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Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-06-18

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many; with many other such
experiences, all seemed to
crowd into my mind as with
toe and finger nail I stuck to
the face of the Two Medicine
Cliff, trying to regain my
breath. At one of the three
precipices, while ascending to
the Sperry Glacier, I had like
feeling. Afraid to go up and
afraid to start down! But
when in doubt, the best thing
usually is to keep going up and
refuse to look down. After /
finally reached the top of the
| bluff, about four hundred feet
above the water, I lay down
under some small shrubbery
completely wilted with the
strain of the climb. But ah,
here was a sight. Away be-
yond the bridge was the snow
cover Lewis and Clark range,
with the distant bridge itself a
thing Of grace and beauty, and
the murmer of the rushing
river, far below, adding music
to the picture show. Then on
/ went through trees and brush,
following the sound of the
water, until finally | came
within hearing of the object of
my tramp--the lovely Falls
of the Two Medicine. Have
yhu never seen them? All,
they are fine. When you
walk to them, just tramp
through Browning and I'll join
you on the way. They are
easily located, for their noise
can be heard quite distance.
III never forget the first rime
the mighty roar of Niagra
broke upon my ear, long before
/ saw the water. That was
when Niagara was as God made
: her, before the waterhogs des-
;. troyed her, and thus became
. guilty of murder against nature
9 The same hogs could not keeI
E their unholy hands off the
T Great Falls of the Missouri
!, either. What a pity that we
= are so hard up that we can no
leave such sights for our child
: rem.
D Well, after musing to my
d hearts content / tramped alont
S toward the automobile bridge
= crossed Two Medicine, and tool
e lunch with William Monroe a
It his lodge in the woods. All tn,
h way the mountains were il
it sight, with just a patch o
f Lower Two Medicine LAX
IS glinting in the sunlight, and tn
i changing scene of rock, tree
It and cloud filling the gloriou
a vista. found a family livin
: in a tent by the road side, an,
It the woman tod me she ha
l. been tenting beside a German
Ie woman. She said she got alon
n alright until the German VIC
e man told her that she and tn
le Kaiser were related. She sal
TX she became afraid of any on
" related to such a blood thirst
re murderer of little children an
q helpless women, and so, sh
q said, moved my tent to tn
IN place, a good mile from he
r. So here we have one of tn
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-06-18
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ringing the wild bee
lavish scenery of Glacier M
to the attention of the counW
DR.. George Grinnell is also paid
a fine tribute, Hough declaring
that he ought to have the title
of Father of Glacier Park. He
wac perhaps the first man to
explore the Park and write in
telligently of its magnificent
scenery. Grinnell was given
much aid by Hugh Monroe, the
discoverer of ST. Mary Lake.
Hugh speaks of his associa-
tions with j. w. Shultz, the
Blackfeet Indian painter, Jack
Monroe, Billy Jackson and Joe
Kipp, all well known western
characters. He regrets that
one of the mountains was not
named in honor of Kipp.
The article is embellished by
many splendid views of scenes
in the park. Cut Bank pass,
Cut Bank valley and Cut Bank
glacier are mentioned frequent
ly-all of which helps to adver-
tise our own budding metropolis
in the shadows of Americas
greatest tourist mecca.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-06-18

Jack Danens, Sam Stray er
and Burrell Glisby spent several
days near Va ier last week
fishing. They report catching
about a thousand fish, most of
which they brought home with
them. The Pioneer Press was
remembered with several nice
ones Tuesday.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-06-18
Auction Sale

Robert Powell, residing six
miles northeast of Cut Bank,
will holdea big public sale on
Thursday, June "a, commenc-
ing at one o'clock. A big list,
including live stock and good
farm machinery, will be offered
for sale. Col. Ed Buckner will
be auctioner and F. H. Worden
clerk.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-06-18
Greatest Wheat
Crop is Predicted
First Official Estimate of
1915 Crop Places Figures
Over 5-Year Average

