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DEATHS LESS IN 1922

The total number of deaths from
communicable diseases in Montana
for the first seven months in 1922
does not quite equal the number for
the same period in 1921, according
to the monthly health review issued
by DR.. W. F. Cogswell, secretary of
the state board of health. Reduc-
lions OF measles and whooping cough
deaths are the only noticeable items,
all other diseases showing increase of
Fatalities. While these increases are
not great, yet they indicate need for
greater vigilance on the part of
health officers, physicians, teachers
and parents, the report urges, for the
opening of public schools this month.
For the first seven months of 1922
there were 334 deaths in Montana
from communicable diseases. For the
same period in 1921 there we're 338
deaths.
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STORY OF THE ORGANIZATION
OF SOCIETY MONTANA PIONEERS

In July, 1884, call was published
by j. r. Wilson, newspaper man of
Dillon, and signed by many old-tim-
ers from various parts of the then
Montana territory, for a meeting of
pioneer citizens who we're residents
OF Montana at the date of the crea-
ton of the territory, May 26, 1864, to
be held September 10, 1884, at Hell
ena. At the latter date large gath
ering of pioneers assembled, with
Samuel T. Hauser presiding. Colonel
Wilbur f. Sanders explained the pur-
poses of the society which it was pro-
posed to organize. Thereafter con-
stitution and bylaws were adopted
and the following officers were
elected:
President, James Fergus; vice
presidents, w. w. DeLacy, Granville
Stuart, Joseph A. Browne, James M.
Arnoux, Thomas H. Irvine, John Pot
ter, Fl. H.. Mood, Conrad Kohrs, P. w.
McAdoo, Enoch H. Wilson, Caleb E.
Irvine, c. P. Higgins; corresponding
secretary, w. F. Sanders; recording
secretary, George w. Irvine; treas
urer, Samuel T. Hauser.
The following day the organization
was completed by the signing of the
constitution by about two hundred
and sixty pioneers of Montana. These
included virtually every resident of
prominence then living. Among the
slgners was venerable Catholic
priest, Father William Classens, who
accompanied Father DeSmet to the
Flathead country in 1871.
Two years later, in August, 1885, a
change in the qualification for mem
bership was adopted, allowing pio-
neers who had become residents of
Montana prior to December 81, 1868,
to become members of the society. |
Although attempts had been made to |
extend the date to a later one, the
rule has never been changed.
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LIVE HOPPERS ON
FAMOUS GLACIER
MYSTERY OF INSECTS EMBEDDED
IN ICE MAY BE SOLVED BY
RECENT DISCOVERY.
Believed That Grasshoppers Found at
Elevation of More Than Two Miles
Above Sea Level North of Yellow
stone Park Were Carried There by
Heavy Winds.

