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Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

n. Richmond has returned from
the New York market where he pur-
chased Fall goods.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

Miss Hazel Dawes Of Arlington.
Mass. is visiting in Augusta as the
guest of Miss Dorothy Gray. Dayton
street
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AUGUSTA LOCALS
HEATER ATTRACTIONS

colonial Theatre-"Quo Vadis" the
norns greatest drama. Evelyn
olent In Midnight Molly. Fables
and News.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Fiske of New
York City, who are passing the
month of August. at Lake Cobbossee.
have been here for a few days this
week, visiting with friends.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

Charles Crossman of Attleboro,
Mass, is visiting his cousin, Mrs.
Monley Saunders, West river road.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

Forest Commissioner Neil Violette
and Bryant Jones of the Forestry
Department, went to Bangor, Tues
day. There Mr.. Violette joined
George Faulkner of the Department
on a trip north. Mr.. Jones went to
lambert lake
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

Miss Evelyn E. Sears Of this city
has gone to Northeast Harbor where
she will enjoy two weeks outing.
In the fall Miss Sears is planning to
enter Boston University.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

Painting which was authorized by
the Treasury Department has been
completed on the Federal building.
The postmaster's suite has been re-
decorated. All the window sashes
have been painted and the oak
Yestibule doors refinished.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

IF YOU want to en-.
i fold your taste in the
most tempting ice cream
you ever ate, stop in at
the nearest S & H sign.
Order your favorite
favor and we promise
you a wonderful treat.
This rich ice cream is
Just the most 'velvety
smooth blending of
pure.food ingredients
favored in a way you'll
never forget. 1t has the
kind of deliciousness
you've dreamed about.
s & H is food and
drink in pure, delightful
form. Bricks, bulk,
cones at the S & H sign.
Simmons & Hammond
Mig. Co., Augusta,
Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

days vocation at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. w. l.. Brown of Man
chester.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Mclaughlin, Mrs.
Horace Pierce, Mrs. Elizabeth Nc
Laughlin and her brother, Wilfred
Howell have gone on an automobile
trip to New Brunswick, where they
will visit at their old home.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

Mss Mildred Lawry of Lewiston
i,rs .ns guest Of Miss Dorothy Per-
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agency that more faithfully repre-
sent the cause of the Master, or is
doing more to carry comfort and
hope to those who are in distress.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

Ars' Charles Towle of Winthrop
"dS Tuesday caller in the city.
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.,',.ter maiter Pendleton of Boston was
lung friends, Tuesday in the city.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

nussell F. Jones of Portland was
's'ung friends, Tuesday in the city.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

|. .solge W. Motherwell is reported
soeing confined to his horne on
ssaar street, by illness.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

trsass ss Helen E. Maddocks and Miss
lslsrs maddocks have gone to Five
us ior a several days outing.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry H. Dickson OF
Harvard, Mass. are passing few
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

Ma. w. E. Morse of Southboro,
CIV r was calling on friends in the
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

aid. The evening was pleasantly
passed by dancing, singing and card
playing. Ice cream, cake and candy
were served. Mr.. Gilley received
many presents
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

1 fer Siarinda Cloutier Is passing
vern. weeks at Old Orchard. Mrs.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

Tuned sSeorgianna Lebreck has re-
AllwauLau several weeks trip to
shtes. M and other mid western
fiends .nsre .ne she was the guest or
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

NORTH - Mr.. and Mrs. Everett
Downer Of Palermo are visiting at
the home Of Mrs. Downer's mother,
Mrs. Lou Cram.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Cram, who
have been EMPLOYED at the State
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

virrin,.1 earle Hayes and daughters,
Miss r. ana Gloria Of Windsor anj
were IL r.epy OF Framingham, Mass,
me city Monday afternoon.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

]. MarasI Iugenia Meserve and Miss
DAY norn,o Barker will leave Wednes-
Ocean paang Tor a ten days stay at
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

