Golden Valley chronicle., February 21, 1907, Image 1

About Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916

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tftfs. A. B. Kellogg ia ill with
4» grippe.
Mrs. J. A. Nnlson weut to
1
kkiu»on
yesterday.
C. E. Harbor was a Dickinson
i.iitor F.iday aud Saturday.
Mesdames Lyons and Letson
•vore Dii-kiiiM.n visitors Tuesday.
The MLagcw BesHie nuct Martha
vSullickso» visited in Dickinson
:irst.«{ the week..
L. E. Waldo of Wibaux, visit
•d Mr. and Mrs. Tullar, in this
illage, Sunday.
County Supt. J. A. Kitchen,
•f Sentinel Butte, was a caller
Saturday.
A. W. Mowery, of Iowa, ar
rived Tuesday to establish his
'residence on his claim, near Patt
Doyle's nortlrof Beach.
Mr. and Mrs. John Cusick, of
Sentinel Butte, were Beach shop
j»er8, Tuesday. The CHRONICLE
was also favored with a call.
F. E. Near and R. P. Rainey
vent to B. R. Falls, Wis., Sun
lay to v' )se up somo land deals
jNsnding there. They will return
with a party of land purchasers.
Mrs. M. D. Sarver, residing
ten miles north of Beach, has been
ill for several days and was taken
ro Bismarck to tho Sisters Hospi
tal Tuesday morning.
Mrs. V. Wicka is in receipt of
telegram from Dodge, Wis., of.
the death of her aged father, yes
terday morning. Interment to be
UuJe tomorrow.
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Fowler
were dowti from Glendive Friday
und Saturday to arrange plans for
building a large resideuce on their
jlaiin north of town. The CHRON
•cr.E acknowledges a pleasant call.
J'hoy also went to Dickinson Sat
urday.
The Reason Why.
Two old friends on the street, lock
nig arms, strolled slowly along,, dis
using various topics. Personal ones
Aere touched upon at last, and after
rxcliangtng family solicitudes for sev
eral moments, the judge asked the
•najor:
"And dear old Mrs. your aunt.
.-the must be rather feeble now. Tell
'.ne, ,taow is she?"
"Burled her yesterday," said the
najor.
"Buried her? Dear me! dear me!
is the good old lady dead?"
"Yes that's why we buried her,"
.said the major.
For Rheumatic Sufferers.
The quick relief from pain afforded by
implying Chamberlain's Pain Balm makes
a favorite with sufferers from rheuma
ism, sciatica, lame back, lumbago, and
'ieep seated and muscular pains. For sale
'y all dealers.
HE KNEW.
Mrs. Smart—Here is an article en
titled "Much in Little."
Mr. Smart—All about tight shoes, I
*uosa.
its of jCocal Tfews.
Remember the basket social to
morrow evening. A brief pro
gram will be rendered. The
same is under the auspices of the
R. N. of A.
Owing to the storm, H. Mullendore was
unable to show horses at his ranch Wed
nesday, as was the understanding with a
number of farmers, butjf the weather will
permit he will show them Monday Feb, 25.
The mask ball last Thursday
evening was largely attended,
some over 60 dance numbers sold.
Wibaux, Sentinel Butte and Me
dora were well represented. Mr.
and Mrs. Rube Clark were award
ed the prize for the prettiest cos
tumes and E. Lloyd the booby.
C. Paulson and family returned
home from Taylor, N. £., first of
the week. They were paying a
visit to relatives at that place be
fore making their departure to
Lakeport, Lake county, Califor
nia, where they recently bought a
fruit farm.
Mr. Loval, of Forest River, N.
D., is erecting a large hardware
store in this village. Demensions
24x60, two storys, with 24x40
feet of shed room at the rear.
Several carpenters arc working on
the building and it is being rapid
ly constructed. Location on west
corner of Grant street and first
avenue.
Geo. Holven, son of E. T.
Holven, of Beach, arrived here
last evening from B. R. Falls,
Wis., and take up a claim in the
Falley. His immigrant movables
are snipped and will be here in a
few days. They are accompa
nied by Gust Hortum, who is
also shipping a car of the same.
