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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1922
Page
4
By Joseph Culbertson, he describes moving from Fort Benton to Browning in 1872, escorting Sioux and Assiniboine, traveling to Washington to meet General Grant, and later engagements with Sitting Bull’s camps. He served 20 years in the army, earning 32 discharges and a government medal for valor.
A young scout, age nineteen, joins General Miles’s command after Fort Peck. He recalls riding with Yellowstone Kelly, crossing the Redwater toward Fort Keogh, and early skirmishes at the Milk River and Little Porcupine. He earns the nickname Boy Scout and aids in tracking Indian trails near Circle and the Yellowstone.
Joseph Culbertson, a veteran scout with thirty two chief charges and a long service medal, serves as interpreter at the Fort Peck Agency in Northern Montana. He is son of Alexander Culbertson, famed trader who shaped Blackfeet trade on the Upper Missouri 1840 to 1860 and built Fort Benton. Culbertson recalls becoming a scout for General Miles at nineteen and four clashes with Sitting Bull in the winter of 1876 77, shortly after Custer's defeat.
A first person reminiscence recalls a harsh 1876 Montana winter and a solo scouting trip from a military command, with new trust earned from eastern Montana Indian fighters as the narrator pushed toward Timber Creek and glimpsed Sitting Bull’s camp.
Judge A. J. Spencer of the district court halted enforcement efforts by ordering the arrest of W L Kemper, key state witness against Frank Swim, and directing the county attorney to file bootlegging charges after Kemper admitted selling whisky under cross examination.
A small bottle of Freezone promises quick relief from hard or soft corns and corns between toes. The product claims to numb pain, stop irritation, and allow the corn to be lifted away with fingers, sold by druggists for a few cents.
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