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CHAPTER VIII-Continued

But how mademOiselle is indus
trious!" she exclaimed. looking in at
the door soon after MYRTLE had re-
turned from her early morning walk
and settled down to her sewing. Il
hope my stingy old aunt pays you well
for all that sewing"
"She gives me my board and lodging
here MYRTLE replied. with smile.
THAT more than contents me-"
Board and lodging! Oh, la, la !"
Annette declared, sinking into her ac-
customed chair. THAT would not con-
tent me. 1t is the tips from which one
can buy ones clothes. 1t amazes me
that mademoiselle does not ask Mllord
Dombey for some evening frocks and
attend one of his supper parties.
Charles, the head waiter, brings me
news often Of them. They are of the
most amusing. There are artists
there, and all manner of wonderful
people Has mademoiselle no curiosity
to see lifei"
MYRTLE threaded a needle carefully
before she replied.
Milford Dombey," she said, would
believe, take me, but Monsieur Chris
topher does not think 1t well that | 90
to those parties. He declares that
they are for people whom ! should not
meet"
Annette clasped her hands behind
the back Of her head. She was vastly
amused.
"Oh. la, - she exclaimed. "That
to
he make of life, that young man? Does
he think 1t well for a girl as beautiful
as mademoisele to sit here alone at
night and creep into bed. while mon.
sieur who adores her spends his time
with other women? Pooh! Mademoi-
selle should have courage"
MYRTLE laid down her work. Her
heart was beating fast.
Tell me. Annette" she begged
who are these guests of Milford Dom
bey? Why do they keep me away from
them?"
at is not Milford Dombeys fault"
Annette declared. "He Is a beau gar
con, that. 1t is the stupid Monsieur
Bent. who should have stayed at home
in his dull London. They are all well
enough, these guests of Milford Dom
bey's. Some sing at the opera others,
perhaps, have seen life in Paris. but
for that what are they the worse
what harm can they do? on, If | were
mademoiselle. should submit no
longerw
What should you do. Annette?"
Myrtle asked, haif-fearfully.
II should put on all my prettiest
clothes" Annette replied. entering into
the matter with animation. land !
should come to the hotel should
find my way to Milford Dombey-that
would be for me to arrange--and !
that was tired of being left at home.
Then ! would whisper one Or two of
the incest little things ] could think
Of into his ear, and ! would put my
arms around his neck. and-well-I
know Milford Dombey-he would not
send me away-not II were made
moiselle."
The work had fallen from Myrtile's
hands. She was sitting up In her chair,
her eyes very bright, her lips n little
parted. How fortunate It was that
Annette had come! Without doubt,
she would do this. Only one must be-
ware Of Monsieur Christopher Ae was
full Of droll ideas. He must ne made
- sndsrstaad Presently Annette Dc.
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say anything in behalf OF DR.. Piru2
remedies l will surely do p."-y
Wyoto Bertling, Route 5. Box 1
At all dealers, or send lOe to D
Pierces Invalids' Hotel in BuhL
N. Y. for trial package tablets
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lImy mother toldS'
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bic COMPOUND n
tiilrstbottleheIp.ds| tl
50 much thatfisss
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felt fine. l have +
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fea6y girl and =
lee,iIlng I,I strong r.
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weak, RUN down
after sickness
Lydia E Pinkham', w.
bic Compound Mad. is
DUDE Well and Stro.@a @

E Hartford. Conn. After ,
etcknese l was 30 weak that N|
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A Nurses Advice
to Women!

Rogers. (West Walnut Art-}
suffered for many years with uu,s
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-09-17

