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has further demonstrated that these
small grains, as wei as the tame grasses.
With a very little cultivation and care,
can be accHmated to produce lust as
abundantly and with less possibility of
damage than in the middle west.
We as boys well reeollect the exigen-
c!es that cur@parents went thru in set
ting up our boyhood homes How, from
their inability to experiment. they. were
unable for years to demonstrate the
value OF their lands and in consequence
their lands laid { at a normal or low
valuation for a great many years. This
now is all changed. The experimental
schools, dotted all over the great north
west, easily accessible to the intelligent
! farmer, teaching them how to raise the
best crops and under the best circum.
stances and bring out the best that is
in the soil =, :, -
|. When our parents were settling up ILL
nois and Indiana and OLIVIA, tie whole
OF the great northwest was open, a bar
rem desert. Today she is practically
closed, except for the purchase of lands.
The acreage of arabic, agricultural, gov
eminent lands, is practically done. The
population of our country is increasing
enormously. The rate is about 2,OOO,-
900 a year including the immigration.
Statistics does not show that the farmer
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be cut in half: and second. the lands of

be. cut in half; and second, the lands Of
today will have to advance in price.
Now this. is just where the Illinois
and Indiana. farmer finds himself. His
lands gone up to a value so that he can
not buy. The moral intelligent,
the educated, the ambitious, the willing
worker, farmer should get himself to
North Dakota, to Ransom county, North
Dakota, and there buy lands at present
prices, while he has an opportunity to
get them cheap, and in few years
time he will find these lands much en-
HANGED in value and himself owner of a
good respectable farm which he never
expected to own in the older states.
Among the reliable, old and extensive
real estate men in Ransom county, I
find the Adams & Frees company and
Walter L., Williamson to be leaders.
These people are selling their own hold
ings, so that no midd1emen intervene,
they are both Of them interested in the
country and conditioned so as: to give
the honest and intelligent farmer the
very best: opportunities to buy the
lands, under the most favorable terms.
{ AS an !ndianan, I say, without any
equivocation,. ego to Lisbon, Ransom
county, We Indiana farmers and buy
lands ..s The foundation of wealth and
the making Of the most independent vo.
cation for man to follow.'
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AN EYE OPENER FOR I'LL
'".2> .,..,. :: NOIS, ~
Special :, Correspondence.

