Bismarck Weekly Tribune (Newspaper) - April 12, 1878, Bismarck, North Dakota i a thing of i E onoe Mn B her oUU to h ca dM did u she sat her r mammal It Is one offer i oh I JOB gave him u loft ha a i tbo state I i Ellen Banks U musing the people i Sultan with charger drove Lincoln Democratic a liquor license iii Pal U has at ft Keeley Motor fraud has tucked dollars T toston boiler exploded killing three six 1 Cameron and Miss Sherman will May gth vein of coal has been Deadwood a W Hoyt of Wis was confirmed of Wyoming Stanley U for Packard tor of New Orleans i Butler Howe's speech is a lot stale well stated k has commenced on ihc t Paul Minn R R ere is a strike all along the and Santa Fee R R t Fargo Times says whisky carried Tuesday's election in that berg U Ellsworth of Winona purchased lacres ef N P Land last week t house and the income tax by one majority i Gould was routed an Tuesday ant U P passed by 40 to 19 e loss on John urm wa p It was the work of an incendiary e Democrats in Congress don't t und move for the fard Taylor U enjoying j before hU departure for Germany feral colored have struck ii p a gulch near Lead City Black n Card will leave for Texas oa the 1 and his will follow him oa 6th and Mrw Tifton are reported in of conciliation policy ling peral late commander of Ft wag buried in New York on last day n T L Rosser leaves to-day for in the interest of the L f e Deadwood Daily Pioneer en- to a seven column paper and ia hing Ige Kidder was in St Paul n his way hone for a two ess trip Louis figures an income of two the Moffet BeU Punch if ik {adopted t's agitate the Moffet Punch has ceded the old western expression irrigate under Lt Chance are not ig thu way just now Their as been delated Pa Republicans in state conven May 15 don't intend to endorse leave him alone e Pioneer Press leans toW D in the coming congressional in bird disti ict of Minn barber who took a razor in pf a claim against a customer I it Kimball because it was a e thin pious man ho continually ing over the wickedness of this I is more troubled with dyspepsia blessed with religion Col Devin of the Bth is L Ma Sweetzer of the 2d vill take his place and Capt 5th will take orge Francis Train thinks the con- Ing of marriage ceremonies Id read Whatman has put Iher let the next best man run VOL 5 The papers report the dis- covery ot rich placer diggings in a stream to the Little The Japan Current still survives but the recent blizzard in the Red River lejl tough on the Banana belt the Cheyenne and Sydney coaches 2 hours to reach the Black Bismarck coaches hours Mother Peterson the Deadwood Times says recently searched several hours for a Bible for Society A pauper tarm house at Bath N Y burned recently with fifteen paupers as victims An inmate fired his bed Dan Harnet one of flie BJack Hills quartz kings died from i an overdose oi at Deadwood a few days ago The Deadwood Hook and Ladder com- pany has disbanded because a quorum not be secured for the transaction of business has noticed that when her river muddy her milk and beer are the same and she calls it a curious dispensation of Providence The Central City Herald says the est transfer of property yet in the Mills will be at City private thoughts in watch your tongue in the ily watch your and in a crowd your watch The Times estimates that the assessed valuation of Lawrence County Black will reach two million dollars this year against last year Deadwood is moving in the matter of it is now proposed to rent the TELEGRAPH grade and ions in regi lerred D T APRIL Special to Biimarck Tribune ST April Butler in- a yesterday providing that hereafter tt eres hall late between brevet ilar and volunteer officers n in a service forces con- news item says that an English in the Holy Land has discovered b's well A rumor been rSoat pme time that Jacob was 1 Derrick le Times Judge Barnes Hiding a new residence on his farm miles of town The mam ling is to be twa stories a wing le Senate for a narrow gauge Old to the Hills from Bismarck was for a while on Tuesday cutting off branches and Ing out the words narrow gauge agreed to le Third band serenaded at the hotel The Major and I left this morning for Missoula The Or goes to assume command ot Herald he editor ot the Fargo Times m a majority in that city do political questions in the same i that he does judging from re- i ibat the suckers elected all of the officers tbe Aldermen he secret of the Mitchell's P in the committee the sJ fact that a favorable report will re- t him V S Senator Dented to the report upon that hut will not vote for it WO Irishmen were proceeding in to a to an when one said to the I say where wud yez be if the hangman his dues walkin down alone the of the year when La poor Indian of Northern Minnesota the make of MM Ibe dM as his maple sugar through his nd sells it to the pale fades at a nickle until the Utter part pril closing season at the Arch t theatre Philadelphia and he then lo his Ranche on the Platte he now has stocked some of cattle He had an offer frote ndon manager for the summer but not decided from Gen Sheridan's indicates that the foot h ills e Black Hills will be well