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W. O. DEXTER, Prop.
A MONTANA TALE.
I stopped some weeks ago for the
night at the Antelope Springs Tavern
--half hotel and half stable, built of
pine logs, some of which are two feet
in thicknqss-a lonely place under the
pines, where I could hardly hope for
3 any but a lonesome night of it. The
place was a hotel some twenty years
ago, but has been deserted since then.
I was glad to find a crowd of hunt
ers, trappers, miners and travelers
collected there, driven in like myself
by the snow storm which had been
raging all day on the mountain toll
road. After a good supper, which in
cluded elk steak, we gathered around
a blazing fire of dry pine wood on the
old hearth.
"We were hunting black-tail deer
on the main range of the Rocky
Mountains, near the head-waters of
the Little Blackfoot River, in Mon
tana," ventured a slim young man,
"Heath and I. Heath was a yeung
fellow from Boston, and Beacon
street may be at that. He had joined
the UTnited States Army. He had
been in the Territory a year or so, had
served with General Terry against
the Sioux, and had seen some service,
too: was at the Little Big Horn just t
after the Custer massacre. Becoming
tired of life in barracks, he got out of
the army by the assistance of friends
at home, among them General B., un
der the plea that he was not of age
when he enlisted.
"Well we had been tracking a band
of deer until we were just about play
ed out, when we saw them away up
on the side of the mountain. It was
about three hours till sundown.
"We tied old Prince, Heath's dog,
to a little bush with a silk handker- t
chief, intending to leave him there
while we slipped on the doer. The
dog would break sometimes and spoil h
a shot. cc
"I was ahead of Heath about a 100 b
yards with my Winchester on my
shoulder- had some six or eight loads t
in the chamber. She was what is
called an Express riflo, 50-caliber, and
shoota a hundred grains of powder. i
When that gun spoke, something was
liable to get hurt. Heath's was a
nerngton, a mingle-enot rifne you
know, but for one shot I hardly think
thore's a better. or
S '"I had always been anxious to run
across a grizzly, and we both had
t, about made up our mrids that whenev
e- r we should come up with a bear on
our hunts we would try him a whirl.
Ir am no slouch of a shot, if I do say
Sit myself, and Heath was as quick as
to a rabbit and as steady as a bridge, as
ir he would say.
"Well, old Prince began tugging at
the handkerchief and broke loose.
*" He came running up to Heath as if
frightened. I looked back, and just
- where a little while before we had
been resting under a little fir-tree
came two bears at a dead run, one fol
lowing the other, and both right on
our trail. They were silver tips, and
were coining about as fast as an aver
age cayote can run, and getting over s
the rough ground as nimbly as cats.
"'Look out, Heath!' I hollered,
'there's something after us.'
"But he had already seen them and t'
they saw him, for the leader turned
1 aside and they both passed in about v
fifty yards of him. I saw him raise
his rifle, then he lowered it and lok-o 0
ed around, and began backing toward
a tree that stood not far away from 0
him. He saw that the tree was han- a
dy, and he slipped his hand into his
- pocket for mere cartridges, so as to c'
have them ready. ii
"Those bears looked to be about the
size of a sack of wool, such as you see n
in this countay, and about that shape. '
I wasn't hungry for bear meat just h
about that time, gentlemen.
"'Give it to 'em, Heath!' I cried,
for I thought he was not going to
shoot. In fact, I didn't have time to
think much about it or I would not
have said that. It was all done as
quick as you can bat your eye, any
way.
" 'Wang!' went his Remington. m
" 'Stay with me, Louis,' he shouted. h(
'They are on the fight!' c
"He shot at the bear in advance,
and hit it in the rear somewhere. It ar
stopped,.turnedf round, stood up on ly
its hind feet and showed its teeth. It th
worked its jaws as if it was chewing in
its cud. When it roared or growled dl
or howled-whatever you may call it so
-twice, and you could have heard it tei
a mile. Never heard such a voice any- lit
where else. be
"I ran out to the place where I
could get a fair sweep at them, when mi
they came back toward Heath& Before thi
he could load and shoot again the the
bear came lumbering along by the ga
other one, and they both ran into the be;
brush together.
