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THE RONAN PIONEER
FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1912.
Mail Schedule
Stage arives from Ravalli at 12:00 m.
Departs for Ravalli at 9:30 a. m
Church Directory
CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART OF
JESUS
Order of Services
Services will be held in the Catholic
church on the 1st, and 3rd, Sunday of
every month and during some week
days.
On Sunday the first mass will be said
at 8 o'clock a. m.
High mass will be sung at 10 o'clock
and catechicm will be taught at 2
o'clock p. m.
The Father will reside partly in Ro
nan, partly in Poison.
FATHER EDWARD GRIVA S. J.
METHODIST.
Preaching services every first and
third Sunday each month at 11:30 a.m.
Sunday school, to which all are in
vited at 10:30 a. m.
Rev. A. D. Welch, pastor.
JOHN E. FUHRER, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
U. S. R. SERVICE
"FLATHEAD PROJECT"
OFFICE NEXT DOOo Independent phone 284
RONAN STATE SANK RONAN, MONTANA
DR. GEO. H. PUTNEY
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
GLASSES FITTED
OFFICES IN THE PABLO BUILDING.
INDEPENDENT 164 RONAN, MONT.
MILTON WESTON HALL, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Office 1st door west BELL Phone 3
of Pablo & Potvin's RONAN, MONr.
A. SUTHERLAND
Attorney-at-Law
Special attention given to collections.
RONAN, - - - MONTANA
JOHN P. SWEE
Lawyer
Practices in all the courts and before the U. S.
Land Offices.
Office up stairs in the Pioneer Building.
RONAN : : MONTANA
H. P. NAPTON
Attorney at Lau
Will practice in State and Federal courts
PoLsoN, MONTANA.
C. F. RATHBONE,
U. S. Commissioner.
Transacts all kinds U. S. land business
and prepares legal papers.
Pioneer office RONAN, MONTANA
LOUIS K. POOL
Civil Engineer and Surveyor
My reservation maps of vacant lands
are now up to date.
POLSON MONTANA
COL. M. E. CAMPION
Auctioneer
Ronan, Montana
Dates can be made at the Pioneer office
Foss-- The Employment Man
has opened the Montana Labor Agency,
120 W. Front Street, Missoula, Florence
Hotel block. Phone orders for help at
our expense. Bell 726.
For latest styles in
LADIES FURNISHINGS
Millinery, etc., remember
MARY DUPLESSIS
My stock is new and prices right
RONAN, MONTANA.
Ronan Cafe
New location
New furnishings
Everything first-class
Single Meals 35 Cents
SHORT ORDERS
Fresh bread and pastry of all kinds.
CHARLES DORRIS.
Lake Shore Livery
and Feed Barn
NEAR THE DOCKS
POLSON, MONTANA
First-Class Accommodations a
Reasonable Prices
FRANK STONE, Proprietor
THE ONLY WAY
-TO
Camas Hot Springs
is by way of
Sloan's Ferry
Ferry Hotel In Connection.
REASONABLE PRICES
WM. W. STEES
ARCHITECT
Save money by getting plans and
specifications before building
Rates reasonable
Ronan, : Montana
THE
Pioneer Pool Hall
Is the place to spend your
leisure time. Best tables
in town. If you come and
see us once, you will sure
come again.
RICHARD McLEOD
Rooms in Connection
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 ST. IGNATIUS
POOL HALL
ED. DESCHAMPS, Proprietor.
First Pool Hall on the hill
above the Mission Hotel
Four Good Tables, Soft Drinks
Candies, Cigars, Tobacco.
Courteous Treatment to All.
THE
First National Bank
of Missoula, Mont.
CAPITAL and SURPLUS . $400,000.00
ELCELLENT FACILITIES
OFFICERS:
F. S. Lusk, - - - President
Frank H. Elmore - - Vice President
E. A. Newlon, - - - Cashier
Harvey S. Holt, - - Asst. Cashier
Do You Wish to Sell?
If so, write us. We have buy
ers for property at the right price.
We have some improved in
come property in Missoula to
trade in part payment for land on
the Flathead. Write us for par
ticulars.
Money to loan on patented
lands.
