The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 7, 1934, Page 3

Those Were id Days’ e ‘Good 0 a income mee “period were moval to it. My childhood was that of a farm boy with very Mmited schooling and t wo outstanding events of the the Civil War and our rer the west in the great trek that followed the war. My memory of that war i% very distinct for my father left his hay x.arvest in July, 1862, and enlisted a company of over sevent gee to form Company G, 106th New York The We profi he Volunteers. com- first lieutenant of that he was invalided August of that year he seeeae i fis 8 ry the many fresh water col- that state known as the Towa University. At this school acquired my limited book-education, aching country schools winters, during my course, and getting my diploma in June 1874. I secured the a s principalship of the West Union pub-| ing Uc schools that fall and taught there In the fall of 1877, after my term of tounty superintendent had expired and I had saved enough to pay college debts and take a course at law school, T joined the law class of 1878 at Iowa State University. At that time it was that a one year course would ‘was chosen president, after the usual hot contest of a student body. In my brief experience in politics I have noticed that honors are seldom dis- tributed on merit. it k gee cle i E g i Bui Es gE F i i : 5 ; [ : é i E auf ig it Af E i i i i 83 r Be ea 8. g i i ea i i i : 3 i county ple favored its removal from the far southern line of the territory to a sion and must have a lot of Bismarck money on my person, though I had more central and accessible location.| voted for Huron on every ballot until So far as the sentiment of the legis-| Bismarck received the necessary five lature was concerned, it was ripe for}and I then moved to make it unani- the change. But there was the ques- | mous. I succeeded in securing from that tion of method which for a long time/ legislature an appropriation of about Proved nearly an insurmountable ob-| $120,000 in bonds vhich put the agri- stacle. At last the plan of commis-| cultural college at Brookings on its sion was hit upon, but who should/ feet and put at its head the greatest appoint it? Then the council of 12)/man in the line of agricultural and handed nine of its members the selec-| industrial education who has ever tion and they named their trusted/held the friends. 1, being the next friend Of) McLouth Mr. Scobey, was given a place and the nam: : of all appointees were entered in the body of the Act, thus prevent- ing a chance for any change. The history of the proceedings of the commission has teen so fully covered by the able articles of the late Judge } one of my most highly re- garded colleagues, that I shall omit that story. There was, however, one -Jepisode brought on by the anti-re- moval forces of the Territory that I feel is worth setting forth here. The business men of Sioux Falls held a meeting, soon after the legislature had passed the removal bill, to consider action to arouse public sentiment against it and if possible defeat the purpose of the law. neediness denounce the action of Spalding sustained. i F HY iL iy z : il ge AL F Z 8 g 5% sf | 8 i i E 5 i i is ii Titi ! 4 5 i i Ht fh ig i i : E “ Be ak i ue ll FE 3 as i I | 5 | ! | i i i e 3 i z i & 3 GEFE Ml i i ; 5 Eg g i § é i E E g i E i Eft dl i i ile Tg E aD 8 i is i i i I ! | | i E PLE a ff BF job-in that school, Lewis of Michigan. When the campaign for the nomination of a territorial delegate to congress to succeed O. 8. Gifford, Republican of Canton, came on in the year 1888, there was quite a rush of entries, largely from the south. They were O. 8. Clifford of Can- ton and Melvin Grigsby, and Judge Palmer of Sioux Falls, with General Harrison Allen of Fargo, the sole as- pirant from the north. I busted into the game as number five, backed up ‘ith some personal gall and a lively bunch of young fellows, mostly law- yers from the fifth judicial district, nominally called Central Dakota. The convention was called for August 24 at Watertown and was composed of over 1000 delegates and its delibera- az RE i ey 383 <5 gz BEE PATE: sniye iN g E g "4 sts ag Ae af : E tH 9 Hi 52 | & q i a » i & Hf [ | : i i i BE gE a 5. 