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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-01-01
POLITICIAN BUYS
TAlLLESS GOATS
l.,
iBILLICAN PALMS OFF THREE
MARKED ANIMALS ON
tE ANDY MILLER

'Three tailless goats-real League
Billican gcats-are estray somewhere
in North Dakota, and thereby hands
a tale.
Z, When the special session was on,
Andy Miller, former attorney gener-
al, watched his opportunity and one
afternoon when the lobby of the Nc
Kenzie Hotel in Bismarck was almost
deserted he slyly approached Billican,
father of the goatherd and said:
s"Are you the fellow who sells the
goats?"
Billican looked the politician in the
eye and fathomed his purpose to use
the goats in some tricky way to de-
ceive some unsuspecting victim. He
had a pocket full of goats, but he
didn't show any of them.
"I want to get a couple for a fel-
low in the country" said Miller.
'"I am sorry" said Billican, "but I
haven't any just now."
"Will you have some tonight?"
Billican replied that he would. He
then slipped owed and got a jeweler
to cut the tails off two goats, there
by marking them and preventing the
politician from putting them to some
dishonest use.
Late in the evening when the lobby
was clear again Miller approached
Billican, and was handed the two tail
less goats giving $500 for them. Mil
ler slipped them into his pocket and
hurried away without looking at them.
Billican then spread the news among
the Leaguers to look out for the tail
less goats.
The day Billican was leaving for
Fargo, Miller approached him boldly
and asked in an off-hand way:
! "Have you got a goat? I'll give
$500 for one."
; Billican replied that he didn't have
any, but Miller caught sight of the
, one on Billican's watch chain.
"I wouldn't sell that one for any
pffce," said Billican. "It was the frs
goat made and I wouldn't part will
it. Go to Beecher Stair, he is the Of
ficial goat herder now, and maybe
he'll sell you one"
Billican knew where Stair was then
and hurried to him and asked him tc
have another goats tail amputated
Shortly after he left for Fargo. Ir
few days Stair wrote Billican that
he had sold another tailless goat te
Andy Miller.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-01-01
ADVANCE RATES
OF ADVERTISING
THE INCREASED CIRCULATION
AND HIGH COST OF MATER
IALS REASON

Commencing next week the Courant
advertising rates will advance to 20
cents per in"h.
Circulation is the main reason for
advance, while the price Of print paper
and all other materials which enters
into the making of a newspaper have
ac> ance.' as lugh as 800 pei cent over
the last year or So. Instead of print
paper coming down after the war as
was expected, it has advanced to such
figure that many smaller papers
will have to suspend publication.
Our circulation at the present time
is far in advance of all papers of Bot
tineau County and the one assurance
an advertiser in The Courant gets is
that our circulation is bona fide and
reaches the people within the county.
Advertising in The Courant at 20
cents per inch is the cheapest adver-
tising in Bottineau County, when cir
culation is considered.
Hereafter all local reader notices,
will be ten cents per line per issue,
LIZ SuISu Ou IAlC UcsoIS VI SlA "O1Oo W
the line.
One inch professional cards per year
will be $1,000; one and one half inch
cards, $500 and two inch cards
Price List Installed
We also wish to announce the in
stallation Of the Franklin Printing
Price List, the "one-price-everything-
observation-disclosures" idea applied
to printing.
With the use of this list The Cour-
ant will henceforth sell printing the
same as merchant sells sugar or
any other merchandise. Instead of
"guess-estimating" the price of job
to a customer as other shops do, The
Courant can quote you a definite fig
ure on any class of work and you will
know that you are paying for the
work, plus small profit to us, and
not being held up, as is often the case
under the "guess" plan of selling
printing. We will also know that when
we quote a price from the Franklin
Price List we will neither hold you up
for the job nor do the work at loss
to ourselves.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-01-01
Forestry Lecture Course Monav Flowers Grand Theatre JAM 1920
CLASSED
WITH BEST OF SCHOOL

