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About The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939

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GIRL'S LONG TRIP
ON HORSEBACK
IS NOW ON LAST LAP OP JOUR
NEY COVERING EIGHT
THOUSAND MILES
Rode Down Pacific Coast to Califor
nia Into Old Mexico, East to New
Orleans, North to Virginia, Then
West Home.
ITH her faithful horse, La
dybird, companion of an
eight-year pilgrimage, Miss
Hilma H. Thingelstad has left
Butte on the last lap of a horse
back journey that has taken her
through 20 states and a part of
Mexico.
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Wanted to See Country.
Miss Thingelstad left her home
stead at lone, Washington, eight
. years ago. She had a strong deter
mination to see the country, but
had no money with which to fi
nance the journey, so she decided
to save railroad fare by riding
horseback, and she has literally
"worked her way
length and breadth of the land. She
left lone, a little village, 100 miles
from Spokane, and rode to Seattle
and down the coast to southern
California, into Old Mexico and
across Texas and the Gulf states
to New Orleans. Traveling north,
Miss Thingelstad spent some time
in Virginia, and from there went
to the Atlantic coast, working to
Washington, Baltimore, Philadel
phia, New York, Albany and many
other eastern cities. She came west
through the central states, arriving
at Colorado Springs last summer.
She left Encampment, Wyo., Sept.
16, coming up by way of Lander
and Jackson Hole country, and ar
rived in Butte Oct. 22, having
walked most of the way, because
her horse was saddle sore.
Miss Thingelstad is a native of
across the
Norway. She is tall, strong and
courageous, and says that there is
nothing she likes as well as travel
ing, and that the scenery appears
lovelier from the back of a horse
than from any other point of view.
When she reaches home, Miss
Thingelstad will write a tale of her
peregrination. And if she is suc
cessful in selling it she plans to
start out again to visit the 28 states
which she missed this time. Dur
ing the years she has been away
she has worked at many occupa
tions in divers places. During the
war she was employed in munitions
factories, and she has packed hops,
gathered and packed fruit, worked
as telegraph operator, as a waitress
and chambermaid in hotels, travel
ed with a show, worked on a ranch,
and earned her living and that of
her splendid horse, in many cities
and many states. During thou
sands of miles on the road, Miss
Thingelstad had not one unpleasant
experience.
"Everyone has been good to me,
she said, "and although we hear
much about the hospitality of the
south and the open-handedness of
the west—and I encountered them
both—the eastern people were also
good and kind to me, and I believe
that no self-respecting woman need
be afraid to travel alone in any
state in the Union."
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Livingston. — Edwin Martin, 16
years old, rode on horseback from
Dillon to Livingston recently, making
the trip in five days.
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CTIVITIES of the state and
county administrations of Mon
tana working through the state
college of agriculture, the farmers
extension service, the state depart
ment of agriculture and the county
farm agents of the several counties,
either independently or in coopera
tion with the federal government,
for the eradication of the grasshopper
pest of recent years, are but modern
repetitions of similar efforts made in
years past, before Montana's admis
sion to statehood.
Reference to publications issued
years ago bring out the fact that the
grasshopper plague is not new to
Montana, nor to others of the western
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states, but that the plague was so
general in the seventies as to bring
about the appointment of a federal
investigate sources
and routes of migrations of the grass
hoppers.
In the seventies, although the
grasshopper was referred to by many
as a grasshopper, it was classed by
the government as the Rocky moun
tain locust because of its origin in
the states lying along the Rocky
mountains.
Montana appears to
have been one of the principal breed
ing grounds of this vegetation de
vourer and the source of many im
mense swarms which migrated into
the states to the south and south
east.
Commission Investigates
In 1877, 1878 and 1879 an ento
mological commission composed of
A. S. Packard, Jr., Charles V. Riley
and Cyrus Thomas, provided for by a
congressional appropriation, made a
study of the locust in the western and
mountain states for the purpose of
devising the best means of subduing
the locust in its permanent breeding
grounds with a view to preventing
its migration into the fertile portions
of the trans-Mississippi country.
This commission issued two print
ed reports of which the second cover
ed the years 1878 and 1879.
The volume, containing 420 pages
together with a number of large maps
and colored pages, opens with a pref
ace from which the following is ta
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Psr-ksrri ànd Thomas in their
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the excessive increase 0 f the destruc
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its disastrous migrations therefrom.
"During the year 1878 the labors
of the commission were seriously in
terfered with first by an inadequate
appropriation unavailable until thel
first of July second, by the time r e-1
quired of Mr Riley in publishing our
first report- third by the warlike dis
position of' the Indians that year,
which rendered travel unsafe and
sometimes impossible in many parts
of the country to be exploited. Dr.
