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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-17

Owing to the clouds of mosquitoes
present, court was held in the midst
Of dense smoke created by burning
pine boughs, which dispersed the
mosquitoes and we'll nigh dispersed
the court. At this session, Colonel
George May of Helena and Sam Word
of Virginia City, lawyers, occupied
opposite sides on almost every case
that was tried.
Gallatin City, after it's initial boom,
either did not look very good to the
sole newspaper of the territory, The
Montana Post of Virginia City, or
else community jealousy prompted it
to belittle the new community, as in
the issue of September 3, 1864, there
appeared under the captain "Galla-
tin City" the following editorial.
1--WE have got the headline, and
being loaded looks we'll on paper.
Not wishing to say by any means
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-17

corporation being approved February
2, 1865.
After the incorporation of the
county of GaTlatin the first meeting
of the county board was held March
IL, 1865, at the residence of A. F.
Nichols, near Gallatin City, and at
the meeting of June %, the same
year, it was agreed that the county
should rent from j. B. Campbell his
residence at Gallatin City for the
use of the county clerk at 5000 a
year. The board also appropriated
$4,000 for the erection at Gallatin
City of county buildings, which, how
ever, were lever built.
At the election of Sept. A, 1865,
"a electors appeared and voted at the
polls in Gallatin City.
The first district court in Gallatin
county was held in Major Campbell's
house in Gallatin City in July 1867.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-17
PROMOTERS DREAMED GALLATDN CITY, NOW
DUST, WOULD BECOME STATE METROPOLIS;
WAS FIRST SEAT OF COUNTY OF GAlLATNM

this is q paper town, ooh, MOI The
old mo~untaineers frequently resort
thither when game becomes scarce
in the settled portions of the terri
tory to hunt, and antelope are readily
brought down in the city limits. We
don't know the town company but
presume when they laid off the city
was like the fellow that set the hen
on an hundred eggs, he wanted to
see her spread herself.
1--WE learn at latest advices from
a gentleman who had just passed
through the city that it contained
one family, but they were daily look
ing for another. There was a GER
tain Mr.. Campbell who was some
two months in the country last year,
and who sometimes writes for the
Chicago Tribune. This gentleman
went home with sore feet published
a pamphlet giving all the particulars
of our territory, in which Gallatin
fills a prominent part.
"The picture in the pamphlet
shows a church with a somewhat tall
spire, a military post, with paper sol
diers, of course, a steamboat at the
Mudll Justly ulSClldlS lDS ntI Cdl 6OCos
etc. We don't know how much he
received for all his trouble, but if
he got nothing he must have been
taking "a drop of the critter,' until
steamboats,, soldiers, churches and
large townsites danced in his ina
gination, for surely none before or
since have been able to discover any
of these things. Having thus brief
ly described the city and having our
selves been sold, thinking at one time
to locate there, we of course feel a
little tender on the subject.
Whether Gallatin will be
able to hold her oats remains to be
seen but she is certainly at the pres
ent in bad condition, let it be record
ed. In the valley of the Madison in
the vicinity of Gallatin quite a num-
Der of farms have been opened the
present m y + ="
In 1875 Lieut.. Bradley, en- route
with General Gibbon and troops from
Fort Shaw to the aid of Terry, Gus
ter and Crook in the Big Horn coun-
try, camped near Gallatin City and
the old fort and under date of March
&c, 1876, he wrote:
"Soon after crossing the ferry (less
than a mile below the junction of
the Jefferson and Madison and a
couple of hundred yards above the
of the Gallatin) we passed the
few struggling houses known as Cal
City, and camped on the plain
half a mile below. General Gibbon
and Lieutenant Jacobs came up soon
after we formed camp, returning to
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-17

