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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-07-26
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she ne. ser position we nave never
learned.
A little girl of ten or twelve, standing
near, made her small hands fly. A
reach to the right where the uniabeled
cans were stacked, roll of the can, a
flip of her thumb and while the left
hand was placing the labeled can to
the rapidly growing pile on her left
that small right hand was started out
again on its quick move and yet she
had never been able to label 1000 cans
in ten hours. To do this she would
have to place five labels every minute
without rest between.
Down on the water front there are
several fish markets where only fish is
handled and sold at retail. Every
butcher shop in city or suburb handles
more or less fish besides the fish
peddlers who 60 about from door to
door in the early morning calling,
"Fe-esh! Fe-esh!' Next door to us
an old German lives, and supports
himself and family by just selling
crabs. He catches them in nets,
stakes them out in the water confined
in gunny sacks till such time as he is
ready to cook them. Then he carries
them home, makes fire in his back
yard, heats tank of water and drops
those hideous squirming bugs into
boiling water; then, watch in hand,
awaits developments. When they are
done he scoops them out into huge
baskets and standing on street corners
where crowds pass, he sells them as
fast as he can hand them out at from
ten to twenty-five cents each according
to size and people otherwise apparently
sane and with normal appetites eat
those diabolical looking animals.
Then there are the clam diggers,
Indians usually who come to your
doors, the squaw in advance, dressed
in typical Indian style, smiling if
perchance you buy and groaning
dismally at refusal and since my
first purchase it is always refusal
with me, for the Puget Sound clam is
no more like the little neck clam OF
the East than the little black native
oyster here is like its Eastern cousin.
Some local company has started a bed
of Eastern oysters here at Walapa
Harbor, planting $40 barrels this
year and expecting to greatly enlarge
the beds next spring.
According to records we learn that
the natural game and fish supply OF
this state is worth as much in dollars
and cents as it's mines or its lumber
or any other of its natural resources.
Every creek is peopled with fine trout,
every river has the same supply and
the streams are numerous enough and
yet Washington does not gives its
game and fish supply government
protection. The papers are discussing
the matter and cite the revenue
obtained by Maine for fishing and
hunting privileges as up in the
millions.
Washington has a better supply
than Maine, and will no Idoubt attend
to the matter of government protection
soon.
ALICE NEWELL.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-07-26
For representative.

1 hereby announce myself as candi-
date for the democratic nomination
for representative from the LIST sub
district of the 54th Senatorial district,
Stearns Co., at the primary election
to be held Sept. 18th, 1906.
William A. Morse.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-07-26

servants in Office, and as a candidate
l wish to study with the people the
questions that interest them and
solicit their consideration with me
and ASK ALL VOTERS TO ATTEND
THE PRIMARIES SEP. IS, 1906.
Charles A. Iindbergh,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-03-05

loads. Therefore one Of these trains
which fairly tread on one anotner's$
heels through the autumn, contains
the harvest from 5,625 acres. HEREIN
Is the secret of this wonderful build
ing development. .a Il.
Ahead Of the town came the pioneer
wheat raiser who made the town
possible. Now population cannot be I
picked up bodily and transplanted like
SO many heads Of cabbage. IT must must
be led to move into new regions, TO-
sever the ties that bind it to old
homes, kinsfolk, old friends, to the
very soil and landscape it has always
known. In the one decade beginning
with 1894, one hundred thousand PEG
pie were persuaded to forsake the
lands that bore them, and to make
new homes that brought under Guilt
vatioo eight million acres Of prairie
that had belonged to the Indian and
the buffalo, and after them. to the
cattle, man. This movement is a fine,
big American story in itself.
Jumes ]. Hill Is one Of the greatest
Of living Builders. Stretching q rail
road across the Continent was only
one end Of the task he blocked out for
himself: His railroad was worthless
without "a population. Therefore he
became the leader Of migration
which has been carried on so quietly
that it is impressive only when the
statistics are bulked in this fashion.
These hundred Thousand men, women
and children led up toward The North:
ern frontier were not sought In the
steerages of Atlantic steamers. This
was not a foreign movement such as
in q previous generation had settled
large areas of Minnesota and Wis
censin. The missionaries who preach
ed the gospel Of .Jim". Hill went Into
the Virginias, Iowa, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Wisconsin and Nebraska.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-03-05
g.
A PLAN FOR DRAINAGE.

