The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-06-26

ahead, each one petitioning for {
visit from the party leach declaring
that some community had the best
wheat, the best irrigation system OF
the best-hearted people there was.
The demonstration, which, in its
volume and spirit surprised the rail
road men and f~abbergasted the
newspaper men, whose previous trav-
cling experience provided no preced-
ent, meant two things. The con-
structive work and sympathetic CO
operation of the Great Northern has
given it a unique hold on the section
which it serves and which it did so
much to revoke from the wilderness
the people of Montana do not think
the whole truth has been told about
them in a period of agricultural de-
preston and want the whole truth
told, for they are sure that a full re-
port will not be an ~unfavorable one.
Let it be said here that they are tax
ing their medicine manfully and fac
ing their destiny with the spirit that
wins.
Exotic Backgrounds
After the night journey through
Dakota, the morning disclosed back
grounds that to Eastern eyes had an
exotic appeal. The gray sage brush
dotted the plain, buttes shouldered
up above the sky line, turbid yellow
streams fringed with cottonwoods,
clay. Flocks Of grotesque-looking
pelicans flew up from unsupported
lakes, herds of white-faced cattle.
cropped the prairie grass, and now
and then a jackrabbit, it's absurdly
ample ears standing upright, loped
across the landscape. A new type of
cabin dotted the plains. 1t was a
composite of logs and adobe-cotton-
wood trunks chinked with yellow
creek mud and rooted with mud plas-
tered clapboard or rafters made
of smaller cottodwoods. These
were the habitations Of old cowmen;
of squawmen, who had won at once
Indian bride and an allotment of
Government land at the marriage al
tar, and of what people in Montana
call breeds-men with one-quarter to
one-half of aboriginal blood in their
The first stop was made at Wolf
Point, where a school band gave a
good account of itself, and a party
IF Assiniboine Indians from the Fort
Peck reservation added a wild touch
% the reception. In the party were
White Bear, Fear Bear, Blackdog and
Going Four Ways. With his somber
garb and his horned head, Backlog
like a NEUROLOGICAL "frieze,
Going Four Ways qualified as
IN aboriginal politician. Further on
We saw the encampment of their tribe
where a great pow-wow was proceed
ng. At Malta there was another
)rass band, and smiling women with
bouquets Of lilacs, and Indians Of a
l~ifferent stock. At Glasgow, auto
mobiles whirled the newspapermen
the surrounding plateaux- an
went not on the schedule. At Chin
,ok, the train discharged its pas
and they made the next
wenty miles over the highway to
Afeature Of this detour was
n abandoned sod house, roofless and
18th thick walls; it was very like
he ruined little temples of stone
ound in Wales. Before the party t
ntrained at Havre the local band !
and the editor of the Havre '
ewspaper made a stirring address. A c
ornament exposition of the grains {
f this neighborhood-fne corn and
ard spring wheat Of many varieties, 1
copying a little building at the sta t
on-told of the success of irrigation d
in the valleys, and of dry P
md summerfallow farming on the $
pper benches.