The evening times. [volume], December 06, 1906, Image 7

About The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 19M.
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THE DAOOTA PHARMACY.
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A«tMi Waited. Paital l^wt Pcnalted
GEO. B. CLIFFORD & CO.
GIAND FORKS, N.
FARM LOANS
OaltalM Viadi lor Loans oi Good Farm at
Lowest Kate oi Interest and with On or Before Privileges
GILL OI WHITE
DAVID H. BEECHER
Cika NaUosal taak Mjlij. fined Pub, H.D.
Grand Forks Monument Works
Threshers Supplies
Oils
General Hardware
Builders Hardware
Tinware, Etc.
J. F. BRANDT,
ST. PAUL.
& JEFFREY. Prep
luUt Ml Granite
H«l Stones. Cwttety Fencing.
ill Mais of Foreign aai BinUt
(huRti
Sum Styles aai Deafeat
Phases M.8W» Mil.
Ottee Phenet Tri-State tttft.
A W A E
In short everything pertain
ing to hardware Having
recently added a complete
stock of harness we are In
position to furnish the farm
er with all his needs in this
line.. Call and inspect stock
and prices.
East
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W. b. DIXON, IN. W. P. A., 363 Robert Sto. St. Paul, Minn.
G. 0. WALTON,
m*«ltag Passenger Agent,
L. K. MeCONNELL,
Traveling Passenger Agent.
ST. PAUL.
J. CADWELL. Special Passenger Agent, CHICAGO.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry
KIHirSTHETHIEF.IS"
U. S. Interior Department
Stirred Up Over "Land
Grab" Scandal
WHIT IT COSTS TO UVE
THE UMSIMTIIL CITY
A Word or Two Abent Congressional
"Chokers," the Row Aboit the Col*
ored Soldiers, Simplified Spelling
and the Ship Sabaldy Question Soon
to be Before Congress for Action.
(Washington Netoa Bureau.)
Washington, O. C., Dec. 6.—The main
tent la now open come early and avoid
tile rush." This cicus slogan ia ap
plicable to the gathering of the mem
bers of the congress and the organ
ization of that body. Washington is
honeycombed with formalities and cus
toms, and any man who can "get away
with the goods" in the legislative, Judi
cial or executive departments of the
federal government without violating
some time-honored tradition is a fit
subject for the dime museum.
For several days, in fact weeks, con
gress will be busy shaping up the more
important matters to come before it
this winter, but it will toe some time
after the new year before serious work
is attempted. Two matters stand out
in bold relief: emptying the "ports
bar'l" and talking, lite latter has be
come a fine art in congress, while the
"bar'l" has has been somewhat ne
glected of late yaers because of the
limited income of the treasury depart
ment. But Secretary Shaw has an
nounced a comfortable surplus, and
a bargain counter rush will be a small
affair compared with the eagerness to
participate in its distribution.
Do not expect much of this session
of congress and you will not be dis
appointed. Outside of the regular ap
propriation bills the river and harbor
steal has perhaps the best chance of
enactment, and friends of the ahip sub'
sidy are eager to bring up their hoary
headed friend. Immigration, naval ex
tension, Philippine tariff, the Smoot
case and many other matters which oc
cupy the public mind will be touched
on, but the chance for action is rather
slim.
Congressional "Chokers."
Have you. observed during, the past
few years that when action seemed
imminent on some matter which ap
pealed^ tire people more than to the
politicians that congress would begin
to work itself into a white heat about
some inconsequential matter? Well,
that is a congressional "choker." But
the country is becoming wise to that
game, and a member of congress who
can spring a new idea for discussion
at a critical moment to stave off legis
lation on labor matters, for Instance,
or the tariff, is no longer considered in
the light of a genius.
Although labor took a small part in
the late campaign, there is but a slim
chanoe for the enactment of legisla
tion which will affect the status of
the workingman A start has been
made In that direction, however, for
some of the congressmen realize the
strength allied against them, and would
willingly grant some of the
for anti injunction and other labor
matters. The leaders are adamant on
the subject, and with only a short ses
sion no definite action can be axpected.
