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/ Abandoned farms in the North- Chicago Board of Trade, annual 



west, 5. dealings in futures, 158. 



Anderson, J. M., president of the Co-operative experiments: in Eng- 



Equity, prevents a riot at Fargo land and elsewhere, 113; with 



when the police break up an "Farmers' elevators," 123-127. 



Equity meeting, 134. Creel, George, formerly chairman 



"Appreciation Week" in North national Committee on Public 



Dakota, 179. Information: magazine article 



Armour-Peavey oats deal of 1906, relating to loyalty of League, 



157-158. 244; letter concerning same sub- 

 ject, 245-246. 



"Back to the Land!", fallacy of, 



63. Dockage, regulation of, by Non- 

 Bank of North Dakota: establish- partisan League legislature, 261. 

 ing of, 256; practical operations Drake, Benjamin, testimony of: 

 of, 299-300. concerning weighing abuses, 74; 



Banks : power of, in North Dakota concerning indictment of J. J. 



and the Northwest, 17, 18, 126; McHugh, 139. 



attitude of, toward co-operative Duluth Board of Trade: controlled 



enterprises, 127; used to support by Minneapolis Chamber of 



" Better Farming" movement. Commerce, 141; refuses to con- 



177-178. fer with committee of North 



Barnes, Julius, advises against Dakota Bankers' Association, 



state-owned elevator, 105. 144-145; testimony of H. T. 



Bennett, Frank, of Harwood, Fowler concerning, 146. 



North Dakota, actual experi- Duplicated commissions in grain- 



ences under reforms instituted handling: testimony of F. B. 



by Nonpartisan League legis- Wells concerning, 44-45; testi- 



lature, 318. mony of G. F. Ewe, 43-44; tes- 



" Better Farming " movement, the: timony of Hon. James Manahan, 



charged with being a device of 45-46. 

 Big Business, 175; origin of its 



funds, 176; assisted by United Ewe, G. F., testimony of, concern- 

 States Department of Agricul- ing ownership of "line" eleva- 

 ture, 176; collapse, 177. tors, 43-45. 



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



concerning wrecking of the of, 13; ownership of, 14. 



Farmers' Exchange, 114. False balances and questionable 



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