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BEET YIELD UP
TO EXPECTATION
Xaager Garnsey of Factory Says
That Crop Will Be Fully
Ten Percent Better
AVERAGE 20 TONS ACRE
Beet Fields of Hesper Farm and of
Territory West of This City Are Es
pecially Promising-Larger Acre
age.
"We are finding that our expecta
tions of a better beet crop this year
than we had during the last year are
being fulfilled," said Manager Garn
s y of the Billings Sugar Co., yester
day. "We have been receiving beets
for three weeks and growers through
out every part of the district which is
covered by the Billings factory are
united in their opinion that this is
going to be the best yield they have
ever had.
"Before the opening of the harvest
season I made the statement that the
yield would be 10 percent better, and
I find I was right. Ten percent is
about the average increase in the
tonnage. Some places are doing
better, others not so well, but every
where, except where the fields were
hit by hail, the tonnage is increased.
"The acreage this season is also
10 percent larger than formerly. We
are shipping in beets from a consid
erable distance, some cars coming
from as far as Worland. Wyo., where
beet raising is being carried on this
year for the first time. On the east
we ship from Meyers, about 70 miles;
Big Timber is the western end of the
shipping district, and Belfry repre
sents the limit in the Clarke Fork
country.
"Everything is running nicely at
the factory. There have been no ser
ious accidents and no breakdowns,
and the mill has since the opening of
the campaign on Oct. 5 been slicing
its full tonnage, 1,200 tons, every
day."
Mr. Garnsey says that the settlers
on the Huntley ;ro ect whose beet
fields were hit t; ti- hail storm, are
harvesting fairly good crops in spite
of the ill effect of the hail. The beets
whose tops were completely cut off
by the hail are yielding from 9 to 12
tons an acre, and as most of the work
on these fields was performed by the
settlers themselves this represents a
good deal of clear profit for the
settlers.
1. D. O'Donnell says that the beets
on Hesper farm are going to av
erage 20 tons to the acre or better
and that 20 tons is the mark set by
practically every beat grower in the
district west of this city. This is the
busy season for the beet grower and
no less than 74 men, women and boys
are employed on the Hesper farm in
pulling and topping the beets and
hauling them to the dumps.
BANK AND NEWSPAPER
STARTED AT HEDGES
New Town in Dry Farming Commun
ity Adds Substantial Busl.
ness Houses.
J. F. Bacon, secretary of the Bill
ings & Northern Townsite Co., has
returned to Billings after spending the
latter part of last week attending to.
business matters in Hedges, Broad
view and Bercail, a new town which
the company has but recently put on
the market and which is situated nine
miles beyond Hedges and in the ex
treme southeastern part of Meagher
county.
Mr. Bacon says that the Bank of
Hedges is at present erecting a new
brick building which it hopes to be
able to occupy in a few weeks. H. J.
Reese is at the head of the new bank
ing institution.
Marion Small, son of Editor Small
of the Judith Gap Journal, is also pre
paring to issue a paper at Hedges
which will be known as the Hedges
Herald and whose first appearance is
scheduled to take place today. Other
business houses are coming into
Hedges which looks like one of the
really big towns of the dry farming
section.
At Bercail, which name will have to
be changed shortly on account of a
ruling of the postoffice department,
the W. E. Ford Lumber company is
building a yard and a general mer
chandise store is being erected. Ber
call is the name of an old established
postoffice situated about 10 miles from
the new townsite and on Careless
creek, and on account of the refusal
of the department to move the postof
fice, a new name will have to be chos
en for the town. It is said that the
town will be named after one of the
officials of the townsite company.
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ALLEGED WIFE BEATER.
F. M. Clark will be given a hearing
this morning before Judge Mann on
a charge of assault, in that he is al
leged to have beaten and otherwise
mistreated his wife yesterday morn
ing. Clark, who lives 12 miles west
of this city, it is alleged, was yester
day riding along the country road with
another woman, an incident to which
Mrs. Clark offered objections. When
Mrs. Clark attempted to pull her hus
band out of the buggy Clark struck
her with the whip, it is related. He
was released on $100 bail.
BABY IS DEAD.
The 3-year-old daughter of Mrs.
Joins~Cn, daughter of George Harper
of the Northern Pacific, died Sunday
afternoon of infantile troubles. The
funeral services will be held this
morning from Bt. aPtrick's church at
9 o'elock.
