The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-07-17

said that he had received word from Mr..
Hannaford that until faH there need be
no hurry about unloading the cars and
that the goods could be transferred from
them to the feightefs wagons and thus
avoid q second handling. he undoubt~
edly advanced these points to prevent
the erection Of a freight house here for
two reasons. First, it Woald aneher the: /
freight here where there was no chance
Of securing blood od-money and second, be
cause he wished to use the fact Of there
being no freight house here for the ex-
elusive use Of Black Hills freight, as e
means to get merchants to ship to some
other point where he could get blood
money. q 55;9s Z
4 Bramble also stated that the Marquis
was financially embarrassed, that he hsd
not the money to put On the stage line;
that during his Ellis trip the Marquis
had fed the merchants on wind, that the
Northern Pacific had .ttumbled'' to him,
and that the N. P. officials had assured
Bramble that he himself now stood inn'
and that the Marquis had to take q back
seat. That this is q mass Of lies IS al
ready proven. The Northern Pacific has
pooled issues with the Marquis and Mr..
Bramble is tapped on the first deal.
The n. II. inaugnrated proceedings by
buying a quarter interest in the Medora3
tewnsite and in conjunction with the
Marquis have organized the N. P. Stage
8 Forwarding Co. with termini at Medo-
"a and Deadwood4 This was accomplish
cd less than week aga and already the
| first fruits are visible here. Immense
piles have been put in position and the
sills laid for freight house 240x42 feet.
The work is being pushed vigorously BY
a large force OF men, five additional
Workmen were put on this morning and
still Others will be added as soon as they
can work to advantage. The climax Of
the whole thing; however, and where the
Mp. Sc F. Co. hold four aces to Bram-
ble's poor little bob-tail, Is the fact Of the
Northern Pacific having refused rates on
any other route than that via Medofa.
& The careful reader will have observed
that we have passed by many disgrace
full actions of this man Bramble, notably
the one where he apparently Joined fore
es with 7. G. Jones in favor Of our route,
induced Jones to do the outside work OF
grading and bridging and then perfidi-
ously made all his contracts by the way
of Dickinson. But we do not need this
and other facts to prove that Bramble
has acted throughout, in a thoroughly
unprincipled manner, and that he has
repeatedly abused the confidence Of the
Hills merchants when at any time he
could serve his ends in the slightest by SO
doing. That he has been traitor to
Dickinson and Medora is beyond ques-
tion. That he entered into the whole
business with the idea Of making as
much blood money as possible and then
selling out to Pierre is almost as certain.
But the most certain thing Of all is that
Mr.. Bramble's name is DENNIS. 3E55
And now that the matter is finally ar
ranged, there will doubtless be no more
trouble. In spite Of the unavoidable de-
lay in putting on the stages and the dis
graceful actions of our thorn(p) in the
flesh, the Black Hills merchants look
hopefully to the Northern Pacific for re-
lief from the extortionate rates Of the
Pierre route and for speedy railroad CON
neetion. This is bound to come soon
and by the way Of Medora.
Welcome, N. P. So +. Co. ss
Vale, Bramblel 5gs3s N