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The Coconino sun., 1922-01-27
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HIS QUICK CHANGE OF MIND
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The hush of twilight had fallen upon all things, including the two
The Coconino sun., 1922-01-27
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The Coconino sun., 1922-01-27
Home Economies

The home economies department met Thursday with Mrs. c. P. Heisser, with Mesdames Cress, Keeffe and Null len joint hostesses. A large number were present and a splendid meeting is reported. The topic was cheese" !"
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-21
Sells Ranch for $45, 900

Thomas o. Johnson, pioneer dry
land farmer of Sweetgrass, who owns
528 acres of land adjoining Sweet
grass on the west side, shattered all
records for Toole county last week
when he sold his land for $4,000
cash to Mr.. Baken, a Wisconsin dairy
farmer. The price included all farm
stock and equipment and the set price
of SIS per acre for the land.
Baken is shipping in 20 head of
purebred Guernsey cattle to start
with and has ordered n of the
largest cream separators ever used
in this part of Montana. The barns
he will build this winter, one of
which will be 1O0x80 feet with lean
to sheds In addition. A large poul-
try plant will be installed in addi-
ton that can care for several thous-
and laying hens, and as now planned
about 200 head OF hogs will be kept
on this farm also. The location of
the farm is ideal for dairying, about
one-half mile from the central part
of town, and is nearly half summer
titled In readiness for crops Of dairy
feed next summer.
Mr.. johnson and wife will tour the
south and visit relatives in Los An
geles and Florida before their return
next spring. johnson will superin-
tend the dryland operations on this
farm for Mr.. Baken next spring and
as Johnson expresses 1t, 81 have not
a thing against this country and I'm
coming back"
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and also leased ground for himself.
He then went to Auburn, Ore, and
mined for wages and dug q ditch for
the Oregon Navigation company,
earning quite an amount of money
In the four months he was thus m
ployed.
Back to Montana
Leaving Oregon, he returned to
Idaho and until 1865 was engaged
in prospecting and mining with con-
siderable success. In 1855 he came
back to Montana and for a short time
was engaged in mining at Bear gulch,
from whence to went to Helena and
found gold in paying quantities on
Indian creek. His next prospecting
was done at Mercer, Mont, and then
for five years he was engaged in gold
mining on Elk creek with marked
success. Colonel Morse then went to
Utah, and buying 500 head Of cattle,
drove them to Rock creek, Montana.
For the subsequent years he
was engaged in ranchtng and cattle
raising, but then sold at a profit.
While he was thus engaged he did
business upon an extensive scale. His
u6AL F0uLuI0 was d 1dASh oI4NOW OhA
cagO. Montana. This ranch COM
prised 1900 acres and on it he raised
cattle to such an extent that they
consumed 1900 tons of hay annual
ly.
In 1914 he retired and moved to
Drummond, where he built a fine
residence which, in conjunction with
800 acres of land, he sold in 1919
for $65,000.
Montana's First Elector
A Wing, with the organization Of
the republican party he espoused it's
principles and held to them since. He
was presidential eleetor and cast
Montana's first electoral vote for
President Harrison. Colonel Morse
was a delegate at the Chicago con-
vention in 1912 which nominated
Roosevelt. For two terms he served
old Deer Lodge county as county COM
missioner, and later held the same
office for Granite county.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-21
HEDGES RESCUED
TWICE BY HORSE
STEED HOLDS BACK AS HE is
ABOUT TO PLUNGE INTO
TORRENTIAL RIVER
Faithful Animal, Tugging at Lariat,
Awakens Him Barely in Time to
Rout a Flock of Wolves; Ac-
companied General Meagher on
Treaty-Making Trip.