The Hon. "Jeff" Davis of Arkansas
R. D. ROVIG,
Traveling Passenger Agent,
ST. PAUL.
TBI EVENING TUIE8, GRAND FORKS, N. D.
has been reported as saying that the
senate needs "stirring up." Probably
that is true to a certain extent, but rest
assured that the gentleman from Ar
kansas will not do the stirring. That
dignified body has partially suppres
sed Tillman, and it will succeed with
the new aspirant for notoriety. One
reason for the ease with which a new
member of congress is suppressed is
that all legislation Is handled by the
leaders, the various committees whip
ping the material into sbape after an
outline has been given. Votes In con
gress are not made by eloquence on
the floor, but by dictation of leaders
and "swapping"—you vote for my bill
and I will vote for yours.
Row Abont Soldiers.
There will be a pretty row In con
gress this winter regarding the dis
honorable discharge of three compan
ies of colored troops because they
would, not reveal the names of several
comrades who are said to have shot
up a town in Texas. The idea prevails
to a certain extent that not all the men
could have known the identity of the
guilty parties. It is certain that sev
eral resolutions will be introduced,
some calling for Information of the
subject and others directing their re
instatement Gongress will be a little
slow in ordering their re-lnstatement,
however, for the president would
surely veto it.
The appropriation committee of con
gress has been at work for some weeks
shaping their supply bills, and one
of the first obstacles they bumped into
was "simplified" spelling. The presi
dent's order requiring the use of the
300 words recommended by the sim
plified spelling board has been gen
erally followed by the various depart
ments, but when it came to making
laws a new condition arose. Con
gress will settle the matter one way or
the other—probably in favor of the
orthodox method within a few days.
Apropos of simplified spelling the
methods of the government printing
office are receiving a much needed
overhauling. The present public print
er is coming in for considerable criti
cism, but what public officer endeav
oring to change time-honored and
moth-eaten methods is not held up to
ridicule? There has not been a single
government official ror years who has
endeavored to do his duty and his
whole duty who has escaped. Regard
less of the howl the greatest printing
office in the world is being brought to
a sensible basis. Employees work
eight hours, get eight hour's pay, and
do not get "fired" if their politics are
not right materials are purchased at
the lowest price, and the endeavor Is
being made to increase the product
by commercializing the plant.
One great reform being worked out
by the public printer is in the sale of
public documents. The superintendent
of documents is rearranging the sys
tem of handling governmental publi
cations with a view to facilitating de
livery and centralisation of distribu
tion. When this plan is in operation
the people of the United States
will be informed through press notices
in news, agricultural and technical
papers of the Issuance of various re
ports and bulletins, the price, and
where to obtain them.
The government charges cost price
for its publications, and of course an
increased demand will reduce even
the small charges made at present.
Even with the added cost of compo
sition the present editions of govern
ment publications sell for from five to
fifty cents. What is the use of having
several hundred experts making in
vestigations of various subjects and
then printing a couple of thousand
copieB of their reports—never to be
heard from again? Create a demand
for 1,000,000, and the country will soon
decide whether the investigations
should go on. It is hoped that con
gress will relieve the''situation by cen
tralizing the distribution in the docu
ments office and sell every volume—not
give them away to people who wish to
fill bookcases with finely bound books
and have a friend In congress.
"Clerks" Hake Great Hen.
Every few days the papers are full
of the great deeds in governmental
administration of this man and that.
A great speech is made a wonderful
decision rendered a great discovery
of fraud in some branch of the service,
Wherein dees their greatness lie? In
having "gumption" enough to take
advantage of the desire of their clerical
force for advancement The guiding
hands of the federal government have
time to play tennis, to take horseback
rides, to go on hunting and vacation
trips, and to enjoy the good things of
life. The nonenlties employed to carry
on the work have not the time or in
clination for such things. They are
so tired after the official day's work
that they either loaf or put in overtime
on matters tending to advance their
superiors.
