Evening star., 1925-07-22

rangy. and of patriarchaI aspec%
there's a Bit OF the Lincoln touch
about Gov. Erickson. He was taken
from the county bench by the Demo
Gratis IN 1874, to run against Joseph .
Nj. Dixon, famed leader Of the Roosa-
velt Bull Moose campaign. Dixon
served term in the United States
Senate before defeating Burton h.
wheeler for governor in 1920. and
now and then has had honorable men
uon as Republican Progressive
white hope in a presidential or vice
presidential connection. But he ran
Montana into financial hot water while
governor and failed of reelection
against Judge Erickson on that issue
The Democrats alliterative campaign
cry was, Dixon. and Debt-E,rickson
and Economy" &Nhen Gov. Erickson
was returning TO Helena from The
Morse Centennial in Minnesota. he
struck up a smoking accompaniment ac-
quaintance with an Eastern stranger.
The stranger, having learned his com.
panlon was Montana man. asked:
nat beat Dixon last year." Erick-
son tapped his chest. and replied.
This. Then he identified himself.
The stranger was o. x Davis. we'll
known political writer # the Rooss
welt era.
Smoking Prohibited" is the sign
now up in the Coeur d'Alene uatioyIal
forest in Idaho. by order of the UnirAm.
states Forest Service. which hopes II
VIII be an effective means OF Spm-
Dating forest fires. A number of
more or less serious fires have re-
Gently been started through the neg
hgence of motor tourists and other
campers, who threw away lighted
matches nj Ho dav
dence that tobacco had just been i'm
use. Other forest areas in Montana
and Wyoming have also barred smok-
ing during the period of hot weather
and low humidity. when the danger
of forest fires is the worst The au-
thorlues warn the touring public not
TO imagine that the abundance OF rain
has removed the peril of fires
Word comes to the Northwest that
President Coolidge has given his ap-
proVal to a project for an exposition
of the products and resources of Mon
tana, Wyoming, Idaho and contigu-
GUS States, to be held in New York
some time during the next year. 1t
will be the first effort OF the kind 10
educate the unen1ightened East, by
ocular demonstration, as to what the
West has and is. The promoters
promise faithfully that the exhibition
viii be as far removed as possible
from a Wild West show 1t is TO con-
s1st exclusively of a display of the
economic treasures of the region. The
Northwest wants settlers and one of
the obJectives of the exposition is TO
induce residents ekeing out existence
in congested Eastern cities to come
out here.
One of the typical self-made men
of the West is Cornelius F. Kelley.
president of the Anaconda Copper
Mining Co., whose headquarters Is
New York, but who looks upon his
native Montana as his home. Kelley
began life as a water carrier at the
mines in Butte, where his father was
once a shift boss. The young Irish
lad attracted the attention of the late
Marcus Daily, who recognized his
talents and superintended his educa-
ton. After graduation at the Law
School of the University of Michigan
Kelley practiced law at Butte and
later entered the legal department OF
the Anaconda company. Now he is its
chief executive. Immensely tall an@
eloquent, Kelley is an impressive pub
lie speaker. He is in Montana this:
Summer, looking over the "A. c. M
He told the State Bar Association the
other day that the present baN of
American national existence Is a
deluge of laws. There was a dra
matte encounter between Kelley and
Senator Wheeler at the Montana
Bankers Association convention in
Glacier National Park, just after the
former had made a ringing speech as-'
sailing radicalism. Once the Ana
conda and Wheeler were sworn foes.
But there was no evidence of hostility
in the hearty handshake the twain
exchanged.
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