Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-21
kIFF'S LETTER.
WRITES FROM cALlFo RNIA THAT
MORE PEOPLE SUFFER FROM
COLD THERE THAN n IN 4.
NORTH DAKOTA.

Los Angeles, Cal, Feb. II To The
Fargo Forum The readers of the
Fargo Forum will please excuse me
for not writing this, my monthly let
ter, before this. date. It has been SO
warm and nice, the thermometer rang
ing from 80 to SO above for a long
time, I did not want to lose any Of
this, and desired to be out and enjoy
this magnificent weather. / just wish
some of you could read the Los An
geles daily papers. 1t would chill your
blood hundreds Of settlers frozen to
DEATH. Town after town, city after
city, without fuel and provisions. Set
tiers burning their own buildings,
fences, ETC., etc. I received the Daily
Forum very regularly and / sympa-
thize with my Dakota people. The
conditions there are truly and really
bad. I wish they all could have ample
and sufficient fuel and trust that the
fuel and freight conditions will be Inn
mediately relieved. You ought to
have been here in January, when Los
Angeles was practically without fuel
for three weeks. I never heard such
complaints, never saw such blood curd-
ling newspaper articles, but just
think, the thermometer never went
lower than ~ above and this would be
in the early morning. Soon as the. sun
rose it would go up to 40 or so. /
really believe more people died and
suffered here in these three weeks
than there has been the whole winter
in North Dakota. Many houses, stores
and places of business have no Chin
neys and depend on gas and oil for
heat. The gas was not sufficient and
coal oil ran short on account of the
railroads being b1ockaded and could
not get into Los Angeles. All these
troubles here are now relieved. Old
Sol pours out its rays Of heat and the
cry goes up, it's hot, hot. The coun-
try is looking very fine Have had an
abundance of rain and everything is
blooming and growing.
I forgot to say in my letter concern
ing my operation at Clara Barton's
hospital, that DR.. Paul Adams, former
ly of Cooperstown, was one of my at
tendant surgeons. He is bright
smart young doctor and is making his
mark here. One of the roomers here
at the Windsor hotel is a Mr.. Barton,
who at one time was on the Argus.
Major dwards will. no doubt, remem-
Der him. He is now special police
man. Thomas Catherwood and wife Of
Park River dropped in and took rooms
for two days. They are living at ,Po-
mona, and he tells me there are fifteen
families from Park River wintering at
Pomona. Mr.. Myra and wife of Eme-
RADIO are at the Astoria DR.. Scott
and wife of Emerald are at the Cum
berland and quite a number of North
81 y oSoIGCl GU oil ONST3EtHS
city. A few DAYS ago met Mr.. Rush
folt and wife of Valley City. Today at
East Lake Park / met a man from
Aneta and another from Grand Forks.
We expect to hold our annual North
Dakota picnic about February 20. This
will bring the North Dakota crowd to-
gether, and assure you that none of
the addresses which will be made will
leave any doubt in the minds of the
hearers but that we all love North Da-
kota, if she does have a few tough
billiards. once in a good many years.
It has been severe weather all down
through the south, New England and
southwestern states, and we North Da-
kotans have the satisfaction that we
are not the only spot in the great uni
verse that has had some cold, severe
weather. In twelve months, most peo-
fple will have forgotten this winters