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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-08-18
"'Where The Cow Finds Great Favor"

3
county (Green) i n southern
Wisconsin I one day, in COM
pany with a brother, took ride
out to the old farm where wac
born and spent my growing
days. Had some of you of
North Dakota, who can ride
across the level fields in driv.
ing your farm work, been with
US that day you might have
found pleasure in the trip be-
cause of the raised scenery.
But with your experience in
North Dakota farms and farm
ing as an ideal you perhaps
would not, from the viewpoint
of an agricultural, have been
favorably impressed.
The narrow valleys and crock
ribbed" hills do not hold out q
brilliant prospect in respect to
farming to one that is accus-
toned to ride over the broad
aud level prairie acres in plant
ing seed and gathering his
harvests. But when one learns
that these hills and valleys are
really sold for from fifty to one
hundred fifty dollars an acre
he begins to lend his ear to the
story of the country's prosper.
ity.
There is soil in these valleys
and on these hills, and mois-
ture and temperature of the
right sort and quantities are
almost alw ys forthcoming.
And cows! No, you cannot see,
as you ride along, that there
are many here-the irregulari-
ties of the surface do not per-
NIT. But they are here never
the-less, and each morning and
evening they respond to the
touch of the mixers hand by
yielding up an abundance of
that fluid on which we all de-
pend for no inconsiderable por-
tion of our daily fare. It is
largely from this stream of
milk that streams of gold have
flowed to the credit of the peo
pie of Green county. On floods
of the lacteal fluid also float
the prices of land above quot.
ed.
Yet this has not always been.
There was a time when these
hills and wales were virgin soil
aud the first settlers plowed,
sowed and reaped-and they
reaped abundantly. But this
kind of farming brot other re-
suits than the bountiful har.
vests. The harvests were taken
but no return was made to
generous mother earth. I n
course of time, therefore, she
of necessity failed to respond
as she had at first. The soil
was reduced, not alone by the
crops of wheat, corn, ETC.; but
the hill slopes offered a very
favorable opportunity for it's
being carried away by running
water, SO that Green county's
hills gave generous contribu.
tions to the rich plains of the
Mississippi and the delta at its
mouth.
So, as indicated above, the
9 iii became impoverished.
What was to be done about it?
There remained plenty of lime
stone which the elements were
doing their beet to transform
into more rich soil. But the
elements can work but slowly
on hard rock, and in the mean
time farmers must find means
of securing results from their
expenditure of labor. What
was done? Some moved to new
regions where the deposits OF
the centuries had not been
checked out, there to com.
mence anew the process of liv.
| limo At the eYnenae IF aoil az.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-08-18
MAN AND WIFE MISSING

Spokane, Wash, Aug. IA
Settlers on til e Big Greek
branch of the St. Joe river in
the Occur d'Alene district in
Idaho are reported to have been
driven from their homes ~
forest fires and Jos. Burzinsky
and wife are missing. The
settlers who escaped say the
Burzinsky home wac one of
the fret in the path of the
flames and the fact that the
Burzinskys have n o t since
been seen cr heard from leads
to the belief they have perish
ed.
SETTLEMENT WIPED OUT
The greater part of the Big
Greek settlement h a been
wiped out. Information comes
from Dayton, WASH, that the
forest fires in the Wenah re.
serve are under control.
The fires have ragged ten days
and burned over large area,
destroying several million feet
of timber. 1t is said to be the
most serious that has occurred
in the Blue mountains for
years.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-08-18


