The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-10-22
Northern. Pacific Time j, Table.
Geo. Raderick has moved from Cassel

X ton to Bismarck.
Mrs. John Goodall has been quite sick
B lately but will soon DO around again.
The slaughter house will probably close
down for the season ut the end of this
month. 81. s5 4 .3 5.z i S; S5 81 u
Z Dan Williams is shooting lightning at
& Mingusyille. He is fast becoming a
good operator.
Bob Roberts has been making an
extended trip east, going as far as Chi
cage He is expected back soon.
b B. Eumsesy,, Oil one {, ii tho proprietors Of
{ the q quartercircle outfit, came in Sat
4 nrtlay evening and is nowat the ranch.
Sam Townsend is grading on the
] branch sof the orthwestern, extending
3 towards the Black Hills from Ghadron.
Capt. VIM. Harmon Of Miles City, was
oil yesterday morning 3 east-bound pas.
senger train. 81 rs 5Ss' rs .ig5
35 DIR. A. R. Roberts, q travelling dentist,
! stopped in Medora from Saturday to
Monday. 3; ..5i 81
Chas. Cook has gone to Helena and
+ thence to Butte, to look up a business
location. Wen sadly miss the four
eyed blont;e. II. .5. II, ss "
81 Judge Francis and Clerk of the Su-
preme court Haight returned from Dead
wood Sunday morning. They left for
Bismarck Monday. 49, 81
Geo. Hayward, who left Medora some
time ago, now runs a grocery store III
Windsor, Canada. He is said to be doing
we'll. 8. 5Ss " ;ss.
A magic lantern. and musical enter
tainment was given in AIedora by
couple Of transformers last Saturday
evening. $
1. Ayers, who was here last winter
looking after the railroad interests in
B the building Of the slaughter house is
4 now in Duluth. ~
,5s E. s., Newman was here yesterday,
erintending the delivery Of 351 head
Y Of the Niobrara cattle Cos. beeyes to tile
Ref. Car Co. They averaged HOS
pounds. @ !: $ssji
Subscriptions for any paper, periodical
or magazine published in the world,
received at the Cow Boy office at pub
fishers prices. 4
Crews Of men are still at work on the
dam which will be much better than tile
one formerly built. Flood gates have
been constructed which vii probably
sls save the dam from breaking as it has
done. .5s5 b.
We neglected to mention last week
that g. G. Cooper, now telegraph opera
tor at Billings, visited Medora on short
leave Of absence. He has established
@ the reputation Of being one Of the best
operators on the road. ii 81
Messrs. Wright and Beers have both
left, the former to his home in Connecti-
cut, the latter to accept a railroad posit-
II ion in Butte. They have turned over the
4 Cantonment to the sheriff to satisfy a
81 number Of attachments upon it. There
are number Of accounts yet unsettled
which will probably be attended to at the
next term Of court in Mandan. z-5s;55
The 10 outfit from O'FaIlon creek
have turned loose about twenty-four
.s hundred head Of cattle on Government
creek. As these must range in between
& Government and Ash coulie creeks,
where tile Bad Lands cattle Co.'S. cattle
and the 5000 head turned loose by the
Ref. Car Co. also range, it seems likely
s that that country win be pretty well
eaten of before spring.
sS We are in receipt of a letter from Vic.
Smith. written at his camp on the Nee.
q teetse river in Wyoming, in which he
announces that the Smith family is
aourislling. Eli, lie says, run in herds
" about their camp and keep them awake
nights BY their bugling. Mountain
sheep are as plentiful as antelope neal
Medora. The Smith brothers have two
y tons OF smoked elk meat, which they
have already contracted at fifteen cents
q ponnd. They will bring down with
n them about thirty2fiye elk heads and as
many sheep heads. Bear have also been
5 very plentiful mid they will bring some
choice robes. Raspberfies and straw
berries are plentiful near their camp.
They will start on their return to hIedora
in about d week, Vic winds up Ills let
ter BY saying that he will send us d bear
d head from Billings Woe he unto him il
lie doesn't
Itshas been 90 often said that it was
difficult to hold or drive cattle in the
Bad Lands that it had tacitly come to bt
y understood that none could be shipped
from here. This summers experience
has, il not entirely done away with thiI
idea. at least modified il to: u great sex!
tent. We do not know the exact figures
n but there have been in tho neigh orllood
0f 1900 cattle delivered to the Ref. Cal
Co. here this simmer Out Of all these
not 4 solitary animal has been lost oW.
ing to the Bad Lands; This, of itself, II
enough I'd disproye tile prevalent belief
but WV hare besides, the expressions 81
opinion Of tho men who have delivered
cattle here. that they experienced na
more difficulty driving iii the Bad Lands
than they would On DID prairie, viii, tht
same number. of cowboys To drive. This
"a further shown Sby tile fact that TIL
Hasllnife outfit have contracted hi
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