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TOKYO HAD POPULATION
 OF OVER TWO MILLIONS

The city of Tokyo had a populatloh in the 1912 census of 2,16S,151, and Yokohama, IS miles distant, had population of 326,O35. Late figures are not available but Tokyo is be- lieved to have a population of three million and Yokohama of over one million, as the latter was the deep water port for shipments from Tokyo and other parts of the kingdom. A very large foreign population had built handsome homes around the bay in Yokohama, representatives of eV- cry large importing firm in Amerlca being establish there.
 The recent catastrophe has wiped out one of the most beautiful cities Ill the world, as well as one of the larg- est seaports on the Pacific coast.
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YUKON PIONEER DEAD

Benjamin Vancolkenburgh, noted Klondike pioneer, died in Seattle last week and was buried in the cemetery there. He left Dawson this summer for Seattle to spend the remainder of his days with a daughter. Deceased was nearly 90 years of age and in his time was one of the wealthiest men on the coast. He was a large cattle owner, controlling thousands of head in British Columbia, carrying on a wholesale meat business.
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MOROS WANT NONE: BUT AN AMERICAN
 F0R GOVERNOR

MANILA, Sept PA new out break among the Moros in the Lake Lanao region is reported today to Governor General Woods The Phil ippine constabulary has been dis patched to the place with large sup ply of shrapnel
 The Moros declare they will recog- nize none but an American govern ment and do not want the Philippine governor which they now have.
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1 1.356.749 Dead and Injured in Japan
Casualties Dead and Injured Admits Figures Many Bodies Lying ill Remote Districts
S25OOO PRESENTED TO PASTOR
 AT DEDICATION OF CHURCH

LOS ANGELES, Sept 12-At the close of the recent dedication here of the new $1,5O0,0O0 First Methodist Episcopal church of Los Angeles, Dr. Elmer Ellsworth Helms, pastor was presented with a purse of $25,0OO in appreciation for his services to the church. The new church housed in a four-story building, has capacity of 5000 persons, and s65,000 pipe organ, said to be the largest and fin est on the Pacific coast.
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EMPRESS AUSTRALIA
 SAYS SCENE WAS
 4 REGULAR INFERNO

SHANHAI, Sept. 12.-The liner Elm press of Australia which remained 1n the zone of the earthquake district district nine days before she took 200 foreign refugees to Kobe, was party to the scene in Yokohama harbor, de- scribed by the officers and crew as resembling an illustrated canto from Dante's Inferno"
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WOULD BUILD BASE ON ALEuTIANo TO
 PREVENT ATTACKS

SEATTLE, Sept. 12.-Congressman John F. Miller in a speech here this afternoon recommended the estab- lishment of a naval base and coaling station somewhere in the Aleutian Islands, as an outpost to intercept an attack from the Orient
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CITY IF YOKOHAMA
 NOT BE REBUILT,
 SAYS GOVERNMENT

NEW YORK, Sept. 12-The destruc- tion of Yokohama was so complete the government contemplates aban- doning the city and enlargening Tokio enough to absorb the population of Yokohama, according to radiogram to the Japanese Times.
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SIXTY THOUSAND
 BODIES CREMATED:
 MANY UNDISCOVERED

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.-The bod ies of sixty thousand dead have been cremated by the authorities in Tokio up to midnight, September s, the Japanese minister of foreign affairs, said in telegram received here last night by the Japanese embassy.
 The telegram stated that the num- Der of bodies yet unrecovered is very great probably reaching total ot 120,000.
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KATE WALLER BARRETT DESCRIBES TRIP ID
 ALASKA AS GRAND

SEATTLE, Sept. 12.-"Man, I have never seen a more wonderful country nor passed through grander scenery" Dr. Kate Waller Barrett, president of the American Legion Auxiliary said in describing her trip to Alaska.
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SETTING UP MONUMENTS

The Coast & Geodetic Survey in- serted brass cornerstone in the steps of the Arcade building, and to- day are erecting monument near the station, from which their levels will be started.
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TQpAYS FISH MARKET

JUNEAU-Halibut 10 and 6 cents; king salmon, reds F and 8, and white 3 cents.
 SEWARD-Fresh halibut and 5 cents.
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SUBSCRIPTION ID RELIEF
 FUND T0TALs 5 MILLIONS

