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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-09-20
Geist Buys Minnesota Land

John d. Geist and son, Charles, re-
turned Friday from visit to the Min
nesota State Fair and to points in
northern Minnesota. Mr.. Geist invest
ed in an 8O-acre tract nine miles from
Hibbing, Mimi, in the famous Iron
Range country. The land was form
erly covered with timber, but years
ago was burned over and the stumps
have rotted and can easily be gotten
out of the way. His land lies a mile
and half from Keewaton, Mimi, and
he had to pay $3.50 per acre for it.
Farmers who have cleared their land
are growing rarge crops of clover, al
falfa, potatoes, etc. Mr.. Geist, who is
superintendent of the Ward county
Poor Farm, does not intend to occupy
the land, but will improve it.
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AROUND THE STATE

The Donnybrook Courier credited
the wrong family with birth and has
tened to explain the following week.
The old-fashioned mother who lived
on arm had to get half a dozen kids
ready Tor scnool, fix breakfast for ten,
clean the house, feed the chickens,
warm milk for the calves, work the
churn, FEED the hogs, put big dinner
on the stove, wash the dishes and
mend some clothes before noon, now
has married daughter who lives in
fiat in the city and who has hard
time getting up in time to attend the
picture show every afternoon.
Three hundred l. w. W. gathered
last Sunday morning at the Wasem
undertaking parlors in Fargo to pay
tribute to the memory Of Bob Will
liams, l. w. w. gunman, worsted in
battle to death with two special
agents of the Northern Pacific rail-
road last Thursday evening upon
whom he fired without warning when
he found he had run into trap. It
was a simple service, with fellow I.
W. W. preaching the funeral sermon.
"They say he was 'high-jack,'" said
the speaker, "but we don't believe
that. Bob Williams was loyal. His
hands show that he was a working
| man. His sanity countenance dis
proves that he was what they say he
was" The speaker proceeded to
enumerate "Bob's" virtues. Not the
| least of these was the fact that he had
contributed $500 to aid in strike of
miners, and that he was a loyal mem
Der of the I. w. w. The speaker
preached the doctrine that Jesus
| Christ was an l. w. w." and declared
His crucifixion came just ten days
after He raided the Chamber of Com
MERGE in Jerusalem. "If He hadn't
raided the Chamber of Commerce, He
never would have been crucified,' as
serted the speaker, who declared that
churches and preachers could say
what they wanted to the contrary.
/ Dealing with the manner Of Williams
death the speaker sought to leave the
impression that newspaper accounts
of the affair were untrue. 1--WE don't
pay any attention to the newspapers"
he said. The speaker also devoted
some little attention to the two Nor
thern Pacific officials who found it
necessary to Stay Williams to save
their own lives-and whose action
was declared by the Cass county cor
oner's jury as "justifable, excusable
and proper" The speaker questioned
the propriety of their action in dealing
with Williams. Burial took place at
the county cemetery, Spring Valley,
the remains being followed to the
cemetery by most Of the men. It was
a unique procession as the men, most
Of them in overalls and smoking,
walked along behind the hearse. The
burial expenses were paid by the L.
w. w.
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AUCTION SALE.

AS am quitting the farm, | will sell
at public auction at my home IL
miles west and one mile north OF Sur
rey, and miles east and one mile
north Of Minot, on Thursday, Sept. II,
1917, the following described prop
erty, sale to begin at 1 o'clock sharp.
Free lunch at noon.
Horses
One bay gelding years old
One iron gray mare years old.
One sorrel gelding years old.
One grey gelding, 10 years old.
One grey gelding II years old.
Cattle
One Red Poll COW, giving milk.
One Guernsey COW, giving milk.
One heifer, ~ years old.
One spring calf.
Hogs
8 spring hogs.
Chickens
About As chickens.
Farm Machinery
One SIT. John Deere binder.
One Mccormick mower.
One 12-in. gang pillow.
One harrow.
One disc drill.
One big wheel wagon.
One John Deere wagon.
One grindstone.
One bob sled.
One Emerson corn cultivatOr.
One 1874 John Deere engine.
One pump jack.
One engine house.
One auto garage.
One set five-horse eveners.
Two water tanks.
One wagon box.
Three sets double harness and col
lars.
One churn, kitchen cabinet, 6 chairs
and other articles.
Terms of Sale: All sums Of $1,000
and under, cash. On sums over that
amount, time will be given until Oct
1, 1915 with interest at 8 per cent
Five per cent discount for cash or
sums over $1,000.
M. w. MOTL, Owner.
A. H. THOMAS, Auctioneer.
! B. A. BLUME, Clerk.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA,
COUNTY OF WARD, IS.

