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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-18
FEW POINTERS ON THRESHING

rand, no matter how we'll shocked, some
damage is bound-to result. With shock
threshing the grain must sweat in the
bin; and, where threshing is resumed
too soon after a rain, serious damage
is bound to occur. The most salts
factory way to apportion. the possible
damage in shock-threshing among
group of four or five farms is to start
in and thresh full day on each farm,
and then complete the threshing on
these farms taking them in reverse
order.
Stack-threshing may appear a triae
more expensive than shock-threshing;
but it has in return several things which
commend it to the small farmer, or to
the farmer who is following diversified
farming. Stack-threshed grain will
usually bring premium of one or two
cents per :bushel over the average of
shock threshed grain, because of its
better color and weight. The thresh-
ing usually takes place after many of
the fall rains are over; and as a con-
sequence, the straw is saved in much
better shape, and is much more useful
for feeding. =.
Experiences have shown that the
chances of waste and damage are more
numerous with shock-threshing than
with stack-thresfing, and as all cannot
be Fl, st in shock-threshing it is we'll not
to forget how to build a good grain
stack. %. M.*|Olson, Mimi College of
Agri. -.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-18

The last sheaf of the harvest is
hardly in shock before number OF
farmers are anxious to thresh; and sell
dom season passes that some farmer
in the community doesn't find himself
in a quandry to know when is the best
time to thresh.
There are many things that may be
said, both for and against shock
threshing and stack-threshing; and, in
deciding what to do, the farmer must
be guided largely by his particular case
and the conditions to be met.
Shock threshing appeals to many
farmers, from the fact that when it is
over there is nothing to hinder taking
up the general fall work and Fastening
its completion without delay. Others
are favorable to stack-threshing; but,
having had variable success in getting
their grain we'll stacked in previous sea-
sons, they are inclined to favor shock
threshing.
If understanding is really practical,
it will be found so upon either the
large farm, where there is ample help
to carry on the work, or where three
or four farmers can cooperate and sup
ply the necessary help. No attempt
should be made to start a run of more
than six to eight days of steady thresh-
ing; as this will usually occupy about
two weeks, and possibly longer. A
longer run would mean that the grain
of the last farmer to be threshed for
would be exposed to more or less rain !;
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-18

cred in any way personal, we are un-
able to stifle the thought that if some
persons would pay their honest debts
before sending their woman folks
away on expensive trips. their credit
at home would be improved, and the
robber railroads would collect fewer
fares.
1T becomes our painful duty to
chronicle the death, by drowning, OF
Robert Pixley, of Pinto. known to
many of our readers as "The Boozer,"
While returning from the county
seat Friday night, carrying his usual
load, he stumbled into water hole
in Kinnaman creek, at a point not
hundred yards from his own shack,
where his body was found by two
neighbor boys the following morning.
Some we'll meaning, but mistaken per-
son, has sent us highly lauditory
obituary notice. which we regret not
being able to print. Our opinion OF
Pixley's mode of life has been often
and plainly enough expressed to be
we'll known to our readers, and we
see no reason in the fact or the man.
ner of his death, why we should
change it. The best we can consent
to do is to make our usual concession
to Death in such cases-absolute sill
ence"
One will search the newspaper d.
rectofy in vain for the name of such
a publication as the Mercer County
Mirror, and the person mentioned in
the alleged locals live only in the i'm
aginatiOn of the writer.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-18

England is in the thr0es of a great
strike. Following the strike of the
dock men, the railway employees have
now been called out. AS English
railways are under direct government
control it will be interesting to note
TIE number of strikers placed in Jail.
1t will be curious to see how many of
the unions are enjoined and their
leaders placed under restraint. The
English workman is stolid and slow
to act, but when started in any direc-
ton he is a difficult creature to head
off.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-18

Mrs. w. C. Gilbreath has brought q
grave charge against her husband, the
commissioner of agriculture and labor
That is the charge is grave from a
literary standpoint The good lady &C.
cuses her husband Of plagiarism. She
says the railroad story he perpetrated
on the public through the Tribune
had its foundation in Josiah Aliens
Wife," Superintendent Gilbreath does
not deny the allegation, but insists
that his story was a great improve.
ment over the original.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-18

