Charlie runs out of salt
by Merry Helm
January 25, 2020 — Charlie Colgrove was a carpenter and all-around colorful character in Dickinson during the 1880s.
In his memoirs, he wrote, “... a couple of German fellers, August and George Beisigle, came to me and asked me to put in a ranch for them 25 miles northwest of Dickinson. George was a fine feller, but August was a stingy devil. They used to say he…