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A All Home Print Disposes of His Interests Here Beach Electric Co. to Lose its Manager Other Important En. terprises Make Such a Move Necessary.—Will Continue to Reside in Beach. Owing to the large amount of time and increase of business and on account of his new plant at Belfield and the increased amount of plumb'ng and electric work in the city of Beach, G. S. Chrysler, ,manager of the Beach Electric Co. decided last week, at the meeting of the corporation in St. Paul, to d:«pose of his entire interest in the local electric com. pany and thus be enabled to give full attention, to his enterprises both in Beach and Belfield. The new plant at Belfield promises to toe one of the most profitable bus iness ventures of the past year in the Slope country. Belfield is a live town with an enthusiastic bunch of business men who will welcome the advent of Mr. Chrys ler into their city. Mr. Chryslers business and professioual exper ience in the handling cf plants is sufficient criterion to enable one to predict that the new plant will be a big success. His plumbing and electric supply business in the city will continue as before and will no doubt meet the demand that excellent workmanship des erves. Mr. Qhrysler at the re quest of the stockholders has con sented to remain wi'th the local electric company till Aug. 31, af ter which time Mr. Hugh Hamil ton of St. Paul will be given charge. Mr. Hamilton is a cap able electrician and will no doubt do his utmost to maintain the service which has in the past been afforded through the untir ing efforts of Mr. Chrysler. Mr. Chrysler has been in the city for the past five years, com ing here frcm St. Paul, and has been 'the guiding factor in making the local plart second to none of its size in the northwest. His many friends, though they realixe "thfeit his new ventures are for his own best interests, will neverthe less be sorry to learn that he has disposed of h:s holdings in jthe lo. cal plant. He will continue to reside in the cit" and will take charge of the business end of the 'Belfield plant in connection with his electric and plumbing business in Beach. STOCKHOLDER'S MEET, The farmers Supply Co. meet ing which took place following the speech delivered by Mr. "Greeley of the Equity Co-OperaU ive Exchange of St. Paul at the opera house on Saturday was very well attended both by the stockholders of the concern and others who are interested in the new enterprise. Aside from the rreading of the by-laws of the new corporation a brief outline was given of the methods which the mew concern will employ in deal ing with the large amount of patronage which will in all prob ability be tendered them. It was announced that H. A. Cooper, "who for several years has been head buyer for the Yerxa Bros. 'Grocery Co. of St. Paul will take charge. The buildingin whichthe new enterprise will operate is now enclosed and the new stock of merchandise will be put sale next week. on Les White, the popular Glen dive police official, was in the city •yesterday making inquiry regard ing the incident wherein two U. S. mail sacks were pilfered early yesterday morning. Yes. business is mighty good at the Reeve Farm Market. Now is the time to get your screen windows and screen doors. Our screens are the best and the cheapest. The following editorial is tak en from the columns of the Sen. tinel Butte Republican: "No one can say who is res. ponsible for the filth that appears each week in the Beach Advance. No name appears in the editorial sub-head and no one seems will ing to father the thing. It is ev idently the illegitimate offspring of some disordered brain—a brain so diseased that it consid ers itself and itself alone great— and so depraved that it does not hesitate to lie. The owner of the brain, if brain it may be termed, has after a couple of weeks of rumination, grown violently and slanderously angry at the editor cf this paper because of the pub lication in it some time ago of an article copied from the Marmarth Mail. In his anger the brain man says that we are the editor of a one horse newspaper and that we never had an original idea in our whole life that we always copy and always must copy—in order to fill our so-called newspaper. He condemns us for copying and calls ua| brainless, while in the same issue of the Advance there appears three or four articles copied from other papers and credited, among which is nearly a column of real news