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SUNDAY. JANUARY 31, 1909.
PASSING EVENTS.
SLooking backward over the events
of the seven days that have just
oolsed, the week seems to have
brought more than its share of stir
-ring incidents. At home and abroad,
history bi being made rapidly these
days and in the excitement of the
closing week of January, Montana has
had her time well occupied with news
of direct local concern. Foremost in
importance of the happenings of the
week, the declison of Judge Hunt in
the famous smoke case which involved
the question of enjoining the operation
of the Washoe smelters at Anaconda,
easily takes place; the refusal of the
federal justice to take action that
would result in the suspension of work
at mines and smelters and factories
and mills, has received general com
mendation in the columns of the press
of the state. Judge Hunt's eminently
fair comment upon the case was read
with deep interest all over Montana, as
the matter was one which concerned
practically every community in the
state. The farmers who believe them
selves aggrieved and injured are not
denied redress, but they are informed
that they must seek satisfaction
through the prescribed channels and
not demand snap judgment against a
great industry, upon which tens of
thousands of people are directly do.
pendent. The comment of the state
press has been practically unanimous
in indorsement of the findings of the
court.
DIXON'S STATEMENT-Politically,
as far as Montana Is concerned, the
statement of Senator Dixon that he
has not been, is not and will not be
a candidate for appointment as secreo
tary of the Interior in the Taft cabi
net, has been of interest. For days
the democratic press of the state had
been fulsome in its praise of Senator
Dixon and enthusiastic in urging him
for the cabinet position. With its
customary concern for the welfare of
the republican party, the Butte Miner
led the charge and it was "On, Dixon,
on" seven days in the week and there
,were symptoms of extra editions when
Mr. Dixon's statement put a new phase
on the question. The Dixon position
was not misjudged by his friends; it
was believed, when the gossip was
first started, that the talk was with
out the knowledge of Mr. Dixon. much
more without his consent; the formal
statement from the senator confirms
this belief and his friends in the state
will be glad that he is fixed in his de
termination to remain in the senate
until his term expires. This will be
disappointing to those who have been
trying to make over the Montana po
litical situation; but, as far as Mr.
Dixon is concerned, it is evident that
these reconstructors will have to get
along without him.
DELAYED RETVURN - Gceneral
Warren is now speeding toward Wash
ington with the vote of Montana on
the presidential question tightly but
toned in his inside pocket. The copy
that the general carries is a duplicate
of one that was forwarded by lmail
to the vice president and the general.
after having furnished a bit of a sen
sation for a couple of days. appears to
have the right of way at the federal
capitol as unfinished business. It is
said that he has a thousand dollars in
his pocket with which to pay the fine
for his delinquency, but h1e believes
that he will not be required to pay it.
as he feels certain that he can explain
matters satisfactorily when he gets a
chance to talk to Mr. Fairbanks. The
general has a broken arm and natural
tI enough does not wish to add a bro
ken purse to his list of misfortunes.
STATE LEGISLATION-At Helena,
the politicians are astir over the ques
tion of a primary-nomination law, to
the enactment of which each party
pledged Itself last fall, and if it were
not for the fact that poolselling is
likely to be declared illegal, it would
be a profitable venture to lay odds
that there will be no legislation in
the primary-nomination class tt this
session. As the matter stands at pres .
ent, the senate and the house are at
sizes and sevens in the matter of the
enactment of a law of this sort; each
has positive views as to what sort of
primary nomination Montana should
have and, at present, these views are
irweoncilable. The senate has taken
thb lead and its bill-lntloduced by
Danima and indorsed by the senate re
publicans-Is ready to go to the house.
Meanwhile, in the house, differences
are developing in the views that are
entertained in that wing of the capi
tol and there is small show of a com
promise.
POOLSELLING-Anent poolselling,
the Ipast week has developed a situa
tion at Helena which seems to indicate
that the poolroom lobby has not been
wasting its efforts at the capitol. A
week ago, there was not a legislator
who would defend the poolroom; the
beginning of this week finds a few who
are ready to express a doubt as to the
wisdom of strenuous action against the
sure-thing establishments which take
in money and issue i)lts of colored
pasteboard. But there is no doubt
Of the nature of the sentiment in lutte
in this respect; Butte is the city that,
'of all in the state, has been most af
flicted, and she has gone on record
as unqualifiedly opposed to the pool
room. The suggestion that the matter
be made a question of local option is
t crafty step toward compromise,
which should not win.
