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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-10-02

Mimi, won the health contest
for club boys and girls at the In
terstate Fair at Sioux City. Iowa.
Among IL state college teams
Judging dairy cattle at the Dairy
Cattle Congress at Waterloo,
Iowa, the Minnesota team, COM
posed of Rudolph Frokjer of
Askov, John Grathwol of Excel
sior and Frank Belle of st. Paul,
ranked fifth. The Wisconsin
team was first.
Many boy and girl calf club
members in Minnesota seem to
have the right IDEA, says an agri-
cultural extension leader of the
university. They will continue
in the work by caring for their
calves until next fall when they
can exhibit them as yearlings.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-10-02

Pulling farm last Thursday and Fri
day.
Teachers institute is being held at
Sandstone this week and the four
teachers from this township are at
tending.
Roy Brandt returned from Fargo.
n. d.. last Saturday after working in
the harvest fields near there for sew
eral weeks.
Mrs. Anna Mossberg and children,
Miss Mildred McEwen and Gustaf
Johnson were callers at the Clickner
home Sunday afternoon.
The plants and shrubbery seem to
be slightly mixed on the seasons this
fall. Mrs. C. S. Pulling has lilac
bushes that are blooming for the
second time this year.
Robert Pearson's sale last Wednes-
day was well attended and most OF
the things offered went at good
prices. The highest price paid for
COW at this auction was $50.
Several of the young people in this
community were entertained at the
Charles Brandt home Sunday after
noon in honor OF Uno's 21st birthday.
Mr. and Mrs. Strandberg and family
from Sandstone, we're also present.
Mrs. William McLevis passed away
at her home here last Friday. Sept
90. Death was caused by blood poi
soning resulting from slight
scratch. Mrs. McLevis leaves a hus-
band and two children. a brother,
Frank Thomas, and several sisters
to mourn her passing. Funeral SER
vices were held at the Catholic
church In Sturgeon Lake Monday
morning.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-10-02
NEW DIET MEANS
HEALTH IN WINTER

The long dull winter days of
bread, meat, potatoes and sweets
are past. The thoughtful, up-to-
date housewife right now is can
ming and storing foods to make
winter meals this year whole
some and satisfying. Her boys
and girls will come through this
winter freer from colds and i'll
ness and with roster cheeks and
brighter eyes than they would
under the old-time kinds of win
ter food.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-10-02
BOOSTS HOME MAN

Swift County Republican
This is Theodore Christianson's
territory and there is no doubt
that he will run strong here, but
in order to offset that Floyd Oh
son has appeared on the scene
and will appear again during the
very thick of the fight. There
can be no doubt that if the peo-
pie of the state look at the two
men and weigh the possibilities
for service which each can and
will give and look over the re-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-10-02
FARM SPARK PLUGS

Watch for early announcement
of Swine Feeders Day at Univer-
sity Farm.
The next annual meeting and
show of the Minnesota Crop I'M
provement association will be
held at University Farm the
week of the Farmers and Home
makers Short Course, December
20 to January 8.
Making the extraordinary
score of $50 points, Milo Richter,
sturdy club boy of Stewartville,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-10-02
KEEP CALM

This is a good time-now short
ly before election--not TO get too
excited over politics. Read,
study and deliberate calmly. de-
eide for yourself what you think
is best for the country as a whole
and don't let oratory or propa-
ganda do the stunt.
Regardless of who is elected
president il is the common folks
doing their daily duties in quiet
and unassuming way, abiding by
the law of the land and bringing
up children under good environ
ments honesty and respect
that constitute the backbone of
the nation and will continue to
do so.
There is no use of expecting
too much of the government. As
long as we have dishonesty
among the lesser lights we will
have il with the higher-ups, but
there really isn't near as much of
that as we sometimes imagine.
A shady politician has opportuni-
ties TO rise because there are
folks who will help and support
his election if they are given a
bite. However, every dog has
his day. II will go on for
while but finally is discovered.
Look what happened to DENLY,
Daugherty, Fall, Forbes and 9TH
ers. The mess was cleaned out,
and so others will be when they
become corrupt.
The way Wheeler and Dawes
are chasing around shouting. it
reminds fellow more of a con-
test for county commissioner or
the state legislature than a pres
idential campaign. They devote
little time to the issues of the
day but argue personalities. We
can never expect to find any man
for any ofhce-even president
who is perfect in every way,
shape and manner. BY the way
the national Democratic ticket
does not look bad at all to us this
year. The Democrats have Sc
lected real progressive in the
man of Chas. w. Bryan for the Of
fee of vice president.
La Toilette fills a place in the
Senate that perhaps could not be
filed as ably by anyone else. His
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-10-02

