The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-04-15

II helped to elect the first sher.
lit in Montana and afterwards /
helped to hang the BEAST was the
remark Of Charles Carver in Gen.
eral Warren's Butte office q few
days ago. Carver and General c.
8. Warren are two Of the three old.
est Montanans in Butte. Carver
ran the first grocery store in that
camp. He is still hale and hearty
despite the weight of his 80 years
which he carries jauntily.
"Profiteering was practiced in the
eos as we'll as in recent MONTHS"
said the old trail blazer. People
howl about prices now. Our people
paid 500 a sack in gold dust for
flour. - a pound for coffee. IS for
q gold pan, SIS for a pick or shovel.
Old-6tyle Lever Act
1--WE applied some of this, what
they call direct action to the profit
GERS. Had to. There was no state
then. Not even a territory. The
ge0graphers covered the space by
calling it Idaho, but it was like the
in the days OF which the
poet wrote when he said that never
a law of God or man ran north of
So
1.-THE boys couldn't get flour even
at 800 a sack. They started
search and smoked out the hoarders.
The flour was seized and sold by the
miners committee at $40 sack
which. they figured. was fair profit
for the dealer
Though nearly so years of age
when the rush to the Klondyke began
Carver joined 1t and "mushed" over
the Alaska passes, carrying his pack
with him.
Went to the Klondyke
II took Bill Owsley with me-" he
said, and laughed reminiscently,
bill couldn't stand the gaff. Easy
living had made him beefy. In his
day Bill was one of the best We had.
I'm the old days we had a diver
sion here in Silver Bow we called
"sQuar butt" or something not quite
so fastidious. It consisted of two
men taking hold Of stick, sQuatting
down facing each other and pulling
on the stick. This. with horse and
foot racing, constituted our amuse-
ments. won many 800 bet on
old Bill Owsley. John Noyes was q
pretty husky man and some puller
but Bill always took his measure.
'North Of 5S''
II spent nearly two years 1856
miles north Of the Arctic circle in the
latter SOS. The country has q fas-
cination about it. Cold? didn't
suffer a. much from the cold in
Alaska as we did during the early
days In Montana"
"You see. we took Alaska cold fol
granted and prepared for it. In thi,
territory helped to make this 8
territory-we had no knowledge Of
the climate and hundreds beca use OIL
that ignorance laid down their lives
when Winter Came Down
II remember particularly thu
stampede to Dearborn creek, located
between Helena and Fort Benton
Helena was crowded with prospector,
who came from California and else
where. The weather had been mild
A sQuaw man came to town with furs
He had q sack of gold dust. Aske,
where he got 1t he smiled mysterious
~ and intimated that he knew wher,
much more was to be found. TIL,
word began to circulate that tn
sQuaw man had q find. They begal
trailing him. The result of the tell
ing and retelling of the story of hi
find was that 1t grew and grew an,
when the squaw man left town b
was followed by several hundred me-
on horses and on foot.
"They located their claims alon
the Dearborn creek and prepare
their rude camp. Short of fuel, Pre-
visions and clothing. imagine thei
|plight when the cold came down o
them without warning. Men lost fee,
legs. arms and their lives as well.
foolish stampede. Some of thos
lcrippled men still survive"
Carver ran the first grocery stor
In Butte. It was located alongsid
bordeaux channel" az the old
timers used to call the ravine tha