| Show Ms 7 r fruits of f democratic hula be ienir heaped there editor E tle fruits fruita 0 of the proverbial demo cratic love for the alie working man has al ready made its blissful aDne arance here in ia montana llon tana io in the shape of five dollars less lees a month for all ranch and range work wol woi is iq ei eight lit cents cants a bound instead of sixteen cents ai last year i and even tho the best montana wool can hardly be ba sold at ten cent but bat everything we want to 0 buy is just as dear as ever even flour though wheat has fallen below low the low water mark the last sprigg has baen baan it a cold ono one colton wo ji grecs dij did riot not leaf out oat till til about tile tha maidle of june juaa and there 13 9 an abundance of aral and crickets in some faces et thoro thero are tair fair prospects for plenty of hav which is very important in in this pare of the world lan lait winter winfer alt tock atre wt rat fed on hay bays from the of november till tho usi lold of march our last legislature i ased the most stringent game earn e jaw law I 1 believe ever passed in the Ro ckles A law lar la r was waa also passed g giving i ving bounties on bears mountain lions ca coyotes and wildcats but our Legisla legislature tute cannot equal toe the famous famous lawmaking law making lawyer creer of spanish fark who I 1 am told introduced a bill into the uta utah legia legislators lat are some years ago providing provid inZ for the payment of a dollar bounty on evory evary bushel bashel of 0 qui toes grasshoppers and crickets caught in utah rambling over the benches in grasshopper valley I 1 came to where there were thirteen skeletons of horses hones in ia a circular place not much over 30 feet in diameter and on inquiring squiring about the cause of it I 1 was told that they were all killed by one stroke of lightning but one oae colt escaping of tho the whole band the horses the property of mr james harvey the captain of the vigilantes who destroyed the notorious plummer ergang gang in 1864 if I 1 recollect i rightly plummer was oneff the most cruel and at the same time grea greatest teEt cravon craven of a highway robber ever known on comming here he managed to get many followers and was elected sheriff in those days bannock was a lively as well as a deadly mining town and nearly all had som some 0 dust it became widely known that meat of the men who left that vicinity except in large laree crowds were murdered and robbed all of the tha Plum Flum merites were captured and hanged except long john who was allowed to leave the country james harvey anil and smith ball caught plummer who cried and begged to be allo allowed W to leave the country with only bis underwear ear on and the thermometer registering 30 below zero he with the rest of the gang was waa hang in what has haa since haen been known as aa I 1 Hang mans i gulch the foot footit at the gallows is still to to be seen been and aheu a relic hunter cornea comes into town one of the boys goes and fires a pistol ball into the gallows the crowd then follows the eiehl seer up into the gulch who soon eoon discovers the bullet pud digging it ou out t rejoices over such a P historical keep eake ake and coming back to town treats all the boys in those years some very good min min ing was done about bannock anby jim took out oui in gold in one pan and another miner 80 on one shovel there are many good mines and claims yet in that neighborhood but because 91 of lack of capital to deve dev looe eloDe them and the low ow price of 0 silver they remain unworked joun JOHN BairN oct OITT CITY montana MOUt Rna july 12 1893 |
