The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-09-16
The ROunder.


weather drove the rounder into
town from the hospita lie berry
patches and he friendly shades of
the wire fences. He struck t'wn
just when one of his harbors of
refuge was changing hands with
the usual celebration in which he
heartily joined. AS consequence
he has but dim recol lection of the
first few days, out he can remem
Der getting invitations to one or
tw weddings aud now be is strain
ing his ears to catch tn, first
tinkle OF the merry wedding bells,
He is practiclng to shoot off anvils
and ring steel bars and Is mixing
wreaths of horse shoes for Iouday
evening.
The rounder has been offered the
position of school trustee provided
| he will move to Choteau and take
up his residence there, SO that he
cannot attend any of the meetings
This is only a scheme to get rid OF
MIN aud he will not stand the work.
OF course if he had A % as treas
urer Or something ike that it
might be diffe rent, but as it is, in
the language of the illustrious
Plato, "Nlt."
The rounder was going up to the
hot springs on SIN river, but Pat
Gray got the start OF him and
drove all the campers away from
the resort as soon as he arrived
BY the way Pat has a dog, "a little
cur, black ali over exdept the tip
of his tail and that is black too,
therefore Pat calls him Spot. This
dog was up in the untains with
Pat and the rounder this summer
when one night they were awaken~
ed by terrible row in the bushes
close to camp. The rounder want
ed to 60 and see what was the
trouble but Pat salo it was only a
fight between Spot a1d Que OF
them impudent black bears and
went off to sleep again. In the
morning they Went over to where
the noise was aud found Spot sit
ting on a big silver tips ear feel
ing the muscle of his right leg with
his left paw and a grim smile
illuminated his counteaance. The
bear weighed $50 pounds sterling.
If you don't believe it ask Pat
when he gets back from Sun river.
The yellow fever is reported to
be spreading in the southern states
with alarming rapidity.
Mrs. Catherine w. Romney will
claim the honor of starting the frs
newspaper in the Klondyke count
ry. She carries with her a small
hand press and the necessities Of a
small office Mrs. Romney pub
.ished Il newspaper in Leadville
at the time when the boom was at
its height, and also for year and
half she did the same at Durango,
Col. Wisconsin Citizen.
The first tales of suffering from
the gold fields of Al.ska are tt
hand. How much will be added t(
these stories before the long colo
winter is over time alone can tell
, Even now, when the first ice is
forming on the rivers and navlga-
tion is closing, the provision stores
at Dawson are closed because the,
have nothing to sell. There ar
! thousands OF people in the golt
-, fields and scattered along the lrai
+ with no chance Of returning afte
the early winter sets III. The,
have very little food and no means
:, of shelter from the terrible cold o
=. that region. Christian people ma.
- well pray for friends caught il
" this fearful trap and strong me-
q weep for their fellows doomed t,
), untold suffering unless some mean
q are speedily devised for senoin,
: aid to the unfortunate gold seekers
l. Contrary to the announcement
IT.. made last week, the miners strik
p in the east is not over Since the
Vt sheriff with 200 armed deputie
: fired into number OF miners lha
e were quietly travelling from on
IS camp 10 another. Twenty-one ar
IS dead and forty badly wounded as
}. result of the shooting The min er