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The Detroit times., 1916-11-18
Season Fails to Please;
Mentor is
Blamed a4
EAST LANSING. Mich, Nov. is.

EAST LANSING. Mich, Nov. fs.
Irrespective OF the outcome OF to
days game with Notre Dame II is
the common belief on the VI. A. c.
campus that Coach Frank sommer
viii not be the Aggies' gridiron
mentor next year In fact, shortly
after the arrival OF the Catholic
eleven. informal overtures spon-
sored by student leaders were made
10 Coach Jesse Harper with the
hope OF bringing him here not only
as head football coach, but also az
athletic director
The ambitious Michigan Aggfes
and their supporters are far from
satisfied with this seasons records
and it is doubtful that even a vic
tory OF good margin over Notre
Dame would prove sufficient To dis.
quiet theil disappointment They
had hoped for more firm footing
on the middle western gridiron this
season The loss OF the Michigan
game was accented philosophically
enough, out when the Aggies tray-
| eled 10 Vermillion South Dakota.
I two weeks ago and not only failed
"a win but barely escaped defeat.
the feeling that something was
wrong. grew rapidly There was
nc game last Saturday for the Az
giles TO retrieve themselves and
the present feeling crystallized as
the result.
Coach Sommers contract with
the ARgies ends today. Whether
or not he will be offered a new con-
tract rests prln cipally with Presi-
dent Kedzie. No one In or out OF
the Aggie camp denies that Coach
Sommer knows football in It's every
phase. However, the campus be-
lleves that he haa failed 10 produce
an eleven which the material mer-
tied The Aggies have lacked the
punch that wins. and this is cred
tied TO friction that has existed of
and on in the Aggie camp.
However. during the past week
things have been going better and
the old spirit that has carried the
Nggies TO victory in many hard
battles seems 10 have returned.
The men are pulling together and
on the eve OF tho Notre Dame game
there was considerable optimism
"a to the outcome.
Those who seek change ac-
knowledge that former Coach John
F. Macklin had his unpleasant
times but they point out that he
made the Aggies a factor in big
| time football They assert that he
had the advantage of association
with the men tho year around and
- athletic director rs well as head
| coach. was supreme. and ruled out
the greater chances OF friction.
The desire 10 bring Coach Harper
10 East Lansing is not new by any
means When Macklin succeeded
Coach Brewer there were many
close to the powers that rule the
Aseies that favored Coach Harper.
They were well acquainted with his
methods and his success for his
two years At Alma and his later
successes at Wabash convinced
them that he was the man needed.
Again last fall when II became
definitely known that Coach Mack
lin would not return, there was n
demand for Coach Harper. But
Macklin held on in hope OF return
irg and finally it was too late 20
consider Harper
There is one thing certain. The
Aggies rs the result OF their
achievements OF the past few sea-
sons have tasted success and they
will not be satisfied until they have
forced substanti,l recognition from
The Detroit times., 1916-11-18
Army short on TIeket,

WEST POINT y. Y. Nov. Is
The full allotment of $1,000 tick.
cts 20 West Point for the Army
Navy football game has been dis
posed OF and the Army is not salts
fed The demand far exceeded the
supply.
The Detroit times., 1916-11-18

resolution would stop drafting from
the American association. Tnterna.
tional league and he Pacific coast
league
The resolution Was adopted after
q secret conference between club
owners aud presidents of, the big
three" and provides that each shall
appoint committee 10 represent
them ~ meetings OF the American
and National leagues 10 urge the
dropping Of the draft.
Printing-the plain neat kind--thst
H. riHht--Timss Job Dept--wsIr s51o
The Detroit times., 1916-11-18

Tho claims of Arizona tc tho loca.
ton Of one 1f tine nropc cd farm
loan banks viil be- presented 10 the
farm loan board At hearing at
phoenlN lnday.
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Bln nav for WIlIians-

Matty Williams had a bigger day
Friday han any Detroit bowler has
had this season. Hc averaged 200
Tor i've consecutive games an The
Garden alleys last night
The Detroit times., 1916-11-18
Detroit Tesrls Out Of Town.

