The Bad Lands Cow Boy from Medora, North Dakota • 4

fy, Lfc VK ff COW BOY, Mr A.T.PACKARD. -THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1884. Northern Pacific Time Table. VTZ8T BOUKDv Bxprem, No. 1 Freight.

2d Class Freight8d 1UBT BOUKD. 1 ..4:01 a. ra. ..8:57 townlately- A. m.

..5:45 a.m. Express Freight) 3d Cb .10:30 p. ra. .12:46 a.m. 1:55 p.

m. It B. All the trains have been late for sever- F. C. Beardsley and T.

Smiley, two of the Marquis' cow boys, brought in a petrifaction which is a great addition to our museum of Bad-Lands curiosities. It weighs about twenty-fire pounds and is a perfect representation of wood and knots. The snow on the ground makes it hard to find specimens now, but when spring opens up the work of many hands will soon make a very complete Did yon receive a valentine? Butter is 62 cents and hard to get G. F. Porter is expected back Saturday.

Several loads of venison were brought 1 list of Bad Lands curiosities. I Mr. Lloyd Roberts is a pioneer in the Mr. Flynn, of Mandan, has been in cattle business in the West. He drove tor several days on a business trip, the first herd into Bismarck, into Standfvkgs Robert Roberts and Orin Kinley re- ing Rock and into the Bad Lands.

He from Deadwood Tuesday evening, has had a wide experience in cattle in til days, owing to the snow both east and pronounces the Bad Lands as far suwest. perior to any other cattle country in the Geo. Fitzgerald's wounded hind is rap- 1 other cattle man here, however, and he proves that he means what he says by going into business here himself idly There is scarcely any danger of his losing ft finger. H. Gilbert and 8.

B. Divine, of in town Tuesday. Mr. Divine starts Cununings, lvffcr theCoeur D'Alenemines to-night. of The N.

P. B. C. Co. have bought out along as only bronchos can.

Neither 'Drake Bros, of St. Paul and will-use I hills nor gullies stopped them. At the their establishment as a cold storage I other end of the route we counted rose. different members of our body and A is in If a re tures made at the tent gallery must call back on thexonnecting rod of an engine. at once, as I shall stay but.

one week was safer. MID full time again. many friends of Lloyd Boberts in his honor. The attendance fully showed the to see about the freight and mail rente jg jj, the cattle Business from Medora to Deadwood and is expec- ted home about the 1st of March. about ten fules up river, and has gone or will soon go East to buy cattle.

Ten thousand pounds nf. have been ordered by Fort Buford from I jieartily with every one of his the liouse here. It will t)e I friends in wishing him the greatest prosshippetf to Glendive andlthen freighted perfty M' wwn Thla touching poetry probably re-1 ble. The piling at Dulutit is all driven lates to some'Southern 'Dakota states-1 and work to the first floor lis completed. Many feus are expressed relative: to the effect on cattle if this cold weather continues.

Up to the present time no loses whatever have been reported, and in fact but few of the cattle men are feeding hay. is confidently expected that a break in the weather will soon oocur and then all danger will be over. western cattle countries, and 11184 of AU of Mwquis took us sleigh-riding. To say the de Mores which mn at SbttteWscamp leastitwasexhUwkting. ipair of bron- been driven to the Ox-Bow ranche.

boys In Dakota, made descent upon our sanctum last Sunday cho8 dla the They darted C. E. FINN, Artist. The dance at the Hotel de Mores'last About fifteen" head of beef cattle are I evening will long remain as a killed at the slaughter house every day. I bright spot in the remembrance of those It will not be long Tiefore it is working who It by the i'n which he is held.

Mr. Most of fa-tome lmagtnftMn toBuford. Frank Moore and John Nelson intend wper, wasmentty elected Tr. Tf 17160 president of the N. P.

R. C. Co, a dairy in the wil I morning from St Paul. He pay largely as the expense an enjoStrip and one full of and tbe demand wfll exceed any possible supply. st purehased M4 is now We received a pleasant visit Tuesday ta ep operation as a cold storage house from J.

A. Ferris. He reports that cliarge of Mr. Geo. Briggs.

cattle are standing this weather admir-1 The Duluth eold storage house is also in and that mot ahead of cattle I fujj operation, the building covering an lad died from exposure. Of course, he I gj0a of pj 70 feet. The ice -honses at subscribed for THE Cow BOY. Fargo and Bismarck are completed and Kerr, an expert book-keeper, filled with 1800 tons of ice each. The arrived feere this morning and will here- one at Brainerd is alqp filled with 800 after make Medora his boine.

Mr. Kerr tons of ice. Excavations havo been eomnow hu eharge of the N. P. B.

