'•t
1
V\vi 4
Official Newspaper
forRamsey County,
North Dakota.
COUNTY SEAT
BILL
S. G. Skulason and W. C. Fair
banks, both of Lakota, passed through
-the city last night on their way to
Bismarck to present arguments a
gainst the passage of the pending bill
by which it is proposed to make im
portant changes in the law regarding
the removal of the county seats.
The present law provides that to
institute proceedings for the removal
of a county seat a petition signed by
60 per cent of the legal voters asking
for an election must be filed with the
county authorities, and that at the
election so, held, two-thirds of the
votes cast must be in favor of remov
al to secure a change. The pending
bill makes no change in the provisions
for petition, but provides that in
counties whose buildings are worth
not more than $15,000, as determined
by a board of appraisers, a majority
of the votes cast shall suffice for re
moval.
It is generally understood that the
bill is intended to facilitate a cam
paign for county seat removal in Nel
son county, though it is necessarily
-general in its provisions. Mr. Skula
son and Mr. Fairbanks say that they
Tiave learned that great interest is be
ing taken in the bill in many other
counties where its purport has not
been understood until recently.
"It is impossible," said Mr. Fair
banks, to say how many counties this
will affect, because no one can tell
bow many counties there are whose
county buildings would be appraised
at a lower figure than $15,000. And,
of the counties which would not to
day come within the scope of this bill,
-there are very many which would be
affected by it in case of a fire. A
county may have today buildings
worth $50,000. How much would the
salvage be worth tomorrow, after a
fire? That is a matter which inter
ests the people of probably three
fourths of the counties of the state,
if not a greater number.
"Everyone will admit that there
ought to be some means to remove a
county seat when the public intewRr.1
The present law provides
demands it.
a method which is sufficiently easy,,
.. that he is ready to pray.
and which has been found quite prac-
established, it should be considered
fixed with some degree of perma-
VfleUlf in An/ilnnn /iati ti iniAn amaw 1
result in endless confusion and enor
mous expense."
Mr. Skulason was equally emphatic
in his expression.
"I am certain," said he, "that if
this bill becomes a law, we will have
in this state such a crop of county
seat removal fights as we have never
before seen. Communities will be
"torn up and thrown into the turmoil
-of an election on the mere chance thav
something may come of it to the ad
vantage of some ambitious communi
ty anxious for county seat honors I
find that there is a good deal of in
terest in the subject since the real
purport of the bill is becoming un
derstood, and representatives from
several other counties will be in Bis
marck on Monday to enter their pro
tests against the bill. Nelson county
"will hav^ several other men on the
ground by Monday, and we feel cer
tain that when the situation is un
derstood the bill will speedily be
defeated."—Grand Forks Herald.
Undoubtedly the best local talent
play ever put on in our city was stag
ed here in the local opera house last
Friday evening and the title was
Broadway Jones put on by the
O'Callahans, and was staged under
the direction of Edward F. Flynn.
Those who took part did themselves
proud and not a word of complaint
has been heard as the success of the
whole play, but those who listened to
it and saw the-work of the local play
ers have been high in their praises of
the whole affair. Attorney Flynn a
the leading man, showed his usual
ability to make the play interesting,
and each and every member acquitted
themselves with much credit. There
was a good crowd both at the matinee
in the afternoon and also the reghlar
show in the evening.
To say the least it was a splendid
show and put in the shade any travel
ing aggregation that has visited our
city in some time. ^The O'Callahans
have been organized for several years
and each year they have put on a local
talent play, but this year they have out
done all previous efforts, much to the
satisfaction of the large patronage
they received.
NEWS ITEMS
OF INTEREST
Prague, Bohemia.Feb 19.—Owing
to a general strike of printers here
the leading papers
"have been produced
by photography from typewritten
copy.
Beaver City, Neb., Feb. 19.—A
farmer near here had a cow he was
going to butcher the next day. When
he went to kill the animal he found
the hide and head piled up in the sta
ble yard The carcass had been stol
en.
