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bound for Montana. He joined his party
and started back. He told to some of
them his discovery and showed them the
gold he had brought out. The party
split and Hulburt was elected the leader
of about $50 men, women and children to
lead the way to his discovery. His party
had more Than $50 wagons.
For several months he wandered
through the mountains but finally adj
mitted that he was lost and had no
idea where the mine was. They never
found the mine and became SO enraged
at Hulburt that he would have been
lynched but for one man who held them
at bay with a revolver.
The Indians were harassing the party
and they broke up and left the country,
most of them hurrying to Virginia City
Montana. and that section. Hulburt
was last seen in that city In the fall OF
1864. That Hulburt had the gold there
Is no question, for hundreds of people
saw it.
Many different men have hunted for
this old Lost Cabin mine, among them
Anthony Paige Comstock (Pancake) who
QUILTED in Nevada and went into the
Big Horns searching for 1t. The expe-
dition was a failure and Comstock, from
disappointment or other causes took his
own life while camped near Bozeman,
Montana, and the exact location Of his
grave Is unknown.
1t is believed that Father Jean Pierre
DeSmet learned Of this great deposit OF
gold from the Indians, but while he said
at time: Il know where gold exists
in the Rocky mountains in such album
dance that, If made known, 1t would
astonish the world. 1t is even richer
than California;" the reverend faith
er would never reveal its location,
He often, it is said, admitted to army
officers and other that he knew where
the deposit was but he had promised
his Indians not to tell.
Old Jim Bridger knew Of this place
so rich In gold, as did the old trapper
LaPondre. Hundreds OF prospectors have
searched the hills with the hope of locat-
ing 1t, and Notwithstanding their efforts,
the Lost Cabin Mine is still as much
lost as it was to Hulburt when he re-
turned to search for 1t.
Some day, perhaps, some one will un-
cover the lead, and If the descriptions
that have come down through the years
hold any truth whatsoever it will be the
largest. richest body Of quartz ever
opened.
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1KANY MONTANANS have heard
NH Senator B.. G.. White Of Buffalo
XVl extol the salubrity Of the Banana
Belt" by which he means the
Judith Basin in which his large and
comfortably equipped sheep ranch is
Banana Belt" idea did not originate
with Senator White. and that the Judith
Basin is only a small part of It?
According to Meade Minnigerode in
his book, Certain Rich Men" recently
published by Putnam's, the Banana
Belt was a derisive term applied In the
COS by skeptics to the territory extending
from Duluth. Mimi, to the Pacific
ocean, which was to be traversed and
served by the proposed Northern Pecific
railway.
Jay Cooke, who had been asked to
finance the rail project. sent his in
vestigators over the contemplated route
and they returne dto report that the re-
sources to be tapped were extensive. 1t
was, they said, a region OF superlative
climate, vegetation and opportunity.
And as the contour of the territory. as
1t was marked out IN the map, resem-
bled an elongated banana, the s~coffers
who read the reports were not slow to
sarcastically refer to 1T as the Banana
Belt.
In 1853. 16 years before Jay Cooke be-
came actively interested in the Northern
Pacific's development. congress author
tied the wlr department to make explo-
rations to ascertain the most practicable
route for a railroad from the Mississippi
river to the Pacific ocean. The details,
including the route or routes to be sur
veyed, were left to jefferson Davis, Sec
rotary of war. Very naturally Mr.. Davis,
q southerner who was later to become
president of the c%onfederacy Of southern
states, favored a southern route, but 1T
is to be said to his credit that he did
not allow his prejudice to interfere with
his duty to the whole country in the
matter. He set five separate expeditions
to work at once ON each of the five
routes that had been advocated.
Stevens and Mcclellan Make Survey
These were then known as the SD,
35th, 38th, 42d and 48th parallel routes,
along which were subsequently built
respectively the Texas Southern Pacific,
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fairly in his book, Certain Rich Men,
Mr.. Cooke was born in Sandusky, O., on
august 10. 1921. He was a typical boy
OF the American frontier. being a son
OF fairly well-to-do parents who gave
MIN q reasonable education and the
proper training for an energetic life.
early, as a young man, he conceived
the notion he would like to be rich, but
he said: II look upon riches but as
naught more than the means whereby
n can display his social and generous
spirit, and. if I should ere be the one
l may be, I'll be a friend, a man" And
IL is proper to say that, though the
Northern Pacific brought him failure,
he recouped his fortune later, and then
as before he was always "a friend, a
man"
Mr.. Cooke won the Civil war Just as
surely as the men in the field, says Mr..
