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VOL. 4
Stpifeittaak&itame*
A UPUBUCAH NKWBPAFIX, PUBLISHED
EVERY WEDNESDAY BT
THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO.,
C. A. LOUN8BERRY, Editor and Manager.
S0B8CBIFTI0X P*IC«:
One Year J®
Ss Months 1 W
Addica: C. A. LoWirterry,
Binarck, Dakota Territory.
Tke RefnMican RatBowl Tickit.
FOR PRESIDENT,
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM A. WHEELER.
NOTES AND NEWS*
Grasshoppers infest Alabama.
Libby prison is now a sumac grinding mill.
The wetfera ccunties of Iowa are devastated by
grasshoppers.
Lot. 8. Bayless has been confirmed Receiver of
Public Moneys at Yankton.
The loss from the Brainerd fire Is estimated at
from #15,660 to $ 20,000.
His stated that over half the members of the
Bemoctmtic party are greenbackers.
Eigat car loads of excursionists from Indiana,
a visit to Gov. Hayes last week.
The population of Turkey is: Mussulmans 1,862,
446 nou-Moslem 2,4*3,346. Women not counted.
Story's evening pap*»r has suspended. "Could
not compete with the ether dailies," nor the people
woaldn\ support it."
Six hundred Icelanders passed through Duluth
via the Noithern Pacific and the Lakes en route for
Manitoba la&t week.
Ha. De Witt Littlqohn. In a letter to a friend says
he caanot or will co^fupport Ti!den, but will vote
for Hayes and Wheeler.
Cullerton, a convicted whisky ring guager, of
Chicago, has been pardoned by the President. "Let
Lto guilty man escape." Next!
A brother of Gov. Tilden is lying dangerously ill
at his residence in New Lebanon. The Gov. has
been semtnoned to Ids bedside.
It ia going the rounds of the press that Clara Louise
Kellogg and James Gordon Dennett offer $10,000
each towards the memorial monument to Custer.
Davenport has acirl who delights in eating the
sulphur end off of matches. She has been kept in
jail to break her of the practice but without success.
The latest—
Our little Sammy had to die,
Because he ate too much crow pie,
But as hie little form we bury,
We know he's crossed o'er Jordan's Ferry.
To aland where there's no dysintery.
A party of about 50 thieving Indians made a raid
onMilltown, coenty seat of Armstrong County, D.
T.,
anttyran off some 15 head of cattle. The citizens
organized a party and pursued the thieves, recov­
ering fourteen bead. They appeared to be a band
of hostiles from Che Yellowstone.
Black Hills Gold.
The Omaha Herald vouches for the
truthful character of Hr. Wm. B. Hugus,
formerly
a resident of that city, who
wrote the followitg lines from Dead wood
Black Hills, July 22:
"The town is full of gold awaiting
safe shipment. Last Sunday I saw
$75,000, the earnings of three men for
two weeks. Another time $40,000 was
taken out of a claim less than a thous­
and yards from my store. Yesterday I
sawtoefae pounds of gold cleaned up
from a run of twenty-four hours—five
night and five day hands. Bettsford,
one night lust week, I saw clean up
four and a half pounds of gold from one
day's sluicing."
There is no use in decrying the Black
Hills so long as we have the record of
such results of mining labor, apparent­
ly from good authority. Tens of thous
ands of people regard all dangers and
hardships as uuworthy a moment's
thought, when compared with the pos
sibility of acquiring gold sufficient to
make them comfortable and independent
for the remainder of their lives, and
that, too, within a few years at furthest.
—Piomer-P. and T.
RENO.
A Petition for His Promotion.
The following is a copy of a letter addressed by
all the surviving members the 8eventh Regiment of
Cavalry, who were engaged in the fight of June 25
and 26, to the President of the United States:
Cm XSAR BIG Hour
OK
YELLOWSTONB RIVER,
Julv 4, 1S76.—To His Excellency the President
tnxi tXe Honorable House of Brepesmtatives of
the United States: GUTTUUIBS: We, the enlisted
men, the survivors of the battle on the heights of
Little Horn River, on the 25th and 26th of Jupe,
JS76, of the Seventh Regiment of Cavalry, who sub­
scribe our names to this petition, most earnestly
solicit the President and Representatives of our
country that the vacancies among the commissioned
officers of our regiment made by the slaughter of our
brave, heroic, and now lamented Lieutenant-Colonel,
George A. Caster, and the other noble dead commia
aoned officers of our regimeat who fell close by him
on the bloody field, daring the savage demons to
the last, be filled by the officers of the regiment only.
