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The Washington times., 1928-03-31
FORT STEVENS PROMINENT
IN NATIONS BACKGROUND

Washn0ons rapid growth within the past 10 years mas
been magnitude the development OF many
places Of historic into modern HOMECOMING COM
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The Washington times., 1928-03-31
MORTGAGES RULE

About 95 per cent of the
resources of all building and loan
associations in the District OF
Columbia are invested in mortgage
loans.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-02-16
DRY RUN.
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Miss Hazel Howell, of this commu-
nifty, is on visit to her sister in Fair
mont, West Va.
Delbert Broadwater was a guest of
Robert Broadwater over the weekend.
Miss Ruby Green has gone to Cum
berland, where she is employed.
Miss Fannie Bickford, of Cunlber-
land, was visiting at her home in this
section recently.
Messrs. Lester Green and Albert
Bickford visited friends in Cumber-
land over the weekend.
Lester burst, of Cumberland, was
a guest at the home of Miss Lulubelle
Bittinger on Sunday evening.
Rev. Dalbaugh is assisting in the
Pentecostal meeting now being held
in the Black Hawk school house.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-02-16

without granting the same reduction
to the merchants of the smaller cities
and towns whose mailings cost the
government one-quarter of a cent less
per piece to handle.
This is direct discrimination
against the people of the small cities
and country towns, whose communi-
ties depend for their prosperity and
growth on the maintaining of mer-
chandising center; it is direct discrim-
| ination against the merchants OF
these communities against whom
would be assessed heavier sales cost
| in their e1 Tort to meet the competition
of the mail order houses and the large
city merchants than is assessed
against these outside competitors; it
is direct discrimination against both
the printer and the newspaper pub
Usher of the smaller cities and towns
who must depend for their prosperity
upon the prosperity of the merchants
and the people of their communities.
1t is a subsidy to the mail order
houses and the big city merchants in
that it proposes to render a service
for these mail order houses and big
city merchants at less than the estab-
lished costs of that service and charge
the deficit up to the taxpayers of the
nation.
Any congressman, and especially
any congressman representing coun-
try district, who would vote for that
bill is not entitled to the support of
the people of such a district. He would
be voting to sacrifice not only the in
terests of the pople who have elected
him, but the best interests of the ma
ton as whole because the best in
terests of the nation depend upon the
prosperity of all of the nation and not
upon the prosperity of the cities
alone.
If congress wishes to pass law
making a one-cent postage rate on
third-class mail there will be no great
objection provided the law applies
equally to all. 1t does not cost the
government any more to transport
and distribute one thousand pieces of
mail mailed by one thousand different
persons than it does to transport and
distribute one thousand pieces of mail
mailed by one person.
Published at the request Of a group
of business and professional men of
Garrett county.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-02-16

Miss Magdalena Lawson and Betty
Ann Tarbell visited at the home of
Miss Lawson at Bridgeport, W. Va,
Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Rose Miller left on Tuesday
for Fort Wayne, Ind, where she will
visit for a month with friends and rel
atives.
Walter Fratz and family were the
guests on Sunday of W. H. Haenftling
at Flatwoods.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Georg were in
Oakland on Monday transacting bus
mess.
Messrs. James and Adam Speicher
spent Monday in Altoona, Pa.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-02-16
FARM FOR SALE

offer my farm containing 80 acres
about IS acres cleared and in a fair
state of cultivation; balance in props
and saw timber. Is improved with a
good fve-room house and cellar, bank
barn and all necessary outbuildings;
good water; close to church and school
and county road passes by the farm.
This farm lies two miles east of
New Germany postoffice and three
miles from State Road in Garrett
county.
For particulars address
]. L. FRESH, Owner,
52-2t Frostburg, Md.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-02-16
RED HOUSE.

