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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-08-14
By Martha Edgerton Plassmann.


THEW of the present day realize
what an uneviable lot was
that of the men who fought
the Indian battle of the Plains.
These followed the close of the CT
vii War, and soldiers of both I'm
ion and Confederate armies we're
engaged in them. Many of the I'm
ion soldiers objected to being sent
against Indians. They claimed
they enlisted for three years, or I'M
til the close of the Civil War, and
Icould not be sent onto the Plains
against their will. In one instance,
at least, their Discrimination for this
service almost reached the point of
mutiny.
The ex-Confederates who vol
unteered, were men who had lost
all in the war just ended, or they
had become SO accustomed to army
life that it unified them for peace
full occupations.
Most of both officers and men
were schooled in the methods of So
called civilized warfare, but were
woefuly ignorant of Indian tactics.
The white soldier considered a re-
treat cowardly, unless theirs was a
for1orn hope. The Indians, on the
contrary, were not given to max
in ga determined stand, but acted
on the principle that
"He who fights and runs away,
May live to fight another day."
Indians state that if Custer had
at once attacked the Sioux village,
at the Battle of the Little Big Horn
instead of hating until the encamp-
ment could be attacked from both
he would have won the day.
hating looked like a hesita-
ton, and it gave the enemy time to
concentrate their forces.
Through bitter experience, and
knowledge gained from scouts like
lin Bridger, who we're thoroughly
,%onversant with the ways of the
ed man, our soldiers learned how
o fight Indians. Without their
scouts, the army would have Jared
ar worse than it did. It suffered
because of its own ignorance, and
llso on account of the failure Of
he Government to cooperate with
t. {
Our National Capital was located
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-08-14
LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF CONDITIONS ON
THE PLAINS MADE INDIAN WARFARE ON THE
FRONTIER "A DIFFICULT, COSTLY UNDERTAKING

When Investigations of Credit
Mobilier were in progress, Col. San
ders was visiting Washington. In
terest of the public in this national
scandal was SO great, that it was
difficult to gain admission to the
hearing, unless at the imitation Of a
senator, or a member of the lower
house. Martin Maginnis, who was
the Montana representative, asked
the Colonel to one of the sessions
of the investigation. Together, at
the appointed hour, they entered
the Capitol, and sought admission
to the hearing. The doorkeeper,
recognizing Col. Sanders, as hav-
ing been there the previous day in
company with a senator, permitted
him at once to enter, while barring
the door to Maginnis, UNTIL HE
BE IDENTIFIED.
Rapid transit by rail, by auto
mobile and airplane has eliminated
distance, and at present Montana
representatives are not unrecogniz-
ed and the Far West is no longer
the almost unknown region that it
was at the close of the Civil War.
A few military posts had been
established along the route leading
to the Rockies and beyond, the
most important of these being Fort
Laramie on the Platte. At the
smaller posts the soldiers stationed
there led a monotonous life, with
little to relieve it but fear of being
These posts had nothing
to make them attractive, not even
their surroundings. When we
passed any of them, the soldiers
would flock to our camp and beg
my father to let them accompany
him, he being entitled to a military
escort. Sometimes they brought us
game. The first bear meat l ever
ate vas such a gift. But gifts and
petitions were alike unavailable,
ny father believing that an escort
was unnecessary.
When the Indian situation be-
,ame acute, and General Caring
on was ordered to build two forts
the heart of the Indian country
o protect travellers on the Boze-
nan Trail, although against the
protests of the Indians, the Gov
'rnment had an opportunity to
'rove its efficiency, and signally
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-08-14

failed. It failed to support the
force it sent into the field, either
by showing confidence in the offic-
ers it had chosen to conduct its
campaigns, or in providing the
needed supplies. At the time of the
Fetterman Disaster, Mrs. Caring
ton states the Indians were far bet
ter armed than our soldiers, whose
stock of ammunition was almost ex-
hausted.
AT this critical time, from a de-
sire to economic, General CARING
ton was commanded to dispense
with Bridger's invaluable services.
But to this the General would not
consent and continued to employ
the scout.
When the powerful Indian tribes
of the northwest forgetful of in
terracial feuds were uniting for a
final stand against the whites, and
there were almost daily hostile de-
m~onstrations in the neighborhood
of Fort Phil Kearney, the first fort
built by Darlington; when a guard
had to be sent out with the men
sent out to get wood, and when
en- this precautionary measure
could not prevent some of them be-
ng killed; when the enemy came
close enough to the stockade to
shoot a sentry; the Eastern Jour
Concluded on Agricultural Page.1
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-08-14

