, 1873-10-06


Tranafor At osdon 10 oorin1le ................ ~
1'rarsEor at Cor1nno o.......................- !
CornnU to 1fulcna.. Observation-Disclosures. u
Tia Northern Paes loud. -
on,.,ro n n.m,re, n1y''
Trausfor TO steamer At Dianiarok :. ............
nlamnrck to MuHclcshe! .....:.:..............
ytalsfsr to wagons Ut Mnseosholl. oll.....,.".." i
Total.... ".....................''. ~
Or difference In favor OF tho Northern lh-
ciio route Of nine days. This showing IT, tor
tl,at tho Diamond Il Overland transportation
Company will noxt year build road from llo-
lena to tho mouth of the Mnac'oallell, diBtancc
ot $50 miles, md Withdraw their teams from tho
THERE 1s ANOTHER fAyoRAn1.E 1o1ST
TO be considered III connection with the earnings
Of tho Northern Pacific -, Company for
The zoaao,i of 1874: This m yonr tl,o
Bismarck on tho 9Th OF Juno, quito Into in tho
Bcason; and tho proGts Of tho rivar-carrying
layo been divided botwoen the Northern rac,no
Company and the Kountz md Coulson lineB of
stoat1,ers. Noxt year, tho Northern Pacific Com
pany viii undoubtedly have its own line Of boats,
horoby ginning this lonvY percentage.
Before pnBBing to tho necessary paragraph on
Bismarck, add word or two. As already stat
cd, thore is scarcely any difference IN tho region
l.
trayersod BY the Union Pacific Road through
Wyoming. The sRrno atmospheric penomena
prevail tho samo deceptive nppcarances-soino
timea ns miraBoB, oftenor Oh plain distortions
Iota ore heavier md mora frequent than aro tho
Winds Of Wyoming or Colorado.
AN AMUSING CIRCUMSTANCE
WAS relatotl to mo yesterday by MIR. Winston, a
merchant Of bismarck. Last simmer, Winston
hal contract for grading tho road near Crya-
tal Springs On ono section, around an alkal
1ako, ho Ind q fill Of several feet to
make. As sand was tho most available
material, Winston graded up the section with
to measure and estimate tho work, Dakota
breeze" carried his work oil away. Twice ho
WAS sorvcd this ungenorous trick by Boreas, but
tho third time Winston had tho tenacious bluo
mud Of TIE rns 1sa fs uR into Mo9 no and
tho largest alkali lako l eyor romom-
Dor to havo aeon in any Territory.
To tho unacctstomed eyo Of the travclor O Da-
Immediately around him there appears only q
level prairie, but off toward tile northwest ho
secs q gentle elevation. Thinking to get fincr
Wow, ho starts to aaceud tho "gentlo mound"
supposed it ono), he t!iscorns that Just beyond
(alother throo mileB) is still higher mound
nnd, If ho pursue liB Investigations, Ao will
keep finding higher ones till Of laat he brings up
beneath the shadow Of Mount Hood.
Last year, buffalo, antelope, cayotos, md other
animals wore to bo aoen along tue line between
Fargo and Bismarck; but, this year, railroad
men toll me thoy. havo soon but few Of either
species. Tho only sign OF animatod lifo between
etations Ia that OF tho little brown owl aud
tho grasshoppor. Not oven Norway rat. But,
at the stations, thousands Of b1ack-bfrtls fit
through tho dir, or light for o moment OIL tho
cars and station- buildings, In this barren ro-
gion eyon tho blacl1-birds
GET LONESOME,
md Hools contact with tho human family.
jamestown, $50 miles from Duluth, is located
in q very boautiful valley for all tho world like
tho Valley Of the South Pluto aftor it leaves tho
mountains. Fort Seward il horo, and also
post. Jamestown has the bost eating-houHe on
tho road, though it was my misfortune to reach
there about m hour after tho cook had confessed
to d magnificent failure with b1a1c-masgo.
Tee9 baf s3aS the had
Tta gors h' All AGp''t te Of sSns sor into he "ntss hss
boon OH robbing and plundoring the whites, and
now the Government will kindly care . for lin hin.
supply Of ammunition md blankets, he will be
of again in tho spring.
BIsMARCK
is just such a built town Rs Cheyenne was thrco
yours ago. It IL only year old, yet never IN it's
worst days has Bismarck been under tho swny OF
the roughs. The decent element of the Statea
cu,no carly, took pohBessiou aud havo naiu-
tuned duo authority ever since. Tho roughs
Iors; but thoy aro a subduod class,---
rs r0ugllH always arc whom they nro not
certain Of having things their own way. Busi-
pcHs has boon dull with them since tho Northern
Pacific stopped construction, and. nov, tint II
scrn wintor atares them in tho faco, they aro
Anxiousiy counseling with ono another as to tho
best why Of getting out of this region. Every
night, OH the arrival Of the train from tho East
idlo roughs meet it, OIL the lookout for some
pigeon t9 pluck On tic eyenng 4gne
from the amount Of LIP he poAscssod)
plug bat, and his Judgment led him to consider
no pilgrim" & or &groeny 7ron' tho States: q, H.
proiforcd his services to show mo around"
or courao his first direction was toward Crum-
mys gambling-houso. But, before he had
sprung his trap on this pigeon. Denny Aanitln
" Lippy, You're bracod. He amt no gille; hos
n newBpnper-ma1l, he iB." Tho :" boys drank
to tue health Of Lippy, and I escaped being
pluckod.
On the Btraets Of bismarck and in it's "divea" !"
(called dires from the strong similarity existing
between them mud tho place whero tho rich man
was whom he lifted up his eyos and saw Abraham
atar off) have mot mon whom lad seen before
in almost every nining-eamp Oil tho Pacific
Hanitln. an Amboy Cll.) man. Denny bus oxpo-
ricnced all tho ups and downs Of fronticr-lifc /;
to-day heavy realizer on an honest clainl; to-
morrow heaaing crowd in tile mud rush for
some WaHhoo district; with plenty Of
money md q "hgh-rollor" at faro or
monte. or dead-broko and cudgeling his brain
for some device to skin tho first pilgrim lo
could tind. No mattor whore ho was, or under
what; circumstances the throad Of Denny's life
was being spun ont. It is always his boast that
lo il " d Thoroughbred" Nor has Donuy been
partial to locnlitlos llo has aimed to distribute
himself over the Far West, ,-;-lloro thumb.
get on d spree aud got whipped by three
eyes backed a,ld clothes torn from lis
bnek, Denny paratlod tho stroets yelling,
tituor, and bound to 70 through !" If
this notice will do him any, good. AM willing to
add that Denny, like all true Western mon,
always stood ready to divide with tho needy md
tight for tho oppressed. Thoro arc
MANY SIMILAR CHARACTERS
horo. John Wells koopH Baloon md gambling
house. lie too, llas 3" done " tho frontier. DaYo
Mullen, whouo prowess with tho six-shooter III
Lnnwn MI nycr itnnrnj1o md 3Npnyai,,r nivor