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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-11-30

travagance.
The price Of land has not deprecated
as n%oticeably here in value during the
past eight years as it has all through
the east and south, and the reason as
signed seems to be borne out by the
results, when we claim It is so be-
cause it has never reached its value in
worth, measured by its productiveness.
If we but bring properly to the notice
Of the thousands of poor, hard-scrab-
bling tenants Of our sister states, east
and south, who are yearly dividing
with the landowners all save enough
for a bare existence, under the most
rigid habits of economy, could they
help but grasp the opportunity to
break away and establish themselves
upon a tract Of land, which, for a few
months of toll, would make them the
owner of a home OF their own, worth
at least $1,000?
In the diversity of farming which
is generally conceded as the safer and
more practical system, I would par
ticularly call attention to stock-rais-
ing. Our b%oundless prairies produce
a variety of sweet and nutritious
grasses, which have no superior as fat
producers on all farm animals, never
losing sight of the fact that the stock
We are raising, besides giving employ
ment during slack seasons, are fed
largely on small grain, roots and ma
terial that would otherwise be a dead
loss, and in raising stock we have an
ever-present cash commodity for sale
for cash every week in the year, to the
most of us a welcome recourse to avail
ourselves Of in time of emergency.
M. F. VAN DE BOGART,
.. Farmer.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-11-30
WASHBURN CITY
CONTINUED from First Page.)

cipal city of the upper Missouri Cope
country. Its natural location and trans
portation facilities assure a steady and
healthful growth. In the past few years
it has nearly doubled both in population
and in amount of business transacted.
1t is the center, not only Of a grain. and
cattle country but of a thriving coal in
dustry, which is destined to prove n of
its most important adjuncts. The mines
of John Satterlund, where is the best
deposit of Ignite coal in the state, are
but a few miles from the village. These
will be opened in another year with a
line of railroad and the work at the mire
will add much to the wealth and bust
ness OF the community.
Washburn is an admirable site for
homes. Many have been erected in the
past few years. The Washburn Town
site company had laid out the most
picturesque portion of the city in resi-
dence lots. A system of water works
and an electric light plant are matters
of but a little time.
A plant for the '%bricquetting of Ignite
coal will be established at Washburn
next year. This plant will convert lig-
mite coal into bricquettes, resembling
anthracite coal in appearance and heat
ing qualities, and burning with a fierce
heat. Such a plant will employ thous-
ands of employees, and will add much to
the growth and prosperity of Washburn.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-11-30

is not exactly perfect. Let those who
wish for perennial spring, or perpetual
autumn remember that variety is the
spice of life," and. that the north tenn
perate zone, with its variety Of CHM
ate, is the most important in the
world. It is the track of the empire
which shows the finest material devel-
opment, the greatest commercial &C
tivity and the most perfect combina-
ton Of conditions necessary to pro-
mote and sustain a high standard OF
civilization. Here We have winter,
with its ice, snow and glowing fires,
with all the accompanying enjoyments
and delights. Just as we tire of these
and long for a change, comes spring,
giving life to bud, blossom and leaf,
and filling the air with the song OF
birds. Spring gently melts with
summer, when flowers bloom to the
fullest and harvest mature. Still an
other change; autumn is here, laden
with fruits and the products OF the
field. This is the varied climate with
which we are blessed, and yet some
are disconnected with it. But some
people wouldn't be pleased If they
owned the earth. If variety is indis-
pensable to enjoyment, we certainly
have a climate best suited to give
pleasure to the many, though the few
pine in discomfort.
North Dakota is in the heart Of the
worlds girdling belt Of prosperity,
health and enterprise. It is a state
of which every citizen can well be
proud. In education It leads all other
states, having a smaller per cent OF
illiterate than any other state in the
union. 1t stands pr%e-eminently at
the head Of all western states as a
prosperous and well-governed COM
monwealth. Her soil is q bank which
yields quickly and literally to all de-
mands. The climate is healthful;
rivers and springs abound: we'll water
is easily obtained; the rainfall is sufa-
cient; railroads penetrate every Sec
ton, and the state and county build
ings are built. 1t lies in the great
grain belt of the United States, the
chief food-raising region Of the world.
The newcomer to North Dakota en-
korc M uyi1Iorroco nor 10 no crh3onfo6
to the Inconvenience and dangers Of
pioneer life. Schools, churches, So
cial and benevolent orders, news
papers, stores, warehouses, markets,
telegraphs and telephones, express
lines, mail routes, railroads and wagon
roads are already established, and ev-
cry comfort OF modern civilization can
be had within its borders. In the
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-11-30
What Renters Do.

