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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-05-13

the trigger of his pistol for a mo-
ment and then left without firing.
1.-THE robbers then lit out on their
horses with the swag. The dead
were carried back to the last sta
ton"
Stage Driver is Hanged
Frank Williams, the driver of the
coach, soon after left the employ of
the stage company, and was for some
time a hanger-on of the saloons at
Salt Lake. The lavish use he made
of money directed suspicion toward
him and came to the attention of the
Montana Vigilantes, who had never
ceased to try to trail the robbers and
who had some of their members at
Salt Lake. Williams became alarm
ed and left Salt Lake hurriedly, but
the Vigilantes were on his trail. At
Godfrey's station, between J%ulesburg
and Denver, they arrested him. Will
liams fell on his knees and made a
full confession of his part in the
robbery to the Vigilantes, who were
represented by Dutch Charlie, May
Reed and others. The men from Mon
tana at once took Williams to a
ranch corral nearby and strung him
up. AS a result of Williams confess
sion the Vigilantes afterward cap
tured several others of the gang and
hanged them, but a number were not
caught.
The stage companies used to make
much money transporting gold. From
the time of the gold strike at Ban
mack in 1853 till 1869, when the
Union Pacific and Central Pacific
railroads we're completed across the
continent, the express companies
charged five per cent of the value of
The gold for carrying it back to the
states. After 1869 the rate was two
and one-half per cent.
Montana Line Saved Holiday
1t was the contract for carrying
nail from Salt Lake to Virginia City
hat saved Ben Holiday from finan-
ial ruin in 1864. Holiday vas one
# the most spectacular figures in
he whole history of transportation.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-05-13
OF THE OLD CONCORD STAGE-G0AGH is EMTw0NED WITH
PICTURESQUE AND ROMANTIC PERIOD OF M0MTAMA'S HISTORY

where his losses were enormous
When he was awarded the mail con-
tract into Montana his annual CON
tract price was raised to $4,000,
which was sufficient to save him. In
1856 he sold out to the Wells-Fargo
Express Co. He died in Portland,
Ore, in 1877 at the age of So, but
left little property and no money.
When Holiday sold to the Wells
Fargo company he received $780,
600 in cash and $250,000 in paid-up
stock of the company. Later he re-
ceived another 100000 in cash for
hay, grain, provisions, ETC., on hand
at the various stations, which were
not included in the sale of the line.
Holiday entered a claim against
the government for 100000 for
damage done to his property by In
dians in 1854 and 1866. In 1877,
10 years after he had presented his
claim, and at a time when he was
badly in debt and in failing health,
congress offered to settle with him
for 500, 600. Holiday rejected the
offer, stating that if the United
States was not able to pay it's debts
he would give it his claim. He left
Washington at once and never re-
turned.
Decline of Stage-C Coaching
More than half a century has pass
ed since the last Concord st~age-coach
on the great Overland route made the
long trip between the Missouri river
and the Pacific coast. 1t is 40 years
since the railroad coming in from the
south ended stage travel between
Salt Lake and Montana. Since those
days all manner of small stage lines
have been operated from point to
point in Montana where the railroads
did not run, but today these have
superseded by the "%flivver''
stage lines, and today the traveller
who travels off the railroad in a pub
lie conveyance does so in an automo-
bile, and is no longer pulled by
One of the last stage lines to be
operated for any great distance in
Montana was that between Great
and L~ewistown, which contin-
ued to run until the completion of the
& Northern railroad in 1906.
The stages used on that line and all
of the other later stage lines in Mon
tana, however, were not the old Con-
cord coaches, but much lighter We
hicles. When the Great Falls-Lewis-
coach made it's last run, long
stage coaching in Montana
a thing of the past.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-05-13

