Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1890-05-30
stock. The experience of this country
will be that of all new regions---tnose WHO
stick will win in the end.
Tho au.se.Gcrman settlers.

Tho Huss0sGerman settlers.
A great many people in North Dakota
mistake the characteristics of the class of
settlers who are SO rapidly filling up EN-
mons, Mcintosh and Logan counties.
They are spoken of as Russians" True,
they come from the domlnons of the
Car, but they are pure Germans in blood
and language Some people in the coun.
ties of the state where none Of them have
yet settled suppose they are Russian Jews
similar to those that made such poor
excuse" at farming in Burleigh and
Ramsey counties few years ago. But
they are not; they are largely Roman
Catholics. with fair minority Of Lu-
therans, and few of other Protestant
denominations. There seem, however,
to be no personal antagonisms among
them concerning differences in creed. AS
farmers they are the opnnaite in every
thing of the Rnooian Jews. They are IN
telligent, and great readers of German
newspapers. Honest themselves, they
have no use for business or professional
man who deals unfairly with them, and o
dishonest act toward one of their number
is soon known throughout a neighbor.
hood. Thousauds--some of them say
hundreds of thousands--are yet to come
from Russia, and the reason for their
coming Is this: Two or three generations
ago, In order to have a moro rapid settle.
ment Of the wild lands of the empire, the
Russian ruler invited German ltnmisra-
ton, guaranteeing for long period to
such immigrants immunity from military
service and granting them the right to
worship God after the forms of their re.
spectlve sects., But the. time of exemp.
ton has expired and the German colonists
in Russia are again subject to military
duty. The blood Of these people while
under the rule Of the Muscovite has nos
been mixed with the Slavonic usetiasir
wives have been taken from the women
of their own race. The new settlers are
worry Industrious. The women arc strong
and robust, aud, together With the chill
dren; work in the aelds. The men, women
aud children .re stout and healthy, and
the writer has not seen a wicked or Grim.
;dal face among them. They are, as said
before, good farmers, and their buildings
are first class, though built at trlfllng cx-
pense outside of their own labor. A
great many Of their houses and stables
are built Of sun dried tadobe) brick, and
are very warm. The houses, whether of
"dobeys" OF sod, have the walls and rsof
plastered inside and out with a clay that
makes a hard and smooth surface, and.
with windows dnu uU0rs closed IN winter,
their dwellings might almost be termed
Theoretically sealed" They build u
large stove, or furnace, of sun-dried brick
and clay, into the wall between the
rooms, aud, with the draft nearly closed,
the fuel Of hay, straw Of weeds answers
every purpose. II will thus be seen that
the expense Of providing themselves and
tucir stock with comfortable and durable
buildlngsis is not a great burden.
The. newcomers speak Of the Cars do.
minions as "Hooslaand," but consider
themselves Germans rather than Russians.
That they believe In education is shown
by the fact that six school-hotses have
been erected by them. In Emmons county,
this spring. Although temperate in drink,
like most Germans, they do not take
kindly to prohlbitieus Only q few of the
Russo Germans of Emmons county voted
last fall but. of the sixty votes they cast,
not one was for the sumptuary law. As
one of them said to the writer "We left
Rooslaand toSget away from laws that
wouldn't let people mind hts own bust.
ness" They are prompt tax.payers( as
they COME from country where the
''taxer" [souud "a" as il "far"]. as they
Term the tax.taker, will stand no foolish.
ness.
Three things are certain: That these
Germans from Russia are coming here In
large numbers, and will continue to come: !:
that they will eventually be the most nu.
merous race Of foreign. born citizens in
North Dakota, and that nowhere can a
better class of farmers be found. They
have heretofore settled south of the
Nsrthcrn Pacific limit-Aa II. -.1...sJ oouIu
Obtain, 1,re :etnp,ion claims at the mini.
mum price; but they have taken up
large part Of the good farming land in
the minimum area, and they are now be-
ginningte settle on the donb1e.minimum
lands within the N. r. land.grant. They
will gradually go north as the southern
tier OF. counties are settled, and, after the
lands in Emmons. Mcintosh and Logan
are taken, they will overflow into Bur-
leigh and Kidder. Many of those who
have settled in this county brought con.
siderable money with them. land some
have purchased improved farme. They
are making land in the counties in which
they have settled more valuable, and they
will be cordially welcomed in all parts Of
the Missouri Slope.
Wants His lsrub monev.