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ftF Ml .RR, lllll JBAD .LANDS COW BOY, ,. BR A. T. PACKABD. T«1 Co* B« to not pubUaked for i» ilk at.1.^ ^IATICHT JL&Wm 1 tax, ISpMjear. .1 1 ill oommimiefttfons to 1 THS BAD LJUW OOW^.''K 1,T)AKOTA. 'vpv^Aee at Medora. Dak^at aec ifielgsa mall matter. A D. CARPENTER, AftOBNEY. PIOKINSON, OAK. WESTERN STARR, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, DIOKINMN, OAK. 1LO BOB MONTGOMERY'S SALOON, BELFIELD. DAK. He dmla excloalTelr ln flrst-c]aM goodj. HI* friend* are InrltedTO ghr* Mm call RIVERSIDE HOTEL, #XF?MAX BA88, PUOP @^IFL SRTT j4'® ft. m-™ •*.•. BELFEBLD, DAKOTA. 0j-M«4\'-K. •.TI-WFOI /'•/«•.'. .. ?y. ,Onc o|tb© neatest honaca on the line of (he X. 1* ILK. Only few atepa from the depot. F. E. BENJAMIN, Jeweler and Watchmaker, MANDAN, DAKOTA. YA ,!i B«paWnB of all Wflda promptly executed. m^fOtoin from.oat of town recciv* my personal •ttuera&find careful attention. TR ''Aa T-J.KCCLUUG, Contractor and Builder fp^^kiuEVOnA. ?fe. DAxlf^^ Biih of lumber made out and gronnd pinna furnished. JY.JJ£R. ALL WORK GUARANTEED^ 1'T. It. SiljiEf.Pmldcnt. IfrR. LroX) CuhWr. 3i Laku, lc* PnMmt OF MANDAN, DAKOTA., I'itidqlp Capital, $^0,000 Stitphis $10,000. ,a InlftrmtpaldoiiLllmaB^ptiaUa..' :^ii*ral jtasUiig i&d Exrhaap Buitlncra donv DAK aoKBlvZIE, —AM)— LITTLE Biliiard Hall Pool Rown, MANDAN, DAKOTA s"SThermit popular naort for kqniet pm of hU !fsj'hS" lUMatnrpooL TbebettoternTthlrig .. and tbeftnc«tbar In thecitjr: M. KLINE,^ CIGAR MANUFACTDRER, *oiEWiGiaua» Aad Bmokara' ArtieUa, i* ^NOAN^-^JJAKOTA. J» A. FERRIS^ —nitan- ry Goods Ready-Made Clothing,J fi*TS 4 CAPS, BOOTS JSHOtS. GENTS* FURNISHING QOOD8, AMD KOTION^^ r. jPtl-v HEADQUARTERS •. Restaurant, J. MASON, PIOP., »o»l)rWnCTl«i« 'e«t of 0t Pahl. -nwwwtB i* Wines, liquor* 6t*d Cigars $ Vi* Ahnwi ilr»». OODSlfl/ATrONi 12SS »a« _W* vm t»» ttoaM MjPiibea- 1 GENERAL bailor ». AdTWttalmBataa male known on application. tiAt Mnrttamnl. pajrabl. qaarterty. TrttfttientAdTortijemente&ndall Jobwork, mon- W\ & ^^SWT"" ROV THE— Harn^s:^ u, MISSOURI, DAK. Work done neatly and promptly. fo&fT •4& IDOXOIT. MAHAR&DRURY'S FELT SHOES, ,„H »Ii A PIIFIJW «.r^ i- kiibp VOLUMEI, NUMBER 20. N LITTLE MISSOURI, MEDORA O., DAK., M&J -.T,N STORE 1 1 1 wt 'l UF !*»,) N. P. R. 0. CO., \MEMK?A, -^KICOTA, I ^*15^ R. mHAS A COMPLpTE^IJNE OF 4'' #v B1 4H *|,+ 1 Groceries,' *^ta sy* 2* DryGoods, READY-MADE CLOTHING, Hats, Caps, KINDS 1/i CAN^ED GOOl^S, jf ^tu^V%'r%'g9?f|55i I HOUSE, s. i" 41 1 Little Missouri, Dak. A 0 SP 1 JC ,* *4^^-..*.- V- —i-v •,-. »v-. A FINE BAR connected wltli the honM. EDICK BROS., 3 a ,4 Maniifacturen and Jobbera In SASS. FOS "S"* Cigars —)A2NI Tobacco A full line ofall kinds of— SMOKERS? ARTICLES. LSsK' pt®-1 §m Saddles, 1 obaco and Cigars, WIW, .VFRTR OVERSHOES, BOOTS, AND SHOES, -cansfy,^ O-C FLOUR and FEED. $ I vj: sm Boofe'OotStsaSpialty. Irt fact almost everything that 4 'r I# WISFEI€'I THE PIONEER SALOON nr Vf A ,. rrSSf LARGE STOCKOF 'S V--**.. LITTLE MI880URL ^^CHOICEST BRANDS—"U LIQUORS & CIGARS. HOTELS DE MORES &£*£ THE BESTHOTELHIMEOORA, FRT Transient kates, per day $2.00 Regular Board, per week 6.00 A^I 3 1 qtrf C*fr located centrally, buta few steps from the depot. f§:: 1 1 UVKBT The buiM* done MlQuleWAr«M'- R« TOO*SBADTMARHA^:M, ^O benefit- o( LOW PRTIW#/"' V? AND BAR wr THE HOUSE.- I MEDORA MI. 4 ft. A A visit to 1 or at dispensary* nous comfprt-S -nrf PETER MALLOY, Prop., tar tat VVIC^ S I Alt* 11 TRANSIENT RATES PER DAY. $1.50 VIA "T REGULAR BOARD PER WEEK, 6.00 OF 1 A PARLOR Street. "7« MMaln 1 S»: \Ik, 8UITS, '&&V' -u*..^.'V T' I 'lit 'fv Iiii' niiniii )iirMil'ifbr*HfaMMii«ft» -_^4^ rr *v» Will ienvince the^noet. skeptical TIUT|Smil Ienimn has I0ived AND that good^oods lian be told B^EAS *fell Vo, a» Main 8 ARMORY, DI OB^TSON, DAKOTA. h"**! THE ELK .Colts' Six-Shootera, CAL.'TS^ $14. •4IMiO Cartridges $2.75 per 1 THEnMESTC00D8.