All OF DVtrolt's high sohool foot
bail teams IRE OFT Of town today
Central is at Grand Rapids 20 seek
the state championship Cas- Is At
Pontiac. Western &C. 81 Ypsi and
Northwestern is a. Flint
The Detroit times., 1916-11-18

HENNSYIVANIA maui Mchigsn the gdron two
years ago The ogers had not been snong successful @
preceding the Wolverine iou they hthrP
annhlated Swarhmore Tucker had male '3yad desh r9
uchdown kickoff all Aer'
The had pretty good all fall and that one game
the finest Quaker
his
and the best
speed
chants, with Tucker the outstanding star
Is Pennsy The team
the hanke In captivity
brilliant baoknd The tale
The records Of the
VA ker DIS are no
The Detroit times., 1916-11-18
SOmmer Is Thru at NJ. A. c.,
Is Tip From Aggie Campus
OPINIONS FROM FERRY FIELD

Capt Maulbetsch-"We'rc go
ing tc win. Every man is in dne
shape, and T.enn is going 70 be-
The loser today
Coach Iost--"FolNell said he
would take home the bacon but
he ia going % have a hard time
getting held of the pig
Coach Pontus-"Wc ought 30
win
Coach Douglas-"lts going 10
be close one. AID hard fought.
We look good To cop"
"REMINISCENCES.
ErQuarter5ack Hughitt-
What would 7 give 10 he in
there today Why. my right log
and arm is what il would be
worth to me"
Ex.Capt Cochran-"Would /
like TO play against Penn? I'd
give half OF my lfe 10 gel an
other crack 40 those men.
The Detroit times., 1916-11-18
Pitt Is II.

noB FOLWElI. developed Washington and
Pcnnsy back
heerfu admits that Pittsburgh has absolutely the finest football
he Pit . S a
n which enough Of star 10 b
bette a
Rob land Warmers 'en Of coaching there not hecause Warner
having that doesn't have BE- inspired By remarkable tutoring
n
II tack any / h
ra
wna an
The Detroit times., 1916-11-18
A Hunch, Maybe.

- outplayed Mch
a only scoring
for the period
chiganh had rushe
the
"a Michigan
10 out % boomers
Philadelphia
Yosth
Ices | a bu I built for
Is appalling
sides
interesting possibilities Of the
allow the day without recalling The game
- Philadelphia and PLAY ed
Pnnsy had excellent chance 10 score In the FIRST quarter
Smt
held Roeh Intercepted forward That
the only Red and Blue scoring opportunity
ball Pnns TERRITORY forward ohm to NemSnn plant
the
a failed Thereafter the
grounded forward puning in which neither
ca had al
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defeat
for each That's stepping
The Detroit times., 1916-11-18

Tho ohio VALLEY Electrical Evposi-
ticn opens Al Cincinnati for weeks
engagement.
The Detroit times., 1916-11-18
One Year Ago.

spondlng
VII be bling IRON einsstinsk That was wild
with the hnest
cornell and Pittsburgh Not
scoring total
Aas2n he ~ West Point
ecord Is % SINE a 0
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touch
in
of
bounced
nd O
of
Michigan
actually o a
The Detroit times., 1916-11-18
DOPE ON THE BIG GAME

hale I-Igcr
Martens sharpe
IN Iouck
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time
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-29
OPENS Neu Montana Empire
Vast Expanse of Fertile Land in Dawson and Fergus Counties, Two Hundred
Miles Across, Will Be Developed by New Branch Of Great Northern-Wonderful
Crops Raised in Territory That Promises to Rival Judith and Ganatn Valleys

store is Richie, because he was there
first.
A mile away to the west there is
a new general store, the proprietor of
which insists that he has the ear of
some of the "higher-ups" of the
Great Northern, and that his location
is only a block away from where the
Richie depot will stand, while at the
third end of the triangle is another
store, the owner of which tells about
the same story. The fact that both
of the new stores have been built on
skids, convenient for moving, would
indicate that neither of the propri-
etors is placing too much dependence
on their W public %utterances, and
are prepared to move to Richie, pro-
viding Richie does not come to them.
Three Locations Here
For One Railroad Town.
So the great question in this inland
empire of the future is not whether
Hughes or Wilson will be successful
some six weeks hence, or whether
Montana is going to climb on the wat
er wagon, or the Teuton or the Briton
shall prevail, but where the depot is
to be located, because where the depot
rises is located the center of a new
town that, in the course of a few
years, with the unlimited OF
a virgin country back of it, may be-
come another Lewistown or even a
Billings. The depot site will make
the lots in the lucky subdivision sell
and those of the other that is too fal
away go to grass, because the rea'
estate mar is there, life-sized ant
ready for business.
The land is rich. Seven years agt
a tubercular stenographer arrived
from Minneapolis. He had no none.
and went to work on the Gum cattl'
ranch on the Redwater. He was ad
vised to file on a 320-acre Homestead
in the neighborhood. He put hi
wages into improvements and thi
summer sold his place for $11,00
cash. That will give n an idea o
the character of the land of the dis
trict that is about to be opened uI
And there are four or five thousan,
pieces of land as good as this one
which in a year or two will add som
millions to the assessed valuation o
Montana, and make happy and pros
+ porous homes for forty or fifty thous
> and people. 1t is a great country an
e will loom large in the public eye i
S the near future.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-29
J. P. MORGAN OF MONTANA
Gold Dust King Helped to Finance This State
Henry Filing Made All of His Millions in a Village

