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New York interests are said to
have secured part of the old John
Roach property at Chester, Pa, with
the purpose of establishing shipyards
there Immediately.
Railroad headquarters have letters
from Kansas and Oklahoma authori-
ties stating that those states need re-
spectively and Immediately $4,000
and $4,000 extra harvesters. Wages
are $3.50 per day and board.
The Palmer Lumber & Manufac-
turing company, Of Chehalis, WASH,
has received an order from q big
Eastern automobile concern for 1000
running boards for automobiles or
dered by European nations. The
running boards will be made from fir.
A metallurgical company has pur-
chased 100 acres of land near Keo-
kuk, Iowa, upon which 1t will erect
an extensive plant to treat zinc ores
by a new process. Power contract
has been signed with Mississippi
River Power company and will re-
quire 1000 horse power initial in
stallation.
It is estimated that financial cred
its established by the Allies and their
agents in this country amount to ST.
500, 100000. Contracts involving
practically half this total can be
traced. and expectation is that con-
tracts now pending will call for fully
as much more before close Of the
year. Great Britain and Russia ex-
pect to expend in the United States
this year about $500, 100000 each.
Otto LIGHT. the European sugar ex-
pert. according to a letter received by
Federal Sugar Refining company. es-
Inmates that all Europe will produce
in the 1866 season only 6,408,000
tons of raw sugar. compared with
100000 for 1914-15, a loss of
nearly 100000 tons.
Western Union Telegraph COM
pany moved its operating system and
force from 100 State street to ITS
Congress street without loss Of Sec
ond's time.
The gold import movement crossed
the $1O1,OO0,0O0 mark Saturday,
when $2.5OO.00O was received from
Canada for the account Of J. P. Nor
gan & Co.
The steel industry of Pittsburgh is
turning out close to 100000 tons Of
finished steel a month, against less
than 100000 tons at the beginning
of the year.
Fred F. Field company and c. A.
Eaton company of Brockton have just
begun night work, with double shifts.
on contracts for 100000 pairs of
army shoes. The Field contract is
with italy and the Eaton contract
with Belgium. Each factory Is now
working 5000 hands in two shifts.
This will keep up. 1t is stated. until
New Years, with more orders In
sight. w. L. Douglas company Is
said to be negotiating with the
French government for q large con-
tract.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-08-13

not going to stop at Albion. but
is coming farther north, and the
Northern Pacific will not stop at
Ollie. 1t is also certain that the
Milwaukee will protect her inter
ests down here even if we have
to build stub line into this coun-
try"
All of which sounded good to
us. The competition between
the Milwaukee road and the
Northwestern and the N. P
lines, coupled with the fact that
we are going to harvest a bunp-
er crop this year, augers we'll for
a realization of our dreams of a
railroad in the near future.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-08-13
Crops Look Good

Jack Foley. Div. Freight and
Passenger Agent, of the Mil
Waukee road. was down from
Niles City last week and made
an extensive tour of the country
south and west Of Ekalaka. He
says the crop outlook in Fallon
county is excellent and that rec
ord breaking harvest is assured.
When asked about railroad ac-
tlvlties, Mr.. Foley said:
The coming year will be
marked by extensive railroad
building in the Northwest. The
adverse conditions the past two
years have necessltated a policy
OF retrenchment by all the rail-
roads. but | look to see contem-
plated extension work go ahead
now faster than ever before.
lour country (the Ekalaka coun-
try is bound to get a road soon-
er or later and it looks now as if
1t was going to be sooner. 1t is
certain that the Northwestern is
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-08-13
BIGGER, BETTER AND
BRIGHTER THAN EVER
Falon County Fair Promises To Surpass All Previous Rec
ords. Have Engaged Aviator Of Merit New
Grand Stand To Be Build

President Grant and the COM
mittees that have the affairs of
the Fallon County Fair and Rae
ing Association in hand are ex-
ceeding the speed limit these
days in arranging and perfecting
the plans of the big county fair
that will be held in Ekalaka on
September IA and Is.
The event this year promises
to be a record breaker in all Ge-
partments. The agricultural
committee are receiving exhibits
daily and it goes without saying
that the display of Fallon coun-
tvs products this year will be
the best ever shown. The chair
man of the race committee says
he has got a bunch of fast ones
coming. Ekalaka's reputation
for putting on a good racing pro-
gram is we'll known and the COM
mIttee is going to make good a.
gain this year.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-08-13

