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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-11-29
Gunnison and Pitkin
Items culed From Gun1nison Empire and Pitkin Miner
PITKIN ITEMS


f j. BonDurant went to Salida
MONDAY 10 spend a week with his
family.
F ank and Riley FonDurant were
d wn over Sunday from the Metroz
saw mill where they are employed
R. A. Little and Frank Dice were
up Tuesday with baled hay They
both loaded hack with coal for their
home use.
Arthur Pearson received two cars
If coal this week, one hard coal for
his personal use. George Williams
and John Ficklin have been doing the
hauling.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Mcdonald, Jr.,
r,oved to Pitkin this week from Ohio
City Shorty will be employed on the
Tennessee. They are comfortably To-
Gated in the C. G. Miller house.
The Pitkin Trading company store
locks very light and cheerful these
,venings since the installation of the
new Delco Electric plant. Every
part of the building is we'll lighted.
Jim Robinson, superintendent of
th> Tennessee operations. went to
Grn-ison Friday last to look up some
miners. The Tennessee is now run
ming full time with three shifts work
ing in the shaft
Sparks from the train set the Nc
Cready hay fields on fire Monday and
called out number to fight fire for
time 1t is rot often that our
fields are dry enough in late Novem-
ber for a fire to run.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Flick left Sum
Iav for the eastern part of the state
where they will spend the winter.
The change was made mainly for
tire benefit of the baby's heath, Mr..
Flick has good position awaiting
him.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-11-29
He is Coming Agnin!.

nr x. C. Sapero, the well known
Denver specialist on the eye, ear, nose
"rA throat, will again make a pro-
fersioral visit to Gunnison, Saturday,
De- 18th. at La Veta Hotel DIR. Sa-
pe'o las been visiting Gunnison for
more than 25 years. Consultation
and examination for glasses free.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-11-29


Paul Panion / da labor --S 4.5O
Fred Gardiner l da labor 80 4.5O
Mike Cipoloni / da. labor - 500
Anton DAMN jury SER ---- 200
j. Afford jury ser. - 200
Anton Matkovich jury ser. - 200
Paul Heuchemer jury ser. -- 200
John Byouck jury SER ----- 200
Paul Panion meals for pris. - 1.50
Paul Panion meals for pris. - $50
Mike Bear, Jr attending pris-
oner and trials - 500
Mike Fisher Police Mag. fees 500
Receipts reported were:
Peddler's license ------ 1000
Rev Hilbig dog tax -------- 200
Gene Rosetta Gem. lot ------- 1900
Moved by Slobodnick, seconded by
Nemanic bills be allowed and paid
Ayes all.
Moved by Nemanic, seconded by
Krizmanich that town clerk write to
Mike Bear, Jr.. for dog tax. receipt
book, same to be turned over to Paul
Panion. He being appointed to col
lect remainder of dog taxes.
Moved by Slobodnick, seconded by
Krizmanich, that Mayor Welch make
out petition to be signed by citi-
zens of Crested Butte, that we re-
ceive mail on Sundays.
There being no further business,
the Board adjourned on motion of
Mulch. seconded by Panion.
"a JOHN L. BYOUCK, Clerk.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-18
16,OOO-LB. MINIMUM
HOG WEIGHT ASKED.

Hog producers and feeders are in
terested in early action by the inter-
state commerce commission on hog
shipments. The commission has been
asked to order a reduction of the IT,
600 pounds per car minimum loading
weight during the season of high tenn
peratures, when mortality in transit
is heavy under present loading condi-
tiOns. This is reasonable, and un-
doubtedly would be economical. An
effort will be made to secure a deci-
sion before May l, a period at which
hog shippers troubles begin.
A mass of testimony on the subject
has been prepared, with the object of
demonstrating that a 17~,000-pound
minimum during high temperatures IS
arbitrary, excessive and productive of
mortality. The contention will be
made that not to exceed $4,000 pounds
of live hogs should be put into a
thirty-six foot car during hot wealth
er. 1t would appear to be a change
equally advantageous to carriers and
shippers, as the former are forced
annually to pay a large sum in claims.
which are a loss advantageous to no
one.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-18

