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Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1899-03-24
LEWIS r. Booker. an ex-state treas

LEWIS E. BOOKER, an ex-state treas
urer of North Dakota, who was once
president of national bank in Grand
Forks, who was indicted by federal
grand jury for the alleged crime of
making false reports as to the condi-
tion Of his bank to the comptroller of
the currency, and who skipped out a
couple of years ago on the eve of his
trial, has returned and will face the
music of the courts. His bondsmen
are Secretary of State Falley, Charles
Kupitz, P. G. Remington, I. P. Baker
and Joseph Hare. Mr.. Booker has
been in Mexico, and he claims that he
has been made a scapegoat for other
people. Which may be true-and
then, again, it may not be true.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1899-03-24
He Want. 10 Come Back.

Mr.. A. +. Rogers, ,-who left Morton
county last year for Oregon, writes to
the Mandan Pioneer as follows:
''Some time ago 1 read advertise
ments of this section Of country by
papers and letters until thought it
was paradise. 1 came from North
Dakota by wagon and saw no country
in my travels as good as Morton
county. We have had more sickness
in the six months we have been here
than we had in Is years in North Da-
kota. 1 started in Morton county
with nothing. I picked up bones in
Dakota territory and sold them to
Tim Griffin to get money to pay my
marriage fee, and John Yegen trusted
me for provisions; also p. w. McGil-
lie, of Mandan, to begin on the west
side of the Missouri river. I left
there in good circumstances, and l
don't dread going back there and
starting over again.
''This is not thriving country;
everything seems to be going down
hill. They live too much on the five
cent plan. l am used to going to town
only twice a year for supplies. This
is fair sample of how they do here:
My neighbor, Mr.. j., lives three miles
from Crow store. He has a family of
IA. He goes to the store two or three
times week in the mud, water and
rain, with from to IA eggs to do, his
trading, with eggs 10 cents per dozen.
This is what he would buy: Matches
cent, soap cents, tobacco cents, tea
| ) cents, and the rest in coffee. Not
long ago he went by with two hens in
a sack. He said they had quit laying
md he had to get some more grub. Sc
he had to sell a few hens. 1 live one.
fourth of a mile from Grow store.
sent my, son Almon down for 25 cents
worth of envelopes. 1t took all they
had in Grow. There is more in com
mon ranch house in North Dakota
than in the country stores in this
country. The people here are sever
generations behind the times, and nc
show of being any different. A man
can get no work here for money. Ii
you will take fruit and We getables and
work for 40 or SO cents per day, ant
pay more for the stuff you get than
you would have to pay in town, yo,
can get work. The vacant railroad
and government land here is all heavy
Dir timber, with not an acre Of leye
land on it. A mans life is not Ions
enough to clear a farm up here. Five
cents is harder to get here t1an ont
dollar is in Morton.
"Hoping l have said enough to keel
my friends from making as foolish
move as l did, the Lord willing L viii
be one among you in May, 1899.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1899-03-24

The late legislature appropriated
s2,50O to be sent to the North Dakota
Boys at Manila, and even those chronic
1ickers, the Herald and the Argus,
have not roasted the members for SC
1oing. We people who are at home
Ind enjoying the comforts thereof can
scarcely appreciate the sacrifices
which those lads are making, away
)ut at the worlds jumping-off place,
putting in day after day, week after
week and month after month in a
country and climate thoroughly dis
tasteful to them; and all for the honor
md glory Of this nation. Senator
Jreel, a soldier himself, who intro
luced the bill, will have a warm spot
in the hearts of the young warriors;
and he deserves it.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1899-03-24
aF.ArrY" MADDux.

"FATTY" MADDUx, Of paper
called the Transcript because Of the
large amount of matter from ex-
changes transcribed therein without
credit, is a huge toad in a small pud-
die out in the wilds Of Eddy county,
where raw alcohol is the principal bev-
erage and flickertail gophers the chief
article of diet. In recent. issue of
his reprint Of the state press he drops
his scissors and grabs his pen long
enough to scribble the following,
which probably refers to the great
moral lever Of which "we'' are at the
helm:
"The Emmons County Record, with
dodging around the sand hills and
in that county, trying to keep scent
on the county-seat jack-o'-lantern. A
roundup has finally been made at the
sod shanty of one Linton, a haber-
dasher who deals out axle-grease and
Spiced roll over salt barrel with a
| free hand, while Streeter shuffles buf-
falO chips into a paralytic heater, be-
sides jamming wind into the Record
through an old Washington hand
press located in the cow-shed adjoin-
ing and communicating Herewith.
The town will be greatly improved in
the spring, when a we'll will be sunk
and the water usedyto soak the epider-
mis- off the leading citizens.
Fatty" was undoub ubtedly suffering
from his chronic ailment of jim-jams
(known in medical parlance as snaki-
bus bootibus) when he launched the
foregoing on his half hundred suffer
ing subscribers, or he would have
known that Linton isn't a mans
name, and that buffalo chips are ar
extinct species except amid the cactus
barrens and prairie-dog villages o1
Eddy; that the rich soil and plentiful
grain and grasses Of Emmons county
have made our farmers wealthy
enough to drink more expensive bev
erages than water, and that wells ar,
A therefore not needed. And again, ,wh,
4 ever before heard Of a salt barrel will
free handy Washington hand
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1899-03-24
EMuONS COUNTY RECORD
BY d. r. STREETE]

