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The report OF the Northern Central
Railroad Company for the year ended
December 81, 1915. shows a net income
of sci 81 1858. all but si96 Of which has
been turned into dividends, 4 per cent.
paid July IL, 1918, and 4 per cent, pay
able January IL. 1916. The income on
the road il "A rental OF s2.533.lO0 re-
ceived from the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company for the lease of its property.
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May Avert Cloak makers strike.

The Mayors council Of c~onciliation at
the Bar Association rooms. ~ West
Forty-fourth street. succeeded last night
In arranging a conference " the
representatives OF the Cloak. Suit and
skirt Manufacturers Association and ut
65. 600 clOaknakers in an eTort to avert
a general strike. The conference Will be
held at I O'Clock on Tuesday afternoon
In the CITY Club.
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At the annual meeting of the General
Chemical Company Sanford II. Steele
retired as president M was elected
general counsel. a new Office. He was
as president b. W. II. Nichols.
Jr, formerly v!ce-presHleG', Tho num-
Der OF vice-nrcsidents was increased to
five and John N. '%;octchius and Nelson
A. Howard were elected, George r.
Willet resigned as a director and Nelson
A. Howard Of San Francisco was chosen
~ his successor.
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CURB STATE BOND HITCH ENDS.
Outside Brokers Agree 10 Pay lO7
on C~OutPacta,

The committee which has been ar
ranging a settlement for brokers hav-
ing long contracts In the see zoe. 900 fifty
year New York State bonds, recently
purchased Ia one block by tho First Ma
tional bank and resold to private in
~trrests. yesterday that an
agreement had been reached between
the brokers and their clients and that
the brokers would pay i07 on the cor
tracts they made.
BEFORE the bids for the bonds were
published ut Albany about $500. 900 OF
the bonds were dealt IN on the Curb Mt
prices around l04ha and lojig, The
arbitration committee refused yesterday
terest.
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Dr. william l.. Owens Of eel East
Seventeenth street was sentenced In
Special Sessions yesterday to pay n hne
Of S250 or serve thirty days in prison,
having been convicted Of selling narcot.
les without keeping a record Of the sale.
Hc paid the fine. Lieut.. Scherb and
Detective Da;tclbaun OF the done
squad" found that Oh August - tho
physician sold 1873 grains Of heroin
without noting the transaction on his
books.
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NORTH CARULiNA-A.hey,l,,
v N. c.
.sThe land NJ the SL,u

Live In .he tonic air OF this wonderful
climate. Golf. horseback riding. motor.
itS. mountain climbing. tennis. bowling
hne churches. schools, theatres. etc. FOR
hotel rates and Information write Grove
LanSrsn. Maixo Terrace ana Glen iio,n.
For railroad. PullmaR AMI n;ht. Info..
melton apply 10 southern hallway.
ALEX =. Thweatt, y, Z. A., :6a Fifth
Rookie. Of Ashevile and other informs.
lion write Res.d 81 Trade. .AshevIiiS.
y. g. n. DCCRNER, Secretary.
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The ONO on Company has declared,
in addition to It's regular quarterly divi-
dcnd of Sl,25. an extra dividend of s4.25
n share. payable March 20 to stock OF
record at the close OF business on Feb.
ruary ~. The books will o on
March Is.
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BETHLEHEM SPENDS
$S1,90O,O00 IN DEAL
Announces Cost of Newly Ac-
Uuired Plants Of Penna.
steel Company.
NOW TO U.S.STEEL

The Bethlehem Steel Corporation paid
about 33i. zoe. 900 for the Pennsylvania
S,ee, C~o,nnany. according TO AN an
. -. ..rda. Tho cor.
~ -.
soiidation places he bethiehe'" "'ee'
Corporation second only to the United
s,s,e. s,ee, CORPORATION. Thu Bethle-
=. .-,,. sa-
nc" P""'' NV
tween 2.V"o.""o ana z'oo"'ooV IONS VI
pig iron annually.
Negotiations for the purchase had
been going on for some weeks. In fact
the financial district heard last year
| that the Schwab Interests had been try
ing to get control of the property.
TIL PENNSYLVANIA Railroad mpan
had spent approximately SO, 900, 900 on
, the Pennsylvania Steel Company I'm AN
enort Ia make the "A paying
., proposition. Il opened negotiations with
the bethlehem Steel CORPORATION for the
sale.
Terus of sale Ea uIsiued.
''"o","s S.,'c"e''. 'Ss"e" Wy ."e
'"''"''" ''ee' No'IoIa''on 'es'efu"s
eNp'a'.. 'n' 'f',"S u w" transfer
20. y. 'vnNao' cha,rI'ah' ana T." "
Hr"''' pres'ue"t' beth''henl steer tof-
po'a,io"' saw ou' 'ne toi'o"'ns ih'oI-
na'Io" Iesarn'ns 'he ~arrahsethen'
800 y" ~ u ''pu'et.'on u! J."
-" " '''"p'"S VIZ P'Vt-
80. g, VI '" ~
.-r..
IT, a., - a1stsaS az
800 -, 80 ~. ~ 49,, 1
,I.v, eos -. ~
sb,rcs M mo. Benz, ,,,n,, s,oot ,.o,n.
many This ,no,,, IL, o.. \. ,.I, 4, /.
n.r cen, ,uen,v ye,r nn,ch.s. ,rnn.S
iord. NJ IA. ue,hi.h.n &C., ,.orn,nr
secured by u,nr,vag. un,, ,ho ,,rrb,s.,t
property, with the r.seryatiop of bonds
to retire UNDERLYING issues. and In pro-
vide for improvements and additions.
This ACQUISITION i, the outcome Of IN.
determination reached by the Reihi.-
hem Steel COMPANY some tim. sgo 10
add to it's output b.ssemer steel products
and other general steel lines. such as
bridges frogs and switches. girder rails,
rail fittings. &c.
For IA number OF reasons i, seems
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DAILY TREASURY STATEMENT,

WASHINGTON Feb ls-The statement %
the receipts and disbursements Of the Treas.
my shows:
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iieceipts from customs to. day. So. Al in.
'srnal revenue, ordinary, &,.oi .tss; income
tax. Sl.lil: miscellaneous. $l-s.TN.
National bank notes received for redemp-
ton, 81. ss3. 40.
The current statement Of the United states
Treasurer for February Il shows:
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HOTEL
CHELSEA

fashionable Chelsea section. 900 bed cham
bers with private baths ,:rcsh and sea
waterl. Hist cluss orcheatra, cafe. grill.
&C. French chefs. Col. privileges, Autos
meet trains. Book ct. Open ali year.
J. IL. THOMPSON ( co..
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n nnrA0nc IN the Pines. Lakewood \,
IUkMI'k 30 suites with bath. nAI!,
lJVI Ivu room. billiards. daily cancer.
e. tGokl't, !. WOEHR.
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were discussed; Montana's future
was analysed, and laudable sugges-
lions were agreed upon as to STAN
dardization.
"Civic Affairs was the topic han
died by c. w. Fowler, secretary Bill
ings Chamber of Commerce.; "A
State Chamber of Commerce." by
A. ]. Harader of the Bozeman Cham
Der of Commerce; "Publicity," by A.
j.. B~reitenstein, secretary Great Falls
Commercial club; "The Small Town
and the Farmer" by T. E. McCrosky
of the Havre Commercial club. j. H.
Ginet of Seattle, western immigra-
ton agent of the c., M. & St. P.
railway, addressed the convention on
Railroads and Commercial Clubs"
Great Falls was selected as the
next meeting place. H. M. Robinson
of Roundup was reelected president
and Lou Blodgett of L%ewistown. Sec
retary-treasurer.
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old that these Piegans told Two Tur-
tie he could drag it till he'd found
his nerve; in the meanwhile they'd
try their luck alone. So he was left
by himself, afraid to go with the
war party and not daring to go home
alone unless all his party was killed.
after wandering around, travel
ing at night and hiding on some
the day for several days, he finally
sighted a camp of white packers one
evening about shutdown. Besides the
usual mules and bosses, there was
five of the strangest looking animal
this Injun had ever seen. He crawled
up close and looked 'em over. AS
he told it afterwards, they had t o
buffalo humps with the head of a
long-necked moose.
"After studying awhile, he decided
if he could get one of these animals
and take it back to his war party, it
would square him with them. Aft
er watching the packers handle their
stock, he picked out his mount and
settled down to wait for dark. Along
after midnight, when the pack s.
fire had died down, he sneaks up
and cuts every animal loose.
"This strange looking animal he
had picked out was laying down. He
crawls on it's back and sticks his
knife into it's hump, and they quit
the earth together quite sudden, the
big animal nearly splitting his rider
as he gets to his feet, hind end first
like a COW. Two Turtle managed to
hang on to the old Hudson Bay flint.
lock hi was packin', and he had
an extra ball in his mouth for quick
loading in case any gun work start.
ed, but when he give his mounts
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-12-01
Ghost City Doomed as Fort Bent0n's Rjua]


from the Missouri across the noun
tains and located the townsite. The
place was named Kerchival City in
honor of an old steamboat captain
who had been among the first to ad-
vocate the route. The "city" under
his name refused to expand beyond a
log cabin or two, occupied by the en-
ployes of the company, but in 1868,
after the river had swept away the
cabins, the attempt to create a town,
this time under the name of Mus
selshell, was renewed under the aus
pices of the Montana Hide and Fur
company Of Helena, which sent ten
men to establish a post and build
a warehouse. They were Joined by
Colonel Clendenn Clendennin with
his brother Richard and James Nc
Ginnis, who had opened a woodward
at Grand Island while awaiting dev-
elopments respecting the new loca-
ton.
Company of Soldiers
Established Close BY.
In the summer of this year the
population was increased by addi-
tons from the mountains and from
up and down the river. Soon there
were more than SO settlers and a
dozen cabins fronting the river. A
company of soldiers came down from
Camp Cooke and established them
selves just below the town, erecting
a stockade with bastions, which was
christened Camp Reeve. The friend
ly eros Ventres and Crows came in
| great numbers to trade and the hopes
of the new founders doomed large
If so much had been accomplished in
one summer, what might not reason
ably be expected in succeeding years!
The prosperity of the town, however
attracted the attention of the Sioux
and this nation ~henceforth was the
Nemesis of the settlement.
In the fall of the year the Sioux
made their first attack, capturing the
killing two of the soldiers. Almos'
Immediately the soldiers were with
drawn. Early in 1859 nearly
hundred Indians laid an ambush neal
the town. This time a general alarm
was given after a squaw had beer
wounded, and, as there were abou'
so men at the post, the settlers deter
mined to teach the Indians a lesson
They advanced swiftly and trapped
large party in a ravine that opened
into the Musselshell. While the mail
body of the whites guarded the path
that led into the %ravine, three or fou.
of the settlers crossed the Musselshel
and under cover of a grove of willow
opened a flank fire with repeating
rifles upon the " Sioux who wer'
crouching in the coulee.
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AS the rain had soaked the bow
strings and the pans of the flint-lock
guns with which the Indians were
armed, their resistance was feeble.
AS they tried to dig shelters in the
banks with their butcher knives one
after another fell before the bullets
from the unseen rifles. A dash for
life was determined on and the In
dams sang their death song as they
passed the lighted pipe. Some clamb-
cred up the bank while others UNI
dertook to thread their way from
rock to rock in the coulee or to swim
to safety.
Whites Open Fire
Upon Comrades.
In the excitement some of the
whites came under the fire of their
comrades, who were obliged to seek
shelter. 1t was due to this only
that the entrapped Sioux escaped an
initiation. According to the story
told by the Indian survivors who
reached the agency at Fort Peck,
SO of the SO who took part in the
fight were killed outright or died
from their wounds on the way. Only
two of the Sioux escaped without a
wound. The Indians thereafter were
emphatic in their declarations that
Musselshell was dad medicine" as
it's defenders could fire their guns
right along without reloading or
ever taking them from their Shout
ders. The whites lost only n man.
The whites cleaned the skulls of
ten Of the "good Indians" and set
them up on stakes at the steamboat
landing. Here when a boat arrived
a trapper, known throughout eastern
Montana as "Liver-Eating Johnson"
usually stood guard. Peter Koch,
writing in later years, described this
character thus: "He was leaning
on a crutch, with one leg bandaged,
and the day being hot his entire
dress consisted in a scant, much
shrunken, red undershirt, reaching
just below his hips. His matted
hair and bushy beard fluttered in the
breeze, and his giant frame and
limbs, so freely exposed to view,
formed an exceedingly impressive and
characteristic picture"
Sioux Renew Attacks
With Larger Forces.
The Sioux vowed vengeance on the
town, and they renewed their at
tacks with larger forces every few
weeks during the spring and summer
A three-inch, s~mooth-bore iron can
non was lent to the settlers by Gen,
eral Hancock, who furnished them
large supply of solid shot, shell and
canister. With this they were en-
abled to dispense the Indians from
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-12-01
By Joe De Yong.

