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ADVERTISE People are advertising read-1 era because they know these live wires of advertising car ry the news that keeps them up to date. VOL. XIX NO. 43. MUST SALUTE THE STARS AND STRIPES PRES. INFORMS HUERTA MUST SALUTE FLAG OR WILL SEIZE TAMPICO AND VERA CRUZ Washington, April 15.—President Huerta will salute the American flag or the Atlantic fleet will seize Vera Cruz and Tampico. What happens af terward depends on Huerta. That is President Wilson's determination. Leaders of congress, both democratic and republicans, are backing up the president, and declared they are in accord with Wilson on each step he takes, and that there are ample pre cedents for action. Washington, April 15.—The follow ing official statement was issued as representing the views of President Wilson and administration: "In discussion with official circles in Washington of the present Mexican situation, the following points have been very much dwelt upon. It has been pointed out that, in considering the present somewhat delicate situa tion in Mexico, that the unpleasant incident at Tampico must not be thought of alone. For some time past the defacto government of Mexico has seemed to think a mere apology suffi cient when the rights of American citizens, or the dignity of the govern ment of the United States, were in volved, and apparently has made no attempt at either reparation or the effective correction of the serious derelictions of its civil and military officers. "Immediately after the incidents at Tampico, an orderly from one of the ships of the United States in the har bor Vera Cruz, who had been ashore to the postoffice for the ships' mails, and who was in uniform and who had the official mail bag on his back, was arrested and put in jail by the local authorities. He was subsequently re leased and a nominal punishment in flicted upon the officer who arrested him, but it was significant that an or derly from the fleet of the United States was picked out from many per sons constantly going ashore on var ious errands, from the various ships in the harbor, representing several nations. "The most serious of all, the official in charge of. the telegraph office at Mexico City presumed to withhold an official dispatch of the government of the United States to its embassy at Mexico City until it should have been sent to the censor, and his permission received to deliver it, and gave this despatch into the hands of the charg ed' affairs of the United States, only upon his personal demand. "Not alone on his personal demand, but on his emphatic demand, he hav ing in the meantime learned through other channels that a dispatch had been sent him which had not been re ceived. "It cannot but strike anyone who has watched the course of events in Mexico as significant that untoward incidents, such as these, have not oc curred in any case where representa tives in other governments were con cerned, but only in dealings with rep resentatives of the United States, and that there has been no occasion for other governments to call attention to such matters or to ask for apologies. These repeated offenses against the rights and dignity of the United Stat es, offenses not duplicated with regard to representatives of other govern ments, have necessarily made the im pression that the government of the United States was singled out for manifestations of ill will and con tempt." The statement concludes by saying that the state department is confident Mexico will see the seriousness of the cumulative effect of these incidents and will also see the necessity and propriety of repudiating them in a satisfactory manner* Hope Huerta Will Yield In his conferences with leaders of both houses of congress, the president impressed upon the senators and rep resentatives that while he sincerely hoped no occasion would arrive for the use of force, but the contingency might follow as a result of the Amer ican demand for a salute at Tampico, he wished the members of congress to be prepared. All men who saw the president said no steps would be taken of a serious nature, such as the landing of ma rines or the shelling of the town, without authorization of congress. "Marines have been landed before," said Chairman Flood, "without au thorization, and towns have been shelled, but inasmuch as congress is in session it would be more regular to get authorization from congress." TROUBLES OF OUR OWN We have had troubles of our own this week and while we should have turned out at least a ten page paper we were compelled to hold it down to eight in order to get out today. Sun day night our large motor switch in some mysterious way got thrown down and the motor was burned out. This delayed us two days and a half until we could get another one from St. Paul by express. Then our lino type moter had a short circuit and held us up for another half day. Con sequently if the paper is somewhat short this week you know the reason. WORST FOR SENATE President Worst of the N. D. A. C. announced his candidacy Tuesday through the columns of the Fargo Forum for the office of United States senator. This will make three candi dates seeking the Republican nomina tion. Gronna, Miller and Worst. State Historical Sac XX COMMERCIAL CLUB MEETING DIRECTORS HELD MEETINGMON DAY—GOOD ROADS COMMIT TEE APPOINTED The directors