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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-29
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Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02

e reformcr. He han helped oYerthroW
the lottery and oontine games CT change
to legislative halls and church fairs, so
that one cannot at present get lottery
ticket-=unless he spndg for it. He has
assisted In making prohibition prohibit
until now, throughout the length and
breadth Of the Flickertall State, Il man
can't procure drink--unlcss ho possesses
the cash price thereof or is on terms of
confidence and easy familiarity with the
barkeeper. Yes, the governor is a re-
former; and great many of the people
oyer whom he rules look upon the lottery
and high license as much less immoral
than the appearance of half,drcsscd
women in public. In furtherance of all
previous reforms the governor has-as
the Argus would say-given his mouth
wide circulation. Let him tackle this
low.neck nastiness with vigor and drive
1t back to Ward McAllister and his four
hundred scmi-virtuous dudes and du-
desses. Give 1t no abiding place in the
New Northwest On principles both of
morality and hygiene it is fraud. As q
reformer, three lines of conduct are open
to Gov. Miller in the matter of the inaug-
ural ball. He should either stay away,
attend and crate against the folly, Or
wear blinders.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02
Origin of ssNo. / Hard,

The hard wheat known as Fife, grown
IN the New Northwest, says the Winni-
peg Colonist, deservedly ranks among the
best in the world, and the high grade of
flour made from it commands the best
prices obtained. About 1942 Mr. David
Fife, of Ottonabee, near Kingston, Can.
ada, procured from Glasgow, Scotland a
quantity of wheat from a cargo direct
from Dantzlc. AS it came just before
spring seed-time, and Mr.. Fife not know
ing whether it was fall or spring vari.
iety, he sowed part of it that spring. 1t
proved to be fall wheat, as, with the ex-
ception of three heads, it failed to ripen.
The three heads apparently grew from a
single grain. These we're preserved, and,
although sown the next year under very
unfavorable clrcumstanccs--being nut in
quite late and IN shady place--it proved
at harvest entirely free from rust, while
all other wheat IN the neighborhood was
badly irusted. The produce of this was
carefully preserved, and from i. sprung
the variety Of wheat known as Scotii,
Fife. IG,aEG - =
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02
AROUND The COUNTY.
Glencoe.

Correspondence of the RECORD
Receiyed too late for publication last
week. -"Stub' Smith and his "sllcnt
partner made flying trip to Bismarck
last Saturday on business connected with
Uncle Sans pension department. .. We
have Just received news of the opening of
coal mine in the Eluifs near the west
bankof the river opposite the west end
of the Agard bottom. The farmers around
here are waiting for the ice on the river
to freeze solid enough for them to cross
and sample the COAL The nine is located
about six miles northwest of Glencoe 1t
is hoped that the mine is just what 1t ls
claimed to be by those who have visited
it,. Mr.. z. G. Taylor went to Bismarck
Friday with big load of pork and now
he has gone to Missouri to spend the hol~
ldays with his dear old mother. Wolves
are getting uncommonly plentiful around
these parts. A number of them got after
Mr.. Miller the other night on his way
hoRaa from Glencoe. SEC. 81.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02

