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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16
SHEBAS STEAL BIG MARCH
ON SHIEKS, WEAR TURBANS

are not needed TO adorn the turban
hats.
Turbans are plain and unembellished
except for jeweled trinkets. They are
made of cloth of gold or silver, of
brilliant-hued velvet or of lustrous
satin.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16
VICAR
cog Meters.

II Il. NJ, Nea0S and Mar
ketS.
5 P. NJ, NeaaS and Markets.
8 P. M.-Studio Program
WEDNESDAY
8 TO 10 p. NJ. Art Hickman's
Dance orchestra, direct from
Biltmore hotel, Los Angeles.
THURSDAY
S 10 Q =. NJ. ELEPHAN-
TICS: Ten Nights in a Pop
Shop"
o TO 10 p. NJ. Miss WasSer-
man, soprano. Mr.. CazelI, bari
tone and Miss Milgrom, pianist.
FRIDAY
s to $3.50 and $3.50 TO 10
p. NJ. Rondel McCarrOl and
Florence kneitz.
$3.50 to $3.50 p. VI. Blackstone
Cafe Trio.
SATURDAY
s to 10 r. NJ. CRYSTAL
. PALACE GYPSY SWEET
HEARTS"
The station may be reached
by telephoning Crockett 404t-N
or Travis 5SsS.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16
Speaking of Vegetables

The Prince of Wales defeated
Lieutenant +. W. Guingand in a
SQUASH contest, proving his royal
highness is some pumpkins as
squash player.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16
Nevers and Evers

Glenn Warner says: For all-'round
ability I have never seen man ike
Nevers."
Gjuro asks: For ali-around abh-
ity, did you ever see man Ike
Evers?"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16
We Approve 1t

"The best advice l can give
good girls" says Farmer Drybot-
tom, "is to take hiking boots with
them when they go out riding
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16
An Opportunity

We shall expect all our Texas
sheiks to take due notice of
the fact that a Dallas girl has
lust inherited a million dollars.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16
The Way 1t Goes

The hasty heiress weds the count
Though counselIed not 10 choose
him; o.. ----.-..
Then. Inter, joining with her folks,
She vainly tries to lose him.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16
May Bomb 1t

Having killed. an ibex OF record size
in Asia, Kermit Roosevelt is now go
ing after an "armor plated Indian
rhinoceros in Central India. IL its
armor is too thick he may have to
bomb II.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16
Lucky Bird

A Los Angeles woman left $1,000 to
her pet canary. the income from the
money 20 be spent for birdseed. Looks
like regular meals for one bird.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16
GIRLS bES|EGE
SANTA CLAUS
FOR BOYS.
TOYS
Want Cannons, Skates,
Bats, Autos, Stick Horses
and Mechanical Sets.
BY BESS CARROLL

In the beginning Eve was contented
to possess one of Adams ribs; then
she decided she wanted his trousers.
his cigarettes and his haircut, and
poor helpless Adam was left holding
nothing as his very own.
And now little girls are demand
ing boys toys!
Yessir. little girls will have to hang
empty barrels in front of the fire
place or the gas plug this Christmas
instead of stockings.
For Santa Claus is filling his sleigh
full of cumbersome boys TOYS for
girlS-and his favorite items are su-
tomobiles, skates and ascooters and
200-foot trains and wooden wheel
things that would make even the
stretchiest stocking have holes.
WANT CANNONS.
Baby Sister. copying her mother
who wears Pas golf toys, holds
mans job and rolls her own (cig-
arettcs)-has decided that she had
rather have a cannon or a baseball
outfit or. tool chest than a tatting
needle or a doll carriage this year;
and many letters have been written
to the North Pole TO this effect.
Therefore Santa Claus is buying fire
engines and cowboy outfits for littls
girls: he puts them down on his list
for wild. pitching stick horses, instead
of go,carts. and for baseball bats
rather than sewing kits. And just
to be sure that all the little girls
will be pleased, he has bought me-
chanical sets, volley balls and electric
trains for everyone.
DOLLS SURVIVE.
And so when Mammals Little Man
sees what Santa Claus left for him
and for Baby Sister this Christmas,
lie is going to advocate complete
repeal of wcmen's rights-for Baby
Sister will have as many saws and
pistols and steam engines as he has.
One of Santa's personal assistants,
the toy department manager of a
local store, declared that boys toys
are being bought almost entirely for
girls-only dolls survive as old-time
favorites. Girls want regulation boys
velocipedes instead of girls tricycles;
they want boys skates and tennis
racquets and yolley balls and basket
balls, bicycles and scootors.
Dolls will always be popular, '
said W. B. Mitchell, manager of an
other toy department. The mother
instinct is so strong in little girls
that they will never tire of doll
babies and doll furnishings. Expen-
siye dinner sets for dolls and electric
cook stoves are being sold for the
doll household. But the big favorite
for both boy and girl is the mechanical
or athletic toy.
The automobile fever attacks little
girls early, the toy dealers say-many
young lady in rompers will be
broken-hearted if she doesn't find 8
Rolls-Rough in her stocking tht
Christmas day.
And so poor old Santa Claus IL
busy reducing. In addition to his
own self and 10 pounds of cotton
whiskers he will have to squeeze rae
ing autos and cross continental trains
down the chimney even to little girls
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16

