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MILFORD SMASHES
WORLDS RECORDS
Drive, Hudson Super Six More
Than 1919 Miles i'm -
Hour Trial.
- MILES FIRST HOUR


r.rf,rs driving N uuJson
h''' - -. ~ -,
sINcr ~ '''' w" "" "u
mobile rc..iis from one to twcnty-four
yesterday ut the Sheepshead hay
,i.., no ,oyered i.sio and a
Sp'''"'' -. =.
fraction MUGS '' '"'"'s -i'"' "o"''' ~
,as .Ne fastest long distance hight ever
.., vehicle. Tho best previous
'' ,,,,,.,o,r hour 0i~h,
ds'''
WIS made 'N = r. rus" "ea''S "''e
,- -es 80 tu English six cylinder
zane. .r 70 the Brooklands track In
rrc,4rl Elre covered l.5sl miles In
o.. ,v,r',.t,ur hours.
To-. ,r. vis official. inasmuch as II
s.s .4r,t racd by the American Auto
bio As.rri3fion and timed by it's
..,r.ser'tt YES. and 1t is almost certain
,-,i 81. record viii be accepted by the
..fs.' board ot the association at ITS
..,. u.,.ru Milford besides smash
30 tt. records made by Edge. made
d. .p.rfa'uauc, All the more remarkable
h., IRVING tho whole distance without
~, relief and making an average of
=. ig--l u y- an hour. Milford knew
tic .aplr lilies II mis- mount. as he drove
q, over A w'lc course in 35ll seconds At
0-worI B.itt a few weeks ago. making
a, average ~ lO2 q miles an hour.
milford set ont to TAX a IAN u
II ola Ft'h,r Time OF Monday night AZ
Few ~ uI',s after 8 o'clock. and MADE
- hes rnIus suspicious by covering
.. --.s ~ 'he first hour. With the
s,,d start TO his credit milford kept
al, me wheel All throueh tne hlsht' pich-
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N. Y. U. WIN.
They Score 7II Joints In Inter-
class Track Meet.

The representatives OF the sophomore
class at New York University had little
trouble winning the interclass track meet.
which was completed Yesterday after
noon on Ohio Field. They rolled up a
score OF 7lis points. The freshmen nm
ished second with 43i3 and the juniors
we're third. and the seniors trailed along
in last place.
only one record was made during the
contest. Howard ran broke the fJrmer
discus record by throwing the weight
lls feet l0i. inches. S. Many OF the
class OF 1917 vas the highest individual
point winner BY scoring three first
places and one second he tailed Is
points. n. Cann. Is. was next with II.
and II. Finley third with Is.
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At the request Of Philadelphia the an
rual intercity soccer match for posses
son + tho Crescent challenge trophy,
which aas to have been played by the
staten Island .'.Nen. winner OF the Field
club L.agu. championship. AT fhiIadel-
thia next saturday. has been postponed
until october.
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A~&NAroIrs. MAY . The Fordham
college tennis team made a clean sweep
90 a." icru'- series with ~ JOINS here
today. winning ny a score ~ s 10 o
The series Vas made ny 81 gu Single
aud twn doubles matches. All u! which
were w,n easily hy the visitors.
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Tom clendenin. manager Of the track
team OF the College OF the City Of New
York, has been forced to cancel all track
meets which were TO be held in the Lew
isohn Stadium this season. The erection
Of "A stage for the Shakesperian masque
to tr presented this month is the cause
OF IT.
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BASEBALL.
Peddie Institute vs.. Columbia Seconds at
Commerce. W. Hamilton Institute at
Hamilton.
nTy4n' v, v: ES, r.. /: Rses ss r'q n, %sw no.
chelle.
ST Francis Prep vs.. Clason Point NJ A
yonkers W. Richmond mn at Nonk"rs.
- Paul vs.. Jamaica al Garden city.
Mainsroneck vs.. Fordham Prep at Ford
irving School vs. Hackley at rstry.
town.
clinton vs. Evandcr ChiIds at Bronx
Poly prep vs.. Erasmus Hail at Poly
brooklyn Prep " y. v. Military Acad.
envy at cornwall.
Townsend Harris Va. xavier High at
New Utrecht vs.. Manual a, West End
Oval.
Adelphi vs. Boy. Hish a, .Adeiphi Field.
Mackenzie vs. Newman School at Hack
$. 4. Academy vs.. curtis at staten
Commercial vs.. Poly Institute at Com
TENNIS.
Dewitt Clinton VS.. Fordhsm prep at
Fordhsm Field.
Richmond Hi, defeated Flushing in
a greensboro League game yesterday
on the formers diamond by "A score Of
! TO .. Three home u n were made.
Mackin and Suizer of Richmond HI ac-
counted for two of them. the latter when
two men were on base. EcClcs OF Flush
ing slammed out the other circuit drive.
Van Tassel Of Richmond poked ou a
triple also with two men on. Beadle was
on the mound for Richmond Hill and
famed nine. while Hughes Of F1ushins
retired five. The score
Richmond HILL. oloosx-
Flushing .......-. o 0 o o : o.
Batteries Beadlc and Leidlnger
HuEhes and Duncan.
Bryant High School won from New
town yesterday at Elmhurst In a Queens
boro League game by "A score OF IL &c
Q. So one sided was the game tina
Bryant did not go 20 bat In the eighth
or ninth innings. giving Sewtown s!N
! putouts In a row. Benea aided Bryant
20 victory with a triple IN 'he seventh
! with three men on bases. The score
4: II L
B-y~snt...... oi7otx&-n :
Neatovn. ... nol 0 o ! o o o.: .
Batter!r- Delaney and Puducy bow
Ling. Wachs ana kronhaus,
Hamilton Institute lost a hard playcc
am against High School 81 Commerce
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auto Records Go in n Hours Trial at Sheesheod Bay-~ 7nMng Men at Peace
WHAT THE SCHOLASTIC
ATHLETES ARE DOING