In the meantime he had developed an
adeptness for passing on gold dust,
then the circulating medium Of the
territory. He could tell at a glance,
from the color and coarseness of the
gold, just what section of the gulch
it came from, and knew its value to
a pennyweight. He turned his mer-
camille establishment over TO subor-
dinates and become a gold dust brok-
er.
In this business he was s~ingularly
successful. From his gold dust brok-
erage bushes developed one of the
pioneer banking houses of Montana,
which speedily became the parent of
other banks, until, about twenty
years ago he controlled a formidable
string of banks, one Of which is the
Union Bank and Trust company of
Helena.
For thirty years he sat in his little
banking house in Virginia City, one
of the financial overloards of the
state. He went into everything, and
everything he went into turned into
money. For years he specialized in
buying warrants and the various
counties, when no one else would take
them. No man more nearly under
stood the magic alchemistry. And
during these thirty years he left Vir-
ginia City but twice, and one Of these
trips was to Helena, at a time of a
nationwide crisis, when at the innvi-
tation of the Helena bankers he visit
ed the capital to loan money to tide
over banks whose existence we're
threatened.
lie made n or two serious mis-
takes. For instance, he loaned Henry
Nippenberg $4,000 on the Hecla
mines at Glendale. Knippenberg had
buitl a smelter and it would not
smelt. He was at the end of his re-
sources, and asked Filing to take over
the property for his loan. Filing de-
clined. Kinppenberg got out of his
financial difficulties shortly after
ward and cleaned up a million dol
lars in a few years from his mine.
Filing loaned on integrity. He did
not want to know whether the appli-
cant had security, but he wanted to
know about his personal habits and
his methods of doing business. His
Judgment Of men was exceptionally
good, and there r any number of in
dividuals in t hesitate, now wealthy.
who got their start in life from this
pioneer financier.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-29

Residents of Circle, which is one of
the most populous towns OF this in
land country, are very hopeful be-
cause of the fact hat the Great
Northern has recently made extensive
purchases of acreage Immediately ad-
joining the original TOWNSHIP. They
are talking railroad machine shops, di-
vision point and all those things which
a purchase of this character would
suggest. However, it is said that the
railroad has made other purchases in
other towns along the line, and the
things hal are to be lie on the laps
of the railroad gods. But at any rate
grain grows and grass waves, and cat
tie fatten and people multiply to
make the freight receipts of the rail
road that is coming.
Huge Tractors Dragging
Construction Equipment.
During the past summer the steel
was pushed out west beyond Enid, one
of the good towns Of this new section,
30 miles west Of Sidney. Giant trac-
tors, small locomotives in themselves,
dragged trains of small ears overland,
carrying parts of steam shovels which
are now at work a considerable dis
tance west Of Enid. These cars were
small, such as are used in ballasting
track not connected with the steel of
the main road. They are equipped
with steel wheels with the flange SO
as to make them of use on the tracks,
and the scars they left in the country
roads along the right of way will be
apparent to the passerby for many
years.
The depot sites of the new road will
mark the center of many of these
towns that are to be. Adventurous
merchants, seeking foothold III new
places, must guess about where the
depots will be, for the railroad Off
Gals, who know, cannot hear then
when they ask where the depot is to b.
located. So they use their best judg
ment and build near where they thinl
the depot ought to be.
The town of Richie, which is on
of the very newest places on the map
consists Of three stores whose loca
tions form a triangle, with each stor
about a mile apart, and on the cor
ners of the triangle. The first stor
is the mercantile establishment tina
was there before Jim Hill cam
through that country to spy out tn
land. The head of this house says h
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-29
SCARED OF RATTLERS?
She KILLED II OF EN-
MONTANA WOMAN TAKES CLUB
AND CLEANS UP RANCH
OF BIG REPTILES.

