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The Ronan Pioneer
Issued every Friday, at Ronan, Missoula county, Montana, by
E. H. RATHBONE, Publisher.
Ronan, Montana, December 29, 1911.
Brower & Ilollingsworth pur
chased the Tracey Hull orchard
and 80 acres northeast of Ronan
this week. Consideration pri
vate.
FOUND-A fur collarette, the
day after Christmas in the opera
house. Can he had at the opera
house box office by paying for
this notice.
Levi Mitchell and wife, the
latter a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Thos. Trosper, have return
ed from Spokane and are again
residents of the Mission valley.
Stanley Scearce shipped five
cars of wheat from Ravalli last
week to Minneapolis. This ship
ment included one car of Blue
Stem, one car of Club, one of!
Turkey Red and two of spring
wheat. The market being on
the upward rise, he expects to
find a good market for this
wheat.
F. J. Morrison of Bottineau
county, N. D., an old friend of
I. M. Brandjord, has been mak
ing the latter a visit the past
week. Mr. Morrison was form
erly county treasurer of that
county and has determined to
locate in the Mission valley, and
will find a welcome here, as he
is the character of man most
heartily wished for.
There were more sleds in 'evi
dence yesterday in Ronan than
have been seen here during the
past two winters. In fact, there
was much more snow on the
ground than at any one time, too.
During the night before a bliz
zard sprung up and for awhile
the wind and snow blew quite
hard, and some drifts of consid
erable magnitude were in evi
dence next day. Farmers are
glad to see the snow come and
the prospects are good that their
wishes will be gratified.
Funny isn't it, how some of
the radical senators are so easily
interviewed these days on the
possibilities of Taft securing the
renomination and subsequent re
election. One after another they
have said their say, and it all
sounds alike, "He will be renorm
inated and re-elected." That is
what Senator Warren of Wyom
ing says, and adds that the La
Follette boom is over and can
not be revived. But just the
same, LaFollette is making the
president a lot of trouble just at
present in Ohio, and intends to
carry the war into all the north
ern states. He will make a lot
of friends ahd may get the dele
gates, too.
Motion Picture Shows
Commencing on Thursday of
next week there will be regular
nights for the exhibition of the
pictures at the opera house, and
will be continued thereafter on
each Tuesday, Thursday and Sat
urday nights. A complete change
of program will be made for each
night and the class of pictures
will be the best possible to ob
tain. The admission price will
be 15 cents for all.
"No Way Half So Good."
The Kalispell Chamber of Com
merce recently secured the ser
vices of P. N. Bernard as secre
tary of that organization. He
succeeds W. B. Rhodes, who for
so long a time so creditably filled
the position. It is very certain
that the Chamber has made no
mistake in choosing Mr. Bernard
as his successor, as he has taken
hold in a manner to warrant the
statement that he is going to do
things. He recognizes the value
of the local papers to a commun
ity in a manner to inspire confi
dence in his later activities.
Here is a letter the Pioneer re
ceives from him the other day:
Kalispbell, Mont., Dec. 20, '11.
-Ronan Pioneer: Please place
the Kalispbell Chamber of Com
merce on your subscription list
and send your bill for one year's
subscription. We want to pay
for it. There is no better way,
there is no way half so good in
helping us to keep abreast of the
unparallelled development of this
great country as through the
local papers. No single agency
is doing half so much toward the
upbuilding of our country as the
local papers, and they should be
paid for it.
B. N. BENARD,
Secretary Kalispbell Chamber of
Commerce.
Now as to why this letter is
published. It is for this reason:
If a man of the acumen of Mr.
Bernard recognizes the value
of the Pioneer to the Kalispell
Chamber of Commerce, then
why should it not be of greater
value to the people who live
much nearer home? If it is
doing a work so commendable as
to deserve the support of the
Kalispbell Chamber of Commerce
is it not much more entitled to
the moral and financial support
of every ;man, and womam who'
hove settled in this fertile valley
and are endeavoring to make for l
themselves a home therein? Still
there are some here who do not
even subscribe for the local pa
!per they know is boosting for
them all the time. There are
still others who have never paid
for what they have had, and that
is still worse. It costs money to
print the Pioneer every week,
and to keep the thing up for
fifty-two times a year is hard
work besides. Take the hint and
get busy.