BY D. r. sTREETER.
Linton, North Dakota.
Pioneer Journal Of the County.
The Record is entered at the W1lliamsport
Postodace as second-class matter.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1899-03-24
AN ex-lieutenant Governor of Nort1

AN ex-lieutenant governor of North
Dakota, Alfred Dickey, is writing
some interesting letters from Cuba to
the Jamestown Alert. He evidently
did not visit the Queen of the Antilles
for the purpose Of finding fault and
harshly criticising, forhe is agreeably
surprised to find good cooking and
plenty to eat in Havana, with tidy
chambermaids, honest servants and
cheap cabs, although he wasn't much
impressed with the cleanliness of tho
lormitories or the spotless purity .o1
the bath-tubs. He saysthat one-hal1
of the women he saw in Cuba were
dressed in black, as an emblem OF
mourning for the loss of some relative
who had fallen-ya victim to Spanisl
cruelty.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1899-03-24
We will sell for the next thirty days, at
Prices That Will uAStoniSh You.

We have well,assorted stock, bnt wisl
ct Sc saRa% aRS ss oseo
Our 121ic Linen Finish Dress
oI Go1ds fsa at .1S per var
Our 10c Outing Flannel at............ per yarc
Our 12ac Fleece Lined Dress
All kinds of Wool Flannels, Wool Hose
German Socks and Mems and Boy's 3 Mittens
at 20 per cent reduction
40 bars Of good Soap for. 81 OK
lbs of good Coffee for. 800. OK
Star and CLIMAX brands Of Tobacco, lb. q
lbs Mocha and Java Coffee. :. ............. on
IA lbs First Quality California Prunes.... l 0t
28 lbs Pure Buckwheat Flour. .......... ! O
1-gallon can Pure Maple Sirup.. -. II
good Four-Quar Tin Pail for. .......... II
A. i. CELL & CO., {.
Williamsport,N N. ID.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1899-03-24
NEw nl,ACKsrrlTH SHOP

The undersigned has opened black
smith shop at Braddock, and is pre-
pared to do horse,sh9eing, s 81 The sl, repair
line. Will also keep a good stock Of
lumber for sale. U. S. HUBBELL.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1899-03-24
BIDS FOR SCHOOL BUILDING.

Sealed bids will be received for the
erection of d school building in Gayton
school district until March %, 1899,
and opened at 2 o'clock p. m. on that
day SAID bwdng t to nasrd be dfompstsa
the right TO reject any or all bids.
Plans and specifications can be had by
calling on or addressing
u. w. CASEY, Clerk.
Gayton, N. D., March 8, 1899.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1899-03-24
TAKEN up.

Came to the premises of the under
signed, one black yearling stallion
colt; not quite a year old. Owner will
please call, pay charges and take the
animalaway, ADAM GEFRoH,
Dakem N Ds
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1899-03-24

Will the editor. OF each OF our ex.
changes, after reading this para.
graph, please ask the party I'm
charge os tho matl.list to send tho
Records COPY 70 Lfntonl
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DON'T WANT 1T.
Remarkable Unanimity of To-
peka Avenue People
From Tenth Street South to
Fourteenth Street.
Every Property Owner and Resi-
dent Living Thereon
WITH ONE EXCEPTION
Signs a Vigorous Protest
Against The
Proposed Car Line ON That
Beautiful Avenue.