came to the office of the San Antonio
Child Protective and Humane Society.
With tears in their eyes, they told
Miss Lucy G. Smithers, executive sec
rotary, that home must be found.
The little daughter wanted to stop
school and go 20 work, the mother
said. But the mother refused.
The girl has black curly hair AMI
deep blue eyes.
She told Miss Smithers she would
be willing to help around the house
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-16
Is STOCKINGS
BEGIN To (
BULGE
Queen Candy Company
Helps to Make Xmas
Tragedy Victims Happy.

E Thirteen empty stockings of Little
Antonio Reyes and his twelve cousins
have already began to bulge a little
at the toe.
And the cherries Christmas they
faced when all Of the Christmas saw
ings Of the family were swept away
in the tragedy that came to Antonio,
has begun to take on a brighter tone.
And after all, old Santa Claus may
come to the little group Of homes hu1
died on the banks of the Medina river
at Won Ormy.
One day last week, Antonio and his
mother came to San Antonio to do the
Christmas shopping. And while they
stood in the toy department of a big
store, Antonio suddenly felt his moth.
er's hand become limp in death.
ONLY FOOD REMAINED.
Expenses needed to hold the funeral
took all of the scant savings of An
tonio's family and those of his twelve
cousins, and as result, bare sup
ply of food was all that remained for
Christmas, no candy, no toys, no nuts,
no Santa Claus.
Then it was that reporter from
The Light found the children huddled
about the yard, with Little Antonio as
the center Of the group Of mourners.
But the other children were more
grieved by the bleak Christmas II ~
faced than by the death Of their aunt.
although they sympathized deeply with
Antonio, who already had lost his
father.
For weeks they had been planning
what they would do for Christmas
with their money and they HAD writ
ten to Santa Claus telling him what
they wanted
LIGHT STARTS FUND.
So The Light decided to start the
fund with So and see il Santa Claus
couldn't be persuaded to visit the chill.
dren.
And then the Queen Candy Com.
pany said they would furnish the
candy for the stockings. Tuesday
morning a kindly looking man VINO
would not give his name, came TO The
Light and added $3.50 to the fund.
And so it begins to look like old
Santa Claus will visit the kiddies after
all and that the grief that has settled
down over their households will he
lifted this Christmas so that childish
voices may laugh out and the thirteen
stockings hanging before the fireplace
all will be bullying Christmas moru-
ing.
TO make this true, The Light will
arrange for Santa Claus to visit the
children, so mail or bring your dona
lions to The Light office and they
will be applied on the Thirteen Empty
Stacking Fund
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The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-09

