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The Harlowton News
The Continuion of The Musselshell News
VOL. 8 RARLOWTON. MEIAGHER COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1909 No. 46
BUYS LARGE TRACT
Milwaukee Buys Landin Sweet Grass
County-Ten Miles East
of Harlowton.
The 7,000 acre ranch belonging to
E. 0. ulark and J. W. B'iley known
as the James Anderson ranch has
been sold to the Milwaukee Land
Company. The ranch lies east of
Melville about 10 miles. The consid
eration was approximately $35,000.00.
The Anderson ranch is located
southeast of Harlowton and about
ten miles east of Melville on the
Musselshell slope of the divide, and
is one of the best stock ranches in
the country. A very large percentage
of the ranch is tillable, and although
there is very little irrigated land on
it nevertheless it is well adapted to
dry farming methods.
There is some conjecture as to the
object of this purchase by the rail
road company. Some believe the
deal has some bearing on the propos
ed line to the Park from Harlowton.
Many are of the opinion that the
Milwaukee people are behind the new
road.
It is probable that the Milwaukee
Land Company will pursue the policy
in reference to this tract that it is in
regard to others, in that the land
will be divided into small farms and
Mrs. C.N.Friday Shot in Foot.
While picnicing in the country last
Sunday Mrs. C. N. Friday sustained
what might be called a lucky acci
dent. The party consisting of Mr.
and Mrs. C. N. Friday and Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Marrs were shooting at a
mark with a 22 caliber Marlin rifle.
Mrs. Friday was holding Lhe rifle
with the muzzle pointing downward
when it was accidentally discharged.
The ball passed through the fleshy
part of two toes. No other damage
was done. Elxcept for the inconven
ience of not being able to get around
for a time, there is no serious injury.
More New Wash Goods at Mar
shalls.
Louis Penwell was a passenger to
Lewistown Wednesday evening.
Johnny Grant, the Contractor from
Twodot, passed through Wednesday
on his way to Roundup.
Mr and Mr. W. C. Jenizen were in
from Shawmnt during the week and
took out a load of supplies for the
ranch.
L. E. Shepherd, the stock man for
the Milwaukee, spent several eays in
town during the week looking after
some railroad matters.
Ben Hines is doing some riding for
A. C. Graves. In the early days Ben
did considerable riding on the range
so that he is at his old trade.
The new are light has been installed
on Central avenue opposite the Mon
tana Lumber Company's office. Har
lowton continues to adopt metropol
itan methods of lighting.
MEMORIAL DAY
Lewistowa Will Observe the Day With
Appropriate Exercises-- Veterans
To Take Part.
Lewistown will commemorate Me
morial Day with appropriate exercis
es. Mayor Phillips and the City
Council have placed the matter for
arranging for the observance of the
30th of May in the hands of a general
committee composed of Alderman J.
L. Stuart, S. W. Pennock, Erank E.
Smith, J. W. Ackerly and James M.
Croft. This committee will appoint
sub-committees to have charge of the
music, program, decorations etc.
It is probable that the committees
will follow the usual plan. A pro
gram will be given in the opera house,
and then the veterans of the Civil
and Spanish-American Wars will be
invited to take part, and a parade
may be made to the cemetary.
Charity Ball.
Several of the local Elks have re
ceived invitations to a Charity Ball
to be given by the Elks of Lewistown
in the new Bright Hotel next Mon
day evening. Like many of the Elk's
social affairs the ball Monday even
ing promises to be a very pleasant
affair. It is possible that several
from Harlowton will make the trip.
sold. The colonization of this tract
i means an increase of trade for Har
lowton as the ranch is tributary to
I the town.
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Oil Stoves at Marshalls.
At the last meeting of the council
provision was made to secure a good
tire bell.
H. T. Bodine, the humane officer
from Billings, was in town the fore
part of the week returning to his
home Monday.
B. B. Blethen is building a fence
around his place with a gate opposite
the fire hall so as to make easy access
to the engine.
Arbor Day, May 11th, did not slip o
by without some observance in the b
town of Harlowton. Several nursery
agents made the town during the
week. and a few of the citizens t
bought some trees and other shrub- f
bery. B. B. Blethen has set out trees
along the street in front of his shop.
If all the trees planted this year ma- s
ture, the money will have been well I
spent as nothing adds so much beauty s
I to a town as does trees.
DR. ROSS LOCATES HERE.
Brother of E. F' Ross the Merchant Be
gins His Practice at
Harlowton.
Dr. E. F. Ross, formeraly of Ar
mington and a twin brother of E. F.
Ross, the merchant, has decided to lo
cate in Harlowton, and has already
established his office in the Graves
Hotel. He is at the present time at
tending his brother, H.e L. Ross, Who
has been on the sick list for several
weeks.
