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SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 80, 1906.

most as soon as they are threshed and
come directly into the possession and
control OF the terminal elevators. At
the time the farmers are compelled to
sell the market is glutted and the
producers can not force higher prices
from the buyers because they could
cease buying at that time and with
the quantity on hand continue to sup
ply the consuming trade without in the
least endangering their stocks.
1t is because of this fact that the
terminal elevators are able to enforce
low grade regulations, carry out the
dockage steals and fix the price to
suit their whims. 1t will continue so
long as the growers are in the power
of the terminal elevators.
Government inspection will go far
towards regulating the conditions, but
the honesty which is made by law is
OF the shallow kind and does not re-
lieve the danger which its existence
indicates.
If the grain growers can command
sufficient capital to build sufficient
terminal elevators to handle the grain
crops, and can then command suffi-
cient means to handle the crop in the
same manner as it is now handled by
the old organizations, they can control
the quantity put on the consuming
market and by avoiding the livestock
ing of that field, command fair and
honest price for their grain.
BY this means they would eliminate
/ the middlemen and spectators and
deal directly with the consuming
trade, whether that be the foreign
market or the domestic milling de-
mand. But they can not do this until
they are able to control at least
enough of the supply to fix the price,
for if the present system should be left
in command of as sufficient portion to
dictate prices the farmers, even with
terminal elevator facilities, would be
compelled to accept the same.
| But there is sufficient capital and
ability among the farmers of the
northwest to carry out just such a
scheme, gigantic as it is. They have
proven this ability in hundred other
enterprises which required just as
much organization and ability and
they can do it again.
If joint stock company were or
ganized, the stock to be sold only to
grain growers and available only
| when a sufficient amount had been
sold to build an elevator and finance
it for the conduct of business, the
farmers would show that they are
tired of being robbed by the wheat
ring, by purchasing literally of the
stock.
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SELLING THE STATE LAND.

There has always been some opposi-
ton to the sale of the state and state
school lands on the theory that they
would increase in value and in later
years make larger returns to the
state.
While that proposition is true, it
should be remembered that the state
is not engaged in the speculative real
estate business, and that the wealth
of the community is the actual wealth
of the state. The Withholding of these
lands from the market as seriously re-
tarded the development of many of the
older parts of the state. 1t is not so
serious in the newer counties where
there yet remains more or less vacant
government land, but in some of the
older counties large portions of town.
ships are almost without public roads
and school houses because the unsold
state lands prevent the country from
becoming sufficiently thickly settled
to allow these improvements to be
made.
If the land were sold to actual farm
ers it would make material increase
in the assessable value of the property
and convert into wealth producing
farms vast sections which are now
only barren wastes. One good, indus
trious citizen is worth more to the
state than the increase in value of the
land which he would purchase in order
to become such citizen.
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THE HEADACHE IN THE MORNING.

There will be headache in the
morning when the next period of bust
ness depression comes, the national
revenues fall off and congress has to
cut its appropriations according to its
cloth, oracularly remarks the Mime
apolis Tribune. ~.
We used to gibe at billion dollar
congress. Now we have billion-dol-
lar session. We are told that it was
only with the greatest difficulty that
Speaker Cannon and the other econo-
mists held the appropriations down to
about $90O,O00,0OO and that the senate
is likely to increase this amount
Without increase it means public ex-
penditures exceeding billion year.
Permanent appropriations to the
amount of s14O,0O0,000 stand to be
added to it. These run on from year
to year without new action.
We are still in the midst of the
period of prosperity John Lind used
to call the Hanna debauch," as If a
republican campaign committee could
increase employment and wages, rail-
road earnings, industrial production
and general trade. 1t has lasted long
er than anybody expected, but it can
not last forever, When 1t comes to
an end for atfew years, how are we
going to cut'national expenditures in
the middle? $af
Well managed. railroads can do
something like this by stopping the
expenditure Of income on betterments
and reducing running expenses to han
die reduced traffic. Examples of this
were given in the short depression of
1903, when net earnings were kept
up with greatly reduced gross. But we
doubt If the great trunk lines could
do this again soon, while they are in
the midst of vast terminal and track
improvements costing hundreds Of mil
lions and taking many years to carry
out.
How could congress cut expenses
much in the midst of Panama canal
construction and all the domestic en-
terprises undertaken when money
seems plenty? The probability is that
we shall have to borrow money again
for running expenses. The only COM
fort is that by that time the demo-
cratic party may be in power to take
the blame Of 1t. That is its usual
luck.
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THE SHORT TERM RENTER.


