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The Coconino sun., 1926-11-26
Vote as You Smoke

"Why don't you quit smoking if
you know it isn't good for you?"
"Oh, I'm waiting for somebody to
pass law to make me quit.
The Coconino sun., 1926-11-26
Pertinent Question

"Well, it looks like out of the fry
ing pan into the fire for me"
"But how did you get into the fry
ing pan, SOM"
The Coconino sun., 1926-11-26

Winners will be an
nounced in an early
edition of this
newspaper
The Coconino sun., 1926-11-26

Chief Harry E. Qndian) Miller of
Canyon Lodge takes a poke at some
popular nature superstitions:
When lie is told often enough it
becomes the truth. This is the reason
that the truth is generally so strange
The following are some of the truths
that are stranger than fiction.
"The breath of the Gila monster,
blown in your face, will cause your
death in exactly fifteen seconds
Worse than the breath of Winslow
bootlegger.)
"The lynx, or bobcat, jumps out of
trees and seizes people by the throats.
"Rattlesnakes in flocks surround
and bite people.
"The porcupine throws it's quilts at
people.
"The sidewinder strikes before it
rattles.
"Snakes will not crawl across hair
ropes.
1.-THE cliff dwellers were white peo-
The Coconino sun., 1926-11-26

Joe Blumberg says he's wondered
why so many of the manufacturers
of good automobiles name them with
names beginning with P-such as the
Packard, the Pierce Arrow and the
Puick
The Coconino sun., 1926-11-26

what you want them for: De white
leghorns am de easiest to find; de
black mlnorcas am de easiest TO get
home wild; but when it comes to de
eatin' glib me de plymouth rock"
The Coconino sun., 1926-11-26

instant they were slugging away at
each other.
Il was too hasty," Uncle Jim says.
"What he meant to say was that it
wasn't hot there to what it would be
IN a month or so, and / didn't give
him time to finish. / was there in
July few years later and all the
time | wanted to run across that
man and apologize to him."
Carl has some fine cider down
there, just a little too fresh, but nice
cider, anyhow. Male Pilkington says
he found out the other day how to
take it out of the bottle after it har-
dens and not lose any. Pilk wraps a
bath towel around the bottle before
he uncorks it and when it effervesces
into the towel, wrings it out.
Harvey K. Meyer Jr., age II, son
of former superintendent and Mrs.
H. K. Meyers of Tuba City, like all
other boys, sort of hates to waste
time by going to bed nights. He
writes:
Jimmy (Goin' on Eight)
When mammals washing dishes,
And daddy's readin' books,
And goblins stealing round the
house,
And ghosts in sheltered hooks,
| like to know some one is near
For funny noises (Oh, so queer)
Make my hair to stand up straight
For the black night I really hate.
The gas-light is already lit,
The kettles on the stove;
But in the dark I'm scared to be
So not from light I'll rove.
My name is Jimmy Murstead,
I'm seven, goin' on eight;
But when it's time to go to bed
/ plead ooh, may | wait ?"
And mamma says, ooh, don't know,
What you think about it, Dad?"
And he says, "When you go to bed
Why then you will be glad,
So | think you'd better go
For that will please your mother
So"
l hop into my pajamas
And say my prayer and then | was
0tAN WChl " OSu. OOOQ LiSHI.
I'll pull the covers over tight,
And go to dream-land right away
And dream of journeys on the way.
1T depends upon your point of
view," said Dr. r. B. Won KleinSmid
in his address on Education, Asset
or Liability" at the Inauguration of
President Grady Gammage of Teach
ers college last Sunday afternoon. He
Illustrated with the story of Shamb-
ling Sam, whose Judgment was asked
by farmer and his son who couldn't
agree upon the kind of chickens to
stock their poultry run, their favor
ties being white leghorns, black min
and plymouth rocks.
well" said Sam, ut depends
The Coconino sun., 1926-11-26
CHEERFUL CHIRPS
(By DELI


those intervals when
along and is grabbed off.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-05-21

