Commercial club, at his office in
the Golden West Investment Co.
building, Beach. Any products
will be greatly appreciated and
we need your help to make this
one of the best exhibits Golden
Valley county has ever made.
Don't put it off.
Commence right now to save
out samples of your best and
your interest and assistance will
be greatly appreciated.
New York to
Seattle Auto Trail
Making a Red Trail From Coast
to Coast With a Bessemer Au
to Truck—In Beach Last
Tuesday.
Last Tuesday afternoon Carl
Pfahler and Fred Brainerd ar
rived in Beach as trail blaizers
from New Yoyk to Seattle. They
started, however, from Grove
City, Pa., in which the Bessemer
auto truck, which machine they
are using to make the trip in, is
manufactured. When they ar
rived in Beach the speedometer
registered 3,841 miles. They
also record the distance between
cities enroute.
The coast to coast trail is in
dicated by a red band with white
above and below. Where just
the bands appear it indicated
straight ahead. At places where
it is possible to leave the trail
for some other road, a sign is!tpublish ..
placed. A red "R" surround- J*
ed by white indicated that you]™^*
should turn to the right, "L" to
the left, "X" a railroad crossing
is near or some other dangerous
place in the road, and the three
bands straight ahead as stated
above. As near as we can learn
the Northwest Trail has been
used from the Twin Cities to this
point.
The party left New York
on June 1st and expect to be in
Seattle not later than September
1st.
A BAD LAND TRIP
On Tuesday morning of this
week a party composed of W.
A. Sprague as chief of scouts,
Judge Frank Fitzgerald as peace
adjuster, Charles Elliott as chief
forager. Earl Sprague as the nec
essary adjunct, and Will and
Jabe Stonehouse, recently ar
rived from Detroit, Mich., and
to some extent representatives
of the "tenderfoot," left Spra
gue's ranch last Tuesday morning
for a week's outing in the bad
lands in the vicinity of Glendive
"k and the Powder river. The
ar:, re all supposed to make
the trip on saddle horses, but
from what we know of some of
them we don't believe many
miles will have been traversed
before they will be increasing the
load of the team which is draw
ing the grub wagon. There is
little doubt but what the trip
will be greatly enjoyed by all,
even though the first few days
will develop many sore spots on
those not accustomed to the sad
dle.
NEW LAWYER FOR BEACH.
John L. Koeppler of Waphe
ton, N. Dak., arrived in Beach
last Saturday to make his per
manent residence and has open
ed a lawyer's office in the rooms
over Power's Clothing store. Mr.
Koeppler took his degrees at
Washington, D. C., and came to
North Dakota some two years
ago, forming a connection with
Judge Laudr of 'Wapheton,
where he has been very success
ful in his chosen profession. He
comes to Beach highly spoken of
by those who know him best and
that he has gained sofmething of
a reputation over the state is at
tested by the fact that he has
been chosen as the Socialist can
didate for the position of attor
ney general.
John Tatley, one of the
large fartners of the Ollie terri
tory. was a Beach visitor on Wed
nesday of this week.
Have you heard of "Lucille
Love," the girl of mystery. Meet
her at the new Bijou theatre.
adv.
Beach, N. D., Aug. 1914.
Mr. R. O. Zollinger,
Editor Beach Advance.
In a recent issue of the Beach
Advance I find myself classed as
a "eunuch" and I wish to state
for the benefit of the android
who wrote the article, that I am
neither a "eunuch" nor of the
Turk family. 1 have been mar
ried for the past eighteen years
and lived Jn perfect happiness
and harmony and I invte Mr.
Zollinger, or any of his staff, to
search my record, here or in my
former location, San Francisco,
California. I have been libeled
in the Advance before and now
feel in justice to myself to show
Mr. Zollinger and the Beach Ad
vance, his and its mistakes. It
must be that the Advance editor
is ignorant of the teikn "eunuch"
or he would find that it could
be more appropriatley applied
to himself, judging from recent
events in the Advance editor's
life. If one would look back
over some of the publications in
the Advance the "eunuch" would
suffer by the comparison. It
has also been published in your
paper that I am one of the May
or's "Pretended" police. I have
this much to say with regard to
that statement I am Mayor Brin
ton's appointee and so will re
main and perform my duties as
such until he sees fit to relieve
me of that responsibility, irre
spective of the Beach Advance
or some of the City Council
whom I have been informed
made the boast that "they would
starve Smith and his family out."
