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The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1912-08-02

Theodore Burland, c. F. and E.
H. Rathbone, DR.. Hall, John
Bailey, Andrew Stinger and Ern-
est kering for the Fats.
The game being a tie neither
side is satisfied (?) and will de-
mand another game. This score
would never have been tie had
there been an umpire officiating
who knew anything about base
ball. Earl Wagner was pronounc-
ed the limit by every player on
the diamond and would probably
have been massacreed only that
it would have seriously crippled
the regular team and then his
size was also considered. He
couldn't get the job of umpiring
again under any circumstances,
for he Wouldn t call a ball a strike
or a strike a ball, and acted just
like he does when pitching shut
out ball for the Roman champions.
1t was intended to have Pho
tographer Bigelow take several
snap shots of the game but he
wouldn't risk his machine on that
bunch.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1912-08-02
BIG IMPROVEMENT IN ROADS

During the present season the
work being done on the roaC
from Ravalli to Roman shows q
big Improvement over anything
done heretofore. The road has
been graded and widened for the
greater part of the distance and
it is the intention of the board
of county commissioners to
eventually have a graded road all
the way.
The road between St. Ignatius
and Ravalli is all completed and
it is certainly a pleasure to ride
over it now, where a year ago it
was exactly the reverse. A fine
wide roadway extends the entire
distance, with the grades reduced
to the lowest possible per cent
and good bridges have been
built wherever necessary.
From St. Ignatius toward Ro-
nan considerable work has been
done and much more will be done
before the working season ends.
This will make a highway over
which autos will not hesitate to
travel and insures a good road
for the farmers to transport their
grain over this winter.
While in Missoula last Satur-
day, the writer was informed
that this road would be so i'm
proved as to leave no reason why
the park to park road should not
be built directly through the Mis-
sion valley, in fact the board in
tends to so continue the good
work that it will be practically
completed by the time this route
is definitely decided upon.
The Montana good roads con-
vention meets at Kalispell next
year and the board of county
commissioners intends to have
such a road all the way from
Missoula to the county line north
of Roman as to be an example of
what they can do, for those to
see who will travel over this road
in going to and returning from
the convention.
Chairman Curran informed us
that in all probability there would
be so autos make the trip next
year, and the prospects were ex-
cellent for many more. The peo-
pie of the Mission valley have
nothing to complain of in the
matter of road building on their
part of the reservation, and it is
a pleasure to give the board
credit for the good work it has
done.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1912-08-02

The fall wheat is nearly all
cut on the Flathead reservation
and spring grain will be ready
in a short time. The general
opinion now is that spring grain
will be the better yield owing to
the fact that the rains came just
at a time when it would do this
crop the most good. The fall
grain suffered for moisture Just
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1912-08-02

The Mexican rebels threaten
to kill all Americans they find
unless the United States inter-
venes in the guerilla warfare now
being conducted in that republic.
Orozco, the rebel leader, says he
intends to force the United States
to act. He may get hurt.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1912-08-02
SOME CLASSY BALL PLAYING
BY ROMAN LEANS AND FATS

