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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-03-19
Pantorium--M Mckinley building

Pantorium--McGinley building.
The only way to build up a town is
to patronize your own institutions:
your own merchants, shops, and
printer. AS these grow and thrive
new improvements are added. the
new supplies are kept in greater
amounts and the town as a conse-
auence grows. When you send
away your orders to be filled, you
are knocking those who are trying
to increase the value of your own
farm and your own property.
W. are glad to furnish this week
correspondence from our neighboEs
at East Wicker and Ingersel, and
hope to continue the same. In Or
der to have it the easiest to reach,
it is on the rear page. Read 1t and
get acquainted. Our circulation
reaches the 1900 mark this week,
and the new advertising evidences
the recognition of increasing value
to our subscribers. We appreciate
neighboray visit FROM friends.
Our Handy Andy engine which
has for the past year and a half
dds )grsced our Office, was torn out
Monday, and a new and more mod
ern engine was installed. For the
past two weeks Handy Andy has
felt that something was going to
happen and has tried to redeem
itself in the eyes of the manage
ment this Office; but Handy has
been discarded, and we hope to be
saved many "quiet hours" with a
gasoline engine from this time Tor
ward. The new engine is not
"stuek up, at all, and seems to fill
a "long felt want"
We are notgoing to mention any
names, but they are telling a good
joke on two of our young ladies
who have claims near Washburn.
One day this week they decided
to move out on their claims and
they proceeded to pack up the
articles needed to make life on a
claim homelike. they proceeded to
their destination. After sending
their team back to town the two
young ladies began to examine
their property and discovered that
all the bed clothes they had brought
with them was one blanket. A
walk of tive miles for more bedding
was any thing but a cheerful pros
pect, but they made the trip all
right and our informant says the
last seen of the young ladies they
were going towards their claims
with a red blanket under each arm
and one carrying a lantern.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-03-19

Game to my place, a horse pony,
light bay about 8 years. old, white
hind feet and in face; left ear split.
JOHN FLEMMER,
Sec. 8, Twp. 145-79. EASTMAN, N. ID
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-03-19

The city election Tuesday passed
off very quietly, there being but
one ticket in the field. The fol-
lowing are the names Of the newly
elected officers for the ensuing
year:
Alderman Ward No. 1
P. M. Ferguson.
Alderman Ward No. 2
Frank Thompson.
Alderman Ward No.
VIM. Benn.
Treasurer. T. E. Funk.
Justice, Ed Charlebois.
Clerk, f. M. Clark.
Assessor, DR.. Dillon.
Marshall, l.. N. Thompson.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-03-19

Neither absent nor tafdy..::
Helen Forbes, Mary Janke, Irene
Haugeberg, Grace Forbes, Edythe
Wahl, frankie Rohrer, Arlie Ma
comber and Daniel Schulz.
Jessie J.W. Hogue, Teacher
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-03-19
SCHOOL NOTES.
Report of Washburn schools for
month ending Feb. 18th, 1904

Report OF WaShburn schools o
month ending Feb. 18th, 1904
Grammar Department.
Number enrolled. Is
days taught. 20
visitors. ....... l
Average daily attendance. IL
Neither absent nor tardy..
Annie Carlson, Mary Peterson.
Leslie Burgum.
Frank Naegell. Prin.
Third and Fourth Grades.
Number enrolled. -
days taught. ~
+" visitors .......... l.
Average daily attendance. IL
Neither absent nor tardy..
Harry and Edwin Denker, Clar.
ence Olein, Russell Rohrer and
Clarence Wallin.
Lodemia E. Clay, Teacher
Number enrolled. Is
" days taught. ~
visitors. ....... l
Percentage of attendance. IL
Neither absent nor tardy...
Henry and Hilda VAIL, Hazel
Forbes, Clara Handy, Willie Peter
son, Selma Peterson, Leonard Hau-
geberg.
Mrs. G. A. Wells, Teacher
Primary.
Number enrolled. a
days taught. ~
visitors .......... 4
Average Daily Attendance. IS
, promoted ..:..... III
No;4bor obcnnt nortar1v.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-03-19

WANrED:-A brick maker, who
can take charge of a brick yard, at
the Lacey Coal Mine, near Coal
Harbor. N. D. Inquire of DIR. A.
Schutt, 3O4 Matthews Blk, Mil
waukee, Wis
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-03-19
FARM FOR RENT.

