The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-10-05
THERE IS NOTHING
SMlTHW0N'TDRIVE
MONTANAN WHO INTRODUCED
SHEEP HERDING AIRPLANE
STOLE LOCOMOTIVE.
His Week at the State Fair Made
Pleasant and Profitable by Clean
ing Up Jimmy Reynolds of Boulder
in Speedway Contest That Has Lots
of Thrills.

Stanley Smith, the spectacular
sheep grower who introduced the air.
plane into Montana as a shepherd
ing device, added to the gaiety of, the
state fair when he drifted into the
capital from his Smith river ranch
during the early part OF the week
and took $1,000 away from Jimmy
Reynolds of Boulder Springs in a
race on the fair speedway.
Smith with his Ford $3.50 was
too fast for Reynolds Hudson super
six and Smith finished II miles while
Reynolds was going 10. Many of the
crowd had gone home believing the
contest had been called off. Smith
went to the front when they started
and gradually pulled away from his
opponent. He succeeded in tapping
Reynolds before the latter had COM
pleted the scheduled 10 miles.
Smith and Reynolds are rival speed
bugs, and Jimmy, when he heard that
Smith was in Helena, tuned up the
old Hudson and wendell his way to-
ward the capital with blood in his
eye. The evening he got there, how
ever it began to rain, so j. Stanley
and Jimmy got together in the sun
parlor of the Placer hotel and dis
cussed the weather. 1t was not
wholly a dry argument, either.
Smith and Reynolds recently ran a
race from Boulder Hot Springs to the
top of the continental divide and re-
turn for $1,000, and Reynolds won.
Since then Smith has been uneasy
looking for more trouble. He owns
a Winton six, yclept the Bluebird,
while Jimmy is an ardent partisan
of the Super-six.
Smith is more or less famous for
his daring. He has driven every
thing from a lambings, wagon to a
railroad locomotive and last year be-
came famous for stealing the rolling
stock of the w. S. S. &, Y. p. railway.
While the sheriff of Meagher county
was hanging four negro murderers
short time ago before crowd of
several hundred who had come up on
the train to the big party, Smith un-
coupled the engine from the train
and took cher" out for spin.
When the guests returned from
the hanging, their engine was gone.
Engineer and fireman stood looking
at each other for they had been at
tending the legal lynching. Had the
Old engine started off by itself and
slid back to Ringing?
About the time the trainmen were
getting out handcar and sheriff's
posse to institute search for the
missing engine, there was loud
putting came over the hill; streak
of dust appeared in the distance, the
old faithful engine came tearing
down the track, ripping great hole
In the saturated ambient and leaving
the air full of cinders and smoke,
Whistled for White Sulphur.
Stanley Smith climbed down out
of the cab.
Hello, Bill, didn't care if | took
your Old two-cylinder out for little
leap, did you? said Smith, to the as
tonished engineer.
The passengers all climbed on
board evidently under the impress
sion that the engine had been taken
down the line on company business
and returned on schedule.
Smith was also the first man to
thought they were lambing wagons,
in the Smith river valley. He said
he had seen some big cars in Helena
in an early day, full of kids, and he
thought they weer Landing wagons,
so he went back and introduced the
automobile to the wool-growing in.
dustry and now his sheep and others
in his neighborhood are so artistic
cratic that ewes insist on having the
attention of tenders in automobiles
during the lambing season.