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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-02-28

Little Annabel Dot Malone, as
sisted by her mother, Mrs. Edwin
L. Malone, is entertaining some of
her little friends this afternoon.
because she is me year old today.
There are number of nice things
for little folks to do and to eat,
and it is an event long to be re-
'membered The invited guests
are Gordon Hull Smith. with his
mother. Mrs. Chester Smith; Ida
Belle Varney. accompanied by Mrs.
Varney; John Lewis Roberts. and
his mother, Mrs w A. Roberts;
Clara May Stafford. and her mot
her, Mrs. |. &. Stafford: Virginia
Milton. who is two years old to-
day, and her mother, Mrs. John
Milton; Helen Traylor and her
mamma, Mrs. Traylor; Mrs. W. E.
Renshaw, Mrs. Burger and Miss
Grace Curnow.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-03-13
OWNING VS..

More than three-quarters of the income which
goes to the rich people of the United States de-
partment Of internal revenue has just published
a ummary of statistics of income based on the
income figures for 1916. At that time there
were 429,4O1 people who received taxable" in
comes. That is, incomes in excess of $4,000 for
single persons and 5000 for married persons.
The total amount of gross income received
by these people was $3.50, 000, 900. One-fifth
of'this total was income from personal services,
either in the form of salaries or of professional
fees. Three-tenths was income from business
in the form of profits. The remainder GAG per
cent? was Income from property" divided as
follows: Rents $500, 600, 900, interest $685. ,000,-
900, dividends $2,136, 100000. These three
items with certain miscellaneous incomes wrom
property brought the total in this class up to
So, 1861, 100000.
People with the smaller incomes received
three-quarters of their income from personal
services and from business profits. People with
the higher incomes received one-third of their
income from personal service and business pro-
fits and two-thirds from property. In the case
Of those individuals having incomes between
$500, 900 and 81, 600, 1000 a year (there were 376
of them) the division was as follows: SILL
500, 900 in salaries and $94,00 900 in business
profits, $8,OOO,O 900 in rents, $685. ZOO, 900 as in
terest and $136, OOO 5000 as dividends. The to-
tai income from property of these 376 persons
was $500, 600, 900. ..
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-03-13
UNABLE TO REFORM.

The special interests can not stop. They can
fight for greater and greater profits, but they
can not limit their own grabbing in the inter
ests of general prosperity and more permanent
clearer than this in the history Of the past few
months.
Much more than half of'the s~o-called big men
of business have recognized publicly as well as
privately, in spite Of their ranting against dol
shevism' that the big problem of the day is not
awake workingman does that without big chan
ges in production and distribution, the war
means such increasing miseryNthat the people
can not stand ii. In fact, they know this better
because they have more information at their
command. They know, for instance, what is
happening in Europe; whereas the common peo-
pie here do not.
Yet when it comes to remedies, these inter-
ests;, so all powerful in acquisition, can do moth
ing. They can not agree to limit their own
power. Their stockholders, particularly those
who live entirely by owning rather than work
ing, clamor for maximum dividends in the next
six months. The intelligent leaders among
the ordinary course, which means protecting
privilege by any means-political force, econonn-
ic force, the force of the jail and the bayonet.
The misery of the masses, no matter how great
can have no influence on this compelling mo-
tive.
WnaC then can DT1ng ABOUT Tie new Zeal AOI
the masses? Only a force outside of and more
powerful than that of the special interests can
call the halt to the blind, heartless race toward
panic and misery. The only such force which
can be imagined is that of organized farmers
and city workers, united to dictate to the spec
ial interests for the welfare of the nation. They
can no act too quickly, for the evils are upon
us. Workmen and soldiers, in large numbers
and with no reserves, are even now seeking in
vain for employment. T."
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-03-13
WHY HOW'LL

