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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-01-24

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city, and feeling some doubt when w.
start out as TO where you will have Won,
mail sent, | have had part OF my ol'ss.
fitted up for your accommodating ~
invite YOU cordially to make use az +
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initial rack for Your convenience. / ~
tend TO you. one and all, whether yaa
stay day or longer. a most cordial nj.
come. and assure you that IL you dssirs
10 accept my offer, that your mail Mi ~
taken care OF. and you will have soss
place. for your headquarters during yoar
stay in our city,"
Sherwood Gillespie expects within shs
next few days TO receive for his agency
OF the Mutual Life Insurance Comparr
OF New York silver loving Gun. Each
of the districts of the company VIII r..
ceive one of these silver souvenirs. which
viii be presented 20 the solicitor who has
secured the greatest amount OF naid-un
business for 1896. up TO December Il, IN
this district the cup was won by Thomas
Strobridge, of Portland. The trophy i
more than seven inches high and is H.
trinsic value is $50.
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DAILY BULLETIN

U. 3. DEPARTMENT AGRICULTURE
WEATHER BUREAU.
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N ARITlME RECORD.

FORECAST FOR SUNDAY.
Portland. Or, Jan. 5. 1897.
Rain or snow: stationary temperature.
B. s. PAGUE, Forecaster.
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Smoke the Footlight and Trafalgar Ia,
yana-filled nickel cigars.
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Seattle, Wash. Jan. %. 1897.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16
Col. Thayer's Version of 1t.

In accordance with earlier dispatch
es in which we have announced that
wedding bells would soon chime out,
upon the pure ozone of our fair and
Queenly City, we now proclaim to the
worlds wide space that cupids darts
has bound the hearts OF two OF our
most esteemed citizens and now two
hearts beat as one. In the Grand
March of Human Progress Dame
Rumor has announced that, at the
city Of Grand Forks, on Tuesday,
March Both, 1897, were married Rev.
w. II. Whidden and Miss Matte A.
Burns, botl: Of Aneta, North Dakota.
Thus in life's voyage two souls have
launched their bark out on the sea of
welded bliss. May their craft ever
float upon a calm and pacific sea and
when summer suns may ever shine
with it's etfulgent rays and may the
star of hope ever be their guide and
may fame and honor hang upon their
will. May heart breathe to heart
tho sev'red wide and the lamp of
love shine thro' the quill and there the
fires of Genius Glide.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16
Ex- President Harrison's Sue
cess as an Author.

Ex-President Harrison will conclude
his series of papers on life in the
White House in the May Ladies' Home
Journal, and take u respite from his
literary lahol's which have SO profit
ably and congenially occupied him
for more than q year. General Har-
rison is the first president to show the
public through the White House, sup.
stairs, downstairs" etc., and to de-
tail the presidents daily routine, and
the social and domestic phases OF life
in the executive mansion. He is also
the first chief magistrate to crystallize
his knowledge and the experience
gained as chief executive in u series
of lucid, instructive and interesting
magazine articles On the functions of
our government, such as were ''This
Country OF Ours' papers.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16

The Tower City people held a
meeting last week to try and
vote for new postmaster at that
place. AS is usual on such occa-
sions the people who voted the
opposition ticket wanted to die
tate to the republicans who
should be postmaster and the
meeting resulted in anything but
harmony and was adjourned un-
til June 1st without deciding
upon candidate. The proper
way for the republicans of Tower
City to do is to get together
quietly by themselves and select
a man for the position and recon-
mend him for appointment and
let the other fellows kick.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16

Congressman johnson is one
of the most prominent and hard
working representatives in our
lower house of congress. He
weilds more influence than any
other six western representa-
tives and is fully alive to the best
interests of the state. Ii our
populist friends would read the
congressional record they would
see our congressman is strictly
in it. They polxed fun .at him
during the last campaign but he
is heaping GOALS of fire on their
heads by making fine record
for himself.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16

After congress promptly COM
ing TO the relief of the flood suf-
ferers a few of Fargo's business
men get together and refuse to
accept government aid. This is
a case of false modesty toour no.
ton. Ii those fellows who re
fused this aid get together and
subscribe from ten to twenty
Thousand dollars for the relief of
the flood sufferers it will be all
right. In our opinion Fargo
should have accepted the aid
offered and helped out those peo-
pie who have lost their all. It is
all right for people who can get
along without help to stand up in
a meeting and Indignantly refuse
generous offers of assistance, we
say it sound nice and looks well
in print, but it is not a practical
way of looking at matters. Fargo
generally does the right thing,
however, and will no doubt get
right to the front with her own
funds for the relief of her suffer-
ers.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16

