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SEVENTH CM ILL PARTICIPATE ORDERED TO MONTANA TO TAKE PART IN CUSTER SEMI CENTENNIAL NOTED MOUNTED BÜN0 COMING Enormous Crowd Expected to View Spe ct a cle at Historical Battle Field Announcement baa been made at the national capitol at Washington that one detachment of the Seventh cavalry, comprising regimental headquarters, headquarters troop, service troop, mounted hand. 18 officers and 220 men, will he sent from Fort Bliss. Tex as to the Crow Indian reservation near Hardin, to participate, June 23. In exercises commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of the Little Big Horn. In the famous engagement. General Custer and a command of 280 men of the Seventh cavalry lost their lives. The cavalrymen and some 8.000 Sioux. Cheyenne and Crow Indians will participate In the ceremonies. High government and state officials, hundreds of veterans of the Indian wars, including a score of fhe surviv ors of the Seventh regiment of Cus ter's time, motion picture celebrities and authors, have signified their in tention of attending the observance. It Is estimated that fully 50.000 per sons will gather In the great natural ampltheater Just below Custer's hill on the early afternoon of June 25 to watch the opening ceremonies. * FITTING CEREMONIES WILL MARK UNVEILING MONUMENT Livingston.—Visitor* from all . parts of Montana are expected to participate In the ceremonies here June 17 when a monument to John M. Bozeman, who, old timers of Montana say, ranked with Bonneville and Jim Bridger among the great pathmnkers of the west.. Governor J. E. Erickson will preside. John M. Bozeman came to Montana from Colorado In 1862, seeking gold. In 1864 he led a train of new settlers from Missouri Into Virginia City In a neck and neck race with Bridger who used another rente. The read and pass which Bozeman used were afterward •tamped with his name. Thé opening" of this road was a large element In the settlement of the country which later became Park county, wltb Livingston as the county seat. Bozeman was killed hy renegade Blackfoot Indians near the site of the old Crow agency. His companion was badly wounded but escaped after the Indians left. A monument to Bozeman stands on a cliff overlooking the coun ty seat of Gallatin county which bears hip name._ The monument at Livingston Is three feet, 10 Inches sqnsre at Its hase and 10 feet, six inches In height The base la of granite and rests npon a concrete foundation. The upper structure Is of white Italian marble and the Inscrip tion In gold. Building In State Active The labor bureau of the state de partment of agriculture at Helena, re ports that industrial and labor con ditions throughout the state show n decided Improvement over last month. Reports to the bureau list plans for expansion of older business Institu tions and for construction of hew Buildings running Into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Including among the latter are new theater buildings at Billings and Orest F'slls, a $80,000 brick F* re In Butte, a store building In Great Falls to cost between $400,000 and $500,000, other major projects In the same city total ing abnnt $82,500; n brick business block st Livingston; a $25.000 store and apartment house and another $6, 000 building at Havre, where the Ken nedy-Desconess hospital Is being equipped for service; and a $20,000 business block In Helena. High In Mineral Production A report compiled by the division of publicity of the department of agri culture at Helena shows In the pro duction of arsenic, manganese and precious stones' Montana leads all «hers In the field of minerals. In the production of copper and sliver, the «ate holds second rank In the nation. Its production of sine "gives It fourth place; lead, sixth place; and gold seventh place. No other district In the world can compete In aggregate production over Ita entire operating period, with the mines of Butte, In copper and sliver. Thus far, the dis trict has produced one-third of the World's supply of copper and one-sixth of its supply of «ne. Work is progressing rapidly on the Sew Congregational church being erected at Ekalaka. ' Production of crude oil on tracts In ths Cat Creek field near Wlnnett In which the government has an Interest, «staled 76,486 barrels In March, the government receiving $12,481.24 for lu share of the royalty. New passenger cars listed daring the month of April with the registrar of motor vehicles at Deer Lodge, aggre gated %GTB This was a considerable cam registered daring the ling whoa 2 . 