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The Ward County independent., 1906-05-17

boxes. are hung on the cliffs or
stuck away between the timber
on the hillsides without the sligh-
test regards Of order, and in the
most picturesque fashion and
"Sunnyside" Happy Hollow"
and "Honkeydonk" are among
the equally picturesque names Of
the different parts OF town. At
Somers l also had the pleasure
to meet our old Ex-Sheriff of
Ward county. Mr.. John E.
O'Hara, who had Just finished
the installation Of a fine new en-
gine in the box factory Of that
place. His present home is in
Kalispei.
The most direct contrast to
Somers is Kalispel which is a
model OF order, symmetery and
a well built and maintained little
city with fine streets and boule-
wards, splendid public buildings
and large elegant stores which
would do credit to many an
eastern city. But withal the
town is quiet, even the saloons,
of which there were a great
many, seemed quiet and drowsy,
/ was informed that land in the
valley was worth from $50 to
$75 per acre, that practically al
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dred men who get from two to
three dollars a day and pay five
dollars a week for board. Here,
again, the blessings of matri-
mony was evidenced as l was
told that the company preferred
married men because they had
the smallest checks coming at
the end Of the month after their
bills at the company's store had
been deducted. Somers can also
boast OF the only tie picking
plant belonging to the g. N. Ry.,
and here the ties for the whole
system are treated by first steam
ing, then pumping all the water
and pitch out of the wood after
which the watts are filled with So
luton of chloride of link varying
in strength from 4 to 6 per cent.
The entire process requires from
five to eight hours according to
the kind of timber used, costs
from ten to fifteen cents per tie
and is said to increase the length
OF it's life from tour or five years
to fifteen or twenty. Verify rail
reading is getting to be a science.
The dwellings, Of the laborers in
Somers, ranging all the way from
neat cottages down to the regu-
)lation tar papered dry goods
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soL|c|1s YOUR SUPPORT.

George j. Smith whose likeness appears above typical
LaFoette from Wisconsin He born there and has
lived there of his life In Wisconsin he engaged in
the mercantile business When Senator LaFoette out
for Governor in 1893 Mr. Smith with him and stmped the
state in his behalf and though LaFoette did not win out
that campaign Mr. Smith still stood by LaFoette in the
pagn 1900 and arrayed against the machine of that stae
he engaged the erces political battle that fought
in that state 1t regarded of the greatest umphs
for the people against the corporations and for the
primary election that fought in America He
North Dakota about four years and settled claim
miles south Of Berthod where he engaged in
farming great majority of the people have He did not
farm by proxy but walked down the urrow himself and there
learned the world Of toll all the working busy people have
learned it. He successful farmer and atho he is
engaged in the newspaper business he is still farming een
sve He enjoys the distinction of publishing the only paper
in North Dakota published farm. He secured postoce
and named it after the he admired Senator LaFolette
Wherever he known he is admired for his anknes and his
unswearving devotion to the Of the people, If Mr.
Smith is elected Representative he will his influence and
devote his time toward the enactment Of workable and
prehense primary election law under the Australian ballot
tem that will apply every office within the gift of the people,
The Ward County independent., 1906-05-17
Oscar Oslie is Dead.

Oscar Oslie, one OF the proprie.
tors OF the Great Northern Cash
Store, died at the home Of his
brother-in-law, j. NJ. Mus at
Velva, Monday Of last week, al
ter a long illness ofconsumption.
The remains were inferred in the
Velva cemetery. About two
wears ago, in company with Mar.
tin Peterson, Mr.. Oslie began the
management OF the Great North.
ern Cash Store in Minot. Fail.
ing health compelled him to quit
inside work and for many months
he has been declining. Hesought
relief in Montana and spent a
long period in a Minneapolis hos
pital, but returned home about
a month ago to spend his re.
naming days with loved ones
Oscar was "a years OF age, and
was the son OF A. J. Oslie. a
prominent Velva farmer, who
settled in that country twenty
years ago. He was an all round
fine fellow and leaves hundreds
of friends ii Minot to mourn his
departure.
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GrOWISmall Fruits.

