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The Washburn leader., 1914-09-04

A man who has been doing
considerable driving over the
state this summer says he never
before the roads in such a
condition as they are in some
localities. He said if Belgium
had roads like ours the Germans
would not use their country for
war as the soldiers could not
march over the roads. He told
of one place where road had
been beautifully rounded off and
improved last year. The work
had been done so we'll that no
one had dared use it and new
road had been made around 1T.
This year the weeds and wild
flowers covered it and he did not
know when he had seen any
thing more fitting to the memory
Of good roads than this long,
weeded, flowered and untouched
mound.
The Washburn leader., 1914-09-04
PROFESSIONAL PROPS

Editor Hyde of the Valley
City Times-Record has just re-
turned from three weeks trip
to the coast. There is a rumor
CT his leaving Valley City.
Business Manager Crockard Of
Jim, jam, Jems, was here Thurs
day morning on the special. He
only had time to make him
self known as the special was
limited.
Wellington Irish has not for
gotten how to toot hi- own horn
even if he has quit the profess
sion. He was here Thursday
morning on the Bismarck Boost
ers Excursion and played in the
band.
w. w. Tousley of Bismarck,
former state expert printer, was
here Monday in the interest of
a Fargo paper house. He made
this office a pleasant call and in
the absence Of the job man, who
was enjoying a vacation, gave
us few instructions on rule
work. He was not afraid to
get his hands blackened and
had not forgotten how to lock
up "a job. We appreciated his as
nstance.
Honor has been thrust upon us.
Those who attended the meeting
Of the McLean editors and print
ers at Garrison last week elected
the manage Of the Leader as
president Of the new organiza-
ton. We regretted very much
that the Leader could not be
represented at the meeting but
rush of business and scarcity of
help were good excuses to stay
at home. However We thank
those who elected us to this po-
sition Of honor and will try to
make the association grow and
be a benefit to the county and
state. 1t is the small county
press organizations that make
the state editorial associations
successful.
The Washburn leader., 1914-09-04
the petitions to be filed.

the petitions to be filed.
1t would have been the proper
thing to call delegate conven-
ticn some time ago and let the
majority decide where the boun-
Diary lines should be, drawn. Then
there would be no i'll feeling and
it would have been better for
all sides. The county seat de-
cison could be left to the voters
Of the new proposed county.
The county is large enough to
make two good counties if divid-
ed equally and on straight lines.
1t was very surprising to read
in the Forum about the Garri-
son people jumping in with Mel
son to get his proposition sign
ed up in one day and rushed to
the county seat to be filed before
the board. of county commission
ers. They ought to know that
every tax payer in the county is
interested in division and that
the expenses were so high in
the Garrison county division in
1908 that they will all watch it
very closely this time. There will
be. no such thing now as tell
ing the people that if they do
not vote it will be a vote against.
When the voter goes to the poll
to cast his ballot he, will vote
for one of the two propositions,
the one that is the fairest, the
one that will give the best sat
isfaction to the majority Of the
people.
The Washburn leader., 1914-09-04

j. E. Nelson did not attend
the meeting Monday evening at
Mr.. Haugeberg's office, but from
the actions Of the gentleman it
seems that people would be
lead to believe that he is the
whole thing and that the Gar
rison proposition dependes en-
tirely on him. 1t is surprising,
that a man like Nelson without
an interest in the county what
ever, should stir up so much
trouble. The county should be
divided without the least troub-
le by taking the people all over
the county in confidence and
not by sneaking around the cor
ners after the honest people
have gone to- sleep. But the
voters will be heard from.
They'll have their say at the
election. 1t is for them to de-
eide where the lines are to- be
drawn and not by one mani
E. Nelson.
The Washburn leader., 1914-09-04
Garrison Visitors Here

On Monday evening about
nine o'clock Washburn was call
ed up by Garrison and notified
that bunch would be down to
propose a new plan for county
division. About ten O'Clock the
following arrived: j. E. Nelson,
NJ. F. Minehan, H. F. O'Hare, Get
l.. Robinson, j. j. Bellies, A.
Tymeson, Jr. and o. f. McGray.
The meeting was called in Mr..
Haugeberg's office. There were
very few Of the business men of
Washburn present.
Geo. IL. Robinson made the
first talk and showed the lines
Of the Max proposed county di-
vision which will be known as
Hanna county. This proposition
takes in the two northern tiers
of townships 1850, l9 townships
and the Fort Berthold reserva-
tion lying in Mclean eoanty
He then showed the propon
sition which will be known as
the Robinson county. The change
made was to drop the j. E.
Nelson county division propo'
sition and take up new one
that would be satisfactory to
Washburn, one that would divide
the railroads about equal and
The Washburn leader., 1914-09-04