11 * in = = MBMBM »««M« Rspreasntativsa of Quaker Faith Vfait Fralrle County Seat—Taka Option on Land Two clergymen of the Quaker faith, one representing a colony from Penn sylvania and one r ep r e sen ting a col ony from Kanas«, were In Terry Just the other day consulting with County Agent Grover Lewis upon the advlfc ability of establishing s Quaker colony In eastern Montana. These men who sre the sdvance guard of the colony, have looked the ground over well, have made careful and specific Inquiries as to the adaptability of the soil for var ious kktds of farming and have leased the land or rather have taken an op tion upon several thousand acres In the vicinity of Brockway where they will est«hll*h Ibelf village. The easterners were very favorably Impressed with the district of the state they Inspected. The Quakers will en gage exclusively In firming and dairy ing. They are known as a thrifty, in dustrious people. Trasurt Stats TaUsirft Poplar will hold Its second annual rodeo July 2, 3 and 4. The Christian Science church, fhe edifice of the First Church of Christ, in to Scientist, was dedicated at Lewlstown May Z The chamber of commerce of Lewis town has taken over fhe matter of ar ranging for the Lewlstown celebration of July 4. Glendive now has a dally paper, the Evening Free Lance, launched May 8rd, under the direction of J. R. Wld moter, pioneer Montana newspaper man _ It Is reported that organisation plans for the new Yellowstone Bank at Laurel are progressing and that the Institution will likely be opened about j UI1P j The narks Fork river In the Bridger district Is to be prospected for flour gold. Capitalists of Portland. Ore.. have organized a company for thU ' , ' . _ . .. , " It Is expected that the 1026 state KIwanIs convention to be held at An ncondn Aug. 0 and 10 will be the larg est gathering of the kind ever held In ,hp RfHte - „ A barbecue to he under the direction of Columbus fire department will he one of the features of the State Fire roen's convention at Big Timber July 20 27 and 28 * Figures compiled state division of publicity show that Northern Pacific railroad mileage In Montana has In creased from 950 in 1893 to 2,415 at the beginning of 1920, Billing* will he host to Knights of Columbus from all parts of Montan«, May 23, 24 and Z5. when the Montana «ate council of the order will assemble in annual convention. Indications are that no 1er. than 150 delegates will attend fhe 1920 conven Xf ._ tion of the Montana Retail Dealers as . ... Falls June 14. 15 and 10._"L, Out of appropriations of $50.000,000 . . , made by the present congress for 1m prmement of rivers and Mon In 028 and 1027 Montana will apparent g J™ Rart,C,p * te to the extent of * mi.. . . Miles City of Cnster county and Bozeman of Oallntln «.only tied for honors Jn the annual high school scholarship contest held at the state college at Bozeman. Each school had points. • From Dillon to Helena by canoe over the historic river route of the famous explorers, Lewis and Clark, was the unusual experience of two Dil lon business men. Ray Forester and "Bud" Hartwig. The trip whs made In about 48 hours. Figures submitted by the United States department of commerce show that Montana's merchandise exports during 1925 Increased by 40 per cent over the previous year. Not alone did the state jump its export values $3, 112.827 from $7.755.385 during 1925; but It supplanted Maine and Del*-, ware In fhe yearly export race of Urn states of the union. Tuesday and Wednesday last week virtually all of Montana was drenched In the first rain of the spring season, the storm bringing great Joy to far 1 mers who were beginning to fear that continued drouth would prevent satis factory germination of seed. The storm extended well Into Wyoming and In the north country establishing Its wide range. ^ ■ , To Clean Matting To clean matting on which grease or oil haa been spilled spread thickly on the spot a paste of fuller's earth and water. When this dries put a paper over It ajnd let It stand tor a few days. Then brush off with dry fuller's earth and the stain will dis appear. The 1926 Montana State Fair will be sponsored again this year by Lewis and Clark tohtity. Vn -u—i. Red