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DRAINAGE OF RED
RIVER VALLEY
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boards and with the commissioners of
SIX extensive counties, il may there
fore become necessary for the state
legislature TO establish one district
covering all of the lands needing
drainage and put into the hands OF a
general drainage board the authority
to enforce the collection of assess
nieats against all the lands in proper
ton To benefits. This would leave the
secretary of agriculture in Il position
10 deal with the general drainage
board instead OF with the numerous
individual land holders There can he
no doubt about the authority of the
stale 10 enforce the collection of these
assessments, but there is Serious doubt
about giving the federal government
authority TO do so.
The expense of the entire work of
drainage or the North Dakota side of
the river would. il is safe 10 say.
come within the million dollars car
ried in the bill and recommended by
the drainage conventions at Grand
Forks and Fargo. Conservative esti-
mates made by the department OF ag-
riculture here bring the cost To within
sixty cents to one dollar and quar-
ter an acre. Compared with the cost
per acre of putting water on arid and
and semi-arid lands, these figures are
almost insignificant. In some irri-
cation projects now under contract,
the cost ranges from s25 to $50 per
acre.
The committee on irrigation will un-
doubleday take up the bill at its
meeting next week and there is fair
prospect of its being amended along
the lines suggested, and if it is so
amended it will probably be reported
favorably to the senate.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31
FARMERS MARKETS,

The building of Farmers elevators
is being agitated in this state as the
subject has never been agitated be-
fore, and while it is not the policy Of
The Evening Times to knock any es-
tablished business, it stands unequivo-
greatest number.
The line elevators, like the pioneer
railroads, have been powerfuJ agents
In building up the new countries-in
putting the buying market, so to speak,
on every mans doorstep.
But in this as in every other enter
4 prise wherein the seller of agricui-
tarist is concerned, the farmer finally
rays the cost.
It Is not expected that any elevator
sahould engage in business for pleasure
few people do. But they should De
s0ntent with a reasonable profit. This
hey have not done, and when the
farmer has no place for the storage
So4 his grain without paying a rental,
and when he needs the money for his
expenses in raising the crop, he is
simply at the mercy Of the buyer. and
Z = compelled to accept the price OF a
8lutted market and pay tribute which
has IN some cases approached extor-
don, to the buying elevators.
The effects of such methods upon
!
I Is grain growing business are easy
The remedy Is harder to apply.
Marketing Of grain requires facili-
for both buying and selling, and
80 Il shout IS important as the other.
he N he f0rinsr conduct Of the busi-
~ woa have been either the
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engaged. In fact the Witness claimed
that he did not know that Matnr NM
ply had anything TO do with railroad
taxes until he nesrd about the PIE.
sent prosecution.
The sensational part OF Hardy's tes-
timcnS was that he was asked con-
corning a conversation he had had
With Major Murphy about two weeks
heaore the p,esen, case was called for
trial, AT that time, the witness said,
Major Murphy had asked him (,articu-
aarN concerning the location Of the
buildings on Nm Cyowder,s farm,
how they were located and IN what
direction from the depot at Ross.
This WAS taken as an important
inaSmuch as the defendant bad testi-
fed that he had visited Grower at
his home some time before the con-
ve1sation with Hardy had taken place.
On cross-eNamination, Judge Laud
er asked the witness il he had not
taken a considerable interest in the
Affirmative.
Are you not anxious to see Major
Murphy convicted?" asked the attor
ney.
Yes" was the frank reply.
On redirect examination the wit
ness was asked why he wished to see
the defendant convicted. and he re-
piled that he was convinced that his
receipt by Major Murphy. and be-
lieved that a crime had been commit
ted in this instance for which punish
~. hA
The witness denied positively that
he had any politically feeling in the
matter. On the contrary, he stated
that he had been a Murphy delegate
To the famous Murphy convention in
1904
S ". McAllister was subjected to
a most rigid cross-examination by
Judge Lauder before the adjournment
of court but he persisted in his tes-
timony The witness stated that he
had been informed by the defendant
that the total amount of taxes due his
township was sl67.50, all of when
was paid promptly except $SS, which
had later been paid by check.
The witness was positive about the
amount of the check. which was then
shown the witness. The amount of
the check was $4S, but the witness
persisted in his statement that the
check had only called for sSS when he
had received it. The witness stated
positively that he had never asked
Clerk OF Court Smith to cash a check
for $3.50 or any other amount in con-
nection with railroad taxes.
Mr.. Smith was then called to the
stand and supplemented the testimony
he had given on the stand for the de-
tense. He stated that he understood
the amount of the check which Mr..
McAllister wanted cashed was $780,
His belief was based on the facS
that he had been informed that the
amount of taxes due in Mr. McAllis-
ter's township on railroad taxes was
$3.50. He believed that it was the
check for railroad taxes which Mr..
McAllister wanted cashed.
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January 81.

