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The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1911-09-01
Sowing Winter Wheat

The farmers around Roman no
sooner have the fields cleared of
the growing grain than they are
in the fields again with plows
and discs preparing for next
years crop. On all sides the
farmers are plowing and seeding
and in many instances will have
commenced before this story is
read.
From all sides comes the same
report, that there will be an in
crease in the acreage over the
present year. Fall wheat will
be sowed more extensively, al
though the demand for hard
spring wheat exceeds that of
winter wheat. The reason the
farmer will SOW SO much fall
grain is on account of the cer-
tainty Of securing a crop, spring
wheat being hazardous in COM
parison with fall sown gaain.
With fall wheat the spring rains
are sure to make the crop and
spring sown grain. especially un-
less it be of the early seeding,
is liable to feel the effects of in
sufficient moisture just at the
time it is most needed.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1911-09-01

Reports from the farmers who
have finished threshing their
wheat continue to come in. In
almost every instance the total
bushels are much more than esti-
mated before threshing, but in
some few instances the yield per
acre has been less. So far very
few reports have been received
where the average yield has
fallen below Is bushels per acre,
but a few have been less than 20.
In almost every instance where
the yield has been below 20 bush.
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Try Diversi-
fled Farming

Many farmers are contemplat.
ing the sowing of considerable
flax next year, the fields which
were grown here this year hav.
ing demonstrated that this crop
would be a paying one. It was
in the nature of an experiment
this season, and while all of it
was of late sowing the returns
will be sufficient to warrant
others in sowing next year. 1t
is probable, however, that those
sowing flax next year will en-
deavor to get it in the ground as
early as possible that it will be
out of the way before the dry
season sets in.
With the farmers trying a d.
versity of crops is also to be
found many Of them engaging in
the stock and dairying business.
Som are going into hog raising,
some into horses and cattle, with
a view to hauling nothing away
from the farm in the shape of
grain. That policy has made the
farmers of Iowa, Illinois, Mime
sofa and other central states
grow rich and it will be the same
in Montana. The man who SIM
ply raises grain for the market
will not accumulate wealth like
the man who turns his grain into
finished products, such as fat
hogs and cattle.
Dairying will also pay big divi-
dends, when properly handled.
This fact is most apparent when
it is known the quantity of but
ter and milk shipped into Roman
and consumed here annually.
Every merchant tells the same
story of sending money away
from home for this product that
should all be produced here. Be-
sides there would be a surplus to
send out, as dairy cattle will do
as we'll here as anywhere in the
world. Farmers will gradually
drift into the business and soon
will be found here some Of the
finest dairies in the country. The
smallness of the farms alone will
compel a diversity of interests
and the best paying will survive
the lesser ones.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1911-09-01

AS the harvest work is being
completed quite a number of the
homesteaders are preparing to
erect some substantial ranch
homes. The Pioneer is informed
that there will be a number of
new homes built on the reserva-
ton in the vicinity of Roman this
fall.
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Kalispell voted Monday last on
the question of adopting the COM
mission plan of government and
the result shows that it was de-
feated by 2 votes. The vote
stood for 260, against 262. The
socialists and saloon element were
against the proposition. r
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1911-09-01
Shall Roman
Incorporate?

