The Western news. [volume], February 19, 1908, Image 4

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THE WESTERN NEWS
Published Every Wednesday by
MILES ROMNEY,
Editor and Proprietor.
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ilton, Mont., as second-class matter.
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application.
Official Paper of Ravalli County
To Advertisers.
The Western News absolutely
gnarantees its advertisers an actual
bona fide paid circulation within
Ravalli county two times greater
than that of any other newspaper
published in the known world. Ad
vertising contracts will be made
subject to this guarantee.
Wednesday, February 19, 1908.
The republican leaders m con
gress, disregarding President Roose
velt's urgent recommendations, have
deliberately adopted a "do nothing"
policy for this session. It is well.
A robber tariff and a rotten financial
system that has plunged the country
iDto depression being the chief re
sults of 40 years of republican legis
lation, the people should be thankful
that these fellows propose to remain
passive. Meanwhile, in November
next, a change cau be made. The
rascals may be turned out.
Spotted or tick fever after all is
largely a bugaboo unless you hap
pen to be the fellow who is speared by
the infected tick. Since 1885, a per
iod of 22 years, a total of 149 cases
have been treated by all the phy
sicians resident in the counties of
Ravalli, Missoula, Sanders and Gran
ite. Last season, out of a total pop
ulation of over 40,000, but i) cases
were treated. In Ravalli county
there are not to exceed six so called
infected districts. These six districts
do not embrace an area exceeding
six square miles. It should not prove
a difficult matter to ktep the domes
tie animals in these small districts
free from ticks. And, meanwhile, as
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fast as the brush and limber are cut
off ami the land brought under culti
vation the ticks disappear. Where
ever the* land is cleared off and
turned by the plow it becomes as free
from ticks as any public square in
the heart of Butte or Chicago. All
concede that the lands on the west
side of the Bitter Root valley are
particularly adapted to fruit growing
-—the very choicest, lands in the val
ley. Such lauds are certain to be
brought rapidly under cultivation and
the tick breeding places having been
obliterated the hoodoo will be noon
forgotten.
"M hat Women Will l)o."
Is the title of Harry Jackson's latest
and greatest play presented by the
Holden Bros. & Edwards company.
In speaking of the play the critics
throughout the country acknowledge
that Mr. Jackson has succeeded in
getting much of the color of Charles
Dickens' great story, David Copper
field, upon the stage. The play is not
a direct dramatization of that novel,
but is founded cu some of the princi
pal incidents, the action being placed
about James Steerforlh, Rosa Dartie,
Emily, Micawber, Peggety, Uriah
Heep and Hammond Peggoty, the
rough young fisherman in love with
Emily, the innocent young woman
who forsakes him for the promises of j
Steerforth, later to be cast aside. The
punishment of Steerforth, when he is
drowned during a hand to hand fight
with Hammond Peggoty, with u few
other scenes in which Mr. Jackson has
deserted Dickens, gives the play a
melodramatic flavor. The comedy
element is supplied bv the Micawber
family. The scenic effects are excel
lent, the parts are well played, and
The success of the play is demonstrat
ed by the applause and heJrty laugh
ter at each performance. "What
Women Will Do" will be seen at the
Lucas opera house Monday, Feb. 24.
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Stray.
Lost, strayed or stolen: One dark
red yearling steer. Brand 7A on left
ribs; right ear cut off and split. I will
pay suitable reward for return of
same or any information leading to
its discovery. G. W. McKINNEY,
15-4t Como, Mont.
home,
Locals.
Job. Satterlee is down from Darby.
Sid Edwards is down from Rye
creek today.
Ben E. Greenup did business in
Missoula yesterday.
Levi Swayze has sold the Tammany
barber shop to Wesley Walls.
Mrs. Mary Byrne and son Jack
drove over from Victor Monday.
Wallace McCrackin went to Butte
Monday tor a visit with friends.
S. Hamilton visited his daughter,
Mrs. J. T. Shannon, at Bonner Sun
day.
Mose Humble and brother J. T.
Humble arrived last week from Spring
field, Mo.
Will Cave of Missoula spent Mon
day with his old schoolmate, Charles
McWhirk. at Darby.
