davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-09
ABBOTT T0LEAD ELKS;
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE ON
Lodge Will Keep Up War Relief
Work-Big Resort
Planned.

CHICAGO, July 9 (by the Associat-
ed Press).-B. P. o. Elks closed the
business session Of their annual con-
vention yesterday, installed the new
| ~ elected officers and decided to
| drive to increase the total of the or
eer's members from 100000 to 1.oo0.-
900.
William M. Abbott of San Francisco
succeeds Frank L. Rain as grand ex-
allied ruler.
Milwaukee won the base ball cham
pionship of the order from Chicago.
16 to Is.
In band contest, with nearly 100
organizations competing, the band OF
the Detroit lodge took first money.
Milwaukee was second and Atlanta
third.
The Grand Lodge decided to con-
t1nue for another year at least the
work of the orders war relief COM
mission. The commission, composed
of seven past grand exalted rulers,
was headed last year by John T. K.
Tener, former Governor of Pennsyl-
vania and former president of the Ma
tional Base Ball League.
Recommendation that 10000 acres of
virgin Land be acquired in the Cas-
cade mountains near Bend, Ore. to
provide hunting and vacation pre-
serve for Elks was voted by the COM
mittee on the good of the order. FL
nal action will be taken at the con-
vention in Los Angeles next year. A
report will be made by Irwin Cobb,
who Will inspect the site.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-09
CITRUS GAINS BY FLORIDA

TAMPA, Fla, July 9.-Annual re-
ports made yesterday show that the
Florida Citrus Exchange, the coop
erative association of citrus growers,
marketed 3,765,000 boxes of fruit in
IS per cent over last year.
This is more than one-third the
state crop and the exchange claims to
dominate the situation for the first
time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-09
AMERICANS REPORTED SAFE.

Rear Admiral Bristol, American
high commissioner at Constantinople
has notified the State Department
that Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Nilsson, Ameri-
cans connected with the mission
school at Tarsus, Cilicia, who have
been missing since June Is, are re-
ported to have returned safely to
Tarsus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-09
DENY THEATER BLAST STORY

LONDON, July Reports emanat-
ing from Berlin last week saying that
the Odeon Theater at Philippopolis,
Bulgaria, had been blown up with
heavy loss of life are described by a
Reuter- dispatch from Sofia as pure
invention"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-09

It Is the custom in Siam for every
man to enter the priesthood once in
his lifetime, for a period which varies
from a few months to as many years.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-02-19

says, "Beidler would walk four miles
: or more any time to play a joke or
someone" One day he started tC
tell a story. 1t was interesting, oil
course; no one eve knew Beidler tC
tell n that wasn't, but one by one
his twelve or fifteen auditors got up
and left the room. Finally Al was
the only n left and, as Beidler was
finishing the story, he also went out
and locked the door after him.
Some time after this Beidler came
back from a trip down the Yellow
stone. Everyone was anxious to
know about his catch. He told them
he had made a most interesting ore
and if they cared to walk up to the
Jail with him he would show it to
them.
Up they all went. x. had borrow
ed the key from the sheriff n he
let his crowd in. Then he locked
the door on them and walked off
with the remark that they had left
him when he was telling an inter-
esting story, that he would be back
after a while, and he had no doubt
the next time he told them the story
they would be glad to listen.
Al was in Helena when Beidler
was on his deathbed and on asking
one time if there was anything he
might do for him, Beidler said:
Eyes, I'd give my right foot for a
drink and the doctor CDR. ". L.
Steele) says I can't have any" AL
went out and got him a pint bottle,
saw him take a drink and cache the
rest under his pillow.
1t was about this time that Pons-
ford and Sanborn were very anxious !
to get Orion to come back to Boze-
man to work for them again, but he
persistently refused. One day James
Ponsford, Ed L.. Fridley and Joe
Keeney put in an appearance at the
hotel in Helena where orion was
staying. Fridley came in the next
day with a new suit of clothes and
asked Al If he might put it in his
trunk until he was ready to return
home to Bozeman. Al agreed and
gave him the key.
The next day Orion found that his
three friends had gone back to Boze-
man, taking his trunk with them.
He had to follow to get his belong
ings and he worked in the saloon
again for some years.
One day Ponsford came in wear
a brand new grey Scotch tweed
suit and asked AL what he thought
Of it. Al said it looked fine, that he
had one coming just like it, one he
had paid S65 for. Ponsford wore it
four or five days and, bringing it
N one day, laid it on the counter
with the remark that he didn't be-
ieve he cared for it. 1t was Orton's
suit. 1t had been delivered at the
saloon at an hour when orion was
,ut and Ponsford had put it on.
These joshers were continually
some such pranks as these
IN each other.
John Baker tells me that in his
,oyhood days AL took a job on the
Iadisonian, owned then by his fa-
her, Tom Baker. AL did not have a
Dom and Baker said he might sleep
n a bunk at the back of the office.
agreed but said the place was
ind Of creepy and he would not
!eep alone there. Shaker, Sr., said
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-02-19

