Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1878-05-10
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Horse Thieves-VfSOrOus Measures
for their Arrest aud Punishnent-
Sage Brush Charley DrOwaed In tho
YeilOwstOne-Calam Bill.

Horse Tn1eveS-vlSOfOu8 Ae8D0Ee0
for their Arrest aud Parliament
Sage Brush Charley Drowned In tho
YeilOwstOne-CalAm Bill.
| Correspondence Hole in the Wall.
CANroNMENT GLENDIvE, NJ. T., April
20, 1S7S.-Thcrc is great excitement
throughout this country ut present. A we'll
organized band of horse thieves have been
operating about Miles City and Keogh for
the past two months. Parties who claim
to know, say there was a cache of from IS
| to 100 good mules and horses ON an island
in Tongue River. The cache has been
raised and the birds have flown. Two citi-
zen meetings we're held at Miles City.
money was voted to defray the expenses Of
pursurcrs, and the avengers are on the
in every direction. The military seem 70
he acting with the citizens for the suppress
sion of horse stealing. and the capture of
thieves. 4 party of ten soldiers and two
citizens, well equipped, have started for
the Hills with Instructions to 60 as far a.
Cheyenne if necessary. Another party has
gone over to the Missouri in the direction
Of Carroll. Ft. Peck, Wolf Point, etc. Still
another has been in the vicinity of Glen
dive for several days, went back up the
river today. 1prcdict lively time for
the horse thieves. -Four head of stock were
taken from Burns ranch last Monday
night, 20 miles below Glendivc, ono Of
which belonged to the Stage Co., was re-
covered. No trace of the others.
Two citizens and discharged soldier.
went down few days ago in small boat.
Six miles above Cranes ranch the boat
capsizcd and one Of the citizens was
drowned. Didn't learn his real name, but
lie is known in this region as Sage-bruSh
Charley, was discharged governmenten,-
ployce. .......
Bob Roberts came up with the mail
Tuesday cnroutc for Miles City. On hiA
way up he "downcd' one Of our principle
Yellowstone ranchmcn at poker; captured
quite bundle enough to pay his expenseA
for the trip. Bob. il slick one. John
Schwartz went down this morning in .
mackinaw. Four mackinaws pasSed to-
day. Since the river opened over N0 pete
pie have passed here for Bismarck, inosely.
discharged government employees, sad q
heavy rains of the past week the river has
risen rapidly and is now nearly a high a
it was at any time last summer, but will
probably fall again before the June rise.
The mail from above Is now "A hours b.
hind, with no prospects of getting in f0r
two days yet, owing to the high water in
Powder River. Mails between Buford
and Glendive are running regularly. I
have it from the best authority that full
"String Band" has been organized at Milea
City, with we'll known former resident Of
Bismarck as head fiddler From. all sc-
counts he is an old hand at pulling the big
string. Men without visible meanB Of
support are skinning out as fast as possi-
BILE.
Clami,y Bill deserves to be clslstd
among the boss hunters. This sfternoon
while hunting five miles from here, he
came upon three antelope right close to-
gether, about so yards from him. He
raised his gun and fired, killing ITO In
stantly and breaking the fore legs Of the
third, which he finished by hitting 1t On
the head with crock" Three antelope
at one shot is pretty good. Calamity" ID
ono of the most truthful men In the cous.
try. So the story is true without . doubk
I saw the antelope. Ask Nr. @. b. VII.
son now in Bismarck. te1 tell yoa about
Calamity's big bear hunt. q,
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