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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-03
KAY JAY
SPORT
CHAT

Pat French must be on the lob In
earnest for the Spindle City nine
When a manager picks up players like
ELL Alberts as nucleu, the chances
are that the downriver club will put
on a high class outfit this summer.
Every fan In the cities Of Lewiston
and Auburn is looking forward to that
scrap between DUDE and Laliberte Fri
Cay night. These boys are each conf
dent that the other is q setup and
someone is bound to be disappointed
Another feature of the evening will be
the fight between Levine and Bolduc.
Levine. smarting under his recent de-
feat at the hands of Chick Suggs, will
seek revenge on George. but that bat
tier says that he will repeat Chicks
act. Whichever way these bouts end
the card is an attractive one and the
fans should attend in body.
Tuhr, the Red Sox rookie hurler
caused n sensation when he pitched a
shutout in a recent exhibition game
If the youngster keeps up the good
work. aided by the veterans on Fohrs
staff, the SoX may not be the lea que
goats after all.
Rumor has it that The Northiand
towns will not have their usual CLASSY
outfits this summer. While this will
take away some of the excitement in
semi-pro circles. there is no great loss
without some small gain. and other ball
managers may b. able to obtain soma
classy players hitherto attracted to, tho
Millinockets by the high salaries PAID
by the Great Northern.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-03

Atlanta. Ga. April 2-CleveIand
(A)11; IA: q; Atlanta tS) 6; 6; /.
Smith. Coveleskie and l.. Sewell:
Myatt; Francis, Spates and Brock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-03

Palmetto. Fla. April 2-St. Louis
(N) 5: s; 4: Milwaukee CAD 1: 6; o.
Sherdel, Haines. H. Bell. Sotheron
and Lavan, Holm, Neidergall;
Shack. keene, Lingrell and Shinault.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-03

Greenwood, S. c., April 2-Toronto
Cd Ia; IA: 8: Detroit tA) IA; IL; S.
Faulkner. Thomas, Glazer and STAN
age. Vincent; johnson, Ludolph and
Woodall, Manion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-03
COLBY BASEBALL
COACH IS READY
FOR SEASONS WORK
(Special to Ilennebec JournaD


Waterville, April coach Freddie
Parent arrived in Waterville yester-
day afternoon to confer with Cap
tain Bobby" Fransen and Manager
Hale in regard to the baseball pros
poets and work at Colby college.
Coach Parent looked over the Col
by diamond yesterday afternoon and
stated that it was in excellent con-
dition for immediate practice, but he
did not count on the heavy fall of
snow which upset all Of the plans
which the Colby mentor has made
for the preliminary seasCn n. AS the
diamond looked after the unseason-
able snow Of Monday night and
Tuesday. it will be at least ten days
before the Colby nine will be able to
use the field, even if the weather is
most favorable.
Tomorrow afternoon at three
O'Clock the Blue and Gray mentor
will meet with all of the baseball
candidates in the college gymnasi-
UNI to confer with them and start the
ball rolling for the initial drive be-
fore the annual exhibition game with
the University of Maine which is
scheduled to be played n Waterville
on Patriots day. two weeks from
this coming Saturday. The Blue and
Clay men will have to get busy at
once ant will need = great Ccal of
work on the field after it is dry to
get into anywhere near condition for
the opening of the baseball season
and will be somewhat handicapped
by the storm. The work which was
carried on ty Prof. c. Harry Ed
wards two weeks previous to the
spring recess will be continued until
the time comes for the candidates to
report on the field.
Coach Parent would say little to-
night about the chances that the To-
cal collegians would have in their
state series games this year but he
gave the impression that Colby will
be very much in the running with a
large number of veterans from last
years team, many of them being
some very valuable men both in the
field and at bat. Providing that the
eligibility rules do not cut off some
of the best timber before the season
starts, the Blue and Gray stand an
excellent chance of making a show
ing as good if not better than they
did last sea son, when they tied with
Bowdoin for the first honors.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-03

