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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
AN EARLY MARRIAGE
REFUSED BY GAMBLER
ASSERTS MRS. DE BOUCHEL
URGED WEDDING IMMEDI-
ATELY AFTER PROPOSAL.
REPLIES TO $5OO,OOO.OO SUIT
Admits That He Does Not Know
Whether Reports Concerning Fan
Gee Were True. Her Furniture Had
Been Shipped to Atlanta.

ATLANTA, Ga.-Asa G. Gambler,
Atlanta soft drink millionaire, filed
his answer in the federal court here
today to the $500,0p0 heart-balm suit
brought against him recently by Mrs.
Onezima de Bouchel, OF New Orleans
and Reno, New. Tie answer took up
the petition of Mrs de Bouchel, re-
plying to it, paragraph by paragraph,
and concluded by denying that the
petitioner had suffered any damages,
wherefore defendant prays to be
henceforth dismissed"
In his answer Mr.. Gambler states
he became engaged to Mrs. de Bou-
chel in January, 1922, and that imme-
diately thereafter Mrs. de Bouchel
suggested that they go at once and
be married" This, the answer states,
Mr. Gambler declined to do.
Her Furniture in Atlanta.
The Atlanta capitalist admitted he
corresponded with Mrs. de Bouchel
and proposed marriage to her and
declined to break the engagement
when she learned from him that mem
bers of the family objected to the
union. He also admitted "a member"
of his family went to New Orleans to
investigate Suggestions" made in let
tiers sent to him from that city.
All plans for their marriage had
been made, the furniture of Mrs. de
Bouche1 had been sent to Atlanta to
be installed in the home of Mr.. Cand-
Ter and at the last minute he broke
the engagement, it was admitted by
Mr.. Gambler in the answer.
Admits Writing Letter.
1t was admitted in the answer that
Mr.. Gambler wrote Mrs. de Bouchel a
letter, as stated i'll paragraph o. OF
the latter's petition, but the answer
added "the exact language of which
letter is not, however, quoted in said
paragraph. Mrs. de .Bouchel's petition
charged she had received a letter
from Mr.. Gambler breaking off their
engagement after it had been reported
to him from sources he was bound
to believe" that two men had visited
her during the Confederate reunion
in Atlanta for IMPROPER purposes.
MT. 1dUGI6I . dHsNSf tStNllSu "
Mrs. de Bouchers statement in para
graph GO of her petition, which was
that she had several times expressed
her Willingness to cancel her engage
ment when she discovered the oppo-
sition of the Gambler family and said
"in answer to paragraph 90 defend
ant admits the statement therein con-
tanned in the first three lines thereof,
but can neither admit nor deny the
remainder of said paragraph for want
of sufficient evidence" The balance
Of the paragraph referred to was a
statement Of her innocence Of the
charges which she said had caused
Mr.. Gambler to break their engage
'ment.
Made No Investigation.
In answer to paragraph IS, Mr..
Gambler admitted in his answer that
he made no investigation other than
to establish the fact that the state
ments referred were made by "a
gentleman in Atlanta"
The case is not expected to come
up for a hearing before the Septem-
Der term of the United States court.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
ENGINE RUN BY SUMS RAYS
GIVEN SUCCESSFUL TEST
Inventor, College Graduate, Says 1t
Can Be Used for Heat, Light Power.

NEW YORK, n. "a miniature
engine, whose power was generated
by the suns rays, was successfully
demonstrated today in the laboratory
of the College of the City OF New
York by Bernard Grossman, grad
uate.
A parabolic copper mirror caught
and focused the rays upon a test tube
of water the heat causing steam
which, in turn, operated the tiny mo-
tor at high speed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
FLORIDA JUDGE FINES
HIMSELF FOR BEING LATE
Imposes Penalty of 81 for Arriving in
Court 7 Minutes Behind Time.