C. I meneed at Brainerd, Fargo and Bis.1.. -nmrri Tt'rti'7 marck for cold storage houses- and Oie A quiet smile percolated about our Didjomnorder your wife yonr Ufe? DiCEIlSWl PreSS in referenCO to on, what was your namo in the statear1 I stage and niail route from that point At a meeting of the directors of the K. I heing the assured one to Black Hills Bel Car held in St Tanl, Feb. 5th, and that no other route would be estate the following officers were elected for the j'itehed.

In the light of the report brought yean President, Marquis de I hack by Mr. Boberts it seems that almost Mores Vice President, Chas. W. Sleeper: has been made toward estab- Treasurer, A. Yon Hoffman Secretary, ushing a route from Dickinson and the point is almost an assured (hi and after February 1st, 1884, H.P.

checks issued in payment of employes on entire distance is as good a wagon all divisions and branches, will by the local treasurer in favor of flie gu- beingabundant In the winter seaperintendent or assistant superintend- Perfect route is famished of the branch or divides on which each by the Little Missouri river. It will be man is news to many to know that Medora is not reference io winter branding and they area unit in eontomiation of Our prayer has been answered. The route from Medora, ever wclcome face of Mr. Jamee Cook 11- labove the head waters of thesn rivera lundnated our sanctum again this morn-1 and on the level divide between them ing and a pleasant visit was the natural 1 and the Little Missouri. Mr.

Roberts Cook Studebakerl was-remarkably SDceessful tu obtdninjg Bros'i' adjnsting agent, and he reports names on his petition at the Deadwood bnslneee as bfisk and that all lndidrtions lend of the route. Among these signers (O to show that tbis will a irstclaas waa the very man who was in deadwood conntrjr for his line. Gpod lock to him for the purpose of gaining signers to the goea. I Dickinson petition. The gaining of the Mr.

Weeks and 6eo. B.Byrd returned from a week's hnnting trip from little Miseouri Sunday morning. They were Mr. Roberts, who has just passed thraagli that country, says that many of the cattle hare been badly bftten. instancea large pieces of meaJ have been tarn out of their hind quarters and the poor animals were enduring excruciating torture.

The reason given is that been killed far that country and the wolves have nothing to eat Jbttides'thcr cattle. Tlie Bad LandB entheamtraryh mnrkably favored to the absence at wolves. Very few aattle haTe keen harmed by them, the most of the Wives havfng teft theeountey, in pursuit ot buffalo. Mr. "BAtMrts reports Oat tin eittle are standing the cold map remarkably wclL here plaee on at least fifteen pooxids from the weight of I gjaembie obstacle to be overcome The eaeh animal and that they cannot stand fa very bLglngH.Pr1^ very back no less than ri large game in profusioa.

They are pro-1 fuse in their compliments over the royal TT4 manner in which they were entertained by the Little Mlaeourians, whom they recwd as among the most hospitable gen-1 10Ter and.grass I over three miles east of a line running The opinion of several our best in-1 ajrgctiy £ortb from formed cattle has been obbOned in route from this place scarcely goes tbns neareat the practtce. They it takes rail-road point to Deadwood. At the route is there any con- need no Kmiiag and but few bridges. There is but very little There as yet no definite ar-1 gumbo, the route only crossing a narrow rangements made for a brick kiln here, I strip. The Dickinson route on the other but some one is bound to strike It by do-1 hand, strikes gumbo from the start and ing m.

There will be a large call to? I there is a great quantity all along their Mek in the spring. Besides the line. Their route then strikes tto 'liead buildings already contracted for, others I watere of the Heart, ranrnVtiiMtii, Grand are being figured on and will surely be and Morean rivers. These must not erected -If a brick kiln is established be bridged os forded butthe ground is here. I soft and everywhere abounds in gumbo.

16481W.000" tbe ronte This take wagMB men, all with their headquarters here: Bismarck owes fearfnl tlamart ttw Wniuw I prfle, We. WOUld, Say thttt Up tO thfi tomefltteyevermew-HHanaimPioneer. report no petition has bean cireuThe cattle on Grand and Morwn Deadwood for a route from that rB we raffering severely from The one concerning Medora is -(ready iu Washington. The route from DiekinsoB best a poor one and at certain. seasonv almost impassable.

Bates have been made with the Boek Island and N. P. roads, by wjiieh. freight can be transported frontChicago to Deadwood via Medora cheaper than liy any other route in the. United States.

