The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-07-07
FACTS ABOUT BILLIARDS..
What a Montana Man Told a BROOKLYN
Girl.
Brooklyn Eagle.

| Brooklyn Eagle
Tell me about those dear, delightful
beautiful blizzards you have In your coun
try" said the Brooklyn girl, folding hel
hands, and looking up to him with bewitch
ingly pleading glance. 81 know they mus
be just to sweet for anything!"
"Oh, they're sweeteners !" calculated the
Montana man, throwing one leg over the
other, and warming to his subject. "You
once get a blizzard after you, and you'll
wish you hadn't any skirts on to bother you. y
"And did you ever see one ?" she asked
with profound interest.
"Well, 1 should fire grim" responded he
politely, "I've been around when our neck OF
the woods was toiling hard to save Its county
representation! Why, miss, seen blizzard
tip a prairie fire right up on end, and 1t
hlazed away, a streak of fire thirty miles
high just tipped 1t right up!"
"Gracious p squealed the girl, 81 should
have thought it would have blown it clear
overt"
"That's where you catch my heel you see,
the fire struck agin a railroad locomotive
that was passing some eighteen miles up,
and the engine held 1t perpendicular, ex-
claimed the Montana man. "You can't fool
a prairie fire, muchl When 1t came down it
kept right on blazing, and the melted engine
dropped on the track rnn right to the
round house in liquid stream. They had
to pack it In ice so as to freeze 1t into shape
again! Oh, we have ice in our school dis.
trict !"
81 had no idea that blizzard was so pow
erful 7" murmured the girl.
Powerful Well, you just shout, sister!
Only two months ago, blizzard lifted the
Powder River straight up in the air and car
ried 1t back seven miles In the woods! You
just deal your last giblet on the power! That
rivers up in the trees yet, and we're build
ing saw mills upside down so as to get the
water privilege! you read about these lorna
does. They're only gusts r'
"My" exclaimed the girl. "a blizzard
must be something terrible!"
"Well, I should gobble distinctlyw re-
"Just before left an old he blizzard struck
my town, and whooped us up about eighty
feet! Town and all! We didn't come down
for four weeks, and wouldn't have been
down yet, only Yankee threw larist over
that streak o. wind and started an elevator!
Why, miss, you don't know no more about
it than an old sock! Why, just south Of us,
one of 'em happened TO hit patch of coun-
try some fellows were surveying, and blew
the whole line Of the road right through the
surveyors transit You bet! And the COM
pany lost Its franchise, because the land
granted 1t was just rolled right over, and
they had to build the road straight up and
down, or give 1t upr'
81 don't see how you manage to live in
such a country" said the astoaished girl.
"oh, we peg along" was the courageous
response, otis the greatest country outdoors I!
1 remember one blizzard, though, that both
cred us some. 1t happened to pop the Crow
reservation plumb center, and blew tie
whole business right over on our settlement,
Indians, ground, crops, everythingw
"On top of your ejuaculated the girl.
"The same," replie'i the Montana man.
"There we was, right under 'em! The red
skins didn't dare 60 off their reservations for
fear Of war, and we didn't dare climb up
through for fear Of violating the. treaty !"
"But how did you get out?" queried the
girl.
"Oh, you can't hold US fellows down long!
We're wild, woolly and hard to curry, miss.
Then we've got the best soil in the world.
We just planted q grain crop under that
reservation, and In fourteen days the wheat
had hoisted 1t up hundred feet and there it
stood When the winter froze 1t into that
position we gathered the crops and moved
out from under 1t. Then the thaw came In
the spring, and, miss, you'd have just busted
Indians when their reservation dropped!'
She sat and looked at him In anazement.
"But 1t isn't all tragedy, miss" continued
the Montana man. "Blizzards has funny
side, sometimes. remember when buck
blizzard slammed into Bud Kipple's funeral.
We mourners just laid right down and hung
on with our teeth, but the defunct hadn't our
energy, and he was whirled up pretty near .
mile! We never expected he was going that
way, and /. must have been something Of sn
astonisher to Bud! Miss, he hasn't come
down yeti"
sand you didn't bury him !" calculated
the Mortified girl.
"Oh, we planted him! You don't find
any lamenteds hunting around our parts for
the benefits of religion! A funeral Is too
good chance for fight! We just set to
and built grave right up to him, and he's
sleeping his eternal rest in the doggondest
place you ever saw, right on top Of that
grave! He heedeth not the billiards. howl,
nor carelh he a. a-a"- and the Montana
man pulled up suddenly In his pious refec-
tions aud rolled his eyes.
"What q curious idea!" muttered the
girl.
aYou bet your sweet life!" conceded the
Montana man. "By the way, the blizzard
that struck Small Pox Run was teaser.
The air was so black nobody could see what
was going on for an hour, and when they got
around again there was the prettiest little
old ledge you ever stuck your foot in !!
Pretty! Yum, ,m-m! / reckon not |!
Twenty ounces to the pound and all wool |! |!
The biggest find ever known In them parts"
"What was II ?" asked the bewildered girl. |
"A mine A bonanza And them fellows
worked IL! Assayed two hundred dollars |
to the ounce and no limit to the game
But they lost It."
"How?"
'sSome preachers from Minnesota came
and claimed that IL had blown from their
State and the Mort ana men had In rive n |