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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-16

After a search of several days
by a posse including several men
from the sheriff's office at Big
Timber, as well as many ranchers
from the Upper Boulder country,
the whereabouts of Henry Hugh
son, a prospector, remains a mys-
terry. The prospector's disappear
ance, according to Harry Kauf-
man, forest ranger, is said to be
the most puzzling within the MEM
DRY of pioneers of that mountain
section.
Hughson was last seen about the
goth of September, it has been learn
ed, at which time he went to a
ranch about a mile and one-half
from his cabin and deposited some
mining tools, requesting that they
keep them for the winter. He told
his neighbors that his personal eff
fects were all packed, that he had
left his horses hobbled and one of
them saddled, and that as soon as he
nailed up his cabin, he would leave
for Livingston. He said that he had
a job for the winter, but did not
say where. His neighbors state he
was especially well and in splendid
spirits and was anticipating getting
back to the larger centers of popu-
lation. He then babe them good
bye as he started over the hill to-
ward his cabin.
May Have TumbIed.
A few days later, the rancher no
ticed horses wandering on the hill
side and identified them as Hugh
sons property. An inspection of the
cabin proved that he had returned,
boarded up the windows and nailed
the doors and it is feared, in follow
ing the custom of mine prospectors,
he proceeded to the location of a
mine tunnel, known only to himself
to make a cache of either his per-
sonal effects, food or valuables and
from this point the whereabouts of
the well-known ~prospector vanished
into the air.
Immediately after sighting the
p~rospector's horses, the neighbors of
the missing man started a search and
after several days failing to reveal
any news, they presented the facts to
ranger Kaufman, who in turn noti-
fled the authorities at Big Timber,
seat of Sweet Grass county,
and a more concerted effort which
three or four days, left the
mystery no nearer solution than be-
Numbered among the members of
the posse were men experienced in
mountainous countries, but the fact
that Hughson was non-committal as
10 his mining activities made it ne
sessary to cover every foot of the
ground, where it was thought he
be found the victim of an ac-
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-16

to see the fort begun, Culbertson has
tened to Fort Union, and from thence
to Fort Lewis, not reaching the lat
ter place until the middle of August.
Having discovered that the soil of
the bottom land made good SUI dried
bricks, work was at once started on
the new buildings and it CHANGING to
be late in the season, vas continued
until their completion just before
Christmas. The last bricks we're
laidup when frozen, but fortunately,
this did not affect the walls, as the
bricks dried without cracking.
The dedication of the new post
took place on Christmas night, and
was celebrated in true trapper fash
ion. Therewas a dance, attended by
every man, accompanied by his In
dian wife or sweetheart. And it was
intimated by some historians, there
was no lack of liquid refreshments
of a stimulating character. Be that
as it may, in the midst of the festi-
vities Major Culbertson suggested
the new fort should receive the name
of the man who had saved the COM
pany from ruin, Thomas H. Benton.
And, says Lieutenant Bradley:
"The proposition was received with
reclamation by the joyous assembly
and thus upon Christmas night, 1850
the post was first called by the name
it still bears and that will probably
ever distinguish the locatlity-Fort
Benton"
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-16

Lincoln to recruit a regiment Of col
ored men in that state. Only three
colored regiments had been recruit
ed prior to that time; General But
Ter began organizing the Louisiana
Native Guards from free negroes in
the fall of 1852; General Saxton
formed the First North Carolina
from contrabands in October of the
same year and Colonel James Will
liams had organized the First Kan
sas Colored about the middle of the
summer of '62.
When Governor Andrew was given
his order by Secretary Stanton he
Immediately set about toward or
ganization and at once appointed
Captain Shaw of his state as Colonel
and the post of Lieutenant-Colone
was given to Captain Hallowell, also
of Massachusetts,. Both men ac-
cepted
They were on duty in the south
at the time and Captain Hallowell
was the first to start north to help
organize the new regiment. He stop
ped en- route to Boston to visit re-
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-16

