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Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-03-23
SELLS HIS BULL TEAM AND
BUYS al MODERN TRACTOR

and Townsend. 1t was a cold night
in December, and I had three cases
of eggs stacked up inside the coach
on one of the seats. There were no
passengers when / left, but a few
miles out of White Sulphur 1 picked
up the state superintendent OF
schools, whose name has slipped me
now. He wasn't used to much hard
ships, l guess, for he did a lot of
kicking about having to ride in a
stage at night, the cold weather and
anything else that happened to occur
to him. He vas up in front with me
for awhile, but finally decided to
ride inside and try to nap a little, and
he told me to drive as careful as los
Sible.
well, everything went smooth
enough till we came to a place
where someone had let a gate down
in a fence and left a post lying out
toward the road. This scared the
leaders, and in a second the whole
six were running. I couldn't stop
them, but for a while it didn't dis
turb me any as it was a pretty good
road and 1 figured they'd wear
themselves out in a couple of miles
CT tu0 SulG IhCy WcIe ulJllUS. buC
suddenly a coyote lodged out on
one side of the road and the leaders
swung out and 1 couldn't herd them
back into the trail. Then it oc-
CURED to me that a little ahead
there was a couple of shallow irriga-
ton bitches that had j list been dug,
running parallel about fifty feet
apart, and the road crossed them on
two narrow bridges. What made it
worse was that the stage road took
a turn just before it came to these
bridges, and it wasn't the best kind
of a place to take on the dead run.
Some Scrambled Eggs.
Then, all of a sudden, as / was
trying to yank the leaders back to-
ward the road, l saw the bitches
ahead of me, a whole lot nearer than
l had figured. What was worse l
wasn't headed for them square. I
just had time to think once, and the
idea that struck nj was that our
only chance was to hit those bitches
straight on and not sideways. /
couldn't do nothing with that hard
bitted stage stock by yanking on the
ribbons when they was running hog
wild that way, so I made the silk
end of my whip-lash pop against
the off leaders right ear till he must
have though it was a bomb busting.
Anyway it turned them the way 1
wanted and we hit that first ditch
like an express train. / went up in
the air and didn't come down again
till after we'd hit the second ditch.
l didn't know whether we had a
wheel left the way that coach was
bouncing around. From the yells
coming out of the professor, I could
tell he wasn't dead yet. When l
got the outfit stopped he buzzes out
of that door like a hornet. He was
covered from head to foot with
scrambled eggs, and I sat there and
laughed till the stock was about to
start another stampede. Talk about
a mad school teacher-he sure APP
peared to be irritated, and it didn't
do much good to tell him he was
lucky he wasn't dead.
THAT story went all over Mon
tana, and I've heard at least three
other stage drivers tell it and claim
1t was them that was driving when it
~hannaDpd
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-03-23

German who has been such an out
standing figure in the inter national
relations of the United States is
Miss Harriet Aronson of Great Falls,
and she is well qualified for the work
awaiting her in the hospitals behind
the shell-scarred battle lines in
France, being a graduate of the
nurses training school at the Column
bus hospital.
Miss Aronson felt that a woman
could do no nobler work than that
under the Red Cross service, and for
many months she wished she could
get to Europe to Offer her services
for work behind the trenches. Fin
ally her opportunity came and she
seized it. 1t happened that a coal
miner, Carl Lehto, who had been
crippled for life in the mines at
Sand Coulee and who had drawn
$4,000 from a causalty company un-
der the Montana workmen's compen-
sation act, wished to go back to his
home in Finland. He offered to pay
a trained nurse we'll for accompany
ing him back, as he is completely
paralyzed. Miss Arnoson undertook
to make the trip.
Difficulties at Halifax
Miss Aronson and her charge went
aboard the Frederick VIII at New
York, and as every possible precau-
ton was taken by the U. S. secret
service men, there was a lot of red
tape to go through. Some of her
friends in Great Falls wished to pre-
sent her with a steamer rug, var
cap and a heavy veil for use on the
cold sea trip, and they wired a ply
sician at Halifax to secure these ar
ticles and present them to Miss Aron-
o aboard the boat. So strict, how
ever was the embargo placed by the
British authorities on communica-
ton of any kind between the ship
and the shore that it was impossible
to deliver the gifts. Then a Great
Falls physician wired the premier
of the province of Nova Scotia, and
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-03-23
MONTANA ON
HISTORIC VOYAGE
PRETTY NURSE ON SHIP THAT
CARRIED Won BERNSTORFF
BACK TO EUROPE.
TOOK Premier of Nova Scotia Ten
Days to Get Presents to Her
Aboard British Ship at Halifax
of StriCtness o f English
Officials.