W. H. Smead Company
Missoula, Montana.
RONAN MEAT MARKET
For the choicest fresh meats
steaks, boils, roasts, etc., call
at the Ronan Meat Market.
Our aim is to please our cus
tomers.
H. M. Gehiert
2nd door East of M. J. Benedict's
A. Sutherland
Dealer in
Real Estate'
Insurance: Only firstelass com
panies represented.
Notary Public: Conveyancing,
neatly promptly and correctly'
attended to.
$6,000 A 125 acre irrigated hay
ranch, 6 miles north of Bigfork; fairly
well improved; yields a $1.000 crop
every year.
$500: To loan on real estate.
400 Acres near Ronan to lease.
Cheap.
Ronan Choice building lot on
north side at $225.00
Large well built house and lot.
$1250.00
House 14 x 24 and lot on the north'
side $425.
Two room house and two lots
(one a corner lot) cheap $700.00
Call and list your property and I will
find you buyers. It interested watch
this adv. for frequent changes.
Ronan, Montana.
*The Spotted
Death
A Story of
Vengeance
By F. A. MITCHEL
Years ago In the little town of Fre
jus, France-the same Frejus at
which Napoleon 1. landed lwho?; he es
caped from Elba-located on the shore
of the Mediterranean sea, there lived
in adjoining places a veritabh Paul
and Virginia. The young man, Elouard
Le Fevre, at eighteen was ratter of
the northern than the souther,- type,
having a profusion pf light curly hair
and blue eyes. Helene Boucteault
was at seventeen a tall, slender girl
with hair and eyes contrasting with
those of her lover. Both were strik
ingly handsome, and when together
the difference in type rendered them
especially noticeable.
Then, too, they delighted to climb to
the heights behind their homes, where
they could look down upon the long
tortuous line of foam extending north
ward and southward, fringing the sea
a deep blue, a pale green or liquid slil
ver. Their companionship grew into
love without their being conscious of
the transition. Loving was like breath
ing, and, not having been sensible of
its beginning, they took no thought
of its ending.
When the break came it was a great
shock to both. Edouard was sent to
Paris to complete his education and
study a profession. For some time be
fore his departure there was scarcely
an hour that the two lovers were not
together. It Is usually the man who
encourages the woman, but in this
case It was the woman who encourag
ed the man, though of tIm two it is
probable she suffered the more. She
held up before hint pictures of his re
turn at vacation time and finally, after
he had acquired his profession, their
"I AM THE SPOTTED DEATH I" SHE SAID.
home together in Marseilles or some of
the larger places on the French ledl
terranean coast. But Edounrd seemed
to have a foreboding that these pic
tures would never le realized.
The lovers counted the days between
vacations, and as one vacation after
another brought a realization of He
lene's prediction Edounard's forebod
ings seemed likely to have been merely
the result of some physical depression.
He completed his academic studies,
then began a course to fit him for the
law. A brilliant scholar and promii
nent in other respects, he was marked
by his fellow students one day to take
an active part in the political doings
of France.
One evening when young Le Fevre
was dining with some of his associates
in a cafe a man entered and sat at a
table nmr them. As soon as he ap
peared the conversation among the stu
dents w' s hushed, while they cast
covert g 'uces at the newcomer.
"Who I he?" asked Edounard.
"The :.ttted death!" whispered one
of the .,LAy,
"Why is he cdlled that?"
"The name is given him from the
Asiatic plague, which occasionally finds
its way into Europe and kills every
person it attacks. Fte has fought
many duels and has never failed to
kill his man."
"Does lie seek quarrels?"
"Yes: he delights in them. Don't
talk so loitd. If he should hear you
speak ill of him lie would call you out
and kill you."
"Why has no one undertaken to put
him out of tihe way? Ile should ie
shot down l1k1' a '1 g."
The sp1tted deith's eye flashed. Hle
had oveuhetrI Le Fenries words. lIe
bad ordered a lottle of wine and had
poured out a glass. Rising with it in
his hand, lie advanced a few steps to
ward Edounard and threw its contents
in his face.