Causland, had a store and were do
ing a fine business when some trou-
bic between them occurred and they
had a quarrel. McCausland shot and
killed Kinney. I arrested McCaus-
land and put him in Jail, but after a
hearing he was acquitted. He then
settled up his business and left Vir-
glnla City for Salt Lake in company
with M. Parker, Dave Dewman, Will
liam Carpenter, William Brown and
some others. The party had 100000
in gold dust with them.
when they got to Snake river
they became alarmed, as things did
not look right. They thought they
would hire a wagon and team to go
through Port Neuf canyon-kind of
slip through-and leave the coach.
Frank Williams, the driver of the
coach, assured them there was no
danger. They took his word for it
and continued on the stage.
Parker was sitting on the outside
with the driver. The rest were in
side. The big six-horse Concord
coach had got into the canyon six or
eight miles to a place known as Hell's
Half Acre when the road forked.
There was a high water road above
and a summer road beneath it. The
driver took the lower road. Parker
saw the road agents and shouted:
Boys, here they are The team
dashed up to the road agents and
stopped. Parker fired one shot at
them andsfell dead. The road agents
poured a volley into the coach, shoot
ing both feet off Charlie, the messen-
ger on the coach, and killed three of
the passengers inside.
"The team by this time had become
unmanageable because of the shoot
ing and started on the run, tearing
the tongue out of the wagon. Car
penter, who was in the bottom of the
coach with the three dead men on top
of him, was unable to move, being
badly wounded. Brown at the first
shot leaped from the coach and es-
capped in the willows.
"The robbers took the gold dust
and the watches and purses of the
passengers. After they had all the
valuable and were walking away, one
IF the road agents turned back and
pointed to Carpenter. I don't be-
ieve that --i is dead he said.
He might squea1, so I'll fix him..
He was about to shoot when Carpen-
.er said: Gentlemen, I'm dying.
Don't mutilate my face-so my wife
recognize me when I'm taken to
Salt Lake. The road agent fingered
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-05-13

Governor S. V. Stewart has fired
the first salvo in the Montana phase
of the national campaign for enroll
ment of veterans in the American
Legion, in the proclamation issued
last week designating the week OF
May II to % as American Legion
week in Montana.
Both the national and state organ
i~zations will participate and in the
larger cities of Montana local posts
are preparing for a big campaign. In
his proclamation, Governor Stewart
says:
Gin an effort to bring fulfillment
to the plans of the national organiza-
ton of the American Legion, one
week of the month of May is to be
devoted to a campaign for enrolment
of all eligibles in that great society
of men and women who had part in
the world war.
"Being in entire sympathy with
the laudable e%ndeavor, I, S. V. Stew
art, as governor of the state of Mon
tana, do hereby designate the week
of May 1922 as American Legion
week in this state.
II trust the week so set apart for
the campaign may richly realize the
hopes of the officers of the organi-
national and state, and that
the drive for membership may bring
into the legion all who are entitled to
become affiliated with this great
body, which stands for pure and I'M
Americanism and patriot
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-05-13

RADIO, to the Missouri river, he ga
thered his supplies at Leavenworth
and in less than a week had an outfit
of 29O mules, 80 stage coaches and
10 lumber wagons assembled and
started back west. He went by the
old California route, via Fort Kear-
ney, Nebraska and Laramie, Wyom-
ing. On June 2 he crossed the South
Platte river at Julesburg.
He had the worst sort of luck with
the weather, and the roads became
almost impossible, but pushing on
with logged determination, he reach
ed Salt Lake June 20. The next day
he had coaches running on their ini-
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-05-13

There are living today in Mon
tana thousands of men and women
who came to this state in the old
time Concord stage coaches that
played so important a part in the
ear1y-day transportation OF mail
and passengers in the Rocky noun
tains and figured so conspicuously
in Montana's early history.
The old stage coach ended its
career in this state many years ago.
Here and there what remains of
this class of vehicle stands beneath
the rickety shed of some one-time
road ranch, a relic of bygone days
-Weather-WOrn, StOrm-battered,
rusty and abandoned. Its leather
springs are cracked and broken;
its doors gone, it's sides and back
smashed in; it's boot the refuge of
rats and bats, it's wheels bent, it's
axletrees twisted; a poor, fOr1orn
remnant of it's former proud and
glorious self. Ghosts of a buried
past now hide in it. Shades of the
occupants it carried once still seem
to linger around it at twilight.
Spectral forms of the road agents
who once surrounded it now troop
around it, perhaps, in the moon
beams.
The old brake that so often and
so faithfully checked its down-h1ll
speed, grating out reassuring
harsh sounds to the travellers ears
when the road was steep and dam
gerous, is bent and broken and
x-I1 NIX xxnII xonkaHnI
horses that pulled it over long,
weary, dusty miles are gone. The
naughty and self-confident driver
where is he? From his nerve
less hands the lines have long since
fallen, and the shriu notes of his
whistle have died away ON the air
of the vanished years.
1t stands where it has stood
through slow seasons, n it has
fallen into decay and rust. Wind
and rain and the heat of many
summer days have frayed it's trap
pings and shredded its curtains. Its
chains, once bright and strong, r
furnished with the rust of decades
and serve now only to bind it to a
soon-to-be-forgotten past. No one
will ever again hail its coming with
eager, beating heart; none will
again weep as it rumbles away
with a precious freight of affection
and friendship. And yet in the bat
tered relic there stands n of the
most splendid "has beens" of a ro-
mantle era of western history.
The Concord coach first made its
appearance as a mail carrier in Mon
ana July 4, 1864, when the first mail
zach to reach Virginia City, the ca
ital of Montana territory, arrived
rom Salt Lake. A contract had been
warded to Ben Holiday, head of the
.reat Overland line from Leaven-
vorth to California, for carrying the
lail from Salt Lake to Virginia City,
he route being $50 miles long. The
ontract was given early in May of
864, with the provision that for
very day after July 1 that he failed
} have the new line in operation,
e must pay a fine of $500. Holiday
new that there was only one man
the world who could stock the line
nd equip it for operation in less than
0 days, and that was his general
lperintendent in the west, Robert
Spottswood, who was known all
yer the west as Bob" Spottswood.
therefore gave the latter orders
go ahead and get the Virginia City
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-05-13

