Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-11-07
ONEIDA.
Foretaste Of Civilizstion-Its Evils-Fine
Stock for Montana-Etc.

/ arrived at this place and found it a hrsl
class mushroom town. Some who live in q
more favored cline, have called it a tramp
town. Whether it deserves that title or not,
it has its ups and downs, is a larger and lIv
lier place than Round valley, the previou;
terminus, but, is about to pick up its dud<
and 90 hence. A few week ago it sported
the luxury Of a IIurdy Gurdy house. KEEP
in running order by four young ladies e,
from Salt Lake, and a score Or two Of 9" skin
ners'' and s. whackers" from the freightine
force. But alas The proprietor of the Il
foot establishment plumed himself on his
craftsmanship, and after shooting six OF
seven times, at a dead rest, at, and missing
an average sized man, the boys advised
him to leave town within fifteen minutes, O.
which piece of clemency he gladly awaited
himself. The boys don't dance now but
waltz on their ear. Every other house here
is a saloon. Gamblers make a show among
the rest. They have a Keno game running.
one free game every night to start the boys,
1t is a singular fact that there are nine cards
taken in the tree game to one in the paying
game. 1t is played thuswise, you pay TWEEN
ty-five cents and take a card covered with
figures, every time the caller mentions a
number you put down a button upon that
number fit is on your card, if not, wait un.
til he strikes one that is, if you get four but.
tens in a row, horizontally, yell Keno, then
everybody else swears, or in some way
makes manifest his disgust and the game
goes or again, after the Keno man pays you
the amount of the pot, and each man antes
twenty-five cents, the caller gets two-bits
out of each pool rs remuneration for time
and trouble. The grocers don't make any
profit here, they sell for the accommodation
of the public, so | am informed. 1 would
like to send some of them north, as they
could save a margin by buying in Montana.
There is a bank here that don't make any
thing too. 1t is a real comfort to enjoy the
~conveniences of railway travel once more.
The U. & N. r. r. is well up in the usages
of civilization, and more too, the agent at
the office here is a great man, he wants
everybody to know it and takes care that
they have an exhibition of it as often as
practicable. The conductors can give rs short
and sharp an answer, by the watch, as any
broad guage railway conductor. The bag
gage singers can worry you on the most
scientific plan. Sometimes the baggage
master runs out of checks-of course ONLY
when there are six or eight .passengers-in
that case, he assures you that you have only
to claim your trunk at Ogden, and all will
be right, when you arrive at that pandemon-
lum you find it precisely as he says. You
stay at the car until you find that unless you
get a ticket soon you will miss the next
train, after rushing off somewhere anu get
ting a ticket, you return and find the bag
gage is locked up. The baggage flunky at
that end of the line asks for your check-you
explain-he asks what kind of IL trunk it is,
and partly assures you there is no such art
lcle in his care. After you have ragged
awhile and given a learned and reliable
opinion OF the narrow guage company in
general, and its employees in particular, he
kindly looks among the movables and finds
your property, and delivers it, with a feeling
that he is one i'll authority and not as the
scribes. And you have the consolation Of
Knowing that You will be q fortunate man il
you get on the train, to say nothing OF the
loss OF your supper. We Montanians have