Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-01-28
Indians Ask Land.

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Indians Ask Land.
A delegation of Indians passed
through the city Wednesday from the
Standing Rock agency for Washington
where they will consult with the "Great
Father regarding their claim to land
on the east side of the river will include
some of the most noted chiefs of the
Sioux tribe, among them Grass and
Red Fish. Grass is a noted chief of the
Sioux nation, and their orator on all
state occasions. He was one of the
chiefs at the time of the Custer massa-
ere and is one of the most noted Indians
now remaining on the reservation. Red
Fish is another we'll known chieftain,
and there will be several others in the
the party, which will be accompanied
by Louis Primeau as interpreter.
The Indians claim that by a treaty
made a number of years ago they were
ceded a strip of land on the east side of
the river, extending as far north as
Painted Woods. They claim, also, that
their right to this land has never been
recognized, and that is what they desire
to consult the authorities about.
There is another matter that will be
brought up and that is the presence of
the Santees on the reservation. The
Sioux do not recognize the claim of the
Santee to any right to participation in
the distribution of annuities, claiming
that the Santee received scrip which
they placed in Minnesota, and that they
are not entitled 10 anything else.
Catarrh in the Head, that troublesome
and disgusting disease, may be entirely
cured by a thorough course of Hoods
Sarsaparilla, the great blood purifier.
More Beaver Farming Stories.
The TRIBUNE is in receipt of a copy of
the Long Island Leader which contains
an account of the success which has
come to the farmers of Mclean county
through beaver farming, and requests
additional information on this subject,
because many of the famers of that vi
cinity want to come west and go into
the beaver farming business, and gather
shekels by the wholesale. The TR1-
BUNE refers the whole matter to Editor
Taylor of the Washburn Leader, who, it
is felt, will do justice to this Mclean
county industry. just to show the idea
which possesses the effete east the fol-
lowing extract is published from the
article in question:
While the wheat-grower in about
every other country in the state is cry
ing ruin and deploring the low prices of
wheat, the beaver farmer of Mclean
county is enjoying himself and rolling
up a bank account that is in no way
threatened by dry seasons, hailstorms or
a demoralized market. There is always
a demand for beaver fur, and for the
good article the price is always salts
factory and %unvarying. With $500 in
: his pocket when he reaches Mclean
/ county, a man can establish a beaver
farm that will in two years pay him
from $500 to 1900 annually. He first
purchases from ten to fifteen acres of
, land through which runs a stream. At
a point where the stream is narrow and
, the bank steep a dam is built. This is
, quickly done by Telling a few trees
across the bed Of the stream and filling
it with dirt and stones. In this way the
water is held back SO that two or three,
acres of land are overfOWed.
Along the banks of the stream and
around the pond ga fence of wire
netting from two to three feet high is
built, incloslng al! the trees that can
purpose of keeping the beavers on the
generally successful, but it is not in
variably so. Now and then a farmer
loses a portion of his colony that es.
capes up OF. down the stream by burrow-
. ing under the fence, but he has the
: chance Of getting some Of his neighbours
animals in the same way and he makes
) no complaint. AS a rule the beavers
stay contentedly in the Enclosure where
; they are placed. To tart with, a colony
of twelve females and four males is
sufficiently large. The animals are pur-
) chased in the, Saskatchewan Valley,
Manitoba, where they are trapped. A
colony Of sixteen will cost $3.50. They
are placed in the ponds in the spring,
when the water is high, and all the
farmer has to do is to keep his dam and
fences mp and prevent hunters from kill
ing his animals. The farmer experien-
CTS but little trouble with poachers, how.
ever, for it is generally understood that
a man caught in the act of beaver hunt.
ing on land that doesn't belong to him
is more liable to get q bullet in his skin
. than he is to get q trial by jury.
R. K. Foley Of Medora is visiting in
Y 1.-The city. s.s.