The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-03-03

of The Brooklyn Eagle, he went to
Bismarck and bought The Tribune.
The troubles this pair had to keep the
ghost walking, even to getting money
enough to lift patent insides' bundles
out of the express office, were con-
slant sources of merriment and furn-
ished copy in abundance for the paper
Some of Huntley's yarns printed in
The Tribune, were sidesplitting.
But he soon grew tired Of it all and
left Jewell to run the paper. He used
to sit in the Office about midnight and
looking over my shoulder at files of
The Tribune of the late seventies and
early eighties would supplement the
printed page with the richest of stor-
les. Alas, all those days are over. A
few years later, even though old col
onel Plummer was sleeping in Maine
The Tribune office burned completely
down, including in the wreck ali the
priceless files of The Tribune with it's
Custer tales and other facts and
romances of that thrilling time; and
now / get copy OF The Bismarck
Tribune that tells me that Jewell has
gone too.
Jewell was combination Of the
friend and the satirist Placed in an
embarrassing or a commonplace posi-
ton he would suddenly relieve il by a
little remark as bright and satirical as
a line of Juyenal. Politics to him was
of course a vocation, business, yet it
never ceased to be a joke. One day
an Office bore was in declaiming about
the uselessness of certain state Office.
Jewell stood it awhile and then said
with twinkle in his eye: useless?
Useless? Why, my dear man, it isn't
useless. It's of the greatest use in
arranging slate in state convention.
We couldn't get along without it,"
At another time prominent citizen
came in and denounced bitterly the
'pie-counter brigade" which was dog
ging the legislature for jobs. cts an
outrage" he stormed. When he went
out, Jewel turned to me with a wink
That fellow must think have a short
memory. During the populist regime
ne had three boys and two girls in
rat jobs at the capitol. JeweIl knew
human nature pretty we'll and ne had
become a trifie skeptical of loud pro.
testations of virtue He liked to laugh
bit at his fellow man. Yet he al
ways pulled quiet oar for the better
ment Of things. New Englanders might
retort that he ought to have oustad
those gambling tools and that bar
Wen, ! am not sure that he didn't a.
time. He was wonderfully patient
man and ! never saw him really en-
ragged, although he would do what the
Mark Twain westerner calls "cuss" 81
times with startling emphasis. He lived
10 see things much better, truer and
sweeter in Bismarck, and he had
quiet, patient but effective hand IN
1t ALL
Bismarck had doomed and slunnea
and doomed and slumped before / was
there. The slump was then painfnilv
on. Jewell used to say that when &c
an editor he ought to be pondering al
questions of state and national I'm
rortance he was occupied schemine
how he could get the governor to ont
some poor chap on the payroll Years
before that when the boom Was on ana
men were running about frantically
offering huge sums for land. a specula.
tor came into the offfce and offered
Jewell $4,000 for lot far from the
centre. Jewell would take no less
than $4,000, and the man went away.
Jewells father happened to be present.
He said nothing then, but years after