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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-05-11
Thursday, May 2.

At MinOt Ed Kelly's saloon was
broken into, but only small sum was
secured. The town is flooded with
tramps, and many petty robberies are
being committed.
Three hundred and four trees were
planted on the capitol grounds this
spring. so
Mandan citizens are beautifying
their homes. Lawns, tree planting
and a general fixing up are the order
Of the day at that thriving city.
The Kidder county farmers are put
ting in great acreage Of fax this
year. Wheat will be subordinate
crop.
A legless colored man, who Is beg
gar, claims that two men tried to
rob him at Grand Forks. He gave
one bad slash in the throat with
razor"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-05-11

This silvecware was stolen, was it
notT
The culprit shrugged his shoulders.
"Japanned," he returned, laconical.
ly.
Thus the language expands under
the influence of a social growth which
gives rise to relations ever more COM
plicate.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-05-11
Earthouake in Argentine.

: Buenos Ayres, May 9.-There was a
severe earthquake. to-day at Men
donca, capital Of the province of that
name. The inhabitants were terror
stricken and fed from the town. Men
donca is situated about fifty-five miles
southeast from the Volcano of Aeon
cagua. The place was destroyed by
an earthquake in 1869.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-05-11

There are some colored tenants on
Colonel Chess Howard's plantation
in Crawford county, Georgia, who
have unique names. The mother Of
one family is named Mani Notion Pa
thence Peas Caroline Corncob Eliza
beth Penny. Her husband flourishes as
King Soiomon's Watkins, and her ia
yorite daughter bears the euphonfous
title Of "Mitrelicious," and a younger
sons name is:
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-05-11

Enock Russell of jamestown gets
an original pension. .-..
Tower City donated. altogether,
1925 to Nebraska sufferers.
Lakota business men have formed
an anti-moustache society.
Col. Norris of Bathgate has a seven
acre onion patch.
of the most accommodating auditors
in the West. ~.
.> Gen. Harrison Allen will be the
Decoration day orator at Valley City.
r. r. Fulton & Co. of Grand Forks
have bought the Nelson county bonds
at q premium of l per cent.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-05-11
Monday, May @.

Sf@N MONDAY, May q.
Z Recent showers have given Russian
thEtles fine start.
aThe Ransom county cheese factory
q success.
ANDREW Lein of Niagara has gone
Insane and will be sent to jamestown
hospital.
ELakota is to have a new addition
aChicago addition-12O acres will be
platted.
{ There Is row on at Pembina over
too much alleged freedom of prison
err at the county Jail.
Fargo is having serious time to
set a hook and ladder truck which
VIII give satisfaction.
tID North Dakota a farmer cannot,
under the law, mortgage his crop for
more than one year before he sows 1t.
There will be no railroad construc.
tion in North Dakota this year, with
Q possible exception of a forty mile
piece from DraytOn to Cavalier.
A Valley City implement dealer ad-
veftises the receipt of car load Of
c3m planters and cultivators, which
would indicate a strong tendency to
com raising in the Sheyenne valley.
The Fargo Business Mems union
viii consider the advisability of aid
ing the fund to keep the university
open. A representative of Grand
Forks will attend the meeting.
\ Wahpeton man had some house.
l5ld goods shipped and when he
SvFf,fus tus t,Jtnr,S fNes cer faYyuffs fl,,.r,o
tramps i'll possession arranging the
bedding for comforta bic nights
sleep.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-05-11

Yankton, s. D.. May 8. - DR.. J. A.
Potter, an old settler, dropped dead
this morning while operating his lawn
mower. He was in the early days In
dian agent at Ponca agency and may
or Of Yankton, and later steward Of
the state insane asylum.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-05-11
Killed by Cars.

wabasha, Mimi, May 9.-The body
of an unknown man was found this
morning near the depot, supposed
from papers found on the body, to
have been T. Cockroft Of Milwaukee.
He evidently was killed by cars while
trying to steal ride.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-05-11
B0TTNEAU, BOTTNEAU COUNTY, ID,

Petitions to Gov. Allin are being
cssculated asking the civil rights Of
Henry Van Beck of Emmons county
Ks restored. Mr.. Van Beck was form
erly county commissioner in Enmons
and was convicted of bribery.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-05-11
Gov. Turney Inaugurated.