SPECIAL BLANKET SALE
Don't miss this money
saving opportunity, corn
mencing Saturday morning.
PABLO & POTVIN.
Roosevelt, He Thinks
William A. Clark, former
United States senator from Mon
tana, was at the pier in New
York when the steamer Celtic
docked December 26, to meet his
daughter, Mrs. Charles P. Kling,
and his son-in-law and little
grandson. The family has been
several weeks in Europe and
came home for the holidays.
Senator Clark, while waiting for
his daughter's baggage to be ex
amined, took occasion to say that,
in his opinion, Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, unless a very strong
democrat is nominated, will be'
the next president of the United
States.
"But he is a dangerous man,"
said the former senator, "a dem
agogue and irresponsible because !
of his intense radicalism. He
may be popular in a certain cir
cle, but if he accepts a possible
nomination in the face'of his re"
peated assertions that he would
not be a candidate he would lose
much of his prestige, although
not enough to defeat him unless
the democratic candidate was an
unusually strong man. I believe
that Harmon could beat him, but
beyond him I really don't see
what the democrats have to
offer."
It is said that Senator Clark
played Santa Claus to his little
grandson this Christmas and put
a $1,000,000 check in that young
hopeful's stocking.
Regarding Public Lands
After hearing the governors of
the northwestern states and their
accredited reprentatives outline
what in their opinion is wrong
with the present administration
of the land laws and what is
needed to further the develop
ment of the West, Secretary of
the Interior Fisher explained to
the congress of western govern
ors the administration's policy
regarding public lands.
Secretary Fisher agreed with
most of the speakers that there
are many evils in connection
with the land laws that should
be corrected, but he said he had
no power to correct them, that
it was a matter that should be
put up to congress and he asked
the assistance of the governors
to secure needed legislation.
Secretary Fisher said that the
fundemental thing needed is
authority to classify the public
lands according to their real
value and then provide laws for
effectual disposition of each class,
such as timber, grazing and the
like.
He said it was his purpose to
get the unappropriated public
lands into the hands of bonified
settlers as soon as posslble, and
yet maintain the purposes of the
law.
He said the administration
aims to discriminate between the
actual settlers and the exploiter.
He defended the leasing sys
tey as the only way in which the
public domaine can be preserved
for all the people, although often
it seems to work a hardship on
the individual.
As outlined by Governor Norris
of Montana, the sense of the
meeting w vs in favor of the fol
lowing propositions:
To expedite reclamation and
reduce, whenever possible, the
cost to the settlers.
To expedite the classification
of withdrawn lands and elimin
ate from withdrawal the areas
found not to be valuable for the
purposes for which it had been
withdrawn.
To expedite the survey of the
entire public domain.
So* far as possible to remove
the restrictions that are vexa
tious to the settler in making
annual and final proofs of title.
Settlers should be allowed at
certain points on forest reserves
for the purpose of constructing
fire breaks.
Considerable criticism was di
rected at the so-called "red tape"
in the administration of the laws
which had the effect it was said,
of retarding settfement all
through the West and diverting
immigration into Canada.
In answering this criticsm Sec
retary Fisher said that much of
this is due to the present laws;
that individual inspection of
claims and consequent delays
were necessary to prevent ex
ploitation.
"If timber lands were classi
fled as such, " he said, "We would
not have to withdraw them to
save them."
In suggesting reforms in the
mining laws Secretary Fisher
advocated abolising the power
of attorney and the apex theory
of the mining laws. He said the
fundamental requirement should
be development.
The secretary said the admin
istration had been pursuing a too
liberal policy in the reclamation
service; that the irrigation laws
were unwise and needed to be
changed; that if the entire public
domain is to be surveyed, more
money would have to be appro
priated for the geological survey.
Horses and cattle bought and
sold. Brower & Hollingsworth.
For Sale or Will Trade
For land-three automobiles.
See Brower & Hollingsworth.
Wanted
A girl for general house work, In
quire of Mrs. A. M. Sterling.
Wood for Sale
Green and dry wood, cut any length
FRANCIS DUPUIS.
Notice for Publication.
(Non-coal land)
Department of the Interior, U.S.Land
Office at Missoula.Montana, Dec 26,1911.