taken from Chief Apprehends Alleged Swindlers Bandmaster Professor Welch, Aged 35, Formerly of For. sythe. Taken in Custody Fol. lowing Information From Mon tana Sheriff. Professor Welch, alias Profes sor Young, formerly ot Fofsythe, Mont., was taken into custody by Chief of Police McNiece on Wed nesday evening at the behest of Sheriff Gierison of Forsythe upon the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Sheriff Gierison arrived yesterday imorn ing to return with his prispner in case Welch does not make set tlement with several pupils from wihom he secured funds for the promotion of a band in that city. Professor Young, as he was called in Forsythe, started in the organization of a band a few days ago at Forsythe, Mont., and se cured quite a sum of money in that city in support of the prop, osition. He claims that local mu sicians made it SQ unpleasant for Him that hefound it impossible to continue the work of organization and he with his wife and two children dropped into Beach a few days ago and interested sev eral of the young men of the city in the proposition of a band. Having left Forsythe owing a part of the fund which he collect ed information was made by the Montana sheriff to hold him here. The bandmaster claims he would have repaid the amount secured and organised the band at For sythe, had he been permitted to by those who were opposed to him. In the event he repays the sums collected in the Montana city it is qui^e like'y that he will be dismissed and be permitted to resume his work in the organisa tion of a junior band at Beach. In order that he avoid detec tirn he assumed the name of Welch upon his arrival here. He is an excellent musician. It is reported that a, very sev ere hail storm passed over the territory tributary to Belfield yes terday afternoon. Considerable drmage was done.to tfhe crops, which were just ready to be har vested. VOLUME XI PUBLISHED AT BEACH, GOLDEN VALLEY COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, Sentinel Butte Republican Comments on Beach Advance the Sentinel Butte Republican— and at least twenty articles that are copied from other papers and stolen. Such inconsistency may work in running a livery stable— we do not know, not having tried it. but among real newspaper men it doesn't go. The brain man says that Beach was one of the first cities west of the Little Mis souri to rid itself of blind pies, and vet only a couple of weeks ago Beach papers contained ac counts of piggera that had been arrested and sentenced and sent to jail. More inconsistency. He says that there never were any red light places in Beach—and everybody that knows the history of Beach knows that there were— so why deny it? The Republi" can man was satisfied of the cor rectness of the article in question when we copied it, and no amount of denial by the brain man can change the facts. Our friend Jim Cramer of the Mar marth Mail is a reliable sort of person and a real newspaper man and when an article apoears in his paper you can generally figure that it is founded on fact." 'Harry Eisenfeld was among those who have been ill during the week. Lad Hurt By Deadly Mower Harold Stecker Mnets Wth Ser ious Injury When Frightened Horses Run Him Down With Mower.—Body Badly Gashed. A runaway which might have resulted fatally, occurred Tues day when Harold, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Stecker living ten miles north of Sentinel Butte, stumbled and fell on the mower Which he had been driving. ^Harold had jumped off the mower and ran to the h'orse's heads to straighten aome difficulty which had occurred, when the team started to run toward him. On seeing that he .was going to be caught by the sycle, he turned to run, when he fell and the guards caught him by the cloth ing. His father saw him and ran to rescue him, but before he could reach him the sycle had done its work. Both arms were cut, and the tips of his fingers severed from his right hand. His left leg wa« badly slashed, a Kgrge piece of flesh being entirely c»t out. A phyrfcian was called from Senti nel Butte and the wounds dress ed, after which Mr. and Mrs. Stecker lleft with him for the hospital at Dickinson. iLatest reports are that he was slowly recovering. PUBLICITY FAKERS ABSENT Word comes from Skaar that several Beach citizens who were instrumental in having a meet ing called for the purpose of fie- vising means for the promotion Ilt takes more than talk to prove to people that there is sincerity in