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w ?? Th ocp *h M~umtaIfhsII trew ,b HQWTON DOES HERSELF PROUD The Largest Crowd Ever Assembled in the City---No Arrests Made--A Wonderful Game of Ball J one week ago today $iarlo4- he a. was dressed up in a boiled at shirt and standing collar to greet ti tir: usts wat-wo.. ssembled .lege-ýon Al Fa~t Y~toree~lebratsh the Fourth,. ,4y Syk hat he $41id herself proud tI is no exaggera~tion of -the `truth. 41 Never, befbre in the history of the;d city was such a crowd entertainea., tl They came from far and near. It fI was surprisn 4how the crowd g ew at as the moining waned, and t. 14 ti1 )'clock, as "ei'the advertised houi, bt tle parade moved; and talk aboutb i Srades' ours was, some parade is There were floats until Main street p would not hold then. And tasty a ones, too. And funny ones. We ai expect the Sells-Floto people will ly be after ou' Kelly. We would like, very much, to b( give a 'detailed description of i1l ti th e various busipess floats but w: e ;:would have to have a much larger Ai paper than we have to accomipp m "date the iatlile. :ut, spffiteit to to say that they were all good and pi original, and many o city several dA times uer size did apt have better. Aid us fors od anners. We ce defo any jity'Ji the world to pro- it duce a bomogueq, cro d that tle ;thn the leb present op Ut <that occasion. There was not an as rarrestxnade during the day. OQne w ' of the officers said that one or ,two hi of the celebrants e£ ervesced a lit- st tle, but, considering the occasion, . leniency was extended them. Now, t( perhaps, the effete least will take 01 its bat off to. the wild and woolly w west. So fir, we have not beard a] of , solitary accident to mar the b pleeasure of tbh day except the boy P that was hurt in the race, by rea- n son of his saddle slipping. While w there bad been no restrictions placed on the firing of firecrackers, t1 there:. . very little noise of that ii description, and nerves were all in p tact when the day was ended. t The saddest spectacle of the day d was the very poor showing made e by the Bigtimnber baseball team. d Of course, they were badl'y handi- a capped from the beginning by ring- I ing in, Billings experts and perhaps e would have made a better showing I if they bad stuck 'to their homue e guards. 'B lut then they were up c against the real thing when they i tackled the Harlowtoni bunol and t neede a ,:attheson to beat us. ; Perhaps, boys, you will now recog- 1 ize our ability, and while we love I you and think youarea fine bunch t socially and have the kindliest c I' in tie world for you, we JiIat confers, even if you wont that' you can't play baseball. The exereises in. the opera house were meot e t rt iiiing. Theband boys showed great proficiency un- 1 'deir the able leadership of A. J. 1 Dreyer in the renddition.of toheir,, 1 overtures. The thanks of the comnu mittee are dueg and hereby extend, i ed, to the young ladles and gen tlea 1 men who s lkindly aseisted in the singi~ng. After the introductory' tenuarks by 'Re4Readd#, Judge Cheaidt, tn hi' sual 'happy mean. ner, addreas~d& the asemlulage for hlf an hour, withiohi4~r1Ictive 'dpai ntrtiinF re/narks, 'the. judge always ha4 Soimethhin of' in terest to say'tq his audieness, an 7@we usn go al~ways re he endeaVored to impress ripon hig adil1ienue was the rethembrance o the occasion which gae birth to ,the day. This,Cauntoý be too strong!g 4y impr'essed" upon thek youth of the land today: The Fourth of J ul is an occedion on which an en. decvor should be made to eau pte the rising' generation along the. l iea that called it forthb The strug led that our forefathers -went thrinbh tpo ain their indepeOdPice belong to the dim evanescent past, but the spirit that impelled them is the spirit that should now imr pelyour boys and girlsto fight for a higher standard of civic mnoraliy,t and all these points the judge apt ly brought out in his address. After the luncheon hour every body with, one'accord, hastened to the fairground where the ball game end races were held. hle bucking was all good, and the com mittee is under lasting obligation, to tle Toidot horsepnen for