--sunburst Tractor DistIiiate can he
obtained at the refinery at Great
Falls, In your own containers at
about one-half the price of kero-
senc. II IL white. looks like ker0-
sene, IL thoroughly refined and
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-09-17
EvEMTFUL CAREER OF JOSEPH KPP PIONEER UPPER MISSOURI
RIVER TRADER is INTERESTING STORY OF EARLY MONTANA LFEF

raising and trading with the In
dams. His death occurred at
Browning, December 10, 1913.
Joseph Kipp married the daugh-
teer of Chief Heavy Runner, whose
camp was the one attacked by Col
onel Baker. BY her he had three
children, Mary, James and George
Kipp, and he also adopted and ed
ucated William and Margaret Fitz-
patrick-children of his wife's de-
ceased sister.
One of the early Montana legis-
latures granted Kipp the full rights
of citizenry. This was greatly APP
preciated by him, who resented the
manner in which the Indian half
bloods were regarded.
His was an eventful life. Com
ing from Fort Benton when it was
a trading post in the wilderness, he
lived to see a state born and reach
maturity. The buffalo, once so
plentiful, vanished before the in
flux of the whites; and the In
dams, Kipp's friends, have gone to
the Sand Hills. their place of de-
parted souls. Today but a few re-
main of what was once a powerful
nation.
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-09-17

During the fiscal year ending
June 30, IL high schools In Mon
tana conducted officially accredit-
ell Smith Hughes agricultural
COURSES and received federal re-
endorsement, according 20 the an
nual report OF NJ. J. Abbey, super
visor of agricultural education in
Montana. These IL high schools
complied with state and federal
regulations for conducting such
courses and the whole of the
expenses of carrying ON such work
WAS paid by the federal govern
ment.
MIR. Abbey reports that number
OF other high schools In the state
have applied for Smith-Hughes de-
partments under his supervision but
that a lack of funds will make II inn
possible to extend the work for the
coming year.
There were All pupils enrolled In
the various courses in the Smith
Hughes work last year and during
last winter ALB farm folks attended
the short courses held by these IL
schools. In many places unit courses
were held, in which special emphasis
was placed upon some single farm
activity such as dairying. cattle feed
ing, pure seed production, etc. There
we're 81 of such courses held, at
tended by 3,636 people. AT most of
the schools farmers short courses
were held during the slack seasons
and 1891 people attended these
meetings. A total OF $40 other meet
ings we're held by the agricultural
instructors and these were attended
by over 10000 farm people. Var
ious kinds Of demonstrations dealing
with farm practices to the number
of 294 were held and these were wit
messed by 5,613. The Smith, Hughes
men were called upon to make $50
veterinary calls and they vaccinated
1870 animals.
Miscellaneous duties OF the agri-
cultural instructors included the
writing of 1857 personal letters and
over 5000 copies OF circular letters,
preparing 1878 newspaper articltl.
making 722 field trips, distribution
of 44,400 pounds Of gopher poison
and h14,1T5 pounds OF grasshopper
poison, answering 1,b56 special calls
from farmers, finding work for 373
men, testing 3,003 samples OF cream
and milk, inducing 1873 young men
to attend school who would other
wise not have done so, supervising
the construction of s6,429s5 worth
of articles in teaching shop work,
saving articles valued at s3,169.30
through repairs, and assisting $50
rural teachers in teaching agricul-
ture. In addition more than so
farmers received instruction in win
ter courses In auto mechanics and
machine repairing.
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-09-17

liquor could not be obtained, SO it
was claimed, and this man Harding
determined that the law should be
enforced.
AS the prosperity of the TT.
Benton of that day depended main-
ly on the fur trade, it is said to
have resented this stand of the new
marshal, and to have been in sym
pathy with the recognized trading
methods.
Kip bought liquor and trading
goods in Helena and, although
closely watched by Harding, man
aged nearly to reach the canadian
line which was then not we'll de
fined, when the marshal overlook
him and attempted to place him
under arrest. Kipp told him he
had no authority as they were ov-
er the line. The marshal, unable
to prove that they were not in
Canadian territory, or perhaps
realizing that he was one man
against five, abandoned his pur-
pose, and returned to Helena. 1t
was later discovered that the at
tempted arrest took place across
the North Fork Of Milk river, at
least three hundred yards from the
border.
The first fort established by
Kipp was on the Belly river. There
he did such thriving business that
it led T. ]. Healey and A. B. Ham
ilton to embark in a similar enter
prise. Their post was built at the
junction of the ST. Mary's ars Bel
ly rivers, and named TT. Whoo-Up.
Kipp then left his first post, Fl
Stand-off, and built Fl. Kipp at
the junction of Belly and Old
Mans rivers.
The thriving trade done by the
Americans awakened the jealousy
of the Hudson Bay company, which
demanded that these foreigners
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Wo mem N ow u sing
Blind Baegages Vanity
Cases Find Place ON
N. P. Brake "Rods''