Nashville, Tenn, May 9. - To-day
Gov. Turney was inaugurated in the
hall of representatives, which was
festooned with bunting and decorated
with plants and flowers for the oc-
casion. A large attendance from
neighboring towns was present.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-05-11
ack.on,s Church Damaged.

0Ck8On'N Churcn Ddm0BeU.
Nashville, Tenn, May 0.-The little
historic church built by Gen. Andrew
Jackson and his wife near the hermit
age in 1923, was badly damaged by a
storm yesterday. A tree was blown
upon 1t, crushing in the roof, and the
interior was badly damaged by water,
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-05-11
Ito at the Foo.

Che Foo, May 9.-Count Ito, presi-
dent of the Japanese council Of min
listers, arrived here to-day In order to
ifications Of the treaty Of peace.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-05-11

DFOwned Under the Logs.
Black River Falls, Wis, May "a
six-year-old child named Roy Hall fell
into the river to-day while playing on
the logs and was drowned. The body
has not yet been recovered, as it went
under a log jam.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-05-11
Help Needed.

Newton, Kan, May 0.-Twenty-five
families rendered homeless by last
Wednesdays cyclone are badly In
need Of help.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-05-11
Crisp i'm North Carolina.

Cr1ep IN NOrtn CuFONnW'
Asheville, N. c., May 9.-Ex-Speak-
er Charles F. Crisp arrived in this city
to-day. He is expected to remain here
several weeks for the benefit of his
health.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-05-11
Oscar Wilde at Liberty.

Oscar Wilde at Liberty.
London, May 9-Oscar Wilde was re-
leased on bail to-day. after furnishing
a personal bond for $12,5OO and two
sureties in $6,25O each.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-05-11
Sunday, May 5.

~ sunday, May ..
Jamestown has a bicycle club with
tHrty-ive wheclmen.
At the gopher hunt at Dunseith
300 of the pests were killed.
rhe receiver of Lloyds' bank. in
Jamestown. has accepte $4,000 from
l Mex. Lloyd of Pittsburg, and set
nH the case against him.
The old Aslesen 4 Hult -four mill
- Fargo, SO long idle, has been
Isrchased by Scott, Richie & Co.,
WAC will put it in operation at once.
North Dakota has been invaded by
q female knight of the grip"-her
nfme Is Miss Ella NJ. Henley, and she
MSresents a st. Louis vinegar house
-Afut one wouldn't think it to look
OK her. She is bicyclist and wears
bbomers.
Hugh Cork has resigned his posi-
titn as Sunday school missionary in
North Dakota to take effect immedi-
ately after the state Sunday school
cohvention. Following that he will
Put in forty days in South Dakota,
and with that work completed will
pc open to engagements.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-05-11
Wednesday, May 1.

Fargo clerks are organizing a ten
hour-day movement.
All persons found intoxicated in the
State of North Dakota after July
next will be subject to fine OF from
$5 to $25, or Imprisonment in the
county jail until the fine is worked out
at the magnificent sum of 81 per day.
Col. Haight has gone East to ''in-
tervene" for a settlement Of the
Jamestown Lloyds bank affairs.
Secretary Smith has approved the
selection of 1874 acres of land in the
Grand Forks district for school in
demnity purposes.
Larimore's new principal Of schools
is B. f. Hoover a brother of the form
er principal, who has accepted a simi-
lar position at Casselton.
Prof. Shawkey of Hillsboro has
been elected professor in the Mon
tana university.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-05-11
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE STATE.
Condensed Record Of the Impor'
tant Happenings OF the Week In
North Dakota,
Tuesday, April 80.


