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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-04-14
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Proceedings
OF THE
Board of County Commissioners
CAVALIER COUNTY, N. D

CAVALIER COUNTY, N. D.
Minutes of regular session OF the
Board of County Commissioners held at
the auditors Office in the City OF Lang
don, North Dakota, ,-on April 4th, 1910,
at two o'clock p. m.
Present: Commissioners A. A. Seeley,
Ole I. Gjevre and L. Schneider
Upon motion Louis Schneider was ap-
pointed chairman pro. tom.
The minutes of the last regular and
adjourned meetings of the board were
read and upon motion approved.
Upon motion the following bills were
audited and allowed.
James Wakeford, livery hire.....s 90
Atlas Lumber Co., coal for Mrs.
Burns county poor. ............. l4 ~
I. NJ. Law, county physicians
salary for 1st quarter. .......... rs %
D. Campbell, duplicate of war. No.
lO00o. w
E. Irwin, duplicate of war. No.
lO5lS. ............'. Oo
w. G. Crocker, reviews. ......... ~
Herald Printing Co., supplies for
sup't schools. s................. z ~
j. B. Boyd, goods for court house IA 30
Syver Gunderson, board and care
Thore Vettern county poor..... Is 90
Miss H. Erickson, house rent for
Mrs. 6. Gillespie from Dec. 9 to
March IL, 1910. ................ 30 90
Elliot Fisher, repairs for book
Lyp6WriteT ........... .......s IL
Langdon Light Co., light for court
house for 1st quarter. ......... .lO1 81
Walker Bros 6 Hardy, supplies
for court house. e................ ~ 49
DR.. B. Campeau, salary as county
physician for quarter ending
Dec. 3lst. .................... ~ w
Leaf Bros
county poor. ................... l0 W
Goods furnished Mrs. Erickson
county poor and housesrent for
months to Feb. 1st 1910. -. 42 0O
Gunnar Kristjanson, board and
care G.. Emerson, county poor
JAN, Feb. and March 1910..... Is 90
Upon motion the board adjourned to
meet Tuesday, April 9Th, 1910, at 8
o'clock a. IA.
TUESDAY, April 5, 1910.
Board re-convened pursuant to ad.
journment at 8 O'clock a. N.
Present: Commission A. A. Seeley
Ole I. Gjevre and Louis Schneider
chairman pro. tenn.
Absent: Chairman Ed. Wlenecke and
Commissioner Alex. Russell.
Upon motion the following bills were
audited and allowed:
Farnham Printing.Co, ,,ss.,
Court house supplies ....... .S48 DC
Court house supplies. s............ 8 &c
Court house supplies. ........... 5 0(
Court house supplies. 81 0(
Court house supplies. -. ..... ~ Il !. SO OK
Court house supplies. s............ Q 81
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-04-14
Your tongue is coated.
Your breath is foul

Headaches come and go.
These symptoms show that your
stomach is the trouble To remove the
cause is the first thing, and Chamber
laius Stomach and Liver Tablets will do
that. Easy to take and most effective.
Sold by Close & Co.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-04-14

Don't think that piles can't be cured.
Thousands Of obstinate cases have been
cured by Doan's Ointment. so cents at
any drug store.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-04-14

vouchers NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. POT so
Money advanced for exchange. 3l7 II
Mosss5 advanced for express and
adrayage. 7 As
Money advanced for laundry
for prisoners. 9 O3
Money advanced for transpor,a-
tion county poor. 95 80
Money advanced for j. j. Souch
for painting ....... 10 90
r. B. Morrison, goods furnished
county poor. 81 so
J. W. Hynd>, supplies for court
house $3.50 balance due. $50. 90
DR.. I. M. Law, salary as county
physician ls1 quarter. ... IL 90
DR.. J. Alex, Mckay quarantine
cases ......... ..... 81 60
DR.. J. j. Reilly, salary as county
physician, first quarter. ........ 18 90
G. j. Kelly, goods furnished Mrs.
Continued on Fourth Page)
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-04-14

A full line Of township blanks always
on hand at the DEMOCRAT office.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-21
POETICAL FLIGHT

