Towner County, ND, Hansboro Pioneer Newspaper published March 1, 1906 - May 31 1906 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ The following news items and articles are all transcribed from the Hansboro Pioneer newspaper. The items included in this file were published March 1, 1906 (first issue of newspaper) and May 31, 1906. North Dakota State Historical Society microfilm numbers 08392 Transcribed May, 2000 by: Mary Lindbo, mjlindbo@msn.com Note: when searching for names in this text, I recommend using various spellings of a surname. I noticed during the transcription that some names were not spelled the same throughout. Since many of the names were not familiar to me, I typed them exactly as they were published. (c) 2000 Mary Linbo March 9, 1906 WHAT HANSBORO HAS Hansboro is a new town situated at the terminus of the Farmers Railroad, in the most fertile part of Towner County, and possesses some rare advantages that will make it one of the best towns in this part of the state. The surrounding country is well settled with a class of thrifty farmers; whom it would be hard to equal anywhere and the merchants of the town are gentlemen and thorough businessmen. They are firm believers in the old adage: "Live and let live", and carry it with them into their every day business affairs. Among the business places represented in the town are the following: 2 good hotels 2 hardware stores 1 drug store and another to be built in the near future 1 wagon shop 3 general stores 4 elevators and grain firms 3 coal yards 2 harness stores 1 millinery store (to be built at once) 2 banks 2 lumber yards 2 pool halls 1 dray line 1 barber shop 1 newspaper and job printing office 1 furniture store 2 doctors (one coming) 2 blacksmith shops 1 livery stable 2 implement houses 1 opera house 1 meat market And the people are the best people on earth. Watch us grow. WE ARE PROUD This being the first issue of the Pioneer we think our readers will pardon us if we express our pride and satisfaction in regard to the outfit we have placed in your city. The whole equipment was purchased new (mark the word, as this means much in a printing outfit) from the American Type Founders Co., of Minneapolis, and is complete in every detail. Everything is new, not an old thing about the place, pardon us, we meant except the editor, and he has only seen thirty-two summers (no matter how many winters). As we were saying, everything is new. 76 fonts of job type, 2 large presses and all the necessary paraphernalia to do first class work in a first-class manner. We can print any job, from the daintiest calling card to a full sheet poster and do it right. We are proud of our outfit and consequently shall take price in our work we turn out. LOCAL NEWS Dr. Robertson made a business trip to Egeland on Thursday of last week. D. A. Blackburn, our genial druggist, made a business trip to the county seat Tuesday. Carl E. Oberg, cashier of the Hansboro State Bank, left last Thursday on a combined business and pleasure trip to Minneapolis. It was not the "Two Johns", but the Two James who came back from Cando, Friday last. James Moylan and James Blackorby. Mrs. Frank Murdick, wife of Landlord Murdick of the City Café, came up from Cando Monday and will visit in our little city for a few days. Rev. W.C. Chew was up from Cando last week looking after the organization of a church at this place. While here he was a guest of Rev. Burling. Dr. Eastman, the popular Rock Lake druggist was in Hansboro Tuesday, looking over the town. He ordered the Pioneer sent to him so he could watch us grow. O.B. Kessler, who has just proved up on his homestead near this city, has purchased lots 10 and 11 of block 12 and will at once commence the erection of a dwelling. A.D. Pound, of Ontario, Canada, a brother of J.W. Pound, bought from Carl E. Olberg lost 7 and 8 in block 12 and will erect a residence at once. His family will arrive from the east in a few weeks. Mr. Miller, the traveling demonstrator for the Hoosier drills and planters, was up from Minneapolis last week looking about our little city. He expressed his surprise at the remarkable progress being made here, and bespoke for us a brilliant future. Mrs. J.D. Brownell and daughter, Ethel, left Thursday for a visit with a brother at Rugby. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Davidson, accompanied her. Mrs. Brownell will later visit friends at Grand Forks and will then go to Hansboro, where her husband is now in business, about the last of the month. After the snow storm in the latter part of November last, J. E. Knight of Hansboro noticed that one of his large pigs was missing. He searched all over the neighborhood for the missing animal, which was a large one and in fine condition, weighing at that time about 400 pounds. The search was unsuccessful and Mr. Knight had long since concluded that his valuable porker had gone for good. About a week ago, while shoveling a road through a snowdrift to a hay stack, he unearthed the missing animal still alive, but very weak and much reduced in flesh. During the eighty days of imprisonment the pig had subsisted on hay and show. Piggy was fed carefully for a few days and is now in normal health and beginning to take on flesh. The Hotel Tallman will be reopened again in a few days. Elmer Philliebaum of Cando is visiting with friends near this city. J.R. Crum, manager of the R.G. Rognas' store in this city was a Rolla visitor the first of the week. Contractor Black, of Perth, was in the city this week, looking over the town and talking over building possibilities. A. Egeland, the genial Bisbee banker, let the light of his countenance shine on our little city between trains Wednesday. Mr. Jamme, the gentlemanly assistant at the John D. Gruber Lumber Yard, returned Saturday from an extended visit with relatives down the line. P.S. Dunn, the auditor of the Farmers Railroad was in the city Monday, attending to some business in connection with the office in this place. The young people of this city are arranging a dance to be given in the new Opera House on St. Patrick's Eve. Everybody cordially invited. Wm. Lovejoy, traveling representative for the Gordon & Ferguson fur house of the Twin Cities was in the city last Tuesday transacting business with our merchants. Cal Lapham, the gentlemanly cashier of the Rock Lake bank, was in this city between trains Tuesday. He made this office a pleasant call and ordered the Pioneer sent to his address for one year. The new pool hall and opera house being erected the next door east of this office by Mr. Hoosier of Egeland, is fast approaching completion. It is expected to be ready for use by the 17th of March. C.I.F. Wagner, the prominent abstractor from Rolla, was married this week in Minneapolis to Miss A. Stewart. Both parties are well and favorable known in this locality and the Pioneer joins with a host of friends in wishing them a happy voyage through life. C.A. Bollinger of Bisbee was in the city this week, investigating the probable demand for his cement building store. If a sufficient amount is contracted he will move his machinery to this place, thus saving the purchaser the cost of transportation. The Pioneer acknowledges a pleasant call from W.H. Stahl, who gladdened the heart of ye scribe by presenting us with the "coin of the realm" and ordered the paper sent to him. He informs us that he has rented his farm for a period of three years to Fred Dick of Cando, who will arrive in a few days to take possession. Oliver Nelson made a business trip down the line Wednesday. Will Shaver, the Bisbee liveryman was an arrival Wednesday. Will Weber of Cando, was in the city this week selling fire extinguishers to our merchants. J.O. Carter, wife and son and Miss Brooks were in Hansboro business visitors from Antwerp on Monday. Harold Olson was up from Cando for several days the past week visiting his sister, Mrs. B.L. Thomas. D.C. Elves, the deputy collector of customs at Sarles, was in the city for several hours Wednesday afternoon, on professional business. W.S. Chance, special U.S. Agent of the Customs Department, was a Hansboro visitor on Wednesday on business pertaining to the office at this place. A.H. Lean, who is engaged in the hardware business at Rock Lake, was in our little city between trains Tuesday. Bert Thomas and wife came up Saturday from Cando and will remain here from now on. Bert expects to open his bank for business in a few days. Chas. Meyers, of Cando, was a Hansboro visitor Wednesday. He came up to look over the land near here for which he recently traded his feed mill property in Cando. Chris Orton, proprietor of the meat market, informs us that he has engaged an expert butcher and block man, who will be here in a few days. The St. Anthony & Dakota Elevator site agent was in town the first part of last week, looking over the ground and from the nature of his conversation we are led to believe that this company contemplates building another elevator here. Dr. J.S. Hamilton formerly of Chinook, Montana, arrived last week and has decided to take up his residence among us for the practice of his profession. The community is fortunate in getting this gentleman and family to settle with us and the Pioneer joins with our citizens in welcoming them. March 16, 1906 LOCAL NEWS Jack Mullett, of Perth, was a visitor in the city yesterday. What is the matter with organizing a band in Hansboro? Think it over. The young people are figuring on having a high old time at the dance in the new hall tonight. The new hall has been progressing and is practically ready for the plasterers. It is a good, substantial building and has a floor space 25 X 65 feet. The carload of horses consigned to Bert Thomas, cashier of the Bank of Hansboro, arrived last week and are on sale at Wilson's barn. Chas. Kenny sold out his dray line to George Wilson and left the first of the week for the Canadian northwest, where he will take up a quarter of land. Quite a number are figuring on going to Cando Monday to attend a meeting of the Eagles at that place Monday night. A large class of "eaglets" will be taught to fly and a general good time is anticipated. It is understood that Hansboro is shortly to have a telephone system. Several parties have the matter under consideration. It is also probable that several rural lines will be built out from this place. In unloading the crusher which was to have been installed in the feed mill at the Farmers Elevator it got beyond control of the drayman and fell from the car to the ground, ruining the machine and smashing the dray. A new machine was ordered at once and will be here in a few days. Voters should be careful about signing petitions for candidates who are seeking county office. It must be borne in mind that a person can sign but one petition for each office. At this time numerous petitions are being circulated by the office seeker for signatures and a great many are signing without giving the matter a second thought. The result is not hard to foresee. A great many will feel like kicking themselves for haring signed a