The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1886-09-09

Espssss FfsisSt 81 Glass 20 a. M M
81 Freight, srd Class :55 q. M
WILLIAMS, Agent,
Oysters at the Elk.
Oysters in every style at the Elk res
I taurant. 53s5 ;,S
The Marquis de Mores viii return to
Medora in about a week. !.
Next " Wednesday is tile day set for the
B beginning Of the Green and Knife river
roundup >;
Auditor Kirk Of the N, p. Express Co.,
was here Tuesday, checking up Agent
illiams and found the books in good
I shape. 81 4
Large focks Of crows have discovered
the dumping place Of the slaughter
house SHal and are to be seen in all
stages 0f lethargy i,!iss 4,
Medora seems to be suffering from an
epidemic d iirFuption Of skunks. Over
twenty -five have been killed in the neigh
Sbarhood in the last week.
pr. Jorgens, wife and son Johnny,
came in Saturday from the Cave Hills
ranch. Cattle are in irst-class condit-
ion there and antelope, deer and chick
ems abound. tss ,55; IS a {t
S5 ]. VanEeghsn returned last night
from his trip to st. Cloud. He sold his
carload Of horses easily and at good fig
ures. He considers st. Cloud good
u horse market, but the demand is almost
entirely for broken horses.
The sad news came from Mingusville
Sunday night that Sam. Powers Of the
y 777 outfit was killed there that after
noon. No one saw the accident happen
but he had Ioped calf, when his horse
fell on him and he soon died from his
injuries. VS.
The Aarquise de Mores returned from
New York last Thursday night. On Fri
day evening the Due and Duchess de
Luynes and their daughter and Count
Suzannet stopped off and visited the
i Marquise over Sunday. NJ. de Saulty,
1 who has been here for some time expect
ing to take q hunting trip to the Rocky
mountains. accompanied them on their
western trip, Monday evening.
7. W. Gordon came in Tuesday from
/ the west, having been to Helena and
Butte. From his report, Butte seems to
B have recovered from Its boom and there
Is plenty Of work at good pay. he also
4 says that Judging from the looks Of the
range from the railroad, the grazing is
/ constantly poorer as one goes west from
dlendiye. Several outfits are going to
move their cattle south for winter feed.
i; The report comes in from the 10 camp
that mo hcrses are missing from there
and that as q consequence Bob. Thomp-
son could not have stolen any Of them.
The charge Of horse stealing is altogeth-
or too serious one in this country to be
b lightly made and although we heard the
matter definitely stated twice, we CON
cluded not to publish it. Just before go
Ing TO press last week, however, we
learned from perfectly reliable source
that the report was direct from the Ia
n camp: Even after the contradiction
came in, we were assured that the charge
4 was true one, but the denial from the
/ IS camp settles it. 81. 3 ID
While g. G. and Robert Hunt were
s loading = bunch of &c cattle at Dickin.
d son, Tuesday, they received word from
their sister Bessie at Fort Union, New
Mexico, that their father had died there
i On that day. This death, following So
close on that Of their mother last winter,
lie aerue blow and one which will at
tract the sympathy Of all to the Hunt
brothers Both Of them started imms-
diatelY for New Mexico and will; arrive
there Saturday. Their father was Col.
B onel IN the regular army, stationed al
Fort Vancouver, but for the last six
months absent On sick leave. Their
plans Tor the future are little unset.
tied but they Will probably take thei1
sister 10 Washington and then return
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