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•OLUME a. NUMBER 38. MINOT, WARD COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, I9O4 SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER ANNUM.

FARGO TEACHER IN ? \ ?

sTHE CHICAGO FIRE

Miss Peterson, a Well Known Teacher in the ivr Fargo Schools was Spending her Vaca-

tionin Chicago and Lost her Life in the Great Theatre Fire.

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The report which was printed in th&Judtependent regarding the

proved to be tru0l^ibu^|i the list of victims is not so greats was first reported. Over 600 were killed, some being burned to death, others killed by gas and many were trampled to death. Among those who lost their lives in the Irquois Theatre, was Miss Peterson, principal of the Central school at Fargo, who was spending her holiday vaca­tion in Chicago with her sister. She was 35 years of age and had taught in the Fargo schools since 1892. She was a devout

1 Roman Catholic. She was 35 i years of age and loved by all of ) her pupils. j§ The fire was caused by the fall­ing of an electric wire. This caused the gas plant to explode andthe asbestas curtain failed

§0 work and soon the whole ,;theatre was in flames. About •1300 were attending the after-

, * .noon performance of the matinee, , -"-^Bluebeard. The second act was

%eing witnessed when the terrible ,'flre occurred. The victims were

/j-j; S killed in 10 minutes. The stair-* " ways were piled with dead to a

stY< depth of eight feet. Many who ̂- escaped carried portions of the

#;Js dead bodies out on their shoes. I "'̂ Hundreds were mangled until

not be recognized, was new, and was

they could The theatre considered the finest in Chicago. It cost $450,000. The fire was put out in forty minutes..

John Town, the well known cattle buyer arrived in Minot from Chicago where he transact­ed business. He attended the play, Mr. Bluebeard, at the theatre which a few days later was burned, and says the build­ing was a magnificent structure.

Mr. and Mrs. JacK Shields, of this city, have been worrying on account of no word having been received from their daughter, Abbie, who was in Chicago the day before the big fire in the Ir­quois Theatre. Their daughter went to Chicago and was wedded to Charles Frank, former drug clerk for A. P. Slocum. Mr. Shields stated to an Independent reporter that he knows that his daughter was at the theatre the day before the fire, and fears that she may have accompanied a party there the day of the ter­rible holocaust. They have tele­graphed to Chicago, but every­thing is confusion there and they have received no answer to the telegrams sent. They have written and if their daughter is alive, they hope to receive an answer soon.

TO DELIVER MAIL AT YOUR DOORS IN MINOT

$ The Postoffice Receipts are More Than Enough to Insure Uncle Sam's Paying For Having The Mail Carried Over the City And it is Now up to The Council*

.• Will we have free delivery in the city of Minot, or will we con­tinue to receive letters addressed to-John Doe, Postoffice box No. 2211. How much nicer it would sound to have the address, Miss Marie Smith, 3561 Main Street, Minot, N. D. This proposition

• is up to the city council. Post­master Jacobson informs us that as far back as July the receipts at the Minot postoffice were $35 more than enough to give us free city deliveiy in all of the resi­dences and business* houses. All thatisnecessaryto do is to have the houses numbered with nickel

• numbers so the numbers may be ... seen at night, as well as during *tbe day. The streets on the ^outhside of the river are already •tamed. The streets on the north sideNofthe river will hare to be

wil named. The city council have to pass an ordinance pro­viding for the numbering of the houses. lr

Aside from being very conveni­ent to the people of the city to have the mail left at our doors, it will give the city an excellent advertisement. Some are in clined to believe that if the free delivery is established, it will have a bad effect on the trade, inasmuch as the women will like­ly stay at home—and womenare great buyers. However, it titties about so muc} do the people anyway, and ftfe do not see that the trade will suffer at all. If the couneil favors the free delivery proposition, we may expect such service before many weeks

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' hoir he fooled a confectioner in ' t^r city who was raffling off , boxes of candy and silverware. \ Bill bought sixteen numbers and j.^ got only candy and wondefed ! • why the silverware did not show ,4' up. He then bet the confection-| 9 er ten dollars that the remain-

%ing numbers did not call for , _ silverware at all and upon in->ji \ • spection found that he was right.

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Some liar from Crookstonsent a good one to the Twin City pa­gers regarding the burning of the bridge east of Surrey. The pa­pers printed the article op the front page and the readers will believe it. We are led to believe that you cannot tell what is true in the Twin City papers unless you know the facts beforehand.

