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Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1885-09-02
From Mr.. Connor merchant of Will
Transport, and engaged in farming, exten-
sively, two miles from town:

Transport, and engaged in Farming eXten-
sively, two miles from town:
WILLIAMSBURG. Oak, Aug. 20, 1885.
To the Editor of the RECORD:
In response to your inquiry will sny that, SO
far as my experience is concerned, am well sat
lshed with Emmons county as IL farming and
stockraisng country. For small grain it can
will make above 20 bushels per acre, ut a low
estimate; barley about 35 and oats from so to CO.
Root crops of all kinds are more than u success
l nave potatoes large enough for market raised
from seed thrown into the furrow and turned
under the raw prairie late in June. WHO among
Eastern farmers can show better result, with
care and cultivation? Rutabagas, turnips beets
ana onions yielded largely last year, and prom
lse equally well the present season. For stock
raising purposes we have decided advantage
from the fact that stock of all kinds can be win
tered at less than half the expense incurred in
the Eastern States. The water is of excellent
quality there is no malaria, and the general
healthfuness of the climate can not be questioned
The vacant lands of Emmons county will furnish
homes for many more people; and to those who
think of turning their faces toward the setting
sun my advice would be to embrace the present
opportunity for Uncle Sim 8 free domain is rap
IDLY diminishing, and the free distribution of
land will soon lie over.
North Dakota is not the Ell Dorado pictured by
Eastern agents who have lands to sell but it is
region where honest and intelligent labor will
meet an abundant reward, and better home may
be made here in five years than can be acquired
The bona-fde settler who comes 10 stay will
meet here a hearty welcome; but for town-ste
boomers, land-grabbers and kid-glove aristoc-
racy we have no need, and it is to be hoped that
they may find their sphere of usefulness outside
our county limits. Respf,y, II. D. CoNNoE
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1885-09-02
WEDNESDAY, SEPT 2, 1885,

WORK has been commenced on the
James River Valley Railroad, which is to
connect jamestown with LaMoure.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1885-09-02

The winter will soon be upon us, and
you should secure stock of Blankets in
time. You can get the best, at reason
able rates, at VIM NJ. Pye, IRIS, Bismarck.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1885-09-02
From Mr.. Armstrong. the Williamsport
postmaster:

WlLalAMspoRT, Aug. %. 1885.
To the Editor ofthe RECORD:
1t affords me unmiXed pleasure to respond to
your printed request asking the settlers of En-
mons county to write you letters expressive of
facts kMown and opinions entertained by them.
To begin with, Mr.. Editor, will say that
dare not tell you the whole truth concerning D,
kota, lest some of yonr Eastern subscribers, who
have never been nearer the land of the setting
sun than Chicago might put me down us Il
''li-yar But don't understand that l am cen
suring them for arriving at that conclusion. 1t
is tat. se,ost natural one-and, i'll fact, the only
legitimate one-that any man who has never
seen this country could Arrive ut. am, prob
ably, as credulous rs the average individual but
had what l have seen in Emmons county,
Dakota, been related to me by my most trusted
friend, before came here, could not have be-
lieved it. Had been told that potatoes weigh
ing from 21a to 81 pounds could be raised by
dropping the seed potatoes In the furrew. und
turning another furrow of the raw prairie sod
over ca: them, could not have believed it; aHd
yet my sys swn sfpersnee M and as Of true 1
doubt This saw last year, and the prospect for
this year is equally good.
Oats sown on the wild prairie, in the grass,
and pfewed under, raise = crep Of oats ! You
don't believe it Neither did until saw, "with
these eyes OF mine, between 30 and 20 bushels
to tire acre raised III that wny.
On scne breaking had done last season had
pound of rutabagas at.d Il quarter of pound
OF turnsp seed sown%slnlpiy sowm-iio harrow
risk my reputation as truth-speaker 10 say how
many bushels they produced, for ] harvested
only part of them; bat heard men whom
thought had good acknowledgement say LOCO
bushels.
My whistling- -fare cr-bo$ days were spent
among tire hills of Eastern Ohio. From acres of
land upon which fertilizers (costing nearly as
much as an acre of oar tdnd here costs) had been
spread we used to raise what we tho.ight "big
crops 1Sut, unless my memory is more treacl-
erols than believe it, we never raised on "my
fathers tilr4a." such wheat and oats as had the
pleasure of driving the selfbnder through,
on my government caipl this harvest.
My partner and i shared the common fate of
nine out Of every ten settlers in the New North
west-ta,nt of undertaking too much. With the
teams we had and the land being mostly last year
breaking, 175 acres WAS too much, aud conse-
quently the seeding was not done to our salts
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1885-09-02

