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BiDIAN FUNERAL
OF THE FLAW
DAMON RUNYON, LAST BIT
FAMOUS WRITER CEREMONY PHOVI
LAUDS MONTANA TO i¥EBLAii.T 0 IIB 8 STS AT FORT LARAMIE
REMINISCES
WHITER
FAMOUS
OP EXPERIENCES IN WEST
JUST A YEAR AGO.
Remembers Montana As a Great State
anil Montanans as a Magnificently
Hospitable People, Going Ahead in
Majestic Strides.
John O'Neill, who is associated
with his brother, "Tip" O'Neill in
oil development In the Kevln-Sun
burst district, returning from the
Olympic games recently, met Al
fred Damon Runyon in New York.
Runyon is the versatile young man
wlio wrote clever stories about the
Dompsey-Glbbons battle, before
and after, for the Hearst newspap
ers with their millions of readers
all over the United Stall's, and al
ways managed to leaven his narra
tives with golden words for Mon
tana and her people, for which he
is remembered most kindly. The
meeting started the flood tide of
Runyon's reminiscences aneut the
Shelby fight, in part us follows:
The Montana O'Neills became well
known to readers of the sport pages
during the troubles over the Demp
sey-Glbbons fight In Shelby.
They are well known young busi
ness men of Great Palls, Montana, of
a fine, substantial, western family.
They were active in trying to put the
tight over after the Shelby promot
ters had bumped Into failure.
The football player O'Neill Is a
good looking young man, apparently
typical of his fellow players. He sat
in the Friars grill room with Hyland,
Patrick and Cunningham, also mem
bers of the team, talking with Eddie
Kane, manager of Tom Gibbons, re
calling experiences In Shelby.
Young O'Neill says the financial
situation in Shelby after the fight
was not as disastrous as painted. Nor
was It due to the fight, as Is the pop
ular idea.
Shelby is still thriving, still grow
ing, O'Neill says. The celebrated
Mayor Jim Johnson, one of the orig
inal promoters of the battle, Is not as
impoverished, O'Neill thinks, as he is
described.
The Shelby bank that went down to
failure, has resumed operations.
Thus are many fallacies and inter
esting "aftermath" tales of the fam
ous fight dispelled.
O'Neill Is quite sure that it the
original promoters had not given a
misleading impression of their re
sources, if they had said at once that
they could not raise the money nec
essary to put the fight over, the busi
ness men of Great Falls would have
gone to their rescue and saved the
situation. As It was, the Great Falls
men did not learn of the real situa
tion until ft was too late. Had the
final instalment of the money prom
ised Dempsey and Kearns been paid
promptly, O'Neill believes,, with ev
eryone else, that the fight would
have drawn $750,000 at least.
As it was, the "gate" totalled
about $250,000, practically all of
which went to Kearns and Dempsey.
This is In spite of the fact that It
was by no means sure the fight
would be held until theearly morning
of the day on which It was scheduled.
Dozens of trains that would have
brought crowds from the Northwest,
from the Pacific Coast, were can
celled when It seemed certain that the
fight would be called off.
When Kearns finally decided to
take over the gate, which decision he
reached at three o'clock In the morn
ing of the day of the fight, It W'as too
late for people to come from any dis
tant points.
The decision was arrived at by
Kearns 1 nthe bath room of the
Chamber of the Park Hotel at Great
Falls occupied by this writer. Hype
Igo, and Ed Hughes, all there for
the purpose of reporting the fight.
At one time during the earfly hours
of the morning, Kearns and the Great
Falls promoter, had definitely called
the fight off. The news had already
gone out over the press wires.
Then Kearns, listening to the ad
vice of the newspapermen, called a
small conference in the bath room,
which was attended by all who could
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By Martha Edgerton Plassmann.
E were in camp for a day
or so in [uly of 1863,
short distance below Fort
Laramie to give ourselves and our
cattle a much needed rest, when
Harry Tilden, a member of our!>
party, and later destined to be a
victim of a Plummer hold-up, with
an air of great excitement came
into our midst announcing : "A rich
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old Sioux squaw is dead and they're
going to bury her today. Wouldn't
some of you like to go?"
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Bchtnd the travois which twice the remains of the Deceased, came a dozen or so of mounted squaws. They
filed past and we dropped In Ixdiind them, following across the Platte river and to the Indian Cemetery.
adventure—for adventure it was—
a relief from the monotony of camp
routine at once said that we would
go. When and where was the fun
eral to he?
"Most any time now, and it's
going to be at those bluffs on this
side—the north side—of the river."
he informed us.