Lodge Lad Wine FTank Helkkllla, of Red Lodge, won the annual cross-country race at Mon tana State college at Bozeman, leading a. field of 200 contestants. His time for the three-mile course was 16 min utes. 11 seconds. Of the 200 who started, 187 finished the course with All tout seven ot the atohed within the quallfy 28 minuta«. - M7 ) L> I C» Ct 4 3 G <? I £ Ci c a Li Li Copyright by Radio Broadcast, ipad rtc. I FIG. i Navs Trap Will Cut Out Loud Locals—Ths Conductivity Couplo Form and th# Inductively Coupled. Due to the widespread Increase In power of many of our broadcasting italiens, the need for some sort of up paratna capable of catting out strong ly Interfering stations, la becoming felt oiore and more. There Is not much f 00 * n sitting through the program of one particular station night after n, « ht . especially when a better pro f rum Is being offered by some other _ itation which la drowned out by the °f nre '' ° r more Powerful transmitter, 'Interfering signala," writes Howard R Rh . odea ,n tha Rad, ° Broadcast ™ a * a * ,n f' •'sometimes are caused by dried pickup by the colls of the set 80 ^ ,t V" tUr f | 1 «'«tlvlty Is of no " aU *" *£"• Th,a £ w * e ° ** »■«»•«»« «Pf«** Û 8tat '° n J w,th the re8U,t that the field strength In the vicinity Is great enough to In duce brents directly In the various colla of tbe recelv8r . Under theie condlU(M> , lt wl „ ^ fonnd , We t0 bf , ar the program wltb y* gntaUM disconnected. . .. . T h , e prac ' "«'hods to be ,n «»mating this type of intkr fe . rence are f' ther Bh,e ' d!n * of reiver or using some form of closed . fie,d c ?"• "" C *! " * U •* 8 t0 ,. be 8h t e,dpd * '* ? 'he rover and the panel, with thin copper. Any Jointe to the copper *** ar ? Z T' " e 5 t . , ® n V " * , between the 8h .'f ld .* d . hl th ? " ,nua A terminal * £° ünd Th'a puts the entlre shte'd ^ ^ fields; It should also be pointed out ... ... ... ,, , that this shielding will also eliminate n ^ th y "7 causing trouble by setting up currents dlrwtIy , n the ^ However. If the lnterferenee , 8 reacblng the wt by way of the antenna 8h , eldin y wl „ be no aid. The use of toroid rolls Is coming Into very common use In in wh#re tbere „ Qeed of an ductor that u onaffected by uterna| fl e j da> « Why ToroW Coll I« Favored. why the toroid type of roll Is recom mended for use where ordinary colls will cause broad tuning by their plok ip qualities, 1* M| follows: Toroid colls will, as 1« the case with other colls, h^ve Induced In their turns cur rents which ordinarily would nullify the selective qualities of a receiver. However, the voltages Induced In op posite halves of the coil, oppose each other, and the resultant effective pick up voltage la zero. This nullifying feature ie apparent In several other types of rolls, but la probably more so In the toroid. The article In Radio Broadcast continues ea follows: 'There la a second type of Interfer ing signal that cause« considerable trouble, and against this type the two cures so far descAed are useless. If the signals being luduced In the an tenna are sufficiently strong, it is pos sible that a receiver may not have a selectivity sharp enough to eliminate them completely, although Its selec tivity under ordinary conditions may be perfectly satisfactory. For Instance, the receiver might be operated at a location quite cloee to a powerful broadcasting station so that the signet strength from this station In compar ison with the strength of the «goals that it la desired to receive from other stations is so greet as to produce con siderable interference, even though the receiver is considerably detuned from the interfering signal. It is apparent then, that. In some way. this powerful signal must be Impeded so as to de crease Its strength. The most com mon piece of apparatus for use In this connection la the so-called wave trap which Is actually a filter circuit tuned to absorb the Interfering signala These wave trap« are very easily con structed, and cost little. They consist merely of an ordinary coil and a con denser. The traps are connected In the antenna circuit and are adjusted that, at the frequency of the inter faring signal, they have a very high impedance, the «met value depending wall to connected in •These are several methods by which these traps might be operated Fig. 1 shows the mo« common method In the drawing L, O, constitutes the trap