of the Commercial club held a very interesting meeting last Monday evening and several things of importance to the city were discussed. The Good Roads question was taken up and a committee con sisting of W. C. Rawson, W. B. Over son, V. R. Asbury and Paul Leonhardy was appointed by the presiding officer. It was recommended that they give special attention to improvement of the river road and the new township road north which goes straight north past the Experimental farm. The auto license question was brought up and it was stated that the commissioners had asked the club to co-operate with them in seeing that all cars were licensed. In 1908 a road tax was levied which was later declared illegal. As the commissioners cannot use this money an attempt is being made to have this money spent on the roads. J. F. Hetler, representing the Ware Grain Binder Attachment Company of St. Paul met with the club. This company make binder twine from flax straw and have a patented knoter which they sell to use with the twine. They claim the twine can be sold for six cents a pound and they furnish or sell the knotters for $23 with a fif teen year guarantee. One of the man agers of the company will be in the city Monday and will discuss the pro position of a twine plant in Williston at the commercial club meeting Mon day night. NATURAL GAS A POSSIBILITY WELL DRILLER OF VIRGINIA THINKS GAS COULD BE FOUND AND WOULD DRILL WELLS There has never been any attempt here to drill for natural gas but there are people who believe the possibili ties are good as is evidenced by the following letter from a resident of West Virginia: March 31, '14. The Commercial Club, Williston, N. D. Gentlemen: Do you realize there is a possibility of finding natural gas in commercial quanities in the vicinity of your town Your geological formation is very similar to that of Bow Island, Alta., and of the Big Horn Basin, Wyo., where large gas wells have been drilled. Could a company be formed in your town for the purpose of drilling one, or more wells for gas or oil? If a good sized block of land could be leas ed, I will take one-eighth, perhaps more of the stock, also contract to drill one, or more wells 1500 to 2500 feet deep, and furnish part, or all of necessary tools, machinery and etc. Yours truly, J. C. Leonard, Friendly, West Va. ENJOYED GLEE CLUB PROGRAM LARGE AUDIENCE OUT SATUR DAY EVENING TO ENJOY MUSICAL PROGRAM The University Glee Club had a crowded house for their entertainment Saturday evening in the basement of the new Congregational church. Over three hundred were present and hear tily enjoyed the program. The club showed careful training and were as one in their attack and enunciation. A number of solos were sung by the boys and Director Norton pleased the audience with several selections on the violin. GREAT PHOTO DRAMA Buffalo, New York Times Tuesday, Jan. 20, 1914:—"Antony and Cleo patra" is the greatest of its kind ever seen here. "Antony and Cleopatra," one of the best photo-dramas of the present day, is showing at the Majestic Theatre this week and the unusual love story is presented by very capable char acters. All of the thrilling events of the time of Antony and Cleopatra are shown with a wonderful vididness and the extraordinary clarity of the pic tures was received with much favor able comment by the audience. It is a stupendous production and the love story of Antony and Cleo patra is easily followed by the pic tures. The events in the lives of these two famous persons are as wonderful as the pictures and capacity audiences should be the rule for the remainder of the week. Antony and Cleopatra will be ex hibited at the Orpheum Theatre on Friday and Saturday April 24 and 25. NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION Notice is hereby given that the part nership heretofore existing between N. Ingram and F. R. Wilson, doing business under the name of Ingram & Wilson, has by mutual consent been dissolved. Mr. F. R. Wilson continues in the business and Mr. Ingram is not responsible in any way for any obli gations contracted on or after this date, April 14, 1914. 43-3tp. Frank R. Wilson Newton Ingram. Williston Graphic 1100 SALOONS OUT OF BUSINESS WOMEN OF ILLINOIS IN RECENT ELECTION WIPED OUT 1100 SALOONS Chicago, April 9.—WomC'n voting for the first time in Illinois township elections demonstrated their power Tuesday by dosing the doors of prac tically 1,100 saloons outside of Chi cago, adding sixteen counties to the thirty already dry by baring the sale I of intoxicants in approximately 200 o* the 300 townships in which local op tion was an issue. Their victory included eleven of the larger cities of the state which, until the votes were counted, were wet ter ritory. They were Bloomington, Galesburg, Elgin, Decatur, Canton, Fi-eeport, Belvideve, Menmouth, Ke wanee, Lockport and East Galena, Rockford, Mattoon and Galva were kept in the dry column by women's votes. No city nor township which was dry before the election was lost by the anti-saloon forces, but the cities of Springfield, Quincy, Rock Is'and, Au rora, Alton, Moline, Dixon and West Galena remained wet. Complete returns from count"/ townships and from more remote sec tions of the state weie not available, but detailed figures of the vote in fifty-seven townships placed the wo men's vote at 40,631 dry, and 18,181 wet, showing