One of the neatest and most valuable
premiums which will be offered at the
North Dakota Industrial Exposition is
that given by the Stone Music Com
pany of Fargo-a magnificent Busch
& Gerts piano valued at $3.50. The merits
of the Busch & Gerts piano are well
known and comment thereon is unnec-
essary.
This piano will be given away in a
musical contest which will be conducted
during the Exposition. The conditions
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-18
MUSICAL CONTEST FOR PIANO .... =.
AT INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION
Stone Music Company Of Fargo Gives $3.50
-: Busch & Gerts Piano Free

of the contest have not been drafted
as yet, but will be announced in the next
issue of the Bulletin as well as in the
premium list which will be published
shortly.
The Stone Company decided that the
best was none too good for the North
Dakota Exposition, and this valuable
gift is evidence of the good faith and
confidence of the Stone Company in
the practicability and success OF the COM
ing Exposition.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-18

There is a possibility that Arizona
and New Mexico will get into the
Union after all under a modified bill
to suit the president. The feature
most Objectionable to the president in
the Arizona constitution has been
eliminated-the provision for the re-
call of judges. Advices from the ma.
tional capital indicate that the amend
ed bill will become law. After once
in Arizona can amend her constitution
to suit her people.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-18
nEMRER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
49,! 80
ONE STYLE OF JOURNALISM

Pat Byrne secretary to the governor
calls attention to an article In the
Chicago Record Herald in which some
WORTHY signing himself Frank Steph-
ems, of Stanton N. D., perpetrates the
following fabrication:
1.-The following paragraphs, taken
from a recent issue of the Mercer
County Mirror, show the holiness
with which the pilots of the north
western rural press sail into the sea
of local happenings, and their skill
in steering clear of libel rocks:
while at New Salem last week we
met, at Holden's Cafe that we'll bred
young farmer, James Castor, from the
north fork of the Knife. Although for
surliness and taciturnity. Jimmie ordi-
narily takes the cake, we were sur.
prised to see him on this occasion
decidedly in spirits. His cup of joy
appeared to be fairly bubbling over,
happiest man you ever saw, sir. We
were unable to- account for the re-
markable change, until We had learn
ed that he had brought his wife down,
to take the train for Bismarck where
she will spend a couple of weeks with
her mother. We will not 60 so far
as to say that we envied the farmer,
but being ourselves a married man We
sought no further for the change OF
his demeanor.
This community was startled Mon.
day morning by the announcement
that the wife of "Dissolute Dick"
Dinsmore had presented her lord with
triplets-all girls. We learn that the
unfortunate father, who already had
nine girls-and little else-insists up
on calling the diminutive trio, dis.
appointment" Disaster" and dis
pair" respectively, these having been
his sole successive remarks, as they
were handed to him one by one.
for his Mortified inspection. Though
we have little use for men of the Dins-
more stripe, still, being ourse4 a
father, in a small way, we are able
in some degree to sympathize with
Dick. in his deluge of juvenile femin-
Unity.
I'VE have just learned with some
surprise that the wife and daughter
of Daniel Hutsman left on Tuesday
for an extended trip to Minneapolis,
and points further east. While we
do not wish to appear unduly censor
ious, not to have our remarks consid-
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-18
RAILROADS AND PROGRESS