FORESTRY INDORSED-The Na
tional Livestock association has again
gone on record in cordial indorsement
of the forest reserve plan and of the
Roosevelt system of administering the
land laws. This is a case of history
repeating Itself; last year the sheep
men condemned the forest reserves
and the general livestock association,
meeting later, placed the stamp of its
approval upon the entire Roosevelt
land policy. This year, the sheep
nmen were not quite so bitter; but they
were against the government; they
protested against the loss of the un
limnted privileges which they have en
joyed at the expense of thle public, and
they condemned the policy that holds
Ithe pulllt lands for the publli. But
when the question canme up bIefore tihe,
session of the general livestock tasso
ciation, the Rtoosevelt policy had
plhenty of friends, as it deserves to
nave. In a few yealrs, we wil wonder
that therte wa ever anybody who
thought of opposlng the n.tional for
ests.
QUIETER AT WASHINGTON
Congress has taken sober second
thought during the week and has
abated ItL noisy outburst against the
president. The house has expunged
the Willett tirade from its record and
the New Yorker's fame will be epher
rmal; posterity will never know what
he did and how insufferably boorish
he was in doing It. Rainey of Illinois
broke loose in regard to the Panama
canal matter and in an Intemperate
speech rehashed the New York World's
attack upon Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Taft
and some of their relatives. Mr.
Rlaney has been promptly called downl
and has already read in house session
statements which disprove several of
the important assertions which he
made in his speech. Other evidence
of the same sort is forthcoming and
tihe formal legal inquiry Into the po
sition of the New York newspaperP
that have attacked the Panama deal
is going on at a rate that promises
definite results before long. There is
no doubt that the president and Mr.
Taft will be completely exonerated int
the course of this Investigation.
WIRELESS TRIUMPH-The wreck
of the liner Republic early in the
week developed striking Instances or
splendid heroism; but there was noth
ing in connection with the deplorable
accident which was more impressive
than the part played in the affair by
the wireless telegraph. The mloment
the Republic was known to be in dan
ger, the wireless sent its call out
across the ocean and through the fog,
sounding the alarm anli sumnmoning
aid. Back through thie darkness calme
the repllies, promlising speedy help; out
of their hiarhrs shot fleet reOvenue cut
ters, the huge derelict destroyer at
Martha's Vineyard cast loose its moor
ings and sped toward the sinking ship;
in their course huge liners paused,
turned and hastened to the relief of
their sister shill. A decade ago, that
accident would have been terrible in
its loss of life. In this instance, the
mysterious force which makes pos
slble the operation of tile wireless tel
egraph brought aid where, under for
mner conditions,'no llmessage could have
been sent forth. It was a wonderful
demnl.lll stration.
Spain presents her compliments and
is glad to annnouncet that tile man whlto
told an 'arthtquaotki story at her ex
p'nse Is inl the Pulltzer class.
What doth it profit a mani if ihe
sell his mine for a good sum and then
hiketh to Slpkane with a womanl who
setteth a fast pace?
Of the first mnonth's work of the
eleventh assembly, it may be said that.
if it has done much good, it hasn't
done any harm.
The attempt to reach General Ga
ien's base of supplies by a flank move
nent resulted in the utter repulse of
the enemy.
There is an abundance of comfort
for the careworn householder in the
advertisements In The Mlssoultan this
morning.
Butte's reformation is certainly sin
cere. She opposes poolrooms and Is
actually sending criminals to the pen
itentiary.
The complete and absolute eligtility
of Mr. Pulltzer to membership In the
Anantas club Is being strengthened
daily.
Travel a little and you will discover
that what seems a dull day In MIs
soula would be called lively in some
towns.
Cuba's first steps are tottering, but
she may strengthen with time and tra
vel a good, strong gait.
General Galen may yet be found at
headquarters, undismayed by the at
tack of the enemy.
