The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1905-06-16
COUNTY NEWS
Willow City, Eidsvold and
Meadow. s}
CORRESPONDENTS
TELL THE HAPPENINGS AT THESE
PLACES FOR THE wEEK--TFIE
REAL AND PERSONAL AS
SESSMENT IS LARGE

SESSMENT IS LARGE
WILLOW CITY
J.E. Stewart went to Minot Monday
to visit relatives and incidentally take
in the races.
Village marshal, Garfield Critics has
resigned. The Board has not yet de-
cided upon his successor.
Frank Fisk is visiting with s.. B.
Mahaney, for few days. Mr.. Fisk
has lately returned from Oklahoma
where he has been located for the past
two years. He says that Southern
country is alright but that there are
not the opportunities there for young
man that are to be found in N. D. It
is Mr. Fisk intention to. locate in the
western part of the state and again
take up the practise of law.
Attorney Fred Kelly, one Of Nelson
Counties bright young men, was in
town two or three days this week
transacting business.
Cashier Mccain and s. B. Mahaney
made a trip to the Deep River country
on Monday. They report crops looking
splendid and all the farmers hopeful.
Big, burly Tom Gardner, Bottineau
Counts able Sheriff was social visi-
tor On Monday. Willow IL such
good law-abiding city that the sheriff
has not been called upon to pay US
an official visit IN many moons.
w. Master q Co. are circulating a
petition for druggists permit. He
is meeting with success, nearly every
freeholder in town having signed,
which goes to show that in spite of
the fact that Willow is supposed to
be prohibition town her citizens be-
lieve that a little for the stomachs
sake is good thing. y. 81 81
W.. J. Bryan will othciate a the,
laying of the corner stone Of the new
Woodmen building at Chautauqua on
July 1st. The day will be known as
Modern Woodmen day and members
of the order will be present from all
over the state.
The country at large seems to be
somewhat disgusted with the action of
Governor Pennypacler, and the Penn
sylvania Legislature in the matter Of
-appropriating public money to erect a
monument to perpetuate the memory
of the late Mathew Stanley Quay. And
yet why should not the Governor
and legislature of Pennsylvania do
thiss Did not Quay make Penny
packers We're not the members of
the Legislature of that state the
creatures. Of his creation for two
score yearsf And does not ingrati-
tude stand high on the list Of heinous
.sins3 To come nearer home. Why
should not the legislature of North
Dakota-as since its life as state con-
stituted- in the event of the death Of
Alex Mckenzie, which God avert,
appropriate money of the common
wealth to erect a statue to his gcnius
Has he not also made and unmade
United States Senators, Congressman,
Governors, members of the State Leg
islature and other lesser lights1 Does
he not through his henchmen in the
National Congress, dole out patronage
to the faithfuls Anyhow it is the
current belief throughout the state
that he has Now would any intel
ligent man, who has watched the
course Of events in North Dakota, for
the past Is years, have been surprised,
If the great and good Alex had been
gathered to his fathers before the CON
vening of the last Legislative Assem-
bly, at the LAM cures, Littles, Simp-
sons. Foxes, ct omnes. formulating
and presenting to that body a joint
! resolution asking for an appropriation
to build a suitable monument to per-
petuate the memory of their friend 7
And would not the Gronnas, Mar
.shalls, Hansbroughs, Haggarts, Nc
Gillivrays. Creels, Pattersons, Mobiles
and other public servants and Federal
oficeholders Of nnsayory record
throughout the state have contributed
literally Of their private means to such
an end I We trow they would, for
none Of them are ingratec. Should
such calamity overtake the faithful,
.as the death Of their leader. which
again we say Godforbid, we would sug
gest that the statue be Of life size, Of
the finest marble, q copy Of the stat
utes and constitution Of North Dako-
Ia, torn and mutilated beneath the
feet, in the right hand . copy OF that
farce of the last legislature known as
the primary election law and Tor az
epitaph the words attributd to one 81
North Dakota q oldest senators, when
worn ont with arduous@ labor nature