The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-02-25
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The Grand Forks Herald says rural
telephone line will be built from Tower
\ City to Page in the spring. This will be
one more page in the history Of North
Dakota development.
Last week We thought Nsrth Dakota
wasa pretty cold country and were
figuring on navigating but when the re-
ports came in from out side we found
AS we used to think, that we were in the
the banana belt.
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We always knew the Eagle was a bird
Of prey but the "Eagle" owned by E. r.
johnson, Of Flaxton seems to bring in
some, big game, for he now advertises as
follows: Two COWS and three pigs for
sale at the Eagle Office.
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The Donnybrook says the Currier
man sees double these days when he
thinks the Mirror man is on the brink
of the grave. We challenge him to
contest of marbles, eating pie or turning
Jack. The Independents money is up
on ssClark.
The st. Paul Dispatch has quite a
lengthy article on Disputed Boundaries.
It mentions the shifting boundaries of
Asia, the flexible lines Of South Ameri-
ca, the uncertain margins of Central
America, great big Africa that has never
been measured off at ALL the disputed
coast line in North America and even
the little squabbling over an island in
the Mississippi. I'VE can add another
item to this list Of disputed boundaries
for who can tell us whether or not there
is another county in between Ward and
Bottineau?
The editor Of the optic throws up
his hands in holy horror at the thought
of hayinga Sanatorium for conservatives
established in Minot and remarks that
consumption is catching We were
under the impression that the editor of
the Optic had already chad" about all
the contagious diseases that flesh is
hoir rs hot i
have no terrors for him. But the estab-
fishing of State Sanatorium at Minot
instead Of increasing the danger OF con
tracing the dread disease will have a
tendency to stamp it out. Every pre-
caution is taken to prevent the spread OF
small +pox, and yat statistics show that it
is not as much to be dreaded as concump-
zion It is high time that the State
took some measures to STAMP out the
worst disease known to medical science
At the present thine we are exposed on
all sides to this disease. And we may
never know when we are up against it.
It is now an established fact that tuber-
culoasis in its early stages can be cured
and the sooner North Dakota takes
some steps towards stamping out the
disease the better for her citizens. As
to the location of sanatorium. we can
not see any reason why it should not as
well be located at Mint as any other
point in the state
The Optic raises an awful howl about
the deplolable lack of funds with which
to carry out Improvements that are need
ed in this city. 1t says: Now that every
avenue OF revenue has been cut off there
is but one thing feltsfor.the administra-
ton to do and that is to raise the assess
lnent to pint that will afford sufficient
revenue to carry on the cities business.
Does Mcclure mean to Say that be-
cause the pigs are shut down and
their operators are languishing in Jail
that every sourse Of revenue is cut off.
II any money was ever collected from
those diabolical places it is our opinion
it went into the hands of private parties
and was never intended for the city
treasury. The whole tenor of the Optic
is so absurd, 50 distingushsngly reaiSn-
lous in this respect that his writings
need no further comment. Such editor
ials the "OpticD prints about city
affairs merit only the contempt of the
reader. Instead Of trying to lift up and
elevate, the Optics sole aim seems to be
to tear down the reputation Of Minot in