One hundred acres open. Good
house, stable and granary. I will
furnish SEED and part Of the ma
chinery. For full information, in
quire of
Conkllng, n. D.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-03-19
FOR SALE.

I have for sale three teams of
young draft horses broke to drive.
Weight from 1000 to l,400 lbs;
age from four to six years old.
GEO S. BROOKS,
Mckenzie, N. d.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-03-19

For SALE:-My 48O acres in Nc
Lean county, North Dakota. Also
my $50 acre farm in Florida. Price
reasonable, terms easy.
A. j.. MILLER,
Frankfort, Ind.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-03-19
Good White Russian Seed Oats

w. LINDELL,
Weller, N. D..
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-10-07
WHAT A LOAD WE BEAR.

Between June 80, 1900, and the LIST of
June 1904. the people of this country
paid into the national treasury the
enormous sum of 81, 203, 100000. The
extent of this taxation Is beyond the
conception of the human mind. Esti-
mating the population of the United
States at 80 millions this would be about
$500 per capita. for every man, wo
man, child, negro, Indian, Chinaman,
Hun, Slav, Philippine, and Esquimo,
which Uncle Sam has benevolently as
simulated. Knowing that millions of
these payne taxes at all, it is easy to
see that the hardworking economical
white man Of America Is grievously
burdened. When we know in addition
to this tnat he has his state, county
and city taxes to pay, and then has his
churches and charities to support, We
wonder how he gets on at all. But
when we find that almost everything
he buys which is made in this country.
he buys at price nearly twice as great
as foreigner to whom the same arti-
Gle is shipped, we are still further amaz-
ed, and we are not surprised that our
working people are poor, that the man
who makes the cars and the engine
which we see drawing them, and the
man who builds the railway, has never
been able to live in his own house, that
the men who mine the coal which
makes a few men rich, and brings mill
lions of wealth every year to favored
few, never grow in wealth beyond the
clothes on his back. The Democratic
party would reduce these taxes and
tighten the burden of those who toll if
the toiler would throw off his chains
of slavery and stand by the party IN
its effort to aid him.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-10-07
A WORD TO THE WISE.

There is disposition on the part of
the press In some portions of the conn
try to pelt Mr.. Bryan, This has new
er been so much the custom of the Re-
publican press as the mugwump or
gold bng press. To them be has been
a constant thorn in the flesh. 1t may
as well he understood, now as hereaf-
ter that the Democrats have no chance
of success unless they carry New York
and Indiana, and that they have no
earthly chance of carrying Indiana
without the aid of Mr.. Bryan. If Mr..
Bryan does not stump Indiana and
stump it effectively and closely, the
State will go Republican. 1t would
be very foolish therefore to expect Mr..
Bryan to work for a cause heart and
soul, when the newspapers of the par
| ty were pouring invective, and SANDER
at him all the time Recently there
has come warning from Indiana to
the eastern press, telling it of the dam
ger surrounding systematic vitupera-
ton by it, of Mr.. Bryan. and in as
much as the Baltimore Sun and the
Richmond Times Dispatch seem to
take peculiar delight in hunting up
new causes of dislike toward him and
expressing them in the most bitter Ian.
guage communicable, we call attention
to the danger of such course and ad
wise them to dcsist, as such viturera
tiOn is often direct insult to those
who have held to the theories of the
Democratic platform of 1896 and 1900
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-10-07

Those Republicans who talk on the
money question point with pride to
the fact that in 1896, when Mckinley 3
first administration began, wehad in
the United States, including bullion in
the Treasury, $1,SO6, 272, 076, and that
when the second Mckinley admins
tration began we had $2,467, 295 .22S. or
net increase of actual currency in
four years of 1861, 1923, 1872. In making
up these figures the main part is guess
work. A net increase of $50 millions
a year during McKinley's admins
tration is simply juggling with figures,
and is on par with much other stuff
from the same source. Why add the
words "bulliOn in the treasury" So
far as the people are concerned that
bullion might as well be in the mines.
The people must earn it over again to
get it, just as they would be compelled
to dig it from the mines. Yet this is
absurdly placed as part of the per
capita circulation. These figures
which do not of themselves lie, are
made to lie most astOnishingly.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-10-07
Church Notes.

