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. no fear of the marauder who would Hurd's bills relating to load­ steal their property and take their ing platforms at railway sidings McCone Pursued By Sioux Hostiles lives, do not care to talk about their and reciprocal demurrage; au­ exploits. It needs men to do this thorizing the public utilities •• •• •• •• work who are themselves pioneers, commission to fix toll rates for as they know something of the early grain grading. story of those times and can cor­ Meadows’ bill providing for Dawson County Senator Had Hairbreadth Escape as Pony Express Rider rect mistakes that otherwise might local control in road matters. creep in. Meadows’ bill providing for Senator George McCone, who has Some of the Sioux were in the Black off, and he found the dead body of years. In 1882 he also carried mail Among those who are trying to compulsory hail insurance. served Dawson county in one legis­ Hills and others were with Sitting a freighter at the station. The lat­ for the government from Fort Bu­ help preserve the material that It was decided to await the lative house or the other for 14 Bull in Canada, hence small bands ter was also a victim of the Sioux. ford to Fort Peck, 65 miles up the should be of value to the future his­ report of the house special com­ years, is a historical character. He passed through the country between Senator McCone fed his horses, Missouri. torian, and to the unborn genera­ mittee on taxation before taking caried mail to the soldiers at Fort those points, and robbed and killed and drove back to Antelope station, In the spring of 1882, he made a tions, is one who has tried for several any action. Keogh, Montana, from Bismarck, any chance white man they encoun­ where he got another mail driver to trip from the North Fork of Burns years, in his modes*, way, to write * * * North Dakota, in the period of the tered. help him bury the dead men. Wal­ creek, 45 miles from Glendive, to of those days. A ranchman and min­ While Montana was passed up in Custer massacre. He traveled with Between Green river and Beaver lace Heidenkopher now owns the Boulder in Jefferson county, and er, he claims no distinction as a in the matter of the location of the mail over a route that passed station the Indians shot two mail ranch where these men were slain, bought 30 head of cattle at the lat­ historian, though he has published federal state bank for this section through 270 miles of wilderness un­ drivers on the same route as Senator and last year he visited the senator ter place. These cattle he drove two hooks within the past three of the west, Spokane getting the inhabited by white men. McCone, one through the side and to hear the story centering in the back to his ranch on Burns creek, years that deal with those early, plum, a Montana man will have the He was chased and shot at by In­ back and the other through a leg. two graves at the ranch. where he has lived since 1882, and and to him, happy days. Him­ management of it, which 1 b almost dians. He rescued other mail driv­ The men abandoned their rig and On the 12th of July, 1879, Sena­ they were the first beef stock taken self a pioneer, and an that goes to aB much to the advantage of Mon­ ers, who had been shot and wounded, hid in a gully, where they were tor McCone encountered seven In­ into Dawson county. On the trip make that word a reality, he str - tana farmers as though the bank from hiding places they had sought, found by the senator when he came dians on his mail route, and five of to Boulder the senator says he saw gles along, trying to do a little good was located in Billings, or Missoula, and found still other drivers and along on his trip. them gave him chase. Tbe senator, no houses till he reached the Big as he sees it, so that those who are or Lewistown. station keepers dead on the road at He took them aboard his wagon, speaking of this, dismisses the mat­ Porcupine near what is now Forsyth. interested may find many things pre­ Senator Daniel O’Shea of Carbon the hands of the Redskins, and and started for the Green river stage ter briefly, as follows: Cattle on 100 Hills. served, that if not for his pen, would county has been offered the presi­ helped bury them; and he lived ranch. The men had been lying in “ They shot one of my horses He has long been one of the sub­ be forever lost. dency of the Spokane farm loan among the hunters and trappers of the gully 24 hours, their wounds un­ through the nose, and sent a bullet stantial stockmen of the eastern part Story of tho Big Hole. bank, and has gone to Washington those days, and daily saw the count­ attended, and the man shot through through the slats of the buckboard, oi the state, and has a 4,000-acre “ The Story of Ajax,” an autobiogra­ to confer with the federal farm loan less herds of buffalo and the almost the back died on the buckboard. Sol­ but I had better horses than they ranch and cattle and horses on a phy, is not alone the story of his life, board. equally numerous bands of elk, an­ diers guarding Northern Pacific sur­ had.” hundred hills. He is truly a pioneer, but it is the story of the Big Hele Much federal recognition is being telope, deer and other wild animals veyors at a point near what is now Five Killed on Route Same Summer. a pathfinder in the wilderness and basin, that most wonderful of all accorded Montana men by the Wil­ that inhabited those wilds. Gladstone, N. D., were notified. an empire builder all in one. The wild-hay valleys of all the world. He son administration recently. The He escaped without injury. Five Pioneer Cattle Raiser. Finds Two Men Killed. men were killed on his mail route only fault to be found with him is was a factor in the settlement and appointment of former Attorney Gen­ that he tells his story of those long- development of Montana, and has eral Joseph Poindexter to the fed­ One night the same year Senator that summer. He says there were He has had a historical part in the