movements which are some-1 times exploited. The farmers yoi want news that is news—and news whfen it is hews—read The Chronicle. This paper is owned and published by a large number of Golden Valley citizens it is n)t published in the* interests of any one man or set of men, but in the interests of the public, and it publishes news that the public wants to know—and that which thay should know—without fear or favor. If you believe in this kind of a newspaper, support it by patronizing the merchants who advertise in its columns they are the progressive firms that approve of letting the sunlight of publicity shine into the official life of your community. PATRONIZE CHRONICLE ADVERTISERS and tell them you saw their ad in the Chronicle. Look over the ads in this issue—and every issue. Golden ADallev Chronicle A Newspaper that Causes Comment in a Town that is Talked About -EXTRACT FROM ADDRESS* OF S. H. GREELEf.. THE PIT. "At 9 30 the gong in the tower signals the debauch. Hundreds of men jump, rush grab, tumble and yell in the great whirlpool of the pit. Every ear trained for the of *fer, every eye searching for the bid, they swoop down upon one another with the swiftness of the vulture and the talons of the eagle, to devour the dollar even as 31 buzzards push and fight for the dead carcass of the plains But in the midst of *this intoxication, this druken frenzy of money-mad insan ity there stands the cool, trained veteTan, the Elevfct or Mopopoly. Seasonedwith years of experience, fortifi ed with the confidence of his State Protected franchise, safe-guarded with the blood money of the farm and the mulcted millions of the weak-minded, he suddenly dives upon the maddened Thror» and as the lion scat ters the smaller beasts, he 4 proceeds to devour the weaklings which the private wires. blackboards and Chamber "capers" have in vited to his daily feast. ''The mad pit in action! Cities boas't of its triumphs, though its very doors are strewn with the unemories of shattered fortunes and the dying groans of suicides, embezzlers and financial wrecks. "Yes, 'this is the game which shapes the destinies of the farm, controls legisla tures, subsidizes the press, moulds public opinion and forces children to follow the plow. "Oh! Ye Mighty Pit! 'Vain are your victories,— infamous are your spoils!' iv Farmers Meeting Well Attended Large Assembly of Farmers Lis. ten With Interest to .S. S. Greeley of Equity Co-opera tive Exchange at Opera House in Beach on Saturday. 'That the new movement far an open market for grain at the big distributing cer.'ters is most nec essary and th'at a method which in the very near future will be re alized, through the medium of reces-sary terminals was very pat ently demonstrated by S. H. Greeley of the Equity Co-opera tive Exchange of St, Paul on Sat urday at the opera house in Beach before a very large and represen tative assembly of farmers Who, despite the busy season, mani fested a deep interest in a course of business action which promises to revcliJtioni: the marketing of grain throughout the Northwest. Mayor Brintcn, through whose efforts the m«?et ng was called and the tU8 were given to understand that a' *ORT merchant of this city, because of his self-m?de publicity in a local paper, was to be one of the lead ing exponents of the new line ... ing shown by the bva'ness men of His non-appearance at the meet- the city to ing that was called would indi- farmer. In support of which cate that his motives were purely contention he cited the inadver mercenary. (Continued on page five) speaker Was secured, pre, fK,ed at the of a new branch railroad north marks previous to the introduc failed to out in their appearance.' t,on of the te"ti?n whlr7 In re" speaker, he called at- to ^reat movement »8 re-eivur* such an impe- througho-jt the whole north- west the unrelenting ef- 'T8 A^'E PROPonents. Mr. Brintcn ca'lcd attention to ''he positicn :n which the farmer is placed in here in Beach as the h»®ulL' cf *he :e'uctance that is be- co-operate withj the Build This Year Give us a chance to show you that our prices for the best grades^ of lumber^and all kinds of building material all kinds of building material are the lowest you have ever seen before. Plans furnished free of charge for all kinds of farm buildings. Be sure and see us be fore buying anyllung in the building line and we will save you money. #?L aii LiUi Gust. A. Johnson) Mgr, AUGUS I u** Esther finds his half conscious form. "Arthur revives