1t was in the latter part of Octo-
Der, 1855, that Cornelius Hedges,
the distinguished pioneer, set out
from Helena with Acting Governor
Thomas rFancis Meagher, for a con-
ference with the Blackfeet Indians
regarding cession of a part of their
reservation.
In the party, besides Mr.. Hedges
and General Meagher, we're Judge
L. E. Munson, Captain George Wood
and Malcolm Clark, the latter act
ing as guide through what was then
an almost trackless wilderness.
The party was heavily armed and
mounted. While there was no spe-
cial fear of Indians, they were never
trusted and it was Clark's duty to
see that the governor and his friends
ran into no ambush. They spent
their first night out of Helena at
Dearborn station, a well known place
kept by Paul Verrill, who was after
ward murdered by red men.
The second day a blizzard overlook
them and abandoning the Fort Ben
ton trail, they headed for the Catho-
lie mission at St. Johns. Arriving
there at shutdown, after a day of ter
rible hardships, they found the
priests had only a few tents, little
food and no shelter or forage for the
horses. The Meagher party crowded
into a single small tent where they
sat up all night, doing in smoke that
stifled them. In the morning, al
though the blizzard had increased
and the tired horses were founder
ing In the deep snow, they had no
choice but to set out for another mis-
sion near the mouth of the Sun river,
where they hoped for mor commo-
dious accommodation. Horses and
men were half-starved and utterly
exhausted when, after IL hours bat
tie with the snow, they reached the
Sun River mission, where all their
wants wer amply supplied and good
shelter was afforded by the hospit-
able priests.
Meet Herd of 800 Antelope
They spent two days here, resting
and hunting, and, much refreshed,
babe the kindly priests goodbye and
set forth On the last lap of their
journey. They crossed the Sun river
at a ford near the mission and fol-
the stream downward, soon
came to the junction with the Mis-
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souri,. Here, on a spot now covered
by warehouses, railroads and homes.
they saw the largest herd of antelope
any OF the party had ever heard Of
fully 300, including a number of
deer. They also paused to admire
the falls and then, crossing the river,
camped in the river bottom below the
Great falls. From there they made
Fort Benton without incident.
The Indians were slow to come in
for the treaty-making and Hedges
and some of the others grew weary
after waiting for the governor to
conclude his business, and decided,
after ten days, to start home alone.
But on the first day on the back
trail, Mr.. Hedges horse gave out.
His friends rode on, leaving him to
lead his beast and agreeing to wait
for him at the government station
near the Great falls. Mr.. Hedges
finally let his horse lie down, know
ing it would recover and find suf-
ficient feed, and bought another OF
a rancher on the trail. On this ami
NAL, long after dark, he ga1loped on
to overtake his party. It was pitch
dark, and he lost the road. Finally,
his horse stopped dead. The rider
spurred and spurred, but the beast,
with it's blazing eyes, began to back.
Just then a flock of geese rose
screaming, almost at Hedges feet.
He had been standing on the brink
of the river, into which, but for the
sagacity of his horse, both would
have plunged, never to rise again in
that rapid torrent. So worn and K
hausted was the rider that he had not
noted the roar of the stream.
Takes Shelter in Coulee
Mr.. Hedges was now utterly lost,
as he could not find his friends with
out crossing the stream and did not
know whether he was above or below
the ford. Being SO badly used up
he decided to wait where he was and
as a dim moon arose, about 3 o'clock
in the morning, he selected a coulee
near the river for shelter from the
wind, picketed his horse and rolled
up into a blanket and dropped off
into slumber.
Again his horse saved his life. Mr..
Hedges dreamed that he heard weird
Finally, it turned into
screams and barkings. Then he
dreamed that somebody was trying
to pull him out of bed. It was the
horse, tugging at the lariat which
Hedges had wound about his leg.
Hedges awoke to find a circle of
about him. The music he had
heard was their cry.
A few shots put the beasts to flight
and giving up the rest as a bad job,
the rider leaped upon his horse and
rode upstream, hoping the ford lay
that way. To his Joy, he found, when
came, he had chosen Alright
and at nine o'clock in the morning.
came upon his friends and found food
Id shelter.
The return to Helena was made
safely but Mr.. Hedges went on no
more treaty-making expeditions.
Once, he vas wont to say in review
ng the incident, was enough.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-21
N M0NTANAN
TO HIS REWARD
COLONEL GEORGE w. MORSE OF
GRANITE COUNTY, PIONEER
MISREPRESENTATION
Came to Montana in 1862, Before the
Discovery of Gold; Discovered Gold
on Indian Creek; Retired in 1914;
Was First Presidential Elector
from Montana.