to Green county from the land
of the Alps a colony of Swiss
immigrants. In cooperation
with their old friend, the COW,
these settlers carried on a diff
ferent method of farming.
Then began a period of return
ing prosperity-very slow at
first, for people do not readily
accept methods with which
they are not familiar. But
they watched the Switzer and
his cow and saw them prosper.
In a few years the once impov-
erished soil showed signs of re.
gained vitality. Swiss indus-
try and methods became con-
tagious and gradually spread
Cheese factories were built and
cows multiplied OH the hill
sides ani in the valleys, where
the best of grass had been
caused to grow in abundance.
The Swiss in that country have
in large measure adopted
American customs and are SUBJ
stantial citizens, but fortunate.
ly for the material welfare of
all the people others have &C.
cepted the good things the na.
'tives of the Alpine republic
have brot to them.
As an indication of what is
being done in dairying in Green
county, l give the following
from a report of the dairy and
food commissioner. In 1905
there we've more than 28,OOO
cows in the county, supplying
milk to POI cheese factories.
And Green county is but "a
miles square-less than half
the size cf Richland.
As might be expected, the
people are not raising wheat
except in very. email quantities.
corn and oats are produced in
moderately large quantities
and forage crops-timothy and
other grasses and clover and
alfalfa-ere produced gu e
abundantly. These crops are,
for the most part fed on the
farms to horses and cows and
to the many cattle and hogs
shipped to the markets of Mil
waukee ID Chicago. This
kind of farming is making the
land increasingly fertile. So
the price is not a thing apart
from its value. Despite the
fact that, as one travels over it,
he is either going up hill or
down, the sunshine and rain
the thoro cultivation, the crop
rotation, and above all, the COW.
have made this once impover-
ished region one of the most
responsive to the hand of the
intelligent farmer. When the
farmer, whose hills may have
no attractions for the tiller of
level prairies, ask of those hills
the bread of physical life they
cast back no stone in answer
b ut respond with plentious
nourishment. These farmers
have been led thru observation
and costly experience to under
stand and work toward the
true aim in farming-to so
treat the soil that it will con-
tribute generously to mans
needs while it retains the pow
er to continue to do 80. They
learned their lesson a genera
ton ago. We are learning the
same lesson. Let us make it
less costly than it was to them
by profiting by their experience
and the abundance of valuable
information we may have thru
our agricultural schools-farm.
ers' institutes and farm journ.
ais, as we'll as the agricultural
colleges themselves.
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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-08-18
BLEW TOP OF HIS HEAD OFF

rCrookston, Mimi, Aug. 16.-
With the ceiling of his bedroom
spattered with his brains end
pieces of his skull driven into
the ceiling and walls and scat
tered about the floor, the dead
body of Arvid Peterson was
found at his home last evening,
two minutes after the report of
a shot came from the house in
front of which the father and
wife of the dead man were
standing.
It was plain case of suicide,
the shot gun with which the
deed had been committed, be-
ing found at his side. He liter
ally blew the whole top of his
head off.
. Peterson had been morose
since an accident at the saw
mill last summer, when he was
hit on the head and his nose
broken. He had been closely
watched of late. and his gun
had been taken to the home Of
his brother.in.law John Sand
berg.
Last evening he stole away
and got the gun shortly before
II o'clock aud the suicide tool
place soon after. He leaves q
wife and one child. He was q
years of age.
Rev. w. ]. Hutcheson return.
ed from :hisEvacation In New.
foundland Oh Thursday last
greatly improved In bodily
health.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-08-18
RACE PROGRAMS OUT
Some Fine Races Promised For
The Richland County Fair
Sept. 27-28-29.30

The following progr am of
horse races has been prepared
by the Richland County Fair
Association and the programs
are being sent out this week.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-08-18

THURSDAY, SEPT. 20
WAHPETON DAY
2:22 Pace or 2:17 I'rot. $4,000
(Wahpeton Purse)
Richland County Green
Race. 10000
- Mile Running for Lady
Riders. 5000
Pony Race. $500
Farmers Wagon Race. =. $500
FRIDAY, SEPT. 80
BRECKENRIDGE DAY
Free for all S4OO 90
breckenridge Purse)
2.2O Pace of 2:l5 Trot. 10000
12 Mile Running. =. 10000
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-08-18

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. %
2:15 Pace or 2:lO Trot $500 90
2:3O Pace or 2:25 Trot. 10000
" Mile Running 10000
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-08-18

B. F. Flint, a representive of
the Independent Order of
Foresters, 10 here to organize a
lodge, he expects to stay about
Ia month. ~ - ;','''
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-06
New Element in Strikes.