2 g BB il z i ge & i 58 2 & age | if $2 BREES i i lite tf He extgeé i i : | E i eeyE ap t 5 — nae i i [ i : i i i i ; ei | | was a loud call for an immediate change. Applicants were many and very insistent upon early action. I became known at the post office de- partment as the holder of the record for filing papers there. No member of congress had put as much on file. ‘They consisted of petitions, letters, telegrams, remonstrances, protests and what have you. For weeks I took one or two large grips full of papers every day to the office, never suspect- ing that they contained the dynamite that would blow up my political bal- loon, eventually. Every time I en- dorsed an appointee I made several active enemies and generally one un- grateful and indifferent friend. It was very apparent ‘> all politicians that the election of President Har- rison and a Republican congress meant the immediate division and admission of the territory. No one saw this eventuality sooner or clearer than President Cleveland, and he proceeded to foresall the Republi- can action by taking steps to put through an admission bill during the last days of his administration. The method used was known as the om- nibus bill passed by congress and signed by the president, on February 23nd, 1880. This bill provided for the division and admission of Dakota and the admission of Montana and Washington, two states that then were believed to be Democratic and November 2, 1889, brought my ser- vices as delegate to an end though a Mberal-minded congress, in 1801, pass- ed an act without solicitation from me giving me the salary for a full term of two years. Re-Marries in 1892 In June, 1892, three years after the of my first wife, I married Bertha Van -Dusen of Prentice, Wis- Hs : it ie as g » * ; ig ag oP f: i Eyé 5 z 8 3 é § i & Fs i E i | 2 g BB Hf BF E ll 558 ey 5 | i x if i el Ee i i : ! BE gE + Fi 4 i g i + g s : E : é 5 4 E : iF Eg a 5 i “f il iH Te s cr | B e | I i HY E i E ee i i : | i i Hl s 8 i gz 5 : 8 ts i i ae ci Ee i F] 26 iH th i i u g g oee ** * ene *# ee .# #8 & : PIONEER WRITES MEMOIRS : : litt ae ‘Vice Rackets’ Und 30-Day Open Season one 88 we eee 86 #88 #888 sa) . my On Du ised . eae ak 8 to Fire at Sioux Falls cks Is Advi ecalls Early Political Con ji sa caw sie Dee oan ts wi Bil 0, Tal es s year, 1885. A duly authorised. com-| cultural Department at Washington Sioux Falls, 8. D., July 7.—()—A * nae « —()—A _nation- he mittee had taken the constitution to/as director of an experiment station, sweeping “John Doe” investigation of | this pM bgt et oer een aearae” “oe Sr eat uate ad ete a, Slee ary 12, to May 6. There was much prosecutor until the Territorial = 4 ” vice rackets” are operating in Sioux] ph, 3 ho e:1Fvation because |iature of 1898 repealed the law and] Democratic administration found ex-|, tn, 100 the government transferred by E. V. Willard, head of the state be Pg ng Palde tay" Was pong getes aie, ee ae though Senator Harrison ‘and other|to Los Angeles, where he continues Principal fuel and people spent.long| mer wateat Of Republican members of congress made/|his research work and laboratory ex- Rights in bed as the supply of kero-| rp 4 the Best par|® Valiant fight in-favor of admission.|periments at the botany ent sense was exhausted early. of thas parte sorulsted of an’ fine | wens to Washington early in Janu- lot the University of California. The pare On the 22nd of June, 1981, T married Kenta ary, 1689, to learn something located near where my High. tiating the action, Judge Gibbs de- ora M. ‘Thomas at her horns in Wee! bunch of young lawyers as could be/ duties of my new position as dele-|daughter, Marjorie, have been living Sa: eet Pet.|clared that he would peah “a, thor-| Ben Octobe 1 and close November 1 Union, Towa, and we built a five-room | were ambitious and.“ apres tate i |eates the term of office beginning | since 1925, and is a great comfort and FL Hough, complete and exhaustive invest-| rea, applicable to Minnescte, Wisco whos ‘anbistey foot on New cottage in Brookings, which was our rere ambitious and up-to-date i8/on iaarch 4 of that, year, I soon| help to us carrying on as « household % H Bisation of city attairs.” sin and North abd Goan Heke” England soll prior to 1€40, I first saw|home until her death, April 23nd, peek eater J pra, |learned that a territorial delegate|since the death of my second wife, % 3 O that rackets “were running!" At a recent conf " q the light of day at Potedam, St. Law-|1889. There were no children of this |fine records for tretecives ne was only a very small frog in @ very| Bertha Van Dusen, on April 22nd, 1929. % & 0 wide and handsome in SiUx|terations! Amociation of toners tence County, New York, June éth,| union. 