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JOHN WALLIN ANSWERS THE MINOT REPORTER Senator Shows That The Reporter Editor Has Qualified For The An'nias Club—Wallin Not Tied To Jim Kennedy's Apron Strings Kditor of tile Independent: On several occasions the editor of Heporter, preceding the recent elec provocation, seen fit to assail me by referring to me as a tool in the hands of Jim Kennedy in the last 'Legislative session. In one of the issues of the Daily 'Reporter, proceeding the recent elec tion, he comes out boldly with the following statement: John Wallin, the staunch insurgent senator who became stalwart Im mediately upon his election to the senate, and who was one of the pli ant tools of Jinn Kennedy during the last session of the legislature, was supposed to be a great insurgent until lie became senator from this district lie lined up with the McKenzie machine and has done the bidding of the master since that time he voted with the machine on every neasure he stood with .Tim Kennedy. This 1 brand as base and malicious falsehood and misrepresentation of facts, and I can prove it by my own record which cftn be found in the Journal of the senate. Only once during the whole ses sion did Mr. Kennedy request me to vote for one of his measures and that was Senate Bill No. 97 providing for the establishment of a state fair, and locating the same at Fargo. I voted for the measure for the simple rea son that if we were to have a state fair concluded that Fargo was the right place for it, and besides this, we needed all the friends we could get for the support of the Minot normal school amendment. The fact that Mr. Kennedy's measure passed the senate by a vote of 29—15 proves conclusively that I cSiose the right side Mr. Kennedy did not even need my vote, and I considered it would have been very foolish of uie to refuse this little request to vote for his measure. I might say that if I had any boss in the last legislature, that, boss was the Minot Normal School Bill and 1 do not believe thai the people of Minot think that I should be abused for the work 1 put in securing the passage of this measuTe. will be re membered that the Aljinot Norma) School bill was persistently fought from beginning to end, and is requir ed more than mere bluster to keep it afloat. Now, cf course, 1 voted the same way as Mr. Kennedy did on several occasions, but as did the rest of the senators. Many of these measures originated in the house some of die bills were Senator Steele's of Mo hall, some of 'them were my own bills many of them were the product of progressive senators and represen tatives, and some of them originated from Democratic members. Why not call me a Democrat just as well. 1 voted for many of their bills and so did Mr. Kennedy. Perhaps the Democrats also were the tools of Mr. Kennedy. According to the Reporter all you have to do to be a good unbiased legislator, is to vote against Mr. Kennedy. The newly elected repre sentatives will do well to note this. All you have to do in the legislature next winter Is to watch Mr. Kennedy and see how he votes. When he votes Aye, you vote no, and when he votes No, you vote Aye. Then you will be hailed as a good insurgent and unbiased legislator by the Minot Reporter. This will be an easy mat ter for me, as Che roll call ts In alph abetical order and as my name ap pears on the last part of STe list, and as Mr. Kennedy votes before me all will have to do Is to listen to Mr. Kennedy, and vote the opposite. Let me give you another illustra tion. When House Bill No. 26 known as the anti-pass bill came up to be voted on, Mr. Kennedy voted for It. Now occordlng to the Reporter's argument,I should have voted against It, but if I had done so, how would my record look. Many of the pro gressive senators voted the same way that 1 did, and I suppose the same rule applies to them. Why should it not? But let me tell you that every senator and representative who voted against that measure voted against the Declaration of the platforms of botl. the Republican and Democratic Parties, who had pledged themselves to Hie pfcople for the passage of this measure. In regard to my voting with the machine, let nie say that 1 have been in olitics more or less for the la6i 25 years, and I have always a Haled myself witlh .the Republican party. I congratulate myself that I have been able to steer clear of "bosses." I stand today tor progress in polities more than ever, and I defy the Re porter to show one instance where repudiated those principles in the last session of the legislature. Let me also state that I voted the opposite of .VIr. Kennedy on many occasions, and I wil relate one in stance, the so-called salary bill, which provided for a raise in salary of the state officials, and which has I been talked of so much during the recent political