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free country.—[Garfield.
The Celnmns of TIUI TIMESoreopen to all who
desire a candid discussion of questions or inter
est te the people of Richland connty. bat of
course we do not hold ourselves responsible for
a correspondent's opinions.
THURSDAY,fMABCII 8, 1888.
This may^be a good time to re
mind those people who are so fast
in dismissing.Governor Church and
reorganizing his assistants or of
ficials, under him, that they may
rest their souls in peace, the gover
nor is all right with the president
and the president is all right with
the people.
Since Mr. Cleveland took charge
of the executive department of our
government, says the Huron Herald
Democrat, the ordinary expenses of
the government have been reduced
$15,000,000, the public debt has been
decreased 9290,000,000, and the pen
sion list increaae'until it aggregates
more tban^is.now paid by any other
nation of the earth. His adminis
tration has restored over 50.000,000
acres of unearned land grants to the
public domain for the benefit of ac
tual settlers. Bepublican papers
please copy ^and call attention of
old soldiers to this record.
The other day Chairman Bangs
of the territorial Democratic central
committee, addressed a letter to the
Hon. W. £. Purcell of this city,
also of the committee, asking advice
as to the holding of the territorial
convention to elect delegates to the
national convention at St. Louis,
June 5th. The convention cannot
be held any too soon, now, and since
the committee is moving in the'mat
ter, the '.presumption is, certainly,
that the work will be timelyj'and
well done.
The Pioneer Press is very
if'?-
skb.
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bmuch
mistaken if not wilfully misleading
when it says the Aberdeen conven
tion was an anti-Church gathering.
Nothing could be]further from the
truth than this sort or nonsense,
M. H. Day's name is mentioned in
this connection, whereas he had
nothing to do with the convention,
and if he is fighting the governor—
which is doubtful—he does it to his
own discomfiture, for no one knows
better than he that Gov. Church
stands well with the people of the
territory and is solid with the na
tional administration.
The Hon. W. E. Purcell received
a telegram from Gov. Church early
this week summoning him to Bis
marck immediately, it is presumed
in connection with the vacancy re
cently made by the appointment of
•Tohri C. Carland to succeed Judge
Palmer. When in Washington
President Cleveland, personally,
tendered Mr. Purcell this judgship,
but latter was£obliged to decline it
as his business was worth much
more money, which he could not
think of leaving. But it is fair to
presume that Mr. Purcell will ac
cept the United States District At
torneyship for Dakota, provided it
will not interfere too seriously with
his business and practice. One
thing is certain should he accept,the
territory will get an efficient and
faithful servant in Mr. Purcell.
Milbank Beview: The Mitchell
Daily Bepublican has taken great
pains to ascertain the exact number
of deaths in Dakota caused by the
great blizzard of January 12. Cir
culars were sent to the county
treasurers of every county and to
editors of newspapers calling for re
ports of the number of deaths in
each county and the names and ages
of the' victims. It has succeeded in
getting full reports from nearly all
the counties in which any deaths
have been reported, from which it
appears that the total number of
deaths in the territory was 109, or
only about one-half the number of
deaths heretofore reported. The
greatest number of deaths in any
one county was in Bon Homme, 19.
Eastern papers which have been
very ready to elaborate upon the
-y,horrors of the great storm in Da
kota will now have an opportunity
*©r correcting the glaring errors
dfaich they published loss of
!p the January storm was less
one-half that caused by the
.In Chicago during the hot spell
The inVestigation of the Unit*$
States signal service declares Da
kota to be out of the cyclone belt.
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT
The Thomson Huston electric com
pany of Boston, Mass., has a repre
sentative in the city this week tal||
ing up their system with a view W
light Wahpeton. The plant pro
posed for this city would afford ten
large lights at a cost of $15 68011,
per month, or $1,800 per year, and
the city council has voted to grant
the company a 21 year contract at
this rate the understanding being
of course that the system would in
clude all stores and residences that
could be obtained —the plant here
involving an outlay of $10,000.
This system is located at Water
town, Jamestown, Huron and other
cities in the territory at about these
rates, some, however, taking more
lights, Watertown, for instance,
taking twenty lights. The plan
here is to light the city about dark
and run till one.o'clock.