-Notice is hereby given that Maude
Pumphrey, of Dixon, Montana, who, on
May 31, 1910, made homestead entry
number 02345, for Unit "C" Lot 3,
section 6, township 19 north,
range 21 west, Montana meridian, has
filed notice of intention to make final
commutation proof, to establish claim to
the land above described, before G. E.
Whiteman, a U. S. Commissioner, at
Dixon, Montana, on the 12th day of
February, 1912. Claimant names as
witnesses: William W. Dunlap, Char
les M. Seaton, Don Brown and Albert
McCauley, all of Dixon, Montana.
JOSIAH SHULL,
dec 29-jan 26 Register.
Notice for Publication.
Non-coal land.
Department of the Interior,U. S. Land
Office at Missoula, Montana, Dec. 26,
1911.-Notice is hereby given that
William E. Campbell, of Dixon, Mon
tana, who, on May 13, 1910, made Hd.
entry No. 02032, for Unit "A" S1
NE , W NE SE, NW SE, N1 SW
SEX, Sec. 19 T. 1S N,, R. 21 W. M. M..
has filed notice of intention to make
final commutation proof, to establish
claim to the land above described,
before G. E. Whiteman, a U. S.
Commissioner at Dixon, Mon
tana, on the 12th day of February, 1912.
Claimant names as witnesses: Nath
aniel Howes, John M. Downs, Joseph
Paulin and Albert Pauline, all of Dixon,
Montana.
JOSIAH SHULL,
Dec 29-Jan 26 Register.
S * Sha
L:OCAL[
LONG DISTAIICE.
Switch boards, telephones and
all other material have arrived
at Ronan and Dixon for complete
exchanges at these points. Work
is being rushed with all diligence
to complete these exchanges and
commence giving service at the
earliest possible time. A large
force of men are now setting
more than thirty miles of poles
in the territory between Ronan
and the Flathead river, for the
purpose of giving service to the
ranchers.
Subscribe for our service, and
be a home booster by patronizing
home institutions.
Our rates are $2.75 per month
for business phones and $1.75 per
month for residence and ranch
telephones.
Use Flathead Independent lo
cal and long distanet telephone
service and- "WATCH US
GROW."
Flathead Independent Tel, Co,
The Little Store wilth -thle W1 StOc~K
Bell phone 25 Nearly Everything for Everybody Bell phone 25 4
Just received a shipment of Sto ighton
Mountain Wagons. Two more spokes in
each wheel than in any other. Count them
and see. Quality of the spokes guaranteed 4
to be the best grade. Rims solid bent
white oak. Come in and examine these
wagons and be convinced. We also carry
New Ebert, Pekin Ajax and Rock Island
Special wagons.
Buy your boy a buggy for Xmas. We
have them at the following special prices:
Thompson Buggy, 1st class, with top-. --- ------------ $125 00
Rock Island Buggy" " " "---- .----- 120 00
" " " open, for one horse-------- ----- 65 00
-- - --- 55 00
Two-seated Top Surrey, one only ----- ------------ 175 00
CALL FOR A 1912 CALENDAR
We wish you a happy and ' a
prosperous New Year N J. I)IIVilIk
Notice for Publication.
Non-coal land.
Department of the Interior, U. S,
Land Office at Missoula, Montana, Nov.
27, 1911.-Notice is hereby given that
William D. Codman, of Ronan, Montana,
who, on November 10, 1910, made Hd.
entry No. 02072, for Unit "A," lot 4,
Sec. 5, twp. 19 n, range 20 w., M. M.,
has filed notice of intention to make final
commutation proof,to establish claim to
the land above described, before Coker
F. Rathbone, a U. S. commissioner, at
Ronan, Montana, on the 10th day of
January, 1912. Claimant names as
witnesses: George E. Broughton, of
Ronan, Mont.,Henry Hiltof St. Ignatius,
Montana, Ben Jacobs, John Peterson,
of Ronan, Montana.
JOSIAH SHULL,
dec 1-dec 29 Register.