When rich society women leave af-
fluent surroundings to join garment
workers in their struggle for more
pay or better conditions, it must make
these less fortunate girls and women
feel Just a little surer of their ground.
1t must make them believe just a little
more in the business Of their cause.
1t must give them new courage and
enable them TO fight harder.
There is a good deal Of strength and
warmth in wealth and when its arm is
thrown about those who feel them
selves downtrodden, it lends comfort
and hope and cheer. It is a far cry
from homes such as these women oc-
cupy to the streets where garment
workers strikes are fought out. It
must take something more than mere
fad or sentiment to bring the relief.
For that matter, results in New York
may we'll suggest that conditions in
Chicago are backed by more than pas
sion, of any sort.
So this new element in labor con-
troversies, which may yet somewhat
change their whole aspect. at least
where women are concerned, demands
consideration One thing it signifies
and that ia a wholesome interest by
women of wealth in the affairs OF their
less fortunate sisters, This, without
reference TO the isoues OF any particu-
lar strike. suggests encouragement for
the cause Of humanity. II, in this new
contact, the woman who tolls in shop
or factory, cannot derive a better con-
ception of society in its relation to her
then she cannot claim the most that
she has to gain. Her cause has ap-
pealed to those whom she had sup.
posed to be wholly indifferent to Il
Does not this cheer her heart? It is q
wholesome view for the future.
Strikes are not 10 be commended az
the most desirable way to settle labor
disputes, but so long as We must have
them, these society women who lend
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-06
Character of Immigration.

The Chicago Young Mems Christian
association maintains an immigration
department, whose mission is to look
after the alien to our shores with a
special effort at helping him to be-
come a useful American citizen. This
is certainly the most practical sort of
work and should produce excellent re-
suits 1t is Of vast Importance in a
city like Chicago, to whose Industrial
centers so many thousands of foreign
ers are attracted.
Abraham Bowers, immigration sec
Rotary, has recently returned from Eu-
rope, where he visited those countries
from which Chicago draws its aliens,
and he makes a very interesting and
instructive report, the whole burden
of which is to eontrovert that false no.
ton so studiously disseminated by
prejudiOed persons that we are i'm
porting only the undesirable classes
from Europe. Directly on this point
Mr.. Bowers says:
NANAAAA6 4 ANS Hho PbeA AAAu buE country
by the thousands are not the scum of
their native European homes. Our new
department will make II it's purpose 70
demonstrate this truth and show that,
with proper attention. the incoming for
eigner can be turned into a good citizen
who Will be a credit to Chicago.
1t ought to be self-evident that men
and women who leave fatherland,
relatives, home-an that is dear to
them-to venture into a new and
strange land, is not the scum" Of any
country, but persons OF character, Of
ambition, Of restless energy. It is no
small sacrifice they make. Il ought
to be manifest, as Mr., Bowers himself
EsS -, that these people come here with
NJ other idea or intention than that
II 'bottering their condition" That
assertion should need no proof In 9
country THAI has - vastly prOhtsd
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-06
On the Trail of Methuselah.

The average length of mans life
seems always to have been variable.
Back in the days of Methuselah we
find this patriarch and some of his
contemporaries living close on to
thousand years, while some 1000
years ago, we are told, the average
age in Egypt was but % years. Here
is a terrible falling off, with no ade-
quate theory on which to account for
the disparagement. Then, again, we
Of Holy Writ that men in their prime
were supposed 10 live out three score
and ten, or seventy years. Today,
however, and for some years past,
they have not been doing that
Now comes a statistician who tells
us that the scales are veering back
toward longevity. He seems to dis
agree with the theory that the fast
age of the present is wearing out men
in their early youth. He asserts that
the span of life has gained twenty
years in as many centuries, which
would not be much of a gain, but he
hastens to add that the most of this
gain has been made in the last hun
dred years. Again, he informs us that
we are now overtaking Methuselah
and his compeers by gathering up
net increase in the slack by two years
in every ten. He believes we are
going to maintain the present rate of
increase, and, in fact, add to it. Today
he tells us that the average length of
life in the calm and cultured state of
Massachusetts is Al years and 6
months, and If we keep up this pace
in 1000 years we. will be living an
average of 244 years, and 6 months.
OF course this will still leave us
considerably behind Methuselah, the
prize winner, but it shows we are
gaining instead of losing, and that is
some satisfaction.
AS a matter of fact the people of
the United States are living in a fast
age, but they are living more scientif-
icslly than they ever have. They have
purer food, better sanitation and are
taking more wholesome exereise-in
short, they are devoting more atten-
ton to the secret Of how to live and
live properly, and this, of course, is
having its results.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-06
Land Hunger.

