The Washburn leader. [volume], May 12, 1905, Image 4

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THE WASHBURN LEADER
Published every Saturday at Wash
burn,McLean county, N. D. Sub
scription price one dollar a year.
JOHN SATTERLUND, PROPBIETOB.
W. F.
HOGUE, MANAGER.
Entered at the Postofflce at Washburn, N. U.
II secobd class matter.
OFFICIAL PAPEB OF MCLEAN COUNTY
AND VILLAGE OF WASHBURN
OFFICIAL ESTRAY PAPEB FOR STATE
OF NORTH DAKOTA.
FRIDAY, MAY 12TH, 1905.
Editor Bush, .of THE MARION
SENTINEL, has had a siege with
pneumonia, but will soon be able
to be at the helm again.
The mouth of April just passed
was the dryest on record as re
ported by the station at Bismarck.
The total precipitation for the
month was only .07 of an inch.
Washburn is going to have a lo
cal telephone system. At a meet
ing of the village council last
meeting a franchise was granted
to Aug. E. Johnson to erect and
conduct the same. The ordinance
appears in this issue. It will not
be long before the Leader will be
getting the latest news by phone.
Last week, we were somewhat
delayed owing to the non-arrival of
our telegraphic news, due to the
engine of the passenger train,go
ing into the ditch. The Soo Line
experienced considerable difficulty
with the heavy snows, and to be
blockaded in May by snow is rather
a new experience, but think of the
inestimable amount of good the fall
of snow will do for this part of the
state. It is estimated that six
inches of snow fell.
The McLean County Journal,
published at Garrison, by L.
Tinker made its appearance last
Wednesday. McLean county is
surely going to be well supplied
with papers and each section of
the county is well represented,
The new paper is a 5 column folio
with two pages of home print.
The old saying "There is always
room for one more," applies in
this case.
Most of the so-called cowboys
that you see running about the
streets with buck skin breeches
and wide hats and who use the
toughest kind of language, you
will find upon investigation, come
from some town in the east and
that their knowledge of cowboyism
was gained from little yellow cov
ered books and their desire to be
tough was what brought them out
here. They'll go back to mother
bye and bye and we certainly can
spare them.—Minot Optic.
The North Dakota Farmer, as
its name implies, is devoted to the
interests of the farmers of North
Dakota. It is published monthly
by E. E.Ladd & Co. at Lisbon, N.
D. The price is only 50 cents
year and it contains much that
will be of interest to the farmer,
ranchman and the dairyman. The
April number contains an article
on ''Keeping Down the Weeds,
and one on "How to Build Up
Dairy Herd" and also the results
of the great dairy test at the *St
Louis exposition. It is a good,
clean farm paper.
It would be a good idea for those
who have stock and have them
branded to have the brands adver
tised and also the home ranch. To
all those who desire to have their
brands advertised, we will furnish a
cut of same, and will make the cost
of advertising as low as possible
THE LEADER will publish an inch
adv. including cut of brand for $5
a year, payable in advanca. This
may be the means of saving the
stockman a good many dollars dur
ing the year. THE LEADER is the
official state estray paper and cov.
ers a wide territory, not only locally
but all over the state. We are mak
ing this $5 rate, which is very rea
sonable, in order that a number
will take advantage of it, and also
that the brands will become so we
advertised that stray stock beini
pioked upoan be returned to the
hope raooh.
The U. S. Beats Them All.
Before the Russian-Japanese
war, in the table of the armed
strength of various countries it
was customary to put Russia first
among the nations of the world,
with an active army of 1,125,000
soldiers, a first reserve of 2,500,000
and a second reserve of 1,375,000,
bringing up the total number of
available soldiers on a war footing
to about 5,100,000, as against 5,
000,000 in Germany, 4,800,000 in
France, 2,500,000 in Italy, 1,600,
000 in Austria-Pungary, and 1,100
000 in Turkey. But a recognized
authority among military men, the
Militaire of Paris, some time since
disputed the correctness of the
popular belief that Russia can put
in the field the largest army of the
world in time of war, and says
"The United States are not a great
military power from the point of
view of these effective foot forces
in peace, but in time of war their
permanent contingent would form
the nucleus of the vastest army of
the world.
There is one provision of law at
the present time that the next ses
sion of the legislatute should rem
edy. That is the statute giving a
party brought before the district
court on a criminal charge the
right to a change of venue and to
call in another judge. In a major
ity of cases the affidavit of preju
dice is not sustained by the facts.
Frequently a defendant who could
have just as fair a trial in the
county whose state's attorney form
ulates the information, makes an
affidavit of prejudice, takes the
case to another county and calls in
another judge. This action entails
a lot of extra expense, trouble and
delay, but the request must, nolens
volens, be granted. The local
judge should have somethingto say
as to whether there should be a
change of venue or whether an
other judge should be sent for.
he interests of a defendant in the
matter of a fair trial could be prop
erly safeguarded were the judge
of a district wherein the crime is
alleged to have occurred, allowed
use some discretionary power
regarding a change.—Emmons Co.
Record.
of
The so-called cheap lands
Canada will be found cheap
deed, and many a farmer who goes
to that vast, sparsely settled re
gion to await the advance in prices
will have to wait a long time.
Crops are extremely uncertain and
the distances are great to markets,
gome of those who have gone to
the British northwest from this
state are already returning, having
had enough of the prospect. And
many of those who sold out and
went to Canada would be glad to
buy back the old North Dakota
lome at a considerable increase
over the price they received for it.
::t is a good place for those who do
not dare return, but a mighty poor
place for a progressive Americaai.
—The Record.
m-
It is net so important how a man
works for the town in which he
lives, so long as he works for it,
and talks for it on all occasions.
