Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-04-11

pas4encss At Turtle Rivsr-how- he
came into the country. and how I
wandered 70 tar afteld. Therefore,.
with tho Indulgence Of the Herald, i
shall devote the major part Of this
letter to the personal side, and in =
subsequent letter enter more fully into
the history of the Budge-Winship
me OLD Tavern.
AS to VIM. Bulge: I have no docu-
sns1tasy d.ts o%oneer1ins the snteoe-
prise. I find his name absent in all the
so-called histories Of the state. Louns-
bury's two-volume history tie only
references to Bulge, or myself, for that
matter, Is in the form Of = reprint of
Clearance Webster's bit OF fiction con-
corning Bulge & winship's Tavern.
Webster was feature man on the Chi
service on the Grand Forks Herald,
and on one occaaon wrote a hum6r-
Gus story based upon q casual con-
~ver1ation with me. 1t was AN inn
aginative. overdrawn picture Of life on
the turgid Turtle, and was devoid Of
truth. other than the fact that Bulge
and I built the shack and lived there.
But this bit Of foolishness finds 4 re-
poeitory in Lounsbury's history OF
AS04 "a D~NO~ W ShS u&LS1 0AAAO0ASAA
of other truthful historical data con-
corning us. No history Of North Dl-
kota, and especially the Red River
Valley, is complete without a record
Of the career and eminent services
of William Bhdge. For q OF
years he was a conspicuous factor In
the upbuilding~of thu northern section
Of the. state. and his activities in
Grand Forks in the early period Of it's
hiRtnYV wAre rnAnv And yAYie6- In
the absence, Of authenticated data,
therefore, I am obliged to draw upon
memory for my facts. .
Turn to the ma OF Great Britain
and you will observe a group Of islands
north Of Scotland. called Orkney Is
lands. This group comprise seventy
or eighty islands, islets and ekerrdes.
OF which twenty-eight are inhabited.
They are separated from the main
six miles wide between Brough Ness
in the Island Of South Ronaldshay and
Duncansbay in Caithnesshire. During
the term Of my sentence at Turtle
River ] derived considerable informa-
ton concerning the Orkneys from
conversations with Mr.. Bulge. and I
got into the habit Of looking for mail
from South Ronaldshay with the same
solicitude that 1 looked for letters
from Saint Charles. Minnesota Boys.
you know. frequently allow their
chums to read their letters, and from
them and frequent conversations I alb
sorbed much Information.
On this Island of South RonaldShay
William Bulge was born October.
1852; and on this island he received
all the school education he ever got.
His father passed on quite early in
life, leaving besides his widow, four
sons. John. William. George and
Harry; and all, including the mother,
When seventeen years old, Bill en-
gagged with the Hudson Bay Company
for service in North America, and
shipped on a company steamer fol-
Hudson Bay during the summer OF
1859. 1t was a long, perilous voyage
but in due time the ship landed a
York Factory. Bulge was assigned
to service at q trading station on the
Saskatchewan river, and then follow.
ed a long inland journey as disagree.
able and perilous as h one he had
just negotiated. One winter in tina,
remote region was all this Orkney Is
lander cared for, and when the flow
ers bloomed in the spring, and walk
ing was good, he quite Informally ane
without unnecessary dallying on the
roadside, hot-footed it out OF thu
country, loosing mighty little time un
til the protecting shield Of Uncle San
vouchsafed him freedom and Sc
cur1ty.
Mule WhAcfode Into state.
AS to myself: In April. 1857, I wa
living with my parents at St Charles
MINI, when I received a letter from
idaho Territory. from my. buddie
Jack Fisk, a conarade in the ARM
and brother Of Capt. Jas L. Fisk. con
ductor Of overland expeditions acros
the plains. This letter, let me ex
plain came by way OF Astoria, Oregon
thence to San Francisco. then by over
land stages to Denver, Omaha and St
Louis, reaching me, finally, tire
months after It was written. In sub
stance it said: Come at once; hav
staked out a claim for you in Las
Chance Gulch." (Helena-) 1 soon go
into action, for I was ripe for tina
kind Of IN adventure. There were n
funds in the family exchequer, bu
MI. GLADDEN. had recently married m
Oldest sister, and I thought she wa
worth more than it had cost him, S
I levied on him for $50; and of cours
he put up. My plan was to get to S
Cloud. Minnesota, and FORK as team
ster till June, when the Davy expedi
ton was due to cross the plains fo
\ Idaho. After two months experienc