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The Bowbells Tribune
Published on Friday of each week at Bowbells,
Ward County, N. D.,
By THOS. B. HURLY.
Entered as second-class matter Juty 24,1908, at
the post office at Bowbells, N, Dak., under
the act of March 3. 1879.
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WHERE CLIMATE IS SOLD.
In Arizona, Southern Califor
nia, New Mexico and nearly half
of Texas, but especially in Ari
zona, there are large tracts of
land which will grow without ir
rigation nothing but cactus and
sage brush, but which have yet
been bought up at trivial figures
by speculative holders, and which
are being offered to actual set
tlers at astonishingly high prices.
One such company that controls
an area in Arizona three times as
large as the state of Delaware
and having nearly the area of
New Jersey, is sending out high
ly embellished statements, pic
turing Arizona as a garden spot
of the Lord and offering the des
ert land at from $100 to $200 per
acre.
The statements that are made
in the pamphlets that are sent
to inquirers for these lands are
calculated to mislead thousands.
The lands must be artificially
watered to produce anything
marketable, and when there is
an established irrigation plant
the water generally costs the
landholder from $30 to $40 per
acre per annum. As soon as the
virgin fertility of these lands is
used up the holders must not
only buy water, but artificial
fertilizers to produce crops. So
long as only a few thousand
acres of these lands are under
cultivation there may be found a
profitable market in the mining
towns and mining camps, but the
whole population of Arizona is
less than 200,000 and the home
markets are, therefore, exceed
ingly limited.
The moral of these observa
tions is that a much better agri
cultural opportunity is to be
found right here in North Dako
ta than can be obtained at an ex
travagant cost in any of the
Southwestern states. e o pie
who go to Arizona or Southern
California and buy land from one
or another of the irrigation syn
dicates really buy the climate,
and pay an exorbitantly high
price for it. If they go with a
small capital they will b* apt to
buy on conditions that will keep
them at work the rest of their
natural lives to get free from the
clutches of the water companies
and the land speculators. North
Dakota is a far better state than
Arizona for those with money to
invest in agricultural lands to
come to and certainly it is a good
state for the farmers who are al
ready here to stay with.
LINKING WITH CANADA
During the past twenty years
development of the resources of
British North Ameriea has pro
gressed at a ratio of activity which
has given the Canadian provinces
a rating as potential* factors in
world commerce and world indus
trialism that they did not before
possess. There are not many
Americans who are aware of the
extent to which in comparatively
recent y ears American capital
has been seeking investment in
Canada. The Monetary Times, a
nsessmppBBssflMBB
financial journal, published i n
Toronto, has gathered infornia-.
tion concerning American indus
trial investments in the Domin
ion, and sums up the results of
the inquiry in the following table
168 companies aver
aging capital $600,
000 $100,800,000
Investments in Brit
ish Columbia mills
and timber 50,000,000
Investments'in Brit
ish Columbia mines
Packing plants
Implement distribut
ing houses
Land deals in British
Columbia
Total
50,000,000
Land deals in Alber
ta, etc 10,000,000
Investments in lum
ber and mines in
Alberta
5,000,000
5,000,000
4,000,000
2,000,000
$226,800,000
The foregoing table does not,
probably, anything like account
for American investments in Can
adian enterprises, as American
capital is largely invested in the
stocks and bonds of Canadian
railroads and other incorporated
enterprises. And it is difficult to
trace the extent of such invest
ments. The statement supplied
y the Monetary Times does,
however, serve to indicate that
the United States and Canada
are being united by commercial
affinities which eventually will
demand the letting down of the
political bars between th^ two
countries.
Not only is American capital
finding its way into Canada in
constantly swelling flow, but dur
ing the past ten years American
farmers have been treaking
across the wheat provinces in a
way that has made Canada one
of the three leading wheat-grow
ing countries in the world. Dur
ing the past year the value of
Canadian imports from the Unit
ed States was more than double
the value of the imports from
Great Britain and nearly thirty
times as great as the imports
from either .France or Germany.
And though the Dominion found
her. best market in Great Britain,
the commodities sold in the Unit
ed States possessed more than
eighty times the value of those
sold to France.
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There is a constantly growing
community of interest between
Canada and the United States
which more and more as time
progresses will view with dis
favor that obstructive political
boundary line.
Hon. L. B. Hanna announces
that under no circumstances will
he be a candidate for a feeat in
the United States Senate at the
coming election. This leaves
some of the servile little organs
another guess or two. As the
Forum says, Mr. Hanna likes the
work of the lower branch of
Congress as far as he has exper
ienced it. He was extremely
fortunate in his committee ap
pontments, being on Indian af
fairs and agriculture, and these
positions will enable him to look
after North Dakota affairs more
promptly and effectually than he
could have done otherwise. His
place on. Indian affairs is invalu
able to him in securing the open
ing of the Fort Berthold reserva
tion, in which movement he is
deeply interested and has the
co-operation of the people of the
entire state in his efforts in that
behalf.