on the formers nelu yes.crday. Conn
merce nosed out their rivals by the score
OF 6 To :. M score by innings
rnr s%'};ss ss::;Ss:a:-s =!
Bottcries-Holman and seeley. For
mosa and Crovat.
The Princeton Alumni Association will
hold an interscholastic track and held
meet on Oritani Field. Hackensack. y.
J.. Saturday. 1, will he the first meet
ing of the school athletes OF Bergen
county. Teams from EnRlewood, Ridge
wood. Rutherford. Passaic. Paterson and
Hackensack High School are entered.
Erasmus Hall defeated Adeiphi Acad-
envy at tennis Yesterday on the latter's
courts by n score Of I TO !. l.. NJ. Banks
won the only match for Adelphi. defeat
ing Canaday in the first singles at 81.
Go The summary
ingie-- Banks. Adelphi. defeated can
aday, Erasmus Hall. 81. SO; McClus.
81, 1t, c-2. We'll. Erasmus Hall. de-
ieaied. o.Nein. Adelphi Academy, a-s'
Doubles-Mcciuc and shallow. Erss-
mus Hall, defeated Hals,ed and Towse.
Ad"lphi Academy. "a Cd
The Princeton alumni Of Maryland
WIN 1dN ~ iiii w NV hci''
School. Port Deposit, Md, on May ~.
to compete with the students In golf.
tennis and baseball. This always con.
stitutes ono of the most enjoyable fea-
lures of Tones athletic year. The day
is entirely given up 10 games with the
former college stars and the matches
are usually closely contested.
Last year ON won at golf and ten
mis-. but was defeated 6 10 3 at baseball.
In the latter worthington was a star
for Princeton, while Harlan. a former
Princeton captain. made the winning
run. Tome captured four OF the five
golf matches. Anderson. Lippitt. Skin
ner. Thorne and McIlvain playing for
Tome. while II. w. Turner. Hamilton
J Ober. Douglas Ober. Nelson Poe and
j. II. Rowland were the Princeton play
ers. ON the courts the Blue and Orange
again suffered defeat by the close mar.
gin Of . TO 3.
HACEENSACK. y I May The
IIat keusa X High school opened IT. north
crn NON Jersey interschola1tic baseball
soaSon her" thi~ afternoon hy defeating
ra-ssio iiish e to T.. Issssic knocked
Gardner. the Uacteu~,ck pitcher. ont Of
tho hoN Ia the eighth inning The locals
Otiue right bach with four runs. enough to
Wiu. rho batteries wer" Gardner, Hrinksr-
hon and b.uErest for Hackensack and
: Iealey and SeNer for rassair.
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'''' H'rW 1ROOkISN.
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Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-24

Wanted to Call State "JeHerson%R Republicans Oblced "Shohone"a and" Coloado"
We're Prmsed; Stephen A. Douglas and Ashley We're Champions of Montana.

