text: S. S. Vfrs.-** IP Ik 2*** t*iP' ,15^ A- J- fes r* rti rf\s S^V-- 5#- vv Ss^T 'S'f:'- ii&8^.<¥-,$$ wl iSr'ty' N?§."Sr ti&ty-': k? g/A !t3' ft#. $%•-.'r &&< wi VOL. VI—NO. 51. Thing ud 8u!« PLOWS! TU BOWF. MBtlMUiTS. ^nP'TTi W&f&S 1 If: £*•".*••.'• •:•«•.K~rerf:I'v -'..7.vj T^7—^ Jf. 5~*4 WE ARE SACRIFICING. 50 PER CENT! ON SOME 'Women's Press "Drills FOR SALE BY E. I. P. STAEDE. PRESS DRILLS AND F.W.MANN & CO 2 -. ^. •,, and Children's They are Remnants in Lines and Sizes, but are RARE BARGAINS. STOUGHTON & CHAMBERLIN. Cutters, -AND- Havana Flour, Aid COBIM* Um of FIEST-CLASS FIRST-CLASS HORSES AND RIGS AT REASONABLE RATES. J. J. BETTLE Among the few men in the house who have shown that they know anoint when there are representatives, who, though he is not a member of the Farmer's Alliance, forced the farmers to pass the railroad law which the alliance recommended and which they were endeavoring to dodge. Other members have made good records, among them being some who are not known as farmers. Thos. Elliot has been consistent in his support of some needed legislation and Harry Uuntur who was chairman of the railroad committee feels that he has won a victory in the passage of the Wisconsin bill. The records on the question of appropriations are now generally discovered by the politicians, many claiming that by its extravagance in passing the omnibus bill, the republican legislature has injured the party immeasurably and that by his veto the governor has strengthened democracy. More will be heard of this in the future. Another question upon which the republican and democratic parties made records during the winter that of prohibition the legislature pausing an absolute prohibition law and the governor knocking it over the ropes by a veto. There were thirty-four bills vetoed— seventeen council bills and seventeen of the house. The vetoes sustained were those on the bills abolishing the railroad commission, relating to the game, removing agricultural colleges to Valley City relating tongues, intent of bank stock, changing the name of a church, Patten's prohibition bill and relating to sham and irrelevant defenses. The omnibus appropriation bill appropriated nearly $800,000 for the maintenance of the public institutions of the territory and the appropriations of the present session aggregate about $800,000, which the governor claims is far in excess of the income. The territorial offices are still filled by Democrats, and there is a vast amount of speculation as to how soon they will be succeeded by Republicans. The tenure of office bill, giving the governor power to remove at any time is a law. Governor Church having approved it. This was meant to empower the Republican governor to make a clean sweep. But many complications may arise, in the first place the governor removed and reappointed every appointee immediately after the adjournment of the legislature, a law amending the grain warehouse law under which the railroad and warehouse commission is acting was passed after the tenure of office bill. In this act the term of the railroad and warehouse commission is fixed at two years and all acts and parts of acts in conflict with it are repealed. This clearly requires all of the tenure of office law with the exception of that part giving the governor power to remove, and good lawyers claim that even that part is repealed. The Australian election law fell into the soup through negligence on the part of the enrolling committee in the council. The fun has just commenced. That Governor Church had sent his resignation to President Harrison there can be very little doubt. I feel positive that he has forwarded his resignation and in all probability has been accepted. Every truly is getting ready for the constitutional convention, as the rivalry for the honor of leading delegate to the conventions being greater than for his historical glory. It is now said that Governor Church will. Return to Huron to reside. IBA SWAIN Presidential Appointments. WASHINGTON, March 12—The president sent the following nominations to the senate today—Arthur Mellette, of Waitsburg, Dakota, to be governor of Dakota. Luther Richardson, of Grand Forks, Dakota, to be secretary of Dakota. Justice Horace H. Hanford, of Washington territory, to be chief justice of the supreme court of the territory of Washington. Geo. W. Irwin, of Montana, to be marshal of the United States of the territory of Montana. Smiley N. Chambers, of Indiana, to be United States district attorney for the district of Indiana. The senate, in executive session confirmed these nominations. Other nominations were referred to the appropriate committees and the senate adjourned. Before adjourning, the senate paid Governor Mellette the very rare compliment of immediately reporting his nomination from the committee on territories with a favorable recommendation, and he will be commissioned tomorrow. The appointment of A. Willi S N UP. The last Territorial Legislature Adjourns. St. Louis, March 14—The elections have disappeared from the capital, the great majority (Good help) have returned to their homes and left their marks behind them in the shape of weeks of lame and blind legislation. C. Mellette as governor of Dakota for the term ending: With the division of the territory and the admission of the two states, gives great satisfaction to northwestern men in Washington. The governor is the happiest man here this afternoon. He met considerable opposition on the part of a few North Dakota people, but it was not persistent. Mellette will be accorded considerable patronage, being an intimate friend of the president. He says that he goes into office unhampered and that he has made no promises and will be governor