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VOL. 4
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A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED
EVERY WEDNESDAY BY
THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO.
C. A. LOUNSBERRY, Editor and Manager.
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Address: A
Bismarck, Dakota Territcry.
TIic Republican National Ticlcct.
FOR PRESIDENT,
RUTHERFORD B.rKAYES.f
?FQR -VICE I
NOTES A3VD NEWS.'' I »L:
Walt Whitman has written a poefn on Custer.
The Springfield' Republican declares for Hayes
a W he el
The signed the ipftty iapi
andthe^ls^MW* i'l'V'
A discharged soldier, Dolan, credits Sergt.
with shooting two Indians with his revolver.^
Bills h^W been introduced jfrftzfiSng peiisionsjio
all of tlie widows made oy the Cusl£r tnaSsacre.
Tilton abducted his youngest child—Ralph—one
day last week and the mother is almost distracted.
Ex Gov. Blair,
:ofalich.,
Gen. Bristow very properly refuses to unbosom
Grant's secrets picked up in cabinet meetings and
maintains his dignity as a gentleman.
Dr, J. H. Stewart, of St. Paul, has been nomina­
ted to succeed Col. W. S. King as member of con­
gress from the 3d district, Minnesota.
Some wag has called a convention of Quartermas­
ters, Suttlers and Cotton Traders of the late war to
endorse the Republican nominees.
Commissioner Pratt will probably be retained in
his position. The President did not ask him to le
sign and refuses to accept his resignation.
Major Ord, a brother of Gen. Ord. was killed ia
San Antonio, Texas, a few days ago. He was
thrown from a carriage and instantly killed.
Minnesota, Nebraska and Southern Dakota have
had an Indian scare on their borders since the recent
massacre. As usual there was BO foundation.
Jewell says Grant got provoked because he told
him he was going too far in his removals and told
him he would rather have his resignation than his
advice.
The Sioux in the fight with Crook yelled back to
the soldiers on the brow of the bluff, "Heap son of
a," etc. This savage people are not without some of
the culture of civilization.
When the S00 noble reds from Red Cloud agency
found Gen. Merritt was after them they scattered
and returned to the agency in small parties and re­
ported that they had been a hunting.
Ben. Butler denies the rumor that he don't want
to go to Congress, and says that he is still a candi­
date. Benjamin had better stay at home for another
term we re.aHy don't need his services.
The House makes all ccncessions demanded by
manded
Senate in the army bill anl the Senate all de­
by the House on the sundry civil service
bill and thus the dead-lock is broken,
A massacrfe of negroes by whites occurred at Ham­
burgh, South Carolina, a few days ago. which gives
another occasion for airing the bloody shirt. The
negroes seem to have been as much to blame as
their opponents.
A bill is before Congress to authorise the enlist­
ment of six months recruits to regular regiments for
Indian war operations. The measure is a good one
as most of those originating with Mr. Steele, of
Wyoming, the author, are.
The President is greatly annoyed by the importu
nifes of politicians and overcome by the heat to
hucli an extent that he seems disposed to get away
from the Capitol for a few days, at least, whether
Congress adjourns or not.
The President is reported to have recently said:
"1 think I may as well have Iriends in office under
me as enemies, and I am determined not to be
guided by what senators and representatives may
say, but shall decide in these matters myself.'
James Bell, Wm. Evans and Benjamin Stewart
were tV.e noble lads who made their way over a
country with which they were entirely unfamiliar, a
country, too, overrun with Indians, with dispatches
irom Terry, going when and where Indian scouts
had refused to go.
The records at Philadelphia show a greater degree
of heat this year than any season within the past one
hundred years. A Texan left the city a few days
ago declariug that he could not stand the climate,
tiome of the Centennial buildings lighted from the
sky are regarded by some as an improved sort of hot
house.
Grant eays he called for Mr. Jewell's resignation
because he interfered in the matter of Fisher's con­
firmation and because of his having made different
statements in relation to the post office appropria­
tion bill—to the Republican members of the confer­
ence committee that the amount named in tbe bill
could not be reduced, and to the Democrats that it
could be $240,bOO.
Terry and Custer*
Lieutenant John Carland, of company
B, Sixth infantry, writes to his friends
in Detroit:
Gen. Terry and the remaining officers
are feeling very badly, I was standing
by General Custer when General Terry
came up, and as he looked down upon
the noble general the tears coursed
down his face as he said:—
"The flower of the army is gone at
last."
