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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-07-15

For the next year at least, Blaine
will get along without saloons, the
city council of that city having vot-
ed at recent meeting not to grant
any licenses for the coming year.
This news had hardly been anticipat
ed and is a great disappointment to
the liquor interests of the state,
which have regarded that city as
one of their strongholds. The local
option question seems to be para
mount in several localities on the
Sound and number of tests are
likely to be made at the fall election.
Many people, among them some who
are in sympathy with the liquor in
terests, express the belief that both
Anacortes and Bellingham will
abolish saloons this fall. Snohomish
county, outside of the larger Of the
Incorporated towns, voted dry few
days ago, the vote being, in round
numbers, 1,400-900 dry to 500
wet. In Clallam county the drys
did not fare so well, the county vot-
ing wet by majority Of % and the
city of Port Angeles by majority
of 125. Neah Bay, the wettest point
in the state as to rainfall seems also
to be equally as wet when it comes
to "booze," not dry vote being
cast. Only nine precincts in the en-
tire county are in the dry column,
while there are twenty-three regis
tered as wet.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-07-15

Quality -four is guarah
stand every test. Try a sack
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-07-15

What is the biggest sale Of bear
ing orchard in the Northwest has
just been closed, j. L. Dumas, form
er president of the Washington
Horticultural Society, selling Pomo-
ma ranch, near Dayton, WASH, to
DR.. c. F. Schiltz, of Wenatchee, and
L. M. Vannice and E. S. Hubbard
of Dayton, for Sl50,0O0. The ranch
consists of 240 acres, of which 100
acres is bearing orchard and 80 acres
more are set to young trees. The
returns from this orchard in the
past three years exceeded 500, 900.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-10-28
D.. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28. 1910 NUMBER 1s

the general county fund and that the
county board under Sec. 2a39 of the
1909 Code should place the same IN a
sinking fund.-" From this letter the
lawyer editor aforesaid goes on to show
that there is therefore $4,000 now
available which Pembina-or Cavalier
may use to build new court house.
Well, Notwithstanding. the state
examiners letter, the county board did
not agree with it. First, they concluded
that they had only $4,000 surplus in
the county fund as shown in the pro-
ceedings and advertisement for bids.
Second, they discovered that the law
quoted by the state examiner and by the
lawyer editor had been twice amended
once in 1907 and then again in 1909.
The general substance of this law was
not changed by the amendments except
that as small sum as one thousand
dollars could be considered surplus
and the money should be loaned for one
year instead of a possible six months
but also made it clear that the county
might loan the money for as high as five
per cent instead of two per cent which
it receives under the general law for
depositing county funds.
This then is the reason that such
surplus money is allowed to be so invest
ed, in order to receive larger amount
of interest. That is all, and it was a
very sensible act on the part of the
legislature, as time deposit is certainly
of more value to the banks than an
ordinary deposit subject to check.
But both the state examiner and the
lawyer editor make another error in
that they call snch "time deposit'' Of
surplus money from the general fund
ga sinking fund" The examiner
probably just called it such in general
way, but the attorney editor makes it a
big legal point. He says it is Sinking
fund" and because it is a sinking fund
it can therefore be transferred to the
proposed building fund" under the law
mentioned above and in this way the
general fund of the county can be
finally transferred into building
fund"
The error in this case is that it is the
examiner and the lawyer who denomin-
ate this "time deposit" as the law calls
it, as a ''sinking fund.-" Webster's
dictionary will set the gentlemen r.; ht
as to the meaning of sinking fund.-
In brief it is sum of money put al
interest to pay bonded debt that is
coming due in the future.
But as we said last week, all su:h
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-10-28
Keeps Looking Backward
to 1908 Law
Ie wired in. and he wired out,