In Messrs. Peimell and we have: the best freighters In America and what they can't do with a freighting outfit other men will give npmr suspicion. If necessary, there an to back the plan and everything tender "to a belief that the route will (win fall operation this point lata short time. There is a wonderful amount of electricity in this atmosphere. The resistance shown in pulling a Bheet of paper lengthwise off a stack is fully equivalent to a pound weight This prevalence of electricity is doubtless one cause of the great vitality of any one who lives in this climate.

It takes hard and continued labor to tire a man in this country, and then a rest of a few minutes is sufBcient to completely restore his energies. No one feel sthat lassitude so common in the East. Should the proposed freight line turn out to be all that is expected of it, there is a big bopm in store for Little Missouri and Medora. When the line is' in full operation, it will furnish employment for folly five hundred men. Each man will receive forty dollars per month or more.

Four-fifths of this amount will be spent here That is, about $20,000 a month will, be put into circulation. This means successful business for town of a thousand Taken in connection with the cattle and other industries, our rapid growth is certain Ferris Merrifield have' struck a bonanza on their ranche about eleven miles up the river. have discovered a coal vein eighieeii feet high from the surface of the Little Missouri river. How far below the surface it goea is not known and is in fact a matter of small importance as the vein in sight inexhaustible. Only a little from the surface has been used and this is superior in every way tothe lignite now in use here.

It is a well-known fact that coal grows better the farther in the shaft is sunk, and this alone speaks volumes for the nearly discovered vein. At the present price of coal it will hardly pay to market it, but even for home consumption it is a valuable find for Ferris Merrifield It is utterly impossible for any one in the East to realize the effect of the eold here unless they have experienced it. Last Sunday morning on the way to breakfast, without gloves or overcoat, we decidedly coincided with the remark that it was very mild and that the cold snap was broken. What was our sunrise then on seeing that the thermometer registered 48 degrees below zero. The reason for ita seeming so mild was that the air was perfectly still.

Yesterday it was only 10 degrees below, but the Blight wind made it seem colder than it was Sunday. This very appearance of mildness is, however, the one thing to be guarded against A certain number of degrees here will freeze as much as the same number of degrees A person starting on an overland trip is liable to think it much warmer than it really is and not dress warmly enough. There are few deaths from in this country, but the most of them can be traced either to carelessness or ignorance injhb respect There is a man in the East who is making a great spinrge. by offering to bet that he can brat any man in a twenty-five'mile race, Spanish fashion, with broncho lie. also.challenges man to throw a lasso or shoot from a' running horse with him.

go to prove nothing except that the manisa braggart In the East these things are hot practiced and broncho horses are unknown. Let him come West' and he will find plenty of men to take his bets. We will find a man in Little Missouri who will throw a lasso with any man living for any reasonable amount The Spanish fashion of racing is to take any number of horses which have never had a rope on them, each contestant to lasso his own horses, the man getting over the distance first winning the race. We will also find a manwho will run tbiB kind of a race with any man living. Should this article come under the notice of the person alluded to above, he is hereby ehalleniged for $500 or upward to throvr a lasso at running horses within' a distance of twenty-five feet, he' torthiiow in the usual way and our man will throw with his foot the loop lying on the ground and only the slack held in the At the same time, $100 will be that our man will fire two eyolvers simultaneously from a running horse, both' balls to eome nearer the mark' than does the oiie of the other water Here's a chance for some one to man.

broke.w Sioux Ponies. "The possibilities of the Siooz pony iisre never been dreamed of," said a cowgentleinan (one of the aristoeraey of the genns cowboy) to a Pioneer-Press reporter recently. know the old plains saying, let a wfiite man-ride an Indian pony nntil he cant make him more a step dismounting, giveplace to a latter will tide tiie brute thirty lhiles further that I tell you they're "wonderful animals on their native heath. They don't seem to take kindly to civilization, I know, but that's because they.never- had a fair ehance. Why, I can call to mind hundreds of instmees of feats performed, to remember which makes me tired in seven sorts of ways when I read the rot about Arab steeds and desert barbs the school books are full of.

Unpromising looting? Well, they are not pretty as a rule, though Tve seen some dandies. Turn Jay-Eye-See out in a Dakota winter, and give him just what food he fustled twigs and bark and scanty buffalo grass mostly don't guess he'd show up in very marvelous shape in the spring. I was at Sully anee, Just as retreat was sounding yon know: An Indian rode up on a pot-bellied, scrawny-skinned, splay-footed, matted-hair calico and gave aletter'fntm the adjutant at Fort Hall to the Sully adjutant. To an interpreter who hqvened to- be standing by the Indian a tfriUe Sioux, remarked that he ridden a good way that day and his jKHiy was tired. The adjutant noticed that the Hall letter was dated that morning, and hit interest being aroused, asked the messenger when he left his ptist.

