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kirgan's arms and sort of half tainted,
ii seemed.
Because, when came to, right good
again, Kirgan had me up on the fire.
mans box, with an arm around me to
hold me there: Billy Gorcher was on
the other side OF the cab, niggling at
the throttle; and the light engine was
clicking it off about fifty miles an
hour on the straight piece of track
between Portal City and Arroyo.
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Trades Leaders Indicted.

Chicago.-True bills were '"1
against Thomas Kearney, preslael
the Chicago Building Trades 0oun',
Simon O'Donnell, his predecessor = !;
four other labor agents, by se,
grand jury, it was announced pyus =,
German, assistant states ATTORNEY. =
grand jury, together with the ps.s
joint legislative committee, mas ~ Il
investigating alleged graft in the w.
ing industry here.
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THE BOSS is BACK ON THE JOB.


Dodds at sand Creek siding with young lady e MaeTas
of
by
in
l
which
Citizens Warehouse
S but
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the engine headlight showed us the
remains of the old saw-mill camp ly-
ing in little pocket-like valley from
the sides of which all the mill timber
had been cut. The camp had been
long deserted. There were perhaps
dozen Shacks of all sizes and shapes,
and with single exception they We're
all dilapidated and dismantled, some
with the roofs falling in.
The one exception was the stout log
building which had probably served as
the mill-gang commissary and store.
The ties at this end of the line were
so rotten with age that our engine
was grinding good half Of them TO
powder as she edged up, and little
below the switch that had formerly
led in TO the mill, Kirgan gave Gorcher
the stop signal.
After we had piled off. there wasn't
any question raised as TO what we
should do. Kirgan had taken ham
mer from GOrcher's tool-boN, and he
was the one who led the way straight
across the little creek and up the hill
to the commissary.
When We reached the building we
found the windows all boarded up and
the door fastened with strong hasp
and q bright new brass padlock-the
only new thing in sight. Kirgan swung
his hammer just once and the lock
went spinning of down the slope and
fell with a splash into the creek. Then
he pushed the door open with his foot,
and showed in; and for just one half
second I was afraid TO follow-afraid
OF what we might find In that gloomy
looking log warehouse. with its blinded
windows AMI locked door
While I was nerying myself and
stumbling over the threshold behind
Kirgan with the lantern, I heard the
boss voice. and it wasn't the voice of
From what he said. and the way he
was trimming it up with hot ones,
it was evident that he took US for
some other crowd that he'd been
cussing out before.
The light of the lantern showed US
long room, bare of furnishings, and
dark and musty from having been
shut up so tight. In the far end there
were couple of hunks built against
the log wall. On what had once been
the counter of the commissary there
was a lot of canned stuff and a box
of crackers that had been broken open,
and on bench by the door there was
bucket of water and a tin cup.
The boss was sitting up in one of
the hunks, and he was still tearing off
language in strips at US when we
closed on him. He recognized Kirgan
first, and then Gorcher l guess he
couldn't see me very well because
l was holding the lantern. When
he found out who We were, he
stopped swearing and got up out of
the bunk TO put his hand on Mart
Kirgan's shoulder. That was the
only break he made TO show that he
was man, like the rest of us. The
next minute he was the big boss
again, rapping out his orders as If he
had just pushed his desk button to
call US in.
you've got an engine here, I sup
pose?" he snapped, at Klrgan. "Then
We'll get out of this quick What day
of the week is itf"
1 told him it was Friday, and by
his asking that, I knew he must have
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been so roughly handled that he had
lost count Of time. The next order
was shot at the two firemen.
you boys kick that packing-box to
pieces and then pull the straw out of
that bunk and touch match to 1t.
Well make sure that they'll never
lock anybody else up In this id dog
hole"
The two young huskies obeyed the
order promptly. In half minute
the dry slab stuff that the hunks were
built Of was ablaze and the boss
herded us to the door, and a minute
or SO later we were all climbing into
the cab Of the waiting engine.
We had to run 80 slowly down the
old track to the "Y" that there was
plenty Of chance for the boss to talk,
if be had wanted to. But apparently
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Comet Not Coming Close