petition because the applicant was a "good fellow", later finding that a better man is after the office. Think twice before you sign. Supt. Lanin came up the line Wednesday. Banker Oberg made a business trip to Rolla Tuesday. Frank Robeson of Cando, was a Hansboro visitor the last of the week. Artist Andy Ryan made a business trip to Fargo the first of the week. S.F. Brittain was up from the county capital last week, having a sale to cry near this place. He seemed loath to leave Hansboro, appearing to like our little city. Work was commenced on the new residence of A.D. Pound last week, and in spite of the extremely cold weather, the carpenters have the building nearly enclosed. In size, the building is 18 X 24, two stories high. There is something decidedly wrong about the mail service in this neck of the woods. A letter written in Cando, March 9th arrives in Hansboro on the 14th. We wish we were mindreaders so we could figure out where the difficulty lies. Agent Stiles, the gentlemanly employee at the depot has sent in his resignation and will return to his home in Minneapolis. The people of Hansboro all wish him to stay, but he finds he must go. We hope the railroad company will find as good a man to put in his place. Chas. Canfield, the Cando merchant was a visitor in Hansboro between trains Monday. He expressed himself as wonderfully surprised at the progress made here and thought it the best town on the branch. The Badger Band came up to our city last Saturday and regaled our citizens with an open air concert for over an hour. A dance was given by this organization Wednesday evening at the hall at Rock Lake. The boys have only been organized a short time, but do remarkably well, and make some very nice music. Keep at it boys, there is nothing like a good band. Mr. and Mrs. B.L. Thomas went to Cando Monday to visit for a day or two with relatives before opening the new bank for business. They returned today. Mr. Yad, traveling representative for the L.L. May Nursery, and an old friend of W.C. Haas, the Gruber Lumber agent, spent several days in Hansboro the past week. We acknowledge a pleasant call. Neil McKay, the pioneer blacksmith, made a trip to Devils Lake Monday, to purchase the machinery for his new shop, which he will build in a few weeks. He expects to put in all the latest machinery and will then be able to do any kind of iron work on short notice. One would think from noticing the amount of new machinery unloaded here every week that this was an assembly point. It is however, going out nearly as fast as it comes in. Our machinery dealers have as complete a line as is kept anywhere and the farmers all know it. Peter Nelson, president of the Hansboro Mercantile & Investment Co., drove up from Rock Lake Sunday and spent several days in our city. He says the new $10,0000 hotel will be a reality as soon as it warms up so that the masons can work. This building, if built, will certainly be a credit to our town. Everyone who has not signed the petition for good roads, to be presented to the County Commissioners at their April meeting; and who are interested in this town, and having good roads leading into the town, should call at this office and sign up. The petition will be left here for signatures until the committee, who will have the matter in hand, take it to Cando for presentation to the Board. There are now on the list over 100 signers, all free-holders and voters. Get in the game and get your name down with the rest. March 23, 1906 COMMERCIAL CLUB ORGANIZED A mass meeting of the business men of Hansboro was held in the lobby of Murdick and Moylan's Hotel on Wednesday evening for the purpose of discussing a few questions of general interest to the residents of this city. W.C. Haas was chosen as temporary chairman, and after discussing the question at some length, it was decided to organize a Commercial Club. Following is a list of the officers elected: C.H. Browne, President C.E. Oberg, Vice President W.C. Haas, Secretary O.L. Sande, Treasurer The club starts out on a good firm footing financially, and has over a score of members. Several questions which demanded immediate action were taken up and considered at this meeting and committees put in charge with full power to act. Among these questions were the site for the location of a crematory or dumping ground where refuse could be hauled and burned, to a great extent removing a serious menace to the health of our residents; the question as to the location of a cemetery; and the question of drainage. In the matter of the two first questions, the committees were instructed to take the matter up at once with D.N. Tallman, as president of the townsite company; and the latter question will be referred by the committee in charge to Joseph M. Kelley, President of the Farmers Railroad, asking him, as a matter of public health and benefit, to open a drain through their grade sufficiently large to carry off the surface water from the city. This drainage is now blocked by the railroad grade and the water is backing up into the town. The matter of organizing the township was also touched upon and a committee composed of Alex Messer, Geo. Wilson and C.H. Browne were appointed to confer with the residents property holders and voters of the township and get signatures to a petition to be presented to the County Commissioners at their meeting, April 2nd, praying that the township be organized. No further business coming up for consideration, the Club adjourned to again go into executive session Wednesday evening, March 28th, at 8 o'clock p.m. TO A HAPPIER LAND BERTRAM - For the first time in the history of our little city, the grim angel of death has visited us and claimed the life of one of our citizens, in the person of William Bertram. He was born near Toronto, Canada, about 70 years ago and came to North Dakota in 1898, settling near this place. For the past six years he has made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Lymburn who have treated him as a father. He succumbed to the dread disease consumption from which he has suffered for some years. A devout Christian, he never uttered a word of complaint, but was ready when the summons came to go to that mysterious realm whence no traveler returns. His Master called, and he obeyed. May he rest in peace. The funeral was held yesterday and the mortal remains interred in the cemetery at Cartwright. BANKS VERSUS SALOONS I traveled a thousand miles up and down these Great Northern extensions, visiting thirty-one towns in the swaddling clothes and found every one of them ablaze with confidence that it was certain to surpass in population and prosperity all of its sister infants. In their main essentials they were bewilderingly alike. There was the main business street laid out like a boulevard for width, vastly expensive to pave whenever that step in development should be reached. There had not been time to build residence sections in most of them. The workers lived in the hotel or over their stores, and the few dwellings clung close to the clustered beginnings of the towns as if reluctant to scatter over the bare and wind swept prairie. There were no saloons, for North Dakota is under the sway of a prohibition law. Whereas, the saloon is the pioneer enterprise in the mining camp, the bank took the lead in this wholesome kind of creation. There were towns with a dozen stores, four hundred people and three banks. In fact, the nucleus of such a town is the group of elevators, the general store and the bank. There was one town, Munich, whose history ran back some twelve months in which three of the four corners of one block on Main Street were occupied by banks. It is an upside down condition of pioneer settlement when banks are so amazingly numerous and saloons so conspicuously absent. Ralph D. Paine in Outing Magazine for March. LOCAL NEWS Wm. Hooser spent Sunday visiting relatives in Egeland. Wm. Porter and family were pleasant callers at this office on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Thomas returned Friday from a visit to Cando friends. Roy Lean, Chas. Joiner, Lester Thompson and Harry Lichty were Rock Lake Visitors in our little city Sunday. Robert Long and son, Richard came up from Cando Tuesday to make preparations for spring's work on their farm near here. E.J. Styles, who for some time past has been in charge of the railroad station at this place, left Monday for his home in Minneapolis, having resigned his position here. A force of masons have been at work this week putting on the plaster in the new pool hall being built by Wm. Hooser. It is thought that everything will be finished and the furniture installed ready for business by the first of the month. The Great Northern is hurrying the work of excavating for the big reservoir at this place, but unless greater headway is made the work will not be completed before the spring rains come. They have now excavated a piece of 500 feet long by 150 feet wide and 9 feet deep. This is just half the proposed depth and covers only about half the area mapped out for the reservoir. Churchs Ferry Sun Cashier Oberg made a business trip to Cando Monday. He returned Tuesday. Fred Dick and family came up from Cando Wednesday and went at once to their farm near this city. BORN - To Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Parslow on Wednesday, March 21, 1906 a baby girl. Dr. Hamilton in attendance and all doing nicely. A band is being organized at Bisbee. A list was circulated and $130 was raised in less than an hour for purchasing instruments. That's not bad at all. Rev. Henry Witham, D.D., of Grand Forks, occupied the pulpit both morning and evening last Sabbath, at the Methodist Church in this city. The Badger Brass Band are to give a dance at Hooser's Opera House in this city on Tuesday evening, April 3rd. A good time is promised. C.O. Kaufmann was checked in as agent for the Farmers railroad at this place on Monday of this week. The new agent is a very pleasant gentleman to meet and we hope he may remain. About thirty-five tickets were sold for the dance held at the new Opera House on St. Patrick's eve. Supper was served at midnight by caterer Murdick and in the "wee small hours" the merry crowd repaired to their several homes, having passed a pleasant evening. A bulletin from the Post Office Department conveys the information that the post offices of Sidney and Fernwood are to be discontinued, the patrons being supplied from Hansboro. The star route which has passed through this place from the east and went on to Rolla will be changed and will only run to Picton on the west, but will supply the same offices as heretofore on the east. Bricklayers believe it is unlucky to lay the top brick at the north corner of a building. Some of them would lose a day's pay rather than imperil their future by doing such a piece of work. A bricklayer often bricks up in the hollow of a wall a horseshoe with a cent tied to it. This he does for good luck. To lay the first and last brick of any building but a church brings good luck to the bricklayer. Churches