their participation in that feature of the day. Bye and large, the Harlowton celebration was one of the best, if not the best, that 'Was given in this neck 4' the week The comn no time iior means to. maknit so, ri and their efforts were amply re- $ warded. Everybody whon "we 1 heard speak expressed their entil satisfaction- with the day's pleas:l" `ire. The hotels were all crowded 9 to the limit but we heard of no , one going hungry. The rest rooms a werewell patronized by the ladies o and chUlir n and proved a veritable a 1boon to many weary mothers." d Prices on all public servies were not boosted and no dissatisfaction wasrheard on that score. h At a very early hour in the day d the entire stock o6 flags and bunt ing was exhausted and several places of business that had delayed their purchases were unable to get f decorations for their stores. Now- t ever, there was a liberal euppply of decorations and the gala pppiar, t ance of the town was very striking. At was not necessary to tell strang ers that ire were celebrating the ,t 'PiF th. All ibusiness houseseels , ed6,g ten o'clock and remained t closed untii late, in the evening when they opined for a short time ; to aflowe the:=rural visitors to do iwhat ataing. they might want. TIhe openakga was duly appreciated by many. farmesp who find little time to come to town these busy days. Que feature of the day that was., remarked by many was the Uiber ality of the band in faunishing mu- 1 sic. They plyed on the slightest! provocation. They played when the home boys had an inning and: they played When thel 1igtimber boys made a flukje, which kept them pretty busy. They played a funeral dirge when the Bigtimber boys lost the game and thereby s showed they were not callous to the visitors' woe. We wish here, to cojitradiet a )rumor thiat 1as gained credence in some quarters 4o the effect that ~the hand 9Inly hiad threpiece in itn re~pertolre, and played themn over aud over. It had four piees. ~The fireworks display in the eve-' x nng was lipe~ ad& many Aprger S tofrnkit wefl~be lealous4tw L a display. In fact, eveqythar tb4h A ever ben ure `The dane.i tng 0n the eeig th Tsheaof :e ycestl Onet hich44i wl sov t 3 ieud yarde loti flrtst, Turn brirt~ir a n la makn'g acnen, Jiaweyen 14 LAST ýE OF LLD HORSES Aboat Fifty Ha Comprising the last of the 4d lorses in Fer gus Coun Rounded Up The last herd of wi1l hQ fl own be be at let ~t coonty a rounde updas w to rideri for the "UT S." and "2" out fits, accompanied by State Stock Inspector Kennon, succeeding in a subduing the band that has ranged I m in the lower Judith river brakes f at for the past ten or twelve years. Al The band cnsisted all told, of ec about fifty head, but only sixteta fa of that number could be classified T as genuine wild horses, the remain- b; der wearing the brand and being fr the property of Oscar Johnson. .d The stofry of the chase of the ci band was told to the World Tues- A day by Julius Bechard, one of the 'b riders employed in the roundup, r& and if space permitted the experi- a, rences of the horse hunters could p, bewoven into a fascinating descrip- ce tion of the fight and the mighty &i endeavor of the band to retain a their freedom. The horses were practically all of thoroughbred orn- n sin, being the offspring of a num- y ber of Hambletonian and Morgan a mares left on the range about p twelve years ago by a certain o roundup, and while inbreeding had o left its deterioration the animals 't were splendid specimens of their !n type. Every summer during the b years of their freedom attempts a have been made to round them up by ambitiods horse hunters, the a long chases and the constantly in- I creasing vigilance and timidity of a , the bapd tehding to keep them t - -hardy and in running trim. When t Sfnally captured the animals prov- e i m 1 to' be smaller than was suppox- e Saed, but every one was reduced to i r raping flesh and in the chase none I b ithbecow ponies were at all capa J . ble of matching them in speed. I r.: Tke capture was effected simply 1 ..ry unning the band off its feet, t a this being accomplished by relays h it cow ponies, After the run had s eenarpWged and the point of s appreach determined upon, thei y chafe was umumeuced and some , ºs :ag* to I the desperation with t ?Which th babnd *ttempted to evade pptume ay be gathered fromn the .hetthat a die ace of fifty miles 4wa cove4in exactly three hours. ,pw o leJbs hardy animals i roppe4 Qua during the run, but Moe tied for first, 1). J. Malloy, second. Quarter Mile foot race, A. Por ter, first, Jack McLeod., second. Boye' race, D. Pierce, first, Win. Fuller, second. 