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VOLUME XXVI, No. 41 JOE CARPENTER DIES AFTER BOOZE PARTY While Riding in Car on Hiway, Sunday, With Three Other Indian Boys. Joe Carpenter, 24-year-old son of James Carpenter, secretary of the Crow Tribal council, died late last Saturday night on the road between Wyola and the Little Horn canyon, following a drinking party with several of his Indian friends, among whom were Harry Wallace, William Backbone and Peter Old Bull, who, after spending some time at Lodge Grass, decided to go to Wyola in Peter Old Bull’s car. At Spear Siding they met up with several other Indians, among them. Joe Carpenter, who was then considerably under the Influence of liquor. He went with them. On the way they stopped at the home of a Filipino, from whom Joe is alleged to have bought some moonshine, said to be of very bad quality. Joe took the first drink, after they had resumed their journey, and soon passed completely out. They breakfasted at the Allen Hunts the Arrow home, about a mile and a half above Wyola, all of them but Joe, who was apparently too drunk to get out of the car. After break fast they started towards Wyola. When a short distance away, Joe roused up somewhat and appeared ill. He asked Peter to stop the car, at the same time opening the door and toppling out onto the running board, before the car same to a stop, but was not badly hurt. They put him back into the car FLEET OF 75 CHEVROLETS TO CARRYLEGIONNAIRES To American Legion National Convention at Miami, Fla., October 22-25. American Legion delegates from Chicago to the national conven tion at Miami, Fla., October 22-25, will make the trip in a motorcade of 75 new Chevrolets. Five trucks will follow the caravan carrying baggage and band instruments. The Chevrolet Motor company has donated the huge fleet, with blue bodies and gold wheels, tn 3 legion colors, and the sides of each car will bear the insignia of the veterans’ organization. On arrival at Miami, the cars will be use as "official courtesy” care to take care of the legion’s dis tinguished guests who will attend the convention. The Chicago legionalrres, 350 in all, will be accompanied by the pete with the drum and bugle corps. At Miami they will com pel ewith the drum and bugle -corns from other legion posts for national honors. On the way. this Chevrolet motorcade will brine a touch of the national convention to scores of cities and towns. At many points local posts are arranging cere monies of entertainment for the Chicago delegates. The return trip to Chicago will include visits to important points along the Atlantic seaboard. Mfr. and Mrs. S. L. Bundy, from Kilmundy, Hl., have returned to their home after a three-weeks’ visit in the homes of their daugh ters. Mrs. Robert B. Saunders of Hardin and Mrs. E. S. Heyduck, who resides south of town. o Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Ross, who have been guests of their parents, the R. P. Ross and A. Buzzetti families, are returning next Sun day to their home at Helena, where Mr. Ross has a government position as auditor In the state income tax department. ♦ Miss Roberta Mapes came In on Sunday from Chicago for a sur prise visit with her grandmother, Mrs. Ella Gilmore. On Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Mapes, who also had been in Chicago, arrived to spend a brief time with Mrs. Mapes’ .mother, Mrs. Gilmore. They returned on Thursday to their home at Casper, Wyo. On Wednesday, Oct. 10, at 1 p.m., Ralph S. Thrush and De lores Thomas, both from Lawver, Wyo., were united in marriage by Rev. N. E. Hannant, the witnesses being Wayne G. Thomas, brother of the bride, and Mfrs. N. E. Han nant. The ring ceremony was used. The group went that after noon for a short visit to Billings after which the young newly-weds will make their home on their ranch near Lawver. THE HARDIN TRIBUNE HERALD and went on through Wyola a short distance, when Harry Wal lace, in the back seat with Car penter, remarked that he believed Joe was dead or dying. The boys looked at him, and he was dead immediately drove to the house of James Carpenter, about four miles southeast o f Lodge Grass, took him out of the car and carried him into his fath er’s house and laid him on the bed, leaving immediately without giving the parents any infor mation. Mr. Carpenter called Dr. Linsen from Crow Agency, who pronounc ed Joe dead. Coroner John W. Bullis was then called and made an investigation, finding that Joe Carpenter came to his death from heart failure, apparently due