W
Mayor Swaine explained to the
council that he had done a good deal
of corresponding on the light^ques
tion, and had entertained several
propositions, and felt sure this was
the best ever made to Wahpeton,
and he was heartily in favor of it,—
thought the city could not afford to
do without light of some sort—and
that, all considered this]would prove
cheaper, taking into account its
great lighting power, than any sys
tem of lamps, and the council fully
agreoing with the mayor about the
need of light, and anxious to do
something to satisfy the constant
complaint from our citizens for
lighted streets, voted for contract
as aboye stated, Mr. Purdon, only,
opposing the measure.
Could THE TIMES have had a voice
in the matter it certainly would
have made a determined effort to
get what we think would have been
a better bargain for the city. The
proposition reads for light from
dusk to one o'clock.) |Now there is
a vast difference as the seasons
change in the mafcter^ofj darkness.
Part of the time the company must
light, possibly between four and five
o'clock—and from that on to six
o'clock in the afternoon, keeping
the system going until one o'clock
—at least seven oi eight hours.
While in the summer it will aver
age from eight to half past nine
o'clock requiring light from three
to four hours, about half of what is
required for the winter, which, ob
viously, does not furnish as satis
factory alight as could be desired.
There would be no need.of light
in winter after one o'clock,—in fact
there would be no particular objec
tion to shutting it oif at 12 o'clock
While in the summer and fall—nat
urally often rainy and cloudy, ren
dering the ground and sidewalks
"as black as a stack of black cats,"
and of necessity {having to suffer
the presence'of mud holes and mud
dy streets through much of the sum
mer, is the time the lights are
wanted. It is proposed to cut the
police force down, which it would
seem is all right in the light of sueh
an improvement, and this of itself
would necessitate, lighted streets
most of the night in the summer
It is in the summer season that the
tramps are so numerous and disa
greeable, and it is between one and
three o'clock that sneak thieves ply
their vocation—under present calcu
lations just the time'when Wahpe
ton would have a meagre police
force and no lights, but darkness
and tramps on every hand. If they
could operate seven or eight hours
in winter, and not lose money, it
should be required to do the same
in summer. In winter the super
intendent would be required to get
round and prepare for the work of
lighting at three or four o'clock in
the afternoon, while in summer he
need not get around till after six
o'clock and from that on to seven,
so we cannot understand why one
man cannot do eight or ten hours
work in summer as well as winter.
And when they tell us that they fig
ure per force of circumstances to
lose money in one-half of the year
and make it up the next, suiting
their convenience, instead of the
greatest good to the city, then we
should not have accepted the propo
sition. But with light most of the
night during the summer, when
light is needed and looking to rigid
economy in other directions, and
a contract for ten years instead of
twenty-one, we think the enterprise
would have been feasible and should
have voted for it. ^Not otherwise.
The plant, it is estimated would
cost $10,000, making indeed, a very
pretty showing for the city, besides
its great advantages the way of
cheering up our dark streets at night.
The company asks for no bonus or
anything of that sort, which is do
ing better than some other proposed
enterprises have done, notably the
man who wanted to build the busi
n«u houses, and the tombstone
Maaefactuier,
VOTERS AND TAX-PAYERS.
To tbe.Editor of The Wabpeton Times.
Our new charter makes it en
cumbent to form a new council and
it behooves every citizen to exercise
his right and influence to place men
in office gifted with some qualifica
tion, common sense, honesty and
economy. The past years have hot
characterized good generalship.
Money has been squandered on use
less expenditures, contracts have
been let and the city bled. Take
for instance last year's grading
around city outskirts which cost
four thousand dollors, over which
scarcely a team has traveled, while
our main thoroughfare, Dakota
Avenue, was full of ruts and dan
gerous to travel over faster than
walk.' It was a burning shame to
our city fathers. We have a street
commissioner who seems like a ship
at sea without a rudder, on the go
as you please plan. Is there any of
the city fathers with courage enough
to say aught to remind him of his
dai|jf labor and see that he exercises
those functions right. What a con
dition a portion of our sidewalks
have been in this winter, has he been
known to order anybody out to clear
the walk. I think not. I occasion
ally have seen a few men opening
crossings. There have been three
policemen on the.force this winter
Two is all sufficient, (deeming Wall
peton though licensed) as quiet
town as any in Dakota. These and
many other leaks must be stopped.
