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ing was mans work IN all seasons
| A wagon boss had to be resource
full and of iron nerve, equal to any
emergency. From this class there
were developed some of the out
standing business men of the west
ern states and territories.
] On a freighting trip there were
no Sundays or holidays. The boss
and the SINNERS worked day after
day, unless nature interfered and
they had to lie for days with a
swollen and unfordable stream in
front of them.
Breaking in new steer, wild
from the ranges, broke the mono
tony of the mornings and moons,
and from the time the rope was on
him until he was being reluctantly
hauled along as one of the team,
the fun was fast and furious. Es-
pecially would this be the case if
he broke loose and with heavy
yoke swinging around his neck,
would make the SINNERS crawl I'M
der the wagons until the key broke,
the yoke flew off at a tangent and
the business began afresh.
Some of the old-time bullwhack
ers, once Indian fighters, to whom
an Indian was one degree lower
than coyote, are still living, but
like the early day placer miners,
their ranks are thinning rapidly.
To many of these the bull train
stood for home, and they felt like
evicted tenants when the shrek of
the locomotive sounded the des-
truction of the bull camp.
For a time during the early
steamboating days, owing to the
limited means of transportation
compared with its needs, freighters
commanded their own prices and at
times received as high as ten cents
per pound for hauls of 100 miles
or less. This did not continue long, |
however, for freighters soon be-
came plentiful. In one year, 1867,
it was estimated, Montana alone
paid 81, 100000 in gold for freight
charges and the population num-
bered only few thousands.
One Of the picturesque freight
terminals of the 70's was Miles
City, which first was an army post,
then a railroad construction camp
and later a COW town. Describing
those days, Sam Gordon, pioneer
editor of that place, wrote:
Speaking of freighters, it was
surely sight when Diamond R
oull-train pulled into Main street
N route to Keogh from Glendive
,r Buford, loaded with government
reight. With from eight to twelve
yoke of bulls to a team, hauling
wo and often three wagons loaded :
0 the top and with real bull
vhacker' walking along back by
he wheelers, pageant was par
ded, to the life, of a phase of civ |
ization that was just then passing /
IF the stage. Ranking with the I
xperts in any vocation, the profess !
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Virginia City, first occurred tc
| Colonel Broadwater. He felt that
| it would be an easier trail to travel
that the road from Fort Benton to
the gold camps, and would also be
shorter. Another great advantage
was that debarking place lower
than Fort Benton could be reached
earlier in the season and later in
| the fall by steamboats, than Fort
Benton. The arguments were ex-
actly the same as those advanced
for the establishment of a town at
the mouth of the Musselshell. But
it was nine years before he and his
associates put his ideas into effect
and established Carroll.
Men Who Built Carroll
The three partners who were
most active in the operation of the
great Diamond R company and
who established Carroll, were
among the outstanding men of
the Rocky Mountain region half
a century ago.
Matt CAROLS name has almost
passed into oblivion, although he
died at Helena only a dozen years
ago, at the age Of u. He was
native of Ireland, coming to Amer
lea in 1854 at the age of II. In
1855 he came UP the Missouri river
to Fort Pierre, Dakota, working as
a clerk in the suffers store In
1859 he arrived at Fort Benton
with stock of general merchan-
disc for the post traders. The trip
was made from Fort Stewart on a
large keel boat which had to be
or pulled, by a gang of
men on the bank by means of a
long rope and as it was found i'm
possible to drag the boat farther
han Fort Brule, above the mouth
IF the Marias, the cargo was there
out ashore and packed the rest of
he way by land.
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slonal bull-whacker in action was
a most satisfying sight, and the
Ipull up Main street was their
dress parade. With a whip, the
stock of which, about six feet long,
had been carefully fashioned out
of properly tough timber and with
d lash that would reach four or six
lyokes ahead, and pepper on the
end that would bite out a bunch
of hair wherever it landed, the
dirty, tousled pilots of the creak-
ling, swaying craft would wake the
town with their sonorous and melo-
dious warnings to their teams,
punctuated continually with the
sharp spit of the pepper as it
landed on some poor, patient
brute's hide and jumped away, res
ponsive to the backward swirl of
the lash, deity impaired by the ex-
|pert twenty or thirty feet away.
There were old fellows in those
trains who had never done any
thing else but 'whack bulls all
their lives. They had started in
when the Union Pacific was build
ing across the continent just after
the war, freighting to points be-
