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Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-05-07
Premiums For Good Farming.

In view of the experiments being
made with the Campbell system of soil
culture it will undoubtedly be of in
terest to the farming community along
the line of the Northern Pacific rail-
way to know that the Campbell Pub
fishing Company of Sioux City, Ia,
offer the following liberal cash premi-
ums for the largest yield of wheat,
oats and barley grown on the square
rods of ground, under the Campbell
method of soil culture, which consists
simply in the thoroughly tineing and
firming the soil at least eight inches
deep, then drilling or planting the
grain far enough apart to be cultivat-
ed during the growing season. They
will pay $40 cash for the largest yield
of wheat, $40 for the second largest,
s5 for the third largest, $3.50 for the
fourth, and 81 for the fifth. The same
premiums are offered on oats and
barley. They offer further line OF
premiums for the largest stool OF
wheat containing the largest number
of grains grown from one seed; for the
largest stool $40; for the second larg.
est S5; for the third largest $3.50:
fourth largest ST.: fifth largest $3.50.
These same premiums are offered for
stools of oats and barley. A further
premium is offered to any person that
may succeed in winning auy three of
the above drst prizes. Commence
work at once and send to the Camp
bell Publishing Co. for sample copy
of Soil Culture with full particulars
and full instructions for work with
common tools with terms of competi-
tion. Try this. 1t may be worth
many times the prizes to you. Ac-
cording to the terms of the above offer
it is possible for one man to secure
$115 of these prizes.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-05-07

the east to buy their lumber,
wool, barley, wheat and potatoes
from the west rather than from
Canada. A development of the
lumber interests in the west
means that the home market for
our surplus agricultural products
will be extended. Go to with
your free white pine lumber
Times Record.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-05-07

An error is said to exist in the
wolf bounty law as printed in the
Popular Edition of the laws of
1897. AS originally drafted the
bill provided that a special tax be
levied upon live stock only to
create the wolf bounty fund, but
the bill was subsequently amend
ed so that the tax was laid upon
all real and personal property
and the levy reduced to one
tenth mill upon the dollar. The
law passed as amended.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-05-07
The Sherbrool1e Tribune say!

The Sherbrooke Tribune says
that George H. Iseminger, form
erly editor of the Hope Pioneer,
has decided to start a newspaper
at Finley. The Finleyites have
decided to go in for the county
seat and they will undoubtedly
put up a pretty stiff fight. Mr..
Iseminger has a host of friends
in Steele county who will be
pleased to see him locate among
them again.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-05-07

Mr.. Geo. w. Stevens, who
signs himself chairman of COM
mittee on free white pine lumber,
sends out a circular letter asking
the Times-Record to kick against
the tariff on pine lumber. The
pamphlet enclosed is headed
"Why Should There Be a Tariff
on Pine LUMBER" Accompany
ing is statement prepared by
the chief of the forestry division
of the department of agriculture,
which shows that there isn't
much pine left in Wisconsin,
Michigan and Minnesota. There
fore, the gentleman who sends
out the information thinks there
should be no tariff on pine. The
Times-Record favors protection
to American industries whereso-
ever located. If Maine and
Michigan, Wisconsin and Mime
sofa are getting short of white
pine, that is no reason why Ar
kansas and Louisiana, Texas and
Georgia should not supply the
deficiency with yellow pine e-nor
should the immense tracts of
pine, fir and cedar in the western
states be forced to compete with
the pauper pine of Canada.
Now this present tariff meas
ure is not exclusively and entire
~ drawn up in the interests of
the manufacturers of the east,
but embraces the whole country.
The lumbermen of the west and
south are as much component
part of this union as are the
manufacturers of New England.
The tariff on lumber will develop
that industry in the west after
the forests of the east are denud-
: ed. We are interested in the
west. We want the people of
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-05-07

I have and 4year old transplanted
Ash and Box Elder trees for sale. from
4 to feet high, suitable for setting
out on lots and lawns. Inquire of
John Benson at Whidden's. Coopers-
town or H. Arestad, Hannaford.
SVEN LIMA,
Hannaford.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-05-07