Colonel George w. Morse, Montana
pioneer prospector and cattle man,
died a few days ago at his home at
Drummond.
Dental elector from Montana, casting
his ballot for President Harrison, and
also was a delegate to the convention
which nominated Roosevelt as the
candidate of the progressive party for
president in 1912. He was also hon
ored by the trail blazers into the
Treasure state, who, in 1915, elected
him to the presidency of the Montana
Society Of Pioneers. During the
early days he served as county com
missioner in both Deer Lodge and
Granite counties.
Although he retired from active
business life in 1914, he did not COM
pletely re1inquish his interests in
Montana enterprises, which during
his long career extended from pros
pecting and cattle raising to bank
ing.
Colonel Morse was born at White
field, Me-, Dec. 2, 1888. He attended
the rural school of Lincoln county,
Me-, and grew up on his fathers
farm, where he remained until he was
IA years old, at which time he be-
gan working on the Penobscot river
in a sawmill, receiving $13 per month
for his services, which amount was
turned over to his mother, who was
left with a large family to support,
as well as care for her paralyzed hus-
band. He continued to work in the
sawmill In the summer and attended
in the winter until 1856, when
with $36 as his capital he started
west, and reached Saltwater, Mimi,
where for four years he was engaged
in numbering on the st. Croix river.
Leaving Minnesota, Colonel Morse
went to Louisiana, and for a year was
engaged in work on the Texas &
railroad.
The westward trend of the empire
then took him to Pixies Peak, and
he was engaged in prospecting and
In its vicinity for four years.
1t was during 1862 that Colonel
Morse first entered Montana, coming
at that time to the present site of
Deer Lodge, and prospected for a
short time. Later he engaged in
for wages at Orofino, Idaho,
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-21

The first printed time card came
out in June, 1888, and covered a sim
gle sheet. There were two passen-
ger trains running as far west as
Miles City and two freight trains as
far west as Forsyth, and the latter
was prohibited from travelling faster
than Is miles an hour.
Old Time Card
According to a later time card is
sued in December of the same year,
1t took IL hours to make the trip to
Billings whereas train No. L, the
North Coast Limited, now covers the
distance in about half the time. The
average speed for freight trains in
the old days was ten miles per hour
and many times the crew stopped be-
tween stations to hunt prairie chick
ems, ducks, deer and even buffalo,
but always made the next telegraph
station on time. Meals we're secured
at the nearest section house, and
whether breakfast, dinner or supper,
the menu consisted largely of buffalo
meat, until the crews almost welcom-
ed the extinction of the buffalo and
the advent of cow meat instead.
No little advance has also been
made in the equipment of the rail-
road. In the early days the pride of
the division were two brass trimmed
engines of 81 tons each, while today
passenger engines weigh 157 tons
and are capable of 80 miles an hour.
How Road Has Grown
In 1884, it required only three
passenger conductors for the division
while now there are fourteen. Like
wise it took but three freight crews,
whereas with freight trains three to
five times heavier than formerly, 20
crews are employed now to handle
the traffic. There are 124 conduct
ors on the present division list, which
employs over 1000 men with an
annual payroll of s3,6O0,0O to carry
it's railway business. All of which
is tangible evidence of how great has
been the development of the territory
covered by the Yellowstone division
in the past forty years, and also
serves as a basis of determining what
must be the future expansion of the
division along railway lines when
western North Dakota and Eastern
Montana shall become as populous as
Wisconsin and Minnesota, to say
nothing of Ohio or New York. 1t fur
some means of estimating the
probable growth of cities which, like
Glendive, are division headquarters
or railroad centers.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-21

