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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-07-08
LEAVITT RETURNS
TO MONTANA 10TH

A wire from his secretary says
: that Hon. Scott Lesvitt will
reach Montana Saturday morning
enroute from Washington, and
will pass through Wolf Point on
NO. at 1870 a. m.
Mr.. Leavitt, now in the middle
of his second term, has established
a fine record for himself at Wash
Iington. During the session of
congress which closed last Satur-
day, 759 laws were enacted, an
average of slightly more than one
for each of the 531 members Of
the house and senate. Of the new
laws. 16 were introduced by Mr..
Leavitt, and omnibus pension
laws and the general reclamation
act recently passed absorbed at
least eight more of the Montana
members bills, so that two dozen
or more Of his bills introduced at
the session just closed are now
laws. They are all Of direct con-
cern to his district.
In addition, several bills Of al
general nature bearing Mr.. Lea.
Wits name have been enacted,
having been introduced by him as
the chairman of the house COM
mittee on Indian affairs.
During the past six weeks Mr..
Leavitt has cancelled a number of
speaking engagements in various
parts of the state, feeling that his
first obligation was to look after
Montana legislation pending in
congress. Now that congress has
adjourned, he is returning home
to spend the summer in Montana.
He has number of speaking en-
gagements for the remainder of
July, the first of which is to share
with Governor J. E. Erickson the
speakers stand at the dedication
of the new Judith Basin county 4
court house at Stanford on July
16.
The following day he will de-
liver the memorial address at the
annual gathering of the Montana
association at Fort Ben
ton.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-07-08
BIG CELEBRATION AT
FORT UNION NEXT WEEK

A Columbia River Historical
is advertised to take
place at Fort Union formerly
Mondak) July Is, II, 1S-Friday,
Saturday and Sunday. Two spec
ial trains will be run by the Great
Northern to carry many distin-
guished visitors to numerous places
of great historical interest from
Fort Union to the Pacific coast.
A congress of the Indians of
nine tribes will meet for confer
ence, games and sports.
There will be flag raising
followed by speeches, music by
two bands, dances afternoon and
evening, Friday and Saturday,
two airplanes to carry passengers
on sky rides. Ball games will be
played each day in the afternoon
with Sidney, Williston, Scobey and
Plentywood contesting for large
purses.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-07-08
THIRD ROSEBUD
PICNIC JULY Is
WILL BE COMBINED WITH
FIELD MEET-PENNANT
FOR THE WINNER

John Brown of the Rosebud
school announces the third an.
nual picnic of the Rosebud and
Krohn schools, to be held on the
Rosebud grounds Sunday, July
18. In connection with it field
meet will be held. This is the
first year that the field meet has
been held and a beautiful black
and orange pennant will be given
the school winning the most points.
The public is cordially invited
to attend. They will find fresh
water on the grounds
which are located next to the
Sherd Wilcoxon place. The grounds
are on the banks of the West
Fork and are fine picnic loca-
ton. Those who come are re-
quested to bring their lunch. Mo
torists from Wolf Point should
take the Scobey road, which is
marked with the signs of the
Black and White trail.
The field meet is arousing en-
thusiasm and interest among the
people living in the north country
as the baseball teams from the two
schools have played before and
are evenly matched. At past pic
MICS some events have been given.
List of Events
Every event except No. IS
counts 5 points for first place and
2 points for second.
1. General announcements.
2. Talk on education by well
known speaker.
8. Boys race, so yards. 10
years and under.
4. Girls race, so yards. 10
years and under.
5. Girls race, 100 yards. 10
years and over.
6. Boys race, 100 yards. 10
years and over.
Continued on last page)
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-07-08
WELL BALANCED PROGRAMS,
SNAPPY PERFORMANCE DAILY
Events OF Each Day Put On Without Delay Or Ser
ious Accident-Horses And Steers 100 Per Cent
Wild, Calves Speedy-Riders Show Real Stuff
Relays And Speed Events Classy Contests
Pendeton Rider Cops The Big Money-Coates
Does Fast BuIldogging

The three-day performance
Of the Sixth Annual Wolf Point
Stampede was concluded prompt
by at 500 p. m. Wednesday with
the one mile running race for the
S175 purse which was won by
Come Thru, owned by Hank Cus-A
ker.
Tex Smith of Pendleton, Ore
gon, was awarded the 5000 first
money prize as champion bronze
rider, and also got the silver
mounted bride offered by the
Seekins Commission house Of St.
Paul.
With record attendance each
day, made-to-order weather,
smoothly moving programs, and
thrilling performance by COW
boys, COW girls and the fighting
est lot of range stock ever put
through the chutes, the 1926
Stampede was voted by all con-
cerned the best yet.
The events listed on the daily
programs We're interspersed with
special acts, principally bareback
riding on horses and cattle by
both seasoned riders and begin
ners, and not a few hit the ground
prematurely in ludricous atti-
tudes that brought yells of delight
from the stands. But deal of
daring, stellar work was done, in
the saddle and with ropes and
hands.
Fast BuIldogging
Jack Coates, worlds champion
all around cowboy, won the bull
logging contest, his time being
20 is seconds. Ray Mitchell,
Wolf Point, in the calf roping
contest, caught and roped his calf
in 40 seconds. "Sharkey," the
wild bull, was ridden for the first
time by Buck Shaw.
Continued on Page Four)
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-07-08
FRIDAY STORMS
DAMAGE CROPS
SOUTHSIDE, COTTONWOOD,
FRAZER HAVE HAIL-FA
TALITIES AT BROCKTON

Heavy electrical storms with a
rainfall that nearly reached the
proportions of cloudburst swept
over Roosevelt and McCone coun-
ties Friday night, doing damage
in number of places to power
lines and crops, and killing three
Indians at Brockton. Telephone
poles in this city were struck in
two places and the lights were
off for some time due to the dam
age of the storm.
Three Dead at Brockton
The Brockton tragedy occur
red when twelve Indians who had
been there attending a large cele-
bration which had lasted a week,
huddled in tepee to get away
from the terrible downpour of
rain. Lightning struck the tepee
killing Isaac Bow, John Lambert
and George Martin, all of Drew.
Three others were stunned by the
stroke but recovered.
Southside Crops Suffer
The heaviest damage to crops
lis reported from the Southside
Three hundred acres belonging tc
Bell Brothers were hailed out and
crops belonging to Rasmus Samp-
son, Carl Nasner, Rasmus Halvor-
son, Nick Heser, Colonel Martin
son, Matt Paulson and others
whose names were not learned,
were partially or totally de-
stroyed. A strip in the Cotton
wood suffered from hail. Hail
was reported in the vicinity Of
Frazer but no information as to
whether it did any damage has
been obtained. A traveller com
ing down the branch from Scobey
reported seeing hail damage on
the Cottonwood.
Continued on last page)
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-07-08

CLUB GIVES BANQUET
FOR VISITING EDITOR

About 25 men and women at
tended the Northeastern Montana
Booster dinner given Thursday
evening at Stephens Cafe by the
Commercial club in honor of Her
bert NJ. Peet, state editor Of the
Great Falls Tribune. Mr.. Peet
was on a motor tour of this part
of Montana to get acquainted with
some of the people in this portion
of the Tribune's large field. As
"Montana's best news gatherer''
the Tribune is covering the news
of the northern and eastern parts
of the state with remarkable COM
pleteness and giving it and the
national and world news to its
readers each morning while it is
news.
Booster Talks
The occasion and the excellent
Continued on Page Four)
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-07-08
20 new FILINGS
FOR PRIMARIES
MOSTLY PRECINCT COMMIT
TEEMEN-THREE DEMO
Gratis ON LIST

The clerk and recorders office
has twenty new filings for the
coming primary election on Aug
ust 8. Fifteen Of these are for
Republican committeeman in the
various precincts. There are no
contest in any Of the precincts and
several of them have no commit
teeman filed. The last day for
filing was Saturday, July-3.
John H. Anderson, Froid. Sher-
iff (omitted last week..
Additional Filings
Calvin L. Rogers, Wolf Point,
Public Administrator.
w. H. Coats. Froid. Sheriff.
David S. Nelson, Culbertson
County commissioner on Demo.
cratic ticket.
L. E. Schow, Culbertson. Sher-
Iiff on Democratic ticket.
0. j. Hagen, Culbertson. Repre-
sentative on the Democratic tick
let.
For Republican Precinct com
mitteemen. Names, towns and
precinct numbers are given.
Fred Turner, Poplar, No. 18.
August Appelgren, Wolf Point,
No. 81.
A. 7. Listug, Wolf Point, No.
%.
odin 7. stennes, Wolf Point,
No. "a.
Neil sorenson, Froid, No. II.
D. Lohns, Froid, No. 10.
Samuel Moen, Culbertson, No.
12.
D. Moothart, Culbertson, No.
IA.
C. B. Jacobson, Froid, No. 8.
Ted Moe, Froid, No. z.
Benjamin Wilkinson, Fort I'm
Continued on page eight)
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-07-08
3 BUILDINGS In
FROID DESTROYED
BURNED MONDAY MORNING
TWO STORES AND GARAGE
LOSS $4,000

