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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-05-16
STATE CONVENTION, JULY ~.

The Republican State Committee,
which met last Thursday at Grand Forks
voted to call the state convention al
Fargo, July 23rd. The question Of
representation was solved by taking the
lowest vote and highest vote cast for
state officers and averaging them, giving
two delegates at large to each county
and one delegate for each so republican
votes.
Under this representation the larger
counties will have as follows: Cass 68;
Grand Forks, At; Richland 3s; Walsh IS;
Pembiua 35; Cavalier 80: Barnes q;
Traill 26; Ramsey %; Morton, Benson
and Stuttsman each %; Nelson. Ransom
and Wells each 20. The total representa-
ton is very large, 744.
Some of these counties would have
lost large number of delegates if the
original resolution lad been adhered to,
to base on the lowest vote. In the case
of Pembina we would have lost only two,
as our highest vote, for Turner, was 1879
and lowest for Comstock, was 1886.
Cass county would have lost 6, Cavalier
6, Grand Forks II, Traill 10 and Walsh
4, as between the lowest and highest vote
cast for any candidate. The compromise
seemed to suit everybody as the basis
made two years ago as sort of menace,
to have been mistake.
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rNrER-poL1r1cs.

The holding of the Republican State
Convention will soon be officially made,
and thus the formal beginning of the po-
litical season announced.
From an editorial point of view, poll
tics is both welcome and unwelcome. It
is not always easy for the editor to find
matters of public interest to write about
in the off year. Not that there are not
topics, but they are of a nature that ae-
quire more thought and originality both
in selection and the treatment. While
politics is an unfailing and prolific,
though not always pleasant source OF
comment.
This paper rarely refers to politics edi-
torially in of years, at least in partizan
way, but leaves to the day the evil there.
of, believing that its readers have all the
politics they care tor during the time
from convention call to the day of elec-
ton. In discussing political questions,
we try to be fair, and win by argument
rather than by invective. In the treat
ment of candidates we prefer to consider
them as representatives of political prin-
ciples, other things being equal. That is,
we base our opposition to the candidates
of the Democratic party on the ground
that they are Democrats. and not from
personal attributes. Unless, which we
are glad to say is rarely the case, the
nominee is personally unfit for the Of
flee.
Personally and politically it is our hope
and wish that both parties shall choose
the best men they have, as candidates on
the state and county ticket;p for in that
case, if victorious, it is of more honor to
win over the strong than the weak, while
if good men are nominated by both par
ties, whichever party wins good men
will be elected and even the defeated can
rejoice over that fact.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-05-16
LESS WHEAT, MORE FLAX.

The reduced acreage of wheat in this
valley has become certainty during the
unfavorable weather of last week and no
matter how fine it may be this week or
next, it cannot make up the shortage.
From Hamilton to Wahpeton on this
side OF the Red River and similar dis
tance on the other side, on Monday of
this week, but little wheat had been
seeded, and the ground was very wet,
and IN many places the water stood over
large expanses. When we say very little
we mean just that-so small part of the
whole it would be hard to fix per cent.
For instance, good judges thought that
200 acres would be the total amount
seeded in Drayton township, up to last
Monday, which, by the way, is naturally
and artifcially one Of the very best
drained townships in the valley.
OF course there are some farmers who
have some in. in almost every locality,
but these are overbalanced by many
others who up to Monday had nothing
sowed.
Pembina, toilette and some other
towns along the north boundary are
pretty we'll done wheat seeding, as the
water which seems to have come from
the mountains and from the overflow Of
rivers that flow from thence did not
reach these townships.
Such shortage Of wheat means an in
crease Of barley and flax and already
there is question Of sufficient seed.
After this week, it is generally con-
sidered unsafe to sow wheat. though Of
course wheat can sometimes be sown q
good deal later and yet escape the fall
2frosts. Undoubtedly q good deal Of
wheat will be put in on the chance Of a
late fall. The grass. however, IS growing
well and the excess moisture has made al
good crop Of hay q certainty.
Altogether ve have had N exraor-
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AN AWFUL CATASTROPHE.