That honesty is the best policy
is being proved by an unusual
number of contemporary illustra
tions. Ill-gotten gains are every
where bringing their winners to
justice, to ruin and to prison.
But still, honesty as a.policy is
showing no decisive signs as yet
of ruling the world.
Congress is to inquire into the
cause of the high r&te of living.
But then, evei\ Congaess itself
often proves' a very expensive
luxury to tfie country.
There is now every evidence of
a lively but comparatively harm
less war in Washington for sev
eral months to come.
The sale of malt of-any kind,
whether intoxicating or not, has
been declared illegal in this state
by a decision of the Supreme
Court at Bismarck handed down
on Friday of last week, the 7th
inst., in the case of the State of
North Dakota vs. the Fargo Bot
tling Works and the American
Bottling association. The case
was appealed from the District
Court of Cass county, and the
Supreme Court upholds the de
cision rendered by Judge Pollock
in the lower court.
A train recently wrecked in the
Southwest revealed the fact that
several carloads of peanut shells
were on their way .to breakfast
food companies in the west. It
has long been expected that we
must have peanut politics, a s
witness some of the statesmen
through this Bowbells country,
but it,s rather hard to have the
shells thereof ground in our food.
A press dispatch relates the
fact that a jury in Long Island
City found a man not guilty of
carrying a concealed weapon, but
asked the judge to warn him hot
to do so again. This will confirm
those critics and cynics who
maintain that the average intelli
gent American jury is a joke.
Tesla promises a new wireless
lamp which will revolutionize the
problem of artificial illumination.
Electricity has been the wizard of
$re past year no one will doubt
that it may prove the miracle
worker of the new one.
According to a press report a
man in Tennessee last week tried
conclusions with his mother-in
law in a pistol duel. He was
killed. This ought to settle the
question of superiority for some
time to come.
A convict i n the Minnesota
state prison has succeeded i n
growing a mammoth lemon. As
if those of the ordinary size hand
ed out day after day to unwilling
recipients were not large.enough.
Now it is the Tobacco Trust
that is at the bar of the Supreme
Court, and as a result it is opined
by an exchange that its methods
are appropriately to be smoked
out.
Gomper's fight against the
Steel Trust is far more to his
credit than his fight against the
laws of the land.
KEEN IMAGINATION.
The Way One of His Lectures Affected
Louis Agassiz.
Children are not the only holders of
the precious key of the imagination.
The finest minds often keep the power
of "make believe," much to their own
and the world's benefit. That such'a
possession coupled with ardent enthu
siasm makes demands on the nerves
and strength is shown In the following
anecdote, related by the late Moncure
Daniel Conway in his autobiography.
He was at one time a pupil of that fa
mous man of science, Louis Agassiz,,
One particular lecture Agassiz de
voted to displaying some fossils of sau
rlans, newly come into his collection.
He made the subject a text for a gen
eral review of the chain of reptilian
life.
As he proceeded,- darting off to the
blackboard to Illustrate, comparing the
extinct with the contemporary fauna,
he became more and more animated.
His face reddened with excitement
until at last be said:
"Gentlemen, I ask yon to forgive m?
If today I end the lecture at this point
although the hour Is not out. I asstire
you I have been describing these, ex?
tlnct creatures until they have taken
on a sort of life. They have been
crawling, hissing, darting about me.' I
have heard the crawling and hissing
until I am really exhausted. I regret
It, gentlemen, but I trust you will ex
cuse me." ".••{
Our admiration for the grand teach
«r was such- as to make us break!
through aU rules, and we gave him a:
hearty cheer. He bowed low to M,
and quickly disappeared.
EYE EXERCISE.
On* Method by Ayhich Poor Viatel^
May Be Improved.
5 "Have you. a high roof?" was the ap-?
pfirently Irrelevant question put byt
the
distinguished oculist to the womani
who bad complained of having. bad
ipyes. "Higher than the roofs of the?
fcurroundinghousea
"Oh,
yes,":
5
said the vfoman. "a good?
ileal higher."
"Then what I want you to do," sajd|
be, "is to go up there every day and!
wffl" do you more gootTthan glasses.
One trouble with your eyes, and with
many pairs of eyes in New York, Is
that you exercise them so little at long
range. They are used to looking at
short distances only. Long distance
looking is good for eyes.. Persons who
habitually have a wide expanse of
sea or plain to gaze upon very seldom
have weak eyes. Of course you can
not move out to the plains, neither
can you spend a life on the ocean
wave, but you can let your sight travel
across the Hudson river every -day,
and I advise you to do it."—New York
Press.
