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VOLUME XXVI, No. 30
GROVER DUNLAP DIES
AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS
Preparing To Move Family to Big
Timber When Stricken
With Paralysis.
Grover C. Dunlap, for several
years employed by the Hardin
Auto & Supply Co. as an auto
mobile salesman and who a few
weeks ago entered the employ in
a similar capacity of the Big Tim
ber Auto Co., died Wednesday
noon at a local hospital following
a six weeks’ illness. Two weeks
since he felt better and came to
Hardin to help his wife pack
their belongings preparatory to
moving the family to Big Timber.
While thus engaged he was strick
en with paralysis, following which
heart complications developed
from which he failed to rally.
Grover Cleveland Dunlap was
born at Mandan, N. D„ July 28,
1893, the son of Mr. and Mrs. S.
J. Dunlap. He attended the Man
dan schools and later completed
his education at the University of
Minnesota.
FARM DEBT COMMITTEE
MET IN BILLINGS MONDAY
Conferred With Like Committees
From Yellowstone, Carbon
and Stillwater.
J. A. Koebbe, Stanley A. Yergey,
E. L. Kelley, all of Hardin, Ora O.
Smith and Lase Hamilton of
Lodge Grass, constituting the Big
Horn county farm debt committee,
spent Monday in Billings in at
tendance at a meeting with simi
lar committees from Yellowstone,
Carbon and Stillwater counties.
The following report of the meet
ing is taken from Tuesday’s Bill
ings Gazette:
Plans for the Montana Farm
Debt Adjustment were explained
at a meeting in the Commercial
club Monday of farm debt ad
justment' committees of Yellow
stone, Carbon, Stillwater and Big
Horn counties. The groups were
addressed by FCA and federal
land bank representatives.
The salient points of the under
taking were outlined by the FCA
and bank men and follow-up
meetings for the individual coun
ties are to be arranged for the
next several weeks. The Carbon
county meeting has been set for
August 9.
At that time the problems of
individual counties will be dis
cussed and the general program
adapted to their needs.
The project is jointly sponsored
by state and federal governments.
It has the indorsement of Presi
dent Roosevelt, it was explained,
while the personnel of state and
county debt committees was ap
pointed by Gov. F. H. Cooney.
The county committees function
under the state group which has
Governor Cooney as its chairman
and H. J. Gordon as its program
supervisor.
Mr. Gordon conducted the meet
ing here. Speakers included Alvin
T. Anderson and Merritt Green,
representatives of the farm credit
administration; C. C. Rowan,
formerly of Red Lodge and now
administrative assistant in the
federal land bank at Spokane; B.
A. Davis, supervisor of appraisal
offices in the northwest, and Frank
Wiggins, contact man for the ap
praisal office in Montana.
Mr. Anderson explained that
the whole purpose of the under
taking is to bring about friendly
adjustment of debts which must,
he said, be made before the farm
er can again become a self-sup
porting, tax-paying individual.
The committees, he related, are
to act as mediaries between debt
ors and creditors in an effort to
solve this problem.
The committees have nothing to
do with the making of loans, Mr.
Anderson emphasized, but they
are to investigate debt conditions
with a view of recommending ad
justments for either or both
parties involved.
Debtors and creditors were
urged to submit their problems to
their respective county committees
and work under its guidance to a
friendly and mutually satisfatcory
solution of their difficulties.
Mr. Anderson went into detail
regarding the necessity for debt
adjustments, declaring that in
manv instances, especially where
the indebtedness was incurred at
peak prices, there is no hope for
extracting full payment.
"There are two methods of ar
riving at a settlement,” he said,
"One is through liquidation of the
farmer’s assets. This is a long
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THE HARDIN TRIBUNE HERALWK
In 1914 his father purchased a
tract of several thousand acres of
dryfarm land on the Pine Ridge,
a few miles south of Custer, and
young Grover, with the rest of the
family took up his residence there,
and engaged in fanning with his
father until in 1918, when he was
inducted into the world war army
at Hardin August 26, being as
signed as a private in Battery E,
39th Field Artillery. He was hon
orably discharged from the ser
vice Dec. 9, 1918, and again re
turned to Hardin.
On May 27, 1921, he was united
in marriage at Great Falls to Miss
Nita Crowe who, with three child
ren, Grover C„ Jr., aged 11; Jane
Ellen, 9, and James Edward, aged
2*/z years survive. He is survived
also by his widowed mother, Mrs.
