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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05

The tendency of young men born
and reared on farms to leave the
try for towns and cities is certainly an
unhealthy movement in a large sense
and improbable to many of those who
embark in it. Properly and steadily
followed, there is no safer business
than farming, nor any more certain to
yield satisfactory results. In very
many instances they who abandon it
for city life live to regret the change.
The farmers institutes and farmers
themselves ought to be able to develop
a higher interest in the occupation and
more of a certain sort of esprit du
corps among those who follow it.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05

Those American judges who decide
divorce cases with indecent haste
might well learn a lesson from the life
of the late Baron Pollock of England.
His pale and wearied look was noticed,
and the baron explained: Il have had
to be up almost all night; for to sen-
tence some, especially the young
young men and boys-is such an awful
responsibility. You must think care
fully what is right. what is best for
their souls. You need so much
thought and prayer" Is it not an
lawful responsibility" also, to decide
to break up a household? Were some
judges to give more thoughtful and
conscientious consideration to these
cases, court. records would be free
from some entries which are nothing
short Of q disgrace.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
Otherwise.


The Prairie Methodist Episcopal
church, Of Kildare, Okla, has just
taken out articles of incorporation.
The Century Road Club of America
has extended the hand Of fellowship
to professionals.
The Ohio senate has adopted a reso-
luton to investigate trusts. A COM
mitteee Of five senators will conduct
the investigation.
to 1000 Indians has begun ut Paw
huska. the capital of the Usage ma
ton, Oknla., and will last for n week.
The monthly statement Of the col
lections of internal revenue shows the
total receipts for December to have
been $14,3773,G S22, a gain for the month
of $1,1O7,52O.
The hair of Mrs. James Snyder. of
Maude, Okla. turned white from
fright during the late excitement caus-
ed by the reports of q Seminole up
rising.
At Crown Point, Ind, Jimmie" Mi
chael, the Welsh bicyclist, through his
attorney, has filed a suit for a divorce
from his wife, Fanny Michael, nee
Lewis.
A steamer to be used on the Upper
Snake river has been shipped in Sec
tions from Portland by rail to Hunt-
ington. Ore. This is an incident in q
big scheme Of mining development
in Eastern Oregon and Idaho.
In, anticipation of the new immigra-
ton law going into effect the rush Of
immigration to this country has start
ed. The Tartar Prince has arrived at
New York with 72O persons in the
steerage. The vessel comes from
Italian ports. %.
The jury in the damage case of Mira
Rogers VS.. William Hamm at Fort
Dodge, after being out about twenty
hours, brought In a verdict of $1,000
for the plaintiff. The amount asked
for was $4,000. Mrs. Rogers brought
suit for selling liquor to her husband.
The reorganization committee Of
the Union Pacific Railroad company
has filed articles of incorporation with
Secretary of State Porter at Lincoln,
Neb. The capital stock is placed at
S136, 5000. The fee for filing
amounted to $13, 603.5O.
The scheduled meeting Of the Ma
tional base ball league to be held in
st. Louis next month will bring to-
gether the principal sporting writer's
Of the country, and especially those of
the twelve cities in which league clubs
are located.
Attachments have been issued at
New York against the g. L. Bucki Il
Son Lumber company, whose Office is
in New York and mill in Jacksonville,
Fla. for $13,895, and against Charles
L. Bucki, president of the company,
for $4,000, both in favor Of Henry
Weller.
Joseph W. Powers, a Chicago plumb.
er, who lost his wife and property
through drink, reformed as q result
of his experience, has since made q
small fortune, and Is soon to remarry
the woman who secured q divorce aftel
vainly trying to reform him.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
North Dakota Railway Rates.