Last weeks Advocate comes out
with a great TRADE against the farm
ers legislature Of North Dakota and
names the educational and what the
Advocate calls the muzzled press bills,
as the most vicious that were passed.
Now if they are the worst, as the Ad-
vocate says, why put up such holler
in primer type when every state in
the union except three has practically
the same laws governing the printing
Of all legal notices in one county pa
per. What is there vicious about that.
/ suppose that from the Farmers Adj
vocate point Of view the viciousness
will come in when the farmer prizes
the Advocate loose from the public tit
and it won't be able to live after it is
weaned 50 the poor thing will be muz-
zeled.
AS far as / can see that is all the
muzzleing there is in the bill.
The Advocate makes q great holler
because the Bottineau county members
Of the legislature voted for the bill.
Why should they not vote for it? #.
it would q v the state one hundred
and fifty thousand q year that was
being spent uselessly and was furnish
ing the money to run papers that were
fighting the farmers movement.
If the Bottineau county members Of
the legislature had not voted for the
press bill they would not have been
fit to represent the farmers who sent
them there.
The official paper will be designated
by the voters Of each county and is q
real democratic way Of doing it.
I wonder if the Advocate thinks it
can put over with it's primer type any
such raw stuff as it prints, claiming
that the seventeen thousand people Of
the county ought to take it as an in
suit for the voters to be allowed to
vote on which paper should do the le-
gal printing for the county. IF the
Advocate can't find anything worse
to howl about than it has dug up in it's
primer speal it better get that public
tit in it's mouth and that will stop it's
crying for a spell at least.-A Sub
scriber.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-03-13
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Conrad Iverson & wife to Mohall
Security Bank, W. D. 81. ShNEK %,
Sh NWA % 1872 SO.
Renville County Land & Loan Co.,
to J. P. Stevens, w. D. 100000 NWA
Is 161 80
Charley Christianson to Hezekiah
Gardner, w. D. $4,000 NWkSEA
1 1872 IA
Thomas Taylor & wife to Joseph
Parker Parkinson, w. D. 100000 Lot
1 SEANEA Sec. 4, EhSEA 4 L,ot4,
SWANWA Sec. 3, ShSEk 8 100 "A.
Charley N. Zuege to Oscar Bolen,
w. D., $115. EN- Lot 2 B 10 Thomas
Third Addition to Willow City.
Gardena State Bank, to John Burk-
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-03-13
THE T.

It is against the printing bills that the old
gang just now is shooting most of it's ammuni-
ton. The bills are described, in the lurid and
truth-careless phrase of the kept press, as in
tended to destroy a free press in North Dakota,
and compel all newspapers to do the bidding Of
Mr.. Brinton
AS always, the actual facts are very far from
what the kept press declares them to be. In
the first place, the printing bills will decrease,
by about SO per cent, the cost of public print
ing. Is it so terrible a thing, to seek to bring
about economy?
In the second place, all legal publications in
each county will, be published in one paper,
designated for that purpose for a two year term.
That displeases lawyers who like to hide legal
notices, but isn't it a mighty convenient thing
for the public?
In the third place, the people themselves, by
popular vote, will designate at each county cleo
ton the official county paper. The official news
papers now are designated by the county COM
missioners-and therefore must kow-tow to
them. Is it "autocratic," or destructive of a
free press, or in any way partial to the Nonpar-
tisan league, to provide that the official paper
shall in future be elected? Isn't that rather the
essence of democracy?
1t is true that, from July l, when the bills
become effective, until the next election, the Of
fetal papers will be designated by a state COM
mission, and the state commission will be Non
partisan. In other words, the administration
OI CHe Oils, Will De IflenQly faCner Cnan In un-
friendly hands. Somebody would have to desig-
nate the official papers until the first elections;
isn't the Nonpartisan League state administra-
ton at least as representative of public senti-
ment in North Dakota as the old gang?
Under the new laws some newspapers will
probably go out of business. They will be
merely those small, insignificant papers, entire
ly devoid of any influence or opinion of their
own, which have existed merely for public pap.
North Dakota jf%fournalism will be the better for
their going.
The printing bills are in every respect good.
They will reduce the cost of public printing;
they will make legal publications easily ~accessi-
BILE to all the people; they will allow the people
themselves in each county to choose the Off
cial Observation-Disclosures
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-03-13

hart, w. D., $4,000 Lots %, % ~
Block rs Of Coles Fifth Addition to
Omemee.
L. B. Wolfe & wife to Lars Sandvik,
w. D. $325.OO Lot 10 and North 8 #
of Lot IA Of Block A, in Comstock's
Addition to South Bottineau.
Olof IL. Swanstrom & Wife to State
Bank Of Newburg, w ID. 81, NWk II
100 80
John Mckay & wife to Joseph T.
Lexa, w. D. $4,000 NEA, SEX SW
X 10 1872 rs
Ole Anderson & wife to James A.
Thorburn, w. d. $500. NWA 8 1853
rs.
James C. Halsey & wife to M. F.
Murphy, w. D. $1.O0 Sh q & NWk
"a 1852 81
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-03-13
TRUST DEMOCRACY.