Discovery of live grasshoppers, the
first ever reported from famous
| Grasshopper glacier in the mountain
region north of Yellowstone park,
was made last week by party of
Laurel people who visited the glacier
and brought back specimens of both
the dead insects which are imbedded
in the ice and the live hoppers found
on the surface. The discovery, made
at an altitude of 11,400 feet which
is more than two miles above the sea
level, throws new light on the pres
ence of millions of grasshoppers
frozen into the glacier, which has
been the objective of numerous scien-
tific expeditions seeking an explana-
ton of the phenomenon. The party
visiting the glacier from Laurel in
Guided Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Tharlalson
and Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Perry,
Scientists Puzzled.
Numerous explanations have been
advanced by scientists for the pres
ence of grasshoppers frozen in the
ice. Among the theories is one that
during a prehistoric period great
clouds of insects attempted to pass
over the continental divide at that
point and, striking the cold of the
high altitude, fell upon the ice and
were buried beneath subsequent falls
of snow. According to this they re-
NAMED frozen through thousands of
years, at last brought to light by the
melting of top layers of ice. Learned
men acquainted with the peculiar
features of bugs in general, have pro-
nounced the frozen grasshoppers of
a type not now existing and evidently
belonging to some remote period.
Blown There by Wind
Discovery of the live hoppers by
the Laurel people may lead to adop-
ton of a new theory. The visitors
found a very strong wind blowing |
the mountain pass in which |
The glacier is situated and apparently |
the live insects were carried there |
from a lower altitude by the wind.
The hoppers in the glacier, therefore,
uldy UC JhC 1Cou III vi q SOAoCout
That they are there and
IN frozen state, to the number of
is undeniable.
Find New Lake
While in the mountains the Laurel
party became acquainted with a new
AXE, just formed by two landslides
which damned stream. The slides
,1so covered q norton of the trail to
he glacier, making travel very diff
.ult Automobiles were used as far
is roads would permit, horses were
text used and when travel became
90 difficult for the animals the re-
nainder of the journey was made on
oot In ascending the glacier the J
members of the party were tied to-
ether with long rope. They declare I
he most wonderful scenery in the
World exists in the country visited. !;
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The other pipeline from the Cat
Creek field to Winnett, owned by the
Montana Independent pipeline COM
pany, made no report of any oil trans
mitted during 1921. 1t is said by
men in touch with the situation at
Winnett to have carried somewhere
in the neighborhood of $500 barrels
that year, but this figure is uncertain.
Beginning with January, 1922, it sub
mitted reports of oil transmitted as
follows: January, $500 barrels;
February, 5,033 barrels; March, T.
900 barrels; April, 6,397 barrels;
total of 24,330 barrels for 1921, this
company's total can be placed in the
neighborhood of 27,830 barrels.
The total transmission from the
field by the two companies, with o.
174,184 barrels reported in the ID
months ended June 80, 1922, by the
Mutual oil company, the estimated
$500 for the Independent company
last year and the 24,330 barrels re-
ported by the Independent company
for the first four months of 1922,
add to the aggregate of 2,202,014|
barrels given in the opening para
graph of this article.
OF the 853,822 barrels received by
the Mutual company during the first
half of this year 729, Ala barrels had
been purchased in the field for that
company and were destined to the
Midwest refinery company's plants at
Greybull or Lowell, Wyo., or to the
refinery owned by the Mutual oil
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the matter as far as OKeefe wa
concerned, but it would not get hin
the suit of clothes he wanted to TAX
along.
Well, you see it is this way" hi
replied. My brother and l are il
together in this matter, and he might
bring the potatoes over. l could not
guarantee that they would come, i
ne brought them and we had no con-
tract, for he might sell to someone
else, perhaps for more money. II
we have this agreement, he will live
up to it."
He knew that his brother would
deliver the potatoes just as well as
himself and would be just as true to
the verbal agreement as If 1t were in
writing, but at the same time he
wanted to get the suit of clothes out
of Matt Carroll.
He explained to Riplinger that he
aid not want to leave any shadow of
doubt in the buyers mind, and that
settled 1t The contract was drawn
up.
A few minutes later O'Keefe was
back at the Carroll-Steele store and
showed the contract to Carroll. The
latter read it, grinned and told the
chief clerk to "give Dave the best
suit in the store" Carroll at that
time was negotiating for potatoes for
nall the price for which O'Keefe was
delivering them to Riplinger.
However, in those days it was no
small matter to deliver 5000 pounds
OF potatoes or 5000 pounds of any
thing else from what is now Missoula
to Fort Benton. The Mullan trail
was all that there was to travel over,
houses were few and far between and
The 33O-mile trip had to be made by
bull team. Six houses were all that
dotted the road from Missoula to
Fort Benton, four of which were be-
tween the present site, of Missoula
ind Helena.
The country was open, not fence |
llong the way, and is quite contrast |
o the trip of today, for it took from
Is to 20 days to get through, and
when Uncle Dave was ready to
tart he left with four wagon loads.
Two of the wagons contained the po-
atoes, and there was load of cab
)age ana one OF onions.
Four yoke of oxen were on each
wagon, eight head in all, so the four
wagons required 80 head of cattle.
WAS it necessary in those days to
Use oxen? Were there no horses
Which could be used?" "Uncle Dave"
vas asked.
Me friend" replied the old gen.
leman, ''it was useless to try to use
lorses in those days, the Indians
would steal them from you, and the
slackfeet and Piegan tribes were
angerous. They we're on the war
ath.''
The trip was made to Fort Benton
Without incident, but on the way they
card some shooting and learned that
he Indian party that they saw in the
istance had killed two Mexican trap
ers.
The writer was interested in know
1g what was taken along for feed
or the bull teams, considering that
ach wagon had eight head, but
'Keefe assured him that the animals
I'd on the grass along the way and ;
ept fat on the trip.
did you wear the new suit of ,
Iothes home from Fort Benton?"
No, indeed. l brought it home in
burlap sack. That was a dusty trip
nd the wagon had to be creased
item, and I wanted to keep the suit {
n Sunday best.
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Benton, which was the metropolis of
| the state at the time, with probably
500 or $500 people.
O'Keefe's brother, G. G. O'Keefe,
preceded 'sUncle Dave" to Montana,
coming in 1859 and located in the
canyon west of Missoula which bears
his name He was joined in 1862 by
"Uncle Dave" O'Keefe and between
them they took up a section of land
in the canyon.
In the year before "Uncle Dave"
arrived his brother had two or three
ing oats and potatoes, and at that
time there were few settlers and only
a small number of them were rails
ing anything from the land. After
the first year of farming by O'Keefe,
the land of the two brothers was
leased in 1868 and 1864, but in 1865
"Uncle Dave" took charge of it again
and planted and raised between SO
and so acres of grain and also had
two or three acres in potatoes.
The potatoes were marketed in the
mining camp of Bannack, Alder
GuIch and around Deer Lodge. of
the wheat raised that year he sold
100 bushels in Helena at SIS al
bushel, while the rest of the 800l
bushel crop was sold in the vicinity
of MissouIa at 81 bushel and pota-
toes from $3.50 to 81 busheL
One of the interesting incidents of
O'Keefe's early life in Montana was
in 1865, on the occasion of a visit to
Fort Benton where he consummated |
a deal for the sale of 5000 pounds
of potatoes to be delivered there at |
an agreed price of 20 cents pound.
Further, through his ability to get
a signed contract on the deal, he got |
the best suit of clothes in Fort Ben
ton besides.
Mr.. O'Keefe was in Fort Benton
and, having a keen eye for business,
decided he could sell some potatoes
there. He approached John Riplin1
ger, one of the officials of the Amer
lean Fur company, who was spending
his first year in Montana. Riplinger
promised to take 5000 pounds of po
.atoes. to be delivered in Fort Ben
.on The fur company had large
force of men employed in trading
with the Indians and with winter
coming on Riplinger knew that pota
.oes would be needed After closing
lis deal with Riplinger, O'Keefe was
strolling around renewing old ac-
Iuaintances when he dropped into
he store of Matt Carroll and George ]
steele. A little talk with Carroll
brought out the information that he
lad been making the deal with Rip
niger. {
Carroll asked O'Keefe if he had ]
written contract with Riplinger, but
lie had not. Carroll then told Uncle
)ave" that if he could get written
ontract out of Riplinger for the
greed amount, that Carroll would
i've O'Keefe the best suit of clothes {
n the store, and the store was the !
sading business house of Fort Ben 7
On at the time.
O'Keefe hunted up Riplinger, who 7
ad gone to bed, but he had visions
f suit of clothes, and decided that q
e wanted the contract. Riplinger q
Tas routed out of his slumbers at
he hotel to talk to O'Keefe, and u
hen the matter was suggested to 3
i'm, he was not in the notion of sign d
lg contract. "You know my word d
all right and that I will take the .
otatoes at the price agreed upon, +
nd / know that you are on the level, !.
20, and am depending upon you for 4
lie potatoes" $
OF course, that would have settled d
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company at Cowley, Wyo. OF the
other $4,000 odd barrels transport
ed to Winnett through the Mutual
pipeline for others about quarter
was eventually purchased by that
company and sent to Wyoming. The
other three quarters we're divided
among five refineries in Montana.
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A NEW OIL LAMP FREE
Burns 94% Air