river near New York City.
When the Overland line was ex-
tended across the continent Holiday
received $1,0O0,O00 a year from the
government for carrying the mails,
but this was subsequently reduced
nearly cut in half in the course of a
few years. In May, 1864, he was
facing bankruptcy as a result of the
enormous expense of operating his
through hostile Indian country
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-05-13

At the age of Is he was a farm labor
er in Kentucky. At 40 he owned 16
steamships, trading to every point of
the Pacific; owned the great Over
land ~stage-coach line, the biggest and
best line of coaches ever operated in
the world, with an investment of sew
eral millions. He spent a million
dollars in a home on the Hudson
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-05-13
AMERICAN LEGION
WEEK MAY l7-22
GOV. STEWART FIRES OPENING
GUN IN MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
FOR VETERANS

Both National and State Organiza-
ton Will Participate and in Larger
Cities of State the Local Posts Are
Preparing for an Active Cam
paign.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-05-13

YyHE last sageconh THAR made the trip between Great Falls and Lewiston in oo When the
zach pmed into Lewtown tatd day IA years ago. long dsan staging in Montana became
memory There AVE been many other stage lines operating since in the state between the rail-
roads sand Towns "a short distance off, but all of these have. since beer superseded ya utomobn stage
lines The nh shown in this picture is mott the odtme Concord coach put a lighter type of We
hne The concord coaches went quito style for the most part between 80 and 40 years ago
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-06-03
REGAII|INI;S'. USE. Of ~. !.
4 LIMBS CRIPPLED
3oNl 3sR 9lift afff5'afs rot
BY RHEUMATISM
0swego Resident Now Has Great
Faith In DR.. Williams Pink
Pills as a Blood Builder

s'I had severe attacks of grip two
years in succession. with the result
that l was left badly run down in
health and fell an easy victim to rheu-
matism," states Miss Ida Van Bus
kirk, of No. 143 East 9th street, Os-
wego, N. Y. "My arms were sore
and innamed and my legs were swol-
len. | suffered almost constantly
from sharp, darting pains. My arms
became so crippled that / couldn't
use them, There were also pains
across my back and hips and | had to
have my limbs bandaged.
II read of q case somewhat similar
to mine that had been benefited by
DIR. Williams Pink Pills and procur-
cd box of the remedy and began the
treatment. There was some improve
ment after the first box and / con-
linued taking the pills. Gradually
the pain became less severe and then
the swelling decreased until was
able to use my arms. The pain has
practically disappeared now and | can
do my work without effort. DR.. Will
iiams' Pink Pills helped me and / do
not hesitate to recommend them"
DIR. Williams Pink Pills are sold by
all druggists, or will be sent by mail,
postpaid, on receipt of price, 60 cents
a box by the DR.. Williams Medicine
Co., Schenectady, N. Y. Write for
free booklet, Building Upthe Blood"
containing special chapter on rheu.
matism,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-06-03
A Real Remedy
for Falling Hair

Here's good news for men and wom-
en- whose hair is falling out who are
growing bald and have scalps covered
with dandruff that itch like mad.
w, l.. Golay or any good druggist
can now supply You with the genuine
Partisan sage (liquid form, which is
guaranteed to quickly, surely and safe
ly abolish every sign Of dandruff, stop
itching scalp and falling hair and pro
mote new growth, or money REFUND
ed.
Thousands can testify to the excell-
ent results from It's use; some who
feared badness now glory in their
abundant hair while others who sui.
fered for years with dandruff and
itching head got clean cool scalp
after just few days use of this simple
home treatment
No matter whether bothered with
falling hair, gray hair matted, stringy
hair dandruff or itching scalp try
Partisan sage--you will not be dlsap.
pointed. It's scientific preparation
that supplies all hair needs.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-06-03
SUNDERLAND