Thirty thousand people died in rain of
fire from Mount Pelee, on the island of
Martinique last week. A city of 25,OOO,
St Pierre, destroyed almost in an in
stant. with perhaps 30 souls left alive to
tell the tale.
Such is, in brief, the awful catastrophe.
So awful. so great, so complete. that it is
impossible to realize the truth. AS one
survivor graphically exclaimed, cit was
"a glimpse of hell"
Similar occurrences, though rare, and
centuries apart, are, however, matters of
written history, while the leaves Of the
earth's strata in prehistoric ages, were
painted deep with the soaring fires.
1t is indeed a strange old globe on
which we people are flying through
space. If a ship at sea had her cargo Of
coal take fire, the terror of the passen-
gers and crew would be ceaseless, though
battened matches prevented the breaking
out Of the flames; but the passengers on
this globe go sailing on with scarce a
thought of the endless raging of molten
rocks and metals that seethe below the
thin crust on which they live.
A crust SO Thin that at the bottom of a
hole but so feet deep, the interior heat is
plainly shown by thermometer, and
which, at mile deep at the same ratio,
would melt every known substance.
We think of the people living near the
volcanoes as being particularly liable to
the effects of eruptions, and forget that
all of us are only mile or two from the
melted lava under us. The islands o
the deep sea are but heads of mountains
rising from the bottom, and even this
fiat valley which we think of as so far re-
moved from volcanic action, was once
the bottom of an inland sea whose ir
regular surface was later covered evenly
over with the debris of rocks and earth
brought by glacial action.
A merciful part of the catastrophe al
st. Pierre is that subsequent appearances
seem to show that death to all was al.
most, if not altogether, instantaneous,
and caused by gases rather than the fire
The city itself was entirely consumed.
Two hundred thousand dollars has
been voted by congress for relief of the
thousands of the rest of the inhabitants,
who, spared the death of their friends
and relatives who lived at St. Pierre, are
still threatened with starvation by loss OF
their homes and plantations by streams
of lava and showers of ashes. The is
land, though small in extent, is said to
contain 180, 900 people and is therefore
very thickly populated. About 80 per
cent are blacks. The volcano is still
active and the danger is not all over.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-05-16

Now that our theory respecting the
alkali lands of this county has been veri-
fed by the practical experience OF Bro.
Wardwell, we feel more convinced than
ever of the correctness of our position.
We lacked, IN order to present an unas-
sailable theory, the very data which Bro.
Wardwell's article has furnished us. The
writer intends this summer to make a
careful chemical, analysis Of the worst
specimens of alkali soil in the vicinity, in
order to determine the exact percentage
of alkall presented. Sherarts, in Ham
ilton Independent.
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Pembina, April %, 1902.

Pembina County Teachers Examination.
In accordance with Section No. 74O, of
the General School Laws of North Da-
kota; the next examination Of applicants
for teachers certificates will be held for
Pembina county in the public school
houses in Pembina and Bathgate, on
May 30 and 81, 1902. Examination will
begin at 8 a. m. and will be conducted
according to the program and regula-
tons Of the Dept. of Pub. Inst.
q w. ]. ALEXANDER,
] Supt. of Schools,
May 7th 1892. Pembina, N. D.
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The Pioneer Express.
STATESMEN VS. GENERALS.