to excessive drinking of moon shine. According to the investi gation he had been drinking heavily about a year. The boys who were with him in the car were brought before the coroner bv Harvey Young Swallow, chief of the Indian police, and their (Continued on Page Five) CATTLE BUYING CLOSES IN BIGHORN COUNTY Government Being Urged Make an Additional Allotment To Buy 3,000 More. Cattle buying in Big Horn county closes this week. An ef fort has been made to get the government to make an additional allotment for the purchase of cattle, but thus far no such al lotment has been made. Ap proximately 3,000 additional head of cattle are listed for sale, but these cannot be purchased until further authorization comes from the government. A total of 20,032 cattle have been purchased in Big Horn county with a total value of $291,280. Practically all the sheep to be sold in the county have been sorted and are being shipped this week by the Federal Surplus Re lief Corporation. A total of over 18,000 sheep have been purchased, thus far, with a large enough quota to care for all the sheep offered for sale In this county. DEER SEASON OPENS MONDAY, OCTOBER 15 The open season for hunting deer begins next Monday, Oct. 15, and continues to and including November 15. Limit, one buck deer with horns not less than four inches above scalp. SCOUT NEWS The Girl Scouts of Hardin have recently organized for the year’s work. The Senior troop has 24 regis tered members of high school age. Mfrs. James Durkin Is captain, Mfrs. Paul Schaller, first lieu tenant, and Miss Gustafson, sec ond lieutenant. The Junior troop, comprised of fifth to seventh grade girls, has 24 registered members. The cap tain of this troop is Miss Moyer; first lieutenant, Mrs. Traphagan, and second lieutenant, Mrs. Even son. The Brownies, ages eight to ten, have as their leaders Mrs. Peter Meliskl, Brown Owl; Miss Bemis, Tawny Owl; Miss Inez Griffith, assistant. There are 24 of these little folks. We are very pleased with this registration. The girls of all grades are work ing on worth-while badges. The Senior girls are making “hostess” badges. These are First-class scouts. The Junior troop is com prised of Second-class scouts and Tenderfeet. The Tenderfeet are wrking on knots, at present. The Brownies are actually experienc ing the thrill of make-believe and magic. They are under thor ough supervision of efficient lead ers. There are fifteen ladies serv ing on the community council.— SCOUT SCRIBE. Miss Hannah Batty, Miss Vada Perry and Miss Elizabeth Koebbe, with Anton Person as chauffeur, drove to Havre this week to at tend the convention of the Mon tana Division of the Farmers E. I C. Union. Miss Batty is delegate from the Big Hom Coun ty union and Misses Perry and Koebbe, as representatives from the Junior organization, will com pete with other members from the state in five-minute speech and essay contests. CONTINUING 188 BAJUMN. TRIBUNE AND THE HARDBi HERALD HARDIN, 810 BORN COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1934 SAINT LOUIS CARDINAL*; DEFEAT DETROIT TIGERS The Saint Louis Cardinals of the National League won the World Series baseball champion ship from the Detroit Tigers of the American League. The series opened Wednesday of last week, at Detroit, where the first two games were played. The next four games were played at St. Louis. The team left St, Louis tied 3 to 3, and on Tuesday played the sev enth and final game at Detroit, which was won by the Cardinals, 11 to 0. a The Two Leggin Home Demon sration club .rill meet at the home of Mrs. G. M. Brown next Friday, Oct. 19, at 1:30 p. m. You are invited to attend. JUDGE G. M. BOURQUIN SPEAKS TO LARGE CROWD Harriet Theatre Is Packed at Senatorial Candidate’s Appearance Here. On Monday evening the Har riet theatre was filled to capacity for the meeting arranged by the Republican club to present Judge Geo. M. Bourquin to the voters of Hardin and vicinity. The Har din school band and a free show were preliminary all ra c tions which successfully, not only filled every seat, but for some time the standing room in the aisles and out through the lobby. During the intermission before the ad dress, enough children and others vacated their places so that peo ple waiting outside were able to gain admission. Judge Bourquin held the close attention of his audience during his review of the political and business situation as we see it today. The blaming of Hoover for all our woes he deemed un just and based on a false idea, the beginning of the trouble go ing back to the