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flected honor upon many a civilized
household. She was affectionate.
gentle, obedient, cheerful and appar-
emily quite happy. No domestic
thunder storms, no curtain lectures
ever disturbed the serenity of our
connubial lodge"
But hold! my too ready pen. This
is fit place to ponder over Eliza.
Beckwourth ponders: There was
but one recollection troubled me, and
that was my lonely one in st. Louis.
My thoughts were constantly filled
with her. | knew my affection was
reciprocated and that her fond heart
beat alone for me, etc., etc." Back
into your box, Eliza. You clog the
scenery for the next act.
Meanwhile, Bridger and his COM
panions had given up Beckwourth as
having been killed in the last action
which one, have forgotten, so
thick they follow one upon another's
heels.
"All were plunged in gloom" our
hero informs us in his naive way.
"All pronounced my funeral eulogy;
all my daring encounters were spo-
ken of to my praise. My fortunate
escapes, my repeated victories we're
applauded in memory of me; the
loss of their best hunter, of their
kind and ever-obliging companion
was deeply deplored by all.
1.-THE faithful fellows little
thought that while they were lament
ing my untimely end / was being
hugged and kissed to death by a
whole lodge full of near and dear
Crow relatives and that I was being
welcomed with a public reception
fully equal iii intensity, tho not in
extravaganza, to that accorded to the
victor of Waterloo on his triumphaI
entry into Paris.'
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Jim BeckWourth was one of the
enigmatic characters of early trap
| ping days in the Rockies. He gained
the reputation without any super
fluous effort of being the biggest
liar of them all, but that did not
prevent him gaining fame as a
hardy and resourceful trapper, scout
and Indian fighter. In the biogra-
ply which he dictated to T. d. Bon
ner he claimed to be the son of a
Virginia major of the Revolutionary
war, yet it is credibly established
that he was the son of an Irish
Marylander and a colored woman,
hence a mulatto. Inside the facts of
his parentage and birth, given by
him as 1898, we will advance the
story of his life to 1928, when he
joined General Ashley's fur hunting
expedition from st. Louis to the
Rockies. I must not omit, however,
his tender parting with Eliza, his st.
Louis sweetheart. He has just told
her that he is leaving her for the
sole purpose of obtaining money to
enable them to make a fair start in
life.
ST care not for money, James,"
she said, bursting into a flood of
tears.
"I left her," his biography recites.
promising to make a speedy return
and that we would part no more till
death should separate u.s. We will
see how he kept the promise.
On the voyage up the Missouri and
the Yellowstone, Beckwourth became
acquainted with Edward Rose, a
guide and trapper who had long lived
with the Grow Indians and was one
of their six sub-chiefs. He is men
toned by Washington Irving in
Astoria, but very unjustly dealt with.
1t was undoubtedly Rose who
brought the Crows into friendly re-
lations with the United States, a
policy from which they never wholly
departed. The Crows we're the only
Indians, except, probably, the Utes,
who positively banned whisky from
their territory, which was in the
Wind river country, and covered an
area equal to that of Illinois. They
were exceedingly warlike, but lived
at peace with all other tribes except |
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the Indian wives of the half-breeds
land such of the trappers as hat
taken Indian wives. The women
always accompanied the men on
trapping expeditions and performed
the duties of servant.
1t would seem from reading the
biography that trapping beaver was
a mere incident as compared with
the combats with Indians. The par
ty had a very successful season.
Came the time when it was to break
up and scatter on the hunt for more
beaver, and Beckwourth, Greenwood
! (whose wife was a Grow woman) &,
and several others took up quarters
with the Crows. The number of
scalps in Beckwourth's lodge ex-
cited the curiosity of the braves and
Greenwood, who was something of a
wag, told them many whoppers about
Beckwourth's exploits, winding up
with the astonishing assertion that
he was Grow.
you know" said he by way of
backing up his assertion, "that
twenty-three winters ago the Chey-
ennes defeated the Crows, killing
many hundred and carrying off
great many of your women and chill
dren.''
Eyes, we know" they exclaimed.
"Well, he was one of those little
boys, and the whites bought him of
the Cheyennes, with whom he has
stayed till now and he has become
great brave"
This threw the whole village into
commotion. All the old women who
had suffered the loss of son in the
Cheyenne battle were summoned to
identify him, if possible. At length,
one old woman, after having scanned
his face, said eff this is my son, he
has a mole over one of his eyes" A
mole was found in the spot indicated |
and Mrs. Big Bowl, the name OF. the
old lady, claimed him as her SON. |
great joy, and Beckwourth now
found himself minus two Blackfeet /
wives and plus new father and |
four unmarried sisters and |
a host of cousins, aunts, and other
remote kindred.
