The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 7, 1928, Page 3

‘SATURDAY, 7, 1928 rome : THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE \ AUCTION: LOSES f2z2,22221 TONITE BERGESEN'S Founder of Tribune Tells Story of Brave Old Days in Bismarck Heard Indians Firing on Engi-|gians about where Mandan is locat- | roots, they found it in placers and in Yhad given the best part of my life|temperatures were low, but are to build. above normal at the present time. 7 After that while I always came| In the southern district of Minne- Ss a to the Tribune when they needed me |sota and South Dakota, wheat and and reported several sessions of the | coarse grains are now headed out, legislature for it, I knew compara- | and early fields are beginning to fill, (Fi and prospects at present indicate a tively little of even John M. Quinn, ; fair to average small grain crop. In Last Time Tonight one of the most brilliant men con- nected with its history. Of course |the James River Valley of South Da- 1 knew James W. Foley and of his/kota and western Minnesota, many sturdy and admirable traits of char-|fields are thin and weedy and the neers as He Looked Town ed. I met Mark Kellogg, and 3 they reported to Gene: ‘ acter and am an admirer of his|yields will be light. ! night accompanied by John J. Jack-|ter, and Charley Reynolds was sent i poems, but others can speak even of| In the northern half of North Da. Over for Location Foley as a character in Tribune his-|kota and the Red River Valley of ‘man returned by team to the end of | by iter to Camp Robinson, Ne- ‘tee : u y bette! . Minnesota, all crops have a health: 4s the satel a in Chip Relea! ae ey i to ara to elit Sheri- Z| Ee : Bale So appearance "and are making fine go by all manner of construction ie go! iscoveries. mappen : ‘ogress. § of the fields are , TELLS GOLD RUSH STORY |fransporation, including ‘hand-cars,|sent his dispatch to the Bismarek| pied egies: W CHRY LER Pere ahisys capeeiilly WHere (ss flat-cars, box-cars and wagon with|Tribune which was given to the| {9 - seed was slow in germinating, but 7 the bare running gear used in haul- world the same day by me, through Can : py 4 ithe crop as a whole, in this terri- 4 Book of Time Turned to Page|ing ties. I reached Minnesota two|the Associated Press, and brought| 13.1 : o : tory is satisfactory. In the southern days later by passenger trains | about the final opening of the Black i é half of. North Dakota and eastern | of Yesterday by First Edi- {where I purchased from the Minne-| Hills to settlement. 3 Montana, the crop varies consider- in Stat apolis Tribune the plant of the old Black Hills Opened ably, due to the dry weather earlier | r tor le St. Anthony Democrat, consisting of} On Knappen’s return ‘ie brought Chrysler dealers believe that their |in the season. Some districts show | — a Taylor cylinder press, a quarter | specimens of the ore from what aft. lcreation of the new Plymouth, “65"| Promise of a good crop, while the | The following story is from the|medium Gordon jobber and a com-jerwards became the great Homstead and “75” types will revolutionize |grain in others is very poor. Spring plete newspaper and job printing| Mine, which I sent to the Semihis- " ‘ H vheat. ii tral Montana is in ex- pen of Col. Clement A. Lounsberryspiant, On June 17, 1873, I arrived |torian Institution for assay. This eames leant sik chalael bAHN growing conalCieny while win- | founder of the Bismarck Tribune,|at Bismarck on a mixed freight and|was added proof to su a : . ei aad ana fen | who passed away about a year ago pererer train; the office coming |miners in their contention. aac Mend A Alaeri octal ve the Sak oa Nie Huds Heavy | at his home in Washington, D.C. Injby, the next train. Piha rath MENON sola sf manufacture has, within most recent | rains recently, which has improved | —~ ‘The work of construction on the|Bismarck people headed by Ru ‘ e SRR vase a the general condition of all crops. it ere preying fells Story /Tribune Block, commenced at once.