The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 20, 1936, Page 14

Across the River Lay the Fort | From the shore of Sibley | + D. Historical Soctety Photo Fort Abraham Lin- -—— sac sembled a small city in LLivona’s Riders Will 4 Entertain at Rodeo School Established ‘At or Near Mandan’ One of the classic examples of po- litical shenanigans in North Dakota was the establishment of the U. S. Indian school here in 1908. ‘ Mandan and other cities sought this addition to the growth of their com- ©™ munities and for a while it appeared ally coeduc as though the manipulations in con- 3 sirls Peron "pupils are gress by Alex McKenzie would go for ‘rom both the Dakotas, most naught. being of Sioux origin. Peace was settled when in the act . moh Wild West Rodeo. The riders have passed by congress appeared the words The first McCabe Methodist church , worked together for s number of that the school should be established building in Bismarck was erected in years and their work in unions has “at or near Mandan.” It was estab- 1878. Work on the present structure, been pronounced as fine as anything lished “near Mandan” alright but at the corner of 5th and Thayer, was) circuses produce, closer to Bismarck. begun in 1906, and dedication exer-| One of their best-liked acts is the The school has 18 buildings and an cises were held three years later. Virginia Reel. 1876. Ice from the spri break-up still lined the shor and snow-filled gullies pock- | mark the hills beyond. Sixteen riders from Livona in Em- mons county will come here July 3, "| 4 and 5 to help auto-riding moderns n= recall the days when the horse was ly one of the few means of locomotion. cepted Wallace Kyes, widely known as a f them rattlesnake catcher, will bring the troupe, which will be a feature of the Bismarck’s Modern Fireproof Hotel... Extends a sincere invitation to you to make this Hotel your headquarters while in Bismarck for the Pioneer Days Festival Bismarck, N. Dak. July 3-4-5 COMMEMORATING FOUNDING OF DAKOTA TERRITORY. 1861 BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIG HORN, 1876 Roberts-McNab Hotel System Prince Hotel, Bismarck, N. D. Gladstone Hotel, Jamestown, N.D. Mayer Hotel, Devils Lake, N. D. Clean— Comfortable— Courteous— Fireproof— Moderate « Prices— Excellent Dining Room in Connection POLYmerized Phillips 66 Has More Kick and Ginger than this Bronco When in Bismarck JULY 3-45 «.. for the... Pioneer Days Festival Phill-up with Phillips, the fastest starting gasoline we've ever offered (POLYmerized). It is honest high test PLUS the extra heat units of the scientific POLYmerization process. RESULT: Marvelously quick starting ... rapid warm-up... silent action ... added pep and power... and the cash savings of more miles per gallon. Free Airplane! By patronizing the Bis- marck Oil Co. it is possi- ble to enter the Bismarck Air Show esntest giving away a new Porterfield airplane or $1,000 in cash and tickets good to see the air show two days and nights. AT ANY ONE OF THE STATIONS LISTED BELOW Bismarck Oil Co. 1020 Main Avenue Sixth St. Station 214 Sixth St. ‘Phillips West End Station 222 West Main THE BISMARCK TRIBUN: GREATEST RANCHER IN WEST _|FIRST WAS In a bronze urn beneath a statue the ashes of the man represented by the statue and for whom the town was named, Plerre Wibaux, pioneer North to be the largest individual owner of range cattle in the United States. Wibaux’ spectacular career began in Robaix, France, where he was born in 1858. During his youth, part of money - making | opportunities in the j northwestern part of the United States, where cattle ran free, so captured his fancy that he determined to come to this coun- try. His disapproving father, in a fit of temper, gave him |. $10,000 and told him that was the last sum he would ever get. ‘Wibaux came to Chi- a cago to learn the packing business |: first-hand, and it was there that he met and formed a friend- ship with the Mar- |< quis de Mores, who 5 % was then planning | his Medora slaugh- terhouse. The Marquis per- suaded Wibaux to come to North Da- kota. Wibaux built his first ranch north of the town which was then called Mingusville, about 30 miles west of Me- dora _on the North- ern Pacific. He as- tonished the natives by setting up an ir- tigation system for the elaborate gar- dens he planted. His grottos, ornamental cupids, and other lawn statuary were he lost in the hard winter of 1886-87. money to buy more cattle. business in Miles City. Pierre and Nellie Wibaux the butt of many jokes. The house was of lumber, and painted white, and 80 rare were wooden structures of that nature on the prairies those days, that it came to be known as the “White House.” Wibaux started out with about 1,000 head of cattle, almost all of which He is said to have borrowed $400,000 by promising to pay back $1,000,000 ten years later, a promise which he made good. Because other ranchers had been hard hit by the severe winter, too, they needed money, and Wibaux bought a lot of cattle. Those cattle which survived the winter were the strongest, and it was these that Wibaux got. He prospered, and by 1900 the W-Bar brand was on 40,000 cattle. In 1902 homesteaders began to move into the country west of the Little Missouri. Wibaux sold most of his ‘stock cattle, and continued small-scale ranching operations on a ranch near the Redwater. For some years he lived at this ranch, retona selling out to devote his attention to the banking He died March 2, 1913, in Chicago, of cancer of the liver. SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1936 and non-residents, and quite a large number were evidently placed in the ballot box surreptitiously by some party who had a large interest in lo- cating the county seat on Brule in the town of Wibaux, Montana, are Dakota rancher and said at one time HELD WITH INDIANS same of which were cast by muners| | Fred L. Conklin’s Face Was Red, Too Pioneers in Bismarck amateur theatricals were not immune to Creek; the location of which WAS) staze fright. of which was spent in England, tales ‘| STILL