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The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-04
Harvey, Monta11a's First bad Man
Desperate and Murderer Ruined Trade With B1ackfeet

bertson was persuaded by the COM
pany to return to Fort Mckenzie, and
he finally decided to do so. With
him were Malcolm Clarke, who was
afterward one of the best known of
the Montana frontiersmen and who
was killed by Indian treachery in
Prickly Pear canyon in 1868; and
Jim Lee, another we'll known Indian
trader. When the boat carrying
them approached the mouth of the
Judith river, it was met by Harvey,
who had come from Fort F. A. G.
for the purpose AS Harvey walked
aboard the boat Malcolm Clarke, who
was so incensed by the brutality Of
Harvey that he could not contain
himself. struck Harvey a blow in
the face, knocking him down. Har.
vey jumped to his feet and Clarke
again struck him, Telling him. The
desperate would have been killed by
Clarke and Lee had not Major Cul-
bertson interfered He fled that
night down the river.
In 1S45 Chardon died of scurvey.
Major Culbertson rebuilt Fort Nc
Kenzie and succeeded in making
peace with the Blackfeet. Harvey
returned as rival trader to Pratte,
Chouteau & Co., but he was despised
by the Blackfeet and never was able
to trade with them. He was con-
stantly in fear of his life. He sought
revenge against Major Culbertson by
informing the government that
Pratte, Chouteau and Co. were sell
ing whisky to the Indians, as a re-
suit of which the company was sued
on it's bond. Ruin threatened the
company, but Senator Thomas H.
Benton, after whom Fort Benton
was named, effected compromise
by which Pratte, Chouteau & Co.
paid a fine of $4,000.
Harvey continued to skulk in the
Missouri river bottom and was sus-
pected of several murders of whites
and Indians, but he escaped punish
ment and died in 1853 in a small
trading post he had built at Cracon
du Nez, few miles from Mckenzie.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-04

knowing that he had started a bloody
feud with the Blackfeet, prepared
to abandon the fort, which had been
one of the most profitable MAIN
tanned by the American Fur cam
pany. He sent a detachment secretly
to the mouth of the Judith, where a
stockade was built on the north
bank of the Missouri. In six weeks
it was completed and Chardon named
it Fort F.. A. c., after himself. Char
don and Harvey then loaded all their
effects into their boats and dropped
down the river, leaving Fort McKen-
sic in flames. The spot was after
ward known as Fort Brule, or Burnt
Fort.
Clarke Attacks Harvey.
Not particle of trade was carried
on the following winter, Chardon
and Harvey fearing to permit In
dians near their stockade. After
considerable difficulty, Major Cul-
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-04

ident of the American Institute Of
Mining Engineers, helped to organize
the first company to operate with
machines in Alder gulch. He inter
ested Professor Shaler, the famous
Harvard geologist. Through Shaler,
Gordon Mckay of New York invested
considerable money in the undertake
ing. The concern was incorporated
as the German Bar Placer mining
company. The placer holdings of
the Sedman estate, near Junction, a
few miles down Alder gulch from
Virginia City. were acquired. The
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-04
Bishop Carroll to Tour.

Rt. Rev. John P. Carroll, of the
Catholic diocese of Helena is on his
spring tour. His itinerary is, in
part, as follows.
Hamilton, May 10; Stevensville,
May 10; Frenchtown, May IL; Bon
ner, May II; Dillon, May 13; Hell
ena, May 20; Cut Bank. May 20;
Holy Family Mission, May 21;
Whitefish, May %; Columbia Falls,
May 20; Kalispell, May %; st. 1g-
natius, May rs.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-04

