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The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27
BY Margery Hawkins.

From Stevensville, in the heart Of
the Bitter Root valley to the Jocko
reservation, winds an old trail. No
where on earth is there more beau
tiful trail and certainly none with
more tragic memories. 1t was over
this trail that Chariot, chief of the
Flathead Indians, led his little band
when he left the valley that was his
and went to the place allotted him on
the Jocko reservation by the white
men. Cherlot is dead; General Car
rington, who induced Chariot to sign
the treaty, is dead; but the trail will
ever stand monument to tnat grim
old warrior who made his last march
over it. The pines still murmur their
sympathy and the rustling grasses
whisper the protestations That Char
lot never uttered. They tell of noble
warrior, who loved and protected his
white friends and when they had
tricked and betrayed him; disillu-
stoned, heartbroken and humiliated,
he turned his back on all that was
dear to him and sought but a place
for grave.
Chariot was the son of Victor, who
in 1855, with Alexander and Mitch
ell, signed a treaty with Gen. Stew
ems. Victor made speech at the
close of the council in which he spe-
Gifted that the Great Father was to
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27
HAVRE MAN INVENTS
WONDERFUL MACHINE

Henry Hales, Havre inventor is
showing his model of machine on
which he has secured patents. 1t can
be used as a Weeder, cultivator, flax
and hay harvester, railroad right of
way cleaner, fire break plow and as
universal farm and road tractor.
Prof. Morgan of the experimental
station, John r. Brol1n or the Flax
Mills company and a number of rail-
way men and farmers studied the
model and listened to an explanation
of its merits and were Impressed with
the idea that it would accomplish all
that is claimed for it and that it
would be very useful farm imple-
ment. Mr.. Hales is not only
a practical machinist but has
had 35 years of farm experience.
1t is claimed for the machine which
has been named the Games ]. Hill"
that it is capable of performing serv-
ices otherwise requiring many ma
chimes and that it allows a reversal
in the direction of travel without
being moved off the ground on which
the machine may stand. Sicklebars
may be carried in front of the ma
chine to cut hay, flax, ETC., in fence
corners while depositing the same in
windrows in it's wake. A draft rig
ging makes provision for detachable
discs and seed drills and an extensi-
BILE frame for hauling grain. hay, feed
and other material over hilly roads
where horse could not haul load.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27

A lame excuse explains many a
halting gait.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27
HOW BlLLlNCSWILL HELP
TO THE SOLVE H. c. 0. l.

Billings is going to help solve the
problem of the high cost of living by
the establishment of a public market
The prime movers in this plan to
bring the purchaser and the producer
closer together are Austin North, Da-
vid Roe, G. M. White and Edmund E
Nichols. Each have donated sum
of money to prepare the ground for
the market.
The lot where the market is pro-
posed is excavated, and steps Will be
built into it. Teams can drive down
into the areaway and 1t is of suffl-
cient size to give plenty of room for
the purpose. 1t is planned to inter-
est farmers in the proposition to in
sure plenty of products.
The tentative date for the opening
of the market place has been set for
July %. Under the present plan all
selling will be conducted before 10
O'Clock in the morning.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27

hunt; the white men were even TAX
ing their horses range.
When Chariot Moved.
Arlee died in 1891, and the gov
be placated so they sent General Car
rington to try and induce him to
move. 1t was an opportune time,
and after consulting with his few
white friends, Chariot spoke thus: II
will got-I and my children. My
young men are becoming bad; they
have no place to hunt. My young
women are hungry. For their sake
I will go. l do not want the land
you promise. | do not believe your
promises. All I want is enough
ground for my grave. We will go
over there"
Immediately the arrangements
were made and Charlot's last march
began. Down the river he marched
his people; down through the fields
where they had played as children
and had hunted as men. Sadly and
slowly he took up the trail to the
new home; a journey with no return
ing. Out past Fort Owen, across the
river and down the valley. Every
step that carried him away from his
old home was a silent token of sub
mission to the white mems law; a
submission he could not bear and
which broke his heart.
And the trail will stand a monu-
ment to the memory of Chariot, the
Indian whose white friends broke his
heart
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27
MONTANA WILL COLLECT
$774,628 LICENSE TAX