Varnum Bromley of Granville, A. Y.
was in town Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. G.. A. Parker wero in
SALISBURY Sunday. Z
Mrs. f. a. Cook is spending a week
with friends Of Herkimer, n. Y.
Jerry Horton OF Manchester was
in town on business Tuesday night
Mrs. Gllpha Gregory entertained
friends from Herkimer, n, Y, over
Decoration.
Miss n. L. Iloughton was the guest
OF her sister, Mrs. r. G. Bacon one
day recently.
Mrs. Il. ]. Beagle of South Shafts
bury was the week end guest OF her
mother, Mrs. Frank McDanies.
John Sone. and family and Warren
Bacon spent Decoration with relatives
in town. Mr. Stone returned to
.Tyngsboro, Mass Monday. Mrs,
Stone and children are making an
.eXtensiye~y visit.
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STAMFORD

Rev. D. c. ADb1t preached a good
Memorial sermon Sunday morning.
Miss Christine Brown spent the
week end and Monday with her par,
ents.
Sydney and Everett Harrigan of
Pittsfield were at Fred Lesure's Sun.
day.
Fred n. Griffin and family of Pitts
field called on relatives here Decora.
tIon day.
Miss Lecta Haskins of North Adams
visited at Mrs Addie Sanford's last
Friday.
A. A. Tanner and family of Green
field spent Memorial day with his par
ents here.
The Ladies' Aid of The Methodist
church met with Mrs, A. r. Dunn
Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs, e. II, Brown entertained the
Uniyersalist Ladies Aid of North
Adams on Wednesday,
Carl Johnson of North Adams takes
orders and delivers meat, groceries.
&c, every Friday afternoon.
Mrs. James Lee has been spending
a few days with friends and relatives
in Ncrth Adams returning home
Sunday.
Mrs. Miner of Halifax has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Goodrich for
a few days and is now visiting other
relatives here.
Mrs. Fred Lesures returned home
Sunday night after staying with her
daughter in New Ashford fer three
weeks Her health is somewhat inn
proved.
Omar Lesures OF Readsboro spent
Decoration Day with his brothers on
West Hill. His sister, Miss Lettie
Lesures accompanied him home for a
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-06-03
with Mrs. Charles Bond.

with Mrs. Charles Bond.
John Balch spent Memorial day in
Salisbury and Bennington
Mary Scott of Bennington was a
week end guest of friends in town,
DR. and Mrs. Fred Streeter of New
York are guests OF friends in town.
Mrs. Pierson is a guest of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Perkins.
Mrs. James Wilson, New Jersey, is
guest of Mr., and Mrs, Charles Brew
ste..
John billiard Of Rutland was a re-
cent guest CT his aunt, Mrs Fred
Fish.
/ Clifford Wilson of Rutland spent
Memorial day with his mother, Mrs.
Mary Wilson.
Walter Bamford of New York is
spending his vacation at home with
his parents. Rev. and Mrs w. II. BAN
ford.
Mrs. Henry Mars Of Worcester,
Mass, has been spending a few days
with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Bond at the Colburn house.
Mrs. ]. Nj. Baker, who has been re-
siding in Santa Barbara, Cal, and
Arizona, IS visiting her sister Mrs
James Hosley otter an absence OF
eight years.
The funeral of Mrs Rebecca Keene
was held in Zion church Sunday, Rev,
W. II, Bamlord oiIioiated. The burial
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-06-03
PENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town ami Village Told
Briefly FOR Busy Readers