A GREAT deal of growing is being don ne
in different parts of the country over the
local results of the late census. The St.
Paul papers, particularly, have very I'M
kind words for Census Superintendent
Porter. which is probably due to the fact
that Minneapolis makes larger showing
of population by several thousands. Yet
there is no reason to believe that, from
the chief to The humblest subordinate,
the census force of 1890 was less compe-
tent and painstaking than thai of pre-
vious years. The value of the census has
been sacrificed to the gathering Of lot
of minor and least useful statistics. If
information es to which tooth the baby
cut first, or whether the citizen takes su,
gar in his coffee, had been sought, tue
questions would have not been more silly
than number that were asked. These
nonsensical matters took up time and in
some sections did not leave enough for a
thorough canvass. Thus the chief end for
which the census was lnstitutcd--to count
the people of the natlon--was handi-
capped by putting too many statistical
irons in the fire.
The enumeration in this county was
faithfully and intelllgently performed we
are certain, and the canvass as thorough
as the limited time and long question list
would allow. To our knowledge, 1T was
so done in the north half, and we have no
reason to believe that the work was
sighted In the southern part. But we
have more people than the census gives
US credit for. Our citizens believe it, and
reliable figures are at hand to Justify that
belief. In the first place, the assessors
books of last summer show some eco
resident males oyer 81 years old. Then,
our November vote was 556, and more
thar hundred men are known 10 have
been unrepresented in the hailot=boxes,
Many of these=-as is usual in tho Slope
counties every fall==were absent ut work
thrashang aud blowing on the big fsrus
in the eastern part of tue Gtate. Many
more could not vote on account Of the
changed laws regarding naturalization.
Now, the generally accepted ratio of vo
ters to population is one in five. And
this would give US 2,7sO on our vote, to
say nothing of the hundred and odd of
those on the assessors books who did not
vote. Taking the assessors lists (660),
multiplying by five, and We have $500,
which is really very near the figure of
population for this county. There were
about fifty more votes cast in Emmons
county than in Mcintosh, which is no
great shakes to brag of when we consider
that the former is nearly twice as large as
the latter. The political canvass there
was at least as active as here--some Of the
boys reaching vigorously but unavailing-
ly for John Wishek's "skulp." Yet, not
withstanding that Emmons was some
fifty votes in the lead, the census gives
Mcintosh between 5000 and 3,700 and
Emmons between 1, 900 and 1000
These incorrect census figures are bad
thing for this county, because great
many immigrants coming to the new
state will make list Of the different coun:
ties and divide the totals of public indebt-
edness by the totals OF population.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02
Pork and Flour Away Down.

Some comical as we'll as tragical doings
have come about through the late Indian
scare, says the Mound City Prairie Plea
yune, of Campbell county, S. D. A Rms
sian living near Eureka, hearing the skc-
daddling cry, "Indianer kommen r
jumped out of bed and threw his. winter s
supply Of flour into deep we'll: then,
seIzing an ak, he cut off the head of q fat
hog and heaved the carcass of the porkcr
In afrer the flour. Coming back after the
scare is over, he finds himself a fit subject
for the states benevolent solicltude. He
has neither -four nor pork, and the vari.
Gus articles dumped into his we'll have
rendered the water unfit for use.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02
50 PER YEAR, in ADVANCE
DO published Send letters 10 State
Attorney Armstrong, who VIII prepare
for publication and forward same

DO published. Send letters 10 Sta,e'a
Attorney Armstrong, who VIII prepare
for publication and forward same
Really, the weather clerk cannot tc
complained of, for .capse, by North Da,
kota people this year. Here it is, the
middle Of what ls usualy known as win.
ter in this latitude, and yet we have had
an almost unbroken line of spring days.
Eastern people would hardly helicve Lii ei,
| eyes could they see the herds of fat horses
and cattle and locks of sheep that on.tLo
Missouri Slope arc getting all their food
and haze done so right along--from the
cured grass of the prairie. And what is
more, they can do it at all times when the
ground is bare of snow. Nor does dccp
snow make much difference to horses or
light snow to sheep.
A COW it was that kicked over Mrs.
| O'Leary's lamp and caused the city of
! Chicago to 60 up in smoke. 1t was
COW, also, that monkeyed with the dig
nifty of young Walter Boutillicr, the
Bismarck Williamsport mail carrier, last
Friday. And muley COW, at that Wal~
| ter on the date named, after relieving
himself of his load of responsibility by
turning oyer the mail sack to Mrs, Kcl.
ley, proceeded to care for his team. lie
left t4cm standing few feet from the
stable and dyed through the door to rec :;
onnoiter Al once there came a fiendslH
snort. AS through the stables sally porf
A rushing bovine monster came, Straight
for Walters boyish frame. On it flew
with tail erect, And caring nothing for
effect. Lowering its head blow it dealt,
Striking Walter unfairly below the belt
Walter got up, blew the mud from his
nostrils, gouged the manure out of his
| ears, and said he had either been scalped
or struck by lightning But 'it'' was
only frightened COW, and as she shot
out of the door the horses took fright and
dashed away across the prairie toward
John Wilde's, probably smelling his hay
stacks. The team fell over steep bank,
damaging the buggy considerably, but
not hurting themselves, and were finally
captured near MI. Wlde's. 1t is said that
John Boutlllier's buggy has had SO much
experience in the runaway line 5iat even
without team or horse. il left united and
its wheels "unchuckcd," 1t will start off
IN mad race across the prairie.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02

