The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-06-26

IiOu NuuU, We ulTcu .Lcdul
and driver and went east over the
plains about 20 or 80 miles and
went over some fine and a great
deal of very rolling land and on
our trip we did not pass more than
dozen shacks, at night drove up
to lonely shack miles from the
nearest neighbor to stay over
night, but to our chagrin there was
no one at home and the door was
locked with pad lock, SO after
reeonnoitering short time we re-
moved the screws that held the
lock and opened the door and took
possession, we were very agree
ably surprised to find hunks
en- ough to accommodate us, and
all the paraphanalia of a bachelors
hall, including sack of spuds,
(potatoes) a ham, coffee, canned
vegetables, and very lucky, three
loaves of stale bread, also sugar
q nd can of condensed milk, SO
we soon made a fire in the small
stove and soon had supper over.
While we were sitting around the
fire recounting our many adven-
lures the prairie wolves set up a
howl that sounded like a lot of
hildren crying in distress and
they kept,it up more or less until
about sun up the next morning.
l was the first up the next morn
ing and made fire and had began
cooking breakfast when the other
boys rolled out. We had for
brekfast, stale bread steamed,
fried spuds,N coffee, fried ham,
Vankamps pork and beans, toma-
toes, beet syrup and the four sea-
sons to wit-salt, pepper, mustard
and vinegar, so we faired spendid-
ly, but it was the first time in my
life that l ever was a party to
house breaking and was put to the
dire necessity to forage in this
manner to keep the wolf both
from our persons and from gnaw-
ing at the door of our stomachs,
but they say here that this is the
western style and / thought tina
as l was in Rome l would do al
Rome did.
We left our forced quarters al
6 o'clock start and took anorth.
westerley direction and Travelled
over several sections of very nice
! and that was for sale at about 81
per acre but l think it is too fal
fr ON no where to be desirable es.
pecially to one who has little O.
the adventurous spirit as | have
In this section of the country there
is quite lot of Government lano
ubject to homestead, also t
entry under the Desert act. l wa
somewhat surprised to see so many
people taking up this land to max,
homes of it and undertaking t.
make a living on it by dry farm
ing, but / believe the time is no
far distant when all or at least al
the best the arid plains of tn
west will be utilized for farming
either by improved methods o
dry farming or by storing all tn
flood water and by pumping tn
water from wells and irrigating
are being now rapidly develope,
and used.
We returned to the U. P. R. r
at small station, Carr, where W
took dinner. On our travels wit
tie am we travelled some 80 or Z
miles, about one third of whicl
distance we travelled over tn
, prairie without any sign of roa'
!, and we saw in the way of gam
t only four or FIVE prairie wolves
one Jack rabbit cotton tails an,
+ ountless thousands of prairi
r dogs, and we also found a numbe
t buffalo horns which reminded u
, that we were travelling over tn
> country where once roamed tn
/ buffalo, we also found a couple Q
> horned toads which put in m,
t pocket to bring to Mo-, as souve
I mir of our trip. At Carr it begal
I raining and we did not get to ex
. tend our trip further, we had in