WASHINGTON Sept 12.-Sub scriptions to the Red Cross for the Japanese earthquake sufferers aggre- gate S5.1OS .OOO.
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HUNDRED FIFTY REFUGEES
 ON WAY 10 THE STATES

SEATTLE, Sept. 12.-One hundred and fifty refugees from Tokio will arrive here Saturday on the liner President Jefferson.
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Rugs De Luxe for sale by J. L. Greaf. If
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-07

Gets was an old plainsman and
stage driver, with a history full of in
terest. In 1866 he left his home in
Monroe county, Pennsylvania, and
drifted westward. In 1865 he enter
ed the service of the government and
started for Utah from Kansas with
General Morrison's command. At
Cottonwood Springs he made the
acquaintance of General Harvey and
returned with him to Topeka, and it
was there that he broke into the stag
ing game as a driver in 1859. Until
1862 he worked on the eastern di-
vision of the Overland, and was then
transferred to Denver, driving down
the South Platte to Latham.
In the years before his death, Gets
used to tell an extremely interesting
story of that last stage drive on the
old Overland, and of the May morn
ing when he pulled up at the summit
of the Rockies and watched Governor
Leland Stanford of California drive
the golden spike.
For three years Gets and his fell
low drivers had been noting the pro-
gress made by the two railroads.
one eastward bound and the other
headed for the Pacific. The Central
Pacific had been started in 1864, but
had been put down on the east end
of the Union Pacific at Omaha. The
foothills of the western slope of the
Sierra Nevadas had already been
reached by the iron horse on the
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-07

Central Pacific. After beginning
work on the east end of the line, the
Union Pacific laid 200 miles of track
during the first II months, and in
March, 1866, the line had reached a
point 800 miles west of Omaha.
The rolling stock and much of the
materials for the Central Pacific were
obliged to make the long ocean voy-
age around Cape Horn, covering a
distance of 10000 miles. An i'm
mems amount of material was in this
way transported. 1t is a matter of
history that at one time no less than
80 vessels, loaded almost exclusively
with rolling stock, aggregating hun
dreds of thousands of tons, were on
the long voyage.
The s~now-capped summit of the
Sierras was reached by the Central
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-07
DAWSON -@ERKlE, GUSHER is PREMIER WELL
OF ALL THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN DISTRICT
BY w. w.

TIME Dawson-MerkIe gusher,
which was brought i'm on the
Howling lease a few days ago
by the Midnorthern company, is
the premier oil well of the inter-
mountain country. With the ex-
ception of the Teapot drillings in
Wyoming, it is by far the biggest
well in the Rocky Mountain re-
gion.
Estimates of its flow on flush
production vary from 5000 to
5000 barrels. On settled pro-
duction its yield should be from
1900 to 1000 barrels per day.
Its coming in marks the beginning
of a new era in the northern
fields.
The well came in with a roar.
For two hours the oil gushed
over the top of the derrick in an
eight-inch stream. Tanks could
not be erected fast enough to hus-
band the flow. Thousands of bar
rels were lost until a reservoir was
hastily constructed, into which the
precious fluid was diverted.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-07

~gressively developed by the operating
company.
So the sensation of having the in
come of a millionaire is in the near
future to be the experience of the
Yellowstone county farmer-states-
man-oil king, an experience that he
will share with Messrs Dawson and
Merkle.
The fortunes of many others are
affected by this strike.
L.. C. Stevenson owns a substan-
tial block of land Immediately west
of the Howling lease; Arbe Beardslee
controls a block of land on the west.
The Homestake Exploration company
controls 80 acres to the east, while
the Pet x controls 400 acres to the
south.
Big Gas Strikes
The 100000 gas strike in the
Sherrard well, which is being drilled
by the Ohio company, 35 miles south
west of Big Sandy, is taken as an in
d1cation that oil Is almost certain to
be found in flank structures ada
cent to the structure on which this
well is being drilled. This gas find,
together with the 100000 cubic
feet flow in the Gladys-Belle well,
which is being drilled 35 miles north
east of Shelby, makes 1t almost GER
tain that many of the towns and cit
les of northern Montana will be US
ing natural gas for fuel in the near
future.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-07