Bismarck. N. D.-The taking Of test
mony in the case of the railroads
against the state commission, to pre-
vent the enforcement of maximum
rates, has begun at Fargo. John S.
Watson appears for the roads and At
torney General Cowan for the state.
The only question to be decided is as
to the reasonableness Of the rates, and
this will have to be done from the ties.
timony of experts. The hearing of
the case will be removed later to st.
Paul and Chicago, where the testi-
mony of expert %railroadcrs is more
readily accessible. The members of
the commission are firm in their belief
that they a prove the rates reason
able. higher than the rates i'll Iowa and
parallel with Minnesota rates.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
PEDDLERs IN MEXICO.

Why an Old Woman Wouldn't Sell All
Her Honey 1t One Time.
while travelling in Mexico a few
years ago I had a funny experience
with a Mexican vender which goes to
show what little business ability the
lower classes have" said E. F. Guig-
non of st. Louis. Il was en- route to
look at some mines away up in the
mountains. At the station where We
left the train to take the stage l say
an old woman selling some honey. She
did not have more than ten pounds Of
1t altogether and as it looked so good
I wanted to buy it all to take along with
us. l asked our interpreter to buy it.
Much to my surprise the old woman
would sell him but two boxes, claim
ing that if she sold it all to him she
would have nothing to sell to other
people, neither would she have my
thing else to do during the remainder
Of the day"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05

A Boston physician who formerly oc-
cupied the two positions of medical ex-
aminer for pensions and for positions
in the Boston police and fire depart
ments was called upon to examine an
applicant for appointment to the police
force. The applicant testified that he
was able-bodied in every respect and
had never had a sick day in his life.
Subsequently the same man appeared
before the board of medical examiners
for pensions as an applicant for an in
crease of his pension, and he testified
that he was a physical wreck and in
capacitated for work on account of his
physical infirmities resulting from his
services in the war.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05

There are no trusts in England such
as we have in this country. Combina-
tions Of capital W there are con-
Quoted in a way that is not over OPP
pressive to the consumers. There are
no periodical meetings of directors for
the purpose Of restricting output and
raising prices. There is no hypocriti-
cal cant about supply and demand
after the supply has been restricted.
In the nature Of things. and outside the
English law. there could not be. How
could one Of our trusts exist under
such circumstances?
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05

The recent attack of the commission
er of pensions on the pension attorney,
followed up by some efforts to bring
the worst specimens to account, is d
circumstance that is notable enough to
deserve attention. The pension abuse,
however. is not to be abated by attack
ing the pension attorneys. No doubt
many of them are much to blame, and
when they have committed frauds they
should be held to a severe accountable
ty. But, after all, it is just as we'll to
recognize the fact that congress has
often been the chief offender.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
Ignite Deposit Discovered.

Bismarck. N. D.-A valuable deposit
of Ignite coal has been discovered on
the farm of John Myers. ten miles
north of this city. A barn had been
built on a side hill and collapsed, car
rying with it a considerable amount
of earth and revealing a large vein of
fine coal. AS the present mines are
twenty-five miles from the city. and
the roads bad in severe weather. the
discovery of Il mine so near the mar
ket is Of great experimentation the
Standing Rock Indian reservation is
reported the death of the Oldest half
breed on the reservation, a son of the
explorer. Lewis. of the Lewis and
Clark expedition. The expedition
wintered on the Missouri river in 1904
and Lewis married a Brule Indian NO
man. the son being the offspring of
that marriage. A granddaughter If
Lewis, a comedy young Indian woman.
was visiting on the reservation a few
DAVIS ago.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05

BY no stretch of the doctrine Of graf
itude can it be claimed that the gov
eminent owes clerks and other en-
ployes anything beyond the remunera-
ton which it paid with a certainty
and a regularity that cannot be de-
pended upon in any commercial or
other business pursuit. 1t is, there
fore, not only un-American in prin-
ciple to establish a civil pension-and
that is a logical outgrowth of the
merit system"-but it is an outrage
upon the taxpayers.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
SETTLERS COMING IN.
Present Season Will Sec a Large In.
flux of immigration.

