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The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1913-06-20

with the best farm experience
in the Gallatin valley and else
where. Good farmers in these
places summer fallow religiously.
Summer fallowing does not
mean simply allowing the land
to lie idle and grow weeds and a
volunteer crop. 1t has three
definite objects: /. To conserve
and store up moisture. 2. To
clean up the land and get rid of
weeds. 3. 70 promote the prep
aration of available plant food
for the next crop.
These objects are best accom-
plished by double disking the
land early in the spring, then
plowing in May or June after
weed seeds have germinated.
Flowing early helps to prevent
the run-otf of summer rains and
prevents loss of moisture. Har-
rowing should be done immed-
lately after ploWing. and there
after often enough to kill the
small weeds and maintain a soil
mulch. BY following this method,
seed will germinate at once when
put in the latter part of August,
the land will be clean. and a
heavy crop may be confidently
expected. #. S. Cooley, Supt.
Of Farmers Institutes.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1913-06-20
GOOD ROADS CONVENTION.
KAL|sPELL, JULY IS, IS. II


The Fourth Annual convention
of the Montana Good Roads con-
gress will convene at Kalispell
on July Is, and continue in ses-
sion for three days. Advices re-
ceived from Kalispell indicate
that this is going to be one of the
largest and most important con-
ventions yet held and much good
is expected from the meeting.
The program for the three days
indicates also that the congress
has much before it and that Kal-
ispell is preparing to entertain
the delegates in good style.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1913-06-20

as were made off him were field
ed almost perfectly and this kept
the score against him down until
for a time it looked like a shut
out.
Should the boys show as much
snap and have as good batting
eyes today, the scalp of the Pol
son bunch will be dangling in a
Roman teepe tonight.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1913-06-20
POISON TO BIG ARM
AND RETURN FOR sl.oo

Arrangements have been made
with the steamer Flyer to carry
all passengers from Poison to
Big Arm next Sunday, when the
Roman team goes up there for
return game. for $1.OO for the
round trip. The boat will leave
Poison at 8 a. m. and arrive at
Big Arm at About 1880, and the
return trip will be made after
the game.
This will give Roman people an
opportunity to go to Big Arm and
see the game and enjoy boat
ride at the same time.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1913-06-20
LOCAL BALL 1OSsERS
PLAY SNAPPY GAME

The ball game advertised for
Sunday between the U. S. R. S.
and Roman had to be changed in
order to have a game. After
waiting for over an hour for some
of the Reclamation boys to show
up, their attendance was given
up and local players substituted.
Several of the younger boys were
taken on the local team with the
intention of evening the lineup
so far as possible, but they play
ed stellar ball and will undoubt-
edly be called upon again.
The young boys just getting in
to the game give promise of be-
coming ball players of which the
town will be proud. Gilbert Bur-
land never made an error, play
ing third and catching two in
nings in great shape. His work
with the bat was also good. Eu-
gene Potvin proved himself the
best batter to face the hot ones
Covell sometimes dishes up, scor-
ing a hit every time he came up.
He also caught the only ball COM
ing in his territory. Gene has
the earmarks Of a ball player.
The score was one-sided, being
3 to 18 in favor of the regulars.
Phil Hull's pitching was effective
all the way through. Such hits
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1913-06-20
THREE ARE DROWNED
IN FLATHEAD RIVER