State Treasurer II. l.. Hart has
compiled the returns under the IL
cense tax law, showing that of the
$774,628.25 Montana will collect
this year on last years business,
$3.50, 900 is paid by the mining COM
panies.
The law provides a tax of one per
cent on all net profits in excess of
$4,000. Treasurer Hart believes
this exemption is too high, and sug-
gests sliding scale should be fixed
for smaller concerns. He also be-
lieves the law should be amended so
as to place state and national banks
on the same basis, at present nation
al banks being exempt while state
banks are forced to pay the tax.
The income this year is divided ac-
cvording to the following classes:
Mercantile. s32,760,18; insurance
companies, s7,9S7 (paid under pro-
test); banks, $3,758.44; livestock
and ranches, $7,353,54; lumber and
building material, $10,801.61; real
estate and loan companies, $8,-
597.56 meat shops and butchers, ST.
1865; oil and grease companies,
$7,O35.81; bakeries, $107.43; whole
sale grocers, $653; automobile COM
panies, $160.97; grain elevators
$1,437.78; railways and public car
riers, $4O,338.7O; nurseries and seed
houses, $382.15; manufacturers of
cement, $17. .038.40; mining COM
panies, $580,3OS63; flour mills, ST.
296.o6; public utilities, $45,164.13;
printing establishments, $1,203,12;
hotels and restaurants, $1,292.05;
ice companies, $84.93; liquor and
cigar houses, $2,031.21; laundries,
s193.39; moving picture houses,
s465.3S; miscellaneous, $2,280.32J
Total, $774,628.25.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27

which is irrevocable. He said:
''Joseph, l have something to
say to you. 1t will be in IL few
words. You know l am not
afraid of you. You know that
have more warriors than you
have with you. If You arc going
through the Bitter Root valley
YOU must not hurt any of the
whites. If you do attack them
you will have me and my people
to fight. You may camp at my
place tonight, but tomorrow you
must pass on"
Joseph looked at Chariot for a
moment in silence. His decision
was made. He would pass
through the Bitter Root, but the
whites were safe. He did 50 and
was forced into battle by Gener-
al Gibbon on the Big Hole with
in two weeks.
Chariot had saved the white
settlers, but what was his re-
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27

people, realizing that the man
with the plow is more dangerous
to uncivilized people than the
man with the sword. Chariot had
welcomed the strangers within
his gates and shared with them
the acres of his beloved valley.
With paternal solicitude he had
protected the white people, and
at this crisis he determined to
defend them, when they were
quite helpless.
Chariot and his warriors rode
out of the LO Lo pass to meet
the blood-lusting Nez I'erces,
with Joseph at their head.
Around the right arm of Chariot
was tied a white handkerchief in
token of truce. When the two
chiefs faced the other on the
summit of the divide, Chariot
spoke-slowly, weighing his
words, as one who has made II
decision that may cost much, yet
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27

ward? What did Il grateful gov
ernment do to reward him? 1t
did precisely what it had done
for Josepll-tlrovc him out of
the valley of his fathers, and by
an alleged treaty, to which the
signatory mark of Chariot was
forged by IL general in the Unit
ed States army, took from him
and his people their heritage. 1t
refused to recognize him rs head
chief, hereditary ruler of his
people, denied him the pension to
which he was entitled and rcduc-
ed him to a palLper.
That was Charlot's recom-
pensc. A shaft of stone should
he erected to his memory OH the
Jo To pass. This most pathetic
figure in Montana's early history
was the best and truest friend
that the white men had among
the great chiefs of the Indian
tribes.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27

In 1877, when Chiefs Joseph
and Looking Glass of the Nez
Perces took the war path with
several thousand Well-armed
warriors and threatened to mas
sacre every white man, woman
and child in the Bitter Root and
Flathead valleys, the whites
would have been at their mercy
excepting for one man-another
Indian chief.
That man was Chariot, head
chief of the Selfish tribe of the
Flathead nation.
Chariot and Soseph were
friends. Their people had hunt
ed together and many of them
had intermarried. On one point
Joseph and Chariot did not
agree, and that point was the
Indians attitude toward the
white settlers. Joseph had OPP
posed them bitterly as foes dam
gerous to the welfare of his
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27

whites-he was always friendly to
the whites and more than once he
saved them from direful disaster.
A year later the fnclans received
supplies from the government, in
Guiding plows and wagons and an eff
fort was made to teach them to cul-
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27

A boy is always wishing he were a
man so he could do as he pleases.
But when he reaches manhood he
gets married and has to do as his wife
pleases.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27