The worlds championship base ball
game and the chance to get a piece of
government land apparently, are the
only objects that will keep men and
women waiting in line all day and
night. The scenes enacted around base
ball parks in the late autumn, were
duplicated at the land offices in the
Occur d'Alene country of the northwest
the other day when the government
was throwing open to settlement 800
claims, A long line of prospective set
tiers waited all night and day for the
chance to file. It was headed by a
woman and contained another woman.
so years old.
This back-to-farm propaganda must
be bearing fruit. 1t is evident in every
land opening, when the number of ap-
plicants far exceeds the number of
claims. 1t shows the people have
caught the spirit the government has
been intoxicating and appreciate the
basic value of the soil as an element
of good living and prosperity. 1t shows,
too, that they realize the rapidly-disap-
pearing opportunities to acquire a
share of the public domain.
This great movement represents a
better distribution of the population.
1t represents new and multiplied
sources of wealth. 1t means better
health as well to a larger number. 1t
looks with discriminating intelligence
to the solution of a problem involved
in the influx of the aliens to
our shores. Industrially, economically.
physically and even morally, 1t bears
directly upon life in the United States
The only regrettable aspect of the
whole thing is that but a compare
lively limited amount of free land
is left for occupation. But each year its
value is enhanced by enterprises the
government is carrying on under its
general system of reclamation and
those who get the last Of the land may
have shorter route to comfortable
circumstances than some of the pio-
neers of former days.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-06
Note the Difference.

On December 2S. 1893, in the midst
Of the big panic. Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock,
editor Of the democratic World
Herald, went to G. W. Wattles, whom
he had not previously met" with a
letter from Joseph s. BARLEY. republi-
can state treasurer, and got $4,000
without security. Joseph s. BARLEY,
when exposed as a defaulter was con-
victed and served five years for steal
ing the money which Hitchcock en-
ioyed. When BARLEY emerged from
prison and asked for repayment.
Hitchcock replied that the note had
been outlawed and was barred by the
statute of limitations, and to this day
he has refused to put it back
About the same time Gilbert NJ
Hitchcock was carrying Bartleys let
ter to G. w. Wattles, a retail dry
goCjs house in Omaha, known as
stonehill Brothers, failed with numer-
Gus obligations, among them a debt
of S1,037 to Thomas Fitzpatrick & Co..
for goods bought 1t was a legitimate
failure. Stonehill did not stand in
with the state treasurer; he had no
newspaper club to compel BARLEY to
come across to him with a loan that
would save him. After litigation the
Fitzpatrick claim was settled for 20
cents on the dollar with receipt in
full and complete release, although
Stonehill gave the usual promise to
repay when he could. On November
8, 1896, Mr.. Fitzpatrick received from
Charles A. Stonehill letter renting
the remainder, $743.44 saying he con-
sidered it "a moral obligation" and
was glad to be able to send it. Mr..
Fitzpatrick at the time wrote a letter
publicly acknowledging the discharge
of this debt of honor in order that
every one might know Mr.. Stonehill
for the honorable business man that
he is.
Note the difference.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-06
Accidents and Compensation,

