The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-10
MAY A0ODOO THE TRIP
Thirteen Men in the Indiana
Party.
LOOKING FOR WILDERNESS
They Expected to Find All Kinds of
Hunting Along the Railroads.&c.
ports From Them Anx-
iously Awaited.

| N1SSOula. CCt, S.-NOlHlUS mas DScH
| heard as yet from the party of Indiana
| men who left here Saturday for a hunt
| in the Thompson river country. There
| were Is in the party and if this number
does not hoodo the trip it is certain
| that the inexperience of the would-be
| hunters will do the business. The In
dianans had the queer notions of this
| country that are prevalent in many of
| the unenlightened parts of the East
| They expected to find wilderness from
the time they reached the eastern Dor
der of Montana. and when they reached
Missoula they We're still looking for the
wilderness. They did not think that
the people in Montana have any sup
plies whatever They therefore shipped
from their homes on the banks of the
Wabash sacks of potatoes, sides of ba-
con, sacks of flour and other staples
that they thought they would need to
piece out the fish and game that they
expect to get away with. They stud
led the map a long time before they
would believe that Missoula was in
Montana. They did not see any wild
men here and their slumbers were not
disturbed by the howls of wolves, so it
could not be Montana.
In conversation with a Standard re-
porter. the members of the party were
anxious to learn something of the coun-
try that they We're headed for When
they We're assured that it is a hunters
paradise, provided that they had
guide who knew the country and could
get them started right, they were
amazed. Was it necessary to have
guide? Could they not stay along the
| railway and walk out to the Shooting
grounds" each day? When they We're
told that the hunting is not good on the
| right of way of the Northern Pacific,
they We're inclined to believe that they
had been buncoed into coming to such
a country, anyway. The Standard man
tried to reassure them, but they were
skeptical. They still thought that there
was something wrong and that all that
they would have to do would be to go
to Plains and stay at the hotel: to walk
out each morning for a while and bring
in a lot of deer and bear and moose.
They are doubtless learning something
| of the facts regarding the country from
Colonel MCGOWAN at Plains ere this.
In regard to the fishing on the Thomp-
son, the Standard man told the pilgrims
that it was the best in the land, but
told them also that they should take
! along good outfit, as 1t is not the
easiest fishing in the world. One of the
| party spoke up and said that he had
| a splendid outfit; it had been selected
| for him by Charles Blaisdell, whom he
| had met up town he would show it.
| Thereupon he proceeded to dig into one
| of his pockets. The Standard man ex-
| pected to see big fly book come out
| of the pocket in question, and was
amazed to a small paper bag come out.
| The amazement was changed to amuse-
ment when from the bag the prospec-
| tive Nimrod flashed u assorted flies
and one leader. That will last him
about an hour in the upper Thompson
country. Returns from the hunters are
eagerly looked for.
A hunter of very different sort is
T. c. Coleman. who is now spending
| few days in the city before returning
home from hunting trip in the Idaho
| Clearwater country. Mr.. Coleman has
made several similar trips to this part
of the country, but this has been the
| most successful of all. In company
with Guide Spencer, Mr.. Coleman spent
several weeks in the Clearwater, going
| in from Hamilton by way of Lost Horse
pass. He was successful in securing
| some excellent specimens of moose, elk,
deer and small game. The trip was
pleasant one and Mr.. Coleman and his
| guide were the last ones to leave the
! valley across the Bitter Root range
| The sport was fine all the time that he
was in the valley and he is much
| pledSeu WITH MS LIlp. MI. 1UlelIdH Is
also delighted with this part of the
country in general and has decided to
| make some extensive investments in
| Missoula. During the past week he has
| purchased a number of lots in the CEN
trail part of town, within two or three
blocks of the postoffice. and he will
| probably do some building in the spring.
| He thinks that this is the finest region
| that he has ever visited and that the
| Bitter Root valley is a veritable gar
| den spot. Mr. Coleman, while he was
at Hamilton. visited the Bitter Root
| stock farm, and he is enthusiastic over
what he saw there He saws that he
has seen many breeding farms, but
| that this is the finest that he has ever
| heard of.
| Among Western Montana's delegation
| in the Klondike country there is one
| who has escaped attention till the re-
| turn of Ike Alternately. and that is Rev.
| L. L. Woods, who will be remembered
| as an eloquent preacher in the Bitter
Root and the founder Of Woodside, just
below Hamilton. Mr.. Alternately says
that the erstwhile preacher is doing
well. When he first saw him Mr.. Woods
was performing the functions of waiter
in a restaurant, but he has since Sc
cured couple of claims in the Nome
| country and when Mr.. Alternately left
| was making $10O q day with rocker
on his claim on the beach. Mr.. Woods
will winter in the Nome district and
| will probably be a rich man in the
spring. This is only one of the in
stances of pluck and energy winning
| out. Mr. Woods would not be recog-
nzed now by those who knew him here
| as preacher. He was one of the finest
| pulpit orators that has ever been To-
| Gated in this part of the state and his
sermons We're much talked of. He has
not done any preaching in the Nome
country, but is as much a miner now
as any of his fellows who are extract
| ing the yellow dust from the sands of
| Nome beach.
The strange death of J. P, Denning
has occasioned considerable discussion
in town. There are those who make it
| the text for a temperance sermon and
there are others who assert that it was
not whiskey, but the bath. that killed
him. The arguments, pro and con. have