The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 26, 1936, Page 8

1 t 1 1 4 ae capaci a aie ee mee HISTORICAL SOCIETY TRACES ORIGIN BACK TO BISMARCK GROUP Today North Dakota History| Passes in Review in Its Museum By RUSSELL REID (Curator, N. D., Historical Society) ‘The State Historical Society of North Dakota had its beginning in the organization known as the Ladies’ Historical society of Bismarck. Organized in 1889 with a member- ship composed of representatives of many pioneer families of Bismarck and vicinity, the society was later re~ organized, incorporated and known as the North Dakota Historical society. After its reorganization the society became active in recording and pre- serving North Dakota history. Pro- gress was, however, extremely slow, | due to the fact that all work had to; be done by volunteers and that no funds were available for providing permanent quarters. In 1905 the state legislature, recos- nizing the need of preserving state history, passed legislation giving the historical society a legal status the same as state departments. Although only an extremely small appropria- tion was available the growth of the society from this time on was rapid. Prior to 1924 the society's library and museum were housed in the basement of the old capitol. The small space) available made it impossible to de- velop an adequate museum or library. When the Liberty Memorial building was completed in 1924 the historical society was given permanent quar- ters in this building. At the present time the society occupies the two upper floors for its museum and part of the two lower floors for its I~ brary. Preserves State History The historical society is the recog- nized state institution for the preser- vation of all state history. In order to carry on this mission in a com- plete and satisfactory manner many different phases of work are spon- sored and directed. The work is di- vided into the following departments: museum, library and state parks. The museum has shown wonderful growth during the past few years. The two floors placed at its disposal con- tain a wealth of material relating to North Dakota history. It comprises the following departments: archacol- ogy, ethnology, pioneer and natural history. The archaeological collection con- tains a large and varied collection of Indian artifacts from North Dakota Indian village sites and mounds. The collection has been assembled over a long period of years and contains many specimens which cannot be duplicated. In addition to large dis- plays of flint and stone work the museum has on display many splen- did artifacts of bone. Several Nortn Dakota Indian tribes excelled in the manufacture of bone tools and imple- ments. Some Without Price The ethnological collection contains an elaborate display of clothing, im- plements and other articles pertain- ing to the material culture of all North Dakota tribes. It would be im- possible to replace many of the ar- ticles on display at the present time. Some of the exhibits on display were used by such famous Indiang as Sit- ting Bull, Gall and Rain-In-the- Pace. The Indians of today do not have need for the clothing and imple- ments used by their forbears and consequently many primitive arts have been lost. The value of the ex- hibits shown are greatly increased by numerous portraits and photographs as well as models depicting prim- itive Indian life. The pioneer colléctions contain many interesting exhibits. Perhaps the most important of these are the silver. service from the Battleship “North Dakota” the equistrienne statue of Theodore Roosevelt, model of the first McCormick reaper, and a Red River oxcart. Other rooms have on display the following outstanding exhibits: World War collection, col- lections from the Civil, Indian and Spanish American wars and a large and extensive firearms collection. The — Ogalalla Red Cloud was the famous chief of the Ogalalla tribe of the Sioux. Originally locat- ed in northwestern Nebraska, the Ogalallas under terms of the Laramie treaty of 1868 moved to the mouth of the White river in what is now South Dakota. FINDERS OF GOLD IN BLACK HILLS NEVER LIVED 70 TELL TALE Custer Rediscovered Treasury of Nature 40 Years After First Prospecting gold in the black hills begins with one ot South Dakota's most interesting irelics, the so-called Thoen Stone, now [in the Adams Memorial Hall at Deadwood. This slab of reddish sand- stone, about 14 inches square, was found in 1917 by Louis and Ivan Thoen, at the base of Lookout Moun- tain, near Spearfish, a town in the northern foothills of the Black Hills. Both sides of the stone bear clearly legible inscriptions: One side reads: Came to these hills in 1833. Seven of us De Lacompt, Ezra Kind, G. W. Wood, T. Brown, R. Kent, Wm. King, Indian Crow. All died but me, Ezra King. Killed by Indians beyond the high hills. Got our gold June 1834. On the reverse side: Got all the gold we could carry. Our ponys all got by the Indians. I have lost my gun and