"Quick sales and small profits is the
motto in Dry Goods at William N. Pyc,
Jr..,s. Bismarck, Emmons-county people
visiting the Capital should call on him.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1885-09-02
Poland-China Pigs for Sale.
Inquire at Livona postoffice.
G.. c. LIVINGSTON.
no Whom It nIax Concarn.

This is to give notice that l am not in
any way connected with Mr.. G. A. Pc
ters, Surveyor Of Emmons county.
r. II. THIsTLETHWATTE.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1885-09-02
From Mr.. Henry Hodgkinson, residing
five miles southwest of Williamspo1t

five miles southwest of Williamspo1t:
r W1LLIAMsroRT, Dal., Aug 27, 1885,
10 the Editor of the RECORD:
In your issue of the 10Th inst. noticed an art
lcle asking farmers to write their opinions and
experience regarding Dakota. I consider this
idea good one; and, as have spent two sum-
mers and two winters here, have come to cer-
tain conclusions regarding Dakota, which will
briefly and with candor give you. left Jefferson
and arrived in Bismarck (35 miles northwest Of
here) on the 2lst of the same month"; intending to
20 further west. In Bismarck heard much Of
Emmons county that Interested me, and deter
mined to go and see for myself. was SO much
pleased with the country, soil, etc., that located
claim the first day after my arrival. I came
build "shack" "a temporary house, sod
stable, and dig a we'll. The balance of the sum
mer and fall was spent in working out to earn
money TO live on through the winter. Last
season l broke 25 acres and planted sod corn po
tatoes, beans, and other vegetables-all of which
dld well. The present season l Sowed fifteen
acres TO wheat which is a splendid crop. On the
| remainder of the breaking planted ~ variety of
crops crops, and all are in prime condition. In the
inteiYd to plant with mixed crop, as l consider
method.
And now for my experience of soil, climate
etc. The soil in this part of Emmons county is
rich and black to the depth of from 20 inches to
5 feet, under which is from to- feet of lime
| salts necessary to sustain vegetable life said
to myself, '"rhis soil will need no Fertilizers and
will never wear OUT The summer climate here
is delightfully."- pleasant, invigorating and health
ful There .ea is plenty Of rainfall in the growing
tiers, Of course, are Geld, but the atmosphere is
dry and bright, and the winter weather is not
nearly SO disagreeable as in the East l have
suffered far more with the damp, cold weather in
Pennsylvania than have here. The air is clear
and bracing.
And now, Mr.. Editor, permit me to take a
mental view two years back, and compare it
with the present. At that time this beautiful,
undulainss pr airie was comparatively in a stnte
of nature-apparently as boundless us eternity,
and unbroken save here and there, at long inter
walls, by some newcomers Sx1O cabin, with small
| patch broken for garden-that was all. But
4 presto, change! And indeed what change there
\ is day. Looking over the same expanse, the
eye behelds scllool-houses substantial buildings.
nrge fields of grain in shock, and villages of
stacks.
am well satisfied with this country. I con-
! slider it paradise for the man of small means.
young MAN with his hands only can in short
| time get a comfortable home, if lie is made of
| the right kind of stuff
Respectfully, HENRY HoDGK1NsoN.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1885-09-02