Cambridge, Mass.-Winneckes "a 4.
ct will probably not come wi',a u i
100000 miles of the earth, accolu-,
information received at the hl. -
College observatory from asllOD'.l
studying it's motion closely. ln' IA n
will make its nearest approach \
sun on June 13. Several as'iVu
predict n meteoric shower on w,
as a result of the comets apprO''
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quarters force. He was young fel-
talked and acted like cow-punch Just
in from riding line. He was carried on
Mr. Van Britt's payroll as an extra" or
relief telegraph operator; though we
never heard of his being sent out to
relieve anybody.
/ sized this new young man up,
right away, for a special of some
sort, and the proof that l was right
came one afternoon when Ripley
dropped in and fell into chair to fan
himself with his straw hat like man
who had just put down load that he
had been carrying about mile and a
half farther than he had bargained to.
THANK the Lord, the last of those
injunction suits is off the docket" he
said, drawing Il long breath and wag-
Sing his neat little head at the boss.
III say one thing for the Hatch peo-
pie, Norcross; they're stubborn fight
ers"
Wen beat EN-" predicted the boss.
They've got to let go. How about our
G.. S. w. friends? Are they still
game?"
"Fine" asserted the lawyer "The
stock is Over-subscribed everywhere,
now, and c. S. w. is a going concern.
Ihe building boom is on. l venture
to say there are over two thousand
mechanics at work at the different
cehters, rushing up the buildings for
the new plants, at this moment. You
ought to have a monument, Norcross.
It's the most original scheme for
breaking monopoly that was ever
devised"
The boss was looking out of the
window sort of absently, chewing on
MS cigar, which had gone out.
Ripley, l wonder what you'd say If
1 should tell you that the idea is not
miheF he said, after little pause.
Not yours?"
NO; 1t, or at least the germ of It.
was given to me by woman: wo-
man who knows no more about bust
ness details than you do about driving
white elephants"
"a ike to be made acquainted with
the lady," said Ripley, with a tired
little smile. "Such gems are too
valuable to be wasted on mere lumber
yards and fruit packeries and grain
elevators and the like"
You'll meet her some day." laughed
the boss, with sort of happy Tilt in
ms voice that fairly made me sick
knowing what did; and knowing that
ne didn't know it. Then he switched
the subject abruptly: "About the
other matter, Ripley: 1 know you've
been pretty busy, but you've had Tar
bell nearly a week. What have Won
found out?"
ripley briefed the general Situation
as 1t stood on the night of the engine
inert In few terse sentences. Aside
from the fight on Red Tower Con.
soiidated, the new railroad policies
were threatening to upset all the time.
honored political traditions of tho
machine-governed state. An election
was approaching, and the railroad
vote and influence must be whinnad
INTO line. AS the grafters viewed n
the threatened revolution was n ono
man government, and IL that mon
could be removed the danger would
vanish. "o1iu
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Adams succeeds Hays

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ol ss.In
Adams of Dubuque, Iowa, Us y. y, n
to succeed Postmaster uen .,csd
whose resignation was announ ....,c
adoption OF a new basis - =. re,J1
ton at national convention. ...,n !
in a further cut in the seutssSts = 81 |
gates, marked the meetins = rs1
publican national COMMITTEES. I ,.sl
ans, who was vice chai!n.s - Il
,ceeded By Ralph p. VIM
land Or. & Is IA
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IL s. Wheat Crop Big.

Washington.-The coun'isS 4,
bined winter and spring wnea, ~. n,
promises to be 43,000,OOo busi... 10
er than last years, based Oh AZ. .s. n
of production announced oy ~ ~ i
partment of Agriculture. in ,s /,
be smaller crops of oats, Oa,'' a,s ID
hay than last year, while Wv sS j
crop will not be half so large, ~, a.
peach crop will be much sllai'''
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Supreme Court CLERK o''a