at a central point, when the states
stretched along the Atlantic sea
board, and there was no West to be
considered. But as the country
grew, it left the capital in the rear.
At the time of the Indian troubles,
it was farther removed from the
seat of war than Africa is from
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-08-14


ling piece of new eve sent
out of Montana was the an
nouncement of the massacre OF
General Custer and his command
in 1876. The terrible news came
like a bolt from a clear sky and
brought a feeling of sickening hor-
ror to every man who read it or
heard it on the street. There were
friends and relatives of the slain
men in all parts of the nation and
the gallant commander was him
self something of a national hero.
For two days the nation waited
breathlessly for information re-
garding the disaster additional to
the brief announcement of the cal
amity that had been sent out as
soon as the news had reached Bis
marck, N. D., which was then the
extreme northwestern office of the
telegraph company. The first
message was a brief one, but after
all it told the whole story.
That message was a bit of wire
talk" sent from Bismarck to Fargo
on the morning of July 5, 1876, and
it said, "All the Clusters are killed"
The message was sent by ]. M.
Carnahan, who as late as 1900 was
manager of the Western Union Of
flee at Missoula, and it was thus
that the news was first sent east
ward.
From Fargo it was repeated to
St. Paul, and St. Paul sent it, in
urn to Chicago, and from there it
was passed along to cities, towns
md hamlets, telling its brief but
:errible story, tersely but complete
y.
There was but a single wire east
rom Bismarck in those days and
government business had the first
all upon this. Consequently oper-
tor Carnahan had only time to
lash forward this brief message
f general information before he
vas compelled to begin the trans !
nission of the official report of
General Terry to the war depart +
1ent. For "a hours he sat at the
:ey clicking off this mass of Of
icia1 correspondence.
All this time the eastern papers J
we're clamoring for news, but it I
ould not be given them. So per- {
istent were these demands for c
ews that Mr.. Carnahan obtained :
lie permission of Colonel Smith, +
lie member of Terry's staff who
ad brought in the official dis {
atches, to make up a short "spe-
al' from the information obtained
the reports of the officers. This /
,ecial was sent to the New York U
and is believed to be the
rst authentic news of the Little
ig Horn massacre that was sent :
it, aside from the official dis |
i
]. M. Carnahan, the operator who II
Mt this message and who later T
ansmited all of the kilograms u
rwarded by special correspond io
is who were in the field, was an er
d-time t~elegrapher. He learned 10
profession in the little office at &C
Ohio, when he was II fl
ars old. His first office was at n
Landing in the same state, CO
d he soon afterward became ex- &C
man on the Cincinnati & Mar of
ia railroad. Later he entered the Sc
Union at Cincinnati and m.
IN there to the Nashville Cotton
change. =,
It was at that time the Pacific &a1I
company was organized to ha
nbat the Western Union and If
rnahan entered its employ at FL
From there he was sent
manage the company's office at
Crosse, Wis, and remained wv =
re for four years, when he was :,
+ RI +ba frop+iar office If Pic WV
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-08-14

Concluded on Agricultural Page,
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01
PORCIPINE PETE GIVES
 VIEWS ON OIL SCANDAL

Editor Seward Gateway,
 Dere Frend: Didn't write yu no letter last week cause on acct l got a lot of mail and new Sears Saw buck cat log, and l was readn lot of these chechawker papers. Now 1 see in one of these here N. Y. papers what is dated Nov. 23 1923 which was a littl before the Dempcrats began pourin oil on the Republican troubled waters, that this here feller Harry r., Sinclair what used to be a drugge3t but IS now havin trouble with hlS tee pot dome boiljn over so much told a friend of hisn in Washington last spri1g that he had achieved success 1 ov payin no attention to Rockefcllers rules fer success.
 "The man succeeds says Harry who IS willin to take c!r ce. l like peo- , Ie to know i'm I gambler, says liar ry. they bring me tnci1 new idcj ana plans. IT. you let precedent bind you .inwn, says Harry, you'll never get anywhere, in the long un says liar ry, s,ll of life and a. of business i; the art of taking c'lances.
 Now I reckon from all the free ad ve:t.'>en Harry is gcc.;n now he nus have told :. wEole bunch of trends h. rl'es. I reckon he made em th.ng his
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01