3 county, where tee flee ene ot ens | arge puddle, having no vote or auth-|My daughter is engaged in the cultt- 72 43 .00/ Falls,” under city protection, were|tion officials of Northwest States and Ps 1882, My grand-perents, David Mr.’ Scobey succeeded in securing| was held, there tee 90 ority beyond that of an errand boy/vation of a good soprano voice, the|Drake, clear §t 43 00/made in municipal court Thureday|Canada, a 30-day tes and _ Mathews and Lora Perry, Eil Folsom from the tegislature of 1881 the loca-| in practise who became orenivene in |20F, nis constituents, He could “en-|composition of music and charcoal TL 4 0/by ‘Tom Kirby, counsel for the slot : the thisatseion Gee and Amanda Knox, migrated trom|tion of the Territorial Agricultural tne councils of then tenon on | dorse applicants f t as|drawing from life and thus getting m3 0 j pletion of ducks throughout tke northern Vermont through the wild-|College at Brookings, providing the Walsh, an erstwhile Democratic = and railway mail clerks | some pleasure out of a life badly shat- | J, 68 44 00/ he would prove his conteniton by call- try. Minnesota, Gare Protesuive erness of the north woods of New|People should give to the Territory| stor trom Montana and mest conspie.|%t,the, post offi t; can-|tered by physical limitations, It is TL 43 00) ing various city officials and others|teague recommended a York about 1620 to the St. Lawrence eighty acres of land for site and farm most consplc- | diaates for jobs in the U. 8. land|my duty and happiness to ald and|Max, clear 72 46 00|cr questioning. te yet Necutine eae Valley, where the Mathews family| Gov. N. G. Ordway had been ap-| ous in, the councils of his party for|ofrice in the Interior Department;|assist in making her life endurable 2 & % on wa. ee settled at Potsdam and reared a fam-|peinted by the President, and took | destn ee” Ke Decoming| sppucante for places in each of the|atid in some measure happy as long i “ %|Prison Evangelist Liat your tee Whee 60:aiy shen children, and the Folsoms | o! fore the session of the legis- several department government | as tations of old age do not d caste acitled at Canton’ and. there raised /lature met in 1861, and Mr, Bocte & member of President Roosevelt's and maybe the appointments would be|interfere with fay activity and use- 7s 3 | Plans Services Here pean their family of eight. In spite of was able to make a contact with him 4 MO atts, TK on his recommendation. Gen-|fulness. I realize that I am nearing | Will % 38 00 ene, ploneer hardships of the wilderness|that proved useful to us. quently Repubiican U. 8. senator {10m erally he could stir up action on de-|the end of the long, long trail but I :%0 45 00] Brigadier J, Habkirck, salvation| Dillinger Reported these families grew to manhood and} In the fall of 188%, Mr. Scobey was! at the territorial election of 168¢,| 270 Pension claims for the veterans get great satisfaction out of the AKOT. Army prison secretary for 11 central| Seen in K: womanhood and the parents never|re-elected to the Territorial Councilly was elected @ member of the cone [Of ne civil War and order bulle-|thought that my life has been cast| . SOUTH DAKOTA FOINTS | ity Dito neuiay tet services at en in Kansas Town : heard of birth control. Neither did|and was made the president of that|cn"trom: the conetie oo eso, | tins and garden seeds from the agri-|in pleasant places in association with Mees tase Bee: | th lecal ‘Salvation attay citadel and — they worry over the danger of crop|body when it met in January, 1883.| ringsbury, Hamlin and Deuel, for the | °2! department sent to the farm-|the most intelligent and progressive|Huron, clear ........... 12 48 .00/at the state prison ‘Saturdey and @an- Tola, Kas. July 7—(%)—John Dil- > surpluses. ‘The council was a very close =| session of 1887, the second assembly|¢"®, Hence, altogether, a delegate |people the world has ever produced |Rapid City, peldy. 