POLES PURCHASE I
MONTANA LANDS
Nearly Three Thousand Families Are c
Are Expected to Settle Near
Glendive Next Year.
ALL ARE WELL TO DO
Statement Made That Less Than a
Dozen of New Settlers Will Have
Less Than $1,500 and None Less
Than $1,000.
Some weeks ago it was announced
that Rev. Theodore Suck, a Polish
priest representing some 3,000 fami
lies of Polanders who have been forc
ed by the German and Russian gov
ernments to sell their lands in Europe,
was in this city in company with I. N.
Hill of Glendive with the intention of
purchasing lands in the Yellowstone
valley for colonization purposes. The
deal between Father Suck and Mr.
Hill has been made, and the estab
lishment of the Polish colony near
Glendive is now an asurred fact.
The Poles will settle near Hoyt sta
tion on the Northern Pacific and al
ready plans are being laid for a city
which, it is safe to say, will rival in
beauty any new town in eastern Mon
tana.
Father Suck has purchased 840
acres of land lying near the Yellow
stone river and the greater portion
of this will be used as a townsite.
In the center of the tract 10 acres
have been set aside as a site for a
church, parochial school and convent
and about this plot of ground and the
buildings which will be erected on it
the city will center.
From the civic center four broad
boulevards will run diagonally, divid
ing the tract into quarters and afford
ing easy ways of approach to the cen
ter of the town. Trees will be planted
along these boulevards and on the
church site and it is expected that
in a few years the new city will pre
sent a very attractive appearance.
Some 16,000 acres of fine lands are
ircluded in the deal and it is expected
that nearly 3,000 families will be set
tled upon it in the course of a year.
Father Suck is quoted as saying that
the new settlers are by no means
impecunious, but are well to do and
number among them some of the old
Polish nobility. It is said that of the
.1000 families expected, less than 12
.rill have less than $1,500, while none
of them will have less than $1,000 and
many of them are independently weal
thy. The average wealth of the fam
ilies will be about $6,000.
If the founding of the colony proves
to be a success others will follow and
it is expected that in the course of a
few years several thousand Poles will
I be settled along the lower Yellow
; stone. A portion of the land will be
1 irrigated, the colony will have its own
I schools and will establish a school of
collegiate standing. Father Suck has
said that the constant aim of the
teachers under him will be to make
-ood Americans of the immigrants,
English will be taught in the schools
and while the mother tongue will still
be used to a great extent it is expect
ed that it will be but a matter of one
or two generations before the Polish
settlement will be thoroughly Amer
icanized.
SOLD TO INDIANS.
George Pease, a cripple, was yester
- day arrested together with two braves
a of the Crow tribe, all of whom were
hilariously drunk. Pease is 'being
held pending an examination and will
D probably be charged with selling li
quor to the Indians.
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VERDICT IN DONOVAN
CASE THIS MORNING
Jury Returns Sealed Verdict Yester
day Afternoon.-Lamb Will
Be Tried Today.
The time of the district court yes
terday was taken up with the hearing
of the first of the cases on the crim
inal docket, the case of the state vs.
James Donovan being called. Dono
van was charged wilth larceny in that
hs took a watch, a pocketbook and a
handkerchief from the pockets of Jas.
Kean, with whom he was sleeping.
The case was given into the hands of
the jury late yesterday afternoon and
a sealed verdict was returned shortly
afterwards which will he opened in
court this morning.
The case of the state vs. Joseph
Lamb is scheduled for today. Lamb,
it may be remembered, is accused of
stealing $200 from a companion by
taking him in a cab and driving east
of the city limits where the crime is
said to have been committed.
DR. FREDERICK COOK
CANCELS ALL DATES
iAretic Explorer Will not Appear in
Billings to Lecture as First
Announced.
Inforl'atioll was received yesterday
by Agent Spurling of the Northern
Pacific, announcing that Dr. Frederick
A. Cook has capeelled all his lecture
dates and will accordingly not appear
in this city during the week of the
l)ry Farming congress as was origin
ally expected. No cause is given for
'Ie a.alndolllllelt of the lecture course
biui it is said that more lucrative en
;..;euea:ts ill tile east and a desire
!o remain in the east until the con
trversy over the discovery of the
pole is settled, has caused I)r. Cook to
change his mind in regard to the
northwestern tour.
