The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 10, 1916, Page 15

Our Market _ - Information South St. Paul, Feb. 7.—With about 1400 cattle on the market today, the market in the killing division ruled about steady, while Chicago had 21,- 000 cattle, steady to 10 lower. Select fed steers, $7.756 to $8.50; good, to choice, from $7.00 to $7.75; fair to good, $6.25 to $7.00. Select fed cows and heifers, from $6.25 to $6.75; good to choice, $5.50 to $6.00; fair to good, from $5.00 to $5.50; common to fair, $4.50 to $4.75. Cut- ters around $4.25; canners, $3.50 to $4.00. Shelly old cows, $3.25 or less. Butcher bulls, $5.65 to $6.25; bolog- nas, from $5.25 to $5.50; common light bulls, from $4.50 to $5.00. Veal calves a quarter higher today; $10.00 top; seconds, $8.25; culls, around, $7.00; weiners, $4.00 to $4.75. Stocker and feeder market ruled strong- today. Select heavy fleshy Feeders, $6.75 to $7.00; good to choice, $6.25 to $6.50; fair to good $5.75 to $6.25. Good to choice yearlings and calves, $5.50 to $625; fair good, from $5.00 to $550; common to Fair, from $450 to $5.00. Stock heifers, good to cheice, $5.50 ‘to $5.75; fair to good, $5.00 To $5.50. Choice fleshy feeding cows, $4.50 to $5.00; fair to good, $4.00 to $4.50. Stock bulls $4.75 to $5.50. h T}l,xe hoglgmrket togay g;lgd 10 igher, sa ranging from $7.60 to $7.95, bulk selling :around $7.85. Pigs selling around $6.50'to $6.75. Sheep and lamb market steady. Top lambs $10.00; seconds, $8.00 to $8.50; light western ewes, $7.00; heavies, $6.25; bucks aréund $5.75. J. R. Kirk ‘Com. Co. DEMOCRAYS ENDORSE B. OLSON At a meeting of the Democratic central committee for Ransom coun- ty held in the court house on Feb- runary 5th. Bill Olson of Valley City was endorsed, for national committe- man by a wote of 17 to 4. The pro- gressive democratic - platform as adopted at the meeting held at the time of the Tri-State Grain Growers’ convention in Fargo was tunanimously endorsed. The deélegation to the- national convention as endorsed by the progressives consisting of L. L. Stair, P. A. Suhumski, J. C. Leum, " Carl Bicheler, F. O. Hellstrom, Jos- eph Morin, J. B. Hagelberger, Tim O’Connor, Dave Hamilton and J. E. l1;;'ady was also unanimously endors- A resolution condemning Carl Jor- genson’s tax schedule as upfair, un- warranted and unjust was also pass- ed unanimously. MORTON NOT THE FIRST Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am in receipt of a sample copy of your most interesting paper ‘in which you state that Mortun county has just installed a county scales, and hg so doing has set an exampel that the other counties in the state ‘will do well to follow. Now the average citizen of Wells county is sure that he lives in o of the best and most up-to-date coun- ties in the state, and I have been ask- ed to inform you that Wells has had two such scales in use Tor some time, and, the probabilities are that more will be installed in the near future. —Henry Harding, County Auditor, Fessenden, N. D. A VALUABLE INVENTION = Roy Wiliams and Henderson Wag- ner, farmer boys, living south.of Des- Lacs, have patented a steering gear for plowing tractors which promises not only to bring the boys a fortune, but to revolutionize the use of trac- tors for plowing purposes. The inventors have been offered $10,000 for the Canadian rights and; have -had a4 number of inquiries from American manufacturers, -asking ‘them to name a price for the patent out- right or a royalty basis. No offer has been accepted as yet. § Trachone Reported Health officers of Dunn county re- port several cases of trachone and are asking the state health officers if per- sons suffering from the disease may be treated at public cost. Several cases . are also reported in the Turtle moun- tain district as well as on the Fort Totten reservation. Trachone is cur- able if taken in time, but if allowed to develop causes blindness angd is very contageous. ; In a little more than one year of operation the Mandan-Killdesr N. P. branch has ‘hauled out over 300,000 bushels of grain. Addison-Leech, former secretary of Cass county, has been elected secretary: “of the North Dakota agricultural college to succeed W. A. Yoder, re- THE NONPARTISAN LEADER A STATE PROJECT THAT’S WORTH WHILE (Mandan