When the steamship Frederick
VIII arrived recently at Copenhagen
on its historic trip carrying Count
o B~ernstorff, the German Ambas-
sador to whom President Wilson
gave his walking papers, it had as
a passenger a pretty Montana girl
who has decided to devote herself
to Red Cross work for the allies, and
who will have IN interesting story
to tell when she returns from the
war zone to Montana after the great
struggle is over.
The heroine of the thrilling adven-
ture into the ice-bound waters of the
north as a shipmate of the sinister
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-03-23

NOoASJ IL. UT, VIII " uuh-
dreds of old timers i've Montana as
"Wes' Curnutt, a freighter, who, in
the SOS, didn't have to take off his
hat to any skinner in the state when
it came to doing tricks with a 22-foot
bull whip; who herded six and a
Concord coach over many a thousand
miles of Montana stage routes, and
who could twist broncs with any man
in the business, has declared himself
in with modern efficiency and pro-
gress and is out to wrest the golden
wheat and the N. P.-sized potato
from his acres of black loan with a
gasoline tractor and a Ford car.
Curnutt was the last man in Mon
tana, he claims, to work a long-horn
bull team. He recently sold his oxen
to be shipped for beef, bought a trac-
tor and a Ford, and is now awaiting
softer weather to begin blowing in
the new-fangled way on his ranch a
few miles south of Waller.
II sure hated to have to come to
it," said Curnutt, as he planked over
the cash for his little five-passenger
car. For all these years I've been
working with broncs and bulls, and 1
know 'em so well I can tell what
they're thinking about. Some way it
don't seem right to desert these old
friends for a tin contraption that you
can't argue with, and 1 cant think of
any poorer company on a lonely
stretch of road than n of these "tin
Lizzies" that1l go in the ditch if you
happen to get a little absent-minded
thinking whether you're going to sell
your wheat or what you'd ought to
do with that south 40 that's got a lit
tie rock in one corner.
Old Methods Must Go.
"But I always figured to get to
the end of the road as 10 as the
next man, and of course l don't feel
like letting any of these new farmers
put it over on us old timers. So it's
come to gasoline instead of horse
flesh, and I'm going to start right in
with the new equipment that gets the
results. Last year I had a great crop
but l wasn't able to get all my grain
threshed. This year It's going to be
different in that respect. for I'll have
the right tools to work with"
Curnutt tells some interesting
stories of the old freighting and stag
ing days, when he used to string out
ten span of bulls on the trail from
Fort Benton to White Sulphur. 1--WE
used to have plenty of hard
ship" he says, "but somehow
there's no life for me but that in
the open. Sometimes when the roads
were heavy we freighters would
think we v would get to the end
of the road. At Benton lake, north
of Great Falls, I've seen 60 outfits
stuck in the gumbo till the flat
looked like a new town was being
started. But somehow we always
made it, and there was a lot of sat
isfaction getting our load in, and
there was a good time awaiting us.
We had plenty of the kind of fun we
liked those days.
Then there WAS the staging,
which comes next to freighting with
me. On the old stage line between
Gilt Edge and Lewistown I used to
make a drive of 80 miles, and f r 35
miles there was only one house.
Pretty lonesome work on a cold win
ter night, yet somehow I'd like to be
doing it again now.
One Wild Ride.
stage drivers used to have plenty
of queer experiences of one kind and
another. l remember one time I was
driving six between White Sulphur
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good looking girls o. the train but the vote in favor of Miss Lehman was
unanimous. This pleased her father so that he gave her $1,000 with which
to purchase her coronation robes.
In these coronation robes the Montana girl was exquisite. She was
dined and feted and made much of. But all this attention did not turn her
sensible little head. She just queened it 10 gracously that at the conclud-
ing day of the carnival she was voted the most beautiful of all the attend
ing queens. She cal away with all the honors.
Miss Lehman is a Montana product. She is the daughter of A. S.
Lehman, wealthy banker and fockmaster of Lehman, Blaine county. AS
a young la A. S. Lehman worked in the Butte mines. A quarter of a
century ago he decided to go into business, and opened up a mercantile
house in Chinook. After a few years he branched tut into the sheep
business, whichw a the real foundation of his fortune. Then he went into
banking, and became n of the foremost bankers of northern Montana.
Mr.. Lehman foresaw the coming of the homesteader, and a few years
ago began to dispose of hi. sheep interests. At one time he was possessed
of 10000 head. Incidental to his sheep business he had purchased a large
holding of grazing land. He held his land and it is TO- some of the best
farm property of his section.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-03-23
Potato Famine in Great Falls.