PRICES SUCCUMBII
TO SHIPMENTS
Speculators Crowd the Market Up 1
But Unable to Hold It at
the Top.
COLOSSAL MOVEMENTS
Spectacular Worlds Shipments of
Wheat, Which Exceed Those of a1
Year Ago by Four Million Bushels
-All West Adds Quota.
CHICAGO, Oct. 18.-Wheat prices
succumbed today to the colossal
world's shipments. Bullish specula
tors crowded the market up, advanc
ing December 14@% and May %c,
but were not able to hold it at the
top, the near months futures falling
%c under Saturday's close. The
bearish sentiment which counteracted
a temporary advance was largely due
to the spectacular world's shipments
which broke the record at 15,104,000
bushels, compared with 11,712,000
bushels a year ago. Lower foreign
cables reflected the immense move
ment and heavy domestic receipts in
both the northwest and southwest
added their quota to the bearish trend.
Most of the bullish work was in May
with occasional excursions into De
cember, which, however, closed at the
low point of the day. Light receipts,
large cash sales and scarcity of old
corn offerings gave an upward ten
dency to corn, December closing 3%
7/sc higher than Saturday.
Oats responded to conditions in the
corn pit. December closed firm at an
advance of 11c, with the more distant
futures unchanged.
Lower prices of live hogs governed
the provisions market. Closing pric
es for January products ranged from
7VAc lower for pork to 5c lower for
lard and ribs.
Live Stock Quotations
('Chicago Live Stock.
CHICAGO, Oct. 18.-Cattle-Re
ceipts. estimated at 33,000. Market
10 115c lower. Beeves. $4 i'4.85; Tex
as steers, $4@65.50; western steers,
$3.2517''.40; stockers and feeders,
$3.106r5.20; cows and heifers, $2r(
5.60; calves, $7( 9.50.
Hogs -Receipts, estimated at 28,
000. Market slow. 10c lower. Light,
$74 7.65; mixed, $7.25@7.80; heavy,
$7.15(7.85; pigs, $5.40x7; in bulk of
sales, $7.40 775.
Sheep-Receipts, estimated at 45,
000. Market 10c lower. Native, $4.40
i 7.05 ; western, $2.604!'4.75; year
lings. $4.4.1, 5.:30; lambs, native, $4.25
S0 7.19; western, $4.2540 7.10.
Omaha Live Stock.
SOU TH OM\AIIA. Oct. 18. Cattle---
' Receipts, 9,300. Market steady. Na
tive steers, $4.751 8; cows and hei
fors, $30 5; western steers, $3.50,'4
6.25; canners. $2.25.3.25; stockers
Iand feeders, $2.75 14.50.
Hogs-Receipts, 2,500. Market 10c
6lower. Heavy, $7(17.45; light, $7.25(i
1 7.40; pigs, $6.50407; bulk of sales,
- $7.356- 7.40.
e Sheep-Receipts. 29,000. Market
steady to lower. Yearlings, $4.708c
5.30; wethers, $3.900@6.50; ewes, $3.75
@4.25; lambs, $6.25@6.80.
SMiscellaneous Markets
New York Money.
NEW YORK, Oct. 18.-Close; Prime
merchantile paper, 56151½ per cent.
Sherling exchange steady with ac
tual business in bankers' bills at
$4.8310 for 60 (lay hills and at $4.8645 I
for demand.
Commercial bills, $4.821,O 4.82%.
Bar silver, 507/sc.
Mexican dollars, 43c.
Government bonds steady; railroad
bonds irregular.
Money on call, firm, 3%@4 per
cent; ruling rate, 412 l)per cent; clos
ing bid, :1/4 per cent; offered at 4%:
per cent.
Time loans weaker; for 60 days.
4%6@5 per cent; for 90 dlays. 5 per
cent; six months, 4%. Q4% per cent.
Boston Stocks.
Amalgamated ................. 84%s.
Arizona Commercial .......... 44%.
Butte Coalition ............... 26% .
Calunmet & Arizona ........... 98.
Calumet & Hecla ..............655.
Daly W est .................... 7.2.
Grene Cananea ................ 101/s.
Montana Coal & Coke, ..... 20 cents.
Parrot .. ..................... .30½ .
United Copper ................ 9%.
North Butte .................. 381/4.
f Minneapolls Wheat.