Eustis, Neb., Feb. 19.—The base
ball fans could not wait for baseball
weather and a game was played here
recently in the snow. The contest
ing teams were from Eustis and
Moorefield.
Dallas, Tex., Feb. 19.—I. E.
Langston has sued the Y. M. C. A.
here for $15,000 actual damages and
$15,000' exemplary damages caused
by the death of his son in the swim
ming pool of the association.
New York, Feb. 19.—Dr. W.
Franklin Wood of Bay Shore made a
professional call recently mthout
tt
5 'h&\ •'•v i.-"1-- •v'
/L.
V. *.
.\w»
SIXTEEN SMS
E
iSnce the first of the year the leg
islatures of Alabama and Arkansas
have passed state-wide prohibition
laws. This places sixteen states in
the dry column, the other fourteen
being Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Kan
sas, Maine, Mississippi, North Caro
lina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ore
gon, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington
and West Virginia. This is just one
chusetts. Of the other eleven states,
eight of them contain over six million
negroes, from which race the whites
politically in control, are most eager
to keep liquor.
The Temperance Society of the Meth
odist Church, with headquarters at
Topeka, Kansas, announces that dur
ing the coming year wet and dry votes
will be taken in the following states:
Idaho, Iowa, Maryland, New Hampp
shire, New Mexico, Ohio, South Caro
lina and Vermont. To this list may
be added Maine, which is now "dry"
but of which Governor Curtis, in his
inaugural address a few weeks ago,
said: "It (the dominant party's plat
form) believes that state wide prohi
bition in Maine has proved impractic
able and demands the submission of
th7
driving or walking. He used a breech ,order
1
the British bark Ho igomount, which
is aground near Fire Island. High
waves prevented the physician using
a boat.
Paterno, Italy, Feb. 19.—Red
Cross workers hearing faint groans
dug 'out a man named who had been
imprisoned for 25 days by the earth
quake debris. He had lived on water
and was uninjured.
Hong Kong, China. Feb. 19.—Many
Chineese temples are fitted with bells
go t]le worshiper may signal the gods
Cq] Feb
Sea^L°"C!!leader
nence. To make it possible for a bare Trenton, N. J., Feb. 19. A wife feed a full grain ration that is, all the
majority of the voters voting at
anlwas
«lection to move a county seat would jhusband objected to the songs she ium ration, one that is equal to about:
sang their baby,
Nagasaki, Japan., Feb. 19.—In
Japan the owners of land only own
the surface. Whatever may be dis
covered beneath the surface belongs
to the government.
BAD BLAZE
Jamestown, N. D., Feb. 16.—The
most costly fire that has occurred in
Jamestown for many years completely
gutted the Zimmerman company gro
eery store in the Lutz block this
morning and the stubborn blaze,
fought for two hours by the fire de
partment, finally burst through into
the second floor and out through the
roof before it was finally extinguish
ed.' The cause of the fire is unknown
but it seems to have started in the
middle of the grocery store basement
and had gained considerable headway
before discovered. There was an.im
mense amount of smoke that fitted
the entire block, damaging. the. sto^k
of the Zimmerman company dry go'ocfc
department and the offices and apart
ments of the second floor, several of
which were also damaged by water.
Heaviest Losers.
The heaviest losers are the Zim
merman company, George Lutz, own
er of the building, Dr. Francis Peoke,
Dr. C. J. Readon and Misses Maud
and Alice O'Donnell. The offices and
residence of Dr. Boiton, the offices
of Dr. Guest and Dr. Golseth were
also damaged by smoke. Much of
the apparatus and furniture of the
office of Dr.. GolseOh were moved out
during the fire. Losses are well cov
ered by insurance.
Watch for the big sale at the .Gus
Furstenau farm. Read all about it
in this issue.
PMhibrt'ory7me7dment"to""the
and advocates its repeal in
for Qver fift
I
1
the
of a coyote pack was killed
i! leauei' Ui c* CUJIUIC «"ivu
here reeently it was found
big co]lie dog wearing a brass
maxst
WORLD—VOLUME V. NUMBER 7 DEVILS LAKE, NORTH DAKOTA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1915 INTER-OC
AND INTER OCEAN
pasture, and (3) the .age at which the
hogs are to be marketed. However,
the feeding of 2 pounds of grain per
day for each 100 pounds of live weight
will usually give satisfactory results.