The following taken from the Shat
tuck Spectator, the official paper Of
Shattuck Military School, certainly
bestows the highest honors possible
upon Edwin M. Ertresvaag, Captain Of
the football team and Bottineau boy:
"To be captain of so wonderful a
team as that Of the recent season is
no small responsibility and honor.
Edwin M. Ertresvaag, right tackle,
lived magnificently up to the one, and
unquestionably deserved the other.
By his work this season he has put
himself in the class Of the famous
Shattuc1 tackles-with his brothers,
Adolph and Ingolf; with Radford, cap
tain of the championship team Of
1896 and with Hanson, captain of the
1917 championship team. There was
not steadier, more dependable play
er on the team than Ertresvaag. More
over, he had an asset which those
tackles did not possess: he was an ac-
curate place-kicker. Twice in the
Pillsbury game he sent the ball over
the crossbar. With Claydon's as
sistance, he rendered his side of the
line impregnable on the defense"
The Shattuck football team won
every game played this last year and
only three opposing teams were able
to even score on them. The school
piled up total of $40 points to their
opponents %.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-01-01
LEAGUE LEADERS TO
OPEN FARMERS HALL

The farmers of North Dakota now
have their own hall in Grand Forks.
Whenever they want to hold meeting
in the city, the big hall on the second
floor of the Grand Forks American is
open to them.
The opening of the hall will be eel
ebrated by farmer meeting here on
Friday, January 9th, at two o'clock in
the afternoon. Governor Lynn J. Fra
zier and A. C. Townley, president Of
the Nonpartisan League will speak at
the celebration on the need of a free
press.
The meeting at Grand Forks will
be preceded by two meetings in Walsh
and Nelson counties. The governor
and Mr.. Townley will speak at both
of these also. The first will be at
Grafton Wednesday, January Z, at 2
D. m. The second will be at Michigan
Thursday afternoon, January 8. All
meetings will be at two o'clock in
The afternoon 50 that q big attendance
is assured.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-01-01
FORESTRY LECTURE COURSE

Montaville Flowers addresses are
like cathedrals-they have great plan,
impressive structure, perfection in de
tail, intrinsic value and noble purpose.
One has said that they are not lectures
but "institutions." They have style,
unity, grasp and completeness. Their
effect remains in the soul of the hear
er long after both speaker and speech
have become dim in the memory.
Mr.. Flowers is a distinct personal
ity in American life, fast expanding
force in American affairs. He deals
only with fundamental and essential
things, and has the remarkable power
of stating most difficult general prop
ositions with crystalline clearness. ard
he supports them with comprehon-
sive array Of facts Of vital interest,
driving home with them powerful i',-
pulses to noble deeds. The lecture will
be held at the Grand Theatre Satur-
day night, January Bird.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-01-01
N. D. SHIPPERS
SAVED 100000
LEAGUE ADMINISTRATIVE WINS
IMPORTANT REDUCTION IN
FREIGHT RATES

After a fight that has lasted four
months, the state board Of railroad
commissioners won from the federal
railroad commission Tuesday a re-
duction of joint haul rates in North
Dakota to the same level as the Min
nesota rates.
This means that freight moving
within the state over more than one
line goes at a reduction of from 10 to
Is per cent below the former rates,
which will result in savings of over
100000 to shippers annually and will
tend to break North Dakota loose
from the commercial domination of
the big Twin City interests.
Commissioner C. F. Dupuis, who led
in the fight to force the abolition Of
the old discriminatory rates, explains
the Importance of this League admin
istration as follows:
The several hundred thousand dol
lars which these new rates will save
for the shippers and farmers is not
the biggest advantage gained" said
Mr.. Dupuis. 'They broaden the terri
tory Of the North Dakota Jobbers, so
that they can compete on the same
terms with the Twin City houses.
"Then, too, the new rate paves the
way for the new state mill at Grand
Forks to compete with the milling in
terest in the Twin Cities. Under the
old system it cost the farmers the full
local rate from point to point; when
their grain shipments went over more
than one line. These local rates being
usually for short hauls ran more than
the thru rates to the Twin Cities OF
Duluth markets. Such condition as
this would, of course, discriminate
against the state mill at Grand Forks
But the new provision is that on a
carload grain shipments over more
than one line the joint rate paid is
only 85 per cent of the sum of the
local rates."
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-01-01
CLERK OF COURT
FORMER STENO

