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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-29

venture was kindled into little blaZes
and for d few days this Queen OF the
Missouri held the reins Of a greater
stampede than The Klondike gold
strike OF almost two decades ago
caused throughout America, People
proclaimed Ryder Americas greatest
oil city, Oil companies were organ
lied by the dozen, drilling machines
arrived from all directions and start
ed to work, and engineers reported
that the Ryder we'll produced an oil
that was almost refined. Engineer
Weeks, a wei. known eastern oil eX>
ward signs, or surface indications OF
oil, but that the oil found was the
very best. This with othert like re-
ports to the effect that it was only
a pocket, caused the bottom to fall
out Of Ryder's oil scare. The Great
Northern Oil company, the only n
that found oil, failed before it vas
six months old, and the discovery OF
oil at Ryder became a myth. The
original we'll was dug by a butcher,
and he discovered that the water was
too oily to drink. This caused an
investigation and it was found that
the water would burn in lamps and
give out a fair light.
Oil Resources.
Whether this, with the other oil re
sources of the state, will be developed
into a profitable industry is yet to be
seen.
Ryder has today more of the char
acteristics of a city than any other.
commonwealth of its size in the
north state. Here noe fins the max,
ing of a city always before your eyes.
It is engrave on the very faces of the
people OF this home Of business. They
are broad, Industrious men of the
world, who enjoy the pleasures of life
and aim to make their surroundings
as restful and peaceful and modern
as money can make them.
Here are a few of Ryder's improve
ments and pleasures.
500 "Made Good"
The 500 Railroad company, os the
Tri-State Realty company, as the
townsite and promoting department
Of this transcontinental system is
called, true to its reputation, made
good with Ryder. When the lots of
the townsite were marked out and
listed, the promoter made it known
that all money received from the sale
of lots at the auction, over the list
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-29

price, would go to the improvement
fof a first class park in the center Of
the business district of the new city.
After the big auction of lots, it was
found that there were thirty-six huns
dred dollars in the park fund. The
park today is a beauty spot. Hun
dreds Of fast growing Box Elders are
beginning to make it a cool, shady
spot on a warm, summer afternoon.
The lawns are beautifully decorated
with neatly arranged flower beds and
winding walks of fWell-packed gravel
zigzag backward and forward among
stroll throgh. It's dainty or enness
after a busy day with those prosper
GUS men of Ryder. The outer lawn
of the park is enclosed by a white
rail fence, which sets it off distinc-
lively, and making the park a sepa-
rate part of the world, where you for
get the strif of business that sur
rounds it on all sides. Ryder has in
this place of enjoyment one of the
most beautiful spots of this nature
to be found in the state, and the peo-
PIE VI llllS ClIy SlOulO NC pIOuu VI
the men that enabled the railroad
company to donate SO much to the
maintenance Of such ap ark.
Its School Buildings.
One of the first buildings that We
were able to make out clearly upon
our approach to Ryder from the east,
was a tall, square, massive, brick
structure, with its dome Of knowledge
towering above its three, many-Win,
dowed stories. This building lays al
little to the north of the Park de Ry-
der. in a little depression, and we
soon discovered that it was Ryder's
public school building. Ryder boasts
of one of the best schools Of its cal
iber to be found on the slope, and we
can say that it has n of the best
equipped school play grounds thatswe
have vet encountered in our overland
tour. The courses of study offered
in the school consists Of the required
eight years of common school work,
including complete musical course,
and elementary agricultural work, as
well as a very complete, and we'll
developed course in physical train
ing. The latter course is something
that all schools need and very few
have yet added to their required
work. The. body needs development,
Just as bad as the brain.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-29
Rx Il. G. hynes.

