Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-10-06
SMITHS METHOD
s. M. Gordon, a Burleigh County
Farmer, Has Some Expert
ence With It.
A Son of Deputy A. L. Carey 10
Accidentally Shot and. Killed
at Fargo.
Railroad Commissioners Approve q
Number of Elevator and Com
mission Bonds.

mission Bonds.
Is It Right?
Some of Secretary Hoke Smiths pen.
sion department eccentricities have be-
gun to make themselves manifest in
snnary instances about the city. Their
manifestation is not of the agree cable
kind either. OF course, when one con-
siders Hoke's residence from the Mason
and Dixon standpoint, and also his affili-
alton, both past and present, one is pre-
pared to overlook many minor discrim-
nations against applicants for pensions,
which might otherwise be commented
upon. Since Hoke and his %henchmen
didn't take any particular interest in the
salvation of the union some thirty years
ago, it isn't natural that at this time he
should feel himself hampered by any
pressing necessity to discriminate in
favor of those who did save it, and who
in many cases were disabled while so en-
gagged.
But at the same time, there are some
little happenings and regulations of the
pension department at this time which
may be mildly characterized as "raw.'
One instance, particularly: some time
ago, MI. s. M. Gordon, q we'll known
Burleigh county farmer-who was sadly
shattered physically while e%ndeavoring
to preserve the union, and whose efforts
lent to the salvation of tie government,
whose existence now gives to Mr.. Smith
and honored position and q salary fully
as large as that of the average wage.
earner-was notified by the pension de-
partment to prepare for a physical re.
examination, that the department, in it's
intense integrity-might be assured that
he was in insuficiently blasted physical
condition to warrant the continuance of
the pension which he had been receiv-
ing. Mr.. Gordon had some correspond
ence with the pension department. They
knew where he lived. Had some n OF
the hard worked employees of the depart
ment consulted a map, he could have
discovered at what place Mr.. Gordon
could be examined with the least incon-
venlence to himself. But the depart
ment could not see it that way, and Mr..
Gordon was notified to repair to James.
town, a hundred miles from his post
Office. for his examination.
Mr.. Gordon brought to the city fifty
bushels of wheat, a commodity which
the TRIBUNE desires to assure MIR. Smith
is not exceptionally plentiful 10 North
Dakota at this precise period, and the
price of which is in exact accord with
the prices OF various other articles under
the administration of MI. Smiths polit'
ical party, and received therefor the sum
of ~ This amount he expended to the
railroad, the hotel keepers and for Other
purposes on his trip to Jamestown, wher
he could have been examined without
any inconvenience whatever in Bis
marck, and with an attendant expense
exactly 1923 less.
Now to Mr.. Smith, whose most labori
u occupation is probably the consump
ton of bread from the wheat which il
raised for the magnificent remuneration
of Al cents a bushel by MI. Gordon, ane
whose (Smith's) remuneration is per
haps some what more extensive thar
that of the average farmer, 1923 ma!
be a small amount. But again tn
TRIBUNE desires to extend t.
Mr.. Smith, positive assurance of tn
fact that he may travel q larg
strip of North Dakota prairie, before h
will discover 1923 bills growing and wax
ing luxuriant on the cottonwood tree
and plum bushes. The TRIBUNE speak
from experience when it says this, ant
should Secretary Smith again visit thi
section, the TRIBUNE will take positiv
pleasure in assuring him by persona
observation of the fact.
Willie Carey Killed.
A. L. Carey, deputy commissioner Q
insurance, received a telegram at abou
five o'clock last evening, to the effec
that his 13-year. old son, Willie, ha'
been accidentally shot and killed Will
out hunting. The telegram gave no par
ticulars. MI. Carey left for Fargo las
night.
The Fargo Republican gives meagr
particulars as follows: AS we 60 t
press the horrible news is received of til
accidental death of Willie Carey by