Milk River Valley news. [volume], October 25, 1906, Image 1

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Milk River Valley News
Vol. 3.
A PICTURE FOR TEDDY
CHARLE RUSSELL THE WELL KNOWN AND POPULAR COWBOY AR
TIST WILL IN A FEW DAYS PRESENT PRESIDENT ROOSE
VELT WITH A PICTURE OF BIS FAMOUS HEADHUNT
Within tbe next two or three weeks
President 'lhecdore Roosevelt will le.
ceive from Great Falls a fine oil painting
by the famous cowbcy artist, Charles M.
Russell. The painting will be a present
to the chief executive of the nation, and
will be sent with Mr. Russell's compli
m^STs.
'The picture is one in which the presi
dent appears as the central figure, and it
is believed that be will be surprised and
delighted beyond measure when he
receives the work, which ie believed by
many to be Rn.sela best effort.
This picture was painted by "Mr
Russell last year.. As soon as it was
finished it was set tto a firmin Minne
apolis and has been on exhibition in that
city ever since. Mr. W. T. Ridgley got it
back by express and it is now on exhibit,
ion in the window of the W. T. Ridgley
company, Central avenue and Second St
For two weeks the work will be on ex
bibition there, when it will be forwarded
to Mr. Roosevelt
The picture is Roosevelts famous bear
hunt scene and the idea was conceived
by Mr. Russell at the time the] president
took his big bear hunt in Colorado a few
years ago, under the guidance of l John B-
Goff, the famous guidp. Material for the
details was obtained by tbe artist by
reading in the newspapers of thia parti
cular circumstance of the hunt, and it is
said by those who were at or near the
scene discnbed in the picture, that tbe
details are very true to life.
President Roosevelt is shown mounted
on s white charger with bis ritle aimed
at an immense grizzly bear which the
hounds have just brought to bay. The
bear, which is busily engaged in fighting
off the d.gs, ie evidently unaware of the
presence of the hunter, who is about io
dispatch the animal wilh bis rifle.
It ie a rare picture full of life and
animation. The likeness of the presi-
REV. H. G. HANSON HAS AN ASSISTANT
Rav. Hear/ Hanson abd wife arrived
in the oity from Minueabolie Minn. Het
Thursday noon, on the North Coast
Limited and are at home to their many
friends in this city, at tne manee. The
following account of the happy affair is
taken from the Minneapolis Jonrnal of
the day of the wedding and will be
interesting to the citizens of Harlem
who join the News in extending hearty
congratulations to the young couple.
"A double wedding was solemnized
last evening at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Lafayette Cole, 811 East Fifteenth
street. The brides wire their two daugh
ters, Mies Marion Alice Odle, who was
married io Rev. Henry G. Hanson, and
Mies Phoebe Cole, who became the
bride of Vernice Fnnklin Ludwig. Rev.
G. W. Case of Portage, Wie . a friend of
the family, read the eeivice, which was
witnessed by only the immediate friends
and relatives. Mies Marion Clark
played the “Lohengrin” wedding march.
Miss Marion Cole entered first and her
marriage was followed by that of her
sister. The brides wore » bite and car
ried bride tores. After the wedding a
supper was served in the salvia-decked
dining room. The appointments in the
GET IT AT
C. IL BARTON’S
lIIEPARTIVIEIVT ^"tTORE
Buggies, Wagons, Hamess, Plows, Tents, Stoves
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Crockery, Groceries, Hardware, Dry Goods, etc
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NAZE USE EVERYBODY RIGHT THAT’S THE REZASOTVT AVE AREZ
ALWAYS BUSY
DEVOTED TO THE GREAT AGRICULTURAL, STOCK AND IRRIGATION INTEIRESTS OE' '1 HE MILK RIVER VALLEY.
dent, mounted upon his hunting horse, is
excellent. The scene is laid in a moun
tain canyon amidst a tangle of stunted
vegetation, fallen timber and hnge tim
ber as one would expect to come upon
an immense grizzly bear. In the dis
tance are seen tbe snow capped peaks of
tbe jagge’, towery mountains. The
coloring is fine and every detail of tbe
picture is brought out with faithfnl
minuteness, even to the muscles of the
hone, waich stand out tense, in the ex
citement which it ie evidently under
going. The picture is about 18x21 in.
in size and is mounted in a neat, gilt
frame. Full size reproductions of the
picture iu colors are on the market at $5.
each.
