The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-11-30
UPPER MADISON
NEWS ROUND UP
1ce-Gorging ofthe Madison
River
An Experience Which Nome Horse.
men will Not FOrSet-SOme Inn
PrOmptu Baths-Loss OF Sheen
Personal and General.

UPPER MADISON VALLEY, Nov. %.
-, Special Correspondence The storm
OF last Thursday was the coldest one
ever known in this section for Noven.
ber. the thermometer going down to II
below zero.
The river started to choke on the
Bloody Knife island on last Friday. and
during the night gorged above Wig
wan. The next morning ice was run.
ming all over the bottoms About 300
horses We're caught by the gorge and
nearly as many cattle. We had u
great time getting them out, as some Of
the channels had six feet of water and
the current ran like millrace. Some
of the horses were very hard to cross
and had to be rOped and dragged in by
main STRENGTH. / threw nv rope at an
old broke mare and caught wild un-
tanned mustard. and the rope got fast
ened on the saddle horn and ierked
me and Jerry into about II feet Of
water. giving us our annual bath about
month ahead of time. One of the
boys was fast to three-year-old geld
ing and was ferrving it across when q
big St. Bernard dog jumped in to help.
In less time than it takes to tell it,
there was man. a saddle horse, a dog
and the three-year-Old gelding all mix
ed up together. They got out all right
except the colt which was cboked so
bad it could not get up. The rider
jumped off and grabbed the colt by the
ears and held it's head out of the water
to keep it from drowning. The boss
! rode up and asked ''is that colt
dead'" The man holding the
colts head finally got breath enough to
veil between his chattering teeth
''no. bnt am"
A party composed Of Will Gilmer,
John Silver, and Jack Noble have just
returned from the Madison canyon,
whore they have been representing the
George Ray lead. the property of VIM.
Ennis and o. B. Varney.
The attention of Game Warden Gill
mer is called to the fact that q repre-.
senting party, which has just returned,
have with them quantity Of fish that
has been caught with a seine.
A band of sheep belonging to E. A.
| Maynard was caught in the storm be-
tween Meadow Creek and Ennis while
being driven to the home ranch for the
winter. About POO head are either
lost, straved or frozen to death.
Louis Fowler and Elias Gilmer are
in the county seat as trial jurors this
week. Pat Mccoy is also in as grand
juror.
One of the intelligent compositors in
your Office picked figure eight out of
his three box and made me say there
were 20 Of the Frank Clark horses
when it should have read 30.
Yes Wiles and Nat Davis have been
putting in the week hunting with fair
success. They saw one deer ran over
Nat and crippled him so he could not
shoot
T. l.. Wilkins and Will Cody who
have been up to the Ruby Creek placers
where they each have claim. doing
representing work. They returned
Just befort the storm.
The working members of the Ruby
Creek Fluming Company quit work for
the season and left for Leiterville on
Wednesday of last week.
! Since the storms have set in Price
Piper drives fourth hand on the Vir-
einia City and Red Bluff stage line.
The time of leaving Norris was chang
ed on the 18th and the drivers now
have daylight in which to tackle the
range.