Peter Clausen, ofHatten, n. D.
grows strawberries for the mar.
ket quite equal to the Hood
river berries in size and far su-
perior in flavor. He has one
acre of strawberries and large
quantities of raspberries and
other small fruits. The same
thing can be done in this part
OF the state if only an attempt is
made. 1t has been demonstrated
that wherever the attempt has
been made small fruits have been
successfully grown in all parts OF
the state. c. Enger OF Churches
Ferry grew gooseberries last
year where five small branches
broken from one plant bore Just
two quarts OF berries.
The Ward County independent., 1906-05-17
Receives Gold Medal.

Jos. korgel, the North Prairie
farmer, showed the Independent
man the gold medal which be had
recently received from the Port
land Exposition, for the best
blue stem displayed there. The
medal is a handsome thing,
weighing five ounces. 1t is
round like a dollar, a quarter OF
an inch thick and * inches
across. On one side is a beauti-
full wreath, while on the other
three people are represented
travelling towards the setting
sun and these words are inscrib-
ed: I'Westward, the course OF
empire takes it's way" Joe is as
proud Of the medal as a boy
with a pair OF red top boots, and
well may he be. He will soon
receive the silver medal from the
st. Louis Exposition for the dis
play Of the same wheat.
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grim reaper for that space OF
time. Bright and early the next
morning about 4 O'Clock just as
dawn with a mighty effort CON-
menced to dispel the blackness
of night we awoke at about
Browning, Mont, located at the
foot of the Rockies and we start
ed the upward climb in antici-
patton OF great sights and be-
tween that time and 8 o'clock in
tie evening when we reached
Columbia Falls we certainly used
our eyes pretty lndustriously.
The eastern slope OF the Rockies
appeared to be but sparsely tim
bered, vegetation in general be-
ing rather scant. Here and there
a family living, mostly in little
log houses and tilling a few acres
of land on a bench in the hills or
along the winding creeks in the
narrow bottoms ofsome canyon.
A little further up the camps of
prOspectOrs came into evidence.
One popularity OF these noun
taine, which ] noticed was that
the seams in the rock formations
all run slanting up and down at
kan angle of from about 450 to
SOo so it looks as tho
0slSNre was rushed with business
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In Interesting Account Of q
Journey Taken by the lnde.
pendent's Special Correspon.
dent The First Of a Series
Of Articles From the West
Valuable Information for
Those Who Have the Wes-
tern Fever.
Seattle, Wash, May 5, OF

Seattle, Wash, May 5, 06.
Friends Truax and Colcord:
According to my promises ]
am, about this time, due to give
you ali account OF my Journey
ings from home to the coast OF
the. Pacific ocean, that mecca to.
wards which the majority OF the
children OF frigid North Dakota
at some time or other in their
lives have looked with longing
ewes. 1t surely tends to keep one
awake to watch the ever chang
ing scenery Fastening past, and
had l but the requisite power Of
description l evidently believe
that | could interest you. There
is but little to be said of the wes-
tern part OF our own state that
you do not already know, be-
yond mention Of the great ad-
vances which that section has
made during the past two or
three years. The state OF Mon
tana possesses a great many
points of interest. The valley OF
the Missouri and milk rivers show
OF what high standard OF fer
tility that country is capable
wheD aided by irrigation. Night
overtaking us in the neighbor-
hood OF Glasgow the only thing
we could do was to wrap the
draperies of our couch about us
and lay us down to pleasant
dreams. By this time had been
able to heat Father Time out Of
one hour and could rejoice in the
delusion Of having STAYED off the
The Ward County independent., 1906-05-17