"We were afraid to follow them a
into the willows, and so we saw nothing hir
more of therm." I a
"Yes," began a trapper, as he threw
a log on the fire and then stood with
l1s hands behind him in the full glare
of the heat-the hands held in that
position perhaps to warn him when
the heat got too great for the safety
ot his buckskin overalls. He wore
gum boots (also pervious to fire), buck
skin schaps as aforesaid, and a heavy
flannel shirt, so heavy in fact that that
he saved the expense of vest and coat.
Wherever he went there was a str Ong
odor of beaver musk, which in the
matter of perfume is a cross between
the smell of a wigwam and that of an
opium den
"Yes, a silver, tip is bad enough
when he's wounded, and about as
active a bear as there is, but a grizzly
is bigger and can carry more lead
without dying than any other animal.
There was a friend of mine b' name
o' Tompkins in the Boulder Valley
had a little summer stock ranch there.
He had been bothered considerable
by bears coming among his stock.
Finally they killed a colt, and the
bear that killed it would come and
eat off'n that colt every night. The
rancher made up his mind he'd fix the
gentleman, so he went to the nearest
town, told the boys about the bear,
and got him a bottle of strychnine.
He got the Shurf and Tom, his Dep
uty, and Mat Ward, the Deestric'
Clerk, and they went home with him
to lay for that bear. Shurf of Silver
Cow county, Montana, mind you," as
if the statement was a matter of rec- I
ord, "and they all went home with
him."
Before dark they took a team and I
hauled a big load of hay up in about I
thirty steps of the colt's carcass. They I
filled that carcass full of strychnine. t
"There was no trees around there f
handy, and nothin' else that a man I
could hide behind-all a level open t
bunch grass flat which Tompkins had s
a sorter whiddledig fence round for a N
pasture. They hauled the hay up
there to shoot from, of course. s
"Long about the time when the
bear generally come-he made his b
visits purty regular-them four men, a
3o:ne with double-barreled shotguns, tU
)'hay and scrouged up close together
)n the middle, for a big load of hay,
0on know, as big as that was anywez,
s mighty shaky when you get on top
)f it. S
"The carcass was out there in front
o. f them, they had their guns all fixed
for shootin', and the moon was shinia'
sorter dim-like.
"'There comes a hoss down the
gulch yonder,' whispered the Shurf.
"'That's him. That's the bear,' 1
said the rancher. 'Groat glory, what
fa big one!'
"tThe bear come on slow and stiddy,
takin' his time.
"They had the wind o'him, but when
he got to the colt he see there was
Ssomethin' wrong. So he walked i
around to the wagon. The men was I
breathin' awful low. They couldn't t
r see the grizzly, and was 'feared to I
move les'n they might scare him. The I
bear put his foot on the wagon and i
gives it a shake. Then he goes Lack
to the carcass and begins eating.'
1 "'Hadn't somebody better give the t
word?' some one whispered.
" ' Better let him get his belly full I
o' medicine fast,' answered the Shurf. E
"That bear could a turned that load i
o' hay over with one flip of his foot, i
and them fellows knowe'd it.
"He snatched off a hind leg of the
colt, finished his meal, and went back
in the woods, where he came from.
There was nary a shot bred at him, C
neither, and if the strychnine did a
not agree with him they didn't find i
him out, for he was never seen after- f
ward. He never came back to that l'
dead colt, anywez, no more."
"We were taking a band of wethers 0
once-we had ten thousands in the a
band-from Umatilla County, Oregon, a
to Cheyenne," said a shepherd, who n
had been listening, and now came to
the support of the last speaker, "and tl
had three men besides myself, each P
man with a dog. We had several f
horses, guns and camping outfit, of a
course. ti
"One hot day about noon the sheep 01
anchored on us, and while they were di
lying in the shade we went down to W
the water to cook dinner. This was a
in the Blue Mountains, on the Mid- am
dle Fork of the John Day river, at a w
sort of horseshoe-bend about a quar- Pr
ter of mile not look C
like a white. been there P
before. qi
"Some of t in swim- m
ming, and w e river tp so
the inside of ey found t
thousands' of kinds of ar
game in the coon,
bear and
' "Them oed
a voice, 'w beaver's
hind foot akes a it
track like a
"That's so. I found that out after
wards. The river was full of mussel
shells, with mussels in them at that.
