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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-10-14

C.. o. F. No. $685.. Alphonsus Court, meets
on the first and third Wednesdays of each
month in their hall over the Mooney State
Bank. JOHN SIBERIAN, G.. r.
Jos g. ScHILL. Sec'y.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-10-14

M. B. A.-Modern Brotherhood of America
meets in the Opera House Hall on the first and
third Wednesday of each month.
w. A. FERGUSON, President.
GEO. E. DUNNIaAN, Secretary.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-10-14

II by u feet, in the
patio of the federal
building. The dec
orations Of the re-
ception and ban
quet halls will be
magnificent.
At this banquet
the two presidents
will have opportu-
nifty of exchanging
views, as considera-
BILE time will be al
lotted for this So
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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-10-14

First Ward ....... Morris Orion, JAS. Brosnahan
second Ward........J j Mahoney R. T. Burke
Third Ward cocoa. R. Marshall, Chas. Haugh
SCHOOL BOARD.
Members of Board of Education-John
Mahon Chas. Hunter, w. B. Dickson, Z j.
Fox, j.. j. Mahoney.
Clerk E. Trua1.
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-01-08
Eyerrgy morning ZOE a month have ,l Tie


Eyers MOI ning for 3 month have he
editors Of The count rs been cheered
Nv the appearance Ia their mali 81
volumes frank ed through by the Hon
orable Serene a. Payne, 70 say that
tue documents we're seized ana imme-;
3diately perused to the harm %of other
labor would be exaggerate !, but never
theless these volumes had an enter.
tanning character about them. One
learned that sin this world there are
such number Of things The brain
with a taste for niscel Taneous facts
could absorb assertions about porce-
lain plates, calendars, pictures and
post cards, walnut furniture, prunes
and prunelles, peanut roasters, card
clothing set with 6-ply, millimeter,
felt faced cloth and No. 81 hardened
and tempered steel wire, bristle fibres,
cartridges, corks and horn combs, all
within the space OF q hundred or two
pages. It was q 1 commercial educa9
ton, damned with entertaining and
most incompre hensible technicalities.
s. And then there was the daily pleas
ing recollection that that high domed
statesman, Nicholas Longworth, could
sleep sitting up rs :'& 49, s. .-$s.
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-01-08
A YEAR OF ADVANCE.

- Americans may look back with salts.
faction upon the record of 1905. aI 1t
has been a year of better fortune than
was hoped for: Twelve months ago
the outlook was one Of doubt and
dread, but the fears of that time were
not generally realized and have now
been dispelled. Today we look for
ward to an upward movement: in trade
and in everything else. This condition
is the more striking in contrast with
the Ill fortune of the rest Of the world.
In practically all the nations Of the old
world, and particularly in England and
Germany, gaunt want grips great null
titudes and the prospect + is full OF
gloom i - r.
Let praise for our good fortune be
given to whom it is due. That our
commercial body has !. been afflicted
with only a mild case of varioloid in
stead of the real smallpox or continent
,.riola, is because it was .Vaccinated
with. an aroused public demand for
honesty: in politics and in business.
President Roosevelt was the man who
applied the vaccine. : =. a.2:.s g : s. =
But for the movement against. re.
batting, midnight schedules, life ;insur-
ance frauds and skyrocketing finance
in general, the count try would have
been in far worse condition to sustain
the crisis that occurred just before the
opening of the present year. And the
Wall street ~plungers were dangerously
near to booming us all over the pre-.
cipice of disaster when theyzwere halt
ed by the President. r ..&22:%
Not only in the commercial world
has the past year been one of progress
and improvement: but. in the large
domain of civic righteousness and bet
ter citizenship. The feeling that the
people have common interest in the
preservation of the nations forests
mines and waterways is q great per
manent advance towards better things
The: people are attending to business
which means more than each man try
! ing to make what he can for5himself
;; 1t means a concerted and lasting effor
! for the common good. Il: S %,
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-01-08