January 81.
1616-Jacob La Marie discovered
Cape of Good Hope.
l655-Cromwell dissolved parlia-
ment.
1692-Massacre of Glencoe. Scot
land.
17SS-Charles Stuart. pretender to
the throne of England, died at Rome.
1830-James G. Blaine born.
185S-Launch of the steamship
Great Eastern.
1S65-Thriteenth amendment TO the
constitution abolishing slavery
1873 - Postal franking privilege
abolished by act of congress.
1S7S-Steamship Metropolis wreck
ed near Kitty Hawk. n. c.: 100 lives
lost.
1SS5-James X. Jones elected sena-
tor from Arkansas.
18S6-Mrs. Thomas F. Bayard. wife
of secretary of state, died.
1S92-Spurgeon, the great pulpit
orator, died.
1S95--Ward Mc.illister died in New
York.
1S99-Princess Ferdinand of Bull
garia, died, age %.
1S00-Marquis of Queensbury, Or
iginator of boxing rules, died.
1904-Josef Hoffman, Austrian art
ist, died, age 73.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31
WHOLESALE HARDWARE BJSI.
NESS.

The Importance of this city as a
wholesale point is being emphasized
in the convention of the hardware
men who are now in convention here.
The tests for a good place point
for wholesaleing and jobbing are,
among some other minor ones. the
railroad facilities, and the territory
which could be supplied. The others
are not SO important. The city is
full OF hardware men, and only a
small portion of those engaged in this
line are here.
Hardware is, next to lumber, the
leading necessity in IA developing
country. Towns of three hundred
people and less support immense
hardware stores, while it is no un-
common thing in cities OF two thou
sand to find two and three hardware
stock that rival if they do not out
strip the stocks of the larger cities.
There is not more than one half,
probably not more than one third,
the population in this state now which
it can easily support
With the present population and the
stocks throughout the state, it seems
reasonable that at least one good
wholesale hardware store in this city
would be a paying proposition.
Certain it is that if a reasonable
portion of the hardware trade of the
northwest was given to one whole
sale concern, it would be good bust
ness foundation at least.
Wholesale houses are located some
what like railroads, with reference
to the future of the supporting coun-
try.
i. This consideration is strong one
in the northwest. The country will
for a century be a large consumer Of
hardware. The consumption will in
crease as the country develops, for
each new citizen will need not only
beginning supply but, continuing
one. The old resident will need more
for his improvements, and SO the sup
ply will increase.
The only other serious matter is
that of shipping facilities, both in and
out. A.
1t must be admitted that in the
number of centering railroad lines,
Grand Forks does not equal Chicago.
1t does however equal any city. be-
tween the twin cities and the Rockies.
e The wholesale grocery houses that
are doing an enormous business in
the city with profit to themselves and
In the very closest competition with
the twin city and Duluth trade prove
that freight rates can be procured
favorable to the wholesale interests
of this city. II It can be done In the
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31
MAN ABOUT TOWN