PUROLATOR takes out Of the oil
the bits of metal, dirt, carbon par
ticles and road dust, which grind
away the bearings, score the cylin-
derwalls andwear out pistonrings.
You save oil-but more impor-
tant, you get better engine per-
formance and you cut your
maintenance costs away down.
Drive in today and have the
PUROLATOR installed. It takes
from 20 minutes to two hours,
according to the make of car. You
start saving money at once when
YOU have PURoLAToR installed.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

y Nashrs MRS. Edward H. Caverly
seeks a. n. H., are passing two
Psrtrides tne guests of Mrs. C. L.
suests fhsS Green street. Other
sSVanton aa are Mr.. and Mrs. F. B.
Nashua snu Miss Ella Tuttle of
1erkina ~ ~ Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley
= manchester. N. H.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

Wednesday, August 10, 1925.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

Eighty per cent Of your ordinary
engine repair and maintenance
costs are due to faulty fabrication.
PURoLAToR saves you that 80
per cent.
PURoLAToR, by process Of n1i-
croscopic filtration (not screen
ing), keeps the motor oil as clean
and sparkling as when it was new.
1t completely filters every drop
Of the oil as the engine runs.
This means fresh oil all the time!
It means that the necessity for
motor overhauling Is postponed
until q distant day.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-19

y oydsr Of II. =. Lishness.
augl5d4t
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-16

EEW MONTANANs who every summer enjoy the magnificent
n scenery Of the Rocky Mountains and other smaller mountain
= ranges of this state have any knowledge of that picturesque
and romantic race of white adventures who a century ago were eX
plOring every gorge and defiIe Of these mountains from Mexico to
the Arctic circle, and who had a far more intimate knowledge Of
the geography of this section of the great west than 80 out of every
100 persons who live in Montana today.
One hundred years ago fur was the standard Of currency in
the west, and the news that there was plenty of it in what is today
Montana, carried east by Lewis and Clark, started a horde of adj
ventureTs to the upper Missouri to trap beaver and barter for pei
tries with the savage and hostile Indians that then claimed this
great country.
In the motley ranks of these soldiers of fortune the bOldest and
as they expressed it, ION their own hook" The employees of the Hud-
sons Bay company and other big fur companies were under strict
supervision and discipline that checked personal initiative. They
were of the class who work for hire and see no further than the
wages paid them, which, in those days were small But the free
tappeTs were accountable to nobody. Each Cf them fought his own
fights and won the fruits OF his endeaVOrs. Going alone or in small
bands who acknowledged no captain they would split up whenever
the hmnOr moved them, every man a law unto himself and relying
solely upon his own strong right arm. They were unusual men
picked by nature for great enterprises and great deeds.
The free trappeF of the far west was in his rough way a good
deal of a knight Grant. CapaTiSOned in the wild attire of their kind
picturesque buCkskin gaTments-and armed for instant combat,
they TOamed far and wide over the plains and mountains, gathering
savage men,. It was the trapper and the trader who first explored
the routes of travel through Montana which arc now and always
will be the highways Of commerce over the mountains. They were
the real pathfinders Of the west, and not those later official eypIOT-
es whom the people Of today so recognize.
1t is a great misfortune that ST few who went with these trap
pers on their trails have left any account of these Adventures in the
great west. Of the few that have written of these great characters,
Thomas James in his narrative, which has been complied and pre-
served by the Missouri Historical Society, tells much of the advcn-
lures of the Lisa party which went up the Missouri in 1907. It is
from this narrative that the author has taken the data for the ar
ice which appears on this page.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-16

