The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-07-13

Washington, July 1O.-The papers
show that the heat wave continues and
that rain Is worth about a dollar a
crop in large portion of the west.
] know too we'll what it is doing and
what the wheat gamblers will do. The
man will be fortunate who can sell at
the top of the market.
Whether Norton has captured the
nomination for secretary of state does
not yet appear. Norton has a shrewd
old father who was an early settler
at Bartlett With apologies to Fred
Kelley let me attempt to tell the story
of Pat Norton's encounter with the
wheat buyer. The grades were not
satisfactory and Dick Walker, the ele-
vator agent, insisted that he was Civ
ing the best grade he could, that he
had been losing grades right along and
the company held him responsible for
it.
Losing grades is it," said Pat NOW
Dick Walker l knew you when We first
came to Bartlett. Ye hardly had a hat
to stand under or a pair OF breeches
to cover We. Now look at yer fine
clothes. Its losing grades I suppose
that gives them to We. And I mind
that old shanty We used to live in, now
look at yer fine house. Ye got it los
ing grades Of course. And / mind the
broncho We used to ride. Now look at
yer fine team. And We got that no
doubt, losing grades. And We couldn't
borrow a clint until we commenced to
lose grades. Now look at We. Losing
grades all the time. Poor Dick Walker,
WI Will nj
millionaire, losing grades" I think it
was Pat Norton who had a few sacks
of the best wheat North Dakota ever
produced-it may not have been Pat,
and Dick Walker was not the buyer
He threw a sack of this fine old No
/ on the top of his load and it was
inspected and called frosted. This
was in 1888 when the farmer. lost
grades because it was too cool in
August. In 1889 and 1890 they lost
because it was too tIot, and in 1891 be-
cause they had so much wheat the
fellows who had gotten rich on these
lost grades could not handle the sur
plus.
Samuel Brossius, who was at Bis
marck with Captain Pope of the
quartermaster department, and who
married the widow of the late Governor
Briggs, Mrs. Nanny Briggs. committed
suicide Friday and was buried today
at his old home at Hancock Md.
where he was born and bred. He was
a royal fellow, with a slight impedi-
ment in speech, a competent engineer
and for a long time popular in the
army. But his health failed. He went
to Hot Springs and finally to Fort
Bayard. But his i'll health continued
and he gave up the fight. Mrs. Bros
sius will remain in the city a short
time and then join her daughter, now
Mrs. Pope, at Monterey, Cal.
Theodore b. Elton, son Of James FL
ton of Grand Forks, and who was
Senator Hansbrough's secretary at
washington, was married on July Z,
to Miss Fannie M. HamIin at the Gun
ton Memorial Presbyterian church by
the Rev. DR.. Geo. M. Robinson. They
will be at home in Grand Forks after
Sept 8.
They had a safe and sane Fourth
at Washington so far as noisv ceIe-
bration by children or others of the
natal day was CONCERNED, but 226
negros were arrested for rioting over
the Reno affair. AS one extremely
pious colored man said the Bible done
say that Ethiopia should stretch forth
his arms and there should be no man
TO make him afraid. Il done told
YOU" he said, "the millineum Is right
heah," The sanity which marked the
suppression of the spirit of patriotism
as usually expressed on that day and
gave instead the disgusting stuff from
the hell hole of America gave a mark
ed contrast, so marked that / imagine