Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1874-02-12
THE JOLLY JOKER IN UTAH.
An Entcrcstimx Place for our Travel.

7 An ENtCfCNtlOX PuWCC Tor our IfNVC1s
efNe
! Johns Dialogue with ~ Music Teach
cr-A Good Time nt Deer LOdgc-IaON
yIr. Flint, OF New York. Captured
| Mountains <:r0use-l G:rc:sicr'. Mid.
might Visitor.
Correspondence OF the Sun.
METROPOLITAN HOTEL, COElNNE. Utah,
] December, lSs'.-'''rhcrc is u divinity that
I shapes our ends, rough hcw them as we may.
There has been something that has rough
hcwcu my way for the past few weeks. \
boy once remarked of his father, who was
blown up on steamboat, ''tllat he was par
boiled" I've been par frozc. I'm back to
Corinnc safe, and to hear me cough you'd
think was sound. too. The last evening
that spent in Helena there was i tableau
1t came near being striking one. female
and held sweet converse. She was u
music teacher, and stopped at the Cosmopol-
tan. She was full enough of music to
soothc any gentle savage that ever tiourishcd
one of those things George Washington cut
| Il cherry tree with.
Says She. ''Do your children play"
Says l. '.Thcy do play considerable.
Says she. '.Iiail Columbia"
Says l, Not that I'm aware Of it"
Saws she, ''IIome, Sweet Home? ''Beau-
tiful Dreamer? ''Old Folks at Home: ''Lovc
Not:"
Says /, mo. marm."
Says she, Il thought you said they played"
Says |, so they do. | cant stop EN-.
They arc all play
Saws she, '.What in the world do they
play.
Says l. "llopscotch. marbles, croquet,
checkers backgammon, and lots of things"
She vanished into thin air, or something
else and never saw her again.
CROSSING THE MOUNTAINS.
We left Helena before daybreak The sun
was mt up, SO there wasn't anything to break
it with. The stage was drawn by six splen-
did horses. We crossed the main range of
the Rocky Mountains. the highest We had
vet crossed. l was cross enough crossing
those mountains. So was Mr.. Flint from
New York. lie, his guns, and his powder
were going with us as freight. All day we
rode through deep ravincs and canyons.
Ono If EN- was immense. IL was large
enough to hold anything. except, perhaps,
the authors of '''Thc Beautiful Snow.
Just as the sun was going to bed we came
to Deer Lodge. 1t is a town of about l.lW
| inhabitants, with plenty of room tn ErOw.
! didn't sec tho whulcOf EN-. because sOniI OF
| en- staid in the houses. The town is named
from the Deer Lodge river that flows by it.
| 1t is the county seat of Deer Lodge county.
and contains II Jail, court house, State prison,
and other evidences of civilization. lstOpp-
ed at the Scott House, and we had real meat
for supper. l didn't get off ''Scott free,
and didn't expect to. staid here several days
to get rested. We didn't have any fresh
shat. Salt water eels and oysters,
caught the day before were scarce, but an
telopc steaks and hunks of buffalo. and
small game we revcled in. Antelope meat
=, N1,n r,f th6s RI
and better eating.
EAsY-GOING PEOPLE
The rivers in this section all have some
thing Adam never had, and that's forks. l
found the people of Deer Lodge didn't appear
to care darn whether their cash balanced or
not as long rs they had plenty of it. They
their partners at u ball to balancing their
books for their partners at the store. They
live so high up among the Rocky Mountains
that, although the measles is usually rocky
disease, it don't appear to spread there any
better than cold butter. The whooping cough
is almost entirely confined to the Indians, but
their whOOps arc seldom heard now in the
vicinity of Deer Lodge. Deer Lodge is not
aprv,,os to the Scott House. had as cheap
a lodge there as could desire.
Mr.. Flint, from New York, with his new
clothes on, was the most astonishing thing
that had been seen in Deer Ledge for years.
His success at cunning astonished even me.
Every day he brought in immense quantities
of ruf;le neck mountain grouse. every one
Of 'cm with their heads shot off and not
feather of their bodies disturbed Such cvi-
;l.nCe of superior Workmanship was enough
to astonish anybody. Ruffle neck mountain
grouse got to be so plenty in the market you
could buy them at 40 cents gross. Fairly
one morning followed Mr.. Flint from New
York to sec how he did it, When he got olt-
side the town l saw him load his double lar
relied gun, then he lay on the ground, then
he put some corn in the end of the barrels,
| then lie hitched string to the triggers, then
slowed himself away out Of sight AMI kept
still. Pretty soon | saw those mountain
grouse in all the simplicity Of their innocence
poke their heads into those gun-barrcls to eat
the corn. Then saw Mr.. Flint from New
York pull the string. heard two detona-
tions. and those mountain grouse passed from
their sphere of usefulness in this world so
quickly that the use IF paint pain was rend-
cred entirely unnecessary. 1t was proved to
New York did not pat a head on ruftie neck
mountain grouse. but he was some on
TAKING THEIR HEADS OFF.
They care delicious eating had q can Of
mushrooms with me, and one day had some
mountain grouse gsrnished with 'em. A man
sat opposite me who appeared to be very
much astonished at something. spoke to
him:
Says l, ''In business in Deer Lodge?"
Says he, mo; I'm q miner
Says l, .'fou're the oldest-looking minor l
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