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1895-12-27 [P ] 4wWK ftf' ' TWi "4 $% 1 ^ a .'A... ir»' illlly fe« Mk NADTII fifty AT A kota soil, and a fort or trading port occupied the country, became an easy llVn I II LPfl IV Vr I fie »eems to have been established there Prey and soon became extinct. oS?ti?J 1892mwheS with the Indians in South Dakota; but John Elvelt, John Anderson, Danta! Th -<• , \ ^ *• w as early ia 1797, by Chabouilller, a ® expedition was under the com- *• *?• Allen appears^ as registerSSMSS i l oisen, TOomas Clover ChSS _j ^ , ,1 ' French trader, there was no permanent mand of Captains Lewis and Clarke. Wilkinson ae receiver. The first pre- was killed by the Sioux at Pembina, Bronson. LMi from the Hfstorv of Korth settlement,,till 1801, When Capt Henry." of the United States army. They left .emptlon claim in the two Dakotas was as late as 1878; Farmer Henry, at July 3,1871, an election precinct was tIhVnfa v_ fui Triii,ilImi. I. tutuM an agent ofthe Hudson Bay company, the mouth of Wood river, Mo., May ma^e by Thomas McLeese, two miles Maudan, as late as 1875; and the same established at Grand Fortes. In Sep> '• iTw vOL liO^BOefiy# MttOf established apost on the ground after- 14> 1804. The party consisted of the west of Yankton; the first homestead year a herder, named Wright, about tember of that year a voting preclnot Jf th# Rcoord, North Dakota's His* ward selected by Maj. Hatch for his two officers named, nine young men by Mablon Gore, but it was forfeited two miles north of Bismarck. A mall was established at Wild Rice in Cass tsrtaal .Tha LitiiiaiMie ^ *nd in 1871 by James Jw>m Kentucky, twenty-one United by [ reason of the Indian troubles, carrier was also killed between Bis­ cp^ty- A ferry charter was granted -wicai aagaaae in© LOQISlaoa j. Hill for the establfidiment of bis States soldiers, a colored n«n named ,Chajrles Cavalier made the first pre- marck and Standing Rock, about the that fall to G. J. Keeny on the Red same* time. There were quite a num­ river at Fargo. D. F. Brawley was rnrchas®—Korth Dakota Success- ^dedwarehouse. From this point YOrke, belonging to Capt. Clarke, an empltlon entry In North Dakota and ber of Indian depredations in connso- IWaIt rialm<ui Kv Prinm mmA 9.*?!" Henry established trading posts Interpreter and hunter. After they NeMon B. Nelson the first homestead granted like privileges. at Pembina, „ y Franco ana at Grand Forks, Park River and other had passed through the entry. These entries were completed tlon with the oiwntng of the Black and John Fadden at Grand Forks, Kee­ itlly Then a Part of Louisiana* folnts in the valley, later visiting the country ,a corporal and six 011 the opening of the land office at Rills. In these Hubert Smith of Far* ny was to pay $50 per annum for hlsu Iifar «f Viwnnrl UiMiWn Wla- £2f *•* ^sns? riTen>- m.en 'eturnefl.. The exploring party Pembina in December, 1870. go. J. C. Dodge of Bismarck and * Brawley $15 per annum, and Fadden i»tv 01 alSSOun, Micniean, WIS- Inl811 Thomas Douglas, earl of Sel- wintered at Fort Clarke, opposite the Enos Stutsman was president of the miner named McCall, also of Bis­ $21. and Minnesota-—Pembina, purchased a large tract of land mouth of Knife river, in North Dako- council in 1862 and Moses It. Arm- marck. were killed. first Instrument offered for reo* Ifamn iiTiri RiatnavAIr in 41>a IfintiA. _? Hudson Bay company. His head- ta. The fort, however, was not estab- "trohg, afterward delegate to congress, The first session of the supreme ord in North Dakota was a bill of sale, rargoana BlBniaiCK in the Minne- quarters were at Fort Douglas, near llshed untU 1808. The excellence of waa speaker of the house. JnmeS Mc- court for Dakota was held at Yaafe* dated Sept 12, 1868. Baptiste Guards ton in July, 1865. That year treaties Pee sold William H. Moorhead four apolis District Ofllvw 46 Years Abo, winnlpeg.and his settlements extended the country and the abundance of the Fetridge of Pembina was a member of an< ' T®. uplin KAfnboth MIAthe AssinaboineA •alnalvf'JM* andam J theAU* Bed gameM*MA in the country reported. .by this... theLI.. council ..Jand Capt/i x **H. S.« Donaldson«• „were made with theif Brulesrue" and2??,S5r?