S. J. Dunlap of Temple City, Calif.,
where the family took up their
residence several years ago; three
sisters, Miss Alta Dunlap of Oak
land, Calif.; Mrs. R. W. Ross of
Temple City, Calif.; Mrs. R. R.
Reed of Duluth, Minn., and two
brothers, O. E. Dunlap and V. J.
Dunlap of Los Angeles, Calif.
Funeral services will be held at
Hardin, Sunday afternoon at two
o’clock, Rev. C. A. Bentley of
Crow Agency, chaplain of Hardin
Post No. 8, American Legion, of
ficiating. Interment will take
place at the Custer Batlefield na
tional cemetery, immediately fol
lowing the services at Hardin, un
der the auspices of the American
Legion, with full military honors.
O. E. Dunlap, a brother, of Los
Angeles, and Mrs. R. R. Reed, a
sister, of Duluth are enroute to
Hardin to attend the funeral.
Grover Dunlap possessed a jo
vial disposition and always had a
cheery word and a pleasant smile
for his fellow beings around him.
He had a wide circle of friends
who regret his untimely passing
when just in the prime of life,
and whose sympathy goes out to
the widow and children.
MAY SHOOT SAGE HENS
IN THIS COUNTY, AUG. 5-7
The Montana fish and game
commission have announced an
open season for the shooting of
sage hens from Sunday,August 5
to and including Tuesday, Aug. 7,
three days. The limit is five
birds in possession at any one
time. Big Horn county is one of
the 13 counties where sage hen
shooting is permitted on these
dates.
TO START COUNTY-WIDE
BUYING CAMPAIGN HERE
Business Finns Over Entire County
Band Together in Local
Buying Campaign.
Co-operating with a huge cam
paign to increase home buying,
the Hardin Tribune-Herald will
publish from time to time in the
next few months, interesting news
items and stories showing the
many advantages for every tax
payer WHO BUYS IN BIG HORN
COUNTY. The campaign is one
designed by The Merchants Ser
vice Company, which has instituted
campaigns of this kind in many
of the other small cities.
Business firms from other sec
tions of the county have agreed
to send customers to Hardin for
commodities and services which
cannot be supplied locally—keep
ing trade dollars “on the job” at
home will hasten the return of
normal times, as the steady
stream of CASH leaving the
county dally, affects every wage
earner and taxpayer.
Many towns have tried these
campaigns with gratifying results
duimg the past year; many in
terests are fighting for an exist
ence here at home and feel it is
high time the brakes be applied to
this suicidal practice of favoring
outside business firms to the dis
paragement of the local institu
tions. To remedy the condition Is
one of the many things the “Buy-
At-Home” campaign will seek to
rectify.
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Burke of
Billings and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. S.
Eder of Hardin left Sunday by
auto for Denver, where Messrs.
Burke and Eder conferred with
the holders of bonds covering the
financing of the Valley Center
Drain district. It Is understood
that the bond .holders have agreed
to accept 60% to end the trans
action as far as they are con
cerned and the recent loan by the
government in the sum of $91,000
will be used to pay the bond hold
ers.
CONTINUING TSE BARDIN TRIBUNE AND THE HARHN HERALD
HARDIN, BIG HORN COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1934
CORN-HOG CONTRACTS
FINALLY APPROVED
Pass State Board Review With
5% Adjustment—Now Up to
County Committee.
The Corn-Hog contracts from
Big Hom county have finally been
approved by the Mate board of
review with a five per cent ad
justment made in the total num
ber of pigs reported by the grow
ers of the county. This adjustment
must be made by the county al
lotment committee before con
tracts are sent to Washington for
acceptance by the Corn-Hog sec
tion of the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration.
A meeting of the board of di
rectors of the Corn-Hog Associa
tion has been called by Geo. W.
Gustafson, secretary of the as
sociation, for Saturday to consider
the adjustment that must be
made to comply with the county
quota.
Hog growers of the county may
have discovered errors in their
own figures since they gave them
in and such corrections will great
ly help in making this adjustment
if they be turned in now.
ROBERT YELLOWTAIL
NEW SUPERINTENDENT
Crow Leader To Be Inducted Into
Office at Crow Agency With
Tribal Ceremony.
Robert Yellowtail, prominent
leader of the Crow tribe of In
dians, on Saturday received in
structions from Washington, D. C.,
to prepare to assume the duties of
superintendent and special disr
bursing agent for the Crow Indian
reservation, effective August 1,
the approval of a surety bond in
the sum of $50,000 by the Indian
commissioner, the secretary of the
interior, the secretary of the
treasury and the department of
justice at Washington being the
last hurdle in the approval rou
tine.
