Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-20
LIVINGSTON.
THE METROPOLIS or TIE CENTRAL
CONTINENT
Its Wonderful Progress and Evidences Of
Substantia and Perpetual Growth.
Ts,ecial Correspondence of tho Globe. |

Especial Correspondence OF tho Globe.
LIVINGSTON, Montana, Sept. All
aboard! Hastily bidding friends good by
on the evening of the 4th Inst. We leave
soon, found comfortable seats In one of the
elegant cars of the N. p. R. R. and quit st.
Paul on our first trip towards the Pacific
Ocean. Sleepers were scarce, but one
leaving with our train, the balance having
been prepared in use to accommodate the
Willard excursionists. Therefore content
ing ourselves with single seat, because
unavoidable, we made ourselves as com
Portable as possible for the night. Leav-
ing Fargo after breakfast, passed on to
Bismarck, over the broad and rolling
prairies without any incident worthy of
attention, excepting to note the endless
display OF bunting, cedar, and cereals met
with at every station in honor of Henry
Willard. Not a side track or station but
was profusely and handsomely decorated.
These scenes were met with the whole
length of the line, including this station,
of which more anon. Near Glendive,
Montana,we entered the bad lands of Mon
tana, said to be continuation of those of
the Missouri river. To a strangers eye
these hills are of a never-ceasing wonder,
continued in an unbroken line for dis
lance of $40 miles, to this place. The
many real and imaginary designs formed
by nature are wonderful to see. Here we
have view resembling great uphsaval
of earth and city buried in ruins, SO nat
ural in it's aspect as to make one shudder.
Another view meets the eye ikened unto
the ancient cities, consists of castles fol-
lowing castles, with all their battlements,
turrets and towers, for miles to the east
and west, and lost in the vast distance
skirting the horizon. Even the grouping
of soldiers and their stseds is readily Wis.,
IDLE, accoutered in battle array, but mute
and motionless, viewing our swiftly NOV
ing train. Again We see to our right nu-
merous immense pavilions towering
heavenward with deep red strips in the
center, the circular tops pointed and tas-
seled. These we're surely occupied by
giants such as the world has never seen,
and their size may be conjectured when We
look to their immediate right and discover
the famous Egyptian pyramids that barely
reach as high. And so on, these ever
changing views increase and dissolve until
night shades them from view. 1 think
they alone, vast as they are
are worthy of a trip OF
! 1000 miles to see. And SO on we travelled
each engaged with his own thoughts and
musing until we reached Miles City. The
train slackened speed for some unknown
reason, and as if by magic 10000 prairie
dogs, from as many homes. were scamper-
ing about in great glee, as if We were an
other Willard expedition, and they deter
mined to give rs right hearty welcome
when suddenly every car window wei
thrown open, and men started for the ca
| platforms, and, I'm sorry:too, showed thei
uuappreciativeness by sending showers OF
| balls at them. The fusilade continued
fully ten minutes, the time occupied II
| passing this immense village. Although
| not deafeHing it was very exciting, AM
caused great deal Of chatter for son,
time after. II was astonishing to fAd 8,
many peassable and inohensive looking
citizens armed with rsvolvers. Many
whom doubt ever used one before, use,
them new; even the ladies Arsd and en-
joyed the sport with evident relish, ana /
you consider ws had eight passenger cosch
es and enc sleeper, all filled, and out .
these ten porary Widowed portfolios one
tive, and ssmetines three rsvolvers wsr
held, and oil platforms crowded, then ys'
can realize the extent of wasted cartridges
for the report was univsrsal-net = dos
killed, and the purps evidently knew thu
abilities of the marksmsn, for they woult
sit ON their launches, bark, and no doubt
cynically laugh. At Forsyth, forty 81,
miles west of Miles City, on
train wa. boarded by three typics
COW boys just having concluded longdriv
They were the attraction of the passengers
who surrounded them. plying question
after question, receiving good natured re-
sponses for hours, until midnight, almost
1t was amusing to watch passengers from
adjoining cars flock into ours, and hea