Vagaries of Memory.
The vagaries of the old man's mem
ory are indeed curious.' Lord Hough
ton told Sir-Mountstuart Grant Duff
that he had once been present when
Lord Lyndhurst and Dr. Lushlngton
were asked what was the most inter
esting thing that they remembered.
"Oh," said Lyndhurst, "undoubtedly
the day which I spent with Washing
ton at Mount Vernon." v "Oh," said
Lushlngton, "undoubtedly the week
which I spent with Burke at Beacons
field." Naturally they were asked,to
tell something of what had passed on
these occasions, but neither of them
could remember anything whatever.
There is much to be said for assisting
the memory of good things with a
diary, as Sir Mountstuart himself did.
—London Chronicle.
Paid For a Peep at Royalty.
In the eighteenth century the Lon
doner could look at royalty on Sunday
for a modest fee. In a guide to Lon
don, published in 1767, It was said, "At
St. James' chapel royal by knocking at
the side door and slipping a shilling
for each person into the hand of the
verger who opens it you may have ad
mittance and stand during divine serv
ice in the presence of their majesties,
and for a shilling each person more
you may sit In their royal presence,
not in pews, but in turnup seats on the
side of them."
A Vague Idea.
During his first visit to a farm little
Willie came Into the house crying
softly.
"What Is the matter, dear?" asked
bis mother.
"I went out to see the cows, and
they didn't give nothing, but milk.""
sobbed the boy.
"What did you expect?" inquired the
mother.
"I'm not sure what I expected," re
plied Willie, "but, mother, where does
beef tea come from?"—Judge.
A Hint.
"Yes," said the young student
thoughtfully, "when I get Interested In
a subject I never stop until I have em
braced It thoroughly."
"That's nice," was the hesitating re
ply. "Do—do you think I'm an inter
esting subject?"
Great Expression.
"They tell me, Grimley, that your
daughter sings with great expression."
"Greatest expression you ever saw.
Her own mother can't recognize her
f6.ce when she's singing."—Home Her
a
Insects' Wings.
The wings of the housefly vibrate
S83 times a second those of the honey
bee 440.
Every one complains of the badness
of his memory, but nobody of his judg
ment.—La Rochefoucauld.
Qualified.
Parke—I don't know what I am ever
going to. do with that boy of mine. He
Is careless and absolutely. reckless of
consequences, and be doesp'taeem to
care for any one. Lane—Good! You
can make a taxicab driver out of him
-ilfe: y-Vy v:
A Precaution.
"Dickey," said his mother, "when
you' divided those five caramels with
'yopr
slater did you give her three?"
'.'Noy. ma. I thought they wopldn't
?ome out even, so ate. one.'lore I be
gan to divide/'—United Prefebyterlan.
To Friends and Patrons
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We do not want the old year to close without you receiving our
sincere thanks for the patronage you have given us and the pleasant busi
ness relations w e have enjoyed. In reviewing the business of the
year past, we believe that in general it has met the expectations of all of
us. We have harvested pot only a large crop, but one of the most
valuable crops our country has ever grown. In view, therefore, of these
present conditions, we believe trade for the coming year will be of larger
proportions, and that 1910 will register a new record in point of prosper
ity It is our desire that this letter shall not only contain our thanks and
confidence in the future, but that it shall also convey to you our best
wishes for the New Year.
As it advances may it bring to you an increased measure of pros
perity and Happiness. Very sincerely yours,
DONOVAN BROS.
THE UP-TO-DATE HARDWARE MARCHANTS
Bowbells, North Dakota.
NORTH STAR
R. R. SCHUDAR
Contractor and Builder
Livery
Feed and
SALE STABLE
Phone No.
Plans Specifications and all Necessary Material Fur
nished on short notice. Also shop work of all descrip
tions. ALL WORK GUARANTEED.
Bowbells, N. D.
ROGERS LUMBER CO.
Your crops may not have been as good as you wished but is
that any reason you should let your machinery go to rot. A
covering of lumber will do more good than a covering of snow.
C. W. HAYES,
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OOD LIVERY service
on short notice, with
competent and careful
drivers if desired, and at rates that
will please the most impecunious.
FARMERS bring your horses to my
barn and you can rest assured of
them being properly cared for.
D. W. SIVER, Proprietor.
THE OLD HADWIN BARN
L. SMITH, Prop.
We solicit a share of your patronage. Our rigs are the best
and we have a good place to stable your horses while in town.
Charges Right—Give Us a Call
90 Bowbells, N. D.
Hardware
Stoves and
Ranges
Paints, Oils .and Varnishes, etc.
First class andjip-to-date.
Call in and see us.
T. O. HUNTER, Prop.
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