The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 30, 1921, Page 3

en ee LEN TT # —— SATURDAY, JULY. 30, 1921 LLDEER MOUNT! One'of Greatest Indian Battles Fought in the Mountains when General Sully Attacked GOOD ROADS LEAD THERE) Many Interesting Features of Mountains Are Explained By Writer By Lorne Wilde, Deputy Immigra- tion Commissioner of North Da- kota, in North Dakota Good Roads Magazine. About thirty milees straight north of Dickinson, one of the important towns on the National Parks Highway in North Dakota, is the town of Kill- deer and about twelve miles north- west of Killdeer rises he rugged height of land knows as the Killdeer Mountains. The rise of land is the most marked and precipitous to be found in the state. The mountains sweep abruptly up from the surround- {| ing plains and afford a delightful | break in the monotony of the vast stretch of plains trom which they | rise. | The mountains run, from thetr near- est point to the town of Killdeer, in} two ranges known as the North Moun- tain and the South Mountain. There is a distinct break between the two— a beautiful sweeping. valley—miles in extent. The South Mountain extends to the westwa: for eight or ten miles. The North Mountain is not s0j extensive, Good Highway. An ,excellent highway leads in al-| most a bee-line straight north from Dickinson to Killdeer. This road is} surfaced in large part with rose col- order scoria, a species of burnt clay; found in abundance throughout the; entire western half of North Dakota. It is said. that this scoria was caused by the burning !ignite mines which, in; ages past, burned underneath the! western plans. but dost cf which have | burned themselves out although! there are some burning mines stil! ic be fund in western North Dakota. | The Killdeer Mountains abound in; beautiful scenery and there are many} opportunities for sight seeing trips; around and through both the North; and Svath Mountain. This mountain| is alsa a‘ place of ‘unusual historic} ‘interest as it was the scene of one of} the greatest Indian battles fought int the West. In 1864 General Sully of| Minnescta, brought an army of sol-| dier into the western part of North; Dakota in purauit of several thousand Sioux Indians, following the Minneso- | ta Masyacre. The Indans made their last stand in the Killdeer ‘Mountains and a-hard fought battle ensued. This battle was, fought in the vicin- ity of Dead Man’s Gulch~ and this} spot is undoubtedly the point of great- est interest to tourists. - The top of} the Mountain at this point is rocky and precipitous and Dead man’s Gulch is a heavily wooded ravine running down from: this natural rocky. fortification to the plains below. . The combination ot rocks and the wooded ravine af- forded great shelter and excellent protection to the retreating Indians,! and it was witn difficulty that they were finally dislodged. It was néces- sary for General Sully to bring his ar- tillery into use and shell the Indians out of the ravine and from their for- tification. Lookout Signals. The’reason the Indians made their stand here was because they had a great Jedge or village along the moun- tain side. One account of the battle ‘states that it was necessary to shell this village where the Indians had hundreds of teepecs and the Indians had great diffic getting their women and child.... v..r tie moun- tains to a place of safely. Following the battle the Indians by a ruse are said to have stampeded the horses of the white troops in the night and made their escape in the consequent delay. They packed their belongings with their ,women and children on ponies and made their way over the moun- tain, finally reaching the Bad Lands along the Little Missouri through which the white troops followed them with difficulty. One’ of the interesting features of the Mountain in this vicinitty is Look- out Signal, a circular mound of stones which was used by the Indians as a fire signal. This signal is severa! feet in extent made of stones laid in circular form in the center of which there i$ a hold ‘about three feet across, in which fires were built to warn the tribe of approaching danger or other matters of tribal interest. Durng the day time the fire was covered and par- tially smothered with a- blanket. When a message was to be sent the blanket would be suddenly removed and quick- ly replaced, the resultant puffs of smoke indicating by their number cer- tain messages known only to the tribe. At night the fire was lit intermitient- ly at certain hours, which likewise conveyed the same messages as the} ; smoke by day. The circular form of the rock was to prevent the fire from getting beyond control during windy weather. Part of this rock used as a Lookout Signal has been removed by tourists’as souvenirs. This Lookout Signal:-rock, is on the highest point of the mountain, and among one of the very few remaining relics of the Northwest of a fast disappearing race. From the rocky ridge at the top of Dead Man’s Gulch a great sweep- ing valley swings away to the north, formed by a curve in the mountains. This valley is heavily wooded and