DRAIsE be to Allah! Here is a
merry bard. He writes in Los
Il Angeles Times: "Vive LIE Paul
han
Paulhan! Pauhanl Paulhan!
That valiant little Frenchman-
Right up in the sky
He'll fly, fly, fly,
AS far as ever he can"
We knew the divine afflatus would
affiliate somebody ere the aviation meet
was over. And here he is. Oh, listen
to him chortle! Let US suggest some
more verses:
Oh my! Oh my! oh myl
He was way, way up in the sky,
Paulhan, Paulhan.
That little Frenchman,
And we caught him on the nyl
That verse was supposed to be writ
ten by a photographer. Do you see
the subtle joke in the last line?
Here is another one. The joke is
even subtler:
Paulhan! Paulhanl Paulhan!
That nimble, petit French MAN,
Way up in the sky
On the fly, fly. fly,
He capered a wild can.canl
OF course he didn't do any thing of
the kind, and we apologize to him for
the suggestion. But, mort de ma vie
tete dun chien sacre nom de boullla-
baisse! What do you think OF aviation
poetry, anyway?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-21
cOMMENDS JUDGE WORKS
FOR STAND ON CITY JAIL

SAN PEDRO, Jan. 19.-[Editor Her
add: The people of Los Angeles are
certainly to be congratulated upon hav-
ing such a man as Judge Works presi-
dent of the city council. His scathing
remarks concerning the condition of the
city Jail at the last council meeting
show he means to be no figurehead In
city affairs.
Every lover of humanity who feels in
any sense he is his brothers keeper will
rejoice at the stand Judge Works has
taken in the matter. To my mind he
will have no more important or per-
picking problem to solve during his
term of office than the proper admin
iStration of the city jail and the wise
handling of those who are so unfor-
tunate as to be confined within it's
walls.
All who know Judge Works know he
will go deeper than to merely remedy
sanitary conditions there. He has a
difficult work before him and he should
have the encouragement and co-opera-
ton of all good citizens. Since John
Howard-120 years ago-began his cru
sade against the evils of prison life the
problem Of prison reform has been be-
fore the people, to the despair OF phil
anthropists and penologists the world
over. Punishment has been meted out
without stint to law breakers, and is
the keynote in our penal system. But
all practical students of the subject
know the theory of retribution has no
real value in the police work of the
world.
That the fear of punishment and de-
tention deters some men from crime is
true no doubt. One man will cheat and
overreach his fellows, keeping within
the limits of the law, yet dishonest to
the very verge of robbery. Another
manmore honest but less prudent over
steps the boundaries OF the law, and is
sent to prison and comes out a worse
man than when he entered. The man
has been punished and the law has
been vindicated. but what of the man?
Why shall say the graduates of
our prisons as a rule make up what we
call our criminal class, and who is re-
sponsible? The question is a hard one
to answer. If the newspapers would
discuss this question more and the Wo-
mems clubs would take it up and agi-
tate it some good might be accom-
plished. But until reformation is made
the keynote of our penal system in
stead Of mere punishment we are sim
ply working on the surface and are
not getting down to the root. of the
evil. SOPHIA HILDRETH.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-21
MUST CHANGE PRESENT
SYSTEM OF PUNl SHMENT T

LOS ANGELES. Jan. 1Z-[Editor
Herald: You printed synopsis, in
a recent issue, of DR.. Locke's sermon.
Kindly permit me few remarks on
that sermon. / will take his theme:
Some devils in our city beautiful that
ought to be killed, and that without
delay"
Let us suppose DR.. Locke has a
young son who is suffering from some
malignant disease. He sees the boy
grow worse hour after hour and day
after day, as the disease does its
deadly work. What does he do in that
case? He says to the physicians em-
phatically: "Try some other remedy!
Don't you see that what you are do
ing is not curing him? Try some other
remedy"
Now "our city beautiful" our state
and all but few others are just in
that position toward their children
who are stricken with the malignant
disease called sin or evil. The kill
ing" which he so strongly advocates,
has been tried for years and years,
and still the evil grows greater and
greater.
1t is time for some other remedy.
That this disease is spreading cannot
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-21
AMERICANISM