Cas sius M. Nichols of Burnt Fork
was a business visitor in the county
capital the first of the week.
Mrs. C. F. Daly is visiting her hus
band at Lothrop, where he has a con
tract on the Milwaukee railway.
V. Burch of Stevensville visited
relatives and friends in Hamilton and
vicinity several days the past week.
W. S. Burrell is down from Minera
Hill, where he has been working on
the Copper Queen during the winter.
About 20 local K. P.'s went to Mis
soula on the freight today to attend a
a social session of the Missoula lodge.
A marriage license was issued Sat
urday to Chas. E. Watson of Hamilton
and Miss Etta M. Wilkerson of Darby.
A marriage license was issued yes
terday to Kobt. Smith of Ellensburg,
Wash., and Miss Ethel Shook of
Darby.
John D. Forsyth is back from a
trip through Oregon and Washington.
He is thinking some of locating at
Roseburg, Ore.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Pres
byterian church will serve luncheon
at the home of Rev. Carr tomorrow
from 3 to 6 p. in.
Rev. N. Wakehain recently of Rock
well, Iowa, will hold services in the
Baptist church at Corvallis next Sun
day morning and evening.
Sidney M. Ward and E. A. Win
stantey have euch leased office rooms
in the Weiss building' and will refit
and handsomely furnish the same.
E. M. Williams of Darby expects
to leave tomorrow for Wert Cheshire,
Conn., where he has purchased a
small farm and expects to make his
A. F. Hobbs arrived home last
evening, hale and hearty, after a
pleasant sojourn of two months at
Portland, Seattle and other coast
points.
The Epworth League of the M. E.
church will hold a social and serve an
oyster supper next Friday evening at
Mrs. Trenary's in the Hart addition,
Supper 25c.
The marriage of Charles E. Watson
and Miss Etta M. Wilkerson took
place Sunday afternoon at 5:30 at the
home of the groom's parents in Ham
ilton, Mr. and Mrs. Miller H. Watson.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
Paul H. Castle of the Christian church 1
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in the presence of about filteen rela
lives and friends. After the ceremony
guests were served an excellent I
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the
dinner. The young couple will make
their home in Hamilton for the pres
ent. They deserve and will receive
the good wishes of all their friends.
Some interesting local history has
been exhumed and some diroll pas
sages occur in the trial of the water
cases. "Johnny" LaFontaine proved
a very entertaining witness. Among
other things "Johny" said that he had
resided iti the Bitter Root valley
52 years and had never before seen
Hamilton: He camped on the town
site years ago before the land was
taken up, but had never visited the
place again until now. "Johnny"
in his testimony said lie plowed a
ditch oti Willow creek in 1858. Asked
where he got the plow he replied quick
as a Hash, "I trade a band of sheep
to Major Owen for do plow in' u -
steal it from de government."
Marvin was
, Victor.
Victor, Feb. 17.— J. E
in Hamilton Tuesday.
Grant Kemp of Stevensville was in
town Tuesday.
Mrs. L. E. Baird is visiting friends
in this vicinity.
N. H. Sinead of Missoula was in
town a few hours last week.
Geo. Briggs of Missoula was a ous
iness visitor in town last week.
Lillian Warren primary teacher of
the Victor school is reported i".
Frank D. Taylor of Drummond iâ
visiting his niece, Mrs. E. Ewart. ,
Clare D. May, the piano tuner of
Stevensville was in town Monday, !
J. C. Conoway, agent for the Oliver I
Typewriter Co. of Seattle transacted i
business in town last week.
The home of C. B. Grilling was c
pl ete G destroyed by fire last Satifr
day they being able to save only a
few articles.
No one will be permitted to dame at
the masquerade ball at Burns' hall,
Hamilton, Friday, Feb. 21, until
11 o'clock unless masked. 17 2t
DIPPING CATTLE TO
KILL TICKS
Fighting Texas Fever and
Pushing Quarantine Line
Farther South Each
Year.
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FORT WORTH, Tex., Feb. 8.—The
"open" quarantine season, during
which cattle found to be free from
ticks, could be shipped to northern
pastures without dipping, has closed,
says a special dispatch to the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat. From now
until November 1 all cattle going
north of the line, except direct to
slaughter, will have tobe dipped.
