The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume], August 17, 1934, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2

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The last of the Herd
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When Horse Flesh Comes High
When Sioux and Blackfeet Met
Shooting Out the Stragglers
Jerked Down
Sage Brush Sport
Carson’s Men
The Strenuous Life
Wild Horse Hunters
Caught With the Goods
The Bolter
Ambushed
When Ignorance Is Bliss
The Buffalo Hunt
A Dangerous Cripple
Cowboy Life
m the Wake of the Buffalo Hunters
A Serious Predicament
Planning the Attack
In Without Knocking
A Disputed Trail
The Wagon Boss
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ONE SHIFT OF THE 720 FERA WORKERS AT THE HANSEN PACKING PLANT IN BUTTE.
The government is buying hundreds of thousands of cattle in the drought stricken areas in eastern Montana. The cattle are being shipped to
the Hansen plant in Butte where these government workers are slaughtering the cattle and packing the meat. The women in the foreground
are the staff in the big Hansen canning plant where soups and prepared meats can be put out at the rate of 275,000 pounds every 24 hours. AU
help employed ni this vast government enterprise is from Silver Bow county. More than 700 are now employed; 2,000 may be required. The
meat is being distributed to aU relief agencies in Montana. Canned goods is being put up for the winter for Montana’s needy people add those
in surrounding states.
PIONEER CAPTAIN
DIES AT POLSON
GENE HODGE, VETERAN PILOT
AND CAPTAIN ON FLATHEAD
LAKE DIES ON TUGBOAT
With the passing of Gene Hodge on
his tugboat at the Polson docks, the
west lost a unique and interesting
character. He was a native of Michi
gan and spent 10 years of his early
manhood on the Great lakes, gaining
a wide experience in lake navigation.
Hoping to improve his opportunities,
he drifted westward and reached
Flathead lake in the spring of 1890.
For 14 years. Gene Hodge operated
freight and passenger boats on Flathead
lake without the loss of a life. His
first experience on Flathead lake was
gained on the Tom Carter, an 80-foot
freight and passenger boat, which made
dally trips from the foot of the lake
to Demersvllle, the first settlement of
any size on Flathead river. The boat
was owned by a Missoula company.
Bill Houston, who served several terms
as sheriff of Missoula county, had it
built in 1889. Captain Kerr and Bill
Cheney, pilot, operated the boat until
it sunk in 1894. Mr. Hodge was given
work on the boat in the spring of 1890,
and his career as helper, pilot, captain
and owner of the Flathead lake boats
which was to extend to his death, was
launched.
In the closing years of his life, Mr.
Hodge saw the almost total extinction
of freight and passenger boats on Flat
head lake. He liked to recall days when
lake boats were Important in transport
ation in western Montana.
The Great Northern railroad was
building into the upper Flathead valley
shortly after Mr. Hodge reached west
ern Montana.
All timbers for bridge work, powder
for blasting and food and grain sup
plies for men and horses were unloaded
from Northern Pacific freight trains at
Ravalli and hauled by many wagons
30 miles to the foot of Flathead lake
and then carried by the Tom Carter
to Demersvllle.
The little towns on Flathead lake and
river, Bigfork, Hoyt, Demersvllle, and
Columbia Falls, were booming.
Mr. Hodge told of freight for these
towns left in great piles at the foot of
the lake, some times for more than a
month, awaiting such time as the Tom
Carter could find space to haul it A
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Firefighters Injured
When Trucks Upset
Twenty fire fighters were injured, two
possibly seriously, recently in the cap
sizing of two trucks loaded with men
returning from the Trout creek forest
fire in Sanders county.
Eleven were treated at the Thomp
son Falls hospital, five at the Plains
hospital, and four others at the Fort
Missoula hospital following the two ac
cidents. Most seriously injured were
Carl Hansen of Missoula, suffering from
a possible skull fracture and an injur
ed back, and Joe Kennedy of the Com
mercial hotel, Spokane, with an injur
ed back, broken ribs and lacerations.
Sixteen men, Including Hansen and
Kennedy, were hurt when a truck tak
ing them from Trout creek to Missoula
overturned near Thompson Falls. Nine
others in the truck escaped injury.
In the second accident four CCC
workers suffered injuries.
large portion of this freight was car
loads of whisky for some 150 saloons
in the small settlements.
All boats did a thriving business.
Many settlers were coming up into the
upper Flathead valley and most ship
ments from the cattle ranches on the
Flathead Indian reservation were by
boat. Many settlers were miners from
Butte and Anaconda, who would place
their families on homesteads and con
tinue their work In the mines. James
Grant, chief of police at Butte for
many years; John F y, for whom Foy’s
lake near Kalispell was named; Billie
Egan, John Lang and Dave Gregg were
among early settlers Mr. Hodge re
membered.