'The collective judgment of the people is
sound"-overa and over again this fact has been
demonstrated in our own country and abroad.
It has received a remarkable demonstration in
the work of the North Dakota legislature in the
session just closed.
With power there in the hands of representa-
tives of the peopl only, in the hands of men de-
clared by the special interest press to be lack
ing in intelligence and Judgment, this legisla-
ture has carried out the will of the people in a
sound, businesslike manner. We may grant to
the opposition that one of the peoples represen-
tatives could have worked out these laws him
self, but all together they worked out better
laws than any assembly of able politicians of the
old school could have offered and just as good
as any assembly of politicians actually willing to
do the right things, would have offered.
They had what politicians do not have-the
moral determination to serve the people, the
lack of which makes the politician the more dan
gerous the more able he is. Second, they were
willing to talk and study things over thoroughly
and the brains of the group combined produced
the logical, constructive, businesslike plans as
they were needed. More than this, being just
peoples representatives put into power by a
genuine peoples movement and not by their own
personal political climbing, there was not that
pride OF opinion and striving after position
which spoils so. many progressive majorities in
legislatures elected in the usual fashion.
Democracy can be trusted when it is given
g 4OAA AAAAANN W 1uIANL4OAs Vii LIIC Ot1lO1 1dAAO1
no assembly representing the common people in
the way that of North Dakota does, would have
committed the follies of our 'brainy" national
congress. Think, for instance, Of the consum-
mate folly of fixing prices on only two COM
modities, the folly of unchecked war profiteer-
ing, and more recently, the folly Of it's adjourn
ment without doing a single thing of import
ance to tide us over the reconstruction period!
Otto II. Becker and c. +. Wilson of Kramer
have charge Of the reorganization work for the
Nonpartisan League in Bottineau County for
1919-192O membership. Both report great sue:
cess. Around thirty per cent Increase over
1917-1918. This is the greatest answer the
farmers Of Bottineau County can give to the
lying attacksand slurs Of the opposition press
that have been heaped n the men whom the
farmers seen fit to have represent them in lbs
marck.
The discussion Of the laws enacted by the
farmer legislature which took place at Newburg
yegterday would. indicate that the opposition
press g Bottineau County and Of the state was
8 Cfng great deal of good for the league move
Iamrneank Nor fhis We wish % thank the Farm
.r A6pncnfA md fhA ret of the ORGANS o8
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-03-13
BALANCE-SHEET JEWS.

With about half the world fnanciers Jews,
and with all the world paying them unquestion-
ed homage, we were moved to smile when some
press agent announced that there were a num-
Der of Jews in prominen toffices in the new
Russian regime. We have no prejudice against
Jews as such, but we do confess to having con-
siderable against those high in Wal street be-
cause of their trade. And then we think Of
poor France oking the Rothschilds over II bill
lion dollars and Lord Reading picked because
of his great wealth as British ambassador to
the United States. Someone once made the re-
mark that the Jew fnanciers were repaying the
Christians for centuries Of persecution on &C
count of faith.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-03-13

AS will be noticed on the front page of this
edition the sheriff Of Martin county, Mimi, has
paid $500 to Joseph Gilbert to settle a suit for
kidnapping and thus acknowledges the official
oppression practiced by that notorious county
against the League farmers. We are glad to
see the iron thus driven in and the anti-farmer
gang will get more Of it as the courts slowly
perform their functions. What the gang start
ed, others will finish and in q way not at all to
their liking.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-03-13

P~hotophobia, a very common disease describ-
ed by the independent press, is SO named by ex-
perts from the fact that it's victims love dark
ness rather than light. It was known in bibli-
cal times, when the caus ascribed was sabecause
their deeds are evil" So far it has been known
to attack only plutocrats and politicians favor
able to them. The espionage law and the con-
sorship, as now operated, are the results Of this
terrible disease. Abundant light is the only
known remedy, and il is unpatented
Certain people once took the salne stand to-s
ward the automobile thatt they now tabe toWard
the Nonpartisan league program.
After following the old-gan1 leeislstne forI
3 time the far1ner WA reulfndedS f51 = WHO
once heard his fleas taIlfnes Aa fa
The Washington times., 1919-04-24
HUGE MHEAT sTocII.