when they got to Snake river /
they became alarmed, as things did
not look right. They thought they
would hire a wagon and team to go
through Port Neuf canyon-kind of
slip thrOugh-and leave the coach.
Frank Williams, the driver of the
coach assured them that there was
no danger. They took his word for
it and continued on the stage.
Parker was sitting on the out
side with the driver. The rest were
inside. The big siX-horse Concord
coach had got into the canyon six or
eight miles to a place known as Hell's
Half Acre when the road forked.
There was a high water road above
and a summer road beneath it. The
driver took the lower road. Parker
saw the road agents and shouted:
Boys, here they are The team
dashed up to the road agents and
stopped. Parker fired one shot at
them and fell dead. The road agents
poured a volley into the coach, shoot
ing both feet off of Charlie, the mess
enger on the coach, and killed three
of the passengers inside.
1.-THE team by this time had become
unmanageable because Of the shoot
ing and started on the run, tearing
the tongue out of the wagon. Car
penter, who was in the bottom of the
coach with the three dead men on top
Of him, was unable to move, being
badly wounded. Brown at the first
shot leaped from the coach and es-
capped in the willows.
1.-THE robbers took the gold dust
and the watches and purses of the
passengers. After they had all the
valuables and were walking away,
one of the road agents turned back
and pointed to Carpenter. I don't
believe that - - is dead he
said. He might squeal, so I'll fix
him He was about to shoot when
Carpenter said: Gentlemen, I'm dy-
ing. Don't mutilate my face-sO my
wife won't recognize me when I'm
taken to Salt Lake The road agent
fingered the trigger of his pistol for
a moment and then left without fir
ing.
1.-The robbers then lit out on their
horses with the swag. The dead
were carried back to the last sta
ton"
Stage Driver is Hanged.
Frank Williams, the driver of the
coach, soon after left the employ OF
the stage company, and was for some
time a h|anger-on at the saloons OF
Salt Lake. The lavish use he made
of money directed suspicion toward
him and came to the attention of the
Montana Vigilantes, who had never
ceased to try to trail the robbers and
who had some of their members al
Salt Lake. Williams became alarmed
and left Salt Lake hurriedly, but the
Vigilantes were on his trail. At God
freys' station between Julesburg anC
Denver, they arrested him. Williams
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-09

sod and rock trail-and the travel
ers were jolted from one position to
another. Sometimes they bumped
against the top of the vehicle, and at
other times they landed in the laps
of the passengers in the opposite
seat.
Mark Twain. in his "Roughing II"
has given an accurate account of a
journey by stage coach, where he
mentions a remarkable trip made by
one of Ben Halladay's coaches, from
st. Joseph, Mo, to Fort Kearney, a
distance of $50 miles in Sc hours.
This was a record run in those
days; but compared with the modern
railroad or automobile time for the
same distance, it can be seen that
phenomenal advance has been made
in our transcontinental ~transporta-
ton speed.
Speed and personal comfort alone,
are not the only added advantages
of modern means of travel. In the
journey across the plains or through
the mountains, the passenger was af-
forded little opportunity to view the
scenic wonders of the country
through which he was passing. The
windows Of the stages were so placed
that the seated traveller could not
view the passing country at ease;
and due to the rOughness of the
roads, it was risky to endeavOr to do
other than maintain your seated
position within the coach. Today,
the modern traveller or tourist enjoys
the pleasures of observation cars on
modern trains, and the open buses
and automobiles Of the ~preesnt-day
transportation companies.
Mark Twain is credited with the
assertion that the drivers of stages
in the early days felt a contempt for
the passengers who were his patrons.
In the earliest gold prospecting days
(when the first coaches came and
went from Virginia City,, it was a
fact that the comfort of the passen-
gers was a matter Of small concern to
the driver of the coaches, COMPARED
with the safe transportation Of the
treasure carried by the earliest OF
the coaches. The largest shipments
Of gold dust were the coveted spoils
Of the road agents, and the holdine
up of the stage became a matter 81
ordinary occurrence.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-09

