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The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1906-08-15
An Appeal to Democrats.

Washington, Aug. 1O.-Chairman
Gripps. of the democratic congression-
al committee, today sent out many
t thousands of circulars calling Tor Sl
S inscriptions from democrats through
out the country, the money to be used
for campaign purposes. In his letter.
Chairman Griggs says
.eTo All Democratic Voters-lf there
ever was a time in the history OF the
democratic party for manifestation
of 10y atty and patriotism on the part
of its members, it is right now. III we
are to win victory and elect presl-
dent two wears hence, we must first
elect a house Of representatives this
fall. A democratic house can and will
investigate every department OF the
government. With all these honey
com bed with graft, the edges of which
only have been touched by recent ex-
posure and prosecutions, there VIII bt
a revelation of rottenness that vii
astound the country and create oe
IN and for a democratic ADMINISTRATOR
to clean the government workshop
To win the house we need money to de
fray legitimate expenses to get out oa
vote. We have no projected monopo
] lies from which to draw to hill ou
Golfers. as they do those of the repnbi
can party. We must therefore appes
IL to loyal democrats for contributions.
II "Will you send 81 at once, and IN =
turn for this we will send you copie
| of our campaign literature issued 0
the committee. You have the THANH
of the entire democratic party II
| your favorable response to our reqnes
Address all communication to }. \
Griggs, Washington, d. c.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1906-08-15

Lena Morris Lewis a socialist lee
turer of San Francisco will speak on
the problems of the Workers" in
Hamilton on Thursday and Friday
evenings of this week.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1906-08-15

Leonard Oerti of Grantsdale, was
born in Iowa and is 80 years of age.
He came to the Bitter Root valley with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. B. Oertli of
Sleeping Child, about fifteen years
ago. Mr.. Oertli received a common
in surveying and civil engineering
through the medium of the Scranton
Correspondence School. He has equip
ped himself with tne outfit of in.
struments and has had considerable
experience in surveying timber lands.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1906-08-15

Buffalo, N. Y, June Il, 1856. He
graduated from Chamberlain Normal
Institute at Randolph, N. Y, and
taught school four winters. He went
to Denver in 1878, afterwards return
ing to New York. He came to Mon
tana in 1882. locating near Glendive
and where he married Miss Edith
Coram in 1885. They have five chill
dren. Mr.. Southwick located near
Darby in 1888, For five years he
carried the mail between Hamilton
Darby and Sula. Since then he has
followed ranching and frultgrowing.
Mr.. Southwick has never held office.
FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY.
HeH1Y l.. Myers was born in Coop
er county, Mo, Oot. 9, 1862. He re-
ceived his education in tne public
schools and at Bonneville Academy.
He taught school, followed newspaper
work and was admitted 10 the tar in
Missouri in 1887. He came TO Mon
tana in 1898, locating III Hamilton.
He married Miss Nora Doran in 1896
and one daughter has come to bless
this union. Mr. Myers served two
terms as county attorney ard in 1898
was elected state senator Tor Ravalln
county, serving one term. He has
been an active practictioner at law tor
nearly % ears,
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1906-08-15

j. u. S0ltthuick was born near
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1906-08-15

! Charles s. u u6ner was born at
| Me3dyille, Pa, April 10, 1870. he
graduated from the All"ghany bus
mess college; served five years APP
prenticeship in law office ana mas
been admitted to pre- ctice IN all the
courts Of Pennsylvania and Montana
He is married and has three children.
l He came TO Helena, Mont, in Febru-
arv. 1902, locating at Hamilton short
ly afterwards. Mr. Wagner has never
D held office.
d FOR COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERINT NTENDENT
Miss EthlW N. chambers was
born at SoulE Saltwater Ni'nh''
: March 20, 1855. She graduated from
II the Hamilton high school, class OF
= 1902: attended college at St. Louis and
q took a normal course at the state
normal college III Dillon. She holds
4 FIRST Grade certificate and has had con-
siderable experience at teaching, hay
> ing taught nearly three terms in the
- graded schools of Hamilton. Miss
Chambers is a highly accomplished
al Young lady, highly esteemed by all
%. who enjoy her acquaintance and, her
ed friends predict, will make an active,
n painstaking and capable county super
ST intendent if elected.
he FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR.
o na Malcolm d. hippen, was born in
Glengary county, Ontario, Canada, in
1872. He received a good education,
graduating from high school. He
gained a knowledge of surveying
through a correspondence school and
h as had ten years actual experience,
he for a number of years having had
80 charge of the irrigation department of
w. the Bitter Root stock farm. Mr.. Kip
pen and Miss Christina Mcleod OF
Hamilton were married in 1905. He
has served two terms as county sur
~ veyor.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1906-08-15

