Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-01-19
col. LouNsRERRY,s LETTER.

Col. LoUNsRERRY's LETTER.
Writes Entertainingiy Of Old Timers
on the Slope.
The following excerpts are taken
from Col. Lo,lnsbe rry's recent Wash
ington letter to the Fargo Forum
In the senate today Senator Me-
Cumber from the committee on pen
Esions reported favorably the increase
pension bills Of Pat iMcGue and Mike
Linehan of Bismarck, r. Chaeey
of Fargo, Cassius List OF Hankinson.
u. A. Lincoln of Wahpeton, and Mrs.
Briggs OF Ashley. OF course this:
does not mean that they are sure to-
pass but they probably will
All Of the old timers in North Da.
kota viii remember jimmy Emmons.
He represented Hornick & Walls in
the old post traders store when Bis:
Imarck was Camp Hancock or Camp
Hancock was about all there was Of.
Bismarck The first year In the life;
of the Bismarck Tribune Emmons and
Major Dickey were its best patrons,
its heaviest advertisers Emmonsi
used to sit up nights, so to speak,
figuring on doing somet thing that
would make the wheels Of the press
turn easy I, as Major Edwards would
say. Emmons had good deal to; do
with stirring up the affair on the Mis-
souri, river which led to the dmpeach-
ment of Belknap and Clusters Inflated
expedition. Emmons says he has be.
Icome my brother party man now He
1 used to be "a democrat, one OF the
genuine kind, lacking In only one:
symptom. He could not use intoxicat-
ing liquors. He says he is now d
Rooseve ltian Bryan demo republi lean,
land he believes the greatest honor
one can attain is to become an Ameri-
can citizen and he hopes we older
HEADS will ever strive to make that
citizenship as sanity pure as possible
to the end that stgove rnment Of the
/ people, by the people and for the .peo
pie, shall not perish from the face Of
the earth. z zsss58s
Someone recently said that Henry
i Suttle was the first one to engage in
farming in Bnneigh county N.
4 Mercer, Henry suttle and Joseph Del
trich were the early settlers But I
i think there we're Others who engaged
4 in practical farming before Henry
4 Stutle. I think Mike Smith was the
VERY first He peddled farm products
in a wheel barrow during the summer
of 1872 and every year increased his
! acreage. Henry Garhoof also had a
market CAMDEN in 3. and John w.
4 Millett was gardening in 1872 Oscar
and Henry Ward had about five acres
!. under cnlt ivation in 1873 on Apple
Il Greek and broke ten acres ON what
is now known as Lounsberry's outlots
and planted to beans in 1873. The
grasshoppers took the Tops and STALKS
and dug down and ate the roots.
i There was not green thing left at
4 ter an hour of their work They did
mot stop until they found q nice quiet
spot to settle down on the railroad
4 track and were crushed BY be- cars
Igreasing the track So trains could not
move until the track was sanded:
4 NY patch of ten acres was the big
lgest patch Of bre adng west d John
I Haggart,s claim In North Dakota IN
I 1S73 Snttle was there but + do not
lrememDer That he was classed among
q the first farmers Of Burleigh county,
sIbut he was one of its oldest and best
citizens Colonel Thompson Colonel
I, BroWnson, IL. Sing iser and Fhos.
9 Vanettan also commenced tanning op.
Eerations ID 1873.