The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1894-10-06
ZIG HORSE SALES.

sPrehably the henvies. sales OF horses in
the state this summer are those made by
nlsjor j.. =. Murphy. oi the White Earth
rarc!,. located ill Ward county. ON the
White Earth river near it's junction with
the Missouri. This is the ranch formerly
owned by Melton Brothers. of P%ittsburg.
Pa" nnd sold by them to llustis d. Jamison
who in turn disposed of it three or four
years ago to j. S. and Mark Murphy. 1t
Ia justly consider cd .one of tho finest loca-
:ions III tho stale.
Major Murphy has made gales yearly
for chs past two voars. hut has. with his
brother, been more particularly attending
:" the raising nf the grade of stock.
Originally stochaa with fine brood mares.
the stock Of colts was Of good a.rnln, but
two years ago new and high grade slres
we're purchased and also a lot of large
western mares. The salss this year agyrc-
gate the neat sum of S233sO.OO WORTH of
horses raised on thu ranch. OF this sum
$4,000 was cash--mostlv from the govern.
ment. Tbs average price of'horses sold
is $500. Of tho 100 mares offered at
Berthold only II was rejected.
X X 81 x s. = Il *
Tha stock put in at Barthold are from
tho same stock sent to DIVER. of Logan
county. In addition TO his heavy stock
mostly Shires and Percheran.-Mr.
Murphy has about thirty full-hlood Coach
nlsres and a Coach stallion. lie has about
600 head left. Mr.. Murphy also put IN
five stations Mt Bsrthold--all from his
r.nrh. He will nlso soil several thousand
dollars worth OF beef this year.
Tho above we quote from the Ozone.
Now this is thrift. All from a $1,000
salary as Indian agent for three years and
nine months; or Sb.G25 during this time
which included all expenses of II number
of trips to Washington at the timo Ile
was suspended. pending investigation of
the rotton conduct Of the Agency during
his torn of office. To DO explicit about five
years and six months ago, the stock king
above quoted,-J.S S. Murphy-received the
appointment. as ageLt Of the Mandan.
Gros Ventres and Ariearee Indians. A
new treaty had just been consumnted
with these Indians for the cession of the
principal portion of their reservation in
which theJ were to receive $4,000 year
for ten y."rs. or 100000 in all. Agent
Jones, Of Kiddcr county in this state had
been appointed agent by President Cleve-
land i'll the last year of his first admins
tration. He was a good officer and honest,
but wss bounced by President Harrison
soon after his Inauguration. and before the
treaty with those Indiana at Fort Berthold
had been ratified. or at least before any
attemp pit had been made to carry out any
of it's provisions. We may at some future
time explain tho supposed deal with can
didate Harrison which has and will forever
debsr him from any future hope of being
again President of the United States.
At any rate Us. Murphy, of Ransom
county received the appointment as agent
of these Indians at Fort Berthold. BY his
neighbours he VAS described financially as
"a Young man who had but little to 90 on''
a mild term We suppose of describing o
shattered aud empty e1chequsr. He had
been chasing around after a little county
ofles with no very lattering hope of get
ting there" The new agent took charge of
Fort Bsrthold agency at once. And nov
our honest and guilsless friend of the
Steele Ozone ''shows Murphy up" az fol-
lowing the supposed line of instructions
in the ''story" that the Ozone editor com
plains was garblsd up II bad shape some
time since IN the LEADER, but which after
all seems to fit to a t-y-h as any one can
see in this item from the Ozone on the