Three employees in the Clerk of
Courts office at Fargo are conspicu-
Gus examples of the progress often
made by pupils of the Dakota Business
College, Fargo, N. D., owing to the ex-
ceptional training received at that in
stitution.
Mr.. Ralph Croal, formerly deputy,
was named Clerk of Court by the
county commissioners recently. Miss
Hurley, stenographer, was advanced
to deputy and Mrs. E. A. Anderson
succeeded her. All three are D. B c..
graduates.
"Follow the successful" Write F. L..
Watkins, Pres, S06 Front St., Fargo,
N. D., for information.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-01-01
THOSE /. Y. A. HOGS

Are not the kind Of hogs / have.
Mine are high grade Birkshire Du-
roch bred sow to farrow first week in
April, at. $500 each, if taken soon
Weight 18O pounds. F. o. B. cars eith-
er Newburg Or Russell. Also some reg
istered Duroch Bears at $4,000 each,
weight 18O pounds. Two registered
Hampshire Bears, $4,000 each, weight,
1856 pounds each. Pedigrees furnished
free. G. Kane, Owner, Russell, n.
OAK. 2t.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-01-01
MILLIONS LOANED
N. D. FARMERS
BANK OF NORTH DAKOTA ASKED
FOR OVER SEVEN MILLIONS
IN FARM LOANS

The phenomenal success of the
Bank of North Dakotaa is indicated
by the monthly report just issued.
Four accomplishments of the bank
stand out, showing
That the bank has authorized 479
farm loans for total of 81 100000,
in spite of the fact that the farm loan
department. has been organized only
two months. Of all loans acted on,
only 10 have been rejected.
That the bank has been operated at
a clear profit above all salaries and
expenses of $67 7.993.27 during the 1877
days of it's existence.
That the bank now stands ready to
pay back to the state treasury out of
it's earnings the $23,954.10 which it
used of the 100000 appropriation pro
vided for it's establishment.
That the bank has become the clear
ing house of the state, clearing over
$33,O0O,OOO Of checks, drafts and
transfers during the month ending on
Dec. 18th.
The rapid growth Of the farm loan
department is the more remarkable
when the handicap the banks offic-
ers have had to overcome are con-
sidered.
Director General Cathro presents
a detailed statement showing the exact
status of the farm loan applications
made up to Dec. Is. This statement
shows that in addition to the 479 farm
loans approved by the general finance
committee Of the bank which passes
on all applications there are now in
the hands of that committee for ac-
ton 1868 applications for loans total
ing $1,521 .337.
In the hands of the appraising board
Of the bank are 819 more applications
for loans totaling $1,356, $3.50 and there
are 552 other applications for a total
Of $780, ,551 which the appraisers
have not yet had an opportunity to
inspect. In all loans awaiting action
by the bank finance committee amount
10 $5,475,268. ~
Another interesting thing about the
operation of the farm loan division is
that of the 489 loans acted on by the
general finance committee of the bank
10 have been rejected.
The work of making quick disposal
Of the large number of loans before
the bank has been considerably ham,
pered by the early snowfall and Di-
rector General Cathro explained that
q large number of applications will
have to lie over until next spring when
the snow leaves the ground.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-01-01
STORY RELATED OF DESTRUC
TION OF 10000 COPIES OF
". A. MAGAZINE

The second and probably the last
number of the "Red Flame" official
mouthpiece of Kositzky and other
turncoats, has a cartoon on its first
page showing on bill board a repre-
sentation of Governor Fraz1:" with
the legend: Townley's Choice for
President" There is another billboard
in the picture which is perfectly blank.
Insorn.ation has leaked out accounting
for this somewhat peculiar and useless
waste of space, and also for the fact
that this edition of the "Red Flame"
was late in making it's first appear
ance.
Leaguers who saw former edition
Of this issue with this billboard COW
cred by picture, relate the following
story: Through bad break on the
part Of the "Red Flame" artist the
blank billboard originally contained an
advertisement Of well known tire
company, usually seen on prominent
corners along the highways. It ap-
pears that the "Red Flame" crowd
in agined they were doing something
clever in behalf of the tire company
and expected some kind of gift from
this company when the latter discov-
cred the amount of advertising it had
received.
The effect, according to informants,
was entirely different than had been
anticipated. The tire company was
highly Indignant over this use Of it's
name without it's knowledge and con-
sent in cartoon defaming the COVER
nor and farmers Of the state. Instead
Of having the goodness Of being
tickled to death, it demanded that the
ad be eliminated from the cartoon.
Thirty thousand copies Of the Red
Flame" has been run off containing
the tire company ad. There was moth
ing to do but chisel the type and pic
ture Of the tire from the offending
billboard and run 10000 more copies
Of the "Red Flame" at the present
tremendous price Of paper and other
expenses.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-01-01
NOTICE