The property owners and residents of
| four solid blocks were probably never
! SO unanimous on a single question as
| they are in opposition to the proposed
| street car line on Topeka avenue from
Tenth street to Fourteenth street.
Every one residing on those four
blocks, with but one exception, has
signed a protest which will be presented
| to the mayor and council at the meet
ing tonight.
The protest was not presented to resi-
dents south of Fourteenth street, be-
! cause they already have a car line,
which they wish operated, but which
the company runs cars over only at rare
intervals.
Following is the protest with the sig
natures,
To the Honorable Mayor and City Coun-
. eli of the City of Topeka
we. the undersigned citizens of Topeka.
Tenth street and Fourteenth street, re-
spectfully represent:
,FlrstLIhat Topeka avenue was origin
ally intended to be, and has been made,
one of the handsomest streets in the city
OF Topeka for public driving, and is today
the second, if not the first street utilized
by the public for pleasure driving in the
Second-That about tens years ago the
city of Topeka having used the street for
that purpose and intending it should be
used for that purpose, the people resid-
ing upon ana along said street, at great
expense, caused the same to be paved for
the purpose of furnishing a proper thor
oughfare for the people of Topeka in
pleasure driving.
Third--That the city council of Topeka
people in general and those residing along
and upon Topeka avenue, when the same
was to be paved, caused the parks alorg
Topeka avenue from Tenth to Fourteenth
streets to be widened and the street re-
duced to fifty feet in width between the
curbS
- Foqrth-And the citizens residing upon
Topeka avenue between Tenth and Four
teenth streets. caused their parks to be
in pursuance of the original idea of the
public making of said street an attractive
driving street.
F,ifth-That the people residing along
and upon Topeka avenue, from Tenth to
Fourteenth streets, have improved their
properties at great expense and cost as
a residence street and attractive driving
street for the people of the city of To-
peka, relying upon the belief that said
street was designated for that purpose
and would not be converted into a street
for traffic business.
Sixth-And further represent that about
ten years ago, by vote of the people on
| said Topeka avenue, they caused said
street to be paved at great expense, and
| have now fully paid for the same.
Seventh-And further represent that all
| the residents upon Topeka avenue from
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09
M'KINLEY AS A SMOKER.
The Presidents Nervous Condition is
Caused by Cigars.

~ Washington, May 9.-President Nc
Kinley is becoming as inveterate a
smoker as Gen. Z. S. Grant To this is
attributed the development of his nerv-
Gus condition. The president smokes
almost continuously from the time he
goes into his office in the morning at 9
o'clock until he retireS, about mid
might.
During the reception of official call
ers the president smokes. At the ca BIZ
net meetings smoking is also INDUCED
in, and whenever the door of the cabi-
net room is opened to admit a visitor
a. blue blaze of tobacco smoke is visi-
BILE.
Since the occupation of Cuba, Porto
Rico, and the Philippines by the United
States forces admirers of the president
holding commissions in the army and
navy have sent him presents of cigars.
The first specimens to reach the exec
utive mansion were from Manila They
were the familiar long black cigars of
that country Almost every officer of
the army returning from Cuba and
for the president
presentation to the chief executive, and
grown in the islands. AS a result of
this remembrance on the part of his
friends the president has a large sup
ply Of the finest cigars on hand and is
constantly smoking them
The president is a believer in the
theory that tobacco smoke is efficacfous
in stopping the neuralgia pains from
which he has been a sufferer for the
last few months
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09
ELECTRICITY FOR Baking
University Professor Starts n Horse
With a Battery After Other
Expedients Fail

Chicago, May 9.-Electricity was eff
fectively used at Evanston yesterday to
start a baking horse. Nathan Alpan,
TIP Davis street, was driving along the
lake shore toward the life saving sta
ton just before the crew started out
TO practice. The sight of the men drag
ging the surf boat frightened the ami
NAL, and it started to rear, and refused
to proceed.
After many expedients to start the
horse had failed one member of the
crew suggested that application of cleo
tricity. Chemist Samuel DebenhaQl
Gloss of the Northwestern university
was sent for, and he came with a nedi-
cal battery of 200 volts. He attached a
wire to the bit and to the horses tail,
and then turned on the current. The
astonished beast tore the reins out of
the hands of the driver, jerlSed the wires
loose, reared and then started down the
shore
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The celebration of the fiftieth ami
versary of the marriage of DR.. and Mrs
H D. Fisher a few days ago by their
Topeka friends has recalled some of
the incidents of pioneer life in Kansas
a generation ago. DIR. and Mrs. Fisher
took an active part in some of these in
cidents, and the thrilling tale of DR.
Fishers escape from Quantren in the
sacking of Lawrence has became part
of the history of the state
Coming to Kansas before the war
from Pennsylvania, where he entered
the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal
church more than fifty years ago, DR..
Fisher identified himself with all the
important measures whose fulfllment
have made Kansas an integral element
in the history of the nation for more
than a generation. An ardent abolition
ist he at once allied himself with the
free state movement and became a fac
for in the political organization of the
territory
His first church work was in Leaven-
worth and his success there was such
that after he had reached the time limit
of a pastorate allowed by the rules of
the Methodist church. two years at that
time. the people asked for an extension
of the time and the rule was broken
for the first time in the history of Meth
odism.
He was next appointed to Lawrence,
going there in 1861, a. month before the
breaking out of the civil war. When
the call to arms was sounded, DR.. Fish
er was one of the first to respond, and
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PRIVILEGED CLASS.
Jointist Threatens to Kill People WHO
Testify Against Him.