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Forced to Leave the Ceraty Jail Thurk-day—Injured Eyesight Looking for Work,

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Optic Is Seld. The latest report is that the

Optic has been sold to Sam Small of Devils Lake, the present man­ager of the Devils Lake, Inter-Ocean. It is thought that Sen­ator Hansbrough is behind the deal. Joe Fahhlander Will be re­tained as editor. ^ ^

Christ Randall, the Lazy Lout from Fliaxton, was fired bodily from the Ward cpunty jail Thurs­day. It is not often that a man has to be persuaded to leave jail but it was thus in. the case of lazy Christ. He arrived in Flaxton a year and a half ago with $500 in gold. Where he got it, no one seems to know. He would not worK. He just lay about , the place and paid liis board until the money was all gone.. Then he acted queer. He played that he was a little off and he was sent to Minot to miake a little more expense for the county. His roy­al highness arrived in this city December 12. He made his de­parture Thursday. He wanted to stay where he got plenty of wholesome food and a good warm place to sleep—and where there was no work, but Judge Murray caught onto the racket and start­ed in on Christ in somewhat this manner:

"I hear that you have ruined your eyesight looking for work." Christ assured him that he had not. "I see that you are bother­ed with dropsy. You seen* to be willing- to drop most any place." Christ said he did not have the dropsy either. All he wanted was the county to buy him a ticket to Seattle. Judge Murray remarked that he did not have much gall and refused point blank to do anything for him. The fellow has not been seen about the court house since, but if he breaks into jail again, the county will set him loose on a big pile of wood and he will at least acquire a decent appetite.

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Paul V. McCoy. Jeweler, Druggist

Leland Hotel, Minot, N. D.

; Our Clubbing Offer.

The Ward County Independent and the Dakota Farmer will be sent to any address for one year for $ 1.25, providing the new sub­scriber is not already a reader of the Farmer. Any reader of. the Independent who is not already a subscriber to the Dakota Farmer, can take advantage of the clubbing offer providing he pays for his paper a year in ad­vance. Everyone knows what the Daxota Farmer is. The regular price is sixty cents a year. The Independent makes a specialty of city, county and state news and we will guarantee it to be newsier this year than ever. Make some friend happy and send them the two papers.

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FLINCH CARDS, 50c A DECK.

LULU STILES IS MARRIED.

' Band does to Velva.

The Minot High Schoolf band, twenty strong, went to Velva Friday noon to play at the dedi­cation of the new school build­ing. Prof. Wolfe arrived from the meeting of the N. £. A., at Grand Forks Thursday night to accompany the band and lead it. The boys furnished some swell music at Velva and pleased the large crowd which attended the exercises. The band is arranging to make its debut in this city soon with a big entertainment of

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Rather: than be married leap year, Ray W. Frazee, connected with the First National bank in East Grand Forks and Miss Lulu M. Stiles of Minot. who has been attending a business college in this city, changed the plans for their wedding, which had been set for next June, and were wed­ded very quietly at the Episcopal parsonage*&ew Tear's eve, a few hours before 1904, by Rev. Burle­son. Yesterday Mr. and Mrs. Frasee went to Minot for a v|sit with the bride's parents, and up­on their return will reside in this city. Theirmany friend will unite in extending congratulations.— Grand Fores Herald.

Miss Stiles is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Stiles Tesiding twomiles south of this city. She went to Grand Fortes several months agoto complete a course in bookkeeping and stenography and she is about ready to leave the school. The groom was for­merly bookkeeper at one of the Kenmare coal mines. He is said to be an excellent young business man. Thebridehasmanyfriends here who extend congratulations.

Success far a Mluot J. W. Periy, a former Minot

boy, has been engaged ascashier of the Farmer's and Merchants'

banK at Lansford. It will be re­membered that W. C. Putnam, the former cashier of the bank committed suicide recently. Mr. Perry has been assistant cashier of the bank at Donnybrook, and he did such good work, that it was decided to place him in a more responsible position. His many friends here will be glad to learn of his advancement.

Scarlet Fever at Williston. • ' • ' •

Williston is Undergoing a siege of scarlet fever. Two deaths are already reported. The cases are of the worst type and the chil­dren were ill but 36 hours. <

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That is what Parisian Odd Cream looks like and it is is sweet aad bland as pure cream.

Cold Cream is the ideal prcp- : aration for use upon the face and hands at night It is essentially a skin food is well as a healer.

It prevents roughness, redness and wrinkles. It feeds the tissues and makes the skin fair and trans­parent. We are referring to Par­isian Cold Cream here, not the ordinary product that goes by the name. V.

This superior preparation is put up in attractive jars by mm

McCoy, The Druggist, Leland Hotel.

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