cup river American free trappers"
with him. Among them vas Cheek
who had cut across the country from
the Lisa fort on the Missouri river.
James detested Manuel Lisa, and
Cheek had threatened to kill Lisa if
at any time he ever succeeded in get
ting him away from the fort. Pierre
Menard was considered by James as
ian honorable, high-minded gentle
man and enjoyed our esteem in a
higher degree than any other Of the
company"
After remaining at the fort for
a few days they left for the Three
Forks of the Missouri river, with 80
men, (French and AmeTicans), the
party including Colonel Menard, An
drew Henry and two men who had
been members of the Lewis and
Clark expedition. These latter were
Golfer and Drewyer (Drouillard)
After a most trying trip, they final
ly reached the Three Forks on April
8, 1910. They had encountered a
snOwstOrm in the BOzeman Pass,
and a number of their party suffered
from snow blindness as a result
thereof. They had also ran low on
provisions. Upon arrival at the
Three Forks, they at once struck
camp. A part of the party immedi-
ately began the building of the fort
and the remainder started trapping
The history Of the "Three Forks
fort" was short and decidedly tenn
p~estuOus, due to the activities Of the
hostile Blackfeet Indian tribes. II
was near here that Golfer made his
memorable run and his partner
(POtts) was killed in 1909, while
they were on a trapping expedition
for the Manuel Lisa Fort. ~
In the brief period that the fort al
Three Forks was occupied, that great
hunter Of the Lewis and Clark expe-
ditiOn (Drewyer), and two Shawnees
met death within a mile Of the fort
The Historical Society Of Montana
has in its priceless collection, the or
iginal letter by Pierre Menard tC
Pierre ChOuteau at St. Louis, writ
ten from the Three Forks of the Mis-
souri, April 81, 1910. This is o.
great value from an historical pOin.
of view.
Pierre Menard's letter and the mar
rative Of James agree as to the hap
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-16

derburgh was farther up the Jeffer-
son river, above the three forks, he
encountered these same destructive
Blackfeet Indians and was killed as
also Alexis PillOn, on October IA,
1882. Jim Bridger made a close
getaway" and as a souvenir Of the
episode, carried with him an arrow
in his back. This he carried for three
years until it was extracted by DR..
Marcus Whitman.
1t is little wonder that the Three
Forks was abandoned when it is
known that so many of the leading
explorers, trappers and hunters met
a tragic death there at the hands of
the warlike Blackfeet Indians. No
other point selected by the fur trad
ers in what is now Montana, so far
as history or journal shows, has ever
recorded scuh fierce opposition, and
the tragic death of the best of hunt
ers and rifle shots of that time.
The brief occupation of Three
Forks fort in 1910 constitutes one
of the most unfortunate stories of
the fur trade, all based on historical
facts, the data for which is on file
in the collection of the Montana His
tOrical Society.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-16

chiefs ordered them TO come ashore. = . .
On reaching the shore, he (COlter) was
sliced, disarmed and stripped entirely
naked. Potts was still in his canoe i'm the
middle of the stream. Golfer re-
Quested him to come ashore which he re-
fused to do saying he might as well lose
his life at once as be stripped and robbed
in the name Golfer had been. An indian
Immediately fired and shot him about the
hip; he dropped down in his canoe, but
instantly arose again with his rifle in his
hands. . " 9 He leveled his rifle and shot
an Indian dead. In an instant at least q
hundred bullets pierced his body, and as
many savages rushed into the stream and
pulled the canoe containing his riddled
corpse, ashore. They dragged the body
up onto the shore and cut and hacked It
all to pieces, and limb from limb.
"The relations Of the killed Indian were
furious with Eage and struggled with
tomahawk in hand to reach Golfer, while
others held them back. . g " A council was
Immediately held over him and his fate
quickly determined upon. They mangna-
nimOusly determined to give him a chance,
though q slight one for his life. A chief
pointed to the prairie and mOtiOned him
away with his hand, aging in the Crow
language, 'gO-gO away He started
in a walk and an old Indian with impa-
tient signs and ordinations, told him to
go faster"
1t developed that the Indians had de-
cided to allow the naked man a certain dis
lance start and they should then race
1890 L4HE N-Z 800 AL1H Z2EAZHH 80
to James narrative, ran with all his
strength, the war whOOps of the savages
plainly audible in his ears, and the yam
guard of his pursuers almost within range
Of him. "Ihe Madison Fork lay directly
before him. five miles from his starting
place. He had run half The distance when
his strength began to fail and the blood to
gush from his nOstrils. AT every leap, the
red stream spurted bef0re him. N lis
limbs were growing rapidly weaker and
weaker. He stopped and looked back: be
had far Outstripped all his puesuers
could get off if strength would only hold
out. One solitary Indian, TAR ahead Oe the
spear IN his right hand Q DesDairing
of escape, Golfer awaited his pUrsler and
called to him I'm the Crow language to save
his life. The savage did not seem TO hear
him."
The Indian sliced his spear ia both
hands and rushed at Golfer. and made a
desperate effort to transfiX the naked man.
Golfer sliced the spear near the head, and
as the Indian stumbled and fell. he broke
age leu TO the ground Golfer then pinned
his red pursuer to the ground. Siezing the
Indians blanket. Golfer proceeded at hot
pace followed Dy his yelling red enemies
lie finally reached che Madison river.
Dashing through the willows, he plunged
into the stream, and seeing near him 3
beaver house. he secluded himself therein.
beaver house which proved a comfortable
resting place"
The Indians seon arrived and m theil
search Tor nlm they even stood GA ton 81
the ROOF OF the beaver house. Ha could
hear their cliee and tler taIk. Here 3.
remained az night. When an Of The cr.e.
had gradually died away. he ielt his hid.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-16