farm products we're marketed at
home and brought a good price.
Prices on the other goods seemed
little, if any, higher than in North
Dakota with the exception OF
flour which sells for $3.75 and
other heavy merchandise where
freight plays an important part
The price of a mich COW would
run from $50 to $45, but horses
seemed somewhat cheaper than
at home. Resuming, l next jour
ney to Spokane, but travelling at
night | could see out little Of the
Intervening country. Spokane
is a fine city. The waterfalls are
grand and capable OF supplying
power, it would seem to run the
whole city and all the railroads
of the state besides. One is i'm
mediately struck with the Cos
mopolitan appearances and me-
thodsz zoidoing business. Com
petition is keen and everybody
makes strong bids for ira d e.
The country between Spokane
and the ascades looks barren
and desolate, becoming 5 o m e.
what better towards the west. 1t
showed. however, the great
transformation effects of irriga.
tion wherever that was applied
and that the soil is capable OF
great things when aided by wat
er
1t is in the Cascade mountains
where one gets his m oney' $
worth OF scenery the grandeur
OF which beggars all description.
Heavily timbered, almost per-
pendicular mountain sides pro-
ducing very narrow valleys or
canyons, the upper regions
covered with snow, and the road
bed winding around and around
through snow sheds and tunnels
one OF which is three miles long
the whole appears like a dream.
One time you would see a tall
mountain on one side and in a
little while you will see it on the
opposite to again find that it
has once more changed to the
first, and when you look out Of
the window you will discover
away down the mountain side
two tracks besides the one upon
which your train is, one below
the other and over which you
have already passed. 1t certain
ly is a ride never to be forgotten.
As l now have arrived at Seattle,
the temporary end OF my journey
and as the letter has assumed
unexpected proportions think
The Ward County independent., 1906-05-17
FROM MlNOT TO COAST

when those mountains were
made.
The nearer we came to the top
the stronger became the growth
OF timber and vegetation and it
was interesting to note the little
creek in the bottom of the valley,
through which tn, road runs,
becoming smaller and smaller as
we neared the top and likewise
more and more torpid and lazy
until at summit it had the ap-
pearance Of a swamp and did not
seem to know whittier it wanted
to 20, and then on the western
slope, ere long, it commenced to
follow us and the further down
we came the swifter and larger it
grew, fed by innumerable little
streams and rivulets dashing
down from every mountain side,
until it became itself a mighty
and raging torrent running a
mad race with jim Hills iron
horse as if to see who first could
reach Flathead Lake.
My first stop was at kalispe]
where | had no sooner gotten off
the train than | met our old
Minot friend Jas. S. Wilson who
drove up from Somers where he
and his brother William keep a
general store. OF course l could
not afford to miss such an op-
portunity and accordingly rode
down with him to view the coun-
try and the lumber town olson
ers, and a finer spot OF the earth
l certainly never rode through.
A spacious valley OF from twenty
to forty miles in width, slightly
undulating, a thicket of trees
here and there, nice roads, fine
fields, splendid farm houses bes-
peaking the prosperity of their
owners, beautiful orchards. the
whole picture bordered on either
side by wooded foot hills and
further back the snow capped
mountains. The town ofSomers,
as already Indicated, is a lumber
ing town, the saw mill, planning
mill, sash. door and box factory
employing some five or six hum
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that | had better close. | shall
next week endeavor to write you
a few lines about Seattle, and my
trip down the coast aud unit |
then remain, with best wishes
for yourselves and friends in Mi
not, Yours Sincerely,
J. w. RODE,
The Ward County independent., 1906-05-17
Farmers Loss by Fire.

John Lochthowe, a farmer re-
siding FIVE miles north Of town,
lost 200 tons of hay, 13 calves,
so chickens, 300 bushels OF bar
ley, 200 bushels oats, harness, a
new wagon bed and many other
things IN a fire which occurred
Thursday. The loss is $500
with no insurance. 1t is believed
that his boys while playing with
matches started the fire.
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WANTED-4O acres OF sod brok-
en- June. JOHN ". DRUMMoND,
Burlington, n. D., r. f. D. No.
:. 5-lI-p.
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Geo, J. SMITH

Candidate for the Nomination
as Representative on the Re-
publican Ticket From Ward
and Williams Counties {: ::
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-01-05
DISEASE AND DEATH LuRK
IN MAIL ORDER GOODS