yond, and when the railroad took
their job away they found it again
freighting from rail points into the
north, but finally the railroads had
beaten them back to this strip of
No Mans Land in the Yellow
stone valley; that the indians had
held supreme control of until a
year or two before. Here the fad
ed glory of the 'bull-train' was for
a time restored and here it vanish
ed for good and all The mule
train, companion picture, was
never as interesting or as pictur-
esque as the bull-train The mule
skinner rode wheeler and guild
ed his team with a jerk line. Any
Ioafer could do that, but it took
an artist to pilot string of bulls
along a side-hill road with top
heavy load and the trail wagon
pulling dead against YOU 1t was
/ dogs life as far as the comforts
md amenities went. The menu
-arely went beyond black coffee,
;our-dough bread and 'sow-belly'
'ried in a skillet in its own grease
hickened with flour and of camp
helter there was none for the men
we're too tired at night to arrange
nv but the most primitive .protec-
ion and they pulled too early in
he morning to do any breaking
amp Summer was bad enough
,ut the slow and uncertain creep
# bull-train on the road in win
err was an experience to be endur-
d only once by anyone but real
Why he endured it
e probably could not explain but
here was possibly an element of
ersonal pride and ambition in it
hat had its brief display on the
ccasions mentioned, when the
rain rolled into town and the fine
oints of the profession we're
hown. It was fleeing glory,
lough, for an hour after the train
ad been parked all hands we're
% drunk to tell their own names
nd were swallowed up in the swirl
lat eddied around the Diamond
: corner and by pure centrifugal
orce were one by one thrown off
ito the park, there to lie and
eep off the overpowering effects
the dope they had taken
board"
Copyrighted by CheeIy- Raban syndicate.>
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Extension of the railroads, more
than 80 years ago, over the trade
routes of the west, and the evolu
ton of the pioneer railway from
the narrow gauge, commonly
known as the turkey TRAIL into
the heavier and more substantial
standard gauge, marked the END
of the bull and mule trains of the
prairies and the passing of that
type of transportation, which had
so much to do with the develop
ment of the west. Little has been
written of the freighting industry
of the west, and this phase of from
tier life has become almost COM
pletely obscured by the passing
years.
An epic of. the far west Of half
a century ago might be written
around the "bull' train, which car
ried supplied of all sorts to the gold
camps, the frontier trading posts,
the military forts and the Indian
agencies of the great area lying be-
tween the Mississippi river and the
Rocky Mountains. Today that wild
and picturesque territory lives only
in the memories of handful of
grizzled pioneers. The names of
towns that were important as dis
tributing points have been forgot
ten and are remembered only as
ghost cities of the west. There
were many of these, but few
achieved in their day the import
ance of the town of Carroll, which
for two or three years made its bid
as a rival of Fort Benton, which
for two decades, between 1870 and
1890, was head of steamboat navi-
cation on the Missouri river.
Carroll, which had an existence
of only few years, was establish
ed by Matt Carroll, after whom it
was named; E. G. Mac1ay, George
Steele and Colonel Charles A.
Broadwater, owners of the great
Diamond R Transportation Com
pany, in its day the greatest
freighting concern between the
Mississippi and the Pacific coast. !
1t represented the second effort to
found successful rival to Fort
Benton as freight debarking
point for Missouri river steamboats,
from St. Louis, Sioux City and
other down-river points.
The town of Carroll was built in
1874, at a time when river traffic
had assumed great proportions. In
1865, due to low water in the river,
steamboats, bound for Fort Benton
with supplies for the gold camps
mad been unable to ascend farther !
Up the river than the mouth of the
Yellowstone, and had unloaded at t
trading post conducted by Major Z
3. D. Pease. Colonel Broadwater,
Who had charge of actual freight V
ng operations for the Diamond R, {
ook several trains of wagons and y
vent down to Pease's post, near |
Fort Union, to bring back the c
reight from the steamboats, to n
Helena. He located fords, built l.
trades up and down the river P
,anks, and built road along the Il
inc that the Great Northern fol- 0
ows today. 1t was while on this P
rip to the mouth of the Yellow Il
tone with his wagon trains that
he idea of road from some point
over down the river than Fort
'enton, south across through the y
Judith country, to the gold camps F
f Last Chance, Diamond City and al
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Great Falls-Another test well on
the Little Muddy structure near the
town of Vaughn will be started by
the Keystone Oil syndicate soon.
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First Steamboats, Arrive