Missoula reads with amazement the
tales of sleet and snow and suffering
in Illinois and Iowa.
Congressman Rainey is showing as
good iseee-d in backing up as he did
in plunging ahead.
Messlin's plans for rehabllita
Itoo reflect the force of San Fran
cisco's example.
It is mighty easy to see the bright
side of things in Missoula if you just
look around.
In The Missoullan's advertising col
umns this morning there Is genuins
good cheer.
The prudent purchaser will find
profit in reanding the ads this morn
ing.
Approaching clouds presage the right
sort of weather for Ground Hog day.
The Land of the Mclntosh Red is
the region that makes good.
The man who looks for the worst of
it usually gets it.
Red Apples destroy red balances.
OPENING A NEW EMPIRE
'"ne other evening -. genltlemnan
ehvoed me two apples, fair to see ant
fine to eat, both purchased in our city
markets, the one a Northern Spy,
grown on the banks of the Genessee in
New York, the other a Jonathan. its
glowing colors lured into beauty far,
far beyond the Missouri, writes Henry
,'. Cope in the World Today for Jan
uary. The flrst had traveled over 600
I Iles to its market, the second 3000;
etltnd yet they were on salhe in South
Water street for preclsely the same
irice --5 a barrel. As he contempllnated
the nectar-laden globe frome the apple
area of New York hee began, his eyes
eloquent with mnentery'.a mist, to talk
rof scenes we both knew there; but rlly
ented wandeltlreld iand, even as he spoke,
tiehans t'ieeee fromln that kind of coun
try where- the Jonathan grew. He
went back 40 years to when aprile
trees we-re already Imanly int Monroe,
county; I was goineg back to but 10
yeears and see-ing again the picture of
a United States survey party, when we
weVre running lines across an arid
waste, "40 milelh, from butter," living
off grlouse, fool IhnH and beans, and
would have given a brace of grouse
I for a bag of apples. And those Jona
I thans acme from that killd of coun
try, if not from the precise section!
A box of those alluring and never dis
mappointing beauties stands handy in
h the Illhouse; their aroma never reaches
me without its accompanying picture
of that country, the-n so weary and
empty, aeroess which our chainmen
a cried their "Stlck," "Stuck,"
Conversion of Arid Waste.
\Ve boast of the wonders of our
western scene.ry; we speak with Jus
tice', and only those who advertise
their pirovincialismn by bragging of
Europeon trav'el, differ, or are slow
to admit its surplassing charm. But
more wonderful by far than the Inaj
esty of tihe mountain and the spell of
pines thrown out against the sky, is
this story of the conversion of the
vast new world "beyond the river"
from a desert Into a prolific source of
agricultural and economic wealth. It
is a romance, to the mind with a sense
of economic significances, as thrilling
as that of the Spanish and French
pioneers on these shores. First, the
maps with the "(treat American Des
erts," the blank mountain ranges and
the forests, profitless save to the
trapper; then the rumors of gold, the
rushl of the prospector and then the
mushroom mining towns.
Stop to look at those towns a mo
ment; they might differ in a hundred
details, but one characteristic marked
them all, the heaps of tin cans from
which the glory both within and with
out had departed. These piles of food
shells were ev\rywhere, glistening to
day and gloomy with rust tomorrow;
but they have a deep significance; they
indicate the mind of the prospector and
lliner as to the resources of that
whlole counlltry. For tllell it had none
beyond tile gold or silver or copper;
everytlling besides must be freighted
ill, t conlldition good for the breed of
mules, but hard oni the morals of driv
ers and evidencing striking myopia in
tile minds of the nten.
Credit Due the Chinaman.
Then cam11e tihe' ('hinallima1. It' start
ed little truck patches onl the edge of
tile camnls and inl his swinging baskets
brought lettuce and onions and all the
"green truck" to tile cabin door. I
wonder whether we do not owe mnore
than we are apt to acknowledge to
A Gilt-Edge 6% Investment
Improvement District Warrants
issued by the Town of Belgrade,
Montana, running seven years in
payment for Concrete Walks, Curb
ing and Crossings, in denominations
of $2 50., total issue $1 8,ooo.