Mr. Ross is not a stranger in this
vicinity. His many visits to Harlow
ton in the last year or two has brot
him a host of friends. He graduated
from the University of Vermont in
1895, and later took a post graduate
course in the College of Physicians
and Surgeons in New York City.
After completing his medical educa
tion he practiced ten years in Massa
i chusetts. At the end of that period
I he moved to Armington where he
practiced for two years, and served as
physician and surgeon for the Billings
r and Northern Railway. Mr. Ross is
still a young.and vigorous man, his
r twelve years practice has brought
him a great deal of experience in the
medical profession. The people of
Harlowton will be glad to learn that
he has decided to make this his fu
ture residence.
Have Enjoyable Time.
Mrs. H. t. Hogl and Mrs. S. 0.
Johnston entertained a few guests on
Monday evening of last week at the
home of John Ross in honor of Mrs.
Clark and Mrs. Hughes who are
leaving the city. The evening was t
spent in card games and other amuse- t
ments. Supper was served at 11
o'clock which all enjoyed, after sup- c
per the two were given a handsome
souvenir of cut glass.
Those present were: Mesdames G.
Clark, H. Hughes, S. 0. Johnston,
W. Folwell, H.M. Hogl, W. B. Galvin, I
A. Anderson W. VanDyke, G. Lane,
D. Wright, J. Kremer, O. Rader G.
Gannon, Miss Davies and mother, 'Miss
Jennie Turney, Mrs. H. E. Marshall
and mother.
Burglar Nabbed.
Joe Cannon, (not Speaker Joe) was I
brought before Judge Detrick Tues
day morning to answer to the charge
of burglary and upon pleading guilty,
was bound over to the district court,
and ball fixed at $1,000. The burg
lary was committed some time Sun
day from a shed in the rear ot the 1
Hedrick home and the plunder con
sisted of different articles of wearing
apparel that belonged to John W.
Nelson and which he kept locked in a
trunk. The things were not missed
until Monday when "Jack" recogniz
ed some of his "glad rags" on several
individuals around town and he at
once became suspicious and notified
an officer who succeeded in rounding
up the culprit and landing him in
jail. Cannon was taken to the coun
ty seat Tuesday.- Inland Empire,
Moore.
TO PLAY LEWISTOWN
Harlowton will open the baseball season by playing
Lewistown on the latter's grounds on Sunday. The
team will leave Sunday Morning. The boys are all in
good condition. but have not had as much practice as
Manager Lewellin wanted before the first game.
CALKINS MAKES
APPOINTMENTS
Freight Department of the C. M. &
P. S. Has New Of
ficers.
R. M. Calkins of Puget Sound, traf
fic manager of the Milwaukee & Pu
get Sound road has wlade the follow
ing appointments which became effec
tive May 1: W. P. Warner of Butte,
as assistant general f reight and pas
senger agent. He will have charge of
the freight and passenger business of
the road from the western boundary
of Montana to and including Lom
bard on the east. His headquarters
will be in Butte.
F. D. Burroughs was appointed to
the position of assistant general
freight agent with headquarters tem
porarily in Chicago, later in Seattle.
W. J. Keeley was appointed divi
sion freight and passenger agent with
headquarters at Miles City, having
supervision over the territory in
North and South Dakota and in Mon
tana as far west as Lombard.
Hugh Chittick was also appointed
as general live stock agent with head
quarters at Miles City.
IV~n
President Taft as he appeared at
the recent dinner at the White House
tendered to western senators and re
presentatives, which Senator Carter
of Montana attended.
WORK AT SUMMIT
Large Gang of Men and Teams Are At
Work Reducing
Grade.
H. Spivak, who makes his head
quarters here and who is manager
for McIntosh Brothers of Milwaukee,
has supervision of a big piece of con
struction work at the Summit. lie
says he has about 250 or 300 men
making dust at the Summit, and the
work is for the reduction of the
grade. Mr. Spivak has been endea
voring to get hay for the large num
ber of horses that are employed on
this railroad work. The headquar
ters of McIntosh t'rothers will be
moved from Butte to tie Summit in
a few days.
Roundup's first city election was
held May 4, the independent candi
date, for mayor, J. W. Newton win
ning out over David B. Loney, citi
zens, by a vote of 140 to 71.
Dr. S. K. Campbell has been ap
pointed city clerk by the council.
Attorney W. C. Husband has been
employed to do some council work
for the city.
JEWELRY STORE
GOING UP n
E. F. Robertson is Building a Two
Story Structure on Cen
teal Avenue. A
Work has been started on the new a
jewelry store which is being erected E
on Central avenue by A. F. Robertson, sI
the jeweler. V. Antonish is doing b
the stone work and R. R. Lea, the P
architect, will have charge of the
wood-work.