Whatever may be our individual
views concerning government, state or
municipal ownership of public utili-
ties;' however much out Of plumb we
may consider our present economic
fabric to be; and little as we may be
in sympathy with the methods adopted
by some of our great corporations; yet
no one possessed of the faintest sense
of justice, and generous. enough to
concede credit where credit is due, will
deny that the most important single
factor in the material development of
our country, and especially of the
western portion. of it, is that much
abused corporate organization - the
railroad.
Nowhere is the truth of this con-
clusion more apparent than in our own
state of North Dakota, and it is no
exaggeration to assert that, but for the
activity and broad-gauged policies
which from the beginning, have guided
the great systems that traverse our
state, North Dakota would still be in
the very earliest stages of her develop
ment and her vast tracts of arabic land
be useless and unproductive wastes.
1t was with the crossing of the Red
river on July 4, 1871, by the Northern
Pacific railroad, that the real growth of
North Dakota may be said to have
commenced. True this was only part
of the great scheme of conquest and
colonization conceived by the guiding
spirits of that corporation, and which
proposed to unite the east and west by
a railroad line from Lake Superior to
Puget Sound over the Northern Route,
the consummation of which necessi-
tated crossing our wide stretches of
fertile prairie. Not for one moment,
however, did the shrewd management
of the company overlook the agri-
cultural richness of the country through
which their line was being built, and
from that day to Represent moment
everything that the fertile brain of man,
aided by the organization and resources
of powerful corporation, could de-
wise, has been done by the railway in
question to forward the interests of our
state and secure for it wider recogni-
ton among her sister commonwealth
and throughout the world at large.
Other railways have come into the
state since those days, and, by their
enterprise and energy, contributed
largely to the prosperous permanency of
settlement which has been established,
but to the Northern Pacific railroad
and its gallant coterie of brainy men
must be conceded the honor due the
pioneer and leader in an enterprise
which involved the tanning of wilder
ness, and a stubborn conflict with
natural difficulties and with unfair
prejudice on the part of those who
should have been the first to give their
support to so glorious an undertaking.
The history of North Dakota's de-
velopment is practically the history of
every state in the Union wherein the
problem of transportation has been a
prominent factor in the public welfare ;
and what state is there that is not so
situated?
Everywhene, hand in hand with COM
mercial enterprise and undertakings
having for their object the development
of natural resources, will always be
found the railroad, seeking an op-
'portunity to increase its freightage, Or,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-18

: by timely initiative to induce the COM
mencement Of settlement which will
ultimately bring profit to all the
parties concerned. The railroad is not
only the EYE but also the advance
guard, and often the brain of COM
merce; in one place discovering field
for endeavor, opening it for the uses
of trade and barter and securing its
colonization; ins another developing
latent resources 2and encouraging a
tardy growth, often supplying the
capital needed to finance some new en-
terprise.
The president of an active road and
none can hope for success without
ceaseless and aggressive activity-must
possess the skill of a general, executive
ability of the highest order, magma
ton, forethought, and, in addition, be
well posted upon the worlds financial
affairs so as to be assured that means
will be available in carrying out his
plans for the roads advancement and
maintenance. 1t is necessary for him to
watch closely the operations of rival
systems, in order to prevent the Sue
cessful invasion of his exclusive ter
ritory, and he must be ready to seize
opportunities which may offer for the
profitable extension of his own system.
Often these many responsibilities call
for exceptional physical and mental
qualities; it is sometimes necessary to
undertake difficult and even dangerous
journeys, over sparsely settled and lit
tie known tracts of country, in search
of new tributary territory, easier
grades or shorter routes, all of which
requires the exercise of great physical
endurance as we'll as the rarer quality
of exact and discriminating judy
ment The popular conception of a
railway president as one who revels in
the luxuries of private cars, sumptuous-
ly furnished offices, and obsequious At
tentions from the thousands whose des
TIMES he presides over, is only true in a
very limited sense. He is himself the
hard worked servant Of the system, up
on whom all the vast responsibilities of
the various departments are conferred.
The private car means to him a few
hours, or sometimes only a few min
utes, snatched from the interminable
round of inspection, supervision and
direction, in which to catch up with a
mass of belated correspondence or per-
haps to study out some problem which
calls for immediate solution before the
next stop. The sumptuous office re-
solves itself into mere cog in perhaps
the most practically unitarian piece of
machinery in existence for the ef-
ficient management of vast and compli-
Gated interests, arranged, not for dis
play, but for the prompt dispatch Of a
tremendous daily routine. The army
Of employees adds to these other re-
sponsibilities that intimate personal as
ISOLATION the control of which means
either the creation Of an admirable
esprit de corps and Organized cohesion
Of the whole system, which imparts to
it the force of well drilled and well
generalled army, or, per contra, pos-
sible laxity and ineffciency which may
mean loss to the corporation and til
thousands of stockholders and millions
# clients; for either of which eoodi-
" ne president is held responsible
The railroad is but a development Of
the strenuous times in which we live.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-18

Our government finds it necessary
to place patrol of soldiers along the
Mexican border in lower California to
protect life and property. The bandits
of that country and the soldiers of
fortune of our own seem to have con-
tractsd the fighting habit and it is
hard to break it.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-18
Her Compliment.