"You'll he running a great risk
if you undertake such a trip," said
our infallible guide, "Even if the
Indians do not attack you for any
other reason, how do you know
they will not resent having curious
spectators present at such a time?"
"We don't know, but we mean to
find out ;" was our reply. "Those
bluffs are not more than half a
mile away, and you can watch us
through your spy-glass."
No further attempt being made
to dissuade us from our purpose,
we waited for the procession to pass
our camp, as we were told it would
do. A little after noon we saw it
crowd into this small space—Igo,
Warren Brown, then of the Evening
Journal, "Scope" Gleason, of the
San Francisco Call, and the writer.
It was there that Kearns asked for
additional advice, and the advice giv
en him was to go ahead with the
fight at all hazards.
It was there that Kearns formulat
ed the plan, generally approved by
those present, of taking over the gate
on his own account, and adding to
the money he had already collected
toward the promised $300,000 purse
whatever came in.
At 7 o'clock In the morning,
Kearns and a big crowd of newspa
per writers who had not yet been to
bed, climbed aboard a train for Shel
by, and the battle ground.
These will be pleasant reminisc
ences years from now for the mfen
who "covered" that fight.
They will recall, fondly, the "col
or" of Shelby, the cowboys, the In
dians, the hints of dire trouble, the
picturesque mayor, and the pictur
esque citizens, the dance halls, the
oil drillers, the sinister-looking body
guard headed by "Injun Bill," that
attended Dempsey Into the ring.
Men who saw the Sulllvan-Kilbane
fight at Rlchburg, Miss., love to re
call that tremendous event, In pugil
istic history as "colorful" In Its way,
no doubt, as the Dempsey-Olbbons
battle.
The writer Is pleased to learn from
Mr. O'Neill that the financial havoc
of the fight In Shelby was not as ter
rific as reported.
He found the citizens of the has
tily-made little town hospitable, affa
ble. He found them enterprising,
eager to do something to make their
little city known far and wide.
Perhaps It took the wrong method
of expressing that energy, that en
terprise, to the world. That is neith
er here nor there. They were trying
to DO SOMETHING,
than can be said of other communi
ties.
That Is more
The writer found the city of Great
Falls one of the finest and most
metropolitan little cities he has ever
encountered anywhere, the people
magnificent Inthelr hospitality, in
their eagerness to make one feel at
home.
He found the great Slate of Mon
tana. as he always found it In other
years, growing, going ahead in
jestlc strides, busy and prosperous,
up-to-theminute. It has always been
a great state, it will always be
great state.
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1 coming, and made ready to follow
jit- There was nothing funereal j
; 'bout the little group approaching (
ins. In front was a white horse
1 Rawing a travois and on this was
'aid a bundle of robes and blankets,
n which was wrapped the corpse,
By the horse's head walked a short,
j stout figure, swathed in a blanket
1 tirât covered head and body. T his
was reported to be a sister of the
deceased.
Behind the travois came a half
a dozen or so of mounted squaws,
all young and rather pretty. These
were driving a small herd of ponies,
Not in the least impressed by the
solemnity of the occasion they chat
ted and laughed like school girls.
When they were by, we fell in not
far behind them, our number aug
mented by a Mr. Cowan, the sole
man in the party. Cowan, who was
hunter, wore a revolver, not for
self protection, but from force of
habit. This was our only weapon.
The squaws apparently did not
notice us; but if we could have un
derstood what they said, we might
have learned that their laughter
was due to the way we were dress
ed. Certainly, from an artistic
standpoint, they were far more be
comingly attired than we women, in
our print dresses, the skirts dis
tended with crinoline, and our ugly
bonnets. I wore a "Shaker," the
front of soft straw, with crown and
cape of green haige. The front was
tunnel shaped and entirely hid my
face from anything but a front
view. The others had sunhonnets,
upon which the elements had done
their worst, leaving them in a loppy
state, without form or comliness.
Today others than savages would
laugh at such a sight.
The squaws kept steadily on their
way up the river for a mile or so,
when they did not veer to the right,
and the bluffs that had been men
tioned that morning as the site of
their cemetery, hut turned abruptly
towards the river and started to
cross it.
Off came our shoes and stock
ings and we waded after them. "Oh,
I see," said Henry, "they're going
to h'ist her onto one of those trees
over there," pointing to a thick
growth of cottonwoods opposite
us.
