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A REPUBLICAN NF.V/SPAPER. PUBLISHED
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TIIE BIS^IAIiCIv TIOKl^iS CO^'
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Bt'ESCniPTIOX PHICE:
One Year .* f'O
Six Months CO
'Acldreis: C. A. LoTinsberry,
Uiiinaxcic, Dakota Territory.
Tlie Republican National Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT,
RVtHEIRFORD B. HAYES.
fli
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,,
WILLIAM A. WHEELER*
KOTSS AND NEWS. '.i0 :1'
Congress has at lastappropriatedtbe
two hundred thousand dollars asked foF
by Gen. Sheridan' for the erection of
posts at the mouth of the Big Hofrh and
mouth of the Tongue rivers..
James G. Blaine has been appointed
U. S, Senator in place of Lot M. Morrill
appointed Secretary of the Treasury.'
Governor Jewell has ,resigne$ his po­
sition as Post Master General, the Pres­
ident having informed him that his res­
ignation would be accepted.
..The Secretary of War (February 1st)
thought 1,000 men would be enough to
punish Sitting Bull. Whose mistake
was it ?—not the gallant Custer's.—St.
Paul Dispatch.
Hon. M. H. Dunnell was renominated
by acclamation for Congress from the
1st Minnesota district. It is well.
Judge Kidder, the delegate from Da­
kota, made an able speech yesterday in
the house on the validity of the Sioux
treaty of 1868, and the exploration and
settlement of the Black Hills. It was
lawyerlike and scholarly, and places
the Judge in the front rank as a deba­
ter.— Washington Chronicle.
Gen. Sheridan discourages the accep­
tance.,of volunteers for the Indian war
and thinks the regular army strong
enough to, handle the Indians.
The testimony was- all in on behalf
of the prosecution in. the Belknap im­
peachment -case some days ago, but
Belknap wants to hear one hundred and
ninetjr-Beven post traders testify before
he wiU throw'up 'the BpoBge.-Harsh
tells a different story now and Belknap
will probably be acquitted.-
Six new claims are reported to have
been opened in the Black Hills averag­
ing one thousand dollars a day each,
and one averaging twenty-seven hun
tred dollars a day.
James N. Tyner, of Indiana, has been
nominated for Post Master General in
place of Governor Jewell.
Secty. Robeson has passed the ordeal
of investigation without a stain.
The President has removed Attorney
General Dyer who prosecuted the whis­
key ring so successfully.,at St. Louis.
The Republican press is almost unani­
mous in condemning Gen. Grant for this
and other removals.
Gen. Yandevere reports officially that
the Indians at Red Cloud and Spotted
Tail have consented to sell their inter­
est in the Black Hills for a continuation
of provision supplies for five years.
The House unanimously censured
Schenk for his Emma Mine connection.
John Gasten an old Montana miner
says
he saw in one week in the hills
over half a million dollars in gold and
believes the product next year will be
ten times greater than this year.
The conference committees have
agreed on the army appropriation bill
omitting the reorganization and army
reduction clause. The appropriations
are $2,900,000 less than last year.
Col. Fred has been promoted to a 1st
Lieut, in the 4th Cavalry.
The Manitoban frontier is being
strengthened. Tne Canadians do not
intend to harbor any of the hostiles
when Sheridan shall have completed his
work.
Mr. Pratt, Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, has resigned at the request of
Gen. Grant.
1»0 YOU WANT A TBI-WEEKLY
The TRIBUNE is disposed to revive its
Tri-weekly edition if there is a demand
for it, and will if two hundred dollars
a month .can be raised in subscriptions.
Daily dispatches would be a good tiling
to have in these exciting times. Think
of it citizens of Bismarck and gentlemen
of the military posts, and if disposed to
encourage the-enterprise, write us or
talk accordingly. The price will be one
dollar per month payable two months
in advance. No money will be received are still in camp
on subscription until the publication of near the
base^of
of the Tri-weekly is determined upon.
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Chased into the Mountains
by the Sioux. 'A
it. Sibley Returns Nearly
Men, Iielirioiis From Praa
tiOB.
EIGHT HUNDRED CHEYEUES TO
JOIN SITTING BULL
PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION
YELLOWSTONE POSTS.
General Miles to Garrison Them.
Hostiles Still on the Little Horn.
Liberal Pension for Mrs. Caster
and Others.
Special Dispatch to the Bismarck Tribune.
CROOKS.
ST. PAUL, July 18.—-Official advices
from Gen. Crooks have been recieved to
the 13
th when he was camped on Goose
Creek.
LIEUT. SIBLEY
with twenty-five cavalrymen accompa­
nied by Finney, of tlie Chicago Times,
went out on a scout to find the Indian
village. They returned on foot
NEARLY STARVED
and some delirious from privations.