Washington, June st h e
greatest wheat crop the country
ever has known is in prospect
for the coming harvest. In its
forecast today, based on the
condition of winter and spring
wheat on June 1, the federal
crop reporting board placed the
prospective wheat crop at 95O,-
100000 bushels, which would
exceed last years record crop
by 100000 bushels. w It h
continued good growing con-
ditions the crop might reach L.
000,000,00O bushels.
OF tn, great wheat crop the
bulk is from winter wheat
planted last fall on the greatest
acreage ever sown. The yield
of that class of wheat is placed
at 676,000,000 bushels, which
would be 100000 bushels under
last years record crop. Of
spring wheat, 274, 100000 bushels
are forecast. That amount
would be 56,OOO,0O0 bushels
under the record crop Of 1912,
but greater, however, than last
year and the year before.
Oats were planted this spring
on the greatest area ever sown
to that crop, exceeding last
years area by almost 100000
arces. The forecast of the oat
crop places it at 1,288,00O,0 ,00(
bushels. which is more thar
harvested last year or in 1911;
but 130,OO0,000 bushels less thar
the record crop of 1912.
The barley cropfrom presen'
indications will be second il
point of size, with 197,000.00t
bushels, which will be 10000, ,00(
bushels less than the 1912 re
cord crop, but more than grown
last year or in 1918.
The statistics gathered from
the many correspondents ant
agents Of t h department
bureau of statistics and com
piled by the crop reportin
board, with comparisons f
other years, follow:
Spring Wheat-Area planted
19,248,000 acres, compared wit
17,533,000 last year. Condition
94.9 per cent of a normal, com
pared with 95.5 last year, an
93.8, the 10-year average. Ind
Gated yield, AL bushels pc
acre, compared with 11.8 las
year, and 1873 the 1909-13 avel
age. Estimated total produt
ton, 274,OOO,OOO bushels, con
pared with 206,027, 900 last yea
and 245.OOO,OOO the 1909-13 av el
age.
Winter Wheat-Area plante
40,l69,000 acres, compared wit
36,008,000 last year. Condition
85.8 per cent of a normal con
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-06-18

Reflection in Two Medic
Well sir, the next time you
walk from Cut Bank to Glacier
Park just leave the railway at
the Great Northern high bridge
over the Two Medicine River
and take to the right. | had
stayed all night with Frank
Baker, two miles east of the
Bridge, and so had en early
start for the days tramp and
sightseeing. l called on my
friend Fred Hixson in passing,
but neither him nor his better
by half could be seen. When /
came to the high bridge l went
down to the river bed and had
a fine view of the great struc-
ture from below. 1t looks
much higher and longer when
viewed from the water level.
After long look at this mar
vel of mans victory over ma
lures difficulties l began to
ascend the stream. j soon
came to an obstacle that com
PEELED me to climb back to the
upper level. And this was
some climb, you had better be-
lieve me. l had slid down three
or four hundred feet, but it took
nail and toe to bring me back
up. Dante tells us that the
descent to Avernus is easy
but getting up out again is the
problem. Heaven is up hill
while any one can just let &c
and slide to perdition. Evil
. habits are more easily formed
than given up.
Well, after thus philosophizine
a little while, during rest al
: the summit, l trudged on again
not knowing what the next diff
ficulty might be, and not caring
| finally came to what looked
, like road and followed it dow
t tremendous gra de until i
landed me at the roaring rive
again. Here / stood for SOM
time watching the bubbles pas
}! me at what seemed the rate o.
r ten miles an hour at least.
= thought of time as a stream
s never ending, and that we arr
all bubbles, borne by. never tt
: return again. And the though
| of time moving awoke me t.
| the fact that I had a long har
| Jog ahead of me, and that thl
thing called time waits for no
| body. saw what looked lik
a foot path going up the almos
perpendicular side of the Mort
bank. Here / was trapped, for
! was only the faint track @
some animal feet that would a
soon climb the face of a precl
| pice as not. On going up abou
| fifty feet | began to see what
| job had undertaken. My eX
! perience on Pixies Peak; Noun
Rainer; Eagle Rock. in the A
leghanies; Dizzy Cliff, in tn
Blue Ridge; Langdale Pike,
English Lake Country; hangln
over to kiss the Blarney stor
in good ould Ireland at the rls
of my neck. be iabers; the av
full side of the Cobbler aboN
Loeb Long in Scotland; the di
zy ascent of the Rigi in Swift
erland and the Swartz Bergt
in the Black Forest of Ge
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-06-18