circuit and L. C, the antenna coupler and tuning condenser of th« receiving set It will be seen that th« trap Is connected between the antenna post of the receiver and the antenna lead-ln. Pig. 2 represents a slightly! different method of connecting th« trap In the circuit In this latter method, the wave trap is Inductively coupled to the antenna. This Indue tlve coupling la obtained by winding « few turns of wire about one end of the coll L,. One end of this new winding connecU to the antenna and the other to the antenna port of the receiver, This circuit Is practically equivalent to that of Fig. 1 with the difference that somewhat sharper tuning is ob tained. This high impedance prevents the Big nal from passing down through the primary of the antenna coupling and so into the receiver. At the same time, these wave traps offer a very low impedance to all other frequencies. Methods of Op«ration. "Whether the trap circuit of Fig. I or that of Fig. 2 la used, depends tc a considerable extent upon the charac teristlcs of the ant enna sy stem. A well insulated antenna with a short lead-tn and a short ground wire to a good ground, such as the cold-water mains, gives best results with the In ductlvely coupled circuit Every effort ahould be made to have as good a ground and antenna as Is possible, but If It la necessary to use a long ground lead to a rather poor ground system, the direct coupled wave trap will prob j ably give better results. "When using the latter method of direct coupling, as illustrated In Fig. I 1 some small change In the tunlngof the antenna condenser will be noticed, whereas with Inductive coupling prac tlcally no change In tuning takes place. Thls reoresents a sllxht advantage ln I favor of Inductive coupling since It wl U° bepowlbl e t o^ron tin u e *t o use* the win ne poMime io continue to use tne same old dial readings aftar the trap IBSUIW L_J "If the trap Is poorly made," says j may only eliminate the interfering signais but will also decrease the strength of those signals we desire to receive. Tb« most common cause of poor results with wave traps is due to the use of high resistance coils and low-grade condensers. It is therefore essential that the trap operate efficiently, and In order to obtain such operation, it is generally best to ose a fairly «mall coll and a large condenser. With a large coll the elimination Is usually more complete hut the neutralised band Is larger so that the trap inter feres with reception on wave lengths adjacent to that wave on which the interfering station Is operating. Mort satisfactory results are obtained when low loss roils are used, such as space wound solenoids, while a toroid may be used in the inductively coupled cir cuit" FOR THE NOTEBOOK E The ideal aerial ia one which la away from all Interférence. There la more static in defective grid leaks than in all the heavens. In making a loose coupler, both coils are wound ia the same direction. - A crystal can be tested by hooking with a 22%-volt TT hat tery and a miliiamraeter. The reeding should be 1% or 2 milliampères or bet It In seri tar. When the receiver Is located in the suburbs or some distance away (Tom the broadcasting station, a long aerial upward to 000 feet can be used to ad vantage. The average life of a vacuum tub* U from 1,000 to 2,000 hours' constant It is poor policy to experiment with a ant that to balleved to bertn perfect working order. One to apt to throw. somethin* oat of adjustment, or even «rttrriy red» mmy of the perta »tarage batteries should be given s qriak of distilled water occasionally. Montana Ranch News (By John Dexter) Busy in Glacier District Fanning operations In the Cut Bank •®etHm are being conducted on a larg er scale than for several year*. About 13 tractors were purchased by farmers In the community this spring. Trac tors were much In use In the earlier days, but went out of use during the years of partial crop failures. They have come back; better end more economical tor all term purposes, which seems to mean a revival of fanning on a larger scale than for a decade. The Inspiration given a community by one man's success is illustrated by the revival of fanning on what is known as the Marlas Slope, southeast of Cut Bank. That section was invaded by the grasshopper pest for three years In succession and fanning was almost abandoned. Law year Roscoe Fulton put In a large