The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-10-12
Something Of a Romance.

About q mile or more north west OF
Painted Woods store, a high point long
known as Buck Raney's Butte stands
like, and is, a seminal Of record-but q
dumb ono. Although but twenty years
since tho first white settlers swarmed
around it. base, and from its summit
took eys"of their surroundings this
place bears mark Of tragic events. The
come and 20 that follow the discontented
mind, or that marked the end Of earthly
care has been many in these past twenty
years about Raney butte and. vicinity.
About 1884, = young man named Ed
wardson who with a spruce wife came
all the way from Sweden to carve out a
home settled east Of tho butte and went
to tilling tho soil. Overwork and ex-
posture brought on consumption to the
master, and to perlong life. with wife
and little baby girl they abandoned the
farm and went to live in tho mild cline
If New Jersey. A few years later the
wife and babe again returned to their
abandoned farm ut Buck Raney Butte,
t. commence life anew. She had slowed
away her husband in the sand dunes Of
New Jersey and would now 6ght the
cold world for life for herself and baby
girl. Though healthy and vigorous she
was handicapped by poverty and after a
weary struggle again abandoned the
farm and sought employment in Bis
marck. Distress gave her little choice,
~ she hired out as cook at Little CASH
uo's bagino. 1t was dangerous place for
u comedy young widow, and her courage
left her. Meantime her child became a
bother to her, and she once more came
back to Buck Raney's Butte and pre-
vailed upon Mrs. Ole Klintberg to take
charge Of her daughter and keep
her IS her own. Mrs. Klintberg was
without children Of her own but had
brought up one boy in the way he should
90, and being the kindest Of woman, the
mother Of little blue eyed, fair haired
Ester Edwardson knew that her six
year old daughter would find a harry
home. And so it proved.
As a neighbor Of the Klintberg's in
those days, the scribe noted the arrival
If the little Miss at their household, and
who looked pretty as a picture" in her
laxen curls and mild blue eyes. A year
or so later Mrs. Klintberg moved back to
her old home near Alexdrandia, Mimi.
taking her charge with her. Meantime
Mrs. Edwardson drifted around here and
there and finally turned up with a half
breed husband in a Sioux Indian camp.
Iefore leaving Bismarck knowing ones
had connected her name with the George
Adams mystery but that is not here OF
there with this narrative. The Mime
apolis papers this week contain the sec
und chapter in Ester Edwardson's cast
and are making it somewhat sensation
al. The mother had appeared at Alex
andria and virtually abducted the daugh-
ter and carried her of to Standing Rock
where she now is with her mother among
the Indians. She has written to her fos-
ter parent to save her from. ruin, and
Senator Nelson, an early day friend of
the Klintbergs is now using Ills influ-
tnce. and has written to the Standing
Rock authorities to.search the girl out
and have her sent to her foster parent at
Alexandria. Ester is now fourteen, and
q bright and pretty. girl she is-the Al
ex; u irians say.