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I ortunc I lidden Among Rocks Along Snake Ricer Bg Little Dog, Piegan Chief, Has Neuer Been Found By ELNO Somewhere along the Snake river in southern Idaho is a box of " brass buttons without eyes awaiting the lucky finder. It has been there, unless wind and water and erosion have moved the box and scattered its contents, for the better part of 100 years. Chief Little Dog of the Piegan Indians, back around 1845, couldn't see any value in "brass buttons without eyes." But something more than 20 years later he learned that such "buttons," they were gold coins, represented highly valued wealth by the white man's standards. The trouble was that when Little Dog looted a wagon of the box of "buttons" the only white men he knew were the fur trappers and the traders at the American Pur Co. forts. And "brass buttons without eyes" were not a medium of exchange in dealing with the Indians. In 1843 a small Indians, of which branch, had wandered down to Port Hall, and they were deeply astonished to see a huge train of wagons—121 of them—drawn by 698 oxen, moving« across the country some distance away. History records that this train, one of the earliest of the overland Oregon caravans, had around 1,000 people in It Besides the 698 oken drawing the wagons there were 296 horses and 973 loose cattle. It was a sight which awed the Indians, none of whom had seen more white men together than the small trading parties around the fur forts. party of Blackfeet the Piegans are _ ÎS Investigate When the Blackfeet returned to their home country along the upper Mis souri, they told thelrpeople of the many white people they had sera across the country In their wheeled _ _ , . a * rea A, b ~ ve 8110 a "SSWUr H e . decided to see for hlm 116 «ïïi *Jir® ^LP° against his red^ enemies and the pax ol white trappers not connected With t dlrwiS Pl h 1 p y ' wanted to measure weaoons^with the^lte men^TX ÄTSf 7 his skill with a I He well doîm the Snake rivra aloSf the new Oregon trail. Selecting his battle ground, lie disposed his Graves ln a favorable position and impatiently aw^ted the coming of an emigrant tra1 "* At last, over the prairie appeared the white tops of the covered wagons S&SsÄ?S%3 Ä'SS.'SSÄ was believed the greatest danger had wtCÄÄÄ of an ambuscade. J52J JJ barrage of savage yelk, a rush by Little Dog and his warriors, and there was not a white person left to toll the tale of cruel butchery. Looting naturally followed the battle. for the white men's wheeled lodges, hadleamed were richly en LUtle D^' b£.v£ niuhlrt « triflnw ffiÏÏS rlvraSto^afffi j? u^! ÄÄÄ« ,oula .amg a the^<l|ns to ™nltï. Tradition, however, has preserved the story oi Little Dog's small estimate of the value of the "brass buttons without eyes." He found In one of the wagons of the massacred caravan, stowed careful Mfi J/S. I V [»I»] THE f&mv SimdoSUlit/Lf PINT QUART »(•ndftdWhWwy »0 Proof. 75% Groin Nu irai Spirit«. Copyright 1939. Th» WIUumi Family, Nie. Aladdin, Schonley F. O, P*on«ytvanla « j ! j j ! 1 A Globe Trotter's Sketch Book fi n W99 III K ; ! ; L 3 ■Hi n rzjti] IÜ > il x » «■; « ft .n I'li vi\ o - « i \ I . i ■J i ' 9 By HI WATTS DAVID STREET, JERUSALEM, PALESTINE Called by many travelers "one of the - seven most interesting streets in the wor id," David Street, in the heart of Jerusalem, presents a most fascinating study of contrasts. One is Immediate ly struck by the din of a thousand forei P argons and a greater variety of odors ' 51116118 *** aromas. In ooen-front shops, some cen turies old, the visitor sees none of the familiar trade-marked, neat packages of our regimented civilization. Rather, | ^ merchants offer a kind of peculiar specillzation in which each one offers a different product—dried cereals and ***** ta °P® n 8acks ' ^«etmeats, bread : tt/errS" Wf M'ÂÂj of great value came in smaU_ packages. hi pm^hftore away the cov Ä ^^^ e r Ite ranÄ. ® g .. ,, Hifannntntment to Ä toxS aïTÜ contained only brass buttons, peculiar i y engraved, but without eyes. Complete brass buttons, with the usual eye«, as» £j co mpany fQr ts-and paid mighty high ^rof^hat wertH — hl>t toM wîtoute^îThSe were very heavy, but they could serve no prac tical purpose, either for service or for me re personal adornment. How could they be carried home? Boxes, like the y ^ whlch they were found, were ° t ® pract lcal for the nomadic red. And they had no eyes so they could be s tmng upon sinew thread like ordinary buSÏÏas. handsome