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ways ready for an emergency, calle,
out four-horse team and sled, il
which we completed the New Year,
calls.
1t was not so difficult to get from
house to house, but it was very te
dious and tiresome getting in ant
out OF the sleight so often-so much
so, indeed, that several of the party
turned up missing on final roll-call
We had many song and many q
speech and the jingling glasses told
of the gushing hospitality that well
coined the party at every house The
cief Jushtice gave story and a song
and was gravely lectured because
there was no baby in the house. Mel
Their host, nor hostess, nor distin-
guished guest, received the lavish
compliments of the season that were
given to the future statesmen and
mothers of the mountains, now boast
ing OF swaddling clothes. One not
yet week old received the homage
of the distinguished party, as the
nurse guarded the cradle with ming
led devotion and pride. Several were
christened in the round-not by the
bishop in an official way, but in most
instances with biblical names.
At last the team was brought up
before the hall used by the house Of
representatives. Colonel Beidler was
sitting with the driver, and, with
merry twinkle of the eye, he said,
Fun ahead, boys; let's have a hand
in it,; and he called our attention
to rude placard on the door, stating
that sparring match would come
off at about that time. 'All hands
come in" said the colonel; and he
looked especially for the bishop.
Just little fun in the manly art"
he added; but the bishop pleaded an
engagement, and, with kind fare
we'll, he left us.
The legislature had adjourned and
the hall of the ouse had been con-
verted into a regular ring; the floor
was covered with several inches of
sawdust, a circle of rude board seats
had been thrown around the ring,
and what I supposed to be a spar
ring-match was to be exhibited at
the moderate price of one dollar
head. tits to be square fight, and
there will be fun said Beidler; but
still did not comprehend the enter
tainment to which we were invited.
After the Orem and Dwyer fight, the
legislature had passed law forbid
ding public exhibitions of the manly
art, unless the contestants wore
gloves -intending, of course, that
the heavily padded boxing gloves
should be used.
Upon entering the hall there was
every indication of serious business |
on hand. A ring some fifteen feet |
in diameter was formed and in it |
we're four men. In one corner was
Con Orem, stripped to his undershirt,
with an assortment of bottles,
sponges, ETC.; and by his side was
sitting little, smooth-faced fellow,
wrapped in a blanket, looking like
anything else than hero of the
)rize-ring. He answered to the
name of Teddy" although English
porn, and weighed one hundred and
pounds. In the opposite
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propriety. After an hour at the table
the middle-aged portion of the party
returned to the ballroom, while the
old folks and little retired to theil
homes.
Altogether it was one of the mos
agreeable gatherings | have ever wit
messed; and it was enjoyed by mosi
of the company as only western peo-
pie can enjoy social parties. With
all the freedom of western life
have never seen man intoxicated al
ball or other social meeting; and
the sincere cordiality evinced by the
ladies toward each other would be
an Improvement on the more cult
waited customs of the east.
Between Christmas and New Year
the city was unusually lively. The
streets were gay with beauty and
fashion, and in the evening merry
music and the dance were always to
be found under some of the many
hospital roofs of the town. Col. John
x. Beidler (then collector of customs
at Helena) was here, having good
time visiting old friends; and Col.
Neil HOWE (head of the Montana
volunteer Indian fighters at that
time) was also among the guests en-
joying the festivities of the capitol
We spent many pleasant hours, dur
ing leisure afternoons, hearing Col
Onels Sanders, Beidler, HOWE, Hall
and others fight over again the des-
perate battles they had had to give
in order to make safe the victory over
organized crime.