Special Correspondence. .. -
Wahpeton, n. D., Oct. 4.-One of. the
astonishing things to Illinois men who
first see Richland county is the fact that
farmers there raise large fields of the
most healthy kind of red clover i Tim
othy literally lines most of the road
sides! Frequent fields Of corn are being
found s which in this backward year look
good even to the Illinois men, for they
have well-matured. good-sized dent ears.
Potatoes are to be dug out with their own
changes. are that an Illinois man never
in his life elsewhere has seen SO large
and 80 handsome potatoes as he, can find
here. Barnes & Shaffer. the leading real
estate men of Wahpeton, say that they
can take, men to farmers in Richland
county whose cosy homes are surround
ed with beautiful groves containing
Duchess and Wealthy apples, tame
plums and sweet crabapples. They can
show men fields of as good-looking blue
grass as can be seen in Illinois.
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The expansion of the commercial and
financial interests of North Dakota dur
ing the past twenty-five years he's been
phenomenal and almost beyond belief
unless one is first able to grasp some
conception of the wonderful develop
two forces, commercial and financial
have joined forces to keep pace with
the development Of the new empire OF
rapidly increasing wealth, but at times
have scarcely been able, to keep NJ
with the procession: - i e.
The majority Of the early settlers
of North Dakota went there to2tcOm
1nence life anew without any capita
worth mentioning, altho generally with
large stocks of ambition and energy
In the development of the millions OF
acres of agricultural land in North ~Da
kota, large amounts of money were re.
CURED, and this led to the establish
ment Of loan agencies all over the
state, sometimes in connection with
buttons. The funds were secured from
eastern capitalists, trust companies
savings banks, etc. For q long time
however, capital was shy about coming
to North Dakota, and it was difficult
to secure enough to supply the de,
mand, with the result that interest
rates were for years very high.
Extension of Zone LIZ =
In the meantime the Red River val
ley was making record and name
for itself, capital went thus far: more
freely and interest rates were reduced
but for years the loaning companies
generally declined to send their money
west of the Red River valley and the
rates for loans in the central spart.. of
the state continued high, and the con-
sequent development slow. Later, as
: the central part of the state demon
strated it's prosperity, money went that
way easier. but the same scarcity has
been experienced in the development of
the western part of the state. large
amounts have been invested there in
loans the past two or three years, how
ever. 49,
One Ward county loan agent has
placed near a million and a. half dol
lars in real estate loans in the past
three years. Three-fourths~ of the PEG
pie who have Ftaken claims '2have bor-
rowed money to "prove. upD or com
mute their claims, some thirty or forty
thousand of them, and usually they
have borrowed some additional money
with which to make improvements on
their farms. These loans have general
~ been made for three or. five years, the
broker usually taking second mort
gage to secure his commission. The. ag-
gregate Of loans thus made has been a
good many million -, dollars. =. Large
amounts Of capital have also been re-
CURED in the construction Of courtyard
municipal nnlllnn buildings, schoolhouses,
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hundred miles in a general southeastern
course, and then turns to the east and
north finally returning to King Ed
7 ward s domain, having enclosed in. a
s lsGR " large section Of North Dakota
The soil in the vicinity Of the Mouse
ton was for years occupied by extern
slve cattle ranches, and the general i'm
preston was that the land was not
sion which the cattle raisers were not lot
active IN removing. But when the
land farther cast had all been taken up
,, by, settlers and other landseekers were
| obl!ged to. come farther west to obtain
t their :, claims the discovery was made
gram and farm produce Of all kinds
| abundantly. -
Development Of Five Years.
| The extension of the railroads thru
| this section has contributed to the rapid
development of Ward, McHenry and
western Bottiheau countiese in the past
nve years, and now nearly every quarter
section Of land is occupied by a farmer.
The land is rolling and in places billy,
put there is very little waste land in
me snG eentlre Mouse river country, and the
SOIL is very productive. The surface is
drained by the Mouse, Deslacs, and
several small streams.
Instead Of raising grain exclusively,
as vas the case in the Red River valley
IN IN its early settlement, the farmers Of
and fine cattle are to be seen every,
where; The Great Northern railway
extends thru the valley from east to
west, crossing the Mouse river at Tow
ner and again at Minot, and the 500
ilne,> reaching the Mouse river at Velva,
in western McHenry county, follows the
lower valley for more than a hundred
miles to the northwest, crossing the
Great Northern at Minot. /
There are numerous thriving towns.
along both the 500 and the Great North
ern railways, and: Minot is rapidly be-
coming an important commercial center
and distributing point. >sKenmare, on
the 500, is a, fine city of about $500
population, where only half :. a dozen
years ago there were only few, claim
shanties. i. Towner, the county seat of
McHenry county, is the trade center of
large and rapidly developing section.
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AFTER BREAKFAST
Not Till Then Can One Pass Judgment
= on Scenery. = r. -"
New York Sun.

49,: -. New York Sum-, :. 80, r.,
"1t's curious, you know it really
isl said a returned summer boarder,
what effect a good square meal will
have on the imagination. - 49,
owe arrived at the end of long
railroad journey, on our way to where
we were to spend the summer, at 5
o'clock in the morning. Then we took
a stage and rode miles further. over
a hilly road in the chilly morning air,
to one end Of a lake, where we took
steamboat and rode some more there
sat am. -. i, = ~ --'s;..
"a Seen under. such circumstances, after
being routed out Of bed at 4 am. and
before breakfast, the scenery was dis
appointing. The lake seemed not much
bigger than a good-sized millpond,s the
trees were. all stunted and the noun
tains were not much bigger than hills,
and we were inclined to take gloomy
view of things; and in that frame We
remained until, at 1870, the tocsin
sounded and we went in to breakfast,
.'That was a good breakfast, with
everything well cooked and admirably
served, and with particularly excellent
coffee, and we had the appetites of
hungry mules and fingered long.
s*When we had again come out the
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sun was shining and the lake had been
enlarged by -four acres. at least; each
Individual tree Of all the innumerable
thousahd Is that everywhere fringed the
lake 8 shores and rose upward on its
mountainous sides had grown forty
feet, and the mountains themselves
now climbed to the sky. It was all
noble and restful and beautiful, and so
it remained, growing on us all the time
as long as we were there.
, Hereafter I never pass Judgment on
scenery. till after breakfast. -
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100000 Acres for Diversified Farming
@...# In Central North Dakota.