The finest city and village Churcht
are painted with the LOngman & Mar
tinez Paints, and we want every
Church to accept our donation when
ever they paint.
So make IA, therefore when yol
want fourteen gallons of paint, buy
only eight of l.. & M. and mix six gal
Ions of pure Linseed Oil with it, max.
ing actual cost of paint about sleeper
gallon.
Don't pay $3.50 a gallon for Linseed
Oh worth 60 cents) which you do when
you buy other paints in a can with a
paint label on it,
Many houses are well panied with
four gallons of l.. & M. and three gal.
Ions of Linseed Oil mixed Herewith.
Wears and covers like gold.
These Celebrated Paints are sold by
B. F. Hughes, Staunton, Foster Bros
Mt. Meridian, G. H. Cohron, Stuart's
Draft, j. B. Roden, WaynesbOro, N.
l. Kagey, Cave Station, Augusta Mill
ing & Mercantile Co.. MOssv Creek.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-10-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular correspondent

Washington, d. G., Sept. .3O-The
President has returned with his fam
lily and yesterda settled again in the
White House and the marble hut-a
pallid lean-tO erected for his office.
The capital is glad. When the Presi-
dent is away some thousands or tens
of thousands of others are away. and
it makes the streets and corridors dull
indeed. The city is astir this morn
ing with a new life and even the
bronze statue of General Jackson OPP
posite the White House seems to have
assumed more alert pOise, as if par
ticipatipg in the general satisfaction.
This is doubtless the beginning of q
lively season. The air seems impreg-
mated with social vivacity. The royal
family having returned to the hive,
the workers and the social drOnes will
now come winging their way back to
partake of the accumulated sweets.
Of course the gayety will not reach
it's heighth till after the reassembling
of Congress IN December, for the CAM
paign compels the absence of many
who are Indispensable to the full
blown carnival of fashion. AprOpos
of the campaign, it cannot be denied
that from this point of view, there
seems to be an inactiOn and silence in
both parties which amount almost to
political paralysis. There will be an
awakening next week, but it is ques-
tionable if the pending election will
cause degree of excitement equal to
that of former quadrennials. But tine
people are thinking-whether the ad-
ministrati0n has not had more official
malfeasance than need be; whether a
tariff is good thing which enables
our manufactured products to be sold
in Europe cheaper than they can be
bought at home; whether we ought
not to give the FiIlpinos an assurance
of ultimate Independence or else ter
ritorial organization; whether the
present administration has enforced
the laws against trusts, which the
President says are ''ample"; whether
the rape of Panama was justifable;
whether legislation from the White
House is constitutional; whether the
present executive has been careful to
obey the laws; and, finally, whether
eight years are not as much as any
party ought to be permitted to remain
in power at one time Mr.. Roosevelt
complacently answers these questions
by calling all who criticise or oppose
him "neurotics." This, of course, in
cludes the distinguished President
Elliott, of Harvard College, where he
graduated, as we'll as the entire DEM
ocratic party and an army of indie
dendent Republicans.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-10-07
A SOLID PHALANX SILL.

The Hon. John Hay has said, 1.-THE
Republican party had noble origin.
1t sprang directly from an aroused
and indignant natural conscience. In
1854 the question that brought the
thinking men together was whether
there should be limit to the aggres
sion of slavery; and in 1861 that solemn
enquiry turned to one still more pOr-
tentous, should the nation live or die ?"
Thus after 40 years, beginning with
war upon its rights, with its sons slain,
its country devastated, its women out
ragged, and since these are increasing,
an Outpour of hatred and determination
and abuse visited on it and never dimi-
nished except under Mckinley and re-
Gently intensified under Roosevelt, the
South is asked to love the Republican
party, to lick its hand, and abuse it
self by voting for the intense embodi-
ment of that party's ideas and actions
tow ard it. Will the south do it :? We
answer No, thousand times, No. If
that party had been guilty of our act
looking toward the happiness of south
ern white people. or made one effort
to make them feel that they were re-
garded collectively with as much re-
spect as the negroes, there might be
reason in the assertion that if the ne
gro were removed from politics in the
South the white people would become
Republicans. But 80 deep rooted and
so Justly rooted has become the i'm
preston that the Republican party
holds the white people of the South in
vassalage, and that they are treated
as if they were the legitimate plumber
of the North, that time. and better
treatment alone, can efface 1t. The
pride and self-respect, the chivalry and
devotion of the southern people to
their country, and to each other, forbid
that they grOvel, and absolutely pro
hibit them from the abasement which
would be theirs if they should bow
their heads in worship of their malign.
ers and plunderers, and especially the
new buccanneer Theodore Roosevelt
But once since she got into her armor
has the solid south been broken, and
then, not when overcome by reason
but when some of her soldiers were
lured away by false gods, of which they
have since become heartily ashamed.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-10-07
AN EDITOR In JAIL.

