Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1890-02-21
sion for gambling into cheap and harm
less channel.
Chief Justice Corliss "doth protest too

sion IOr Ramollng INTO cheap ana Aarm-
less channel.
Chief Justice Corliss "doth protest too
much"
To the state officers Talk is cheap. but
| it takes money to buy seed wheat
The state officer most personally popu-
| lar with all classes who visit Bismarck is
Johnny Bray.
Rev. Kline and Major Dickey were the
principal opponents in Bismarck of the
lottery bill. Both on moral grounds.
Apropos of the lottery BILL Uncle Un-
derhill tells very broad" story Yet
he was opposed to the lottery on moral
grounds.
1t is no credit to Bismarck that the
principal entrance to its highest toned
| hotel IS through a closet especially as
disinfectants are not used.
| 1t is said at Bismarck that two of our
state officers entered into conspiracy to
rum the reputation of an orphan girl in
order to lnjure q political rival. Both
officials opposed the lottery on "morap
grounds.
The presiding officer of the highest leg
islatlve body in the state should not talk
too much. "Talk' is the prerogative Of
the members. The people put him in the
chair simply to keep their representatives
from fighting
! Among those from this district whom
| the writer met in Bismarck WAS John H.
Wishek. register of deeds of Mcintosh
! county--a gentleman intelligent. Liberal
the ''deestrlck."
| If out of the present general discussion
of the subject the fact should be devcl.
1 hut inf 1ub, nj, fos
not immoral, will net the common senti-
ment prevail that some Of our state off,
clals are rank suckerss
To prevent its appropriation by some
democratic senator, the gentleman from
Emmons wears pin IN the lining Of his
hat. Presumably, also, for purposes OF
Identification, the Red River Valley sena-
tors wear bricks in theirs.
Had chat with John Satturland. the
swarthy Norseman from Mclean. If the
boys up there are all as bright and agree.
able as this old pioneer, it must be good
| to dwell in the county named for Bis
marck's old oratorical mayor.
| The coming fight in North Dakota will
be between Roundhead and Cavalier--be.
tween personal liberty and snivelipg by.
pocrisy- of party lines. Our
gubernatorial Sir Hudibras is already IN
the saddle and has challenged the hear.
| When in few months the coupons are
clipped from the state bonds, presented,
and dishonored, won't the Pioneer Press
cry out against Bankrupt North Dako-
Ia" as loudly as 1t has against Destitute
North Dakota aud the Louisiana Lot.
tery7
Saw "Old His" brother, Mr.. Kepler
and J. Dawson Thompson at the ball.
Heard Frank Corwin was there but, if
so. it must have been only in spirit (alco.
hol not meunt). These Kidder County
gentlemen are an agreeable lot although
they do fight lax hal among themselves.
When drunken army officer at Bis
marck on the 9th of July last struck II
drunken soldier over the head with gun
Lieut.. Gov. Dickey was about the only
man in the crowdwho Endorsed the act
Yet in spite of this the writer voted for
him at Fargo and now he's sorry for it.
Down here at the village of Danbury,
in George Lilly's district, there's to be a
dance this evening. The ladies will be
clad in calico, and neckties of the same
material for the gentlemen will be drawn
BY LOT. George ought to come down
aud see about it. Here's another "octo-
{pus."
State officers don't know everything.
An appropriation should be made to far.
nish them with maps. One asked the
writer whether he cnme up from Emmons
county by way of Jimtown. Another
.sked, "On which side OF the river is EN-
mons county," But on every issue they
always know "on which side of the river
TO find the senator from this free and in
dependent borough.
Look ut Louisiana r. shouted the op.
ponents Of the lottery bill. Yes, look at
her, and at South Carolina, and at Mis-
sIssippi, and ut Texas. 1t IS pure cnssed-
ness and not the lottery that has demor.
states. Their people pride themselves on
beng "half hoss half alligator and half
mud-turte." There's different class of
folks in North Dakota.
! II is fact of history that the Father OF
His Country was president of lottery
scneme &c build public road. So, IN
Bismarck, the other day, when the yodng
son of certain senator was asked by bis
teacher to write composition on the re.
spected George, this was his version
k"When young he was extremely truthful,
through destructive to cherry trees. When
he grew to manhood he ran lottery"
| A we'll known groceryman with griev
ance told the writer in Bismarck that he d
be blankcty. blapked if he wasn't opposed
to the blankety, blanked lottery scheme
on moral grounds. And the scribe took
his bible from his pocket and he read the
Ten Commandments, and he found there
nothing against lotteries, though much
against swearing. And the countryman
communed with himself and said, "Yea,
verify, all-all-is Humbug with big H. u
For . number of years the writer wen,
in dollar month on the Louisiana lot
terry. He never drew much but lie erect
ed some very fine and satisfactory air.
castles each moon. He has also played
deeply against the church fair devices
and he has lost dollars ON the latter to
cents on the former A church-fair coun
ter with pretty weman behind it selling
tive.cent articles for dollar is more dan
gcrous TO the pocket book of the average
man than brace faro game would be.
It was Barnum who said that "the
American people like to be humbugged." ;"
Senator George Wlnshlp, of the Grand
Forks Herald, has for years. in defiance
Of law, advertised La s. l.. and taken
the money of the Octopus" North Da.
kota ls short ON statues and long on hum
bugs. Why not have BarthOldi duplicate
the Bedloe Island work, all but the god
dess and the lamp. In their stead give
us statue Of George waving the copy of
q lottery lad" and draft in payment
therefor. Let it be erected in the cente,
of the fair grounds ut Grand Forks, and
on the pedestal let there be inscribed,
Sacred to the Memory af George Win
ship, Prince of Humbug."