And right here let me offer an
other little suggesetion: That is
they have over looked the stay
ing qualities of Smith and his
family. A kindly and generous
boast, gentlemen of the council,
but hardly worthy of a loyal cit
izen of this beautiful, God-given
country of ours. I ask that you
this communication for
bene
fi*
°f
fk- ri,U "f fo Beach and the public at large.
myske,f. a"d fami,yi
BrJn£n'
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c,*z,ens
of
S. A. SMITH.
ALDERMAN LOVELL FAILS
TO PROVE OFFICIAL
STATEMENTS.
At the July meeting of the
city council, Mark Lovell went
on record, officially, stating rea
sons why the writer should not
be city auditor. His objections
were as follows: Haigh is not a
man of independent action. Lov
ell then followed this statement
up by the following explanation:
1 mean that Haigh will be dic
tated to in the official duties of
his office by others. The mayor
then asked Lovell to let the rec
ords show that he was to furnish
th^ procf 'to his statements at
the next meeting of the council.
Lovell spent his own time and
his 'money, and his agents time
and their money, burning up
gasoline, and lubricating oil,
scouring the country for affida
vits against the writer. Lovell
sent his agents out to D. J. Stein
er's farm in the hopes that they
would talk Mr. Steiner into mak
ing the desired affidavit as, Fred
Near told Lovell or his agents
that Mr. Steiner and I had some
little differences in a business
transaction some years ago, but
the learned and educated alder
man, or his agents, met with a
reversal at Mr. Steiner's hands.
Mr. Steiner instead asked Lovell,
or his agents, why they did not
confirm me, and further stated
New Theatre
To Open
The Bijuo Theatre which is
being fitted up in the Whitney
building by Clifford G. Smith
will open and give its first per
formance next week, Wednesday
night, August 1$*h.
The new show house is a cred
it to Beach, Mr. Whitney having
enlarged his building and fitted
it up on the inside especially for
a moving picture theatre, and
as a show house.
Mr. Smith, the proprietor of
the new show, stated to the
Chronicle that he would give
two performances each night,
and four changes of pro
gram a week and the admission
will be the usual 10c and 15c.
The new theatre's announcement
appears elsewhere in tlus issue.
OBITUARY
Mrs. Martha M. Elliot died in
Beach last Sunday, August 9th,
A Newspaper that Causes Comment in a Town that is Talked About
VOLUME 10 PUBLISHED AT BEACH, GOLDEN VALLEY COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1914 NUMBER 40
that 1 would make a gocd city
auditor.
Lovell and his ilk then sent
their agents to Yates, Mont., so
1 am told, in the hope that they
would get affidavits to the ef
fect that I had been intoxicated
there. Again they failed not be
ing able to procure any such affi
davits.
Mathison was sent out on the fir
ing line. Mathison got Gugolz in
to his automobile and told him
he would take him to see some
party that Mr. Gugolz wished to
see on some business matter,
but instead the learned Al
derman Mathison, run his car
up along side of the First Na
tional bank where he pleaded
long with Mr. Gugolz trying to
get him to go up into Gallagher's
office and give his affidavit to
Gallagher against me, where we
all know that Gallagher was in
waiting, and would have been
more than pleased, if he could
have had the pleasure to write
an affidavit against me had Mr.
Gugolz given it, but he would
not.
1 could keep right on telling
you of many others they tried to
get affidavits from but failed.
They did get two affidavits that
don't amount to anything, are
net worthy of mention. They
have no tendency to prove Lov
ell* statdment, as 1 will tell you
that in order to prove his state
ment, he must prove that my
convictions are not my own.
