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The Ronan pioneer., 1917-10-19

railroads, when stephen A. Douglas
persuaded congress to subsidze lines
from Chicago and Dubuque to the
ONO river and on to Mobile, but
some one changed the language from
persons in the service to troops of
the United States.' Future grants,
way. Among the exception are the
Southern Pacific from Sacramento to
Portland, Ore, and small portions
OF the Missouri Pacific and Rock Is
land lines in Arkansas, where it is
provided that "all property and
troops of the United States shall at
all times be transported over the said
railroad and branches at the cost,
charge and expense of the company. 4"
Cut in Charges for Troops.
AS a result there are two kinds of
land grant railroads, those where the
lines may be used without charge and
those where the troops must be trans
ported without charge. In the form
err class the Northern Pacific stands
as the largest
While the government can use the
lines free of toll service, it lacks
equipment and so it has to secure it
from the railroad companies. AS a
result it has effected an arrangement
whereby on all free toll land grant
roads, it shall pay SO per cent of the
regular charges. AS result the
Northern Pacific is carry the young
men from Montana to American Lake
or Camp Greene or anywhere the gov
ernment orders them in it's service
for half what civilians would have to
pay under the same conditions.
Figures are not yet available as to
the number of troops that have been
handled by the land grant roads, hut
the traffic has become of such great
Importance that they have decided to
unite and establish bureau at
Washington. That the figures will
run into the hundreds of thousands
so far this year is apparent when it
is considered that all of the railroads
have handled more than one million
soldiers since the declaration of war
and some of them have been handled
more than once.
Great Army Moved.
In handling the first two contin-
gents for the new national army and
in moving the national guardsmen
and regulars up to October 1, special
train service was required involving
13,5OO passenger cars, 1900 pull
mans and tourists, 1000 baggage
cars and 4,500 freight cars.
The longest national army haul to
date was that of special train which
moved citizen soldiers from Yuma,
AriZ., to Fort Riley, Kans., 1,514|
miles. This trip occupied 48 hours
Practically all national guard move
ments have been of great length. The
longest was by a b. ttalion of San
Francisco engineers to the Atlantic
coast. This battalion included SOC
men and IS officers. They occupied
a special train comprising one stan
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-10-19
M@DL LIONS OF ACRES GIVEN TO RAILROADS
NOW BRING FREE RIDES FOR THE SOLDIERS

the past 3,954,934. acres; the Grea1
Northern, 2,924.263 acres, end the
Milwaukee, 1,465,554 acres.
Championed by Douglas.
The first railroads to be granted
land subsidies were the Illinois Cen
Chicago and to the Ohio river anC
the Mobile & Ohio for building from
the Ohio river to Mobile. These two
land grants were passed through con-
gress as result of the activity OF
Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illi-
nos
An agitation was started soon
thereafter for the construction of a
railroad to the Pacific coast, to be
subsidized by heavy land grants. The
little esteem in which the statesmen
of that day held the great intermoun-
tain region and that wonderful terri
tory traversed by the Northern Pa
cific as it passed through Montana, is
shown in report Of a select commit
tee of the national house of repre-
sentatives on Pacific railroads and
telegraphs.
After expressing grave doubt as to
whether railroad could be built
across the continent Through those
vast mountain regions. whose aspiring
SUBMITS present IL feet of defying
snow to the burning rays of the July
sum-" the report continues:
Old Time View of the West.
$50 rapid is the fall of snow, and
so resistlessly do the winds sweep
over those almost boundless plains, it
is quite impossible to gain a distant
shelter So with train of cars run
ming up the plain from Iowa or Mis-
souri, to the foot of the Rocky noun
talns, distance of some 500 miles,
how in storm is shelter or wood or
water or food to be gained? Arrest
ed 500 miles from Iowa in Novem-
ber, how is train of cars to be re-
lieved before May? By what means
could it be visited? In such case
the sheltering skill would be useless.
TO talk of doing business in the win
ter season on road through such
a region, though every conductor
was a Kit Carson and every traveller
a Fremont, would seem to be idle and
prepOsterOus.
Slipped One Over on U. S.
Some one slipped one over on I'm
Gle Sam in wording the bill providing
for the railroad land grants. In 1924
congress made land grant for the
construction of a canal connecting
the Wabash river with Lake Erie and
that grant contained a proposition
"that said canal when completed shall
be and remain forever public high
way for the use of the government
of the United States, free from any
toll or any charges whatsoever for
any property of the United States or
persons in their service on public
business passing through the same"
This clause was taken as the basis
for making the land grants to the
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-10-19
MONTANA COW BRINGS
BIG SUM AT X. G.. SHOW

