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International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926

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INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. 1 TheArmy of A TIMELY WARNING. Constipation Backache, headache, dizzy spells ttnd distressing urinary troubles warn you of dropsy, diabetes and fatal t]E OUL4CI Is Growing Smaller Every Dafk Brigbt's disease. Act in time by curing CARTER'S LITTLE Doan's Kidney Pills, LIVER PILLS are the kidneys with tespo: rasible—they They have cured only give relief—they thousands and will permanently cure you. cure CoBstipation. Mrs. L. B. Burke, IVtU T3LACHAN?" lions use 219 So. Lilly St., Moscow, The old Indian Idaho, says: "I turned his face from I was almost crazy HmJacIm, •est, Iadifesti«a, Sick Sallow SkiaJ the camp fire and with excruciating pain fixed his bead-black SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICti through my kidneys. Genuine Signature eyes on mine." The kidney secretions mustbeu I repeated. "Oulachan," were highly colored, "Why do men scanty and looked like blood. For over call you Oulachan?" a month I was in bed, totally helpless. He turned his wrinkled Doan's Kidney Pills benefited WE PAY YOUR RAILROAD FARE face to the fire me wonderfully. They hare my endorsement at all times." again and we sat BOTH WAYS TO FLORIDA awhile in silence. Remember the name—Doan's. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a Then, in the deep gutturals and short, box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. broken words of his native tongue, he Or we will pay two fares from your home tc Florida one way. If you buy land in the Florida told me. Homeland Company's Celery Farms tract we Try to Come Back. "Many summers ago," he said, the do this for you. Celery Farms Colony is a fevt miles from Sanford, in the richest truck jrai'dening- Not long ago Lord Kinnaird, who is teepees of my father's tribe stood section of Florida. One thousand'10-acre always actively interested in religious tracts now only on sale at $25 an acre—62.50 an where we sit tonight. The white man acre down and $1.00 per acre per month until work, paid a surprise visit to a mission was not here then"—he pointed up paid. When the 1000 tracts are sold there will school in the east end of London be no other land at this price on Celery Farms. the river toward Kelso "the woods Lake and river transportation, best market, and told a class of boys the story of and the open were the Indian s. The best soil, best climate, fish and game plentiful. Samson. Introducing his narrative, Write today for copy of Florida Home Herald. Indian hunted and fished and was his lordship added: The Florida Homeland Company happy. But white men came up the "He was strong, became weak, and big river in canoes and they brought 490 Atlantic National Bank Building then regained his strength, enabling Jacksonville* Florida with them the black death. "Warriors, him to destroy his enemies. Now, klootchmen, pappooses, all alike sickened. boys, if I had an enemy, what would Many died. When the rain you advise me to do?" and the winter came, no deer meat, A little boy, after meditating on the no fish hung beside the teepees. For secret of that great giant's strength, THtr /=^or//y? /vjvy when the frost drove the black death shot up his hand and exclaimed: "Get away, the hunters were weak. They a bottle of 'air restorer." could not go to the woods for deer, 1 and the salmon had passed on up the There are two kinds of unhappy people little river. The Indian was very in the world—those who are sad hungry. The klootchmen and the because they are not known, and those nappooses cried for meat. And when who are miserable because they are. DEFIANCE STMCH—L'TXJt the Indian was ready to fold his blanket •-other starches only 12 ounces—same price and around him and lie down to the Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup. SUPERIOR QUALITY, "DEFIANCE" 16 JTor children teething, softens the gums, reduces in* long sleep, the Great Spirit saw and tlammation,allays sain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. DATEliT sent food. From the north it came, YOUR IDEAS. They may bring ro® •Ml Kill wealth. 64-page Book Free. Kst. f-sS But it doesn't rain very hard on the from under the frozen water. Swimming Fitzgerald & Oo.. Pat.Attys.jiox K. Washington,D.Cl unjust if he is roosting under a stolen together. A long rope—big umbrella. W. N. U.f No. 37--191(\ Minneapolis, many suns long. Many little fish swimming at the bottom of the big water—"the Strong Healthy Women Pacific—"along the bottom of the big river"—the Columbia. "They came here to the mouth of the little If a woman is strong and healthy in a womanly way, moth* river"—he pointed to the Cowlitz erhood means to her but little suffering. The trouble lies flowing past us in the darkness to the In the fact that the many women suffer from weakness and Columbia—"and here they came to the disease of the distinctly feminine organism and are unfitted top of the water. My father saw ior motherhood. This can be remedied. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription Cures the weaknesses end disorders of women* It acts directly on the delicate and important organs concerned in motherhood, making them Ileal thy, strong* vigorous, virile and clastic. "Favorite Prescription" banishes the indispositions of the C/ITCH/NG THEr OUL CH#" period of expectancy and makes haby's advent easy and almost painless. It quickens and vitalizes the feminine organs, and insures a healthy and robust baby. Thousands of women have testified to its marvelous merits. Makes Weak Women Strong. Makes Sick Women Well. It It that Is necessary. One 5,000 tons of oulachan, and as the fish average Honest druggists do not offer substitutes, and urge them upon you as just does not even need the about eight to the pound 80,000,000 of them went as good." Accept no secret nostrum in place of this noH-secret remedy. It dip net to catch a the way of the market and the frying pan. contains not a drop of alcohol and not a grain of habit-forming or injurious The fishing grounds of the Cowlitz are practically "mess," for the river is drugs. Is a pure glyeeric extract of healing, native American roots. the only ones where the oulachan can be literally alive with oulachan and children often caught in paying quantities. On the Columbia WESTERN CANADA'S bail them out of the some few are caught by gill netters. But the water with tin cans, getting river is deep and for the most part the fish swim beyond the reach of the widest net. Even when half fish and half 1910 CROPS caught they have to be pickad one by one out water. Where the water of the meshes, so putting, tho gill netter out of Is shallow enough competition with the Cowlitz man and his greedy, they can even be caught long-handled dipper. The grounds extend but with the bare hands, as Wheat Yield in Many Districts Will eight or ten miles in the Cowlitz. Before Kelso their skin is not slimy was on the map the best location is said to have when in the water. Be From 25 to 35 Bushels Per Acre The run is always been directly opposite where the Northern Pacific depot now stands, but tfce growth of the heralded far down the Land sales and homestead entries increasing. No cessation in numbers- going from TTniteA. Btates. Wonderful opportunities remain for those who intend making Canada their home. town has driven the fish farther up and the best Columbia by flocks of New districts being opened up for settlement. Many farmers will net, this year, $10 to $15 per them and shouted, 'Oulachan.' Hunters and catches are now made two miles above this point. eagles, gulls and hawks, following in the wake acre from their wheat crop. All the advantages of old settled countries are there. Good schools, churches, splendid markets, excellent railway facilities. See the grain exhibit at the klootchmen went into the water and caught the of the living rope of fish and picking up the Between the small floating do\ j£s of the town different State and some of the County fairs. oulachan with their hands. 'Oulachan,' they and the fishing grounds boats p\y day and night dead as they come to the surface. Then the fishermen Letters similar to the following are received every day, testifying to satisfactoryconditions shouted. They made potlach and were filled. In during the runs, going upstrean. empty and returning gather by hundreds in their boats along other districts are as favorably spoken of: that hour was I born. My name is Oulachan." laden with fish. Over 50Q boats are employed the fishing grounds and feel along the bottom THEY SENT FOR THEIR SON. My Drother-ln-law, Mr. Frank J. Zimmer, lives thereand The oulachan still runs in the Cowlitz and" in the industry, about 75 Jf them povrer it was through him that we decided to locate la with the pole ends of their dip nets. When the Maidstone, Sask., Canada, Aug. 5th, 1910. Canada." Yours truly, "My parents came hero from Cedar Falls, Iowa, every year there is a feast, but it is a feast for boats. pole strikes the small, wriggling bodies swimming Mrs. Richard Henry Ebinger. four years ago, and were so well pleased with this country they sent to Coeur d'Alene for me. I have white men the Indian tribes have vanished It seems strange that the oulachan, sc. far along the river bottom In solid phalanx, TAKES HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW'S WORD FOR IT. taken up a homestead near them, and am perfectly from the river. During the early months of winter it is simply dip and fill, empty the net into the superior to the eastern smelt, has v-.ever reached satisfied to stop here." Leonard Douglas. Taylors Falls, Minn., Aug. 7, 1910, "I shall go to Camrose t.ftia Fall