When the supplemental grain ra
tion is expensive there is great temp
tation to place the hogs upon an ex
clusive pasture ration. This seldom
pays, because it takes as much con
centrated feed in the end, and some
times more, to fit hogs for the market
which have been on a pasture diet as
is required for hogs fed grain while
on pasture however, mature breeding
stock, or hogs which are nearly grown
can' be carried on good pasture until
cheap concentrated feed can be sup
plied.
Hogs feeding upon alfalfa require
third of the total number of states
and they contain about one fourth ol slightly less concentrated feed than
the population of the United States, when grazing upon nonleguminous
The proportion of population to num- pasture. When a farmer has more
ber of slates is cut down by Arizona, hogs than his pasture is capable of
Colorado, Maine, North Dakota and' supporting, it will be more economical
Oregon, the combined population of! to feed a full grain ration, for the
which is hardly equal to that of the more grain a hog consumes the less
comparatively small state of Massa- will feed upon the pasture. To
finish hogs for market when 7 to 9
months old it is necessary to give
them about all the feed they will con
sume in addition to pasture in order
to make them reach the weight de
manded by the market, 170 to 225
pounds.
Hogs that are to be marketed when
10 to 12 months old can be maintained
on pasture combined with a light
grain ration during the grazing sea
son and fattened later. Slow daily
gains Will result, but most of the
growth will be made from cheaply
grown hogs.
In the regions where the small
grains and alfalfa flourish it is also
possible to provide crops that may be
hogged off during several months of
th busy season. The crops generally
used for this
or toWR may be
substituted for the state as a basis P™Per rations and utilizing
(lawg degi 0 control or abolish
the liquor traffic." Maine has been
Hog growers differ quite widely re-
A
that he was garding the quantity of grain that
collar.! should be fed while on pasture. Some
Trenton, N? J., Feb. 19. A wife feed a full grain ration that is, all the or any other part of the stove if po-
recently divorced because her hog will consume. Others feed a med I ato parings are burned.
O 1 i.1. 1* I.
i. .J
2 to 3 per cent of the live weight of
the hog. Still others prefer a light)
ration, one that is equal to about 1
per cent of the live weight of the
hog. No definite rule can be laid
down, as the amount of gram which
should be fed with green pasture de
pends upon (1) the price of the grain,
(2) the amount and quality of the
«e wheat, field
peas, corn, and barley. By supple-
menting well-managed pasture with
the ability of the hog to harvest grain
1 1 i1
lcr
°P *or himself, the average cost of
producing pork in the Northwestern
States may be materially reduced.
Use Tivemi.
range every day during the winter,
says you can never find a trace of
soot on the lid, the bottom of kettles
Card of Thanks.
We desire to express our heartfelt
thanks to the many kind friends and
neighbors for sympathy extended in
our, recent bereavement.
Peter Anderson.
K. A. Borstad
O. A. Borstad.
DARN THOSE PIGS ANYWAY!
UTRAUT
IS
SPureS
The regular March term of district
court has been called to convene in
this city March 1, and the following
jury has been drawn to serve:
Sander O. Nestegard, Norway.
Jas. McCormick, Churchs Ferry.
Geo. B. Holt, Devils Lake.
A. N. Maxwell, Minnewaukan.
O. T. Simons, Bartlett.
John Furber, Royal.
Patrick Connelly, Triumph.
Henry Hale, Devils Lake.
Andrew Hagen, Crary.
Adolph Mikkelson, DeGroat.
Pete Martinson, Northfield.
Martin Severson, Churchs Ferry.
Moses Bail, Grand Harbor.
John F. Erickstad, Sullivan.
T.J. Dougherty, Starkweather.
Oscar Aanstad, Northfield.
J. A. Doyle, Dry Lake.
John Peterson, Lake.
