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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-24
TOWN OF COTTONWOOD WAS JUDITH BASIN
CENTER BEFORE FOUNDING OF LEw1STOWM

TN the early sos before the Lew
istown of today was established
H. and when the livestock and min.
ing interests of the Judith Basin were
served by little trading points OF
posts scattered about that rich sec
ton of the state then far remote from
lines of railroad, there was a little
town about six miles south of the
site of the present city of Lewistown
known as Cottonwood. 1t vas at the
crossing of Cottonwood creek and
boosted a post office before Lewis
town became ven a name.
Today there is nothing to mark
the old town with the exception of
the Herman Often ranch buildings
and an old dilapidated structure that
was once the Dewitt hotel. The
hotel had been built by w. w. De
Witt and vas afterwards run by a
Mrs. Martin. Dewitt later moved
to Lewistown where he died.
Among other residents of Cotton
wood in the early eighties was George
J. Bach who was manager of the
Charles Lehman & Company, general
store, and who is now living in San
Diego: l.. w. Eldridge, who took up
a ranch and engaged in the cattle
business, and who is still living on
this place about a half mile from
where the old town stood; David L.
Shafer, who filed a desert claim en-
try upon land about a mile from the
town in 1882, and who is o located
in San Diego; and Edward Brassey,
now a resident of Lewistown. Mr..
Brassey was attracted to Cottonwood
and afterwards located about five
miles from the town, where the post
office of Brassey was later estab-
lished and of which he vas post
master. He moved to Lewistown and
was the first school teacher in that
The general store of Charles Leh-
man & Company, as pictured in the
accompanying illustration, was one
the principal business establish
ments of Cottonwood, having been
by the late Charles Lehman,
pioneer merchant of Montana,
whose several sons were afterwards
Tor many years intimately connected
With the various business enterprises
If Lewistown.
DuI llIlle meHCIOn VI inc IoWH u
can be found in Montana
historical references but it seems to
lave been started in 1881 or 1882
the Lehman store was built some
lime between 1882 and 1884, as
he first advertisement of the store
lppeared in the June 10, 1884, issue !
# the Mineral Argus, a weekly pa
'er published at the mining town of
Iaiden.
George J. Bach, who was a nephew
# Mrs. Lehman, managed the store
or the last five years of its exis-
until its destruction by fire on
he night of July 10, 1892. The
Concluded on Agricultural Page.)
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-24

traders, then through the Snake
river country to Walla Walla
where Whitman was afterward;
slain in the Cayuse massacre.
In 1888 another party of mis-
sionaries made their journey over
the trail and in 1910 Father De
Smet followed the trail from St
Louis to the Green river, and then
north to the headwaters of the
Snake river, joining the Flathead
Indians in the Pierre Hole valley,
and then with them up to Henry's
lake.
Father De Smet returned to St.
Louis in the fall of 1910, but the
following spring he again came out
via the South Pass to Fort Hall
and then up to old Fort Owen in
the Bitter Root valley.
During the subsequent rush to
Oregon, Utah and California this
route was used extensively, thous-
ands of venturesome pioneers max
ing the dangerous and heart-break-
ing journey, subjected to Indian at
tacks in which many lost their lives
and were buried beside the trail.
John c. Fremont, then a lieu
tenant, explored the region trav-
ersed by this highway in 1912, and
a second exploring expedition was
made by him in 1843.
1t was not until in 1862 that the
northern route was established by
Captain James l.. Fisk, when he
brought to Montana, then a part
of the territory of Dakota, a large
train of Minnesota emigrants.
Under instructions from the sec
of war Captain Fisk was
dispatched to organize, equip and
conduct an escort for an emigrant
train to start from Fort Abercrom-
bic across the plains of the north to
Fort Benton, Dakota Territory,
and thence via the Mullan road to
Walla Walla.
Most of this route was entirely
new, with the exception of some
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-24

