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Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-06-09
Leach Rctires

A business deal Of importance and
of considerable interest was consum
mated the latter part Of the week
when John c. Leach, pioneer store
keeper sold his store at Solen to a
man from Minneapolis. Mr.. Leach
first started in the store business at
the Cannonball ranch in 1854 form
ing the business firm OF Parkin &
Leach, the members of the firm be-
ing III. S. Parkin, now deceased,
and himself. In 1903 he purchased
the Parkin interest from Mrs.
Parkin. In 1910, in the early part
of September, Mr.. Leach left the
Cannonball ranch where he con-
Quoted his business since starting in
1884, to Solen. There he has oper-
atcd one of the most successful
stores OF any on the south line.
Mr.. Leach will live in retirement
in the future and is undecided as to
whether or not he will remain in
this state. Tie is anticipating trip
to Pennsylvania to visit the scenes
of his boyhood days, and there is a
possibility Of him remaining there.
He came to Mandan Monday to be
present at the annual Decoration
day exercises which he never fails to
attend. He is a veteran of the
civil war, belonging to Co. Z Of the
Pennsylvania Infantry No. 1O3.-
Mandan News.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-06-09
Boost For o. jacobsen
For State Sen latoz'
His Past Record as Senator For this
District VIII Undoubtedly BE The
Means of His Reelection

This issue OF the Spotlight an
nounccs the candidacy of Hon. II
/. p. jacobson to succeed himself a.
State Senator for the 10th legisla
tive district, his name appearing o,
the republican ballot which will b;
provided for the voters Of Adams,
Hettingcr and Sioux counties, a
the primaries to be held Wednesday,
June 2Sth.
i Hunreds of friends in the district
/ have been urging Senator Jacobsen
to enter the race. These friends
circulated his petitions during the
last hours prior to the time of clos
ing for filing. With an assurance
! Of loyal support from all over the
district, the Senator enters the race.
He needs no introduction in either
Adams or Hcttinger counties, while
in the new county of Sioux his
! friends have agreed to voucb for him
as clean, square-cut, straight out
and out republican possessing the
highest integrity and whose word is
as good as gold bond.
Senator jacobson has never been
known to shirll duty. He has
been found, year in and year out,
working increasingly for the best in
tcrcsts of the slope country in gen
cral as well as for the upbuilding of
North Dakota. AS a senior mcm-
Der Of the state senate, our people
are very fortunate in having one of
its members so situated, his position
giving assurance that he is ranking
member on all important COM
mittees.
One Of the gravcst mistakes that
have been made in both state and
national affairs in past years, has
been the sending men to office who
arc untricd and new in the work of
handling problems that confront us
from time to time. There has never
been measure that has been needed
by the farmers Of our county and
district that when brought to the.l
attention Of Senator jacobsen, has
had his earnest consideration and
thought, together with action. He
never is too busy to look after tie
closest interests OF his constituents,
and none can say but that he has
served the people both faithfully |
and we'll.
Voters are urged to forget party |
strife and stand shoulder to shoulder
for jacobsen for senator He's the
right man and you need him at Bis
marck these days.-Mott Spotlight.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-06-09
2,5OOHeadOf Fine
Steers Arrive Here
1000 Head Of Steers for the Reservation
and 1,5oc Head for Stiles Cattle
Company Arrive Monday

1000 steers for issue to the In
dams on the Standing Rock rcscr-
vation under the rc-imbursal plan
arrived at Mclaughlin Monday from
Hereford, Arizona. after having
been on the road eight days.
j. A. Stiles also returned with
1900 head of steers from the same
point for the Stiles Cattle Company,
which were unloaded at Chadwick.
The government cattle were in
charge Of Live Stock Inspector
Wright, who has been with Mr..
Stiles at Naco, Arizona, the past
month awaiting delivery of these
cattle from Mexico. Messrs.
Wright and Stiles had number of
interesting experiences while gone.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-06-09
Base Ball