'or best decorated auto, W. O Hulsband. Best burlesque, Jake Knaff. The Dall ame. The locals beat; Digtinber on July 4th by a pte of 11 to b. The score looks very one-sided but when you take int@ consideration that the visitors did n hikte thir regular battery, aifI thb one they used was only a n akesbift that they got from Billings, no wonder they got a drubbing. The-1ligtimnber boys are as clean a bunch of players as ever played here. Theirl manager will not al low any kicking or quarrelling. It would have taken a better team to beat ,our boys that game than is to be found anywhere in eastern Montana. (Continued on page 3) not 1ntIl bjhey were coumpletely ex , t4s worh . agg, t to esist the ropes of tlheir pursuers. The ground over, wbich the chase was made consisted of the brakes l; and bad lands incident to tbe hi merging of Arrow and Flat creeks t1 at the point where they enter the L Missouri river and with the pre - carious footing thus afforded many - falls by the riders resulted. Throughout, the entire distance the band followed a practice of racing from one hill top to another, evi dently endeavoring to always se cure an advantageous view point. Always in the lead was a superb e black stallion and it is a-matter of d regret by the roundup that he did not survive the chase. At one point on the run the stallion be- le came entangled in a wire fence from which he received injuries a necessitating his being shot. o Although the band has been run ning in that territory for over ten years, few if any, of the animals h were over seven years old, the ex planation being that the older " ones were killed off in the hunts a of previous years, perhaps a few~of a them captured. One of the ani male taken bore two big scars from. bullet wounds received at- one timet or another of its life. The chase was brought to a close at a corrall, into which all of the ! horses were run and roped. Ten seasoned riders were employed in the bunt, and Mr. Bechard stated C that it was probably the mbst strenuous roundup of their experi enice. Several of the cow ponies were rendered practically worth less from over exertion in the run. I immediately, after the corralling 1 had been accomplished, the task of r r breaking the wild horses was be gun and while a few of them prow- 1 s ed too vicious to be entirely co p I I quored, the majority were riddsn I f and will make serviceable riding a stook, ens Another baud of wild horses, has Li be supposed to e rangingtbmlg e Lodge Pole creek, but inspectionr e has proved that all aniplnel rang a ing in that t rritory 'now are brponded.-Stanford, World. Ie Julius Bechard is a resident of ýt Marlwtonsa~p4 sn of Jps. SBpe rd. FtANCL IL BSAY 8 The Presi '` Future Son-inLaw Inteie*ted ef t iie Vern Cleves Francis ji yre, who will Vd Miss .e;s4, thie second daughter of Presdent Woodroiv Wilsonin November, is Well gequainted j Harlowto* and interested financial ly here. He is a stockholder in the First National bank, and his moth er, Mrs. Martha Nevin Sayre; to gether with Mrs. Paul Van Cleve, owns the Clark addition to Hai lowton, adjoining the qriginal townsite on the north. Young. Sayre is also a partner with Paul Van C1lve. Jr. in the ranching and stockraising business near Melville. Mr. Sayre has spent a part of each year, for the past decade, with the Van: Cleves, on their ranch near Melville. One of his greatest delights, when a boy, was going over with young Paul Van Cleve to visit Twodot Wilson and listening to the veteran cowman's stories of early. days. He and young Paul hunted together in the Belt mountains and along the Mis souri river. He is a keen sports man as well as a cultivated gentle man. He is well known in the neig boriood of