successor to his predecessor, Gus
Fursteneau. The board is hard at it
this week dispatching the heavy bust
ness that comes to them at this time,
and Frank has his shoulder to the
wheel pushing with the rest of the
board. AS evidence of the economical
manner in which the present and pre-
vious boards have conducted the af-
fairs of the county Mr.. Fursteneau,
when he took up the duties of county
treasurer was made the custodian of
$113,731.00. 1t is hoped that the pres
ent board will distinguish themselves
by getting the movement under way
for the erection of a new court house
for Ramsey county that will be cred
it to the prosperous county they rep
recent. Ole Nesseth of Crary, has been
selected as chairman of the
board. He has been a faithful and
conservative member of the board and
the honor thus conferred upon him is
but just recognition Of his excellent
service. -, .,>>
Taking everything into considera-
ton Ramsey county Is to be congratu-
lated on having not only the best
county in the state but in having in
its official family coterle of men who
are business from the word go and
pushers all the time. -
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-01-08
JANUARY 8, 1909.
NEW COUNTY OFFICERS.

The new county officers seem to
take to their various duties like ducks
to water Probably the most import
ant position in which change was
made was in the Office of county treas
urer For several weeks previous to
the time of taking up his duties Mr..
Gus Fursteneau the new incumbent,
was in the Office familiarizing himself
with the duties of the office and SO
when the change came Monday he was
ready to go right on with the work.
He is farther assisted by retaining
Earl Duell, the competent assistant
who served under Mr.. Baker, as his
deputy.
Judge Duell. who succeeded Mr.. Ser
umgard as states attorney, has care
fully studied the ground over as to
what was before him and is now ready
to go on with the administration of
Justice in a manner that will give the
county the best possible service with
the least expense to the taxpayer.
We understand that it is Mr.. Duell's
intention to try what cases are left
over from his predecessor that have
sufficient grounds and evidence to
warrant a chance of conviction and
let the balance be stricken from the
calendar. This shows remarkably
good judgment on his part as it is of
no use to place needless expense upon
the county trying cases where there
is no chance of conviction. He will
make it his business to see that the
Jaws are not violated and it is the ex-
pectation of those who know him best
that he will do his utmost to purge
the evil out of Devils Lake so far as
it exists, and do it with the least
possible expense to the taxpayers of
the country.
Mr.. Haig is in his Office as county
superintendent, and is busy looking
over the files and familiarizing him
self with the duties before him. He
will make a very competent official,
being eminently fitted for the position
by his years of experience in school
! work, .. ID. -, -. 49,,
Frank Emigh takes up the work as
representative of the fourth commits
,sioners district on the board of county
commissioners like an old timer. He
is one of those fellows that knows
what is best to do and when and how
Z is best to do it, and we predict that
he will hold his own along with the
rest of the board and be a worthy
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-01-08
INDICATING THE LAW

) In the ousting of the Standard Oil
Company from doing business within
the state of Missouri, Attorney1General
Hadley said: - A.
1T has again been demonstrated that
the law and its processes are equal to
any problem that our complicated COM
mercial system can produce and that,
no combination of money and of power
is above the law or will be permitted
to violate it with impunity.'' *SE s
A great truth is emphasized in these
words. We have. many demagogues,
Missionaries and croakers who dispair
or pretend to despair Of law and its:
orderly administration, They favor
violence. They hint at absolutism.5
They are impatient and they are reck-
less. In some parts of the country
they find many followers and nearly
everywhere they exercise an influence
which distorts or benumbs public
opinion. s5
In the Missouri case there appeared
in the enactment of the anti trust law
a careful and resolute recognition Of
popular rights and ii the enforcement
of that law there was energy, faith
fulness and q confident belief not only
in justice but in its miniments and
ministers There were those who
doubted and there were those no
sneered, but the representa- Of
the State did mot faltar. They were
thrice armed and they knew it. s
The changed attitude Of powerful
Wrongdoers has been often remarked
OF late. d corp rati ion and mo comb:
nation Of corporati ions is now inclined
| to Hout the law. There Is interesting
respect for the courts. There Ii d
lgenerally recogni tion Of the responsi-
biIities Of wealth. The people of Mis-.
souri, and their officers have played
Inc small part Ia this awakening They
ihaYe indicated popular government.
They have Wind Heated law They have
Icrushed the arrog ance of monopoly
land they have con founded pessimiam
and revolution.
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-01-08
BEATING THE. YANKEE.