You could have scooped up a wagon- t
load of them in little or no time. i
"They saw a right fresh track of a
bear and a cub where they had been I
after those mussels and gone into the
brush. i
"I tried to get them not to go into the a
brush after the boar, but no, they e
were bound to go. 1
"They stationed me on a point that I
came down between the cogs of the a
horseshoe, and commanded the un- t
derlying flat completely. I
"Then they took the dogs and their c
guns and went into the brush. A man o
could just crawl through the brush, o
and that was all. F;
"The bear was there, you bet, and ti
the dogs bayed her before they had t,
gone a hundred yards. The men tl
could not tell from the barking where ti
she was. They kept as near together si
as possible, Bill Sloane in advance. al
Presently Bill shot, and the bear T
made a lunge and was on top of him, p
and got him down. The other man p
raised his gun to shoot, but was so N
close that the bear struck his, gun
from his hand and knocked it clear
out of his reach. He got away from
her, and she went back and stepped w
around on top of Bill, who was about tl
half dead. The third man opened on sE
her, and she would drop down every f.
time he hit her, and he hit her every ca
shot. He called for help, and I hur- al
ried to them as fast as I could. I M
had a little collie bitch that was as th
timid as a hare around you, but for ac
fighting game I never saw any ani- th
mal so big that she was afraid to
tackle it. She went to the bear a st
flying. The other dogs were simply he
barking around it Dixie seized on ed
to the bear from behind, and made it es
so lively for her that she left Bill, and ev
was worried by the dogs until she oH
died from the effects of the wounds
she had received.
"We got Bill out, packed him on a di
horse to the nearest town, which was
a hundred miles away, and it was of
three months before he was able to
. . .
The Chinese Are Going.
An attorney who is probably as
well acquainted with the Chinese in
San Francisco as any white man can
be says that if the present agitation
is continued for a year there will not
be a Chinese merchant left in San
Francisco. At the present time they
are closing up their business as fast
as they can, and nearly every steamer
takes one or more of them away. The
business of the merchants is being
ruined by the expulsion of the labor
ers from the interior. The merchants
in the interior of this state, in Oregon,
in Washington Territory and Nevada
have no business, as their patrons
have disappeared and they are unable
to pay their debts. In consequence
the merchants here are suffering. One
large merchant has $150,000 worth of
bills which he can not collect, and a
recent tour of this and neighboring
states enabled him to secure only
$3,000. Merchants have for some
time been assisting each other to pre
vent failures, but it appears as if the
limit were about reached. It is affirm
ed that there are more vacant stores
in Chinatown than ever before 'seen,
and the prospect is that the number
will grow larger.
Scrap Books.
The pleasure afforded by the mis
cellaneous page of reading matter in
a well appointed newspaper, ought to
induce more people to prepare care
ful scrap-books for delectation in
leisure hours. A really good scrap
bood is a treasure. It is not always
one wishes to attack a book, and there
are times when the collection of odds
and ends of curious and interesting
matter, ranging from gay and grave,
from lively to severe, exactly meets
the craving of the mind. A skillfully
prepared scrap book of the best poems
floating around in the papers and
magazines has long been a desidera
tum and it would be possible to have i
one with two departments, one solely
devoted to choice poetry, In this ]
way, each one may make a literary
collection to suit the individual taste,
and preserve a fine fund of varied
writing that would otherwise disap
pear in the great ocean of print. How c
constantly we regret the loss of some c
poem or prose article that our first ac
quaintance with it gave signal pleas- I
ure or the precise information we de
sire to have. Young persons oughtf
to be encouraged to make scrap books, c
and old persons should find them t
alike entertaining and usful.
Montana Horses In The East.
