The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1892-02-13
OFFICIAL PAPER OF MCLEAN co.
Newark, N. j., Jan. 29.-LTo the Editor

of the Tribune. "A company of twelve,
residents of this county, have been con
templating u removal to the west, and
from the reports. received are inclined to
20 to North Dakota and open farms. Can
the Tri ,une give us advice as to the best
point in that state to locate? What can
land be bought for? Are there schools
and church privileges! We hear that the
railroads practically own the state and
escape taxation for their W property,
while the farmers are taxed excessively.
Is this true! We would be very much
Obliged for an answer to these questions.
G. A. BALLARD.
Answer--The best point to settle depends
on how much the %colonists are prepared to
pay for land and whether they wish to di-
versify their farming or devote their atten-
ton alone to wheat raising. All parts OF
the state raised good crops last year, but
the Red River valley is the section most
highly regarded for wheat. Land is much
higher there, however, than in the Devils
Lake region, the James River valley or the
Missouri slope. 1t varies, from So to $25
HI acre. Choice lands in the Red River
valley are held even higher. The schools
and churches are excellent and the pro.
posed settler can hardly go amiss in this
respect.
We have never heard complaints of the
railroads interfering except in Burleigh
county. Here a very disgraceful state of
things undoubtedly exists. A county com
missioner is being kept out of his seat by
what seems to be the direct interference
of the railroad Interested. The case is
likely to attract the attention of the whole
country before it is ended, for 1t shows
low the will of the people can be trampled
under foot in these remote and sparsely
settled counties. Of course the success of
such an undertaking is but temporary, for
it is too destructive of free government to
be long tolerated, but while it lasts it is a
practical despotism. The only way is to
avoid the locality until better methods
prevail. There are plenty of other sec
tiOns of the state, however, where this
objection will not be found. The best
plan is for a member of the proposed
colony to visit the state and judge for
hilnself.-Minneapolis Tribune.
The above is a piece of illegitimate, dis
reputable and dishonest newspaper work,
unworthy of a great metropolitan paper
such as the Minneapolis Tribune aspires
to be. It stamps the author as a small.
minded man, incapable of rising above
petty jealousies and wholly lacking III
judgment and good sense. Such an insult
to Bismarck, to Burleigh county, to decent
journalism, cannot go unchallenged. The
reader will observe the fraud on Its face
that the Newark letter was manufactured
for the sole purpose of giving an oppor'
tunity for the reply. The object you ask:
Only Il part of the bureau work now being
systematically carried on in behalf of
Healy. During its whole existence under
its present management the Minneapolis
Tribune has purposely and maliciously
misrepresented the prosecution of Mr..
Healy in this county. 1t has insisted that
it has been persecution instead of prosecu-
ton, and its judgment has been made up
not on facts, but on prejudice: The
Minneapolis Tribune has been the par
ticularly willing medium through which
the friends of Healy have heaped out their
abuse on those who have not seen fit to
bow down to this consummate hypocrite
and who are as honest and conscientious
i'll their belief that he is guilty of the
crime charged as his friends are in his in
nocence. Opinion in this community is
divided on the Healy matter up to the
present time, but it will not be divided on
the proposition that the Minneapolis Trib
IL has made an unwarrantable, unjust
and malicious attack on the community
Bismarck Tribune.
The Herald, one of the wealthiest and
most popular of the Chicago dailies, has
discontinued its weekly edition because
with a circulation of 10000 it failed to pay