The semi-weekly miner., 1883-07-25

After having gone some distance q
man Jumped up on the brake bar Ol
the coach and insisted on having q
ride. The driver applied his whip to
the intruder vigorously, and sup.
posed he was rid of a customer he
took to be drunk. After having
gone at least q mile further, the same
man stepped on the brake bar and
jumped into the front boot before he
was discovered. It was then ascer-
tanned from certain observations
dropped by him, that we were in the
presence Of q lunatic. He said he
wanted to go to heaven, and no sane
man would take passage on Mon
tana stage coach for that port; and
he insisted on kissing the driver. q
thing that no being clothed in his
right mind would care to do. After
considerable of ascuff1e he was thrown
to the ground, aud one of the inside
pilgrim excursionists, who had in
his possession one of the most
harmless of pop guns to protect him
from the savage beasts and men of
the far west, let off a couple of shots,
and the lunatic disappeared in such
a hurry as to show that there
was method in his Madness The
next day he was taken up and put in
the way of going to heaven by way
of Mitchell & Musis sbrod's establish
ment at Warm springs.
The town of Missoula has about it
at present some of the characteristics
Of q hurrah town. It presents the
appearance of being at the breaking
up of a hard boom. But the sowing
of barren money upon the highways
yields no crop of prosperity, and the
patrimony of the spendthrift must at
some time be "blowed in," and the
time must come when legitimate bus
iness and productive industries and
common sense methods must pre-
vail over fictitious values aud feverish
excitement. A certain stand where
there is an assurance that 900 fools
will come along and elbow in" $40
apiece, may be worth 81, 900; without
that assurance it is only worth what
can be made from it by legitimate
business. There is not in Misssoula
any surfeit in the lines of business or
industry. The town could even
stand more without any disastrous
ofprofit. The places that
are organized for the relief of those
bent on disslpatlng their substance
must drop out as the number having
to dissipate grows smaller
by degrees and beautifully less"
The town of Missoula has q central
location in a magnificent area of
that is destined to make it
one of tha most important towns in
;he Territory. It is mistake to
suppose it will step Immediately into
hat position. The vast numbering
interests of this region will grow
n importance as the Territory grows
md other localities are depleted of
imber. At least one-half of the
of the county is from
hirty to fifty miles from the rail-
oad, and sagacious business men
wen now appreciate that the agri-
cultural interests of the county will
,e- Immediately brought into sharp
competition with men who can
their productions 1000
niles by rail more cheaply than the {
lome producers can freight it fifty {
niles by wagon. Pretty much all +.
he flower now used in Missoula ]
ONES from Spokane in Washing
on Territory. OF course, this state s
# things will not continue; home {
PRODUCERS will be forced to sell at fig
res that will shut out the foreign
'roduct. But the home producers
must make up their minds that they
nust hereafter get right down to bus
ness in the matter of farming. The
eople of Bitter Root Valley must {
make up their minds to wrestle with
diversity until a railroad taps their {
7ealth and ruts them on an equal {
ooting with the rest of mankind. s
purpose to visit the farms aud
hines of Bitter Root, Of which I may s
i've you some account in my next. s
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