Department of the Interior, United
States Indian Service,Flathead Agency,
Jocko, Montana, October20,1911. Seal
ed proposals, each envelope marked,
"Proposal for timber, Ronan District,
Flathead Reservation," and directed to
Superintendent Flathead Indian School,
Jocko, Montana, will be received until
12 o'clock noon, mountain time, Satur
day, December 30, 1911, for purchase
of all merchantable timber, standing
and down, upon unallotted lands within
the Flathead Indian Reservation, Mon
tana, and comprising the following sec
tions and part of sections in township
120 north, range No. 19 west, Montana
Principal Meridian, viz: Wof w3 of
section 2, all of section 3, all of section
4, all of section 5 except nwh neM and
nwM nwM; nwk and sM neK and sea
of section 6. In township 21 north,
range 19 west, Montana Principal Me
ridian: NEM sw4 and seM of section
33. The estimated amount of timber
to be sold in this tract is 10,116,000
board feet, distributed as stated below.
Timber is yellow pine, larch, and doug
lass fir. This timber will not be sold
for less than $3.50 per M. feet, and
I must be cut and removed in accordance
with regulations prescribed by the Sec
I retary of the Interior. Proposals will be
received for entire amount or for any
one or more of the following units:
Sec. 2, 3, 4, 4,172,000 board feet at not
less than $2.85 per M. feet; section 5,
2,991,000 board feet at not less than
$4.00 per M. feet; section 6, 1,512,000
board feet at not less than $4.00 per M.
feet; section 33, 1,441,000 board feet at
not less than $4.00 per M. feet. The
right to waive technical defects in ad
vertisement and bids and to reject any
and all bids is reserved. Blank copies
of proposals, including printed regula
tions, and full information regarding
separate schedules, amount of eposits
required, and special requirements as to
contract and bond will be furnished up
on request by F. X. Salsman, Lumber
man, Ronan, Montana, or upon applica
tion to the undersigned. FRED C.
MORGAN, Superintendent Flathead
Indian School, Jocko, Montana.
To All the People of Ronan
And the Surrounding Country
And the Rest of the World
We Most Heartily Do Wish
A Joyous Yule and a New Year
Heaped with Happiness.
Reservation Land and Lumber Company
RONAN
Watches,
Diamonds,
Jewelry,
Rio 11 'Sterling Silver,
= 9 3 Plated Silverware,
,, Toilet Sets,
Hand Painted China,
J. B. BEAR, Jeweler
RONAN, MONTANA
Notice for Publication
(Non-coal land)
Department of the Interior, U. S.
Land Office at Missoula, Montana, Nov.
20, 1911. Notice is hereby given that
Earle W. Campbell of Ronan, Montana,
who on May 11, 1910, made Hd. No.
01984, for Unit A, N4- NE3 Sec. 25,
T. 21 N., R. 21 W. M. M., has filed
notice of intention to make final com
mutation proof to establish claim to the
land above described, before Coker F.
Rathbone, a U. S.Commissioner, at Ro
nan, Montana, on the 13th day of Jan.
1912. Claimant names as witnesses:
Benson Evans, James J. Corrigan, Car
ey H. Gordon and Robert Howarth, all
of Ronan, Montana.
JOSIAH SHULL,
nov24-dec 29 Register.
Notice for Publication.
Non-coal land.
Department of the Interior, U.S. Land
Office at Missoula, Montana, Nov. 27,
1911.-Notice is hereby given thatEliza
beth A. Conrey, of St. Ignatius, Mon
tana, who, on November 15th, 1910,
made Hd. entry No. 02940, for
Unit "11," NY NW%, Sec. 20, T. 19
N., R. 20 W.M. M. filed notice of inten
tion to make final commutation proof,
to establish claim to the land above
described, before Coker F. Rathbone, a
U.S. commissioner, at Ronan, Montana,
on the 10th, day of January, 1912.
Claimant names as witnesses: Joseph
R. Conrey of St. Ignatius, Montana,
Ben Jacobs of Ronan, Montana, Thom
as Payne of St. Ignatius, Montana,
Romaine A. Calkins of Dixon Montana.
JOSIAH SliULL,
dec 1 dec 29 Register.
TRY OUR
Fine Confectionery
Cigars and Tobacco
New line of elegant Stationery,
also Tablets, etc.
Hot Chocolate, Cocoa, and other
hot drinks. Try them.
In the Opera House block.
H. M. COX, Prop.
THE ONLY WAY
-TO
Camas Hot Springs
is by way of
Sloan's Ferry
Ferry Hotel In Connection.
REASONABLE PRICES
FOR SIGNS SEE
Loraine
RONAN, - - MONTANA