enable
80
after paying a farm.
The following extract
published
dated September 10th, $500 = So
e lcou Of Kidd ount North Dakota) Miller
IT as threshed for SLIP bushe p
hundred
e
Three railway systems Northern Milwaukee,
tory to get the business
land will a of the past i
entire state less than
or investor will by getting holdings
the
nformatio address
JOSEPH M. HACKNEY,
oo4-oH uermania Life Building;
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lad is. to any great extent deserving the
ers wanting farms as there ever was
really larger number. What are these
farmers going to do in the next Few
face. - " ~-s,cI VIZ
First the farms of today will have 10
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farmers from Illinois and Indiana, after
their! analysis of the soil, show that
it has all the elements necessary and in
abundance to produce the very finest
quality of wheat, the hardest Of corn,
the best of oats, and all the other grains
and grasses Of the old states, and the
farming of the last. six or seven years
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NOTICE.

NOTICE.
Land interests wishing repre-
sentation on Journals weekly
page devoted to North Dakota.
write Ward D. Williams, man
ager Northwest advertising.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-11-01

bright Glass factories aud steel
mills nc Mnncie. Elwood. Aunr RI n
aud Alexandria are shut down IN
large Numbers shortage lnI "a
supply has caused some Of the4n q
shut down permanently and en- !
ployra have gone to other states
one firm In Madison county. em.
ployiug 75a men. has moved 4NaY
Glass and steel workers gcnfniiy
vote the republican ticket
AZ an offset % these unfavofhhle
conditions the republicans cisirff ths
personal popularity Of Rooffyetf
and Fairbanks and the fact the the
farmers are unusually proHper1is
Democratic managers g1yt the
farmers were republicans In 1900
and II they are prosperous now the
thanks are due a higher power than
the republicans.
Some republicans speak In slight
Ing terms ~ the effect OF the great
Bryan meetings IN is 20 be noticed
though, that they ARE going TO send
Fairbanks over the Bryan route.
with red fire and a special train. lie
will make 81 speeches ia six days.
The democrats haze not carried
the state since 1892. They are hope
fnl this year because the party Il
united and they have n better or
Ranizatiun than ever before.
Democratic managers say that re-
ports received by them from county
chairmen indicate the state TO be
iust about evenly balanced polite
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W H. oBRiEN.

that the signatures we're procured
BY Swing ignorant voters minleaa-
Ing verbal assurances. aud finally
telling them. la something ~ a hur.
~. 90 sign that paper. take ethe
money aud get out
whether this charge al damo-
cratic peffidY be tftsa or not. II need
rot be- Inferred that the republicans
are overlooking any barAsina IN
VOTES. The eye teeth of N Ecnue-
men whn are leading this gAnd cru
Hads Tor great principles were SIT
some time ago They have seen
other campaigna
Republican managers claim the
state BY 8 900 votes.
II IL diglruli however. after
talks with weli-informed uisn Of all
shades % opinion. to agr.do With
that estimate.
Mckinley carried the Aata in
1885 b. 1851 and Ia 1900 by -. GO.
IT. this campaign the state commit
TED haH made unfavuHahie report TO
national headquarters regarding the
eol0red citizens. Who number n. 90
IN the state Six thousand % them
live in this county and they have
always been friendly with TaFeart.
The republicans admit that four-
ffihs OF the gold democrats wllI
vote for Parker There were about
g 900 ~ these men uhn supported
Mckinley. Some of the gold demo
Gratis who have dee AIRED for Pafkeb
are J =. FFenzcl banker. who vas
treasurer Of the Palmer and Buck
nnr party. s r. piekeaa. attorney
for the Pennsylvania railway
Crawford Fairbanks. a wealthy dis
tiller and political poser az Terfe
tfyltc ] l. kceeh. a rich com
mission usffehHnt Who l. now chaif-
man ~ the democratic city commit
tee, 8 r. Holt wh0 resigned TIE
state chaifmanahip 81 the democrats
ia lsss J. Il Wilson. who save un
the democratic county chairman
ship, aad eK-CongresAman G /.
Iewett
II - generally admitted BY re-
ruhiicans that bryan has brought
the silver republicans into line for
Parker.
Industrial conditions are not
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Mr.. ERINK'S REPLY

