The Billings gazette. [volume], September 21, 1909, Page 5, Image 5

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Local News from Washoe
ENTITLED TO GAME.
Manager Good has stirred up con
siderable excitement by announcing
that he is trying to arrange a ball
game between the Laurel and Washoe
teams to be played in Red Lodge. It
is hoped he may reconsider the mat
ter and have the game played on the
Washoe diamond. The people here
feel that they are entitled to see this
game, and a majority would be un
able to go .to Red Lodge for the event.
The home folks have been liberal in
their support of the Washoe team.
Not long since a sum in excess of $100
was contributed by the men at the
mines to boost the ball club along.
In view ,of this, Washoe is entitled to
see this game- on the local diamond.
It should be one of the very best ball 1
events of the" year, and the manage
ment ought to consider that the best
is none too good for folks at home.
Now get busy, Billy, and bring the
game to Washoe, where it belongs.
SNIPE HUNT PROMISED.
Invitations have been issued to the
elect to join the party which is plan
ning to take Dr. McCullough out on
a snipe hunt. The season is now open
in this corner of the cactus patch, and 1
one or two of the gang declare that I
they know a .place not far distant
where snipe are very plentiful. These 1
cool, dark nights are ideal for the
sport and there is no doubt that the
hunt will prove successful beyond the
doctor's brightest dreams. It is to I
be regretted that the nature of the i
hunt prevents the participation of a
very large crowd, but those who are i
to make up the party are enthusiastic I
over the event, which is sure to mark
an epoch in the life of at least one
member of the crowd.
ENGINEERS ON TOUR.
A. T. Shurick left Thursday to join f
the party of American Institute of I
Mining Engineers members, who are I
making a tour of the west. The com
pany will visit the Yellowstone na
tional park, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific r
exposition at Seattle and a number of I
the more important mining operations r
in the northwest. Stops will be made t
at Butte, Spokane, Portland, Salt Lake I
and other points of interest. If it can t
be arranged, the party will invade one
of the big game -ections of the west
and endeavor to secure some trophies
to ta'-e with them to their eastern
homes.
Clarks
Fork
Valley
Snaps
Will sell or trade ranches and
fruit lands for city property.
Great bargain in a sheep
ranch, $31.25 per acre, 100 acres
in alfalfa, good buildings, good
water right. One good 10-acre
tract, good ,buildings, plenty
fruit of all kinds, good build
ings, can be bought cheap if
bought at once.
-SEE
J. W. Mallonee, Mgr.
AT ONCE
Silver Dollar
Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars
A. Buzzetti, Prop.
Fromberg - - - Montana
Harness Shop
Florentine Najar, Prop.
Harness Maker and Repairer,
all Hand Work Guaranteed.
Hand Carved Leather Work.
Fromberg, Montana
The "Dan Patch"
Sample Rooms
J. H. O'Connor
Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigar
Fromberg, Montana
T.J. Benson, M. D.
Office Hours: 11 to 12 a. m.;
2 to 4 p. m.
FROMBERG - - MONTANA
DON'T LIKE TURKEY ANYWAY.
Bob Fowler got himself into trouble
again last week by letting out his ap
petite and eating what he calls a good
square meal. His friends speak of it
as a week's board consumed at one
sitting. Bob and a few others occupy
what is known in official circles as the
"cozy corner" at the Anderson board
ing house. His pet system of coming
early and staying late and eating fast,
usually works out so successfully that
it costs about as much to board him
as any other three ordinary men. The
meals are served family style in the
cozy corner, and on the evening in
question the landlady had provided a
young turkey with the usual trim
mings. Bob was early and the tur
key dfsappeared. When the .other
boys arrived and caught sight of the
skeleton, which was all that remained,
they hog-tied Bob and broke up all
the bed slats to be found about the
place over the guilty culprit. Per
haps they don't have young turkey at
Columbia; anyway, Brer Fowler de
clares he doesn't care for that kind of
meat any more.
