Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-02-06
DAYS MEETING
OF the Range Cattle and Horse
Growers Convention at
Denver.
Yellowstone County's Financial
Tactcs-The Bridge Project
Being Pushed Ahead.
Reports From the Southern
Ranges-In the Courts
On the Smash.
Our Correspondents Account of the Las
Day of the Range Riders Roundup.

Our Correspo ndent's Account Of the Las
Day Of the Range Riders Roundup.
DENVER, Jan. 80, 1856.
FOURTH DAY.-rhe boys tripped the
light fantastic toe last evening, and
bright eyes charmed them to late
hours, aud it WAS ''ayont the twalp
before they took y parting oh-how-I do
love-you look ut the winsone Denver
girls, u parting "smile" with the boys
and sought natures sweet rest0rer.n
The . o'clock adjournment dragged
along until ~ O'clock ere the delegates
began to appear ut the bar Of the
Windsor and began to call for their
morning eye-openers, and II was ii
o'clock ere the chairman raped them
to order.
Then the Rev. De La Waters fur
nighed them with q ten minute prayer
for their last nights dissipation. Or
perhaps he thought that after the ball
they needed some special pleading.
He prayed for them with one breath
and mathematical great mOnop0lies
and robber interpretations. When he
closed there was a faint response of
$50 mote IL be" accompanied with
signs of relief.
On motion of Judge Faust, Of Utah,
pensed with. They wanted to settle
down to business, but were inclined to
add little rhetoric to business. The
basis of representation was about the
first thing to provoke discussion.
Judge O'Brien, of New Mexico, Of
fered a substitute for the amendment
of yesterday:
"That there shall be one delegate
for the first SIC. 600 cattle and one del
egate for each 10000 represented there
after"
This gave q chance for some of the
orators to train their guns and indulge
in the usual supplication for the poor
man. When millionaires begin TO
eulogise the poor man you may sit IL
down as demagoguing and hog wash.
They care as little for the poor man al
the poor man cares for them and, II ID
u safe bet that there 10 little love
wasted on either side. However, they
soon came down to business routine
again. The special committee on rail.
roads appointed yesterday made their
report. After long preamble. recit-
ing the advantages to the whole of the
west and southwest which would fol-
low the building direct line from
the Rocky mountains to the Gulf and
further reciting the work already &C.
complished, the report concludes with
resolutions endorsing the Denver.
Texas 4 Gulf and the Denver & Fort
Worth railways, urging their consol.
idation and recommending that the
companies concentrate all their efforts
to building through lines. and foregc
the building Of branches until the
through lines are completed. Now
your correspondent rises to ask the
readers of the first paper published In
the valley of the swiftly gliding Vel
lowstone, what i'm thunder does Mon
tana want with that line. Ii Is al
very fine for Denver and the south
west, but when the international asso
citation hits a slap at the branchers
II hits Montana stinger. We wan
a branch. Yea, more, we wan
branches. / opine that Montans
shipper have more interest I'm the
Elkhorn branch OF the Northwestern
than all of the direct lines south of the
Platte river. The objects Of this asso'
citation are many and commendable,
but when on the first jump they make
Denver the permanent headquarters
of operations and meetings, there ID
but little in IL at present to recon.
mend II to Montanians. The COW
men and citizens of Montana have
been treated more than kindly by the
citizens Of Denver (but they pay 81 pei
day at the hotels all the same) ami all
Montana will join in hoping for the
success of the association, and that the
whole people will be taught by these
meetings that the cattle interest is the
| interest of the masses, who want
cheap meat and cheap transportation
that the cattle Industry Ia an indus
try Of great and growing Importance.
an industry that needs the protection
and encouragement Of the masses, thai
cattle men are not all land thieves, OF
the COW boys all road agents. thai
cheap land and cheap transportation Il
necessary to cheap meat; that our ex
portations amount to over fourteen
millions of dollars yearly; that the
American people are meat eaters anC
that poor people as well as rich peopl,
End meat an indispensable article O
diet, and that the people west of tn,
Missouri river want protection from
land thieves, horse thieves, cattl,
thieves and monopoly thieves Is wei
the people east Of the Missouri river
then Montana will join hands ant
| balm ,oIl fha hall ai,,nv plaas 60,
Denver or pleas for any particular
point are out Of place. The location O
Strengthening houses from Texas to this
northern boundary line is what w
want TO protect us from the combina'
ton of killers and packers east. A
paper was read by ]. Randall Stewart
Of Montana on Indian Industries, "
which consist principally of cattle
ana horse stealing, an industry which
seems to be fostered aud protected by
the government. The address treated
Of length on the annoyances suffered