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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-12-13
THIS WAS no JOKE

J e. Colver. 1913 Labor Temple, Los
Angeles, CAL, writes: II have had about
IS years of experience with all sorts and
kinds of cathartic remedies-some good
and some a joke. When / got wise to
Foley Cathartic Tablets for constipation
l got in right. The best I ever used.
Do not grippe; no unpleasant after eff
fects. Sold everywhere.
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For Sale or Rent. My place on
Egan avenue.-Mrs. Hattie B. Bor-
land.
Broken Lenses accurately dupli-
Gated while you wait. Eyes exam
ined and frames fitted.-Yaeger's
Optical Parlor.
Two girls wanted at once at the
Ideal laundry.
/. d. Lee for fresh flashlight bat
teries.
For Sale. Four Duroc Jersey
male hogs. Breeding papers furnish,
ed.-Albert Budde. Phone 1892.
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r. Post, P~inckneyville, Ill, writes: Il
highly recommend Foley Kidney Pills.
which / prefer to all others / nave used
Foley Kidney Pills give quick relief
from backache. rheumatic pains, stiff.
swollen joints, languidness, kidney trou-
BILE and sleep disturbing bladder all
ments. Sold everywhere.
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LOCAL NEWS.
Eat at Jacks.

Eau at JACK 5.
/. ID. Lee for flashlights.
Rhode Island Red cockerels for
sale at the county poor farm.
Take your next meal at Rays Res
Iaurant, 35 cents.
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THE CITY.

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Probably snow tonight and
Friday; not quite so cold tonight
east and central portion.
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NOTICE.

After January ! our office will be
at EOS First street SW.-Madison
Iron & Metal company.
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Five hundred per cent or more on
an investment u . good thing. Lit
tie wants ads IN The Daily Leader
win bring thaee results.
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For anything in printing phone
The Daily Leader. 2143.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-08-24
DO NOT. TRAVEL
SEPT: list TO 4I'H
BETWEEN THOSE DATES TROOPS
WILL BIZ ..N1OyING+ON 176* ~
RAILROADS OF u. S.. ...
One-third of Uncle Sans New Army
Is to Be Transported from $500
Cities and Towns to 16 Canton
ments; VIII Interfere With Pas:
senger Traffic.

Montana people who are planning
on travelling within the next 80 days
will do we'll to avoid trips on trains
between Saturday, September /, and
Wednesday, September s, for during
that period the government will move
$4,000 soldiers for the national ar
my from $500 cities and towns
throughout the country to 16 canton
ments, and IL per cent of all the pas
senger coaches in the country will be
used for the work. This probably will
interfere to considerable extent
with ordinary passenger traffic, as
troop trains must have the right of
way and government materials must
movev without a halt.
This is the greatest task that
American railroads have ever been
called upon to perform. Half hum
dred traffic experts are at work on
the plan, besides % railroad execu-
tives of the railway committee of the
National Council of Defense, the
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-08-24

itary figure, leaning motionlcss on a
rifle and watching the approaching
boat. Recognizing the figure, I or
dered the wheel put over and brought
the boat to land.
An extremely taciturn man, Kel-
ly's greeting was brief and a bargain
was soon struck for the cordwood
which had been cut the previous win
ter to sell to the first boat up. Then
while the crew were loading the wood
on the boat, led Kelly to the boiler
deck and introduced him to Forsyth.
AS the general looked up his surprise
and admiration were evident. Before
him stood man, reserved in speech
and modest in demeanor, yet highly
picturesque in appearance and bear
ing himself with an air of self reli-
ance and hardihood which could not
be mistaken. He was dressed entire
ly in suit Of friAged buckskin, and
his feet were encased in beaded moe
casins. His face, darkly tanned by
sun and weather, ives smooth-shaven
excepting for slender mustache, and
his features were lean, with the mus
cular gauntness of hunting animal
that carries not an ounce of super
fluous flesh A mass of thick hair,
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first Sunday she spent in Montana;
and the young man, who had just en-
listed in the marines felt pretty sor-
ry that he hadn't met Leona before
he enlisted but of course it was too
late then so he merely looked sad
and sighed deeply. However, he told
her he didn't have to go to Spokane
to report for duty for three whole
days, and that if she wanted to see
mountain he would see that she
saw it. He said he would organize
a picnic for the next day and get a
couple more girls and their young
men friends and take his mother
along for a chaperone, and they
would have a picnic right up against
a fine, large mountain. He also re-
marked, as he looked into Leona' s
eyes, that he didn't think any noun
tain would have any objections to
her getting as close to it as she
wanted to. Leona pretended she
didn't hear that remark and said she
just loved picnics and she thought
1T would be the grandest thing to
have picnic on mountain.
So it was all arranged and the next
day when they went on the picnic
and they walked through the pine
woods beside a beautiful creek that
had a lot of trout in it. and the
young man who had enlisted in the
marines caught 23 trout while Le-
ona watched him, not daring to get
too far away because she had read
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-08-24

