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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-16
Part III.

~ DON'T know everything that
took place between Tarbeau
- and Kilvert, after that Pool
room King had sent out for a micro
scope and a second green.goods
expert. But that paper made him
ready to deal with Hardman,
who Gains the money is coming
to him in job lots from Sicily.
through a lemon-importer named
Bastedo. And that deal means
that tonight Tarbeau is going to
take over exactly one half million
dollars in Hardman bank notes.
ST don't get the point" admit
ted wilsnach. after q moment OF
thought.
"It's this, Wilsnach;- one hun
dred thousand of that half mil
lion is going to be placed in this
city; another hundred thousand
goes to Chicago; another hundred
thousand to New Orleans; still
another hundred thousand to
San Francisco; and the remaining
hundred thousand is to be split
between Charleston and Denver.
That moneys going to be held
by Tarbeau's operators until. a
release date. Then it's going to
be let loose through the paying
tellers of those different pool
rooms. In other words, Wilsnach.
a half million dollars In bad
money is going to. be suddenly
exploded on the country. They
can get it out the same as Sadie
wimpel has been getting hers
cut. 1t will pass muster with
those poolroom patrons. It viii
spread like a sort OF scarlet
fever into commercial circles.
Then the coup will be repeated,
and the second half million will
make it an epidemic. BY
the time some bank expert
has spotted the stuff and the
general warning goes out, the
whole currency Of the country
will be infected with that bad
paper, and nine people out of
ten, won't even know whether
it's bad or good!''
w1isnach's eyes rested on Kest-
ner as the figure in clericals
took out a second cigar, lighted
It, and then looked at his watch.
my God. what a COUP" finally
gasped the man from the Paris
Office.
You see what it means-we've
got to jump in and stop that
half million from getting out.
They've got their own tailers.
/ made sure Of that yesterday
when I called messenger and
gave him a sealed envelope to
deliver, for a decoy. That mes
senger was waylaid and my mes
sage was opened and read. That
shows you we've got to do some
side stepping. We've got to get
that counterfeit paper; and we've
got to get Hardman or Lambert.
or whatever you want to call him.
Then we've got to get Maura
Lambert and gather in the Vim.
pei woman, and be ready and
waiting for Morello when he
lodges back from Washington"
"But what's the plan?"
TITS this: Lambert will leave
that Fifty-first street house to.
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Thrilling Story of the Secret Service, Daring Band Of
COunterfeiters and the Love of a Brilliant
and Beautiful Girl
and Beautiful Girl.

night at nine o'clock sharp. He'll
carry the money in a black club
bag, and he'll be alone. He'll
take a taxi.cab to Dfrlam's
Casino on upper Broadway, just
north Of One Hundred and First
street. And you will be driving
that taxi-cab.'
will ~" inquired WiIsnach.
That'll be all fixed, for unless
we get him on the wing we
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-16
DO YOU KNOW

Victoria, British Columbia, was
a mining camp sixty.seven years
ago. Today it is a beautiful city.
Flower borders round the graves
in British military cemeteries in
France and Belgium measure 23S
miles in all.
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can't land him without police
help-And this IL our case" Kest.
ner crossed quickly to the win.
dow and glanced out. Look at
that rain. You'll be rubber
coated up to the ears and he
doesn't dream Of your chauffeur
days in that old Poirret picture.
smuggling case.
(To Be Continued Tomorrow
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ANSWERS

To Yesterdays Questions.
/. The first excavation of Her
culaneum, destroyed like Pom
peii by eruption began in 1903.
2. The original Democratic
party came into existence in 1890.
3. Titan painted 1.-THE Descent
from the Cross" in 1875, the year
of his death.
4. Morse invented the electric
telegraph in 1882.
s. Chicago was incorporated as
a city in 1887.
Copyright. 1928, King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-16
The Origin of Ducat.