With all the opportunities for rich
returns from the soil in this state
there are found occasionally farms
which have the run down and forsaken
appearance which has made the farms
of New England by word during the
last quarter of a century.
Investigation will prove that such
majority as to establish the rule
that these farms are titled by tenants.
Further investigation will prove that
these tenants are working under short
term leases. and that this Is the cause
Of the failure to keep the farm in con-
dition.
The adoption of the short term lease
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~uDL1cAN STATE CONVENTION.

II the Republican Electors of the State
ct North Dakota:
an accordance with the instructions
0ittee, state convention Of delegated
representatives OF the republican party
q this state will be held this year at
Town,
Thursday. July IL,
q IL o'clock in the forenoon. for the
suppose of nominating candidates to be
ma for the t a s Of such other
lusiness as may be brought before 1t.
The candidates to be nominated are:
Two members Of congress: .o
lieutenant Governor.
Secretary of State.
State Auditor.
State Treasurer.
euperintendent Of Public Instruction.
commissioner Of agriculture and
Three Commissioners OF Railroads.
The basis of representation is the
average number Of votes cast for the
two republican candidates receiving
n each county in the state at the last
fsneral election In 1924 Se1cludlimg
the Supreme Court), giving two dele
rates at large to each organized county.
ana one delegate for each 125 republi-
can votes, or major fraction Of 125
votes. cast Tor the above officers in said
election.
Delegates to said convention from
each county will be chosen as provided
0nder the Primary Election Law. pass
ID by the last legislature, which pro-
y1des that Elections shall be held in
the various regularly established pre-
Sune 10, polls to be open from 9 a m.
70 p. M" The different counties in the
state will, under the apportionment
herein provided, be entitled to repre-
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encouraged. to become the commercial
center of one of the richest fields in

CeuteT VI one Oh tne rlcne6L uelQ6 IN
the world.
When North Dakota becomes set
tied, as it must in a very few years,
1t will support a population that will
be unsurpassed in wealth and enter
prise. 1t Is no idle dream to say that
every quarter of land in this state
when properly under cultivation will
demand purchasing market annually
of five hundred dollars, confined to
merchandise and farm machinery.
This will not be sporadic market
either, for the people who live on these
quarters must be fed and clothed, and
the tilling of the farm compels an
annual outlay for machinery.
Some point must become the dis
tributing center for this trade. That
is the destiny of this city if it is alive
to it's advantages. All the vast trade
for the northern and western section
should come from this city. 1t has the
railroad facilities for handling it and
has the advantage of freight facilities
to the east
But these things will not be handed
the city on silver platter. 1t takes
enterprise and hustle to get them. AL
ready Minot is becoming formidable
rival for the western trade of the
state and with the class of citizens it
has it can be counted on for getting
about all there is in sight in the way
of advantages to the city. No propo-
sition can be suggested that will be of
| the least advantage to the community
| that all the people irrespective of re-
| ligion, politics or business relations,
do not go in with zeal that almost
equals frenzy, to secure. The other
cities of the state, including Grand
Forks, need to keep an eye on the
Ward county metropolis if they do not
want it to secure some of the advant-
ages which properly belong to others.
| Fargo and Crookston are both out
| for their share of the future business
of the northwest, realizing that now
is the time to secure the foundation
for the advantages which are certain
to come in few years. Both cities
have clubs which are devoting their
energies to securing twenty-five thou
sand citizens. While this is the osten-
sible object they have both announced
that they will not attempt to get that
number into the cities until they have
secured sufficient number of manu-
factories to give every man secured
position at which he can earn a
living for himself and family.
At the same time these cities are
giving every attention to the working
up Of the wholesale and jobbing busi-
ness. The Fargo Commercial club has
planned trip through the western
part of the state for the purpose of adj
vertising the city in the cities through
which they will pass.
That visit will cause thousands of
dollars to be turned toward Fargo in
business way. This city should get
after the business in the same way
and see that the city is properly placed
before the people of the territory con-
tributory to it. Grand Forks can and
should be the Chicago of the north
| west, '' '''t'.
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ADJUSTMENTS
Vaudeville.