ToCaOo raHlAHe IN UreaC FallS.
Merchants in Great Falls limit
purchasers to SO cents worth of po-
tatoes. The retail price of the tuber
is six cents. Those who have been
affecting potato bread, as advocated
by the federal government on ac-
count of the high price of wheat,
have gone back to flour.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-03-23
MONTANA GIRL QUEENS Ut
AMONG ST. PAUL BEAUTIES

This is Miss Lorato Lehman, the Montana girl who was voted the
most beautiful young woman in attendance at the ST. Paul carnival re-
Gently. There we're many handsome girls at the carnival, but the girl from
the west o all the beauty 1aurelS. rG
1t anne about in this way. The Montana contingent, en route to St
Paul. decided to select a queen. 1t was decided that the best looking
girl on the special train should be accorded the honor. There we're many
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-03-23
STORY OF CUSTER
NEWSPAPER BEAT
DETAILS OF MASSACRE CARRIED
TO BISMARCK AFTER REC
ORD RIVER RUN.

New York Herald Received by Tele-
graph Exclusive 15,OOO-Word Ac-
count That Cost Paper $4,000; Ar
ticle Appearing simultaneously at
Helena Chronicled Indians Defeat.
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Leave it to any married man
and he will tell you that his house
hold expenses are bigger than those
of any other man in town.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-05

barracks and placed on kitchen de-
tail for ten days as an aftermath
of the bread in the garbage. 1t is
explained that the loaf-freshS from
the oven--had fallen from the sack
in which the bread was carried and
the man dropping the bread did not
want to put 1t on the table.
The matter even was taken to di-
vision headquarters and reprimands
flew thick and fast for some hours.
Giving to lack of facilities in the
temporary base hospital to take
care of the sick soldiers, the place
is not as popular with those who
wish to avoid vigorous drills as 1t
was tho first few days. Men in
some cases now, unless seriously
i'll, are sent back to barracks where.
no place being provided for them
there, they must take their places in
the ranks and go on with drill.
Improvement Expected.
Both conditions and equipment at
the base hospital and in the regi-
mental hospitals. it is reported, are
far from satisfactory. With the
moving Of the base hospital into
permanent quarters shortly, 1t is ex-
pected the grounds for many COM
plants will disappear.
The camp for the past several days
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has been enveloped in a swirl Of
dust. The drill spaces, having been
tramped by thousands OF marching
feet into a veritable pulp, affords
material for dust clouds unequalled
In a plowed field. Hundreds of men
are drilling in clouds Of dust so thick
they hardly can see the man ahead
of them.
Windows in the barracks are kept
tightly closed in the direction Of the
winds, and dirt is everywhere. From
the drills the men generally hurry
to the shower baths and scour
themselves from the layers OF dirt on
clothes and bodies.
Meals in mess halls continue to
improve, and with the growing eff
ficiency of company cooks appoint
ed from the ranks and the better
equipment Of the mess tables with
dishes purchased from company
funds, or for which the company
captains have gone into debt, the
soldiers are being better satisfied
with the eating conditions.
Home Funds Welcome.
The need, however, for an organ
lied campaign "at home" to raise
suitable funds to aid the boys is APP
parent. Failing, it means other COM
panies will be equipped with good
table service, while the score of I'M
fortunate companies will be forced
to eat from their meat cans at bare
pine tables until the regimental ex-
changes pay a dividend to each
company sufficient to buy the need
ed articles.
Both Were Surprised.
A little incident coming directly
to the notice of one of the leading
young lady feature writer's at the big
army camp which probably will not
be included in her items of human
interest has the now famous George
Washington Martin, a Peoria man of
f company. Three Hundred Forty
ninth infantry, for the hero.
While the writer was taking
copious notes in the F company bar
racks, private put a lighted pipe
in his pocket and set his clothing
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-05
Estate OF WAR"
In TURKESTAN
Russian Government Faces
New Revolution In
Central Asia
(By Associated Presa.l