One Montana man, with calluses
on his hands, has contributed more
by some millions of dollars to the
cause of education than all of the
many plutocrats of the state COM
bined.
Harvard university is the institu-
ton benefited. First and last the
benefit will total something like
$3,OOO,O0O in cash. Even now more
than half this sum, in hard cash, has
gone into the Harvard treasury, and
the balance is as sure as the coming
of another day.
Alder gulch is the source from
which this splendid gift comes. 1t
seems fitting that the last of the
magnificent millions that have been
yielded up by the greatest placer de-
posit in the United States should go
to one of the first of American CEN
ters of learning.
Charles Kammerer is the man
whose genius made the gift possible.
He is a graduate of that hard school
of experience, the sluice box. TWen-
ty-seven years ago he began work
in Alder gulch as a miner. His init
mate knowledge of the mysteries OF
placer mining came to him through
years of patient toll at the business
end of a shovel. Now he is consid-
cred one of the first placer experts
of the west. In the making Of all
this money for Harvard he has made
a reputation for himself.
Kammerer and Harvard.
About the rise of Kammerer and
the manner in which this Montana
placer deposit has enriched Harvard
is an interesting story. 1t has to do
with the passing of primitive meth
ods of placer operations and the min
ing of auriferous deposits by ma
chimes.
These machines are great boats of
battleship proportions and weight.
Powerful steam shovels, capable of
lifting enormous yardage, and cut
ting through living rock, are operat-
ed on these boats, making the ex-
cavation which contains the water
upon which the boats float. AS the
big shovels cut channel for the
boats to go forward, the refuse is
dumped at the other end, so that
about the same amount of water is
needed all the time. AS the gold
bearing gravel passes through the
machinery of the boats the values
are extracted down to the last pen
nyweight.
In the early days of Alder gulch
the bed rock of that rich stream
yielded up a colossal sum by very
ordinary methods of mining, the
shovel and sluice box. The rich
gravel was shoveled into sluices
where water ran swiftly. In the bot
tom of the sluice boxes were rifles.
The gold, being heavier than the
gravel, settled down to the bottom
of the sluice boxes. and was caught
in the rifles. The gravel was car
ried away by the swift running wa
ter. In this crude manner of min
ing, old as the hills from which the
gold originally came, something like
100000 of unlimited gold was
the gulch's contribution to the
wealth of the world. No other gulch
or placer deposit, from the Gold
Coast of Africa to the rich bars OF
the Yukon, can show as clean and
profitable record.
After the cream had been taken,
hand-worked placer mining became
Improbable, except in certain limit
ed areas. 1t was necessary to bring
in machines to handle immense yard
age, to obtain the gold that the pio-
neer miners had not taken out.
Coming of the Dredges.
p. N. Moore of St. Louis. now pres
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-04
The Wise Fool.

'To avoid a fight you should stop
and count ten," observed the Sage.
eyes, replied the Fool. "By that
time the other fellow will have you
licked"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-10-26
Novel Electric Torch.

A novel electric torch consists Of a
wide-mouthed bottle, with a closely fit
ling rubber cork, through which a
zinc and a carbon rod project to a
third of the bottles depth, and on top
OF which--connecte to the rods-is
mouthed a small lamp bulb. A sclu-
ton Of bichromate Of potash and sui
phuric acid in water half fills the bot
tie. When the bottle is inverted, the
fluid is brought into contact with the
rods, and sufficient current is gener-
ated to cause the lamp to glow.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-10-26
BretOnne Soup.

Peel and chop two large onions and
put them in a stewpan with two ounces
Of margarine and fry until light
brown color. Then stir in one ounce
of oatmeal and three ounces Of haricot
beans which have been soaked over
night in water Now add six pinis Of
water and half a gill Of milk. Boil for
one and one-half hours, until the beans
are quite soft. Pass the soup through
a c0lander, return TO the stewpan and
reheat. Add salt and pepper to taste
and about tablespoonful Of grated
cheese and sprinkling Of finely
chopped parsley; stir. Serve very hot
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-10-26