Sheriff Gordon, superintendent
Nicholson of the Canadian provincial
police, and Reid drove to Havre from
Great Falls in a binding snowstorm
and worked with a pick and shovel
several hours before the cache was
found. The officers were on the
point of doubling Reid's sincerity,
when he took the pick and himself
uncovered the cache. The bonds
were badly damaged, but the serial
numbers can be deciphered and the
securities are worth their face value
to the owners. The bonds could. not
be negotiated by the bandits without
detection but their value was lost
to the wner while they were miss
ing.
A dispatch from Edmonton says:
The announcement as to the finding
of the Canadian bonds followed re-
turn of Assistant Commissioner Mich
olson of the police from a trip south,
including points in the United States,
accompanied by Reid, to whom an in
ternational criminal reputation was
attributed.
Reid disclosed the hiding places in
Havre, where $3.50 900 of the bonds
we're found, it is related, and in
Stanley park, Vancouver where $72,-
600 worth were recovered. Reid
is 26 years old.
The bonds were taken from the I'm
ion bank at Foremost, Alta, and the
Royal bank, Ladner. The police
called the recovery of the bonds the
greatest coup in the seven years his
tory of the provincial force.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-17

the hotel for lodgings after spending
some time with US"
Two of the locators of Gallatin
City, w. J.. Beall and d. e. Rouse,
abandoned the place within two years
of their arrival in the valley for what
proved a more favorable selection. 1t
was in the fore part of July, 1864,
while Beall and Rouse were return
ing from Virginia City, where they
had marketed their crops of potatoes
and other vegetables at 40 cents per
pound, that they met John M. Boze-
man, whom they had known in 1868
and who had returned east that fall.
BoZeman told them he was pilot
ing an immigrant train from the east
oyer what is now known as the Boze-
man cutoff. He advised them to
move up the valley and to take up
land and start a town on the present
location of the city of Bozeman. He
also asked them to locate a claim
for him.
During that same month Beall and
Rouse located adjoining claims or
farms on the site of the present city
of Bozeman and built the first two
houses there. They likewise staked
out a claim for Bozeman on the south
side of what afterwards became Main
The houses built by Bell and
Rouse were of logs hauled from the
mountains. These founders of the
city offered and gave away town lots
to any who would locate there and
in this way donated most of the Main
property AS Bozeman went up
Gallatin City went down and finally
altOppthpr
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-17
Lantern Explodes; Barn Burns

A large COW and horse barn, valued
at $500 and a granary valued at
$1,000, were burned on the A. l..
Reynolds ranch, nine miles east of
Billings, it vas learned here.
According to Peter Yegen, Jr., who
was at the place adjusting the in
surance, Reynolds left a lighted Ian
tern in the barn while he was water
ing his stock some distance away
from the building. The lantern in
some way exploded, it is believed,
and when Reynolds returned the en-
tire building was in flames.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-17

Indian related the story of how he
and some members of his tribe had
wandered into a deep canyon in his
own country. They wandered so far
in that they were obliged to make
their camp and remain during the
night.
But they did not sleep, the Indian
related, for when it had become quite
dark they saw a bright light, like
a cleaning beacon, burst out of the
rocky canyon wall, and they could
not take their eyes from it. They
thought it the eye of the Great Spirit
and were much afraid.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-17
RECOVER LARGE
VALUE In BONDS
SMILING "JOHNNIE'' REID, ROB-
BIER OF BANKS, LEADS OFF,
GALS TO CACHE.
Sheriff Bob Gordon of Cascade and
Superintendent Nicholson of Al
berta Provincial Police Unearth
$123,OOO Bond Loot.

Recovery of $123,OOO in Cana
dian bonds at Havre on March ri
by Sheriff Gordon of Great Falls,
and Canadian officials was accom-
pIished as a result of a tip given
the officers by Smiling johnny
Reid, involved in bank robberies
recently, while he was in Jail in
Great Falls as a suspect in the
Fairfield bank robbery of last
April, Sheriff Gordon said. After
the cache at Havre was uncovered,
Reid accompanied Canadian Off
cers to Vancouver and pointed out
where loot was hidden there.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-17
His Last Shift

"This is my last shift" Michael
Shea, %, told the shift boss as the
cage whisked him into the depths of
the Black Rock mine in Butte Sun
day. I'm going to New York Tues
day." he continued.
Several minutes after he had made
the statement Shea was fatally in
jured. He fell 10 floors, a distance
of rs feet, down IN ore chute. He
died five hours after the accident.
Shea was an Irish immigrant and
had been in this country only a year.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-17