Richard b. Nicholson, was born
in Bellevue, Iowa, March 19, 1o49, and
lived on the old homestead until ne
became of age. He came to Montana
in 1870 and followed placer mining for
several years. Returning east ne
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1906-08-15
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,

GEORGE ". Jol,ns0n, was born in
Howell county, Mo-, in 1883. He re-
ceived a common school education.
He married Miss Nancy E. Davis OF
Cooper county. They have seven
children. They came to Montana in
1882. Locating on Burnt Fork he has
successfully followed the farming bus
mess. In 1904 he was one of the few
democrats who withstood the "Roose
Welt landslide" and was elected county
! assessor.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1906-08-15

Dreu7y Il. FrooGe, was born in
Finterse county, Tenn, in 1854. He
removed to Missouri and, in 1887, mar
ried Miss Amy Myers. Two daughters
bless this union. He is graduate of
Oaklawn college and taught school for
fifteen years. Mr.. Frogge came to
Montana in 1890, locating at Corvallis
where he has since followed the avo-
cation of farmer. He has never held
Office.
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The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1906-08-15

johnson c. DouGherty was born
at Conway, Mo-, in 1867. He came to
Mon tana in 1884. He married Miss
Francis Stewart and two children
bless the union. Mr.. Dougherty is
farmer by avocation. He has never
held any office but that of constable OF
Stevens Township, to which he was
elected by a big ma jority in the repub
lican precincts of Stevensville two
| wears ago.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1906-08-15

Henry GrOrer. was born on the old
overland trail near Ogden, Utah, in
1858. He resided in California for
years and where he was married. He
came to the Bitter Root valley in 1882
and has since successfully followed
the business of ranching and fruit
growing. MI. Grover was elected
1902 aud is chairman of the present
board.
The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1906-08-15

married Miss Sadie Beatty of Blanding,
H., Dec. "a, 1885. They have four
children. In 1888 Mr.. Nicholson re-
ranch near Como where he has since
resided. Mr.. Nicholson has never
held office.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1906-01-04

come back e. he has been discharged
for drunkenness: not II he went ITO
better himself" aud repeated 1t. john
Swinton vas taken back, to the Sun,
but he had left to start his own paper,
which was dead when he returned.
The late John B. Jackson was re-
turned to the Herald " executive
ciemency. Mr.. Bennett himself asked
the managing editor II he did not rec
ollect that jackson had been dis
charged. The managing editors mem-
ory was bettered by the hint. Pre-
viously he had supposed that MIR.
Jackson had resigned. Neither Swim
ton nor jackson had long to live.
Kindness like that is not uncom-
mon In the press. Walt Whitman's
last years were lightened by an ar
rangement with the Herald to pay him
stated sum every month for as much
or AS little as he might feel like writ
ing. One month he had written moth
ing and returned the check. 1t came
back promptly. That was the arrange
menI; he need write nothing when he
didn't feel like it. The private &C
counts OF the Herald or the World
could tell many a curious little tale
like that, If they were opened as they
never will be. Every great paper has
confidential pay roll apart from the
big general list of those who go to
the WINDOW for theirs"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1906-01-04