James Murray, the Butte lawyer,
was n of his principal heirs. But
before he came into his inheritance
he had fought life's battle success
fully. He served Silver Bow as coun-
ty attorney, in which position he ac-
quilted himself with credit. When his
tenure of office ended he resumed
private practice and has built up a
very substantial business.
Among the other properties that
came with his inheritance was Bould-
Ell Hot Springs, a watering place be-
tween Helena and Butte on the Great
Northern, and out of this he proposes
to make one of the show places of the
west. He will do a lot of landscape
gardening about the place, overhaul
the plunge and hotel, and make it
attractive. He says that if he cannot
make a success of a real place he will
turn it into a dude ranch or a sum-
mer home for himself and family.
Captain Hal Stewart, formerly of
Bohemian, will manage the hotel.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-07
SAM GETS WAS THE LAST STAGE DRIVER
OF THE HISTORIC OLD OVERLAND ROUTE

with the immense force employed in
building, the track was being spiked
down at the rate of two and one-ha1f
miles a day.
Sherman, the highest point on the
road-likewise the highest altitude
in the United States reached by the
iron horse then-was nestled on the
backbone of the continent and lay
feet above the highest point reached
on the Central Pacific.
Business in those days was boom
ing, and few men, if any, were idle.
Every man capable of work was en-
gagged and sent to the front. At one
time the number of men who had
been concentrated for the construc-
ton of the two roads reached rs, 900
and 1000 teams were employed. Be-
tween fifty and one hundred locomo-
tives and hundreds of freight cars
were daily employed on each road,
and more than a thousand tons of
material and supplies were being
hurried daily to the front over the
two lines.
In the spring of 1869 only 2200
miles interved between the two
roads, and this was being rapidly
closed up. Each company was do
ing it's best to get the most road.
When the Union Pacific was finished
to a point only five miles east of
Promontory Point, the Central Pa
cific astonished everybody by laying
nine miles of track in a single day,
beating every previous record known
in railroad building.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-07

its earnings from this source alone
will pay a handsome return to the
stockholders of the Stevenson Asso-
ciated Royalties.
The bringing in of this gusher has
stiffened interest in the northern oil
fields very materially, and will bring
unlimited capital to the Kevin-Sun-
burst district for future develop
ment.
Lucky Tom Hogan
The strike mean as much to Sen
ator Thomas Hogan, and his asso-
ciates, Messrs. Hart and Albin of
Billings, as it does to Johnnie Daw-
son and George Merkle.
Hogan and his partners W ap-
proximately 1000 acres of adjoining
oil land in sections 16, II, 81 and %,
OF the same township, on which the
Hogan interests have already brought
in three gushers of little less proper
tons than the now famous Dawson
Merkle well.
The Hogan property, including
1,50O additional acres in the Kelvin
Sunburst field, is being operated for
Joint account, by the Mutual Oil COM
pany, one of the largest and most ag-
gressive of the producing, refining
n marketing organizations in the
northern oil trade.
Two $4,000 barrel storage tanks
are under construction to conserve
from the Hogan lease,
which will be diligently and az
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-07

In the strenuous work of endeav-
oring to control the flow, a driller
was struck by the stream of oil and
When dragged from his petroleum
bath he was unconscious.
The we'll is located on section 8,
in the famous township 35, a block
of land where coyotes howled a few
months ago., but which is now known
to cover one of the glory holes of
the petroleum world.
John Dawson, vice president of the
Rocky Mountain Fire Insurance COM
pany, Great Falls, and George Mer-
kle, Belt coal mine operator, princi-
pal beneficiaries, have made fortunes
through this phenomenal strike. The
value of their interest runs into big
figures. Harold Hoover, Great Falls
lawyer, who was declared in on an
interest for legal services at a time
when the lease was of modest value,
will profit substantially. The Steven
son Associated Royalties own 113 per
cen royalty in the Howling lease,
while William O'Haire, owner of the
Sunburst townsite, has 1 per cent
royalty.
Stevenson Royalties Profit
The lease comprises 80 acres. 1t
was bought by Dawson and Merkle
from Howling, the original home
steader, who retained a 12k per
cent royalty. The price of the lease
was less than $4,000. Howling
sold his royalty interest to O'Haire,
who in turn disposed of III per cent
royalty to l.. C. Stevenson, for the
Stevenson Associated Royalties COM
pany, at a modest price.
The lease is being developed, on a
working agreement by the Midnorth-
ern Oil company, the deal having
been negotiated by Mark Danford,
of the Midnorthern for
The company has drilled
three wells under it's contract, the
first being a 200 barrel well, the
$50 barrels, while the third
is the Dawson-Merkle gusher. A re-
thing about this we'll is
that it was drilled in with what oil
men call a "coffee MILL" a portable
drilling rig.
If, after 80 days, the we'll settles
down to a production of 1900 barrels
per day, without considering the two
wells or future develop
ment, on a basis of $1,000 per barrel
of production, the lease is worth $2,-l
100000.
The Stevenson interest alone is es-
timated to be worth $250,000, and
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-07

