Famous Voyage up the Yellowstone Mccone Pursued by Sioux
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THE GHOTEAU MONTANAN t • * ,'jr: MEASURES FIND Famous Voyage Up the Yellowstone AJAX WRITES OF FARMERS’ FAVOR •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• PIONEER MONTANA WORK OF A. J. NOYES IS ENRICH FARM FEDERATION CONFER Captain Grant Marsh Piloted Josephine Nearly 40 Miles Above Billings ING ARCHIVES OF STATE ENCE DECIDES UPON LEG Within 60 miles of Yellowstone palmiest days. PeaBO and his asso foam, but the utmost speed she could river itself. The appearance of it HISTORICAL SOCIETY. aroused the greatest enthusiasm on ISLATIVE PROGRAM. park by steamboat! 'How would ciates expected to open abroad be make was one-sixth of a mile an tween Fort Pease and Bozeman, hour, and most of the time she board, for it was-at once recognized that sound in an advertisement to as Pompey’s Pillar, the famous land Montana Pioneer Is Writing Book Two Equity Societies, Farmers* Union tranship freight from steamboats to lure the eastern tourist to Montana. wagons and haul it over to the set mark discovered by Captain William on Blaine County, in Which the and State Grange Participate in This was accomplished in June 6, tlements as had been done at Fort Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedi Indians, the Squaw Men, the Pros Conference; Farmers’ Strength tion. High up on its face the Jo 1875 by the steamer Josephine^pilot- Benton. pector, Miner, Stockman and Dry- Will Be Behind Measures Ap Indians Compel Abandonment. sephine’s men found inscribed the ed by Captain Grant Marsh and char words ‘Wm. Clark, July 25, 1806,’ lander WiH All Have a Place. proved. tered by the United States govern As was the case with the Mussel the letters still as clearly defined as ment. As the result of this trip shell settlement, investment by In when chiseled there by the illustrious Too little has been told of the old Legislative Bureau of) Lieutenant Colonel J. W. Forsyth re dians compelled the colonists to aban explorer, 69 .¿ears before. the Montana Newspaper i ported to General Phil Sheridan that don the post. Throughout the winter pioneers of the great state of Mon Association, Helena ) “ Many of the steamboat men and tana. No grander body of men ever the Yellowstone river was navigable Fort Pease settlers were engaged in soldiers followed Captain Clark’s The Montana Farmers’ Fed for commercial purposes as far as the a constant battle for existence. When emigrated to a new land. They had example by cutting their names on either to ford, bridge or swim the eration, through its executive mouth of the Big Horn, while the their number had been reduced the rock, and In a prominent place committee, has decided upon its second officer of the expedition, to 25 through the killing of six and rivers that crossed their paths, to Captain Marsh inscribed: ‘Josephine, find trails through trackless plains, legislative program. The fed Lieutenant Colonel F. D. Grant, the severe wounding of nine, it be June 3, 1875.’ The voyagers re eration committee met a few states that the river was navigable came evident to the colonists that and force their way through the sumed their onward course at 3:45 mountain ranges that retarded ev days ago. Representatives of to Pompey’s Pillar, within 30 miles ODly a relief expedition could save o’clock next morning. But their the Farmer’s Society of Equity, of the present city of Billings. them from annihilation at the hands ery step because of their peculiar for journey now became fraught with mation. But ever since the day on the American Society of Equity, Both officers declared that the of the Sioux. One of the party suc many and increasing difficulties. the Farmers’ Educational and Yellowstone, owing to its gravel bed, ceeded in carrying their appeal to which Jason sailed to bring back the Co-operative Union, and the its stable banks and islands, and its the commanding officer ot Fort Ellis, Numberless Islands Split Channel Golden Fleece, men have struggled State Grange, all of which or freedom from snags, offered a much 175 miles aw’ay, and when four “ The great river, though apparent for the gold that the Maker hid ganizations are affiliated in the better highway for commerce from troops of United States cavalry ap ly undiminished in volume, grew throughout the world. federation, were represented at Fort Buford to the settlements of peared the garrison abandoned the more and more swift, constantly It has mattered not that the froz this meeting, which was called western Montana that did the Mis townsite and returned to Bozeman. breaking into rapids through which en land of the midnight