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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

To J. H. STEVENS and VIM. H. l CUMMING; your heirs or assigns or whom it may concern. You are here by notified that the undersigned has expended the sum of Six Hundred Dollars ($6OO.) in labor and improve ments on the following named min ing claims for the years ending Dec Slst, 1914 and Dec. S1st, 1915, the above sum being the amount required to complete the annual labor during years mentioned above, and proof of labor being recorded with the United States Commissioner in the Recording precinct of Iliamna, Territory of AL aska. To wit: Reward, Reward No. 1, Reward No. and Reward No. 3. Said claims being situated about 16 miles westerly from the S. West arm of Kamishak Bay, and in the Iliamna Recording precinct, Territory of AL aska. The amounts claimed and due the undersigned from the parties above mentioned are as follows: J. H. Stevens One hundred and twenty two dollars and twenty-five cents, and Wm. II. Cumming the sum of seventy two dollars and twenty-five cents. And if within ninety days after the serving of this notice by publication, you fail or refuse to contribute your proportion of such expenditure as cO~ owners your interest in said claims will become the property of the undersigned as specified in Sec. 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United States and amendment thereto con- corning annual labor on mining claims. All amounts due to be de- posited with Dexter Horton National Bank of Seattle, Wash, to the credit of the undersigned.
 CHAS. H. MCNEIL.
 Dated and signed at Ridgway, Colo. Feb. T, 1916.
 First publication Feb. %, 1916.
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See the reauy made skirts and waists at Butts.
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]. Y5N MAURETQMLq RS HOSPIT7L SHIf
SOMETHING ABOUT NEWTON
 D. BAKER OF CLEVELAND

Special to Gateway by United Press)
 CLEVELAND, March 17.-Newton Diehl Baker, named by the President to be the new secretary of war, is slim little man, with whimsical eyes and fighting jaw. He was born at Martinsburg, W. Va, Dee. 8, 1871. On Jan. 1 he just go through being Clevelands mayor, refusing a third term. He has had a skyrocket career. Baker lawed it to get his start, jawed it to make people know him, sawed wood when he had a real job and thawed out when he became Cleve- lands mayor.
 Baker has large talking mouth, a colorless face, a firm grip, a remark able gift o'gab and a warm sympathy. He weighs about 135. In addition to that, Baker has a clear, analytical mind, which works like lightning. Here are the stepping stones in his career:
 Graduated from John Hopkins and Washington and Lee universities. Practiced law in Martinsburg till he got the job of secretary to Former Postmaster General Wilson. Came to Cleveland in 1897 and tied up with Tom L. Johnson, who was CleveIand's best loved mayor and social reformer Became first assistant city solicitor Jan. 1903. Elected solicitor three times. Became mayor of Cleveland in 1911 by the biggest majority ever given a mayoralty winner. Reelected mayor in 1913. Refused to consider a third term and quit office Jan. 1, 1916 to resume his law practise.
 Bakers struggle upward has been chiefly marked by perseverance. He fought hard for the people in the long traction war that resulted in three cents fares for Cleveland. He was successful in his fight to give large Ohio cities more complete home rule. He did much work in the muni- cipaI lighting plant campaign, which resulted in three cent light for many consumers.
 Samuel G. Blythe, political writer, said Baker knew more about litera- ture than any mayor in captivity. Baker has kept his knowledge in this respect, up to date. Forty-twO centi- metre words are playthings for Bak- CT His verbal artillery has routed many less vociferous opponent. He sinks many obstacles in a sea of words.
 Once someone told Baker he didn't use enough flow brow stuff" in greet ing people who came into his office while he was mayor. The next time a newspaper man entered, Baker tried him out with his first official cuss- word:
 Come in, damn it, sit down" But it sounded so out of place he never tried it again. Baker married Eliza beth Leopold, of Pottstown, P, July 8, 1902. They have three children, Jack, 9, Betty, 10, and Margaret, four.
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PIANO FOR SALE-Inquire of Wright, Cor. Second and Adams old Krefting place. If
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Those Eggs and Cream Quality Butter, none better. URBACH'S
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CHAS. H. MCNEIL.