Ramsey county sold $4,000 refund
ing bonds at high figure. ...
Fessenden had stabbing affray
last week.
Special Agent A. w. Stiles is In
vestigating land entries in the Devils
Lake district.
Ex-Secretary of State Flittie Is Wis
iting at his old Traill county home al
ter an extended Honolulu trip.
Emerado will have monster
Fourth of July celebration this year,
having raised $1,000 rs a starter, and
outside towns will be invited to as
sist. -.
A. Van Horn of Bismarck has Sc
cured a contract for the furnishing OF
building materials for the Indian de-
partment at Standing Rock. The con-
tract amounts to about $4,000.
Large quantities of ties are being
shipped to the end of the Harlem
branch of the Milwaukee road, In
Sargent county, it is said preparatory
to extending the branch to Lisbon, a
distance Of fifteen miles, to connect
with the Northern Pacific.
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to the other. All. the low re-
gions Of Holland are network
of artificial waterways, along
which float vessels bearing all sorts of
town goods to the country and all varie-
ties of country produce to the towns.
These artificial waterways are of every
size, from the huge ship canal that con-
meets Amsterdam with the ocean to the
branch country canal six or eight feet
wide, that was constructed because
some country town wanted to give it.
self airs over its neighbours; but all are
alike in one respect, in that all are COW
cred with boats, sometimes drawn by a
horse, sometimes by n horse and Il COW,
sometimes by man, or man harness
ed up with n dog or steer or donkey.
Small steamboats, are also employed,
but only on the larger canals; on the
smaller, some form ofanimal locomOtion
is almost universal. The canal, in short,
is an acknowledged feature of Hol-
land, and Amsterdam, Rotterdam and
other cities on or near the coast are as
much brides of the sea as Venice. In
Amsterdam, for instance, the gondolier
and his song are the only things lack
ing TO make the city Northern Venice,
and these are supplied by boatmen,
who work and sing not, but get their
passengers to the appointed destination
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CANAL TRANSPORTATION.

dation Of bort. High water in the
River Meuse occurred simultaneously
with high tide. The dixie gave way,
and 100000 people persisted. In 1870
there was another failure of these de-
lenses against the sea. Heavy rains,
high water in the rivers, high tides.
and strong winds came together, and
the dikes seemed TO melt away in a
hundred places at once. All the low
country was inundated and the drown
ed numbered more than 100000. There
never were more frightful disasters,
and that they are remembered in Hol-
land is proved by the zeal with which
the dikes are kept up and the interest
shown in them not only by the state,
but by every citizen.
In such n country the problem Of
drainage becomes of the first impor-
lance. Lying, as most Of it does, at a
lower level than that of the sea, n nat
ural drainage is impossible, and re-
course must be had to artificial means
The extent to which this system of arti-
ficially carrying off the rainfall as well
as the water that insensibly percolates
through the giant barriers that have
been raised can be appreciated only
by an actual inspection of the huge
pumps that are provided for the pur-
pose Of raising and sending off the
superfuous water. When the Haar-
lem Lake was drained an enormous
steam engine was constructed for the
purpose of working eleven great
pumps, each Of sixty three inches In
diameter and ten-foot stroke, and in
actual work these pumps discharged
sixty-six tons of water at every stroke.
For four years the pumping went
steadily on, or from May, 1S4S, to July,
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Record of the Week.