Incorporate?
A petition is in circulation ask
ing the county commissioners tc
te call an election to determine
whether Roman shall incorpor-
ate. 1t is being signed by all
resident voters and the question
will soon be put up to them for
their final determination.
There are so many vital inter
ests at stake that it would seem
a waste of time fo urge anyone
to sign the petition. The first
of these is the question of secur-
ing a supply of water for the do
mestic uses of the people living
here, and that alone is enough
to warrant the incorporation of
the town, if there were no other
advantages to be gained. At the
present time every man and
woman in town belongs to the
bucket brigade, and the material
growth of Roman is being re-
tarded bv this one drawback
With only one good we'll to
supply water for domestic
purposes we cannot expect
much of a city to be built
here. It is up to US to provide
a source of water supply adequate
for the growing demands Of the
people who would make their
homes here under other condi-
tions. There is no need of trying
to disguise the truth, and to keep
quiet longer on a matter of such
great Importance is not only fool
ish, but criminal. The greatest
surprise is that an epidemic of
some sort has not overtaken us
before this when the water sup
ply so many of us are using is
taken into consideration. There
is only one way we can remedy
this condition and that is to ap-
propriate the waters of Crow
creek for the use of the town.
The Interior department has said
emphatically that no private in
dividual or incorporation will be
given the privilege of supplying
the town with a water system,
therefore it is the duty of the
citizenship of the town to do the
best thing possible and that is to
secure it as a municipal owned
system. Aside from the demand
for water for domestic purposes
it is high time that some pro-
lection against fire was made. as
one Of these days it is bound to
come and the loss will be great.
Other reasons are patent to
each and everyone who has given
the question serious thought,
among which are the police pro.
lection to which the people here
are entitled and at the present
time do not have. Another is the
authority to enforce the demand
for local improvement. At pres.
ent the up-keep of sidewalks and
street crossings is incumbent up
on no one. This condition will
soon be deplorable any way you
may look at it and the appear.
ance of the town will not be such
as to encourage new people to
locate and build. We need a
city government to have author
ity to enforce an order to build
and keep in repair.
From a moral view point there
should be a city government te
enforce the laws for the protec'
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Day School Abandoned


that the indian day school at Ro-
nan and Poison will be abolished
and no school conducted on the
Flathead reservation except at
Jocko. This is official as Miss
Hilda Braun the teacher at Ro-
nan has been transferred to
Jocko and moved there this week.
Apropos, it will be interesting
to know just what the arrange
ments will be now for schooling
the wards of the government in
the vicinity Of the towns on what
was once the Flathead reserva-
tion. The Pioneer has been in
formed that the school authori.
ties have decided that no ward
of the government will be allow
ed to attend the public school of
this district, and such being the
case it means a situation not con-
5emolatel by some.
This action has been taken, so
the Pioneer has been informed,
on the grounds that wards of the
government cannot be counted in
the school census and are not
eligible to attend the public
school. This may seem a hardship
in some cases, and it is conten-
ded that where they are not con-
tributing to the expense of con-
ducting the schools, they cannot
expect to participate in it's advan-
tayes. With the closing of the
Indian day school the question
will probably be settled soon, as
to the status of the wards of the
government to attend the public
schools, while remaining as such
wards. Should it be found that
all are entitled to attend the pub
lie schools, it will mean that the
full blood must be accepted as
we'll as those of mixed blood, and
the facilities now offered will be
fyund entirely inadequate. It is
a serious question just at this
time and the outcome will be
watched with interest.
1t is understood that an officer
of the general government, con-
nected with the Indian school
will be here next week to see to
it that all Indian children attend
school the coming winter, so his
action may precipitate matters
and bring matters to a head speed
lily and finally.
Since the above was put in
type it has been learned that
County Attorney Mulroney holds
that where the parent or parents
of any ward of the government
have received patents for their
land, that the children are en-
titled to attend the public
schools. Should this ruling be
followed there will be such a
number of children to attend the
Roman schools as to make the
present rooms entirely made
quate, especially after the In
dian school has been abandoned.
The necessity for additional
rooms and teachers is so appar-
ent that the board should get
busy at once and build another
room to the present building.
There is sufficient money in the
treasury at the present time to
complete another room and it
cannot be used for any other
purpose and should be done at
once.
The old Indian school building
will be unoccupied and arrange
ments could possibly be made to
use that. The government should
donate this building to school dis
trict No. %, for school purposes,
and probably would were the
matter presented in the proper
manner. 1t will be too bad to
have the rooms remain unoccu-
pied when so badly needed.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1911-09-01
Give the Farmer Fair
Play and Do it Now

