The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 27, 1931, Page 2

< RSD oa emannenenrnntayonerar estes wuastines sctitimmnearermmsiars en 2 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1931 —————EEEEE Courthouse Is Memorial to Pioneers in Wild Territory NEW COMMISSION IS FOURTH CHANGE IN MILL CONTROL Board of Managers Idea, Now Revived, Scrapped in 1925 to Make Governor Boss Smith. George and I came up next behind a hill, and I soon got two shots at my head. We fired two or three shots at 200 yards and some of us killed our Indian. Soon the rest {of the boys came up and the Indians gare jTode off farther. Then we got our Only 73 Are Living Today; /cattle and started back. Then we er |found there were more Indians riding | Names of Williams, Flan- | around. They came up behind the} hery, M’Kenzie Included cattle and commenced shooting. | Mare Causes Trouble | Collins and I tried to have the men| |scatter out and stand them off, but; Burleigh county's new court house the most of them wanted to drive ‘was constructed not only asa building cattle. I was off on one side with an- Letter From Oscar Ward De- scribing Fight With Indians Indicates Hardships to house the county officers, but also | Other man. leading Dolly, and shoot- @s a memorial to the hardy pioneers of the '70s who battled the elements and hostile Indians to bring civiliza- tion to a prairie wilderne Some idea of “the vicissitudes en-| nen might be written in ttle dealer, for many years Ward tells of a trip to South Da: kota with a herd of cattle during which his brother, George, and a number of others were killed in a battle with hostile Indians ng when I got a chance. The other man shot and the mare jumped and got away. I tried to catch her, but jshe took toward the Indians. Joe Mitchell went after her horseback, till the Indians drove him back. Then the Indians tried to get her. She took a circle around among them, then back to our ¢atile. I had just got her when one man said we must run, or! we would be killed. The Indians had lbeen closing in on us. They had wounded one pony and two cattle. Seven or eight of our men jumped on their horses and ran, Others that had When- the commission appointed jSaturday by Governor George F. Shafer to operate the state mill and jelevator begins its new duties, it will! mark the fourth change in the sys- jtem of management at the institu-| |tion since it began operations in 1922. | In October, 1922, the mill and ele-| jvator began operation under the jmanagement of the industrial com- mission which had charge of its con- |struction. A year later, the tegisla- jture created a board of managers of ive men who acted as a board! According to his daughter, M rerer Aldythe Ward, it was during this trip) Plaved-out horses begged of them to| *ve,men who, acted as board that her father formed friendships | fight. One man rode ahead to the! 1) "ino" when ‘the governor wes with Buffalo Bill, Deadwood Dick, ext hill and sald he would shoot the |Wni 1825 when the governor wa and a number of other famous fron- man that passed him. Three had) dif teida MAE al tier characters. : passed before he got there, One man |yemained since then under suen man- "Came 3 jran by him and got shot one-half agement. Came Here In 1873 y in|mile farther on. ‘The rest he stopped.|_ In 1929, an independent bill was of- 1873 from Pennsylvania, ‘He built) When George and I got to the hill |fered to the legislature to establish himself a loz cabin and settled on a {Collins was half way up. His horse |@ three-man commission, and was five miles i was wounded, a ball through his gun. d by the house, controlled by the stock and one through his leg above |independent faction, but was defeat- knee. No bones were broken. The jed in the senate. controlled by the ethers at the foot of the hill sald Nonpartisans. “The measure called i and that the Indians passed within 20/for placing two Nonpartisan members Aoi Ria lures OM hind. He-Got up the Hil all |on' ths commleaion te recnietawitnea | farmer, near Painted Woods. is wife Tight. ‘There were Indians all around |campaign promise made by Governor in Bismarek follow us. George was hit in the shoulder | Shafer to vest control of the commis- | a oenmareapid City, April 19, 1876, | When he first got to the top of the|sion in his political opponents. “Dear Florence: 9 187 nin, but not hurt much. We were all| ‘The bill passed by the recent leet | We are here at last. It was the in @ bunch. I told them to scatter |lature, however, carried no clause as worst venture I ever made in my life, ;OUt more and started along the hill,/to political faith of the commission- I will tell you as near as