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Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-10-08
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
Town Board Of Trustees of the
Town Of Williston.

W|illiston, n. D., Oct. 5, 1897.
Board met in regular session.
Present: Trustees +. 4. Zahl and
James King.
Absent: Trustee VIM. Freeman.
On motion, miuutes of previous meet
ing were read and approved.
On motion, the quarterly report OF
Mic. Bruegger. city justice, was accepted
On motion, the quarterly report Of F.
Wild, town treasurer, was accepted and
ordered published.
On motion, the following bills were al
lowed and warrants ordered drawn:
Mic. Bruegger, Justice fees, $22 90
Bruegger Mer. Co., merchandise, 81 IS
On motion, the clerk was instructed
to draw !, warrant for $4,000 in favor Of
E. Y. 3. Ackerman to apply on payment
for sidewalk.
On motion, Paul Schierbecls was grant
ed permission to lower the walk adjoin.
lug his premise SO as to enable him to
put an approach of not less than eight
ltcC W COuHcCI Nltll lI!t present. Walk Ill
front of his place. The approach and
work Of low eriny saiA walk to be done
ut his own expense.
On motion, John Heffernan was re.
quested to raise the east end Of his Side.
walk on First street so as to allow a con.
nection with it on the established grade
At Main street.
On motion, board adjourned.
FRANK WILD. Clerk.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-10-08
The Missouri River Valley
Stock Growers Associate
viii! Pay a Reward Of $50

w person furnishing Of the Executive
convection
Of oil following acts VIZ:
Se1i. nraire cattle, horses
longing without the
ing vtn ca;e horses mules te
DRIVING or attempting
their RESPECTIVE ranges Killing manning cattle horses mules
this Association H. "
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-10-08
Notice of Final Proof.

Land Office at Minot. n. D., Sept. 16, 1897.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler h filed notice of his intention to
make final proof in support OF his claim. and
TINT said proof will be- made before f. Le H.
hardy, jndge Of county court of Williams coNn-
tv n. D., at Williston, n. D., on October %,
ROBERT C. MATHEWS,
For the elI neN and swA neM and SEA VIVA Of
section 80, township 15l, range 100.
He names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation OF
said land, VIZ
George ~ Newton. Thomas Burgess, Frederick
r. Zuhl and Custave i. MctZger, all Of Willis
ton, Nd = ''"'
sepl9 MICHAEL j. JARRETT Register
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-10-08
STATI, OF NORTH DAKOTA.

= 4 II VI I$SvV1 II VA NV1A, !
CGEN.y or WILLIAMS, }ss
ToWn Of WiIiiston.
I hereby certify THAT the foregoing
statement is Il trile account OF all moneys
received by me into the town treasury
Of said TOWN from the county treasurer
and FROM, All other officers and persons;
and also, of all moneys. paid out by me
as treasurer Of said town. for the quar-
ter ending Sept. 3OtE, 1897.
Given Under my hand this 5th day OF
October, \. d. 1897.
- FRANE WILD,
Treasurer of Town OF Wiiliston,
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-10-08
Additional Locals.
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS

# b.
OF THE
Roarq Of Co. Commissioners
or
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-10-08

REGULAR SESSION.
Williston, N. d., Oct. 1, 1897.
Board met pursuant to law.
Present: Com'r Burgess.
Absent: Commissioners Moore and
I4ampman.
Da..J ,1;o,rpoI ill | 10 n m
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-10-08
Town Treasurer's Report.

To the Board of Town Trustees of Willis.
ton, Williston, n. D.:
I hereby submit my report Of all
moneys received and expended for the
quarter ending Sept. 3Oth, 1897, as fol-
lows: -
RECEIPTS.
July II. From county treasurer, 3 50 Go
July TO- From justice Of the -
peace, - $ 81 q 4
Aug. 10. From justice Of the
= peace, 60 50
Aug IA. From justice of the
peace, - Oo
Sept. @. From justice OF the
peace, .. GS 40
Total, 1892 OS
EXPENDITURES.
For salary Of officers, !; 81 10
For construction Of side : -
walk. labor, lumber,
nails, etc, -: 1873 SO
Repairs on jail, Is IS
For pri"tins' 46 IS
Total, ; 2o2 US
Total amount Of warrants out
standing, s15s 25
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05
COMMENCE 10 CUT AND NOW.