Survey OF commercial stocks OF
wheat April 1. showed 166,964, ,626
bushels-nearly four times that held
by the same firms reporting a year
The Washington times., 1919-04-24
.16D. c. MERCHANTS
At CREDIT MEETING

Sixteen Washington business men
are attending the second annual con-
/ ference of credit grantors of Mary
land, Virginia, and the District of Co
lumbia at the Hotel Emerson, Balti-
more, today.
The Washington Association Of
Credit Men has been circularizing
its members in order to find out how
many are interested in foreign trade,
and who will probably use the foreign
credit interchange bureau, which is
being organized by the National Asso-
citation Of Credit Men, with which the
local association is affiliated. This
bureau will be discussed at the con-
ference.
Raymond D. Stevens, vice chairman
Of the United States Shipping Board,
and J. Harry Tregoe, secretary-treas-
urer OF the National Association OF
Credit Men, will be the speakers at
dinner to be given this evening by
the Baltimore association.
Washington men attending the con-
ference are Karl G. Mueller, president;
r. Preston Shealey, secretary, and
Of the Washington Association Of
Credit Men; James B. Sullivan, Of the
Alexandria Fertilizer and Chemical
Company; W. ]. Wenbourne, OF the
Capital Refining Company; A. ].
Horstman, OF the Crane Company; n.
V. Haynes, president Of the Farmers
and Mechanics National Bank; A. w.
Wright, OF the Kingan Provision
Company: George ]. CIaudice, Of the
Lyon-Conklin Company: Arthur ].
May. Of the F. P. May Hardware Com
pany; John +. Moore. Of George F.
Muth & Co.; F. w. White. OF the Ma
tional Electric Supply Company; Her
man SchrOt of Schrot Brothers;
Raphael Semmes, of the Semmes Mo
tor Company; H. l.. wilkins, of The
wilkins Rogers Milling Company, and
James S. Mckee vice president OF A.
Eberle's Sons, Inc.
The Washington times., 1919-04-24
RHODE ISLANDO O.K.'S
CENT BEER

PROVIDENCE, r. T.. April 24.-Ail
that was needed today to start the
manufacture and distribution of 4
per cent beer in this State was the
signature Of the governor on the
measure passed by the house last
night declaring it nonintoxicating.
The action was in concurrence with
the senate.
Expert testimony was heard by
committees OF the house and senate.
In their opinion, they said. beer con-
tanning as much as 4 per cent alcohol
is not Intoxicating.
Several other States may determine
what percentage of alcohol will be
permitted in beer consumed in their
respective borders. Rhode Island Is
the first to take this step.
The Washington times., 1919-04-24
Say, Men, If You're Slim
And Adore Fancy Work,
You'll Like New Styles

CHICAGO, April 24.-Men who
do not like freak" clothes are
going to be out Of style this
season.
Three hundred delegates to the
United Clothlets' convention in
session here declared today that
waist-seam. suits, wide cuffs, belts,
and other folderols, will be
features of mems clothes this
year. The derby hat, they also
declared, is going out, and soft,
lightweight hats are coming in.
Clothing prices will be no lower
but neither will they be higher,
the dealers said, but materials
will be better.
The Washington times., 1919-04-24

means Of cementing the friendship
OF children OF the two countries.
Planting Of trees on May Day
wherever possible will be very sig
niicsnt and a worthy memorial 20
stricken France" said Mr.. Pack tc-
day. The American Forestry Asso.
citation is aiding IN reforesting the
battle areas of that country and by
planting trees the children Of this
country will have before them a fine
lesson Of what they can do to aid
France"
There will be May Day parties and
parades in thousands of towns, Myron
T. Herrick, president Of the commit.
tee, is informed.
The Washington times., 1919-04-24
.FIEND RECAPTURED;
RENEW TRIAL TODAY

EASTON, Nd. April 24.-The trial
Of Isaiah Fountain, a negro, inter-
rupted by his daredevil escape Mon
Day night, will be resumed today. He
was recaptured late yesterday in a
barn at Hartley, Del. He is charged
with assaulting a girl.
Three companies OF State troops
are on guard at the Jail and court
house today, having been ordered
here by Governor Harrington on re-
quest OF the local officials.
All last night a crowd estimated at
5000 people moved about the Jail. but
held their temper as they looked into
the muzzles Of army rifles carried by
the troops.
Fountain, according to the story
told by his captors. stopped at Van
SAINTS drug store, at Greensboro,
Tuesday night and purchased a pack
age OF cigarettes. A few minutes
later he walked up to the rear door
of Hobbs grocery store and raped
for admission. When Mrs. Hobbs
went to the door she found standing
there a rather soiIed and agitated
negro.
The negro wanted to buy some
cakes. She sold him cents worth.
He thanked her. said goodnight"
and disappeared in the darkness.
Yesterday morning Mrs. Hobbs
told friends OF her experience. She
saw a description OF the negro in a
newspaper and Immediately had the
sheriff notified.
The posse proceeded to Green's
boro. where the search began.
Fountain wss found in a barn hidden
beneath some hay.
The Washington times., 1919-04-24
VA. ASKS RECEIVERS
FOR OLD WAR DEBT