couNTY OF WARD, SIS.
County Court
In the Matter of the Estate of Harry
Edwards, Deceased:
Notice Is hereby given by Bertha
Edwards, Administrators Of the Estate of
Harry Edwards. Deceased. to the Cred
against said deceased, to present them,
with the necessary vouchers, to the said
Bertha Edwards, ADMINISTRATIVE. or the
office of the County Judge or at the Of
Minot, n. D., within six months after the
first publication Of this notice.
Dated this 2Sth day of August, 1917.
BERTHA EDWARDS,
Administrators, Minot, N. D.
First publication Sept. 9th. 1917 9-6-4t
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE
PRIVATE SALE
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA,
COUNTY OF WARD, IS.
In the Matter Of the Estate of Amilia L.
Anderson, Deceased.
George Bradshaw, Petitioner.
Royal Grace and County Treasurer of
War r Gou n, f1r Res 8 That
for duly issued to the undersigned, the
Administrator of the Estate Of Amilia L;
Anderson, Deceased, on the 18th day OF
the following described lands lying and
of North Dakota. to-wit:
Lot 8, Block 8, Falkland Addition to
the City of Minot, as per recorded plat,
thereof now on file in the office of the
Register of Deeds in and for Ward coun-
ty, North Dakota.
The said sale will be made on or after
Saturday, the Goth day of September,
1917, and bids, for said land will be re-
ceived in writing at the office OF the
Judge of the County Court at the Court
House, in the City of Minot, Ward Coun-
ty and State aforesaid. All bids or Of
fers for said land must be in writing, and
may be left at the place above designat-
ed or delivered to the undersigned Ad-
ministrator of the estate personally, at
any time prior to the making Of said
ale that said sale will be made upon the
following terms: Cash at the, time Of
SALE the purchaser to give his note
therefor at the time of sale, said notes to
bear interest at the rate of - per cent
per annum, and said notes to be secured
by mortgage upon the land sold.
Dated at Minot, N. D., this 30th day of
August, 1917.
GEORGE BRADSHAW,
Administrator of the Estate
of Amilia l.. Anderson, Deceased.
9-6-4t
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WANT ED.

Ten automobile drivers to volunteer
their services and pay their own trans
portation to Paris, France, for train
ing. Salary none. Board and lodging
furnished. For information write to
ORRIN M. PIERCE,
Chairman Eighth Judicial District,
Minot, N. D.
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KEEP YOUR LIVE STOCK.

Farmers, do not sell your live
stock. If short Of feed, come and see
US as we have arranged for wintering
several hundred head of stock or can
furnish hay at cost. Come and see US.
The Savings Loan and Trust Co.,
-Minot Farmers Central Bank.
S-30-tf
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Why not consider Mitchell when
buying ysur new car. Phone MinOt
Welding Sales Co. Adv.
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-12

charged with having entered the
Monte arlo rooming house, seized
the clerk, and threatening to
beat his head off,"
Then he took the proprietor out
to a patrol box, but released him
before calling for the patrol, il is
said Other officers urged him
to desist.
Three weeks ago Teale is charg-
ed with having entered cell of
the city jail and knocked a pris-
oner unconscious with a blow on
the head, using his club.
ASK MORE TINE
During a recent raid on the
Drumm cafe, Teale is charged with
having been abusive with an Off
Ger who was stationed on the out
side.
A few days before his discharge
Tcale is said to have told Sergt. Dew
OF the dry squad that II he were de.
NOTED he and the Citizens league
would start recall on Comm s.
sioner Petit within "a hours.
Teale's hearing was scheduled fol-
Wednesday evening, but on request
of his attorneys, the date has beer
set aside. The attorneys said that
they needed more time TO prepare
Teale's defense.
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Where to Tread
EDITOR THE TIMES.