beating heart; none will again weep
as it rumbles away with a precious
freight Of affection and friendship.
And yet in these battered relics there
still stands some of the most roman
tic "has beens'' of a romantic era of
western history.
The Concord coach first made its
appearance as a mail carrier in Mon
tana July 4, 1864, when the first mail
coach to reach Virginia City, the ca
pital of Montana territory, arrived
from Salt Lake. A contract had been
awarded to Ben Halliday, head Of
the great overland line from Leaven-
worth to California, for carrying the
mail from Salt Lake to Virginia City,
the route being $50 miles long. The
contract was given early in May of
1864, with the provision that for
every day after July 1 that he failed
to have the new line in operation,
he must pay a fine Of $500. Halliday
knew that there was only n man
in the world who could stock the line
and equip it for operation in less than
60 days, and that was his general
superintendent in the west, Robert
j. SpOttswOOd, who was known all
over the west as Bob Spottswood.
He therefore gave the latter orders
to go ahead and get the Virginia City
line going at the very earliest pOss-
ibIe moment.
Bob SpottswOod was a noted char
acter on the Overland. In the sos
ne was a bUllwhacker on the plains
and later became a pony express rid
er and messenger on the Overland.
He was absolutely fearless and made
a big reputation as an Indian fighter.
He also was n of the few men
whom the desperadOes and road
agents along the line were afraid to
take a chance with. He was consid-
cred as good a pistol shot as George
Slade, and he killed a number of bad
men in his time.
SpOttswOOd Makes Good.
Montana pioneers who were in
Virginia in 1864 Chose few who
still surviYe), will remember the ex-
element caused by Spottswood's race
against time to get the mail line into
operation on schedule time. When he
received orders from Halliday to
equip the new line, it looked like a
hopeless task, but he did not take
time to even think over the Difficult
ties. Taking the first stage from La
than, Colorado, to the Missouri riv-
er, he gathered his supplies at Lea
venwOrth and in less than a week had
an outfit of 290 mules, 80 stage
coaches and 10 lumber wagons as
sembled and started back west. He
went by the old California route, via
Fort Kearney, Nebraska, and Lara
ME, Wyoming. On June 2 he crossed
the South Platte river at Julesburg.
He had the worst sort of luck with
the weather, and the roads became
almost impossible, but pushing on
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-09

fell on his knees and made a full con-
fessiOn of his part in the robbery to
the Vigilantes who were represent
ed by Dutch Charlie, May Reed and
others. The men from Montana at
once took Williams to a ranch corral
nearby and strung him up. AS the
result of Williams confession, the
Vigilantes afterward captured sew
eral others of the gang and hanged
them, but a number were not caught.
The stage companies used to make
much money transporting gold. From
the time of the gold strike at Ban
mack in 1868 till 1869, when the
Union Pacific and Central Pacific
railroads Were completed across the
continent, the express companies
charged five per cent Of the value
of the gold for carrying it back to the
states. After 1859 the rate was two
and One-half per cent,
Montana Line Saved Holiday.
1t was the contract for carrying
mail from Salt Lake to Virginia City
that saved Ben Halliday from finan-
ciaI ruin in 1864. Halliday was one
of the most spectacular figures in
the whole history Of transportation.
AT the age Of IS he was a farm labor
er in Kentucky. At the age Of 40 he
Owend 16 steamships, trading to ev-
cry point Of the Pacific; owned the
great Overland stage-coach line, the
biggest and best line of coaches ever
operated in tive world, with an in
vestment of stsveral millions. He
spent a million dollars in q home on
the Hudson RIVER near New York
City.
When the Overland line was ex-
tended across the continent Halliday
received $1,000 900 q year from the
government fox carrying the mails,
but this was subsequently reduced
nearly cut in half Ia the course of q
few years. In May, 1864, he was
facing bankruptcy IS a result az the
enormous expense of operating his
stages through hostile Indian country
where his losses were enormous.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-09

TN THIS present age OF modern comfort and convenience Of every
nature and description, we people of Montana n prone to be-
= come so accustomed TO the good things that are ours today that
we Involuntary Forget the hardsnps and privatiOns and discOmfOrts
of the pioneers whose efforts made Montana a reality in industry,
commerce, home life and recreation. Few MOntanans visiting our
parks and mountain regions now stop to consider the contrast be-
tween their method and comfort OF transportation, and the Concord
coach OF the covered wagon Of a comparatively few years ago.
At Washington, in the museum of the pOstOfice department
there is a N old stage-cOach that many years ago found its way there.
This pioneer vehicle has more historic association in connection with
Montana than any other vehicle in existence.
Among the first vehicles to carry the mails within the state was
this old coach which was built in the COS. 1t was used once a week
between Helena and Bozeman, while now, by railroad, mails are
carried over the same route four times Il lay. The old vehicle had
its up and downs. While in service carrying mails it was captured
by the Nez Perez Indians in 1877, and reCaDtured by General How
ard. This coach, in its day, has carried a number Of remarkable
passengers. Among the distinguished persons who have ridden in
it in Montana are General Garfield, before he became president;
General Sherman, while on a tour of inspection in 1877, and Presi-
dent Arthur, while visiting Montana and the Yellowstone park on
a tour Of recreation in 1888. While "Old TecUnseh" was its pas
senger, the coach, drawn by six horses, with the usual relays, made
the distance from Fort Ellis, near BOzeman, to Helena, 1O8 miles, in
eight hours, n average of l315 miles an hour. 1t was q feat in
staging that has seldom been equaled.
In 1893, this old coach was taken from Montana and exhibited
at the Worlds Fair in Chicago, after which it passed into the hands
of the government and was taken to Washington.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-09

