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WAS THF FIRST TO
ENLIST IN THE 54™
MASS VOLUNTEERS
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\ Resident of Montana For 43 Years.
"Uncle Alex" One of la-wist own's
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"Uncle Alex," as he Is familiar
lv known In là wîstown, where h<
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fir . y mîTorcd man uvln/ in îlle
Tu; en\lst°/n't h he^CWI*SS! and'
5 Ä- Ä =.sr is
Ml." Äm V..I.
unteor Infantry, ami the history of
that regiment was written by Lui»
F. Emilio, «nd comprises a vol
lime of about 150 pages.
It was early in 1863 that Cover
nor John A Andrew, war governor
of Massachusi ties, succeeded in oh
talning the permission of President,
Lincoln to recruit a regiment of <*ol
ored men In that state. Only three
colored regiments had been recruit- ;
ed prior to that time; General Rut
1er began organizing the Louisiana
Native Guards from free negroes in
the fall of 1862; General Saxton
formed the First North Carolina !
from contrabands in October of the
same year and Colonel James Wll
Hams had organized the First Kan- ,
Colored about the middle of the ;
summer of '62.
When Governor Andrew was given
his order by Secretary Stanton he
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SERVED
PERIOD OF THE CIVIL AVAR,
FROM 1H<13 TO 1 Stir.
Spend Lar.1 Days In (he East.
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"Uncle Alex" Branson,
Alexander
LcwisU; ivn Pioneer, Was First Col
ored Soldier to Enlist In the North
In 180.9.
Immediately set about toward
ganizatlon and at once appointed
Captain Shaw of his state as Colonel
and the post of Lieutenant-Colonel
given to Captain Hallowed, also
Both men ac
or
was
of Massuchusettes.
cepted .
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They were on duty in the south
at the time and Captain Hallowed
the first to start north to help
He stop
was
organize the new regiment,
ped en route to Boston to visit re
latives at Philadelphia tor a few
days and while there he reqruited a
number of colored men for the new
Massachusetts regiment.
Alexander Branson was the first
man to sign up with Hallowell, and
as no recruiting had yet been started
in Boston, he was in fact, the first
recruit of the Fifty-Fourth Massa
chusetts. So great was the senti
ment against allowing colored men
to take up arms that Captain Hallo
well was compelled to slip his col
ored recruits out of Philadelphia by
stealth, In small squads, and Bran
son was in the first squad to be sent
to Boston. He served until April,
1866.
Out of a former good-sized post
of the G. A. R. In Lewistown only
six living members remain and "Un
cle Alex." Is one of them.
Alex. Branson came to Montana In
1872 and lived for some time in Hel
In 1881 he moved Into the
ena.
Judith Basin, before there was such
a town as Lewistown, and engaged
In stock raising. When the town be
gan to grow he moved into Lewis
town and started a barber shop and
later was engaged In the saloon busi
ness, when that business was legal, j
He retired several years ago by:
reason of the Infirmities of old age, '
being nearly 85, and with what prop-!
erty he had accumulated and his pen- j
slon from the government he has
lived comfortably until the last win -1
ter when he was strlken with rheu-j
matlam and has since been unable to
help himself.
At this writing he Is preparing to
go back to the home of his niece, In
Pittsburg, Pa., where he hopes to
spend his remaining days in peace
and happiness, which he richly de
serves.
"Uncle Alex." has long been a
noted character around Lewistown
and all during the years of his res!
dence there has enjoyed the respect
and good will of the "white folks"
as well as his colored friends.
It was his greatest desire to at
tend the National Encampment of
the G. A. R. in Boston, this year,
and see the Boston Commons, where
he was mustered out nearly 60 years
ago, but Ill-health prevented.
"Uncle Alex." Is true to the type of
a fast disappearing contingent of our
citizenry whom all delight to honor
In their declining years.
l] S LEADS WORLD
INALL PHASES OF
TELEPHONE USAGE
.
New York Cttj Has More Telephones
Than the \\ hole of An> to '? |
Denver has more than four
times as many telephones to ev
ÏÂ
Snarly five times às many «s Furls.