We area tax ridden people, and un
less more economy is exercised and
less living on the public crib our
town is bound to retrograde and the
poor grow poorer. I learn that
within a short time seventy-five
families have left us and as many
more anxious and struggling for
early spring. ,,
While we realize several vacant
stores, property depreciating and
our trade cutoff, the council springs
a new leach—the ordering of an
electric light plant which imposes
a burden of nearly thirty-eight
thousand dollars for 21 years. Let
us for heavens sake pay our present
debts due and drawing interest be
fore we venture to mortgage further
the homes of our citizens. There is
no justification for burdening the
people by tax mortgages. The men
of means loaning money from 12 to
4 per cent, and for whose benefit
the register's office is crowded with
chattel mortgages, don't ney a.tithe
of his proportion, while a busi
ness man who has to take big
chances, tide over the farmers and
keep a stock of merchandise, is the
man who pays the burden of taxes
I am living in a brick store, which
should be recognized as an orna
ment to a western town, and I am
called on to pay 20 per cent, of the
rental as taxes. Who would want
to invest in such a town excep it be
a shanty.
I claim no board has a right to
change or alter a sworn statement
rendered the assessor, a wrong has
been inflicted on me and others by
•those in office by tampering with
the tax list without notifying them
and affording a chance for hearing.
Internal improvements and public
enterprises I like to see advan ced,
but we must be just before generous.
Public servants, although on hon
orary pay, should have honor and
interest, enough for his town to
watch the public crib as he would
bis own purse.
There is no justification whatever
for having so many thousands of
dollars laying idle in our county
treasurer's vault. It has been
wrung out of the hard earnings of
struggling men. It is necessary to
have some mony in the sinking
fund to meet coming indebtedness.
Our city orders are being peddled
out for from 90 to 95 cash on the
dollar and drawing 10 per cent, in
terest. Why not have the surplus
drawing or earning something.
I understand our new county com
missioners are in extra session to
see where they can sink a few
thousands of the surplus money now
laying in the vault for a new jail
and sheriff's home. Tis strange
that in three years we have out
grown our court house, why is it
I am informed our auditor and treas
have too many books to handle.
Why, I recognize the fact our audi
tor's salary is guaged on the amount
of taxes raised or bled out of the
people. Who blames him he is a
competent and obliging officer. The
law allows him to plead before the
commissioners, over whom he has a
power, that this is a necessary ex
pense. I call it wasteful expense.
I know several wealthy counties in
Minnesota whose taxable property
is worth four times that of Bich
land county, that have not so fine a
court house and appendages as we
have. Their taxes are less and the
farmers are prosperous and con
tented, while in Bichland county
we scorcely have a farmer who is
not encumbered by mortgages, and
I warn the commissioners that if
the contract is let for this unneeded
expenditure without due authority
of Irw and by the voice of the peo
ple, your powers will be tested.
JZlJZKli mmmMmm®
A
and
A TAX PAYER.
YARDS IN
AKOTA
MINNESOTA,
IOWA, "v
NEBRASKA
Has Just Received a Large Stock of
IFA-LXj
Connty coffin,
Coffin, no glass.
Rosewood finished casket,
White velvet casket,
Zinc or copper lined casket.
Broadcloth draped shrine.
AL3STX). ysmSTTSIR
DRY GOODS & NOTIONS
%$ Stock et
Wahpeton, Dakota.
D. E. RICE preserve bodies so tliey caii he shipped to any part of
the worW in the hottest weather, for the benefit of those liv
ing out °ot the city. I have at all times all kinds
and sizes of caskets andjeoffins from the
cheapest, to the best.
I earry a full and complete line of shrouds in sillu and and satins
also cotton robes and shrouds for old and young slippers,
flowers and ready-made wreaths. In ordering
coffins and caskets give correct lengthy of
corpse. .The following shows
the'cheapest and best.
goods and
Terms to
Order
You Have Your Choice of
TIIE STRAIGHT PAYMENT FULL TEiiM PLAN.
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THE "ON OR BEFORE" PAYMENT PLAN.
THE INSTALLMENT PLAN,
S-A-TTE liTOTTIR MONEY.
Investigate the LAST NAMED LOAN SYSTEM and begin_to practice
economy.
PEOPLES SAYINGS BANK,
WAHPETON, DAKOTA,
W. H. HARKER,
Lidgerwood & Wyndmere
For the Adjustable
Light Steel-Frame Esterly Binder
Sjv WITH FOLDING PLATFORM,
The Best Harvester in the Market. He also sells the NEW
ESTERLY and MEADOW KING
Mowers and Hay-Rakes.
large supply of the best binding twine eenstantly on hand. Call
seeitini.
7
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KANSAS.