pared with 92.9 on May 1 this
year, 92.7 on June last year,
and 1928 the 10-year average.
Indicated yield, 1863 bushels
per acre, compared with 1910
last year and 1876 the 1909-13
average. Estimated total pro-
duction, 679,0OO,0OO bushels,
compared with 684,990,0O0 last
year, and AL 100000, the 1909
13 average.
All Wheat Area planted,
59,417,000 acres compared with
53,541, 900 last year. Condition,
1872 per cent of a normal, COM
pared with 93.7 last year and
86.7 the 10-year average. lndi-
Gated yield, 16.0 bushels per
acre, compared with 1876 last
year and 14.7 the 1909-13 aver
age. Estimated total produc-
ton, 95O,000,OOO bushels, COM
ared with 891,O17,OO0 last year,
and 686,000,000 the 1909-13 aver
age.
Oats-Area planted, 40,193,-
600 acres, compared with 38,-
442,00O last year. Condition,
92.2 per cent of a normal, COM
pared with 1915. last year and
1876 the 10-year average. Indi-
Gated year, 32.4 bushels per
acre, compared with 29.7 last
year and 800 the 1909-13 aver
age. Estimated total production,
l288,0OO,000 bushels, compared
with l,l4l,O6O.O0O last year and
l,l3l, 100000 the 19O9-l3 average.
Barley-Area planted, 1885,
600 acres, compared with 1866
600 last year. Condition, 94.6
|per cent of a normal, compared
with 95.5 last year and 900 the
l0-year average. In dica e d
yield, 26.6 bushels per acre,
compared with 25.8 last year
and 24.3 the l9O9-l3 average
Estimated total production, l97,-
100000 bushels, compared v ith
!. l84, $685. 900 last year and l82,oeo,-
900 the l909-l3 average.
Rye Condition 92.C per cent
of a normal, compared with 93.a
on May this year, 93.6 on June
last year and 9O.4 the lO-yeal
average. Indicated yield l6.f
| bushels per acre, compared with
1873 last year and l6.l bushels
J the l9O9-l3 average.
Hay Condition 87.8 per cen
of normal, compared with 89.i
r on May | this year, 88.6, th'
seven-year average.
DEMONSTRATION 9l.3 pc
1 cent of a formal, compared witt
j, 87.2 on May last, 1913 in l9l
: and 89.4 the lO-year average.
Apples-Condition 7O.l re
: cent of a normal, compared witt
r 1877 last year and 65.9 the 10
t year average. Estimated tota
: production, l9l,OOO,000 bushels
: compared with 253,OOO,OOO las
year and l76,OOO,OOO, the l9O9-l
:, average.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-06-18

Pioneer Press Publicity Pays!
You can't reap your bumper
crops unless you get your har-
ness put in order at the Harness
Shop.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-06-18
Post Has Pen
Picture of Park
Noted Western Author
Tells About Tourist
Mecca

Glacier National Park is given
two pages in the current num-
Der of the Saturday Evening
Post, the most widely read
publication in America. The
story of our newest yet best
known national playground is
written by Emerson Hough, well
known Western writer and
naturalist.
Emerson Hough is not one of
the breed of western scribblers
who have written superficial
impressions from the observa-
ton car of a transcontinental
train. He has gone into the
mountain faStnesS on the
rockies and in company with
such well known guides as JACK
Monroe and the late Joe Kipp,
explored the unfrequented
places, spending weeks at a
time in the deep primeval for
ests and scaling defiant noun
tain peaks long before Glacier
Park was known to pale east
ern tourists.
After going into some dc+2il
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-06-18

Barring the loss by hail, the prospects for
bumper crop were better in the vicinity of
Cut Bank That we are in belt that frequently
visited bv hail storms was evidenced by the hail that
fell in the last thunder storm. You can be protected
against loss by hail if you will insure Farmers
State Bank
See letter below, by H. o. Peterson, who was
fully protected by one of the policies
Farmers State Bank.
Cut Bank, Montana.
Gentlemen
am in receipt of draft for S65650 in payment of
hail under policy No S7l25 in the Northwestern Fire
Marine ms Co., covering onehaf hundred and
fifty The adjustment of loss made August 3rd
and in receipt of payment today August l1th Your
adjuster allowed 80 pr cent loss barley oats and fax
and 80 per loss wheat This is very satisfactory to
me- as will be able to quite crop of hay all the
land and oy having the hail insurance am free from
loss account of nail
to thank you for the prompt and satisfactory
manner in which settlement was made. and heartily re-
commend your company to all my farmer neighbors.
Yours truly,
H. O. PETERSON.
FARMERS STATE BANK
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-06-03
CTO BE CONTINUED
ANCIENT MONEY MUCH PRICED
Believed to Be Currency Used by
Tribes Before the Era of the
Roman Empire.