Ouster was supposed to be the first
one who died, but though he fell first we
found seventeen cartridge shells by his
side, where he had kept them off until
the last moment. There can no blame
be attached to any one for this fearful
slaughter. If Custer had had the whole
regiment it would only have been worse,
as the Sioux were too many.
toutiirc
a
Kyan
concludes to stay with
the Democrats and supports Tilden and Hendricks.
The fast mails have been suspended because of
the large reduction in the appropriations for postal
service.
Carl Sehurtz cordially supptirt?-naves and com­
mends heartily the patriotism and good sense of his
letter of acceptance.
Senator Chandler has been elected chairman of
the Republican Central Committee. He will prose
cute a vigorous campaign.
Gen. Grant criticises severely, it is stated, the
letter of Gen. Hayes, and insists that it reflects upon
the present administration.
BLACK HULLS.
Return of Roil. Stevenson, Wm.
McCorry, Win.
R.
Sliaw and
Freighters—Opinion of Montana
and Colorado Miners and others
--Deadwood—Quartz, &c.
Don. Stevonson, Wm. B. Shaw, H.
B. Greenly and others who left the
Black Hills on the JL7th inst arrived on'
the 23d.,five days and a half out. An
ox train which left a few days earlier
has also arrived since our last.' In all
about forty
^teams have come in princi­
pally.
for-:supplies, The remainder are'
returned freighters who will go- again
if the business demands1 their feervices.
AU qf (he Bismarck'bsj's except Billy.
.Brocket aro wejlj^ Billey is.J^w^^wjt^
a' fever. The saw. mill party hjiye made,
fcig mdriey sirite tbdy- Have beeh ito-thei
hills,:i arid', Have
The Black Hills Pioneer, established
one day after the Black Hills Tribune,
is a rattling paper, It is larger than
the Tribune—same size as the BISMARCK
TRIBUNE,—printed on clean new type,
pure white paper, and its make up and
editorial work shows that the men who
run it know what they are doing.
Deadwood at present is the town of
the hills. The only trouble about it is
the fact that it can't grow any larger.
The gulch is narrow and the town has
but one street which is so crowded on
Snndays that a team .can scarcely pass
through it. The buildings average bet­
ter, Capt. Shaw says, than those of
Bismarck, and some of them would be a
credit to any city. It is estimated that
there are ten thousand people in and
about Deadwood, Elizabethtown, Mon­
tana, Centennial and Crook Cities, ail
within .a radius of twelve miles. They
have no fears whatever of Indians and
those in from the hills say that there is
no danger of Indians interfering with
immigrants so long as there are soldiers
in the field to fight. They can get away
with the latter to much better advan­
tage than thev can with the citizens.
The boys anticipate trouble, however,
when the Indians return from their
scalp hunting excursion this fall. Crook
City will be a good town this winter or
so soon as the mines about it are devel­
oped, they are deeper but rich. Frank
Whetmore showed the writer about six­
ty cents in gold scales picked from the
surface one day while halting for dinner,
this from a ooint about a mile from
Crook. The mines pay well from- the
surface down.
There is not only gold in the grass
roots, and on the bed rock, but in the
mountain tops, and in the hill sides, in
the low lands and in the uplands. Gold
everywhere with precious little water to
wash it, however. Capt. Morrill of
Dixon, 111., mentions four negroes who
in one dayjtook out with a rockerseven
teenjhundred dollars, carrying the dirt
from the top of a hillto the stream, sev­
eral rods .distant. The Wheeler Bros,
have taken out above all expenses near­
ly two hundred,thousand dollarsjrom
their Deadwood claim, and their "claim
will last several months yet. Some
claims pay exceedingly well, many of
them do not. A few men are already
rlch many are doing well, some are al­
most destitute. Hundreds are coming
in, many are leaving. Some are entire
ly satisfied and many return cursing the
"hogs," as they term them, who have
gobbled up all of the good claims. Capt.
Morrill spoke of one man who had tak­
en up a hillside and gulch claim covering
ground that must yield millions of dol­
lars. The hilside is covered with a slide
of decomposed quartz full of gold—gold
that can be seen with the naked eye,
while the earth mixed up with this quartz
is exceedingly rich, paying, say fifty
cents to the pan. The Captain says it
will take an ordinary stamp mill ten
years to crush this quartz which will
pay from two to eight hundred dollars
to the ton, and is so rotten that it can
be crashed in a common mortar—can
them*.-
rnW"onhtu^'^flxi^
thous and feetof lumber Iqr wjiich rgadv
sale is*fbufo"d A^godd ptic6i.i'M? j.