The average man is somewhat
surprised that the government
proposes to make the farmers
who have homesteaded the Flat
head Indian lands pay for the ir-
rigation projects now being con-
structed to irrigate those same
lands. A person used to reading
the papers reads at the close of
every regular session of congress
of how much money has been ap-
propriated to improve the rivers
and harbors Of the country, and
1t is a large total. But did you
ever hear Of the people living
along those same rivers or ad-
jacent to the same harbors ever
being called upon to defray the
expense Of such improvements?
Why. Of course not.
Yet the homesteader who comes
to the Flathead and takes a piece
Of this land. cultivates and i'm
proves it and makes it produce
something, must pay the cost OF
construction of the bitches to
water his parched crops. He pays
the Indian price for the land,
pays the government fees and
commissions, and expends his
every dollar to establish a home
for himself and family and then
is still called upon to pay back to
the general government the en-
tire cost of all the irrigation pro-
jects.
That looks to the writer like
an unfair proposition. If the
people deriving the benefits from
harbor and river improvements
are not asked to pay the expense,
then why should the Flathead
farmer pay the expense of build
ing all these bitches? If it is
fair for one then the other should
be included in the same bill of
costs.
The man who can induce the
general government to be as fair
with the farmer as it is with the
steamship man and the importer
along the coast line of the coun-
try, both east and west, will be
hailed as the benefactor of a long
suffering public. All over the
west this same burden has been
laid at the feet of the men who
have had the hardihood to at
tempt to make a home in the
arid region. All this vast terri
tory would still be indicated on
the maps as the Great American
desert, were it not for the men
who are now to be taxed with the
cost of irrigation projects. The
money value of the products of
the farms which are to be called
upon to contribute is of equal
value with tbs total value of the
imports at many of the ports on
harbors where the government
has already spent millions upon
millions in harbor improvements.
This talk of what the govern
ment is doing for the arid west
is all bosh. The farmers are
doing it for themselves, as the
government does nothing more
than loan them the money with
which to do the work. 1t exacts
repayment of the farmer, but
the cities and towns along the
rivers and harbors are gratui-
tously given larger sums each
year and nothing asked in re-
turn.
Give the farmers fair play once
and the time to commence is
now.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1911-09-01

AAo
PrOduC
To show the amount Of apples
produced, it can be said that in
1895 there were go, 453, 600 bar.
rels, and in 1910 only $4,000, 00(
barrels. In 1896 the high mark
was reached with SO, ,070, 600 bar.
rels, and the amount has steadily
decreased each year since.
There is no more danger of
over-production Of high grade
commercial apples in the Pacific
slope and inter-mountain dis
tricts than there is of the hens
in America laying more eggs
than can be marketed, according
to E. E. Faville, of Spokane. ed
itor Of the Western Farmer, who
has made an exhaustive study of
crop and market conditions in the
principle apple belts in the Unit
ed States and Canada.
I'VE frequently hear the re-
mark that the planting of fruit
trees is being overdone in the
western country and that before
long apples will be a glut on the
market" Professor Faville said.
Certainly this is most erroneous
especially from the standpoint of
demand, production and the in
crease in population.
Reports of the department Of
agriculture show that in the face
Of a rapidly increasing demand,
owing to the growth in popula-
tion, the annual production of
apples In the United States actu-
ally decreased more than 1885,
100000 bushels between 1896
and 1908, during which period
our population was increased by
fully 100000.
Take for instance, the year
1903, with $4,000, 900 more per-
sons to feed and $4,000, 900
bushels less of apples to feed
them. We are brought at once
to the tremendous Importance of
this economic fact, and also to
the fallacy of the statement that
fruit growing is being overdone.
. This decrease is largely due
to the fact that so many of the
old orchards in the east have
been badly infested with fruit
pests, and in addition have been
dying out. Thousands upon
thousands Of acres are annually
abandoned to the ravages of the
woody aphis, the codling moth
and the San Jose scale, as we'll
as we'll as the annual inroads
made by damaging frosts.
=. I'VE frequently hear the ques-
tion of over-production mentioned
when the planting of an orchard
is under consideration. The sta
tistics show some salient facts
worth remembering. Besides,
there are many more people eat
ing fruit today than there was a
decade ago., and there is less
fruit to be eaten.
Farmers in the states of the
middle west We're planting ORCH
ards 20 years ago with as much
zeal as the growers Of the north
west are planting today. The
history of the orchards planted
In the middle west shows that in
a few years after coming into
bearing, insect pests and plant
diseases eliminated many of these
orchards, and thousands of acres
Of apple orchards were removed
by the axe. It might also be
stated that trees were planted in
a wholesale way on most any
kind of land, whether it posses.
ser the qualities of good apple
1ond ~. MT 60 tndov <hro,,o,t,
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Announcements