souri, river between Sioux City and Fort
Benton.
BiHings-Fred Somer, a farmer near Ac-
ton, and for many years a resident of Bill
ings, was killed in a mine cave-in near his
home eight miles west of Acton the other
day. His body was found late in the ev-
ening, after his failure to return home had
alarmed his wife and she had secured help
from %neighbOrs in searching for him.
Winnett-At a meeting of the Petroleum
County Fair association held recently, pre-
partitions for a fair at Winnett this fall
were made and the following officers were
elected: T.. E.. Hegna, president; Frank J..
Nelson, vice president; Amanda Swift, Sc
cOnd vice president; H. B. Greene, terasur-
er; {. J. DOherty, secretary; Eden Freed,
assistant secretary.
Lfbby-The board Of trustees of the Lib
by schools has disposed OF the $4,000 is
sue of local school bonds which were au-
thOrized by the taxpayers at the election
held March 20. The bonds were sold to
-rne Montana state board Of land commits
siOners. The $4,000 will be used for the
high school building.
Bulings-An estimate made following 8
check here showed that the mail carriers
walk on an average of II miles daily anC
carry an average Of 50 pounds Of mail eacE
day. The average time spent on the route
on the day of inspection was seven hours
and 30 minutes. However, no inspections
were made on the heavy mail days such as
Mondays ana the first OF the month.
Great Falls-Seventy-five thousand go
piers will be killed in Cascade county thi'
year if the anticipated activity of the boys
and girls who are participating in the cam
paign for the eradication Of animals and
birds destructive to crops, poultry and live
stock materializes, it is estimated by r. %
Cameron, county agent. The campaign i
now under way and will continue unit
September 1.
LivingstOn-The Yellowstone Camps com
pany has purchased a large painting from
John Moore, cowboy artist, who is wei
known here and at present makes his hOm
at Karst's camp. The painting, according
to Mr.. Moore, does not have a title; but
he stated, if pressed to give a name h
would call it "SOlitude." The Lainting j
to be placed over the fireplace in the LAX
Camp in Yellowstone park.
Great Falls-Alleging that William +
Shannon, a farmer Of Valley county an
a director Of the insOlvent Glasgow Ma
tiOnal bank, mas encountered and transfer
red his property and has failed and refuse
to reimburse Valley county and the City @
Glasgow on indemnity bonds which b
signed to insure deposits, creditors have pc
titiOned in the Great Falls federal cOuT
that he be %adjudged an involuntary a
ruLt.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-05-21

tives of the white race who congre-
gated in the mining camps, many of
whom sadly needed ethical instruc-
ton.
Since the founding of their order,
the Jesuits had generally been the
first to send missionaries to print
tive people, and it was they who es-
tablished our pioneer missions. The
story of several of these has already
been told so often that even school
children know of Fathers DeSmet
and Ravalli, who made such a heroic.
struggle to elevate the Indians, sUf-'
fering almost uncomfortable priVatiOns
while engaged in the attempt.
According to the'CathOlic EncycIO-
paedia, it is possible that Father De-
Smet was not the first of his order to
visit Montana. This states that cit is
not at all improbable that Father c.
G. COqUhart, S. J., accompanied the
La V~erendryes on their expedition
into Montana. He was a member of
the party when it set out from Mon
treal on their great enterprise, and is
quoted as saying that the La Veren-
dryes on some of their excursions,
went beyond the Great Falls of the
Missouri and as far as the Gate of
the Mountains, nea Helena"
If this %suppOsition is correct, a
Jesuit visited several of the Montana
tribes in 1742, and undoubtedly bap-
tized many. Near the Great Falls he
must have come in contact with the
eros Ventres, who then had no reas-
on to hate the whites. Their latter
vindictiveness arose from the killing
of two of their tribe by the Lewis
party. On the Yellowstone Father
COquahart would meet the Assinni-
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-05-21

until, in 1885, Father Eberschweiler
was assigned the task.
He found his new charges poverty
stricken and degraded. The neigh
bOrhOOd of the fort was undesirable
from a moral standpoint. There
were no trees ear for fuel, or to fur
nish longs for the required buildings.
The water of Milk river was strongly
alkali, and it ran in too deep a chan
mel to be used for irrigating the land.
Confronted with this problem of
where to locate his mission, Father
Eberschweiler could do nothing to
solve it for several months. These he
devoted to studying the AssinnibOine
language which was not so difficult
to master as that of the eros Ventres.
The AssinnibOines were of SOuian
stock. The account of how they
CHANGED to break away from the
Sioux nation bears relating. The
old saying, "chercez la femme" ap-
plies to in this instance. The wives of
two chiefs %quarreled OVER who should
have a buffalo heart. From words,
they came to blows and vigorous
hair-pulling. Then the husbands
COOh " uauu III IHO oQuaDuAO5 Will
the result that the portion Of the
tribe consisting of the AssinnibOines,
refusing to be %recOnciled, turned
their backs on their brothers, and
~jOUrneyed westward. When this
separation took place is not known.
With the coming of spring, Father
EbeTschweiler was able to tempOrar-
lily abandon the study of the ASSN
nibOine language, and explore the
country in search of a more desir-
able mission site. This he discOv-
cred, adds Father PalladinO, in the
Little Rockies, which are a miniature
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-05-21