This winds up a hectic cam
paign by those of the Crow tribe
opposed to Mr. Yellowtail’s ap
pointment and their white advis
ers who in recent weeks have
flooded Commissioner John Col
lier with telegrams, letters and
petitions in the hope of prevent
ing the appointment. In conse
quence of these representations,
Commissioner Collier, on May 1,
ordered a secret tribal referendum
and vote for or against Robert
Yellowtail as superintendent by
each adult Crow Indian on the
rolls. The result was a landslide
for Mr. Yellowtail, thus proving
the esteem in which he is held by
the great majority of his tribes
men as, by such a vote, Commis
sioner Collier gave every oppor
tunity to Mr. Yellowtail’s political
opponents to defeat him, if they
could.
Soon after the referendum vote
of the Crow tribe Mr. Yellowtail
was ordered to Washington to
face the Civil Service test. This
he weathered with the result that
the receipt of his commission as
superintendent is only a matter
of days.
Robert Yellowtail was born 45
years ago on the Crow reservation.
He was educated in the public
schools of California, attending
the grade and high schools at
Pacific Grove, Sherman Institute
and Riverside, Calif., later enroll
ing in the legal department of the
Amercan Extension University of
Los Angeles.
Since 1912 Robert Yellowtail has
been the leader of the Crows in
matters of legislation and in ap
pearing before the government
departments at Washington and
the congress in their behalf, hav
ing battled by sheer argument the
way to relief for his people. In
recognition of this service Secre
tary John B. Payne of the Wilson
cabinet offered him any superin
tendency in the Indian service he
desired. This he refused, giving
his cattle operations, then large,
as his reason. He then was offer
ed an Investigator’s position in
the Interior department, which he
likewise refused. When Secretary
Hubert Work in President Cool
idge’s cabinet appointed 100
prominent men in all walks of
professional life to advise him on
matters of policy to pursue In
Indian affairs, he personally se
lected Robert Yellowtail as a
member of that committee In rec
ognition of his services as indi
cated above.
At the first primary election af
ter the Indians had been granted
the right of franchise, held
August 26, 1924, Robert Yellowtail
was a candidate on the Republi-
CATTLE PURCHASING
PROGRAM IS HELD UP
Government Will Buy No More
Until Processors Catch
Up With Orders.
Due to the congestion at proces
sing plants and disorders caused
by strikes in the larger centers,
the Emergency Cattle Purchasing
Program in Montana has been
temporarily halted according to
word received by Geo. W. Gustaf
son, county agent from headquar
ters at Miles City.
All appraising of cattle will
stop when cattle now on the road
or in the shipping point have been
appraised. This is done 'in order
that the receiving agencies and
processing plants may catch up
with orders.
About 1500 head of cattle have
been appraised in this county out
of approximately 4,000 listed for
sale to the government.
No cattle will be accepted until
further orders are received. Those
who have already filed their ap
plications for sale will be notified
when they may bring their cattle.
Cattle brought in without notice
are at the risk of those who bring
them under these retarding orders.
can ticket for congressman from
the Second Montana district and
carried Big Horn county by a
substantial majority. Again, in the
primary election of July 19, 1932,
he was a candidate for state
senator from Big Horn county,
losing the nomination by 49 votes.
Had the Indians remained home
to vote instead of going to the
Sheridan rodeo, he no doubt would
have represented Big Hom county
in the state legislature.
The Crows, in recognition of his
popularity have decided to induct
him into office with appropriate
ceremonies when he takes the
oath of office, publicly, at Crow
Agency. Loud speakers and a band
are to be provided. Mr. Yellowtail
will address his people and friends
present immediately after the in
duction ceremony, reviewing' In
dian administrations, generally. A
large attendance is anticipated.
Many are expected from Sheridan,
Wyo., and Billings, as Mr. Yellow
tail has many friends among the
business men of both cities, and
Hardin, of course, will turn out
en masse.
With the induction of Robert
Yellowtail into office as superin
tendent of the Crow reservation
a new mile stone in Indian gov
ernment will have been establish
ed. The "new deal,” much heard
of lately, will have become a real
ity to the Crows with the con
summation of the pending event.
Robert Yellowtail has been de
clared one of the outstanding In
dians of the country and will be
burdened with a crushing respon
sibility in the administration of
two-thirds of the area of Big Horn
county. He is entitled to and
should receive the hearty support,
not only of his fellow tribesmen,
but of the white people of this,
his home community. No doubt
his Inaugural address will hit the
high lights of Indian administra
tion and declare the new policy
to be inaugurated on the Crow
reservation.