The story of Mrs. j. ID. O'Sullivan,
heroine extraordinary of Sunburst,
who as the helping wife of a well
shooter calmly drives a 'soup wag-
on with so quarts of nitro-glycer-
inc in it and does not even become
hystericaI when it bursts into
flames is told in The Rig and Reel
magazine.
A picture of Mrs. O'Sullivan in
front of her log house home with the
historic soup wagon" parked in the
front yard accompanies the story,
The account follows in part:
Mrs. j. d. O'Sullivan, wife of a
well shooter got a real thrill in the
Sunburst, Montana, field a short
time ago-and so did the folks who
happened to be nearby.
Mrs. O'Sullivan frequently assists
her husband with shooting jobs
and thinks nothing of driving the
soup wagon She was doing hat
one day and was all ready to leave
Shelby with a load of so quarts OF
solicited nitro-glycerine.
"She was about to start her car,
when she discovered that some m
had locked the ignition and stolen
the keys. Her urgent appeal TO a
garage man brought the suggestion
that she cross the wires and run
the car by shorting the switch.
with the switch short-circuited,
Mrs. O'Sullivan drove merrily across
the prairies. All went we'll until she
reached the Sunburst field and drove
into camp with her precious burden.
The crossed wires started a fire, and
when she stopped the soup wagon it
burst into flames.
Did this woman start a rapid foot
journey across the prairie? She did
not-even though some of the in
stinctively brave men were in a sec
ond conspicuous by their absence.
But not Mrs. O'Sullivanl She calmly
ran to the cook shack, grabbed a
bucket of water and put out the fire.
when the erstwhile witnesses e
turned to the scene, northern Mon
tana had a new heroine. And Mrs.
O'Sullivan deserves that title-those
who were still close enough to hear
claim she didn't even scream"
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-24

"Mr. Garrett" said Secretary Jones
TITLED his article That Pain in Our
Northwest and the chief criticism of
his article is that he deals principally
with conditions which obtained in
some localities two OF three, and
even four years ago. The state is
not given credit for the remarkable
recovery hat was made in 1922 and
1928; for the benefits that have re-
suited from advancement of diversi-
f~ication, or for the general stabili-
cation that is widely recognized as
having been far advanced in the last
few months.
"The reader of Mr.. Garett's article
gets the impression that a rerspec-
tive view of Montana reveals a situa-
tion bordering on the hopeless, a con-
clusion that would be as unfair as it
would be inaccurate. County seed
bond issues that since have been
largely paid off are dealt with as if
they represent current conditions; the
relationship of foreign farm mort
gage concerns with clients in scat
tered locations is presented as if the
situation in this regard had not ex-
pired two years ago, and those por-
lions of the state which long since
recovered from the effects of post
war conditions are pictured only as
they were during the worst period.
Had No Initiation
Montana is represented by Mr..
Garrett as suffering from the effects
of a tremendous land boom; while
as a matter of fact there never was
an initiation of land values in the
state. Lands underwent a consistent
advance in price for 10 years prior to
1915, but at no time did conditions
prevail such as the writer leads his
readers to believe existed here.
eff the Garrett article were to be
summed up, a great fault would be
found in that it's trend is destructive
rather than constructive. 1t presents
the worst view that could be present
ed, without giving the other side. 1t
has all the damaging effects of a
ha1f-truth when the portion told is
the adverse view. Critics of the ar
ticle assert that it is unjust and will
injuriously affect the state at a time
when general conditions r very
favorable and the universal trend is
decidedly upward"
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-24

The accompanying map shows
the old South Pass, later known as
the Oregon Trail, which the artist
took occasion to designate as the
Bannack City route, although il
was never known by that name.
This trail led up the Platte river,
past Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie,
Fort Hall and Fort Bridger, with
one branch going down the Snake
river to Walla Walla, and then
down the Columbia river to the
coast, while another struck south
west to California. Another later
branch led up to the gold diggings
at Bannack in southwestern Mon
tana.
In the early sixties the Bozeman
cutoff was located from a point
near Fort Laramie and running
north of the Big Horn mountains
to Bannack and Virginia City, and
about the same time the northern
route was established from Fort
Abercrombie, running north of the
Missouri river to Fort Benton and
then by the Mullan road to Walla
Walla.
The Platte river route, later
known as the Oregon Trail, ap-
pears to have been first followed
by the early trappers and was little
known or used except by the trap
pers and fur traders from the time
of the Lewis and Clark expedition
until about 1882, but in later years
a whole civilization passed over it
and history was made by the men
and women who ventured over it.
Robert Stuart is credited with
having passed over this route as
early as 1872. Bonneville followed
practically the same route in 1882,
and Jim Bridger, Kit Carson and
other of the early fur traders knew
It well.
In 1882 nathaniel !. Wyeth took
MS first party out over this South
Pass route and he repeated the
Journey in 1884 with a second
party. The same year a party of
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-24
OLD MONTANA TRAILS FOLLOWED BY
THE ARG0NAUTS AND FUR TRADERS