and guttering as they were, they must be left behino. But Little Dog would not destroy th^ by throvriinf them In the sand or XÄ" 2Î , & rt which He could not w® 8 so . " ucb ^^mnipred tons at the so they would be i^ful or omamratah He would lüde them In a place he could remember. Caches Them In Rocks Along the ,^te river wee.»JPO! where » . huge ^promontoxy^of^rocKs Jutted out- ow mittons m with? out^vetT were <^c^d b 4uif much out eyes were cacnea While Little Dog's memory was long. w! not ojnstlnt Cme batUe over^ 8 ! victory won- It was time to go home and bLTttohk people, and nrenare for another Joust with what «p^enemv he might encounter. And the hunting setSon ^waS coming on. get to the Ä f£d y ters looa. , Besting to camp, receiving the honors of his people for a brave chief with ! strong mecUctoe, and reflecting upon his warlike achievements, Little Dog, sometimes recalled the "brass buttons he had cached down on the Snake river. Perhaps it occurred to him to wonder about them sometimes. But not for long. There were other things to do, other battles to fight, and other him ting seasons to follow. And^ then a score of years later, when becoming elderly. \ Little Dog was thousands of white men were passing through Port Benton to and from the newly found gold fields at Bannack and Virginia City and Last Chance gulch. . ,, He saw toe counterparts of his "brass buttons without eyes"—saw how white men who came not to trade for furs valued then as a medium of ex change. Hh saw how they would buy unbelievable quantities of sugar, cof fee, tobacco. One of those buttons was worth a winter's catch of furs when traded for supplies at the fort. Now he recalled vividly—and regret fully—toe little box he had cached on the promontory on the Snake river. If he only had that box! How wealthy he could be. Dignity, greatly ...agnlfled, among his people. A gran deur beyond the dreams of toe tribe. Great was his lamentation now that he had placed so little value on that box of "brass buttons without eyes." Medicine Wrong toe ear of white Fort Benton and told toe story of his ambush of the Oregon emigrant team, and of toe little box of heavy "brass buttons without eyes" he had held of so little worth. He was perndtted to oram i ne the gold pieces carried by the white men. He identified those which were counterparts of the ones in the heavy little box. _ story aroused new desires to the breasts of the white men. Could he find the spot again? Little Dog be lieved he could. He was begged by white men to lead toe way and was promised great reward. Little Dog could not make up his mind, however. One day he was ready to go, toe next his medicine was wro At last, at toe Agent Dawson of m m men at He ms ng. urgent Insistence of toe American Pur in all varieties of shapes and sizes. Um ited cuts of meat may be purchased ri _ ht out ^ the Qpen y if on e doesn't nund the light covering of dust from the countless passing feet, or the swarm G f insects thathover over the stalls! David Street is the dividing Une which separates the four quarters of the city. on the right, the Christian and Mos i em sections, on the left, the Armenian and Jewish. The cosmopolitan mer chants mingle and haggle before an dent moneychangers . . . usually gray haired "Sharafs, clothed in rags, and greedily fingering their piles of strange coins freon many lands. The scene makes the casual American wonder if life here might be Improved with mod em talk of "doUar devaluation" and the like! ' = «' *te Grazing Setup > Qn en g Malta OfflCC L. W. Merryfleld, grazier in charge I of the Malta office of the Taylor graz administration, opened his office.! ! « ^ 'lÄdÄn 1 M ®*?®Siw i rftv at whltehaU ' BU " ha* Era with the re I Merryfleld hasberawlth the re rSSS's'SnM world ^ .. m facil i tate to stoçk men. 1 „ "7, HuffC Pile Of Scrap w __ . __ , r ITOn BdltlCI JflOVed Raymond residents are wonderintr a bjï^ii^of Krao P P | "ÏÏL ^dd bones has been along the railroad's right of wav raUroad 8 rl « ht of way A C rJbT N. D.. trucking concern m0 ved the Junk to Alkabo, N D, to be ™£ded on freight caiT ' Sinr. H^FROTE.N Somewïït ofIsettlng the decrease ln Quantity of wheat harvested in the ' Cut Bank section this faU Is the high Fade of the gram of ^ wheat | £ testing 15 and 16 percent protein, with that off a 160-acre tract on the | v. G. Olson farm north of the city I ** 181 >»»"• «m.__ - Co. at Port Benton, he agreed to go. ^ medicine was still bad He started at the head of an expe ditlon of braves and white men. He I went only a short distance, refused to go further, and turned bock. Was his conscience, encouraged by an under- \ standing of white men's attitude toward known desecrators of emigrant It fear of what toe white men might do should they find his story true' T ittie n™ ^poooy eyeT mew. Ana liittie Dog ever ^terward refused to renew the expedition. Now Little Dog has been long with his lathers in the Happy Hunting ground. «And no white man lives today who heard his story. And the box of "brass buttons with out eyes" is still hidden on a rocky promontory overlooking the Snake river. GROWTH OP THE ITALTAÎÎ EMPIRE b» Off «/ V'' m r u S K K v • a a n I k] L> S ■V. 9 a a r*V B 4 4 4 J ~z 1 liOA 7 iy ■ *«- > □te vc €XPU*f**no* _ zœ&izs mutMaatKL*, IIU'AN - ««"»o' ££ Miners of Pioneer Camps Had Own "Commandments 99 The Ten Commandments of the early day miners in the west were recently unearthed from the files of the old Butte Miner. These commandments, originally printed the Territorial Enterprise at Virginia City, Nev., were brought to Montana by a lawyer named Baker who settled at Butte in the ; '90's. They follow: ! First commandment : Thou shall have no other claim than one. Second commandment: Thou shall not make to thyself any false claim nor any likeness to a mean man. by Jumping one; for I. a miner am a Just man and I will visit the miners round about and they will Judge thee; i and when they shall decide thou wilt take thy pick thy pan thy ; thy blankets and with all in shovel and .. _ _1 thou hast thou shall depart to seek other dig gings but thou shall find none. I Third commandment; Thou shall . not go prospecting before thy claim i gives out. Neither shall thou take thy money or thy gold dust or thy good t , able f , or mont6 , nnH n ,ià, 0î l e i mnr,. tl ? ee th at the San lÜS d £^, ^sp^ng ïf al ?® n wHîi OU ^hink children thou wii- not hold thyselr guiltless though ÎT,'x;,u _. , . .. wÂhp/ÎLÏ LmI I cooking the 1rSr„ , S "P* j and nt nd f h!P ^ k , 8 taki ^ g th k ; nruTcommandment is skinned | r n »lanament is skipped, | — if TTinnnrk 4 AT TATTfUfTir | 1/ L H K A \ III I I L ! f JUI LUlill DU I 1 £. DAJ A VI AITTTCJ | Y ULltËlflAl)| ÜUI«>» ; tom YEARS OF STIRRING ' SERVICE | - A . . - i. of A fif SÎSâ^t«^î 01 1188 written finis to 25 7 ears of Butte police work. He is x / , .. f , , StiSÄSÄjas .Bd turned the volumeter » C y nl Kohn, who is in charge of jriseners on the graveyard shift. The veteran police officer had served on the Butte force for more than 25 years, beginning his career In June, 191 *- Off lcer Quirk, during those 25 ! ^ars. spent foür of them In the role of "Ç® 6 ® detective and the past six 35 nl « ht laUer It was while he was a detective that he helped crack the Montana holdup ring That was In 1931. The ; Kang, made up of a trio of expert j "casemen" ancT robbers, had terror SÄÄtäoStÄI ffi £Äe, the «"<1 hl « bllces . .... ... . . . .Sole characteristic that stood out ; }n toe descriptions of the bandits was ^at one of the men had unuraally £pering fingers CXflcer Quirk *hea this fact away in his memory Sïïl answered the description. He t the suspect and questioned _ 'he man was JaUed and his henchmen caught in a room the trio occupied. Quh-k spent day and night gather infonnatlon about the trio, learn th at among other offenses they , we r? suspected of robbing a pos toff Ice jubstatlon on South Main street In Butte. In spite of the damning evl dence tncludlng numerous guns found in their room the him. Later . Prkra term, the veteran policeman reminisced on his last shift. However. he said ' the suspects were held to Jail f or nine months, duiiiifl: which the epidemic of Butte robberies stopped That case, among many others to which Detective Quirk took an active part, will be recalled around the fire side in his home for years to come. Tom, as he is known to the hundreds who are his friends In the Mining city, is a true "copper"—always ready to spin a yarn or nelp an unfortunate but never forgetting his duty, - - "il IjL JU H| )&SB ■■ ''«HI Radio Villain ! i, I I | j ' r Wrf a ÏM J , i -■■■ --* • ' — 1 Gladys Thornton Is such a perfect villain in "Hilltop House" that a traf fi c cop once gave her a ticket for after she identified herself and pleaded she was harrying to a rehearsal He said he listened to the program and disliked "Mrs. Thom" In tensely. "Hilltop House" b heard over CBS at 10:30 a - E - D S. T. - presumably because the biblical com mand 15 accepted without