The Daily Missoulian., 1914-08-02
TIIE MIssolLIAN. SUNDAY MORNING AUGUST !, 1914


% be raised later on these two per-
sons Or at lsast on s.Blll.s The SUM
I m6f shipment1 of cattle were past.
] o9allalA settled down u III normal
\ stAte and Faro Nell and Bil disap-
1 peared. s.5
i u We shall move on from Ogallala up
tos SidheN Nebr.. wh<1, gold was dis
covered III the Black Hills. Ii did not
1 take lonG before many thousands OF
paople wanted 10 70 there and get
rich like they did III the year 1849 in
California, where some got rich and
others rernAined poor. Gilmore, Sauis-
4 bury 4 CO. put on a stage line. well.
~ fact, the conapany started one also
i the former being. the shorter route,
sidney was adopted as terminal.
Two, three or four stage Goa ches were
lsent out from Sidney every day loaded
with human freight. all hoping to
reach the "Eldorado.'' The story ia
about the sams as all the west; some
/, got rich, most had to try to get home
~ best they might Il wrote page
nine and soniehoW II became lost;
must have blown through the window
where was sitting writing. 1t was
one pfg the most interesting stories in
this narrative and do not know if Il
Iam bible to Reproduce IL. The loss
Of that PAGE broke my cllain OF thought
anA In some way spoiled the whole
Estory. A writer's mind III sc1nething
SIMILAR to an architects; they both
build In their minds eye what they
wish to produce and as Is usual in
nearly every case the first iInpression
and on, the spur of the moment gener-
ally iss tho best ONE; IL something oc-
curs to divert their thoughts the chain
iss broken and Hike the fleeting clouds
On. u summer sky neither one. the
writer or; tho architect. Is able to re-
sproduce to. their self f.satisfaction the
first frEit Of their brains. believe
ISthisE aAlf- evident.) From Ogallala we
shall move, a. Il said, to- sidney Sid
neys was them the distributing point for
Ethe Black Hills country. the "Eldor1
ado. for many hunters. The big firm.
Pratt = FERRIS WIS the forwarding
Iagent, for all merchandise en- transit
from the Union Pacific railroad TO the
I3lack fiills beside: doing a.. BIZ; busi-
ness ON their own account.
+ ] cannot tell today how many men.
teams and oxen were used Inv their
transport. hut 1t was Immense. People
Lin the west had seen. something sim
liar on the santa Fe trail, but people
III the east could hardly believe their
eyes II they could have seen it. There
were about forty or fifty six and eight
mule teams and as many as ten OF
twelve OK teams, all loaded with goods
for the Black Hills: each train had
three wagons Gilmore. Salisbury q
Co. had the mail contract and other
government contracts
o. j. Saulsbnry, ST., remained In
washington attending, to the red-tape
business; Jack Gilmore or (Snotty
Jack as he was usually cal1ed) re-
4 sided at Salt Lake city and Ed Cor
j bin, their efficient superintendent. wal
doing the work and doing it well. n
a former letter have stated who and
what Ed Corbin was. I cannot re-
frain again from stating that he wal
i everything that a superintendent
4 should be. Well to. cut It short, ht
i sIwaa my friendsand- whenever Ed Cor
3Ibin called anyone q friend, that mar
Il had to! be worthy of the name, and h
hardly Axersrnade q mistake in dealing
with men. + shall have some more
Eto say in fcture. about him, but tha'
\ .lwill be- another story, and here II
Iswhere Calamity Jane comes In
III Lots OF stories have been written sar1t
Elotks said about Calamity Jane. Boy
| would read In the s cent novels abou
her, but mostly all Of that stuff is7 no
true.s Il met her In Sidney, saw he
many times ats my two ranchess on tn
4 Black Hills road. / shall try and Civ
a true description Of Calamity Jam
as I saw her. She was at the tim
II perhaps 10 years old. In, her earle
H years she would undoubtedly hnv'
bean considered pretty, but IN late
years. owing to her rowing life AM
dissipation. became prematnrely old
II Sometimes she would dress womal
fashion, but more often she would pu
on pair Of overalls and df'ess u
,men'ss clothes. She would follow Frat
q Ferris mule team or Oh teamss jus
sas the notion struck her, Hers wa
Ea rowing dispositioItss never easys al
ways on the move She went with tn