The Sioux discoyered and ran them in­
to the mountains but all escaped by
nAVING THEIR HORSES
tied in the timber for the Sioux to fire
at, and slipped out traveling one hun
miles to camp
WITHOUT FOOD OR REST
over the roughest road imaginable.
The latest newspaper advices are to the
16th ult. when brooks had retired to his
old camp at Cloud Peak. He had* re­
cieved the dispatch from Terry urging a
JUNCTION OF FORCES
and active cooperation without ques­
tion of rank and promised to do his
best.
MERRIT
with the 5th cavalry is detained a few
days from going to reinforce 7rooks
having gone to Red Cloud to intercept
EIGHT HUNDRED CHEYENNES,
said to be about to take the war path
and join Setting BuH.
GEN. FORSYTHE,
of Sheridan's staff, will arrive at Bis­
marck
to-morrow en route to consult
with Terry concerning the proposed
Yellowstone posts. Quartermaster Card
has gone to Chicago to arrange for build­
ing the same.
The four remaining compannies of the
,t FIFTH INFANTRY
will probably reach Bismarck by rail
about the same time as the six, now en
route by boat, troops having gone from
New
York to relieve them from present
diity.
GEN. MILeS
will probably garrison the new forts
with his regiment. Two companies of
the
TWENTY-SECOND INFANTRY
leave Duluth to day for Bismarck. Gen.
Crooks says
THE HOSTILES
on
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BISMARCK, D. T., WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1876.
CUSTER
have been
the Little Horn,
the^mountains,
11
The Herald fund for a monument to
,ND HIS COMRADES
on Saturday amounted to three thousand
doihrs.
The House
corr.:nitte.p
I n.
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reported and
the House yesterday passed a bill grant'
ir.r' fifty dollars a rrjcrith pension to
GEN. CUSTER-^JIQ^HER.
and a like amount I ah is fa^hev, and
Li-ill pa?3 a bill -granting -alik-e pension'
to Mrs. Custer, and' in^tKp.'same propor­
tion to the heirs .of ,killed in. the
Little Horn massacre.-*
Thepropositio-n to J
O N E E & S
seems' to have He
as
rabandoned,''but?
city
OF
at
a O
FIVE THOUSAND REGULAR^ ,(R.
will be put in the field,: and jn.aaditlbn
the frontier pasts will be,properly, jgar
'risoned.
Indian Agency 'Wotefc^JEtc.
"o n-"
Col. Burke,' agent 'at' ^afrdirififJWf-kJ?
*as in the
last ^jeek. Tfe^
does hot deny that, a' f^'w of Ais In3i#ins
.aje in the hostile" camg^ butjopista
they are not generally »abseht, ^slhas
been represented. He says several par
ties are and have been out hunting, and
insists that in view of the short supplies
they were forced to hunt or starve, but
in their hunting excursions they have
not left their reservation. He says be­
cause the Indians are not in camp at
the post it is assumed by the casual ob­
server that they are with the hostiles,
but the conclusion does him and them
injustice. About four hundred lodges
are in camp east of the river about 70
lodges on the Cannon Ball and other
parties at different points on the reser­
vation, though some distance from the
post. Having represented, and believed,
as it generally is, that these Indians
were operating with the hostiles to the
extent of thousands, we give the Colonel
the benefit of his statement. Cqlonel
Burke urges a vigorous prosecution of
the campaign against the hostiles, and
estimates their effective fighting force
at near ten thousand. He sayB there
will be Indian depredations and Indian
troubles until the hostiles are brought
into subjection. As it is now there is
no. remedy for existing eyils-^—no pun­
ishment for crimes against the whites
or for crimes committed by one Indian
against- another, for tbfc tdisbA that the
culprit can without difficulty r£ach the
hostile camp which, in the beginning,
wto largely made up of renegades and
and fugitives from justice. The Colonel
says there is. much uneasiness at the
agency concerning the future, as the
Indians know that this massacre will
result in a changed policy, particularly
as no provision has yet been made for
them, and they are out
of
for
supplies and
some time, though
present relief the agent has been au­
thorized to issue beef, and with that
they will get along very well
of
talk
of
foT
for
a time.