ANNUAL MASONIC PICNIC
AT HARDIN PARK, SUNDAY
The annual Masonic picnic of
Saints John Lodge No. 92, A. F. &
A. Miasons will be held in the
Hardin city park next Sunday af
ternoon at one o’clock, when a
chicken dinner will be served. All
Masons and their families are in
vited to attend and to bring with
them for each member or their
family a knife, fork, spoon and
cup. The Hardin city park is one
of the beauty spots of this sec
tion and is an ideal place for a
picnic.
*
Steve Gupton of Miles City,
traveling freight agent for the 1
Burlington, and Wiley Johnson,
division freight and passenger
agent at Billings, were in town
Tuesday.
Mrs. James Mapes and daughter
Miss Alberta and son DeLoss of
Armington, Hl., sister, niece and
nephew of Mrs. Matthew E. Brown,
arrived last Friday evening for a
visit. They have been on a trip
thru Colorado to Pike’s Peak and
on thru the Yellowstone Park. Miss
Mapes is teacher of music at the
Winchester, Hl., high school. Mr.
DeLoss Mapes is a junior in the
Wesleyan University at Blooming
ton, Hl. They exect to start on
their return trip Monday.
$9,086,775 BIG HORN'S
ASSESSED VALUATION
Hardin City Property Is Listed
at $1,385,091; Lodge Grass
Town, $216,657.
County Assessor Fred E. Miller
has just filed his report with the
county commissioners of Big Horn
county showing the full cash
value and the taxable value of all
property in the county assessed by
him for the year 1934.
The full cash value of all prop
erty in the county is $9,086,775. Of
this amount $7,306,552 is county
property, showing a gain over last
year of $254,313; Hardin city
property totals $1,385,091, a loss
of $40,656 from last year, and
Lodge Grass town property totals
$216,657, a loss of $3,972 from a
year ago. The gain in the county
total is due to personal property,
principally livestock.
The total value of all real prop
erty in the county is $6,168,077;
all livestock, $1,899,400, and per
sonal property other than live
stock, $1,019,298.
The real property comprises
34,198.29 acres of irrigated lands
of an average value of $36.06 per
acre; 91,593.78 acres of non-irri
gated tillable lands of an average
value of $8.15 per acre; 881,299.8
acres of grazing lands of an aver
age value of $2.50 per acre;
4,711.76 acres of state lands under
contract of an average value of
$2.58 per acre. The full cash value
of improvements on the above
lands is $618,072 and the value of
improvements on unpatented ag
ricultural lands is $6,425.
City and town lots are valued
at $268,801 and the improvements
on same at $992,235.
There are 6,309 horses of all
kinds in the county valued at
$165,967; cattle number 73,758
valued at $1,335,351; sheep of all
kinds total 100,059 and are valued
at $376,639; hogs total 2,397 and
at an average price of $3.01 are
valued at $7,225. There are 27.287
poultry birds of all kinds, which
at an average of 26’4 cents totals
$7,164. Honey bees are listed at
$7,054, bringing the total full val
ue of all livestock to $1,899,400, the
taxable value of which is placed
at $633,132.
The personal property, other
than livestock, is listed as follows:
Household furniture, $128,323;
watches, clocks, jewelry, musical
instruments, radios, etc., $17,957;
carriages, wagons, harness, sad
dles, etc.. $45,192; automobiles, 870
at an average value of $142.71,
$124,161; motor trucks, 273 at an
BISHOP W.F. FABER LOSES
LIFE IN GLACIER PARK
Becomes Lost, While Taking a
Hike and Perishes From
Exposure.
The Right Rev. William F.
Faber, aged 74, bishop of the
Episcopal diocese of Montana the
past 24 years, was found dead in
Paradise creek, in Glacier Nation
al Park, Monday, by a park ranger
who, with scores of others, had
been searching for the bishop
since Friday evening, when he
left Two-Medicine chalets for a
hike along a mountain trail be
fore partaking of his evening
meal. Failing to return after sev
eral hours’ absence, search was
instituted and continued three
days before his body was found.
The theory is that he became
lost and attempted to follow the
stream down to the lake, and that
he either fell or became exhausted
and succumbed to exposure, the
nights in the park being quite
cold. When found the lower part
of his body was in shallow water.