acreage under careful methods and raised a record-breaking crop, for 1925 In that section, 28 bush els to the acre of high gluten content wheat. Planting« On IncrMse More crops have gone Into the ground In Montana this year than at any time In the la« five accord any time In the la« five years, accord tog to Harry B. Henderson, manager for the Denver Joint Stock Land bank, an Institution that has $2.000,000 In long time loans placed In this state. Mr. Henderson has been in Montana since early In March and since that time he has had an opportunity to by I «>ver virtually alt of Montana and to DO 'e the extent of this year's crop. As a n old-timer who has spent 42 years ,n th e Rocky mountain section, and Is familiar with climatic conditions, Mr. Henderson does not feel that It Is yet time for farmers to feel ronoemed over the present dry weather. - -««»» Ground Broken Farming activities In the vicinity of Browning. Glacier county, are Pvo greasing rapidly. Every piece of ground which was cultivated last year Is being planted this year and much new ground Is being broken. Several of the farmers are putting In small truck gardens, a new departure In farming for the ranchers In this roun j ty. Dairy stock Is more and more b» ing depended upon. With all the new stock shipped In, all the small traf t« I of diversified farming under way, and the the start in poultry, this should be a banner year for Glacier county's agrl | culture, I tlons for certification already received J by the Montana Potato Improvement Association, a 10 to 15 per cent in j crease In certified seed potato pro ductlon In Montana Is expected this y<?ar More than 80,000 bushels of certified seed was produced here last j year, but much of this supply was sold as table stock because of the high market prices. I I T^nty-Ove counties reporting to nurtmmr nf .«rirnltiw» at Helena ■ declare- that most of the ^ j and nD in I 8priD * A™ 10 ** " epded a " d *• op ,n J """"y 8pct,OD8 - I ° 8on,p loca,| tlo* far rne " 7™ re8 ° r î ed *° d «*P ****** aa Rn ald to g ern ,i na tion and In « few farrner8 are holding off seed ,„g nnt |i tbe rains come. Rosebud j county reports the appearance of cut Increase Potato Acreage From the large number of appllca worms but no dnmsge. Farmers In the Garfield county country In the vicinity of Jordon, the county seat, have planted heavily In wheat, according to reports. It Is said that the farming communities are satisfied with conditions as to mois ture up to the present time. An ex cellent start has been made for con planting which will also be on a large scale throughout the territory. Edward Dickey, head of the depart ment of horticulture. State Agricul tural college, reports that orchids In the Bitter Root country are In full bloom and present a wonderful sight. He believe* there has never been a time In the hlrtory of the Bitter Root valley when conditions were as favor able for a crop as at the present time. Beaverhead county I« rapidly com ing to the front in the seed pea In dustry. ' The total amount planted this year will exceed 5,000 acres. This will be folly 2,000 «créa more than last year. Soil and climatic conditions are favorable for raising peas In the lo cality. Early seeding of spring wheat Is all up and looking One In the vicinity of Glasgow. The sugar beet plantings in the Glasgow district are up and doing well. Cultivation will commence at once according to reports. With limited early spring rainfall In many parts of the «ate, a considerable Increase ia the practice of planting corn with a lister Is expected this year. In many aestione soil moisture Is comparatively abundant, while rain great »oagh to af fall has not ford good growing conditio»« sear the surface Therefore, the deep planting made possible hy the list«- is of great er advantage this year than In espenes ot greeter spring rainfall. Of the 3**c 800 emu planted to corn ia the stete last year, approximately 8 per ««at ware dated. • ; Issue Bulletin On Drainage Subject Pumping devices may be need «ne eewfnlly either to remora water from •end. where there la an over supptv, to apply |t where there la scarcity, cording to H. K. Murdock, prof ««nor of agricultural engineering at Montana State College. In many cues, say» Mr. Murdock, Irrigation and drainage go hand In hand. Very frequently old er Irrigation projects are confronted With the water seepage problem In which increasing areas of the lower portions of the projects become water logged and unfit for agricultural pur P°aea. In many case« of this kind pumps can be need to reclaim the land and to make water available for fur or mC 1 _ Irrigation, a In a recent bulletin. "The Capacity of Irrigation and Drainage Wells," I Published by the Montana Experiment 8t,tlon - Mr. Murdock discusses the types of pumps and wells that ma J be ««*1 successfully to meet condition«, methods of eon | fraction and other Information of va,D * t0 th * farmer with a water pnnr P ln * problem. Tables are given showing the operation of a number of waRa I«!