Vaudeville.
The performances Of the Orpheum
company are beginning to be taken
quite seriously by numbers of people
and regular attendance is sure sign
that the Orpheum management have
succeeded in their efforts to please
and amuse. This coming Tuesday will
give good bill of we'll known feature
acts.
Swor and Westbrook, refined singers
and dancers, who rank with the best
opponents of the Terpsicorean art.
Edward Kellie, the clever monolog-
list, who was entertained by the Lambs
club of New York in such sumptuous
manner about IS months ago, that
every paper on the continent gave ac-
counts of the spread.
The moving pictures are about the
best yet shown here and will contain
some surprises and lot of fun.
Get the Habit.
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BLOWING OUR own HORN.

A glance at the map will prove that
Grand Forks is the stragetic business
point geographically for the supplying
Of the entire northern and western
portions of the state, and because Of
this location is destined, IL properly,
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HER OBITUARY..

New Castle, Pa, June 3d.
Realizing that death was newt.
able, Mamie e. Kyle, aged "a,
daughter of "A. G. Kyle and wife,
of Springfield township, two
months ago wrote her own obit-
uary, leaving blank the date of
death and time of funeral. This
she sealed and gave to the under
taker she selected. Death resulted
from tuberculosis, but; she did
not mention this. After her death
Monday night the envelope was
opened and the self written OBJ
ituary read.
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in the northwest has worked inestim-
able injury to the land. Many of these
leases only run from year to year, and
it is seldom that one extends beyond
three years.
The tenant working under these
conditions, being but human, is getting
all out of the land it is capable of
producing without expending any,
thing in the way of money or labor
for the purpose of keeping the farm
in proper condition and free from
weeds. 1t is hardly reasonable to
expect him to do so, for the fighting
of noXious weeds is a matter which
will profit not the immediate tenant
but the one who follows several years
after.
1t costs money to keep the farm
clear of weeds and the time to do this
is before they get a fair start. During
the first two or three years they do
but little injury to the crops-not
enough to pay for the trouble of fight
ing them. Later when they have
largely secured possession of the
fields, they practically destroy the
crop.
The short term leaser who secures
farm free of weeds in certain the
pest will never become sufficiently
strong to do him any injury, and as
he expects to move on to some other
farm at the expiration of his term, he
does not incur the expense of fighting
the weeds. When he leaves the farm
it is deprecated in value and no good
tenant will accept it under lease,
leaving it to be taken by one less
valuable than the former one, and so
| on until the land becomes worthless
wilderness.
If the tenantry were for longer
term of years-siX to ten-he would
of necessity be compelled to fight the
weeds to protect his own interests and
he could we'll afford to do SO for he
would be the beneficiary of the work.
The same reasoning is true of other
features of farm work. Good cultiva-
ton is essential to the continuous
cropping of the land, though the eff
forts are not immediate. But in a
few years this poor cultivation will
destroy in a large measure the power
of the land to yield.
The short term tenant does not in
cur the extra expense of this proper
cultivation because the natural fer
tility of the soil will give him fair
yields in spite of this abuse of the
land during the few years he expects
