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The above architect’s sketch of the proposed Student Union building on|
the State university campus at Missoula was published for the first time
in the Sentinel, State university yearbook, which was recently distribut
ed. “Realization of a $300,000 Student Union building on the campus,”
says the annual, “will become a reality during the fall of 1934, when a;
student building, constructed by funds loaned by the federal govern
ment, will be formally opened. Payments on the building will be made
from the student union fund established in 1929, when the students vot-'
ed to assess themselves $1 a quarter as a contribution to the fund.
“With the construction of the building, a goal sought for five years
will have been attained. In 1928 a large committee of students, fac
ulty and alumni first considered the idea of a Student Union building.
With formation of the Reconstruction Finance corporation in the sum
mer of 1931, definite plans were made. Sketches of the proiect were;
28 Oil Wells Drilling
Bruce Radigan. oil and gas inspector
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show “there are 28 wells actually drill
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representing “an expenditure of ap
proximately $560,000 for drilling these
wells alone.”
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George NT Cone s Narrative of
Indian Troubles in Early Days
Many persons living in the vicinity I
of Plevna have had pointed out to them |
Dead Man’s butte and the grave which
gives it its name. The butte and grave
are near the southwest comer of the
Dave Pieper homestead one mile east
of the Custer Trail farm owned by
George McHoes and five miles north
east of the town of Plevna. The story
of the tragic death of the stage driver
whose body rests in the lonely grave was
told by the late Senator George Mc-
Cone of Dawson county, who was also
an employe of the stage company and
who found and buried the remains of
the unfortunate man.
The only name by which the dead
man can now be known is “Fritz,” his
last name now being forgotten. Fritz
was one of the drivers of the stage line
which then connected Fort T,incoin,
across the river from the present site
of Bismarck, in what is now North Da
kota, with Fort Keogh, near the present
site of Miles City. The section of road
covered by Fritz extended from Pen
nell station, near where the present
road east of Dead Man’s butte crosses
Pennell creek, to the mouth of Powder
river. Pennell station was burned by
Indians some time after the death of
Fritz and was afterwards alluded to as
Burnt station.
Fritz was a man of German extrac
tion, about 35 years of age and inclin
ed to be very careless of his personal
appearance. He had come out from
Minnesota to make a stake and after
driving stage all summer had offered
his resignation to take effect Sept. 1,
1880, with the idea of going back to
Minnesota, marrying and settling down.
He decided to stay an additional month
in the expectation of earning enough
money to buy two more cows for his
Minnesota farm.
It was In the latter part of Septem
ber, 1880, that he started on the trip
which ended in his death. It is said
that he seemed to have a premonition
of his approaching end. On the morn
ing of the day of his death, he had got
ten up early and had gone to the top
of the nearest hill, apparently looking
for Indians. Minor, who held Pen
nell station, afterwards said he seem
ed very uneasy. Minor called him to
breakfast and after breakfast he asked
Minor to cut his hair and trim his
beard, something he had neglected for
a long time. Minor did so and also
loaned him a razor with which Fritz
shaved himself. He also washed his
shirt and tidied himself up generally.
When Craig Sample, who drove the
stage from the Little Beaver to Pen
nell station, came in with the stage,
Fritz asked Sample if he had seen any
Indians. Sample had seen none but
this did not reassure Fritz and he con
tinued on the lookout for Indians all
day and seemed very uneasy.
When the time came for him to start
an his trip to the mouth of Powder
river, he hitched up his team to the
buckboard and crossed the creek on
his last journey west. After crossing
the creek, he stopped the team and
waved a farewell to the man left at
the station, and called “Goodbye, Min
or.” He then turned and followed the
stage road into the hills where he met
his death.
Soon after entering the hills and just
out of sight of the station, a party of
eight Indians bore down on him from
THE HARDIN TRIBUNE-HERALD
submitted to Washington but th amount of money needed for interest
and amortization brought about temporary discarding of the plans.
“Later a local committee appointed by the state board of education,
consisting of Howard Toole, Sid J. Coffee, L. A. Bunge and Dr. C. H.
Clapp, president of the State university executive committee, submitted
an application for the loan to the state NRA committee. This commit
tee approved the application in July, 1933. Nov. 10, 1933, President
Clapp received approval of the project from the public works board at
Washington.
“The building will be erected in the triangle west of the law build
ing. An auditorium adjoining the Student Union portion of the build
ing will run parallel to the building. The theatre will have a separate
entrance and an adequate foyer. The plans include a game room, stor
age room, kitchen and offices on the basement floor. The back room,
the north. Fritz seems to have lost
his head from fright, and although
armed with a rifle, instead of turning
his team and attempting to return to
the station, fighting off the Indians
as he went, he jumped from the rig, al
lowing his horses to go as they pleased
and leaving the rifle in the buckboard.
Chased by the Indians, he attempted
to reach the rocks at the top of the
hill but was overtaken by the Indians
between two small hills and killed. The
Indians afterwards claimed that they
had not intended to kill him but that
he was killed by a chance shot, fired
merely to scare him, but three bullet
wounds on the body disproved this
claim.
Bishop, who drove stage on the same
run with Fritz, came in the next day
from Powder river and reported that
he had not passed Fritz on the road as
he should have done had all been well.
Sample immediately sent word to Mc-
Cone, who was foreman of a hay crew
which had been cutting hay for the
stage company all summer and was
then busy with his crew at Little Mis
souri, 45 miles from Pennell station.
