Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-06-20

OnHthe back seats shot OFF b gam
eral,s hat and broke a decanter on the
shelf behind him OF another trip
he says: we made another trip of
400 miles northward to the half-breed
settlement on the Pemhina river i'm
North Dakota. Here young Joe Ro-
7lette took me in hand and ina wooden
two-wheeled Red river cart harnessed]
with rawhide to a trotting OK, we tray-
eled for a week around among the set
tiers
In his accounts of early legislation
there are some interesting passages.
Writing from Yankton in April, 1862,
he says: '.The Red river delegation
have arrived and they appear to be
men of ability and experience. They
performed part Of their northern Jour
ney in dog trains" The passage OF
the niger bill by the council was
alluded to Is one of the important
matters Of legislation. This bill pros
vided that any negro, bond or free.
who comes into the territory, must
leave within twenty days or be con-
fined in the county Jail until he con-
sents to leave the territory. The viii
lage Of Yankton is alluded to as a live
burg, and wine dinners and wine
suppers, wine speeches and wine guar
re1s and the hurting Of bottles and
glasses across tables at the bleeding
heads of belligerent councilmen is one
source of occasional amusement ex-
hibited here with a free ticket to spec
~tators." Hon. II. S. Donaldson of the
Red river W that a bill regulating
marriages be referred to the commit
tee on internal improvements. AM
other fe~ature-gof early days is seen in
the following, written in May, 1862:
"Out of three judges appointed for Da-
kota and paid by the government a
salary of $1,80O year, not one Of
them was to be found in the territory.
Where are they? They are back in
the states where they have been for
the last year drawing their salaries as
judges, of Dakota" \
Writing again in 1868 of an appor-
tionment fight, he says, after stating
that a fair apportionment bill had been
Eagreed upon: sThe Bon Homme and
ERed river districts were dissatisfied.
On the night after this bill was passed,
there being but one day Of the session
left. the Red river delegation started
on their long journey northward. a
new bill was drafted giving the same
representation as the old one Ito all
Edistricts with the exception Of Bon
Homme and Red river, the first Of
which was increased to two council
linen and three representatives and the
seeondwas stricken entirely from the
bill and a clause inserted repeating
the Red river apportionment Of last
winter and leaving them without a
representation in either branch Of the
legislature. z The bill was lost BY
the lack Of a single vote to suspend
the rules.
In s~eptenber, 1868, writing from
Yankton, he says: General su1ly's
expedition Is about to return. When
Hast heard from he was proceeding
rapidly to Painted Woods and Fort
EBertholdd to intercept and fight the
flying Sioux sage observation Is
made in the succeeding letter wheI
he writes Dakota is noted for The
freaks OF her politicians and her IN.
dians.s Of the first steasnuln1boating 81
the Missouri he writes: Captain
lEJoseph LaBarge, master OF the Ber
Johnson.4one Of theFpioneer pilots ant
steamboat navigators Of the Uppel
Missouri passed up into the northwes
! wilds by steamboat In 1888, beins
then engaged in the fur trade will
the Indians. The first steamboat, th,
/ Yellow Stone, ascended the uppe
Missouri as tar as Fort Pierce early il
1929 only six years after the steame
! Virginia ;plowed It's way up the Mis-
! sissippi to Fort Smelling, above til
present city Of ST. Paul Again
this note: In 1a45 Fort Berthold il
the Mandalnn country, was established
las q fur trading station. by Berthol
& Co, OF ST. Louis
Writing from Yankton Of the legis
! lature in 1861 he says:: Some, OF th
memorials OF this section will be 70
a district land office at Pembina,
i new county and representatiol
Z and g division Of the territory forn,fn
q new and northern one BY the nam
4 OF Chippewa" Thus early was lei
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