It would be folly if every man
were to work in the same direc
tion if all were to write news
paper articles or if all were to de
vote themselves especially to any
other one class of work that is es
sential to its development. But
what a town ours would be if every
body were to do something every
day to further its progress, apar
from his own' individual persona
interests.—Mandan Pioneer.
The Bismarck Tribune says thai
with the midsummer warmth, sun
snine and green lawns that are al
about us here, it is hard to believe
that within thirty miles north of us
there is snow so deep that
wrecked an engine engaged in
bucking it, and that ravines lie
fiilled to a depth of eleven feet
snow, yi-f
Chief Engineer Newell of the
reclamation service has decided to
complete the surveys necessary
for the Bismazek irrigation, pro
ject.
"STORYOF THE HID=
DEN TREASURE"
Capt. Grant Marsh Explodes
Some of the Fairy Tales of
Early Missouri River
Days.
The Story of the Massacre
Miners on Burnt Creek
Bar, Near Bismarck,
General J. W. Forsythe, military
secretary on General 'Sheridan's
staff, was in military command of
the military exploring expedition
up the Yellowstone river on the
Steamer Josephine in the spring
of 1875, which steamer I had the
lonor to command as its captain.
The steamer was built in Pitts
jurg, Pennaylvania, and named by
me for General Staley's little
daughter Josephine. General Sta
gey was then in command of the
military forces on the Missouri
with headquarters at Fort Sully
about 200 miles down the river
!rom
Fort Rice.
During this expedition up the
Yellowstone we made landing at
Pompey's Pillar and it was there
officer's counsel that General
forsythe had said that the Pillar
was named by Captain Clark of the
'amous Lewis and Clark exploring
expedition of 1804-6 for the memo
ry of an old negro servant of Cap
tain Clark. The full journal of
[jewis and Clark will probably
give all the information necessary
—I have only seen an abstracted
listory of that trip and they make
mention of Captain Clark naming
the curious isolated rock formation
Pompey's Pillar."
Onourtripup the Yellowstone
in 1875 the boat had two flags and
one of them was taken ashore- and
a flag pole erected on the Pillar in
lonor of the event. The flag was
given us in honor of the naming
of the boat. And this steamer was
the first of its kind that had ever
navigated the Yellowstone as high
up as Pompey's Pillar.
The Palladium correspondent
who signs himself John C. With
row intimates that he has been 40
years in the wild west and might
correct a great deal that is now
passing as current history—and
proceeds in his modest way of at
tempting some of them.
The history of the Lewis and
Clark expedition as told by their
journals says Sergeant Floyd of
the expedition died and was buried
on what is now known as Sargent's
Bluffs, seven miles below Sioux
City, Iowa, on the Missouri river
the river Floyd at Sioux City
was named in his honor as well as
Sargent's Bluff.
The historical correction, Mr.
Withrow says, however, that Ser
geant Floyd died on the Vermillion
river, South Dakota, thjrty miles
north of Sioux City.
This corrector of historical
events again tells us that the man
who got the hidden gold on Burnt
Creek Bar—near Bismarck went
down to St. Louis, chartered
steamer loaded with whiskey and
reached what is now Popular River
Montana, where his goods were
confiscated by General Hazen.
Mind you the gold was found
shortly after the miners were
killed in 1863. The fact of the
matter is General Hazen's first ap
pearance on the Missouri river
was in 1873—ten long years after
the massacre of the miners. The
reason I know this is that 'the
steamer Miner brought General
Hazen, his wife and little boy as
cabin passengers on my boat and
this was the first trip that they
made on the upper Missouri river
—Mrs. Hazen now Mrs. Admiral
Dewey of Washington, D. C. The
little boy was killed in an accident
With
With
With
Of
In 1863.
Washburn, N. D., May 3, 1905
—I do not claim to know much
history and have not been a stu
dent in that line—but I know of
what I have seen—and remember
what has been told me. This in
answer to a somewhat verbose cor
respondent of the Palladium some
weeks back on "The Story of the
Hidden Treasure."
1903
1905
some few years later—so I am told
—while riding a pony at Washing
ton, when about fourteen years of
age.
Fort Buford was not built until
1866 and Col. Rankin was its first
commander, succeeded by Col.
Morrow in 1868-9, and Col. Gilbert
in 1870-3. Col. Rankin's wife, a
Cuban lady, and another young
woman came near being captured
by Sitting Bull's Sioux near the
river bank in front of the post.
The ladies were on a horseback
ride, but it came near being a very
costly one for them. I was per
sonally acquainted with Col.
Rankin and his wife and she nar
rated the story to me herself.
Now a few words more about
Mr. Withrow's "Story of the Hid
den Treasure" and I am done. I
have heard—from time to time—
considerable about the killing of
the gold miners on Burnt Creek
Bar by Saunte Sioux ever since it
happened which was in August,
1863. The truth in the matter
could easily have been reached
and much speculative talk avoided.
Some of the Indians who partici
pated are no doubt still living on
their reservation in Nebraska.
John Young the Aricaree clerk
in the register of deeds office,
Washburn, tells me that "The Sol
dier," an AricareeJ one of the ten
who escorted Birard's Indian bro
ther-in-law to the miners' boat af
ter the massacre—and who helped
scrape up the gold on the sand
where the Sioux had thrown it, is
still living on his farm opposite
old Fort Berthold.
Then there is Taylor's book
"Frontier and Indian Life," which
ihas a whole chapter devoted to
this subject entitled "Massacre on
Burnt Creek Bar," which has stood
without contradiction, although
published twelve years or more—
and which Mr. Withrow might
consult as to dates, etc., before he
writes of "Hidden Treasures'
again.—Bismarck Tribune,
The Catholic church at Lidger
wood was burned to the ground
last Thursday. It was valued at
$3,500. There was no insurance
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1904
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