A Montana COW owned by. A. B.
Cook of Helena and bred on his
stock farm near Townsend brought
$1,250 when she was sold to w. T.
Leahy of Pawhuska, Okla, at the
Hereford sale of the American Royal
Live Stock show at Kansas City. She
was second in value of all the COWS
of that breed sold at the show.
Lady Panama is her name and she
was bred, born and reared in Mon
tana. She was among the chief win
ners at the show, where Mr.. Cook
took down large number of blue
ribbons.
Unusual interest was shown at the
show and bidding at the sale was
very risk; stockmen from al over the
country being anxious to secure
prize animals to build up their herds.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-10-19
SIXTEEN MONTANA GIRLS
TO Be RED CROSS NURSES

Sixteen Montana nurses are soon
to see service in France. Miss Mar
garet Hughes, chairman OF the state
committee on nursing service for the
Montana Red Cross, has notified 16
Red Cross nurses of this state to be
ready to leave for Europe on days
notice, having been instructed to take
that step by the Wa shington branch
of the society.
The nurses notified are Anna Chris
tain, Livingston, nurse in charge;
Marguerite Blankevort, Helena;
Louise Lindberg, Miles City; Mar
garet McCauly and Alice Becklin,
Red Lodge; Lucy Walters, Glasgow;
Effie Fowler, Emeline COMFY and
Clara Ruff, Great Falls; Dora Neck
lenburg, Minnie Barrow and Agnes
Rasmussen, Billings; Dorothy San
delius, Columbus; Annabelle Frye
Butte; Clara Craig, Great Falls; May
Hassett, Missoula.
Montana has already sent tn ee
Red Cross nurses to the war
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-10-19

Through the assistance of tn,
United States government, which
gave it great tracts of land lyin,
along its right-of-way, the Northern
Pacific railway over third of a cen
tury ago was able to build the frs
transcontinental railway system
across Montana and connecting th'
Great Lakes and the Pacific north
the richest and most fertile section.
OF the country.
The total amount of land &C
acquired by the Northern Pacifi,
through this land grant amounted te
3 ,658,331 acres. By far the great
est portion of this land has passed
into private ownership and in Mon
tana much of it is now owned by the
dry land farmers 1t consists O.
every other section lying along the
right-of-way in strip SO miles wide
This land grant and the railroad
itself have played an important part
in the political, commercial and in.
dustrial development of the state. As
Montana has grown in wealth anG
splendor, so the railroad has pro-
gressed and the land with which it
was endowed has increased in value
until in many instances it's worth is
more than one hundred fold greater
than when the government made it's
great gift.
In the days when the great land
subsidies were voted to aid in the
construction of transcontinental rail
way systems, there was much criti-
cism, while in the years that TO-
lowed and the land increased in value
as the country traversed by the iron
horse" grew and prospered, the ques-
tion was frequently asked whether
the government received any direct
benefit from it's donation.
Getting It's Pay Now.
The answer has come this year, for
officials in charge of the transporta-
ton of troops across the country es-
innate that as a result of these fam
Gus land grants the United States will
save at the least calculation more
than $50,000,000, or at least 10 per
cent of the amount which it will have
to spend for transporting troops to
and from cantonments and the sea-
coast.
Thirty-four other railroads besides
the Northern Pacific received land
grant subsidies to assist in the con-
struction of a portion of their lines,
the government having given away in
that manner between 1850 and 1871
1O7, ,722,564 acres of public domain.
There are none of the great western
railroads but what received some as
sistance, though the Northern Pacific
with it's 31,65S,331 acres stands at
the top. Second on the list is the
Union Pacific with 1S,306,036 acres,
and third is the Southern Pacific with
16,012,228 acres. OF the other lines
that now operate in Montana the
Burlington has received from the fed
eral government in land grants in
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-10-19
Growing Vegetables and Flowers in the Air
Montana Man Getting Some Wonderful Results