The American Fur company that
year tried to get steamboats, to
Fort Benton, but were unsuccessful
and it was not until the following
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21
SHE'S JUST LIKE
A PERSON MADE
NEW SHE SAYS
"Tanlac Has Restored my
Health so Wonderfully |
Simply Cant Say Enough
For It," Declares st. Louis
Resident

"Tanlac has meant SO much 10 me
that just can't say enough i'm its
praise said Mrs O. Dedier, residing
at 1888 Gravios ST., st. Louis. Mo.
Before | took this medicine my all.
ments had become so numerous and
distressing that | hardly had any ease
or comfort. suffered from sour stomach
gas and Indigestion nearly all the time.
and my head ached fearfully. | had
such severe pains in the small OF my
back that cofid hardly get up or
down. Dark spots would come before
my eyes and l would get 80 dizzy IL
was all ] could do to stand on my feet.
and sleep was almost impossible for me.
After seeing my husband improve
so much by taking Tanlac began TAX.
Ing II. 100, and my troubles are not
only Eone. but have actually gained
ten pounds In less than 4 months time
| am just like person made new and
OF course | think the world and all OF
Tanlac.
Tanlac is sold by all druggists.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21
EDITORIAL
OF THE DAY
DIYERSIFICATI0N

Wheat farmers of Kansas, Oklahoma
and Texas viii get together 10 talk lin
itation of wheat acreage for next year
if the price OF this years crop becomes
a keen disappointment, as was last
years wheat price.
The thirty.siX cotton counties o. Oh
lahoma are worrying over tha tOli wee
vii, and much OF this years cotton ac.
reage may be used for other crops next
year IL the weevil succeeds in causing
serious iCss.
Botn of these circumstance point tc
the necessity iar d diversified farming IN
the southwest. The agricultural colleges
have been telling us that diversity OF
crops is essential TO the welfare OF any
large aguculturaI area. and more and
more decidedly we are beginning to rea
lie the essential importance of this
freG 'nmcut.
The cotton farmer who has another
good crop growing on his fam will moi
be Who'll wiped out IL the boil weevil
takes most OF his cotton. The wheat
farmer who has chickens ana hogs and
corn on his farm and a few cows for
good measure. will not hr wholly dis
comfted II the rust or Tie grain gamb
Ter takes his wheat
II the wheat growers decide TO grow
less wheat next !eai, they Will find
alfalfa cows. hogs. potatoes and corn
very interesting crops for the land thus
made available for non.wheat use. They
may find that diyersification. or greater
diversification than they now practice
will work to their greater material wei
fare. Wichita Eagle.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21
It's Time for The
Nation to Sober a
Bit, Williams Says
(special to the Ardmoreite)

tNDecldl 10 lHt
MUSKOGEE, Okla-"If there
was ever a time in the history OF
America when there was need or
practical charity and generosity 10
be extended the unfortunate or
earth by those whom good fortune
has smiled. that time is now de-
clared Federal Judge X. l.. VIII
liams. who returned from his farms
near Durant Saturday night.
Instead of fellows having a good
time and riding around on special
trains, how much better 1t would
be il they would extend a helping
hand to their less fortunate fellow
man, who faces the future without
hope, penniless and mired in debt.
People are becoming thoroughly
selfish. their only thought being TO
have good time at the expense
Of the other fellow. Conditions are
deplorable in many sections of the
United States and people are act
ually starving for want Of the bare
necessities of life.
IF such conditions are permitted
to exist it is but a question of time
until anarchy will reign, and un'
less the well.to-do citizens of this
republic come to their senses and
give of the milk of human kind
ness similar fate to that of Rus
sia's may yet be ours"
~ have no objection TO people
having a good time if they can af-
ford it but at such a time when
so many thousands are having
hard time TO make both ends meet,
selfish pleasures should be fore
gone and attention directed to max
ing life bit easier for the strug-
Cling millions who can barely keep
life in wasted bodies.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21
Zine Shipments Increase.

