Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-06-15
DEVILS LAKE INTER FRIDAY, JUNE is, 1900

built this year, and Lakota is fast
coming to the front.
The Casselton. band-7and, a.
goodly number of Casse1ton citi-
not attend the Fargo
blowout this week, but that. $500
of county funds appropriated by
the Fargo end of the board of
county commissioners will help
furnish: amusement for q big dele
cation from Winnipeg-from
whom Fargo derives SO much more
benefit in the way of trade than it
does from Casselton. The people
of Casselton may some day, learn
that they are of about as much
consequence in the estimation of
the Fargo outfit as q SNOWFALL
would be in hades-except when
Fargo wants to annex another slice
of the earth-for the benefit of
EFargo.-Cass County Democrat.
The meanest trick we have
heard of being perpetrated has
just come to light. This spring
one of our citizens had a small
garden spot to spade up. He
went out with a spade and a hoe,
and after scratching around for a
while he went to the house to wash
the dirt off a dime and a quarter.
He had struck it rich, he said.
Back to the garden he went whistl-
ing "Sweet Marie" Directly he
came in again and showed another
quarter, and remarked that he
could afford to take a nap; he had
made enough for one day anyhow.
When he awoke his wife had the
whole spot spaded up, but she
hadn't found a cent. She does
not know yet that the mine was
"Salted. Ward County Reporter.
Advices from Seattle report the
Buffalo contingent have sailed for
the northern gold fields with high
hopes and a lot of baggage. The
month of June will likely find an
appalling condition of things at
Cape Nome. Scores of vessels
will have landed upon barren
shores thousands Of men and
women, hundreds of thousands of
tons of freight and thousands of
head of live stock. Confusion
and turmoil most COMPOUNDED will
prevail, says the st. Paul Globe,
and the breezes from Behring sea
will carry inland the curses Of
weary men and homesick women.
There will be no accommodation
for the we'll or the sick, The hot
sun of the short Arctic summer
will beat down upon defenseless
heads and chill winds will sweep
in from the sea at night upon
shelterless bodies. Hoards of
fierce mosquitoes will fill the air
and make life a burden, but men
will risk everything for gold-the
yellow dross that moves the world.
l-BuhalO Express.
The boys at Minot got together
last week and egged a fake eye
doctor out of town, who, it seems,
had been getting too gay. He had
arrived about 10 days before, and
registered at the hotel as Frank
Williams, Duluth, Mimi" He
then started to drum up some pro-
fessional work, but here his good
impressions stopped. He began
to get acquainted with the young
ladies of the town, and it was not
long before he began making dates
with them to go out fof a walk or
to meet him at certain places.
He had no scruples about insult
ing the girls when at a safe dis
lance, and made himself generally
disagreeable. The brothers and
fathers Of the girls, to the number
of 80, decided to run him out of
town, and to that end collected. a
large number of aged eggs. The
doctor" had however got wind of
the project, and thought he would
make good his escape to the train.
However, it was futile, for he was
pelted at every corner with the
luscious hen fruit, until his
clothes were ruined. He was a
sorry looking spectacle when he
boarded the train, leaving. the
gallant citizens of Minot exulting
over their victory.
Thou hast strange notions for
one SO young a substitute to think
that thou art the same as Rocky