Mr. Hortum lias a claim three
miles north of town.
JS^Stockmen, advertise your
brands. Price of ad and the
CHBONIOLK $5 per year.
Announcements, Wants, Etc
If you want to buy horses go to Mullen
dore't ranch, five miles south, next Mon
day. Good notes same as money and re
sonable terms given.
English Lutheran services will be held
next Sunday at the school house at 11 a. ra.
The confirmants will meet at the close of
services.
Cattle herded for this summer at $1.50
per head. Plenty of good running water,
also good range.—C. W. Elliott, Beach,
N. Dak.
All Master Masons in good standing
residents of Billings county, are requested
to meet on Saturday evening, Feb. 23,
1907, at the State Line Hotel. Important
business. By request of committeeman—
C. E. Barber.
Don't forget the services at Mr. D. M.
Cooper's next Sunday evening. You are
invited. A warm house, a hearty welcome
and a blessing for all.—Rev. Douglas
Pastor.
The Yoeman will give a dancc at the
opera house March 15th.
5 reward for recovery of grey mare,
branded bar 011 left hip, shod all around
and tail cut short. The animal strayed
away about the latter part of December.
—Geo. Wood, Beach, N. D.
FOR SALE—At my ranch, on Lame
Steer, 12 miles south of Beach, 60 head
of work mares, weigh from xooo to 1300,
at right prices. Come and see me.—S. B.
Chappel, Wibaux,Mont.
Painter, A. J, Reichenecker, solicits
your orders for wall paper. He has his
new 1907 samples. Call and see them.
Emit Wojohn will give a raffle and
dance at the hall next Tuesday, Feb. 26.
$1.00 buys a chance to win a horse and
entitles you to one dance ticket.
St. John's catholic church will give a
hard time dance at the opera house
Easter Monday. Dance tickets 99 cents,
supper tickets 26 cents. Further an
nouncements later.
Overstad & Hoverson
Headquarters for Shelf and Heavy Hardware, Farm Imple
ments and Furniture.
NAILS AND WIRE PLOWS AND HARROWS CASKETS
PAINTS AND OILS WAGONS AND BUGGIES COFFINS
CORRUGATED WARE DEERING HARVESTERS UNDERTAK
ing supplies
WE have sold a lot of Stoves and Ranges this winter,
J* and still we can show the finest line in the county. We will try and close
-vE.out our stock of Heaters from now on, as we do not want to carry them
over the summer. If you need a heater call and get prices.
A full line of the admit always in stock.
ABOUT SENTINEL BUTTE PEOPLE
Eddie Gilbert has his house built on the
homestead just north of town.
The sahool wiil give their second Reci
tal next Wednesday night, Feb. 27. in the
Bartley Hall. Program includes a fares
entitled, "The Darkey Actors."
Many of tl.e school pupils and friends
visited at Mr. Kitchen's Monday night and
spent the eveaing in popping corn and
pulling taffy.
Henry Gilbert \*ns awaiting the first
train tor Medora Monday.
The saddle factory is requiring more
help and it looks as though several more
residences will be needed soon.
Harve Robinson is handling the banking
business alone these days.
Rev. Doaglas will conduct church ser
vices Sunday morning at 11130. Sunday
school at 10:30.
Mary and Catharine Bartley are visiting
in South Heart this week.
Mr. Lucas has returned from Dickinson
and Mrs. Lucus from St. Paul.
Mr. Frank Davidson was in Friday and
took David and Frankie home for over
Sunday: Lloyd Paxton accompanied them.
Fred Gilbert is making plans to build a
new house on his claim adjoining town.
Mrs. Blue writes from south of Burkey
the' school house there is ready for occu
pancy.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy a Favorite
"We prefer Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy to any other for our children." says
Mr. L. Woodbury of Twining, Mich. "It
has also done the work for us in hard colds
and croup, and we take pleasure in reco
mending it." For sale by all dealers,
Medora.
-From. The Herald.
Sheriff Chas. Will was in Billings,
Montana, Monday, and Wednesday, on his
way back, stopped off at Sentinel Butte on
official business.