q case or mistaken Kindness. But do
you know I'm more than half mind
! to ten you about It. I'm so fun OF
It It would do me good to tell some
body, and l really need sympathy. too.
DO you mind being burdened with 9th
er peoples troublesG"
"No-Im terribly Interested. II
you're NOT afraid TO trust me.n
lie regarded her intendy for mo-
ment. "No, I'm not afraid. Besides.
being married, you'll likely sympathize
with the girl. it was She was think
ing Of"
"lm not marriedi Goodness. no."
isn't this your baby?"
mo. There's its mother over there
asleep"
He showed his surprise. "Well. I'm
kind Of glad you're not married, after
all. And l still feel like telling you
my trouhes-if you still care to hear"
"Yes, l do"
"Well, you see, It's this way. / have
n business partner whom l don't see
very often, although I'm terribly fond
of him, and he is Of me, too. That's
the trouble. lie took notion that
was the one person in the world he
was fondest Of besides his only daugh-
ter that we two ought to get married.
She's just out Of school / was asked
TO dinner last night 80 meet her
couldn't get out of it--but do you know
the girl evidently didn't like the idea
any better than ! did for she didn't
show up My, but the old folks were
peeved about 1t.
"And then / was to leave today for
the West, Los Angeles. Had tick
cts and everything. But when / got
to the station this morning there were
papa, mamma and the girl | saw them
IN the distance before they saw me.
I'm afraid Of papa. When he takes
notion, us all off. He never fails to
get what he wants. / wasn't going to
have that poor child thrown at me.
So l bolted Took the first train in
the opposite direction, and here | am.
l don't know where I'm going, but I'm
on my way!" he added flippantly, and
then more soberly. Il have some busi-
ness interests in indianapolis.
Mildred looked suddenly very pale
and i'll. The man almost dropped the
baby in his CONSERVATION. "What have
! done? What have l said7H
The mother came just then and res
cued the baby and carried it Off. The
stranger moved to the seat beside Mil
dred.
"Do tell me what's wrong?g he
pleaded.
The color was slowly returning to
her face and a ghost Of a smile was
playing around AIildred's mouth.
"Why-why-you see, I'm the girl,
and I'm running away from you, too
to an aunt of mine You're Richard I
aren't youY
lie was staring incredulously now.
'Then if you're Mildred Wilson, al I
have to say is that was an awful fool /
TO shy So wonder if youll ever for
give me?''
Il was Just thinking something like
that myself" said Mildred coloring.
and after all it would be shame
10 disappoint your father"
Mildred wouldn't say whether she
thought so or not, but somehow or
'ther her companion did nor appear to
be discouraged. At any rate, no one
1aid any attention to the cornfelds
ifter that.-Oliye Roberts Barton, in
he Chicago American.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-10-26
Save the Batter.

Batter left over from hot cakes can
be disposed Of in two ways-it may 80
into the making Of gingerbread, OF ygt
can stir it into the mush when j.
boiling.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-10-26
FOR CONSTIPATION

When you want a pleasant laxative
try Chamberlain's Tablets. They are
mild and gentle and produce no grip
Ing or other unpleasant effect. Oh
tainable everywhere. d-w.lm
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-10-26

Montreal. Oct. 26 The plant Of
the Canadian Explosives company at
NaudreuiI near Montreal has been
blown up. Fifteen hundred persons
were employed. No casualties were
reported.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-10-26
TEppY AeAIN
BY United Press

BY United Press
Washington, Oct 26A new caii.
paign has been launched to obtain
for Colonel roosevelt the commaul
Of division in France.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-10-26
80 FRENCH OFFICERS
FOR TRAINING CAMPS
by United Press.

by United Press.
Now York, oct &C. Eighty French
army officers have arrived for distri-
button among American training
camps to instruct the sammies in the
war arts.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-10-26

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us. ANARCHISTS
IN RUSSIA SCOTT
At OUR LIBERTY

zPETRoGRAD, Russia. Oct. The
Wanted freedom of the citizens of
the United States OF America was
scoffed at and the government of the
country denounced by several an
archists from America, who ha-
rangued mass meeting of the radical
wing of the Socialist party here to-
day.
The meeting was unanimous in its
protest of the arrest of Anarchist
Berkmann in America, who it was re-
ported, was lying. in prison under
sentence of death.
A threat to hold demonstration at
the American embassy was frustrated
when the authorities threw Gordon
of troops around the building. No
disturbances followed the breaking up
of the meeting.
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MatsOnia Goes
To Pearl HarbOr
IS Latest RuInOI
Report Says She is to Be AL.
tered to Carry Troops From
- Hawaii to France