are the luckiest buildings to work on. Theaters are the unluckiest. It is unlucky to break a trowel. Jno. Wilson, father of George Wilson, our popular liveryman, returned the fore part of the week from a visit to friends in the east. Jack Mullett was here last Friday on business connected with his candidacy for the post office at Perth. The fight for that position promises to be a warm one. May the best man win. Messrs. Wm. Haas and Neil McKay made a flying trip to Sarles for a short chat with Mr. Meyers, the John D. Gruber Co.'s agent at that place, Sunday. They report a pleasant trip. J.B. Patterson, the painter, has been busy for the past week painting and papering the Hotel Tallman. The place has been thoroughly renovated and remodeled and will be reopened soon for the accommodation of the public. Two jolly bachelors, J.K. Eckles and J.A. Reese called at this office Tuesday and before leaving informed us that they could not keep house without the Pioneer and ordering us to send it along. Dr. Hamilton returned Wednesday from his trip to Montana where he went to close up his business affairs and make the necessary arrangements for moving his family to this city. He will remain here permanently. Mr. G. Lawrence, who has been visiting friends in Missouri for some time past, returned Monday. He reports that the weather in that state was far from being ideal and there was a great deal of sickness. There is no place like good old North Dakota. William Waldorf Astor's son, John Jacob, who has just joined the British army, is being tried out as a lieutenant in the life guards, the crack cavalry regiment of the service. An officer in one of the aristocratic regiments must have a private income of from $500 to $50,000 a year. The high figure is a moderate estimate for the life guards. Young Astor has to furnish horses, equipment and every other necessary, contribute toward the mess and the band, furnish and pay rent for his own quarters, pay his extra grooms and attendants, rent stable and entertain at his own expense. Some of these officers spend as high as $100,000 a year. March 30, 1906 A NARROW EXCAPE What might have proved to be a fatal accident was averted on Tuesday evening by prompt action on the part of Mrs. Wm. Garey. Mr. and Mrs. Blackburn's little boy had been given some peanuts, which he was eating with great gusto, when in some manner a small piece of the shell became lodged in his throat. It was not noticed until he fell to the floor. Mrs. Garey, who was calling on them at the time, quickly adopted such measures as are used in cases of strangulation, with the result that the shell was dislodged before the arrival of Dr. Hamilton who had been hurriedly sent for. It was none too soon for the circulation had all but ceased, and it was only by hard work that the little form was brought back to life. It was a narrow escape and caused a fright through which the parents do not again care to experience. COMMITTED SUICIDE News came to this city the last of the week that a Finlander living a short distance west of Armourdale had committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. He was found by some neighbors who called to see him on some business matters. It is thought his mind was unbalanced by the death of his wife in Finland some time ago, as no other explanation could be offered for the man's rash act. His name was Peter Hiedala and has a brother living near Lakota who was notified. LOCAL NEWS C. Enos has under way the new blacksmith and machine shop for Neil McKay. Neil will install the latest time and labor saving machinery and will have a shop second to none in the county. John Wallace, of Cartwright, was a visitor in our city on Tuesday of this week. He ordered us to send the Pioneer right along and invited us to call and see his fine cattle should be visit the Canadian city. This we will surely do, as it is reported that Mr. Wallace has as fine a herd of thoroughbred stock as treads the Canadian soil. Dr. Hamilton had a hurry-up call Monday. Hugh Lymburn's little child, while playing about, in some manner obtained possession of a bottle of "Tobacco Cure" and before he was discovered, had drank a large portion. Mr. Lymburn drove posthaste to this city and returned at once with the doctor and by prompt treatment the child was soon out of danger. Senator R.W. Main was a Hansboro visitor yesterday. Representative A.S. Gibbens came up from Cando Thursday to look after his farm near here. Dr. Davidson came over from Cartwright to hold a consultation with Dr. Hamilton in regard to Mrs. Disher. BORN - To Mr. and Mrs. D.A. Blackburn on Thursday, March 29th, a girl. Dr. Hamilton in attendance and all doing well. Mrs. Frank Murdick returned to her home in Cando after visiting with her husband in this city for a couple of weeks. Fred Covert was here the last of the week selling a patent floor brush to our residents. He is now making his headquarters at Calvin. D.A. Blackburn, our popular druggist, left Wednesday noon on a business trip to Michigan City. He expects to return the last of the week. Jack Rabinovick has added another pool table in his pool room. It is of the best design and will no doubt be appreciated by those who play the game. Spring is here. O.B. Kessler reports having seen the festive gopher at his pranks on Tuesday of this week and several parties report the wild goose in his flight north. McGregor & Bell, the eastern building contractors, who have decided to locate in our city with offices with the John D. Gruber Co., are superior workmen, as their work will show. They are capable of doing the finest cabinet and finishing work, as well as the rougher kinds. House building is their specialty, and they already have several contracts to commence on as soon as the weather settles. Cashier C.E. Obert of the Hansboro State Bank, returned Wednesday from a business trip to Minneapolis. A baby girl arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Lawrence on Thursday morning. All reported doing nicely. W.C. Enos, the contractor, is here in Hansboro again, and is ready for any work in the building line. The Badger Brass Band are to give a dance at Hooser's Opera House in this city on Tuesday evening, April 3rd. A good time is promised. Arthur Hooser and wife, of Egeland, were Hansboro visitors the first of the week. Mr. Hooser came up to see how the work on the new pool hall was progressing. G.M. Johnson, the new butcher and block man arrived the first of the week and will have full charge of Chris Orton's meat shop. Mr. Johnson comes from near Saginaw, Michigan. J.J. McCanna came up the line the first of the week to look over our city and visit with B.L. Thomas, cashier of the Bank of Hansboro, of which institution J.J. is Vice President. He drove to Rock Lake Tuesday and went from there by train. While here he informed us that he was a candidate for State Senator and authorized us to so announce him. Bert Green of Devils Lake and E.D. Allen of Grand Forks, agents for the New York Life Insurance Co., were in town between trains Tuesday. Mr. Allen delivered a $3,000.00 policy to one of our residents while here. One of the sports was noticed Monday to be wistfully watching a suspicious looking jug in the back of one of the rigs tied on Main Street. At last he could stand it no longer he grabbed the jug and ran into an alley, where he proceeded to test it. The jug contained kerosene. OBITUARY NOTICE SECORD - Mrs. Fannie Secord died Sunday afternoon after a short illness. The immediate cause of her demise was pneumonia and heart failure. She was born in eastern Canada in the year 1842, being sixty-four years of age at the time of her death. The funeral was held from the residence of Alex Messer at two o'clock pm Monday. Rev. Burling conducting the funeral ceremonies. DISHER - Mrs. Disher, known to all as Grandma, died at the residence of her son, a short distance from this city, Wednesday. The disease which was the immediate cause of her death was tuberculosis, the result of a recent attack of pneumonia. She expected the end and had made every preparation therefore. The bereaved relatives have the sympathy of the entire community. FATAL ACCIDENT Harold Olson, Youngest Son of C.H. Olson of Cando Killed by a Fall The news came to hand as we were closing the forms, that Harold Olson, youngest son of Commissioner C.H. Olson of Cando, and a brother of Mrs. B.L. Thomas of this city, had met his death by a fall from the High School building in that city. Mrs. Thomas left at once for Cando. We were unable to get any of the particulars in regard to the accident. Harold was a boy about seventeen years of age, the idol of his parents and a favorite among his associates. The heartfelt sympathy of all is extended to the bereaved family. ELLISON ECHOES Cal Horner has seed barley for sale. Mike Kohr will work for Geo. Coe the coming season. The condition of J.E. Brown is reported to be worse. The sleighing is just about over with for this winter. W. Spore and S.A. Whipkey were Calvin callers one day last week. John Santman is expected to return soon from his visit to Illinois. J.S. Fike was called this week to the bedside of his sick father in Illinois. L.Hoff returned to the north end of the county this week, after a four months visit near Considine. Clayton Hoover and R.S. Gipes returned this week from a four months trip to the western part of North Dakota. Cled Johnson returned last week from a trip to the Pacific coast and will work for A.B. Miller this coming season. The bachelors are all coming back to North Dakota, the land of riches. They say it is the best country even if there are no young ladies here. April 6, 1906 WHY IMMIGRATION CONTINUES One must consider the immensity of the crops of North Dakota to realize the manner in which the people of the state are piling up wealth. The total population of the state in 1905 was 437,070, but it must be remembered that a large percentage of this number live in towns and cities, and therefore cannot be classed with the agriculturists. And yet the value of the crops produced on the farms of North Dakota, with the value of livestock sold and that still remaining on the farms amounted in 1904 to the tremendous total of $128,896,011, or an average for each man, woman and child in the state of $314.32. And the greater part of this vast area has never been scratched by a plow. There are millions upon millions of acres of fine land in this great state that can be had for the asking, while there are other millions that can be caught for an insignificant price, and which are destined to be the source of fortune to many thousands in the next few years. This is not a theory but a demonstrated fact. Of the thousands of new settlers that are every year pouring into the state a very large proportion are paying for their land out of the profits of their first season's crop while many of them have a handsome surplus in addition. All that is required of a man is the ability and the willingness to labor. Nature, in its bounteousness, does all the rest. THOUGHT HE HAD 'EM The