The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-25

bridge across the Missouri river And
Bismarck will become the commercial,
as 1t is now the political. capital. The
colonel told how North Dakota had been.
transformed, even in the eyes of it's old:
friends, and even with an inadequate
railway system. For the time had been
W hen people believed that neither apples
nor corn would grow within the state, and
when thousands of now f1ourishing farms
we're supposed to be good for nothing else
than grazing. :. ..-,.. - d. Z
Farmer Wallace, whose venerable,
Homeric face was greeted with the neigh:
borly cheers due to "everybody's friend,
sa i'd: "Paragra piers and poets have joked
us about the 500 that was coming ana,
came not But to-day we can laugh last
and laugh best. The 500 has arrived
A. II. Bright Of Minneapolis general So
licitor of the 500 railway, related the his
tory Of the Soo's extension into Dakota
and prophesied that no divorce will here
after be possible Ito separate Madame
500 from Herr Bismarck Mayor F. H.
Register of Bismarck Colonel B. S. Rus
sell of Jamestown, and Major D. r..
Streeter of Linton, Emmons county, in
terchanged congratulations between sec
tions Of the state.
In the crowd Of prominent strangers
and Dakotans before and about the plat
form were District Judge w. H. Winches-
! ter, Chief Engineer Thomas Greene Of the
500 road, Colonel Lounsberry and Captain
| c. N Valentine of Fargo Carl Cupttz,
| John John Whalen Of Minneapolis. for
| merly of Bismarck; General ]. H. Wishek
| of Mcintosh. Captain Isaac Baker, Who
once owned thirty-seven steamboats, on
| the Missouri and "Dennie Hannah1n
| who welcomed the second resident OF Bis
! marck and is widely known through the
state as the 'squatter governor or the
! 'president of the Suicide club. All the
| old boys swallowed little lead, dose
| ;o{, otcfc CrNv
ernor. why amt dead? Why, how. >dn
chaos could 1 preside over the. 1nquests II
they was a sittin' on me? It's points 1 m
givin' We; yes, sir. it's points,:
After nine innings Of the ball game, the
Lidgerwood band played the 'Gardes Du
| Corps march to celebrate the victory OF
| the Bismarck players, l tot:0n over the
| plucky batters from Washburn, N. D.
| The most blueberries were inside g.
vear-old Clement Woods and about his
countenance at the completion of the pie
eating contest on the band stand opposite
! the Northwest hotel But Floyd Hastings
! ate himself into possession of the second
prize, Lee Hoffman, aged IA. won the
musical chair contest, that required skill
| in dismounting from a bicycle; w. F.
| Newman was first, Ernest Robidau sec
ond in, the race in opposite directions
| around the block; Robideau and Charles
Morris Won ther-th1:ee legged race; Robi-
dale was second, in the 100-yard foot race;
Claude Newman first and Robidaux sec
ond in the sack race; Joe Moran first. Dan
| Woods second in the 100-yard dash for
| boys.
The extraordinary crowd which con-
| gested Main street was most orderly
thanks to the vigilance Of Mayor Regis
ter, VINO quickly closed the blind pigs
that opened In honor of their opportunity
| The only disturbance of the day ceased
when Chief Of Police Ritchey, at the re-
quest Of we'll known residents, released q
soldier whom the chief himself had ar
rested after striking him in the face. The
chiefs action in this matter was con-
demned by many spectators, who insisted
that the soldier had been guilty of no dis
order.
Ball at The Athaneum.
At the ball given at the Athaneum ir
} the evening, under the auspices of the
orchestra an interested and in