TWO coineiding reports have
created little rumor, parad.
ing as a street statement, that
the Matsonia will not return to
San Francisco on this voyage, but
will, instead, go to. Pearl Harbor
where she will be made over for
use as a troopship. The climax Of.
the runlor is that when so al.
tered she will take troops from
the Hawaiian department direct
to France. -.
The basis Of the rumor is the
month-oId report that two regi-
ments of infantry in the. Oahu
garrisons, the 18th and 32nd, or
the End, arc to be despatched to
France in October. The part of
the rumor Of the second part is
the recent report from Washing
ton stating that all American
ships ARE to be commandeered by
the government. on October Ii.
=. This last report Is generally ac-
cepted as authentic.
The Matsonia will arrive Lere
on October 10, and is not schad-
uled to depart until the 18TH
While there is little doubt that
she is TO be Communicated. there
seems to be nothing to substan-
tiate the report that she will be-
sent to Pearl Harbor for altera-
tons, and later for the -enbarka.
ton of troops, other than sur.
miss-Which may turn out to be
good guessing. H..
So far as the rumor is con-
cerned nothing is known by her
Honolulu agents, Castle, & Cooke.
Passengers are stir being booked
for the return voyage 10 the, coast
of the Matsonia, and nothing def
mite has so far been learned re-
gartiing the communicating of
the ship on October Is by the gov
eminent. -. sass.
Many of those who are booking
passage to the coast on the Mat
sonia are army officers, who have
been ordered transferred to the
mainland. 4 49,. ~....-...
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ARMY TO BOOST
BOND CAMPAIGN

Acting upon cabled instructions to
Gen Wiser this afternoon the Ha.
waiian department vii: undertake at
once a systematic campaign to swell
subscriptions to the second /. liberty
loan among officers and their fam
lilies on Oahu. The instructions are
immediately to institute the campaign
throughout the department, detailing
supervisory officers for various units,
and TO stimulate composition, exact
frequent reports ans publish them. ar
range for speakers, arouse enthusiasm
and otherwise use all endeayors to
make the campaign a success.
The general is instructed to tele-
graph the results Of the campaign
each Sunday andN the final amount
when the campaign closes October %.
Immediately upon receipt of the cable
the. commander sent kilograms to the
different posts for recommendations
as to officers to be placed in charge
of the work.
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The house inserted the postal reye-
nue. provision requiring a 2-cent stamp
for postals and cents for letters.
Movies are taxed one-tenth of their
admissions If the price of admission is
in exdess of cents. The stamp taxes
are relied on to raise $30,009.000.
Consumption taxes on tea, coffes
and sugar were disapproyed.
Each movie film is taxed quarter
Of a cent; chewing gum 2 per cent
and automobiles, jewelry and musical
instruments per cent
The normal rates of income taxes
arc doubled and the exemptions are
lowered. Whisky is penalized at the
rate of $2.10 gallon, beer at $3.50 a
barrel, the tax on wine is doubled,
while grape juice is taxed at one cent
a gallon. An assessment OF 8 per cent
IS levied on passenger tickets.
~ Congress may possibly disp0se.0f All
of the most urgent legislation before II
and reach an adjournment this week.
The final legislative program was al
most completed by the leaders Of the
two houses last night.
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May Not Gust
A. K. VierTaAs
Headof Parks
Continued on page slN

Two appointments and one re-
hoDointnlent are scheduled to be
drought up before the meeting of the
board Of supervisors tomorrow night,
as folloWs Fred Ohrt for road super.
visor. Halyor Myhre for milk and poi
inspector. and A. X. Vierrd for parks
snberii.tendent, to succeed himself. It
Was learned today that it has been
practically decided by Nhe efficiency
narfY' that A. X. vierra win remain
in office. John Markham is said to be
cut of running for the job now.
Ffed Ofrt, whose resignation as
assistant city engineer took effect
t4tnf6mber so, was in conference this
5rning with A. S. Cantin, the new
CIV engineer, and it. is understood
thaf mr.. Cantin will put forward
Ohrt's name for supervisor of city
and county road work. The appoint
ment OF Dir. Myhre viii be made only
ii the health committee brings in a
report on the matter.
Supervisor William AHA. who is
chairman of the committee. is against
the move TO combine the offices of
MAX and poi inspeetor and will prob
ably oppose the plan.
The reports on the Investigation of
|It oIlfchasing agents department
I'I' BE taken from the table and the
1iciion to abolish the department and
lei the department heads do their own
I1xin4 viii probably carry since from
HE tentative budget outlined Sunday
he salaries Of the city Purchasing
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"a KILLED, AZ
HURT IN new
LONDON RAID
British RetaGate With Raid in
Belgium in Which 7Mo
Planes Are Brought Down.
Associated Press By o. S. NaSai Wirslsss)