"He wired in, and he wired out, f
Leaving the people still in doubt,
Whether the snake that made the track
Was going south. or coming back"
The new lawyer editor of the Cavalier
Chronicle is certainly twister.
We can hardly understand how he
does it. Perhaps when he was a little
boy he may have lost his head by ac-
cident and the finder in replacing it
may have put it oa the wrong way go
that the face looks backwards.
He has been driven from pillar to post
in this discussion, and finally has totally
abandoned the original position taken
by the Chronicle and the Cavalier mis-
sionaries and ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT 1s
IMPOSSIBLE TO TAKE MONEY DIRECTLY
FROM THE COUNTY GENERAL OR any
OTHER EXISTING FUND IN THE AMOUNTS
NECESSARY TO BUILD A NEW COURT HOUSE,
EITHER AT PEMBINA OR CAVALIER WITH
OUT VOTE OF THE PEOPLE.
Yet those Same Cavalier missionaries
WoC0 OUt III tuO V01AVU0 .stVWu6 Vi Cu6
county last week and this week repeat
ing the former as truth. a-.s5 9
But this lawyer editor. has found out
that Pembina can in q round-a- bout
manner evade the laws that 60 certainly
forbid and prevent extraordinary
expenditures" Of which the building q
court houses is always mentioned ii lie
laws as such. Yes. he has found. 4 10y,
and he inslsts that Fembina lp,6iopls
shall build ! new court house Il Rpms
bina whether they think it u pessgasx = 4,
not Well vhsn Psn y ~ nm
that asw buiA Aings are n Tht
wia - oeFtaisl - sans r. r ~ y r. -
- fss tsyssnd - sG 5IjI 4 ti =
E1kNs 9 4 A ~ Il ~ ~ q
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-10-28
In 1909 the Legislature Passed
a Law Prohibiting the Use of
that Building Fund Without
a Vote of the People.
THE LAW. AS. 1T READS:
Session Laws of 1909, chapeter 81.

Session Laws of 1909, Chapeter 81.
3Sec L. Amendment. Section 24O5 of the Revised Codes
the State of North Dakota for 1903 is HEREBY
to read as follows:
Sec. 2405. (BoARD SUBMIT EXTRAORDINARY OUTLAY
3To vcrE) 1t COUNTY at
any regular or special election.
money by the county,
Or ANY EXPENDITURE greater in amount than can be!
provided for by the annual tax
Or the CONSTRUCTION HOUSE, jail or other
public building ESTABLISHING to aid in
construction of the when the board shall consider
the permanent buildings of the county, aforesaid inadequate
the needs of the business and that is to the best
interests of the county to issue bonds to aid consuc
tion.
Or for CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS ANY!
OTHER as is may be provided by law.
Or whether will aid in constructing construct any
highway or bridge.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-10-28

isn't Pembina's court house, it belongs
to the people and it will be for them to
say when new one shall be built.
But as to the new scheme. Last week
he found law that said that balances
in certain named funds, remaining after
all bi Is against such funds were paid,
might be put into building fund.- by
the county commissioners. There were
two difficulties with that law however.
in the case Of Pembina county; one that
of the five funds that could be SO trans
ferred, three have no existance in this
county and the two others which are
really one and the same, the road aud
bridge and emergency funds are, have
been, and will be bankrupt for several
years past, present and future. Hence
il it we're legal to make and use such q
fund without vote of the people, there
would be nothing to transfer. The
other reason is that this law was passed
IN 1903, and in 1909 the last legislature
passed a law forbidding the use Of such
''building fund" without vote of the
people.
Parenthetically, we wish that some
one would buy the Cavalier committee
a copy Of the Session Laws Of 1909. It
would save them slot Of fool talk that
they are making.
But he has found another and new
method Of converting the general fund
Of the county into sinking fund and
thence to . building fund. It is very
ingenious He says Pembina people are
The inventors Of the scheme. Beg
pardon, NJ. Attorney. we are willing to
Eeive yoa' 'alfsthe credit coming.
Hs bseins with ! letter from the
State Examiner's of1ce TO chairman
Merton q tie county hoard recatins the
Efaat that M. Fshey e tho odsoe uasa.
tiad Ind seaad nbina oounfy II %
= ~ ) 1laaea that - sssania-
EEsse u = - III absuty l1npop
~ = li e = = dlinll - &.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-10-28
ORIGINAL COST OF
COURT HOUSE.