Mr.. Edward F. O'Brien. editor of
the Manila Sunday Sun, is now in the
Bilibid jail in that city serving out q
sentence for criminal libel. He was so
thoughtless as to publish charges taken
from a court record made against a
high functionary over there which
were not sustained at the trial. lie
then edited paper with bad name
for that country. He called it the
Freedom, which seems to be an I'M
known quantity in the Philippines.
He tells his subscribers that they can
not send him any hash to the Jail, but
he will need food after he gets out. In
bidding farewell for time to freedom
of the real kind, he says:
again, as before stated, the article
was published merely as a matter of
news, and without the remotest idea
as to whether or not the charges ad
mitted of record by Judge Odlin were
true. At the time of the publication
of the article by the Freedom, its edl-
tor was personally acquainted neither
with Mr.. Legarda nor with Mr.. Lamme,
of Lamme, Montague Il Dominique,
whom Judge Odlin allowed to read the
charges in open court as matter OF
record.
Under these circumstances, the I'M
dersigned goes to accept the inevitable
with a cheerful and philo optical spir-
| it, firm in a sense of no personal guilt
or criminality. During the strenuous
early days of Philippine journalism,
| the game was not an easy one. There
have been other editors in Jail, and
there will be others in Jail. 1t is felt
that the Imprisonment carries with it
no stigma or disgrace. The editor of
the Sunday Sun does not desire to pose
as martyr. Technically he may be
guilty of the charges made against him.
The courts have so decided. The law
must be supreme. Morally, however,
he feels that he is Innocent of crime or
wrong intent. The governor has not
seen fit to exercise his power to par.
don, although proper representations
have been made to him. The matter
of example to the native press, and
other, perhaps, valid reasons, undOubt-
eddy have operated to the decision"
This is one of the celebrated cases
where right OF trial by jury was denied
the prisoner. This is part of our
Colonial policy which Mr.. Roosevelt
praises and threatens to give more of
| when be is reelected.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-10-07
The blOOdieSt cor fict of the Trans.

The bloodiest cor flict of the Trans.
vaal war, the battle of PaaGeherg, is to
be fought over again at the Main Cir
Gus. that Is spectacular production
of the above title is given, and in it's
presentation will be seen genuine Boer
men and women, Matabeles, Zulus,
South Africa cavalry, detachment of
British naval reserves, Colonial troop.
ers and African natives, al we'll us the
vehicles of carriage bullock wagons
and the original Guelo stage coach. 1t
will be remembered that it was in the
Paadeberg engagement the great BOer
general, Cronje, surrendered, and
where the English loss of men killed
was over LOO
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-10-07

Senator Geo. f. Hoar of Mass, died
On Thursday last, after long illn ess.
He will be greatly missed in the Sen
ate. AT one time be was very bitter
toward Southern people and his in.
vectlve was severe and very CALLING.
Later, be became better acquainted
with them and he then became fond
of them, and later in life was outspok.
en- in their behalf when he saw them
assailed A few years ago he deliver
ed very able address before the Vir.
ginia Bar Association.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-10-07
CoIonist Rates to Western Points. Via
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.