The State of Virginia has asked
the Supreme Court to appoint receiv-
ers for the money to be paid Virginia
by West Virginia as the latter's share
Of Virginia's war debt.
The court also was asked to make
arrangements for disbursement Of the
money and bonds after they had been
paid Virginia. The payment consists
of $1,1O0,0OO in cash and &13,40O,OOO in
81 per cent bonds. The cash pay
ment already has been made.
The Washington times., 1919-04-24
WEDS AGAIN; BABY:
DIVORCE ANNULLED

ANNAPOLIS, Nd, April 24-Charles
Kott's haste in contracting q second
marriage after the circuit court for
Baltimore city had granted him . di-
Vorce from Tina Kott has caused
much embarrassment, now that the
court OF appeals. in an opinion deliv-
cred by Judge PattisOn this morning,
has revoked the decree.
The situation is the worse because
OF the fact OF a child having been
born during the second marriage.
This fact was brought to the court
OF appeals. but the judges ruled they
could not take il into consideration.
The divorce was granted on
grounds OF abandonment by the wife
The court of appeals held that the
actual abandonment which the wife
admitted had been caused by fault Of
the husband to decree which would
prevent it being a cause through
which he could secure the divorce.
The Washington times., 1919-04-24
PLANT MEMORIAL
TREES ONMAY DAY

In many places where Franco-Amer-
lean Fete Day will be celebrated OF
May /, this year, memorial trees will
be planted to mark the day, reports
20 the American Forestry Associa-
tion say. In a letter today to Charles
LIathrop Pack, president Of the Ame-i-
can Forestry Association and a mem
Der Of the American Committee for
Devastated France, Miss Elizabeth
Perkins, of'Hew York. points out thag
the planting Nof trees will be a ine
The Washington times., 1919-04-24
YANKs TO QUTr FRANCE SOON.

LONDON, April 24.-All France will
be cleared OF American troops by Au-
gust, the Pail Mall Gazette learns
Certain units OF the American army
occupation (Third army may remain
in the Rhine zone after peace is
signed. American general headduar-
ters, now in France. will soon be
moved to Antwerp. the big Belgium
port. This will be done in order to
relieve the burdened French railways
and to allow the fastening OF French
reconstruction.
The Washington times., 1919-04-24
THIS snrIRAcLE. COSTLY.

PHILADELPHIA, April 24.-Frank
Kelly. crippled beggar. expressed sur
prise when he discovered he had sud
denly acquired arms and legs after a
copper told him to "move on" Kelly
will ponder over the miracle for the
next six months.
The Washington times., 1919-04-24
AUTO THIEVES SHOOT
AND KILL POLICEMAN

CHICAG o, April 24.-Polieeman
Henry Handleco was shot and In
stantly killed by one or two automo-
bile thieves he caught trying to steal
an automobile early today.
The thieves escaped and are being
sought by the "rife squad"
The Washington times., 1919-04-24
FRANCE LIFTS BAN ON
IMPORTING RAW SUGAR

France has abrogated her restric-
tions on the importation OF raw su-
gar. the War Trade Board was ad
vised today.
As a consequence. the board states.
raw sugar for refining and for the
manufacture OF chocolate. confec-
tionery, preserves. biscuits, dry
cakes. canned fruits, liquors. and
other products, can now be shipped
into France
The Washington times., 1919-04-24
WOMAN HAS TWO HUSBANDS,
QUESTION PUZZLES COURT

BOSTON, April 24.-Mrs. T. NJ. Luz
cas- has two husbands. She thought
the first was dead and recently mar
ried again. Now husband No. / has
returned and Mrs. Lucas would like to
drop No. ?. The court is undecided
about il.
The Washington times., 1919-04-24

ago. The figures refer to stoeks
actually reported and DO not repre-
sent the total commercial stccka OF
the country. nor do they includs
stocks on fsrma.
The Washington times., 1919-04-24
PROHIBITION KILLED so
IN ONE COUNTY, HE SAYS

NEW YORK, April 24-"Prohlbition
killed fifty people in DeKalb county,
Ala. I'm going TO France" announced
J. *. Norton, Chattanooga, on the eve
Of sailing for wetter points.
The Washington times., 1919-04-24
CHICAGO CHICKENS sLEEPY-sICK

CHICAGO, April 24.-Sleeping chick
ems, unheard OF by Chicago loop
hounds. are the. cause. OF much dis
tress here. Several blue ribbon
Rhode Island Reds have been attack
ed by "encephaIItis lethargica."