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. D. Mans' a "a
of the United States Supremr nr i
since 1914, died at Georse'Iu " m /
pital here. He was oper'.ea arhls
eral days ago for stomach ''V
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his little den on the third floor of the
newspaper building across the avenue.
Mrs. Macrae telephoned you?" he
asked, pushing his bunch of copy pa
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07

agriculture and labor. who compose
the industrial commission. Cavalier
county is claimed by the l. v. A. to
stand high in rank among the coun-
ties that secured signers to their
recall and initiative petitions but
if they had depended upon parties
outide of the towns for signers the
names attached to their petitions
would have been a mere handful.
There is a rally to fight the recall
and support Attorney General Lemke
in his prosecution of the tax evading
corporations that shows that the
leaguers are getting ready for the
vote at the polls in November when
everything that we can call our own
will be the stake that the battle of
the league farmers against the poll.
teal combination which arrays it.
self under the I. V. A. to fight for
big business and corporate greed.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
sAYI,lc IT WITH FLOWERS
'retty Japanese Custom That Is Re-
garded as lnseparable From the
Period of Courtship.

The Japanese counting is as apt
% start in a flower message as any
'ther way, the lovelorn swain indi-
.ating his passion by tossing a pale
llum blow into the litter as the OBJ
.ect of his regard is carried by him.
e she losses it out his suit is reject
I'd, but if she fastens it at her kimono
sirdle the affair may go forward. An
other method is for the lover to slip
ap to his loved ones door at mid
nfght and fasten a spray of blooming
.elastrus alatus above the door. The
next morning he walks by the house.
If the spray is still there, all is over
But If it has been taken in, or if it
has been watered, he knows the maid
Is his.
The actual terms of the marriage
settlement are carried on by a go-be-
A complimentary present. is then
sent, and if it is accepted the
bride and her entire family are in
honor bound to go forward with the
ceremony. The groom then sends her
sixty prescribed gifts that include silk
Of a certain length and folded in a
certain way; garments, silken bags
Of rice and sweetmeats, and barrels
of wine. The latter the bride, as a
rule. presents to her parents, and the
contents are drunk in cups little larg-
er than a thimble. The groom also
sends a long piece Of white silk for.
the wedding garment, and a piece of
very fine gold embroidery to be used
as a marriage girdle. The wedding
day is often picked by a s~oothsayer,
and there are scores of days that r
prohibited.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
Coming to
GRAND R
DIR. Mellenthin
SPECIALIST
Fol His Ninth Year in
North Dakota
Does Not Use Surgery
Will be at the
O T
Thursday and Friday
April 2lst and 22nd
Office Hours: 9 a. m. to 4 p. m
7
Two Days Only
No Charge for Examination

DR. Mellenthin is a regular
graduate in medicine and surgery
and is licensed by the state of
North Dakota. He visits pro-
fessionally the more important
towns and cities and offers to all
who call on this trip consultation
and examination free, except the
expense of treatment when desired.
According to his method of
treatment he does not operate for
chronic appendicitis, gall stones,
ulcers of stomach, tonsils or
adenoids.
He has to his credit many
wonderful results i'll diseases of
the stomach, liver, bowels, blood,
skin, nerves, heart, kidney, blad-
der, bed wetting, catarrh, weak
lungs, rheumatism, sciatica, leg
ulcers and rectal ailments.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
Lamps of Greeks and Romans.

From the stage Of hand-modeling
and sun-baking, the evolution of the
lamp proceeds to the Greeks and Ro-
mans, who devoted a large share of
their attention to the art of lamp
making. Each Roman or Greek lamp
make strove to achieve some new
triumph in the art. Just as rare paint
1ngs bear the signatures of their paint
ers, lamps of the early Greeks and
Romans bear the inscribed names of
their makers. Irrespective of their
pale, Pickering uncertain light, the
ancient Greek and Roman lamp was
a very costly object. it's valuation
ascending according to it's artistic
beauty. So obsessed were they with
the beauty of the vessel that little. If
any, consideration was given the eff
fciency of the light produced by the
lamp.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
Editor Farmers Press