The country is patiently wait
ing for the United States senate
to do something with the tariff
bill. The senate should take the
house of representatives as a
model and do business. There
are times when patience ceases
to be a virtue
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-05-07
BRIGGS Courier,
PHROY R. TRuBsHAw.
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER

The Courier has received Walt.
Cushing's Cavalier County Re-
publican, with request for an
exchange. We gladly place the
Republican on our exchange list,
Walter. The Republican bris ties
with spicy editorials-which
counts.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-05-07
F|NlAY GRANT
Editor of The North Dakotan
Dead.

fargo Argus:
Al 7.o'clocls Sunday morning Finlay
Grant died at his home on First
avenue south. He has been identified
with the journalism of the state for
the past ten years, and of Fargo for
the past six years, as editor, publisher
and proprietor of several papers, the
Edgely Mail, the Commonwealth. the
North Dakota Independent and the
North Dalsotan. He had thorough
knowledge OF the technical part of
newspaper work, but both by inclina-
tion and from the urgent entreaty of
q host of friends he was led to use the
press almost purely as an engine to
advance political reforms, for it was
as q political writer that his genius.
his active interest. and his training
preeminently fitted him and in that
field he has not in this state been ex-
celled. The populist party in North
Dakota has for years relied upon him
as its spokesman and has been as
sured that having him in the area of
debate its interests would be defended.
He leaves a wife and one child, Arlo.
a boy Of live years. His parents and
three brothers reside in the old home
at New Glasgow. Nova Scotia.
There are few men in the community
whose loss could be so deeply felt as
Finlay Grants, and few for whom the
general sum of affection had so sure
basis in universal respect and es-
TEEN. This is saying much for one
who had been in the thickest of the
fray where enmities are commonly en-
gendered and ani,nosities. aroused.
The city and the state feel the depriva-
tion of his presence and their keen
sympathy is with the family that is
bereft.
Finlay Grant was born at Sunny
Brae, Nova Scotia, Aug. 18th, 1862;
he was educated at New Glasgow, N.
S. He married Bertha York in
Boston, Mass, 1885, and the follow
ing year came to Fargo, establishing
the Commonwealth newspaper. Dur
ing the years '93 and '94 he was the
secretary of the state railway commits
sion. carrying in addition to the
duties OF that office a heavy burden of
editorial work on the North Dakota
Independent. In 1895 he established
the job. printing house in the partner
ship of Grant & Cook, and during the
'96 campaign founded the North Da-
kotan for the discussion of state and
national politics. His final illness
covered the past eight weeks, and was
typhoid in character at first with a
complication of a more dangerous
kind raising after the fever was abat-
ing. He was member of the Forest
ers and the A. o. U. W. He has been
especially active in the encouragement
of younger writer's through the Nation
al Amateur Press Association, of
which he was in earlier years presi-
dent. He was member of the State
Press Association and secretary of
the Populist State Central Committee
An Insane Man at Montpelie r
The residents of Montpelier and
vicinity have been troubled for several
days by an insane man who has been
wandering about at will. He is 4 tall.
heavy set laboring man, carries a
quilt, wears two overcoats and fears
reincarceration in the asylum where
he was once, he said. He was at
Montpelier Tuesday and then went
east to the farm of Henry Manns, four
miles distant, where he alarmed the
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-05-07
Investment of scoool Funds In
Farm Loans.

