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Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-01-29
THE BOER WAR
LECTURERS

A fair-sized audience greeted the
two Boer officials, Gen. CD. Joubert
and Capt. w. s. O'Donne1l, who APP
peared at the Armory in this city
Tuesday evening. The two gentlemen
are touring the northwest in search Of
suitable lands on which to locate a
large colony of their people, and ex-
pect to find it in Montana or Wash
ington. Gen. Joubert, tho COM
manded the southeastern divi sion of
the Orange Free State army during
the Roer war is of French extraction
but whose family has been in South
Africa for period of two centuries,
is nephew of the great general Of
the same name and was one of Gen.
DeWitt's most trusted generals. Capt.
O'Donnell is one If that famous
Irish family of fighters and is the
man whose name appeared SO fire.
quently il the dispatches during the
waras a fearless and desperate fighter.
Both gentlemen talked very intelli-
gently of the current history Of the
world and If the Boer. war. Capt.
|O'Donnell is a great admiIer of
the Americans, especially of their
navy. In connection with remark
that the American feet sent to the
far east was not large enough to be
very weighty in Japan Russian affairs
the genial captain said: st don't
know about that. I thirk one Of
those Yankee boats are enough if they
shoot like they did at Santiago. .
He also told of So Swedes ambushing
and annihilatiug 600 of the Scottish
Gordon Highlanders at the battle of
Magersfonteir.
Following the lectures of these two
warriors, magic lantern production
of Boer war scenes and incidents was
given, end the audience seemed to
fully appreciate the entertainment.
They promised to return here at
an early date if su table arrange
ments can be made for them.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-01-29
a KING PIGaER.

Van Dorm Gilshrist, one Of New
Rockford IS greatest and most success
full boot-leggers and piggers, was
gathered in last Saturday and sides
being arrested an injunction was
placed upon his dwelling, which ne
had made his business headquarters.
Gilchrist is an old offender, b has
always managed to wriggle out some
way until he seemed to have acquired
the idea that he had 'slicense. = He
had been in the business about ten
years and has accumulated few
farms, some city property and bun
die Of money, we don't know how
big. "Alas, poor Yorick, we knew
him we'll. - McHenry Free Press.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-01-29
MANY KILLED
IN A CYCLONE

Birmingham, Ala, Jan. 49,
message from Akron, Ala, states that
the town of Moundville, with pop
ulation of 800 was wiped out by
cyclone. .@.a1-4. - ID.
Everybody was killed.
The reports come from Conductor
Capehart Of the Queen & Crescent
railway, in charge Of the limited
northbound train, which arrived at
Moundville early this morning.
The train was unable to pass
Moundville, owing to the reckage
cause. by the cyclone, which swept
the town at 2 this morning.
The train was backed to Akron,
here the report was sent by round
about way. A wrecking train had
just left here with linemen to repair
the wires.
A later message say1 the ent ire
northern end of the town was wrecked
and the population practically wiped
out.
A report from Tuscaloosa, Ala.
says: ~
Moundville. sixteen miles sout b,
was totally destroyed by a cyclone
this morning. A great many were
killed or fatally hurt.
A negro section hand on theAlabama
& Great Southern railway, who came
here on handcar, reports the country
is laid bare for miles around. He
saw bodies of many people lying
around.
Every doctor in Tuscaloosa has gone
to the scene; reports by telephone say
300 were killed Merchants are pre-
pairing to send relief to the destitute.
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Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-01-29

Force without intelligence is like a
locomotive without track or an engi-
Observation-Disclosures. s
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picks Its COMPANY,

Picks It's Company.
''Old Hunks boasts that he never has
a cold" vs.
TITS nothing to boast Of. He's SO
mean that even cold won't have any
thing to do with him. Exchange.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-01-29
Tears In Bad Taste.

Tears In Bad Taste.
''That young vixen told me she wept
over my column"
"You ought to feel fattered."
"Idiot! It's funny columnv'-Cin-
cinnati Commercial Tribune.
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Advertised Letters.

