Slope County ND Newspapers
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, North Dakota) Thursday, June 21, 1917 Wants Forest Reserve Slope County Resisting Efforts to Open Nation Tract Bowman, N.D. June 21 Slope county is making a determined effort to convince the United States government that the Soo national forest, known as the Roosevelt reserve, is worth retaining. There are 10 sections in the tract and the government has considered opening it to settlers. The reserve boasts of a fine growth of trees which are especially desirable, Slope county citizens point out, in a region where a tree is a rarity. There is no objection to the continued use of the reserve for grazing purposes. - Contributed by Nancy Piper
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, North Dakota) June 29 1917 Remittance Man Hits Home Trail; Family Suffers Slope County Frenchman Believed to Have Effected Reconciliation Leaves Marmarth, N.D. June 3 - A romance involving the Bourbons of the old regime is scented in the sudden departure of Emil Flasque, a homesteader living in the rim rock adjacent to the Little Missouri, who stole away in the night following the receipt of a communication bearing a crested letterhead from his father in France. Flasque took with him the only team of horses on the place, a fine pair of blooded animals and left his western wife and two little children alone on their homestead with a meager food supply. After waiting several days her husband's return, Mrs. Flasque carrying her babes made her way to the Sam White ranch several miles distant, where she was taken in and cared for. Flasque is reported to have been a remittance man, and neighbors, who have some trusty ropes awaiting his return, believe that the note which caused his departure was a letter from his parents suggesting reconciliation. - Contributed by Nancy Piper
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, North Dakota) September 4 1917 Filing On National Forest Reservation 6200 Acres to Be Opened Up to Entry in Slope County, September 19 Dickinson, N.D., Sept 4 Filings are now being received here by W. D. Dickson, register of the United States land office, for the lands in the Dakota national forest reserve in Slope county, comprising 6200 acres and which will be opened to homestead entry September 19. Applications may be filed, in person or by mail. The forest reserve is not available for homestead entry under the enlarged homestead acts, and no one may make applications for a tract embracing more than 150 acres, nor more than one mile in length. Intending home steaders have permission to go upon the lands to examine them, but no acts of settlement are permissible prior to 9 am September 26. The lands are subject to entry after 9 am September 19. - Contributed by Nancy Piper
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, North Dakota) September 24 1917 Renville Man Draws No. 1 in Land Lottery Peter Ecklund Lucky in Getting First Choice of Roosevelt Reserve Claims Dickinson, N.D., Sept. 24 - Peter Ecklund of Renville drew first place in the land lottery held here in connection with the opening of the Dakota National forest reserve of 6,080 acres in Slope county. No. 2 was drawn by David Sence of Chenoweth. No 3, Michael E. McCaffney, Gaylor; No 4, Harold D. Lillibridge, Dickinson; No 5, Roy William Lillibridge, Dickinson; No. 6, Frank McKay, Slope Center; No 7 Francis D. Gore, Regan; No 8, Edmund H. Broehl, Regan. Eighty-five numbers were drawn. Holders of the few numbers drawn by residents of other states were Elsie M. Rushfeldt, Hawley, Minn., No 24; Emma G. Goggins, Ashcroft, S.D., No 26; Everett Firschner, Elmwood, Wis., No 27; Alice Coggins, Ashcroft, S.D., No 42; Helen Rushfeldt, Hawley, Minn, No 45; Joseph M. Goggins, Ashcroft, S.D., No 48; Albert B. Rushfeldt, Hawley, Minn., No. 80. One peculiarity of the lottery was the number of claims drawn by members of the same families. - Contributed by Nancy Piper
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