limited on the Great Northern struck and killed a cow Saturday morning a short distance beyond Larimore. When the train pulled into the latter station about 3 am, an oiler, much to his surprise, found the head of the cow perched on the front trucks of the smoker and staring him in the face. DIED OF HEART FAILURE The people of this community were shocked Wednesday morning to learn of the sudden death of N.O. Upton, formerly of this city. Mr. Upton appeared to be in good health, and was working at hard manual labor up until 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the day of his death. Only recently he had engaged to work during the spring on the Garrett Locklin farm, which adjoined a quarter owned by him and had started to work that day. Shortly after 4 o'clock in the afternoon he was taken ill and the doctor was summoned, but although everything was done that medical aid and science could do to save his life, he expired before the night passed. The immediate cause of his taking off was paralysis of the heart. Mr. Upton was 58 years of age at the time of his death. A daughter, Mrs. Wm. Reynolds, residing at Rolla, was notified, and the remains sent there for burial in the Rolla Cemetery. LOCAL NEWS ARRANGED FOR CEMETERY Through the action of the Commercial Club of this city a much needed want has been supplied. The committee appointed at once got in touch with the townsite company, who, through D.N. Tallman, donated to the town of Hansboro a cemetery. Arrangements are also under way with the company for the purchase of a couple of acres to be used as a dumping ground. Both deeds will be forwarded at once, and the locations will be announced later. THE BIG FOUR Talk about growth in an unirrigated country. Four of our citizens met on the street Monday and just for curiosity's sake, we asked their respective heights. Following was the results: Chris Paetow, 6 ft. 4 1-4 inches; Jim Brown, 6 ft. 2 3-4 inches; Sam Brown, 6 ft 2 1-2 inches; Jim Blackorby 6 ft. 1 1-2 inches, a combined height for the four men of 24 ft. 11 inches. John Gretson of Armourdale made a trip to Cartwright the first of the week. Rev. Edwin Burling, of Hansboro, preached an able sermon Sunday evening at the Methodist Episcopal Church. A. Evenden of Cando was in the city the fore part of the week. He was on his way to visit his son, Arthur at Estevan, Canada. Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Brown and W.C. Briggs went to Starkweather on Monday to hear Sam Jones lecture. They report a very enjoyable time and an instructive lecture. The dance given by the Badger Band at the Opera House Tuesday evening was a success, both from a financial and social standpoint. A large crowd was in attendance and the merry whirl was kept up until the early hours, and all enjoyed themselves to the limit. The home of Mr. and Mrs. John Weber was made happy last Friday afternoon by the arrival of a fine little baby girl. Mr. Weber has been lavish with one of his favorite brands - Comodillas - but his joy hardly exceeds that of "Grandpa Long" who is said to be one of the youngest granddads in the state. P. Olmstead and daughter, Eva, came up from Egeland on the "flyer" Tuesday to be in attendance at the dance given that evening in Hooser's hall by the Badger Band. Phan is the same jolly good fellow as of old and stepped into our office to tell us to be sure and announce to the voters of Towner County that he is a candidate for sheriff, and is going to make a run and stay to the finish to see how it is done. He made many new friends in our little city during his brief stay and returned to his home Wednesday morning. It is estimated that more than a million dollars of American silver coin is now in circulation in Canada. Up to the present time this money was welcome in that country as they had no mint of their own. A new mint however, is now being built at Ottawa, and it is thought that it will be in operation before the close of the present year. In the meantime, the American silver coin will be collected and returned to this country through the agency of the banks. The silver heretofore used in Canada except that obtained from the United States in the course of business, was coined in London. The present rapid growth in the wealth and population of Canada has necessitated the establishment of a mint to manufacture coin in sufficient quantities to meet the growing demands of trade in the Dominion. The Bank of Hansboro opened its doors for business the first of the week. J.E. Knight is reported to be very ill with an attack of typhoid fever. Mr. Levi Briggs of Starkweather, a brother of our Collector of Customs, was in town between trains Tuesday. Mrs. Wm. Hooser and little child came up from Egeland Tuesday for a stay of a couple of weeks in our little city. Asst. Cashier Risteigen of the State Bank returned Monday from a short visit with friends and relatives in Grand Forks. Andrew Ryan returned from Fargo on Tuesday of this week accompanied by his family. They are guests at the Hansboro Café. J.E. Brownell and family came over from Rolla Monday and they will remain here having leased the new residence built by O.B. Kessler. W.G. Miller breaks out through the columns of the Bisbee Gazette, with the evident intention of testing the new libel law. The way he goes after the "gang" isn't slow. At the meeting of the North Dakota Racing Association held at Grand Forks recently, C.J. Lord, of Cando, was elected President for the coming year, and the dates set for the races at Cando are June 19-20-21. Miss Villia Murdick, who for the past six months has been teaching school near Considine, came up from Cando the last of the week, and Monday started a term of school near Dash. Miss Murdick is one of the most successful teachers in the county. Mrs. Gertrude E. Browne was an arrival on Saturday's passenger train and has opened up her millinery display in VanOrder & Sande's store. She has in stock a fine line of hats and at reasonable prices, which will be of special interest to the ladies as Easter approaches. She cordially invites all to come in and inspect the stock. A light snow fell Wednesday night, but it disappeared before noon yesterday. Justus Armour left this week for Saskatchewan where he has extensive interests. Dr. Hamilton's family arrived yesterday and will remain permanently. We welcome them to Hansboro. Oliver Nelson left Wednesday morning for Cooperstown, where he has accepted a position in a hardware store. Dr. Robertson came up from Rugby the last of the week to close up his business in this city. He has decided to locate in Rugby for the practice of his profession. Elwood Armour was a Hansboro visitor Wednesday, and made the Pioneer a pleasant call. He leaves this week for the Saskatchewan country, to do homestead duty on his claim. News comes from Cando that there are two light cases of smallpox there. All the necessary precautions have been taken and it is thought there will be no trouble to keep the disease under control. Chris Orton has had the interior of his butcher shop sealed and painted and put in a large ice box and otherwise put things in metropolitan shape to supply the trade with tender steaks and juicy roasts. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Edwards of Rolette, died Thursday, March 22nd, of acute indigestion, aged three weeks and four days. She appeared to be unusually strong and vigorous to within a few hours of her death. Dr. Widmeyer, who was in Rolette Wednesday evening, was called in and prescribed for the complaint but the case was not considered serious. The next morning the little sufferer passed away so quietly that the watchful parents could scarcely realize that she was gone. The funeral was held at Rolla Friday afternoon. April 13, 1906 RAILROAD INTO TURTLE MOUNTAINS The farmers of the Turtle Mountains are jubilant. For a number of years they have endeavored to induce a railroad to build into the mountains, and recently sent a number of petitions to James J. Hill, by a special representative. The railroad officials sent back word that it is their intention to build into that section of the country in the near future, probably from the St. John branch as the grade would be easier established from there than from the Dunseith branch. The plans seem reasonable but it must be remembered that the railroads are sometimes slow to act, even after their word has been passed, and it may be several years more before the road is built. LOCAL NEWS Bert Moylan, assistant county auditor, was a Hansboro visitor the fore part of the week. County Supt. Blackorby was up from the county capital last week visiting with friends and relatives. Rollin Kessler is having a large barn built on his farm near this city. Contractor Kerstin is doing the work. James Moylan, one of the proprietors of the Hansboro Café returned Monday from a visit with his family in Cando. Fred Smith, the genial representative of the American Type Founders Co., was in the city yesterday. Mrs. C.H. Olson and little daughter, of Cando, visited with Mr. and Mrs. B.L. Thomas of this city several days the past week. J.E. Knight is reported to be a very sick man this week. A trained nurse arrived last week from Cando and has the case in charge. The residence being erected by Alex Messer is being pushed rapidly toward completion. It will be large and commodious and a credit to the town. Sam Brown has had surveyed and platted fifty lots on the north line of his farm abutting on the south line of the townsite and has placed them on the market. A.M. McKay and Miss Jean Scott of Deloraine, Manitoba were visiting friends in the city the past week, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Neal McKay. We understand that Mr. McKay will have charge of D.A. Blackburn's jewelry stock. A general size up of the business done by the merchants and business men of this city shows that they are all busy filling orders for the spring season. There has been a general livening up of business in all lines during the past week and the indications are that this year will be one of great prosperity for Hansboro and her citizens. The Cartwright tailor was a business visitor in the city Wednesday. J.E. Brownell and family have moved into the residence recently erected by O.B. Kessler. Mrs. Wm. Hooser and baby returned to Egeland the last of the week after a short visit in the city. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Hamilton has been quite ill the past week but at this writing is much improved. "Happy Hooligan" Hanlon of Bisbee was in the city Sunday in search of a delinquent who had skipped for parts unknown. News from the county seat is to the effect that a baby boy has made his appearance at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gillies. Congratulations. Carl Nelson of the Towner County Democrat, is angry with the fates. While he is not afflicted as was Job of biblical fame, yet his lamentations are loud. He is a victim of that kindergarten disease - mumps. Editor Hammond of Perth was a visitor in this city Sunday. He informed us that he was here as an officer in search of a runaway but after looking the town over carefully, he concluded we were all peaceable, law-abiding citizens and returned to Perth. He was accompanied by Fred Peterson on the trip. Will Weber, of Cando was in the city Tuesday delivering the fire extinguishers for which he received orders on his previous visit. From here he went to Lethbridge, Alberta, where he has considerable land. He ordered the Pioneer sent to him at that place to keep him posted on the Towner County news. J.A. McIntosh, the customer house officer at St. John, was in the city Wednesday greeting old friends and making new ones. He reports having had quite a scrap with a couple of "bad injuns" whom he detected Tuesday smuggling a keg of whiskey across the line. When he attempted to effect their arrest, they showed fight and it was with no little trouble that hey were landed behind the bars of the jail in Rolla. Frank Simon, bookkeeper of the Cando National Bank, was a Hansboro business visitor the last of the week. The meat market has been treated to a coat of paint which adds greatly to the appearance of the building. Chris has also had a sidewalk put down in front of his lots on Main Street. WANTED - Good first cook at the Hansboro Café, at once. Write or wire to: Murdick & Moylan, Hansboro, ND A game of baseball is scheduled to take place between the Cartwright and Hansboro nines on Saturday May 5th. The two nines are, we believe, quite evenly matched, and it will prove to be an interesting game. Those of our local nimrods who have been into the fields report that the geese and ducks are very scarce and exceedingly wild. This fact, together with the lack of water in the coulees make the sport rather tame. McGregor & Bell, the building contractors, have the residence of J.R. Crum nearly ready for the plasterers and will begin the erection of a large residence for J.E. Brown next week. To be carted over the Soo Line as freight would be a farce comedy in itself, says Ed Lang, of the Woodworth Elevator Co. here. A carload of coal was shipped from Duluth consigned to him on last November 29th and arrived here in due form March 24th. Ed says he could have carted it here himself in a wheelbarrow in that time had the roads been good. Langdon Republican James Taylor of Perth, candidate for sheriff on the Republican ticket, was in the city this week looking after his political interests. James is strictly a "north end" candidate and solicits the support of all the voters of the north end of the county. Mr. Taylor has been a resident of this county for many years and is too well known to the voters to need any introduction from us. NOTICE FOR BIDS. Notice is hereby given that bids will be received up to 12 o'clock of Friday, April 27, 1906 at the State Bank of Hansboro for the construction of a Methodist Episcopal Church building at Hansboro, N.D. Plans and specifications are on exhibition at the State Bank of Hansboro. All bids must be accompanied by a certified check to the amount of 5 per cent of the bid. Rev. Burling, Pastor CARTWRIGHT NEWS NOTES Mr. Frank Hobkirk of Calgary, formerly of Deloraine, has accepted a position with Moore & Hills. Mr. and Mrs. McCullough entertained a number of friends to a very enjoyable pedro party on Tuesday evening. M.E. Watts, wife and the two children, left for Los Angeles, California on Monday. They went via Hansboro. It has been definitely decided to celebrate the First of July at Cartwright again this year. Last year's celebration is said to have been one of the most successful events of the kind ever held in Southern Manitoba, and with a year's added experience it is hoped to do even better next Dominion Day. Mr. Walker Watts met with an unusual accident last week. He was removing an oil cup from the gasoline engine in J.W. Stevenson's blacksmith shop, the cup fell into the fly wheel and flew with great force into Walker's face, inflicting a nasty cut in the upper lip. A new feature has been introduced on the Schomberg market, a higher price being paid for stamped eggs. From one to two cents a dozen is given extra for eggs with the teller's name stamped on them, which is supposed to be a guarantee of freshness. Mr. John Lawson, who is employed in L.H. Phillips' hardware store, met with a rather serious accident Monday. While engaging in a friendly wrestle with Martin Zeborosky he was unfortunate enough to have one of the bones of his legs broken, which will lay him up for a while. April 20, 1906 LOCAL NEWS Rev. F. Stevens and wife, of Cartwright, were visitors in the city Tuesday. The representative of the Fargo Forum was in the city several days the fore part of the week. Mrs. Frank Murdick and little daughter came up from Cando Tuesday and will visit for a short time in our city. Presiding Edler Moore will occupy the pulpit at the Methodist Church next Sunday morning and evening. Dr. Davidson of Cartwright, has taken charge of the practice of Dr. Hamilton, during the latter's illness in Winnipeg. Mrs. Dr. Hamilton left Tuesday evening for Winnipeg in order to be near her husband who is confined in the hospital in that city with typhoid fever. The Thornton Bros. were in the city this week several days, doing the plastering for the Hansboro Construction Co. on the residence of J.R. Crum. They will return to the city about the middle of next week to finish several other jobs of plastering for the company. A Nebraska woman who had recently moved to North Dakota with her husband to make their home in our wonderful state, had heard considerable talk about "blind pigs" and was heard to make the following comment: "That must be a terrible disease. I do hope our pigs won't catch it and all go blind, for they are such fine ones and we brought them all the say from Nebraska." There is a small army of men working in the city at this writing engaged in the construction of the numerous buildings which are being constructed. At the present time it looks very much as though our predictions as to there being 500 population in our little city within the next four months would be fulfilled. A number of parties have in course of building houses to be rented, and they were all spoken for almost before the contract was let. There is a good chance for anyone who wishes to invest money as a profitable investment to put up a number of houses for renting purposes as such property will be scarce and will rent at a good price. Frank Murdick, our genial hotel man, is enjoying a visit from his father. Mrs. Wm. Hooser and baby returned to Hansboro the last of the week, after a short visit in the city of Egeland. Dr. Eastman, the popular doctor and druggist from Rock Lake was in the city Monday visiting friends. Chief Rooke, of His Majesty's Mounted Police, stationed at Cartwright, was in the city Saturday and took the train to Bismarck where he went to secure extradition papers for a much needed man. He was accompanied over from Cartwright by his wife and Mr. and Mrs. Surrey of that city. The mail clerk E.S. Glover on the Farmers Railroad has been married, the ceremony having been performed at Webster, which united him with Miss Webster. May a long life of happiness and prosperity attend them. The patrons of the post office may now expect to receive more mail for a time at least. Supt. Conroy, of the John D. Gruber Co., was in the city several days this last week. Mrs. Gertrude E. Browne and the children left Wednesday for Cando, where they will stay for a few days packing up the furniture preparatory to moving to this city. Hon. Samuel Adams, of Perth was a Hansboro visitor the first of the week. He informed us that his town has livened up politically and there promises to be some fun there this fall. Frank Grimes came over from Rolla the first of the week and will remain in our city for an indefinite time. He has concluded that there is no place like Hansboro. Dr. Hamilton of this city has contracted the typhoid fever and has gone to the hospital at Winnipeg for treatment. We hope to chronicle his complete recovery in the near future. T.V. Lowe the hustling real estate man from Cando, was in the city a couple of hours Tuesday looking over the town and shaking hands with old acquaintances. A Finlander living between here and Perth set fire to a field of stubble Monday, and the high wind soon carried it beyond his control. A large strip of country was burned over and it was only by hard work that a number of buildings were saved from destruction. As it was, a number of large stacks of hay were destroyed, entailing a serious loss at this time of the year. The fire breaks on the south side of this city and several houses that were beyond the strip that had been burned, were saved by back firing. We have heard the statement as to the cause of the fire disputed, it being claimed that a bottle or a small portion of a bottle of bootleg whiskey was accidentally spilled on the prairie which immediately set the grass in a blaze. We will not vouch for the truth of the latter statement. FRIENDS DIE AT SAME TIME Pioneers, Lifelong Chums, Succumb - United in Death - Lives Linked Together. Lancaster, PA - William K. Beard for several years street commissioner of Lancaster, is dead at the age of 75. For a number of years he was master carpenter of the Philadelphia division of the Pennsylvania railroad and some of the largest construction operations on the Pennsylvania were under his supervision. He became noted in railroad circles by his skill in moving bridges without interrupting travel. He was active in local republican politics, serving for some time as president of select council. Almost at the minute of Mr. Beard's death one of his lifelong friends, John Murphy also died. The men were almost the same age and for 50 years had been firm friends and companions. They came to Lancaster at almost the same time and when young both were carpenters. On one occasion Murphy saved his friend's life when the latter had fallen through a bridge at Lewistown. Murphy expired suddenly just as he was preparing to play a game of cards with some friends. April 27, 1906 OLD SETTLER DEAD On last Saturday, April 14th, occurred the death of John A. James at Olds, Alberta, while his death was very sudden, it caused no surprise among his old friends here, as he had been in poor health for some time. The remains were shipped to Cando for interment and arrived here on yesterday's train, accompanied by a Mr. Corbett, landlord of the hotel where Mr. James was staying. He reports that death of Mr. James occurred at night while he was in bed and presumably asleep. Mr. James was among the earliest settlers of Towner County. His wife died about four years ago and he afterwards disposed of his farm property and invested in land at Olds, Alberta. He has no relatives in this county, his nearest relations being his two stepsons. The remains were laid at rest in the Odd Fellows cemetery and were followed to their last resting place by a large number of old settlers. LOCAL NEWS W.A. Hooser moved his family and household effects to Hansboro Saturday, where