Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-07-14
Tribune Special Ser1Hce.)


Washington, July 1O.-The papers
show that the heat wave continues
and that rain is worth about dol
lar a drop 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 mark
ct this year.
Whether Norton has captured the
nomination for secretary of state
does not yet appear. Norton has 3
shreWd old father who was an early
settler at Bartlett With apologies tt
Fred Kelley, let me attempt to tel
the story of Pat Norton's encounter
with the wheat buyer. The grades
were not satisfactory and Dick Walk
er, the elevator agent, insisted thai
he was giving 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, knew you when
We first came to Bartlett. Ye hardly
had hat to stand under or pair OF
breaches to cover We. Now look at
yer fine clothes. Its losing grades
suppose that gives them to We. And
l mind that old shanty We used to
live in, now look at yer fine house
Ye got it losing grades Of course,
And mind the broncho We used to
ride. Now look at your 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. Losing grades all the time
Poor Dick Walker, who will pity We
when We get to be a millionaire, los
ing grades"
think it was Pat Norton who had
a few sacks of the best wheat North
Dakota ever produced-it may have
been Pat, and Dick Walker was not
the buyer. He threw a sack of this
fine old number one on the top of
his load and it was inspected and
called frosted. This was in 1888,
when the farmers lost grades because
it was too cool in August. In 1889
and 1890 they lost because it was too
hot, and in 1891 because they had
so much wheat the fellows who had
gotten rich on these lost grades could
not handle the surplus.
Samuel G. Brossius, who was at
Bismarck with Captain Pope of the
quartermaster department, and who
married the widow of the late Gov
ernor Briggs. Mrs. Nanny Briggs,
committed suicide Friday and was
buried today at the old home at Han
cock, Md, where he was born and
bred. He was a royal fellow, with a
slight impeachment in speech, COM
petent 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 ill
health continued and he gave up the
fight. Mrs. Brossius will remain in
the city a short time and then join
her daughter, now Mrs Pope at Mon
teray, Cal.
Theodore b. Elton, son of James
Elton of Grand Forks, and who was
Senator Hansbroug's secretary at the
national capital, was married on the
7th inst. to Miss Fannie M. Hamlin
at the Gunton Memorial Presbyterian
church. by Rev. DR.. George NJ. Robin
son. They will be at home in Grand
Forks after September 6.
They had safe and sane Fourth
bration by children or others of tho
natal day was concerned, but 226 ne.
groes were arrested for rioting over
the Reno affair." AS one extremely
pious colored man said, the Bible done
say that Ethiopia should stretch out
his arm and there should be no man
to make him afraid. Il done tole
you" he said. 1.-The millennium is right
heah." The sanity which marked the
suppress sion 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
marked contrast, so marked that
imagine there will not be Reno af-
fair very soon again in this country.
l am glad to see the uprising through
out the world. and the determination
to suppress the pictures which are
due to follow.
l notice Colonel Brownlow of Ten
nessee, is dead. He did not sit around
and wait when he came to Washing
ton as a M. c.. to have some one
show him now to get on to the pay
roll. but he just got there, and when
ever anything was wanted from his
district. or If anything was lying
around united that his district would
need of could use, it lust had to come
along. He got more pension bills
than almost any other fellow and
kept q getting long after his quota
was exhausted by going out and get.
ting some fellow to call up his bills
and let them be charged to the other
fellow on the rolls, but the boys who
were favored know to whom the cred