Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-12-08

III the rear, stood where the railroad track
now Is. The tents of the company were
in W long roowS, facing each other and
running east and west in front Of the head
quarters. with tho cooks and commis>ary
tents on the brow of the hill to the south.
MI. X. Nj. Douglas, a young man in
charge of the Northern Pacific storehouse,
now appeared with the welcome proposal
that my husband and l should occupy his
room in the storehouse, while he would
sleep in our tent, until our goods co.ld be
unpacked.
The n. +. Storehouse stood there on the
corner lot now occupied by the Anderson
block. 1t was a immense frame build.
ing. with large double doors. A neat
little room, was partitioned off in one COR
ner, but the mosquitoes swarmed through
the cracks, and we had to keep a smudge
burning all night. This building was
afterward moved over to the railroad
track, and now forms the center of the
present freight depot.
Life was soon running smoothly with
US ut Camp Greeley. We furnished our
commissary stores. table linen and china
to Mrs. Anthony. aud as our hours for
meals were different from the other
boayders. We We're soon agreeably served
at :he hotel.
The Anthony hotel was then the last
house on west Main street and the only
building west of Second street. On the op-
posite corner where the Dakota block now
stands. was a long log house, the head
quarters of the L. S. 4 T. $. Co.. where the
men engaged in holding land for the COM
pany came in from their CLAIMS every
Saturday night to spend Sunday and re.
ceive their weekly supply of "grubstake."
Joseph Pencil, who was holding the town
site for the company wa in charge of the
place. On the corner of Main and Third
streets, where Phelps store now is. was
the messhouse of DR.. Burleigh, in charge
of Maj. W. P. Lyman. and on the next lot
but one, where Mclean and Marnider
afterward built their store was his ware
house of railroad supplies. These were
roomy log buildings and were the first
houses built in the town. On the opposite
corner of Main and Third streets, where
Oietrich's meat market now stands was
Dimmick's saloon. built of the logs, which
he had brought down from Fort Berthold
on the Miner the preceding June. These
logs belonged to F. +. Girard, the post in
terpreter at Fort Mexican, who was also
the owner of the saloon and billiard hall,
run by Dimmick and NJ. Tippie. On the
corner where the First National bank now
stands was the general store of Cathcart &
Shaw, in which the Winston Brothers were
interested. and which had been moved up
from Carleton City. Fred Hollembaek was
in charge of it. r. r. Marsh was then
building the Wellington house, afterward
called the Capital house, on the spot now
covered by the Central block. William
Coleman who afterward owned a bakery
on Fifth street, was cook at the Yelling
ton. Edward Hackett had a small frame
house ready for his family Oh Main street,
near where the Atheneum now stands,
and a a named Hilderbrandt lived with
his family in a log house, neal where the
Custer hotel now stands. On the corner
now occupied by the Lamborn hospital
was a frame house, called "The Las,
Chance where John w. Proctor kept
saloon. Proctor, himself. lived on land
adjoining the townsite, on which he after
ward filed a presumption and lived upon
it the requisite length of time, but he in.
advertently allowed the time in which
proof was required to be made to pass, and
E. A. Williams filed upon forty acres OF
the land, which is now Williams addition
to Bismarck,
On the corner of Fourth street and Broad.
way were camped the families of Matthew
O'Brien, Geo, A. Joy and John Sebra. Mr.,
O,Brien afterward built a comfortable
hewed log house and kept boarders on the
same corner.
Edmond Hackett, Geo. A. Joy and NJ.
Tippie afterwards made claims to the
townsite. The family of John w. Plum
mer was living in a frame shanty IN ThirG
street. near where the Slattery block o
is, where also j. w. Millit and Rober,
Scott had a livery stable. A man nance
Diamond with his wife and children were
living in a large tent near by. The Plum
mers had come overland from Yanktor
following the river, and l had seen theil
camp opposite Fort Rice a month before
Diamond had worked on the railroad grade
for Burleigh. Hon. John Yegen and {
man named BASTARD had a bakery where
Yegen's store now stands. There were
also a number of tent houses-that is
wooden frames covered with canvas-or
both sides of the street, and a few tent:
were scattered about OH the rear lots. Jacl
White afterward had a saloon adjoining
lhe Capital hotel. MIR. and Mrs. T. p
Davis came soon aftel ward and located or
t Fifth street whey they still live.
The woman Mollie Myers, who had beer
t put off the miner" by the military in June
was now known as Mollie Stocking. anc
| was living with a colored woman named
!, Annie, who had been a cook on the grade
: for Burleigh's men, in a small slab house
which they had built themselves. nea1
l where the Touring mill now is. A. mar
: named Wolf afterward proved up on thu
Iopd ovor there. which WAS then held by