and Clark expedition, John Coulter,
George DrOuillard and John Potts
have figured prominently
with the early and first establish
ment of the Thre Forks fort is re-
markable.
After the death of Drouillard, the
remnants of the party, now reduced
by the killing of eight of their best
men, to a total of "A, grew discOur-
aged.
James remarks, Discouraged by
the prospect before us, most of the
Americans prepared to go back TO
the settlements, while Colonel An
drew Henry and the greater part of
the company, with a few Americans
were getting ready to cross the noun
tains and go on to the Columbia be-
yond the vicinity of our enemies. 4"
The exact date of the abandoning
of the Three Forks fort is not given,
but Colonel Menard, James, Col
ter and nine men in all, went to the
fort on the Yellowstone. thence to
the Mandans and from there down
the Missouri, arriving at st. Louis in
August, 1910.
Andrew Henry, with Is men all
told, went west and wintered on the
North Fork of the Snake river, which
has been known since that time as
Henry's Fork.
C%hittenden says that the parting OF
the parties took place some time in
the Fall of 1910, but we T inclined
to believe that the abandonment took
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-16
BRIEF OCCUPATION OF FORT THREE FORKS IN 1910, ONE OF
MOST UNFORTUNATE STORIES OF THE EARLYDAY FUR TRADE

each other. Further on, about
one hundred and fifty yards, Druyer
and his hsrse lay dead, the former
mangled in a horrible manner; his
mead was cut off; his entrails torn
out and his body hacked to pieces.
We saw from the marks on the
ground that he must have fought in
a circle on horseback, and probably
Killed some of his enemies, being a
brave man and we'll armed with a
rifle, knife and tOmahawk.' az
This was the end of the most noted
hunter of the Lewis and Clark party
OF whom Lewis says "a man of much
merit; he has been peculiarly useful
from his knowledge of the common
language of gesticUlation and his IN
common skill as a hunter and woods
man. These several duties he per-
formed in good faith, and with an
ardor which deserves the highest
commendatiOn. 1t was his fate also
to I've encountered on various Oc-
casiOns with either Captain Clark or
myself, all the most dangerous and
trying scenes of the voyage, in which
he uniformly acquitted himself with
honor"
Thus we find that Captain Lewis
pays the highest compliments to
DrOUillard that we're paid to any
member of that famous hitory max
ing party. His bones are disinte.
grating within a mile of the town Of
Three Forks.
AS h~ereinbefore mentioned, the
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-16

ing place by the same manner in which he
had entered il. He swan the river and
'hastened toward the mountain gap or
ravine, about 30 miles above the river. He
was successful in his flight from his pur-
suers, and FASTENED in the direction of
Manuel's Fort on the Big Horn about 800
miles to the north and east. lie travelled
day and night. living on roots anil the bark
of trees, reaching the fort in Il days,
nearly exhausted from HUNGER, fatigue and
excitement. His only clothing on this en-
tire trip from the Three Forks to Manuels
Fort was the blanket Of the Indian he had
killed near the Madison river.
Golfers second adventure. and one
which has much to do with western his
tory. is more or less a familiar episode TO
those MOntanans who have become familiar
with the history Of our Yellowstone Ma
tiOnal Park. 1t will be remembered that
later he resolved to return to the three
Forks, that he fell in with these same In
dian warriors. He again made his escape,
his path this time taking him into the
heart of, and through the wonderland OF
what is now the Yellowstone Park. It is
believed that he was thus permitted the
honor Of being the first white man to view
the geysers and other remarkable fOrma-
tiOns Of YELLOWSTONE.
John Golfer holds a peculiar place in the
history Of the country, and few characters
have such a romantic interest.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-16
(By DAVID HILaER)