mouse, when freight charges are count.
cd In If the farmer does not believe
this he should make I'D list of things
that he ordinarily orders of the cat.
alogue house, take it to his town
stores and see what prices they will
make him on the same goods. In Just
Ice to himself he should do this.
To Sum UP.
The mail order house is under i'm.
mense expense. Its advertising alone
runs into hundreds of thousands of
dollars year. 1t maintains great in
situations at high cost. 1t cannot do
this and legitimately undersell the
country merchant
In conclusion, let us reiterate that
the hone merchants show their Gus
toners the goods before purchase and
Willingly make exchanges. The cata-
logue house don't do that
The home merchants reputation
and business standing In the COM
munity are back of every sale he
makes. The catalogue house feels no
such responsibility. Their misdeeds
III viz community uO llOl uuTl lufaul III
another. They would rather lose
customer than a dollar. The home
merchants would rather lose a dollar
than a customer.
The home merchants buy farm
produce, sometimes at loss. The
catalogue house don't.
The home merchant gives credit
when necessary. The catalogue house
insists on spot cash.
The home merchants live among
their customers, contribute to the up
building of the town, schools and
churches. The catalogue house spends
its profits elsewhere. The very ma
ture of it's business kills the small
community and builds up the largo
city.
The home merchants can and do
meet all legitimate competition
The mail order patron owes it to
his towns welfare and his own well
fare to give his merchants chance to
prove the statement before denying
them his patronage.
The catalogue house in it's dealings
with it's patrons ignores all the fun
damental principles of community well
fare. Its methods are a trespass on
community rights.
Think it over!-St. Paul Trade Jour-
nal.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-01-05
"skinnine" Stove as Practiced by
Some Supply Houses,

Some seven or eight months ago."
said the president of a prominent
stove company. this house was asked
for price on 100000 stoves by lead
ing catalogue house. The inquiry
specified several of the leading pat
terms shown in our catalogue and spec
flied that the stoves furnished should
in appearance, be exactly as shown in
the catalogue. Such an order don't
come along every week, so l went over
all the factory costs, figured mighty
close. and submitted fiat price of
1885 each
When this price was submitted,
was told that it was away too high,
that they couldn't touch the line at
any such figure.
II replied that we couldn't possibly
shade that price a cent and didn't care
for the order at less than that figure.
"'rhe buyer for the mail order house
told me that he thought more care
full estimate would bring a better
price because he said that he had one
of each of these stoves weighed and
thought we had about twenty pounds
of unnecessary iron on each one
Now leave off that twenty pounds
surplus and see what you can do said
he.
acting on this hint, and realizing
words ''in appearance exactly as shown
in your catalogue" contained in the
inquiry, the price of the stoves was
made to meet the ideas of the mail
order house and the order secured.
"These skinned stoves were ship
ped all over the country, being largely
advertised by the mail order people as
one of those phenomenal purchases
of the leading numbers of we'll
known makers line, being exactly as
shown in the cut
"They were so thoroughly relieved
Of surplus iron that slight Jar in
handling would crack hearth plate,
break leg or fracture some other
part, with a result that the stove COM
pany's losses by breakage in assem-
bling parts, and the railroads loss
through damage claims left the only
profit in the transaction to the astute
and honest mail order man.
"It is probably no injustice to con-
clude that such genius would not be
confined to 'sllinning' stoves, and the
light which it throws upon the meth
DDS of the mail order concerns may
explain to many a puzzled merchant
the real inwardness of many start
ling mail order bargain which has
drawn the trade away from it's natural
channels to enrich and upbuild the
very concerns who by deliberate de-
ceit and dishonesty traded upon the
confidence and shortsighted gullibil-
ity of their customers.-Dry Goods
i Reporter.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-01-05
MONEY FOR STATE SCHOOLS.

The state land department has sent
out $1,151.40 trespass money to the
different endowed state institutions,
this being receipts for December. The
amounts to the different institutions
are: Aberdeen normal, s76.72; state
university, s41.6o; agricultural col
lege, S456.16; deaf and dumb school,
$25.6o; reform school, S74.36; northern
hospital, $144.20; blind asylum, sG5.S0;
school of mines, $191.44; Madison nor
NAL, 1926; Spearfish normal, s37.26
The department has been looking
closely after trespassers on endow-
ment and public lands for the past
year and has secured several thousand
dollars for the educational funds in
this way.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-01-05
.. c. MAY EXTEND LINE.
eonesteeI Will Proably Have Two
New Roads.