THE word ducat coin of wide through the Middle
Ages got its from the fact that it was first
struck by the dukes. The ducat first coined by
Robert, King of Cicily in 1910
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This Dau u. on HistOrv.

THIS il the anniversary of the DEATH 1916 Of Fppo
Bruneschi founder of the architecture of the
Renaissance. His final and greatest work was the
building of the Pitt Palace, in Florence.
Washington telegraph., 1923-03-09
IN ERTTSING EXPANDS
TRADE TERRITORY

An example of what judi
cious advertising, backed up
with service, will do in expand
ing a business may be seen in
the steady growth of the Bates
Drug Co., Rexall dealers of this
city. Mr.. Bates opened for bus
mess here several years ago in
a small way and he now has a
very much enlarged stock anG'
the trade territory ofsthe firm
is constantly increasing. No bet
ter drug store service is to be
found in this section of the
state than is enjoyed by pat
rons of this firm.
The Bates Drug Co. has
found advertising in this paper
one of the most effective means
of trad expansion and they be-
lieve in the judicious use of
printers ink. simultaneously
with the appearance of similar
advertising in the National
journals, the firm is running d
bi-weekly advertisement of the
various Rexall preparations.
This week they are advertising
Elkays Straw Hat Dye as an
easy way out of buying a new
spring hat and this ad. may be
Washington telegraph., 1923-03-09
CIRCUIT CLERK is
I'LL OF INFLUENZA

Mr.. L. F. Higgason, circuit
clerk, suffered an attack of
renal collie about 3 o'clock Tues
Gay morning. Two physicians
were called and it required six
hours to administer complete
relief. Mr.. Higgason had al
ready been confined to his bed
for two days by other illness
when the kidney attack came.
Mr. Higgason mas a fully de
veloped case of influenza. Mrs.
Higgason took her bed Wednes-
day from the same cause. Miss
McLain, a professional nurse
of Hope, is attending them.
Washington telegraph., 1923-03-09
IMPORTANT NOTICE

In order to help our friends
we have decided to reduce pri-
ces in all our lines. Everything
for cash only.
Furniture Factory: Anything
you want in high class furni-
ture made to order. We special
ize in Porch Furniture and
Chests. Prices: Porch Suits,
$1,000; Cedar Chests. $1,000
and $500.
Tailor Shop: Suits cleaned
and pressed, 75c; pressed, 35c
Barber Shop: Don't look un.
kept and uncleanly, be neat
shave, 15c; hair cut, 35c.
Shoe and Harness RepaiI
Shop: Prices reasonable.
DU DNEY BROS.
Washington, Arkansas
Washington telegraph., 1923-03-09
SEVERAL TESTS
EXPECTED SOON
DriILer HackdthOTne Returns
From North Feeling
Optimistic.

There is no material change
in the proposed local oil devel-
opment program as announced
in last weeks Telegraph. Mr..
Myers is in the North arrang-
ing final details for sinking a
test on his thousand acre block
/ IL miles from the Tycap
we'll and Operator Cavender
expects to be in position to be-
gin operations on his block
northwest of town, made up in
part of Haifke farm acreage, in
a short time.
Mr.. Hackathorne, head drill
er for the Tycap syndicate, re-
turned from New York ana
Grand Rapids last night. In a
telephone conversation with the
Telegraph man this friday
morning he said that things
were favorable for early re-
sumption of work at the Tycap
we'll, suspended several weeks
ago when a bit was lost in the
hole just as the producing sand
was reached.
Mr.. Hackathorne stated it
was impossible for all of the
Tycap stockholders to attend
the meeting at Grand Rapids
Wednesday, so no formal meet
ing was held at that time. He
said however, that all those
present were favorable to rails
ing the necessary cash to pay
off indebtedness and complete
the test. AssuraI ,,tswas given
that stockholders Not present
at the meeting would attend a
meeting Saturday for final ac-
ton in the matter.
Development prospects are
looking up and with proper CO.
operation there will undoubt-
edly be no less than three tests
going down in the vicinity of
Washington in at short time, .
said Mr.. Hackathorne.
Washington telegraph., 1923-03-09
LOCAL PARTIES BUY
NEW FORD TRUCKS