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 18.--Close:
Wheat-December $1.02%(5@% ; May,
$1.05%s@%; Cash, No. 1 hard, $1.051/4;
No. I northern, $1.04%; No. 1. $1.02%;
No. 2, $1.02%3 4l.03; No. 3, $1.01%
@ 1.02.
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New York Bonds.
SU. S. refunding 2s. registered ..100%
U. S. refunding 2s, coupon .....100%
U:. S. 3s, registered ............1001
U. S. 3s, coupon ..............1011/
U. S. 4s, registered ............1161
I'. S. 4s. coupon ..............117!2
New York Sugar.
NEW YORK, Oct. 18-Sugar-Raw
y steady fair refining, 3.77; centrifugal
, 96 test, 4.27; inolases sugar, 3.52. Re
k fined steady.
r Elgin Butter.
S ECLGIN, Ills., Oct. 18.- 3utter
Firm, 30 cents. Sales 685,700 pounds
r for the week.
I' PLA(I'E .AT AMOY.
e A\IOY. China. Oct. 18.-It is ofli
cially reported that there were 77
e deaths from buboonic plague and 64
0 fatal cases of cholera in Amoy dur
e ing the two weeks ending Saturday
!last.
John W. Chapman a Red Lodge
banker, is in the city.
0. W. Fisher of Bozeman was a
business visitor in Billings yesterday.
L. A. Nutting, president of the Cit
izens National bank of Laurel, was a
business visitor in Billings yesterday.
Walter Alderson and family of Red
Lodge, spent yesterday with friends
in this city.
M. T. Johnson returned to his home
in Bozeman yesterday after spending
a few days in Billings attending to
business matters.
Mr. and Mrs. Lanson and children
left the city yesterday for Sand Point,
Idaho, where they will visit relatives
for a few weeks.
Deputy County Surveyor L. M.
SHatch went to Broadview yesterday
and will spend the week in the Lake
Basin district.
W. W. Fry, a business man of Mex- I
ico, Mo., is spending a few days in
Billings investigating business con
ditions here.
W. L. Dimmrick, a real estate man
of North Yakima and who is inter
ested in Lake Basin lands, arrived in
Billings yesterday and will remain
here through the week.
Robert Ferguson, who came to
Billings recently from the east, yes
terday filed on a farm unit of the
Huntley project located between
Huntley and Ballantine.
'Frank G. Page, chief clerk in the
down town office of the Burlington,
returned to Billings yesterday after
I spending the past month with rela
- tives in Illinois.
Rtalph McCoy, who has been a res
ident of Billings for a few years, has
resigned his position with Link &
iHaire and left yesterday for Butte
where he expects to make a home.
Fred Mashaw, vice president of
Yegen Bros. Inc., has returned to his
home in this city after a lengthy bus
iness visit in the east. He spent some
time in New York, Washington and
other eastern cities.
Harry B. Crow, rcently of What
Cheer, Iowa, has decided to make his
*home in the Yellowstone valley and
.yesterday filed on a farm unit of the
Huntley project located near Ballan
tine.
W. E. Ford and wife of Hedges are
spending the first of the week, in
- this city. Mr. Ford is the head of a
;, lumber firm which is opening up
, yards in many of the new towns along
i the line of the Billings & Northern
'and which has its head office in
- Hedges.
t. Ralph Ray, chief clerk in the land
~, office, has been transfered to a sim
)f ilar position in the land office in
Roswell, New Mexico. He will be
succeded by Howard Ferguson, who
a held the position iin the Roswell of
-.fice which Mr. Ray will take. Mr.
: Ray expects to leave the city Wed
nesday.
R. Wells, an insurance adjuster of
Spokane, and Bronson Smith, an ad
juster from Butte, were in the city
,yesterday on matters pertaining to
the insurance on the stock of the
Billings Drug company, a great part
s of which was destroyed by water
which filled the basement of the store
c during the burning of the Yegcn
v wholesale grocery.
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INTRIGUE ALLEGED
IN THE CRANE CASE ,
Friends of Recalled Minister Claim st
That Political Plot Responsi- '
ble for Department's Act. of
NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-Charles R.
Crane, whose resignation as United b,
States minister to China was accepted, ol
has arrived here with his intimate
friend and adviser, Walter L. Fisher, f
of Chicago and today they expect to sl
meet air. Crane's fattier, Richard T. S
Crane, who left Chicago yesterday. g
Following the conference it is prob- e
able that a statement will be issued. S
The elder Mr. Crane has taken a lively it
interest in the forced resignation of a
his son, having declared that he was h
the victim of a plot.