guarded num try ine the corning summer A i of cavalry and infantry tapt Pollock of the gth mtan riy now enroute from Fort 1 Ft Reno on to Ithe tte Fourche where they will I short time Capf command I be joined by a column from the L with force in tha field th Is will probably not trouble the ftr ranchmen of the very Audubon Journal says Congregational Church for scheol poses during the construction of a school house The Bismarck Stage Co is buying m St Louis i jo large hones to stock the road for the daily half breed horses have been also purchased for the outriders A poor boat caulker N Y called Louis Severn just fallen heir to f He discovers now what he never knew everybody in wego likes him Chas the Midi Sou them arid lately publisher of tile Railway age Chicago has been elected of he Minneapolis St Louis Washburn's railway A large gold brick was cast in Helena Mt from product of the Penobscot mine Its value is over The brick was the product of 1 50 tons ore and the cost of production was House passed a placing the gallant General Shields upon the army list by a vote of 206 to sin The Senate now has the Butler's egy will gladden I he old man's heart yet The longest sentence on record was constructed by a western judge He a man for life and afterwards slapped two more years the sentence because the him no The Republicans j Congress in caucus considered a resolution requesting the president to rescind his office holders dcr It was referred to the al committee with power to center with the president have established a hospital at Deadwood Wherever human ing is found those noble women are on hand to relieve it whether it be on the battlefield or in the cities God will surely bless them The Black Hills Mr Ross of Crook City has twelve that have fed and grown fat while giving milk all winter on standing grass to be found m the valleys about Crook on the ries east of the city The Senate on military fairs has agreed to recommend the sage of appropriating ooo for a military telegraph from De id- wood to Fort Ellis Mont embracing line of military posts on the Yellowstone and Big Horn rivers The Black Hills Democratic Committee again talks of moving toward sustaining their delegates in Washington in their work for the division ol tjie territory It is time the Black Hills people were ing in this matter and it is a shame that the pockets of the delegates were not long since replenished Mark W Bailey of Canton D T is brought out as a candidate for Congress by the Sioux Valley Mark is 4 good man but things be terribly mixed in Dakota politics fall and we believe that Judge Kidder is the only southeastern Dako ta man that stand a ghost of a show I The following was recently sung at a religious meeting of colored men in the If 700 at gate Ease dt be up w Ute Ton with four toad ol do slip and right De sou oa de know yen here know jou It is now reported that Mr Edison the inventor of the wonderful talking graph has also nearly perfected a chine far In advance of that both as a specimen of ingenuity and for value to the human race Edison self declares thaf it is as far ahead of the phonograph as the phonograph is ahead of a toy whistle The Fairview quartz mining company Central City Black Hills has struck a body of ore yielding dollars per ton the cost of mining not exceeding four dollars per ton The writer ef this item v as once offered a half interest in the Fairview for a mule and two sacks of flour He could have borrowed the mule but the money market was too stringent to enable to secure the flour Ben Butler stirred up the animals on Monday He made a speech for the lant old Shields for doorkeeper of the house and scattered his bricks in every direction It was no use the Democrats stuck to the Gen Field of Georgia and elected him to 101 It was a Democratic blunder that will give the Republicans the fall elections make Shields a fresh hero and probably give him a presidential appointment on list for gallant distinguish ed faithful service The s the repeal of section 1211 revised statutes and that election 1226 shall be to confer the same privilege u the officers of the regular army as re conferred by it Upon officers of rs RESOLUTION Senator pennis in presenting Blair's resolution the Maryland legislature repudiated land condemned it He would stand by the decision of the c com- mission has contra Y SHERMAN the old syndicate fat placing per cent ten million this month and fire each mth till January next the to insure purposes for md confined m pose being is breaking down in health to his bed in jail THE FAMINE in China id increasing Ca prevalent and no rains The coming is worse for next jear CONVICTED and McDonald con- at Milwaukee of tion on person of worth wer each fined five an Annie AT LORD S funeral in Dublin Wedr esda gathered and endeavor to capture the hearse vituperated the a large mob late earl as a fian and heretic cheered hissed during service and mourners I yelled hustled and the THE NEW Hews From the Agri cultural Para- diu of at Mto Proposals for wood coal oats etc were ened Ft tor and the following ti 40 per tjn tons at J K Kilne at ms at ton per ton C Officer all wood