Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-10-13
old TIMES RENEWED.
Charley Gurley an Old Timer Writes
Interestingly From Washing
ton of Old Times.
A New York Woman Would Like
To Know Where Her Hus.
band Is.
Various Items of Interest Gathered
For Tribune Readers Here
and There.
Old Tim. 3 Again.

AS"
EDITOR TRIBUNE: I have read with
great interest and pleasure the short
articles that have appeared in your
columns during the past few months en-.
titled: Twenty Years Ago" What
memories they have awakened. What
scenes they recall for the "old timer Of
BurleiRh county.
l Gee Jimmie Emmons ploughing the
''raging Missouri" as mate Of the steamer
Miner" with Billy Gould as clerk. l
see Jimmie laying out the town Of
Edwinton. I see my old friend Joseph
Dietrich making heaps of money taking
passengers and baggage to steamboats,
every day. I see Bill Shaw and E. b.
Bly, amusing themselves with five little
cubes, commonly known as dice" I
see the old opera house, with big Sam
Whitney as its proprietor. What tales
of love and woe it could tell. l see the
Infatuated crowd Of soldiers coming from
Fort Lincoln to avenge the death of
Massengale. I see Jack White and his
chums making for the brush il the bot
toms. l see Gen. Custer taking posses
sion Of the store of Mclean & Mac
nider, and the rage and frothing of 'his
honor the mayor John A. McL.) when
refused admittance by the soldiers to
his VI store. I hear his by Goshw
"By Gosh"
1 see Handsome Collins" tearing up
the petition of the Puget Sound Land
company, under pretense Of signing it!
l see John Leasure making his midnight
ride to Fort Berthold in advance of the
steamer having aboard the Indian sup
Plies. l see the assembling of many
soldiers at Fort Abraham Lincoln and
the departure of the same with General
Custer at their head and the band of
the eth Cavalry playing "Garry Owen"
I see the steamer "Far West" under
command of that famous Missouri river
pilot and master, Grant Marsh, landing
the wounded from the fight at Little
Big Horn.
I hear the shrieks and meanings of
the widows and orphans of Fort Lincoln.
l see Jimmie Emmons e%ndeavoring to
edit a paper and Haunting an extra issue
in the face of the late Secretary of Wal
Belknap.
1 see Frank Moore Of the old steamer
Eclipse" playing practical jokes upon
his most intimate associates.
I see Tom Winston, fresh from his
claim in Mclean county, telling wonder
full stories Of the crops he has just
raised to a crowd of open.mouthed ar
rivals from the east.
I e the Weekly TRIBUNE eagerly
sought for and read by every old timer
on the day of issue.
l see grim vlsaged wal settle around
Colonel Lounsberry and John A. Stoyell
during the heat of a political fight.
l see many other familiar actors and
scenes in the days of long ago, but will
not weary you o with "reminiscences.
The TRIBUNE of September Both last
with the first chapter of "Fortress to
Farm" is just at hand. 1t is hardly
necessary for me to say that 1 have read
with great pleasure every word, and that
l anticipate still greater pleasure in the
chapters that are to follow. Congratu-
lations to Mrs. Slaughter and the TR1B-
rSE on the true picture Of twenty-three
years on the frontier. G.. L. G.
Washington, Oct. Z, $685..