Germany has contributed $2,449,-
100000 for social insurance from
1885 to 1909. OF this amount the
employer contributed $1,1OO, 900, 900,
the employee 1891, 100000 and the en-
pire in special payments to the inval-
idity department 100000, and
1891, 100000 has come from interest
and other sources. The insured work
men have received in compensation
$1,740, 100000, getting out of the
fund, therefore, 1853, 100000 more
than they put into it.
For sixty years Germany wrestled
with the problems of preventing acct
dents and compensating injured work
men. These are some of the results
achieved and published on the twenty
fifth anniversary of the system. That
nation conceived industrial peace and
content to be a basic principle in it's
social system, and sixty years ago set
about to work out the principle. To-
day, If Germany stands supreme in
militarism, 1t likewise leads in indus
trial peace. 1t believes that It pays
and employer, employe and govern
ment join hands in UNFOLDING the sys-
TEN, putting billions into It, not for
any sentimental reason, but for prac-
tical results.
Industrialism in the United States
sorely needs more peace, more con-
tentment and, whether it needs the
precise system of Germany or not, it
certainly requires some better means
of preventing accidents and compen-
sating injured workmen. Nor has our
country, privately OF publicly, been in
different TO this fact. Great corpora
tions, notably railroads, have given
some study to the problems and
adopted various methods with varying
success. Last year railroad accidents
fell OF in number, but this year they
are multiplying again. The govern
ment, too, is very active, more system
atieally so, than any private enterprise
in this line Of regulation. In the last
congress it did much and proposes to
do more in the next congress to meet
these problems.
But We cannot expect immediate re-
suits Of any great significance, for this
is a matter, after all, OF education. II
was and is in Germany, and we shall
ind it so. There the system is main
tanned by constant propaganda, and II
we in the United States are to solve
the problem we shall have TO pursue
a steady, consistent course OF educa-
tion in il. There museums OF safety,
rules and regulations tx sssyenting
accidents are An force In muasS than a
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-06

half million factories and mills, and
popular lectures and the distribution
of literature are coordinate agencies.
Germany claims that a life saved
is a national asset, says DR. William
Il. Tolman, writing in the Railroad
Trainman. He argues that this mat
ter is fundamental, that it concerns
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness" Neither of these propositions
can be gainsaid. DR.. Tolman suggests
that it may yet become necessary to
amend the constitution so as to secure
a uniform system Of accident proven
ton and compensation That is ad-
vanced ground, but certainly, if we
never take it, we have to progress
from where we are. both for the ma
tons good and for the good of indus
trialism
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-06
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.


'A''r up' The finest touches 0r Indian
sum'Dr ere get to come.
Aerop.auinl to an 1r.ffrF. OIL. u-.o foo,
"I'no"t reading the price tags on Thanks
Swung turkey is q distouragiug waste OF
energy
Civilization cannot De REGARDED as having
reached the limit until the currents ~ pout-
i'ol hot mir are successfully canned and
turned ON tho rakci .s, t.,.. ,,,.,,,t..
"lU''
The conservation OF the natural rcs,urces
OF this glorious nation cannot be- regarded
perfect while vast quantities of heat units
are wasted Keeping the political NOT
'a-bilin'.'
The adcroftcra, ,1i.t. ,.s..f.. ,..... CHI,
mas shoprin.. ro,yt" Zoos ,,t., ITO, .,, ,,,.,
first toot ,f tr. y.,fs., ., ", o., wy, wy
morning The ,orl,. ,b,r,,,, i,... ,,.. 90.
OF the goods ''' p''N
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-06

When Mayor Jim" was running for
reelection The Bee propounded these
questions for thoughtful voters to pom
der. The questions are just as ap-
plicable now when he is asking to be
made chief executive for the whole
state of Nebraska:
Have you been out of town during
the last three years?
Have you travelled any place where
you met people whose good opinion
you would value for yourself and for
Omaha?
Have you ever made such a trip
without having thrown up at you some
of the discreditable performances of
our cowboy mayor?
Have you ever been able to meet
the disparaging comment thus brought
down on Omaha except by humiliating
apology or evasion?
Haven't you found that just as you
thought the last bad break of our cow
boy mayor was beginning to be lived
down and Omaha was in a fair way to
resume its good standing, another bad
break came at precisely the inoppor-
tune time?
Have you entertained any out-of-
town guests during the last three
years, and, if so, did you not try to
explain away our broncho-busting city
government?
Would not your guests have de-
parted with a better impression Of
Omaha If the chief officials Of the city
were more representative of the high
average of our citizenship?
IF you expect to travel abroad or
to entertain guests during the next
three years, won't you be more likely
to hold your head higher and to avoid
the apologize explanations if Omaha
is relieved of its cowboy mayor?"
Ask yourself this, Mr.. Voter; Can
we afford to take the risk of Cow
boy" governor?