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The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-09-03
OLD INDIAN WAR
VETERAN RE-VISlTS
FORT PECK SCENES
GENERAL SCOTT, INDIAN COM
MISSIONER, RECALLS THE
DAYS OF GEN. CUSTER
Became An Officer I'm the seventh
Cavalry When Terrible Vacancy
Caused by Custer Massacre was to
BE Filled.

Gen. Hugh Il. Scott left Poplar
recently, after spending four days
visiting old scenes on the Fort
Peck reservation. General Scott,
formerly deputy chief of staff of
the United States army, and who
had "a daughter and two sons In
service with him In France, during
the World War, Is now an Indian
commissioner.
The Indian commissioners, sep
arate from the bureau OF Indian az
fairs, are 10 men appointed by the
president from all parts of the coun-
try. They are usually philanthropy
lists, interested in the welfare of In
dams and serve without pay. ex-
cept for travelling expenses. they
visit the different reservations with
the object OF finding what progress
the Indians are making, and of help
ing In any way possible constructive
programs, already in operation on
the reservations. Their reports and
recommendation are made to the
president, the secretary OF the interi-
or and to congress.
General Scott knows Montana thor
oughly. He was sent to Fort Totten
North Dakota. Immediately after his
graduation from West Point In June
1876. He became an officer In the
Seventh cavalry when the terrible va
cancy created by the Custer mass
acre was to be filled, He was SEN
with q detachment TO get CUSTER
remains, which were afterward in
TERED at West Point.
The general says he marched 4,50S
miles the first summer he spent II
| Montana. His "reminiscences are In
tensely interesting, every stream an'
valley reminding him of anecdotes a
to the origin OF their names, and hap
penings of the early days. He know
| the Indian language. and Is expert II
the sign language. He had helped 4
greet an old Indian friend here name
Feather Earrings and expressed re
greet when he learned the old maj
had died this spring. He was &C
companied by hts grandson and
young friend, for whom he mad
the past live again by his vivid &C
counts. Superintendent Moller &C
companied him over the reservation
on his visit.
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pleasure. The Great Father wished
his children to have lots OF fun"
Indian Joy Ride
1.-THE next day they hitched up.
Their ponies we're not broken to har-
ness, but that made no difference
They soon had them working. The
Indians went JOY riding. They loaded
their squaws, papooses, dogs and
everything they possessed, and away
they went across the prairies, scatter
| ing in all directions, where the going
was good. From the depot platform
we could see the rapidly moving red
wagons along the sky line on the
bluffs, some going one way and some
another. Then they would drive
down town to show off.
Sat the time the Platte valley was
probably half settled with home
steaders and pre-emptors. A few
days after the JOY riding was going
/, strong and hitting on all six cylin-
ders, Pete Becker, the implement
dealer at our station came breezing
into the station with telegram all
written out ready to send.
Here's q message said he. How
much is IL? / want 1t rushed
II took the message and read 1t al
counted the words. 1t was an order
of cancellation to an eastern wager
firm to discontinue all further ship
ments OF wagons until further notice
THAT will be dollar and half
Pete, said What has happened Il
: the wagon business?"
Wagon business replied Peter
! Hell, there win be no wagon bust
ness in the valley for a year. Thos'
4 damned Indians have already com
menced trading off to the settler
II that bunch of new wagons the gov
II eminent sent out Pointing owe
4 toward town, he said: "A home
| steader that lives just beyond tn
Il bluffs Just came in with his old wag
/ on equipped all round with a bran
| new set of wheels and said he ha
II traded the old wheels for the ne'
II ones and had given the Indian
II piece OF bacon as boot. Look out G
II the window Pete said: There
II another one right now crossing th
II railroad track
Hi 1T was an old wagon with bran
II new wagon box and driven by anothe
II homesteader.
III Pete said: AS soon as the no.
| city of galivanting around the cour
II try wears off and the ponies al
II wind broke, the settlers will hay
| every one OF those wagons.
II Just at the moment another wal
on came over the crossing withoi
II any wagon box 1t carried a doze
II Indians riding on the holsters an
II reach While we we're talking sti
II another wagon came in sight, b
II this time there were only the frol
II wheels and the tongue.
III AS a matter of fact. IL was n
II more than a month before the la
II wagon that was given the Indians ht
\ been traded to the settlers.
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-09-03

