Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-24

FRIDAY, AUGUST "a, 1900.
bacco with cow-puncher. And that
is final test of friendship. He at
once became Teddy to every cowboy
in the Bad Lands.
"Our country was not organized in
those days and our nearest court of
Jurisdiction was in Bismarck, 1G5
miles to the east. The only real at
tempts at recognizing this jurisdiction
ended in Marquis de Mores' party
shooting man named Luffsey, and it
then became the fashion for the deputy
sheriff from Bismarck or Mandan to
be stood up under guard and put on
the first train east whenever an at
tempt at arrest was made. The Mon
tana strangers afterward shot and
hung twenty-eight alleged 'rustleu'
who had given the Bad Lands the rep
utation of being the toughest place on
the frontier.
AT mass meeting in Medora Mar
quis de Mores was elected chief of the
fire department and I was elected chief
of police. Not long afterward man
named Finnegan turned loose and an
nounced that it was his time to how'll
A Mr.. Fisher was in my Office shaving,
the mirror being propped up on the
feedboard of Gordon press. One Of
the bullets from Finnegan's Winches-
ter went clean through the office and
passed between Fisher and the mirror,
nicking off corner of the latter on
the way. When Fisher emerged from
the door, wildly waving a towel in one
hand and razor in the other, with
one side of his face shorn and the
other covered with lather, it seemed
time to interrupt the festivities. So
we locked Finnegan up in an empty
box car, the nearest approach to Jail
we had. That night his partner
helped him out and they went down
the river, stealing boat on the way
from Roosevelt's Elkhorn ranch.
THE next morning Roosevelt
learned of his loss and started in pur-
suit, accompanied by two of his cow
boys named seawell and Dow. Fin
negan had with him half-breed In
dian and an old German who had been
deeply implicated in the worst of from
tier crimes, cattle-killing and horse
stealing. Roosevelt found the Ger
man alone in camp about eighty miles
down the Missouri river. his two COM
panions being off hunting. They made
him safe and then sat down by the
bandits fire to wait for the others.
When they were within twenty yards
or so Roosevelt and Seawell covered
them with their rifles and shouted to
them to hold up their hands. Finne-
gan hesitated for a second, but when
he recognized Roosevelt he dropped
his rifle and held his hands up beside
his head. A blizzard was blowing
that night and it was fiercely cold, so
Roosevelt concluded to tie up until the
weather moderated. He took away
the arms from his prisoners, but dare
not tie them, because if he did their
hands and feet would in all probable
ity be frozen, so he concluded to keep
guard over them and take his chances
AS precaution, however, he made
them take off their boots, which were
safely hidden away, and let them lay
around the campfire. 1t would have
been impossible for anyone to escape
in his stocking feet in that blizzard.
while two of his companions and
the captives slept Roosevelt took his
station with double-barreled shot.
gun and watched for the first foul
hours, then turned in and was relieved
by one of his companions. The next
day he started for Dickinson, the near.
est town. After suffering severely
from exposure, the party reached a
ranch house, where he hired a wagon
and pair of horses from rugged ole
plainsman,, who could not understand
why he took so much bother with the
thieves instead Of hanging them off.
hand. Placing the captives in the
wagon, Roosevelt marched behind il
through the snow for thirty-six hours
without sleep or rest, until he delivered
his prisoners into the hands of the
sheriff. He afterward appeared ir
court as the prosecutor of Finnegar
and sent him to the penitentiary for q
term of years."
RETIRED.
Pretoria, Aug. 21.-Dewet has re.
tired from Pyramid Hills fifteen mile: