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The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1914-08-28

A. Hills, Addison K. Lusk, David
c. Smith; county commissioner,
George Pringle; clerk and re-
corder, Frank 7. Jones; sheriff,
John E. Cannon; county assessor,
John M. Brechbill; county audi
tor, Cuthbert Peat; county attor-
ney, Frederick G.. Webster;
county surveyor, F. Thayer Stod-
dard; Supt. of schools. Mary P.
Shull; public administrator, Hugo
H. Swanberg; county coroner,
Albion M. Lucy.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1914-08-28
And Still Untitled.

If all the arabic land of the
United States which is not under
plow could be put into one huge
farm it would cover all of the
United States east of the Missou-
ri and Mississippi rivers, says
Leslie's Weekly. According to
statistics which have been COM
piled by the department of agri-
culture this vast acreage Of land
that should be used but is not,
totals $4,000, 600 acres, which is
equivalent to the combined areas
of the states of Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island, Connect
icut, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Della
Virginia, West Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Geor-
gia, Florida, Alabama, Mississ-
ippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis
consin, Iowa, Minnesota, North
Dakota, South Dakota and Mon
tana. This gives a striking ac-
count of the vast territory which
still can be used to feed the hum
CRY millions, not only of the
United States, but also of the
world. In other words, for every
100 acres that are now titled,
about 375 may be put into crops
when the country is fully devel-
oped.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1914-08-28
WILL AWARD SCHOLARSHIP
TO COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

There will be a Live Stock
judging contest at the state fair
and the winners will be awarded
scholarships to the Montana
state college of agriculture at
Bozeman. A scholarship excuses
the holder from paying any
tuition or deposits. The indi-
vidual winning first place will be
awarded a full scholarship; the
individual winning second place
will be awarded two year
scholarship; the individual win
ming third place will be awarded
a one-year scholarship. The
rules and regulations are:
l. All contestants must be
residents of the state Of Mon
tana.
2. No contestant can be a
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1914-08-28
ALBERT D. SMITH
FLIES TOMORROW

AS stated in the Pioneer last
week, Albert D. Smith, a former
homesteader on Crow creek
southwest Of Roman and who
still claims his residence here,
will fly in a Curtis biplane over
Roman tomorrow afternoon at 3
o'clock. The machine is already
here and has been assembled,
and is the one owned by B. C.
Mcclellan whose wife and mother
live northeast of town about six
miles. 1t is the same biplane
used here a little over a year ago
at which time a large number of
people came to Roman to witness
the flight and many We're disap-
pointed by the flight not being
on schedule time, owing to a
wind prevailing which deferred
the aviator from going up until
so late that many were compelled
to return home before they saw
the ascension. Mr.. Smith says
that nothing but a cyclone will
keep him from going into the air
promptly at the hour stated
above.
Mr.. Smith and Mr.. Mcclellan
arrived here Monday afternoon
and they both left the next day
for their homesteads, the former
going to Moiese to vote and the
latter to visit his wife and
mother. They have everything
ready now for the flight and the
people are promised a good ex-
hibition. Mr.. Smith has been
taking lessons in aviation since
leaving here last fall and has
made several remarkable exhi-
billions. He not only has made
several long flights but has risen
several times about 5000 feet.
He expects to carry a camera for
L. G. Bigelow and will take sew
eral pictures from the air while
flying over town and the sur
rounding country.
With harvest about over and
the people of the country having
been kept at home so closely for
several weeks past, it is thought
that a large crowd will be here
tomorrow to see Mr.. Smith make
this flight. 1t is a free exhibi-
ton, provided by the merchants
and business men of Roman.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1914-08-28

