The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-10-06

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"hold Up Your Hands," samson
Shouted. T
had hired him to steal the horse.
"'That man has got to have a hoss,'
he said. He'll give ye any price ye
want to ask. II you'll give me q few
dollars I'll take We to him.
"'You 60 and bring him here and
I'll talk to him. / said.
II let the Teller 80. I didn't sup
pose he'd come back, but he did.
Came a little before sunrise with that
well dressed Teller we saw at the
tavern.
"''What's your name7' I says.
"He handed me q card on which I
read the words Lionel Davis. Real Es-
tate, Loans and Insurance, IA South
Water Street, Chicago, ILL.,
There's one branch O. your bust
ness that isn't mentioned on the card
I says.
whats ttat?' says he.
"'Horse-thief,' says L. You sent
that Teller here to steal q horse and
he got caught
"sWell / told him il he'd get me q
good horse I'd give him i've hundred
dollars and that I didn't care how he
got him. The fact is I'm desperate.
I'll give you q thousand dollars for n
of your horses
"'You couldn't buy one Of 'em at any
price, 1 said. There's two reasons. I
wouldn't do business with a horsethief
and no money would tempt me to sell
an animal to be ridden to death
"The two thieves had had enough
Of US and they got out"
That night our party camped on the
shore Of the Kankakee and next day
they met the Contractors. Lincoln
joined the latter party and Harry and
Samson went on alone. Late that af-
ternO0n they crossed the nine-mile prai-
RE, beyond which they could see the
simmer OF the lake and the sunlit
structures Of the new city.
There 1t is," said Samson. -Four
thousand, one hundred and eighty
people live there. It looks like a stur-
dy t~wo-year-old."
The houses were small and cheaply
built and Of many colors. Some were
implanted. Near the prairie they
stood like people on the outer edge Of
a crowd, looking over one another's
shoulders and pushing in a disordered
mass toward the center of interest.
Some seemed to have struggled away
as If they had given up trying to see
or hear. So to m nearing it the town
had a helter-skelter look.
Our travellers passed rough boarded
houses with grand-looking people in
their ~dooryards and ON their small
porches-men in broadcloth and tall
hats and ladies in silk dresses. 1t
was six o'clock and the men had come
home to supper. AS the horsemen
proceeded larger buildings surrounded
them, mostly two stories high. There
were some stores and houses built of
red brick. Beyond the scatter OF
cheap, wooden structures they came to
streets well laid out and crowded and
busy and ayery soft" to quote a phrase
from the diary. Teams were strug-
Cling in the mud, drivers shouting and
Iashing. Agents for hotels and board
ing houses began to solicit the two
horsemen from the plank sidewalks.
The latter We're deeply impressed by
a negro In scarlet clothes, riding a
horse in scarlet housings. He carried
a scarlet banner and vas advertising
in a loud voice the hour and place Of
a great land sale that evening,
A sound of many hammers beating
upon boards could be heard above the
noises Of the street and behind all was
the constant droning Of a big steam
saw and the whir of the heavy stones
in the e grist mill. 1t was the be-
ginning Of that amazing diapason OF
industry which accompanied the build
ing OF the cities OF the West.
They put out In the livery stable Of
the City hotel and at the desk Of the
latter asked about the price of board.
It was three dollars a day and no
politeness in the offer.
IT'S purity steep" said Samson.
'But I'm too hungry for argument Or
delay and / guess we can stand It to
be nabobs for 4 day or 10"
The hotel clerk had q Register of
the Residents Of the City Of Chicago
wherein they found the name and ad-
dress Of John Kelso. They went out
to md the house. Storekeepers tried
to stop them ~ they passed along the
street with offers Of land at bargains
which would make them millionaires
In 1 week. Ia proceeding along the
plank sidewalks they were often ~
cending Or descending steps TO another
level.
On La Sale street they found TIE
home o. Jack Kelso. r was 4 roush
boarded small house, 4 story anda
half high. II had 4 little porch anu
dooryard enclosed ~ II unpainted
picket fence. Him, III handson9
blue NIX gown, came ru1niaef out h
meet them.
M you dons4 mind mi s0Ip
you, !. she said 70 Harrs sAs
WI mind 4 0udldnsstesl1 &
N young mnan % hhe sRas
ssSNe mum sbe carefunIIIn stesIIS
habit NANlaugahe ssss g@S saslHSs