Emmons County record. [volume], April 18, 1912, Image 2

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Senator Jar^^"hi®«ton'
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the w"'remarkable speeches which
has hem heard in the upper nation
,-iI body in many a day. Senator
Jones was on the committee investi
gating the charges of bribery in con
nection with the election of Senator
Stephenson of Wisconsin, whoe ex
pense account in the primary elec
tion at which he was elected ran to
over a hundred thousand dollars.
Previous to his appointment on the
investigating committee Senator
Jones was opposed to the continua
tion in office of the elderly Wiscon
sin senator but, after listening to
the large volume of testimony pro
and con in the case, he voted with
the majority of the committee to the
elFect that no case had been made
connccting the senator with the
spending of any of his money illegal
ly. The evidence showed that vast
sums of money had also been ex
pended by other candidates in that
primary, one of the defeated candi
dates having spent more than forty
thousand dollars, the difference be'
tween this man and Stevenson being
only one of degree. It was also
shown that when LaFollette was
first elected governor of Wisconsin
Mr. Stephenson's money-bags were
also opened as wide for the pompa
dour candidate as they were when
he (Stephenson) was elected senator.
In his speech Senator Jones dissected
the muck-raking press that, regard
less of the evidence, sought to have
Stephenson declared guilty, when he
had done absolutely nothing that
had no been done by those who op
posed him as candidates in the pri
niary election. The fact is that
Stephenson did in Wisconsin just
what men having the money to
spend
have done right along in every elec
tion for important place, and just
what he did when his immense
wealth was used to make LaFollette
governor only to meet, later, noth
ing but ingratitude and abuse from
the man who owed his first rise in
politics largely to Stephenson's
money. The, committee reported
that, while a large sum had been
spent by several of the candidates
when Stephenson was chosen senator
in spite of LaFollette, there was
nothing to show that it had been
spent for the purchase of votes. The
senate voted in favor of Stephenson,
among the majority being a dozen
democratic senators—men like Sen
ator Pomerene of Ohio, against
whose election the finger of suspi
cion could not be pointed—men who
believed in the legal and equitable
maxim of giving an accused man
"the benefit of the doubt"—men
who, while regretting the prevalence
of a system that allowed large ex
penditures of money in elections,
would not condemn an individual
who had violated no law—men with
the moral courage to espouse the
cause of an unpopular man for the
sole and only reason that they believ
ed him innocent. And yet many of
those senators who refused, with
such evidence as had been given in
the investigation, to find Stephen
son guilty, are strongly in favor of
laws that will render the expendi
tures of large sums impossible. It
is to provide a remedy for this evil
that corrupt-practice acts such as
we have here in North Dakota are
being passed. And how manifestly
unfair it would have been to unseat
a senator who had expended a large
sum but only in degree a larger
sum than his opponents at the pri
mary—while there was no law
against such expenditures, and while
such expenditures were being made
in all the states that were without
limiting laws. Senator McCumber,
of this state, was another senator
who had the moral courage to vote
against the unseating of Stephenson,
knowing that he had done nothing
that had not been done by him for
LaFollette, and that had been done
by his opponents at the primary elec
tion in Wisconsin. Senator McCum
ber knew that every barking news
paper cur that had been snapping at
his heels for years would yelp still
louder in North Dakota but it did
not move him. It moved him no
more than eastern opposition in the
senate has moved him during the
years that he has been battling
against injustices of the reciprocity
stamp aimed at the interests of the
agricultural commonwealth he rep
resents. And he will be honored
for the doing of it by every fair
minded person and newspaper in
North Dakota.
Kx-I'resident Roosevelt carried
Pennsylvania at the primary elec
tion in that state last Saturday by
an overwhelming majority. His sup
porters elected sixty-seven out of
the seventy-six delegates to which
the state is entitled, and it will take
the official count to discover the two
•ixty.*Ve" are^ .di**tl0n:
•'•'•Wtei-atJ- 'orm'
one of
Recently, Attorney-General Miller
rendered an opinion to the effect
that the assessors, on their spring
round-up, must ascertain the poli
tics of the women voters. The sec
retary of state has notified the va
rious county auditors to this effect.