for the people. DEVILS LAKE, RAMSEY COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1889. It should be added that, since these experiments, others made at the station have shown that frosted wheat developed proportionally as well when exposed to bad weather and when sown at a greater depth. It is also true, by the same report, that as the plants resemble a mature stage, those from the slightest frosted wheat do not show quite as much vigor as plants from the best grades. And it is a fact which we regard as particularly significant. All that has been proved is the frosted wheat will germinate, and produce a growing plant. But how slight a basis is this upon which to rent be fortunes of the future. We know nothing about the future life of these young plants, and less than nothing about their ability to produce a good quality of grain. It may be, and it is quite in accordance with natural laws that it should be so, that the inferior vitality of the frosted berry will be exhausted in the production of a plant and that it will never head out stall. It may be that the head will form, and that the kernels it contains will be so small and shrunken as to be absolutely unmarketable and useless for food purposes. No experiment would warrant the farmer in looking into his whole fortune upon this cast unless it should carry the plant to maturity, and prove that a grain of frosted wheat will not only germinate, but that it will produce wheat grading. No hard, in the absence of this, the Presumption must be, to the contrary. That man does not gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles is a truth often better than the book that contains it. In the world of life, the general rule is that like produces like and this rule is more inflexible in the vegetable than in the animal kingdom. It would be contrary not only to human experience, but to every law of nature, if blighted seed should give as fine a product as that for which it had done its very best. The safest rule for our farmers, indeed, we are almost inclined to say, the only safe rule, is to procure, if it is a possible thing to do, the best quality of wheat for this year's seeding. The man who puts his trust in fronted wheat for seed is taking the same risk that he would in selecting his weakest animal for breeding purposes, and must be almost as sanguine as if he should expect a fine litter of Berkshire hogs from parents of the Southern razorback variety. A Thoroughbred. Manhood, John. Dakota may today be properly likened to a thoroughbred race horse. The best blood of the most enlightened and progressive century the world has ever known, courses in her veins. For years she has been trying to enter the race for the commonwealth stakes. Carefully trained and groomed, well qualified in all the attributes of a winner, she has stood at the starting point impatiently waiting for the word "iro." It has been almost impossible to retain her yet the snaffle bit of law and order has kept her in place. At last, the word has been given and the fleet course, spurred on by the memory of the past, is moving with gigantic strides toward the foremost line of racers, far ahead to be sure, but not so far as to preclude a dead heat. Dakota did not set a fair start, but she is making it for that. The oft-told prediction that statehood would at once bring increased immigration, increase values, swell the volume of trade and bring about an era of confident good feeling has been more than realized. There is hardly a city or county in the two-to-be states that has not sent out glowing reports of the good effect that statehood has produced, even though actual statehood is yet an institution of the future. Of course, the towns that hope to secure the capital of 800th Dakota, more particularly, are the more strongly and soonest influenced by the statehood boom. The sharp and honorable competition that... It has been instituted cannot fail to have a good effect not only upon the large cities directly interested but upon the state at large. It will advertise Dakota, stimulate public enterprise and show to the world what real western "rustling" means. For Sale. An excellent quarter section of land patented, 12 miles north of Devils Lake, six acres in stubble, and the rest stoneless prairie, best black loam. $900 takes perfect title, apply to D. McGregor, Locke post-office Ramsey county, Dak. Oats For sale at E. I. P. Staede's. Wheat. Those who counsel the farmers of the northwest to use frosted wheat as used for the new crop, take upon themselves a serious and dangerous responsibility which there are we facts to justify. The latest bulletin issued from the agricultural experiment station at St. Anthony Park, describes at length with this question, but we cannot find that it furnishes any conclusive evidence, nor does it pretend to do so. The result of experiments there made amounts simply to this that kernels of this frosted wheat, planted and cared for under exceptionally favorable conditions, germinated successfully and the plant showed a vitality which surprised everybody. On no better basis than this, a fact such as this, a fact that the tremendous interests dependent upon the wheat crop of the northwest to a general use of frosted wheat this spring for sowing. To such, and to farmers who may be tempted by the extra cost of obtaining prime wheat for sowing, we would give the most earnest warning to be careful. The state inspectors who examined the work at the experimental station, call attention to the fact. That kernels of grain sown at a slight depth in prepared soil, and supplied with favorable conditions of best and moisture, are in a very different shape from those which the farmer pieces in his