cords of each. that our next gov
ernor will be Theodore Christian
son. our neighbor and friend. The
man who was born and raised in
the country and knows the needs
of the farmer. A man who can
be trusted to work night and day
for the betterment of the state.
A man who has been true to his
principles when fortune awaited
him if he but turn the color of
his coat. The farmer cannot go
wrong when he casts his vote for
Theodore Christensen"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-10-02
LIKE TWO DEMOCRATS

The st. Paul Herald writes as
follows concerning two promi-
nent Democrats in the state:
While the Herald man is a
staunch Republican, a party man
who has always voted the straight
ticket and expects to continue to
do so, after all is said and done
we admire John ]. Ferrill Demo-
cratic candidate for U. S. Senator,
and Carlos Avery. Democratic
candidate for Governor. We ad-
mire them, not because they are
our personal friends, but because
we see in them the sterling quail
ties that go to make up ideal pub
lie officials. 1t seems too bad
that these two able men are tied
to and are candidates of a politi-
cal party whose past record has
but little to offer. 1t is true the
Republican party has made blum
ders and has selected some nigh
ty poor men to guide its desti-
MES, yet as whole the Republi-
can party, in season and out of
season, has proven itself the real
practical party. Compare records
and see for yourself"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-10-02

On another page of this issue
is published the proposed amend
ments to the constitution of the
state Of Minnesota as submitted
by the legislature Of 1923. There
are five of them. Read and study
them and vote according to your
convictions on Nov. 4th. There
are barrels of propaganda writ.
ten about constitutional amend
ments which of course is opinions
by interested parties. The
amendments as published in this
issue are the bare unadulterated
stuff as they will appear on the
November ballots. Let the word
ing of them be the deciding fac
tor in your yes or no at the cleo
ton.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-10-02
AID WHERE NEEDED

There is a great satisfaction
in knowing that what you pos
sess you have earned through
your own efforts, or that at any
rate it is not something inherited;
and accommodating through ones
own efforts is also by far the
most healthy method. But there
are constantly examples of folks
wanting easy money.
News dispatches state that
there will be a contest over the
will Of Lolita Crabtree, an actress
of by-gone days, who left approx
imately 1000, 900 to charity, cut
ting off relatives with 100000.
The $2,000,000 fund set aside
by the actress for the relief of
disabled World war veterans and
their dependents may be matched
in amount by her provision for
the promotion of farming. The
residue of the estate was left to
aid graduates of Massachusetts,
agricultural college.
The actress acted wisely in leav-
ing it to able-bodied relatives to
take care of themselves as she did
and giving aid to the less FORUM
ate or where aid is needed.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-10-02

Leopold and Loeb's college edu-
cations will be a great help at
Joliet. They will know just how
to break a rock into the proper
geometrical proportions. Fair
mont Sentinel.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-10-02
WINDEMERE TOWNSHIP

G. s. Pulling and Mr.. Overland were
visitors at the Theodore Lundquist
home Sunday afternoon.
Lambert Pearson OF Moose Lake,
plastered the crib silo at the C, s.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-10-02

Men who are willing to work
hard and hustle need place no de-
pendence on legislative enact
ment. Brown County Journal.
The Browning review., 1924-05-02
MAJOR ANDREW DAWSON
FIRST OF THE FUR TRADERS

