Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-04-26
Charley Gurley Writes of ThiAgs in
Washington Of Interest 10
North DAkOtans.
Tells Of Residents of the Wheat Belt
Who Have Called on Him
OF Late.
News of the Old Timers Who We're
With Us in Frontier Days
and Drifted Away.

been North Dakota weeks in the national
capital. A few days ago I had a call
from your state auditor, and my old
friend and acquaintance, Briggs, of Nor
ton county. He was accompanied by
State Treasurer Nichols, of Fargo. and
jewell, of Burleigh. IN. B.-Plesse note
the Legislative pnraseology" of the
above.) This is the result of a careful
and thorough reading of the proceed.
ings of the last session of North Da-
kota's lawmakers, as given in the TR1B-
UNE. Again, I had the pleasure of greet
ing Hon. Asa Fisher, of Burleigh. Asa
has taken on a little more flesh, and put
off the mustache that for so many years
adorned his upper lip, but notwith-
standing these changes in his ~"make-up"
I knew him at once. Jewell was with
him when he called upon me in the
morning. There being a quorum, the
doors we're closed, and another extra
session of the Washington branch of
Bismarck's "old timers was Immediate
ly entered upon. T. put Asa on the
witness stand and fred at him inquiry
after inquiry concerning the welfare of
old friends and acquaintances in Bis
marck. I asked about the TRIBUNE;
about his honor, Mayor Leslie, and the
new city fathers. (NoTE-Please con-
graduate Leslie, and his fellow-cltizens,
on his return to the office which he so
we'll administered during the past year.
Let me change somewhat the old adage,
and say: Zone good term deserves
another" I salute his honorD After
being on the inquisitorial rack for nearly
n hour, Asa begged for mercy, and I
granted him release. I take this oppor-
tunity to say to all Bismarckers, whether
"old.timers" or "tenderfeet," Il presume
that is the plural for "tenderfoot') that
I shall always be glad to welcome them
at my office, opposite the Ebbitt house,
in the national capital.
[ hear that Senator Hansbrough, after
a we'll deserved rest from senatorial
labors, has departed from Fortress
Monroe and gone to Devils Lake. SEN
ator Roach is still here, looking after the
interests of m'.ny of his constituents.
lis no easy job-the position of a
United States senator.
Captain H. S. Howe, United States
army, retired, is spending a few months
in Washington, accompanied by Mrs.
Howe. Your old residenters will re-
call Captain and Mrs. Howe, and their
pleasant home at Camp Hancock. They
expect Captain and Mrs. Charles H. In
gals, United States army, to join them
here within a few days. Major and AS
sistant Inspector General Darlington,
United States army, is also here. He
was for several years stationed at Fort
Lincoln; was then a first lieutenant in
the old Seventh cavalry. His promotion
to the rank of major was made solely on
account Of "gallant and meritorious ser,
vices in the field" At the battle oil
Wounded Knee, near the Pine Ridge
agency, South Dakota, he received, with
the compliments of a Sioux warrior, 6
bullet in his right arm, the remembrance
of which he will always carry with him
1 we'll remember the day in July, 1876
when Lieutenant Darlington reported al
Fort Lincoln, on his way to join the
"Old Seventh on the Yellowstone, aftel
the terrible repulse o: the Little Big
Horn battlefield.
CHARLES L. GURLEY.
Washington, D. G., April 20, 1895.