HT z are indebted to the Times for
w the information there was be-
tween 1882 and 1896 the only
Democratic regime this country has
been afflicted with in a period of a
half a century," Yet history tells us
the country took so kindly to a Demo-
cratic regime that delivered it from
the most constituencies set of spoils-
men and grafters that ever plllaged
and disgraced any republic that it
tried another Democratic regime. In
connection with the Republican regime
which was in power when the slogan
TURN THE RASCALS OUT! was
heard from Maine to California, the
word afflicted" might we'll be used
With the eviction of the Republican
chronic Office holders and the dislodg-
ment of the barnacles this nation en-
tered upon period of political prog
ress and reform which would have
been impossible If the first Democratic
regime had not delivered it.
A modern American navy, America
as a factor in world politics and the
policy of civil service reform we owe
to the Democracy. And it is high
time for another Democratic regime.
There's never smoke without fire, and
there are too many scandals in varl-
Gus departments to warrant a fond
belief they are foundationless. The
theft Of national resources promises to
be the biggest scandal of all. TO the
Democratic party while it was in pow
er the United States owes the policy
of modern development and progress
which made it a great and truly
UNITED nation. The Democratic par
ty will be returned to power in time
to save the Union from the dangers
that obviously and imminently mem
ace it, and again the Democratic party
VIII make truly UNITED nation,
in which every citizen will have a
sense of fellowship with every other
citizen, a sense of community Of in
terest, a sense Of AMERICANISM.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-21
AVIATION GLORIES

| ~ REATER LOS ANGELES has
IIT added to its noteworthy triumphs
N and great achievements an avia-
tion meet which has been a remarkable
and unqualified success; indeed, by far
the greatest "event" in the history of
aeronautics and aviation. 1t is ac-
llnowledged by the French aviators
themselves that the Los Angeles gath
! ering surpassed the famous Rheims
meet.
| To citizens whose enterprise. enthusi-
asm and hard work made the meet pos
| sible and brought it from brilliant in
| ception to remarkable demonstration,
Los Angeles owes thanks and appreci-
alton. Honor to whom honor is due.
| Hearty thanks should also be ex-
tended to the Dominguez heirs, Joseph
| and Edward Carson, owners of the
Rancho San Pedro, who gave the use
of the land, for which they neither
| asked nor received remuneration and
! extended to all connected with the
| meet whole-hearted. old-time Califor-
| MIA hospitality.
! The scientific report of the meet will
be awaited eagerly; but it is popularity
realized that the science of aviation
is a practicable feature of the worlds
work and must be reckoned with in
looking forward" The part Los An
geles has taken in the demonstration
of the qualities and merits of aviation
has been that of a pioneer. This city
provided for the experimenters with
aeroplanes and dirigibles the very best
ground in all the world. There is no
course that is comparable with Do
minguez park and the country round
about
It gives ayiators a fair opportunity
of testing the quality of their ma
chimes and the extent Of their skill
over plain and mountain, by shore and
by sea. Long distance flights and short
and prolonged flights around defined
courses have illustrated the endurance
and the power of aeroplanes and the
ability of their managers; while the d-
rigibles have given evidence among
be huge air vessels.
"Aeronautics" has been more or less
of a mysterious science and has been
a topic of debate, discussion and Won
derment for over a century Aviation,
the modern development of aeronaut-
les, has made more progress in a few
years than non-dirigible balloonlng
made in all it's long history, and with
the advent of the aeroplanes came the
practical and practicable development
of the big dirigibles.
Greater Los Angeles never Will for
get the glories and the trlumphs, the
thrills and the eXhllarations, the Won
der and the achievements Of Aviation
week. Long after aviation has become
as general as automobiling the fond
recollections of the spectators will
dwell on the experiments and the ex-
ploits of Los Angeles Aviation week,
the great historical meeting which
taught the world not merely that it
could fly, but that the ships of the air,
like the ships of the sea, could carry
letters, packages, freight and passen-
gers with such great safety that on
diagram the margin of accident would
be hardly visible.
Greatest Of all the lessons of glorious
Aviation week was this: Mankind can
trust aviation. It is SAFE.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-21