McCone at once started to look up
Fritz, taking with him Frank Emmett,
one of the hay crew. McCone and
Emmett followed the stage road care
fully for trace of the place where the
buckboard had turned out. They failed
to find any trace but noticed a dark
object on the hillside which Emmett
declared was a rock. Next day they
started over the route again, and on
nearing the scene of the tragedy, Mc-
Cone noticed the turkey buzzards hov
ering over the place where they had
seen the dark object. Here they found
the object of their search, badly bloat
ed and decomposed from ten days ly
ing on the hillside and with the flesh
of the face torn by the buzzards.
McCone returned to Pennell station
where he found a broken shovel and a
hoe, the only tools available. With
these and blankets, he returned to the
place where the body of Fritz lay. O
wing to the hardness of the soil, it was
not possible to dig a grave deeper than
a foot, but in this shallow grave the
remains of poor Fritz were placed. The
grave was then covered with what
stones could be found handy, but two
weeks later rock was hauled by team
to protect the body from the coyotes.
Senator McCone then took up the
trail of the buckboard and soon found
it where the Indians had overtaken the
team, had taken all of the harness ex
cept the hames and collars. The mail
sack they had cut open, cutting off the
riveted ends but taking with them the
solid leather center. Among the mall
was a corset which was addressed to
the daughter of General Whistler, then
stationed at Fort Keogh. The Indians
took the whalebone out of the corset
and with it had constructed a small
corral on the soft earth of a pocket
gopher’s diggings. Inside this little
fence they dumped the letters from the
pouch, after opening most of the larger
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letters. Senator McCone gathered up
the mail and forwarded it to its des
tination, himself taking the remains of
the corset to Fort Keogh. General
Whistler’s daughter, it is said, preserv
ed this as a memento of the event.
Sitting Bull’s tribes were where Pop
lar now is with Captain Reed and four
companies of soldiers on guard. The
Indian’s story of the tragedy came out
later in a roundabout way. McCone
had the contract for the stage line from
Glendive to Fort Buford. At Fort Peck,
now Poplar, there was a restaurant
run by McDonald who had a Sioux
squaw, Louise Long Dog. A brother
of this squaw, Johnny Long Dog, was
one of the party of eight who killed
the unfortunate Fritz. Johnny Long Dog
told his sister of the circumstances of
the killing, claiming at first he him
self killed Fritz, and the squaw, like
others of her sex, being unable to keep
a secret told McDonald and the facts
thus became known.
Johnny Long Dog afterwards became
war chief of the Sioux and with his
immediate family and following at
tended a Glendive fair. Among the
other events, which included a balloon
ascension, was an Indian parade in
which all the Indians, dressed in their
bravest finery, participated. At the
head of the parade was Johnny Long
Dog accompanied by his two daughters
on ponies.
Long Dog was acquainted with Mc-
Cone and insisted that the senator’s
two little daughters should mount be
hind his own and take part in the
parade.
It was Long Dog who made the claim
the
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store room, committee rooms and offices will occupy the first floor.
A large central lounge will separate the men’s and women’s lounges on
the second floor. A large ballroom and two smaller dance floors with
adjoining cloackrooms will be on the third floor.”
The student members of the Student Union building committee are:
Peter Meloy, Lina Greene and Newell Gough. On the alumni
committee are Morris McCollum, E. K. Badgley, Theodore Jacobs, Fred
Thieme, Oakley Coffee, John C. Lucy, Wallace Brennan, Robert C. Line,
Jamesbert Garlington, John Patterson and William Gallagher. On the
faculty committee are Dr. Morton J. Elrod, Prof. F. C. Scheuch, Dr. J.
P. Rowe, Lucia B. Mirrielees, H. G. Merriam, Helen Gleason, Barnard
Hewett, Dean DeLoss Smith, Prof. C. D. Shallenberger, Dean A. L.
Stone, T. G. Swearingen, Mrs. Harriet Rankin Sedman, J. E. Miller and
J. B. Speer.
Oiling of Highway
to Sieben Is Started
Recently the road crew of the state
highway commission moved in on the
Helena-Great Falls federal aid high
way, prepared to oil the road between
Helena and Sieben. The grading was
completed some time ago, and the road
has been in regular use.
All it needs to be completed in every
respect is an oiled surface, and the
crew, which will begin its work at once,
is prepared to add that requirement.
It is expected that the work will take
some weeks, since the distance between
Helena and Sieben is between 15 and 20
miles.
Besides the main highway which be
gins with the northern end of Main
street, there is a side road to the Hel
ena airport, which also is to be oiled.
When this final improvement is given
the Great Falls-Helena highway it will
be included among the finished through
roads of the state.
Belgium faces many strikes.
on behalf of the Indians that they had
not intended to kill the stage driver but
fired merely to frighten him. It may
be true that they did not at first in
tend to kill Fritz but were carried away
by a frenzy of excitement when the
white man lost his head and jumped
from the rig. The three bullet wounds
found on the body, however, could not
all have been accidental.
The day of the Indian raid is past
and the Ford now chugs past the rest
ing place of the last victim of the red
man. This sketch is written so that
the present resident who has nothing
to fear but drought and grasshoppers
may have some notion of the time 40
years ago when the shadow of death
hung over the hardy pioneers who were
breaking a way that those who follow
ed them might live in peace.
Friday, May 25, 1934.
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