Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-08-28

Oar party Of eleven LETT Laugdon on
tie afternoon train August Eth. WEI
reached Larimore ut SIX the same even
ing. Here we had Il stop of ole hour,
time tor supper, and met the X. <.
special from Grand Forks, which was
Pullman attached to the flyer and that
was TO be our home for the balance OF the
week. Here we were cordially welcomeC!
10y the Grand Forks delegation of thlr-
teen, which was added to by one lady
from Larimore and one gentleman from
Devils Lake. We LETT Larimore at 1870
we were actually on our way to the Great
West, where our dreams of the Rockies
ana the broad Pacific would be realized.
We reached Devils Lake at $50 and
had about five minutes to greet some
friends who were waiting to wish us
pleasant journey. Our next stop was
Minot where the band was to entertain
us for fifteen minutes but our train being
over an hour late 1t would be one o'clock
before we reached there so we decided to
retire and be ready for new scenes early
III the morning, Tuesday, August 9TH.
At q. NJ. l was up and stirring much
to the annoyance of some of the sedate
ones who had made the trip before. l
turned my watch back an hour, as We
changed time at Minot which we passed
through in the night. Some of the party
getting up at eight o'clock we're much
disguised to find it was only seven.
"Could have slept an hour longer"
We are now in Montana and find it a
continuation of our broad prairies with
the addition of foot hills which stretch
away in the distance and help to break
the monotony. Not foot OF the land is
cultivated, being used for grazing pur-
poses only. To one accustomed to the
green sod OF North Dakota, it presents a
very brown and barren appearance, but
in reality contains more substance than
the former. The tents and corrals of the
sheep herders and COW boys stretched
along at frequent intervals, with their
t1ocks of herds grazing in peaceful con-
tent, add life and beauty to the land
scape In the distance We can see the
bills and timber along the banks of the
Missouri but do rot get a glimpse of the
river itself that we will see on our return
over the N. P. The only place of impor-
lance as yet is Glasgow which is quite
pretty town in the midst Of the foot hills
with the residence portion Oh one side
and the business blocks on the other A
fine school house here gives evidence of
progression in the right direction, while
one building labeled "Sideboard Saloon"
shows that we are far from the land Of
prohibition. There are miles and miles
of sage bush, sand hills, wire fences and
wild prairie with not human beng in
sight. At Havre we are met at the train
by Chas. Hops of Grand Forks. We all
go over town to see the sights. a num-
Der of Indians are at the depot to sell
buffalo horns and l proceed to take a
snap shot, but the equaws turn their back
while big Indian rushes up and de-
mands "a quarter" We could not man
age in any way to get shot at them, SO
went oyer town. Here we saw ''girl
cowboy" rounding up herd OF bronchos
An old darby nanny with little picka-
nlnny was kind enough to pose for a pic
| ture, which included one of the young
| ladies of our party. After leaving Havre
/ We get our first glimpse Of the Rockies
which we teael: late In the evening. We
! pass through Kalispell in the night and
| Wednesday morning some of us are up
| at 'unearthly hour of three O'clock" but
we are we'll repaid as the beauties around
us are manifold. 1t was night when we
passed the Kootenai Falls, and at Troy,
the extreme west Of Montana, we again
turn our time pieces back one hour.
Once more the eight o'clock riser gets up
at seven and is Disguised when we inform
him OF the change in time. We pass
through the narrow portion of Idaho and
the Bitter Root mountains. We were
sorry we could not look out each side at
once as the scenery was so varied and 30
beautiful that we were frantic in our adj
miration. We reach Spokane about
| breakfast time. and as we have stop OF
twenty five minutes, hasten out to see
! the sights. get fine view OF one of
the principal streets with a mountain in