The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-05-06
BURKE IS HEAD OF
STOCK GROWERS
RAMSEY MAKES WELCOMING, AID.
DRESS FULL OF HISTORICAL
"REMINISCENCES
Recalling Notable Figures of the
Early Days Of the Live stock In.
dustry in Montana; Flowerree and
Simpson, Vice.Presidents; Smith,
Treasurer.

Recalling the old days of the
Montana range and naming some
of the great figures who then or
now have been identified with the
livestock industry of this state,
George l.. Ramsey, president of
the Helena Commercial club, deliv.
cred an address of welcome to the
members of the Montana Stock.
growers convention in Helena q
few days ago, which should 20 into
the archives of the Historical So.
ciety of Montana.
Those notable figures of the early
days Of the industry, Big Bill Donald,
Lew Penwell, Con Kohrs. Pierre Wi
bauv. John T. Murphy, all were re-
called by Mr.. Ramsey. He noted that
at the fall meeting of the associa-
ton in Helena in 1885. Russell B.
Harrison, son of President Harrison.
acted as secretary of the meeting, and
the Marquis De Mores nominated
Theodore Roosevelt for membership.
Mr.. Ramsey's address was in part
as follows:
Makers of History
"The livestock industry in Mon
tana has been from the very start a
controlling avocation of man, and an
item of legislation, banking consid-
Grafton, court decision and CONNER
cial identification-the business has
in its evolution produced some un-
usual figures-f0r instance, Charles
NJ. Russell, painter Of western pic
lures, whose exhibits are familiar in
the SALONS of Paris, London and New
York; it has produced Roosevelt
president of the United States; AL.
bert j. Galen, justice of the supreme
court, range rider for the old HC
brand, and the properties of which
ranged up and down the slopes and
the valleys and through the canyons
the gulches and the ravines of Broad.
water. Jefferson and western Gala
tin counties; the business has pro.
duced the man Sharp, hailed as rare
and unusually great painter of In.
dams, whose studies were in the
Crow reservation.
GKid Curry, Too
Then there was the world-famous
Kid Curry, the continents most noted
train robber, again proving that
whatever came out of the livestock
industry in Montana it was a super.
lat1ve; the business developed Mar
Gus DAILY, miner, into a great pro-
Queer of race horses of the Hamburg
fame and type, and to which string
of horses DAILY used to ship Montana
hay all the way to New York and
Kentucky tracks; and then there was
L. A. Huffman, post photographer
at Fort Keogh, who developed into
the greatest photographer of live.
stock that ever set up the three
points Of tripod; and then there
was that school of gentlemen riders
so notable in Custer county-Sidney
Padgett. Major Dawson, Colonel
Price, formerly professor at Oxford
and always with his eyeglass, and
Leopold Beck - do you know who
Leopold Beck was?-he is today the
efficient and we'll regarded manage,
Of the Montana club, and you viii
see him about there, as active today
as he was In the splendid old times Of
Miles City, years agone.
Friend of Wales
There was George Lane, once 6
range rider for the old s. T. outfit IL
Northern Montana, now in many res
poets the most prominent livestock
owner In all the Dominion of Canada