Editor Wilson, Of the Pink Paper,
takes exception to our editorial on the
subject of soldiers VS. statesmen, and
hands up number of examples of the
combined sorts of genius to prove that
we are wrong.
Hannibal, Caesar. Napoleon, Moses,
Bismarck, Washington, are some of his
examples of the combined soldier and
statesman, and perhaps according to
Brother Wilson's ideas of what consti-
tutes statesman and great general
they fill the bill, but not according to
our notions; and iftrue they would only
be exceptions to general truth.
Hannibal, we know to have been
somewhat of an unsuccessful general,
and Caesar got hole in his coat where
a dagger ran through. Caesar was also
good writer of his own generalship,
but the craftsmanship of Rome and pre-
vious nations was almost purely that of
muscle. Rome was mistress of the world
because of the prowess of her soldiers,
and she, like the nations before her, lost
her grip when luxury and opulence dissi-
pated their strength.
Moses-and here we must tread gently.
for the poet has said that he was the
greatest of warriors and OF statesmen
but the Red Sea incident was not of
Moses generalship, and he commanded
an army which afterwards under General
Joshua blew down the stone walls of a
city with blast on rams horns.
Napoleon was general-but if he had
been statesman, he would have been
Emperor of France in those same. years
he spent as prisoner on st. Helena. If
he had been statesman. he would have
been satisfied to have been Emperor of
living Frenchmen, rather than to have
drained the life blood and treasure of
France to satisfy his ambition to rule all
Europe.
Bismarck wac no more general than
Won Moltke was statesman. Bismarck
and Gladstone were alike statesmen, as
that term is applied. in these modern
days, when brains are fully more power
full in shaping ends than armies. q
Washington undoubtedly combined
the military and statesman qualities to
greater degree than any other Of Brother
Wilson's examples, but Washington
was the commander Of small and scatter.
ed forces and the success Of the revolu-
ton was not so distinctly result Of
Washington's military genius, as Of many
other incidental circumstances. The
revolutionary war was, in military
sense, much like the present war ia
South Africa, in which the Beers have
NOT produced any remarkable generals.
but have shown q wonderful individual
and subordinate official, fighting ability.
and if they. like America, could have
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-05-16

MISS Maud Glow, Of Humboldt, ha:
been visiting at her brothers.. at Hoople
Scarlet fever has struck Neche. d. w
Young's wife and eldest son Albert are
i'll with the dread disease.
II pr. c. Adamson, who was a druggis,
at Leroy and later at Bimldji, Minn., died
at the latter place May 9th.
The steamer Grand Forks took down
load of wheat from the Robin eleva.
tor last week: the first of the season.
Mr.. w. F. Garrett andl Miss Bertha
Scofleld were married at Minot on Nav
9th. They will live at Towner, N. D.
w. H. Hassing, formerly of the Hamil-
ton x-Rays, has sold his Jackson County
Argus and will embark in some other
business.
Mrs. F. M. Sherarts. of Hamilton, will
leave shortly for their claim in Nelson
county. Prof. Sherarts will follow as
soon as school closes.
Peter McMartin, of St. Thomas, has
moved his family to Pembina, where he
will work some of the old Fort Pembina
land for O'Conner Bros.
The heavy timbers of the old Com
missary building at Fort Pembina, were
purchased by the Bathgate Roller Mills,
and will be used as frame work for a
new elevator to be erected this fall.
The death of Velma, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. D. o. McGinn, aged three
years, is announced by the Mountaineer.
as having occurred at Walhalla on Tues
day.
DIR. Edward M. Ely, of Drayton, and
Miss Gertrude Mills. of Kingston, Ont,
were married at the brides home. They
will commence housekeeping at once in
the residence of David Reed.
Mr.. John Story and Miss Laura Rich.
ardson were united in marriage at St.
Thomas, May 9th. Both have made ST.
Thomas their home for a number o1
years and are we'll and favorablv known
there.
IF. Mayer is building fat-bottomed
boat TO run by gasoline power for use
about the dam repairs and to do excur
sion business for summer visitors, a
Walhalla and I. F. wouldn't be happ,
unless he had some new thing runnin,
by machinery on hand.
John v. Anderson sustained bad fal
last week. He was on ladder fixine
the cave trough on the main part of A
H. Wallace's store building, when the
bottom of the ladder slipped on the tir
roof of the store house below, letting
him fall heavily to the lower roof. One
of the bones in the leitfoot was broken
Measles and mumps are still prevalent
in Cavalier. Miss Minnie Huffman, the
intermediate teacher, was taken ill las,
week with the measles. Prof. Mills
family have also been having the measles
but the Prof. is boarding at the hotel un.
til such time as the family are restored to
health again. thus not endangering either
himself or the school.
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
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had the assistance Of France, perhaps the
issue would have been the same.
But our article referred particularly to
our own times and political phases.
rather than to ancient history-but not
as Brother Wilson infers, to any par
ticular partizan phase-and we repeat,
that in the light of history, it would, as a
rule, be better for the soldier to keep his
mouth shut, abjure public shows, and
steer clear OF politics as partizan.
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Pambina Public School Examination.