comprises a tract of over a thousand acres of excellent forest. This forest at one time provided unexcelled pro- tection for deer, antelope, elk, moun- tain sheep and many other wild animals including bears and mountain lions. Has Many Springs. It contains numerous mountain springs which run continuously throughout the vear and is a veritable sylvan paradise for camping parties, picnics and pleasure seekers. It is already the center for all the coun- ER MOUNTAINS; AN HISTORICAL AND ATTRACTIVE REGION, OFFERS MANY BEAUTY SPOTS TO ATTRACT TOURIS SCENES IN KILLD the last strénghold of the old tradit-! ions of the once “wild. west.” ‘It was, in fact," in those’ early times, | the end of the trail along which came the vast herds ‘of clinking long horns from distant and more arid’ plains of Texas, Here still the strenuous sports of the cow-puncher are the main a traction on all'festive occasions. It the last of the west but will. always be associated with the old golden days when each man carved out his own ‘destiny. with six-shooter and branding iron,’ regardless of social amenities and legal restrictions. An effort is now being: made to; have the Killdeer Mountains made) into a State or National Park and if! this is done’ it will again be stocked | witt the wild animals, elk, deer, and) possibly mountain sheep, which once; found their natural home there. ; The ravines which cut through this! valley caused by the springs and the: consequent water ways, have proved! to be a paradise for hundreds of beaver and it is doubtful if any se tion of North Dakota has more beav: er dams than the Killdeer Mountains. | Some of the dams built by the beav-; er show remarkable engineering skill and a tremendous amount of indus- | try. One dam in particular which the writer visited and which had been; abandoned as the water had been drained out (probably the work of} trappers), was at least 15 feet high,; fifty to sixty feet across and from ten feet wide at the top to sixty feet; wide at the bottom. Like all beaver: dams this dam was built in the form! of an arch with the apex pointing up stream. Series of Dams, i In other instances the beavers built a series of fifteen or twenty dams! at various intervals along the streams, thus forming a series of ponds, one above the other up the mountain-side. Many of these are to be,seen yet and these series of shaded ponds rising: one above the other through the for-' est, make a scene of quiet, sylvan loveliness, difficult to describe and never to be forgotten. From the extreme southern end of the mountains there are heights which permit a view stretching for miles over tree clad hills and grass carpet- ed valleys away into the far distance to the remarkable formation known as the Bad Lands along the Little Missouri which skirts the foothills of the Mountains to the north and west. is an abundance of timber of the ravines which run in every direction from these mountains, This timber consists of oak, aspen, cottonwood, white birch, diamond wil- low, box elder, elm and ash, besides a great variety of beautiful and use- ful shrubbery such as buffalo berries, June berries, © dogwood, — cherries, plums, etc. These mountains form one of the most interesting natural play grounds in ths central West and are well worthy of a visit by the tourist. To reach the Killdeer Mountains the motor tourist leaves the National Parks Highway at Dickinson, and goes directly north over a well kept high- way to the town of Killdeer, where any business men will be glad to give explicit directions as how to reach the mountain: SATURDAY NIGHT DANCE ON THE McKENZIE ROOF Patrons will be served with Oriental Dishes. Chop Souey,| Chow Mein, etc., prepared by an Oriental Chef. Come up and try-wide gatherings in that territory. Many of the residents of Dunn County have spent week-ends here in the summer and fall months.. One picnic was attended by at least 4,000 people, coming for hundreds of miles. It is dance a few miles in the open air on the best dance floor in North Dakota, eight storeys above the dust, mosquitoes and ies. ‘ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE _ LORNE WILDE TEL (By Lorne Wilde, Department of Lm: migration.) Well, it's good-bye, plow. hello, Cow We've all come down to your big pow- wow, We may not know what it’s all about Kut you bet, by heck, we'll soon find out. ‘ ‘They say you're livin’ on easy street, i*Cause you ralse cows ins ot wheat, ¢ So, T guess, by ‘gosh, we'll horn in, too, ; It’s hook ’em, Cow, for me an’ you. ; Well, it’s good-bye, rust; Cows or i bust, jl've heard these cows very much dis- ! cuss't, af | 1f you want to know the best cows i we've seen, | We'll tell the world she's the old Tlol- stein. 