oldteu anu SCfdHgung, S1lalr
tracts of timber consisting Of
only a few trees or a few clumps
of trees at long distances from
other timber. The land was
classified by law and order of the
department Of the interior, and
many tracts of land containing
small punches of standing timber
were classified as timber land.
These tracts can not be home
steaded because not classified as
agricultural land. On the other
hand, the timber on them can
not be sold because not in suf-
ficient quantities to attract buy
ers. Timber dealers, lumber
men, sawmill operators, and
other4timber buyers will not bid
on small isolated tracts of timber,
and there is no sale for such"
Therefore, this timber is doing
nobody any good neither whites
nor Indians and the land is
standing idle and doing nobody
any good. Under the present
state of the law these isolated
small pieces of timber will never
be utilized, and nobody will get
any good of them. The bill au-
thorizes the secretary of the in
terror, in his discretion, upon
application to permit such tracts
OF land, where valuable for agri-
culture as we'll as timber, to be
reclassihed as agricultural land
to be homesteaded, and permits
the homesteader, in the discre-
tion Of the Interior department,
to be allowed to purchase the
standing timber on his homestead
tract at the appraised valuation
thereof, and in addition to pay
ing for the land to pay the ap-
praised value Of the standing
timber thereon at the time Of
making his homestead entry or
prior to making final proof, as
the secretary of the interior may
direct. All such tracts of timber
have been appraised. Thus these
tracts of land will be utilized and
the timber realized on, which
has not and could not be done
heretofore. White settlers will
get the benefit Of the land and
the Indians will get the benefit
OF the payments for both land
and timber.
The committee recommends
that the bill be amended by in
serting after the word entries"
and before the word pay" in
line 22 of page 2 of the printed
bill these words: ''or before final
proof thereon, at the discretion
OF the secretary Of the INTERIOR"
and as so amended the committee
recommends that the bill be
passed.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1914-08-28
THE MYERS BILL
MAKES HEAOWAY

U1IulIO uI1IlOvvUu
Senator Myers bill providing
for the disposal of timber lands
on the Flathead under the home
stead law is making good pro-
gress and friends of the bill are
much encouraged and have great
hopes that it will become a law.
The bill as introduced reads as
follows:
Be it enacted by the senate
and house of representatives of
the United States of America in
congress assembled, That section
eleven of the Act of April twen-
ty-third, nineteen hundred and
four, entitled IAN Act for the
survey and allotment of lands
new embraced within the limits
of the Flathead Indian reserva-
ton, in the state of Montana,
and the sale and disposal of all
surplus lands after allotment, "
amended by the Act of March
third, nineteen hundred and nine,
be, and the same is hereby am
ended so as to read as follows:
Sec. IL. That all merchant
able timber on said lands, re-
turned and classified by said COM
mission as timber lands, shall be
sold and disposed of by the Sec
retary of the interior, for cash,
under sealed bids or at public
auction, as the secretary of the
interior may determine, and un-
der such regulations as he may
prescribe: Provided, That after
the sale and removal Of the tim
ber such Of said lands as are val
liable for agricultural purposes
shall be sold and disposed of by
the secretary of the interior in
such manner and under such
regulations as he may prescribe:
Provided further, That lands val
liable for agricultural and hor-
ticultural purposes, heretofore
classified as timber lands, may,
in the discretion of the secretary
of the interior, be appraised un-
der regulations prescribed by
him and be opened to homestead
entry under the general provis-
ions of section nine, upon condi-
tion that homestead entrymen
shall at time of making their
original homestead entries Tor
before final proof thereon, at the
discretion of the secretary of the
interior J pay the full value of
the timber on the land entered
as fixed by the appraisement
commission, such payment to be
in addition to the appraised price
of the lands, apart from the tim
Der, as herein authorized.
Senator Myers bill was re-
ferred to the committee on In
dian affairs, which committee,
with slight amendment, recon-
mends it's passage, and in ther
port says:
'This bill is a department bill
and was drawn and introduced
at the request of the interior de-
partment. 1t has the hearty ap-
proval both of the interior de-
partment and the Indian bureau
of said department.. "
In addition to filing the reports
of Walter M. Fisher, then secre-
tary, and A. A. Jones, the pres
ent first assistant secretary, both
recommending the bill, the COM
mittee further says:
The timber on the Flathead
reservation belongs to the Flat
head Indians, and they are en-
titled to the proceeds of the sales
thereof. Provision is made by
existing law for selling the tim
Der where it stands in consider
able quantities, or good sized
+roo4c ~ y,,,h1;o o,,ofiOp tO thn
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1914-08-28
APATHY 0F RESERVATION VOTERS
TUESDAY, MAKES POOR SHOWING