never trodden by the feet of white
men, and the next summer, quite
alone, he set out up the valley of the
mysterious Yellowstone. All that
season he remained there, hunting,
trapping and exploring the hidden
Businesses of country rich in rug
| ged beauties. He had many other
exciting adventures which were pass
| ed from mouth to mouth along the
borderland, and far and wide he was
known by the name OF "Y Yellowstone"
Kelly.
Forsyth Explores Yellowstone.
In 1878, when General Forsyth
was ordered to explore the Yellow
stone river with a steamer and a de-
tachment of troops, no steamer had
ever ascended the Yellowstone and it
was found extremely difficult to get
reliable guide. Forsyth was a man
admirably fitted for this work. He
was called SANDY" Forsyth on the
plains of Kansas and Nebraska, where
he had gained wide fame for bravery
and resourcefulness as an Indian
fighter, especially in 1868, when with
a handful of scouts he made his splen-
u1u uClCllSt VI bCCCACl loIdIA oSoihol
an overwhelming force of Cheyennes
under Roman Nose. close personal
friend of General Sheridan he had
accompanied that dashing commander
on his famous ride down the hard
pressed Union battle line at Winches-
ter in '64, and Little Phil" had kept
him close to his side ever since. When
he explored the Yellowstone, al
though hardly past 80, he was brig
adler general an energetic, observant
cavalryman of the best type. thor
oughly trained in the rough school of
service.
In his search for suitable guide,
General Forsyth heard of "Yellow-
stone" Kelly, and he was delighted
to find him living in a log cabin on
the banks of the Missouri between
Fort Stevenson and Fort Buford.
Captain Grant Marsh. who was mas
ter of the steamer Key West, I'M
which General Forsyth was making
the exploring expedition, describes
Yellowstone Kelly's habitation as fol-
lows:
A Real Frontiersman.
GAS the Key West rounded a bend
I saw on the next timber point log
cabin, partly hidden in the brush. 1t
was exactly the kind of a place that
a frontiersman would pick for
camp, for the heavy timber on every
side concealed it from the higher
ground where Indian scouts might
prowl. Near the cabin lay a long
pile of freshly cut cordwood, and be-
fore the door of the cabin stood sol
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straight and black as an Indians,
swept back from his forehead and
hung below his shoulders. Across
his arm he carried a long, breech-
loading Springfield rifle, army mod
ell, on the butt of which was carved
the name he had bestowed upon this
trusty companion of his lonely life,
'"Old Sweetness" The rifles barrel
from muzzle to stock was covered
with the skin OF great bull snake,
shrunk so tightly that it resembled
vanishing. Such was the appear
ance of'''Y yellowstone Kelly in those
days"
Kelly's Later Life.
On the exploring trip of that sum-
mer Kelly's knowledge Of the coun-
try and his ability as hunter were
of incalculable benefit to the expe-
dition, and he won the esteem and
friendship of General Forsyth and his
officers.
Later Kelly became familiar in the
history of the northwest as one of
the most trusted scouts of Generals
Terry Miles and Custer, and his ad-
ventures would compare with those
of the most desperate heroes of the
wild west" novels. His life, ever
since the close of the northwestern
border wars, has been full of activity
and adventure, spent chiefly in the
service of his country. He was a
scout until 1883, when he became at
tached to the war department for SER
vice of various kinds. IN 1898 he
went to Alaska, exploring. Later in
that year he returned to take a COM
mission as captain of a volunteer
regiment, serving in the Philippine
campaign. There, after the war, he
was appointed treasurer of one of
the large provinces. Four years lat
er. he was appointed United States
Indian agent for the Apt.ches and Mo-
javes at San Carlos, Arizona, retiring
recently to live in Paradise, Califor-
MIA
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ed itself in thrusting his robe to one
side of the tree to draw his enemy's
fire. When Kelly had fired. the In
dian would leap out and discharge an
arrow at him, then jumping to cover
again. His tree was barked on both
sides, but finally the Sioux played the
trick once too often and fell dead
with a bullet through his throat
Kelly returning to the camp of Bloody
Knife, an Arikaree chief and a cour-
ageous warrior, concerning whose
daredevil exploits many stories were
told. Years later this Indian was one
of Geneal Clusters most trusted
scouts in the Little Big Horn cam
paign and was one of the first to fall
with Reno's command on the fatal
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-08-24
Ell@wST0ME" KELLY, DMDA FIGHTER, SCOUT AND GUIDE;
HERO OF MNAY HAIR BREADTH ESCAPES ON MONTANA