Although the deposed diplomat in
sisted, on his arrival here, that the in
cident was closed, at least temporar- y
ily, M.r. Fisher declared that Mr. s
Crane's friends held strongly to the c
contrary and intimated that future a
'events might throw interesting infor- a
mation upon what they have sough' a
to stamp as a "political intrigue." u
.Mr. Crane declared that he knew ab
solutely nothing of the Chicago inter
view which was made the basis of
1Mr. Knox's action until he reached
Washington.
Mr. Fisher declared that Mr. Crane I
had never in all his public statements ii
r.ince his appointment, gone outlide v
of the limits set by President Taf': in E
his speech at Shanghai in 1907.
"The contention that Mr. Crane had 1
engaged a newpaper man as a press (
agent was a downright falsehood."
said Mr. Fisher in the presence of rr. t
Crane. "This newspaper man was t
bound for the orient for the purpose I
of writing magazine articles and asked I
Mr. Crane if it would embarrass him
if he went to China on the steamer
with him. That man sailed for China
on the ship Mr. Crane intended to take
and on board of it is Ambassador
O'Brien. bound for Toklo."
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HORSES IN TRENCH.
l'he night police force had a some
what difficult task on its hands early
Sunday morning in extracting two t
horses from the trench cut by the I
Lundstrom sewer digging machine on t
North Twenty-eighth street, in which
the animals had fallen. One horse t
had turned completely over, and was
wedged in the trench with its feet in
the air. Ropes were put under the t
animals and by dint of much pulling c
they were raised from their positions. 1
The animals were running wild about I
the city and were at once confined in I
the city pound.
PEARY HALTS
NEGRO LECTURER -
ti
Servant Denied the Right to Use His a
Own Photographs Until Em- c
ployer Sees Them. a
COOK CONFIRMED AGAIN
Captain of Danishp Ship Admits He
Was Skeptieal Until Cook Exhibited v
Data.-Met Eskimo Boys Who Con. c
firmed Cook's Claim.
NEW YORK, Oct. 18.-The first lec
ture given by Matthew A. Henson,
who accompanied Commander Robert a
E. Peary on his recent polar expedi
tion, was marred by the fact that the
commander at the last moment had
ordered him not to use his photo
graphs which had been taken on the
trip.
Henson took 120 pictures himself,
and on his arrival here gave them to
the director of the American Museum
of Natural History, who transformed
them into lantern slides. At the last
moment, Mr. Peary instructed the
museum director not to turn the slides
over to Henson until Peary had ex
amined them. The director followed
Peary's order.
There were many Cook sympa
thizers in the audience and the negro
lecturer was questioned on many
points. Henson declared frequently
throughout his lecture that Dr. Cook
could not have reached the north pole,
and it is said that he would repeat
these statements in the lectures which
he will give in other cities throughout
the country.
CHICAGO, Oct. 18.-A special cable
from Copenhagen to the Record
Herald says:
The Danish government's Arctic
ship Codthab has reached here from
Greenland. Captain Schoubye, the
skipper, was the first man to meet
Dr. Cook returning from his polar ex
pedition.
At first Captain Schoubye said he
was a skeptic about Dr. Cook's story
and the doctor showed him his jour
nals and observations. The captain
knows a good deal about astronomy,
and everything appeared to him to be
correct.
Captain Schoubye declared he has
no doubt whatever that Dr. Cook
reached the pole. He made inquiry
among the Eskimos and obtained at
first hand a report from Dr. Cook's
two Eskimos. They both told the same
story about the doctor's polar jour-I
ney. One day after making some oh
servations Dr. Cook told them with
much joyousness, "We shall be there
tomorrow."
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WOMAN UNQUALIFIED N
TO BECOME A JUROR S
Unwilling Suffragette Could Not Send w
a Man to Prison for Stealing
Loaf of Bread.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 15.--Los n
Angeles unwittingly may find itself in f
the vanguard of the suffragette move- o
ment next Mlonday when the name of a
Johanna Engleman of Santa Monica, e
is called in department seven of the d
superior court as the first woman n
juror ever summoned in California.
