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VOLUME XXII, NUMBER 45.
Lost Near Banks
New Foundlarid Banks Said to be
wry Dangerous to all the Pas-
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sing Boats
Fd^five hundred miles southeast of
Newfoundland the floor of the "Atlantic
«r Ocean is strewn with wrecks and corps
es. It is here that the great Arctic
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current, laden with icebergs from the
x$* Polar seas, encounters the warm Gulf
Stream from the Equator. The vapor
which saturates the mild air over the
Gulf. Stream is condensed into fogs by
the chill northern waters and the ice
which they bear. Every berg from the
north brings affreight of dust and
stones, and as it melts away in the tep
id current from the south, a deposit
falls to the bed of the ocean. In this
way a wide plateau has been built up
wh**re the shallow waters are harassed
by contending currents, overhung. by
impenetrable fogs and beset with ice
bergs. Some of these masses^of float
inglce are as large as mountains. On
ly an eighth of the vast bulk floats
above the surface of the' sea. The re
mainder lurks below, an insidious men
ace tp'passing ships. Over this peril
ous plateau fisherman ply their trade
in numerous fleets, sleepingfin the path
of the world's commerce ind often in
the night going down to unknown
:i graves, while the vessel which has
fi struck their death blow sails on too
swiftly to hear their drowning cries
through the thick darkness.
In the last forty years ninety-four
vessels of major size have been^lost on
the,Newfoundland' Banks, but none of
'these disasters compares with the sink-
ing of tha Titanic, nor. does this num.
ber include the fishermen's boats which
have gone down. and' left no remem
brance upon earth. When the sea giv
es* up' her dead we shall know how
many sleep under the fog-veiled waters
of that fearful region. And now to the
army of deac( comes a new#Enlistment
from the Titknic, and the woe of the
world is multiplied by the horror and
mystery of a wreck without parallel in
^the history ofthe sea. What eye that
should have been vigilant slumbered at
the masthead? What voice that should
have shouted a timely warning
I was silent while death struck home
to the heart of the mighty vessel? Per
haps the mist and darkness were im
penetrable and no human vigilance
could have seen the towering peril un
til it was too late to swerve the steam
er's course. The fog lay thick upon the
surface of the wa^er, shutting out the
^stars in the sky, shutting out t^ie illim
itable sea to port and starboard, shut
ting out the view before her speeding
prow, so that the Titanic sailed on
blindly, like a soul driven to its fate by
malignant and occult powers. As the
mystery of the universe hangs over the
pathway of man on earth, so hung the
fog over the doomed ship- As silent
and inevitable death lies in wait for all
that live, so lay the ambushed iceberg
in her course
It was her first trip across the*ocean.
Built to defy disaster, the Titanic em-
•I bod|ed„afl the triumphs of man's ingen
uity in snaritime architecture. Hie
size of the ship
"was so great that the
tumult ofthe waves scarcely disturbed
her equilibrium. She floated upon the
aea'almost as stably as the pyramids
stand oii the desert. Here and there
throughout the structure of the vessel
were hollow spaces sealed from-the. ac
cess of water to give buoyancy to the
nighty ?ntoss. How could the Titanic
1. sink with all• these balloon-like cham
bers beailng against the downward
snction? -How could her power fail
with two gre&t engines driving onward?
Sb ^vThe 8hip warlikea city. The space
within the walls surpassed tiie cubic
contents'of ail the houses in some thriv
ing towiu The^jwpulation which she
carried numbered more than- two' thou
sand. The crew by itself counted more
tb» eight hundred men. Now all
those men lie dead,at^he'bottom of the
sea, and God aione.has kept the record
Of the names.
'fen the lower cabins was die crowd of
hCinbler passengers. Above them these
of the second class, and in the loftiest
and most luxurious part of the st«iam
ship were the millionaires and tbeiir*
fiunilies.' Not a'f^w of the wealthiest
in tile c«^d,waters with Jhe ,4re»r At
laatie fog for their shroBdath^y left a
billion.dQUfrsin their banksandcorpoiv
sritens,-' -But oii the floor of the ooiii
^will sleep sidtfliy •ide^tfi
t'they will all go like brothers,
the.^oridcannot buy/one favor .trgm
a
tinction between the millionaire and the
furnace-feeder.
The time drew on toward midnight.
Quiet was falling upon the life of the
great ship. Some had sought their
staterooms. Peaceful groups were
gathered in the smoking apartments.