re- quired at Fort Custer at per cord Linchen Cratts and Brown All wood required a Fort Custer jat per cord Ben Myers all required at Fort Custer at per cord I Fort Keogh at I i Ibi na at If 4 So per cwt P els at 35 cts per bushel B f Patt 10.000 j bushels wood at 30 cts per bushel pine at 50 per bushel Orm T bui belt green it 27 cts per Some at I hese figure art 1 down and if they are materially d the con- tractors come out losers a U date March 23 is from ice but low j loaded produce from are away at Sherman arid City Gen com n anding it Fort ter at the requestjof citi ens of man has ac that place for the protection ot The point at which tbe Igove freights for Fort Custer unloaded on the Yellowstone is let definitely settled but it will be moved nearer to tbe mouth of the Big Horn tharl it was last year i There is in Ithe among Montana stage men propose to run opposition lines from Ft Keogh to Bozeman from Bozeman to Helena from Bozeman to Virginia City Good for elers The Crows have consented to love Uncle Samuel for yet a little and will come down the Yellowstone to some point between the mouth of the Big Horn river and the Rosebud A few lown lot have made their advent on the Yellowstone but as yet their bank account not been materially swelled I Custer County u a little ro about representation m the jfontana and will aik IBS to step in and fir the matter up It s ould be done Boats Will find plenty of rood the Yellowstone this season and wood at reasonable figures FORT BUFORD LETTER and White Dog Tf earns for Home B be were and hia Matters FOBT March Bull was entertaining a visitor My friend what U yoar I am here to tee how you aro getting along to certain if possible what are your ings toward the government You are then in tbe employ of the United States In a measure yes My Iriend I must look at B takes half pak nine tho ttam mov off visitor's my friend yon aio T believe a white man you are not ii Why do you judge me Because my friend like other white men you cut your hair while the called American scouts seldom do it Long Dog says be would like to visit the scenes of his boyhood in fact the dearest spot on earth to his thinking is Borne Sweet Home But the elongated canine also says that be is afraid to pay this visit that he somebody might bang him or otherwise dispose of hit caie and thus prevent bis again returning to that paradise of the red nomad which lies north of the lint It is to understand what these noted chiefs of the hostile tribes when they lay Wa don't want to tbo whites only let ns alone and wo will do right but we wish to do as we please go where we please and if we can't do this if we are driven to it we Will fight as long as we can get a round of i In a recent Bull is credited with the remark We don't care about getting killed perhaps tbe sooner this happens the better lor but this would seem to nothing mere than mere bravado as really place a higher value on life not indi vidually at least collectively than their pale faced brothers Jack Gorham is in town be has ably the finest ranche in this country some twenty-five miles from here on the Yellowstone Mr is ing eighty acres for oats alone He has a fine garden of about five acres where he intends to everything that man needs in the vegetable line This tract ol land is advant situated for irrigation should that bo necessary and there is no that Jack will make a splendid 8 and he is tainly entitled io i big winning I may merely n here that he has some thirteen hundred cords of wood on the Miss and Yellowstone ready for the steat as as they may arrive Buford is j itself of all super- matter that lias accumulated du ring tho winter police of the grounds in i nd around the garri son having been instituted by tho com mantling officer hear garden truck talked cf coi stantly and company gardeners are get ing ready to till the soil Target practice ne understand is soon to coma ence and every tiling around us that the busy sea son once more at band that winter has fled and the glad spring time op I It's the it's been here six think they ought Horn or the Yellowstone Time LT prove where head of A Testimonial to His Bravo Condu purposes is i 1 In the Joseph Fight ict SENSATION The on Saturday The N P Business Car off the Track With a Lively Shaking Up of Tho Injured Accidents ni tbo N P H E are as scarce as teeth and when one no public must make the most it Saturday evening about Arriva i Ej rliest th it any Steamer has R t lis ing west experienced lively sensa- tion which accidents are npt to produce miles this side ton a track had not been properly adjusted the main rail in words the switch was not bolt ed rightly p was misplaced There were h n cars in the train Nine of then p over safely but the ness Cur as a sleeper jumped the track and rode nearly three hundred feet on the ties then snapping the coupling and turning over on its side The rei t of train went before the sleeper was misled When the sleeper the tios there was solne interest excited in her menta The passengers in their berths were tossed about and reminded that it was to get up It wasn't morning or but it was riding on the old fashioned rail