1% SA 00/day, it was announced Saturday by| ser #$ in Kansas now, or he was # David Mathews was a soldier of the tion at that period as it consisted Of| to meet in the new capitol, which had had plenty to keep him busy as well 85/ and during the period of their great- “Te ny officials here. Friday, insists Frank Boone, filling war: 1812 and participated in the/only twelve members and it was in| been built by the Bel the clerk or secretary that he had to/ est advancements, MINNESOTA POINTS O rvices 3 station proprietor. battle of Plattsburg and other actions| this body that the scheme to remove | Dee? by the commission with| ey out of his own J. W. High- Low. are scheduled for @ p. m.| “Boone reported to authorities that sound Lake Champlain anid 'in the capitol from Yankton, | Bismarck money. Upon the organiz- of of est est Pct.|Saturday and 11 a. m., Sunday at the two men, one of whom he “! thereot, brought, home. his. tusket|elved and born, bhaligeis OEE Soo Weather Report 2 HF Bilcttacel with the prison service set tor positively” as the notorious outlaw, 4 is lent al us- = rt a.m, lay. 4 that in after years became a family: Fight pital ———_-. asked him Friday night where . ‘The wonderful growth of popula-| fy tans sagan Tercesd’ for my| fo me. We were very busy Both Be-| on pismakt ard vicinity: In-| WEATHER IN OTHER STATES | sir Care and hes won ae might find a physician having tn of My father, Amos Mathews, third/|tion of the Territory in the opponent, Frank Washabaugh of fore and after the inauguration Of creasing cloudiness tonight, becoming Pet.|nown as a singer. He plays his own fice at home. He directed them to ti, son of that family, born September 9,| five years had built up many boom-| Deadwood, he refusing to return the| "resident Harrison. unsettled Sunday; banjo accompaniment at all services.|oc,,000"'s hospital. | ‘The men ap- A «188, oa dimers Silence Folsom, |ing and ambitious towns all over the | compliment. 1,100 Postoffices in Terri Rema CORNET Others who will take part in Army Peana us nan re left when they first daughter fe Folsom family'map from Pembina to the Missouri The principal argument of my op-| At that time there were sbout 1,100 kota: Increasing | services over the week-end are Cap- deni peg tla 1829, Shports River. Many of these towns were| position was that I had been a mem-| Post offices in the beet Sst dias held cloudiness tonight. tain and Mrs. Thomas Raber, in c oF =" commenced life on a | by deserv! Democrats, and there id i I ‘ARD THAN! Gacy the kt E04 WORK 4nd kl ready to buy the capitol and the peo-|ber of the notorious capitol commis- | bY ing ts, unset= charge of Salvation Army work at 8u- ‘We wish to express our heartfelt thanks for all assistance and sym- Tans Cue tendered us in our recent wement, for the beautiful floral ottartagaren to Rev. Johns for his comforting words, also to Mr. Swenson, Mrs. Cuns and Mr. Nordlund for their beautiful Perior, Wis., who are visiting at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Herbert Smith. Suspect Being Held In Murder of Woman Detroit Lakes, Minn., July 7.—(?)}— becoming tled Sunday; warmer tonight and extreme|Ha southeast Sunday. Cooler Sunday ex- treme west por- For South Da- kota: General ly fair, warmer cen- REseRessarksansaasseeecscsasates BeeBBREseeseesesesesesessecess , pel choral tributes. tral and east por- , Seeking to avenge ® communit: . tions tonight; Sunday partly cloudy, | Oxia. City, [om a6 aroused to fever pitch, Becker eonety, ok Foci tego ‘warmer extreme , cooler ex! Pr. fetid ar Wa officers Saturday continued their un- Children. For Montana: Unsettled a aes ‘Slay. tiring search for the slayer of Mrs. and Sunday; cooler east of Di St. Louis, Mo., clear Louisa Markie, 55, Wolf Lake town-| There were 65,508 trucks and buses Sunday. Salt Lake Cit ship woman who was clubbed to death | produced in the United Kingdom in For Minnesota: Fair, not s0 coolis, 8. Marie, and buried in a shallow grave. 1923, ed Cri Portions tonight; |Seattle, Wash. rain ... County Attorney H. N. Jenson said warmer, may become ‘unsettled in| Specen, el many persons had been questioned| All used cars offered in part pay- nortl Wash and that one man, whose name was|ment for new cars in Germany must —— Swift Current, 8. 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