Present Season Will See q Large In.
flux Of immigration.
jamestown, N. D.-Farmers in many
different parts of the United States
are looking toward North Dakota as a
future home, and the present season
promises a large influx of the best
class of settlers. Forty families from
the immediate locality west of Aber-
deem and from the vicinity Of Yankton
will arrive in March, April and May
from South Dakota. They will come
with their stock, farming machinery
and household goods. 1t is their in
tention to settle in the hills north and
west of Windsor, Stutsman county,
and engage in both farming and stock
raising.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
Sporting Items.

Columbia will take part this year in
three dual track meets, Brown Cornell
and Princeton will be the opponents.
President Nick Young's schedule will
be coplete and ready or the approval
Of the magnates by Feb. Is.
A series of match races have been
arranged at Minneapolis between John
s. Johnson and John F. Davidson of
st. Paul.
Manager George P. Stallings prom
Uses to hand out fines with Il lavish
hand next season. The Phillies are to
be ruled with an iron hand.
"a team that could land in sixth
place or better would make $4,000
in a season at st. Louis" said Stanley
Robson, of the Cleveland club.
1t is announced that the board of
stewards of the grand trotting cir
cult will meet in Detroit early in Feb
ruary to may out tho circuit for the
coming season.
Kid Mcfarland and Jack Hanley
have been matched to box twenty
rounds in Toronto on Feb. Z. George
Sller will be asked to referee the
bout.
Allcf SIN years VI Gallo lIOul TIC IulA
Johnnie Brannon, one of the notorious
Brannon brothers, of Polk Badget
fame, has been reinstated to the full
rights and privileges of the tracks.
President Davidson of the Kentucky
association track says he will give
matinee races beginning early in
March for the purpose of holding the
200 horses now in Lexington.
Dick O'Brien, who is at Lewiston,
Me-, says he will meet any middle
weight in the world at 15S pounds,
for $500 to $1,000 a side. O'Brien
declares he is in the best Of condi-
ton.
John Lawson Johnstone Of King
wood. Kent. has sold the racing cut
ter Britannia, formerly the property
Of the prince of Wales, to Ernest
Teran Hooley, the millionaire specu-
lator.
1t is said that Lilly Langtry is deter
mined that she will race her stable Of
thoroughbreds on this side of the wa
ter this year. She races under the
name of Mr.. Jersey. 1t has always
been an ambition with her to race in
America.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
oppo.ttion to the Loud Bi,l.

Bismarck, N. d. = Il. n. Stevens,
publisher Of the Northwest News at
Grand Forks. and one Of the leading
lawyers of the state, represents the
publishers of the state and some East
ern publishers in opposing the Loud
bill. to limit the amount of second
class matter that can be sent through
the mails by newspaper publishers. It
Is claimed that the passage of this bill
would be an especial hardship to
country papers and those published in
small towns, as it would exclude
boom editions, papers sent to get new
subscribers, immigration editions and
issues which are issued to the benefit
of country papers and mailed at Sec
ond- class rates.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05

The objection of a West Virginia
representative to the civil service sys-
ten is that is makes it less possible
for a poor nan to go to congress be-
cause he can no longer pay his politi-
cal debts with patronage. When the
representative has had experience he
will learn that for every debt he pays
with an office he makes ten or twenty
enemies or other aspirants, and may
revise his judgment.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
Talk.

The Victoria. r. c., board of trade
has t%elegraphed Hon. MIR. Sifton. MN
lister of the interior. demanding the
closing of the pass at the head of Linn
canal until satisfactory arrangements
arc made with the United States.
Commissioner Evans, of the pension
department, expresses the opinion that
it would be proper for postmastcrs to
refer letters in reference to pension
cases addressed to them to the neal
est special examiner or to the commits
sioner Of pensions, if the address of
the examiner is not known.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
Criminal.