Finally New Years morning dawn
ed upon the little mountain capitol,
and it was by general consent laid
out as a field day of frolic. A party
comprising the heads of church anil
state-Bishop (Tuttle), chief execu
tive Governor Green Clay SMITH
Chief Justice (Hosmer), secretary,
(MarshaD, Professor (Eaton, geolo
gical expert), and some others of US
who classed as high privates-start-
ed out to inaugurate New Year calls
We naturally enough first paid our
respects to the family of one of the
distinguished officials, and found
that our call was not expected A
huge bowl of foaming egg-nogg was
set out on the center-table; and we
were made welcome, and accepted
We spent all of an hour
with the fair hostess, when the pro-
lessor decided, from the confusion
of tongues, that an analysis of the
beverage was a necessity; and, after
a careful and scientific investigation, |
he reported that the egg-nogg con-
sisted of three gallons of whisky, one
egg and a little cream. / can vouch |
for the bishop retiring in as good |
order as he came; but of the others,
the writer, it is necessary I
to speak. There was some inexplic- /
able confusion in fitting our hats as
we started, but it may be explained I
by the very thin air of the mountains
lying to our heads. We did not get .
,ver half the city until the walking
very hard for our party, ow
ng to the condition of the streets and
,ther causes; and it was found i'm
possible to conclude our calls on foot.
few inches of snow had fallen the
lay before, and Colonel Beidler, al
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for those Northwestern days of the
past were lurid beyond belief
"But this is a story for boys, anC
a very good story to boot, with from
tiers and Indians and trappers anC
all the other paraphernalia that 10
seph Altsheler has made so popular
To say that it is great deal better
than most stories for boys is no ex.
aggeration; and Mr.. Linderman by
no means does his worst writing in
| it."
From the other side of the United
States comes another endorsement OF
Montana's book. The following is
taken from the Santa Barbara Daily
News:
'Lige Mounts - Free Trapper,
Frank B. Linderman's last book pub
lished by Scribners that appeared
this fall in the bookstalls all over
the United States, is the story of a
life; the tug of the great
outdoors against the spell of the
home life with his own people, the
painted lodge against the log cabin.
and it was the lodge that won.
Mr.. Linderman, who is staying
content with telling of Indian life
after the manner of Cooper, but he
goes him one better and let's the trap
per give the story with astoundingly
telling, specific details that somehow
not only paint the picture of the adj
venture but give the very atmosphere
of the place till the reader seems act
ually hunting buffalo or trapping
beaver.
Through this book runs friendly
philosophy of life and understanding
of nature as though the author were
almost akin to the wild creatures.
To realize the atmosphere given by
a few words the following sentences
are given
1T was an old deer trail and
want made by men nor laid out to
save time
Then comes this bit of cabin life
before Lige answers the call of the
plains. One day I was blowing corn.
It was June and the air was still, and
sweet with the breath of growing
things in the sunshine. I could see
the big lilac bush all full of purple
blossoms, and the cornfiedl, and the
garden, and the wood pile, and Aunt
Lbs flowers and vines
A drum in Black Bears lodge |
beating, to-tum, so-tum,
to-tum, wilder n wolf, but solemn
and deep as a mountain lake, the
drumming beats rose and well with
The wind This is a bit of the in
reduction to real war party and an
indian fight that loses nothing in the
.elling.
dad, the old trapper who teaches
Lige the art of trapping, gives the
'ollowing cryptic opinion on inter-
marriage between the white and red
aces: i don't say it's wrong to do
t, but society has made trails that
everybody must foller or the mob VIII
loot. Custom, in its frills and furbe-
ows, is heap like bell-mare to
he mob; an boys of cussedness don't
zeep it from follerin' wherever she
eads- The blood of the human race'll
nix, but the deer an the antelope
Won't cross.
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been to his advantage, though in M
measure taking away from the higf
standard he had set. While 'Ligt
Mounts, Free Trapper," is book fol
boys, yet the adult will draw rare en-
tertainment from its perusal. The
story should take high place among
books of adventure which have be.
come the classics for whole genera
tions of youthful readers. 1t reaches
the counters of booksellers at an OPP
perfume time for the Christmas trade
The story of Lige Mounts is clever
ly told and the reader is carried from
the time he leaves the home of the
aunt and uncle who have brought him
up, through a series of thrilling adj
ventures that could only be conjured
by racOnteur of the cleVerness of
Linderman.
