Show IE WAS A rOOlI MOW M-ow YOUIVQ FOX RAN A WHOLE COUNTY IN DAKOTA a 111 All the Offices Tar ho Winter oDd Xtstbar Enjoyed the tperlenco ITeaamM Thee He Was la nh II sinatill ft Little Lou i There Is n man In this town who was ruler of tho wholo county ho Ruprvmo Iflay 0 almost sll months Ho vas n Pooh jr Is li llli name Bali with a vengeance bZv J Fox and ho is fond of telling how Cavalier county In tho first win Jho ran ltd of its cxlsttnco 11 came about In this way Cavalier county had been named but unorganized for several years up to S of 1884 It consisted of a largo strip land all owned ly tile government lying ly-ing west of tho western boundary line of Pembina county About that tlmo elected asa P McIIaRh of DathRato was representative of Itmbina county in tho a legislature and It occurred to him and to Attorney W J Jlooney of tho game village that it would lio well to organize Cavalier county and add to It the three ran ges in the western part of Pcmttna county ThU western part of PcmUtta county was very much higher than tho rest of the county imd was Situated tire people said and say yet on tlw mountain Bo McJIngh got n bill through tho legislature defining Cavalier county as it Is today That was in tho winter of 18845 A courthouw was built at Lungdon which was ileslgmt as tho county seat nod at tho election in November Topical county officers were elected < l But nono of tho county officers came to Langdon to live It was already a bulla winter and they could sea no re bull-a why they should como if there was some ono hero t to take charge of tho records So they united in baking K J Fox n young man jut from Canada to take charge of the offices until summer sum-mer Fox accepted tho Position or i puid j l tlons and In I Docouihcr took chargo of the affairs of tho county The courthouse court-house wa1 their a largo building Intact In-tact too largo for use Fox decided I that it would bo boiler to leave it vat va-t until spriog and ho took up his j abodo in nona room claim fchack the only other building In town This wan I about 15 by 20 feet in dimensions will f there ho lived and did business that I winter Ho was deputy clerk of tho courts county judge county treasurer cur dcccH auditor and Tighter of < county r i out The nlcriff lived in the country and tho superintendent of scliools lived JUKI across tho Manitoba line Tho shirill Aid not fccrvo out his ten for ho wan put In jail j for shooting n men in a fight Thcro wan not another living soul within I with-in two milts Fox hired entirely alone and did his baking own cooking except the bra which wa doc by a neighbor time though tho county miles away Langdon Iolh cun ty seat was not ytt a pohtpfflco The postmaster of Olga in tho casU ni part of tho county wed to Font over a largo and about paclcago of lettrm pipers tvico n week to tho pap lie know lived near Langdon and Fox would give I to thcso people their mol when they called for It There was not tho west but ono settler 40 miles to about 40 and n milea northwest lear tho Manitoba line them wero sovera settlers and Dome of thesouROd to drivo t that great distance to fo on a lame gt When they did trial claim stead o a tr clam I a their meal them that Fox had to givo and lodgings gvo fat he hail after ng to keep a sort of hotel Tho vrtntcr of 1884G was very cold and at night Fox w often to lie awnko und listen t tho blizzards how ltl around his little blk 110was kept busy however far there were many filings registcrlnga of mortgages and I few deed Au average of two or three him dally on mel would como to sco 1i business but ho seldom sawn woman Nearly all I tho settlers near him at that ear bachelors who afterward time were baelor nteru went back to Canada to get married and indeed Fox did tho same Kvcry body was poor and yet they nil seomci wa to enjoy themselves though they had to haul their wheat from 50 to 70 miles to market Tho winter passed Tery swiftly and ped in the summer Mooney and Mcllng Then otlw came with their families ao wih settlers began to pour in Building sltrrs pt and in n fovr went up as if by magic = a i month there worn a postoflico and a dozen dwellings Talk of a railroad h goal to b br anal i n few mOllt lt came Then ind < l PoohIlah Fox calo IIo chco 10 I had to surreudir his glory I0 take up the humblo position of Halperin trndent of tho school of tho count and ho still retains tho place Ho i disposed dis-posed to think that in SPIN of tho comforts com-forts and conveniences of flat present for made of life here ho injoycd himself mao moro that winter when ho was monarc mo of all the government crtucca of Cavalie county Langdou N D Cor |