Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-02-27
IS THE c&Nw RY ASLEEP?
Lcbeau pheaix Gives Some History
Of the Gamble Bill for Reserve
Opening.

OESutuSs
The LeBcau Phcnix of last
week contained the following:
which contains matter of interest
to everybody living within reach
of the Old Muddy:
lnv, siiga,ion set on foot by The Phnnix
and carried on with vgor commensurate
with the interest felt by the people of l.c-
Beau and the country tributary thereto.
leads to the conclusion that the Gamble
bill, either with OF Without design ON the
part OF the senator. was the opening
wedge for Il great coup on the part of the
Miiwankec railroad.
The PheniN is prepared to state as re-
suit Of its investigations. and on authority
that is unasSai!ahIc, tina during the month
OF November last IL conference was held
in the oiiice of MIR. Peek. general council
Tor the Milwaukee road if. Chicago. at
which there were present in addition to
Mr.. Peek and other officials of the rail-
| road company. Senator Gamble and MIR.
W. c. Lust editor of the Press and Dako-
ton at Iankton.
The meeting had been prcarrangcd by
Mr.. Peck and that gentleman pointed out
to Senator Gamble the fact that the
Milwaukee company was operated
almost 100 miles of road through the
! Standing Rock reservation in this state
along the line OF whio.. there was not I.
single town nor could there be until. such
time as the Indian lands were added to
the public domain. Mr.. Gamble was
asked to use his influence as Il member of
| the committee ON public lands in the
senate to hayc Il strip parslleling the
Miiwaukce's tracks through the Standing
Rock reservation opened to settlement,
and this he promised to do. The senator
| already had advice from the interior
department that little if any difficulty
would bc experienced in securing cOnscn,
| of the Indians to the opening OF Schnasse
county and so stated to Mr. Peck .fhere-
upon it was agreed that Mr. Gamble was
10 frame Il bill taking in SchEasse county
and before final passage this bill was To
be amended to inclndc the strip of the
Standing Rock reservation through which
the Milwaukee road passes from the
| Missouri river to the North Dakota line
This paper has no desire to do Mr.
Gamble an injustice. The writer has. In
a political way. been classcd with the
senator's friends. But the interest of Lee
| Beau and all that great area of country
| ignored by the senator's proposed legls-
iation and irrctlicvably injured should
| his bill pass in its original Shabe. are OF
more consequence to The pheniX than
the political welfare of any man or set OF
men. III The truth concerning the inccp-
tion of the bill i'm question initiates
against the senator. that is matter of re-
gret to 'l'hi PheniX. 1t may be that Mr..
| Gamble. anxious to serve an influential
clement of his constituency, overlooked
the great injustice to a larger number
but less conspicuous, factor in the terri
| tory affected. But the fact neverloss re-
mains that tho frame up between the
senator and Mr.. Peck is a distinctly Mil
wallllcc measure which if carried to
frIiiion will prove blight to LcI,eau as
we'll Us all that vast area of country along
the Missouri river from NIobridgc to
Pierre.
1t is only fair to Mr.. Gamble to state
that he has more recently. in Difference tc
| many urgent protests, pledged himself to
| broaden the scope of his bill so as TO in
clude all of the reservation lands in its
provisions.
In the meantime let us be constantly
on the alert to the end that no opport-
unity presents for the senator to suffer a
lapse of memory during the pcndency OF
the measure in the upper house of con
| gross.