in the native land. The Americans of
Hawaii are loyal.and patriotic sons of
the fatherland, and it would be cruel
and undeserved fate to abandon them
to the rule of some foreign power.
Four times in its past history a for
eign flag other than that of the United
States has aoated over the islands
first the Russian, then the French,
afterwards the British, and again the
French. Anyone of these powers
would gladly assume sovereignty
again, and to them is to be added as
a menace the rising power of Japan.
The islands should be admitted, not
as a state, but as a part of the terri
tory of the United States, to be organ
lied in such manner as congress in it's
wisdom may determine. We have al
ready three forms of territorial gov
ernment under authority of congress
in the district of Columbia. in the
organized territories and in Alaska.
One of these may be applied to Hawaii
or a new one substituted. Under
whatever form of government, doubt
less, to the native Hawaiians and
those of America and European
origin would be granted the right of
suffrage under proper conditions; and
to the Asiatics would be applied the
existing prohibitive laws of the United
States as to naturalization and immi-
grafton, which would lead them gradu-
ally to return to their own countries.
AS a rule, l do not believe in the
extension OF our territory beyond our
present ocean limits. 1 think we
should develop within our own do
mains q great English-speaking ma
ton, controlled by the principles
marked out for us by the fathers of
the republic. But it is precisely be-
cause want to see a great and power-
full nation-much greater and more
powerful than the one we now have
developed on the continent that hail
the opportunity now offered of secur-
ing this outpost of our Pacific from
tier. and thus protecting for all time
our future mighty commerce and
rapidly growing interests on that
coast from the encroachments of the
great powers striving for ascendancy
in that quarter of the globe.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16

Our democatic exchanges seem
to be tickled to death because
Chicago elected a democratic
mayor and they begin to figure
out a democratic victory in the
next election. It takes a mighty
small matter to tickle some folks
evidently and if this Chicago
victory pleases the dems we are
glad of it. Our democratic con-
temporaries don't seem to re-
member anything about St. Louis
electing a republican mayor.
They should not overlook this in
their childish glee over the Chi
cago victory. Municipal cleo
tions cut no figure. boys. They
are mostly governed by local is
sues.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16
couRrENAY ITEMS.

The snow has been melting quite
rapidly around here and the farmers
are preparing for spring work.
John Knauf, of jamestown, was
here Wednesday on business.
About twenty families from Wiscon-
sin are expected here shortly to locate
around Courtenay.
DR.. Burch, after spending the winter
here, left last Wednesday to accept
position on the road for an eastern
surgical Implement house,
The many friends of DR.. A. T..
Mouse. who visited with us for sever
al weeks last fall. will be delighted to
hear lie is now located in Courtenay.
He has fitted up an office in the drug
store where he will be glad to see them.
The town feels it is to be congratu-
lated i'll securing q physician whom
seven years of hospital work and five
OF military practice has so we'll quail
neu w 'ie'SC olsease, OF perform any
surgical operations. e4
Several farmers have had to walk
in from 10 to IL miles as the roads
We're impossible for teams.
p. d. Walsh has completed an ice
house, which he is filling for his SUM
mer use.
II. NJ. w.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16

calls for. They do not exclude pro-
posed juror for having formed an
opinion, provided he appears to be
willing to change it to conform to the
evidence. This rule should he uni
versally adopted, for the conditions
nave changed since the old rule was
set up. Then scarcely anybody read
anything concerning current events,
for the newspaper was unknown.
Now all the men who are fit to sit on
a jury read the papers and as we have
said, they form conditional opinion
AN opinion that is modified in one
or the other direction by every scrap
of additional Information touching
the matter.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16
County Fair.
COURIER

EDITOR COURIER
At a meeting called together to
discuss the advisability of holding
fair for Griggs and Steele counties
where Mr.. Jack Mills acted as chair
man and A. Ell. Berg as secretary, it
was estimated that the cost for erect
ing a building for the grain and pro-
duce exhibits, tie stalls for cattle, and
pens, etc., would be about $3.50. A
suitable building can undoubtedly be
had in town where the fancy work can
be shown 1t was decided that the
membership fee in the fair association
be 50, which entities the member to
free admission to all the exhibits of
the fair for himself and family or
sweetheart as the case may be. The
outlay will be comparatively small
and [ think that two dollars cannot
be spent any better either for pleasure
or learning. BY taking a day or two
in getting together and talk over mat
ters, listen to hints and suggestions
and looking over the exhibits it will
broaden our view on many things and
wei may in several instances learn more
in one day than we otherwise would
in e year. 1t is the intention to make
the venture principally a farmers
fair. Lists soliciting members will be
circulated at once and we confidently
believe that interest enough will, be
taken in the matter to give the associ.
alton members enough to give us3a
fair next fall.
A. H. BERG.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16