He was in a reclining position,
with his back against a log, partly
out of the water, one arm laying
across the log. The bishop’s hair
had not been wet, nor had the
clothes covering the upper part of
his body.
The body was taken to Helena,
' where funeral services were held
yesterday in the Episcopal cathe-
I dral. The body was shipped to j
! Lockport, N. Y., for burial beside
the remains of his wife, who died
about 20 years ago. He is survived
by one son. Dr. H. H. Faber, a
professor in Stanford university,
at Palo Alto, Calif., and one
daughter, Miss Dorothy Faber of
Helena.
*
Workmen at Crow Agency are
renovating the. two-story brick
residence, formerly occupied by
the Asbury family and it will be
occupied by the family of Robert
Yellowtail, who will assume his
duties as superintendent of the
Crow reservation about Aug. 1.
VOLUME XVI, No. 9
average of $177.70, $48,612; com
mercial trucks, 68 at an average
of $114.34, $7,785; farm machinery,
$151,927; goods, wares and mer
chandise, $198,833; furniture and
fixtures, stores, $45,156; manu
facturing machinery, tools, etc.,
$18,514; national bank capital
stock, $68,430; moneyed capital
and stock other banks, $48,850;
solvent credits, $62,595; grain, hay,
etc., $14,386; professional libraries,
$960; hotel furniture and fixtures,
$11,678; drilling rigs, oil appli
ances, etc., $22,889; telephone
lines locally assessed, SSO. The
summary:
Full valuation—
Real est. & imp $6,168,077
Livestock 1,899.400
Other per. prop 1,019,298
Total $9,086,775
Taxable valuation—
Real est. & imp $1,826,047
Livestock 633,132
Other per. prop 245,892
Total $2,705,071
BASEBALL TOURNEY
AT HARDIN AUG. 34-5
Teams Coming From Sheridan,
Billings, Forsyth, Cody
and Other Towns.
Opening Friday, Aug. 3, Hardin
will hold a big three-day baseball
tournament in which will be en
tered teams from Billings, Sheri
dan, Cody, Forsyth and other
points. The above have already
signified their intention of enter
ing their teams. The Crow In
dians will enter a team and word
comes that the Cheyenne Indians
will have a team in the competi
tion. They have been playing a
lot of ball this year and boast
several Haskell players in their
lineup.
The best teams in this section
of the country will be here and
baseball enthusiasts will have
plenty of opportunity of seeing
these teams in action. There will
be from two to three games day
and some star ball is bound to be
developed when these fast teams
battle for the championship.
There will be foot races each
day between players of the teams
competing that day, and each day
there will be Indian arrow-throw
ing contests. This is fast becom
ing the most popular sport- among
the Indians and they throw these
arrows with remarkable accuracy.
Friday and Saturday nights
there will be an Ihdian war dance
at the fair grounds and after this
a regular dance at the dancing
pavilion on the fair grounds.
This will be the sporting event
of the season and the national
sport will attract many enthusi
asts from a. large section of this
country to see these fast teams
in action.
DAN FUNDUS. ELIZABETH
HATHAWAY ARE MARRIED
Dan Fundus and Mrs. Elizabeth
Hathaway were married at St.
Anderws Episcopal church in Liv
ingston. Wednesday, July 11, Rev.
Lewis D. Smith officiating. Follow
ing the ceremony the happy
couple took a wedding trip by
auto through the Yellowstone Na
tional Park. Both are well known
and popular here. Mr. Fundus for
several years was employed in the
machine shop of the Hardin Motor
Co. until a month ago, when he
removed to Big Timber, where in
partnership with Miac Johnson,
he purchased the Big Timber
Motor Co. Mrs. Fundus for the
past six years has been field nurse
on the Crow Indian reservation,
which position she has resigned,
effective AUgust 15. About the
middle of August they will be at
home to their friends in the Con
well Apartments, Big Timber.
Their many Hardin friends extend
congratulations and best wishes.
e
FIRST WOMAN TO PASS THRU
BIG HORN CANYON BY BOAT
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Hirst of
Kane, Wyo., came through the
Big Horn canyon, Friday night, a
distance of 60 miles, by boat. Mrs.
Hirst enjoys the distinction of be
ing the first woman' to come
through the canyon by boat. They
spent a week coming through,
prospecting for gold on the way.
Attorney Dave L. Egnew and
Ralph V. Scott left Wednesday by
auto for Kane, Wyo., from which
point they will take a boat and
come through the canyon on a
prospecting trip. They expect to
take a week for the trip.