The Dickinson press., 1908-08-08

tOI LQo ROAD QaQ Deen QuSneO on 1QCO
Montana, there was a busy city
there; q sort Of "Julesburg On
wheels. 1t had been a place Of gem
eral supply for the employees Of the
constructors of the road and a. sta
ton Of the overland stage coach
route; a place where, in tents
and dugouts,.s more. or less ex-
tensive, necessaries and unneces-
saries, amusements and mischief,
refreshments and things not at
all refreshing, were dealt out
at prices to suit the times and well
qualified to relieve. the inside pres.
sure and strain on the purses and
pocket books Of the victims. Traces
Of this prehistoric" city may yet be
seen in and around Gladstone, in
broken glassware, tin cans and holes
in the ground, where many foolish
men lost their hard earned treasures
to the ever following crowd of gamb-
lers and other crooks. s
In the same year the town OF Tay-
lor was plated by l.. N. Carey, OF
Mandan, and q handsome hotel
building, for the time and place, was
built. by him at that station, then
called Antelope" The name was
changed to Taylor, in honor Of the
then superintendent Of this division
of the road. Antelope vas picked up
and set down very gently in the
east part of*the. county near the front
door Of the residences. of our worthy
pioneer settlers, Edmond Hughes and
John Harenden, where it still re-
mains. .s.
Late in the fall or early winter OF
that year, the representatives Of a
New Jersey corporation, owned and
controlled by the banking firm of c.
B.. Richards and Co. of New, York
City, made their. appearance here.
It was known under the name Of the
Richardton Land and Improvement
Co. BY that corporation the town. of
Richardton was plated where it now
stands. ~. a..
The plan Of: this corporation. was
to bring from Germany, by a line Of
steam boats Gin which It's members
e i~nterested) a colony of Ger
mans, to settle in and around Rich
ardton. That corporation about five
years ago (15 now sold out all its
interest there, but in its operations
it brought in a class Of settlers
which, in the. main, made excellent
citizens of our county.
Early in the year 1883 the matter
of the organization of the county
began to be agitated. At that time
new counties were organized, on pc
tition of so resident voters, to the
Governor who, upon such petition,
appointed three commissioners, who,
when commissioned and qualified,
were authorized to make a Temporal
ry location of the county seat and
appoint all the other county officers.
Such location of the county seat and
tenure Of Office of such officers con
tinued until after the next general
election.
Dickinson and Gladstone were RI
walls for the. honors and advantages
of the county seat, and petitions
with that object were gotten up at
both places. The Governor recog-
nized both; but, in the deal, gave
Dickinson the heavy end, by placing
James Collister and H. L. Dickinson
on it, while the other end had only
the light weight of James G.. Camp
bell, representing Gladstone and all
the east end of the county, who, of
course, was lifted too high in the
air, by the. scale, counterweight of
two big men at the other end
of the scale to be influential on
that question. That settled the tenn
porary location of the county seat
and virtually settled the permanent
location, for by the time of the next
general election, Taylor and Richard
ton were also in the race. The vote
of the east end was thus divided
and Dickinson had a walk away.