The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-07

boast was that 1t was so situated that any
railroad building from Aberdeen to Bis
marck or from Fargo to the Black Hills
would have 10 touch there.
SHATTERED IDEALS.
Along came the Milwaukee & ST. Paul
Railway, with line pointed straight for
Manitoba, but the officials found that there
was more in ii for them TO locate an
tirely new town. and so they established
Monango two miles west of Keystone. The
deed was done in spite of all remonstrance
and all offers of bonuses. and there was
nothing left for keystone but to pick itself
up and move to the railway. The hotel
keeper took the initiative the storekeepers
followed, the bank was not long behind,
the newspaper moved TO the county seat,
and in six months there was not a trace or
the once flourishing keystone. save a few
caved-in walls and corner stakes. Even
the hitching posts which had adorned the
hotel and store promises We're gone 1t is a
fortunate characteristic OF all frontier
villages that the buildings are mostly or
light construction, and when ii becomes de-
sirable to move a town there are few brick
walls or stone foundations TO hinder. Key
stone vanished from the face of the earth.
There much hiiarity in Yorktown
over this turn of affairs. The 500 Rail-
way had been surveyed from Minneapolis
to the Missouri river, and the line ran d.
rectly through Yorktown. The hlarity soon
ceased. In a double sense the railway ran
directly through Yorktown. 1t ran through
and did not stop. The right of way actual
ly cut in two the back yard of Morey's Ho-
tel property, and every passing locomotive
gleefully whstled and shrieked but never
one stopped. There was not even a side
track-not much a watering tank.
Delegation after delegation went TO Mime
apolis to interview the 500" management.
but the only satisfaction they could OBTAIN
was the statement that the engineers had
reported that the grade at Yorktown was
not suitable for a station.
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merely an exasperating joke. While York
town prided itself on the fact that il en-
joyed something of an elevation on the
prairie. there was nothing within twenty
miles that could be signified with the title
of a hill. 1t had pitch enough to shed
water; which many prairie towns nave not.
but there was no more mountain scenery
about it than there is on Broadway, New
York city, between the Battery and Central
Park.
A party of clever Michigan men had es-
tablished the village of Fullerton. four miles
west of Yorktown. and they had prevailed
on the railway people to make that sta
ton and exclude Yorktown from such priv
iege. The old settlers of Keystone and
Yorktown accordingly think that fate has
evened things up, so far as those places are
In 1882 a large colony of New York people
founded the town of Hudson. in the James
river valley. For three or four years this
was one of the thriftiest places in the re-
eion. and the most perfect faith existed
that when any railroad was built from the
East towards the BIG SIOUX reservation the
crossing of the James river would be at
Hudson. 1t proved to be another of the
many miscalculations. however. for when
the town of Cakes was established. on the
east side of the James. it became apparent
that Hudson was doomed. The latter was
little too far to the south for the route
of the 500" Hudson was placed on
wheels and moved to Cakes Many very
substantial two-stcry buildings. as we'll as
smaller ones, were hauled across the James
river bridge in safety. and are doing good
service at Cakes to-day.