The Fort Yates Indian ball team
went to Hazelton Sunday for q
game with the baseball organization
there. Fort Yates had a rather
ragged lineup, and the scores11 to
1 in favor Of Hazelton, edused nc
surprise. Manager Means says that
Hazeltoh has 81 strong team, most
Of the players being semi-profes-
sionals, and are carried on a salary.
The next game will be played
Sunday at the Fair Grounds dia-
mond, against Selfridge. Game
will be called at 2 O'Clock sharp. 1t
is hoped that there will be sufficient
attendance so the admission fees
will defray the expenses. Every
body root and help the local team
get in the winning class. Turn out i.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-06-09
Total number voters registered 6
judge Beede Here

County Judge Beede was down
from his home at Cannonball Satur-
day, looking after some matters in
his office at the court house requiring
his personal attention He expected
to stay until Monday on which date
the regular term of county court hap
pened to fall this month. There is Il
foreign will to be probatea which 4
Judge Beede expects will involve
considerable work, but as the Judge
was called away Sunday, no action
was taken.
Judge Beede holds the unique dis
tinction of being the only regularly
ordained minister in the state hold
ing a county Office. Ii some OF the
preachers that the writer knows of
would follow the same wide path that
DR.. Hea1e does and be little more
liberal when it comes to condcming
their fellowmen the clergy of the
state would be given more respect.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-06-09
Flag Day
President Wilson has issued

President Wilson has issued a
proclamation, naming next We'd
nesday. June IA, Flag Day.
This occasion will be observed at
Fort Yates by the Indian Boarding
School with their annual field meet
at the Fair Grounds. Owing to the
fact that the principal in charge of
the Standing Rock Indian Boarding
School at Fort Yates, does not be-
lieve in publicity, the Pioneer is un-
able to give the program. but the
proclamation of President Wilson
follows:
"My fellow Countrymen: Many cir.
cumstanres have recently conspired to
turn our thoughts to critical eSamina-
tion OF the conditions of cur national
life, OF the Influences which have seemed
to threaten to divide US iu interest and
sympathy.
81, therefore, suggest and request
that throughout the ration means shall
be taken to give sign iticant expression
to our thoughtful love of America, our
comprehension of the great mission OF
liberty and justice to which we have de.
voted ourselves rs a people, our deter.
minatlon to make the nation greater and
purer with each generation, aud cur
resolution to demonstrate to all the
world its vital union in sentiment and
purpose.
''Let Us on that day rededicate our.
selves to the nation, 'one and INSOFAR
able, from which every thought that is
not worthy OF our fathers first VOWS of
independence, liberty, and right shall be
excluded and in which we sha!! stand
with urtied hearts for an America which
no man can corrupt, no influence draw
away from its ideals, no force divide
against ITSELF"
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-06-09
Registration of Voter.

Following is the complete regis
tration of the voters of Sioux county
as returned to the county auditor
by the assessors. In the list pub
lished last week mistake was made
regarding the registration in Fort
Yates precinct. This district has
1862 voters instead OF 1O1, as given
last week.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-06-09

EsTRAI-Came to my place,
near selfridge, n, d., about June
one bay two year old bald faced marc
branded Flving Y bar, on left stiile.
Owner can have same by proving
property and paying for this adver-
tisement. Apply to Chas. McLaugh-
lii, ) rlfriol2e \, D,
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-06-09

Peter Blackhawk and Johnnie
Whitemouse, were over from Wade
this week, on business at the Agency
in connection with the settling Of the
estate of the late Thomas White
mouse.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-06-09

Charles Mclaughlin and S. E
Parkin were over from Chadwick
Wednesday on business at the
Agency.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-06-09

VIM. Ostrun was i'll from his
ranch west OF town the first OF the
week.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-06-09

Vote fox c. Christensen
for County Auditor. Pli-
mary Election June 18th.
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CHAPTER ~.
CorYdon.


