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EMMONS COUNTY RECORD
RV D. R. STREBTER.
Linton. A'orth Dakotn.
PIONEER I'A PER OF THE COUNTY.
Ti.m Ii«r,nrd entered at too I
r.flin *m necond-class rnattar
At this late day in the world's
history there are comparatively few
people who have not outgrown the
old distrust of banks that was en
gendered by the days of "wildcat
rurrency" before the civil war,when
.state banks issued bills, and when
everybody was of necessity a sub
scriber to one of many publications
known a.s "bank-note detectors." In
those day.i one might take a bank
hill at it« face value to-day, and
to-morrow it might be worth any
where between zero and par, and
the stabiliy of many banks was
in keeping with the character of
their bills. There was good reason
then for stuffing one's money in old
shoes, bureau drawers, under the
carpet, etc. But in these modem
times the percentage of loss by bank
failures is so small—thanks to more
intelligent business methods and
more careful regulation and examin
ation by law —as to be almost a neg
ifligible quantity. Once in a while,
however,some one who will not trust
the banks has his story told in the
newspapers along the lines of the
following Associated Press dispatch
of recent date from San Antonio.
Texas:
"Because Henry Kunzman, of this
city, would not trust his money to
bankers, he is out to-day $1,200, the
-navings of practically a life-time.
Kunzman,a blacksmith living on the
outskirts of the city, preferred to
be his own banker, and laid aside
something for a rainy day in an old
trunk. While Kunzman had gone to
a saloon near by to get a glass of
beer, a stranger entered the black
smith shop and appropriated the
money. The last poor Kunzman saw
of his money was the bulge it caused
in the pockets of the thief. Ener
getic chase was given by him, but
the thief left him at the post by
boarding a trolley car. So far. the
police have not found the man, and
Kunzman is revising his opinion on
the advisability of people being their
own bankers."
The recent pardoning from the
North Dakota penitentiary of Till,
imprisoned many years for a crime
which pretty nearly every one now
believes he did not commit, has di
rected public attention to the fact
that there is an old man in the peni
tentiary of this state, who has been
there many years, and who was sent
there on as flimsy evidence as was
given in he case of Till. We refer
to Kent. This man was tried in
Mandan for the murder of his wife,
ami was convicted on the evidence
of a wretch who, when cornered,
confessed to killing Mrs. Kent, and
who afterward died in the peniten
tiary at Hismarck. He claimed that
be was a tool in the hands of Kent,
and that the latter had persuaded
him to do the deed. It was believed
by many, however, that this story
was a falsehood, and that he had
killed the woman because she had
resisted his assault on her. But it
was shown that he was a defaulter
in some agency business that he had
been transacting. He was captured
and taken back to Mandan, he hav
ing run away as he claimed, to
escape the punishment for other
misdeeds before the murder was
committed. He was tried, and, as
we now remember it, sentenced to
death. The grave doubts in the
minds ol many people who heard or
read the evidence was such, how
ever, that the capital sentence was
commuted to life imprisonment, if
the word "commuted" can properly
be used in describing a change from
a death sentence to one which fixes
imprisonment for life as the penal
ty. The known and actual mur
derer's evidence convicted Kent,
coupled with the fact that he was in
hiding when the murder was com
mitted. Hut he has always declared
that his flight was caused by the
knowledge that he was to be arrest
ed for some pecuniary peculation.
There was not the slightest motive
for the murder shown at the trial.
Kent and his wife got along agree
ably, an was clearly nhown by their
Mandan neighbors. Hut he waa
without money, and what was
worse for him -his reputation for
honesty was bad, and hiB friends
during the trial were few and far
between. In fact, a man who was
then prominent in Mandan informed
the writer of this article, in reply
to the latter's suggestion that the
evidence was rather meager on
tbe north- Md pipes frown up wild.
I A W
b-
that "Jt is a good riddance. any
way, and Mandan is better tT with
out him." We have been Told by
more than one Mandamte itis'.. had
Kent borne a good character iVr
honesty, he would not ha\e been
convicted.
^•jsi
Farargaph? are bepirr. n? :o ap
pear in state new-papers regard
ing the Kent ca.'. One paper:
says that steps are to be taken
with the object of securing a anion
for the aged prisoner. Bu •. tnat|
would be of little value to him now.