Minnigerode. 1t was in the treasury
department, a confederate leader adj
United, that the south was really de-
feated.
The federal governments finances, In
the early summer of 1861, were simply
In the soup, according to MIR. Minnige-
rode. The war was costing 81 ,000, 900 a
day; the public debt, when Secretary
Chase took office in March, amounted to
500, 100000; he himself, in the course of
a few months. been obliged to increase
1t by some $4,000, 900; in July. congress
was expecting to raise $50, 0o0, 900 in
taxes, and was authorizing the secretary
to borrow $3.50, 000, 900 more. Enormous
sums which no one had envisaged, a
small part only of the So, 1000, coo, 900
which were to be required. BY the end
of the year Mr.. Chase had borrowed
nearly 5000, 600 900, the expenditures for
the fiscal year of 1861 had been more
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BY L. SHIP

HOME where in the Big Horn noun
- tains, that magnificent range thai
~ is a part of the great backbone ot
the continent in northern Wyo'
ming and Montana, hidden away where
he rospector's searching eyes, for almost
a century have failed to find it, lies the
Old Lost Cabin mine.
1t is perhaps the most famous as vel
as the most mysterious lost mine" IL
America. 1t has been discovered, lost
and rediscovered n lost no less thar
a dozen times.
Time after time through the years
newspaper stories have appeared of the
Lost Cabin Mine, ~purporting to describe
1t and its general location, but %
OF these were ever based on anything
of authentic nature, being the work o.
imagination n following along the
lines Of the many legends of lost mine
that are common In the Rocky Noun
tain region, where there is no doubt
that enormous quantities of gold arc
stored in the hills waiting to be uncov.
everd by some lucky prospector's pick.
How it received it's name of the Lost
Cabin Mine, or how such a rich body
Of ore, a gold mine, with a cabin at.
tachment could be so utterly and totally
lost as never to be found again, has
never been told
Alien dulDurJ, q Qu1eC, sensible Cltl-
zen OF GAINESVILLE, Wis, was bitten BY
the gold fever like a great many Others
and in October, l849, made the journey
to the Pacific colorado in California.
He spent a number of years in Cali
fornia and finally worked his way north
into Oregon and then Into Washington
In the spring Of 1868 he was in Wallf
Walla broke.
By some means he and two Other
prospectors and gold seekers. Jones anc
Cox, secured an outfit, probably grub
staked by some citizen of Walla Walla
and with six horses and a months pro.
visions Doh the Mullen trail for an ex.
ploring and prospecting trip on the east
ern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
They eventually reached the Yellow
stone river and floated down it on {
raft to the Big Horn river where they
made camp on an island In one of the
Widest portions of the United State!
where the country was full of hostile
Indians.
They knew nothing of the geography
OF the country, travelled mostly by night
and the range Of mountains that loomec
up before them one bright morning hac
neither name or location for them.
Into these mountains they went. pan
ming and prospecting, and striking better
pay the farther they worked up the can.
yon or gulch they were travelling. A
last their prospecting showed them
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wonderfully rich streak and they sunk
q shaft to bedrock which was only seven
feet down and banning from the grass
roots from five cents to a dollar q pan
The gold craze was upon them, they
had plenty of powder and lead and the
country was full Of game and they de-
termined to stay there all winter not
-withstanding the Indians were thick on
every hand and they began work frant-
ically to prepare for a long winters stay
They Whipsawed lumber, built q dam
across the creek, put up sluice boxes and
sluiced from morning until night until
winter closed in on them. Their cleanup
was about 500 per Gay per man Cox,
Jones and Hulburt each had almost half
a bushel Of nuggets and gold dust.
When winter closed in and the water
froze preventing further work of taking
out gold, they whipsawed lumber and
built a cabin surrounding 1t with q
stockade. This is the famous cabin OF
the legend which has been lost SO many
times. They cut hay for their horses
and prepared to go through the winter.
In the early spring, as o o as the
water was running in the creek, they
were at their sluice boxes and taking out
Just as much gold as ever. One day
Hulburt returned to the cabin for some
purpose but had hardly gotten out OF
sight when he hard rifle shots from the
creek and saw Cox INC Jones killed by
the Indians.
