Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-02
COL, DOMAIN INTERVIEWED
With Reference OH ftp to PEN,
Dina.
A Pleasant Journey and Grand
Ceremonies.


n ~ 1Cees "uN INuSSiui h"Nuto
OF Colonel Donan's Office yesterday
morning. and asked that usually reti-
cent ~ gentleman for 0 little descrip-
zion Of his trip tc Pembina and the
manner in which the people do things
10 that Canada American section,
The Colonel said:
The trip up there is full Of surprises
to a man from here. We have eot TO
thinking Of the Red River Valley as
being concentrated around Fargo. but
| found that most of the land from
here TO Pembina is as good as that in
our own much advertised section
Pembina itself, that we have scarcely
counted as a town, but looked upon as a
straggliDg village, is one OF the solid
growing young cities of the Territory.
II looks more like an old time Eastern
town than any place inthe new North
west. In every direction are trees and
the houses are built in almost a fOresr
Of tImber,and the streets are arranged
through the woods They have The
finest hotel in the territory, the
Ger0ux House, an elegant cream col
0red building, Of brick and stone.
steam heated throughout. where YOU
can get a better cup OF coffee than at
the Grand Pacific 10 Moorhead. They
have the grandest schoolhouse com
pleted in tue Territory, a large, beau
titul building of cream colored brick
stone facings, Mansard roof and an
observatory commanding a view OF the
country for twenty five miles. The
house has been built with all modern
improvements Inconvenience large
airy rooms, handsomely furnished aud
we'll lighted. and a room for philn.
sophical and chemical apparatus. Ii
was the opening OF that, with proper
turmalities, that the citizens arranged
a teachers institute to last three DAYS
and nights, the inaugural and dedi
catOrial address OF which | was in
vited to deliver. There arc two
Hourlshi1g newspapers, the Pioneer
and Northern Express. a great many
excellent business buildings and hand
some residences. The town itself i,
new, but Fort Pembina is one of the
Oldest settlements 10 the Red river
valley or the entire Northwest. On
the opposite side of the Red river, in
Minnesota, is the town of st. Vim.
cent. North OF ST. Vincent, on the
British side of the line, is Emerson
on the east side Of the river. the towr
being connected by a bridge witl
West Lynne. A drive Of six or sever
miles takes one through the foul
cities, which are. 10 local parlance
called the Four Corners, and have al
aggregate population Of nearly 10000
My entire visit was one grand round
and every minute Of it was crowded
with things to be remembered pleas
antly. Tuesday morning in compan,
with Professor Harris, Mr.. Hoaly
and Rev. MeSsrs. Creswell aud Ewing
| made a tour of the new school house
Wednesday afternoon a huge sleigh
on runnerS was driven up to the hotel
and in company With Hon N. Il. Mel
son, late United States Customhous,
Officer, but now the Representative
elect from the county, Mayor I. w
Gaffney, Captain B. II. Webster. H
r. Nau~hn, L. Q. Myrick, aud p. A
Getcheli, the irresistible huckleberrl
of the Pembina Pioneer, started for
round OF the Four Corners. We droy,
through West Lynne, crossed tn,
British line, which is marked by ret
posts about M hundred yards apart
and were entertained by Hon. Z. Il
Bradley, of Her Majesty's reyenu,
service, Collector OF the port o
Emerson, at the old Hudson Ba,
CompaDy's headquarters-a huge No
abs ark, containing an immense stool
Of everything, the chief feature of al
being the cellar, to which the Penn
bina gang found their way as il the,
were accustomed to it. Barrels, casks
tuns and pipes. many Of them loesipI
ss if they had staid there halt
century, filed almost the entire space
and nothing less than half pint COB
lets was used, the Britishers tafinI
whisky aud sherry, aud the Ameri
cans generally sticking to whisk,
straight.
We then drove across Longbrid0I
into Emerson. a town of $500 inhabi
tants, in which one mar has Just com
pleted a $4,000 business block. I
has too daily papers, the Internstiona
by Charles Douglass, and the Manila
ban by Graves q Brouse; a hote
finished. BY far, ahead of anything n
Dakota, and an elegant clubhouse will
eight richly furnished rooms, wher,
VIC we're given a reception under tn,
management e. NJ A. Rinskopf. VIII,
did the charitable honors in magpi6'
cent style. The tales that n hear
up here are enough to set him wild
They told me of Brandon, a town les
than one year old, two hundred mile
from Winnipeg, on the Canadian Pa
cihc road, where a $ll5 ono clubhous,
has Just been finished and opened. II
Winnipeg the transient population /,
said to exceed the resident in number
Whole rows Of streets and building,
are being put up by ~workmen, will
portable stoves to thaw out their hand,
az they lay brick and stone. The,
are BUILDING at night with shifts anc
details OF hands who carry lauternl
like miners, and there is no scheme Of
project so wild hat it does not find (,
realization in every day life anon,
these Britishers, who we have beer
accustomed to consider slow. AfteI
going back across the line, Re drove. b,
conveyance, all over Pombina. piekinI
up Major Hamilton, Of Grand Forks
on the way. At the Fort we bac
a very charming reception piyer
us by Major Brayton, OF the Fifteenth
Infantry, poet commAndant; Lieuten.
ant Cook, post adjutant; Captain Nc.
Kibben, Lieutenant Cornish. Lien
tenant Lloyd, Lieutenant Flaxon ans
other officers Of the Fifteenth. ali q
whom have rendered themselves YER,
popular among the people By theil
hospitality and genialily. One pocu
liar feature of the round was. tbsi
wherever we went, whether to Al,
house of the Mayor in Emerson, Il
the newspaper Offices, club house. OF
70 the fort, we seemed to strike I
Hudson Bay compaDy's cellar in ever,
place: Tuesday night l spoke to !
crowd which filed the largest hall il
the town beyond standing capacity