to farm it.
Now if he were to realize the bene-
fits of proper cultivation through a
long lease, it would be money-mak-
ing proposition for him to so work as
to secure the best results during all
the period Of his tenancy.
The short term tenant is therefore
responsible for much of the low grade
farming in the northwest, and his
work is materially depreciating the
producing power as well as the value
of land. The sooner the system is
changed and the rowing tenantry
stopped the better it will be for the
prosperity of the state.
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A Chicago chinaman who offered
money to detective, was dubbed and
arrested. Probably the insult was too
small.
Those ice men shut up for violating
the law will appreciate the fitness of
the query, Whats in a name," this
weather.
A Texas court has imposed SEN
tence of 999 years in the penitentiary.
This would be good tribunal for
some Of the trust cases.
Red Wing. Minnesota, has an eagle
story, dispatches claiming that good
sized bird made it's appearance there
recently but attempts at capture
failed.
There is SO. much jealousy between
mother-in-law and daughter law,
that the man in the case doesn't dare
say when he eats at his mothers that
things taste good to hin It'll
Whenever there is a picture of an
English royal parsonage in the pa
pers. the reader has to look twice.
installing 1t at first glance for pic
ture OLA Costume of Thirty Years
Ago" 4 IA
There seems to be some; grounds
for the complaint of the meat packers
that "sensationalism runs arnuck,"" in
the Investigation stories and the pro-
ducts OF the packing houses, 1t is q
weakness of humanity to rather enjoy
a sensation, be it brought about by SO
common cause as the criticism of the
things we eat.
For your ice cream, fee cream cones,
fruits, soft drinks, ETC., call at CARRIERS,
602 Walnut.
No better bathingaor boating In the
state than at Chautauqua. Take your
best girl there and have q nice time.
Do not forget the special train ex-
cursion to Devils Lake July 10th.
Only $1.75 for, the round-trip, with
privilege of extension II desired.
DENVER, CoLo.-Annual Meeting Of
Benevolent and Protective Order of
Blks. Tickets on sale for trains ar
riying in st. Paul July 10 to Is, 1906
inclusive. Good to return until and
including trains leaving Denver
Aug. 81, 1906. Tickets will be good
While enjoying an evening stroll,
don't forget that f.. ]. Cummings, 220
tDemers Ave-, East Side, makes
speciality. of Ice Cream Sundays. Fine
Ice Cream Parlors. Remember he
keeps Ice Cream Cones nice and fresh.
A large soda fountain, and all good
things for the palase-get the habit
and come over-left hand side as you
go up town.
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Sentiment to be i.cu,c.,.d.

Lot reverence Of law be breathed by
Hfattles in her lap; let It be taught in
tne schools, seminaries and COLLEGES:
ses II be written in primers, spelling
eo0ks and almanaes; let it be preached
!atiye halls and enforced in courts Of
1n1tice; in short, let it become the
political religion Of the nation"
Abraham Lincoln
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company. Miss Crosman always has
excellent companies. She is too great
an artistic to sacrifice the harmony
of theater effects through incompetent
players. No actor is too great or too
high-salaried for her company, and it
is said that in MARY, Mary, Quite Con-
trary," she has the strongest cast that
has ever surrounded her.
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Nordlund says this is the last OF the.
season, and he VIII give bargains on
spring suits. Come IN and let me give
you prices. IA &c 3,i5s q & ,..5ts
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aMessage From Mars.n

