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The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-07-30
LOCAL NEWS
OF INTEREST

Cyrus Hardy was visiting in
town Wednesday.
You may lead a man to water
but he takes it on the side.
VIM, Weber of Box Elder was
among the visitors in town Sat-
urday.
RUDE Branch was among the
Box Elder visitors in town We'd
nesday.
j. K. Lambert and wife were
visiting in town the fore part of
the week.
Walter and Dave Anderson
were in town Tuesday on bust
ness trips.
General Sweeney was a visitor
in town Wednesday from his
ranch on Box Elder.
Alex Clark was in town Sun
day from the Dallas surveying
crew east or town.
Phil Bootsma is building a
house for Geo. HerndOn on his
homestead this week.
Joe Hoffman was in town from
his ranch on Box Elder Tuesday
after a load Of farm machinery.
R. M. Yates and son Bobbie
returned from Baker Tuesday
with 'freig+t for town merchants.
C. A. Ballinger, forest super
visor of the Sioux National For
est was in town this week from
Camp Crook.
L. F. Kennedy was in town
Monday from his ranch. He is
at present building an addition
on to his house.
Born-At the home of Sven
Olsen on Beaver creek to Nj. and
Mrs. Ole Markeson on Monday,
rs, a fine s 1-2 ID. boy.
f. l.. Wilson and wife were in
town Tuesday from their ranch.
Wilson acted as one Ct the
judges at the specia. election
Tuesday.
DR.. A. Sheriff. and Frank
Of Camp Crook were in
Saturday in attendance at
the trial where the doctor was
as a witness,
The JUSTICE Of the peace on
instructions from the CONNER
cial Club proceeded to rid the
town OF a few dogs On Monday
and seemed TO make a good job
Of it.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-07-30
STRAYED

One Black work horse braided
rs on left thigh. weight about
1850. Liberal reward for imfor-
nation leading to recovery. j.
O. Flasted.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-07-30
Farmers Home Lodging House

Conducted by Mrs. Wesley
Thompson on Mormon St. Good
clean beds. Rates-Per night IS
cents, per week $500 and per
month $500.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-07-30

Colon Munro was in town MonI
day from his sheep camp.
Early to bed, early to rise.
makes a man miss a lot of fun.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
FIGHTING HOPE
IS A POLEMIC
HURLBUT PLAY IS SUBTLE DE-
FENSE OF MONEY KING
BRILLIANT ACTING OF BLANCHE
BATES MUST BE NOTED
Splendid Bill at orpheum Yet Leaves
Room for WELDING Of Blue
Pencil on One Of
New Acts

'srhe Fighting Hope" a drama in three
acts, BY william J. Hurlbut, produced at the
Mason opera house Monday evening, Sept.
20. 1903
THE CAST
Burton Temple, president Gotham Trust
eomnauy uy...+............. Milton sills
Marshdeld Craven. Temples adviser.
Observation-Disclosures. John w. Cope
Robert Granger, ex-treasurer Gotham
Trust company .... .WedgewoOd NOVEL;
Anna his wife ..,.......... Blanche Bates
Mrs. Mason, Temples housekeeper. ....
Loretta Wells
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
WOULD KEEP ENGINES
FROM PARK DISTRICT
PROPERTY OWNERS IN SOUTH
WEST READY TO PROTEST
Residents Near Santa Monica and Me-
CIlntock Avenues Claim They
Were Given No Chance
to Act

Property owners In the district
bounded by Thirty y-seventh place, Santa
Monica and McClintock avenue will
protest to the council today against the
ordinance recently passed by that body
excepting their district from the resi-
dence ordnance.
In their petition they represent that
there are sixteen residences in the ter
ritory described and that fourteen are
occupied as homes; that the territory
adjoins Agricultural park, which is to
be improved at an expense Of half q
million dollars, and that an industrial
district adjoining the park will do moth
ing to enhance its esthetic value.
They say that the petition to have
this property set aside for industrial
purposes was presented by the Fair
Gilmore Wilton company and by
the council referred to Councilman
Wallace, who reported on 1t faVorably.
They did not know the ordinance was
to be passed and had no opportunity TO
protest, they aver.
Since the passage Of the ordinance
the Fairchild-G -Gilmore-Wilto company
has asked the fire commission for per-
mits to install two gasoline engines IN
property in this district, formerly occu-
pied by a lumber company, and the
fire commission will decide Thursday
whether or not the permits will be
granted. Should the council take action
today toward repeating the ordinance
the commission will not grant the per-
n1its
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
Municipal Affairs
OLD JOB IN IOWA
GOT THOMAS PERMIT
MAYOR REMEMBERS HIS OWN
DAYS IN BUSINESS
Points Out Places of Trust Held by
Applicant, and Secondhand
Store Paper Is
Signed