|R. Marsh, went to the Black H : ‘ jtimes, made sucn Vecen immorsibie,| Com has made fine progress the of the beginnings of The Tribune 55) 1¢ was situated on the railroad right-| determine for themselves the true 85 | cither as an economic value or in the| past week, especially in the south- years ago and many interesting inci-|of-way about 75 feet west of what/situation. They returned early in : ign oe ant of puch a radically new |ern districts, In the northern area, | dents of pioneer days in eet ‘ch [8 NOW known as the Will Block, January bringing nearly two ounces . isensol of design, even 12 months|it is backward, due principally to the It was written before his death | destroyed in part by the late Trib-|of pure gold the size of a lima bean " ago,” J. W. Frazer, sales manager, |cold weather. With good growing ? and sent to The Tribune to be re-luhe fire. It was built of green cot-/down to dust taken from the placer i J ne *\ weather and sufficient moisture, | |] Film favorites in black. leased on the 55th anniversary M%[tenwood lumber, was 22x40 feet, mines at French Creek. These spec- - : : ‘Besides the latest in improvement |there are prospects of a good aver- | the founding of this newspaper. it! shingled roof. I was the architect, |imens were placed in my hands, and| « - of body, Chrysler has incorporated | ge crop. |] face show you the fun. . ' is the “thirty” or last newspaper/Kdmond Hocket with myself,| Hon. John A. McLean and I went to : : |the following improvements in his|, The general condition of the win- | i 2 & story of @ veteran newspaperman Charles Lousbard, and such other|St. Paul where we met the Chamber : iistor ‘Internal expanding hydrau. |ter rye crop has not changed to any) | niest side of the war! ; who had many friends here and enhelp as we could obtain, was the|of Commerce and stirred into activ-| lic four wheel brakes; “silver dome” | extent, during the past week. We ™ important part in aa building of the | puilder. : ity the person who organized the = perfected high compression cylinder | have reports from North Dakota, west. The story fol lows: City of Shacks Northwestern Stage and Transpor- head; “red head” compression cylin- which indicate some improvement - it " Sica andvont Ten days later Lousbard, the fore- | tation an gia with headquarters “Py der head, for use with high compres- | Since the recent rains, but the stand While yet in the trenches in front/ man, commenced on the adverti at Bism: ‘We appeared before sion gasolines; new Iso Therm invar |is thin and at best the crop will be ing of Petersburg, early in 1865, Chap-| which I had solicited. There were|the Minnesota legislature and pro- ‘ 3 “ igh. In the southern districts, rye lain Conwell, of the First Minnesota | th, bout sixty shacks, t djcured a memorial t With specially prepared rings, bleachers and a good crowd to cheer the|strut pfstons; and a Chrysler cre- ligh. In_ u . Infantry, induced about 1,000 sol- ldaguots yh ‘the: bate hint ied opening the Black Hine. We t participants, the national marbles tournament is shown here as it started | ated slender profile radiator shell. |'5 beginning to ripen. diers to make application for home-j various purpbses under construction.;to Milwaukee and Chicago and in- at Atlantic City, N. J. aany heen nese essere, Sea eareients is " ter eaaceweal| ft steads on the public domain in the| Every place where they kept any-|terested the Chicago, Milwaukee and $s |Due to the dry weather earlier, then St. Peter, Minnesota, land dis-|thing to exchange for cash adver-'St. Paul railroad, and the manage- ‘ A jseeding covered a considerable | trict, assuring those filing such |tised, including the saloons, gamb-|ment and both took immediate f¢.|that famous flying trip of the Far|Nye, came to the Tribune while my CROP REPORT ieeathnof time, and the crop varies, | claims that they would be allowed |ling rooms, dance halls and sporting |tion toward fixing passenger and| West in comman of Capt. Grant | work had attracted attention. The being in all stages of development. six months after their dischi houses. freight rates for Black Hills traffic.