Commissioners Wallace asked, If At;
was not a fact that theforeigner makes
a living where the: original Yankee.
could not 4 and while Mr.. Ellsworth.
seemed somewhat loaths to admit it, he.
finally answered that the 4 foreigner
usually secures farm from which the
Yankee has made d graceful retreat
The words are from the proceedings
of the National Commission on Coun-
try Life, as reported - in the Boston
Transcript. They cast rather curious
light on farming industry that never Is
mentioned IN the bulletins Of the De-
partment Of Agriculture. It may be
that in them Is explanati ion Of the VIC
lent agitation Id New England against
immigration. They direct attention to
the fact that the Yankee is not neces-
sarily sllpreme, however often he
makes the assertion, Or with what EN-
#phasis he puts II forth. &#
The foreigner has many qualities
from which We could learn something
to our: advantage. One Of them is a
skill possessed in highest degree by
/ the French and the Germans, in get
ting a heavy yield from 4 small acre
age. Recently two English women,
who had an experimental turn of mind.
set aside an acre OF ground, and turn
ed 8 Norman gardener at work upon
He cultivated II the year around,
cared for it ASST uously, nursed every
plant as if it were the last representa-
tive Of a. beautiful species. watched
every hour Of sunshine and every drop
OF rain. hen the season was ended
and the books were balanced there
was a net profit Of 81, 500 all from one
acre of English land. When it is 3#5re.
membered that In England the econo-
|mists admit that agriculture is dead
and that the island must depend upon
the outside world for the bulk Of ITS
food, this IS q rather startling show
Ing 5..; :. ss5i;
IN 4 q way, perhaps not so spectacle
larry, the German truck farmers have
revealed the possibility that lies I'M a
small acreage in the United States. III
many cases they have rented land at i
| high rate near large cities, farmed Ii
| "a the manner that their fathers en-.
pIoyed ii the old country, and have
Ianlassed fortune In New England III
appears that their industry and talent
ihaVe become q force. They have res.
turrected the abandoned farms, per.
lsan i plant life to take kindly TO the
stony SOL and stepped upon the con.
lceit 5of the Yankee.
~ lust as well that the Country
Life Commiss Ii bringing out some
lof the short mings of the native
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-01-08
NM E.HoRRIsLE= EXAMPLE,.

Oklahoma holds d 81 gh posi- io q \
among The fort six stars the ma ~
tional standard. 1t serves as out, most y IT
horrible example 5.s 5ssss9
The STATE guarantee =of bank n epositss:g55
lifted the new state 70 Is ace where
it, could handily be criticised and ridli-E
Sculed by the rest Of the: country This his /
measure had all those characte rist tics
OF quackery which catch the eye o ,fsB
William Jennings Bryan, and the Ne
braskan rang the chimes Of its praises
until called of by his alarmed lieuten-
ants. Then the commonwealth pushed
Governo Haskell u forward In s the
limelight, where he caYored nntiringly
until the letter files Of one John & ~.
Archbold were SO unexpec tedly print
ed And now the corp ration- batting
constitution has succeeded In stirling
enterprise i in the state and caused
manufacturers and shippers who are
anxious for outlets to run about in
little circles. s !: y Il @ S;;3 ;$
/ - a letter from the president OF the
Santa re railroad explains the stu
alton in Oklahoma: .@3i . q, B ~! l.; .}:s s
I'VE have considerable mileage in
the state, and if we build branches
we should desire they should be In fact
branches of our present lines, but your
constitution: provides that, if built,
they must be chartered as separate
railroads under the laws of your state,
which is entirely out of the question.
Your laws also provide that if a
twenty or thirty mile branch is built
Il. would have to be chartered as al
separate corporation, with general
Offices maintained within the state,
which is manifest absurdity."
Three things, at least, forty-five
states will not take up, the bank de-.
post scheme, one Charles N. Haskell
and the separate company features for
railroad branches. Oklahoma has
taught them that not one of the three
has anything in it worth while. =
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Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-01-08
WRESTLING WITH THE.TARiFF.