DIFFERENCES SETTLED.
M. F. Purcell, national executive
board member; Arthur Morgan, vice
president of district No. 22, and John
Massow, president of the Red Lodge
local of the United Mine Workers of
America, also Thomas Burke, com
missioner of the Montana Coal Oper
ators' association, were in Washoe
last week in attendance on a meet
ing of representatives of the coal
miners and operators to adjust -a dif
ference which had arisen at one of
the mines. Matters were arranged
satisfactorily to all parties and the
Visitors left for their homes Friday.
HAPPY IMAGINATION.
It has been said that love develops
the imagination, but the fact never
seemed so evident as the other even
ing when a young man and his lady
love were sitting in a buggy to which
no horse was attached, nor was there
a mule or any other means of loco
motion. On making inquiry it was
learned that the couple were takin.g
a buggy ride-apparently imagining
that they were traveling behind a fast
horse, over perfect roads, past beau
tiful meadows and beside still waters.
Oh you, B. Good.
Local and Personal.
Miss Monroe, who has been under si
the weather for a few days, has about it
recovered her usual health. tl
Mrs. J. Horrick of Billings is visit- p
ing at the home of P. A. Alvin. si
W. G. Duncan has returned from a tl
business trip to Denver. S
Mrs. W. W. Bean is stopping with ci
friends in Bearcreek for a few days. e
Mrs. P. A. Alvin and Mrs. J. Hor- b
rick went to Belfry Wednesday to i
spend a few days at the Charles Carl- o
son home.
Miss Anna Anderson left Thursday li
for Billings, where she will attend it
school during the coming winter. Mrs. tl
J. P. Anderson accompanied her as B
far as Red Lodge. S
Edward Briggs is able to be. about a
again after being confined to his room ti
for some time with an attack of rheu- d
matism. 0
Dr. G. F. McCullough has moved 0
into the new emergency hospital, P
where he has fitted up living quarters.
Miss Margaret Rae and Miss Mar
garet McMullin are visiting friends in c
Red Lodge. e
Robert Fowler left Thursday for
New York to continue his studies at i,
Columbia university. Mr. Fowler has
been spending his summer vacation ii
here on engineering work for the
Northwestern Improvement company a
and has made many friends during his t
residence who hope to see him back
again next summer.
Deputy Sheriff W. E. Lamport called
on one of his Washoe friends Mon
day.
Charles Eckles left Monday for
Joliet, where he expects to go into
the fruit raising business.
Mrs. J. P. Plunkett and Miss Con
way of Red Lodge were visiting Sun
day at the home of Ottewell Lodge.
A. T. Shurick returned Sunday
from the mountains, where he has
been surveying timber lands for the
Washoe Copper company.
Alex Fraser, the contractor, went
to Belfry Tuesday to look after some
work.
Mrs. John H. Good returned Satur
day from Billings, to which place she
accompanied her daughter, Mrs. M.
H. Bollinger.
W. W. Worthington, manager of the
Montana Coal and Iron company, went
to Billings Wednesday.
The steam boxcar loader at Washoe
mine No. 1 broke down early Monday
morning and the mine had to remain
idle all day while repairs were being
made. The work was finished during t
the evening and the shift called out I
for Tuesday morning.
F. A. Clark came up from Belfry c
Saturday and preached in the First F
Presbyterian church here Sundeyl
evening. 1
Floyd and Ben Boyer returned Sat- I
urday night from a fishing trip on[
Line creek with evidence to show that I
- they know how to cast the flies. t
Extensive repairs are being made i
in the roof of Robert Empyteusis Pen
dleton Clark's residence on upper I
Pennsylvania avenue. Like the Ar- [
kansas traveler, Mr. Clark has had
these repairs in mind for years but
never got to the point of executing his 1
plans until he awoke the other night I
to find the rain drops pattering on i
his face.
The three-spot has returned from I
the shops at Livingston with "Mon- 1
tana, Wyoming & Southern" em- i
blazoned on its tender, and cars are
being shunted around the local yards
at a rapid rate.
