Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1884-07-25
COUNTY NEWS.

COUNTY NEWS.
GttytOn.
correspondence Of the RECORD.
GAYToN, July q.
Crops are looking finely in this vicinity.
William Badger passed up with herd
Of beef cattle few days ago.
On Friday last herd of cattle number
ing 1000 head passed up on their way to
Montana. They came in from Ellendale,
and were bought in Minnesota. -
y Charles Lock and Mrs Ella Goodjohn
both of Winona, were married Aia' Bis
lnarck few days ago. We all wish them
much happiness. They returned to Wi
mona, where Mr.. Lock will start into busi-
ness.
Picked up, on my premises-One bay
stallion; weight, $50 or 1000 pounds; 4
years old one white hind foot. Owner
can have same by proving property and
paying damages. VIM. WADE, Clayton,
Emmons county, D. T.
Not long ago, while passing throu gh
one of the aspiring towns of this county,
my eyes fell upon a mound made long
ago. 1t is not much of mound now,
for time and the elements have worn it,
the once well-shaped grave, nearly to the
level of the gopher hills, its near neigh
bors. And, as raised my eyes and looked
at the newly laid-out town, already alive
with business and thrift-houses building
here and there; men going in every di-
rection with loads of lumber to build on
their claims; men with teams, breaking !;
men with capital who stop every one
they meet and ask, What kind of a
country have you over where you are To-
Gated, and is all the railroad land bought
up over thcre?" men lying around ready
to make an honest dollar by selling you a
claim they have n0,rigllt to, and alsoamen
who hold chairs down in the saloons and
never refuse to take adrink when asked
as saw these things thought that, of
all this busy throng, not one can tell you
who it was that was buried in this grave
nine years ago for not one of them was
here then. But the writer was, being at
that time in the employ of the Indian
agent at Standing Rock. And how well
do remember when, one fine morning in
April, in the year 1875, Charles Archer
came down to the river and shouted, at
the top of his clear, tenor voice, that
Andy Marsh had found dead man five
miles above his ranch had brought the
body down, and wanted some boards to
make coffin for the unfortunate. Itwas
who bore the wishes of Mr.. Archer to
the agent, who had charge of small pile
of lumber which belonged to the govern
ment, there being no other in the country
nearer than Bismarck, sixty miles away.
But the agent refused to give or sell, and
so the body was wrapped in a blanket; a
hole dug, feet long, feet wide, and
feet deep, and at the bottom of this pit a
cof1in-shaped hole was made, just large
enough to lay the corpse in. Some slabs
were cut from cottonwood tree, placed
in the grave, and covered over. to prevent
the dirt falling on the body. The hole
was filled and well-shaped mound made
over the grave. No one present at this
simple burial knew who the man was or
where he came from. But on his person
was found book in which was written,
in a blur, a name and Washington, D.
c." He was young man, apparently
about 19, and, as we afterward found out,
had been killed by young Indian not as
old as himself. We placed slab at the
head of the grave, and on it was written:
UNKNOWN;
:One Who Came AL the Way from Wash:
!: ington to Dakota to Starta Graveyard.
The slab is gone now, and no one would
suppose grave was there if they were
not aware of the. foregoing facts. The
town-site men have laid out their town, town.
and will sell a lot to some one who will
little think he is buying a cemetery.
DttlcOt0's Msgnitasze.
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