« 1 by Mr. Murdock in this and other states. Copies of the bulletin may be ob tained without cost from the Montana Experiment Station, Boseman. Montana Cow Farmers Another world's record may be j re P° r ts to O. A. Norris, chief of the dtvl8lon of the state department In of apiculture at Helena, Pleasant G rove Snowflake, a owned by the J. F . Hofsfetler Holstein j tann at Lewlstown, Is entitled to high to to record showing production of P°"nds of milk and 613.022 P/ )nru 8 °* fRt, i Norrl * M - T *' ,B better Is ( I"®" the world's record for subdivision R - jnaBire class (three time milking), I nfortumitely however, the record will D °t be allowed because of delay In sending the calving report to the Ad f vanwd *** , I rt *r of the Holsteln-FHes 8 "777 . ' ?rreat da offtme will ron^ j 77^' apR f* t0 p " h "7 th w , "^7 77 7°^' Neverthale "' !t 1777 77 7'T « "*7® 8ach a Z 60 ' nlfi . ^ £ what J* "Î*. ***{* ,n on f r . de ' • e °P ln * dalr y Industry hits Its stride. Corn Growing Contest Oert*!» atom of Richland county's j and dry ,and farms will pro duce $65 corn cultivators and $20 gold pieces during the coming crop season. These and other prizes with a value of more than $500 will be offered to the farmers growing the most matured shelled corn per acre. The extension service In Richland county Is sponsor ing the corn growing contest and busi ness men of the county and the Rich land County Fair association are of fering the prizes. The purpose of the contest Is to create a new Interest In corn and to encourage Increased acre Holstein _ . , ° ne Bcre n * ont bera Vermont this I F*ar is to be planted with field corn f^Tland lalS nrer 7?.. 17 land raHn m BIne crppk near R ! ,,,n * fa '^^ at an altitude of 8,700 feet where the average rain fall Is approx J Imately 13 Inches. The corn will be p i anted j n v ermont at nn altitude of «m fwt ln a where XJi , ncbea sge. of rain falls annually. The experi ment Is being conducted toy Mr. Cor nell with the co-operation of James A. McKee, agent fhr the Bennington coun ty farm bureau, Bennington, Vt Ranchers and farmers In the Mile* j c ty ^strict report that the spring sowing of wheat Is practically com pleted and the fields are beginning to show green. Mol«ure conditions are said to be satisfactory, the ground having retained much of the winter's mol«nre, particularly In the south country where the snowfall was heavy. Gariy last week farmers of the ter ritory surrounding Rapelje near Bil lings gathered with citisens of the town in mass meeting to Invoke divine aid In securing rain. The Rev. M. J. Holm, pa«or of the Lutheran church at Rapelje, conducted a service of prayer which lasted from 7:80 until 9 in thé evening. Business houses of the city were closed during the prayer meeting. The following morning at T a. m.. began raining, continuing steadily for nearly 38 boors. Reports Ehssp Doing Well Gunner Lende, well-known sheep man of Ingomar, reports sheep In that section are doing well and that lamb ing hi coming along in good shape. He claims that many of the sheepmen were depending on rain to furnish a «apply of water tor their iamtolng camps. Many water boles ordinarily used for watering purpose* at thl» time of year are already dry. May Contract Potatoes To stabilise the production of certi fied seed potatoes, potato growers of northern Montana are attempting to work out a system whereby seed steck will be grown ander contract. In .this way farme« wlll be assured of a a»r ket sad a definite price at the start of the growing «cass a , thus placing the Industry on a more hnalaeas-like basis. In a prellmloary surrey it was found that growere «rf U carieads of potatoes weald be willing to contract their seed for two dollars a hundred pounds at time.