The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-17

dining rooms meant and when we heard
it we were always prepared for the re-
port that the steward invariably made
Immediately afterward. That report
was always that the cows had got out
of the yard and that there was no milk
for breakfast or for the patients. First
we would rustic milk and then we
would hunt the cows. We soon learned
where to look for them. Their leader
was from Frenchtown and she would
lead the others down there as soon as
she had the gate open. and there was
no gate that l ever saw that she
couldn't open. I finally sold her to
Lieutenant Devol OF the 25th infantry,
and the last that I heard of her the
colonel had issued an order barring her
from the military reservation. She had
as little respect for the coloneps order
as she had for the latch on his flower
garden gate and 1 think that she was
ultimately court martialed and dis
posed of.
1--WE had pet alligator at the hos
pital that had weathered the cold ana
storms of four winters In Dakota and
had become well acclimated out here
when the old hospital burned. In the
hurry and excitement of that time no
body thought of the alligator and he
was burned. 1t always seemed to me
that that was the very irony of fate
to come from the South and 1--we
through four or five Northern winters
and then to die from fire. But he died.
Yes, we have had a lot of peculiar
cases, but I don't think that many OF
them would interest your readers
There is one, however, that shows some
Of the strange things that we have to
contend with. One night big Swede
was brought in from DeSmet lie had
been trying to steal a ride on NO. z,
and Conductor Snedaker had put him
off the train. He was found lying beside
the track by bridge crew that brought
him to the hospital He appeared to pc
suffering terribly, and it was said by
the men who brought him in that mis-
back was broken. | think they SAD
that he told them 50. Well, we went
to work to examine him. Then he be-
gan the use of some of the vilest Ian
guage that I have ever heard and ne
kept it up till we had to threaten to
chloroform him. The attendants then
began to make the customary search OF
| his pockets for some means OF 1deltty-
! ing him and to prepare him for the sur
| geon. He objected, however, and, seiz-
| ing a knife, made a lunge at the nurse
nearest him and rushed into the hail:
He stole hat from there and rushed
on out doors. That was the last that
we saw of him, but we were sure that
his back was not broken.
Our busiest times, Oh course are
when several men have been injured IN
some accident on bridge or train. Then
the facilities of the hospital are taxed
for a time, but we manage TO take
care of them and they are generally
patient lot of fellows and do not com.
plain when they know that the delay
is unavoidable. The worst cases are
taken first and the others know thai
we will get to them as soon as posi-
Bile.
There is a great difference in thu
personalities Of the men that come t
the hospital for treatment, and this /:
shown in no other way as strongly q!
it is when they leave US. I suppose
that all of them are grateful for recov
cry, but some of them take the pain
to tell us so. Others bid us good-byt
but say no more, and still others g
without a word"