The Turf, Field and Farm says in h
its issue of March 26th---"The Mn-: t
tarna horses at the American Institute f
ter- sale have not filled eastern people
ssol with admiration for ranch-bred quad
-at. ruped to be used in harnoss or under
on- the saddle. They are a ragged-look
ing, wild-eyed lot, full of awkwardness
>fa when out in the show ring. They
een lost flesh in the long car ride from the
the west, and were forwarded without be
ing properly broken. Some of them
the acted as if they were not well acquaint
tey ed with the lariat, much less with the
bridle. On the plains they evidently
[sat had run without restraint, save that
the of the stallion which herded them, and
in- they were placed at disadvantage in
being suddenly dumped upon a great
eir centre of civilization. They were shy
an of the people and the people were shy
sh, of them. They sold low, but we are
satisfied that time will demonstrate
nd that the lot contained bargains. Mor
ad tana can turn out much better horses
en than those on exhibition at the insti
re tue this week, and eastern people
or should not jump at the conclusion that
co. all ranch-bred animals are alike.
rar There is just as much diffirence in the
m, produce of ranches as there is in the
an produce of stock farms in the state of
so New York
an .
ar Nontana's Admission Chances.
om Notwithstanding the impression
ed which has gone abroad in Montana
ut that all chances for admission at this
)n session is practically ended, the
ry friends of the territory at the national
ry capital do not seem to have given up
ir- all hope. Their last move was to have
Mr. Voorhees tack an amendment to
the Washington territory enabling
or act so that it would include Montana,
the purpose being, in case it should
pass through the senate, to make a
a strong effort to push it through the
y house in that shape, this being regard
n ed by Montana's friends as the short
est way to statehood. It seems how
ever, t hat this amendment was lopped t
Ie off before the Washington bill came
up for final passage (and passed), last
week. All that is shown in the
a dispatches is that the Washington bill
" passed, that it authorizes the holding c
" of a new constitutional convention at
o Walla Walla, the constitution there
rormuintea to reu suumI.teu - o tne
qualified voters, and if adopted, it 1
shall be forwarded to the president, r
s who shall issue a proclamation declar
a ing the state admitted to the union t
a As to Montana, we have no further c
a advices since the attempt to send her tl
t in with Washington territory, but feel ti
n assured that so long as a chance re
Y mains our delegation will be found F
t camping on the trail.--Inter-Mount
r ain.
----~--lc
The Philipsburg Branch.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press of last lo
Thursday refers to the Phiihpsburg b!
branch in complimentary terms and pl
adds: "It is stated that not more m
than $100,000 would be necessary to ri
build the proposed branch of the G
Northern Pacific from Drummond to th
Philipsburg, making the average cost
per mile $3,000. This low estimate is re
made because of the absence of heavy th
grades and the small number of cuts m
and fills." of
A deplorable result of the unwarant- of
able corruption of the word"fire" to b)
make it spnouymous with the verb so
"ejecs" is detailed in a western news- br
paper. A hotel clerk left written in- wI
structions on a slate for the porter to of
build a fire in one of the guest's rooms, W(
reading: "Room 40-fire at 10:30. al
When 10:30 o'clock arrived the matter go
of-fact porter went up to the room and
"fired" the occupant of room 40 into pe
the street, in spite of his expostula- sP
tions.
Brown Sequard, the French physio
logist, has demonstrated that for Al
several weeks after death, or during A
the persistence of the rigid condition Rc
which immediately follows the cessa
tion of life, the muscles of an animal tw
undergo slow alternate contractions
and elongations; and he reaches the
startling conclusion that the muscles
in rigor mortis are not dead, but are
still endowed with vital powers, be- so
ing, however, in a certain chemical
condition which antecedent and pre
paratory to final death. bir
Says Mr. (arnegie in his new book: so
"Whenever an American is met 1
abroad with the assertion that govern- lie,
ment in the Republic is corrupt, he mi
can safely say that for one ounce of wh
corruption here there is a fall pound ex
avoirdupois in Britain; for every "job' fief
here, twenty yonder. One nobleman p
gets £4,000 ($20,000) per annum for Thi
walking backward before Her Majesty nee
on certain occaesions, and so on gre
through a chapter of 'jobs' so long vail
and irritating that no- American the
mould patiently read through it" o
A company wit ,$100,000 eapital neg
has been organized at Pittsburg to tr;y cp
to break the patent controuI d by the the
f:tit 'sr m nrTclf,41. It~t
le EXPLORIUiG ALASKA.
d- The exploration of Alaska by
er Lieut. Henry T. Allen, of the Second
cavalry, is calling attention to the
wonders of our continent, in which
sS somewhere must lie the resources of
3y future development and wealth. The
le accounts say that Lieut. Allen' has
e- put his name among the very greatest
m explorers. He traveled 2,000 or-3,000
t- miles in all. He connected by an
re overland route, our settlements on the
ly North Pacific with those on Bebring
at straits. Before he went over this
id country we did not know anything
in about a great river in the north of
It Alaska.