The Boston Cigarmakers' union has
petitioned congress to pass a law
making it a criminal offense to specu
late in wheat.
VISITORS AT BIG SEATTLE
FAIR AND WHAT THEY SEE
Journal Correspondent Writes ol Novel
DisplaJs and Unique Methods to
Attract Attention
(Special to The Journal.) t
SEATTLE, Sept. 21.-Many and c
varied, as are the exhibits of all kinds t
at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposi- F
tion the most fascinating single ex
hibit of all is the people. New York s
city and San Francisco have vigor- P
ously disputed Seattle's claim to the 0
distinction of being the most cosmo- t
politan city in the new world. The t
skeptic from Gotham or the Golden t,
Gate, should he but visit Seattle this
year and should he possess at least a
the modicum of candor that all good p
Americans boast, would at least have it
to grudgingly adm'it that the exposi- s
tion city is more nearly the American o
cosmos than any other metropolis.
First avenue on Saturday evening, o
or the famous "Pay Streak" in the a
fair grounds on Sunday afternoon c
would readily lead one to believe that h
a congress of nations had just ad- s
journed. Black and white, yellow and
red, the observer will see every race, h
every clime under the sun repre- a
sented. The prosperous side-whiskered a
banker will alight from his auto, and s
in the nonedscript crowd, grouped r
negligently about on the sidewalk o
and watching him with a languid curi- a
osity will be seen the bronzed face
and heavy sombrero of the Mexi
can; the waxed mustache, patent
leather boots and black chapeau of
the Frenchman; the silken robe and u
glossy queue of the Chinaman, and
the crinkly hair, multi-colored sash p
and giant turban of the Hindoo. And
yet no race, no class, will predomi- t
nate sufficiently to disturb the gen
eral impression of Americanism in c
the crowds.
Of Cosmopolitan Character.
A band which holds forth at one d
of the amusement parks in the expo- a
sition boasts 14 nationalities although I
it has but 29 pieces. A policeman on
the corner will tell you that good
politics demands that no less than i
seven nationalities be recognized on f
the force. Of a Sunday no visitor in
Seattle can excuse non-attendance at
church, for there are churches of
every denomination that has ever
been heard of, and even two or three
in the foreign quarter that have not,
outside the Pacific northwest.
Newspapers and magazines are pub
lished in two more foreign languages
in Seattle than in New York city. If F
there are places on Terry avenue and h
Boren avenue that would not disgrace
Spruce or Walnut streets-and there
are-there can also be found in .the
tide flats of South Seattle wretched
dwellings that remind one poignantly e
of New York's Bowery or Five Points,
I or of Chicago's Packingtown as de
picted in Upton Sinclair's "Jungle."
Endless Moving Picture Film.
But if Seattle under ordinary clr
1 cumstances is variegated and inter- t
esting, at exposition time it is doubly .
so. Viewed from an angle of the tour
ist or' of the exhibitor, the humanity V
on display is one perpetual "show" in -
itself-as changing as a kaleidoscope,
a as broad in its horizon as a panorama,
as gripping in the way it commands
the interest as a moving picture show.
In fact, the fair might be regarded as
a mammoth, never-ending moving pic
ture film, with pictures changing mo
mentarily and with each as absorbing
as the last.
r The exhibitors themselves form an
o interesting community. Eighty per
cent of them are from back east, and
as "back east" means anywhere from
Montana to Florida, or from Texas to
Maine, it is plain to see that the term
"easterner" is too loose to mean any
8 thing. Dapper young clerks from New
e York or Philadelphia occupy booths
next door perhaps to dark-eyed south
ern beauties representing a Savannah
e or a New Orleans firm.
On one side of the corridor may be
seen a raw-boned, rangy Canadian,
earnestly demonstrating the supe
riority of Canadian-made machinery;
across the aisle one will see a trim
Chicago girl, in immaculate shirtwaist
and blue serge skirt, showing how
easy it is to darn stockings and do
fancy work on a sewing machine.
