Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-08-22
The Trip to Fort Yates Thoroughly
Enjoyed by all Of the T
cursionists.
Gracious officers, Hospitiable People
and Good Grub the Features
of the Outing.
List of Passengers on Board-Death
of a Noted Indian Interpre-
ter and Friend,
The Excursion to Standing Rock.

The Excursion to Standing Rock.
From Tuesdays Daily.]
The excursion to Standing Rock Indian
agency was a sort of impromptu affair."
the people at the other end OF the route
knowing very little about it-but it was
none the less enjoyable for upon the boats
arrival, the poop of Fort Yates and Stand
ing Rock did everything possible in the
way of providing teams and in other ways
looking after the welfare of their guests.
The steamer Aber O'Neal left the Bis
marck landing about 2:SO FRIDAY afternoon,
the intention being to make Yates that
night. The high wind prevented this, and
1t was only after considerable struggle that
the boat reached Lincoln, where it tied up
until the wind went down late in the after
noon, and then proceeded to a point a
short distance below Riverside ranch,
where it tied up for the night. Starting
again at daybreak, after encountering high
winds and sand bars it finally arrived at
Standing Rock Shortly after dinner Satur-
day.
When the boat left the landing at BIS
marck 1t had OH the following passengers:
From Bismarck-Judge Bartholomew,
and Mrs. Bartholomew, Hon. Asa Fisher,
and mother, Mrs. Fisher and sister, Mrs.
Dewey, Mr.. and Mrs. w. Il. Perkins, Mr.,
and Mrs. M. II. Jewell, Mr.. and Mrs. W. II.
Douglass, Mrs. Jerry Plants and daugh-
ter mrn Mr. rs. j. B: Tssylor, Mrs. Mrs. !: D: Wake
Mrs. Chance, and Messrs. E. A. Williams,
E. s. BeardsIey, b. W. Hutchinson, +. NJ
Joslin, James Fl. Holt, H. p. Foster, S. j.
Swenson, A. W. Smith, Ed Hughes, E. S.
Allen, Archie Carrie, r. D. Hoskins, l..
E. Girton, Mr.. Eckhardt. Master Harris
and Fred Van Houten.
Mr.. and Mrs. W.. A. L%anterman, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Lanterman, the Misses Clarke,
Miss Taylor, Miss Briggs, Messrs. Camp
bell, Cary, Hager, Clark, Bartlett and Bou-
gardi.
At Lincoln Mrs. Lieut.. Sharp and Mas
ter Sharp Joined the party and at River
side the boat picked up Mr.. and Mrs.
Green, and a Miss Talbot, of Ann Arbor,
Mich, who is visiting the Greens.
On the return trip the passenger list was
increased by Mrs. Frank Donnelly, who
had been visiting her brother at Winona
during the past two weeks, Miss Alice
Westcott of South Dakota, daughter Of Ed
WestcOtt, who has also been visiting in
Winona; and a party of artists connected
with Frank Leslie's publications. Mr..
and Mrs. II. II. Parkins and children and
Mrs. Van Solen, who had been down to
Standing Rock to attend the funeral of
George Faribault, the old interpreter,
also returned to their Cannon Ball home
on the boat.
Although the boat did not arrive at the
agency in time for the ex~cursionists to
witness the killing of the cattle issued to
the Indians, the visit was none the Yess
enjoyable for a visit among the teepes,
where the squaws were busy with the
Jerking" of the beef and later in
dog feast, about three miles out from the
agency, was well worth the time and
trouble to the excursionists. Through the
kindness of an interpreter, on the right
side of whom the party made haste to get
by the payment of half a dollar each
those who desired were escorted into the
inner circle where the big chiefs. hideous-
from head to foot and arrayed with war
b0nnets, feathers, skins and of
| all kinds, danced to the tune of the tom
toms around that most delicate of Indian
delicacies-a pot of dog soup. Those who
have never seen these semi-monthly enter
selves we'll repaid for any Inconvenience
they may experience in getting to and
from the agency.
On the return trip the boat left Standing
Rock about 7 O'Clock Saturday evening. 1t
tied up for the night about twelve miles
up and came on to Bismarck Sunday, ar
irving here in a stiff head wind at 1880
p. m.
NOTES OF THE TRIP.
All were enthusiastic in their praise of
S. V. Williamson, the steward of the boat,
who served the meals in faultless style. 1t
| required two spreads of the table to accom-
modate the crowd but those who came to
the second table found nothing to COM
plain of.
Captain Talbot and Commodore Brandt.
the courteous and graceful clerk and Gus
todian OF the commisaries, lost no oppor-
tunity to contribute to the happiness and
fcomfOrt of the excursiOnists, and with Cap
tain Sims, n of the Oldest and best mari
ners that ever lodged snags on the Mis-
souri,, in the pilot house, all felt secure and
safe. The few sand-bar experiences were,
who had never before navigated the Big
Muddy, an opportunity to realize the diff
| culties so often met with when the water
Is low, and the artistic manner in which
distinctions were overcome by those ex-
perienced in Missouri river navigation.
There were a few who neither had state
rooms or cots on the return trip, which
gave those who were more fortunate an
opportunity of judging how we'll white
men can initiate the wal dance of the In
dian. 1t is possible that those who had
cots managed to get in a few hours of
sleep, but if so, they certainly disappoint-
ed those who remained up.
Ed Allen had his Kodak along and some
of his views are doubtless f~ine-especially
that n where n of the dancers is feed
ing another chief with a piece of cooked
dog meat from the end Of a long stick.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. F. Douglas entertained
a few of their friends among the excur-
s1onlsts right royalty and Major McLaugh-
lin, although grieving over the death of
his head farmer and right-hand man, Mr..
Faribault, lost no opportunity to contrib
ute to the comfort of the eXcursionists by
affordillg them every opportunity to gain
information regarding the Indians and the
semi monthly issue of ratiOns.
An Old Pioneer Dead.
George Faribault, boss farmer and chief
of the Indian police at Standing Rock
agency, died on the I4th inst. He had
been failing for several weeks and On ac-
count of his serious illness the annual
feast given atH. S. Parkin's ranch on the
Cannon Ball was indefinitely postponed.
By his death the northwest loses a most re-
markable He was the son of George
Faribault, after whom that beautiful Min
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