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Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-02-06
LOCALS AnD PERSONALS

}. s. Matney is here from J,rbidva
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Bert Smith Is IN from Rattle Mopn.
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w. 3. meArdIe Is here from Con.
tact
- co,.Iin, fs IN tho city from,
Reno.
$50
teaio.
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1. L. Redden is 4 visitor from
Henry Preikshot is in town from
Hylton.
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dav in Erto
Sim Scott is down from HaIIeck on
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p. r. stazenski is registered at the
Commercial from Tobar.
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3. Johnson are all in Elko from Mon
tello.
49,
Mrs. Max ArnhoId and her son. C.
E. Arnold, from Lee, are stopping at c
p
The County Commissioners. be b
ginning their session Yesterday. are o
today sitting as a road board
w. J.. Hoyt, proprietor Of the La
mobile Grocery Store is in Elko today
and is registered at the Mayer. II
D.
Battle Mountain. Mr.. Horton operates II
the leading grocery as well as the CO
bank at Battle Mountain. az
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fsj.,sM. Mcnamara, leading attorney X
tfSp Elko. was a capital city visitor al
yesterday and transacted business at IN
the capitalization City News. te
b.
secure accommodations near the high OF
school building for his Spanish class. -
es which he expects to start soon. An. =.
will be duly made. :.
:!
Roy corbett passed the physical ex- ::
for the army the other day !:
and comes up tonight for examination !.
for eyesight. Roy is optimistic over I
his ability to pass and feels that he /
Camps. II every soldier has the spirit !.
OF Roy the boys will go over the ton /
IL great shape. Z
:
Allyn carville returned recently !.
from Sacramento where he went re. I
Gently TO take a brief course in the z
Standard Oil Company's School for ?
Special Agents. Allyn attended school :
for five days from $50 in the morn. Z
lures upon various branches OF the Z:
oil business. =
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James Hayes, known to his friends &
Is Jimmie" returned last night with
lis little daughter from a two weeks S
Tisit with his parents in Chicago as
veil as a jaunt to St Louis included
or good measure. jim says the cities
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-09
LIVE,
FOR cELDlN6 TRADE
exeelDont Plan 70 Mouth Tlsem 10o
otvs Them Some Wos>t ousan0
Spring and eumHsoes

Colts for the selding trade want
taking In hand early, and shou10 BE-
well grown and well done. from their
birth, 90 that at two years CID they
should be big and strong enough to-
do some work. It Is an exnsllent plan
to mouth them, and work them q
bit during the spring and. summer.
that they come two years, old. They
do not want working very hard, but.
. day Or two at pillow, harrow, or Gull
tfvatoF, and then a day or two at rest,
and then at 1t again for q few days.
and * on, gets them tractable,. and it
seems to expand their muscles and In
duce growth.
Then when the harvest time comes
they can be turned off and, run through
the autumn and winter, receiving just
a little grain and chan through the
hard part of the winter to keep them
fit, and they will come up at spring
time, as three-year-olds, fit to take
their places in any job that # is
thought fit to put them to.
It must be borne in mind that they
should be taught to 60 anywhere and
to do anything, SO as to get accus.
toned to all kinds of work and noises
as well. They must be taught to pull,
and to back, and to stand stil IL re-
qufred.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-09
A Safe Proposition.

Editor of the Courant: Editor
Johnson, Of the Advocate, seems to be
a bit peeved at asking him to pub
lish the names Of the stockholders Of
the Farmers Advocate and also be-
cause I did not give my real name.
Well, when Mr. Johnson comes across
with the much desired information I
hereby authorize the editor Of the
Courant to publish my name. Also,
l will wager a $500 hat that Mr..
Johnson dare not publish the names
of all the Advocate stockholders, the
said $500 having this day been de-
posted with the editor Of the Cour-
ant as a guarantee of good faith.
Come across Matt. Go and get your
check for the hat. I had this check
left after paying my $1,000 per:
,.s Yours truly,
A Sixteen Dollar Sucker:
Omemee, N. D., May 6, 1srs.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-09
THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1915.