~chandise, have been known from
one end of the commonwealth to the
other.
The oldest living printer in the
state is AL orion. He was carrier
boy and devil on the Montana Demo-
crat in 1867, in the palmy days of
Virginia City. He must have been a
very apt pupil for in 1873, j. c. Ker-
ley, who was then on a paper in Deer
Lodge, before he became a member
of the firm of Kerley, McQuaid and
Lacroix, publishers of the Independ-
ent at Helena, put forth the claim
that he was the fastest pressman in
the state.
Tom Deyarmon was publishing the
Madisonian at Virginia City at the
time and he said he had 500 to put
up that Kerley wasn't. In a few days
Kerley showed up in Virginia with
his 500 and asked for his competi-
tor. why" said Deyarmon, 81 have
kid that can beat you," and he
matched him with AL Orion. This
was a contest on the old fashioned
Washington h~andpress and orion
tuckered the life out of Kerley.
| first met AL in the old Avant
Courier office in Bozeman in 1872.
he had left Virginia City with a
bunch of young fellows to start a
settlement on the Yellowstone. On
reaching Bozeman, Joe Wright, then
publisher of the Courier, persuaded
MIN to stay there and stick type on
the paper.
Al tells a good story about
the old Headquarters saloon in Boze-
man. 1t was about a time that x.
Beidler duplicated a trick he had
played on Col. Sanders and others at
virginia City many years before.
Beldler was some joker and so was
Al orion and a number of the fire.
quenters of the saloon. AS Orion s
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-02-19

Inoro are Jew survivors OF the
pioneer gold mining days of the COS
in Montana who are better known to
the old timers of the state than Rich
ard Jockey, who a quarter of a cen
tury ago was recognized by almost
every man in Montana by the title
of the Duke of Last Chance" and
whose life story is closely interviewer
with the history of Helena, where he
lives today, an honored and distin-
guished citizen.
Richard Jockey first saw Last
Chance gulch when it was the crud-
est sort of a mining camp, very
shortly after Uncle John Cowan and
his companions tapped the deposits
of placer gold in that district that
yielded in four years time, between
low dust. He saw quartz mining be-
gin there and he watched the devel-
opment of the mining camp into the
richest city of it's size in the world.
Later he saw the decline in mining
and the glory of Helena begin to
wane. During his life in Helena he
has seen ~prospectors become multi
millionaires; cowpunchers become
cattle barons with stock on many
ranges; sheepherders become great
flock n In the development of
the great west he has witnessed mar
panoramic changes - some
times slow and gradual; again swift
and sudden.
In his long and useful life-and he
is vigorous and active today at the
age of 74-he has been an onlooker
at strange and revolutionary muta-
in methods of all arts of civili-
He has seen travel in Mon
tana develop from the stage coach
to the steam train, the automobile
and the airplane. He has witnessed
The development of the telegraph sys-
of the state, the telephone and
he wireless radio system.
And, what pleases him most, he
las lived to see Helena returning to
is Importance as a mining center, for
has never been a more consist
INT believer in the ultimate destiny
If Last Chance as a great quartz
amp than Jockey. His confidence
las never wavered, and now he be-
ieves that his faith in the old hills
surrounding the capital has been JUS
flied. Today there are more mines :
Producing ore around Helena than at
ny time for a quarter of a century, i
nd it is certain that a continuation +
# the high price of silver will result C
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-02-19
OLDEST LIVING PRINTER DIM STATE:
HAS "A VIOLIN MADE FOUR CENTURIES AGO