with her parents in the Montana min
ing town on April %, 1868. This wo-
man, Mrs. Montana Kantner, in later
years was a resident of the city of
Deer Lodge.
To a degree the naming of Montana
was a partisan issue as a considerable
number of confederates who had been
defeated in the fighting in Missouri
were among the pioneers and the Ida
no legislature had displayed it's de-
m~ocratic trend by asking that the new
territory, which was to be carved out
of Idaho, be named jefferson. James
M. Ashley, chairman of the commit
tee on territories of the house, who
later became governor of Montana,
had been a consistent champion of the
name montana" and that was the
name given the territory of Idaho b
the bill reported back by his commit
tee on February IL, 1868. In the
senate, however, this name was re-
jected. Ashley proposed the name
again when another territory was to
be created and his success this time
was probably due to the insistence OF
the democrats on the name "Jeffer-
son.
Another champion of the name
montana was the leader of the
anti-secessionist democrats, Stephen
A. Douglas, to whom it was suggested
bv General j. w. Denver, governor OF
Kansas territory, after whom the city
of Denver was christened. Douglas
was chairman of the senate committee
on territories when the question OF
dividing up the great Rocky mountain
country into administrative areas was
first preached, but he died before the
bills had been introduced for the crea-
ton of either Idaho or Montana.
In a letter to Wilbur Edgerton San
ders, son of Montana's first senator.
F. M. Clavenger, who had been private
secretary to Governor Denver, told of
the meeting between the two men a.
which the question Of an appropriate
territorial name was discussed.
Colorado Proposed First
By General Denver.
In this letter, dater March IA, 1905.
Clavenger says:
"Sometime during the fifties, Ste
phen A. Douglas, who was in the sen
ate, invited General Denver to cal
at his house. the two being fast
friends. Denver responded to the in
vitation, and was ushered into Doug.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-24

With the passing of the American
frontier is rapidly vanishing a ace
of men who have lived epics and
epochs in their generation, men who
have built an empire which they sur
vive to see transformed from a wild
erness, to cities linked by railroads
and telephones. In no other nation,
for example, could there be found a
man like Captain John ]. Healy, in
his time soldier, gold-miner, free
trader, scout, Indian fighter, sheriff,
explorer, promoter and capitalist, who
was one of the stalwarts Of early day
Montana, and who died three years
ago in California after a spectacular
life. Until shortly before his death
he was busted with large enterprises
in Alaska, with no thought Of seek
ing rest or retirement. Yet as a strap
ping young Irish immigrant of Is, he
enlisted as a private in the Second
United States Dragons, and saw ac-
tive service in the Mormon and Indian
campaigns in Utah long before the
civil war. This experience made a
westerner of him, one of the pioneer
breed, and he turned his back on the
civilization of the east. AS a miner,
he was one of the discoveries of the
famous diggings of Florence, Idaho,
in 1861, and from that bonanza rush
he drifted to the storied territory Of
the Upper Missouri.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-24

iority. Some Of the lawyers were
brimful of pet ideas and had all their
suggestions been incorporated the con-
stitution of the state would be as large
as Webster's unabridged dictionary.
First Constitution Framed
Was Lost in Shuttle.
This assemblage, which convened
on July 4, 1889, and adjourned August
II, was not the first constitutional
convention to be held in the state. A
convention that met at Helena in the
early part of 1884 adopted a consti-
tuition after celebrating for 81 days
and Delegate Toole kept it before con
gress for several years in the cam
paign for statehood.
The first constitutional convention
was called by acting Governor Thomas
Francisco Meagher before the terri
tory was two years old. 1t met al
Helena April 0, 1866, and adjourned
in six days. This convention was
called without authority of law either
by the territorial legislature or by
congress and it was charged at the
time that its excuse for being was to
hasten the time when one of its mem
bers might obtain the coveted seat IL
the United States senate. The constl
tuition that was framed was lost II
the shuttle. 1t was taken to st. Louis
Missouri, by Thomas E. Tut, n Of
the delegates, for publication, but
there is no evidence of its ever havine
been printed. The original document
has never been recovered, nor did i
ever appear in complete form in an.
Of the newspapers Of the day.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-24
Compulsory Farming.