Peasants blowing a field in the com
mune of Castelfranco DELI Emilia, in
Italy, in the year 1897 turned up a big
Umbrian vase full of aes-signatum.
which is ancient money marked with a
sign, supposedly that of a tribe. There
we're in all 96 pieces, all covered with
the characteristic patina of bronze
that has been buried for ages.
The aes-signatum of the early Ro-
mans is not very rare, but only one
other find of this far more ancient
money has been made. This was at
Fiesole, near Florence, but unfortu-
nately the finders had no idea of its
value or rarity and all of it was melted
down for bronze founder except one
single specimen. There is not one
specimen in the British museum and
very few other museums have any.
How old this money is we can only
guess. The best authorities say 1t is
pre-Roman, probably the money of the
Italic tribes that, if not aboriginal, in
habited southern Europe about 1000
B. c. There has been much contro-
versy over this money, and there are
a few psychologists who even deny
that it was real money. Each piece
is of solid bronze and bears on its
surface a figure which is supposed to
be the sign of the tribe to which it
belonged.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-06-03
The Mines of Spain.

More than one-third of the quick
silver produced in the world last year
came from the mines of Spain. Those
mines were worked centuries before
Christ, and they seem good for cen
turtles more. Other quicksilver sup
plies are discovered, exploited for a
time, and exhausted, but no bottom
has been found to the veins of Spanish
cinnabaT.
Many high authorities hold that other
mineral resources of Spain are quite
as splendid in proportion as her SUI
premacy in the production of mercury.
Spanish iron ore is sometimes shipped
to the United States, yet the mines are
said to be worked in very clumsy,
ineffective fashion. 1t is even claimed
that the coal supplies of the peninsu-
Ia are superior to those of any other
part Of the continent, but these, again,
are managed in a careless, indolent,
unscientifc manner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-06-03

the face of any duty, and it robbed
him Of confidence But he gave no
proof of this in voice or manner, as
pacing the floor in alternate approach
and retreat, he finally addressed the
motionIess figure he could no longer
ignore.
You want to know what has hap
pened here? If you mean lately,
shall have to explain that anything
which has lately occurred to distress
your father o. make your presence
here desirable has its birth in events
which date back to days when this
was your home and the bond between
yourself and ia Their the usual and nat
ural one"
Silence in that shadowy corner! But
this the speaker had expected, and
must have exacted even if Oliver had
shown the least intention of speaking.
"a man was killed here in the old
days-pardon me if 1 am too abrupt
and another man was executed for this
crime. You were a boy-but you must
remember"
He paused. One must breathe be-
tween the blows he inficts. even if
one is lawyer.
That was twelve years ago. Not
so long a time as has elapsed since
you met a waif of the streets and
chastised him for some petty annoy
ance. But both events, the great and
the little, have been well remembered
here in Shelby; and when Mrs. SEQ
vile came amongst US a month or so
ago, with her late but substantial
proofs of her husbands innocence in
the matter of Etheridge's death. there
| came to her aid a man, who not only
remembered the beating he had re-
| ceived as a child, but certain facts
which led him to denounce by name,
the party destined to bear at this late
day the onus of the crime heretofore
ascribed to ScoviIle. That name he
wrote on BRIGGS and walls; and one
day, when your father left the court
house a mob followed him, shouting
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-06-03
TOO ROUGH FOR HIM
SOUTHERN NEGRO QUITS THE
MOVING PICTURE GAME
Hanging and Fire in Jail Altogether
Too Realistic for Darkey Who
Takes Place of Alleged
Picture Actor.

