The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-01-20
With Some Hetss On object Lessons

|settled within twenty-five miles
Eof him and was acting like he
meant % stay there. 9rennefl.
was then running q wood yard
shove White Earth River OPP
posite Strawberry Island and
Johnny Barker without the fear
Of Grennell, 4ros ventrs or the
Devil had the tenlcrity to settle
down to woodworking at the
Spanish Point twenty-five miles
further up stream. Grenuell
was srathy, made threats and
all that sort of thing, but Johnny
held his ground. l
In the Indian trading days
Fort Berthold was blessed OIL
cursed-as you choose to view
it-by several representatives
Of rival trading establishments.
With three thousand Indians
and less than q dozen Whites
you would have thought the
latter would have had q contin-1
ual tea party. Not they.
lt was here at old Berthold
the writer-then q young man
Of 80 or "a yearbook some
well remembered lessons in hu-.
man nature, whether hewed in
the rough, as from the primi-
tive red man-or his more pol
ished white sblother with some
centuries tphis credit in 'shook.
+lasnin," ;itwas an instructive
study ait same. There was
usually good natured dear old
|Sappish' spl4ce where the pill
.Rrims, woodhswks, hunters and
11Appers use to make changing
ap' Rrbunde during their tarrX
fslays a4the Fort. One morning
over his coffee, biscuits and
dried buffalo, Mr. Sappishsglad.
II RECALLED tls with "a pie3e Of
his mind" about one Of his ri
walls in business. -, -:%s
:"Why the old one-eyed rascal
said mine host getting next
next to his subject, ''has beat
aud robbed every man that has
ever had anything to do with
him-and murder; we'll let any
Of Bohnsyille's trappers tell of
the trapper foand with q knife
in his back snd- disappearance
after a winters catch Of peltries
on Beaverhead. And"
Here host was cut short by q
knock at the door and entry of
the gentleman who had been
the subject of discourse. Mine
host was not to be caught, 60
sang out cheerily:
'"Good lnorning-good morn
ing Mr.. S. won't you have
some breakfast with i'm. -
!: And two moonlit bonnies |
never divided q cabbage leaf
With. more 'frolicksa7he gusto
these two Indian traders did
overstheir pipe andibowl.
{ AntedatinR this incident was
another 'thtudy y''' to nhs opening4
HIS eyes u Morld dly. Nxy:
Ihad landed af Rsrfhold from
q Bt.sLous,!bnata and was Q COM
parative strahaerto most Of this
Fort bsople and Is looking about
Quartefa !; with: old Jefferson,
6mith:a trader who had been in |
the Indian country since 1882;
One day;word reached ID that
9laf "a Frenchnan Of the
trading. firm Of Gustavo q Mall
nori had died rslldd denly from q
dose Of something given ~ tho
agency doctor to cure q cold, !
The doctors experience-to
believe His own. words had
been limited TO cpnning the pa
ges az Gunn,e Family Ply ysi.!
clan: and ssampling \ Hostett ers'
Stomach Bitters. Sogood = SAM.
plef had hS become that he had
lately lost his positii1c On 40 clssk!
e one the lower agencies and o;
leading oitixen Of Yankton had
asked Agent w Vilkinson'to give
tha, future agency ply sician
soma promise OF 8 job ct Fort
Berthold 70 gift him out Of
town. q. fIe had now progressed h
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