The prosperous little town of
Froid suffered a loss Of about
IS75,00O when fire Of unknown
origin destroyed four of the lar
gest business houses there, at 8
O'Clock Monday morning. The
Froid Mercantile company, the J.
T. Loucks general store, the Gen
'eral Mercantile company and the
Nels Sorbel garage were the
buildings burned. The A. E.
Kamp lumber office and stock were
saved though the stock of paints,
varnishes and other accessories
were carried out of the building.
The fire started in the j. T.
Loucks store and spread from
there to the other buildings. The
citizens of the town with the as
sistance of bucket brigade and
local fire apparatus did what they
could to stop the fire but to no
avail.
Willing workers carried about
rs per cent of the mercantile
stock into the street, but the stock
Of the Loucks store was complete
Iy destroyed The Froid Mercan-
tile store, one of the largest and
best in Roosevelt county, carried
a stock valued at between $780,
900 and 100000. The building
and stock were partly covered by
insurance but the loss will be
leavy. The Loucks store carried
insurance of between $4,000 and
$4,000 on building, stock and fix
lures, and the Sorbel garage car
led small amount of insurance.
Maurice Johnson of the Froid
company was in Pop
ar with his family when informed
# the disaster by telephone.
Absence of any wind was all
hat saved the remainder of the
business section of the town from
destruction. In addition to the
ither damage done the electric
ight plant was. put out of COM
mission because of burning wires
nd the telephone lines had wires
nd poles burned.
The plans for rebuilding have
lot been announced but it is be-
ieved that the Froid Mercantile
will be replaced with larger and
,etter building.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-07-08
FILINGS FOR STATE
And DIST. OFFICES

Registration figures for the
August primaries have been re-
Iceived by Secretary of State G,
r. Stewart, from 81 counties, with
10 yet to report. In the 81 coun-
ties reporting, net decrease of
I6.993 is shown in the registration.
Six counties report an increase of
1865 while 81 show combined
decrease of 1858. The total reg
istration for the 1924 August pri-
maries was 211,450.
When the final hour arrived for
filing nominating petitions for the
primaries at 5 o'clock, Thursday
afternoon, July 1, 27 candidates
had filed for six positions. Three
candidates appeared after 8
o'clock. Stanley R. Foot of
Helena filed for the Republican
nomination for congress from the
first district as did H. F. McCon-
nell of Helena.
Here is the way the primary bal
lot will look, the slogan of those
candidates desiring to use them,
being published with the name:
REPUBLICAN PARTY
Representative in Congress, First
District
Stanley R. Foot.
Ronald Higgins: Active repre-
sentation for Montana, its people,
workers, products, affairs and re-
Carnations.
Charles F. Juttner: May the
humblest home look on me as its
personal representative.
H. F. Mcconnell: For modifca-
ton of the Volstead act. Back to-
Good Times.
John Mclaughlin: | stand for
constructive government and will
work to that end.
Representative in Congress, Sec
ond District
Arthur A. Frankie.
Scott Leavitt: For the greatest
good to the greatest number.
John Oliver: Resided in and did
lis part to develop Montana for
i6 years.
Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court
William E. Carroll.
Continued on page eight
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-07-08
SUSPECTS RELEASED

Elmo Fritz and a young man
named Mcdonald who gave Ore
gon as their home were arrested
by local officer Tuesday as they
were travelling by motor cycle to
Devils Lake, N. D. They were ar
rested from the description Of two
robbers in another section of the
state and on advice of Phillips
county officials but were released
when they established their iden-
tity.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-07-08
HEAT, FLEAS, SAND
THAT'S FLORIDA
DONALD WALTER HOPES TO
RETURN NORTH-DISAP-
POINTED IN SOUTH