nothing to eat, and Indian’s hunting me. Attempts were made to trace these men. Relatives of Brown were found in Missouri, and it was learned that he had left for the west in 1832, with one Kind. Kind’s relatives were also found and stated that he had started west the same year. None of them had been heard from since their depar- ture. But Kind Died, Too So Kind failed to get out with “all the gold we could carry”; 15 years later California became the center of the first great gold rush, and the Hills waited 40 years for their gold to be rediscovered. It is interesting to speculate on what might have been “the course of Empire” had this little group won through. The history of Dakota, of Montana, indeed of all the northwest, might have been very dif- ferent. Gold in the Black Hills was “re- Gicoveret by Custer’s crew men in 874, Moses Manuel was one of those prospectors who had sought nature's wealth’ in many climes. On reading newspaper reports of General Cus- ter’s expedition he set out for the Black Hills from Portland, Oregon. in what they found there, they start- ed for the Northern Hills. And 50, also of exceptional interest. ‘The natural history rooms have the only large. public collections of their kind in North Dakota. Although the exhibits are already large and exten- sive, additional specimens are being added constantly and we hope at some future date to have a complete > gS ae E after a winter of prospecting, they Early in 1877 the members of a San Francisco syndicate, consisting of George Hearst, (father of William Randolph Hearst, of today), Lioyd Tevis and J. B. Hag- gin, sent a typical mining engineer of those days, Samuel McMaster, to re- port on a silver mine near Deadwood, D., the outcome of which was not E LEE Tai B E It may be said that the history of | BELKS ARE CHILDREN OF EARLY PIONEERS Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Belk, 710 4th St., are one of Dakota territory's truly pioneer families. ‘The father of each was not only an early resident in the northwest, but also played a very prominent role in the development of this territory and of Bismarck. Mrs. Belk’s father, Col. William A. Bentley, was born in Lebanon, New THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, London, Conn,, in 1837, and. came to Minnesota when he was 18 years old. He enlisted in the 9th Iowa In- fantry during the civil war, and after 2% years of detached service, was dis- charged for disability. Colonel Bentley worked his way through medical school by doing rep- ortorial work on the St. Paul Dis- patch, and came to Bismarck to prac- tice medicine in 1877. From 1887 through 1890, Colonel Bentley was mayor of Bismarck. At his second election, in 1888, he was the unanimous choice of the voters. As lieutenant-colonel, he organized the territorial militia before North eae of the Ist regiment June 1, 1885. Colnel Bentley was a heat = tributor to the capitol site wren: Other titles held while in Bismarck were county superintendent of schools, secretary of the school board, president of the chamber of com- merce, U. 8. commissioner, and ad- jutant general. After many years’ service to Bis- marck and to North Dakota, Colonel Bentley left here in 1905, and died in 1918 in Los Angeles. On Dec. 11, 1856, at Faribault, Min- nesota, he married Emily White. Of the six children resulting from their Dakota became a state, and at the FRIDAY, JUNE 96, 1936 Civil Wa: Falconer, 202 Ave. E, and Mrs. E. L. Faunce, 802 First 8t. Mr, Belk’s father, Captain John‘M. Belk, was one of the prominent “Mis- {mained until his death, Oct. 12, 1929./in Bismarck, he \souri river steamboat captains in the heyday of steamboating, Qmaha, where in and was | Missouri he was master or pilot on known particularly for the safe, de-/river vessels, none of ohen are pendable way. in which he handle {his boats. He was born in Tallapoosa county, Alabama, March 22, 1848, During the he saw active service as a SOREBEA TS mage being severely ‘wounde one battle. While still | bringing ners, furs, youth, he came to a aa ae one ei he eat the Missouri well enor 0 get a pilot’s license, marriage, only two besides Mrs. Belk fon that, eetly 12867, until | his re- request of the soldiers, was placed in are now alive. They are Mrs. W. A. tirement in 1926, Captain Belk was an south of active riverboat captain. Although he|General Custer lived in Yankton until 1881, he came | alry. and the Seventh cay. to Bismarck that year, where he re- During Captain Belk’s career on led jexistence now. The business of these trans- porting troops, passengers and freight to points on the Missouri and Yel- lowstone rivers between Sioux ‘City, Towa and Fort Benton, Mont., and in| died in infancy, Martha and Margaret, other passengers. Captain Belk brought the material| THe Proportion of American men up river for the construction of Fort|Who are six.or more feet tall is not Abraham Lincoln, the historic post|very.great. 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