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ffjill Explore the Volar
'Regions in An Automobile
Captain Bernier, bead of a Cana
dian exploration party, will seek tne
north pole in a new way.
No airship or monster balloon for
him. He has hit upon a new Idea, and
will go skipping through the arctic
regions in automobiles adapted from
a Russian invention. Instead of
wheels these autos will be fitted with
rollers adapted to ice going. Such
Inventions have been used with suc
cess on extensive Ice packs, and Capt
Bernier will make use of this knowl
edge in his quest for tue north pole.
The Captain’s plan is to anchor his
vessel In the *ce pack off the coast of
Siberia at a point which he calcu
lates wfll drift him to the nearest
point attainable to the pole. When
that point has been reached he will
disembark working parties who will
PING-PONG IN THE JUNGLE.
Incident That Illustrates Popularity of
the Game.
The friend of the returned traveler
looked at him with a smile.
‘'Well,” he said, “we’ve got one new
thing at least to show you.”
“And what Is that?” the traveler in
quired.
“It's ping-pong."
The traveler’s sun baked face crin
kled in a laugh.
"That reminds me of a little experi
ence I had in central Africa last win
ter,” he said. “I had gone into the
jungle looking for big game when I
was surprised and delighted to see a
white man approaching. He was
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carry wireless telegraph outfits, with
which his ship is also to be furnished.
The parties will drill holes In the Ice
and plant poles as landmarks as they
proceed, and establish their first sta
tion and storehouse about fifty miles
from uie ship. The road having bev r
made as practicable as possible, the
automobile sleigh will be put into com
mission to stock the station with sup
plies. In the meantime other parties
will be working on toward the second
fifty mile station, and so on. There
will be a second automobile in reserve
or for use. wnere two can be usefully
employed, as well as dog sleighs with
a team of thirty dogs.
Th* sleighs on which the motors
are to be placed will be so constructed
as to be capable of being used for
navlgatable open stretches of water
equally delighted to see me. He ex
plained that he was an English trader
in ivory and was on bis way back to
the coast. ’By George!’ he cried, ’l’m
awfully glad to see you! Just hold on
a minute.’ And with that he hastily
drove four stakes In the ground and
stretched a section of an elephant hide
tightly across them. ‘Now,’ he cried,
‘we’ll have a game.’ I looked at him
In amazement. I fancied for a mo
ment that he had the jungle fever in
his blood. ‘A game of what?’ I asked.
He kicked a square box that was lying
at his feet. ’Ping-pong,’ he cried.
“And did you play it?" inquired the
friend.
"I should say we did!" replied the
traveler. "We played it so deuced late
where such cannot be avoided. In
case rough ice is met with that pre
sents an insurmountable obstacle to
the automobiles the machines will be
disconnected, taken to pieces, and por
taged, a work with which Canadians,
who will form a large portion of the
exploring company, have been famil
iar since infancy.
Power for the electric dynamos will
be furnished when conditions allow by
wind-mills, and there will be electric
lighting and heating. Wireless com
munication will he established with
the outside world through Dawson
City.
Rain falls alike upon the just and
the umbrella thief.
He who fights and runs away may
live to get licked another day.
that we had to sleep In trees that
night to keep away from the Jungle
marauders."
SAVING IN GOOD ROADS.
Figures to Show Why We Should
Have the Very Best Highwsys.
An Indiana engineer has been esti
mating the cost of transportation by
road and has produced a strong argu
ment for the very beat roads.
He figures that the cost of moving
one ton by horse power over one mile
of dry, sandy road is 64 cents; over
wet sand, 32 cents; over ruts and
mud, 39 cents; over broken stone and
ruts 26 cents; over an eartn road that
is dry and hard, 18 cents; over a brok
en stone road in good condition, 8
cents; over a compact gravel road, 8.8
cent*; over stone paving, 5.33 cents;
over asphalt, 2.7 cents.
The engineer argues that if wagon
transportation at a cost of five cents
a mile a ton could be universal In this
country, many millions of dollars
would be saved and millions of tons
of merchandise which cannot now be
handled at a profit would be available
in the markets.
Short Notice.
Anthony Brady, the capitalist, a per
sonage now of unusual interest in this
city from the fact that he has been
Instrumental in consolidating the two
lighting companies, has many men In
his service. One of them is a high
priced gas expert, a young man whom
he intrusts with many important mis
sions. Once Mr. Brady left instruc
tions for this young man to go to Ja
pan on a certain mission.
