The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-09-07
A Spicy Description Of Some
Towns in North Dakota
Visited by Him.
Feels Deeply Indebted to Many
of Those Whom He Met
In His Travels.
Special Correspondence Irish Standard.


D., and then / am done with my Pa
ciic coast trip. Since writing from
Butte, Mont, have met some good
people like William Gallagher, the ge-
NAL A. o. II. man; Hon. ]. s. Kilgallon,
whose daughter acted as page in the
legislature last year; Mr.. and Mrs. Jos.
Sinnett and family, Mayor Davey,
p. H. Shields, Dan McAvoy, John
Leyden, James McInerney, the repre-
sentative of the Great Falls brewery
at Butte, and several others. East
ward bound stopped ut several other
places and met many new friends
along the route. l stopped over at
Logan, Mont, where our old friend,
Guhooley, holds the fort. There /
added to the list Pat Heenan, Thomas
Casey, John Emmerson, Matt Cronan
and others. Logan has Il roundhouse,
repair shops and is good junction Of
the great n. L. Il. Il. My next stop
was mt Dickinson, N. d., where l saw
wife and family; also Mike Mckinley
P. 3. Corbett, l.. j. Needhlm and Il.
NJ. Colley. Next step-off was at He
bron where met our old friend Matt
Leahy, the miller, who is prospecting
there. Next was Eckelson, where Tom
O'Mhlley gets his Irish Standard for
many years. Tom used to Live ut
Valley City at one time, but now he
Is the owner of one mile square OF land
lake in the middle of it. He has 100
acres of good wheat threshed by his
own separator. Lie owns all kinds Of
modern farm machinery, has fine,
clean, model home, IL good wife and Il
precious daughter, who drove me
around in Il buggy into Sanborn. Tom
Connolly, Conlin, and Mr.. and Mrs. z.
]. Corbett, all Of whom treated me
very kindly and subscribed for the
Irish Standard.
At Sanborn l met our old friend
Thos. NJ. Murphy, Il great man for
newspapers. Next call was ut Cassel-
ton, N. d., whre met several OF
our newly-made friends and subscrib-
ers, including Rev. Father Quillinan u
thinks there is no place Us good as
Casselton. He will take care OF the
Irish Standards interests in that good
Catholic place for many years to come,
hope
Again in Fargo, the metropolis of
North Dakota, where got mail and
instructions to go northward, which l
did bright and early of u Sunday morn
ing. The Great Northern train sped
through the golden grain belt of the
great Red River valley, which, 1T is
said, is nothing more nor less than
the bed Of great inland sea that flour
ished here ages and ages ago, and l
verify believe 1T. 1t was good thing
that the waters vanished and left mil
lions and millions of the richest acres
for wheat or anything else for the in
dustrious people who are now making
millions OF dollars out of it. At Fargo
l met and stopped with Peter Elliott
as usual, and met some new ones, in
Guiding the Fuersts and the Tierneys
whose sons portraits appeared in these
columns some weeks ago US winning
scholarships ut st. Thomas College.
And now comes Grand Forks AND
East Grand Forks. 1t was my frs,
visit there and am proud OF them
Grand Forks was shown to me by Nj
J. Enrght in his fine turnout, to good
advantage, and for which l am more
than thankful. Here are some of our
old and true standbys: "Steve" Col
Inns, ]. b. Mooney, NJ. H. McGowan
John Lynch, Il. Tracey, M. Il. Murphy,
M. M. Tovey, jas. Hanrahan, w. D.
Lalos, ev-Sherif O'Connor, DIR. Dug.
gan, Thos. Gray, T. Mclaughlin Jour
hustler), and Chief Ryan. At East
Grand Forks are: Rev. Father Green,
ex-Mayor Dunleavy, Dan Sullivan, ].
]. Clynch, Lynch & Gallagher, NJ.
Herrick, McMahon u Longtime. A.
Ryan, Professor G. A. McCann and
\ NJ. ]. Sullivan. These twin cities are
ell business and they are growing fast
At Mimic l met few Of our sub
scribers, but the farmers were I'LL very
busy threshing just then. managed
to see Mr.. D. j. O'Rney, the village
blacksmith, and Mr.. Hughes, the Hav
ernons, and Ed O'Reilly, the ex-hotel
keeper, now farmer. Mimic will have
money to burn this fall. See il il
DOESN'T
Next is Grafton, which is the PROUD
possessOr Of splendid COURTEOUS,
with efficient county officers. Her,
Dc erected an immense granite monu
ment, about IS feet high, surmountet
by 9 bronze but typical American vol
unteer soldier. This costly monumen
IL erected in memory Of the North Da
kota volunteers who were killed il
battle and otherwise lost their live
~ volunteers dn defending the Amerl
can flag. Here are the hest ne0ple a