Dated and signed at Ridgway, Colo Feb. T, 1916. First publication Feb. %, 1916. Last publication June 14, 1916.
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IN THE MATTER OF THE)
 ESTATE OF OLE HOOLE,) Deceased )
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Q by Amerlean Press Assoelation.
MISSOURI DEMOCRATS
 TO ENDORSE WILSON

Special to Gateway by United Press)
 ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, March 21.- President Wilson's administration will be endorsed and four delegates at-large to the St. Louis national convention selected by the state demo- cvratic convention which assembled here today. The state ticket will be chosen later by primary
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ALUMINIUM WARE. We have just received a complete line which is now ready for your inspection. Brown & Hawkins, Quality First"
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FOR SALE CHEAP: Equity in 2 lots in Bay View Addition, facing the bay on First St. Apply Gateway. If
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FOR SALE-One fine young COW and one bull, reasonable. See Bill Small
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-12-22
NORTHERN PACIFIC TO
GROW ITS OWN TROUT
SUPERINTENDENT TITUS BUILD
ING HATCHERY AT MISSOULA;
BRED SPECKLED GOODIES.

1t will not be long before Northern
Pacific dining cars will be supplied
with trout from the compary's W
hatchery, which is now being built
at Missoula, says Hazen j.. Titus, sup
e%rintendent Of the dining a service.
1--WE plan to have several varieties
of trout in the hatchery" said Mr..
Titus, "%including the cut-throat,
mountain and eastern brook trout,
and will eventually have the supply
large enough to furnish from 1900
to 1000 trout a day for Jul diners.
1T will be so arranged that the
fish will be placed on the diners from
20 to 80 minutes after they are taken
from the water. We will have eXper-
fenced attendants to look after the
finny tribe and believe that the serv-
ing of trout on the diners will be a
great drawing card to have fasteners
visit the Pacific northwest"
The Northern Pacific has it's own
bakery in Seattle, where much of the
bread and pastry used on it's diners is
made. The company's dairy and
poultry farm is located at Kent,
: Wash.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-12-22
HOmesteuders GrOw
Bumper Grain Crops
Far From Railroad

In the most of the newly set
tied farming districts of the west
the growers of grain crops have
followed i'm the wake of the
new railroads, but the home
steaders of northern Montana
have reversed the trend of devcl-
opment and by making the prai-
ries yield abundantly far from
the nearest elevator have provide
ed a freight business that awaits
only the laying of the rails to
put dividends in the pockets of
the railroad builders. South of
the main line of the Great Nor
thern from Cutbank to Havre
there are more than a 100
ranches over 20 miles from the
nearest railroad. These ranches
have given a combined yield of
half a million bushels.
"Bill" Earl, who has a ranch
between Marias and GoOsebill,
25 miles from the nearest rail-
road, this year raised 1880
bushels of wheat.
Throughout this section talk
that started two or three years
ago of the building of an cleo
trio line to run south from Chess
ter is being revived. Homestead
ers and other farmers say that
they are ready to double and
triple their acreage in wheat a.
soon as they are assured of the
building of a new line to elimin-
ate the present 25 or 80 mile
haul in wagons.
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JAMES BURLINGAME
SENATE PRESIDENT,
ACTINGG GOVERNOR

Governor Samuel V. SeWart
has been called east to attend
the meeting of the governors OF
all the states.
Lieutenant Governor w. w.
Mcdowell, who would discharge
the functions of the chief eXecu-
tive i'm his absence, is also out
side the confines of the state.
Hon. j. NJ. Burlingame, sem
ator from Cascade, and president
pro tenn, of the upper house, in
the absence of these two Off
Gals, becomes acting governor of
the state, and is in Helena, sit
ting in the gubernatorial chair,
with his feet under the guberna-
torial desk, and his Overcoat
hanging in the gubernatorial
closet.
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We'll Stick; and Well VIM