Minot tn pioneer days was the
starting point for "a number of Star
mail routes into the south country
that broad, bleak and unbroken en-
pansion of wilderness, that lay be
tween this railroad city and the mud.
ny Missouri some seventy miles to
the southwest. One of the best known
of those routes was drove by the
south country stage. MI. Freden, tie
operator of this historical route, was
gTCuchy on a certain, ~blizzardiy day
in early December. He had ploWGd
through the drifting snow all day
and had reached the Gate City of the
north to find that he was destined to
make the return trip in worse wealth
ed and unaccompanied. He had re-
ceived also a letter from the postal
department rejecting the names he
had suggested for the new p~ostoflce
to be established at his south country
headquarters. In one Of this roaring
city's clothing stores, he told his
troubles to the stove lovers gathered
there. Mr.. James Ryder, manager
Of this fancy, gents toggery, in a
Joking mood, said. Gall it Ryder
after a good man. Freden put down
Ryder. Little did he realize that he
hos chosen the name for n of North
Dakota's most prosperous towns.
U~nreaIized Opportunities.
Mr.. James Ryder knew little of the
opportunities of the south country,
as he was not a settler of this sec
ton of the state, and moved to Cal.
ifornia shortly after the 500 railroad
opened this wonderful land to civil.
iZatiOn.
Prior to the coming of the glisten>
ing steelway, the postoffice of Ryder
was four miles south of the present
Ryder, which is located on the Max
Plaza branch of the 500 system. This
old Ryder was a picturiOus inland
western p%ostotice, and stopping
houses where the weary freighter
played poker with the landlord while
his tired horses rested during the
silent night, where the chapel cattle
men gathered when the stage came
in with the mail, and where the easy
going pnncher came for his tobacco.
This picturious gathering place OF
pioneer days has vanished, and like
hundreds of other inland trading
posts, it's history, like their history
has faded with those bold, reckless
characters who laughed, fought and
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-29

died within its walls, and on the lloOf
worn sod before its doors.
Coming Of the 500.
. Future generations will trace the
beginning of Ryder to the coming OF
the 500 railroad in 1906, and will look
upon the tales of Old Ryder with the
same eyes as we look upon those on.
accounts that make up the Indians
past.
Over a great western world, day
broke with it's glorious %splendor, to
find a new world in motion. To tino
on that beautiful morning in 1906,
a busy little tent city, where a fiat
field was the day before. This white
city marks the beginning Of this
queen city of the Missouri slope. The
day before, over $4,000 worth of lots
were auctioned to wide-awake men.
The 500 had gave the city a thirty-six
hundred dollar park fund, and the
building Of the new town had begun.
Ryder held its place on the map Of
this great state of opportunities.
A Wonderful! Record.
At the close of the first year OF
business, the citizens Of Ryder, then
a prospecting village of over four hun
dred inhabitants, were astonished
with their record. 1t was wonderful.
Thousands of dollars worth Of bust
ness had been transacted. and it had
a representative of almost OF every
line of business and a master of al
most every trade were located with
in its limits. Ryder was declared a
success.
Ryder from the close of the first
year until today, has undergone a sta
bic growth. There has been no wave.
like boom. No uneven rushes, and
Stacks, but one continuous day Of
prosperity topped off by still a great.
er day the next tWenty-four hours.
Prosperous Town.
Ryder is by far one Of the most
prosperous cities on the lines tribu-
tary to the Bismarck-Minot branch
of the 500 system. It's future can,
not be overestimated.
This queen city of the slope, was
destined to be for a few days during
The summer of 1909, n Of North
Americas greater g%oldfields. For a.
few weeks, an electric wave of al,
most unsubduable excitmenet crept
over the country, and Ryder was on
hundreds of thousands of lips. In the
hearts Of many, little sparks Of ad-
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-29

store in Makoti, North Dakota, the
town that is as good as It's lame.
Key to Success Economy.
A we'll known professor OF ecOno
my OF one of our eastern colleges,
in a class room one day, remarked
The key to prosperity in and agri.
cultural community is to be found IN
the soil, and the man that works the
land is the man that is more apt to
find it." The people Of the territory
tributary to Ryder are we'll supplied
with dealers in agricultural imple.
ments, and the farmers surrounding
this prosperous exchange a obtain
all the tools that are required to
work the soil, and should be able to
find the key to prosperity. The ele-
vators Of Ryder will tell you Of their
along this line.
There are four dealers OF farm ma
chinery and hardware in this queen
city Of the Missouri slope.
The Peterson Firm.
The Peterson Machine and Hard
ware company was established during
the maiden year Of Ryder. Ever
since the first day Of operation this
home Of high grade agricultural i'm
plements has suppl d the people Of
the vast territory surrounding 1t OF
all sides with the very best tools that
money can buy. The Peterson store
guarantees every piece Of goods, and
the guarantee is not a mere state,
ment, but the word of a man that
stands back of all he says. Herein
lies Mr.. Peterson's motto that spells
success
Among the pioneers of Ryder is
counted George Kruger, and like the
other busy men that have made this
town what it is today, he has shread
a great deal of sweat in the building
up of his present paying business.
His line of agricultural Implements
has long been considered the most
successful to be found in the whole
southern half of Ward county, and
the future Of this firm cannot be
nothing but the fulfillment of Mr..
krueger's biggest dream.
Sweet for Hardware.
Il. l.. Sweet and x. c. Sweet, part
n the firm of the Sweet Hard
company, dalers in all kinds
of shelf and heavy hardware, are
two of the Invest boosters to be found
in this section of North Dakota.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-29

