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Show THE U'AV 0FT1IE WEST Some fiied Stories of the Wild and, Woolly That Eetain Their Characteristic) Char-acteristic) Flavor, A WYOMING MINER'S TASK i The Mainstay of Tacoma A Diiagree-able Diiagree-able Dose in Heada A Wyoming Wyom-ing Bear Story and Others, "We were csmping out in the mountains mount-ains and were persistently annoyed by a wretched coyote. I finally said, 'If I can catch that coyote I will assuredly tie a tin can to his tail,'" said a Wyoming Wy-oming miner. "My companions laughed ut tbe idea of it, but being de-i termined, I set a trap for the yelping brute aud secured him. Having ar- -ranged my plaa I tied tbe can to his tail and theu loosed him. You should have seen that coyote run. I do not believe there ever livod anything which could equal him for apeed. Bang! bang! went the tin can, and the howls that unfortunate animal produced were terrifying. In the stillness of the desert des-ert you oould hear the bang of that tin can for several minutes. 1 am wondering wonder-ing whether the brute literally ran himself to death." ------ When workmen were engaged in the tunnel of the Daniel Webster mine in. ! Virginia City; Vev., at a depth of 300 !. feet beneath the surface they struck a "llow" of water of very strange character. char-acter. It boiled up through the floor of the mine, and in the flickering light made by the miners' lamps presented an almost blood-red appearance. After flowing for a few yards down the Moor of the tunnel it was again swallowed up by a crack or seam, not however, until it had turned to a dark blue color and began to smell like creosote. Miners who tasted it said it was the most disagreeable dis-agreeable dose they had ever taken in their lives. On the skin it left dark brown stains. Samples of it taken from the lirst opening, bottled and sent to the surface, had a rich burnt sienna color. Fxpostire to light had the same effect upon it that air bad turned it dark blue color. -t- 4- -4- Wbilo I was talking tbe other day with Colonel Broadwater, the Montana millionaire, says a writer, he related an iucident of a younif man who went out to Montana with him from St. Paul some fifteen years ago, w hich illustrates how men get along in the far west. The man's given name was Bul'us, but, although bo is one of the big sheep ' growers of the new s'yle. the colonel's memory could not conjure up his last v name. "He was original y from New Hampshire." said he, "an I I picked him up in St. Paul, where I had bought a herd of blooded cattle and wanted a man to go with them to Montana. I'.iifus was recommended to me. ll was about six feet four inches in height, lanky and redheaded not particu- f Inrly handsome, as you can imagine. i lie wouldn't decide "the first day. but i the second day ho said he would go on one condition. I asked him to name it and it w as that I would be his friend ii the new country, j had expected ht would ask for a long arrangement a to employment, but the way he put hit ... request made me his friend. He was vvith me five or six years in Montana, and in that time I never knew him to spend a penny on tobacco, liquor, or anything else but the necessaries of life. When he got a little money together he bought a small flock of sheep. Now he has all of 30,- j (Hit) head. No one would think of rating bim as worth less than half a ; million dollars, and to me he is Kulu j yet, although I see him rarely." Senator Frye stepped in to shake hauds vvith a Deuver correspondent a few evenings ago. The conversation naturally turned on borne industry. The senator remarked: "I was in Washington, at Spokane Falls, last year and was entertained by s ( one of the local boomer. He was a V patriarchal old fellow with a long beard, who looked like a deacon and was worth 5,000,000 or 80,000,000. "lie took me out to drive behind a line pair of horses and showed me the town. One of the objects that attracted attract-ed my attention was a very long building, a tremendous affair, one of the longest Luildings I ever saw iu my life. " 'How many gambling games do you suppose there are in that building? -... asked my friend, the patriarch. V. " '(live it up,' said 1. 1 ' "Thirty-nine of 'em,' said he. in a triumphant tone. " 'Gracious!' said I, 'and how many bars?" ' " 'Thirty-nine.' , "'Nowlook here, my friend,' said I, f 'you must destroy this thing or il will ' destroy you.' i " ' hat do you mean?' be demanded, . "'Meau? 1 mean that you ought to ; drive it out of town.' "'Good God. senator.' said be 'if wa lose it Tacoma'll get it." -t- -4- -- Some nine or ten years ago James L. Nelhart discovered a vein of silver-hearing silver-hearing rock at the present site of Nelhart, Mont. During the first five years he had to get the supplies for his ' camp at Fort Benton and pack them over tho mountains. It was awful work and the prices were terrible, flour j frequently belling at $15 per 100 pounds. Mr. Neinart named the town after i himself and it became one of the mining min-ing camps of the west. |