Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-20
UP AT FORT BERTH0LD
A Berthold Correspondent Writes
Interestingly OF Some Happen
ings at That Place.
A Brief Blaze Occupies the Atten-
ton of Firemen For a Few
Moments, Last Night.
Various Items of Local News Gath
cred In and About the
Capital City.
Dotngs At Berthold.

EDITOR TRIBUNE: The advent of
spring was marked by two notable
events, that will long be remembered by
the residents Of Fort Berthold agency.
The rounding up and bringing in of the
"Crow Flies High" band of the Gros
Ventre Indians, by the soldiers from
Fort Buford, under an executive order,
broke the dull monotony of reservation
life about the LIST of April. These In
dams after nesting on their own hook
for a number of years, have at last an
nounced their determination of settling
IN the reservation, taking allotments,
building houses, and exchanging their
rowing life, for a more civilized and a
better ne. They seem in earnest and I
believe they have ingood faith, accepted
the situation.
Another and much more noteworthy
event and u that will ever be regarded
as a bright oasis in the lives of the
agency people, was a testimonial enter
tainment given by the agency employees
to Maj. J. S. Murphy and wife, where
they emphasized their appreciation of
the uniform kindness with which he had
dealt with them in the administration
of agency affairs as agent, and their love
for himself and wife by presenting as a
token of their regard a handsome china
dinner set. Maj. Murphy after serving
for nearly five years at the Fort Berthold
agency severed his connection with the
agency, to look after more important
business matters. When his former en-
ployes and associates heard of his inten-
ton, they decided to make his leave
taking less %sorrowful by assuring him in
a substantial way that he and his wife
carried with them into their new home,
the love and friendship of all of his old
associates. The token of remembrance
presented was a Dresden dinner set, SO
that in his every day life, at every meal,
he would be reminded of absent friends,
every n of whom had a dear place in
their hearts for him and his family.
On the night of April Sd, he and his
wife we're invited to the agents house
where their friends were waiting for
them, and an elegant collation. was
spread. There wa a special flavor
given to the delicacies from the fact that
fair and loving hands had prepared
them. Immediately after supper, Capt.
W. H. Clapp, acting Indian agent, in an
informal, but very happy and appropri-
ate speech, made the presentation.
In an eventful life of over forty years,
it has never been my good fortune to
attend an affair of this kind, where there
was less ostentation and more good fell
lowship and love than was displayed on
this occasion. Major Clapp, in his pre-
sentation speech, paid a high tribute to
Major Murphy. both, as a man and pub
lie executive. He found him a progress
sive and straightforward public official.
After taking charge of the agency, he, in
almost every instance, adopted the pol
icy of his former agent as being the
wisest and best, and what every success he
made as agent was due in great measure
to carrying out the plans and finishing
the work commenced or mapped out by
Major Murphy. W. S. G.
Fort Berthold, April 10th.