The Bozeman courier., August 13, 1924, Page PAGE TWELVE, Image 12

About The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954

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fil MATE'S BURIAL
AVIATOR CRASHES TO
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OVER GRAVE
JiiS VETERAN OF MID Will
preparing to Drop Floral Tribute
From Skies When
Plane Fell
Ueno, Nev.—Flying low to dn»p
flowers on the grave of a former me- j
Aarlc at the Heno air mail field, Wil- j
Öam F. BlanchfieM, mall pilot, crash
ed to death here August 1, as a group
mourners stood waiting for the
tribute from the skills.
"Die plane burst into flames on hit
feu« me ground,
which It fell was destroyed.
As the officiating minister was
rpoaking, the roar of a plane partly
browned the words. Blanchfield flew
fver the open grave, preparing to drop
aie wreath.
The minister paused, waiting for
A residence near
flier to swing back.
A . ish broke ini.o the stillness of
They raised their eyes
.me mourners.
Brom the open gisve, with It* flsg
gmped coffin and s»w the flames from
tllaocbfleld's plane ss It crashed.
A Dumber of women fainted, a few
rushed to the acone of the accident,
felt «he services continued.
No flowers were dropped Into the
Jravo of Samuel .T. Oerrans, the me
Çhnnlc. A salute whs fired by uni
È lnrniftd .«.ran» of the World war and
o mourners, and others participating
the service« went to Blanchfield's
A« they looked at the charred re
iftlns. the purr of a second plane was
eard. Pilot Glaire K, Vance, with
1er.
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the west-bound mall for San Francis
co, circled over the grave and the
pier three times, In accordance with
the traditions of ibe service.
Bliiiichfleld wes on the Rono-EIko
fun of the air mall service. He en
E red the servie«» January 3, 1921. He
id been flying for 10 years. The dead
lot was a veteran of the World war.
MANAGER F. M. KERR
VISITS IN BOZEMAN
(Continued from page 1.)
• s, mostly in the southcentral
and western districts. In 26
ties in Montana, the company paid
no taxes whatever, these counties be
ing almost entirely Agricultural in
nature.
count!
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He stated that the power concern '
is more interested in bringing now !
industrial propositions into the state
and encoragirig those we already
have, than in any other activity at !
the present time.
OLD TIMER RETURNS
TO BOZEMAN
(Continued from page 1.)
he saw it last as a boy on that event
ful trip on the train to Wisconsin
in company with George D. Pease,
over 35 years ago. Then there was
hardly a tree between Bridger can
yon and Middle creek. Irrigation
had changed all that and had turn
ed a barren, almost prairie-like, coun
try into a veritable paradise. He
noted the present condition of the
crops throughout almost the entire
valley, and said that if the Gallatin
county farmers could see and know
conditions! in other parts of
the
northwest, they would take a more
cheerful and optimistic view of their
vwn.
Empty Basket—Full Purse
fle referred, with much feeling, to
his school days under School Master
Frank L. Benepe, Sr., and he told
of hit recollection of those Jays when
business in the vegetable line was
not as brisk as it should have been,
and how on his last call at the Ben
epc home, he always took home an
empty basket and a full purse. He
praised Gallatin county's good roads
and the spirit of progress and pros
pevity that seemed to pervade the
very air of the community.
Those in the Bostwick party, be
«ides Mr. and Mrs. Bostwick, were
his two sisters, Mrs. Minnie Wessels,
of Spokane, Wash„ who has achieved
quite a reputation throughout the
northw°st as supervisor of agricultu
ral exhibits for large transportation
«ystems, and Mri». May Stranahan.
of Lewiston, Idaho. The party de
parted Monday afternoon on North
Pacific train No. 3, for their
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homes in the west
It was the. first time the three
sisters and one br«ther had been to
gether in a family reunion for
years. The entire party including
M T 9 . Border's daughter. Leila, made
a motor tour of Yellowstone park be
fore returning to the*r homes. On
Sunday they were the guests of
friends, Mr. and Mrs. W.
Peirwell and famüy at therr beauti
ful home, at Penwelton. 12 miles
north of Bozeman.
Mrs. C. T. Stranahan,
oncer
who was
Miss May Bostwick, has the honor
of being the second white girl born '
in Gallatin county, having first seen 1
the light of day on me Bos «.wick '
ranch north of Boezman in Novem- 1
her, 1865. The first white girl burn
in the county
Sproule of Helena, formerly Miss
Sylvia Lyman, daughter of the late
was Mrs. George
born in this county in April, 1865.
Beth of these girls, however, were
preceded by a boy, William (Pike)
Nelson, a son o the late Mr. and Mrs.
IJohn W. Nelson, who was born in
July, 1864, and who has the honor
"f being the first white child bom
in the Gallatin county of territorial
days.