The building will be two stories in ei
height and built of stone. The di- 0
mensions are twenty-five by fifty feet. a
The lower story will be entirely used
for the Jewelry store, while Mr. Ro- b
bertson expects to use the entire up- t
per floor for living rooms. a
The work Is progressing nicely and I
in the course of ten days the walls ai
will have been completed. It is said b
there is a larger amount of good tl
building stone going into the new ri
drug store, than has gone into any I
stone building put up in Harlowton a
yet.
Council Meeting.
At the meeting of the council
Thursday evening it mas decided to
begin work at once on building the
slaewalks. Engineer Sprague will be
engaged to drive stakes so that the
sidewalks will conform with the es
tablished grade. Property owners
will be notified by Marshall Karnop
to put in the sidewalks, and if it is
not 4Qne the city will proceed to do 0
it' and charge the property owners g
with the expense. JI
An ordinance respecting the atten- h
tendance of alderman at regular ri
meetings of the council was passed. R
At the meeting next Thursday night t
it is likely that an ordinance respect- ei
ing vagrancy and also an ordinance si
regulating the speed of automobiles h
and other vehicles will be passed upon tl
BUILD BIG WAREHOUSE
Milwaukee Road is Establishinlg a Wool
House at Lriai.
The Milwaukee company is erect
ing a big wool-warehouse at Lavina.
The building will be ready for the
coming wool season. This ware- i
house will be a great convenience to
wool growers in the the vicinity of
Lavina.
WOUND IS SERIOUS
Leo Simonton May Have Blood Poison
lag--Bullet Foed by Dr. Attlx
With X-Ray Machine.
Leo Simonton, the twelve-year-old
brother of Mrs. Rossman, who was
" accidentally shot last Thursday on
the Rossman ranch near Cruse, is now 1
r in the St. Joseph's hospital at Lewis
town. Dr. Attix located the bullet
beneath the knee pan. It was thought
at first that the bullet had entered
the bone, but instead it glanced along
t the big bone of the leg.
It was with difticulty that the mis
sle was extracted, and there is grave
danger of blood poisoning, which may
-rove serious owing to the fact that
r the wound is very deep.
Leo is a plucky little chap and his 4
friends all hope for his speedy recov- 1
e ery. He urged that his mother be I
not Informed of the accident, and
e pleaded that he be not sent to Min
e neapolis where his mother lives. Mrs.
. Rossman, who is with Leo at the hos
. pital, and who was the only person
n present at the time of the accident, I
r. carried the wounded boy to the rail- I
e road track, a distance of three-quar- t
n ters of a mile. A tramp carried him
the rest of the way to the station of
Cruse, where he and his sister boarded
the train for Harlowton.
S. L. Hodges made a business trip
to Martlnsdale the fore part of the
week, and while there took advantage
of the opportunity for some dandy
trout fishing. Sam is very enthusias
tic over Martinsdale and expects to
be cashier of the bank that is to be
establaised at that point.
NEW LINE TO PARK
Survey Is Being Made and Pros
pects Bright for Construction
This Summer.
There have been a great many ru
mors of railroad building this sum
mer in different parts of Montana,
but none has greater possibility of
working out in fact than the proposed
line from Harlowton through Mel
ville and Big Timber to Cook City.
A gang of surveyors, with engineer
Criss of the Milwaukee at the head,
are now working on a survey from
Harlowton to Melville. There iscon
siderable wealth and executive ability
behind the project which makes the
prospece particularly bright.
Chief among the promoters are the
Van Cleves, the wealthy ranch own
ers of Melville. It has been the plan
of these people for some time to build
a line from Harlowton to Melville.
Mrs. Van Cleve, who is a splendid
business woman, in a recent visit to
town stated that the line was
a certainty, that provision had been
made for capitalizing the scheme,
and at the right-of-way had also
been cinched. She also stated that
the Glass Brothers, who are big
rancners between Melville and Big
Timber are interested in the road
and are pushing it with energy.
A BOQUET.
Industrial Review Published in Iowa
Sizes Up Har
lowton.
The Industrial Review published
in Reclville, Iowa, in a write-up on
Harlowton and its industries has the
following to say:
"One of the best and most prosper
oup towns that can be found in this
glorious State is Harl wton. It is
justly noted as a town of beautiful
homes and as an unequaled place of
residence as well as being a busy
mart of trade. It is also famed as a
town where the occupants, more gen
erally than in other towns of equal
siZe, are the owners in fee of the
homes they occupy. Here are found
the luxurious homes of the rich, the
cozy places of the well-to-do and t he
cottages of those in the humbler, but
no less honorable, walks of life.
