The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-15
Talk Of,khe TO,v,1

Loud among Missoula supporters OF
the White Sox is George H. Mash,
prominent contractor. Nash has been
pulling hard for the Sox all season.
When they were fighting with Boston
for the league championship he stuck
firmly to them, with bets and judg-
inent. And when the big series APP
preached he could see nothing but
Chicago. Early Saturday afternoon.
when the Giants seemed to have seWted
up third straight victory. Nash was
heartbroken, but his loyalty did not
waver. And an hour later he had his
reward in the brilliant finish made by
the slammings Sox.
Nash's loyalty Is not altogether
western. Clarence Rowland. manager
Of the Sox. Is his first cousin, and
Nash would be less proud II he were
brother of the president.
The big car. driven by woman,
came purring down Higgins avenue.
The two women in 1t were in deep
conservation and the driver paid little
heed to the street in front Of her.
A dirty, SCOT covered figure resemb-
ling man had just mooched sand
witch from q restaurant and was con-
tentedly an1bling in the same direc-
ton. eating his small meal and totally
unconscious of his surroundings.
At the corner of Higgins and Main
street the tramp stepped off the curb
ing and started across the street just
as the big car swung around the
corner.
The tattered figure looked up to see
the car bearing down upon him.
The women screamed as the radi-
ator of the car struck the man, and
vainly did the driver ply the brakes.
The tramp. however. still holding on
to his sandwich. threw his arms
around the radiator cap and let the
car drag him on.
The woman in her frenzy turned the
car towards the curbing where an
other auto happened to be standing.
For moment 1t looked MS though
the tramp had taken his last ride, but
he held on grimly to the radiator and
the tenders Of the big car crashed into
the rear end of the other automobile.
The big car stopped and a crowd
quickly gathered to see how badly in.
jured the tramp was.
He was sitting on the pavement
partially under the automobile and
grinning sheepishly, one hand firmly
holding the sandwich while with tho
other he rubbed his stomach.
Then he got up and stopped just
long enough to say to the frightened
driver of the car:
Lady. your pretty careless. but you
can't hurt this old 'bo,' but II you
had ruined the only meal have had
in So hours I would have sued you
for damages"
"The weather was too good said
Charles f. Mackean. yesterday.
speaking of the hampering of freight
shipments by scarcity of help. Mr..
MacKean is an agent for the fast
freight of the Empire line, with head
quarters in st. Paul.
He says the lumber mills can sell
their timber in eastern markets and
they have plenty of logs. The great
lack Is of men to work in the mills
and to handle the timber from the
mills to the freight cars. The employ
ers believe that some bad weather is
necessary to drive the floating popula-
ton in from the roads and brake
beams and to provide workmen for
the mills.
Frank ID. Taylor of New Chicago
came to Missoula yesterday. Where
he stabbed his horses on his first visit
to the city he found a hotel yester-
day, and of the Worden & Higgins
store, at which he made his purchases
that other time. he could find no trace
at all.
1t was in 1868 that Mr.. Taylor first
came to Missoula. Higgins avenue was
farm land then; the Higgins barn was
on the site now occupied by the Flor
ence hotel. The only hotel in the
town was on what is now East Front
street, opposite the E.lks' temple and
forgotten place-and two stores. OF
which the Worden & Higgins estab-
lishment was the more prosperous.
That year a struggling farmer, liv-
ing In a little log cabin, tried to sell
Mr.. Taylor his worthless" ranch for
SIS. That ranch included all of what
Is now Missoula's south side.