printed in the Pilot, July 12, 1911

The body of Harry Bacsum was found in the weeds near the railroad track down about one and one half miles south of Desoto last Saturday noon. He was last seen leaving Ft. Calhoun at about 8 o'clock Friday evening, having so much of the stuff that makes Ft. Calhoun prosperous aboard that he didn't know a steam engine when he met it on the track, but he did meet Death. This is the fourth victim of Calhoun's "wide open" policy and may God have mercy on the poor, deluded men who thus traffic in death, and the voters who annually give their license so to do.

Harry was a poor weak fellow who lived in a hut on the Missouri river and caught fish with which to buy enough to eat and drink. Coroner Pierce went down and brought up the remains in his auto and buried them in the Potter's field at the expense of the county.