The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-19
sMoRMoNs MAKE 1T INTERESTING
FOR ELKs.
WHERE The TROUT BITE
Local Angler Compares Western
Fishing With That Of East
Had His Juiip.
N Mondays Daily Gazette.

fs6m Mondays Daily Gazette.
The Billings contingent Of Montana
prize winners returned from Salt
Lake this morning. They left the
Mormon heaven in time to have been
6hck sooner, but remained a day or
50 at Butte to talk it all ever and.
tell how the play came up" Like
all the other Elks who attended the
big roundup Of the horned tribe, they
had a huge time and are glad they
went. While they have but little to
say on that part of their experience,
all admit that they formed the ac-
|a%uaintance of the Salt Lake CRATER"
.he same as did all the others who
were there. Del Latin was, knocked
almost s%enseless by having to leave
the major part of a IS bill with the
barber who shaved him, while. Jabez
Vaughan declares he never paid a
larger sum for a poorer meal than
one he had while he was among the
Latter Day Saints. He ate only the
one, as the recollection of it made
him sick whichever he imagined him
self hungry, so after all, he got off
much cheaper than these with strong
er stomachs and who were compelled
to eat oftener. Aside from the de-
termined ~onslaughts made on their
pocketbooks they had a good time.
/Jhdging from the space devoted to
the recital CT piscatorial exploits in
the ST. Paul and Minneapolis news
papers the fishing season must be at
it's heights in the lakes and streams
of Minnesota" remarked a Billings
man this morning. ''Those papers are
full of accounts of wonderful catches
made by men who seem to think that
the ultima thule of fishing is in catch
ing a muskalounge or pickerel,S fish
that don't know any better than to
bite at a piece of shiney metal drag
ged in the wake of a skif. That sort
of sport may do for those who have
never had any better, but it is tame
and spiritless compared to the fishing
that is to be had out this way. The
mar who has never cast his line in
trout streams does not know
what joys are to be had in
angling, especially when the
conditions are just right and Mr..
Trout rises and snaps at your fly as
though he was determined to yank
you right into the water with him.
But of all the fishing I've ever had,
it was in Yellowstone lake. Talk
about bites and your big ones! Why,
l never supposed there were as many
fish in the world as l saw there a
few weeks Ago.. Three Of us we're out
in a boat near the outlet and we
caught them almost as fast as we
could land them. You may not be-
lieve it, but / had three at one time
and at the same instant another per-
son in the boat hooked two. Forum
ately there were three Of us in the
skiff, so while we two played with
our five fish, the third person rowed
the boat ashore. Had to, couldn't
land them any other way. We saved
the FIVE, and in a little over an hour
had SO strung up, enough to satisfy
us and we stopped fishing for the
day. One man. he was out about five
hours. caught 1874, and not mi weigh
ed less than a pound-and-a-half. Now
that is what l call fishing, with a big
f." Fl
To the man who likes mint julips
there is probably nc detection in
vented that is quite so good, especial
ly during weather like that which
now prevails hereabouts. At least
SO thinks a certain resident Of the
city, who years g made the ac-
Gu%aintance of the pleasures that are
to be derived by drinking "likker
with a weed in it." A few days ago
he took a notion that life was not
worth living unless he could once
more have a taste of his favorite tip
pie. Fol- some reason the saloons of
the city do net keep the aromatic lit
tie weed slowed away like boquets on
the shelves behind their counters,
so he had to go out into the fields in
quest of what he wanted. He vas
told that mint grew in profusion in a
certain place beyond the city where
the irrigating ditch and the shelter
Of trees afford a natural bed for it.
He. tramped miles in search of the
place and finally found it. 1t had
grown old and tough, but after a pa
tient search he at last secured enough
tender, young sprigs and started
home. While attempting to the