His sisters must have embarrassed |
even Beckwourth with their atten-
tions, clothing him in garments
comparing in elegance with the most
warrior of the tribe.
Papa Big Bowl was a good sport,
too.
''Do you want a wife?" he asked
81 assented, of course" says Beck
wourth. In fact, we will discover as
we read on that our hero was quite
ready with an assent on such occa-
sions. But I anticipate, as the
novelist, would say.
His Heart Still True to Eliza.
Big Bowl instructed Black-lodge
TO have his three daughters, Still
water, Blackfish and Threeroads, at
the Big Bowl residence on the en-
suing day for his sons inspection
and choice. They came - call
attired in garments which
must have cost them months of labor,
which garments the young women
ever keep in readiness against such
IN interesting occasion as the pres
ent."
Beckwourth selected Saltwater on
account of the name, and, as he says,
her department would have re-
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Why are fish dying in the Missouri

Why are fish dying in the Missouri
river?
This is a question to be solved by
the state game department, ant
State Warden j. L. De Hart, County
Warden w. D. Delphy and Deputy
Harry Morgan of Ovando spent last
week investigating the conditions in
the vicinity of the Giant spring just
below Great Falls, where hundreds
Of dead fish line the bank Of the
river. The fish are mostly carp,
suckers and bullheads, and there is
no sign of what causes their death.
Those examined appear all right, and
except for a fungus growth on their
bodies seem healthy, according to
Warden DeHart. The fish can be
seen to rise in the water, turn over
and die, any time by those watching,
and conditions are most peculiar.
Mr.. DeHart is having a number
of dead fish shipped to the state
chemist here for investigation, and
the work will go on until it is learn
ed what the trouble may be.
Just how long the fish have been
dying is not known, but as long ago
as July 4, parties at the Cold Sulphur
Springs below the big falls, as we'll as
several miles above, found hundreds
Of fish lying on the bank or in the
shallow waters, dead and dying. At
that time none of the fish seemed to
have been dead more. than day or
SO, and it is believed that the trouble
started about that time. Among the
fish found dead then were carp,
some weighing as much as a couple
of pounds, small bullheads, suckers
and one steel head trout weighing
half a pound. The trout was not
dead and was picked up in the shall
lows without a struggle and when
placed in the water sank to the bot
tom, to rise feebly to the surface and
swim to a shallow and turn over.
Small lingering fish of various kinds
were seen to rise to the surface
number of times and dash away as
if loco, several times swimming in
circles at top speed. A number of
moon eye, or fresh water herring,
were caught and did not seem to be
AFFECTED, and none was seen dead, nor
were any pike, perch or bass, there
being many of each in that section.
1t was suggested that perhaps
some chemical from the smelter
might be the cause Of the trouble,
Tut that would seem to be knocked
by reports of similar conditions in
the river between Ulm and Cascade,
where thousands of fish of the same
variety are said to line the banks,
many local fishermen having wit
messed conditions there and called at
tention to it. Also, while something |
of the sort might affect fish at Giant |
spring and vicinity, it would hardly |
extend 80 miles down the river be-
low the smelter, the trouble being |
known to extend that far, as well as
SO miles above.
From the facts developed to date
DeHart is of the opinion that some |
sort of epidemic, sort of fish "flu"
perhaps, is riot among certain var
ieties of fish and is cleaning them up.
IF such be the case and the carp and |
suckers were the only ones affected,
the fishermen of this section would |
suggest that it be pushed to the limit.
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JIM BEGKw0URTH CHAMPION LIAR OF MONTANA CENTURY Ago.
AL so FIGHTER BUT HIS REAL HOBBY WAS WIVES

the Sioux and Blackfeet, with which
they carried a relentless and incess
ant war. Only occasionally did the,
war with other tribes, and then on {
mutual disagreement over horses. Al
Indian tribes stole horses and the
Crows were concededly the cleveres
horse thieves extant. 1t was wal
measure, and not matter of morals
just as we Caucasians capture can.
non and other munitions to weaker
an enemy.
The Crows name for themselves
was -Sah-rokee, meaning .the
Sparrow Hawk People" 1t is gen
orally written Absaroka. In the time
Of Rose and Beckwourth they were
as nation accounted rich, with a
finely organized social system and an
exceedingly capable, mobile army.
