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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-07-18
These Advertisers Will Help You Build Your New Home

more on the cottage order, looks better painted
than stained.
A door in the dining room provides easy ac-
cess to the side porch. The front windows have
loaded glass transoms The cellar floor is ce-
mented and has an area of about 500 square feet
1t is arranged for furnace, with plenty of space
for laundry
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-07-18

Everyone likes wide, circular porch, but it
on small house. The outside covering of this
house is the narrow siding over sheathing The
belt course encircling the walls above the win
dows is of diamond shape dimension shingles
The projection of the roof is two feet and lined
with ceiling on the under side. This house, being
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after having been reduced to diet
of grasshoppers.
They Immediately started back
with train but were met by In
dams and we're compelled to come
around by Landers cutoff and the
Snake river. Bozeman went back
to Missouri and succeeded in get
ting another train to follow him in
1864.
Jim Bridger, who took wagon
train out several weeks ahead of
Bozeman, denounced the Bozeman
road as impracticable. He took
his train west of the Wind River
mountains and the Clarks Fork
and reached the Yellowstone first,
but his road into the Gallatin VAL
ley up Shields river and Bracket
creek and down Bridger creek was
so circuitous that Bozeman reach
ed the Gallatin valley ahead of
him. However, Bozeman fingered
there until Bridger overlook him
and they then raced their trains
from the West Gallatin into Vir-
ginia City, reaching that place
within a few hours of each other. |
For the purpose of protecting the
Bozeman cutoff the government
later built Forts Reno, Phil Kear-
ney and c. F. Smith, but abandon
ed them after the massacre of Fort
Phil Kearney, and the road was
closed to travel.
In April, 1867, while going over
this trail, Bozeman was killed by
Indians on the Yellowstone.
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TOWN OF COTTONWOOD WAS JUDITH BASIN
CENTER BEFORE FOUNDING OF LEwISTOVyM

TN the early sos before the Lew
istown of today was established
- and when the livestock and min
ing interests of the Judith Basin we're
served by little trading points or
posts scattered about that rich sec
ton of the state then far remote from
lines of railroad there was a little
town about six miles south of the
site of the present city of Lewistown
known as Cottonwood 1t was at the
crossing of Cottonwood creek and
boosted post office before Lewis
town became even a name.
Today there is nothing to mark
the old town with the exception of
the Herman Often ranch buildings
and an old dilapidated structure that
was once the Dewitt hotel. The
hotel had been built by w. w. De
Witt and was afterwards run by a
Mrs. Martin. Dewitt later moved
to Lewistown where he died.
Among other residents of Cotton
wood in the early eighties was George
J. Bach who was manager of the
Charles Lehman & Company, general
store, and who is now living in San
Diego: L. w. Eldridge, who took up
La ranch and engaged in the cattle
business, and who is still living on
this place about half mile from
where the old town stood; David L.
Shafer, who filed desert claim en-
try upon land about mile from the
town in 1882, and who is now located
in San Diego; and Edward Brassey,
now resident of Lewistown. Mr.. |
Brassey was attracted to Cottonwood |
and afterwards located about five |
miles from the town, where the post |
office of Brassey was later estab-
lished and of which he was post
master. He moved to Lewistown and |
was the first school teacher in that
town.
The general store of Charles Leh-
man & Company, as pictured in the 1
accompanying illustration, was one
of the principal business establish
ments of Cottonwood, having been
started by the late Charles Lehman,
a pioneer merchant of Montana,
whose several sons were afterwards
for many years intimately connected
with the various business enterprises
of Lewistown.
But little mention of the town of
Cottonwood can be found in Montana
historical references but 1t seems to
have been started in 1881 or 1921
and the Lehman store was built some
time between 1882 and 1884, as
the first advertisement of the store
in the June 10, 1884, issue
Of the Mineral Argus, a weekly pa
per published at the mining town of
Maiden
George J. Bach, who was a nephew
If Mrs. Lehman, managed the store
Tor the last five years of its exis-
ence until its destruction by fire on
he night of July 10, 1892. The
Concluded on Agricultural Page)
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CLUBS TO COMBAT
STORY BY GARRETT
SAY HE HAS GREATLY OVER
DRAWN PICTURE OF CON-
DITIONS IN WEST.
Critics of Saturday Evening Post Ar
ticle Say 1t Is Unjust and Comes
at Time When Conditions Are Inn
proving.