The populist and free silver
papers are singing paeans Of joy
over the Carter Harrison victory
in Chicago, but they have very
little to say about Rhode Island.
The sturdy little state held an
election early this month and
elected the republican candidate
for governor by a plurality Of
1896, which is 2,40O more than
the republican plurality in the
gubernatorial election of 1896. 1t
is $500 greater than the re-
publican plurality in 1895, and
more than double the republican
plurality Of 1894.
The Chicago election was a
municipal election which turned
almost entirely upon local issues.
The Rhode Island election was
a state election into which nation
al politics largely entered. Rhode
Island is a manufacturing state,
and the tariff was naturally the
prominent issue. The result of
the election is an emphatic in
dorsement of the republican
tariff policy embodied in the
Dingley bill. Rhode Island. in
common with other manufacture
ing states. has suffered to the
full the blow inflicted upon
American industries by the Will
-Gorman bill, and seizes
every opportunity to vote for a
change. In this voting they
fairly represent the 5000. 900
wage workers of the nation who
are dependent for employment
upon the industries which the
republican party proposes to
protect Minneapolis Tribune.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16

situated. At one point there was q
water-mill and another ut Sturgeon
creek, eight miles up the Assiniboine,
built by Mr.. McDermott, very
wealthy and enterprising Irish citizen
who came out to the colony in 1872.
Each settler had frontage of six
chains upon the river and extending
back two miles, in depth. Only a
small part of this, however. was culti-
waited. -ee-sFts
The settlers raised wheat, oats,
potatoes, barley, cattle and sheep.
Oxen were worth from $50 to $50 a
yoke; COWS from sl2 to S15, and q
horse trained to hunt buffalo would
bring 1925 or more. The wheat was
declared to be equal to any in the
world as it weighed from IS to 20
pounds to the bushel.
The Red river settlements mentioned
were originally projected by Lord
Selkirk, a Scottish nobleman, largely
interested in the Hudson's Bay Co.
They held a large tract of land by
charter from the British crown. OF
the company sellSirk made large
purchase, brought over the first colo
ny in 1913 and remained with them
twelve months. Another accession
was made in 1917 and another in 1923.
The settlements increased and flour
ished for a time, but the floods of
ls24-5-6 produced such general distress
that many of the most wealthy and in
Auential citizens left and settled else
where. A party of German Swiss
from Geneva and that vicinity, speak,
ing the French language, settled at
Gratiot's Grove, Illinois. The Scotch
settlers OF 1917 largely emigrated to
Illinois, also.-Alert
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16

Ex-Secretary of State John w.
Foster in an address before a
meeting of the American Geo.
graphical Society at Washington
recently, put forth some strong
arguments for the annexation of
Hawaii. His address was found
ed on facts CLEANED by personal
study of the conditions existing
on the island, showing its value
to the United States, and the fact
that it must soon come under the
dominion of this country or be
seized by some of the ambitious
eastern powers. In closing his
address he says:
It is today virtually an American
colony. The paramount influence is
American. In no part of the United
States is there more intense loyalty
shown to our country and it's institu-
tions. During our civil war Hawaii
contributed much more than it's quota
of Americans to maintain the union.
Every year the Fourth of July is cele-
brated with much enthusiasm by a
public meeting in Honolulu. On De-
coration day the post of the grand
army of the republic repairs to the
cemetery to keep green the memory of
the soldiers who lie buried there.
Thanksgiving day is annually OBJ
served with even more solemnity than
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16
EARLY DAv FLOODS.

That the present high water through
out the valley of the Red will result
in late seeding seems to be undoubted
unless there is more than the usual
amount of drying weather. The re-
cords in regard to previous floods,
taken as guide, indicate late seeding
but not necessarily poor crops.
In 1S49-50-51 the Red River rose 81
and 33 feet above low water mark and
flooded the valley almost it's entire
length. The only settlements in what
is now North Dakota were then in the
vicinity of Pembina, and across the
line at the Selkirlz settlements in
British America. At the junction of
the Red and Pembina rivers the set
tiers houses were flooded to depth
OF one and three feet. Mr.. Kittson
was then in charge of the trading post
at Pembina and the high water COM
PEELED him to leave and live upon the
hills for more than month in the
spring of 1850. The heaviest floods
known in the country then occurred in
lS24-25-26. The last year the waters
rose &c feet in height and the whole
country was completely drowned out
and a large party left Selkirk in con-
sequence. When Governor Ramsey,
Minnesota's first governor, visited
that part of the Red River valley in
1851 as a commissioner to treat with
the Indians for land grant, he found
no farming at all done at Pembina.
He was. obliged to send,to Selkirk for
barley for the horses. The summer
after the flood it was cold and wet up
to Aug. II and it was feared the en-
tire crops would be lost. The weather
then fortunately changed and for a
month was very fine and warm. The
grain all ripened and the yield was
large, the wheat yielding from 20 to
% bushels per acre, and the barley
from 35 to 40. Spring wheat was
sown about the 20th of May and bar
ley from the 1st to the 5th of June.
At the time of Governor Ramsey's
visit to Pembina barley was worth Is
cents a bushel at the Selkirk settle
ments and cost $3.50 laid down in
Pembina. Its usual price when there
was no extra demand was about fifty
cents. The Hudson Bay Co. paid IS
cents a bushel for wheat the year
round: butter and eggs, sixpence;
meat, fourpence; -four, 50 to $5 per 100
pounds, according to kind, three of
which were made.
The people reveled in abundance, it
was declared. At that time the Eng
lish and Scotch settlers extended
along both sides of the Red river from
the Assiniboine to lower Ft. Garry, 20
miles below. This was the best post
of the settlement. Eighteen windmills
were scattered along the west bank,
upon which this lengthy, serpentine
village of six thousand people was
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16