Tuesday evening the Leans and
Fats Of Roman crossed bats on
the local diamond. 1t was game
long to be remembered and talk
ed about, especially by some en-
gagged in the game who were un-
able to get around for several
days thereafter without expert
encing great pain.
1t was slugging match from
the start and the stick artists in
both teams are expecting hatter-
ing offers from the Union asso-
citation at any time. In fact, it
was a regular association game,
the score at the close of the game
being II to II.
This game furnished more real
fun for the spectators than any
heretofore played in this town,
many of the spectators being in
as much need of the hospital
corps as the players. Grotesque
costumes were worn by several
of the Fats, among which were
Frank Denison as a "coon," DR..
Hall so we'll disguised as to de-
ceive his friends, F. w. Delaney,
Ernest Kering and John Bailey
also having striking uniforms.
The battery for the Fats was
Spencer Sterling and Frank Den
ison pitchers and Theodore Bur-
land catcher. For the Leans
Howard Stansbury and John Lu-
allin went the entire game.
Shortly after the game was
called the Red Cross hospital
staff of Roman, composed of DR..
Putney as head physician, DR..
Sheen and Ross Lemire as nurses,
erected tent with cots and other
necessary equipment, to care for
injured and disabled. AS soon as
a player showed any sign of ex-
haustion and some who did not
he was hustled into the ambu-
lance-a hand delivery wagon
and hauled to the tent. Here
they received stimulants in the
form of Roman booze, were prop
erly bandaged and turned loose
upon the unprotected spectators.
1t created unlimited amusement
and was thoroughly enjoyed by
everybody.
There was one of the largest
crowds of the season, excepting
July 4th, out to see the game.
The players were John Luallin,
Stansbury, Albin Larson,
Girdwood Black, A. LaBette, Bert
Flatton, Cliff Welch, John Mat
ejka, Ed. Clairmont and Percy
Bulen for the Leans, and Frank
Denison, Ed. Enger, Spencer and
Addie Sterling, F. w. Delaney,
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throwing and a general flare up
all around on the part of Roman,
put six men across the home
plate. 1t looked bad: it was bad,
but it got worse, and the Poison
ties roared themselves hoarse.
while the Roman contingent could
be seen hunting dark, out-of-the-
way places, apparently happy
only in seclusion. Roman failed
to score in the second, while
Poison added three more to their
pile, making the game stand at
the end Of two innings 9 to O in
favor of the lake boys. 1t was
awful simply awful; and the
Poison rooters showed their Wis
itors no mercy, and in truth they
were all so sore it is not believed
they wanted any.
But at this stage of the game
not only the Roman players but
the boosters as we'll, commenced
to warm up. and the story from
here on is of an entirely different
nature. In the third inning Ro-
nan got her first man over the
home plate just one; but that
was encouraging and when Pol
son stepped up to bat they were
retired without even a chance
for score. Wagner had gotten
down to work and his support
caught the habit instantly. Both
Roman and Poison were goose
egged in the fourth, but in the
fifth our boys commenced slug
ging and the Polsonites unable
to stem the tide went into the
air. and before the slaughter
was over Roman had put eight
men over the home plate. The
Roman boosters had been playing
some also, and a rest was well
coined by them as we'll as the
base runners. Poison was again
shut out and in the sixth Roman
slipped six more men around the
diamond and to home in safety.
And the boosters welcomed an
other rest. Poison only lasted
lond enough in their half of the
ixth to stand up three men to
be famed successfully.
In the seventh Roman scored
three more, and Poison grabbed
one in their half of the eighth,
and this closed the game so far
as scores were concerned and at
the end of the ninth the score
stood II to 10 in favor of Roman.
Barring two or three innings
in which the teams went to
pieces, the game was good and
there has probably never been
two stronger teams pitted against
each other on the reservation.
Those who went from Roman re-
turned satisfied and all join in
expressing themselves more than
pleased with the treatment ac-
corded the visitors by the citi-
zens of Poison.
Wagner Bros. were the battery
for Roman, Knox and Mccarthy
for Poison; Wall, of Poison, UNI
plre. The latter gave very good
satisfaction and few, if any, be-
lieve he showed any partiality.
1t is understood that a return
game will be played in Roman on
Sunday, August 18th.
N@a ssn4 -ss-
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The extreme hot weather of
the first of the week received a
setback Wednesday, to the relief
of those who suffer with the
heat.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1912-08-02
POISON HAS THE GOODS
BUT ROMAN WINS GAME