I've got new scheme for BOOM
ing the latest restaurant" said the
man who had more ideas than dollars,
and its great. Most any kind of
good restaurant will pay in Grand
Forks. but there are so many good
ones these days that we've got to do
something to draw the people away
from the others. My scheme will do
1t. It's dead easy, and won't cost
more than any other sort of good ad-
vertising.
Il propose to open a table d'hote
place, and at the beginning will have
one night in the week free to every
body who gets in before z o'clock
dinner not to begin till 6. OF course,
l won't make the Announcement in adj
vance and draw ali the deadheads in
. town; but on the free night, when
each guest comes to pay his bill, III
wave him off, and tell him it's on the
house.
"They won't know anything about
1t till they come to pay their bills,
and won't have time to get out and
send In the crowd. But they'll talk
when they get around among their
friends. and so nobody will know
when the free night is to be. I'll bet
have crowd every night hoping that
will be the free night. They'll miss it,
most of the nights, but the spirit of
gambling is SO strong in the kind of
people that do most of their eating In
restaurants that they'll come seven
nights just for the sake of beating the
house one of them. You see If they
don't know would, and I'm no
better than the rest of them.
I'm going to have good dinner so
they'll get their moneys worth any
how, and one free dinner will enthuse
them SO that they'll be selling pools
on my place before it's been open a
month, I'll bet farm"
A young teacher in one of the pub
lie schools was telling the Man about
the humorous answers made by some
of his pupils. Here is the answer OF
q bright boy In the geography class:
"A mariners compass was invented
by q man always pointing toward the
north" In another instance the teach
er had said to his class: mo matter
what the size Of q circle, what does It
always contain :" He meant, OF 2course.
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BANQUET LAST EVE.

Last evening the Commercial club
rooms were brilliantly Illuminated
and nearly two hundred members of
the association and their. friends en-
joyed the hospitality of the local COM
mittee. The rooms were set with
tables and under the charge of A. E..
Logan an elaborate banquet was
served followed by cigars and after
dinner talks by Hon. w. I. Nolan of
st. Paul, w. Reese of Superior and
others. The evening was we'll ad-
vanced when the gathering broke up
and those present enjoyed themselves
in happy manner.
The hotels were the scenes of life
and hustle last evening, the boys"
gathering in little knots here and
there discussing shop and trade mat
tiers. Up in the Dacotah parlors a
merry crowd gathered about the
piano and some rollicking songs were
sung. The very best of feeling pre-
vailed everywhere and the first day
of the convention closed very success
fu11v T7T'7.l =
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ENING. JANUARY 81. 1906

same or so closely allied that they
could hardly be distinguished.
Aroused by the excessive charges,
the farmers have gone into the grain
buying business on considerable
scale.
But they have found that while they
could largely control the buying mar
ket, they were almost entirely shut out
of the selling market, and were thus
compelled to accept the prices made
by their rivals in business. This
would in a measure seem all right az
first blush, as it would not be thought
that these rivals would make a price
to injure themselves merely for the
purpose OF injuring their enemies.
But that has been done TO some en-
tent, and as the buying interests Of
the farmers increases this policy will
be the more earnestly pursued in the
hopes of driving them out of business
Several remedies for this might be
suggested, the most practical as we'll
as the quickest being federal inspec-
ton of grain. Failing this the plan of
uniting all the farmer elevators If
northwest into a terminal concern and
sending the grain to that concern for
sale presents a practical side though
expensive in the carrying out.
Still another would be the storing
of the crop in the buying elevators
and so restricting the supply that the
terminals would be compelled TO buy
at such prices as they would be re-
CURED 10 pay, even if beyond that of
actual worth.
This plan involves sufficiently
large buying trade to largely control
the crop output which would be rather
difficult
The crop could, however, as soon rs
it is in storage be used as collateral
security and the money needed by the
farmer could be safely advanced upon
it in storage in the form of loans, and
the enhanced price would certainly
equal the interest rates.
There may be other plans, but all
require time for the working out and
meanwhile the farmers are paying the
damages.
The agitation already had on the
matter has caused the old line eleva-
tors to sit up and take notice and it
may be barely possible that they have
interpreted the handwriting on the
wall Alright and will change their
methods to fairer ones. This, however,
is an optimistic view to take of the
matter, and the best plan is for the
grain growers to push forward some
plan for controlling the selling market.
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grocery trade 1t can be done in the
hardware trade.
The facilities for shipping out must
include two things-reasonable rates
and, while not SO important. dispatch
in reaching the customer. The latter
especially applies to shelf hardware
The same illustration of the local
wholesale grocers applies to the rates.
Goods can certainly be shipped to this
city in car loads lots and re-shipped
as local freight cheaper than 1t can
be shipped from the twin cities or
Duluth as local freight.
All these things combine to make
Grand Forks an ideal location for a
wholesale hardware house.
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Mutations.