That the female of the hobo
species is becoming more and more
prevalent along the great steel
highways, 10 the opinion OF offic-
ers OF the Northern Pacific at Liv-
ingston. Within space OF "a hours
recently two trains passing through
that city gave evidence of having
passengers of the supposedly gem
tier sex occupying choice positions
where usually none but members of
the sterner sex may be found.
Perhaps the most suspicious evi-
dence that a woman had been riding
a train was in hand when the night
officer found on the blind baggage
a womang vanity case In which was
concealed a quantity of homemade
fudge and a dainty linen handker-
chief. Neither the vanity case nor
the handkerchief provided marks that
might lead to the identity OF the
owner,
The next call was for an officer to
20 to the tunnel and board and search
an incoming freight train on which
1t was suspected were two girls who
had escaped from the state vocation
al school at Helena. An officer made
the trip and his first proof that the
girls were or rather had been on the
train was when he saw them headed
across a field The start that the
youngsters had on the officer gave
him chase of mile and half be-
fore the first one was captured, the
second waiting and giving herself up
Whau fhe offfcnr aud har nartnar A..
the escape returned the scene OF
leavetaking.
One OF the girls was IA years of
age and had been committed from
Livingston recently because of
incorrigibility, 1t is said, and the 9TH
err was a 16 years old miss whose
home previously had been at Laurel.
The girls were provided with food
and warm clothing and returned to
Helena.
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-09-17
Mountaineers Find A
Glacier and Lake ON
lex ploring Trip Into
MI ontana Mou tains