little this season because it has been
unnecessary to do so.
The photograph shown below gives
a good idea of how the frame looks
when the crop is ready for harvest
ing. On this frame there is a large
assortment of vegetables, including
cucumbers, celery, spinach, canta-
loupe of two or three kinds. tomatoes,
parsley, lettuce-in fact about every
sort of vegetable that it is practicable
to grow in Montana. These veget-
ableS are of such excellent quality
that they look as if they had been
raised under unusual conditions and
forced with heat under glass. The
difference between them and hot
house vegetables is that the latter
usually have an unnatural, unhealthy
appearance and frequently are not
favored, while the vegetables
grown on the SwartZ frames, growing
and ripening naturally, reach their
finest development in size and flavor.
The photographs shown with this
article were taken October 9Th, when
the Swartz gardens were blooming
with roses and various other flowers,
and the vegetables were at their best.
One frame containing potatoes,
shown in the picture below, produced
as many fine potatoes, it is claimed,
as could be grown on half an acre of
ground.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-10-19

feet. On each side of this frame are
a series of troughs, one above the
other from the bottom to the top. In
these V-shaped troughs are planted
the vegetables, fruit, flowers or what
ever else Swartz wishes to grow, the
troughs first being filled with rich
ly fertilized mixture of earth. The
accompanying illustration, taken aft
er the seeds had been planted and
We're just beginning to sprout, shows
how one Of these frames is construc-
ted. The center is hollow and may
contain a small stove for use in case
of unreasonable frosts.
Swartz has a stove in only one of
his frames, and he has used it very
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-10-19
Born Near Minneapolis,

She was born in 1871 near Mime
apolls, and entered upon a stage ca
reer after leaving Montana. Her first
part of Importance was with Frohman
in shenandoah" Her first employ
ment in New York was as a profess
slonal model and later she entered
musical show chorus, where her
fame grew rapidly.
In London England's noblemen
proved victims to her charms, as
many of New York's wealthy men
had done. The Duke of Manchester
made her proffer of marriage the
beauty told her friends. In Paris she
attracted great attention and the no.
tlce of King Leopold of Belgium, who
is said to have shoWered her with
jewels.
In 1902 she returned to New York,
where her gay life was at it's height.
she was present at Harry Thaw's
'beauty' dinner dance at Sherry's.
Her home during her brief mar
ried life with the Earl of Rosslyn was
at Thurso castle, Scotland, a mag
nlflcent place for ler social activi-
ties After the earl had lost his for
tune at Monte Carlo, Anna Robinson
began squandering her own fortune.
Ten years ago she retired from the
stage and lived quietly in London.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-10-19
MONTANA GIRL
WAS COUNTESS
WAITRESS IN OLD MINING CAMP
OF CASTLE WAS LATER THE
COUNTESS OF ROSSLYN.
Anna Robinson Dies in Insane Asy-
lllm After Fortune and Friends
Have deserted Hel-Her Face
Made Her n Favorite of Broadway
and of Courts of Europe.

Montana miners who lived in the
mining camp of Castle in Meagher
county rs years ago will remember a
hotel keeper of the name G. Robin
son, who came out from Minneapolis
to try his fortunes in tho west, and
who for some two years WGs the pro-
prletor of miners boarding house
there. They will remember Robin
son, not because of Any personal trait
or popularity that marked him par
tlcularly, but because of the fact that
he had beautiful daughter, Anna,
who was declared to be the prettiest
girl in Montana. Anna, who was II
years old and in the first bloom of
her girlish beauty, used to wait on
the table at her fathers boarding
house. and often in the evenings she
sang to the miners who boarded
there, for she was possessed of re-
markably sweet voice.
Less than two weeks ago Anna
Robinson died at a state hospital for
the insane in New York after a ca
reer that would furnish material for
a novel, for she had not only achieved
fame as an actress on the American
stage and before tho footlights in
England, but had been recognized as
reigning beauty of the great cities
of Europe and lived for two years as
the wife of British nobleman, the
Earl of Rosslyn.
Deserted by Friends.
The grave closed on Anna Robin
son after her fortune had gone and
only handful of friends remained
to aid her in her last days of poverty
and want. She died charity pa
tlent at the Manhattan state hospital
for insane on Wards Island. When
the simple funeral service was read
over the frail body, wasted by pov-
erty and disease, only three relatives
were In attendance. Fifteen years
ago-three years after she left the
Montana mining camp in the noun
tains of Meagher county-she ,as
the toast on Broadway.
Her death in poverty closes a ca
reer in which the peerage of Eng
land. France, Belgium and million
aires of South Africa and New York
shared. Her fame in musical comedy.
growing from Broadway beginnings.
carried her overseas, where her beau
ty won immediate recognition and
made her a figure in international
gossip.
She was married to the Earl of
Rosslyn in 1905 and two years later
divorced him. At Monte Carlo it was
reported the beautiful American had
won a great rtune, and it was also
said she had settled $4,000 a year
on the earl by pre-nuptial agree
ment.
According to her relatives, Anna
Robinson lost her money two years
ago through the war, and went to
New York, where she has been SD
ported on the small NEE MS of her sis
ter
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-10-19