A big, new. thousand dollar
grandstand will be an addition to
the fair buildings this year.
This will add greatly to the COM
fort of the spectators, and will
enable the management to ac-
comnodate a much larger crowd.
Work has also commenced on the
half-mile oval track, which will
be Wldened and put in first class
condition for the speed events.
One of the special free features
arranged is the appearance of
Monte Rolfe, the boy aviator,
who will make an aeroplane
flight the second day Of the fair.
Mr.. Ro)fe is the youngest airman
In the exhibition business, being
only II years Of age. He does all
sorts Of hair-raising stunts in the
air, doing the ocean wave, the
daredevil dip and other feats
that will bring thrills to the
spectator.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-08-13
Bakers Complaint
(Contributed)

In a recent issue Of a Baker
newspaper a statement was made
to the effect that the "farmers'
were not getting proper returns
for the money expended upon
the roads in the county. The
writer happens to be a farmer
who has kept somewhat in touch
with farmers in various parts Of
the county, yet he has never
heard any complaints from them
such as the Baker paper insinu-
ates. There has been some COM
plant relative to a certain piece
of road in the northern district
of the county where the commits
sioner in charge promised to have
a supervisor and his crew and
implements ready to go to work
en- q certain day to join with the
farmers interested who had vol
unteered their services. On that
date the farmers turned out with
their teams, some of them even
going to the extent Of hiring
men, but no supervisor nor road
implements nor road crew were
there. Why? The road was not
heading for Baker and Baker
dominates the commissioner and
supervisor in charge.
But why does not the Baker
paper come out specifically and
state from what road district the
complaint of the farm er S"
comes. Perhaps if any such COM
plant has come and the road dist
rict was mentioned, they would
be treading on their own corns,
for nearly all the road supervis-
ors in the county We're appointed
under the Booth Baker control of
the county government, before
we had a commissioner seated
who would call his soul his own.
And the supervisors having been
appointed by Booth influence is
it not probable that they might
be somewhat affected with a
touch of Boothitis and want to
sponge on the county?
But is the Baker paper fair to
the honest men who are acting as
supervisors by making it's accu-
sation general, instead of specific ?
Every honest man acting as a
supervisor, it would seem to us.
owes it to his own self respect to
demand of the Baker paper a
specific statement.
This same Baker paper takes
exception to the lack OF appropri.
alton by the county commission
ers of read funds to put the Vel
lowstone Trail between Baker
and Tonquin in good condition,
This is but another example of
Bakers insincerity, and OF their
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-08-13
Sale Dates Set.
A FARMER.

The next French inspection
OF war horses will be held at
Ikalaka August Is and Is. The
same buyers will be here and
the same prices will be paid as
in the past.
Grant & Minis announce that
there vii. be a Combination
sale on Aug. a at the Minis
barn when they will sell 50
head of horses, mares and colts
and 4-year-olds, 40 head of cat
lie, and and a bunch OF miscel-
laneOus Stuff.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-08-13

purpose to try to divert county
funds from legitimate channels
to Go what they ought themselves
to donate in personal service or
subscription. The part of the
Yellowstone Trail in question is
IN no practical sense farmers"
road; it is doubtful if any farm
ers use it much if at all. At
Plevna and other points along the
Yellowstone Trail the business
men have turned out in person
and by subscription worked their
part of the Trail and put it into
good condition, but Baker has
not done likewise and now is
actually advocating rohbing the
farmers by a misrepresentation of
the county road funds to build
up this piece of road.
We farmers need to digest
these facts, and do our best to
resent Bakers attempt to unload
upon our shoulders their own
complaints as is so plainly done
by the article referred to in one
Of it's papers.
A FARMER.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-08-13
Firemen's Dance, August 9th