At the recent drainage conference
the following plan was set forth for
the reclamation Of the Red River Val
ley and generally agreed on as FEAST
BILE:
The overflow of the Red river to
be prevented without destroying
navigation or imrairing the flow of
water in it or any other tributary
stream. ~
This to be accomplished by means
of system of reservoirs on the head
waters of the Red river and the Red
Lake, Otter Tail, Pemtbina and Chey-
enne rivers.
At Lake Traverse, a ditch to be
dug connecting it with Bigstone
lake, four miles long and sixty-six
feet wide and ten feet deep. A dam
and gate at the foot of Lake Traverse
and another at the head. In food
time the upper gate to be closed and
the lower opened, allowing the waters
to flow in their natural channel north.
The cost Of the work would be $115,-
900.
s5 The building of dam on the Otter
Tail river at the outlet of the lake
+ and the deepening of the channel to
make a reservoir to to hold back
waters. This to cost, together with
the damage done to farm lands,
$4,000 - r. w; i.
Deepening the channel of the Red
lake river where 1t leaves the lake
and the building Of dams necessary
to hold back flood waters, 100000.
Building of a dam and reservoir on
the PemIbina river. $4,000. - ~
Building of dam and reservoir on
the sheyennne river, 100000.
M Total cost of the system, $450,000.
The federal government of the.
Dominion Of Canada to bear the ex-
pense Of the Pembina reservoir, $751;
600. The federal government of the
United States to be asked to appro-
pirate 1915, 900 to cover the cost of
the rest Of the work
BY this plan, which seems feasible,
and is within the amount recently
named by Senators Hansbrough and
M NC IND in their drainage bill be-
fore congress, some of the best farm
land In the country would be re-
claimed. I .,-5& Z
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-03-05

yond that radius, another town Is pro-
jected, like placing checkers on GER
tain squares Of the board. ,t5.s
The town is even announced before
it happens. The railroad issues such
statements as these:
<eThis extension will run forty-two
miles from York northwest through
the island Lake country, and will
have Ave good North Dakota towns,
The stations on the line will be we'll
equipped, with elevators, and will be
constructed and ready for operation
at the commencement Of the grain
season. Prospective merchants have
been. active in securing desirable
locations at the different towns on the
line. There are still opportunities
for hotels, general merchandise, hard
ware, furniture and drug stores, etc"
/ Such is the spirit Of American en-
terprise, which builds its towns on
paper before the railroad track has
been laid past their sites.
OF course the newspaper came arm
in arm with the country banker. At
Mohall, met the editor of The Tri-
;bune, a hourishing weekly with moth
ing tcountrifled'' in its makeup. He
would not have exchanged positions
with the owner of the New York
Herald. He was growing UP with the
country and he had come in ION the
ground floor" .N-
"You think it's a little early to be
running newspapers UP here?" he
said "Why, ! had two papers going
before the railroad got here, one in
this town, and another at Sherwood.
We don't wait for the railroad. It
has to hustle to keep up with us
folks. When the extension got to
Sherwood, it. found the town built,
doing business and waiting for it,"
These towns In their infancy, rising
iby scores on the prairie, are essential
Ily American in their, spirit, their pur-
poses and their destinies. They are
being peopled, not by foreign immi-
grants, but by the men and women OF
the Middle West who are not afraid
to ''take chances" The schoolhouse
and the church will follow the grain
elevator, the bank and the crude, new
main street" whihc runs into trail
across the blank prairie. Some of
these towns may collapse and vanish,
but most of them will grow into
.solidity and lose their raw edges. For
the brick and stone business block
and high school, the pavement, the
waterworks and lighting plant are
only a year or two behind the pioneer
in such a movement as this.
The Secret of 1t All.
Wheat is the magnet that draws
these people and that creates these
towns as II by magic. From one of
these new towns IL the autumn you
have only to step into the niddls al
the main street to see on the prairie
beyond the smoke of the threghing
1 outfits lt far and near. As they move
slowly across the, landscape or spout
the golden straw, they suggest so
many Tewentieth Century dragons Of
q benevolent temperament. By day
the smoke and turmoil of the thresh-
ers, by night the blaze OF. burning
straw stacks-the infant towns are
r1aipnged around with the signs Of the
riches that create the need Tor them.
II. The railroad IS fairly blocked with
can cars crammed with wheat. Seventy
five acres Of wheat, twenty bushels to
the acre. are swept into, one of these
cars, and one huge engine hauls to
market sevAntv-fvn of ,haen - y :,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-03-05

