Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-01-30
Post w; Known as Abiding
Place Of Thieves 10
Early Days
Pioneer Pictures Troubles IS
Youngneido i COmmlssafy
Department
Remembers How Chief Tom
Fortune Helped Capture
Tobacco Robbers
BY j, ". FOLEY.

BY j.. w. FOLEY.
The Tribune:9
Belonging tOtfa staff department and
under the orders Of the Adjutant General
OF the Army as l was, orders were often
issued, at a. moment s notice. orderlngs!a
change OF station which might take one
To some remote part of the United States
IN 1878 az order sending me to Camp
Baxter, Montana, was received at Saint
Louis Mo- This post was Ocatcd OF
Smith river, ab6nt sixty miles north east
OF Helena. Ogden, Utah, was the nearest
railroad station. The distance from,
there to Baker was about five hundred
miles which had to be made by stage.
I was scarcely settled at Baker when I
received orders sending me to Fort A.:
Lincoln.
One who had been long in the army.
would. on arrival at n now station always
meet some old friends with whom he
Z had served at some other: post, Nowhere
have 1 met such true friends MS in tho
army. There was what the French call
lie spirit de corps Lincoln had. at the
time l am writing Of, a bad reputation
all through the army as "a post Of
thieves" and I was duly warned Of this
by old friends on my arrival, and warn.
ed to be on my guard. The commisary.
where my, dntvt womb yhe. was IN the
hod onc CONF, III, ~ sergeant md rone
"a GERMANY ana .nnother n Canada 7
had ror wears ,n,,ed nos,t;ons az ,esnon-
s,hii,tv thonph NJ ~ time on,v thirty.
thrao vonrs = ,on Tghod nevar al,owad
nersons ~ steai sfores undar NV charge
nor did SEQ anv, reason swhv y con,d
~ dana IA, ~, hnva aono "a would
h,v 20 hean y ~ nou,,alo I'm +ho tb,o,,..s
were nnrtarsfh1s rsI + knew too. that
This fwa, Una reasnn twhv 4, rad ,haen ~.
da,e,, ~ I,rcclrs sN M ts
All ia timers n HIN Ri,,narccl ore familiar
NTH Tia fins whsn f.en C,,star marchad
troops to Bismnrrk and removed stolen
grain from tho store ~ = prominent
rnerchant ~ Tho IA dovs rhe ,nerchant
IL not 4 resident. ~ North Dakota today
hid any ~ these old timers evor think
n strange that tha merchont wos never
nrosecutah under ina laws cf tho II s.?
I could te,,s h,t fnr the snkc nj TIA ,,v.
inr win hci forever s,,a1t m tia snhiect
A. the time 90 nv ~arriva, rtant q
n. ,npa,,s , verv vo,np man WAS nost
commissarv ,nd 3 few davs n~ftarwards
said "a mo. az I Was onlv re,ieved If thc
resnons,h,ntv T am now ,,ndar ! would
feei hnnnv " ! ranl,ed =. him. .,f vour
stores nrc M IN sthsk nov: ! ZOO M ron.
son ubv ,ha,, win ,,ot ~ ,y,,an ,,ou ava
relieved" Hc smilsd: .,Tbat Is what von
Y think. mt Won don,t know Lincoln ;" II
S.na relieved = short, time afterwards and
raS>ivad , c,c,n An, 4 haalih 81. u,h,sh
Ito wAs i ,nkfol Z
rbc Sc,r 1870 v,s , vory. h,,sy o,a u
r;nooy, Nil. .,,,,,,I, aonot ~ p;.n,nnrr
hay;nr Nam d,snn,,,;n,na - - rn,,,a
aay,sa ~. N y toh ,ish n,o ~ ! ;noo,, ~,
the snnr,vinr az. Nm trnons ooo,otinc
av.;ns, n,a;onssa Asr,,.,s,;nr ,ha ;,,,,,.;nr
c,ar.s ~ tho 20 i,r,ca, .na ,,sa +,o ala
md n,u, nost ost,b,,shaa IN ~. f.r ,o.,
nh,s sva.. ya os,oiJ;shoa law ,ssin;-
Nom -, Nfi,k r,,,or Nrnn,.no .rho oo,,,tr,,
around mas ,,nsatt,aass ~. 10 ans
h,,nd ~. r,s. ~ a., r,,fa,,t,, ,,xa,,
command az col Rnrer was rdared from
Atlanta. Geors,o ,rhc rcrimant came hv
,a;I.,n r,sn,.r.,. IA .,aa.a -, tna At;.y
sonri IN hoat S,,sn !, Iana;ne ,yas m.da
near the site of t,,a n,oce for tho new
mast 81 ar,iv,, IA ,rnons encamned
and went to WORK u,ak;np hr;ck for the
now hnila;nps - "a aractaa which ware
,.r.,,,y. comn,etea uhas, winter cama
VIM this command WANT adiutant Cen.
oral M;u.r late -. Risnoarci. who wos
~ M Hoss N,,so, rnara s,.s .lso Win
Tho co,,r.pd w = sn,;ths lata ~ p,s.
marck. Who w,sztne nreasssssor y wehh
Bros ~ ,he r,,r,;,,,r. b,,s;rss. II th;s
vear To 4he hast n. my raco,iact,on Was
estab,;shsd~ rort >S.s;nn,s 4 ~ i,,a;,h
Easin. Mont.na .Fs- T
n,,riny exned,,;ons . M, s1,,a;,n. ~.
aars wara Nm naae,,,ad n,s u;ra r,or,
SAINT PAM, ,,;roc,;nr ,ha& rarra ar,ornt.
.of stores hc sh;nnod - 1he troons. - No
field. and When these oraars Wars rece;v.
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