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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-08-16
GEN, TERRY,s ARMY.

General Terry has completely reor-
ganized his little army on the Yellow
stone. Gen. Miles battalion Of the 5th
Infantry, Col. Moore's battalion 9th In
fantry, Col. Otis battalion 29d Infantry,
and Maj. Freeman's battalion 9TH In
fantry, are formed into brigade under
General John Gibbon. Col. NJ. "A. Reno
succeeds Gen. Custer in command of the
9TH Cavalry, Gen. James Brisbin sue
ceeds the dead Custer as Gen. Terry's
chief of Cavalry, but hewill retain the
immediate command of his column, I'd
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 i'm
mediate orders of Gen. Gibbon. The
army marched from it's supply depot at
the mouth of the Rosebud with forty
days rations, Aug. s, and expected to
reach the vicinity of the Sioux camps
in ten days. Over two hundred Grow
and Rec 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..
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-08-16
Hack 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 9TH. When in
camp the first night about / a. M, they
were alarmed by Mr.. Bracket who was
on guard, and notified that the Indians
were in the vicinity, and about this
time the Indians turned loose on the
boys fearful volley of leaden hail, evi.
dently intended to at least stampede
the stock. Frank Fague, a Mlnnesota
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 team be.
longing to Chas. Thompson, but the
horses were afterwards recovered. The
indians were driven off, however, and
did not make tn cir appearance again
until about sunrise, when they again
fired few shots, but soon gave up their
attempt to surround the party, but con
tinued to harrass them for some time.
At the crossing of the Moreau, on the
evening of the 9th, the party came upon
an OK team and wagon and two men
belonging to a Montana party who
had driven AL night in an effort to
overtake the main party who had gone
ahead. They camped at the Moreau
about a. M, and while engaged in
preparing their breakfast, three In
dianslcome 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 fight by forming 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 travelling in the direction of
the Cheyenne Agency. They Numbered
about fifty and had large number of
horses with them. The boys had 20
further trouble with the Indians after
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-08-16
PERSONAL.

Chas. Stanton, alias "Shang," and as
sociates are in the city. .....
w. H. Simpson went east Thursday
morning-gone to meet Susie! aMs
Col. Wilson returned from his trip up
the Yellowstone, on the Key West, last
Thursday. s- a.s .....,--as =,
OF. Golf 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. MIR. White has
been for some time at Hot Springs, Ar
kansas, having gone on account of i'll
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.
1t. H. T. Reed, of Fort Rice, is attend
ing court martial duty at Fort Lincoln.
!. Delemater, one of Bismarck's rising
lawyers, returned last from six weeks
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.
1t. Roach, 18TH Infantry, came up on
the Yellowstone from 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
1t. Rogers and the 18TH Infantry band.
T. S. Winston came down from Steven
son Monday to see how Bismarck pros
pered, .....
ssTexas Jack,' from Texas. came up to
Join Terry's expedition as scout.
Geo. Bosworth, we'll known in this city
is among the Montana boys who came
down on the Benton en- route to the Black
Hills.
.. A. Corey, of Steele & Price, Chica-
90, St. Louis and Cincinnati, D. F. Nc
Carthy of Miner & Mccarthy, St. Paul,
and Major Hazelhurst, of Ft. Abercrom-
bic, are in the city.
Gen. Sanborn and D. M. Robins of St.
Paul, and ]. J. Jackman arrived Tuesday
evening. Gen. Sanborn is attorney for
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 Gen.
tennial.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-08-16
RENO.
A Petition for His Promotion.