NLD TRAILS, most of which
have long since been obliter-
- ated in the advance of civili-
cation and agriculture, trails which
were followed by the early fur
traders, then by the emigrants to
Oregon and later by the gold seek
ers, are prominently marked on
this old map prepared and publish
ed in 1864 before the territory of
Montana was created.
At the time this map was prepar-
ed the present states of Montana,
Idaho and Wyoming comprised the
Territory of Idaho created by an
act of congress approved March s.,
1868. The following year congress
enacted the organic act creating the
territory of Montana from a part
of Idaho territory, the act being
approved May 20, 1864, when a
temporary government was form
ed.
The territory of Wyoming was
cut off from what remained of the
original territory of Idaho by an
act of congress approved July rs,
1868, but the senate refused to con
firm the nominations of territorial
officers made by President Andrew
Johnson, and it was not until after
President Grant took office, March
1869, that territorial officers
were appointed and confirmed.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-24

Methodist missionaries was sent
over this trail and in the same year
DR.. Marcus Whitman and the Rev.
Samuel Parker, with a large wa
gon train, passed over this trail
through the South Pass, to the
Green river rendezvous of the fur
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-24
Terrv,s Best Calf

A. Harris, who resides on Komp-
ton bench, brought to Terry a veal
calf five weeks old which netted 1872
pounds. This is one of the best veals
ever seen on the Terry market, and
shows what can be done in this sec
ton in the way of raising veal for
market. The calf was never taken
from it's mother until ready for
slaughter, it being given all the milk.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-24

Pueblo. H. H. Low, IS, former
county judge and district attorney
and for many years a prominent at
torney here, was shot to death in
his office on the seventh floor of the
Thatcher building. Two bullets
struck the slain man, one entering
the head and the other striking his
heart. There is no clue to the muir
derer.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-24
DR.. c. J. B.
Dentist
Choteau, Montana
September IS, 1923.

September Is, 1928.
Radium Remedies Co.,
Helena, Montana.
Gentlemen:
I wish to speak in the highest terms for your Pyor-
rhea remedy.
had a case of chronic abscess of the antrum of
Highmore that had been operated on twenty-three years
ago, and since that time there has been six operations
before it fell into my hands, all without a cure.
This was an extreme chronic case of long standing
with old yellow pus of a cheesy nature and with a pocket
leading back fully an inch.
l used your sample of Pyradium in irrigating and the
ps commenced to come away and I can say now that the
case is completely cured. 1 contribute a great deal of
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remedy, and it affords me great pleasure in speaking of
your remedy in the highest terms.
Yours very truly,
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Ask your Druggist about Pyradium or Write
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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-04-24

Mexico City Three generals,
three colonels, four lieutenant col
onels and one major, all rebels, were
stood against the stone wall and shot
here the other day.
New Britain herald., 1924-06-23
LODGES AID TO COUiIIgiE

Y IS A common practice among the political inteliigentsia to regard sena- tor Lodge as having had q dislike for Calvin Coolidge from the day Coolidge turned from being small-town law yer 10 the more extended field of state politics Their present iciciu-Iiks at- titude toward one another is described az being merely an iutcusihcation Of consistent mutual dislike
 Yet Senator Lodge can be regarded as having assisted President Coolidge in mounting the steps that ted Co inc White House. In 1919. when the issue in Massachusetts was The police strike, and Mir. Coolidge was candidate Tor reciection as governor. no political voice was more effective for Mr. Cool idge than that Of Mr. Lodge. Y was Lodges words. Heres 10 tha pilot ~ho weathcred the storm. which were the slogan of the campaign and were displayed everywhere throughout the Bay State.
 Had Mir. Coolidge lost that election he would have never been considered for The vice presidency Had Senator Lodge at that time turned against Coolidge. and adopted an attitude of
New Britain herald., 1924-06-23
Observations On The Weafher