Briefly, Lige Mounts joins a group
of hunters and trappers. They are
the daring and resourceful explorers
dear to the heart of boy, and their
chief, Dad an old plainsman who
becomes Lige's idol and model, is a
character like one of Cooper's. The
group is bound for the headwaters of
the Missouri, where in the very early
days of the fur trade there we're great
prizes, and from the moment of their
start their story is crowded with ex-
element and adventure of every kind
and is peopled with hostile and
friendly Indians, with rival trappers,
with the aggressive and plotting
agents of the Hudson Bay company
all made real in the sharp and con-
tinued action of the story as it is
splendidly unfolded.
The book is illustrated by Joe De
Yong and is published by Charles
Scribner's Sons.
That the book has been well re-
ceiyed by eastern critics is proved by
the following criticism reproduced
from the Boston Transcript, probably
the foremost newspaper in the United
States in the point of careful book re-
viewing:
"Some years ago Mr.. Linderman
wrote series of Montana sketches
On a Passing Frontier, that were as
good and as true as Remington paint
ings. Now he attempts a book for
boys and fares no worse. 1t may be
that the majority of frontier writer's
have never seen a frontier; it may be
that pioneers do not make good nov
elists, for novels of the west that
have actual merit are few and far
between.
Mr.. Linderman, obviously, is
doubly fortunate. He has pleasant |
style, a crisp and concise way of set
ting out matters, clear eye for eli
max, and best of all, first-hand |
knowledge of days and ways of the
old west. And, whereas, the south
west is the country of Bechdolt and |
Linderman's corner is up in |
where pioneering was far
different business than that of the
southern sands. No wonder he is a
good raconteur, he must have a
wealth of memories to call to mind,
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Holidays in the Rocky Mountains
(wrote visitor in Virginia City, u
the New York Tribune under date o.
January 4, 1859, are the most les
tive of all our festive occasions. Dull
care is thrown far in the background
and business is subordinated to SO
cial and general enjoyment. Christ
mas was one of the balmiest days
ever witnessed in any climate. / sal
most of the day in an office with
the windows and doors open and fire
would have been uncomfortable. The
air was soft as eastern spring and
the sun shone out upon the hills and
cliffs with such warmth as to start
their winter crowns of snow in MUIR
muring streamlets down their rugged
sides. The city was gay through
out. The mines had poured forth
their sturdy men to have a holiday
frolic, and 1.-THE Pony" (the chief
saloon) had crowded tables from
early morning until the swee sma'
hours" told that another Christmas
had departed.
The street auctions were unusually
lively; the stores were swarming
with customers of all classes from
the unshorn and unshaven mountain
eer to the fashionable belle; the
sports had their lively games, and
billiards attracted nearly all the dig
nitaries of state to try their skill.
Sumptuous dinners were spread in
various uninviting-1ooking shanties,
and fair hands and fascinating faces
inside made guests forget the rude
architecture that encircled them. In
the evening mine host, Chaplin, of the
Planters, gave a ball, and one hum
dred jolly people responded. Tickets
were twenty dollars each, but the
supply was unequal to the demand.
A second floor over one of the large
store rooms was fitted UP most taste
fully for the occasion. Evergreens
and flowers were festooned around
the walls and the Stars and Stripes
hung in graceful folds over the or
chestra. For the first time in the
far west I found nearly as many la
dies as men at the ball; but they
varied rather more in their ages than
is usual in eastern gatherings of the
kind. Young misses of ten and
twelve years not infrequently aided
to fill up the dance; while my part
ner in the only active participation
I had in the ball (the promenade to
supper) was grandmother who
owned to nearly sixty winters.
Supper came at midnight and it
would have done credit to any east
ern town of thrice our population |
Oyster soup opened the course-the
oysters having been shipped three
thousand miles. Elegant salads, de-
licious pellies, game of all kinds, can
dies manufactured into temples and |
almost every variety of
fruits, and sparkling wines, combin-
ed to tempt the appetite.