SAVANNAH, Ga.-Seven minutes
ate in court today Judge Guy B.
Fark, OF the Platte county circuit
court, fined himself 81 for each min
Ute as the first official act in opening
sessions.
Guy B. Park" he said, after he
inlad taken his seat upon the bench,
you are accused of being seven min
. ales late. Are you guilty or not gull
Guilty, your honor"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20

first half of March this year will far
exceed the collections for the same
period last year, when they totaled
about $836,00000O Reports to the
treasury tonight showed that this
amount had been exceeded probably
by $50,000,000.
Officials also declared that there
had been an unusual number OF pay
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20
Quebec Is Becoming
Rich From Whisky

Selling liquor to dry" Americans is
turning millions into the Golfers of
the providence OF Quebec, Canada.
Government sale OF liquor will net
S4,000,000 this year, officials estimate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-20

Washington Irving was the ITS. 4Ise
classic writer to use the phrase Inc
Almighty Dollar"
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-07-26

Gus and before you leave the valley
of the saltwater and it's tributaries,
the automobile will take you easily to
scenic spots as wonderful as these.
Only seven miles across the divide
are Mystic Lake falls where the Mon
tana Power company is constructing
a power site at an altitude of close
to 5000 feet. 1t is not necessary to
hike. Descend to the fork in the
streams and enter upon a 15-mile
drive through the West Rosebud can
yon vel the finest mountain boule-
ward in the state. 1t was built by
the power company to transport it's
heavy equipment. At the end are the
falls with a sheer vertical drop of 184
feet which, added to the cataract ap-
proach and the mill race, gives a
total drop of $50 feet.
The main Saltwater invites in
spection. Above Absarokee IS miles
is the Polytechnic farm and camp.
Cliffs and castled rocks surround it
and a few miles further on is Old
Nye, ghost city of the past, and Bear
tooth ranch where mountain sheep
are sailed like a tame flock, and the
mountain goats are often seen.
Again the auto trail ends and one
will wish to follow the Cooke City
trail to Yellowstone National park or
famous Grasshopper Glacier through
the saltwater canyon, proceeding
with saddle and pack pony.
The very surroundings of the con-
vocations held last week are condu-
Give to clarity Of thought and broad
ness of vision. The deliberations of
this assembly should mean something
to the progressive thought of the re-
ligious life of this state. East Rose
bud may well be compared with Zion:
Beauty in elevation,
The joy of the whole earth"
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-07-26
BY l.. o. Edmunds

|"HE Congregationalists of Mon.
tana gathered at East Rosebud
= lake this month for the young
peoples assembly and the annual
state session of the conference,
Where is East Rosebud lake, with
its little postoffice called Alpine? Al
most at the southern border of the
state, in the heart of the Beartooth
mountain range, 80 miles from Red
Lodge on the east, A miles from
Columbus on the south, lies the site
selected for the state encampment of
Congregationalists. Here at the end
of the auto road, it lies in an open
ing of canyon walls, a flower strewn
natural park sloping to the clear
waters of the mountain lake.
Down this grassy meadow tiny
r~ivulets, clear and icy cold, find their
swift way, and in this perfect setting,
"girt round by rugged mountains"
stand the log hotel and cabins of the
Billings Rosebud association and the
school building and dining halls of
the Rosebud Camp school which was
once held here for many seasons.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-07-26
Rich Ore Strike in Butte

One of the richest strikes ever
made here since the %uncovering of the
big ore vein in the Midwest several
months ago, was reported in the Min
ME Jane mine recently. The new
vein was uncovered in No. 2 shaft
about 80 feet from the surface. 1t
is considered to be one of the most
important discoveries in the section
west of the. school of mines.
w. McWhite, president of the COM
pany, would make no statement other
than to say the officials were highly
pleased with the new strike and after
two days of development on the ledge.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-07-26

East Rosebud and its high walled
canyon.
Here at East Rosebud lake, it is
no longer mid-July, but May, and a
half hours climb beyond will take
one to where the crocus, ~so-called,
which three months since has with
cred along the Yellowstone trail,
peeps from a slow vanishing snow
bank where brief April tarries and
summer never comes.
Alpine Splendor
Here lies a world of marvellous
Alpine splendor. The falls of the
East Rosebud are easily accessible,
as are the falls of that %torrential
mountain stream, He'll Roaring. Still
further up the canyon, lake after
lake, each with its individual beauty
and a floral setting all it's own, de-
lights the vision. High peak, where
mans foot has never trod, real their
snow-crowned SUBMITS and the cat
aract's thunder is heard continually.
Granite peak, $4,000 feet, Hottest of
all the Montana Rockies, issues its
challenge to mountain climbers and
in these nearby Businesses lies a re-
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-07-26
STATE EDITORS
TO MEET AUG. .

