The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-05-10
GOLDEN JUBILEE
MONTANA PAPER
DAILY MISSOULIAN OBSERVES
ITS FTFTIETH BIRTHDAY;
SOME HISTORY
Frank HI. Woody, Who Was One OF
the First White Men in the Terri
tory, First Editor; Men Who Help
ed to Make 1t.

days ago with much eclat. Its
f0rbear, through several Journal
istic generations, was the M1ssOula
and Cedar Creek Pioneer, founded
In 1870, and under the late Frank
ii. Woody, who came to the state
when there were but three or fOur
white men in what is now Mon
tana, changed its name to the Mis-
sOulian and was its first editor.
Martin H. Hutchens, who lived in
Montana In the old days, and in
the interim spent many years on
newspapers in Chicago and New
York, is the present editor and
publisher.
The Missoulian's jubilee edition
contains much historical matter. A
sketch by Frank Woody is of special
interest and is as follows:
"It was a year or so before the
paper was named The Missoulian-
they called it the Pioneer-when ]
first came In touch with it. w. ].
Mccormick, one of Missoula's we'll
known pioneers, owned the paper
then. When he was called to Wash
ington on a business trip, along about
November or December, 1872, he
came to me and asked me to take
charge during his absence. I did SO
and before Mccormick got home a
printer named Chisholm and / decid-
ed we would like to purchase the
paper and run it ourselves. We
made the deal, but Chisholm didn't
stay long with me. He went to
Butte and I think he afterwards
worked on the Miner. He died there.
Then I took in Warren R. Turk, a
practical printer, who came here from
Iowa for his health, later dying here.
and Emil Turk. We disposed of the
paper while Turk was my partner"
Print Paper Expensive
"It cost something to print a paper
in those days." continued Judge
Woody's account. 81 remember that
our print paper cost us 1914 cents a
pound. We had to ship it from Hell
ena by stage. We were always shy
of cash and I "a tell you that the
shipments of paper anne over on the
stage in very small bundles. When
ever we expected a shipment 1t made
us hustle like blazes to raise the ne
cessary cash, There was never any
money in the newspaper business
then and everybody who had any
thing to do with The Muscular lost
money. There were only 400 or 500
residents here then and our subscrip-
ton list was not very big. I remem-
Der, however, that we sent a good
many papers up the Bitter Root val
ley, as there were no papers in that
then.
Scribner Territorial Secretary
II think often of w. S. Scribner,
who was w. J. McCormick's partner
when they first took the paper. They
purchased it when it's name was the
Missoula and Cedar Creek Pioneer.
5%cribner came to Montana as terri
.orial secretary. He served out his
lime and then was a trader on the
Flathead Indian reservation. After
Missoula he went back to
Cook county. He was a bright and
fellow. He died in Chicago
'ome years ago." +,
The First Devils (.
Frank Keim and R. A. Pelky were
he first printers devils in The Mis-
oulian print shop. Mr.. Keim is still !
well-known resident, while Mr.. :
'elky lived here for a good many :
ears and later went to Butte. Judge :
said that both of these boys :
7ere bad and mischievous, especially
Ir. Pelky, who was known to throw
way type to save himself the trouble :
f distributing it in the case. Frank :
-eim soon settled down to business, =
owever, and an early issue Of the 7
aper speaks of him as follows: .
master Frank Keim, a boy of IA 4
ears, commenced work on The Mis- :
oulian office about six weeks ago.. .
[e can now set a column of this
aper per day; but, what is more, he
set it without an error-his proof
ften coming from the proofreader
ithout a scratch. If any other office
the territory has a boy of that age
nd experience who can size up to
give us his name"
William Sturgeon was the first
an in the world to receive a copy
The Muscular. He ran a black
NTH shop at the time the first issue
printed. There had been some
OuUlO Will Lie plOOo anu hO Adu
zen sent for to repair it. He got the
ess fixed and waited for the forms
be placed. Then, when the first
py of the new paper appeared, he
abbed it and went across to his
op.
A Famous Extra
On July rs, 1877, word reached
that the Nez Perces, under
lief Joseph, were on the warpath
d were coming toward Montana, a
by way of the Lolo Pass. f
le news was brought by way of 8
dar creek and was ahead of the \
If party. The Muscular Of that /
.ernoon-July 25-issued an extra y
itch was dispatched eastward to q
Lodge as quickly as possible, y
d from there was sent to Helena +,
Butte. This was the states first II
Of the Nez Perces wal. The n
on that extra show that f.
ssoula was alarmed. Across the p
mt page was a line: "Help! Help! W
lite Bird Defiant. Come Running!" h,
g extra did the work; there were it
ned men in the saddle within a al