Oscar Webster, a carpenter Of Hum
Doldt, Iowa, has confessed to rObbing
the postottice at Pioneer last winter.
Ed T. Vickor. q prominent lawyer of
birmingham, Ala, was shot dead by
DIR. j. c. Taylor. The trouble arose
over an unpaid bill.
William Flyer has been sentenced to
be shot at Eufala, l. H., for the MUIR
der OF Sitka Mcintosh last summer.
Both parties are Greek Indians.
DR.. II. S. Bonncy has been fined 500
n costs, at H~arrisonville, Mo-, for
selling intoxicating liquors without a
license.
For some unknown eason Frank l..
Ribe, a 14-year-old boy OF Greenville,
Miss, committed suicide by hanging
himself. He was the only support OF
his widowed mother.
Henry Il. Van Duen. former passen-
ger agent o; st. Louis for the Big
-Four, and l2;"!y district representative
of the Wcclson Coffee and Spice COM
pany, committed suicide at the IRE
mont hotel at Quincy, Ill.
Saunders 4 Hoffmier, druggists Of
Grantsburg. Wis.,, We're arrested. be-
ing charged with selling liquor. Hoff-
mier pleaded guilty and was fined $50
and costs. This is the first conviction
since the town went dry" last spring.
At Napa, Cal, in the presence OF the
sheriff and district attorney OF Napa
county and six other witnesses George
Willard Clark has confessed that he
was the murderer of his brother, w.
A. Clark, at st. Helena.
At Galveston, Tex, the jury in the
case of Virgil Gallagher, charged with
killing his mother last August, return
ed a verdict Of guilty and assessed
the death penalty. Gallagher is q
medical student twenty years old.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
1slondikc for the Other Fcllow..

jamestown, N. D.-J. B. Munson Of
Cass county left Fargo for the Klon.
dixie country with $500 in his hip pock-
ct. A stranger occupying a seat with
him in the a very kindly gave him
the entire seat as soon as the conduc-
tor examined their tickets. Munson,
noticing that his money was gone, kept
an eye on the stranger. They got of
at this city. The stranger registered
at the Capital house as Joseph Ker-
shun. Kershun very soon disappeared
and has not been found. Munson has
postponed his trip to the Klondike.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
Send q convict to Klondtke.

SEM . Convict to KlOndike.
Bismarck, N. D.-Application will be
made to the governor OH Feb 25 TO.
the pardon of Harry Gilmore, a gam
Tor assault with a deadly weapon, and
who has served the greater part of his
term. Gilmore's pardon will be due to
the fact that he has promised to 20 to
the Klondike, and as the authorities
Are anxious to get him out of the
country, they will seek his release at
this time,
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05

Grafton, N. D. The school census
report for 1897, just made by the
superintendent of schools for Walsh
county, shows this county to he sec.
ond Id the state as regards enumera-
ton of children of school age. The re-
port shows a total Of 6,857 children;
1886 girls and 3.461 boys. The in
crease z 1906 is $40. The gain is
greater than either Cass or Grand
Forks counties, and nearly so more
than the latter.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05

Diamond drops ornament the ears of
the pet cat Of a woman of st. Louis;
and tomorrow we shall hear of a Chi
cago cat that has diamond rings on her
four legs and a couple on her charm
ing tail.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
RAualtic

Gustav Koenig. a young farmer liv-
ing near Marshalltown, Iowa. had his
hand smashed in a corn shelter.
John c. L~orschbaugh, aged a.. was
killed by his team as he was leading
them into the barn ut Durand, Wis.
He leaves a widow and large family.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
NECK BROKEN.
Fatal Fall Of H. Klinefelter at Dick
1vaon. H.. II.