u
The following is copy Of letter addressed by
Cavalry. who were engaged In the fight of June 25
and 26, to the President Of the United States:
CAMP EIAR BIG HORN ON yellowstone RIVER,
july 4, lS76.-70 HIS Ercezlencv the President
<uad tie Honorable House Of Representatives. Of
tie United States: GEETLEMsH: We, the enlisted
meE, the survivors of the battle the heights of
Little Horn River, on the 25th and 26th of Jupe,
1885, Of the Seventh Regiment of Cavalry, who SUBJ
solicit the President and Representatives of our
country that the vacancies among the commissioned
officers Of our regiment made by the slaughter of
brave heroic and now lamented Lieutenant. Colonel
George A. Custer, and the other noble dead commits
stoned officers of our regiment 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. N. A. Reno be our Lieutenant.C Colonel,
vice Reno promoted. The other vacancies to be
filed by offers Of the regiment by seniority Your
petitioners know this to be contrary to the establish
ed rule Of promotion but prayerfully solicit devi-
alton from the usual rule in this case as it will be
conserring bravely fought-for and iustly-merted
promotion on officers who by their bravery cool
ness, and decision on the 25th and Goth Of June,
1876 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 assertvn-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 a6 oar men by detail, and before midday
June So not officer or enlisted man Of our regi-
ment would have been LEFT to tell Of our dreadful
fate, a. We thea woalA have beea completely sur
rounded.
The aSsv, vss sisael By - nsn.commissioned
omeess anA prirates. ..
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-08-16
this skirmish though they were fire.
quently in sight. -

this skirmish though they were ire
Equently in sight. -,
A Black Hills exploring party Of fifty
enroute to the Big Horn had hard
Efightwith 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-
Gently killed at Deadwood by ayoung
man by the name Of Cole whose brother
was killed by him in Kansas few years
ago. Cole had followed him many
months and at last found his opportu-
nifty. The affraY occurred at the
|"Oricket," and the ball which Cole put
through Bills head also passed through
the arm of Capt. VIM. Massie, a we'll
known river man. Cole was tried by a
miners jury and acquitted, Col. May
prosecuting and Mr.. Miller defending.
Rus Marsh is running frst-class no.
tel in Deadwood and is making money.
He sends in for Mrs. Marsh but she pre-.
fers to stay with the Capitol for time
yet. ...-...,.g 49,. .t~.-~..... ,..-.. t......r.
Hubert Smith has opened out mer.
camille establishment at Spearfish and
is doing we'll. ..as. ..... ....
There is big stampede from Dead
wood to Bear Lodge region about forty
miles west of Deadwood where Jenney
made discovery of rich gold.
Black Hills quartz leads are promis-
ing. The Crook City Tribune of the
goth ult, gives 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
big overstock, Labor is high and yet
there are hundreds of idle men. New
and rich discoveries are constantly be-
ing made. .. 49,.
Those in the Hills do not anticipate
trouble with the Indians and are conf
dent they can clean out the entire Sioux
natioA should they make araid on them.
There are at least ten thousand miners
in the Deadwood region. ..
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-08-16
RY TELEGRAPH.

BY TELEGRAPH.
Special dispatch to the Bismarck TRIBUNE.
RuMoRED FIGHT.
HELENA, NJ. T. Aug. 15.-The Inde.
pendent special of the 18th, says that
q Sioux squaw who came into the Grow
camps reports q
TERRIBLE BATTLE,
and. that Crook has nearly annihilated
the Sioux and has the remainder in such
q position as to [> F 6
&. 4 FORCE THEIR SURRENDER. - =
Parties from the Grow agency bring
the news. It may be greatly exagger-
ated ifnot entirely false
Official telegrams from Fort Laramie
to-day say the reports Of Gen. Crooks
fight with Sitting Bull are
g@ -. .-.~>.. CONFIRMED
through Indians coming into Spotted
Tail agency. They report
a.. .qaf HEAVY ENGAGEMENT,
and the defeat Of the Indians with great
loss and Sitting Bull wounded.
ST. PAUL, Aug. 15.-Congress this
evening is endeavoring to close the bus
mess 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 comp pany, 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 thezother
that Crook fought Sitting Bull and al.
NEST annihilated the main body of the
hostlles. 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
lie printer.
Rev. E. P. Smith, ex-commissioner 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.
News from Crook to the 10th says he
would probably meet the Indians by
Friday or Saturday, and was we'll down
on the Tongue river. ieut..Col. Elmer
Otis is here on his way to join the 9TH
Cavalry.
At 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.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-08-16

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 probably be made this
week.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-08-16

Lincoln County Republicans will meet
on the 10th 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" !"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-08-16
The Republtcan National Ticket
FOR PRESIDENT,
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM A. WHEELER.
NOTES AND NEWS.