! E- -ar|-. #sSslFe"H .F.'.- tf-#H .fafaH.HL IHf Hmr.H.r-..
to make Ryder just a little better
every day they labor within it's I'm
it's, and to help Mr.. Fredeen to send
out his daily booster OF the queen
city of the Missouri slope,
Department Stores.
There are two first class depart
ment stores in this city Of the slope.
Here they are:
When a gentleman lands in a white
pine board shack, lacks owe its door
a sign with the words. general mer,
chant, boldly painted upon it's rough
surface by ambitious free hand art
lists, and there builds the foundation
for a huge retail business, he is a
merchant that is an honor to any city.
How many of those wOlld-be-million-
aire merchants fail, during thos
first few years of tbiling and trials?
Who can they trust? All are strang-
ers and are striving under the cruel
rule of pioneer. ways. He knows that
twenty per cent of the settlers are
Adventures and are there to make
a cleaning and beat it. He knows,
and they know, that they can get the
land for about two hundred II fifty
dollars and that the required i'm
provements can be made for another
two hundred dollars, and they can
earn their living and perhaps four
hundred more during the fourteen
months they are required to send on
their land. They are also aware OF
the fact that there is a land and
loan company waiting in the city for
just such men as them to give then
a thousand or twelve hundred dollars
for their little piece Of unimproved
land. There is any way fifteen hun.
dred dollars for fourteen months
work. The merchant knows that
there is bound to be one out of every
four of those seasoned men and
young fellows figuring it just that
way. Who are they, is the question.
Upon the solving of this problem lies
his success. Ole Olness is one of the
men Of Ryder that answered that
question correctly, and today he. has an
unlimited number of friends that will
always be boosters of this first class
store, because it and it's wide awake
proprietor stood by them when
things looked pretty black. The o.
ness store is known all over this sec
ton of Ward county as the home OF
goods of quality.
Worth Meeting.
o. J. Bye, general merchant, and
the pioneer storekeeper of Ryder, is
a man worth meeting, if you have
to go around the world a half dozen
times to find him. He is a booster
and a booster is always a pleasant
mar to meet. He is a man that
cheers you on and shows to you that
you are in the garden of opportuni-
ties when you are in his town. There
is no place like it, and he wants ey-
erybody to believe it. You must
make yourself konw that your prop
osition is the pest that there is on
;Mohtre Earth, to make a success OF
it. The world needs millions Of men
like Mr.. Bye. His business and the
appearance of his store in Ryder 60
to prove his success as a merchant.
You can find the very best on the
shelves of his store, and nothing but
the market leader has a place there.
o. j. Bye also operates q first class
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-29

q banker WouldsDesagriculturist, to 4
striving real toiler Of the soil, which
he can call his own in this great
state Of developing opportunities.
North Dakota is the land Of the new
independence.
Land Agency.
]. II. Billion Land Agency OF Ryder
can show you thousands of acres Of
choice lands in Ward, Mclean, Noun
trail counties within reach of pres
ent railroads or along proposed or
building lines. Some Of these farms
are developed. other are partly, while
more Of it is the great sleeping
prairie as the first white man found
it half a century ago. Write u. II.
Billion, manager of this firm, and he
will tell you why North Dakota Is the
place and why the Missouri slope
country is the best location. NJ. q.
Billion, H.C. tAlcox and H.. H. Rud
are the travelling representatives OF
this firm.
Ryder and Ryder country, the town
with a future and the land Of pros.
perity, has been heralded far and
wide over this broad land as the
home Of health and happiness, by
John S. Johnson, the real estate man.
Mr.. Johnson is a pioneer Of this
south country and knowsw. hat It viii
do. He has proven to hundreds OF
other people who will prove to you
today thai there is no pace equal to
the famous Ryder country. Give
Johnson a chance and he viii make
the best investment in the world
for you.
Taking Care Of the AourSs.
You should take as muck care Of
how your horse is shod % YOU do
when you buy yourself 4 new pair
Of oxfords. The horse can BE kept
ten to twenty-five per cent cheaper
when the shoeing is done right, than
when it is done poorly. RYDER 10
very fortunate in hasing black
smith Of unusual ability In its faidst.
w. F. Maloney is the man. Letshim
do your work.
If it is anything in the harness or
saddle line, just run over to q. w.
Meyers, Ryder's up-toltAeananuto
in everything for the horse.
This steeds' toggery Is q Ane place
and all dressy horses get their wares
from Meyer. Meyers Is the ntIee.
Drive right into Peters0AssSS arn.
and make yourself ~ home, when
Continued On f1eo
~ ts NANh AMAINE tWNAM M4
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-29
Scene Of the Town.