A prevaricating perversion of state
ment of the ''booklet" comes through
the Walhalla Mountaineer but which
was written by the lawyer-edltor of
Cavalier and is like the other article in
the Chronicle which is similar in style
and contents.
It goes on to figure this way: it says
the 'booklet" issued by the Pembina
committee says the present buildings
cost 10000 that the original price Of
the main building was slO,5Oo, and il
that sum is taken from $4,000 it will
leave s49,5OO which sum represents the
cost of the three other buildings since
erected" The man who wrote that
knew he was lying when he said it.
First, the "booklet" does not claim that
the buildings are now worth 100000 but
places the value at about $4,000
Again, the Pioneer Express has several
times explained how the main building
cost SO much, but will do it once more
just to show the prevarications. The
county Of Pembina bonded for S15,O(
for twenty years to build the court
house. Those bonds bore ten per cent
interest because Cavalier made a Legal
fight against the issue, otherwise they
could have been Aoated at 6 or z pei
cent. That is $4,000 for twenty years
atsthh rate Of ten per cent interest
which makes s45, 900 altogether that the
county paid for the main building
That leaves just sl5, 900 for the Other
permanent Improvements since made
and built, which is q rate Of $500 q yea,
for the thirty years since elapsed.
This sum does not mean paid out fol
the three offices Of register superintend
ent and county Judge. These Offices
together did not cost more then one
third that sum. But there also mus,
beincluded in the sl6. .Ooo thus expend,
"a, rock foundation Sor tho rDaiI
building. s conolets bassment under 6,
msin baildisk. stssl liainK r. ths tn
ssrse q ~ Rcd river. stabls, qlosetu
lssh vatss vos aating plaat
{ sastsl - ysslt ~ - eilll
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-10-28
discussion as the above is Of no use

discussion as the above is of no use
except to show the crooked ideas of
some people. The whole matter was
conclusively disposed of by the last
legislature. The law which is quoted
below specifically mentions this wonder
full .building fund" which the lawyer
editor has discovered. And it speciti-
cally, generally and everyway declares,
"that any extraordinary expenditures"
for whatever purpose. or however
authorized by law, must be first sub
mitted to the people.
Here is the 1909 law:
SESSION LAWS OF 1909.
CHAPTER 81.
An act to amend sections 24O5, 2AO7
24O8 and 24O9 of the Revised Codes of
the state of North Dakota tor 1905,
relating to the authorization of Public
Improvements in counties and providing
for the levying of taxes to aid in the
constitution of the same.
Be it enacted by the legislative as
sembly of the state of Nor h Dakota:
81. Amendment. Section 24tl5 of
the revised codes of the state of North
Dakota for 1903 is hereby amended SO
as to read as follows:
s 24O5. Board to submit extraordin-
ary outlay to vote 1t shall submit to
the people of the county at any regular
or special election ANY QUESTION .NvoLv-
ING AN EXTRAORDINARY OUTLAY of money
by the county or any expenditure great
er in amount than can be prov ided for
by the annual tax, OR THE CONSTRUCTION
OF ANY COURT HOUSE, JAIL OR OTHER
PUBLIC BUILDING BY ESTABLISHING A
BUILDING FUND TO AID IN THE CoNsTRUC-
T1oN OF THE SAME when the board shall
consider the permanent buildings of the
county, aforesaid, inadequate for the
needs of its business and that it is not
to the best interests OF the county to
issue bonds to aid in such construction
OR FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SUCH
BUILDINGS BY ANY OTHER PROCEDURE AS
Is, OR MAY BE PROVIDED BY LAW.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-10-28
OFFICIAL PAPER OF CITY
azaes. sa.oo Pn1 AHNv94
g. A. wardwen. G. G. Thompson
wARDwBLL 3 THol.PsoN.
REEUBLlcAy TICKET.

REEUBLIcAv TICKET.
~consressional.
AISLE ]. GRoNNA. Nelson county.
For members Of congress-
Il. + f HAEEA HAEGKsoSs osss caSalsi sSasS county.
State. E1
fs z. oye5soN <. JOHNSON. Ward county.
FG5 WsaER E. BuESfcK, Cavalier county
ffE F. feess5dsf +. NoRf9M, 81 IA, Adams county
ffs g. * ssafs BRfGHTB11L. s1SisS!R Tower county .
fsH $uNSER SsstS asedS35oeN oEsoN. Walsh county
sYpfrHts9fS69ks Ct f11fs eeanty
F3L aNpREM Sf5RleSy MfhIEk ffhIlsk Burleieh county
oTissi2nSsE & eounts
c%ATTE% e. TA9EoR count.
conmissionsrs of n TatiE9adsm s,,,s.,, .o,,,,4,
". II. MANN. Morton county
]. PURCELL. Ca Gass ass.,ga county
SHAk5Es aTkKE pokTKR' A5K5ES%8niih %sihsiia Rf%0ina
seafsGiEs: ecHRisTfAN fffSS1 GANssEE. aSsEE St. Thomas
Representative, 6SeCOn0 OlSt!ASS
HENRY ,GEIGER. Hamilton
III: BLAcKLocK. walhalla
". ". FELsoN. Pembina
JOHN r. GIBSON, st. Thomas
clsis Sso&Sk Ss SistF!st PETERsoN, fsREsoN Pembina
Refle6tRssG Gfk6RGE Se qseaSDD S6ADHousE, pembina
States attorney
w. ]. BURKE, Bathgate
County Judge
IN. 6. WICK, Pembina
Superintendent of schools
ISABELLA A. BURLEY, Pembina
HERMAN CAMPBELL. cavalier
County commissioner. first district
A. B. PURDY, Toilette
County commissioner, third district
NORMAN MATHESON. crystal
County commissioner fifth district
VIM, BIGWOOD, st. Thomas
County justices of the peace
r. H. HUFFMAN, Wa1halla
GEORGE BROWN, DraytOn
JOHN HOGG, Drayton
c. MURPHY. Neche
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-10-28
To the Voters Of Pemblna County.