ROUNDUP COWBOYS
GET INTO TROUBLE
(Continued from page 1.)
and battery on an employee of the
Main Cafe, owned by Harry Voul
kous. Newton was also charged with
the destruction of a cigarette and
candy case and a patent tooth-pick
receptacle on tht show case of the
East Main street eating house. The
altercation is said to have been start
ed by Newton over the price he had
been charged for a tenderloin steak.
»Three fingers of his right hand were
jbedly cut in the fight that ensued.
Newton was incarcerated in the
county jail Saturday .and was tried
I* 25 P a J for the damage done.
j paid the fine.
Carl Stone, alias "Kid" Stone, a
, native of Mt. Verono .Ills., who gave
; hig , ast !ace of residence as Culbcrt
before Justice of the Peace Ed. A.
I F r anks, who imposed on him a fine of
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son, Mont., and Meritt Maddux, a
native of Rochester, Mont., lately of
. Hot Springs, Mont., both cowboys
traveling on the Rodeo circuit, were
arrested Monday on a warrant serv
ed by Constable Frank Slaughter in
which they were charged with hav
ing obtained merchandise to the value
of about $42 ,from the H. B. McCay
hardware store under false pretenses.
The lads were charged with obtain
ing ropes and other cowboy ac
countrements from the store on the
representation that they were entered
in the Rodeo contests and would
make payments for the goods out of
their putse money.
The lads were locked up in the
county jail until Tuesday afternoon
when friends collected the $42, and
also $4.75 that Maddux owed Kram
er's cafe for meals ,and turned the
when
they were released,
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BILLINGS TOURISTS
TO NAIL RAOD LIES
(Continued from page 1.)
Mr. Daugherty complimented the
road crews now at work in the upper
canyon on a seven mile stretch of
road this side of the park line. He
said that they have so planned the
work that only a very short stretch
of road is being worked on at one
time.. The remainder of the road
he said, was like a boulevard, and
far ahead of the roads lead
was so
ing to the other entrances that all
comparisons were odious
was going to spend a great part of
his time on the remainder of his va
.FTe said he
ration trip to nail the lies about the
"Gallatin Way" in every tourist park
and in every city in Montana that
he visits before his return home to
Billings.
Stephen T. Mather, director of all
Nationa i p ar ks, m a recent inter
view in the Courier, highly prais
ed the West Gallatin canyon en
; trance roa( j an( j sa id it was one of
• TO(>st beautiful mountain high
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|»t)ZEMAN ALL STARS
WIN TWO' LOSE TWO
ways in the entire northwest.
(Continued from page 1.)
soulians by a score of 6 to 3, the
rr ame never being one instant in
d^bt. Val Glynn, Gallatin's big
right-handed machmc-gun-mounds
man held the Highlanders down to
a total of four lonely hits, and he
helped to win his own game by
crac king out a home run with Spenc
( er on base. Spencer caught a won
derfui game and was the bright par
t-icular batting star of the interest
contest. Boezman made 6 runs,
^ bits and four errors. Missoula
made 3 runs, 4 hits and five errors.
In Monday's game .which was won
by Missoula by a score of 5 to
Babcock and Cranston were the bat
tery for Bozeman. Babcock held the
Highlanders down to 6 hits. Bozeman
hits were not timely. This was re
I ported as a good game, the attend
being splendid. Bozeman made
Mis
ance
2 runs, 4 hits and 4 errors,
soula made 5 runs, 6 hits and one
error.
Tuesday's game, which waa lost to
Missoula by a «core of 15 to 8, was
a battle of batsmen. Johnson and
Martin pitched for Bozeman. No box
score available. Glynn is scheduled
to pitch the game with StevensviTle
today. A big league scout from the
Pittsburgh Nationals, is following
the Bozeman team ,and is watching
Glynn work,
VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN
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RANKIN IS MAKING
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is president, and Sam D. Goza Is
secretary-treasurer, says:
"Rankin was bom on a ranch in
Montana; is a member of the Amer
ican Legion; president of the Helena
Bar association; formerly member of
the State Board of Law Examiners
by appointment *rom the. supreme
court. His record as attorney gen
eral and trial lawyer is known to all.
He is a strong supporter of Calvin
Coolidge and the principles of the re
publican party."
He is being opposed for the re
publican nomination by Frank B.
Linderman, of Kalispell, R. W. Kemp,
of Missoula. and -T. W. Allison, of
Butte.
LINDERMAN PLANS
POLITICAL TOUR
(Continued from page 1.)
recognized as authority upon the life
of the original inhabitants of the
west.
Having recently acquired full own
ership of the Hotel Kalispell ,the
leading hostelry in his home town,
Mr. Linderman has found it impos
sible until this time to devote much
personal attention to his candidacy
which has largely been carried on
club, with
thus faT, by bis friends through the
Linderman for Senator
headquarters in Helena.
