The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-08
FOLEY VISITS QUAINT OLD
'GAlDF0 RMDA PIONEER HOUSE

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Here it is, in all of its Spanish
grandeur. And as to what it was. l
shall say that No / on the menu was
a Mexican appetizer which the unre-
generate might call a cocktail. but
which had a finer and more delicate
fiavor-so | was told. No > was a
white wine, equally delicious-so |
heard. No 3 was Il Chill preparation,
embodNins half a dozen delicious in
gradients. No 4 was chicken. pre-
pared with chill and real Spanish. l
suppose polio" is where we get our
word "pullet." No 5 was caulinower.
No. s beans after the Mexican or
Spanish style. No. Z was old fashion,
ed lerked beef. cooked with a sauce
and something that has nearly disap-
peared from the culinary lists With
the advance of civilization With its
dried bcefs and hams and bacons. No.
No. 8 was roquefort cheese, softened
with olive Oil and made interesting
with red pepper. and No. 10 a the
cafe noir of the restaurant or the
black coffee of the home dinner table.
Well. we disposed of these ten
courses. and then the trial began.
Joe" Scott, leading criminal lawyer
OF Los Angeles and president of the
board OF education, prosecuted, and
we were duly defended and We're per-
mitted also to speak in u w be-
halves. The jury found for us, and we
were formally acquitted and adopted
into the family. After the dinner and
the trial, there was an old time Cali
fornia entertainment. Vocal music
with guitar accompaniment. Spanish
dancing with ~castancts. story telling
and entertaining exchange of anec-
dotcs until midnight. Lummis dress
cd after the old style-tight fitting
brooches of buckskin, tanned as soft
as silk. \ short, tight fitting buck
skin coat. soft bosomed and lace or
namented shirt, real Spanish. and
everything in keeping. and he called
h court to order with an old time
Spanish pistol, double barreled. cap
primed, and beautifully chased and
ornamcnted the aguacii or sheriff who
maintained order was armed with a
Spanish short sword. suspended by a
chain that ran about his shoulders
like II branch of a boys s]uspenders.
1t was all California-as it used to be.
/! l was glad to sec it. For 1 saw the
northwest as it was twenty-five wears
ago. and allowing for the difference
in the and customs of the
two sections. there was q similarity in
spirit and friendliness. The old time
northwestern ranch house. the hospf-
tally freely extended to every travel
or without money and without price,
the frontier entertainments, the jerk
cd buffalo. the dried venison, the
prairie chicken, the hard tack-herc
are other things that have Just about
disappeared in the past third of a
century or less.
For the prairic's passed or passing
-,, with the passing Of the years
I'LL there is no West worth knowing
H.. and there arc no Pioneers.
Ihey have riddlcd it with railroads
80. throbhing on and on and n
They have ridded it of dangers till the
zcst of it is gone.
And I've saddled UP my pony-for I'm
dull and lonesome here
10 go Westward. Westward. West
ward. till We find a new Frontier:
10 get back to Gods own wildness
. there is no West-it's conquered
and I don't know where to
Some of YOU may be familiar with
those lines by Foley. Well, they re-
fleet very truthfully the conditions
out here-and vet they were written
Tor a lane three thousand miles away.
showing thai truth is truth-every-
where.
And there are other things and men
100 passing away out West-men who
pore the heavy burdens Of pioneering
building and developing. Not all
heroes find the limelight and I was
reminded OF that when ] learned of
the death Of my old friend and CO.
worker. a. n. Leslie Of the Tribune.
We were together for nearly twenty
Nears-Jewell, Leslie and Foley.
Now two Of the triumvirate have
gone over the Big Divide, and the
third is way out on the Pacific. No
POD! but those Of US who were on the
inside will know what a struggle 1t
was Tor twenty Years through hard
| tunes and frontier days to issue a daily
paper and find funds for a payroll.
Mine was the easiest task for l had
only to find things to write about and
to keep up the local and general lit
erary spirit Of the institution. which
graduated such men as LaShelle.
Huntley. Quinn and others. But Les
lie was the fund finder, and for all
those years he managed to ind them
Quaint, sometimes odd,
ia'eiLui' oydi, L can see him now Sit
ting bent over that high desk and COW
ering endless sheets Of paper with fig
ures. When he was in trouble, he
made me the repository of them. and
this did him good and didn't harm me.
l remember him as manager Of the old
pasepali association, as mayor Of Bis
marck. as friend. counselor and
cashier. follow him as he gradual
~ went down the shady slope that
leads to the dark river. He was al.
ways Les" to the boys who worked
with him: with many a quip. a jest. a
story and a "Reminiscences. And when
! saw him last a few days before /
left, l knew l should not see him
again. He did his part as the light
was given him. faithfully, honorabIy.
cheerfully and we'll. And now
For him. the dawn is in the east. it's
getting light up town.
And 'thirty's' taken of the hook-the
last FORMS going down."
Farming will never become quite as
soft as It looks on tho front page of
a farm ma nor.