The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-04-09
THE SAUNr ERER.

were sitting in the office of the Ulm the
other evening in conversation. The
old timers were telling o d-time stories,
the tenderfoot a silent but most inter.
ested listener. One of the stern and
husky pioneers who blazed the trail into
the great northwest and stayed with il
ever since, related the following stories.
He remembered the Wisconsin massacre
wildly. He recollected it as though it
had happened only yesterday. IT was a
very warm day in July and he with three
companions was camped on the banks Of
the river. ".All at once he continued,
"wc heard an internal warlike yell and
looking about saw over three hundred of
the pesky devils comm down on W..
We packed up our traps and crossed that
river on the ice, quicker'n yer can tell
it," The tenderfoot was amazed. He
looked at the old man in a very serious
manner and then asked him: but, my
dear old man. how in the deuce could
you and your companions have crossed
that river on Ice on a very
warm day in July? That is
really something most unreasonable, to
my thinking" The old man turned
about in his chair and facing the tender
foot with a stern and cruel look that was
strong enough to throw the young fell
lows heart clear into the bottom Of his
socks, asked him: swell, what in HI
Go you know about Indians, anyhow,
you darned tenderfoot?' The young
fellow thought ne didn't know anything
about them, did not care to. and left the
three old timers to 60 into the bar-room
and take a-toothpick.
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every day adds new complication sre-
garding circumstantial evidence, and
facts are brought out showing why such
evidence should be given serious and
thoughtful consideration by Judge and
jury said a prominent attorney yester-
day. "A few weeks ago a residence AT
! BOzeman was broken into during the Oc-
, cupants' absence and ransacked the
house, leaving. either on his hasty exit
or for the want of a better hat with the
name Of a man plainly marked on TIT
inside. The hat was identified the next
morning by Il newspaper reporter as be
ing the property of a fellow scribe resid
ing at Missoula. This was, of course, 8
good joke on the poor newspaper man
and of course there is nothing against
these Bohemians than that they are pool
and are newspaper men. The Bozemar
Bohemian requested the Missoula 30
hemian to prove ar alibi, which he did
and, by the way, newspaper mcr
are endowed with the faculty Of
always proving an alibi. Now
it appears that sometime during the hol
idays a sneak thief broke into the sleep
ing apartments of this Missoula news
paper man, taking therefrOm his besI
hat and a pair of spectacles. He evi
IDENTIFY gradually drifted to Bozeman
putting on style all along the line with
this hat; the spcctac cs he had evidently
used while in Helena for the purpose OF
finding the Castle road and the cracker
factory. and not being able to do SO be
came disgusted anG left them at Billy
Sims for "a drink and Billy likely usec
them looking for "klcin's' majority. Al
any rate the sneak thief finally got I,
BoHeman and there left the tile. Now
suppose this hat had inscribed upon tn,
inside the name OF SOmc poor devil tina
lived IN or about Bozeman, and he cOulc
not prove an alibi: What then? TIL,
finding OF this hat with "A mans name il
would certainly bc taken as strong cir
cumstantial evidence, and the poor Gus.
might have been convicted of a crime hi
never had committed.
IL am going to make some real estate
Investments around these parts and an
undecided whether to place my none.
IN Great Falls real estate or acrr proper
ty,' SAID Il gentleman from Indiana yes
tcrday but" he continued, ''thc price.
asked seem to me to be too high. | car
90 out to about Thirteenth street ant
buy for $500. but it seems to me to be ST
FAR out" Thr same old chestnut. 'tot
far out and too high" The gentleman
was told Of the progress made in the pas
three years in the various western cities
Only as far back as 1880 lots where tn
present high school at Omaha stand
were considered far enough, away from
the ~postofiice to bc farms. and the.
are now in the very heart OF the city
Three wears ago the site Of the Rcalt,
block in Great Falls was considered +
he away out of town Then was tn
time to huy. wasn't it, said the lndian
gentleman, and if he returns ia two q
three , ears and Goes not buy now it wi.
hc the same old story with him as il ha
been with thousands vi Others; II coul,
lave bought that corner W. years aG
! FOR So and 80. 1t is now worth 80 an
so. 'Ihcn' was til" time to buy.