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JUST PERSONAL MENTION
Sidge Harry S Dungan of Hast
en went up to Trenton Monday
SBsrhing to hold court for Hitch
ouck county for Judge Orr Report
er Stayner accompanied him Judge
Utengan spent Sunday in the city
Sgnest of his brother W H Dungan
Harry J Cox has returned to New
Tirk City to look after his estate
se which is expected to come up
3r Jul for decision This case in
STfces priceless lands on Coney Isl
iaui and if won by Mr Cox will bring
Aim a fabulous return for his persisl
colTrork to secure justice
Dr and Mrs William F Burris
departed Monday morning on 13 for
Denver and the mountains on an out
ing The doctors sermon Sunday
morning in the Methodist church
was greatly appreciated by many The
doctor takes some pride in being old
facliioned in his theology He is
sound and earnest too The doctor
and wife attended the Cambridge
ERRANTES Royal Italian Guards Band has come Into the Chau
tauqua field It has been Induced to leave the summer gardens
and richly furnished amesement parks of the city for a ten
weeks tour of a great Chautauqua System The coming of this
2unous band to this city Chautauqua week is unquestionably the great
ost event in music the community has known Ferrante himself is one
of the greatest band directors that Italy has produced He organized
Ms first band when only a very yocng man He has been a band
roaster ever since He came to this country with his Royal Italian
uards less than two years ago The band had made a great stir in
2nrope -where It is well known and it is fast becoming a favorite In
this country It has never until this summer crossed the Missouri
river Band Day will be one of the big days of Chautauqua week
TELEPHONE TALKS
No 9
THE WHY OF RATES
A railroad may haul a carload cf flour at a cheaper cost per
sack than if cne tenth as much were shipped but it costs us
a great deal more per telephone to operate an exchange of
5000 subscribers than one of only a thousand
In an exchange of 5000 subscribers every telephone user
is given an opportunity to use hs telephone ten times as much
as in an exchange cf a thousand subscribers
This condition would make the operating expense and main
tenance ccst of every telephone and line in the larger exchange
much higher than in the smaller one
Then too in the larger exchange telephones average fur
ther from the central office necessitating more wire per tel
ephone
Also as more telephones are added to an exchange the unit
ing of everj telephone with every other one increases the in
dividual cost enormously
But the service of the larger exchange is worth a great deal
more
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MASSACRE OF THE NELSON
BUCK SURVEYING PARTY
As Told In the Official Correspond
ence and Newspaper Accounts
of the Time
In the issue of The Tribune for
Tuesday June 6th was printed the
substance of a letter from Mr H B
meeting of the Epworth League last McGregor of Pontiac Illinois who
week in Cambridge He is a member
of the Board of Control Being old
time Missouri friends of Rev and
Mirs L E Lewis of our city they
came up here and spent a few days
visiting them
jaithe McCook Chautauqua Wednesday Afternoon and Night
ISIGNOR FERRANTE THE GREAT ITALIAN BANDMASTER
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so far as is known is the only sur
vivor of the Nelson Buck surveying
party the members of which with
the exception of Mr McGregor and
one other were killed by the In
dians in the summer of 1869 The
real story of the massacre will prob
ably never be told but enough has
been discovered to leave no doubt
that the bones of at least ten of the
twelve men who started on the ex
pedition were left to bleach upon the
plains of southwestern Nebraska
somewhere within the boundaries of
what is now Red Willow county
The archives of the surveyor gen
erals office of Nebraska contain sev
eral letters from Nelson Buck In
one dated December 27 1867 address
ed to Surveyor General P W Hitch
cock the writer made application for
a contract to do surveying in this
state He says he had at that time
been in the business of surveying in
Illinois for thirty four years and
that he believed he was qualified to
do such work An interesting asser
tion in this letter is that he had let-
ters of recommendation from Judge
ireat Abraham Lincoln Jno T
Stuart and many others among the
most prominent cf our great men
No copy of the surveyor generals
answer i available but the following
ed February 11 lStiS givco an inti
ination of what he may have said
and in the light of what afterwards
occurred seems almost prophetic
As to the trouble with the In
dians I expected to encounter all
chis I am no more prepared to be
killed than ethers are but I think I
am just as unlikely to suffer from
their depredations as others and am
able to employ such force as will be
likely to protect a party of survey
ors as ethers are In fact that part
will net deter me from taking my
chance It i3 not the profit alone
that would induce me to make the
attempt but the desire to be employ
ed where I can see the west so
then so far as the fear of Indians are
concerned that has little or no weigh
in this matter
If I can procure a contract for
U S surveys I ckall go prepared to
perform all the requirements of
the laws in sui cases
Permit me to speak as thoJgh I
was personally present I can pro
cure all the necessary recommenda