Three new Ford trucks to be
put in use on the Washington
Hope pike in transporting grav-
ell from the Gilbert pit, five
miles southwest of Washing
ton, have been purchased this
week by local parties. They
will be put into commission as
soon as the weather permits.
Those having new trucks are !:
Pilkinton & Springs, H. B. Will
son and A. G. Black.
The work of resurfacing the
pike was in a fair state of prog
ress when bad weather tied up
things.
Washington telegraph., 1923-03-09

American cheese, palatable
and rich in body building mate
rials, is a food that is not ap-
preciated by the American peo-
pie. 1t compares favorably
with meat in food value and
has the advantage that it can
be kept for some time without
ice, according to home Demon
stration agents of the Exten-
sion Service of the University
Of Arkansas, College of Agri-
cAure.
'srm-nomes should have
more of this food for the chill
dren. Rural people live active
outdoor life and need the spec
ia1 kind of nourishment that
cheese will furnish, as it is rich
in muscle and body building
material. Country homes could
have cheese more generally as
it is not difficult to make.
Cheese making is one of the
demonstrations in food produc-
ton work conducted by the
home demonstration agents in
Arkansas.
Washington telegraph., 1923-03-09

When the bowels are costive
the waste matter ferments,
producing a gaseous condition
that is disagreeable. To re-
move the impurities quickly, a
dose of Herbine is needed. 1t
does the work thoroughly and
pleasantly. Price 60c. Sold by
Bates Drug Co.
Washington telegraph., 1923-03-09

For rapid healing there is
nothing like Liquid Brozone. 1t
mends torn flesh, heals cuts,
burns or sores so quickly no
time is lost from work. Price
30c, 60c and $1.20. Sold By
Bates Drug Co.
Washington telegraph., 1923-03-09

Washington, Route 2, and Miss
Grace Garrett, Fulton; Hoyett
Ellis, 81, Hope and Miss Dee
Moone, 20, Hope.
Colored-Stepney Nelson, 5S,
Hope, Route A, and Emma
Bradley, 48, Hope.
Washington telegraph., 1923-03-09
JURY LIST FOR
CIRCUIT COURT
Which COnUenes In This City
Monday Morning,
April 2.

The list of Grand and Petit
Jurors selected to serve at the
April term of Circuit Court,
which convenes in this city
Monday April 2, follows:
Grand Jurors:
Jack Kent, Patmos
w. A. Moses, Hope, Route l
o. o. Brint, Patmos, Route l
]. N. Lewis, Patmos, Route
G. w. Meadows, Hope, Route
]. C. Jones, Fulton
Jim Davis, Fulton
A. F. Hanegan, Hope
D. B. Thompson, Hope
w. Y. Foster, Hope
R. M. Briant, Hope
R. C. Stuart, Columbus
Bob Levins, Washington
A. j. Robins, Ozan
j. D. Pickett, Belton
Lee Mitchell, McCaskill
Alternate Grand Jurors:
G. L. Thompson, Saratoga
C. D. Ball, Ozan
Geo. Wiley, Guernsey
Thad Clendenin, Columbus
]. Frank Ward, Hope, Route
Bob Taylor, Blevins.
Petit Jurors:
Geo. w. Mcdowell, Patmos
j. Waddie Turner, Hope, + !
Gus Smith, Hope, Route l
Bob Mayton, Patmos
Carl Reece, Shower Springs
L. P. Higgason, Ozan
John Reed, Hope
X. G.. McRae Sr., Hope
Luther Garner, Hope
Floyd Moses, Hope
D. M. City, Ozan
Joe Wilson, Columbus
Boss Eubanks, Fulton
Jim Daniels, Bolton
H. L. Sutton, Washington R
Tom Stuart, Blevinsi
Bert Scott, McCaskill
Gus Sevedge, McCaskill
H. o. Stuart, Ozan
Mont Turner, Patmos, Route
w. H. Weir, Washington
w. P. Singleton, Hope
Concluded on End pagej
Washington telegraph., 1923-03-09