In practically all of the counties in
the state the assessors have been at
work several days, and will have to
do the work a second time.
The Record is in receipt of a let
ter from the Valley City Chautauqua
Association to the effect that their
second annual function will be held
July 12th to 21st. A list of excel
lent speakers will be in attendance
during that time.
Within the past week General
Fredrick Dent Grant, son of the
great civil-war commander, and
Clara Barton, head of the American
Red-Cross Society, have passed away.
BRADDOCK BREVITIES.
(News, April 11.)
Wild-geese are being killed all over
the country. They are quite plenti
ful.
Chas. Olson sold his farm north
of town Monday to Joseph Fitzgib
bon for a handsome consideration.
Victor De Reeme, who has been
visiting with bis father, who has
been sick at Bay City, Wisconsin,
reteurned home Wednesday, y]
Prairie fire reached from near the
Exner place to Kintyre, Monday.
No further damage than the burn
ing of the range has been reported.
Mrs. Weber, who has been the
guest of her daughter, Mrs. Leo
Weber, returned to her home at
Glenullin, Monday.
Mrs. Ida Oberg, mother of the
popular manager of the Goodridge
Call Lumber Company, who has been
a guest of the latter and family, re
turned to her heme in Rockford,
Illinois, Monday.
Win. G. Perry, flour and -feed
man, while shoveling feed through a
window,severely cut his hand, sever
ing four arteries, Tuesday. Dr.
Larrabee dressed the wound, and he
is doing as wail as could be expected
under the circumstances.
Roy Lee and Mollie Issaacson,
both of whom were raised in
the Braddock district, were united
in marriage at Napoleon, Saturday,
April 8th, George Bryant officiating
A host of friends throughout the
Braddock district join the News in
wishing them a long and prosperous
life.
THE COUNTY SCHOOLS.
Items of Special Interest to Teachers and
School Officers Throughout the County.
(By II. U. Hanson, County duperluteudent.)
Many schools are closing every day.
All the spring and summer schools
have opened.
The semi-anual meeting of county
superintendents will be held at Bis
marck, Thursday and Friday, April
25th and 26th.
Not many replies have been re
ceived as to who will attend the
snmmer school this summer. Please
do not delay any longer, because ar
rangements must be made soon.
School boards should make agree
ments with each other and with pa
trons regarding tuition and transpor
tation before the schools open. This
will save lots of trouble later in the
year.
Election supplies and all other
blanks necessary for school officers
this summer will be sent out in a few
days. Please make out your reports
on time. Some officers are very
prompt, but others are tardy.
Seed corn is being sent out this
week to the pupils enrolled in the
corn contest. There are one hun
dred ninety-nine enrolled. Many of
the business men are interested
this phase of school work, and the
prizes will doubtless be more than
before. The county commissioners
have allowed the prizes for last
year's contest. It is hoped that we
may be able to send some of the
winners this year to the Boys' and
Girls' Institute at Fargo.
not
but
a
'he eontta of Roosevelt delegates
'hi# fetate convention have been
chosen. Regarding the result, the
Minneapolis Journal, which is not
friendly to Roosevelt, says:
"The Pennsylvania primary evi
dently astonished both sides in the
presidential cbntest. The Taft peo
ple were so taken aback that they
have not been able to get their
breath. The Roosevelt boomers
were so stunned that they couid not
speak. They looked upon the result
with astonishment. The supporters
of the former president were with
out a state organization and without
an organization in many of the
thirty-two congressional districts.
The result tends to increase that
large doubt as to whether Taft can
be elected which is needed to turn
the uninstructed.delegates to Roose
velt or to a compromise candidate."
HUNDREDS DROWNED
WHEN BIG LINER SINES
Lives to the Number of Thirteen Huudred and Fourteen
Lost in the Greatest Sea Catastrophe Known
To Modern Times.
The Titanic, the Largest Vessel Ever Built, Wrecked by
an Iceberg on Her First Trip, and Sinks Within
a Few Hours.