Some of the Indian chiefs expressed gen
dine sorrow over the death of Custer
and his band, and realize that this is the
beginning
the end. Other Indians
the inassacr efreely to others but
not to the Colonel, and some are foolish
enough to think the whites are already
crushed, but they are like the few
whites who gloried when Lincoln was
murdered. The Colonel thinks tfiese
Indians will not be concerned in any
hostile movement unless driven
to desperation by hunger. An agency
employee informs the writer that a few
from the hostiles have sneaked into the
agency, and one of them reports that
the Uncpapas alone lost 160 men in the
Custer battle, and that there weie por­
tions of nine bands engaged though the
Uncpapas were by far the most numer
ous. He did not know the loss sustain­
ed by the other bands. This Indian
admitted that one of the three princi­
pal chiefs, at first supposed to be Sit­
ting Bull, was killed, The troops.fouhd
the body and it answeredi to the deacrip
lion given by Girard, Courtenay and
6thers who personally know him, of
Sitting Bull, but the Ree scouts who
know him better, insist that the body
is that of a great chief but not Sitting
Bull. So it is possible Crazy Horse or'
Black Moon are now in the happy hunt­
ing ground—possible that Sitting Bull
sleeps the long sleep. Ceirtainly
(one
the three have gone where the wood­
bine twineth
never.
A gentleman writes from Standing
Rock to say that the commandant re­
fused to listen to the complaints of the
Indians made on the 4th, and did not
issue commissary stores to pacify them,
as stated last week, or for any other
purpose, but about that time the agent
issued beef, which satisfied them for
the time being. The TRIBUNE did not
hesitate to use
contrary as it came, substantially as
particularly,
of
we
the statement to the bright yellow color, without a particle
.. Of rost that somewhat disfigures the
printed,
from a citizen not in sympa- Deadwood gold, while many of the sea es
thy,
Joe Taylo? writes from FortBerthoid
agency to say that all rumors in rcla
tson to the bad conduct of the Berthold
Indians since tiie Big Horn battle r. *e
untrue. No Gros A'entres or -.randans
are in the hostile curaps and he can not
find that any. are disposed 'to go,
while
the
ri
white
never been able to Mpd,-that ntipiber,
he does not believe, ioweyer, that any
of his Indians are with the hostiles, and
says that so far as he can learn none of
the-chiefs are in sympathy with them.
The whites are.npt.in the least uneasy
ami/there is no cause to apprehend dan
^e?at the agencies.
-•£!few 'hostility!^have been' kken near
the agencies, evidently desiring to sneak
and two or three wounded are re­
acted to have reached Standing Bock,
ut there has been no general return,
nor have parties left for the hostile
camps since the battle., Kill Eagle who
claims to have gone to the hostiles for
trade, undertook to return before the
battle, whereupon the hostiles beat him,
killed his stock and intimidated him
and his followers.
A, rumor comes through the Cheyenne
agency Indians that Custer killed three
Indians with his revolver and one with
sword before he fell shot through the
head by Rain-in-the-Face, whom Custer
had in the guard house at Lincoln for
some time, from which he escaped,
charged with murder.
NUGGETS.
The Tribune's Black Kills Special
.Heard. fromaaA Busted Corner™
The mines—The Bismarck Route
&c.
Since my last letter the people of the
Black Hills have been subject to greatly
varying emotions. First came the re­
port that all the routes leading here had
been closed by military and that no one
would be allowed to come in or freight
in a pound of supplies. This naturally
paused some Of the most, panicky to
rush around for Hour and bacon, which
they bought at a high fignre about $18
per hundred for flour and 35 cents for
baeon but the more phlegmatic ones
who had still some faith in humanity,
said that our government was not in
the habit of starving its citizens, even
for the laudable purpose of forcing them
out of a country claimed by a band of
murderous, thieving redskins, and
prophesied that those who hoped to
profit-by our supposed dire need of pro­
visions would be badly bitten. Fortu­
nately they were correct, and flour is
selling to-day at $10 per cwt. not a
very gratifying prospect for the corner
operators who paid $18.
Crook City has grown wonderfully,
and the main street is built up nearly
solid with store buildings for half a
mile while on the upper portion there
are
about,
friendly disposition yf tlie poor Dodge he could .hardly be said to
Rees to thq whites is unquestioned., have been killed on that route, as ho
Taylor says the
seventy five dwelling houses.
Lots are held at about two hundred to
five hundred dollars.
The Whitewood gulch mines are get­
ting well opened up, and are paying
for the most park although many of
them lay so high up that water from
the creek can not be brought on them
without great expense, in fact, every
claim runs up the mountain side for one
or two hundred feet, and even at the
top the dirt will pay three to five cents
to the pan. This will all be washed out
by hydraulic mining, for which purpose
a ditch is being dug from Spearfish
creek, about 15 miles to the northwest.