Mr. Ruesell has been devoting much
of his time to sketching of late, and his
work is being eagerly sought for by tbe
eastern magazines. He has also done
some new work in cil recently, having
painted several pictures for the Outing
magazine wffiile summering at lake
McDonald. The publishers have ex
preesed themselves as greatly pleased
with tbe work, some of which will
appear in an early issue of the mnga-
The Milk River United Irrigation
association will bold its annual meeting
in ibis city on December 11. Tbe meet
ing will be for the purpose of electing
officers for tbe ensuing year and the
transaction of other business connected
with tbe association. This meeting is
expected to be tbe banner meeting of the
yerr as it will be held at a time when
those mostly interested will be able to
attend. There are many new subjects
that will bediscussed and irrigationists
from far and near are expected to be
present.
Most people would be only too glad
to wear mourning if they could pick cut
those they had to wear it for.
parlors were in autumn foliage, palms
and ferns. Mr. and Mrs. Hanson and
Mr. and Mre. Lndwig left for Beloit,
Wis., to visit Mr. and Mre, Peter Hanson.
Mr. Hanson was formerly secretary of
the University Y. M. C. A., and is now
secretary of Beloit university. Rev. and
Mre. Henry Hanson will go to Harlem,
Mont., to reside and Mr. and Mre Lud
wig will make their home in Mishawaka,
Ind.
The Kalispell Bee reports that
Thomae Lavis . locating engineer of the
Soo line, accompanied by his assistants
was in Kalispell the first of the week on
hie way into the Swan River country
on his way to examine the grades and
passes. He was as communicative as all
railroad engineers and it was only
discovered by accident what his mission
was on tV® Swan River.
The Larsen-Phillips cattle company
received twenty-one cars of cattle Wed
nesday in this city. The cattle will be
turned loose on the range south of liar
for ths winter.
Even a woman who dislikes flattery is
pleased when her photograph flutters
her.
Harlem, Montana, Thursday. October 25 1906
THE PEOPLE PAY THE RAILROAD TAX
Every man in Montana who buys a
sack of flour or a side of bacon at bis
grocery store pay a tax to tbe railroads
that be would not have to pay if Gover
nor Toole bad not of done what tbe
railroads wanted him to do 19 months
ago, when he vetoed the raiload com
mission bill.
For twenty years Toole has been tell
ing us what a friend be was of the com
mon people anp what an implacable foe
to the railroads and other grasping
corporation. Joe tells us this so often
and with each apparent sincerity that
many of us believed it, but tbe test came
ana tbe first time tbe people needed him
he wasn’t there for Joe Toole drew bis
pen across the only piece of effective
railroad legislation Montana ever se
cur?d. That one stroke of Toole’s pen
was worth a million to tbe railroads
crossing (his state.
You and I, Mr Miner and Merchant
and Rancher and Fruit Grower, are tbe
people who must pay this million, and
we are paying it every day in the year.
Governor Toole tells us (be rerson he
played in with the railroads was because
the commission was a republican pro
duct ; and now to ratify his action, he
wants us to send him to Washington io
assist a republican president and a re-
CONDENSED LOCAL NEWS OF HARLEM
A jury in Ohio has found tbe Standard
Oil Comyany guilty of conspiracy in re
■traint of a trade and a jury in New
York has founu the United States Cen
tral Railway Company guilty of grant"
ing rebates to tbe sugar trust contrary
to law. Are tbe corpoi atiou lawyers
losing their cunning or are onr juries
beginning to find out that the laws of
the country are intended to npply to the
big as well as to the little offenders?
An extracrdinary demand for 10 cent
pieces has developed lately, so that the
U. H. treeeurer seye-be-ie unabie-to meet
it and tbe mints would have to be set nt
work to make them. The cry for dimes
is from every part of,the land, and there
has been nothing like it in tbe history
of tbe country. One theory of tbe
shortage, as held by a treasurer official
is that the people are so prosperous
that they carry the loose change in their
pockets in ordsr to bear it changes.
For the benefit of the sportsmen in
northern Montana the great northern
not only reduced the rates on Satur
days and Sundays to Bowboin but
have also decided to maintain a station
operator and the section house there
during the remaining season. Two
passenger trains stop there each day
both ways.
A certain Forsyth woman has liniment
which she claims is an infallable cure
for everything. Night before last she
became ill and told her husband tdget up
and get her the liniment. She applied it
properly, and it gave mutant relief. The
next morning it wan found that she had
used a bottle of greeu ink,—Forsyth
Times.