"As soon as / can get enough
money after I graduate from high
school I am going to hit the trail
back to country where horses
have leg on each corner and
donkeys are not prevalent" writes
Donald Walter of Orlando, Flor
ida, former Wolf Point boy, to
his uncle H. R. Miller of Volt.
eff you are thinking Of coming
down here I would advise you to
think lot more, and then if you
still want to come, you ought to
have enough money to go home on
after you have been here a
MONTH"
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. L. Walter and
their family moved to Florida last
fall. Donald will be senior in
high school next fall.
Jobs Scarce
Commenting on the scarcity of
work or rather the large number
of people to fill all the available
jobs he says "School is out now
and I can't or haven't found a.
job yet so I am not very busy.
Work is not anywhere near as
plentiful now as it was month
or so ago and yet although there
are still quite a few jobs there are
a lot of men to do them.
Does Well in School
'Flora is leaving for summer
school next Monday and will be
gone about two months. 1 had
pretty good luck in school this
year. I was exempt in all my
subjects and was taking 51A cred
its. I put in quite awhile on the
track team this year and in the
state meet I won a gold medal
for the 440-yard dash. My time
was SO As seconds. We ran at
Daytona Beach, Palm Beach,
Tampa and St. Petersburg as well
as Winter Park, the state meet
and 3 meets in Orlando. I won
four letters during the year as
well as my medal.
80 at Midnight
"About the only job l would
care for down here is sitting on
an ice box holding an electric fan
in front of my face. The wealth
er reports give the warmest
weather that they had down here
this spring as "a degrees but l
Continued on page eight
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-07-08
BOOZE BRINGS
TROUBLE TO 7
OFFICERS GRAB OFFENDERS
DURING STAMPEDE-GET
THREE CARS

Out of the 5000 or 1000 people
in Wolf Point Monday night
Charley Council, undersheriff of
Roosevelt county, and Ed Nichol
special policeman, were picked out
as possible customers for moon
by a couple of men who claimed
to have come from the country
south of Oswego. Charley and
Ed were sitting on the running
board Of car when the peddlers
came by and inquired of Council
if he didn't want pint of booze.
"a pint" said Charley, with an
assumed injured air, 81 want a
quart at least, and I got friend
here that know will want a bot
tle." The vendor decided that
they had better go to the place
where they had their stock
cached, and, taking the officers
with them they went to a shack
on the Northside. The stuff was
produced but the bottles were
without corks, and Council told
them that he knew fellow that
had a whole lot of corks, and that
hey would get some for the bot
les just "sold" and they could
get some for the rest of their
stock.
A Corking Time
The driver of the car who gave
his name as Floyd Byron, drove
his car, under Councils directions,
back to the southside Of town and
then to the county Jail. As they
crossed the railroad tracks black
cat raced across the street in
front of the car. This gave Mr.
Byron an uneasy feeling and with
Continued on Page Four)
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-07-08

Judge S. E. Paul convened dis
trict court Thursday at one
o'clock p. m. in the Palm room Oh
the Sherman hotel. The first case
on the criminal calendar is the
State of Montana VS.. Ferdinand
Schlaps, charged with murder in
the first degree. The specific act
recited in the complaint is the
murder of Ludmilla Geisler.
The work of choosing a jury
moves very slowly. Six tentative
jurors were picked Thursday. It
is doubtful if the jury will be
complete by Saturday evening.
Jurors chosen tentatively
Thursday were Lawrence Wander
grind, Dowd, farmer; Clenard
Holly, Froid, farmer; Walter
Reichert, Wolf Point, railroad
man; Ernest DeTienne, 500, far
mer, and James Royan, Froid,
farmer.
The courtroom was crowded.
Schlaps' mother and two brothers
were among the spectators. The
accused youth showed no signs of
emotion and is apparently indif-
ferent except when the death pen
atty is mentioned. County Attor-
ney Marion will ask the death
penalty and Attorney Noun of
Poplar, appointed to defend
Schlaps, will set up an insanity
defense.
History Of Case
Anton F. Geisler, SO, and his
wife, Ludmilla Geisler, %, were
murdered with 12-gauge shot
gun May 1 while they were pre-
pairing to go to Homestead, about
20 miles east of the farm in the
Biem neighborhood. The follow
ing day Sheridan county officials
arrested Ferdinand Schlaps, 18,
a farmland who had worked for
the Geislers for about month
previous to their death.
Continued on page eight)
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-07-08
SLAYER OF CEISL. .ERS ON TRIAL
FOR LIFE IN DISTRICT COURT

Attorney For State, Erick Noun For Defense,
Judge Paul Presdes-Court Room Packed With
People From All Corners Of County-6 Jurors
Tentatively Chosen First Defendant Stolid
Mother Attends
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-04-02
Mu Favorite Stories
by lRDlN 5. COBB
A Dependable Family Income


Formerly in one of the southern
states the insane were not always
sent to an institution. Sometimes
they were formally awarded into the
custody of someone, usually a parent
or a guardian, and for the keep of
such an unfortunate the state paid
one hundred dollars a year. This
amount, in certain sections, was re-
garded as handsome addition to the
family income.
One summer, a citizen from the
lowlands was up in the hill country
Of his native state taking title to
coal lands for an eastern syndicate.
In canoe, with native to guide
him, he was proceeding along a creek
that penetrated into one of the Wild
est and most desolate recesses of the
mountains.
They came to homestead that was
infinitely better looking than any they
had seen for days. The house was
of clapboards instead of the custom
airy logs, and it was painted The
fences were stout and newly white
washed The stock in the barn lot
had well-nourished look.
who lives here"" inquired the
stranger.
The guide told him.
Judging by the looks of his place."
said the lowlander, che must be q
forehanded man."
HE certainly is" said the native.
Hes forehanded, but he's had a
sight of luck in his time, too. He's
got leven children and all of 'em is
ijiots"
Copyright by the McNaught Syndicate, Incl
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-04-02
My Favorite Stories
By 1RulN S. COBB
Working by the Time Card


