The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-08-06
DR.. Jorgens will soon return from his
Cave Hills and Spear6sh trip.

Joe Ferris store-room is nearly COM
leted and he will probably move in a
ext week. 81 4; 8 II
W G. Tafinder, Asst. Sec. Of the Insu-
ance company of Dakota, was here Sun
lay and Monday. i;ss n 3,
A.. Osborne has put in a bunch Of cat
lie on Andrews creek and wilt add to his
Itock next spring.
Sheriff Harmon, of Morton county, was
IN Medora this morning, impanelling
Jurors for the district court. E.s
The bridges on sullY creek have all or
nearly all been washed out. They |
should be repaired Immediately.
BE. Lamb has completed fine ranch
building four miles down. the river and |
in the spring will stock his range with a
good lot of cattle.
Rev. Huntley. superintendent of Da-
kota missions, preached here last Sun
day evening. Services will be held as
usual next Sunday evening.
Harry Barker takes, Geo. Wilkes place
rs engineer at the slaughter-house and
Charles NJ. Tibbstts takes the positi ons
of night engineer and Waterman.
A very pleasant honse-warming took
place in Joe Ferris store Tuesday night.
All enjoyed themselves thoroughly trip
ping the slight fantastic
The rink is being refurnished in good
shape and its appearance is consequently
much improved. Bob. Roberts will move
in as soon as it is finished. 81 5.s4
Between grass-hoppers and its being
an off year, Montana will be short on.
hay this year. It is we'll that there is
such an abudant crop in Dakota.
Word comes in a rather roundabout
way that Wilmot Dow, one Of the mana.
gers of the Elkhorn ranch was married
4 last week in Maine. We commiserate. \
B. F. Reynolds and j. C. Fisher started
Tuesday on q trip down the. river, to or
below the mouth Of Beaver. Mr.. Rey-
nolds is looking up q range for his cattle.
The middle Grand stage station has
been burned and others are likely to 60.
Mr.. Paddock, on his recent trip extin-
guished the fire from one that was Just
catching.
"A hard hail -storm visited Medora last
evening. If it had been accompanied by
wind doubtless much loss would have
resulted. As it was, the gardens proba-
bly, suffered severely and q number of
window lights were broken. -
Five hundred Hashknife cattle were
weighed out to the Co. Aug. l.. They
averaged 1O64115 pounds. Three Of them
weighed 1880 pounds and one weighed
1850 pounds. The last only dressed 1116
pounds, showing he was not in good
condition. ,s.- -.
Z Last night No. 1 consisted of fourteen
cars and two engines, probably the lar
gest passenger train ever seen on the
road. Several Of the cars were filled
with Boston excursionists and the air
was positively oppressive from the vast
amount Of "culchah" lying around in
chuncks. s. +. *. .5. a. ..t2. -....5,.
We wish to call special attention of
all to cur cowboy Dictionary As
stated, we do not claim perfection in
any way for it. It is published princi-
pallyto have corrections made to it. All
should take pride in making it as COM
plete as possible by sending or handing
us corrections. ~. g.. 81
Geo. Wilkes severed his connection
with the company last week and went
to his home in Chicago. His resigna-
tion was due to conflict Of authority
and reflects in no way upon his ability
as an engineer, Of which there is no
question. His Chicago address is 1870
3 Campbell avenue. b & IT,:
So The two ear-old daughter of ia.
Freeze, died at about seven o'clock last
evening. She will be buried at five
o'clock this afternoon on the coal mine
butte. Our citizens sympathize deeply
with Mr.. and Mrs. Freeze, as the child
was q general fayorite. g
a number Of changes have been made
in the running Of the N. p. Ref Car Co.,
chief Of which are the renting Of all the
cold -storage houses to outside parties.
The local business along the line is: to
be discontinued as it pays better to
wholesale. The Marquis is still in the
east making the necessary changes. ::
The two horse thieves who have made
fMedora three visits and known as the
1.-TWO Jacks" have been captured at
Mitchell. It will be remembered that
about four months ago they were here
81 and sold team Of horses to E. G. Pad
dock. which were afterwards reclaimed.
The capture OF these two ends the
{ career Of about all tie horse-rustlers in
this country. (.
10 look at Fred Willard one would not
think him sneli 9 guileless yonth. At.
tempting 70 cross Sully creek lately he
found it was swimming and then tnrned
carefully up the bank 80 as not to dis
i courage any future Corners from attempt
I ing to cross By seeing where the horse
had turned around. His Honor Cole
coming along behind and thinking
/ whore man had crossed before, there he
could cross. plunge boldly IN. That il