monplace but not less a marvel and
a mystery-the voices of the air.
He is a rash man who speaks of
impoSsibilities, a wise man he who
waits new wonders with an open mind.
The cumulative mind of man knows
no limitation of conquest. The air is
ours to float in, the argosies of air
fleets Tennyson saw in a poets fren-
~ are fact; space is a vehicle for the
immediate messages that flash around
the globe, the deep seas feel the keels
of adventurous craft; surely we are
become as gods.
Voices in the air, innumerable
voices, calling the metropolis and the
waste and desert places, speaking as
face to face between hemispheres-
if it not commonplace it would b.
awe-inspiring.
What shall tomorrow bring forth
Who shall deny or disbelieve the wild
est dream of invention or discovery :
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-18

our State College at Bozeman should
be vertical rather than horizontal,
and that means building up the agri-
cultural and engineering curses to
their highest point and leaving the
other activities in the field of higher
education to the University at Mis-
soula, the School of Mines at Butte,
and the Normal School at Dillon. If
it is necessary to cut down some of
the work because of smaller appro-
priations, it might be done without
great sacrifice in the college of house
hold and industrial arts where one
course, according to the 10Th annual
State College catalogue, includes the
study of line, form, color, historic
ornament, principles of design and
composition, and technical methods in
applied design" and another is
BROAD enough to serve as a basis for
euch positions as private secretary,
office manager, etc."-Northwestern
Stockman and Farmer.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-18

Shaffer, Haines, Estes, Julio, Ennis,
Lawton, Redmans Gallagher, and
Buekby.
Faculty Wins Baseball.
The faculty men of the college
demonstrated their ability to win
another game" Saturday, when they
took a 3 to 1 contest from the voca-
tional men. Stellar pitching by Nc
Kee and Merrill was principally the
factor which won for the profs. The
lineup was as follows:
Faculty-Ewer, Romney, Welch,
Klemme, Scott, Jones, Strand, Wilson,
Currier and Murrill.
Vocational Men-Banks. Johnson,
Kok, Bridgeman, Legge, Storrer, Dut-
ton, 10y, Murns, LaBonte, Smith,
Prescott and Sutherland.
First Football Game of Year.
Football also got a send-off dur
ing the afternoons activities, and
while neither of the two teams that
%scrapped for counters made a point
the game showed some good playing
The contest started over a debate be.
tween a member of the Omega Beta
fraternity and the H. o. M. club. AnC
the debate still continues.
While the contest failed to show
much of the finish of intercollegiate
matches, it disclosed some real worl
on the part of the two teams. Rev
Klemme was the referee.
Perhaps the two best men on the
field wer Dobeus for the o. B., ant
Forbes, quarterback for the H. o. M
club. At any rate, Coach Romne!
watched with pleasure the activitie'
of several of the men on the tw,
teams, who as new hands showed goo,
form on the gridiron.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-18

be it would be foolhardy to protest
against this, for no such action may
be contemplated. AS a matter of
fact we cannot imagine such a short
sighted policy on the part of our col
lege officials. The short course
should be built up, not torn down, and
we can conceive of no more worthy
undertaking than of laying plans now
to make this one of the strongest
branches of the work at the college.
The land grant colleges were or
gained to give instruction in agri-
culture and mechanic arts to further
the development of the country's re-
sources In other words, it was in
tended that the instruction should
be practical, that the young men and
women going to these institutions
should be taught the sciences and the
arts which would better enable them
to produce crops or to handle the
problems of industry. No training
given at vi land grant colleges to-
day better fulfills this purpose than
the properly conducted agricultural
short course, for the prime essential
of the short course is that it must be
practical, it must make the young
mar a better farmer.
There seems to be a general tend.
ency on the part of many of our state
agricultural colleges, and our own in.
stitution is no exception, to branch
out into other lines of instruction
often at the expense of those major
studies for which these colleges were
intended. There is no need for go
ing into the many causes that NIGH
be responsible for this tendency; j
is unfortunate that it exists. To'
often college professors, heads of de
partments and officials feel that Their,
is a little more distinction, a littl,
more refinement, connected with tn
teaching of psychology or sociolog,
or even bookkeeping than there is il
teaching swine husbandry or soil cul
tivation, and perhaps this is one o
the major causes for the drift int
other channels. Perhaps there is
connection here also with the tend
ency on the part of the young peopl
to quit the farm and the o~veralls TO
a ten dollar a week, white collar jo
In an office.
We believe that the development @
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-18