tions as a competent surveyor I
can if I have not now procure all
the necessary outfits and instruments
I can procure all the necessary as
sistants and arms for defense as
against Indians and I can perform
the work as well as any other man
as my long practice in surveying I
can say without fear of successful
contiadiclicn has given me a knowl
edge of all the various plans that
must be carried out and I am anx
ious to be engaged in this business
Before any contract was executed
there was a change of administra
tion and the next letter in the ser
ies which is dated May 29 1SG9 is
addressed to Gen R R Livingston
In this letter Mr Buck announces his
intention of leaving Illinois for
braska within a few days In the
I issue of the Nebraska Herald pub
lished at Plattsmouth for June 24
lished at Plattsmouth for June 24
18C9 it is reported that Nelson
Buck Esq of Pontiac Illinois a
brother of John F Buck of this
county has a contract under Survey
or General Livingston for establish
ing standard lines in the western
part of the state On July 21st
18G9 Mr Buck wrote Gen Livings
ton from Fort Kearney as follows
I regret that I did not procure
arms etc while there at Platts
mouth I anade application through
Capt Pollock to Gen Auger for
leave to draw such as were need
ed but did not get them
I will write today to Lieut iMc
KUlay for 6 Spencer rifles or needle
breech loaders with 200 rounds each
Please write to Lieut McClay or
Gen Auger your consent for me to
draw such or others which may be
had at Fort MePherson Some and
indeed several of my company feel
discouraged at hearing of Indians
out and through our district of coun
try and want arms so that if we
must fight Indians all can take part
in the matter
We have lain here three days
hoping for some arms although I
knew the matter was rather doubtful
on account of irregularity in the
present application Still as -we were
here we had hoped that the Gen
would dssue the necessary orders
So far as is known this is the
last word from Mr Buck or from
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Caf WOODWQRTH Druggist J move tan and sunburn
except H B McGregor and John
Nettleton who left the party after
it had gone into the field ever saw
any of its members eiliter dead or
alive again
In the issue of The Nebraska Her
ald for October 14 1869 it was re
ported that none of the lines or
corners that were to have been es
tablished by Mr Buck under his con
tract could be found This fact
coupled with the fact that although
his trail had been discovered and
an empty water keg found near one
of his camps no trace of the par
ty had been seen and that Gen Dun
can who was out on a scouting ex
pedition had found two surveyors
tripods in an Indian camp that had
then been recently raided by him
led to the surmise that the members
of the party had been massacred
Lieut Jacob Almy reported the cap
ture on September 26th 1869 by a
detachment of cavalry under the com
mand of Gen Duncan of a squaw
Avho told of an encounter between a
party of white men and a band of
Indians under Pawnee Killer and
Whistler that occurred while the In
dians were crossing the Republican
river between Frenchmans Fork and
Red Willow creek to move over to
the Beaver She said that four young
Indians in advance of the main body
of the savages were attacked by the
whites and that three of the In
dians and one white man were kill
ed The Indians pursued the ag
gressors in the direction of the
Leaver took their horses and ra
tions destroyed two wagons and kill
ed five of the whites the rest of
them escaping
The story told by the squaw is
1 extract from Mr Bucks reply Corroborated by the account ot an
investigation made by an employe cf
the government who was in charge
of the agency to which the Sioux
returned after their summers cam
paign through the Republican valley
His report dated Whetstone Agency
New Fort Randall D T Jan S
1S70 reads in part as follows
As intimated in my last letter to
you in reference to the killing of a
party of surveyors under charge of
Mr Buck last summer by Indians
I have now to state that I have made i
diligent inquiry among the Indians
located here including Spotted Tail
Swift Bear Pawnee Killer and
others and send jou the substance of pjQne jf0 jg2
information gained up to the pres
ent time Pawnee Killer arrived at
this agency in September last Hi
bartv all tad more or less United
States currency which they paid ov
er very freely while here Spotted
Tail informs me that one of his
party related to him that they at
tacked near Beaver creek a party of
about twelve surveyors in August
last and succeeded in killing six of
the party The balance retreated and
entrenched themselves The Indians
subsequently attacked and were re-
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THIS SUMMER
TO THE EAST
Take advantage of the low excursion rates available this summer
to eastern cities There are 30 day tourist rates to New York At-
lantic City Boston Montreal Portland Buffalo and other places
1 slightly higher 60 day limit tourist rates to many of these cities
there are diverse tours via Old Point Comfort thence ocean voyage
to New York and Boston this tour recently introduced by the rail
i roads has become one of the most popular tours of American travel
TO THE WEST
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HORN MOUNTAIN RESORTS BLACK HILLS PACIFIC COAST also
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