Show an astute land grabber ono one of the most lofty and ambitious ambitions grab grabbers bersin in the state of montana Montan awas was not long ago observed to bo be engaged in a most mysterious business he was taking women out into the wilderness a stage load or two at a time they were very reputable women school teachers t typewriters ype writers married women and their i friends they were taken to a large and pleasantly situated house upon the pretext that they were to attend a ball and a dinner and get 1 00 as a present it all proved true excursion party after excursion party went out in this way and when the ladies returned to the town that had thus been pillaged 0 of f ats beauty they reported that they had fared upon venison an and d wild fowl with the very vest test of fixings and that at the ball a number of stalwart and dashing cowboys had become their partners tripping their light fantastic measures aithar with ar enthusiasm which made up for any bacr of grace that may have been noticed the reader may fancy what a lark it was to the women and how very much enjoyment the more mischievous wedded ones among them got by pretending that they were maidens heart whole and free of francyl but while those women were in the thick of this plea pleasure jure they each signed a formal claim to a home homa tta 1 the lands lauds there ther 3 3 il 2 J Anda d as athe the l 11 sp those cl arite he r U i j 1 h will althen 11 then IFIL ti 0 to the n nimr ind nd backers of the ac sch herat emt and the land will be theirs thus in the tha lau language guage of a picturesque son of montana a fellow can get a dukedom R if he wants it this Ms is an absolutely true account of the iho conquest conquist con quast of a valley in montana and the future historian of our country will find much else that is akin to it and that will make an interesting chapter in ia his bis records julian ralph in haner HarDer jL |