The Montana Association of
Commercial Organization Secreta-
ries will within short time, en-
ploy means to defeat what the.
members hold is an adverse eff
feet, resulting to the state from
an article by Garet Garrett, econ
omist writer, in the last issue of
the Saturday Evening Post. In this
article the author purports to re-
view conditions in Montana and
other northwestern states and
leaves with the reader what the
association asserts is an unjustified
impression of the outlook in the
affected territory.
Announcement of the action con-
by the association was
made by L. E. Jones, secretary Of the
Mr.. Jones stated that
during the last several days requests
have been coming IN from over the
state by mail, telegraph and long dis
lance telephone urging the associa-
ton to take consistent action with a
view to correcting the damaging eff
tects of Garett's review.
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Cows and Poultry Pay

r. P. Chapman of the Living
Spring country in Prairie county, is
a booster for diversified farming and
he tells how for the last two years
his grocery bill has been paid by
his cows and poultry-less $40 that
he had to pay last fall when harvest
ing.
Hogs and corn, cows and poultry,
he claims, will be the salvation of
this section eventually, and he says
that those farmers who won't see it
might as well give up now as later.
Mr.. Chapman had about six acres
of corn last year-but this year he
expects to have at least so acres,
which he will feed to his pure-bred
black Poland-China hogs. He be-
lieves that Northwestern dent is the
corn best suited to this section, it
having matured for him every year
since he started growing it in 1921.
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lportions which had been surveyed
in 1853 by General Stevens when
searching for route for railway
to the Pacific coast. Captain Fisk
organized an escort of so men, and
on July 7, 1862, the train started
out from Fort Abercrombie, on the
Red river, 255 miles northwest of
St. Paul.
The train consisted of III men,
Is women, 168 oxen, eight mules,
IA work horses, Is saddle horses
and II cows. 1t arrived at Fort
Benton September 5, 1862, where
the train broke up, the emigrants
scattering to various parts of the
territory, while the military escort
proceeded to Walla Walla, where it
arrived November /.
Several other trains followed
this initial train in the few years
following but the northern route
never attained the prominence
gained by the South Pass, or Ore
gon Trail.
In the winter of 1923, John M.
Bozeman, after whom the city of
Bozeman was later named, with |
John M. Jacobs, left Bannack for
the states with the idea of hunting
out shorter emigrant route than
the roundabout one through the
South Pass and the Snake river
They we're set afoot by
The Sioux in the Powder river
country but finally got back to
Missouri in a starving condition
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"Mr. Garrett" said Secretary Jones
''titled his article That Pain in Our
Northwest and the chief criticism of
his article is that he deals principally
with conditions which obtained in
some localities two or three, and
even four years ago. The state is
not given credit for the remarkable
recovery that was made in 1922 and
1928; for the benefits that have re-
sulted from advancement Of diversi-
fication, or for the general stabili-
cation that is widely recognized as
having been far advanced in the last
few months.
t'The reader of Mr.. Garett's article
gets the impression that rerspec-
tive view of Montana reveals situa-
tion bordering on the hopeless, a con-
clusion that would be as unfair as it
would be inaccurate. County seed
bond issues that since have been
largely paid off are dealt with as if
they represent current conditions; the
relationship of foreign farm mort
gage concerns with clients in scat
tered locations is presented as if the
situation in this regard had not ex-
pired two years ago, and those por-
ClOuS Ol Iu0 6LdL0 WHICH lung SlHSS
recovered from the effects of post
war conditions are pictured only as
they were during the worst period.
Had No Initiation
Montana is represented by Mr..
Garrett as suffering from the effects
of tremendous land boom; while
as matter of fact there never was
an initiation of land values in the
state. Lands underwent consistent
advance in price for 10 years prior to
1916, but at no time did conditions
prevail such as the writer leads his
readers to believe existed here.
"If the Garrett article were to be
summed up, great fault would be
found in that it's trend is destructive |
rather than constructive. 1t presents |
the worst view that could be present
ed, without giving the other side. 1t
has all the damaging effects of a
half-truth when the portion told is
the adverse view. Critics of the ar
ticle assert that it is unjust and will /
injuriously affect the state at time
when general conditions are very
favorable and the universal trend is
decidedly upward"
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The accompanying map shows
the old South Pass, later known as
the Oregon Trail, which the artist
took occasion to designate as the
Bannack City route, although it
was never known by that name.
This trail led up the Platte river,
past Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie,
Fort Hall and Fort Bridger, with
one branch going down the Snake
river to Walla Walla, and then
down the Columbia river to the
coast, while another struck south
west to California. Another later
branch led up to the gold diggings
at Bannack in southwestern Mon
tana.
In the early sixties the Bozeman
cutoff was located from point
near Fort Laramie and running
north of the Big Horn mountains
to Bannack and Virginia City, and
about the same time the northern
route was established from Fort
Abercrombie, funning north of the
Missouri river to Fort Benton and
then by the Mullan road to Walla
Walla.
The Platte river route, later
known as the Oregon Trail, APP
pears to have been first followed
by the early trappers and was little
known or used except by the trap
pers and fur traders from the time
of the Lewis and Clark expedition
until about 1882, but in later years
a whole civilization passed over it /!
and history was made by the men
and women who ventured over it.
Robert Stuart is credited with
having passed over this route as
early as 1872. Bonneville followed
practically the same route IN 1882,
and Jim Bridger, Kit Carson and
other of the early fur traders knew
It we'll.
In 1882 nathaniel J. Wyeth took
MS first party out over this South
Pass route and he repeated the
Journey in 1884 with a second
party. The same year a party OIL
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WELL SHOOTERS
WIFE IS HEROINE
PUTS OUT BLAZE AROUND so
QUARTS NITRO WHEN MEN
ARE IN FLIGHT.
Mrs. j. ID. O'Sullivan, Sunburst
Woman, Shows Good Nerve in the
Face of Danger; Drives Soup
Wagon About Oil Fields.