Remaining uncalled for at the
postofice at Devils Lake for the
week ending Jan. Both, 1904, If
not called for within fourteen days
will be sent to the "dead letter Of
fee. Parties calling for any OF
said letters say advertised"
Arbuckle, Frank leighton. CA
Butten, B M Moore. Bert d.
Bauchman, Geo Miller 81 Foote e,
Chapman, Mrs RI Mitttan. r & @s
Culliton, Amb e Mass, C
Dahlgren. Albert Paul, Chas #
Davis. Harry % Portrait Co, The
Deschamp, jose Sisters
phine e Peters. Lillian
Dshampe, Mae ~ Rolstad, Anna
Deal, Nosh Rnsnton Ed
DruDmond, Mrs Shone, c
Mae (2 Gangsie, Ida
Thompson, dertie Herring, j M ~
Vonsee. Mrs p Klindworth, Annie
Yanderlin, John Knutson, Nellie
Williams, Ben thinner, Josephine
R. DAELEY. Postmaster.
Wanted Heated, furnished room
by young man. Not far from business
center. Address B. M. 90, Inter-o Ocean
Office. Att
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-01-29
YOU CAN GET

I, land FREE by buying a
n section of us in a country where corn,
wheat, oats. barley, rye, alfalfa, tame
grasses and all kinds of vegetables can
be raised in abundance, and where
HOMES can be
made as easily as anywhere in Uncle
Sans domain. These crops are abund-
ant in yield and fine in quality. There
is no guess work about this for we have
samples of the crop Of 1903
I'm our field Office
and are prepared to prove that they
are genuine products of the country
No stumps to dig out, no stone, gravel
and sand streaks, good water and con-
venient railroad facilities. We fur
nish free fuel to our customers for two
years. This place is
GOLDEN VALLEY
in North Dakota and Montana. If you
have no stock and desire to engage in
the stock business, we will furnish you
COWS on shares, and creameries to use
the milk.
Prices Of land range from 81. to SIC so per acre,
terms one.thrd cash, balance in five equal annual
payments with six per cent. interest.
For maps and further particulars address
GOLDEN VALLEY LAND & CATTLE co.
206-7-s Chamber of Commerce, ST. PAUL, MIMI
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1904-01-29

Choice Early Ohio potatoes at
Manns.
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ernment had invested i'll these works of
reclamation would finally come back to
1T. 1t is in this remarkable fact-that
every dollar invested by the government
for the reclamation of the arid public do
main is to be paid back to it by the set
tiers who get the land-that the great
strength and potency of the act lies. 1t
was chiefly this feature of the law that
commended it to the conservative judg-
ment of the people of the country gen
orally.
Only the government is equal to the
herculcan task. Title to the arid lands
rests i'll the government. 1t is unstable.
The mountains are filled with minerals
of every description for which man has
ever found a use. Their precipitous, un-
tillable sides are covered with forest
growths that will pcrpctually serve to
house the nation. Their high attitudes
are natures eternal reservoirs of mois-
ture. 1t is here that she "heaves her
white breasts nearest the sky, and locks
the storm i'll a cold embrace lrriga-
ton is the key that is to unlock this
| wealth to teeming millions. Here and
there in favored spots private enterprise
Aas tapped these living streams and res
e%ryoirs. and cities of wonderful beauty
have sprung up ont of the desert, as ii
by magic. Individual effort. has shown
irrigation to be feasible. Lands nave
been bought from the government, or en-
tered under the land law. improved, tax
able property created; and national
wealth has followed. The nation could
| do even better in the improvement of its
w property.
Measufcless are to be the benefits to
the Nation from this National Irrigation
movement. From its economic, from it's
social, from its moral side, the problem
is unassailable. No one can gainsay the
vital need of its establishment as soon
as possible. On the tillagc of the soil
rests the prosperity of all other indus
tries. Upon the %upbuilding of homes
rests the independence of a nation. Irri-
CATION compels small holdings, and in
cl'eases the number of those who call no
TAI master.
Irrigation is n fruitful theme for study.
1t has a boundlcss potency for c~iviliza-
ton. On the desert sands of Egypt it
reared the most mighty empire of an
Gent days. In India it is to-day revivi-
flying and undermining n wasted land. In
America its mission has but begun, yet
gives promise of untold blessings to man.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09
NATIONAL IRRIGATION.
It Involves No Taxation and Its Bene.
fits Will Be MeasureIesa.