"a Message From Mars" which will
be seen here at the Metropolitan, We'd
nesaay. July 4, is a comedy that. has
male good" 1t was written by an
American. 1t hal its production in
London, by q London manager It
was SO great q success there that it
was played at the. same theater for
more than one thousand nights con-
tsnuousiy; Sunday nights-excepted, Of
course. When 1t was brought to
America it was installed in one of the
Broadway theaters and there 1t re-
E'lincl fO! more than seven hundred
nights. This, in brief, tells the story
oi the success of this comedy. "a
Message From Mars" possesses those
characteristics which appeal strongly
to the taste of the great body of play
goers, such as a plentiful allowance
OF light comedy, varied by occasional
touches OF pathOs, a dash Of melO-
drama, a slight flavor of the super
natural and an unimpeachable purpose
or moral In this play, David Proctor,
one of the most prominent young act
ors in the United States is appearing
as the star, and has proven himself q
worthy successor Of the great English.
actor, who first appeared in the play
in London, and later in the United
States. Several members of Mr.. Proc
tors company have been appearing in
this play from the first night 1t was
brought out in London.
Henrietta Crosman.
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" the
latest New York hit which Henrietta
Crosman will present at the Metro
politan soon, has received a generous
measure of praise, and 1t is said that
Miss Crosman has never equalled in
cleverness and attractiveness her
work in this play. It is described by
critics and public as the most inter-
esting' and the most entertaining piece
of stage work she has ever given. That
Miss Crosman herself is delightful
needs no assurance, for those who are
familiar with her comedy portrayals
will testify to her unfailing' charm.
But in Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
genuine commentator has been be-
slowed upon every member. in the
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II You are looking for new novel.
ties call ut Kingman's.
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Pulse of the Press
Insurgent Inconsistency.

nttle Wnlle ago some OF the In
surgent leaders in the state were de-
ploring the secret ballot in the state
convention as inimical to their inter-
ests. 1t was feared it gave an oppor-
tunity for the undue influence of weak
kneed delegates, who might vote in
secret as they would not care to vote
openly. A few years ago the same
leaders deplored the open ballot. They
said it prevented the delegate from
registering his honest choice because
he was under the eye of the political
boss and did not dare register his
honest convictions. Now the in
surgent leaders have taken a new tack
and are In favor of the secret ballot,
declaring that it will give delegates
elected as regulars or stalwarts a
chance to vote with the insurgents
and nobody will lever find it out. The
intimation Is thrown out in the organs
of the insurgents that it is, not at all
necessary for the men elected as stall
warts to vote as they were elected
z and they are invited to- take 'advan-a
,tagel of the secret ballot to do what
they might not care to- do openly.
= What kind of advice is this from men
p who claim to stand for political hon
COY anu SQucA q uCduu6 stFf, w uO rs
seeking now to exercise the undue in
fluence to get men to vote in conven-
ton In opposition to their political
alliances in the recent campaign? But
the delegates elected in this state as
stalwarts are men who will stand true
to their convictions, either openly or
In secret. The stalwarts are not at
all fearful of the secret ballot The
insurgent leaders, though, seem OPP
posed to any kind Of a ballot except
one that will declare them into office
by 1t own fat
The Voters Acted Wisely.
[Nfilnor Teller.l
The returns from the state show
a great victory for the Stalwarts Of
the republican party, against the
insurgents. This is as 1t should be-
The idea of letting few sore-head
ex-Oface holders to disrupt the par
ty in this state to create a fat Job
for themselves is absurd. The state
was never in better shape than 1t Is
today. It's finances are excellent. Its
Offices are handled by as good men as
there Is In the state, and whose ad- \
ministration Is above reproach. The 4
voters have acted wisely and have
taught the insurgent ring a lesson In {
common decency. 3! }.
w - :. - ~
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CAUGHT ON THE WING.


A Chicago chinaman who offered
money to a detective, was dubbed and
arrested. Probably the insult was too
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-30

Those ice men shut up for violating
the law will appreciate the fitness of
the query, whats in a name," this
weather.
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A Texas court has imposed SEN
tence of 999 years in the penitentiary.
This would be good tribunal for
some of the trust cases.
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Red Wing. Minnesota, has an eagle
story, dispatches claiming that good
sized bird made it's appearance there
recently but attempts at capture