New York. April Paul Berlen-
bach, New York middleweight SEN
sation who has begun n come back
following his recent knockout at the
hands of Jack Delaney. has signed
for fights during the next few weeks
at Buffalo. Pittsburgh. Philadelphia
and Waterbury, Conn. in addition TO
appearing in an Olympic fund pene.
fit here.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-03
Sociability Club Meets

cal patient at the Somerset hospit
is reported as gaining.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-03
Sport TablOids

New York, Apr. 2-Francis 7. Hun
ter. former indoor champion and
ranking star. was hard pressed to-
day to gain his semi-fnal bracket in
the national indoor tennis champion
ships, overcoming Merritt Cutter,
New ork. after a terrific battle, CT.
4-6, rs, in the fifth round.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-03

Now York. April mike McTiEuc,
worlds light heavyweight champion
has an injured left hand and arm as
a result of his match Monday night
with Young Stribing at Newark, 1t
became known today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-03

Pittsburgh, April o-Scoring the
winning goal in the last minute Of
play. Pittsburgh defeated the Boston
4. \. to l tonight in the fourth
game of the championship series OF
the United States Amateur Hockey
Association. Boston made its goal Ia
the first period.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-03
LOVELY POSITION NO BAR TO
SUCCESS FOR THRIFTY MAN
Ey S. W. STRAUG,
President American coc:ety for
Thrift.

THE recent death OF A II. Smith,
president of the New York
Central Railroad. brings 20 nGblic
attention the career Of man who
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-03

Augusta, Ga. April New York
(N 5: 6: /: Chicago CAD 4: y; 8.
Bentley. Barnes and Ainsmith. Sny-
der; Leverett, Lyons and Schalk,
Grouse.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-03

Benton, Mcnamara. Sperber and
O'Neil: Vance, Henry and Deberry.
Taylor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-03

st. Petersburg, Fla, April 2-Bos-
ton (N) 4; q; 0; Brooklyn (N) 8; 8;
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-03

New Orleans, La, Apr 2-St. Louis
(A) s; s.; o; New Orleans IS. AZ q:
8; 4.
Shocker, Psuitt and Severseid, Col
Inns; Caldera, Bent and Kline.
The Alaska fisherman., 1924-12-15
MAKES PROTEST
 CLOSED SEASON
Westward Cannery Man Says Reservations Driving Com
 pany From Field

H. o. Roberts, of the Kodiak ls land Fishing and Packing Company, of Uganik and Seward, plants being maintained at both places, passed through on the Northwestern and in a statement declared that the proposed closed season in his dis trict, "puts our company, composed of Alaskans, Anchorage and Seward residents, out of business entirely"
 MT. Roberts said that of 15,00O cases of salmon packed by his com pany this season, only 800 cases were of red and the remainder pinks.
 ''The red salmon has been practi- cally depleted in our district and conservation will not bring them back to that locality. Our company was formed three years ago and -'2 have much capital invested. First, we were required to observe closed period of 30 hours weekly, which was gladly done. Then came along the 60 hour period, and we obeyed. But the present closed season, which has been proposed, will put us out of business entirely"
The Alaska fisherman., 1924-12-15

Henry Bahrt was democratic watcher in Sitka, and for want of a better reason he challenged one voter, Russian, because Bahrt claimed the name was incorrectly spelled.
 Henry Bahrt learned his law while he was the deputy marshal at Sitka, and it is greatly to his credit that he was able to detect this little known crime of writing name in- correctly.
 It was a fine thing for Sitka that a man as busy as Henry is would consent to sacrifice one entire day of his valuable time in order that he might instruct voters how to spell their names and thus keep the ballot pure.
 It also speaks we'll for Sitka that Of the three hundred voters, Henry, even with his democratic eagle eye, could find only one who spelled his name incorrectly.
The Alaska fisherman., 1924-12-15
HYDABURC DELEGATES
 RETURN

On Saturday evening, November 22, one of the most enjoyable and inspiring meetings that Hydaburg has had for many year, was held at the Town Hall. The Sisterhoo1 had welcoming party for the re- turned delegates from the Alaska Native Brotherhood Convention at Hoonah.
 The splendid reports of the Con- vention given by Gideon Duncan, Boyd Nakathla and Sidney Carle took up all phases of the work and progress of the Convention. It was such a complete report and so we'll given that all who heard it were able to follow the entire program from the opening to the close with intense interest. The delegates made the people realize as never before the great work that the Brotherhood is accomplishing and the benefits to be derived from it.
 When the announcement was made that the 1925 convention was to be held in Hydaburg, the greatest en- thusiasm was manifested. The peo- pie feel the great honor that has been bestowed upon them and are going to work with but one end in view-that the 1925 Convention will be great success.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-03-13
The Jingle of Ghostly
Spurs