well Stick; and Well Win"
This was the appealing slogan
adopted by the militant organization
of North Dakota farmers when they
started out last spring to capture the
republican primaries. They o in
the primaries, and so kept the slo-
gan nailed to the masthead for the
general election in November.
The victory in the primaries was a
smashing one. The hitherto unbeat-
able machine crowd were swept into
the discard. The majorities for the
farmers had stuck and they had won.
Some idea of the sweeping nature
of this political revolution may be
gathered from the fact that it won
the gOvernorship and state offices,
the supreme court of three members,
the railroad commission of a like
number, and a majority of the legis-
lature,
The overturn was complete. 1t has
put the farmers in a state where they
make up so per cent Of the popula-
ton in absolute and undisputable
control of the agencies of state gov
eminent. legislative, judicial and ad-
ministrative.
Attracted Countrywide Attention.
So amazing a political change of
course attracted countrywide atten-
ton. Many of the big eastern pub
locations SEN out to North Dakota
their special writer's t. Gift the lid
and tell what they saw underneath,
And when the lid was lifted there
was revealed a great, compacted
,,,;li{orA orron i1otinr nf fi11orc nf fhG
soil, knowing perfectly vel
what they wanted and quite conf:
dent of their ability to get it ant
keep it.
"These other fellows" they de-
clared, "have been running the game
too long their own way. They have
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-12-22
MILES CITY AND
ITS HORSE MART
HAS GROWN INTO GREATEST
PRIMARY MARKET IN
UNITED STATES.
More Horses Change Owners at Miles
City That at Chicago and St. Louis;
Federal Government Has Estab-
lished Remount Station at Fort
keogh, Near Miles.

1t is a far cry, in time and i'm
portance. from the moment some.
Is years ago when A. B. Clarke CON
ceived the idea of bringing the buy
ers and sellers of Montana horses to-
gether at Miles City.
The first sale, in fact the first sea-
sons sales, were held in the Northern
mitch" Ball clerked the sale, Sit
ting on the highest point of vantage
in order to escape the onslaught of
the historic "FUF'" representatives,
who never missed an opportunity to
climb trees or telegraph poles.
Those were the days when a train
load of horses could be bought for
a song, and the seller usually did
his own singing. 1t was a discourage
ing fight, but Mr.. Clarke ~persevered
and gradually and surely the horse
raisers of the entire state became
convinced that Montana could raise
the big boned horse as we'll as the
%squealing, bucking bronco.
Greatest Primary Market.
The years passed, and the fame of
the sale yards of Miles City under
Mr.. Clarke's management became ma
tion-wide. Miles City became known
as the greatest primary horse market
in the United States; more horses
, changing hands there from the orr
ginal owners than even at the great
markets at Chicago and St. Louis.
Nine years ago Mr.. Clarke died
and his place was taken by C. B. Ing
ham, a horse mar from South Dako-
TO HI ho1 yiciO~1 80 cyoy - ~~oo<
er market than that which Mr..
Clarke had built up, SO that during
the following five years the A. B.
Clarke Horse Sales company showed
bank clearance each year of more
than a million and a quarter dollars.
At the death of Mr.. 1ngham some
three years ago the company was in
c%orporated as the miles City Horse
Sales Co."
New yards have been added to the
old ones, a large a~mphitheater has
been erected and today the company
with it's headquarters at Miles City
has branches in Utah, Oregon and
other western states. The sales
yards at Miles City cover over ten
acres of ground.
The officers of the new company
are: Ed Love, president; Luther Mil
ligan, secretary; Guy Crandall, man
ager.
Government RemOunt Station.
In addition to this great publ
horse sales market there is just west
of this city the Fort Keogh remount
station, which is in charge of Captain
W~interburn, u. S. A.
This remount station is one of
two of it's kind in the United States,
and has for it's purpose the buying
and training of artillery and cavalry
horses for the United States army.
Hundreds of horses are bought by
the government each year and fatted
for service. This is one of the most
important markets in the west for
animals suitable for ''war horses"
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been making us play against loaded
dice and marked cards. We're not
only going to have a new deal, but
we are going to shuttle, cut and deal
the cards. It's been a good game
for the other fellows.
"We produce by far the biggest
part of the wealth of the state. We
pay by far the biggest part of the
taxes. Our exploiters live in the
brown stone front, while we delve
and dig and pay. We're going to
pass laws-and see TO their enforce
ment-that will give the men and
women whose toll and capital pro-
duce the wealth of North Dakota a
just and equitable portion of the
wealth, and with each recurring sea-
son. We want what is ours by ma
tural right, and we're going to take
it,"
Assessed the Farmer Members
There was the wisdom of astute
political genius in the methods by
which the great revolution was
brought about. The leaders of the
farmers knew that the "other fell
lows were organized, and had plen-
ty of funds. So the old idea of vol
untary association was pushed aside
as futile. Organization plus money
was to be met with organization plus
money. This meant also the printing
press and widespread publicity.
Farmers who signed the non-parti-
san pledge were required to pay q
membership fee-first six dollars pei
head, and later nine dollars. Before
the primaries had come more than
hundred organizers, each being duly
compensated, were in the field in au'
tomobiles. When the first issue o,
the Non-Partisan Leader came off the
press, 10000 farmers had signed w
and put up their fees.
There wasn't anything of the hit O.
miss, either, in the plan of organiza
ton. Each five organizers had
foreman, and in each county the fore
men reported to a county manager
These in turn reported 20 and wer'
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-12-22
PUPILS
RIDE TO SCHOOL
USE OF VEHICLE TENDS TO GEN.
CATIONAL FACILITIES,
Libby and Geraldine Schools Have
Purchased School Wagons and
Other Schools Are Following Ex-
ample; Helps to Do Away With the
Little Red School House,"