that in those townshios approximately 70 per cent uf the wo men voters favored thc. anti-saloon ticket. Where the accurate figures were available the men's vote was shown to be about one-eighth greater than the women's and to have been divided in to approximately 60 per cent wet and 40 per cent dry. In addition to their victories over the saloons, the women elected thirty women officials, twenty-six township collectors, three town clerks and one woman member of a city board of education. Mrs. Mary L. Morrison of Springfield. ATTENTION VOTERS When the assessor asks you for your party affiliation, say you are a Progressive, if you are a Progressive, and see that you are put down as a Progressive Party voter, otherwise you will lose your vote at the Pri mary. Prof. H. H. Aaker is the Pro gressive Party candidate for gover nor. 43-3t. WILLISTON, WILLIAMS COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1914. SINNING AGAINST YOUR HOME TOWN YOUR PROPERTY—WHAT IS IT'S TRUE VALUE?" Your town lot or country home— What is it's true value?—in dollars and cents! If a man came to you and said, "This is just the lot I want," Or, "This farm of yours just suits me. What do you 'want for it?" And if you said "$1000 for the lot," or $10000 for the farm," on what would you base the figures How would yoy arrive at the particular sums Of course, the value of the land next to yours would have a great deal to do with it—but— Wouldn't you figure as your biggest asset the prosperity of your home town—the fact that it is growing and is going to keep on growing and that in five years, the value of your property will be double that of today— IF YOUR HOME TOWN CONTINUES TO GROW AND PROSPER. You bet you would—you would play up that point to beat the band—you would paint a beautiful picture of how Williston has grown up from a small village and how it is going to continue to grow into a metropolis— In other words—YOU CAPITALIZE THE GROWTH OF YOUR HOME TOWN. If that man bought your city lot or country home— He would be paying more than the actual value—the intrinsic value of the land itself. He would be investing in the future of Williston and if Williston does not continue to grow and prosper, that man is going to lose some money. So you can see that the true value of your property DEPENDS on the progressiveness of your home town and that if you want your property to in crease in value— It is up to you to help Williston grow— And the only way to help your home town to grow is to encourage more business and social activity by participating in it yourself. We must keep our money in Williston. We can't afford to let any of it get out because when we do, it has gone forever. Lets stop "Sinning against our home town" and go back to first principles— Lets do the way our forefathers did. If they could not get the things they wanted at home—they either did without them or made them. Our merchants are just as progressive as merchants found in any other town. The goods they have for our selection are just as up to date and full of value as the goods found in other towns. And we will find that their prices are just about the same as the prices in other towns. Our merchants are here to stay and grow up with the city and they will expand and enlarge just as soon as their business warrants. By patronizing them we are helping ourselves—we are helping our prop erty to increase in value. Don't forget that the farms of today are the city lots of tomorrow—if the town next door KEEPS GROWING. Every city has had to have a beginning. The settlers of Yesterday are the City Fathers of today. Take your home town—it is not hard to run over in your mind the names of those who have' mfede their money in real estate. Their fathers were the settlers of yesterday. They came when Williston was yet unborn. Their heirs of today are reaping the results of their fathers' investments. With the growth of Williston their holdings naturally in creased. And as the values increased, their taxes increased and so it goes. This is the way you should recognize the value of your property—on the PROGRESSIVENESS OF THE PEOPLE OF YOUR HOME TOWN. A city expands only as its business expands. New business enterprises are attracted only if the business is here. By your trading at home—you cause more business—because the trade that goes out of town is lost forever. The next installment of "Sinning Against Your Home Town" will appear in our next issue. In it "A Town of a Thousand Managers" will appear. Don't fail to read it. VERDICT IS FIRST DEGREE MURDER JURY IN PLUM COULEE MURDER CASE GIVE VERDICT AGAINST KRAFCHENKO Winnipeg, Man., April 9.—John Krafchenko is guilty of murdtn^ {"n the first degree, and must pay with his life for killing H. M. Arnold of thc Plum Coulee bank. The jury return edits verdict at 2:10 o'clock, after de liberating for a little over two hours. After the verdict had been given the prisoner's strong face did not flinch. He stared straight ahead bravely. Ilis blue eyes looked fear less, and the dark, closely shaven face did not grow appreciable paler. His lordship adjourned the court until 4 o'clock, when the death sentence will be passed. J. B. Suffield, counsel for the pris oner, went over to the dock and con ferred with him. It is likely that Krafchenko will make a statement before the death sentence is passed. Chief Elliott looked sad and pale, as did all those connected with the case. The jurymen were apparently all deeply moved. The silence in the court room was tense during the whole grim period. Many women shed tears. There was not a braver face in the room than that of John Krafchenko. A. C. DEBATERS WIN Fargo, N. D., April 11.