Sam Adler, Brocket.
Norman Morrison, Freshwater.
E. J. Chamberlain, Devils Lake.
Martin Ronning, Northfield.
Albert Benson, Northfield.
C. E. Gill, Coulee.
Edgar LaRue, Devils Lake.
Carl A. Pearson, Triumph.
Helleck Helleckson, Fancher.
Geo. Danielson, Prospect.
Geo. Jacobs, Bartlett.
Walter Devaney, Grand Harbor.
Wm. J. Webster, Freshwater.
W. J. Richardson, Overland.
J. O. Severson, Dry Lake.
T.J. Bosworth, Devils Lake.
J. H. Rutten, Ontario.
L. O. Erickson, Sullivan.
TO LOS ANCELES
Don't throw potato 'parings in the
garbage pail but into the stove and
thereby save youreself the annoyance
of having to call the firo-department. —, mc j.™i a.uuai meeting
THE DEATH OF
At the home of her son John John
son, near Starkweather last Thursday
occurred the death of Mrs. Ageahe
Evenson. At the time of her death
Mrs. Everson was sixty-six years old
CUveland Plain Dealer.
and has been a re *nis section
for the past Death was
due to kif1 from which Mrs.
Evens' -en a sufferer for the
past twV
drs.
STORM PLAYED
The National Press Associtaion will
meet at Los Angeles, Tuesday, June
29, this being the 14th annual meeting terday, hundreds of men were strung the budget, with
a _i j. alnntr "M Urm wocf. an/1 tho hio* fov the legislature.
to put out a fire in the chimney. The An elegant program has been arrang- I along the G.N. line west, and the big for the legislatuie, tius a -ing °vfir
burning potato parings prevents the ed and there is no doubt but what! rotaries were kept busy, thus clear- in a measure, the work that has been
gathering of soot. A man who is those who are about to attend will! nig the road sothat by night, trains done by the appropriations committee
keeping up a strong coal fire in his have a most enjoyable time.
Largest Circulation
The deceased is survived by three
sons and one daughter of whom three
are residents of this immediate vicini
ty and one resides in Canada. Four
teen grandchildren and one great Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 17.—-Twenty
grandchild mourn her death. The .bills, fathered by the Lathrop finance
sons ai"e: John Johnson of Stark-1 committee, were introduced in the
weather, Jorgen Johnson of Webster house today, including the general ex
and Ole Johnson of Canada. Mrs. ecutive, judicial, legislative, and edu
J. Susby of near Garske is her daugh- cational institution budget, repeal of
ter. I the mill tax and substitution of a fixed
The funeral services were held Mon- standing appropriation measure, and
day afternoon from the home of John creation of a budget board.
Johnson and was attended by many Under the standing appropriation
friends of the family. The sympathy
0f
of the community is extended to the jn(r annual appropriations are provid
family.—Starkweather Times.
e(j
IN
VISIT TO STATE
cold, and again, the storm seemed to I
From Jamestown to Grand Forks,' mittee ,to begin its work about five
the snow lies from three to four feet' weeks in advance of the opening of
on the level, with railroad cuts filled the legislature, with the budgets be
and traffic more or less delayed. Yes. fore it, the purpose being to prepare
recommendations
were nearly on time and traffic was at: in the matter of investigations.
practically normal
Rain and Sleet. night, but the Western Union was op-
South in the vicinity fHillsboro,1 orating as usual, and reported little
there was little snow, but a rain and trouble. All wire difficulty is expect
sleet storm of considerable proper-'
R1
tions. With freezing weather, this is today.
bound to be the cause of more incon
venience than a snow storm, as the
streets will be sheets of ice and horse I
and man find travel decidedly liazard-
A few miles out of Grand Forks to
the south, the storm evidently skip
ped a portion of the country, while
on a mile, a heavy fall of snow is re
ported. It is "one of the most spot
ted storms w(e ever had," one old-tim
er remarked last evening, meaning
that the territory visited was scatter
ed.
Fargo Snow-bound.
