Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-10-24

is only q case of suffering man and
suffering shoe leather. The only way
that ] could lie down was to lie on
my stomach. and then, when would
drop off to sleep, | would lose my
splendid balance and roll over on my
boil. In those moments ! would have
bet that | weighed a ton.
County Commissioner Patterson has
been down below Dawson, hunting
ducks and finding nothing. He writes
that the hunting is poor and the sport
is poorer.
Secord Henderson dropped in over
night to look over the shoe situation
and went on up to Fort Clark. Mr..
Henderson will put his land in fax
this year, adopting the plan put forth
by Major Thoraldson.
Railroad Commissioner Mann was
here on his way. from the east. He
says that the political interest is in
creasing in the east, and that it. is
hard to tell what the result will be.
Eddie Morris went down to Flasher
and sold several shares OF Golden
Gate preferred to his friends there
Friday night. He also attended the
dance and waltzed around and around
and around. He took all the dancing
championships, too.
Lew Harrison OF Minneapolis came
in the other night and has to put
salve on his hands to kill the itching
for a gun. He "a president of the
state gun club. and when he lived at
kenmare he taught them all how TO
shoot. He is going down to the lakes
In this vicinity to take a look at the
game and has promised food to a
number of hungry families in Bis
marck. Mr.. Harrison is n OF the
best known among the printing fra.
ternity Of the northwest, having been
lthe successful manager Of several
successful institutions.
w. P. Macomber, the coal magnate
who delivers the goods in full weight
chunks from the Wilton mines and
who keeps most of the Bismarck peo'
PIE warm with his coal, was here to
see Manager Mccormack, who is kept
hustling most Of the time. 1t is pref.
ty good to sit in the nighttime in front
Of q Ignite blaze and realize that no
coal famine can get you. Major Ma
comber has done mor for North Da'
kota than any other one man, for ii
was this splendid gentleman who first
presented North Dakota'coal as a mar.
ketable product. He has brought cheap
coal to the homes of the tens of thou
sands, and has made mighty little
noise while he is doing it. Major
Macomber and Senator Neal, like the
late Colonel Plummer, are from Maine,
and they have, by WORD and deed,
demonstrated that Maine Is a mighty
good state.
J. A. Harris of the good town of
Stanton is here. He is a man who is
keenly interested in all oncerns OF
his community, and has been a hard
worker for law enforcement. Mr.,
Harris came here from OWat0nna,
MIMI, seven years ago and is glad
he came. He says that Stanton is
booming, and that it will keep on
booming.
Chris Schweigert, the two.handed
town booster for Stanton, was here
on business. Chris is a newspaper ed.
itor who keeps on insisting that he
lives in the best behaved town, the
best business town and the health.
est town on the Missouri river. Chris
thinks Of Stanton all the time when
he is away. But, then, Stanton is
just about as much in love with Chris.
Rev. Aaron Sherman Watkins, the
Prohibition Party candidate for vice
president OF the United States, was
born 40 years ago in Rushsylvania,
Ohio. After graduating from Taylor
University, Upland Ind, he became
in turn a school teacher,5 a clergy
man, q lawyer and a college profess
or. He was the Prohibition candi-
date for vice president four years
ago, running with Eugene ". Chain.
Sioux Milton Pow Waw at the Or.
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