One of the most famous of Montana
pioneers, whose name was familiar to
every resident of the western states
during the Indian fighting days, and
who was rival of Buffalo Bill, HIM
yellowstone" Kelly, or Major Lu-
ther S. Kelly, as his name appears on
the records of the war department.
yellowstone" Kelly was the per-
feet type of plainsman, combining all
of the picturesque appearance of the
early trappers and hunters with the
retiring manner and cool daring of
the real frontiersman. Today he is
only 68 years old, for he reached the
western plains when he was still a
youngster, but even then with a civil
war record that began when he was
IA. He is living now at the little
town of Paradise, California, having
recently retired from the Indian SER
vice, which he entered following the
Spanish American war, and it is de-
clared that he is the youngest looking
man of those who survive from the
days of the Montana Indian wars. At
the age of 6S he looks 20 years
younger, and is still active and Wig
orous.
yellowstone" Kelly began his adj
venturous career as lad of IA, when
he contrived to enlist in the Union
army and fought through the last
year of the war, participating
in the grond parade of the
Union armies in Washington in May,
1866. After that the battalion to
which he belonged was ordered to
Minnesota, and in 1866 relieved the
garrison of Minnesota volunteers at
Fort Wadsworth, Dakota, and later
built Fort Ransom. Two years later
he was honorably discharged from
the service. and securing pony, rode
down Red River to Fort Garry, the
Hudson Bay post in Manitoba, later
starting across country for the Mis-
souri, river. On the way he fell in
with party of half-breeds on buff
falo hunt and remained with them for
a time, during which he first saw Sit
ting Bull, accompanied by war party
of Sioux.
Looked Like Child.
He left the helf-breeds and Joined
some Mandan and Arikaree Indians,
with whom he travelled to Fort Berth
old, going thence TO fOrJ Bu1Ord, on
the Montana boundary.
Kelly looked very young when he
reached this outpost-appearing not
more than IA or Is years old, and the
rough frontiersman spent good deal
of time playing practical jokes on
him, all of which he took in good
part. He was. quiet and retiring, and
might easily have been mistaken for
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a timid boy who was very much out
of place in wild country where dan
ger lurked on every side.
The country about fort Buford, as
usual, was infested with hostile Sioux
who made war not only upon the
whites, but on their hereditary Indian
enemies, the Mandans, Gros Ventres
and Arikarees. So dangerous was the
road that when mail passed between
Fort Buford and Fort Stevenson. an
companied it.
Kelly Volunteers.
1t was not long after kelly's arrival
at the post that the regular mail car
riers became long overdue and were
given up as killed. There was some
important mail to be taken to Fort
Stevenson, but most Of the soldiers
were out on scout duty and there
were none to spare for guarding
mails. 1t was then that Kelly,
smooth-faced boy, went to the COM
take the mail through alone. A
fer and shout of laughter went up.
But Kelly announced that he was go
ing to make the trip in any event, and
was SO persistent that some of the
practical jokers decided to let him
start to see what he would do. They
therefore gave him a pony, and at
dusk of a winters evening he set out
from the walls of the post.
Crossing the Missouri on the ice ne
reached the winter camp of the Man
dams at midnight, tarrying there only
few minutes. Two days later he
walked into the trading store of Dur
fee & Peck at Fort Berthold, 200
miles from Fort Buford. His appear
ance there caused a real sensation,
especially among the Mandans and
Gros Ventres who were wintering in
great stockade, practically besieged
by the Sioux. The following evening
he pressed on to Fort Stevenson, de-
livering his letters to Col. De Tro
BRAND, and then started on his re-
turn.
Kelly's Battle With Sioux.
On his return trip he encountered
two mounted Sioux warriors who
sprang to the ground and fired point
blank at him, woundnig his horse
with slugs and wounding Kelly's knee
with an arrow. But Kelly was nearly
as quick as they in reaching the
ground and, sending bullet through
the heart of one at the first shot, he
turned his attention to the other who
had taken refuge behind cotton
wood tree. Then followed a duel be-
tween rifle and bow and arrow, in
which the cunning of the Sioux show
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-08-24