they will make their home in the future. The Hooser Bros. have dissolved partnership whereby Arthur Hooser will be owner and proprietor of the Egeland pool hall and W.A. will own and operate the Hansboro pool hall. Both the boys run a good clean place and each will undoubtedly do well in his respective town. Deputy Collector of Customs Briggs went to Starkweather on official business Monday and back Tuesday. Frank Maurer was up from Starkweather Monday. Pete Leaper came over from Cando the first of the week on business. If you are going to build it will pay you to see W.C. Enos, the contractor, at the Imperial Lumber Yard. The representative of the Carey Safe Co. was in the city the fore part of the week and took several orders. W.A. Hooser has a force of carpenters busy several days this week siding his new pool hall, which adds materially to the appearance of the building. Fred Koester, an old Cando friend of ye scribe, was over from Brandon, Manitoba several days the past week visiting old friends and acquaintances in this city. A sad accident occurred at the county seat last week. Willie Orr was backing up a threshing engine when in some manner he was caught between the engine and separator and his life crushed out. The funeral was held Monday. While down the line the first of the week, Customs Officer Briggs succeeded in bagging a festive goose and brought the same back with him. On Wednesday evening he gave a supper to a few invited friends at the Hansboro Café and as one of the guests put it, "they all ate so much goose meat that they dare not look a goose in the face". We are informed on good authority that the firm of Crum & Barnes, the building contractors of Cando are to locate in this city and engage in building here this coming summer. This firm has been engaged in the contracting business in Towner County for a number of years past and have earned a reputation throughout the entire north end of the state as builders of ability. Most of the largest and best buildings in the county were erected by this firm, among them being the following: Haskamp-Thein Lumber Sheds at Bisbee, Columbia Hotel at Bisbee, high school building at Bisbee, residences for C.J. Lord, M.F. Falahy, A. Evenden, John Hunter and other buildings in Cando too numerous to mention. Their work is done in A1 style and if they should locate in our city all may rest assured that there will be something doing in the building line. Chas. Canfield and wife were up from Cando between trains Monday. T.V. Lowe, the hustling little Cando real estate man was in Hansboro between trains Monday. Charley Kessler's new house is finished and will be occupied by Merchant VanOrder and wife. Terry Shain came over from Maxbass last week and is now working for the John D. Gruber Co. as bookkeeper. Frank D. Davis and wife returned recently from a sojourn of several months in California visiting friends. Frank is reported to be much improved in health. The notice for bids on the Methodist Church has been extended until May 11th and bids will be received until that date for the contraction of the new building. The residence with the Hansboro Construction Co. has built for J.R. Crum was finished this week and the estimable family are now occupying their new quarters. Alex Messer's new house has been finished and the family moved into their new quarters this week. The building was erected by contractor Enos and is a credit to our little city. F.M. Tishue has his announcement in this week's issue for re-election to the office of Register of Deeds, Mr. Tishue has made a faithful official and will be a strong candidate against any opposing candidate. J.E. Brown's new house is early enclosed and the plasterers expect to commence work the first of the week. The work is in charge of the Hansboro Construction Co. Sheriff Carmichael came out from Cando Monday and arrested John Trayner on a charge of bootlegging. It seems that Trayner was arrested on a similar charge last fall and was convicted and served a sentence in the county jail for the offense. He has only been out about thirty days and Monday he was arrested and taken to Cando on a charge of the same kind. Egeland Enterprise. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wheeler left Albuquerque, New Mexico last Monday night, their destination being the home of Mr. Wheeler's mother at Ortonville, Minnesota. Frank is reported to be failing fast and it is only barely possible that he will withstand the long and arduous journey from New Mexico. Since his residence in the south Mr. Wheeler's condition has remained about the same, the flame of life being sustained by the life-giving climate. Democrat The people of Starkweather are complaining of the excessive express rates charged. When you want your Blue Stone for treating your wheat against smut call at the store of D.A. Blackburn & Co. A Ladies Aid Society for the Methodist Church was organized in this city on Wednesday of this week. It is claimed that a San Francisco man has invented a contrivance that will make it possible to talk right across the continent by telephone. A report is prevalent on our streets that Mylo on the Soo was completely destroyed by fire on Monday of this week. We are unable to verify the report. Another candidate for Register of Deeds has announced himself through these columns in the person of Burt Moylan of Cando. Burt is well known to ye scribe as a young man of exemplary habits and fully capable of filling the position to which he aspires. For a number of hears he has been employed in the different offices at the court house and is familiar with the work in each. Burt will make a good run, as he is popular throughout the whole county. OBSOLETE JURY SYSTEM AND WOMAN'S RELATION THERETO By Lillie Devereux Blake, President, New York Legislative League That the jury should consist of the "peers", that is the equals of the person on trial, was a right strenuously insisted upon in earlier days, thus a knight much have a jury of knights, a squire a jury of "esquires" and a commoner a jury of commoners. One class was, as usual, left out of this attempt to secure justice to the accused by giving the investigation of the case to those who could by reason of sympathy and understanding of the conditions under which the alleged crime was committed render an intelligent verdict and that was then as now the women. All other classes of the community had the protection of trial by a jury of their own sex, although the original attempt to secure sympathy by similarity of rank and occupation has long been abandoned. In this republic, where all men above the age of 21 years are liable to be drafted on jury duty, the conditions have become onerous for all parties to a trial, not only to the judge but to the accused and to the great throng of men taken from their business to waste hours in the court room, chafing to be excused. These persons range from the dignified gentleman who, upon being asked if he understood the nature of an oath, replied stiffly, "of course I do; do you take me for a congressman?" to the poor negro who to a similar question, replied solemnly, "Sah, I have druv mules in Louisiana for 40 years."' It would seem as if the time had come when there should be a radical change in our present system of justice. There is certainly a feeling that there should be some alleviation of the conditions. One of the most important suggestions is that there shall be chosen jurors whose business it shall be to serve on all trials and who shall be paid for their time. The members of the grand jury, the body that considers a case to decide whether it shall be brought to trial or not, are compensated for their services and theirs is one of the most important functions in the course of justice, since their decision releases the person under suspicion or sends the case to court for final investigation. If the members of this body can be selected and receive payment for their duties why not the members of the petit jury also? It would certainly promote rather than retard the cause of justice to have a certain number of respectable and qualified persons who could be called upon to consider the merits of the case. That there should be women as well as men among these jurors is self-evident as a need of justice. The very fundamental right of a person on trial has been the right to a jury of the peers of the accused and this right no woman has ever enjoyed. Men are in the language of allantry, the inferior in the language of fact the superiors of women - from either point of view by no means their equals, and common sense as well as common justice should give women places in the jury box as well as in the prisoners' dock. Surely the jury system, so vital to the cause of justice, should be modernized to harmonize with the civilization of the twentieth century. THE EPIDEMIC OF DOMESTOPHOBIA By Miss Gertrude Barnum, National Secretary Women's Trade-Union Journal A distressing malady has seized upon nine out of every ten leisure class American housewives, a sort of raving mania on the subject of the domestic servant question. Ladies dislike to intensely to do their own housework that they are in a continuous rage because they cannot get other women to do it for them, as they have already come to do for them the spinning, weaving, cheese and butter making, dressmaking, millinery, etc. Symptoms of domestophobia are alarmingly apparent whenever a public speaker alludes to the unjust conditions of working women. Such a speaker is attacked with uncontrolled frenzy by hysterical ladies in the audience for not advising working women to relieve them of the hated tasks of household drudgery. It has been fully demonstrated to any rational mind that domestic service is among the very objectionable fields of women's work today. The ladies themselves will not do it and the majority of intelligent working women share their objections to it. This leaves the field to women who are, on the whole, incompetent and unfit, and the stories of their incompetence and unfitness encroach upon every topic of conversation in the polite world of women. "Doing one's own work," seems despised enough, but the working women point out additional objections to housework performed for others. The word service holds their first objection. There is something in American atmosphere which stimulates the dislike for being an "underling" in close personal service to a capricious and superior "mistress". "That is not nice - among us - to be a hired girl," says the self-respecting applicant for a job. The indefiniteness of the tasks required leaves a large possibility for injustice to the hired girl. Unbargained for and preposterous tasks are apt to be asked of a servant girl. For instance, a lady will appear in the kitchen and say: "Mary, John does not seem to be coming this morning, and I shall have to ask you to make the furnace fire"; or "Mary, I am called out and I shall have to ask you to mind the baby"; or "Mary, my sister and her daughter, who is very ill, are coming to spend a month with us, but