81 was reading in the paper the
other day about old-time freighters
in Montana using camels for packing
grub and supplies into the gold
camps" observed French Charlie as
as he tossed a couple of chunks OF
pitch pine on to the fire that illu-
minated the cabin, land that ex-
plains a story a breed told me over
on the Flathead reservation that l
never believed before. This breeds
name was Valeau, and he claimed
the story was told to him by a Cree,
but it appeared that it had been
handed around a good many times
by the Injuns before it came to VAL
eau.
according to Valeau, a band of
Piegans under Iron Coat, a we'll
known chief, was camped on Black
Arrow creek one time in the early
COS, and among 'em was an old me-
!icine man named Two Turtle. 1t
seemed that Two Turtle had led n
or two parties with some success,
but in a general way he was looked
-, on as a second rater; his medicine
was pretty lame. Fact was he had
lived on what little rep he had for
so long that he had about wore out
with his followers.
"It finally got so the kids made
fun of him and the dogs barked at
him. He could feel himself slipping
and realized it was a case of any old
way to turn a trick to get his repu-
tation back, SO one morning before
daybreak this old boy set up a sing
ing and drumming in his lodge that
would wake the dead, and the camp
gathered from his song that he'd had
a dream in which he saw himself
leading a war party back from the
Grow country, driving many ponies
before them.
"Now, with the 1njun, dreams
have a heap of influence. It's the
way they tell the future and get
their medicine, and as there was a
bunch of young bucks just itching
for a little hoss-stealing expedition,
his dream talk sounded pretty good.
When he made his war talk later
on in the day he soon had company.
CATER having extra moccasins
made, taking a medicine sweat and
praying a heap, this old sport and
ten braves set out for the Grow
country. They travelled a-foot, as all
war parties did, it being safest, and
figured to ride home on stolen
bosses. After travelling for two
weeks they got pretty we'll tired out
and we're nearly bare-footed on &C
count of the rocky country they'd
crossed. What dried meat they'd
carried was used up, and being in
the enemy's country, it wasn't safe
to light a fire. 1t vas getting to
where bosses was a necessity.
"They'd sighted several camps,
but every time this old Two Turtle
false alarm would get cold feet and
claim the signs wasn't right or that
his medicine had warned him that
they'd all be killed and no one left
alive to carry the tale back to the
Piegans. After a while this got SO
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-12-01
Fairview Has Two Postfofices.

Fairview, one of the prosperous
centers Of Richland county, is the
only town in the United States which
has two postoffices. One p%ostoffice
is located in Montana and the other
in Dakota. The state line divides
the town.
The residents of Sweetgrass, in
Toole county, have postal facilities on
a par with those of Fairview. The
Canadian boundary makes the north
ern limits of Sweetgrass town, and
when one steps across the line he is
in Coutts, the southernmost town in
the province of Alberta.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-12-01
How Two Turtle Saved C%hjeftajncy
P;eon,1 Stan1peded Cro1vs With Stolen F%re;ghtj1g Camel

ing on the people to hear his talk.
ITO say that Two Turtles new
mount was a curiosity would be ex-
pressing it mild. Wherever the ami
NAL stood you'd find a crowd around
him. They kept him IN a big lodge at
night and he was fed on grass pulled
by the squaws. He nearly wrecked
the lodge the first few times they put
him in it, but it was soon the usual
thing to see his head poked out
of the smoke hole on a moonlight
night, nibbling a bunch of grass tied
to an ear-pole.
"Well, the night the party re-
turned there was feasting, and it
lasted all the next day. The story
was told and re-told, and each telling
seemed to improve it. The fame Of
Two Turtle reached to the furthest
camps of the Blackfeet. The old
camel thief was hailed as a great
warrior and medicine man, and ad-
mitted into the highest secret So
cieties of the tribe. When he led a
war party success was certain.
"But one day late the next sum-
mer, Two Turtle and a few friends
rode to a small trading post on the
Marias a few miles from their camp,
where there was a party of trappers
QUILTING for the winter. They'd
been drinking a lot, and one long,
loose-jointed old boy was pretty
shaky. 1t was an even break whe-
Their he'd see snakes or not; he said
things had been slipping up behind
him all day, and when it got so he
was seeing Injuns riding camels, it
about topped the limit. Grabbing a
sawed-off shotgun he downed Two
Turtles camel with ii double load of
slugs, and when the smoke and dust
cleared Two Turtle was crawling
from under his mount, pulling his
gun from it's case at the same time.
The trapper's friends stood off the
%Injuns, however, and finally things
quieted down.
THAT night there was weeping
and wailing in the lodges of Two
Turtle and his family. After skin
ming the camel, the old boy sat with
his head sunk on his chest, watching
his squaws scrape the side. When
it was tanned, he stretched it on a
frame and painted the story and
plenty of details his imagination fur
nished, so that all might read. So
in after years, when Two Turtles
tale was questioned, he'd flash his
camel skin diploma, and it vas usu-
ally all that was necessary"
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-12-01
GEN. JAMES HOW
HAS PASSED AWAY
BELONGED TO MORE SECRET OR
DERS THAN ANY OTHER MAN
IN STATE OF MONTANA.
Mason, Elk, Odd Fellow, Eagle, Mac
cabee, Workman and Other So
ciety Men Will Remember Him;
Had Attended Every Grand Lodge
Session in Montana for Years.

