Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-06-20

Two races took place at Fort Ellis one
DAY last week. DR.. Gardeners Charger won
the first, and Murphy's Sleepy" the second.
beating Buckskin and winning a purse of
$25.,
quite a breeze of excitement was created
in tow this week by the statement that a
well known spiritual medium had induced
the spirits to bring her some rich specimens
OF gold quartz. Persons who saw the min
eral say 1t was very rich, Directions were
given as to its location and at last accounts
enthusiastic gold-seekers were out tracing
1t up. May they find a Penobscot.-Times.
Duncan Mcdonald, in NeaD North Vest.
says: The strength of the hostiles at the
present day, on'a close computation, there
are above the Cascade Ridge on the Column
bias waters, on this side of the boundary
line Of America and British America. about
thlrty-tWo 1ul1dren men of arms, and if
well mounted and determined on a decided
combination they could remove their fami-
lies to distant countries and fight to the bit
ter end for loss Of human rights. Twenty
five huifdred of them are equally brave with
the Nez Perces and in such unlucky event
it would take ten times their number five
years to tell a desolated country that the
living could sleep well in it. The proper
way of dealing with the red man and of
teaching him how the white man has ac-
CURED his present estate has never, that [
have seen, been advanced. Men and papers
give various views, but the stream passes
on and the red man is being destroyed.
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Again, we see it advocated through the
public papers to open the reservations A
most fallaciouS suggestion. If a farmer has
his rails, the reservation lines are the In
dians' fence. What we do want is ampler
reservations and true knowledge and thrift
and expansion of our little inventive pow
ers material aid given for material wealth
and and a great country taken from US;
true sympathy and cheer i%nstilled and just
freedom to go and come as you would have
yourself. : But the mere story that a. snake
spoke to d woman somewhere that a med
leine man went up a mountain somewhere;
that a big chief was with his soldiers
drowned somewhere; thata young brave
killed a big man with a stone that a mar
ried maid had a child in a stable; that he
took all the people from hell : that there
are plenty in hell yet-these old sayings are
of little avail to the red man. He has many
such pages himself. But lam not going to
startle you With a recital of them at present.
Otherwise I might say that some tall red
man saw these plans from the beginning
and tell you how one of Montana's ancient
ancestors laid his hand on the MONDAY sun
and put his left elbow on the steep of the
cold grizzly bear long, long ago."
On Middle creek it is stated thatfully one
fourth of the entire crop is destroyed by
hoppers.
Steven Howes, near Bozeman, has rugged
up a machine to catch the gr%asshoppers in a
bag. On Tuesday morning last, while the
'hoppers were numb and chilled, he ran the
machine over eight acres of ground, and
hauled in five bushels of them. He is quite
elated over his success, and feels confident
of being able to save his crop, which, only
the day previous, he had been tempted to
give up in DISQUALIFICATION.