and goes to Richmond. He meets Blair. Dr. Morrison Will Speak Will Deliver Lecture "Old Hick, cry" at Beach Opera House Tuesday Evening. Musical Program in Conjunction. The opera house on Tuesday evening, August 17, will be the scene of a very fine musical and dramatic entertainment. Dr. Morrison of Dickinson will be the principle lecturer of the evening. He will be preceded on the pro gram by Albert Blackbourn, who won the oratorical contest at Hamline University last June. Aside from the speakers of the evening a very intersting musical program will be rendered by lo cal singers. The entertainment will be given under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal church in this city. Mr. Morrison, who is consider ed one of the most noted lectur ers in the northwest and who res ides at Dickinson has called his topic "Old Hickory", inasmuch as he treats in a biographical way of the life of the great warrior president. Jackson is one of the great figures in American history and everyone interested in history should not neglect to listen to ths noted lecturer. The musical program includes a solo by Harry Burt, with Mrs. Burt, accompanist musical duet by Mesdames A. Herman and Mrs. A. R. Blackbourn, together with other musical numbers. C. H. Crockard, manager of Jim jam Jems, and A1 Timmesch, of the Publishers' Feature Serv ice, of Bisirarck, stopped off at Beach for a visit with Postmaster J. M. Baer the first of the week. Converse t:on overheard in the postoffice lobby between two Italians. First "Didyou get and mail from de vest?" Second "No, but I expect some from Da Coat(a)." Mr. and Mrs. Adam Faxis were among the visitors at the lot sale in Ollie on Wednesday. Mrs. W. F. Ccle of St. Paul is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. R. Smith. HiBtorie*1 "The Diamond From the Sky"i whom he thought he had killed has of late been viewed by the' They pawn the jewel. Vivian many patrons of the opera house! Marston borrows it and a swarthy with more than usual interest. Quite a few of the patrons of the opera house have not seen the in itial episodes of the great photo drama. In order to supply the in formation we deem it advisable tn give a full synopsis of the play, including tue last installment. Following is the synopsis: Col. Ai thur Stanley and Judge Lamar Stanley of Virginia are feudists, over possession of "The Diamond From the Sky," a huge iewel found in a fallen meteor To keep the jewel, Cel. StcAi'le buys a gypsy ma'e baby, and clans to rear his own daughter, Esther, in secrecy. But Hagar, the gvpsy mother, steals Esther and "The Diamond From the Sky". Years l?^er Hagar re turns with Esther and the jewel, giving both to old Dr. Lee. Blair Stanley murders Dr. Lee and steals the/ jewel. Blair and Ar thur Stanley fight a duel, and Ar thur flees with tue diamond. In his flight, Art^ure's machin®. nlunges over a: cl'ff. Hagar and 99 Diamond From The S^y A Story Full Of Thrilh hand steals it from her. Luke Lovell drops the jewel in a mail box. Later Quabba-the-hunch back finds it in an old mail sack. Quabba, gloating, falls asleep. His monkey drops the diamond into an owl's nest. Arthur, working on a farm under the name of John Powell, returns to Fairfax, masked, and wins the tournament. Blair betrays him and Arthur, suspecte 1 of Dr Lee's murder, escapes by makirg a breakneck leap on horseback from the grand stand. Hagar's detective discovers Blair's finger prints on the murdered Dr. Lee's throat. Blair strikes Hagar and hides her form in the Stanley sec ret chamber and flies. A colored boy, driving a pig, ses an owl's nest. Climbing to investigate, he discovers the gleaming "diamond from the sky." wHl be shown in connection with "The Diamond From the Sky." Construction Em ployee Poisoned Overdose of Salt-petre Which Was Taken by Mi&taPce Pois ons Employe of Fed^ers Bros. Construction Company. As the result of an overdose of salt petre which he mistook for salts Peter Polic, an Austrian, passed away at the camp of his employers, Fedders Bros., con struc'tion contractors on the new south branch of the Northern Pa cific railroad, last night. Polic had been sick for the past three days and it appears had been using salt-petre with the re sult that he collapsed last night and before Doctor Stough could come to his assistance, died. On his person were found three ounces of salt-petre Which his fellow employees said he had been using, neither he nor they knowing what it was. Aside frcm a few