THERE is going to be big ball. soon,
at the capital of the state. There will
doubtless he few--not many-decollete
dresses worn. Gov. Miller is truly good
man. He was the chief motive power IN
the overthrow of the octopod, for which
at this late day few have tears to shed.
But, while year ago the governor foamed
at the mouth when lottery ticket came
within the range of his vision, he attended
a ball and conversed. unblushingly, with
ladies IN scant raiment. The governor is
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02

SENATOR PIERCE should call off Silly
Willy Mofet, the youth who doesn't know
hasn't enough sense to know--that
a number of men In the legislature are
personal friends of both Mckenzie and
Pierce. TIVE or three of them, at least,
would resent the vile personal attacks on
Mckenzie by the Bismarck journalistic
heodoo, if they knew the mofetian meth
DDS were indorsed by the senator.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02

ALEX. MCKENZIE emphatically denies
the published report that IN his fight
against Senator Pierce he would use his
influence to elect democrat rather than
see Pierce successful. lie says:
l am republican. 1 was working for
the interests of the republican party in
North Dakota long before Pierce saw the
state, and do not propose to turn traitor
to the party simply because 1 am opposed
to Mr.. Pierce or any other candidate for
the senate. The senate IS uncomfortably
close, and it is no time to allow factional
differences to operate against the election
of republican from North Dakota.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02
The Average Dcath.nate.

In England, Says the st. Louis Repub.
lie, the average number of deaths each
year is one out of every 43 Inhabitants
in, France 1 fout Of each 80, and in the
United States out of each 81. In this
country the rate in the northwestern
states is. one in each 100; in the middle.
states, / in each S3 in the southern
states. ! in 70: IN the gulf states, / ia
each 63. In North Dakota the rate nj
in each 184. "a,
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02
THE Jamestown Alert truthfully says

The Bismarck correspondent of the Pr
oneer Press, writing in the interest of
Senator Pierce, makes great mistake in
attempting to belittle Alex. Mckenzie
and smlrch his character. In striking
contrast to these methods is the well-
known opposition of Mr. Mckenzie HIM
self toward the senator. No personal
abuse in the press, no slurs or 1nnuendoes,
but frank, straightforward opposition,
based on public grounds--such opposition
as every fair-minded man likes to see.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02
For Over Fifty Years.

MRS. WISsL0w's SOOTHING SYRUP, for clil
dren teethng, is the prescription of one of the
best female nurses and physicians in the United
States. and has been used for over fifty years
with ncver-faling SUCCESS by millions of moth
ers for their children. During the process Of
teething Its value isincaculnblc. It relieves the
child from pain, cures dyscntery and darrhea,
gripping in the bowels and wind collie. By CIV
ing health to the child it rests the mother. Price
2Gc. a bottle.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02

1T is believed that the state revenue law
could be extensively amended with good
effect. 1t puts lot of red-tape business
on county auditors and treasurers, with
no beneficial results to shew for the labor
performed.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02
p 9 It'll Q N Praying for Letters O
Guardianship.

oossty S SsFh S sn%eHs DaeHss In County Court
In the matter of the guardianship of Francis NJ
Loutzenhiser, Kezie Loutzenhiser, Elizabeth
Loutzenhiser Emma l.. Loutzenhiser Clar-
ence =. Loutzenhiser minors.
NJ Office is hereby given that Mary E. Loutzen-
l hiser has filed in the Office of said County
Court q petition praying for letters OF guardian
ship for said minors: And that Monday, the
@6th day of January, 1891, at 2 o'clock p. M OF
said day, Is set apart for hearing said petition,
when and where any person interested in said
hearing may appear and show cause why said
petition should not be granted
Dated at Williamsport, N. D., this 22d day OF
December, 1890. JOHN KLYNsTRA,
County judge,
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02
STRAYED.