This ditch will bring water into White
wood about 300 feet high, and will give
a pressure that will turn over a meet­
ing house, or clean the Augian stables—
this juxtaposition of similus does not
carry the inference that there is any
great similarity. When this enterprise
is completed, which will probably be by
fail, the business that will be done in
Crook City will be immense. There
will be work for at least 5,000 men on
the gulch, which cannot be washed
out in less than five years. This water
will also be turned upon Boulder Creek,
Bear Butte creek, and some other dry
diggings laying about five miles south­
east of here, all of which have been dis­
covered since my last letter. These
placer claims are said to be richer even
than Whitewood or Deadwood. 1 have
seen $3.50 in four pans of dirt and bed
rock had not been struck either. The
gold was the most beautiful specimen
have ever seen, it being all of a
with either comtnan- showed a bright polish, like jewelry,
dant or agent or in any manner related giving indications of a heavy wash
to the agency. These mines will give employment to
residents at Bcr- had nearly reached Rapid creek, and
thoid wish the false impressions in re- was killed by the Indians at that time
lation to the other tribes eorjcected. prowling about the foot hills, or by
Major Mitchell, agent' at Fort Peck is 1 wliito men, as it is strongly asserted
in the city. The.major says th«-com-1 here.
inissioner reports thirteen thousand I
riho
Indians at Fort Peck agency but he has ported killed by the marshal of Chey
enne. This man, according to the re­
ports of those who had seen him, was
something of a cheap edition of Robin
X'.
at least 10,000 men as soon as they are
opened up, and get plenty of vrater in.
The "Whitehead party got in all right
never savr an.Indian. In fact the Bis­
marck route has been remarkably lucky.
Only tvro men have boen killed upon it,
and tvro wounded, and in .the case ot
poor Dod.^e he could .hardly be
notorious Persimmons Bi.l is re-
Hood—robbing the rich and giving to
the poor. Many instances of great
generosity are related of him, howeyer,
his head was worth as much as a $5000
nugget to the man who killed him.
I would like to again urge che impor­
tance to the people of Bismarck and the
R. R. of taking steps towards supplying
the Black Hills. As it is at present, it
is the least important route of any.
Every few days a large train comes in
from Cheyenne, while from Bismarck,
only three trains of supplies have ever
come. There is no reason in the world
why Bismarck should not be the prin­
cipal supply point, even though the
Pierre route is again opened, for one can
gain enough time in getting their goods
from St. Paul or Minneapolis to more
than make up for the extra time in
making the trip which is not but a few
days, at most, on the round trip. Some
promptmeasure should be taken. There
is no possibility of loss on goods
brought in here, and if a large quantity
were brought in by this route many of
the trains now freighting at Cheyenne
would go to Bismarck, The importance
of this can not be overestimated.'
Crook City, June 28,1876.
X. S. B.
[The above letter was crowded oufr
last week. Since it was written much
progress has been made toward opening
the Bismarck route to the Hills. No
less than half a dozen trains have been
organized and are now running regular­
ly. A dozen trains have actually left
here where only three are reported and
at the present rate of increase in busi­
ness trains will soon be leaving daily.
Yet little or no encouragement to trade
has been given by the North Pacific
people. They have not advertised their
route they have not given positive as­
surance that their line will be kept open
during the coming winter they have
not made concessions on summer ship­
ments of freight which it would have
been greatly to their interest to do
they have not in any manner encour­
aged those engaged in the Black Hills
trade or in advertising their route to
the Hills without expense to them, and
yet, in spite of all these drawbacks, the
trade has steadily increased and has
already assumed immense proportions.
Died at the Head of the Column.
There is a terrible pithiness in the
curt dispatch, "'The whole Custer fami­
ly died at the head of the column
and again, "General Custer, his two
brothers, his nephew and brother-in
law were killed." Never, perhaps, in
American history, did a family ever
offer up so many lives for the flag In a
single engagement. We recall the Cur
latii from Roman history and the Mam
cabees from the Hebrews. Besides them
in heroic remembrance must stand the
name of Custer. In that mad charge
up the narrow ravine, with the rocks
raining down lead upon the fated three
hundred, with fire spouting from every
bush ahead, with the wild„ swarming
horsemen circling along the heights like
shrieking vultures waiting for the mo­
ment to swoop down and finish the
bloody tale, every form,, from private
up to general, rises to heroic size, and
the scene fixes itself indelibly upon the
mind. "The Seventh fought like ti­
gers," says the dispatch yes, they died
as grandly as Homer's demigods. In
the supreme moment of carnage as
death's relentless sweep gathered in the
entire command, all distinctions of name
and rank were blended, but the family
that "died at the head of the column"
will lead the throng when history recalls
their deed. It was mad, it was rash,
but, though "some one had blundered,"
it was
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do or die.
Success was beyond their grasp, so
they died—to a man.—Allegheny Mail#
Col. "Phocian" iTbward, of the Chi­
cago Tribune, arrived last week enroute
for the Yellowstone. The Colonel is a
capital newspaper man and if the .Tri­
bune doesn't get full reports from the
theatre of action it will be because Col.
Phocian loses his scalp early in the
campaign.