Discovery OF lake and a gla-
cier, hitherto unmapped and un-
known, Is the net result of the ex-
ploration activities OF the mem
bers OF the Montana Mountain
GERS club of Missoula, on Its re-
cent trip into the Mission range of
mountains, according to Theodore
Shoemaker, guide of the party,
who has Just returned.
The lake is a mile long and half
a mile wide and drains into the Swan
river. 1t is shaped like a dumb-bell
and has been named Dumb-bell lake
BY the dicoverers. The large glacier
discovered has been named South
glacier and is west OF the lake about
"a miles from the Gordon ranch.
The party, which numbered 81, en-
countered seven grizzlies on their
trip and found one she-bear mother
ing three cubs. They followed this
bear for a long time and discovered
no evidence that the three cubs did
not belong to the one bear.
Six OF the party, led by DR.. Free
man Daughters of the university, as
cended from the east slope of the
mountains and came out on the
west side. Sixteen members reached
the top Of Mountaineer peak, height
OF $500 feet. Eleven members
scaled the steep sides of Mcdonald
peak, which rises to an elevation OF
10000 feet.
The main camp of the party was
pitched at Lagoon lake. In High
park a giant spring was discovered.
Mr.. Shoemaker reports that the La
COON lake trail has been completed
for three miles from Glacier lake.
which is 10 miles from the Gordon
ranch.
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should be driven out of the coun-
try. The government sent a de-
tachment of the Mounted Police
from Winnipeg to investigate the
forts. and confiscate any contra
band goods. Their coming was
the signal for Kipp's leaving Cana
da, and returning TO Montana,
where he and his partner carried
on a stock ranch at Dupuyer for
several years and did some freight
ing from Fort Benton.
Following the sale of the ranch
in 1877, and the dissolution of part
nership, Kipp bought Fort Conrad
from |. g. Baker. The next fall
and winter he traded with the
Piegans in the Bear Paws and at
the head of Crow Creek. In the
summer of 1879 at the request of
the Piegans he built post at the
junction of Warm Springs creek
and Judith river. Here Schultz
joined him, and they did a good
business there, and at Fort Carroll.
for two or three years, when the
days of buffalo hunting was over.
Kipp said; Il was born in the buff
falo trade. ! expected to die in it.
The buffaloes are gone; | don't
know what to do"
Returning to Fort Conrad he
built sawmill, taking lumber from
there to Fort Benton. He had ac-
cumulated a large band of horses
when, in 1888, the Crees stole them
one evening, and before dark the
Piegan friends of Kipp were on
their trail. The thieves were over
taken short distance from the RI
yer and fight took place, in which
three Crees were killed, and two of
the Piegans wounded. Most Of the
horses were recovered.
Fort Conrad was sold to lanes
McDevitt in 1886, and Kipp moved
onto the Blackfoot reservation,
where he again engaged in stock
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Joseph Kipp was born at Fort
Union, and spent most of his
youth there, or at Fort Benton, his
father having given him in charge
of the different factors of the com
pany, principally Andrew Dawson,
who was then factor at Fort Ben
ton.
Through contact with various
tribes and perhaps because of his
Indian blood or his having a natur-
al aptitude for the acquisition of
languages, young Kipp learned to
speak the language of the Sioux,
the Aricarees, Gros Ventres, the
Crows and Mandans.
While living at Fort Union it
is told of him that he persuaded his
mother to buy a Piegan boy who
had been enslaved by the Crows.
After going to the fort this boy
fell i'll with small pox. Joe Kipp
took him to his room, nursed him
until he was well and returned him
to his tribe by the first up-river
boat in the spring.
After Andrew Dawson left Fort
Benton it was bought by George
Steel and Matt Carol, who con
tinued the fur trade, and Joe Kipp
became one of their employees.
About this time or a little earli-
er, some miners had killed a couple
of Piegans, and the tribe had VOW
ed vengeance on all whites. George
Steel had a fine black horse which
he valued highly, and the Peg
ans coveted. The latter offered to
purchase it but Steel would not
sell. One morning Joe Kipp,
whose duty it was to care for it,
found that it was gone.
To add insult to injury, one of
the Piegans on going to TT. Ben
ton, delighted in haunting Kipp
with loss of the horse. He would
say: white Antelope has the best
buffalo horse that was in this coun-
try. 1t is big, powerful, swift
black horse. A beautiful horse.
Yesterday he chased a herd with
it, and killed nine big, fat buffalo
cows"
Kipp stood this as long as he
could, and then one dark night, set
out to recover the horse. Dressing
like an Indian, he went to the Peg
an camp and wandered around
there until he found the tepee of
White Antelope, which he knew by
the painted offers, White Ante
lope's medicine, which were rem
dered visible by the freight with
in.
White Antelope was giving a
feast, and Boosting to his guests
of the wonderful horse he had
stolen. Kipp went to the place
where the horses were picketed,
and by the sense of touch alone
found the one of which he was in
search. Cutting the rope by which
it was tied, and quickly mounting
the black he galloped away, riding
bareback, and with nothing for a
bride but the piece of cut rope.
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The noise made by the horse
aroused the Indians, who shot at
the escaping pair, but failed to hit
them. That night the black horse
was in its old quarters. To reward
him for the capture of his horse,
George Steel sent Kipp to school
for year at St. Joseph, Missouri
In 1869 Kipp joined the army as
scout, and was stationed at Fl.
Shaw. At the time of the Baker
massacre Kipp acted as guide for
Col. Baker, and tried vainly to con-
vince the latter that the camp he
attacked was not that of the slayers
of Malcolm Clark. We know what
followed when camp of friendly
Indians stricken by smallpox, was
wiped out of existence. 1t was a
long time before Kipp ceased to be
blamed by the Piegans for his part
in the massacre, because of his be-
ing with the soldiers on this oc-
casion, but at least they belived that
he was innocent, and their good
friend.
Before engaging as a scout,
Kipp and two other men prospected
along the Rockies as far north as
Edmonton. They found no gold,
but were not encouraged to remain
in Edmonton either by the Hudson
Bay company, or the Red River
half-breeds in camp near there.
Winter having set in, Kipp's two
companions decided to stay at the
fort rather than attempt to reach
TT. Benton at that season. ,Kipp,
however, undertook the journey,
acc npanied by a French Canad-
ian. They took with them no food,
and because of this lack of pre-
caution came near starving, the
buffalo having deserted that reg
ion. They killed a rabbit, and
nothing else, until they found a
nest Of field mice. These Kipp
used as a bait. A wolf was killed.
This supplied them with food, al
though the animal had died Of
strychinne. Several boilings re-
moved the poison--but in what it
was boiled, we are not informed.
At Belly River they killed buffa-
10, and from there to Fl. Benton
there was plenty of game.
After the Baker massacre, Kipp
became a fur trader; his partner be-
ing Charles Thomas. Then came
a blow to the fur trade. A new
United States marshall, by the
name of Harding was appointed,
and his headquarters assigned at
Helena. The United States gov
eminent, like the Canadian govern
ment, had made illegal the selling
of liquor to Indians. But liquor
selling was the backbone of the
fur trade; neither the Hudson Bay
company, nor our own fur com
panies paying any attention to the
law, except to devise methods For
evading it. The Indians would not
bring in their furs to a fort where
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-09-17
By Martha Edgerton plassmann.