Vaughn. The rattlesnake killing
record of the state for women is
claimed by Mrs. Mae Grady, a young
matron Of this town, who slaughtered
eleven of the reptiles in twenty-five
minutes.
Mrs. Grady was strolling through a
field on the Grady ranch when she
came upon a colony of rattlers, which
apparently had gathered for a snake
convention of some sort-possibly a
fall political rally. She Immediately
came to the conclusion that the ranch
cold get along without the rattle
snakes, and without even so much as
thinking of calling her husband, she
looked for a stout club.
Then the slaughter began.
Bing! She got the chief snake.
with twelve rattles. He never knew
what hit him.
Whang! Another big specimen BIZ
the dust before he had time to coil.
The rest saw that their trenches
had been stormed and that surrender
would not save them. They began te
scatter in all directions.
But they YER not fast enough. One
by one Mrs. Grady picked them of
until the ground was Uttered with
lifeless but still ~writhing snakes.
The Mrs. Grady calmly walked
home and reported her successful bat.
tie. Any one disputing her title te
champion lady snake killer of Mon.
tana viii please present certificates
and credentials.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-29

Virginia City. HOY many Mon
tana financiers of this cornucopia
year of 1916 recall Henry Filing, who
is in his day was to Montana what j.
Pierpont Morgan to national finance.
Twenty years ago he was a power in
Montana, the aoutstanding figure in
the young states financial affairs.
He helped to finance the state, was
behind many big enterprises, and
took his toll SO cleverly, that living
in a small town, he died worth four
or five million dollars.
His career makes one of the money
romances of Montana. He started
in life in a small store in Fort Leav-
enworth, Kansas. The soldiers were
ordered away, and he and his partner,
almost at the offset of their careers,
were left with a $4,000 stock of
merchandise on their hands, for prac-
tically all of which they owed. Ell
ing went to st. Louis and obtained
permission of his creditors to take his
stock overland to Virginia City,
where gold had just been discovered,
the stories of which had reached Ell
ring and excited his adventurous
spirit.
He loaded his stock of merchan-
disc of prairie schooners and started
on the long trek into the wild north
west via the OK team route. The lit
tie caravan won it's way through a
hostile Indian country, and after
many vicissitudes and adventures, In
which it was always toss and go, ar.
rived at the new gold camp.
The new stock of goods arrived al
a most opportune time. Famine
prices were to be had for almost ev'
erything. He sold his oxen for beef
for fabulous prices, and opened his
mercantile establishment. In three
weeks he had exchanged most of his
$4,000 stock for 100000 in golC
dust.
The great civil war was then at it;
ebb tide, and the money of the United
States was worth about forty cents
on the dollar, gold. Ellring conceiv
ed the idea of sending his partner cas-
with this gold dust, buying a new
stock of goods, and investing the sur
plus in paper money, which he fell
would appreciate to its full value af
ter the war. The partner went away
with this fortune. Filing never hear(
from his again.
This disaster did not daunt thu
young financier. With the remnant.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-29

busy man, too, and l can't be all day
buying a jaunting car"
"Why, His Majesty's car will cost
three hundred pounds said the man.
ager. "But if we sold you this one
we would have to make a rush order
for another one for the king to get
it out on time"
"Ill give you three hundred and
fifty pounds" said Tom. SIN dol
lars and cents hal means $1,750.'
"Well," said the manager, "I1l
have to let you have it. Where do
you want it sent, sir?'
"Deer Lodge, Montana, U. S. A.
Tom Replied, "and send it by ex-
PRESS"
"By express?" shouted the car
riage builder. "Why man that
would cost half as much as the car is
WORTH
"By express" repeated Tom. 81
said / was a busy man, and l can't
be waiting a year for a jaunting cal
to get to Deer Lodge. | want it fol-
the Fourth of July parade, and that's
only two months away"
"Holy Smoke" was all the man.
ager could find to say as he booked
the order and Tom paid for it.
The express on the car IA about
5000, but Tom thought it was worth
it when he appeared in the Fourth Of
July procession at Deer Lodge in the
new equipage.
Today Tom still maintains the
jaunting a as one of his proudest
possessions, and he keeps it in a spec
ial carriage shed, for he holds that au
tomobiles r not fit associates for
real Irish jaunting car, let alone ont
that was built for a king.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-29