The next regular State final examina
tons for completion of common schoo
subjects (years Z and 81 will be held il
Pembina County on May % and %, 1902
The examination will be held at conven.
lent places, and according to the pro.
gram furnished by the County Superin.
tendent-No pupils should be permitted
to enter High School who do not com.
plete these examinations.
w. ]. ALEXANDER,
Co. Supt. of Schools.
Pembina, April %. 1902.
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dinary spring, not so very cold-but not
warm-and snow on May 9th that lay all
night, is certainly out of season, and un-
til this week, very few days that a fire
could be dispensed with in the houses.
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Entered at the postofice at Pembina as second
class mail matter.
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Mich Cows.

Two nice milk cows for sale, one
fresh, other coming in in few weeks.
42-43 CHAs. O'HARA.
Graham guardian., 1902-08-15

The Department of Agriculture
reports that 100000 acres Of land
are devoted to the cultivation Of
the sugar beet.
Graham guardian., 1902-08-15
A YOUNG LADY'S LIFE SAVED
At Panama, Colombia, by Cham
bGrlain's Collie, Cholera and
DiarrhOea Remedy.

DR.. Chas. H. Utter, a prominent
physician, Of Panama, Colombia,
in recent letter states: "Last
March | had as a patient a young
lady sixteen years Of age, who had
a very bad attack Of dysentery.
Everything l prescribed for her
proved Intellectual and she was
growing worse every hour. Her
parents were sure she would die.
She had become so weak that she
could not turn over in bed. What
to do at this critical moment was
study for me, but | thought Of
Cham berlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy, and as a last
resort prescribed it. Within eight
hours she was feeling much better;
inside of three days she was upon
her feet and at the end of one week
was entirely we'll" For sale by
Stafford Drug Co., Stafford; H. P.
Wightman, Pima.
Graham guardian., 1902-08-15
One On tha Drummer.

One day last week several trav-
cling men gathered at one Of the
hotels, swapping yarns, and, as is
usually the case, some Of their ex-
periences made interesting stories.
% Back on the road, at IA coun-
try hotel, ! heard waiter girl
give Il fresh drummer call down
that was pretty apt" said one.
"Thc youth was new on the
road, and, as | said before, was
rather fresh.
One morning, us be sat down
to breakfast, the girl placed before
him one Of those tiny pitchers
filled with milk.
Mr.. drummer picked it up,
scrutinized it, and said to the girl :
Is that all the milk you give?
The girl sized him up, and an
swered, in Il cold, tired kind of
way: Yes, that is all the milk |
give; but, if ! was us blamed
fresh as you arc, I'd give whole
buckctful.'
Graham guardian., 1902-08-15
information Wanted.
Chicago, Ill, Aug. s.. 1902

EDITOR GUARDIAN: Ny hus-
band, Mr.. Fank Novotny Of 1856
West 10Th street, Chicago, left on
Tuesday night, March l1th, 1902,
for Phoenix, Arizona, arriving
there on Saturday, March 10th.
He staid there until the 10Th,
and from there he went to Tucson
and was last seen and spoken to
by Mr. W. r. Taylor, the city
marshal Of Tucson on April 18th.
Since April 18th, l have not heard
from him and as he always wrote at
least once q week, | am led to
believe that something has hap
pened him. | was informed by
the town marshal of Tucson
that Judging from the conversa-
tion he had with my husband, he
was going back to Phoenix or
in that direction north to some
Of the mining camps. Acting on
this Information, l wrote to all
the different mines in Arizona,
asking them if my husband was
employed or had applied for work,
and they have no such person
in their employ.
My husband had not been very
well, and thought that the climate
in Arizona would benefit him,
so concluded to go there and find
work in the mines or anywhere
so he could at least pay his
expenses until he felt better, and
would then return home.
He was a man of Bohemian
nationality, fifty-eight years of
age, brown and gray mixed hair,
weight about 200 pounds, dressed
in working clothes, wore a black
slouch hat, dark blue cutaway
coat, black vest, dark trousers
with stripes, black shirt with
white stripes, also wore belt
around his pants, had full smoth
face, and one tooth was missing
in the upper jaw on the right side
Of his face, he also wore a rupture
belt around his waist.
Dear Sir, hope you will try
and assist me by publishing an
account Of the toregoing in your
paper which may be factor in
finding the whereabouts of my
husband. The Chicago papers
were all anxious to publish it as
news, but as | did not think it
would do any good, they advised
me to write you my story and
that you would gladly publish
same. Am willing to pay
reward to any paper or person
who can furnish me with informa.
ton regarding my husband.
Hoping am not asking too
much Of you, | am,
Respectfully yours,
Mrs. MINNIE NOVELTY
1856 West 10Th Street
Chicago I'll.
Graham guardian., 1902-08-15
Notice.,