Hundreds of men were employed in
Fargo removing the snow yesterday,
and parties in last evening stated that
the work would require several days,
the streets being piled high with drifts
and it would appear that the fall there
was much heavier than in Grand
Forks.
Locally, the walks were practically
all cleared by noon Monday, although
a few tardy ones left strips in front
of residences for pedestrians to plow
through until late in the day.
Third street was cleared of snow
rapidly and men and teams put to
work early, removing it to the city
outskirts.
The prompt manner in which citi
zens have attended to the removal of
snow and that in which the down
town streets have been cleared the
first day after the storm has caused
much favorable comment.
Means More Moisture.
The snow fall will prove beneficial
to the country, in the opinion of well
informed people. There was not a
very heavy fall of moisture during the
past summer,, the rain6 being mostly
showers and while just rigKt for grow,
ing crops, did not soak the soil suffi
ciently. Wells have gone dry and few
of the numerous coulees and pockets
over the state are filled up with water.
"We can stand several more like it."
a real estate man remarked yesterday,
"We need a lot of moisture," and this
seems to be the prevailing opinion.
The Postal lost its wire'to"the Twin
Cities Saturday night and again last
\.t
of any Newspaper in
the Lake Region.
N—VOLUME
University, $102,800 Agricultural
college, $61,800 Minot normal, $41,
580 Valey City normal, $46,200 May.
ville normal, $36,960 School for the
Deaf, $18,489 School of Forestry,
$6,180 Ellendale Industrial, $21,600
Wahepeton School of Science, $12,360.
This brings the total of three hundred
I and forty-seven thousand, eight hund
red and eighty, and is estimated at
being approximately the income that
would have been derived from the mill
tax for the current year.
The payment of these appropria
tions are to I3e made monthly, on
The snow storm of Saturday night vouchers presented by the various in
and Sunday played odd pranks in its
1
st
tutions.
visit to North Dakota. The Tax Repealed.
Unlike most of the old-time bliz-, The mill, tax is repealed. The gen
zards, the weather was not severely
eraj
strike in spots, varying its precipita- departments, instituions, etc., as or
tion from rain and sleet, to damp, igjnaiiy presented to the state audi
heavy snow and again the dry, pene-. tor by the various departments and
trating kind more like the blizzards
HF-V
XXXII. NUMBER
37
ARE FIXEO
educational institutions, the follow-
budget bill carries a complete
statement of the wants 0f
institujons.
of years ago. prepared by the state auditor, work
Jumps Bismarck. ing in conjunction with the Lathrop
Parties returning from Bismarck committee, but it does not indicate
last evening, state that there is little what figures have been worked out
snow in the near vicinity of the city, by the Lathrop investigation.
but at Jamestown, the "beautiful": In proposing a budget board, the
came down in sheets, drifts 20 feet be- committee would make the governor,
ing piled up and much inconvenience' lieutenant governor, chairman of ap
being experienced in the city and propriation committees, speaker, aud
country. itor and attorney general, such com-
all state
This budget has been
...
to be remedied on both lines by
The Annual ball gien by the local
firemen in the opera house Monday
evening was one of the most pleasant
eents pf the season. There were
nearly 400 hundred present ,and eery
one there had an enjoyable time. The
hall was beautifully decorated and the
music furnished by a local orchestra
was all that could be desired. The
supper- which was served yb the Moth,
ers' Club was fine and was one of
the enjoyable features of the party.
Probably none of all the dances given
by the firemen has been more success
ful from every standpoint than the
one Monday evening.
"OUTS" LOSE
v-i-r.
There was a red hot election in
Moorehead, Minn., this week, and the
main question was whether teh city
.should continue as a saloon town or
not. The "wets" won out by a major,
ity of about 50 votes. This plainly
I goes tty'Show the changing of public
sentiment against the saloons, and we
venture to say that when the propo
sition comes up two years hence, thai,
the saloons will be banished from the
city.
One of the largest auation sales of
horses, cattle, and farm machinery ot
the season will be at the Furstenau
farm 4 miles northwest of the city
Friday, Feb. 26. Don't fail t? attend.