|^K COURTEOUS tREATMBTT. JUNE ,9, ,8S4. FLDI w. r. «a*»mrr iroprt8tor. UET 100.-. Best Powder 40 cents per ponnd. Loaded ShoMnn Shells $4 ft^-X per Send or expresa your jgooda fotrepaira to ine and I will guarantee aatlafaction and ntam them aa aoon as poesible, navafewt twenty-fire jeaia''experience in bnt-arnoriea In the Tnited Statea. Addreaa all eommimltattona to X\,, ', 0. 8LATOHER DrauaoH. Due & ROBERTSe& CO., BILLIARD FINEST BAB IN LITTLE MISSOURI i&'JHS»S VW tA' PS lain constant •ttendance. CFEFLS tteaexteg -.n'. than in any IS "S CH^ BER SUITS, CHEAP CANVASS COTS, ,^ %^1-RFR M&TTRE8SES,: iml HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. HAOER BLOO^MANDAN. :R most of these stretches is fall A-very as in the- east. Next door -|o THE WI 1 inift DUNCA & HS.LES, way we •freighters rBOTTOM, PlliCES:::: JOrdera bj mall wUl rowlj^fimpt attention. SLASHER'S .£ Impracticable. A. J. Uaxwell,of the lilies City & and that an order has been oil tbe freishSng teams. He also hears that mueh 7 thenelght Is now going to Pierre,and it looks THI traffic. Mr. Maxwell stated that tne route from wood to Medora Is a very hard one,Dead- being thirty miles of very bad lands in one stretch and twenty-five in another, of gumbo, through which hanliqg Is veiy difficult little rain makes tbe copied,several timesrbowerer TBE^ know. The stage company has been fully organized and stages will be run in less than two weeks. It will be started as a tri-week«. ly and increased to Pierre. The article also states that our route is a very hard one and that there are fif ty-five miles of Bad Lands. We would like to know whose word should be talien in this case if it is not that of the themselves. Their testimony have personally inqnired ofnsarly.every outfit that.has come ih and the ble answer has been that- there was al-: most no gnmbo and tliat would not. de lay frelghtihg a minute eircept for a lit tle while during the spring thaw and then only for A IOOL obbing a Specialty short distance at the Deadwood endof -the route. Bob. Rob erts started with tbe first train,that ever went over the route, his and Jos. Pen nell's, with not even a bridlb path to guide him. He started immediately af ter a week's steady rain and snow and did not even drop a trail wagon on the whole trip. In spite of all these draw backs,he made the round trip in shorter time than was "impracticability" !fT' In another article. Maxwell states that he will not come to Medora. 'Of he won't, but he forgot to mention tbe reason. It is that he knows as soon as he shows his nose here, he will be ar rested for the larceny of a bateau,stolen fromBly&CO. Considering all- the cir cumstances, it would BE Maxwell as well for Mr. TO pnt a bridle on his tongue or be sure he is telling the truth when he tarns it loosfc A perusal of the statutes calls to. light an enactment that is of special interest though comparatively unknown to tne fanning class of our dtixens. It ap peare lhat a person planting treat, cut tings or seeds not to exceed twelve feet apart each way on five acres, is exempt ed from taxes on forty acres of land and Improvements not to exceed $1,000, for ten yean. Tbe tact of this liw should be widely published, as it wiit' da: more than anything else to ei^was^ tree planting in Dakota, eepec&Mly on hotte steads. r... STOCK NOTES. Spear- stage line, informed a Jonrnil repor ter that he had a dispatch stage line between been given issued topi «SE:«#I50 BKWARD. stating ill- Medor 'Uwonri,and Dead wood fta» The above reward will be paid for ic fonqation leading to UW person or persons setting lire to the grass in the cattle seettont of Western Dakota. N. P. RET.CABCo. .! CONTINENTALCAJFTIZCOI as thongh the. Northwestern railroad has made special rates to get VHDGHES& SIMPSON. there DOBBCLABX: RI! PADDOCK grttand so sticky that It Boon clogs the.wheels of file wagons.