As Trader With the BIackfeet.
the Crows fired the imagination of
Beckwourth. He, too, would become
an Indian chief, and he did, after
Roses death, or departure, for it is
not definitely known what was his
fate. Whatever it was, Beckwourth
felt himself safe in taking credit for
number of daring feats that Rose
is known to have performed At the
same time he had enough daring
feats on his own score to fill book.
After series of adventures, in
which Jim Bridger, Thomas Fitz-
patrick, Robert Campbell, and other
h af orfx
figured, Beckwourth saved Ashley
from drowning in the Colorado river.
Sublette Jackson and Jedediah Smith
bought out Ashley, who had made his
pile and returned to st. Louis to re-
enter politics. Then says Beck
wourth:
"Sublette proposed to establish a
post among the Blackfeet if any of
the men we're willing to risk their
scalps in attending it. I offered to
go, altho I was well aware the tribe
knew that I had contributed to the
destruction of number of their
braves; but, to the Indian, the
greater the brave the higher their
With only two men as aides he es-
Lie LIduluS post, anu SOOu
rose to be great man among them"
so much SO that the chief offered
MS daughter for a wife. He accepted
the offer, altho "the alliance was
more offensive than defensive, as
thrift was my object more than
hymeneal enjoyments." Trade, in
other words, would be bettered by
having native wife.
A war party returned to camp one
day bringing three white mems
calps. In accordance with the Gus
ON scalp dance was held. His
wife told him she wished to join
n the dance.
mo-" he replied, "these scalps be-
ong to my people; my heart is cry
ng for their death; you must not re-
oice when my heart cries; you must
lot dance when I mourn"
He supposed that settled it, but
oon two men came, like Jobs COM
orters and said: "Your wife is the
est dancer in the party; she out
ances them ALL"
Taking his battle-axe he went to
he party and "struck my disobedi-
MT wife heavy blow in the head
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and told them to mount a horse ant
take white up behind. Meanwhile
he gathered the horses and goods be
longing to the captives. His rela
tives acquiesced.
The other whites did as directed
but Captain Stuart, arrogantly de
claring that he would not get on be
hind any numbering, thieving, rec
rascal, refused to mount Colone
Warfield and DR.. Harrison informed
him that ne was risking the lives ot
the entire party by his words and
conduct.
''It would simplify matters fo1
me- Beckwourth icily remarked, iii
he were left here for my Indian
friends to dispose Of"
This was enough for Stuart. He
hurriedly mounted behind an Indian.
The entire party, with their horses
and other possessions, thus went
scot free.
A traders life was too quiet for
our bold adventurer, or it may have
been that he wanted to shed a wife
or two, so he obtained transfer to
a trapping outfit and we soon found
him once more the hero of exciting
events. One was a marvellous run
after he and comrade found them
selves hemmed in by two or three
hundred savages. Telling his COM
panion to hide until he drew the at
tention of the Indians elsewhere, he
started on the run to the place where
he believed his comrades were en-
camped. To his inconceivable horror
and dismay, they were not there.
They had proceeded to the river,
miles distant. The Indians were hot
upon his heels. Let him tell the
story:
my feelings at this disappoint-
ment transcended expression. A
thousand ideas peopled my feverish
brain at once. Home, friends and
loved ones presented themselves with
one ightning-flash The Indians
we're close at my heels; their bullets
were whizzing past me; their yells
sounded painfully in my ears, and
could almost feel the knife making
a circuit round my skull.
"On l bounded, however, follow
ing the road which our whole COM
pany had made. I was scorching
with thirst, having neither sup nor
bite since we commenced the race.
Still on I went with the speed of an
antelope. / kept safely in advance
of the range of their bullets, when
suddenly the glorious sight of the
caught my eyes," and he
was saved. According to the clos
est calculation l ran that day ninety
five miles" And he might have told
he truth, at that Indian runners /
nave accomplished 10 miles in one
lay.
His companion escaped capture by
hiding.
rhe Fair Sex Were Husky Dancers. |
And so on to the next battle, which |
was between $500 Blackfeet and |
400 white trappers and half breeds. |
The Blackfeet were defeated with
leavy loss, and:
GAS usual, there was scalp dance
after the victory in which 1 really
feared the fair sex would dance
themselves to death. They had a
,rying spell afterward for their
lead"
"The fair sex'' was made up of
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CHARMS OF WOMAN
GIVE J0BBERS TIP
HELENA MASHER is LED WILD
GOOSE CHASE OVER STATE
BY PRACTICAL JOKERS
Susceptible Man Meets Attractive
Woman on Train; Is Called to Al
hambra, Great Falls and Butte
BY Jokesmiths Who Fooled Him
Right.