What this country needs is not more
revenue but greater economy in public
expenditures; not more taxes but less
appropriations. Every character of in
duStry, every kind of value and prices
of all kinds have taken sliding scale
downward. saving and excepting Off
cial salaries and public appropriations.
The interests of this country are, in
toto, down TO a gold basis, save public
expenditures, which vet hold TO the sill
yer standard and a boom basis. The
money TO pay comes from the people,
In the way of taxes, directly or indi-
rectly. The government is eXpendinS
more money than it receives from tax
alton, although the revenues for the last
year reached the enormous sum or
s4O9. 475, 40S, or upwards Of one million
OF dollars per day. But its expenditures
were S434, SIS 654. showing deficit as
admitted by Mr. Carlisle, of over TWEEN
ty-four millions of dollars. Now, if
there were no help, no remedy or re-
trenchment possible, there would be but
one thing left to do, and that would be
to increase the revenue by piling UP
taxes, in the shape of tariff or by
an internal revenue, or by both. As
times are hard and as the opulent east
has begun to feel that they are hard.
why does not some man in congress
rise TO the eXigencies of the situation
and immortalize himself or otherwise
win the gratitude of seventy millions of
people by demanding that the expenses
shall be cut down 10 the measure of
existing revenues and kept there until
there is a revival of conditions or until
otherwise a normal status has been
reached? A stable government, success
full craftsmanship and the prosperity
and contentment of all the people are
involved in this single proposition. CIT
off and trim down, everywhere, heroic
ally cut and trim until the desired OBJ
jcct is attained. Cut out outrageous
river and harbor appropriations. public
building and improvement appropria-
down salaries, and keep on cutting
everywhere and in every direction I'M
Ill the expenditures have been reduced
at least 100000 day. or fifty millions
per annum. Everybody else is cutting.
individuals. corporations. and munici-
palities: then why not the general gov
eminent? If the present administra-
ton viii not. then we hope that Presi-
dent McKinley's will. not for the sake
of the politics in it, nor for party ad-
vantage. but in the interest of all the
people of the whole country.
en- years ago, or in 1856. the total ex-
penditures of the general government
were S242,4S3. 49,, or S192. 1885, I6 less
than the past fiscal year, or between
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05
Kentucky Protest Against Lynchtng.

From the Louisville Pos. tDem.D
Another negro was hanged Monday morn
ing for most brutal and incapable crime.
Ii is always so in Kentucky. and few, il
any negroes guilty of an assault, ever es-
cape condign punishment
Yet the mob does not influence the negro
race; its punishment Is not as effective as
would be a judicial hanging. 1t is violence
responding 10 violence and doing irrepara-
Bile wrong to the whole state The mob
of Monday morning was the third murder
Gus mob in a week. During the same week
other nobs ranged the state, destroying
property and uttering threats against all
who dared defend their own property
In other sections Kuklux ride the coun-
try and in other courts witnesses detan
other bloody crimes, and the violent are
still dominant, pardons are issued daily. and
the Law is paralyzed-
Every mob Is protest against the law
as IL is administered in Kentucky. Every
mob IS a popular expression Of contempt
for the law. II is a popular proclamation
of indignation and an expression OF a pur-
pose to protect themselves In any case
II is not possible 20 exaggerate the evil
condition OF affairs IN this state Each
year they go from bad TO worse; each year
crime increases. and Tie mob usurps more
and more the functions OF the courts. The
record OF Iss-s has never been eQualled n
our history; never at any time have We
come so near TO condition OF general an
arehy as We are today.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05
Along the Kansas Nile.