In another column The star today publishes communication
NJ president OF the Washington Iron Works com
pauy giving his defeat Tor governor In
expressing the loyalty OF PILES To
hlm IN that eampagn Mr. Fnks letter Is written to eonover
an article published recently that epub
ba the Wholesale knitting OF
Rogers Mr. Piles
Although In respects The star cannot ssree With MT
Fns Statements this paper sady prints his letter IN i" asp
that except Mr. Piles personally aud not
tool OF the corporations contains little really per'nen, to the
For example Mr. Fnk knowledge OF the
by ed except that he knows that
railroad lobbyist represntng the Oregon short Line aaa inc
Northern Pacific Railway company him In 1900 evi
impression that the Great Northern
and other railway corporations presented Mr. Piles at that time
worked for him.
Is not necessary to 90 bh ind
pose Fnks position An analysts OF the vote
for governor years hts home county where
uader its control wepn
dominant p than In other counties whore
Iin Interests did not ns ure
Seattle and Kin county gave Woffha Of the 1000
majority BY which Mr. Frink should In
the real causes OF his de-
feat Had the Great Northern eresis worked Tor hs election a.
muneaon 10 infer they would
offset the North Pacific vote in kns county and
would been elec ted
election pAay indicate that the COM
hlned voting strength defeat Nh Fnk just
as The star stated in the article exception
space further discussing this phase
Of question may does not know that
defeated railroads but the politicians are wiser They
1899 there little real rivalry between the different
railroad corporations state Of this fact AR
himself in public and private In
railroad commission b and mass no pledges to TIE rail-
Is sufficient o explain his defeat
The truth he Is. just stated hat Mr
thc neither milestone In
part be the railroad
knitted the auaanfoad republicans there on
concentrated
that the big corporations ala
By plurality Of sos votes while
Mckinley by i2ssa
part Piles railroad bose played tn bringing
opinion changed By Mf Frnks
OF liberty draw their
conclusions facts here presented
Though considers saigs
Individual does coaAder Il
other thing shows tho
VIII IN defense Of
where he know that that party is
King Mr Frnk known
his loyalty
eampasns II pasny bis
every republican week from today
democratic candidate traitor
+srch-eumy' SEATTLE and Kng county.
Fnk entirely loss the that hundreds
citizens today working against
republican the that hts Nomination
the win Of s. Of the Of
party
Fgak that SIR. Mead nominated b.
majority Of ths republican, convention but Il not true
shauessy dhauehsd BY the nall
deliberately closed hia
view his defense %
ticket named a. convention his defense 81 M Piles political
fails
Saw per per -
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CHICAGO. Nov IA marked de-
crease 81 confidence D. 10 be noted
az western republican headquarters.
WhHtetqfkhs republican IuanaE-
cfE may az officially aud FOR
publisa ton the fact 81 the matter
" that iht outlook il regarded with
considerable gravity
Indiana Will be won BY the work
done during this coming week. said
"A member Of the COMMITTEES. when
talking confldrafia1iy and telling
what he really thought I would
not say that Indiana Is republican
aa things stand today. know ~
has been confidently claimed by
supposedly well posted political
wfitHra. ana that many Of the re-
publican managers sincerely think
the state ia ali right But the fact
b. there h. nothing Ca evidence 20
beaf auf any feeling Of certainty.
A. the situation stands today I think
u very doubtful II the state would
20 FOR Roosevelt.
"rheI reasons are numerous. but
chief ~ them Il the Influence 81
Bryauf There il NO getting away
from fhs fact that Bryan has made
thouHaudr many thousands. of votes
iust. how many We DO not know.
That i whore the element Of unccr-
tsini7 comes Ia n wr knew the er-
tent Of the changes which have
been made since ouf last poll was
taken We would feel better. But
there ls not time 70 take "a new poll
~ tie state. AID. besides. It would
not be wise 20 tska one until after
this weeks work
During the next 10 days Hrgnn'a
ira'i II 10 be covered be Tom Wat
son. the popuiist candidate. who e.
making a brilliant campaign. and D.
doubtless making many votes among
the bryan following.
Then the socialists have sent
two u their beet speakers To cover
uryHn.s tracks and 90 try 70 get
baet the large number Of voters Who
did intend "a few weeks ago 10 vote
tha socialist ticket They nlu get
some. Then VIII come the force ~
republican speakers who are 10 70
through the state with Fairbanks
and ItaVeridge in the lead. speaking
On every town and county for the
next seven days. This work Il TO be
very thorough.
fiui what the outcome uill be II
viii really BE- impossible 70 naY until
after thn votes have been counted
Unfortunately all this work has 20
be done late. and there VIII not be
time Tor anything like a canvass"
Mhen the facts are all known Il I.
sot hard 90 see why tho repuhiicaE
managers are worried about Indiana
The sao-dny poll.@ which vas the
last one taken. showed a republican
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ny JACOB wALDECK.
staff Correspondence 20 The Seattle
star.