drowning occurred. having gone
there from Mr.. Rinehart's to
acquaint the captain of the
steamer City Of Dixon, and have
him keep a sharp lookout for the
bodies. The party from Roman
started at once to patrol the river
bank and a close search was
made up stream to the point
where the boat was overturned,
but not a trace of the bodies was
found.
The current in the river is
something fierce and the whirl-
pools and undertow has prob
ably carried the bodies into a
pool or miles away. The water
is so high that a systematic
search is out of the question at
this time, and it was decided the
best plan was to wait for the
water to recede and then make a
search for the bodies.
The water is at least twelve
feet above normal in the river
today and this fact makes it al
most impossible to do anything
toward finding a body and an
accident alone would reveal it.
Those who know say that a dead
body goes directly to the bottom
and remains there for at least
Is days in the cold water. Then
sometimes it rises and can be
seen.
Mrs. Scarce before her mar
riage in 1910, was Miss Evelyn
Waltersdorf of Seattle, and was
q years old in February, the
baby was a year old in April and
Henry Waltersdorf was Is years
old in May. Another brother,
Emil, is in the employ Of w. P.
Stillman at Sloan. and word was
sent to him Tuesday of the acci-
dent. Mrs. Scearce's mother
lives in Seattle and has also been
notified.
Stanley Scarce and Frank
went over to Sloan Wednesday
to meet their father S. H.
Scearce, who has been living
near Frank for the past three
years, and who knew nothing of
the drowning until about seven
O'Clock in the evening. The
death of the parties is a severe
blow to all the family, and the
husband and father is heart
broken over the death of his
loved ones. He has the SYM
pathy of the entire community
and will be given every assist
possible in recovering the bodies
as soon as the water goes down
in the river enough to permit
systematic search being made.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1913-06-20
Church Notice

There will be no preaching SER
vices held next Sunday. The
pastor will be in attendance at
the State EpWorth League Con-
vention.
The quarterly confer nee an
nounced for this week has been
postponed until Tuesday evening
Of next week.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1913-06-20
Land Sales Set.

The dates Of auction sales for
state lands in fifteen counties of
the state, at which of $50, 900
acres will be offered for sale, have
been fixed by Register Sidney
Miller of the state land Office.
The sale of lands in Missoula
county is set for August 20.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1913-06-20
SENTINEL IS SUSPENDED.
RESUMED BY M|SS0UL|hN

The Missoula Sentinel sus-
pended publication last Friday,
so fas as the old organization
was concerned, but on Saturday
evening it was issued by the
Missoulian Pub. Co. and will con-
tinue by that company in the
future. The marking time"
period was over even before
many thought it would be. Some
queer things happen in Missoula.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-06
KIDNAPS OCTOGENARIAN BRIDE
Relatives of Russian Widow Threat.
en- to Sue Bridegroom, Aged Forty,
Foreign Correspondence of The Star

Foreign Correspondence OF The star.
ST. PETERSBURG. December 25. 1912.
The Birzeya Niedomosti publishes an in
jeresting story OF a marriage which has
taken place at the Church of Verebie
Rear St Petersburg. The happy man. NJ
Eegt:areff. is forty years old, widower
and father of seven children, while his
wife, Mime. kallasina. is vigorous wom-
an of eighty summers and a widow.
The most interesting news however
from her house by the bridegroom during
the absence OF her relatives The priest
no performed the marriage ceremony.
Ilinsky by name, has been arrested at the
instance OF the enraged relatives of the
Juliet and xthe court proceedings ara
awaited WITH interest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-06
Whom Animals Fear Not.