Every member of the party- of stun
dents was horror stricken. ILe Fevre
saw the elsitio ii %Nhil1 hi was
placed and, though lie regretted his
rashness, did what was expected of
him., He asked one of his friends to
go to the man who had insulted him
pad secure his address, then, without
waiting for a reply, arose with the
itihers and left the cafe.
in Le l'eile's rooms a consultation
of in- friends iwa s held to det ermnine
whlit wlts to be doti'. Considerimiti cae
sin niment prey:.(ct at ihat 'tune, it
was do;ermtiied thit it Edoui''d did
ill, coc th t spotted death lie might
a' ~eill give ii .,is . 0re001 so far as his
1t0!i\ o country ilas concerned, and s
tie!'( was lon 110no (ivilized land wherei I
U I:::,.i wais otcn.ed :.onit 'c'senting anI
isulit. Eiiiltl'ard resigned himiselt to
his. ste. Hle oct1t : . uhenge, and the
mte ting wiiia ri-a .(d for the follow
ink llorniini at ci ci ie.
ITh:u ni iht E.i tmlii write a lettct
to I: ic ot oucbhcI :i t!' terms of oir
who 'cc.!', ec to die wiithin a fewV
hea I', l' ha nu ::Lill ::I duty we-a!'on
:1('. wv ho wa:s to be 1..icrcler,1. 'T'h
m:.in trouh:e I 1I:::t nou'tpa' I hils mindl
wi-i the stitteriilg 1i': unreider would
oclvI tio Ley. 1It ) it' ,'! td li;'r to do all
in Le: lowet r (uf i'"nCl hin
As wias Ill lcv:: beon exp'' ;:d, tih
s(elled death the next Io ning u11l(
short wok of h~is::u;: Dl i lt, ru tntin
him thrtough the hear't with ease. TPhr
stu n, lit expired i ,'n iediately. 1iii
aItol ides t '' r ieied il, ' I ititc of caill
tin t :t i .' t'' hii ( o;ill, an in a
s'li' tii'i It' ' or; sit .
g ':.e nit ',t " it ii : I t : c iall a ti'* rc
Oitced te : ('al l wl''ti abt th w;i'
}; ite th1 !e c wi-lt 1 1. Evl lendls
an rr;ist hnd c'c.glned I! uwk fee
t n'!i: t 'l. I .i mot I i...t ' . ri iiro
tng iit f .Lint it i nt c tiitw woi
votittil ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ i' liiettto ftedtlistiwh
hbil 1i nl nEdo it ptiLtu' d os r
ap:'v 't i ," it t to ttehio intiletfion
'Tltry islt shrt ' i. [ trom t l spoath
sote loo.:ict te pat-or, of your teShou
the riom! " i 11 o e :'ill cn s( 11111
drvic : tim . nhisirt th ir's olut:' tho
"Yii V re i'i :1 'I 818
dene, i!!. c' lit! the Scn nidn gentle
11ich the word ic:1 spoken to the lnd
seal in his l'ace.
"ialges expr cssn lion said mask th
grosnorg "we tIe I s"l this m on--urt
twil hoteretos. We itrb h tehe spti
tell death. I we' i . llo-: oen my
pensodt, his adre i his unme."
P ardon g ; i, the i nsultlt lilt S Iani
re gilve fnl y suldnenot he su ficenver
ing higself. fore wti. his mask itni re
teild the festnrus of the duelist who
had killed Edonard Le Fevre.
"1'nmitsk as I have clone and let mit
know who you are," he said to the
mace who had spat upon him.
dihat fs bunecessllo y. t am bhe spoth
ted death, the pnrson of your twelve
victims. The thirteenth is about to
die."
"Aied be is?"
"Yourself."
Whether it was the confident tone in
which the word was spoken or the liv
Id agony expressed in the mask the
duelist could not repress a slight start.
'Enough of this:" he said. "Youi
coming here to disturb these festivit
ties shall be punished. I will send -
friend to any address you name,"
"Pardon me; but, lest the insult I
have given you should not be sufficient,
I will duplicate it."
Bending forward quick as lightning
the speaker struck the duelist on the
cheek with the palm of his hand. A
drop of blood followed the blow. The
duelist did not notice it at once, but
In a moment, putting up his hand, he
wiped it away.
