The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-05-07
LOGAN OBJECTS TO
BEING M|NOT'S
DUMPING GROUND
FARMER THINKS IT WILL BE
WELL TO TALK ABOUT STOCK
ING MURMURING MOUSE WITH
TROUT WHEN MINOT QUITS
DUMPING FILTH INTO RIVER.
Logan, N. d., May S, 1914.
Editor Independent,
Minot, N, d,


Minot, N. D.
Sir:
fain would trespass upon your val
liable space to give expression to a
farmers views regarding E. B. Nc
Cutcheon's proposition to stock the
,Murmuring Mouse with trout provid-
ing the city puts in the dam according
to law. While all appreciate our
game warden's we'll intentioned efforts
we have serious doubts of the advisa-
bility of such action until Minot has
been awakened to a sense of her re-
sponsibilities, and willingly or other
wise, is persuaded to comply with the
state laws. 1t would be but condemn
ing the trout to the same sad fate as
awaits any reckless pike or pickerel
which may wander thoughtlessly into
these waters, for should fish ever
reach Logan, they, as a result of as
phyxiation, travel wrong side up. Mi
not persists in converting the Mouse
river into sewage canal, which in the
opinion of a prominent attorney, is
contrary to law, and I, with many 9TH
ers, incline to the belief that trout will
not prosper in ditch of polluted sew
age. If the secretary of the CONNER
cial club really expects the co-opera-
ton of farmers in the persistent
booming of Minot, it would be we'll for
him to make it clear to the city COM
missioners that in permitting filth and
other denominations to be dumped into
the placid Mouse, disease is spread,
the lives of the residents along it's
scenic banks endangered, their stock
poisoned, their senses outraged and
that they are responsible for maintain
ing a condition of things at once dis
grace and danger. It is time to talk
Of trout when this evil is remedied,
and it is time, right now, to remedy
the evil. Minot would be well advised
to at once get busy. While expecting
to be classed as "knocker," just un-
derstand, many will continue to knock
Minot until she listens to the appeals
of those who suffer materially thru
the use of the river as a sewer. Let
Minot make use Of the septic tank and
remember in her selfishness, that the
merchants and money changers who
congregate in that sphere, they mag
inc magical, are not the only pebbles
on the beach. Logan is on the Mouse
river and has no intention of becoming
Minot's dumping ground for filth.
A Disguised Farmer.
COMMITTEES FOR PRO-
GRESSIVE MEET MAY II
Arrangement Committee: U. r
Whiting, A. E. Erickson, Geo. Mech
Ter, D. D. Riley, G.. D. Shaft, Johr
Strommen, L. T. Larson, L. A Corey.
Committee on Programs: Marx
Chatfield, Frank Youngman, Dudley
Nash ..
Reception Committee: Christ Rudd
C. A. Johnson, w. M. Smart, L. D. Nc.
Gahan, G. D. Colcord, Frank Kauff.
man, Fred Truax, DR.. c. F. Sweet, L
A. Corey, P. Vandenoever, James
Dryer, A. F. Bacon, J. L. Skrivseth
Robert Gillespie, E. Harthouse, DR.
Seed, Gov. J. M. Devine, Major Person
T. A. Golfer, J. D. VanFleet, F. w
Youngman, Judge J. E. Burke, Mar.
tin Jacobson, Geo. Mechler, Lewis Ell
lis, E. C. Perry, Rev. P. w. Erickson
Rev. T. Olson, J. H. Tompkins, J. P
Tennyson, S. J. Rasmussen, c. R
Thatcher, Henry Grimmer, Louis En-.
erson, D. H. Carroll, G. D. Shaft, AL
bert Low, J. Dirks, A. S. Blakey, J. S
Flatland, C. C. Wysong, Mesdames
G. D. Colcord, D. H. Carroll, H. Grim
mer, L. A. Corey, Lewis Ellis, G. D
Shaft, Nellie Hendryx, c. Funderhide
F. w. Youngman, F. J. Wells, J. D
| Van Fleet, J. L. Skrivseth.