,y When you go into tLe North Pacific
y you strike ihe town of Sitka, compar
ae atively low on the coast, and the coast
e above it forms a grand arch, above
which is an unknown continent. The
,s great mountain of St. Elias stands up
- to the height of some 15,000 feet, like
e a light-house to the dark and icy
t world beneath it. West of this moun
tain, perhaps 100 miles, is the Copper
e river, on which is another mountain
e called Wrangel. This river is one of
f the deepest points of indentation on
the coast. Up this river Allen went,
and then he crossed the great Alas
kan mountain range, which is the ter
mination of our rocky mountains,
that are called the Rockies till they
get to the Yukon river, and west of
that river they continue for about 600
miles, no longer running north and
south, but east and west.
Crossing them, the young officer
went down their northern side till he
came to the River Tanenah, or Ten
nab, which up to 1869 had only a tra
ditional existence, and is put on the
coast survey maps as a supposed river
only reported by Indians. It runs
like the rivers of Oregon, between
mountainous walls, and empties into
the great river Yukon, which has
meantime flowed through the bend of
the Rocky mountains and turned to
the Southwest. Along this river the
officer went 400 to 500 miles, and clos
ed his journey at Fort St. Michael,
which is on Norton sound, a portion
of Behring's sea.
The great Yukon river has been
Posts were established on it before
1840. It may be called the St. Law
rence river of Alaska, running west
instead of east. It rises behind Sitka,
flows north through lakes and cat
cades, drains a great water-shed, and
then going through the mountains,
turns southwestward and flows into
Behring sea, some 200 miles south of
Behring straits. This great, atream
of Alaska is believed to be 1,800 miles
long. Some say it is fully 2,000 miles
long and three-fourths of it navigable
for river steamers, and that on the
lower Yukon it is so wide that one
bank is invisable from ths other. At
places far up the river it is twenty
miles wide. It is one of the largest
rivers in the world--larger than the
Ganges or the Orinoco--and equal to
the Danube or La Plata.
There some wonderful ocean cur
rents in Behring sea, which make
this Northwestern coast warm and
mild, while all the Northeastern coast
of America about Newfondland and
Labrador is like ice. The gulf stream
of the Pacific in those parts is called
by the Chinese the Black Stream;
some call it the Japan current. It
brings a warm, moist atmosphere,
which is condensed on the snow-peaks
of the coast ranges, and cause the
wonderful rainfall which extends
along that coast as far south as Ore
eon.
There is said to be sixty-one volcanic
peaks in Alaska, of which only ten
spit fire now. Mount St. Elias is put
down at 16,000 feet in some of the re
ports, Mount Fair Weather at 14,000
feet. and the Redoubt volcano, on the
Alaska peninsula at 11,000 feet. The
Alaskan mountain range is really the
Rocky Mountains joined to the coast
range, as we call it in California. The
two ranges run into each other and
become identical. North of the great
bend of these mountains the country
seems to become comparatively level,
so that the products of the interior
can be taken down the Yukon river.
In this Yukon valley has been found
a very different class of animal and
birds from what was known to the
south.
The superficial area of Alaska is ie
lieved to be about 580,000 square
miles. Fifteen yrae ago Mr. Doll,
who led the Wester Union Telegraph
expeditip into .Alaska, said: "The
field now- n.d to America for ex
ploration and discovery is grand.
The inotir everywherei Alaska
needs exploration, :articularly the
great plateau north f tte Yukon, the
valley of the Kuskoquin and that of
the fopper river. lThe Arc ýi o qr
north f ishring straitI a 4ý fb
neglected. Wrangls island ort
explorers a .more frnitf ftied thel-a
the l oen . at'-t