Silent games were in progress. Not a
soul thought of peril. There is a max
im that a passenger on an Atlantic lin
er is safer than a man walking the
streets of New York, and the maxim
is for the mosT part true. Who Can
ever believe that fate will make ah ex
ception of him and break her rules in
order to bring him to destruction? The
passengers staked their faith on exact
science. They knew that no safer ship
had ever been built than, the Titanic,
none in fact so safe. Thousands of
frail craft had traversed that death
haunted ocean area without disaster.
Why should they dread danger to the
mighty Titanic? So assured were all
men of the safety of the vessel that the
ancient precautions of the sea had been
omitted. The lifeboats would not car
ry half the passengers. The confident
owners declared that their enormous
vessel could not sink and the passengers
believed them, but no work of man can
withstand the shock of Nature's forces.
When the Titanic collided with the
iceberg lurking in her course, human
power withered like a scroll before the
might of insensate law. The air-tight
compartments were wrenched open by
the shearing strain-of the shock and
filled with water. The great engines
must have been drowned almost at
once, for the vessel made no headway
on her course after the fatal blow. The
wireless telegragh sent out. its piteous
cry for help over the surface of the
waters and during the hours of waiting
for rescue who shall tell the story of
the agony upon the sinking ship, of the
hands clasped in hands, the tears of
of mortal woe, the prayers to the calm
God who sits on his throne and listens
without change or shadow of turning?
No rescue came and the waters were
rising without pause. By artd by the
time was at hand when some must go
in the boats and some must stay and
sink with the ship. The men^stayed,
since it is seemly for the atrong to die
when there is no chance for all to live.
The children went first over the side
into the boats. Wives looked into their
husbands' eyes and said good-bye, and
with sobs of passionate farewell fol
lowing the children. The men waited
on the deck for death. Millionaire and
deck hand waited side by side, gazing
with equal courage upon the terror ss
it advanced, and side by side they went
down to their everlasting rest. Death
gave them all the same welcome to his
untroubled kingdom. —Portland Oregon
ian.
Sheridan County Coms. ta Trouble
On Tuesday a summons and complaint
waB served on County Commissioners
W. F. Albrecht, Wm. N. Bickley and:
John Bitz, and also Gunder Hill, citing
them to appear on or before 30 days
from that date and rfhow cause why
they should not return to, Sheridan
county the sum of $3,609.5$, being, the
alleged amount that Gunder Hill was
overpaid for grading. 5"
Clause VI of the complaint *eads as
follows:
'-That as a matter of fact said de
fendant, Gunder A. Hill, moved only
13,50-3 cubic yards of dirt on said above
described line of grading, which at 14
cents per cubic yard, amounts to the
sum of $1,890.42, and that said Gunder
A. Hill has been overpaid and wrong
fully received, warrants from Sher
idan county, in the sum of $3*609.58.
And that said defendants, Albrecht,
Bitz and. Bickley, did wrongfully, un
lawfully andwi intention to defraud
said Sheridan county, conspire with the
defendant, Guilder A. Hill to defraud
said. Sheridan county in the sum of
$3,609.58. -That demand has been made
by plaintiff on Gunder. A. Hill, for the
return to plaintiff of the sum of $8,609.
58/and that said Gunder A. Hill, has
failed and refused to return said sum or
any part thereof. "—McClusky Gazette.
OnlrTwpRrtfesNow
Valley City Patriot: It is contended
by some who wotyid justify the new as
sessor registration* law.
that the prtauury
is not an election. If not an election
what is it? Then call it a caucus. But
lio matter what yon call it, the new'
registration law is practically an amend
ment to the primary, and inasmuch as
chiding: socialist and prohibition, and
practically disfnutchisei' thOusands- of
these, as well as thousands more of in
dependent vWers, it both primary ahd
fe&eral elections, itjtfouty seem that
the law vr*» of^th^specles denoinihated
class legislation",of th? kind jm
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Immigration Agents of Northern
thousands of new settlers into the Mis
souri Slope country.
Karl Klein, president of the Missouri
WASHBURN, NORTH DAKOTA, MAY 3,. 1912.
Big Convention WiQ
Produce Big Results
Pac­i
ific, Soo and Milwaukee Lines
Were in Attendance
some commercial travelers by a mem
ber of the knights of the grip in a re
cent convention:
"Time is the stuff that life is made
out of, and gtery day can be put on
the debit or credit side just as you
wish it.
There is a printing press across the
way which is working as long as it is
fed, and the power is on, and there is
somebody to run it it is grinding out
stuff and telling the same story thou
sands and thousands of tames over, as
long as some one is there to direct it.
The difference between a man and a
machine is initiative—not having to be
directed every minute in the day.
Your company, at best, Can outiine a
policy, to you, but it Cannot direct each
man's thoughts and giovements.