Jerry Simpson. of Kansas,
undertook the job of taking a fall
out of Speaker Reed the other
day and as a consequence he has
wondered who threw that brick
ever since. Mr.. Reed is too
brainy a person for Soclless
Jerry to monkey with,
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16

The airship is creating quite a
sensation all over the country and
press dispatches announce that
the airship has been dodging in
the heavens all over Minnesota.
So far it has let North Dakota
severely alone which is probably
accounted for by the fact that
this is prohibition state.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16

It is reported that Deputy
Land Commissioner Walter r.
Gushing has purchased the
Cavalier County Republican.
Mr.. Gushing is an old hand in
the newspaper business and
swings a ready faber. He will
made the Republican newsy
paper.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16

Some of the Devils Lake edi-
tors seem to let their jealousy of
Senator Hansbrough get the best
of their good judgment. Give
the senator just criticism for his
official actions. boys, but don t
bring up personal dislike into the
deal.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16
GOOD LAWS.

The State legislatures that have
recently been Or are now in session
have passed but small number of
really wise and necessary measures.
says the Washington Post, and have
wasted much time in considering
many inexpedient and not few harm
full propositions. Fortunately for the
people of the states, dependent, in
large measure. for their progress
upon these law-making bodies, about
all of the worst class of bills have
been defeated, measures calculated to
drive capial out Of a state and to dis
Courage enterprise have, as IL rule,
been voted down, and various pro-
posed evasions of private rights and
absurd restrictions on personal liberty
have shared the same fate Even in
populist Legislative bodies an expected
conservatism has been manifested,
showing that the lessons of experience
have not been entirely lost to that
party.
AS a sample of the wisest and most
progressive legislation that the winter
has produced in any part of the coun-
try, we select all act passed by the
solons of North Dakota. 1t is a law
providing that no person shall be dis
qualified as a juryman because of
having expressed or formed an opin-
ion foun ded on newspaper rumors or
reports. This act will improve the
character of juries in that state by
rendering it possible to secure intel
ligent citizens for jury duty. The
plain fact is that every person who
reads the newspapers has formed an
opinion on any and every important
criminal case: but no intelligent per-
son ever has an opinion Of such a
case that is fixed beyond the power to
change. "If the facts are as stated
in the newspapers or by common
rumor," the intelligent citizen thinks,
'sthe accused is guilty" But his
mind is in receptive condition, and
if the evidence disproves reports and
establishes a reasonable doubt, he is
ready to acquit.
The law requires that a case shall
be decided according to the evidence
presented to the jury. The more in
telligent the juror, the greater his
capacity for freeing his mind from all
extraneous influences and applying
to case none of the reports or
rumors that he may have heard. An
innocent defendant has less to fear
from intelligence than from ignorance
and stolidity in the jury box. tits
the guilty man-almost invariably
whose counsel tries to sift out the bet
ter class of citizens drafted for jury
service, and gets as. many ignorant
men as possible among the twelve who
are to try his client. The laws of all
states give to persons charged with
crime all the advantages that are con-
sistent with safety of society. To per-
NIT the lawyers to shut out reading
men and fill the jury boxes with men
of 80 low an intellectual grade that
they neither read or think. is 81 policy
calculated to foster crime and create
disrespect for the courts and other
costly instrumentalities for the dis
pensation of justice.
In the district of Columbia and
some of the states. it has long been
the practice of the courts to do sub
stantially what this North Dakota law
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16

Col. Dan Lamont, who used to
be private secretary to President
Cleveland, is to be the new presi-
dent of the Northern Pacific rail
road. The colonel is lucky in
catching onto fat jobs.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16

The Grand Forks Herald still
insists that there is machine
that needs smashing. Maybe
the machine would be all right if
George had his hand on the lever.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-04-16
Briggs Courier.
PERCY r. TRUBsHAw.
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.

1t is about time for the sea
serpent to make it's appearance.
The airship has been having an
inning lately.