The renter in the east expends his
energies for others. To occupy and be-
gin the cultivation of a free North Da-
kota homestead means the creation at
once of a property worth $1,000 or
more, and every year thereafter the
equivalent of a laboring mans wages
back east will be added to the value
of the farm. Are you living on a rented
farm back east? Have you teams and
farming implements? By all means
come to North Dakota and get a farm
of your own, and in a fow years time
you can become worth more money
than you a make in a lifetime where
you are now. The improvements you
make on a farm will be your own.
All farmers with large families and
moderate means can do better in this
country than in any region in the
United States. Those who have a mort
gagged home east had better sell and
come west and buy a new n with what
they can save out of the wreck. Any
young farmer who controls from $500 to
$1,000 a grow into independence here.
Those who have stock and machinery,
but no land, can come here and rent
land and buy a home from the profits of
the first season. Quarter sections, 100
acres, now owned by mortgage COM
panies, can be had at from $3.50 to ST.
900, often on time. They are worth
$500. One crop will more than pay.
for the land. The land costs less than
the rental for one year in the eastern
states. The industrious and sober men
are the. a%ristocrats of North Dakota.
They become the men of wealth and
standing. The only classes here are the
thrifty and shiftless; the state is con
trolled by the farmer.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-11-30
The State of North Dakota.

The area of the state of North Da-
kota is 1882 square miles. One
eighteenth of this vast domain was
granted to the state by congress for the
support of public schools. This would
amount, in round figures, to 1,130
square miles, a%ggregating over $4,000
acres. These lands cannot be sold
for less than $40 per acre. Those sold
have averaged upwards of $50, being
those in the settled portion Of the Red
River valley, largely. The principal
arising from the sale of these lands can
never be depleted. Only the income
can be used. The funds arising from
their sale is invested in state, county,
city, district and United States bonds,
principally, and, to a limited extent, in
first class farm mortgages. The lands
are sold on time when it is desired, the
interest being paid into the school
fund. All fines for violation OF any
law Of the state r paid into the school
fund, and these with the interest on
the permanent school fund and a 2
mill tax on all property in the state
constitutes a fund which twice a year
is apportioned to the several districts
according to the number of pupils in
the public schools. The fund now
pays a considerable portion of the ex-
pense Of maintaining the public
schools. The remainder is provided
for by special taxes levied by the peo-
pie Of the district ait their school town
ship meetings. The amount expended
for the support Of schools in 1897 was
$500, 637. The value of school prop
erty in the state is $SO,4Ss,5O includ-
ing the value of the land granted to the
state for school purposes.
The school system Of the state en-
braces the high school, the normal
schools and the university. Pupils are
prepared for the university in the high
schools. Teachers are prepared in the
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-11-30
FENCES.

In North Dakota the farmer is not
required to fence against stock. It is
not allowed to run at large in the we'll
settled districts, and only the pastures
are fenced. Thus considerable ex-
pense is saved the new conner, for he is
not required to enclose his fields. BY
such an arrangement the great expense
of fencing, as well as the necessity
therefor, is dispensed with.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-11-30

Write Eugene D. Case, manager, 800
Guaranty Bldg, Minneapolis, Mimi,
for full information relative to the w.
d. Washburn lands in Mclean and
Burleigh counties, North Dakota.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-11-30

Write Eugene D. Case, manager, 800
Guaranty Bldg, Minneapolis, Minn.,
for full information relative to the w.
d. Washburn lands in Mclean and
Burleigh counties, North Dakota.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-11-30

A Farmers Experience.
It is said every rose has its thorn,
and the only discomfort expressed
about this country is that the climate
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-14

With the necessity for economy very
few schools are likely to be built, and
it will be impossible to enlarge the
teaching staff to any great extent. Yet
the strain upon the resources of the
Education Department is going to be
very great, District after district sends
in it's request for additional school ac-
commodations and for more teachers.
The advent of the Porto Ricans is fair
ly swapping some of the local schools.
In one place The Star is informed, some
thirty-five or forty Porto Rican children
are being taught under a large tree,
there being no accommodation for them
in the school houses. This is all right
when the weather is fine, but when it
rains school has to close.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-14
GOOD CREDIT.

