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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-19

State Capitol, Bismarck, N. D., Oct.
1S,-Your readers have been told OF the
many excellent advantages, both com
mercial and industrial which North Da-
kota possesses. They have been fur
nished statistics showing it's marvellous
during the past decade. They have
been presented with experiences of the
tillers Of the soil, the stock raisers, the
business men and the investors. They
have been given the statement of farm
ers of the amount Of grain they have
raised to the acre, the average yield
and such other items that would be
of interest to the prospective purchaser.
If these facts, figures and experiences
fail to convince they should, at least,
persuade the skeptical or unbelievers to
make thoro and exhaustive investiga-
ton of the soil, climate, resources and
opportunities which this state has, and
if not entirely satisfied, abandon all in
tentions of ever settling in North Da-
kota.
Many of your readers will remember
the time when they could have bought
the cheapest lands in Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota at from
$40 to $25 an acre. They also recall,
the fact that they were told that the
climate was too rigid, the seasons TOO
SnOIC duu GuS 1duu wv pun w PAONuoO
reasonable crops. Many believed it
and did not, to their great sorrow, in
vest. Climatic conditions changed as
the country settled, and the assertion
that profitable crops were an impossible
ity was proven to be a falsehood, pure
and simple. These choice lands today
are selling from $75 to 5000 an acre and
the end is not yet.
In the light of these indisputable
facts, and in the face of the history of
the gradual rise of real estate in the
east, it is astonishing that men who
want to buy land will hesitate, when
they are convinced that the day Of
cheap lands on them orth American con
tinent will be shortly thing of the
past.
During the past year there has beer
an unlimited amount of government
land from which to select home. II
had only a nominal purchasing price
and many used it without going thru
the necessary legal channels to obtai1
it. But these lands are almost all gone
only few million acres remain, ant
when they are taken will come {
scramble for private lands. It is as
tonishing the number of acres tina
have disappeared from government t,
private ownership in the past year
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-19

wAHPEToN, N. D.-Ed BurkIand. the youn
man who robbed Peterson's store at Mooretor
last Friday night, pleaded guilty today and wa
sentenced to serve four years in the state pen
Tertiary. Burk1and stole $500 worth of clothin
and iewelry from the store. He donned som
new clothes in the building and came to Wal
peton, where he was arrested.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-19

MILBANK. s. D.-Superintendent of Publ
instruction NJ. NJ. Ramer has issued q call for
meeting of the city superintendent of the stat
to meet at Mitchell Nov. 2 and for the pul
pose of revising the course of study in the CON
mon and high schools and discussing other schot
matters.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-19
Thursday Evening,
Ransom County
Elevator Capacity Not Great
Enough to Handle the
Crop.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
Lisbon, N. D., Oct. 1s.-In my travels
this week thru Ransom county, 1 have
been impressed with the lack of appre-
citation that the Illinois, and the Iowa
farmer has of Ransom county's land.
l have repeatedly called attention in
these articles to the necessity Of the
young man and the renter of the older
states, going to Ransom county and
buying lands, at prices now available,
and the impossibility of this class of
farmers obtaining a foothold where
lands are worth 800 or more an acre
and they having only a few thousand
dollars capital.
\ [ should consider that there is no
state, where as a whole, the soil is as
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-19
New 7'o,un Makes
Good Beginning
Several Lines Of Business Already
Successfully Opened at
Forbes.
JAMES J. HILL THINKS
WELL OF THE COUNTRY
Great Northern President Posted
Himself Before Starting FL
lendale Extension.
BY w. A. Otis.

Special Correspondence. s.
Forbes, N. D., Oct 12.-Forbes has the.
ground floor openings for business sue
cesses and the man behind them to see
that success is attained.
North Dakota s expansion during
1905 includes the opening of large
number of new townsites, some Of which
have been mentioned in these columns
before. From all the information at
hand, those towns backed by certain in
terests are forging to the front. OF
course the push Of the promoter does
not make a new town success unless
there are strong natural causes for the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-19
STOCK TRAIN WRECKED
Five Cars Jump the Track Near Warne:
and Delay Traffic.