President Sid j. Coffee of the
recently organized Montana Good
Roads and Automobile association
has named the following Executive
Committee OF seven TO direct the
activities of that body with parti-
cular reference to seriously needed
legislation TO provide state high
way funds for Montana:
Andrew j. Davis, Butte; A. ].
Bretenstein. Great Falls; w. Il.
Dowlin, Billings; =. N. Bernard,
Kalispell; VIM. G. Ferguson. Hell
ena; II. O. Bell. Misoula; and George
u. Weideman, Lewistown,
This committee has been request
ed to use its greatest efforts In be-
half of the movement for Montana
state highways, moulding public
opinion in their districts and where
ever else they can, in favor of the
proposals adopted atthe recent meet
ing In Helena at which this organ
ization was perfected.
President Coffee states that
meeting of the executive committee
will be held in the near future for
the purpose of outlining definite
steps to be taken throughout the
state by the Montana Good Roads
and Automobile association.
This organization grew out Of a
meeting of the State Executive Good
Roads Committee held at Helena,
August 4 called by Chairman Sid ].
Coffee to discuss the urgent neces-
city of immediate steps to insure the
enactment of laws at the Forthcoming
session of legislature, such laws az
will provide a state highway fund
with which to match and thus save
Montana's share of Federal Aid road
funds.
There were present at this meet
ing representatives from Butte,
Great Falls, Billings. Missoula, Hell
ena, Livingston. Kalispell, Bozeman
and Whitefish, as we'll as other state
centera.
Congressman Scott Leavitt In
formed the delegates that he had
tried In every possible way to Sc
cure as much Federal assistance az
possible. The Cotton Bill was de.
signed to give states OF small popula-
ton, such as Montana, practically
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for Fort Peck, an overland trip OF
about 200 miles. From Fort Peck
the trip was made by the river and
the story of this exceedingly ardu-
GUS journey and of life at Fort
Pouchette is best told in the words
of Mr.. Curry as follows:
After few days rest the var
ious parties which had rendezvous
ed at Fort Peck started out for
their destinations. Our party got
the big flat boat ready and started
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-09-03

up stream for Pouchette river. The
party consisted of Jerome Highly,
William Courtney now livestock
broker at Miles City, William Skel-
ton, now in Judith Basin, George
Powell, William Ivey. myself and
two scouts, Billy Benair and an As
sinaboine Indian, Sunkawasta Cor
Good Dog). The trip up the river
at this time of the year meant
hardship and lots of it, and our ex-
pectations were justified by events.
Our flatboat was loaded with
80 tons of freight for the projected
trading post at Pouchette. Attach
ed to the bow was a heavy line 300
feet long by which we pulled the
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-09-03

A BOUT 20 miles below the
~ mouth of the Musselshell,
where Telegraph ere e k,
known in the early days as Pou-
Ghetto river, there stood until re-
cent years a half-dismantled
adobe chimney, all that was left
of old Fort Pouchette, once one of
the liveliest trading posts on the
Missouri river. The story of its
building, of its stormy life, of the
daily perils faced by its adventur-
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-09-03
TRY1MG EXPERIENCES WITH THE SIOUX AND
ARDU0US LABOR AGGONNP AW0ED BUILDING
|0F OLD FORT POUCHETTE TRADING POST

boat along. AS it was low water
at this time of the year, we were
forced to wade nearly every mile
of the long way.
"The two scouts followed us, one
on each bank of the river, to give
timely warning of the approach Of
any Indian war parties. On one
occasion Good Dog discovered a
Sioux war party about mile away
and he came running in. bowling
like a coyote begging us to take
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-09-03