fits Will Be M~easureless
b new national irrigation law, in
spired by President Roosevelt, is des-
tined to reclaim 150,000.000 acres OF
fertile soil during the next thirty years.
These lands are located west of the
Missouri river md are now barren des-
erts. Cut UP into 2O-acre farms. 1900,
900 families could be accommodated.
With five in a family the population
would be 37,5OO,MO souls. Mining towns.
manufacturing centers and numbering in
%terests would spring into life as a conse-
quence, and sustain an equal population
perhaps much larger. Thus within one
generation we may possibly see, newly
established in the West, a population
fully equal to that OF the entire United
States at present.
The fund already provided for this
talismanic rej~uvenation will continue to
revolve in a circle until,its blessed work
is completed. Then it will be turned
back into Uncle Sans treasury in its
entirety. The government has never be-
fore enacted a law %freighted with such
possibilities Of good to the citizen and
home builder. The Republican home
stead law was the best thing Of its kind
up to now; but the irrigated home, turned
over to the occupant at the actual cost
of irrigating it, beats the world. No
man can purchase more than 100 acres
of the government irrigated land. He
must reside upon it five years and nav
for the cost of irrigating in ten equal
annual installments, without interest.
These moneys come from the sale Of
public lands in the arid States, and no
| altman .oF f1,n 11rs&al CA.l.. -.
this purpose. Even FIVE per cent of these
funds goes ta the States and territories
Interested, for educational purposes, less
the cost of handling the business. 1t
was estimated that it would require ten
years to accumulate S25, 900 in the
fund. Only two years have elapsed
since the passage of the law, and there
is about S25,000,00O already accumulated.
Being ultra conservative, IL estimat-
ing only $5,000,000 annual income, it
will be seen that during the first ten
years the gross amount will be eked out
to $~50,000,000. In the second ten-year
period $50,000,000 more would come in
from the same source, and, in addition,
J the $50,O00,000 invested in the first ten
years would come back for %re-invest-
ment. This would make a total sum
available for investment in new works
in the second ten-year period of $780,
0O0,0 This whole sum Of $780, 900, 600
would come back again for REIMBURSEMENT
in the third ten-year period, and another
$50.00O,ON0 would be added to it from
sales of land during this third ten years,
making a total sum available in the third
ten-year period for investment in new
works, $150.000,000. The sum of $780,.
100000 would thus have been used in
the construction of reclamation works,
if no other moneys were made available,
within a period of thirty years.
After all the land which could be re.
claimed by the national government had
been prepared for reclamation and settle.
ment, the whole amount which the gov.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09

Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, President of the
Woman's National Republican Associa-
ton, has long been a recognized leader
IN philanthropy and reform, and in poll
tics. She has headquarters during this
campaign with the National Republican
Committee at the Auditorium, Chicago.
She has issued an appeal to American
women to work for and vote the National
Republican ticket, and to support the
same ticket in their States.
Mrs. Foster, herself, will be on the
stump in the four States, Wyoming, Col.
! orado, Utah and Idaho.
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it is a measure Of surprising Importance;
one that has been under discussion for
many years, but has heretofore failed,
for the old reason that it was impossible
to arouse sufficient interest in it outside
Of the States directly affected. 1t is an
improvement that will pay for itself as it
progresses, for the whole cost is to be
betrayed by the money received for the
sale of lands, and the barren lands that
receive the benefits of irrigation will at
once possess a value far beyond the cost
Of the improvement.-Brooklyn Times,
July 1.
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Greatest Ennctmcnt Since the Hou,e-
stead Law.
The National Irrigation Association is
entitled to great credit for this early and
gratifying result-the beginning of the
great work Under national auspices
which is to make the desert blossom as
the rose' and convert arid America into
an arabic empire, affording countless
homes for the hungry homeseekers of
this vast country, is now in sight. 1t is
the greatest and %grandest step this gov
rnmen has taken since the homestead
law was first placed upon our national!
statute books.-San Francisco Enter
prise, June p. =.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09
Voter. viii Have to Gu.,,.