Steve Broto r';es beat the Rockefel- Ter rules ani the Marquis of Queens bury rules al hoi.-'
 But allow that tic feller what found out that Harry liked to gamble a D.t and brought him the teapot iat1 Gad a good idea but IS plans haG a bad Fall.
 Now 1 ain't never read Rockefeller rules none ard I'm bit shy on M, juis of Queensbu,y out I recolle-t as how Hoyle says n his Guide to Good Gamblers "in the lo"g run takin chances is O. k. but the art is in not gittin caught"
 Have to quit now on account of havin to stir up the sourdough.
 PORCUPINE PETE.
 P. s. If you don't git this letter let me know. P. F.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01
FORMER SEWARD BOY
 WANTS RETURN TO ALASKA

Harry Lery, who was formerly sta toned in Seward in the Fifty-ninth Infantry, but who is now located at Texarkana, Texas, writes that many neo,ale in his section aye talking of visiting Alaska, and that he himself is coming back as soon as possible. MT. I.ery says that wages in his locality average about $2.5O per day, which are r;a wages, and that 9 white man has no chance at all of gettina wofN'
 Mir. Lery's address is 314 West Broad street, Texafkana, Texas,
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01
GANG THREATENS TO
 AVENGE LEADER AND
 GIRL WHO SLEW SELF

NEW YORK. Feb. 27-Up in
 "Helrs Kitchen" and down in
 "MuIberry Bend" gangsters today
 polished their "gats."
 Yochki Churgin will be aveng-
 ed.
 For it is Yochki Churgin's TO-
 mance-a weed that grew in the
 teeming street, the backrOOm "sO-
 cial clubs" and the crowded ten
 ements of New York's lower East
 Side-which has once again array
 ed gangsters in sharply drawn
 battle lines.
 Yochki Churgin is dead She killed herself for love of ''her man." He Midget Louie" Schwartzman-had been bumped" because be loved her. Louis Chaplin, "The Dropper," was himself slain because he had killed Midget Louie.'
 Such is "remance" in New York's Lower East Side.
 Pales Fiction "a"
 Fiction holds no romance" such as came to Yochki Churgin-"Queen or de pangs"- Fict;on:. never dared be so bold. 6 &~ Yochki was born in Russia. When she was babe her parents settled" in what New York calls "home"- three rooms in block where 300 fam flies raised 2,O00 kids" "Old Man" Churgin became a pushcart merchant. Of a morning, before sunrise, one could see him coming from the syna- gogue, where he had prayed that ''Yochki be a good girl-sweet and pure-on the day he would lead her to the marriage canopy,
 Fifteen drab, cologless years slip ped by.
 Yoehkl attended her first dance.
 The first dance is an event in every girls life-even in New York's Lower East Side, where the ''hops" are held in the social clubs" back of thinly camouflaged saloons.
 Yochki was knocked down to the gang that night. Among these she met was lazy Caplin. "The Droppers' brother.
 A F'broad" has to be a mighty "clas. sy Jane" to even get tumble" from one of "The Dropper's" clan. Yochk was "that kind of a Jane."
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01
COPY CATS GET NOWHERE
(Popular Magazine)

Run from the success professor .ho says to you: Look into Henry
 ord's life and find out how he has ,orked his way up, and then do like 1ise; you're sure to get to the top"
 You cannot succeed in your life's york by being copy cat There is 70 set rule of success.
 Dan Willard who first went to wcEk or ninety cents a day is now presl- .ent of the Baltimore and Ohio rall- oad, said recently; T think o'e o1 he mosr Important clements of sue ess is accuracy backed up by all ,round dependability."
 Harry F. Sinclair, who made a lot )f money as druggist before he piled ID a lot more as a petroleum produ- ger, told a friend of his in Washing ton last spring that he had achieved success by paying no attention to any mans rules for success. "The man succeeds" he said, "who is willing to take chance. If you let precedent bind you down you'll never get any where. In the long run all of life and ali of husineess is the art of taking chances, 7. s, / ~Christy Mathewson, famous con queror of tuberculosis and opposing batsmen once said of baseball. Spirit is the big thing. In my opinion spirit is ninety per cent of victory"
 5 The wealthiest man in the United States senate once told this writer: "A young man in business may show me his methods of work, and they may fool me, he may be such clever copy cat that I will think he is bound tt follow in the footsteps of any -grea man he has chosen to initiate. There fore, methods of work don't particu larly interest me. But let me watcl a young fellow and perceive the spiri in which he tackles his job and 1 vii forecast his future and his end accu rately. Ambition and the determine tion to beat opposition are the req foundation of big career. Slavish i'm itators have neither backbone nor ori ginality. There never has been an' never will be a Number Two Edisol
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01
CARSTENS PACKING co.
 IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