It is initiative that .counts, and that
is something th&t no man can instill,
you cannot acquire it—it comes from
within. .. u'. "Y.
In one of the Philippine Islands there
are over 200 holidays.in the, yoar,'ftnd
that is just why .they are savage islands
—there's too much,- play. Civilization
has kept pace with man's capacity for
i*.
The real estate dealers of the Missou-, set it. The time for hobbies and ring
ri Slope held a bbosters meeting in Bis- around-the-rosy stunts is before and
marck last week that is sure to bring after business hours. During hours a
big results. Over eighty prominent man's entire thought should be on his
real estate dealers were in attendance, work. Sitting down with an '.'if" table
Immigration agents of the Northern and doping out who is going to win the
Pacific, Soo and Milwaukee roads were pennant may gain you the admiration
also present and gave advice and pro- of your baseball friends, but does not
miseil assistance in the move to bring get you anything and you may not even
Slope Development League, presided first told, but by constant repetition it
over the sessions. Among others who dwindles and gets you nothing dissect
went down from this city and county
were: Frank Thompson, A. E. Johnson
and T. J. Haugeberg, Washburn L.
Stanley, secretary and P. D. Podhola,
president of the McLean County Devel
opment League.
Among the remarks make by the
speakers the following boosts were giv
en: "Neither one man nor one railroad
cSn settle any one state. It takes a
union of forces."—L. J. Bricker, gen
eral immigration agent, Northern Pac
ific railway. "A new citizen is worth
$1,000 to any compunity."—W. H. Kil
len, land and industrial commissioner
of the Soo line. "When I look back to
the trials and tribulations endured in
early days. I certainly take my hat off
to the fellow who has stayed by it."—
M. J. Firey, traveling immigration
agent, Milwaukee railway. "Settlers
should not be rushed into any commun
ity faster than they can be absorbed,
because there is always a reaction in
cases of this kind and a dissatisfied
settled in any community is a heavy
liability."—L J. Bricker. "In boost
ing ybur state you must remember that
if you want the people of the east to
have faith in North Dakota you must
have faith in your state yourselves."—
W. H. Killen. "Just think of it
$120,000, of which $60,000 has already
come to-North Dakota—a direct result
of the industrial exposition held at Bis
marck last September and October."—
Michael Tschida of Glen Ullin. '/In the
creamery industry alone North Dakota
in the next five years should be a .lead
er, as she can find good markets, both
east and west, for all such products."—
L. J. Bricker. "Keep up your boosting,
have faith in your state, and you will
be sure to win out."—W. H. Killen.
''By reason of the excellent displays
at the industrial exposition held at
Bismarck last fall seven million dollars
of cash were placed in the hands of
Bankers, Loan agents and others to be
loaned out on property of this state.
W. C. Gilbreath commissioner of ag
riculture and labor of North Dakota.
£. ing the tariff out of politics sounds well
Wl Un TOUT J00 but what does siich a move mean other
The following is the advice given to than taking it out of the hands of the
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fathomed.
No man is 100 per cent to the mus
tard (D. C. only claims 99.7 per cent),
but the well balanced man is the one
who has a great many more good qual-1
ities than weaknesses or vices.
It is good for a man to have a few
I hobbies or play notions, but it is coun
jtenanced only in the man who hasj
enough weight on the other side to off-
win the pennant for your favorite team
telling about that big deal you pulled
,off back in the '90's is interesting when
ing other people's personalities and de
ciding what a good fellow or what a
skunk he is takes up time and gets you
nothing, for the chances are that same
fellow is digging away some place try
ing to plan out something for your bet
terment partaking of elongated lunch
eons with a few highballs in between
is ruinous to your digestion, makes an
inroad on your purse and takes time
street corner observations of passersby
is a pleasant way of killing a quarter
of an hour, and incidentally discloses ill
breeding sitting around till the cigar
is down to where it tastes sweet is
another way of putting the clock to
shame.
All these and many more are the
means of dissipating time—the stuff
that fife is made of.
There is only one thing that counts
and that is work—every minute—all
the time—or at least during business
hours. Thoughts are things, and idle
ones lead to the slough of despond.
It's work that counts—work, work,
work.
In other words, get onto your job.
Blaming the Farmers
Wisconsin State Journal: Taft's man
agers inVWashington are now credited
with the puerile whine that insurgency
in the republican ranks has gained
strength through the farmers' discon
tent with the tariff. Well, perhaps so.
If so, can you blame them? And if so,
whose faullris it? The farmer has as
good a right to enjoy discontent as any
we know, and, we think as good ground.