A North Dakota Newspaper in report
ing a wedding concluded with this
surprising announcement. “Tue bride
grooms present to the bride was a h«nd
some diamond brooch together with
many other beautiful things in cut
glass,
Quiet a number of our local sports
went up to Bowdoin lake Saturday
evening where they succeeded in bagg
ing a nice lot of ducks.
FROM THE BUTTE EVENING NEWS
publican congress to fight the railroad
and other corporations.
If any reader of Ilie News is contem
plating fora moment sending Toole to
Washington let him consider what Toole
will do if he is consistent. An important
piece of anti trust legislation advocated
by Roosevelt and passed by tbe bouse
comes befors the senate for its endorse
ment Perhaps it is a tie vote when the
name Toole is called, but at any rate it’a
Toole’s time to "make good," Will he
support Roosevelt, or will he serve ths
railroads? It’s a 1,000 to 1 bet he will
vote "no," and when tbe seseisn is over
he will come back to Montana for a
fresh ratification. He will write a long
statement of explanation to be publish
ed on the front pages of the Standard
and Miner, and after yon have analy
zed it and boiled it down, it will simply
state:
‘Let me explain this, my friendsand
fellow citizens: That bill was a fine
measure; it would have made the rai)
roads give you a square deal, but it was
a republican measure promulgated by a
republican president, passed by a re
publican ho^tse of represenatives, and I
Joe Toole,democrat of Missouri, Mes
tar.a and occasionally St. Paul, could
not and did not vote for it!”
To much praise cannot be given the
Harlem public school faculty for engag
ing the Schubert Symphony Club and
Lady quartette of Chicago to appear in
this on Thursday November 8. This
company is in its tenth year of success,
and is acknowledged everywhere to be
tbe most up-to-date mnsical company
traveling. Everybody in Harlem loves
music and everybody likes tj have a
good laugh. A delightful blending es
pure fun and fine music is one reason
why this company won ita way to the
lop notch of public estaem. It is said
that where ever tbe Ladies quartette
sing their famous "Old Maid Song",
which is especialy written for them,
there ie a big rise in the matrimonial
market. Tbie ieone of their most fetch
ing encores. To do justice to tbe ladies
of the quartette, we must intimate that
t bey are far from being the old maids,
they are young and beautiful and enjoy
the Binging of the triale besetting the
f our old maidens of their song as much
es the audience doea.
Mr. and Mre. Roger E. Spooner of
Chicago, were in the city Wednesday on
their way to visit with their eon Donald,
wbo is chief clerk of the agency. Mr.
Spooner has been for years superinlen
dent of the Indian warehouse at Chic
ago but has resigned that position and is
now touring the west for the benefit of
hie health. Mr. and Mrs. Spooner will
vieit for several weeke with their son.
The Chouteau county teacher's insti
tute, under the management of Miss
Agnes Atkinson,county superintendent
of schools, isin session today in Havre
and will be continued nntil S sturday.
The entire corps of teachers from this
city are present.
The beet prices for range horses re
ceived in Montana this year, was 8200
par head for a carload. The horses were
sold by Chet Murphy, of Dawson
county, to the government for use on
the Huntley project.
Abeut the only thing that can be
teuthfully said in favor of some people is
nothing.
FARMING A SCIENCE
NO MORE CROP FAILURES SAYS SECRETARY WILSON. THE PRODUC
TION WILL DOUBLE IN A DECADE. TEIS PREDICTION IS
CONFIDENTLY MADE BY THE GREAT AGRICULTURIST
Tb r m v ill I ( i o nc ie err p feilurt
This prediction is confidently made by
Secretary Wilson, whn knows more than
any other man in public life about agri
culture. Tbe secretaiy is anticipating
only normal conditions, such as weather
experienced year of ter )ear ; and does
not say that some great calamity in the
form of floods or of freezing weather in
July may not descend upon the earth
out of tome remote corner of the heav
ens.
“There have been material improv
wants in agriculture daring the present
decade,’’ said Secretary Wilson. “Im
portant improvements have been made in
agricultural machinery which are of
great advantage to tbe farmers. The
department of agriculture has, by exper
iments, demonstrated what can be done
in pieparing for climate fluctuation in
heat and moisture, and has made a study
of tbe soils of incalculable he’p to the
tillers.