John might sleep with him and il
was SO arranged. There were type
stands nea the front and imposing
stones near the center of the room.
The room was about 90 feet deep.
There was a pail of water kept on a
stool at the end Of a type stand and
a large kerosene lamp on n of the
imposing stones.
1t was Johns duty in the morning
to start fires, sweep out, etc.; and
the first morning he took the sprink-
ling can and went to the pail to get
some water. He happened to glance
at the front window and observed
some n there looking in at him. He
started back and the person at the
window did the same. Thoroughly
frightened he rushed back and woke
AL. Aiming themselves with steel
side-sticks, they made for the front
of the building. Suddenly they both
exclaimed, There are two of them"
And sure enough there were.
For a second they were certainly
on edge, but there was nothing cow
ardly about either of them and they
soon discovered that they had been
frightened by their own shadows.
For many years orion has been
running n of the finest music
stores in the state and he has been |
honored several times by being
a member of the city council
from the first ward in the city of
Bozeman. He is in splendid physical
condition for a person who has been
IN the active life of the state for So
years and gives promise of many
years of usefulness yet.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-02-19
BY MATT w. ANDERSON

Dear Jim-Come down tomorrow
night and bring your fiddle"
The above message was received
by James G. orion at Nauvoo, Ill,
June 81, 1914, the day Joseph Smith,
president of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints, was kill
ed at Carthage.
A large crowd went down and
there was a big time. 1t vas a mot
ley group, good citizens and bad. He
who was afterwards one of our most
distinguished G g s, Hiram
Knowles, was among the number.
Prohibition was not thought of those
days and nearly everyone got glor-
iously drunk.
The fiddle played on this occasion
was n for which Orion had paid a
$40 gold piece at Keokuk, Iowa, in
1914, before he was married. His
son, Al orion, keeps it in a show case
in his music store in Bozeman. 1t is
one of the seven Oldest yiolins in the
world, all bearing the same marks.
The head of Columbus decorates the
head of the violin and his coat of
arms is on the back of the body;
with the violin is the label of the
maker. 1t reads: "Gaspard Duiffo
Pruggear ano 1921" orion has
been offered $1,000 for the instru-
ment, but says: "My father raised
his family with it, and it is not for
Orion, senior, came to Utah in
1861 with a bunch of Mormons. He
had known Brigham Young in Maui
- - A. H. - La. - -. /
Salt Lake City, Young sent for him
to come and play at the theater.
While there with his wife and three
boys the cover was stolen from his
wagon and everything was covered
with now Orion reported the mat
.er to Brigham Young, who sent
,earchers out and had the wagon
back within an hour.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-02-19

published by Scribner's under the
title of Indian Why Stories. THAI
book has achieved an enormous sale
throughout the country and has beer
adopted as a text book in many
schools in the study of the legends
of the plains Indians. 1t is a great
favorite with groWn-upS and children
alike.
Linderman is combining his literary
output to the old west, and before he
completes his labors he will undoubt-
eddy leave a shelf full of volumes per-
tanning to the romantic history of
the upper Missouri region.
At this time Linderman has under
preparation three books which he is
turning out under contract with
S%cribner's. These are, "The Passing
of a Frontier; Sketches of the
Northwest" which will be out in
March; 'Indian Old Man Stories"
which will be out in September; and
"How 1t Came About" to follow la
ter. Linderman has also nearly fin
ished a novel of the early fur days
in the west that deals with the life
and adventures of the old free trap
pers in the country embraced in what
is today Montana; and another novel
based on the life and adventures of
Henry Plummer, chief of the road
agent gang that terrorized the early
day gold camps of Montana.
All over Montana you will find
people who can recall an evening
spent listening to Linderman tell
stories. for he is one of the best
spinners of yarns in the state. AS a
lecturer and speaker, too, he is in
much demand, and he has appeared
before big audiences at the Univer-
sity of Montana at Missoula several
times this year, speaking on "Ameri-
canism," early Days in Montana"
and on other subjects, and giving
readings of his stories and %recita-
lions of his poems, for he is a poet
as well as a prose writer.
Linderman has the distinction of
being a Thirty-third degree Mason,
and is one of the best known mem
bers of that fraternity in Montana.
The other day, while in Helena,
where he used to live, he told a new
story that brought a laugh. 1t seems
that he decided to add to the d%elica-
cies of his table last fall with the
products of a small poultry farm.
He bought fancy eggs and Matched a
big brood of chicks. But as they
grew big they became acquainted
with the wild life of the Flathead
country and formed a friendship with s
old owl which sat in a tree over
the Linderman homestead and boot
I'D a friendly "How," at all who l
went by. '
well, do you know" explains Mr.. s
''those blamed chickens t
If mine cultivated the acquaintance \
If several more owls and all took to /
in my specially built, cleo '
lighted, hen house. Now I '
nave a flock of boot owls but not a t
on the place. I am not eating S
my owls either" C
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-02-19

