The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-05-14

and sought to purchase loaf Of bread:
The housewife refused, saying she had
bread only for her own family. A
along. A purchase was made, and the
two travellers dined on steak alone
that night, and it tasted mighty fine.
Next day on the Pipestone Pass road,
a WAGNER with load of potatoes in
vited them to throw their bundles on
the wagon and walk along with him.
Transportation of their small bundles
was more than repaid by several
periods of hard work helping the
wagon through mud holes.
Arriving in Butte the third day, they
house keeper to live until they found
work. Mr.. Jensen had $3.50, and Shane
was broke. Mr.. Jensen went to work
in a brick yard. Shane got job in
the Alice mine. On his first pay day
he offered to repay Mr.. Jensen for
stalking him while broke. Jensen re-
fused to accept anything. A few days
later Shane died of pneumonia.
Mr.. Jensen and others then went
to a point near Anaconda and quarried
and burned limestone, selling it at
81 bushel in Butte after paying rs
cents a bushel for transportation. Mr..
Jensen and a partner came out with
the kiln equipment and a team when
the group split up and the Nez Perez
Indian expedition in 1877 killed one
of the roses, leaving them with only
a single draft animal.
The commander at Fort Shaw re-
commended Mr.. Jensen and his partner
to the commander of Fort Assinni-
Arriving at the fort they found Col.
Broadwater was in control of the stu
alton with crew of workmen from
the east, and the trip was disappoint-
ing. They went to Fort Benton and
put up hay for Billy Patterson, then
to Yogo in the Belt mountains follow
ing gold stampede that didn't pan
out
At Fort Assinniboine Mr. Jensen sold
geon for $3.50. At Yogo two men trailed
in some 30 horses. Mr.. Jensen recog-
nized the horse he had sold. It was
offered back to him for $50. Then
he knew it was a band of stolen
horses, and he refused to buy, al
though there was nothing he could do
to prove the two men were thieves.
Prospected Highwoods
With Jim Kripner, Mr.. Jensen went
on a prospecting expedition in the
Highwoods south of the Missouri river.
While Kripner made camp one evening
Mr.. Jensen went up small creek
300 yards from camp, he had half
a dozen fish, he looked up in the
dusk to see huge bear within few
feet of him, reared up to height
of six feet. MIR. Jensen had left his
gun in camp. IF I'd had a gun with
me, I might have wounded the bear
and got killed." he says. His first
impulse was to run, which he did,
instinctively hanging on to his fish.
A hui, bred yards away he looked back.
Five bears were following him over
the boulcer-strewn flat. He heightened
his steps. hopping over boulders and
yelling for Kr.pner to get gun. The
for5cs lad sllle.!ad the bear, however,
aid krip9cr had his hands full. Mr..
Jensen landed on one side of the camp
t.rc, out OF breath, to find the bears
.:atching him through the flames. Fin
lly the bears were disposed Of, but
:, men had only fish straight with
out any salt until they ief. the hills
three days later.
Back on the Yellowstone in the fall
of 1879, Mr.. Jensen piacer mined in
Emigrant gulch fer time. In 1882
with Ed Bradley. Jim Kripner and
a man named Williams, he built the
the mouth of Eight Mile creek, serving
first bridge over the Yellowstone at
the road from Bozeman through Trail
creek to the Emigrant mines. The men
collected toll for year, in strong COM
petition with a ferry at Fridley, now
Emigrant, operated by the Fridley
family.
One night the ferry, through some
hook or crook, escaped its mooring
and floated four miles downstream and
struck the bridge, moving one span
some four feet.
The men had made sufficient money
above expenses to pay off q loan of
<9n0 frcyy, M HHf1ooro1S ,,cnd r.