Some writer speaking of the recent
and additional British loan of 100000
900 or $500 coo, 600, said that the Beers
had only to continue their guerrilla tao
tics for a little while longer and Bri-
fish credit would come to an end and
De Wet would get what he wanted. The
said writer might have been brilliant,
but he certainly had not looked into the
facts The new loan shows the wonder
full confidence felt in British finance,
and the particular confidence felt in it
by American financiers, also other
great financial centers, and shows a
wealth of reserve capital.
The loan was divided in half, $4,000
600 was placed in advance with syndi-
Gates, $3.50, 100000 were offered for open
subscription. The interest is two and
three-quarters per cent which is liable
to reduction to two and one half per
cent in 1903 but ;ne principal is not re-
deemable until lg-. Moreover the in
terest payment ase subject to re-
duction for income tax The popularity
of the loan, or rather the advantage
seen by financial people in the loan is
shown by the fact that when the sub
scription closed it was found that the
allotments would be from ten to twelve
per cent of the amounts applied for.
That is to say from eight to ten times
the amount of money asked for was Of
fered by people who were willing to get
two and three quarters per cent inter-
est for two years, and two and half
per cent after that subject to the vary
ing needs of the British income tax
which is at present a shilling and a
penny in the pound of taxable incomes.
All incomes derived from bonds are
taxable while incomes from earnings
up to a certain amount at the present
time as far as memory serves &150, or
$3.50, are exempt from taxation, though
the exemption some times runs as low
as ESQ or $3.50.
AS far as British credit is concern
ed, 1t certainly appears to be in very
healthy condition. If the treasurer of
our Territory could make loan on such
terms he would be a very happy indi-
vidual and public works would boom
from Ka Lac in Hawaii to Haena in
Kauai However in Great Britain as in
the United States there are patriotic
affairs, and do not devote themselves to
personal chickering's, auarrelling with
parties, but they join in financial mea-
sures for the good of the whole body
polite. 1t is of course almost an alb
surdity to compare great with small,
but it is a fact which the Star has
learned from bankers here and in Cali
fornia that had we had a capable Legis-
lature we could have placed loan on
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-14

The arrival of a comet is always a
matter of interest to the inhabitants
of the world. In former days comets
were regarded as potents relating to the
rise and downfall of monarchs. Those
were the days when the Gods were sup
posed to busy themselves about mum
dane affairs, a notion which came down
to Christian times with their doctrine
of the divine right of kings, which the
divine rights of the people have knock
ed into a cooked hat. The announce
ment of a comet appearing in the wes-
tern sky sent plenty of people comet
hunting. At present the comet is small
but as it nears the earth it may grow
bigger. One never knows what a comet
may prove. Pacific Heights will be-
come a popular observatory for comet
hunters. The electric 1ights in town
bother one, but they are easily elimin-
ated by placing the open palm just un-
der the eyes.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-14

more favorable terms than ever In the
history VI the Islands.
Now let us consider the part that the
United states took in the English loan.
OF the one half Of the loan which was
placed before the public had chance
to subscribe. the American capitalists
had considerable share, though II is
not stated how much. 1t was of suf-
iicient magnitude, however, to rouse
compliment to American finance, for 1t
one Of the chief representatives of Anne
rican finance was permitted to influence
the British Exchequer in the arrange
ment of it's loan. But this is only
complaint to American finance, for 1t
shows that nothing can be done in a
great financial way, without the Anne
rican capitalist having a leading inter-
est in the matter. These things used to
be swung by British and Continental
bankers formerly, of whom the Roth
childs may be taken as a type in the
present era, and the Fuggers in the
middle ages. But great and potent as
these names are and were, there are
firms in the United States which are
quite their equals as j. p. Morgan and
Company of New York, Barring, Ma
gown and Company of the same city,
Drexel and Company of Philadelphia
and Kidder and Peabody of Boston.
Not only did the American financiers
have a considerable share of that half
of the loan that was placed" but
they have manipulated one third of
that which was for open subscription.
OF the $4,000, 900 so offered, 10000, 900
or $5O,0OO,0OO has been taken by an
American syndicate. A very consider
able quantity of the stock has been
taken by the large insurance companies
in the East. The shrewdness of the
American financier is moreover shown
by the fact that the market price of the
new loan has risen to a premium of one
per cent above the issue price.
This is worth careful thought. 1t
marks an advance in the money mar
kets of the world which is unprecedent-
ed. 1t further marks the wisdom of the
financial policy of the Republican party.
With Organism rampant in the United
States, there never would have been the
present financial success, for our finan-
ces with his party's legislation would
have been in a chaotic condition.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-14

Another Professor has left Stanford,
basing his reasons for resignation upon
the dismissal of Professor Ross. 1t
will be remembered that after eXamin-
versity professors throughout the main
land gave it as their opinion that Pro-
fessor Ross was right. The names of
the signers of the document We're the
most eminent on the mainland. Stan
ford has received a serious blow and
died
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-14
THE STATESMAN CARDINAL.