Harlowton and Mr. Sayre is a graduate of Wil liams college, and valedictorian of his class. He spent one year at the Van Cleve ranch after leaving Lawrenceville, where he was also valedictorian. At Williams col F. W. BARRON 1 AND BRIDEBACK F. W. Barron and bride return ed Sunday to Harlowton. Mon day evening a number of his ma sonic friends, under the forceful leadership of Dick Jones, discussed Fred's newly married situation I and decided that he was being let off too easy, and accordingly they I made a raid on the castle and per son of the nvw benedict, bearing him off to the ice cream parlor and then and there felonitously and with malice prep'o did jdfntl and" severally erdor itni coll rme at the benedket's expense acopious amount" o ;cooling Ic chi; sods b When the noise be ,, some thought there was a flire others a murder and the crowd begaii' to as semble from' every quatter.' It was some few minuted fdre, Fred dared to show himself but when the boys began to remove the win dow screens he decided that dis cretion was the bettet; part, ofval or and gracefully surrend ed.him self to their tender merties. The following item` from the Lawrence&(Miehigai) Times, the bride's home, gives * full account of the wedding: A quiet h6i ie wedding was cele b sated Wednesday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Hess, their daughter, Blanche Louise, be coming the wife of Fred Warren Barron, of Harlowton, Mont. Rev. Elam Branch, of lonia, the officiating clergyman, used the pretty ring ceremony. the bridal - couple standing before a banking of ferns and flowers. A light luncheon followed the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Barron spent a few days at Oliristit lake and Tues lege he took .Iis ea nination for g uatioi in IF'ebtarry, and after Bpen a several moxt tapvelin3g with oung 'aul on €h° toait and in Idaho, returned tq Williams. He is a fine young orator as well as being interested in wholesome sports, and at Williams was mana ger of the foot ball team.. Mr. Sayre was associated with Dr. Grenfelt collaborating, in La brador, and a eompatied '.Adiniral IPeary on his journey soath after the'discovery of the north pole, <n the ship Roosevelt, and acting as Peary's secretary during the great celebratioj'in New York. 'It does not require a great stretch of the imagination to pre snme that when wedded, the bride and groom may put Harlowton in their honeymoon itinerary. Miss Jessie has divulged to her intimate friends the Ihormation that the date of her wedding will be either the second or third Sat= urday of November. The pre t dent has requested that the cere mony, which will be solemnized in thb east room of the White 'Rouse, th°saeme ryom, in which .;I Joosevelt' *treo ar i-id, beih de viiid of pomp as is coaiistent with ,the wedding of a president'sdaugh ter. Mr. Sayre is employed on the staff of District Attorney, Whit man of New York. day left for their new home, via Denver. Mr. Barron is the owner of three telephone exchanges in Montana, one at Harlowton, one at White Sulphur Springs and one at Judith (ap. ARBER NEWS Henry Leibe went to Miles City last week. Misses Hilda and Nanpie Ek lund were in Harlowton last Mon day. The following spent the Fourth in Ryegate: Fred Prillwita and wife, Wm. Nelson, Chas. Sherwood i Vdfe, `v6ne l Bhker, Alice Sfier oo 1fr. and Mrs. Simkins and childrep, Mildred Bartgr E4 Peiarse Peter BIreg Alfred Bartz, Laura Skordahl. Manila Stageberg, Emily Werpess, Messr Carpenter, Weisser and Schmolke. The Eklund brothers spent the Fourth in Roundup. Erqest $layton of Lavine, was a visitor at Eklund's Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Mutt was in Harlowton Monday. Mrs. Poikala and children spent the Fourth in Roundup. A few of the Barber people en joyed a picnic by the river .the Fourth. E. Grunsted and wife of Shaw mut attended services inf Barber Sunday morning. Miss Alberta Stageberg of Top penish, Wash., is visiting with her brother and sister, George Fowlie Likes Us. George. Fowlie, our efficient county clerk end recorder, o Whibt Sulpghur, ii honored the p ' with his presence on the Four He says as acer ainly lase' wires in JUatloww9ul