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Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-10-13

the stars, to mysterious forces OF ma
ture, far more enthralling than the
fables of 'Brer Remus?' And what
is more to the point these legends are
native American, not the hybrid i'm
agery of an alien race, American as
Niagara Falls, the Yosemite, the Mis-
sissippi are American. We owe it to
ourselves and to our children to know
what they are, in all their weird
beauty and profound significance.
Crank B. Linderman, in Indian
Why Stories,' has opened a door to
the mystery-land of the Blackfeet,
Chippewa and Cree tribes, and he has
found an able coadjutor in Charles
M. Russell, the cowboy artist, who
knows Indians from head-feather to
moccasin. There are pictures in this
remarkable book that preserve the
essentials of the Indian as we paint
him at his best, a being close to the
lore that resides, u%ntranslated in
fragmentary pages, in the very selves
of forest, prairie, river, sky and cloud.
"Frank B. Linderman says in his
preface: There is a wide difference
between folklore of the so-called Old
World and that of America. Trans
mitted orally through countless gen.
erations, the folk stories of our an
cestors show many evidences of dis
tortion and change in material par
ticulars; but the Indian seems to have
been too fond of nature and too proud
of tradition to have forgotten or
changed the teachings of his fore
fathers. Childlike in simplicity, be-
ginning with creation itself, and
reaching to the why's and wherefores
of natures moods and eccentricities
these tales impress me as being well
worth saving Now that we have
read them, we fully agree with him.
can effective way of leading into
the telling of these traditions is Sc.
cured by introducing us at the star
to War Eagle, an old Indian chief
who, across his lodge-fire in the even
ing, with the stars above, relate:
stories from the Indian store o.
myths. In them figures Oldham,
strange minor god whom the grea
Manitou entrusted with the arrange
ment of the world, and we learn, fas
cinated in the learning by the weir'
beauty of this aboriginal mythology
why the chipmunk's back is striped
why Blackfeet never kill mice, VIII,
the mountain lion is long and lear
and many other things fully as move
and as deeply interesting.
| "This book has marked educationa
| value. Much stress has been laid o
! the myths of Greece and Rome an
northern Europe in the curricula o
our schools. Here is a mythology isc
lated, autochtonic, sad in its memorie
of a departing people, peculiarly clos
to the great world of out-of-doors, c
nature and of animal life, perhar
the one enduring contribution of tn
! American Indian to the culture
growth of civilization in his pecu
iarly appropriate and individual il
| depreciation of the phenomena tn;
encompassed and moulded him."
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-10-13

II IFTY years ago, when Virginia
City was the metropolis of Mon
tana, and the capital of the territory
as well, an enterprising group of
pioneers decided hat the town needed
a wateR works system. Above the
town, on the hillside, were several
mountain springs that gave up a con
siderable volume of pure mountain
water, making it possible for the con
struction of a gravity system. But
the young town was many miles from
the end of the railroad, and this meant
that the necessary pipe mains would
have to be freighted from Corinne,
Utah, and the ox-train freight rates
of those days made this undertaking
absolutely prohibitive.
There was much discussion of this
problem. The town council appoint
ed a committee which went into every
phase of the proposed undertaking.
The result of their Investigations
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-10-13
Platinum Discovery in Carbon
County Attracting Attention;
Placer Prospector Makes Find

metal and $96 for that which contains
10 per cent iridium.
Carbon county's diversified re-
sources are attracting a great deal of
attention, and no little capital. Her
coal deposits have made of Red Lodge
one of the good cities of the southern
part of the state. The famous Elk
basin oil district is located in the
southern portion of the county, on the
Wyoming boundary line. About IS
wells, all of which have been drilled
during the past eight months, are pro-
ducing more oil than the recently
completed pipe line from the ource
of supply to the railroad can carry,
and a second pipe line is nov being
constructed. Her agricultural posi-
bilities are being nicely developed,
and if it should be demonstrated that
she has within her borders a bed of
platinum in placer her asset re-
Ire will be materially added to.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-10-13
BUTTE MAN EATS
100000 STEAKS
WILLIAM oWsLEY CONSUMES
THREE T-BONES EVERY
DAY OF LIFE.
Is Doing More for Beef Industry
Than Any Other Man in State; Left
Nome Because Steaks There Not
Up to the Butte Standard.