The real name of Miss de Rance,
author of "Ouida," ETC., is plain Mary
Ann Stubbs. She is so years old, and is
about to be married. Bismarck Trlb-
une.
author of 'Ouida'" is good. The
Tribune's literary heavyweight will tell
us next that George Alfred Townsend is
the author of 'Gath."
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1885-09-02

The RECORD is Entered at the JVillian,sport
PostoRce as second class matter
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1885-09-02

Try Frlsby's Liver Pills for all bilious
troubles.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1885-09-02

r oUIs G. PETIT, Physician and Surgeon
LOffce second floor Dakota Block, first door to
til Q left, Bismarck D. r. Sc
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1885-09-02
BISMARCK STEAM ,LAUN-
DRY AND DYE-WORkS.
Fifth Street, Bismarck, Oak
BISMARCK P PROFESSIONAL CARDS

T Ohm E. GARLAND, Counselor at Law, Bis
u marok, D. II, Sc
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1885-09-02

LIZ sonal and chattel security. Good Notes
bought Highest price paid for County Warrants.
Union Block 36
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-17
A SPINSTER'S HERMITAGE.
An Omaha Woman Who Lives All Alone in
an Organ Box

Cnltago
Omaha. Neb., has a sort of female Diogenes
who lives, not in tub, but in organ box.
Her tiny residence is situated in an arstocratic
quarter known as Walnut Hill. The dwelling
consists of common organ box, 3x5 ground
dimensions. On the eastern side is a dry goods
box l. about one-third the size of the main
structure There are no shingles or thing or
unexcelled and unequaled patent roofing but
instead few breadths of rag carpet danked by a
piece of dilapidated oilcloth. The portals of the
mansion open toward the fence, and they are
wide and unadorned, that side of the box having
been taken out entirely to give hearty
welcome every one" touch to the building. A
strip Of calico answers for door, like drop
curtain of Punch and Judy aggregation.
Windows common or bowed, there are none.
The woman who occupies this strange abode
is spinster named Lizzie McEvaney, who says
she once lived in Iowa with her sisters, but fed
from their abuse to Omaha five years ago. She
has been employed as domestic by a number
of Omaha families, who all speak well of her.
Not long ago. although perfectly we'll and buxom
to the eye, she became possessed of the crazy
notion that she is diseased with an infectious
malady. She went out of service and asked
admission to several public institutions of
charity. Being refused admission. she set up
housekeeping in her novel hut squatting on the
ground she occupies. She is about thirty five
years old, ladylike in manner, but undoubtedly
insane.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-17

out some two or three ounces of gold, and Mar
shall carried it to Monterey to ascertain if it
were gold. This was the nearest place where
the means to make the test could be had.
Colonel Suffer resided at his fort. near what is
now the city of Sacramento. He was Swiss
and classmate of Napoleon Ill One evening,
when going down the Sacramento river in a
steam boat Colonel Suffer told me the story of
Marshalls return from Monterey. Colonel SUIT
tea said Il was in bed and it was about
o'clock at night. l heard some one ride up to
the fort the horse running at the top of his
speed. Then banging at the gate then /
heard the clank of the spurs on the brick floors
or the fort; then a pounding at the door Of my
room, and when opened the door in rushed
Marshall, shouting: Its gold! it's goldVn
At the time Marshall and Weimer built the
mill at Coloma. the labor used was Indian labor.
There were no other white men besides Marshall
and Weimer. Marshal was unmarried and had
no children. think Wemer had, but 90 not
distinctly remember
When Marshal returned from Monterey to
Coloma he brought with him about 800 Indians,
and took them to Weber creek, about six miles
from Coloma. There, with his Indians, he
washed out large amount of gold. His part
was sufficient to buy from Suffer the saw mill at
Coloma In 1S49 Marshall and John Winter
owned the mill together and they also owned
Winters Hotel. They sold the lumber at $500 a
thousand and the demand was greater than the
mill could supply. l paid at the hotel 500
a week board without room. Mar
shall was then worth more than $780, 900.
but mis- generosity was without limit He gave
to all who asked of him. He had no business
qualifications, and when sharp business men
came in and built up the little town of Coloma
Marshall was soon traded out of all his property.
His money he had lent where it would never be
returned or had been given away
Then Marshall became pr0spector for gold
mines. Several times | fitted him out with
mules, men and provisions to go prospecting
He knew the country better than Anv other man
at that time, and led the way to many rich
placer mines; but he never found any that were
rich enough for him. Often has he left mines
where he could take out six or seven ounces per
day to each man to seek an Ell Dorado where
hundreds Of thousands could be made in week.
Since 1852 have known nothing of Marshall
but concur in the opinion that it is disgrace
to the State of California that she has suffered
Marshall to die in want. To Suffer first and
Marshall next is California most indebted
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-17
A SPASM OF MORALITY.
The Dixie Scandal as Regarded by One Who
Is Not a Politician.