Miss Lola Randall, who has a claim
near Richardson is in Medora giving music
lessons and expects to remain through the
summer. Miss Randall has secured a
class of ten.
Mrs. John Keohaue returned to her
home at Beach Tuesday, after anextended
visit in Minneapolis with her parents and
friends. She was met in Fargo by her
.husband, our prominent states attorney.
They stopped off at Bismarck on their way
back for a day or so, and were in Medora
between trains.
An awful roar has gone up in Beach and
Sentinel Butte against the building of a
court house at Medora as
-proposed by the
majority of the county commiMionere of
this county and the Beach CMRONICLS and
Sentinel Butte Republican are way up in
the air and are liable to stay there until
the stone is being hauled for the founda
tion. Suppose J. B. Stoddard had made
a motion and the motion was seconded to
build a court house at Sentinel Butte or
Beach, what would these two papers say.
Why, they would say it was the finest
stroke of business the commissioners ever
done and that now is the "opportune t^me"
and that the taxes were not half high
enough. There would be plenty of funds
then. The trouble with these two towns
is that they want the county seat and they
will do anything in their power to get it.
But they will never succeed.
Burkey.
John Sticker is enjoying a visit from his
brother and daughter from the east.
Ferdinand Koch spent part of last week
at the river looking after his stock.
Miss Alice Koch visited her sister Mrs.
Klotz last week at Stoddard's ranch.
W. Hurst of Sentinel Butte was at Bur
key Sunday.
Geo. Bosseman has filed a homestead
joining L. D. Page on the'west.
Prairies are bare again and horses can
be seen grazing everywhere.
Child's Life Saved byChambcriaia's
Cough Remedy.
Mrs. John Englehart, of Gera, Mich.,
tells of the anxious moments spent over
her little two-year-old daughter who had
taken a hard cold resulting in croup. She
says: "I am satisfied that if it had not been
tor Chamberlain's Cough Remedy she
would have choked to death. I gave this
medicine every ten minuets and she soon
began to throw up the phlegm. I can
recommend it in the highest terms as I
have another child that was cured in the
same way. Sold by all dealers.
THREE WEEKS FINE WEATHER.
The Winter is an Augury of a
Successful Crop Year.
THE EASTERN DAILIES TlV TO KNOCK.
Contain Pake and Exafferated Reports aad
Keep People Prom Enuaferatlar.
The following article was clipped fr om
an eastern daily and mailed lo Mr. Cramer
of this village. His friends w'ho sent the
same had planned to move out here this
spring, but have fully decided not to come
and nothing could convince them that the
untrue and exaggerated articles are any
thing but the facts of conditions here:
"Bismarck, N. D.t Feb. »6.-Put yourself
in the place of a North Dakota emigrant
who has gone to the end of-i railroad line
taken up a farm and, with his family, got
a crop harvested and ready for market.
Think of him surrounded by snow drifts
twenty feet deep, with only a Final
I amount
of coal in the Kitchen and no trains run
ning in or out of the nearest railroad sta
tion for two months.
It may be he has not shippe.1 out his
wheat crop and can burn that to keep his
family from freezing. But frozen small
grain makes almost no lire at all. Corn
is not much of a crop in North Dakota, or
it would not be quite so bad, for corn
makes a good fire. It once saved Iowa
farmers from freezing to death, and sev
eral times it was the blessed warmpth of
bankrupt Nebraska and Kansas settlers.
In North Dakota the settlers are freez
ing to death, or on the verge of it, not be
cause they are poor, not because there is
a lack of fuel in the world, but because
the railroads Which took them into the
country, promising them many wonderful
things, are mixed on the system of running
their property. They supply cars at their
convenience. Cars are taken in loaded
with fuel when there is a return load wait
ing to escape making a long haul of emp
ties. Whatever number-of cars are. nec
essary to take out the graiti' just so much
fuel will be taken in, but for some reason
the roads did not wish the grain to go out
this year.
So when the snow drifted the tracks
under twenty feet of crystals and froze the
drifts solid in a temperature of 50 degrees
below zero, the inhabitants were suddenly
shut off from the outside world. If they
had fuel stored up sufficient to last sixty
days, they may get along. But many of
them are spending their first winter in this
country and know nothing about the con
ditions likely to prevail, and they are
caught with only a few days' fuel on hand.
