Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-11-30

his purpose was to regain his lost inheritance
by putting out of the way those who stood be-
tween him and it, promising the witness to
provide for her handsomely, if ahe kept his
secret; but, when put to the test, she had
found herself unable to violate the solemn
oath. s ~.
George Granger, alias Dr.. Baldwin, would
have left the courtroom, but an officer was
ordered to detain him and when his disguise
was removed, though he had been absent
many years, there we're many present who
could testify to his identity.
My client has acquitted on the spot and
his cell in the prison was that night occupied
by his false accuser.-NeO York Ledger.
BuFFALo HuNT1Ne.- st. Paul is becoming
the western emporium Of buffalo hides-a
principal source ofsupply being Fort Benton.
From this point the robes are shipped BY boat
to Bismarck and thence to St. Paul, and from
St. Paul to Chicago and New York. The
buffalo ranges are annually becoming circum-
scribed, and their ultimate exhaustion is mere
" question Of time. Formerly the bison
roamed all over the North American conti-
inent; while now, according to Major East
man, this animal can only be found in three
localities. One herd ranges along the head
waters of the Arkansas and Platte rivers Q
smaller one browses among the Big Horn
mountains and the valleys and plains in that
region, while the great mass make their home
north Of the Missouri, and spread themselves
to the Saskatchewan and westward to; the
Rocky Mountains. There seems to be- no dit.
6culty in securing forage in the north during
the winter, for buffalo killed in January are
as fat as at any other time, while the meat is
much better in winter than summer. The
buffalo, with their feet and horns, scrape the
snow from the prairies and eat the dry grass
with relish. Major Eastman says that do
mestic cattle in Minnesota also run wild and
live through the winter unprotected and un.
cared for, and in the spring are found in com. %
paratively good condition. The theory Of
those most familiar with the subject is that the
buffalo and the Indian will perish together.
Though the Indian is in constant pursuit OF
this noble game, the buffalo never avoids lis
savage prosecutor. On the contrary, the In.
dian will establish his camping ground, and
then actually drive the buffalo to within g
short distance of his wigwam before he kills
him, thus avoiding any extended transports
ton Of the raw hides to the place where they
are dressed by the squaws. Nowon the other
hand, the buffalo, like the Indian, seems to
have an instructive aversion to the white man,
and when the emigrant wagon and the rail
road car shall people the west and northwest,
the buffalo will seek new and more inaccessi-
bic fields and, finally, when he is surrounded
on all sides, he will lie down and die, and we
shall have no more buffalo robes. Men now
living will remember when the Pacific slope
was one vast buffalo range, while to-day there
is scarcely buffalo to be seen west Of the
Rocky Mountains. But it is admitted that it
may be long while before the last buffalo
shall pass in bis checks, fora vast range Of
country spreads out between the Missouri riv-
,er and the Saskatchewan; which is a natural
feeding ground for the buffalo, and there is no
pereeptible dimunition Of the prodigious herd
that roams over this this space. There are collec-
ted annually at Fort Benton alone about l2Q,=-
900 robes, nearly all Of which are taken from
the great northern herd, and yet the Indians
find no greater difficulty in getting them from
their original owners than they did years