2 She fills the buekets to the brim, She is neither fat not is sh (1 tell you. by gum, this game’ i right, So put your money on the black and white, \ \ | So sang the “Nut” quartet. of Man- idan when, recently in comp: with j several hundred business men, pro- ‘fessional men and farmers from Man- ‘dan, Bismarck, Steele and other towns i along the Northern Pacific railroad | they visited the famed New Salem : Holstein Breeding circuit. And “you ij bet by heck” they did find out. | Some years ago Uncle Sam grasy | ed a big blue pencil in his strong | right hand and he drew a line across ‘the United States, from the Canadis | boundary to the t Th line was on the one hundredth meridi- an. If you take a map of North Da- | kota you will see that this line runs | directly through Rugby on the Great Northern, just a few miles west of Harvey on the Soo and just west of Steele on the Northern Pacific. Through his experts in the United | States department, of agriculture, | Uncle Sam said: it was not’ safe to, | grow wheat anywhere west of that ‘line and. east of; the Rocky Mountains, | because in some years there would not be enough moisture to mature a } that no undue strain is put on any one i | { “SIT TALL’ 1S EER MOUNTAINS ul A D V ] ¢ k 0 F |that section sees,ohe wheat’¢rop after another burned hp ‘by hot Me is and jlack of vari it is. beg! | jadmit that perhaps: Uncle Cleveland, Ohio, July 29=-Too many women sit down and grow old, de- clared Dr..Fran Graves,.of Boston, in a paper which she read today in the National Osteopathic -convention in thig city. “Sit tall” is the remedy proposed by Dr. Graves, and she told’ the specialists how to do it. Dr.! Graves said in part: ; “It seems wise to. instruct women | that if they lead normal, lives they may look forward: to’ a normal mid- die life, It is not'a normal life for aw woman to settle downto, sitting the greater part of the day.. The normal! life is not gained by -too‘little or no} exercises, and too much’ food. So; many women sit down to grow old. They welcome old age long before they have any right to. Some of the medical text-books tell us: that at fifty old age has been reached,. but I re-! fuse to admit that. Do all women set-} tle down into their bodies and grow heavy about the waist line, shoulders and neck? Is allthis necessary? Most assuredly “No;” not if the wo-; man cares enough to prevent it, in other words, to lead a normal life. “The great thing, if one would have; a normal middle life, is’ to keep the circulation active. The whole body! should be in perfect adjustment s0/ Regular and sufficient exercise! aken every day that the! cally able. Sweets! and starches should be - practically | eliminated from the diet. No sitting} down for the afternoon with a book’ part. must be patient is ph jers’ circuit. wheat crop. This, of course, brought forth a furore of protest, from those sections of the United $tates within this pro- scribed area, for within that section. and epecially its eastern border, were great farming districts which had yaised enormous: yields of wheat. Within that area were thousands of} farmers, bankers and business men who believed. that) Uncle ny had made a serious gnistake and,théy were not slow -to’ t#iE the, world’: what they thought. * ‘ Wheat. Unsuce But as year after year gogs by and ng to get to a-point Where even themost jam had some foundation,for hig ultimatum, The slope ‘has.,surrendered., It's citizens, have throwa up their yhands and now admit, jfhat to depend on wheat year afterj:year as the staple crop of the slope, country is wrong. The slope hag.found it at New Sa lem. The answer is pure bred cows. Everybody in North Dakota has heard about the New Salem Holstein breed- It hag been in existence for several years and has proved a success, But—mark this down—North Da- kota and especially the slope country has just discovered the New Salem circuit and what it really means, Came Here in ’83, The men who originated and work- ed out the North Dakota Holstein Breeders’ circuit at New Salem came to the state in. 1883. The account of how this colony, composed of a group of DPeoplé of little means who had been working for wages in a hig east ern city, came to settle at New Salem because of the cheap land obtainable there, is an interesting story in it- self. Like so many others who set- tled the great plains section they had years of struggle, for one reason be- cause of a lack of sufficient capital, but more largely because they per- sistently stuck to small grain raising. It was in the early part of the prea- ent century that they came to the conclusion that the dairy cow was their one salvation. How they went into the dairy business in a small way, how they-slowly developed their herds from scrubs to grades and from and 2 box of candy. No.more pro- tein than is needed to balance the} Wieat. The diet «should be ach in| fresh fruit, green vegetables, and raw! foods. In short, the: diet should cov- sist of foods of such a type and in| such quantities that the body may re-! ceive the required amount and no more) (ow many times have we heard some one say, “Since I have! stopPed eating so much, I feel ten years younger.” “There are two faulty types of pos-|{ ture which we see very, often. First) the slouch. .The second common type of faulty posture is more often seen in heavy individuals. ‘This is the| exact opposite of the slouch. The in-| dividuars stands with the knees straight, the anterior lumber curve greatly exaggerated, the’ shoulders