“And," concluded Mr. Brady, “as it
will be a long and hard trip, have him
take his wife with him."
After the expert had received his in
structions, he sought out Mr. Brady.
“I understand,” he said, “I am to go
to Japan." * .
"Yes."
“And tßke my wife with me?”
“Yes.”
“Well, this is pretty short notice to
get ready to take a wife on such a
trip,” said the young man.
“Why?" asked Mr. Brady.
“Because." replied the employe, “I
haven’t any wife."
So Mr. Brady's agent went to Japan
alone. —Utica Observer.
No. Cordelia, a writer isn’t neces
sarily a bog because he lives by his
p?n.
ABOI'T FI.AX.
Pr«f. Bolley of (hr Awrli'altnral C«t
lev* Kiplnlna the I'reuiatar*
Ripening of Flax.
We are receiving a good many letters
at the college nowadays asking for ex
planations concerning what appears to
be a premature ripening of the flax
crop of the state is the most beautiful
one that any man ever looked upon.
The state possesses thousands of acres
of flax growing upon their new break
ing or on land which has only been
cropped a few years, and perhaps lit
tle, if any of It, ever previously had flax
crops upon It. This accounts for the
fact that the crop is flne. It is not
fine becaus** of any special care taken
by the persons who have sowed the
crop. I am writing this article now
to call attention to all such persons
that flax always has been a new land
crop. We have found out at the college
that the reason for this lies in the fact
that it has always been attacked by
a number of parasitic fungi which live
In the soil and attack the roots of the
plants. These fungi get Into the soil
by being seeded there with the seed.
When once they are there they stay
there permanently.
The cases of premature ripening re
ferred to are, however, this year quite
numerous. I have seen 160 acres in one
field upon new breaking, at which the
plants nre, at date of this writing, in
full boil, but to all appearances the field
is dead ripe. In this case there was so
much of the fungus sowed with the
poor, scaly type of seed that practically
every plant was attacked by the wilt
disease the first year, the fungus being
able to spread through the soli rapidly
because of the abundant rainfall and
moisture. As it was introduced by the
seed of comparatively a few plants
evenly distributed in the drill rows,
the rest of the plants have been at
tacked in the root so late they were
not killed until the plants there reached
maturity. In such plants there will be
j no seed, or if there is a little, it will be
; shriveled, scaly seed. Such scaly seed
i will produce the disease another yjnr
iif sowed upon good land. The fields in
* which such plants are growing are now
ruined for the growth of flax, at least
until a large number of years have in
tervened. When the disease Is once so
thoroughly Introduced, all flax plants
will die before they reach a height of
three of four inches. It behooves the
farmers of this state to learn how to
| select their seed to avoid this disease,
j Go out Into your own field on your
! neighbor’s field, and If you can find an
| area which is free from wilted plants,
j have It saved for seed. Do not put It
j into an elevator where It will all get
mixed with diseased crops.
Last year North Dakota produced
more flaxseed than all other states in
the Union combined. This year, if con
ditions are favorable from this date
until close of threshing time, her yield
will almost be double that of any pre
vious year. Our farmers are rightfully
proud of the soil of the state, which
can produce more wheat than any other
state in the Union, of a better quality
I than the wheat of any other state, and
at the same time produce wonderful
crops of flax. I wish at this time, how
ever, to call attention to the fact that
there are some farmers in the state who
are having difficulty to raise any flax
on their land, and that there is scarcely
any farmer in the state who has sowed
flax two or mole times upon ths same
piece of ground, who cannot go into
his flax field this year, a year which
has given the best possible conditions
for the growth of flax, and there find
spots of considerable area, in which all
the flax plants In ths center of the
spot die early, while around the mar
gin of the spot which is day by day
becoming larger, plants are dying and
j will continue to die until the crop is
mature. They will die as if by will,
and dry up, and their place is taken
by pigeon grass and other weeds. This
is the disease which we have called flax
wilt. It is due to a fungus which is not
native to our virgin soil, but which is
; introduced by way of the seed.