Dipping vats at Fort Worth stock
yards have t een in operation all dur
ing the open season, as an inspection
is required at all times, and the tick
cattle dipped. Crude petroleum is
used for dip. A heavy increase in the
amount of work is expected with the
closing of the season.
Northern shipments have been com
paratively light during the closing
season, no bad weather having made
shipments from the north ranges
necessary. The demand for cattle to
be fed in corn-growing states for early
spring market has also been less.
The theory upon which the "closed"
and "open" quarantine seasons are
operated by the Federal Bureau of
Animal Industry is that during the
summer months the introduction of
tick-infested cattle to northern pas
tures would immediately result in an
outbreak of fever which would be de
structive to northern cattle.
It seems that in the winter months,
when frost and snow are on the
ground, there is but little danger
of the dissemination of the dis
ease, as the casual agency of
the malady, the boophiolus annutatus
(fever tick) can not live in extremely
cold weather.
It was known that a malignant dis
ease among cattle in the southern
states existed for years prior to the
discovery of the fever tick, whose con
tact with northern cattle resulted in
an epidemic which quickly proved
fatal. For a long time the exact
j cause remained a mystery, but the
fact prevailed that the introduction of
cattle from below a certain line of do
markation to districts further north
ward meant the destruction of north
ern cattle exposed.
And it was also known that disease
did not prove fatal to animals from
Texas, Mississippi, Indian Territory
and lower Gulf states, and this caused
many southern cattlemen to protest
that the charge of destructive agency
in their herds was a myth, and was
only a claim set up by northern cat
tlemen in order to discriminate
a gainst southern range-bred cattle.
The government contended that
disease of this nature actually existed
in southern cattle, and, while its exact
cause could not at that time be d
termined ' decided that some measures
should be ado P ted to P ro ' cct the herds
I iU non * infected territory from con
tamination therewith. At first it was
only an indefinite barrier, as tune was
required to determine exactly how far
north, in the tier of the southern
states, the infection among cattle ex
isted at that time.
It was not until about twenty-five
years ago that experiments conducted
by Dr. Shroeder at,<1 other scientists
in the employ of the federal govern
ment definitely established the tick as
the cause of the disease. Then the
work of con fining the malady within
its original limits was made more
systematic and effective.
During the last ten years much ex
periment work has been done, with a
view of discovering an agency that
would rid the infected districts of the
tick, for it has been established be
yond di >:>■• »bat the destrueSu n of the
fever nek will mean the elimination
of the disease from the United States
Lmie and sulphur . ips for cattle in
• ended for northern pas tut es were
first tried, but'they proved it satisfac
tory, because they killed more cattle
than ticks. In recent years the de
partment fias met success bv using a
dip in crude Beaumont oil. But even
this is not proving altogether practi
cable, the cost of the oil being so
great that it is difficult to get the rank
and file of quarantine cattlemen to
use it. Lately arsenic h..s also been
tried.
The Victor Concert hand will give a
, dance at Victor next Saturday night
-—Washington's birthday, Feb. 22.
! Music will be furnished by the full
I b ' intl ol - 5 pieces under the direction
i ot A. McLean. 18-lt.
Notice.
There will be a special meeting of
it Hamilton Lumbermen's union No.
109 Saturday night Feb. 22 for the pur
pose of elect ing a delegate to attend a
couvetition of the lumber unions at
Missoula February 24. All members
are requested to be present.
GEO. S. BARNHART, Pres.
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Born.
To Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Gardner,
Feb. 13, a boy.
To Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Duffy Feb.
13 a girl.
Four handsome prizes will be given
for the best masked characters at the
masquerade ball Friday, Feb. 21—two
for ladies antfi two for gentlemen.
They're worth trying for. 17-2t
Neighborhood Favorite.
Mrs. E. D. Charles, of Harbor,
Maine, speaking of Electric Bitters,
says: "It is a neighborhood favorite
here with us." It deserves to be a
favorite everywhere. It gives quick
relief in dyspepsia, liver complaint,
kidney derangement, malnutrition,
nervousness, weakness and general
debility. Its action on the blood, as a
thorough purifier maxes it especially
useful as a spring medicine. This
grand alternative tonic is sold under
guarantee at the Corner Drug Store. *
..CITY DRAY..