Judge Pafker's letter of acceptance is
promised on or about September IL
some seven weeks before election day.
The American voters will, therefore,
haye less than two months in which to
make up their opinion as to a presiden-
tlal candidate "plucked from the worm
hole Of obscurity," by David B. Hill,
and then only from a statement of views
whose authorship they can only guess.
Nothing he has ever done, said OF writ
ten affords the slightest inkling of his
capacity to write a State paper, choose
a cabinet or steer a canal-boat, much
less the ship of State of the greatest
republic on earth.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09
Home. for Multitude.

The signing OF the irrigation bill by
the President will attract public atten-
ton to the scope of the measure and it's
vast possibilities in the development of
productive areas out of barren deserts,
an enterprise that will ultimately provide
homes for 100000 people.-Seattle
Fost-Intelligencer, July 2.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09
One Of tho Best of the se,.Ion.

On first consideration it would seem
that the irrigation bill possessed only
sectional advantages to the West, but it
really means much to the eastern mar
kets of this country. When President
Roosevelt succeeded to the presidency,
the friends OF irrigation found their
strongest ally, for one of the Presidents
first acts was to place himself in line
with the best irrigation sentiment CT the
country. President Roosevelt, it is said,
regards the irrigation bill as one Of the
best measures which his signature has
made a law.-Brooklyn Times.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09
iw1.est Act Of Conpre...

The irrigation bill passed by the House
on Friday, and already passed by the
Senate, is an attempt to solve what Sec
rotary Wilson has well called "our great
est domestic problem" Irriga-
ton Of these arid lands will not only
provide homes for millions, but will large
ly protect the region eastward against
drought. On the whole, the irrigation
law is likely to pass into history as the
wisest legislation of the present Congress.
New Haven Conn Leader, July /.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09
One Of Importauce,

The other chief achievements are the
passage of the public irrigation bill,
which will open a vast area of arid west
ern land to profitable settlement, the eN-
tension of the terms of Chinese exclusion,
and the passage of a seventy-million dol
lar river and harbor bill.-Boston Jour
nal, July 3.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09
An Eastern BuRaboo.

The bugaboo of injurious competition
raised in some parts of the East and
West in opposition to the irrigation plan
has no basis in common sense. Since the
beginning of the present century moro
than II billion acres Of public lands
have been opened to settlement, the great
commonwealth of the West and South
have come into being, and the prosperity
Of the whole country has been common
surate with their growth.-Boston Bea-
con, June 30.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09
Re.t New. of the Ye,r.

Every State in the West is interested
in the new irrigation law soon to be sign
ed by the President, as it means the
greater development of this region, and
as it mean the ultimate provision Of
homes for 25,0O0,O0O people on land that
is not now useful. 1t is the best item of
news in the way of American expansion
that has been recorded this year.-Des
Moines Register, June IS.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09
For Actual Settlers.

The provisions of the law, as it now
stands, are eminently conservative. 1t
contains an admirable provision restrict
ing the sale of the irrigated land to- ac-
tual settlers, and in plots from forty to
one hundred and sixty acres.-Outlooh
On. W. June %.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09
Tho President. Hand.

The irrigation measure, which has been
adopted by Congress, is fraught with
vast promise in the future. AS the bill
was originally framed these lands would
have been absorbed by capitalists at the
expense Of actual settlers, but as soon as
the matter was brought to the attention
of the President the bill was amended
under threat Of veto-Paxton (lll.) Reg
lister, July 8, 1902.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09
Comprehensive and Automatic.

