Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-21

the bulletin boards at Seattle the mex
day that No. was z hours and A
minutes behind US.
We were supposed to be in Seattle al
g p. m. and the porters told the pas
sengers, they did not make up the
berths. We kicked again and the
berths were sulkily made up. The next
morning at Seattle the drinking water
tanks were empty, wash water all used
up and the lamps were out of oil. we
had run 1919 miles from Billings to
Seattle, on diet OF sandwiches. dough
nuts and pies and the cars, including
lavitories, had not been cleaned since
leaving St. Paul.
In one way we were lucky in getting
switched onto the horse car. The train
we left missed the Portland connection,
while we got to that city at 80, Sunday
p. m.
1t may surprise some of the political
conservatives, to know that all the men
on these two tourist cars, with two or
three exceptions, were for government
ownership of railroads. From Unborn
stubbornness | was one of the small
minority to argue for governmental
control, but made mp my mind to quit
bucking against ''0ur Bob" in the
future. The railroads deal HIM too
many trump cards.
| can imagine the knockers club
dropping the paving question and Con
lin and Naffz taking a rest from jpstify-
ing their positions as stockholders in
the telephone trust, to take up the trans
continental transportation matter.
know Ewing, Dodge and Naffz will
rush to the defence of the corporations
and call me n id fool for not Juggling
along five days lunch, but / am sure
/ can trust to John Lamont and John
Manson to explain from personal ex-
perience, that men who follow the
teachings Of Teddy have to, lug too
many satchels of baby linen to burden
themselves with lunches.
CHAPTER ii
of my epistle, deals with my observa-
tioDs enroute.
At st. Paul where we spent day, we
saw the Father of Waters and took a
street car trip from st. Paul to Mime
apolis, both cities are growing and the
n. he .,f nnf
with buildings. An interesting thing
at Como park in Minneapolis was a
group of about 30 prisoners from the
work house, marching with three
guards with rifles at shoulder; they had
been working in the park. After sup
per | met Geo. Kreutzer, Geo. Blecha,
Chas. Kiehl, Mr.. Zuhlke and Reinhold
Deutsch, of Athens. They were bound
for Idaho but were lucky in having
berths on the limited and SO / missed
pleasant company. Geo. Kreutzer is
coming to Portland soon. Together we
went through the new capitol at st.
Paul. 1t is eautiful building ana
cost "a, 100000. The walls are of
Georgian marble and the interior large
ly of various Minnesota stone. They
say, and the building looks as though
there had been no graft.
The Red River valley in North
Dakota is great wheat country, the
farmers generally were seeding. We
a an xx1 oo,,,a r.ro;r ot;u II, ataaIy fNla et,o
is burned in the fields. The buildings
are generally low and the country tree
less. While they raise fine crops of
wheat, | don't think our farmers would
like the country. Barns are small and
there seemed to be few cattle Further
on we passed through the foot hills, a
rough, desolate looking country. used
only for grazing.
We passed Fort Keogh early in the
morning; the train runs right by the
fort, which is cavalry post, with
many stables. Eighty-fve miles west of
the fort we crossed the Little Big Horn
river, where a bulletin board tells us
that Capt. Clark camped in 1916 and
that Custer fought his last fight, 40
miles to the south.
Forty miles west we ran into the sage
brush plains, where we saw hundreds
of men and teams at work on the u. S.
irrigation project. The soil is vol
canic ash and seemingly good for moth
ing. At Huntley. Montana big sign
reads "U. S. reclamation service, 10000
acres ready for settlers in 1907" Here
we crossed the Yellowstone river which
is to furnish water for the project and a
big crew was at work on dams, etc.
We soon began to see a great many
sheep and at Billings were told that city
is the greatest wool shipping point in
America. 1t took 50 cars to ship the
cut from one mans flock last year At
Livingston a branch road runs south
81 miles to Gardiner, the gateway to
Yellowstone park.
We crossed the first range of the
Rockies in binding snow storm, but
as we neared the summit the sun came
out and we saw some great scenery. /
don't know how high the pass is but we
ran down at what seemed dangerous