Watch your children for
symptoms of worms. They un-
determine the health and breed
sickness. Use Whites Cream
Vermifuge. 1t expels worms
and restores health and vigor.
Price 35c. Sold by Bates Drug
Co
Washington telegraph., 1923-03-09
MARRIAGE LICENSES
ISSUED DURING WEEk

Marriage licenses issued at
the office of County Clerk C. c..
Stuart during the week follow:
Cliff McBrayer,20 Hope, r A.,
and Miss Ella Dye, Hope,
Route d; Grover Thompson, 21,
Washington telegraph., 1923-03-09

seen elsewhere in this issue.
The article advertised is al
ways displayed in the firms
show window.
Washington telegraph., 1923-03-09

To women everywhere Spring will
soon bring all the many problems
embraced in the word "hats." Not
the least of these is the natural
question, "Shall l wear last seasons
straw which only needs a different
color and new trimmings to suit me
exactly, or shall l experiment with
new straw which may not look
well on me at all?"
Why not let Elkay's Straw Hat
Dye settle the question? With this in
expensive dye you can make last sea-
sons straw look new and different
so quickly and easily you will won
der why you didn't try it long ago.
The results will delight you and
you will save considerable toward
other Spring apparel.
Elkay's Straw Hat Dye is perma-
nent and waterproof, dries quickly
to lasting, lustrous color and ac-
tually restores life to the straw. Di-
rections and brush with each bottle.
Select your favorite color from
the following: Dull Black, Liberty
Blue, Burnt Straw, Old Rose, Violet,
Natural, Gloss Black, Navy Blue,
Gray, Cerise, Sage Green, Cardinal
Red, Yellow, Cadet Blue, Brown,
Lavender.
Bates Drug Co.
WASHINGTON, ARK.
Evening star., 1923-09-09
ann 5 Studio Hats Are Distinctive
>." At$1 $50 and$16 Z<
EUery Hat Different
Therein Lies One of Their Charms

Peacock feathers, pheasant tails, showers
renched'' glycerine ostrich, cabochons of rib1
yer and velvet flowers add richness to the sn
edium and large shapes of panne and Ly,
|vet, and hatters plush of which the hats
shioned
That more or less elaboration in trim
ming is to be the style scheme of the pre-
sent mode is quite an acknowledged fact.
Nor is there SO great variety of color.
Oakwood, browns, combinations of black
and new blue, and all black are especially
favored
Shapes include the short back, the
poke, the style for bobbed hair, side
droop models, mushrooms. off-the-f face
styles, slashed brim and slashed crown
styles, etc.
Kann's-Second Floor.
Evening star., 1923-09-09
Boyshforn
BruSSiereS

