The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-11-17
SAM D. GOA ON
STATE DIVISION
ABSOLUTELY AGAINST IT,
THINKS ASYLUM PLACE
FOB DIVISIONISTS.
Says Montana Will Have 1000, 900
People Some Day Soon and Will
Lead Such States as California, Col
orado, Washington and Oregon.

eral days OF last week working
against state division in northern
Montana. Not that the agitation in
favor OF making two states out of
Montana is assuming proportions that
alarm, but Sam believes in prepared
ness. He does not propose to allow
any new-stAtc grass to grow under
ms feet, and has started his campaign
against division years in advance.
'Dr. Scanlon has an excellent. in
stitution over at Warm S%prings,'
said Mr.. GOA. Gle treats every
one consigned to his care with con
sideration. He let's them rave on if
they are harmless and if they are
violent he resorts to mild restrictive
measures. All those who talk to
me about state division | tell of the
pleasant place under the supervision
of DR.. Scanlon. with the idea of giving
them a good impression OF the insti-
tuition In which they are sure to find
themselves, soone or later.
StaLe S GreaC + uCuTe.
I'VE are going to have a great state
here if we just keep it whole. We
i. wil have a population Of 100000
people one of these days, and there
west that compares with it. We will
have Washington, Oregon, California
and Colorado in the column below
MS. we will have more money. per cap
tia, than some Big Hole farmers have
hay.'
Sans antAgonism to state division
is not all patriotism, however. Cruel
experience has pre- udiced him against
division. Many years ago when he
was the business manager of the Lead
vile Herald Democrat, disaster over
look hum. He had made some money
out of 81 mining lease and had in
vested all OF il and borrowed some
more for The same purpose, in the
1oWnslte OF a. prosperous Colorado
town. This particular town was
after the county seat of the county in
which it was situated. 1t had out
GROVE the old county seat and it was
Just a matter of putting the question
10 u vote. The removal of the county
seat to Sans town would have start
ed a real estate boom and when this
boom was fairly we'll on Sam proposed
10 sell out his holdings and retire from
the newspaper business. lie was called
10 New York on some business.
Here Come the Williams.
The state legislature Of Colorado
convened daring his absence. The
politicians Of the town that Sam and
his friends proposed to despoll by
taking from it the county seat had
friends in the legislature. They Went
before the law makers and secured
the enactment of II bill dividing the
county ia which Sans town was sit
5latcd. That portion Of the county
dominated by Sans town was at
Jachcd to another county, whose coun
~ seat was impregnablc. The coun-
" seat town was saved. and the real
estate boom that was being hatched in
connection with Sans town dissolved
itself into the rainbow's end.
Plans Went Awry.
When Sam returned from the east
ne found that his plans had gone
awry, and his investment had followed
mis- plans into oblivion. He became SO
peeved over the incident that he aban-
tloned the newspaper business and
went into Insurance, Just out Of spite
at himself, but he lived to recover
from his pique sufficiently to be-
come one Of the first insurance men
of all the west.
That is the reason Sam is against
division of anything. He even pro
tested when the president of tho
Northwestern Life Insurance company
delighted with the long list of Mon
tana millionaires whom Sam had writ
ten up for insurance upon his con
pany, proposed to add to the terri
tory of his general agency the north
ern half of Wyoming, because ii
meant a division of that insurance ter,
ritory.
He looks upon Eddie Booth, the
great county divider of eastern Mon
tana, with suspicion, and all because
Eddie has more county divisional
schemes to his credit than any Other
nan in the state. He even objects
to the name of Lewis and Clark coun-
ty, because it is a divided name. He
voted for Hughes because he is a
republican, but he does not approve
Of the manner in which Hughes di-
vides his whiskers. He does not OBJ
ject to J.. Bruce Kremer because
Bruce is a democrat, but because of his
monaker divisional scheme. When he
was an alderman Of the city Of Hell
ena he voted against the approval of
an addition to the town, because the
addition was subdivided into lots
When some of his farmer friends ask
him for a chew of tobacco (Sam chews
tobacco when hg's out in the country
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