A corps of special officers of the
Great Northern railway, augment
ed by operatives from the principal
cities of the west, will be on duty
in Shelby before and during the
fight, July A, of Jack Dempsey,
heavyweight champion of the
world, and Tommy Gibbons, it was
announced by officials of the road.
Railway and visiting municipal Of
ficiaIs viii cooperate with local
officers in policing the city and
curbing anticipated activities by
undesirable transients. The rail-
road also will take special precau-
tions to protect its equipment and
property while the crowd remains
in Shelby.
On each sleeping car parked in
Shelby there will be a representative
of the Great Northern, whose prin-
cipal duty will be to look after the
interests of the passengers. On leav-
ing the train, each passenger will be
given a card giving information on
the city and arena arrangements and
also a warning to be on the alert for
crooks while at the stations. Great
Northern officials say that already
criminals of international reputation
now r in Shelby awaiting the
crowds.
Safety precautions also will be
taken by the Great Northern and the
presence of guards at all crossings
has been arranged for every hour of
the day. In the event of accidents
or illness, a medical staff will be
ON hoal 80 4a1xA 1-0 "
cases. Sanitary arrangements, to be
supervised by the state board of
health, will be carried out with care,
particularly within the area allotted
to the coach trains and sleeping car
specials.
Plans have been completed for I'M
loading passengers at three passen-
ger stations now being built, and the
Great Northern officials see no pos
sibility of a severe congestion.
Schedules have been completed for
the clearance of all special trains out
of Shelby not later than midnight on
the night of July 4. The first coach
will leave at 6 p. M, and the first
Pullman special at z, the trains leav-
ing 80 minutes apart in each case.
Bulletin boards showing schedules of
all specials will be available for the
information of travellers. An extra
force of ticket sellers and reserva-
ton clerks will be on the ground as
well as representatives of the Pull
man company.
The roads announcement included
the statement that permanent track
age at Shelby will be adequate for
49, na-l,s-- 1F onn ond of Nir-l
den, a junction four miles out, an
additional IS cars can be handled.
These cars can house 10000 passen-
gers. Temporary ~trackage, now be-
ing laid, will accommodate all the
cars that will be needed
and it is expected that the definite
number of these will be known not
than June Is.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-07

Pacific in the summer of 1867, and
on goth day of November, following
the first passenger train ran there
from Sacramento. In building the
road an army of 10000 men and
more than 1000 teams were steadily
engaged, making their way eastward
in a sort of z%igzagging course down
the eastern slope. The difficulties
of the road were tremendous. Num-
bers of long tunnels had to be built.
and the engineering feats were hard
to overcome, but the road progressed
so rapidly that in October, 1867, the
army of builders employed on the
Union Pacific reached the foothills
of the Rockies, 500 miles west of
Omaha, after which further progress
was necessarily slow, while up the
Platte valley, on the Union Pacific,
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-07
G.. N. PREPARING
FOR BIG FIGHT
SPECIAL OFFICERS AND EXTRA
CLERKS TO HELP HANDLE
THE CROWD

Arranging for Space for Several Hum
bred Pullman Cars; Tracking Be-
ing Laid for Parking; Three De-
pots Being Built.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-07
BLIND BECCAR IS
NEAR FINANCIER
USES METHOD WHICH NETS HIM
$3.50 IN SEVEN DAYS
KEEPS BOOKS
Admits to Police That He Has Been
Driven Out of Many Places On
Account of Ease With Which He
Separates Public From Money.