“ It is not only possible, but practical
and is tbe general rule nowadays for tbe
farmer to study the soil be has to work,
and intelligently select tbecrops adapted
Tbe days of old, when year after year
faimers would plant tbe same crops to
gather fairly remunerative harvest when
conditions were adverse, have gone not
to return. The farmers now make it
their business to know what their lands
will do, and they utilize them to the beat
possible advantage.
“In 1910 the production per acre will
be twice as great as in 1900. This will
be due entirely to the advance which
the farmers are making in tbe direction
of selecting and methods. The work of
the department in bringing about this
result :a of sufficient importance to
war rent all rhe appropriations that have
been made during the last six years for
its maintenance.
“But the work of tbe department baa
not stopped with incressed acreage pro
duction. Agents have been at work all
NEW GUIDE BOOK FOR WESTERN SETTLERS
For the guidance of a large number
of people from humid regions who settle
on the immense areas of western lands
to settlement, the department of agri
culture has issued a repMt on, “Practi
cal Information for Bigincers in Irriga*
tion.” 'I here are several million acres
open for settlement in the west and irrr
gatiou works built by private enterpnse
and works being constructed by the
national government, will provide a
national water supply for more than a
million acres of arid lands. The report
says these are certain to cause nn influx
of settlers into western America during
the next few years. The report discusses
arid soils and water supplies generally
and describes how to locate and build
farm ditches, prepare land to receive
। water ,irrigate staple crops and how
much water to apply. “Experience
throughout the arid regions.” the report
says “Is demonstrating that the greatest
danger to irrigated lands is the lack of
drainage. Water supplied to crops
raise the ground water, which brings
with it tbe salts dissolved by the soil!
capillarty brings this water to the sur
face, where it evaporales. The only in-
over tbe world searching for crops best
adapted to conditions existing in var
ious sections of our wide expanse of ter
ritory. Lbey have brojgbt us crops
which bloom in the desert, and now iu
the arid tracts in parts of the west
crops are being produced where it was
thought only rattlesnakes, lizards cjuld
live.
“Irrigation is doing much to make
waste lauds fertile, but any experienced
farmer givt-n an abundant wnor supply,
which he can control, can produce good
results. What the agricultoral depart
ment is attempting is to overcome the
natural conditions. and I think much
has already been done in tbie line. More
will be done.
“When I say there will be no mere
crop failures, Ido not mean that every
seed each farmer plants will thrive and
produce,” said the secretary. We can
however, safely count upon sufficient
crops t.o supply cur own needs and leave
a surplus for export A flood may visit
some valley and acres of growing crops
maybe washed away. Locusts may, and
probably will, again appear in Kansas.
Hot wind will blow, biit wh will not
hear so much of tbe grasshoppers and
the hot winds in the future.
“I he grasshoppers will find so much
to eat that they will not be noticed, and
tbe hot windswill G.itl so much fresh
nnd green to blow against that they
will he checked and cooled. Speaking
seriously, however, the farmers of today
go about there work with cool delibera
tion and knowledge of what they can
Kiicomplißu. They ■elect tbe seed* of
tbe Craps they kuow will produce tbe
beet results upon the soil cultivated.
“Certain varieties of corn and wheat
I for instance, require more moisture And
J heat than others. Where the growing
। seasons a e generally dry aud hot
| farmers wdl not plant the corn which
| the farmer where more moisture
|isto be expected would use. Farming,
s fast bee >miug a a^iauca. if it may not.
ba eaid that it hsa ranched tbe stage all
ready. Scientific methods now widely
prevail. Deep plowing, soil iuvsetiga
tinn, seed selection, improved machinery
all corn blue to insure the farmers nt
harvest time of a fair reward for their
• toil and outlay.”
surance against this is the proper drain
age, but anything as economy is tbe
use of water and through cultivation —
that will check the raise of the ground
water or lessen evaroration will decrease
the danger.”
Frank McDonald, the popular sheriff
of this county, end wbo is again a candi
date for that office, was in the city tbe
latter part of Isst week visiting with hie
many friends. Mr. McDonald will
surely get a rousing voteinthisend of the
county as everybody, regardless of
polities, likes Frank.
H. O Turner, one of our most pro
gresaive business men. is having the
ii terior of bis Maverick saloon neatly
decorated, when completed it will be one
of the finest sample rooms in tbe state.
A.R.Stone, tbe new blacksmith,
moved hie family tbe fore pert of tbe
week from Chinook to this city. They
will reside in tbe Geo. Cowan bones on
tbe norfn side.
If we could see ourselves us
other see us what a disagreeable old
old world this would be to live in.
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