Packard visited portions of Colorado,
Wyoming Utah and Idaho, and also
received information from others re
garding the presence of locust» in
these territories, and especially in
Montana and eastern Oregon He
found that this was a normal year,
and the locust was found to occur
ken;
throughout all these territories
greater or lesser numbers, but usual
ly only In scattering swarms; still,
damage of a serious nature was done
to crops in portions of Montana and
Utah * * •
Locust in This Section
"He found that in eastern Idaho
locusts were abundant from the Utah
line to the Montana line, especially
Franklin and at Taylor's bridge, and
local swarms were noticed about Sho
shone Lake.
In Montana, local
swarms were destructive to farms on
Stinking Water river and Ryan's
Canon and about Bozeman and Sterl
ing as well as Deer Lodge. They were
also abundant at Virginia City and
on Sun river and on the Upper Mis
souri between Helena and Fort Ben
ton. They were also observed local
ly in the region south of Yellowstone
Park."
Under the caption: "The locust in
Montana in 1878" the report reads:
"From the statements of R. N.
Sutherlin, editor of the Rocky Moun
tain Husbandman, we learn that this
territory was not seriously molested
by invading locusts in 1878, as he
writes:
"Those that hatched out in March,
April and May did some damage in
a portion of Gallatin valley and the
Missouri and Prickly Pear valleys,
but when they took wings they were
fortunately carried away from us,
nearly all the swarms going beyond
the territorial boundary.
course was towards the southwest.
In the extreme southern part of the
country that is cultivated (upper
Their
Ruby valley), a small farming dls
T ct - a / e y, swarms stopped just as
"?® 0at fleld ® we / e beading out, and
d * d , * g ™ at deal Of damage. After
getting a taste, they seemed content
ed to remain, and did so, depositing
many e ggs. In a portion of Gallatin
valle y there were & swarms that
stopped and deposited eggs. Except
the valleys above named, there have
been no eggs deposited this year,
Cropg were generally good, and thé
value of the grain very large.. A few
farmers in the sections named above
suffered, but after all the suffering
was light compared to former years."
The re P or t then quotes two Mon
tana newspapers, as follows:
" 'Immigrant grasshoppers have I
made their appearance on East Gal
latin and have already destroyed sev
eral crops. They are still coming and
it ig feared they will do more dam
age than ever before. The hoppers
that hatched out in the valley ate up j
a few crops entirely and it looks now I
as though they would make a clean j
sweep, except under the mountains.' |
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gust 8, 1878. 1
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" 'Grasshoppers in various locali
ties are reported hatched and hatch
ing in myriads. In the grain sections
of Meagher county, in the Prickly
Pear valley and elsewhere, the pests
have shown their destructive
stlnçts, devouring the wheat and all
kinds of young vegetation. Farmers
are flooding their fields, and millions
of the insects in this manner
swept away, ther methods are adopt
ed to combat the encroaching insects,
the most effective, perhaps, being
that of scattering straw in the line of
approach, setting fire to the same,
and singeing the hoppers to a help
less state, or burning them to a roast.
Every product of the soil promises
this year to find an active home de
mand and it is to be hoped that the
farmers will exhaust every means in
their power to ward off an enemy
active in dissipating the fruits of an
"Prom the facts here presented it
will be seen that the locusts which
«r. th« loro tv,« ,,n
per Mi P ssouri SP Gallaün^ Pricklî Pea^
valleys, and' about Bozeman, con
stituted the swarms which from the
middle ot July the end of August
Valiev into*" eaateim'ldaho^ ÏÏTSto
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Cache and Malad valleys of Utah,;
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'It thus appears that the locusts
which bred in central Montana in the
spring of 1878 hatched from eggs
laid in that region late in the sum
mer of 1877 by swarms which came
important industry.'—Quoted by the
Denver News of June 11, 1878, from
the Helena Herald.)
"James Fergus writes us from near
Helena that in the spring of this
year, particularly in the lowest val
leys, the eggs and young locusts were
destroyed by the cold, snowy, freez
ing weather. Late in the spring fol
lowing an early warm spring, locusts
appeared on Smith river, doing, how
ever, little or no harm. On the Up
per Missouri river they did great
damage to the late sown wheat. On
Middle creek it is staated that fully
one-fourth of the entire crop is des
troyed by hoppers.