Petrograd, Oct. 5.-The govern
ment has declared a state Of war in
Turkestan, where revolutionary
movements broke out carly this
week. The situation appeared to be
becoming normal, when il suddenly
hared up again.
AS a protest against the sending Of
punitive expedition the Council Of
Workmen's and Soldiers Delegates in
Tashkent, the capital, has proclaim
ed a general strike.
A Petrograd dispatch, dated Oct. /,
said General Cherkess, commander
in Turkestan. had been attacked and
beaten by irresponsible troops. II
was reported that a temporary revo-
Iutionary government had been or
ganized to take all power and that
the people were in a panic.
Russian Turkestan is composed Of
four provinces IN central Asia, east
of the Caspian sea. with a Dopula-
ton OF about s.6S5,000.
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Through suggestion to cooks and
mess hall assistants, and a little
direction now and then, the major
succeeded in making the mess halls
models for the camp.
Amateur TheatricaIs.
A huge poster has been placed in
the Y. M. c. A. building, headed by
the question: Can you sing, play
or do any stunt?"
A sub-heading asks the men to
sign their names, regiments and tell
their accomplishments. A number
already have overcome modesty and
shyness and signed up as violinists,
readers. singers, wrestlers. pianists
and cornetIsts. These men will be
called upon TO give their services at
Y. M. G. A. programs.
I'VE want to know about these
fellows, even though they can play
nothing but the Jews harp" the gen.
eral secretary says. Were going
to keep these stunt nights going all
winter. so that the boys won't be
lonely out here"
So, step up. Mr.. Soldier; don't be
bashfuI.
It's going to be quite the thing to
appear on these programs.
First Pay On Way.
The first pay day for the recruits
OF the Eighty eighth division of the
National army at Camp Dodge Is
on its way.
Approximately $4,000 men and of
ficers now on duty at the canton
ment were mustered Sunday morning
with a view to compiling the pay
roll for the men OF the National
army. Similar action was taken in
every other camp in the United
States. Army regulations provide
for complete muster the last day OF
every month.
Roads To BE Paved.
Word has been received at divis-
ion headquarters at Camp Dodge
that $4,000 has been allotted to the
Eighty-eighth division for the
building Of additional concrete roads
IN the camp site.
This will mean the surfacing OF
from six 10 eight miles more of the
camp roads and will tend to reduce
the dust nuisance.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-05
LOOK AT CHILD'S
TONGUE IF SICK
CROSS, FEVERISH
WHEN coNsTIPATED OR BILL
GUS GIVE CALIFORNIA SYRUP
or FIGS"

Look at the tongue, mother! II
coated. IL Is a sure sign that your
little ones stomach, liver and bowels
need gentle. thorough cleansing az
once.
When peevish. cross, listless. pale.
doesn't sleep, doesn't eat or act
naturally, or is feverish. stomach
sour, breath bad; has stomach-aeh
sore throat, diarrhoea, full Of cold
give q teaspoonful Of California
Syrup of Figs" and in a few hours
ali the foul, constipated waste,
undigested food and sour bile gently
moves out OF its little bowels without
gripping, and you win have a well,
playful child again.
You needn't coax sick children to
take this harmless fruit laxative.
they love Its delicious taste. and II
always makes them feel splendid.
Ask your druggist for a b0-cent
bottle Of California Syrup OF Figs.
which has directions for babies. chill
dren Of all ages and for Rrown~u
plainly on the bottle. Beware Of
counterfelts sold here. To be sure
you get the genuine. ask to see that
Ii Is made by California Fig Syrup
Company Refuse any other kind
with contempt .-AQvt
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on FIRE.
Yelling 'fre," he rushed from the
barracks into the lavatory and soak
ed himself under a shower bath.
Private G. w. Martin happened to
be at the time taking a shower him.
self, but sans clothing. He heard
the alarm Of fire.
Without stopping to don any part
of his clothing Martin beat 1t for
the barracks to rescue his belong
ings there. He thought the barracks
was ablaze. His manly form, I'M
draped even in a bath towel, few
out the lavatory, up the barracks
steps and into the squad room where
the writer sat unconscious Of i'm
pending calamity. Past her without
a tremor Private Martin flew, but
hid himself inside some blankets
when he discovered there was a lady
present.
4; Martin figures in almost daily
escapades that provide material for
laughter and fun for his fellows.
Recently he was sitting on the kit
chen steps Of the barracks when tho
lieutenant colonel of his regiment
came through the door looking for
an orderly or some one else.
Martin saw the officer looking
around as II seeking some one OF
something. He didn't recognize his
superior officer.
What's the matter, Bub, are you
lost? he inquired solicitously.
Turning around the colonel ex-
planned with grin that he was not
lost. He seemed to scent the joke
ard appreciate ii.
Guardsmen Get Credit.
National guardsmen, who have
been drawn into the national army
and who have seen long service with
the state troops will not be robbed
Of the value of the time they have
already spent, according to an an
nouncement made at Camp Dodge.
The war department will give
these men credit for the time they
have spent in the guard and they
will be given an increase in pay ac-
cording to the length Of time they
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-05
FRETFUL BABIES
NEED "A LAXAT TIVE