with fresh possibilities in the pear future There were two- bridal couples on board The uneasy motion them nervous and one of the ladies made it known by a whisper that startled so cool a man as Lt ley of Gen Miles staff Bailey thought it was an Indian attack but he had lit tie time for reflection or the issuance of orders to bis one hundred soldiers in the front cars Bailey was on the floor Capt H E Stevens of the engineer corps was on top of him and the stove had from the center of the car to the rear was on top of Sitting Bull couldn't have made it warmer politely requested Stevens to get off of him as he was a disbeliever in cremation Stevens rent back word that the stove was dl across his back and the engineer corps was demoralized He wanted the infantry to come to his relief Bailey reported that the only available force was held in check by the demoralized engineers and unless that corps ered itself and braced up there was no need of asking for assistance Stevens took in the situation and con- cluded Bailey was right Ho felt the hot enemy was not immovable After and 7th cavalry who for five davN the I of 1st Lt E P 7th I in the battle vvith Nez I Indians dating which time Ho and gallantly 1-d ths to victory do hereby fully this as a testimonial heart felt ol our appreciation of his services and conspicuous which realize I Wo further desire to Convey the and thankfulness therefor that when at one time when the fight was heavy and raged terribly on Sept and we reported to him be- ing almost out of ammunition he gal through a shower of bullets in which ho had a horse shot and brought us ammunition which fact alone enabled us to hold the points we had if lost could not have been regained without inestimable loss tbe whole of this fight hts ence and cheering words sustained jus and many times give us new heart and vigor I During tbe severe snow storms which followed the first he cared our coin fort in a truly humane and soldiery way and suffered us tbe many trials and ships the battle field Those of us who were wounded beir testimony to the many acts of kindness and humanity shown to us on the field by him to convey to him with great our for him as an one in whom we take pride and who we would follow in battle to the death Wis are very respectfully The original is signed by ninety-six non comm officers and enlisted men of companies A D and 7th U who the battle of Bears Paw mountains on Sept liOth and October 1st 2d 3d and 4th and in which two officers were killed and two wounded and 47 enlisted alien were killed and wounded of the The Debt Canceled A paper reports an alteration of an old hymn very popular just now It is made to read Sound the loud and many a dark Egyptian sea has been kissed with the strains of this glad melody not least to tlie by which oh two successive 1 Sabbaths over were to the boys a new REX TONGUE B TVER The City of Completion ef Fort Valley of the Head of To the Editor of the SHERMAN Co M T Man h 20 Sherman Caster County Montana here's that? your readers will exclaim Well it is on the Yellowstone river 2 miles below the mouth of the Big Horn river 35 miles from Fort Custer 116 miles from Fort Keogh 240 from Boze man and about 360 from Bismarck all these distances being by land and that from Bismarck by the short road or Stanley trail One other land mark Fort Pease is doubtless known from the heroic defense there made by a brave little band of Montana against tbe whole power of the nation Sherman ts located two miles above the old Fort in fact part of the were removed from there One ot ler The place was first named and by that name the is still called Can Buell arrived on the round where the of Brother James on Brother Henry N T Sun The Rev James C of the i county brother of Henry Ward pied Plymouth pulpit yesterday He around upon he numerous choir the big organ and the ushers and Fort Custer now stands on last June with 30 soldiers tttt citizens and mechanics On the 7th of ji ily the er John G Fletcher with a saw mill and 100 more cs On the ist day of August but c 60 oC was at hit disposal wai left and bouses were up On the i th of ber the troops moved their quarters ii companies of the 2d cav and 4 of the nth infantry and all w with some of the le This simple statement of facts needs noj word of gy to prove the efficiency ability of Gen Bucll The four tie zd that are now at Fort Ellis T have been ordered to report at Kl Cuiter M T Eight hundred tons commissary stores and building materia were moved from Terry's landing to Fo t Custer last season ALIEN rgy has recently added to his last importation of id Short Horns fifteen head of fine mostly Norman Be of which are with foal by superior horses These with great care by Mr h manager ot tbe Lake Park w 1 have proven themselves good d- bv the superior they p ced They weigh from oo and show at lhat tWey very fine I Jeneral Manager Sargent of the N R R is determined to make hu ond to none in this country for J comfort to wid n ring all the coaches fitted wit Automatic Air ich is now in successful made at Brainerd last week 4 L an hour was brought lo j fan a distance jpo In f ft this too before biak