"A EAJOR ANDREW DAWSON,
M after whom the Montana coun-
AvA ty Of Dawson was named, and
who was one of the builders of the
trading post of Fort Benton, of which
he had charge for years in the fifties
and sixties, had many narrow es-
capes from death at the hands of the
Indians and led an adventurous life
during the 20 years he spent in the
northwest.
When he died in his native coun-
try, Scotland, in 1871, as the result
of an injury sustained nearly 10
years before at Fort Benton, he left
The Browning review., 1924-05-02
Use Logged OFF Land For Grazing


That cows are successfully harvest
ing on logged off stump land districts
of western Montana where men and
machinery cannot, is the word re-
ceived in Missoula from Libby, where
it is said ranchers are going in for
dairying in a section where timber
has been cut.
Due to the expense involved in get
ting the stumps cleared from the
land, it is said, the process is slow
and the reports are that the ranch
ers of the Libby section are cultivat-
ing the small areas which they have
already cleared and are seeding down
the area covered by the tree stumps
for pasture land for cattle.
Dead limbs and timber have been
burned and a little effort has been
made at cultivating between the
stumps which is later seeded down
to clover, blue grass and alfalfa. Tho
experiment. 1t is said. has turned out
successfully, and the lands are giving
feed for the dairy herds while the
owners are gradually clearing the re-
mainder of their holdings.
Farmers who have a few dairy
cows and some chickens are finding
1t profitable, according to the re-
ports, but are gradually getting the
stumps cleared off, and in the mean
time enlarging the size of their herds.
A carload Of dairy cows was sold re-
Gently through the local dairy loan
association to farmers Of that section
and the delivery of the stock is now
being made.
The Browning review., 1924-05-02

three sons by different Indian mo-
theirs, born during his long period
at Fort Benton and other trading
points on the Missouri. One of the
latter, James Dawson, lived for many
years at Midvale, near the present
Glacier Park station, at the edge Of
the Glacier national park.
Dawson was born April Is, 1917,
at Dalkeith, Scotland, a descendant
on his mothers side from the Scotch
kings. and on his fathers side from
the Morse kings. After his early
school days he went to Edinburgh,
where he studied under the famous
university masters, and after spend
ing some time in the great Baldwin
locomotive works in England he left
Liverpool in 1843 for New Orleans.
From here he travelled by steamboat
up the Mississippi to st. Louis, arriv-
ing there absolutely penntless and
obtaining employment with Pierre
Chouteau & Company.
After a year in st. Louis, having
desire for the void and adventur-
GUS life Of the northwest, and being
intrusted with some important dis
patches for some Of the northwestern
fur posts, he left In company with an
other Scotchman, provided with a
! few pack animals, tent, guns and pro-
visions. While on the journey he left
camp one day in search of game and
during his absence his companion,
fearful Of meeting Indians, skipped
out with the pack animals.
Undaunted, Dawson, although
short of provisions and ammunition,
continued westward and for six
weeks was compelled to subsist upon
wild berries, but finally arrived at
Fort Laramie where he delivered his
dispatches.
From there Dawson drifted from
one post to another, always working
further west, and devoted much time
to hunting, trapping and trading
with tho Indians, who gave him the
name Of big Knife" from the fact
The Browning review., 1924-05-02

that he always carried sword, an
heirloom from one Of his ancestors
who had fought in the East Indian
and Peninsular wars.
In 1853 Dawson was at Fort Ben.
ton with Major Culbertson where he
was placed in charge Of the trading
post and where he was given the task
of converting the old fort from a cot
tonwood stockade into an adobe
brick fort, this change being decided
upon as a protection against the In
dians who had frequently tried to
burn the timber stockade.
Here he was the host of many a
distinguished foreigner, including
Count Koskiosko, a grandson of the
great Polish general, Count Kossuth.
Dawson had many narrow escapes
both from Indians and white men,
but always escaped through some un-
foreseen chance Of providence. Once
when bringing a freight train drawn
by oxen from Fort Union to Fort
Benton, the train stopped at a camp
Of the River Crows. and, as usual,
gifts were distributed to the Indians
Upon starting from camp the next
morning a young Indian, who had
climbed upon the side Of one of the
wagons, was dislodged by the jolting
of the wagon and fell between the
wheels where he was crushed to
death. Instantly there was a great
uproar and the whole train was sur.
rounded by an infuriated mob of reds
who demanded reparation for the
death of the boy.
Dawson secretly dispatched 6
young Mountain Crow to neighbor.
ing camp of that tribe to tell them
of Dawson's predicament and re-
questing them to come to his aid
All day the horde of infuriated River
Crows danced around the captives
threatening every moment to kill the
The Browning review., 1924-05-02