Scores of small towns are no better off.
They have ordered coal but it has. not
come in. At Litchfield, a small town in
North Dakota, the snow drifts are twenty
two feet thick. The last freight train to
arrive there was on Dec. 26. and the last
passenger into that part of the country was
stalled at Marrion, six miles east of Litch
field on January 13.
The railroad management for some un
known reason supplied these trains with
just enough fuel to takejtb?tn to the ter
minus of the branch and they can neither
go back nor supply any fuel to the inhab
itants. The Litchfield people say this
style of railroading has been in operation
for some time that since last September,
when threshing commenced nobody could
get grain hauled out or coal hauled in.
No doubt the railroads are doing all
they can at the time to break the snow
blockade and get, food and fuel into that
snow bound country, but the task is diffi
cult.
The inhabitants area hardy, good- na
tured lot. The children build snow forts
and run about over the great drifts with
the exhuberance of little savages. Hut
there is always the gloom of being frozen
hanging over a community that has fuel
famine and no certain communication
with the outside world."
The above is very much the opposite to
the following article written on the same
date and published in the Mandan Pioneer,
only across the river to the west of Bis
marck: "Wonder what the reporters will
have to say of the weather conditions as
they have existed in North Dakota for the
past week. If the true state of affairs
are exaggerated oppositely from what the
cold weather was we inay expect to be
By the winter's fire I'm sitting.
While the storm is raging wild
Thru my head strange thoughts are flitting.
'Bout the homestead I have filed.
For methinks I see the red man,
As he roamed in days of yore
Mounted on his tawny mustang,—
Passing by my shanty door.
As he peers into my dwelling
At the bottom of the hill,
Then a wild commotion swelling
His proud soul begins to fill.
With a hatred, fierce and cruel
In his eye, on me he turns
His dark passion adds the fuel
To the wrath tHtU in bim burns.
Then addressing me he mutters
Words that chill and freeze my blood
Threats and woes he fiercely utters,
In an awful seething flood:
"O thou pale face! How I hate thee!
Thee and all thy cursed race!
Who, these many yean, have robbed me
Till on earth there's not a place
"Left, where I may spread my blankets
For to rest my weary head
Ever, ever must I tramp it.
Till they find me cold and' dead.
"Once my fathers owned this island.
From the rise to setting sun.
Every valley, every highland
With the buffalo did run.
"Then the red man. happy was he.
As he chased o'er hill aud plain
Teachers Notice.
Examination for teachers' certificates
will be held in Medora, Friday and Sat
urday, March 8th and 9th, commencing at
9 in the morning. All warrants issued to
those teaching aud not holding a valid
certificate are void.
jostrii A. KITCHEN,
County Supt. of schools.
reading in the eastern papers of grass
growing here in February. It has been
very warm and pleasant, however, and a
great deal of the snow has been thawed
off. If it was four or five weeks later we
would surely think spring was come."
As a "whole we have not had a severe win
ter, nor experienced any hardships. True,
we have had'a somewhat more rigerous win
ter thanlaat, but we have not had a blizzard.
The above writer speaks of the thermome
ter registering 50 degrees below zero we
doubt the same to be true, as only once
has the thernometer registered as low as
36 here, and for the most part, the wea
ther has been mild with the sun shining
bright and clear. For two weeks past,
the snow melted rapidly. Farmers have
used wagons entirely for several days. No
time has the snow been 16 inches on the
level, which, though usually deep for
Golden Valley, is common in latitudes as
far north. There has been no drifts and
trains have experienced no trouble in
getting through. Not more than a day
at any time this winter have we been un
able to receive mail from both the east
and west. No time during the winter,
were the country roads closed by drifts,
and at all times afforded good sleighing.
Mindful of the needs of man. Nature
underlaid the surface and stored the hills
of this Golden Valley with vast deposits
of lignite coal of the best quality. It is
within easy reach of the surface, and con
stitutes the most convenient and valnable
fuel no one has been without, and a coal
famine is unheard of. The people of this
part are not complain# whatever, and
speak of the winter as being propituous,
the freezing of the soil, well covered with
snow, is considered an augury for a favor
able crop year. We hope our friends in
the east who contemplated coming, will at
least make, us a visit and investigate before
giving up.