sY M. II. JEWELL.
THE DAILY TRIBUNE.

Published every afternoon, except Sunday,
at Bismarck, North Dakota, is delivered by
carrier to all parts of the city at SO cents per
address in the United States or Canada, post
age prepaid, SIS per year; $3.50 for six
months; $1.25 for three months
THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
Published every Friday; eight pages, con-
Ginning summary of the news of the week
local and neutrality-suspicious. attention being
paid to state news Sent to any address, post
age paid, for 81 for one year; so cents for six
months; a5 cents for three months.
The Bismarck Tribune is the oldest news
paper in the state-Weekly established June
. wide circulation and IS desirable advertis-
ing medium. Being published at the capital
OF the state it makes feature OF state news,
of semi-oficial character, and IS therefore
particularly interesting to all who desire to
keep the run of state afsairs-political. social
and business.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-03-05
THE HOME BUILDERS
Part Of Ralph D. Paines Beautiful Story in Outing Maya
zine OF the Northern Part Of This State,
and How 1t Came About
ForeWard.


1 set out upon journey Of fifteen
thousand miles with no more explicit
instruction than this:
Go out and look this big country
over. Get among the real Americans,
the kind of men and women who have
made and are making it proud heri-
|tage to be born under the Stars and
Stripes. ::
"The dismal chorus of graft and
dishonor, and betrayal in finance,
business, politics and society is mis-
leading. It has served wholesome
purpose, but it is unfair to national
life that, at heart, is cleaner and
stronger than in any other country on
earth.
Find and show US the far bigger,
better, brighter and more hopeful
signs of the times
The scope of such a mission was
staggering. A lifetime would be too
brief for searching out and telling
why the future of this United States
was never SO inspiring as it is today,
as foreshadowed in the daily endeavor
Of its eighty-odd million people. It
was possible, however, to choose Ger
tain chapters from the days work,
which seemed especially vitalized
with the spirit that has been most
truly, American since the beginning,
The men who are laying the founda.
lions of empire and building for the
future greatness of the land and Its
people were sought away from the
cities of the east. i
They were found on the prairies OF
the Dakotas, dotting the map with
towns that rose almost over night.
The quest led also to the open range
of Montana, where the oldtime scow
puncher'' Is making his last stand be.
fore the invading farmer and the
irrigation plant. It wound among the
mountains of Washington. whose vast
and stately forests must supply the
timber Of the future. ~
/ From the logging camp in the heart
of the Cascades to the fishing fleets
OF Puget Sound; from the deck of a
pilot-boat on the Pacific to the edge
OF Death Valley in the Nevada desert,
the pilgrimage fell among the
Builders of the United States that
is to be- ~ 81.
With the sailors Of The Great
Lakes; in the mines Of gold and silver
and copper and iron and coal; on the
plains Of Texas and with the con
struction camp in the Rockies, were
found the creators and producers of
new wealth in manhood and re
sources. .'s
On farm and ranch from Seattle to
the Gulf; in the New South from
Virginia to Key West, and among the
makers of cities from Los Angeles to
Atlanta, was written plain the story
that z5
tarhe rudimenhs OF empire here
Are plastic yet and warm;
The chaos OF a mighty world
Is rounding into form" A.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-03-05

It has been suggested NJ a mem.
sber Of the Commercial club that that
body interest Itself III civic improve
msnt as q matter Of vital Importance
Z 70 the city. It Is also suggested the
receipts from the Easter ball To be
given by the club might probably be
spent In such work
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-03-05
-. - ''-,rr
Sfrayed or Stolen.