every way. One thing which
surprised the candidates most
was the apathy shown by reser-
vation voters. Not more than
80 per cent of the actual voters
turned out and this showing left
a hole in the estimates made in
prediction calculations. An
other surprise was the small pro-
gressive vote, there being only
one lone Bull Moose in Roman,
none at Fairview, and very few
in other precincts. 1t is diff
cult matter to determine whether
the progressives have gone back
to the republicans or joined the
democrats. Some say that in
Missoula the vote went to the
democrats and from the actual
results it looks like this was a
pretty good guess. One thing is
certain, and that is not many OF
any of the parties turned out to
vote Tuesday.
In Roman the democrats had
G7, republicans so, progressives
!, socialists 2. Two years ago
the party vote was: democrats
50, republicans So, progressives
81, SO it will be seen that quite a
number stayed at home this elec-
tion.
With local candidates seeking
assistance it was expected that
quite a number would go and
vote, either for the local candi-
dates or against them, as their
friendship or enmity prompted,
but the indifference was so great
that many did not do either.
Judging from the vote in Fair
view, the same feeling prevailed
there. In St. Ignatius, where
each party had a candidate with
great opposition, not more than
one third of the vote was polled
either. There it was supposed
that those who have wanted a
county commissioner so badly for
four years, would get out and
vote for the home candidate, Jos.
Grenier, Jr., but only 36 wanted
a commissioner from that Sec
ton. In Roman Mr.. Grenier was
treated fully as we'll as at home,
receiving 25 out of SO votes cast
for the republican ticket. Small
chance Of getting commissioner
when the vote is scattered like
that here, when Missoula votes
almost solid for Missoula men for
county offices. County commits
sioners hold the purse strings
when it comes to handing out
the money and Missoula is always
there when she wants public i'm
provements at the county's ex-
pense.
The local democrats had no
candidate with opposition and
interest centered principally in
sheriff and county attorney,
with an occasional rifle toward
county commissioner. With seven
candidates aspiring to be the
nominee for sheriff, the fight was
a pretty one. The precinct had
been canvassed by about all of
them once and some had been
here twice, but Higgins drew the
long end, with Marion second.
Dan HeyfrOn carried the pre-
cinct for county attorney by 80
votes to Albert Besancon %.
Dwight N. Mason, the local can
didate for the legislature, polled
the high vote of 81.
Hon. A. J. Brewer, the local
republican candidate for state
senator, ran well and polled AZ
votes to Murphy z; Rathbone for
county clerk got only 36, with
his Missoula opponent Jones poll
ing II. There were too many
crosses in evidence here that day
evidently.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1914-08-28
SIGNAL CODE MADE
FOR LOST HUNTERS

j. l.. De Hart, state game and
fish warden, has sent the follow
ing list of suggested instructions
to hunters to Secretary Treece of
the Anaconda Anglers club. The
suggestions are for the saving of
hunters lost in the heavy timber.
When man is injured or lost
and needs help, a signal by shoot
ing should be given thus: One
shot, an intermission of 10 Sec
onds, another shot, an intermis-
sion of so seconds, then a third
shot. In case no answer comes,
wait five minutes before giving
another signal. An answer to
the lost signal is by one shot,
and the reply by the person lost
is also by one shot.
Care should be taken, said Mr..
De Hart, to get the intervals be-
tween the shots correct. Count
ing 10 between the first and sec
ond shots and 60 between the
second and third shots is accur-
ate. Whenever a shot is heard
in the mountains, the person
hearing it should count 10 and
listen for another shot to deter
mine if it is a signal of distress.
After giving the signal and re-
ceiving an answer, the person
lost should remain still and in
the same place until he is found.
Hunters shooting at game should
avoid firing at intervals which
would sound like a distress sig
nal.
Mr.. De Hart suggested that
hunters clip these instructions
from the newspapers and paste
them in a notebook always car
ried or in some other convenient
place where they will not be lost.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1914-08-28
DEMOCRAT.