College Men Predominate.
It is estimated that 40 per cent of
the male employes of the A. Y. P. cor
poration are college men. Certainly
the great bulk of the positions re
quiring endurance, lustiness of throat
and unlimited nerve have gone to the
university "crowd," as they are called.
Pennsylvania, Princeton, Cornell, Co
lumbia, Michigan, Yale, Chicago, Wis
consin, Minnesota, Illinois, Syracuse,
Stanford, California, Georgetown and
the University of Washington all have
substantial delegations.
The men hold every manner of posi
tions, responsible and routine, hard
and easy, from boosters for cafes
and chauffeurs and demonstrators to
star reporters on the newspapers and
building superintendents and guards
men captains. They are a happy,
irresponsible crew, with practical
jokes and fraternity reunions and
little bohamian dinners to while away
their leisure. But they are an ag
gressive and efficient crowd, too; no
class of employes, taken by and large,
has furnished greater satisfaction.
The big industrial firms that are
exhibiting have almost invariably sent
to Seattle their most experienced and
successful salesmen or workmen as
demonstrators. The result soon makes
itself felt, for the competition to at
tract and hold the attention of the
I crowds as they pass through the
3 buildings is ,so keen that the visitors'
- interest never has a chance to flag.
The proportion of women demon
; strators is much greater than at any
previous exposition, many exhibitors
of all kinds evincing a desire to reap
the advantages that go with an attrac
tive, tastefully-attired young woman
i to explain things.
3 Out of doors many divergent types
t are to be found. The A. Y. P. special
I police, if one were to prosecute an
investigation, would be found to have
served an apprenticeship of greater
I or less duration in every part of the
new world, and many parts of the
old. The gatemen are, in many in
stances, exposition-hardened, too, one
1 old veteran, a native of Pittsburg,
t having'never missed a job of that kind
since the Centennial in 1876.
I There are landscape gardeners who
helped make Chicago and St. Louis
and Portland beautiful; their maturity
I and experience having made possible
some marvelous scenic effects-natu
1 ral and artificial. A better company
{ of earth barbers never drew pay from
any exposition.
Barkers and Boosters.
It Iis, however, in the cafes and the
Pay Streak amusements that the most
unique employe types are found. The
tourist's ear is bombarded with mega
1 phone men, boosting every conceivable
i attraction, from the moment he enters
the Pay Streak until he leaves. His
eye, as it glances about, meets every
conceivable type of freak and prodigy
and lusty-throated boomer.
For example, a tali, blonde man, 6
feet 6 inches high, in opera hat and
dress clothes, stands all day long at
a prominent corner of Yukon avenue.
1 In one hand he .carries a ridiculously
1 small walking stick, with which he
points. "Don't fail to hear them Tyro
lean singers," he squeals in a high
falsetto, consciously making the gram
matical error to attract the more at
tention. "You'll hear them at the
Vy-enna restaurant, one square to
r your left."
Picking his way laboriously along
the street, and dragging behind a
soapbox full of utensils and personal
effects, shambles a tall, stoop-shoul
" dered farmer, with baggy greenish
black clothes, a dilapidated gray felt
hat and nothing but a bobbing Adam's
Sapple to adorn his long, weather
e beaten neck. On his box-wagon is
e scrawled "Seattle or Bust;" the dust
of travel is on his clothes. He seems
exhausted and yet jubilant to have at
last reached the end of his journey.
People gaze at him with wide-open
eyes-people who thought the United
States no longer had a frontier and
that they would never have a chance
to see a real frontier type. But the
y sophisticated smile to themselves and
concede that, as a silent booster for
y one of the "shows," this "pioneer" is
n a big success.
Where's John?
Old-fashioned midway methods are
done away with, the visitor is coaxed
or wheedled into one after another of
the innumerable sideshows in a dozen
new ways. "Where's John?" screeches
a voice (through a megaphone) from
the top of a revolving Ferris wheel.