Having once been a grain merchant
in Iowa proved a valuable asset to G..
f. Thomas when he asked the police
commission for a permit to conduct a
secondhand store. He got the permit
he asked for, although the commission
had once before denied similar appn-
cation from him on recommendation
OF Chief Dishman.
When Thomas made his first apph-
cation the chief reported that he had
a report from the chief of police at
Tacoma which stated that Thomas had
been in trouble in, that city over tech
nical violations of the secondhand
dealers ordinance in that city and also
a private letter that did not reflect
much credit on Thomas character. On
this report the commission denied lhe
permit Aug. 30.
Last night Chief Dishman made the
same report he had previously sub
mitted and privately passed around the
letter he had received from the chief
of police at Tacoma. Thomas was not
present, but he had left batch of rec
concentrations for the consideration of
the commission. The commission con-
cluded they did not care to read the
letters and a motion was made to deny
the permit, when the mayor picked UP
the recommendations and glanced
through them. The first thing he saw
was that Thomas had formerly been a
grain dealer in Iowa. Mayor Alex
ander formerly was grain dealer in
Iowa himself and he Immediately be-
came interested. He read all the let
ters to the commission, showing that
Thomas had held important positions
of trust in banks and other places.
On the strength of these recommen-
dations the permit was granted.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
AOUEDUCT EMPLOYE
ASKS FOR DAMAGES
Demands of Council Twelve Thousand
Dollars for Injuries to Two
Fingers Sustained on
Dredeer

Valuing two fingers on his left hand
at $4,000 each, Horace S. Foutz has
made demand on the city council for
$12, 900 damages for injuries sustained
while employed on Dredger No. on
the line of the aqueduct.
In his demand on the council Foutz
states the accident in which he lost
his fingers occurred April 80, 1909, and
he alleges his injury is due to the care
Iessness of Charles Berry, operator of
the dredger. He says on the date in
question Berry ordered him to go out
on the "a" frame and tie piece of
rope to a broken shafting that was
part of the "digger-head' and which
broke a number of sharp knives. While
he was at work, Berry, who had hold
Of the rope, permitted the broken
shafting to drop and Foutz' left hand
came in contact with 1t. Two fingers
of his hand were crushed off. He al
Ieges his injuries were treated by one
of the physicians employed by the
aqueduct department, but that the
bandage was not changed for thirty
days, and as a result blood poison set
in and his hand was further injured.
He frankly admits he does not expect
the council to pay the amount of the
claim. but that it is the first step to-
ward bringing suit in court.
This dredger has a number of acci-
dents charged to it. August 20, Everett
H. Schamp was killed while working
on this dredger. He was caught In the
machinery and his body so mangled
he died from his injuries the following
day. Saturday, the parents of Schamp
asked the board of public works to
allow them damages for his death, al
though they did not stipulate any
amount. They said their son was the
support of their old age and without
the help of his wages they would bo
unable to provide the necessities of life.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
NOTED ARCHAE0LOGIST
WILL LECTURE TONIGHT
DR.. Edgar L. Hewett viii Tell of
Remarkable Work Already
Done in the Great
Southwest

DR. Edgar L. Hewett, the eminent
director of the School of American
Archaeology, will lecture under the
auspices of the Southwest society and
the Southwest museum at the Arrow
theater, Hamburger building, at 800
West Eighth street. this evening at s
o'clock, outlining with lantern slides
a part of the remarkable work done by
the school this summer in the explor-
alton of American archaeology in the
southwest. The lecture will be free
and the public is invited Special in
vitations have been sent to the high
schools to attend this lecture, showing
how the antiquities of America can af-
ford comparison with those of Greece
and Rome.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