New York Comm ercai Advertiser.
An old CLUB man, who is thoroughly convers-
ant with the various phases of English life said
to-day in regard to the Dixie scandal: 1.-THE
British public are just at present passing through
one Of their sevenyear spasms of morality and
the moral spasm being complicated with pend
ing general election. the Dixie scandal has
got itself involved with current politics.
Naturally an effort has been made by the de-
feated Liberals to throw the whole onus of the
practices charged by the Pail Mall Gazette on
the aristocratic or conservative party.
This view OF the case has been accepted
by the newspapers and the people who never re-
fleet that immortality OF the sort divulged by the
Pail Mall Gazette is generally the productseither
OF great wealth and its cOncomitant leisure, or
OF poverty so intense as to have obliterated all
moral sense. 1t is the old story-extremes meet
but have yet to learn that, presupposing
either of these conditions. any differences of
opinion to politics will affect the moral status
of individuals.
However, the attack being made on those
lines, 1t behooved the Conservatives to find tn
quoque argument, and the Dixie scandal
has come in the very nick of time AS TO bikes
guilt or innocence, there is nothing to be said.
Charges of that sort made by hysterical woman
are but poor evidence, while the fact of large
money payment being rendered by Dixie for
indemnity proves nothing. Many an innocent
man pays blackmail; in fact, the more innocent
he is the more apt he is to pay and Dixie, as a
very rich man. might readily think that the
avoidance of a scandal at such critical time in
politics worth eos 000
Scandals of this sort have had but little to
do with the political history of this country.
And the reason is that American politicians are
ordinarily taken from what, in England, would
be called the middle class of society people of
neither poverty nor wealth. and as / said before,
that stratum Of community is less tempted to
| alterations of any sort than are people differ
emily situated in pecuniary matters. Obligatory
hard work is a great conservator Of morals. 1t
is true, that from the days when Alexander
Hamilton was driven to confess immortality
rather than lie under an imputation Of financial
| malfeasauce. down to the present time, there
have been unusual instances of mans morals
interfering with his political career, but these
cases have been few that the fact NAV be con-
sidered established"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-17
ExCURsIONIsTs IN TROUBLE.
A Party of Terre Haute People side-Tracked
in Chicago.

