Courier Democrat., May 07, 1891, Image 1

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Bow of$0ii do we hear
complaining of
fJ&ki
f*$2£V-ST
All caused by ill-fitting
I' shoes, usually bought
from small dealers,who
do not carry a variety
of styles you are persu-
Yvif'
uaded into buying shoes
that does not fit, there
by*' incurring the risk
te'-
II lof ruining your feet.
We invite you when
in need of
V-^J'
»v,,
it, 1
or in fact anything in
the line of
—to--
examine our im­
mense JNiUW
SPRING
ITOCK. We have every
lake we have the new
8hppesf vaQ. Jfttest
rtyles, from the cheap
jstto the highest grades
ictured. Exper
ience «bupled with cap
has placed us head!
1 shoulders above all
itors.
Girothe Bustlers tor
caU toeyjwiU1
iveyon
pleasure to
Goods,
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Those who are advocating
$1,500 court house shoriid take the
trouble to examine our engine house
which cost the city of Langdon $700
without improvements.
The most humorous incident of
the day is a'/high protectionist re
joicing %rer cheaper sugar- The
poor fellow does not realize that the
sugar episode annihilated at one fel
swoop several standard arguments
of liis class such as "the tariff is not
a tax," "protection cheapens articles
protected," etc.—Farm, Stock an
Home.
Manitoba, with its freedom from
the cyclones and drouths which are
so common on the vast, treeless
plains of Dakota, is by far the best
country to settle in—Morden Moni
tor.
Let's see Morden is about four
teen njiles north of the Interna
tional boundary line the same con
dition of things must exist in
-about the home of the Monitor.
But then probably the Monitor's
editor is a disciple of. MunxJiaus
and is hopeful of acquiring celebri
in that line.
Every time that ex-President
Cleveland speaks upon political
questions, he leaves a deep im®pres
sion upon the country of his inde
pendence and firm convictions. Mr.
Cleveland is a believer in progress,
and does not pretend to say that
what appears to be the best policy
for this year will answer throughout
the whole generation. He believes
that America must live and legislate
for to-day, and that men and cir
cumstances are constantly ^hanging,,
and that poljjieal- parties must be
'JeS^f'and willing to meet them.—
Crystal Call.
rusnl of.the leading editorial in the
Milton Globe of last issue that
Editor Dennett had decided to array
limself against the proposition to
build a county court house. The
present attitude of the Globe savors
of inconsistency and smatters of
local prejudice very unbecoming to
an editor—supposed to be possessed
of broad-gauged ideas. Heretofore
the Globe has persistently called the
attention of the people to the fact
that they paid too much rent for a
county court house and has often
urged the necessity of the county
owning its buildings—at one
time going so far as to urge the peo
ple to erect that building at Milton.
The latter, although directly op
posed to the interest and convenience
of the great majority of the people,
was directly favorable to the inter
ests of Mr. Dennett and his heme
tows. —Milton—and therefore per
right and proper. But it is
veny improper, rude and impolitic
for Mr. Dennett and the Globe to
oppose what sensible business men
conclude is for the best finandal in
terests of the county, and play the
cfog in the manger act.
again, •reasoniKg
Th«|n
and mtfthema-
otical calculations -will not hold gooc
and are unworthy the foresight of a
•man whoee ability to mount the
band wagon has been the theme of
sm^ch coqunent. He fig-cures that
the bonds for a given number of
years at* certain rate of interest
will amon&t to so much, but leaves
out of hiscalculations the faet that
the county will -have something to
«how for the money expended anc
that the annual rent will amocnt to
a certain cam—equal with the in
terest—in *he same number of years,
andthe caunty, outside of a few
•safes and boeks will have nothing to
«faow for it. Look at thu matter
fkom a booaess standpoint Bro.
Dennett, laf aside all prejudice and
ju will see that yonr present atti
tude is '^bt 'ialpiiarmony' with the
welfare of the oonnty.
On Friday *hd Saturday of last
week we made a trip thnragh the
noriheMtora portion of Cavalier
county ati^ were much impressed
LANGDON. NORTH DAKOTA. THURSDAY. MAY 7, iggj.
with the advantages that region
offers for diversified farming. We
do not believe that there is another
section of country in the state bet
ter adapted to cattle and sheep
raising than that country lying in
and about the hills and-- valleys of
the Little and Big* Pembina livers,
to say nothing of the rich grain
lands (chiefly scrub) that are now
under cultivation. Water is every
where plentiful at all seasons of the
year. The eastern portion of Hope,
the northern portion of Olga, and
western portion of Fremont town
ships are settled chiefly by Norwe
gians. They are a thrifty class of
farmers and are all in good circum
stances, financially, having good
dwellings and outbuildings, consid
erable stock and well cultivated
farms. A three hours' drive brought
us to the Fish Trap where we were
entertained for several hours by
Messrs. Getchell and Bjornstad.