According to Washington re-
ports the congressman are play
ing truant quite often. One
day last week the roll call show
I'd 267 of the 1876 in their seats,
that is the greatest number who
have been present at one time in
several weeks. The same ex-
cuse is being used that the drug
gist used to receive when they
had permits. The one useful
word "illness. No work, no
pay, would not be bad rule to
adopt in the House.
The Washburn leader., 1914-09-04

Members of the Geological de-
partment of the agricultural col
lege claim they have found a
method of exterminating goph-
ers. If they have, this state
will have to find another nick
name, Flickertail will not be
appropriate.
The Washburn leader., 1914-09-04

Why is it that those who are
the most anxious to get a copy
of the Leader as soon as it is
out, are the ones who seem to
be, the most criticalY
The Washburn leader., 1914-09-04

A drive through the Conkling
district shows some beautiful
fields. The w. E. Partridge
farm is on the banks Of the Mis-
souri,, and the large field Of
grain in shocks is certainly good
to look at. Will Slagg has a
Ibig corn field ad joining his farm,
corn that will continue to- make
his cattle bring good market
prices. The farmers in the Conk-
ling district need some good
roads SO their grain can be
marketed more easily.
The first meeting of: the
. Tuesday club, after a short
summer vacation, was held at
the Rest Room Tuesday evening.
Roll call was answered by tell
ing summer experiences. An in
teresting program has been
planned for the winters study.
Besides this the members have
decided to have a vegetable ex-
hibit at the Exchange and to
send part of it to the exposition
at Bismarck this fall. The idea
of a public reading room was
also discussed but further plans
will be made later.
The Washburn leader., 1914-09-04
COUNTY

COUNIY
Senator 46th Legislative Dis
G. w. McGray, Underwood.
Members of the House of Repre-
sentatives, 46th District
r. L. Fraser, Garrison.
Simon Jahr, Wilton.
H. R. Freitag, Max.
County Auditor
E. G.. Stocker, Wilton.
County Treasurer
Geo. L. Yackey, Washburn.
Sheriff
w. G.. Hendricks, Wilton.
Clerk of Court
M. Tellefson, Garrison.
States Attorney
j. E. Williams, Turtle Lake.
Register of Deeds
j. E. Heck, Turtle Lake.
Judge
Geo. P. Gibson, Washburm.
Commissioner 1st District
Ole B. Wing, Nettle Greek.
Commissioner End District
Henry Martin, Blackwater.
The Washburn leader., 1914-09-04

shows this proposal we find that
they would like to give us ten
townships in the northeastern
part of the county and to with
in four miles of Max, the part
that is known as the Dogden
country. Then they drop down
to the southwest corner OF
Mclean which takes in the old
and new Coleharbor and the
Hancock bottoms close to Elm
Point. This proposition would
give us enough territory but we
do not believe one man in the
ten northern townships would
be in favor of this division.
Some would have to travel ~
miles through Robinson county
to get into Mclean and WASH
burn. or drive overland from
30 to IS miles. In the Max pro-
position the furtherest anyone
would have to come by railroad
would be "a miles and the near
est four miles and no settler
would have to drive more than
10 or 12 miles to reach rail
road. The Garrison proposition
would create lot Of trouble.
Their last proposed division is
done for the sole purpose Of de-
feating the Max proposition and
Hanna county. The settlers in
Victoria and Hancoks districts
would also be dissatisfied. These
farmers have lived here since
in S3 and 81 and they have help
ed to make Mclean what it is
"a county with no indebtedness.
They have stood the burden OF
the old organization and it
would not be fair to make them
|pay for a new set OF
books, office fixtures and
new county building. And
especially would it be a hard
Ship since it is done for the sole
purpose of making Garrison the
county seat Of Robinson county.
Mr.. Robinson was very fair IN
his statements and spoke in
earnest. There is no doubt that
many people of Washburn would
be glad to support the PROPOSE
ton if for no other reason than
for the name Of Robinson, call
ed after the pioneer merchant
and one of our oldest and most
respected citizens. But the pro-
position seemed to be so contrary
to the sentiment Of the people
in the parts to be cut off that
no one in Washburn dared to.
express himself on the subject,
knowing it would only create
trouble to endorse the proposition
offered by the Garrison men.
Attorney H. F. O'Hare was
the second speaker. He stated
that during the last campaign
(before the. primaries) he was
not in favor Of county division
but short time ago when Mel
son brought up the proposition
he changed his mind. Nelson
consulted O'Hare as to getting
the necessary papers drawn out
legally, stating that he had had
considerable experience in the
last division fight. Mr.. O'Hare
said that when he looked it over
with Nelson he had decided 1t
was the asst chance Garrison
had to carve out a new county
that would be, sure to give Gar
aison the county seat. Ii they
waited two years more the new
railroads through the county
and other conditions would bring
about changes that would not
give Garrison the county seat.
Attorney j. E. Nelson had
been working on the scheme
since early in the spring using
it for scarecrow to get on the
pay roll. After the vote was
counted in June he said it was
now time for county division.
M. F.. Minehan made few re-
marks On a ScarecrONN DrODOSl lOI
The Washburn leader., 1914-09-04
NON-PARTISAN
(Judiciary.)