The saeamship Titanic, of the
White Star Line, collided with an
iceberg last Sunday about 10:25 p.m.
and sank at 2:20 a. m. Monday. The
scene of the disaster is about 1100
miles east of New York, theship be
ing bound for that port.
The first report was to the effect
that everybody had been saved but
the shocking news came later that
the Carpathia was the only vessel
that, in response to wireless calls for
help, was near enough to the Titanic
to render timely aid, although sev
eral ships heard the appeals for aid
and promptly responded, and that, of
the passengers and crew, 1314 had
been lost and only 868 saved, while
other reports say that the number
of those lost is not many less than
1800.
A prominent North Dakotan, H.
F. Chaffee of Amenia, Cass county,
was lost, his wife being among those
saved. Mr. Chaffee will be remem
bered as having been the victim of
a
$20,000 gold-brick swindle, at Min
neapolis, a couple of years ago.
The people saved^were mostly
BAZELTON HAPPENINGS.
(Republican. April II.)
Ben Wright is laid up at his home
with a severe case of rheumatism.
Gerrit Rooks, of Linton, was vis
iting young friends in Hazelton be
tween trains, Monday.
A deal was consummated the fore
part of the week whereby S. E. Kurtz
becomes owner of the house and lots
known as the Campbell property.
Error was made last week in re
porting the home-coming from the
Bismarck hospital of Mrs. L. D.
Briggs. Mrs. Briggs is still in the
hospital, but doing nicely.
One more candidate is reported
in the field for county treasurer,
Commissioner Everett Brant. Al
though we have not heard him de
clare himself, it is reported on good
authority that he will make the
race.
H. O. Balzer, who was reported
in these columns last week as being
ill with the grip, has developed a
case of pneumonia and is under a
physician's care. His case.while not
considered as being of a dangerous
nature, seems to be somewhat of a
stubborn one to cope with.
G. Wengel has his thrashing rig
running, cleaning up the flax crop
of 1911 which was left over last fall
account of the cold weather.
There is considerable flax and some
other grain which was left last fall
to be thrashed this spring, and there
will be quite a run for one machine.
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Kurtz returned
home last Thursday evening from
their winter's visit with relatives in
the east. They touched at points in
Iowa, several of the southern states,
and in Ohio. They have been gone
from home since December 15,1911,
and have had an exceptionally fine
vacation.
Now is a good time to poison go
phers. In a month or so the pests
will be breeding, and it will then be
a more difficult undertaking, as the
gopher population will be multiplied
about five times. Every farmer
owes it as a duty to himself and his
neighbors to get rid of the gophers
infesting his farm.
Friends of Grandpa John Kurtz
were glad to see him over town
again Monday, feeling in pretty
good health. Ever since the cold
weather set in last fall Mr. Kurtz
has been compelled to stay in-doors
on account of not being able to
stand the winter weather, and he is
rejoicing to know that he can now
take out-door exercise.
Frank Jaszkowiak, who in pioneer
days was contented^to plug along in
Emmons county with one well-drill
ing machine, has branched out so
much of late that he now has five.
He will this week send two rigs,
equipped with men and teams, to
Canada, to put in the tu nmer. it is
probable that Archie Frederick and
Irving Wengel will accompany them
Friends of J. B. Crowell will re
gret to learn that he is having
very serious time with his eyea. He
is in Minneapolis receiving treat
ment from a noted specialist. The
women and children.
The Titanic was a new boat and
was making her first trip. She was
the largest vessel ever built, being
882 feet 6 inches in length, 92 feet 6
inches in breadth, and 175 feet in
height from her keel to the top of
her smoke-stack.
The vessel cost ten millions of dol
lars. The property loss—vessel and
cargo—is twelve and a half millions.
Among those lost were Major
Archibald Butt, of the United States
army, military aide-de-camp to Pres
ident Taft John Jacob Astor Isa
dora Straus, the great New York
philanthropist W. T. Stead, of the
Review of Reviews, a journalist of
world-wide reputation Benjamin
Guggenheim F. D. Millett, the art
ist Charles M.Hays,a Canadian,pres
ident of the Grand Trunk Railroad
J. B. Thayer, vice president of the
Pennsylvania Railway system, and
many other men known throughout
the nation.