Edvarils & HoGidloch Loitter GompaBy,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DKALC»8 IN ALL KINDS
Lumber, Lathi Shingles, Sash, Doors,
Blinds, Building Paper, Paints,
Oils and Var nistaes, Coal, Brick,Etc, Etc
Wahpeton, Dakota.
R. J. HUGHES,
—SCALER IK—
WALTER A. WOOD'S HARVESTERS,
BINDERS AND MOWERS, AND
MASSELON THRESHERS & ENGINES.
OILS, WINDOW GLASS. IIAUD AND SOFT COAL, WAGONS AND
BUGMES£FARM IMPLEMENTS, THBESHEB SUPPLIES, *C. W
WAHPETON, DAKOTA.
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Lrroceries is Fresh and Large.
ALL AT BOTTOM PMCI&
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Hospital coffin.
Cotfin withrfflass.
Cloth covered caskets, black.
"White glass coflftn or casket.
Metalic casket.
Burglar proof
AUJorders shipped on firsttrain G. O. D. where'otherfarrangepients are
not made the^services of myself or *bearse{can^be* had^on application.
Office open*day„and. night. Falso have the largesttock of well£selected
Furniture in$thej{jwest. Call/and get prices. CITY FUBNITUBE
STOBE AND UNDEBTAKEIt'S'TtOOM.
grave
D. E. BICE, Proprietor.
MONEY ON REAL ESTATE.
The Peoples Savings Bank
Have Perfected Arrangements with one of the
The Largest Loan (Mtois ii the ItoA Stales,
By. which they are now able to offer unusual inducements to
Borrowers on Real Estate,
vaults.
12
OF
DAVIS, Resident Partner.
Persons wishing to loan money on Beal, Estate will do well te cal
upon
INK
& CARTER.- They will write their own Mortgages and Notes,
making the same payable at their office in Wahpeton, Dakota, saving
parties the trouble of sending to foreign banks or parties.
They pass upon their loans themselves, and charge low rates of
interest.
1
Office Booms in the Globe Block.
Ink & Carter, Wahpeton, Dakota.
THE NEW RAILROAD
Running into Southern Bichland County
TOUCHES LliDGKEZRTW-OOID
WHERE
SMYTH & DORSET
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Handle the most extensive and best selected stock of
FARM MAOHIITEBT^f
In the county, comprising Osborne Steel and Empire Binders, Osborne
Empire and Bradlej Mowers, Bradley Bakes, Bradley, Norwegian and
Deere Plows, Wagons, Buggies, Etc. Also agents for the Minnesota
Chief Thresher,'Giant and Stillwater Engines and Binding Twine, all at
reasonable prices. Thresher repairs a specialty full line of repairs for
all kinds of threshers constantly on hand. Fair dealing and satisfaction
guaranteed. Call and see us. 11
THE LIGHTNING JETTING
ARTESIAN WELL MACHINE
Two Through Trains Daily
From St. Paul and Minneapolis
To Chicago
Without cuange. connecting with the fast trains
of all lines for the
EAST AJITD SOUTHEAST,
The DIRECT and ONLY LINE running through
cars between MINNEAPOLIS and
Is the best thing in the business, and the only one in the county
is owned by "v
ZEIEBItTSa? HOLZHATJHE.
And is acknowledged to be the best machine made for soil such as is found
in the Bed Biver Valley. It will sink a two inch pipe 312 feet in
ten hours. As men who are willing to testify to the above facts I
would respectfully refer the public to
H. R. HANKINSOX, The^DDLUTH ELEVATOR COMPANY at
Warner Station, AUGUST HOEFS, HERMAN STRUBEL and
FRED NEWMAN.
Mr. Holzhauer is also agent for
THE PHELPS WIND MILL,
One of the best Mills of this kind manufactured.
Address him at Hankinson, Dakota.
TOWN LOTS
AT-
Are proving good property and Fairmount is surrounded
DE3 MOINES. IOWA
Via Albert Lea and Ft. Dodge.
PT"SOLID THROUGH TRAINS_^ff]
—Between—
hy as good a section of Farming Lands as can be
FOtfND IN AMERICA, and all classes
of citizens here are getting on in
the world, which makes this one of the best trading centers
Minneapolis & St. Louis
and the principal cities of the Mississippi valley
conneecting in union depot for all points
south and loulkwest.
MANY HOURS SAVED and tlie only liue run
ning Two Trains Daily to KANSAS CITY,
Leavenworth and Atchison, making connections
with the Union Pacific and Atchison, Toneka &
Sante Fe Railways.