From the appearance of things It be-
gins to look as If one of the self-con-
stituted leaders of the Home Rule
party, he never was an elected leader,
is beginning to lose his grip. Represen-
tative Emmeluth during the previous
session had little or nothing to say
about the so-called officers club. but
he was out yesterday with some very
serious denunciations of that institu
ton. and naturally he had to have a
fling at the Governor because it exist
ed t"
The Governor is a terrible bugbear to
the stico-anarchistico- nihilistico
statesman. One feels that when the
statesman's beef is not properly cooked
he must curse the governor. If the
milk goes sour, it is because the Cover
nor has not gone. Should the harness
get awry upon the fast trotter, un-
doubtedly the fault of the Governor.
In that little assault case of some
months ago undoubtedly the states
man must have thought that he was
taking it out of the Governor with his
carriage whip.
The Governor must be the "bete noir"
of Representative Emmeluth. There
can be and is nothing good in him. One
is reminded of the curse which the Car
dinal, Lord Archbishop of Rheims once
pronounced. 1t might be altered to run
thus:
The statesman" he rose with a very
wild look,
He called for his candle, his bell and
his book,
In holy anger, yet chastened love.
He solemnly cursed that rascally Gov.
He cursed him at board, he cursed him
in bed; .t.
From the sole of his foot to the crown
of his head;
He cursed him in sleeping, that every
night ..s....
He should dream of the Statesman"
and wake in fright;
He cursed him in eating, he cursed him
in drinking,
He cursed him in coughing and sneez-
ing and winking;
Never was heard such a terrible curse!
But what gives rise
To no little surprise,
The Governor seems not one penny the
worse
10 attack the GONeTnOT through Ine
officers club, that stronghold of Rep
resentative Emmeluth's own party, is
a very weak act indeed, and shows
clearly that the grip is going. Not so
long ago the Representative stated in
The Star that he had located $4,000 of
the money which had been given in
brides. He might go a step further and
find out who supplies the liquor for the
officers club, and who drinks it. The
Governor neither does the one nor the
other. One hardly heard of the officers
club till the Home Rulers made it no
torious. Before the advent of that party,
it must have been sedate and modest
organization. Hunt up the Home Rul-
ers" should be Statesman Emmeluth' S
motto.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-14

The Porto Ricans claim that they
suffer from a peculiar form of itch
which may be mistaken for small poX.
This is rather a tough" statement TO
swallow, and is evidently not credited
by our physicians. Still there have been
cases where our physicians have been
totally wrong in their diagnosis of
diseases. Doctors are by no means in
fallible. This, however, is certain, that
there is great deal of itch among the
poorer classes in Honolulu. There is
always more or less itch, especially
among the children in schools whose
pupils are drawn from the slums, but
there is a regular epidemic of it at the
present time.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-14

The Supreme Court seems to be salts
fed that the ruling of the Attorney
General in regard to the Governors
signature and is preparing to change it's
program. This viii undoubtedly be
denounced as un-American by the
statesmen from the fifth district.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-14

1t does not seem as if a reduction of
the police force would be wise in view
of the increase of the turbulent classes
which is going on monthly.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-14

Meat competition is likely to mean
meat combine, and then of course prices
will go up. Pleasant prospect for the
already overburdened housekeeper
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-14

have a good word to say for their bre-
thern in Honolulu.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-09-19

John Herziger, son Of Alderman Her
ziger, OF Neenah, Wis, and Vice Presi-
dent of the Neenah Young Mems Club,
writes in a recent letter to The Pc
runa Medicine Co., of Columbus, Ohio,
the following:
s.Affer suffering for two years with
kidney trouble received relief and .
cure from using your wonderful medi-
cine, Peruns.
''F0r months was unable to work
on account of a severe pain In my hack,
and when / was able to do anything
wss In pain and distressed most of the
time.
"Hssring 20 much Of the good re-
suits people had obtained through the
use Of Peruna determined to give II Z
trial and II was . lucky day for me
when / did 50. am well now and II
only took few bottles Of Peruns. -
John Herziger; 5O7 Commercial street.
NeenAh, WIS.
Two years suffering with catarrh OF
the kidneys, unable to work on account
of the severe pain; could find no relief
from medicine; gave Peruna trial and
was promptly cured-such was the ex-
perience Of John Herziger of Wisconsin.
This experience has been repeated
many times. Not only In Wisconsin
but in every state In the Union. 1t was
indeed lucky day for this young man
when his attention was called to Pc
runa. What would have been the result
had he continued suffering on and fool