.Mrs. Johanna Engleman is the widow It
of the captain of an Alaskan vessel. h
She is the mother of five grown sons
and daughters and is a taxpayer. Her r
name in some way got into the jury
box and recently was drawn with it
others.
Mrs. Engleman is not a woman s if
fragist. She says her father was a
states attorney in Germany and that
she feels qualified to act as a juror. 1
She believes, however, that women in
general might prove too tenderheart-lI
ed to administer justice in all cases.
She is quoted as saying that she could a
not send a man to prison for stealing
a loaf of bread and would probably
hesitate about voting to hang a man.
I'('AIIRREN IMPROVING.''
NEW YORK, Oct. 18.-Patrick H. .
McCarren of Brooklyn, has improved
sufficiently today to sign the two
checks, one a campaign cnotribution,
and one a gift to charity. He slept U
at intervals, but his pulse is irregular
and the weakness of his heart contin
lies to cause considerable coricern.
RAILWAY RUMORS.
It is rumored that the Montana,
Wyoming & Southern Railway com
pany will start a passenger train on
its road in a short time. The train
will make two trips a day from
Bridger to Bearcreek and will carry
the mail to and from the two places.
This will be of great benefit to the i
Clarke Fork valley people, as heretd- t
fore their mail has been carried by
the stage, and they received it only 1
three times a week. Rumor also has
it that the road will be extended to
Billings in the near future.
NOTI('E FOR PUBLICATION.
(Coal Entry.)
Land Office at Lewistown, Mont., Oct. I
15. 1909.
Notice is hereby given that John
Harsky Jr. of Helena, county of Lewis
and Clarke, state of Montana, has this
day filed in this office application to
purchase, under the provisions of sec
tion 2347, 1. S. revised statutes, the
SE/4 of section 14, township N., I
range 22 E. M1. 1.
AAny anttd all persons claiming ad
versely the lands described, or desir
ing to object for any retasont to the
I sale thereof to applicant should lilt
t their affidavits of protest in this office
on or before the 22nd dlay of Noveim
ber, 1909, otherwise the application
n may be allowed.
C. E. McKOIN.
Register.
LocalNews from Washoe
W. G. Duncan has accepted a posi- fo
tion as foreman for the Montana Coal ra
and Iron company. Ir
Mrs. Thomas Bowes entertained a cc
company of friends Saturday evening ai
at her home in East Washoe. m
H. S. Hopka, superintendent of the
Bearcreek Coal company, spent Sun- tc
day with friends in Washoe. r
Thomas Rae returned Monday to
his home in Gebo, Wyo., after a visit si
of a fortnight with relatives here. hi
John Lodge, who has been quite ill ,
with blood poison in his left arm, is n
considerably improved. ft
Mrs. J. B. Bean was up from Bridger s,
for a visit over Sunday with relatives, tl
cRev. F. A. Clarke was up from p
Belfry and preached in the Washoe n
Presbyterian church Sunday evening tl
and again Wednesday night. e
Thomas Burke of Helena is stop
ping for a few days at the home of
Thomas Good.
A large number of young people L
of Washoe attended the dance at the
Lamport hotel in Bearcreek Saturday
evening, which was as pleasant an
affair as its predecessors.
Dr. C. E. Belser has moved into the
emergency hospital on McCullough
avenue, where he can be found at all -
hours 'by those requiring his services.
Miss Margaret Sanderson and John v
Kohl drove up Saturday from Belfry, a
and after calling on some of their
friends here continued their trip toI
Red Lodge. t
Joe Bean and wife of Maustin, Wis.,
arrived Saturday for a short visit with i
his brother, W. W. Bean, and family.
Mr. Bean expects to locate in Harlow
town, Mont., where he has accepted a
position with the Puget Sound rail
road. V
The Washoc school was closed Mon
day afternoon to allow the pup'is and
teachers to attend the county fair in
Red Lodge.
Miss Inez Johnson and George Pen-1
nell of Billings visited friends in town
Sunday. Mr. Pennell is one of the!
pioneer civil engineers of Montana and
is looking as fit as ever.
P. A. Alvin and wife left Thursday
for Billings, where they will visit a
few days, after which they expect to
go to Los Angeles, where they plan to
locate permanently. They have re
sided here since operations first start
ed in this field and their many friends
will regret to learn of their decision
to locate elsewhere.
t Alf Landers has already formed the
Sburlap habit and may he seen any
morning trudging slowly along to
work with his feet carefully bandaged
in burlap. Frienlds never knew before
that he ever got cold feet.