McCone took the night shift for a no Indians in the country, merely departed thrilling days of the Indian, written into the story of Ajax, one of eral judgeship of the Hawaiian isl­ development of the state of Montana, the buffalo, the mail driver, the sol­ the most thrilling heart stories that ands, the announcement of which mail driver who was ill, and drove small bands passing through. for it was he who brought into east­ the mail from Green river to Beaver When the railroad reached Miles dier and the trapper in the briefest has ever been told. Not a story of was made in the columns of this ern Montana the first cattle intro­ manner, giving but the barest facts, success, but a story of a failure. newspaper a week before the Asso­ station, 54 miles. Near the station City, Senator McCone took a contract duced into that section and estab­ he found the station tender dead in to carry mail from Glendive to Fort and sets it all aside with the remark: Then that old book of Dimsdale’s, ciated Press carried the news, has lished the first stock ranch in the “ Well, that was those days; it was that Governor Stewart said should be been confirmed, and now comes the the road, killed by Indians the day Buford, at the mouth of the Yellow­ region of the Yellowstone and Mis­ before. All the stock had been run stone, 80 miles, and xept it four the way they lived then.” read by all of the children of Mon­ announcement of the selection of souri rivers. He lived in Dawson tana, took on a distinctive value un­ Thomas Arthur of Billings as a county when it was a mere territorial der the new dress at the hands of member of the commission which division, with no county organization A1 Noyes. And not alone haB he meets in Philadelphia once every or officers. done this work, but is now telling four years and passes upon samples Before the railroad era, those were the story of Blaine county, which will of all coins made at the United Boosts Cook City as Park Entrance stirring and adventurous days, and & v States mint. give the story of the Indians, who live * * * it required courage and hardihood to on Balknap reservation, the squaw- convey mail by horseback or buck- (By Lieut. Gov. W. W. McDowell.) other entrance to Yellowstone park that they were endeavoring to trap men, prospectors, miners, Indian Senator Hogan’s bill, looking to board through long stretches of wil­ fighters, cattle and sheep men, and There has been a good deal of talk at Cook City. As this famous old him and bruin made one jump the submission of the question of derness, destitute of white men, in­ mining camp is situated in the midst through the window, carrying sash the dry-landers; all have their place, holding a constitutional convention fested by prowling Indians, given recently in the southern part of the and while it will be a history, it will state regarding the possibility of an- of some of the grandest and most in­ and all with him. to the electors, was killed in the over to wild animals, marked only spiring mountain scenery in the Cook City has more surface min­ be told as a story, that should hold senate. by faint trails and widely separated the attention of the reader from be­ * * * state, at a point only four or five eral showings than any other camp I posts, and never lacking in danger ARTHUR GETS POST miles from the northeast corner of have ever seen. I believe that if a ginning to end. In this work Mr. If the absent voter’s law Is made and difficulties. the park, it appears to me that the railroad was extended into that point Noyes has visited the Indians and more adaptable to Montana condi­ It was in Indian Territory in 1876 suggestion is an entirely practicable a dozen properties would commence their white brothers on the reserva­ tions, as is proposed, the voter living that Senator McCone took up the one. shipping ore immediately. It is too tion; he has talked with the old in the remote place can mark his hardy work of the western mail car­ I became interested in Cook City far from a railroad at the present plainsmen whose stories have never ballot and send it to the county clerk rier. He went to the territory from and the dirt roads are in bad condi­ before been told, and being himself a by registered mail. The clerk de­ Michigan, and became a pony rider, in a mining way a dozen years ago. It is one of the most out-of-the-way tion, making it unprofitable for any dry land farmer, he will tell that posits the mail ballot with the elec­ between Fort Sill and Fort Reno, one to mine there under present con­ story from the standpoint of experi­ tion judges, and the voter is saved riding 75 miles in 10 hours at night places one can imagine, and yet re­ ence. alize that it is in the state of Mon­ ditions, except, of course, in a small a long trip te the polls. It is esti­ four times a week, crossing three riv­ way; the reason being, that the cost Story of Placer Mining. mated that at the recent primaries ers, the North and South Canadian tana. In order to get to the camp of Cook City it is necessary to get is too great to haul in coal and other Then, too, for a long time, he has some rural communities cast only and the Washita, every trip. He supplies and to haul out the ore. been gathering material for the story about 20 per cent of the total voting changed horses five times on each off at Gardiner, the Northern Paci­ strength. fic Railroad company’s entrance to Make Entrance There. of the Placer Mines of Montana, a trip, and maintained an average pace work that Miss Fortune of the His­ * * * of seven miles and a half an hour for the Yellowstone park. From Gardin­ My idea would be to make It an er a daily stage runs to Cook City entrance into the park, which would torical society has said people ask Maggie Smith Hathaway has the the 10 hours, with no allowance for for, but there is none in existence. distinction of being the first woman such changes. and the road is practically through be an ideal one, say, for the Milwau­ the park for