The darkest shadows at times are lifted
The clouds not always obscure the
sun;
The hardest burden is sometimes
shifted,
The hardest toiling is sometimes
done.
The stream that flows from the distant
founHain
Now through desert, now by lea
Though wide the plain or steep the
mountain,
Sooner or later must reach the sea
The gales of winter that shake the
forest,
Give place in spring to the softer
wind:
The wounded hearts that have ached
the SoreSt
In the changeful future their solace
find.
Did spring last ever, 'twould lose it's
sweetness;
If flowers blomed always. we'd cast
them by:
'Tis change that makes the worlds
completeness
The sweetest laughter succeeds the
sign. Daniel O'Connell
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VISITING CAPITOL. a..
Grand Forks People Enjoying Sights
Washington
BY E. e. Snyder.


Washington, Jan. 31-Arthur Din
ME and Sam Rosenthai of Grand
Forks, who have been in New York on
business, arrived in Washington last
evening to remain several days over
looking the sights of the city
Charles D. Hamel of Rolette county,
who is attending the college of law at
Grand Forks, will arrive in Washing
ton tomorrow to take the position as
assistant clerk to the committee on
public lands, of which Senator Hans
brough is chairman. Mr.. Hamel has
been strongly recommended for the
position and is we'll fitted for the
place, having been with the North
Dakota commissioners at both the st.
Louis and Portland expositions.
Congressman Gronna today an
nounced the establishment of post
offices at Vandalia, with VIM. G..
Came as postmaster, and at Sophia,
with David D. Mitchell as postmaster.
He also announced a change in the
name Of Bloomenfeld to Streeter.
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Fight Mt Erskine.

Crookston Journal: There promises
to be decidedly merry time at Frs
kline ON Feb. 18th when the reviewers
Of judicial ditch number S meet and
rar. to Judge Watts who will be
at that place on the above date. There
is no little opposition to the project
especially by the farmers who live in
the section Of the country north of
where the ditch is surveyed to run.
It is over 40 miles long being the
longest waterway in the northern part
of the. state that is planned at the
present time. 1t originates at Lake
Sarah. runs through Polk and part
Of Red Lake counties. One objec-5
tion that will be raised when the
hearing comes up before Judge Watts
will be that the fall of the water in
the course is SO great that the land
to the north will be flooded by the Inn
mense amount of water that will be
carried down every spring. Another.
objection that will be raised ID that
the country IN that section Is ca: sandy
that 1t is entirely unnecessary. a
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31

800 degrees. A boy, With an AR u
wisdom, promptly replied: "A hole"
During physiology lesson another
boy in answer to question regard
ing the human trunk, said: THE
trunk is that part of your body which
keeps your legs from going all the
way up to your neck"
isn't Maud's new ma, perfect
fright?' exclaimed the Third street
girl
Awful" said her friend rrem the
block TO the west, The worst 1 ever
saw"
Wonder where she 30, sts" oucrfed
the first
"At --'s, l helped her pick it
OUT answered the dear thing, ,sians-
phantly.
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Desire.
I'm hungry for the hills today
And the Sloping country far away
In the sunset land,
Where the cattle Craze and the canyons
are
And never building looms to mar
The prospect grand.
I'm homesick for the trails I know,
The wooded butte and the stream below
In the kindly west
Where trees are neighbors and stars are
friends,
Where mountain forest with blue
blends
And the mind can rest.
I'm lonesome for the trackleSS place
That hides away in the heart of space,
Where never a road
1ntrudes itself; where the wood things
live
And the healing only the wild can give,
Has its abode.
Mary D. McTadden
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31