SMS Ä ««
only two Title. wWih b.w •
population between 200,000 and
&oo,000—Omaha and Minneapolis—
have a greater telephone saturation
than Denver and, excepting these,
only one other city in the whole
world has more telephones per 100 of
population, and that la San h rands
co. r a l
Denver panned Los Angeles and
Washington last year in the race for
telephone leadership and Denver tele
,,bone officials believe that when the
next tabulation Is made public that
, lt y will be still nearer the top.
The nell gj . 8tem has just made
publlc its annU al edition of "Tele
phonB an( j Telegraph statistics of
the Wor id" which brings the fig
ure8 up t0 . JanU ary. 1923. Every
eoraparl g on that can be made shows
^ho unquestioned leadership of the
United States because 63 per cent of
a u the telephones In the world are in
country.
in proportion to population this
country has ten times as many tele
phones as the world at large. The
average American uses the telephone
nine times as much as the average
Englishman, and ten times as much
as Uie average Frenchman. There
lare more telephones In New York
City than In the whole of Great Brit
aln and Northern Ireland; more in
the city of Chicago than in all of
France In rural telephone devei
opinent, America stands head and
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r !
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HAS TEN TIMES AS MANY TELE
PHONES IN PROPORTION TO
POPULATION
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Pain
Neuralgia
Headache
Lumbago
Rheumatism
whichcontains proven directions
Handy "Bayer" boxes of 12 tablets
Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists
Awplrln Is th<* trade mark of Paver Manu
facture of Monoacetlctcldester of Sallcyllcacld
Off
Cape
Race
PRINQ passengers on
the great ocean lin
ers had the magnifi
cent but awesome spec
tacle of an iceberg more
than than a mile long
and towering 200 feet
high.
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But It was "in custody"
of a guardian of the sea.
A United States coast
guard cutter trailed It
incessantly and regular
ly reported Us position
to ships.
We like to feel that we
safeguard the shopping
safety of the community
—so that the risk of un
wise expenditure is elim
inated.
You will finds us con
scientious guardians of
your pocketbooh.
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A. C. M.
HARDWARE
HOUSE
Malm at Quartz, Butte, Mont.
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INDIANS OF HORTHERM TRIEES FULLY AWARE
0F WATER' S MEDICINAL AiP CURAT IV*
H UNTER'S Hot Springs, lo
cited in the Yellowstone
valîey near Springdale, 19
ngston, whicl f
s , )as , H . tn a favorite
' -, - , . resort for the
fc, S
popular among the Indians in the
j a y S pr j or to the encroachments of
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"tL Springs «ere ^covered by
Dr Andrew Jackson Hunter, who
tü 'thV c!Îil
of bodily afflictions.
Hunter had been a citizen of
' Missouri ami
Calloway countv, MtSSOUr .
had been possessed of lands ami
s l aV es before the war, but the close
f that conflict i,.f t him in finan
., raits j ]c lla d heard of the
' unities presented in the Cal
opportunilie. [ , , •
ifornia gold fields, and being
hacked up by a noble and cour
u jf e | le started out in
' ' j.u his wife ami
April, IMri. Willi ms. am
three children, the youngest a
babe in the mother's arms, for the
extrerae wes (
T , t ■ was ma <l e by wagon,
me trip nus y b
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shoulders above the rest of the
world.
This study shows that on January
1, 1923, there were 22,904,415 tele
phones in use throughout the world,
of which 14,347,595 were In the Un
ited States. Thus the American peo
pie, who form but one-sixteeu( a of
the earth's population, have at their
service nearly two-thirds of all the
telephones in existence. Europe,
with four times as many people as
this country, has only about two
fifths as many telephones. On the
date to which these figures relate,
there were 6,863,684 telephones in
Europe, or but little more than one
quarter of the world's total. All oth
er countries, including the entire
Western Hemisphere outside of the
United States, and Asia, Africa and
Oceania as well, had only one ninth
of the total telephones In operation.