campaign. Mr. Ken nedy and a large number of progres sives and stalwarts alike, voted for this bill. Only three voted against it and 1 was one of them, not be cause I thought that all those that voted for it were in the wrong, but because I did not like the bill. In conclusion iot lr.c say that have not written this article to the public because would feel it a dis grace to be affiliated with Mr Ken nedy, providing it was true that was so. The truth is tltat I am not afliliated with Mr. Kennedy any more than with any other member of the senate. As far as the character of Mr. Kennridv is concerned from what little I know of Tiie man I would take his words a thousand times rather than those of the blustering demagogue that edits t!he Minot Re porter. Neither have I written this article with the idea of changing the course of the Reporter. Prom observation and study of the man who edits that sheet,! have come to the conclusion that this man is capable of anything, and in the line of mud-slinglng he is in expert. He seems to be especially fitted to blacken the character of men whom he takes a dislike to. I expect nothing but abuse from this source, and let me say that I do not care. I have written this article because I do not feel that I should be misrepre sented. I believe that the people are entitled to know the truth about their public servants, but it should be given as it is, and not misrepresented or perverted. The following lines from the pen of the Norwegian Author and dramatist, Henrik Ibsen, perhaps fits the editor of the Reporter. As I have no trans lation of it I give it in the original language. "fteifer fotn Wrrrfe U§felboin§flubr ©jiger fin 9(Sre ftluqt ta $i er bet 9?ifrlaii§, foin tibr, Bnglerbifjjen, foin r0atfr fii iRbal. Yours truly, JOHN WALLIN. MELINNA HEDSTROM. iMelinna Hedstrom, who recently tiled on a homestead near HmduK, died from typhoid fever Thursday morning, ghe had been ill for sev eral weeks. She came from Brelnerd, Minn., about six weeks ago, and think ing she could prove up a claim with out any serious difficulty filed on one near Hesnault. Just how she took sick we are not Informed, but in all probability she got the disease from bad water. Her father and brother have both lived In this community for some time, and it was no doubt at their so llcltation that she came here. The body will be shipped to Wln throp, Minn., for burial.—Des Lacs Observer. —THE INDEPENDENT HAS THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY WEEKLY PAPER IN THE STATE OLIVE AND VICINITY. Mrs. McCarthy called at the Faulkner home Tuesday evening. MSns,. Cormany and family spent Wednesday evening at McCarthy's. Mr. James McCarthy made a flying trip to the Magic City Thursday. Miss Merel Troinblee and her mother called on Mrs. McCarthy Wednesday. Mr, Williams brought out a load of poods to his Olive store Tuesday. Mr. Landpire has sot the matri monial fever and seems to effect.-him rather queer as he forgot and left his buggie standing in front of a popular young lady's home in Stringtown. The clerk at the Olive store has been on the sick list for the past week. Mrs. Cormany ana sons called on Mrs. McCarthy Thursday evening. Mr. A. ti. Carpenter was a Magic city visitor Saturday. Mrs. Landphire called on Mrs. McCarthy one day last week. Mr. James McCarthy called at the Cormany home Wednesday. H. A. Cormany who has been work ing at the Beghle mines, spent Sun day at home. The Literary society will meet at at the Shea school house Saturday night, everybody come and have a good time. K. D. Skinner received a letttsi from his nephew, V. A. Skinner of Dcnisvn, Wash., In which he describes the forest fires vividly, with which ho had an unusual and very danger ous experience a few months ago. A part of the letters follows: "You asked about this county. I l.ave been pretty well over Montana, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, British Columbia and parts of Wyoming, Col orado and California and I have seen nothing anywhere that looks good enough to ine for me to advise one to part with a nice home, for any of them. If a person has money, he can buy a lot of the good things and miss many inconvenient parts of the show. This company I am working for, has 22,000 acres of land which is divided into five and ten acre tracts and which they sell for $4.50 an acre, agree to set out the trees and care for them till they bear apples and by that time you are supposed to be in dependently rich and a member of the church, and a respected citizen. But it doesn't look good to me. I came out to this country to get a tim ber claim, but they have all of it in the reserve, and besides I saw a sight this year I never want to see again. I hired out at Missoula to fight tim ber fires. They shipped me with the rest„about seventy-live miles into one of the heaviest timbered countries 1 ever saw and dumped me out with a lot of picks and shovels and the rest of the crew at a side track in the mH S* VOLUME 9, NUMBER 33 MINOT, WARD COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17 1910 SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER ANNUM K*\ That S I Mrs. .1. p. 