Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-01-06

AsNS NohS AS " AoAI
time. 1t Is within a few months of tina
time since I founded the Record. 1t WI
shortly after the organization Of tn
county-a county that by the CELSIUS .
1880. four years previous-possessei by
thirty eight men. women and chi!dre
within its borders, and these comprise
a few families residing on or near tn
banks Of h Missouri river. When rh
Record was started there was no ma
service between Williamsport, its plac
OF publication. and the outside orlt
There was a postoffice at the count
seat. but for a couple of months after
began the publication of the paper Their
was no mail service. Wincheste: an
Winona were settled in 1854, and,
addition to the postoffices at these place
there wyere Offices at Glencoe, Gaytor
Livona and I5mmonsburg-all of til
points named, except Winchester, bein
served by a mail route between Bismarci
and Winona for, rather, Fort Yates
which was the southern end OF the mai
service. a route which had been estab
lished several years. Before the first mai
route serving Williamsport was estak
rished. the mail of the WILLIAMSON
county was sent to or received from III,
Capital City by the medium of farmer.
or others with teams who Went to Bis
marck on business. AS 1884 was the frs
crop-year, until the fall everything con,
sumed by man and beast in the Williams
port country had to be hauled from Bis,
marck, and every day a number Of team:
passed over the road. Hence, the lacl
OF a government mailroute was not 81
much of a drawback as it would nov
appear to be. g.
The number of copies of the Record
at its first issue, and for severa months
thereafter, was twenty-five, and there
were not many more han that ,umber
OF heads of families in the couny. I'm
til the mail route was establi,hed the
papers. except those for the hone neigh.
borhood. were sent to Bismarck and from
there acknowledgements for the offices
above named. except Winchester, reach
ing such offices by the RiAnarck- Yates
mail.
s~t ~
the, Williamsport region was between
Bismarck and Ellendah, in Dickey coun-
ty. AS we remember It, Williamsport re-
ceived mail from Bismarck three times a
week. Messrs: Munohy and Cochran
were the nal .drivers. the former be-
tween Bismarck AID Roop and the lat
ter between Rod and Glendale. Every
trip from EllenGale Cochran would nave
stories for Emfnons county folks about
q small herd Of buffalo that were herd
ing down near the dividing line of Nc.
1ntosh and Dickey counties. There were
twenty-five or thirty animals in the herd
were all killed.
The writer first went to Bismarck In
April, 1881. He had known NJ. H. Jewell
slightly In Chicago, where MI. Jewell
was foreman Of a daily paper known as
the Courier, which soon went to occupy
space In the journalistic boneyard. l
had com out to see the country and if
possible find a place where I could work
for myself instead OF for some one else
"a motive that has governed q large
majority Of the settlers who nave come
to this section-later arrivals as well as
those of an earlier date. When l reached
Bismarck I found that Lounsberry e.
Jewell, publishers of the Weekly Tribune
were thinking of establishing q daily edi.
ton, and Mr.. Jewell wished me to stay
inc help him OF as a compositor with
the new daily until he could obtain anoth
er printer. l found the country too new
for the establishment Of country news
paper, unless coyotes. deer and antelope
were the subscribers. So l concluded to
go back to Chicago and work there a
couple Of years and then come out to
remain permanently. This course l pur-
sued IA
In June. 1883. my wife (Mrs. Josephine
Streeter, mother of F. B. Streeter) and
myself reached Bismarck. At that time,
owing to the boom caused by the removal
of the territorial capital from Yankton
to Bismarck, there were three dailies in
the new Capital City-the Tribune, a
morning paper, and the Advertiser and
the Capital, evening sheets. The evening
papers died when the boom burst in the
fall of '83. The writer secured a job on
the Miles City, (Mont.) Yellowstone
Journal, but in the early winter returned
to Bismarck and worked on the Tribune
until February, when. believing that the
country was still too new for the start
ing Of country papers, l returned to Chi.
cago and went to work on the Herald,
leaving my wife to sell out our house,
hold nffnn<c nr,l n ,,~J
Eighth street.
The wife, however, had had some ex-
perience Of the unhealthfulness and dis
comforts for a husband who was employ
ed on a morning newspaper, and who
had to lose a day when they wanted to
visit a theatre of an evening social func-
ton Of any kind. She knew that, even
with good wages, a family and the city
allurements must needs be largely of the
tightwad order to be able to save any.
thing. Although she had never been out
of Chicago from the. time she arrived
from Canada as a child of two years of
age. until she went to Bismarck, she
liked the country greatly, and disliked
to return to the city, knowing as she did
that 1t was almost impos BILE for people
Of small means to make much Roadway
there. 1t so happened that l roomed in
Chicago about the same distance from
my work that my home in Bismarck was
from the Tribune office; but l felt the
cold much more during February and
March in the big city than during the
December and January in Bismarck. and
wearing the same quantity Of clothing,