St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-17
Signs OF Trouble on the West
ePn Border OF the SiSse-
ton Reservation.
The Filers and Squatters In
elined to Have a Little
Disagreement.
Several Women Installed on
Good Land Near a Town
Site.
Plenty OF Good Land Yet to
be Had in Some Lo-
calitieS.

WEBSTER. ). D., April lG.-Trouble
has commenced There are conflicts
here. Squatters nod the land against
those who flied late yesterday afternoon.
Sheriff SCrenson returned late tonight
from the Slsseton reservation, where he
has preserved The peace this week. lie
said he would order company X to be in
readiness to march Monday morning.
Browns VALLEY, Aprl lG-Ihe
situation here today presented nothing
10 Justify the slightest apprehension OF
trouble from claim jumping or any OF
the causes which usually make mis-
Chief IN similar occurrences. lie Sis
seton reservation. SO far as heard from,
has been thrown open without tie
firing of shot or q squaitrr's row or
anything OF q serious character There
were brok II wheels. smashed aXIts and
few brushes after the scramble for the
town site Friday. bat The conlreEemus
were taken good naturally. " oroe Trad
been anticipated BY every one OF the
men on the ground and they had
No Complaints 20 Iake
OF comparatively slight inconvenience
met with. Ihe GLOBE representative
followed the rush on horse used 10
,
ground soon after the leaders. /, was Il
race over the entire eighteen miles OF
prairie, through ravines, in some OF
watch there remained six lnchrs
of snow as we'll as over nils
upon which upland grass grew
green. The leader OF the cayal-
cade after the first few miles was Rose,
the ST. Paul man, who rode powerful
horse and a fast one. Tie urOnch0 rid-
ers gave them a hard chase, the hardy
natives Gt the prairie bills holding out
splendidly. From Browns Valley tie
route taken was mostly due north
west. There was good deal of dodg-
ing to clear tie guilies, but the distance
10 the valley will be les5ened to fifteen
miles when the bridges are built. \
few minutes before ! O'Clock the leaders
in the toWnSite race arrived Oh the
chosen ground. Half an hour afterward
300 men and 4 few women were Oh the
spot There enSued discussion IS 10
the exact locality Of the section line,
and Hon. \. CrUssGeid, vice president
sof the Slsseton Land company, was on
tie ground. as WAS also Manager j. ).
Noble. The first care OF the locators
was TO
Settle The Women.
Miss Burnett of minneapolis; Miss
Sharpe, MIS-. Osborne, Miss De Hart
and other Venturesome squatterS OF the
fair sex were promptly Installed Oh good
land. 1t was decided to change the site
to section 4, township 80, OF the same
range. The latter site is on an eleya-
ton. In half an hour restaurant
and grocery were running at full
blast, while dozen frame shall
ties were in course OF CON
fstruction Inspector Callahan, of
the duartermaster's department OF the
amy stationed ut st. Paul. rode a fast
horse aud was on the ground early.
The outlook for water and other neces
saries in the reserve IS good. There
will be no suffering. Excellent water
flows from numerous springs. The new
town is a few miles nearer to Wheaton
than to Browns Valley. The distance
west from that point is fifteen miles.
The site is close to the intersection OF
Three Proposed Lines
of railway. the Great Northern extern
sion from Morris north, the Milwaukee
from W:lmot. now in COURSE OF coll
strueton. and the ST. Paul a Duluth
extension north from WatertoWn All
the cavalry and infantry under Col.
Bernard aud Capt Williamson are lying
quietly in camp. The troops Will not
move until instructions III writing are re-
cevedirom the secretary Of the interior.
The military orders were carried out
with praiseworthy precision, and not
one drunken trooper has been seen in
Browns Valley. The order for with
.draWal Of the military is expected Mon
dav. Lieut. Crab5s. OF Troop &, Eighth
cavalry. directed the Yidette firing at
the opening. There is any amount OF
vacant land left. fully one half
the ground open TO settlement be
ing yet uncovered. Al noon today
several hundred more settlers had
passed out in search of homes. They
will easily Judge what they want. Mai.
Bernard says there will be no trouble
at all. and lumber and supplies are
going in continuous procession OF
wagons. Settlers will keep coming tor
the next month, according to indlca-
tiOns.
Sixty Filings Rejected.
( WATERFOWL. 5. d., April 16.-The
line at the land Office this morning was
longer than before the opening yester-
day noon. OF the 1000 filings made
yesterday sixty were rejected on ac-
count of conflict, and anxious crowds
'hovered about the bulletin boards
where the names Of the unfOrtunates
were displayed. Everything is re-
ported harmonious OIL the lower end OF
reservations
IIDGERw0oD, n D.. April IG.-There
was hardly any trouble here in settling.
In almost every instance the boomers
got what they wanted, and there are no
two men on the same quarter. Plenty
of fine farming land is to be had yet for
several weeks to come, as the greatest
rash was made from points east and
south While Lidgerwood had large
crowds OF landseekers.s the land tribu-
tAry to this point was not cut up as
much by Indian allotments as the land