ABERDEEN. 8. D.-A special stock train o.
the Milwaukee road wrecked near Warner
necessitating trains going south over that roa
running over the North Western tracks fror
Aberdeen to Wolsey. The journal on ca
loaded with barley broke, causing five cars
jump the track.
Aberdeen was visited by three-inch fall o
the ground in excellent shape for fall blowing
Previous to the snow the ground has been to
dry. and the farmers were delayed in thei
fall work The corn exhibit for Brown county
which was to have been given at the court
house today, has been postponed until Nov.
as many farmers were prevented by the storT
from preparing their exhibits.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-19
establishment Of the town at it's loca-

establishment Of the town at it's .loca-
ton. f. ~
Forbes is exceptionally favored in
both these respects. D. N. Tallman, OF
Willmar, Mimi, is the toWnsite agent of
the Great Northern railway and Forbes
is the terminus Of the new Ellendale ex-
tension of that railroad. Mr.. Tallman
he has opened this year for the Great
Northern, and he is making a success of
this one. 4 - %a*Ss5
Fine Farming Country Tributary.
This extension extends for fifteen
miles southwest Of Glendale to poiD +
in section 35-l29-65, and at this point
the Forbes townsite was laid out. N
amount Of urging or competition has
ever Influenced James j. Hill to build
an extension Of his road, unless he could
going to be "a valuable one. It is net
therefore necessary to cite a lot Of facts
as to the value Of this country, because
Mr. Hill satisfied himself on that point
before he started this extension, and
when Mr.. Hill says a country is good
everyone else can bank on it.
Business Already Active
Since my article of Sept. 5 on Forbes
the opening sale of business and resi-
dence sites has been held, and business
operations commenced energetically.
TvJ lumber companies have already Sc
c,ssed sites and are putting in. large
stocks. Three elevators are under con-
str1ietion. This last item alone is a
strong guarantee of the business future
sc this town. Elevators are not put up
IN a. town. where the country is not
right. These elevators and more to fol
low, will have all they can attend to
next year taking care of crops which
have heretofore been hauled by team
for twenty OF, sthirty mil les.
The banking business is starts out with
Congr essni an G lonass A. Marshau, of
Cakes, assits head and leader. Oar.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-19

MILLER. s. D.-With tears running down hi
brown cheeks and a voice choked with emo
tion, Crow Dog Grow Creek brave, hurrie
into store here and asked for a shoe box
which to lay his paDoose that had just die
at the teepee on the creek north of town. Th
little Indian was taken back to the agenc!
forty-five miles. and buried deep in the groun-
with funeral rites.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-19

shall is pioneer in the banking bust
ness of the state, so the Forbes first
bank is in the hands Of thoroly re-
sponsible and successful man in the
business. Mr.. Marshall s public spirit
means r lot more to the town. for he is
knowe IS an active schemer and pusher
Of any .snmunity in which he may be
interesced.
A few other lines Of business are es-
tabl,1hed and their proprietors state
are on paying basis from the start.
There 70 ground-foor chances still open
for ro11S lines For instances, there
are Is yet no general stores, hardware
storos y drug stores. The conditions
easil- -z.,a7rant the putting in Of two
or thr re ~eneral stores and as many
hardw~E,, flores! Two drug stores in
,,ie hands Of right men would make
good frC--- the first jump.
Excellent Location for Hotel.
Another line which is universal
none y-maker thruout the state and
at once, is hotel. There are any num-
Der Of hotels in the small towns over
the state which are netting their own
ers from $4,000 to $4,000 a year, and I
can see no reason why a hustler who
knows the hotel business cannot get in
here while the field is still unoccupied,
and cinch a business which will be a
fat producer in the years to come. Ru-
NOR has it that site would be donated
to good hotel man. A restaurant
right now would do land office bust
ness.
Extension to Be Completed Nov. 10th.
The railroad extension will be com
pleted Nov. 10, and train service estab-
hshed. When this happens, the men
who are on the ground floor will have
|. is the time for men who are seeking
good business locations to get in. The
man on theyground floor has all the adj
vantage.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-19

Cathay made postmortem examination ant
several witnesses were examined. The tnquesl
was continued at Fessenden, where other wit
nesses will be called.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-08-04
"HaWeS" Hats.