one OF the beings to whom look up
with genuine reverence is the man whom
animals take into their confidence. I con.
slider him as much higher in the scale of
evolution than the man who enjoys kill
ing animals as Florence Nightingale Is
above Bill Skies.
Many Of us are friendly enough toward
the lower creatures: we would not cause
them pain. and we wish them the sweet
ness Of life. Yet they are afraid Of US.
They run or fly away when they see us
coming. Evidently they have no faith in
us; to them We are devils.
But now and again We find a human
being who seems to have bridged the gulf
that separates man from beast, as the
unpassable gulf separates Dives In tor
ment from Lazarus in Abraham's BOSOM
1t seems a miraculous gift.
1 knew a man who could walk among
a swarm of bees. brush them about as If
they were pebbles, pick them up and
push them by. and never get stung.
l knew a man that could take bird
from her eggs and put her back, while
she gave no sign Of panic. Squirrels
came to him, as they scampered from me-
There are men who can handle snakes
There are men whom lions and tigers
seem to regard as one Of their family.
There are even men who are more IA
miliar with and at home among horses
than among women.
These seem to have broken down that
wall of fear and hostility that separates
the genus homo from all other animals
1t appears to be a kind of sixth sense.
an aura imperceptible to ordinary mortal
sight, yet which the animals understand
However, the dog is the one exception
II Is no credit to a man to be loved by a
dog. A dog will love you whatever you
are. II you will let him.
I have no difficulty i'm believing the
miracles Of those saints who talked with
the creatures of the field.
I believe in old Brother Benignus. who
made q bargain with the blackbirds. that
II they would let his cherries and peas
alone he would supply them with plenty
Of corn and manchet ends and marrowy
bones: which bargain was faithfully
kept by both parties
And I believe. most OF all. in that dear
loved bees, leverets and all wild things
OF the wood. and reasoned with them
and. on one occasion. when he was
walking the highway with his disciples
he lifted up his eyes and saw some trees
full Of birds. and he said to his COM
panions: wait for me here In the road
and 1 will go preach to my sisters. the
birds" which he did, and the birds lis.
tened quietly until he was through. and
had given them his blessing: whereupon
they rose In the air with wondrous sing.
ing, and flew away to the north east
south and west. In the form Of the sign
OF the cross st. Francis had made over
them.
Did ever a more beautiful story come
down to US from the gray past?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-06
ELDERLY FOLKS! CALOMEL, SALTS
AND CATHART|CS AREN'T FOR YOU.
Harmless Gentle Syrup of Figs Is Cleanse Your
Stomach Liver and Bowels of Sour Bile, Decaying
Food Gases and Cloggedup Waste.

waste and poisons into. the blood.
You will never get feeling right
until this is corrected-but do it
gently. Don't have bowel wash
day; don't use bowel irritant.
For your sake. please use only
gentle, effective Syrup of Figs
Then you are not dragging your
self, for Syrup of Figs is COM
posed of only luscious figs, SIENNA
and aromatics which can not in
jure.
A teaspoonful tonight will gen
thy. but thoroughly. move on and
out of your system by morning all
the sour bile. poisonous ferment-
ing food and clogged-up waste
matter without grippe, nausea or
weakness.
But get the genuine Ask your
druggist for the full name, Syrup
of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA" Re-
fuse. with contempt, any other Fig
Syrup unless it bears the name
prepared by the California Fig
Syrup Company. Read the label
Advertisement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-06
DACHsHUND Is DOOMED.
Peculiar Dog Slowly Disappearing
From the Streets of Berlin.
pOndence Of The Star.


BERLIN. December %. 1912.
Tho dachshund, three feet long in
reality and six or more In the eyes Of
the caricaturist is slowly but surely
disappearing from the pavements and
from the pages Of the comic papers
The new style OF Viennese cafe into
which no dogs are admitted is against
him. and so. too. is the fashion which
calls with constantly increasing force
for Russian wolfhounds and toy dogs.
But the greatest enemy Of the dach-
shund is the dog tax. This year the
tax was raised from - to $3.50. The
result Is that in Berlin the number Of
dogs has diminished by $500 in the
course of the twelve months. In con-
trast the number Of dogs free OF tax
obligation has increased. and is now
$500 as against $4,000 paying tho
$50 Among the dogs paying no duty
are forty-six police dogs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-06

You old people, Syrup Of Figs IS
particularly for you. You who
don't exercise as much as you
need to; who like the easy chair:
You, whose steps are slow and
whose muscles are less elastic.
You must realize that yous liver
and ten yards of bowels have also
become less .ctive.
Don't regard Syrup of Figs as
physic. 1t stimulates the liver and
bowels just as exercise would do
if you took enough of it. 1t is not
harsh like salts or cathartics. The
help which Syrup of Figs gives to
a torpid liver and weak. sluggish
bowels is harmless, natural and
gentle.
When eyes grow dim, you help
them. Do the same with your
liver and b wells wh> age makes
them less active. There is nothing
more important. Costive. clogged-
up bowels mean that decaying, fer
menting food is clogged there and
the pores or ducts in these thirty
feet of bowels suck this decaying
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-06
WOULDFREE INDIANS
Hope for Full Citizenship Is
Voiced by Valentine.
EDUCATION HIS SOLUTION
War Against Gambling and Liquor
Beginning to Bear Fruit.
FAvORs PRESERVATION OF ART
Former Commissioner of Indian Al
fairs in Report Urges Fostering
of Native Industries.
EDUCATION HIS SOLUTION
FAvORs PRESERVATION OF ART