The Black Hills Tribune is -published
regularly and is a lively paper, chuck
full of live local items. The boys do not
seem to have struck S. bonanza at first
sight, however. The'editor has dropped
his lead pencii and taken to his transit
for which he receives twenty dollars a
day. He is engaged in surveying for a
ditch from Spear Fish to conduct water
into Whitewood gulch. The ditch will
be fourteen miles long and will cost
about one hundred thousaed dollars,
and when once constructed it will prove
a bonanza indeed to the owners of hill­
side claim as well to the owners of the
ditch.
Si
BISMARCK, D. T., WEDNESDAY, JULY 26,1876.
bs crushed between the thumb and fing
er in many instances. Capt. Morril
did not find anything to suit hici that
was within his reach, but was offered
seven dollars a'day if he would work
for others, but as he did not go there
r. Men who .aye'fftfiUmg ,tQ., yrqrk fcy^he,
ing-to strike it rich,-winder hither an4
thither,,-working only, now at^d'fchen
and only for. the purpose of buying
gr.ub.-
Capt. Morrill, mentioned above, is an
old Montana miner. Rock Coffer, ah
old Colorado miner, speak$ in the high­
est terms of the Hills and says Dead
wood to-day is a livelier town than
Denver was the first year of its exis­
tence.
Supplies of every nature are now
abundant in the hills and flour has drop­
ped from thirty to ten dollars a hun­
dred. The Cheyenne traders who paid
eleven and one-half dollars for freight
are glad to sell out at ten and get it
off their hands. Our Bismarck people
have lost nothing on their goods as the
most of them who took heavy goods
owned their own teams and can sell so
as to make fair wages for them.
The train of about forty wagons will
be joined by about twenty now here,
and a large party of Montanaians, now
en route on the Key West, and will
leave here early next week on its return
trip.
The large party mentioned last week,
divided when near the Cannon Ball,
the horse teams going ahead. The ox
teams were all overloaded and were
making slow progress. Sam. Whitney
had lost an ox and Miller & McPherson
had had two or three breaks which were
quickly repaired, however. The road
is said to be good and a very desirable
route for freighting. Wood and water
is abundant and grazing first class.
QUARTZ.
AVoolsey's Bonanza and Other
Quartz JLeads in the Black Hills
..An Assay Unfolds to Bismarck
ers the Astounding' Wealth of
Woolscy's Lead"Hismarclversln
terestecl.
Elsewhere we speak of tho Black Hills
giving 6'apt. Morrill's idea of the mines
and his view of the quartz leads devel­
oped. We have later information from
Don Stevenson who' brought in about
300 pounds of quartz specimens, princi­
pally from the WToolsey lead situated
on Deadwood about two miles from
Deadwood City. The lead is 12 feet
wide, has wall rock on one side and
slate on the other. The owners have
tunnelled into it 85 feet and have taken
out about six hundred tons of rock.
From the top of the ledge to the tun­
nel the distance is about 65 feet. Of
course none have any idea as to its
depth. The quartz is generally rotten
and much of it can be broken between
the thunb and finger. Most of it shows
and ^ays frequently as high as
CeAtHoUembaek'sdrug
None
Gray,
Jones
miner,
Lode.
for that purpose he returned and goes well vouched for, and will only add
up to the Yellowstone nexLweek in that in the Woolsey lode alone ther
charge cf a heard of cattle for Gen. arie millions of tons of rock which will
Terry's* command. The Captain says yield from .eight hundred to five thous
the mines .are immensely rich, but .-are and.'dollars to the ton, and that is but
uneven and so far the pilgrims hays- one.of the many lodes discovered in the
'made all of the beat discoveries, for.tbsy: Biaok' Hills,
will look for gold Where nd'old m^eri &eemingly<the most exaggerated sto
would think ofv.looking* ".Nigger
discovered,ibv'i.fiBJQn ,UOtr lookjng, Tr&$edy—>'The
FHP a IT BHBWS UIANUN. ,.
eold the naked eve—all of it is ex-
Sz between —is very rich
no lareer than hickory nuts, some knife rose and fell, and the servant
weighing several hundred pounds with dropped lifeless, weltering in er' e.
fify
dav Mr Stevenson crushed in a com-
Several other leads equally rich have
also been discovered in the vicinity of
the Woolsey lode,in which Mr. Steven
son and W. B. Shaw have secured an
interest, known as follows: California
Joe's Blowout, Highland Mary, Clara
number one and two, Red Cloud, Ida
the Frenchmen's and Smok_
Judge Maguire an old Montana
is interested in the Ida Gray
We hesitate to draw conclusions.
