The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1908-01-31
Al !: !: AUTO TRIP
Bott 6 all Business Men Were
evils Lake Visitors.
MADE TT IN 5 HOURS
Visitors We're Banquetted at the
Sevllla and We're Royalty En-
tertained at Rvmsey Capital.

Six BOttineau business men
made a trip to Devils Lake
Friday in Mcintosh and
Cathros big Haynes auto
mobile. They spent Saturday
and Sunday at Devils Lake
returning home Monday. Sat-
urday Devils Lake Journal has
the following account of the
visit of the Bottineau men to
Senator Hansbrough's baili-
wick.
"A party of Bottineau busi-
ness men arrived in Devils
Lake at 5 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, having made the
trip in an automobile in six
hours, the distance being 119
miles. They came by Dunseith,
Bisbee. Cando, Stark weather
and Webster. Between Stark
weather and Devils Lake a
speed of 43 miles per hour
was attained. The party con-
sisted of G. r. Gleason, F.. w.
Cathro, J. A. Painter, w. H.
Mcintosh, A. Johnston and
w. X. Mcintosh. They travelled
i'm a 5O-horse power six pass
enger Haynes machine, and
the trip was made without the
slightest mishap. The roads
were in fine condition, and the
weather was nice and warm.
Most of the gentlemen we're
former Devils Lakers, and they
spent the evening in looking
over the city and renewing old
acquaintances. E. J. Cham
berlin was notified yesterday
morning that the, party was
coming, and he arranged for
a small dinner party at the
Sevilla in honor of the visitors,
to which the following were
invited: Judge J. F. Cowan,
G.. NJ. Fisher, p. ]. McClory,
F. T. Cuthbert, Blanding
Fisher, Howard Whipple, Sen
ator Hale, E. K. Barnett. w.
NJ. .Holbrook, J. H. Bloom.
The spread was prepared
under the direction of Henry
Rhome, the we'll known Sevilla
caterer, and it is said it was
one of the finest ever served
in the city. ..
Judge Cowan offciated as
toast master, and as usual, he
filled the position faultlessly.
The evening was given up
largely to relating early day
experiences, and they were
intensely interesting, and some
very amusing. 1t developed
that nearly all. those present
had been or wee at present
engaged in farming, and it
was brought out that in 1885
w. H. Mcintosh left Devils
Lake for Bottineau with a
yoke. of oxen, the trip being
made in about a week.
Twenty-three years later he
made the trip from Bottineau
to Devils Lake in a modern
5O-horse power automobile,
covering more ground in an
hour than he covered in "a day
with the yoke of oxen. When
he left Devils Lake in the
early days his property assets
consisted of the yoke of oxen.
Now he is president of the
First National bank of Bottin-
eau, and is able to buy all the
OK teams in North Dakota.
Attorney Cuthbert also posed
as a farmer, but he was caught
in the act, and was promptly
declared guilty by. the dis
tinguished POSTMASTER, who
held that a man who called a
clevis a cleaver and a rung
a spoke was not eligible to be
classed as a farmer. Attorney
McC1ory. related that in 1882,
himself and w. ID. Ensign left
Devils Lake for Bottineau, and
as they went along they estab-
1ished mounds on the hills to
mark the trail which after
wards became the. main
travelled road for traffic from
Devils Lake to the Turtle
Mountain country. All those
present responded to calls from
the toastmaster, and all had