What could he do in his oid a?e if
turned adrift on the world, without
money and without friend.-, and
handicapped by the stigma «. a ng
term of service in the penitentiary
4
There is something ra !:cai!\
wrong in the American way ef treat
ing innocent men who hac been
convicted of crimes and have after
ward been pardoned because "f be
lief in their innocence, cr by facts
coming to light which have shown
clearly that they were unjustly
condemned. Such a person is re
turned to the world with no effort
whatever being made to recompense
him for the cruel wrong which So
ciety has done to him. The chance#
are that the few friends ieft to him
after his conviction are dead or
have removed to other homes. With
out money and unfitted for contact
with the world, he is but little, if
any, better off than he wa? in pris
on. Not a dollar is paid to him by
Society, that intangible force for
the protection of which he has been
buried alive. The expenses of his
trial have probably eaten all the
property he owned. He has nothing.
True, the agents of Society made a
mistake when they sent him to his
doom but Society will riot assume
responsibility for the mistake. So
ciety will make no restitution. It
seems to us that this is a queer sort
of equity in a land that prides itself
on the justice and fair-dealing of its
methods. We have read that it is a
condition which does not prevail in
most of the civilized nations of
Europe, and that restitution as far
as material considerations are con
cerned --is made by Society when
Society cruelly wrongs a member
through a mistake.
I
Kent may be guilty. Hut what an
outrageous crime has been enmmit
ed if he be innocent. And, if in
nocent, what must be his feelings as
his long years of imprisonment pass
by, knowing that he has been un
justly dealt with, and that there
will never come a time when he can
disprove the frightful charge of
murdering his wife?
The fact is as we have heard at
least two good lawyers of the Mis
souri Slope assert there wasn't
enough reliable evidence against
Kent to justly hold him for anything
but cheating and swindling, and the
verdict against him was influenced
entirely by the excited state of pub
lic opinion caused by the horrible
circumstances of the murder,and the
fact of Kent having been crooked in
his dealings.
AIRSHIPS (IND DREAMS
John Reamer Dreams and Does a l.ot
ol Other Things In His Travels,and
More or Less Lucidly Relates
"What He Thinks After
Thinking" Some.
Oamha, Neb., Jan. H, 10.
To the Editor of the Record:
Dear Sir: As I have just taken
two doses of Shakes-beer Tonic and
a milk bath, it has moved me to
drop you a few lines and, if you
are able to catch said dropped
lines, you may put them in your
paper.
The weather here is dreary and
everything is wet under foot. I
haven't seen the sun for a week
(Ought to keep sober. Ed. Record.)
There is lots of snow here.
By the way, in my rambles I met
the man that H.A. saw at the Word's
Fair in St. Louis, who carries thirty
glasses of beer in one hand in the
brewery. Well. H. A. is right. The
man can do it. liut I find the reason
for it is that the fellow has thirty
fingers and live thumbs. Ileuses
only four of his thumbs in carrying
the beer
.using the other one in tick
ling his patrons for tips, H,. says
H. A. gave him a dollar, and another
one for the beer man's mother Hut
he omitted the handful of paste for
the father, as, like myself, coming
from a dry state, he didn't want tn
Wmt £ide of ft
meters Bakery
7 IS 1ears rjo lodav
V'ujr a unties made the ruffled smrt.
With little cost, but lots of work.
'Hie style was anthing but old.
On the bosom they pinned this of gold.
Thi golden cross, could it but sjK?ak.
Would teli of that day. of that hour, niost
s'veet.
Which to you, dear children, seems far away,
Hut to 'irimdina wnd me but veMerday.
he too good to any one in the beer
business.
I received a wireless message from
Pagel the other day. Although he
didn't say so in "so many words,"
yet I can read "between the lines"
of the message that the town is
comparatively quiet, although a
number of the boys are singing some
new songs. C. V. sings, "Of all the
professions I can see, schumachers
are the ones for me." Heine sings,
"Way down yonder in the corn-field,
when the pigs begin to fly." Doc
H. and G.N. sing, "High we raise
our lids: We once more feel like kids.
By the dark of the moon we have
taken to spoon." The watch-car
penter sings, "Spring! Spring!