IN NE of the states institutions
possessed of traditions worth re-
~ calling is the Montana Stock
growers association, which came into
being when the cattle barons were
living and making history.
For many years the headquarters of
the association were at Miles City,
then the center of the free range
country. There, at the annual con-
ventions of the organization the kings
of the range met and conferred for
mutual good. With them came their
retinues of cowboys and wranglers,
good and bad hombres, who in their
picturesque attire and with their
~carefree mannerisms, made of old
Milestown, for the nonce, a town such
as writer's of the old west love to
about.
Whether it was sending a bunch
of two-gun men out after some com-
munity of rustlers who were violating
precedent by making mavericks out
of four-year-olds or taking care of
some other delicate matter in the in
terest of the stockmen, the business
was speedily and properly dispatch
ed; and, after a stirrup cup at the
old Miles City club, these lords of
the Montana pampas, rode back to
their herds and ranges, feeling that
they had done themselves and their
guild some good.
One can almost hear the jingle of
ghostIy spurs, the weird creak of sad
die feathers long passed. to dust, the
soft thud of mustang hoofs ON vel
vety grass that has been withered
these many years, as the memory of
those splendid men of the golden days
of the free range comes trooping back
to those who have not forgotten
them. And how some of them have
blazoned their fame on the pages of
history! One can conjure up the fig
ure of Theodore Roosevelt, tender
stockman of the border, in after
years a world figure, a writer, a SOL
der dear to the people he served, a
president of the United States. 1t
be hard to make some people
that this COLOSSUS in Ameri-
can affairs, was at one time a Mon
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-03-13

of soldiers, fighting against odds in
Central Africa. He, too, was a men,
Der of the association. Then there
was Pierre Wibaux, scion of a great
manufacturing concern at Marseilles,
France, who abandoned a luxurious
home and a certain future to come
into the western wilderness to be-
come a Montana stockman. His
bronze statue looks forever towards
the town of his creation, in the east
ern Montana county which bears his
name; John Clay, Marlborough schol-
ar, historian of the free range INT
his associate of those days, Charlie
Robinson, who were later to be-
come, as they are now, dominant fig
ures on the Chicago live stock mar
ket; Charlie Russell, the cowboy, now
the greatest of western artists; and
Teddy Blue of the Three Deuce ranch,
who refuses to abandon his vocation
Of yesterday and still rides the range
in a limited way in Fergus county,
near h Montana end of the Texas
trail over which he followed the long
horns into the state; the Bielenbergs
and the Broadwaters, the Poindex-
tiers and the Orrs, and a thousand
others, most of whom have gone
down the long, long trail, and who
belong to the ages. Living or dead,
they were stalwarts all, and Montana
reveres their memory.
But the organization they founded
survives them. 1t will meet next
month in Dillon, the Beaverhead
county seat, where the industry was
Graded, and where it still flourishes.
Here is a story by Homer Faust, on
the county to which the first cattle
came, with something about the
Beaverhead men who pioneered in
the industry. w. w. G. |
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-03-13

The whole country was as yet I'M
surveyed, of course, and the settlers
who desired to take up ranching had
only to look about until they found
a choice piece of land and then build
their cabins upon it. This was known
as a "squatter's right" and several
of the largest ranches in Beaverhead
county were originally acquired in
that manner.
First Cattle From California
Through the land itself vas thus
easily acquired the stocking of the
ranches was a far different matter.
Cattle had to be trailed overland
from great distances, some of the
first herds being brought from Cali
fornia, and the unknown character
of the country traversed, the hostil-
ity of the Indians and the natural
h%ardships of such a journey combined
to make the long drive a stupendous
undertaking. The first bands of sheep
were brought from oregon.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-03-13
BY HOMER FAUST