(ASsoclated PTeSs py v .. Nag1 Wlrele93y
: LONDON, Eng, Oct. THE war
office today issued a DulIetih On the
results of last nights air raid BY Hun
planes On the southeast coast Of Eng
land. The Communications states
that nine civilians we're killed and e
injured by bombs.
The anti-aireraft defenses Of Lon
don are proving powerful deterrent
to German airmen, the intense bar.
rage fire making an almost irnpen-
trable curtain around the city.
The war Offices communication fur
ther states that during powerful
British air raid on Teuton positions
in Belgium two hostile airpEanes were
destroyed. and two others forced to
run for shelter behind their lines.
LONDON. Eng, Oct Herman
artillery is reported from Sir Douglas
Observation-Disclosures as being very &C.
tive in the Newport and Ypres sectors.
BERLIN, Germany. Oct. Ian avi-
ators of the feet which bombarded
Margate, Dover, and London last night
have returned to their base.
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q ! ASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The peti
w lions of the American Defense
society, a New York organiza,
tion, formed to rescue the senate from
the group of obstructionist senators
who have been delaying necessary
war legislation either by long winded
speeches or negative votes. were pre-
sented to the senate today by Senator
WadswoFth of New York and referred
to the committee on privileges. The
petitions ask for the expulsion of Sen
ators Gronna, La Toilette and Stone.
In an open letter drafted by the or
ganization which is to be sent to the
governors of the states which the
Shadow Hun senators represent, the
committee urges THAT immediate
steps be taken to rid the senate Of
those men whose seditious utteranees
are aiding and are lending comfort to
the German enemy. ~ -. +. 81. -. !: 3.
Public remarks of La Toilette. Stone,
Reed, Gore, -Gronna, Vardaman and
Hardwick are cited and it is pointed
ont that these clearly show wilful
obstruction to the necessary plans of
the nation and are seditious eyensssif
they be not actually reasonable tao
tics which have been employed not en-
a single occasion only but constantly
and persistently.a 22e q IT,. =. ~. r.
The letter then asks the governors
to whom it is directed to give all pos
sible aid in arousing public sentiment.
To point out to the fathers, mothers,
other relatives and friends Of those
brave men who are clleerfully giving
their services and perhaps their lives
to the world in its struggle against
Prussian autocracy, that these seven
misrepresentation of public opinion
in the senate of the United States" are
pursuing courses which tend to ter.
.ribly enhance the perils to which
those patriots will be exposed and to
rouse the indignation which the &C.
tion of these men so well warrants"
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TN face Of the order issued last
] week by the territorial pub
lie utilities commission, the
Inter-Island Navigation Co.
began selling passenger tickets
to island ports today at q
marked increase over the rates
WHICH have been in force for a
number of years. The increase
ii rates to Maui, Hawaii and
Kauai ports varies from 60
cents 10 about 81 Sc aeeesding
"a the distance to tile different
ports.
N6tieosof the intention to increase
the passenger rates was given on Sep.
.fembor IS, when new schedule,
eirned and approval by James A..
Kennedy. the Inter-lsland president,
ard by Ollie Scott, the general pas.
senftr agent. was issued. The new
schedule when distributed announced
that the rates would 80 into effect on
October j, today.
Inquiry at the Inter-lsIand office this
morning revealed that the ticket
agents had been instructed to begin
the sale Of tickets according to the
new schedule, :
The public utilities order. which Sc
rcroly criticized the accounting sys-
TEN 81 the Inter-Islahd, was issued
st Thursday II ordered the Inter
land to put in effect on October is,
the same passenger and freight rates
which were in vogue on August /,
1916. ghe Investigation Of the Inter
island accounting system and its
profits oafned TO Getermine II the
passenger and freight rate increase
Was justified, was started shortly art.
er the 1916 schedule went into effect,
Passenger rates are covered in at
least one instance in the public util-
lilies order, for the 1916 raise of rates
Continued on page 81
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Z. WASHINGTON D. c., Oct 1.-The tax revenue bill,
w designed to raise $700OO00OO the house today
following its Endorsement Saturday by the joint conference
provides for taxation almost everything pertaining to life
ranging from the cradle to the grave but profeer will
pay the most As it to the house today it imposes tax
of per manufactures of babys tacum powder and
cosmetics Inheritance at death also to be xacted