was the work of the Dutch. and the
first white men in the interior of the
dark continent were Scots (Moffat and
Livingstone) and a Welsh-American,
Henry NJ. Stanley,
The pioneering for the New England
ers who trekked to California was done
by the Mexicans, who were compelled
to make room for the newcomers by
some businesslike negotiations conduct
ed with rifles and fixed bayonets at
Dominguez ranch and elsewhere.
The development of the United states
has been accomplished by men OF all
nations, yet they are all contented to
use the English language, and it is
noteworthy-and characterstic-of one
of the most curious situations" in the
history Of mankind that even although
there were no English entries for avia-
tion week, the proceedings We're con-
Quoted, most of the news was printed,
and the principal records will be kept in
the language that derives it's best
known title from the country that was
not represented at the meet.
We hope our readers do not think the
English are not taking any interest in
aviation or the Los Angeles meeting.
All the nations of the United Kingdom
are watching the aviation experiments
with intense interest, but the most
keenly interested of all is undoubtedly
the English nation.
1ieI,r of
all the aviation experiments and will
select the best machines-or the best
ideas-and equip themselves with the
air fleet with which they must supple
ment their sea fleet if they are TO re-
main immune from foreign aggression.
The British, and especially the English,
who have most at stake, can no more
afford to neglect air power than they
can afford to neglect sea power.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-21

buried. They say we practice medi-
cine; true, and the country church
yards stand as evidence of this fact
We only hope the time is near when
we shall quit so much 'all-tired" prac-
tive and begin to heal in the natural
way.
Often a quack doctor fails to make
a proper diagnosis, then the ease and
fee is lost as shown in the following:
A doctor, failing In health, removed
to a rural district and hung up his
shingle Patients were few and fan
between One day a barefoot country
boy came up on horseback, stuck a
swollen foot on the fence before the
doctor and inquired; Say, Doc, what 5
the matter with that heel?" The
doctor examined the patients tongue,
looked across the hills, shook his head,
thinking perhaps it was a serious case
then pressed the ailing foot and re-
piled: "Why, it's erysipelas."
''Ery h-that's whar' a bee stung
me-" exclaimed the youth. Then an
eagle scared round the mountain crest;
a quail stirred the eggs meath its
downy breast. and a rabbit slipped
quietly from it's furry nest.
G. r, LUNA
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-21
DECLARES WORLD is STAGE
AND MEN MERELY PLAYERS

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19.-[Editor
Herald: Why does the church con-
denim theater going?
Is it not for this: The former treats
of God, the latter of man; the former
of the past the latter of now. The
church offers us superstition, tradition
and mystery; the stage offers us real
life, masked and unmasked-facts that
exist in all countries, and all honest
orthodox and heterodoX. The pulpit
forbids, and the stage reveals.
For myths, for dead conditions and
transactions, and for unrealistic author
tiles and changeable creeds, the pro-
gressive voice of the stage Substitutes
life, not only as it was but is. 1t lays
bare the heart, it tears aside the mask
and shows us the real story of the
heart, which should stand for the
highest, present and to come.
Go to the play with a desire for truth
and enlightenment and you will come
away with the feeling that an actor is
becoming one of the greatest and truest
ministers to man!
ELLA l.. MERRIAM
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-21
BUSY POSTOFFICE

q ALE OF stamps al Los Angeles post
office last year totaled S1,276, 549 SO,
~ while Seattles total was $96S, ,21S. 40
and Portland's $77S,629.20 At Los An
geles' rate of increase it soon will be the
largest office west of Chicago, and there
is nothing which so accurately indi-
Gates the actual condition of a city
with respect to prosperity and popula-
tion as does the postoffice record. Peo-
pie who use the mails are enterprising,
bright, active and industrious. The
prosperity of Los Angeles is attended
by worldwide publicity.
For this of course special occasions
like aviation meet and the news service
wired nightly to eastern papers are
partly responsible, but there is vast,
far-reaching and widespread and high
ly effective form of publicity, and that
is publicity by correspondence.
Letters sent by the people of Los
Angeles to their relatives and friends
in every part of the civilized world
have been of great benefit in the up
building of the city and will continue
to exercise an ever-increasing influence.
Picture cards also help some" In
deed it may be admitted the picture
card, with it's vivid colorings, has given
residents of other parts of the United
States and foreigners in various parts
Of the world very realistic glimpses
of our sunny southland. Los Angeles
busy postoffice, keeping up constant
communication between our metropolis
and the wide world, is one of the most
impressive features of city life and
.,-nAir-it,r
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-21
IRREGULAR" TACTICS