GUS garrison, was told in 1900 by
the late Thomas Curry, a pioneer
of Northern Montana who died a
few years ago after having spent
the last two decades of his honor
able career in Great Falls, Curry
having been one of the men who
helped erect and garrison the fort.
Curry, in company with a large
party of men detailed to erect trad
ing posts at Fort Belknap, Wolf
Point and the mouth of the Pou-
Ghetto, left Fort Buford in 1870,
Curry's party starting out Oh foot
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him across the river out of danger
We sent a boat acros and got him
and then made stand on the OPP
posite bank ready to fight. The
Indians soon found that we were
in a most inpregnable position,
and after firing few harmless
shots at us, went away.
Every night, as precaution
against surprise, for the country
was full of Indians, we selected
our camping ground on a wide
sand-bar, digging trench in which
to sleep. 1t was far from COM
Portable method of getting a
nights rest after wading in the
cold water sometimes up to our
necks, but safety demanded it. 1t
was growing colder as we advanc-
ed and some mornings we had to
break the thin ice as we pulled our
boat along.
Zone night about ten days out,
we decided to take chance and
get one nights good comfortable
sleep in dry quarters. We select
ed a dry creek where there was
plenty of driftwood, and made our
camp. We made a great fire and
thoroughly enjoyed the sensation
Of getting warmed up and dried
out again. During supper we
heard a suspicious uoise up creek
| in the timber. AS bear tracks were
quite thick around there the rest
Of the men laughed at my suggest
tions of something more danger
GUS, but Ivey and | took our guns
and walked up the bank a LITTLE
Iway, but discovered nothing. Ih'
others joshed us for our fears anc
called the place Fort Bear. We nev
err knew until later how near w
were to Eternity.
/ Five days afterward we reach
ed our destination at Pouchett
/ creek and were glad. to get an,
lplace out Of the Missouri river. Gu
hardships, however, had just be
gun. We had TO start in to cut tim
j Der for a stockade 20 feet higl
with block houses on the corner:
and within this to erect building
in which to live and trade. It wa
, Christmas before we had these III
: In the meantime we built littl
shelters, four feet high, open at on
, end SO we could crawl in, and ju:
big enough for two to sleep II
They were put up in circle wit
3 the opening toward the camp fiji
in the center.
"The location Of the post W;
r chosen because of the heavy ar
plentiful timber in that localit
I 1t was called Trover's Point fro
e the stranding of the steamer Tro'
e err there. One night few yea
! previously, the Trover tied up he
I for the night as the boats did th'
n when there was no moon. Durir
q the dark hours the treacherous CT
\ rent of the Missouri shifted, al
/ when morning broke the TROY
was high and dry and the COZ
! had to walk quite distance to &
!, \ water enough for breakfast. Tn
stayed there three weeks trying
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-09-03

Farm Home Week Dates Are Set
Short courses in agriculture and
home making, together with meetings
OF important state agricultural ASSOC
Citations and lectures by nationally
known men and women, will mark
the annual Farm and Home Week at
Montana State College, January 5 70
3, 1925. The annual meeting of the
Montana Farm Bureau will be held In
connection with this week at the Coli
lege. Special rates on all railroads
in Montana are being arranged. The
list of speakers will soon be an
nounced.
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-09-03
PRESIDENT OF new
GOOD ROADS BODY
NAMES COMMITTEE
MEMBERS WILL SEEK MEANS
TO RAISE ROAD FUND EQUAL
TO FEDERAL AID

Committee Members are Requested
To Wage Educational Campaign
In Their Communities, with View
To Securing Legislative Action.
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-09-03
WHEN THE QUAKERS
TOOK CHARGE OF
WESTERN TRIBES
WILLIAM PENN POLICY FAILS TO
SOLVE PROBLEM OF HANDLING
WESTERN INDIAN WARDS

Immense shipment Of Red Farm Wa
CONS Is Responsible for Most Am
using Incident, When Fasteners
Try to CiyiIize the Red Man.
Evening star., 1924-05-28
ROCkNE PESSIMISTIC
OVER GRID OUTLOOK
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

NEW YORK, May 2S.--Having looked
over the results Of spring foot ball prac-
tice and digested them, Knute Rockne
sends word east he does not expect
that Notre Danes eleven will be as
good next fall as last. Rocknes prog
nostication seems chiefly based upon
the loss Of several important players.
Knute has mourned similarly in past
seasons, and the burden of his plant
has related to missing stars. But the
fact will not have escaped the observer
of intercollegiate athletics that this ac-
complished coach usually produces each
year sufficiency of stars to meet the
needs of the season.
Consider what he did with Stuhl-
dreher. When the boy was in Kiski, all
the scouts of various colleges that look
to this prep school for material paid
scant attention to him. He came to
Notre Dame with no reputation and not
much ability. But when Rockne got
through with him he was a blazing star.
1t was the same with Elmer Layden,
Brown, the star forward, and lot OF
other men who have been luminaries at
South Bend. SO, unless history fails ut
terly to repeat itself. Rockne will not be
so badly off for material next fall as
might just now appear on the surface.
Evening star., 1924-05-28
COLLEGE HALF-MILE
RACE SHOULD THRILL
BY WALTER CAMP.