A man who in this story will be
named Black, or Green, or Jones
Black is all rights looking up the
law on rebates from the railroad
companies. He wants to know if
but listen to the way he was jobbed.
Black is employed in Helena. 1t
doesn't matter where. But one of
his weaknesses is woman. He is
noted picker of good lockers, and has
a reputation of falling oftener and
harder than most of the race.
Returning from trip to Great
Falls, Black met pretty woman on
the train. He engaged in HARM
less filtration all the way to Helena,
keeping his identity as closely con-
cealed as she did hers.
At his office he mentioned the
"swell skirt" And there is where.
the jobbing started.
In almost any of the offices some
one can be found who is good for a
| little help on a 'job,' and the girls
sided in with the scheme heartily.
Mr.. Blacks telephone rang. He
answered.
"Mr. Black, Alhambra is calling
you"
"All right" answered Mr.. Black.
Hello Alhambra, here's your
party. Go ahead, Mr.. Black" in
structed phoney central somewhere
in the basement
And then a different voice said
that Mr.. Black didn't know that his
partner on the train was hep to
his identity, but that she was, and
that if he didn't have anything to
do he might drop down to Alhambra
and see her.
So Mr.. Black went to Alhambra,
He wasn't gone long and the next day
his telephone rang again, with the
same procedure only Great Falls
this time. The voice said that she
was awfully sorry but that her hus-
band showed up Unexpectedly and
that she had to go to Great Falls
without having chance to tell him
not to come to Alhambra.
Would he come to the Park hotel
at the Falls and join a little party?
There was no one in the Park
hoted that looked like his party, and
Mr.. BLACK returned home feeling ra-
ther foolish. But his hopes we're
once more placed on a firm founda-
tion when a Butte call informed him
that due to complications she was
forced to go hurriedly to Butte. She
didn't like to explain over the phone
and she hated to suggest that he
come to the Copper City after being
twice.
But Mr.. Black crawled on another
train and went to Butte with the
same discouraging results.
The railroad company would prob
ably be collecting fares to various
Montana cities yet except for the
TACT that the girls got tired of trying
10 think up excuses for the pretty
woman of the train and quit calling
him. Mr.. Black, it is believed, is
still wondering why he always had
such hard luck.
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with it, which dropped her as if ;
ball had pierced her heart"
Begins His Collection of Wives.
He retired to his tent and said tt
his two companions: "You had better
prepare to hold on to your owl
scalps, since you have taken so mucf
interest in celebration over those
of your murdered brethren" 'Theil
countenances turned ashy pale" he
assures us. The Indians started to
the tent with cries of kill him!
Burn himi"
But the chief interfered. The
trader was justified, he informed the
infuriated braves. when your
wives disobey your commands, you
kill them," he reminded them. THAT
thing disoDeyed her husband. She
had no ears. He killed her and he
did right"
That settled it. Presently, the
chief went to Beckwourth and after
commencing his course, said: 81
have another daughter, who is
younger than she was. She is more
beautiful, she has good sense and
good ears. You may have her in
place of the bad one"
Beckwourth, not to be outdone in
politeness, accepted the younger
sister. "I now possess one that many
warrior would have performed
deeds of bloody valor to obtain; for
said he, ''it is high honor to get
the daughter of great chief to wife.
During the night, while I and
Tf1r Wi f0 a m
person crawled into our tent, sob
bing most bitterly. Angry at the in
trusion I asked who was there.
"'Me,' answered a voice which
recognized as that of my other wife,
whom every one had supposed dead.
After lying outside the lodge sense
less for hours she had recovered and
groped her way to my tent"
He ordered her to go away. She
refused to leave.
II was fool not to hearken to
my husbands words, but now l have
good sense and will always hearken
to your words.' So there was a
happy family reunion.
''I now had two wives" said Beck
wourth, and here he thought he had
that his heart was still true to Eliza:
'I was risking my life for gold
that I might return one day with
plenty to share with her I tenderly |
loved. My body was among the
Indians but my mind was far away
from them and their bloody deeds"
AS trader Beckwourth frequent
y had occasion to help his trapper.
While with the Crows in 1884 the
band captured a party of whites led /
oy Thomas Fitzpatrick, as guide on
/ hunting expedition. The party was
of Captain Stuart, an
English officer who had served un-
Ter Wellington at Waterloo; DR..