INDIANAPOLIS. lid. Nov. l.
Indiana - ON the ragged edge. Il
looks now rs though Il would not
80 more than 10000 either way.
Probably 'he advantage lies slightly
With the republicans. because they
have yet Ia make the grand tour
with their star. Fairbanks
Tho democrats played thrlf
strongest card when they sent
Bryan over the state. There never
has been ia Indiana anything O.
compare with the reception given
him, Not even when blaine went
through In 1854.
Without time 10 fll the gaps
caused By this Bryan assault. the
republicans would probably have
lest They may lose anyway. but
1t would seem that time and money
can repair the damage.
Whether the small plurality at
the election shall be republican OF
democratic will depend upon the
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rlatle committee He o. making a
tour ~ the state and Strengthening
The county organizations. while Mr
1agEart i Ia personal command at
the state headquarters here
The feht FOR the legislature ia
red hot. Various leaders % both
parties are accusing various other
leaders Of aiighting the national
ticket la the intefeat 81 their sen
aiorial ambitions Tho assembly
viii elect a successor % Bevefldge
and senator Ia place % Fairbanks.
II the latter la elected vice ptesi-
dent or the legislators Who hold
Oyer from the last assembly the
democrats have the advantage. Six
republican state senatorial hold
ovcra have died The republicans
claim. however. they wiil have -
Of the ta9 men In The now legla-
lature
DcvefiaFe will have no opposition
IN hiss party The republican oanai-
dates 70 succeed Fairbanks are Gov.
Durblu. National Committeeman
Harry New and canEre samcu Hem
enway. Iandia and Crumpaeker.
TaEEnrt Il a democratic candidate
and Kern will be IN line N he la not
elected governor and the legislature
should 30 democratic. Hemrnway
ia tho choice 81 the Fairbanks fac
ton which controls tho republican
state organization.
An Interesting feature % the cam
paign here Is the candidacy OF Geo.
T.. Knox. colored. for congress In
opposition 10 Overstrcet Knox IL
an editor and proprietor OF large
barber shop He SAYS he IL running
10 promote the elevation OF his race.
ono o. hts followers has declared
cl0quently the reason for Knox's
candidacy IN this query. shall the
negro continue 90 be "A republican
political horse 20 be ridden 20 the
offices aud then hitehed or the out
aldcF" Republicans claim that Knox
viii not get over 500 votes. and that
he has been induced by democrats
Co run.
- -aN
Save the 10 per cent 80
HERALD. TAILOR 1899 end 80
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majority In the state Of about 50. 600
But this was before Bryan made his
tour. As nearly as can be figured
out this result was due largely "a
the dnfea elton which prevailed among
the Bryan democrats more than off
setting The return af thc gold DEM
oCrnts who. almost @ man. are
back with their party again.
AZ the time the poll WIS made
Bryan was SILENT and the bryan
democrats were very much alsnf-
fcctea. They were announcing OPEN
- that they never would vote for
the nominee Of the ST Louis con-
vcutiou. Now the republicans are
confronted with the proposition Of n
general lining up Of the Bryan dem
ocrata along with the sold demo-
cfag
II o. comes 70 n nip ana tuck"
close tussle for votes. with the out
come dependent ON a few thousands.
the republicans feel that their
chance H. gone. Far there ia where
Tom TaErort shines. They tuik In
an off.hand way about Tom Tag
CARTS uigscra" meaning "A certain
number of c0lored voters with whom
Tnrgart has an unquestioned mnu-
ence. aud In addition % o. known
that Tasgart has perfected an or
Eunlzatiun in the state which T. TO
handle a large campaign fund. aud
which viii get g. the POLLS very
large number OF floating vofees.
All Of which leads conservative
republican managers o. the cunclu-
-