Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-08-24
TWENTY A AGO.
Information Gathered from the Files
of the Bismarck Tribune of
Aug. 10, 1874.

Dakota Cleaner calls Col. L%ounsberry
the finest looking editor in Dakota. .
Telegram from Fort Sully says 5000
hostile Sioux are encamped on the Big
Rose, determined to intercept Custer on
his return trip. Four Horns, chief Of
the Sioux, says he will capture the OK.
pedition if it takes half his braves.
Col. Mills, with three companies of the
Third cavalry, leaves st. Paul for the
headwaters of the Yellowstone, to hunt
up hostiles Col. Brown arrives with
family, to open up the land Office.
John Leasure, en- route to Fort Benton
on the Josephine, writes of having killed
six buffalo, and numerous mountain
sheep, elk, etc.. MAJOR Dickey fails to
be appointed post trader at Fort Aber-
crombie. ... The TRIBUNE correspond
ent writes a long letter from the Black
Hills, dwelling on the beauties of the
new country. The expedition reached
the Hills first on July 18th, and camped
on the Belle Fourche river, zeal the
camp of Captain Reynolds, which al
made fifteen years previous, to a day.
From Bitter creek to this camp, about
eight miles, the hills were of sandstone.
perfectly barren except for a few pines,
and covered with a thin layer of black
ashes, from which they are named. On
July 2lst, ascending the ridge on the
south side of the Belle Fourche, was a
beautiful tract of table land, and follow
ing this a chain of valleys, green, fertile,
and suited for farming. Inexhaustible
beds of gypsum were seen, some of them
twenty-five feet thick. The top of Mt.
Ingan Kara was reached, and the name
Cluster and date "74" cut in it's stony
eminence. The height of the mountain
was LOO feet above it's base, ITO feet
above sea level. "Floral Valley" one of
the tracts of country, is described as a
paradise. Wild flowers abound, spark
ling water spurts from hundreds of hill
side springs, game of all descriptions
abounds, and the Indians regard the
place as the home of the Great Spirit.
Custer valley, another of the chain,
abounds with wild fruits. On all sides,
the hills glitter and sparkle with mica
ceous rocks, presenting a gorgeous ap-
pearance. 1t was here that gold was
ound. Some accidents and incidents
are reported, Lieut.. Chances horse fall
ing and cutting "a deep cash in his knee.
A private soldier named Cunningham
was taken with d~ysentery and died with
in four days. On the 21st, James Turner
and William Rollins had a quarrel re-
sulting in the death of the former. It
grew out of an old feud, and when Roll
ms found his horse tangled up in a
picket rope, he blamed Turner. Hard
words followed, in which Turner struck
Rollins, who drew his pistol and
fired, the ball entering Turner's
abdomen, and causing death IN about
eight hours. Rollins said Turner at
tempted to draw his revolver first, but
the latter denied this on his deathbed.
A graphic account is given Of the dis
covery a number of lodges of Indians,
who proved to be peaceable and made
no trouble. 80. Plats and records for the
land office received, but it cannot be
opened for thirty days. 49,. Another cor
RESPONDENT in the Painted Woods region,
gives an interesting account of the exper-
fences of n Of the first haying crews in
that country ~. The body OF q dead man
with nearly all the flesh stripped from
the bones, discovered in the woods by
Commissioner Mercer and Justice j. H.
Taylor. The skeleton proves that Of
"French Joe," and appearances indicate
an agonizing death-probably thirst and
starvation. Two employees at Fort Peck
attacked by Indians, and one gets four
bullets in his hip, but escapes. Gus
ter's scout, Charley Reynolds, tells the
Sioux City Journal about gold in the
Black Hills. - TRIBUNE reports q slough
ten miles east Of town, where there are
two feet of ice all summer, under fifteen