MIAMI. Okla.-ApproXmaately half
a million dollars worth of lead and zinc
were shipped from this district during
the past week. according to the weekly
ore turn in The mines shipped l0,ssO
tons OF zine and l2,6i2 tons of lead.
The price for lead was $50 per ton
and for zinc S33. both metals showing
substantial increases in price during
the week The total value Of the ship
ment was s472,GlG
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21
Ilappers.

Or. Dudley A. Sargent, head OF the
Sargent School for Physical Education
girls institution, rallies 10 the de
Tense of the flapper. with this new line
OF thought.
"Who designs the styles that young
women wear. and whom do they dress
20 please
The obvious answer 70 both is, Men.
Criticism OF yonng women's dress
should be directed, frs, Of all at its
male designers As usual. blame is
not placed on the original source.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21
TEN YEARS AGO
Happenings I'm Carter County ana
Ardmore as told by the files
Of the Ardmoreite.

UlLcvra were elected as iounws last
night for Myrtle lodge, Knights of Py-
thas: Chancellor Commander, Walter
L. Madden vice chancellor l.. }. Hern'
don; prelate, Clyde d. Haight; NJ. Of
W., Chas. l.. London X. X. < s. W.
T. Salisbury; NJ. Of f.. b. l.. Rasor;
NJ. of E., Ed Sandlin; NJ. of A.. W. A..
Pride; |, G.. c. A. Neal and O. c. La.
mont Byers.
George II. Leeman OF the county
judges office, has been kept Oh The
jump issuing marriage licenses.
The Ardmore fire department made n
record breaking run last night which
resulted in saving the resident Of Mrs.
Helen Riggers. G2O East Main ltree..
State Senator W. NJ. Franklin OF
Madill who is candidate for congress.
man at large was in the city Thurs.
day night visiting with friends and
filling his speaking date.
Mrs. Val Mullen left yesterday for
Colorado where she and Mrs Mullen
will spend the summer.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21
Salto Taizo.

In the death house at Sing Sing.
close to the little green door, Salto
Taizo. a Japanese. awaits execution in
the electric chair the last week in
June.
Taizo Will die Christian. His fel-
low-slayers in the death house have
won him away from Buddhism.
There .s something unique in the
news-that conversion to Christianity
is going on even IN penltentlary death
houses.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21
Appetite

We have rid ourselves Of most of the
problems Of our ancestors. For this
thank science and invention.
social and economic problems OF which
our ancestors never dreamed For, il
Solving" one problem, man usually ere
ates several new ones.
only one problem never changes
food supply. stomach and its appetite
seems immune against progress. Our
legacy to the future should be scientific
agriculture and conservation Of forests
soil futilty and other natural resources
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21
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c&fnG& asnD
~Sz.p1u
A Newspaper That Serves
Wednesday, June 2l, 1922.
THE .ARDMOREITE'S
PLATFORM

Strict lac enforcement.
A population IN Ardmore Of
$4,000.
Better cooperation betWeen
the city G'ld county.
EUery county road pGSSabIe
every day in the gear.
Election of officers lcho re-
gard duty aboUe personal gain.
Consolidated schools IN the
q1ral districts.
Elimination of class factiond-
ism IN city and county.
DiuersUication of crops.
PAIRING for every street IN
Ardmore.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21
British Isles Win

ROEHAMPTON. Eng.-The British
Isles team won the doubles match to-
day in the Davis tennis play with the
Italian team Major Algernon X. +.
KnCscote and Frank Riseey defeated
Cesare Colombo and Count di Robecco,
Cl. G4. and GO.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21
THE REFEREE
Thirst.