Friday evening, August 9th,
l9lo-That's the date. The Semi
Annual Firemen's dance this
year promises to be- as big as ev-
er. we can't promise anything
better. The Firemen's dances
are always the big events of the
year and if it has ever been your
opportunity to attend any of their
past ''blow-outs" you know we
speak the truth. All committees
have been appointed and from
the way the fire boys are getting
busy the coming dance is going
to be up to standard. Each and
every fireman of the Ekalaka de-
partment is going to be there
ready at all times to see that ey-
eryone has the time of their lives
and no visitor need worry about
attending the big dance without
getting acquainted and 'shuf-
fling their feet to their hearts
content. Let us depend on YOU
and you can depend on us.
Here S the lineup of the com
mittees:
Hall and Music, S. J. Emswil-
er, w. H. Peck.
Ticket, VIM. Walker. All mem
bers.
Door, VIM. Mowbray, H. B.
Albert,
Decoration, Ed. Carey, c. j.
Rasmussen, Frank Downer, H.
Z. Blaine, S. J. EmsWiler, 0. A,
Dahl.
Floor, S. J. Emswiler, E. q.
Nash, Frank Downer, VIM. Walk
er.
Refreshments, John Pickard.
l.. I. Ramme, Matt Carey, c, G.
Eickard.
Entertainment, c. K. Putnam,
VIM. Walker, o. A. Dahl.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-08-13
EKAAKA, GALLON COUNTY, MONTANA FRIDAY AUGUST 49, 1916

Blaine is still on the job fixing
watches.
Ed. Lentz is over from Baker
today on business.
Father J. P. Moscopp will hold
Catholic services at Ekalaka Sun
day, August 29th.
Dance at the Big Hill school
house, Saturday, Aug. 28th. Ev-
erybody invited. 33-2t
The Ladies Civic League will
meet at the Ramme House Aug.
18th at 2::30 %. m.
w. E. Wear this week pur-
chased the Bert Maxwell half
section south of town.
Bob Yates came in from Box
Elder today to tell the natives
how high his oats were.
Mrs. C. G. Rickard left We'd
nesday for few weeks stav at
Chico Springs, this state.
Miss Pearl Freese returned
Sunday from a visit with her Sis
ter at Gillette, Wyoming.
Young lady wishes position as
private teacher or governess.
Has state certificate. Address
this office. ct
Bowery dance at the Leo Fisk
Hall, 10 miles south of Ekalaka,
Saturday evening, August 81.
The Box Elder orchestra will fur
nish the music. 33-1
H. D. RuetelI is shaking hands
with his friends here after an alb.
sence of two years in California.
Harry says old PuptoWn looks
better than ever.
Mrs. Mary Reese has resigned
her position at the H. P. Blaine
Co. store and in the future will
be seen behind the counter at the
Ekalaka Drug Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. R. Peck of
Breckenridge, Mo-, arrived today
Cor a visit with their neice, Mrs.
Floyd Clark, and sister, Mrs. Red
mon of Camp Crook.
R. V. Fuqua returned in his
''cah' this week from the upper
Box Elder country. He left a
gain today, with his family, for
a trip to Spearfish, S. D.
George Leeman and wife of
DeadWood arrived this week and
Mr.. Leeman has accepted a pos
ition with C.. G. Rickard, taking
the place of E. S. Divine. resign
ed.
Price Todd and family will
leave tomorrow for an automo-
bile trip to California, taking in
the Yellowstone Park en- route.
Mr.. Todd, expects to locate on
the coast.
"Smithy' Shelter who has
been engaged in the blacksmith
business near Teedee and well
known here, has taken up bis
future ''home of toll" at the Hat
ton blacksmith shop, having pur-
chased the Geo. Bickle interests
in that establishment.
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WANTED! 150 Men at Once,!

