Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1907 — More Trouble In The Bad Lands. [ARTICLE]

More Trouble In The Bad Lands.

There are strong indications that the Hostiles in the Bad Lands are getting off the reservation again and that the tomahawk has again been dug up in preparation for further hostilities. A law suit in court Thursday between Mrs. May McClintock-Hartman bn one side and Chief Landy McGee, the cele brated scout and trapper on the other, was the first indication of the fresh outbreak. Chief Landy occupies the McClintock-Hartman wigwam, and declares he rented it for twelve moons', tho he paid rent in advance only for three moons. Mrs. Hartman declares he rented it only for the three moons and has scornfully refused to receive the white man’s wampum for another moon tendered her by the big chiefThe powwow was held before Squire Irwin and a jury, Thursday afternoon, the interposition of which last very materially lessening the Squire s chances of having his own hair raised in case his decision was not satisfactory to all parties, and which in the very nature o* things it could hardly be. Mrs. Hartman proved her three months contention hy her own and her husband’s testimony, while Landy proved his side by himself and his wife. . The jury decided in favor of Landy keeping the house, and now the defeated plaintiff vows she will dispossess the big chief from her, teepee by force before three more sleeps have passed. She and her husband now occupy the latter’s smaller and less desirable wigwam.