justice supreme court, Clements
Is, Erickson "a, Poindexter s.;
railroad commissioner, Johnson
16, Lovelace 16, Mccormick 27
(evidently a great many thought
Mccormick must be Dougal Of
Missoula); state senator, Berry
So. Brewer 3; representatives,
Adams 40; Clemens AZ, Cowan
AZ, Cullop Al, Mason 62; county
commissioner, Broman Z, DeJar-
nette 5, Hagen 2. Nelson 81,
Prescott Is; county clerk Bah
ington 81, Rathbone A; sheriff,
Green 3, Higgins %; johnson 3,
Kelley 5, Kennedy l, Marion 16,
O'Connell 10; treasurer, Gephart
21, Mccarthy %, Currie 60;
auditor, Helfrich %, Kuphal 28;
attorney, Besancon %, Heyfron
38; surveyor, Ketcham Is, Wood
worth 81; Supt. of schools, Carter
A, Finley 16. administrator, An
gevine So; coroner, Dawson S.;
justice of the peace, Bailey IS,
Buckhouse Sc; constable, Engle
48, Dishmon 20, Normandin %;
precinct committeeman, Ross
Lemire 5S. ....
REPUBLICAN
Congress, Maddox 16, Nc
Cormick %, Nicholson 9, Parsons
80; justice supreme court, Hollo-
way 45; railroad commissioner,
Boyle rs, Godfrey II, Tong s.;
state senator, Brewer AZ, Murphy
z; representatives, Boldly 50,
Higgins 81, Hills 38, Lusk 81,
Smith 36, Mason /; county COM
missioner, Grenier Is, Peterson
II, Pringle 10. county clerk,
Jones II, Rathbone 36; sheriff,
Angevine 5, Cannon 8, Hathaway
II, Marsh 4, Rhoades II, Samp-
son 6; treasurer, Grill 18, Malon-
ey 25; assessor, Brechbill 49,;
auditor, Peat Al; county attorney
Webster AZ; surveyor, Smead 1S.
Stoddard %; Supt. of schools,
Ferguson %, Shull %; admins
TRAITOR, Swanberg 40; coroner,
Lucy 27, Conyngham 16; precinct
committeeman, Brewer 81.
One straight progressive vote
with Houston favored for sheriff
and Henley for treasurer, the
only contents.
Two socialist votes, one of
which scratched for Rathbone
for county clerk and other minor
offices.
Up to the hour of going to
press it is not definitely known
who has been nominated for
state senator on the republican
ticket, the vote standing a tie be-
tween Brewer and Murphy with
two small precincts missing.
Aside from this office, the county
tickets nominated are:
Democrats.
Congress: John M. Evans,
Tom Stout; associate justice su-
preme court, James M. Clements;
railroad commissioner, J. E. Nc
Cormick; state senator, w. w.
Berry; representatives, Charles
G. Adams, Henry R. Clemens, ].
E. Cullop, Dwight N. Mason;
county commissioner, Frank
Nelson; clerk and recorder, w.
j. Babington; sheriff, Albert
Marion; county treasurer, E. H.
Mccarthy; county assessor, D.
B. Currie; county auditor, F. w.
Kuphal; county attorney, Albert
Besancon; county surveyor. c..
E. Woodwork; Supt. of schools,
Anna F. Carter; public admins
traitor, Fred Angevine; county
coroner, James M. Dawson.
Republicans.
Congress; Maddox, w. j. Nc
Cormick; associate justice su-
preme court, VIM. L. Holloway;
railroad commissioner, Daniel
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1914-08-28

E. F. Milligan, Inspector of
rolling stock on the Milwaukee
railroad in Iowa, with headquar-
tiers at Dubuque, was in town
from Monday till Wednesday.
Mr.. Milligan owns a farm north
west of town and was here look
ing after it.
Parties desiring real estate
loans may find me hereafter at
the Sterling hotel, Roman, every
Saturday. Robert Bennett. adv.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-12
Jersey City Holy
Name Parade Plans

At a meeting of the spiritual direc-
tors of the Jersey City Holy Name
societies in St Lucy's Hall, Alexan-
der Hammil, of st. Bridget's Holy
Name Society, was unanimously
chosen grand marshal of the Holy
Name parade, which will be held this
year on Sunday. October IL. The
centre of the rally will be West Side
Park.
Reports show that each society had
increased in membership during the
past year. This years Holy Name
parade will surpass all the others In
the number of men who will march.
There will be three divisions of Holy
Name societies, and the position of
honor of heading the parade will be
enjoyed by st Johns Holy Name So
ciety.
The first division will include the
Holy Name societies of the hill Sec
ton of the city. Their position In
the line of march viii be as follows:
st. Johns, st. AIMS ST. Pau of the
Cross st. Joseph's, Mt Carmel.
The second division viii include the
Holy Name societies of the downtown
section of the city. Their position
will be: st. Bridges. Holy Rosary,
st Peters, st. Anthony of Padua,
Our Lady of Czenetochova, st.
Michael's, St Mary's, st. Lucy's. st.
Boniface Assumption.
The third division will comprise the
Holv Name societies of the Bergen
section of the city. Their position
will be: st. Aedan's, St Patrick's, All
Saints, st. Aloysius, st. Paul's
(Greenville), Sacred Heart.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-12
CURRENT LITERATURE
Rev Books
in Review
New Books.

