The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-01
FOR
ICING CARS
RAILROAD COMPANIES ISSUE
NEW JOINT TARIFF.
AS TOLD BY SITTING BULL
Old Chiefs Account of His Prepare.
tions for Little Big Horn
Battle.

| One class of Montana shippers have
! received another object lesson in the
beneficence of the community of in
terests" policy adopted by the rail
roads entering the state. They are
the ones handling perishable freight.
Beginning with today they will be
obliged to pay the expense of icing
their cars, for the railroad companies
entering this territory have agreed
that they shall do so. Hitherto the
roads have borne the cost. A new
joint tariff that became operative to-
day provides that in addition to the
regular rates named charges will be
made for replenishing ice in transit
west of St.Paul-Missouri river and
common points on carload freight
shipped under refrigeration, whether
originating at St. Paul-Missouri river
and comomn points or points east
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common points or stations taking the
same rates $40 car will be charged.
The shipper is now required to furnish
the initial icing and deliver the car
tos the initial carrier with the ice
boxes we'll filled. Each carrier is
supposed to replenish the ice in tran
sit whenever it may become necessary
and see that the tanks are in good
condition and the tanks we'll filled
with ice when the car is delivered to
it's connection
The railroads claim that the matter
of securing good ice is becoming a
serious problem. In the first place
ice has to be harvested at consider
able distance and involves much ex-
pense for cutting and transporting. In
addition it costs something to switch
cars to the ice houses, to say nothing
of the cost of the labor required to
put the ice into the cars. The $40
now charged for icing, they claim,
just about pays the cost
What is probably the first account
of the Little Big Horn battle to be
published as purported to have been
related by Sitting Bull appears in the
January number of Sports Af1eld and
| is a continuation of Mrs Linda w.
Slaughter's Leaves from Northwest
History" 1t is a free translation
| from the French of a narrative left
by Father Genin, the Catholic mis-
sionary, who was an adopted brother
| OF Sitting Bull and the adopted neph-
ew of Black Moon, one of the Sioux
chiefs in the fight. The matter is
copyrighted and consequently may not
be reprinted in full without the auth
or's permission. OF his arrangement
for the battle (for Sitting Bulls scouts
kept the main body informed of Gus
ter's progress and the Indians knew
days ahead when to expect the attack)
the old chief told the missionary as
follows:
For three days my scouts watched
Custer marching toward our camp.
We knew exactly how Custer would
fight. We expected the white soldiers
would charge through the village on
the run, as they did at the battle of
Washita in 1868, when Chief Black
Kettle was killed and the poor women
and children were trampled under the
hoofs of the war horses. So, all the
women and children having been sent
to place of safety, sent my young
men to light fires inside and outside
the deserted tepees, placing near the
door of each of the front row of teepes
sticks and poles dressed up to look
like men and to put up stakes along
the streets of the village, to which
were tied pieces of blankets and old
robes, so that when the wind was
blowing these pieces of cloth and old
rags waved to and fro in the breeze
and gave the appearance of densely
populated village. At the same time
we kept our tepee fires burning fierce
ly."
The letter written by Father Genin
is dated at the Forks of Milk river
in Montana, December 13, 1877. 1t
was August 10 that the priest met
Sitting Bull at Woody mountain,
across the Canadian line, where he