Willmar tribune., 1898-08-17
NOTES AND COMMENT.

( NOTES AND COMMENT. (
THE hum of the threshing machine
will now be heard throughoutthe land.
The crop promises to average very
nicely, although in some localities it
will be only fair. The extreme south
ern part of the county is said to be
about II days later than the locality
about Willmar, some of the farmers
at the time of this writing still having
fields to cut. In the central and
northern parts of the county most of
the grain is in stack.
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STEPS have been taken by the viii
lage council towards Incorporating
the village into a city. Aldermen
Ramsett, Ziesemer and Spicer consti-
tute the committee appointed to en-
ploy an attorney and take the necessa-
ry preliminary action. This is mat
ter all the residents of the village
should be interested in. Our town has
outgrown it's swaddling clothes and
needs the more expansive government
of II city. The matter of properre-
justment of the wards, apportioning
them in a way to more equally divide
the population, should be given prop
er attention.
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ONE of the benefits of incorporation
will be the establishment of 4 munich
pal court, having jurisdiction in cases
involving amounts of not exceeding
$500. 1t will facilitate the settling of
disputes and legal business, and tend
to diminish the work of the district
court.
A. D. 1898 will be the banner year
so far in the history of Willmar. The
large brick business houses and scores
of fine residences erected and the long
stretches of streets graded and stone
walks laid speak in no uncertain Ian
guage of progress and growth. Will
mar will ultimately become the city of
commercial Importance of central Min
nesota. We have the territory, q good
class of business men and well-built
center for nucleus.
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GAME wardens are busy. Woe to
the luckless wight who is caught using
his blunderbuss on wild fowls before
the date established by statute. The
law to "preserve" the game is to give
all who own guns an equal chance.
When the hour set by law arrives all
go forth, the organized gun clubs and
city dudes with their latest pattern Of
shotgun and fancy bred dogs in the
van and the birds who have hitherto
enjoved "a state of preservation" are
speedily reduced by the leaden hail
and keen-scented hounds. The title of
the law should be changed to San act
to Establish a Uniform Date for the
Execution of Came"
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ance fame, was in our city Monday.
He is engaged in the work of trying
to revive the alliances, and especially
OF etfecting an organization of the
farmers elevator companies of the
state. He stated that there are over
300 farmers elevators in the state and
if they could be organized to act to-
gether, he was sanguine that much
could be done in the way of keeping
up prices. He stated that he believed
the speculators were expecting to get
the larger share of the crop at about
so cents bushel. But with all the
elevators owned by the farmers them
selves united and supported by track
buyers in places where no such ele-
vators exist, he hopes the prices can
be bolstered up.
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A general organization of farmers
banded together for defensive and Of
fensive business operations appears
to be the only remedy for the trouble
occasioned by organized greed and
monopoly banded together to prey
upon the farmers. Unfortunately the
Farmers Alliance of this state has
lost the tremendous power it once
welded and today is but shell of
what it was formerly. The impress
sion has gained ground that the prin-
cipal business of the Alliance: of late
has been to ask'for places for members
from corrupt ring rule administra-
tions and booming the goods of cer-
tain "supply houses" There is q
taint of political chicanery about the
state organization that will haye to be
removed, before much success will be
met in re,organizing.> This is aside
from the elevator Organization, which
1 we believeswill be success if the
larger number of farmer companies