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Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-09-20

OF the ranch, and permitted to work
their way far up the wooded noun
tain sides. In due season they
browse back again towards the val
ley, and at the right time, first one
n then another trainload of the
choicest animals are rounded up,
loaded on a special train, and taken
to Chicago. Mr.. Anceney always ac-
companies these valuably-freighted
trains and watches over his charges
with all the solicitude of a parent
tending his children. The Flying-D
brand has become a ~favorite with the
buyers for the large packers and the
prices obtained are usually above
those paid for ordinary cattle.
We eastern tenderfeet talk about
our wonderful industrial efficiency.
How many cowboys. do you think,
are needed to take care of the vast
herds on the Child-Anceney ranch ? A
hundred? Fifty7 No. Three.
The wheat and other crops are cul-
tivated by tenant partners, who share
their harvest in lieu of rent.
On my visit to the ranch l fell in
love with Mr.. Anceney's young chill
dren. ! never saw healthier, stur-
d~ier-looking youngsters. Both Mr..
and Mrs. Anceney, too. looked the
picture OF health and strength. The
stunts the children perform on bron-
chos, both bucking and broken,
would make your hair stand on end.
An occasional broken bone is accept
ed as part Of the game.
In debt ID years ago, Charlie
Anceney. thanks to his capable a
agement, is today a millionaire. Yet
he Is aB modest, as industrious, ~
constantly on the Job in working toys
as In the days when the daily round
sometimes called for looping off .
cattle stealer's finger or '%stringing
up" q bandit.
Is not Charlie Anceney entitled to
be enrolled as one of the Men Who
Are Making the West7"
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-09-20

robbers and cutthroats in that sec
ton of the country. Finally | sue
ceeded in worming this out IF him:
1T used to be that you couldn't
convict anyone in this country for
demonstrating. / was then raising
very fine horses for the New York.
Boston, and other h~igh-grade mar
kets. A band OF horse thieves and
ruffians had their headquarters In
an out-of-the-way corner among the
hills not very far from my place. /
warned them to leaye my animals
alone.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-09-20

h. @. Forbes, world amous fin
ancial writer of New York City,
and editor of Forbes Magazine"
on a recent trip to Montana picked
Charles l.. Anceney of Boxeman.
as "a typical example of that inn
p~ortant class of men who are max
ing the west, the ranchers." Under
the caption "Anceney-Boss of
Half-a-Milhon Acres" Forbes has
written an interesting article
which was published in the Sep
TENDER issue of Forbes Magazine.
The article follows:
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-09-20
"A NEW OIL LAMP FREE

K. P. Johnson, 60S W. Lake st.,
Chicago. Ill.,, the inventor OF a rom
derful new oil lamp that burns -
per cent air and beats gas or electric
ity. is offering to give one free to the
first user In each locality who will
help introduce II. Write him for par
ticulars. Agents wanted.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-09-20

lone day / missed a particularly
fine saddle horse, a beauty; he was
a great fayorite of mine. / made
straight for the thieves camp thai
night. / said to them: I've missed
J such-and-such a horse. I'll give you
till tomorrow TO bring him back. II
he isn't back, something will happen.
They looked at each other and
they looked at me. They knew ]
meant business. Although their
camp was stocked with guns and ]
was there among them all alone,
without a gun, they didn't have the
quits to put a bullet through me
though they would have liked to
had they had the nerve.
mo; / wasn't a bit scared. / sup
pose / just wasn't born that way.
could look them square in the eye
and they couldn't look me square In
the eye-and they knew that ] knew
1t.
"Oh, yes; my horse was back on
the ranch the next day.
They tried to get even with me
by reporting that | was fencing off
government land. A government
agent aiiAfco at my hhNh Oht Ao}
and asked IL / could show him how
to get to Anceney's place. ! told
him ] was the mar he was looking
for. He was taken aback. Then
he told me the errand he was on.
When / explained the kind of scum
the informers were, and offered to
take him over my ranch to see
things for himself, he said he didn't
want to go any further, hat he vas
satisfied.
The Law of the Vigilantes
Some time after this they got
very bad. They had a quarrel over
a woman who was sort of their com
mon property. They got fighting
among themselves, and, as one OF
them came and reported to me. muir
der was brewing.
II thought 1t was time TO clean
them out So / went and rounded
them up. put them under arrest. and
the whole lot were SEN to the peni-
tertiary.
THAT wasn't so very many years
at that.
Have you ever read Langford's
book on the yigilantes?" he sudden
y asked. l hadn't IF you want to
get the truth about how things were
In our country in the old days-the
too, about how fine a lot OF
men the vigilantes were when they
badly needed and before they
got a bad name. a long while after
Tou should get his book. Longford
knew what he was talking about. He
lived through the thick OF the crime
in the pioneer mining
He knew a lot of the knaves
were strung up"
Well. ] did get "vigilante Days and
by N. p. Langford, and
this In the Introduction:
up to this time"-fbe early sixties
fear Of punishment had exercised DO res
raining snfiuen<~ on the conducf Of men
rho bad organt~ed murder and robbery
MO q steady porsuis. They hesitatsd ~
% stroeisB nse~ssaFy 70 accomplish their
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-09-20
= Eu1tHtF HuNCutJ VVuF
An Agricultural Empire