Something new" Joseph Hart's the
atrical motto as lyricized in one of his
songs. is reflected in the novelty and
variety Of his big Bathing Girls" act,
which occupies the honored position on
the Orpheum bill that opened yesterday
afternoon. There are six elaborately
constructed scenes, setting off the
more or less charming presences of half
a dozen gaily gowned women. Hart is
the soloist. and sings well except when
an insidious temptation to shout over
powers him. We get Views of Madison
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
Concessions Granted Strikers

CHICAGO, Sept. 20-Peace for at
least three years was assured in the
street car situation in this city by the
signing today by union officials Of the
wage scale offered by the street car
officials of the north and west side
lines. The scale is practically the same
as that accepted a few days ago by
employees of the south side lines, Ma
terial concessions are granted the men.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

In 1.-THE Three of U.s. at the Burbank
this week Miss Lillian Burkhart is
wearing a gown that was made for
the trousseau of a Richmond, Va,
belle more than sixty years ego. The
dress is a tan silk brocade with purple
stripes and is made with the full skirt
so fashionable at that period. It is
now the property of well known Los
Angeles society woman, daughter of
the original owner, who lent it to Miss
Burkhart.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
japanese Are Feted

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Sept. 20
The Japanese imperial commercial
commissioners were guests of the city
today and passed the time studying
various industries and institutions.
They were received by Mayor Haynes
and later were given a reception at the
amber of commerce.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

Rigo, the gypsy violinist now at
Levy's cafe. has fully recovered from
his illness and will positively appear at
afternoon tea as we'll as at dinner time
and after the theater.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

Wilbur Mack, whose dainty act with
Nella Walker remains this week at the
Orpheum, is putting on a new song Of
his own making.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

George Anger, Ernest Rommel and
Sylvia Hearne will hold a reception to
ali children attending the Orpheum
this week and next, and distribute
nostal cards to them on the stage
The three appear in Jack the Giant
Killer"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

When the curtain falls upon the final
act of 1.-THE Politicians" at the Majes-
tic Saturday night. Kolb and Dill and
their company will go on the road for
two weeks They go into the Princess
theater, San Francisco, for an ex-
tended run, opening October 4 in
"Dream City" Later they will pro-
duce there a musical comedy by the
late Judson C. Brusie called "In Cuba"
and which never has been staged.
"The Rich Mr.. Hoggenheimer" also
will be given an early presentation.
The sun., 1909-05-09

supposed at that time TO be vastly superior
TO the Anglo-Saxon. but il was purely
theatrical and Booth was never theatrical.
The scene In the Senate chamber might
be a scene in a court room to-day right
here in New York so far as manner, modu
ation and expression are concerned.
One of the most natural bits Of acting
that Booth ever did was in the scene in
Hamlet where Hordtio tries to dissuade
him from the fencing bout with LoSrtes.
In all the wonderful memories | have of
Booth that comes back 10 me the most
insistently when am comparing the
acting Of to-day with his.
IF he had been on Broadway on his
way to train and had met friend who
was trying TO persuade him not to take
the journey because he had a PRESENT.
ment that there was danger att ending
1t his voice and manner would have been
no different. He spoke as man to man,
as the Prince OF Denmark speaks to his
most trusted friend Horatio. as the actor
starting for one night stand route says
Well, il I'm going to be killed. old man.
I'll be killed. and that 8 all there is to it,
There Is a great deal OF common sense
In good acting, and Booth was great be-
cause he was primarily a man OF good
common sense and essentially natural.
II Is so unusual to-day for man 10 walk
across stage and pick up pen as he
would pick ii up in his own room that
people sit up and say. Why. that's really
wonderful; how natural he is!' Why
should it be wonderful to act natural, 20
wonderful that it causes comment? Ii
is because the stage is so clogged with
artificial methods that we have even
artificial methods of judgment.
1T is quite true that we have got away
from a lot of the old tie wig stuff; but,
Lord, there's enough OF it left TO hamper
us for many years to come We don't.
it is true. insist that in every love scene
the man shall make love to a woman over
the back Of sofa, and that is certainly
move in the right direction.
The sofa used to be as imp ortant a
part of the love scene as the girl herself.
1t was very convenient article Of furni-
tnre. 1t enabled the young actor to
The sun., 1909-05-09
4 NEW SHOW AT THE BATTERY.
Pile Driving In Rough Weather Always
Draws q Crowd.

