Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-26

and they speedily set on foot measures,
that resulted in the restoration Of The con
fiscated liquor to the sa~Ioonkeepers, who
sold it openly as before, and the distaste-
full. duty ofinterfering with the affairs Of
the citizens. was not again imposed upon
the military.
In the latter part of September, 1872, the
first civil organization on tie part Of some
of the citizens Of the new town was at
tempted. A public meeting was held one
Friday night, at which DR.. Burleigh of
Yankton, was the leading spirit, aud in
which but few persons participated, to
nominate candidates for county and terri
! torial offices. Mr.. Charles Mccarthy was
nominated for the territorial council and
Major Lyman and E. A. Williams for the
house Of representatives. A ticket for the
different offices in Buffalo county was
likewise nominated, and at an election
held on the following Tuesday, all the
nominees were elected, but as there was
no county organization of course they
could not serve, and the election was re-
garded chiefly as q joke in Edwinton.
Charles Mccarthy was a conscientious
gentleman, and refused to claim a seat in
the council,but the c0terie Of Yankton
politicians to which DR.. Burleigh belonged,
had no scruples in regard to such matters,
y Major Lyman, whose home was in
Yankton, and r. A. Williams were ad-
mitted to seats in the territorial legislature
for the sessions of 1872 1873.
Charles Mccarthy with his brother
John, and Edward Donihue then kept a
livery stable, where the Methodist church
now low stands. He had a Sioux Indian wife
and children who lived on his claim on
Apple Creek, and to whom he wa de-
vOtedly attached.
f Unlike most of the "squaw-men" of the
vicinity, who discharged their Indian wives
and children sending them back to their
tribes upon the advent of the whites,
MCCARTHY openly lived with his family and
it was his ambition to properly real. and
educate his children. who were as dear to
him, as also was their mother, as if she
had been a white woman. Mccarthy was
drowned " years afterward with C., ].
Miller, Deputy U. S. Marshal, by driving
into an air hole in the Missouri river
Mccarthy was then sheriff of BurleiRh
county. DR.. Slaughter who knew Nc
Carthy's wishes in regard to his family
endeavored to have his claim and other
property secured to his wife aud children.
but although Indian marriages were legal,
under the territorial law, there was not law
enough in this portion of the territory to
secure justice to the defenseless. The
property reverted to McCarthy's brothers,
and the poor wife returned penniless to
her tribe. 49,
In November, 1872, the first child was
born in Edwinton, in the small log cabin
that still stands on Fifth street, above the
blacksmith shop OF Th0s. Hines. Dr.,
Slaughter, Mrs. Hildreth and myself were
present. The nurse was Kate Shannon,
afterward, and l always thought unjustly,
called aCrazy Kate" The mother was
Mrs. Mcdonald, a Mexican woman, and
wife of a teamster. The child, q girl, died
and was buried in the Presbyterian grave.
yard. Mrs. Mcdonald was afterwardi sho,
by a man named Page, as she was trying
to prevent his taking some disputed cattle
from the barn in the rear of the lot. She
fingered for weeks between life and death
attended by Drs. Slaughter and Boughte,
Of Fort Mexican. "
The second child born was the little son
Of Private John O'Leary, who was born
in the laundress quarters at Camp Han.
cock, on Christmas, 1872, and the third wa
the. little daughter of Corporal Myers, born
III his quarters in sthe same building ir
February, 1873. The nurse on this oc
casion was Mrs. Sebra, the aged mother o.
Mrs. O'Brien. She was 50 years Of age
and was the Oldest inhebitant of the. town
The O'Leary child died eight years later O.
smallpox. The other children born ii
Bismarck before the completion Of thu
railroad were Johnnie, son of MI. Johr
Mason, Annie, daughter OF T. w. Plum
mer, Johnnie, son Of Mr.. John O'Connor
and a daughter to Mr.. D. w. Foster.
During the year 1872, the town was quiet
and there was, but n shooting affair. A
man named Daley had jumped. the claim
Of Alfred p. Walker, in the big bottom
near the Point, andFsduring an alterc,aatio11
Walker shot him. Dr.. Slaughter was SEN
for; he rode a government mule, and til,
Thermometer was twenty degrees below
zero He extracted a pistol ball from
Dailey's shoulder. He recovered and lef
the country. The claim long g disap,
peared in the river. Alfred de Forres
Walker is still q resident Of BurIeigl
county.
Kate Shannon located on q lot on ives
Meiggs street, now Broadway. Her 10,
cabin is still standing there. Kate wa
deaf but . hard worker; she had accumu
lated some Eve hundred dollars by he
labor as laundress and nurse, which sh,
Kept in her cupboard, in an old tomat,
can, and was wont to proudly, display i
her few visitors. .
Kate had a history. She claimed to. hav
been married early in life to a handsom,
man, who had basely robbed and deserte,
her. This was her favorite theme whel
~conversing with those Of her patrons VIII,
had the patience to talk with her. On
7 day q Bumber Of years later, she appeare,
4 at q neighboring house pale ss death an,
trembling with excitement. She had saal