I can how Shooting as I went. I called to George | ers. we are fixed. The snow that came|to come that way. They said he we et when we started made us stop on the | just started when his pony ie en the commission politically are ad- Cannon Ball 12 days. It was so deep|through the body. He pul ne ie herents to that we could not travel any further; | along a little ways and aren Hy association. we expected the other party every , Shoot, then dropped his ae an told | day. I had concluded to go back to|he was shot. One of the men told| Bismarck for more feed when the} him he was only beh ~) lke e | si other party came up. Then we started | said, “I am shot through the hear. next day. They did not ask us to|and dropped down dead. The pony Join them on account of our cattle stood awhile by him and fell. not keeping up but they changed Killed Two More Indians | their minds the first day. Then we We killed two more Indians. Then 1 ober must be bonded in the state! took turns breaking road. We made |they left, driving all the cattle with | Porcine Mine 7 lancan slow time to Grand River, but we them. We waited an hour or t¥0./""The'taw empowers the governor to found less snow there. We met Joe|then started back. |remove any member of the commis- s Others on the trip were George and Henry Ward, brothers of Oscar, and Get $10 A Day Compensation for the new commis- ioners is set by the law at $10 c day and! and Bob Roberts four miles from/|deed ponies and two wounded. We) ‘ont. ‘Cenect of duty, or for non. (and. friend: put George on one of our ponies and Grand River. They were lost. Gait acuils on ‘We had five miles of bad lands | Collins on another. i y le his own leg snow with bad crust. We made 21/With his dead pony and miles from the bad lands to Big|broken with an arrow. nek ace back Meadow and there our trouble began. |to camp at 11 o'clock at ni ee Our cattle had no grass of any ac-| We buried George there. ey Bi one and one-half days. Our| up a funeral in best way they could. cattle Satara out down the bluff,| All that were in the fight and didn’t of the commsision, the law states that of the law, which took effect July 1. Members are required to meet there-| after not less than once each month. In outlining the powers and duties feasence or malfeasance in office. | Frank ieineepes tthe a n,| Under the act. the commission must | ere when ‘y after crossing the river and then deep|We found one of the men that run, ieee ae nn effective date jtisted ithe couple on their 25th wed- S SST GO on, Pick OuT THE ROvLGH SPOTS — SHAKE THAT THincr SO HE CAN GET \T AGAIN. Bey, CROWD SEES CLOSE Grand Forks, N. D., actual expenses while engaged in per- | One of the largest crowds ever to as-/ formance of their duties, with $3,000;semble on the @ year the maximum to which any of|/ground saw the close of the 1931 | the members will be entitled. Each | North Dakota state fair Saturday. | CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY Mott, N. D., July 27.—Neighbors | Is surprised Mr. and Mrs.| inberger on their farm 16 See our window. Cloak Shop, 414 Main Ave. WELL ,OONT GRAB TH’ WHEEL Ue Grand Forks Corps To Attend Meeting Grand Forks, N. D., July 27.—(#)— The Grand Forks American Legion post has definitely decided to send its state cham) drum and bugle corps to Detroit, Mich., for the na- tional convention in September, and arrangements already have been started to finance the venture, E. C. Capital Funeral Parlors Jos. W. Tschumperlin Prop. QN YOUR BIRTHDAY Send MOTHER Gowers FROM Oscar H. Will & Co. Phone 784 319-3rd Street Bismarck N. Dak. We Telegraph Flowers Schoults, post commander, announced. A special committee will meet this week to consider plans for furthe: projects to raise money for the corps’ All we ask to prove their superiority is that you use one sack, Satisfaction guar. anteed. OCCIDENT, LYON’S BEST, OR CLIMAX Every bushel of wheat used in milling these brands is washed and scoured in at east 20 gallons of pure water. Cost More - Worth It! RUSSELL -MILLER MILLING CO. {February 1881. Other prizes went to! {Mr. and Mrs. T. Berry, Tappen, the The three men named to compose Oldest couple, and to William Pum-| mel, Dawson, the Independent Voters | present. | as the oldest person| uly 27.