The Fish Trap is one of those towns
not yet Out of its swaddling clothes
"bBt-giv.es every promise of one day
reaching the proud position of a
village. At present there is bi»t one
general store, a few dwellings and a
flouring mill. The latter institution
thjough the kindness of Mr. Getch
ell and under the guidance of Mr.
Lucken, the genial miller, we in
spected from basement to garret and
were pleasantly surprised to find
that it was a thorough flouring mill
from top to bottom. The mill is a
four story building and fitted up
with all the latest iraprpved ma
chinery and has the advantage of
both steam and water power. The
general... store is owned by two
Brainerd geiW-ornen—Messrs. Bjorn
|stadt & Balk ana is' olooked wjth a
'complete lineof dry goods
groc
less than "a month ago, this firm is
already receiving a good trade which
they hope to increase as they become
better acquainted. Another hour's
drive brought us to the picturesque
village of Walhalla, situated at the
sase, and surrounded on the west
and north by the Pembina moun
tains and on the south by the Pem
bina river, while to the east the eye
wanders over miles and miles of un
dulating prairie, the rich soil of
which has been claimed from its
wild state and brought to a'\igh
state of cultivation in the past few
years. Walhalla ranks among the
oldest settlements in the state—the
Hudson Bay company having estab
lished a trading post here many
years before the tide of immigration
turned Dakota-wards and while Iowa
and Minnesota were the extreme
northwest of -civilization. Walhalla
has become a household word wher
ever wheat flour is consumed, for at
this point is located the world re
nowned Walhalla flouring mill.
The demand for the product of this
mill has become so great that it is
obliged to run night and day during
the fall and winter. To supply the
enormous demand and economize
time the mill will be enlarged to
double its present capacity and for
that panose Mr. Mager, the proprie
tor, has commenced the ereetion of
another building the same size as
the present one—50x75 feet, and
four stories high. A row of sev
eral miles up the Pembina river
under the guidance of C. W. An
drews, who showed as all that was
to be sees, and explained the char
acteristics of each particular spot
including a short historical sketch
of Scott's and Burley's Islands, the
origin of the rag factory, the geo
logical formation of the Pallisades
a&d lastly, but not least his theory
of the peculiar construction oflake
Maud—situate on the bank of the
river some seventy-five feet above
high water mark without any notioi
able inlet or outlet and' still retain
ing the same quantity of water the
whole year round, whether wet or
dry. All this was told in Gharliei'
inimitable »way whioh for obvious
reasons we find it impossible to re.
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produce, however much our readers
may regret it. On the return trip
we passed through Beaulieu, Olga
and Ridgefield and found all wheat
seeding about completed, the farm
ers in a cheerful and contented
mood and hopeful of ree'eivirig a
good crop this coming harvest to
requite them for their labor.
LEABNINO TUB LESSON.
A very pointed instance of how
the laboring men are getting their
eyes opened on the tariff question,
conies from the city of Trenton, in
New Jersey, wftere they had a city
election last week. There are seven
sanitary pottery-ware manufactories
in the city, and they have a monop
oly of the sanitary-ware trade of
this country. In 1888 the potters
employed in these factories voted
solidly for the Republican ticket in
the belief that the tariff protected
the price of their wages, and were
so assured by their republican em
ployers. The republicans were the
victors, and in the McKinley bill
these manufacturers were given an
increased tariff protection. Right
in the midst of a most profitable
season the manufacturers demanded
a reduction in wages amounting to
nearly 33 per cent. The working
men could not, see the justice of
this demand especially as the rate
of tariff taxation had just been in
creased for the alleged purpose of
increasing wages.
V^The
potters
refused to accept the reduction, and
a lockout was the result. VThis was
a practical illustration of ho,w much
tariff could do for them, and the
lesson was apparently well leariied.
So much feeling was aroused over
the matter that the recent municipal
republican, and the repnblioan
mayor was a candidate for re-^eo
tion. The result was that the dem
ocratic candidate was elected by
over 1,000 majority.—The Common
wealth.
Discussing the deficit in the Na
tional treasury Hon. Wm. Springer,
of Illinois says that he is not at all
surprised that suph a state of affairs
exists "You know," said he, "a fel
low can't spend his money, and at
the same time keep it in his pocket.
