Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-07-12

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performance. The Manvers & Woods COM
pany are said to bea "boss'' troupe, and the
Madisonian speaks very favorably of them.
The entertainment will consist of an olio,
%farces, songs and dances. clog dancing, etc.
THE Ball at Canyon Ferry on the evening
of the Sd. proved to be all that was antici-
pated. People gathered from far and near,
quite a number from Helena being present.
There were rs tickets sold, and over rs
ladies in attendance, more than have ever
attended a ball in the county before. The
supper was very complete, and everything
passed off very pleasantly indeed. No one
knows better how to entertain the public
than our friend Rotwitt, and the entertain
ments given by him are always largely at
tended.
The body OF a soldier named Howard wa
found near the summit of the range on the
Duck creek divide, on Sunday last, by Mr..
Ell. Rosenbaum. Howard, in company with
a fellow soldier, deserted from Camp Baker
about two months ago, taking with them
several good mules. A terrible snow storm
coming on, it is supposed they turned the
mules loose, not being able to get them
across the range. A day or two after, the
comrade of Howard was at Pickering's, on
Duck creek his face was scratched and
bloody, and he stated that he had had a fight
with his partner. Whether Howard died
from injuries received in a fight, whether he
was murdered in cold blood, or persisted in
the storm, the world will, perhaps, never
know. Both were said to have been intoxi-
Gated when they left the Post. The body
was found face downward in a small stream,
and very much decompo,rd.
OWING to the fact that fully three-fourths
of our population contemplated visiting the
White Sulphur Springs, Canyon Ferry and
other places on the Fourth, no preparations
were made to celebrate the day in Diamond.
The morning Of the Fourth dawned bright
and clear, and a single gun at sunrise an
nounced to the few who remained in our
then remarkably quiet town that the flag OF
our country was unfurled to the breeze.
The day wore slowly away in the usual quiet
manner until the sun was nearing the meri-
dian, when the patriotic fires slumbering in
the bosoms of our citizens seemed to kindle
into a flame, and there was soon a manifest
) determination not to let the one hundred
and first anniversary of the country's indie.
pendence pass without some demonstration
!, A few minutes consultation together result;
t ed in the arranging of the following i'm
promptu programme, which was carried ou1
in the afternoon to the complete satisfaction
of the community. Never did native elo'
ouence or mother wit have a better show tc
+ display itself, as none of the speakers were
appraised of the part they were to play pre-
yious to the announcement from the chair
aud the promptness with which each res
bonded gave assurance that they were quite
at home on the rostrum as we'll as in thu
mines. The programme was as follows
Reading Declaration Of Independence, II
q n. Barnes. Music-"America"-J. z. Hill
II lis. assisted by Profs. Zenthner and Anisser
Grafton. X. N. Sutherlin. Star Spanglet
r. Banner" grand chorus by all. Recess. Thu
X toasts and responses were: National Pre-
oress. DIR. D. A. Mcdonald. The American
" Eagle, Stephen Watson. Montana, IL. II
A Barnes. Human Liberty, Chas. sicbrecht
70 The Mines, D. P. Rankin. Posey Gather
"a inc. Thomas Cooper. Nimrod, W.. A. John
"a con Solitude. Chris. Myers. The Stars an
strines. u. J. Fleming. The Far West, D
r. Hurd. Wine, Women and Song, w. II
i. Vance.