Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1926-04-08

dean Of Montana mawspameK eaa
and for more than 30 ysmxs asissiI
! Of tAs Rocky Mountain Hnahahdaaa'
OF Great Fails, died Thurs. naaruiag .
Ie o'clock at Colurnbas hoapatal. Wiser
for he has been for the last few week
and where for two days he has sain -
conscious virtually aIl Of shs tinas,
Il Burial will be IN the family csnae
tary ct White Sulphur Springs bseia.
his father and mother and two hroka
here Sunday At Georges chapel -
hers Sunday at Ceorg'a chapel At
Io'clock- Rev. Christoph Keller q -
lEpiscopaI church win oaGieiats. Ths
body win leave here Monday moFmins
for White Sulphur Springs. accompan'
led BY the widow, daughter and niacs
Of the dead newspaper man.
Mr. sutherlin has been III for abon'
year, but had recovered 50 as 10 b.
about and was thought to be on ths
road 70 recovery, until taken III again
early in the month his condition con.
tinuing growing worse until it was
found necessary to take him to the
hospital There it was found chat ~
operation was imperative to save his
life, although his advanced age added
much TO his danger,
Operation Performed
The operation was done a week ago
today and for two days he rallied re-
marlkably and seemed on the road to
recovery; after that, however, his con-
dition became steadily worse, and it
was known that death was only mat
ter Of hours. All Of the survivins
relatives, his wife and daughter Kakh
ryn, and Mrs. James Chamberlain Of
White Sulphur Springs. niece, wer
with him to the last.
Kathryn Sutherlin, listed IN tina
Husbandnaan as associate editor with
her father, has besn on ths musical
stage for a number Of years, being SO
prano Of the present Chicago Civic
Opera Company. Her company was
playing an engagement in Miami
Florida, during the winter season, and
the father refused 10 allow his daugh-
ter to be sent for, or appraised Of his
condition unail the engagement had
closed and the opera troupe had re
turned to Chicago. Then he consent
ed to have his daughter notified by
wire, and she left at once for home
arriving here on March 2S. Mrs.
Chamberlain arrived the next day.
Born in Missouri
R. N. (Bob) Sutheriin was born
near Bonneville, Missouri, October %,
1874, and was 81 years and five
months old at the time Of his death
He was easily the best known news
paper man in the state, for he was in
the Newspaper business longer than
any Of them. Last Thanksgiving day
be celebrated the 5Oth anniversary
of bis founding the Rocky Mountain
at Diamond City.
The life Of Dob Sutherlin was
hat Of pionser. and he was one Of
Ehe old guard who came up the river
from Missouri and over "the plains
n 1855. He freighted to Diamond
City In September Of that year and
in the Missouri valley, GO
ng from there to Virginia City in
he spring and continuing the freight
md transportation business.
An He Found the West
Writing Of bis first view of Sun
liver, SO years ago, and the place
where Great Falls now stands, in his
anniversary edition, Mr. Sutherlin
asst November said: s
Montana was new to Us. We not
d that the soil was rich and on the
ign driest prairie that spring 12
,aded wagons cut to the hub. But =
ne never had seen such wonderful y
ields Of grass. Headed out the :
rairie grass was little over knee =
Ugh and waved in the breeze like q e
asst field Of grain, It portrayed tho 0
reatest wealth Of soil that we ever b
eheld. g
That was 80 years ago and yet af- u
n all Theses pears and the multipli- G
ty Of raalsOads, water bitches, ana
sveI0pmeHt the people are only be r.
inning to appreciate It's storehouse y
wealth. The wealth Of crops pro "
need far surpass anything we ever y
aew In the old states on fhe eastern e
Ice Of the great prairie. Their. n
"a no bottom 70 the rich black dirt Il
far as we could see and scarcely m
limit to it, production" w
Few Farmers Then w
Associated with his brother, ths 81
te W. H. suEherfln, @Bob- ano IN
lfllvr f,s,hlfehrd the firmf ieeue Of sa