Beautiful Spring!" He probably
refers to watch-springs. G. H. was
going to join in the singing but,
since his letter of recommendation
from Mrs. T. didn't do the business
in the last campaign, he has gone to
the far west where the birds sing
all winter- to learn some new parrot
songs to sing in the next battle.
You know it is all business with G.
H. He will also ascertain what his
share of the herd will be before he
buys another license.
Well, this is a great, big, funny
world, and none of us will ever get
out of it alive. That's a sure thing.
A fellow down in Kansas City has
invented an inner tube for ladies to
use in doing up their hair,' in place
of rats, it is inserted in the real
hair, with the tube as flat as a rib
bon, and then, with a small air
pump, the tube can be blown out to
whatever proportions the lady de
sires. It is said that the man made
several thousand dollars' profit from
his invention during the first twen
ty-four hours he had it on the mar
ket. He is a large, whale-like fel
low, and has his "lean-to" on the
front side of the main building—like
the Record editor and Dr. Smith
Number— but I forget the num
ber.
Well, 1 guess I have touched up
the boys enough -just to awaken
them from their bruin-like winter
hibernation and cause them to sit up
and take notice. But I forgot—
there's Doc Muench. However, see
ing that he's got a permit from the
good citizens of Linton to go there to
reside, I suppose he is growing
better, and at last has his windows
open toward Jerusalem and is on the
up grade. Therefore, I will pass
him up by simply extending to him
a belated Happy New Year.
I stood on the bridge at midnight.
The rain was pouring down like sin.
I had looked on the wine
When its color was fine,
And the copper—he ran me in.
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In said Emmons
When you arc in need of any Books or Stationery, it will pay you to call and look over our line,
as we have what you want
FIFTY YEARS HUSBAND AND WIFE
MR. J. DORKANCE TRACY. MRS. VICTORIA TRACY.
The above pictures are those of "Grandpa" and Grandma" Tracy, a
worthy, well-known and venerable couple of Dale, Emmons county, who
celebrated, December 27, 1909, the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding
day. which took place December 27,1859. Below are some verses written
by Grandpa Tracy on the occasion of the recent Golden Wedding.
TJ.a lirarxii'A ftod '.irandma sailed a»
r. Uie matrimonial sea of life.
I atxi she wift*.
back o'er the uvsrs now
As rn mojiht*
Aral I mark the cn*Q*.'e» since we were wttl.
I
oar
hardly believe 'tis the same old world,
iiu", randm*. me she same old nrl
*H t:uie* ere hard those tuden rtaj*"
1: difficult then the caah to raise.
So undpa. to buy hs» wedding clothe*.
With a load
of
eider to Klniira froe*.
The clothes ere not so ver mce:
S" the load vi eider paid the price:
AR«.l rand|a «hd well pleased ou het.
K'»r fie had hi* clothes nil free frorn debt.
A iide of memories—a flowing tide:
(May it never ebh. but ever abide)
Sweeping aiway from over life's sea,
Urmring eei recollections to (Grandma and
me
Of that untried sea how little we knew
t»f the rocks and shoals, the tempests that
Me w.
The wreck strewn shore dark nights of de
spair
When the an*:el death hovered over us
there.
Hut ine wa» our captain who knew the way,
He has brought us safe to this golden day
Ami we'll trust Him still, till our voyage iso'er.
And re safely anchored on the glory shore.
LVmit
children, you re sailing on Life's treach
erous tide
Will ou take our Captain to be your guide':
Shall we Ml meet there in bliss, above.
With not one missing from our band of love:
J. DOS' Til AC V.
IMl.K N\ D.. Deo. 27. 1907
Dedicated to our children and grandchil
dren the fiftieth anniversary of our mar
riage. -DON AND VICTORIA TRACY.
Am reading up on the Plain O air
business, and will likely write you a
letter on that subject, later. 1 have
invented a flyer of my own.
Yours, truly,
—J. H. Reamer.
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 20,1910.
To the Editor of the Record:
Dear Sir: The weather had been
fine here for the past few days up
to to-dav but now it is very windy.
This seems to be the time of the
year for conventions in this part of
the country. At Kansas City I ran
into the implement dealers' conven
tion, embracing delegates from
three states: Kansas, Oklahoma and
Missouri. Here in Omaha I find the
lumbermen's convention. I try to
make myself a universal delegate,
and always put in a good word for
North Dakota.