The fight of the farmer is not to ob
tain privileges for himself, but to keep
others from securing privileges at his
expense. All that the farmer asks is
an equal opportunity. That he has suf
fered as much or more than any other
class, by reason of the granting of gov
ernmental favprs to a favored few, no
one can deny. Everything the farmer
sells is sold in competition with all the
world on everything he buys he is
forced to pay a heavy tariff tax. Tak-
If the people are incompetent
to pass upon the tariff question, by
what process of reasoning can it be as
sumed that they are competent to de
termine other questions? If this ques
tion should not be in politics, what
question is there that should be in poli
tics? The protected interests were con
tent to have the tpriff a political quest
ion as long as the people decided in
favor of the interests. Now that the
people have commenced to change their
minds, the beneficiaries of the privi
lege would take control away from the
people. The Taft managers seem to
forget politics is the people's game.
Not a game delegated to a privileged
few. The people realize this and they
are applying ethics to the game. They
know, as apparently the Taft managers
don't know,' that behind every political
question there' is a moral question.
That J. P. Peterson and Henry Hol
tan are prosperous will .be seen by the
following article taken from the Ryder
News:
J. P. Peterson andHenry Holtan
work. The man who unloads -a coal will farm on a large scale this summer.
wa0on'Withvleaving.,liailf '''of'1t iin 'thei.The3r have leased a section and a half
wagon or ln the gutter, and with dis- of reservation land. north of Elbowoods
patch, is fitting into his little cog just and will -put the whole tract into flax
as nuch as the engineer who designs this spring. They will break it up
themOWMton bridge which weaving with a RuMely Oil Pull, and expect to spend one wghf apd ^ay jn prayora
on 'commence operations
May
Ittfkes a long tjime for a man to. parties have also leased land froinrthe. "The church
find himself sometimes few good Indians and there will be a great deal
kicks will get at the- seat of the trou- of dirt turned over this summer on the in any way. Half the people who go
ble sometiifies thera is crisis^asnap reservation. Theold'*huntinggrounds" church and pr*y .don m«an what
of jrhumjsn chor&, W ara^sw' him of the Indians will soon be peaceful they say and nught «s well stay at
*xnetime on effective bpok or oontact farming country.
ipith li,strongfwcsonidity witt,suddenly/
awaken him *?nctimes~wett---some-! More than 500 saloonkeepers have' down and not help «»«rt him. There
timee he just wskes up^that's aU—for closed their doors in Chicago recently, ifn ose fn praying to save people if
reasons that cannot be onacaountoflessdrinking. you sit in your seats and wont go
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Congress WiQ Aid
Good Roads Plan
The House Passed a Provision Grant
ing Subsidies in Post Office Ap
propriation
Bill
Washington, April 30.—The house
today aided the national good roads
movement by passing a provision in
the postoffice appropriation bill which
would grant a subsidy to all highways
used in rural free delivery mail service,
these roads to be divided into three
classes with subsidies of $25, $20 and
$15 a mile. This is estimated to furnish
the first year between $16,000,000 and
18,000,000.
Roseglen Correspondence
Quite a lot of seeding has been done
in this vicinity during the past week.
Hans Kjos, from Surrey, N. D., has
been a visitor at the Peder Barsness
home ail last week.
Krist Prange has been doing some
threshing the first part of the week.
Mrs. Hans Lunden called to see her
parents last Sunday.
Paul Kolden and family were Rose
glen callers Sunday.
Krist Prange purchased some seed
wheat from Torger Kolden.
Torger Kolden returned from- Bis
marck last Saturday.
Henry Snippen returned from Wash
burn on Wednesday.
Lunden & Kolden's tractor got stuck
in a mud hole, on Peder Lunden's farm
last Saturday afternoon.
The Standard Oil Co. have decided to
send a carload of oil to Ryder to ac
comodate all the Roseglen farmers who
have tractors.
Malcolm Correspondence
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Olson and fam
ily visited at Frank Peterson's on Sun
day.
Walter Wilkins, who made a business
trip to Bismarck last week, returned
home on Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Johnson visited
with Runback's on Sunday afternoon.
Miss Yerda Hagberg returned home
last week, where she intends to stay
for some time as she is improving rap
idly.
Mr. and Mrs. Olson and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Nick Reuter and Rose John
stone visited at Edd's last Sunday.
A crowd of young people from Mal
colm, visited with Hagbergs on Sunday.
Turtle Lake Wave
A. F. Danielson last week traded his
two quarter sections of land west of
Turtle Lake for a farm in Minnesota.
John L. Brekken has decided to have
a little more of. his homestead just out
of town northwest broke up and seeded
to flax this spring.
C. J. Moll of Minneapolis is here in
charge of the Winnor-Torgerson lumber
yard until the company can get an agent
to take the place of L. W. Davidson
resigned.