Full citizenship for American Indians
ritory is proposed by former Commission
er of Indian Affairs Robert G.. Valentine
i'm a report to Secretary of the In
terror Fisher, just made public He voices
the hope that the day may be near when
the United States will finally have lifted
its hands from Indian affairs. and all
Indians In all respects will stand on an
cans.
with all the expedition compatible
with the Indians welfare he added.
they should be made subject to the laws
of their states and be taught to look to
their local government instead of the
national government. My conviction is
that no possible obstacle should be placed
in the way of the transformation Of In
dian affairs administered by the United
States into the affairs of normal citizens
under the ordinary jurisdiction of the
states.
II do not suggest further authority for
charging federal Jurisdiction over minor
Offenses on reservations. Important ques-
lions of marriage and divorce illustrate
difficult points, of which the only proper
solution appears to be education of In
dians whether or not they are citizens, to
comply with the laws of their states"
Progress during the year in teaching
the Indian to be sober and Industrious,
in educating him to be q better farmer
and mechanic, and in imparting health
principles. both as they :pply individually
and in the home, was reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-06
Vocational Guidance Attempted.

Every Indian. like every white man.
declared the commi ssioner, SIS best fitted
for some one thing. We are trying to
find that thing. One of our newest
: activities is to make every effort. both in
the schools and among the adults on the
reservations. in the direction of voca-
tional guidance
The Indian service in all its parts
showed increased activity during the
year. the report stated, not in extension
of jurisdiction. but in graphing more
deeply and more intimately with the
problems it has to solve" The campaign
for good health and physical efficiency
among the Indians continued with in
creased momentum. the need for this
work being shown by the fact that the
death rate among the Indians is 20 per
cent greater than that among other
classes of people in the registration area
OF the United States. while the mortality
from tuberculosis is three and a half
times as great.
ihe war against the sale of liquor to
Indians was 'waged with continuous Wig
or and successful results the report
added. land the fight against gambling
is beginning to bear fruit
The home condition of the Indians is
one of the most unsatisfactory features
of the Indian problem, said the commits
sioner. for which reason special attention
is being given to the instruction of In
dian girls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-06

The problem Of distribution of imni-
grants SO as to keep them out Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-06
KILLS FATHERS SLAYER.
Son of Italian Wreaks Vengeance
Vow After Fifteen Years.

FOfe4Gn C0Txe9pdndfIce OF No S1tx.
PARIS. December. 2e. 1912 :
Fifteen years ago an Italian named
Bosco killed fellow-countryman
named Calagero in Marseille.
He was sentenced to six years i'm
prisonment. and on his release went to
America He returned to Marseillt
the other day, and half an hour after
landing was shot dead in the street
His assailant, who has been arrested
proved TO be the son OF Bosco's victim
Calagero, who had sworn vengeance or
his fathers murderer. which he has
now satisfied after an interval Of AZ
teen yearsy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-06

The greatest investment the Indian
service has. continues the report Is in
the so-called return students who have
been away at the larger schools and have
returned to live at or near their home
reservation. There are about $1,000 of
these Indians. who represent an economic
investment it is estimated, of about
S50.OOOU0.
The property interests of the Indians
constitute one of the greatest estates
ever held in trust by any organization.
governmental or private, the report
states. Including the lands. forests
water powers. minerals and funds held in
tribal or individual ownership. the prn-
cipal held by the government for the
Indians amounts to $4,000 600 and the
interest and annual rentals produce
total of Sl2,GOU.UO.
Indian art and the industries which
produce 1t should be carefully preserved
I'm the opinion of the commissioner, the
making of Navajo blankets. of the high
grades of beadwork and basketry, and of
pottery, should be foStered and preserved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-06
RIFLE MATCHES PLANNED
Details for Camp Perry Meet
Before the National
Association.

