The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-03-08
Watch Western North
Dakota Grow.
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a depth and character which has made
travelling exceedingly difficult. Again
the moral is that there should be more
thorough preparation in advance. Our
railroads, in common with those of
the entire country, have permitted
their equipment to fall below it's prop
er condition of efficiency, and they
were caught by a hard winter in a
crippled condition for which there
does not appear to be a good excuse.
The answer to this is that the roads
must be put into better condition, and
the people are here to see that this is
done, if not in one way, then in a
other. In the whole situation there
is not an element, the tendency of
which is to give North Dakota a
"black eye" If the people fail to
supply themselves with fuel they will
have trouble, here or elsewhere. If
railroads undertake to do business
with crippled engines loaded beyond
the limit, they will have trouble. The
overloaded horse may make a big rec
ord in ton-miles, but he will drop in
his tracks.
The first issue of the Williston Daily
State is at hand. Ben G.. Whitehead,
formerly editor of the Grand Forks
Press, is the publisher, and he and
Williston are to be congratulated upon
the excellence of the first number. The
State will be a power for good at Will
liston. The worst thing about it is its
democracy, but WI will have to bear
with that. At any rate, the State will
be a welcome visitor at this end of the
line.
The Hanna-Peake city commission
bill was reported f%avorably to the
house by the committee and will
come up for final action in a day or
two. There seems to be no opposition
to the measure.
The bill granting certain lands to
the state historical society conveys
sections 16 and Sc, township 144,
range "a, in Mercer county. Thus will
be preserved the last two Mandan In
dian village sites, which are of great
moment in the ancient history of
North Dakota.
Curator Steinbrueck being inter-
viewed regarding the matter says:
There stood two p%opulous villages,
full of life and happiness, till the
smallpox epidemic of 1887 destroyed
the inhabitants. These two villages
we're built and occupied by the Man
dan Indians, previous to Lewis and
Clark's expedition. Lewis and Clark
found the Mandans living there with
that part of the Arikara TRIBE which
had followed them up the river, while
the greater number of the Arikara
were still domesticated in several vii
lagos below the Cannonball river. The
circles of the old earth lodges, now
gone, the trenches of their rude forth
fications and the caches where they
stored their corn and their valuables,
are still plainly visible. Nearly oppo-
site the lower village, Mih-Tutta-Hang-
Kush and on the south side of the Mis-
souri, river, Lewis and Clark over
wintered in a fort called Fort Mandan,
from November, 1904, to April 1905.
That fort is gone by fire and even it's
former location is washed away by the
changed course of the river. South of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. are yet the re-
mains of old Fort Clark, a trading post
of the American Fur company, which
was built in 1881 by James Kipp, a
Canadian Of German descent.
Thanks to u congressional delega-
ton, these historical places are now
reserved for preservation, and having
become state property under the con-
troll of the North Dakota State Histori-
cal Society, are protected by law
against trespassing of any kind.
The other bill for the relief of set
tiers on the old Fort Rice and Fort
Abraham Lincoln reservations is also
of great importance. 1t gives the
state lands in lieu of school lands filed
on the reservation which the settlers
would lose but for this action.
Chamberlain's C0ugh Remedy a Fay0rite