with my cattle and. Portland and all the cities and towns within boat, dip and fill again, until the boat can hold the eastern markets. The fish ai^ packed in household goods. I got a poor crop here this year WANTS SETTLER'S RATE FOR HIS STOCK. and my brother-in-law, Axel Nordstrom in Camrose.. reach of the fishing grounds look forward to the no more. There is not much sport about it. It 50-pound boxes for shipment and the earlier Stettler, Alberta, July 31st, 1910. wants me to come there. He formerly lived in "Well I got up here from Forest City, Iowa, last Wilton, North Dakota. I am going to buy or tak® feast. In the old days when Portland was the is just about as exciting as clam digging and catches sell in the wholesale market at from Spring in good shape with the stock and everything. homestead when I get there, but I brother-in-law's-towantnotdo Now, I have got two boys back in Iowa yet, and I only market fishermen scrambled for the first travel two times there, for I take my requires no more skill. Quantity caught, and $2.50 to $5.00 the box but in the height of the am going back there now soon to get them and another word about the country, and want to get your lowrate." of the run. A wild race of the deep-laden boats car up here this fall. What I would like to quickness in dipping one's boat full to the gunwales season the ordinary fisherman gets only about Yours truly know is, if there Is any cHknce to get a cheap rate Peter A. Nelson* up the Columbia followed, anfi the first boatload back again, and when we return to Canada I will of flapping little fish are the smelt fisherman's $50 for 200 boxes—10,000 pounds. On the riven call at your office for our certificates." to reach the market sold, smelt for silver, weight WANTS TO RETURN TO CANADA. ideals of sport. And during the runs fishermen, are several men who buy at these prices from Tours truly, H. A. Wlk. Vesta, Minn., July 24th, 1919 for weight. But since railroads and refrigerator fish eaters and even the eternally gobbling other fishermen, maintain boats of their own "I went to Canada nine years ago and took up & WILL MAKE HIS HOME IN CANADA. quarter section of railroad land and a homestead.. cars have put smelt fishing on the basis of a seagulls alike become sated. When the and ship direct to retail markets. Portland has Brainerd, Minn., Aug. 1st, 1910. Dut my boys have never taken up any land yet. I "I am going to Canada a week from today and practical industry, the first run of the oulachan still hold the railroad land. I had to come back to gulls are at all hungry the fishermen amuse wholesale buyers on the ground, and probably intend to make my home there. My husband has the states on account of my health. Please let ma does not bring more than 20 cents the pound in been there six weeks and is well pleased with the themselves by tossing up smelt for the gulls to the greater part of the retail trade is supplied know at once if I can get the cheap rates to Ponoka, country so he wants me to come as soon as possible. Alberta.' Yours truly. the northwestern retail markets, though the very catch in the air. A seagull on the wing will grab through them. At Kelso smelt have been shipped He filed on a claim near Landis, Sask., and Geo. Paskowitz, by his description of it it must be a pretty place. Vesta, Minn. first to arrive are eagerly sought at prices somewhat a fish by the middle or tail, toss and reverse it as far east as Wisconsin. The fishermen saj Send for literature and ask the local Canadian Governnient Agents for Excursion Rate^, higher. in air, and gulp it down head first in the wink that with cold storage facilities the output could best districts in which to locate, and when to go. Known commercially as the Columbia river of an eye. be greatly increased. Canning in the form of CHAS. PILLING, Clifford Block, Grand Forks, North Dakota smelt, the king of pan fish has several names. Most of the fishing is done at night. Daylight sardines has never been tried, though in the Ichthyologists classify it as thleichthys pacificus, seems to scatter the fish, but even in daytime opinion of experts the fish so treated would discount J. M. MAC LACHLAN, Box 116, Watertown, South Dakota of the smelt family. The Indians of the Columbia during the height of the season the fishermen the imported sardine. The market is usu E. T. HOLMES, 315 Jackson Street, St. Paul, Minnesota river region knew it as oulachan and the pioneer keep at their work with good results. As a rule, ally demoralized early in the five months' season fishermen called it the Eskimo candle fish. there are two men to each boat and the craft by schoolboys, who go out, load up a few In shape it resembles the. smelt of the eastern are filled In an Incredibly short time. One night boats with fish and become an easy mark for states and Europe, but its rich yet delicate and last season two Kelso men filled a power