+ olux AO0IlS.
One of the most important laws
passed by the last legislature
was the bill introduced by Sen
ator Strom, providing that at
least one-fourth of the permanent
school fnnd shall be loaned each
year upon farm lands in North
Dakota, but in amounts not to ex-
ceed one-third of the value of the
property, to be determined by a
county board of appraisers. The
loans will bear 6 per cent inter
est and shall run not to exceed 10
years, and be paid in annual in
stallments of 10 per cent. The
lands must be worth not less
than $3.50 per acre, and the loan
cannot exceed 81, 600 on 100 acres,
no matter how great it's value.
The entire loan may be paid after
five years if the mortgagee so
selects.
The Scandinaven, published in
Chicago, speaking of this bill be-
fore it's passage by the legislature
and approval by the governor,
said:
!''The installment plan is es-
pecially a very good provision,
as it makes it very easy for a
farmer to pay up small loan,
and every installment paid makes
the security to the state that
much better every year. II
keeps the security continually
good. Simple and few as the
provisions of this bill are, they
may have a wide bearing. It
suggests way for q safe and
profitable investment of the diff
ferent permanent educational
funds of which the original
amount can never be used, but
must always be out at interest.
and it opens up chance for the
farmers to borrow small sums of
money on easy and profitable
terms.
Investment on long time in
good real estate security is the
best kind of investment for such
funds. On this plan the money
will be at home where it should
be, and will satisfy the demand
for money wanted. It is the
safest, most sensible, natural,
and in every way the most profit
able investment of such public
funds. If Strom's bill becomes
a law, every cent of North Dako-
ta's educational funds will be in
vested inside the boarder of the
state, where it ought to be, for
the benefit of its people.
Another subject Of said bill is,
| that it will give the farmers a
chance to borrow money on easy
and cheap terms. Looking at it
from that side, it will soon be
seen that it is very similar to the
plan called the ''hypothecat
bank'' borrowing system in Nor
way and other European coun-
tries, and if this bill should be-
come law the permanent edu-
cational funds would in reality be
converted into such an ':hypo-
thecat bank, - on small scale, as
the provisions for the loans and
the paying up OF the same are al
most the same as the rules and
regulations for the 'hypothecate
bank system, " so highly priced
and beneficial in the old coun-
tries.
Every farmer will soon discov-
er what advantage a loan on such
conditions would be to him, COM
pared with the old plan Of bor-
rowing money at a high rate of
interest, sometimes a commits
sion besides, and the whole
amount due at one time. These
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-05-07
Town Elec,ion.

With the exception of the fight. for.
there was no opposition to-
the ticket nominated last Saturday
night and eAerythin2 went off very
smoothly. ho opposing candidates
for marshal with their friends worked
all day and the preeent
incumbcnt, Anton Cil;s:i.,ilson, was
reelected ly IL handsome u,aioYity.s
demonstrating taat the people belisye.
i'll keeping. q good Office, when they
have one. One hundred and .:tty.
seven votes, wer's cast. The following;
are the otsi.nrs elected for the epsning:
Year:
Truslees: Il 4
JOHN SIVi!:5;)N,
SAMUEL san 5EU5n:S,.
j. G. FLYNN.
Clerk:
WILL. II. c4.l,3.i.1cN..
'rreasure&::
Il. w. BLAG1sWla.I..
Assessor:
JOHN u. Gl:,l1ig.
Marshal: ~,
ANTON CHRISTI AK ..;;,ssss.s..
,Justiu::
r. Z. WARNER.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-11-12
MORE ON TIN PATE.

II any further testimony is needed as 60
the creative power of n protective tariff TO
establish new industry today, as it
was powerful to do in the years Of our
nations beginning. such testimony Is
offered in a recent report made by Secre-
tary o. 'Beirne of the British ambassadors
staff In this country who has been look
ing into the development of American tin
plate as representative Of his govern
ment.
Mr.. O'Beirne says the tin plate indus
try in the United states dates practically
from the passage of the Mckinley at of
Oct I. 1890, at which time the United
States market was wholly supplied by
South Wales The production of tin and
terne plate developed rapidly under the
influence Of tho new tariff, the output
for tEo three wears ended June, 1892, 1893
and 1894 being, according to the estimate
13, 600. coo pounds 90, 900, 900 pounds, and
1S9, 000 600 pounds. respectively. Under
the Wilson law OF 1894, tho import duty
was red uced To 10 cents per pound or
only one-flfth of cent higher than the
ante Mckinley rate The industry, how
ever. was by this time firmly established
and continued TO develop, showing au
output of l93 600, 600 pounds and 307 >
o00, 900 pounds, respectively, for the years
ended June 1895 and 1895.
Mr.. O'Beirne cites figures to show that
the complete expulsion of British plates
from the United States market is re.
garded as only matter of time. lie
adds, however that the importation of
British plates with rebate OF duty by
American canned goods exporters, which
has formed very important branch of
the Welsh trade with the United States
in late years, is likely to remain us large
as ever.
We guess the tin plate discussion is
closed 90 far rs tho American free trade
advocates ara concerned 1t was "a vital
factor in the second election of Cleveland,
hut as Mr.. O'Breinc points out by the
time tho infamous Wilson German act
was put in operation the tin plate indus
try was already too firmly established to
bs ovcrthrown by that iniquity.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-11-12
FREE DELIVERY FOX THE FARMER