to the Ike 1 I preach at home in a jn tbe wilderness We have a little cabinet organ and I pUy it myself be- cause we have no organist I am also sexton and usher 1 play simple to the glory of Gbd and the rough backwoods people join in singing the hymns I don't know anything abont hell bat I know a deal about heaven I Frigate Daniel Dougherty's j recent speech in I was to that of- fice the other day I kindly invi ted into the president's room and I think it ia the most superb place that I MORE BIO FARMS All Along the Between marck and Brainerd The Pioneer Press basil in which the N P figures largely From an with Land This preliminary is due for although Powers e as there more large farms to be opened along your line such as those oi Cass A eney Barnes Bryce Brothers and others which have become so fi as tbe biggest wheat farms in th i Mr in there aro some season at different points prominent of Altoona Pa up on IM'S lands two thousand acres by Geele Co of thousand acres near the half Jamestown and by Park DJ I worth and of equal amount at the 12 miles east of on to these this on line by Wm will break stown some Van Duson e aome two ar the line historic ground the names i of localities hereabouts are new to most of your readers Ft Custer our nearest military post has been pushed to near completion under the able command of Lieut Col Geo P Buell Infantry Colonel Buell has labored undei many tages but has succeeded far beyond what was expected and to day fort Custer presents a handsome and finished appearance Three million feet of tbe lumber used in the buildings was sawed on the ground by two small mills tbe logs being floated down tbe Big and Little Horn rivers The post is soned by four companies of ths Second Cavalry of which regiment it is the commanded Lieut Col and four companies of the Infantry I will endeavor to give you a more d lion of Fort Custer and its people soon Fort is local about two miles above tbe mouth of Tongue river is the headquarters of the military district of the Yellowstone but as you have a cor- respondent there I will leave lhat point and Miles to him The valley at the Yellowstone is the last best heritage our people have to make homes for themselves Not but there may bo as productive land where but it combines more advantages is more like home to those coming from east of the Missouri and while thu season of navigation on the may be short it will be of incalculable ad- vantage m shipping the productions of the country and bringing Necessary supplies from abroad The one crop planted here last season that the soil Will produce in abundance tbe smalt grains potatoes c getting bis corps in that stove It was hurled back with such farce that it rolled over and went to meditating Tbe infantry got out Happily the stove doors remained closed and tbe fire stayed in Bailey's was singed a little and good big bump on th back of his head marked the en- I intent to do bodily harm I ens was for twenty minutes seriously Ol course these gentlemen were in full habit wise their encounter with the stove would have been more disastrous A Lion of the Detroit Record was in bed when the car rolled over on its side He used his elbow on the nearest windo ctu his a little and He was banged up but not hurt Lieut of Fort Lincoln was bounced about to his intent and him up generally ready duty Rev Mr of received a cut in bis id and a wounded leg He was coming to to hold service Sunday but episode changed his mind A Wilson of big farm a fright and without ed in front of the sleeper The coach evidenced a lough place ard Wilson thought he saw tho crack of doom He therefore went for tho door and leaped from the pi into the He didn't get up until he was picked up badly he is hurt One report makes his case a dangerous and another says he is used up ter repairs will he all right dent was Ins own The briihl n d I ups alid djw t uu d a -U d with the car will I 4 t uier t bo liquidate tho debt remaining position lie lilted upon the Presbyterian Church Some ago this church was organized and tbe building erected through the efforts of Rev I Oliver Sloan aided by the few who in the first days of Bismarck cared to have a church The board of church erection advanced the N P R R gave their freight oil lumber and other sums among them a weie raised on the ground borrowed on a note the Church only the ground came from lie city the subsequent sealing carpeting and with the plastering and fencing resulted from the indefatigable labors of the Ladies Society and the liberal gifts of a gentlemen Tbe of the people was taxed almost to us limit for these expenditures and the necessary of the Ibu lias not been unmindful of its but has ap plied ing them oil until have the of them and shed it more than hilt Some months ago Rev Norman W Cury cinic lo fill the pi of Mr Sloin while hi tile since that time t iken a start Tbe mom his been to its utmost ity ai almost y service On March after a few remarks Cary foi ip t ons oft tbe debt ex- to realize a hundred His purpose was known tn but tivo or took the audience by surprise desirability nf the hi 1 talked abau bn fie first I others Bad ant Jit f he Cargo