Most Of the old piles that jut up from
the water Of the bay around the Bat
terry sea wall have become rotten and
they are now to be replaced, A pile
driver is at work down there every day,
and the work is SO interesting that
crowd Of men and women who are seek
ing the fresh salt air that blows across
the park gather at the edge OF the sea
wall to watch.
the piles, especially when the water hap
pens to be rough The barge on which
the pile driver is located rocks NO vio-
lently that the men are often forced 10
quit work and wait until the water be-
comes calmer. This was the case one
day last week when the men on the pile
float were at work only few feet away
from the sea wall
When the water grew calm the boss
OF the pile drivers ordered his men to
put log In position. The men soon
had the pile SO fixed that the heavy weight
could land on it. The weight came down
with bang and the log bent underneath
the force OF the blow and sank a few
inches into the mud at the bottom, Be-
fore the weight could descend again
moved away from the log, Then the men
had to get the float back into position
again. When this Was done the weight
descended again, but the blow was glanc-
ing and the pile was knocked to one side.
More trouble then in getting the log back,
but when once the men had done that
that was the last slip. All the time an
interested crowd looks on and cdas
wei meant but unnoticed suggestions. -
The sun., 1909-05-09

In a critical spirit; not OF antagonism,
but with the hope Of learning something
new. The Easiest Way takes about
two hours and half to play, and so per
cent. Of that time Miss Frances Starr Is
on the stage. Although / watched alertly
l could not detect one false note.
1T is most difficult thing to arouse
and keep the sympathy Of an audience
for character like that Of Laura, q char
aoter moth eaten with hypocrisy, weak
and morally corrupt and an ingrained liar,
That she does II is a great triumph. l
believe that Miss Starr has great future.
She certainly has made fine beginning
and she has the one desirable thing, youth
much better than experience.
youth is the time to learn. What you
put on the record then comes back when
the cylinders OF time revolve. What you
acquire then never leaves you. In the
days when started out l was required
to play seventy roles in thirty weeks
That was not unusual, and if the actor
could not do 1t he was dropped.
THE first year l was on the stage
learned eight dialects. was called upon
once to play in The Master Of Wood
barrow and persuaded North England
man to come to the play and tell me what
was wrong with my accent. He only
corrected one word and had satisfaction
enough from that one incident to pay me
for all the time and trouble spent. Sup
posing ] had had to get that dialect up
after weeks study. couldn't have
The sun., 1909-05-09

done it. but could get it back after
twenty years.
when l was called upon, very young
actor at the time, to play Roderioo In
Othello. l went to Thomas Keane, after
ward my father-in-law, and asked him
| If he would please tell me how to play
the part. His answer was that was to
60 on and play and II didn I succeed il
would be taken away from me. studied
Shakespeare sitting in cheap coffee houses,
breathed and slept my coming part.
succeeded fairly well; got my toe on the
place. not real foothold. and was re-
| tanned.
when had to play Ldsrtes to Booth s
Hamlet took lessons four weeks TO get
the grand salute and when the time came
to practise Booth calmly said. Well just
measure swords and begin right away
Do you suppose that effort was lost? Not
bit OF it. Inever put In time that was Of
more importance.
Il learned dancing too, and haven't
had part in twenty years that has called
for dancing step, but IL should have
could pick it up easily. could never
learn now, at an age which is not facile
andtdeIterous, il had not the advanta ge
Of thorough knowledge in the past.
Dion Boucicault was great help to me,
as he was TO all the young actors who had
the advantage OF his teaching. He was
an exponent of that school which demands
that one shall consider no fact too unm-
portant for attention and acquisition. He
could show a scene painter how to
mix color. and it was seeing him do that
one day that sent me to color shop to
study for six weeks at So a week.
HE was brutal in his methods perhap ps.
but what OF that? An actor who wants
TO know his profession shouldn't mind
being thrown into the orchestra,
picked up and restored TO consciousness
IL he In being taught-that is the touch
stone. just that / know that / would
have allowed Boucicault do that to me.
for knew he knew, and wanted to know
what he knew.
The stage managers Of to-day are fac
ing n difficult problem. The old masters
are dead. There are no more Booths. no
more McCulloughs. Barrets, Cushmans,
even their methods are forgotten ahd the
raw material must be taught.
"It is a time Of transition and the gap
has to be covered. 1t is as IL all the great
bridge builders were swept away and with
new bridges TO be constructed and only
raw recruits to work on them all sorts
Of expedients must be resorted to"
The sun., 1909-05-09