Newspaper editors OF Montana,
members of the Montana State
Press association, will hold their
annual meeting at Butte, Aug. %,
"a and Is, S. e. Peterson of Great
Falls, secretary, has announced.
At the mining city, the editors
will be the guests Of the Butte
Press club, which includes in it's
membership Major j. H. Durston,
r. r.. Kilroy, Larry b. Dobell and
others, who will act as hosts.
The three-day meeting will in
clude, in addition to the business
sessions, a visit to the different
mines on the Butte hill the first
day, an auto trip to Anaconda, q
visit to the smelter and q trip to
Gregson Hot Springs the second
day.
A speaker Of national promi-
hence has been invited to the con-
vention.
The convention will be the first
session of the press association in
Butte for several years. The Butte
chamber Of commerce, through it's
secretary, P. L. Willis, is assisting
in preparing the entertainment
program for the visiting editors.
Officers of the association are:
@. M. Moss, Whitefish, president;
o. S. Warden, Great Falls, first
vice president; III. o. WOare, Chess
ter, second vice president; M. j.
Hutchins, Missoula, third vice
president; S. E. Peterson, Great
Falls, secretary-treasurer; p. B.
Snelson, Billings; J.. ID. Scanlon,
Miles City; Joseph Gehrett, Laurel;
A. A. Frankie, Lewistown, and
Leon Shaw, Billings, members of
the executive committee.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-07-26

gion fresh from the hand of God.
Geologically it is perhaps the new
est part OF Mother Earth, the latest
work in creation. AS evidence OF
this, II one will follow the canyon to
seventh East Rosebud lake, he will
find that above it drops a majestic
cataract, fully 200 feet in a sheer
fall, yet so brief a time has it flowed
over its ledge of rocks that 1t has
not yet cut itself a well-defined chan
mel, and the age-old process of wear
ing back its canyon walls is Just be-
ginning.
Mystic Lake
But forsake the alpenstock or pack
horse trail if they prove too strenu-
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-07-26

OF those who come by auto a few
from east and south will find the
Cody trail through Red Lodge the
most direct route. Others will gain
the Yellowstone trail east or west
and their objective point will be Col
umbus on the Northern Pacific rail-
way. The motorist will cross the
Yellowstone at Columbus and find
in the valley of the saltwater
where fertile fields and prosperous
MONIES awaken many comments on its
wealth and beauty. The town of Alb
sarokee, where the Rosebud and the
saltwater converge, is passed and
the route continues up the val
ley OF the main Rosebud and then the
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-07-26
RUSTLERS
ARE COMING BACK
GANG OF MAVERICK MEN OPER
ATING IN THE MISSOULA
COUNTRY.

In time gone by Montana "a .
prosperous field for stock rustling.
But when stOckmen's associations
had been formed and had hanged
some Of the rustlers, and others
had been captured and sent to the
penitentiary, the stock rustling In
dustry wen into q decline. Now
and then sporadic cases break out
in some county, but nothing on q
large scale is reported. Lately,
however, Missoula county stockmen
are beginning to believe that q
gang of rustlers have settled and
are working in that part Of the
state. Cattle have been mysteri-
ously vanishing since last winter,
and a Missoula news story says:
Most of the stock missing, it is
said, was from the Rock creek section
on the east side of the range, and re-
ports indicate, ranchers there have
been missing stock for months. Early
in the spring, it is said, ranchers
feared that some of their cattle had
strayed from the ranges and persisted
during the winter months.
The belief exists that the stock is
mostly stolen in the Rock creek dis
trict, driven over the range and hid
den and later driven or relayed out
of the country to a place where it
can be disposed of without exciting
1t is understood here that the pres
ent "rustling" reports which have
reached the city represent the first
work on a general scale by a band
who are thought to be working along
the range between the Bitter Root and
Rock creek.
An eastern Montana county also
lately reported the disappearance of
considerable livestock, which is at
tributed to the presence Of suspi-
characters in that county. The
losses we're distributed among a good
many small farmers, however, an ami
nal or two disappearing at a time.
If stock rustling is really begin
hing to show it's head again in Mon
ANA prompt and rigorous measures
should be taken to stamp it out. The
livestock industry is sufficiently de-
and has enough burdens to
without having to contend with
'ustlers.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-07-26
YANKEE jim AND
PARK TOLL ROAD
HAD NO FIXED CHARGE; GAVE
TRAVELLER ONCE OVER AND
CHARGED ACCORDINGLY
Required Every Lady Going Over the
Road to Kiss Him; Tried to Block
Building of Northern Pacific by
Force of Arms.