Sole Corvallis Agents for the famous
<'Hawes'' $500 Hat for men. The best made,
best wearing SO hat on the market. You can
see them being made in the Manufacturers
Building at the Lewis and Clark Exposition.
The most interesting manufacturers exhibit
on the grounds. Always one price-$3.OO.
Every hat guaranteed. Fall styles now in
stock
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-08-04

Broken lines of Mems, Women's and Chill
dren's Shoes nearly half price. Call to see
them.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-08-04
Clothing.

One lot Mems and Boys Odd Pants at s1OOa
pair, worth up to $780,
Fifty pairs Dutchess Trousers at 1924
One lot Mems all wool Sweaters at $125
each, value $3.50.
A Snap for Small Men.
One lot Mems Frock Suits, sizes 33 to 81,
value $40, for 298 suit SIS suits, $4.89;
$40 suits, $7.49.
One lot Mems Sack Suits, broken sizes, worth
up to $3.50, your choice for $685.
One lot Mems Black Clay Frock Suits, all siz-
es, our regular SIS suit going at 1918.
One lot Boys Long Pants Suits, ages IL to 18
years, at 1898, some worth $40.
One lot Boys Knee Pants Suits at $1.28, val
ues up to $3.50.
One lot Boys Knee Pants Suits at $1.98, val
ues up to 81.
A few Black Alpaca Clerical Coats at $1.85,
regular price $2.75.
Mems So Crash Suits, 2.98.
A lot Soc and 6Oc Thin Coats at 38c each.
Douglas Island news., 1905-04-19

Superintendent Carlson, of the Alas ka fisheries Union canuery at Chilkat, has secured lease of that property and will operate it this year.
 Matthew Bridge, deputy collector of customs at Skagway, has been offered the position of private secretary to the collector of customs for Porto Rico.
 "What are wages here?" asked a new ly arrived laborer of boy. "I don't know sir" "What does your father get on Saturday night?" Get" said the boy, "Why he gets as tight as a brick"
 The Columbia cannery, of Chilcoot will build several new fish traps this spring for the purpose of catching a supply or salmon for it's packing estab- lishment.
 The Atlin trail is still in good condi- tion, but the freighters and others in terested are hurrying the freight as much as possible It Is feared it, too, will fail soon.
 The international boundary line be- tween the United States and Canada has been finally fixed ill accordance with the findings of the Alaskan bound ary commission.
 Assistant Superintendent H. P. Stow of the Alaska Treadwell Go. expects to start work on the Alaska.Juneau sixty days in advance of the corresponding date of last year.
 J. Singer of Sunrise on SiX-mile creek, Kenai peninsula, has ten claims on the forks of SiX-miIe canyon and on East Fork and expects to have the new plant in operation in July.
 Judge Mellon, of the Alaska Mining Go. is making many Improvements on the Rush & Brown property at Karta Bay. He has consignment of ore ready to ship to the smeIter at Copper Mountain when the scow arrives.
 The Princess Beatrice will be operat- ed by the Canadian Pacific railway between Victoria and Vancouver and Skagway this summer instead of the Amur. The last named boat will not return to Alaska until next fall.
 Lieut.. Samuel c. Orchard, who has been appointed one of the members of the Alaska road commission of which Major Richardson is the chairman, is a member of the Third Infantry and is stationed at Fort Liscum, near Valdez.
 Advices have been received from the south that the Arctic Chief mine, one of the choice copper properties of the Whitehorse district, will be worked this year on a large scale and that the preparations for the work have already begun.
 The United States navy department will resume work on the Kiska island coaling station this summer. Kiska island is one of the Aleutian chain. The island will be coaling station and it might be fortified by the government this year.
 Harry K. Love, who was recently a candidate for appointment as United States marshal for the Nome Division has been appointed to permanent position as land agent of the general land office and will be assigned to duty in Alaska.
Douglas Island news., 1905-04-19