Hut Marker was convicted in police
court for selling Intoxicating liquors
and was fined 800 and his bond, for an
appeal of the case to the district court
was placed at 81, 900.
The principal witnesses were o. F.
Blenkern and H. F. Burt, students at
Washburn college and Lewis G. Stahl
who testified to having bought and paid
for beer in Markers place on jefferson
street near Third. The defense relied
on showing the young men to be spot
ters'' and proved it but Judge Guy said
that made no difference, that the evil
dence proved the prisoner guilty. When
the bond was placed at $1,000, Marker
and his attorney were somewhat sur
prised and objected.
Judge Guy said: 81 set Markers
bond high because that in such dead
open and shut case it would be merely
a dodge to appeal. I decided that the
city ought to be made secure in case
such an appeal was taken. 1t will also
serve as a reminder to other jointists
that they may expect an increase in the
amount of their fines if they continue
to run. If the cases are brought and
the evidence is strong, 1 will do my
share, according to law
Marker threatened to kill the officers
and students who arrested him and
gave testimony.
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Gra ser Whiti ms 741S Topeka axenue
l. e Bergen, 11 d2 Topeka avenue
Lima Spfvey. 100 Topeka avenue.
Annie G, Cain; 1922 Topeka avenue.
NJ K Quinfon, lis Topeka avenue.
Joab Mulyane, 1133 Topeka avenue.
Mrs. Belcher, 1888 Topeka avenue.
W n. west. 1888 Topeka avenue.
Mrs. M: Weightman. 1929 Topeka avenue.
Mrs F. Wellhouse, 1925 Topeka avenue.
Frank P. Mac Lehman, 1o19 Topeka ave-
Anna G. acLennan, 1919 Topeka ave-
nue..
L. Dietrich. 1913 Topeka avenue.
J. P. -Kearney, 1011 Topeka avenue.
4. Kearney. 1911 IT. Topeka avenue.
G. v. Myers, 1923 Topeka avenue.
Mrs. A. M B. Armstrong, 1909 Topeka
avenue.
Mrs. H. S. Dinner, 1902 Topeka avenue.
F.. ]. Dinner, 1902 Topeka avenue.
Mrs. Clara Mcclure, 1908 Topeka avenue.
S. S. Foster, 1910 Topeka avenue.
Mrs. S. S. Foster, 1910 Topeka avenue.
Mrs. J. B. Thompson, 1o14 Topeka ave
Mrs. W: Littlefe1d, 1o18 Topeka avenue.
Mrs lstle b 9GiS Topics 62a Toneka
Mrs: NJ, G, Goddard, 1924 Topeka avenue.
Edith L. Brewer, 1924 Topeka avenue.
D Dsoqo 1854 To- Tope aoPe ayen aHsh0e
1a K P Ds1: 49, 1884, Topeka Topeka
Myrtle Mae DAYS. Pay s 1884 Topeka avenue.
J. 4. Goie e'S 1880 0'1 topeka Saha avenue an9nae
Mrs y A: Cole, 1890 Topeka avenue.
Mrs A. 9nn feas Ia2 4B8 Topeke
G J. Brown, 1851 Topeka avenue.
MS l. GoTran ~ 2s goP epaka
r. I. Cofran. 1868 Topeka avenue.
Mrs c. W Snyder, 1858 Topeka avenue.
Z9ck BanSdell, 1272 Il, T9PSka avenue;
Martha B. McClintock, 121O Topeka ave
Mrs 4 RaG9n Bacon 1885 T fgss opg avenue
James NJ. French, 1854 Topeka avenue.
Mr. ame Moor ez0I 25 |GRP epsk
Mrs; James Moore, 1856 Topeka avenue.
Mrs. g j, peviin. 1901 Topeka avenue.
Mrs G. E Hawiey 1s11 Topeka avenue.
F. T. cartridge: 1875 Topeka avenue.
Retty B. Barratt, 1923 Topeka avenue.
A T. Waggqner. 1881 Top 3el avenue.
H. MoFgsP 1ss5 T ,9gs oa Avenue
s; F. Hughes, 1885 Topeka avenue.
GF f. Fl tqghf i i IoR fapeka awe
nue..
Mrs, George NJ. Crawford, 1894 Topeka
avenue.
Theo. w. Peers, 1924 Topeka avenue.
Mrs. Stella A. Peers, 1924 Topeka ave-
nue..
Mrs. E. G: Kinley, 1920 Topeka avenue.
Mary b 3, kinley, IS2o ,' Topseka avenue
NJ s McNabney; 1872 Topeka avenue.
W. W. Mills. 1902 Topeka avenue
Mrs. W. w. Mills. 1902 Topeka avenue
c. F. Menninger, 1851 Topeka avenue.
Mrs. c. F. Menninger, 1851 Topeka ave
nue..
N. F. Handy, 1878 Topeka avenue.
Mrs. n. F. Handy. 1913 Topeka avenue.
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KANSAS PIONEERS