Close connections made in Union Depot
with all trains of the St. Paul, Minneapolis &
Manitoba Northern Pacificist. Paul & Duluth
Railways, trom and to all points North aud
Northwest.
a in or he in
HmiCain
in Dakota. If you want
E A E S A E
TO
Fairmount is destined to be the
Juncion Cityoflhe Southern Red River Valley.
Three railroads and the surveyors of the Duluth, Fergus Falls &
Black Hill Bailroad are now here. The Manitoba, the C. M. & St. P. By
and the great new line, the Minneapolis & Pacific give us untold advance
ages. Grand openings here for Merchants, Mechanics, and Capitalists of
all kinds. One sale of $5,000 started the boom and opened the eves of
many to the facts above noted, that the town is not overdone, but has* room
for all that the wauts of the surrounding country may be supplied.
Three elevators are kept busy most of the year receiving our large crops.
Lots will be donated for a first class hotel. Flouring mill company now
organizing creamery and cheese factery being pushed. Boom for all to
make money. For particulars see
POMEROY & CO,
Mmapolis ill St. Louis
RAILWAY.
and the famous
Albert Lea Route.
710 LUMBER EXCHANGE, MINNEAPOLIS
JOS. C. HENVIS,
FAIRMOUNT, BICHLAND CO., DAKOTA
NOTICE
sV
FOR PUBLICATION.—Land office at
Fargo, D. T., Jan.
30tli,1888—Notice is hereby
given that the following named settler has
tiled notice of his intention to make final proof
in support of his claim, and secure final entry
thereof, viz: Peter Mohr, H. E. No. 16,786for
lor the northeast quarter of section 88, township
181 north, range 48 west, and names the fol
lowing as his witnesses, viz Peter Schmitt,
Mathias Mohr, Michael Casper Carl Hermes all
of Wahpeton postoOice, Richland county, ».
The testimony will be taken before the judge of
the third judicial district or in his absence before
J.
DCtlapolis & St. Louis Rail,
way are composed of Comfortable Day Coaches
magnificent Pullman sleeping cars, Horton re.
dining chair cars, and
PALACE DINING CARS.
our justly celebrated
I QQLBS. OF BAGUAGK CHECKED FREE
Fare always aa Low as the Lowext
tor Tluie Tablea, Through Tickets, etc., cnl
upon toe ntnrext Ticket agent or vrite to
F.BOYD
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W. Cope, clerk of thd said district com t, at 111*
office in Wahpeton, D. T., on MONDAY, the
19!h DAY OF MARCH, 1888.
MICHAEL F. BATTELLE, Register.
JOHN SH1PPAM, Attorney for claimant.
First pub. Feb. 2,1888.
T\rOTICE FOR PUBLICATION—LAND OFFICE
il at Fargo, D. T., Feb. 20th, 1988.—Notice Is
hereby given that the following named settler ha*
nled notice of his intention to make final proof
in support of his claim, and that said proof
will be made before J. W. Cope, clerk of the
district court, at Wahpeton. D.T., on MONDAY.
APRIL !ith, 188a viz.:
LEE H.JOHNSON,
H. E. No. 8,771 for the southeast qnarter of sec
tion £3, town 130 north', range 48 west. He
names the following witnesses to prove his con
tinuous residence upon and cultivation of said
land viz Robt Haney, Anthony A Allen, W
A Easton, fc. W. Spanlding, all or Fairmount,
Richlan county, D. T.
MICHAEL F. BATTELLE, Register
(First pub. Mar 1.
NOTICE
OP VXNAL moor—LAX» orricjc
ts
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Fargo. D. T., January 31st, 1888.—Notice is
hereby given that the following named aettler
has tiled notice of hia intention to make ttnaf
proof in support of his claim and that said
proof will be made berore J. R. Buxton, judge'
and ex-ofllcio clerk of the probate court at1'
Wahpeton, D. T..on Tuesday, March sloth. 1888.
viz.: John ChizekH. E. No. 8,428 for the nek'
or section town 181 n, range 47 W. He names
the following witnesses to prove his continuous
residence upon.and cultivation of, said land, viz- 1.
Michael Keating, Nick Tryba. Wenzel Forma,
nack, Joseph Forman all of Wahpeton O ,'
Richland county, D. T.
MIOHASL BATTK.L*, Relator.
[First pob. Feb'y ai, lm.J