The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-09-13
FUNERAL SERVICES
FOR1S73SEITLER
WILL Be Held HERE
Native OF Prussia Came to Bis.
marck as a Trooper in
Clusters Seventh
HAD BLACK HILLS STAGE
Adventurous Career Of Soldier,
Pioneer. Stage Driver and
Grocer Is Ended
HAD BLACK HILLS STAGE

Pioneer, soldier and early big busi-
ness man Of Bismarck. Charles Ku.
pitz. "a. died at O'Clock Thursday
night at the home Of his daughter,
Mrs. A. D. Anderson. In Bellingham.
Washington. -7ith his death passed
one Of the most colorful careers con-
nected with the early days Of this
city. . figure linked to Custer under
whom he served In the Seventh cav
airy In warfare against the Indians
OF the Kansas Nebraska country. and
. survivor OF the old Black Hills
staging days.
A message from Bellingham said
the body will arrive here on No. 1
Sunday evening. to lie in state at the
Webb funeral chapel until Monday
morning, when 1t will be taken to
st. Mary's church for requiem mass
at o'clock, Father Stag officiating.
The knights Of Columbus will have
charge Of the arrangements and will
furnish the pallbearers.
Kupitx leaves . daughter, Mrs. An
derson, with whom he had been ltv-
ing for some years. and Max kupttz,
Of 3l3 Mandan street, this city. There
are two grandchildren, Maxine Ku-
pitx and Charles. Jr.. Of this city.
Mrs. Kupitz died In 1921. There also
are two brothers-in-law. J. w. and
T. J. Mclaughlin.
Came from Prussia, England
The exact place Of KufitIs birth
Is not known, but It was In Prussia.
Germany. When he was II years Of
are, Kupitx went to England and for
two years was In ships service as IN
assistant steward. A brother lived In
ENGLAND and may still be living, the
family here does not know.
When 10. Kupitz set sail for Amer
lea. He came to New York ana
worked In 4 hotel for time. then en-
listed In the regular army about 1859.
He had had military training In Ger
many, and he was assigned to the
Seventh cavalry. He made the CAM
paigns against the Indians Of Kansas
and often afterward complained to
his friend. Jacob Horner, Of the
ruthlessness applied to subduing the
tribes. He did not like Clusters
methods.
Emg1ge0 In Staging
At the first opportunity he quit the
army. after he had served his five
wear enlistment being discharged At
Fort Abraham Lincoln In 1874. Then
he tried farming In association with
Dan Manning. afterward . Dickinson
banker. Several years In the late. 5O's
and up to the early SOS he devoted
to staging to Fort Rice and later TO
Fort Yates. He had the government
mail contracts. ran three stages ana
used = horses.
when he lost the mail contracts
through underbidding. Kupitz began
frei9hting to the Black Hills. He made
money. but the big bullWhacker out
fits cut out the little fellows and
Kupitx came back to Bismarck and
started his business career. He op-
ened q meat and grocery store on
Main between Fourth and fifth
street. but this burned out. In the
spring Of 1850 he went into partner
shin With Tim Griffin IN : like busi-
ness on the site Of the present City
National bank building, corner Of
Main and Fourth. The partnership
did not prove satisfactory 70 Kupitx
and he sold out to Griffin and went
into farming again for some years.
Opeuea On Cowan Cernef
In the fall Of 1851, Kupits rented
an old shack on the present CoWan
drug corner and reopened II meats
and groceries. He prcspered and. In
I few years. showed the old building
hack and built . fine frame business
ffs0nkin1led an nnGe eleVen)