MT. E. E. Kurtz, local manager for Carstens Packing Company, arrived on the Alameda yesterday with a new and complete stock of fresh and salt meats, butter and eggs, oysters, fin- nan haddie, etc., which he has placed in the old Carstens Packing Com pany's building next to the Hotel Sexton. MT. Kurtz was formerly in the meat business in Anchorage, where with a partner he ran the Sanitary market for several years.
 He opened up for business this morning, and in an interview with the Gateway stated that his company had faith in the future of Seward and looked for a number of new enter prises to open here this summer.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01
Gang on Strike

''The Dropper' and his gang at the time were engaged in garment un- ion strike They served as "gunmen for the manufacturer. Somehow or other, as such things occur in "gang- dom," the gangs "Janes" all wore new and expensive clothes. Yochki was the best dressed of all-furs, every thing.
 On the other side of the labor war "gunmen" for the union. The war was Little Augie" and his men "gunmen" for the union. The war be- tween "Augie's" coherts and "The Drooper's" killers grew more bitter. Hatreds of years flamed into gun bat tles
 Suddenly Yochki was seen no more with 'The Dropper's" brother.
 He's ditched her," Yochki's friends said.
 q quit him." YochEi insisted.
 Then one night Yochki was seen with Midget Louie"-Augie's first lieutenant.
 Feud SmOldered.
 "Gangdom" held it's breath.
 "There was somethin' doin' "-all "gangdom" said so.
 Yochki was carrying a "gat" her self.
 Me an Louie are going to the mar riage canopy" Yochh told her mother.
 Preparations were made.
 Then from the darkness of an East Side street came two pistol shots.- two flashes of fire. Midget Louie" never spoke.
 "The Dropper" was arrested. Xvi dence wasn't strong enough to con vict. He was freed As he walked from the courtroom two more shots were heard,
 'The Dropper' killed my pal Midget louie@-I just had to bump himl" Louis Cohen, another of "Little Augie's" men declared when arrested Cohen got twenty years "up the riv- er."
 The next day they found Yochk dead. In a cheap room in cheap ten ement she had killed herself.
 Somebody's got to pay for Yoch ki's death!" "gangdom" has declared "Dere's somcthin' doin' over on the lower East Side again.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01
DR. REESON RETURNS

Dr. J. B. Beeson arriveed on the Alameda yesterday and left on today's train for Anchorage. Dr. Beeson is in charge of the railroad hospital at An chorage and has been to Rochester, Minn., where he took a short post graduate course at Mayo Bros., thence he went to New York, Washington, Los Angeles, and other Pacific coast cities.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01
GROUP SEATTLE MEN
 BUY ALASKA CANNERY

SEATTLE, March 1.-The purchase of the Sunday Point Packing Con- pany's salmon cannery at Ketchikan by group of Seattle men, principally officers. of the Skinner and Eddy Ship yard Company, was announced today.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01

A report received al the Cable Off, flee states that the Alaska Road com- mission barn at Chitina was destroyed by fire last week together with all it's contents including a Dodge car which was all loaded in readiness to gc out on the road the following morning.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01

A combined coffee mill nd pot has been designed in Europe, the ground coffee falling into the lower portion where water is added.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01
CORONA HOTEL IMPROVED

The Windsor Hotel at Cordova is building a s5O,000 addition to take care of the increasing tourist trade. The building will be three stories high and many modern improvements will be added.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01

A new comparison gage is equipped with dial on which variations from stndard measurements are shown in thousandths of an inch.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01

E. H. Strocker and c. Danton, Fair banks residents, are guests of the Hotel Van Glider.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01

Clamped to the edge of a table, a new crank operated machine cores halves of grape fruit or oranges and loosens the pulp from the skin.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01
NOTICE.