He managed to escape being found
and after the Indians left crept from his
hiding place, gathered together a few
necessities he could carry, packed his
knapsack full Of gold and hurriedlv left
on foot fleeing for his life. The Indians
had stolen the horses. Along the trail
they had come INTO the mountains the
Indians were camped and Hulburt fled tc
the south into a wilderness where 1T IL
probable no white man had ever set
foot before.
In his haste to escape he made nc
mental note of the country by which he
could return to the place. Travelling fol
many days he at last came to where he
could see out onto the open prairie
Hoping to strike a trail Of some sort he
pushed boldly out in the direction where
he thought he would strike the old Ore
gon trail he had Travelled to California
10 years before.
After 10 days he came to the crossing
OF the Platte river at Reshaw bridge
which was about three miles west OF
where the city Of Casper now stands and
about 90 miles above Fort Laramie. Here
he met the first white men he had seer
for almost two years.
The whole intermountain country was
then on fire with the reports Of the rich
diggings on Grasshopper and Alder creeks
IN Montana, n at the bridge he met
a big stampede coming up the Platte
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what / lost. l know that Montana, and
across the line, has oil in plenty, and l
am going to be locating 1t again. / have
an office in Kelvin, and will go back there
TO begin all over again-and I can do 1t.
Montana has oil. and I nave the energy
to go after 1t. / am going to locate the
big pool perhaps, at any ate / am going
to show that the north has only been
started in the way Of oil prospecting. /
am here to fight in the oil development
game-and l am going to win.
Il was treated nicely in Leavenworth
they could not have treated me better,
and l have 10 complaint of any kind. /
have no statement to make upon my
case-it is in the discard n the cards
are being dealt again. / want to thank
my friends from the bottom of my heart
for their assistance, and more, for the
confidence in me, and l shall spend my
life trying to make good for them. The
past is past, but there are some things
one cannot forget-and the one above
all other is the unselfish friendship Of
men with whom one las worked and
lived the day. 1t is almost worth 1t to
find u friends-and now back to
work"
Starts In Alberta
Mrs. Campbell is at present in Seattle,
and will join her husband later. MIR.
Campbell is interested in oil lands in the
Kevin-Sunburst field and will start at
once checking them Il N operating.
Last summer he located at Alderside,
Alta, south INC east OF Calgary and 1t
is being drilled. The drill is at 1880
feet and has just struck wet gas with a
cupful OF oil coming up in each bailer.
Mr.. Campbell expected completion at
l 300 feet, and now believes that the
well is on the high and that compile
ton will be earlier by far than expected.
The we'll proves the structure and Mr.
Campbell viii make his first visit there
after he leaves Great Falls to begin his
life work over again.
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3The Banana Belt" s $:: f. :! Il sS s@%: a R: s$ ?$ S$s: B
Section Knwna as" BmnnaB ht Which w
d Received NGren1D e1sOn from rites WhOD Did NtB dae Country Was H. BOorsC Claimed i

The Santa Fe, the Kansas Pacific, the
Union Central Pacific, and the Northern
Pacific railroads.
Isaac I. Stevens, who had seen service
In Mexico, and was then governor Of
Washington territory, and Capt. George
B. Mcclellan Of the United States army
were placed in charge Of the survey along
the extreme northern route. Associated
with these leaders were a number of
young men who won fame In after years.
Captain Mcclellan was afterward COM
mander in chief Of the army OF the
Potomac, and was once the democratic
candidate for the presidency Of the Unit
ed States. Captain Stevens persisted on a
Virginia battlefield.
Stevens worked west from st. Paul,
Mcclellan eastward from the Sound.
Both underwent many hardships in max
ing their surveys, and both came out of
the work enthusiastic for the northern
route. When the time came for fixing
the starting point for the Pacific road,
Abraham Lincoln was president and he
chose that route which is followed by the
Union Pacific. In this way the northern
scheme was put aside for the time,
though never abandoned by the men
who had been pushing the enterprise.
In 1869, just after the completion of
the Union Pacific, the banking firm of
Jay Cooke e. Co. was asked to take the
liIdlcldl dBeucy OI Jne uOItnern ROAD.
Before giving an answer, the big bank
ing house sent experts OF its own to ex-
plore the country through which the
proposed Dad was to run. One outfit
went round to the mouth of the Column
bia, while another, accompanied by
President Smith, explored from Lake SUI
perior to the Red river of the north.