From my place, six miles northeast of
Willlamsport, a bay mare pony, branded
w. O. on left hip one hoof enlarged !;
long name and tail. Please send infor.
nation to S. Z. CoovER,
Williamsport, N, D,
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02

nEFAULT existing in mortgage executed by
DAlfred A. Brown. September /, 1888, to 4. 4.
Penney. and by him assigned to Horatio Kelsey,
on the northeast quarter Of section 81, township
1876. range "a, now due on said mortgage Ss62 26
and attorneys fee of $780, co. the sheriff of said
county will sell said premises, at the front door
of the County Building, in Wiiliamsport, county
1891, at O'Clock p. m.
Dated Dec. "a, 1880. E. AsuLEr MrARs,
50 Attorney, p. Q. Fargo, N. D.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02
NOTICEG TEACHERS

T>HE next regular examination for county corr
Il tifcates will be held at Winona on Friday,
Jan. 9. commencing at $50 a. M. sharp. Teach.
ers will please be governed by the above notice,
as certificates will be issued on no other dates
W.B. ANDRus,
County Superintendent of Schools.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02
A9TICE-COAL.

] am again prepared to furnish coal
Price $B per ton. S. E. BRINDLE,
Williamsport, n u.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02
EMM0NS COUNTY RECORD,
By D. R. STREETER,
WILLIAMsPORT, NORTH DAKOTA
Pioneer Journal of the County.

The RECORD is entered at the Walliamsport
P0st0Nce as second-c class matter.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02

Go to Mason's, corner Main and Second
streets, Bismarck, N. D., if you want any
thing IN the line of Fruits; Confectionery
and ice Cream.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-11-10

The windward side of Hawaii
presents series of massive cliffs,
covered from base to summit with
festoons of many colored vines. From
every projecting ledge, spring lau-
hala trees, with bayonet like foliage
lso far true to nature], with cactus
and fig trees [pure Imagination while
clusters of crimson Ohias sway in the
breeze, overhanging the waters of the
ocean,
Of cannibalism in Hawaii nei, the
author says: "The natives deny en-
phatically that it was ever practised
here. But such denials cannot be
considered conclusive. Human sacri-
fees were offered we know, and there
is but one course for the victim of q
sacrifice on feast day. 1t will be
difficult, moreover, to allow that the
warriors of those times would push
their scruples so far as to allow the
most tempting morsels from the slain
to be wasted.n
Kalakaua is civilized prince, edu-
Gated, speaking English well, and
dressing, at least in public, in Euro
pean style.
"The government is a hereditary
monarchy under constitution which
sprung, in all its provisions, from the
brain of the Protestant missionary,
and which bears the indellible stamp
of its origin"
[ must quote, finally, from this eX-
asperatingly imaginative writer the
picture of the Hawaiian as he appears
to the Frenchman.
The Hawaiian type (amOng the
motley assemblage in the market
place. predominates, Open-hearted,
smiling, child-like, men and women
alike decked with garlands and leis of
scarlet lehua blossoms or of golden
hala fruit, worn on their heads or
over their shoulders.
They crowd about the fish stalls
and surround the pedlers of sea-weeds
(Which enter into the composition of
the national poll, but most of them
only as idlers, with no motive but
curiosity. Out of ten persons, nine
have no intention to buy. They have
come to pass away the time, to joke,
to exchange smiles, like those country
people of our own land, who would
not for anything miss fair or market
day. Only here idling is the rule, not
the exception. Every day is holt
day, and brings together the same
throng of pleasure-seekers- always
the same gaiety, flower garlands,
songs, roars of laughter.
The Polynesian has few wants; a
few fruits, the root of a plant that
grows everywhere in abundance-for
drink simple water, or for the higher
class little palm wine or other liquor
distilled by crude process. Clothing
in the city is of the simplest descrip-
ton; in the country it is dispensed
with altogether The grand aim of
life is pleasure. The savage is thor
oughly persuaded that he has been
created and sent into the world sim
ply to eat, sleep, joke, sing, take his
sport in the sea, and devise adorn-
ments of flowers"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-11-10