Judgment would best serve the inter.
ests Of our state, district, or county
as the case may be? DO l, by that
act, necessarily subscribe to all the
planks Of the Republican platform
chat may hereafter be promulgated
before / know what planks shall be
contained in that platform? If I and
the voters who think as / do in this
state, and there are a lot Of them,
succeed in nominating the candidates
we want. will we not thereby be enab-
led to determine through our candi-
dates and committees the character Of
Of the planks that shall constitute that
platform? Has anyone a right to
question my right to select the party
through which I hope to gain the
things I want to see accomplished In
my state?' And If I and those who
think like me should succeed in nam
ing our choice Of officers and estab-
fishing the platform from which they
shall be eBected, has anyone the right
to question my loyalty thereby or my
right to attempt the changes I want
through the fundamentally Of the po-
litical party with which l have been
associated or with which I may now
choose to associate? II I believe In
the principle that men r superior
to parties and principle is superior to
political dogma, and to chat extent I
am Nonpartisan, shall I be thereby
disfranchised by q political party law
enacted by a Republican legislature
to perpetuate Republican and Demo-
cratic parties and no others, under
a law that makes It practically impos-
sibIe for any other party or combina-
ton Of men of like belief to vote on
the primary ballot unless they sub.
scribe unqualifedly to the platform
Of the Republican or Democratic par
ty heretofore adoptsM
Please inform me If there is any
manner in which I can preserve my
manhood and my integrity aside from
registering as a Republican sud vot-
ing at the primary election for such
candidate as in my judgment would
best carry out the principles Of the
doctrines that I want to see estab-
lished; further, has anyone a right to
question my right and privilege there
m7
An Anxious Inquirer.
Westhope, N. D., May =. 19f8i
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-09
Respectfully Referred to the
4 Editor of the Advocate,

MI. Editor:-I want enlightenment.
| am q legal voter under the laws Of
North Dakota. / have always voted
as q Republican though l have not
always voted for all Republican nomi-
nees. Sometimes, when in my judg-
ment the better candidate was nomi-
mated Or the other ticket than the
n on the Republican ticket, / have
voted for that other candidate, but
in the main / have supported Repub-.
lican nominees. In my Judgment men
should be considered as superior to
party. For that reason, should / be
disfranchised Can YOU advance
any good reason why / should not
register u nepublican and vote at
the primaries for the nomination 81
the best man before the primaries Oh
the Republican ticket that n my
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. -
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-09

The people Of this state are as loyal as in
any state in the Union, and they are Civ
ing hearty support to the country in this
great war, but the United States is not
looking directly to the people of our state,
they are looking toward Townley and his
wild eyed bunch Of agitators, and if he
can succeed in naming and electing a tick
ct in North Dakota, our state issgoing to be
Voter to say what you want; Americanism
or T~ownleyism. There is no lodging, you
are on one side or the other. Which side
are you on? +,
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-09

Editor Courant-Having noticed in
the last issue Of tie, Courant that
some of its readers are DESTROYS Of
knowing the names Of the stockholders
Of the Farmers Advocate" q paper
published in the interests Of the FARM
ers, will say that T believe that as
soon as MI. Johnson becomes con-
WINGED that the farmers wish to know
who is financing this paper to bene-
mt them ne will come across with the
goods.
I have known Mr.. Johnson for many
years and he has always been . rood
supporters Of us farmers SO long rs
we let him do our thinking for us and
Matt is an expert at telling farmers
just what he wants them to think.
Yours truly,
Ira Smith.
Newburg, N. D., May s. 1918.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-09

pie wondering where / got the money
to make the trip with as there on
those who wonder why Matt refuses
to give the following informatfon:
I would like for MI. johnson,
the dear friend Of the farmers, to
tell his friends how he proposes to
put the Teigen League platform
into effect and how long it will
take to do so, as he refused to
sign the referendum petitions,
that were signed by $4,000 farm
ers, or voters, thereby making
it possible for the electors Of
North Dakota to engraft the prin-
cipIes Of even the Teigen league
into the law of the land.
L. L. Stair.
Bottineau, N. D., May g., 1918.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-09
HE BROUGHT HOME THE BACON.