You have heard that smuggled liquor
is plentiful along the Atlantic coast.
The Boston Post makes a hooch sur
vey and finds that liquor is becoming
extremely hard to secure in that city
regardless OF the thirsty ones wealth.
Drinking in Boston has all the props
OF a secret ritual, such as passwords
and code knocks on the door.
Another instance Of how prohibition
is a failure
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21
DIRT CHEAP

Somewhere in your neighborhood,
they are building a house. Go over
there, pick a piece OF shining metal
out OF keg, and the carpenter will
tell YOU u's a "l0-penny nail"
Other nails are 20-penny 30. % and
so on.
Penny" in connection with nails
is a measure OF size.
Originally it designated the price
per hundred. Thus "l0-penny"
nail meant one that cost 10 cents a
hundred. wholesale.
The name has lost It's old mean.
ing. because today you can buy
the nails dirt-cheap. Yet years ago
The price was not considered high
ior previously buildings were put
together with hard wooden pegs
Maybe you've noticed them when
IN ancient house was torn down.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21

Faith is the mightiest power we
possess. It take various forms.
ranging from confidence in sell or
luck 20 belief in Divine Guidance.
So human career can be carried
through 10 success without faith.
The mover of mountains. Thi, is a
universal belief shared by an re-
ligionS among people in all stages
oi Larbarism or civilization, and il
IS the force behind all prayer.
Il is an unhappy individual who
mas no faith in creed, Creator hu-
man nature and icllow-mau.
Without faith, the world would
be rotten one in which TO live
and lie would be drab and futile
Cultivate faith, 10 hasten arriva
az your goal.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21

LEADVILLE, oClo. - East bound
train No. . on the Denver and Rio
Grand Western railroad was wrecked
between Salida and Leadvile today, ac-
cording to telephone messages received
here A call for doctors and nurses
has been received here
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21

I1Opat anu EdCblIIt IllN'i ~ h'AAAilb
to be worse than booze and the six
shooter, suavely remarks the Shawnee
News
As a matter of fact lot Of people
IN this country are not Il bit happier
than they are when the profteers were
prcyine on them and SIG silk shirts
were IT. fashion. according to the Chic
ksshI Express.
Peanuts are versatile family, re-
marks the Muskogee Phoenix. In sum-
mer they serve at the baseball games,
and in winter in politics.
The fact that eX-kaiser Bill has writ
ten a book exposing the inside" doesn' /
bother the Hugo Daily News. IAN we
did on the inside was the same as the
outside-help lick 'em." il asserts.
What's become of all the pins asks
woman's magazine. and the Lawton
| Constitution answers: Most OF them
are dropped in a dark hall where a
barefoot man trods.
As an example Of making 1t snappy,
the Empora, Kansas. Gazette relates
the story Of the Kansan who went &c
| Louisiana early this spring when IN
the wheat belt it was still cold. and
who found GUNNER. weather in the south
and that his heavies We're mighty un
comfortable. He sent his wife this mes
sage: IS o. s.. B. V. D., p. D. ..
The Tulsa World urges Oklahoma peo
pie to see Oklahoma first-in othei
words visit Oklahoma resorts In prefer
ence to those of lesser attraction TO o'
found elsewhere. That Is really soun'
logic. for outside of snow clad mountains
and the seashore oklahoma can supply
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21

If we asl,Al as many questions as Edi-
son We would know everything.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21

New tariff has as many duties as the
mother of six girls.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21

A plumber is held in the Chicago la
Dor war. We claimed all along it wasn't
the working men.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21

Only thing some people are saving
for al Itny day is daylight.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21

Constructive effort is the only sort
needed now" muses. the sage OF the
Shawnee News. Well, how about fly
swatting We have always had the idea
that came under the head OF destruc.
tive effort
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21

Money talks. 1t usually says No"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21
Cl0m


Some people let a telephone ring as
If they don't know anybody.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21

Wouldn't it be interesting to turn
the clock ahead 200 years and see
what the steady expansion OF guam
trty production leads TO by them
1t is not at all improbably than
an airplane some day may sell for
few dollars. This may seem
ridiculous, but no more SO than a
suggestion that a watch might some
day sell for 81, would have seemed
only few centuries ago when time
pieces were SO prohibitively high
priced that only kings and the
very wealthy could afford them.
Expensive Injuries OF today are
the cheap necessities OF tomorrow.
Standard OF living steady advances
but only by increased production.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21

In the name OF the "l0-penny
rail- you have the key to the
whole scheme Of modern life-cheap
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21

Our idea Of something not to lose
sleep over is losing sleep.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-06-21

just about anything a summer or win.
ter resorter could ask for. including
waters OF medical value.