Washington at once and never re-
turned.
Decline of Stage-C Coaching
More than sixty years have passed
since the last Concord stage-coach
on The great Overland route made the
long trip between the Missouri river
and the Pacific coast. 1t is As years
since the railroad coming in from the
south ended the stage travel between
Salt Lake and Montana. Since those
days all manner Of small stage lines
have been operated from point to
point in Montana where the railroads
did not run, but today, these have
been superseded by the auto stage
lines, and today the traveller who
journeys off the railroad in a public
conveyance does so in an automobile
or one Of the large modern motor
driven buses, and is no longer Of
necessity pulled by horses.
One of the last stage lines to be
operated for any great distance in
Montana was that between Great
Falls and LewistOwn, which cOntin-
ued to run until the completion OF
the Billings & Northern railroad in.
1905. The stages used on that line.
and all of the other later stage lines
in Montana, however, we're not the
old Concord coaches, but vehicles OF
a much lighter construction. When
the Great Falls-LewistOwn coach
made its last run, lOng~distance stage.
coaching in Montana became a thing
Of the past.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-09

faithfully checked it's down-hill
speed, grating out reassuring harsh
sounds to the travellers ears when
the road was steep and dangerous, is
bent and broken and useless now.
The ~well-matched horses that pulled
it " long, weary dusty miles are
long since gone. The naughty and
self-confident driver-where is he?
From his nerveless hands, the lines
have long long ago fallen, and the
shrill notes Of his whistle have died
away on the air Of vanished years.
These relics OF the past stand
where they have stood through slow
seasons, and they have fallen into
decay and rust. Wind and rain and
the heat of many summer days have
frayed its tTappings and shredded its
curtains. Their chains, once so
bright and strong, T furnished with
the rust of decades and serve now
only to loosely bind the old Concord
stage coach to a soOn-to-be-forgotten
past. No one will ever hail the COM
ing Of the Concord again with eager,
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-10-09
- a II. CONWAYl.

While enjoying a few weeks OF
much needed rest at the western
entrance to Glacier National Park
the past summer, / became much
interested in the building Of the
new inteF-park highway, which al
ready has made its way up the
cast shore of Lake Mcdonald, past
Lake Mcdonald Camp, Lewis Gla-
cier hotel, and for several miles
along Mcdonald creek, to the Ava.
lanch trail and Avalanch creek.
To one who has become, in a
small sense at least, familiar with
the history of the great northwest,
the construction Of this, as well as
the other wonderful highways of
our intermOuntain region, and the
almost hourly trips of the big yell
low busscs of the Park Transports
ton company, cannot help but re-
call the immense and rapid strides
which have been made in means
and speed and comfort of transport
tation i'm Montana.
1t is not so many years ago that
the mountainous regions of the
state of Montana we're inaccessible
ave for a few crude wagon trails
and the better roads of the few
stage coach lines which operated
from the small railroad towns to
the pOstOffices of the interior. And,
this thought recalls the fact that
il was these same stage coaches
which played the major role in the
opening up of transportation in our
mountains and across our fOOthiu
plains-
In Montana today there are Twin.
many hundreds of men and WOmel
who came to the Treasure stat
in the old-time Concord stage coacl
that particular vehicle whicI
played SO important a part in tn
early-day transportation Of maj
and passengers on the Plains of tn
Great West, and in the Rocky noun
tains, and figured so conspicuOUsl
in MOntana's early history.
1t is many years ago that the stag
coach ended it's career in this state
Here and there what remains of thi
class of vehicle stands beneath tn
rickety old shed of some one-tim
road ranch, a relic of by-gOne days
weather worn, stOrm-battered, rust
and abandoned. It's leather spring
are cracked and broken; it's door
gone. its sides and back smashed in
its boot, the refuge of rats and bat
its wheels bent, its axIetrees twisted
a poor forlOrn remnant of its forme
proud and glorious self. Ghosts
a long buried past now hide in i
Shades of the occupants it ono
carried still seem to linger arOun
it at twilight. Spectral forms of til
road agents that once surrounded
now, perhaps, troop around it in tn
mOOnbeams.
The old brake that so often and S