The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1873-1875, 1875-06-02

stesder, presemptor, Or squatter, te
st0eo. W. Sweet, agent and attorney,
1 for tho Lake Superior and Puget Sound
ILand Company for the sum Of s. 90
and 70 hold whatever qusrtsr section
/ 10 put on, for the sum Of forty dol
ll6rs per month, snd turn the same over
when proved gup." am willing to
lswear that what Il have repeated is the
ilaBgnage of the contents Of the copy in
fthis record to the best Of my reco,ec.
tion, and have just read it; it is the
substance anyhow. f1- Z
Gross eramtsed By M. Simnsons.-I
acted under instructions while IN the
employ Of that company; I had instfuc.
tions to keep off those who tried to
to hold other claims il this vicinity or
OFF Of lands held BY members Of this
association of twenty anybody who
came on the script claims on the bot:
tom OF upon this bench bismarck town
site) wan to be ordered of unless they
had permission. from Geo. w. Sweet;
he had stekss marked s'script'' in May
1872; LdSAot know whether script was
placed upon these claims; oil I know
these stakes were so marked; after
wards these twenty men were put upon
the3script claims; these claiAs were on
the bottom and on this bench; believe
some claims were taken below Apple
Greek by the company; they never put
anybody to live on them; / know Reed
who purported TO hold 4 claim below
Apple Creek in 1872; l heard Sweet or.
der him off the claim, Sweet surveyed
the claim below Apple Greek; the or
der for the man to leave was accompa-s
MED with threats; know the party
left in consequence of these threats.
Gross eranined By 0oz. Sheet. 1t was
in the latter part Of May 1872 that
Sweet ordered Reed off; I was present
at the time; it occurred right hore at
the we'll; he was watering his horses;
I mean, the we'll right here in section 4;
l don't know if the claim was on Fort
Rice military reservation; this convers.
ationswa three or four miles from the
claim; the claim was right on the fat
across Apple Greek, on the south side;
the military reservation Of Fort Rice
was not surveyed at that time; told
Sweet that this was Mr.. Reed that he
had been looking for. Mr.. Sweet asked
/ Ehinsswas he the man who had settled on
i claim near Apple Greek; he said yes;
Sweet told him he wanted him to leave
there inside Of three days. he said he
would not, Sweet ssid he would have
the soldiers down there, to put him off
4if he would not be gone; the claim was
part timber and part prairie; Sweet did
not tell him he was on the military res
ervat!on; Mr.. Sweet was not the :attor-
ney for the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company, at that time, that I know Of;
I don't know that he was acting as such
attorney; I don't know that the en-
pleyees Of the r, r: had any difficulty
to obtain timber: ~ 3 .s.1 5,--'S ~. -.
+ = Nm. B. aad,o s,oerp. II reside in Bis
mafck; I am one Of the firm Of Shaw,
Oathcart & Patton, who made the first
improvements on lots and 8, block 80,
OF the town Of Bismarck according to
the plat in evidence; we first began TO
improve these lots somewhere from the
9Th to the 90th 81 July, i think we COM
menced to build about the 18th Of July
1872; that was the first Improvement
|, we' made upon what is now known as
the townsite, of Bismarck. Il, ass.,
Gross esa,ninM by Ool: JSUeet.= i z The
lots testified. to were secured on appli.
cation to Col.s Sweet don't. know how
long before l'WeI commenced. building;
.salected them one Sunday; and paid
Sweet fol-. them; we arrived here on the
.2eth day Of May, Friday morning; the
next Sunday two weeks we walked over
here together and piced utthose lots;the
musquitos were so.very thick is why !
remember it;we sat down on A. stone
and cursed 1.-THE country; it was a. fact
notorious when I came here that this
was where the town would be; / don't
think any thing was said about town
site; 1 saw the stakes at the time !
bought these lots, along what is! now
Main. Street, they were plain to be seen;
II purchased these lots to get title to
buildsaa We proposed to build = town;
I did not know that Mr.. sHackett claim
ed this land yhenI bought these lots.
Iwas not .cqusinted with Mr.. Hackett
at that time; Imay have seen him; do
not know when I. first heard of Mr..
Hackett claiming this land; Il may have
been In the summer or fall Of 1872 and
NAV not heve been until the spring
;of 1851 thought, the coast was clear
and I was sn rightiwhen thought my
lots:saI Am, the same Mr.. Shaw that
I.i~ -. GE a. v;k fnr = 80 ho rim q in this