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f. DT McCORMACK1( !Ice Cream SConfections : Fresh Fruit in Season. Cigars Make this your stopping place . . Culbertson, Montana eseeee . .... . **********************. S"*************************************_ Palace Saloon * SVOBODA & MAXIM. Proprietors. * Secceseors to Frook Steph.e. : Imported and Domestic Wines, * 6 Liquors and Cigars. * I " I Family trade, Picnic parties, Hunting and * * Fishing parties supplied. 4 " I * I * I " A portion of the trade of the I " public is rers tfully solicited I * I j Culbertson. . . Montana S"***************************"**""****"I POPLAR MERCANTILE COMPANY Moved to temporary quarters just west of former location. We handle a full line of Gro ceries, Provision, Dry Goods, Hardware, Paints, Etc. . . Local agents for Honor and Giant brand canned goods. When in town give us a call. We aim to please. Prices right and goods of the best. Courteous treatment extended to all Traders State Bank of Poplar Poplar, Mont. Capital, 25.000 Dollars Invites accounts of the people, assuring perfcbt service and every accommodation consistent with sound banking. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED neer Livery Barn *.wy Winch, Prop. bolihlr to A. J. Culwell. AIn the Livery Line. Hors BaIled hay for Mou s. FORESTPS Loss of Many Lives and lMllions of Dollars Worth of Property Reported A Dense Pall of Smoke Hung over the Country for Several Days During the Past Week The dense pall of smoke that t has obscured the sun in the vicini ty of Culbertson for the past week is some indication of the fierce for est fires that are raging in the mountains of Montana, Idaho and i Washington. The following dis patches clipped from the Great Falls Tribune tells the tale : Spokane. Wash.. Aug. 21.-Fifty dead in and aomend Wallace. Idaho; property los., $z.yoo.ooo. Fire has not enlarged ' area burned Saturday night. Mollan probably sate, but fires threaten. Elk City reported still unburned. Four or more dead in fires near New- t port. Wash. One hundred and eighty men in the for- F estry service are missing in the St. Joe C country. I Taft. Mont., had been burned; Saltese t is suroounded by fires; Deborgia and St. I Regis are seriously threatened; Haugan. Mont., is reported destroyed. C Solid line of fire from Thompson Falls, Mont.. for fifty miles to Idaho line, with portions of Belknap. White Pine, Noson and Heron burning. Conflagration rages in Gallatin forest, Mont. t Thompson Falls is in peril. Anatone. Asotin county, Wash., is threatened with destruction. Ymtr. B. C., is in danger from fires which are burning in the brush. Other fires are gainiun headway in that region and the situation is alarming. Avery. Idaho, destroyed and people are f n T.I.e. Wash. OVER VAST AREA Missoula. Aug 21 - Mercilessly and re lentlessly the forest fires in western Mon tana and Idaho are sweeping over a vast area, driving hundreds of fugitives before them, destroying small settlements and wiping out of existence millions of dollars worth of property. The situation tonight is more serious than it was to the early morning, except as to Wallace, Idaho. where it is believed that nearly half of the city will be saved. Communication with Wallace to the west has been possible at intervals today, but eastward it is entirely cut off and it is known that the entire east half of the town above Seventh street has been burned. West of that a hard fight is being made and with an improvement in the water supply there is a chance that the flames may be driven back. For a few minutes this afternoon the Missoula report er at Wallace had a wire. tie sumarized the situation as follows: "Thirteen lives lost; property loss. St. uoo,ooo; fire still threatening Elsewhere in the fire zone, the situation has gone from bad to worse today. The most serious ineident is reported late this afternoon from the St. Joseph country. where Ifo men engaged in the forestry ser vice are missing, and it is feared they have been burned to death. When the fire ap proached the camp. where there were coo men, two fire fighters took a horse and, riding the animal to death, reached anoth er camp and brganised a rescue party which penetrated the fire district at Bird Creek. Twenty of the men were found in the water where they had gone for safety, and they were unharmed. Of the remain ing i8o no word has been received. The forestry service has organized a relief train, well equipped with pack animals, carrying provisions and hospital supplies, and will endeavor to get through the fire. About tooo refuges have been brought into Missoula today. There is much dis tress among them. Their wants are being supplied by Missoula people, and they have been given temporary homes. The fast of the trains which came In over the Northern Pacific's Coeur dAlene branch brought the patients who had been in the Sisters' hospital at Wallace, and as many refuges as could find places an the small train. There were aso on the train, and a second train at eons brought as many more. Theme people came from the small towns along the line between here and Wallace. Many of them had been roused from their sleep by the people on the train. whose summons