Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-09-16
About the Cholera Fake, the Sender
of the Message, and Its 4
Results,
With a Few Clippings From Papers
Showing How the News Has
Circulated.
The Fargo Argus Gives q Reason or
So for Fusion, Credited to
Joseph Hare.
More Discussion.

More Discussion.
The question as to the author Of the
| cholera oansrd took a new lease of life
yesterday, and there was much Discus
sion as to the identity of the person who
sent it. To such a degree has the mat
ter been carried that it is becoming
quite the proper thing to stop anyone on
the street and accuse him of it's author
ship. II he becomes angry and wants
to fight do not push him too far, rather
beg his pardon and hunt for some one
else upon whom to place the blame.
1t is claimed by those who are sup
posed to know that
NO DISPATCH
| of the kind in question ever went through
the local telegraph Office. As the illness
was first noticed Sunday the informa-
ton might have been sent by mail that
evening and arrived in time for publica-
ton in the issue IN which it first ap-
peared. If it went by telegram, then it
must have come from some reliable cor
respondent, for If not, the Minneapolis
Tribune is open to grave criticism for
the publication of promiscuous reports
from unauthorized persons.
And now as to the results of the dis
patch. No less than a dozen letters
we're received in the city yesterday from
anxious relatives without the state to
others living in the city, expressing the
greatest fear and concern, and asking if
| there we're any foundation for the re-
port. In one case it is learned that
AN ANxIOUs PARENT,
| who has a child in the city, tainted Upon
| reading the news, and the ~summoning
! of medical assistance was necessitated.
Many other instances of anxiety and
fear might be cited, but enough is given
above to show the effect of the villain
GUS article that appeared. On the other
hand, others equally we'll informed
proffer the statement as a fact that the
information wal
Eli b1 ItLEIfAMJ
and that this can be easily proven.
There are the two sides to the ques-
ton. If the sender of the message used
the mails, it is proof positive that he
was prompted by a desire to harm Bis
marck and feared to use the telegraph
lest his completely in the affair be dis
covered. That the news will not be
spread is a delusion. 1t is being spread,
rapidly, too; much more rapidly than is
the contradictory dispatch.
The jamestown Alert has the follow
ing:
Business man: With cholera reported
at every American port, Immigrants COM
ing into the northwest via Canada with
out inspection, and finally a case reported
from Bismarck, isn't it time that the mayor
and council get action, clean up Thoroughly
and everywhere and adopt stringent health
| regulations?
The Pioneer Press and the st. Paul
Dispatch also contain articles to the
effect that cholera has been reported
from Bismarck. The Fargo Argus has
it in the following:
A prominent citizen of Bismarck is ill
with what his physician, DR.. Porter, con-
| siderS genuine Asiatic cholera. 1t is
Canadian border.
Another exchange has it condensed
into the following:
1t is rumored that there is or has. been
a genuine case of Asiatic cholera at Bis
marck, which was brought from over the
border.
And so will the news be circulated. 1t
is not yet time for the
EXAGGERATED REPORTS,
but they will come in due season.
And it looks as though the message
had written itself, put a postage stamp
on itself and mailed itself, for not a soul
knows anything about it.
ALAUaHABLE OCCURRENCE,
in connection with the scare, was noticed
on a side street yesterday. A rather
aged and decrepit citizen was hobbling
along quietly, when he wal ~accosted by
another. II understand you have the
cholera" said the latter jokingly
"Cholera be id" said the former dis.
gustedly. "Everytime a man eats toe
many cucumbers or too much water.
melon and gets an attack of the cramps
some fool writer sends out q Telegram
that he has cholera. I suppose if he
should see Logan exercising his mare or
the race track some evening, he'd wire
'em that Bubb Doble was here, training
Nancy Hanks to break her record an6
with q sniff of digust and a look Of su.
preme dissatisfaction he passed OF
Joe Explains. ,Is
Fargo Argus: Hon. Joseph Hare OF
Bismarck, one Of the democratic del.
egates to the state convention, in con.
versation with a personal friend in the
rotunda of the headquarters yesterday
afternoon, said: "Let me tell you why
the convention Endorsed the independent
ticket. 1t was just this way: The dem,
ocratic leaders were exceedingly tired