The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-04-16

should pay out Of the public treasury millions OF
dollars every year for this great big graft. No
der our rural carriers are not properly paid-Coop.
erstown Courier.
1t is not likely that Minnesota railroads will take
advantage Of the recent supreme court decision and
restore the Scent passenger fare or increase the
freight rates reduced because of the activity OF the
last legislature There is really feeling that the
roads were given too big dose at once, but the
fact is that they brought it onto themselves When
the legislature tried to get light on what is really
fair rate the railroad corporations sent lawyers and
others to appear before the committee and instead
of discussing the matter fairly giving the facts
in their possession the mission of these men seemed
to be to give as little information they possibly
could In fact the railroad owners took the position
that if the legislators wanted any information they
could get it from someone else. Under the circum'
stances it is not to be wondered at that almost
everything in the ant-railroad line passed.
Farmers the assessors will come around to
your place to assess you and according to law, they
will have to ask you concerning your crops OF the
past year, the number of acres sown, the number
of bushels you got, and the number of acres OF var
ious kinds of crop you are going to SOW this year
While the law requires them to ask OF you these
questions there is nothing in the law that will COM
pei you to give the information, and we know for
a certainty that the assessors would rather have
you tell them to go out and find out for themselves
than to have you cough up the information The
assessors, not being able to get the information.
will close their books, give you knowing wink and
walk away. The grain gamblers will be cheated out
of lot of valuable information for themselves, and
you will get better prices next fall for being WISE
The power Of advertising is told by manager Of
the toilet department Of a large New York depart
ment store. 1--WE have six different makes of one
toilet article" he said "and they are SO near alike
in quality that experts can't tell the difference
between them, yet we sell as much of one as we do
of all the others together just because the manufac
turer is everastngly advertising it. The other five
sell in proportion to the amount of advertising CIV
en- to them If there is any difference in quality 1t
is in favor of the poorest seller"
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Post card cards will hereafter not be backstamped
at the Office where they received, as result OF
an order recently issued by the postmaster general
Complaints were registered from all over the coun-
try as result OF the souvenir hunters who object
to having their cards defaced and spoiled in many
cases. BY running the cards through the cancel
ling machine their beauty was marred to no small
extent.
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There appears to be candidate to enter the field
against w. C. Gilbrath who Is candidate for re-
election as commissioner of agriculture and labor.
Mr. Gilbreath is competent Official and has made
his department one Of vast usefulness to the citi
zens Of the state
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