One of the business men of Winfield Is
really burning corn in his house and store.
He says it is cheaper than coal.
Governor-elect Leedy says he is neither
Prohibitionist or a resubmissionist. He
is a northumberland
w. L. Brown is now Governor Leedy's
personal escort. In all probability Brown
will pull off the state Partnership.
A county convention of the silver forces
of Sumner will be held in Wellington next
Saturday to keep up the organization.
The best Kansas "reminiscences ever writ
ten are those of Bob Wright's, now appear
ing weekly in the Dodge City Globe-Repub-
lican.
Frank Doster recently said: 81 do not
know what the legislature will Go. There
is a whole lot of queer talk about conser-
yatism.'
One Winfield man began the new year
by reaching over and kissing his wife. She
was so surprised that she stiffened back IN
a swoon.
The Dighton Dramatic company is going
TO assail Ness City. All the guns in Ness
county have been loaded and the town wall
strengthened.
You can't keep Kansas out Of Il: Henry
King. formerly OF this state, will probably
succeed J. B. McCullagh as editor of the
GEbe-Democrat.
The Topeka Journal is heading scheme
to have Kansas Day, Jan. %. observed as
a state holiday, the day TO be devoted to
patriotic meetings.
A standard Kansas joke is for a fellows
horse TO get out OF its OWE stable at night
and travel of its own accord 10 the stable
of some girls father.
The things that are settled In the Repub-
lican ranks OF Kansas are that Lit Crum
will be United States marshal and Ike Lam
bert, district attorney.
David Gore Is row treasurer Of the state
OF Illinois. When GovernoT-elect Leedy
OF Kansas was a boy he lived IN Illinois
and worked on Cores farm.
The Republicans in the state have induc-
ed the Populists TO talk about the legis-
lature being safe" and slow and con
sentative" The Populists are doing IL,
Jerre Rotkin was in Larned one day las:
week fuding out what the Popullst states
men wanted. He found out and II Is now
said that Larned viii be given guard IN
the penitentiary.
Governor Morrill, was given a ride In
horse!ess carriage the other day IN Topeka
and exclaimed: What can we expect
next" The governor never was exactly
epigTammattc-
wyanGotte county stands first in popuia-
ton among Kansas counties, AMI first in
amount OF taxable property IL = also
first IN potato growing, having produceS
ssl.772 bushels IN $50.
Il Is reported tina. the Popuiist legislature
VIII repeal the law maintaining me state
militia. They viii do nothing Of the kind
The first Official act OF Ire nrst PoVGHst
governor OF Kansas was 70 cal On tie
militia
Judge wsgxoner OF Cheney was recent
Is asked Il he had ever heard a photograph
He sad Nc had not and somebody gave him
a galvanic battery and told bin 70 put both
the handles 20 his ears He I'D 20 AMI be
car hear he bEzzlnS YET
A law suit has b=ez commenced T. Cow
icy eosaEy over an election bst-bet~sen
the bet tnzs KenfUekT AMI California
would 80 Republican. Al wager eypeTss
say that TIE man Who b@t t1St kentsckF
and California would 70 Republican. ~on-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05
A UNITED IRELAND.

It is more than probable that at the
recpening of the British parliament in
January the world will be presented
with the strange spectacle of an assault
by united Irish Tory landlords. and Ma
tionalists upon the government.
Revelations in the report OF the par
Iiamentary commission on the financial
relations of the United Kingdoms,
showing that Ireland has for many
gears been over-taxed in comparison
with Great Britain, are at the bottom Of
the revolt; but during the last three
months Of agitation, punctured by
scores of Indignation meetings at which
Irish Tories and Nationalist occupied
the same platforms and joined in hery
resolutions, it has apparently been dis
covered that Irishmen have interests in
common on other subjects besides tax
alton.
Not since the rebellion Of 1898 has
there been such a union between the
Green and the Orange, and the coming
year may witness n re-awakenlng in
the British Isles on the great questions
of Irish governmental reform.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05
THE NEW CENSUS.