'McCarthy has put in an application as chauffeur for Mrs, Codmary on the ox cart. Mrs. Sylvester having resigned her position. Faulkner's spent Sunday with Cur ley. Mr. Shaferleab took a load of flax to Minot Monday of this week. Mrs. McCarthy spent Sunday even ing with Mrs. Landphire. FREEDOM. Mrs. Iohii Rice and children who have been visiting: with her parents, have returned io their home at Coal ridge, Mont. The l.itorarv Society will o)K!n for the winter nl the Shea school heuse, Saturday evening, Nov. 19th. Mr. and Mrs. B. Caley of Ray, N. D.. are visiting at B. C. Witham's. The Presbyterian Ladle's Aid metts with Mrs. W. R. Foster, Thursday, Nov. 17. The members of this Aid would be pleased to have the Olive corresponds toll them which offices are vacant. L. B. Shea butchered five hogs last, week. iMr. and Mrs. C. Caley and sons have returned from Rolette. N. D. Grov. Foster is busy hauling coal with his faithful ox team. Mr. Rinl Mrs Henry Westrum tran sacted business at Minot last week. A BIG FOREST FIRE Young Man W.ell Known Here Describes Vividly His Terrible Experience—Nien Were Roasted Alive How Ke Escaped woods, Ton miles from nowhere. We walked up a creek thru a jungle for 55 Idaho miles at last to the blaze and she was a dandy. Couldn't, see the sun in the day twr the moon at night, so dark all the time, you couldn't see ten feet away. We worked two days and one night with very little to eat and no sleep, and then we discovered the fire coming tip the same way we lu\d come, with a good wind behind it and no way to get out. Then the crew got excited and started to pray and cry like a hunch of maniacs. I and a fellow that I knew dug a hole near a spring deep enough so we could get water over our bodies, and wet our blankets ami crawled into this spring and lay In that ice cold water for four hours and a half and the burning timber falling around ue every little while. Big trees that would smash a house if they fell on it and when the fire had gone by we saw something damnable. Men roast ed just like the stumps. There were twenty-seven out of 119 of us got Into Wallace, Idaho, which place was about half burned. There we had a relief committee and they gave us a new suit of clothes and 25 oents an hour from the time we left Missoula and sent us on our way rejoicing. valley ts 126 O S A Necessity In Every Home We can supply anything you n«»d from our clock department. Ask to see our Special light Day, Finely finished black wood mantel clock at $8.50. It is guaranteed a good time keeper. Only a limited number at this price. E I A The P'xcluslvc .leweler The Sunday closing 1 miles long and now Is a dreary ruin. I claims saw go pretty timber fast without much pecuniary benefit received, and hanSlv know whether the dance the music is worth or not" SUNDAY CLOSING LAW IN FORCE AT BISMARCK The Police Have Been Ordered To See That The Law Is Strictly Enforced -What It Means To I he Town law will i_ strictly enforced at Hisniarck. Tne liief of poliie and the patrolmen haw been notilied to this effect. Just to what extent the law will be en forced is problematical, but if it. is enforced to the very letter, no the atres will be allowed to run on Sun day. All pool rooms and cigar stores will remain closed. One cannot uuy a Sunday paper, and Hie hack lilies will be put out of business. It is even possible to put the telegraph out of commission for twenty-four hours, and perhaps tickets will not be sold at the station. The laws of the state of North Da kota are very strict on the Sunday observance and if enforced even as indicated in the order issued bv the police commissioner of Bismarck lure promises to lie some excitement when the lirst efforts are made to en force the law on Sunday morning at 12:01. Just to show how far the officers can go with the order if they care to Section sfifi flay Defined. Under the term "day," as employed in the i-hrase ''first day of the week," in the seven sections following, Is included all the time from midnight to mid night. (Pen. C. 1877. Sec. 10. R. C. 1 Sec. 6839.) Section 8570. Acts of Sabbatn breaking enumerated. The following are the acts forbidden to be done by (lie first, day of the week, the doing of any of which Is Sabbath breaking: 1. Servile labor. 