Thu frothy rantings of Jerry Bacon, as re
ported by the kept press of Montana, SO out
ragged Mr.. H. l.. Bakers sense of truth ant
right that he felt impelled to respond as follow.
in the last issue of the Nonpartisan Leader
Mr.. Baker, who lives at Wetter, Montana, is
Civil war veteran, and gives ample evidence o.
his ability to spot the bushwackers and camp
as we'll now as he did during that 9th
er time hen this Nation was struggling for its
very existence. Hear him:
Il was one of the boys who went out go
years ago to make a whole nation submit
to majority rule. We had elected old
Abe president of the United States and we
were determined that he should be presi-
dent of the whole United States. The SOL
diers of the Civil Wa are proud that they
fought to put down oligarchy in the Unit
ed States, but the spirit of oligarchy still
lives. Majority rule is the foundation of
democracy. Mr.. Bacon complains that his
motives are impugned. When I see a man
fighting majority rule by methods that are
crooked, claiming superior loyalty, I not
only impugn his motives, but I impeach his
loyalty and brand him a consummate hypo-
critic.
"This is the Bacon who wants us to be-
lieve that A. C. Townley is disloyal. I pre-
fer to take the opinion of the 10000 farm
ers of North Dakota. Mr.. Townley and the
rest of US want the war profiteers to pay a
larger share of the cost. That idea is going
to take like wildfre before this war is over.
No use trying to down it shouting disloyal-
ty and socialism," :
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-09
A Mystifed Granger.

Editor Courant-I noticed BY the
Farmers Advocate that the so-called
Teigen League did not charge a $1,000
membership fee. If this is so I won
der where MI. Teigen got the money
to travel around the state in the in
terests of this organization. #
Mr.. Teigen's crop was hailed out in
1914. He then disposed of his per-
sonal property and quit farming, pre-
sumably to keep from going broke.
Later he became manager of the
Farmers elevator at Kramer. But this
was too slowfor MI. Teigen and the
idea Of forming a new League struck
him, and last fall he began organizing
this new League which must have been
a great success.
Nh. Teigen has bought another
farm and a four-cy1inder gas tractor
and is again farming. Evidently there
lis good money in this organization
work. It seems that the Farmers Ad-
vocate advocates the organization OF
a League, the buying of a gas tractor
and possibly going broke in preference
to buying q tractor, going broke and
then organizing . League, as Town
There are many farmers who would
like to know where the money comes
from to pay the fiddler for his music
before we dance. / should like Co
know the names of the stockholders
of the Farmers Advocate. However
they must be members Of the old gang
who have been supporting the farm
ers movement or their names would
not be withheld.
Yours truly,
Charles Knuth.
Newburg, N. D., May s, 1918.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-09
A KINDLY SUGGESTION.

In order to- save what would appear to be
unnecessary brain-fag The Courant would sug-
gest to the editorial aggregation, who deem it
to be their imperative duty to throw a fit every
time they hear Townley's name mentioned or
see it in print, that they have the following ar
ticle, which is from the pen of one of their very
ablest and most erudite bellwethers-Crary, of
the Devils Lake ,World-kept standing at the
head of their editorial columns. Among the
multitude of similar diatribes appearing regu-
larly in their papers the article in question, for
profundity of thought, elegance of diction, clar-
ity Of reasoning, depth of logic and convinc-
ing evidence easily takes front rank, embrac-
ing as it does, the ultima thule of the stock ar
guments, sane and silly, employed by the anti
TOwnleyltes of all persuasions from the defunct
Goo Goo" league to it's latest successor, the
debilitated Teigen conglomeration of disappoint-
ed office-seekers and political misfits:
1t has been heralded from the Atlantic to
the Pacific and from Canada to the gulf
that Townley and his band of organizers
are disloyal, and that they are aiding the
cause of our enemies in this great war. On
the floor of the u. S. Senate the other day
a well known senator charged Townley with
using pro-German money. He and his fol-
lowers are also credited having their hands
on the political throat of North Dakota, and
the whole United States have their eyes
turned on this state to see what the out
come of the next election is. People are
looking to see whether Townley can con-
troll the next primaries and election, there
by electing ticket that he has nominated.
We want to say to every American in North
Dakota, that if Townley succeeds III keep
ing his political hold on that state that
North Dakota is going to be tabled dis
loyal" This may be a harsh way Of put
ting it but nevertheless this is the exact
condition, and it is up to the people Of this
state to see to it that we are not 90 tabled.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-09
Splendid Farm Team.