At the last meeting of the Washoe
town council it was decided to lay
uniforlm perlmanent sidewalks the en
tire length of the boulevard, and work
has already been started on the inm
provements. This will add materially
eto the appearance of the thorough
fare as well as providing a great con
venience for the residents.
Charles Sederholm, William Shep
ard and William McMillan returned
Sunday night from a hunt on upper
Line creek with a nice bunch of ducks.
They also brought home a quantity of
d wild honey. which they were lucky
enough to find and which seems to be
unprotected by the state game laws.
Owen Holt wenit out Sunday on a
still hunt for deer, and started to
make the ascent of the Beartooth
s mountain directly south of town. Be
n fore he had succeeded in making half
of the climb he was confronted with
a black hear that appeared to the of
enormous proportions. Owen imme
.e diately forgot all about the deer bIsi
n ness and started for home at a lively
1 pace. He declares that this is the
W last time he will go on a single
1. handed hunt with a .22 rifle.
s Ben Rae and George McMillan have
tr returned from their hunt on Red
y Lodge creek with a deer apiece. Ben
h is rather a cautious hunter and in
sisted on staying all of the time with
f- the balance of the party. That he
a was successful in getting a deer was
probably due to the fact that: his com
r. panions gave him the slip one morn
n ing in the timber and Ben had to find
his way back to camp alone. While
s. doing so he spied a deer within range
d and brought it down with the first
yg shot.
y Mrs. F. T. Heron has returned to
n. her home in Belt, Mont.. after visit
ing C. A. Sederholm and family.
Miss Estella Good is visiting Miss
Martha Copeland in Red Lodge for a
td few days.
'o Emil Johnson has succeeded George
n, Anderson as local agent for the Sat
pt urday Blade and Chicago Ledger.
tr N. S. Poole was a Washoe caller
1- Friday.
Peter I. Krivokapich has entered the
employ of the Montana Coal and Iron
company.
Mrs. Alex Fraser submitted to an
a operation Wednesday which was ali
" parently successful, as she is resting
n as comfortably as could be expected.
in Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Williams drove
m to Bearcreek Friday and spent the
y day.
s. Engineer Dickman has completed
his work on the county roads and re
d- turned to Red Lodge.
by Rev. F. A. Clarke visited the fair in
ly Bed Lodge Thursday and went on to
SBillings, where he will stop a few
to days.
Henry Krook Is confined to his home
by a slight Injury received Wednes
day.
Antone Subick, Jr., has returned
from Butte, where he has heen visit
ing for a month.
John Tonioski is enlarging his resi
dence on Pennsylvania avenue and
adding a front veranda.
Miss Edith Holt was here from Bear
creek Tuesday for a visit at home.
Residents of Washoe were enter
tained every afternoon during the fair
in Red Lodge by observing the balloon
ascensions, which were all plainly vis
ible from here.
Miss Agnes Rae returned Tuesday
from 'ronlllerg. where she has been
visiting her sister. Mrs. W. E. Ross.
Ri. E. ('lark and Charles II. Royer
attended the dance in Red Lodge
Wednesday evening and relport a very
enjoyable time.
Dr. C. E. Belser is building a stable
for his new driving horse, purchased
recently from Plenty Coos, the Crow
Indian chief. It is a fine animal and
cost the doctor between $10 and $11,
and is guaranteed to be worth the
money.
Everyone in Washoe from the mayor
to the dogcatcher took in the county
fair in 'Red Lodge during the week,
inspected the big red apples, pump
kins and alfalfa and contributed a few
simoleons to the bookmakers. We have
heard no complaint about the amuse
ments furnished by the fair manage
ment, the opinion of all being that the
fair was a glorious success, notwith
standing the threatening weather of
the first day. That the agricultural
possibilities of Carbon county are
magnificent was fully demonstrated by
the prize collection of products on
exhibition.
BEARCREEK LOCAL.
AND PERSONAL NEWS
(Continued from Page Five.)
Mrs. L. M. Wright of Red Lodge is
visiting with her son, J. Harry Wright
of Bearcreek.
N. W. Staley & Co. are having a
large barn erected on their lots near
their warehouse
Ben Thomas and family took in the
first day of the fair at Red Lodge.
Mrs. J. J. France of Belfry was here
last week making arrangements to
start another boarding house in Bear
creek.