That Maj. M. A. Reno be our Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice Custer killed Capt. F. W. Benteen our Major,
vice Reno promoted. The other vacancies to be
filled by offiers of the regiment by seniority. Your
petitioners know this to be contrary to the establish­
ed rule of promotion, but prayerfully solicit a devi­
ation from the usual rule in this case, as it will be
conferring a bravdy-fought-for and a justly-merited
promotion on officers who by their bravery, cool­
ness, and decision on the 25th and 26th of June,
1S7U saved the lives of every man now living of the
Seventh Cavalry who participated in the battle, one
of the most bloody on record, and one that would
have ended with the loss of life of every officer and
and enlisted man on the field, only for the position
taken by Maj. Reno, which he held with bitter tena­
city against fearful odds to the end.
To support this assertion—had our position been
taken 100 yarks back from the brink of the heights
overlooking
the river, we would have been entirely
cut off from water and from behind those heights the
Indian demons would have swarmed in hundreds,
picking off oar men by detail, and before midday
June §6, not an officer or enlisted maa of our regi­
ment would have been left to tell of our dreadful
fata, as we the* would have beea completely sur
roaade*.
The above was signed by tW nan-commissioned
(Attn and privates.
BY TELEGRAPH.
Special dispatch to the Bismarck TBIBUKB.
RUMORED FIGHT.
HELENA, M. T. Aug. 15.—The Inde
pendent special of the 12th, says that
a Sioux squaw who came into the Crow
camps reports a
TERRIBLE BATTLE,
ahd that Crook has nearly annihilated
the Sioux and has the remainder In such
a position as to
FORCE THEIR 8URKENDER.
Parties from the Grow agency bring
the news. It may be greatly exagger­
ated not entirely false*
LATER.
Official telegrams from Fort Laramie
to-day say the reports of Qen. Crook's
fight with Sitting Bull are
CONFIRMED
through Indians coming into Spotted
Tail agency. They report a
HEAVY ENGAGEMENT,
and the defeat df the Indians with great
loss and Sitting Bull wounded.
ST. PAUL, Aug. 15.—Congress this
evening is endeavoring to close the bus­
iness of the session and adjourn with
barely a quorum of the House present.
The House refused to concur in the
Senate amendment to the House bill
authorizing five thousand volunteers
for the Sioux War. Mr. Banning ex­
plained that the Senate amendment pro
vailed for the increase of the regular
cavalry regiments to one hundred men
to the company, and asserted that the
existing law already authorized the in­
crease. He said the men were needed
immediately and could be had as volun­
teers from frontiersmen already trained
to Indian warfare.
From Montana and Fort Laramie
come rumors of an Indian battle. The
first says Crook whipped the Indians,
wounding Sitting Bull, and thtf^ther
that Crook fought Sitting Bull and al­
most annihilated the main body of the
hostiles. The latter comes from both
sources. Sherman hopes the rumor is
true.
The President has signed the last of
the appropriation bills.
The Senate confirmed Clapp as pub­
lic printer.
Rev. E. P. Smith, ex-commisBioner of
Indian affairs died on the west coast of
Africa the latter part of June.
Speaker Kerr is reported dying at
Alum Springs, Va., to-day.
ST. PAUL, Aug. 16.—Congressional
session closed last evening. Grant goes
to Long Branch Friday.
The cavalry bill finally passed as
amended by the Senate, providing, in­
stead of volunteers, for filling regular
companies. The Territorial bill had
not reached the House.
CROOK.
News from Crook to the 10th says he
would probably meet the Indians by
Friday or Saturday, and was well down
on the Tongue river. Lieut.-Col. Elmer
Otis is here on his way to join the 7th
Cavalry.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon Speaker
Kerr's condition was unchanged. His
family and himself have abandoned all
hopes of his recovery.
Indian stories of the late fight with
Sitting Bull are discredited to-day at
Sherman's headquarters.
The Jim River Advocate says the
people of Jim River are unanimous for
Kidder. It is well.
Lincoln County Republicans will meet
on the 19th of August to choose their
delegates to the Territorial Convention.
The News says "there are none but
Kidder men in the county, so to speak."
The Pi6neer-Press urges that the
Sioux tribes should be colonized in
Maine where there is an abundance of
game, and where they can receive the
Boston papers every evening. Besides
Wendell Phillips could visit them occa­
sionally, and it would make their hearts
good to see the old philanthropist, and
rejoice with him over the massacre of
our frontier people.
THE DECISION.