$50 men, who have never seen
an aeropIane flight, to contribute
$1.oo each to secure an aviator
for the Fallon County Fair. Ev-
eryone should be willing to give a
dollar to see one of the wonders
Of the world. Get your name in
quick, before subscriptions close.
S. }. Emswiler will enter your
name in a neat little book and
you can pay at fair time.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-08-13
NUMBER 80
COURT HOUSE NEWS
And Interesting Notes From
The County Seat

District Court adjourned to
August 23rd.
Special meeting of the board
Of County Commissioners August
10th.
H. B. Albert of Ekalaka al
tended the kickers' meeting Mon
day.
Mrs. Farwell and little daugh-
ter of Sykes, came up with Com
missioner Farwell this week,
shopping and visiting friends.
Miss Belle Jones of Tuscola,
y'exas, is visiting her brother,
M. E. Jones. Mat had not seen
his sister for eighteen years, and
hardly knew her, but after a Sec
ond look decided that she looked
like his folks. Miss Jones has
been visiting in Berkeley, Califor-
MIA, and intends returning home
via Yellowstone Park.
Edward F. Fisher, attorney of
Wibaux, was a business caller at
the court house Saturday.
Henry Niccom was transacting
business at the court house on
Tuesday.
Deputy Superintendent Stella
Olsen spent Sunday at her home
near Ekalaka.
Berry Dolby was caller at the
Sheriff's office on Monday.
H. L. Cory Is attending to
county work in the Capitol coun-
try this week.
j. A. Williams was transacting
business in Miles CITY on We'd
nesday.
Lee Van Kirk is expected to
return Saturday.
Miss Dot Phillips spent Sunday
at her home east of town.
Frank Evans of Ekalaka came
in Friday enroute to Chico.
Chas. Hughes spent the week
end in Ekalaka and Chalk Buttes.
A marriage license was issued
on August 9TH to Oluf Olson and
Gladvs Leavltt.
S. J. Emswiler Of Ekalaka was
counting in Baker Sunday.
County Superintendent Leon
ard and Deputy Clerk Donovan
and Miss Till Stelmach were a.
mong those who journeyed to-
ward Medicine Rocks on Sunday,
but the picnic was at Willard.
NJ. E. Jones and sister took a
trip to EkaIaka on Wednesday.
Quite crowd was in town
Monday attending the kickers'
meeting. Most OF them stood in
line and waited their turn, while
others got discouraged and left.
Firemen's Dance. Friday,
August 9th.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-08-13
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS
Interesting Happenings In And
About The Town

Blaine is still doing watch
work.
Dance at Sherwin school house,
Saturday Aug. 18th.
A. C. Mikalson, the Plevna
merchant. is transacting business
in town.
We have selection of Cameo
rings. Call and see them. H.
P. Blaine Co.
Mrs. Chas. Emerson and fam
lily have returned from California
where they spent the winter.
Sam Baird has been appointed
police judge, filling the vacancy
caused by the resignation of S.
]. Emswiler.
Mrs. D. J. Prinville returned
to her home in Siston, S. D.,
Tuesday, after a weeks visit
with her brother. William Riley.
Ismay and Terry were visited
by a severe wind storm Wednes-
day night. The blow was not
of the twister type however and
no great damage was done.
Miss Pauline Baxter, Of HUI
lett. Wyo., is visiting Miss Bar
bara Olsen. Miss Baxter made
the trip as far as Boyes on horse
back, coming the rest of the way
in Vince Fuqua's Ford flying
machine.
The Gun Club enjoyed a very
pleasant shoot Sunday morning,
but the beginners shoot was post
poned until next Sunday. The
trophies for this shoot are on dis
play in the R. C. Charters Co.
window. All beginners should
get in on this event as the tro.
phies are given absolutely free,
simply as an inducement to par
ticipate in this enjoyable sport.
DR.. Albert SheriIl and Charles
Turbervilie made a flying trip to
Ekalaka from Camp Crook the
fore part of the week. The bows
report that Camp Crook is plan.
ming on big time there Sept.
and 10, the dates of the Harding
county fair. No doubt good del,
egatlon of Ekalakans will attend,
as the South DAKOTA boys ALWAYS
show up at our fall celebration.
The following filings were
made before the u. S. Commits
sioner during the past week: Jos.
eph T. Carroll, II. E. in 2 N. Sc
b.; William j. Kirkpatrick, H.
3. in 2 S. 81 E.; Bertha M. An.
drews, Add. H. E., John Nc.
Marie, Add. H. E., Russell G.
Denny, Add. H. E.. Grace keese
II. E.. all in l N. 60 E. Steve
Metford and Guy A. Minis made
final proof on their homesteads.
Several have taken advantage OF
the new law granting relief te
desert entrymen.
Evening star., 1915-12-05