Have you heard of the school wag-
on? 1t is the newest feature of rural
school life. 1t is a wagon, built
along the lines of a stage coach, only
not so cumbersome. 1t is being in
troduced to Montana by the General
School Supply company of Great
Falls. The schools at Libby have
purchased a car, and the people in
and around Geraldine are delighted
with their school car. Inquiries are
coming for information about the
school wagon from all over the state,
and the Great Falls concern has just
ordered another car load of these
popular vehicles.
School Consolidation Certain.
With a first-class school in a cen
trail location, thus doing away with
the "little red schoolhouse," the pu-
pills get the benefit any city child
might obtain by attending a city
school. School consolidation is
people are more progressive in edu-
CdIlOIldl lldIlcIS ludll III Lldly Olucl
states, and the school wagon will do
it's share towards this desirable end.
The General is the first school
supply comany to incorporate in Mon
tana-and are the first people to car
load school furniture to Montana.
This will prove a great benefit to rur-
al school people as they can get their
material in short time, whereas it
used to take them weeks, and some
times months, to ship material from
the east.
Exhibit at Missoula
At the teachers convention in Mis-
soula recently the General" had
an exhibit which proved hat they
carry "everything for schools" The
exhibit won much favorable comment
for the Montana concern.
In addition to school wagons the
company carries a large stock OF
school desks, teachers chairs and
general school supplies, such as
maps, globes, charts, crayons, kin,
dergarten material and busy work.
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ness and population. In the last year
probably 800 persons have been add
ed to the number of it's inhabitants.
In the seventies Fort Benton was
not only the trading center of Mon
tana, but of the entire northwest, in
Guiding all of Canada west of Winni-
peg. When the Canadian mounted
police under Colonel Mcleod in 1874
and 1875 undertook to drive the
American whiskey trader from the
western part of the dominion, all their
supplies were received from Fort
Benton Now the town supplies the
farmers for 40 miles in some direc-
tions and for 20 to 80 miles in others.
It has three elevators and a flour
mill.
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A Political Revolution in North Dak0tt
.Ho1p Formers of Neiqhborinq State Won at the Poll