launch buyers. Often, too, Greeks and Italians come up sweet flavor places it far above them in the estimation to its capacity of 2,250 pounds in 45 minutes, or the river In boats, stay a day or two and sell of the epicures. Indeed, enthusiasts insist at the rate of 50 pounds a minute, and catches their fish for whatever they can get, and the men that as a pan fish it is superior to trout of any of 10,000 pounds in one day and night were frequent. regularly engaged in the trade want to make it kind. a licensed one, on this account. For unnumbered years the oulachan has made While the Cowlitz river is the only constant xThe growing output of the oulachan would Specializes in Bookkeeping, Banking and High Accounting, Shorthand and Reporting. the Cowlitz river Its spawning ground and of spawning ground, the oulachan has been known seem, on the face of it, to demand a Gifford Pinchot Graduates Earn $50 to $80 a Month from the Start course the Columbia river Indians were the first to run up the Lewis and the Sandy. At the time on the fish commission. But the supply to use it for food. During the runs they caught We not only Guarantee Position*, but prove that we constantly have at our command morepositions of the run up the Lewis, 14 years ago, there was increases year after year with the demand and than we can fill. Send for free catalog and particulars about earning tuition and board. the fish in vast quantities, drying 'and smoking G.<p></p>MICA only a small run of male fish in the Cowlitz, and apparently knows no limit. Last year's run M. LANGUM, President 619 First Ave. South, Minneapolis, Minn. them, and dried, tMually used them for light the fishermen made their season's catch in the broke all records and the Cowlitz smelt fisher AXLE GREASE In their teepees. Fo? so much is the oulachan in Lewis. About once in eight years there is a run is looking forward in happy confidence to the oil that, with a strip of bark run through it, the up the Sandy, apparently independent of the coming winter, when the deeps and shallows of dried fish will burn with a clear flame from nose Cowlitz run, as the number in that river is not the streams will again be filled with oulachan. lessened. At the time of the last run in the to tatf. Keeps the spindle bright and In the early months of the northwestern winter Sandy a party of Portland men went out with dip Sad Blow. free from grit. Try a box» the oulachan gather in uncountable millions nets. One man lost his dip net but found an "Was she overcome by her husband's sudden Sold by dealers everywhere. at some unknown spot in Bering sea and begin old, rusty, discarded bird cage. He tied it to death?" STANDARD OIL CO. their southward swim. Always close to the ocean the end of a pole and scored an equal catch with "Oh, yes. She had just bought half a dozen bed, traveling in the form of a monster rope miles (Incorporated) the others. During the same run farmers drove new ball gowns."—Birmingham Age-Herald. dn length, they pass all the river and fiord open[ings their wagons into "the stream, dipped them full along the coast until the mouth of the Columbia of fish and hauled load after load to their orchards Soaring. Is reached. Then, so closely hugging the to use as fertilizer. Pork sold in the "She married an old man who 13 very rich." [river bottom that kill nets all but useless, kre Portland market some months later had a distinctly '1 went one better on that. I married a young '-to reach them, they make for the Cowlitz. A fishy flavor and revealed the fact that aviator who is a millionaire.—Pele Mele. Other schools hare come and gone. This school has had an increasing jfow relies up from the mouth of that river they s«me of the thrifty agriculturists had fed smelt TDicrk success for over thirty years. It develops minds, manners and in if la THIED It trains young people for the highest office positions. Its catalog latea*. li their liogs. istrlk* the shallower water, and come within easy Hard to Convince. AND 04 S. 3rd Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota ireach of the waiting fishermen. L.Qst season tno Cowlitz river was the spawning TRUE Little Tommy (eldest of the family, at dinner) I OBOTE A. GRUMAN, Secretary From Indian times until the great catch of ground of thy greatest run of smeU ever —Mamma, why don't you help me before Ethel? WHY MEN DRINK jlast season the method of fishing has been the kuown by fishermen who have boen in the business Mamma—Ladies must always come first. AND USE DRU6S, AND HOW TO CURE THEH" I same. A boat or a canoe to fish from, and a dip over twenty year.?. At the c:-j?scn's close Tommy (triumphantly)—Then why was I born .net with a Ion* handle for fishing tackta. all the river ia.O yjoMed ever lO/iOQ.^o rct-vj". rr OUR NEW BOOK TELLS ALL ABOUT nV tefore Ethel?—Tit-BUr. SENT FREE, ADDRESS THE KEELEY INSTITUTE, Tenth Street South, MIpjimpoIIs, Minir* 629