In the Cooks Inlet district is the S15O,0OO dredging plant of the Turn again Mining Co.,, under the manage ment of A. c. Carter, the plant operat- ed by Girtwood of New York on Crow creek, and the Wiebel hydraulic eleva tors on Canyon creek.
 The Dominion government has up held collector Newbury, of Victoria, in fining the steamer City of Seattle S4OO for violating the Canadian regulations in taking passengers from the steamer Jefferson when that vessel was disabled in Swanson bay, Canadian waters, some months ago.
 The announcement has been made that after April fl the passenger rate from Whitehorse to Dawson will be raised from S1O0 to S125. This is on ac- count of the extra cost of transporta- ton. Inbound passengers might not be able to make connections as closely hereafter as they have been making in the past.
 The supreme court of the United States has decided that section of the Alaska code providing for jury of six men to try persons charged with mis- demeanor in Alaska to be unconstitu- tional The dicision holds that Alaska is part of United States territory and as such is subject to the provisions of the constitution.
 The Atlin hydraulic companies will employ white labor this year as in the past according to Frank H. Brackett, the first of the big company managers to arrive from the south this year. There is no truth, he says, in the rumor that a combination has been arranged for the purpose of employing Japanese labor in that district.
 Mining claims are located and held in Alaska under the Federal mining statutes. Miners in any organized dis trict of Alaska may make rules and regulations governing the recording of notices of locations of mining claims, water rights, fumes and ditches, mill sites and af1davits of labor not in con- fiict with the general laws of the United States.
 A Washington dispatch says that President Roosevelt has commuted to expire next month, the sentence of Dan Carolan, who was convicted for murder ing Joseph Muldowney at mpart, Alaska, in 1900, and is now serving a life sentance at the federal prison on McNeirs island. In killing Muldowney Carolin believed he was defending the honor of his wife.
 A very significant development has taken place in the copper mining in- dustry of Alaska. Nearly all the work has been preliminary in character, for it takes a long time to open up a big copper mine. Development work has been going steadily forward, how ever, in at least two localities. The.ore shipped from the territory to smelters in the United States is merely incident al to this development work. In the first seven months of this fiscal year the value of copper ore received from Alaska was S211,1 ,11O, as against s68,5sS in the same months of the fiscal year 1904, and the January receipts were s1O,86O, as against s3,095 in the first month of last year.
Douglas Island news., 1905-04-19
The N0rthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed. Information for Everybody.

The Mayor of skagway is King(Wil- liam B.
 The Eagle River Mining Company will erect a wharf.
 J. J. Kennedy, prominent attorney of Nome, died on Feb. ,.
 The March business of the Alaska cable at Seattle was over S2,1OO.
 The end of sIeighing on the winter trail from Whitehorse to Dawson is at hand.
 A column ad in the Sitka Cablegram tells of the merits of the Sitka Hot Springs.
 The revenue cutter Rush has gone to the Sound to undergo a general over hauling.
 The Seattle Times says that Gov. Brady stands pat. Be jabers, and Gov. Brady is Pat. J.H. Conrad has brought in machin- cry to work the Petty silver properties on Windy Arm. For the second time in the history of Ketchikan, George Irving has been named mayor of that city. The Alaska-Perseverance Mining Go. has put in new machine drills at their mines in Silver Bow Basin. A pay streak has been struck on Ed monton creek, on Discovery claim, in the Stewart River district.
 According to dispatches from Fair banks seven of the ten persons elected to office were former Dawsonites.
 Another rich assay has been secured from ore in the OK Mel group of quartz claims on the west side of the Skagway river.
 A new steamer, the Harry Bratnooer is being constructed on the river bank in Whitehorse, intended for the Tanana trade.
 J. w. Leedy, former governor of Kansas, has been appointed referee in bankruptcy at Valdez, by Judge Wick ersham.
 The Western Fire Insurance Com pany, of Seattle, which carries many insurance policies in Alaska, has gone to the wall,
 Frank Hammond has resumed charge of work at the mine and mill at Sheep Creek, on the mainland, miles south east of Juneau.
 The Pacific Coast Gypsum Go. will develop their property on Chicago is land under the direction of T, N. George of Juneau.
 A Whitehorse barber was robbed ot S3So cash. While the loss is severe, he may find consolation in bOasting that he had so much at one time.
Douglas Island news., 1905-04-19