-siNS ANU
The tariff hearings before the House
committee on ways and means have
come to a close The members who
Lave endured the ordeal have fed for
their homes. All that remains is the
drafting of the bill and the driving it
through congress, a task of more diff
Guilty to the ways and means commit
tee, but infinitely more welcome =
These hearings were not all a oke,
though Colonel Bonner says that at
one session he attended the chairman
didn't appear to hear anything that
was spoken and Nicholas Longworth
slept in fine poetic tone such as a
sawmill off in the woods pours forth.
There was tragic side. There were
merchants and manufacturers crowded
into Washington waiting to present
their claims, either for lower duties
on raw material they employed or for
higher duties on goods in competition
with those they themselves turned cut.
There were attorneys with briefs of a
refreshing quality such as that pre-
sented by the macaroni manufacturers
who said they didn't need a duty, but
that it was a: fine thing for revenue
since Italians imported their macaroni
for patriotic reasons though it wasn't
bit better than that made in the
United States. Take off the duty if
you wish, they said, but you overlook
good source of revenue if you do.
There was Mr.. Schwab who said that
he had lost the youthful confidence
which had caused him to declare a
few years ago that steel could be man
ufactured in this country cheaper than
any place else in the world. There
was the interesting view of the publ
cist, Andrew Carnegie, giving advice
by magazine, but trying 60 dodge Civ
ing testimony at the capital. -.
One of the meritorious acts of the
committe was its endowment of news
papers with libraries. If literature
were judged accoding. to Its weight
then forty or so publications entitled
;. Tariff Hearings" would command q
u q
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-01-08

From a small iiydlge near eWiston,
Idaho. known asE otlatch, the farmers
have taken tWenty one carloads of
beans, the crop being Ear under the
record yield which 5is forty carl dads.
But because 81: the small product ion
this year and / the conse quent demand
the bean growers will receiveS about
$40 900 This Is ample IT IS reported
locally to5S offset the decreased mar.
vest.
Less than fifty years ago the school
Biographies OF the United States lab
eled all the great section between the
eastern half Of Kansas and the outer
rim of the Pacific states the Great
American Desert. The acuuisit ton Of
Oregon and washington had shortly
before been condemned NJ as az silly
piece, Of imp alisn. twenty-five
years ago the : Lewis district was
visited by only an occasional pros
pector Or was grazed over BY a few
widely scattered herds Of cattle. i
The building Of the Northwest, is one
Of the most romantic items in our his
tory. The departure o. the Indian, the
passing Of the trapper, the exploration
Of the; gold seeker. the entrance of
the daring cat tlemarl and then the
coming Of the farmer, these are chap
tiers in q swift epic that is living
poetry. $s issS5.
Here was a land twas anything
but attractive to the agriculturalists
Of the old school They believed in
the 5ehicienc ignore Of the rainfall than
the richness Of the sol. # They turned
il disgust from dusky looking. land
that has since broken a hundred rec
,ords in national product ion. What
they liked best was a valley deep in
rich grass, bordered. with trees which
attested the benefi cencea Of the clim-
ate, a country over which cloud chased
cloud, and the. gentle rain came at
just the opportune time They were
willing to compromise, however. If
they could not find a plot well watered
they would undertake the clearing
away of boulders, scrub oak and
thistles. And so many an emigrant
journed beside the Snake river and
into the rainy slope that touched the
ocean. Yet they passed through an
empire. There was land they spurned,
land they believed utterly barren, which
has brought forth wealth and a thous-
and good nesses of the earth. - -
4 There were others more shrewd,
who tried the soil and discovered its
wonderful sbountifulness. Some Of
these t"treked" into Lewiston district
and were rewarded s beyond their
dreams In sos, scarcely aquarter
century after. the trapper, a little
ridge named Potlatch sends j. forth
$4,000 worth of beans beans for
which, mayhap, Boston is this very
minute clamoring. 7: g
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-01-08

s s58 MI. G: e. Noraue st. the worthy sue
.cessor Of Mr.. Glass at the weather
station IN this city, was getting to he
quite popular with our people. but ii
4 he isn't careful about passing out the
cold waves and northwest winds his
popularity Il. likely to wane. Ii
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-01-08
For Lame BACK. i