Now go out and buy all the land
within sight" Mr.. Child Instructed
his partner. I'll finance your share
of the cost"
This agricultural empire of more
than half a million acres stretches
26 miles In one direction and ever
further In the other, with parts run
ming miles upon miles up to noun
tain SUBMITS which form an impass-
able barrier to beast and a Over
200,0 600 acres are carefully fenced.
Lying mainly In the Gallatin val
ley, between Bozeman and Helena,
the fertile soil IL capable OF support
ing many, many thousands of cattle.
During certain seasons from $4,000
TO 10000 head are undergoing the
fattening process
IL is not uncommon for the Flying
ID Ranch. as n Is called, TO yield 100,-
900 bushels of wheat in q year and
as much as $4,000 tons. of hay, to
say nothing of oats. barley. and other
Two-year-oId cattle are bought by
the thousand, turned into actions
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-20
SIDNEY

lJORTH-Miss Boyce's sclic Il clos
ed Friday with a Nmas tree for the
pupils. Clifford Powell and Robert
and Ethel Nichols were not tardy or
absent during the term, which IS
quite remarkable for Ethel as she is
only 4 years old.
Cedric Reynolds has installed a
Delco Lighting Plant at his home.
Christine Scott of Fairfield ) pass
ing the mas vacation with her
grandparents Mr.. and Mrs. S. +.
Clark.
Orange Penney of Augusta was a
caller in town Sunday.
Arthur Smiley has returned from a
short visit with his mother. Mrs.
Bna Smiley in Somerville. Mass, and
his brother Bert at Salem, Mass.
Rena Weeks of Bangor is passing
the Xmas vacation at Arthur Smi-
leS's.
The school at the Town Farm is
closed indefinitely on account of the
illness of the teacher Mrs. Winona
Golf.
George Sherrard is setting up a
blacksmith forge for Lynn Thomas
at Fairfield.
William Plisga is reported as get
tinp along very nicely with his
broken leg.
Don Stevens. Foster Sherrard and
Thayer Wiltshire of Waterville High
school are passing the Christmas
vacation at their homes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-20
KOretz Had an
Attack conscience"
His Relatives Saw

Chicago, Dec. 1S-Leo koretz, fu-
gitive head of the fictitious Bayano
River Trust Company of Panama in
which he induced his relatives and
friends to invest more than 5000
O0O. had an attack of conscience
Just before he disappeared, his rela-
tives testified today before a referee
in bankruptcy.
Koretz's relatives and those of his
wife told of their faith in the oil
promoters schemes and of their in
vestments in them often made at
their own solicitation. Just before
koretz left, they testified, he turned
| over $125,O0O at one time and other
amounts at other times as "divi-
dends" with Instructions to distrib-
! ute it among his relatives.
After the relatives of Koretz had
been questioned, Joseph Fleming, at
torney representing the receiver for
the Bayano Company, declared a
grand jury investigation to deter
mine the facts concerning the mon
ey left to relatives probably would
| be asked. Some of the relatives
have turned over money and Jewels
valued at 100000, ap art of the
conscience fund.- Koretz distribut-
ed.
Meanwhile government operatives
who have been investigating Kor-
etz's affairs declared that they be.
LEVIED they had uncovered the flu
gitive's trail. They intimated that
he was in hiding within a days ride
of Chicago and declared that they
, expected his apprehension in some
eastern city within a few days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-20
Threatened Strike
Starts on Cuba e. Z.