* other Rnlrtt* marial aifc fh? ox for $553. Joseph rivers. The settlers were Scots evict­ expedition, led to its-- occupation by andsj.'an<l Y - Buchannan were members of JPPer Missouri Indians, and $a0,000 In _" ade ^e flrst- warranty deed. The history <o( North Dakota! is ed from the estates of the duchess of the several fur companies, and later, the pouse. About the time of the Mln- presents were distributed among He sold ten acres to Frank Columbo coo Interwoven with that of'South Da­ Sutherland! They made settlement In for agricultural purposes. The reports .aesojjta massacre, in which about 1,000 them. Kx-Gov. Edmunds was the head at Pembina. The second deed was kota that It will be impossible to write 1812, and at one time their settlements of Capt Clarke are as interestlng*as a settlers were murdered, a settler of this commission. Enos Stutsman made by Rolette, being five acres at of the former without first giving the embraced over 200 families. The grass- fairy tale, and are much sought after named Amidon and son were killed by was again a member of the council the mouth of Pembina river to James outlines In the history of the latter. flest^oyed thelr crops and they even to this day. The bufltalo wePe so the Indians near Sioux Falls and the from Yankton. North Dakota was not J. Hill, now of the Great Northern Both Dakota* were embraced In a were driven to Pembina for- food about• thick they often had to drive them settlers in South Dakota who did not represented Charles McCarthy, who *aUroad, then, 1871, engaged in trading tract of land purchaaed.^ the United 1814. In 1816 they had become se out of the way to get through. Goats leave th eterritory' moved to . Yank- was drowned in the Missouri above ~'transportation on the Bed river. h firmly established tnat the Northwest were reported in great abundance; ton> where they fortlfled the town and Bismarck in 1874, while acting sheriff, In 1851 Norman W. Kittson, Joseph States in 1803 of'France for the sum oompany agents determined to drive was a member from Todd county, and Rolette and Charles Cavalier were the . of $15,000,000. Until 1767 It was claim- also, antelope, deer and bear. In North regained a month or more. In 1863 only white men residing In North Da­ % •dwim byiv Francejrnuww andTi-m thenunru cededmini towe Spain. u. th®™ out and failing to incite the In- Dakotar__1_nrill the Mandans,imnr Grosur Ventres other settlers were killed in the Sioux George T. Foster was chief clerk of C an the house. In 1866 another commis­ kota. The remainder of the inhabit­ In "l800 "lt^wae" re^ed^ to"'Fnmce d Arricakees wer^found to have an valley, among them Thomas Thomp- ants were Indians or part bloods. Kitt­ and in 1803 sold to the United States 2J2L5rabundance of corn, which they were «>n. returning from Fort Randall to sion proceeded up the Missouri river, as stated. ~?r that year they massaored Gov. Sem- eager to trade for trinkets or sunnlies Yankton, and the family of Mr. Wtee- and made treaties with the Indians at son had then resided in the country " of any klnd _ But thelr rr man nluiwl vni • anUlar In dm Snllir'a eight years. Rolette came in 1842. Ro­ That part of this purchase lying ^ * greatest ad- *o was a soldier In Gen. Sully's add Fort Berthold. lette was engaged with his uncle, Fish- southrath of Arkansas was designated as employes _and some of the settlers, miration was bestowed on the Iron ar- expedition. On returning from Yank- Ex-Gov. Edmunds was theiw headuwu of er, In runnine a line of cjirtu frn'm th". Che Territory of Orleans. That north . jf.i^?11 row heads made by the expedition Mrs. Wiseman found her son, six- J^is commission, also. They distrib- settlements was styled the District of Louisiana. blacksmiths by the Sse ofNorth Da-tf^^<>ld, dead In, the rd, a tol8«TLSSf^SS5SdS This fort proving to be on the Ameri­ kota coal, found in the greatest abund- thirteen-year-old sou dead neary? him, a Indians. M. K. Armstrong was presi­ The District of Louisiana embraced all can side, when the international boun­ son. He died in 1870, and how liven of the present states of Arkansas, ance about Knife River. dead Indian lying on the floor, the old- dent of the senate and Gen. Todd only in the memory of the people, grate­ Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Minnesota, dary was established, was torn down The Astor Fur company was the est daugMer, a S,rt o* eighteen, with speaker of the house. North Dakbta fully remembered especially at St Faul, In 1823, and the Scotch members of first to occupy the Missouri river but ln lrf° l»°ker jammed down her throat, was still unrepresented. Montana, Kansas, North and South Da­ the colony Retired across the line. There for his part in saving the capital In kota, Indian Territory, and parts of owing to the complications Incident to a yoinger child stabbed, but not dead, In 1867 representatives of all the Iih that city in 1857, when he made away Colorado and Wyoming.
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