When p you have palms or lameness
;i 4 the back battle the parts with Cham
5lberlai r Imminent twice a day, mas.
saying with the PLAN 81 the hand for
i've minutes At each y application.
Then dampen a piece Of flannel slight
ak with this ltniment and bind it on
over the D seat OF pain, and you may Be
4 surprised to see how quickly the lame.
ness disap ears. For sale by ali drug:
Rgists. ss,58?
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-01-08
! ROOM FOR III STILL.

vi Said Elbert H. Gray, president of the !
United States Steel corporation, before
the tariff committee: s.3 4 s:s5tss;ss r.
our cor grafton manufa ctures ten OIL
eleven million tons Of pig iron per an
num-; bout twelve or thirteen million
tons Of finished steel; q large tonnage
Of Ssemi- finished steel, III cluding rails,
structural steel !, wire and steel wire
products 81 t3 i: e $ II
Wire nails? js.55 ;a$sss:5,
Wire nails /: s;3t;;j .,: I:
Wire fence? 5S&3j$ Y
MA IRE fence, woven fence ia great.
many different kinds of wire, as small
as plano wire, and SO forth : tubes, tin
plates: The finished products include
steel rails, blooms, billets, slabs, sheet
and tin plate; bars and plates, heavy
structural shapes, merchant STEEL.
sskelps, hoops bands and cotton ties,
tubing and pipe, rods, wire and pro-
ducts Of wire, sheets, block and gal
sYanized steel plates, spikes, bolts, nuts
and riyets, ax1es, car wheels and sum
dry and various other items that
would be connected with or kindred
to- these various things; spelter,, sui
phite of iron, cement. T.. .z u. Ut E. +,
Cement, you say? - - Il, = - ~ :,
Yes We have a very large cement
business. 55 NJ. s:zss -. E.%%e
You control extensive fields of iron:
mines? 53 si= :, 3s IS
Yes; we do. In the Lake Superior
region, the Menominee, Gogebic, Mar:
Squette and Tennessee and Alabama
fields ..; S,y4;,s5 L, d! I S #
The United States Steel corporation
as the owner Of the shares of stock Of
various manufacturing corporations,
and those, corporations manufacture
iron, a great many different kinds Of
steel, also mine ore, mine coal, manu-
facture coke; and also those corpora
tions own; the shares Of various trans
portation companies, including several;
railroads and a steamship line on the
lakes. r .*ssSs. : ssss5s. d: At
5fs The steel trust should not be dis
couraged- There are still other indus.
tries left for It to conquer, the grocery
trade, millinery, cloaks, boots and
shoes when without .hobnails) barber
shops and peanut stands "A 2 .2;.. .z ss.:
Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-01-08

and so we'll mat he ID inclined IA Il be-
slieye ne knows il stoclty
Germ al truck farmer, whose diala g &
|he ridicuies, can. in many cases aket
his: own land and double its income ne Pc
DOWer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-11-12
The Farmers Money Problem

This is what Secretary Coburn,
who is now i'll California, told the
newspaper men about Kansas
prosperity:
Kansas is a great state. A
few years ag,' We used to say in
jest that Kansas farmers had so
much money they did not know
what to Go with it. The art of
investing surplus funds is one
which has to be learned. The
Kansas farmer has the surplus,
but he has not yet learned to in
vest it.
A short time ago / was out
in Rice county, a typical Central
Kansas community and rode over
much of the county. All of the
farmers had bought all the land
adjoining them that was for sale,
they had purchased automobiles,
and other Injuries, and they had
moved into town and built fine
'itv hOuSpS-and still the money
from their wheat and corn and
alfalfa pil-j In in the banks and
they do not know what to do
with it.
I'm my ride THROUGH Rice
county L saw only one farm that
was occupied by its owner; all
the rest had moved to town, and
tenants were running the farm.
This | regard with apprehension,
for the tenant will not keep up
the fences, conserve the soil and
build up the country as the own
er of the farm will.
incidentally, this condition is
hard on the real estate men who
depend on that business for a
living. 1t has come to the point
where a farmer is afraid to put
a price on his land for fear his
neighbOrs or somebody will buy
it-and then he doesn't know
what to do with the money. Land
values have trebled in a few
years, and there is little land for
sale at any price"