The decision of the Secretary of the
Inderior in relation to the Bismarck
Townsite has been received, and instead
of rumors we now have facts through
the local office. The corporate authori­
ties are awarded the NW| and the W^
of the NEJ of Sec. 4T138, 80, amoun­
ting to 239 94-100 acres, subject to the
right of way the Northern Patifle
Railroad. The of the of the
same section is awarded to Bractus A.
BISMARCK, D. T., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16,1876.
Williams the SWJ of Sec. 32, T. 139,
R. 80 to John J. Jackman, subject to
eootest by John W. O'Neal, who has
filed a Soldier's Additional Homestead
on the same tract.
The Si of the SB* of Sec 32 I'M'It
80 is awarded to Dennis Hannafin.
The filings of the several persons
named iipop the land in contest have
been canceled by order of the Secretaey:
John A. Mason, Samuel Bitting,
Wilson J. Craw, Oharies Anderson,
Louisa Clay, Jno. W. Proctor, Alex.
McKenzie, Michael Tippie, Geo. A. Joy,
John S. Mann. ..
GEN. TERRAS ARMY.
General Terry hais completely reor­
ganized his little army on the Yellow­
stone. Gen. Miles' battalion of the 5th
Infantry, Col. Moore's battalion 6th In­
fantry, Col. Otis' battalion 22d Infantry,
and Maj. Freeman's battalion 7th In­
fantry, are formed into a brigade under
General John Gibbon. Col. M. A. Reno
succeeds Gen. Custer in command of the
7th Cavalry, Gen. James Brisbin suc­
ceeds the dead Custer as Gen. Terry's
chief of Cavalry, but hewill retain the
immediate command of his column, 2d
U. S. Cavalry. Lieut.-Colonel Low is
appointed chief of artillery, and Lieut.
Bradley retains his position as chief of
scouts. The cavalry, artillery and scouts
report directly to General Terry,
and the Infantry will act under the im­
mediate orders of Gen, Gibbon. The
army marched from its supply depot at
the mouth of the Rosebud with forty
days rations, Aug. 8, and expected to
reach the vicinity of the Sioux camps
in ten days. Over two hundred Crow
and Ree Indian warriors accompany the
expedition as scouts. The Supply De­
pot at the mouth of Rosebud will be
kept up and the steamer Far West re­
mains there for the present..
Black Hills Notes.
Joseph Pennell, Chas. Thompson, the
Kittridge Brothers, Henry Dion, Julius
Hewes and about twenty others arriv­
ed from the Black Hills, eight days" out
from Crook City, yesterday. The train
left the Hills on the 7th. When in
camp the first night abput 1 a. m., they
were alarmed by Mr. Brackett who was
on guard, and notified that the Indians
were in the vicinity, and about this
time the Indians turned loose on the
boys a fearful volley of leaden hail, evi­
dently intended to at least stampede
the stock. Frank Fague, a Minnesota
boy, was severely wounded in the foot at
the first fire. The fire was kept up for
some minutes, when they made a dash
for the stock and stampeded a team be­
longing to Chas. Thompson, but the
horses were afterwards recovered. The
Indians were driven off, however, and
did not make their appearance again
until about sunrise, when they again
fired a few shots, but soon gave up their
attempt to surround the party, but con­
tinued to harrass them for stfme time.
At the crossing of the Moreau, on the
evening of the 9tli, the party came upon
an ox team and wagon and two men
belonging to a Montana party who
had driven all night in an effort to
overtake the main party who had gone
ahead. They camped at the Moreau
about 4 a. m., and while engaged in
preparing their breakfast, three In
diansfcome upon them and pretending
to be friendly the boys admitted them
to their camp. Presently two others
made their appearance and laying down
their guns some distance off were ad­
mitted to camp. Two others with rifles
and mounted approached, when things
began to look serious, and Jos Russell,
one of the party, objected and ordered
the Indians to leave, particularly as
they had been insolent in their demands
for gifts. Rose and Muggins prepared
for a fight by forming a barricade. W.
N. Phelps advanced to the knoll for
observations, when the Indians fired
upon him and killed him. Rose and
Muggins stood the party off until late in
the afternoon when, fortunately, Pen
nell's party arrived and relieved them
from their unpleasant position and they
returned to Bismarck with them.
Phelps was of the Travis mining dis­
trict, Montana. His body was buried
about two miles this side of the Moreau.
The Indians were dressed in army blue
and were evidently from the hostiles,
and were traveling in the direction of
the Cheyenne Agency. They numbered
about fifty and had a large number of
horses with them. The beys had no
further trouble with the Indiana after
this skirmish though they were fre­
quently insight.