ai dE List to Bonton The Cou soi arrived at Yank ton 212 tons ton and I here with private ft auc ab She takes one and 21 ca NO 45 BiB Ho rn from er News St ng lel y t to mt 25 Kindred in and gers The recruits arc She started up the rive The Rose left Yank lion for this 2 arrive here Sunday the 1 y Benton Tu her at April 15 this place Bud will be fallowed by leaving here Saturday The river reported verr low by Jo Todd of thi Big Horn to make regu Grant arrived from Once on her duties The steamer One hundred Infantry are w The new owned by Cap but Horn from ink Sbe tuns Montana nt government is way tu 3 deck for Fort Shaw this inst The 4 and leave A full cat go Tbe Rose the Josephine pril 20 tais point and lar trips Bisma landing and Port Lincoln I She is in trans ferring goverr lumber Captain ferry boat Dr enter at Big Horn is still due recruits for tbe Third ailing bei arrival ferry Grant boat last night from Andrew Clawson will The Durfee was for Bismarck laet to I Pittsburg SaCa 100 tons of iron for Beaton Leighton Jordan's last Saturday The Red Cloud left S 1 She had on board 61 She has new boat was Louis oa April cabin and 45 deck 275 tins of freight and was drawing 34 inc IBS Mas sie commands her Booue and Scurry are pilots and Paul Mui phy mate nt w will be called en Chas A telegram of Friday The Terry to out last night issued on he Court at tbe t to prevent her from capstan Last evening entis claimed that not been decidi Couit The w Louis to loading tains Steam nil be raised on tbe new steamer early next week Louis w The Belle St freight left St Louis on The lower M be too low for The 0 K Peck left Benton Wedn evening light draft and Capt and Clerk James Keenan are as clever as can be found anywhere limmy is passengers Keenan will passengers in any style to pass the tune The Peck ranks first class all The from for the nlu SlL Louis day evening Fort Benton hull was unit at in i thi t IIP wr It u I 1 -I in tin 1 i tbf Vh s is 195 feet tl and 4 fee long 32 depth and has 2 Wt long lever engines ke all entirely by s of Montana Supt of the here by morning and hat the steamer re and ics in diameter 21 5 each 2 Hi 1 2 i feet sir The Hel Jas ind other Capt W Line steamers N P R U j brings us Big Horn wil for fort lenton Tuesday in or ning the inst tbe i I I 11 were i for thu oil There were two car loads of d r Montana in tbe Itam lor farm The sleeper was left and after considerable delay Conductor Comstock got off for Bismarck at tho rate of 30 miles per hour He reached here an hour and a half late A private note from Rev T E ty indicates that he was a worse suffer er than he supposed Besides the cuts and on his head and face tic found that one leg both shoulders one elbow oi c nde back and chest were or lest bruised He is very lame ana feel 4 very much as if he had passed through a rolling mill The rail way were Kind and did all they could If there was any blame to be attached to any one foi the accident he couldn't place it u f it if i- n i 1 i Htv K v Mi Cjn Wm Fi 1 M and wife J Watt B Mrs L W Slaughter C M J Davidson S Mrs Wm B Shaw Nathan Gould J A Mrs Alex eron John Alex Marshall F season and i h ro trln i The Bin Horn i her ut It im wilh lij owing I will bi- III fin J Call Will Da As this effort ne ami Mr Doylo succeeded so much be Esq Joseph an some All along and Bismarck I be opened melons and in fact all ma and kinds of vegetables Alth mgb for want of time it cannot be proclaimed for a certainty that apples peaches will be adapted to soil and climate All conditions are favorable It s the adise of the stock man to his hand and soon beef fron the Yel will adorn the bloc s of marck batchers and its belles land be clad with woolen goods from the same source I Tbe head of navigation on the Yellow stone river is a disputed point some Baker's Battle ground about 65 miles above tbe mouth o the Big Hern to be the place while others stop at the foot of Clark's Pork ten miles further up and cry Eureka This much is known steamers like tbe Western as high as Sherman and it is farther known that the Josephine overcame alt difficulties and went about 100 miles above Rea son and experience teaches above the confluence of two large streams there is less water and their navigation at- tended with more difficulty t tan below unless the river bed ia mori confined this is not the one with either Lead and the Black Hills HeToH of Central City are now engaged in constructing a tele- graph line of own from Lead 0 ty via Central to Deadwood waa ever ih in my the capitol at and the president's house place where the council board of the nation meets is nothing to it I have been where hundreds of our farms this summer varying in valion forty to the premier of meets he mem From tbe beat inf ind fci rty top coids b en would hers of the government to discuss the obtainable there will ba i of tbe empire upon whose one hundred and twenty ive thousand acres in wheat this year the its of the grant and at 11 e close of the shores never nothing comparable t not say U lor effect I year 1879 area any in Genoa i i 1 Up The trane is In be overcrowded Tho exchanges are publishing if charming sketch of