such studies as they are fitted to
take, and in the English language.
They also have manual instruction.
1t seems to be the impression Of
most of those who engage in teach
ing the Indians, that they are inclin-
ed to be lazy; and it is true they are
aVerse to work. Women of the
tribes were the workers, this being
their share of the social burden. It
cannot be said that Indian m
are lazy. AS for men, they were the
hunters and warriors, and they were
not lacking in activity when it came
to the performance of these duties.
Now their whole social structure is
taking on a new fOrm-that of the
white race It is not strange that
we find them unable to adapt them
selves at nee to these altered con-
ditiOns demanding, a they do. a
complete change of customs. It re-
quired centuries for our own race to
emerge from barbaism. How can we
expect the Indians to evolve more
rapidly than we did?
The Jesuits have long engaged in
mission work among primitive folk,
and move slowly in their efforts to
civilize the Indians, it would seem to
the casual observer. A recent contri-
butOr to the American Mercury
stresses this fact in an article on the
Crees. He observes, '"They (the
JesUits) set themselves a simple goal.
They establish a crude school and a
hospital and the bulk of their teach
ing is aimed at habits of cleanliness.
I asked one Jesuit what he hoped Ia
accomplish among the Crees, and he
replied, 4 have been here fourteen
years working hard, and if God is
willing I shall be here for twenty
more, and then, if everything goes
we'll and we make the progress We
hope for, the man who follows me
may get these poor Indians to use
SOAP"
These missionaries have reason Il
believe that cleanliness paves the wa,
to Goodness, and if early reports O
the filthiness of the A~ssinniboines i
to be credited, the fathers and sister
at st. Paul's have a wearisOme tasl
before them, and are deserving of tn
sympathy Of all.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-05-21

cradle activity during the spring, reports
to the labor bureau of the state depart
ment of agriculture show. At Shelby work
progressed rapidly on the new refinery,
the first unit of which was expected to be
ready for operation soon with a production
capacity of 1880 barrels a day.
At Cutbank, the Hard Rock Oil company
is constructing q 22-mile pipe line from the
Ke~vin-Sunburst field at a cost of 100000.
Work has started at Wolf Point on a
storage depot for the Westland Oil com
pany.
Construction of a spur track to the I'm
tied Carbon company carbon black manu-
featuring plant near Mott was started dur
ing March. The Liant will use 5000 feet
of gas each day from the Hepp lease.
The Record Petroleum well in the Big
Lake field came in on March 81 with 3d.
100000 feet Of gas per day and $500 feet OF
oil in the hole.
Governor J. +. Erickson has reappOinted
Z. A.. Wilson, Livingston, and w. X. Moore,
Billings, to membership upon the state fish
and game commission, each for a term Of
four years ending April ID, 1890.
He also appointed B. j. Anderson or
Fairvicw. Richland county, to be a member
Of the state board Of hail insurance to fill
the vacancy created by the resignation OF
A.. II. Stafford of BOzeman. Mr.. Ander-
son is a farmer and -stOckgrOwer. and has
served as local hail loss appraiser for sew
eral years.
Lamp globes disappear entirely too rap
idly at the state capitol to please Custodian
c. c. DAVIS and he has hit upon a plan
which he thinks may prevent some OF them
from straying. The latest order Of bulbs
are etched with the words state Of Mon
tana." The wording appears on the end Of
the globe, where it is plainly visible and
the custodian hopes it will have the effect
of Encouraging the borrowing habit, which
he believes is responsible for disappearance
Of state property. The business is always
open to the public n close supervision or
sfghtseers is not ATTEMPTED.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-05-21
"JuSt Send En- to Me- ,:
Says MiSSOula Man

my body and felt out Of whack from
head to foot.
81 tell you, railroad men sure
boost Karnak, and I don't wonder
now, for six bottles of this medicine
has fixed me up like a new man from
head to foot. I eat meat, potatoes
and all kinds Of substantial food now,
and nothing hurts me bit.
There's not a trace of indigestion,
billiOusness, gas, dizziness Or head
ache left, my nerves are as steady as
a die, and I sleep like a log at night.
I have gained back all the weight I
lost and five pounds to spare. I tell
you, I'm a happy man to be back in
good health again after all the misery
1 suffered, and if there's anybody
who has any doubts about the merits
of Karnak just send 'em to me-"
INSIST ON KARNAK
II your local druggist cannot yet
supply you with Karnak, tell him
to get IT, for you from his Wholesale
Drug House. Or, order Karnak by
mail from Broadway Pharmacy,
Billings; Model Rexall Stores, Great
Falls; Parchen Drug Co., Helena;
Smith Drug Stores, MissOula; or any
druggist in Butte or Anaconda. The
small price is only $1.1O a bottle.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-05-21
JUNE WARRANTS
TOTAL S86O,OOO
STATE is ONLY 10 MONTHS FROM
BEING ABLE TO REPORT
ON CASH BASIS
Oil Activities in Montana are Brisk,
Department Of Publicity Reports;
Governor ReappOints Wilson and
Moore to Game Commission