From London comes a press dis
patch telling of a perambulatOr race
in England, in which five sturdy mat
rons pushed their offspring So miles
in a trifle over IL hours. One woman
lost first place in the race because
of delays necessitated by the need of
her five-montths' old baby to partake
of the maternal fountain. In view of
the fact that the track season is On IN
Bozeman, with the -cross-country run
last week and other meets in the near
future, some cinder path enthusiasts
of Bozeman talked over the feasibility
of featuring a similar race to that in
England, made up of entrants from
the two fashionable apartment houses,
the BlackmOre and the Evergreen.
The idea was finally abandoned when
investigation disclosed the dearth of
possible entrants, particularly from
the first named apartment house.
Not enough occupied perambulators
could be found to make the proposed
race the least bit interesting. All of
which causes one to wonder what is
the matter with the young married
people Of Bozeman. Have babies
gone out of style altogether, particu-
larry among the elite of the city
Are these young husbands-but what
is the use of opening up an argument ?
The U. S. forest service has earned
an enviable reputation for the wisdom
of its policy in the conservation OF
u forests and the building up of oul
lumber resources. Where certain
tracts Of timber are to be marketed
given the axe as it were, a definitt
policy is laid down and rigidly ad.
hered to. In the first place, the use
less dead timber IS removed. Mex
the wind-shaken stuff, and that start
ing to decay at the core is taken out
And finally the slashings and under
brush are burned, leaving the fores
clean, and stimulating the growth o
the Vigorous, sound, ambitious young
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-18
COLLEGE MEN BUSY
WITH SPRING o

Spring sports received a rousing
send-off at Montana State College,
Saturday, with a baseball and a foot
ball game, and the annual cross-coun-
try run featuring the afternoons eac-
Invites. Everybody was out to see
the events of the afternoon, and the
finish line of the three-mile cross
country race was so crowded with
spectators that it was impossible for
the runners to find the finish line.
John O. Adams, a Bohemian boy
and a sophomore in mechanical engi-
neering, won the contest, making the
courS in 1888. Bachman was the
first man to cross the tape, making
the course in 1904, but inasmuch as
he has already won the contest once
his entry was only to run against
time. This record is 6 seconds faster
than the record he set in the event
two years ago.
Bunney, winner of last years con-
test, came in third.
The course started on the college
campus, followed Huffine lane to the
college farm road, then south and
around the big square to the corner
of College avenue and Ninth street.
In this contest the engineers made
first place, the aggies second, and
then came the applied science stu
dents, secretarials, chemists and pre-
midics. Sigma Chi fraternity took
first place, while Beta Epsilon wa
second, and the Order of the Bari
third.
How They Placed.
The order in which the men fin
ished was as follows: Bachman, AID
ans, Bunney, Sales, Holloway, Thay
er, Livers, Hodgson, Foster, Neil
Harrington, Pasha, Holensteiner, Ben
nett, Anderson, Mccoy Gotham, Buck
ingham, HolliEter, Bell, Dagnall, AK
tell, Benton, Savage, Sletten, Lamb
Mitchell, Graham, Bullock, Carnes
Walton. Esgar, Almquist, Kligora
L. Lyndon, C. Lyndon, circuit, Bris
coe, Pitt, Sanford, Kistler, McIvol
Meyer, Brentnall, Kaiser, Boyer
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-18
STATE COLLEGE SHOULD
KEEP UP SHORT COURSE

Rumor has it that the recent re-
duction in appropriations for the
State Agricultural College will mean
a further curtailment if not the
elimination of the agricultural short
course at Bozeman. With our lack
of knowledge of what the plans may
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-18

AS Browning puts it, many a man
who aimes at millions misses the unit.
We get in this world what we go after,
and the sooner we start the better.
The brave old DIR. Johnson said there
were a great many doubts that do not
deserve to be cleared. Let us make
up our minds that to keep at work
with all ones might is a better thing
than to contemplate critically the un-
renting industry of someone else.
And when we have chosen our work,
let US not change it lightly for an
occupation which at first blush seems
more %congenial; whatever we make up
our minds to do, let US inflexibly
and resolutely p%ersevere in the doing,
Listen! Do you hear them? The
air is filled with voices. The radio
is calling. The telephone is busy,
Millions upon millions of voices. From
farm house to farm house, between
city residences, across continents and
beyond oceans, between neighbors d.
vided by a street; from office to of
flee; between town and town; bust
ness and pleasure and virtue and vice;
sales and trades and appointments
and designations; between mother anC
son and husband and wife and lovers.
hate and kindness, charity and cru.
city; night and day; crossing and re
crossing a silent babel of all Ian
guages and all purposes-the voices
of the air.
Pause and attempt to realize how
the innumerable voices pass and re
! pass each other in their multitudinou.
messages. How billions upon billions
of conversations, requests, demands
pleadings fill space carried over un
told miles by the mystery of electrical
connections. Beyond human compre
hension, humiliation of distance, con
! quest of time, a marvel grown com
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-18