arawh up with the neck: shortened. ‘his itype almos invariabfy has a; large pendulous abdomen. | “In sitting, the individual should; push as far back against the back of| the chair as possible. That is all that; is necessar: If that position is held and the individual “sits tall;” she can-; not ‘slump without effort. We do not do unconsciously a thing which causes | effort, so if this position fs: kept the; individual will soon get S80 that cor- rect posture is second nature.” | Mrs. N. W. Kelly, Hemstitch- ing, 211 Broadway. i NOTICE City drinking water should be; boiled until further notice. i Dr. C. E. Stackhouse, | Health Officer. | | gaged, and ‘that is one of the young grades to’ pure breds is still another interesting story that would take too long in the:telling. Suffice it to say that in 1910, large- ly through the efforts of J. H. Shep- perd, of the North Dakota. Agricui- tural college, they organized the first Holstein Breeding circuit in North Da- kota. Fourteen members finished the first year’s official test in 1910. That yea: there were 32 pure bred cows on the circuit. In 1921 there are 254 pure bred females. Has It Paid? The big question in the minds of every visitor to the circuit was: Does it pay? Get these figures. ‘They give you the answer. There are seventeen members ol this circuit. They own from 320 acres to 1,140 acres of land. They live in modern homes, many of them having electric lights and running water Many of them have electrically driver machinery in their barns, They mi with milking machines. They have good barns‘and good tools. Of thes: seventeen, farms, just one is mort- er members who is just starting ir business. The total receipts for but- terfat and surplus stock for 1920 war $39,539.25, The average gross income per farm from the cows was $2.325.83. There is no tuberculosis. The herds have heen kept clean since 1910. Five Per cent of all sules {rom pure bred goes into, the circuit treasury for gen eral expenses, Henry Schwarting had the rankinz herd for 1920. His cows gave ut average of 302.4 pounds of butter fa each for the year. The value of thi fat per cow was $172.70. The feed a LS IMPRESSIONS ral OF NEW SALEM BOOSTER TRIP ———_—— cost per cow was 66.80, leaving profit of $111.93 per cow. These are not spectacular results. No attempt has ever been made at New Salem to establish fancy records, It should be remembered also that these men wre not dairy cattle special- ists. They are farmers working un- der new conditions on a big problem "hey have never coddled or pamp ed their cows. Yet they have had surprisingly good results, Cattle Experts Surprised, There were two men who partici- pated in the “big Pow wow" at New Salem, who were especially fitted to piss judgment on this experiment at New Salem. Both were more or less disinterested spectators. ‘These men were Bertram _D. Scott, secretar the Minnesota Holstein Breed eo sociation, and J. R. Dice, professor of dairying at the North Dakota Agri- cultural college. While Mr. Dice ia connected with the Agricultural college, under whose auspices: this circuit was established and is still being conducted, it was his first visit to New Salem as he is a comparative newcomer to the state. He came to North Dakota from New York two years ago. “LT was very much surprised,” Mr. DI Salem, “1 had heard a great deal of the New Salem circuit of course, and was prepared to see some good herds but I did not expect to find as good average herds as there are,at New Salem. “These herds: would rank np. on a ‘par with the average Holstein heras of the country.” Mr, Scott is the secretary of one of the greatest Holstein breeding or- ganizations in the world. He also ‘had come prepared to see something Pretty good, but he was frankly as- tonished at the splendid results these western farmers are getting, withou: putting forth any special effort and pasturing their cattle on these. dry plains, away from shade and with lit- tle water. In a short address which Mr. Scott gave during the day he congratulated New Salem and the slope country on the showing. “There are 24,000,000 dairy cows in the United States,” he said. “They give an average yearly production of 150 pounds of butter fat. Your cows here are giving about 300 pounds of fat per year, whick 4s doubling the average production for the United States. 1 will say that this is a splendid showing. “I like the spirit that is: manifest liere today. We should have more of ‘it. I think the business men from the cities who have come out here Will take away a new hope anda new inspiration after seeing such fine Yesults as these farmers are getting. 