Havana, Dec. 19.-The long threat
ened strike of workers on the Cuba
Railroad became a reality today when
a number of the employees walked out.
Government officials assert the strike
has not become general. as many of the
employees are awaiting the arrival of
Secretary of Labor Betancourt. who
is to make final effort to settle the
dispute between the company and its
men.
The railroad runs from Santa Clara
to Santiago, with branch to Manzilla,
and government officials are anxious
lest the strike should seriously affect
the grinding of sugar cane. There
also is said to be some apprehension
that if the strike should become gen.
cral the movement might become con-
nected with the agitation of the Veter-
ans and Patriots Association.
The chief point at issue is the de-
mand of the men that the road operate
sugar mill trains instead of letting the
mills do this, as in the past. 1t is
contended by the men that il they
should work for time as employees of
the sugar mills it would affect their
standing with the railroad. especially
as regards pensions.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-20
Novel Window
display Attracts
Favorable Comment

A UNIQUE and interesting window
1isplay is that of the Waterfalls
Motor Co, on Bangor street. The
WINDOW Is OF course trimmed with
evergreen and the usual window
oecorations, but placed in the center
Oh group OF several fine Studebaker
ears Is mechanical device which in
serS ;s. many, both because of its
striking effect and because of fha
mechanical ideas which It demon
strates. oeioh-
rms consists of a Studebaker
crank shaft mounted on a suitable
support with the fan. on one end
ana commutator geared to the 9TH
er end. Near by is placed another
ran attached to a motor. and fhe
plase or air from this fan turns the
one attached to the crankshaft at a
rapid rate. "e :"
Placed above the crank shaft are
SIX SIX ngnts. which take the place of
SIX, and these lights are connected
tnrough the commutator in such a.
way that they flash on and off as the
crank shaft revolves, and clearly
demonstrate the way in which an
engine Tires" as we'll as the order
IN which the spark is conducted TO
the various cylinders. Colored lights
strung along the tops of the Christ
mas trees which are used as decor
atoms in the window are also flashed
on ana OFF by the same commutator
anu tle eccentric way in which they
appear and disappear is very uni
que.
The effect, of the brightly polished
crankshaft and the rapidly flashing
lgnts is especially beautiful after
DARKNESS and scarcely a person passes
the window without stopping to ad-
mire 1T and to study it as well.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-20
Inventions Rejected by Vested In
fereet,

IcFCSLS
Many startling and desirable in
VentiOnS are forced to languish I'M
used because they conflict with vest
ed interests or with clumsier inven-
tons already we'll established on n
very large scale, according to an ar
ticle by Waldemar Kaempffert in the
Forum. Wherever there is standard
ization, he says. there are powerful
vested interests. Let us take the
railroad as an example. There are
no railway trusts, but there are
standardized locomotives. cars,
tracks, and methods of operation
This standardized system of railway
transportation is far from being IA
perfect mechanism. 1t is direct de-
velopment of pumping engines
mounted on wheels to haul stage
coaches on rails. Imaginative out
siders have devised concededly prac-
teal mono-railways capable of tram
sporting passengers at speeds of one
hundred and fifty miles an hour.
One of them was Schlick, an in
genious German engineer, who ap-
piled the principle CT the spinning
top or gyroscope to locomotives and
cars mounted on wheels arranged in
tandem to run on a single ran. De-
railway magnates brushed Schlick
aside, pointing out that billions
would be required to reconstruct the
railways Of such a vast country as
the United States.
Similarly, there is no phonogtaph
monopoly. but extraordinary stand
ardization. The new talking machine
must play the old records: and new
records must be reproduced on old
machines. The inventor who seeks
TO reyolutionize the phonograph in
dustry with new and vastly better
methods of recording and reproduc-
ing sound would be as welcome
, as a bomb thrower in the court
Of the late Car. Hence Poul-
sens beautiful telegraphone.--.a IAN
instrument which makes it pos
sfble to record n whole opera. electro
magnetically on a fine steel wire and
to reproduce 1t without the kissing,
splitting. or scratching produced by
the contact of stylus on a disks
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-20
Professor Resigns
in Protest Against
Pastoral Letter