ritory now constitutes the present
Yellowstone division which com
mences at Mandan on the main line
and extends westward to Billings and
also includes two branch lines, one
of which runs from Beach, N. D., to
Ollie, Montana, and a second from
Glendive to Sidney, Montana. There
are AL miles of main track, and
about 80 miles of branch lines, which
cross the Little Missouri river, Pow
der river, the Tongue and Big Horn
rivers, besides many creeks and cou-
lees. Glendive has always been the
division headquarters.
AS the steel rails left Bismarck, N.
D., on their march westward to Glen
dive, in 1881, the Missouri division
of the Northern Pacific came into be-
ing and continued until 1894 when
it was merged into the present yell
lowstone division. The original yell
lOwstone division began with Glen
dive as its first and only headquarters
in 1881, about July 4, when the rail-
way tracks had reached that point.
1t daily grew in length until the
tracks reached Billings. When the
Montana division and the Rocky
Mountain division were completed in
1888, a gold spike was driven into
the track at Gold Creek, Montana, In
September of hat year by General
U. S. Grant in the presence of a dis
~tinguished audience to signify to the
world that the northern Pacific rail
way was a united system stretching
from the Mississippi river to the Pa
cific coast. The western end Of the
railroad was commenced from the
Pacific coast and met the eastern end
at Gold Greek. For three days the
switches of the Yellowstone division
had been spiked to permit the three
special trains of President Henry
Willard to make the trip to Gold
Greek and return in safety. 1t is
doubtful If a single group of more
prominent people were ever trans
ported over the railway system at n
time; they came from all parts of
the world and represented all classes
of men, financiers, scientists, public
lists, authors and men of affairs gen.
orally.
In the fall of 1892, the Yellowstone
division was extended to Livingston,
Montana, and took in the Red Lodge
branch. This arrangement lasted I'M
til the fall of 1894, when the road
west of Billings was restored to the
Montana division and the Missouri di-
vision on the east end absorbed.
These are the limits of the present
Yellowstone division.
School of Railway Notables
Many notable present-day railway
men have seen service on this por-
ton of the Northern Pacific railway.
Among them, j. M. Rapelje, vice
president of the Northern Pacific
railway, who began at Glendive as a
brakeman, and step by step rose to
his present position. The man who
is at present the head of the New
oYrk, New Haven and Hartford rail-
way, President e. j.. Pearson, first
saw service on the Yellowstone divi-
sion as a civil engineer, and later as
its superintendent. Others are New
man Kline, general superintendent,
T. H. Lantry, superintendent, Seattle
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-21

Rochester, N. Y.-The Joy Chris
tians, a new religious sect formed
here with a pledge to follow the ex-
ample Of the Lord as "a drinker of
the wine of His day." suffered a re-
versal when a federal prohibition
agent from headquarters in Buffalo
advised their pastor" A. Stanley
Copeland, to postpone his second
Communion"
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-21
By j. J.. Ermatinger.

The formal opening of the new
railway station and office building of
the Northern Pacific railway on De-
cember 20, 1922, at Glendive, con-
stitutes another milestone in the rail
way development from the Missouri
river westward to Billings. This ter
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-21
OPENING OF GLEMO0vE'S NEW
STATION MARKS NEW ERA DIV
WESTERN DIV WAY HISTORY

division; G. H. Jacobus, superinten-
dent of the Montana division; and
Andrew Gibson, in charge of the tie
treatment plant at Brainerd. w. G.
Sloan, the present superintendent,
also saw service on the Yellowstone
division some years ago as supervisor
of bridges.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-21

San Francisco prohibition en-
forcement agent called up a large
number of social lights and secured
orders for wines and Ii
quors, which he pretended to be dis
posing Of.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-21

