The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1882-07-13

foot and bruising him in various places.
DR.. Carroll attended both men, and got no
sleep the night following. Both are OK.
pected to recover.....T The surfacing train
has crossed the Big Horn and is engaged in
trying to bolster up the tunnel. The soon
er that Internal botch is abandoned tho
better for all parties concerned I'VE aro
informed that Mr.. P. B. Winston has taken
a large contract for grading on the Rocky
Mountain Division. As that gentleman
purchased large outfitof mules, wagons
and harnesses yesterday, from Mr.. Prem
tiss who came through from Deadwood,
there seems to be some truth in the report.
49,. Ono of Winston's teamsters while ell
gagged in pursuading one of his mules that
he needed shoeing, on Friday last, was
knocked down and walked on by the mule.
He sustained severe laceration Oft the thigh
and now another brave boy is handling the
ribbons over the obstreperous mules.....
Rattlesnakes are plenty here and are getting
their work in, too. A two year old colt
belonging to Mr.. Winston was bitten on the
nose by one Of them yesterday noon. He
was given lots of whiskey and at sunset had
a terribly swollen head. 4 few skeptical
sinners thought the swelled head was due to
the whiskey and not to the bite. Rattle
snakes are eagerly sought after by the bib
ulously inclined as they cannot get any
whiskey unless..a snake bites thcm...... Lieut..
Huntington passed here this morning with
company Of cavalry on their way to Still
water 80. Engineer +. \. Smith broke camp
at this point this morning and moved away
to Pompey's Pillar. We shall miss the
bcaming countenancc Of this delightfully."-
pleasant y 1n......Thc steamer +. Y. Batch
elor passed here yesterday going down the
river....Our boys intend to celebrate to-
morrow. The programme if carried out
is q good one. Salute of one hundred mules
at daybreak. Seven o'clock A. N. brief but t
pithy address by Capt. Clayton. At twelve
o'clock the declaration Of hash will inspire
all to deeds of valor. During the day re-
frcshments will be distributed by the water
boy and bull frog concert in the evening
will complete the days doings.
July 9th, 1851.
But few days ago the heat was opprcs-
sive, and presto! now we arc groaning in
spirit over sudden change of temperature,
and "the chill of a cold October blast"
One advantage is ours-wc slept scundly
last night, and no blood thirsty musquito
disturbed our slumbcrs, But the respite
from the heat promises to be of short dura-
ton, as Old Sol is again pecping forth
and soon we will feel what we cannot
conceal, nor yet can all express"
! The track is now laid to west end of
Riverside Bluffs, and we arc now about to
enter on handsome level grade, lying in a
blooming valley 25 miles in length, and
consequently iron WILL be planted" in u
hurry-afterward, one more piece of bluff.
and next, the bridge at Billings, where, OF
course, VIC shall be delayed. If
the R. 4. Co. would have bridges waiting
for the track, instead of track waiting for
bridges, much time and money would be
saved, and the railway extended more rap
idly......M. c. kimberlec, Gen. Asst Engin-
eer on this division, and S. J, Wallace, Sup
erintendent of the track building outfit arc
on their way to Billings to rush" thc
bridge Mr.. Wallace will manage the
building Of the bridge piers...... The
tank outfit is now engaged in build
ing tank at Riverside, l6 miles west of the
tunnel, and the telegraph is nearly COM
pleted to the same point. Lack Of poles is
the main impediment. Messrs. Wolfolk,
Carver and Sullivan, paymasters for H.
Clark & Co., rested and dined here to-day,
on their way back to Billings......A de-
pot and six stall engine house arc
being erected at Forsyth, under the super
vision of Mr.. Bob Carpenter. On
the third inst, Rufus Cable, foreman
for Pcnnel Il Jones, engaged in tiInberins
the tunnel at Big Horn, WIS struck on the
head by a ton or so of falling rock, sustain
ing severe scalp wound and conclusion of
the brain. DR.. Carol was summoned, and
rendered necessary services. Erysipelas has
since developed, and the patients condition
Is at present somewhat serious.....
The ferry across the river at Junction
City was wrecked and carried away on the
9th inst. by the steamer Eclipse,
on her passage down the river......
The Glorious Fourth was duly and
excessively celebrated at Junction. The
programme was very chaste. Your corres-
pondent CHANGED to visit the town ION busi-
ness) and witnessed some peculiar freaks of
celebration. In one saloon giddy, but
patriotic Individual was singing, in voice
husky with emotion, o very pathetic bal
lad descriptive and eulogistic of High
water pants" An admiring and csthetic
audience signiticd their appreciation by
sundry caustic remarks. In another part
of the town a neyer-say-die, don't-call-or
sort of patriot Was
fcarlessly offering to bestow dozen black
eyes on any person desirous of having en-.
His munificcnt offer was finally accepted;
but he failed to dispose of the dozen color.
ed optics-he had two intensely black ones
left. About two-thirds of the entire assem-
blage persisted in drinking tho nations
health until their own became SO affected
That locomotion was impossible. .....H.
Il, Hoiiidsc, Resident Engineer, west
,nd Of Guys Bluff, and party have been or
lered forward to the Rocky Mountain Div
sion, and will start as soon as practicable.
.....A deranged quill driver, named Rock
we'll, has been amusing himself by writing
lsinine and highly exaggerated descriptions
'fthe country in the vicinity of the Big Horn
River for publication in eastern papers.
This land is entitled to success ON its actual
merits, and the sooner buncombc and false
,ood are left out of descriptive letters. tho
,etter.
THO.