Pioneer) The men who are urging state own- ed elevators to be located within the state are in the opinion of the editor of this paper just a step in advance of those who favored a North Da- kota elevator in St. Paul or Djuluth. If there is any merit to the propo- sition that the state shall own and control grain elevators, it is self evi- dent that the control will be absolute within the borders of the state, where ownership in another state may be hedged about with such restric- tions as the mneighboring state may see fit to mgose, and the same elements responsible for injustices from which the farmers suffer will have free hand to still further ham- Eerfl?orthfbakpta as a state in the andling of grain. Breat Possibilities The million horse-power going to waste in the Missouri river suggests that ‘the state, if it is going into the elevator business might just as well go a step farther and turn the grain into a marketable product, and the location of a power plant, mills and elevators will make of Mandan and So long as the Twin Cities can keep this state Trom doing more than mere- ly tilling the soil and shipping her FOR SALE—Four farms in Burleigh County, N. Dak.; four improved farms cheap on easy terms mnear the town of Sterling, N. Dak.; sizes range from 160 to 640 acres. Ad- dress, J. H. Smith, Sterling, N. Dak. 5-4t CLOSING OUT SALE OF PERCHER- ON HORSES—Having sold my farm, 1 will sell my entire stock of regis- tered Percherons at public auction, at Omro, Wisconsin, March 1st, 1916. Parties interested can write for catalogue. Address, John H. Haigh, owner, R. D. 27, Pickett, ‘Wis,, or J. H. Denhart, auctioneer, ' Neenah, Wis. 5-3t FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—Gaso- line plowing and threshing rig com- plete.—295, Carrington N. Dak. 5-3- FOR SALE_Grand View Durocs of both sex; pedigree furnished; John _gohix)xes, Grand View Farm, Jud. FOR SALE—Tested Reg. Hereford bulls. Also Bromus Irmus seed, in- spected by Prof. Bolley and guar- anteed free from quack grass. Geo W. Mills, Harmaford, N. D. 4-10t FOR SALE— Pure Bred M. B. Tur- keys and B. P. Rock Cockereals; stock as good as the best. Mary pleased customers in the past; same in the future is my motto. Also one Ped P. China Boar. Toms $3.75; hens $2.75. 25c returned on receipt of empty crate. Cockerals $1.00. L. P. Andrews, Pekin, D. D. FOR SALE—Ome ¥our bottom self- lift, heavy :@uty J. 1. Case Engine rlow; new last fall; the plow for stony land. “C. 0. McDowell, Hal- stad, Minn. 3-it FOR SALE—One 4-bottom Emerson engine gang, good as new.. One 10- foot John Deere double engine disk vsed two seasons, in perfect condi- tion. J. L. Berg, Rock Lake, N. D. : - 6-3t FOR SALE—Registered Swedish Se- lected ‘Osts. Will make exeellent seed oats. Yield 85 bushels on the acre last season. Weighs 44 pounds to the measured bushel. Germina- tion guaranteed. Will ship at 85 cents per bushel cleaned. Carl H. Ekstrand, R.F.D., Wimbledon, N.D. AUCTION SALES—Farmers contem- Fla,ting auction sales will save dol- ars sending for circulars before fixing date. Expense saving you should know, cost ou a Post Card. Rehrer, Rugby. N. Dak. 6-2t FOR SALE AT A SACRIFICE—My registered Polan 'China: Herd Boar Wilson 242059, ' purchased of John . Donelly & Sons last October for $25. This boar is a splendid individual and a good breeder. First check :for $20 takes him. Address, Nels. R. Lee, Grafton, N. D. 6-3 FOR SALE—Gas tractor, separator, six-bottom plow and oil tank com- plete, in good repair; or will trade for land or live stock. For particu- %rai write, Lock Bpx 180, Page, N. FOR SALE—Plump two-rowed seed barley; yield 1915, 46 bushels, weight 53 pounds. Price 85 cents f.o.b. Marion, N. Dak. Bags extra. Order early if wanted. Jacob D. Baas. ‘Marion, N. 