The bills announcing the Pol
son-Ronan game last Sunday at
Poison, read as follows:
ONE HOT
BALL GAME
Poison VS.. Roman
On Poison Grounds
Sunday, July %
This will be the warmest game of the
season. Roman is coming loaded to win
but Poison is here with the goods.
Come out and bring your fan for it will
be ''hot time"
1t was certainly the hottest
time Poison has experienced in
some time, owing to the great
crowd in town from Roman.
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ervatisn, says Tuesdays Mis-
soulian, with an enthusiastic re-
port of crop conditions in the
Flathead country. Mr.. Breiten-
stein left yesterday morning
with F. ]. White for short trip
across the reservation. The two
men We're travelling in the inter-
-ests Of the Missoula Chamber of
Commerce, the organization
which has in charge the Missoula
county exhibit at the state fair.
Mr.. Breitenstein had to content
himself with a single day of in
spection, but he left Mr.. White
there to continue the work for a
week. Mr.. Breitenstein had
nothing but praise for the Flat
head farmers and had he been at
liberty he would have stayed on
the reserve longer.
1--WE had a splendid trip" he
said, when he had returned.
I'VE arranged for the gathering
of grain samples and succeeded
in arousing a lot of interest
among the farmers of the Sec
tion. We secured in a single day
good many promises of entries
for the state fair in September.
George and Andrew Beckwith
furnished us with conveyances
and assisted US in every way pos
sible.
There are some great crops
in the little farms near the Mis-
sion and samples from that dis
trict would help any exhibit a
lot. Practically every farmer
we met promised to help us, and,
as some Of the best grain in the
exhibit we sent to Helena last
year came from these farms, we
expect to do as we'll or even bet
ter this fall. The wheat and
oats are exceptionally fine this
year, although not ready for cut
ting in some cases.
During our little trip today
we visited Henry Felsman's
place. about eight miles east of
the Mission. He has a dandy
little farm. His Bing cherries
were just ripe, and they were
good, too, and he has a 10-acre
orchard in apples and plums that
is bearing heavily. He and his
family have homesteads aggre-
eating $50 acres, and they raise
just about everything that the
climate will stand for. He has
black-cap raspberries, currants
and vegetables Of all kinds,
though his principal crops are
hay and oats. He has an i'm
mense field of splendid peas. Mr..
Felsman has lived on the reser-
walton for Is years and worked
as a carpenter on the mission
buildings when they We're re-
constructed long ago.
THE Mission gardens them
selves are probably the finest in
the reservation. They have been
under cultivation for something
more than half a century, and
have been built up under the
supervision of the careful, ex-
perienced priests. Thomas Pow
ers. who tends the farm, will en-
ter for some of the potatoe prizes.
Last year he dug 432 sacks of po-
tatoes from half an acre of
ground and each sack weighed
more than a hundred pounds.
Mr.. Powers has been in the val
ley for 40 years, and during our
visit told some mighty interest
ing stories of the development
Of the reservation.
E. E. Funck, who lives near
the Mission, has an exceptionally
fine wheat field. Some of the
heads we inspected ran as high
as 130 kernels to the stock and he
expects to average from his field
40 bushels to the acre. He has
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12

Henry Ball, the postmaster,
keeps a bulldog in a kennel near
the store entrance. Henry sleeps
soundly. He slept so soundly on
the night of the robbery he did
not hear the thief pry open his
window, enter the room and take
his safe and postoffice keys and
81 from his pocket He did not,
nor did anyone else, hear the fero-
cious bulldog bark or growl. He
also slept soundly on the night of
the robbery.
Outside the store the thief, or
someone, took pains to make
tracks that would be seen. The
sheriff's office regards these as
faxed to mislead the authorities.
When the sheriff reached there
Henry was away. His wife dis
played apathy when questioned
about the matter. Although the
thief entered the house across the
street, only watches were taken
when money was available.
Who committed the robbery?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12
Film Co. Started
In Tacoma

"Made in Tacoma" moving pic
ture films will soon be placed or
the screens in theaters throughout
the country. Articles of incorpor'
alton of 1.-THE Advertograph Com.
pany, Inc.," have been filed with
the secretary of state. Tacoma Is
the principal place of business
The officers are In the Chamber
of Commerce building. Eastern
calital Is behind the venture.
Meyer Cohen has been appoint
ed general manager. A site for a
studio and developing plant is now
being looked for. A stock com
pany of fourteen acting people will
be sent out from Chicago to pose
scenes. Industrial pictures for
advertising purposes will also be
taken. Every film will be stamp.
ed made in Tacoma" In this
way the city will receive great ad.
yertising.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12
WHO KILLED Off WILSON,


The agitation against Woodrow
Wilson by a few fellow democrats
over the "Col. Harvey episode"
does not seem to have unfavorably
affected his popularity with the
rank and file.-News Report.
Who killed off Wilson?
Answers Hearst. I'm the fellow,
With my papers so yellow
But 1t heightened his life."
Who started the CARING?
Chirps Harvey, my praise
knitted his boom eighty ways
Till he choked me or"
Who kicked him while PROSTATE
Marse Henry replies,
II BACKED both his eyes
But he got up"
Who were the pallbearers?
Mayor Dahlman aNd others
Bore the casket like brothers.
But the lid was on loose!
Who, then, buried Cock Wilson?
WEI" comes the chorus,
But he, just to bore us,
Beat us back home"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12
From your own hair that Ia fall