to be at his home in Lawrence when
the town was sacked by Quantrell in
1868. When the guerillas searched the
house for him he concealed himself by
crawling under that part of the house
under which there was no cellar, re-
naming there until the guerillas set
the house on fire. Mrs. Fisher was al
lowed to remove such furniture from
the burning building as she could get
out, and her first act was to rip up a
carpet, roll her husband up in it, and
drag him out of doors, where he lay
among the guerillas who were watching
for him to run out of the burning build
ing.
DR.. Fishers later church work in
Kansas included four years as presid-
ing elder in the Baldwin City district
and successive paStOrates at Ottawa,
Atchison, MarysviLe, Wamego and
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sore, an inconvenience to the whole pub
lie, a detriment and injury to the street
driving upon said street, public express
sion of their disregard for all laws or or
of the public, but have for said period
of nine years abandoned said track with
any regard for their promises or agree
ments as to the maintenance or Keeping
of their right of way, in accordance with
the ordinances, in the streets of the city
of Topeka; a more daring and insulting
peka and rights of the people, than would
be tolerated for one day by any of its in
We therefore most empha tically protest
against the construction, maintenance or
peka avenue from Tenth street to Four
teenth street, as being wholly unneceS-
sary and not desired by either the people
other location of town. as being no bene-
fit to the street car company, other than,
perhaps, to shut off all avenues for car
grounds, and to place themselves right in
the mouth of the boulevard that is now
out of the city on Huntoon street, and
finally extending its line out said boule-
We further and most emphatically pro-
test against the further maintenance of
the nuisance and outrage committed by
said street car company in permitting the
said single street car track, which is now
on Topeka avenue, to remain there, and
request that your honorable body require
the said street car company to take up
and remove from Topeka avenue the
now existing nuisance committed there by
their abandoned tracks.
fight
A. L. Redden, 1103 Topeka avenue.
G; N; Elliott, 1107 Topeka avenue.
A. D. Robbins. 1923 Topeka avenue
Addie NJ. Robbins 1928 Topeka avenue.
Mary 3. Robbins Il5. 5 412S Topeka avenue.
Kate J. Dana, Ills Topeka avenue.
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one block of street car lines, which, if
operated according to law, would be all
the street car facilities they desire.
Eighth-And further represent that it
the City Street Car company to erect and
maintain on Topeka avenue, from Tenth
to Twelfth streets a double line of track.
and from Twelfth street south single
line CT track upon said Topeka avenue,
without the consent or advice of the city
council and contrary to the wishes. and
upon and along said street.
Ninth-And further represent that if the
ted or allowed to carry out its present
threa tened plan of constructing a double
Twelfth streets that it would practically
close up said. street for any purpose what
ever except the uses of the street car com
pany, leaving only about 1fteen feet on
either side of said street car tracks and
the curbs, making it impossible for carri-
ages to meet each other or pass between
said tracks and the curb.
Tenth-And further represent that the
eonstfuc d4 Of OF SAD d3uDIe rack as
either residing upon said street or away
from said street, but would be in utter
and pleasure of the people residing upon
said street and the public in general
construction of said threatened line of
street car down Topeka avenue would be
a benefit to no one in the city of Topeka
or the people residing upon said avenue
or any legitimate purpose for which the
said street car company was Incorporated
Twelfth-And further represent that said
street car company have maintained and
peka avenue from Tenth street to
Fourteenth street for period of nine
used or operated the same in any manner
whatever, and in absolute disregard of
to comply with a resolution of the city
council, a continuous nuisance, an eye