s? r wÂLî'rr ä
during 1922, 620,670 represented
the net growth of the telephone fa
CUltl rm 0 U h SUt^ te 4X te First
In number of telephones per 100
of population, America's leadership
was even morç pronounced. There
were on January 1, 1923, 13.1 tele
phones for every 100 people In the
United States, as compared with 3.6
telephones for every 100 people In
Germany, 2.3 in Great Britain and
Northern Ireland, 1.3 In France, and
0.3 in Italy. Although Japan had the
best developed telephone system of
any Asiatic country, she could
boast of but 0.9 telephones per 100
inhabitants, even prior to the earth
quake of September, 1923. It Is
significant that these foreign coun
trle8 have all entrusted the develop
ment of their telephone systems to
government ownership, whereas in
the United States the telephone bus
iness has been energetically develop
ed by private Initiative. Telephone
systems operated by private enter
prise now Include 71 per cent of the
world's total telephones; only 29 per
cent being under government own
wlth 10.4 tele
Den
ership. Canada,
phones per 100 people, and
mark with 8.3 approach nearest
to this country In number of tele
phones per 100 Inhabitants.
lx a mls In Urban and Rural Telephones
In absolute numbers, New York
City, with 1,072,632 telephones on
January 1, 1923, was easily first
among all the cities of the world. In
fact, the American metropolis alone
had more telephones than the whole
of any foreign countries except Ger
many. New York's telephone devel
opment of 18.2 telephones per 100
people far exceeded that of Berlin,
9.3; Paris 6.3; or London, 6,1. At.
the same date, Omaha had 28 tele
phones for every 100 Inuabltants;
San Francisco
24.2 Denver. 23; and Washington,
22.8. The only Important foreign
city with a comparable telephone de
velopment was Stockholm with 25,4
telephones per 100 people.
In most foreign countries tele
phone facilities are even more re
stricted In the smaller communities
than In the large cities. Farmers'
telephones are almost unknown In
Europe. Telephone development has,
In many countries, been concentrat
ed principally In the capital cities
and large commercial
More than one-third of all the Brit
ish telephones, for example, are in
London; over one-third of all the
! French telephones are in Paris. ,
j Americans appreciate their unlpue
'telephone facilities and use the tele
phone far more than do other na
tions. During 1922 there were 174
telephone conversations per person
In the United States, as against 35
In Germany, 17 in France and 18 In
Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Minneapolis,
26.2;
centers.
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On retiring gently rub spots of dan
druff and Itching with Cullcura Oint
ment. Next morning shampoo with
Cutlcura Soap and hot water. Make
them your every-day toilet preparations
and have a clear skin and soft, white
hands.—Adv.
RADIOS
and RADIO PARTS
Batterie« and Tobe«
Repairing and Servicing
THE ELECTRIC A RADIO SHOP
4t9 Central Are.. Great Fall«, Mont.
and the party with whom Dr. Hun
ter traveled, met the old Cahforn
» trail on the Platte nver below
Denver, when it 500 wagons
were assembled. News of the gold
strike in Montana (then known as
Wjko), hadjujt ■?*****%
and many decided at once to ab
andon their California trip an
strike north for the new-found
"digmg.". Dr Humer and h.s lit
tie party among them.
day behindj.' RBozman on, the
ittlt ÄJÜS
■» lh ' P"«*. " Il,ch "' dud h '?, 16
men and the three Hunter cnilaren.
This band of pioneers crossed the
l Fourth of July
vvmu ver ; nt „
by converting their wagons into
boats and swimming their horses
and other stock, and, on the twen
tieth day of the same month the
Yellowstone river was crosed in a
Yellowstone rncrvsscrosea m a
like manner. I he present -iteof
the City of Livingston was reached
about ten days later.
J
1 he trip up the Wind nver re
vealed to the little party evidence
of some of the experiences which
were in store for them later. At
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one point they Came upon tne camp
of a party of Ireignters wlio nau
been massacred by a band of Sioux
warr j ors an( j they feared that a
«wiiteil ihem In the
"ke fate awaited them. 1
party was a young man by the
name of Porter, who resolved to
sacr ifj ce himself, if necessary, in
orc j er t determine the intentions
of the Indians. He left the camp
and advanced to the Indians who
met j^m j n a friendly manner,
H a Bomber of the warriors
no "V".' 8 pLnter
remained close to the Hunter
camp for a time and one young
buck attempted to steal one of the
„ r hildVen a bnv two vears
Hunter children, a uoy two years
of age, and he might have been
successful had not the child's sis
^ er d e t ec ted the little fellows feet
r , r ^ g , T
the Indian had wrapped about him.