From your own hair that In fall
ing out.
Don't keep on doing this and let
your hair get thinner and thinner
Don't neglect it--wailt until It's
too late. Constant care is the price
of fascinating, beautiful hair. Get
a bottle of HAYS HAIR HEALTH
and begin using II at once.
1t will stop the falling out and
start new growth--then you can
have lustrous haiar that's full Of
life and radiance-that you'll be
proud of and that Will be admir-
ed by others.
Remember the name-HAY'S
HAIR HEALTH,
800 and soc at Drug Stores or di-
rect upon receipt OF price and deal
er's name. Send Toe for trial bot
tle.-Philo Hay Spec. Co. Newark,
n. J.
FOR SALE AND RECOMMENDED
IN CROWN DRUG GO.
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When the riders have worked
along to point directly between
the hogs and the brush, they de-
scend on the band with a whoop
and howl Dogs yelp, lariats
sing and away go the pigs.
If the meI-can keep the animals
from scattering If not,
each man picks a hog and the
chase is on. Standing high In his
stirrups. swinging his rope till II
sings, hog, horse, dog and rider
dodge about until the man gets a
good throw, and then-well, some
times the hog gets away.
When a pig is caught, the real
fun begins. With piercing squeals
he faces his captors and fights
viciously until thrown and tied.
ISomtimes a man gets ripped by
the tusks, and is lucky he dsesn't
lose some of his clothes.
Meantime, the dogs are not idle.
The yell of pig i'm, Bumper,
pig 'im!" rings out from a rider,
and the dog, If he is a good one,
will throw three hogs to every
mans one. So 1t goes, until every
hog Is either tied or back in the
brush. Then up comes the spring
wagon and the porkers are hauled
to the pens. The rancher's pleas
ure jaunt now takes up business
aspect, for pigs is pigs" and the
wild ones sell for as much as the
tame ones.
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bottoms furnish the hogs. The
pastures of these ranches are COW
erred with patches of tangled vines,
which Will twist around the oak
trees and willows along the river
banks, making a thick mass of I'M
.derbrush. Here many hogs steal
away to live.
No matter how domestic a pig
be, If he gets into this under
growth, it is good night. He will
burrow deep into it, where not
even a dog can go, and set up
house keeping for an indefinite
stay.
1t is an ideal hog house, because
the shade is cool, the soil soft,
moist and full of sweet roots, for
which pigs like to dig.
The most genteel porker in the
pen, if left unmolested in place
like this for few months, gets SO
wild he won't recognize his own
brother. A few which are success
full in eluding the rancher year
after year, grow to be "tule root
Iers" and "razorbacks, and resem.
BILE the wild boar of Europe.
When cornered they put up :
vicious fight. and have cut up a
horse with their tusks, so that II
was necessary to kill them. They
are bad hogs, these "tule rooters.
Hogs that live in the brush are
wary and cautious. They feed be.
fore sun-up and again at twilight
keeping out of sight the rest of the
day. While feeding at night is
when the hunters catch them.
They ride along the edge of a
Lthicket with several trained hog
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12
Cat Nip Tea Better For Baby
Than Soothing Syrup Says DR..

patent soothing sirups doped with
opium and other poisons that do
nothing but harm, whereas if
they gave catnip tea, as the
grandmothers used to do, they
would at least do the babies no
harm.
Catnip is really an ideal baby
medicine. 1t is mild. as all baby
medicines should be, 1t has a
slightly tonic effect, and exerts a
soothing influence over the ner-
youS system.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12
TAFT KEPT BUSY

(By United Press Leased Wire
NEWARK, N. j., Feb. 12.-
President Taft spent a busy five
hours. Leaving Washington at 8
O'Clock this morning, he arrived
in Newark at noon and went to
the home of former Governor
Murphy for luncheon. After at
tending a meeting of state repub-
lican headers, he laid wreath on
the Lincoln statue here, then rush
ed to East Orange, where he dedi-
Gated the new Lincoln statue, and
attended reception in his honor
at the Essex Country club. Later
he left for New York, where to-
night he will deliver the principal
address at the Republican club
banquet.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12
LECTURE ON CHICKENS

To try to interest prisoners in
the county Jail in something be-
sides breaking the law, series of
lectures will be given on chicken
raising and kindred productive in
dustries so that the prisoners will
be able to go out and make a liv-
ing. Senator Paulhamus, H. II.
Collier, Prosecutor McMurray and
others will be invited to talk to
the men.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12
N.W.GroceryCo.
Retail Department.