scene OF Tie WI
section Of North Dakota aruodn Ry-
der. and for Ryder, than any other
person will do for the next hundred
years. His hotel sends a booster away
every day and a booster is the cheap
est and most effective method of adj
yertising employed in America to-
day. Where do you Sunday when on
the 500 between Minot and Bis
marck? At Ryder, of course, that is
where we all do.
The Boy Scouts.
There is an organization in this
queen city of the slope, that perhaps
some of the residents Of this indus
trious commonwealth do not know
exists. 1t is not a large union, or a
powerful society, but an organization
that is working for the betterment
Of the coming generation. For the
Improvement of those bare-footed
youths that chat and trot along the
pavements and play baseball in the
level pasture, and this is the Boy
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-29
The Ryder Banks.

With deposits over one hundred
and fifty thousand, and OF
owe two hundred thousand, the banks
of Ryder prosper. The First Nation
al bank, an institution of established
stability, has served the people OF
Ryder since 1908. Prior to that date
for two years, it was known of The
Bank OF Ryder. C. Fl. Oh~ristianson
is cashier of this banking house, and
reports prospects for a bumper crop
never better than they are at present,
Established April %, 1906, with a
capital of $4,000, and operating IN.
der the name of the First State bank,
Ryder has a board of financial institu-
tons of expanding merits, which has
contributed energy and money to the
development of this section Of Ward
county. j.. S. Tucker is president;
Aleck Haraldson, vice president;
and H. G. Miller, cashier, Of this pop
ular bank. They are all men who aim
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-29
High School Work,

- #.
The upper floor of this building is
given over to high school work en-
tircly and the required four-year
courses are offered to the students.
They have the right to choose be.
tween two lines of study, an agrl-
cultural course, and a general high
school course. Ryder has always
been very fortunate in securing teach
ers who aim to educate the children.
not merely to earn their salaries, and
Mr.. Dickinson, president Of the schoo!
board, has done everything in his
power to make Ryder's school just
as good If not a little better than any
other school of its class on the slope.
Here is n of the advantages that
Ryder has to offer all new corners to
its territory.
Fire Department.
Whether the fire department of
Ryder gave the exhibit which we Wit
ness in honor of the O%verlanders or
whether it was their weekly out OF
door practice. we have not been able
to find out, but nevertheless it in
pressed us very forcible. We were
enjoying the easy chairs in the lobby
of the Hotel Fredeen after a fine sup
per when the town was set in mo-
ton by the ringing of the fire alarm.
With the other guests of the hotel,
we rushed across the park to the fire
hall, where the, two hose companies
we're busy laying two lines OF hose
towards the school house, a distance
Of perhaps three blocks. The engine,
a powerful, movable, gas pumping
machine, was already in operation
and in q remarkably short time this
well organized department had two
streams Of high pressure water play
ing over the dome Of the school build
ing, and a hook-and-ladder company
wore scaling the roof in three places.
Ryder hasseneanf the hest equipped
fire departments OF any city its size
in the state.
Easy Access 70 All.
The fire hall is located in the cen,
ter OF the city and this progressive
department. has %purchasedd enough
hose to reach every part OF the city
with two streams of water. Under
the fire hall, in which the engine is
located, is a cistern with a capacity
Of Twenty-Five thousand gallons and
the pumping apparatus which has
been installed is able to pump this
dry in three hours. Ryder can boast
of it's fire protection.
The Best Hotel.
Any commercial traveller will tell
you tnat the best hotel between Mi
not and Bismarck is located at Ryder.
They say that it is a hotel like sey-
cral other leading hotels Of the state,
that belongs to tomorrow. But those
travellers that make such declaration
do not reside in the west, they are
from the granny east, and do not
understand western opportunities or
the men that play those opportunities
and make good. Ed Z. Fredeen, prop
rietor of this Ryder hotel, has been
in North Dakota thirty years, and
You cannot tell him anything about
North Dakota. When he invested
twenty-five thousand dollars in the
Hotel Fredeen, he did more for that
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-01-04
STORM NEATHERED
BY WARSH|PS'
SEVERAL HOURS PUT IN BY eAT.
TLEsHiPS FIGHTING OFF
WAVES OF ATLANTIC. 3

