The Dickinson press., 1917-10-06
GRASSY BUTTE NEWS.

ping beef cattle the past week.
The Grassy Butte Advertiser is no
more. Hence a news column now and
then in the Dickinson Press will be
appreciated.
Harold Rase, assistant cashier Of
the First State, has been in Chicago
the past week taking in the sights.
Cashier M. l.. Ayers and Miss Daisy
P. Waddell were taking care of the
bank work during his absence.
R. A. Lyon and Bobbie Lyon are
still putting up hay at their ranch II
miles west of Grassy Butte. They
are more fortunate than some in
having a fair chance for cutting hay
this year. In fact they had some left
over from last winter.
Richards & Wilcox were making
cattle shipment of rs to 80 car from
Killdeer the past week, the beef stuff
coming mostly from their pasture on
the Berthold reservation. Hans Chris
Jensen, Mike Connolly, Tom Nc
Gregor and C. S. Lee were among
those expecting to ship at the same
time.
Don Mckenzie and son, Kenneth arc
busy just now putting out coal for
the town trade. Mr.. Mckenzie mines
the coal on his farm three miles west
and delivers in town at So per ton.
The settlers get coal at the mine at
$1.50 a load. It will take about 300
loads this year to supply the people
of this locality.
Land & Loan Co., will thresh quite a
fair money crop of flax unless all
signs fail. The yield will not be
more than 4 to S bushels to the acre,
but even at that the price will enable
him to realize a profit for his work.
Another seaso he plans on seeding
the 400 acres of flax ground with
wheat and breaking about $50 acres
of new land for flax. Mr.. Smith
spends the winters in Madison, Wis.
The Grassy Butte branch of the
Mckenzie county Red Cross Chapter
had a very well attended meeting at
the amusement hall the past week.
There were 80 present and every one
showed a marked interest in this grand
work. Harry Curran Wilbur, execu-
tive secretary for North Dakota, spoke
for over an hour and received the
closest attention of his hearers dur
ing his talk. The Grassy Butte aux
iliary has Mrs. John Marucheck as
president; Mrs. Joe Cain, secretary,
and Mrs. Vic Hayes as treasurer.
The veteran cattle buyer, T. H.
Mouat, shipped out about nine car
loads or $4,000 worth of beef stuff
the past week, including stock from
the Mary and Lester Crist ranch, the
Irwin Crist place, Wyeth Luttrell and
the Axcl Shjefe ranches. Mr.. Mouat
bought about $4,000 worth of beef
cattle from this locality only a few
weeks ago. The cattle for the second
shipment were received at Six Mile
where Sam Rhoads took charge of the
herd for the two days. drive into
Killdeer, where they were loaded onto
stock cars. One thing about Tom
Mouat, his checks are always good
and what he says he will do he does
do.
One of the busy young men of the
Grassy Butte country is Delbert
Skinner, a former postoffice employee
in Dickinson. He is building up a
permanent ranch on the south side of
Bennett creek, seven miles northwest
of town and about a mile from the
Jefferies ranch. Here he and his sis
ter, Miss Mary, have a section and a
half of land. However, they will not
nov to the new quarters until spring,
wintering on the north side of the
creek. The past week Delbert Skin
cattle with the Tom Mouat herd. He
had sold a nice bunch Of beef stuff
a few weeks before. The Skinner
ranch has about $50 head of cattle,
and some Of the best Aberdeen Angus
cows around, easily worth 500 per
head. Plenty of hay has been put up
for the stock, and a very fair flax
crop will soon be threshed. Ted Skim
ner Joined the Dickinson Gun COM
pany, which necessitates the hiring of
n man the year round at the Skin
ner ranch. ~.
A land mark of special note, about
II miles out on the way coming over
from Belfeld is a cross on a high
hill on the east side of the road, in
dicating the final resting place Of Joe
Hamilton, who lost his life on Green
river in a bad storm which occurred
in November about 1891 Deceased
had been a Three Seven line rider.
He was a. Florida boy who drifted
into Texas, coming to this country
from Colorado with a cattle herd over
the trail. He rode the range here
with Wills Richards and other well
known cattlemen of early range days,
and at the time he became lost was
making for the Open A camp, the
Henry Boice place. The bleaching
homes of the poor fellow were picked
up the following spring and buried on
the high butte, as he had requested of
his pals in the event that death
claimed him while on the range. The
faithful saddle horse had been tied by
Joe Hamilton to a tree in the draw
and also persisted. Joe saved up a
considerable sun Of money which was
sent to a sister down south. So when
you come to Grassy Butte via Belfield
notice the pole with the cross on the
butte. on the east side of the road. It
marks the grave of Joe Hamilton who
persisted in a bewildering storm in No
vember.