Retail Department.
Price and quality is what
most cash buyers are looking
Tor. We have both. Look
over the following:
Soap-A good white floating
bath soap, large bars, z for
25c; laundry soaps, Z for
25c.
Beans-A little special in
canned Pork and Beans,
2-lb. cans, 10c.
Meats-Sugar Cured Hams,
Ice; shoulder hams, 12c;
sugar cured breakfast
bacon, 17c; English cured
bacon, 14c.
Lord-Pure, 5-lb. pals, Csc;
10 lbs, 1925; 20 lbs,
$2.35. Compound, 5 lbs,
soc; 10 lbs, 95c; 20 lbs,
$1.S5.
Flour-Our own brand of
Queen flour, per sack
S1.15; 2 sacks, 1925; A
sacks, S4.45. Sweet Home
brand, per sack, $f.1O; 4
sacks $4.45.
Butter - Eastern Creamery,
soc, 81 1-2c, 35c; Wash
ington creamery, 81 LIE.
Eggs-All local ranch, per
dozen, soc.
Cheese-Mild Full Cream,
IL 1-2c.
Honey - Washington Comb
Honey. each 15c.
COffee-Usual special price
on Saturday. Quality al
ways the same and true to
name. Saturday price, M.
& j. Blend, Doc; Java
Blend, 25c.
Northwest Grocery Co.
1924 Commerce st.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12

During a recent epidemic OF
spinal meningitis in Dallas. Tex,
Secretary Paul Casey OF the health
department went with a sanitary
Inspector to raise the quarantine
OH a negro shack and remove the
big green sign.
An old negro woman came to
the door.
Now sholy, boss, you'all amt
gwine ter take that sign down %
she asked.
Yes, we are going to remove
the quarantine" said Casey.
Don't you want 1t removed?"
mo sab, boss, cause dar amt
been nary collectah round hear
sence dat sign was put up"
The quarantine remained.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12

FAIurERs ARE INSTRUCTED

PUYALLUP. Feb. I3.--The
biggest thing ever done for the
farmers In this section Is now on
I'm this city at Odd Fellows hall,
where at 10 o'clock today the new
farmers course of instruction un-
der the direction of the expert
ment station opened. Prof. George
Severance. C. ]. Stuart. w. III,
Paulhamus. A. l.. Melander and
II. w. Sparks of state college are
on the list of instructors. The
sessions continue until February
%
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12
WOMAN FIRST JUROR

Esther Allstrum, pure food and
was the first juror
drawn for the March term of SUI
perior court. Mary Blows, Maud
Crehan, Lena Rankin and Rosa
Freedlund are also women on the
list. j. w. Marley and N. L. Tay-
or are other city employees caught
Jy the jury makera.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12
BY a Physician.
A word about catniD.

This common weed, naturalized
from Europe, which used to be a
standard remedy for the ills that
baby flesh is heir to, has of late
years fallen somewhat into disre-
pute. Only in rural districts is II
now relied upon as a cure for in
fantile stomachache.
isst folks might give babies
something much worse than cat
nip-do, in fact. They give then
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12

dogs. In the dusk. their color al
most matches the trees. Each sits
loose and easy in his saddle, and,
carelessly, over his arm swings
-gun?-no. a lariat. They are
going to rope these pigs. and there
is the sport.
In the tall grass several humid
red yards from the thicket, the
hogs are feeding. Occasionally, an
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12

that you can't afford not to have II.
COME AND SEE THE MONARCH
No matter what kind of a range
you are using--no matter how
good you think it is-it's well
worth your while to see the Mon
arch and get the facts on the
points we have mentioned. Such q
visit will place you under no obli-
cation We will I've glad to put be-
fore you the advantages of the
Monarch--and let you be the Judge
and the jury.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12
WONIEN'S MEETING

The Presidents council of
women's organizations will meet
next Thursday at 10 a. m. in st.
Lukes parish house. DR.. Muir
dock Mcleod will give an informal
address.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12
INVESTIGATE RATES

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. IL
the interstate commerce com
mission today held up the genera
advance on railroad rates for
transporting apples from Oregon,
Washington and other Western
fruit districts, and ordered an in.
vestigation. The advance would
have become effective February
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-12
Queer Mcmillan Robbery
Is Exciting Suspicion

In the sheriff's office there is
both laughter and seriousness
over the robbery of the postoffice
at Mcmillan last Friday night. As
a result the postal authorities are
investigating, and it is probable
that arrests may follow the
laughter.