—[Yellowstone Journal. The above would require no answer, provided all the readers of the article were acquainted with the facto. It has L& 840.00 EEWABD^^V Forty dollars will '.AD welook for* correction In eaeh stage line between Medon- and Beadwood has not been given up by any means.. Those thinking it has, can come here and "go W S. is unanimous that it is the best road over which they have ever travelled. We care not what freighter's word is tak en, provided he is unprejudiced Again tiiere are but fifteen miles of Bad Lands onthe rpad and if a man could go over this digtance,seeing the road only and having the surrounding country shut out- from view,he would never Imow that hewas not .OH the prairie. The route in the Bad 'Lauds them to freeze and starve through the winter.Prosperityandextortionatepriees have spoiled many good men in this country." WE At A OF Colorado have invested in bulls yearly if not quite,$2,000,000. Nine-tenths of ail these animals are grade?. This is a S^6S' irrest of any be paid for ed. broke" a little easier NC,A left shoulder. S EAST? TF 1 bnetakin pony, twW AIG on right shoulder. buekskin popy, left front foot 1 to $600 :H. ever made from Pierre or any other point into the Hills and re turn. The weather just previous to this trip was the worst of the season and the time made is a sufficient answer as to the as feetfiirs fn Englaod, Drelaml' !aiial.:-{fr.-W.'L. & &4ieaMii' The* excitement fafii $u! eroaSUg. It to Will Bet that1 S?®I CLABK&PLIM. DICKETBBOS. E. G. and 800,000 will leave in the centre,on left flank. Three of the above had ropes on them. $20:00 a dally as soon as the rail-road is begun. That freight is going in by the way reward will be paid'for any information leading-to their recov ery." -, CULBEBTSON & W2KK8, 5 of Pjferre we do not and have not denied. Bnt will the persons who have been so anxious to defame our route, please an swer the following question:"Why Is it that all but one or two of the fifty out fits that have loaded here, have come from the Pierre route,where they hed constant employment hithelto?" It is a matter of no question that more- freight is shipped from here than from Keith, Dawson Stock Grower. is as level and hard ns any well-travelled road. The article further says that these stretches "Is"full of gumbo and a very little rain Snakes the ground so sticky that,IT soon clogs the wheels of RFTN^TMIFIS witbont ary and Anguat dlcator The live Btock intensta of the west received there- turn to Week's ranehe, Beaver ereek, Montana, of the following stock: lbay horse, branded S CO, •"F Dak. The per c^ntage of high grade cattle In Kansas is 21, the per eent. for the United States is 18.—[N. M. Stock Grower.. Howard Eaton and Lloyd Roberts came in this morning with a thousand head of cattle for the Badger cattle com pany. A cow horn W. L. Indicator. The colt crop of Colorado will Said Mr. StevenB, of Trinidad:" sheep owners have been getting an un reasonable,price for their wool for several years past From twelve to fifteen cents Is a good price,for TBE^wag- a LI^PP^^ITEBI^ A Hie average S&greedy mitigating circumstance. All kinds of weather have-' been experi enced since' the ronte was started. each,-and the high-grades about fctso, and the low grades, those with but a quarter or an eighth of, royal blood, about $60 or about 100,000 10,000 of our route. head of beeves THAN IN this lat itude. The cry is often heard, course still raise and fatten beeves profitable for SI Louis and Chicap markets,and for the dead meat markets,both foreign and at home.