John w. Collins, veteran stock in
spector of Silver Bow county, it is
said, has a right to eight notches on
the handle of his gun and this num-
Der probably would have been in
creased by one last week if Collins
could have numbered his trusty
Colts in time to put daylight into one
of the elevator pilots of the 42-story
L. c. Smith building at Seattle.
Having faced batteries of guns in
the hands of bad men of the west in
the early days was nothing as COM
pared to being isolated on the 34th
floor of a skyscraper and facing a
battery of eight elevators shooting
up and down past his floor and no
way to signal them. The elevator
battery is so feet wide. There is
but one push button which signals
electric light on the shaft of the
first elevator going up or down as
desired.
Mr.. Collins failed to see the button
and stood c~omplacently awaiting one
of the lifts to stop until his patience
gave out. 1t was then he numbered
gun it is said, and as the lights
of the cages passed the floors, rushed
to the door calling wildly "halt." The
doors prevented the operators
Collins until finally a car stop
ped to discharge a passenger. The
presented to the operator
could not have been improved on by
4 Remington or a Charley Russell. 1t
was that of an irate old gentleman
with a shooting iron in his hand, red
If visage and determined of jaw.
'Take me down and out of this
trap" the Montanan de-
handed, and the operator obeyed.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-02-19

Jockey was born in Yorkshire,
England, in June, 1916, and came to
America the following year, settling
at Dubuque, Iowa. When the Civil
war started, Jockey was Is years old
and looked much less than that.
Twice he tried to enlist in the Union
army, but each time was rejected be-
cause of his youth. He at last sue
ceeded in entering the army in a
clerical capacity, and in November,
1861, he went with his command in
to southeastern Missouri and Arkan-
sas. In 1864 he was with Sherman's
army from Vicksburg to Alabama,
and later returned to Vicksburg and
was with General Banks army on its
memorable Red River expedition.
He was then in charge of commissary
and quartermaster departments of
General A. j. Smiths command, the
Sixth division of the Sixteenth army
corps. In the fall of 1864 he suf-
fered so in health that he was in
valided out of the army. In 1866
he came to Montana and went to
work in Helena. For a time he stud
led law there in the office of Colonel
Wilbur +. Sanders. In 1871 he en-
gagged for himself in the mercantile
business, and in 1876 he opened a
branch store in Bozeman. This was
in the midst of the Indian fighting
days in Montana, and Jockey manu-
featured great quantities of "hard-
tack" for the army and Indian de-
partment OF government contracts.
In 1881 he sold his mercantile in
terests in Bozeman to his two bro
hers, and his store in Helena to
William Ulm, and thereafter devoted
himself to the real estate and insur-
ince business, acquiring a very large
amount of Helena realty in the bust
and residence sections, as well
Is mining property. He was n Of
he organizers of the American Ma
ional Bank, of which he was a direc-
or for 81 years, and he has been in
crested in numerous other similar
business ventures.
In public life in Helena, no citi-
en- has been more generous with his
and money, and during the
nore active years of his life he was
leader in all civic improvements,
Jockey avenue park to the
ity and being the owner of a consid-
rable part of the land donated to
he state for the capitol building.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-02-19
RICHARD Jockey, HELENA PIONEER, PASSED
UP CHANGE TO OWN TOWNSHIP OF SPOKANE