A negro in a southern county seat
town had been condemned to die. The
day of the hanging came and Rastus
was taken to the scaffold in the court
house yard. The hood was slipped
over his head and the moose adjusted.
Just as the sheriff was about to
spring the trap a cry of "Fire!" was
heard, and smoke was seen coming
from the courthouse windows. The
officials and spectators, forgettingi
their task, rushed to help fight the
blaze. Anyway, Rastus was tied and
could not escape without aid.
During the fire another negro wan
dered into the courthouse yard and
passed the scaffold. He thought he
recognized a familiar form standing
on it and proceeded to find out.
Hello dar! Is dat you, Rastus?"
Use Rastus."
What you all dom on dat plat.
form?"
Use movin' picture actor now,
Sam"
"A movin' picture actor?"
'Yas, sab; a regular movin' picture
actor"
Us movin' picture actin hard work,
Rastus,"
IT'S softer dan eatin' watermelon
all day long"
is you paid well?"
Gets five dollars every day for
workin' hour or two"
"Rastus, you all is friend of mine,
isn't you, all?"
Il sure is, Sam"
Den if the white folks what run dis
movin' picture actor business wants
another actor you tell 'em about me,
Rastus."
You can come on up here and take
my job right now, Sam. Use tired of
movin' picture actin for today Be-
sides, l got to spend the money Use
made already"
Sam mounted the steps and released
Rastus from his bonds. Rastus in
turn prepared the unsuspecting Sam
for hanging. Then he skipped. A few
minutes later the sheriff returned He
saw a negro standing patiently on the
scaffold. Without further ado he
sprung the trap.
Fortunately for Sam the rope was
old and broke under the sudden strain.
1t rolled Sam into the dust of the
courthouse yard. He wrenched his
hands loose and jerked the hood from
his head. Then, rolling his eyes
around and rubbing his neck, he said:
"You all white folks can take back
your old job. You alls too rough"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-06-03
ONLY TRANSMITTED BY MILK
Man Cannot Get Foot-and-Mouth Dis
ease by Eating Meat, Declares
Doctor,

That the foot-and-mouth disease can
not be transmitted to human beings
by eating the flesh of diseased ami
mails, but can be contracted by drink
ing unboiled milk or butter made
from the milk of an infected COW,
is the statement made by DR.. E. J.
Danek of Chicago, who has studied
the disease.
THE symptoms in man." he says,
ARE as follows; There is lever; this
is usually low, but may reach as high
as 104. 1t may be accompanied with
a chill, loss of appetite, pain in mus
cles, back and head, with a cramplike
pain in the abdomen. Nausea and
vomiting are common. The primary
seat of infection is the mouth. The
disease when uncomplicated is mild.
Its average duration is two weeks
from the onset. Severe cases may
last six to eight weeks.
This disease is transmissible to
man through unboiled milk or butter
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-06-03
Hiking Best grippe Killer.

The epidemic of influenza that has
been troubling the city for nearly d
month continued last week, according
to a mortality bulletin issued yester-
day by the board of health. The state
ment says there were 35 deaths in the
city last week from this cause, or 20
more than the number for a single
week of 1914
Deputy Health Commissioner EN-
erson says the best way to avoid catch
ing influenza is to walk a mile in the
open air twice day. 1t will add ten
years to- persons life, the doctor
asserts.
The number of deaths reported dur
ing the week 7as Its, compared with
1866 in the corresponding week Of
1914, the death rate increasing from
1893 to 1898 per 1000 of population.
Despite the epidemic of influenza
the death rate for the first 16 weeks
of the year, 1856, is 81 below the
mortality for similar period of 1914.
New York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-06-03
Snain Fixes Price of EInur

Ell impartial, one of the leading
dailies of Madrid, states this morning
that the government has sold $4,000
metric tons of Argentine wheat to
flour mills at 355 pesetas per ton
(about $3.50 per short ton at todays
exchange, 81 equaling 492 pesetas)
Liberal credit has been given and the
mills have agreed not to raise the
present price of -four, which is ATT
pesetas per metric ton (about $88
per short ton at today's exchanged.
1t is noted that wheat is converted
into flour at selling price of the
latter that is an increase of 81 1-3
per cent over purchase price of the
former.-CClsul Robertson Honey,
Madrid
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-06-03
Cured bv a Bullet

Private Redmond of the First Colo
RADIO volunteers, once on duty at Ma
Mia, was the star sufferer Of the
English Army corps. Nothing in the
way of treatment did him any good
and he realized sadly that he could
never be even a noncommissioned of
ficer because he could not give the
simplest words of command without
suffering He was a brave and eff
cient soldier, and always first in the
firing line.
At the battle of Marquis Redmond
was shot in the mouth. The Mauser
bullet passed downward and came out
at the nape Of the neck.
He was taken to the hospital, where
he recovered rapidly, and all that
could be seen of the wound was lit
tie scar about his upper lip where the
bullet entered But the remarkable
thing about the affair was when he
left the hospital he was cured Of his
habit Of suffering. How it happened
neither he nor the doctors can ex-
plain, but he was so joyous over the
fact that he blessed the bullet that
brought him relief.