qQartermaster corps and staff experts
of Provost Marshal General Crowder
in Washington.
The greatest pains will be taken to
prevent inconvenience to the travel
ing public, but for two or three days
there lis bound to: be some delay in..
schedules in regular passenger
trains.
:. The. troops to be moved .:on the
dates, mentioned include the first di-.
vision, consisting of one-third of the
national army. This will require 49,
68'7 cars and 1,O98 locomotives. There
will be 1,099 trains of approximately
16 cars each moving over 176 differ
ent railroads.
A railway expert will be assigned
to every local board in Montana, with
whom the boards must devise the
scheme of mobilization. Most direct
routes will be used in every case and
there will be no discrimination be-
tween railroads. Traffic will be
equally divided between parallel sys-
tens. In some cases it will be neces-
sary to ration the troops EN- route.
Large supplies of food will be pre-
pared at points Wnere troop IralnS
may stop.
Day coaches will be used, with pos
sibly few Pullmans for officers and
members of local boards who will
have a great deal of planning and
clerical work to perform.
Most of the traffic will fall on Sep
tember 3 and T.. On September To-
cal boards will call on the men to
mobilize. In some districts men will
have to travel several miles to head
quarters. 1t is expected that it will
take two days for the quotas to be
made ready.
Routes and time of departure will
be kept secret.
The government will pay the rail-
roads the cost of transportation plus
a reasonable profit
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-08-24

explain that she had just come from
Chicago and had never done an In
dian any harm in her life. The ma
rine recruit said there were lots OF
bears in the woods, too.
Well, it was a lovely picnic and
the young man took Leona's picture
as she leaned over a ranch house
gate, and he remarked as he snapped
the kodak that the peach crop in
Chicago certainly hadn't been a fail
ure. Leona of course thought that
he was talking about honest-togood-
ness peaches. so she asked if they
grew many peaches in Montana, and
the young marine said he guessed
they shipped the best ones IN from
Illinois. He was afraid that one
went over her head, too, for she new
er let on that she even heard what
he said.
Well, couple of days later the
young marine left, and now Leona is
wondering how long it will be be-
fore she meets some more nice young
men who know all about mountains,
but somehow she thinks very highly
of the kind of young men who are
6o1h6 W JC1i C1AC nA AAJ' CC uACSA
seeing a few Montana ranches she
thinks it would be perfectly lovely to
live on a ranch and of course some of
the young men have lot to stay at
home and look after the cows and
pigs and chickens and wheat and
oats and potatoes and things.
Leona says she has one hobby, and
that is writing letters, and she thinks
it is so exciting to get letters from
young men. She has been getting a
good many from Chicago, but she be-
leves she likes the Montana young
men the best and she supposes that
she will meet a few in time If she
stays in Montana long enough. She
thinks she will stay in the state, too,
for she certainly thinks Montana is
the grandest state, and besides that,
she wants to see a bucking broncho,
and chinook, and roundup, and
a whole lot of other things, including
a few Indians-at a safe distance.
Any young Montana man who has
anything of interest to say to Leona
can say it by addressing letter to
Leona, Box 23, Great Falls, Montana.
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25th of June, 1876 He was at the
side of Reno when killed, and it was
said that that officer first lost his
self-control when the brains of
Bloody Knife were spattered in his
face by the bullet that crushed the
Arikaree's skull.
On hearing of Kelly's fight, Bloody
Knife and his followers rushed out
and Scalped the dead Sioux, with
which they rode to Berthold, and the
entire camp danced three days and
nights, so great was the hatred of
these Indians of the Sioux. The Fort
Berthold Indians. dubbed Kelly "The-
LittleMan- With -a-StrongHeart.'
Kelly soon tired of carrying mail.
His restless spirit longed for regions
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-08-24
Foreman Is Murdered.