NOTES AND NEWS. 49,
Grasshoppers infest Alabama.
Libby prison Is now sumac grinding mill.
The western counties Of Iowa are devastated by
grasshoppers. sts-EE 49, : 4
Lot: s. Bayless has been confirmed Receiver OF
Public Moneys at Yankton.
The loss from the Brainerd fire is estimated at
from SIS. $50 to $40, 600. rsas'.-- s-sg
lis stated that over half the members of the
Democratic party are greenbackers.
K;s,t car loads of excursionists from Indiana,
made . visit to Gov. Hayes last week.
The popula.ion of Turkey is: Mussulmans ], 1861, =
446; non. Mosilem g sS, ,a46. Women not counted.
Ssory,s evening paper has suspended. 'Could
not compete with the other daaies" nor the people
wouldn't support it"
Six hundred Icelande,s passed through Duluth
via the No,thern Pacific and the Lakes route for
Manitoba last week.
Hon. De Witt Lttlejohn. in letter to friend says
he cannot or will noteupPost Ti!den, but will vote
for Hayes and Wheeler.
Cullerton, a convicted whisky ring guager, OF
Chicago, has been pardoned by the President. ''Let
10 guilty man escape" Next! .-
A brother Of Gov. Tilden is lying dangerously i'll
at his residence in New Lebanon. The Gov. has
been Summoned to his bedside.
is going the rounds of the press that Clara Louise
kellogg and james Gordon Bennett eaer SO, ,00(
each towards the memorial monument to Custer.
Davenport has girl who delights in eating the
sulphur end OF OF matches. She has been kept iI
jail to break her of the practice but without success
The latest
Our little Sammy had to die,
Because ne ate too much crow pie,
But as his little form we bury,
We know he's crossed Ger Jordan's Ferry.
To alanc where there's no dysintery.
A party Of about 50 thieving Indians made raid
on Midtown, county seat of Armstrong County, D.
T., anran off some Is head Of cattle. The citizens
organized party and pursued the thieves, recov-
ering fourteen head. They appeared to be a band
of hossiles from the Yellowstone.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-08-16

Seven companies of Infantry from
Texas, intended to garrison the agencies
on the Missouri River, have arrived at
Yankton. :.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-08-16

The Jim River Advocate says the
people of Jim River are unanimous for
Kidder. It is we'll.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-10-05
The Bread Riot.

The great fire of 1886 in New York
city, followed by period OF business
depression, threw thousands out of en-
ployment and occasioned great distress.
On Friday, February 10, notice was
placarded extensively through the city
calling meeting in the city hall park
for Monday, February ID. Its language
was incendiary. The notice was headed /:
Bread, meat, rent, fuel-their prices
must come down-the voice of the peo-
pie shall be heard, and will pervail. "
In response to this call G, 600 persons as
sembled in the park. The speakers de-
nounced the landlords and holders of
flour for the high price Of rent and pro-
visions. One orator saidSthat Mr.. Eli
Hart, OF Washington street, near Dey,
had So, 600 barrels of flour in his store,
and added: "Let us go and offer him
So barrel" The hint was enough,
The crowd swarmed down to the store,
broke open the doors, rolled out thirty
barrels of flour, and broke in the heads.
A posse of police came, but their clubs
were torn from their hands, and they
were driven away. Mayor Lawrence
next came and talked to the mob, but
ohCy "ouio hOu llSpSl. Ilt-SDlOTCtul6DUS
came to the help of the mob, aud they
broke open all the doors and rolled out
barrels of flour by fifties and by hun
dreds. Their contents were emptied on
the pavements. One thousand barrels
of wheat and six hundred barrels of
flour were thus wantonly destroyed.
Many poor women filed boxes, baskets,
and their aprons with the -four, but tue
greater part of it was irretrievably
wasted. Other stores were subsequent
ly attacked, but the police turned out in
large numbers at nightfall, and when
the militia appeared ON the scene the
disturbance was ended. The sovereign
people had dispersed, apparently salts
fed with their attempt TO reduce the
price of provisions by reducing the
quantity in market. Forty of the riot
ers were captured, tried, and sent to
State prison. and the price of -four rose
fifty cents per barrel Immediately after
the great bread riot was ended.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-10-05
Making the Most of II.

