Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1884-01-04

their confidence in finding gold in pay
ing quantities, by heavy investments in
the latest improved machinery. Good
specimens Of superior quality have been
found on the Sheyenne river, north of
Valley City, and still another ledge of
gold bearing quartz crops out near Steele,
Kidder county. Experienced miners
express the opinion that the Sheyenne
river valley is worth prospecting"
Reader, did you ever reflect upon
the seriousness Of the great Journey We
all enter upon at the commencement of
each new yearp When you do thus re-
fleet isn't it strange how railroad trains,
steamboats,, dashing private turn-outs,
snowy livery rigs and all other modes of
conveyance sink into insigni6cance and
abject itleness? We refer to the ride
we take in Mother Earth's chariot.
Each Of the daily revolutions of the
globe carry US flashing along over the
respectable distance of $4,000, which
multiplied by the number of days in a
year gives each and every one a free
ride in one direction of S,7sO,0OO miles.
The distance accomplished in the run
around the sun is SIS, ,5OO, GOO miles, which
added to the daily trip gives us mag
nificent annual ride. Who wants to go
faster ?
The lovely weather on New Years
day prompted nearly everybody to ''sail'
out and make annual greetings. 1t
must have been a previously arranged
plan, for it was noticeable that the great
majority Of callers-and many of the re-
ceivers-wer. headed for G. w. Barn.
ards spacious farm residence about
dusk. Mrs. Barnard and her lady
friends were equal to the immergency,
however, and the Is or 100 pleasure bent
people who thus assembled were prompt
ly fed in grand style on oyster stew and
other seasonable delicacies. After sup
per each person ''turned in'' for good
time and if ever We looked upon joy
ous scene it was there. The parlors of
the house we're literally alive with merry.
'mirthful faces, and each countenance
seemed to reflect the happy thought:
'sOh, how glorious it is to lie resident
of grateful Dakota.
When the telegraphic news came
last Wednesday that President Willard
had made an assignment and cut loose
from the Northern Pacific our heart went
out in sympathy to him and his poor
family. For the past few weeks the
fallen financier has been catching Hail
Columbia from all sides, and many con-
temptible illusions have proceeded from
the very papers that few weeks since
fed him the most fulsome flattery, as he
passed over the great line he had COM
pleted accompanied by gorgeous dis
play Of the worlds notables. Then he
was praised as deliverer of the great
Northwest; now he is termed q vicious,
, selfish fraud and q charlatan. Oh, how
bitter must be his cup Of grief, to thus
lose the public good will and all of his
money. When we heard the news we
J thought of several free rides taken over
! his road and were saddened, but knew
not how to relieve the poor fellows suf:-
: ferings. All, a thought struck us; he
was an old-time printer and reporter, and
, position to him would he a God-send.
We at once telegraphed that he could
have ''sit'' on the Courier at 81 week
7 with promise of advancement as rapid
| ly as merited. No response has yet ar
rived and a faint thought that he might
, possibly have saved few dollars from
: the crash to temporarily abridge his
needs presents itself.
} Saturday night, December end, will
: be remembered as very dark, cold and
stormy one, we'll calculated to induce
cautious people to remain indoors, and
, especially was it night that would
D hardly invite one out on the 'trackless
D prairie. However, not a few Of Griggs
4 co,mty's citizens ventured out, and the
: worst of it is they nearly all went for
t pleasure. Three citizens of Coopers-
e town, out on call, had to sleep on the
8 prairie that might've Of them being
1 ladies-and several persons in the coun-
9 try shared q like ordeal, but the saddest
r case of all was probably that of Nels
Larson, yonng single man of Red
n Willow. He had been visiting at q
n neighbor's and started home only
!. about 80 rods distant-at s O'Clock, but
n the poor fellow has not reached home
a vet. His friends began search next
I morning and succeeded in tracking him
4 for two miles west of whore he started
= into what are known as tho Willow Hills