1-also think they will leave with these farmers a new hope and 4 new inspir- ation. The men back ofthis circuit will now go about their work with an added zest, knowing that there are hundreds of their fellows who are tak- fig a real, personal interest In whet Yhey are accomplishing here.” + The New Salem circuit is largely the result of the persistent effort of J: H. Shepperd, now dean of agricul- ture at the North Dakota Agricultural college. He worked with the mem- hers of the circuit for two or three years before he induced them to go Into it and it has been one of his a said 3. jown : Christensen lives atone end, Snider) PAGE THREE ie RBS RE TD | hobbies every since. He has two ideas! in mind. | “The basic idea we are working out) |at New Salem is to develop a breed within a breed,” says Mr. Shepperd. | “We are attempting to develop a type ; of Holstein that will be adapted to After Long Suffering Mrs. Siefert Was Restored to Health by make a good production on the pas- ture lands of the great plains area. ‘The other idea is to develop a prac-| | tical workuble system of farm co- eee artery "| Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable eal Co-operation Both of these ideas pparentiy Compound working out in a very practical man- ner. It is largely because the in the New it have i Pottsville, Pa.—‘‘l suffered with female trouble for four or five years and nrerern was very irregular. I] was not fit to do my work at times mand took medicine from a doctor and got no benefit. f saw Lydia E. Pink- lham’s Vegetable Compound adver- tised in the news- papers and took it and got allright. I gained twenty Jpounds or more and at the other. Both Christensen and) am now able to do my work, 1 recom: Snider own a building in whi ”; mend the Vegetable Compound to my house the machine. One year they) friends and you may use these factsasa start threshing at Christensen’s end; testimonial.”"—Mrs. SALLIE SIEFERT, and thresh in rotation until they reach} 313 W. Fourth Street, Pottsville, Pa. | Snider's place, ‘where the machine is; Theeveryday life of many housewives i housed for the winter. Next year) isa continual struggle with weakness ‘they reverse the’ process. ‘This does; and pain. ‘There is nothing more wear- away with all argument as to who! ing than the ceaseless round of house- |gets the machine first. At the end; hold duties and they become doubly hard lof each year the machine is thorough-; when some female trouble makes every ‘ty overhauled and put in first ¢ bone and muscle ache, and nerves allon | repair ready to start the next season. ; edge. {it is repainted if necessary. Fr you ae one of ieee Women 09 tet The silo rings are worked the same! suffer for four or five yea Mrs. A When they first put up silos! Siefert did, but profit by her experience : ' and be restored to health by Lydia E. ; they sent one of their members out) p; % un | to buy them. He shopped around con-! Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, i siderably before making a deal and! | got a big reduction by buying silcaj; for a number of the members all of one kind and all at the same time. Instead of each man putting in its own concrete foundation, they madz a deal with a man who sPecialized in concrete construction, and because this man could use the same mould for each foundation and was able to start at one end of the circuit and work right through from farm to farm without delay, they got a better foundation and at less cost than they had done the work themselves. Keeping Boys on Farm. They have solved another problem through the New Salem circuit. That lem circuit heen uble to work together in the utmost! harmony and without friction that the success of the circuit has been’ so marked, They e@ co-operative: ) bull rings, ¢hreshe: ngs, silo rings! B jand other “ring: all working. In} 'most instances three men own the; | fullblooded sire to serve their herds.| The way they work their threshe:! ring is “typical. -One of these is a! nine-man ring. These nine turmers) tue threshing machine jointly.; { | FINNEY SERVICE w BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA v Known all over the Northwest for Quality & MAIL US Your FILMS © Soldiers, Land! Land! 160 acres of land in Burleigh is how to keep the boys on the farm. ‘Ten of the original herds are still in the circuit, but there are only two of the original members in the circuit. These two are Jolin Christensen, known as the “father of the circuit,” and Fred Michaels. In all other cases one or two sons or sons-in-law are carrying on the herds. John Chris- teusens’ son, Ed, died two years ago or his herd, too, would be in the hands of the second generation. Mr. Christensen. was one of the original colonists who paid the North- ern Pacific $20 per car to bring their goods to New Salem. They made the Northern Pacific build them a church out of their $20 fees also. There hag seldom been a more suc- cessful tour than this one to New Salem, it was in charge of the ex- tension department: of the North Da- kota Agricultural: college and was in charge of Max Morgan, live stock, spe- Cialist at the college and former coun- ty, agent of Morton county in which New. Salem is located. Gordon W. Randlett, director of the Extension department, and J.'H. Shep- perd were in personal attendance and assisted in making it a success. County, small house, farm fenced. This is a relinquishment and a sol- dier gets credit for every month served in the Army. Will take Sol- diers bonus, Price $450. Be a land owner, J. H. 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