had been their frst leti mations that the fire was near; there had been no siga of it when the people went to bed Saturday aight. In most lastances thee folks escaped only with scanty cloth lug. A woman who had fled from her home at midnight gave birth to a child ins bus car just after the arrival of the rast train is Missoela. Local hospitals are caring for the sick. Misoula homes have been opened freely. and the homeless are in comfortable shape for the present. Another train with Soo people on board is expected tosight over the Milwaukee oead. A dems poll of smoke hangs ao ever wasters Montans. In Ulmosla it was a dark as midnight at s o'clock, the d ma emobt beleg giss a elad his. wM*o bed all the aassmhoed tha glow of ie, but which was lwchably due to the men. The towe df Taft, near the Idaho line. was entirely destroyed by daylight this morning. Salses just below Taft, has been abeandned by its inhabitants, and is knows to be rrsonded by fire. Debar gin Is serloeasy threatened. and eee man is missing. At St. Regis the fire has crossed the river and threatens outlying buildings, although no bars are entertained for the town Haughan Is reported to be destroyed. The last word from there was that the fire was dangerous, and tbh telephone operator was preparing to fee. The area covered as, roughly estimated, too miles queare, most of it in the moun tains and sparasely settled. It is diffaicult to obtain Ifeormation from any of the points, and it is Impossible to reach some of the isolated places at all. There is a probability that there has been serious loss of life, as there are prospectors, camping parties mad lambermen all through the mountains, sad the fire may havecome up on them while they slept last night. or ihey may have wakened this morning to find themselves cut of. Camas Prairie. a farming valley in the Blacklfeet country, surrounded entirely by hills, is the scse of a serious conflagration tonight. A courier arrived here tonight from therewith an appeal for aid. From Booner, so men were sent to help the farm ers and so more are going from Missoula. The fire came out of the timber, and is sweeping the valley. Grian and bay are being destroyed. Three more rescue trains reached Mis soula tonight from the west. The Milwau kee ran in two of them and the Northern Pacific another. There were soo people on the train, but none of them were in the distress that marked the earlier arrivals The last Northern Pacific train brought information that the town of Saltese, re ported earlier to be threatened, had caught fire before this train left St. Regis. From all dtrections come reports of death In the flames, but they are not authenticat ed, and it as not believed that there has been many fatalities. Two unknown men were overcome by smoke teday tn the for est near Iron Mountain. The latest word from Wallace confirms the earlier report that half the city is safe; the fires are yet ragtng in the hills, but the situation in the city is believed to be more satisfactory than at any time tn two days. A telephone message from St. Regis, re ceived in :Missoula at to o'clock tonight, says that the hre swept down Mullan gulch tonight and cut off the towns of Deborgia and Henderson The Mann Lumber Com pany ran its logging train down from Hen derson, bringing men and their families, after all valuables had been buried. These towns will doubtlessly burn. The old town of St. Regis is at so o'clock threatened; the fire as in a canyon and is only a mile fromn town, approaching rapid ly. The last equipment of the Northern Pacific in that section is being used to bring away the women and children from St. Regis. Most of the men of that town were at Deborgia, seven miles above, fight ing a fire there, and many of them most have been cut of. Two were killed in the fire in Wallace, a mail carrier named Boyd and an unknown man. There have been so deaths in the fires in the hills around Wallace, according to the forestry service bulletins. but no names are given. The fires which have swept around thecity of Wallace are now working their way up Canyon creek toward Burke. easterly to ward Mullan, but are not near enough to these towns to cause alarm. The Northern Pacific and Milwaukee have suffered the losa ef importast bridges. Missoula is tonaght the western terminus of both lines, Fires are serious in all parts of northern Idaho and in northwestern Montana. and the damage to railway prop erty is chiefly to small trestles. Overland trafic on both tines is indefinitely Iuspeed ed. The relief train which left Missoula this morning to assist Mellan. is held by fire at Saltese. being unable to go farther west, and is prevented from reterning by the de straction of a small bridge this side. The train is well equipped and no alarm is felt for its accupants. Since the above article was put in type reports from the. moun tanas are to the efect that condi tions are greatly improved by rain and snow which fell in the past three days. -Editor. They Have a DOmits Purpnss Foley Kidney pills - quick rdlist is can rl Kidney sad beader aflmms. Mrs. Rose Glaser. Terra Haus. Iad.. tRlls the result in her case, *MAtisr eslaeeig for say years from a uasiess we f