disarranged the financial landscape Com
pared with his resources. he had a
small debt-only about S3,5OO,OOO.OOO,
or about quarter of single years
income. Interest on this debt consumed
less than one per cent. of each years earn
ings. John owed nothing to his neighbors
the loan recently foated in New York
representing his first foreign borrowings
since the days of Charles III. He used
less than seven per cent. of his income in
paying the annual cost of conducting the
worlds greatest empire, leaving his people
the remaining ninety-three per cent. to
spend on themselves, to build up new
enterprises, and to make more money.
So firmly had John established his busi-
Evening star., 1915-12-05

pared. She had been accumulating sup
plies, not for thirty but for three hundred
years. She had not heaped up much am
munition or many guns; but she had been
getting together the greatest storehouse
of treasure the world has ever known.
England the Capitalist of Europe
THE statisticians usually put down the
capital value of her wealth at SS5, ,OOO,-
OOO,O00-less than that of the United
States, it is true, which amounts to
SlO3, 200, 100000, but doing rather well
for little island not much larger than
our New England States. Our unex-
ampled wealth is largely agricultural
Evening star., 1915-12-05

The young Duke of
Westminster is prob
ably the richest land
holder in England.
He has an income of
about three million
dollars a year, and
before the icdr he
,cds paying less than
one Twentieth Of this
in tdees. He is noru
paying one third,
and before the end
of the toar iUiH
didly prepared for
this war, She had
mountains of am
munition, forests of
forty wo cent?
meter guns, and an
almost ineXhausti-
BILE supply of trained
soldiers. She had
been piling up these
resources for thirty
years. In another
and perhaps more
fundamental sense,
England was pre-
Evening star., 1915-12-05

Il financial condition of the United
States. "What is the war debt now?' he
asked.
ats about 50, ooo,ooo,' Chase an
swered.
"How much more can the country
stand?s
"lf we do not suppress the rebellion
when it reaches three billions" replied
Chase "we shall have to give up the fight
However, the debt went beyond the
three billion mark, and yet the federal
government did not surrender. In fact
the Civil War could have cost five times
that amount without seriously disarrang-
ing the nations finances and industry.
To-day millions of Englishmen-and
almost as many Americans, especially
those who are buying British bonds-are
asking this same question: How long can
England stand it? She has already lent
to France and Russia an amount larger
than the American Civil War debt in 1864.
Her war obligations, so far, have reached
$1,000, O,00O,0OO--and the struggle has
lasted less than two years. Is there any
limit to her financial endurance? How
long can a nation spend what Reginald
McKenna, in his Budget speech of Sep
tember %, said that England was spend
ing at that time-S22, 100000 day?
History has known nothing comparable
to this. In the last two years of her Napo-
leonic struggle England was spending less
than 81 1,OOO,OOO a day-at that time an
unheard-of sum. In the last three years
of the Civil War the United States av-
eraged expenditures of $2,00O,0OO day.
That held the record as the most expen-
sive war in history until this present
cataclysm made it look like a mere back
yard skirmsh.
How long can England keep it up?
EnglishmanO Owns Himself To-day
A NATION fights a war with all her
: financial and industrial resources.
Everything that England has, all the
possessions that Englishmen enjoy, con-
stitute the national wealth available
for warfare. No Englishman to-day can
claim as his own his income, his accu-
mutations, the house in which he lives,
or the shirt upon his back All these
things, as well as his living body, are
assets of the State. Parliament can
seize all his possessions, as well as his
physical tenement, for service in the war.
In seeking an answer to the question
propounded, therefore, we must examine
what this industrial and financial England
really is: what is its wealth. its accumu-
lations, its investments in all parts of the
world, its income, it's savings, and its pro-
ducing capacity. For purposes of war,
however, only what may be called its
liquid assets--the capital that can be
modified within a reasonable period
are entitled to consideration. The great
est wealth of any nation is probably its
land; but land obviously can play little
part in financing war.
What, then, are the things that the tax
gatherer can place his hands on, with which
to purchase munitions, to feed armies
and navies, to pay soldiers and sailors, to
keep the military forces in constant state
of efficient action?
Germany, we have been told, was splen-