e. P. johnson, 500 w. Lake ST., Chicago,
I'LL, the inventor of a wonderful new oil
lamp that burns "a per cent air and beats
gas or electricity, is offering to give one
free to the first user in each locality who
will help introduce it. Write him for par
ticu1ars. Agents wanted
The New York herald., 1922-08-10
WOMAN PfCKPOCKET, so,
MAY GO TO PRISON NOW
Benevolent Looking Widow
Pleads Guilty.

Anna Abrahamson, so. small and be-
ncvolcnt In appearance. bobbed up again
In the County Court, Brooklyn, yester-
day, charged with having picked a
pocket. Less than two months ago she
was before County Judge Haskell on a
similar charge. Il being held that she
attempted to take the purse Of a woman
shopper In Broadway. Brooklyn. dc.
partment store. The defendant sobbed
and asked for another chance. Judge
Haskell gave II, imposing a fine or $50
The offense now charged Is virtually
the same. department store being the
setting ard woman shopper the VIC
tim. The defendant pleaded guilty to
aitempte1 grand larceny In the second
degree and will be sentenced on Mon
day. She may get two and half years
In Auburn prison.
Mrs. Abrahamson Is a widow and has
an eig1tecn-year- daughter. The
mother Is a cook by occupation. but
has been known by several other names,
according 20 the police. She lives at
24s south sccohd street Williamsburg.
The New York herald., 1922-08-10
SUBWAYS WOULD
JOIN POWER HOUSES
Prevention of Tieups From,
Breaks IN Current Discussed.