1t is the hope of tomorrow that en-
ables us to bear the burdens of today
with patience. If there were no to-
morrows, life would quickly become
unbearable. 1t is tomorrow that we
hope to retrieve the failures of to-
day. The goal that we fail to win
today we hope to gain tomorrow.
Today may be dark, but tomorrow
will be brighter. Today we sorrow,
but tomorrow we will rejoice. All the
happiness that has so far eluded US
we hope to achieve tomorrow. To-Day
we groan and sweat under the heat
and burden of the day, but tomorrow
there will be release. We live and
strive today only because we have
faith that tomorrow we will reap the
reward of our labor. Tomorrow is the
land of our dreams, a land of enchant-
ment and delight. Oh, it would be a
sorry world if we were robbed of our
tomorrows.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-04-18

timber that in a few years will make
the original timber land for more val
liable and useful than ever before.
Foresighted, the forest service builds
for the futuret generations in Mon
tana. In using the axe it is unfor-
tunate that some of our state institu
tions do not follow the admirable
policy pursued by the forest service.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-09-06
Horses Are Annoyed by
Botf1y Pest in August

During August, horses are annoyed
to a considerable extent by the pres
ence of BOTTLES. These flies are about
the size of honeybees, and are most
annoying to horses legs.
Bottles deposit small yellow eggs,
and cement them to hairs at the time
they are laid. During the late fall and
early winter he eggs enter the horses
mouth. Later the eggs hatch in the
stomach, and develop into the larval
form known as bots. They attach
themselves to the lining of the stom-
ach, where they remain and consume
some of the nutriment that should
nOurish the horse. During late spring
and early summer the bots pass out In
the manure. They at once burrow into
the ground, where they undergo
changes in their life cycle, and soon
emerge as fully developed BOTTLES.
Bots produce no definite symptoms,
neither is there any satisfactory treat
mont that can be applied. Prevention
Is easy, and practicable to a consider
able extent. Every few days during
the fall months all hairs should be
clipped of that contain eggs of bot
nles. BY thus reducing the number of
eggs the number Of bots will be re-
duced.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-09-06
IN SCOUTING

An area equivalent to 200 counties
was covered during the last fiscal
year in the farm-to-farm survey for
barberry bushes. This is one step
in the fight against wheat rust which
is being carried on by the United
States Department of Agriculture in
cooperation with the state agricul-
tural colleges, state departments of
agriculture and the Conference for
the Prevention of Grain Rust. The
work consisted of a survey and a re-
for sprouting bushes and
seedlings. 1T was carried on in Colo
RADIO, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michi-
gan,s Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska,
North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota,
Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Since the beginning of the bar
berry work in 1918 practically all
cities and villages of the IS states
the quarantine ares have
been surveyed. In the original farm
to farm survey an area equal to 484
counties has been covered, including
80 counties surveyed on funds fur
nished by states. In the five years
4 total of 5,234,946 bushes and seed
ings have been destroyed ON $500
properties.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-09-06
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Immediately upon the accidental
election of Jim Irwin to the position
Of teacher of the Woodruff school, he
developed habits somewhat like q
ghosts or a bandits. That is, he
walked of nights and on rainy days.
On fine days, he worked in Colonel
Woodruff's fields as of yore. Jim's
salary was to be just $500 for nine
months work in the Woodruff school,
and he was to find himself-and his
mother. Therefore, he had to indulge
In his loose habits of night walking
and roaming about after hours only,
or on holidays and in foul weather.
The Simms family, being from the
"mountings" of Tennessee, were rather
startled one night, when Jim Irwin,
homely, stopped and errandless, ST.
lently appeared in their family circle
about the front door. They had lived
where 1t was the custom to give q
whoop from the big road before one
passed through the palms and up to
the house. Otherwise, how was n
to know whether the visitor was
friend or foe?
From force of habit, Old Man Simms
started for his gun-rack at Jim's ap-
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-09-06