Norfolk, Va, Jan. 3.-Seven battle
ships, after several hours struggle
with the storm, arrived in Hampton
Roads today. They We're the Utah,
Ohio, Virginia, Georgia, Nebraska,
Minnesota and Idaho. Waves were
beating over the ships as they passed
Cape Henry, and the wind here at
tanned velocity of 60 miles an hour.
The old frigate jamestown was
burned to the waters edge. The
jamestown was blown away from her
moorings near the Norfolk navy yard,
and when well off shore was seen To
be on fire.
The wireless station at Beaufort, N.
c., was put out of commission by the
storm, while the lightship at Diamond
shoals was blown three miles away
from her station. The ship sent out
IS. o. S." calls by wireless, but man.
aged to save herself without assist
ance. 4
Unconfirmed reports say several
torpedo boats on the way to Norfolk
are caugh in the storm. and that sew
eral battleships have been ordered to
search for them.
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-01-04
TAFT GIVES UP BATTLE
FOR COLONEL COCKTAILS

Washington, Jan. 3.-President Taft
today definitely told Senator Brande-
gee of CONNECTICUT, chairman of the
interoceanic canal committee, that he
would not send to the senate the nomi-
nation of Colonel George w. Gcrthals
as civil governor of the Panama canal
zone, because of the opposition by
democratic senators to his appoints
ment.
Senator Brandegee, after a personal
investigation among democratic sena-
tors, told the president 1t seemed inn
possible to have the proposed nomi-
ration confirmed. Some democrats he
said, made the statements that at the
time the Panama act was passed Civ
ing the president authority to appoint
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-01-04
mania's demand and the dispute
reached a crisis.

ASeSicd d SllSIS.
1t is understood that all the powers
are trying to persuade Roumania to
consent to postpone a settlement of
her dispute with Bulgaria, but mean
time it is feared Turkey hopes to
benefit by Roumania's action, and will
not agree to any peace terms.
The reports that Roumania is mobil-
izing her army We're characterized by
the Roumanian minister of the in
terror, M. Jonescu, who arrived in
London last night, as nonsense
'Once mobilization has been an
nounced officially" the minister added,
1T will mean that Roumania has de-
cided to go to war Immediately. We
never will employ mobilization as a
bluff or threat. 1t is true that lat
terly our army has taken steps de-
manded by prudence, but that is by
no means mobilization
I Concerning Roumania's attitude to-
ward the Balkan war, NJ. Jonescu said:
Until now he have been neutral.
We have made many sacrifices to
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-01-04
PORTUGUESE MAN|ACS
RUN AMUCK AND KILL

Elvas. Portugal. Jan, 3.-One person
was killed and nine others seriously
injured this morning by a group of
five maniacs who had been released
by firemen from an asylum for the In
sane in the outskirts of this city
which had caught fire Altogether 35
rushed bowling through the streets for
some time. Thirty of them, however.
We're easily captured and confined In
the municipal building. but the other
five took some iron rods from scrap
heap and attacked everyone they met.
Several hour passed before they were
oYerpoWered.
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-01-04

a civil government and establish a new
administration, there was an UNDER
standing that no immediate changes
would be made by the republican ad-
ministration.
The president told Senator Brande-
gee that he knew of no such under
standing, but he would not allow Colo,
mel Goethals to become involved in q
political controversy. 1t Is probable
that Mr.. Wilson will be confronted
with the task of forming the new zone
government and settling many big
problems of it's administration,