A hundred people look up, startled,
and are rewarded by hearing the same
voice, in a softer and more confiden
tial key, remark: "Oh, here he is;
John is up here in the Ferris wheel,
and he's just having the time of his
young life."
An old civil war veteran, in cracked
but earnest voice, "barks" for the
Battle of Gettysburg spectacle-the
very novelty of having such an old
man bringing business that might else
be lost.
A whisky firm has a statuesque man
in top hat, patent leathers, single
breasted paddock coat and evening
dress, stroll along the Pay Streak,
with his coat thrown open, exposing
what looks to be a snow-white linen
shirt bosom. When crowds are thick
est* the shirt front (really made of
ground glass) is lighted up with red
letters, spelling out the name and as
severating the merits of this enter
prising firm's brand of whisky. The
tall man's expression never changes
as he presses the secret attachment
which turns on the light; but how he
must chuckle to himself as he sees
the many different effects the sudden
lighting up of the shirt-front pro
duces!
Juvenile Come-ons.
The Igorrote village, a native Phil
ippine show, is one of the most meri
torious and instructive attractions in
the fair grounds. But its backers be
lieve, too, that advertising pays. So
at frequent intervals tiny Igorrote
girls, 3 or 4 or 5 years of age only,
and clad simply in the conventional
napkin and hair-ribbon, will be per
mitted to escape from the inclosure
and pitter-patter silently off down the
Streak. Careful training has taught
them how to wail loudly when "lost"
and by the time some rigid New
England spinster has wrapped them
in shawls or dusters and led or car
ried them back to the box office of the
Igorrote village a good-sized crowd is
sure to be in her wake, and the crowd,
of course, then falls an easy prey to
the honeyed eloquence of the'barker.
The Evening Journal, 50c month.
CLARKS FORK
VALLEY BANK
JOSEPH OUNTZ Cap F. M. BROODER
President (Paid In) 000.00 e-Pesider
and Cashier
Fromberg, Montana
General Banking Business Transacted
Call and Accounts of Merchants, Farm- Loans on
See Us. d ers and Stockmen Solicited. d Collateral
Fromberg-Franney Cut-Off
Will Greatly Facilitate Shrpping
Buzzetti & Emmet's heavy fall and winter stock for which we are
now makingroom by closing out all spring and summer shirt waists
at any old price; 'MADE-RITE' WALKING SKIRTS at prices
for which you will be ashamed to take the skirts.
Buzzetti & Emmett
Furnishings for the Family Everything to Wear and to Eat
Fromberg Pressed
Brick and Tile Co.
Frank H. Church, Secretary and General Manager
We make the only
brick in Eastern
Montana. Capacity
750,000 bricks per
month::::::: : : :
Fromberg - - - - Montana
Baldwin Lumber Co.
Fromberg and TBridger, OMontana
Get Your
Shelf and
HeavyHardware Binders
Paints Oils
Lime -and
Stucco Cement Binder Twine
Buggies of us. We will guarantee you
and the best machines and the best
Wagons price.
Lath
Shingles See our line of buggies, wagons
Lumber and harness.
Baldwin Lumber Co.
Fromberg and Bridger, @Montana
W. E. Ross
Attorney at Law
FROMBERG MONTANA
East Side Blacksmith
Shop
Bert Covey, Prop.
General Blacksmithing
Fromberg - - - Montana
H. L. BarlowI, Mgr.
P. J. Con~way
Fromberg
Lumber
Company
(Incorporated)
Lumber
Sash
Doors
Lath
Shingles
Paper
Stucco
Lime and Cement
Glass
Paints
Oils
Builders' Hardware
of All Kinds
Apple Boxes
Screen Doors and
Windows
Fromberg Montana
Drugs
Rubber
Goods
Toilet
Articles
Cigars
Stationery
Fancy
Confections
From be rg
Drug Co.
Fromberg Mutes..