—0L S. Journal. Avery sbort time ago there P^RTS woupderful sooner the-matteris^ settled,the bettor' foraUconcetaed-AssooBa?AI^gattli^ orgateizatidtt is effected, ttds-IS- it to consider. fair eatenUtion the stock-growers very expensive necessity to the stock-grower, since the throughbred animals cost him all the way/from $200 $75 Now, if all the bulls of the State have cost,on an average,$ICO each, then the valuation of these brutes will fall not much short of $2,000,000. growers will The cattle- Bhip 000 beeves the present year,and they will have imported in the cycle of the same head of high-priced bulls and at least 200,000 stock cattle.—[Kansas City L. S. And now, whence do all- these charges emanate? From one Maxwell who is running a one-horse, buck-board, stage line^) from ililes City to Deadwood. Of course from such a source the Medora route is worthless. With the beginning of our route Maxwell will have Indicator. Each recurring year Texas more near ly approaches the condition of being the nursery and breeding grounds, from which reservoir the western states and territories draw their main supply of young steers. no far ther use for bis team or two of eayuses, and his buckboards can bo chopped up for kindling wood. As world.' jftrom VVE had was mr v.! T*e questtoft «jf Bad Lands, aftMifew' Orleans exposit ion, is a subjfct Uiat should calltiw im mediate actim among our dti tens. The exposition, In all likelihood, will fat outshine that of the Centennial and it is a matter of the greatest importance that Air products and natural curiosities a prominent place. HA' expedition begins tin fifteenth ot De an as A ar\ ^JPPETG^ lis spring. From mary of OUR.EX«3IANGFES0F throughout this state and Dakot* we above, on that good blooded stock chased from reliable EMFC- sorrel pony. All the 8bove have hair brand of art ist's palette with IWTE BECOTF PM- BRE&SN WJTJMPORI-' THE TMPROVE^NTS in GRADES be4be means ot-lot our stock to a very 1 esota Former. wilf «TE£J]TKIK£^ COTtinnal improvement IN*TESH«A(T be the center pillar in the stockmen'stem ple,and the one upon which all transact Hons should be based. Tbe secret it ahoold be no secret otsuccess is in PAY-V ing qiedal- attention to tlie steps TIAC will bring about xeeults tbat will be dunMe. Do not be governed by ad VICE* that will profit for a little while and ft nally bring about disaster and ruin tothe herd, but unite good, sound judgment' with a few 1 HI^H a !O or thtrougb- bred bulls, and the greatest proof of sue will be success.—{Arizona Live Stoelf Journal, "T Cattle raising and measuring focr foet eleven inches in length and eighteen inches aronnd the base Is on exhibition at Mont icello,Florida,and is supposed to be the largest cow horn in the world.—[N. ^RICULTQRE as prafr- tieed in the west have about as mueh affinity for each other as oil and water. It is impossible to have them exist TO-^1 gether here in anything like am|ea&l3* of fences. At present, the herd TIIFA year nu nber a hundred thousand. Those of thoroughbred wiU not number a thou sand. The large number of this new crop will be of the native variety, and will de velop saddle horses on the range. pressive to the —PI. M. quality that they SHEARED' their.! twice year and their BO laxy they *?V relations, owing to the almost totat L»IF 'I* LAW Dakota is oppressive to T$ in: EAFEEMETA, AL- thoug^I but one ar two dlreet conflicts of interests have as yet arisen. The ab-* sence of the herd L*w would be as op- CARMIE&' A'simple aiid in* fa-T the rally remedy we Know is to set* off the western tifir tit counties or mi mueh of te as is only fit for cattle,AS a cattle COUNTY "The and tberefom exraipt from the herd: law.