THERE is one man in Montana who
l. views with alarm the advancing
price of beef and the upward tilt Of
the T-bone. He also can point with
pride to his T-bone record. He is
former Mayor William Owsley Of
Butte, first municipal chief of the
mining metropolis and discoverer Of
Twin Bridges. He enjoys the dis
tinction of having eaten more T-bcne
steaks than any other man of 70
years of age in Montana. Caterers like
Jack Henshaw and William Davy go
even further than that. They assert
that "Bill" Owsley holds the T-bone
record of the world.
Eats Three Steaks Daily.
AS a matter of fact Mr.. Owsley's
invariable rule is to breakfast on a
T-bone. Then after a morning spent
in the "bridge" works of Phil ellis
he takes his luncheon. 1t is always a
T-bone. The afternoon is usually
spent at the McGoyern club. Then
he dimes on a T-bone at night, and
if he feels like taking a light lunch
before retiring he disposes of his
fourth T-bone steak for the day.
For more than forty years Mr..
Owsley has eaten three T-bone steaks
a day, consuming in this time 43,800
of these choice cuts of meat. In point
Of personal consumption he has done
more to encourage the beef growing
industry than any other man in the
world, and now, at 20 years Of age, he
is as fine a specimen of physical man
hood as one would wish to see.
Preferred Steaks to Gold.
In 1898, at the time of the Nome
discovery, Owsley, always an adven-
: turer, got the gold fever. He sailed
from Seattle on one of the first
/ steamers after the news came out of
the wonderful find. On his arrival at
Nome he hunted up the best cafe in
the new camp and ordered his first
Alaska T-bone. 1t was thin and
tasteless and not up to the juicy STAN
v dard served by the Chequamegan. His
I, first Alaska breakfast was a failure.
] His luncheon steak was no better. The
dinner offering was even worse. That
! settled Nome for Bill Owsley. That
very night he engaged passage back to
I Seattle on the same steamer he had
{ made the trip upon. He needed three
: good steaks every day to furnish sus-
$ tenance for his big frame, and if
Alaska could not supply them he
f wanted none of her gold.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-10-13
PATRIOTS END
FOR BILLIE KEE
MONTANA CHINAMAN WHO RE-
TURNED TO NATIVE LAND
BEHEADED.
Ran Hotel at Lombard for Years and
Accumulated Fortune; Returned to
China to Spend Old Age; Became
Involved in Revolutionary Plot.

Billie Kee, a Chinaman who was
well known in Montana, and who had
accumulated a fortune here, has been
executed for completely in one of the
recent uprisings in China. He was
beheaded.
Kee conducted a hotel at Lombard
for years, and was especially we'll
known among commercial travellers.
He came to Montana about Is years
ago, locating in Helena. The late
Senator Carter became interested in
him, and helped him to learn to read
and write. He was very clever, and
in the course of a few years became
fluent in English. He read every
thing and was as well informed as
any man in the state.
Made a Fortune.
His hotel was very profitable, and
through it and fortunate investments
he became wealthy. But all the time
his heart was in his native land. He
bought himself an aristocratic wife,
and was the father of two sons, one
of which was named for Senator Car
ter and the other for former Con-
gresham Joseph Dixon.
Lombard was the place Of entry, ov-
er the Jawbone railroad, of the Judith
basin country. With the coming of
the Milwaukee railroad, which alb
sorbed the Jawbone road, Lombard
lost its place on the map. The trains
did not even stop there.
Returned to China.
In the meantime Kee, having ac-
cumulated enough to make him a very
rich man in China, decided to spend
the rest of his days in the land of
his nativity. He disposed of his in
t~erests, babe his adopted country
boodbye and sailed away. This was
about six years ago.
Friends to whom he had written
say that he speedily became interested
in the movement to make of China 6
republic. He stood very we'll with
Sun Vat Sen, the first president of the
republic, who saw that he was giver
a post of responsibility in the new
government.
But Sun Vat Sens administration
was short lived. He was succeeded
by Yaun Shi Kai, the strong man {.
China, who attempted to use the pres
idential place as a stepping stone t.
the throne of the Manchus. Men o
KEGS type did not approve of tn
ambitions of Yuan, and got into dis
favor.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-10-13
800 Millions Is Montana's
Share of the Years Wealth