l am a Democratic candidate for
Register of Deeds. was unable to
have a personal interview with all
voters, as I had hoped to, owing to
circumstances over which I had no
control and the limited time left before
election. Therefore I take this means
of asking your support Nov. 8, 1910
pledging in return faithful perform
ance of the duties of said Office
w. j. LEAN.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-10-28

of court, as we'll as many other minor
improvements of permanent character
such as the ordinary man places about
his own residence or barn or store AS
the years 60 ON and the necessity occurs.
And just here, this also answers the
howl that the same writer makes when
he says the county board have erected
three buildings without a vote of the
people.
On the side, we have the united
testimony of the Cavalier tribe that
these building are worthless and a
pamphlet being circulated all over the
county also says that "two of these
buildings were second hand twenty
years ago." Well, if that is the cse it
doesn't look as if the county board had
made any ''extraordinary expenditures"
which are forbidded by the law, does it?
In another paragraph of the same
pamphlet and also published in the
Cavalier papers this.week is the state
ment that ''the county has spent from
$500 to 5000 annually for the past
twenty years on these old shacks." Well
if they have, then we certainly must
raise our estimate of the present value
of those same shacks, because when we
allowed all ths improvements and
additions to the said buildings, we made
the figures only sl5, ,0OO, which as the
said buildings were started in 1880
makes thirty years, WHICH INVOLVES
ONLY AN EXPENDITURE OF $500 YEAR,
WHICH Is CERTAINLY NOT AN ''ExTRAoR-
D1NARY EXPENDITURE" within the mean
ing of the law and would hardly be
noticed in the taxes.
It the county commissioners have
spent from $500 to 5000 for thirty
years on buildings costing originally say
$4,000 then the fact remains that these
buildings have cost the county nearer
100000 than $4,000 and unless the
money was absolutely thrown away we
must necessarily have far more valu-
able set of buildings here than the
Cavalier people tell the voters about.
OF course such statement is absolute
nonsense on its face. Last year the
county board spent s475 for the main
flamenco of the court house buildings
and the estimate of the present year as
published in the minutes is $500, see
treasurers report and published minutes.
Only one of the buildings was second
handsand it cost 5000 when bought by
the count. and was a bargain. It would
have cost more than double that to
build. The other two buildings each
costnew about 81 200 we think, certainly
approximately to that.
Which statement shall the voters
believe? If such immense sums have
been paid to keep the buildings in
repair and to build additions then it
must be that the buildings are not only
in good condition and ample IN size, or
the county board have been either in
competent or worse.
On the other hand if the buildings
are so small, insignificant. and rotten,
as stated by Cavalier, what has become
Of all the money spent to keep them in
repair and add to the accommodations?
Both these statements cannot be true.
Either that we have good set Of build
lings or else we have not. The testimony
Of the Cavalier people is that we have
spent far more money than necessary
to keep them in repair-and yet Cava-
lier insists that they are sltdy to tum-
ble down. What stuff to try and poke
down the voters throats. @
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-10-28
Wanted.

Wanted.
A teacher in school district 93 for
a term of months. commencing Nov.
18th. State salary wanted and also
experience. Apply to w. j. IRWIN,
Bowesmont, N. D.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-10-28
State Teachers Examlnatiol

State teachers' examination will be
held at Pembina and Bsthgate on Fri.
day and Saturday. October q and 90
beginning at $50 o'clock each day.
Candidates will please furnish pen and
ink.
IsABELLAsA. Burnley,
s 3S. Co. Supt.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-02-09
Meetings Start Well.