I don't think it will make very much extra work, because they are bringing a trained nurse". Getting through work for the day at 5:30 or 6:00 daily and having Sunday untouched by the "boss" are sufficient in themselves to account for the preference for shop and factory work. In domestic so-called "days off" are never full days off, and the leisure time the mistress offers every day is so scattered and uncertain that it does not count in the girl's mind. Living with their own kind of people and receiving friends and sweethearts unquestioned through a front door and into a sitting-room are important considerations. Working, resting, going and coming in much company of their equals appeal to working women as social opportunities, with superior chances for congenial marriages. The Inter-Municipal Committee for Household Research is gathering records of successful experiments in modern methods of housekeeping. Let us hunt up these modern methods, study them and improve upon them instead of foolishly fuming and foaming in frenzy. May 4, 1906 N.D. Historical Society Partial report of the State Historical Society made at the meeting of the board of directors, April 16, 1906, at Grand Forks, N.D.: To the Board of Directors: The secretary desires to call your attention to the following summary report of the expenditures of the society from the last meeting of the board, May 13, 1905 to April 16, 1906: Historical survey of the state, summer of 1905 304.04 Expenses of ER Steinbreuck for work on Mandan collection 407.49 Railway transportation and other traveling expenses 77.26 Office rent 49.00 Office furniture including typewriter and file case 112.91 Books and pamphlets 157.75 Newspaper collection 230.15 Museum specimens including cases 125.52 Camera and supplies 92.30 Postage, stationery and printing 59.01 Freight, dray and express 16.35 Miscellaneous supplies and services 38.30 Total 1,648.46 The revenue of the society to meet these expenditures for the same period are as follows: Annual appropriation by the state, 2 years 2,500.00 Dues from members 90.00 From sale of books not needed by society 55.00 Previous balance in the treasury 80.82 Total 2,725.82 Balance for remainder of year's expenditures 1,077.82 Your attention is further called to the following results of the work of the society during the same period: 1. A membership of one hundred and thirty-seven, a large number of whom are taking an active part in the work of the society. 2. A preliminary historical survey of the state by the secretary for future use the purpose of locating for future use the archaeological and historical materials in which North Dakota is so rich. 3. A valuable collection of books, documents and pamphlets, manuscript materials and photographs, historical relics and Indian specimens for the library and museum of the society at Bismarck. In the collection of the Mandan specimens the secretary has been greatly aided by the efficient services of E.R. Steinbreuck of Mandan. 4. The newspaper collection. The volumes are now being bound preparatory to placing them in the rooms of the society at Bismarck. The collection contains a file of every paper in the state, with duplicates for clipping, over 276 in number, and 9 papers outside the state, mostly from Canada. These papers cost the society nothing but the filing and binding and will in a few years become one of the most valuable possessions of the society. 5. Two valuable loan collections which are to be placed in the museum and which are to be purchased as fast as there are funds available for the purpose. The owners of these collections are Geo. H. Bingenheimer, of Mandan, whose specimens are largely of the Sioux tribe; and Mrs. Chas. Hoffman, of Shell Creek, whose specimens are chiefly Gros Ventre. In the preparation of the forthcoming volume of Collections, the secretary has been very fortunate in gaining the confidence and securing the cooperation of a large number of representative members of the Sioux, Chippewa, Mandan, Ree and Gros Ventre tribes of the state. In this way there have come into the possession of the society valuable specimens, tribal myths and ceremonies, photographs of individuals in full dress and other record of the old life which are now so rapidly disappearing at this time and which, once lost can never be recovered. Rev. C.L. Hall, missionary at Elbowoods, from his knowledge of several Indian languages and his long experience on the Ft. Berthold reservation, has been of the utmost assistance to the society in their work among the Mandans, Gros Ventres and Rees. The society is fortunate, also in being able to command the services, just now, of several men who are donating their work freely, in conjunction with the secretary, to preserve and record the early history of the state. Among the most efficient of these contributors are Prof. H.C. Fish of Marshfield, Wis., graduate of the University of Wisconsin; Prof. John M. Gillette of Valley City Normal, graduate of Chicago University and Rev. G.L. Wilson of Langdon, graduate of Oberlin College. It is highly desirable at this time and it would be of the greatest assistance to the secretary if all those having anything worthy of publication in our first volume of Collections would send it in at once. The State Historical society belongs to the citizens of the whole state and its publications are freely open to all contributors along every line of special or general interest. O.G. Libby, Secretary Address, 1021 University Avenue Grand Forks, N.D. The Historical Society is certainly doing a work that is very much needed in this state. We hear from Ft. Berthold reservation of an effort being made by the society to have the U.S. Government set aside as a state preserve and controlled by the society that part of the reservation once used by the three tribes as village site and burial place. A movement is on foot, also to have the old settlers and traders of the state gather at the old Lewis & Clark fort site on the Missouri River, Stanton and locate the sites of this and other forts, trading posts and the Indian village in the vicinity. It is quite likely also that representatives of the Mandan, Gros Ventre and Ree tribes will be at this meeting with an official interpreter and they will no doubt add much to the interest of the occasion. The recent aid given by the secretary of the society to Leonard Crunelle, the Chicago artist, in finding material for the statue of Sakakawea, is an illustration of the general usefulness of such an organization. Mr. Crunelle was invited by the society to visit the state and study the Gros Ventre Indian women and their costumes so that the statute he is at work upon might be accurate in every detail. Incidentally the secretary was able, with the expert aid of Rev. C.L. Hall, of Elbowoods, to correct the Indian spelling of the Bird woman, Sakakawea. So useful an organization and one so thoroughly representative of its membership and purpose should receive better support in the future. The membership should be doubled by another year in appreciation of what the society is doing for the state. Alex Messer, our genial postmaster, has had several changes and alterations made in the post office this week. The cabinet has been set back farther in the store and while giving him a great deal more room for the office, also adds to the looks and convenience of the public and gives more store room. CARTWRIGHT NEWS NOTES (from the Review) Mr. John Wallace was unfortunate enough to lose one of his prize Herefords, Marchond 3rd, of indigestion. He was valued at $300. The sum of $45, recently lost by the editor of this paper, fell into honest hands and was duly returned last Saturday. The burning our of a culvert on the road between Cartwright and Mather on Friday afternoon was responsible for an accident that occurred that night. While traveling after dark Dr. Davidson and Aleck Martin drove into the open culvert, a bad mix-up occurring, Aleck was kicked a couple of times by one of the horses, but all things considered the results were not as serious as might have been expected. LOCAL NEWS R.E. Rognas' store has been treated to a coat of paint. The Devils Lake Chautauqua will open this year on June 30th and close July 17th. Vince Komarek; who has been employed in Blackburn's drug store the past six months; left Wednesday for his home in Michigan City. J.E. Knight, who has been seriously ill with typhoid fever, reported to be out of danger and convalescent. BORN - To Mr. and Mrs. Alex Messer, on Wednesday, May 2nd, a baby girl. Alex is as happy as a clam and everybody is smoking the customary cigar. Mother and child are reported to be doing well. S.L. Phillip was a pleasant caller the fore part of the week and reports that he is a busy man these days. He has orders ahead for five self feeders, on which he recently secured a patent, with prospects for the sale of several more. He will probably move his machine shop, which is one of the best equipped shops in this part of the state, to this city, in order to be in a better territory to make sales in. The Pioneer plant was moved into our new quarters this week and we will after this week be able to give both our patrons and ourselves better satisfaction in every way. Of necessity the amount of news published this week is small, for the reason that it took considerable time to more the plant from one building to the other and we had to neglect our paper in order to get moved. We hope that our patrons will forgive us this time and we promise to give you a better paper in the future. McDougall, the popular grain buyer at the Farmers Elevator, who was reported to be very ill with typhoid fever at his home in Lakota, surprised his friends by coming up the line the last of the week, and returning to his old post. It is not only fortunate for Mr. McDougall that the report was not true, but also for our baseball boys who were wondering what was to be done to fill the place of "Little Mac". We are glad to chronicle that while not feeling in the best of health yet, Mac is a pretty lively corpse and will make the ball tossers go some with our home team this season. D.A. Blackburn and family visited relatives at Cartwright Sunday. When a man wants anything around the house and can't find it, the discovery is made that the children had it last. A match carelessly thrown into some rubbish nearly caused the destruction of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt Monday night. It was only by prompt action that the house was saved. W.C. Briggs, who for the past six months has officiated at this place as custom officer, has been relieved and left Saturday for Holmfield, Manitoba to visit with friends. May 28th is the day that is chosen for the Plow Exhibition to be given on S.M. Brown's field joining Hansboro on the south. In this exhibition two men will pull a 28 inch Triumph Gang Plow, plowing a full furrow. An expensive dynamometer will be used in showing you that the J.I. Case, our Triumph Plow, draws easier than a walking plow. All interested parties are cordially