being given, the amount soon becomes
worth while to the woman who 10 work.
fAt our hotel each girl had assigned
to her four tables seating four each.
Even from the first We always could count
on having thoee tables filled twice during
each meal. while in the height OF the
three times and often five times as many.
The usual tip was twenty-five cents q
head. You see what II amounted to at
the end Of the day.
aOur head waiter was married man
who, understood, kept his family IN style
His wife certainly wore handsome clothes,
and I understood that his son was IN
college I%gs .rs ri, three so,ns back this sum.
mer for the last time. We will finish our
course in music next winter and start out
as teachers in our home towns. Az ieast
| will aud 80 will one Of the Others, put
the third has decided to remain IN new
York as an accompanied. .,,.,.
I'VE have been asked why We dlun
tide over our summers by teachin9 IN
stead Of waiting in q hotel: The answer
is that We all felt the need Of chanee
and besides there In no one in the city
during the summer who cares TO pay moro
than starvation prices for lessons,
by becoming mattresses we not only
earned five times as much money as We
ever could by giving music Lessons dur,
ing the summer. but We also got good
sea bathing and time enough for rest to
make US feel refreshed and ready for
work in the autumn.
-As for being Inundated by being in
domestic service never felt 1t. II had
broken dishes, slashed the food about
and ruined few dresses for the people
/ was pretending to serve then would
have felt Inundated at being servant.
That is what we call a servant in the
section Of the country where We; come
the trouble to make herself proficient In
her work For girls who are strong and
willing to work and mind their own busi-
ness don't know OF any better plan TO
tide over the summer than by. getting in
a good hotel at respectable summer
resort"
The sun., 1909-05-09

my cook.
Every time they came to the house
last winter they used to rave over Emily.
They would be so happy il only they could
get such a cook. they said, Yet when l
wrote TO them that we were giving up
keeping house and that they could have
her il they wanted her they seemed to be
actually embarrassed about the matter,
as il they were having servant forced
on them willy nilly.'
He lad not indicated any great interest
at the beginning, but listened more at
tentively as his wife's narrative pro-
ceeded. Then ne put down the paper
and began to talk himself,
"Dont you remember the time you
bought that old side table at auction
and Mary asked you to let her have it
IL you ever wanted to sell it?-
She nodded.
Don't you recall also how patron
izing she was when you told her you
thought you might let her have it because
you didn't want to crowd your dinin G
The sun., 1909-05-09

room? Surely you have not forgotten
how she tried to wriggle out of taking
1t just as il you we're determined to hold
her to bargain"
She admitted that she had not forgotten
a detail Of this transaction. Then she
also admitted how provoked she had
been when her Cousin Helen had ask ed
her to give her the refusal Of her old
horse Sally il she decided to sell her when
they went to town in the autumn.
Then how can you he asked, with
these things fresh in your mind. put
yourself in the way Of being patronized
again in such fashion? You ought to
learn that what they do not possess often
seems very attractive to persons so long
as it remains the property Of others
1t is quite a different thing when 1t be-
comes attainable to them.
1T almost invariably happens that
they have ceased TO care for it, and
II is only human nature for them to give
themselves the satisfaction Of showing
the owners that they are now in possess
sion u the situation. So remember that
trait the next time you offer 10 do anybody
similar Kindness
The sun., 1909-05-09

that arc left who worked by his side
think Of him, imagine, erroneously as
being big from physical point Of view
Booth weighed about 10 pounds, should
say, and was feet or 30, and yet he
played OihelIo to the Idoo Of Charles
Barron, who was a scant 0 feet and
weighed in proportion. In the jealousy
scene where OfheRo says on horrors head
horrors accumulate it actually seemed
as II Booth lowered feet. and there
was not the slightest doubt in the mind
OF any that IL Iapo opened his head he
would be killed in a moment. He shrank
visibly as Booth expanded.
His Oihelio was 30 different from that
of the great Italian tragedian who has
shared its honors In dramatic annals
that to my mind there is no comparison.
The Italian Otheiio had the conventional
build and the Continental form Of acting