First lien on $350,000 worth of centrally located real
estate and improvements in a Town without other
bonded indebtedness which has doubled in population in
two years.
Belgrade has four grain elevators, a 350 barrel flour
mill, a gravity water system, electric light, a bank with
deposits of $150,000, and located in the center of the
Gallatin Valley, famous for its agricultural resources.
Thorough legality of all Council proceedings relative
to this issue guaranteed. Interest payable annually.
Price: Par and accrued interest, in lots to suit.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION WRITE
CHAS. VANDENHOOK
Cashier Belgrade State Bank
BELGRADE MONTANA
that "fool Chinee," as men called him
when he tried to make things grow
in that desert. He was the pioneer
Irrigator.
Productive West.
Today it would be a pleasant thing
to take that oft-quoted man who once
said that the whole country west of
the Mississippi could never raise so
much as a peck of oni,)ns, and show
him ohat has been done. I would
show him onions all along that north
ern tier of states clear to Puget sound;
I would give him ancient history in
onions, "one hundred and thirty thou
sand bushels in Montana 10 years
ago," in that state known only for cop
per milines and cattle. Nor onions
al.i.. I would show him In South
I)ak,,ta barley that netl nearly $40
per acre, over $30,000,000 in wheat, and
plum orc hards nettingK from $1000 to
$3000 clear; in Montana, wheat, oats,
barley, sugar beets and alfalfa, the
latter running five tons to the acre,
with many farms-not ranches-pro
ducing 56 bushels of oats, 43 of barley
and 225 of potatoes per acre; prune
and apple and plum orchards in Idaho,
and Washington with its over 20,000,
000 bushels of wheat, besides much
oats, barley and other crops from Its
33,000 farms. And, last, I would leave
him with a box of those Washington
strawberries in his hands and their
taste in his mouth, and see what he
would say about onions then.
Wonderful Change.
It is a wonderful change that has
come about within those last few
years, more magnificent than the dis
covery of a new world, for this is our
own land; it lies at our doors; it
waits for us to enter in. No man can
accurately compute the increment It
has already meant in wool, horses,
cattle, wheat, fruits, vegetables, not to
mention the millions in gold and other
metal still being produced, nor the
perhaps equally significant physical
development and psychical enlarging
of those Who have opened up this new
world.'
Lands to Be Had Easily.
Do some men say: "This is all very
well, but the opportunities are now all
gone; there are new lands to be
had."
The man who talks in that way
ought to be taught that opportunity is
always past for the one who waits for
somebody to come and kick him out
of sleep into success.
Yet that kind of man needs this new
world, and he will become an oppor
tunity creator when he gets Into its
b)racing environments. So we must
pint out the fallacy of the altogether
too colimmon statement that this Is no
longer the land of opportunity. There
are literally millions of acres of good
farming land open for hymnestead entry
hn the northwestern states. , Your
good old Uncle Sam is waiting for you
to go and pick out a 160-acre farm for
yourself. Do not think, either, that
you must pass through the nerve
racking experience of drawing for lots
or a mild free-for-all rush for de
sirable sites. Any citizen of the United
States, or even one who has declared
his citizenship Intention, may select
160 acres of unoccupied public lands
and make his entry for them at the
land office of the district where they
are situated. After that practically
all that is required is a bona fide cul
tivation of that tract as a farm, and It
is yours. In the Dakotas the fee runs
from $14 to $18, in Montana from $16
to $22. These are the states where the
greatest area of unoccupied homestead
land remains and these are the states
where the largest opportunities for
profitable farming are found today.
The Highway Comes.
Last sulnlner I saw a number of
these new homestead tracts, many of
them strung along the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul railway's exten
sion into that country; green patches
In what the unobservant would still
call a desert, but prophetic of the very
sAme kind of opulent farms, slightly
older, that stood by the tracks of the
same road farther east, and suggesting
accessible markets and ready com
munication with the denser world of
the central states. And, mind you,
many of these farms were far away
from means of irrigation; they were
dry farms, for it has now been estab
lished beyond peradventure, that, nec
essary as irrigation may be to truck
farming and to horticulture, these
"deserts" have sufficient subsoil mois
tulre to produce not merely crops, but
heavy crops that fill up bank books
quickly.