manner OF bringing out an odd angle
of thought not unlike that of the la
mented Mark Twain.
Back in the early territorial days
at Virginia City some of the men who
made up a pioneer legislature organ
lied a burlesque legislative assembly
which went by the name of the
blouse of Lords" When the capt.
tai went to Helena, the House of
Lords went with it, and for three
decades thereafter Jockey was the
presiding officer at the sessions held
every two years during the closing
days of the legislative assemblies.
The members of many sessions of the
legislature had a lot of fun out of
the blouse of Lords" and not a lit
tie of it was due to Jockeys dry wit
when, with grave co%untenance, he
would make some ruling that would
occasion bursts of hilarity. Posses
sed of keen insight into human ma
ture and general affairs, he has al
ways been an interesting companion.
Friends of a life time will tell you
that there are none who wear better
than Dick Jockey.
When Spokane Was Wilderness
The other day Jockey told a group
of friends at the capital that he rode
by the site of the present city of
Spokane when no habitation of man
stood within many miles. With a
companion he stood beside the roar
ing Spokane Falls and deliberated on
whether it would pay to locate" the
falls and acquire possession of them.
They decided that it would not, for
while they. did not doubt that some
day there would be a big city there,
felt that such a time might be a
century away. The chances, they
thought, were against either of them
living to see the vast wilderness sur
rounding the falls transformed into
l populous and prosperous empire.
But the transformation came soon
or than any man alive then thought
possible. Had Jockey been able to
beer into the future, he might have
made millions upon millions by camp
ng OF the site of Spokane. Many
among the wisest of the pion-
,ers of the west passed over the same
opportunity.
Jockey does not waste time in idle
egrets, however; nor has he need to, 4
or while he was not destined to held {
'uild Spokane, it was ordained by y
What men call fate that he should do {
mans share in the building of Hell !
n a q
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-02-19

In 1864 the family moved to Mon
tana and that was the beginning here
of the family which is, no doubt, bet
ter known as musicians than any
other family in the state. For over
SO years the Orion Brothers, as mu-
sicians and dealers in musical mer-
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-02-19

Over On FIathead lake, on the
shores of a secluded cove to which
early day trappers gave the name of
Goose Bay, dwells Montana's fore
most literary man of the present
time, Frank B. Linderman, who is
best known in the United States
by the volume from his pen that was
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-02-19
LINDERMAN WRITES
SOME NEW BOOKS
is TURNING OUT A NUMBER OF
TALES OF OLD WEST AT
FLATHEAD LAKE HOME

Several of These Will be Published
by Scribner's in Near Future; One
Yarn that Won't Appear in Print
Is About How He Has Taken to
Raising Owls.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-02-19

Jockeys friends know him as a
humorist with a quaint and whimsi-
cal philosophy of life. He has a dry
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-02-19
ELEVATORS RILED
MONTANA CUNMAN
j. w. COLLINS, WITH EIGHT
NOTCHES ON SIX-GUN, WAS
STUMPED BY SKYSCRAPER

Stranded on Thirty-Fourth Floor of
Biggest Building in Seattle, He Did
Not Know Combination to Stop the
Elevators; About to Shoot When
One stopped
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-02-19

in an enormous exploitation of the
mineral districts surrounding the
city.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-02-19

u ICHARD Jockey, known to the pioneers of Montana as
X the Duke of Last Chance was one of the most popular fig
ures in the territory in early days, and at the age Of a. still
vigorous and active, he is spending his declining years in Helena,
which he helped build from a rough mining camp to the richesrcity
of its size in the world. Jockey became one of the biggest property
holders of the capital, and today he believes that Helena's sun of
center.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1920-04-08
liver DIDN'T ACT
DIGESTION WAS BAD
Says year Old Kentucky Lady, Who Tells How She Was Relieved
After Few Doses Of Back.Draught

Meadorsvills, Ky.-Mrs. Cyrthia
Higginbotham, Of this town, says: "At
my age, which Is 65, the liver does
not act 30 we'll as when young. A few
years ago, my stomach was all ovt Of
fix. was constipated, my liver
didn't act. Ny digestion was bad, and
It took so little to upset me. My ap-
petite was gone. was very weak.
decided I would give Black
Draught a thorough trial as knew It
was highly recommended for this
trouble. I began taking II. I felt
better after . few doses. My appetite
improved and I became stronger. My
bowels acted naturally and the least
trouble was soon rightsd with few