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f#vl tf ft tsUtv§ :OT| &*> 5)?\r •ftel ar V, 5u? 1 ill! tF A .H'k VCXL,. XXXII. TheBank ^Capital Authorized Capital Paid Up Official Directory US Senators Thompson IP McCamber US Represen-( Hanna tatives I A Gronna Governor—John Burke Lieutenant. Governor—R S Lewis Secretary of State—Alfred Blaisdell State Treasurer—G Bickforrt State Auditor—D BriKlitlnll Attorney General—Andrew Miller Railroad Com-j 4P„\^"^erson missloners l^^Standish Supt of Pub Inst—W £. Stockwell Com of Insurance—E Cooper Com Ascr A Judgrer of Supreme lB Spalding Court Ellsworth Carmody STATE SENATORS 1st Dist—Judson LaMoure, Pembina 2nd Dist—F A Halliday. Urystal REPRESENTATIVES )GAMcCrea. Drayton 1st District Walter Welford, Neche 2nd District—C Ganssle, St Thomas fudge 7th Jud. Dist—W Kneeshaw COUNTY OFFICIATES States Attorney—M Brynjolfson Clerk of Court—Geo Peterson Sheriff—Geo Roadhouse Auditor—Win. W- Felson Treasurer—F Anderson Register of Deeds—John Gill County Judge—H Vick Surveyor—F E Hebert Supt of Schools—Isabella A Burley Coroner—Dr Burrows Publi- Admin'r—Elis Thorwaldson fist—F Myrick, Pembina County Com'rs OFFICIAL PAPER OF OITY ma,oo ise JLxrjira-xt A. Wardwell. G. G. Thompson. WABDWSU ft THOMPSON. Tbe County not "Free from Debt" We Owe and Pay interest on Approximately $250,000 in three Items,Portion of Which Draws 7 per cent. CHAPTER THREE. While the probable extent of the future drainage of this county may be somewhat a matter of opinion, yet every sensible person would agree that it will certainly be extensive. That the ex pense of sucb drainage is something that should be taken into consideration by every taxpayer before beginning other and newer enterprises of less utility is equally of *1 E8TABLI8HED 1874. IF f*' ^'4 /'-v Rest and Undivided Profits It true and obvious. As. we remarked, just the actual amounts which the taxpayers of this county will spend in drainage during the next ten years or so, is not known. Hut we have some data which will help to make a reasonable and conservative estimate. Just now there stands on the tax liste about 9X5,000 to be paid during the next two years a8 drainage taxes for assessments on which one and two pay ments have been made and on which one to two more assessments are still due. Several new drains are either already ordered or in preparation by the *drain board We-also have the amounts paid yearly 'by the county treasurer in redemption lof drain warrants for the last eleven rfyears:— In 1900 1903 1904 '$ 5223 66 6923 78 I 12166 05 6414 19 ^-^^/I#|a0728.85 W* aiodois 92 '29074 50 tgfi'11778 C8 12778 18 16907 38 Total for 11 yeare 8156,931vlO The above figures aie conclusive that J»wrel*«i paybw aboat •lSgOOO ?«w CorntbeliMrii ten years far, draiaigtf si Branches in Northern Ontario Cobalt, Haileybury, Cochrane, Porcupine, North Bay, Powassan. Emerson Branch. A H. LOGAN, Manager. Labor—W Gilbreath "IDE Mofsran I 1 Fisk 2nd—J Olafson, Gardar 3rd—Adam Norton, Caval'r 4th—Jos Eorin. Neche I 5th—wm Biarwood.St. Tlio's PF .•5,000,000. »3,29t,B50. »3,7:53,400. in this county, and we have the opinion of members of the drainage board and of other persons who have competent knowledge in these matters, that the expenditures for the next ten years in this direction are likely to more rather than less. If a farmer was figuring on building a barn or granary that he could get along without, but stili would like to have, found out that in the next four years that he would have perhaps $200 to pay in a special drainage tax, he would have good reascn to hesitate about the building. If the new build ing was a house some twenty or more miles away, and a building that he had almost no personal use for, and which would bring him no revenue, he might hesitate still more. Drainage is an "extraordinary expen diture" distinct from ordinary expenses of the county. It is an expenditure that the taxpayers have taken upon themselves from the necessity of the natural causes and in this sense there fore the building of drains has become an actual lien upon