"That these state forests constitute
a trust estate, whose beneficiaries are
chiefly Montana schools, must never
be lost sight of. The proceeds from
this estate are obtained from the
sales of the timber crops. A per-
petual income from these sales of
timber requires that our state for
ests be managed to perpetuate the
production of timber crops. When
the timber crops fall, the income falls
The real test of forest management
is the value of the forest after a val
liable crop of timber has been har-
vested"
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-17

acknowledgements John w.
Langley of Kentucky has been in
dicted by a federal grand jury on
three counts charging conspiracy to
withdraw, sell and transport whisky.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-01-30
CONSIDER BURLEIGH COUNTY

The stability shown in Burlegh county and in Bismarck
evidenced by financial strength of big Institutions in
creased building in the city, good tax payments lack of
unemployment has been the subject of remarks by many
visitors to Bismarck last fall and this winter The situation
is however not surprising if the factors considered
Burlegh county awarded second place the state
show Her fine and known facts the acreage
sufficient to point the tremendous value of the
crop to the county.
Fair crops in many products increased sales of milk
turkeys hogs livestock penitude of feed all these
factors which have added to the stability of the county, 1t
is generally agreed that agriculture is not prosperous
orally would be foolish to contend that it s-but the
concrete evidence in Buregh county, at least is that
ditions not as bad many have painted.
The 100000 riprapping job the river, the citys
waterworks plant the heavy bungthese have absorbed
much surplus labor and have steadied the situation
Also Buregh county people generally got down to bed
rock two The ewar initiation ceased here
and elsewhere in western North Dakota before it did many
sections The peak of her troubles passed long ago.
corn hogs CATTLE dairyng poultry with rotation crops
hogs cattle dairyng poultry with rotation of crops
which includes grain raising The factors which have
stabilized Buregh county have stabilized other counties in
territory Expansion Of the state government has brought
increased payroll to the city, More coal mined in
Buregh county last year than any other county of the
state
The booster spirit ought never to die. 1t ought to be
uppermost in Bureigh county at time when the oppor
tunity for great development lies just ahead Her fertile
where fine be grown anywhere in the
cattle and turkeys be produced any section, will
within the next few be the of attracting
farmers struggling in states to the south under the
burden of too high priced land Land values will rise. And
many who believe they burdened by holding too
much land may within the next few years profit immensely
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-01-30
THE ANNAPOLIS CADETS

Secretary DENLY has issued an
order to the superintendent at An
napolis to the effect that any mid
shipman found guilty of being un-
der the influence of intoxicating
liquor or having liquor in his
possession within the limits of the
academy grounds will be subject
to dismissal from the academy
and from the naval force.
1t is lamentable that such an or
der should be necessary, but it is
justifiable and should he enforced.
Scandalous tales of drinking
among the cadets at the Naval
academy have circulated for some
time. The secretary now proposes
to enforce the extreme penalty
upon all those young men who, en-
gagged in training for naval officer
ship. violates the law which they
are sworn to obey and maintain.
Good discipline is the basis of
all efficiency, and discipline can
not be maintained with lawbreak-
ing. 1t is in the last degree i'm
portant that the future officers of
the navy, commanders of men,
trustees Of great responsibilities,
should be scrupulously law-abid-
ing and temperate. - Washington
Star.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-01-30
can8leA

about me, Ruth, although l am
Harry's largest creditor, but I would
rather you would not leave the
money in..Leslie's wall safe. In fact,
l think Leslie is very foolish to have
given you the combination. myself
did not know it,"
He was perfectly furious, Leslie,
and very meekly took my little roll
OF bills-which by the way was not
so little, and I was sure that he had
measured it's size-and put it in my
pocket. In doing so that trouble
some pearl fell upon the floor.
Fortunately it was rolled up in
tissue paper. Jack and l both stoop-
ed for it and reached it at about the
same time-at least our heads came
together with terrible concussion.
II beg your pardon" I said.
Jack was so angry that I knew he
would burst if he didn't swear, so 1
said, go ahead and say it," And
he certainly said it, Ruth.
In a voice of cutting coldness he
mentioned that he hoped he would
never find me prying into his wife's
secret hiding places again when she
was away. In fact, that he would
feel better if he knew his wife never
met me again.
l fled and there the matter stands.
Sorry, but that's all.
RUTH.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-01-30
EXTRA! TROUSERS! EXTR