To hear one of the official tomily
deliver a speech full of figures and
data of various kinds requiring months
to collect, and having read in the pa
pers that he takes a horseback ride
every morning and evening to watch
the clerk at the capital walk up and
down in a committee room and dictate
an "interview" with his master—these
things sometimes make one think that
the plum does not always go to the
proper person. Still, those things are
common in Washington. It is the
"Washington way."
"Who's the Thief?"
The interior department is pretty
well torn up at present over the land
grab scandal, and the question is often
asked, "Who's the thief?" The evi
dence appears to be strong that the
land office officials were notified time
after time that patents were issued in
contravention of law. There is a ling
ering in the minds of some that if the
complainants, after sending fifty letters
to the land office as alleged, would
not stand a few to the head of the in
terior department. To a man up a
tree" it would appear that soinebody
was either a rascal or an ignoramous—
both common in the capital city.
Is Washington a nice city to live in?
People residing here are asked that
question many times. Washington as
a residence city is exactly what you
want it to be. If you have a position
under the government paying from
91,000 per year up, you can get along
fairly well. Prices for everything are
high, $25 a month being as low as a
comfortable house can be rented for,
and that in a modest locality. If you
DENTISTS
DR. L. L. ECKMAN,
DENTIST.
Both Phones—466M.
Grand Fsrks, North Dakota
DR8. FLETCHER &
SAUNDERSON,
Successors to
Dr. Robert S. Ramsey,
DENTIST.
Clifford Annex. Grand Ferka, Ji J).
DENTIST.
Ottee Over Union National Bank.
Phone ML
DR. E. F. ADAMS,
PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS.
DR.
J:
D. TAYLOR,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Ottee ia St Jehn'a Block.
Office ho rat 9tol0a.uk, 1 to p. m.
7 to 8 p. m.
JOHN FAWOETT, HA., M.D.
DISEASES VP WOMEN
AND GENERAL SURGEON
Office over Stanchfield Store
Phone 261
DR. J. GRASSIGK
Ottee Nerthweatern Building
uorner DeMera Avenue and Fourth 8t.
8. W. RUTLEDGE
HOMEOPATHIC
Phyalebui and Surgeon.
138 8. Third St. Grand Forks, N. 0.
DR. F. J. DUGGAN
PHYSICIAN AND SUROBON—Spe
cial
wo
hoi
-I*
attention given to diseases of
women. Office, Bears Block. Office
urs, 10 a .m. to 12 m., 2 p. m. to 4
Both Phones
jx m., 7 p. m. to 8 p. m.
ARCHITECTS.
J. W. ROSS
ARCHITECT
and Superintendent of Construction
Office 1% Third St Grana yorks, N. D.
R. L. SMITH
ARCHITECT
Both Phonea. National Bank Bldg.
W. J. EDWARDS
ARCHITECT
Northweatern Bldg. Grand Porta
Northwestern Phona 466L.
OSTEOPATHY
DR. ORR SANDERS,
DR. MAY E. SANDERS,
Chronic and acute diseases success
fully treated. Treatment at home
It desired. Suite 56, Security
Block. Both phones 642.
(•rand Forks, North Dakota
O. YOUNG
WMMII fuaitar* Piaae*, fcuwi
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ISft-117-lM «Mtk Third Si.
Grand Porks, North Dakota
are a church member and go to and
from your work and your church with
your eyes closed and do not listen tio
the stories that drift about It is heaven.
If you are a good judge of human
nature and float around with a set
of respectable yet «asy going people,
you will see many things that will
make you lose your confidence in hu
man nature. It is a city of churches,
and the Sabbath laws are fairly well
enforced, yet one on the inside can
get a drink and enjoy many other
privileges not permissible in a smaller
town. Vice and crime are veiled in a
mantle of respectability that is not
obtrusive, yet apparent to the ob
serving.
Will Bear Watching.
Every action of a department head
or member of congress is looked at
pretty sharply these days, past ex
periences having made a bad impres
sion on the thinkers of the country.