Are preferred by
many women, be-
cause of their perfect
fitting qualities and
the long slender lines
that they give.
-Boyshform Brassieres,
made of a lovely quality
Skinner's satin, in pink.
white and black. Hook
back style, finished with
dainty a Ia lace $3.50
-Boyshform Brassieres,
made of pink fancy
striped material, with
dia phragm &1 EO
control. At ~A.oO
Others priced up to
$3.50.
Kann's-Second Floor.
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tached a crank formed out of an old
wagon tire.
"The lumber was very undulating
but it was of great service" said Fa-
Their Ravalli.
Another mill was built at st. Igna-
thus, in Missoula county, in the days
before the coming of the gold hunt
ers, and little later in the vicinity
of the placer camps numbering was
conducted on limited scale to sup
| ply the local needs. However, it was
| in the forests of He'll Gate canyon
that the first numbering of CONNER
cial Importance was carried on. Men
from Canada and the woods of Wis
consin and Maine were among the
pioneers of the industry in this sec
tion and in a few years vast ex-
panse of pine and fir forests was
felled. Small mills lined the He'll
Gate trail within a decade of the first
permanent settlements and the lum-
/ bering operations received new i'm
petus with the opening of the Nor
thern Pacific.
The Hammond people, organizers
later of the Big Blackfoot company,
on the advent of the railroad were
operating several mills in the can
yon, including a plant ON the flat
between the present town of Bonner
and the junction of the Blackfoot and
Clark's Fork.
Bill" Thompson, who was after
wards mayor of Butte, had been in
the lumber business in Silver Bow
county, but he also felt the need of
reaching out into new timber terri
tory. On October 6 a gang of SO
French Canadians under man nam
ed DeLong Invaded Cramer gulch
and proceeded to appropriate the tim
Der there for Thompson's mill
Their double-bitted axes slashed
rapidly" writes Arthur l.. Stone in
Following Old Trails, "and they lost
no time in getting them into action.
1t was good slashing and they made
the most of it. AS fast as they could
they placed the Thompson brand up
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Not only is Montana mining, ag'
ricultural and manufacturing state;
she also ranks high as numbering
state, Missoula being the largest lum-
boring center between the Twin Cit
les and the coast. There are con-
siderably more than 100 mills in act
i've operation in the state and the an
nual production for number OF
years has been in the neighborhood
of 300,000,000 feet. In the north
western Montana lumber district, OF
which Kalispell is the financial cen
ter, the standing timber has been es-
timated at 10000, 100000 feet, while
for the entire state the stand is es-
timated at approximately $4,000
100000. In fact, Montana has 3d.
100000 acres of mountain lands, for
the most part timber, supplementing
its 60,000,000 acres of valley and
bench agricultural and grazing lands
Of the timber lands of the state,
33 per cent is in private ownership,
six per cent in state ownership, and
three per cent in national parks and
reserved public land, while So per
cent is controlled by the national
forests, which cover 17,977,5S0
acres. The commercial value of the
forests in all ownership represents an
estimated community wealth of APP
proximately $1,000, 100000.
To state whose greatest resource
is its agricultural land, the value of
such a body of timber is incalcul-
able. This great body of forest land
,, ind frU
which, with its large pay roll, adds
much to the prosperity of the state,
and assists in furnishing market
for the products of Montana's farms.
The principal lumber districts of
the state border the tributaries of
the Columbia and the waters of the
Flathead basin and comprise the fol-
lowing counties in the west and
northwest: Lincoln, Flathead, Sand
ers, Mineral, Missoula, Powell and
Ravalli The mountains of Granite
county, which adjoins this area, con-
tain a vast stand of timber of which
little use has yet been made. An
other timber area with big possibili-
ties for development adjoins the yell
lowstone National park and COM
prises Park and Sweetgrass counties.
The lumber mills at Bonner, in
Missoula county, are among the lar
gest in the northwest. numbering is
the leading industry of Lincoln coun-
ty, and large mills are operated at
Libby, Eureka and Warland. 1t has
been estimated that there are 20,-
000, 100000 feet of marketable tim
Der standing in this county. Large
numbers of men are employed in the |
industry in this district and the lum-
Der camps furnish a local market for |
farm products. In Flathead county |
has large mills and at Som
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which had branded it. But some
times the theory didn't work. Bill
