The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-08-06

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The St. Paul jobbers passed through
Medora on their way east, Tuesday even
ing. ,5s5l a ssy ~; .. ''''=''
Col Nice lellan leaves tonight for Val
ley City and Moorhead. He intends farm
ing near the latter place. US,
Howard Eaton reports that there is a
good Indian down the river. His friends
are requested to come and bury him. =
A force of men are; here repairing the
drip pans on the refrigerator cars. They
were so low that the water stopped out
Of them to the floor. Of the car. - - ~
The session Of court for this district
begins at Mandan next Tuesday, August
IL. There are one hundred civil and
tllirty-fiYe criminal cases on the docket
Mr.. Lee. Magee and wife and F. NJ
Magee, all Of Pittsburgh, arrived Mon
day night for visit to the Eaton's. They
have gone to the logging camp and
before they leave will visit tile vi
ranch. rs s,t7:s!l af ST. +
Frank iAxthelm, who has been running
Fred Bananas barber shop for the last
two months will leave next Tuesday.
Banan, having completed his service in
the army, will return to take perma-
nent possession of his shop. ~,
!: Howard Eaton and a companion
killed an elk last week on Maggie creek,
the first one that has been killed near
here for some time. 1t was fine fat
COW elk and the vi outfit have been pick
ing fat from their teeth ever since.
The two-year-old daughter of j. A.
Freeze died at seven o'clock last evening
of cholera tnfantum. The funeral seryi-
ces, led by T. W. Gordon, will take place
at five o'clock, on the coal-mine butte.
Our citizens sympathize deeply with Mr..
and Mrs. Freeze in their loss, as the
child was general favorite.
Tommy Smith came in Monday from
the E6 ranch. He reports that there
will be about 1000 steers shipped from
this range during the next month or
two. Messrs. Clark & Plum have
between $4,000 and 1900 cattle in the
Indian Territory and will probably
drive large number of these to their
E6 ranch next year.
Attention is called to the change in
the N. P. timetable, which went into
effect last Sunday. West bound express
freight No. 10, has been changed to 1853
p. m, instead of 500 a. m. Eastbound
passenger No. 2, now arrives at 1886 a.
m, a change of seven minutes and east
bound freight No. Is arrives at 1 so a. m.
instead of 1 AS p. m. - e"3
The roundup which has been working
the country between the bend of the Lit.
tie Missouri and the railroad and the
Big Missouri and the Bad Lands, finished
its work last week. The outfits repre-.
sented were the Hashmife, VI, III
OK SOHO, Maltese cross, Elkhorn and
others. The whole country was thor.
ongllly worked, but the only animals
found were nine belonging to the OK
outfit. =; 81: z
E.tG. Paddock returned Monday night
from his Black Hills trip, accompanied
by Mrs. Fred Willard and baby and John
Ryan, of Spearfish. All the creeks, espec.
tally at this end of the line were swim:
ming and some of them were only cross.
ed with great difficulty. The abundant
rains had caused millions Of mosquitoes
to appear, making the trip extremely
disagreeable. Mrs. Willard and baby
stood the trip remarkably well.
"a cowboy named james Royd wa
killed about two weeks ago on C'Iallm
creek. He was working for tile Capital
b. outfit, whose ranch is on the Sand.
stone. When last seen alive, he llad
just turned over a bunch Of cattle toa
brother cowboy. The horse he was oI
was not very bridle-wise and it Ii sup
posed that he fell over a bluff with Boyl
| into O'Falion creek. The body wa,
found abont three days after the fatal
accident. Boyd was ,first-class COW:
boy and all who knew him, deeply
mourn his loss as I,e seemed to have III
lenemies whatever