EDITOR THE TINES:
would like to ask Militant
Working Grip where she gets
more OF a national right to a seat
In a street car than men have?
And where she gets any more right
to tread on the feet of a man who
sits, than a man has to tread on
her feet because she happens to
get a seat first and refuses to
Jump up on a man seeming in any
say take this seat, please!" |
oIten give my seat to lady and
often do not. 1t depends largely
on how hard a days work | have
mad, and whether / feel that the
lady is more in need of the rest
that sitting gives than I am. II is
not so much "chivalry" at the ex-
pense of another's comfort. that
working girls or women need as
Justice Justice demands if
they pay for ride they should be
entitled to a seat, not at the ex-
pense OF another who has paid for
the same privileges, but at the
expense of the company who ac-
cepts and receives her fare. II
militant working girls, women and
men as we'll, would compel the
passage of law that any person
compelled to stand during the
whole or part of their ride could
not be compelled to pay their fare.
there will be plenty of seats for
all. Really, isn't it more Just to
tread on the dividends of the
street railway company than on
the feet of the male species.
OLIVER A. VERIFY.
Lakeview.
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In the Editors Mail

ings company specializes on the
men in the logging camps" At
lease Mr.. Billings and his fellow
membership fee" associations
talk a good deal about the won
derful service" they are doing
the men in the logging camps!
But here is the rub: Mr.. Billings
Informed group or men In Taco
ma short time ago-and | was
present-that he had fired at
least $50 agents because they
were crooked" Permit me to
say 1t is going some for one COM
pany to have had $50 crooks"
identified with 1t. And Mr.. Bill
ings and his office force must
have been caused a lot of extra
work In explaining away the mis-
representations OF his $50 crooked
agents.
When Mr.. Billings associates
himself with the seven fly-by-
night savings and loan associa-
tons" in Seattle and the two or
three others of the same class in
other parts of the state which are
flooding the state with irresponsi-
BILE agents who solicit Savings ac-
counts but say nothing about the
membership" and Withdrawal
fee provisions of their bylaws
he is In bad company, and peo-
pie are inclined to Judge corpora
tions as they do individuals. by
the company they keep.
Yours very truly,
RAYMOND r. FRAZIER,
President.
Washington Savings & Loan Co.
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Answers Stayton
EDITOR THE TINES:

EDllOh The TIMES:
have been somewhat amused
at the controversy between Mr..
Petit, commissioner, and Mr..
Stayton, president of the Citizens
league.
Mr.. Stayton, as it appears to
me, very unjustly attacks Mr.. Pet
tit because of the increased ar
rests of drunkards in Tacoma. Mr..
Stayton claims he and his follow
ers want to see the laws, espe-
cially the dry law, enforced.
am inclined to challenge Mr.. Stay
toms honesty Of purpose, for l
am surely convinced if he was
wholehearted in this matter he
would be acting quite different.
He and his associates endorsed
Mr.. Petit before the primaries,
and at the final election they
championed Pettit's election, so
they say in the columns of your
paper.
If SO. in the name of High
Heaven what's wrong? Is it that
Mr.. Petit is gone wrong and sold
out body and breeches to the vets,
or is 1t because as Mr. Petit has
stated, because Petit will not
yield to the rotten methods which
have been forced on him by the
Citizens league by their pres
sure?
Then | say to hell with such
tactics. | cannot see for the life
of me how Mr.. Stayton and his
associates are all they claim for
themselves, law-abiding citizens.
If they were and really meant
to promote the welfare of the
public as well as make Mr.. Pet
tits term a success, they would
lay bare knowledge of these places
witch they claim are selling in
toxicating liquor, and help the
man they claim they elected, in
place of trying to destroy his eff
forts.
1t might be well to call Mr..
Stayton's attention to some facts
right here, that about SO per
cent of the DRINKS arrested of late
are Jamaica ginger DRINKS; also
that several doctors in the city
who ought to be sent over the
road for selling prescriptions I'M
lawfully are, | doubt not, indulg-
ing in the same old trade because
they were not properly dealt with
by county officials.
Now for law, order and justice,
it is the duty of any law-abiding
man or woman to go to Chief
Smith and lay before him any in
formation they may have about
any soft-drink seller or any per-
son they know who is engaged in
the unlawful handling of whisky
or any other intoxicant, or where
any of the disorderly houses are;
then we taxpayers and voters will
give audience to their boasts of
good citizenship.
| am from Missouri, and would
like to see any man show me his
good works, for by them l can
judge the kind of tree he is
from; but the works of Mr.. Stay
ton look like 1t is from a persim-
mon tree before the frost-very
NINA latahlp p C.
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Pretzel Bill
EDITOR THE TINES:

EDITOR THE TINES:
sometimes things strike us as
curious.
Pancho Villa held up a lot of
Americans, who were coming
money out of Mexican poems; also
killed divers of said Americans.
He therefore interfered with the
sacred CD right of Property and
INSTRUCTED the holy law of profit
mongering. He also opposed the
inalienable right of an American
citizen to go where he pleased.
regardless whether he was wanted
or not. Also he committed the
objectionable sin of intercepting
the dividends on the investments
of the Morgan, Rockefeller, Hearst
and other concerns, who were en-
gagged in spreading civilization
amongst the greasers, all for the
good of humanity at large.
For all of which crimes and mis-
demeanors said Pancho Villa was
dutifully outlawed, a price put on
MS head and an army sent to catch
and punish him. And for this
edifying and delectable effort the
citizens of our beloved country
paid out the tidy sum of $4,000
900.
Pretzel Bill of Germany goes
a-pirating on the high seas. He
cuts down our beloved dividends,
heinously insults our glorious flag,
interferes most woefully with our
, sacred Property rights, and most
uncomfortably interferes with the
right of our businessmen to go
where they deem fit in their capti-
waiting chase after the almighty
dollar; openly robs an American
vessel of three barrels of oil and
Kills an American niger citizen.
who sailed on an English vessel,
In an unlawful and unwarranted
way.
AS far as ! know, no price has
been put on Pretzel Bills head.
although piracy has always been
considered the blacklist of crimes.
Neither has Pretzel Bill been out
lawed.
|. In the light of the results of our
Villa proceedings, we may, how
ever, be glad that Pretzel Bits
crimes are winked at. Villa, career
ing around as blithely and lively
as ever, ready for business as be-
fore, strikes us as a meager result
for all our priceputting. outlawing
and punitive expedition, not to
mention the $40, 100000 cold cash.
We shudder at the thought
what the consequence would be
II we followed the same course in
regard to Pretzel Bill. We could
not do it under billion dollars
and Pretzel Bill would probably
be pirating as joyfully as before
/ or course the money-lender.
would not look at IL in that way
, They have made good and salts
! factory profits out of the foreigl
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The Times for publication
you will confer a favor IL
you will observe these sug-
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Write on one side only of
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your message in too tightly.
Sign your name and give
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do not wish them published,
say so, and your wishes will
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Be as brief as your SUBJ
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letter will be much more
widely read than a long one.
BE fair in your state
ments. Avoid malice.
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"Fallen Men"
DITOR THE TINES:

EDITOR THE TINES:
Like the gable of geese we
hear the jabber of pious people
talking OF fallen women" but
we never hear one of these gourd-
headed nonentities refer to fall
en- men,"
A society which refuses to rec
ognize a poor, fallen girl who
has gone wrong through the in
fluence of some cunning demon,
but will throw the doors of home
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Justice
EDITOR THE TIMES.

EDITOR THE TINES:
l am not a member of the Citi-
zens' league, but here goes.
You said to Mr.. Slayton, "if
there is an anti-Catholic pledge
your members take, state it, so
we can all read it."
AS reader and citizen, what
would that mean? Do you mean.
or does your paper mean, that any
organization would be attacked
the Masons. the Knight of Column
bia, the Odd Fellows, the Molly
McGuires. the Elks, the Knights
OF Pythias, etc., all have their
enemies, and according to your
ruling all would have to cough up.
Even the Ancient Order of Hi
bernians and the knights of Malt;
would be drug up on the threshold
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The organization you men,
ton, Mr.. Mcintyre, may or
may not have secret pledges
of one sort or another, pOssi-
bly, some of them of a relig-
iOus nature.
If they have. they refrain,
at least, from dragging them
into politics and thus seeking
to interfere with the smooth
running OF our municipal ma
chinery. What pledges they
take are their own concern so
long as they do not permit
them to infringe on the rights
of Observation-Disclosures.
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wide open to the libertine who
has caused her to sin, is a society
that belongs to the suburbs of
hell.
1t is common settlement tattle
to hear of fallen women" but
we never hear of fallen men, at
all. though for every fallen
woman there are at least 10 fallen
men.
Is not this he-devil's offense
against female honor. decency and
virtue as great at least as hers?
Yet old society goes about pratt
thing about fallen women" and
never denounces the black-plumed
devil who caused her to fall.
Now, mister, we want to ask
you if the sins of the gay young
buck are not as great as those
of the girl? Then why is not the
blaek-robed knight of licentious-
ness the greater sinner of the
two?
If SO. then why should fallen
women have every avenue closed
against them and be left to be
devoured by the vultures of vir-
tue, while these cunning vaga-
bonds of the devil are welcomed
to the house and the family?
Let poor girl fall and the
world will frown upon her at
once and demand that she live
the remainder of her days III hu-
initiation. and will not associate
with her, and will not allow their
children to countenance her in
public; but the next day they
will permit her betrayer to come
into the bosom of the family and
be treated as a gentleman when
this black-hearted wretch is
thousand times worse than the
girl whom he destroyed.
When we frown upon fallen
women" and welcome the dirty
brute into our own homes who
caused her to fall We publicly de-
clare to the world that we are a
set of sniveling hypocrites, unwor-
thy to be barked at by a decent
dog.
Our modern preachers haven't
got enough religion in their puny
souls to stand up in their pulpits
and denounce this devil-daddied
brand of morals.
AS a rule these pulpit orators
are moral towards and are afraid
to be fearless Christians.
ONE WHO LIVES IN ORTING.
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HowAbout Germans?