Representatives of various railroads
IN the metropolitan area in conference
with the Transit Commission yesterday
agreed TO cooperate in the matter OF
taking precautionary measures to pre-
vent such tieup as occurred on all the
b. X. 4. lines as a result Of the power
house fire on Julx.25 last.
The conference Was called at the in
vitation OF the commission to discuss the
possibility OF moro adequate cable con-
nections. so that II one IDwcr house
should break down othsr power houses
could take up the load and supply power
curing the emergency. Following an
investigation, the commission had pre-
viously said In a statement that IL was
intoerable that an accident Of such
minor nature in a power house should
so seriously inconvenience hundreds OF
thousands OF people.
Among the representatives present
were those OF the New York Edison
Company. Tlterborough Rapid Transit
Company. Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com
pany, New York Central Railroad Com
pany. Pennsylvania Railroad Company
and Long Island Railroad Company.
Commissioner Hardness opened the
conference and presented the commis-
sion's point Of view, after which George
Gibbs. the commissions consulting elec-
trical engineer, presided at the technical
discussion.
The New York herald., 1922-08-10
EDWARD MORGAN'S HEIR
WINS PLEA FOR REALTY
Children of August Belmont,
Jr., Barred in Report.

Title TO an extensive tract in Great
Neck once owned by the late Edward
Morgan, partner in NJ. Morgan's Sons,
should go to his grandson. Frederick
Hamilton Morgan of Hampton, Va, in
the settlement OF the estate in the Sur
rogates Court, said a referees report
yesterday from Kenneth O'Brien of II
East Forty-second street.
Although the land was part OF an
assignment which Mr.. Morgan made for
creditors OF his firm in 1884, Frederick
Morgan claimed title BY the fact that
his grandfather reserved remainder
interest in the property after the debts
had been liquidated. lie also said, and
Mr.. O,Brien upheld him. that the priv
ilegc OF selling tho property once given
20 tho assignee had not been exercised
and the assignment terminated in 1909
az the end OF twenty years.
Mr.. OBrien also reported that the will
of Edward Morgan beaueathed all his
property TO his son. the father Of Fred
erick. who died intestate In 1916. Nor
gan and Raymond Belmont, Bessie
Morgan Belmont and August Belmont
3h. children of August Belmopt Jr.,
and grandchildren Of the older Morgan.
were found to have no valid interest in
the property.
The New York herald., 1922-08-10

The hard luck OF Fred Richnetter--
one OF the Richnettcrs of Secaucus.
N. J.--is proverbial. Indeed, the Rich
netters always have been more or less
unfortunate.
But yesterday eclipsed anything in
Richnetter history. Fred is a poultry
fancier who conducts a restaurant. He
keeps a few chickens in the yard back
of the restaurant, and when a customer
orders a chicken dish Fred catches a
fowl. Some other chickens that he
keeps locked in coops he never kills. at
least until they are very old. for they
are pedigreed chickens.
Richnetter was in his restaurant yes
terday morning when two customers
ordered hamburger steaks. The res
tacrant man. while cooking the steaks.
happened to glance toward the back
yard. He saw two of his finest hens
hens that had won prizes and honorable
mention In Secaucus. Hokokus and sew
eral other New Jersey towns-going
through a gate that had been left open.
The New York herald., 1922-08-10
ONE OF EIGHT DIES
OF GUNMEN'S SHOTS
Tailor Succumbs After Fusil-
ade From Motor Car in
Fifth Street.