While we were putting on our
footwear, we lost sight of the pro
cession among the trees. However,
its trail was easily followed, until
much deepr channel of the Platte
we caught up with it, on what seem
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led to be the bank of another river,
but in reality a second and much
deeper channel of the 1 latte. What
we had mistaken fur the mainland
was a large island. This had en
aided us to overtake the squaws,
who were making preparations for
entering the river, by fastening the
corpse higher on the travois.
At that time, women and girls
were in possession of "lower
limbs,'' but no legs. Pioneers are
now living who can recall the re
mark of Mrs. Tuttle, on alighting
from the coach at Virginia City,
overheard, and often repeated by
that entertaining gossip the stage
driver; "Said the Bishop's wife,
'Well, I am glad of a chance to
get out and stretch my legs a bit,' "
She was probably the first woman
in Montana to admit she had such
belongings, and she was merely a
visitor.
Watching the squaws in their
progress, we saw the water reached
well above their knees. What
should we do* No bathing suits
were available, and those then worn
while modest, were not beautiful,
as is indicated by Henry Holt's de
scription of the costume;
"The women in bathing wore
bloomers and a loose blouse with a
skirt to the knees, and generally a
poke bonnet to protect her com
plexion, and looked worse than the
devil." And I may add that even
this attire was regarded as shock
ing by those liviing in the Middle
West. who observed the proprieties.
Fortunately it was out of our
power to assume this garb. "How,"
we questioned, "can we ever cross
that river with two men in the
party?" The men gave the answer
with a delicacy of feeling we had
not dreamed they possessed. They
preceded us and never once looked
back.
With sighs of relief, we again
seated ourselves on the river bank
and put on our shoes and stock
ings, with the comfortable assur
ance that we had reached our des
tination. Shut in between the river
and the semi-circle of low sand
hills, was the place of burial, or
rather, the place of elevation.
Many scaffolds, six or eight feet
from the ground, and securely fas
tened to four stout corner posts,
held boxes, in which were deposit
ed the dead.
It must have been this place
which Mrs. Carrington saw a few
years later. She said the boxes
used for interment, were frequently
those the Indians secured from the
traders, and the labels of former
contents, not having been removed,
gave an air of grim humor to the
scene. All boxes and posts there at
the time of our visit, were either
painted white or whitewashed.
The squaws had gone to one of
the platforms that held two boxes,
and at once began the work of
fastening another platform beneath
it. While this was being done we
found a good resting place on one
of the sand hills, where we could
watch what transpired. Many of
the squaws were near us, and scat
tered over the plain. Looking back
of me l caught sight of the black
eyes of Indian children, peering at
us around the hill, but quickly dis
appearing, when they found they
were discovered.
During the arrangement of the
platform, and the placing of the
new tenant box it held, the white
horse stood patiently, while its bur
den was removed and after wards
the travois. Then a mounted Irt
Liet Real Thrill When
Locomotive Whistles
In on Broadus Radio
Although Broadus, one of the last
of the real cow towns, Is 82 miles
from a railroad, a locomotive ar
rived there the other day with a
whistle and snort that made the
inhabitants' ten-gallon hats rise
Into the air.
The explanation is this: While
many miles of prairie separate the
cow town from the arteries of civ
ilization, yet that civilization, no
longer confined by such conventional
avenues as railraods, has gone to
Broadus by other routes.
First came the newspaper, "The
Powder River Examiner." Hardly
had the natives become accustomed
to this when Mr. Taylor, the store
keeper, installed a radio set—daad
eo In 'cow' language—equipped with
loud speaker.
The countryside gathered round to
hear the new-fangled thing. Mr.
Taylor tuned In and everyone heard
the announcer say: "This Is station
KFKX, Westinghouse Electric com
pany. Hastings. Nebraska." Then the
piercing whistle of a locomotive rent
the air, followed by the sounds of
the ringing bell, a hiss of rushing
steam, the groanings of the car
wheels, the squeak of the brakes,
then the dying moan of the escaping
air, and all was silent.
The listeners looked at each other
In mute astonishment. Almost It
seemed that a great throbbing loco
motive with Its long train of coaches
must be standing out in front of
Taylor's store.
It so happens that the broadcast
ing station at Hastings is situated
close to the St. Joe and Grand Island
station, and the 8:65 train was just
pulling in as Mr. Taylor tuned In. j
The windows were open and the!
broadcasting apparatus faithfully |
transmitted the sounds from the In
coming train. For years the Broadus
folks have been longing for a rail
road, but they never expected to have
a train come in ahead of the coming
of the roadbed.
tion, the old squaw could safely
transfer to it, and the colt—a colt
no longer—would enter with her
the Indian Paradise. The mourn
dian, who, until then, had been sta
tioned close to the hills in the back
ground, rode to the platform and
shot the horse, but did not kill it,
leaving it to struggle in agony
where it fell. Another pony, much
younger than the first, was in
stantly dispatched. A pretty sor
rel colt was then driven up, and
was shot with an arrow, by a se
cond Indian, said to have been a
son of the dead squaw. This In
dian then put the white horse out
of its misery.