The Allen Sanitarium at Flint was
burned. Loss, $4,000.
Eighteen horses near White Cloud have
died from cold and privation.
Isaac Vanderpool was crushed to death
by falling tree near Mayvile
Countcrfeiting thcater passes is the lat
est pastime of an Adrian dude.
Ann Arbor ministers have declared
unanimously against church taxation.
Marlette is talking water works since
the fire they had there a couple of weeks
ago.
A Lenawee County district schoolmarm
has indited 5G-page letter, all about her
best fellow.
A Clinton minister married three cou'
pies within two hours, and yet they call
these hard times.
A teapot burst in Dennis Mahoney's
house at Muskegon and fatally scalded
his 3-year-old child.
Hagensvillc. Presque Isle County, has
but sixty inhabitants, of whom eight are
justices of the peace.
James Norn's saw mill ut Standsh
Arenac County. burned. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, one-third.
The Grand Rapids Salvation army adj
yertises musical billiards." as an induce
ment for the unholy to come in and be
saved.
A Grand Rapids driver who wanted TO
get rid of Il kid squrted mouthful of
tobacco into his face. Bystanders nearly
mobbed the fellow.
An Antrim County man, by the death of
his wife, was Frustrated with grief. He
said il cost him $50 cash for her new
teeth only week before she died.
Poor Morrice. A short time ago she
voted for prohibition. and now the water
wells are going dry, while COWS that once
gave two or three quarts day give none.
Manager Hawks, of the Detroit and
Mackinaw, says the engines of the road
may use wood instead Of coal, so as TO
furnish a market for wood along the line.
-Four of the six dry goods stores of Adj
rian have been visited by fire within the
past year, and the ladies have been get
ting wet dry goods ALFRED cheap over
there.
At White Cloud the ground is frozen
solid TO depth of five feet and nine
inches. Small water mains are all frozen.
Fifty Benton Uarbor young men and
women students of Benton Harbor Col
legc INDUCED in rush in chapel that end
ed in riot and general hand-to-hand con-
fict. -Four seniors were summarily sus-
pended.
Nathaniel Rice, sheriff of Kent County,
died of typhoid fever after three weeks
illness. Mr.. Rice was elected on the Re
publican ticket last fall and had held the
Office less than two months. He was u
wealthy farmer.
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most fastidious man or woman could
take no exception to the energy and
zeal with which every detail of the
house is attended to, for the closest
scrutiny fails to reveal spot that has
not been scrubbed and soaped and
sanded and polished until it shines.
At the same time, however, ii should
be understood that while this craze
for cleanliness is obvious and honest,
Ii is not In the least intelligent. The
houses are built in the most insanitary
manner, without the slightest regard
to modern principles Of construction
or drainage, and from cracks In the
floor there often issue odors always Of
fensive, sometimes very dangerous.
Amste. lam has been q city ever since
the year 100, and how much longer
there is no means of knowing. Rotter-
dam is ut least as old, and claims to be
older, and the filth Of 500 years forms
the ground on which both are built.
When 1t is remembered that only within
the latter half of the present century
have the laws of sanitation been prop
erly understood and intelligently ap-
piled, the condition of such dense CEN
tiers of population as the towns of Hol-
land can be better understood. Under
a tropical sun, contagious and infec-
tious disease would never be absent,
and tina plague such rs cholera make
only occasional visits, Is due apparently
to luck, since intelligent precautions
seem to have nothing to do with the
mnttpr
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regulations against the throwing OF any
Kind Of offal or refuse matter into the
canals, but to Judge from the smell Of
the small canals. the back alley water
ways, many bucket of kitchen stuff
must be surreptitiously emptied out or
the back windows as the easiest way or
getting rid of II. The canals are daily
flushed by the tide but the tide flows
IN as we'll as out, and th' )efuse that
goes out with the ebb Oft comes back
with the flow. The cou fy canals are
free from foreign inn fities, but the
water they contain Of necessity,
stagnant water, an(fn the heat OF a
summer sun often becomes almost I'M
endurablc. In the stagnant waters OF
the city and country the germs of choi-
era or of almost any other disease
might exist unsupported, and If, as some
scientists assert, cold not greater
.han that necessary TO freeze water
does not destroy their vitality, 1t is
possible they may exist for years, until
favorable circumstances bring about
their development. 1t is hard, indeed,
to tell how long disease germs may lin
ger In the earth.
In A. ID. so, a frightful plague pre-
vailed at Rome. over 10000 persons
Gled daily for three weeks. 1t was i'm
possible to burn the dead, so large
trenches were made in an open space
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just az surely as though every stroke of
the oar was accompanied by q rhyme
from Tasso. Amsterdam is, In fact, q
city of canals. The town Is built on
about ninety islands, which, by the ar
tificial waterways, are cut up into all
sorts of sizes and shapes, and on them
are buiided thousands upon thousands
of queer old houses, some, perhaps
most of them, dating back to the time
when the burghers banded themselves
together TO overthrow the Spanish rule.
In the matter of canals, Rotterdam
and a dozen other cities Of the coast
are exactly like Amsterdam, while all
over the country dampness and mois-
ture are the rule. Situated on one of
the most inclement coasts in Europe,
wind from almost any direction comes
laden with moisture, which settles on
every object, so that during half the
year and q large part of the other half
the walls of the houses, both within and
without, the woodwork, and even the
domestic utensils, feel damp and clam
my. To people who have been accus-
toned TO different climate, such per-
sistent dampness is very hard to bear,
and even the natives, accustomed as
they are to much moisture, suffer from
II, for diseases such as rheumatism,
consumption and others induced by
the climate. are very common.
But the never-ccasing dampness has
another unfavorable feature, which, to-
gether with the fiat and depressed
country and the innumerable canals,
render Holland peculiarly liable to such
n disease as cholera. Ii is generally
understood that Dutch housewives arc
the neatest people on the earth. The
housekeepers of other nations may be
neat from principle; with the Dutch
neatncss has become a mania. A Hol-
land housewife is never so happy as
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population I'm such a place Is found
nowhere else In the world, and when II
Is remembered that these low-lying
countries have always been thickly set
tied, the statement that the ground on
which they live Is a mass of putridity
can be easily understood. In n soil
clogged with the refuse of ages, any
sort of pestilence may Turk, and In view
of the dampncss, the canals and the
impurities of built-up grounds, the ron
der is not that cholera stays in such n
locality, but that ii can ever be forced
out.
The Netherlands form the western
end of the vast plain that crosses Eu-
rope from the east to west. From 100
to 200 miles in width, it has no eleva-
ton greater than 800 feet until the
foothills of the Ural Mountains are
reached. In Holland the plain reaches
the sea and really sinks below the sea
level, for the greater part Of this sin
gular country is lower than the level
even of the lowest tides, and Is kept
from overflow only by constant vigil
ldHCc, uHltliitlihS tNIi'ioi diiu ip
eral outlay of money. The dixie system
of Holland is Of an antiquity so great
that history does not mention its be-
ginning The Roman invaders of this
country in the century before the
Christian era found q system of arti-
fetal sea walls in use, perhaps not
very extensive, nor very efficient, but
nevertheless sufficient to meet ordinary
emergencies, and from that time to this
there never has been a year during
which the Hollanders were not looking
after their bikes, except one. The
worlds history records no more des-
perate cXpedient than that adopted by
William the Stakeholder, who resolved
to cut the bikes and let in the sea, rath-
er than submit TO the French invaders,
but the device was entirely successful;
the French army was literally drowned
out of the country. and the Hollanders
remained victors though retaining soy
ereignty Of only watery waste. Every
other year the bikes have been watch
ed with scrupulous care. Day and
night watchmen patrol their whole
length with keen eyes, for the tiniest
leak would, in few hours, become
crevasse that no earthly power could
stop. A break would mean the inunda-
ton Of thousands Of acres, the blot
ting out Of thousands of lives. There
have been several such breaks. In
1924 there was one famous as the mum
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Delaney Got Left.