A dispatch from Fairbanks says that trouble is feared with the Indians on Little Delta creek. Stampeders staked townsite at the mouth of the creek and white men jumped ground on which a small Indian village stands and are now ordering the Indians to vacate. The latter sullenly refuse and as the whites are liable to throw them off, trouble will probably result.
 The department of justice hereafter will prosecute vigorously criminal cases in Alaska. Instructions to that effect have been or will be sent to the United States district attorneys in Alaska. The feeling seems to prevail that too many guilty persons have escaped justice in this district. The department also has decided that jury fixing in both civil and criminal cases will be stopped in Alaska.
 A youth was rushing up the street saying: "All 1 want in this world is to lay my hands on him." He presently came upon boy that weighed about ten pounds more than himself, and rushing at him he exclaimed; "Did you lick my brother Ben?" "Yes, 1 did," said the boy, dropping his bundle and tspitting on his hands. "Well," continued the other lad, backing slow ly away, "he needs a licking once week to teach him to be civil"
 At meeting of the directors of the Wild Goose Mining and Trading Go. held in San Francisco last November a resolution was passed declaring divi- dend of 30 per cent on the capital stock of S1,O0O,00O. This places S300,000 in the hands of the stock holders. The dividend is the largest ever paid on any Alaskan investment and reflects great credit upon the sagacious manner in which the affairs of the company have been conducted under the management of Frank A. Shaw.
 The Alaska halibut fisheries are pro ductive every month in the year. Even in the month of January this year there was shipped from Alaska to the United States fresh halibut weighing nearly 100000 pounds and valued at S28,262. The halibut fisheries are in- creasing their output every month. The shipments from Alaska in January last year were valued at S22, ,l3S. In the first seven months in the current fiscal year the shipments amounted to 4,545,008 pounds, worth at the points of shipment S11G,271, as against l,48l,4O0 pounds, worth S50,8S4 in the same month in the fiscal yerr 1904.
 The people of Douglas are compla in- ing because of the charivari habit that prevails among the youth of that town. The Douglas News says the small boys down there have made that place he'll to the newly wed. The Whitehorse Star says the same condition prevails at Whitehorse. There is remedy. The swains and maidens of Douglas and Whitehorse are respectfully invited to make Skagway their Gretna Green. The boys of this town are good. They had the pernicious habit complained of once upon time, it is true, and it seemed to be fixed, but town ordi- dance and the city marshal broke them of it. They have forgotten what tin can was make for. Come to Skagway, bashful grooms and blushing brides and be happy.-Skagway Alaskan.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1905-09-02
REFERENDUM FOR STREET Cal,
LINE PROPOSITION

Mayor Dunne's proposal. that his
plan for an Independent street ear line
be submitted to referendum vote ut
the fall election. is meeting with some
criticism from number of Aldermen.
They say they have no objection to
having the people express their views
OH the subject. but do object To de-
claring for it themselves in advance of
getting IL before the people. The May.
cr's plan is likely to carry. however.
In discussing the matter the Mayor
made the following statement on Wed
nesday last:
MY aim IL to have the plan ap.
proved by the Council and then submit
ted ~ the people on n referendum un.
der the public policy act.
II think it advisable To have every
question of this nature submitted to
the people and | am anxious that the
Council should give the proposed orli-
nance Its approval in some form or
other in order that this may he done
The Council need only approve the
general plan and the ordinance can he
submitted to the people and worked
out In detail later"