sun held the by L. W. Robinson of Forsythé. souri from the same point to Fort But to return to tho voyage up it was necessary to warp and spar treasure, or that it was in the sands After an exhaustive discus Benton. the Yellowstone that attracted atten the boat, while numberless small of Nome, where the storms of winter washed it from the bottoms of frigid sion the committee endorsed the Railroads End River Traffic. tion to the possibilities of that river islands split the channel into chutes. following measures and will a3 a highway of commerce. Until a * * * * At length, after two days sea. It mattered not if it were the The opportunity never came to point was reached 27 miles above the mines of King Solomon in the fever make every effort to secure demonstrate the correctness of their of incessant struggle, Pryor’s fork their enactment into laws: mouth of the Big Horn, the Joseph was reached.” affected land of South Africa, 'ór judgment as the advent of the rail ine had not required the assistance Captain Grant Marsh, Still Living at whether it was in the sunny clime O’Shea’s bill providing for roads soon after put an end to all Washburn, N. D., Who Piloted the The next day the Josephine pushed state insurance on all public of either spars or lines in making on, but before nightfall a tremendous of California, where the perfume of through river traffic. Their report her way up-stream. Then the rugged Josephine Up the Yellowstone. sweet flowers filled the air, and buildings. aroused much interest in Montana rapid was encountered, which was O’Shea’s bill providing for bluffs bordering the valley closed in passed only after a hard struggle. bright plumaged birds sang their and in the fall of 1875 an expedition until they stood only 85 feet apart, sweetest music, to lull the tired and state hail insurance. was organized at Bozeman which un seemed to be standing still. The Here the name “ Hell Roaring rap Edward’s bill providing for towering straight above the vessel. captain ordered the spars set, and ids” was given to the torrent. At homesick miner to a welcome sleep. dertook to establish a town at “ the The current meanwhile increased in And our own state with its trackless state bonding of public officials. Josephine’s head of navigation.” after an exhausting struggle of sev dawn of the next day a reconnoiter- Whiteside’s bills providing for depth and rapidity until it became a eral hours the boat was finally ing party examined the river for sev plains to be crossed, the wild In Nearly opposite the mouth of the torrent that ran no less than nine dians to be subdued, called the peo the adoption of the Torrens’ Big Horn, a small stockade was forced through ‘The Narrows,’ as the eral miles further up, but the current land title system; the invest miles an hour. place was appropriately termed, into was found to be so powerful that it ple from their farms, shops and erected and a townsite laid out. The homes, to seek the rich sands of Al ment of state funds in farm founders of this post, which they Wheel Beats Water Into Foam. the wider channel beyond. was decided to turn back. The Jo loans; providing for the con “ For some miles now the steaming sephine had reached a point 463 der, Bannack, Confederate and Last named Fort Pease in honor of the Telling of the struggle with the Chance. And some of these men struction of storage elevators chief of their expedition, F. D. Pease, stream at this point, Joseph Mills became easy, and in the latter part miles above the mouth of the Yellow under state control; and the of the afternoon the Josephine drew stone and less than 60 miles in an would have stampeded to the Heav expected, like the builders of the Hanson, in his “ Conquest of the Mis enly Gates, and stolen the golden usury law, making eight per short-lived Musselshell or Kerchival souri,” writes: in sight of an isolated butte rearing air line from the northeast corner cent the maximum interest rate. of the present Yellowstone nation il cobble stones of that remote place, City, at the mouth of the Mussel “ Every pound of steam was crowd its head above the southern hank if they had known the way. White’s optional herd law. ed on the Josephine’s boilers and her and, from the point where it was park— nearly 40 m i le B up the stream shell, to create a metropolis that Made Montana Livable. Holt’s bill, widening the scope should eclipse Fort Benton in its paddle-wheel beat the water into first seen, apparently standing in the from the site of Billings. of farmers’ mutual insurance These men who made possible laws. the existing conditions of the Hawk’s bill providing for oil state, where people can live with inspection.