Alex B. Lehman of Lewistown is
one of the biggest men in Montana.
He stands six feet six inches and
weighs $40 pounds. His father-in-
law was the late Rufus Thompson, a
Lewistown banker and stockman,
who also was six feet, six inches in
height and weighed $40 pounds. Be-
weighed 710 pounds.
But Lehman is as big and broad
mentally as he is physically. and
there is probably no man in Montana
who has more friends in every sec
tion OF the state as farmer. Imperi-
al potentate of Algeria Temple, Mys-
tic Order of the Shrine, he is known
to many thousands of Masons over
Montana.
Lehman is one of the biggest real
estate operators in Montana, and
there is no better Judge or land val
ues in the state than he.
Another claim to fame for Big
Lehman has to do with motoring.
He probably covers more miles of
road in automobiles every year than
any other man in Montana, and,
speaking of automobiles, Lehman is
quite fancier of all kinds of motor
vehicles and owns everything on
wheels between Ford and a high
power Stutz. Just now he has the
Super-Six bug, because of the enorm-
GUS power possessed by this car. He
does not keep his cars long, and any
morning while he is brushing his
teeth he is likely to decide to clean
them all out that day and buy a
flock.
Half Il Dozen Salesmen.
AS he has half a dozen statesmen in
the field in his cars all the time, he
needs a good many machines. The
other day he tied the can to his
Fords and bought Dodges in their
place, but any time he feels like it he
will dodge back to Fords again.
1t is nothing for big" Lehman to
wake up in the morning early and
figure out trip of three or four hun
dred miles for himself to be covered
before bedtime that night. The 9TH
er day it occurred to him that he
would like to look at certain tract
of land he heard was for sale near
Fort Benton He called up the gar
age and gave instructions to have his
car ready by o'clock the next morn
ing, and at that hour he set sail for
Fort Benton, more than 100 miles
away. At 1920 he was in Benton.
and drove another 10 miles to look at
the land. Then he sped back to Ben
ton for lunch, swapped gossip. yarns
and information with the enterpris-
ing Bentonites for an hour and
thought he would head for Great
Falls.
Then Another Jaunt.
At 2:45 he reached Great Falls,
distance of As miles, and spent an
hour there. At 3:45 he headed his
car for LeWistoWn, III miles away,
and at 8 o'clock he was eating his
dinner at Munger's cafe In Lewis
town. He had made days run of
more than 280 miles.
But while he was finishing his din
ner, a rancher came in and told Alex
that he wanted to sell his ranch the
other side of Utica. Lets run over
tonight SO l can look it over first
thing in the morning. said Alex, and
getting the good old car out again,
away they went through the cool of
the evening, another 35 miles.
Most men would never get over
talking about days driving of that
kind, but not SO with Alex It's all
in days work and that wasn't a
very out-of-the-ordinary day for him,
either.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27

But the Indians were not farmers and
their condition became deplorable.
The country was rapidly becoming
settled and they could no longer
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-07-27
DID GARFIELD TRICK CHARl0T THE FlATF7EAD CHIEF AND
FRIEND OF wHDTES INTO REL MQDSM@ THE BITTER ROOT?
BIG" LEHMAN IS
MIGHTY DRIVER
THREE HUNDRED MILES A DAY
NOTHING OUT OF THE Or
DINARY FOR HIM.

LcwistoWn Man and His Father-in-
Law Weighed 71O Pounds Between
Them; Ex-lmpcrial Potentate of
Algeria Shrincrs; One of Most Pop
ular Men i'm Montana.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-23
MODEL is FOUND SLAIN:
POLICE OBTAIN CLUE
Body of "Perfect Woman" Discovered
in Philadelphia Apartment-Prom-
inent Business Man Suspected.

Philadelphia, Jan. 8. - Dressed in
blue silk pajamas, the body of Grace
Colbert Roberts, % years old, art mod.
ell and perfect woman" has been dis
covered in her apartments here. She
had been murdered.
In her role as a model, the slain
woman had posed for a silk stocking
ad which has been displayed in street
car cards all over the country.
The name of the man who tortured
and then killed the woman is now in
the hands of the police and, according
to detectives, will lead to man stand
ing high in business circles of Chicago
and this city. Detectives followed the
trail to Chicago.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-23
CARRANZA CONSUL
IS SENT TO JAIL
CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY TO
SHIP MUNITIONS OF WAR
INTO MEXICO.
COMMISSION ENDS LABORS
Sessions Close Automatically When
Efforts Fail Through Carranza's
Rejection Of Terms Offered-
President Is Notified,

