INDEX 



Abandoned farms in the North- 

 west, 5. 



Anderson, J. M., president of the 

 Equity, prevents a riot at Fargo 

 when the police break up an 

 Equity meeting, 134, 



"Appreciation Week" in North 

 Dakota, 179. 



Armour-Peavey oats deal of 1906, 

 157-158. 



"Back to the Land!", fallacy of, 

 63. 



Bank of North Dakota: establish- 

 ing of, 256; practical operations 

 of, 299-300, 



Banks: power of, in North Dakota 

 and the Northwest, 17, 18, 126; 

 attitude of, toward co-operative 

 enterprises, 127; used to support 

 "Better Farming" movement, 

 177-178. 



Barnes, Julius, ad\ases against 

 state-owTied elevator, 105, 



Bennett, Frank, of Harwood, 

 North Dakota, actual experi- 

 ences under reforms instituted 

 by Nonpartisan League legis- 

 lature, 318. 



*' Better Farming" movement, the: 

 charged with being a device of 

 Big Business, 175; origin of its 

 funds, 176; assisted by United 

 States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, 176; collapse, 177. 



Chicago Board of Trade, annual 

 dealings in futures, 158. 



Co-operative experiments : in Eng- 

 land and elsewhere, 113; with 

 "Farmers' elevators," 123-127. 



Creel, George, formerly chairman 

 national Committee on Public 

 Information : magazine article 

 relating to loyalty of League, 

 244; letter concerning same sub- 

 ject, 245-246. 



Dockage, regidation of, by Non- 

 partisan League legislature, 261. 



Drake, Benjamin, testimony of: 

 concerning weighing abuses, 74; 

 concerning indictment of J. J. 

 McHugh, 139. 



Duluth Board of Trade : controlled 

 by Minneapolis Chamber of 

 Commerce, 141; refuses to con- 

 fer with committee of North 

 Dakota Bankers' Association, 

 144-145; testimony of H, T. 

 Fowler concerning, 146. 



Duplicated commissions in grain- 

 handling: testimony of F. B. 

 Wells concerning, 44-45; testi- 

 mony of G. F. Ewe, 43-44; tes- 

 timony of Hon. James Manahan, 

 45-46. 



Ewe, G. F., testimony of, concern- 

 ing ownership of "line" eleva- 

 tors, 43-45. 



Case, George E., testimony of. Falls of St, Anthony: importance 

 concerning wTecking of the of, 13; o\\Tiership of, 14. 

 Farmers' Exchange, 114. False balances and questionable 



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