—Debating the literacy test features of the immi gration bill, North Dakota agricul tural college teams participated in a three-cornered contest last night, win ning two of three. The most signifi cant victory was at Los Angeles, where Walter Baumgartel and Reuel Wiie defeated representatives of the University of Southern California. Baumgartel, formerly of Crookston, was a member of the Minnesota cham pionship debating team for high schools two years ago. Charles Amidon, Barbara Heidner and William Bollerud lost their de bate here with the South Dakota ag gies. A team representing the local institution at Brookings, S. D., was composed of George Dixon, George Knudson and William Arvold. Editor J. H. McCarry of Alexander was in the city the first of the week on his way home from Minot where he attended a meeting of the executive committee of the N. D. Press Associa tion. STICE GARAGE BURNED TODAY FIRE DESTROYS THE STICE GA RAGE—SPREAD RAPIDLY OVER THE ENTIRE BUILDING The Stice garage caught on fire this afternoon shortly after 2 o'clock and in about an hour the building was almost totally destroyed. The front half which was frame is a complete loss but the new part which was partly of brick is not as badly dam aged as the walls did not fall. The (ire started up stairs in the front or north end of the building and every thing about the room was more or less greasy and the flames soon spread. The men working below did not know anything of the fire until burning pieces of wood began to fall down. They then got busy and with the as sistance of the fire boys and citizens who arrived within a few minutes to help they saved all the cars on the ground floor and a great deal of the supplies and material. Five cars and a buggy upstairs were burned. There was one maxwell 25, one Fuller, one Lavene, one Winton and one old Max well burned. The building cost something over six thousand dollars and as there was only $2000 insurance on it the loss will be heavy. The machine shop de partment escaped with slight loss, it being in the basement of the brick addition. Mr. Stice has informed the Graphic that the garage will be rebuilt at once, and that the structure will be a modern brick, thoroughly equipped to take care of the large business this firm has built up. JUDGE GRANTS THAW PETITION JUDGE ALDR1CH GRANTS WRIT FAVORABLE TO THAW—CASE TO U. S. SUPREME COURT Concord, N. H., April 14.—Harry K. Thaw's petition for a writ of habeas corpus was granted by Judge Edgar Aldrich of the United States district court. The court said, however, that no order would be issued for the pris oner's discharge from custody until arrangements had been completed to take the case to the United States supreme court on an appeal. Thaw's petition for admission to bail, the court left undetermined, tak ing the grounds that it would be more appropriate for this to be passed on by the supreme court of the United States. The result of the decision is that Thaw's guardianship condition is un changed for the present but that his petition for a writ of habeas corpus will go to the highest court in the land with the decision of the lower court in his favor. The decision filed with the clerk here is more than 10,000 words long, and discusses exhaustively the various phases of the case presented in the federal court. PINNED HIS FAITH TO COWS INTERESTING PERSONAL EXPER IENCE OF MAN WHO GRASPED AT CREAM CAN AS LAST STRAW The following article is taken from the Farmers Dispatch of St. Paul and the writer tells how when down and out and overwhelmed with debt two cows and a five gallon milk can paid off his mortgage and started him on the road to independence: By Edward Herfurdahl, Benson, Minn. I spent the first twenty-one years of my life on my father's farm in Minnesota. During my childhood, we were unable to make anything more than a fair living. We always planted oats, wheat and other small grain. The best we could do was to make both ends meet. One day I noticed an advertisement in a pamphlet issued by a railroad. It read as follows: "Why don't you get a piece of land in North Dakota where crops are never known to fail, where the cli mate is pure and healthful and the soil the best in the world Why put your money in banks at 3 and 4 per cent interest when investments are open to you, upon which you can realize from 50 to 250 per cent?" Decides to Move I read that advertisement over sev eral times and it did rot take me a great while to make up my mind to move. I bought a mule, and started for the promised land, taking with me two horses. I also bought what ma chinery I thought was essential. The land upon which I located was good. The day after 1 landed, I put up a small shack for myself and a barn that was large enough for four horses. Just about the time was ready to begin breaking my first misfortune overtook me. My mule died and I was unable to break any land with only two horses. However, good for tune followed, for the next day a neighbor asked me if I would take care of his horses, as he wanted to go back to Minnesota