The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 8, 1917, Page 7

e S T e AL T P T S TR Or R ST S o 3 S AT A S e e C. W. Carey, Richland J. A. Englund, Ward A. S. Gibbons, Towner *F. TV Gronvold, Pierce" A. K. Kirkeide, Benson ‘W. E. Martin, Morton Chas. Ellingson, Steele and Griggs Gilbert W. Haggart, Cass Edward Hamerly, Renville (League)* . Chas. O. Heckle, Ransom : Frank H. Hyland, Ramsey .. H. P. Jacobson, Adams, Hettinger and Sioux ’ P. T. Kretchmar, McIntosh and Logan Oscar Lindstrom, Burke and Divide These Voted - The_ rollcall in the senate on House Bill 44, the measure submitting to the people a new’ constltutlog ‘carrying out the farmers’ program, was as follows: These Voted to Kill the Bill by Indefinite Post et (They Are Your Enemies) H. W. Allen, Emmons and Kidder John A. Beck, Sheridan “F. J. Murphy, Walsh M. L. McBride, Stark C. W. McGray, McLean Henry McLean, Cavalier Nick N. Nelson, Grand Forks Edward M. Nelson, Richland John E. Paulson, Traill Frank E. Ployhar, Barnes C. H. Porter, LaMoure T. N. Putnam, Eddy and Foster H. J. Rowe, Cass L. P. Sandstrom, Bottineau Albert Stenmo, Grand Forks (League) John Young, Mercer, Oliver and Dunn Against Killing the Bill by Postponement .- (They Are Your Friends) > John W. Benson, Rolette (League) J. L Cahill, Morton (League) Chas. E. Drown, Cass (League) Ole Ettestad, McHenry (League) D. H. Hamilton, McHenry J. P. Hemmingsen, Grand Forks (League) Geo. F. Hunt, Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Carrol D. King, Burleigh (League) Christ Levang, Walsh (League) Slope (Leagpe) C. I. Morkrid, Nelson (League) Morten Mortenson, Williams and MecKenzie, (League) Thorwald Mostad, Ward (League) , ~Richard McCarten, Sargent (League) Thomas Pendray, Stutsman (League) E. H. Sikes, Mountrail Martin Thoreson, Barnes Walter Welford, Pembina (League) James A. Wenstrom, Wells (League) William Zieman, Dickey (League) (*Mr. Hamerly voted for postponement through a misunderstanding on this rolleall. On the other rollealis on the bill he supported the measure and he signed the minority committee report urging the passage of the bill.) % The only League senator who betrayed his trust was Senator Stenmo of Grand Forks county, who was sent to the senate by the farmers. For his betrayal of the farmers’ cause Mr. Stenmo has received front - Grand Forks Herald, a suitable reward, no doubt. Hold-over Senators D e ponement page writeups and much praise from the 3 Hamilton, Martin, Sikes and Thoveson distinguished them- selves by supporting the farmers’ cause, though not elécted on the Nonpartisan League program. > Something About That Roosevelt Cabin Reli'c of Pioneer North Dakota Decorates Capitol Grounds at Bismarck torical society at Bismarck, N. D, in the basement of the capitol building, is an immenseé. number of articles that citizens have contributed or loaned to help make up an interest- ing collection. Out on the capitol grounds are a few other similar relics —a two-inch rifle used at some fron- tier military post, the figure head of the battleship ‘North Dakota of the navy of 1898, a statue of Sakajewea, the famous Indian girl who guided the Lewis and Clark expedition through western Montana, and the log cabin where Roosevelt wrote “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman.” The cabin, just now in its bleak winter setting, with drifts all about it and every tree bare and leafless, ex- cept one solitary little fir, is a. pictur- esque object. It nestles -down below the rising ground upon which stands the capitol. It is an object as isolated, apparently as it was in 1882 when Roosevelt had it built at his favorite I~N THE museum of the State His- “Chimney Butte ranch” on the Little, Missouri, the ranch called by everyone else but him the “Maltese Cross ranch,” because the Roosevelt cattle bore the Maltese cross as their brand. There has been some controversy “about this cabin, as there is about every historical object. - Some settlers of the Little Missouri declare this is ‘not technically the Roosevelt cabin, because it was on the lesser of two ‘ranches of which he was proprietor. This -cabin came from - the Maltese Cross ranch seven-miles or so south of Medora, and was bought by the state in 1904 to be exhibited at the St. Louis exposition as a souvenir of the only president North Dakota ever harbored as a citizen. It was taken apart and sent to St. Louis, and while there con- tained a few other relics of the colonel’s " | frontier days, such as his saddle, some rugs and like trophies. = That it was the very same cabin that Roosevelt built, owned and occupied for two sea- sons and a part-of the third, was testi- fied to by Joe and Sylvane Ferris, two The Roosevélt log cabin on the capitol grounds at Bismarck, shown here, from civilization, one would think from the picture, near Medora, N. D. of his cowboys, and by Howard Eton, who came to the country two years be- fore Roosevelt came. 3 WROTE BOOKS WHILE \ ‘LIVING IN CABIN Joe and Sylvane Ferris built this cabin at Roosevelt’s instructions, for the cabins on the ranch when he took over its livestock were even poorer than this. the cowboys crawled through a hole in the loft to their blankets, while the young proprietor slept below in its one room. He had the cabin built in 1882 a. few months after his first trip and purchase of the cattle. He lived in it that summer, and the summer of 1883 . and up until nearly Christmas time. Then he went east, but the next sum- mer he came back and lived. there again for a few months until the more There was a loft in it and’ pretentious‘cabins at the “Elkhorn ranch” were ‘ready. While here he wrote the book men- tioned, and some of his other earlier writings. In his third season on the Little Missouri, he moved headquart- ers down the river 35 miles below Medora, to what was known thereafter as “the Roosevelt ranch” or the “Elk- horn ranch” and he lived here until he abandoned the west for politics back: east. These buildings were torn down afterward and burned, but, the old original cabin came into possession of Jack Snyder, who occupied it for years. Snyder - tore. off the shingles that Roosevelt had on it, and substituted the customary frontier roof of earth, and this is the kind of a roof it has now in its present site on the capitol grounds. Le: ‘When Roosevelt lived on the Little :Missouri there were still some buffalo SEVEN - h | makes a pretty winter view, as isolated as was the scene in which the cabin was originally set in the eighties, and plenty of antelope to be seen, and Billings county stretched across a wide portion " of western Dakota territory with Medora as its county seat. Alex McKenzie, later the North Dakota poli- tical boss, was then sheriff of Billings county, and T. R. was his deputy sheriff, and a friendship was formed, which it is said continues. It was while deputy that Roosevelt “met up” with a cowboy who had been drinking too heavily of ‘“forty-rod” whiskey, and started to have the cus- tomary fun by shooting at the feet of the bystanders to make them dance. He started in on Roosevelt, but instead of dancing, according to the story, Roosevelt walked slowly up to him, go- ing over in his mind a famous upper- cut with his left which he had found handy in college boxing matches, and unexpectedly lifted the cowboy off his feet by a blow on the chin. o c———— i o —————