General James How of Virginia
City is dead. He was not a military
man, but was the greatest secret soci-
ETY. MAJ in all Montana. He belonged
to everything, and for the past quar-
grand lodge and state meeting Of all
the orders with which he vas affiliat-
ed. The Masonic lodge was his re-
ligion and the Elk lodge room his
place of recreation. His utilization
with the Odd Fellows, the Maccabees,
the Eagles, the Ancient Order of
United Workmen, the Eastern Star,
and other societies was close. He was
the fraternity brother Of every man
in Madison county.
Every night except Sunday was
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-12-01

lodge night with him, and he was
always in attendance. This vas his
unalterable rule for the past 20
years. He kept a record of his lodge
attendance and the lodge dues that
he had paid out. 1t is estimated that
he has paid more in lodge dues than
any three men in the state. In the
past 20 years he had attended over
5000 sessions of the lodges and or
CARNATIONS of which he was a de-
voted member.
Always at Grand Lodge. O
Virginia City is a kindly place.
The Virginians have contracted the
genial habit of humoring the neigh
Dor who has a hobby. So General
How was always sent to the grand
lodge as a delegate. He was affiliat-
ed with all the higher orders of Ma
sorry, and as perpetual tyler has
stood ward and watch at the outer
door of all the grand lodges of Ma
sonry and other organizations that
have been convened in recent years.
Into his trained ear thousands of
brothers of various orders have whis-
pered the mystic words which per-
mitted them to cross the portals of
the lOQge room.
He has attended every state meet
ing of the Elks since that order be-
came of consequence in the state. His
figure, bent with years, but covered
with insignia, and clothed in the
striking uniform of the order, is fami-
liar to thousands. He has attended
several supreme grand lodge sessions
of this order, and has taken prizes on
several occasions for being the old
est Elk in parades.
General How came of a distin-
guished St. Louis family, the head
of which arrived in Virginia City
when that place was the greatest
placer gold camp in the world.
Dreamed Of a Fortune.
He loved Virginia City, and re-
manned there after his relatives had
moved away, content to make a mod
est living, dreaming always of the
day when his tungsten properties in
the Pony district would bring to him
a fortune. Recently, some Pittsburg
steel companies, through Charles b.
Morris, the Pony mining operator, be-
came interested in the How property
and we're developing it, with every
prospect of making a producing tung-
stem mine, but the old man did not
live to see his dream materialize. He
has crossed into the bourn from
which no traveller returns and his
virtues are now being written on the
tablets of love and memory.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-12-01

hump another dig with the knife the
scared animal bawled like a wounded
buffalo bull. This scared Two Tur-
tie sc that he swallowed the bullet
and pulled the trigger of the flint
lock at the same time. All this fuss
stampeded the mules and the pack
ers' bosses. Two Turtle was busy
hangin' on, and all he knew was
that he was travelling pretty rapid
back in the direction he come from.
"It happened that this same night
the Piegans in the party Two Turtle
had left had slipped into a Grow
camp and cut loose 40 head of
bosses, the pick of the camp, and
got away, killing two Crows in the
mixup. Next morning a big party of
Crows overlook them and we're
crowding them pretty close, when old
Two Turtle, with his camel doing a
yer a hill. The camel, thinking
the bosses of the fnjuns were his
OWN party, headed straight for them.
Naturally, the Crows, seeing this
monster loom up against the sky
line, took him for the original thun-
der bird or ONE other evil spirit,
and pulled out for home, kicking and
whipping every jump and never
looking back.
"Of course, this put Two Turtle
hack on his feet with his friends. so
they headed for home, him leading
the way on the camel. On sighting
their camp they all stopped and
painted up, while the youngest mem
Der Of the party was sent ahead for
the camp crier. When he came they
gave him the news and mounted him
on the camel. He rode around the
camp beating a small drum and call