acres of Office floor Space. but not all
on one floor. There will be Al tracks.
The baggage smashers alone will have
an acre and half to turn themselves
in. The total yard space is 62 acres
imagine buying and clearing that
space in the center of Manhattan!
The Central is a "stub" station and
needs more space than the Pennsyl-
vania. which is Through" station.
The Central trains back up to Mott
Haven to be made up. The Pennsyl-
vania trains keep right on out to
cheaper land on Long Island. In both
cases the main shifting tracks are ten
miles from the station.
A difference of system keeps foreign
stations smaller. London has dozen
main stations connected by the UNDER
ground Paris has half dozen. Bcr-
lin the same. The largest English sta
tions are apt to be at junction points
like Rugby and Crewe.
Pre- badly the man who travels has
looked up at the big truss roofs OF
the stations with new interest since
the Charing Cross of London fell in.
There is no need. Charing Cross was
famous because 1t is 9 point OF depar-
ture for Paris. 1t was old and long
ago needed rebuilding. 1t was iron.
Nowadays we build of steel with light
err, stronger. better planned Orders.
OF course the only safe place is at sea.
where nothing can fall. A modern
railway station perhaps comes next.
OWEN LANGDON
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1906-01-04

steinigeweg, of Winton place, Cincin'
natl. were murdered. Their deaths
took place within 30 days OF each
other. May Mcdonald, Of Cincinnati,
was killed about this same time.
It has developed that DR.. Haugh was
in Cincinnati at that time and two
women who saw man leaving the
spot where the mutilated body OF Lulu
Mueller was found described him as
STOPPING, gray haired. shaking as II
palsied and with a glaze in his eye.
This description fits DR.. Haugh, as he
was on October IA, 1904. within a few
days Of the girls death. On that date
Mrs. Mary johnson, an old friend OF
the Haugh family, refused him admis,
sion to her Cincinnati lodging house
because Of his drug eating habits
She especially noted his appearance.
The Cincinnati police are working
n the theory that Hauah may have
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1906-01-04

Before we began to be growing gen.
teel;
Twas all very we'll for . cockney or
clown,
But nobody now spends his Christ
mas in town.
So it is nothing new, this equalto-
Fourth-of-July rush ior the country a
few days before the holidays. You see
no dlminution of the trongs at COM
mutiug stations or ferries and bridges,
but, believe me, nobody now spends
his Christmas in town." The country
house party is correct. 1t should not
be Tar from the city; near enough for
an occasional night at the opera or
hour at the shops. And there should
be very English rejoicings, the sing
ing Of waits and the like, and much
giving of gifts to the poor of the
neighborhood" When there are prac-
tically no poor and very man rich, as
in the fashionable Hampstead colony,
there is so much competition for the
available objects of benevolence that
parents as we'll as children are spoiled
by the ostentation of kindness.
1t has been the greatest Christmas
season of the shops on record. Twice
as much money has passed hands as
in the same month two years ago.
The toy automobile that will really
run, The opera doll-dressed for the
opera, as understand, but with
other clothes at home in her three
story house with its real cooking
range and electric lights-but wait!
will catalogue the six favorite toys
of The season for boys whose parents
are well-to-do. They are the toy au-
tomobile, the small typewriter, the
cinematograph good enough for NOV
ing pictures, the toy battleship, the
railway train and the toy animal COW
cred with the right kind of real hair.
Not one toy in the list could at any
price even ten yeors ago have been
procured in its present perfected form.
The best toy lions. for instance. come
to $50. The most complete autos with
suits to match and goggles and gloves
for infant terror chauffeurs run above
the hundred. 1t would be possible to
get together quite an assortment ct
toys none of which cost less than
$50.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1906-01-04

race. with the sportsmen's show to
follow, though in that the auto men
and motor boat builders have driven
out all the sportsmen.
And why not county fair? One OF
the finest dairymen's shows ever held
in the country took place some years
ago in the garden and drew more New
Workers than any but the very biggest
circus. CIothilde. I think her name
was, the record breaking Holstein
COW, combed to polish. had as many
admirers as polo pony. New York
always welcomes Whit OF the real
country - naturally enough, since
there are in the city more ex-farmers
than there are present-day farmers IN
any but the largest whole states. OF
the men in my own Office every one
was reared either on farm or in q
village conveniently near grandpa's
orchard and strawberry patch. The
only one of a dozen strong men who
has not had experience of farm work
is one who early went into the navy.
The proportion Of "hayseeds" in a
shop or factory would not be nearly
so high. But again. most of the immi-
grants are from farms or farm viii
lagos.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1906-01-04
Searcher for Mysterious Drug
Becomes Its First Victim.
SEEMS TO PROVE THEORY OF DOUBLE PERSONALITY
Long Series of Crimes Which Are CHARGED
Against Man Now Confin ed in Dayton CO.,
Jail-Said to Have Murde cred His Father.
Mother. Brother and Many Women.