When your baby - cross and fret
full the chances are fd IL eOngtfpated
and that q mild laxative fs all that IL
necessary 90 make &c comfortable and
happy. Inactive bowels are the cause
OF as much discomfort to children as
20 older people, and unless the cOndi-
ton tB promptly relieved a. very apt
to develop serious Illness.
For children there a. nothing that
Will act more easily than the cOmbim-
alton Of simple laxative herbs with
pepsim that IL sold In drug stores un-
der the name Of DR.. CaIdSEelfs syrup
Pep@tm. IL does not grippe and % free
from OpAafe or narcotic drugs, In
pleasant to the TASTE and positively
electives chffdrem like ft and take a.
readily. -.
IL you have never tried this slm2Ies
inexpensive remedy get q bottle Of
DE-. CaldwelPs Syrup PepHin from y0uF
druggist and have it im the house 20
use the next time any Of the children
seem ont OF sorts. A trial bottle can
be obtained free on charge by writ
ing 10 DIR. w. H. Caldwell, $50 WASH
ingtOm ST., HLOntieelHOs Illinois.
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have spent in the service, the same
as soldiers in the regular army.
252 Are Rejected.
Two hundred, ffty-two reflections
because of physical defects have
been reported by the division sur
geon following the examination Of
approximately 10000 men. These
men will be recommended for rejec-
ton.
Recruits to the national army at
Camp Dodge are going to have to
stoke their own furnaces this win
ter. A memorandum posted today
says men from various barracks will
be detailed as stokers and will be on
duty day and night.
Another order issued today pro-
hibited the cutting out" OF mufflers
on motorcycles and automobiles
within a designated space around
the base hospital and division head
quarters.
A government repair shop for all
automobiles and motorcycles at the
camp, in government service. has
been established and an order issued
for the weekly inspection Of all We
Cleanliness The Order.
When the sans9dry train of the
army moves in, uncleanliness moves
out.
This was never more completely
demonstrated than at Camp Dodge,
since the day the national army
started to mobilize.
Mai. G.. E. Ruth of Des Moines,
who is assisting the sanitary ofh-
Ger of the Eighty eighth division,
has had much to do with cleaning
up civilian mess halls at the camp.
When he first reported for duty
Ave mess halls were being conduct
ed for between 200 and 700 men
each. The major found that while
the mess halls we're not dirty, they
were far from sanitary. as the army
spa1Ia sanitary
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Boys at Camp Dodge
Soon To Be Dressed
Like Real Soldiers
Equipment Is Arriving by the Carload
Is Put Under the Ban First Pay on the Way
al. Notes of the Cantonment

Camp badge. Ia, Oct. 5.-The
arrival OF several carloads of army
clothing and equipment, including
several thousand pairs Of wooden
breeches, or trick pants" as the lat
ter are called, has encouraged the
men Of the national army at Camp
Dodge to hope they soon may be all
dressed like soldiers.
All the companies in several
regiments have been provided with
all the articles of army wear ex-
cept the breeches. Without these
the Ieggings cannot be worn to adj
vantage and the soldier boys are
.serced to drill and work in their
civilian trousers.
Must Not BE WastefuI.
As the result Of the shakeup in
one of the companies Of the Three
Hundred Forty-ninth when an en-
tire loaf of bread was found by an
officer in the garbage can, the
necessity of avoiding wastefulness
has again been impressed upon the
drafted soldiers, not only Of the COM
pany in question but the entire regi-
ment. .... .....
For obvious reasons the name Of
the captain and the company would
better be withheld. But ten men Of
the company now are confined to