A Black Hills exploring party of fifty
enroute to the Big Horn had a hard
fight with Indians about fifty miles east
of the Clear Fork of Powder River about
the 10th of July in which they lost
seven men killed and sixteen wounded,
and lost all of their horses.
Wild.Bill, alias Jim Haycock was re­
cently killed at Deadwood by a young
man by the name of Cole whose brother
was killed by him in Kansas a few years
ago. Cole had followed him many
months and at last fomid his opportu­
nity. The affray (Wcurred at the
"Cricket," and the ball which Cole put
through Bill's head also passed through
the arm of Capt. Wm. Massie, a well
known river man. Cole was tried by a
miners' jury and acquitted, Col. May
prosecuting and Mr. Miller defending.
Rus Marsh is running a first-class ho­
tel in Deadwood and is making money.
He sends in for Mrs. Marsh but she pre­
fers to stay with the Capitol for a time
yet.
Hubert Smith has opened out a mer­
cantile establishment at Spearfish and
is doing well.
There is a big stampede from Dead
wood to Bear Lodge region about forty
miles west of Deadwood where Jenney
made a discovery of rich gold.
Black Hills quartz leads are promis­
ing. The Crook City Tribune of the
SJOth ult, ^ives an account of six leads
which an assay proves to be very rich.
Provisions in the hills are reported
abundant and very low, in fact there is
a big overstock, Labor is high and yet
there are hundreds of idle men. New
and rich discoveries are constantly be­
ing made.
Those in the Hills do not anticipate
trouble with the Indians and are confi­
dent they can clean out the entire Sioux
natidi should they make a raid on them.
There are at least ten thousand miners
in the Deadwood region.
PERSONAL.
Chas. Stanton, alias "Shang," and as­
sociates are in the city.
W. H. Stimpson -went east Thursday
morning—gone to meet Susie!
Col. Wilson returned from his trip up
the Yellowstone, on the Key West, last
Thursday,.
O. F. GofF and wife returned from Fort
Rice Thursday. He will hereafter be
found at Lincoln.
'C. W. Freede and bride returned on
Tuesday evening and left for their home
at Standing Rock Saturday.
C. W.
Savage, of Fargo, passed through
town last week. He goes up the Yellow­
stone.
The voice of John White may again be
heard on the streets. Mr. White has
been for some time at Hot Springs, Ar­
kansas, having gone on account of ill
health. He returned entirely recovered.
Mr. Knapp, Q^M. Clerk at Fort Rice,
was in town Saturday. All the induce­
ments of King Hehli could not pursuade
him to part with those flowing locks of
which he is the happy possessor.
Lt. H. T. Reed, of Fort Rice, is attend­
ing court martial duty at Fort Lincoln.
J. Delemater, one of Bismarck's rising
lawyers, returned last from a six week's
visit among friends in the east. If you
want to know anything about the Centen­
nial,'ask Del.
Mayor McLean returned Saturday
evening from his trip below.
Lt. Roach, 17th Intantry, came up on
the Yellowstone lrom Standing Rock,
accompanying his family this far east.
Mrs. Roach left for her home, Syracuse,
N. Y., Monday, the Lieutenant returning
to his post in company with Gen. Carlin
Lt. Rogers and the 17th Infantry band.
J. S. Winston came down from Steven­
son Monday to see how Bismarck pros­
pered,
"Texas Jack,'' from Texas, came up to
join Terry's expedition as a scout.
Geo. Bosworth, well known in this city
is among the Montana boys who came
down on the Benton en route to the Black
Hills.
D. A. Corey, of Steele & Price, Chica­
go, St. Louis and Cincinnati, D. F. Mc­
Carthy of Miner & McCarthy, St. Paul,
and Major Hazelhurst, of .Ft. Abercrom
bie, are in the city.
Gen. Sanborn and D. M. Robins of St.
Paul, and J. J. Jackman arrived Tuesday
evening. Gen. Sanborn is attorney for
Messrs Hackett and others in the town
site case.
R. C. Mitchell, of the Duluth Tribune,
and Rev. J. Mitchell, of Indianapolis with
their wives and children looked Bismarck
over last evening.
Asa Fisher has returned from the Cen­
tennial.
Seven companies of Infantry from
Texas, intended to garrison the agencies
on the Missouri River, have arrived at
Yankton.
Dennis Hannafin has proved up on
the Craw eighty and the city may now
enter the Hackett claim and the east
half of the Proctor claim at any time.
The entry will prebably be made this
week.
NO. 6.
ORGANIZATION OF THE TERRI­
TORY OF PEMBINA.
Speech of Hon. Jefferson P. Kid­
der, of Dakota, In the House of
Representatives, Saturday, July
89, 1876.
