Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-01-26
Sheriff ri f BE'ogue que Carries Out the Order
=, of the Court Yesterday Morning
! - r. !, +: in the Wheel Case. 2. .s6 -,
Offending Apparatus Reduced to Ash
and Ember and Justice Is Sat 3
~, isfed at Last. s - II;
Large Number Of Interested Spectators
4 Witness the Final Destruction
,ttr of the Wheel.

Sheriff Bogue yesterday morning car
ried out the order of Judge Winchester
issued in the, now celebrated roulette
wheel case and destroyed the wheel.
chips, chip rack and other appurtenances
by fire. The bonfire was started few
minutes before eleven o'clock, the hour
set in the order of the court, and in the
course of few moments the flames were
blazing merrily about the wheel which
had been the bone of contention in
court for some weeks. The table was
brought out of the court house where it
has been stored by the sheriff since the
seizure and placed at point few feet
in front Of the court house door, in the
middle of the square. Firewood and oil
were applied and the sheriff lighted the
torch, and in the course of an hour,
nothing remained but a pile of ashes to
mark where the gambling apparatus had
been. The interest in the procedure
was manifest from the number of persons
who attended the obsequies. Residents
OF the city, legislators and visitors made
Gordon of spectators several deep
about the centre of interest, and as the
sacrificial altar began to give off smoke
and the smell OF incense arose there was
still deeper interest pictured upon the
faces of the onlookers, The flames rose
higher until the offending gambling ap-
paratus had disappeared except for a
heap of ash and ernber. Then the crowd
dispersed Justice had been satisfied. ii
And it came to the pass in the Steenth
year of the reign of Prohibition and 9TH
er things on the Slope of the Missouri
and in the. valleys thereof, that the
moon waxed dry, and multitudes of the
population were also exceedingly dry,
and the dust that gathered in the throats
of the sons of Belial was something dark
brown in color and dismal to contem-
plate. n :. r ~%
The trees withered and the song of
the BudWeiser bird was not heard in the
land and men wondered in the drought
and were sore afraid. The music of the
corkscrew was dumb and the shadow of
the attorney general fell across the paths
of the ungodly and filled them with
great fear. Sa.:E
And there was much coughing and
splitting of cotton in the streets and in
public places and the foam on the bar
ley brew was thin. A great silence fell
on the land and wise men pondered and
were sore perplexed.
And a Voice spake in the silence, say
ing, "Offer ye up a burnt offeriag and it
shall be goodr' ~ ~ - .,-..>.
Then straightway sped the multitude
to the house of the lawgivers where a
fat sacrifice had been stored away await
ing the birth Of the moon again; and it
was dragged forth into the amphithea-
ter with great shouting and tumult and
cast upon the ground. -s
| Then came strong men and jumped
| upon its neck with great fervor, and
came others who smote it with hammers
of bright brass, and still others who
strewed spices and rich perfumes upon
| it and anointed it with oil for which the
STANDARD Oil company had salted some
poor Jay to build a university. H. ~
| The voices and the tumnlt grew louder
until the rush of the waters of the
Missouri were stilled in the distance;
and mon gathered about the altar where
the sacrifice was prepared like sardines
imported from the Maine coast and made
remarks that bore much wit, even as the
White House cook book. d n. S 3$ss ,s5, = :.
| ll%s And there came men with torches who
set the flame. And the sacrifice was
offered up for q burnt of fering. #s. h,
And the godly clapped their hands
and beat their tom toms in great glee
and cried Hot Stuff r But the IN
Eanointed stood apart and made no sign,
Eaithough some were exceeding wroth.
nd on the day following which was
4 the Steenth day after the Warning Voice
i had hidden the ungodly depart from
their wicked ways, the drought was
]! broken and the waters fell I'D torrents
and other iqlids were on tap which
| made men rejoice and be exceeding glad.
/ nd many elbows were crooked. There
was gnrgling and wetting Of whistles.
md the Bud eiser bird and the Blatz
bird sang IL chorus. And after these
things had come to pass came the reign
lot King Drough the Thirst and this
tcontinued with more or less interruption
for Z period of saven ysars. 81