the farm lands of the county. Because of the necessity of the drains the drain tax is necessarily a lien. Hence in the discussion of the liabil ities of the county it is fair and reason able to take the future cost of drains into consideration, and all the more so as was suggested by "A Glaisston Far mer'1 early in this controversy, ''That we need drains far more than we need new buildings for a court house, and that if we had any money to spare it would be far better spent in taking care of the surplus water that overflows in the vicinity of Cavalier and drowns out the localities south and eastward from that place." Hence in these chapters on the in debtedness of the county we have no hesitation in adding the sum of $150,000 as a practical present indebtedness on this account and which will become due and payable in regular installments at the office of the county treasurer dur ing the next ten years. This sum of 8150,000 for drainage added to the 818,000 now on interest for bridges of chapter one and over 881,000 due on school district bonds of chapter two makes a total indebtedness so far of about 8250,000 which the taxpayers must pay during the next ten years. Chapter four of this series, next week. REMOVAL PETITION ATTACK. The effort being made in Rolette county to change the county seat from Rolla to Rolette has taken a new turn and litigation of special interest is under way. The county commissioners have called a special election to vote on the proposed change, but the Rolla constituents hare responded by a remonstrance declaring fraud to exiet in the petitions which the county com missioners held were sufficient to autho rize them to call the election. The title of the' action, which will come before Judge Templeton at Devils Lake on Sept. 13, is A. O. Graham exrel, vs. G. J. Thompson et al., Mr. Thomp son being chairman of the board of county comtaissioners. The plaintiff asks for a writ of certiorari and asserts that at the time the petition was pre sented to the county board he .was pre pared to show that a large number of the signers were ready to With^aw and that withdrawals were presented furth er, that some seven of the signers did not exist in person: that a number of others were not residents of the county, and that some were under age. The total number of signers Wei's 1,105 and the petitioner says he was ready to P*ove to th^ board that names sufficient to reduce the number to 1,032 were not legal signers. The total vote at- the previous flection »as 1,619 and the number 1,032 weflaid not give the neees sary two-thirds toT authonee calling a special election. Tiie petitioner says the board acted arbitrarily and refused It is unde i**'111 MI111MINNIIIIIKHHUH Railroad Will Build to Fargo Mr. Wright says that another line is being surveyed by the new Dakota Southern railroad from a point near Minor to Litchville, Eckelson, Wilming ton, McHenry and Devils Lake. Also, says Mr. Wright, the Brookings & Souix Falls railroad, now controlled by the Dakota Southern railroad, will be ex tended from Egan to Ortonville. "We soon expect to purchase the farmers' line at Devils Lake, and extend it to Hansbrough, thenee forty miles north to Woodland, Can. There it will intersect the Canadian Pacific railroad. Our improvements will not be completed untilJ December, 1911, and will co9t about $2,500,000.—Fargo Forum. Test Fellow Servant Law. Suit has been brought against the Northern Pacific railway by Peter Fischer of Dickinson for 810,000 dam ages. He was injured in Eland, Stark county, by his co-employees dropping a steel rail upon his leg, breaking it and causing him a permanent injury. This is a te%t case brought under the fellow servent employees' federal liability act and under the recent federal removal act of last April and will be of much interest to all employees throughout the nation. ™E ACTUAL COST\TO THE {TAXPAYER TO MOVE THE COUNTY SEAT TO CAVALIER. First Insue of bonds, $IOO,OOOi Interest at four per cent for twenty years 80,000i I Net loss on old buildings, which cost $60,000 30,000 Cost of