World was and our participation in it, when hun dreds of thousands were slain, billions of dollars spent and claims to more billions in pen sions, hospitalization and bonus demands were made passible. The political cry of the demo cratic campaign of two years ago was to reduce the number of bureaus in government service, live within the budget and de crease public debt. Yet he showed that in the nineteen months of Roosevelt’s administration four new bureaus had been created, 100,900 additional clerks hired and the national debt increased $7,- 000.000,000. The old laws con trolling trusts have been set aside and trusts are now flour ishing at the expense of small business concerns. The Judge declared the calling in of all gold, with threats of punishment for failure to give up all gold money, was as illegal as to de mand the turning in of every one’s auto without due process of law: he also claimed the re moval of Johnson as N. R. A. ad ministrator was an admission of the failure of the whole program that has “put us on our way” without being able to tell us where we are going. So a “New Deal” has to be planned, which has created fear and uncertainty and restrains confidence. Bourquin scored points against the way in which all business is being regulated, especially farm ing, and predicted the coming of LORRAINE REYBURN MUST STAY ON DEMOCRATIC TICKET Attorney General Rules That A Candidate Having Filed Cannot Withdraw. The attorney general has ruled that a candidate having filed his nomination in the primary elec tion cannot withdraw and that therefore in the case of the of fice of county clerk and recorder on the Democratic ticket in this county, Lorraine Reyburn’s name must remain on the ticket. Due to the ruling of the attorney general, the action of the Demo cratic county central committee in attempting to fill the vacancy with the name of J. Ernest Wein berg is set aside. Last Saturday evening Mr. and Mrs. A. Knowles were hosts to a small group of friends, honoring Mrs. T. A. Veblen of Seattle, their house guest for a few days. Other guests were Messrs, and Mesdames E. L Kelley, Chas. S. Eder, H. D. Kenyon, D. W. Maddox and F. J. Kopriva. ANNUAL TEACHERS’ PICNIC AT FORT CUSTER BENCH The faculty of the Hardin and Crow Agency schools and the school board members of School District 17H, together with their families, enjoyed their annual get-together picnic on Fort Custer bench, overlooking the Big Horn river, Thursday evening. About 40 participated. A number of con tests and games occupied the time until the serving of a delicious picnic lunch under the direction of Miss Margaret Leikvold of the home economics department of Hardin high school, and her as sistants. m ♦ The Hardin high school is hav ing their annual mixer this Fri day evening. a time when not a furrow could be turned without a license. The government already controls the livestock industry and through the buying up of all feed this fall will have farmers and stock grow ers at the mercy of the relief forces in the spring. Referring to Wallace, secretary of agricul ture, he challenged the propriety of a man who failed in business himself to run the business of the farmers of the U.S. The de struction of food supplies while millions are hungry was called a crime which brought our country no profit. The surplus foods might have been traded to con sumers in other lands for tea, tin etc., as Hoover exchanged wheat for coffee. He charged that Democratic party promises t o keep money standards unchanged were grossly violated in debasing the gold standard, and predicted national bankruptcy if money is spent freely much longer, and bil lions of indebtedness continue to accumulate. Referring to his opponent in the forthcoming election, Senator B. K. Wheeler, he claimed that in his twelve years in the senate not one constructive piece of legisla tion was to his credit, and that his record shows 70 times when Wheeler failed to vote for or against measures of varying im portance. He quoted the book “Merry-Go-Round,” a review of life in Washington, and other writings in which people were classified as to leading character istics as calling Wheeler the lazi est man in the senate, a man who did not study and evaded issues. Bourquin claimed Wheeler was not a supporter of Roosevelt and based his claim on Wheeler's failure to vote for measures Roosevelt supported or against measures he opposed. He also asserted that Wheeler was no Democrat, having run several times on other tikcets, the Pro gressive Republican, Farmer-Lab