The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-09-16
RAINS IN NORTH DAKOTA.
Droughth Broken North Dakota Pri-
mary Law.

Droughth Broken North Dakota Pri-
mary Law.
Ed. GAZETTE. The Gazette reaches
me every Friday, and so I keep in
touch with the news at Redwood.
Although | am not obliged to live on
the claim since proving up. | still
make my home in the shack, coming
to town for dinner. The motive
that holds me here is the fear of
the yellow bloom Of the rag weed
that fill the air in your country just
now. but am hoping Jack Frost
will raise the quarantine within a
month.
My intimation that dry weather
and hot winds had cut the crop pros
pect here in half proves to have
Deen about correct. The first wheat
that came in was reported at IL
bushels per acre, and later | heard
of yields of from six to thirteen
bushels. For the past ten days rains
have delayed the threshers but have
left the ground in good condition
for fall blowing and benefited
meadows and pastures.
see that you will soon be able to
exercise your right of franchise at
the primaries. The system is on the
right lines and is great advance on
the old way. l do not now believe
in the divine right of the leaders to
bring out candidates, whatever | may
have thought when l was personally
interested. In July the primary
law applying to all offices, both
county, state and congressional. was
tried by North Dakota for the first
time. 1t makes a heavy expense for
some Of the candidates and I can
imagine those who were defeated
will think twice before they make
the race again. The Grand Forks
Herald said after the election: 1.-The
law is here to stay" to which the
Minot Reporter replies: Eyes, it is
here to stay, but will we be able tc
stay with it? If we had taken it ir
capsules at first instead of eating
out of the heap we might in time
have become accustomed to the
thing"
voted for president in 1856, anc
have cast vote at every presiden
tial election since. but am puzzled
just now to know how | can vote
next time as | rnust get back to Red
wood within a month and cannot af
ford to make the trip to Dakota
again to vote. | have hung on 81
long | do not want to miss a presi
Dental election now.
There is no way to account for thu
way men and families pull up stakes
and move on in the western country
Two cases will do for samples. A
settler who came here with a very
little money and has made a success
of mixed farming, sold his farm fol
$500 to take up land in an irrigated
district in Nevada. He does no
claim he has not been prosperou
here but wants to get his family int
a warmer climate. Another mai
who just returned from prospect
ing tour, wants to sell out to taxi
up land 70 miles north of the rail
road, little way this side of Ed
monitor, Canada. This man says h
has done we'll in Dakota. To bette
their condition, get in a new plac'
and the almost universal desire fol
change are the leading motives, blu
they often seem inadequate.
The most important local event il
the dedication of the new schoo
house Friday night. 1t is of brick
has four rooms, steam heatssan tn
modern appliances. The cost wa
$4,000. The people are justly prout
of it, as it is an indication of energ,
and disposition to give the children
the best opportunity for an educa
ton. They ought to be able to sup
port it, as they have taken in a big
territory for taxation.
O. B. TURRELL,
Sept. 7th. Ryder, N. D.
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