this story Of his death is given by
Prince Maximilian:
"Old Glass, with two companions,
had gone from Fort Cass (winter of
1929 to hunt bears on the Yellow
stone, and as they were crossing the
river on the ice farther down they
were all three shot, scalped, and
plundered by war party of thirty
Aricaras who were concealed on the
opposite bank" Gardner, who was
in the neighborhood with about
twenty men took three of the Indians
prisoners, and from one of them the
knife of Glass. His rifle was also
seen in the possession of another
Aricara. Maximilian says two of the
Indians were scalped by Gardner's g
party, land I received one of the
scalps as a present, which was unfor-
tunately lost in the fire on board of
the steamer"
The Browning review., 1924-05-02

whites. The Indians told them they
had until sundown to live.
Various subterfuges were tried by
Dawson and the Indians were given
presents of blankets, trinkets and
provisions in an effort to appease
them and to dispell the idea that the
killing had been anything but acct
dental, but they were firmly con-
vinced that the killing had been pur-
posely done and were eager for re-
venge.
The sun was just sinking when q
party Of 600 Mountain Crows rode
into sight, galloping furiously down
upon the camp of the River Crows.
At the edge of the camp the oncom-
ers separated on either side and cir
cled the camp. The chief of the
Mountain Crows rode up and threat
ened that II hair of Long Knife's
head was touched or any of his party
was hurt they would wipe out the
camp, whereupon peace signs were
made, the medicine pipe was smoked,
feast aud big pow WOW followed
and the whites were safe. For sew
eral days Dawson's train was accom-
panied and guarded by the friendly
Mountain Crows.
At another time, travelling alone,
Dawson awoke after a nights rest
to find himself surrounded by
party Of Is Indians. Recognizing
among the hostiles an Indian chief
he had once befriended Dawson put
up bold front and saluted them in
careless Indian fashion, whereupon
the Indians made friendly overtures
and induced him to share in their
morning meal Of pemmican. He
then learned that they had been
stalking him and had been around
his camp all night waiting for morn
ing to attack. Had he acted diff
ferently or attempted to escape he
would have been killed.
Dawson became the manager of
the American Fur company at Fort
Benton in 1856, and remained in
charge until 1864 when he sold out
his interests there to Carroll & Steel,
and returned to Scotland. During
the latter period of his stay at Fort
Benton he was paralyZed from his
hips down, as the result OF fall
sustained one night when the tenn
perature was down to 60 degrees be-
low zero.
Dawson had been playing cards
uHlll Idtc III IHc Nl5AC anu udu oIoA -
cd for his bed without a light, fail
ing to recall that trap door lead
ing to the cellar had been left open
near his bed. Stepping into the
opening he fell to the bottom where
he lay stunned the rest of the night
and was found the following morn
ing by his clerks, almost frozen.
He never recovered from this and
was an invalid to the time Of his
death. He died September Is, 1871,
at Dalkeith, and was buried with his
forefathers in the parish church at
that place.
Major Dawson had three sons by
Indian mothers. The eldest, Andrew,
was born at Fort Clarke and was
put under the care Of Robert Nor
gan, an old time Scotch friend, and
left we'll provided for. James, his
second son, he sent to Scotland in
1852 with his brother, Alexander,
who came over that year to visit
Dawson. His third and youngest
son, Thomas, he took with him when
he went back to Scotland in 1864.
The Browning review., 1924-05-02

provised some kind of shelter for
him; but their story would not be
credited If they did not have his
property to prove it, and shelter
would be certain to attract any pass
ing Indians. There was some excuse
for their failure to keep faith with
Henry, and for their cruel abandon
ment of Glass.
One of these men, the elder, Col
onel Cooke says was named Fitzger-
aid, and Captain Joseph LaBarge is
authority for the statement that the
younger was none other than Jim
Bridger; but this is simply current
report.
In accounts of following years
Glass is occasionally mentioned, and
The Browning review., 1924-05-02

