Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-07-21
TWENTY EAR AGO.

Friday, sent postage paid to any address, for on
year 81; six months. Fl; three months. Is cents.
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
The "recollections Of twenty year.
ago" published in last weeks TRIBUNE
met with great favor among old timers
who figured in the frontier drama O
those days. In another column will bt
found another installment, from thu
Bismarck TRIBUNE OF July 18th 1873
the only paper in North Dakota ole
enough to quote from it's W files o.
"twenty years ago." Col. Lounsberry
being further interviewed in relation tc
events preceding the establishment Of
the TRIBUNE, July IL, 1878, says:
In 1872 Col. w. s. King owned the Min
neapolis Tribune and employed John II
Howell, formerly associated press agent al
New York. as editor in chief. The news
is nowadays and our force on the Tribune
Was not we'll Mlgall!zed. A. c. Jordan was
foreman and night or news editor. Thomp'
son was associate editor. Ed. Stevens
vas city editor until Doc .Ames came home
from California. when he TOOK that position
and Ed continued on the staff as reporter.
Frank Mead and l were on all kinds of
work. Clarence Buel was also on the staff
looking after the literary features and
Croffut later in the fall succeeded Howell.
Clifford Thompson vas business manager
and Ben Howell was in the business de-
partment. Frank Mead was sent up to
Brainerd and reported the Burberry war
which resulted in hanging the Indians in
the streets of Brainerd and an alarm max
;~,v &l,, ,~o$nnS;n, Of ftn pNSlit0Vx- y,aaAS-
sary. Many of the old settlers of Bis
marck We're through that excitement.
Like most other Indian wars there was no
need OF it. The Indians were coming in
With blueberries and had no thought of
hostiIities, but some one got scared and the
two Indians were hung.
Jay Cook ordered 5,0O0copies of the Min
neapolis Tribune containing my TRIBUNE
letter of May Is. from Bismarck, and 5000
of the first issue of the Bismarck TRIBUNE.
l had written up Brainerd before l went to
Bismarck: also Glyndon and MOOrhead
and made many friends at both places and
when l came to solicit subscribers for the
Bismarck TRIBUNE everyone took it.
Terrence Martin was the first Dakota man
he was the first to order It. met Call
and Weaver at Glyndon before they came
to Bismarck. l met Jackman at st. Paul
before coming to Bismarck.
When it was determined to organize Bur-
leigh county a petition was gotten up for
the organization. Jimmy Emmons was
the leading agitator, and three good citi-
zens were named in the petition. E. A.
Williams kicked on this and insisted upon
a caucus. The cauca was held aud Will
Jams was chairman and l was secretary,
but beyond that we were not in it. Jack
White was the ruling spirit. They recon-.
mended John P. Dunn and two others,
whom l have forgotten. but l know they
were pretty good men: Williams had pre-
making the appointment the governor tool
one from each list. John T. Dunn was ap
pointed by the governor because the people
asked it. Emmons, the governor said, wa;
because l wanted it, and the other because
Williams wanted it. The governor said he
didn't care q id whether any n else
was pleased and not very much whether
we were.
Before coming to Bismarck l spent the
greater part of the day with Senator Ram
sey and canvassed the question as to the
division of Dakota, what had been done
and what could be done to accomplish it
and the TRIBUNE's plans on thai subject
were we'll defined before it was born. In
April, 1874, a special edition of the paper
later a convention was called at Fargo and
twenty-five delegates were sent to Wash
ingtOn to work for division. 1t was these
delegates who got Ben Harrison interested
and who laid the foundation for success
afterwards. Judge Moody defeated dlyi.
sion at that time, by insisting upon admis
sion of South Dakota, when division was
offered as a compromise. 1t was Moody's
course at that time, coupled with OrdWay's
influence, which caused some Of the North
Dakota people to afterwards oppose divi
sion. Division was born in North Dakota
and Enos Stutsman was its first advocate
In the convention of 1874 North Dakota
had ten votes and these votes were held BY
Judge Barnes and myself. 1t was the frs
time that North Dakota appeared as a fac
tor in South Dakota politics. 1t was ar
ranged that l was to lead in the fight, In
sistiDg upon Judge Kidder as q cOmpro
mise candidate between John Lawrence
George Moody and Col. Campbell. Barnes
Kidder, Judge Edmunds, Col. Brown and
principal movers.-Barnes at first held Off
apparently, but soon Joined me and oul
man was enthusiastically nominated or
the third ballot and Overwhelmingly
elected. Some who still reside at Bismarck
can tell more than l about the Rose Lake
vote in. 1872 which materially influenced ii
the election of Armstrong to congress. II
al independent candidate for congress III
1874. 1t is a fact OF unpublished history
that it cost $1,000 to get him off the track
The doctor wa in trouble with the North
ern Pacific, growing out of his contract t.
grade the Bismarck end Of the line. They
allowed him to complete the grade to Bur
leigh Clty-the old grade south of the city
of Bismarck-more in the hope of getting
rid of him than for its influence on the con,
test for land at Bismarck. The doctor de-
manded further concessions and got them
too. when he read the directors manuscript
detailing his alleged experience witt
alkali on the present end of the
line at Bismarck. He claimed, OF
threatened to claim that his cattle lOs'
their hoofs as the result Of alkali dust OF
the plains. Between Burleigh's threats tt
publish and Hazen's attacks on the cOun
try the Northern Pacific was in decidedly
hot water for some time. The panic Of
1873 resulted largely from newspaper at
tacks upon the Northern Pacific country
as the present financial distress results
from general discredit brought on by
n Distrust is at the bottom of it a.
discontentent is at the bottom of most
causes which lead to broken homes
HaZen was led to attack the Northern Pa
cific country by his jealousy of Custer and
because Custer had written in his praise
He vas also disguised with the snow
storm occurring IN May, 1873, at the time
he was moving Into the country. Before
his death Hazen greatly modified his views
in relation to the country and agreed with
its warmest champions that it is specially