"A fool correspondent coupled with a
sensational one horse daily can undo in
one issue the work which men with brains
have taken montlis to concienciously ac
complish."
The Schafer Recorder: "The wintry
•pell is causing several of the tenderfoot
class to get the "warm clime" fever.
Don't get weak in the knees just been use
we have a little more snow than usual.
For the past ten years the winters in
North Dakota have been mild, and we
should expect a winter like this and the
one of '96-7 occasionally at least we
shoulden't kick if they only come once in
every ten yeaas. Take advise of those
who hove left our fair state and wish thfcy
were back. Those who have gone v.est
say the fleas bother the children to death
in the summer and they cannot go barefoot
on account of so many poisonous insects
and in the winter it rains all the time.
Those who have gone south say it is hot,
air is odorous from the -perfume of the
"niggers" and aligators. Most of you who
want to move came here with probably
ninety cents in your pockets and owing
ninety-nine of that. ^Stick to t))e country
that has given von independence. Where
can you go to better yourself? Even last
winter in Florida they had frost which
destroyed every kind of vegetation. Hard
yeare will come to every part of the globs.
Siay by the richest state in the union the
state that takes the most prizes at exposi
tions the state that has less paupers the
state that has more independent farmers
the state that has more school lands and
promises the best educational institutions
of any other state—that's North Dakota,
the state that has made faster progress
•than any otlie. Think of what she has
done for you before you murtner itgainst
her.
Sott/cr's Vision.
Not a care or sorrow had he.
Not an ache and not a pain.
Life was like a pleasant river,
As it merrily llows alone
(iiving daily thanks to Giver,
With his cheery, happy song.
"Life was like the prairie smiling,
Whim 'tis decked with wreaths of May
All the pleasant hours beguiling
With its :io\vers so fresh and gay.
"The Great Spirit hovere(l»o'er him,
With a gracious smile, and mild
To his bosom gently pressed him
As a mother does her child.
"Then when life on earth was euded,
In the happy hunting ground
Where the spirits blest are blended,
Was the dusty red man found.
"Ugh! an evil day o'ertook him
When the white man crossed the waters
All his lands and herds forsook him.
Slain his sons, defiled his daughters.
"Blasted he his hopes forever!
Cursed his wife and child!
May his homestead yield him never,
May his home be age defiled!
"May fierce wars and plagues assail him!
May the winters stormy blast
Smite and bruise and sore distress him.
Till he ruined thee at last!"
Saying this he wheeled his pony.
Quickly left my cottage door
Hut as sure as God it holy
May I hear that voice no more.
—THE
JOHN KKOHANK
SETTI.KR,
Meeting of Commissioners.
Medora, Feb. 12. 1907. There will be
a meeting of the Board of County Com
missioners of Billings county at the court
house at Medora, Saturday, Feb. 33rd,
1907. As business of importance will
come before this meeting, a full hoard is
desired.
J. A. MCGKKOOK,
County Auditor.
gtHtr* \%ty.
&oaoh business Sc ZProfessiqnat 'Directory,
Keohane & Gallagher
LAWYERS
Office in Golden Valley State Hank H.iiM.
ing
BKACH. N. 1.
JENS RIVENES
Attorney at Law.
n»Mk *ai|feip..Dcutch«r fldvofcat.
Probate matters, Land Attorney, Practice
in all courts.
GLENDIVE, MONT. Masonic Annex.
WELSH & ALLEN
Carpenters and Builders
Plans and Specifications hirnishr,.! ,»
application. All work neatly ami pro
mptly done. We have over
All work guaranteed to give satisfaction.
Estimates of cost cheerfully furnished.
BEACH, N. D.
So/den Ualley
blacksmith Works
Morse Shoeing and General
ttlacksmithing a Specialty.
Wood work and repairing of till
kind as per order.
All work guaranteed satisfac
faetory.