After attending the sessions of
the Montana Press association, of
which he i$) an honorary member,
''for valuable services rendered to
ern
section.
printers," Mr. Linderman expects to
visit in Bozeman, Butte and take a
swing around the cities of the east
part of the state, where he will
fill a number of speaking dates that
have been arranged for him. He will
close his campaign in the western
paign that appeals to the candidates
sense of humor is the letters he is
A resident of Montana for 40
years Mr. Linderman has a wide ac
quaintance throughout the state.
One of the features of the cam
of various
receiving from Indians
tribes to practically all of whom he
is personally known, having liv<ed
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Announcing the appointment of Robert M. Noe as General Agent in Gallatin, Park and Madison Counties.
Headquarters at Bozeman
A Crain of 15 %
in new insurance written during the first half of 1924
over the same period in 1923
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Means the
Montana Life Insurance Company
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the kind of protection the public wants and that business conditions
here show substantial impr«*®*
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Insurance in Force
Admitted Assets.
$36,281,606
. 5,292,228
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(Dec. 31, 1923)
LIBERAL POLICIES
Guaranteed Life Incomes.
Endowment at Age 65.
Insurance on Two Lives.
Boys* and Girls' Endowment
PROGRESSIVE FEATURES
Total Disability Income.
Monthly Income for Life.
Incomes for 5 to 30 Years.
Automatic Premium Payments.
Surplus to Policyholders $902,639
(Dec. 31. 1923)
17% of Admitted Assets
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In the radio of PoUcyhoWere' Surplus to Insurance
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enduring
in Force, the Montana Life
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MOUNTAINS
local agents
M. c. SMILEY
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Livingston
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Sales ville
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GEORGE K. CLARKE
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among them while gathering mater
ial for his books and stories. He is
an adopted member of the Chippewa,
One let
Cree and Biackfeet tribes.
ter from a member of one of the
tribes after pledging support to his
friends, carried the letter waiter's
somewhat doubtful assurance that he
knows lot of Indians in Idaho, who
Mr. Lirdcr
will vote for you to."
man regards this as showing the In
dian's heart is in the right place,
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OSGOOD H. GILMAN
DIES MONDAY MORN
Osgood H. Giiman, aged 62 years,
a resident of this vicinity for the
past 10 years, passed away early
Monday me ruing at by? home on
Bozeman creek this city. H* was re
siding with his wife and son, Vfrgii,
by whom he is survived.
The funeral, in charge of Funeral
Director E. W. Harland, was held
this afternoon. (Wednesday) at 2:20
o'clock, from the First Baptist
church, the Rev. E. R. Cuiry, pastor,
officiating. Interment was in the
Bozeman cemetery.
Mr. Gilman was an old timer to
Montana, having gone to Alder
Gulch when he was eight years cf
1 time,
age, and live^ in the state since that
Mr. Gilman was born in Exter,
New' Hampshire in 1862. He farmed
the Big Hole north of Twin
Bridges for a number of years before
! coming to Bozeman. Two sisters,,
Mrs, Arthur Page, Bozeman, and
Mrs. Clayton Page, Chadbum, Mon-j|g
tana, and two brothers. Roy Gilman,
Walla Walla, Washington, and Les
lie, Ruby, Montana, survive Mr, Gil-.Ä
man, and were here for the funeral,
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j while on a tour of examination of
na tional forest lands in the vicinity
of Aldrich, an abandoned coal mining
town below Gardiner, last week, For-'
est Ranger W. W. Wetzel, of the
Absarokee National forest, in Park
county, discovered the skull and parts
\ 0 f the skeleton of a man believed to
; have been "Little Joe," an Austrian
coal miner who was killed in a feud
in the mining camp in tne fall of
1915.
Mrs. E. L. Houston departed this
morning for Butte to visit her bro
ther Matt W. Alderson, who under
went an operation at the Murray hos
a.,d who.is .tm,
Mis. W. D. Roy of Great Falls,
formerly Miss Anita Marcy, who has
pital two weeks ago
quite ill.
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Frank B. Linderman
Candidate for the Republican Nomination
United States Senat
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Frank I». Linderman
I have no individual platform. In
dividual political platforms are promises
of personal performances, and I do not
feel competent to reconstruct all things,
for all men.
My platform was fashioned by the
Republican party in national convention,
and if I am elected 1 shall stand squarely
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I am anxious to see taxes reduced,
the farmer helped and our border safe
guarded in the interest of the new im
migration law.
I hope to see us go back, at least a
little way, and pick up and forever keep
the old-time Americanism of our grand
fathers.
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Circulated and paid for by Linderman for Senator Oil
W. R. Hopkins, Pres.
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