- Tbe Bad-Lands of the wool produced in Colorado. When the sheep owners were getting eighteen to twenty-two cents per pound,men became U~ not an agricultural cumitry ind seref will be. It is, however, one of the best' cattle countries in tbe world. Where then, is the Justice in having: a strictly agricultural law applied to A sferfetly' cattle country. Unless the above plan IFF. adopted, the time is surely coining when 'left- SER^MTO^ILE JJYJ, MIE Europe is at the present head, of boraes 5,000 oT the first.and moet important matters FW' day consuming* 9^s- a very much larger amount of aninn food than in former times, while its own means of supplying its population is be ing considerably diminished. For a? though the live stock of Europe has IN the last twenty years,without doubt, been' considerable increased, nevertheless it his been utterly impossible to keep pace' with the advance of population and the inereasbg requirements of the peopk/ The collective amount of bornedpattle throughont EUN^E Is estimated atffi,000- about sheep abont 4oes not rest to this state being the most prolific breeding section, all agree, while many of our successful cattlemen hold that farther north young steers de velop into larger 88,000,000^ of 200,G00,000, or about and of swine 46,000^000. While these ^NR^ show a decided advance- over, EOMUA live stock •nd IS tiicn of twenty years ago,it must be remembereff that the. question of- Sfaropean SUPPL^. upon the amount of as TBE increase of populatioa' the steadily increasing demaad from' MS all classes of the communities. It appears that Europe's relative' F|& strengtheX Uve stock, with the exception. of swine, has fallen oil considerable that" is to say, popnlatkA hais advanced R^ILDLY more tiian live stock,causing a larger demand to be made on other parts of THE4 ,1'" ^S RQMRT "Tens ranches for cows and calves the western territories for young steers.** Well, we can for an indefinite time supply young stiers, and stock cattle, too, for less fa vored breeding grounds. With England opposing the reception of store cattle and Kansas and New Mexico hostile to Texas cattle, from fear 735 of ted story about foot-aiKkmoutbi^'fiaease Hav ing BN^EN out among the cattle away up in Montana, but It now timis out that there nothing wane tban tiuen feet in this case. Not a great,while a|6*bull eaU was found to be sufferingwith plw- IO-pneumonia iu BaKimete, and other point in the West,and neither this calf northetwo scotdimen that started the foot-and-mouth disease in Kansas In TTE early spring have as yet a«d it'appeaia that' the Scandinavian counttiee and Servia stand in a more favorable pwition as re gards livestock than other parts of Eu-° rope. ttus benmark, ranjdng firSt, has head of cattle to 1,000 Servia 609 483head. disease, Texans can inhabitant^-' head, NorwaySfip and Swedeu 1 ljvestoekto different countries,Russia stands first VFTA that were flung a bad outbreak of pleuro-pneumcnia near Pittsburg, according to sensatbmal re- broadcast over tbe length and breadth ot tbe land, but as soon as prcver examination was madei lt was found that there win nopteuro-pneu mia iu the case. Next mtnty HE BEEN *M aaaa that haa 1 of. 5EW*«K dowa corralled. The talk aboa? pleuro joedtooniatn New Dork Jut now is A* doubt a certain kind ot filthy F9ATE4& HAP. LAML for PI* F«tyYEASSAAWITI "ylie tac next fBrty.^-[Drover'« Jautsal. A*, all classes of animals, HAVING of eittle,including Poland and Finland, in 1876, no less than 25,000,000, head,45,000,- M0 sheep,10,000,000 swineaad 17,000^001^ horses. The increase intHe last .twenty' ytars has been about twenty per cent LA sheep, in cattle and swine only about per cent, while horaes'LI&ve been station ary." Next«*WG«rmanywith LW 000 dt caftle, sfeSfey 26WW»0, swine 7,j OOOflOO, and bort& SfiOOtixi Austria. mi^ry.l'n^tWtBritaii^' HoilaaA, and 8w«len. follow la fflWfer ifeneff' VMK 8SC£tt),OOb e^tle/ 80T»0(W)L»s«LM,MKTA,OOOHOTSESA*U0, OOOittXlstiei, between tleat LB* MET of was clandestinely shipped to ChKago or gome THISTIILIIUE^UCW^ iatei^bnt uH&c'mtMn&ta observed CI^UK^«I)9ALE^AAB«IRUABI^]A$O«IHW«IM»V faVoiible stoludft & th£ iCtttbrtot ttA Ure' STMK IM^TRYRF OIR'O^ EBEWY. so W be dependent UJ$TA lor- dp. ^IIABD FTRAAAIAL FMILNM. it OTBHIMW. AW»II«T A I a Aotwlt fte UKM&teC -T 1