"Uncle Alex as he is familiar
ly known in Lewistown, where he
has made his home for the past
43 years, claims that he was the
first colored man living in the
north, east of the Mississippi riv-
err, to enlist in the Civil a and
the records of his company and
regiment bear him out in his
claim. He was a member of the
Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, Vol
unteer Infantry, and the history of
that regiment was written by Luis
f. Emilio, and comprises a vol
ume of about $50 pages.
1t was early in 1853 that Cover
nor John A. Andrew, war governor
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-16

latives at Philadelphia for a few
days and while there he recruited a
number of colored men for the new
Massachusetts, regiment.
Alexander Branson was the first
man to sign up with Hallowell, and
as no recruiting had yet been started
in Boston, he was in fact, the first
recruit Of the Fifty-Fourth Massa-
chusettes. So great was the senti-
ment against allowing colored mel
to take up arms that Captain Halo
we'll was compelled to slip his col
ored recruits out of Philadelphia by
stealth, in small squads, and Bran
son was in the first squad to be sent
to Boston. He served until April,
1865.
Out of a former good-sized post
of the G.. A. r. in Lewistown only
six living members remain and "Un-
Gle Alex" is one of them.
Alex. Branson came to Montana in
1872 and lived for some time in Hell
ena. In 1881 he moved into the
Judith Basin, before there was such
a town as Lewistown, and engaged
in stock raising. When the town be-
gan to grow he moved into Lewis
town and started a barber shop and
later was engaged in the saloon bust
ness, when that business was legal.
He retired several years ago by
reason of the infirmities of old age,
being nearly 85, and with what prop
erty he had accumulated and his pen
sion from the government he has
lived comfortably until the last win
ter when he was striker with rheu-
matism and has since been unable to
help himself.
At this writing he is preparing to
go back to the home of his niece, in
Pittsburg, Pa, where he hopes to
spend his remaining days in peace
and happiness, which he richly de-
serves.
"Uncle Alex" has long been a
noted character around Lewistown
and all during the years of his resi-
dence there has enjoyed the respect
and good will of the white folks"
well as his colored friends.
1t was his greatest desire to at
tend the National Encampment of
the G. A. R. in Boston, this year,
and see the Boston Commons, where
he was mustered out nearly 60 years
but ill-health prevented.
"Uncle Alex" is true to the type of
a fast disappearing contingent of our
citizenry whom all, delight to honor
in their declining years. !
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-16
BY MARTHA e PLAssMANN

~ OLLOWING the massacre a.
III Fort Mckenzie, it will be re
membered the American Fun
company, in order to retain the trade
of the Indians of the Upper Missouri
was forced to send Chardon to a post
farther down the river, and dis
charge Harvey, the two men who
were guilty of that act of treachery.
Shortly after his arrival at his new
post, Chadron died of scuryy; but
Harvey livedlong enough to make
things interesting for his former en-
ployers.
First came his revelations regard
ing the sale of liquor at the COM
pany's posts. This o~ccasioned con-
siderable litigation, and would have
been a death blow to the company
had not Senator Thomas H. Benton
effected a compromise which cost the
firm twelve thousand dollars, a sum
considered much larger in those days
than it would be now
This initial attack concluded, Har-
vey prepared for the second blow, by
forming a partnership with two form
er employees of the American Fur
company, Joseph Picotte and Charles
Premon, and being aided by Robert
Campbell, a St. Louis merchant, set
out in September of 1S45 for the
upper Missouri country to establish a
rival trading post there. This under
taking proves that Harvey was no
coward, for he had won the undying
enmity of the Blackfeet, by the part
he had taken in the Mckenzie affair.
With a supply of goods for his future
trade, he and fifteen men assembled
the Missouri to Fort Union, and
from there finished the journey by
keel boat. The new post was built
of logs on the first bottom above Ora
con du Nez. 1t was not a large fort,
but it did a thriving trade with the
Piegans, from which tribe Harvey
had taken a wife. This, Of course,
resulted in less trade for Fort Lewis,
and continued so until Harvey's
death at Fort Union in 1853.
Harvey was a desperate, undoubt-
eddy; but he was a man of ability,
and capable of generous acts, as was
proven in the case of the son of An
drew Potts. This child, whose faith
er "a clerk of the company, was kill
ed by an Indian at Fort Mckenzie,
Harvey cared for as his own for
many years.
The same year that Harvey built
his fort, the two Jesuit fathers, De
Smet and Point arrived at Fort
Lewis. Father Point remained for a
time at the fort, but Father DeSmet,
who was returning east from Oregon,
completed his journey to st. Louis in
a skiff, together with Malcolm Clark
and two other men.
Meanwhile, Father Point was bus
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-16