He next sent his agents to pro
cure an affidavit from one Hen
ry Gugolz, and again at the hands
of Mr. Gulogz they were turn
ed down. But not being satisfied
with his first attempt. Alderman I inade from pure gold mined by
I wish to .inform any of you
who were present at a council
meeting on the night that Lovell
was acting clerk when Heath
came in and told Lovell there
was a phone call for him that
Lovell did net go to any phone
but was met by GallagAei- or
some of his agents in (he Heath
hotel and was quickly taken into
a back room in the hotel where
lie (Lovell) was supplied at the
hands of Gallagher or one of his
agents with written instructions,
which Lovell very readily ac
cepted, instructing him how to
steam roll the council meeting
over the Mayor's head, which he
attempted to do. If this ivory
headed alderman, Lovell, had
one-half a mind of his own, he
would have told Gallagher, or
his agent, that he did not want
their dictation as to how he
should act in his official duty,
and that he was competent of
handling the business of the city
as an alderman, without any dic
tation from Gallagher or any
other person. I expect the all
wise alderman will deny the
above statements, but if you
will come to me I will furnish,
you the proof for every state
ment I have made about this,
and proof that is reliable.
I wish to say in defense of the
ivory headed alderman's charges
against me, that if ever I listen
to dictation in the capacity of
any official duty, as a majority of
the members of the present city
council have done since taking
their oath of office, I hope to
have better judgment than to
raise this uncalled for and un
reasonable question against oth
ers, as has the educated alder
man, Mark Lovell,
JAMES A. HAIGH.
of aenemic conditions of the
blood, after an illness covering
several years.
She was born at Ontanonogan,
Wis., May 23, 1854, and was
therefore 69 years of age on her
last birthday. Her early life was
spent in Wisconsin and Illinois,
but she was married to Thomas
Elliott in Kansas in November,
1874. Four children, George
and Charolotte, of Beach Allen
of Enderlin, and Mrs. Harve
Robinson, of Sentinel Butte, N.
Dak., survive of her immediate
family, besides her father, John
Corser, and two sisters, Mes
dames H* Gilbertson and G. H.
Hopkins, all of Battle Lake,
Minn.
Funeral services were held at
the home of her son in Beach at
1 1 o'clock on Tuesday morning.
Rev. Burns of the Sentinel Butte
Congregational church officia
ting. The remains were taken
to Battle Lake, Minn., for inter
taent and were accompanied by
her son George.
Mrs. Elliott had lived in this
state about three years, coming
to Beach to make her home with
her son George ten months ago.
Her ailment was of such long
standing that she welcomed
death as a relief from her suffer
ing*. She was always a devoted
wife and mother, kindness and
unselfiEhniess being .her strong
epst characteristics. Her child
ren are extended sincere sym
pathy in their great loss.
UNIQUE PRESENTS.
On Tuesday of this week Mr.
and Mrs. R. E. Walker of this
city received unique and much
appreciated presents from Mrs.
Walker's father, who is a resident
of Tokeen, Alaska. The pres
ents were rings, one for each,
E. H. Garlick, Mrs. Walker's
father. They were hand engrav
ed and had a minature miner's
cabin at the top of the ring,
while on each side a nugget of
pure gold, supposed to be just
as they were taken from the
mine, and underneath was the
word "Alaska." The fact that
they are pure gold renders them
soft and very easily marred. Mr.
Garlick has been in Alaska for
eighteen years.
Will Publish
North Dak. Code
Copyright Will be Given to Pub
lishing Firm and Will Not be
Held by State.
A representative of the Law
yers Co-Operative Company, of
Rochester, N. Y., is in the city
looking after the publication of
the codes. The last legislature
passed a law ordering the secre
tary of state to contract with this
company for the publicaion of
the new codes, with annotations.
This law will be found in the
Session Laws of 1913, Chapter
i97. This same law requires the
secretary of state to copyright
the code, but the attorney general
holds that the state has no interest
in the matter, hence, it is not nec
essary for the secretary of state
to secure the copyright. The
Lawyers Co-Operative company
desires "to have the copyright
themselves, hence Secretary Hall
acting on the advice of the attor
ney general, will not have the
code copyrighted.
This decision and action is
based cn the fact that the state
has no interest in the sale of the
code, and inasmuch as this com
pany makes a specialty of edit
ing such works, and of printing
the same, there will be nothing
wrong in allowing them to have
the copyright. The laws cannot
be copyrighted, and the annota
tions which are made by the pub
lishing company really belong to
them.