"HE subject of this sketch was
personally known to many of
= those who may read it, and his
name but not his history, is fam
iliar to all Montana pioneers; JOS
eph Kipp, having been member OF
that organization.
His father, James Kipp, born in
Montreal in 1893, was of mixed an
cestry; on the paternal side be-
longing to good French family
his mother being of Scotch and
English blood. When but youth
he came to the United States, and
drifting westward like SO many
others of his race. finally reached
St. Louis, where in 1923, he en-
tered the employ of the American
Fur company, and filled many re-
sponsible positions. Several of
the early explorers of the upper
Missouri mention him, and all
speak favorably. OF these may be
mentioned Prince Macmillan and
George Catlin.
When the company decided to
extend its trade into the country
of the Blackfeet, none of its en-
ployes could be found, who would
undertake to superintend the err
ection of fort there, until James
Kipp volunteered for the service,
and il was he who built Fort Mac
Kenzie at the mouth of the Marias
in 1883. He left Fort Union, at
the mouth of the Yellowstone, in
the spring of that year, making the
journey up the Missouri with a
couple of keel boats loaded with
required tools, and goods for the
Indian trade. Among his cordel-
iers was Baptiste Rondin, a Lou
isiana creole, who never wore 9TH
er costume than that of his kind
a blanket, hooded capote, and
trousers and leggings of the same
material, the dress of the Cordel-
iers.
Kipp's biographer, ]. w. Schultz,
emphasizes the fact that neither The
Pinkuni (Piegans) nor the eros
Ventres attempted to interfere
with the building if the fort. This
may have been due in part to
James Kipp, but he might not
have been successful in maintaining
peace with these tribes, had not
earlier negotiations been entered
into with them by the company,
and form of treaty made.
James Kipp took as his wife,
the daughter of the famous Four
Bears, a noted chief of the Man
dams, Earth Woman, as she was
called She was remarkable in
many ways but chiefly for her gen
crosby. During the famine of
1928, when over 500 Piegans
died of starvation Earth Woman
although of another tribe, gave all
she had to relieve the sufferers.
Wherever her husband went she
went with him, until he left the
Fur company and returned to Mis-
souri,.
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The commercial club OF Malta has
been taking farm census with spec
ial reference to sugar beet produc-
ton, in an effort to bring o sugar
factory TO the Milk River valley.
Already replies have been received
showing that 1900 acres would be
put into beets In 1925, and that at
least $500 acres could be put into
condition for that crop.
G. Wilson OF the Great Western
Sugar company, has been In Malta
with |. d. O'Donnell OF the Great
Northern railway, surveying the field
preliminary to making a report to the
sugar company, with reference to the.
proposed factory, which II is hoped
will be located In the valley for the
1925 season.
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THOUSANDS GET
AID FROM SCHOOL
FARM INSTRUCTION
REPORT ON sNiITH-HUGHEs IN
sTRUCrION DURING YEAR
SHOWS WIDE SCOPE

Big Demand for Extension of Service
Program, But Lack of Funds At
Present Prohibits Compliance with
Requests for this School Service.