look at the ground unless you want
to go in that direction.
ADVERTISING
The pipe named Gumshoe is still
missing. After robbing tobacco
store late last night it escaped by
tripping up three cops and suffoca-
ting all the firemen when they an
swered general riot call. Liberal
reward for the pipe, dead or alive.
SPORTS
There are good sports and bad
sports. A good sport is man who
can whistle "My Country Tissof
Thee" while paying his taxes. A bad
sport is a man who spends so much
time cussing Congress he has no
time to vote.
BRO. TOMS KITCHEN
When too lazy to wash the dishes
say you must let them soak.
BEAUTY SECRETS
Is some other girl taking your
sheik? Smear little glue on your
lipstick.
ETIQUETTE
Never say, 81 am glad to meet
YOU to n bill collector. This is
needless lying.
BEDTIME STORY
daughter, tell that saphead to
go home"
HEALTH HINT
Throwing the clock at the cat
may be fun, but it is considered un-
healthy by the cat.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-01-30
WOMAN'S LURE

What qualities of womanhood most attractive to
men? reader asking this question: says in his letter to
the editor II gather from movies and fiction and
stories, that the most admirable traits qualities in
bravery brains honor and loyalty Please write about
the most desirable characteristics of What must
she possess to be an ideal sweetheart and wife,"
Every gives lot of thought to this problem The
great philosophers have pondered it.
Pooling authorities: The most attractive and desirable
qualities in modesty, love- beauty loyalty,
pose, reserve, companonsp personal magnetism and
mystery.
Men, courtng for their future wives and mothers
of their Children nsnctvely seek, first of a love, mod
esty companionship and loyalty.
Beauty is the biological lure. But isn't it's influence
usay over-rated? Consider the multitude of who
quite contented pass up the beauties marry
only moderately attractive
Of course for the homeest in the world there's
who'll consider her the most attractive Yes love
is blind.
Handsome frequently marry homey women. Bril-
liant often marry with very little brains Prac
tical marry impractical Beauties mate with
commonplace males. Tall with short husbands Tall
husbands with short wives. Good arries bad. Small
der, love battles the philosophers
In the last analysis all this contradictory state of affairs
merely nature evening things upresorng the balance
between the the from veerng too far
from the normal appearances mentality,
tion and character.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-01-30
FILLING THE RANKS OF
TEACHERS

There are in New York state
10000 teachers. Their average
tenure is seven years; consequent
ly 5000 new teachers must be en-
listed annually to keep the ranks
full. The number of school chill
dren is increasing rapidly Every
year 1900 teachers are needed to
take care of the increase. To pro-
vide the $500 new teachers need
ed, 10000 high school graduates
must enter in the normal schools.
The high schools graduate about
"a, 900 a year, Of whom 5000 have
trained themselves for commercial
pursuits. OF the remaining 14.400
more than 1000 go on to college
leaving less than the requisite 10.-
600 for the normal schools. Every
one knows, however, that nothing
like 100 per cent Of this remainder
will enroll in the normal schools.
We should doubt that the percent
age would run above so or Co.
The New Republic.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-01-30
THE INVESTIGATION MANIA

Fear that opposition to an in
vestigation will be construed as an
admission that there is need for
one, is a bit of psychology that the
promoters of those congressional
probes thoroughly understand AS
a consequence congress is said to
be threatened with no less than
fifty investigations covering prac-
tically every bureau and commits
sion Of the government.
Everybody knows that in the ma
jOrity cases no useful end is at
tanned The government pigeon
holes are cluttered with reports
which have consumed weeks and
months Of time at a cost to the
public all out OF proportion to the
benefit accruing.
Too much investigation may be
as Improbable as too much legis-
lation, more especially as the one
provokes the other.-Lowell Even
ing Ledger.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-01-30
THE PRESIDENTS SPECIAL
MESSAGE

