Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-08-09
.nururUREs IN THE BIG HORN RE
GION.

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r. ASpMAN. '.' .'~'+'- q
hp ',:."e I wrote you from the Hills, | hayc
=. the trip to this place without seeing
' t,1i,ns-nothing occurring outside the
atlantis common to Il trip OF this kind, un-
w.. NAV except the following which places
"s ,,,mble servant in the ludicrous.
While camped on Red Water fifteen miles
.a., Of SpeartiSh, in a battle with the ele-
",s,ts June %, | lost my cooking stove and
~. dinner They were blown into Red Wa.
n.y. and there they lie. The next occurred
IS follows:
~, tne lst of July a mare | was taking
,ouo cave birth to IL colt. The next morn.
i've Inlaced the colt into the wagon, not
n,itbstanding the efforts of half a dozenmen,
,ho would not notice the colt in the wagon,
sho became enraged, and tore loose from
M with ~ forty foot rope On her neck, wet
from the dew of the morning. A turn q
the rope caught my leg. A livelier sleigh
r;1p never had for a distance Of four hun.
,rcd wards. | would have given all the BaG
I,nds OF Dakota, the Big Horn Mountains
drown in. to have been loose from that
mare. She made a lnrT and succeeded
in checking her, ans! held her until assist
.nce came. I extrcated myself without re.
ciying a scratch.
1aYiyel here in eight days from Red Wa:
fer. The tires on my wagon became loose.
and laid them OH the river bank for reset
tine. Thunder pe;let, lightning flashed.
and rain poured as it never did before. II
op hour Powder river raised six feet, an(
Two of my wagon wheels were on their way
1 10 iii, Gulf OF Mexico. In a few hours lhat
improvised a cartfrotn the remaining wheels
one q fore and the other q hind wheel.
have been here three or four days watch
ing and waiting the movements of 81 Big
Horn party, which will probably leave here
tumorrow. There are some leaving theil
wagons here and packing their animals
\ They will move up Powder river and eros!
the Big Horn range keeping ale4g The Yves
side, the objective point being some, place
on Clark's Fork, not known to but one MAI
named WIletmore, who came from there
aud gave the party the slip at Crook City
The wagon party will keep the Montan;
road to Fort G. +. Smith, cross the Big
N Horn and enter the mountains at some poin
between there and Clark's Fork. There ART
supposed to be four or five hundred mel
passed here from the Black Hills, and arr
now in or OH their way to the Big Hori
Mountains. "A greater number will ente]
from the west or SweetWater side, coming
from Cheyenne and other points. There
are reported three Oh. four hundred prospec
tors from the Hills camped on Clear Fork
They have sent parties into the mountains
but nothing, as yet, has been discovered
The road and the surrounding country il
I thought to be clear Of Indians, or, al least
tlescouts fail to discover any. Some par
Ties are returning Disguised, saying there il
no gold formationy and the Big Horn is
blk"
would advise my friends OF Montana K
await the discovery OF gold in the Big Horn
unless they know their wallets will beai
'lem out if disappointed. f4
aR# 8s JACK McGoEN.
'ahtonment Reno, Wy, July L, 1877.
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TURKo-RUssIAN WAR
CHICAGO, August 3.-Yhe Times, Tondol
spee'al says: A correspondent at Pera tele
M graphs that SaIaiu,.n p.cl,,, - onarot:n