Montana will add to the worlds wealth this year over $500 O00,
600. In this immense production mining will lead with a total of
$146yOO0OO0. Agriculture comes next with $780, 900 to its credit,
while livestock will yield total of $685. 1000. Industries other than
these will produce the remainder.
Ten years ago the total worth of the states output from all
sources was under $780, 100000
War prices of metals are responsible for the high total of the
mineral wealth to be produced during 1915. But new processes like
oil flotation and the reduction of zinc by electrical methods will keep
the mining totals high for all time. It is believed that the Butte
district will be employing several thousand additional miners in the
mining of zinc ores alone, within a few years.
Agricultural products will show a steady increase for the next
ten years. A Chicago grain expert who recently made a survey of
the wheat possibilities of the state is of the opinion that within ten
years Montana will be producing ten times as much wheat as is now
produced. The states present production, conservatively estimated,
is around ~9Sy0O0,OOO bushels, although a government grain expert re-
Gently put this years estimate at 40,O00000. Discounting these fig
mes, if the state is producing ESQ., 900 bushels of grain annually
ten years from now, the production will be 100000 bushels in excess
of bumper years of Kansas.
These totals are astounding. But for that matter the increase of
every year surprises even the most sanguine believers in Montana s
magnificent future.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-10-13
The Cruise of the Bremen
BY ROBERT
Copyrighted by Montana Newspaper Association }

Note;-An American who has just returned from England states that the
Bremen las been captured and lies in Falmouth harbOr, England.
The captain lay in his roomy bunk in the hold of the good
ship Bremen. AS he closed his eyes for a peaceful nap, he
straightway started dreamin'. And he dreamed that he carried
apologies from the emperor of Germans to the grinning skulls
round the hapless hull of the late ship Lustania. So they left
the the crest of the bounding main for a plunge meath the great
Atlantic and embarked on a cruise through the deep-sea ooze,
both eventful and romantic. When they stopped for lunch, in a
day or two, at the great god Neptune's palace, the mermaids
piled them with rare old wine from a fine old golden chahce.
And the maidens smiled as they twined their arms round the
necks of the crew and captain, while a handsome blonde, who was
over-fond, even Rugged the dear old chaplain. AS they idled away
each happy day in palace or coral arbor, some one severed the
Bremen's anchor rope and she landed in Falmouth harbor! And
I'm askin' you, could this dream be true, of the captain and Ger
man seamen? If you say it's not, then 1 ask you, what has be-
come of the goo6 ship Bremen?
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-10-13
Why the Kingfisher Always
Wears a War-BOnnet
(From Indian Why Stories" by Frank B. L~inderman)

(From Indian Why Stories" by Frank B Lnderman)
A UTUMN nights on the upper Missouri river in Montana are indie
scribably beautiful, and under their spell imagination is a con-
slant companion to him who lives in wilderness, lending strange
weird echoes to the voice of man or wolf, and unnatural shapes in
shadow to commonplace forms.
The moon had not yet climbed the distant mountain range to look
down on the humber lands when I started for War Eagle lodge; and
dimming the stars in its course, the milky way stretched across the
jeweled sky. "The VOLTS trail, the Indians call this flmy streak
that foretels fair weather, and tonight it promised much, for it seemed
palmer and brighter than ever before.
"How-how!' greeted War Eagle, making the sign for me to be
seated near him, as I entered his lodge. Then he passed me his pipe
and together we smoked till the children came.
Entering quietly they seated themselves in exactly the same po-
shions they had occupied on previous evenings, and patiently waited
in silence. Finally War Eagle laid the pipe away and said: "Ho!
Little Buffalo Calf, throw a big stick on the fire and I will tell you
why the Kngfisher wears a war-bonnet."
The boy did as he was hidden. The sparks jumped up toward
the smoke hole and the blaze lighted up the lodge until it was as bright
as daytime, when War Eagle continued:
"You have often seen Kingfisher at his fishing along the rivers,
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-10-13

There may be no such thing as
True Love; but there is an imitation
hat is very pleasant and serves well
enough.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-10-13

I know; and you nave heard him laugh
in his queer way, for he laughs a good
deal when he flies. That same laugh
nearly cost him his life once, as you
will see. I am sure none could see the
Kingfisher without noticing his great
headress, but not many know how he
anne by it because it happened so
long ago that most men have forgot
ten.
1T was one day in the winter
time when Oldham and the Wolf
were hunting. The snow covered the
land and ice was on all of the rivers.
It was so cold that Oldham Mrapned
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-10-13
FIRST NATIONAL BANKS.