Do you ask why this country re
moalned desert so long and what causes
are today operating to make it blos
soum like a rose? The answer simply
is: a highway is there. The desert al
ways will be a desert until "a highway
shall be there." It may be that the
greatest evidence of faith in any day
are blue-prints that lie in railroad of
flees, the diagrams of civil and me
chanical engineers. Go over the 3000
miles of Lewis and Clark's Missouri
river trip to where they made their
caclhe on tile Beaverhead. or over the
weary trail of the prairie schooners
All Members of the Family Enjoy
Garden City Standard Beer
At this, as well "ig at all seasons of the year, it is the
ideal beverage. Its flavor is superb, its health-giving qual
ities unsurpassed.
Order a Case Now
Phone No. 125
GARDEN CITY BREWING CO.
and then say: "Now let us build a
liermanent roadway for modern loco
motives and cars, a road of safe and
easy gradients through these moun
tains, to far beyond our father's re
mnotest stopping points, clear through,
a new road right to Puget Sound."
And there you have the audacity of
faith.
Faith Leads to Results.
Men are not building a road like that
through a country that will long re
main desert; no corporation dare make
an investment that promises no re
turns along the way. This new road,
from the central states clear through
to the coast, the Paclfc extension of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railway, built up to the standards and
specifications of the best roads any
where in America, not a string of steel
and ties laid on a slight longitudinal
ridge of dirt, but a real railroad, is
taking more than simple sound sense
for its projection and construction; it
takes sublime faith.
Wonders of Construction.
I have never met a man who has
seen its long cuts and fills, its steel
bridges and its heavily ballasted way,
who did not express in some way his
sense of the same wonder. Already
one may ride in modern through sleep
ing cars over a new roadway, through
new country to Butte, Mont., and I
suppose, judged by the way the work
is being pushed, it will not be long be
fore the road will be opened to Seat
tie. Then one will be able to make
the trip to the coast without ever
striking a grade greater than one and
a half per cent, or an elevation greater
than 6200 feet, though still viewing the
impressive mountain scenery. You
have only to see, as I have seen, the
$2,000,000 bridge at Mobridge, S. D., or
to know that, in order to make a good
road and preserve a straight track,
this one crosses the Musselshell no less
than 115 times in 117 miles, to recog
nize that this means permanent, safe
business. Surely one may express
such impressions and do some justice
to the faith that works such wonders,
without the thought of holding any
brief for this system.
If you have ever seen one home
stead turned from desert into many
waving fields of rich grain, if you have
ever seen the long wharfs at Seattle,
or the many ships on the sound, you
will know why this road is being built,
and how certain is the flow of set
tlers over those steel ribbons, and how
fortunate those who first enter in.
And, if you have been through Silver
Bow canon and over the great Cas
cades, you will know why those whon
seek scenic sensations, and love the
sublime in nature, will fill the fine
trains that strike out this way for
the coast. But one dare not even be
gin on the scenery opened to us by
this new highway across the continent
Opens New World.
After all, one turns from even the
marvels of such railroad making to
the greater wonders of the new world
that this road opens up.
Without at all deviating from the
main purpose of a direct premier route
to the Pacific, this line has somehow
tapped the very regions that many of
us long knew to be the richest and
concerning which, we had often hoped
'nd dreamed of the transformation to
be wrought by the advent of a rail
*oad. The facts are hard to grasp un
'ess you know something at first hand
of the infinite distances and great ex
nauses of the areas as yet undeveloped
and untouched. One fact, not a solt
'nry one but simply indicative: One of
the stations on the new Pacific coast
extension of the Milwaukee road is sit
aited on what was before its advent
the ranch of a man who had at times
to go without his mail for four months
because the nearest postoffice was dis
Cape Nome Copper Mining Co.
Wines at Clinton, Mont. Office, Rooms I and 2 Dixon Blk., Missoula
The above company offers for sale a limited amount of
treasury stock at 40 cents per share; payable as follows:
10 cents per share cash.
10 cents per share in 30 days.
10 cents per share in 60 days
10 cents per share in 90 days.