chicago Times, yesterday.
An excursion party to the northwest, under
the direction of Benjamin Blanchard, composed
largely Of residents Of Terre Haute, Ind, was
organized some days ago. They came here On a
special car Thursday. and last night were enjoy
ing the comforts Of being de-tracked on the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul tracks, in about
as dark and dismal place as could be found
The evening before their car had been hitched to
the night train of the road in question, and
rolled into the Union Depot but upon the orders
OF the Pullman management it was detached
and left standing there Subsequently the
car was drawn back to the side-track with
its freight where it was found last evening by
reporter of the Times. Mr.. Blanchard when
interviewed by a reporter of the Times, said that
some months ago he contracted with the Pull
man Palace car Company TO have private car
constructed. The cost was to be $3.50 and
Dir. Blanchard was to have the privilege of
thirty days trial before the final payment should
be made. On taking the out for trial a first
payment of 81. 500 was agreed upon. A few days
ago the car, which is a luxurious one, was fin,
ished. Last Thursday MIR. Blanchard started
from Terre Haute with party OF ladies and
gentlemen we'll known in Terre Haute society,
their destination being Yellowstone Park, after
which the party arranged to return home. On
Monday last Mr. Blanchard sent draft for
81. 500 on a New York bank to the Pullman COM
pany, but on arriving here at o'clock Thursday
night, found that the draft had not arrived hav-
ing presumably mlscarried in the mails Mr.
Jewett, one of the superint endents of the Pull
man company, called on Mr. Blanchard shortly
after he arrived, for the purpose of ascertaning
why the payment had not been made The
former explained that he had sent a draft for the
necessary amount, and in its absence offered
his check on Chicago bank for ST. 500 but as
the gentleman who was to indorse the check was
not known to Mr.. Jewett. and as Mr. Blanchard
knew no one whom Mr. Jewett knew who could
Endorse the check, it was agreed to postpone
further arrangements until Monday morning,
at which time Mr. Blanchard said he would pay
the 81. 500 in case the draft had not arrived
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-17
At What a Cost.
Qn One Number.)
The Story Of a Sculptor.
In Three Numbers.)
Capital Wine.
Zone Number.

No. will be commenced August %, and
Nos 2 and 3 will follow in succession.
We may add that the stories are written in
Hugh Conways vivid and graphic style, the
situations are most effective, the current
problems of social relations and varying phases
of domestic life worked out in them are in
tensely interesting and the characters leave
the reader with distinct impressions such as
are caused by people Of striking personality in
actual life.
The appropriateness of this intervention in
the existing arrangements for our Serial Lit
erature will be self-evident. The recent La
mentable and all too early decease of the
brilliant novelist naturally excites great in
terest in the work he has left behind, and
calls for its publication as soon as practicable
We SHALL therefore, defer the completion of
the Octave Of Short Stories By Distinguished
Authors in order that the trio left by HUGH
CONWAY may be commenced in our columns
at the earliest date.
On September ~ the publication of the
Octave of Short Stories will be resumed by
WILKIE COLLINS, and continued by stories
from the rens of RHODA BROUGHTON and
THOMAS HARDY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-17
King Louis OF Bavaria, the Crowned Crank.
Correspondence Philadelphia Times.

Correspondence Philadelphia Times.
Very few strangers ever have a chance Of see
ing this crowned crank of Bavaria, but l saw
him last year. and again last spring under very
favorable circumstances He is not a married
king and he is not likely ever to be- Is it the
souvenir of some early love long lost some Sc
eretly INDUCED passion, the recollection of
the way that Lola Montez FUSED to drive his
grandfather around with horsewhip that has
given him such hatred for womankind2 That
he has never even INDUCED In the royal pen
chant for keeping a mistress is certain, and,
with the exception of actresses on the stage he
never willingly looks at woman When he
assembled the throne he was handsome fellow
of nineteen he is old and wrinkled now. with a
fat round belly, and dresses like third rate
tragedian, and his ministers soon arranged a
match for him with an Austrian archduchess
He allowed them to open the negotiation and
make all the arrangements without raising any
objections, only STIMULATING that hundred
young couples, all his subjects, should be mar
Pied on the same day and at the same
place as himself But when it came to fixing
cay for the ceremony, he kept putting it off
With such persistency that the archduchess
finally got angry sent him back his love letters
and asked her papas ministers to find her
another husband. The Bavarlan ministers
wanted to look around for another woman as
wife for their sovereign, but Louis positively
refused. When it was represented to him that
the hundred couples who mad been designated to
act as his nuptial cortego were impatiently wait
ing to be united, he said: well, let them wed
if they are such fools AS for me, l will remain
a bachelor, and never want to hear any one
talk again about my getting married..