hard work Of early spring. Feeds are
high in price this year and there will
be q tendency to cut down on the rae
ton Of the horse, but such q policy ~
poor economy. One should consider
carefully the feeding value Of the avail
able grains and roughage.
1T Is possible to make ! consider.
able saving in the cost Of feads ~ COM
bining the right feeds. M most parts
Of Kansas oats and c0ttonseed meal In
proportions Of about one to nix will BE-
desirable. One can utilize I large
amount Of coed. bright, clean straw q
! nt41e alfAl3a ha1 = ayallablAs
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-09
HORSE FEED AND PROTECTION
Two Important Winter Considerations,
Says Or. MccampbeIl Of Kansas
Agricultural COLLEGE.

Feed and protection r the two I'M
portant considerations In caring for
work horses in, winter, in the opinion
Of DR.. G. w. McCampbell, associate
professor Of animal husbandry in the
Kansas State Agricultural college.
'The work horse must be fed and
protected in such a manner" said Doc
tor McCampbell, shat he will be In the
best possible condition to stand the
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-09
Still Awaiting A Reply.

Editor Courant-Teigen's carnou-
fiage editor Of his League Advocate
is 50 Interested in my trip to Wash
ington that he refuses to give his
readers some very instructive and inn
portant information. I suppose he
IS wondering where I got the money,
but his modesty prevents him from
asking thru the columns Of his paper,
Where did Stair get the money TO
pay hi expenses to Warrington?
don't believe there are % many peo-
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-09

The Ills and the Remedy.

Editor Courant-Fo1 20 years pre-
vious to 1915 this part Of the country
was systematically bIed by profteers
with little or NO help from any quar-
ter until now with the crucial test at
hand of how much we can produce to
save the liberties Of the world, it finds
many of the farmers bankrupt or
nearly SO, and their ability to produce
cut down probably SO per cent below
what it should be. Much Of the
ground is foul-h@ been mined in
order that the farmer might exist,
and if possible retain title to his
farm, each year finds more of his
neighbors becoming renters with farm
implements almost beyond use and in
many instances the farmer when
called upon for a maximum output, is
almost ~powerless to answer the call
True, both the state and Federal gov
ernments have come to his aid but
had such help been available five or
ten years earlier the output would
have been doubled and in places treb-
bled compared with what we will be
able to turn out this fall. The pack
ing interests, milling combine and the
grain gamblers are directly respo1-
sible for this condition. We are do
ing our best with these, drawbacks.
but it was a mistake to allow us to
be robbed so many years and it's an
other grave mistake to attempt to
block OUT legitimate efforts to i'm
prove OUT condition, even now. Those
who delay US and obstruct our move
ment r directly injuring the gov
eminent and it's most effectua1 helpers
in the present war. If any Of the
farmers or their organizers are intend
ing to make sedtious remarks. don't
stop them until they do it. Then give
them twenty years at Leavenworth,
but wait until they do it before the
railroading starts. Anticipating ONE
ones treason is a Junker trick, and
should never be tolerated in q republic.
We have too many would-be politi-
clans and too many boot lickers get
ting their ideas (?) from political pea
nuts emphasis on the nuts) too many
people repeating, parrot-1ike, the
things shipped in here by the big BUSH
ness press, which is rotten, and pro-
baby well paid for being so.
Some Of them don't think for them
selves, they've nothing to think with.
If the right to ~peaceable assemb-
lage guaranteed by the constitution
is to be taken from us, as indicated by
the newspapers, we should be careful
and not send that kind of paper re-
ports to the League members on the
western front in France. They are
fighting "Junkers" "over there" for
democracy" here. Let's not discour-
age them.
Truly yours,
Fred E. Sims.
Sims Ridge, May LIST, 1918.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-09
THE POLITICAL PHARIsEES' VAIL.