legged to have come under his spell
This is a partial list of women dupes
of DIR. Haugh as obtained by Dayton
police:
Mrs. Anna Eckley Haugh. his legal
wife, living in Dayton with two chill
dren.
Mrs. Mary Twohey. lived with
Haugh in Lorain and Lima; died in
Lorain.
Mrs. Della Patterson, living in En-
glewood, Chicago. or Ludington, Mich;
lived with Haugh in Surfing, Wis, and
Appleton, Wis.
Unknown woman who died at'Lorain
Just before Mrs. Twohey was spirited
there to die.
Unknown woman in Toledo. o.
Unknown women in Stark county
Huron county, Seneca county and
Lucas county.
It was about a year ago that Lulu
Mueller, of Cumminsville. and Alma
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1906-01-04

merly on the Sun sat round the tables.
Most Of them were farm boys. the pro-
portion of foreign peasants children
being rather high. And what a group
of men it was! The Sun has been a
great educator. Judge Bartlett. the
most scholarly man on the New York
bench; Fyles and Maps. dramatists:
Huneker and Kobbe and Corbin. crit
les; Samuel H. Adams. the magazine
writer: Arthur Brisbane. perhaps the
highest salaried newspaper man in the
world. The Sun is always called the
newspaper mans paper. Its graduates
leave it and get great wages elsewhere
and new men are trained up to lake
their places, but the Sun is always
the Sun. Like the Herald. 1t has for
its protection against the "yellow" pa
pers that seek men an odd rule. No
man who leaves the Sun Of his own
accord is hired there again. He may
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1906-01-04

Dayton. O.-The criminal record Of
the country furnishes from time to
time cases of such striking character.
both as to the nature of the crime
and the peculiar and mystifying cir
cumstances connected Herewith, that
they command more than passing in
terest, and require more detailed treat
ment than ordinarily would be wise
or justifable.
Such is true in reference to the case
Involving DIR. Oliver Crook Haugh,
confined in the Jail here on the find
ing of the coroner, whose verdict
charges him with the murder of his
father, Jacob Haugh: his mother,
Mary Frances Haugh, and his broth
81, Jesse Haugh, whose burned and
mutilated bodies we're found in the
ruins of their burned home on farm
near this city.
Awful as this crime is, it is said to
be but the elimination of a bloody
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1906-01-04

w no does MS duty - QueSt1ou
Too complex to be solved by me;
But he, venture the suggestion.
Does part Of his that plants tree.
With our great rich country we have
not earned q reputation for thrift and
proper economy. Especially wasteful
criminally wasteful, are we accounted
in our vandal methods Of numbering.
But we are waking up. Perhaps II
would be better way to put it to say
with loss of forest wealth we are learn.
ing economy. With our eyes opened
to increasing demands for timber, we
are beginning to make provision fol
future needs.
Look at the way the railroads thai
snake their way here and there and ev.
erywhere in this western hemisphere
are devouring the forest product; the
annual consumption of railroad ties
alone In the United States is 100000
900. or fully one-sxth of the total cut
of timber. In addition to this there
are vast drains upon the forest for tel.
egraph and telephone poles and for
crossarms and for timbers for railroad
| construction"
The railroads are put to it now to
get their supply, now have to take the
soft woods. which are treated with cre-
osote to make them more durable,
longer lived. Once they would accept
nothing save the soundest ties, the
purchasing agent was most particular
threw away seconds and thirds. To.
day they take what they can get But
not few of them are trying to solve
the problem of the future, several have
started experimental plantations fol-
the raising of ties. At Harahan, La
the Illinois Central railroad has a plot
Of 200 acres planted to trees, and one
Of $50 acres at Du Quoin, Ill. The Penn.
sylvania railroad has black locust
plantations scattered throughout the
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1906-01-04
WILD DAYS IN ODESSA.
Drunken Policemen and Soldiers Run
ming Amuck Among the
People.