Mr. Hodge was made captain of the
steamer Klondike, which was built in
1900 by the Hodge Navigation company.
This boat operated until 1910, when the
new Klondike was built, with 400-pas
senger capacity.
Opening of the Flathead Indian res
ervation in 1910 and lot sales at Polson,
at the foot of the lake, and at other
towns throughout the lower valley,
brought a great influx of people from
all parts of the United States. Traffic
on Flathead lake increased rapidly.
More boats were built. No one realized
that in a few years the automobile and
motor freight truck would almost do
away with lake transportation.
The opening of spring in the lower
Flathead valley was always heralded
by the old Klondike whistle as it steam-'
ed out of Polson bay for Its first trip
of the season for a load of logs or other
freight along the shores of the lake.
Mr. Hodge died on the old steamer
tugboat at the Polson docks recently.
The countless numbers throughout the
United States who enjoyed boat trips
with Mr. Hodge as captain or pilot will
regret his passing.
WINTER WHEAT YIELDS GOOD
The threshing of winter wheat has
been in progress for several weeks and
the quality of the grain being delivered
to the elevators at Geraldine surpasses
that of past years. Of the many thous
ands of bushels already received this
fall much weighs from 61 to 64 'i I
pounds. Fields have been going from
12 to 24 bushels to the acre according
to location and grasshopper infestation.
SHIPPING CLAY TO HELENA
Two hundred carloads of clay are be
ing loaded and shipped from Blossburg 1
to Helena to be used in the manufacture
of brick. The raw material is trans
ported from the hillsides to the plant
in the city.
BUILDING WAREHOUSE
The Conrad Mercantile company is
building a warehouse on the north side
of its building occupied by the J. C.
Penney company store. This ware
house is 18 by 26 and is of tile structure
with a concrete floor.
TRAFFIC CONGESTION
The increasing traffic congestion in
Cut Bank has been a problem for some
time and daily grows heavier. Jess
Knapp has been put on by the city as
traffic cop and is busy all day keeping
the lanes on Main and Broadway open.
PEA CANNERY STARTS RUN
With prospects Immeasurably bright
ened by the rains and foggy weather
the Red Lodge canning plant is launch
ing Its actual operations for the sea
son's pack of green peas.
FARM BOARDS ARE
BEING ORGANIZED
RECENTLY ORGANIGED BOARDS
RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS FROM
STATE COMMITTEE
With conciliation machinery al
ready set up in more than half of
Montana's 56 counties, the county
farm debt advisory boards are rapid
ly beginning work on the problems
which are confronting many of the
state's farmers and their debtors.
Beginning with a meeting at Kalispell
recently, counties of western and
southwestern Montana have been ef
fecting their organizations under the
direction of Merritt Greene. Washing
ton, D. C., representative of the Farm
Credit administration, and T. J. O’Con
nor of Butte, assistant state co-ordina
tor of the farm debt advisory commit
tee. These men met with county com
mittees of Lincoln, Flathead, Lake,
Mineral, Sanders, Ravalli, Missoula,
Granite, Lewis and Clark, Broadwater,
Beaverhead, Deer Lodge, Powell, Madi
son, Jeflerson, Silver Bow, Gallatin,
Park, Sweet Grass, Meagher, Wheat
land, Golden Valley nad Musselshell
counties.
These counties, with those already or
ganized in the eastern part of the state,
left only 18 to be organized, which was
completed a few days ago. Meetings
were held at Lewistown, with Fergus,
Petroleum and Judith Basin counties;
at Great Falls, with Teton, Chouteau
and Cascade counties; at Shelby, with
Pondera, Glacier, Toole and Liberty
counties; at Malta with Blaine, Hill,
Phillips, and Valley counties; at Wolf
Point, with Roosevelt, Daniels, Sheri
dan and McCone counties.
The county committees, which were
appointed several weeks ago, are made
up as equitably as is possible of debtor
and creditor interests. They have no
legal status and cannot force either
party of a debt adjustment conference
to accept the suggested terms. The
real purpose of the committees Is to
help stop unnecessary foreclosures by
bringing the debtor and creditor to
gether for a complete study of the
conditions of the debt and to make sug
gestions as to haw an adjustment may
be made. Adjustments are usually
handled through an agreement of ex
tension of time, waiving or reducing of
interest for a certain period of re
financing through the same creditor or
through another creditor on a different
basis. A great number of settlements
have been made through the federal
land bank.
In eastern Montana, where county
committees first were organized, these
conciliatory boards already have begun
the work of acting as intermediaries
between the interested parties. Accord
ing to H. J. Green, state co-ordinator
who has been interviewing county com
mittees and citizens daily for the past
several weeks, principals are registering
much interest in this new program. The
chief aim of the debt advisory move
ment is to insure a friendly relationship
between debtor and creditor and to
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Friday, August 17, 1934.
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