For Sale - One four year-old
horse and new buggy.
j. G. BELT.
Graham guardian., 1902-08-15
THE Agricultural Department

THE Agricultural Department
has received the gratifying infor-
nation that the largest tree in the
world stands upon government
property in the Sierra Nevada
mountains. 1t was measured six
feet from the ground and found to
be l54 feet s inches in circum-
ference, aud, consequently, 81 feet
in diameter. 1t was discovered by
a party Of hunters recently, and
immediate steps will be taken to
see that its life is spared.
Graham guardian., 1902-08-15
Forest Reserve,

The following from the Tucson
land Office is self explanatory:
"PIease make note Of the fact
that the president has issued his
proclamation creating the Mount
Graham Forest Reserve, as recon-.
meuded by the Special Agents
report.
Very Respectfully,
MILTON r. MOORE,
Register"
Now that the reserve has been ere.
ated a supervisor and deputies will
be appointed to protect the timber
against fire aud other destruction.
Mills will be allowed to cut timber
under proper restrictions. All
who desire to use timber will have
to make application for same to
the land office.
Graham guardian., 1902-08-15

Rear Admiral Henry G. Taylor,
Chief of the Bureau Of Navigation
of the Navy Department, says
while the allowance of eplistments
for the Navy is now 25,O00, that 40
000 will soon be needed TO man
the new ships to be constructed,
Three deaths trom bubonic
plague occurred in San Francisco
during July, and constituted the
only cases in the country.
Graham guardian., 1902-08-15

Train No. 1 connects with Southern Pacif,
train No. 19, eastbound leaving Maricopa a.
l0:0S y. m
Train No. connects with Southern Pacific
train No. 20, westbound, leaving Maricopa a.
5:36 q. IN.
Connections made at Phoenix with S. F.; z. 5
P r. r. for Prescott and Congress.
Connections at Mesa with stage for GOldtcid
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays AZ 1850
a.; for Florence and Globe, Tuesdays, Thur,
lays and Saturdays at clock q. IN.
Strains stop on signal.
Pullman Palace Sleeping cars on all train.
between Phoenix and MGricOpe.
Y K. MASTEN, B. f. PORTER,
President GeO'l sup
NJ. o. BICKNEt D."
Gent Ftt SnC 'gt
Graham guardian., 1902-08-15
First publication Aug. 5, 1862.
Notice for Publication.
Homestead Entry No. 3a57,

Hom tcud Entry No. :B2j7,
LAND OFFICE AT Tucson. ARIZONA,
August 2 1902
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make commutatfon final proof in support of
his claim, and that said proof will be made he
fore the Clerk of the District Court at Solomon
vile, Arizona. on Saturday, Sept. II, 1902. viz
John 4. Goding, of Stafford, Arizona, for the
Lot s. of section !, township Z south, range .
east, and Lot ., of section 6, township south.
range %, east, g. and 5. r. b. and NJ.
He names the following witnesses TO prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land viz:
Peter o. Peterson, George skinner james Tai
ley and Hinton MullcnaX, all of Stafford, Ari-
ZonO. MILTON r. MOORE,
RcCiZtCr.
Graham guardian., 1902-08-15
BROTHERHOOD OF LETTERS.

If you desire to study either, or
more than one Of these branches,
Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry,
Trigonometry, English, Latin,
Greek, Bookkeeping, etc, at home,
and have both "by mail" and
personal" instruction, address
BROTHERHOOD OF LETTERS,
DUNCAN, ARIZONA.
Graham guardian., 1902-08-15
Register.
Money Needed for Schools.

Estimated minimum amounts re-
quired to maintain the schools of
Graham county from July l, 1902,
to June 30, 1908, made by the
county school superintendent of
Graham county, Arizona Terri
tory: