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Washburn. N. P. Aug. 7,1911.
Board of County Commissioners
of McLean Oo„ N. D., met pur
suant to adjournment. Members
present: D. C. Wright, chairman
Commissioners Louis Bergquist
and F. L. Mackey.
On motion the bids for. the
connty sioking funds were opened
and are as follows:
First State Bank, Ruso, $1000 00
6 percent.
First National Bank, Garrison,
5000 00 7 per cent.
Northwestern State Bank, Cole
harbor, 2000 00 7 per cent.
Citizens State Bank, Max,
2000 00 6 per cent.
First State Bank, Garrison,
2000 00 7 per cent no bond.
Washburn State Bank, Wash
burn, 2500 00 7 per cent.
Security State Bank, Under
wood, 2000 00 7 per cent.
•••. First State Bank, Underwood,
2000 00 7 per cent.
First National Bank, Turtle Lake,
3000 00 5 per eent.
First State Bank, Turtle Lake,
no amount, 7 per cent.
Wilton Bank, 500000 7 per cent.
McLean Co State Bank, Wilton,
3000 00 5 per cent.
First National Bank, Washburn,
5000 00 7 per eent.
Mercer State Bank, Mercer,
2500 00 6J per cent.
First 8tate Bank, Mercer,
1000 00 5 per cent.
Farmers Bank, Garrison, 2000 00
7 per cent.
On motion board adjourned to
meet Tuesday morning, Aug. Sth.,
at 9 o'clock a. m.
.V'J T. E. Thompson,
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o'clock a. m., Ang. 8th 1911.
Board met pursuant to adjourn
ment. Members present: D. G.
Wright, chairman and Commiss
ioners Bergquist and Mackey.
Upon motion the following banks
were designated as connty depos-
itories for sinking fund:
W First National Bank, Garrison,
$1500, rate 7 per cent.
j- i, Farmers Bank of Garrison, $1,
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500,rate 7 per cent.
Northwestern State Bank, Cole
Vj harbor, $1000, rate 7 per cent
First State Bank, Turtje Lake,
$1200, rate 7 per oent. is'
Security State Bank, Under
nood, $1400, rate 7 per cent.
First State Bank, Underwood,
$1400, rate 7 per oent.
First National Bank, Washburn,
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$1800. rate 7 per cent.
Washburn State Bank, $1500,
rate 7 per cent.
Wilton Bank, $1000, rate 7 per
oent.
On motion the following bills
^l^were allowed and warrants ordered
drawn tn payment of same.
Whitlook, janitor.. .$ 50 00
S E Dahl, clerk, auditor's
6 5 0 0
S Westmiller, deputy
auditor-............... 100 00
Adolph Wacker, recording
bonds, seed grain eon
5 traots, postage...... .w
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0 E Panl, deputy treasur-^
1 0 0 0 0
Jeiinte Rudd, clerk reg. of
deeds oflice
"fncaie Benn, clerk reg. of
ofioe.• 1—
'^A S Reitan, deputy regf*^
flrf deeds a a a a a a
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Harry Wahl, work in reg.
deeds office 37 40
John Brekken, postage,
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Afternoon Session.
Board met pursuant to adjourn
myut. All members present.
On motion the following bills
were allowed and warrants ordered
drawn:
Ann.i Peterson, clerk reg.
of deeds office 11 25.
Jahr-Eastman Merc. Co.,
uidse. Mrs. Sherman.... 5 00
Phillip Hu»er, road work.
warrant held for taxes.. 4 00
Jacob Flath, road work,
warrant held for taxes.. 4 00
Frank Wilson' bridge work 70 00
Fred Reinman, bill of $20,
personal taxes deducted. 9 04
O'Neal, road work.... 31 00
Christian Engel, road work 33 15
O Johnson, road work,
warrant held for taxes.. 10 00
Fred Seivert. road work.. 28 00
Jnlius Reingheim, rd. work
warrant held for taxes.. 12 00
Jacob Landseidel, road wk 22 00
Jacob Hummel, road work,
$40.25 held for taxes.... 24 94
Lorenz Nehr, road work.. 15 75
Jacob Hummel, road work 10 00
Johan Weber, warrant held
for taxes..... 5 00
Theobold Mittleider, road
work, warrant held for
taxes
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E FosBberg, road work.
Andrew Hermann, read wk
David Henne, road work..
David Hummel, road work
Eugene Page, road work..
Emil Guenther, road work
Hamilton, natf work.
$136, .*( taxes deduoted,
$1682)
E Knudtson, road work
Henry Ulrioh, road work
$7.95 held for taxes....
Clayton Condon, road work
Emery Ulrioh, road work,
$8.24 taxes deducted).,.
Gottlieb Schempp, road wk
($13.22 taxes deducted)
Waine Condon, road work
a a
56 35
51 25
100 00
Brejcken, mileage.
61 20
kSen,teL
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Harry Wahl, auditor office
work
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A Thompson, road work 14 00
Otto Sather, road work,
warrant beid for taxes.. 14 00
Fred Ross, road wx warrant
held for taxes 12 00
Fredrich Seivert, road wk. 18 00
Jacob Schempp, road work
$29.25, (taxes deducted,
$13.52) 15 73
Clyde Wilson, bridge work 25 50
August Thode, road work.
6 25
6 00
1 75
14 00
45 50
24 50
14 50
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119 17
43 50
20 05
46 75
28 00
Condon, road work...
Bruce Smith, road work
warrant held for taxes..
Gottlieb 8ohempp, road
John Steinke, road work,
(taxea deducted, $14,34)
Jacob Landseidel, road. 'wk
Martin Olson, rtad work.
taxes deducted, $9.87)..
Wilton News, pub. pure
food list
Alfred Fahlgren, hauling
rock
10 05
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28 00
28 00
16 15
36 64
43 14
10 40
24 75
15 00
O Simon,sheriff fees..
Olgeirson, olerk hire....
O Simon, jailor and bid
prisoners
Richard Daniels tnason bilT
of$35.28«lbwedat....
Gottfried roMTwork%-^8 00
Andrew S«upr,roadwork..
Christ Cari»oa, K»d
74 00
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50
Emil Anderson, witness, v'
jurors, bailiff, conrt ste
nographer, box rent, ex
press, stamps, telephone
and freight charges.... 2807 25
Hohman, part pay
ment on road contract.. 200 00
Westmiller, deputy
c'erk of court 62 50
On motion board adjourned to
meet at 1 o'clock p. m.
The sum and substance of this
law, which was passed in 1906, but
which had never been previously
enforced, is that aliens who arriv
ed in the United State subsequent
to June 29, 1906, are henceforth
required to procure a certificate of
landing, from the bureau of natur
alization, which in turn is to be
filed with the clerk of the district
court before the clerk can take a
petition for naturalization,
It is necessary that all aliens
intending to become American
citizens, should apply in- proper
person to the clerk for snch certifi
cates, but could write him for
blank forms upon wltich to apply
to the clerk for these certificates
and will be then furnished
This shows a tendency to put
the naturalization bnreau on a
sounder basis and appears to show
a disposition of the government to
somewhat stem the tide of Euro
pean immigration to this country,
so many elements of whioh are ob
jectionable and are rapidly clutter
ing up the bigger cities of the east.
Henceforth rigid precaution will
be exercised.
There have been about twenty
five who received their first papers
this week and many more have
stated that they will take theirs
out. The first papers are being
taken out now so that registartion
can be made on land on the Berth,
old reservation.
Clerk of Court Hanson 6ays that
all applications for citizenship pa
pers have to be published 90 days
before the regular term of court
and that no one making applic
tion after August 7th can get
their oitizenship papers until the
June term ?of court. At the last
session df tftfe ^legislature the titne
for holding court in this oounty
was changed from December 13 to
November 8 makiug it necessary
to also change the date for receiV'
ing applications for citizenship
papers.
bldg., bill ot $19.60 al
lowed at
William Partridge, repair
ing bridge...
Otto Peterson, wood for jail
Wash. Tel. Co., phone ren
ts!',.» ... ...
Tom Thompson, road work
Fred Pfistor, ooa! for jail..
Albert Fraitag, return l»M
lotbosss.'.... U.......
Burton Itihowles, repair
work
Samuel Nagel, work on road
22 25
3a 25
42 00
31 30
A Perl^y "surveying. ^.. .
"W WimSuBster, expenses
$ Judg%$rswford .^ i.
Dogden News, bi lLof$40lif4
allowed at.*«
il.
12 00
a a a a
Wilton News, pub. comm.
proceed
22 25
52 00 surspers... .....'.
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THE WASHBURN LEADER
WASHBURN, N. D. AUG. 25, 1911,
Naturalization
Laws Enforced
Clerk of District Court Apprised of
Rigid Enforcement of Natural
izatlonlaws
The clerk of the district ooort,
C. Hanson has been apprised
by the naturalization bureau of the
department of commerce and labor
at Washington that the uew natur
alization laws will hereafter be en
forced This will mean that henoe
forth no aliens will be naturalized
without having first presented to
the department a full certificate of
landing in this country.
15 00
10 00
3 50
12 00
2 00
4 1
9 70
12 15
14 00
19 00
21 80
31 75
a
John Ulrioh, bill of $44.25
road overseer allowed at
Institute of Feeble Minded,
oare of patients........
Wash. Tel. Go., tel. fees...
Wasblborn Dray & Transfer
-.-Go., dnyigs...........^
(^J Salioa, noriai toad
31 25
15 00
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4 00
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Harresting Flax
That Is Good Seed
Prof. E L. Bolley of the A. C. Gives
Some Valuable Pointers to the
Farmers of the State
Prof. H. L. Bolley, botanist at
the A. C., has the following re
garding the harvesting of seed flax:
The flax crop of the northwest,
because of drought, passed through
a crucial period last year. There
was a time when it seemed that
there would not be enough good
/Seed to sow even half the normal
-area of land in this state and other
flax growing areas of the north
west.
Many farmers have, however,
sacrificed much and hazarded
much in order to again give this
orop a chance to make a stand on
their farm. In the new land dis
tricts, where seed was scarce,
many large areas have been seeded
with poor lightweight wilt and
canker infested seed. Such fields
if not an actual disappointment to
the grower, this year, will inform
him of his sins against the soil in
the next few crops of flax. Great
care should be taken to properly
save the seed and as all flax seed
fit for oil purposes will bring a
good price, the best effort should
be made to properly save it all.
Now is the time to select the seed
for next year's crop.
I. Pick out your most healthy
dark green colored area of flax on
your land or in your neighbor's
field and remember this when you
out the orop.
2.. Have the mustard, false flax
and other weeds pulled out of your
seed plot—now.
3. Let the flax get fully matured.
4. Cut, if possible, with a bind
er, shock, and thresh as soon as
dry, or stack it dry and cover with
canvas cap or slough hay cap.
If the ground is rough and the
flax straw is too short to cut with
a binder, use a "flax attachment,"
and run the sickle bar as close to
the ground as possible. Many
farmers lose about one-third of
of the flax which they grow, be
cause they do not make smooth
enough seed-bed to allow the reap
er to work smoothly below all the
heads. If this hits your case, do
not blame the flax orop as a non
productive one, but do better for
it next spring. If you cut it and
drop it in loose bunches, do not
let these get wet, if you can help
it, because it soon gets mouldy and
this ruins the seed for sowing pur
poses, besides, when the balls be
gin to dry, after being wet, muoh
flax will be lost through shelling.
If you cannot thresh «t onoe,
when dry, place in large cooks or
small stacks and oover with caps
made of hay or use the regular
canvas cap or staok covers. Be
sure to have the straw dry when
plaoed in the oooks.
5. Stor? the wed dry and keep
it dry.! W
Grow your own seed. No mat
ter how small amonnt of seed
ripened on your land save some
of it, It is better seed for your
land than that grown somewhere
else. This is the only way of gst
ting, the best wilt resistant seed.
If yon have sd$i0 flax-sick land
try it. Save the seed from such
land, grade out the light weight
seeds and sow it back on your sick
ground and each year it will be
come more and more resistant un
til eventually yen have gained a
type of flax that is practically a
disease resistant stook on your
land.
7.
8end about one. pound of
your seed flax to the pare seedUb
lot
If we find it o. k. we will be able
to place you in touch with persons
who wish to buy good seed. Be
sure to save enough seed for your
own farm and enough to supply
your neighbors so that they will
not spoil their land and through
later shifting of the disease-bear
ing dust and dirt spoil your hopes
of raising this valuable crop. H.
L. Bolley. Botanist, Agricultural
College, North Dakota.
Wiprod Correspondence
The coal inspeotor drove
through our vioinity Friday look
ing up the coal section.
Myrtle Hanson entertained a
large oircle of friends at her home
Monday. The occasion being her
twelfth birthday. It is needless to
say that the young people did not
enjoy themselves.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Fahy made
Washburn a business call Tues
day and returned the following
day.
Mrs. Jonas Palm burg has been
confined to her bed for several days
with a lame back.
Mrs. Gus Reineking made Tur
tle Lake a cali the fore part of the
week.
Harvest is now in full force.
The farmers are feeling more en
couraged as the crop looks better
now than they expected.
Bula Brown gave a birthday
party Thursday August 17 to her
many little friends who all seemed
to heartily enjoy themselves.
Jay Spaulding's windmill was
blown over last Sunday night in
the wind storm.
G. L. Bryant drove
to look after his crop
friends.