|Marsh. I interviewed General Ter-| wit of Adams made the Tribune fa-\—— CO" Some flax is just beginning to show Siem by Sa ORL which to enter upon the la ‘ Mark Kellogg assisted me in the| We went to Washington a ry, Captain E. B. Scults and other | mous. Weather conditions the past week,| above ground, while early fields are; woRN *, 1 was one of the number Loe TK Kellogg, assisted me in ine | hibited the specimens to President. | members of his staff, Dr. H.R. Por-|" tm 1884 in order to defeat the|have been most favorable for the|in blossom. It is believed that the) (A AARNER BROS PRODUCTION such filings and the same w telegraph operator and had been|Grant at the White House, to Secre-|ter, Grant Marsh, Fred Girard, and brother of Henry M. Teller for gov-|growing grain crops of the North-| acreage is fully up to last year, and! of Dr. Orville F. Chubb, surgeon of |employed on the La Crosse and St.|tary Belknap and to the House of|others able: to give information. | ernor of Dakota, I became a candi-|west, according to the Van Dusen|with sufficient moisture, a good :| my regiment, the 20th Michigan In-|Paul nawspapers, and later ran a|Representatives on the floors of |Brief bulletins were sent to news-|date for the place and retired from |Harrington company. Rainfall has | erage crops can be produced, News and Comedy fantry. While we discovered there | publ of his own at Brainerd.|Congress. Before we left the fight | Papers by me in St. Paul, Minneap-|the Tribune as a part of the plan of |been quite general over the terri- es aS was no authority in the laws for| The editors of the Brainerd Trib-|for the opening of the Black Hills|°lis, Chicago, Cincinnati and New the battle. I accomplished the pur-|tory, and there is now sufficient} A palindrome is a word, verse, making such filings without pre-| une, Glyndon Gazette, and Moorhead | remained only for congressional York, but the main report was sent! sose, but it reacted on me and I be-| moisture to carry the crops for some|or sentence which heads the same vious settlament, we organized a|Star with their wives or sweet-|tion which quickly. followed in due|to the New York Herald, because | came a has-been in the territory I\time. The first half of the week,|in either direction. Monday - Denny ‘ syndicate of of! consisting of|hearts, came to see that the then | course. Kellogg represented them by my ap- | Brevet Brigadier General B. Mc-|new publication was probably usher-|_ We left Washington on the morn. | Pointment and much valuable ma- a. Cuteheon then commanding the bri-|ed into the, world and thus The Bis-| ing the Belknap sensation which re-| terial had been prepared for them grade, Chaplain Joseph J. Jones, of|marck Tribune became the first} 5u! ted in his proposed impeachment by General Brisbin d sent to me my regiment, and Chaplain S. 8.|newspaper printed in North Dakota, | was published. His resignation fol-|for them; but it was my tra’ N EWw 7 Hunting ‘of the 27th Michigan. July 6, 1873, lowed, and changes resulted which|my alertness and my good right- ‘We sent one of our number to| The paper was a seven column| placed General Terry in command of|hand, which then never tired, now : Minnesota on leave of absence who|folio printed on a Taylor cylinder | the Little Bighorn expedition intend- | one, that gave the world the news. CH RYS LER urchased the townsite of Fairmont, | press with the engine and engineer |¢d for Custer’s command. John M. Cornahon was the mai orton county, as the center of|/a husky Norwegian, contented with Distinguished Party pn of the Bismarck Western Uni . operations; four followed with a|$2 for the job. July 11 the second| General Custer and wife were in|°#fice. That night 8. B. Rogers, the k of sheep, purchased in Michi-|number was published, Lousbard, | Washington and left on their return bh inheon at Fort A. Lincoln, as gan and driven west and engaged in| Kellogg and I constituting the fuli|to Fort A. Lincoln on the same train, |¢@ him. There were no other corr farming and sheep growing. I ac- | force. The train carrying us west from |*Pondents in the way. What news- cepted office and drifted into the| The Tribune flourished during the | Fargo left March 6, 1876. It carried | Paper man ever had a fairer field or newspaper business hoping to pro-|summer of 1873. The completion of | General Custer and several return-| ¥% able