Winter wheat not covered with snow
winter killed as far south as central
Kansas this year. And here in North
Dakota Swan Hanson sowed it on fall
plowing where there never is any snow
and expected it to live. Winter rye
stood the test of a very severe winter
without snow /covering. There were
several hundred acres seeded here this
fall and all of it is coming fine.
Tuesday
Farm
afternoon while out raking
thistles Leland the thirteen year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Johnson un
fortunately got his foot into the rake
in such a way as to badly sprain his
ankle: His foot is in bad shape and it
will keep him idle for, several weeks.
IfSnndafs Sayings .-,§§|
"I pity the man who stands 'on a
street corner and is not able to say of
some one there goes my friend A
reflex blessing makes me feel and rec
ognise the presence of God. Prayer
makes you- realise your dependence on
God. 'I hate a man who acts as though
what he receiyes from God is. his by
right. Why shouldn't we pray? Jesus
spent the most of his time in prayer.
If the churches of the country would
1st Other revival would .weep ovprthis country.
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but wontjiftsj flwer to aiMft
pay 'or the
cmversio* of her ^husband sind then sit
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down and help. God often tells people
to go and answer their own prayers.
Prayer impresses your mind with the
character of God and makes you want
to be more like Him. There is a de
sire in me to live always and I don't
get it from any college. It is from the
spirit of God. We grow by expression
and that is why God wants us to pray
to Him. Some people go to church
and don't pray, and they are actually
withering up. The only kind of relig
ion that I care anything about is the ex
perimental kind. One-half of the
church member never had an experi
ence. The more I do for God the
stronger seems my faith. America
must have a tidal wave of religion
sweep over her or this country will
meet with dissolution. God's answer
to prayer stopped the grasshopper
plague in Minnesota. God can do to
day, what he did 2,000 years ago if we
only have faith."
Essay on "King Solomon"
A little girl in a neighboring town
tells the world what she knows about
King Solomon in the following essay:
King Solomon was a man who lived ev
er so many years ago, and in the coun
try which he governed he was the
whole push. He was an awful wise
man, one day two women came to him,
each one holding onto the leg of a baby
and nearly pulling it in two, and both
claiming it. King Solomon wasn't feel
ing right good and he said: "Why
couldn't the brat have been twins and
stopped all this bother?" He then call
ed for his sword and was going to chop
the brat in two and give each one a
piece of it, when the one who was the
real mother said: "Stop Solomon stay
thy hand, let the old hog have it. If
I can't have a whole baby I don't want
any." Then Solomon told her to take
the child and go home and wash its face
for he knew it was hers and he told the
other woman to go chase herself. King
Solomon built Solomon's temple and
was the father of all the Masons. He
had 700 wives and 200 lady friends, and
that is why there are so hiany Masons
in the world. My papa says that King
Solomon was a warm member and' I
think he was hot stuff myself. That's
all I know about King Solomon.—Ex.
Clark's Dog Song
Champ Clark of Missouri will not be
able to get away with that "honn dog
song." After France an England laid
claim' to it, Senator Nelson of Minne
sota came forward with and assertion
the song had its origin in Sweden
about 700 years ago. He said the song
over there is something like the follow
ing:
Nar jag kom till staden's grin
Pojkar sparkar hunden min
Det gor det samma om han ar blott
hun,
De moste sluta att- sparka honom
rundt.
North Dakotans will be considerably
interested in the view taken by the
Minnesotan. Somehow the Scandina
vians have a way of laying claim t»
things that other countries thought
they owned. Take the discovery of
America—the Vikings are positive thejr
antedated Columbus—and if Senator
Nelson gets away with this dog song
there is nothing that will be safe from
Scandinavian clutches.—Forum.
Table of Delegates
The delegates to the republican na
tional convention, figured by states, are
as follows for Roosevelt, Taft and La
Follette:
State jfovt. Taft LaF.
Alaska
Colorado
Connecticut
Hawaii
Illinois ..
Indiana..
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky 3 16
Maine
Michigan .. 12 8
Nebraska /1
North Carolina ...
New York........ 2
North Dakota
Oklahoma 16
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Missouri 14 2
Oregon ... ...... 10 .. .u
Pennsylvania 68
Philippine Islands. 2
Rhode Island ..... 10
South Carolina... •:W 6.
Vermont........ ,.
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2
Wisconsin... y*
Totals......... 216 106
or contested in the following states:
legates.
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Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi,
New Mexico, Tennessee and Virginia.
Cummins has only tiie ten
and they are all from Idwa. There ace.
11? uninstractdi and 187 contested Tle-r*
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