While there was freedom from the
severe exactions of social rules in the
east, there was the most scrupulous
care on the part of all to restrain
social freedom within the bounds of
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Frank B. Linderman, Montana au-
thor, has added another book to his
previously published On Passing
Frontier, Indian Why Stories, Indian
Old Man Stories, and How it Came
About Stories. The new volume, en-
titled, Lige Mounts, Free Trapper,
is certain to sustain the reputation as
a teller of western stories that ac-
crued to this popular writer through
the publication of the former books,
which already have enjoyed wide
sale and which are much in demand
now.
In his last book, Mr.. Linderman
steps outside the style he used in his
other productions and the result has
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are improving every day as result
of the marketing of the grain crop
and the shipping of livestock, accord
ing to R. G. Linebarger, editor of the
Havre Daily Promoter.
Interest in oil and the wild cat
wells that are being drilled in several
probable oil domes also is having an
effect to improve conditions while
the wholesale and retail trade in the
territory around Havre is the best it
has been in years.
'"This years wheat crop is several
million bushels in northern Mon
tana," said Linebarger, "being the
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NORTH. MONTANA
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LINEBARGER OF HAVRE

Conditions Along Great Northern
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Conditions in northern Montana
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ANOTHER BOOK BY
FRANK LINDERMAN
SCRIBNER'S PUBLISHES VOLUME
FROM PEN OF MONTANA AU-
THOR ON FUR TRAPPERS

Historical Romance of Early Days on
Upper Missouri River Entitled
ssLige Mounts, Free Trapper";
Critics East and West Acclaim
Work of Noted Western Writer.
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largest yield that has been harvested
since the bumper crop in 1916. It is
rather slow in being marketed owing
to shortage of railroad cars and
slow transportation, but many of the
farmers believe this will force them
to mold until prices are higher than
now.
Corn Big Crop
Farmers in our section are going
into the cultivation of corn on a
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the life | had lived and its earth
wide, abysmal difference from the eX-
perience of the past six weeks.
Silence for q time and then:
"Book-learnin' and good clothes and
eatln' with a fiat fork r all right,
Stannie, but they don't make the man
mr. the woman there's got to be some
thin inside; somethin' a heap bigger
than any o them things"
'Quite So" ! admitted.
Another silence and at the end of
ii the old philosopher again:
You been sort q sore about my
Jeanne, since yesterday shes
been eatin' your gran-paw's bread, like
me, and YOU thought, and ! thought,
that She might at least We waited a
little spell afore she run off with Char
ley Fullerton. Maybe we've been
jumpin' at things too sudden, Stannie.
What made her ride way UP yonder
TO Greaser sldin' to catch that train?
And how come Charley Fullerton 10
marry her one day and be up here
with his bunch o gunner by daybreak
the mex morning."
HAS JEANNE friends in Angels with
whom she could he staying?' asked.
Not q single soul. He'd a-had to
leave her at the Chlnk's hotel; and
that amt nc place for II woman, mar
ried r t'otherwise."
"But supposing they didn't go to
Angels?"
There amt no other place they
could go and let him get back, as you
might say, in the same day"
"Say it all, Daddy" | prompted.
"There amt much to say Stannie,
boy, 'ceptin' what ! said afOre, that
maybe we'd been jumpin' at things
sort o blind-like. Jeannie's got Il heap
o sense-if | do say it rs shouldn't
and the whole gee-ripittin' thing, as we
been putin it up, amt no more like
her than winters like d~og-days."
Having run the subject into a cor
ner we were both sp%eechless for a lit
tie time and think it was almost with
q of relief that we Sprang alert
when the dog, hitherto sleeping quietly
at our feet, jumped up and ran to hold
his nose at the threshold of the door
opening upon the dump head.
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CHAPTER XVI
Burnt Matches.

Following the dog to the door, we
could neither see nor hear anything
going on outside, though Barney'S
sniffings under the door and his low
growl warned us that something was
afoot, either OF the dump head or In
the partly wrecked cabin beyond.