Migrate to Utah
v ellowstone and adjacent valleys ly
ing t0 the S0Uth -
"Owing to the vigilance and activ
ity of the farmers of central Montana
the damage done was light. The
followi extracts from the Rocky
,MI, Ä ,a Husbandman will show
how the J0ung unwinged locusts
and vanquished:
Steve Howes, near Bozeman,
bas rigged up a machine to catch the
grasshoppers in a bag. On Tuesday
rooming last, while the hoppers were
numb and chilled, he ran the ma
chine over eight acres of ground and
'bauled in five bushels of them. He
is Q uite dated over his success, and
feels confident of being able to save
bis crop, which, only the day pre
vioas > j» e bad been tempted to give
up < J|L despalr '
, J he farmers of the Missouri val
ley have been doing good execution
durin S the past few weeks fighting
grasshoppers. Thousands upon thou
sand s h ave been destroyed. Of the
man y modes employed, that of burn
in & manure and straw mixed is prov
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Blaine county's boys corn judging team which won first place in the corn
judging contest for boys held at the second annual Northern Montana Com
show at Chinook recently. In the picture: Sitting, from left to right—
James Staff, Leland Bosshardt and Warren Phaien; standing, County Agent
George W. Gustafson.
The future of Montana agriculture can not be otherwise than successful
so long as the coming generation continues to study scientific farming meth
ods as the boys and girls in this state are doing for the last few years, Blaine
county now leads as a pure bred hog county because boys and girls, three
or four years ago, organized pig clubs and through these clubs aroused the
interest of their fathers and mothers in the hog industry. The youngsters
shown above have been studying com culture and they know good corn when
they see It. This was proved when they won first place in a contest with
teams from other northern counties.
ing the most effective. The sides of
the field are protected by water dit
ches, and the manure and straw Is
scattered across one end in a narrow
strip when the hoppers are on the
move and set on fire and is burned.
The manure has a little straw mixed
with it that will burn for several
hours. We are informed by those
who have made the experiment that
they have seen the hoppers march on
until the burning heaps were a mass
of grasshopper cinder.
How Gallatin Pought 'Em
" 'As the season grows older the
war upon the grasshopper becomes
more general all over the territory.
On the Missouri river the conflict has
been long and fierce. The hoppers
came out early, and are now' almost
ready to fly, and should none of the
winged armies from other sections
in the will be
withstanding great damage has been
done. On the Gallatin it was thought
there would be but few hatch out.
The spring there being cold and
stormy, the eggs did not hatch; but
late advices inform us that during
the hot, sunny days of the past two
weeks they have come forth in great
numbers, and it is feared will yet
destroy the crops.
'' 'The modes of defense employed
have been greatly diversified and nu
merous. Where the land has con
siderable grade and w'ater is plenty,
water is the only weapon needed, but
if the land is level, then it is neces
sary to employ coal oil. The Galla
tin and Prickly Pear farmers have
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Th ® h p £ e ™' which are well
grown and would ferry a slow stream
with east ' are instantly killed by
£,° "'anantitv°of^nll Tenured 1 ?™°!!'
of oil required is small.
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^ been the most successful.
" 'The damage already done tak
tL teXTthroS«î" lll"l
; reach a fourth of the acreage sown,
an( j the defense continues as sue
cessful the remainder of the season
^jje harvest will be good. There seems
k e no probability, however, that it
will be so large as to produce a de
c ii ne j n prices. There was more than
double the amount of grain raised in
the Missouri valley list year than
there was the year previous, and we
believe the same may be said of many
other sections; yet grain bears a bet
ter prlce now than one year ago.' "
Few Hoppers In 1879
Then under the caption "The Lo
cust in Montana in 1879" the report
reads.
"This year the settled portions of
Montana were entirely free from the
locusts, either unfledged or summer
immigrants, as will be seen by the
following correspondence. Large
numbers of locusts were reported by
the Rocky Mountain Husbandman to
have hatched out in the Upper Yel
lowstone river, but they were never
heard from afterward,
C. Mortson writes from Fort
Benton that one very small scatter
ing swarm of locusts arrived there
July 21 from the southeast, the wind
blowing gently from that quarter;
" 'No eggs were deposited about
Port Benton this year, no swarms
afterward appearing. There is no
prospect now of this section suffer
ing from the locust in 1880, unless
by incoming swarms in July or Aug
ust.'
"Chauncey Barbour, editor of the
Weekly Missoullan, reports that
there were no locusts in the Missoula
valley in 1877, or 1878, or 1879.
William F. Wheeler writes:
" 'I have traveled all over Mon
tana this year, and it gives me great
pleasure to state that I have èeen or
heard of no migratory locusts or
grasshoppers this year. Our crops
have not been injured by them in the
slightest degree.. Some doubt about
our having them next year, because
there are no visible deposits of eggs.'
