Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-01
REALTY men ENTHUSIASTIC
Express Their Views on the Absurd Stories Told in Out
side Papers Of Fuel and Food Famine in
the State of North Dakota
In Evening Leading Men Of the State Make Enthusiastic
Speeches on Resources Of Various Sections
and State as a Whole
!. blockade and
deaths as a result of the blockade an
weather that were authentic.
Governor Devine.

deaths as a result of the blockade and
weather that we're authentic.
Governor Devine.
Governor Devine of Minot said he
knew of only one case, that of a
woman in Williams county, who was
found dead in her shack, who was Of
a difHdent nature and had she made
her wants known could have been
helped by the neighbors. He men
toned another instance of death on
the prairie such as some of those
which had occurred in the eastern and
middle states and not due to the un-
usual spell of weather, it being case
of getting lost in the dark without
adequate protection from the weather.
George M. Frye of Dickinson, said
the north Dakota towns carried pro
portionately the same. sized stocks of
coal as the Twin Cities, but when the
blockade occurred the people became
alarmed lest the supply would become
exhausted and appealed to anybody
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they thought would or could hasten
the railroads to open the lines. Now
that it is all over those same people
are laughing over their fears From
, all parts of the range country around
the western pant of the state come
reports of the excellent condition Of
cattle and sheep and no losses to
speak of are reported. He had lost
six head of cattIe-by wolves. He
said he knew of only three settlers
who had taken advantage of the law
permitting them to be absent three
months and one of them upon hearing
that the lost time would not be credit
ed on their residence time returned
to her claim. Newcomers, said he,
who came from Iowa and Wisconsin
laugh at the winter and say it is no
worse than that they had to go
through in their old homes, where they
say the suffering every winter is
more intense
Voice from Mcfienry.
o. T. Hart of McHenry, said that
after reading some of the accounts of
the, sufferings in his town reported in
the eastern papers he was glad to find
that he was alive. He stamped the
reports as gross misrepresentation
and pipe dreams of the space writer.
1t is true. he said, that they were with
out mail for twenty-six days and that
they were beginning to get scared, but
that there was no suffering nor hard
ship, and as real estate man his
confidence in the country was such
that he would not hesitate moment
to locate his parents upon the prairies
of his section feeling they would be
as safe there, summer or winter, and
have as much comfort as in the most
fertile and high priced lands of the
central states. The people of Nc
Henry, during those twenty-six DAYS
We're cut off from the outside world
and had but meagre means for learn
ing what was going on and it was not
wonderful that some persons thought
the railroad had abandoned them and
had wired out dismal stories Of con.
ditions never dreaming that these
statements would be published. They
We're intended for prods to the rail
way company and as far ais he knew
We're greatly exaggerated
Misrepresentation.
A. p. Malin of Kuhn, related some
OF the gross Misrepresentation In
some of the eastern papers. notably in
an Iowa paper giving purported in
Bterview with a travelling man from
North Dakota who was visiting home,
and which the travelling man said
We're made out Of whole cloth as he
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