I When once in the ground it has abil
ity to keep spreading through the soil
and the soil becomes flax sick, and no
longer able to produce a flax crop to
maturity. If you do not know how to
escape sowing this fungus into your
land, and would like to be among those
farmers of the state who would help to
; keep North Dakota the greatest flax
producing area in the world, write to
the agricultural college, and we will
j be able to give you a number of defl
’ nlte directions which will aid you. We
do not like to be prophets of evil. In fact
do not consider ourselves such. W'e
believe from our experiments that a
proper rotation of crops and a proper
method of selecting and handling flax
seed will make It possible for farm
ers in this region to continue raising
flax just in the same sense that they
would continue raising wheat As it
was with wheat smut and oat smut,
we will have to fight this flax disease,
and it is a harder one to combat be
cause. when it gets into the soil It stays
there.—H. I* Boiley, Agricultural Col
lege.
I.sntl Office Hnalneaa.
The July filings at the land office in
Pierre ate not quite up to the standard
of earlier months of the year, and
those for August probably will be light,
as harvest will cut down the number of
land seekers. But September will
again start the movement, and the fall
months are expected to be greater than
those of last spring. The total number
of filings for July is 110, which i»
about forty behind the average for thn
earlier months of the year. j
During the month of July the Aber
deen land office received eighteen
homestead final entries, covering 2,68$
acres, ten timber-culture proofs, on
1.596 acres. Isolated tracts and ex
cesses were sold to the amount of 1,-
562 acres. Homestead entries num
bered forty-four, covering 6,321 acres, 4
Turner County AufMmrnt $4,000,000
This year’s assessment of real and
personal property of Turner county Is
about the same as equalized by the
state board last year. The value of
•■eal estate is $K5.000 less than last year,
but this is made up in personal proper
ty. which 's $85,000 more than it wae
last year. The total value of real es
tate Is ovjr $4,000,000; town lots, $400.-
000: personal property. $1,200,000;
making the total assessed valuation
$5,761,408. i
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Frank Thompson, a miner, was killed
by lightning at Hill City.
Gov. Herreld has commissioned E. J.
Searle of Aberdeen us tlsh and game
warden for Brown county.
Kev. C. C. Todd of Aberdeen has or
ganized a Presbyterian church at Java,
ou the Evarts extension of the Milwau
kee.
The two-year-old child of 8. A. Stom
ley of Volga drank a quantity of fly
poison. Prompt action saved the child's
life.
Rev. Heber MacDonald has resigned
the pastorate of the Methodist church
at Custer, and is preparing to depart
for the East.
Frank J. Morris, a well-known stock
man of Meade county, is dead. He was
thrown under the feet of his team and
was kicked to death.
Thieves entered the store of Martin
Bros., at Volga, and stole a gold watch
belonging to A. J. Stromme, an em
ploye. There is no clue.
Dr. J. W. Elliott, president of the
South Dakota State Veterinary Medical
association, has called a meeting of that
body at Huron on Aug. 20.
A civil service examination was held
s In Lead for the purpose of determining
eligibles for appointment as carriers on
the free delivery system to be estab
lished the Ist of September.
The voters at Bristol are taking a
great Interest in the special election
for the purpose of voting on the ques
tion of issuing bonds for the construc
tion of a new school building.
Berndt S. Peterson (formerly known
as Knudt P. Svalde) of Split Rock
j township, Minnehaha county, and C. A.
1 Sells of Sioux Falls, have been granted
discharges from bankruptcy.
Reserve agents have been approved
as follows: National Bank of Com
merce of New York, and the First Na
j ttonal Bank of Chicago, for the Red
field National bank of Redfleld, S. D.
I Abraham Baker died at his home In
Bakerville, fifteen miles from Custer,
aged sixty-two years. He was born at
Saratoga, N. Y., and served through the
Rebellion, going to the Black Hills in
187^
j Yankton’s Salvation Army post has
folded Its tents and gone to sonif other
point. The post seemed to be doing
about as well as It hur for a number
of years whsn It broke camp and de
parted.
John Foley, n prominent farmer liv
ing seven miles north of Madison, was
Instantly killed by a stroke of light
ning while on his way from the har
vest field to dinner. He was a man
of some property.
I The South Dakota Lumbermen's as
sociation will hold its semi-annual
meeting In Aberdeen this week. It is
expected that fifty or more members
will be in attendance. A meeting of
Hoo-Hoos will be held.