The quota of the Red House Luth-
eran congregation for the ministers
pension fund was $3.50. This amount
with an additional sum of $303.45, has
been subscribed.
Everybody come to Sunday school
and church on next Sunday, Feb
ruary 10. Sunday school hour is 1:30
and church service at 2:30 p. m.
Rev. Waybright conducts a Bible
class every Friday evening at 7:30.
Mr.. Ross KEEPER, of Morgantown
w. Va, was visiting relatives at Red
House over the weekend.
Mr.. D. o. Roth and son Russell, of
Cumberland, were visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. W. H. Hines over the weekend
Red House school had a parent
teachers meeting Thursday evening
at 500 o'clock. A good topic was
discussed by competent speaker.
Pupils who received certificates OF
attendance for January were Lavar
Blamble, Wayne Hamilton, Howard
KEEPER, Denver Martin, Alvin Martin
Carl Shuttlesworth, Edward Schmidt
Jesse Shuttlesworth, Paul Wolfe, Vic
tor Lee, Virgie Lee, Norma Martin.
Mrs. Eliza Martin is visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Mosser for few days
Mrs. S. F. Miller and Mrs. Eliza
Biser were attending quilting or
Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Har'
vey Fike.
Miss Mary Ours was guest at the
home Of Mr.. Amos Martin on Thurs
evening.
~~oely Janoske is very ill al
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-02-16
COUNTY AGENTS COLUMN.
]. L. M'GLONE,
Resident County Agent,
Office, Court House.
Maryland Team Second in Judging
Poultry.

Maryland Team Second in Judging
Poultry.
Maryland All club members who
took part in the National poultry
judging contest at Madison Square
Garden Poultry Show, New York, re-
Gently, have returned with two silver
cups, one for placing highest in judg-
ing all breeds for production and the
other for running up the highest score
in judging the White Wyandottes.
The Maryland team, composed of
Gilbert Henderson and Charles E.
Hines, of Montgomery county, Mar
tin l.. Sutton, of Kent county, and
Mae Montgomery, alternate, of Prince
George county, placed second in the
contest with a total score of 1,940
points.
According to w. H. Rice, poultry
specialist of the University of Mary
land Extension Service, who accom-
panied the team, the contest was the
most spirited in years and the Mary
land participants were forced to give
way to their rivals from Virginia.
The Old Dominion team, led by Pearl
Scott and Jack Latture, with individ-
ual scores of $50 and 670 respectively,
succeeded in running up 1880 points
for the first place in the contest. The
score made by Miss Scott, it is said,
is the highest ever made in the con-
test.
In addition to Maryland and Vir-
ginia, states competing were New
York, Connecticut, Mississippi, Mas
sachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania.
The contest requirements called for
the judging of four breeds of poultry,
White Leghorns, Barred Plymouth
Rocks, White Wyandottes and Rhode
Island Reds for both standard quail
fications and production characters
tics.
Those who composed the Maryland
team were chosen as the result of a
State contest held at the Hagerstown
Fair in October. The trip to the New
York show was provided for the Win
ners, the funds being contributed by
the Maryland State Bankers Associa-
ton and E. A. Lakin, superintendent
of the poultry department at the Hag-
erstown Fair.
Maryland has been represented at
two previous contests, placing second
each time, and winning altogether
eight cups.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-02-16

There before the postoce committee of the House bill
that is of intense interest to country community is
postal bill Introduced by Representative Grst of Pennsyva
MIA provides postage rates several classes of mall but
that part it of interest the small cities and towns of the
ton is in connection with third-cass mail.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-02-16

er. ave reasonably good prospects of
hi. n level of prices for eggs and
dress, and live poultry, at least
during che first half of 1925"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-02-16
Our Commodity 80

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Ideal Service is the aim toward which we
strive in every community where
der public utility service.
Our idea of service is something rendered
adequately and courteously and at a min
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Service by public utility company also
includes an interest in the community and
all movements for it's development and
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This ideal of service is what we would
like to get expressed in as few words as
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A contest for this new slogan is now being
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If you have not yet sent in suggested
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SERVICE COMPANY
Executive Offices: FAIRMoNT, WEST VA.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-02-16
Conservative Course Advocated Fol-
Farmers.