special election for bonding, 1,000• Furniture and fixrures 10,0001 Total Immediate cost, county seat removal $221,000 No. of persons paying over $5 taxes, about If equally divided cost to each I Cost per thousand dollar assessment ••I mi ii»i 111 mi 111 inn 1111 mi nn' ers will defend their action on the ground that although withdrawals were presented, they were not enough to effect the required number, and that further additional signatures, more than enough to offset the withdrawals, were also rejected. Rolla went after the prize, and in an election marked by bitterness, succeed ed in landing it. Rolette made its first fight to get the county seat two years ago, but was unsuccessful. N Another important suit against this same railway has been brought by W. R. Bailey a barber of Jamestown, guardian for his son, Roy, for the re covery of damages for injury to the boy last September. The boy, eight years of age, Mas crossing the railroad at Fourth avenue when he stopped to watch a stock train pull out and was struck by an engine'backing down upon a siding. The boy's head crushed and he was permanently" injured. Suit attorneys uMehewe. is brought for 127,390 damages. ,Knauf some day next week. Knauf of this oity are prosecuting I F. .A. WARDWELL,pi1 Auditor- in 1910 Originally the county seat was Dun seith. Then came the first fight, when St Johns secured the plum. In 1890 Horses one year old and to Winnipeg, Prom St. Paul comes some interesting information relative to the proposed Dakota Southern railroad. The St. Paul Pioneer Press of yesterday says: J. P. Wright, vice president of the newly organized Dakota Southern rail road—incidentally its chief engineer— spent yesterday in St. Paul. He carried about with him an armful of bine printb also an air of confidence in the future of the enterprise in which he is interest ed. "Having purchased the South Dakota Central railroad, running between Sioux Palls and Water town, we are extending it to Fargo, via Schofield, Ransom county, N. D. Later we will build on to Winnipeg. The route from Grand Forks to the Canadian city will be along the Minnesota side of the Red river to Drayton, thence on the North Dakota side to the boundary line and due north "After we have finished the line from Watertown to Fargo we will con struct a branch line from Schofield to Valley City, through the towns of Lisbon, Fort Ransom, Walker and Daily. Later we will extend the line from Valley City to Grand Forks through the towns of Hope and Sher brook, connecting with the main line now being built." In 1911 6945 acres of com was planted against 3709 acres planted in lUiM. Hay crop in 1909, tons cut millet 4019, hungarian 440, clover 339, timothy 23279, brome grass 292, wild prairie hay 32746. Dairy products for 1909, 419835 pounds of butter made in families 1300 pounds of cheese made in families 46495 pounds of milk sold to creameries 267,262 pounds of cream sold to creamer ies Live stock, value of animals fattened and killed for home use in 1909,898911.00 Amount received for cattle, hogs and sheep sold in market, 1909, 884225.00 Amount received for horses sold in market 1909, 852769.00 Number of pounds of wool clipped in 1909, 36330 Value of poultry and eggs spld in 1909, 824883.00. City Cornell. 'St'*! ?"**T PEMBPSTA, Iff. D., SEPrnjf !BEB 9, 1910 NUMBER II l& "J 2,000 $110.00 32.00: Court House News. v}: County Auditor's office County Auditor received notiee frotn State auditor that Pembina county's assessment as relumed by the County Buard has been changed, as follows, by the State Buard of equaliza tion:— decreased 5 fo Hi.rse.y two years old She-p Sleighs and sleds Wagons Automobiles increased Steam threshing machines 5% 20% 25% 33^% Cattle, other than one or tw years Id cows work oxen increased 2 A he re a a id personal, remains as left by the County Board of Equalisation Since August 15th., over lin hunting permits have liwn issued to residents the ci-unty. New yiine law requires written application to t)i lunde. Blank fipplicati. ins can be ilitained Tat any bank in the county. Open