I will now give you a little on the
auto-fly game. I used to think I
knew something about a buzz-wagon,
and just how much lubricating oil is
necessary to keep the speedometer
from burning out the tinker bear
ings and the flubdub from interfer
ing with the flimflam. I sure
thought I was right up to the best
of 'em in the gasoline game. But
it's back to the gray-beards for
yours truly.
A week ago 1 went to bed early
in the evening, respected and re
vered as a man of foresight, and I
awoke at the far end of the stretch,
with the gang crossing the wire.
While I had been dreaming of Doc
Wolverton making the trip to Hazel
ton in sixty seconds—or minutes—
which was it he said?—some other
sucker off toward the setting sun
was flying up about five thousand
feet in the air on an automobile with
wings. Think of it! A man flying
a distance of nearly a mile straight up
in the atmosphere! Goodness me!
If I ever get that far up, I'll never
return to the wicked old earth, but
keep right on a few miles farther to
the New Jerusalem.
I am reading upon biplanes, aero
planes, monoplanes and other gaso
line insects. Believe me, here lies
the future greatness of the gasoline
engine. To think that it will soon
be possible to put a pair of wings
on your gasoline motor and go sail
ing off into the azure blue, forget
ting the prosy old earth and the un
paid laundry bill, spending the day
on the silvery side of the gauzy
floaters! Think of it! One living in
Linton will shortly be able to arise
at 6 o'clock, step into his speedo
plane and drop over to Bismarck for
his "mornin'8 mornin' in less time
than it will take to answer the drug
gist's questions after he gets there!
Most remarkable thing in the
been filod with the clerk of Ito villas* tor
the vacation of tbe kllejr in block mltti
In Hunter'* Cnt addition to£latN.aMI*M
irusU't-'s will consider the matter Mir
U» testimony uud evidence of persons ID-
THE STONE DRUG STORE
worlds history! But a pleasant]
thing to contemplate, withal.
it is somewhat startling to read I
of a couple of fellows out in Day
ton, Ohio, who a few years ago
were considered incurables and can
didates for the house with the
upholstery, but who have turned out
to be the great original king bets of
air -splitters. 1 understand that
they have hobnobbed with dooks and
dookeses and other blue-blooded
people even higher up, over in
Yurrup, until now they are expect
ed to call all the kings and queens
by their front names, and that they
intend to quit that dear old Dayton,
that until recently never thought it
had a brace of highflyers within the
city limits.
It's funny about the scientific
havoc made by this flying game. We
had always been taught that any
substance heavier than air would
have mighty little luck when trying
to lift much weight from the
ground. Then come the Wright
brothers and violate all the set rules
of air resistance. All of which goes
to show that a long-headed chap
with a hammer and a cold-chisel can
sometimes do a great deal more in a
practical way. than a man who has
his cranium stuffed with science.
Here is a new sport—promising new
sensations. As 1 have never ascend
ed higher than the Montgomery
Ward tower, and then in an eleva
tor, I can only wonder how it feels
sailing up into the air at the rate of
sixty miles an hour. Naturally one
would suppose that it would some
what resemble the sensation of fall
ing at about a hundred and twenty
miles an hour.
It will be but a question of a short
time until the road race and the au
tomobile will be things of the past
so fat as leading interest is concern
ed, and the big contests will be from
Linton to that cloud over there and
back.
Of course, to the unscientific mind
there naturally appear a few little
points which engender uneasiness.
For intstance, having just sailed by
the flag-pole of a forty-story build­
FANNING MILLS.
We hanle three dif
ferent kinds of Fan
ning Mills.
We
iiij
.1
ing, the motor bucks. What hap
pens? Will a fellow have to climb
out on a guy-wire and hang by his
wish-bone while he cranks the ma
chine, or will the beast glide gently
to the earth without upsetting one's
mental poise or his dinner? Of
course there will be no danger of
skidding, unless one strikes a comet,
and the tire bill will be en-tire-ly
eliminated. (Pardon me: I couldn't
resist the opportunity.)
I think I have given the Record
readers sufficient "ifs" from which
to draw their own conclusions as to
what kind of a bird they will use
when they begin to fly.