Let reverence Of law be breathcd by
prattles in her lap; let it be taught in
the schools. semfnaries and colleges;
let 1t be written in primers, spelling
from pulpits and -rnclaimed in legis-
lative halls and enforced in courts of
5ustice: in short, let 1t become the
political religion of the nation
Abraham Lincoln.
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|: N. D. HARDWARE ASSN,
ELECT OFFICERS TO-DAY

/: Pesident-H. F. Emery, Fargo.
:: First Vice President. $. Cole.
(: Lisbon.
/: - md Vice President. H.
(: McCollum, Hope.
Third Vice President-E. L. Gar.
+: den, SOuris.
(: Member Of Executive Commit.
tee. E. Elliott, Sanborn.
Secretary and treasurer to be
F: appointed by executive committee
: at close of convention.
Delegates to the next national
f: cOn'.n,,on at Chicago March 20.
President and secretary of assO.
(: ciatiOn, also G. w. WOlbert, Bis.
: marck, Hubert Harrington, Far.
go.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31
NOTE AND COMMENT

McHenry county has an Editorial
association and young lady wrote
the president suggesting that the
name be changed to Press association.
The Willow City Eagle figures tbs,
nearly $4,000 were sent from that
city to mail order houses last year.
And from Willow City!
The Adams Budget heads a discus
sion of pure food. Food for Thought. y
Most people think that should go 10
the stomach
a Grand Forks young man iiscov-
cred from holding his girls hand that
she never washed the dishes The re-
ceipt is free.
Some men have such a flow OF Ian
suage that ii is necessary TO put in
Il few dams.
The patent medicine advertisements
are causing Pauls words to be read
by people who would never see them
otherwise.
The Balfour Statesman puts its pat
ent medicine ads in a department
headed Gems from the Press
What rich men give TO the public is
always recorded, but what the public
gives the rich men is kept silent.
a synonym is handy when you can't
spell the other word
1t would seem that many Kentucky
children are born with the stomach
lined with waterproof material.
An exchange heads it's column of
births, marriages and deaths, Wells,
bells and knells."
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Smoke L ak

Il Il ! ii i
II The standard Of good cisar Is
your own taste. I'll When you light
cigar. do you bite Of the end and
thereby loosen the wrapper Do
you put the other end u your
mouth and blow out the dust which
even the bes, cigar collectsn manu-
facture9 Do you puff hard gel
ting It starteda g Try some Of the
conclusions you draw from these
questions with a WASHING
IRVING 10 cent cigar and you'll
draw more satisfaction from every
puff than the whole cigar cost you.
For sale by W. W, FEaAN Grand
Forks. N. d.
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Just because man Ii commuter
5is no reason to think he doesn't know
better. & &. Ii
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31

A synonym is handy when you can't
spell the other word.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31

What rich men give TO the public is
always recorded, but what the public
gives the rich men is kept silent.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31

1t would seem that many Kentucky
children are born with the stomach
lined with waterproof material.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31

An exchange heads it's column of
births, marriages and deaths, Wells,
bells and knells."
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31

The Willow City Eagle figures tbs,
nearly $4,000 were sent from that
city to mail order houses last year.
And from Willow City!
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31

The Balfour Statesman puts its pat
ent medicine ads in department
headed Gems from the Press
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31

The Adams Budget heads discus
sion of pure food. Food for Thought. "
Most people think that should go 10
the stomach.
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McHenry county has an Editorial
association and a young lady wrote
the president suggesting that the
name be changed to Press association