The Washburn leader. [volume], January 06, 1894, Image 4

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THE WASHBURN L3AD31
B* John 8 vrriiULUND.
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TM«i n«)»»i»r nnffrpfl ri^ s«'('OTil-fTuss matter
it tlie rontodicc at Wasltbiirn. North Dakota.
OFFICIAL PAPER OP MoLEAN CO.
The year 1893 is ended. It will mark
dual epoch in the history of the United
States—the great Colombian exposition,
and the financial panic and it-H sequence,
the stranding of collossinl business ven
tures, hard times, want and distress. Wo
will not discuss the cause only mark the
result. Leaders of the American business
interests had welcomed the world but was
iinable to provide for the rush thnt their
policy had envoked. This at least has
been the source of trouble in the great
cities and industrial centres of the coun
try.
Of nil the states in the American Union
probably none have escaped so well
from the general results of these hard
times, n% North Dakota. This too, in
face of the fact that there was generally
•peaking a short crop of grain harvested,
and farm products-of all kinds were very
low in price,
The prairie fires made the usual havoc
in isolated places in the country, and
destructive conflag.ntiou almost destroyed
the lending city iti the state, yet like a
vigorous plant that survives the beatings
of the wind and torrents, it stands out
to-day stronger and more beautiful than
ever.
From the waves of crime iat swept over
the laud from the Atlantio seaboard to the
water* of the Pacific—save the butchery
of Cando, and some wicked work along
the lines of the railroads—the state has
been more fortunute than its sisters of the
American constellation.
In our own County of McLean the past
season, the people have but little to com
plain. Even, in comparison with any
other community in the state. The crops
were a little short, money is scaree and
a few other drawbacks, but the peo
pie have generally speaking good health
have plenty to eat and any amount
ehe*p fuel that drive away the terrors of
long or hard winter.
The propeot for the coming season is fair.
The stoekmen, as a rule, are better pre
pared tor their stoek, than at any time in
the history of the oounty and are at this
time in fine oondition. The farmers are
also in good spirits many of them have
their land already prepared for their
spring seeding, and with them as yet.
the Russian cactus nightmare in but an
indefinable outline—a far-away dream.
Tho arrevt and onfiriorn^nt of Editor
Hoskius, of Minnesota, in an asylum for
the insane, in order—it would appear'—
of impeaching his testimony in an im
portant case in court, is awakening a deal
of feeling throughout that state. Senator
John B. Hompp, who, is one of the lend
ing men of the state is out in an im
passioned address calling for aid in the
editor's defence. If what the editor's
friends chfirg-i-th.it the judge that
sets on the benoh, and the physicians thnt
make or pretend to make an expert
examination be true—an incaration
with enforced doses of drugs mixed with
food or driuk, would soon complete the ob-"
ject sought. We repeat, if all these things
are true—the days of bastiles, inquis
itions, iron mn«ks and iron maidens is
coming aronnd again—a state of things
•hat no one living, or those who are to
some, need want to see.
A dispatch from Chicago, to the New
York Sun of December 80, says: Expert
Accountant Kingwillis' report of a $3,000,
000 deflicit in the city's acoonnta may be
an exaggeration and misleading as
charged by ex-Comptroller Wetherell and
Alderman Madden, chairman of the fin
ance committee, but it is unmistakably
'true that the city has ran behind, and that
it is only just emerging from an era of
reckless waste and prolific extravagance
bordering on criminalty. Mr. Wetherell
admits that the city government has run
behind between $600,000 and $800,000
daring the year. How muoh a deficit was
inherited from the previous organization
he does not pretend to say.
Alderman Madden estimates the deficit
at the present time at $1,200,000. If he
he right there must have been a shortage
of from $400,000 to 500,000 at the begin
ning of the cnrrent calender rear.
The ex city comptroller said "There
ia one way the taxpayers have been
robbed in a wholesale manner, and that is
by means of stuffed pay rolls. I called
Mayor Harrison's attention to many sus
picions things in connection with street
department pay rolls, bnt oould never get
him to look into the matter. I had a
great many affidavits in my possession
proving corruption, and 1 was conscious
of a terrible amount of crookedness.