I am much interested in this fly
ing game at present. But, if I get
it out of my head in time, I am
thinking of going back home and
taking the stump for Weatherby
and Naramore in the coming cam
paign—unless they buy me off.
Yours, truly, —J. H. Reamer.
(To Be Discontinued.)
A Mysterious Disappearance.
J. T. Louderbach went to Minot
recently and bought, among other
things, a hundred pound sack of
flour. On his way home the sleigh
struck a rough place in the road
and the flour was thrown from the
seat to the ground. Mr. Louder
bach turned his team around as
soon as he could do so, and noticed
that a woman whom he had met
had picked up the flour. She was
driving her team at a swift gait,
and Louderbach gave chase. The
faster his ponies went, the faster
the woman's team went and, al
though she was a mile and a half
ahead of him, he kept up the rapid
pace for about four miles. Seeing
the woman drive up to her house
and go inside, he went to the place
and asked for his flour, but was told
that no flour had been found.
Save your carpet-rags and have
George Brooks weave a carpet for
you.
For proofs, filings, etc., apply to
L. A. Weatherby, United States
Commissioner, Linton.
O O E
No one need go a day longer without a Cream Separator.
We have them for Sale. Not one kind only, but a good assort
ment. Our best sellers, that give the best satisfaction, are the
"DeLaval" and the "U. S." Cream Separators.
Save All Your Cream
T*. S. Cream Separator If biggest money maker—gets more
cream than any other* Holds WORLD'S RECORD for clrtm
skimming. Creamrepreaents cath—you waste cream every
day il you are not using a
U. S. Cream Separator.
lias only a parts inside bowl—easily
and quicklv washed. Low
supply tank—eftsy to pour
milk into—see picturc. All working
parts enclosed, keeping out dirt and protecting the operator.
Matty other txcltuivt advantages. Call and see a U. S. For
sale by
LINTON BAZAR
We will sell you one of the above Separators for cash, part cash on installments, or any ny :i
may want it. We want you to get on the right track. We have paid out thousands of dollar .r
cream the last year to some farmers six. neven and eight hundred dollars -that is why three ai so
many smiling farmers. It's a golden harvest the year 'round. There is no frost nor smut on II..-i••
are going to tell you a lot of good things this
year.<p></p>BAZAR.
DTOI
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS
Ol the Board of County Commission.
ers of Emmons County.
North Dakota.
LINTON, N. b., .lai
"U:,
Pursuant to acijournnx
the board m-t. Present:
(chairman), R. M. Vulk, ]i
and Jakob Fischer, commit i..
The German-American
of Linton and the Farnic
Bank cf Hazelt'in pie.si'[,t,H
bonds :ts depositaries for a pr.f
the sin^itiB funtf, e^b in u,i
12,300. with the Dakota T:
panyas surety, which wor
by tlie state's attorney and
i-pt-Vfdj
buiirit.l
-r
-rr i[.|
Oil motion road supervis
tirst commissioner flistn.-!
pointed as follows:
ri tni-.nr. I
District No. 1. Kraiilc
District No. •". John
District No. ti. L. W. ('run
District No. 7. .1, M. ru, ry
District No. 1-1. Kir Kru i-trieir
District No. i:». A. 1. Lit i.-nnin'/
District No. 17. Kiel i'l.iit.
a I
ice. of the peace, receive!, -ippr.,Vej
hy the state's attorney, will
1
lowed as follows:
State vs. Ghindered llo™ *•,...
by Mike Wt ssel. .1 r.
.Justice's fees
S. F. Wright, apprais in)
II. K. IJat/.er, appraiser ....
F. P. Wernli, appraiser..
S. F. Wright, burylnu aniuvil
State vs. hindered 11 •.t s-
Ity II. E. iwen
Justice's fees
R. K. Batzer, appraiser
F. P. Wernli, appraiser.,
S. F. Wright, appraiser
R. K. Batzer, burying aniu'iai' low
1
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"J Ml
On motion the auditor wis invnict
cd to advertise for sealed bids fur fur
nishing pine or lir bridge tn itt-riai as
required by the several road s• [,.tvis.
orsfo- Hi ensuing year.
On mo the following bill wifah'
lowed:
The C. L. Merrick Co.. lir.nl
dock «1 '.ii
On motion the board adjournal
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