Not ] on£ . a f ter t hj s t h e party
reached a point near the now fam
oue Hunters Hot Springs, which
had probably been known to the
] nt b ans for hundreds of years, and
rp( . n(rn : 7e A f or t u e nie dicinal and
»ecognizea ror tne meaicmai anu
curative powers of the waters. Une
day while Dr. Hunter was out on
a hunting trip some distance from
. " , hundreds
the camp, lie came UP 0 " nunureu
of Indians encamped about some
hot springs in which they were
r, « . «
teaspoonfnl
^^quals
of many other
brands/Arts rcly
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amond City in Confederate gulch.
Finally Dr. Hunter returned to
Bozeman, and in the spring of
1870 built his first house at the
hot springs, on a site just opposite
the present hotel, and this was one
of the first houses to be built in
bathing. Some of them were sick
and were carried to the water by
companions. Dr. Hunter instinct
ively realized the value of the
springs and felt that he had dis
covered a gold mine of a new char
acter. He staked out a claim to
the land surrounding the springs
and then proceeded on his way up
the Yellowstone arriving in the
then infant town of Bozeman, on
the fourth day of August, 1864.
The Hunter party later went to
Virginia City and later to Helena,
where for three weeks they had
nothing but meat to eat and the
children cried for bread which
could not be furnished because of
the scracity of flour. From 1865
to 1866 the Hunters resided at Di
the Yellowstone valley. He built
a dam between the cold creek and
the hot creek and in the big pool
both whites and Indians bathed for
years. Three years later, with
lumber that cost $80 per thousand,
and $60 for hauling, he built more
pretentious bathhouses.
The only Indians who frequent
ed the baths were Crows, who in
habited that part of the country,
and who were friendly to the
whites. They did not resent the
encroachments of the whites, the
only thing they protested being
the tilling of the soil, which, they
said, would cause the rains to
come and spoil the hunting sea
sons.
For years Dr. Hunter and his
family spent only their win
ters at the springs, being compell
ed to return to Bczeman after the
spring crops were put in for in
May the Crows went out on their
hunting trips and they were fol
lowed by the muderous Sioux and
Blackfeet. Dr. Hunter and his
family were several times attack
ed by these tribes.
'Tn those days I never put on
my dress without strapping a belt
of cartridges about me and I nev
er went to the door without a gun
in my hand," once said Mrs. Hun
ter while narrating early-day ex
And 1 could use it.
penences
too," she added, "and my daugh
ters could shoot as well as I.
They cou'd take the head off a
chicken wCh a rifle as far as the
bullet would carry. While the
Doctor and my son were at work
in the field and .my children were
locked in the house, all day long
behind a pile of rocks on the hill
I stood guard with my rifle and
watched for Indians."
The only harm ever done by the
Crows was one fall after about
4,000 of them had returned from a
drive upon the Sioux, they de
stroyed the doctor's crops and
drove off all his horses and cattle.
At one time several of the
young Indians became smitten
with the eldest Hunter girl, who
afterwards became the wife of
Captain G. C. Doane. One young
chief, Old Crow by name, called
at the house and gravely offered
100 ponies and 10 mules in ex
change for the girl. Mrs. Hunter,
in order to appease him, pretended
to take the offer seriously but
sought to impress him with the
idea that, being only 14 ,the girl
idea that, being only 14 ,the girl
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was too young. Old Crow thought
she meant that his offer was too
little and becoming angry and dis
gusted he rode away, after inti
mating that she wanted too much
for a mite of a girl.
At one time Mrs. Hunter saved
herself and children from a Sioux
raiding party by lashing all to
the backs of horses and swimming
the swollen Yelowstone, urefer
ring death by drowning to cap
ture by the Indians. On another
occasion she was compelled to
walk to Bozeman, the Indians hav
ing stolen all their horses. On one
of their trips they were caught in
a fearful blizzard and were out all
night without shelter. Mrs. Hun
ter saved the life of the children
by vigorous and constant rubbing
all night to keep the blood in cir
culation but she was badly froz
en herself.
In the meantime the Indian
troubles ceased and Dr. Hunter and
his family were left in peace. Af
ter all his troubles, he died com
paratively r poor man in April 1894,
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]
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was
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