Judge of the Supreme Court
Burleigh +. Spaulding, Fargo.
A. M. Christianson, Towner.
Superintendent of Public In
structiOn-
E. j. Taylor, Bismarck.
Richard Hayward, Grand Fork
The Washburn leader., 1914-09-04
Methodist Church
(Washburn Circuit)

Sunday Services at Washburn
Morning services ........ 1000
Sunday School .......... II 100
Evening service .......... 500
Prayer meeting Friday even
ing in the church prayer room at
8 100 O clock.
Sunday Services at Conkling
Sunday School .......... 1000
Preaching .. .... ...... IL 100
Prayer meeting Wednesday
evening at 500.
Sunday services at Buffalo Lake
Sunday School ...........-2 200
Preaching ...... ...... >. 300
Prayer meeting Wednesday
evening at 500.
G.. A. Finch. pastor.
The Washburn leader., 1914-09-04
FRIDAY, SEPT. q, 1914
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET

6kES1 ~ O0A4Vx13N 041A4S AAS3~A = :
United States Senator
AISLE j. Gronna, Lakota.
Representative in Congress 3rd
District
P. D. Norton, Hettinger.
Governor
L. B. Hanna, Fargo.
Lieu. Governor
John H. Frame, Grafton.
Secretary Of State
Thomas Hall, Bismarck.
State Auditor
Carl o. Jorgenson, Alilnor.
State Treasurer
S. N. Putnam, New Rockford.
Attorney General
Henry j. Mnde, Dickinson.
Commissioner of Insurance
Walter c.. Taylor, Bismarck.
Commissioner of Agriculture and
Labor
Robert F. Flint, New Salem.
Commissioner of Railroad
O. P. N. Anderson, Starkweath-
er.
w. II. Mann, New Salem.
w. II. Stutsman, Mandan.
The Washburn leader., 1914-09-04
German Baptist Church
Sunday

8 p. m. ...... Prayer meeting
In the afternoon the pastor
will preach at Hofunngsfeld, the
newly added station.
There will be preaching SER
vices in the Baptist church next
Sunday, both in the morning and
evening.
At the close Of the morning
services an offering will be tax
en- for the good cause Of foreign
mission. As usual everybody
heartily welcome.
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-02-19
Abolish Capital Punishment.

The laws that make capital punishment
the penalty should be so amended as to
remove this clause as it has become dead
letter. on our statute books. Such thing
as hanging white man is out of the ques-
ton, it makes no difference how heinous
the crime, and nearly all the negroes that
would ordinarily be hanged by the courts
are lynched. Hence the laws that provide
the death penalty are seldom invoked. At
the recent session of the District Court here
three negro murderers were given prison
sentences. Each one was guilty of delib-
crate murder. One shot his wife in the
back as she stood on chair fixing a cur
tain. Another killed and robbed white
man while hunting with him. The third
secreted himself under q bridge and killed
a man as he passed along the road. The
cases We're tried before juries which re-
turned verdicts of guilty without capital
Monroe Nems-,Stn
Although the criminal law of the land
has been Waylaid, sand bagged, perverted,
subverted, assasinated and butchered, on
innumerable occasions, from the moment
it stepped out of its cradle until the present
day, there is life in its MANNED body yet;
and some day long suffering people will
demand real law enforcement, and the law
will no longer be flouted as joke and a
useless expense to the taxpayer.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-02-19