The story of Mrs. j. ID. O'SulIiyan,
heroine extraordinary of Sunburst,
who as the helping wife of well
shooter calmly drives "soup wag-
on with so quarts of nitro-gIycer-
inc in it and does not even become
hystericaI when it bursts into
flames is told in The Rig and Reel
magazine.
A picture of Mrs. O'Sullivan in
front of her log house home with the
historic soup wagon" parked in the
front yard accompanies the story,
The account follows in part:
Mrs. ]. d. O'Sullivan, wife of a
we'll shooter got a real thrill in the
Sunburst, Montana, field a short
time ago-and so did the folks who
happened to be nearby.
Mrs. O'Sullivan frequently assists
her husband with shooting jobs
and thinks nothing of driving the
soup wagon. She was doing that
one day and was all ready to leave
Shelby with a load of SO quarts of
solicited nitro-glycerine.
''She was about to start her car,
when she discovered that some one
had locked the ignition and stolen
the keys. Her urgent appeal to a
garage man brought the suggestion
that she cross the wires and run
the car by shorting the switch.
with the switch short-circuited,
Mrs. O'Sullivan drove merrily across
the prairies. All went we'll until she
reached the Sunburst field and drove
into camp with her precious burden.
The crossed wires started fire, and
when she stopped the soup wagon it
burst into flames.
did this woman start a rapid foot
journey across the prairie? She did
though some of the in
stinctively brave men were in a sec
ond conspicuous by their absence.
But not Mrs. O'Sullivani She calmly
ran to the cook shack, grabbed a
bucket of water and put out the fire.
when the erstwhile witnesses re-
turned to the scene, northern Mon
ana had a new heroine. And Mrs
O'Sullivan deserves that title-those
who were still close enough to hear
lain she didn't even scream"
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OLD MONTANA TRAILS FOIL OWED BY
THE ARG0MAUTS AND FUR TRADERS