At the same instant with the
killing of the white horse, the blue
blanketed squaw who had taken
position at one side of the plat
form, raised the death wail. Ear
piercing and tremulous, its mes
sage of sorrow carried far, and an
nounced the conclusion of the cere
monies. Everyone, including our
selves, left, the mourner alone re
maining.
A little farther up the river we
found a trader's house, and its
owner volunteered to enlighten us
regardin what we had just witness
ed. It is a wearisome trail that
leads to the Indian's Happy Hunt
ing Ground ; far too long and dif
ficult for an old woman to under
take on foot. If she rode, it would
not become her years to bestride a
lively pony; she would prefer, to
begin with, the one to which she
was accustomed — her favorite
white horse, so gentle and depend
able. But the time would come
when it would be too old to carry
her; then the young pony killed
having reached an age of discre
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IX. C. RULING WILL
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MEAN A SAVING 1Ü
STATE WOOL MEN
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MONTANA SHIPPERS WILL SAVE:
$50,00« ANNUALLY, SAYS
COMMISSIONERS' REPORT
Cut In Both East and West Bound
Kates to Take Effect on October
23, Next, Varying From 5 to 12
Per Cent.
Freight rat<*s on wool shipments
from Montana to eastern seaboard
markets will be reduced on an av
erage of 9 per cent, effective Octo
ber 23, next, as a result of the rec
ent Interstate commerce commis
sion order denying authority to
carriers to establish or continue
lower rates on wool fro mthe Paci
fic Coast terminals to the east than
from Intermediate points,... This
information was a part of a recent
report of the state board of railway
commissioners.
The proposed reductions will vary
from 5 per cent from eastern Montana
points to 12 per cent from western
state points.
would be reduced to $*2.02. These
rates would be subject to minor
changes In preparing tariffs over the
various workable routes, the board
announced. Another feature of the
commission order Is the compilation
of rates to the east on a single direct
tariff basis Instead of the present
system of computing rates from a
combination of tariffs from the var
ious terminals.
West-bound rates to the Pacific
coast were also ordered established
on a basis of 65 per cent of the first
class rates, present rates being figur
ed at about 60 per cent of first-class
rates. According to the board esti
mates only a small portion of the
Montana clip is shipped to the west
coast.
Taking an 18,000,000 pound clip
as a basis, Montana wool shippers will
save more than $50,000 annually,
the board announced. Under the pre
sent scale the maximum rate from
western Montana to Boston, assum
ing Missoula Is a representative point
is $2.73 ft per hundred weight, which
would be reduced to $2.42. Assum
ing Miles City as a representative
eastern Montana point, the present
minimum rate.from Montana to Bos
ton of $2.13% per hundred weight,
ing the trader said, often contin
ued for a month or more.
"Oh, Yes!" he continued, "They
fix 'em up alright for t he trip;
give 'em plenty of food, and if it is
a warrior, leave him a weapon or
whatever he might like to have on
his way. Funny, what queer no
tions savages have about death.
But they really do seem to care
when a relative dies; tear their
hair; cut off part of their fingers,
and the like. Sometimes I think
their mourning is as genuine as our
own."
Here he stopped talking long
enough to light his pipe, then con
tinuing: "Your camp's across the
river, isn't it? I've a boat down
here, and if you're willing, I'll row
you across." At thought of the mile
of river ahead of us, we were more
than willing, and were safely tak
en to the opposite bank by the
obliging Frenchman, who refused
to .accept payment for his labor.
Thanks to him, we reached camp
long before sunset, where we spent
the evening detailing our exper
iences of the day.
Jen A «Ida mu Wa« Crossing the Ocean on
one of her European trip«, and, having been
ill herself, started to sympathize with an
Irishman tu the second cabin
. who appar
ently was having a very active time.
Laying her hand gently on the Irish
man's shoulder. Miss Addums cried: "l
very sorry yon are so 111, my good man.
Your atomaeh Is onl ywcak that la all."