Herbert Theobald and sister,
Mabel of Manilla, Iowa, are visit*
ing at the home of their uncle, Joe
Slagg. They registered at Bis
marck Monday morning. Miss
Mabel was the first woman to re
gister at that plaoe. Mr. Theo
bald expeets to go to Emmet Wed
nesday for a short .visit with the
Slagg boys and from there will go
back home. Mabel expeots to
stay for a longer visit for the ben
efit of her health. North Dakota
is a good healthy plaoe in whioh to
live. There are very fewooming
here from the east bnt who are de
lighted with the agreeable climate.
Mr. and Mrs. Ghas. Buffington
and daoghter will leave for their
home at Manilla, Iowa, Tuesday
after a delightful three months vi
sit here with Mrs. Buffingion's pa
rents.
Otto Thomsen was an Under
wood visitor Monday and went to
see his sister Mattie who is still
under the doctor's oare. Her arm
does not improve very rapidly.
Henry Dahl went to the eastern
part of the state with a bunoh of
horses to sell where the orops are
moae abundant,
It is thought that registrations
will avsnge thirty per oent below
that of 1900. Many want had on
fas sib. joTis muf wwm
iuSTTi
out Friday
and call on
Conkling Correspondence
Leo Slagg and Chas. Buffington
went to Garrison Monday to regis
ter for land on the Fort Berthold
reservation
Will Petersou preached at the
schoolhouse Sunday and he or
8_me other miuister from the
neighboring towns will fill the pnl
pit during the absence of Rev. W.
C. Hume. Rev. Watkins a former
pastor is expected to preach Sep
tember 17. A cordial invitation
is extended to all to attend. Mr.
Peterson is just a beginner in the
work but his carefully prepared
talk was very muoh enjoyed by all.
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The Leader Has in Goaaecttaa
the lost Complete fob OMoe
in the Gouty. Cet On Mea
fl.50 PER YEAR
Bickford Trial Set
For Coming Week
May Be Heard Later As There Has
Been a Delay In Transcribing
Of the Evidence
That there exists sufficient
gronnds for the motion for a new
trail to make almost certain the
setting aside of proceedings al
ready had, is the belief entertained
by counsel for G. L. Bickford, the
former treasurer of North Dakota
embezzelment. August 31 is the
date that was fixed by Judge
Crawford for the hearing of the
new trial motion, but the present
indications are.that it will be some
time later before the case is heard,
inasmuch as there has been an un
avoidable delay in the transreibiug
of the evidence.
One of the first grounds upon
which the verdict of the district
court of this county will be
attacked will be that relative to
the soundness of the information
itself. District court judges have
ruled on that feature, the efforts
of the defense to have the infor
mation set aside both times being
fraught only by failure.
In the information, the legality
of which is questioned, is the
charge of embezzlement. To
make up that charge there are sev
eral items, namely, the so-called
Barnes county deal, the insurance
money and certain deposits or
checks. The total amount with
which Bickford was originally ao
cused of embezzling was #60,480.
Of that amount $25,000 is ident
ified as being insuranoe money.
$15,480 is the Barnes county item,
and 20,000 is the deposit in the
Bowbells bank, or checks drawn
on other depositories and trans*
ferred to the Bowbells bank which
at the time belonged to Mr. Bick
ford.
In the trial of the case, each of
these items were shown to be
clearly defined and separate from
one another. The claim the de
fense makes is that under the
North Dakota law, it is not legal
to try a man on three separate
criminal offenses at the same time,
alleging "that as a matter of fact,
the information does not allege
three different offenses, while there
is only one general charge.
Another point on which the de
fense will make a strong fight
when the case comes up again is
that on which the verdict of guilty
was returned. In the progress of
the trial there was an item ad
mitted as evidenoe tending to in
dicate motive on Bickford's part
relative to alleged crookedness in-,
the administration of the affairs of
the offioe. This partioular itsm
was one for a little more than $54,
and it is the one on whioh the
jury returned a verdict finding
Biokford guilty.
In the evidenoe that was drawn
out, the small amount in question
was shown to have been paid into
the treasurer's offioe by the Flax,
ton bank as interest on a deposit
of about $9,000 in that institution.
The defense, when Mrs. Mitohell
was on the stand, brought out the
fact that there was approximately
$160 in cash in the state offioe, the
souroe of whioh was not known,
and it was the theory of the de
fense that the #54 in question was a
part of the amount,'having been put
into cash and not credited to the
interest aocount, as it should have
been.
With these points constituting
the principal basis
of
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defendant is oonfident that the su
MO0 ooort will reverse the lowsr
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