a Yale graduate who opened a law office in New York and then rather than starve while waiting for clients opened as a bootblack under the walk at the entrance of a down town restaurant His earnings soon ran up to per day and he had to hire an assistant While he was at work he disguised himself so bis best friend could not recognize him but out of business hours the bootblack was an elegant gentleman living in a stylish boarding house on Twenty-first street fell in love with a beautiful being that he had a jealous rival who finally discovered the vulgar occupation y ond their exportation the books were examined and it was found that only was needed to the church en To this another effort was maue Sunday evening and 10 were overing all the debt aim singing books besides Tbe donors wete H G Stripe John Carlisle X W Carpenter Gary Wilson A Pollock X W Cary N J U Carnahan Mason Manilla S Sclleck F Driper Mrs J A Maxwell Mrs drich Mr Atkinson W G Smith and David N I worthy of note not only for th was pro on the Mvo occasions but that more than of eaph pledge was within hours The giving spontaneous and hearty and doubtless all rejoice in the part they took in it Most of the gifts were in as soon as the water wi 111 II Ul in M 1 tens and five four only Wm The R little beauty back Asa Fisher and She doing th upper anding Fort Li carrying and i the venerable papa that the voung lady was keeping company with a bootblack goes with saying But the denouement is very touching yelled the old gentleman red in face here You may take John abou has 9 bootl as soon as please He act earning A living honestly and He wil get on The lack has resigned tbe brush and resumed the practice of law and ho has gathered his Lillie to his bosom Go young lawyer Who says come em up back B Asa Fisher and John W Fisher giving and two C S Weaver and N Twenty-four responded to the call and seventeen to the second so that forty-one persons may be said to have combined to raise this debt This event augurs an auspicious ture A church free of debt ought to be able in a years to materially lesson their drain of upon the missionary treasury and every lar thus saved will very soon need to be expended in labor among the settlers who are peopling the road between here and Fargo We congratulate the church upon their happy condition and bright prospects A Gone The contest in relation to tho old Mike Tippie property on the railroad right of way is ended at last and a force of men aro at- work under the sheriff tearing tho thing down by order if the Court which awards the lots claimed being on the railroad right ol Rash For rush for Pacific lands way to tho railroad people is not confined to the Red River country but leaches to the Missouri River valley The weekly also judging from the number of claims taken at the Bismarck land office during the week in April More claims werel taken during that week than during any other month since tbe office was established excepting the month of March 1873 A W arrived last from his freighting trip to Miles CUy the departure mile p The an interview at bet Mr W C by the stone steamer got A restraining order was United States stance ol Capt McMillan completing ler owner her Dr ed bonds Mth the be paid until the matter d by U S Supreme for the amount Understanding I el fill w The Durfee for tbe is wilt running depart for St th 200 tons of Friday pronounced to boating St Louis for She is Her ot- suppose e ery high priced Well Ho you eee wooden chairs that man is carrying J kell for a dollar here They will be worth each when they Benton What kind pf people are your I Abont half them happen Western returning home The others oat thereto seek their fortunes The trip is worth St Louis Times March Jnx M Chambers cleared for the tains last evening with a splendid trip e 200 i of Benton freight h lor ty it I- freight M S Ii was vi ill h j Joseph il r t mander to mountains in 18 still 11 il kitron u- it the best itt f m Yank tun Lemuel E len engineer nC ill died X at work I oat He 1 i il eaten bit dinner bail wuh for the in Not lie down ii In this i most without a struggle I is i heart disease was the of his Mr Carlen was about served as engine r Missouri some 12 Benson on ibc Tin jem he bad us first engineer Penman HP n wife and child of this city and married it in St 1 mm Tbe St H publican tbe lowing to in to ar ing trade St steamer Red pon i 1 for Ft t over miles ut on tbe Missouri the rgo of tons is tf -ar GOO Ib of beans nt -i apples BOO i i- of hum bread pounds ot ti.iron all in the Canadian of the This n as all pin chased ia St The same will purchase some 800 barrels of and bushels of oats for the same destination is to fill a contract with Hie government The same louse will purchase in Montana tory 300 head of beef cattle Lad week the far-famed steamer Red Cloud left St Louis for tbe Black Hills and Ft Benton She is com manded by Capt Wm K Massie the pilot of greatest renown from St Charles to the Montana sources of the Big dy river He will make some able fast runs this year with the ed Red Cloud The steamer Benton of tbe Bentun line D Haney master WPS advertised to leave for Fort Benton