Washington.-The comptroller Of
the currency today issued a charter
for the First National bank of Judith
Gap, Mont, which will have $4,000
capital.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-10-13

stOou ON the bank and shlvered with fright
and cold. Of course the Wolf was faster
than the Otter, but he was running on ice,
remember, and slipping a good deal. Near
er and nearer ran the Wolf. In fact he was
just about to seize an Otter, when SPLASH
into an air-hole all the Offers went. Ho!
the Wolf was going so fast he couldn't
stop, and SWOW! into the air-hole he went
like a badger after mice, and the current
carried him under the ice. The Offers knew
that the hole was there. That was their
country and they were running to reach
that same hole all the time, but the Wolf
didn't know that.
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Goldman saw it all and began to cry and wall as women do. Hol
but he made a great fuss. He ran along the bank of the river, stumb-
ling in the snowdrifts, and crying like a woman whose child is dead;
but it was because he didnt want to be left in that country alone
that he cried-not because he loved his brother, the Wolf. On and
on he ran until he came to a place where the water wa. too swift to
freeze, and there he waited and watched for the Wolf to come out
from under the ice, crying and wailing and making an awful noise
for a man.
'Well-right there is where the thing happened. You see, King
fisher can't fish through the ice, and he knows it, too; so he always
finds places like the one oldman found. He was there that day, sit
ting ON the limb of a brchtree, watching for fishes, and when Old
man came near to Kingfisher's tree, crying like an old woman, it
tlckeled the Fisher so much that he laughed that queer, chattermg
laugh.
Goldman heard him and-Hol but he was angry. He looked
about to see who was laughing at him and that time the Kingfsher
laughed again, longer and louder than before. This time Oldham
saw him and swoWl he threw his war-club at Kingfisher; tried to
kill the bird for laughing. Kingfisher ducked SO quickly that Old
mans club just grazed the feathers on his head, making them stand
up straight.
There said Old man, III teach you to laugh at me when I'm
sad. Your feathers are standing up on the top of your head now and
they will stay that way, too. AS long as you live you must wear a
headdress, to paw for your laughing. and all your children must do the
same
and they all wear warbonnets, and always will as long as there are
Kingfishers."
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his robe close about him and his breath showed white in the air. Of
course the Wolf was not cold. Wolves never get cold as men do. Both
Oldham and the Wolf were hungry for they had travelled far and
had killed no meat. Oldham was complaining and grumblng, for his
heart is not very good. 1t is never well to grumble when we are doing
out best, because it will do no good and makes us weak in our hearts.
When our hearts are weak our heads siken and our strength goes
away. Yes, it is bad to grumbe.
when the sur was getting low Oldham and the Wolf came to
a great river. On the ice that covered the water, they saw four fat
Offers playing.
:" There is meat, said the Wolf; wait here and I will try to
catch one of those fellows
No! No! cried Oldham, do not run after the Otter on the
ice, because there are airholes in all ice that covers rivers, and you may
fall in the wafer and die Oldham didn't care much if the Wolf
did drown. He was afraid to be left alone and hungry in the snow
that was all
'Ho'' said the Wolf, I am swift Of foot and my teeth are
white and sharp. What chance has an Otter against me? Yes T will
co. and he did.
AWAY ran tie Offers with the Wolf after them. while Old Man
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-06-15
IS
COMING
eoL1MAR BROTHERS c1Rcus-YEA-
TURING HERR DRIEsBocK's WILD
TRAINED ANIMALS.