We are again il position 70 grind
feed. Woodward Electric Lirht
Plant s.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-01-01

# FOR SALE-Two small farms in
NE Turtle Mountains adjoining Lakes.
Will take Ford u cattle as part pay
n,..rat. See S. H. Wilson =.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-01-23
DRUGS FEARFUL AND AWFUL
Amazing Connections That Our Ances-
tors Swallowed, Believing That
They Had Medicinal Virtues.

The medicines used down to even
recent days sound most extraordinary
to our ears. AS late as the eighteenth
century dried toad was seriously con-
sidered specific against the plague.
In an article In the New York Med
tcal Journal Or. William Renwick
Riddell OF Toronto, Canada, mentioned
a few of the remedies in vogue.
plaster made of arsenic was APP
piled to cancers. Bleeding was prac-
ticed on all occasions, even In the
time of our grandparents. But the
sovereign remedy Of all was known
rs mlthridatium or theriaca This was
the great antidote OF Roman phnr-
macy. 1t originally had 40 or 30 In
gradients, all vegetables, hut NerO's
physician, AndromachuS. added the
flesh of vipers. Every physician had
his own variation of the formula. and
Matteoli in the sixteenth century put
no less than 100 ingredients into 1t.
The name theriaca or theriac, I'M
der which 1t was commonly known,
was derived from the Greek THEREON"
q wild beast, as the stuff was consid-
cred a specific against the poisonous
bites of beasts and serpents. The
French word "theriaque" was corrupt
ed into the English "treacle," and the
medicine was known In England as
Venice treacle." 1t was the famous
Sydenham who first opposed the use
Of drugs In fact when Sir Richard
Blackmore asked him for good guide
In practice, he replied Don Quixote,"
and declared that the arrival Of a good
of city than that of 20 asses laden
with drugs.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-01-23
PEARLS FAMOUS IN HISTORY
Romance Surrounding Them Tran.
sends That of Any Other Of the
Worlds Priced Gems.

What unbelievable romance there Is
In the lives of certain pearls, passion.
ately admired. desired. awaited. stolen.
sold as beautiful slaves then returned
again to their glory in the oriental
luxury of a dladem or on the neck OF
an empress, Reflect upon those which
were enshrouded thousands of years
ago In the jade casket of some Chi
nese emperor, and which. suddenly ex.
humed, find new life in rejecting the
SKY Others, in Greece. have adorned
the statues of Venus. in the temples
or, at Rome, after the conquest of the
East, have received imperial honors.
The patrician women, NJ. Rosenthal re.
minds US decked themselves with
pearls during their slumbers to possess
them i'm their dreams. and they sus-
pended them by threes from their ears
that the tinkling of the pendants
might remind them of their beauty
which they could not see.
There was that pearl of million
which Julius Caesar offered to Ser.
villa, mother of Brutus. There were,
in our history. the pearls of Isabel de
Bayiere, Of Mary Stuart the gift Of
Catherine de Medici, and those OF
Henry III. Pearls were present at
dramatic moments, concerning which
they tell us with more impressive ex-
actness than the historians of the
time; and you can imagine all that the
gems which adorn the portraits of the
tlorentine Renaissance must know Of
the tragic intimacies of that SensuOus
sixteenth century, so gorgeous and
murderous. One pearl once had ia
nous name, the name of a conrtesan.
1t was called La Perigrina (The In
comparable). 1t belonged to King
Philip II Of Spain, and Saint-Simon
(the historian) felt himself glOrfied
from having once held it, for an in
slant, in his hands.-"Flaneur, in In
dianapollS Star.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-01-23
PEARLS Transformation.