Paris.-A movement has been start
ed in France for compulsory agricul-
tural service. Effort will be made
to have the government pass a law to
check cost of living after the war and
bring under cultivation rural land
formerly unused. Leaders in the
movement urge steps to encourage in
~tensive farming, calling it the ere
construction of the national life" Eff
fort also will be made 10 mako farm
life more cheerful.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-24
He Invaded Canada in Fur Trade Feud
plain John Healy, Fighting Sheriff of Montana, Had Spectacular Career;
Rangers to Fight the Blackee; Helped Tame Alaska.
Headed Sun River

being attacked or held up, the Chill
kats were won over from violent hos
tility to such terms of admiring
friendship for a strong man that
they made him a chief. This honor
pleased Healy because after he had
fought the Blackfeet in Montana, they
respected him to the extent of max
ing him a warrior of the Elk band.
He had twice proved that an honest
enemy can become the best kind of a
friend.
For three years Captain Healy ex-
plored the coast of Alaska in those
early days, looking for passes into the
interior. He was three times ship
wrecked, but escaped to join the first
gold rush into that country. He saw
the possibilities of the territory, and
advocated a railroad over White Pass
so far ahead Of his time that the min
ers laughed at him as a crazy-headed
fool,
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-24

I On December IA, 1868, Mr.. Ashley
introduced a bill before the house OF
representatives to provide a temper
airy government for the territory OF
Montana. This bill, after being re-
ferred back to the committee on terri.
tories, was placed before the house fol
action on March IL, 1864, and was
generally discussed.
Mr.. Cox democrat. of Ohio) desired
to say that he did not like the pro-
posed name of the new territory. 81
do not knew whether II is Spanish.
French or English
Mr.. Ashley (republican) cit is a
Spanish word, meaning mountainous ,
Mr.. Cox: 81 know. But I ask the
gentleman whether he cannot give it
a name that will be a little lore sig
nificant. Cannot he give it some In
dian namef"
Mr.. Washburne (Tll.): "I suggest
that the gentleman from Ohio propose
that it shall be called Abbyssinia.' u
Democrat Wants Indian Name;
Proposes "Shoshone."
Mr.. Beaman desired to know what
name the gentleman from Ohio pro-
posed for it.
Mr.. Cox: "I suggest an Indian
name Shoshone-if my colleague
(Mr. Ashley will tell me what that
means.'
Mr.. Bennett (Colo.): "It means
snakes.' Haughter).
Mr.. Cox: "I understand that the
legislature has asked that the new ter
ritory shall be called Jefferson u
Mr.. Ashley: "Oh, well, we are OPP
posed to that"
Mr.. Cox: Composed to jefferson
| propose that we name the new ter.
ritory, by unanimous consent, Doug.
las territory I think the gentleman
opposite will agree to that"
Mr.: Ashley: sob, no, we cannot dc
that"
Continuing Mr.. Cox said: "Yor
have got your Frederick Douglass, and
we upon this side had a white man
whom we reverence, by that name"
Frederick Douglass was a noted ne
gro orator, who had labored, after OBJ
tanning his own freedom, in the aboli
ton cause
Some opposition was encountered il
the senate also over the PROPOSED
name, but the bill was uitimatel,
passed and was signed by the presi
dent on May 20, 1864.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-24

down the gauntlet to the Hudson IS
Bay company. The purpose of the
movement was to secure the trade of
the free trappers who had gone up
into that rich territory. The militant
fame of Healy had travelled far, for in
order to drive out this invasion of
American traders, the Hudson's Bay
company organized a volunteer force
of two hundred and fifty men at
Fort Carry. With an artillery de-
tachment in reserve this mounted
force marched to attack the formid-
able defenses of Healy's post, Fort
Whoop-Up, expecting to meet a regi-
ment of "desperadoes and cut
throats." To their chagrin, they
found Healy and two other orderly
and peaceable Americans who were
tending to their own business. Out
numbered, Healy retired with the hon
ors of war, but the force organized
against him remained in the field as
ia mounted troop to patrol the From
tier, and became the nucleus Of the
! Northwest Mounted police.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-24

las library. The senator said, 'Den-
yer, l am going to organize some new
territories, and l want you to give me
a name for n of Them
"Denver at first suggested the
name Colorado but Douglas, pick
ing up a map from his desk, remarked,
Il have that name selected for one
down here (pointing on the map), but
l want a name for this territory up
here (pointing) in the mountains
"The general studied for a moment
and replied, why not call it Mon
tana?' Douglas said, what does the
word mean?' 1T is a Spanish word,
and means a mountainous country
replied Denver"
1t is probable that General Denver
knew of the founding of the town OF
Montana west of the future city of
Denver in the fall of 1858 or Of the in
corporation of the Montana Town
company in the following year. The
settlement, which was founded by a
score of miners from Lawrence, Kan
sas, had only a brief existence as gold
in paying quantities was not found
in its neighborhood. Several of its
inhabitants moved to the town of Au-
raria, on the site of the present West
Denver.
Ashley Prefers Defeat
To Any Other Name.
When the bill for the creation of
Idaho territory came up in congress
and the senate rejected the name
MONTANA" Mr.. Ashley objected
strenuously to its passage by the
house, preferring to defeat the meas
ure rather than permit the name to
be changed. Previously, when the Or
ganization of Colorado was being dis
cussed both "Montana" and "Idaho"
had been proposed as names for that
territory. When Sidney ~iGdgerton,
Chief Justice of Idaho, was dispatched
from Bannack to the national capital
to urge the separation of the territory
east of the Bitter Root mountains, he
was instructed by his associates to
champion the name "Montana" al
though the legislature at Lewistown
had declared in favor of Jefferson"
as the designation of the proposed new
territory.
The story Of the final debate in the
house over the name is related as fol-
lows in Mr.. Sanders contribution to
the reports of the Montana Historical
society:
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-24