" HE only written narrative of the
establishment of the Fort at
4 Three Forks came from the hand
of Thomas James. a free trapper, and
a member of the Manuel Lisa party
the original party that made the
trip up the Missouri and Yellowstone
rivers to that point in 1909.
Thomas James had engaged as q
free trapper with the Missouri Fur
company, of which Manuel Lisa was
the manager, the latter having es-
ta},ished a trading post and fort at
the mouth Of the Big Horn river, at
its confluence with the Yellowstone
in the fall and winter of 1807-18OS.
Thomas James, Miller and nc
Daniels, all free trappers, left the
Fort" LISA some miles above the
junction of Knife river with the Mis-
souri, and in November, 1909, built a
cabin at a point between there and
the Little Missouri, intending to
spend the winter there.
On Christmas Day, 1909, James
froze his feet quite badly, as the re-
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-16

a. George DrOuiIlard (Druyer, Drew.
YER, was the son Of Pierre DrOuillard and
a Shawnee woman. He was considered the
chief and best hunter of the Lewis and
Clark expedition, and was highly recon-
as such by Captain Lewis who af-
wrote Of his merits. He was one
4 Lisa's chief men on the vOyage Of 1907.
(5) John Potts was n member OF the
Lewis and Clark expedition party. After
the return of the party from the Pacific,
he entered the employ Of Lisa's company
and went up the river with the expedition
Of 1907, and the details of his death and
the remarkable escape of his companion,
John Golfer, constitute a complete MARIA
tive in themselves.
James, though, in his narrative, gives the
story in detail, and from this the follow
summary is taken.
James a that "He John COlter) was
about 80 years of age, five feet ten inches
In height and wore a . . " pleasing cOun-
tenance of the Daniel Boone type 1t seems
that Golfer and Potts had gone to the
Jefferson river, which is the most western
OF the three Forks, and runs near the base
OF the mountains. They were in canoes and
in search of beaver = when a war
party Of the Blackfeet Indians suddenly
appeared on the east bank Of the river. The
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-16

suit of which he was confined to the
cabin for some time. Shortly af-
ter James misfortune, Miller and
McDaniels went back to Fort Lisa
for supplies, taking with them the
furs that the party had acCummulat-
ed to this time.
James records that ''They we're
gone twice the length of time agreed
for their stay" James, Of course,
was alone in the cabin with badly
frosted feet. but a visit from a few
friendly Indians" furnished him
with provisions for which he ex-
changed tobacco and trinkets.
The next visitors to call on James
were an American, named Ayers, and
two Canadians from the Fort (Lisa)
who were carrying dispatches to Fort
Remon at the mouth of the Big Horn
river on the Yellowstone. (This lat
ter fort was named for Lisa's son,
Raymond. From these men James
learned that Miller and Mcdaniel had
arrived at the Fort" but had
changed their mind about returning
up the river.
Ayers and his companions urged
James to accompany them to the fort
at the mouth of the Big Horn, which
he finally decided to do, his feet
having sufficiently healed to permit
of travel. 1t may be stated that here
closes the chapter of Miller and Nc
Daniels, as they must have been
killed By the Indians. It is not re.
corded that they were ever afterwarC
heard of.
The Ayers party we're an eek.
press to Fort Remon, and thence
on February 3, 1910, James started
with them. After a cold and diff
cult trip. they reached the fort OF
February Is, 1910.
James was %agreeably surprised tx
find the fort in charge of Pierre
Menard, who had a number Of hi