Commencing Sept. 18th, and con.
tinuing till Oct. 18th, 1904, the Chesa
peake and Ohio Ry. Co. will sell one
way mixed class colOnist tickets to GER
tain points in Arizona, British Colum.
bia, California, Mexico, New Mexico,
Montana, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Wash
ington, Colorado, Idaho, South Dakota
Wyoming and Nebraska. These tick
cts will be sold at figure much lower
than the usual one way rates and par
ties, desiring to visit or settle in this
territory, will find it TO there advan-
tage to address G. G. Quinn, Passenger
Agent G. & o. Ry. Co., Staunton, Va.
sept 80 3ts
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-10-07
REPUBLICAN ORATORS INTHE SOUTH.

The country has been flooded with
Republican literature, much of which
is filed with the deception and un
truth, and much more if not nearly all,
is overlooking with bitterness toward
the South. 1t is remarkable that al
most every Republican orator feels
called on not to argue economical
questions, or questions OF State, and
point out where his party has taken
and is holding the right side OF ques-
tions, but to belittle, if not damn the
South. If the South is such an infer
nal region as it is now being painted,
the money spent and the lives lost to
keep it in the Union were worse than
wasted. If the south is as bad as the
average little Republican stump speak
er, not only in the North, but right in
our own community endeaYOrs to paint
1t, it might be well to put dynamite
under it and blow it up, taking care,
of course, to have first removed the
white Republicans and negroes, as
Lots family was removed from the
city of Sodom, so that no just person
perish. If negro is shot or even worse
treated in the South, the character of
the whole people is denounced, and
the world taught that those who en-
gagged in the crime are no less the rep
resentatives of the whole community
than if the whole community had been
there participating and that the whole
community would have participated
had so many been necessary. If it
be just to thus Condemn a whole ma
ton, as it were, certainly a whole
State, why does not the same charac-
terization apply North as well as
South Have not crimes of as great
barbarity been committed North as
South, and if so, why may not the
North be equally as whole guilty,
and why may not they as a whole be
held accountable just as the South is
held But on the other hand if one
negro is taken in his crime, why may
not the negro race all the more justly
be branded as race of criminals than
the white people, because the white
people are not exactly of one national
ity as the negroes are? If the South,
therefore, as a nation is justly brand
ed as a criminal class as the Republi-
can orator would like to have it, with
equal right may the North be held for
the criminality which takes place in it's
territory and with much more reason
and right may the whole ofthe negroes
be cIassed as criminals because of the
multitude of their offences and the
thousands of them who are In the peni-
tentiaries and jails of the country ?
This would be manifestly unjust. No
body but narrow and very prejudiced
person would think of doing such a
thing, yet throughout the land just
now the South is being characterized
as a section of intense criminality
amongst its white people and this too
often coming from men raised in our
midst, but who for the sake of office
have not only politically cOns0rted with
negroes but with the criminal whites,
Of which this as every other country
has an admitted share.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-10-07
Roosevelt on F armers and Mechanics

Mr.. Roosevelt, when private citi
zen, had no use for farmers and me.
chaDics and SO wrote it down in his
book. Does he need them now "in his
business" except for their votes? Here
is what he said only a few years ago,
"COwbOys are much better fellows and
pleasanter companions than small far
mers Or agricultural labOrers; nor are
the mechanics and wOrkmen of a great
city to be mentioned in the same
breath. Ranch Life and Hunting
Trail, p. 10, by Theodore Roosevelt
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-10-07
Ex-senator Davis to Travel

Mr.. Davis starts out, with strong
team to ''do up" Maryland and West
Va, and with ''son in law Elkins,'
sick bed, he ought to have walk
over. He takes with him, David b.
Hill, John w. Daniel, G. p. German
and Pinckney White. The trip is to
occnpy 10 days and is scheduled as fol-
lows: Rockville, Nd. Brunswick, Md.
Hancock, Md Paw Paw, w. Va
Green Spring. Md; Cumberland, Md.
Keyser, w. Va; Piedmont, w. Va,
and thence to Oakland, Md. The re-
mainder of the schedule is to be made
up at Wheeling, W. Va.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-10-07

The question is often asked, will
Mr.. Parker, If elected tender Mr. VIM
J. Bryan place in his cabinet? OF
course no one but Mr.. Parker knows
but it hardly seems likely he would OF
that Mr.. Bryan would accept. Mr..
Bryan will have a whole cabinet of his
own to tender places in, in the neal
future, so be need not worry about
cabinet places, just now.