new Books.
The beginning of the fall season of
Houghton-Mifflin Company today
brings out the following books: a
Knight on Wheels" by Ian Hay; ION
the Warpath," by James Willard
Schultz. and a new edition of Mr..
Schultz's remarkable biography. My
Life as an Indian;" a new edition at a
popular price of "Pocahontas and
Captain John Smith," by f. Boyd
Smith; Uncle 'Lisha's Shop" by Ro-
land Il. Robinson; THE Sea Is Kind"
poems by T. Surge Moore; 1.-The Med
itations of a Young Man." by Gage
Olcott. and a visitors edition of
Thoreau's Cape Cod" In addition
there will be a new Riverside pocket
edition of the works of Alfred Tenny-
son, in seven volumes, bound in flexi-
BILE leather. and the following volumes
in the Riverside popular biographies:
William Cullen Bryant, by John Size
low; Ralph Waldo Emerson, by Oil
YER Wendell Holmes; Washington
Irving, by Charles Dudley Warner;
Nathaniel Hawthorne by George e.
Woodberry; James Russell Lowell, by
Ferris Greenslet; Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow, by Thomas Wentworth
Higginson; Edgar Allen Poe, by
George E. Woodberry: Henry D. Tro-
reau. by Frank Il. Sanborn: Walt
Whitman by Bliss Perry. an1 John
Greenleaf whittier. by George r. Car
penter.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-12
Declares Be iiefs of
Dr.. G. c. Morgan
Make Him Baptist
Statement Made by Writer in
New Jersey Baptist
Bulletin.

Rev G. Campbell Morgan, pastor
OF Westminster Chapel, the great
Congregational church of London, is
probably the best known and most
highly esteemed minister from over
sea For many years he was the
leading attraction at Mortified. He
Is a great expositor of the Bible.
Thousands of ministers have eagerly
of the Word. Many have wondered
as they listened to him. why man
so insistent on answering, uncom-
promising, obedience to the Bible
could be silent concerning the Lords
command Matt, xviii, 1920 The
fol owing quotation from sermon
recently preached in his own pulpit
from the above text on THE True
order of Missionary Work." breaks
his silence:
1.-THE first thing that l have to say
is that there is no question at all
that baptism in those (NeW TeSta-
menD days meant immersion. That
is not open to question. 1t
may be said that the form matters
nothing, that II may be that of sprink-
ling water upon the person or, in the
fashion of the Greek Catholic Church.
of pouring water upon the person, or
than the first Christians ! do not OBJ
ject l affirm. unhesitatingly, that the
original word means immersion; l
affirm that, in order to point out that
the symbol that Jesus commanded
was a symbol sugpe sting death into
| life. In the whelming beneath the
waters we have the symbol of death.
| In the emergence from the waters
we have the symbol of life beyond
4 death, resurrection life.
81 say again, whether the form can
| be changed I will not discuss, | have
no quarrel with those who think II
! may, but | do affirm that. for myself
I prefer to abide by the primitive rite
| in the cd and simple form. Seeine
/ that the Lord did leave with us who
bear His name only two simple rites 81
ceremonies-tha of His table and thai
! of baptism--I prefer to follow II 5
command according to the earlies
method, even though others may pt
justified in changing the form"
How does this tally with his prae-
tice? A member of his church writes
This Gmmersion) has been DR.. Nor
gans practise ever since his accept
ance of the pastorate there, in thf
+ first place using the bapt'stry Of the
+ Romnay Street Baptist Chapel. Then
When the Westminster Chapel was
renovated and the old school rooms
were reconstructed into the present
institute buildings, DR.. Morgan hac
inserted a very commodious and beau
tiful baptlstry in the intermediate
hall where l have had the privilege
of witnessing his practice of the ordi'
nance, conducted, as one would ex-
pect. in a most devout and inspiring
way"
Then DIR. Morgan is, after all, 8
Raptist as truly as f. B. Meyer ano
Len Broughton.--From New jersey
Baptist Bulletin.