Editor Farmers Press
According to a recent write-up in
the Republican the I. V. A. cat has
at last come across a juicy morsel.
which if it should prove to be the
real thing, and not only a delusion,
will be just what their stomach's has
been craving, although it is only a
bite compared to what they have
got no hand of the same kind of
stuff in their own larder.
However. the Cavalier Co., Rooster
seems pretty sure of its feast and
jubilant as it all at once gets excit-
ed, fys upon the fence, craning neck
and Hopping wings, Justify declaring
to the dear people that at last they
have the goods on one of the members
of the "Freelovers,' as against
twenty-eight of the members of the
party Of his own part-this last the l.
V. A.. Rooster forgot to crow about
though this party that is dead
against any others but themselves
shall practice freelove. this sanity
crowd who in their goodness of heart
has so much concern about the morals
of the rubes that they spare neither
money or tricks to fight them at every
corner, but the ignorant farmers
seems to believe that the l. V. AS
do all this sacrifice for selfish aims
They even think that the l. v. AS.
wants the old graft and robbery to
continue for ever,
AS far as the complaint against. MIR
Richardson goes it may be true
and it may not and for all I know to
the contrary the same may be
said about the twenty.eight l. V. AS.
But considering the source of the
, charge against Mr.. Richardson. then
any fairminded person be he an l. V.
A or not who knows of the tactics
of the farmers opponents, will at
least take it with q big pinch of salt
To an unbiased party it smells as
strong as "Limburger' of a political
frame UP and as long as the per cent
UNI of the immortality of the opposing
parties stand at A to 96 it shows
small consideration for his own party
for the /. v. a. game cock to CROW
very Justify about it at least before
the said per centum is a little more
evenly balanced.
If however it should turn out that
now a bad egg has been found in the
N. P. L. nest there will be q chance
for another adoption by u friends
the enemy.
John Rogstad.
Homen, N. Dak., Apr. A 1921
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
THEY ARE AFRAID.

The l. ". A. were afraid to order
an Immediate recall. They knew it
would have meant defeat.
They we're afraid to admit they
were wrong in starting the movement
for a recall. 1t would have meant
still further opprobrium for the al
ready ~discredited L. V. A. machine.
And so, without the courage to
make the fight that their politicians
have been saying must be made at
once, to REDEEM " the state, and
without the courage to confess them
selves wrong. the Nv. A. have
adopted the cowardly and utterly i'm
moral course of ordering a recall :'on
or before November 81
That means, just one thing. 1T
means that in the seven months be-
tween now and then the l. V, A. will
exhaust every method to drive the
people of North Dakota, in despera-
tion, to repudiate the Norpartisan
League.
Everybody knows the methods that
will be employed by the I. ". A. in
the intervening seven months.
First they will bring every effort
to bear to prevent the sale of the
bonds which alone, as even they ad-
NIT can make financial conditions
easier in this state. 1t is their ami
able intention to stsrve US financially
into voting for them and against the
farmers program.
Second, they will keep up an un-
interrupted and poisonous stream of
lying propaganda from all their we'll
subsidized newspapers, both inside
and outside The state.
Third, they will seek, in connection
With their allies, the gamblers and
hig bankers, to rob the farmers on
the 1921 crop, as they robbed them
or tte 1920 crop, in the hope that
the farmers will thus be driven in
desperation to do the bidding of their
enemies.
Fourth, they will in every secret
and underhanded way strive to pre-
vent the completion Of the North Da-
kota program, and they will at the
same time throw all their influence,
secretly. against thefcarrying into eff
fective operation of the National
Sales Agency plan for only as they do
this a they retain the financial and
political support of the Chamber of
Commerce, the big bankers and the
railroads-and without this big bust
ness political and financial support
there would be no H. v. A.-Courier
News.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
COMMUNICATION.
Editor Farmers Press

Editor Farmers Press
That was a sad and sober looking
bunch that struggled home the day
after the convention from Devils
Lake and who is to blame them.
With Devils Lake frozen over and
one daughter of Eve feeding the
whole bunch on sour grapes, accord
ing to reports, and she had 1874 stall
warts champions from the ranks of l
V. AS behind her if we rene mber
right. The grapes were so SOU that
both their faces and tempers were
pricked up for a number of days
after words and it was hardly safe for
q Nonpartisan to smile in their pres
ence. The /. v. A. always were
poor sports when tho laugh is on
them. If they thought they could con-
troll the women, they found out their
mistake by this time, as one woman
that is right, God bless them, can
route a thousand men that are wrong
as was shown at Devils Lake.
We were down to the Republican
Office Tuesday morning for our weekly
scrap with the editors and promised
Groom to write a letter for the Press
and show that the leaders of the I.
V. AS. and the money powers in the
east are to blame for all the suffer.
ing that the businessmen and our
local banks and farmers went through
last fall and winter. l want you all
to read it and I am going to ask the
Republican to print it also.
Very Respectfully
-Magnus Snowfeld.
Langdon. North Dakota,
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
Commodore Preble,s Temper.

