The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-07-11
MANY WRITER'S
FOR TRIBUNE
WIN LAURELS
Jewell Guides Editorial Policy
For More Than Thirty
Years LOunsberry
Founder
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After experience on various Chi
cago papers MIR. Jewell became fore
man OF the Daily Courier in 1876 and
later accepted position as assistant
/ telegraph editor of the Telegram, on
whose presses the first issues of the
Chicago Daily News were printed.
Mr.. Jewell and Mr.. Huntley had
been persuaded to come to the Dako-
ia territory by Major Edwards who
had just entered the newspaper game
in Fargo and saw lively political
campaign in the approaching election.
They purchased the Tribune from
Col. Lounsberry, its founder, by the
use of notes endorsed by number
of residents of Bismarck who were
: interested in the campaign. Huntley
was associated with the Tribune for
only about a year. When he depart
ed Col. Lounsberry again assumed
charge of the editorial side of the pa
per while Mr.. Jewell conducted the
job department. Three years later
Mr.. Jewell became editor and pub
that capacity for the remainder of
his life, period of about thirty
years.
During his years of editorship Mr..
Jewell found time to hold various i'm
portant public positions. He was Sc
cretary of che Republican Territor-
ial committee and was chosen secre-
tary of the Republican State Commit
tee in 1893, and was appointed regis.
ter of the United States Land office
in Bismarck by President Roosevelt
in 1903. He occupied his position
With the land office until the time
Of his death.
Mr.. Jewel married Katherine T.
Woods June Is, 1882 at Indianapolis,
Ind. They were the parents of two
sons, Paul Marshall and Ralph Rod
ney Jewell.
During his long residence in Bis
( marck Mr.. Jewell was closely identi-
fied with the early history of both
the state and the capital city. AS
result of his intimacy with the pub
lie men and politics of the day he
published one of the best histories of
early North Dakota which has been
published. His directory of Bis
marck, published in 1879, has become
a historic list of the early residents
of the city. Mr.. Jewell was affiliat-
ed with several lodges, was past
grand commander of the Knights
Templar, Tancred Lodge of Bismarck,
a member of Ell Zagal Temple, Shrine
nf hn q
lodge of Bismarck.
= A. T. Packard
One of the most romantic careers
of any editor writing for the Bis
marck Tribune was that of A. 7.
Packard. He arrived IN Bismarck
about 1882, shortly after graduating
from the University of Michigan in
search of adventure. While absorb
ing local color, and mixing in the
politics of Bismarck at the time of
his residence, he did not find the
capital city sufficiently fascinating
to hold him long. After occupying
an editorial position on the Mandan
Pioneer for a short time he took up
his residence in Medora with the in
tention of starting a newspaper. Mar
duis de Mores, the French nobleman
who controlled Medora at that time.
consented to rent him one of his
buildings in which to set up his plant
in return for weekly advertisement.
"The Bad Lands Cowboy" was de-
cided upon as an appropriate name
for the infant publication which de-
veloped into one of the most inter
esting reflections of early days in
thu Bad Lands.
While publisher of this Packard
was supplied with money by Count
de Mores with which to construct q
stage coach line between Medora and
Deadwood in competition to the one
running between Dickinson and Me-
dora. After spending all his own
money in addition to that with which
de Mores supplied him, the stage line
had a formal opening with glitterinG
coaches and rearing bronchos but
never made trip and was discon'
tinued shortly afterwards since dc
! Mores had tired Of his new play.
thing. Packard could do nothing t.
make him live up to the contract by
which he was to obtain all profits
from the stage line after the ex'
penses of construction had been re-
turned to de Mores.
Hermann Hagedorn in his book or
Roosevelt in the Badlands" describes
Packard in the following words:
"Late in November a man of diff
ferent sort blew into town. His name
was A. T. Packard. He was joyously
young, like almost every one else il
Little Missouri, except Maunders ant
Paddock and Captain Vine, having
graduated from the University o.
Michigan only year before. HI
drifted westward, and, having tast'
:for things literary, became managing
editor of the Bismarck Tribune. Bis
marck was lurid in those days, ant
editing q newspaper there meant no
only writing practically everything II
it. including the advertisements, bu
also persuading the leading citizens
NV main force that the editor had ,
right to say what he pleased. Pack
ard had been an athlete in college
and his eyes gave out before his rul'
had been seriously disputed. Ate
throwing sundry protesting malefac
tors downstairs, he resigned and un
dertook work trifle less exactinl
ACROSS the Missouri River, on tn
Mandan Pioneer.
packard became fascinated viii
the tales he heard Of Little Missouri
and Medora and, being foot loose
drifted thither late in November"