The death of yankee JIM
George, OId-timer of Montana,
which occurred in Los Angeles re-
Gently, has recalled to mind nu-
merOus incidents in the life of the
rough and tumble, har~d-drinking,
hard-shooting - and If Rudyard
Kipling and others are correct
hard-lying, old plains and noun
tain man.
Among those who knew the pic
turesque trail blazer is Judge George
F. Shelton of Butte. In the days
when yankee Jim" was active along
the Yellowstone, Judge Shelton was
practicing law in Virginia City. The
Judges experience with Jim" was
similar to that of Kipling, who frank
ly admitted, 25 years ago, that as a
romancer ''Jim" had the author of
plain Tales from the Hills" as COM
pletely outclassed as a peacock out
classes a turkey buzzard afflicted
with eczema.
Jim's Toll Road
According to Kipling, Yankee
Jim built the first highway into
Yellowstone park, set up a toll gate
and proceeded to collect tribute.
"He had no fixed charge" said
Judge Shelton, in comment, "but de-
termined the amount of toll to be
paid by the appearance of the ira
Weller.
"It is alleged that Jim required
every lady who passed through the
toll gate to kiss him, but the old
timer himself Indignantly denied the
charge, declaring that the most l
ever did was to tell the ladies that
they might kiss me If they had a
%hankering to do So"
This toll road eventually got Jim
into litigation and Judge Shelton was
one OF the two attorneys chosen to
look after his interests.
Easy Money
Jim had conducted his toll gate
for several years." said the judge,
"and had gathered in many shekels
when one day came the construction
crew of the Northern Pacific railway
track over the ground that
yielded Jim a comfortable revenue.
1.-THE old frontiersman was frantic
with anger. He rushed to his cabin,
donned his buckskin shirt, fringed
leggins, broad hat, and flaming neck
erchief, strapped on two six-shooters,
shouldered his rifle and made a des-
cent on the track-layers. Pretty soon
the air was full of singing bullets,
lurid and original profanity, and fly
ing gravel where Jfm's shots we're
knocking up the ground about the
feet of the steel
1.-THE construction gang was paid
to lay track, not to fight a wild-eyed
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-07-26

long-haired maniac and they beat it
to cover. The road officials hot-foot-
ed to Helena and engaged Col. w. F.
Sanders to procure an Injunction
against Jim. With equal speed "Yan-
kee" beat 1t to Virginia City and
engaged counsel to proceed against
the railway for trespass.
May Have Told 1t
1--WE Intercepted him closely re-
~garding the building Of the toll road.
/ am not sure that he didn't tell us
that he had used elk for draught
horses and that he had obtained the
right of way from the Indians before
the ark came to rest on Mount Ara
rat; but / do remember that he pro-
fessed to have impregnable rights to
the ground In question.
1--WE went into the case blithely
enough but when the matter came to
a hearing it developed that Jim did
not build the road, didn't have a
franchise, or any color of title what
ever. He had simply built a gate on
an old trait and set himself up as
tribute taker. OF course, he lost his
case but he took it in good part.
His attack on the road gang and
his deep indignation we're all part Of
a grandstand play. 1t impressed the
residents of the district but it didn't
get by in the courts.
"Jim had a lot of qualities" said
the veteran attorney, "but he was
never a rival of Washington in the
matter of truthfulness. He was n
of those artistic prevaricators who
believe their own fairy tales. He was
responsible for a lot of tough pros
pecting by Virginia City men.
Rock of Gold
"He came into Virginia City one
day with a chunk of rock that was
just dripping with gold. Little flecks
of metal the size of birdshot were
scattered all through the lump. Jim
told us exactly where it was found
by himself, back in the most rugged
part of the mountains across the val
ley. He went into minute details Q
garding the find and the locality.
"a half dozen men spent two
months looking for the lead-only to,
learn by accident that Jim's sample
had been sent him by a friend from
California.
"Kipling says Jim saw every one
of his tales and beat them SO per
cent. My comment on that statement
is that Jim was probably not feeling
well when Kipling saw him. Had
he been in his usual spirits, Kipling'
would have left Montana a s%addened,
and much Inundated young man."
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-07-26