The time is approaching when it will
be necessary for congress to make
preparations for taking the census of
1900. In view of the great Importance
of the work of collecting Industrial and
social statistics, Commissioner Carroll
ID. Wright and others who are familiar
with this subject earnestly recommend
the establishment of permanent cen-
sIs bureau. From the standpoint OF
economy, Mr.. Wright urges that per-
manent census bureau, while being
much more efficient, would cost less
money than is expended in the nasty
work of taking the census at the begin
ming of every decade. A permanent bu-
reau. consisting OF. a small official force,
would, he says, save many times Its
cost in preventing waste through mis-
directed energy. In the opinion OF the
commissioner, ''the application or the
principles of civil service reform to the
last census would have saved the gov
eminent at least 100000.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05
THE FREE SILVER CLUB.

Pap ulster be a dimmercrat
But now he is a Pop.
He couldn't pay his ''intrust,"
An drouth cut short his crop.
So pap's agin the government,
And swar "doggon his cats"
That he'll help rib up a scrap
With them eastern "plewty Gratis"
Pap never was so fgety
Till him an me an "Bub"
Made plum asses of ourselves
And jined that silver club.
We was all over-persuaded
By ole JoneSes son "Uriar,"
Who enominated pap
To be a township squire.
When ole man Joneses son was born
His mothers ole Aunt Roxy
Named him Uriar Heep Jones
Because he looked so foxy.
An ole Aunt Roxey guessed him right
He is slippery cuss;
"A sort of jack-leg lawyer,
Allus kickin up muss.
When we all got back home that night,
And tole the news to NAV,
As how the new free silver club
Had enominated paw,
She seemed good 'eal tickled
An up her noes she stuck,
Some snuff an lowed at some folks
She know'd ''ther tails would tuck
Now "Bub'' he is red-headed
An jes' as full o. freckles,
As squawkn' ginny hen
Is kivered up with speckles. :.
An he's allus askin' questions,
An a sticink' in his CAB.
Nav an the girls don't tell him
No sekrets, fer he'll blab.
That night afore we went to bed
'Bub" up an he asst paw:
eff he's elected JESUS,
Would we all be in the law?'
Then nav f1ared up an said:
:" .Bub' beat all she ever saw:
Nobody would be squires
'Cepting only her an paw"
"Bub' said if he'd a knob that
He'd a never jined the club.
Then I never heerd SIGH rakin'
AS nav she give to "Bub."
Then pap spoke up an tuck Bulbs" par
An said If Bub would pull
Long with the club year or TIVE
They'd 'lect him constabul.
But NAV she had her dander up,
An she lit in On paw,
An asst him how he could be squire
When he didn't know no law.
Then pap he lowed his intellec'
We wouldn't need 20 wrench
So longs his lern'd 'soshiats
Sot with him on the bench.
At this nav fairly snorted.
Fer though she h'aint no fool
Her lernin's kinder limited,
Fer she never went TO school
But she preached TO paw sermon,
An she didn't take no text,
An what she preached about will be
Continued in my next.
CHARLES H. EAGIN.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

Recently the Larned brass band gave a
concert at Great Bend and were frozen by
small audience. II turns out that Mrs
Stryker persuaded people TO stay away
from the concert. Mrs. Striker once 20:
up an amateur show and tried Il on Lsrnei
and Larned gave the piece a marble heart
by remaining away. Hence her revenge.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

three and four millions Of dollars for
every week of the year. These figures
are no less stupendous than they are
startling. This increase is out of ali
proportion to the growth Of population
or the increase of wealth. Commence
to cut, and commence now.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05
When the Wedge HI; Bland.
From the ST. Louis Globe.

The big building IN Chicago where Bryan
was nominated Is now used for WINTER
games OF football uEdsr the electric light
Casualties are frequent. but nobody yet
has been knocked as cold as Bland Was
when hit By TIE PopuIssi flying wedge e1gi-
ne<rel b. the boy orators friends
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

Few Congressman and Senators TOOK part
in the gorgeous presidential reception, New
Years Day. at the White House. Probably
members of Congress have an oppressive
sense that splendor doesn't taste well 10 the
general public after four years Of Grover
t~lsvslanS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

Olney is a great diplomat. knowing he
could not bluff congress out of a recogni-
ten OF Cuba, he injects a constitutional
question, in discussing which congress viii
forget all about Cuba
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