EDITOR THE TINES:
AS l am a subscriber to your
paper, and see in one place where
you state you like to answer in
quiries that your readers ask
about, l am writing to make an
inquiry, in regard to our present
situation with Germany.
Can you tell me what will be
done with the Germans in this
country? / do not mean the ones
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Thanks For MAY
EDITOR THE TINES:

EDIIO he L Im Eo'
| want to write my thanks to
MAY" for her letter Through
Men"
All men and most women will
recognize the truth of her words,
and women are beginning to act,
now that they are learning more
fully the injustice of man to wom-
an, and there are a few narrow
minded women who ought to d.
gest every particle of Mays article
and act accordingly, for it is up to
our women to save women from
such beasts made in the image of
man.
When a woman strives to keep
her daughter from the clutches Of
this class, yet shuts her eyes to
her sons evil ways, thinking the
ouble-standard of morals will
save and protect him, she displays
narrowness and ignorance of the
powers of equalization which Ma
ture inevitably forces us into, for
1t is only justice in effect and no
one can escape an act nor even the
results of their thoughts.
The bestial man and the mar
row woman is the enemy of every
true, loving woman and honorable,
just man; for If bestiality and mar
rowness do not constitute the
beast" of Revelations, which per-
secuted the woman and her child,
/ cannot conceive what would, for
IL a woman would retrieve her
mistake of loving and trusting a
brute instead of a man, both the
brute and the narrow-minded
woman spew the waters of scorn
and ostracism upon and after her
until she is all but lost, but for
the sake of her child she with
stands everything.
What love and courage she must
possess to pass through it, none
but themselves will ever under
stand; but the Scriptures tell us
that the valleys shall be raised
and every hill shall be leveled; in
other words, equalization shall
obtain, and the same book tells
US that woman should have power
on her head because of the angels,
and that man was made a little
lower than the angels.
Mother love is akin to Gods
love, in that it is not selfish, and
every true mother, in or out of
law, should have the helping hand,
and every influence to which i'm
provement will be granted her for
her own and her child's sake.
None but the wanton and the
libertine will deny these to her un-
less it be the narrow ones, but
the dawn of woman's era Is at
hand and there is at present a gen.
eral threshing of wheat from
chaff.
The narrow womans sons have
degenerated into white sIavers.
while the daughters of the bestial
man wantonly work their way
through life, marked by selfish
ness and greed to the end.
The woman that is not true to
her offspring will never be true
to man. King Solomon knew the
test of motherhood.
1t is never selfish, and the
cause of at least two-thirds of the
divorce cases is traceable to the
fathers selfishness and the moth
er's unnatural burden of making
the living and rearing the family
at one and the same time.
Mother love casts about for
some methods that will enable her
to five her full time to her chill
dren. realizing that such men
really usurp the children's rights.
while not lettering themselves.
Just as woman's status, so is the
nation to which she belongs. Then
let's hasten in love and Justice
which neutralize every known sin
and bless all mankind.
LAURA ]. BONE.
1854 E street.