Indians Give Trouble
The Pacific coast party was chased
from the Yellowstone by Indians, while
the members Of the eastern end OF the
expedition, together with their military
escort, were forced to fly for their lives
from Fort Stevenson to the settlements
in Minnesota, pursued by a big band
of savages.
The expert engineer Of the banking
house put the cost of the road n the
necessary equipment at $82. 277, 900, an
average of $40 ,638 a mile. The report
was on the whole very encouraging to
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Figures OF the Ola west whose Daring
the Indian-infested region are Slowly
passing on to the beyond II memories
:. .nen ~ .a ans al. 1"on u.s. Unna
snose ;, - 800 W." ~ Tan, orn
pe.o.s uu' - o the
.mryAun ..an ,'iIisr !, r.',u onn In
"yons aana ns En- uast
soi wa" Wv ' u
A quarter OF a century the Iom
Horn murder trial at cheyenne was at
tracing the OF n west. horn
was placed on trial on Oct. l0, lsO2, IN
the district court at cheyenne, on
Oct. "a the jury returned a verdict OF
guilty OF murder IN the nrst degree. lie
was sentenced to be hanged,
Horn first came into prominence when
he came to wyoming as a detective for
the stockgrowers' association. Learning
that 1T wa difficult to secure the convic-
.lon VI q oa.s.e vs. ~ 70 drn as
$1,000 ~ uvpsoc pt,,dge INV ard
uuo.ts., nnnn 'tthua' , 49, ~
apPayA"e "0 ' -
uoa'h ny oAoos
Kills one OF Posse
In 1900 Isham Dart and Matt Rash,
ranchmen in Browns Park, Colo, were
killed. Horn was known to have been
In the vicinity at the time and was
suspected as their assailant. He enooun-
tered q posse on his return to Wyoming,
and In an alteration he killed one of
the posse, but incurred knife wounds
that came near ending his career.
The cumax ~ his ruthless ventures
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MOTHER!
Il Child Doesn't Laugh and Play
If Consttbated

A laxative today saves q sick child
tomorrow. Children simply will not
take the time from play to empty their
bowels, which become clogged up with
waste, liver gets sluggish, stomach sour.
Look at the tongue, motherl II
coated, or your child is ~listless, cross,
feverish, breath bad. restless, doesn't
eat heartily, full of cold or has sore
throat or any other children's ailment,
give a ~teaspoonful of California Fig
Syrup" then don't worry, because 1t is
perfectly harmless. and in a few hours
all his constipation poison, sour bile
and fermenting waste will gently move
out of the bowels, and you v a well,
playful child again. A thorough lin
side cleansing" is ofttimes all that is
necessary. 1t should be the, first treat
ment given In any sickness.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.
Ask your druggist for a bottle OF Cali
fornia Fig Syrup" which has full direc-
lions for babies. children OF all ages
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Field Says lie VIII Start All Over; Has
Interests in Northern Part of State and
Canada Where lie Expects to Find OH
Gordon Campbell, geologist, mining
engineer and discoverer of the Kelvin
Sunburst oil field In Montana. has re-
turned to this state after having been
paroled from the federal penitentiary
at Leayenw0rth, Kan, to which prison
he was sentenced by Judge George Nj.
Bourquin after having been convicted
on q charge of conspiracy TO use the
mails to defraud.
The case was the o%utgrowth of a syndi-
cate formed by Mr.. Campbell to develop
some of the oil holdings he then had in
northern Montana Mr.. Campbell turned
the promotion of this concern over to
others in his employ and some Of the
methods used by them, it was held, were
in violation of the United States postal
laws.
The law. however, holds the employer
responsible for the acts of his employees
and MIR. Campbell was convicted on the
charge. Before he had been long at
Leavenworth prison ne was made a trusty
n given an outside position of response
bility. AS soon as he had served long
enough to become eligible for parole, he
was recommended for such action. The
llue Oh @l,UUU WHICH Ddu Deen imposed
upon him by the court was paid by
friends in Montana and other impending
Indictments against him were dismissed
by action Of the United States district
attorney.
This having been done his parole was
approved by the attorney general of the
United States and Mr.. Campbell has re-
turned to the scene of his former suc-
cess and triumphs in the oil business,
to start over again.