He plied that he started, just after the first sergeant's dill (after daybreak). Subsequent 'Investigation proved Us truth. He had ridden that sorry nag fully one fc-vi hundred and four miles in less than thirteen hours, and much of the way the road would have been hard for a bird. Almost any officer on the Missouri river can tell you of the famous ride Qorse, the scout, made from the Stanley expedition. I don't remember the miles (something over three "hundred in less than four days), but I know, he only used one pony, and went straight across the most God-forsaken country in America.

The Indians differ from the Arabs in that they have affection only for the best of their ponies. I gnes I should say "had' as to many of the Sioux, since they were pretty well dismounted in October, 18T6. Their war ponies are always the best of the herd, of eonrse, rcceive good, deal of wire. A buffalo pony ranks next find the affair Isn't so tame after all. Td like to see some attention paid to raising good Sioux ppnies.

You cant imagine how quickly they show the effects of half-way decent care and. plentiful food. Tricky Wfll, not so terrible. You see they regard their masters, as natural enemies, and treat them accordingly. They are apt to shy badly, but that's because they've stepped into prairie-dog or fox holes occasionally, and every tuft of: long or mound of gravel creates suspicion.

Hges can tell you how. his five companies of infantry got through the terrible campaign of 1880-81. The dough-boys had Indian ponies for months and the little devils would paw away the snow to get grassmercury frozen in the tube, mind and when they reached Keogh, afMjr tne campaign, were actually tat and Toll of I F. E. BENJAMIN, M.

MANDAN, DAKOTA. Hepalrlng of all Mnda promptly executed. Draera from ont of town receive my personal andxarefnl attention. JOHN NELSONS NEWS LITTLE MISSOURI, DAK. Late Papers, Books, Magazines, Statidrtery, fSWT tW (I tell you we treated that mangy-looking brute as if he had the bluest blood of all the barbs in his veins.

Ctgars and Tobacco, Brand new and first-class stock. ROBERTS CO. BILLIARD AND POOL HALL. FINEST BAR IN LEFTLE MISSOURI fines, Lipors and Cips 8TBIGH.T FIBST-CLABS. THE GENIAL JIM is in constant HOTEL tStt DEMORES, G.

W. FITZGERALD, Prop. THE BEST HOTEL IN MEDORA, DAK. I 4 Located centrally steps from the depot. LIVERY STABLE AifD BAB IN CON- SECTION WITH THE HOUSE.

First-Class Accommodations for AIL NORTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY. Tm MARQUIS DE MORliS, You can tell one by the notch in the I points of the ears. A good buffalo pony CT CCDITD "XT" T) i. knows how to elude the charge of a mad I L. W.

SJLvJzLrLlr JzLlv, ICC A bull as well as I know how to skin an antelope stops just at the right timeiT rrvCtTAT A TVT and runs at the proper speed. You take L. U1N IlUr JT1 Jt rC3S.j a green horse and hunt buffalo and you'd Confectionery, Nuts, Storage lenses will be supplied irith fresh meat from atMttolre, and all ldnd8 ia season, for general oonsnmptlon. may alao-nse these houses to store Tegetables, fruit, etc. THE SENATE THE BAD LANDS COW BOY -INTENDS TO BE LEADING CATTLE PAPER 4 IB 'vMi.

fsflf rjTvf Transient day $2.00 Regular Board, per week 6.00 as can be i- ITI6S F. A. ALLEN, Secy. -THE COMPANY IS NOW COLD STORAGE HOUSES -AT- 1ST. PAUL, DULUTH, BRAINERD, FARGO, GRAND FORKS, WINNIPEG, JAMESTOWN, BISMARCK, MANDAN, MEDORA, MILES CITY, BILLING, BOZEMAN, HELENA, THE PORTLAND.

ABATTOIRS Have also been erected, or soon will be, at Ci- ST. PAUL, MEDORA, MILES CITY, BILLINGS AND THE DALLES. "wmm L'l OF the Northwest ita columns will "be full of interesting mutter to Cat- tie Men all over the United States. Only $2.00 a Year. SDBSCBIPTI0N8 AT LOWEST BATES BECEIVED FOB ANY PUBUCATION IN WOBLD.

(. fiVC T-r-u Yntri. WE ABE FINELY EQUIPPED WITH' MATERIAL RRST-CUSS IN EVERY RESPECT AND BRAND NEW. CAN DO FINE TOB WORK "ft Advertis Cbrres ited, and reasonable rates lie' fcnar HE SAD JLAND8 OOW BOY, UrtLK MIMOURI, P. DAK nr IfW ysasm 's" tw3f gSj TOWER8 Kmm, BRML on right Additional bnM, on both Bidet.

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