or, etc., and that he is now in Wisconsin helping in the present campaign to defeat the Demo cratic candidate for the senate. Basing his appeal for support of his own candidacy at the polls, Bourquin said that in the many years he had served as a judge he had made a record for in dustry, ability and integrity,which, if he is elected to the senate, would be manifested in his earnest en deavor to serve his state and nation. He also stated that as he had always given the Indian a fair deal in court, he would con tinue to guard his interests in the senate. CHIEF JUSTICE SUPREME COURT PAYS HARDIN VISIT Lew L. Callaway Making Tour of State in Interest of His Candidacy. Chief Justice Lew L. Callaway of the supreme court of the state of Montana, was in Hardin and vicinity, Sunday, in furtherance of his candidacy on the Republi can ticket for re-election to the office which he has filled with marked ability and distinction the past 12 years. Justice Callaway was accompanied from Billings by District Judge O. F. Goddard, and with him visited several of the larger precincts of the county. Justice Callaway was born at Tus cola, Hl., 65 years ago. His father, the late James E. Callaway came to Virginia City, the then capital of Montana, in 1871, as secretary of Montana territory, and Lew L. Callaway has been a resident of Montana every since. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and has practiced law in Montana more than forty years. Just 40 years ago this fail he was JAMES LAHEY OF PRYOR CREEK FOUND MURDERED Body Lying Under Daybed With Quilt Hanging Over Front of Bed to Hide It. Pryor creek is the scene of a murder mystery. The body of James Lahey, who resided on a 40-acre tract on Pryor creek, about 16 miles up the creek from where the Custer Battlefield high way crosses Pryor creek, bearing three bullet wounds, was found Tuesday lying under a daybed in a corner of his cabin. A bed quilt had been pulled over the edge to the floor, thus preventing a casual discovery of the body. La hey, who was an old-time cowboy and known locally as the “wild Irishman,” had been dead prob ably a couple of weeks. His ranch being in Yellowstone county, the crime is being investigated by the officers of that county. The cabin door had been locked on the outside and Lahey’s saddle horse, saddle and blanket are mis sing, probably stolen by the mur derer. It is said that Lahey pos sessed some money and that he made loans to neighbors. He had GAS WELL COMPLETED WITHIN CITY LIMITS Known Area of Gas Sand Ex tended Considerably by Successful Completion That the citizens of Hardin are to have a supply of natural gas for manv years to come was as sured this week by the bringing in of a gas well on the Hardin Motor & Supply Co. lots between Third and Railway streets, a short distance from the Burlington depot. This extende the Hardin gas field considerably south of the wells of the Big Horn Oil & Gas Dev. Co., which has been supplying Hardin with natural gas since 1928. The new well Is structurally higher than the gas company’s wells and apparently is a good, commercial producer. Whether more wells will be drilled within the city limits is not known at the present. Permis sion to drill within the city limits is a matter which must be taken up by the city council and the state railroad and public service commission. ACTIVITIES OF HARDIN AM. LEGION AUXILIARY There is a call for towels to be used in connection with the shower baths recently installed in the Hardin grade school. Leave your towels, used or new, at the grade school office. This will be sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary Community Health com mittee. We are planning a basket din ner to be held out of doors, if possible, Nov. 11, at Crow Agency. Rev. C. A. Bentley has extended an invitation to all Legionaires and their wives to attend ser vices at Crow. Armistice night, Sunday, Nov. 11. A lovely lunch constsing of angel food cake, nut cream and coffee, was served by Mr. and Mrs. T. D. French and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cammock. The American Legion Auxiliary met at Pine Lodge, Tuesday ev ening. There was a good at tendance and many things of im portance were discussed. There is a nation-wide jelly nrogram—l,ooo,ooo glasses by Thanksgiving. This jelly is so licited by the Auxiliarv to be used in homes where things of this kind are not available. Miss O’Day, county administrator of relief health problems, is the head of the committee for this project. The for-get-me-nots. made bv the Veterans