A short days march north Of the
broad current Of the Ohio, at the point
where two rapid creeks-Big Indian
and Little Indian-unite, stood a clus-
ter of thirty or forty cabins. The logs
that made the walls of the Oldest of
them had been growing in the virgin
forest three years before. In the
center of the village was a grassy
square. In 1t new stone house, forty
feet square, its walls two and one-half
feet thick, its roof still incomplete,
stood in the shadow of the forest trees
which had been left standing around ii.
From the little settlement the prime
val forest stretched away to the sand
dunes Of the Great Lakes, to the hills
of the Ohio, to the prairies of the Illi-
nois country, vast tract of hundred
thousand square miles In extent; ST.
lent, inhabited only by savage beast
and more savage redskinned hunter;
painless, dreadful, fascinating.
The settlement was Corydon; the
stone house the building which was to
be the first capitol of the territory and
the state hewn from the virgin woods.
Louisville, with 1900 inhabitants, 20
miles to the east; Vincennes, the Old
Post, with less than a thousand, 80
miles to the northwest; other than
these, no settlement of any size In all
that savage empire, large as England
herself.
Hither came all the picturesque fig-
ures Of the new West. First to come
was the patriarch, Squire Boone,
brother of Daniel Boone, the mighty
hunter of Kentucky; then Lane, the
Penningtons, the Spencers, George
and Spier, the popularity of the latter
giving rise to the old couplet:
'Mongst all the Boones thar's Jest one
Squire;
Mongst all thu Spencers jest one
Spier.
Spler Spencer 1t was who opened
the tavern by the half-iinisned court.
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The young man laughed. "They stop
TO rattle here, thank Godw
But the little old man waved his
modesty aside.
my name is Patrice O'Bannon," he
said, ''and proud I'll be to know yours.
sir"
"David laurence" was the answer.
"YOuve already called me by mine"
said the girl, I'm TOinette."
David blushed fierily. "I-there
wasn't time-I had heard your father
call you by name"
"Never mind" laughed the girl. az
owe you my life-names don't matter
now"
you'll honor me by being my guest.
sir" went or Mr.. O'Bannon. "Sure,
the fairies sent We here at this min
Ute"
David became conscious Of his rag
ged clothes.
"Thank you, no." he said, "but If
you can help me to find work"
"Ho, hum :" said the little old gentle
man relevantly. aye must find
worruk but first tell me, have We
eaten a Hoosier midday meal yet?
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house, and enlisted the men of the
country in that heroic company known
as "Spencer's Yellow Jackets" vii.
liam Henry Harrison, the young COVER
nor of the territory, had laid out his
farm Of 500 acres on the edge of the
village, and there planted his orchard
Of green pippins and romantics; and
hither, to Corydon, came his friend,
Colonel Thomas Posey proud of the
title won in the war with England
thirty years before, but willing to
serve again as private should
second war arise.
AS the O'Bannons and their new
friend entered Corydon, David caught
sight of young man, tall as himself,
striding away down one of the narrow
village lanes. He stifrened like dog
that sees its foe.
"Who is that?" he asked sharply.
"ThatT Toinette smiled at the
back of the retreating figure. THAT'S
young Doctor Elliott of Louisville. He
comes here once a week on his sorrel
mare"
"Ohw exclaimed David, relieved.
How absurd of him to suppose that in
this remote spot he should meet the
one human being he counted an en-
envy!
Toinette added no further word Of
comment on the young doctor; for al
though Elliott had been paying her
court for weeks, she had not yet de-
cided just what she thought Of him.
Mr.. O'Bannon drew David into Spen-
GERS tavern and spoke a word to the
proprietor.
"They will take care Of you here
tonight" he said, "and tomorrow I'll
come over and help you open up
Colonel Posey's shop. And now, young
man, wish you good day and good
luck. Toinette and l live at the other
end Of the village"
From the door of the inn David
watched his quaint figure and that of
his daughter till they disappeared
from view. A negro boy carrying pals
of water came up to the tavern door.
David could not resist asking him
the meaning Of a word he had heard
for the first time that day:
"Boy, what is 'HoosierY
The darby set down his pals and
scratched his head in an attempt to
answer with eXactness.
"Cap'n," he said finally. use a Vir-
ginny Niger an Use seen all sorts o.
white quality in my day; but frs an
las these we're gemmen wut live yere
in 1ndianny an goes by the name o.
Hoosiers is de beatenes' lot o. dem all !;
dey's got mo- quality blood in 'em n
de no'th'n gemmen, an dey's got mo-
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I thought not. Wen go up to Con-
rods tavern and see what he can give
US before We begin to talk about
huntin' for worruk. A STEP SIR"
And with last grimace at the tam
gled thing that lay in the grass, he
| linked his arm in David's, and bob
bing ridiculously along, led him
through the woods.
Toinette walked on the other side.
David moved in a happy dream. They
reached the door of Conrod's tavern,
east of the village-a square, low
house of stone, two feet thick in the
walls and with the most picturesque
of small-paned windows, vine-cur-
tained-Mr. O'Bannon accompanying
his jerky progress with a flow of elo-
quence on the advantages of Corydon,
where, it seemed, he and his daughter
had recently arrived from New Dr.
leans.
"Hurrah," he exclaimed as they en-
tered the low doorway. Here's Colonel
Posey; he'll find something for you to
do, be sure"
A gentleman with hand outstretched
to David's companion came forward.
"a good morning to you, Mr.. O'Ban-
non," he cried heartily.
A fine, compelling figure of a man
was Colonel Thomas Posey, as he tow
cred over little Mr.. O'Bannon, who
stood looking up at him with a side
wise cock of the head. Splendidly he
filed his buff-trimmed, light blue
army coat, with its huge collar reach
ing up to his ears. His big shoulder
cape and his cooked hat, with its black
and white cockade, lay on a bench
where he had tossed them. He looked
the Virginia gentleman he was by
birth.
The little old gentleman chirped a
greeting and thrust forward his rag
ged charge.
"This is Mr.. Laurence" he said,
''la-ate of England and now come to
try his fortunes in the American
sta-ates. 1 am no herald to inquire
of mems pedigrees; it suffices me If
l know their virtues, Colonel Posey !;
and If this young mans face be no
false witness, his virtues better ap-
parel his mind than England has ap-
pareled his body"
Colonel Posey laughed good-hu-
moredly.
"Still quoting Sir Philip, Mr.. oBan-
non? No doubt you're right. What
can we do for you, Mr.. Larrence?"
"Mr. O'Bannon tells me that you can
perhaps give me some work to do,
Colonel Posey. Is 1t trueT
Colonel Posey smiled again at the
young mans eagerness.
whatever Mr.. OBannon tells you
Is truer than the Constitution. Wen
find place for you somewhere"
"About that store of yours, Colonel"
O'Bannon said. "Ye're closing It up
while you make your trip to Louisiana,
aren't ye? Well, suppose you put this
young man in char-r-ge of 1t and let
T. earn o dollac or two while we're
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aot that he might live, but In that
passion Of the brute-revenge. The
sense of blood-guiltiness to come bore
down on David Laurence with its mad
iening weight.
The young man reached the point
where the path forded the stream and
paused in surprise. On the farther
,ank were two figures-a slender
voung girl whose beauty made him
iraw in his breath sharply, and the
1gure of an old gentleman In black
coat and knee brooches, bent over a
pile of brush which he was endeavor-
ing to coax into fire.
At the girls exclamation the old gen.
aenan rose TO his feet stiffly, brushing
he twigs from his knees.
"a fec o.sr-ts'. young ma-unT he
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Washington