"They say" has caused more un-
needed grief and trouble than any
other words in the English tongue.
Sometimes a man turns out to be
as honest as you think he is, and
sometimes politician keeps a prom
ise
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-10-19

Growing vegetables and flowers ir
the air, it might be called, and GER
step-ladder when you want to pick
a mess of tomatoes, celery, cucum-
which is one of the things you do un-
der the Swartz system.
The idea of gardening developed
is simple enough. He builds square
or rather a slightly oblong frame
about eight by twelve feet at the
base, which tapers somewhat as il
ascends to height of some twelve
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-10-19

SWartz claims number of advan-
tages for this method of vegetable
and floral culture. First of these is
the saving in ground space where
land for gardening is at premium,
especially in cities. Several of these
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-10-19

James Swartz, an employe of the
Montana Power company at Hotter
dam, on the Missouri river near Wolf
creek, thinks he has evolved a new
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-10-19

system of vegetable and flower gar
dening that will revolutionize the
produce business, and many who
have seen his experiments worked
out during the past summer are in
clined to agree with him
Arizona republican., 1917-04-27
COMMIT TILES NAMED T0 TAKE ljP
 PROBLEM OF FOOD PRODUCTION
Maricopa County Farm Men Designate Problems for Valley Which They Will
 Try and Help to Solve

Realizing the crisis in food produc- tion which confronts the country the members of the Maricopa County Farm bureau almost to a man responded when the directors of the organization met yesterday afternoon to name com mittees to handle the individual prob lens. It is notable that it was decided to specifically handle such problems as those of seeds, summer crops. fur nishing machinery for small producers so that they may crop to the best ad vantage, the matter of adequate labor and the securing of a suitable supply of water for unusual products, such as melons and truck gardens.
 With regard to the grain crop in the valley. figures for this and other crops were submitted indicating that grain is far from plentiful In fact, cotton is the one great crop which seems to have grown large in acreage this year. Of course cotton is needed as a war crop and is therefore useful. It is also in d measure food and forage crop, but it will not entirely compensate for short acreage in wheat and barley, the combined acerage in which under the project is said to be only 10000 acres.
 The committees named yesterday afternoon were as follows:
 W dleI al IHbiS frequent lIleINdlS, even if with smaller head. for melons and truck gardens $. Reed, Ralph Murphy and Frank Parker.
 Summer crops, including advice as to best way to handle them-Fred Tait C. C. Green and John P Orme.
 Farm, machinery. including work of providing it for small farmers-Lin E. Orme. Fred Tait and A. $. Reed
 Labor-Ralph Murphy, Lin B. Orme and Frank Parker.
 Seed conservation and selection-F. c. McNabb, C. C. Green and Marshall Humphrey.
 These committees will go to work at once aiding all farmers in every pos sible way in increasing food resources of the Salt River valley.
 Those at the directorate meeting yes terday were Dr. J. c. Norton, chair man; A. $. Reed, Fred Tait, John Orme C. C. Green, Lin B. Orme r. c. McNabb, Ralph Murphy. Marshall Humphrey and M. E. Bemis, secretary.
Arizona republican., 1917-04-27
ANIMAL CRUELTY
 IS CHARGE MADE

Charged with cruelty to animals, John Richard was arraigned before Justice De Souza yesterday and will be given his preliminary hearing next Thursday morning. Richard is alleged to have worked a wounded morse. Ac- cording to Frank Dumman, who sworc to the complaint, the animal had se- were cuts and the defendant not oEly did not give the animal care. but used it in his work Richard admitted that the horse had been cut by barbed wire but stated that the cuts had been dressed.
 While no one in the county has been appointed to look after the humane work of this character, the sheriff s office stated yesterday that it investi- gated every case called to it's attention. It is understood that several other complaints charging cruelty to animals will be filed and will be vigorously
Arizona republican., 1917-04-27
At the Majestic

