Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-04-26

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Washburn is having a building
boom.
Charley Allen is back on the
Hope Pioneer.
W. L.. Straub, the cartoonist,
has bought a newspaper plant in
Florida.
Friday, May 10th, has has been
designated by the governor as Ar
Dor day.
Park River will vote on bonding
the city for water works and cleo
trio lights.
It is now definitely settled that
the 500 road will enter Bismarck
from Aberdeen.
Churchs Ferry Sun: Two cases
OF smallpox are reported at Cando
by passengers on Mondays train.
One. a barber of that town and
the other a son Of Pat Forrest.
H. S. Rearick, of Grove CITY.
Mimi, has purchased the Coopers-
town Sentinel. Rearick has land
ed in a good town, but the news
paper field there is somewhat con-
gested.
Mrs. L.. E. Bates, of the Grafton
News and Times, is gaining an
enviable reputation as a bright
paragrapher. Her "Epitome Of
State News and mo. | Hard''
departments are always interest
ing.
The Mandan Pioneer, with ed
itor Tuttle in Europe-is just as hot
when Tuttle was at the helm. L.
P. Baker, the Democratic chief
tan of Bismarck, comes in for a
rich brown roast that simply out
Tuttles futile.
The Drayton Echo wants the
North Dakota Editorial Associa-
ton to go to the Pan-American
exposition this summer. Good
idea. Inasmuch as nearly all
the editors are planning to go
anyway, why not go in a body.
Attorney General Comstock has
begun proceedings against four
alleged liquor dealers at Mandan,
charging them with contempt of
court in failing to obey injunction
al orders issued by Judge Win
chester some time ago in liquor
cases that were brought. The
four men arrested for contempt
r Pat Tobin, James Drury,
Peter Schantz and Joe Winbauer.
Lisbon Gazette: Col. Plum
mer's occasional letters from his
present home at Maple Grove, Me-,
to the Fargo Forum are very in
teresting reading. especially to old
timers in this state. The clear
ness and accuracy of the colonel's
recollection of men and events in
the early history Of the territory
and state would be remarkable in
any other man than he, at his age.
While the colonel, of course, is
barred from placing his own name
in the category of influential
estate builders yet it is a fact
that no resident of North Dakota
in it's formative period welded a
more potent influence in it's fame
and material up-building than did
Col. W. G. Plummer with his
facile pen and ~"silver tongued"
oratory-an influence and benefit
which were duly appreciated by
the rank and file of the people but
were not properly rewarded by
those in political control. How
ever. he has the satisfaction Of
having left a benefcent and last
ing impress upon the early histor-
ical pages of this giant young
state and long may he live to en-
Joy the satisfaction.
Editor Winship has returned
from his California trip and says
this concerning his visit to Alex
McKenzie: ACROSS in Oakland,
in the Alameda county jail, is
Alex. Mckenzie, whose sentence
for contempt of court has been the
subject of newspaper comment all
over the country. Mr. Mckenzie
is a prisoner, but he does not wear
stripes, nor does he occupy a cell.
He is really not under restraint at
all, but is simply governed by an
implied understanding that he is
not tO leave the nron;eoc Ho ;c