invited to attend this exhibition. Did you notice those ready made skirts and shirtwaists at Rognas' Store? Dr. Robertson, formerly of this place, came up the first of the week for a few days to visit with friends in this vicinity and incidentally to attend to some business affairs. A dance is to be given in Hooser's Opera House on Friday evening, May 11th, the proceeds to be for the benefit of the Hansboro Baseball team. Everyone should turn out and not only have a good time, but help the boys along, for there is nothing that does more to advertise a town than a good ball team and good band. Don't forget the date and everyone come. May 11, 1906 LOCAL NEWS District Court has been adjourned from May 7th until June 4th at ten o'clock a.m., by order of Judge Cowan. Mrs. C.H. Browne and the children arrived the first of the week from Cando, where she went to attend to the shipment of the household goods of ye editor. The new cottage being erected for S.M. Brown by the Hansboro Construction Co. is enclosed and the plasterer are both busy there this week. W.A. Hooser and family will occupy the house as soon as it is completed. At the last ball meeting held Tuesday evening the following officers were elected: B.L. Thomas, Secretary and Treasurer; Chris Paetow, Manager; O.H. Jamme, Captain. The boys have a good line-up and will give the ball tossers in this vicinity a good run for their money. Mrs. A. Blackorby has been very ill the past week and a doctor has been constantly in attendance. At the present writing she is somewhat improved and we hope to chronicle her complete recovery in the near future. W.C. Briggs, formerly Inspector of Customs at his place, returned the first of the week from a visit with friends at Holmfield, Manitoba. He reports having had a very pleasant trip and visit. He leaves this week for Neche, N.D. for a short visit with relatives. Miss Mae Blackorby came up from Cando the last of the week and spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Blackorby. When it was found that Mrs. Blackorby was out of danger she returned to her work as a stenographer for the law firm of Brooke & Kehoe. Alex Messer, our popular merchant-postmaster was the victim of a rather costly favor the other night. The favor was for the other fellow and Alex is out the $20. A touch character known as Black Leo who has been mixed up in every unsavory scrape and drunken brawl that has taken place in this vicinity sine the town started and who for some time peddled the "jack rabbit whiskey" that would make a man hate his mother came into the store late at night and asked to have a $20 bill changed. Alex tried to change it from the till, but was forced to open the safe in order to give the proper change and laid the bill on the counter and handed the fellow his change, and then noticed that the bill had disappeared; and being unable to find it, accused the tough of having it. This he denied and while Alex was out getting an officer to have him arrested he skipped to Canada as fast as a team would carry him. It is safe to say that he had better forget that there is such as Hansboro should he ever make up his mind to return to the states. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Ball games every night this week so far. Mrs. B.L. Thomas is visiting with relatives in Cando this week and Bert is a "widdy". John Wills and family came up last week from Cando and have taken up their residence in the building formerly occupied by the Pioneer. The meeting of the Republican Good Government League is to be held in Bisbee today as per the call published in the Pioneer of last week. A good attendance is expected. Ye scribe and family made a pleasure trip to Minot the last of the week for a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Buttz. We found the future metropolis on the boom. A great deal of building is now going on there and workmen in all the trades are as busy as bees. We predict that this city will in five years from this date be larger than either Fargo or Grand Forks. The Republican Central Committee met in Cando last Saturday and the call for a meeting of the voters of each Commissioner's District for the purpose of placing in nomination ten delegates to attend the State Convention will be found elsewhere in this issue. The meeting places are designated and every republican voter should make it a point to attend these meetings. Carl Olson returned to Cando Thursday. Mrs. B.L. Thomas returned from her visit with Cando friends yesterday. Stanley Hubeley went down to Devils Lake Tuesday on a business trip and returned to this city yesterday. Mrs. W.A. Hooser and son Harry went down the line the first of the week for a short visit with relatives in Egeland. C.H. Olson, chairman of the board of county commissioners, was a business visitor in this city between trains yesterday. Hillis Kyle, the popular hardware man of Rolla, died yesterday afternoon at that place of cancer of the stomach. The Pioneer extends condolences to the bereaved relatives. May 18, 1906 A BIG LAND DEAL The heaviest land transaction ever made in Rolette County occurred here Monday when the sixteen hundred acre farm owned by C.R. Gailfus and Guido Widmeyer, in the township of Fairview, was purchased by Marion Edwards of Rolette, for $25,000. The sale covers sections 25 and 30, township 163, range 69, being a part of Fairview township, Rolette County and the SW 1-4 of Sec. 29, and the SE 1-4 of Sec. 30, township 162, range 68 of Picton, Towner County. There are about 1,000 acres under cultivation. Mr. Edwards will retain Samuel Hannon as manager of the farm until the lease expires. After that he may assume personal charge and gradually develop it into a stock farm. Rolla Star LOCAL NEWS Dr. Hamilton and family are expected home this week from Winnipeg where he has been confined in a hospital with an attack of typhoid fever. The W.C.T.U. will hold an Oraterical Silver Medal Contest in the Opera House in this city Thursday evening, June 7, 1906. Don't forget the date. Burt Moylan, the candidate on the Republican ticket for nomination for Register of Deeds, was in this city several days this week looking up his political interests. Those members of the M.B.A. who have not taken up their policies should call on the lodge secretary at this office and take them up at once. The contract for building the new Methodist Church was awarded to the Hansboro Construction Co., and work will be commenced next week. The structure would grace any town and will cost about $2,500. The baseball game between our home club and the Sarles nine which was to have been played here today was postponed on account of inclement weather. A return game will be arranged if possible next Friday. It is rumored that the Farmers Railroad has been purchased by the Great Northern and that the trains will soon be run from this end of the line instead of starting from Devils Lake. While this may look good on paper, yet we hope it is not true, as the service has been very good under the regime of Joseph Kelly, the only chance for complaint being that the freight was somewhat higher than would be the case if Great Northern owned the road. Tim will tell whether the road has really been purchased and we hope to be able to state authentically in our next issue as to the trust of the statement. Joseph Kelly, president of the Farmers road was up today. Two glorious rains the past week. One can almost see the crops grow. While playing ball against Sarles last Friday, Oliver Nelson had the misfortune to hurt his knee quite severely. It was at first thought that the knee cap was broken, but it was found to be a severe sprain. It is painful but Oliver says he will be able to make good at the next game. May 25, 1906 LOCAL NEWS A number of our citizens will attend the ball game at Cartwright this afternoon. Miss Mae Blackorby, of Cando visited with her parents near this city this week. A. Armour, the jovial squire of Armourdale, was a Hansboro visitor the last of the week. Quite a number of our baseball enthusiasts attended the tournament at Holmfield yesterday. Several teams are at work this week breaking up the quarter of land west of this city and the land will be seeded to flax. Chas. C. Converse, Republican candidate for state's attorney was up from Cando Monday and the Pioneer acknowledges a pleasant call. The ground was broken for the new Methodist Church on Tuesday and the work on the foundation will start the first of next week. The barn being erected on J.E. Knight's place northeast of town, by George Haas, is in a fair way for completion and will be a creditable building when it is finished. Jack Nichol was over from Rolla Wednesday. Myron VanOrder moved into Chas. Kessler residence this week. The cottage being erected for Sam Brown is nearly ready for occupancy. Miss Pearl Gay, of Egeland, visited with friends in this city several days the past week. James Moylan, one of the proprietors of the Central Hotel, was up from Cando several days the past week. Merchant O.L. Sande has let the contract for his new residence and work was commenced this week on the foundation. D.B. Collins came up from Cando Wednesday to look after his land interests in this vicinity and we acknowledge a pleasant call. D.F. McLaughlin, the genial banker from Cando, was a visitor in our little city Tuesday looking after business interests. He made the trip across with James Mahood in the auto. Miss Jessie Montgomery, who has officiated as "angel" at the Pioneer office for the past six weeks, was called to her home in Knox last week, by the serious illness of her father. We sincerely hope her father may recover. Dr. Hamilton and family returned from Winnipeg the last of the week and although somewhat weak from his recent illness, immediately entered upon the practice of his profession. We are glad to welcome them back to Hansboro. A special from Rock Lake announced that the democratic auto like the democratic mule took a fit at that place, and as a consequence James Mahood, et al were obliged to spend the night in that town, much against their will. Our auto has not arrived yet, but we think that we ought to cancel the order for the auto and purchase a tram instead of an auto. R.E. Rognas, the merchant prince from Rolla, was a business visitor in our city today. T.V. Lowe came over from Cando yesterday to attend to several business matters in this vicinity. He returned today. A big, fat baby boy arrived at the home of Charley Bisbee this week and Charley is as happy as a kid with his first pair of red top boots. The elevator at Considine was struck by lightning last week and burned to the ground. A number of cars which were on the sidetrack were also burned. J.J. McCanna, candidate for state senator, was a visitor in the city Tuesday looking up the political situation in this locality and attending to other business matters. We are authorized to announce the candidacy of Elmer T. Judd for the Republican nomination for the office of Auditor of Towner County, subject to the decision of the voters at the primary election.