"gradually made himself feared and
respected by every inmate of the
fort"
Father Point was no respector of
persons, as Major Culbertson learned
on several occasions. One rainy
Sunday, the latter was trying to
cover some packs of robes that were
lying on the landing, and Father
Point took him to task.
major Culbertson," he said, 81
am amazed. l thought you were a
Christian, a reverencer of religion
and an observer of the holy Sab
bath; but now 1 find yon not only
violating Gods holy day yourself,
but exacting it from your men. How
can my teachings bear fruit when
you trample them thus ruthlessly in
the dust?"
The good father continued in this
strain until Major Culbertson lost
patience, quiet, self contained man
that he was, and advised Father
Point to read his bible, and leave
him, Culbertson, to look after the in
terests Of the company, which would
not be advanced by permitting the
robes to be ruined.
On another occasion, a child of
Major Culbertson was sick with the
Group, and all remedies tried failing
to bring relief, its Indian mother,
with the consent of Major gilbert
son, called in an old squaw who had
been remarkably successful in treat
ing children. The old woman came,
and at once set about doing the best
thing possible in such a case. She
stones, and throwing water on
them, generated steam. This would
have been alright, if she had kept
still. Instead, unfortunately for her,
she accompanied her ministrations
with song-the nominations she
used for such sickness
In the room below, Father Point
heard the accursed sounds, and rush
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-16

the Yellowstone; Fort Alexander
having shared the fate Of its pre-
decessors, in being abandoned. The
site selected for this post was about
five miles below the mouth of the
Rosebud. 1t was the last post built
by the American Fur company on the
Yellowstone, and was named Fort
Sarpy. Remaining only long enough
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-16
THE EXPERIENCES OF THE AMERICAN FUR
COMPANY ON UPPER MISSOURI LEADING TO
THE CONSTRUCTION OF OLD FORT BENTON

inginto the room, he promptly seized
the old woman by the back of the
neck, and hurried her down the
stairs; and then returning to the
breakfast table, which he had left to
quell the disturbance above, told Ma
jor Culbertson in no uncertain terms,
what he thought of the Majors part
in the affair. We are not informed
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-16

lily engaged, not alone in converting
the Indians, but in improving the
morals at the fort. He insisted that
women should marry them. If they
refused to do so, the father promptly
sent them back to their tribes. 1t is
easy to credit the statement Of Lieu
tenant Bradley hat Father Point
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-16
POSSE FAILS TO GET
TRACE OF MISSING
MINE "PROSPECTOR
WHEREABOUTS OF PROMINENT
SWEET GRASS COUNTY PROS
PECTOR STILL A MYSTERY

Disappears in Mountains just AS
Preparations Were Being Made to-
Leave for Livingston to Spend the
Winter Months.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-16

of Massachusetts,, succeeded in OBJ
tanning the permission of President
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-16
WAS THE FIRST TO
ENLIST IN THE SAT-
MASS. VOLUNTEERS
SERVED THROUGHOUT ENTIRE
PERIOD OF THE CIVIL WAR,
FROM 1868 TO 1865

A Resident of Montana For 43 Years,
Uncle Alex One of Lewistown's
Best Known Characters, Leaves to
Spend Last Days In the East.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-09

Nunamaker at the Zata Tau Alpha
house and Miss Lillian Snyder, at the
Delta Zeta house While there she
will attend the Delta Tau Delta spring
canoe.
A general educational fund will be
maintained by the Woman's Depart
ment Club, it was decided at the last
meeting of the club Thursday. A by
law to that effect was accepted. A
committee to be appointed by the
board will have charge of the fund
and displace the committee Of awards
composed OF Mrs. Alvin T. Coate.
chairman; Mrs. J. w. Moore, Mrs
G. Quincy Dunlop, Mrs Everett NJ
Schofeld, Mrs. Samuel Ashby and
Mrs. Frederick c. BALI
The new educational fund with a
high school fund and the Mary e.
Strawn fund will make three such
funds in the club
The rooms OF the clubhouse were
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-09
Love Doubted