NEW YORK, May 28.-The half
mile race feature of the intercol-
legiate meet Saturday promises one
Of the greatest contests of the big
event. but the writer has his doubts
whether a new record will be estab-
lished.
1t seems a century since the writer
stood within the Enclosure at the
time of the London and New York
Athletic Club games and saw Charlie
Fitzpatrick run his famous half mile.
1t seems only yesterday that the
writer, as an official in the Harvard
Stadium, saw Ted Meredith in his
double record-breaking half-mile,
which he ran in 135.
Shall we on Saturday see any one
who can cover the half in better
time than Helffreich of Penn State ?
Can Marsters of Georgetown or Rich
ardson or Mcintosh of Stanford do
IT? Perhaps so. But the writer
thinks not.
AS for the sprints-who is there
that is going to head Bowman of
Syracuse in the 100, or Clark of Johns
Hopkins in the 22O? Who can shut
quarter or Cavanaugh of Boston in
the mile?
Is there anybody that can hold
Hartranfft of Stanford in the shot
put. Can Rose of Penn beat Comins
of Yale in the broad jump? Can
Bench of Yale throw the javelin
farther than Neufeldt of California.
Altogether 1T promises to be a great
day.
Copyright. 1924
Evening star., 1924-05-28


With Walter Palmer on the ineli-
Elble list and Mike Gordon withdraw
ing from the dash events, Central is
counting upon Dick Ziegler to show
ms heels to Charley Pugh of Tech
IN the century, which. by the way, is
one of the features of the games
The Central flash also will be match
ed against Pugh in the 220-yard run
some followers of track athletics de-
clare Ziegler will be running under
suffered a severe, jolt when Pugh
trimmed him in the 100 and 22O in
the recent &C" Club games. There
is one other event that Tech hopes to
land. the 44O-yard run, which More
lana or the Maroon and Gray won in
the c. Club meet Kessler also will
run for Tech in this event.
IN the field events Tech would have
a great chance to win the meet With
Baker and Gordon in the shot discus
and aHh, 1avelln events. the Blue and
commanding advantage. Western
boasts of two worthy athletes who
may make an impressive showing.
CARRIER Is quite clever in the pole
vault, while Mitchell, who ran the 100
IN little more than 10 seconds in the
University of Maryland freshman
games, is likely to cause trouble.
Coach Collins of Eastern is looking
~ poiu 70 WIN tne hIGh jump. Then
there is White, also of Eastern: who
probably will give q ~nod account
or himself in the broad jump.
"A race equally as thrilling as the
ioo is anticipated in the 440. Bur-
Selsh of Central was outdistanced by
Moreland of Tech in the "C' Club
meet, but came back" to show the
way to the Maroon and Gray runner
later at Philadelphia. These boys are
reported to be ready for a really
great race.
Coach HardeII of Tech has a sur
prise in store for his rival coaches
saturday in Garrett, a youngster who
gives rare promise of filing Pugh's
shoeS when the latter graduates in
June He will start in the century.
Tech and Central were to be oppo-
fents today in a high school cham
plonShip base ball game that may de-
eide the title. If Central it will be
champion; but a Tech success would
force a play-off of a tie between the
winner and Eastern for chance at
Central in a titular battle. Play will
start at 3:15 O'Clock in Centra Stadium.
Alexandria High was to entertain
Dewitt Prep. today at o'clock at
Alexandria.
Evening star., 1924-05-28
STANFORD FAVORITE
IN COLLEGIATE MEET

BOSTON, Mass, May 2S.-The Stan
ford track team in charge of Coach
Robert L. Templeton arrived here
late last night from Palo Alto, Calf,
for the forty-eighth annual /. c. A. A
A. A. meet at the Harvard Stadium
Friday, and Saturday
The team of fifteen men were all in
good condition, the coach said. with
the exception of Richard, McRae.
broad jumper. who turned an ankle
while practicing in Chicago and may
be unable to compete.
In spite of this mishap Stanford
rules a favorite for honors in the
meet. The team will hold its only
practice prior to the meet today in
the stadium at Cambridge.
The University of California team
arrived Monday.
Evening star., 1924-05-28
GEORGE SISLER

Manager and first baseman. St.
Louis Browns. The greatest first
basemnn in the game. Playing this
year after n year off in 1923, due TO
eye trouble.
The first and greatest asset that
a first baseman can have is the
ability to catch every kind of a
thrown ball. and do it every time,
no matter whether it be a high one,
wild one, low one, pickup, grounder
or one thrown right into his hands.
No one has ever done this yet, but
it is the ideal to strive for. A first
baseman that isn't a sure catch is
worse than useless.
If two hands can be used to make
a catch they should always be used,
but first baseman must learn to be
sure one-hand catch. too. Many
wild throws can be saved by player
who is clever with his gloved hand.
Often. too, by reaching far out into
the diamond with his gloved hand
he may make a put-out in close
play where the batter would have
been safe had he waited to get the
ball with both hands.
Copyright, 1924, Associated Editors, Incl
Evening star., 1924-05-28