of Foreign Wars, will he on sale Saturday. Nov. 10. Help a worthy cause—buy forget me-nots. Mrs. Earl Sibley is the head of this committee. Dr. Edward Lieurence of Warm Springs. Montana, visited friends and relatives at Crow Agency from Wednesday until Monday. On his return home Monday, he was accompanied as far as Hardin by J. M. Burns of Crow Agency, who attended to business matters here. elected county attorney of Madi son county, and served two terms. He served three terms as mayor of Virginia City. He was appoint ed supreme court commissioner, and while filling that position was elected district judge of the Fifth judicial district, serving eight years, and the past 12 years has been chief justice of the highest court of the state. VOLUME XVI, No. 29 told neighbors that he had an enemy who would get him unless he got the drop, and he generally went armed with a rifle and two revolvers. The rifle and one re volver are missing. So far, no clews have been discovered. BUD NOVARK BRINGS HOME A BIG RAINBOW TROUT Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Vickers and their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley B (Bud) Novark and two children, Ber nard and Beverly, returned Wed nesday evening from a four days’ visit with relatives at the old home at Virginia City and at Sheridan. 20 miles away. While at the ancient capital. Bud went fishing and brought home with him one of the largest specimens of Rainbow trout that has been seen in Hardin in a long time. The speckled beauty measures almost 30 inches in length and tipped the beam at a little better than eight pounds. It was caught in a hole in Alder gulch, the famous placer mining stream of early days, at a point about a mile below Virginia City, with an or dinary fly hook. It is on display at the Hardin Meat Market, where it has attracted a lot of atten tion, the past couple of days. Nick J. Kortje and Verona J. Hill, both of Billings, were united in marriage, last Saturday, Oct. 6. at the Congregational parson age, Rev. N. E. Hannant officiat ing and using the ring ceremony. Witnesses to the wedding were Miss Alice May Anderson and Mrs. Hannant. Mr. and Mrs. Kortie expect to reside in Billings, where he is in the ice business. ASHLAR LODGE 29, F.&A.M. BILLINGS, 50 YEARS OLD Golden Anniversary Observed Last Friday With Many Masons -in Attendance. A number of the members of Saints John Lodge No. 92, A. F. &A. Masons, motored to Billings, Friday evening, to attend the ban quet and meeting in observance of the fiftieth or golden anni versary of the organization of Ashlar Lodge No. 29 of that city. The occasion brought together the largest number of Masons that ever attended a similar event in eastern Montana, more than 450 Masons signing the lodge reg ister. Practically every section of Montana was represented. The meeting was presided over by Ben E. Cardwell, worshipful mas ter of Ashlar lodge, who delivered an address of welcome. The program included addresses by Grand Master George W. Cra ven of Butte; Ernest L. Marvin of Billings, junior past grand master, and Lew L. Callaway, past grand master and present chief justice of the supreme court. Louis Toy of Sheridan, Wyo., is here during the beet harvest season, watching locomotive on the beet run down the Big Horn valley. Pat McKinzey, a boxer by profession at Sheridan, is one of the brakemen on the beet run. S. C. Busher of Denver is also a brakeman on the job. Of the 133 Montana State Col lege students at Bozeman, pledged to the seven men’s fraternities, the following are from Hardin: Sigma Chi, John Buzzetti; Lam da Chi Alpha, Keith Linthacum. EVan Gustafson, Republican candidate for county surveyor, left on Monday for Fort Peck, where he has accepted a civil service position as one of the civil en gineers working on the big dam. Mr. and Mfrs. T. B. Switzer and daughter, Mrs. E. C. Walker, and Bert Riddle of Luzerne, N. Y., a cousin of Mrs. Switzer, left Sun day morning for a short visit at the Switzers’ old home in the Madison valley. They expect to return to Hardin in four or five days. Mfrs. Harvey F. Jones, manager of the Savoy hotel and case, re turned a few days ago from a two weeks trip by rail to Chicago, to take in the World’s fair. She was accompanied on the trip by her mother, Mrs. Tenle Anderson of Billings. Both going and com ing they stopped off a couple of days at Minneapolis, where they visited Mrs. Jones* daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Weston Rouse. Mrs. Jones reports having had a most enjoyable vacation.