This foreman used to make periodical visits to Deadwood, taking from the ranch some of the fat cattle for Deadwood markets. The P. F. people were not receiving the liberal returns that they had been led to believe was in the ranching business, and grew suspicious of their foreman. An examination of the books seemed to give an impression that all the cattle sold in Deadwood were not accounted for, and they had a warrant out for their foreman. Officers went to the ranch in search of the alleged criminal, but not finding him, were returning to Cheyenne. As they reached Horse creek crossing they met him in company with John Montgomery's daughter, Minnie. They had been married in Cheyenne the day before, and were on their return home.

The. Bride's Day may have been fair and clear, but it was "dark in the east and west" for the groom. I never learned what came of the trial, or of the principals in the little romance, but I hope big John Montgomery took a hand, and that they lived happy ever after.

We lack interest in history and the older events, frequently because we have no intimate relationship. Yet, to know that this new land of ours had its loves and romance fifty or more years ago, attunes our hearts to the reception of stories of the days so long past. We travel about and find places named ; and they are of mountain or plain, or city or valley, and we seldom stop to think what it was that named it. For instance, a mark has been left