John Brown, foreman employed
on track work at Great Falls at the
Foley Bros. construction camp. was
struck over the head and killed with
pick handle by laborer, Pat Nor
ton, because Brown told him he was
not doing a days work.
The attack occurred some hours
after the conversation between the
men, and the evidence shows that
Brown was struck from behind, the
back of his skull being crushed. Nor
ton is held for trial.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-08-24
GerharZ u Captain.

Henry Gerharz, surveyor general
of Montana, has been honored by the
war department by being given
commission as captain in the en-
gineer section of the officers reserve
corps. In being commissioned, Mr..
Gerharz was elected from a large
number of applicants. His application
was based on his executive and Or
ganization ability.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-08-24

This is the story of Leona, who is
looking for romance in Montana
Leona recently came to this state
from Chicago, and the first thing she
wanted to do was to see an honest
to-goodness mountain right up close,
because she thought that mountains
were the grandest things. She con-
fided this desire of hers to a young
fellow whom she met at church the
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-08-24

lot about Indians. and she just could
not help feeling that she was going
to see one jump out from behind. a.
big tree with tomahawk in his
hand and scalp her before she could
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-08-24

ton, but live coward is a wart on
the face of civilization.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26
FEEDING THE COW.
Practice Which Will Make 1t Possible
 to Reduce the Grain.

The fact that a COW has four storn- achs does not minimize the importance of the first or any one of them. Stom- ach number one in a COW is the one that handles the roughage and a prac- tica1 dairyman in many instances have been making use of it. by feeding hay often and in four to six pound quanti- ties.
 Hay furnishes the cheapest nutri- ents to which we have access in feed- ing dairy cattle; it has three times as much total digestible nutrients as siiage, and when the COW has con- stunned 20 pounds of hay she has three times the food that 20 pounds of silage give, or the equivalent of 60 pounds of silage.
 Silage is economical when not fed in too large quantities Its succulence Is a factor of great importance but to rely upon silage alone to reduce the grain bill this winter is not wise. The water content is so high that valuable space in the first stomach and through out the digestive tract is utilized. It would seem wise to feed silage at the rate of three pounds for each hun dred pounds of live weight. This should be the maximum rate.
 F The function of the first stomach is
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26
AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS

ana proper management can avoid the eXtravagant use of grain
 The constant danger of loss by dogs IS gwen by 90 per cent. of the New England farmers as a reason for not keeping sheep on his farm. The actual damage done by dogs is not as great as many believe, as the sta tistics gath cred on this subject show that less than per cent. of the loss is due to dogs The legal statutes relating to sneep and dogs are decidedly in favor or the breeder He is protected in that he can recover the full amount of his loss either from the owner of the dog or from the town. The great est difficulty is in the public,s ignor- ance of laws and in their; .hesitating to press case to collect indemnity that IS due them Every sheep owner should secure copy of the laws relating to sheep and dogs and do everything in ms power to have the laws enforced The housing required for sheep is such that it places the overhead ex- pense at minimum. Although it is necessary to keep sheep dry, especially in the lambing season and during the
 winter months, it is not necessary to
 build expensive houses. The labor re- qulrement is lower in the case of sheep than for other breeds of livestock which in these times of labor shortage IS a very important factor.
 Considering, therefore, that the mar ket for wool and mutton will be safe for several years, that our land is
 adapted to the raising of sheen. and that we are on the edge of the best lamb and wool market in the world there should be no hesitancy on the
 part of the Connecticut farmer to raise sheep, and more sheep.-A. G. Skinner Connecticut Agricultural College.