personal belongings and a time bock which showed that he had thirty dollars to his credit, was a registered letter re ceipt containing the address of John Kulson who resides at Chis. holm, Minn. Overstad & Hov. ers'on, undertakers, have wired Kulson asking what disposition is to be made of the body. If no instructions are received in. terment will be made here. .... It is repcrted that the deceased has a wife and family at Port Ar thur, Canada. An attempt has been m?de to locate them, al though Polic's employers main tain that he has no relatives so far as they have any knowledge. The layirg rf the correr ®tone for the new German Lutheran church took nlace on Sunday af terr/oon with appropriate cere monies. The sermon of the day was heard with more than accus tomed interest by a large number who were in attendance. The new Lutheran church when com pleted will be among the most beautiful edifices in the city and afire example of the sincerity shown in the members of the con gregation wWo have raised tbe funds necessary fcr the erection of the edifice. Eight Pages WT NUMBER 40 Jepson and Roble Dismissed After Numerous Bickerings on the part of Attornes for Edu tor Defendants Judge Stoddard Kules Facts Insufficient to War. rant His B-nding Jepson and Roble Over on Charge. The hearing given Tony Roble and John Jepson, two defendants who are sponsors for the Beach Advance, a local publication, and who were charged with criminal libel upon information filed by J. M. Still in Judge Stoddard's court, was concluded upon mo tion made by attorneys for the defense, on Saturday evening. Testimony for the state was very reluctantly admitted by Judge Stoddard, who exemplified the proverbial justice of the peace ability to arrive at a proper con clusion from a given statement of facts. His hesitancy in admitting evidence which would tend to '•how that the state had a good case against the defendants. Messrs. Halliday ond Gallagher, two of the forensic tutelaries of with! the city, represented the accused This great nhoto drama is shown every Friday evening at the opera house together several other pictures which are and after delving unnecessarily the best obtainable. This even-| into the past good record of Mr. ing the famous comedian Chas. Still and laying the F. E. Near will be among the pictures that case as a foundation, which case was considered two years prior to Mr. Still's advent to the Golden Valley, attempted with a most unexperted degree of success to mislead the court to refuse ad mittance of a large part of a vast fund of evidence which the state had to offer. The case was pure ly and simiply a case where the lawyers for the offense, using the justice of the peace as a "fence", defeated the intent and purpose of the preliminary hearing. Form er Editor Frost was given a place in the witness chair but after the transfusion of considerable in vective into the court's ear by Messrs. Halliday and Gallagher and with the apparent tendency of the court to turn a willing ear •O defendants' attorneys, states attorney Waldron in the name of the state rested the case. The af termath was quite easy to pre dict. Judge Stoddard after lis* tening to a lengthy tirade upon Mr. Still, made by defendants' attorneys in eupport of a motion for dismissal, and after refusing to consider the scurrilous article about Mr. Still which appeared in an issue' of the Beach Advance as material, with his head upon his hand granted the motion to dismiss, concluding the burlesoue which was void of any visible ele ment of credit. The affair very readily gave the spectator the im pression that the judicial goat had disappeared and that the pres ence of said quadruped might reasonably be tr*-ed to the door of Mr, Halliday if not Dick Gal lagher. Among the number who en joyed a very sumptuous spread at the picric at the Forsythe ranch on Sunday mere Messrs. Seaman Smith, E. E. Lloyd, Marcus Roach, J. W. Brinton, T. A. Canty: Mesdames J. W. Brinton, E. E Lloyd. Seaman Smith and Mrs. Peek, together with little John Brinton and Miss Ethel Bsinton of White Sulphur Springs, Mont. Victor Guineway of Vicksburg was a business visitor in the city during the week. He is very en thusiastic regarding (he proposi tion to promote a new north branch line. Mr. and Mrs, M. H. Jefferson and Miss Angeline Waters are among a party wh:ch is camping out at the Beaver north of the city. Come in and let us show you our Farm "Can't Sag" Gates and: "King Barn Venti lators"