How the fortunes of people are exao-
geratedln this country Rumor, backed
by newspaper paragraphs, swells them
out of all proportion to the facts. If a
man is worth 100000, he ir soon set
down as having $4,000 or $500, 900 at
least. Ii young woman inherit small
property, she is soon magnifed into an
helress. If merchant or professional
man accumulate round million or two,
there is no limit to his wealth, according
topublic rumor; and if he should get five
millions, imagination riots in his golden
ana measureless superabundance. Not
one of our rich citizens but has his
riches greatly enlarged by report and
printed statement. VIM. B. Astor was
declared to be worth hundred millions;
so was Alexander Il. Stewart; so is Cor.
nelius Vanderbilt. Nobody knows. no.
body ever will know, what their estates
are worth. But it is altogether probable
that none OF these estates will reach
half the sum. With all the skill that
shrewd, mercenary men have in calcu-
latlng values to nicely, it is very rare
that they can get at any correct opinion
OF their property when it rises into mil
lions. Persons that have nothing them
selves, which is the inevitable condition
Of the majority, take pleasure in believ-
ing that the few are vastly richer than
they are; and thus gratifying, abstract
ly, their envy of and malignity toward
those whom fortune has blindly favored,
passing by others that are so much more
deserving
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-10-05
A STRANGE OCCURRENCE.
Fighting with n wild Bonr--Narrow i

Fighting with n wild Bonr--Narrow Es-
cape iro,n ID, a,h.
The premises of Mrs. Mary Burns,
in Davenport, Iowa, were the scene of
an occurrences, the account of which is
enough to give one the chills. 1t was
about half past four O'Clock when Dr. II,
+. Baker called at the house of Mrs.
Burns to attend her son, Ned, aged
seven years, who had been attacked and
severely injured by ferocious boar.
) ihe beast had wandered into the yard
from somewhere, and when the child at
tempted to drive it out it turned upon
the boy, knocked him down and put its
tu3ks into his face, arms and legs, rolled
him over and over and bruised him from
head to foot. The boys screams
brought his mother to the door, and,
nearly frantic, she went to the rescue of
the child. Why the boar ran off when
she approached she doesn't know; but
it did leave the child and she carried
him to the house and sent for the doc.
ter.
Mrs. Burns thought of her other
children, who would soon return from
school, and made another attempt to
drive the beast away, but soon retreated
to the house. Then her little girl enter
cd the yard; the boar rushed
for her, and she fled. By this time the
doctor was ready to leave. As he went
out of the front door Mrs. Burns made
another effort to expel the brute. The
doctor saw her after he was seated in his
buggy, and returned to assist her. He
went to stoning the boar, which turned
and rushed for him. The doctor picked
up ball club, and made up his mind to
let the beast come, to jump aside, and
to strike it across the head as it passed.
He struck the beast as it confronted
him, but the blow fell upon its neck and
shoulders and failed to halt it for a sec
ond, and it seized his left knee, threw
him down, and then went at him with
the fury of maddened tiger. 1t put
its tusks through the inner part of his
right thigh, inflicted several lighter
wounds and tore his clothes to ribbons.
He was utterly powerless, so quick was
the boar in its movements. When he
attempted to rise it would dart at him,
knock him down and "root" at him
with furious strength. The woman
looked on in terror. At last the doctor
managed to get on his feet, seize the
club again and give the boar q terrific
blow across the snout, at which it turned
and walked off with squcal and a
grunt. The doctor fastened to his
buggy and drove to his home, full
mile from the place of the conflict. Be-
fore he arrived there, however, he was
suffering intensely. He summoned
medical assistance, and his wounds were
attended to. The one in the knee caused
terrible pain, the tusk having penetrated
the bone. The boar was high, gaunt
animal, and weighed about three hun
dred pounds.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-10-05
A Chinese Custom.

The Chinese always leave meal at a
grave that dead person may eat on the
way to eternity. In former times it
was customary in Nevada to leave the
food exposed. and the loafers who
watched from neighboring dump OF
brush were wont to regale th' nselves
with these dainties. 9. Nothing is SO
pleasant" says the Virginia City
Chronicle, "as to see crowd ct hood
lums seated on a new-made Chinese
grave going through free lunch, and
drinking the deceased's good health In
his own rice brandy. Now, however,
the Chinese place guard over the gray Q
until night, after which the wild AMI
mails and birds get the benefit OF the
repast."