Except for the governments treasury
IL would evidently be good thing for oil
concerned II system OF fIee delivery and
collection Of mail WIRE put in operation
I'm tho couGtry districts.
BY authority of Congress the postofilce
department. has been making experiments
under all sorts Of conditions in twenty
nine states and with forty-four routes in
operation. The experiments have been
highly successful es demon strating the
feasibility of collection and delivery even
through mountainous and sparsely settled
districts. The farmers have cordially well
coined the experimental routes and have
done everything to facilitate the work OF
tie postoflic, agents As result IL is
quite likely that bill 20 establish per-
manent delivery routes through the coun.
try will be presented to Congress.
Anything like general establishment
Of such rural delivery is, however probably
out of the question for some years TO
come The postollioe department has an
annual anu growing deficit and though
this is in very large measure due 20
abuses of the governments service past
experience has Indicated that ID is imprac-
ticabe TO make "a better showing through
any changes that threaten reduction of
tho service that the people are accustomed
TO- ana. be it said, accustomed to abuse.
The postotllce officials would of course
not assume To say that rural free delivery
could b, generally undertaken except
at loss to the department
AT the same time il seems clear that
some steps are possible to develop the
service i'm the sections VIII ero good roads
exist aud where the population is net so
widely scattered as It Is in some regions
of the west ana south. Here I'm New Eng
land fer instance, free delivery could he
estsblisl @ in many country places with |
ont great expense even If no profit could
bc pected, and the public advantage is
evidently worth some cost to the govern
m3nt.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-11-12
HEROIC VlLLAlNY AN IMPOSSI.
BILITY.

II the revulsion from romanticlsm to
realism which has taken place i'm the
higher class of fiction could descend also
TO the lower,it would 90 far toward the
correction Of an influence baleful in the
extreme to thousands Of young lives. But,
unhappily, such reform is impossible in
the very nature Of things for i'm proper
tion rs fiction becomes true to life it takes
rank with the higher order, and thus
Iasses beyond the class of readers by
whom IL is most needed. For the evil in
fuence of low sensational literature the
newspaper must share the responsibility
with the cheap novel. A splendid villaip
Is always more interesting character
than a disgusting brute, so whatever
nature or fortune may have done to favor
criminal 10 usually grossly exaggerated.
If he happens to possess comeliness of
person, grace Of manner or intelligence
above tho common In his class. the public
Is usually regaled with rhapsodical
descriptions Of his beauty. refinement and
intellect, and even visitors TO his cell are
apt to lie so hypnotized by their reading
and their own fancy that thoy fail to dis
cover tho exaggeration.
The typical rascal Is never the hero that
romance, whether in the dime novel or
tho newspaper, pictures him. His intelli-
gence is as rule. Of very low order,
confined to keenncss and cunning, which
act i'm the narrow circle OF first preying
upon his victim and then trying to out
wit justice. Compare IL with the intelli-
gence which works for good His courage
is generally greatly overestimated. He
rarely fights except when he has the over.
whelming advantage, or when he is driven
into a corner. His magnanimity and
amiability-q qualities especially credited
to him by writer's and readers OF the low
romantic school are-myths They are no
part of his business, save as they serve to
cloak his villainy. Pure selfishncss, or at
best physical temperament, is at the bot
tom Of his good humor. apparent gener-
osity, and even his family affection, for
when the crucial test comes he will sacri-
fee anybody and everybody to self The
provsrbial "honor among othieves" holds
good only to certain point The m oment
II becomes clear that no advantage direct
or indirect, remains to the individuals of
the gang. the vauntei honor Ia thrown to
the winds, the gang disbands, each
clutches what he can from the wreck of
their common fortunes, ana henceforth
prcys upon his former pals with no more
compunction than he feels in prsyinQ
upon the rest OF the world. - From
Beautiful Evil,' by Edward c. Jack.
son, in North American Review for
November
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-11-12