New Ork, Dec. 19-ReSignattOn
of DR.. Dickinson S. Miller, for ~
years professor of apologetics at the
General Theological seminary. i'm
portant Protestant Episcopal institu-
ton. was reported unofficially tonight
as protest against the pastoral let
ter issued by the house Of bishops at
their Dallas meeting.
DIR. Mllers reported resignation
was the outstanding development in
the religious controversy that funda-
mentalists and modernists of various
faiths have waged openly for the
past few days. While he could not
be reached to confirm or deny the re-
port, his intimate friends were said
to have announced that he would
quit the seminary at the close of the
present term and had accepted a
chair at Smith college.
This outward protest against the
pastoral letter, it was learned, was
but one phase of the situation at the
seminary. Members of the senior
class were reported harply divided
in their opinions of the letter. Many
students were said to be contem-
plating refusal to become. ordained
because of their modernist tenden-
cies.
DIR. Miller, it was said, resigned
because the letter officially pledges
the church to conservatism which
he cannot support. He began his
PEDAGOGICAL career at Bryn Mawr in
1893 and later went to Harvard ana
Columbia.
While the verbal warfare between
the opposing church factions sub
sided somewhat today, leaders of the
modernists said they expected the
report of the liberal bishops against
the pastoral letter in New York to-
morrow. Those who will sign it were
said to have been at the Dallas
meeting, but did not oppose the let
ter there because of their numerical
weakness.
Reverend DR.. Leighton Parks, rec
tor of fashionable st. Bartholomew
church in Park Avenue, whose SER
mon Sunday when he invited trial
Tor heresy brought to a head the
controversy in the Protestant Epis-
copal church, today broke the silence
he has maintained since then.
Declaring the '1imelight" hurt his
eyes both spiritually and physically,
Dr. Parks insisted that his action
Sunday in dofiing his surplice after
the service and going into the pul-
pit in Tle academic gown was mere
ly reverSion to an old custom in
the church.
He said he had used this custom
because last Sunday he had gone in
10 his pulpit as doctor of theology.
1t was not an ordinary sermon:
1t was lecture" he said.
Denying that his sermon was part
OF a general movement to prccipi-
tate an airing of views il the church.
DR.. Parks said:
Il do not belong to the Modern
Churchmen's Union nor to any other
: association of the clergy. and | con-
suited with no one in regard to what
l should say. 1t represented moth
ing but what I have been teaching
for the last thirty years. The SER
mon. however, would never have
been preached had I not been re .
quired by the canon to read the pas
toral letter"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-20
Firpo Wants U. S.
Boxer to Journey
to RuenOs Aires

Buenos Aires, Dec. 1s.-Luis Angel
Firpo, the heavyweight fighter, said to-
day he cabled his representative in
New York asking that he endeavor to
arrange fight between Firpo and Far
mer Lodge, or any other American
Heavyweight willing to come to Buenoe
Aires. as he desired to satisfy the de-
mand of his countrymen that he fight
In Buenos Aires before he returns to
the United States.
According to Firpo. the women's
Charity Association is prepared to pay
10000 pesos ($320O) to any American
boxer who will fight him here under
its auspices Firpo has agreed to
turn over his share of the proceeds of
the fight to the association.
Firpo says that the proposed fight
must take place not later than the
middle Of February as he intends to
leave for the United States early in
March. The Argentine fighter said he
had no knowledge Of any offer to ar
range fight between him and BARLEY
Madden.
Concerning his plans when he arrives
in the United States. Ffrpo says his
New York representative has notified
him that he had closed negotiations
for fight between Firpo and Martin
Burke at New Orleans. This will be
the first Of 10 contests arranged for
him in the United States and Canada
before fighting either Jack Dempsey or
Harry Wills. Baltimore, Quebec, To-
ronto and Montreal are on the itin-
erary of Firno for fights after he re-
turns to North America,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-20
REHEARSALS FOR
'PASS in REVUE"