There was no surprise in view n,
the nomination of Jim Irwin by the
b%larneying Bonner when the Secretary
smoothed out the first ballot. and
read: James E. Irwin, one." But
when the next slip came forth, James
f. Irwin, two" the board of directors
of the Woodruff Independent district
were stunned at the slowly dawning
knowledge that they had made an
election Before they had rallied tbe
secretary drew from the box the third
and last ballot, and read, James e.
Irwin, three"
President Bronson choked as he an
nouEced the result-choked and STAN
mered, and made very hare weather
of it, but he wen through with the
motion, as we all run in our grooves
1.-THE ballot having shown the unani-
nous election of James E. Irwin, I de-
clare him elected"
He dropped into his chair, while the
secretary, a veryy methodical man.
drew from his portfolio a contract
duly drawn up save the name and sig
nature. This he calmly filled out, and
passed over to the president, pointing
to the dotted line. Mr.. Bronson would
have signed his own death-warrant at
that moment, not to mention a per-
fectly legal document, and signed
with Peterson and Bonner looking ON
stonily. The secretary signed and
showed the contract over to Jim IT.
win.
"Sign there" he said.
Jim looked 1t over, saw the other
signatures, and felt an impulse to
dodge the whole thing. Then he
thought of Jennie Woodruff's
"Humph !"-and he signedl
Move we adjourn said Peterson.
mo 'bjection It's so ordered !" said
Mr.. Bronson.
The secretary and Jim went out,
while the directors waited.
what the Billy" began Bonner,
and finished lamelyl What for did
you vote for the dub. EzT"
II voted for him." replied Bronson,
because he fought for my boy this
afternoon. l didn't want 1t stuck into
him too hard. l wanted him to have
one vote"
An / wanted him to have wan vote,
too" said Bonner. II thought mesilf
the only dang fool on the board-an'
made a spache that ARMED wan
fr the love of hivin, that
dub fr a teacherI What come over
vou, Haakon-you voted f'r him, too r.
"Ay wanted him to have one vote,
co." said Peterson.
And in this wise, Jim became the
in the Woodruff district-all
IN account Of Jennie Woodruff's
'Humph !"
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-09-06

Old Man Slmms Started for His Gun.
pearance, but the Lincolnian smile and
the low slow speech, so much like his
W In some respects, ended that.
Stranger" said Mr.. Simms, after
greetings had been exchanged, you're
right welcome, but In my kentry you'd
and 1t dangersome to walk in thisa-
way"
How so?" queried Jim Irwin.
you'd more'n likely git shot up
some" replied Mr.. Simms, "onless
you whooped from the big road"
II didn't know that" replied Jim.
I'm ignorant Of the customs Of other
countries. Would you rather I'd
whoop from the big ~road-nobody
else will"
II reckon" replied Mr.. Simms,
that we-al will have to accommodate
ourselves to the ways hyeh."
Evidently Jim was the Simms' first
caller since they had settled on the
little brushy tract whose hills and
trees reminded them of their noun.
tains. Low hills, to be sure, with Only
q footing Of rocks where the creek
had cut through, and not many trees,
but down In the creek bed. with the
oaks, elms and box-elders archinp
overhead. the Simmses could imagine
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-09-06
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Hog Growing Contests
Make Better Breeders

prepared by the United States Departmen en-
Of Agriculture.)
Hog-growing contests in which the
object is to make a litter weigh a ton
when six months old have demonstrate
ed the soundness of the recommends
lions on breeding, feeding and manage
ment which have long been made by
the various state department stations
and the United States Department OF
Agriculture. In one of these contests
conducted last year by the Indiana
Live Stock Breeders association sos
farmers enrolled and 33 of them raised
SO filters which weighed 1000 pounds
or more at the end of $50 days.
The important facts for pig pro-
ducers to remember, says e. 2. Russell,
in charge of swine Investigations for
the United States Department of Agri-
culture, is that all of the winning lit
tiers were narrowed and sucked in
clean quarters all were sired by pure
bred boars; % of the dams were pure
bred, 6 were high-grades and 2 cross
breds none of the 36 filters contained
fewer than 10 pigs; and all of them
were narrowed by old sows. On the
average, therefore, the pigs in these
record filters weighed 200 pounds when
they had reached the tender g Of
six months.
Many states are holding similar con
tests this year, says the department,
and it is expected that the results will
a large number of converts to
principles and practices of better
breeding, feeding and care, no only
for hogs, but for all kinds of farm ami