THERE is probably no section il
Montana hat is richer in 70.
A nance and tradition than Beav-
erhead county. There is hardly a
spot there that has not been colored
by historical deeds and incidents.
Through the valley and up the can
yon of the Beaverhead river the
Lewis and Clark expedition made its
way nearly a hundred and twenty
years ago. And over the same trail
traversed by those intrepid explorers
the old freight trains, many of them
drawn by oxen, made their hazardous
way, bringing supplies to the newly
discovered gold fields in Alder Gulch
and at Bannack. At Bannack, Mon
tana's first organized government
was set up, and the little mining
camp became the first capital of the
territory. Here Henry Plummer,
then sheriff of Beaverhead, and his
band of road agents, carried on their
reign of terror until the Vigilantes
organized and meted out crude but
effective punishment among the rob
bers and murdererS. In the Big Hole
Basin, Chief Joseph and his Nez
Perces Indians paused in their mem
orable retreat to make a desperate
stand against the white man.
Historians, however, almost with
out exception, have told only Of
events which followed and were dir
ectly connected with the discovery of
gold. Another field of development,
fully as important in the up-building
of the state and fully as romantic
as the search for gold, has been over
looked. Therefore, few people, even
those familiar with the story of those
early days, are aware of the fact that
Beaverhead county was the birth
place of Montana's great livestock in
dustry. Here the first permanent
homes were established and here the
pioneers of agriculture met with and
hardships and obstacles
that would have disheartened any
but the most courageous of e
All, of course, were brought to
Montana by the lure of gold. Proba-
bly, not one in all the hundreds who
rushed in following the discovery of
gold had any intention of making his
permanent home in the new, practi-
cally unknown territory. But those
with foresight oon saw that the
placer mines could not last forever,
they must soon become exhaust
ed, and in casting about for another
and more permanent source of in
it was only natural that their
eyes should fall upon the broad val
leys and verdant hills of Beaverhead
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-03-13

fornia in 1856 by P. H. Poindexter
and w. G. Orr and known all owe
Montana to this day as the "P. & 0"
company. They took up the present
ranch in 1865, driving in a bunch
of beef cattle from California and re-
turning the following spring for
more. These drives were %fraught
with peril because of the hostility of
the Indians. On one occasion the
"P & o" party was preceded by a
company of forty-one Chinese, and
all but one of them met death at the
hands of an Indian war party. Poin-
dexter and Orr were among the first
to bring cattle and horses into Mon
tana for breeding purposes.
Bandits and the Ranchmen
To Martin Barrett and Joseph
S~hineberger is credited the true be-
ginning of agriculture on Horse
Prairie, where they took up a claim
in the spring of 1863. Mr.. Shine
berger, however, went to Virginia
City, where he purchased a mining
claim, leaving Mr.. Barrett to care for
the ranch. No little amount of gold
was taken from the mine and for
safe-keeping Mr.. Shineberger turned
it over to his partner, making the
UP liOll fAlSlA4d Wy W IL Nv
at night, as holdups we're frequent.
During the days that the road
agents were in power Barrett and
~Shineberger experienced a great deal
of trouble because of a beautiful gray
horse owned by them and wanted by
Plummer's men. After several vain
attempts to make away with it,
Dutch John Wagner, acting upon the
advice of Plummer, stole the horse
and started out of the territory. Bar
rett's party pursued him, re%captured
the horse, n told him to leave the
country at once. This Dutch John
would have been only too glad to do
but his fate was sealed. He was
taken by the newly-organiZed vigil
ance committee, tried for his various
crimes, convicted and hanged, one
of the first of the road agents to
suffer punishment at the hands of
the Vigilantes. Other early day ran
cheers, too, suffered from the depre-
dations of the road agents, who stole
anything that struck their fancy.
To Craig Cornell, n of the 1865
settlers, belongs the unusual exper-
fence of having seen a city born and
grow to become a metropolis at his
very front door. His ranch is stu
dJ6Q OH Inc OulShlIlS VI OlAOhy "a
was nearly fifteen years after Mr..
Cornell had located on it that the
tent town of Dillon was built as a
terminal on the Utah and Northern
railroad. Even then no n dreamed
that the rough railroad camp would
ever become the center of a great
agricultural section.
There were a dozen other early day
ranchers who passed through all the
and privations connected with
ranching in a country frequented by
Indians and thieving road
and surrounded by unknown
territory. Phil Lowell, d. E. Metlen,
James Mauldin, A. F. Graeter, Thos.
II. Hamilton, w. B. Carter, Nathaniel
H. Wood and others all took up ram
shes on Horse Prairie or in the Beav-
Concluded on Agricultural Page.)
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-03-13