We have stated above facts that are
rie^.told.Qf:^e
Gulch*'., is ia little wineaan top ortihe:, fehottt of giving' a .correct idea of the
mountain and. there the-, ve^ynrii.ohvMicwojiderfullyjrich placer diggings which
tlirfc
has'been.
found* ,Pcadwoo.d ^ag ^refiOw bjwgg worked successfully,
discovered by .pil&rims, .the,, ,qWiz
slides,
(the. Captain s^ls r^o-eads hfiye, ,. aA•
beeni discavore^have^r^ariab^ b.esn
p]acev
0 7 it v.'.T.ii iri 1
1 Vbrl '/he of' the'principal streets Ol
11
day receive, from? four to seven 4PHattds a commodious brick res
p,er day. Few miners, ho^ever^ a?# thence'of- no mean pretensions. Its ex
willing i-to.),work. for./othetfs^ ajOd mai^y 3^napat3kcara^ce is apt to create a fav
others
hoping to^find fiQmething-r-rhop-..l.
f3n' £a
mi»es IJr
a Fourteen
year
Murderer
.« nrS nf
Arable inipression upon the mind of ev-
catfsual'' observer.- The brush of
the
pairftef
being:hTOUght into requisi­
tion at times, no -cure-can complain of
any rteigLect in that- respect. The grav­
eled walks Are lined .with beautiful flow­
ers
and
choice plants, which prove very
at'tr&ctive to the -passer-by. There is
an east wing to the house, and but few
persons are cognizant of a terrible
tragedy which was enacted in one of the
rooms contained in it during the war.
No illusion to it has ever been made by
the public prints, nor would be now,
had not the circumstances justified it.
Fourteen years ago there resided in
the house alluded to a young man of
twenty-three, a relative of the occupant.
Hq was of a jovial, reckless nature, and
upon returning
from
college was induc­
ed to associate with^several young men,
whose characters were not above the
breath of reproach. The sad knowledge
of the dissipation and bad conduct of
their son was gradually revealed to his
father and mother. Remonstrations
proved unavailing earnest entreaties
were disregarded, and, refusing to turn
aside from the path of wickedness, the
son slowly but surely decended in the
scale of life. Friends deserted him, and
except the sympathy felt for him by
his immediate relatives, he received
none whatever.
Being arrested one night for having
acted in a disorderly manner upon the
streets, he was relieved from custody on
his own personal recognizance.
Returning to the home which he had
rendered so unhappy by his conduct, he
entered his room, and after calmly con­
sidering the matter, determined to leave
Nashyille forever. But as he had spent
his last dollar that evening, ho could see
no other way by which to obtain the re­
quisite financial assistance than to rob
his father. This he was at first loth to
do but being determined to avoid the
disgrace incident to his arrest, he walk­
ed into the room adjoining his, where
his father slept. Wrapped the arms
of death's twin brother, sleep, his par­
ent was unaware of the crime hi's son
was committing, by opening a small
safe which stood in the apartment.
But sin is found out sooner or later
and when a female slave heafd footsteps
softly stealing in the corridor up stairs,
she
resolved
Rushing
to discover the robber, and
frustrate his plans if possible. She was
courageous, and determined to save her
master's property. Creeping silently
up stairs, she glanced in at the door,
and upon observing her young master
endeaveoring to force open the safe was
so astonished that she uttered an excla­
mation. The would-be robber turned
springing toward her, grasp-
and
ceedin»lv rich, and the dirt in between ed her throat. He realized tnat he
the pieces of rock-the ledge is not would be forever ruined if h,s actions
solid but broken into fragments, some that night were
out
store, on Men- pearance ofthcir sonleftnodoubtln
the minds
of
m/n druggist's mortar twenty-eight of tho murdered domestic was upon his
ounces of this quartz which yielded in hands. The remains were qui
toarse flakes of gold from the'size of a terred, and but few knew how she met
crushed mustard seed to the size of a an untimely late.
crushed pin head, forty-four cents. Five years passed away, no t.d ngs, of
of the flour gold was saved. Had
the
the Bold been gathered with quicksilver claimed the father and mother.
so alto save all of the fine particles the tant relative assumed possession of the
result would have proven much more house, and resides there at the pre.
favorable. As it is the product is $5056
to' the ton. Another assay was made
with still less care of the poorest speci­
mens which proved twenty-five hundred
dollars to the ton.
s™ant
of the house, the murderer
the parents that the blood
wanderer were rcce.ved, and death
day. But the sequal is soon told. A
letter was received yesterday from the
missing man, giving an account of his
life since the commission of his crime,
and stating that at the time of writing
he was under command of Gen. Custer.
A battle was hourly expected, and with
such fearful odds against them, he con­
sidered it certain death to go into tbe,
fight. A confession of the crime was
embodied in the letter, which he desir­
ed should be kept inviolate from all eyes
NO. 3.
except those of the receiver, until he
had gotten intelligence of his death.