*•1 was informed once that in a eertsi
ward, from which a street pay. roll cAme
in with nearly 400 names, less than 20 men
were actually at work. The rest were
dommien. I have no means of knowing
how much the city was robbed throngh
the agency of atuffed pay rolls. The
•mount might easily have run into hun
dreds of thousands of dollars. The op
portunity for stealing was practically
without limit.
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THK A I.LIAM'K.
A South D.tkoln !\ir«»u»r Make* a Few Ku
mitrkfc on I Ik llifttnr.v.
Wnotimicket. S. D., Dec. 25.—To the Ed
jitor: The fnrmerg of Sanborn, Miner
and Jtvnuld counties are just now reaping
some more of the fruits of the labor of
the leaders of reform. At thy tirao when
the Alliance was in a prosperous condi
tion, when farm implements were Jhigh,
crops'good and money among' the farm
ers fairly easy, the leaders of the Alliance
determined to start^an incorporated com
pany within its own membership for tho
purpose of handling a line of farm im
plements and furnishing the samo to the
farmers at factory price, ndding" freights
and a stntftl percentage for expense*. The
intention of the promoters was undoubt
edly honest and praiseworthy, and so
long as the purchasing company was con
ducted with a view to^cheapening the
price of the farmers' purchases, it was
fairly successful. Its first great binder
twine deal astonished the business world
and reduced tiie price ef binder twine
from two and a half to three cents per
pound.
The organization was incorporated with
a capital of $200,000, and was divided
into shares of $10 each. So anxious
were the farmers of the state to take
stock in the company, that the board of
directors passed a resolution limiting the
number of shares that could bo held by
any one individual to fifty. The stock
was sold only to members of the Alliance,
and as much as possible in singlo share
lots, on which $2 cash was collected and a
note taken for §S, subject only to a call
of the "board of directors," and then
only in such proportion as they might
deem advisable. In this manner the col
lection of such notes was taken entirely
out of the hands of the officers. The Al
liance farmers patronized the company
liberally, and at the end of the first year's
business an exhibit of over $350,000 trade
sales was made and a satisfactory surplus
was credited up. When the time came for
tho Allia'iceto take a hand in politics, the
the split came, and many of the old
wheel horses quictlv dropped out of the
work and the ship began to founder and
sink. Thenjthe company was sold out. to
the National Union, and tho binder twine
trust gobbled np the National Union.—
Luthy & Co. of Peoria, III., had been fur
nishing some goods to the Alliance. Pur
chasing com pany, and it is a noteworthy
fact that all coutracts that hod been made
with the Luthys had been very one-Kided
at that. Prices contracted to bo paid
were higher in many instances than local
dealers throughout the state were retail
ing the same or similar goods for.
At the time the National Union pur
chased the business and good will of the
Purchasing company the officers in a
statement to the stockholders said that
when the business was closed up thore
would be $3 Returned to the stock holder
for every dollar he" had paid in. Stock
was at a big premium just then, and an
attempt was 'made by some parties to
capture the whole of the stock, but for
the reason of the resolution referred to
and the fact that the books of the con
cern had been closed, this would prebably
have been done. It was supposed in Ab
erdeen (the home office of the concern)
that Luthy had,^through the aid of some
of the officers, succeeded in taking unto
themselves goodly poition of the sur
plus of the company, and now it appears
they intended to feather their nest in
great shape. Of the $200,000 subscribed
capital, some $40,000 is supposed to have
been paid in cash and notes given for the
balance —$1(10,000. These notes now turn
up in the hands of Luthy & Co., and are
being sent out to the dtfferent banks
throughout the state for collection, it is
said, with instructions to sue two or three
parties who will be apt to come in and
pay $8 rather than have a suit, and thus
frighten others to do the same. Who io
responsible for all this I Not the board
of directors, as they, or some of them, at
least, clftiin to have known nothing of the
notes ever having been in Luthy's hands,
and thev have never made a call for the
payment of the same. Who then ia re
sponsible, and who is to be profited by it?
