Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-06-08
YEARS AGO.
Information Gathered from the Files
Of the Bismarck Tribune of
June 8, 1874.

"A general Q0S1ro 0XlSCS GlaG Glo MILL
tary make the proposed trip to the
Black Hills, explore the region, and
make some definite reports as to the
presence and richness of the minerals in
that locality. -. General Custer leaves
Fort Lincoln with $50 cavalry, a CON-
pany of infantry and fifty scouts, to in
tercept the band of 400 Indians, who
it thought are j%ourneyirg toward Fort
Berthold, to attack their enemies, the
Arlckarees and Mandans, in whose camp
there are about 5000 Indians, including
women and children. General Custer
returns in a day or so, having seen
nothing but one or two band of stray
glers. The main body of the Indians
believed to have headed for the Black
Hills .... River nine feet higher han low
water mark, and banks cutting away
rapidly. Vernon and Rockfellow, two
river travellers, getdrunk at Fort Steven
son, and Vernon stabbed his partner,
making a hole in his abdoman, through
which the intestines protrude. Vernon
has to skip Bismarck, because of a war
rant of arrest on some charge, and Rock
fellow comes down a day Or SC later,
partially recovered The Burleigh
county pioneers elect officers as follows:
President, DR.. B. F. Slaughter; vice
president, @. H. McCarty; secretary, Gus
Gullbreth; treasurer, e. ". Freede; cor
responding secretary, Thos. VanEtten;
assistants, Judge Bowen and Will Grow
....Yankton comfy gets twelve del
egates in the territorial convention, and
the whole northern half of the territory
only nine, as follows: Burleigh county,
4, Cass 2, Grand Forks l, Pembina l,
and Stutsman 1....For the first time in
the history of the city, the business
places close on Sunday. Lieut.. Glib
son of the signal service is in the city
bound for Fort Sully, and will recon-
mend the establishment of a signal SER
| vice Office at Bismarck. 1.-The Bozem:.n
expedition buried a loaded shell with
head board above it to represent a
grave, attached a lanyard so that it
would explode, if tempered with. A
band of Indians attempted to dig it up,
eight went to the happy hunting ground
and many were injured. I'D. w. Proc
tor and n. W. Comfort leave for a two
weeks hunt. Grasshoppers are num-
erous .... Capt. Ladley of the boundary
survey arrives in the city by special
train, with an outfit consisting of 12O
horses, 30 wagons, commissary stores,
etc. ...Sally Mcclure dies of an over
dose Of opium. Ten days before she
tried to kill Jack O'Neil, with whom she
had been living, he had her arrested, and
| while in Jail she took the dose from
which she died.
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Address,
H. E. BucK1EN & Co., Chicago, I'll