The majority of these early ranch
ers did not at once give up their min
ing operations. The close proximity
of Horse Prairie, which contained
choice farming land, to the Bannack
gold fields gave the settlers an OPP
portunity to finance their early
ranching activities by means of
wealth taken from the placer mines.
Few could afford to devote their en-
tire attention to their newly acquired
ranches. Some formed partnerships,
as in the case of Barrett and Shine
berger, and while one worked the
mining claim the other devoted his
attention to the ranch.
The first settlers in the Beaver
head valley were James Selway and
family, who came to the district in
1863. The log cabin which he built
on his "squatter's claim" was the
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-03-13

Always ask for Diamond Dyes"
and if you don't see the name Ola
mond Dyes on the package-refuse
it-hand it back!
Each 15-cent package of Diamond
Dyes contains directions so simple
any oma can dye or tint skirts,
dresses, waists, sweaters, stockings
kimonas, coats, draperies, coverings
everything new, even If she has
never dyed before. Choose any color
at drug store. Refuse substitutes!
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-03-13

tana stockman and a member Of the
Montana Stockgrowers' association.
Then one recalls the Marquis de
Mores, old world aristocrat, of the
blood royal of France, who dreamed
of accomplishing the impossible at
Medora, and who INDUCED in lido
syncrasies that brought to him the
contempt of the eastern border, but
died g~allantly like the brave man he
was, at the head of a forlorn hope
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-03-13

first in the valley and was a favorite
stopping place on the much travelled
road between Bannack and Virginia
City. The first product raised was
potatoes, which were sold al Bannack
for eighteen cents a pound.
One of the oldest firms of any kind
in Montana is that founded in Cali
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-03-13

The Last of the Cowboys-Teddy
Blue Abbott, of the Three Deuce
ranch in Fergus county, is the last
of the old guard. He refuses to
give up the place he won on the
Texas trail, 40 years ago, and he
still rides the range in a limited
way in Fergus county.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-15
Cannon Ball Baker
 Makes Record Run

The most convincing advertisement ever published for the Gardner car was written by Cannon Ball" Baker on the rut torn roads from New York to Los Angeles between 2:22 a. m. February 19 and 1880 D. m., February 2G. Fighting his way through roads hub-decp in mud--through rain. snow ice and slcet--up terrific mountain grades. with the wind howling at 60 miles an hour---across sand covered prairies where wheels spin and slide --"Cannon Ball" Baker has just driv- cn stock Gardner sedan. christrned ''T'hc Blizzard" from coast 10 coast in the dead of winter-3.SgS miles--at an average running speed of 30.9 miles an hour in : days. 17 hours and $ minutes The equivalent of a three years running at terrific speed in one week-in closed car Throughout the entire run. only one car was used and all driving was done by Can non BalI'' Baker. No man or no closed car ever equaIed this feat. ''The flow Of power in thut car was amazing" said Baker. as hc slipped from behind the wheel of the Gard ner at Jos Angeles.
 We churned through thr mud Of MissOuri's bogs. and across the sand swept prairies of Kansas-wc plung cd along the Santa IFc trail and over the Rockies with the motor humming beautifully. responding with an abundance Of power beyond our eX- peCtations. our speed often ranged as high as 64 miles an hour. At TO time were we pulled 10 the limit"
 Bakers record run has opened thc eyes Of America to the amazing per fOrmance qualities of the Gardner. It has clearly demonstrated the fact that Gardner will out perform any ear in it's class. That it will climb any hin in high that any other car will make -regardIess Of size or price. That II will go Z0 to 25 miles on gallon of gas. That it will stand up on all kinds of roads in all kinds of weather.
 You cannot ask more Of a motor ear than Baker demanded of the stock