2. Public sports. Short State Stories •Joe Chapman, the negro, charged with murder near Stillwater, Okla., wiio escaped from the sheriff near Keiimare several months ago, by jumping from a moving train, will be tried Nov. 2C. Chapman was latei captured and taken to Oklahoma. He is jointly charged with Lorena Mat hews with the murder of the woman's husband, Lawrence Mathews. I Johnson carried the "Cooseneck'' by 63 majority. The Ken mare Journal notes that the statement that Ed. Kelley is alleg ed to have made that he could remain in the oellar and beat Sorenson, prov ed about correct.. Williams county voted to divide, and the name of the new county will be Divide. Too proposition carried toT a large majority. D. A. Kramer was defeated for sheriff of the McHenry county by Sampson, 1,336 to 1,427. Kramer may ask for a re-count. Burke carried McHenry county by a small majority. When the returns were finally ail In, it was found that Burke had carri ed Ward county by a small majority. Burlier reports had It the Johnson had carried the county by about 50. The street lights ordered by the county commissioners and the city council, have been installed at Town er. The unofficial vote on the county seat light in Renville county Is: Mo hall, 641 Greene, 450 Sherwood, 412 Tolley, 239 McHenry, 119. Mo hall easily won. Cavalier was successful In the flghi for county seat In Pembina county by 200 majority. The Renville county newspaper boya wonder If M. O. Hall will con tlnue to publish the Greene Reporter. 1 Trades, manufactures and me elianical employment. •I. Public trallic. Serving process. (I'en. C. 1877, •Sec. II It C. 18'J5, Sec. 6840.) Section Xi")72. Servile labor prohib ited, excepting works of necessity or baiiiy. (I'en. (.'. 1877, Sec. 42. R. C. I.VI'.I, Sec. (18-11.) Section 8573. Prohibited sports enumerated. All shooting, sporting horse racing, gaming or other public nports, upon the first day of the week, are prohibited. (Pen. C. 1877, Sec. 46 It. C. 189!), Sec. 6814.) Section S574. Trades and employ ments prohibited. All trades, manu factures and mechanical employ* ments, upon the first day of the week, are prohibited (Pen. C. 1877, Sec. 46 It. C. ISM, Sec. 6844.) Sect inn S575. Public traffic prohi bited. All manner of public selling, or offering, or exposing for sale pub licly of day any commodities upon the first of iii week, is prohibited, except 'hat meats, milk and fish may be sold at any time before nine o'clock in the mornin:'. and except. that food may be sold to be cat''i: upon the premises whore It is sold, and drugs and medi cines and surgical appliances may be sold at any time of the day. (Pen. C. Sec. -17 R. C. Sec. 6845.) Scction 8577 Sabbath breaking how punished. Every person guilty of Sabbath breaking is punishable by a fine of not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars, at the discre tion of the court, for each offense. 11809. eh. 142: R. C. 1899, Sec. 6847.) Items of Interest Boiled Down for Busy Readers tor. Judge Seveuson's eldest daughter, Florence, fell down a cellar way at I Sen hold and dislocated her elbow and fractured one of tTte bones of her fore arm. According to the Stanley Sun, tihe vote for permanent county seat of Mountrail county was Stanley. 774 Palerma, 517 Ross, 479. Plaza, 421. Stanley is celebrating her well earned success today with a big oele bratlon. Over at Bantry the boys tied a crape on Tom Fox's door the night of election when It was learned that Tom'g candidate for governor bad been beaten. The young folks are enjoying skat ing on the river and on the lakes. The ice has frozen to a depth of sev eral inches and is as smooth as glass. The sheriff of Wells county quietly "slipped up" on the Moose home at Harvey last week, quietly entered the place and took possession of same. The "Mose Milk" on the premses was confiscated and the janitor taken Into custody. In all probability the charge of violating the prohibiten law will he preferred. The deputy me ward in of Harvey is now out afte 1 John 1. Moore of Minot has been granted the franchise to operate an electric light plant, at Berthold. The plant must be installed within three months and the maximum charge for electricity is placed at 12 cents per kilowatt. Mr. Moore proposes to in I stall one of the late battery systems, The Farmers' Elevator at Berthold. fhe sfei.ff for hunting "Moose" out in. It Is stated that Kd. oy and John J. Lee sang a duet •. opti cal meeting recently hel arpio —It Is not stated, howei alar the music mM rendered Tr)*k sr Norwegian, or both. Mark Chatfleld, the defeated candi date at the primaries in the 29th dis trict, played the same kind of a baby act over his defeat, as did Staale Hen drickson of the 43rd. Both political office seekers should be relegated to the wood pile sawed up and turned into the middle of the road populists —they are a disgrace to the republic an party and no good for the demo crats Lame back comes on suddenly and is extremely painful. It is caused by rheumatism of the muscle3. Q-iiek relief is afforded 1y applying Cham berlain's Tdnlment. Sold by all deal ers.