The excellent showing of ore made at the 500-foot level
has been greater than anticipated and further drifting on
the vein under the ore shoots, exposed in the upper levels,
should result in the opening up of a substantial quantity
of high grade shipping ore.
The Speculator Mining company of Butte is operating
the adjoining property and with the advent of eastern
capital into the camp, this year should witness an un
precedented amount of active development work in the
Clinton district.
The Cape Nome is looked upon as one of the most legit
imate mining propositions in Montana and owing to the
low price at which this stock is now offered for sale, it is
requested that early applications be made to the secre
tary, as only a limited amount of stock is being placed
on sale.
F. C. WEBSTER, Pres.
H. T. WILKINSON, Sec. Treas. F. H. WOODY, Vice Pres.
tant 140 miles. That affords room for
a man to stretch himself without ap
prehension of his neighbor's toes.
Agriculture and Mining.
Twenty years ago the phrase "agri
cultural Montana" would have been a
joke; today, though the mines are still
pouring out their wealth, you can eas
ily see that the hope of the common
wealth is in the farms; the people are
just discovering their great riches.
And in the farming regions you can
talk with many who will tell you of
this man and the other who, coming
in only a few years ago, started as a
hired man and buying his farm on
easy terms, is now an independent
farmer, lord of lands, cattle, horses and
a bank account that has apparently
passed its adolescence.
This is possible because men recog
nize today that the best way to get a
good living is not by taking huge
tracts and conducting bonanza ranches,
but by diversified and intensive farm
ing. Instead of putting all their eggs
into one basket, as of alfalfa or of
oats, they put eggs in one basket, but
ter in another and garden truck in
another. Hogs and poultry always
pay. Besides the home market, there
are the many mining camps always
ready to give good cash prices. Di
verslfied farming already returns big
profits here; men are cleaning up from
$200 to $350 an acre off small farms
thus handled.
Fruit of the Bitter Root.
The fact that poultry and eggs bring
huge returns, that garden truck is suc
cessfully and steadily raised, that
sheep range out all winter, ought to
answer any question as to climate
But it is much more than endurable;
it is, with the clear skies and sunshine.
the bracing breezes and the exhiliratlon
of mountain coolness, enjoyable, in
vigorating, life-giving. Those fine ap
ples, of which we spoke at first, pro
duced right in the region traversed
and opened up by this railroad exten
sion, ought to be ample evidence of
climatic geniality. They come from
the region west of Butte and Missoula:
some of the finest come from the
wonderful Bitter Root valley, running
south of the last-mentioned city. Fruit
awaits you all through the chinook
caressed region, the rich valleys, some
already dotted with orchards and oth
ers waiting only for the men who know
a good thing, lie between the majestic
ranges.
COFFIN TACKS.
"You smoke 30 cigarettes a day?"
"Yes, on the average."
"You don't blame them for your run
down condition?"
"Not in the least; I blame my hard
work."
The physician shook his head. He
smiled in a vexed way. Then he took
a leech out of a glass jar.
"Let me show you something," he
said. "Bare your arm."
The cigarette fiend bared his pale
arm, and the other laid a lean, black
leech," said the physician. He took up
busily. It's body began to swell. Then,
all of a sudden, a kind of shudder con
vulsed it, and it fell to the floor, dead.
"That is what your blood did to that
leech," said the physician. Te took up
the little corpse between his finger
and thumb.
"Look at it," he said. "Quite dead,
you see. You poisoned it."
"I guess it wasn't a healthy leech
in the first place," the cigarette
smoker said, sullenly.
"Wasen't healthy, eh? Well, we'll
try again."
And the physician clapped two
leeches on the young man's thin arm.
"If they both die," said the patient,
"I'll swear off-- or, at least I'll cut my
daily allowance from 80 cigarettes
to 10."
Even as he spoke the smaller leech
shivered and dropped on his knee,
dead, and a moment later the large
one fell beside it.
"This is ghastly," said the young
man. "I am worse than the pestilence
in these leeches."
"It is the empyreumatic oil in your
blood," said the medical than. "All
cigarette fiends have it."
"Doc," said the young man, regard
ing the three dead leeches thought
fully, "I half believe you're right."
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