Harris and his two companions, Cor
bett and Clark, would come upon a
gang of the Thompson crowd load
Ing . log. The Frenchmen would put
their peeveys on 1t and roll it up the
skids. Harris would knock off the
peeveys. The opposition foreman
would replace the peeveys and tell
his men to roll her up Clark was
a combative chap and he would say
to Harris, Tear his head off,
perhaps there would be some
showing; maybe there would be a
blow or two struck. All sorts of
tricks were played. Chains were
loosened and loads dumped. 1t be-
came a contest of petty annoyances.
In the mixup of some of these
fights says Corbett, I have seen ex-
cited men try to cut log chains with
their axes. They would act like
crazy men,
"All through that period Bob
Coombs and Bill OConnell of the
Bonita force would make trips up
the gulch, each wearing big gun on
his hip
Ultimately a truce was patched up
under which each side agreed to let
the other use its roads, with the
timber of whoever should cut it.
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ers, where there Is also tie-pre-
serving plant, is one of the largest
mills in the state. About 1000 men
are employed in the lumber industry
in this country, the wages totaling
we'll over s1,000,000 annually.
The first saw mill was constructed
by Father De Smet and his Jesuit
companions at st. Mary's mission in
the Bitter Root valley, near where
Stevensville now stands, in what is
now Ravalli county. They cut whip
saw into the proper shape and at
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on the logs which they felled and the
invasion of the gulch was accomplish
| ing results that babe fair to spoil
| the timber reserve of the Hammond
mill"
Three men were building bridge
over a slough to connect the camp
with the mill, two AMI a half miles
away, when the invaders appeared.
One of these three was James d. Cor
bett, later a Missoula alderman. The
newcomers went up the canyon as far
as the new camp. Word of their
operations was sent to Bob Coombs,
foreman at the mill. Coombs started
up the canyon at once with gang
to drive out the Thimpson crowd
The three men on the bridge followed
at a safe distance in the rear to see
what would happen.
The Thompson men ignored the
orders to depart and showed fight
when Coombs became insistent Sew
eral hand-to-hand engagements fol-
lowed over the possession of the logs
which the Thompson crew was try
ing to load. The Frenchmen were
worsted in some of the encounters,
but they were rallied by their log
ging foreman, known as Miles, and
Coombs and his men were showed
back.
Coombs, in high dudgeon, retreat
ed. Meeting Corbett and his two COM
panions, he demanded to know why
they had not come to his aid.
81 told him." said Corbett in re-
/ IL
to be about man for man as they
lined up then and man that wanted
anything better than that was a poor
fighter"
The next moment Corbett was
looking down the barrel of a revol-
yer. One of the other two bridge
builders, man named Clark, grab
bed a peevey and rushed up.
"If you shoot, I'll stick this peeyey
through you," he said.
Coombs lowered the revolver.
To meet the emergency, lumber
man named Bill Harris, who had pre-
viously routed the Thompson forces,
was imported from Rock Creek to
take charge of the Hammond forces
in Cramer gulch. He had orders to
conciliated the two men and when
he started out with his gang he arm
ed the bridge builders with axes and
told them to come along. He made
Corbett and Clark his bodygutrd and
all they had to do the entire winter
was to follow him through the tim
Der, axes in hand, ready to support
him in his encounters with the enc
my.
When Coombs had met the invad-
ers, the Thompson foreman had Of
fered to fight him or any one of his
men to decide the ownership of the
timber in the gulch. Bill Harris, as
soon as he confronted the Thompson
foreman, demanded to know whether
that offer held good.
II will fight anyone in your crowd, |
he winner to have the TIMBER he |
shouted as he doubled his fist and |
5lared at his opponent.
There was no reply.
81 will fight any two of you," he
jailed out
The Thompsonites held their
peace.
81 will fight any three of you,"
zane the final def.
Still no reply. Both sides, however,
leld their ground.
'The war developed into a bush
contest after that" writes
Stone. sit was a case of get all the
ogs possible and get them fact. AS
DON as a tree was felled, it was
'randed either with the Hammond or
he Thomson brand and theoretical II
y became the property of the outfit
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Washington-A government guar
antee of wheat prices based on $1.75
per bushel for No. 1 northern was
proposed in bill by Senator Good
ing, republican, Idaho, to create a
federal wheat sterilization corpora
ton with $500, 100000 capital, sub
scribed by the government.