Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-09-01
Items Of {. Interest e.! I Cleaned. from the !
Z. e , Columns Of the .Creel City 4. :
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TELL: OF INDIAN TROUBLES
Devils Lakes Leading Paper Was
Then Edited l by BIckham ham. ~: !:
d, =. -. w. Lair Z. c.~;....: s;.;..%>:

of the Inter Ocean, a valuable find was
made in a file Of the Creel City Inter
Ocean, the real eginning ofs the pres
ent paper, afterwards merged into the
Devils Lake Inter-Ocean by II G.
$Hansbrough. This file was printed in
1883 by Bickham w. Lair, evidently
quite a %forceful writer The railroad
was onlys}in CONTEMPLATION then 85and
there was. a bittersAstruggle for the:
townsite between Creel City and Dew,
ils Lake City, then located two miles
from It's present site. IT. was not until, A,
1885 the road came through. "a few
paragraphs from the paper's col columns l11n
las published atSthat time are very in
teresting: .E$$ '. '}$& aa
I / Devils Lake City will make good SUBJ
urban property when Creel City be-
comes the metropolis. -.
| Lieut. Creel's home is the only house
$plastered Oh this side of the lake. I
- President Hnl Of the Manitoba road, /
came up from sst: On zednesda
to look over the country with q view view
OF locating his road. There are many
townsiters on the anxious bench Just! jss!
now. Colonel. Donan and 'other DsVs 1fs't 4
Ills Lake people are emphatic inSthhietr
assertions that their town is the COM: 81
ing metropolis. Counting chickens; '
before they are matched" don't l always B
pan out. Col. Donan speaks very free; Tree
Sly on the prospect Of Devils Lake CRY Il
I'D the coming town on the lake, aiae He3
asserts that Pres. Hill's trip was aalI "
planned with the knowledge Of theirs heir
syndicate some time ago. That It ssF ;sWasF
arrange for Pres. Hill to stop at Dana,s5
over night then go to Rock Island. ptl,!
sGreel City, and lastly Devils Lake axe
city. We are glad that Devils xI.al Lake q
city people are SO near the throne tlis1e n
! There was much agitation about the
{ state of Queen Victoria's health
rs The Indians were on thes{warpath ~ IN
I EsYankton, April 8, 1885, The capitol
commission came up on special train
! from Sioux City early this morning. l 1l
I They reached Yankton about b 80 2 and r,
ran through town at thirty miles I. an '7l
hour and organized while passing thru. l'l1L
/, Alexander Hughes of Yankhton * was was
elected president: Doctor Scott asc .5tdt 81
Grand Forks, treasurer; Ralph Whhee, Wlha 81
lock. of MITCHELL. secretary Just In
side of the western limits of the8city
Ssthe train halted briefly and some one
got on. a riderless horse withaa sad
4 die and bride was led back shortly Fl Z
afterwards. The train then sped - on 2!
q fo Scotland and around the bend to to
r Canton where 1t halted. Fear Of an
Injunction caused this extraordtn
conduct on the part of the digntfed
and honorable gentlemen, but no IN n
junction was intended. Yankton 5Hu has 8
1 been Warrington the commissioners to
flle the bonds and this was done last
{ night, Quo Swarranto papers were
served, ndSthe matter is nov now before ore
( The court for decision::a There sis con-
siderable merriment at the timidity OF
1 tl,e commissioners. All Yankton asks
4 is to face the issue squarely.
II Black Hills Times: The water OF
Devils Lake is said to contain the same
Z ingredients as the water of the ocean
although the brine is not SO strong
Ii The discovery of this similarity has IN
I dnced the people Of this new born
earthly paradise and summer resort 70
attempt the culture Of oysters IN the
a waters Iof the lake. Experiments VII VIII
be tried as soon as necessary arrange g
! ments can be made and # success foi'
lows the lake of the sulphurous name fltl
win have al, advantage which no other
watering place this side of the a tlantis
@ coast enjoys. II.
Emigrants are pouring q into Bartlett 'sAa
4 III large number
President Hill .hass the happy facial Y