There is now offered by the place
profitable field in several lines of
merchandise. The trade is constant
ly increasing with the settlement of
the county, and the growth of the
town will scarcely know serious check
before it shall have attained a popu
lation of more than what it now has.
Its people make common cause
with those of the other towns in ad
vancing the general interests of the
county at large."
Track Team to Nissoula.
The Lewistown track team consist
ing cf Frank Wright, Ed. Johnson,
Army Collins and Leo Ivens, passed
through Harlowton Tuesday morn
ing on their way to Missoula, where
they will compete in the inter-scho
laqtic track meet, which was held
Wednesday and Thursday of this
week. They were accompanied by
Professor G. L. Wait and Miss Agnes
Trost acting as chaperon.. Miss An
nabelle Funk will represent iFergus
County in the declamatory contest,
Miss Elizabeth Von Tobel,. Pearl
Robinson, Harold White and Jim
Cannon were also in the party.
The boys say they are in the pink
of condition, and have high hopes of
carrying off the honors. They seem
to think they are especially well pre
pared for the sprints and hurdles.
Hold Hearing In Helena.
It is stated in the Gazette that the
board of railroad commissioners will
hold a hearing in Helena in the near
future on the question of a connec
tion between the St. Paul and the
Billings-Northern at some point in
Fergus county, undoubtedly at Ju
dith Gap. This matter was up be
fore the commission earlier in the
year and it seemed that then the
commission had no power, according
to an opinion of Attorney General
Galen, to force a connection of the
two roads. It is quite probable that
the late legislature has given the
commission new powers.
Fresh fruit at Marshalls.
There is a liklihood that the road
will be completed to Melville this
summer. The plan is to build thru
Melville and Big Timber to Cook City
and thus get an opening into the
Yellowstone National Park,
The ilwaukee company favor the
scheme and are lending all possible
aid to further it. It is thought by a
great many that after the road has
been completed, the Milwaukee com
pany will take it over, but until that
time the officials of the road will of
fer every inducement to help the in
dependent concern. The Earlings,
H. Spencer and R. M. Calkins are
among those who are interested. Be
sides this support, the promoters
have some strong eastern .ccnnections,
that are back of the project.
The new line will open up a very
fertile region between here and Big
Timber. It will also stamp Harlow
ton as the railroad center of this sec
tion, and induce more travel over the
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound,
and the vast region to the south will
settle up with greater rapidity and
the major portion will be tributary
to Harlowton.
Business Meeting.
The meeting of the business men
held in the irner Hall was not as
well attended as the former nmtetings.
The night being stormy prevented
many from putting in an appearance.
The only matter of importance to
be passed upon, was a request in the
form of a letter to the state capitol
building committee, that it was to
tihe best interests of the state that
the work of architects, contractors
and material men be selected from
residents of Montana.
D. I). Sparks of Miles City transact
ed business here the latter part of
the week.
A. C. Graves spent the fore part of
the week on Shields river where he
was buying several cars of cattle.
A. I). Jones, the Milwaukee land
man, spent Thursday in town. lle
looked over the Winnecook property
with a view to buying.
Dr. Tice came down from Twodot
Thursday In the big red automobile
belonging to Stanley Smith from
Smith Brothers ranch.. Stanley drove
the machine in himself.
George Pennell, the civil engineer
from Roundup, came in from Big Elk
Thursday evening where he had been
doing some surveying, and returned to
Roundup the following day.
The Helena Record has the follow
ing to say of the Martinsdale hotel:
"Mitchell and Sherman are the pro
prietors of a first-class hotel at Mar
tinsdale. The board is the best the
market affords."
ESSAY CONTEST
Prize Essay From the Eighth Grade
Pupils on "Early Pioneers" to
be Publigsed.
The last Friday in May of each
year has been set apart by the Mon
tana legislature as Pioneer Day, and
that on the afternoon of that day the
public schools of the state shall con
duct appropriate exercises in the way
of studying and discussing the pio
neers and pioneer history of Montafla.
The News offers to publish the best
essay written by any member of the
seventh or eighth grades in the Har
lowton public school on the subject,
"The Early Pioneers." The essay
will appear in the souvenir edition,
which will be out the first of July.
The essays must be in the hands of
the judges not later that the 28th of
May, must not be over 1,200 words in
length, must be legible and written
in ink on one side of the paper bnly.
Pioneer I)ay comes on the 28th of
May this year. There is quite a
large number In the seventh and
eight grades in the local school and
some good essays may :e expected.
Besides being a good training the
writing of the essay will in a small
way commemorate the day. It is
hoped that all the scholars will take
an interest in ithe contest, and show
the grade of the work that is being
done by the local schools.