Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-01-10
Custer County Locals.
NV. ALLEN Local Editor
The Yellowstone river is not yet frozen


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The Yellowstone river is not yet frozen
over at Etchetah.
The mail is no longer carried via Fort
Custer, and the coach now runs by Pom.
pey's Pillar.
The horses stolen from the Crows al
Fort Custer. together with the thieves
have been re-captured at Fort Reno. White
men done it.
Archie McMurdy and Dave Conkline
have opened a saloon at Etchetah. They
are both good boys, have good liquors
and are deserving of success.
Several different parties are drying buf
falO meat, and the market will be well sup
piled. 1t is the intention of some to ship
to the Bozeman and Bismarck markets.
The remaining freights at Terr,'s Land.
ing have been finally removed to Fort Gas
ter, and the company of the 18th Infantry
that was guarding them has gone thithel
also.
A telegraph line is building from Fort
Reno to Fort Custer, thence to Fort
keogh, and the instruments for the Custer
Station have arrived at that Post. 1t is the
prevailing idea that our first locomotive
will come from that direction.
Flour has been up to $lS per sack at
Miles City; potatoes, Is cts. per h.; oats,
10 cts; butter, ST.; Onions, Is cts. Some
parties hunted up the Rev. Mr.. Bridger,
and wanted to know Of him. if the Bible
still had anything to say about an old time
article called Conscience.
The wayfarer and stranger can hear any
kind of Indian news he desires down in
this part of the moral vineyard. First the
Crows have broken out; then you hear of
farmers carrolied down about Powder riv-
er; next the scence chifts to POrcupine,
or the mouth Of the Big Horn. All this
may be very amusing to the originators,
but they should recollect the boy that
cried ..Wolf! wolf!' when there was no
wOlf.-The Indians might come, and, in
that case. innocent parties might be the
sufferers.
The plan of purchasing all wood, hay,
ETC.. on the open market has worked well
at Fort Keogh, both for the government
and the people, the first obtaining all re-
quired at fair price, and the labOring class
having an opportunity to earn an honest
dollar without the interference of rapa-
cious contractor. The same system ap-
piled to all Government posts would 60
long way towards breaking up corrupt
rings, and populating the country, as a
large proportion OF the money paid out
would be put in circulation in the immedi-
ate vicinity of the work done.
Survey OF the Lower Yellowstone
Valley.
The following letter, from Gen. Mason,
is in reply to a petition that was forwarded
last June. 1t is to be hoped that the APP
preparation will be ample, and our Delegate
in Congress might give us lit in the
matter:
HELENA, Nov. 18th, 1877.
Gentleman:
My predecessor left in this office to-day
communication without date, and repre-
senting 1.-THE necessity of having the Vel
lowstone Valley surveyed at an early day."
Should a sufficient appropriation be made
for the ensuing fiscal year. commencing
July LIST, 1878, will, with the approval of
the Commissioner of the General Land
Office. cause the surveys requested, to be
made at the earliest possible date there
after. Very respectfully.
ROSWELL ii. MASON.
L. S. Surveyor General for Montana
TO Joseph w. Allen, and others, Miles
City. Custer County. NJ. +.
Don't forget that it is your last chance to get