The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-10-28
PROBABLE SOLUTION OF BONES
FOUND NEAR CAVE HILLS.

About three weeks ago the follow
ing dispatch was printed in num-
Der of the daily papers of this state;
1.-The finding of the bones of a
man and horse and the remains OF
A saddle at a point in the extreme
northwestern part of the state, fur
nishes mystery which the author
titles may never be able to solve.
about two weeks before the dis
covery of the bones was made. the
members of threshing crew on the |
North Dakota side OF the boundary |
line were surprised when man |
rode up TO them in the gloom of a |
rainy evening and inquired the right |
trial to the bad lands. He was Civ
en- the information, but was denied
the privilege of remaining over
night with the crew, as they were
unable to provide the necessary bed
ding.
However, the stranger visited
with them for time and then Sc
cured lodging for the night at a
farm house in the vicinity From
remarks dropped during the time
the stranger visited the threshers
they understood his name to be
Schilling. The next morning the
stranger disappeared, riding south
ward on bay horse"
"The visit Of the stranger had al
most been forgotten by the thresh>
ers when a cowboy appeared at their
camp and told them of the finding,
north of the Black Hills, of the
bones of man and horse. At the
time of the visit the stranger was
unarmed. The theory has been adj
vanced thai he and his horse We're
/ attacked and killed by wolves, but
+! frontiersmen ridicule this theory,
stating that the wolves of the plains
have never been known to attack
and kill man.
"Those who have attempted to
solve the mystery believe he was
trailed through the wilderness by
some human prowler and assassin
ated, probably from ambush, 70,
the money he possessed. Then, in
order to cover up the crime the
murderer removed and destroyed the
clothing of the dead man, not a
vestige of which remained"
A letter has been received from
one of the old time COW punchers
; who worked in that country in 1894,
in which he states that two men or
boys were lost in that part of
the country in March of that year.
These two boys started from Dick
inson, N. d., and went to the tn
horse ranch, leaving this ranch ii
a storm to go to the E6 ranch or
} Grand river, where they expected
to get work. The writer Of this
letter was with the Turkey Tracl
: wagon that year and while riding
on circle one of these boys wa:
: found by Chum Montgomery, MAJ
VIII WOlhSu LIZ llle J hev lIdCk
First a towel was found, then ;
bridd1e, and next the man. He wa
} wrapped up in his saddle blanket
he'd on his overcoat, overshoes. si
: shooter and looked as though h
5 had just gone to sleep. He had on
+ corner of the blanket drawn over hi
5 face. When the blanket was pulle,
f off his hand came off with it.
This man was found north o
Y North Grand river, between Sprin
: creek and Alkali. but the othe
S man. horse and saddle were neve
3 found. While on the round up tina
! spring three men came out fror
f Dickinson looking for these tw
boys, and they took the one VIII
n was found. but whether they too
: the body to Dickinson or buried
e there the writer does not know
a 1T is possible that the body foun
t short time ago may be that of tn
boy who was not found that sDrin
or summer. Several Of the old tim
punchers OF this part Of the countr
were working along North Gran
and the Little Missouri that summe
and can probably recall this inciden
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