1 R. B. McOenon, for nine years su
perintendent of the city schools at Mad
ison, who now assumes the principal
ship of the normal department of Hu
ron college, was given a farewell re
ception by 300 citizens.
i James Kean of Mitchell went to his
ranch near Fairvlew in Lincoln coun
ty about a month ago. A day or two
before he was to- start home he was
taken sick with black smallpox. Hla
physicians have given up the case.
A company has been granted a fran
chise by the tow r n board of Mount Ver
non to erect a telephone exchange.
Work will soon commence on the enter
prise, and the managers expect to have
it in running order in two months.
John Pourler and Joseph Vereas were
killed by a cave-in on the seventh level
of the Homestake mine at Lead. Five
floors of the level came down and about
! fifty feet of loose rock. There were
several other miners In the same slope,
but they escaped.
I The material has all be purchased for
the extension of the Chamberlaln-Pres
ho telephone line from the latter place
to Pierre. This line, will be extended
to Rapid City and the Hills country put
into communication with both Pierre
and Chamberlain.
| The contract for a new SIO,OOO livery
barn at Vermillion has been let. Eric
Nylen of Vermillion was awarded the
contract for the masonry, and work
will be started at once. The building
• will be of brick. 76x130 feet. C. R.
Grange Is erecting it.
Ths Modern Woodmen Picnic associ
ation of the Hills has decided upon
Belle Fourche as the location of the
annual log rolling, to be held Aug. 26.
The Elkhom railroad has granted a low
round trip rate and reductions will bs
made by the Burlington.
Edward Tonkin la In the Deadwood
Jail, charged with asaault with crimi
nal Intent, upon Annie Spangle, a four
teen-year-old girl of Lower Deadwood.
Yit haa Juit been discharged from the
penitentiary at Sioux Fall*, where he
served a sentence for larceny at Lead.
Mrs. Frank Price, formerly of Pierre,
died at Moscow. Idaho, whither her
husband had tak'n her for her health.
| Sol Star, clerk of court at Dead wood,
has reached home from Chicago, where
he was operated upon for the removal
of a tumor. He Is entirely recovered.
I The First National bank of Clear
Lake has been authorised to commence
business with a capital of $25,000.
Commissions have been Issued for
Frank W. Carr as first lieutenant and
James Barker as second lieutenant of
, Company D, Second regiment, at Flan
i dreau.
Mother Mary Joseph, superioress of
the Presentation Sisters, has arranged
for the opening of a school ato Jeffer
son. Union county. Sisters from the
home academy at Aberdeen will be
teachers. The academy now has branch
es at Mllbank, Mitchell and Elktnn.
Besides the large St. Luke’s hospital
and the academy here, the sisters also
have a hospital started at Brookings.
Threshing machine operators In the
vicinity of Sioux Falls have Incorpor
ated under the name of the South Da
kota Threshers' association. The Incor
porator* are Clell Liggett. T. H. Davis
and W. A. Smith.
Postal clerks running west of James
town have had their salaries Increased.
M. D. Beals of Athol owes his life to
an intelligent team of horses. Whila
loading his wagon In a sand pit, a
vast amount of sand fell upon him.
He was only able to grasp the side of
his wagon, and speaking to his horses,
they started away slowly and steadily,
finally rescuing him from his perilous
position.
J. R. "Withrow of Sioux City, repre
senting the Sioux City stock yards, has
been visiting the cattle shipping points
of the Hills and arranging for the
shipment of cattle from '.his region by
way of Sioux City to Chicago. This is
for the puri*ose of allowing cattle men
to market their cattle in Sioux City if
satisfactory - otherwise they can be re
loaded and go on to Chicago.
The su"i - ess of macaroni wheat grow
ing has led to the discussion of a prop
osition for the turning of the old desi
pota factory, in Aberdeen, into a maca
roni factory. It is understood that the
Eastern owners of the property will dts
pcee of It at a low figure, and there l*
believed to be a fine opening for the
proposed Industry.
The July filings at the land office are
not up to the standard of earlier
months of the year, and those for Au
gust will probably also be light, as
hnrvest will cut down the number of
land seekers, but September will again
start the movement, and the fall
months are expected to he heavier than
those of last spring. The filings for
July number about 110.
The assessment rolls for Custer coun
ty for 1902 have been completed, and an
abstract forwarded to the state auditor.