One cent postage for local first-class
mail deliveries and a zone system Of
rates for second-class matter, which is
expected greatly to increase the charges
for magazines and other periodicals
having nationwide circulation, are
provided for in the annual post Office
appropriation bill as virtually COM
pleted at Washington.
Contracts for 90 high-power hydro
airplanes for the coast artillery sta
tons in the United States, Hawaii,
Philippines and the Panama Canal
zone were let by the war department
at Washington.
A note to Germany protesting
against the deportation of Belgians for
forced labor as contrary TO all prece-
dents and humane principles Of inter-
national practice was made public by
the state department at Washington.
Official information to the state de-
partment at Washington establishes
that the British ship Marina, sunk by
a German submarine, with loss of six
Americans, was in no sense a transport
and was entitled to the immunities of
a peaceful merchantmen.
Approximately 100000 foreigners
took steps TO become naturalized
American citizens during the year
ended in June, according to the annual
report of the bureau of naturalization,
made public at Washington.
The American navy would be
strengthened by the immediate addi-
ton of four capital ships should con-
gress adopt the recommendations made
by Secretary Daniels in his annual re-
port, made public at Washington.
Germany, in a note made public by
the state department at Washington,
contends that the British steamship
Arabia, sunk in the Mediterranean No
vember g. was in reality "a transport
ship for troops in the service of the
British government"
1t was announced at Washington
that the United States government has
inquired of the Austrian government
concerning facts surrounding the tor
pedoing of the American steamer Che
mung by an Austrian submarine.
The Yale expositor., 1916-12-14
CHAPTER I.
The Wilderness.