ON W AR P ATH voted upon at this election and in| “Rack in the days of “East Lynne” fact was the predominating issue 10 nq other melodramas at the old the county. The polls were also regularly opened the following te ing and the election held, but the Voters in One Precinct Cast Sos ol lis pebeltee ran oo viltnced ‘by Ballots During Night, Then Left Country thrown out by th the national house of representatives and disregarded by next legislature.” The first general election held in Wuicamie SNe Dakota ‘Territory came on Monday,| UJ, S. Drouth Forecast pt. 2, , when jan troubles were at their height. ‘The Amidons| Before Columbus Came had been killed by Indians on the cer outskirts of Sioux Falls and that| Drouth in the Great Plains region precinct was deserted on election day,| Of the United Stgtes was forecast be- the inhabitants having fled. fore Columbus discovered America, “At Brule creek precinct, in Un-| although the forecaster didn’t know fon county,” says George W. Kings-| that his prediction affected a then bury, historian, “the excitement and) undiscovered continent. alarm grew so intense that many of| Sir Francis Bacon, the famed Mid- Anthaeneum on Main street, F. L. Conklin, secretary of the Provi- dent Life Insurance company, was one of the city’s more prominent these illegal proceedings that it was) actors. In a certain Civil war story Conklin’s role as a strapping sol- dier called for only one cue. He was to stride on aa salute the captain, and report: “Captain, the horses are fed and all is ready.” Rehearsals went well and came the night of the premiere. At Conklin’s cue, he stomped on the stage and saluted the captain. “Captain,” he said, “The horses are red and all is feddy!” A room in the Will school was the the settlers resolved on leaving the| dle Ages scientist, noticed the same! scene of the first meeting of the con- settlement and going to Sioux City| weather cycles that modern day|gregation of the German Baptist the night before election and, in| meteorologists record. He said they) church of Bismarck, in 1912, Con- order that they might not lose their| come every 35 years. He found the struction of the present church build- votes, the polls were opened during] evidence in vintages and the levels of | the night and a large number of| lakes and streams. The name “Wachter” has been a fam: iliar name in Bismarck business cir- cles. The Wachter Transfer Corpora- tion has not only watched Bismarck and the Missouri Slope Area develop from a frontier, but has played an im- portant part in this development. So it is as a genuine pioneer insti- tution that we join in extending an invitation to one and all to Come to Bismarck July 3-4-5 for the In 1887 he revisited France to borrow COMMUNITY HAS HAD FOUR NAMES SINCE | DAYS OF CIVIL WAR East Sibley Island Portage Was Known to Indians as The Crossing Bismarck as a spot on a topographic map has had four names in the last 70 years. Before any white man had settled here and during the days when the Indians found this country in the neighborhood of the confluence of the Missouri and Heart rivers, Apple creek and Sibley island an ideal place of habitation or camping it was known as “The Crossing.” The name derived from the fact that Indians found the narrow stretch of river between Sibley island and the west side of the Missouri just south of the Heart river as the narrowest and least dangerous point at which to swim their ponies or propel their bullboats. When the Northern Pacific began laying its rails westward it graded a supposed foundation for the rails down the Apple creek valley almost to the site where the Indians had crossed for hundreds of years. It ‘was a move to mislead land specula- tors, and some of them were fooled. Pioneer Days Festival Commemorating the Founding of Da- kota Territory, 1861, and the Battle of the Little Big. Horn, 1876. Only Four Founders Of NDEA Still Living Only four persons who attended the organization meeting of the North Dakota Educational association at Fargo in 1887 still reside in the state. They are former Gov. Joseph M. De- vine of Bismarck; Dean-emeritus Joseph Kennedy of the school of edu- cation at the University of North Da-! kota; Fred Cathro of Bismarck; and Dr. R. G. McFarland, president of the Minot State Teachers college. ——— 121 Fifth St. South Modern Fireproof Storage — Drayage y . excavation — Grading — Ice That is what the Pioneer Wholesale Grocery House of the Missouri Slope area has been On the banks of the river a commun- | ity of @ few shacks became known a3 | Burleigh City. | ‘When the real grade for the rail- | road, however, was laid along the} i | bench that parallels the bottoms and! upon which bench Bismarck was | ]; built, the rude settlement became known as Edwinton. But the name didn’t cling lorg. Desirous of attracting foreign capital to finance its building operations, the ]| Northern Pacific changed the name {of the community from Edwinton to Bismarck in honor of the then great chancellor of Germany. Although the Soo railroad line en- || tered North Dakota in 1886, it did not reach Bismarck until 1902. Executive serving up for western North Dakota since the & HALF A CENTURY WACHTER TRANSFER CORPORATION = mm ae — Long Distance Hauling jing was begun that same year, and | finished in 1913. Phone 62 Wholesome Foods turn of the Century. | | © .GOOD FOOD i Happy to have played so important a part in the development of this Missouri Slope area, we join other merchants of this city in urging your attendance at the George H. Hand (above) served as secretary of Da- kota Territory for many ie For a time in 1880 acting governor after Gov. William i Howard died and until the appointment of Gov. N. G. Ordway. He came to Dakota in 18 Courtesy Yankton Press & Dakotan Pioneer Days ~ Festival Bismarck -- July 3, 4,5 Commemorating the Founding of Dakota Territory, 1861, and the Battle of the Little Big Horn, 1876. is the Backbone of Any Festivity Bismarck Grocery Co. Distributors of MINNEOPA AND PATTERSON SEAL FOOD PRODUCTS PRINCESS PATT COFFEE