Gordon Campbell-Kevin Syndicate
No. 2 units are, in our opinion, far and
away the most attractive offering in
Northern Montana today.
In recommending Gordon Campbell
Kelvin Syndicate No. Q units to our
clients we are mindful of our record that
no investor has ever lost a dollar with
the Fidelity Finance Company.
We have ascertained from sources we
believe to be reliable that the holdings
of No. Q Syndicate will not only be
worth upwards of a million dollars when
completed, but information comes to us
that Syndicate No. 3 will soon start on
a dividend program unrivaled in oil
annals.
In our opinion, Gordon Campbell
Kelvin Syndicate No. 2 units at SIS each
are not only a sound investment security,
but that they carry speculative features
holding promise of substantial reward
to investors.
The record of Mr.. Campbell in the
Kelvin field is well known to the readers
of this paper. His achievement in open
ing up the Kelvin field is unparalleled in
the industrial history of the nation.
His quick success with the Lincoln
well and his unerring geological knowl-
edge augur well for the early and sub
stantial success of Syndicate No. 2.
The success or failure of the Fidelity
Finance Company must necessarily be
measured in exact ratio to the profit or
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losses of its clients. Hence, it is only
after the most conscientious csnsidera-
ton of our clients interests that we un-
hesitatingly recommend the purchase Of
any oil issue.
A client of the Fidelity Finance Com
pany is regarded as a financial ward
his or her interests and our interests are
identical-our clients must profit before
we can prosper.
The minute Mr.. Campbell announces
the first dividend for Syndicate No. Q
unit values are bound to skyrocket, and
our clients are destined to profit-with
this thought in mind we urge all our old
clients to increase their holdings in Cor
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and to bring their investment problems
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If you are not numbered among those
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the next few months will see many for
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The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-21

FIDELITY FINANCE COMPANY,
No. s Second Street North,
Great Falls, Montana.
Enclosed find $--------in full or part) payment for
units Of Gordon Campbell Kelvin Syndicate No. 2 at $500 each.
Ut part payment. ] agree to pay the balance In two equal
1t fs understood that you accept this order subject. to prior
sale, and that in the event Of over-subscr1pdon or another price
advance, my remittance will be returned promptly.
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The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1922-12-21
Gordon Campbell Adds 40 Additional
Acres and Another Drilling Well
TO Syndicate No. 2 Holdings

Hot upon the heels of his success in
completing the Lincoln we'll, a splendid
commercial producer, Gordon Campbell
adds another priceless asset to Gordon
Campbell-Kevin Syndicate No. 2, his
second Kelvin venture.
Syndicate No. 3 unitholders will now
participate in all the oil from 720 Kelvin
acres instead of the original $50 as an
nounced at the time of the organization
of the Syndicate.
On a direct line between the Lincoln
well and the famous Gladys Belle pro-
Queer, Gordon Campbell has thrown in
to Syndicate No. 2 forty acres with a
These forty acres, with a well drilling,
add many thousand dollars to the value
of Syndicate No. 2 holdings, all without
one cent of increased capitalization or
additional cost to the unitholders.
The addition of this lease and drilling
well confirm the impression that Mr..
Campbell is determined to make Syndi-
cate No. Q an outstanding profit payer
in the Kelvin field and presages another
sharp advance in the price of No. 2 units.
With the Lincoln well completed on
forty acres off-setting the Discovery
we'll and
A second well drilling on forty acres
squarely between two of the fields best
producers and
$40 acres off to the southwark atop
what now seems to be the mother pool
of the Kelvin field
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-06-29
CENTERVILLE

Miss Genevieve Hammond went to
Rexburg last Wednesday to attend
the normal college graduation exer-
cises. She returned home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ivan Farnworth of
Blackfoot visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Farnworth last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Herbst and
daughters and son Doris returned
from Utah Tuesday evening. They
reported very good visit.
Drucilla Farnworth, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus Farnsworth, met
with an accident last Sunday. She
was riding on the running board Of
the car and jumped off, thinking she
would be safe as the car was going
slow, but she struck her head and
was knocked unconscious. She was
quite i'll Sunday evening and all Of
Monday, but is much better now.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. s. Kelly made a
business trip to the Charles Haynes
home of Moreland.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Herbst and
daughters visited Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Howard Sunday.
Mrs. Catherine Roubidoux and
Eva Garlic were present at the party
held by the primary classes and Re-
lief society at the Groveland school
grounds last Wednesday afternoon.
Several gaines were played and a
fine lunch served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Olson were
entertained at the home Of John
Herbst Sunday.
Llewellyn Roubidoux and wife
and small lson and Sylvester Roubi-
doux his brother of Pocatello were
weekend guests at the home OF
their mother Mrs. Hannah Roubi-
doux. Llewellyn Roubidoux is pro-
lessor Of violin and band instru-
ments at the Idaho Tech of Poca.
tellO.