Something must be the matter, when,
within a week's time, three or four
statements relative to the finances of
the treasury are made public. If
there iB no reasen for uneasiness,
and no deficit is staring the treasury
in the face, then why the assurance
that we still have a surplus of $50,
000,000 or more in the treasury?
^pose there is a small surplus in
the treasury, how long will it hold
out with the government receipts
dropping off at the rate shown in
the debt statement for April? If
the secretary should issue new bonds
that would be an admission of a de
ficit. The republicans knew what
would follow their extravagance.
The democrats warned them of the
results that would surely come from
their recklessness, and the condition
of the treasury today is due to the
billion dollar congress. The tl,
000,000,000 which was appropriated
by the Fifty-first congress for the
too fiscal years, does not include all
the money appropriated, for there
were continuing appropriations
which may necessitate an additional
taxation of the people in order to
meet the demands of the govern
meat. These continuing appiopria
tions will run far up into the mil
lions. For instance there is the
sugar bounty for which $10,000,000
willle required a little over $1,
000,000 a year must be paid on the
ocean mail sabsidy, and how much
more no one can know until the
postmastepgeneral makes his con
traets. No one knows the exact
amount it will take to pay the In
diin depredatien claims, bat when
the hill was passed it was estimated
that it wottid take about 116,000,000
to satiaftf fto judgments}, Iftr. Kil
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gore said it would take $50,000,000.
The French spoliation claims and
other schemes that were sent to the
court of claims for adjudication will
take some millions of dollars to pay,
to say ,nothing of the vast sum that
must be appropriated by the next
congress to pay for public buildings
which were ordered by the last con
gress. You Bee the next congress
will be called upon to appropriate
millions of dollars, made necessary
by the acts of the Eifty-first con
fess, and, by-the-by, I should also
include in the appropriations that
the next congress will be called
upon to make up a number of de
ficiencies, notably the pension de
ficiency, which, in itself, will be
sufficient to cause the people to
stop and think. It matters not
what the treasury officials do, they
are in the hole, however much they
may shift about"
The city of Langdon considers
herself able to to erect a $5,000
school house. The county should
be able to build a $15,000 court
house.
Wheat At Home And Abroad.
For the first time in a long while con
ditions warrant the belief that Amer
ica, in the event of the realization of
present crop prospects, will find a pro
fitable market abroad for its products.
Big crops in this country and small
ones in Europe mean an era of pros
perity for both our railways and farm
ers. The London Standard publishes
a long and careful review of the out
look, in which it says that the steady
rise in wheat revives the hopes of the
English farmer, adding that wheat
will probably reach the highest price
in many years, the principal cause of
the rise being tbA failure of foreign
crops. ~3?he crops of
i^-^Jre avenge, anug
same paper saysthie deficiency will
at least 20,000,000 quarters, adding:
"It is expected that cold winds and
frost have destroyed the French crops.
Germany, Holland and Belgium all
furnish pessimist reports. In Bou
mania tbere is a decreased wheat area
and in India there has been a bad
wheat season. The only exception is
in Hungary, where there are better
prospects, but it is almost certain that
the worldis wheat consumption will
exceed the production computed.
Whatever the magnitude of. America's
crop mav be, it will not be sufficient to
cover the European deficit, thus com
pelling an extensive qlraft upon the
reserves for the third year in succes
sion. The increased home consump
tion, a decreased wheat area, owing to
the spread of population, and recourse
to scientific tillage in order to repair
the waste of first settlers, thus increas
ing the cost of production, must inevi
tably remove the American farmer's
formidable competition in European
markets, and allow the English farmer
to look forward to a prosperous future.
-The Stockholder.
ONLY SIXTEENVEABS.
The Yankton Press-and-Dakotan is
"sweet
sixteen." That phrase is sug
gestive of all that is young and tender
and inexperienced, yet, viewed in the
light of events, what an age it signifies
What a mighty panorama of changes a
sweet sixteener has behel'd in this new
world wonderland. When the much
esteemed Yanktonian contemporary
was founded in April1875—just sixteen
years ago,—there were but about30.000
people in the whole Territory of Dako
ta, out of which two states have since
been fortned. with an aggregate popu
lation today, of 600,000. Then, Fargo,
Bismarck, Grand Forks and Sioux
Falls were rude shack-aad-shtmty fron
tier villages, with but a few hundred
inhabitants each: «nd such places as
Jamestown, Valley City, Wahpeton,
Larimore, Mayville, Hillsboro, Grafton
Mitchell, Huron, Piere, Chamberlain,
Aberdeen, Brookings. and Watertown
were un-heard-of and un-dreampt-of.