If our public officials are so ignorant and
weak as to make a solemn treaty with
another nation that puts our country at a
disadvantage and then the Senate is so
careless and Indifferent to the preservation
of the country's honor and to the national
welfare as to ratify that treaty and make
it solemn national obligation, we should
stand to the obligation. To violate the
treaty is a grave international wrong.
Already Great Britain and Germany are
offended at the fact of the violation, and
they have made their resentment known
by openly refusing to take part in the
Panama Canal Exposition, which is to be
held at San Francisco to celebrate the
opening of the canal. Those nations will
not make war On US to vindicate the treaty
against our violation of it, but they will
hold it in memory to our disadvantage.
The only way to put ourselves right on
the subject is to stand to the treaty and
repeal the free passage clause in the toll
bill.-Neu Orleans Picnyu,,e.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-02-19

Gen. Lee, than whom no man that ever
lived was marked by greater clearness and
correctness of judgment, declared not long
before his own death that he did not know
of any one who could have accomplished
So much as Mr.. Davis did in the face of
such fearful obstacles and difficulties
baltimore Sun.
And there are number of Southern men
who seem to take special delight in slob-
bering over Lincoln, who have never q
word of praise for Jefferson Davis, 1.-THE
noblest Roman of them ALL" Their syco-
phancy is nauseating.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-02-19
Bunkoine the Country Newspapers.

vermion News
1t seems that everything and everybody
who want free advertising are combined
against the country newspaper. They
shoot their bunko news-letters at the
country editor in thinly yelled DISCUSSES,
and in punches. The discriminating editor
detects the fraud, and throws the stuff into
the rubbish pile. Some editors are green
enough to publish the trash. They do not
reason that man with whom they have
no acquaintance, and who is not under
obligations to them, will pay postage on
these letters and furnish them for nothing
The fellow who sends these green goods
letters is benefited by their publication /;
else he would not send them without being
paid.
The thoughtful country editor is not
caught by these bunkoists. But, when the
stuff is shot at him through ''boiler plates
and his 'spatent insides,' he is powerless,
and must submit to the sandbagging. For
example: A recent Congressional inves-
tigating committee brought out the testi-
mony that the Canadian Government had
paid about 100000 to "patent inside
syndicate for s'news" articles. These
articles misrepresented conditions in tina,
bleak and unproductive country, and in
duced about SOC, 600 Americans to go there
Other testimony was to the effect thai
the sugar-beet ring was also working
the country newspapers through the
''boiler plate' factories. This so-called
"news'' was sent to publishers and the
factory received S1.25 for every letter pub
lished. The publisher got nothing-bun-
koed.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-02-19
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.

Two large ships, loaded with fuel oil
from the Louisiana fields, left New Orleans
last Thursday for Europe and Africa.
The police jury has sold the S170, 900
bond issue of Acadia Parish to Chicago
capitalists. The money will be used in
building roads.
State lands have been withdrawn from
sale in the following named parishes:
Bossier, Bienville, Caddo, Catahoula,
DeSoto, Grant, LaSalle, Red River, Sabine
and Webster.
Alcee Fortier, historian, author and ed
ucator of international reputation and scion
of one of the oldest and most distinguish
ed families of the State, died at his home
in New Orleans last Saturday morning af-
ter an illness of several weeks.
Judge Edward Simon, ninety years of
age, distinguished scholar and jurist, died
at at ST. Martinvile on the 18th instant.
He was born at St. Martinville and gradu-
ated in law from Hazard. Judge Simon,
at Hazard, studied under Greenlief Story
and Longfellow. It was from the pupil
Simon that the poet Longfellow obtained
the description and topography of the
Teche country to write his poem EVAN
geline." The "Evangeline Oak" made
famous in the poem, is still standing on the
banks of Bayou Teche, in St. Martinville.
The Rivers and Harbors Bill contains the
following appropriations in which Louisiana
has an interest:
Mississippi River, Southwest Pass,
$500, 900.
Bayou Teche, $3.50, 900.
Lake Pontchartrain, S32 600.
Channel, bay and passes of Bayou YER
million, Mermentau River ard tributaries
and Bayou Plaquemine Broule, $4,000.
Bayou Terrabonne, S25, 900.
Atchafalaya River, $4,000.
Bayou Crosse Tete, 5000.
Johnson Bayou, 5000.
Bayous Bartholomew, Macon, DAT
bonnie and Cornie and B9uf and Tensas
rivers, $4,000.
VermiIion River and channel to water
way, S37 500.