—P)— Grand Forks fair-| Modern White Gold Framec With comfortable pearl pads Only $4.50 Expert Eye Service at Greatly Reduced Prices DR. MacLACHLAN’S Nature Cure Clinic DR. A. 8. ANDERSON Optometrist—Eye Specialist Lucas Block Bismarck; : ne |it “shall be vested with the sole pow- it the lead. We went run fired a salute over his grave. TI i s \ Gen jue at gark o drive sec in, | next morning I sold part of my butter er and authority to manage, operate! | i | i i i Speakers for the occasion were) Ruling Sustains C tse A.M. Christianson of the) i state supreme court and E. J. Taylor, Burleigh oun supreme court librarian. Prizes were awarded to the oldest settlers present. J. A. Coulter, Daw- son, was named as the oldest settler, he having come to Kidder county in The North Dakota supreme court has sustained a ruling of the Bur- leigh county district court Liga inter Eyes Examined Glasses Prescribed The eye 1s an organ you can’t afford to neglect. Dr. H. J. Wagner v that we left at 24 cents a pound, gave away some, and conduct all the business of the pega tie aces. manatee rieere up/|threw away pans and truck to 500/association, and for that purpose it and fed. | pounds and got 200 hauled. The old|shall be deemed to have the powers Indians Steal Animals black cow could not go and I shot |and duties usually vested in a board Guards were put out as usual, but|her. Old Jack had been so lame he|of directors of a business corporation at 12 o'clock they came in to be re-| was of no use. We yoked up a pair | subject to the limitations and excep- lieved, instead of waiting till they/of cows. Three days more of snow | tions herein set forth. | were relieved. When the guards|and mud played out one of Henry's; The commission has authority to; started out one of them saw some|cows. A few days more left our old|/employ a general manager, general Indians in among the horses and bell cow. We fed our flour all up.| heads of each department, and to dis- cattle. He fired at them twice and| Bought 150 pounds more. That We|charge with or without cause any killed one of Henry's oxen. We hur-|had when we got there. We were 40/ person or officers employed, and to ried out as fast as we could but the| days on the road. generally determine and control the Indians had gone. We hunted around| They had a fight with the Indians’ business of the mill. for their trail and found out they jat Towers ele ee Ni al —_———— had taken some cattle and two, was wounded one-hal . ponies, Five of us followed them two! yesterday. Stock stealing and Indian Marsh Heads Kidder or three miles and then went back! fights all around the hills, the result County Old Settler for more help, but could not get it | mostly 4 Ae of wa ee Sy till_ morning. jworth 20 dollars a 3 ly three j We counted our cattle and found sacks in the market. Our whole party | pana ane pleted aay Mere 22 gone and one killed. One of Col- is in no better condition than we are. | meeting 0! a Tees Semel lin’s oxen, one of his cows, one of | Halloway Si “ Re eee easel Pain nome pee nd calves and our bull were with that was all. I am gol fs . J. A. z them. The rest were our best cows | to look a chance. Will be gone a ident; Lars Langdahl, vice pesca; with the exception of two. In the/ week and then will write more. There /and C. E. Hoover, pelaheapedE yp at morning Henry and Collins went|is nobody at work, all running | These three oat Sorupea ae Fea around to see who would go after the | around. * jmittee on_by - laws, Ate eal cattle. Fourteen of us started, George | OSCAR.” |acker, H. F. Brame ena . B. | and Collins among us. We thought jas the program com! . to find them in eight or ten miles on account of the deep snow. We took the trail and found it circled round} and come into our back track. We found there were only four Indians | in the lot. Then we thought we might catch them before they could; ae the Grand River bad lands, a1) na te sustain ; aemurrers ner ‘We rode as fast as we could on our | Posed by the defendants in a su r= worked-down ponies till I was willing |libel brought by F. E. McCurdy, Bis-| to give it up, but the others said we |marck attorney. acai could catch them yet. Three miles) The action was brought against E.| from the bad lands we sighted the | A. Hughes, Edward B. Cox and G. D.| four Indians. At the time there was | Mann, all of Bismarck. | one man ahead, George and I next,; McCurdy asked damages following) and the others one or two miles be- | charges brought by Hughes in an ef- hind. All our horses were about/| fort to disbar him. Cox acted as at- Played out. The Indians started on|torney for Hughes in this case. the run ahead. We soon came to our; Mann was brought into the case) white cow killed and some meat taken | when McCurdy alleged he had caused off; she had tired out. From the next | publication of a story in The Frbune Optometrist ridge we could see the rest of our|and other newspapers of the state. . PB. cattle, standing still at the edge of| The defendants filed a joint de-|—§ Offices, Opposite the G. 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