strayed or Stolen. "a
A hrindle cow from my place on
14th street. Liberal reward for in
formation. Frank Stutingor.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-03-05

From HaVre comes the announce
ment That the 500 will build west
from Flaxton, this state, going
through the country about 40 miles
north of Gu1bertson, and continuing
directly west, pass through a great
and prolific agricultural country in
the northern part OF the Valley coun-
5ty, almost para1leling the Great North
ern railway; enter Chouteau county
about 80 miles to the north of Dodson
and thence proceed on west to Havre.
The surveys show that this to be al
most an air line east and west, at
tended with few engineering difficult
ties They win run north and west
from HaVre, going to the north of the
main line Of the Great Northern rail-
way ana passing through the Sweet
Grass hills, Were there are quarries
~ the finest granite SGT untold aassaa7fi-
ties, thence proceed west north OF
Browning. The engineers have found,
it IS asserted, natural pass through
the mountains, where construction
will be comparatively easy. The road
viii touch the rich oil deposits In the
country north OF Browning and will
be able to handle the Canadian oil
products from nearby fields by means
of q few miles Of pipeline. Thence
it will proceed into Washington open
ing mp a farming country ais rich as
the world has ever known, and thence
on to the coast. Brady Bros. the
we'll known railroad contractors Of
North Dakota, recently took 40 cook
car shanffes, together with d crew 81
cooks and graders, horses, etc. and
with A supply Of ties and rails that
Will reach many miles. began laying
their track from F1axton 20 Havre.
From Flaxton the distance Is little
less than $50 miles to Hayre.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-03-05
The People Of the Prairie.


!. I know an old town on the Kenne-
bee, in the State of Maine" which
holds, embaimed in fragrant tradi-
tons, the life and memories of by
gone generations that played a noble
part ii the early building Of this ma
ton. Beside the river winds the
main street, beneath whose majestic
.elms are rows Of white houses with
green blinds, not one OF which was
built less than century ago. Along
the valley beyond the town are
weather-Worn farmhouses with sham
bling barns, some Of them ssftteaidl.
They nestle ii rock.ribbed valleys or
climb the slopes Of Wind-swept hills,
and their boundaries are marked by
low stone walls built with vast toll.
In the windows OF the white houses
Iof the town one sees aged women,
widows and spinsters, who live alone
and whose brightest recoliections are
.of other days when youth and vigor
and ambition were vet content to
dwell in this corner Of New England.
Few young men are left on the little
farms along the valley. The fathers
are always working from dawn to
dark, and when the year ends Il
shows a scanty livelihood id net re.
|, suits with not much more cash ID
hand than will pay taxes. The
mothers achieve miracles OF house
hold economy, vet the struggle To
make both ends meet wears them
down before their time.
Living conditions in such conamuni'
tiles as this have suffered surprisingly
few changes during the last hundred
years Al sprinkling Of retired gentle.
folk, q few merchants whose stores
supply the town and valley and the
scatsered farming community round
about, con1prise population whose
daily round OF interests largely mir
IEors those Of the days of spinning
Iysheels and stage coaches. For they
fare still dependers gpon the soil
Il,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-03-05

These towns come into being be-,
cause the West IL fuiI Of men who are
always on the qul vaye for new oppor-
tunities 70 create, TO produce, to make
a town where none grew before AS
the railroad inFadAs the virgin terri
tory, the towns spring siD accoring to-
a general plan that smacks 81 81
problem il geometry There are no
rivers, no forests. NO mines. nothing
ITO make Tor advantages OF location.
There Is no obvious reason why b
town should be here instead Of there,
q few miles beyond Or a few miles
back.
The farmer ought to be able to haul
his wheat not more than ten miles to-
the elevator Therefore the town
site IL mapped out I'd draw upon a
scertain wheat alsing radius. And be-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-03
cOALVILLE HAPPENINGS.