The other day County Clerk Cook, at
Flint, issued Il license to Michael Delaney,
Vienna township farmer, to wed Kate
Dunn. of Montrose. Next day Seymour
A. Willard, also of Montrose, appeared
before the county clerk and asked for II
marriage license. Mr.. Cook was COM
pletely surprised when be heard the name
of the wOuld-be bride. 1t was rumored
that there was hitch as to whom the
marriage ceremony would be performed
by, and Katie said if she could not have
her say there would be n marriage any
way. Others assert it was Il race be-
tween the two lovers to see which would
get the prize. Anyhow, Millard got the
girl
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old graveyard, the earth was upturned
n considerable depth in the heat of
summer, and almost instantly the
plague broke out among the laborers
employed in the work. For fifteen
centuries the disease germs had re-
NAMED alive In the earth and became
active as soon as exposed.
The population of both Holland and
Belgium is denser, and always has
been. The area of Holland is 12,G4S
square miles; and the population in
1892 was 4,56i,565 Belgium is small
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NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY
CONDENSED.
Pitiabie Fate of "A Little Jackson Girl
Port Huron May Pay for "A Defective
Walk Marshall Keeps a Case Ont of
Court.
"Looking for Mamma"

The 4-year-old daughter of Frederick
Levengood. who lives on the Clinic road.
just outside of Jackson, was fatally burn
cd Saturday morning. Just how the acct
dent occurred is not known. Mrs. Leyen-
good was temporarily absent ut the time
ministering To the wants of sick neigh
Dor, but il is believed the child's clothing
caught fire from a spark from the stove.
The child's clothing was burned com
pletely from her body and she was in a
frightful condition, not an inch of her
tender form escaping from the relentless
flames: When the mother returned she
met the injured child, hand-in-hand with
a younger sister, looking for mamma"
The child cannot survive her injuries.