Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-04-30
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SOME POINTERS FOR LuM.

dependent, quotes approvingly an
article from the Valley City Times
Record regarding Alexander McKen-
zie, and then wants to know by what
right a nonresident has to mix in
the politics of the state along with
a man who has lived and voted in
the state for the past twenty years.
All of which is to indicate that Nc
Kenzie should get off the earth and
leave more room for Lum.
Why, bless your heart, brother
with the undying name of Lum, Nc
Kenzie was in the state and terri
tory possibly before you were born,
and certainly before you ever partici-
pated in the affairs of Dakota.
He came here away back in pioneer
days, when there was no railroad,
and his first work was done as a tie
handler and spike driver on the
Northern Pacific railroad then build
ing into Bismarck.
He served as sheriff of Burleigh
county in the frontier days, when
bad men were numerous and when
an officer took his life in his hands
in making arrests of desperate char
acters. He never showed the white
feather then, and he hasn't showed
it since-not even in the presence Of
SO distinguished and terrifying a
warrior as Lum.
His record as an officer of Burleigh
county is good-as his record as a
public man and citizen. He went
down to Yankton in early days,
helped with the plan of removing
the capital to Bismarck, in the
Northern territory and thus did more
to set North Dakota before the world
and aid its development than more
Lums than we could name in sing
lie day at least.
He pledged his individual credit
to make an exhibit of the resources
of the territory at New Orleans and
archives of the states of North and
South Dakota. Those were days
when conditions had not been estab-
1ished and the fortunes made in the
Dakotas since through the hard work
and unfailing confidence of the pic.
neers, did not exist.
T. r+@ ,,1f
Dakotans, after capital removal, and
compelled appropriations, in the face
of the bitterest opposition, for North
Dakota institutions.
He took Gall, Sioux Chieftain, tt
New Orleans, at his own expense, tt
show to the world than the Indiar
power was broken and that there was
no longer danger of massacre on the
prairies of Dakota.
He was at Washington during the
time the enabling act was formulat
ed and stayed there through congress
to insure the granting of public lant
allotments and endowments for thu
institutions of North Dakota, whel
his detractors of the present da,
were waiting for somebody to cary
out territory for him to enter ant
attack old and respected citizens il
the name of politics.
He has all his life, as resident o
a new state that needed exploitation
been an enlister of capital in Dakot
enterprises.
He has believed in liberal polio
toward banks, toward railroads, tow
ard means Of communication an,
transportation, as necessary to tn
prosperity of a new territory an
state.
He assisted with the raising O
funds for the building of the CAPT
tol of the state, and was the poten
factor in raising the hundred thous
and dollars contributed by the citi
zens of Bismarck, which was investe
in the state capitol and is now tn
property of the state of North Da
kota
He obtained the grant of 800 acre