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Show Yellowstone Park. I have been 'out trying to find some trace of them, but so far I cannot, and if anyone any-one wants to take them, with the chances of finding them, and will pay me $1 a head, I will give him a clear bill of sale." That is only one sample. If the man could sell he would still be out about $80,000. That gives an idea of what destruction must have been in the State. "With the labor unions on a strike, with no newspapers, with the hearts of the farmers and stock growers broken, the prospects are cefrtainly pretty bad for Montana this year. MONTANA IN B0RASCA. Things have a bad outlook in Montana. A gentleman gen-tleman from there yesterday said he did not believe that they would have any newspapers up there for a month. The strike began with the pressmen. They demanded a flat advance of $1 a day or $7 a week,' which was refused, and all the unions belonging to-the to-the newspapers went out. Then it extended to th t telephone. There is a probability now that it will extend to the mines. If it does it will prostrate business probably for the summer. Things- have been getting pretty tough in Montana Mon-tana for several months. Winter began with fearful weather and snow; that was expected and was all right; but then came along a chinook wind, theair got soft and balmy and all that snow melted av?ay. Then in a single night the thermometer dropped 60 degrees, and spread a coat of ice over the whole 1 State. That was repeated three times, with the re- suit that nearly all the stock ; that is, the cattle and i sheep, must have died- It is thought it will have the effect of breaking up the great stock companies. Sheep last autumn were worth about $5 a head, v j A man in Butte last week said : I "In the autumn I had 20000 head of sheep .near . ' I ' |