"W. C. Gillette writes from Dear
born, Lewis and Clark county:
" 'I have been during the sun nier
in that section of Montana lying be
and
tween River,
I have neither seen nor heard of any
locust flying over or slighting in this
region: in fact, the native grasshop
pers were very scarce compared with
previous seasons. I have not heard
of any damage caused by the locust
in other parts of the territory. My
opinion is that wo shall have several
years of freedom from this plague.
I have been in the terri* ory 17 years
and judge by the past.'
Urged Co operation With Canada
"J. S. Woodman, territorial audi
tor, writes from Helena:
" 'As this is the only year since
1872 that Montana has been exempt
from injury from locust, it appears
highly probable there will be another
immigration here In 1880.'
After having considered in very
great detail the habits, sources of
infestation of the locusts and the
successes already attained in meth
ods of eradication the commission
then took up the question of:
"Jn what way, then, can the na
tional government help to bring
about the desired result?" replying
to the self-imposed questions as fol
lows: •
"Tnerc are, it seems to us, seven
ways in wljich government action is
possible, viz: 1. By encouraging set
tlement; 2. By encouraging the build
of railroads; 3. broad schemes
of irrigation; 4. By guarding the
present timber and encouraging the
planting of forests; 5. By Judicious
burning; 6. By a permanent system
of observations and warnings; 7. By
co-operation with the Dominion gov
ernment (Canada) in these various
measures."
Thus it will be seen that while the
original commission advocated a
number of measures which are en
tirely foreign to the present system
of combatting the propagation and
migration of the grasshopper, it saw
the necessity of co-operating with the
government to the north of the in
ternational boundary line, just as the
present grasshopper eradication for
ces are doing.
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Hobson.— Sheriff C. H. Kelley of
Judith Basin county displayed his
fistic prowess with the efficiency of
a Jack Dempsey when he was called
upon to quell a disturbance created at
a Raynesford dance recently. Kel
ley knocked out six of them in one
battle to the delight of a crowd that
hadn't expected such an event on the
program.
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REPORT OP NARCOTIC LAW EN
FORCEMENT AGENTS SHOWS
NATIONAL SITUATION.
Fifty Percent of Drugs Consumer! by
"Fiends" in United States Is Smug
gled Into This Country Says Feder
al Prohibition Com. Haynes.
A great decrease in the activities
of drug traffickers in Montana the
last year is reported by Louis J.
Guerra, federal narcotic inspector.
He praises the co-operation of city
and county officials throughout the
state. A statement recently Issued by
Federal Prohibition Commissioner
Roy Haynes gives some idea of the
results accomplished by the federal
anti-narcotics agents operating under
the Harrison act.
The Statement,
"The Harrison act, while primarily
a revenue law, was never intended
as a revenue producing measure, but
for each of the last five years the
money turned into the treasury as the
result of fines and penalties, under
this law has far exceeded the annual
congressional appropriation of $750,
000 and at no time has the cost of .
enforcement equaled the appropria
tion.
"During the fiscal year 1923 a to
tal of 7,201 criminal cases were made,
93.6 per cent of those already tried
resulting in convictions and prison
sentences aggregating 4,692 years 6
months and 21 days. This is in ad
dition to 29,776 civil cases reported,
all of which was accomplished with
an average of 170 men, the limit the
smaller appropriation will permit,
who are allocated among 15 divisions
into which the United States, Hawaii
and the territory of Alaska are di
vided.
"There are on record in the United
States at the present time 286,466
narcotic registrants, consisting of
physicians, dentists, druggists, whole
sale dealers, manufacturers and im
porters of narcotic drugs, all of
whom are under close surveillance by
the federal authorities, in order that
no narcotic drugs imported and man
ufactured are sold and dispensed ex
cept as contemplated by the law. All
dealers are required to keep an ac
curate record of sales and submit a
sworn report to the Washington of
fice each month showing the drugs
sold.
Consumption Decreases.
"Suppression of the traffic in nar
cotic drugs since the passage of the
Harrison act in December, 1914, has
resulted in the per capita consump
tion of opium having decreased from
36 grains to 7 grains, in morphine
equivalent 7-8 of one grain, while the
per capita consumption of cocaine is
only 1-4 of one grain.
"It is estimated that from 60 to 60
per cent of the various narcotic drugs
consumed in this country by the or
dinary 'dope fiend,' or drug addict
are smuggled into the country across
our international borders and through
the various ports of entry on our
shores. To cope with this problem
would require a force several times
larger than that now available."