field to take their chances in the struggle with a possibly inclement and unfavorable season. Speaking of chestnuts, the list of the year-old boy from the city is the country Sunday school class, who, being under examination in the Shorter class, and having studied by the good rustic deacon, who made him irreverently shouted in his shrill little voice, "Oh, chestnuts!" That is a very fair illustration of this splendor of his sophistication of the rising generation. And speaking of faith in the efficacy of prayer and of small boys both at once, the listener is reminded of still another incident, of actual occurrence in the household of a friend. This friend had a little colored servant boy whom he had brought from the Bahamas Islands, and who had been reared, so far as he had been reared at all, in the simplicity of primitive Methodism. The small colored boy wanted a jackknife very much, and was overheard one night praying for one very earnestly. His master went to town next day, and on his return in the evening there was a jackknife laid on the boy's window. The boy discovered the knife promptly enough in the morning, examined it eagerly, and exclaimed softly, with an air of condemnation of his own stupidity, "Why didn't I pray for a two-bladed cast?" Boston Transcript The Last of the Talois fine. Talking of the last king of the Valois line, Bapst, the ex-jeweler to the crown, in his book on the crown jewels, makes him out more odious than historians generally paint him. According to Bapst, who Charles IX ordered the massacre of St. Bartholomew, Henri superintended the rifling by the palace board of the bodies of the Huguenots whom they murdered. He let the soldiers have the clothes, but kept the money and jewels for himself. A watch, studded with diamonds, rubies and other precious stones, and of extra ordinary workmanship, was part of the spoil. It was taken out of the pocket of the queen's favorite jeweler, who was a Huguenot, but not a puritanical one, and who was probably pointed out to the assassins because of his watch. He largely helped to fill the crown caskets, having a passion for adorning himself with jewels. His chaplet was the richest in One pearls and other gems that ever was seen. —London Telegraph. America is a Renter. One sees very little of the residences of the Chinee nobles. They live in large inclosures surrounded by walls so high that it is impossible to look over them, and cutered by gates which are guarded by door keepers who admit only the favored tew. Home of the residences contain many acres inside of these walls and the buildings are made up of a number of one-story structural scattered here and there about the grounds. All of the foreign legations are of this nature and the secretaries and the minister of the American legation live in such an enclosure. The government pays between $18,000 and $13,000 a year for it, and America is, I am told, the only foreign nation represented at Peking which does not own its own building.—Frank G. Carpsater. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to cure perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents a box. For sale by Bennecht & Hormann. Any men who has struck his finger nail with a hammer "knows how it is himself," and if he tries it, he will know that the best thing for it is Dr. Conner's Golden Relief. It is also the best thing for diarrhea, pain in stomach, burns, flesh cuts, neuralgia, and rheumatism. Quickly cures all pain, swelling, and stomach and bowel difficulties.—worth its weight in gold. Try it. For sale at Labold & Co's Parlor Drug Store, Devils Lake, Dak. When Colonel Higgins of Fredonia, was building the Louisiana and Texas railroad, nothing was found to prevent the effect of malaria on the workmen and ward off disease equal to Dr. Fenner's Capitol Bitters. Use his Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonics in all blood, skin, and nerve disorders. His Cough Honey in all countries, and his Golden Relief in all pains, stomach, and bowel disorders. For sale at La Bold & Co's Parlor Drug Store, Devils Lake, Dak. When we see disappointed and anxiety depicted in the countenances of our citizens, we feel that telling them that Dr. Kenner's Cough Honey never dies, appoints. For sale at La Bold & Co's Parlor Drug Store, Devils Lake, Dak. Cord Wood for sale at E. I. P. Staede's. Do not fail to get a pair of pants at the Great Pants Sale. Our One Dollar Line is the Cheapest in the World. Our Two Dollar Line Cannot be Duplicated for $3.50, 500 Pair Sold in 10 Days at S. L. WINEMAN'S, CORNER OF FOURTH STREET AND ARNOLD AVENUE HARDWARE From Dakota, SOUTH & KELLEY, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. The Celebrated Jewel Vapor Stove, Garland Stoves, Stewart Heaters, GUNS AND SPORTING GOODS. STILL AT THE FRONT. WE HAVE A FINE LINE OF WALKING Rushford Farm Wagons, Etc. A Large Stock of Dry Pine Lumber, Shingles, Lath, Sash, Doors, Building Paper. Wood and Coal on Hand. Garner & Cleveland, (SOTO. 87X4 MERCHANTS NATIONAL CAPITAL, $50,000 OFFICERS: F. R. Filton, Pres. (M W. Kelley, Vice-Pres. PER YEAR. STOVES TINWARE BURNERS FOR Hazard Powder and Stiffened Wire, Devils Lake, Lake, A. Directors—F. R. Fulton, C. W. Kelley, E. A. Gardner, John A. Perley and H. C. Hansbrough. COBBWOOD LINE-ViaeT KATIONAI. BARK, (T. PAUL: HOBTHWEST RAMOMAL UA&X MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. A General Banking Business Transacted Under the National Bank Laws. SPECIAL ATTENTION TO COLLECTIONS. Bonds and "Warrants a Specialty. St. Paul, Minneapolis, & Manitoba Railway THE GREAT DINING, SLEEPING and FREE COLONIST Sleeping Car Line, to all points East. SHORT LINE TO BUTTE. F. I. WHITNEY, West St. St. Paul, Minneapolis. " 