Ask who profited by the failure of the
Scandinavian Elevator scheme, the Fidel
ity insurance fr lud, the Alliance hail swin
die, the Alliance Life Insurance boomer
ang Whj furnihlied the capital that
started the Itulalist to boom governors
and United States senators The same
parties who are now asked to pay the fid
dler for this last great "ghost dance" of
tho party of reform. Where are we at?
It would look as though the reformers
were at the gates leading to the gang
plank and ready tot embark on the flat
boat for a trip up Salt river, and in the
meantime the farmers will, or they will
not. pay the demands made in this last
call. The best attorneys in the state say
that they are uneolleatible. How did Lu
thy
to
Co., come in possession of them
without an order by the board of direc
tor-
N.
Bismarck Tribune Andrew Carnegie's
offer to the poor of Pittsburg is a liberal
one. For each working day for two
months, hj offers to duplicate up to $5,000
every contribution made by the other cit
iaens of the city. Mr. Carnegie's heart is
in the right place. If the people of Pitts
bnrg are equal to the occasion, it means a
roand half million for charity.
Bismarck Tribune, Dec. 80. Mrs. C. B.
Holley has closed np her affairs in the
eity, and will leave to-morrow for Minne
apolis, where she will reside with Mr. and
Mre. John Whalen. Mrs. Holley'• friends
will witness Iter departure with regret,
and wish her a hearty God speed in her
trip to ber new home.
rs.
Kioiu .nklliic.
EditobLi
aokk
NOTICE
People around ConL-
liuj enjoyod New Years day very much.
Sleighriding w»jnever better, the weather
being pleasant and roads wel! co ered
with soft snow.
Mr. end Mrs. Youngrjuest made a pleas
ant call at the postoffice "while on their
way to visit their old neighbors, Mr. and
Mrs. Becks.
Mr. Fred Pointer was down from Han
cock and bought a supply of groceries at
Barium's. Mr. Burgums has just re
overed from the grip which he brought
back wilhhini from Bi-wruirck.
J. C. Whitlock's little girls are at Conk
ling again, and their mother is expected
home about the 1st of April.
We rcjoiceed to see Mr. Luthagder on
his way home lust Saturday and hope that
being at home and seeing his stock around
him will choer him so that he will more
Rpeedily recover from his injuries.
The writer got a real nice quality of
flour from the Washburn mill last week.
We think this mill is worth more to the
farmers of this county than anything else
that we know off. Long may it wave.
Gooa Apwo.
OF MOKTUAUK
W.
Mahku,
SAI.K.
Whereas, default lias accrued In the condi
tions of a mortgage dated December 20th, IRS!',
ule by .loliu Anderson, (single), mortinuror to
the Bunk of Mlnol. mortgagee, mortlursiirlns the
South West quiirfor of Section cltrht, Township
one hundred and forty-four, north, range el'rhty
one, west, In McLean county.1 North Dakota,
which said mortuai was assumed to William
Crouch, and by him to Clementina Crouch: the
said mort(.'«L'( and assignment having lieen re
corded 111 the office of the Register of Deeds In
saiil comity. There is le and ]i?y:ilile accor
ding to the terms of said mnrtcace and assign
ment the sum of four hundred and seventy-slv
dollars and elulity-scven cents, and taxes. And
no notion o'- nroeerdlnjis at law havini lieen had
to collect said mortuaj debt, or any part there
of. Therefore, notice is hr-rehv ptven that the
said moi t/ia-re will lie foreclosd lv a ale of said
premises ut the front door of the Register of
needs ofiieo at Washburn. McLean oounty. N.
1).. on the 3rd day of February. 18S4, at 2
o'clo"k i. in.
toted December 20th, 1893.
Ci.evkntinu
John
Cnoixir, Assignee.
Att'y for Assignee,
Devils Lake, N.
Dee30
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE.