For two or three years in the seas
Of Japan, the Antilles or the Indies,
at depth of not more than ten or
twelve meters, the marvel known as
a pearl has its birth, takes form and
grows in its sheltered infancy. Then
there comes a day when suddenly, bru-
tally, something tragic and wonderful
happens. After the great excitement
of a rude unrooting, the pearl awakens
TO daylight like the princess of the
fairy tales. Passionate, mad eyes gaze
upon her. Perhaps, already. the divers
are killing each other over her. But
a master comes and assures her pro-
lection, places her among companions,
and with them surrounds her with a
thousand attentions by dint of which
she loses that look Of extreme youth
and elnenness which has fingered from
the 80 Ourn in the ocean.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-01-23
Armenia's Homer,

Armenia, as we'll as Greece, had a
Homer. Like Homer, Moses of
Khorene, who wrote in the seventh
century, was held to be dealing alto
gether with tradition until archaeOlOg-
zeal discoveries revealed the fact that
some of his personageS We're historic.
according to the Christian Science
Monitor. Semiramis, the queen who
built the city of Van, much as Homer
describes Dido building the city Of
Carthage. has been found 'ln the rec
ordS of the past; but the civilization
of her day was overthrown by Cyrus
and his successors, and the land be-
came Armenia, and entered upon a
period of about a thousand years
when general iliteracy obtained
among the population. Concerning
this period practically no record sur
wives. Not until the fourth century
did the land, now influenced by Chris
tianity, begin to find self-eXpressiOn 4;
so it is hardly strange that what Moses
of Khorene wrote was long held to be
wholly of his Imagination.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-01-23
The lineup
W.S.C.l32)
VETERINARIANS INACCURATE
NEW POSTGRADUATE COURSE

The postgraduate course for vet
erinarians, given by the college of
veterinary science, is attracting
many of the leading veterinarians OF
the west.
DR.. John F. McLenna, formerly a
captain in the U. S. army at Fort
oglethorpe and at present associat-
ed with the Lederle Laboratories, has
been procured to give special lee
lures in the postgraduate school.
Those enrolled in the past-gradu-
ate school are James H. Woodside,
Redmond, Wash; Otis A. Longley,
san Francisco, Calf; Wallace V.
Hlalger, Coquille, Ore. j. c. Thomp-
son. Pomeroy, Wash; Peter G.
Macintosh, Yakima, Wash; G. B.
fast' Ritzville, Wash; A. R. Gal
oraith, Garfield, Wash; w. T. John
son. Puyallup, Wash; Thomas Ell
MOTT, Uniontown, Wash.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-01-23
JELLYFISH'S STING NO JOKE
Pest Known as Portuguese Man-of-
War" is Dreaded by Bathers, for
Excellent Reasons.

The jelyfish has long been the sub
Ject Of mlrth and Jest, but at times 1t
Is aggressive and formidable. and its
sting Is source Of fear for bathers.
The sting Of the southern Portuguese
1ellytish, known technically as the No
meus, is very severe.
Jellyfsh are found in the trade
wind belts Of all oceans. Each Por-
tugueSe "man-of-war," as the jellyfish
Is sometimes known, Is made ND of a
number Of small animals Of tie Jelly
fish order, which have in common an
iridescent colOred, bubble-like float.
about the size of a mans hand. which
rests on the surface Of the water. A
fin or sail enables the float to make
Roadway across the wind, rather than
with It. The jellyflsh has long paper
like tentacles, and these are equipped
with the stingS. When they brush
against bathers they burn and leave
red welts that itch and burn for hours
and should two or three pass over a
mans arm at once, they would almost
paralyze it, Some years ago scientists
discovered little man-Of-war fish that
accompanies the man-Of- war iellyfish.
1t swims around the float until danger
threatens, when 1t sneaks underneath
and IS safe from harm under the pro-
lection of the jellyfish's tentacles.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-01-23
Possible Cause of Fever.

The Medical Journal asks If "all fe-
yer, or at least a large proportion Of
1t, may not be due to some change in
the fluids of the body which prevents
water from being available as persplr-
alton which by its evaporatlon serves
to keep the body cool"
It may be that the practice of maxi
ing fever patient perspire freely has
another purpose than the washing out
Of impurities from the blood, this be-
Ing an actual cooling by evaporation.
IAN abundance of water has been
found beneficial in fevers, and there
are many clinicianS who are decidedly
of the opinion that cOld-water baths
have much more than merely II direct
and mechanical refrigeratlng purpose,
for they are followed by rather free
diuresls and often also by pcrspira-
ton. Indeed, one Of the great indica-
tons for bath in fever Is that the
skin is dry and hot, for 1t is under
these circumstances that the bath will
do much good"