While we were still peeping and peer
ing. each at his auger-hole and each
ready to take an Offhand shot at any
thing that seemed suspicious, the ST.
lence Of the mountain night was ripped
and torn by the most hideOus clamOr
imaginable, arising, apparently, in the
cabin or perhaps from the growing of
trees just behind it. The racket was
deafening; comparable TO nothing that
I'd ever heard a m~agnified orchestra
ton, so to speak, of the p~andemonium
made by a crowd Of country boys
~serenading q newly married pair with
tin pans and such-like nOise-making
Implements.
"What In the name o Joab!" slut
tered Daddy Hiram. Reckon them
gosh-dummed pirateers We gone plum
loOny?"
wait" / qualified, and l had 10
shout to make myself heard. "There'll
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fresh scheme for getting rid Of Us, was
to get a bar and pry our two doors
open so that the breeze might blow
through and air the place out a bit.
|, Closing and barring the doors after
the sulphur stencil had been reduced
To a mere matchbox odor, we estab-
lished our night-watch, Daddy Hiram
taking the first trick under a solemn
promise to call me ut the end of a
couple of hours. This time he behaved
better, rousing me a little before mid
night. He reported everything quiet,
and pointed to the sleeping dog as evil
dence that there were no intruders
within smelling distance.
Been hathaway ever since you
turned in he said, meaning, as | took
ii, that The dog had been resting easy.
You can just keep an eye on Barney.
If anything goes to %stirrin', he'll know
it afOre you will"
Nothing did stir; and after Daddy
had zone to wrap himself in his damp
blankets, | had my work cut out for
me keeping awake; i'm fact, l shouldn't
want TO swear that | was fully awake
during all Of the one hundred and
twenty minutes that my sentry go last
ed. No matter about that. Fullerton
didn't spring any more surprises on us
during my watch and when | turned
the fortress over TO Daddy at two
o'clock | was able to pass the "aii
quiet" report back to him and go to
the blankets with an easy conscience.
| had just dropped asleep, as 1t
seemed TO me-thOugh in reality ] had
slept like a log for more than two
hOurs-when Daddy Hiram came to
shake me awake.
"SOmethin' dOin'," he announced
quietly, and when / sat up I saw that
the collie was moving uneasily from
one door TO the other, stopping now
and then TO stand mOtionless with his
ears cooked and his head on one side:
Barney hears something" | VEN
tured; and a moment later Daddy
broke in:
Huh it's plain enough for my old
ears, now; it's a wagon comm across
the bench"
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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CHAPTER XlV.-Continued.

1t was a little after moor. while we
we're squatting on the floor TO eat
another meal warmed up over the chip
ire, that we found out the answer
80 all the gueSSeS and learned what
the mechanical noises Of the night
and forenoon had been leading up to.
Dne Of the left-overs from the work
ng period of the mine was IA good-siZed
steam force pump which, we took it,
had once been installed on one of the
over mine levels and had been hoisted
Dut Of tie shaft ahead of the advanc-
lng water food and put under shelter
in Il corner Of the boiler shed. As
1 was passing my tin cup for more OF
Daddy excellent coffee the rattle and
cIank OF q pump began TO make itself
heard, together with the coughing
chug-chug OF the steam exhaust there
from.
That's that low-level pump" | eX-
claimed. ''They must have connected
ii up with the boil"
Whoosh that was just as far as ]
got. In the middle midst Of the word
boilers Il two inch jet Of muddy wa
ter came curving up through one Of
the window openings 10 arch over and
fall. splash, all over US as we sat
munching our dinner. Everlastingly
ruined the dinner, put out the fire, up
set the coffee pot, and made drowned
rats of both of us in less time than it
takes to tell it-much less.
So much for that. OF course, we ran
ana ducked and lodged, like the
drowned rats | speak Of hunting for
a hole. Eut now Bullerton's devilish
engineering ingenuity came into play.
iy some means as yet unknown to us,
he had contrived n movable nozzle to