By far the most laughable phase of the polit-
ical situation in North Dakota just now is to be
found in the general wall of indignant protest
which is being sent up by the kept press because
of the possibility of Nonpartisans registering
as Republicans or Democrats in order to pre-
vent themselves from being DISTINGUISHED at
the approaching primary election.
At the time the present primary law was
enacted lit having been literally forced upon
the statute book by public clamor) it's trainers,
plant tools of the "old gang" were in the sad
die and in full control of the legislative branch
of the interests which they abjectly served,
they proceeded to place a joker in the law, the
result of which was to make it practically i'm
possible for those other than Republicans and
Democrats of the standpat or vertebraless type
to cast a vote at a primary election; at the
even members of these parties might have no
choice but to accept the slate selected long in
advance by a coterie of agile political thimble-
Triggers, most of whom were postgraduates of
the McKenzie-LaMoure school. Under this
shameful condition
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sim
either submit unmurmuringly to this remodeled
style Of boss rule or be read out of the party
of ones political faith.
What a far cry from the grand old party Of
Lincoln and Grant and Garield-or even Nc
Kenzie and LaMoure, for with all their faults
they were never accused of lack of brains-to
that of Louie-the-Little and Jerry-the-Joke!
. Should one be justly rated as an apostate to
: ones lifelong political creed and bear the stig-
ma of having been proven false to it's principles
because of refusal to recognize as leaders the
pair of self-seeking political buffoons, who by
.c9nsummate nerve and the lavish use of money
have forced themselves into the party's leader
chip .r, or to bow to the dictum inspired by them
in their parasitic newspaper following?
When the Republican party of North Dakota
shall have purged itself of the leadership of
these kneelers at the shrine Of chance, these in
competents who are making and must continue
to make the party ridiculous, and who have for
too long, to it's shame be it said, been allowed
to prostitute it's principles, profane it's temple
and desecrate it's fanes, then and not until then
will there be a possibility of the Nonpartisan
league having outlived it's usefulness.
Meantime both Democrats and Republicans
should not hesitate to register as such, and
when they go into the booth at the primary
election they should vote only to nominate the
men who in their judgment will be most likely
to best serve the interests of all in the event of
their election to the office to which they as
pire.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-09
WE'RE IN THE SAME BOX.

Thomas Allen Box, who was formerly a
non-partisan league organizer until Town
ley had Governor Frazier appoint him as
secretary of the state council of defense,
has been busy getting up a meeting of the
state n"ewspapermen in connection with the
said state council of defense at Bismarck
the latter part Of last week, but it seems
that he met with rather poor success. As
a rule the newspaper men of this state are
patriotic, and as a rule they do not feel
very we'll pleased to see such a man as Box
running the state council of defense. As
for ourselves, we feel that we are too much
of Al American citizen to wander off after
such men as Box, and even if we were right
in Bismarck at the time we would not go
across the street to attend that meeting.-
Devils Lake World.
Right you are, Milton old chap, and weir
with you to the last ditch-and into it. VIII,
is this fellow, Thomas Allen Box, (Phoebus
what a namely anyhow? You never heard o
him before? No more have I, and yet you an,
I have been here, "off and on" since the coun
try was first discovered by Col. Creel. There
fore we insist On joining you in your refusa
to wander off after such men as Box"-an
all the more readily because, of the fact tina
the measly cuss never invited us to his meet
ing, either.
Abas, Thomas Allen Box!