Yours for business
J. A. LINGER, Prop.
Q. H. PURCHASE
200
house
designs, modern and up-to-date. Will
gladly show them to anyoue wishing to
build.
ACH, N. D.
CITY BAKERY & RESTAURANT.
BEACH, N. D.
Meals at all hours, 25 cents. 21 meals *4.
Choice Confectionary Christmas candies
and Notions.—C. H. Oswalt.
THE BEACH DRAY.
GEORGE WOOD Prop.
Vour draying solicited. Terms reasonable.
All orders promptly executed.
Masonary contracts also solicited.
BEACH. N. D.
J. W. FOX,
Masonary Contractor,
Wants contractson cement block buildings.
Am thoroughly experienced in that line.
Brick wotk and plastering also solicited.
Beach, N. D.
LEASING, PAINSTAKING
'HINTING PROMPTLY
KODUCED at
OPUI.AR PRICES.
—The Chronicleoihce
Set a home of your own/
LAWYER.
Practice in all courts, also in U. S. Land
Office, General Land Office tnd tbt
Department of the Interior. Cnteite
,ri,secuted or defended, Homestead
tiling papers made. Final or commuta
tion proofs.
BEACH, N. I.
E. READ,
Contractor and Builder.
Jobbing a-specialty. Bulk
ing plans and estimates
cheerfully furnished.
BKACH, N. II.
QUinLflVin 6 LYTLE
We
1
Hull
land and locate people
01
Homesteads, make out Land
Office papers and look afro.r
Contest and Final Proof cases.
Write for information, OfljcQ
over Post Offlro.
DICKINSON, N. It.
Sieach Drug
Store
It is here to supply
your wants. Let
them know what
they aro.
Jfceadquartors for
Souvenir Postal Cards
Pure and Fresh Candies
Nuts and Fruits
Patent Medicines
Fine Grade Cigars
Toilet Articles
Fine Stationery
Books
Rubber Goods Etc.
Purity and quylity of
every article guaranteed.
Try a bottle of Lyon's
Toilet Cream to keep the
chaps away.
The Beach Drug Co.
at or near the thriving town of Beach, the future
Metropolis of Billings County, destined to be one of thr
best towns in western N. Dak., in the near future, situated
in the very heart of the fertile Golden Valley, North
Dakota's iairest gem, surrounded on every side by rich
undulating prairie farm lands, that are excelled by none.
A Homestead Near Beach.
We are offering for sale the best of these lands lying
adjacent to town and schools, some of which are nt.
more than ten minutes walk from the Depot, at prices and
terms, that you cannot get elsewhere, although you gi
farther from Town. We also have bargains in Town
ship lots and ranches of all sizes.
Write us for what you want. We must hav«
it in our large list Respectfully,
NEAR
8c
HARPER,
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department of the interior, Land Office
at Dickinson, N. D. Jan. 9th, 1907.
Notice is hereby given that Samuel F.
Bast of Beach. N. D., has filed notice of
his intention to make final commutation
proof support of his claim, viz: Home
stead Entry No. lyub made Dec. 22, 1905,
for the iwutheast quarter Sec. 20, T. 139,
R. 103, aiiij that said proof will be made
before the Uegitter & Receiver of the Land
Office at Dickinson, N. D. on Feb. 23,
'907.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of, the land, vis: Charley
Haijsman, Henry Weinrise. Albert Haijs
man. David H. A. Schults, all of Beach.
No. Dak.
S. M. FERRIS, Register.
BEACH, NO. DAK.
Regular meeting nights of the M. W. A
are the second and fourth Saturdays of
each month. All visiting members are
cordially invited. Meetings held* in thi
Opera Hall. VV. L. MCKIHBIN, Consii
W. A. YOUNG, Clerk.
Not Formally Introduced.
Uncle Nehemlah, proprietor of
a ramshackle little hotel in Mobile
was aghast at finding a newly-arrived
guest with his arm around his daugh
ter's waist.
"Mandy, tell that nlggah to take hl»
ahnt 'way from 'round yo' wals'," bt
indignantly commanded.
"Tell him yo'self," said Ay"""1*.
"He's a puffect stranger toiM.*