The taxable lands and improvements
of the county are valued at $204,31 <. be
ing 118.910 acres: mineral lands. 3 833
acres, valued at $29 102; town lots. 2,310.
valued at $132,090. The live stock of the
county is valued at $443,993.
The Aberdeen Gas company, which
recently completed numerous exten
sions to Its service, has ordered two and
a half miles more of pipe, and expects
to have It all laid this fall, to connect
with new residences and Institutions re
quiring gas. M. R. Henlnger of West
port has become interested in the com
pany, and will take part In the manage
ment, having removed his family to
Aberdeen.
There will probably be a strong dele
gation In attendance at the Interna
tional mining congress In Butte from
the Black Hills, and particularly from
Lawrence county. Gov. Rerreld has
named thirty delegates to represent the
state. The councils of Deadwood and '
Lead will each send five. It is the pur- if
pose to ask that the next annual meet -
Ing be held In the Black Hills, either in
Dead woo d )r Lead.
W. 8. Bratt, traveling freight and
passenger agent of the Milwaukee road,
has returned from a trip of 150 miles
west of Chamberlain, on the Sioux res
ervation, looking up cattle shipments.
He says the heavy business will com
mence about Sept. 8. He says that
stock Is taking on flesh in fine shape,
that grass Is in the best possible condi
tion, and that there is an abundance
of food for the winter.
By payment of S3OO to his divorced
wife William Y. Quigley of Parker,
once the nominee of South Dakota
Democrats for congress, prevented
Judge Jones adjudging him in con
tempt. Quigley and his wife, Anneta
Quigley, were divorced on Oct. 17, 1898,
on the ground of desertion. She was
granted S3OO a year permanent alimony,
payment to be made In January. Quig
ley had defaulted in payment.
As soon as the harvest Is over In lowa
and Illinois there will be a great rush
of farmers from those sections to South
Dakota. Real estate men all over the
state are besieged with letters for In
formation. A real estate man of Mitch
ell made a trip through lowa to the
Illinois line, and on the way met fifty
of his agents In the state, and every
man said he had from five to ten men
ready to come to South Dakota Just as
soon as the harvest was finished.
A. H. Shoultz of Watertown, the ar
chitect whose plans have been accepted
for the Hat* block In Aberdeen, states
that the structure will be the largest
bust .less building in South Dakota. It
will be of steel, brick, terracotta and
plate glass. 100x142 feet In sl*e and five
stories high, thoroughly modern and
equipped with passenger and Weight
elevators. The basement and first and
second stories will be occupied by a de
oartment store; the third and fourth
hy offices, and the fifth by a catalogue
house. The basement only will be com
pleted this fall.
A company is In process of formation
at Aberdeen for the drilling of a well,or
hole, to a depth of 2,000 feet. In aearcb
of natural gas, and. possibly, petrole
um. The discovery of gas in wells 1.006
feet in depth at Pierre. Selby and points
north of Aberdeen, leads to the belle!
that gas may be struck at the latter
point. The deepest artesian wells In
Aberdeen are a little over 1.000 feet *n
depth, and the Idea is to go low enough
to ascertain to a certainty what under
lies the artesian basin. If nothing 1#
found below the artesian flow, it Is be
lieved the water would pay as #n in
vestment for power or other uses.
Sheriff Kerr of Huron returned from
Mitchell, having in custody Harry Cox
and John Rhodes, arrested by direction
of Beadle county authorities on a
charge of laroeny. They were employed
by J. B. Summers on a farm near Wol
sey, and disappeared, taking with them
articles of wearing apparel and bicy
cles. Cox Is directly charged with the
theft of the bicycle, while Rhodes must
answer for the theft of a buggy and
harness, and also for obtaining money
under false pretenses. Some months
since, it Is alleged. Cox stole a team
of horses, harness, two wagons, hay
rack, a wall tent and two valises filled
with clothing, from near Wolsey. and
for his arrest a reward was offered. He
came here a year or more ago from
There has been an active demand for
real estate In Spearflah this year, and
several important transfers have been
made since Jan. 1. Many persons from
Dead wood and Lead have been pur
chasing residence property here, and
there has been an Influx of Eastern peo«
pie.
Lste reports from the hallstoi'm In
Brookings county Indicate that the area
not as large as first reported, but
where the storm did strike It did great
damage. Aside from this, the weather
has so far been favorable for all kind*
of grain. Barley is an Immense crop.
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