President Coolidge's special
message to Congress on the farm
situation in the Northwest confirms
in a striking and concrete fashion
the active interest in the subject
that was evinced in his first gen
eral message seven weeks ago. 1t
shows that he has made an extern
slve study of conditions and that
he is keeping an alert eye on de-
velopments growing out of what he
understands to be an unmistakable
agricultural emergency.
One Of the outstanding features
OF the special message is the Pres
ident's emphasis of the point that
this emergency is properly the
concern, not merely of the farmers
OF the Northwest, or even of the
entire business and economic in
terests OF the Northwest, but in a
very large measure of the country
as whole. 1t is in this larger
purview of the situation that he
summons both governmental agen-
cies and private enterprise to the
rescue of those who have fallen
victims to an abnormal complex of
circumstances.
1t is not at all in the purpose of
President Coolidge to be an alarm
ist. He is we'll aware that many
OF the farmers of the Northwest
are operating on profitable basis.
Where there is dairying or other
phases of diversified farming the
farmers are making their way, but
there is large number, not so
postured, who have given way un-
der the strain and who need out
side aid to put them again on solid
economic footing. Timely relief
for them will be timely relief also
for non-agricultural interests who
have done what they could to car
ry them along and tide them over,
If possible, to better things. The
President invokes assistance for
the interviewer interests that have
suffered, and are still suffering, in
common. He believes there is
broad field for a cooperative ef-
fort, the effect of which would be
felt distinctly for good by all the
cooperating agencies which may
undertake the work of mutual
AelDfulness.
When President Coolidge sug-
gests broad program for imme-
diate relief to relax the stress of
the emergency, he does not for a
minute lose sight of the fact that
'diversification is fundamentally
necessary for sound AGRICULTURAL
reconstruction in the Northwest,
or, in other words, indispensable
as a permanent farm policy. He
indorses the pending plan for gov
ernment aid in promotion of the
movement to balanced farming,
but he desires that 1t, as we'll as
other relief measures, shall be so
drawn as to safeguard adequately
not only the interests of the farm
ers who will he its beneficiaries,
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-01-30
MANDAN NEWS
ROTARY KEY
TO DICKINSON

Otto Bauer Of the Bingenheimer
Mercantile company has returned
from Dickinson where he had been
a delegate from the Mandan Rotary
club of which he is president, to
present to the Dickinson Rotarians
the key to the City of St. Paul which
is being passed from club to club in
this state.
Dickinson Rotarians have gotten
squarely behind the proposition that
the future of the Missouri Slope lies
in diversification of farming oper-
said Mr. Bauer. "The Dickin-
son Rotary club has announced it's
intention of giving fifteen prizes to
the boys between 16 and 10 years of
age who exhibit the finest samples
of corn raised on two-acre field.
Each entry must plant and care for
at least two acres of corn but is not
limited to, that small acreage"
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-01-30
F a nous Editor Solves
Hard Problem

Lately our trousers have been bag
ging so at the knees we found taking
them off at night becoming very
difficult.
Three weeks ago we could remove
them by imagining they were boots,
and tugging accordingly.
Two weeks ago we were forced to
start using a bootjack.
One week ago the bootjack broke.
Then, by nothing less than in
spiration, we remembered a "home
help" we wrote last summer. We
put the trousers on backward
After wearing the trousers back
ward three days the bag at the knees
was gone. Now we plan to alternate,
one day the trousers will be on
right. and the next day on backward.
If your trousers suffer from knee
bagging try this plan.
HOME HELPS
Letters from an old flame are fine
for starting fire.
EDITORIAL
A scientist is planning to send a
rocket to the moon. This is aiming
pretty high. Even if he fails, as
seems likely, he will enjoy the fun
OF trying. So the moral is: Don't
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-01-30
WHO MUST MAKE RETURNS.

''AAO NSAOSA NA1AAAA| ASAIA ~ ASAN0s
Every unmarried person who was
a resident of this state on January
1st, 1924, having net income of
81 1000 or over must file a return
even though no tax need be paid
Age is not material. Consequently a
minor child having an income Of his
own of 81 900 or over must file re-
turn.
Every married person having a net
income Of $4,000 or over is required
to file return. It is the combined
income Of the Husband and wife that
will determine whether a return must
be filed. 4 4;tss.e s. 2s,s| -.
Partnerships are not subject to
the tax but every partnership must
file return showing the income of
the. partnership and how much Of
that income belongs to each partner.
All corporations not exempt from.
the tax must file returns regardless
Of the amount Of their income.
Every fduciary or trustee must
make return for the estate or trust
for which he acts.
Every individual, partnership or
corporation being q resident or i1av-
ing place Of business in the state
must make a return of information
covering payments Of salaries of
$1,000 or over to payments of inter-