Washington. June 25.-Forecast for Southern New England: Showers and thunder storms tonight. prob ably clearing Tuesday morning; much cooler Tupsday; moderate tu fresh southwest shifting 10 west and n0rth- vest winds.
 Forecast for Eastern New York. Local thunder showers this afternoon Or tonight. cooler in northwest DOT tinus tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy and cooler. fresh southwest, shifting 10 northwest winds.
 For Connecticut: Conditions favor for this vicinity partly cloudy weather followed by local showers and slightly lower temperature
 Conditions. \ disturbance central this morning over Michigan has caused local showers during the last 2I hours from Nebraska eastward to t'runss ivani1 dOre than an I.,eh of rain was reported al places in Mis- souri. Minnesota and Illinois. The disturbance will pass ont the St. Law renee tonight Tuesday and Coanec- lieut. will be ou the southern end of it. The temperature continues high in fine sDaihefn and central districts bf IS loucr along the northern border.
New Britain herald., 1924-06-23
PAPERS IN THE PARK

Popular Walnut Hill park suffers in appearance each week due to careless visitors who litter its lawns with news papers and the remains of lunch boxes. The park last night was left in condition suggesting a covering of snow, so thick were the discarded papers.
 The park was thronged with visitors yesterday a large proportion of whom brought newspapers, many bringing lunch boxes. Of course, scarcely any, one went to the trouble to carry a newspaper back home, leaving the problem of collecting the sea Of abandoned papers upon the shoulders of the park authorities,
 The people naturally are entitled to make as wide use of the park as they desire; but. some restraint should be exercised in the practice of promiscu- ous throwing of papers within its con- mes. " IS not problem that IS con- fined to New Britain, as park ,authori- ties In nearly all cities have been wrestling with a similar problem, re- sulting in stringent rules being per petrated here and there.
 By calling attention to conditions, the Herald believes that most visitors to the park will see the justice of not Altering the city's most popular play ground with newspapers, lunch boxes and the undevoured portions or lunches, but to take care te place th"se thirgs in the proper recertaeles If there are not sufficient Of these in the park, the authorities should by all means make additions"
New Britain herald., 1924-06-23
DR. FRANK CRANES DAILY EDITORIAL
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By DR. FRANK CRANE

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New Britain herald., 1924-06-23

1 press through one horse town, with tho result of having the figures on the damage claim looking like my last years debts. The lenders shake as with chills, the motor has the whooping cough and does more knocking than the lady next door. Evidently tho flivyer was brought up on a side hill. as 1t takes great de- light in climbing places meant for mountain goats or in following roads that look as though they are being used for demonstrating farm tractors. Last Sunday my iliyver lost its tens per, balance and usefulness when someone cast a slurring remark about 1t causing it to skid into a re- spectable telephone pole that was minding its own business and didn't intend to move from anyone.
 l got thrown out but luckily had presence of mind enough to remem- Der my wrestling lessons and got a scissors hold on the pole.
 The niyver tried it's best 10 climb that pole but soon fell exhausted and rolled back in the gutter, which is no way for a full grown car to act, no matter how tired, grouchy or dis gusted with life. Climbing from my perch I viewed the remains. The flivver was doubled up as though it had convulsions and looked about as cheerful as a disappointed lover.
 All could do was to throw a few handfuls Of dirt on 1t, with tho words: May you rest in pieces"
 Yours most respectful.
 ANDY DALE.
New Britain herald., 1924-06-23
PARDONlNG IIFERS