The name "Montana," cherished
by a population of more than three
quarters of a million as a priceless
heritage, went begging before congress
made it the designation of the terri
tory that was to become the Treasure
state. 1t was considered and rejected
as a name for both Colorado and Wy
oming. Yet, in the form of "Mon-
tana del Norte''-Montana of the
North-this was the name given by
the Spanish explorers to the entire
mountainous country of the west. 1t
had already acquired a place in his
tory as the name of the first town
site incorporated in Colorado, and ii
was familiar to a few persons in Ban
mack as the name of a little girl, born
at Golden Gate, Colorado, who arrived
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-24

from being wiped out by the Black
feet, the settlers organized a force of
their own called "The Sun River
Rangers with Irish John Healy as
captain. The ex-private of Dragons
proceeded to clear the range. of hos,
tiles with neatness and dispatch. We'll
pleased with this campaign, Healy
dared to invade Canada at the head
of a band of free traders, and throw
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-24
Healey Was Made
Sheriff of Chouteau

Returning to Fort Benton, Healy
was made sheriff of Chouteau coun-
ty, which was half as big as the whole
of New England. Healy bent his en-
ergies to the task Of cleaning out the
road agents, horse thieves, and "bad
men" who made that part of Mon
tana hazardous and tumultuous. He
was sheriff for eight years, and his
daring was considered notable even in
Montana, for he always made his ar
rests single-handed, and although an
expert shot, he lev took the life OF
a white man.
By 1885, Montana was getting toe
civilized for a man of Captain Hea.
ly's stamp, sc he pulled up stakes
and went to Alaska. Among the
Chilkats at Dyea he built a trading
post, and set to work to break dow
the h~igh-handled monopoly of tn
chief who controlled all the packin!
of goods into that country. Having
succeeded in enabling white miner,
to enter the Yukon country withou
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-24
Put Fleet of Steamers
on the Yukon RiUer

When gold was discovered on Forty
Mile creek, Captain Healy came out
of the wilderness long enough to or
ganize a trading company which
pushed it's agents up the Yukon and
locked horns with the powerful Alas
ka Commercial company which wished
to keep the miners out and preserve
the territory as a fur-trading coun-
try. When gold was found on the
Yukon, Captain Healy was ready for
business with a fleet Of river steam
ers. By this time he was an cold
timer" in Alaska and was con.
sdered the best posted man in the
territory.
1t was he who suggested to Baror
de Lobel, the French engineer, thu
monumental idea of "the Trans-Alas
kan-Siberian Railway" with a tun
mel beneath Behring Straits.
Captain eHaly was not a visionary
but he believes that some day would
see a million population in Alaska
and the brown tundras of eastern ST
IBERIA covered with a vast and bus,
multitude of settlers getting rich from
the mineral deposits.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-24
Settlers Organized
Sun River Rangers"

The Indians were hostile, and the
few settlers were unable to obtain mil
itary protection. In order to keep
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-24

silver camp Of history through the
red days Of the Vigilantes.
Later he camped on what later be-
came the site Of the capital of Mon
tana and was elected to the first
legislature of that territory. Declin-
ing this honor, he moved or to Fort
Benton, which was then the trading
outlet of the whole northwest. Healy
was not inclined to accept the terms
Of the powerful f~ur-tfading companies
which ruled that region, and he be-
came an independent or free trader
establishing a post ON Sun River.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-11-24
Hea1y Preferred
Far Trading to Gold

Montana was then in the hands of
Indians and fur traders, and young
Healy preferred chasing furs to seek
ing gold. Before he became an In
dian trader, however, he tried his
hand at several things, as was the
fashion among the bold and adven.
turous spirits who flocked into the
untamed west. He hearkened to the
call of the Comstock lode, and was
one of the early settlers of Virginia
City, and stayed in the most famous