Two wrongs do not make one right,
nor does one scheme that is wholly
bad mitigate against another in the
same shape if its innocence can be
proven. It has been the practice for
years in congress to saddle onto an
outgoing member the responsibility
which a man with a future would not
accept, and this is what apparently
happened when the lines laid to pass
a ship subsidy bill this winter. For
years the steamship men have tried to
get more money out of the government
in the shape of subsidies, but to no
avail. Now, however, they expect to get
"what is coming to them." Some people
are rude enough to say it would mean
the penitentiary!
One way of looking at the matter is
that it will not be a decided advantage
to seafaring men, for their wages are
notoriously small. The employes of
shipbuilding companies are largely
iron and Steele workers, who can get
employment at high wages at any time.
(The election of the union depot In
this city lias been delayed a year be
cause of the lack of iron workers.)
The larger ship owners will be the
ones to get the largest subsidies, and
rich men do not need more money. The
shipbuilders are also rich men, and
should be satisfied after robbing the
government for years on the fat con
tracts for the navy department The
foreign ships carry cargoes for New
York at so low a rate that men will
not build boats to compete with them.
If the ship owners and builders are
rich if the workers are busy and not'
wanting employment if the foreigners
carry our exports cheaper than we can
carry them, will someone please rise
in a sensible way and explain why the
government shrould set men up in
business with the understanding that
the business will not pay—pouring
money in a rat-hole?
CLASSIFIED ADS CLASSIFIED ADS CLASSIFIED AOS
TAILORS.
PHILIP AMON
Taller.
SUITS FROM tit VP.
Cleaning,. Pressing, Repairing. Gall
and Deliver. Tri-State Phono ltlL.
N. W. 349-L.
Buttons made for Ladlea' garmenta.
No. 12 N. Third St Grand Forka, N. D.
laiwt Styles Baal Fcritcl Fits Ossrsstsei
Paulson Bros*
Merchant Tailors
Ut
Sooth
IhM St GIAND rOUS, N. D.
MANUFACTURERS.
GRAND FORKS MONUMENT
WORKS
B. JEFFREY, Proprietor.
Monuments, Hendsteaes,
CemeteryPenclnf
Tri-Stato tML 424 DeMera Ave.
Grand Ferka, I. D.
DON MCDONALD
TENTS, AWNINGS, SHADES
Waterproof Covera for Harveatera
Threshera and Grain Staeka
Corner DeMera and Fifth
Grand Porta, North Dakota
MISS
DELA ODEGARD
Phono 76SL SOS DeMera Ave.
Eaat Grand Forka, wiwi
Manufacturer of high grade eigara
inch aa
Gran* Forka EAGLES^JBIobe and the
Rasanssen, Bemis & Company
Dry Goods, Notions. Etc.
emwuoMs n. DAIOTA
KAUFMANN'S BAKERY,
IAC0B KAUFMANS, Prep.
Eaat Grand Forka, Minn. Phone IM.
J. B. WOODLEY.
Wholesale and Retail
HARNESS, WHIPS AND SADDLERY
SUPPLIES.
.TO® ingest and most eomplete stoek
of hand made harness in the two cltlM.
Manufactured of Lapps ft Sons pur*
oak leather. A nice line of Hiding
Saddles 800 pairs of 6-A Hon* Blank*
eta to elect from at Jobbers prices,
g°le scents for the celebrated wyeth
Horse Collars: also a full lln* of hack
and .surrey haraass a nice line of
iTSfk.VlS. driving haraass sweat pads,
whips and summer
duction. Call and
Telenfc—e IMS.
goods at a Big'R*^
look them over.
AL COONS, Manager,
8. G. 8KULASON
Attorney at Law.
St. lohn's Block, Third Floor.
N. W. Phone 815L. Tri-State 815.
A MOST IMPORTANT
CHRISTMAS CONSIDERATION
is the coal question, as coal is some
thing you must have, even to the ex
clusion of turkey, plum pudding or
mince pie. We trust you will get them
all, especially the coal we offer, and
we recommend it because there is
more of it received as heat than what
goes into the ash barrel. A point of
domestic economy that cannot be
claimed by most coal consumed.