The hasty temper of that early hero
Of the United States navy, Commo-
dore Preble, says a writer in the Bos-
ton Herald, furnishes the basis for an
amusing story that people of the older
generation used to enjoy telling.
The old sea fighter, it seems, was a
testy chap. One afternoon his wife
was entertaining several lady callers
at their Portland home. Just as they
were going out they heard a tremen-
dous racket on the floor above, and
down the front stairs came crashing a
large and very solid table. 1t badly
frightened the callers, who were lin
gering in the hall for a parting word.
"Why, Commodore Predict" Grief
his wife, what are you doing?"
"That, Mrs. Preble," roared the
commodore, lis my blasted temperis
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07

/. Oats that today have q market
quotation of twenty to twenty-tfi ve
cents a bushel when hauled onto the
market find the producer, who is the
farmer, with a balance on the wrong
side of the ledger, or as it is COM
monty termed Sin the red" The
item Of threshing alone cost any
where from fourteen to eighteen
cents a bushel. and then there were
the items of sowing, harvesting and
labor incident to the production Of
the crop. 1t only takes a glance to
show that the loss is n of anywhere
from 100 to $50 per cent.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07

Nearly every section of Cavalier
county may be said to have been re-
presented in the list of league mem
hers who have contributed to the
campaign fond that is being raised
against the recall that the i. v. A.
will seek to demand of the governor.
attaraay general and commissioner Of
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
LUMBER FOR SALE.

Lumber At Wholesale Direct From
Mills. F. o. B. your station A won-
derful offer if you have any building
to do, get my proposition and save
profits of middlemen, handling
charges ETC., 1000, 600 feet all
kinds lumber ready for immediate de-
livery. Mills at Libby. Montana. and
Teko, Idaho, Write, q
George W.. Gette
Grand Forks, North Dakota. +,
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07

TAKEN UP-Game to my place near
Elkwood, on or about March LIST,
q black horse, has white star on
forehead. Same can be had by
owner upon Identification and the
paying OF costs incurred. Address
John Plummer, Elkwood. : On
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07

With the likelihood of seeding and
springs work being generally under
way over the county by next
week it is probable that the board of
commissioners will manage to dis
pose of all the more important and
pressing matter and reach an ad-
journment by the end OF this week.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07

1t must be that winter didn't lin
ger in the lap of spring any this
year, as the ice is reported to have
gone out of the Red River of the
North, at Grand Forks on Easter
Monday, March 28-at least twenty
days ahead of the usual breakup.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07

A letter from Mgs. M. j. Wake
ford written the Free Press from Os-
nabrock under date of the 9Th inst,
asks space to contradict an unbound
ed that the Hotel Dakota
at that place has been closed under
a small pox quarantine. 1t is desired
to state that the report is false.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07

Friday, April 22nd has been de-
signated by Governor Frazier for OF.
servance as Arbor Day-the day
when every public spirited citizen
should take a pleasurable pride in
planting a tree.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07

Osnabrock folks have received an
nouncement of the marriage of Miss
Myrth Maye Haight, daughter of MIR,
and Mrs. Sam V. Haight of Keller,
Sask., to Charles A. Stewart at
Keller on March 24th.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07

If you have been ailing for any
length of time and do not get any
better, do not fail to call, as i'm
proper measures rather than dis
ease are very often the cause of
your long standing trouble.
Remember above date, that
examination on this trip will be
free and that his treatment is
different.
336 Boston Block,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-04-07
WAA ANT COLUMN COLUMN

HOUSE FOR SALE-Cheap if sold
before April lst, q one story four
cor cottage, three lots, fine place
for garden, fenced, also good barn
chicken house and garage. Inquire
Of T. E. Burke. Phone AZ.