ApTll-lolI! Up Jne NdlleyS VI Jue
South spring stole tremblingly from
the farther South, along the river low
lands of Kentucky and up the sides
of the steep, pebbly hills on the Indi-
ana shore. First to come, like the white
guidons Of an army of peace, the bios
SONS of t'is wild plum flung out diaph-
anous draperfes against the mono
chromes of the soils and the dark
greenness of the pine woods. Then,
In the open spaces and around the gray
log cabins on the heights, the peach
trees flushed pink in the warm kisses
of the sun. The new grass was
starred in patches by multitudes of
bluets, the blue-eyed grass, each tiny
flower as simple and as wonderful as
a little child.
Deep in a crevice of the limestone
strata that sank to form the bed of
Little Indian creek, hidden from the
warmth and light Of the April morn
ing, there lay a coil of what might
fNve been mistaken for a rOpe-a coil
whose every fold was thick as a mans
wrist, tawny, notified with spots Of
dull black, yellOw-ringed.
Along the path through the forest
there came striding n tall youth, in
ragged garments, a little bundle slung
at the end of q staff over his Shout
Ter. His fair skin was deeply burned
by the sun and his blue eyes were
yelled in anxious thought. He had
pursued another man over sea and
through forest wilderness with the in
tention of killing that man if he should
Dvertake him.
Now, the young mans intention was
Slunted. Months before it had seemed
the one right and just thing that this
other man should die at his hands.
fhis other man had caused the legal
murder of the youths father. But to
AXE justice into ones own hands, even
On such provocatiOn as this, is an act
inspeakably dreadful; and weeks of
meditation had succeeded only in
'ainting it as thing more despicable.
In the fragrant breath of the vir-
Tinal earth he cried out in an agony
IF mind. A bourgeoning universe
'houted aloud for joy of victory over
death. Life rose by pressing her tri-
lmphant feet on the prone shoulders
If her weaker brother, Death. For the
struggle between Life and Death is
Ictual, and Life lives by killing. God
himself ordained the killing and pro-
bounced it part of his eternal justice.
But the agonizing man who thought
If the life he had sworn to take with
ais own hand-what could justify his
act? His act would be accomplished
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News of the
Week Cut
Down for
Busy Readers
European War News
Observation-Disclosures

The Roumanians who have been re-
treating in eastern Wallachia before
the Teutonic advance have made Il
stand east of Ploechti, the Petrograd
war office announced. They assumed
the offensive on the road from Ploech-
ii to Buzeu and drove the AustrO-Ger-
man forces back to the westward.
The British steamer Caledonia was
sunk by a German submarine on De-
cember 4, after it had tried to ram the
undersea boat, it was announced Off
cially at Berlin. Its captain was taken
prisoner.
The Danish steamship Sigurd, 2,119
tons, and the British steamship Avris-
ton, S,S1S tons; Conch, 1920 tons, and
Tanfield, have all been sunk, Lloyd's
announced at London.
The disciplining of Greece by the al
lies has begun. A blockade Of Greek
ports was formally announced by the
French government, which, combined
with previous French orders against
movement of Greek vessels from their
harbors, is expected absolutely to cut
the kingdom off from supplies.
Ninety-four allied airplanes and 81
German machines were lost on all
fronts during November, the Berlin
war office reported.
The German emperor, according to
the Berlin papers, has ratified the aux
Hilary service bill, which thereby comes
into force, says a Reuter- dispatch to
London from Amsterdam.
The battleship Suffren, which left
port on November "a, has not been
heard from since that day, and the
French minister of marine considers
the vessel lost with all on board,
says a dispatch from Paris. The
Sufrren displaced 1880 tons. It's nor
NAL complement was 730 men.
on the Verdun front German troops
entered French trenches on hill 3O4
and captured the summit of the height,
the Berlin war office announces.
The steamship John Lambert, listed
In the maritime register as an Ameri-
can vessel, was shelled and sunk with
out warning by a German submarine
off the Isle of Wight, according to ac-
counts given by members of the crew,
Americans, who arrived at New York.
Bucharest, capital Of Roumania, has
been captured, it was announced Off
cially at Berlin. Ploechd, the impOr-
tant railway junction town, 80 miles
northwest of Bucharest, also has been
taken.