Starting with a scene in a clairvoy- ants establishment, "The Social Leper' races through some of the most sensationally enthralling events shown on a screen in a long time. The des- perate endeavors of the social leper to win for himself the man of her choice and her disregard for the feelings of another man who has fallen in love with her. bring on a series of events that end in catastrophe nearly bring ing death to an innocent man. But finally the guilty party is discovered and arrested, after a fight that is the most thrilling and realistic ever de- picted in the silent drama, and the in- nocent man is restored to his sweet heart. This latest World Picture Brady made with Carlyle Blackwell and June Elvidge in the leading roles and Ar thur Ashley and Evelyn Greeley in the cast, will be seen at the Majestic thea = ter today.
Arizona republican., 1917-04-27
Flyer In Wheat Declined, Grain
 Grows In Value

With the price of wheat advancing J. H. Minter is making a more strenuous fight for his three acres in wheat which he offered a few months ago for $50 and which offer was refused As the matter stands today. Minter may receive several hundred dollars for the wheat if # continues to soar or may loose it entirely.
 Minter had years lease on prop erty on the southside. He had been on the place few months when the owners, Mir. and Mrs. D. A. Wood arrived from the coast and were equally surprised to find renter on the premises. They had bought the property in California from o. Nj. Thomas and demanded possession. Minter claimed years lease and refused to leave unless Thomas re- fund him for the wheat in the sum of $50 which Thomas refused to do.
 According to the lease Thomas re- served the right to sell and no pro- vision was made for refund. Judge Lyman stated on the bench yester- day that # ne were handing down a decision at the time he wouid allow Minter to remain on the premises until June when his wheat would mature and in the meantime pay the rent to the Woods.
 Attorneys for Wood, who seek to eject Mnter, and the defendant sub nitted briefs, which Judge Lyman will pass upon within few days.
Arizona republican., 1917-04-27

American boys. Phoenix boys. boys with red blood in their veins, and girls, too, with equally red blood, have been having no end Of fun the past two days flying the America First" kites of The Arizona Repub- ican. Mornings before school, at noon while school recessed and late afternoons ana early evenings there have been steady streams of young sters clamoring for the best kite, the America First" kite-the kite that flies higher and sails more gracefully than any other ever pat out.
 In announcing that these kites would be given away absolutely free to boys and girls signing the coupon appearing in The Republican, the management set aside a certain num- Der of the patriotic fliers" for eaci, day There is still a goodly number to be distributed, and this afternoon at 1 o'clock The Republican wants every boy and girl under F years of age to come to the office and re- ceive his or her kite.
 They are certainly dandies." is the sum total of the hundreds of diff ferent expressions that have been heard from the mouths of the happy boys and girls who have already se- cured their kites. So come today; come between 4 and o'clock. They were just two bcys-two care
 free boys
 In the full, sweet tide of youthful
 joys.
 Their eyes intent on the vagrant
 flight
 Of an ancient craft-a home made
 kite
 My hear: grew glad and my thoughts
 ran free
 to-be.
 Then. just as a man with a boys
 heart would,
Arizona republican., 1917-04-27
AMERICA FIRST" KITES READY
 TO FLY, FREE AT REPUBLICAN

marched up to them-and there !
 stoddi Stood with my mist kissed eyes and
 srinned At that same old kite on that same
 old wind. watched t scurry and dip and sail. Then chirped aloud: She needs more
 tail!' Well. of course, the boys-two care
 free boys In the full, sweet tide of youthful
 joys, Were quick to see in my keen de-
 light A memory love for boy-maue kite The kite came down, and they made
 more tail From jimson weed and a rusty Then up it went, and watched their AS it climbed the wind to the sum-
 mer skies. With aeger ears and a heart aglow I heard 2 language 1 used to know: "Is she pullin', BJd?" Well. I should
 say, Like hungry mules at loaG O hay" l couldn't resist 10 grasp tho string And try the ''pull' of the magic
 thing; Then a feeling, peaceful. glad and
 good Immersed my soul-and they under
 stood. We were now three boys-three care
 free boys In the full, sweet tide of youthful
 joys; Our eyes intent on the vagrant flight Of an ancient craft-a home made
 kite