All bills owed by Peter Johnson, de ceased, will be paid if turned in to Mel Homer, by April first.
 M. A. HORNER, St Sec. Moose Lodge.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01

Mrs. Carl Erickson was a returning passenger on yesterdays boat. MT. Erickson is engineer on the snow blow.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01

small models of prehistoric anima. s with appropriate backgrounds are be- ing made by European scientist for use in motion pictures.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01

or Number Two Carnegie. No two men are ever made in the same mold.
 The only workable recipe for sue cess is this: Make your own."
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01

The bridge club met yesterday with Mrs. Richard McNally.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01

Mrs. Dollie Donaldson of Woodrow is a guest of the Sexton.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-03-01

Fred Everett, of Tunnel is local visitor.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1924-11-01

ager has quite a bit of work to do he has to see that all the children swing a certain length of time Two children swing at a time, children about the same weight so they can swing together. The first week of school Theodore Seltenreich was manager. the second week Frederick Selten reich, the third week Bnd Selten reich, and Verna Wills is elected manager for the fourth week.
 Frederick Seltenreich.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1924-11-01

read about the little children who are starving and dying from need of food. There are 6O,G0O children iu orphanages, who need clothing, IA hospitals treating 143,OOO patients monthly who need cotton goods, 45O,OOO refug ees, unemployed, and among tn em 9J,O0O children who will suff CT this winter. Also 15O, ,OOO died last winter who might have lived had they had food and clothing which we threw away. So that is why we like to help them.
 The Play Ground Supervisor
 The children all enjoy the swing so much that it is aecess- ary to have play ground super visor. Each week we vote for d manager of the swing. The man
The McCarthy weekly news., 1924-11-01
# we Don't Suit
 Tell US "The Silver Dollar" Cigars & Tobacco Soft Drinks Card ables Messenger and Annunciator Service

IN TIE PROBATE COURT, Mccarthy PRECINCT, THIRD JUDICIAL DIVISION, TERRI TORY of LASKA.
 In the matter of the Estate off, Emmauel, Johnson. deceased. No. 65,
 NOTICE to CREDITORS Notice IS hereby given that the undersigned was duly and regu 'arly appointed administrator of the estate of Emmanuel, Johnson. deceased, bysaid court on the 3rd. day of October 1924,and has quail fled as administrators, that the creditors and all persons having claims against the said estate dlS 1edueoOco 0O plcScll' CIle same with proper vouchers, pro perly and duly verified, within six months after the publication of this notice, to the undersigned at his place of reSidei ce and bu siness at Mccarthy, Alaska. Dated at Mccarthy, Alaska, this 3 rd. day ofOctober, 1924. J. Hussey, Administrator of the estate of Emmanuel Johnson deceased
 first publication, October 3, 1924 last publication Novem be ', 1924
The McCarthy weekly news., 1924-11-01
SCHOOL NOTES
 Marion Wills-Reporter The Honor Roll

Our Honor Roll is very beau titul this month and we don't like to erase it off the black board. There are many special stars this month. Some are red, yellow, ora nge, green, lavender and whit. Every child in the school has his name on the roll. The total number of stars is two hundred forty nine (249). The girls got the most stars they got I68 stars and the boys got S1 stars although it's fair to say there is one more girl than boys. Verna Wills got most stars this month. she has forty six (46) stars. Marion Wills got the most special stars. She has one yellow star, one green
 
 S.ar, and one lavender star. Yer nt Wills had 46, Frank Wills had .l, Marion Wills had 29 Deanie ONeill had IA, Janus Trim had 36 Bud Seltanreich 34, Louise Ahre ms 24, Theodore Scltenreich 6, Fred Seltonreich 5, Maj garet An reEs l9, and Leonard Brenwick 25 stars.
 Our wall decorations, which are papers in which we have a hundred pei cent, were very long Tie papers are arithmetic pap cts, language papers, or other W!ltten studies. The total mum Der of papers was twenty y.two -22. Verna Wills 1, Frank Wills 1 Marl0n Wills {, Deani ONeill ,, Janus Trim l, Louise Ahrens 2, Ted Seltenreich ?, Fred Seiten re:cn 5, and Margaret Ahrens 1 paper. Marion Wills had the most l0J% papers for this month.
 In the last mail we got a picture of the little Armenian orphan we are taking care of. We also got some littlo booklets telling us about the Near East Relief work. We felt very glad we were helping them when We
The McCarthy weekly news., 1924-11-01

Hi, gimme a handful of waste, Berry cried.
 He was under the car to grease it But Sig had an armful of waist in the car
 And wasn't disposed to release it.