New York, JAM 4.-Juan T. Burns,
Carranza consul general here, has
been arrested charged with being con.
cerned in conspiracy to ship arms
and ammunition to Vera Cruz in viola
ton of President Wilson's embargo
proclamation of October, 1915.
Commissions labors End.
Washington, Jan. 4.-The American
members of the joint Mexican peace
commission presented to- President
Wilson late Wednesday afternoon
their recommendation for closing up
the commissions sessions.
Before going to see the President
they drafted an answer to General
Carranza's rejection of the troop with.
drawal protocol.
Their message and visit to Presi.
dent Wilson means that the joint ses
sions are automatically closed.
Abandon Joint Session.
In substance, the commissioners
were to inform Wilson they have done
their utmost to frame a satisfactory
troop withdrawal protocol, that their
efforts have failed through General
Carranza's rejection of the terms, and
that it is their opinion that it would be
useless to continue the joint session
further.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-23
SWISS ENDORSEMENT
IS NOT UNANIMOUS
Some Opposition to Support Of Presi.
dent Wilson in His Move
for Peace.

Geneva, Jan. 5.-The Journal Dem
ocrate says President Schulthess and
former President Motta and De Cop
pet voted against the recent Swiss
note, supporting President Wilson's
communication to the belligerents in
the form that it was edited and issued,
but that they were in the minority in
the federal council. There is much
discussion in the Swiss newspapers of
a statement credited to the Cologne
Gazette concerning neutral nations
"That the Swiss confederation has the
greatest interest to see peace conclud-
ed rapidly because it is now impossi-
BILE to foresee the future fate of the
nations which have remained neutral
up to the present.
The German minister at Berne in an
interview with the Bund is quoted as
having said that Switzerland has moth
ing to fear from Germany, which coun-
try will strictly respect and guard
Switzerland's neutrality.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-23
COMMERCE DESTROYERS
SINK FREIGHTERS, BELIEF
Two Powerful German Rovers Said to
Be lowering Along Steamship
lanes-Anxiety Felt.

New York, Jan. 4.-Two powerful
German commerce destroyers bristling
with guns are said to be lowering
along the steamer lanes between this
port and the Irish coast and are be-
lieved by marines here to have &C.
counted for six large freighters now
long overdue. The news of the raid
ers was brought here by Captain jan
Baron, commander of the New AMI
sterdam, which arrived from Rotter.
dam, via Falmouth, England.
Captain Baron said that he had re-
ceived daily warnings from the Cape
Race wireless Station to beware of the
newest raiders.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-23
THICK, GLOSSY HAIR
FREE FROM DANDRUFF
Girls! Try It! Hair gets soft, fluffy and
beautiful-Get Is cent bottle
OF Danderine,

Il you care for heavy hair that eE=.
tens with beauty and is radiant with
life; has an Incompatible softness and
Is fluffy and lustrous, try Danderine.
Just one application doubles the
beauty Of your hair, besides it imme-
diately dissolves every particle Of
dandruff. You can not have nice
heavy, healthy hair If you have
dandruff. This destructive scurf robs
the hair Of it's lustre, it's strength and
It's very life, and If not overcome it
produces feverishness and itching Of
the scalp; the hair roots famish,
loosen and die; then the hair falls out
fast. Surely get 25-cent bottle Of
Knowlton's Danderine from any drug
store and just try it.-Adv.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-23
WAR TO LAST OUNCE OF BLOOD
GERMAN PEACE HOPES ARE DIS
PERSED-TO FIGHT.
Berlin Editors Bitter in Denunciation
OF Rejection Of official
Text Of Note Not Received.

Berlin, Jan. 4.-Berlin's peace hopes
are dispersed. Now it is war to the
last ounce Of human blood. The Allies
note is not deserving of a written
rejoinder.
Summed up, that is the Berlin press
opinion-and it typifies the opinion of
the man in the street.
There is apparently unanimous
decision that Germany's only answer
to the Allies rejection of peace must
be by force Of arms under linden
burg's leadership.
German Editors Bitter.
Privately the editors Of Berlin news
papers are even more bitter in their
denunciation of the Allies course than
their printed statements.
One of the editors-the man writ.
ing the leader" for the Lokal Anzeig.
or, was asked what Germany would
do.
Hold out" he flashed back. 1T is
insanity for Europe to bleed to death
but the Allies refuse peace. Only
one reply can come-and that from
our armies. Let Hindenburg answer!'
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-23
The PEOPLES Physique.