Indications now point to Bonesteel
being the possessor of two railroads
before the end of another year, &C.
cording to the reports from the mouths
OF officials of the two roads which can
be taken as perfectly authoritative.
Following close upon the heels Of
the "tip" from Manager Bidwell of the
Northwestern that the Chicago &
Northwestern would extend its Bone.
steel line westward next spring, comes
now the positive information that Mr..
Schultz, estimating engineer of the
Illinois Central Railway company, has
been at Wheeler, east Of this place on
10 Missouri river, making soundings
.>nd personally inspecting the cross
ings there with view to furnishing
of bridging the river at that point, and
plating the feasible routes from the
crossing to the level prairie land be-
You'd.
Mr.. Schultz had but little to say to
an yone at Wheeler, and 1t was only
just before he left that his mission
was discovered.
The secret of his being there leak.
ed out accidentally, however. when he
received instructions from the head
Office in Chicago to return to that
place Immediately to be in attendance
at a meeting of the directors of the
company.
1t has been known for long time
that the Illinois Central was DESTROYS
of extending it's Sioux Falls line west
ward. A number of surveys were
made by the Great Northern severn'
years ago upon the Wheeler bottom
The Illinois Central being closely al
lied with the Great Northern system,
it is predicted that when its line is
built it will follow along some of these
old surveys.
The line as projected from Sioux
Falls would eventually strike both OH.
vet and Parker, good towns in the best
part of the state of South Dakota.
Armour and Geddes, two good towns,
would likely be dropped from the line.
as they are somewhat off the direct
line which the Illinois Central is en-
deavoring to establish.
Should the surveys made by the
Central be taken up and new road
started next year, the state will expe-
rience one of the greatest railroad
booms ever experienced by any other
section of the world in a single year.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-01-05
FOR POULTRY SHOW.
Display at Sioux Falls Will Be Best
Ever Held.

Preparations are about complete for
the state poultry show to be held at
Sioux Falls Jan. s to IL. Everything
indicates that it will be the greatest
affair of the kind ever held in South
Dakota. The premium list shows that
many special prizes are being offered
this year, making it certain that a
greater number of birds will be eXhib-
tied than at any former display.
The association has secured two OF
the best judges in the country to place
the awards and everything will be con-
Quoted on business basis. Every
evening there will be pit game con
tests, which will be simply sparring
matches. The game cocks will be muf-
fled so they cannot hurt each other.
This has become one of the most in
teresting features of the annual poul-
try shows. ysa
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-01-05
MIx.UPs OVER LAND TITLES.
Will Have to Be Fought Out In Court
From This Time Forth.

The state land department has the
settle contentious as to title to state
lands which had been sold on contract,
the original purchaser in many cases
having died or transferred the con-
tract, after witch question of dis
puted title came up.
In these cases the department has
been called upon to act in a judicial
capacity to settle claims. At the last
legislative session bill was passed
which provided that the commissioner
should deliver patent when final
payment was made. to the county au-
ditor in the county in which the land
is situated and the last clause of the
law provides: THE delivery OF such
patent to the auditor as aforesaid shall
operate as a delivery to such purchas-
er or his assigns; or in case of his
death, to the parties entitled there
to-"
Commissioner Bach applied this law
to contracts made since the going into
effect of the law, but has secured an
opinion from Attorney General Hall,
bearing on the subject, in which he
holds that the Legislature in this act
prescribes the form of patent which
shall be issued by the state, and that
it applies to ali contracts with the
state for land purchases, regardless of
the date of the contract.
From this time on all patents will
be delivered in this manner, and where
, there is any dispute as to who is en-
titled to the land it must be settled
through the courts, instead of making
the state land department a judicial
tribunal for such a settlement. This
will relieve the department of great
deal of trouble, which has been in
creasing in amount as the state grows
older.
The bill introduced by Congressman
Burke for the establishment of a hos
pital for tuberculosis Indians, either
at Pierre or Fort Pierre, is the result
of an investigation which shows that
over 60 per cent of the deaths among
the Sioux Indians are from that dread
disease.
Fifty years ago it was unknown
among them, but since the coming Of
the whites 1t has fastened upon them
and is constantly on the increase. 1t
is claimed by those who have given
the matter attention that the cause of
the prevalence of the disease is that
many of the Indians live in houses
with dirt floors, and the afflicted ones
splitting upon the floor cause the
spread by breathing the dust which is
stirred up by the occupants in moving
about in the building, and in this man
ner a whole family becomes innocu-
lated. The ravages of the disease are
such that the deaths outnumber the
births on some of the reservations,
and on none Of them is there any great
increase. It is hoped by taking cases
in the first stages out of their houses
and into more healthful surroundings
to assist in the checking of the plague
among them.