A week or so ago the state pardon board freed two prisoners who had been sentenced to life Imprisonment because they had taken the lives of fellow human beings, The Herald at the time called attention 10 the danger of extending pardons to life prisoners and pointed out that at least one of the men pardoned would have been hanged or electrocuted in many other states.
 The pardon board can with profit consider the case of Henry R. Cham berain, alias Curtis, who was pardon- had served Sl years Of life sentence at the state prison at Wethersfeld for the murder of New Haven woman, the object being robbery.
 The murder was a promeditated well-panncd, eold-boodcd crime. As is the case with all murdefers who are given life sentences. he entered prison flaming the hope that the ultimate pardon would come. AS is usual, it did
 But like most criminal minded per- sons. Chamberlain could not resist the impulse for more crime. AS chronicled in tho Herald few days ago, Chamberlain held up and robbed a Brooklyn storckeepcr and was son- tenccd to IS years in Sing Sing prison. Almost six years after he was released at wethersfcld he again entered prison walls. When he is again rec leased, in 1889. he will have spent i6 Of his T4 years in prison.
 Chamberlain should never have been pardoned. The pardon board is showing too much leniency toward criminals of this type. As to our courts the only wayso combat crime is 10 make dire punishment a certain ty. The court room is no place for mercy in murder trials. The proper place to show mercy is before the crime. When the criminal minded realize that no mercy can be expected after a crime is committed. there will be decidedly less crime. English justice shows inc way English courts show as much mercy and lenicncy 10 criminal in England as they do 10 a dog suffering from rabies. That's why ma ior crimes are so few there.
 When in addition to manifest leniency by courts in Connecticut Is added the sympathetic. sentimental functioning Of the state pardon hoard, we sec such fellows as Chamberlain get out of prison and then commit another crime and get In again.
 Handling criminals is not putting on comic opera show. The rougher they are treated the fewer of them there will be to treat.
New Britain herald., 1924-06-23
THE CARRIAGE PROBLEM

Conscientious obiectors to the ac- emulation of well-fi cans of gar bage are being told it is said, that the garbage collection service of the city costs taxpayers only 20 cents year. Persons who are up In arms about paying for service and not getting any" are thus appeased and turn away ehastened in spirit and with the realization that what costs little is usually worth little-or less.
 But the cost of the service is not an issue, A garbage collection system that costs only 20 cents year is not worth it if the collections are not req sonabIy satisfactory. Citizens probably would be willing to pay more 10 have garbage collected without fail the year around.
 The present impasse in garbage col lections should never be allowed to happen again, Blaming it all on the contractors doesn't go far enough; they should have proper supervision to see that their work is done properly.
New Britain herald., 1924-06-23
4 MAIN STREET WELCOME

New York. which one would have thought is accustomed to receiving visitors boasting that there are al- ways Seo,0O in the city. is outdoing itself 10 welcome the democratic con- vention hosts. The outstretched hand savers of a Main street" welcome, Of such glowing hospitality as to suggest that Of a small town. Tho trg mctrop- oils has unbent itself.
 The New York newspapers have been running columns describing their city, which is intended to guide the far-fung phalanx of incoming dele- gates In sightseeing expeditions. 1n- cidentslly the descriptions might he an aid 10 the thousands Of cave-dwell- ing New Workers who have yet to see ss much about their city as an encr- getic tourist from the provinces man. ages to see before he leaves.
 Fifth avenue is all spruced ID with 4FdHiE 'ltCtiiC llEHlS huu DHullHE. tNH traffic officers in the conspicuous tradic towers have control of the avalanche sf machines like a field marshal has over an army Broadway, bcreft Of numerous once popular gathering places. soine Of which arc padlocked snd others good as padlocked, is not what it used 10 he. and the delegates from arid Arizona and piim Oregon may conclude it is not such q wicked place after all. In fact. some of the delegates will think it is not as wicked to tho square inch ss their own Main streets-and they probably will be right.
 Madison Square Garden, theheart Of the political industry this week. is the last word in modern efficiency. it seems. More than 500 extra teIe- phones have been instslled in and near the seat or dissertation. An enormous amount of talking seems to be expect cd. The venerable garden has been dressed up in sparkling attire and thc streets for blocks around reflect it's glory.