Jacob Goldstein, one OF the eight
tailors shot in Fifth street. in front of
Beethoven Hall. on Tuesday by three
gunmen. who were making a desperate
get away after their unsuccessful at
| tempt to kill Joseph Masseria near by
in Second avenue. died yesterday in
Bellevue Hospital. He was AZ and lived
at $50 Beck street. The Bronx. lie had
been shot through the chest.
Goldstein's death changed the crime
against the unidentified trio from as
sault and numerous lesser charges to
murder.
| The New York Police Department
asked the entire country to assist in
the hunt for the blue motor car and
its four occupants--the three desperados
and their chauffeur. But despite the
fact that nothing quite so wanton and
daring as the Fifth street affair has
occurred in this city for a long time.
the police made little if any headway in
their hunt for the outlaws.
1t was not that the Police Department
did not utilize the utmost OF its re-.
sources At least fifty detectives who
know the so called underworld as they
know their own names We're detailed
to the case.
From Masseria, whose escape from
death or even wounds was nothing short
Of miraculous. they were able to learn
nothing. Moreover, they have nothing
but theories of the reasons for the at
tack on Masseria. One theory involves
bootlegging. although there was no evil
dence that Masseria was involved in IL.
Another has 1t that these men were
| friends of Silva Taglia gomba who was
shot to death on Bootleggers' Curb,
Grand and Mulberry streets, two months
ago.
Masseria is at liberty in $4,000 bail
charged with completely in this killing
Some of the police believe that these
three men decided that Mssseria was
guilty despite the fact that the District
Attorney has no such proof. There
fore, the detectives say. the attack on
Masseria was prompted by a desire to
avenge.
| Still another conjecture is that
gambling has something to do with IL.
but again the police say that they have
checked up Masseria's connections ana
past life and can find no justification
| for the gambling theory. Masseria
says he is as much at sea regarding the
motive as anybody.
The older detectives who were int:-
mate with the inner workings of the
gangs in the days of Big Jack Zelig and
Monk Eastman. seem to have no
theories. At least they do not put them.
IL they have them. into words. They
shake their heads mournfuly and say:
"Just another one OF those things.
Just another one of those things
Not at- all dismayed, Masseria was
out sauntering along Second avenue as
though nothing had happened. He has
n new straw hat, the one he wore Tues
day having been blown to excelsior by
two bullets from the gunmer's pistols.
Ii was this coolness that saved his life
The four men raked in by the de-
/ tectivcs after the Fifth street shooting
because they had a blackjack in their
motor car were dismissed by Magis-
trate Sweetser after they explained that
| they had been on their way to the Polo
Grounds and had heard nothing of the
shooting until they were taken to the
| Fifth street police station.
The New York herald., 1922-08-10
LIEUT.. HINTON MAY FLY
AROUND SOUTH AMERICA
Will Jump to Far Rockoway
To-day for Tests.

Before Lieut.. Hinton returns to New
York, after flying up the Amazon River
IN the seaplane Sampeio Correia. he NAV
dash around the Horn and encircle COM
pletely the southern continent.
In preparation for the flight to South
America. to begin next Tuesday, Lieut..
Hinton and his associates were busy
yesterday collecting charts. navigation
equipment and testing their motors. The
seaplane. known az the H-16 in the
Navy Department. will be flown to the
station at Far Rockaway to-day for
further tests. Regarding 1t Lieut.. Hin
ton said
Tho seaplane is the best that we
could get and / am well satisfied with
the test fight from Philadelphia. 1t is
the latest thing in plane and motors.
We are carrying spare motor in parts
in the hull and almost a complete igni-
tion system.
I'VE will be in the air close to 100
hours covering the distance to the Rio
de Janeiro Exposition. The distance as
the crow flies is about $500 miles. but
We will cover little more than that"
The New York herald., 1922-08-10
MOTOR HITS FOWL FANCIER
(. AND TWO HENS ARE KILLED
of Secaucus, in Hospital Also Bemoans
Burning of Brace of Hamburger Steaks in His
Restaurant and Loss Of Pair of Customers

The chickens started to cross the street.
Their owner left his hamburger steaks
and started after them. One hen. see
ing that Passaic trolley car was about
to bear down upon her. gave out a loud
squawk and tried TO get out OF the way.
But she was too late. She died under
the wheels.
Richnetter believed he could catch
the other hen, but just as he iunged for
her tail feathers she ran under a motor
truck and was killed.
well. I'll be hanged, said Fred
Richnetter, utterly amazed. as he sur
veyed the dead hens. He was so abb
sorbed that he did not notice that a
fiivver had crept up behind him. The
fivver struck him and knocked him
down. He was taken to North Hudson
Hospital, where 1t was said that he had
suffered contusions, decorations and
abrasions. none serious.
And in the meantime the two ham
burger steaks burned up and the Gus
toners got disgusted with the service
and went home.