The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-16

1 Pe1lSy, 0UU tu6t Wu4l0 1Ouu OUKul
not to have offended the customs and
traditions of the camp, there was still
some excuse for his doing so.
NIOBRARA.
A MONTANIAN ABROAD
Taking In the North Pacific Coast.
Special Correspondence of the MINER.
VICTORIA. B. c.. April IL, 1882.
We stopped in Portland several
days en- route to this place. There we
met old time Montanians. Among
others the family Of Hon. w. II.
Claggat, pleasantly located in q
beautiful portion of the city. Mr..
Chapman, formerly of Butte, and
Mr.. Glover, formerly In the employ
of E. L. Bonner & Co. at Butte, are
in Portland. Frank Frisbie, late of
Helena, is bookkeeper in the First
National Bank of Portland and Is
the ssme pleasant accommodating
gentleman. Mr.. and Mrs. McKins.
stry. of Deer Lodge, in the days of
long gone by, and MI. and Mrs.
lounsburry we met with and they
all seemed pleasantly located and
prosperous. Ed. McKinstry is a bright
young man and Is studying law,
and from all that I could see, he can
take with safety Mr.. RS. advice to
young attorneys that there is always
plenty of room at the apex of the
legal cone.
From Portland we came on steam
er to Kaloma and from thence to New
Tacoma by rail, thence to Seattle by
a steamer cllled the Northern Pa
cific,all the same as the road through
Montana, sort of ''go as you please'
affair, AID take care of yourself OF
you may get left. The boat ride
from Seattle to Victoria I en-
joyed very much. The Sound
widens out until you can
scarcely see the land on either
side and on passing the Straits of San
Juan de Fuca we lost sight of land
altogether. We came into this port
on a strong tide beating against US,
and that does not mean anything
less than a rise of ten to sixteen feet.
My boy was gathering shells and not
knowing about the waves, got pretty
we'll wet up to the knees.
Victoria is quite a handsome city.
I don't know its population, but
would estimate it at 1900. We
visited the monument erected to the
memory of Sir James Douglass, a
very handsome granite shaft about
thirty feet high. I believe he was
the first encouragement. and died
here leaving a large number of half
breed children. to all of whom he left
a fine estate. A brass ring in each
al or a looking-glass and fine
tooth-comb is all that they
will ever need. From all appear
ances they belong to the Flat Heads
of western Montana, though they are
larger and coarser in appearance and
have lips That resemble the Albinos
frequently seen in the Southern
States, a sort of q white negro.
We passed by and landed at several
ship building points on the English
side of the sound. At one mill I was
told they manufactured 200, 900 feet Of
lumber per DAY and saw logs ten feet
through, by $50 feet in length. l am
pilgrim here and may be imposed
upon very easily, as 1 usually am
except in Missouri or Ar
kansas. Refer this part of this letter
to DeWolfe, Dixon and Pemberton
and on proof Of identity you might
call in Word and Baldwin
and Doctors Hough and Johnston.
We started out this morning for q
walk and the very first sign that at
my attention as being oecu-
liarly English was "John Doe," sole
agent for single California women.
It looked as if ne was a land agent CT
or it may have been
Queens counsel.
The walking part Of this letter will
leave me, 1 think, incognito.
The Red Jackets are, to all appear
ances, enough In number to clean out
revolving Egyptian, if they were In
this place, and everything is English
to the Bourbon. There are no
accommodations like you can find In
IN American town of LOCO inhabl-
tants and I am becoming more loyal
every day. SANS CULOTIE'