4 popular English comedian and mu-
&c hall singer. asked what his funniest
experience was. said: Zone time l
drove up to the theater In Dublin and
Wis humming a tune when got out.
An old Irishwoman who had failed to
ret In the theater heard me and said.
'Begorra, II that Il how he sings l am
glad I didn't 20 in "-London Mail.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-18

The fact that Pennsylvania mob
took a negro charged with murder
away from the officers and burned
him is pretty good evidence that the
mob spirit is not confined to any par
ticular state.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-18
1.-THE VANISHED PRAIRIES"
By H. 6. Donovan, Chicago, III.

For months across the Western plain
Ger gulleys deep and mountains TALL
Bold Fremont, he of Drawn and brain,
Went forth to answer n,ankind's call.
He reaped adventure for his pay,
As through the wilderness he went,
And saw the wonders day by day,
As Westward no his footsteps bent
A widespread stretch of prairie land,
Met his keen eye on every side,
Unbroken by the toll of man.
From Niagara to Pacifcs tide. q
Watered by rivers, lakes and rills,
0 virgin soil it was the best.
With level plains and rolling hills,
This unclaimed Empire of the West.
Today different view is seen.
BY travellers through this self-sarne land,
For though the landscape still is green:
Wild prairie grass no longer stands,
In place is seen great fields of wheat, g.
Broad fields of oats and native corn
What made the prairie grass retreat?s
What magic here was Matched and born?
Go ask the merchant on the street.
Go ask the farmer in the field,
And each and all you chance to meet,
Will tell you of the soils rich yield.
They will tell you how the task was done,
And from what they say you will agree.
That the finest land beneath the SUM-
Is the one whose initials read NJ
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-18

HAVE YOU THOUGHT
OF buying a rug? The sale of 9x12
rugs at Webb Brothers will convince
you that now is the time.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-18

No attention paid to anonymous con-
tributions. Writer'S name must be KnoWn
to the editor. but not necessarily AoF
publication.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-14

having renUeu my IdTIu anu All SOihS
into the livery business in Audubon, |
will sell at public sale at my farm 3
mileslnorth. east of Hamlin and 5 miles
south east of Audubon, on
TUESDAY DECEMBER 10
Commencing at 10 o'clock sharp, the
following described property. to.wit:
80 Head of live stock. 8 Head OF
horses, consisting of one mare 8 yrs.
old, weight 400, in foal one gray mare
IL years old, in foal; one bay mare IL
years old, weight 1000; one brown mare
years old, weight 1100 one gray horse
years old; one bay gelding two years
old; two black colts one year old; 81
Head of cattle consisting of II head of
cows, 9 fresh now and others fresh in
spring. two heifers 2 years old, fresh
in spring; three steers, year old; four
spring calves. two steers and two heif
ers; one Hereford bull, l year old in
spring. 81 Head of hogs, consisting of
brood sows and 30 barrows; one pedi-
greed Poland China boar. Farm ma
chinery, etc, consisting of one DeLaval
cream separator. disc new last spring,
Deering mower, Gretchen corn plant
er with 80 rods of wire, hay rake, one
2 section borrow, 1 Mccormick binder,
riding pillow, Canton corn pillow,
wagon with rack, 1 Weber wagon, near
ly new, set work harness, and numer-
Gus other articles. Some chickens, some
straw in barn and some fodder.
Free lunch will be served at noon.
Terms of Sale:-12 months time will
be given on notes with approved secur-
ity with interest at per cent if paid
when due, otherwise per cent from
date. Per cent Of for cash on all
sums over $40.
T. H. SWEEZEY,
Col. Il. N. Carper, Auctioneer.
j. w. MCGUIRE, Clerk.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-14
District Court In Session.