The irrigation bill which has just pass
ed Congress and been signed by the
President is the only bill aver passed
which furnishes so complete, comprehen-
sive and automatic a plan of action.
Under its provision at least $15O,OOO, 600
of the proceeds of the sales of public
lands will be available in the next thirty
years for irrigation works without fur
Their appropriation.-New York Financial
Record, June 25.
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"Magnfhccnt.O

With 6OO,OOO.OOO acres of arid land
in the West, and with an automatic
fund, which will reach $3.50, 100000 in
thirty years, to irrigate this land, it is
difficult to tell what the outcome will be.
1t can only be described by the term
Observation-Disclosures (Neb.) World
Herald, June 90.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09
Land Expansion.

The whole influence of the administsa-
ton was exerted in favor Of the relief
for the West brought by the bill which
has just gone on to the national statute
book. Without the loss of a life or the
firing of a shot the Republican party,
through it's land reclamation act, has add
ed a vast empire to the domain of the
United States.-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09

Two vastly important measures stand
out as the tangible results of the session.
The question Of an Isthmian canal has,
1t is to be hoped, been solved. No less
important, and perhaps more contribu-
tory to the prosperity Of the country. is
the passage of the -Newlands
irrigation bill. 1t is doubtful il a more
perfectly conceived measure was ever
enacted by Congress. Willimantic
Comm Journal, July II.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09
A Prophetic Estimate,

A patriot, a man of genius, a man of
sanely audacious provision. a man OF
eastern culture and of western experi-
ence is President of the United States.
He could signalize his administration in
no grander end in no more excellent way
than by identifying it with the begin
nings Of the great work and Of the great
duty of retaining the West on the lines
the Eagle sets forth to-day.-Rrooklyn
Eagle, Nov. &c, 1901.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09
Congratulate the Nation,

The people of the United States are to
be congratulated upon the adoption of a
measure which is in itself equivalent to
the annexation of an immense area to the
national domain, and which will bring
unreasonable benefits to the nation
Colorado Springs Gazette, June 18.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09

So David B. Hill has announced his
intention Of retiring from politics Jan
uary 1, 1905, regardless of the result of
the National or State elections" David
ls.only sixty years old, but this deter
mlnation indicates that he is already
weary of the S%isyphean labor Of rolling
a dead weight up the White House hill.
Ills the sunset of life gives us myst;-
cal lore,
And coming events cast their shadows
before"
But a sanguine soldier never begins
unbuckling his armor on the eve Of a
battle.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09
An.exing New Territorx.

1t is equivalent to opening up several
new States for settlement. Individual
holdings are limited to 100 acres, and the
owner must be a bona ide resident in
order to obtain the benefits Of the irri-
CATION system. This will shut out the
spectators and promote the development
of homes.-Zion's Herald. Boston, June
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09
Will Create "a Dense Farming Popu-
latiOn. F.

Systematic Improvement of these lands
by irrigation will provide homes for %,
100000 people at the lowest estimate,
and probably for twice as many. Sue
cessful irrigation farming both requires
and attracts close cultivation and a dense
population.-Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin,
June 81.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09
Inauxuratinx a New Policy,

The House of Representatives yester-
day, by the decisive vote Of 146 to SIS,
passed the irrigation bill Is. 3O57), which
is of so much importance to this whole
region as marking the Inauguration of a
national policy for the redemption Of the
arid lands.--Salt Lake Tribune, June Ia.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09
Far-Reachinx Importanc..

The irrigation bill must not bs over
looked in considering the important work
of Congress. for it is a measure Of far
reaching and cumulative effect. Its ben
efts will be immediate, but they will be
fur greater twenty or thirty years from
now, when the system inaugurated by
this law will have worked out its bene6-
results to an absolute demonstra-
tion.-Los Angeles Times, July 1.
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Surprising importance,

To a large section of the West the irri-
CATION bill, which promises to redeem to
agriculture millions of acres that are
now dry and barren. is by far the most
important measure of the session, And
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-09
Homesteads and Cheap Food 10,
Thousands.

The reclamation Of but ten per cent
Of this enormous territory means home
steads for thousands of families, and
cheap food for thousands of others. A
new era in our agricultural progress be-
gins with this system, and whether it
shall please the East or not it is in
strict accord with the tendency Of our
modern national growth.-St. Joseph
(Mo.) Gazette, June IL.