CARD READING--Call Main e7ss.
RELIABLE parties. without chiId-
dren, will store good piano for
use of same. Main 1876.
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Situations Wanted-Mal,

-~~>S~~NS~~~>>>>N>N~~>>N ~~e~~>S~~o~~~~>~~>~~~
BOlLEiMAKER wants position in
or out of city. Address Box SIS,
caro- Times.
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WANTS HIGH TARIFF
BARRIERS LET DOWN

Canadian Minister of Customs
Patterson, who has been down in
Washington talking it over with
Taft" thinks that it would be a
good thing for both countries
were a reciprocity treaty made
between Canada and the United
States. He says that the lower
ing of the high tariff wall will
also lower the cost Of living on
both sides.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-18
Furnished Rooms
Housekeeping Rooms

FURNISHED housekeeping rooms,
ground floor: also single rooms.
SO4 So. Tacoma ave. Main 1903.
907 S 9TH ST.-2 front rooms. fur
nished, gas stove. electric lights.
S12 a month. Main 6S6S.
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SEATTLE, Jan. 17.-During a
shooting affair in a olcal saloon
four shots were fired at a man at
close range. Three were as good
as misses, but the fourth bullet
struck where it would certainly
have killed had it penetrated.
But it didn't penetrate. 1t hit
the mans necktie and stuck there.
The bullet was fired from Colt
automatic pistol, 3S-caliber,
smokeless, developing an initial
per second and muzzle energy Of
1913 foot-pounds, with a penetra-
ton of about four inches of soft
pine. And it was discharged with
in 20 inches of the breast of the
man at whom it was fired.
Yet the necktie stopped the ball.
The projectile that would have
punctured a plank was caught by
a little wad of silk and cotton.
The why and wherefore of this
seemingly miraculous incident lies
wrapped up in the mystery of bal
listics. Nobody knows just why it
is that some soft substances offer
greater resistance to bullets than
harder ones, but the fact remains
that they do. 1t seems likely that
the cotton in the necktie had much
to do with saving the life Of
George WEIGH, for cotton batting,
in common with raw silk and
other like substances, possesses a
bullet stopping propensity that
seems ridiculous in view of the
fact that it is no trick to run ones
finger through it. In the necktie
in question there were ten thick
nesses of silk and five layers of
cotton in the knot where the bull
let lodged.
Every once in a while some
genius Announces that he has in
vented bullet-proof jacket. Thus
far none of these inventors have
been willing to prove the value of
his invention by making a target
of himself while wearing it, new
ertheless there is some method in
their madness. Most of them are
working along the lines suggested
by tn bullet stopping necktie, and
the jackets they make are, in gen.
eral, composed of many folds of
padded silk.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-18

(By United Press Leased Wire. "
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. Is.
The army appropriation bill, car
rying over 500, 100000 for the
year ending June 80, 1912, pas
sed the House yesterday after
noon.
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Legal Notices

Order to show Cause Why Distribn-
tlon should Not he Made.
In the Superior Court of the Stale
In Probate. No. Ills.
In the Matter of the Estate of NeI-
son w. Weakly, Deceased. -
Application having been filed In
this Court on the 9Th day of Sept,
1910, by George Warren Weakly,
Mark *. Weakly, Eduard c. Keakiy
and Fred w. Weakly for final distri-
button of the residue OF raid estate;
IL is ordered that all persons In
terested In the estate of eaid Nelson
w. Weakly, deceased, he, and are
hereby directed TO appear In De-
partment No. / of this Court, at tho
Court House, in the City ot Tacoma.
In said County, on Thursday the 26th
day of January, 1911, Mt the hour of
10 o'clock A. M, and show cause, If
any they have. why the Court should
not proceed to distribute tho residue
of said estate among tho persons
who, by law, are entitled thereto.
Dated this goth day of Decem-
w. o CHAPMAN. Judge
ID. ID. Schneider. Attorney for said
. astafa~
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Personal