All of the details of the catastro
phewill not be known until the Car
pathia, with the rescued people, ar
rives at New York, to-day.
sight of one eye is entirely gone,
and it is doubtful whether the other
can be saved. At present he has to
be led from place to place, and can
only just distinguish daylight from
darkness.
The stork has again made his ap
pearance in Hazelton, and visited
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Koll Tuesday night, leaving to them
fine specimen of young woman
hood. "Billy" is staying right at
home now, singing lullabys and for
getting all about pill-mixing and
pixen-dispensing. Who can blame
him? That new "gal" Bure ought to
make him feel proud.
Since the fire in Coonen's cafe,
someweeks ago, at Bismarck, Mr.
and Mrs. Coonen have decided
.to re
tire from the restaurant business in
the Capital City, and their old lo
cation will be used for other business.
This will be a disappointment to the
many Emmons county patrons of
that popular eating-place. It is prob
able that Dick wll devote the greater
part of his time this spring to his
farming operations northeast of the
Capital City.
When the Missouri river broke ud
last week it swallowed up the Fort
Rice ferry-boat, and as yet nothing
has been seen or heard of her. The
boat was owned by Capt. Sherm.
Suverly, and last fall he had hauled
her out on the bank and propped
her up with timbers. When the
water was high last week the boat
suddenly came up missing. It is
supposed, however, that the river,
sweeping around a curve at the
point where the boat was hauled
out. washed away the bank and the
boat sank, so that it may show up
when the water goes down or it
might have become dislodged and
been carried down stream. The
vessel was used to ferry teams and
passengers across the river between
Livona and Fort Rice. It was valued
at about $1,000.
POLLOCK PICK-UPS.
(Progress, April 11.)
Will Cleveringa and family were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. Dornbush
yesterday.
John Wilmot, who has been here
this week receiving medical treat
ment, will leave for his home near
Winona to-morrow.
Mrs. Stephen Solmonson and little
son Howard returned last evening
from Aberdeen, where Howard had
a slight surgical operation per
formed.
L. M. Atkins is having an addition
built to his house in Pollock. L. H.
Seymour, of the Wood-Workers' Un
ion, is doing the work, and working
longer than union hours.
Rev. McCracken and Mrs. M. De
Boer returned last evening from
Groton, S. D., where they had been
attending a district convention of
the Christian Endeavor Society.
V. E. Parr returned to I'ollork
Monday evening. He recently corn
pleted a term of school in nouth
eastern Campbell county and thru
spent several days in Linton visit in*
friends before returning howu
Mrs. Parr remained in Linton for a
somewhat longer visit.
The Pollock baae-ball club has re
ceived a challenge from the Boston
Bloomers for a game here about May
5th. The Bloomer girls will surely
be given a game in Pollock if they
make the trip to this part of the
state.
Wm. C. Busby, who, for about
twenty years, was a resident of
Campbell county, is now located in
northern California and is managing
a 100-acre ranch there. The ranch
is for sale and a description is given
by the owner.
Gerrit Biesheuval and Will Van
der Vorste returned home last week
from Minnesota, where they dis
posed of a car-load of horses. They
brought back with them a fine stal
lion, and report that the trip was a
successful one.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Loutzenhiser
returned Tuesday evening from
Cherokee, Iowa, where Mr. Loutzen
hiser underwent a surgical opera
tion. After leaving the hospital
they visited relatives for a short time
before returning.
The Missouri river was on a ram
page near this point Saturday, Sun
day and Monday. Word was re
ceived on Saturday from Bismarck
to look out for high water that an
ice gorge had formed above that
city, and that the water had risen
thirty feet. When the big wall of
water commenced to arrive here it
had greatly diminished, but yet was
a full-sized flood, and Monday the
river was probably as high as it has
been since the country was settled.