Rehearsals have already begun for
me revue, Pass in Revue" which
Co. seth Infantry Brigade. will nre-
sent at G. A. r. hall on Thursday
evening, January II. This revue
promises to be especially fine.
Many of the songs are original
COMPOSITIONS with members of the
company and the entire plan of the
revue Is original. The guardsmen
Will be assisted in. this presentatio
by outside talent of high order.
the rehearsals are being conducted
unoer the direction of Sergeants
Harry Farnham and Charles RE
settle, both of whom are well known
through their association with anna
teur theatricals in this city. Every
member of the company is taking
hold of this affair with the finest
'of spirit and if this counts for anv-
thing, and it most surely. does, the
affair will be a great success.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-20
Brotherhood of
Engineers to Open
Bank inBOstOn

Boston. Dec. 19--The Brotherhood
Of Locomotive Engineers will open a
bank in this city February / next,
the first bank to be- operated by
unit of organized labor in this dis
trict, f.. s. Evans, special representa-
tive of the brotherhood, announced
today. The bank will be known as
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gir1eers Trust Company CT New Eng
land.
TheN announcement said that prac-
tically every member of the brother
hood in New England had bought stock
in the new bank and that it had been
decided to pay not more than 10 per
cent. dividends to shareholders. The
bank. 1t was said. will pay 4 per cent.
interest on savings deposits and 2 per
cent. on commercial deposits Of more
than $500.
The work of installing the bank here
is under the direction of the Brother
hood Investment Co. of Cleveland in
which city the Brotherhood Cooperative
Bank has been in existence more than
three years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-20
Americas Many Languages

It is said that in North and South
America no less than 120 or 100
absolutely distinct languages exist.
AS the growth of language is very
slow. it is thought that the fact of
the existence of so great a variety
of speech on the western continents
proves that the native red men have
inhabited them for many thousands
of years.
Another proof of the antiquity of
the American Indians. according to
some authorities, is the fact that
they represent distinct human
type, and the formation of such q
type requires thousands of years.
New York Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-20
The C,amjest Fish

The black bass will practice more
unexpected schemes to free himself
from the hook, and is much trickier
than the trout. The black bass and
the bull terrier have many traits in
common, and indeed the bass is an
aquatic terrier. When the bass feels
the prick of the hook his whole ma
ture asserts itself and he distinctly
exhibits the fact that he is mad.
His entire CombatiVe qualities rise in
rebellion and he makes the line hiss
through the water in his savage
struggles for freedom. Every trick
device at his command is exerted to
the limit. He will run around stumps,
dive under rocks, shoot into the air.
shake himself. throw his whole
weight upon the line. and dart in
every direction until he frees him
self or succumbs to exhaustion.
Nothing that lives will make a drawer
and gamer fight than a black bass.
and when he surrenders it is GER
tain that lie is completely done for.
-Sportsman's Digest.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-20
PALERMO

BRANCH MILLS-For the first
time there will not be any delivery
OF mail on the r. f. D. routes Christ
mas. Therefore, it will mean holi-
day for carriers H. A. Kitchin and
c. A. Worthing.
Mrs. Harold Kitchin. who has
completed her duties as teacher in
the high school at Jefferson, is : at
home.
Mrs. James Dinsmore will be in
Augusta this week to visit her
daughter, Miss Dorothy, and attend
Little Nellie Kelly"
Norman and Herbert Keller and
Arnold Clark have whooping cough.
Walter Wotrhing was in Water
vile, Monday.
There will be a social at the Com
r1unity House Friday evening, Dec.
%.
Mrs. Angie Tobey Of Albion was at
her old home on Parmenter Hill
Tuesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-20
Mrs. Coolidge Honorary President


While receiving the five-foot bag
of cookies baked for her by New
York Girl Scouts. Mrs. Calvin Cool,
idge accepted the honorary presi-
dency of the organization which now
numbers 100000 internationally.
Mrs. Coolidge said:
1T is with great pleasure .Nnat I
accept the invitation to becomW hon
orary president of the Girl Scouts.
l am very heartily in sympathy with
all its aims and feel that it is doing
a great work in training tn girlhood
of America in the highest ideals"
From President Coolidge came a
message of cheer for Girl Scout
Week celebrated nationally. the week
of October Goth. The week in New
York concentrated on the sale of
Girl Scout cookies by Manhattan
head toward the starting of fund
for the building of home for Ma
tional Headquarters.