Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1906-04-13

/ The Wild Goose Mining and
Trading Go. control led most Of
| the shipping interests, Tightening
facilities, a small railroad the
Ionly one Chas. d. Lane "a
Igrand old man was a powerful
land a fascinating character and
| factor the individual miners
many Of them Of the same ma
ltionality with those who had
their particular scrap on with
Nc Kenzie were with what was
consid to be the ssunderdog' ~
the saloons their club rooms q,
land the saloon keepers their
isympath izers laturally. Judge
Moves could not proclaim his IN
lterest, or disclaim rather, any
Interest, aside from his judicial
Interest Nc Kenzie i bigmastifff,
paid little attention to the snarl-
ling yelping ours around his heels
the newspapers as elsewhere
"a rlxious to shoot off extras
at two bits a copy. headlined
new outrages' every other day
SO that it became absolutely
impossible 70 have a correct view
and a correct judgment of the
|condi tions about which every
lone was talking but. about which
hut very few people knew any!
thing definite. There were those
who took advantage Of that: sit
Iuation on both sides, and then
There 8Were lawyers. ss5
/ thought then and I have often
Thought since, that if alexander
Mex enzie had been less Of a
natural born fighter with the
bump of conbative ness override
Iveloped, and more Of a diplomat.
if he 5hadn' & been So coo -sure
Iof himsel t he could have owned
1.-THE whole country legitimately
land every miner his friend. But
the lawyers who live from
fighting cases in court, took this
| Fighter and advised him and re-
Enforced his fighting instincts.
land patted him On the back and
ckeds him on & and d lot OF
the small fry Of grafters hurrah-
led for a while, hoping for some
Juicy morsels to fall their way
until the whole situation became
top heavy and fell off its own
Weight. But to the small out
slider, like 9mysel like Rex. e..
Beach, these things were not ap-
parent atsthe time. We heard
| the general clamor, denuncia-
ltion, c1rsiag, stories, rumors,
threats from everyone and
l3everyyS here and itsall conferred
lon the big man, on Alexander
INCL enzie. Judge ldoyes was
lcursed too but his measure was
soon taken he had no bac kbone
he WASH u cursed to any great
Ter extent however than his sue
Icessor w ickersh sham was cursed
lby the same crowd afterwards VS.
Though W ickersa ham had been ac-
claimed as the Saviour of the
country and came with Pacific
coast endorse rnents nor was
Ieither of those two judges cursed
more enthusiasts ically than their
Isuccessors are being cursed and
will be- cursed as long as mining
camps exist and as long as men
will fight over COL bearing era
lvel over fabulous wealth s.
which they expect and imagine
and which often lists.
After Mel enzie, The Wild
Goose Mining and Trading com
pany OF Charles %. Lane. Ia
/ my econd year everyb ody had
quit cursing Me erlzie on ~ oc-
casionally in a ernin'iscent mood
and every bod was cursing the
corp oration 4 which was cob
|; bling up every thing and every
body Whic b was crushing out
| the indivi dual miner, which had
paid claiTn-j jumpers and paid afnf ii
IdaVlt men who would nail & ally
good claim, u BON which the cor
Iporation had its eyes. And even
the Pioneer filming company.
organized BY the original path
flnders and disc oyerers Of gold