back to Ireland, the country he left
as a boy. Having amassed a fortune,
he felt he could crafty the longing
that had possessed him for years to
see the Emerald Isle once more, and
incidentally, he wanted to take an
other ride in a jaunting car.
Everyone who has been in Ireland
knows what a jaunting a is. 1t is
the national vehicle of that country,
and no one who has ever ridden in one
could forget the side-seated rigs as
they jolt over the cobblestones of Dub
lin or Cork.
While in Dublin one day Tom pass
ed a big carriage works where all
kinds of fine vehicles were being man.
ufaetured. He went in and inquired
for the manager. The manager APP
peared.
"Do you make jaunting ears?" in
quired Tom.
"OnIy to ORDER" replied the man
ager, "and the ones we make cost a
lot of money. 1t happens that w are
Just now finishing one that King Ed
ward ordered, and we are going to
exhibit it in London before it is de-
livered to his majesty"
"I'd like to see it," said Tom.
"Right this way" replied the man.
ager.
Tom was shown the car, and it Ger
tainly was q beauty.
"That's sure a fine looking carr
said Tom. $50 that's for the king
chi"
eyes, that's for the king re
piled the manager, sand now if you'll
excuse me, III leave you, for this il
my busy day."
"Heyl wait a minute said Tom
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-29
HOW T.
BOUGHT THE KINGS
IRISH

"What will you sell me that a for"
The manager was startled and
turned back.
"Sell you that carr" he replied.
"Why, man, I've told you it is for
the king"
"Well, it's good enough for me,
too,' said Tom. ''Come, how much
do you want for it? Can't you make
the king another one?"
The manager scratched his head.
"Why / suppose we could make you
one life it," he said.
ono, 1 want this one,' Tom in
sisted. "What's the price, I'm a
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-29

Deer Lodge.-Hav you ever heard
the story of how Tom McTeague
bought the Irish jaunting a that vas
made in Dublin for King Edward VII
and had it shipped to Deer Lodge by
express?
Tom McTeague is one of the char
acters of Montana. For years he and
his partner, Frank Conley, were state
prison contractors. Tom has been a
wheel horse of the democratic party
in the state, and was a notable mem
Der of the "third house" of the leg
islature during the days when lobby
ing was in its prime.
A dozen years ago Tom took a trip
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-29

of his stock he cleaned up about $10,-
600. This he took with him to st.
Louis and paid off his creditors.
When he told them his story they
gave him unlimited credit and he re-
turned to Virginia City with the larg-
est stock of goods that had, up to that
time, been brought into the territory.
From that time on he was the big
merchant of the lusty camp, and
flourished amazingly. Withinn a year
from the time his partner and de-
camped he had recouped all his loss.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-29

are the metropoli in embryo of the
western end.
Tremendous things are predicted In
the way of wheat production for this
section. There are prophets who as
sert that the wheat yield in the dis
trict will, in the course of a few
years, rival that of the Judith basin,
and the Gallatin valley. Bumper crops
were grown there last year, but be-
cause of the lack of transportation
the efforts of the farmers are con-
fined to growing crops that can be
put on the backs and loins of beef,
because it is easier to get the produce
to market on four legs than it is to
haul it fifty or sixty miles to the rail
road.
The fact that the Great Northern
railroad is building through this ter
ritory should be sufficient guarantee
of its possible productiveness. Time
was when the stretch of steel, the
main line of the Great Northern,
which runs east from Shelby to Mon
day, passed through land that was
considered only good for grazing pur-
poses. Now this same section is yield
ing millions of bushels of wheat an
nually, and it is expected that the
acreage under cultivation will be treb-
led during the next few years. In the
old days financiers laughed at Hills
routing, but time has demonstrated
that the genius of the Great Northern
had a vision that was but little short
of uncanny.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-09-29
Rhode Island Would Be
Lost In This Empire.

Already the rapid settlement of the
great territory between Grass Range
and Sidney is proving the soundness
of the Hill judgment, and tonnage
sufficient to make the branch pay
handsome dividends will be waiting
for the first freight train that passes
over the new line. Churches and
schools and newspapers and real es-
tate men are there now, building to-
ward the time when the smoke of the
first locomotive will herald the COM
ing of prosperity and the opening up
of another inland empire to add to the
wealth and laurels of mighty Mon
tana. The state of Rhode Island
could be lost in this broad domain, a
small section of Montana, and there
are thousands of people in the west
ern part of the state who know moth.
ing, or very little of its possibilities.