Coalville. Oct 2.-The county commits
S1oners met yesterday. and after going
through the routine business, allowed
bills to the amount of about $500. The
indigentS were given about the same
amount. The clerk was instructed to ad-
vertise for bids for an iron fence to sur
round the court house grounds. The road
across Maxwells fork of the Weber river
was declared a county road.
Articles We're filed in the clerks office
of the Oasis Mining & Developing COM
pary. with a capital stock of $4,000
$4,000 shares at 10 cents share. This
company owns five mining claims in the
Erickson mining district. TOOele county.
Frank Evans is the president. J. Z. Hart
man is vice-president, and w. G. Fisher.
secretary and treasurer. The above named
gentlemen, with w. 5. Wilson and o. w
French will be the board of directors.
a license to marry was granted to VIII
ford RichenS of Henefer and Rose Sar-
gent of Hoytsville; also to James H Judd
and Eoueta Bailey OF Upton. Both couples
will be married in Salt Lake Wednesday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-03
REACH TOP OF MOUNTAIN
Dr.. Fred A. Cook Succeeds in As.
cending Mt. Mckinley, After
Many Failures.

New York. Oct. DIR. Fred A. Cook
of Brooklyn has reached the summit of
Mount Mckinley, Alaska, 2O,4S4 feet
above sea level.
Mr.. Cooks is the first ascent of the
mountain on record, and followed re-
peated failures. News Of his success
was received tonight in a telegram
from him dated Tyonek, Alaska. to III.
l.. Bridgman of the Brooklyn Standard
Union, which read:
I'VE have reached the summit of
Mount Mckinley by a new route from
the north, and have mapped 1900 miles
of country. Return to Seattle by next
steamer"
An expedition headed by Mr.. Cook
some time ago failed of it's purpose.
and left here last May for second at
tempt. Professor, Hershel Parker of
Columbia university, who accompanied
him, later returned and said that two
Intellectual attempts to reach the noun
tain'S top had been made, and that he
had left Cook to make still another.
In the three attempts then made
Cook had approached Mount Mckinley
respectively from the east. south and
west. A recent letter from him re-
ceived here and dated Aug, %, said
the mountain climber was about ia
make an ascent from the north side.
| This presumably is the effort which
was crowned with success.
| DR.. Cook was surgeon of the Peary
Arctic expedition in 1872 and similar
| ly associated with the Belgium expedi-
| ton
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-03

some members OF the council, for the pur-
pose Of making further efforts to arrange
for terms of purchase of the distribution
system that will be more satisfactory to
the city, and il that is impossible to see
what can be done about street lighting.
Other plans of lighting were also dis
cussed, and these will be given further
consideration If the city cannot make adj
vantageouS arrangements with the Tel
lUride company and the Electric company.
The special committees appointed by the
city council to confer with the Lehi Com
mercial club in the matter of Provo join
ing in the defense of Abel j. Evans and
w. II. Gardner, Lehi parties who in
tend to take water from Utah lake for
irrigation purposes, and who have been
enjoined by Salt Lake City and the Salt
Lake County Canal companies. has re-
ported in favor of referring the matter to
the Provo river commission, and the refer
ence has been made. This association is
composed of the Utah County Canal COM
panieS taking water from the Provo river,
and the city has member of the cCun-
ell on the commission. The sense of the
council is that the city assist in defend
ing the suit.
A marriage license has been issued to
George e. Abel and LOttie Hunter, both
of American Fork
Miss Ruth Matley has been employed as
stenographer in the county assessors Of
flee at $50 month.
The stockholders of the Provo Wooden
Mills company met here yesterday and
elected the following directors for the en-
suing year: Reed SmOOt Joseph Z. Smith,
! w. 3. Preston, George Romney, John c..
Cutler, Thomas r. Cutler John r. Barnes
| Charles S. Burton and w. W. Ritter.
The following officers of the Utah
| County Teachers association have been
elected for the ensuing year: Superin-
tendent l.. z. Eggertsen. G. n. Child
J. Preston Greer, n. X Nielsen, Osmon
| Justenson, James n. Walker, s. Z. Taylor
| Joseph A. Rees; Fannie Marcel, secretary.
! The music section has been organized
with Aaron Roylance, president, and Lot
| lie Overs secretary