Whereas, default lias accrued In the conditions
?-.,:V?i"E'aiKe
,h'tV(l:Ia,"l'lr-v
-liar^c,
w'1'1W
made by
(.nstaf Karge and Anna I., his wife.
mni't ffittroru fn Hxi nmir
v*t. A.
eiglity-on». wsst. in McLean
the Register of Deeds in said county. There is
Payable according to the terms fo said
mortgage the sum of five hundred and twentv
six do iars and severity cents, and taxes. And
""actioni or proceedings at law having been had
to collect said mortgage debt, or any pirt there-
loiiv
'?*rA.sCK?gW!IH'-
A
m-y m?urn!viz?
Assignee,
A
bcvlls 1-iike, N. 1).
IPC30
NOTICE OF KIN AT 1*11
OOF.
LANP OFFICE AT Bismarck, N. D., M^V. IO. 185)3.
"]X0TICE Is hereby given thnt the folio. in,
,11fl
s.ettl°r
liiis Hied noMc-e of 'lis inten-
in,7 Tka.,inHl !'ri?of 1" support of hlv (Uum.
ami that said IIroot will lie made before the
iV, a'Kl ex-ofllt
,f''.lerk
nf (Ik- ••minty court of
WaBhburn' N- J)- u»
Fobru-
l'Wi)KltICK MKI.UN,
for tne west half of south-east quarter, and lots
r«ml st.Townmup 148, Kange8l, west
fith:prliicl|i.M meridian.
He names the fiillowlnj witnescj to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation of
said land, viz
John: Cliesw rth, Herman Hanson. .T. T. Hrlt
ten, all of lurtle Lake and Otto Waflln. of
Washburn, I).
E. Xkal, Ilc-glster-
a
HAS
to Main strest, next door to I. C. DfGrnfi
I will keep in stock as good a line of
Boots and Shoes
And nt as lew prices, as can be found in
North Dakota. Mail Orders Especially So
lieited. LOUIS LA 1 SON,
Main St. Bismarck. N. D.
Butter
George Jennings,
B1SMAKCK. N. 7).
Buys them every day in the year, and pp.ys
The Highest Prices.
WILL PAY
For all the Eggs he can get.
Stop Thief!
Any one whose Watch has a
Wi)
bow (ring),will never have oc.
casion to use thistime-honored
cry. It is the only bow that
cannot he twisted off the case,
and is found only on Jas.
Boss Filled and other watch
cases, stamped with
jkl
this trade mark,
A anteh eitsa epmsr, which «IH save year
aallt, sent Ires sa request.
Keystone Watch Case Co*
PHILADELPHIA.
Cw'.
BEST HOT EL IN TOWN 1
WESTERN EOTJSE,
BISMARCK, NORTH DAK.,
E. S. Beardfeley, Prop.
Rates from $1 to $1.50 per day. Good
staliln in counection with hotel, and a
cniofui hostler to look after teums.
The office of the Bismarck and Wash
lrn Stage Line at the Western.
Lucas, Beardsley & Go.
DRUGS,PAINTS&OILS
WilHam's Old Stand.
Prescriptions
CARitt.-i.ixr
Comi-ovnisd
Night customers please ring front door bell
All orders by mail promptly attended te.
S. A. PETERSON,
DEALER IN
General Merchandise
A'Full Stock of Staple and Fancy Oro
ceries Fresh Meats always on hand: be)
and sell all kind of Farm Produce.
The Highest Market Prices Paid foi
Butter ana Eggs. Call and Bee me at mr
new store on
MAIN ST., BISMARCK, N. D.
DO YOU WANT TO
SAVE YOUR
MONEY?
Then Deal at~
Geo Gussner's
_01d Reliable Store.
A Full Line of Staple and Choice Gro
ceries always on hand An Endless Assort
ment of Fresh and Salt Meat, Fruit
and Vegetables. Buy and Sell all kinds of
Farm Produce.
Will Pay Cash or Exchange Goods for
Butter and Eggs. Call an be Convinced
that I am Selling Goods at HARD TIME
PRICES.
MAINSTRKKT, BISMARCK, N. D.
MERCER
MA091 srr Bit**#-
This, county is wy in good^
and jail, and #6,C00 cash hand,4
*4s
IIATS
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF McLEAN COUNTY,
COAL
OLIVER
3
This is a prosperous farmer. He always pro
vides for the comfort and pleasures of his
family. He is on his way to the
I A E
CEO. L. ROBINSON, Prop.