huissy trouble and speeke each m obay Sor as called cares. I usem Foley EKidg Pill hbs osly mediciat glb pme am a pemo* seat carse. I as aria able t be up ain stisad a my wask. I aW a'mr bheobel be seo!mets te layo uu Csc Mr. MWihey seashed thbrelfg hp wbeat esop Saturday. Mrs. Wiasta and Mrs.L Leren -aday al at tie Cooke.. born. Mr. Chas. Clark waet to Baleville Sat urday to do some trading. The Jacobesn brothers are petting up hay on their father's claim. Ceraelas Beverly Suadayed at Mr. Coaua.'e a. the North Side. The mew mail carriers, Mr. Fowell sad Mr. Steeple. get ia an time with mail. Miss Alice Haaeee and sister Lilly call ed at the Keller reach Friday afternoon. Misses Loris Bale, Mary Moil and Nellie Steeple took a horseback ride to Froid Satu.day. Miss Clark. who is teaching the school at No. 6. is having a program by her pm pils Thursday of this week. M E. Barley and wife went to Bainville for shingles and ealls foa the new school house which is being built. They called an Mrs. Chas. Johnson on the way. We On Panama Canal has had one frightful drawback-malaria rouble-that has brought sulering and death to thousands. Thegerms cause chills, fever and ague. billiousness. jaundice. lea suede, weakness and general debility. But Electric Bitters never fail to destroy them and care malaria troubles. '*Three bot ties completely cured me of a very severe attack of malaria," writes Wm. A. Fret well, of Lucama. N.C.. "and I've had good health ever since." Cure stomach, liver and kidney troubles, and prevent tv phoid. Soc. Guaranteed by Valley Drug Ca " Lakeside Items * Aug 23, 19to. R. 0. Lunke went to Glasgow Tuesday morning. We are glad to see the smoke blowing away and will welcome the return of old Sol once more. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mathelslev of the Sweetman ranch spent Saturday night with friends near java. Many from Lakeside attended the dedi ratton service at the new Catholic church at Bainville last Sunday. The ,round of the steam thresher is again heard in the rand. We have net yet heard anything of the yield per acre. The government surveyors are with na looking ever the hills, supposedly for coal They are camping at the Lakeside ranch. Our elevator is growing skyward and at will not be long before the farmers in our valley can market their grain at Lakeside. Mass Flynn left last Tuesday for Spo kane, Wash Mrs. Sweetman and son Merrill went to Culbertson and spent the day with her. Miss Flynn departed on No. 3. Mrs. Margaret Mandlin. mother of K. H. and L. D. Sweetman, will leave on Wednesday for her home in Cofleeville. Kansas. She will visit friends near Kan sas Caty. Iowa. while enroute to h'r home. Mrs. L. 1). Sweetman will accompany her to Culbertson, where she will take No. a for the south. DIRECTORS TO MEET Two Exposition Cities to Unite Against Common Foe in New Orleans. San Diego has formally enlisted an the ranks of the San Francisco 1915 supporters, and has pledged her entire influence to secure Fed eral recognition of San Francisco as the official site for the Panama Exposition in 3915. Headed by D. C. Collier, Director General of the San Diego Fair, a delegation from San Diego visited San Fran cisco, where they were the guests of the directors of the Panama-Pa. cific Exposition, at a luncheon at the Fairmount Hotel. The San Diego delegation came north with the good news that their city had just bonded itself for $i,ooo,ooo to improve the 54oo-acre City Park, and to erect permanent buildings which will be for the use of the San Diego Exposition. R. B. Hale, acting president of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, pre sided, and Senator Stone of Mis souri, and Messrs. Frank L. Brown, Chas. C. Moore, D. C. Collier, J. D. Spreckles, Wm. Kettner and J. W. Sefton, Jr., were the speakers. Governor Gil lett, Mayor McCarthy, Gavin Mc nab and many prominent San Franciscans were among those present. D. C. Collier, spea for San Diego, said, "We are a to learn how we may best assist San Fsancisco's esorts to attain a victory at Washington this wina tsr." lmes. r at M~w C e.mm.p lU~ntýtAff a SSDH Culburtmna, Montana ,- Mot HARRY lL; DALE 1. w. Ortschl . Attorney At Law Wach Clock and Jewelry Office in First National Repairing Bank Bullding, All Workc Warranted C.*beete.o., " Ml.am ULBERTSON, - - UONTAN °n I N coU.i...- w.. F. D. McCORMACK U. S. huni so" John liurly ndraeo Emal ATTORNESY AT LAW Olasgow." Parlers IN Jervs. a O" L.e...r.srLZT'nad M..t Over the Family Thetr rnmd.l No.1k Dheb~e ot geeeee"e~"""Clbertson, Matm 60 WKARS' AND Wod al I ..., P i w e if If " name Iyae.mp / ý 'IR.. Pub. Ce auMiwb .. IL. ýYtlm.r~r ftatm t o"O M o.Sd~NM. b Nswdiw M. f- 08 I~ '..{ MISjj(h~'9m~m Nw med :'"°IL I@@@@@@O@ec ee@@eOObeOaeteeeeO eO " t o . - ý ". ý - :ý -ý " Bi0 The&~ Evn0oe C. S. STFFRD Prp Culbetson - - IN Mntan The Star MEAT MARKET Chas. Jarvis, Prop. Fresh, salt and smoked meats Fish and Game in Season All Equipment is New,. Clean and Sanitary Culbertson, Montana Montana Beer Hall MAX OONION, Proprietor Dealer In Wines a Liquors Imported and Domestic Cigars Pure i.quors for Family Use a Specialty. A Shame of Your Patronage is RespectfuUy Soiicitated. Cvlbertsoa, Montaa