CANCERS cured without knife OF
plaster; consultation free. 7O1 So
Ainsworth. Stephen Johnson.
GRAY hair restored to natural col.
or, no dye or stain. Nine. Hibbard
$40 SO. 10 st.
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Mortgages for Sale

$1,000 MORTGAGE for sale bearing s
per cent Interest; security, choice
residence property. fully insured. In
terest c0llected free efni-annuaily
ana mailed to purchaser. Call at Of
flco for full Information. Lennox
Trust Co. gb2H Pacific ave.
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Tailors

8. OKADA, merchant tailor, 1874 C
ST. Phone A $3.50.
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Dressn1aking

SN.e~N~<~~e~~N~~~~~S>s~~
Wanted. sewing by day. NJ. 4130.
WANTED-Women and children >
plain and fancy sewing; ladies'
tailoring, at 3019 No. 18th. Phone
Main 1859.
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Fine buy in West End-6-room
house, gas, electric lights, best por-
celain plumbing. choice fruit and
berries, fine place for chickens;
street assessments all paid; lots;
Y block from 18th st. car. Can give
clear deed and abstract. Worth $2,-
600 of anybody's money. For quick
deal $3.50 cash or terms. Call A
1854 or 621 So. 18th st.
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Second Hand Stores.

ED. BENNICK. new and second hand
goods bought and sold land ex-
secondhand goods. 1901 Jefferson
ave-. Main 1880.
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For Rent-Flats

So~>N~~S~S~>~~~-~~~~>~>>~
FOR RENT-4-room furnished flat
modern on ground floor. 1401 So.
J st.
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Scientific
Optometrist

Eyes examined, glasses furnisl-
ed. prescriptions fills, glasses re-
paired, best service, lowest prices.
CASWELL OPTICAL co.
734 st. IIelens ave-.
Masonic Temple, Ground Floor.
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S ACREs-FoR SAILS ACRES

blocks from old Puyallup car, at
Pennsylvania ave-; all fenced, small
house, good we'll, large chicken
house and fenced runs; about IN
acres cleared, balance very easy; Il
acre strawberries. A snap at $1400;
terms, $500 cash, balance $40 per
month. Phone evenings Main ASA.
Address 215 No Tacoma aye
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FOR SALE-One of the incest
close in rooming houses in the city
Will sell all the furniture or part
always commands first-class room
ers. Call All So. c st.
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24-ROOM HOUSE
WcColley & Hall
Phones; Main 1904. A 1855.
4o7 California Bldg.

Meat market for sale. very cheap:
average over $55 a day. Get infor-
nation, 921 So. 70 st.
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For Sale, Real Estate
SNAP

acre. North End. $3.50. on terms
410 So seth st.
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Lodge Notices

LOCAL UNION asa. I. B. e. w. All
members TO meet tomorrow even
ling. JGn- 18th, at O'clock, to vote
on bylaws 91lh Tacoma ave.
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WILKEsON co.
302 Provident Bldg
SOME EASY ONES

New broom house. lots, only
$3.50, on very easy terms at 8 per
cent.
Broom house, 2 nice lots, $3.50,
easiest of terms, 6 per cent.
Groom bungalow, nicely finishe I f,
lot and half, water in house, only
$3.50. Your terms, per cent. Cost
$500 to build
acres most all cleared, only ST.
600, good soil. 10c car fare, 10 min
utes' walk from street car Most
any terms.
CAMP & BJERGE
200 Bank of Commerce Bldg.
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REMOVAL NOTICE
40S Bernice Bldg.

REMOVAL NOTICE.
On March LIST we will move our
office to the National Realty Bldg,
1117-1119 Pacific avenue.
e. f GREGORY co.
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SPECIAL, BARGAIN

Groom new bungalow. with bath,
pantry, clothes closets, electric
lights, wall tinted, full basement; 2
blocks to car. Low price, easy
terms. See owner. 611S So. G st.
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Wanted
Wanted to Buy

HIGHEST prices paid for second.
s2s7. ~ N
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Good Bargain

One acre land on Durango ST..
near 18th: 4Iroom house. plastered,
electric lights and phone in house;
place all fenced and cleared; cash
or on payments. Price very low.
Inquire fruit stand. HOG K st. j.
Merzano.