Kleinoeder & Hobbs
All work entrusted to our care wil
be speedily and satisfactorily done
PRICES REASONABLE.
PHONE 5F.
Leave Orders at F. L. Burns or J. C.
Brown's Store.
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Land Co.
List Your Land With Us
«, We Have Agents
Both
East and West.
Our
Correspondents
Want Land
And if You
Want to Sell
We Will Undertake
To Make the Deal
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Shannon.
Offices Opposite
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* Hamilton, — Montana
-" ■•■ Llne of EDISON
Phonographs, $12.50, $25, $35, $55
—Records, 35 Cents Each___
Phonograph, sold on installments of
$1 per week or $5 per month.
i The effect of Scott 9 j Emulsion on thin,
pale chd iren is magical.
It ro ires them plump, rosy, active, happy.
Itconlains Cod Liver Oil Hypophosphites
and Glycerine, to make fat, blood and bone
and so put together that it is easily digested
by little folk.
ALL DRUGGISTS; 50c. AND $1.00,
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The Following February Records
Have been received nt
ROBERTS'
A Summer Evening in the Alps
Edison Concert Bund
Somebody's Been Around Here
Since I've been Gone Billy Murray
I Love You So
Miss Hinkle & Mr. Miller
The Crack Regimeut Patrol
Edison Symphony Orchestra
Garbaildi James Brockman
Don't Worry Miller &Werrcnrath
Under the Matzos Tree Ada Jones
The Girls of America March
Albert Benzler
Take ,Vith you in Your Dreams
Harry Anthony
Rain-in-the-Face Collins & Harlan
When the Violets Bloom Irving Gillette
The Outpost March
Edison Military Baud
Will He Answer "Goo Goo"? StellaTobin
He Lifted Me Anthony & Harrison
Romance and Reality Edward M. Favor
American Polka John Kimmblo
I Miss You Like the Roses Miss
the Ruin Reed Miller
The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane
Edison Male Quartette
imllalion of Amateur Night at the
Vaudeville Steve Porter
The Smiler Vess L. Ossman
Two Little Baby Shoes Byron G, Harlan
August and Katrina
Ada Jones and Len Spencer
Much Obliged to You Aathur Colli ns
King of Rags Edison Military Band
Book Store
DR, RINEHART
The Anaconda Dentist
Will be at the MOTEL HAMILTON from
FEB. 17 to MARCH
Second
Trip
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My Price List and Work Guaranteed
Patching oid Rubber Plates a specialty.....................51 50 and up
Full upper and lower set teeth. Red Rubber.........................S7.50
Teeth without plates, crown ai d bridge work and gold fillings are inv
specialties. Solid gold cr- wns, 22 karat fine.....................$6 50
Porcelain crowns, natural as your own teeth ......................$6.50
Capping tobacco worn *eeih a specialty. Pure silver fillings........SI.00
White Alloy fillings composed < 1 gold, silver and platira........>...$1.50
Bone cement fillings... .$1 00. Diamond Dust cement fillings.......SI.50
TEETH EXTRACTED BY PAINLESS METHOD.
Df* Rindlcirt? The Anaconda Dentist.
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Tafcrcsi Paid oa tm Depots.
DRAFTS AND MONEY ORDERS SOLD ON ALL PARTS OF
THE WORLD.
L Hcmi.j;. President R. A. O'Hara. Vice Piesiden
O. C. Cooper , Cashier
! Get Your Order in Early
Lettuce and Celery on Wednesdays
and Saturdays, and Fresh Fish,
Crabs and Shrimp on Fridays. ]
H City Meat Market s. a. miieeelr, ?rop. p
Stop!
ou forget
the
Niftiest Samples
Before you forget it
And see the
Of men's Spring and Summer Suits
ever shown in the Bitter Root.
Kid Glove Fit Guaranteed
F. BEAUDETTE,
Opposite the Western News Office.
> When» You Wish to
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M and we can fix you out.
W Stable in rear of hotel Hamilton
PETERSON & CO.,
. Hamilton