directed by the state organization.
Daily reports in writing we're re-
quired. There wasn't any favoritism.
The only reports that event" were re-
ports of success. Slackers and in
competents were brushed aside, re-
lentlessly.
Publicity With the Lid Off.
There was an equal amount Of
good n displayed in the publicity
department Of the Leagues cam
paign. The farmers we're not news
paper men, but, unlike a great many
other folks, they knew it. So they
sent out and gathered a force of
high class editors, and turned them
loose on the "enemy'' without let
or hindrance. There were no
strings" on the publicity depart
ment. Get the facts, and print
EN-" they were told. And get the
facts they did. The records of the
state house, Of the courts and of the
legislatures were ruthlessly ran
sacked, and there was "pitiless pub
licity" of the real sort.
The daily press of North Dakota,
without a single exception, fought
back. They were for the established
order of things, for the "let us alone"
policy behind which Big Business had
so safely and so profitably esconced.
1t was futile. The farmers who
had for years and SO repeatedly "pe-
titioned for a redress of grievances"
only to be denied, had taken to "di-
rect action politically, and were not
to be turned aside. "You have
scorned our petitions and derided
the petitioners, until our patience
has been exhausted. We know our
power, and we are going to use it in
our own interest-just as you have
been misusing the power we have
heretofore given you. The stuff is
Off"
A National Movement.
The virus in this North Dakota
revolution seems to be both infec-
tious and contagious. 1t has spread
into the three states touching tina
state-Minnesota, South Dakota and
Montana. And the Fargo headquar-
ters of the league reports that thou
sands of letters are pouring in from
other agricultural states, until the
demonstration promises to be nation
wide.
There have been many protest
movements of American fai mers, but
none comparable with this one. Usu.
ally the protests have been of the
poverty stricken tillers Of the soil
They organized as other politica
parties were organized; but, unlike
other political parties, the protest
ars had no permanent form of cam
t paign funds. Without funds for or
g%anization and publicity purposes
/. these protest movements quickl.
5 'anguished and died.
/. But this league plan is different
/, It's philosophy is that benefits can
!, not come without they are fairly pait
for in effort and hard cash. Adding
D these to a perfectly we'll understood
program will make for permanence
e And perhaps the league folks ar
right; who knows?
The American farmer has Away
been the great, s%teadying %influenc
G in the nation. AS the gyroscop
steadies the movements of grea
a ships at sea, so the farmer vote
S has been the nations reliance i
times of great political stress. Sup
n pose, in a countrywide sense, h
e elects to take and to exercise tina
S power which is his, by law and b
d natural right?
What then?
SAM w. TEAGARDEN.
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railroad, which denominates it simply
"Benton."
$500 900 Worth of Robes
Shipped Annually.
Fort Benton always has been a
busy little place. In the earliest
days more than 100000 worth of
robes and furs was shipped annually
from this point and before the trans
continental railroads diverted the cur-
rent of travel several score steamers
arrived and departed each year.. Even
after the diversion of traffic it's stores
continued to do a big business supply
ing the cattle men. Within the last
three years the town has been grow
ing rapidly in both volume OF bust
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-12-22
Would Build New Road.

The commissioners of Lewis and
Clark county have been petitioned to
assist in the construction of a good
wagon road from Helena to the Smith
river valley. It is thought that If
the county will supply half the funds
the federal government will contri-
butte an equal amount under the n W
federal law.
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Panoramic Vie,u of Historic Fort Benton, R;ver To1vn, al

the Fort Labarge sawmill. Several
other buildings went up the same sea-
son and it was then that the place be-
gan to the appearance of a
town. In the spring of the next year
the town was regularly laid out &C
cording to it's present plan by Captain
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-12-22

W. w. DeLacy, a civil engineer, and
called Benton City. With the rise of
still other new buildings, streets and
squares began to be defined upon the
prairie bottom. The name thus CIV
en-, however, refused to stick. Fort
Benton" it is called, except by the
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-12-22
Pupils Fight Fan Weed.

The Fergus county nigh school has
started a campaign against fan weed,
and teachers in rural communities in
the county are being asked to coop
crate.
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Fort Lewis, and rebuilt nearer the
Teton river in 1876.
The second building in Benton,
however, was not erected until the
spring of 1864, when Matthew Carroll
and George Steele constructed a store
building of sawed logs, prepared at