on the 10th inst The Benton has thoroughly remodeled during the ter her cabin greatly improved tions made to her bath and sery and now presents as many sub- stantial attractions to travelers and tourists as any steamboat in western waters a Pa beam 30 of hold with esterday iod trews arrive b p i lull ill boat ol the earliest that any r rt fi nil K depai tut Bilk N The Sundown lode has been bended for Geo W of New Pa las purchased a two- thi rein in the Lincoln mine There are four storm and two n At Hay ward tbe five stamp mill is be- ing overhauled and an addition of fif teen stamps is being put in The Nettie mine situated near the No 2 mill has been bonded to eastern parties fur a Urge sum Theie are now about a hundred tons ol oie on the dump pold specimens being Herald The Hidden Treasure cleaned up 000 from a 14 days run This H one of the big bonanzas of tbe Huls Mr F L resigned tbe tendency ot thu company and our known will sue ceed hi in Slick of the Sun says that during his recent v sit to tbo Hills he saw tbe owners of a mine refuse for their when at tbe same time they hadn't money on hand to get tbe next week's grub and that Col Patrick offered for a certain mine and the boys declined to But since the Colonel's departure from the Hills they sent a dispatch to him saying thai would the in 1 Ii to ht of i from this iig lort Benton on Saturday tbe to followed by the n owing Tuesday Tbe the line will leave from Bismarck on adver used lime during th be comprised of known steame s vi Bud Josephin KP Western leave here i spason and will following well riig Horn Rose Far West E anil will be order named This successful ime having thu ids with their large Montana enga can assure tbe public and citizens of Bismarck that we are here to stay anl our interests are identified irith the people Taking hold of this business when it was and demoralized ly others under good management it has gained a led The river at this point is lower than I at any time di ring Reason and is still falling The Str Oe i Custer is now at the Bismarck land ng undei going slight re I I d i i I of by W T Mills ol Chicago T H erly an owner m tbe Star lode now tbe property of tbe Co and other gentlemen from Chicago Messrs John Moore and II B Toung the sellers It is the intention of organize and incorporate a company and place a portion of stock upon the market through tbe medium of the new Chicago Stock Ex- change A be chipped from Chicago and will in for operations by the 1st of Tht Record pairs Capt 1 C on late of the Meade from Pittsburgh day morning and assi med command The enter he Yellowstone I permit freight The St Democrat of Wednesday h s a two notice of of the II with Ca freight In her manifest are two hundred cooking stoves elena and her notice included jt a and passengers n clerk of the as to IT BLEW The Wind and an Hoar will do for tbe Banana Belt Tuesday night the wind blew at tbe rate of seventy-two miles per hour The current of Col Thompson's fame waa going somewhere It bounded under around anil over the houses as if it was bent on mischief as it went It did lift an occasional stable roof and rip off tbe exposed Tbe advantage of story houses was fully noted Aged fences were tumbled 1 down other damage done blew all night and was blowing Wednesday morning All day day current chased itself Tbe weather revolver on top gf thi dan House lost a part of itself and to report the wind's velocity correctly Tbe steamers Union and Denver bagged the shores all day The Big Horn was caught Lincoln and held against tbe bank The wouldn't let tier move out Tbe train due day morning didn't arrive until six o'clock p m Conductor Comstock re- boat some information freight rates The fare ported the hardest of snow and n AAft to Fort is to Bismarck The freight te to Fort Benton is from p< r ton Tihe Helena has a capacity of 2t I tons and has forty pas sengers on th is trip whose fare will average the freight will age per and she is carry ing all she can with safety The receipts of the trip wil therefore approximate you paying your One bund red and fifty a month Twenty Q We are in luck in this having contracted and demanded agreement with each to make the to Fort Benton and back to Bismarck at- that rate Yo when tbe me a get up into gold country they are struck with the gok fever an the boat after ing as high s per month to work the boat bacr wind between Jamestown and Crystal Springs he had ever seen The snow fell inches The water at tal Springs washed the track so badly that crossing was impossible All fore- noon the water dashed over tbe roadbed and the little lake played the part of a prairie ocean Tbe construction train couldn't work until after dinner when the wind dropped a little The train that left here Tuesday night was also held at Crystal likewise freight tra n due at Bismarck at quarter past The telegraph lines were gled up and torn down by tho frightful blasts and all communication by tele- graph rail and steamboat was ded until evening Thursday evening the train arrived and now all communication telegraphic railway and steamboat is everything is booming along aa if the angry blow had never been
