The Dickinson press., 1894-03-17
Tenderfoot Again.
Oakdale, N. d., March Is

Oakdale, N. D., March Is, 'o4.
Mr.. ED1ToR:-I met a sheepman
from Montana and / had good talk
with him, and he says the sheepmen
are on tho war.path for sure, and
they are going to rent ware house
in Boston this year, employ an agent
to take charge of it, and then send
their wool there to be sold at week.
ly sales directly to the manufacture.
ers and knock out the "skin" game
of the monopoly of commission men,
who last year advanced their rate
from S to 1919 per cent on sales and
then gave the wool away,-or any.
how, did not sell it for more than
enough to pay the freight and com.
missions. This is the correct doc.
trine for salvation, and our boys who
are going broke on sheep ought to
take hand in the game by having
the Wool Growers Association hump
itself. The secretary, Charles
Krauth, don't play "poker," but he
knows a Jackpot" like this when he
sees it and will take it in if he goes
to fetch it.
like to talk with the boys when
they are on the war.path and going
to fetch scalps! 1 got lots of news
lately, and was talking with the
boys on one of our free for all tracks,
and they sized up as just my size and
trotted a heat with them and had a
good time.
When the boys talked about "Ten.
derfoot" l tried to keep from blush.
ing, but must have been red around
the back of my ears, but was modest
and couldn't confess,-but the boys
thought "Tenderfoot'' was about
right and said "'renderfoot" had an.
other job on his hands, for j. S.
Green had manufactured another
windy letter. was going to ask
about the letter, when one of the boys
opened his wallet and produced two
columns of an eastern paper, in which
J. S. Green wrote about "beef bring.
ing cents per pound" then went on
to write IL "Republican campaign doc.
ument" about free trade and cattle
from Mexico and Canada. All the
boys had to cough where he says,
'.all the poor degrading scrub cattle
or scrub stock Of any kind, should be
kept out.' This was about Texas
cattle. and the boys all know he is
the right hand bower for a Cattle
King who controls $4,000 head of cat
tie Oh the range north and west OF
Dickinson, and trusts in God to have
them grow and care for themselves
; for the boys say the cowboys were
, fired last fall and none of them will
he wanted again until rounding "
time, and then the cattle may be
trained to walk into the shipping
! yard without help. The boys were
, wishing they could live on free land
F and free grass the same as the cattle
f Why, there's thousands of acres ot
, land in the unorganized counties thai
should he open for settlement, ant
if settlers had $4,000 head of cattle
7 with 100 to 500 head to each settler
it would make money for lot O.
men and women and be good fo
trade and business. The boy!
thought that "crack" about "degrad
ing scrub cattle' was too rich for thu
obscurity of newspaper. and ought
er be framed and set up in the oper;
', house. One of the boys wondered il
S. Green wasn't wishing to b.
state senator. Another said he wa
,, "as slick as they make 'em," but nj
flies to be caught with that kind O
sorghum. A smart travelling maj
who listened to the reading of th'
, fletter, said "that was d-n foolery'
about Armour, for if it want for Ar
mour and the Big Four at Chicago
! cattle from the northern ranges
i. couldn't have had any market las
year during the panic, and because
/. the big packers of Chicago mad'
t something for sale out of everything
$ from the tips of the nose to the ent
l of the tail, they could compete will
all foreign truck and always keel
open market for the home country
The boys thought some of the "de
grading scrub cattle" from Texa
!. sent out of this country last yea
couldn't have brought much stuff i
Armour hadn't used 'em for fertiliz
6 ers, or something besides beef.
Il Us. Green says, "that cattle rails
i ing in Texas is cheaper than Jan
= uary blizzard in North Dakota.
;. "The poor degrading scrub cattle
+ don't cost nothing in Texas, dom
S cost nothing much to drive TO Nortl
a Dakota, then the drivers are fired
r and then no taxes to pay, and th
members of the Stockmen's Associa
| IlOu are IdXtu D CcA1o p0A uonu ouu "
c per year to pay the secretary
salary and other expenses. while j. S
Green plays '.second fiddle" for tn
scrubs" and writes letters to the pa
pers to "pull the wool oyer the eyes
of the ranchmen.
: One of the railroad boys in the par
, ty said, che is mighty slick on
f though, for he managed the River
side ranch and Morton Co. togeth
. er; hypnotized Doc Coe and walke'
/ him over to the Pacific coast ava,
from his friends and foes. He turn
| ed democrat long enough to hypnot
ize the Governor shortribs AMI