FatQl FALL of H. kIfne1eIter NJ 1'hcN-
1nsOn, N. u. .. of
Dickinson, N. D.-The busy, life OF
Charles II. Klinefelter, formerly OF 81:
Paul, came to a sudden end. ne ien
from the second story of the st: Men
olas hotel and broke his neck. He was
proprietor of the hotel, and also man
ager of the Dickinson opera mouse
Deceased came here in the fall OF 1881:
For many years he was the owner OF
the Willard house. He has always been
an active public man and was known
throughout the state. He leaves Il
large family.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05

The newspapers have copied photo
graphs of two couples with arms about
each others necks. The first, that
of the tsar and the kaiser, has been
confiscated in Russia; the other, that
of a bicycler of ephmereal fame and
his affianced bride, ought to be. To
make capital Of affection is to shame
~
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
Arrested for Forgery.
IN N n-W01do,oov r

Lisbon, N. D.-Waldemar johnson.
until recently agent for the Andrews
& Gage elevator at Englevale, near
aere, has been bound over to the dis
trict court in the sum Of $1,000. EN-
pezzlement and forgery in the third
degree was the charge. johnson was
bonded by the National Surety CON-
'oany, which is pushing the prosecu.
tion.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
THE NEWS RESUME
DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS CT THE WORLD.

Comprehensive Review of the
Important Happenings of the
Past Week Culled From the Tel
cgraph Reports The Notable
Events at Home and Abroad That
Have Attracted Attention.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05
FOre;xn Notes,

Paul Felix Taillade, the we'll known
and veteran French actor, is dead.
Lieut.. Gen. Sir Frederick Dobson
Middleton, keeper of the crown jewels,
is dead.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Daily News is Convinced that
the agitation will eventually lead to
a new trial for Dreyfus.'
announced in a special dispatch from
Brussels, has resulted in the death Of
seventeen persons.
An effort has been made in Scotland
looking to the adoption of some
steps to check or regulate the sale of
foreign meats in Scotch markets.
Herr Trojan. editor of Klauder-
datsch, Berlin. has been sentenced to
two months Imprisonment for lese
majestic in cartooning Emperor Will
lam.
The state department has been in.
formed through Consul General Convey
at Kanagawa, Japan. of the death at
that place of Joseph Heco, the in
terpretor to the consulate.
1t is rumored that Emperor Francis
Joseph of Austria will shortly an
nounce the betrothal of the archduch-
ess Elizabeth, daughter of the late
Crown Prince Rudolph, to the king of
Spain.
The British steamer Darlington,
Capt. Dunbar, laden with cotton from
Galveston, Jan. 20, for Hamburg, went
ashore Mt Marquesas Keys, Fla. Her
captain and mate have arrived at Key
West.
James O'Sullivan. national secretary
of the n. o. H., has received a cable
gram from Dublin stating that the
week commencing Aug. p has been
fixed upon for the principal exercises
in Ireland in connection with the
centenary Of the Instruction of 1898.
Natal has been enlarged by the an
nexation of Zululand and Amatonga-
land under letters patent issued by the
crown. That the Transvaal Republic
and the Orange Free State are not
also annexed is due to a little miscalcu-
lation made two years ago.
The Neuste Nachrichten of Berlin an
nounces that the German warships
are still sounding Kiao Chou bay, add
ing that the exact site of the port is
not yet fixed and that the government
intends that the construction of the
commercial port shall be borne by pri-
vate companies. 1t is further stated
that one company has already been
formed to construct the docks.
People Talked About.
Carl w. Belzer, professor of Latin in
the University of Colorado, is dead at
Boulder.
Secretary Gage has accepted an In
vitation to deliver an address before
the Pittsburg chamber Of commerce
on March 10.
John F. Steinbrenner. president of
the Chaplin Hill Lumber company. died
at Newark, N. j., from an overdose Of
laudanum.
A telegram from Palm Beach, Fla,
announces the death at that place Of
Mrs. Mary Payne Bingham, Of Cleve-
land. Mrs. Bingham was q daughter
Of the late Senator Henry B. Payne.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-02-05

There is danger that in a short time
the 4 will become an obsolete quantity
In New York's 400"