Wy O1A G49A 00A400E4@42@AN
On June 1, the state Of Montana viii
be but 10 months short Of q cash basis,
said Deputy State Treasurer J. III. Rogers
I'm announcing that on tha date, regis
tered state general fund warrants to-
falling, with interest, about $3.50 900 viii
be called for payment. These warrants
viii include those registered on or be-
fore July 81, 1925, bear but AZ per cent
interest, the last Of the 6 per cent war
rants having been called last month.
Most Of the warrants represented in this
call are in the hands Of the state land
board, as an investment for state school
funds. The public owns $275,OO0 worth.
The call is usually large at this time be-
cause the last half Of the 1925 taxes is due
on May 81 and is expected to yield around
100000. Income from various other IL
censes and taxes mak up the remainder
available for the call. While the treasury
makes a call each month, the amounts US
Ually are not large. The next big call viii
be made in December when the tax pay
ments again are due.
@ . 8
MOntana's oil operations showed cOnsid-
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-05-21

the time of his arrival at the reser-
walton. During this brief period he
had accomplished a remarkable am
cunt of work, which included the
mastery of a language which would
enable him to communicate with his
charges; the securing of a new
treaty with the government; the re-
mOval of the Indians to their new
home, and the teaching of 20 child
rem.
It is interesting to note that Faith
er PalladinO is not blind to the in
fluence of environment on the race,
as he comments, IF the widest Of
plants can be improved by better
soil, healthier surroundings, culture,
care and attentiOn-When suitable
and not uncOngenial-Why not, and
even more so, human beings?" These
improved conditions the indiana
found in their new home on Peoples
creek.
The first buildings Of the mission
were three in number, and of logs,
one Of these, the largest, being % by
IS feet, an unpretentiOUs beginning
that has grown to resemble today a
small village.
In the autumn Of 1887 a contract
school was opened with a one hun
dred dollar allowance from the gov
eminent for each pupil. That same
year some members of the Ursuline
order arrived to aid the fathers as
teachers. The pupils are given, as al
the Rocky Boy mission, education in
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-05-21
Pioneering In Religion Among The
AssinibOine Indians At Fort BelknGp

edition of the continents backbone.
"He picked out a charming spot
along Peoples creek, a stream Of
sweet, clear water, which has it's
source up in the mountains and run
ming through the valley below, emp
ties into the Milk river near Fort
Browning. Timber here is plentiful,
the soil rich, and numerous noun
tain springs supply the stream with
an Unfailing abundance Of sweet,
clear water for both domestic and ag-
ricuItUral purposes as we'll. The In
dams were much pleased with the To-
cation, the more so that this spot was
one of their favorite resorts in their
buffalo hunts of former years."
Father Eberschweiler's next step
in making the desired change, was
to call a council of the tribes head
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-05-21
eff There's Anybody Doubts
What This Medicine Kar-
max Will Do I'll Convince
Them" Declares North
ern Pacific Trainman.

Gust send any doubling Thomas
to me about Karnak," declares w. E.
Cazier, of 7O6 Howell St., MissOula,
we'll known trainman on the North
ern Pacific, between Butte and Para
disc, in relating his experience with
the medicine.
believe me, I can sure tell EN-
how this new medicine fixed me up
and rid me Of a mean case of stom-
ach trouble from which I suffered
day and night, continues Mr.. Cazier.
Everything I ate just seemed to
burn like fire in the pit of my stom-
ach, and I'd bIoat with gas and have
awful headaches and dizzy spells.
Like most railroad men 1 suffer
ed with constipation, and my nerves
were so on ends I could hardly sleep
a wink. I just had pains all through
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-05-21