"Wake stummlck nawthln'," answered
the Irishman. "Ol'm throwln' as fur an
anny man on tbla aide of the ship mum,"
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^ uinE1 P Speeding Rast
On 5 , 000 -Miie Trip
To Cornwall, England
Chester Blm Clump, speeding
westward—alone—to visit his en-_
enormously wealthy Uncle Blm In
Australia, has rivals for public at
tentlon In the "Three Little Rlch
ardses," who are speeding east
ward—also alone—from Missoula,
Montana, to Truro, Cornwall, Eng
land, to make their home with
their grandmother,
But there is a difference. As the
readers of the comic sections have
noticed, Chester is spending money
like water on everything that pleases
him. On the other hand, when the
Three Little Richardses invoiced their
finances in Minneapolis recently as
they were passing that point of their
journey, they found they had $28.20
of the $30 pocket money with which
they were suplled upon leaving Mis
soula.
With no milloins back of them,
but something just as good—organ
ization and co-operatfon—the Thjye
Little Richardses are having just as
happy a journey as the Australia
bound Chester.
William Richards, aged 12, does
the talking to the conductor. George,
William's twin, is custodian of the
railway and steamship tickets. Grace,
aged 10, has charge of the cash fund.
Thus the three share equally in the
heavy responsibility of an unescort
ed pilgrimage of more than 6,000
miles. The Three Little Richardses
sailed from Montreal on the Ansonia,
Cunard Liner.
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$30,000 IN PRIZES
WILL BE AWARDED
AT THE STATE FAIR
EXHIBITORS AT STATE FAIR TO
BE WELL REWARDED;
A FINE PROGRAM
List of Events to Include Race«, Ac
robatic Entertainment, Musical
Program, and Fireworks Fach of
The Evenings.
Montana state fair departmental
officials, members of the executive
Iwiard and various suit-committee«
have started on an extensive cam
paign to perfect plans for the twen
ty-second annual exposition sched
uled to open at Helena September
23 next, and continue until Septem
ber 27, according to Information
recently given ont by B. T. Moon»,
head of the state fair division of
the department of agriculture.
Premium lists now being distribut
ed throughout the state show that
$30,000 will be paid in cash premi
ums In addition to the various rib
bons and other awards.
Dally programs include harness,
running and relay races, both men's
and women's relay races being sche
duled, numerous acrobatic enter
tainments, musical programs and
fireworks displays each evening
Auto races are slated for the open
ing and closing days with special ev
ents billed for September 25.
Special awards will be offered for
wheat and other small grains with a
view to establishing the importance
of raising a grain of high milling
qualities. Livestock and poultry
fanciers from all sections of the
northwest have made inquiries re
garding exhibition space. Indicating
an unusually large list of entries,
Mr. Moore states. Boys' and Girls'
Club work will be stressed at the
junior fair, entries being expected
from virtually all of the 264 clubs
organized In 33 counties during the
past year.
Special group gatherings and re
unions have been arranged by the
fair board for each of the five days.
Tuesday, September 23, is designated
as school children's and veterans'
day, Wednesday, as Montana Prin
cess,Great Falls, Gallatin, Kiwanis
and Northern Montana day; Thurs
day as coronation, Butte, Rotary club,
Deer Lodge, commercial and news
papermen's day; Friday as farm or
ganization. queen of Montana, pi
oneers' and Helena day; Saturday as
auto racing and children's day. Ar
rangerais are under way to establish
headquarters for the various units
in one of the pavllllons.
DEDICATE HUBBART DAM
TO WELFALE OF LITTLE
BITTER ROOT PEOPLE
The Hubbart Dam, near St. Ig
natius, was officially christened re
cently when Mrs. C. J. Moody, wife
of the Flathead project manager,
broke a bottle of Little Bitter Root
water against the spillway of the dam,
saying, "I christen thee, Hubbart
dam, to the welfare of the people of
the Little Bitter Root." James Her
bert of Poison, and P. N. Bernard of
Kallspell made the dedicatory ad
dresses.
After a picnic dinner which was
attended by about 260 people, and
served In a large mess hall of the
camp, talks were made by Mr. Francis
Goodwin of Washington, assistant
secretary of the Interior, Project
Manager C. J. Moody and J ames
Herbert, Mr. Goodwin stated that
he would recommend congressional
action to reduce construction charges
in the Little Bitter Root, to the am
ount that they would be If they were
»portioned over the whole project.
Hubbart dam Is a crescent dam,
90 feet high, 600 feet long. 24 feet
wide at the bottom, and five feet
wide at the top, and Is built across
the canyon of the Little Bitter Root.
This Is the only dam of its kind In
the United Stales. The dam cost
about $360,000, and will make a
lake three and one-half miles long,
making possible thelrrigation of 10,
000 acres of land.