IN LID TRAILS, most of which
~ have long since been obi bitter
cation and agriculture, trails which
were followed by the early fur
traders, then by the emigrants to
Oregon and later by the gold seek
ers, are prominently marked on
this old map prepared and publish
led in 1864 before the territory of
Montana was created.
AT the time this map was prepar-
led the present states of Montana,
Idaho and Wyoming comprised the
Territory of Idaho created by an
act of congress approved March 3,
1868. The following year congress
enacted the organic act creating the
territory of Montana from a part
of Idaho territory, the act being
approved May %, 1864, when
temporary government was form
ed.
The territory of Wyoming was
cut off from what remained of the
original territory of Idaho by an
act Of congress approved July Is,
1868, but the senate refused to con-
firm the nominations of territorial
officers made by President Andrew
Johnson, and it was not until after
President Grant took office, March
4, 1869, that territorial officers
were appointed and confirmed.
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traders, then through the Snake
river country to Walla Walla
where Whitman was afterwards
slain in the Cayuse massacre.
| In 1888 another party of mis-
sionaries made their journey over
the trail and in 1910 Father De
Smet followed the trail from St.
Louis to the Green river, and then
north to the headwaters of the
Snake river, joining the Flathead
Indians in the Pierre Hole valley,
and then with them up to Henry's
lake.
Father De Smet returned to St.
Louis in the fall of 1910, but the
following spring he again came out
via the South Pass to Fort Hall
and then up to old Fort Owen in
the Bitter Root valley.
During the subsequent rush to
Oregon, Utah and California this
route was used extensively, thous-
ands of venturesome pioneers max
ing the dangerous and heart-break-
ing journey, subjected to Indian at
tacks in which many lost their lives
and were buried beside the trail.
John C. Fremont, then lieu
tenant, explored the region trav-
ersed by this highway in 1912, and
a second exploring expedition was
made by him in 1843.
1t was not until in 1862 that the
northern route was established by
Captain James L. Fisk, when he
brought to Montana, then part
Of the territory of Dakota, large
train of Minnesota emigrants.
Under instructions from the sec
rotary of war Captain Fisk was
dispatched to organize, equip and
an escort for an emigrant
rain to start from Fort Abercrom-
Die across the plains of the north to
Fort Benton, Dakota Territory,
md thence via the Mullan road to
Walla Walla.
Most of this route was entirely
lew, with the exception of some
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Pueblo. H. H. Low, 65, former
county Judge and district attorney
and for many years prominent at
torney here, was shot to death in
his office on the seventh floor of the
Thatcher building. Two bullets
struck the slain man, one entering
the head and the other striking his
heart. There is no clue to the MUIR
derer.
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Methodist missionaries was sent
over this trail and in the same year
DR.. Marcus Whitman and the Rev.
Samuel Parker, with large wa
gon train, passed over this trail
through the South Pass, to the
Green river rendezvous of the fur
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Terry's Best Calf

A. Harris, who resides on Komp-
ton bench, brought to Terry veal
calf five weeks old which netted 1872
pounds. This is one of the best veals
ever seen on the Terry market, and
shows what can be done in this sec
tion in the way of raising veal for
market The calf was never taken
from its mother until ready for
slaughter, it being given all the milk.
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DIR. G.. ]. B. STEPHENS
Dentist
Choteau, Montana
September Is, 1923.