Missoula - Announcement was
made here that the Montana-Idaho
company, a sawmill concern in which
Butte and Missoula men are inter-
ested, would soon start on a 10
year run near Big Springs, Idaho, on
the Yellowstone park branch of the
Oregon Short Line railroad.
The Browning review., 1924-05-02
SEVENTY YEAR OLD
DIARY UNEARTHED
RECORD OF DAILY DOINGS AT
FORT SARPY BY JAMES
H, CHAMBERS
Winter of 1855 Was Mild, and Came
Late in January; Fort Was Con-
, stantly Crowded With Hungry
Indians; Indian Wars.


One of the colorful histories OF
early days OF Montana, document
that obviously never was intended
for publication, Is the diary OF
James H. Chambers, q copy OF
which is In possession OF the Mon.
tana historical library. Chambers
wrote his diary over . period OF
years, the fifth being started ON
New Years day, 1865, at Fort
Sarpy, Montana. The Language ne
employed and the candor with
which he expressed h1mself ana
the nakedness OF MS expressions
Of opinions OF others prove con.
clusively that ne nad no 1dea tnat
his writings WoV!d ever see the IN
side OF a print shop.
It would be we'll for the gentle
reader to be prepared to skip sudden
ly entire paragraphs and pages, yet
in between such passages are set
down picturesque descriptions of life
in the territory that afterward be-
came Montana.
Part of Diary
Here is part of the entry for Jan.
I, 1855:
Here we have new year upon us.
God grant that it may be prosper
GUS one; not only to the natives of
the prairies but the white men that
are in this country, as also all others.
"Our little band of brothers are
celebrating the day with vengeance.
They are cooped up In the fort wait
ing for the Dawes heads party to
start and be killed and captured by
the Sioux"
Continuing the writer makes it
plain that the party that had been
guests at the fort and who were
about to leave at the risk of their
lives, were Crow Indians, who great
ly feared the Sioux. Chambers at
times expressed considerable con-
tempt for the Crows, calling them
towards, loafers and thieves. He de-
clared that they were the worst of
of the begging tribes and he saw in
them no virtues at all.
"six "a Blackfeet Indian) asserts
that q Crow can smell coffee five
miles, wrote the keeper of the diary,
who then expressed indignation be-
cause the cook at the fort had de-
clined to start the noon meal until
another party of visitors which had
departed had gotten six miles away
from the camp. If the departing
braves should smell coffee, he in
ferred, they would abandon their
march to war and return to the fort.
A Mild Winter
The winter of 1855 seemingly was
mild, On the first day of the year
Chambers wrote, $50 far we have had
no snow and but a few cold days
river still omen hut think it NAV
in his diary, the officer in charge
of the fort because of his generous
feeding of the begging Indian tribes.
on the 18th of January that year
after having complained Of the loaf
ing Indians about the fort for a week
previous, he contented himself with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

economic in it's character, and espe- cially every question that is embarras- sing to the party in power, we will reach that millennium when government through political parties will cease to exist. The very purpose of political parties is to frame politics and to exc cute them on all great questions that are national in their scope. Political parties that have ceased to have opin- ions or the courage to avow them have lost all reason for existence.
 "What, then, is the program which the republican party puts forward by it's accorded ~pokesman? It seems to have two propositions to submit: The regulation-which in this case, means the curtailment of production, in which connection, the statement is made that every reclamation project. whether by irrigation or drainage, furnishes added competition for existing cultivated farms. orchards and vineyards at a time when we are already seriously embarrassed by overproduction in many lines. Reclamation and irrigation, therefore, must be forthwith abandoned and multitudes of other farmers must make up their minds to quit farming or let their fields lie fallow.
 And the second proposal, in it's pros pect of immediate relief, is like unto the first, It has not even the merit of novelty, for its consists in remitting