Indianapolis fairly radiates inter-
urban car lines. From Indianas
capital city, in all directions, electric
railroads carry Hoosiers to and from
isolated farms and towns. The con-
ductors and motormen of these lines
mainly are products of the farms and
graduate to these jobs. Everybody
along the line knows them by their
first name; their passengers very
often are kinfolk. To win a job and
a uniform on the interurban is no
mean accomplishment.
The "limited'' for Lafayette had
cleared the suburbs of the city and
was running fancy-free through the
corn fields of Boone county. The
conductor was busy collecting fares.
but for once in his life he had little
to say and that little was said with
chin raised and lips but partly
opened.
"Why don't We spit, Jess?' asked
one of his farm-bOy acquaintance
who himself had had similar expert
ences with sweetened tobacco.
Jess leveled his face and explained
In cautious words:
81 ort to have spit at townsville,
out some wimmin gettin' on jimmed
nv chances and now I've got to wait
till we git to Lebanon"
copyright by the Mcknight Syndicate. Incl
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-04-02

Consider Something Electrical to Freshen Up Inc
House. Now Is the Time to Select the New Fixture for
the Dining Room the New Light for the Hall; the New
Light for the Bedroom Let Us Suggest Those Electric
Curling Irons Which the Lady Has Long Wanted
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-30
BLAZE IN STORE
Fire Breaks Out ON Third Floor of
Furniture Company.

Fire of unknown origin on the
third floor Of the Kirk Furniture
Company store. 311 E. Washington
St, at a. m. today, caused a loss
of several hundred dollars, but was
confined to a small section in the
rear of the store.
Twenty rugs and one dining room
suite were damaged. A hole was
burned in the third floor and the
flames dropped down to the second
floor. but firemen soon had the blaze
under control.
Fire officials said the loss would
range from $500 to $4,000, while store
officials gave it at 5000 to 5000.
An overheated stove at the home
of Charles Stevens, 1881 w. Tenth
ST., caused $500 damage while a fire
of unknown origin resulted in a
$500 loss to the Fred Mccormick
garage. S416 Speedway Rd.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-30
WERE DIAMONDS
Doctor SOuter Leaves Medicine Box
With Gems in Hotel.

RU United Prcss
RIO DE JANEIRo. Dec. 30
"Dr. Souter's Pills" a guaranteed
cure for common Ills, have been sue
cessfully introduced in Rio.
Souters. who was leaving Rio for
England. checked out of his hotel
room and left a pill box on the table
Eugenia Costa, the maid who
cleaned the room. threw the box
away.
On board his ship and ready to
sail, Souters missed the box. He
called a policeman and hurried back
to the hotel. Eugenia was Ques-
toned, and told how she had thrown
the box away.
A hurried search of the trash can
revealed the pill box. Souters opened
1t and showed the surprised maid
twenty-five rough diamonds. She
now recommends DIR. Souters
Pills" as a sure cure for any ailment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-30
Then the Motorists
Tainted Away
BIZ times Special

BIZ times Special
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Dec. 80.
Tourists, arriving here from
Kentucky are reporting I'M
usual generosity on the part
of farmers near Madison
vile, KY.
On a short stretch of the
Dixie Bee there autosist were
miring in the deep gravel, but
no sooner would their cars stall
than a farmer would appear
with a team and drag them out.
What are the charges?" the
motorists would ask feebly,
searching for their wallets.
"Not penny, sir. All we
ask is that you come this way
again" answered the team
sters.
Business men of Madison
vile and Nortonville originated
the free-service idea. it is said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-30
OPPOSE BARS PROGRAM
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
MUNCIE, Ind, Dec. 30.-Organiza-
ton of a Constitution Preservation
Club to oppose changes in the State
constitution supported by the In
diana Bar Association was perfected
here yesterday and work started to-
day to extend it's membership. The
group of lawyers who started the
movement propose to organize a dis
trict society and appoint a commit
tee to carry on its fight in the State
Legislature. Clarence e. Benadum
was elected president of the Nun
Gle group.