september 10, 1873
Radium Remedies Co.,
Helena Montana.
Gentlemen:
wish to speak in the highest terms your Pyor-
rhea remedy.
I had case of chronic abscess of the antrum of
Highmore that had been operated years
ago. and since that time there has six operations
before it fell into my hands, all without
This was extreme chronic long standing
with old yellow pus cheesy nature and with pocket
leading back fully inch.
used your sample of Pyradium rrigating and the
pus commenced to away say now that the
case is completely cured I contribute great
my success DUE in great measure virtue your
remedy and 1t affords pleasure in speaking
remedy in the highest terms.
Yours very truly,
C. j. B. STEPHENS.
P. 81 am now using Pyradium in connection with
my pyorretic work, follow up after treatments
am getting the very best results c. ]. B. S.
Pyradium Sells So. so Per Bottle
Ask your Druggist about Pyradium Write
Pyradium Company Helena Mont.
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Mexico City - Three generals,
three coionels, four lieutenant coll
onels and one major, all rebels, were
stood against the stone wall and shot
here the other day.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-08-16
DEPT. OF PUBLIC WORKS
STATE OF MARYLAND
STATE ROADS COMMISSION
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Sealed Proposals for building one
section of State Highway, as follows;
Worcester County. Cont. Wo-40. One
section of State highway along Broad
Street and Bay Street, Berlin, for a
distance OF LAT miles. (Concrete) will
be received by the State Roads Com
mission, at it's offices, COL Garrett
Building, Baltimore, Maryland, until
IL M. on the 10th day Of August,
1924, at which time and place they
will be publicly opened and read.
Bids must be made upon the blank
proposal form which, with specifica-
lions and plans will be furnished by
the Commission upon application and
cash payment Of $1.00, as hereafter
no charges will be permitted.
No bids will be received unless ac-
comanied by a certified check for
the sum Of Five Hundred ($5O0) Dol
lars, payable to the State Roads Com
mission.
The successful bidder will be requir-
ed to give bond, and comply with the
Acts of the General Assembly Of
Maryland, respecting contracts.
The Commission reserves the right
to reject any and all bids.
By order of the State Roads Conf
mission this Both day of July, 1924.
L. H. STEUART, Secretary.
JOHN N. MACKALL, Chairman.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-08-16
NOTICE

This is to give notice to the public
that on and after Tuesday, August
18th, 1924, l shall adopt the method
of conducting my business on a cash
basis.
This is not for the purpose of put
ting any obstacle in the way of those
who are numbered among my pa
irons, but, on the contrary, Of giving
them the advantage of cheaper cash
prices; for the additional purpose of
saving in the way Of general expense
in conducting my business; and for
the purpose of giving better service
along all lines.
All persons indebted to me are ear
nestly requested to make immediate
settlement.
Trusting that my contemplated in
novation will work to the mutual adj
vantage of both buyer and seller, and
hoping for a continuation of the pa
tronage l have so literally received
in the past, am.
Yours for service,
Aft. CRAWFORD B. HILLMAN.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-08-16
DAVIS SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE.

John W. Davis Democratic nominee for the Presidency Of
the United States his speech of acceptance takes palms, the
outset notify the world that he is no longer legal counsel for
big corporation and II have client today but the Demo-
party and if they will the people Of the United States
The speech marvel of English precision rhythm and
nuity 1t will repay readings It abounds in declarations
which should reveal him champion of the people and not the
of the moneyed interests wish characterize
him.
attacks the Republican administration scathing
He emphasizes the lack Of harmony between Coolidge and Con-
and asks Whenever did party in control Of the Executive
and of majority both houses of Congress present pabe
spectacle of dscod and division? By what right political
ganization appeal for further lease of power?"
Davis declares himself uninuenced by creed
mts himself to enforcement of the prohibition laws respects the
rights of Labor promises relief to farmers is opposed tariff
discrimination; will make effort at tax reduction favors
beshp the League of Nations and asserts that in financing his
campaign Neither the Democratic party have favors
to SELL"
In closing he beautifully expresses himself follows:
ITO these things Mr.. Chairman, pledge myself In the
struggle them invoke the support of all patriotic
and whom Country greater than party Honor
sacred than expedecy and the Right dearr than gain
or all things beside In this spirit accept nomination
and relying upon Strength that greater than
ready with joyful confidence to the leadership you
offer me-"