Here is a correspondents record Of
the minor hooligan outrages Of one
day in the city of Odessa recently:
shortly before shutdown q drunken
member of small military picket
staggered across to the edge of the
broad pavement, raised his rifle and
fired wildly at passing dorsky carry
ing two women and young girl. The
bullet missed its mark. An officer, at
tracted by the shot, rushed over, and
the drunken soldier ran as best he
could, after dropping his rifle, but was
brought down by a shot in the leg
from the officer. On the opposite side
Of Cathedral place, 300 PAGES away,
about the same time, an intoxicated
policeman reeled out of vodka shop
and commenced blazing about with his
revolver, one shot wounding a young
woman in the hand. He was shot dead
by a member of the nearest picket.
earlier in the day two small mer'
chants returning through busy thor
oughfare from the custom house were
stopped by hooligans and robbed OF
everything. Thirty yards away STOOD
a picket of two soldiers and a police
man. The indignant victims demand
ed to know why the picket did not
come to their assistance. One OF the
soldiers replied it was none OF their
business: they were there to control the
traffic only.
1.-TWO other cases of robbery with
violence occurred in the afternoon
close to my residence. in the outer dis
tricts of the city there were II similar
assaults and robberies. and between
nightfall and midnight about 20. In
three of the latter cases the military
pickets were the bandits. A little girl
OF nine years. chased by the hooligans'
was shot dead on her own doorstep.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1906-01-04

state of Pennsylvania, and the Louis
Vile & Nashville road plantations IN
Illinois, Alabama, Florida and Ken.
lucky. Locust and catalpa trees are
the trees used.
1t may be of some interest here to
mention that the famous young actress
Maude Adams is helping on little re.
foresting of our badly deforested lands.
A hundred thousand locust trees have
been set out on her Long Island prop.
erty, these the trees most highly val.
ued for telegraph poles and railroad
ties.
The government, as we'll as are the
railway companies, is forging ahead
at the problem, and aid is given both
corporations and private parties In
scientific forestry. On request plan
Is sent as to proper trees for the soil
and climate of q proposed plantation,
spacing and setting of the trees. "Ad-
vantage has been taken Of the assist,
ance offered and hundreds of planting
plans made for farmers who have
planted wood lots, sneller belts and
windbreaks."
The railroads, which own great forest
lands of their own and have such great
extent of right of way, are engaging
the services of trained foresters to
make the most of their properties.
Forests are cleared of old wood, thick
growths cleaned out, new trees set out,
precautions taken against destructive
fires. The suggestion has been made
that the waste lands along the rail-
road rights Of way be planted with
trees, but answer to this is given that
safety demands the right of way be
kept clear, tracks unshaded and un-
darkened by tree growth. Private
lasds along the railroads are putting
open lands to timber, the farmer, too,
Is going in for reforestation; is now
planting where once he only cut down.
Persons who own lands not we'll adapt
ed to farming are urged to go in for
systematically cared for forest planta-
tions, and given assurance they will
reap handsome returns on sucn invest
ment An article in the Brooklyn
Eagle says: when the trees have
once reached a period OF growth which
gives to them marketable value, in
telligent management, cutting each
year only a portion of the timber and
allowing for reforestation would make
such forest plantations source of rev.
enue as long as the country continues
to be inhabited by men. The whole
forest problem is big one. The idea
that a forest is to be cut over clean
and then abandoned is nothing short
of ridiculous from national business
standpoint. II we would begin as a
nation to-day to plant a tree in every
place where we cut one down and to
replant forests that have already been
destroyed and abandoned, we would
not need to fear a timber famine in
the future or the drying up of our
rivers and streams and the loss of the
water power they supply"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1906-01-04

career the story of which is start
ling in its horrible details and
fascinating because of its mys-
teries and iendish ingenuities. 1t
took the red blood of his own kith and
kin to bring to light the details of the
dark chapter in the life of this man
who It is charged has been changed
BY the use of drugs from respecta-
BILE physician and student of medicine
into veritable dend. the counterpart
Of Robert Louis Stevenson's Mr.. Hyde.
A Long List Of Victims.
e is alleged by officers here that the
doctor got girls and women under his
influence by the use Of the same stupe-
Tying and degrading drugs which had
made him a victim, took what money
or property they had available, and
then he would continue to feed his
victims, it is believed, with the drug
until they succumbed to IT'D power.
4 score or more Of women afs =