The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-12-25
1890 - 100 ~ Is91es-g -t7-- tf
Cigars and tobacco at Cooks. 4.

Cigars and tobacco at Cooks.
Howard Eaton, Is on an extended east.
ern trip. 81. =. $40 Z. si r.
Mrs! Arch. Boydis recovering from an
attack OF fever. ~ Eis{
John Fitzgerald has sent his wife and
family 10 Iowa to spend the winter.
MI. and Mrs. Barr started for Mis-
souri,. Sunday, Nj. Barr will continue on
TO Texas. 81 M. X. AK
aMerry Christmas will be tho first
local In 10000 papers this week. We
heartily wis! it to all. Z. =}5!:
Henry Foss, auditor Of the n. P. Ex.
Co, was here last week looking over
agent Maxwell's books. III
We have received word fren Rev,
Father Martin to the effect that the
+ the books for our library are on the way:
John O'sullivan will probably DO iibra
fian. Z. a;.5. :. s33S
f.,5 ]. N. Maxwell held us up for return
ing from Mandan trip for half pound
of Lone Jack Sunday. On calm reflec-
ton, the above seems little mixed, but
no more than Max" Was. is!8.
81. B. Wadsworth, Of the Bad Lands
Cattle Co., returned to Minnesota last
Saturday, after . very pleasant stay NJ
his ranch. He reports all the cattle In
good condition to stand the winter. &
& Inaemuch as it is the high and nndis-
puted prerogative Of every printer to
q spend Christmas swelling his head and
the day following in reducing the size
thereof, we considered it better to come
out a day earlier. Hence our previous
s ness. IS B +; ,ss s, a
John Klefsr has gone to. Iowa ! 0
meet lis wife and take iler to Chicago OF
some. place where She can secure, nble
medical z treatment. Her health has
: steadily 'gefown poorer, and Ii ID now
feared that sle may not recover for
some time. u I'll
Vic. Smith came in Sunday, ind re-
ports killing eighty -nin6 deer md am
telope. sfxly-nine Of them ile killed in
FIVE days. Welt not given to drawing
the long bow on his hunting exploits,
and as he has; the saddles 10 show for it.
we acknowledge that our record has
i been beaten. i5% n
Charlie Jolly started out last week
after some stage stock that had: strayed
away, and since then nothing has been
heard from him. Owing to the recent
severe weather, fears are entertained
that he may have been frozen. Charlie
= IS good rustier. however, and will
probably turn up all right. 5ssi
The ball tonight at Roberts & Co.'s
hall, bids fair to Quito anything We
have had yet il the terpsichorean line.
Certain it is that no pains or expense
WAS spared IN getting out the pro-
]. grammes, sud the Cow Boy is proud Of
them as the neatest specimen Of job
work we have yet turned out. Every
I one should attend the dance and secure
progs smine as atrophy.
Joe McCool hal astreak Of luck last
week that is rarely duplicated. "A bronco
was put up for rattle with ten chances.
Joe won. Tie next dry he won Rom
ington ride under the same conditions.
The next day he put up his bronco, kept
10 chance, and won again. Total outlay,
$40; total receipts, q bronco, rifle and
$f5 cash. The chances were one III ton,
which he accepted and won three times
in succession. Il sssS
A great excitement has bsen raised in
eastern anil southern Dakota over the
fact that coal las been discovered there.
4 Il The st. Paul Globe speaks about the
Y report Of . tliree-foot vein being found,
but says It lacks confirmation. From
the coaLyeins in the Bad Lands, there
n seems 10 do little doubt that the whole
Of Dakota, o. tho greater part Of It. ID
underlaid with yast beds Of coal. IN
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a i, d y,h;sh y ta,an,v ia th;sr I; 4,
& sight, It runs down To the surface 81
4. The river, and may extend twenty feei
{ IN more from TINT DOiflt "a far az any f,,,e