O A A O
E A E I N
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
Parm Maclienery
Full Line of
A
AND CAPS,
BOOTS, SHOES CROCKERY GLASSWARE, ETC,
FARM PRODUDE BOUGHT AND SOLd.
'Ttf/tmm
DEWEY
McLean Onnly is situated north of Bciltigh atd east of the Missouri river having a frontage^of 1S5 aiilea
it is in the very center of the State of North Dakota, and cove'rs an area of 8,600 square miles and embraees 3,804,000 aeree
of the finest quality of farming land, ineltading about 48,000 acrea of timber, which lies along the Missouri river. *Then is
etill in this oounty 1,152,000 acree of government land open to settlement cap'able of accommodating 7,200 families,.
giving each a homestead of 160 acres, at a cost, for filing on the same, of $14.60.
The Northern Pacific Railroad (Jompany own.
within the county about 268,440 acres, which can ba purchased at 'pried ranging
rom $4 to (6 per acre, and which may be paid for in the company's preferred stook, which ranges in price from 25 to 85 casta
I on the dollar, or the land can be bought on'six years' time with a low rate of interest. About 1,586,000 acres of this land is
underlaid with a superior quality of lignite coal, ranging from two to twenty-si feet in thiokness, and in many places thejooal
crops out at thesvrface, rendering, it easy of access, and the supply, is inexhaustible. The soiLJs a rich black loam, with'clay
I subsoil, from eighteen inches to three feet in depth, and is capable of producing enormous crops of cereals and vegetables
it also has the finest grazing and meadow lands, yielding the moat nutritions grasses in abundanee, and is really the Garden
County of North Dakota.
McLean County offers the most advantageous inducements to settlers in its famous stock-raising ranges, ita superior
ricultural lands, atod its owe cheap fuel in wood and coal. All kinda of Building Mati rial, excellent bice racd-stoue, good
imber and fine clay for brick-making, ean be found in many localities throughout the oounty. The productiveness of the soil
if McLean County will be readily appreciated when it is stated that the erop yield of 1892, averaged, in wheat, 28^ bushels
ier aore oats, SO bushels per acre barley, over 45 bushels flax, 20 bushels potatoes, 250 bushels com, about 40 bushels,
and other cereals and vegetables in the same proportion, and that a failure of crops here has never been known.
McLean Couuty Has no railroad running direetly through it, bat the main line of the Sop ad orosses'the northeast ooraer
nnd the Bismarck & Hankinson branch of the Soo line, which is graded into Bismarok, has been surveyed through the coanty,
niidprsparations are being made for completing the road during the season of 1804. The oounty haa eighteen free pablie,
schools all supplied with old and experienced teachers, and neatly constructed school houses, thus furnjshiag ample educationca
andantges,
WASHBURN, the coonty seat of McLean County, ia admirably located, being on a beautiful plateau at the "Big Bend" of tho
Missouri River, commanding an excellent view of the river for several milea in each direction, and is situated only 40 miles
rom Bismarck, the Capital of the State of North Dakota,
Washburn is thi entrepot to a section oonntry equal in area to that of the Nev England States All mail aad, trans
portation lines diverge from here, and is the most important point on the Bismarck, Washbnrn and Coal Harbor Packet 'Line*
and the distributing point for four Mail Routes. Two steamboats are plying on the river and are doing a profitable bwsiptsr
COAL HARBOR, another important town in the coanty, is situated 25 miles north of Washburn, and ir located in the very
heart of the coal fields. It has two ,gt*erftstores, a hotel, a blacksmith shop, and an excellent school, and ia snrronnded by.one ot
the beat agricultaxal and stoek gra^*jg#wtw*s in the state.
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St
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N. D.
LiVc Stock, etc.
E I E S
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O O S a O
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WELLS
KIDDER
taanalhlly, its total assets, embracing uncollected taxes, and including the conrthoa*e
to |50,745. The increased a tea of fneeoucfcy promises a large reduction i)i liiti
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