It is held by those in close
touch with these matters that the
code should not be printed at
this time, inasmuch as the pro
bate code will in all probability
be revised by the next legisla
ture. As it is, the present pro
bate code is a badly Complicated
and confusing mass of laws. Gov
ernor Burke at one time appoint
ed a commission to revise the
probate code. This commission
produced what is said to be one
of the best probate codes in the
United States. This revision was
presented to the last legislature,
but for some reason, it was pass
ed over to the coming session.
Now if the present laws are
printed into a code, with all the
old probate laws, and the new
cede is then adopted, which is
Imperative, a new code will soon
have to be issued.
The new code will necessarily
have to be made into two vol
umes then there will be the new
probate laws and the session
laws of 1915, hence all lawyers,
or others will be compelled to
buy four books.
The matter has caused consid
erable discussion among those
giving attention to such matters.
M. E. CHURCH.
Regular preaching service
next Sunday morning at the
church. There will be a street
meeting of the young people at
the same time as last Sunday,
after which they will go to the Y.
P. S. C. E. at the Congregational
church. All are invited to at
tend. Sunday morning, August
23rd, the Lord's Supper will be
administered to the mdmbers
and congregation, and the op
portunity will be given to any
who may desire to join in fel
lowship with us on probation or
by letter or confession of faith.
Rev. J. M. Taylor, conference
evangelist, will preach at the
Methodist church Sunday morn
ing, Aug. 16th.
Chronicle!
F. W. GRESS, Pastor.
Wholesale Ar-
rests Made Sat'yl^- T^-
Mayor Brinton and Four SUce-
men Placed Under Arrest on For
Warrant. Approved by the
State's Attorney Unlawful
Arrest of John Jepson is Com-
wholesale business last Saturday I
when Mayor Brinton and three f,"kin?
policemen, S. A. Smith. H. G. I
Bennett and Wm. Neavles were
liceman Haigh on a charge of re
sisting an officer. The first were
arrested on the complaint of
John Jepson and the latter on
the complaint of John Madison.
Mr. Haigh immediately waived
examination to the district court
and was placed under bonds by
Plomasen to appear at that time
to answer to the charge.
Mayor Brinton asked for a
hearing and his case was set for
Tuesday at which time he took a
change of venue and the hearing
being held today before Jus
tice Rosenberg.
S. A. Smith, H. G. Bennett
and Wm. Neavles took a change
of venue also and were given a
hearing on Wednesday before
Rosenberg who dismissed Mr.
Bennett and bound Messrs. Smith
and Neavles over to the district
court.
fust how these men are liable
for the actions of the mayor is
not known at this time, as the
attorneys for the policemen pro
duced the law and supreme
court decisions showing clearly
that they are not liable, while
Attys. Gallagher, Jefferson and
Haliiday, who represented the
county in the prosecutions, pro
duced no law of any kind to
show that they were. Ijt seems
to be nothing more than a con
tinuation of past tactics to em
barrass, intimidate and put the
policemen to a lot of trouble in
an effort to get them to with
draw, and just why Justice
Rosenberg should endorse such
legal procedure is causing no
little comment among those who
heretofore believed that he had
no affiliation with the workings
of the gang.
Mayor Brinton made the ar
rests personally, n.nd, if he is
guilty of any offense in making
the arrest, the citizens who as
sisted him, under his orders, are
not liable and a case cannot be
sustained against them, as every
citizen is guilty of a misdemeanor
who refused to assist the mayor
in 'making an arrest.
Bennett was dismissed, accord
ing to the court's view of the
matter, because he did not lay
hands upon Mr. Jepson, accord
ing to the complaining witnesses
own testimony.
LADIES' MASS MEETING.
The ladies of Beach will hold
a mass meeting at the U. B.
church next Friday afternoon at
2:30, August 21, and all women
interested in the schools are re
quested to be present. A meet
ing was held yesterday in one
of the homes at which time
school matters were taken up
and the mass meeting decided
upon.
German Lutheran Church.
German Lutheran services will
be held next Sunday, August
16th, at 10:30 o'clock.
Jacob F. M. Essig, Pastor.
COUNCIL* MEETING.
The city council held an ad
journed meeting last week Fri
day night at which time Alder
man Lovell read his complaint
or charges against James Haigh
as city auditor. The charges
were filed in writing upon sta
tionery of Keohane, Gallagher
& Jones, and were in the form
of two affidavits, one signed by
W. B. Vaughn and the other by
Axel Nelson. The first com
plained of having been defraud
ed by Mr. Haigh in the erection
of a building, but the matter had
heretofore been threshed out in
court and the jury decided in
favor of Mr. Haigh and rendered
a judgment against Mr. Vaughn.