Arrangements for the target matches to
be held at Camp Perry. Ohio, next sum-
mer will be discussed at the meeting of
the National Rifle Association of Amer
lea, which will open in Washington next
Thursday. According to the program as
planned, the association matches will be
shot August Is to %. the national
matches from August 25 to p. and the
international matches from September l
to September 8.
Representatives from the Union Of In
ternational Rifle Associations. the Pan
American Shooting Union. as well as
from countries not having members in
these organizations. are expected to take
part in the international matches, and
present indications are that at least TWEEN
ty-two foreign teams will contest in the
team matches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-06
Field Matrons' Work Arduous.

No work is nobler or more necessary
or more trying in the Indian service than
that of the field matrons and woman in
dustrial teachers. according to the COM
missioner. The help given by these wom-
en- varies from instruction in sanitation
to the supervision of expenditures and
the settlement of domestic difficulties, and
they save the lives of many children.
Educational opportunities must be taken
to thousands of Indian children not vet
in school: industrial impulse and oppOr-
tunity must be given to Indians who do
rot now value their possessions; chance
has to be extended to thousands of In
dian families for living in sanitary homes
says the report. Only in this way" 1t
is declared, "can the day of the Indians
emancipation from national guardianship
be sped and the obligation that is upon
us of affordin.g the Indians the same op-
portunities. rights and privileges as other
Americans be discharged"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-06

A two-year-old son of Lester Bartlett
OF Thurston, Md, accidentally fell agains,
q wood stove and was fatally burned. The
accident occurred during his parenkS' ah-
sahce from the room.
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r deported as soon as his prison sentence

:;
The problem Of distribution of immi-
grants so as to keep them out Of the
cities and to
Get Them to Country lead them to
Is Difficult Problem. had manx so.
lutions proposed. and yet few of them
seem likely to accomplish their purpose.
The most interesting of these is the pro-
posal to establish zone of a hundred
miles radius around each port of entry,
and to admit no alien who does not pos
sess q railroad ticket for some point be-
yond that zone. This proposition Is OBJ
jected to by others on several grounds.
One is that the lorts themselves would
hardly be willing to accept such condi-
TONS For instance. overcrowded as New
York is today. does one suppose 1t would
be willing to let the immigrant tide pass
out of its gates without fair toll of
humanity from it? Another objection is
that this would be only process of fill
ing the Golfers of the railroads; that the
immigrant might go beyond the zone in
question, but would likely drift back
again.
serious problem from the standpoint
of the immigrant Is how to avert the I'M
pleasant conditions of the detent on rooms
of immigrant stations. In most OF the
stations the size of the rooms are ade-
quate for the ordinary needs of the traf-
fic, but, for instance in the case Of Ellis
Island the steamship companies today
may dump 5000 immigrants out of their
steerage quarters. Perhaps three-fifths
Of these will go through all right. but the
other 1000 must be detained for further
examination. 1t is inevitable under such
conditions that there will be crowdng in
the detention rooms And where per-
haps. half of the detained know next to
nothing about cleanliness, and no insight
iicant percentage of them arrive with
vermin of one kind another on their
persons, 1t is inevitable that the deten-
ton rooms will not always be clean. At
Ellis Island every one admits that there
long has been imperative need of more
room. and yet. with all the room that a
liberal government might provide, condi-
tons would in all likelihood remain such
as would crate upon the senstbdlities Of
people who love cleanliness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-06
Cash and Medals as Prizes.

Cash prizes aggregating $1,000, and
medals and plaques worth 5000 more
will be awarded to the winners in the in
ternational contests, and efforts are be-
ing made to have Congress appropriate
So. GOO toward defraying the expenses at
tending the international matches.
Capt. Douglas G.. McDougal of the Ma
rne Corps and Lieut.. Isaac F. Dortsch
CT the Navy have been selected to serve
as captains of the teams representing
their branches of the service in the ma
onal matches.