BONES, as some writer's state they
claimed the land bordering the Mis-
souri, to that point. At that date,
both the eros Ventres and the ASSN
niboines were powerful tribes. Less
than 100 years ago, the former num-
bered 10000, claims Father Palla-
dino, in his Informative work, EN-
dian and White in the Northwest. Z"
These by 1904 were reduced to 1000.
1t was among these on the Fort
BeIknap reservation, that the JesUits
started st. Paul's Mission, on out
growth of st. Peters. Father Point
had long before, with his usual zeal,
labOred among the eros Ventres, and
Father DeSmet carried the message
of his faith to the AssinnibOines, but
there was no regular Catholic mis-
sion established on their reservation
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-05-21

men and draft a petition in which
they agreed to give up the remainder
of the land in their reservation, if
they were permitted to retain forty
thousand square miles in and near
the Little Rockies, and to remove
there from the neighbOrhoOd of Fort
Belknap.
A new treaty having been made
with these Indians granting their re-
quest for a change of location, Faith
er Eberschweiler began the ~construc-
ton of the needed buildings, in the
summer of 1886, about a year from
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-05-21
(By MRS. NJ. E. PLAssMANN)
&c

HE early history of Montana
would be incomplete without the
4 story of missionary work under
taken here. Both Catholics and Pro-
testants were laborers in this vine
yard, the Catholics being the earlier
Of the two. Being earlier, they
sought the evangelizatiOn of the In
dams, who were the inhabitants of
this region, as the few whites here
might correctly be denOminated
transients, for their invasion of the
Northwest being for the purpose Of
trading in furs, and they were likely
to leave at any time. There were
then no Protestant missions, or mis-
sionaries. These came after the dis
COvery of gold, and their efforts were
confined mainly to the representa-
The Washington times., 1926-10-28
AIR WILL CARRY
BRIDGE CANT.
E. E. DENIsON

The second Of . series Of twenty.
six radio auction bridge games viii
be broadcast from WRC at $50
tonight.
Each game Of the series will
feature Milton G. Work and Wilbur
&c. whitehead. New York experts In
association with players from cities
throughout America and Canada.
The hsteners-in are urged to have
four players ready with cards and
to follow the game bid by bid and
play by-play as broadcast over
WRC.
The contestants In tonight's game
are 3. e. Denison. OF Portland,
Maine. widely known author Of
Bridge literature: Major r. j. Her
man. Of Boston, who has earned
q masters degree for superior
ability, and Mr.. Whitehead and Mr..
Work, widely known 90 teachers,
writers, and experts.
It Is suggested that the hand be
played and the bidding and play
then compared with that OF the
experts.
A detailed analysis Of tOnlght's
game will appear In The Wash.
ingtOn Times tOmOrrOw.
The Washington times., 1926-10-28
VETS REPORT
SPEND|NCS

Campaign funds Of the vets and
drys became the subject Of con.
troversy today with the filing Of
the prediction expense statement
Of the Association Against the Pro-
hibition Amendment.
The vets report was denounced
nv WAYNE 3 Wheeler general
counsel for The Anti-Saloon League.
as "a comouflage" to cover up
widespread operations g. c. Hinck.
ley secretary of the dry organiza-
ton. retorted that Wheeler's or
ganization had failed to comply
with the corrupt practices act In
accounting for its funds.
Contributions which totaled s27b,.
445.55 on October 16 were reported
by the anti-Volstead act body. with
expenditures of $215. 870.29.
The Washington times., 1926-10-28
THREE MISSING
BOYS SOUGHT

Police today were asked TO seek
three boys missing from their
homes.
Fred LescalletA 8, S3l Ninth ST.
8. E., son Of Mrs. Effie Lescailett.
ran away because he did not want
to go to school. his mother thinks.
She had to take him to school
every day. she said.
Yesterday she left him ct the
school, where he remained unit:
time to go home. He has not been
seen since and his mother IL dis
Calvin Richardson. IS. ss2A
Twelfth st. N. E., and Howard Eos
ter Mears, is. 3717 Livingston
n. W.. left together. according to
the police report.
The father OF the latter, James A
Mears. thinks that the boys vent
to the Sesquicentennial.
Young Richardson IL feet
inches In height and weighs 100
pounds. He has braces on his
teeth, both upper and lower. He
wore q sweater and regulation navy
trousers. Mears Is feet 5 inches
In height and weighs III pounds
lie wore a tan suit. gray hat and
gray oyercoat,
The Washington times., 1926-10-28
MAN KILLED IN.
CAR WRECK
Viii uIu@NA

WHEELING. w. Va. Oct. %.
One man was killed. seven persons
ssArs seriously injured. two Of
whom may die. and q score OF other
passengers suffered slIgh injuries
when q street car operating to
Mozart Park. ran away on steep
grade at the foot OF the Long hill
and crashed through q store as 1t
failed to negotiate q turn here early
today.
Frank 8. Eberlein. IS. motorman
on the car was dead when extracted
from the wrecked vestibule.
Joseph Gaus.I Is. conductor, SUI
eered q broken leg and internal In
auries. He ID not expected to 1--we.
George Rempke. so. passenger.
also suffered internal injuries and
may die.