Gibbs Grain & Fuel Co
Phone ttOO Offices 300 Kittson
HAVE YOUR
TEETH
Properly attended to now and avoid
pain and digestive disturbance*
of more or less gravity
by consulting
DR. COUVRETT. Dentist
DE MERS AND THIRD STsi
Over Drug Store*
PHONE RIGE'8 602L
rOB HACKS, BKATS, OAT OB
NIGHT. waaaarAumnn.
Office. 41K DeHers Avenue.
W. .KIRK, Prop.
PAGE SEVEN
MISCELLANEOUS.
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O. PAULSNESS
Plumbing, Steam and Hot water lU
Pumps and Windmills.
Water Worka Contractor.
Ei.1"? Kpe and Fittinga.
Gooda, Sewer Pipe, Hose, etc.
GRAND FORKS, N. OAK.
JEFF'S TRANSFER
Both Phonea St.
Hacks and Livery, dray and
tor work, moving pianos a specialty,
only low down moving Tans tn tki
city. Day or nlgbt arils attended t*
tit DeMera Ave. Opp. ©. N. Depot
J.
LAVERTY
Mlaneeeta Point
Dealer In Live and Dressed
Cash or Conuniaalon.
Phone 123L. N. W, a lilflrai
Grand Forks. Call or writ*.
The City Feed Store
DOWNEY A PPE1FEB
Floora Feed, Uay and*
Wood of All Kind*
if. w. VINI sao
Trt-Btata Bae-I*
aim
LOGAN CAFE
We Serve Revere Celee
the Beat ia the World.
319 DeMera Ave. Grand Forka. N. p.
MAX RABINOVIOH
Money to loan on all
articles of value.
129 DeMera Ave.
From London, Bngland, teacher oi
Pure Italian method of
VOICE CULTURE
Pupils trained for church, concert at
Btage. Phone N. W. 1140L. 8Mle
room 62, Security building.
TO THOSE WHOM IT MAY
CONCERN
Everyone who jwna a phonograph
and reports their name at Getts' maale
house will.hear of something to thai*
advantage.
The M. H. Redlcli
HIDE & FUR GO.
Northwestern Dealera In
Pine Northern Pan, Hides. PeMa,
Wool. Tallow, loota. Etc.
Largest and Oldest Bide and Pnr
House la the State.
GRAND FORKS N. DAI.
Bacon & Van Alstine
Livery and Hack Stable
0 ro IA N. FOURTH ST. 1'ELEPHONE 131
Grand Forks, North Dakota
We have a few good country'livery horses (or sale cheap.
Guarantee Stock Food Company
IscwiMrsttd
Capital Stock. S00,000
Manufacturers of Stock Food, Pnl
try ood. Worm Powdex, LIM KtU*»
He» ve Cure. Pink
Bit*
SEALS
Either Pocket
•eon OF Desk oea*
I'M
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Phono 7t4L
J.
A.
EVAN8
Bemedy, rev*
Cure. Colic Cure Qafl Cure, Foot mmm
edy and White Liniment .[
s»Ain» »oak«,». b.
J. A. EVANS
Teacher of Pan Italian.
Method of Voice Culture. Pupils wlitf
be received on Tuesday mornings.
a. m. to 12 and every week day even
ing. Room 62 Security building. Phona
Getts Music atore.
Columbia Hotel
AND RESTAURANT
aawBlwkihwvui
wstttas tor fear tnlM
Open Day and Nitfht
OSCAt INDDSOW, hea'r
kat«i «1 aad tLK par dsy
GRAND FORKS. N. OAS.
OPWNH«G.N. D**ot
iiSl
Rubber Stamps
Write for CntsloJ
CAD WELL, The Stamp Man
Gtnnd Parka. N.
GASH
Fat at liadi *1 Jaak, CnMS el
Scm lies. C*MHT SSJ Ire* 0U
latter teste sst Sheet, ta£ etal
list, ssJ letdM.
Speclnl Price tog Cur I!TS
M. FISHMAN
It. W. Pfcaas tl74.