Gollmar Brothers Greatest of Amer
lean Shows combined with D~reisbock's
trained Wild Animal Show, are billed to
exhibit in Devils Lake under the au-
spices of E. +. Q. Z. Elks lodge.
This mammoth all feature attraction.
is Offering more thrillers this season
than eve before. The European war.
has enabled Gollmar Brothers to greatly
strengthen the Wild Animal section of
their circus and having added the entire
Driesbock Zoo to their already big ma
nagerie. A.
The Driesbock animals are all train
ed performers and are put through their
sensational acts at each performance CT
this big Circus in a steel arena IL the
center of Gollmar Brothers mammoth
water proof tents.
The principal human playmate and iii
structor is a little lady. Mile Marguerite
Driesbock. and her power and control
ever these ferocious wild lions from the
jungles is a performance of marvel and
beWilderment. Remember the date.
Devils Lake, Thursday, June 90.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-06-15
HENRI J. L1NDE.
for Republican Nominations
For Attorney General for Sec
Ond Term,

Born near Ridgeway, in Winnesheik
county, Iowa. Graduated from Luth--
er College, DEBORAH, Iowa, in 1901.
Member Of the faculty of the Park
Region Luther College, Fergus Falls,
Minnesota, from 1901 to 1908. Grad
uated from the College of Law Of the
University of Minnesota in 1906.
Practiced law in Mountrail county,
North Dakota, until elected Attorney
General in 1914.
I submit my record in the past for
the consideration of the Republican
electors of the state. I renew the.
promise made at. the last election that
I will not shirk any public duty pre-
scribed by law. I shall appreciate
your support. Henry j. Linde.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-06-15
WHAT SHALL WE ARBlTRATE?.

A most astounding story eminates from Washington. It is an
noumced that President Wilson is contemplating submitting to IN
Mexico. Is it possible that at this crisis, and in the midst Of a ma
tioal political campaign, the President can seriously consider the
commission of a blunder so monumental?
What points would he submit to arbitration? VIII he go back
Huerta? Will he arbitrate the insult of Tanpico and the failure
to compel the Huerta government to offer the apology of a formal
sautstion of the American flag? Will he arbitrate the fuctuating
policy which first leaned toward Villa and finally gravitated to Car
rama? Will he arbitrate the Villa raid on Columbus and the JUS
tce Of the punitive expedition which came to naught through a
timorous policy of support? Will he arbitrate the subsequent out
RACES which have made necessary a Gordon of troops stretched
along our southern border?
With wanton deiberation Mexican lawlessness and contempt
have slapped the American cheek; does the President poIpose to
arbtrate a proposition to turn the other cheek to be slapped?
There are between us and Mexico matters in allegiance which
we'll might be composed by arbitration, but they are not the vital
issues, and his is not the time. Questions of damage and indem-
nifty properly might come before an international tribunal, but
matters adjusted, peace and order restored and Mexico in poses
sion of her senses as far as relation with the United States are
concerned. The duty imposed by our national selfrespect must
be discharged before we are ready to adjust financial differences.
President Wilson must make it clear without loss of time that he
entertains no thought cf submitting the national honor to arbitra-
ton. We have long been committed tC a course which has i'm
pressed Mexicans with a belief in our national cowardice. We
have earned their contempt and disdain. Are we now to take a
st. Paul Dispatch.
In order that there shall be no mistaking as to where candidates
stand, we mention the fact that the Non-Partsan Leader comes
didates of the league as representative from this county. Up to
a few days ago MI. Hoghaug has declared that he had no connec-
ton with the league, whatever, but just what concessions have
been made, or what has induced the League to endorse him. after
known. However, we do not believe that the endorsement of Mr..
Hoghaug by the League will gain him many votes. AS the matter
now stands the league has endorsed four candidates for the house
when only three can be elected, and who they propose to give the
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1916-06-15
COMFORTING WORDS,
Many a Devils Lake Household Will
Find Them So.

~ wv
To have the pains and aches Of a
bad back removed - to be entirely
free from annoying, dangerous urinary
disorders, is enough to make any kid
ney sufferer grateful. The following
advice of n who has suffered will
prove comforting words to hundreds
Of Devils Lake readers.
Mrs. H. l.. Bartlett, lit w. Twelfth
St, Devils Lake, says: Il had a steady
dull ache across my back. After stoop-
ing and trying to straighten, sharp
pains darted through my sides. I
felt poorly in every way. Doan's Kid
ney Pills helped me right away and
after using several boxes, I had no
more kidney trouble"
Price soc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Bartlett had. Foster-Milburn
Co. Props, Buffalo, N. Y.