Some consideration should be given
to the effect that the change in loco
motion will make upon the physique Of
the people; for even the farmers are
now using the automobile, and the
horse Is used for little but draft pur-
poses. Will not the race become lax
and nerveless that Tolls upon soft cush-
ions, protected in every way from the
hard joltings of the road? More and
more, machinery is brought into serv-
ice, and less and less physical exertion
is required in the carrying on Of open
air occupations. Man touches but
ton, and gas engine does the rest.
This makes things easier; but the
question is whether it confers an actual
benefit IN the end.-Mobile Register.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-23
After Ideal American Hens,

New York, Jan. An ideal Amer:.
can fowl is the object of experiments
by the government at its farm a.
Beltsville, Md. Harry M. Lemon, head
husbandman, has been working five
years on the new product. He ex.
planned at the poultry show at Madi-
son Square Garden that the new hen
would have white plumage, yellow legs,
red ear lobes and a moderate sized
comb. In laying qualities it will re-
semble the lie. horn. It will have as
much meat on as Wyaneotta, Barrel
Rock or Plymouth Rock.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-23
U-B0ATS MINE BRITISH
HARBORS SAY REPORTS
Germany Attempts to Isolate England
New York Hears News Of Sink
ings Is Suppressed.

New York, Jan. 4.-Germany has be.
gun another attempt to bottle up Eng
land from the outside world in retalia-
ton for it's own isolation by the Bri-
fish feet.
Passengers on the Holland American
liner Nieuw Amsterdam, which has
just arrived from Rotterdam and Fal.
mouth, said that mines containing ex-
ceptionally high explosives have been
planted by the. Germans close to all
the large harbors in England, Scotland
and Wales.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-23
Exempt.

"Avoid criticizing," she said. Don't
make practice of finding fault with.
other people, or picking flaws in what
they say or do"
Teacher" spoke up little boy,
that's the way my father makes his;
livin'w
'You surprise me, George! What
is your fathers occupation?'
"He's proofreader, ma'am."
The teacher coughed. "Well,
George" she said, II make an excep-
ton in the case of your father" -
Youths Companion.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-23
FRENCH WARSHIP T0RPEDOED
Berlin Hears Vessel Is Lying Near
Port Of Ma'ta-craft Built in 1907
Dispaaces 1860 Tons.

Berlin. Jan. 5.-By Wireless to
sayville.)-A dispatch to the Zurich
Post from Milan reports that the
French battleship Verite has been tor.
pedoed by a German submarine near
Malta, says an Overseas News agency
announcement. The Verite, badly
damaged, is lying near the port Of
Malta, the dispatch adds.
The battleship Verite was built at
Bordeaux in 1907 and is one of a class
of four warships, of which the Liberte
was destroyed by an explosion in
1911.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-23
AMERICAN NEUTRALITY
QUESTIONEDBY GERMANY
Cologne Gazette Raises Question-Sus-
poets U. S. Is Waiting for Psyche
logical Moment to Enter War.

Berlin, Jan. 4.-The question wheth.
er the United States intends to remain
neutral, or whether President Wilson
is playing for the psychological mo-
ment to enter the war, is raised by the
Cologne Gazette. The question of
American neutrality is now to the fore
In the ceaseless talk of the peace sit.
uation.
There is no doubt the Germans want
America to remain neutral but the
Germans are not sure that America
wants neutrality. The German public,
in its analysis of recent developments,
regard the American President as a
sphynx.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-23
Would Save Air Sunremacv

London, Jan. 4.-Lord Cowdray,
known as one of England's greatest
business organizers has taken over or.
ganization and development of Eng.
lands aerial warfare. He will have
sole charge of construction and equip.
ment. Of the empires air forces, both
OF the army and the navy. His an.
polntment was regarded as direct re.
Spouse to the caution voiced by Field
Marshal Sir Douglas; Haig recently
against possible. loss in the present
war by the Allies of their present III
aNnrArna
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-23
German Losses Are Heavy.

London, Jan. 4.-The British official
information just issued says:
EARLY this morning a strong hostile
patrol reached our trenches east of
Vermelles. It was repulsed with the
loss CT half it's number. Under cover
of heavy bombardment, strong enc.
my patrol of some 40 men endeavored
to approach our lines last night, north
Of Ypres. The few men who sue
ceeded in reaching our trenches were
immediately elected. The enemy.s
Iosses were heavy"