Miss Sara O'Connor is spending sew
eral days in New York
Lincoln Hall has returned from
visit of few days in Troy
The Kings Daughters will meet
FRIDAY afternoon at o'clock with
Mrs. F. W. Goodall.
Mrs Ann Houran is critically i'll at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank
M. Thompson.
The annual sale at the Old Academy
will open Friday morning at 8 o'clock
and continue until 6 p. m.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Nichols returned
Wednesday from a few days outing in
camp near Mt. Mansfield, Stowe.
David Partnode of 1873 Mill street
is spending a week up to the Adiron
dacks, is expected home next week.
Prayer service and Bible study at
the Frs Baptist church tonight at
1880, Rev Alexander McGeorge will
lead.
Mrs William Heiderstadt, Mrs. f.
c. Atkins. Mrs. Arthur Henson and
Mrs Fred Tudor spent Wednesday in
Troy.
Wan ed: Boy or young man to work
in printing office. Good place for one
who is ambitious to succeed. Apply
at the Banner office.
AT the local post office during the
month Of June war saving stamps to
the value of $4,000 and thrift stamps
valued at $500 were sold. r
Dustin Farnum in "Cap,hn Cour'
tesy' C acts) and "Bhghted Love"
(Sennett Comedy at Library Theatre
"The coolest place in town ADV.
Mrs. Thomas Moore and son Ed
Fmund have returned to Troy, after a
visit Of few days at the home of Mr.
and Mrs, Arthur Denley of Mckinley
street. XII
Mrs, D. A. Gleason, who several
weeks3ago underwent a serious oper-
alton AT the Putnam Memorial hosutal
was able Wednesday to return to her
home in North Bennington.
A group CT the members of the
Mems Glass of the First Baptist
church enjoyed an outing to the Burt
camp. Several of the ladies were
present. Supper was served in picnic
style.
A numbcg OF large electric fanl
have been ms lalled in Library theatre
The coolest place in town"-See
Dustin Farnum in Captain Courtesy"
&C acts) and "Blighted Love- Sennett
comedy. ADV. ~
. Boys and girls Wishing to earn high.
wages during summer vacation, can
obtaihI employment at The Allen "A.
Companys mill where applications
are now being recaMed to BE filed
when yaeatioM begins. ADV.
The Young People of First BAPTIST
church are requested to report to-
night 10, the co&hi tee a thai, ,ha 8
CHARGE of AtvhnsfortationE lo& tlfe' roh-
yeption at Pownal Saturday. Connec
lti6is cannot De madebd BY way Of
'Petersburg Junction. ouWN.i l0
Mr.. and Mrs, Michaei M Shoemaker
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fofi0id bennington are in New York for
a few days stay. GJ3, asi,.rrur agf
Mrs, "A. r, Won Dette was called to
New Concord, Ohio, Wednesday by the
death Of her mother ~" ''i'I fi''
Miss Gertrude Carney, who for sew
eral days shas been confined to her
nome on 3Silyer Street suffering from
rheumatism, is much improved and was
able Tuesday to resume teaching in
the kindergarten of the graded school.
Because of Miss Carney's Illness, visit
ing day in room two was postponed
until Friday, June A. An Interesting
little play entitled, THE Sleeping
Beauty" will be given by Miss Car
ney's pupils and all parents and
friends are invited to attend. The ex
ervices will begin at 1880.
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RAE:UM ATlSM
LEAVES YOU FOREVER

Deem Seated Uric Acid Deposits Are
Dissolved aud the Rheumatic Poison
starts to Leave the system Within
Twcnty-f0ur Hours.
Every druggist In this county is au-
thorized to say to every rheumatic suf-
ferer in this vicinity that If two bot
Ties of Allenrhu, the sure conqueror
of rheumatism. does not stop all
agony, reduce swollen joints and do
away with even the slightest twinge of
rheumatic pain, he viii gladly return
your money without comment.
Allonrhu has been tried and tested
for years. and really marvellous results
have been accomplished in the most
severe cases where the suffering and
agony was intense and piteous and
where the patient was helpless.
Mr. James H. Allen, the discoverer of
Allenrhu who for many years suffered
the torrents of acute rheumatism, de-
sires all sufferers to know that he does
not want a cent of anyone's money un-
less A1lenrhu deesively conquers this
worst OF all diseases, and he has in
structed Quinlans Pharmacy to guaran-
tee It in every instance,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-06-03
few days visit.

The Memorial exercises by the
school children will be held in the
town hall next Sunday. June 9Th, A
delegation of soldiers are expected
from North Adams as usual.
Mr.. and Mrs, Bernard, Mrsand Mrs.
Mackey and daugh er Pearl, Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Beach and daughter
Florence of New Ashford and Mr.. and
Mrs Edward Lefagboe of Pittsfeld
visited at +. A. Lesures Decoration
day.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-06-03

was in the Center cemetery. Sur
VIKING is one daughter.
The funeral Of II. n. Shaw, who
died Saturday was held in Zion
church Monday at 1920. The burial
was in Dellwood cemetery Manehes.
Fer. Mr. Shaw is survived by nine
children.
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LADIES, AND GENTS; TAnonINa

Just received a'newiine, N spr ing and
Summer materials for made-to-measdre
suits, Also have on hand nice line of
ready wear suits at reduced prices.
Cleaning and pressing.
M n II An EVfeH
Tel. 9s-M. 100 North 90.