"Your address!" ie cried, irritated at
.this second insult.
"You shall have it in time. Mhisi.urs
and miesdames, pardon for Interrupt
ing your festivities. On with the
dance! It is now 10 o'clock. By mnid
night or withinu sli hour later my twin
brother shall have my address. I de
sire to accord halm a few hours of mer.
riment before I embrace bins!"
The duels; t with difficulty maintained
his composure.
At midnight t he revelers unma~sked.
The duelist, who after the altercation
had resumed his face covering, on
taking it off :t second time was seen
to be suffreing. 1He attempted to leave
the hall, but staggered, and before
reaching the floor fell. It was no
ticed by those who went to his as.
sistance that his face was covered
with spots such as were painted on
Ithe mask of the moan who had Insult
ed himn.
"The spotted death!" some one ex
claimed.
Then his enemy, still masked, ap
peared on t he scene and, bending over
him, said:
"I embrace you, my brother."
Then, tearing off his own mask, in
stead of a man's a woman's face was
revealed--a woman whose rare beau
ty had been marred by suffering.
"You will not need my address," she
said. "When I slapped your cheek,
in my palm was a needle on whose
point was the virus of the spotted
death. Your victims, including Edou
ard Le Fevre, are avenged."
While she Spoke the spots on the
man's face grew stronger and its ex
pression like the mask she had worn.
There was something startling in his
own expression at seeing the change
when she unmasked from the hideous
apparition to the features of a deli
cate woman who hung over hint like
an avenging angel. The disease witl
which she had inoculated him work
quickly, and the man was already dy
ing. She -otntimed to gaze upon him
while hit: hent Ih grow shortor till W
last he fell nick had in the a ris of
one supporting him.
IHelene fonitt-nult ret-rned sim:!
taneously to her native town with I.
news of her avenging act. Paris w.:
glad to get rid of the man whom all
dreaded, and she was never called to
account for her act. How she tratkri
her lover's murderer. prepared for hr
work. she never told, for she nov;
spoke of the tragedy in any part. I
lived many years, some asserting tiha
she had become demented by heitg
robbed of her lover, others claiming
that she was mentally sound.
Our New Spring Invoice
of Dry Goods
Have arrived and here you will find
many novelties which will please. Al
so our spring shipment of Ladies',
Men's and Children's Shoes. Large
assortment of the best shoes made.
A Car of Barbed Wire
At Lowest Prices
5 Tons of Seed Potatoes
Remember the Grocery Department
when buying. Always complete and
fresh, and prices the lowest.
THE STORE THE STORE
OFULTy PABLO & POTVIN QUArITY
We Grow Trees
In larger quantity and greater variety than
any other nursery within a radius of nearly
1000 miles.
We grow more trees adapted to the needs of
Montana planters than any other nursery
on earth.
There are no better trees than ours grown
anywhere.
We Want Your Trade
You Want Our Trees
Let Us Price Your List.
Montana Nursery Co.
BILLINGS, MONTANA.
A. M. STERLING, President
D. N. MASON, Secretary List Your Land or LOts with AbstractB
JAMES D. COWGILL, Vice-P
JOHN P. SWEE, Treasurer Us for a Quick Sale Bonds
Insurance
THE We issue Executors, Administrators,
Flathead Land Guardians, and all kinds of Bonds Lands
'CO. Also represent some of the Lots and
(Incorporated)
Best Fire Insurance Companies Town
RONAN, - MONT. in the U. S. Property
CHRIST THOMPSON
St. Ignatius, Mont.
General Merchandise
My stock comprises a carefully selected assortment of
Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots, Shoes, Hardware, Harness; and
in fact everything needed in the home or on the farm.
Local agent for U. S. Cream Separators.
Quality and Prices are Always Right
Ronan Blacksmith Shop
HARRY BURLAND, Proprietor
HORSE SHOEING A SPECIALTY
Plow, Wagon and Wood Work in connection. I have on
hand everything in the blacksmith line.
Ronan, Montana
Ronan Try Us. It Pays. Yards
Dixon for
am The Lumber Co. ceraity
Arlee Just Good Building Materials Economy
Town Property Bargains
SEE
E. H. RATHBONE