He stated that in order to conceal his
identity be had assumed another name.
After reading the letter, the friend of
the writer glanced over the list of those
killed in the battle with the Sioux, and
perceived that the unfortunate outcast
from society had been slain by tho
treacherous red men.—JtfasJiville Aweri•
can.
IN MEMOKIIM.
Tbe sun shone from an azure sky
On that eventful day,
When,Ouster'pband of troopera bold
Rode forth in proud* array
With their lovfed Chieftain in command
No trooper, on that field,
ButTrliat would face the cannon's metith
And life's re.d current yielcU..
Th« soul of-chivalry,
\ras he,
He was their boast and pride
Oft'tfrnes they'd-heard his clarion volce
Where rolled the crimson,tide.
Ofl'times they'd made the lwave advance,
Where gallant Custer led,
On many a bloo'd-stalheu battle' ground
he on a ad
Shrih'Sbunds the
reve\lit
bnce more
That-balmy summer's morn,
Its ebhoes wake o'er hill and dale
On gentle zephyrs borne.
Each heart beats in responsive note,
Each heart beats high with glee,
1
For fame and country, homo and friends,
'And Custer's Cavalry. -1
"Forward! brave hearts," the chieftain cried
That balmy morn in June,
"Fresh laurels gain, or cypress weave,
A wreath for warrior's tomb.
Our duty calls, and life, how dear,
Will not be spent in vain
If laid down on the battle-field
Among the noble slain."
And slain they were, that gallant band
Before the setting sun
Their spirits winged their mystic flight,
Their sands of life had run.
Not one was left to tell the tale—
That legion bold and brave,
Their life -blood laved the dtstant wilds,
The.v found a warrior's grave.
In numbers vast the savage horde
Bore down in fiendish rage,
And ten to one, with leaden hail,
Did Cu 'v?r's boys engage.
No earthly force could Btand such odds
No power stem the tide.
They nobiy fought as heroes do,
They fought and bled and died.
The Chieftain's voice is hushed in death..
The troopers' battle cry
No more shall make the welkin ring
Or enemy defy.
They nobly lived and bravely died.
In honor, glory, fame.
All hail! the Seventh Cavalry,
And Custer's honored name.
Bismarck, D. T., July 8, 1S76,
J. 8. CARVELL.
A Jubilant Reporter.
The more we think it over, tho mor
we congratulate ourselves thatwedidn
go as a reporter with the Indian expe"
dition, for, although it is very pleasant
to write up along Indian fight, it rather
knocks the romance out of it to write
up the item in paradise, or in case that
no passes are granted to editors and re­
porters, to be obliged to get up an ac­
count of the engagement on fire-proof
parchment, and run the risk cf scc.n
in* a reliable medium by which to con­
vey it to our paper. All these things
taken into consideration we are glad
we didn't go. Of course what the,
country needs is good patriotic volun­
teers, to go forward and sustain the ilarr,
and all that sort of tiling, but the reas­
on we don't hanker for such active life
is that we object to being promoted so
Drecipitately. We have never been
noted for our precipitation, and to be
promoted from an ordinary newspaper
reporter to a shining angel without a
scalp, is an honor to which wo do not
aspire.
There is something about being sen
home without any liver or digestive ap­
paratus, and a spinal column with only
five or six good whole vertebrae in it,
that always strikes a chill to our patri­
otism. And to think how a man is lia­
ble to have a tomahawk in among his
vitals when he is thinking about some­
thing else, and to be cut down in a
moment, in the twinkling of an eye,
with his stockings on and two or threo
suspender buttons gone, and an unpaid
wash-bill in ,his pocket,5 and never
know how large a majority Hayes and
Wheeler got, all these things seem to
convince us that the government don't
need raw recruits to fight the^ Sioux,
but on the contrary old and tried sol­
diers are needed. No one doubts our
patriotism or our courage. We have
^killed Indians," and yet we do not say
it boastingly, for they were not those
ill-tempeTed ones in the mountains that
pine for the gore of newspaper men, and
would like to have our pale-blonde hair
to ornament their buckskin Greecian
bends.
Of course their isn't much fun in be­
ing a local editor and getting licked
every day for giving some ill-temper,ed
man a pleasant little pufF, but we'd rath­
er do it, and see the circus once in a
while, than to spend the summer with the
Hebrew children and Lazarus, while the
bloody Sioux perform the difficult fig­
ures of the "can-can" around a lock of
our sorrel back hair,—Laramie Senti­
nel,