The Anaconda standard., 1895-12-23
NOT A PLEASANT Job
The Game Warden Is Required to
Travel Over Large Area.
CHANCES A PRISONER TOOK
He Escaped One Cold Night With
Nothing on But Spring Over
coat and a Resoiution-A Suc-
cessfui Flag Raising.

Special Correspondence of the Standard
Bozeman. Dec. 21.-Game Warden
James F. Keown left here Monday for
a trip up the West Gallatin river. hav-
ing. heard that elk were being killed
altogether too promiscuously in that
neighborhood. and last night he re-
turned with a complete pack OUTFIT OF
five horses. saddles. camp equipment
and four quarters of elk. When near
Robbers Roost he met this outfit and
James Workman coming down the can
yon. He stopped Workman and In
auired as to what he was packing,
Workman answering that he was sim
ply moving camp. Keown then began
to examine a pack and Workman
asked him what authority he had for
stopping him.
Mr.. Keown replied: "Oh, not much"
The fellow then asked him IL his
name was "Mckeown," and he said:
mo: my name is Keown."
Then the fellow burst out with:
''Well. 1 know who your are then"
and began to tell how he had elk meat,
but that he had got 1t of so-and-so.
who had killed IL in the upper basin.
20 miles above.
The captured meat was three hind
and one fore quarter of elk. Mr..
Keown turned around and came down
the canyon with Workman, arriving at
Jim Stewards cabin, on Hell Roaring
creek. after dark Wednesday and
stopped there all night.
During the night Workman arose
and pulled on his overalls. light coat
and overshoes and told Mr.. keown he
had to step outside for a minute, and
in this costume, without hat or stock
ings. the fellow bolted off down the
canyon into the wild wind, snow and
cold of Wednesday night. Mr.. Keown
was watching him and could have shot
him. but felt il better to lose his pris-
oner than to use such severe measures.
He has searched diligently since, but
found no trace of his man.
Workman came to this valley from
Tacoma in June last. having worked as
farm hand during the past summer.
The pack outfit proved to be the prop
erty of Charles Marble of Timberline,
with the exception of a horse which
Lon Kennedy of Belgrade, who was in
! Bozeman to-day. recognized as one he
! had lost IS months ago. Marble turned
/ the horse over to Kennedy upon his de-
manding Ii. while the horse and saddle
which was ridden by Workman. being
his personal property. is retained by
| Game Warden Keown.
Gallatin county's game warden is
| ovCrworked anyhow. The counties of
Park and Madison, close upon Gala
| tin. form a narrow panhandle at the
southern extremity of this county, and
| this is the game section of the three
counties combined. Neither of the other
| counties have a game warden and so
| Mr.. keown has to watch this district
to prevent unlawful shooting from the
| poachers of three counties. The law
| breakers are coming to the conclusion
that killing game out of season is not
going to be tolerated. Mr.. Keown is
constantly on the go, first inspecting
the camp of hunters go miles south of
| Bozeman. and next following up a re-
/ port of hunters who are running deer
| with dogs. out in the Flathead coun-
try. 80 miles north of this place. and
so on. 1t is a cold. lonesome job in this
| wintry weather, pushing back into the
| widest canyons. through the heavf
/ timber and over the mountains, on a
cayuse. as well as being dangerous in
| many ways.
A pack outfit. in charge of Young
Michener, going up the West Gallatin
| last week. went over an embankment
| on the treacherous trail leading up to
| Micheners mines, and a bunch of 1C
| horses driven down the canyon came
| to grief. A number of them rolled
down a high embankment and one
horse was literally torn TO pieces by
the worst in Gallatin county. a num-
ber OF places being too dangerous &c
| ride over. and numerous horses have
! rolled down a 150-foot embankment In
the last few years, never TO agair
strike a trail. Editor Anderson has
lost pack outfits in this canyon as
| well as Jack Smith, the Michener boys
and numerous others.
Captain Cobleigh OF the agricultural
college read President Cleveland'l
| message on the Venezuela question
and is now calling attention to the i'm
portance of military training in th'
schools and colleges of the United
States. IL is a time which surely IL
lustrates the Importance of militar,
calesthenics and drill in our schools.
The city council of Bozeman. aftei
its action of Thursday evening in pass
ing the ordinance to prohibit gambling
In this city. passed a "curfew" ordi
nance. which goes into effect at once
and which will undoubtedly be bene
hcial in a college town like Bozeman
The city hall bell will be tapped at
quarter to 3 o'clock every night an,
boys out later than that hour. not &C
companied by their parents or guar
dian. must have a written excuse from
them. or they will be locked up by tn
| officers.
The position of police magistrate
left vacant by the death OF 5. W
Cook. was also filled by the appoint
ment OF w. Y. Smith to MI out the res
OF the term from now until the mex
city election
The flag. which should float from tn
flagstaff on the High school buildinl
has been down for some time and thi
week the attention OF Principal HaI
mon was called to this matter. He a
once sought the janitor OF the build
. ing and requested that the nag l
. raised at once. and so up went the co
, ors TO the top OF the high pole on Oh
| High school building. The Janitor ha
| never attended a nag raising befor
| however. and so neglected TO attach
| rope 10 the lower corner OF the flag b
? | which TO pull II down again and n
? | stars and stripes row fly from the to
OF the Flagstaff with no chance OF the
, | coming down without the poles CONS
! | with them For the first few days a
! nag gave an answering snap 20 ever
passing breeze and then became ei