The second complained of being
defrauded in a real estate trans
action. Mr. Lovell had charged
Mr. Haigh of not being a man
of "independent action" and the
affidavits filed having no bear
ing on the charges, and being
questionable instruments the
mayor refused to consider them
and again asked for the confir
mation of S. A. Smith as chief
of police and James Haigh as
auditor. The appointments were
again voted down by the "solid
five," all being present. Mr.
Lovell made a motion appoint-
entertain the motion for
rea?on
that
sUch
there was no law
act/on and.
lt
w,a3
of
[urt,her-
the, ma'or'
w?» th®
hJ!
that
interfering with the duties
The
car,ned
plaint. 'arge number ot bills were ap
_____ proved, but the most important
Sheriff Madison's office did a /tion
motion was
over the m*yor head.
!e"ing
tra.ct
to
Wm.
the
able to supply the
arrested and taken before Police
Magistrate Plomasen on a charge VTf*
ft
of unlawful arrest of one, Johnj fV lJ"0 01 I FCS1"
Jepson, and the arrest of Po-
th co
n"
IV'cLau^1,n
for
of another
well on the
Pr*sen* well being un-
need-
dent is Dead
First Lady of the Land Succumbs
After Four .Months .of .Un
broken Illness.
Msr. Woodrow Wilson, !wife
of the President of the United
States, passed away in Wash
ington city at five o'clock last
Thursday afternoon after four
months of almost unbroken ill
ness. The end is said to have
come calmly and peacefully to
the first lady of the land, sur
rounded as she was by her hus
band, 'her thred daughters and
other relatives who had been
summoned when it was thought
the end was near.
A cdmplication of nervous
ailments and Bright's disease
was the cause of Mrs. Wilson's
death, the ailments during her
protracted illness having com
pletely sapped her vitality Her
frail constitution, drained by
months of never-tending illness,
was unable to withstand the
battle.
During the last hours, con
scious only at intervals, Mrs.
Wilson had been cheerful and
had called constantly for her
husband. Every moment that
could be spared from urgent
official duties were devoted by
the president to his wife.
The funeral of Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson, who died Thursday of
last week, was held from the
White House Monday 'morning.
Both the Senate and the house
of represenatives were closed
and all public activity suspend
ed.
The services were very sim
ple. The Presbyterian ritual,
prayers and scriptural reading
being all. Only the members of
the Wilson family, the families
of the cabinet members, and the
members of the senate and
house special committees were
permitted to attend the services.
The body was taken to Rome,
Ga., and buried at the Myrtle
Hill cemetary Tuesday after
noon.
President Wilson took per
sonal charge of the final ar
rangements for his wife'3 fun
neral, and steeled himself against
his grief.
Every effort was made to
maintain the privacy of the
family and to conduct the fun
eral as nearly as possible as if
the president were a private
citizen.
*GLENDIVE INDEPENDENT
Misses Alice and Catherine
McNiece arrived in the city a
few days ago from their home at
Beach.
G. T. Davis, the Beach busi
ness man, Was Calling On local
friends the middle of the week.
Miss Anna Nix arrived in the
city the fore part of the week
from her home at Beach. She
expects to visit here for several
days.
Among the Beach people in
Glendive during the week was
Paul Bunion, who was a business
visitor in the Gate City on
Thursday.
Rev. Ira Hawley, Miss Clara
Kinsey, Roy Young and Fred
Vorhies of the Clear creek sec
tion went to Beach on Wednes
day, from where they made con
nection for Carlyle, and attend
ed the United Brethren confer
ence held at the latter place on
Thursday.
Congregational Church..
Sunday schools at 10:00 a.
m.
Worship at 11 a. m. and 8
p. m.
Y. P. S. C. E. at 7 p. m.
The morning service will be
conducted by D. J. Taylor of
Oberlin, who is acting a3 pastor
during the regular pastor's ab
sence. In the evening there
will be a union service. Rev. J.
M. Taylor the M. E. conference
evangelist will preach.
You are cordially welcome.