The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-10-31
| INTHE RAILWAY WORLD
HILL LIVES ON ELK
FOR FOUR DAYS
PRESIDENT OF RAILROAD EATS
NOTHING BUT GAME IN WOODS,
THEN GETS MORE.

l.. w. Hn1 president nj the Great
Northern railway. runs M against a
lot Of experiences in the course %
his travels over the country. Not
long ago he was denied admission tn
a reclamation farmers home near
Great Falls and was compelled to
sleep in Il hay stack over night and
for supper was invited to partake of
the water in .hc pump. Hill can
stand 1t all right, for he's the sort Of
fellow who takes things for granted,
very largely.
According to tho story writer of the
Libby News. his latest experience
along those lines was living four days
on elk meat. This happened In the
area Of country east nf ISalispeIi pro-
posed to be created into the Glacier
National park. II came ABOUT this
way: Mr.. I'LL takes Il very large in
tercst in the proposed national park.
For the purpose Of getting infcrma-
tion about that region he had The Of
fetal PHOTOGRAPHER OF the Great
Northern go in there with II party IL
get views and generally such other
information as could be used with adj
sertisIns matter.
Mr.. Hill intended to join tuis party
and went into the Mcdonald lake reg
ion for that purpose. Through snme
characterization hc failed To meet the
party. lie engaged this hunter ~ take
him through. Neither MIR. Hill nor the
hunter had any grub. However. they
found one Of the abandoned camps
Of the photographIns party and at
this place they found some bread
which had been left behind, They
both were hungary and aobbled onto
the bread. The hunter had killed an
elk just before Mr.. It'll met him and
this gay. them bread and meat.
There wasn't much bread, but there
was whole raft of elk meat and the
two Of them loaded up as much of
this meat as they thought they might
need and continued after the photo
graphing crew. They didn't find the
crew and for four days all they had,
after eating up the bread they found
at the camp named. was elk meat.
This they cooked in as many ways
as they could without utensils and
while II may have been little stale
to the hunter. MIR, Hill enjoyed II
thoroughly. Not being able to locate
the photographers, ut the end of the
fourth day. Mr.. Hill came out tn Bel
ton and AT that place he was lscksd
up by Superintendent Smith OF the
kalispell division and came over To
Libby OH his way to Seattle.
As compensation MIR Hill succeed
cd in killing mountain goat and this
was brought out. About as good a
feature Of this trip rs any WAS an
incident which took place ut Column
bla Falls. A friend of Mr. Hill'a who
lives nj the Falls. learned that h.
would be there in Superintendent
Smiths car, This friend had been
given some elk meat by hunter who
had succeeded in getting one of thos.
animals II few days before. and think
ing IL would be rare treat to the
president of the Great Northern IL
have an elk steak. cut off a chunk
Of the meat and hurried to the depot
When the train stopped Mr.. Hill's
friend climbed into Superintendent
Smiths car and handed MIR. Hill tho
elk meat, After living for four days
ON elk meat 1t Is needless tn say that
Mr., Hill MAS much pleased to get the
steaks and that he appreciated his
friends courtesy very much.