Frank Miller of Belfry was here on
business Friday.
I Clifford House and wife of Ohio ar
rived Friday to take charge of the
I Hardin barber shop. Mr. and Mrs.
House were here before their mar
riage and both made many friends,
who welcome them back to Bearcreek
with pleasure.
The dances held at the Lamport
hotel are becoming more and more
popular each Saturday evening. The
music furnished is of the best and
every one who attends these social
dances has a good time.
Raynmond IRobbins of Red Lodge has
accepted a position as engineer at the
Bearcreek coal office.
Billy Ba1uilow, who has been work
ing with Mr. Ferguson and Dr. Ham
menn on a mining claim in Sunlight
bIasin, has conl' back to lBearcreek for
the winter.
Mrs. Clark attended 'the Red Lodge
fair Tuesday.
Leslie Hlancock and wife and James
Allison visited on the Allison ranch
-;on Elbow creek Sunday.
Mrs. Bolivar, proprietress of the
Clark's Fork inn at Belfry, was a
visitor in flearcreek Thursday.
J.ohn Wellensgard and Cleve M.
Strawight. man:iger of the Allen Linm
her comlpan'v here, drove to Cody,
Wyo., on businevs Friday.
Eben Kennini.so. andi TItoIlnas Conley
1 will have charge of the Allen Lumber
company office during Mr. Straight's
absence.
N. S. Poole and wife arrived in
P Bearcreek last week and will make
their home here for the present. They
a have rented the bungalow owned by
0 Mr. Herford of Billings.
h Mrs. N. W. Staley has returned from
Billings, where she has been visiting
friends and relatives for some time.
h Messrs. Dickman, Donald Dunn,
Westbrook, Rollie and John Hender
son, who have been surveying the
county roads around here, left last
y week for Rosebud.
e Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Campbell of
- Glendive are visiting relatives on the
Oliver ranch this week.
e Mrs. C. L. Oliver and daughter
di Cathryn are visiting with Mrs. John
n Dunn of Red Lodge this week.
Johnnie Patterson and family have
1 returned from Cooke City, where they
a have been spending the summer.
s C. L. Burns, Jack Campbell and
Elzie Ogden, employes of the Mon
* tana, Wyoming & Southern Railroad
d company, had to stop over night in
e Bearcreek Wednesday on account of
a the wreck east of here.
t N. S. Poole went to Billings Friday
to attend the meeting of the Bearcreek
.o Water and Electric Light company, to
be held in Yegen's bank Saturday
evening.
s Mrs. Henry Ellingson ,and daughter,
a Miss Hilnw. returned this week from
Big Timber, where they want to at
te tend the wedding of John Ellingson.
^ Max Kohn, Billy Werts, Willie Free
bury, Curley Holmes and Gus Storken
cr took in the Red Lodge fair Wednes
day.
le Arthur Thompson, who has been
11 working at the Bearereek coal mine,
has rented the Tony Irwin house and
n will make his home here this winter.
P- Mrs. Thompson and children arrived
ig from Roslyn last week.
Misses Mandy and Ethel Owens took
ie in the Red Lodge fair Wednesday.
1e Dr. Siegfriedt went to Billings on
business Saturday.
,d .1. E. Capp and family have moved
e- into the Jurcak house.
W. Roberts, who resigned his posi
in tion as engineer at the Bearcreek
to mine, has left for his home in Pueblo,
W Colo.
L. M. Clark was in town from his
as ranch near Chance, Monday.
s- J. O. Higham, Frank Stearns and
George McCullough, three prominent
ad business men of Belfry, were here for
t- a short time Tuesday.
George Massick and Mr. and Mrs.
i- John Snell attended the fair in Red
d Lodge Wednesday.
Mr. Barkdol is out on a hunting
r- trip this week.
Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Staley and Miss
r- Amy Beggs took in the Red Lodge
ir fair Wednesday.
n E. E. Kennison spent Tuesday in
s- Red Lodge at 'the fair.
James Roane and family were vis
l itors at the Red Lodge fair Tuesday.
n1 Mrs. Anna Baker is helping her
mother. Mrs. Lebrun, at 'the Bearcreek
Ir hotel this week.
ge Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ilardin look in
ry the Red Lodge fair Wednesday.
Mrs. Middlesworth was up from
Ic Belfry on business Friday.