to get married. I told him that I would look after his (Continued on page 4) ADVERTISE Advertising is like the cop per wire that carries the elec tricity from the dynamo ana turivs the wheels. Are you on the copper wire circuit. $1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE COUNTY AFTER DAIRY HONORS WILLIAMS COUNTY, NORTH DA KOTA SEEKS A PLACE ON THE BUTTER MAP The following article appeared in the Minneapolis Journal of April 10 and being a good boost for Williston and Williams county we take pleasure in printing it in full: By W. P. Kirkwood Williams county, North Dakota^ vou've heard of it, possibly. If you have not, you are rather sure to before long. Williams county is away out on the western border of North Da kota, just where you jump off into Montana, but it is going to loom larger and larger on the horizon be cause it is organizing to do things an agricultural way—in a large agri cultural way. So it will pay to watch Williams county. The Journal's correspondent wa3 cornered by three of its energetic bus iness men a short time ago in the rooms of the Commercial club at Grand Forks. The trio had come all the way across the state to attend the Grand Forks "agricultural achieve ment" banquet. They had been achieving out in Williams county, and thought it was up to them to do a bit of celebrating with the rest of the state. All of this is but another way of saying that Williams county has already been doing things, and wishes the world to know about it. The thre^ men told The Journal man about it, and now what they told, is being pass ed on in order to help other counties to see that it pays to get together and to pull together for the common good. The First Step, Organization What Williams county, North Da kota, is doing in an agricultural way has been brought to an effective pass through the organization of the Wil liams County Better Farming associa tion. This was created July 1, 1913,. less than a year ago by a good margin.. H. A. Nelson of Ray is the president.. The directorate is made up of three' members from each of the five county commissioner districts, and on the board are the five county commission ers. A splendid idea, this, of getting the county commissioners right into the game. Every farmer in the coun ty, who cooperates with the field agent, by so doing becomes a member of the association. Every business" man of the county and every non-resi dent who owns land therein may be come a member by paying a fee of $1. And most of the business men of the county are members of the associa tion. The field agent is E. W. Hall- Twenty-five County Clubs The first step taken was to organ ize as many neighborhood or commun ity clubs as possible. Co-operation among farmers, and between fanners and business men was desired. The business men of the various towns al ready had their organizations. Cor responding organizations must be had among the farmers in order to secure such effective co-operation as was needed. The plan worked. The county now has 25 community clubs, and many of their members have also join ed the commercial clubs of the neigh boring towns. The community clubs give much attention to the woman's side °f farm life. Altogether, then, the people of Williams county are working unitedly. To have accomplished so much would have been a credit, even had nothing more been done in the nine months since the movement was start ed. But more has been done. High Aims in Dairying In the first place a definite aim ay to the type of farming best suited to Williams county has been set—to make the county "the leading dairy and diversified farming community in the northwest." A hirh aim to be sure, but it will not do to say that it is impossible of achievement. To make a start, to give the plan a real send-off, the Better Farming as sociation planned and carried out a "Dairy Inspection Trip" of 2.000 miles through Minnesota and Wis consin, in order that 50 farmers, mem bers of the 25 community clubs, might see dairying at its best, and the effects upon agriculture of livestock on the farm. The farmers, in other words, were "shown." They knew they could erow corn and alfalfa. That had been moved. Well then, with corn and alfalfa thev could do the thing.? Minnesota and Wisconsin were doing in dairying. Morover, they could de velon the pork industry as an adiunct. I Twelve carloads of hogs were shipped from Tioga, Williams county, alone last year. The farmers went back enthusiastic. Of those who made the trip 28 on returning became members of the Commercial club of Williston,. the thriving county seat. Buying Blooded Stock But there were special effects of an other sort as well. The Cottonwood Lake club bouerht 8 pure-bred short horn sires and two cows of the dual purpose type. And the bankers of the county announced that they stood ready to assist in the business of building up the dairy herds of the county, by aiding like importations. .Another effect of tho organization's work has been seen in a multiplica tion of silos on the farms. Tioga and vicinitv already have ten of these profitable feed storage plants, and not less than twentv-five are to be built in the vicinity of Williston alone. The silo is a siern of prosperity. Where vou see a silo you may be sure there is a nroeressive farmer about, a farm er who is awake to the 'act that agri (Continued on page 4)