The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-09-07

tcle gave a graphic description OF the
conflict which shortly thereafter cleo
trified the nation because of the ele-
ments involved in the sanguine battle
with the Indians.
One year later, in 1877, Judge Allen
left Bozeman, coming down the Vel
lowstone river in a boat. Reaching the
mouth of the Big Horn he stopped at
Ochetta where he lived for a period,
later coming on to Miles City with his
family, including the infant daughter,
Sophie, born in October.
The blood of a pioneer coursed
through the veins Of Judge Allen. His
association with Lee Travis in 1874 at
Helena and the establishment Of the
Newsletter gave him his first taste
of the newspaper business. The News
Letter at N time was published as
the Montana Daily News, the FORE
inner of nj Of the present publica-
lions in the capital city. His experience
with the Avant Courier at Bo1eman
only served to whet his appetite for
further adventures in the field Of
journalism, from which experiences he
took an active part subsequently in the
political activities of the state.
Miles City apparently did not offer
much in the way of excitement when
he arrived to make that community his
home. It was a struggling village de-
pendent upon the soldier trade from
Fort Keogh. He engaged in such pur-
suits as appealed to him, and learning
that the Northern Pacific railway sys-
tenn was building west out Of Bismarck
and was approaching a point about 80
villas oocf Ha lopiIoS r. vo0Hyo ~ onH
reached the site of the present city Of
tiors Of the community were laid, re-
siding there almost to the time of his
death in the early part Of the present
century.
Judge Allen was considered a man
of brilliant attainments. He engaged in
the newspaper business. Taking an &C.
tive part in politics, he became a Mid
die of the Road" Populist. He was
chairman of the committee on resolu-
lions at the state convention held in
1892. He was the nominee in that year
for the office of secretary of state, run
ming second on the ticket. He was also
a delegate to the Omaha National con-
vention Of that same year, and was
elected IS q member Of the national
committee of his party.
Locally, in Glendive, Judge Allen also
engaged in the real estate business. He
acquired a tract Of land and laid out
Aliens addition. Litigation with
the Northern Pacific railway company.
Subsequently the litigation was settled
in his favor. But the pioneer spirit still
dominated his life. Past sixty years of
age, Judge Allen undertook another
venture into the newspaper field when
he established the first publication in
the former Alfred county, North Da-
kota, in association with "Old Bill"
MUMMY. The venture proved a failure,
as in 1901 that region was sparsely
settled. Shortly thereafter he met a
tragic death. His home was at Dore,
just across the Montana line in North
Dakota. He had been visiting with his
family, who made their home in the
winter at Old Fort, On a Sunday eve
ming. On the following evening he
boarded a train on the Great Northern
system which had been delayed on its
schedule, bound for Williston, where he
had some legal matters to attend to.
A dispatch Of the tragic incident was
sent from Culbertson to the Glendive
Record under date OF Feb. 2. It read:
Judge Allen, formerly of Glendive,
wa frozen to death last night at VIII
liston, N. D., in the terrific blizzard that
prevailed throughout that region during
the past "a hours. Judge Allen was an
elderly man and was rather feeble.
When train No. 4 on which he was
riding pulled into Williston and stopped
at the switch to sidetrack for Nc. l, he
evidently thought the train had arrived
at the station and stepped off the train
on the opposite side from the depot.
He wandered up the track about half
a mile and then he returned to nearly
the place Of starting, where he sue
cumbed to the fury of the storm. The
wind was blowing at the rate of Is
miles an hour. One could not see so feet
in the binding snow"
A telegram had been dispatched to
Sheriff George S. Williams at Glendive
to have a grave prepared for him. He
was buried in the cemetery near the
city with which he had been identified
since the steel rails of the Northern
Pacific first united it to the outside
world and the whistles of the locomo-
tives awakened the echoes Of the will
derness." Judge Allen was known as the
"Old Man" of the Lower Yellowstone
and when 'the shadows of death en-
veloped him, there closed a life of adj
venture which had begun when just
entering manhood's estate he had
shouldered his musket and marched to
the front to avenge the insult offered
the flag at Fort Sumpter, continuing
through the settlement and develop
ment of Montana until with the fore
most wave of civilization he came and
settled upon the eastern border of the
great Treasure state"
Some 20 years later, then living at
Fairview, on Aug. 20. 1923, Mrs. Allen,
at the age of 81, pioneer woman Of
Montana, passed on. The funeral was
impressive, and interment followed In
the Glendive cemetery beside the body
of her pioneer husband. An excerpt
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