'D. raw products in to be made market- able, in return receiving goods from factories and wholesale houses, just so long will North Dakota be with- out large cities, which provide in themselves a market for the products of the soil. Abundant Water Power Here at the crossing of the Mis- souri ‘is the foundatien of the Twin Cities of North Dakota. Here we have abundant water 'power if harnessed to grind, aH the wheat pro- duced in the state, and here, if the state is to committed to the propo- osition of entering the industrial field, is the one place to make a start. It would not be many years before there would be 100,000 “people here engaged in preparing North Dakota’s crops for market, and, turning cattle and hogs into marketable products, this 100,000 in turn furnishing a home market for flour, meats, vegetables and all that the farmer produces, a market that weuld mnot cost the farmer 13 cents a bushel to reach. And give us the central market here and the Missouri will not only be har- nessed to furnish power but we will have transportation to the seaboard for our products at a rate that will make the rate ?er mile per ton con- form more nearly to that charged, in the east. The proposition to spend the state’s money in a state or territory over which it has no jurisdiction is one that should be discouraged. HOW THE BANKS CONTROL A farmer from the western part of the state who called at the Leader office recently reported.there is only one newspaper in his country not mortgaged to the banks, and. he quotes the owner of that one free publication regarding efforts to tie his paper up also with the ‘financial interests of the community. “This paper has been going after Hanna and his administration and otherwise showing its independence,” said the farmer. “The editor told me of overhearing a conversation be- tween the two bankers of the town where his paper is published. The editor has purchased a new press for which he paid cash, having saved; the money before making the improve- ment in his plant. 3 “‘Where did so-and-So get the money to buy that press? the editor meetings. Just one question to decide N OW New. Rockford wants the petitions sign- ed SO THE PEOPLE CAN VOTE on the question of Capital Removal. The “Boss” politicians at Bismarck say (“NO” we won’t allow the people to vote on this important question—We don’t believe in the peoples’ weapon to correct legislation— The Initiative and Referendum. Just watch the Politicians throw. dust to blind the veters of the state—so they can’t see the REAL TMMEDIATE ISSUE— " namely—SIGNING THE PETITION. See our hooklet and previous issues of the Nonpartisan Leader, for facts. Send ‘for petition and have it at your 1T COSTS NOTHING “TO LET THE PEOPLE VOTE ON IT” Capital Removal Association NEW ROCKFORD, NORTH DAKOTA AR S0 . SO R AR TN St a3 FIFTEEN overheard one banker-ask.the other. “‘T don’t know; it’s a mystery to me,’ was the reply. “‘He has too much to say .in his paper,” continued the first banker. ‘We ought to get him obligated to us in some way and tone him down. If you get a chance to loan him some money do so and I will do the same, for we must get hold of him if we possibly can. “Now, that editor told me after~ wards,” continued the farmer who was telling the story, “that he would starve to death before he would ever borrow money in that community. He had always suspected their game and now he knows what they are up to and is on his guard. I suppose this incident is typical of conditions throughout the state and shows how the banks have leagely got control of the newspapers.” Whole Family Enjoys It I am a farmer’s son and we get that great paper, the Nonpartisan Leader, and every member of the family reads it and enjoys it.—Martin Olson. Tells Truth: Fears No One Yes the Leader, the Farmers’ paper is one of the best—in fact the best paper in the U. S. It tells the truth and fears no one. It surely makes a erson feel good and have a good augh when reading about Crafty and Slipry. Ha, ha, ha! I am read- ing every word of your paper and I am proud to be a member of the League, even if I be a $6.00 sucker. And T sincerely hope that we will all unite and cooperate (“united we stand, divided we fall”) for the pur- pose we are organized and show the special interests what the farmers of orth Dakota can do.—N. O. Chall- berg. Dairying and stock raising, not small grain farming, is responsible for bank deposits of over $700,000 at New Salem, say the bankers. Alfalfa and dairy herds have made that section one of the largest cream . producers - in the state. Some ‘of our best known politicians are now promising to remain active in politics but mever again hold of- fice. 'Well, the Nonpartisan League cannot prevent them from being ac- tive in politics.