The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-26
HISTORIC PAPER
GIVEN TO MASONS
DEATH ISSUE Or
~. RUssELL's GAZETTE OF Ros-
TOM" PERMANENTLY LOANED
TO SCOTTISH RITE ORDER BY
WILBUR L. LoNGFELLoW.

An interesting and valuable relic has
just come into the possession of the
Scottish Rite collection of curios at the
Masonic temple in the form of the
Washington Death issue of y. Russells
Gazette" of Boston. dated December
30, 1893. The paper comes as a per-
manent loan to the collection by Will
bur Leroy LongfeIlow, of Buxton, ".
II Mr. Longfellow is the Great Nora :
ern agent at Buxton and ranks high
in North Dakota Masonic circles, being
a thirty second degree Mason.
-. RusselPs Gazette" was CONNER
cial and political paper printed by John
Russell, as it states in the heading al
the top of the front page, at his office
In Quaker Lane, Boston" This par
ticular issue contains the announce
ment of the death Of George Washing
ton, who passed away at his planta-
ton at Mt Vernon on December IA of
that year, only two weeks prior to the
publication Of that number The whole
paper is done in mourning with heavy
black rules between the four columns
OF each page.
The front page contains column
given over to Foreign, Intelligence"
with other columns on duties of In
ported goods. under the heading s,f
Price Current of Boston" These
columns are divided in wholesale and
retail quotations, and everything is
listed from ashes and almonds to
brandy and cloth, with a long list of
the European furs at the bottom.
On the inside pages are comments on
Washington's death, an account of the
first presidents death, and his last Of
fetal letter. This letter is addressed
to John Adams, president of the Unit
ed States, dated July 10, 1898. in which
the Virginian accepts the position of
commander in chief of the armies of
the United States, reserving the right
to refrain from active service unless
the situation became imperative for
him to go to the front. The paper is
exceptionally interesting and is nicely
framed in manner THAI permits both
sides to be viewed
Other Relics.
Among other new relics added TO the
collection at the Masonic temple re-
Gently are some confederate bank
notes and government bonds presented
by one OF the members of the order.
One of these is a per cent bond foy
$500, signed by E. II. Appuson, Reg
lister OF the Treasury of the Confeder-
ate States of America. A thousand
dollar note issued by the Monticello
Bank Of Richmond, bears a picture of
the James river with the rains of the
old Episcopal church, the first rehg-
ious edifice on this. continent and In
the lower left hand corner, a picture
of Thomas Jefferson such as is seen
on certain style of the United States
postal cards today. Still another inter
esting note in this collection is a note
for S1.75 Of the type that was COM
monty used by the south during the
rebellion.
A recent, acquisition of The order is
one of the one hundred silver medals
struck at President LincoIn's order and
presented to the Indian chiefs who
were loyal to the government in the
Minnesota massacre. The medal is
three by three sixteenths and bears a
medallion of the martyred president on
one side. 1t was presented to Chief
Little Bull, who later pledged il for
a sack of -four and he never redeemed
It. 1t came into the hands of the donor
In 1887.