Then,there were but two pieces of rail
road in the territory—the Northern
Pacific from Fargo to Bismafbk, and
the Dakota Southern, a spur between
Yankton and Sioux City—with a total
of less than 276 miles. Today,there are
2,064 miles of iron.hiKhways,over which
fly hundreds of trains daily, laden with
the rich fruitage of field and flock, for
est and mine. Then, less than a dozen
newspapers furnished the intellectual
grist, and did the trumpet-blowing for
150,000 square miles of unknown do
main. To-day, there are, in the two
Dakotas, 382 papers, nearly 30 of them
dailies. %hen, untold millions of bqf-
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falo and antelops.''found never-failing
pasturage on these horizon-fenced prai
rie-plains, and Jthe 6,000 sapphirean
lakes that gem the broad bosom of the
Dakotas were the wild Bwans' home
and the hatching-place of countless
myriads of ducks and geese that had
no fear of man. To-day these plains
and valleys are the world's grandest
harvest-fields, and are dotted thick
with rising towns and cities, and tens
of thousands of thrifty farmers homes.
Then, the Sioux and the Cheyennes
roamed at will from Kansas to Manito
ba and more than a year later—in
July, 1876—the painted warriors of Sit
ting Bull and Two Bears and Gall
swept Custer and his troopers to their
deaths in a whirlwind of fire amid the
wild canyons of the Little Big Horn.
Only sixteen years,only a sweet little
school-girl's lifetime, since it was es
tablished, and yet this Yankton paper
has seen the savagery of ages rolled
back before advancing civilization. It
has seen the desert and the solitary
place made glad with the musical hum
of busy and prosperous industry, and
the vast wilderness taught to rejoice
and blossom as the rose. It has seen a
new and glorious empire rise from
nothingness in the American North
west, and a people unsurpassed in in
telligence, energy and properity spring
up in the hunting-grounds of savages
and the lurking-places of wild beasts.
Long life and increasing prosperity
to The Press-and-Dakotan—the oldest
daily paper in Dakota —and may it
witness, in the next sixteen years, in
tellectual and moral progres in the fair
Dakota land, as great and glorious as
has been the material progress it has
witnessed in the past wonderful six
teen. Then will twice sixteen be sweet
er far than "sweet sixteen."—Argus.
DAKOTA WHEAT.
Abou»20,000,000 bushels of wheat
was exported from Dakota last year.
The greater portion of oar wheat is
used by millers in other states to mix
with inferior grades and but few con
sumers Un the East get genuine fiour
,ade from Dakota wheat O
,nci if"iSlf^not ftife
practiced by millers of
and other'cities, our wheat would have
a still greater reputation than what it
has. That the adulteration practiced
by millers and wheat buyers- is detri
mental to our pockets is apparent. A
bushel-of wheat grown in any other
state is not worth intrinsically as much
by ten cents a bushel as ours, but brings
just as much in the market. The
miller takes a bushel of our wtieat and
mixes with inferior grades and sells in
the Eastern market as flour "from
Dakota wheat." One way to remedy
this evil, would be to have flouring
mills in every town, grind up our own
wheat, and ship it abroad, direct from
Dakota. There would be great advan
tages derived from this plan, inasmuch
as it would place our great product on
the world's market unadulterated and
the demand for our flour would in
crease the price. If all the grain grown
in our etate was ground here it would
give employment to hundreds of men,
it would keep lots of money in the
state that goes to enrich other locali
ties, and would place our products
ahead of all competitors. A great
milling company has lately been con
solidated in Minneapolis and they ex
pect to be supplied with wheat from
the golden fields of North Dakota. It
would be a great boom to our state, if
we could have a similar consolidation,
SAd not allow them a bushel of our
wheat.
•MAY BE WAR IN THIS.
fiuil* Strong IMMindi on tbe
Sublime Porte-
Press News Association.
CONSTANTINOPLE May 1.—In spite
of the recent threat of M. Nelidoff, the
Russian embassador here, another
Bussian transport, carrying men and
materials for work on the Trans-Siber
ian railway, has been detained one day
in the Bosphorus. The Turkish com
mandant threatened to fire if the vessel
attempted to pass. M. Nelidoff has
sent a strong note to the porte, in wich
he demands $5,000 damages and the
dismissal ef the commandant and the
absolutely free passage for Bussian
vessels sailing under the mercantile
flag. He denies the porte's recent as
sertion of power to take up a question
which is not a political, but merely a
mercantile matter.
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