The seap-fit artist is now put
done.
-Four hundred and thirty dollars
in seven days is the record set up
by youthful Carl Jameson for beg
ging on the streets Of Butte, ac-
cording to his own day book and
ledger, upon a search of his room
at a rooming house on South Main
street.
Jameson, who was arrested by
the police, admitted having worked
his begging scheme in many of the
cities of the northwest
He carries a paper signed by him
self and containing a statement to
the effect that he is Subject to cpl
leptic fits and being unable to work,
he appeals to the public in his hum
BILE way so that he may attain suffi-
Gent means in order that he may be
able to purchase a small peanut and
popcorn stand so that he can support
his mother and small sister, who are
dependent on him. The paper then
goes on to state, Anything given
will be appreciated by Carl jamie
son.
L1A0 0OaOhlO ID w oPP1 ObOh q POI
son, hand him the paper that con-
tains the statement under which ap-
pears several names of alleged con-
tributors, and the amount co%ntribut-
ed by each. The contributor gulled
in this manner hands him a sum of
money and signs his name to an ap-
pended list of names and thus he
goes from M person to another.
In a search of his room officers
not only found a record of the sums
collected by Jameson in this n
but also hanging in a shoulder hol-
ster, a .38 caliber Colts automatic.
A record of his work, kept by him
self, shows that in the two days that
he operated in Butte he collected
more than So. Previous to this date,
evidently in April, during the last
seven days of that month, he made
the total of $3.50.
Upon being questioned by the po-
lice, Jameson is said to have assert
ed that he was warned not to ply his
trade in Salt Lake, and other cities,
where he also made large sums of
money.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-07

The two gangs of track-layers day
by day and hour by hour were stead
lily nearing each other. They met
face to face on the morning of May
10th.
1t was on this morning that Gets
left Salt Lake for his last drive on the
Overland to Fort Crittenden, and 1t
was just as the last rails of the trans
continental lines we're being brought
together that he drove up. The clos
ing exercises were started, Governor
Stanford, who was president of the
Central Pacific, shaking hands with
Vice President Durand of the Union
Pacific. The last tie put down was
of laurel, cut in the mountains of
California. 1t had been beautifully
polished for the occasion, and was
carefully put in place in the roadbed.
Then the last rail was laid and spik-
ed. The two locomotives, painting,
were on the track facing each other.
The Atlantic and Pacific, separated
by more than $500 miles and by four
lofty mountain ranges, were at last
Joined by bands of steel. The tele-
graph Immediately began ticking off
the joyful tidings that were flashed
around the world. The two thousand
miles of Overland stage line were in
a minute out of business, and the era
trail route passed into history.
Sam Gets, sitting on the front seat
of his Concord stage and holding the
ribbons of his beloved team of six,
was one of the impressive figures in
the drama that was enacted that his
toric day.
The following day Gets returned
to Salt Lake and started driving stage
to Ogden and Utah. In 1870 he came
to Montana, driving and superintend-
ing for Salisbury, on the latter's lines
until the completion of the Union Pa
cities branch line into that region.
In 1883 he went into Northern Mon
tana and located on his stock ranch
Cascade, where he died, a few
years ago.
One of the tragedies in Gets life
was the killing of his chum, Ed. Kill
burn, one of the oldest and best stage
drivers on the Overland, in 1851
Kilburn was said to be a wizard with
the ribbons and absolutely fearless.
DIdN6I ndu ever u6IQ Lut I6luS VI
q team.
Early in June, 1867, Kilburn was
driving down the South Platte, about
125 miles east of Dover. He had
reached what was known as Godfrey's
ranch. After breakfast Gets, who
was at the ranch, jokingly said to
him: ED, look out for your scalp"
merely smiled and remarked
hat the Indians would not want his
gray locks.
After the stage had gone about two
niles down the river, a band of Chey-
snnes, hiding behind an old adobe
vail, fired a volley at the coach and
z1lled Kilburn. When found, the
itage drivers body was fe~arfully
nutilated and was left stripped. On
of his fingers was a heavy gold
ing, a present from his faithful
riend and companion driver, Sam
let's.
Gets eve recovered from the
occasioned by Kilburn's death,
or the two had been inseparable.
heirs was a notable frontier friend
hip.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-07
MURRAY PLANNING
WATERING PLACE
WILL MAKE SUCCESS OF BOULD-
Err RESORT OR TURN 1T
INTO DUDE RANCH
James Murray, Who Became a Mil
Iionaire Through the Death of His
Uncle, VIII Make Beautiful Place
of Boulder Hot Springs.

James Murray of Butte is Mon
tana's newest millionaire.
The famous mining man and bank
of the same name died a short time
ago, leaving an estate in zee Of
s10,000,000 was his uncle. The eld-
er Murray was a pioneer in the Butte
mining district, where he picked wise
ly and became possessed Of valuable
mining property. That and his nat
ural business ability was his esame
to fortunes door.