towns the natives NAV be seen tricked
out in European finery; the poor. and
especially when at home, wear the
hatIonal Kihei, a cloak made of the
Dark OF the paper mulberry tree"
On sultry days natives of both
sexes, dressed in the costume of our
hrst parents, may be seen standing
In small rooms, behind the hedges
which border the streets of Honolulu,
squirting water all over each other.
The hedges conceal their nakedness,
and while being squirted at they look
out on the street and chat pleasantly
with the passers-by."
Poi, a somewhat. sour bread of
taro flour; with raw and dried fish and
dog flesh, form their favorite diet.n
"Cannlbalism is now extinct; it
was decreasing even in the time of
Captain Cook. One of their old chiefs,
nevertheless, confessed on his death
bed, some years ago, that his last
wish was to have the pleasure of eat
ing young missionary
"The Kanakas are at present all
Protestants.n "There are few or no
traces to be found of the old temples
(Helaus), where the heather priests
sacrificed human beings, who were
subsequently eaten.-of the sacred
Moiai with Its chapels, and of the
equally sacred places of refuge, Pa
honua. The stranger is, on the con-
trary, full of establishment at the
great number of chapels and churches,
which remind him of Rome and the
Iyrolean mountains. Most of them
remain till they fall to pieces, as the
kanakas do not care anything about
them" "The idea of the taboo plays
as great Il part in the lives of the
natives to-day as centuries ago, when
Cook fell 4 victim to it.n "The crew
of one of the ships felled wood
which was taboo to get fuel, and by
this proceeding outraged the kanakas'
religious sentiments. Their anger and
fury knew no bounds, They pursued
the whites to the shore, and killed
Cook among the rest.'
In 1873 the total population of the
islands was $780, of which A, 0SS were
kanakas. DR.. Buchner considers
the principal reason for the rapid de-
crease in the native population to be
owing to the WOmen's passion for
horseback riding, in which they in
dulge recklessly and without modera-
ton, riding their horses in just the
same manner as the men,"
That erroneous ideas should prevail
abroad regarding matters and things
in Hawaii nei is not TO be wondered
at when one finds in the newspapers
items that seem to be from the most
authentic sources, like the following,
which | clipped from the Detroit Free
Press of December LIST, 1889:
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-11-10
The Prince is DISCHARGED.

Prince Albert Kunuiakea stood up
before Judge Hopkins Tuesday
charged by DR., Hammond as being a
nuisance. The full story of this
arrest was published exclusively in
the ADVERTISER Monday.
At the trial Tuesday DR.. Ham
mond, the complaining witness,
stated he had no wish to have the
prince punished but merely wanted
him reprimanded by the Court. The
prince promised to be more careful in
the future in handling revolvers SO
His Honor discharged him.
-o.,.,, -.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-11-10

Temperature of earth &C.
Dew point, average for month"; ESQ.
Indicating moisture o 81 grains per cubic foot.
Relative humidity az midday 606 per cent.
Relative humidity at night II 8 per cent.
Dew point highest IA. the 24th.
Dew point lowest $3.50 the 30th.
Total rainfall 514 inches.
Maximum rainfallin one day la in. on the 9th
Rain exceeding ~ in. fell on Il days
BAROMETER (coRRECrED READINGs.l
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-11-10
CANARDS.

An Interesting Paper By Dr.. Lyons.
QUEER STORIES ABOUT
HA WAU.
The Imaginative Ruth Ward
Tells Some Tail Lies About
Ants in Thomas Square.
{. W. ASHFORD TELLS THE DE-
TRoIT FREE PRESS
SHARK STORY.
some Things About Hawaii That Ba-
waiians Don't Know
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-11-10

METEOROLOGICAL RECORD FOR OCTO-
Der.
From Observations Made at Oahu Col
lege by Prof A. b. Lyons.
TEMPERATURE OF AIR.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-11-10
VITAL STATISTICS.
Mortuary Report for the Month of
October, 1891.

The total number of deaths reported for
the month OF October was 80, distributed
aS follows.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-11-10

THE REGAIN vAPoR ENGINE Is
L adapted for pumping, hosting, etc
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-11-10

An Interesting Paper By Dr.. Lyons.