the entire disance. kee railroad. I understand that the This work requires considerable in Montana to have presided over a Three Trips a "Week. time before it can possibly be giv­ legislative body. She was chairwom­ The stage station, where they stop Milwaukee is now building a branch He was employed by Veile, Miner, to feed the horses and accord the line from a point north of Billings en to the public. Mr. Noyes has been an of the committee of the whole the at work for the Historical society other day and handled the house like Peck & Company, Star Route mail passengers the opportunity to eat into Billings. Now, if this road could a veteran. contractors, and that concern re­ their lunch, is at a little clearing be extended on past Laurel and Col­ gathering stories of the old timers, * * * ceived the mail contract between called Yancey; it being named after umbus, and from Columbus extended and has done good work in that line. A bill has been introduced which Bismarck and Fort Keogh in 1878 an uncle of the well-known attorney, on up to Stillwater, via Absarokee, The legislature of this great state will permit of the financing of coun­ He was Bent by his employers with Dan Yancey, of Livingston. It seems and put into Cook City, it would should see that money should be ap­ ty fairs. If the bill becomes a law another man, Alva Ketchum, to car­ that Yancey’s uncle had a ranch at make, in my opinion, the most im­ propriated to carry on the work, be­ the hoards of county commissioners, ry the mail by team and buckboard that point before the park waB cre­ pressive entrance to the park pos­ fore it is too late, that these stories at their discretion, may either ap­ over this 300-mile route. The mail ated and after the park was created sessed by any of the railroads. may be obtained and placed in the propriate $2,500 to defray the ex­ carriers of the company made trips they either bought out his ran h When one stands on the town of vaults of the Historical society, pense of the county fair, or they may three times a week. The mail was rights or else they were abandoned; Cook you can see half a dozen moun­ where they may be had for future levy a tax of one mill for the same for the soldiers at Fort Keogh and at any rate, no one lives there now, tain peaks standing out majestically. reference. purpose. their eastern correspondents. There except one couple, who conduct the Should the Milwaukee extend its As Noyes says, “ We want the story * * * were no other white men in the coun­ stage station. branch into Cook City it would have before they go on their last stam­ try. Another hill provides for the con­ The day I was there I noticed that an immediate tonnage of ore to haul pede over the Great Divide." solidation of city ana county govern­ General Nelson A. Miles was in the window had been broken out re­ out and an immediate tonnage of ments. command at Fort Keogh in those cently and inquired of the man in supplies to haul in ,and, in addition, • * « days. In 1876, two years before this charge how it happened. He said the branch road would run through a ger traffic of sight-seers, who would Among the new hills introduced the ill-fated General George A. Cus­ there were many bears in that sec­ heavily wooded section, where an enter the park at that point. ter was in command at Fort Lincoln, are the following: Hon. Thomas Arthur. tion of the park and that one evening immense quantity of timber could Passes Grasshopper Glacier. By Belden— To establish a state opposite Bismarck, and in the spring a few days previous to our arrival, be brought out. In addition to this, of that year, Custer, with his com­ I have been told by an old stage normal school at Lewistown. President Wilson has appointed he and hiB wife went for a little walk the road would traverse a beautiful driver who lives in that section of By Shaw— Relating to the inspec­ mand, marched to the mouth of the Thomas Arthur of Billings as a mem­ before cleaning up the dishes and farming valley, where a great deal the country that this branch road tion of horses when moved from one Tongue river. Two years later Sen­ ber of the assay commission. The scraps of food that had been left on of grain is now raised and where a would run by what is known as county to another. ator McCone, in carrying mail, fol­ commission will meet at Philadelphia the dining table after the evening great deal more would be produced, “ Grasshopper Glacier.” They say By Page— Providing for the es­ lowed the road Custer made. on February 15 and pass upon the meal. When they returned they if they had railroad facilities; and, that the glacier contains millions tablishment of county free libraries. No White Man for 270 Miles. weight and fineness of sample coins found that a bear, attracted, prob­ besides, it is a splendid sheep and* upon millions of grasshoppers, which, By Stephens— Providing for the Between Bismarck and the mouth minted at various United States ably, by the smell of food, had gone cattle country. probably millions of years ago, be­ establishment of a grain laboratory of the Powder river, 270 miles, there mints during the past year. Mr. Ar­ into the house, the door having been The whole section of Stillwater came imbedded in the snow and ice at Bozeman. *1 was neither white man not white thur is one of the best known men in left slightly ajar, and was busily en- valley would, in this way, be devel­ which afterwards became a glacier. By Oliver— Relating to powers of habitation. the state and until recently was . gaged in devouring what food there oped; and another of the main This in itself would be a valuable at­ school trustees to conduct night In 1879 Senator McCone had some chairman of the state democratic \waB left on the table. When they sources of revenue to the Milwau­ traction to eastern people who might schools. experience with Indian troubles. committee. entered the bear naturally supposed kee would, of course, be its passen- contemplate visiting the park.