army, and, with the persistent energy which
belonged to him, managed at last to reach
the bureau Of the general staff, where he was
employed as n clerk. Soon important docu-
ments were missing, and suspicion at last fell
upon the rather morose but extremely dill
gent officer. Copies of documents Of vital inn
portance were found in his possession. The
copies were in his own handwriting and he
was actually found at work upon one of
them, which, when finished, he put into his
valisc, and carried away to place whore he
had rendezvous with an officer who was
said to be attached to the German embassy in
Paris. When this officer appeared upon the
scene tho detectives Immediately arrested
Dreyfus, and the discriminating document
was secured.
This is all that the outside public was al
lowed 10 know Of the case. The contents Of
the papers were not revealed. Many wild
stories were told about them, but up to the
present time nobody outside OF the general
staff really knows anything about them. IL
has been said that the Information supplied
by Dreyfus to the German government was
Of SO serious n character that the entire plan
for the mobilization OF the French army had
10 be altered, and that the record Of his trial
contained state secret, the revelation OF
which would Immediately he followed by war
between France and Germany.
But, after ELL, there are many people in
France who believe that Dreyfus il innocent.
VI. Schourer- ksstner, the vice president uf
the French Senate, has repeatedly expressed
tho belief that Dr-yfus II the victim of con
spirncy, while the majority of the senator's
and members of the Assembly are sure that
n IL NJ. Scbcurer- Kcstner who Is the victim
Of a deusion or of n machination.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-11-12

two sides of the triangle. while l only
pass through one.
This reasoning proved sound. One day
some notes of violin were heard. "Now
or never" thought the Prince, as with q
sudden movement, he cast off his hospital
coat and made for the gate. The startled
guard forgot the entrance, described the
TWO sides OF the triangle, and thus allowed
his prisoner 10 get To the exit before him.
A carriage was in waiting, and while
several Of those who helped 10 secure the
success OF the plot remained behind TO
emharrass the prison officials by hypocrit-
ical inquiries. Prince KrapotSin, his at
tiro completely changed on route, was be
ing rapidly driven to place Of conceal
ment and safety.
England was tho place Of refuge sought
by the Prince, but after remaining year
there in 1877 he went 10 switzerland, rc-
joining the Jura Federation of the Inter
national Workingmen's Association. He
founded, i'm 1870, tho anarchist paper La
Revolte. Switzerland thereupon expelled
him. He went tn Thonon, Savoy, in
1851. and subsequently to England, where
h. iec' ured ana wrots in denunciation Of
the Russian government. Going back TO
Thonon, no was arrested in December.
lsS2, by the French authorities. and n
month lator convicted at Lyons and SEN
tenced to five years Imprisonment, tho
charge being completely in an anarchist
conspiracy and advocating the uss Of dy
namite
On the appeal Of a number OF distip-
gllshcd scientific and literary men.
friends Of the Prince. among them John
Morley, Prof. Blackle. the kcv. Stopford
brooke. Algerncn Swinburne, Fred
erick Harrison, Charles Darwin and Vic
tor Hugo, President Grevy pardoued him
in January, 1885,. Since then he has re-
sided chiefly in England, hut his activity
in the cause 40 uear 10 him is as restless
as ever. one of his latest and widely read
nihilist works being La Recherche du
Pain" Prince Krspotkin is native of
Moscow and hfty years of age. NY.
Herald.