season fnr Prairie chicken, grouse, partridge, wild geese, wild brant and crane begins September 7th. According to county auditors report if agricultural statistics, recently made tu the State department of agriculture and labor, Penibinn county produced in li 9 1,951,817 bushels of spring wheat 4,23'bushels of durum wheat, 1(.1,19 bus! els of flax, 1,514,175 bushels oats, 1,221.7'5 bushels of barley and 17,203 bushels of rye. For the saute year 163,1)29 bushels of potatoes were dug. Sept, Regular meeting city council 6th, 1910. Present mayor Miller, aldermen ing, Peterson, Felson, Short and Thempson. Minutes of meeting of July 5th read and approved. The following bills were audited and allowed:— J. Heneman, supplies fire dept. 1.75 Geo. Peterson, legal servioes 3.00 N. G. Patterson, crostungs 242.00 The auditor submitted estimate for annual tax levy. Oa motion same was accepted and filed. Ordinance No. 65, being the annual appropoature bill was passed on the on the first reading by. the following vote: yeas aldermen Kingj Peterson, Felson, Short and Thompson nays, none. Ordinance No. 66 being the annual tax levy was passed on its first reading by the following vote: Ayes aldermen King, Peterson, Felson, Short and Thompson. On a requisition from the county auditor, the following names were duly drawn to fill the list of jurors in the office of the clerk of court: E. J. Harris, Gisli Gislason. N. G. Patterson beitg present made a verbul contract to rebuild chimney on City ball for 818. Adjourned to meet at call of mayor Northeast quarter of See. 36-162-51, Carlisle twp. Three miles west of Jol iette. School land quarter. All prairie, good hay land. Price $3£00. Small cash payment with terms to suit for balance at six and seven percent interest. Hay land lease to run four years,ttfiie miles south of Johette. Good hay land. R-&SOr,VE.D' 2 2.= 4 THAT TNCCHILDREN WILL JHAPPIERTOGO HAPPY Schooldays VACATION DAY5 ARE ABOUT PA5T AND TH LITTLE ONE-5 WILL -5ooN -SKIP To «SCH00L,|[0R. WILL THEYJTRUDGE? THEY WILL -SKIP WITH LIGHT HEARTS IF YOU DRE^.S THEM WELL. THEY WILL TRUDGE WITH HEAVY HEARTS IF TNEY MUST WEAR THEIR OLD ^CLOTHES,|WHEN THEY -SEE THEIR PLAYMATE CLAD IN NEW AT TIRE. WE| CAN MAKE THE HEARTS OF YOUR LITTLE ONES HAPPY. BRING THE CHILDREN To OUR STORE WHERE THEY ARE AIWAYS WEL COME, AND GET SOME OF THE FOLLOWING THINGS: SHOES, SWEATERS, CAPS, UNDERWEAR, SUITS DRESS GOODS. A NEW LINE OF POPULAR TAB LETS, SUCH AS BASE BALL, BIG GAME, SPORTS OF ALL KIND. Estimates furnished on contracts for building material. Goods delivered on short notice to any part of the'eity. Feed grinding at any time. PHONE 4 Lands for sale Northwest quarter section 17-162-51, two miles west of McArthur station. 100 acres in cultivation, 60 good upland hay. About 50 tons cut this year. Farmed for iwenty-five yeare and never had a crop ftilure. Present crop fair and clean of weeds. Well drained natu rally and by ditches. Price $4,500. F. A. WAKDWELI^ Fan^btsa. N, O. BE BACK To SCHOOL WITH NEWClOTHLS Vlt'VE (jOT THEM THTY H'ATC TO START 5£ATH THE OLD GARMENTS '.BUSTER BROWN J. HENEMAN lOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO the Pp ». Don't be tempted to choose cheap jewelry. Far better to pay a fair price and know exactly what you are getting. You'll never be sorry—for as a matter of money it is really the most economical. That's been said so often that everybody by this time should know it—and yet there's no scar city of cheap jewelry in the land Now, to get personal—If you would like to miss that sort al together—come here. If you would like to buy where' High Qualities and nothing else are dealt in—Come Here* S I GUP Stock is Complete From Collar Buttons to diamonds. It comprises the •worthiest goods thatwe would buy with our monev or that you «can buy with yours. M. H. MILLER™! Amenia Elevator Company, PEMBINA, N. D. LUMBER «&?* *3 %rV Jeweler, ooooo ooooonnnoouuuuoooooooooog 8 8 I Flour and A*! -V 'P 3$ l-v:.-ra£». eed S{. Store Wheat, Oats and Barley taken in exchange OP FOR cash at highest prices. saw ,¥ -bp* A N