Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-04-14
CHERRY CREEK
NOTES

The Cherry Greek Indians are
attending the probate hearings
regularly Fand promptly and the
Examiner was successful i'm get
ting complete testimony in sixteen
cases the first two days after his
arrival ut the station, besides Sc
curing a number of dcposltions in
other cases.
+. III. Squirting. the Indian trad
er at Cherry Creek, has taken his
family to Hardingrovc, where he
has business interests. His broth
er, Ira Squirting, who was former
ly employed In Fred LaPlant's
store at the Agency, has charge of
the Cherry Creek store now and is
also postmaster there.
Despite the severity of the past
winter, there does not seem to
nave been great loss in stock along
the Cheyenne river and in that vi
cinity. One of the Indians, John
Black Bull, has lost three calves
this spring, but DO other loss has
come to the attention of The Press
correspondent. The Indians and
settlers have been fortunate i'm this
respect.
DIR. Durllec of Faith is attend
ING to the medical work i'm this
district under a contract with the
government. there being no regu-
larly appointed physician at Cher
ry Greek. lmpassable roads have
kept him away from the station
for some time, but he has been
visiting such Indians as he could
reach, and was within nine miles
of the station once to treat u sick
girl.
The young men in the vicinity
of Leslie, S. d., haye organized
an athletic club and are anxi-
ously waiting for the snow and
mud to disappear so they may
commence spring baseball practice.
There is considerable rivalry be-
tween these boys and the Indian
boys OF Cherry Greek and some
very exciting games are anticipated
this summer. Last year, num-
Der of games were played by the
two teams. In the early part of
the season, the Indians easily out
played and outclassed their rivals,
but toward the close of the fall,
the addition of new timber so
strengthened the palcfaccs that
very close games were the result.
When interviewed by The Press
correspondent, Sam Herald, the
manager and star pitcher of the
Cherry Greek Indians, appeared
confident and said that his team
was ready at any time to meet the
enemy as soon as the gumbo would
dry up sufficiently.
The Inheritance" force had
quite a trip to Cherry Creek
They encountered pretty bad
roads on the way to LaPlant. anC
one of the sleds was overturned
spilling passengers and baggage
out into the snow. About half {;
mile from LaPlant the roads were
entirely deyoid of snow. making
travel slow and difficult. The
westbound train was i'm the station
when MIR. Hallam decided tha
drastic action was necessary, anc
casting aside his coat and officia
dignity, he sprinted up the RAILROAD
track and held the train up. The
train officials were accommodating
and waited for the arrival of tn,
rest of the force and their bag
gage: but when Eagle Butte wa
reached, the treats were on Mr.
Hallam and he bought the trail
crew a box of cigars. The tri
from Dupree to Cherry Creek too
the force more than twelve hours
but they arrived without seriou
mishap. tho rather tired. Th
most completely fatigued of tn
party was Buster" the Examin
er's pet dog. Buster trotted be
hind the wagon the whole way
!. and was pretty muddy and foot
y sore.
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