Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-06-09
TYP|STS
Invade MED0RA
Cowboys Will Forsake corrals
For Next Two or Three
Months. ".a'

NxcUOlds julie AC AS VA
Slope county, formerly a part Of Bill
.ngs, are now being transcribed. Two
years ago the records of Golden Val
tey- county we're Transcribed, when
the lady typewriter were brough
ii ON Saint Paul; all beautiful young
girls-so beautiful that all the young
COW boys quit work and came to
town, where they remained as ong
as they could pay their board. For
some two months it was a difficult
matter to get a young man to work.
only q few of the typists have ar
lived, but when all are here there
win be twenty, and it is thought the
work can be done in two or three
months. We have looked owe the
bunch that are here, and if anything
hey are more beautiful than the ones
lere two years ago. We expect the
anchors and farmers will meet with
he same trouble they did two years
.go about getting men to work while
his abstracting is being done. =
Ghost Story.
Twenty-six years since coming
September, the writer made a trip
forty miles south to the Huidekooper
horse ranch, with George Woodman,
manager. The ranch was located
eight miles from the Little Missouri
IN Deep creek. During this visit a
'arther trip south, with Mr.. Wood.
man was made, and camp was made
IN Cold Turkey creek, a few miles
from where Bowman, in Bowman
county, is now located. Here we
hunted ducks, while Woodman hunt
ID horses. The lakes in the creek
we're almost covered with mallards.
With twenty-three shells we secured
twenty-five duck. At this time not
lne resident lived in all Of what is
now Bowman county.
At our camping place were two old
:umble down buildings, one had been
], dwelling, the other a stable. The
dwelling almost wholly destroyed, but
he stable was in better repair. On
he return of Woodnan and his party,
supper was ready and beds made
down in the stable. After supper
Woodman asked me if l was afraid
II ghosts; that the barn was haunted.
He then told me that the place we
we're at was what had been an old
line camp Of the HashJknife cattle
company; that during the hard win
ter Of 1867 two men had been sta.
TONED there to ride the line during
he winter; that the snow fall was SO
great that no line riding could be
done; that not only did all the cattle
die, but the horses also, excepting the
ones in the stable. At this line camp
were two men, one Of whom became
very ill and was in need Of medical
assistance. The nearest ranch was
twenty odd miles away. 1t was de.
cided that the man who was wen
should make an attempt to reach the
ranch, but after trying all day and
night he found he was only a few
miles from where he had started, and
returned home, telling the sick man
that he would try again, when the
sick man begged him not to leave
him alone again; that he would rath-
er die than pass another lonely night
such as he had.
booy PIaceo IN stable.
He died and his body was. placed
in the stable to freeze until spring
when 1t was buried near the place
he died. The belief among many, was
that the place was haunted; that the
lead man was often seen riding over
the prairie on a white horse, and
when an attempt was made to over-
take the rider, both rider and horse
would disappear. This was fully be-
lieyed by some Of the old COW boys.
It might have been. true, We do not
know, but we do not believe.
According to the belief Of the old
Egyptians, everyone who came into
the world had an invisible double.
We will confess that we never fully
understood the doctrine; but this
does not make It untrue. May we
not all have doubles, which the Chris.
tians call the Soul?
Some day I will ask my friend Jim
Phalen If he has ever seen the white
horse and his rider.
James ". Foley.
Some time ago Mayor Major of
Hope, On behalf Of the woman's club,
took Up the matter Of. securing an
idle cannon from the United States
government with Senator Gronpa.
The matter received prompt attention
and a few weeks ago the ladies were
informed that the gun had been ship
ped. It arrived by freight and is now
quietly resting on the depot platform.
Owing to the fact that 1t weighs 1915
pounds there is little fear Of it being
AS soon as possible this gun will he
mounted on a f%our-foot cement base
in the park.
You have not READ ali the news uD
I'll you have read tho want Adj.