What ails Cleveland? Pitchers
The team seemed strong enough in
pitching talent when 1t was in Flor
ida. Speaker had confidence in
Shaute. felt Coveleskie was on the
way back to the corn crib and fig
ured that Edwards would have some
as if he might round to the standard
which he has threatened for years,
and there was Sherry Smith. the old
Brooklyn southpaw. and Levson. a
kid of promise. Uhle, of course.
looked like a safe deposit vault full
of gold pieces.
Only Two Winning Pitchers.
Yet Speaker has only two pitchers
who have won more games than they
have lost-and their margin is pain
fully close. Smith and Edwards, both
lefthanders, have a little credit bal
ance. The others have been kick ed
around like an old foot ball.
Part of Speakers distress in the
pitching department may be due to
the unreasonable weather. Old pitch
ers, of which he has more than his
share, will not warm up to good
game in cold. raw weather. Appak-
emily the time has come when Speak
er must decide whether to continue
waiting on the olo boys or pull in
some of the youngsters he has plant
ed and take a chance on getting re-
suits from them.
The Indians greatest success has
been against the weaker teams of the
league. But you can't win q cham
pionship on second division victories
Speaker has got TO start beating the
Subdivision clubs or give up his
pennant dreams.
Injuries Handicap Two Clubs.
Two major clubs have been handi-
capped by injuries to players. Nc
Manus of the ST. Louis Browns is
laid up with a broken finger. With
team intact the Browns might have
Evening star., 1924-05-28
BLAINE BIRD PRESSED
BY LANGDON'S FLYER

Walter Blaine's bird, Southern
Pride, was forced to extend itself to
land first place in the third race Of
the American Hytex Racing Pigeon
Club, from Concord, N G., TO this city.
a distance of 307 miles The winner
covered the route at the rate Of
1,119.56 yards a minute, but it was
followed closely by a bird from the
Langdon loft that averaged 1.119.24
yards a minute.
First returns and speed averages IN
yards per minute follow:
Walter Blaine, 1,llS.5e; Langdon Loft
1.1I39s; Kytex Loft, 1,os2.1o; L. T. Godfrey,
Evening star., 1924-05-28
TITLE POLO DATES SET.

NEW YORK, May 2s.-The dates
for the college polo championship
series of the United States have been
definitely arranged, and the Uni
versity of Arizona intercollegiate
champions of the west, will meet
Princeton, holders of the eastern
title, at Fort Hamilton on Memorial
day, Monday, June 2, and Wednesday
June 4, according to the announce
ment of Maj. Gen. Robert Lee Bull
lard, commanding the I'd Corps Area
under whose auspices the series will
be staged.
Evening star., 1924-05-28

to Manager Skidmore. who may be
telephoned at Franklin 1855.
ODonnell's nine is in for deal of
trouble this week end. Today it
planned to tackle the Interior De-
partment team on the Congress
Heights field at O'Clock. Fort
Humphries will be the opponent of
field. while Palace Athletic Club will
be met Saturday at o'clock on the
Plaza diamond.
Apaches are t9 hold a dance to-
Heights Auditorium
Bnrrick or Schrider of the Man
hattans will hurl against the Elliotts
tomorrow afternoon on the Rosedale
Fairgrounds.
Shamrock Unlimiteds are to hold a
meeting tomorrow night at o'clock
at 1916 l. street southeast.
Junior teams desiring games may
telephone Manager Dove of Caslon
Athletic Club at Lincoln 2277 between
4:3o and $50 o'clock.
Pilots of the Independent League
clubs are to gather tonight at
French's sporting goods store.
II SIX III a row
by downing the Alexandria Tiger
Juniors, to l. Garner of the win
ners was in top form, as he yielded
but five bingles and victimized ten
batters via the strike-out route. A
triple play by the losers featured.
l.. shapiro. Feary and Kilroy played
well for the Southends.
Arlington and Wavely mines are to
play their postponed game Friday at
3 O'Clock on the formers field in one
of the Independent League games.
Manager Kersey Of the Waverly team
wants his players to gather at l
o'clock at the east end of Union
station.
Managers OF the Washing ngton-M ry-
land League are to discuss the selec-
tton of several new umpireS at a
meeting Saturday night at o'clock
in the Senate Office building, room
III. Officials desiring to make applica-
tions are urged TO be on hand.
The first rules to govern the sport
of boxing were drawn up in London
in lI43
Evening star., 1924-05-28
DISTRICT GUEST WINS.

BALTIMORE. Md. May 2S-Mak
Ing an unfinished run Of 46. Joseph
Concannon. Washington's represent
ative in the intercity pocket billiard
match, Won the second block last
night at the Williams e. Hanley
Academy from Frank Marshall, 125 to
GA. The total of both contests is $50
20 l67. Concannon was asked by the
gallery to finish his run and in doing
so ran the total to So.