Dear Miss Lee: Three weeks ago I met
girl and fell desperately in love with her
have been TO see her every night since
we met. and she says she loves me better
than any one she ever has known.
! went TO see her last night as usual
and she told me she had another date for
tonight. and that would have to wait until
the next night to come over.
What I can not understand is this: Is
she telling the truth when she SAYS she
loves me. and. if so. why should she want
a date with another fellow?
She calls me two or three times day
and writes me letters although we are both
in the same town.
am "A and she is 21. c. F H
The girl evidently is coming to her
senses and a realization that "love
at first sight may fade as quickly
as it came and that too constant a
companionship is one of the quickest
ways to kill it.
Besides, three weeks is too short
a time to test love, and she may want
to take stock" regarding her feel
ings toward you and toward other
men.
OF course, she may be flirting with
you, but I shouldn't let that posi-
bility worry me
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-09
VaSSa7- Graduate Is Wholesale Meat
Bu,gr-AH Competitors Are Men

Though she would be glad to
help women, she doesn't employ
one an her shops.
Because none has ever APP
Piled she explained. Women
might just as well be meat cutters
as men, but the business has evil
IDENTIFY never appealed to them.
81 am constantly surprised at
the little effort the average woman
takes to learn about the different
cuts of meat she buys and the con-
ditions under which they are pre-
pared"
Miss Danahay says she never
shades her prices and she never
buys meats that have not been
government inspected and pre-
pared in the most sanitary pos
sible way.
My customers have never OBJ
jected to my prices because they
know l aim for quality" she said.
Caterers come to me when they
want particularly choice cuts and
they take my advice about what to
buy, because my being a woman,
they take it for granted know
what will please other women"
She admits she is better buyer
of meat than cook of what she has
bought.
But it wouldn't take me long
to learn to cook if it We're nece-
sary," she confides.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-09
.ADVENHSTS Will
DEDICATE CHURCH
NOtabIeS to Attend Services
Saturday Morning.

The new $4,000 Seventh Day Adj
ventist Church, Laurtl and Orange
SITS, will be dedicated at II m. Sat
urday Elder William Guthrie, Berien
Springs, Mich, president Of the Lake
Union Conference, will preach.
C. S. West. Cicero, Ind, president
of the Indiana Conference; H. A. Lux
ems, pastor Of Indianapolis churches,
and T. Hubbard, former pastor, will
attend
Prof. William Pitts, of the Seventh
Day Adventist Indiana Academy, Cic-
erO, Ind, will direct choir selections.
The church has an auditorium and
smaller meeting rooms. 1t is of stuc-
co, and ground dimensions are 60 by
so feet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-09
A. A. j. v. OPENS
STATE MEETING
College Deans Hour and Ride
to Girls School on Program,

The Washington dinner at the
Spink-Arns tonight at o'clock will
be the feature of the opening day Of
the convention Of the American AS
ISOLATION of University women
The convention opened this morning
with a board meeting and pre-con-
vention conferences at the hotel Miss
Eleanor Day and Miss Stella Fox were
in charge Of registration at the Sphinx
Arms.
A business meeting at the public
library was the first session this after
noon. Mrs. James A. Bawden, State
president, presided. Adoption Of a
State Constitution and the reports Of
committee chairman were scheduled.
A college Deans Hour" led by
Dean Katherine S. Alvord of De Pauw
University was the chief feature Of
the afternoon program. This was fol-
lower by a. drive to the Indiana Girls
School, CIermont.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-09
BY HoRTENsE SAUNDERS.

by HORIENSE SAUNDERS
NEA SerUice Writer
N7UFFALO, N. Y, May s.
D There's one woman at least
who doesn't have to worry
about some other woman conpet-
ing for her job. She's Florence
Danahay of Buffalo.
According to statistics, she's the
only woman wholesale meat buyer
in the world.
Though other women don't as
pire to her job, most of them would
be glad to have built UP the bust
ness she has. For she now owns
three Of the best meat markets in
Buffalo and she is going to buy
more just as soon as certain loca-
tons are available. She buys
every pound Of meat that enters
her shops herself.
Naturally sausages and liver
don't appeal to my sense of adj
venture" she admits, but when I
got out Of Vassar College, I found
| had inherited an interest in a
packing house. There were no
men in my family to look after the
business, SO l felt that it was up
to me.
Il learned everything 1 could
about meats and then began buy
ing. Later 1 sold the packing
house and went into the retail
meat market business, and 1 ex-
pect to have a chain of a dozen
within a few years"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-09

whole quarter pint Of the most won
derful skin whitener, softener and
beautifier.
Massage this sweetly fragrant lemon
bleach into the face, neck, arms and
hands. 1t can not irritate. Famous
stage beauties use it to bring that
clear, youthful skin and rosy-white
complexion; also as a freckle, sunburn
and tan bleach. You must mix this
remarkable lotion yourself. It can not
be bought ready to use because it
acts best Immediately after it is pre-
Observation-Disclosures
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-09
MarthaLee
HerCOhEn1n
Forgiveness Withheld

