The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-04-16
SPRING IN UPPER BELT.


ers-A Hearty Welcome For the
Railroad.
Especial correspondence of the TRIBUNE.]
UPPER BELT, April 6.-Easter Monday
on ranch in Montana. No one seems to
know that yesterday was Easter Sunday.
No Easter lilies, no joyous bells to ring
out the glad tidings of risen SAVIOUR, no
song services to lift up the soul and make
the spirit rejoice, no new hats, Easter ties
nor spring bonnets. Nothing but plod-
ding ranchmen sturdily scattering grain
over the newly plowed fields. Perhaps
the imprisoned germ in each tiny seed
which in few days will burst forth, cast
of all that is of the earth earthly, and
stand living witness to the resllrrecting
power is not, after all, an unfit tribute to
the day, and our sturdy ranchmen may
hap planted better than he knew. 1t is
strange how many of them spend the
Sabbath day. A chapter might be made
up from notes one could CLEAN in visiting
the, bachelor ranches that would shock
nice Christian people and arouse ques-
tion in their minds as to whether the an
n'sal sacrifice of human life and money
that goes for the sake of Outstanding
the heathen might not be expended with
more direct benefit nearer home. The
majority of these people here pay no at
tentior whatever to the Sabbath day.
Some of them admit that they never know
which day is Sunday, but they seem to
have an aptitude for hitting upon 1t to
carry out any OF the more dlsagreeable
features of their business, such US brand
ing cattle, etc. Flowing, sowing, reap
ing, moving and threshing are carried
on just the same on Sunday as any other
day, and because one man last fall re-
fused to have his threshlng done on Sun
day the whole country was up in arms
and declared he should not have his
thseshing done at all. Credit that man
to the Michigan colony and let it be
known that there are others in that band
wfo remember the Sabbath day.
MORE MICHIGAN SETTLERS.
Che new recuits just from Van Buren,
coanty, Michigan, have joined the colony
and already commenced building. They
ars the brothers Srackangast and we
wenld like to welcome many more such
as they to our midst. They are prepos-
sessing, intelligent, well-educated young
men. Mr. York and family from Upper
Sand coulee, are moving into the neigh
b0rhood. They had located at the above
place, but liking it better here, decided
tostry their fortunes with the Michigan
colony while yet there was room.
n wELL-PLEAsED VISITORS.
Nessrs. 1ock, Freeman and Green,
from Flushing, Michigan, have been
spending few days here, and pronounce
this the paradise of Cascade county.
They think they would not want any bet
teTlshow for fortune in Michigan than
Osden's coulee, and the zest with which
they shouldered arms and clambered up
and down the steep banks of said coulee
''wpodchucking," as they called it, would
probably be quite amusing to their
eastern friends They returned to Great
Falls yesterday, where they have been
investing quite heavily.
8 BUYING SUPPLIES.
| v. 7. Ogden and N. T. Wilson made q
successful trip to the Falls last week to
purchase farming Implements, harness
Gen and bring in supplies for the coming
ths, which promise to be very busy
at Hcss n ii6ss III e6f Ct aAK'
that the days are numbered until we will
be emancipated from the tedious trave
of over the bench to the city. A fine rail
last night will do a great deal of good, a
the ground was pretty dry for blowing.
A.. j. Briggs, who has been at work dc
velopIng his interest IN the cripple" g
Neihart during the winter, is still serious
ly ill with pneumonia induced by Ii
grippe. =,
County Assessor Rice is levying tn
by the accompanying groans. Those th'
have the most kick the hardest.