THE first issue of Sunburst Refining Company shares vel sub
scr1bed in JUST ID DAYS. Only a small portion of this capital
- came from Montana.
TINE funds derived from the sale of these shares we're used to
build a Refinery in Great Falls, Montana, with a daily capacity
= of 5000 barrels of crude oil per day. This plant is now in daily
operation, and its equipment is modern and standard throughout.
It's products are now being marketed throughout the Northwest.
A N additional limited offering of shares is now being subscribed
~ very rapidly. Most of this money is coming again from outside
= - the state. Investors realize the wonderful opportunity offered
in SUNBURST REFINING COMPANY shares, because of almost
made-to-order advantages of LOw-PRICED CRUDE OIL and HIGH
PRICED REFINED PRODUCTS.
Montana people should share in these profits. The first issue has
all been subscribed. The second, and perhaps the LAST issue is now
being taken rapidly. Send in your subscription now before the 10
portunity has passed forever. MONTANA OIL IS YOUR HERITAGE.
Associate yourself with the Refining industry, reaping profits from
the manufacture OF Montana oil into refined products. Reserve
your shares now and make your payments in 80. so and 90 days
A short time longer will be TOO LATE.
Sunburst Refining Company
Liberty Building, Great Falls, Montana
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-03

all over the lattice-work of the skele-
ton structure employed by the fire.
painter in lieu. so to speak. of can
vas.
Religion And The F1recracker
Hence a very particular interest at
taches to the firecracker, originally a
Chinese invention, which in its earliest
form was a short section of hollow
bamboo filled with gunpowder. But
on one occasion ESQ the story is told)
a splinter few and struck a royal
prince In the eye; whereupon the
then reigning Emperor issued an edict
requiring that thenceforward fire.
crackers should be made of paper.
In China frecrackers possess. a re-
ligious significance. They help to
drive away the devils with which that
country is somewhat thickly infested.
1t is a fact well known that devils are
frightened by loud noises. and since
prehistoric times bells and gongs have
been employed to scare them. For
this very purpose 1t was that bells
were first hung in church steeples.
In the mountains of west China
there dwells a giant devil of a bril-
liant red color, at sight of whom men
grow faint with fear. Many centuries
ago a man named Li-dien found that
fire crackers would brighten him
away. Hence Li-dien at the present
day is held in honor as a sort of fire.
cracker saint. In a pack of crackers
there are sixty-one red ones. which
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-03

discovered gunpowder, the first en-
ployment to which it seemed adapted
was that of frightening devils-as
soon, that is to say. al the fact was
ascertained that the stun would ex-
plode with a loud noise II suitably
confined and then ignited. 1t is posi-
lively known that the Chinese were
acquainted with gunpowder as far
back as 500 B. C. The soil Of the
plains in parts OF that country is re-
markedly rich In inter, the principal
constituent of gunpowder, and an ac-
cidental mixing of this mineral with
the charred embers of a wood fire
may perhaps have given rise to the
discovery.
Not until the seventh century of
our era was the invention brought to
Europe, by the Arabs. Fol- a long
time after that a notion prevailed
that gunpowder was magical, and
that use OF 1t was unchristian. This
superstitious notion kept the Chris
tian nations from employing it I'M
til a much later day. But 1t is inter-
esting to know that the recipe now in
use by ourselves-75 per cent. inter,
10 per cent. sulphur, and Is per cent.
eharcoal-is the same as the original
Chinese.
The ingenious Chinese, having
learned that gunpowder was a power
full explosive. were first to hit upon
the idea of using it to discharge a
projectiie from a tube. Thus from the
original ~firecracker, made of a section
of hollow bamboo, was evolved the
cannon. The first amor logs hol-
lowed out to form tubes and throw
ing balls of stone, were employed by
the Chinese in their great war with
the Mongols. A. D. 1892. Not until
about 1910 were cannon introduced
into Europe. During the compare
lively recent war between Japan and
China, by the way, the Japanese made
use of wooden cannon. wrapped with