At the First Methodist church last
night the beginning service of Evan
gelist Rev. Henry 3. Roller called out q
good audience. The chorus choir led
the singing with enthusiasm. They
sang alone 1.-THE" Kings Business" The
hall male quartette were greatly appre-
ciated in the songs they gave The
congregasissa- .ssspveSzed A. Erelcosre 9
the evangelist and by standing assured
him of their full cooperation. Rev.
Roller then preached very effective
sermon on .'Tekel: Thou Art Weighed
in the Balance and Found Wanting"
He portrayed the srendor of Belt
shazzar's feast and the handwriting on
the wall. The kings sin was in his re-
fusal to heed warning, his perseverance
and having passed the time repentance.
Neglect to have a heart right with ode
brought disaster at the judgment hour.
The sermon was simple. strong and
convincing Several persons made their
first public confessions of submission to
Jesus the Savior. The people were deep
ly impressed that everything is work.
ing together for a great meeting. The
audiences are sure to grow. The people
of Hammond are most cordially in
vited to be present tonight
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-02-09
WON'T TAKE UP
COURT FIGHTS
fcontInued from Page l.,

regarding the ethics of the profession
will be finally adopted at a later meet
ing to be held in two weeks and steps
Will then be taken to have these sug-
TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL.
In addition to having the suggestions
printed by the press OF the county. they
viii be printed in pamphlet form and
will be mailed to lawyers all over this
part of the country and to the clients of
the various Lake county lawyers In
this way it is hoped that the general
they may expect from the lawyers of
the county.
The constitution provides for the
holding of regular meetings. and 1t is
proposed to have an annual banquet
that will be an affair of great import
ance to the legal profession.
Since the reorganization of the Lake
the part of the attorneys in the county
to become members has been precipi-
tated. The fact is becoming generally
realized that an attorney out of the
fold will not be entitled to the full
confidence of the community The pub
lie will take 1t to mean that an attorney
Is either not willing to subscribe to the
provisions relative to professional eth
les or that he Is of such a character
that he could not gain admission to
the Bar association. If he so desired.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-02-09
NOVEL PLEA
FOR DIVORCE
IS FILED

Bessie r. McKowan has grievance
against her husband. She alleges that
on the 18th of February. 1910. he un-
tremendously kicked her out of bed
Therefore she sought out Attorney VIM
H. Sickman and forthwith brought suit
against him for a divorce.
Whether or not there were any ex-
tenuating circumstances is not known.
The weather reports on that date in
dictate that the weather was anything
but warm, and whether or not the
Judge will consider that being kicked
out of bed on cold night is sufficient
cause for divorce remains to be seen
Had the situation been further ag-
gravatSd by the fact that the ag-
grieved spouse had stepped on tack
upon alighting on the floor there would
be no question as to the outcome. The
complaint. however says nothing about
tacks or cold feet.
The divorce complaint does state that
the plaintiffs three-months-old baby
was in bed at the time, and that ii
was greatly endangered by the violent
acts of the father.
The complaint states that the couple
were married in Hammond on Oct. Is
1885. and were separated on the It'll
states that she and her husband have
as the fruits of their marriage, nine
children
The plaintiff asks for 81 a week and
the custody of chr children
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-02-09
A NEW PLAY At
| IOWLE'S OPERA HOUSE
DEALS WITH M'CANN, THE DE-
POSED POLICE INSPECTOR,
RECENTLY CONVICTED
IN CHICAGO.
Graft Methods Exposed and Lew
Imposed on Denizens Of the
Underworld.

With splendid equipped acting or
ganization w. F. Mann's ultra-sensa-
tional tale of civic debauchery and DO
lice scandal. Swallowed by Three
takes its place as the first big produc-
tion of the year to command remark
able attention A dozen well known
managers had SHE'D away from it aft
er reading the manuscript. The public
Will never stand tor it," they cried.
Then along came Mr.. Mann. whose pre-
vious acute understanding of just what
the public will stand, and really want,
has made him the present owner of a
score of successful attractions. THE
public will always stand for the truth .
replied he Then he took the play and
produced it right in Chicago. where its
very scenes of thrilling half-worId life
had ben enacted in the courts during
the Mccain trial and where the pro-
types of the characters of the cast
starred across the footlights from the
parquet and shivered in silent shame.
At the TowIe Opera House Wednesday.
Feb. 8.