Mr.. Campbell is still the same ener-
getic, quick-moving little buzzsaw of oil
excitement days, but he is thinner, older
and battling two years with the law for
his liberty has aiken it's toll.
Six years ago on the top OF the oil
wave Of fortune, today he starts in again
broke. with a year zone out of his life,
to build again. But he is not discour-
aged-not a bit of 1t.
"T1 Start Again
II shall start in the oil game again."
said Mr.. Campbell, and work to get back
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BY the end of 1923 all but 60 of the
1880 miles of the Yellowstone trail be-
tween Chicago and Seattle will be i'm
proved road of federal standard speci1-
cations, according to ii. o. Cooley, en-
eral manager of the Yellowstone Trail
association who was in Montana re-
Gently while en- route to his Minnesota
headquarters after a tour of all the
Trail association meetings from Chi
cago to the coast. He reports that as
a result of the meetings, the dicisiOn
has been unanimously handed Town
that the trail must continue.
According to the manager. there was
some discussion at the start of the pres
ent year relative to dropping the trail
project, but this suggestion has been
definitely dropped and the trail will con-
tinue with an increase in the scope OF
the association activities. One of the
major reasons for the continuance Of the
organization, advanced by members OF
the Washington branch, was that the
work would undoubtedly be taken up by
some other, and possible commercial or
ganization, Immediately after the present
grouo ceased the task. During the COM
ing year a budget of between S25, 00C
and $4,000 will be expended by the So
ciety in evidence of its good faith In the
project.
Mr.. Cooley said that Montana roads are
in quite good condition at this time
There are some stretches along the high
way hat may be considered unimproved,
but the greater portion Of these roads
are in the improvement campaign fol
1928. The definite action Of the Yellow
stone Trail association for the coming
year will be announced at the general
meeting, to be held sometime about the
middle of December.
In q resume OF road conditions from
Chicago to the coast, Mr.. Cooley stated
that all u 90 miles from Chicago tc
Minneapolis were paved, with the re-
mainder gravel; federal aid gravel roads
run for 442 miles west of Minneapolis
n the remainder is composed of graded
earth and gravel roads, with but %
miles Of unimproved roads between Chi
cago and the park.
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instructions to shoot Horn If he made
any hostile move.
Horn made attempts to escape, one
successful on Aug. 6, 1908, out he was
captured soon after. On Nov. 20, 1908
the day Of the execution. national guard
troops held back the crowds that had
assembled. only a few witnessing the ex-
action of the penalty. When Horne was
taken to the scaffold he looked over the
spectators, and, turning to Sheriff Small
ley remarked: ED. that's the nerviest
looking lot Of sheriffs / ever saw" Horn
was the last man hanged in a Wyoming
county seat.
are invited to dinner.
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Wolves Killing Sfna

Wolves Killing Stock
Wolves are killing cattle on the Grow
reservation, according to B. M. Stiles, who
said he saw a band of wolves In the
vicinity of the carcass of a COW and q
calf. which he believes were killed by
the ina
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When Albert stays out all night 1t is
not cards that keeps him away FROM
home. says Mrs. Emma Smith OF Missoula
In a complaint filed in the district court.
Albert tells her he Is playing cards. but
she says she knows what he is doing.
She wants q divorce.
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PROGRESS NOTED
ON PARK TRAIL
MANAGER II. o. COOLEY OF YELLOW.
STONE ASSOCIATION SAYS DECI-
SION is TO CONTINUE WORK

From Chicago to National Park All But
60 Miles of the 1880 VIII Be Improved
Highway by n Of Next Year; Budget
of from $4,000 II $4,000 to be Raised
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|OIL DISCOVERER
IS HOME AGAIN
TANA ON PAROLE FROM FEDERAL
PRISON AT LEANENWORTH

Man Who Brought in Kevin-Sunburst
Field Says He VIII Start All Over; Has
Interests in Northern Part of State and
Canada Where lie Expects to Find OIL
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WYOMING STILL
TALKS OF HORN
MEMORIES OF NOTORIOUS SLAYER
WILL LINGER LONG AMONG THOSE
WHO KNEW OF HIS CRIMES

Came Into Territory as Stock Detective
and Finding it Difficult to Convict
Rustiers, Constituted Himself Judge
and Jury; Committed Many Murders
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than $500, 000, 900. Where was the neces-
sary money to come from2
Cold S-oo ana nm L., uo.a