Dear Miss Lee: I am Is years old and
have been married Just three months and
separated from my husband twice. just
two weeks after / was married. I made a
terrible mistake. My husband found it out.
I told him the truth.
I was very sorry afterward but he would
not forgive me and he would not forget He
seemed as though he had lost all confidence
IN me. 1 loved him more than I did before.
and he said he always loved me. But he
didn't show il. He doesn't care any more
whether he makes a living or not. He man.
ages to work Just enough to pay our board.
We boarded at my sisters.
HewOuld come home during the day. when
he should have been working and abuse me
and accuse me of runnig around when I
would Be- trying TO do everything in the
world to please him. He is gone now. What
should I dOF F. J.
All you can do, T. J., is to hope for
a chance to prove, some day, that you
really did repent your wrong-doing
You thought lightly enough of your
husbands love and faith at one time
You cannot expect to regain them
without a struggle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-09
OLDEST DE PAUW GRAD IS
Maj. John G. Dunbar, GreencastIe
Ind, Celebrates Birthday.
BV Times Special

BIZ Times Special
GREENCASTLE, Ind. May 9.-Maj
John G.. Dunbar, oldest living grad
uate of De PAW University, cele-
brated his eighty-fifth birthday here
today. He graduated from what was
then Asbury College in 1851. He has
in his possession the famous De Paw
cane which is kept by the oldest grad
uate, and was formerly the property
Of the late Judge Harrington Of In
dianapolis.
He IS a veteran Of the Civil War
and served as captain and then ma
jor in The 18th Indiana Volunteers
from 1926. He has been prominent
in politics until the last few years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-09
FAUNTLEROY HOME TAKEN
Club Federation Buys House Where
First Cub Was Formed

Announcement is made by the Faun-
tleroy Home committee of the Indiana
Federation of Women's Clubs that the
Home is now the property Of the Fed
Grafton.
In the rooms Of this old house at
New Harmony. Ind, little group of
women organized the first woman
club in America.
Mrs. o. NJ. Pittenger, State Fedora
ton president. was instrumental in
the purchase Of the home Miss Mary
Emily Fauntleroy, former owner, will
be in charge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-09
State Sues Banks

BIZ Times Special
CROTHERSVILLE, Ind, May 3
State board of finance has filed suit
against the Citizens State Bank to re-
cover $1,000 and the Crothersville
State Bank to recover $500 in State
money on deposit when the banks
We're closed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-09

beautifully decorated with great
boughs Of dogwood and baskets of
lilacs.
A tea followed the business meet
ing. On the tea table were low bas-
kets of woods violets. moss and bowls
Of violets and roses
Mrs VI. B. Larry was presiding host
ess. She was assisted by Mrs. Charles
A. Bookwalter Mrs. Franklin Vonne-
gut and Mesdames Hugh G. Baker,
Bertha Brooks, f. w. Crist, Louis A.
Geupel, L. A Lawrence. l.. c. NichOl-
SON, A. E. Overstreet. VIII Sinner,
Mrs Harry Van Osdol, Mrs. Perry
Vickers, Mrs. Lawrence Wells, Mrs.
C. w. Whaley, Mrs. Douglas F.
Wheeler, Mrs. William R. Wheeler,
Mrs Il. L. Virgins, Mrs. J. ]. VIII
liams, Mrs. George S. Wilson.
Neckpieces
Many of the new fur neckpieces tie
like a craVat and have fringed ends.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-09
Four Bishops to Be Elected

Bootleggers, the Japanese exclusion
law and corruption in Washington,
D. c., We're scored by Bishop L. w
Kyles of North Carolina at the gen.
era1 conference of the African Meth
odist Episcopal Church at Tomhnson
Hall. Four bishops will be elected
next week by the conference.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-09
Truck Kills Boy

BIZ JHiTeu PTess
EVANSVILLE. Ind, May 9.-While
father worked. Clifford Hayden. 9,
was struck and killed by a truck
driven by John MINIS, colored. The
boy dashed in front Of the truck in his
haste to reach the store before his
father left.