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at 408 DIETRICH "” HASBEEN BISMARCK RESIDENT SINCE "74 Pioneer Woman's Husband Was One of First Arrivals in “Bismarck Area Mrs, Joe Dietrich, 120 Avenue A, West, still owns the ground her hus- band claimed and built a house on 64 years ago. The lot is located on Thayer Avenue, just west of the Episcopal church, and is the site of the Dietrich’s first Bismarck resi- dence, Mrs. Dietrich, who was Honora Crane berofe her marriage, was born in Ireland, and spent the first nine- teen years of her life there. In 1875 she came to St. Paul, and on to Bis- marck the following spring, arriving here April 1. The trip from St. Paul by rail took three days. Married in 1876 Her marriage to Mr. Dietrich oc- curred May 4, 1876.- Mr. Dietrich was among the earliest arrivals in this part of the country. In the fall of 1869 he booked passage from Sioux City, Iowa, on the steam- boat, Ida Rees, for Butte, Montana. It was at the time of the Montana gold rush, The Ida Rees ran aground on 8 sandbar in the Missouri river near Painted Woods, and Mr. Dietrich, to- gether with some of the other pas- sengers, decided to disembark. He worked in a woodyard at Painted Woods for a time, clerked in a gov- ernment store at Fort Berthold, and then settled in the bottoms south of where Bismarck now stands. In 1872, when the location of the railroad was finally established, he moved to Bis- marck. Ran Bus Line Dietrich was well-known as the Proprietor of the omnibus line from Bismarck to the steamboat land- ing. It was he who met the steamer Far West when it docked at Bismarck shortly before midnight, July 5, 1876, bearing the wounded survivors of Cus- ter's: Seventh cavalry regiment and carrying the news of the tragedy. Later he was engaged in the gro- cery business. He died Dec. 22, 1931, the the age of 85. Mrs. Dietrich has two daughters, Mrs. P. E. Byrne, 120 Avenue A, West, and Miss Mabel Dietrich, of Holly- wood, Calif. With 14 adults and 15 children as charter members, the First Lutheran church was organized in Bismarck in January, 1883. The present church building was completed in 1915. nn Yankton Man Aided | Big Horn Survivors een 2 Yankton, 8. D., June 20.—John Amundson, who lives 17 miles north of Yankton on a home- stead on which he filed in 1874, is one of the steamboat men of the early days of Dakota terri- tory. Telling of some of his ex- periences recently Mr. Amund- son said: “In the early days I made many trips up and down the Missouri river. The longest trip I ever made was when I went with Grant Marsh on the steamboat ‘Far West.’ We left Yankton on the 12th of May and did not come back to Yankton until the 26th of September. That was the year’ of General Custer’s last fight with the Indians. I helped to carry the wounded soldiers on the boat which brought them down to Bismarck.’ Bismarck had four churches in 1879, Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Episcopal. The Bismarck chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star was organized March 7, 1894, During Bismarck’s Pioneer Days Festival July 3-4-5 CHOOSE PABST.... It’s , PABST Blue Ribbon that’s real IBEER BEER ‘The finest draught beer brewed. And for home or parties eek for PABST Zz BEER BREWERY GOODNESS SEALED BIGHT in Distributed by MANDAN BEVERAGE CO. East Main Mandan Phone - North Dakota’s Largest Beer Distributors _THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1936 White cross and monuments on the slope above the Little Big Horn mark the spot where Gen. George A. Custer and his immediate command perished that the west might be made safe for the invasion of the white man. The ferry to Mandan, run by Capt.| The Bismarck Tribune, North Da- Wm. Braithwaite, used to make trips|kota’s oldest newspaper, has never daily, leaving the Bismarck landing | missed an issue since its first, July 11, at 9a.m.and at 3 p.m. It advertised | 1873, in spite of three disastrous fires, “special trips made for crossing of|each of which destroyed the Tribune stock cattle.” plant. N. D. Historical Society Photo 8t. George’s Episcopal church is one of Bismarck’s oldest, dating back to} 1877. The ladies’ guild was organized | that same year, with six charter mem- bers. The Current Events club was organ- ized in 1903 with 16 charter members. | Two of the 16, Mrs, D. J. McGillis and Mrs. Nellie Evarts, are still active. MUTILATED BY FOES Gall Told Godfrey Indians Left, Corpse Untouched Be- cause of His Rank Gen. George A. Custer did not com- mit suicide on the batlefield of the Little Big Horn nor was his body mu- tilated as widely bruited erroneous stories relate from time to time. The late Gen. E. 8. Godfrey of Cookstown, N. J., one of the survivors of the campaign who died a few years ago, tells of being assigned as a lieu- tenant by Major Reno to assist in the burial of the dead. “I saw the naked body of Custer laid ott. He had two wounds either one of which could have been fatal. One was in the left temple, the other in the left breast close to the heart. I looked carefully for powder marks but could find none. There was no mutilation, he was not scalped. “Why was not Custer scalped and mutilated as was done to all the other bodies?” Godfrey asked Chief Gall when both white and red survivors of the conflict visited the battlefield on the 10th anniversary,of the struggle, | dune 25, 1886. “Because he was the big chief and we respected his rank and position,” replied the great Indian warrior. “We did not recognize anyone during the fight. Anyone might have killed him. He was not identified until after his| command was wiped out. In fact, the Indians did not know who they were fighting until all was over and they recognized some of the troopers.” “A grand free lunch served every night a la Chicago style,” declared the Minne-ha-ha Sample Room in an‘ 1879 advertisement. = entvectrevtrccserecneenenneneoacccneanerinnccaeec ene eanuuaeenecasnnaauuveceenneanvvecuuceavnrecunecensvcocoucnevneesveauocseennrevvuseenntet A Cordial Invitation.. to One and All to Come to BISMARCK JULY 3, 4, for the |the description given R. R. CUSTER'S BODY NOT. | N..D. Historical Society Photo Four of the first men to seek gold in the Black Hills were photographed in Bismarck shortly before they began their trek southward in May 1875. They are left to right seated: Jack Cale and Dick Stone; standing: Harry Carhoff and H. N. Ross, mining expert, reputedly the real re-dis- coverer, the South Dakota Eldorado, in the city” was| The Pacific Sample Room adver- larsh’s tised itself in 1879 as “The Boys’ head- ‘O. F. C. Saloon” in Bismarck’s first |quarters, owing to the existence of city directory, published in 1879. | Numerous Amusements.” “The nobbiest plac HOUUATENATENAACCADERAUUREOUNDUCCADEGUNUERHOUENUENNOUEGURUNOUEONOVRAOUEQOOUOOONEOOENOUqOOUELOOCEGOUEGCOUOGCEONOCOMOECHOCOOCLOOCUEGOCUNONEANOELONNAEEROHEtaUeeUnOAvoNdcanauedvonddneacent nite PIONEER DAYS FESTIVAL Commemorating the Founding of Dakota Territory, 1861, and the Battle of the Little Big Horn, 1876 PIONEER ELECTRICAL .3eand... LIGNITE MINING Firms of the Missouri Slope Area North Dakota Power & Light Company Knife River Coal Mining Company BISMARCK \ AUOUUUPSASTAL UU EUR TOUT CETTE TOUCH