All farms on the lowlands adjoin
ing the river were overflowed to a
dephth of four to five feet, and the
water backed up Sping creek to with
in three miles of Pollock.
TELL TALES.
Correspondence of the Record. (April 16.)
Fred Urevig is assessor for his
district. A good job for Fred.
Honorable Hans SorenBon is work
ing for C. E. Steie in the photo
graphic line.
P. H. Nelson's amphitheater blew
over in the wind. Put up a grand
stand next time, Pete.
What's the matter with the ball
players? We want the best team of
the season this year, boys, and it
means a little practice.
H. N. Miller expects to farm all
of a thousand acres this season. Al
right, Miller. We will help you to
spend your money next fall.
Services were held in Zion Luth
eran church Sunday. There was a
number that did not go to meeting
on account of stormy weather.
Talk about your windy weather.
We certainly did get it right the
last few day8. Minnesota, pie
keep your fwind at home. There's
enough windy fellows coming from
there, any way.
A number of farmers are looking
for a car-load of feed daily at Kin
tyre. It was shipped out of Min
neapolis ten days ago. Well, boys,
you can expect that feed about hay
ing time, as it's coming over the
Soo.
There will be a school election in
Tell school-house at 3 o'clock Satur
day, the 27th of April. Some of the
patrons want to move the school
house,and others don't. The building
is not in the right place, and I think
it ought to be moved now, as it will
cost more to repair it later on and
move it.
—Teller.
WESTFIELD WHISPERS
Correspondence of the Record. (April 16.)
Everybody is rejoicing over the
fine rain. It means much for future
crops.
Rev. Schilstra attended classes at
Corsica, S. D.
The farmers have all commenced
to cultivate the soil, in hopes of a
bumper crop this year.
Miss Cora Van Beek closed her
school Friday. We all hope she en
joyed her work here.
Gerrit Terbeeste has returned
from his home at Baldwin, Wis.,
and is going to spend the summer
hero, where he has employment.
George Howerdink is now making
himself useful an well an ornamen
tal at the farm of his uncle, Mr. Van
Boven.
We are all sorry to lone from our
midst William Lammem, our former
"Centipede." Willie in again teach
ing school near hi» old ho
me, Cor
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trouble.
Seeding is progressing nicely and
all of our farmers are busy in the
fields. We hope they will have an
abundant reward for their labor.
Little Willie Green, who has been
suffering with a complicated disease
for the past two weeks, is no better.
The doctors at Linton can do noth
ing to relieve his suffering.
Miss Mabel Adamson closed a very
successful term of school west of
Marie last week. The pupils gave
an interesting program. The Jack
Horner pie was a pleasant surprise
to all of the children. Miss Adam
son returned to her home near Pol
lock last Monday. We hope she will
have decided to teach our school
again before it opens next fall.
-'•Chatterbox.
For County Superintendent of
Schools.
(i'ald Advertisement.)
Lester Briggle, candidate for the
office of County Superintendent of
Schools, asks and will appreciate
your support at the primaries, June
26th. I believe in and will work for
all progressive educational princi
ples. and stand ready to serve with
out fear or favor. Vote as your
conscience dictates and for the best
interests of our schools.
Pinehurst Stock Farm
Stallions for Sale
Shires and Percherons
Knnging ('nun two to four
yearn old. This in niee lot,
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kind lliul. will iiiiitiirc. horses
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F. O. B. Detroit, complete with all equip
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It's a Better Car
Not Bcause It Cost Less
But Because It's Worth More
HENRY H. HANSEN, Agent
Announcement
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ready for use NOW. In a few days we will be
crowded with work and you will want to use your car.
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day at 8 a. m. and 4 p.
m, only.
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THE HOME BAKERY
Between Stone Drug Store and Britt.
Restaurant.
Phone 78—2.
Bread, Cakes, Pies, Etc.,
Fresh Baked Daily.
GIVE US A CALL.
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Undtrtal(ing and Embalming,
Furniture and Caslpts.
Personal and prompt attention
telephone orders.
a
Linton, North Dakota.
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