The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1889-01-17
WILD RICE ECHOES.
the Editor of The wahpeton Times.


Mr.. August Golnitz had very
sick child. They wrapped it up
and took it to DR.. Baldwin at
Hankinson. But when they un.
covered it they found that it was
dead. 1t was too late for human
help.
Yesterday, as Mr.. Geopfarth, the
teacher at ST. Johns church in Dis
trict No. 2, Belford, was going to
Mr.. Berlin's where he boards, he
was taken with a dangerous hemor-
rhage Of the lungs. He fell to the
earth close by the house and when
the folks first found him they
thought he was dead, but he rallied
some hours after. He is young
man, and halls from the city of
Richmond, Virginia.
The farmers of Brandenburg met
on January 4th at Bohn school house
to talk up the subject of building
an independent elevator at Great
Bend station. That is a move in
the right direction. As they think
by having one of their own class
there to attend to receiving and
shipping their grain they can make
it IL profitable enterprise. If it is
built it will belong to the farmers
exclusively without regard to the
Alliance. The idea of farmers fur
nishing capital for building eleva-
tors for the Scandinavian or any
other elevator company to own or
control is simply preposterous, as it
has not been made apparent that
the farmers interests have received
any more attention at the hands of
that corporation than they have
from any other. 1t is a scheme
gotten up principally for the pur-
pose of inducing farmers to ship all
their produce to one center or COM
pany. but it won't work. Competition
is the life OF trade, and especially is
this true in regard to the marketing
of wheat, where two or three differ
ent elevator companies are buying
in the same place. Then again,
cash talks. When the farmer takes
his gold to the home trader in mer.
chandise Of any sort, the sight Of
money makes his eyes. water, SO
that any commodity may be bought
for cash at much less figure than
on time. We don't wish to en-.
courage the practice of sending ou,
money away out of our vicinity to
cities, for goods that may be had>of
our home towns, unless they be
come so grasping and high priced
that it becomes barefaced robbery
Then we would exclaim, in the Ian.
guage of the immortal slangist
"Let her 90 greenbacks." We want
towns, and like to see prosperity
abound in them as we'll as in the
country. 1t is proof of the fer
tility of the soil and industry of the
farmers, hence we are strong advo
Gates of patronizing home institu.
tions as long as it pays. Farmers
are the hardest working people in
the world. They have right ia
live in the best houses, drive the
best teams and finest turnouts,
dress in the best clothes and marry
the prettiest @ledies and best house
keepers in the land. And they are
getting there with rapidity tina,
is truly astonishing. Not man,
years will pass ere the farmer will
be at the top. He has it in his
power and he knows it.
We are pleased to place before
our friends a synopsis of lette,
recently received from our mutua
friend Mr.. Frank L. Dwyer, who il
in California. 1t is written at Lot
Angeles and is full of instruction
He says:
II have not been very favorably
impressed with the country through
which we passed to reach this point
Now, they tell US that we are in tn,
garden of Eden; the very Eden O
California at any rate.
l eve came in last night on th'
Southern Pacific railroad, and to
day we are spending Christina.
looking about us. We have beer
out in the country about three
miles. The grass is from thre,
inches to foot high, the barley
about the same. They do not har
vest the barley for anything but
hay and cut it just as it has headed
out, this they feed to their horses
The alfalfa they feed to their milcl
cows. They have green corn, let
tuce, string beans, tomatoes, rasp
berries and nearly every kind O.
garden produce out where we wer,