to cover every point with mote our townsite interests. thirty miles of the road east of Bis-|ing officers and detachments of re-|Such full and accurate information Dr. Chubb came later, ran the|marck gave business a brisk start; |cruits and soldiers intended for the|i® short a time in a matter so hotel, engaged in practice, and be-|there were large shipments by rail|expedition, with military supplies | Se" came county treasurer. McCutcheon |and river of delayed Indian and mili-|and munition for the expedition. It, 19 battle in my anxiety to do the | came to smile on us and Hunting|tary supplies ee the previous | also carried a large number of gold | °ther fellow I almost invariably for- « came later and acquired our inter-|year; there was the expedition | seekers, including the “Billy” Bu got to take care of myself, and so 2 ests. Jones died in Baltimore, and Ijescorting the railroad engineers to|party from Grand Forks. ie in my newspaper work I took little moved my newspaper plant to Wells,|the Yellowstone and the construc-| trains were stuck in the snow bank thought of myself. I lived and re- on the extension of the Southern|tion of the new cavalry post at Fort|near Crystal Sprit for nearly | #P° when called so often to aid Minnesota railroad to that point. |Lincoln for the accommodation of |three weeks. Gen, Custer left the | i work for the upbuilding of my be- Deriees am Start Paper a the ane: 8. Cavalry. tenia and wet on by ambulance, re- toved Bismarck et Ce pet one yet ai 'airmont where 'y Great News Center urning with a wi train loaded ee. : p three of my chlidren were born, I} Bismarck w: great news cen- , With coal and supplies. MeLean ‘and | When Stanley Huntley, whom I had ‘ 3 . AND UPWARDS decided to establish a newspaper at|ter with sensation abundant, and|I went on by team to Bismarck, but | ™et in Washington when there with " the Northern Pacific crossing of the jour force “being ‘fresh from the soldiers and gold seekers ‘en-|the Black Hills bottle of gold, came Missouri river when the time should |newspaper work made the most cf dured the discomfort of that long|‘® Bismarck with a view to estab- / Coupe - 2 + “20 come for action, In 1872 I leased|the opportunity. George W. Plum-| wait. lishing an opposition newspaper I) + oe my paper at Wells, accepted an edi-|by, also of the Minneapolis Tribune,| During my trip to Washington | ™ggested that they buy the Tribune, , Door Sedan . . 690 torial position on the Minneapolis|had succeeded Lombard and Amos|Frank D. Bolles and E. V. Knight yy came with letters of intro- : Touring . . . 2 695 Tribune, and was assigned that win-|C. Jordan, the night-editor, had|had been in charge of the Tribune, duction but not prepared with De . 720 ter to report the legislature for.the|come to assist me. Theodore F.|assisted by A. R. Collins, who was |™oney. I gave them the plant, They Luxe Coupe Hs Tribune and St. Paul Dispatch, ex-|Linghiser of the railroad office, also styled the cow-boy editor fron his |? opportunity and $100 , 4-Door Sedan. . changing my reports of the House | volunteered assistance; Jackman and | fi t raids on the “Cow Coun-|°! Hi cash, and certain , y/ / ly AD prices f.0.b. Detroit. for the Dispatch reports in the Sen- | Kellogg lingered near, i he called South Dakota, He | Negotiable notes, which I discounted : / [7 Chrysler dealers position aan ate. After the Jay Cooke’ failure, | W! waiting gold seeker, a Mon- |* the bank, C: tain Raymond first- / Z f | Jo extend tbe convenience of : Knowing the kind of information|things took on a different hue, but |tana miner and went on to the ais marking, “When do you expect to y time payment, = the country press, public offices and|what Jordan and Singhiser did to|Hills with the Budge part; ~ | pay these notes and take the Tribune the people interested in legislature|make things hot in the old town,|panied by a comin ae) k?” I gave him almost to a day desired, my style of reporting was |during my absence could not be fully |expert Montana miners from Bis- the time when that would occur. recognized as « success, and was fol-| understood without having been in| marck. From the proceeds I paid the re- loon in