The Audubon County District Court
convened Tuesday morning with Judge
o. ID. Wheeler, presiding. The past
few days the usual routine of business
has been disposed Of The grand jury
has adjourned without finding any in
dictments.
Yesterday Sophia Bertelsen secured Q
divorce from her husband, S. p. Ber-
telsen.
The petit jurors are summoned to APP
pear this morning at ten o. clock at which
time it is expected the case of the State
of Iowa VS. Mrs. Alma Anderson will be
commenced. Mrs. Anderson is held on
a charge of murder, she having shot
and killed her step-son, Victor Anderson
at their home on OF about Sept. 1, 1911.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-14

Mrs. Grant Kness drove to Ross,
Friday to see her niece, Miss Mabel
McNutt who was injured in recent
runaway.
1t is said that another store in Ham
lin is certainty. This will sure put a
razor edge on competition.
Congress has reached the limit. They
are now investigating ADMINISTRATIONS.
The Sizer boys shelled corn fo- Q.
w. Endy, Friday, December 8.
Sad Sally sang solemn solo for
silent Sam. Sam sobbed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-14

on township ........ ............-.-.$ 9 90
F. w. Ridgway, trustee Greeley
township ---.-........... b w
Shelby county, Iowa, one-half
cost bridge work east line
County -..........- ...-..-........- 70
C. H. Sampson, trustee Leroy
township, cash railroad ticket
Tennegkeit, Aberdeen, South
Dakota .............. ................ Sc. 10 35
Guthrie county, Iowa, one-half
cost Culvert on county line
Bear Grove township .....:.......... s 90
National Office Supply Co., sup
plies, auditor $4.55, clerk 80 Is
Walter Hensley, clerk Greeley
township -..-............ .-..........- W
Smith q Hilgesen, material and
plumbing, county Jail .............. 40 IS
c. ID. Forsbeck, maps for court
house offices .............. .............. 10 90
George l. Jorgensen, clerk Shar-
on township ..-......-..... -........-.-.- w
j. Il. Griffith, disinfectants for
Larland school. .......... ! 35
Audubon County Telephone Co.,
calls by county officers, April
4, 1911, to November Z, 1911. 16 20
Guthrie county, Iowa, one-half
cost road work west line
county, removing bridges, etc. 70 rs
On motion board adjourned to meet
at one o'clock p. m
One o'clock p. m. board met pursu-
ant to adjournment. Members pres
ent, G. M. Ross, chairman, Samuel Nc
Gaffin, K. F. Johnson.
On motion claims were allowed as
follows:
F. w. Smith, antitoxine for Jas.
Carper family ..........................$13 so
On motion board adjourned.
G. M. ROSS,
Chairman Board of Supervisors.
OTTO WHITAKER,
County Auditor.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-14

in Iowa was born and lives today in
Lincoln township, it is Chas McLaugh-
lin and it only takes him something like
20 seconds to dash the above mentioned
distance. At present he is member
of the Manning fire department, which
defeated West Liberty last summer at
the state tournament in Des Moines
and thereby won the championship of
Iowa.
The revival meetings held at Pleasant
Valley have been drawing large crowds;
but to date have secured no converts.
Rev. Lewis preached but two nights
and was dismissed and Mrs. Stark, the
lady evangelist is now delivering the
gospel and is doing most excellent work
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-12-14
OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS

AUDITORS office, Audubon, Iowa,
November 9th, 1911.
(Adjourned November SESSION.
Board of Supervisors met pursuant
to adjournment of November 18TH
Members present, G. M. Ross, chair
man, Samuel McGaffin, E. F. Johnson.
Minutes of vacation read and approx
ed.
On motion bond of Ed ]. Lewis as
assessor of Oakfield township was ap-
proved.
On motion the following claims were
allowed:
Chris Christensen, trustee Shar-