Benjamin Harrison, son of the first
President Harrison; Colonel Charles
4. Warfield, Mr.. Brotherton, and
several other gentlemen.
Subduing a Proud Britisher.
Beckwourth was then working for
he American Fur company and only
;hanced to be with the warriors.
appealed to him to extri-
ate them from the precarious posi-
ion. Beckwourth had many rela
ives by marriage among the Indians
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Not So Dry in Butte

There were more cases of drunk
enness in Butte during the month of
July than at any time since prohibi-
ton went into effect, according to
the report of Police Judge Grimes.
The total number for July was 112.
The disturbance cases numbered So,
and miscellaneous cases 210.
The total number of all cases tried
was 1872, and the fines collected
amounted to $3,519.
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Many Americans and Brftishers,
including former officers, are report
ed by the recruiting officers to be en-
listing in the Polish volunteers.
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WHY ARE MISSOURI
RIVER FISH DYING?
OFFICIALS PUZZLED BY MYSTE-
RIOUS EPIDEMIC THAT HAS
KILLED THOUSANDS

Carp, Suckers and Bullheads Are the
Worst Sufferers from Strange NAL
ady That Has Attacked the Finny
Tribe for Distance of so Miles
Along the River.
Evening star., 1920-12-18
WILL COMPILE HISTORY.

The Laymen's League OF All Souls
Church has invited Mrs. Jennis Scud-
der to prepare the history.of the Uni
tartan Church of Washington to cover
the 100 years of it's existence in the
capital. which will be celebrated in
November. 1921.
George A. Kicker, chairman of the
board of trustees of All Souls Church
recently presented extracts from a
paper prepared by Mrs. Scudder sew
-eral years ago and read before the
Columbia Historical Society. and ow-
ing to the interest created by the
paper the league named a committed
to arrange with Mrs. Scudder in
bringing the history down to the date
of the coming Centennial. This com
mittee is composed of DR. n. B.
Learned and II. X. Bush brown. The
paper revealed the fact that John
Quincy Adams and Millard Fillmore
were among the early Presidents who
attended All Souls Church. The
document also identified many men
Of fame as having been connected
with the church in early days Among
these were Daniel Webster, John C.
Calhoun and Edward Everett Ed
ward Everett Hale was one of a num-
Der of very famous pastors of All
Souls Church.
Evening star., 1920-12-18
PRIZE DEBATERS PICKED.
Georgetown University Law School
Announces Decisions.


Il Announcement of the winners in
the try-out for the second prize de-
bate of the Georgetown University
School of Law was made today by AS
sistant Dean Hugh ]. Fegan. About
fifty of the best debaters in the school
competed for honors.
The Senior Debating Society will be
represented by John J. Darby and
Francis w. Cullen. and John f. Haiti
gan. alternate.
Those representing the juniors will
be Charles w. Faulkner and Howard
F. Brecht, and Frank J. Albus. alter
nate.
Judges in the senior try-out were
James A Toomey and Fred Spohlman
while Robert A. Maurer, principal of
Central High School, and L. H. Van
Doren, assistant United States attor-
ney, selected the winners among the
juniors It was announced the debate
would be held January 6.
Evening star., 1920-12-18

portrayal of Mark Anthony in Julius
Caesar" The historic tragedy may
have been seen here when more at
tention has been paid to the details
and accessories Of the play, but as
Mark Anthony Mr.. Leiber can felici
tate himself on knowing that few
have given the role greater dignity,
a stronger personality. or a more
forceful and Intelligent delivery. In
deed. it was as Mark Anthony that
Mr.. Leiber distinguished himself in
Mr.. Mantell's company and won Tor
himself the critics encomiums. BUT
in last evenings performance he in
troduced some effective innovations,
one in which he bears the body Of
the dead Caesar to the forum. where
he delivers the famous Grafton.
Mr.. Hall. who has a fine stage pres
ence, gave an earnest and UNMARRIED
portrayal of Brutus and shared with
Mr.. Burke, as Cassius. in the plaudits
Of the evening. Mr.. Hickey was an
excellent Casca, and Miss MARSHALL s
Portia was a delightful portrayal of
Brutus' wife.
Tonight the weeks engagement will
close with Richard ILL.," in which
role Mr.. Leiber is credited with hav-
ing scored a remarkable success as
both a forceful and bloody Richard
and for his creative genius.