SGD OCULAR" Republicans seem to
X. be hard-pressed when in their
AZ anxiety to perpleX or BATTLE
the Ballinger- -Pinchot investigation
committee they go so far as to break
the rules of the house. This they did
when they refused to accord to the
minority the anciently accorded and
time-honored right of selecting repre-
sentatives on all COMMITTEES, said rep
resentatives to be chosen by caucus,
The refusal to accept Rainey of Hi
nois as member of the committee in
dicates there is a plan afoot to stop
the work Of the committee. Only fear
of the consequences of a fair and
square unembarrassed investigation
would dictate a policy subversive of
precedent and of the best traditions
of the American nation.
1t is evident the caucus of Republic
can members is not we'll posted as to
the meaning of Theodore Roosevelt S
phrase, "a square deal" or the "regu-
lars" are afraid of q fair and impair
tial investigation. They shirk taking
any measures or methods which would
disturb the bias; and they are afraid
to allow men to so ahead and conduct
a thorough and impartial investiga-
tion for the purpose of ascertaining
facts and reporting thereon.
Instead, they are preparing for a
whitewash; and no Independent Amer
lean who would refuse to WELD a
whitewash brush could be allowed to
interfere with the operations of the
calciminers.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-21

be denied. The facts and figures that
prove it can be had by anyone, and
no one wishing to be fair and honest
with his own conscience can afford to
disregard them. Besides this, it is
an unintelligent position to take and
one that a minister of all people should
especially wish to avoid
DR.. Locke cites the story of Jesus
casting devils out of some men and
infesting a herd of swine with them.
Even If we wish to take this literally
l can see no similarity between that
treatment and our system of killing,
for Jesus cured the men and we kill
them-We don't cure. This is the crux
of the whole question. Shall we kill
or cure? DR.. Locke says: Let us kill
without delay" l say, let us cure
without delay. And since Jesus-that
divine teacher of love and love only
has been brought forward as an ex-
cuse for the legalized murders we
commit-and Oh, how impious thing
this is!-let us see what his remedy
is for getting rid of evil. For say
unto you that ye resist not evil but
overcome evil with good" Dr. Locke
says, practically: resist evil by drag
gng men to the electric chair and
killing them.
Now if this be Overcoming evil with
good" then is darkness light and
night day. There is not one good
reason for continuing to use the old
Mosaic law of an eye for an eye, ETC.,
since it has been superseded by the
new gospel of love. Again, DR.. Locke
says "the, cure for the devils of pow
erty is godliness.' Good! He might
further have said that the cure for
the devils of murder is godliness, for
is it not? Is there a Christian in the
land who will say that it is not? And
is taking human life godliness?
Each killing that the state does in
its profound ignorance is deadly
seed that win surely bring back 10 us
a crop of killings. Away with sophis-
try and prejudicesl For the love or
heaven and of Jesus divine teachings
let us not fail to look this matter
squarely in the face Let us get sta
tistics, if the God within us is not
enough to show us the better way,
and let us sift this thing to the bottom.
ELIZABETH BAKER BOHAN.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-21
ENGLISH AND AVIATION

A CONTEMPORARY asks why there
IN were no English in the aviation
- meet. The answer is simple. The
English are not pioneers, and never
have been pioneers. England's favorite
habit (and there's no denying the fact
that it has been winner) has been to
let the other fellow do the experiment
ing. and then 20 "come In strong when
comparative perfection is reached. Nor
is this habit confined to the English in
England. Much of the pioneering for
the New Englanders was done by the
French. The pioneering for the Eng
lishmen who settled in New York was
done by the Dutch.
The pioneering for the United King
dom in the new African empire again
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-21
HIGH BALLS

7 n BALLOONING and high flying
there is a possible risk which is
being underestimated. 1t is not a
risk to life or limb, When a devotee
of temperance principles becomes a
high-fiyer he or she sooner or later will
strike the jag altitude. At this perpen-
dicularity the air becomes ozonated,
and the eXhilarating champagne effect
which mountaineers have described
may be enjoyed without eXertion. All
you have to do is to sit still in the big
basket and become ozonated. BY and
by the breather of the upper atmos-
phere is ozonated, and the period of
ozonation lasts as long as the altitude
is maintained. Temperance pledges of
the future will include promises to re-
frain from drinking strong beverages,
and from taking joy rides in the upper
air-in the ozone region.