The House having under consideration the bill (H.
R. No. 351) to establish the Territory of Pembina,
and to provide a temporary government therefor—
Mr. KIDDER said:
Mr. SPEAKER: Nevei in the history of
this Government has the attention of the
people been so profoundly awakened to
the interests of its frontiers. The terrible
news from the Black Hills country, the
slaughter of a major-general, five colo­
nels, twenty-two commissioned officers,
and over three hundred gallant soldiers,
has almost stopped pulsation in the Amer­
ican heart. Historians will pause in the
writing of this epoch in our history and
tremble as they attempt to record the
horrible story. Fiat justitia ccclutn vuat+
It is at this eventful period of our nation­
al history that I now ask the earnest con­
sideration of Congress to this bill. A bill
for this purpose has been before Congress
five years, and it has been reported favor­
ably by the Senate Committee on Terri­
tories three times* The consideration of
this bill at this moment presents an op­
portunity not to be neglected by one care­
ful of the welfare of his country and
mindful of the perpetuity of republican
institutions.
Encroachments on the outposts are al­
ways vigilantly repulsed by the skillful
commander, and are no less the study ol
a thoughtful statesman. Had wise warn­
ings from distinguished Senators and
Representatives from our West been heed­
ed, the disasters of this day, bringing
shame burning to the cheek of each mem­
ber of this Republic, would not have oc­
curred. Instead of prairies running to
waste, great Territories would be in ex­
istence, and in place of scalping savages,
a brotherhood of Americans,
It is said that some! unknow hand
many years ago carved on a rock at Ply­
mouth near where the Pilgrims landed
the lines:
The eastern nations fade, their glory ends,
And empire rises where tne sun descends.
The sentiment was but a paraph^se of
Bishop Berkley's lines which have been
quoted so often as to become hackneyed
Westward the course of empire takes its way.
The gift of prophecy is given to few
among mortals, and it is doubtful if the
good bishop or the unknown carver on
the granite cliff realized the truth of the
idea. We at this latter day, standing in
the centennial year of the great Repub­
lic, may feel its force, but not.realize the
power that this nation shall possess when
the
vast
area west of the Mississippi shall
be thronged by the multitudes which its
fertile soil and mighty stores of the pre­
cious metals have ''awaited through the
centuries."
The founders of the Republic dreamed
not of the brilliant future that awaited
their descendants. When Boston was
first laid out commissioners were appoin*
ted, so say the records, to make a road to
the West, In due time thej'- reported
that they had marked out a road westward
six miles, which was as tar "as ever would
be required."
Even in 1803, when the purchase of
the great territory of Louisiana was un­
der discussion, the territory which then
stretched from the Mississippi to the Pa­
cific Ocean, the statesmen of the infant
Republic seem to have been in doubt
whether the lands beyond the Mississippi
would ever be of value to us, Those who
read the debates in Congress on that point
will find that it was asserted on this floor
that our settlements would not extend
bepond the Mississippi River in perhaps
Jive hundred years.
Our political history is most beautifully
illustrated by the following facts:
ORGANIZATION OF TERRITORIES.
The territory of the Uuited States, out­
side of the portion occupied by the origi­
nal thirteen States, consisted in 1787 of
"territory northwest of the river Ohio,"
which extended west to the Mississippi
in 1790, of the above and "territory south
of the river Ohio in 1798 and to 1812,
besides the above, the "Mississippi Ter­
ritory in 1803, besides the above, the
"Province of Louisiana (which extend­
ed from the Gulf of Mexico and the Mis­
sissippi River to the Pacific Ocean in the
Northwest in 1818, besides the above,
the "Spanish cession," (Florida in 1S4S,
besides the above, the several "Mexican
cessions (extending west to the Pacific
and in 1853, in addition, the "Gadsden
purchase," south of the last before named.
These, with Alaska, purchased of Russia
in 1868, were never organized, with gov­
ernments, but from time to time territorial
or State forms were given to portions of
them.
Indiana, formed as a Territory from
the territory northwest of the Ohio, act
of May 7, 1800.
By act of March 26, 1804, the "Province
of Louisiana'' was divided into the "Ter­
ritory of Orleans" and the "District of
Louisiana.'' The government of the lat
ter was committed to the officers of the
Territory of Indiana. By act of March
3, 1805, the District of Louisiana was or­
ganized as the Territory of Lousiana and
by act of June 4, 1812, the same was re­
organized as the Territory of Missouri.
Michigan, by act of January 11, 1805,
was formed as a Territory from the Ter­
ritory of Indiana.