Asinicide

"The Sheldon Progress pays the following touching tribute to the Fessenden editors: The citizens of Fessenden held a mass meeting in the butcher shop and organized a cemetery association with “Sandy” Smith and Editors Maskery and Stickley on the board. There can no longer be any doubt as to the purpose that boneyard is intended for. Maskery and Stickley are going to commit justifiable asinicide and send their ’steemed contemporary, Mark Hunt, to join “Iconoclast” Brann—and Cicero—and Rousseau—and all the ancient and modern thought evolvers who contributed to the editorial columns of the Free Press. Then may the La Moure Chronicle ask what will we do without “this most picturesque figure in North Dakota journalism, Marcus Hunt—so opulent in self esteem: so rich in lore; so full of wise saws and modern instances; so full, too, of prunes and verbosity!"

"The fact that there are two racing associations in the Mississippi Valley, the old Western Turf Congress and the new Western Jockey Club—both weaker and more offensive in smell than dish and ditch-water combined—are struggling for ascendency with a prospect of mutual asinicide, helps along the Bush inspiration, and it will be very easy to frighten horsemen from Charleston, and equally easy, when the scare had become effective, to remove the ban by a wave of the Bush digitals, altogether in the same manner as when the attempt was made to interfere with Bennings and Brother-in-Law Howland."