Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-08-29
A NEW TOWN. ]
Col. Lounsberry Starts q Paper Al
Buford and ii on the Ground u
Floor There.

Floor There.
Townsite Will BE Entered Develop
ment Of the Recently Opened
Reservation.
8s Col. L.ounsberTy, founder Of the
Tribune, and one OF the early settlers
of Bismarck, is at the bottom Of a.
boom for the Buford region, on the
upper Missouri river. The first issue
Of The Buford Tribune, published by
Lounsbervy & Mumby, has been res
ceived in the city and is the first move
in the direction OF a new town on the
upper Missouri. The Tribune devotes
several columns to the recently opened
sBuford reserve and in intro oductory the
colonel says:
Until May 10, 1900, a tract Of some
SOC. 900 acres OF land, of which Buford
was the exact center, was held as a
military reservation and could not be
entered under the homestead act:
Three hundred Thousand acres Of this
tract is in the state of North Dakota
and two hundred Thousand in Mon
5tana. A considerable tract in North
Dakota Lies in the forks of the Yellow
stone and Missouri rivers. Buford is
in the state Of North Dakota, directly
opposite the mouth OF the Yellowstone,
and embraces the site Of the old his
toric Fort Union. 55#
ss For many years the publishers have
had their eyes ON this point for the
publication OF a newspaper, and looked
the field over as far back as 1892, but
the down that ought to be at the mouth
of the Yellowstone was established
further down the river at Williston,
because settlement could not them be-
made at BuHord, and therefore they
waited until May this year, when, after
looking the field over personally, the
plant was ordered and the Buford
4 Tribune rs the result y ' s.
A toWnsite will be entered and there
may be q arepitition Of the early exper-s
fences in Bismarck, for Col. Louns-
berry, in editorial correspo spondence Of
the new paper says: gs5s
The toWnsite entry will doubtltess
be made under the provisions Of sec.
tion 1887, 23ss and 2Ss9 Of the Revised
Statutes, and in that case will be made
by the county judge, who will settle all
disputes as to the lots subject to app
peal to the district court. The town
site will be surveyed and the expense
of surveying entry and incidental ex-5
penses will be charged up to those
holding lots to each a proper proper
tdon. The state law made to flt the
situation at Bismarck governs the dis
position Of the lots after the entry is
made. s535, 81
M entered under these sections the
cost OF each lot will be at the rate of.
$ 81 ..25 per acre with the added cost
for surveys and other necessary ex-.
penses. If under other sections Of the
townsite law, the charge Will be $40:
to $15 per lot while under the law sug-
gested actual occupants will hold the
ground actually occupied by them or
on which they have substantial Inn
8proVements. It was settled at Bis
marck, and In hundreds of other cases,
that lands occupied by am established
town where trade is being carried on,
are not subject TO homestead entry.
4 Sam III. Lille, now OF Buford, Joseph
Pennell |, y. w. Proctor, Edmund Hack
ettttt, Samuel Townsend III and others
claimed homesteads iii y Bismarck as:
Mr.. Christy lis now claiming at Bu-
ford, and lost, every snbdi vision on
which there were residents or other
occupants claiming under the town
site act was given to the town Sur
veyn General Wi lliams saved eighty
acres on his claim east Of town, John.
B w. Plummer and Dennis Idannafin8
saved part of theirs west o4 town, and
John y Jackman saved all OF his, but
not one foot was conceded to those.
who claimed the actua town as home
steads excepting that wi,dch they were
actually occupying with their build
ings and gardens. Or ether town iim-
proyesments There was years Of litii-E
CATION and thoasands of dollars ex-
pense and the town was kept back
I 1--WE years by these claims. &.
HoyT'S ss TEXAS STEER. &
Fantastic as the title ii, suggestive
Of q riot o1 nonsense and frolie, I.
Texas Steer . which viii be seen here
eft the Athaneum Saturday night pre-
sents an interesting story ia a leglti-I
mate draanatic wasy, bringing out hu-|