revision. Sixth commandment: Thou shall not drinlt mlnt J ull P s «or sherry cob blers through a st raw nor g^gig from bottle the raw materials nor take Jt from a decanter; for while thou art swallowing down thy purse and the coat from thy back thou art burning the coat off thy stomach Seventh commandment: Thou shall grow discouraged and think of go Je because tahÄtockH w W Up. "h.Tr;S , 'Ä"Ä going home thou shaltleave a Job a*1Sv C< and ^e thee^t TOou ki^west Oiat^ staving here 8 thou rrüghteststrlkp. r l6 ^ a «d make ISO^d^ rad k^P thy self-respect and when thou go home thou shall have raough to make thyself and others happy. »srtrai äs ftÂAÏÂTÂÏSIÂA" together his fellow miners and they, willing thy head or brand thy cheek with an "R" Hke a horse, to be read by all men. Ninth commandment: Thou shall tell no false tales about good digging in the mountains, to benefit a friend! who may have mules, blankets or pro visions and tools that he wishes to |SeU lest thy neighbors, deceived by thee Into making Æe trip shall one day, return through the raow with naught but his rifle contents of which I■shah present to you to a manner rJTÏ ST th "" faUdow "*" Ul J'" w , S e STSSS^thS^Pta thp true hi thraf in .®i?f JJ? d d A tb ?™ J® fought worn | ^ d de ^ 1A '^ ld tb6 ® thk raratrv^rith iSS-' and to people tnis coun try with half ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 'PAY DIRT' m s _ ■ H ■ ■ ■§ B " A 32-page illustrated booklet, written with scientific accuracy, showing the exact con stituents of western soils, what are the handi caps to profitable crop growing and what can be done to surmount them. Packed full of valuable information! Prepared with extraordinary care and at ' considerable expense, this booklet will be mailed REE : S to those who fill out and send us this coupon: l [~JAnaconda Sales Company, j Anaconda, Mont, Dept. C. L Please send me free of charge your booklet "Pay Dirt" "~l I I I I * Name I I I Address I County State. !_ _I Anaconda Sales Company s i ANACONDA, MONTANA «-> 4 WINTER WHEAT TYPES ARE BEST EXTENSION AGRONOMIST URGES FARMERS TO PLANT ONLY THESE VARIETIES With winter wheat seeding time right around the corner, Ralph D. Mercer, extension agronomist at Montana State college, urges far mers to use seed of recommended varieties that are adapted to Mon tana conditions. Regarding the best time to plant, Mercer points out that experiments conducted at the North Montana branch of the Montana Agricultural Experiment station near Havre indicate that period from Sept 20 to Oct. 5 is best time to seed winter wheat in the north central part of the state. These e the the experiments covering year period show the average acre yields for various dates of seeding were ; 15, 8.4 bushels: Sept. 1, 16.5 Sept. 15. 18.8 bushels; Oct. 1, 21.1 bushels; Oct. 15, 19.4 bushels; Nov. 1, 18.4 bushels. Farmers have their choice of four standard varieties of winter wheat rec year ommended for use In Montana, Mercer said, and each through careful selec tlon Is adapted to Montana soil and climatic conditions. These varieties are: Montana 36—A fully bearded, Turkey type wheat. It is best adapted to pro ductlon in the winter wheat sections of southern Montana. In that area It has proved moderately high yielding and fairly winter hardy. It Is suscep tlble to stinking smut. Karmot—This variety Is Identical In appearance to Montana 36 It Is adapt ed to and grown most widely in the winter wheat sections of central and north central Montana. In this area It consistently outyields Montana 36. Newlurk—This is a beardless variety. generally adapted to all winter wheat sections of the state. It Is of impor tance In commercial production only when a beardless variety Is desired . Yog^-Thls Is a beardless varlet o^K^mot KTm^Äd Aug. i: bushels; 36 aSSSik ÄS. « "Ä" &SZ yielding capacity, winter hardiness and Saot^^to^alf'^wlnter wh^t smSo ** ! *" K "° f th tU = breeds, for while there Is naug be said against these boys and as Individuals, the fact remains gasga'afts " °" 1 - « - | M the Classified AdvertlsemenU! ns How Women in Their 40's Can Attract Men Herr'i food advice for • woman durinc her change (usually from 88 to 82), who (ears •he'll low her appeal to men, who worries about hot flaahea, loaa of pep, diacy apella, upwt nerves and moody spells. Get more freeh air, 8 hiuH need a good muerai system K. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made mpteiaUw for women. 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