Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-10-23
BIC CROWD HEARS
GOVERNOR HANNA
At MILES CITY
Largest Crowd in History of
Miles City Hears State
Executive
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LAUDs NORTH DAKOTA,
IN MONTANA ADDRESS
Remarkable Development of
Northwest Shown in Past
Few Years

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The following account of the re.
cent address Of Governor Hanna be-
fore the Miles City, Mont, Chamber
of Commerce, is taken from the Daily
Yellowstone Of Miles City:
Greeted by one d the largest gath
erings of the business and professions
al men of the city at any luncheon in
the history Of the Miles City chamber
of commerce, Gov. L. B. Hanna of
North Dakota in a forty-minute talk
at the Olive "Wednesday, gave an
address which carried with it much
food for thought, much Of the spirit
of the northwest and brought before
his auditors with a graphic word
touch, the kindred interests that
bound together the states of the great
northwestern country and especially
the kindred interests Of North Dako-
ia and it's sister state on the west
Montana. Gov. Hanna arrived in the
morning on. No. and was the guest
of the city throughout the day, the
courtesies for the chief executive Of
North Dakota ending tonight with a
smoker at the Miles City club, which
was held from eight o'clock until the
governor left for Bismarck on No.
tonight. &s2 a.,.,rU
The governor told of his coming to
North Dakota in 1881 in the old ter
ritorial days, and of his seeing much
Of the mighty development of this por..
ton of the northwest in the thirty
four years that!had interviewed be-
tween the timeahe :4rst crossed the
Red River until the present time. He
said that while people of the north
west sometimes think the develop
ment slow, when we think that the
first transcontinental railroad to
pierce this portion of the northern
country, had only it's construction
trains running into Glendive in 1881,
and now think that there are four
transcontinental railway lines and all
of them built in a third of q century,
the development instead of being
tardy has gone forward; with wonder
ful progress. ,-@#' #'3eo"
He spoke of his visiting Dr. James
Of Illinois, the first territorial COVER
nor of the Dakotas who was appoint.
ed territorial governor by President
Lincoln in 1861. The aged statesman
is still living at the age of eighty
nine years and in his talk with Cover
nor Hanna, spoke of his trip to Yank-
ton, then the capitol Of Dakota terri
tory and of the sloWness and incon-
venience of his journey to the then
primative frontier town. He said DR..
James had told him that he had noted
the wonderful productivity of the soil
Of the northwest at that early day and
that it was great grat1f1catlon to
him to know of the wonderful devel-
opment of that territory, which at the
time ,of his appointment, included
Montana. Y"
The governor spoke of getting peo-
pie into the state and of keeping them
there. He said there seemed to be a
practice in both North Dakota and
Montana, of whenever money was &C.
cumulated the accumulation suddenly
discovered something wrong with the
climate and moved to California or
Oregon, but they never found any
thing wrong with the climate until
they made the accumulation.
The speaker counselled co-opera-
ton in town development. Using as
an illustration his own town of Fargo.
He spoke of the days when there was
no cooperation among the varied in
terests of the city. He told of the
getting together of the various enter
prises and of the discovery that they
were all pretty good fellows after all,
after they had onced rubbed should
ers together. He said that he liked
the caption "Chamber of Commerce"
better than Commercial Club'-that
it sounded bigger. The Identification
of the town-the attention given to
parks. clean streets and other means
of making the city beautiful. Mr..
Hanna here told of the aid the women
of city might be to the chamber OF
commerce and spoke of Woman's suf-
frage carrying in Montana and OF It's
losing in North Dakota. The COVER
nor stated that he voted for suffrage
in Dakota at the last election and
said that the future Of the movement
means great power for good in the
land.
The electrical development of the
northwest through its vast beds OF
coal and Ignite, it's tremendous wa
ter power, and many other resources,
were touched on by the speaker and
he said that Montana was especially
favored by the diversified character
Of it's agricultural, mining, range, and
other interests. The taking care OF
crops by machinery, methods in leg
islation, education. and other points,
were touched on briefly by the gov
ernor in passing.
At the close OF the talk, j. B. Col
Inns, who was the chairman of the
day, announced the smoker for the
| evening at the Miles City club and
the meeting adjourned.