The world is doing too much snorting
around in the future none of us Will ever
see. The fight over Corn Island is because
the island may be valuable some day
when the Nicaraguan canal is completed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

The fact that Kansas elected a deserter
who was running as presidential elector is
merely q demonstration of the fact that no
more attention IS paid to the names OF
presidential electors than 70 viee-presIdents.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

All the Chicago papers. save one, are try
ing 10 beat a Chicago man for the United
States senate. The man, Madden, is not
particularly strong. but the vicious fight
being made on him viii probably elect him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

The Senate will probably jog Grover Gle
veland's memory little by pointing out
TO him that the Senate's right Of conirma-
ton is club that old Tom jefferson stuff
ed for use on future presidents.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05
where New YORK.. faaf, lie.

New Yo-k City pays It's policemen ss
high as si-sne . year. while the average
salary OF The school teachers : about Ssc
! rear Is il any sc16cf that Mex Yo.k
City - rA.-Ah1S D<nzccxAS1c.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

In order to emphasize the lack of osten-
tat.on Pingree was inaugurated governor
of Michigan in the plsinest sort of suit.
The wonder is that Pingree wore any
clothes al all. He is so plain.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

While Joseph McCullagh invented the
newspaper interview, the man who can
most charmingly say: 81 have nothing to
say" still lives. The man is Major Nc
kinley.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

The tariff question is not dead, but the
people who are attempting to get absorbed
in the Ways and Means committees hear
ings of tariff speeches. are about gone.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

While the conversational power Of the
waves is conceded, no Populist in listening
to any one of them has yet been able to
detect anything in regard to prosperity.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

If PETER is wise he Will study Mr.. Wey-
ler's tactics closely and at once take the
field in person. No second-rate manager
can pull PETER through at Topeka.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

A large part of the late Shah's fortune,
SOC, 600 900, will be devoted to civilizing Per-
STA. And when Persia is civilized the
money-leanders will own the Shah.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05
R.,...,,oo Come. VIVA Christians.

=
Fo<g SAYS that n looking over lis C1rsS,-
mas presents he = surprised - Sid tat
there are 20 szzay z--scSss Il fas ~cr.t
that lie coesa't kzo< TIE uss O.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

Major Mckinley, when in Canton, is in
Cleveland. The geography and the cleo
ton returns are the only evidence we have
that Cincinnati is still in Ohio.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

If Stephen Crane, the war-author, is lost
at sea, he will find that there are little
things about the war that his imagination
never dreamed of Horatio.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

John Temple Graves says that Mr.. Bry-
ans Atlanta lecture was fiat failure. 1t
is only fair to Bryan to say that John
Temple is a lecturer himself.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

While the Bavarian king, Otto, has got
over the hallucination that he was stork,
Emperor William still labors under the i'm
preston that he is a bird.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

If Editor McCullagh committed suicide It
would be interesting to know why ne pick
ed out high-jumping as the most merton
ions instrument.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

Bryan says he does mot see any prosperi-
~ yet" The fact is, Mr.. Bryan, people
are so hard up they can not even attend
ing lectures
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05
TO crEE coLpIS ONE DAY

Take Laxative Bcono ouln.as Tablets
All druggists rst1nt the money Z =
fails q cure &c
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

The only esteem the national banking
system gets from tho Populist is when 1t
wipes out national banker.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

Good Weather for Blankets

Good Weather for Blankets
And good time buy Blanket Sale
Everything for the cold being pushed big
reductions.
Half price Ladies' Jackets of the latest cut Chdrens
Wraps will just HALF untrimmed At
nothiag in view of regular prices.
How Are Your Under GarmemkS?
We can fit you fepleuh your present holdings Il vy
much less than yor vpnld have ray month axu.
THE DRESS GOODS
Are still pushing the front New serees lust
opened. Close prices for everything.
REMNANT SALE!
Remnant Sale
Remnant Sale!
Friday Look in the window.
$3.50, $500 and $3.50 Lace Curtains $3.50.
Look in the window.
1913 and I27 Main Street.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-05

We have made. arrangements with one
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