some succeeding legislature | actual touch with the situation. Indian Trouble Frosuent mainder due on my original pur- sessions in Minnesota and Dakota, When I returned with supplies the| There were freqnent Indian depre- |chases and cleared the debts upon N — 7 di ‘While in St. Paul that winter I|soldiers had raided the town. Much | dations then :n the immediate vicin-|*b® offi ’/ AN ‘ met Deans. oes sole J. 4 sack. of on gusty bas Hef Ms Bismarck. “ one farmer was Huntley Goes Broke . Hemi and | Some _o: ing the train for on the west side of the ri Huntl poopendyke style of much information as to the|the first ‘ion east, Jordan had|near where the bridge now crtnses journal age too advanced in its gained situation at Bismarck, and as to the|gone, Singhiser did not stay. The|the Missouri. John Wright, a cattle i to be it id when the : Proposed division of Dakota wind whistled through the’ cracks herder, was killed but : hort dis- notes ‘beca oy ae ry endorser, I Cw Cw ar ty 4 eo Cw Bismarck the capital of the| between the cottonwood boards; the|tance north of the capitol. The|had to take care of them. Huntley aie northern pee of the territory. |big press was out of commission | Tribune favored joining other citi-| went to other fields. Jewell, who dei a ot ee elite coon meat | © of Low Priced Car-Luxury and Performance for |cptamn folio. In connection with the Belknap|the notes, consolidated our interests The office was made comfortable, |disclosure Mrs. Slaughter reti 0 Dail chromium-plated: With the new is the t the internal + business affairs adjusted and late er from the Bismarek jostoffice rE] Time f nay, Sean aba Me Daily New slender profile tad Repel cone Sdocston init give, low a price, the advan- wheel brakes to know the confidence of December I returned to Mii lis | took charge first sii ward A. ator.—Long, low bodies.— Generous toom first to sed Aes to again report the legislature’ for moved te office, to the ‘Tribens tote in fecrenierteT fields ‘kine for tos according to body model, tages of performance, riding ease, de- the fastest and safest deceleration you : 1 the Minneapolis Tribune and St.) block. Bolles and Knight ran the|Lasbel and Folmer, the foreman, P asEN GETS, pendability and full adult size which have ever experienced. : news and editorial columns of the ment detail.—_New " Silver-. and nrg characterize fine cars of higher price. Paul Dispatch while editing the|postoffice and the Tribune during|started an opposition newspaper ba al y > called the Ad: Bismarck Tei by telegraph. was appointed postmaster in And shove all, you must see its beautiful 4 ste! February and but f perro compression engine, with It is 90 revolutionary an advance over lines and finish, and stretch at case in its 5 Moorhead, and -Fargo. ont August the next year General 7 2 hise oline.~Smooth po pas gl other low priced cars, it is such conclusive deep-upholstered, full edult-size bodies, I F ri ret | Custer was permitted to accompany’| wife wou dea and daily for time, and pf hs actioninten emidence that the pest year’sstrides inthe to comprehend how completely the which was gone about. sixty days. |arrangei and turned even: aa an Rees PP aro Wy science of manufacturing have multiplied Plymouth surpasses cars heretofore sold The purpose of the expdition was to ae to him. It was final- expanding hydraulic four-wheel brakes the purchasing of the motor car under $1000. demonstrate, to the” frontiersmen| spondent. ” Of course the —noothercarofthispricepossessesthisfeature. qonss, chat you will surely want to see ing of the Black motes pate : —— it and deive it. Please see and ride in the Plymouth. We was nothing to to me. By me believe you will discover there hes never the Indians and other i ZF A Plymouth ride is the best demonstra. bean a car anywhere mear its thet tion of the ease with which it from approach the Plymouth for power, a pe paling ny taro pick-up, smoothness, easy handling, qquice of its power and the emosthness of safety, quietness and roomisess—nor its flight. You yourself must put your foot thet can equal it in beauty and soyle, ~ Corwin-Churchill Motors, Inc Bismarck, N. D. Fie il a8 in eid id Z z i | z