Farmers.
While the outlook for agriculture in
Maryland during the coming year APP
pears reasonably promising, condi-
tons as viewed by specialists of the
University of Maryland are not such
as to encourage an indiscriminate in
crease of production in any line.
The agricultural outlook report for
Maryland, as prepared by specialists
of the University of Maryland Ex-
pertinent Station and Extension Ser
vice, is based in part upon the recent
ly issued outlook report of the Uni
ted States Department of Agricul-
ture. With reference to the agricul-
tural situation generally the report
says
'In 1927 there was a better balance
between the different lines of agricul-
tural production than in any other re-
cent year. Agricultural income in
1928 for the country as a whole is
likely to show some improvement
over that of 1927, provided total ag-
ricultural production is maintained at
its present volume and farmers con-
tinue to make further adjustments to-
ward a more balanced production.
Expansion, especially in cash crops, is
to be guarded against.
During 1927 the average prices Of
farm products for the United States
as whole advanced, as shown by the
increase of ten points in the index of
farm prices from 127 in December,
1926, to 1877 for December, 1927. This
increase was due largely to higher
prices for cattle, cotton, feed grains,
apples and tobacco, which more than
offset the marked decline in hog prices
and lower prices received for wheat,
hay, potatoes and eggs. The net adj
vance in farm prices is the result not
of any better demand situation, but
rather of reduced production of cot
ton, cattle, and fruits and vegetables.
"The gross agricultural income in
the United States for the crop year
1926-1927 was about $12, 100000, 900
for 1925-1926 it was $12,7O0,0O0,0O0;
for 1921-1922, it was $9,20O,000, 900.
While the gross income from agricul-
ture in 1926-1927 was practically the
same asin 1925-1926, the purchasing
power of the farmers dollar was
higher. The relative purchasing pow
er of farm prt ducts in terms of nom
agricultural commodities stood at 81
per cent of the pre-war level in No
vember, 1927, as compared with 80
per cent for November, 1926.
"The gross value of farm crops for
Maryland in 1927 was $70,346,000 as
compared with 69,772,000 for 1926.
"The livestock industry in the State
has been in relatively favorable
position, although there was a con-
siderable decline in hog prices in
1927 Beef cattle prices in 1928 prom
Use to average higher than in 1927, the
outlook for wool appears favorable,
the dairy industry is in a relatively
stable position while poultry produc-
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-03-09
Search for Lost Mime
ON Little Big Horn is
PLANNED by Oil Mem

couple Of white partners, each to share
equally, but with the white men doing
the mining.
The old half-breed guided the white
men to the mine, he states. pretending
the while that he understood but little
English. After they had examined the
property he says he noted them exchange
looks that indicated a private under
standing. His savage mind alert, he ex-
cused himself from the fire where the
three had been sitting n made his
way with considerable noise down to the
stream. hen he crawled back as noise
lessly as a snake within hearing distance
of his white partners n heard them
brutally plot for his murder.
Before going further with his story he
took pains to learn whether he would
be prosecuted If he confessed to a kill
ing years ago. Being assured by the
county attorney Of the Browning dis
trict that he would not be arrested, he
stated: When l heard those white men
plot to take my life I shot them both
dead"
His Proposition
Not until recently has he been moved
to take in another white partner. II
Will guide you to the NINE" he told
Hoerr, but if any one follows us, I Will
do to them as I did to the Butte miners.
l will guide you, but in my own way.
" WILL IL ANU dill IahC
me somewhere between Cooke City inc
Sheridan, Wyo. 1 will tell you when to
stop. Then you must give me a saddle
horse. | will go away at night. Next
day l will bring you back enough gold
so we can get drunk for two weeks. You
don't need to go any farther unless you
wish.
IF you are satisfied with my gold, you
and I will ride to the mine-at night.
If it is a moonlight night, 1 shall blind
fold you. When We get to the mine, we
will take out lots of rock and get plenty
gold for long, long drunk. If you play
fair, | will take you back to the mine,
when we get sober, in the daytime. How's
that?"
Mr. Hoerr has agreed to make the trip.
Before doing so, he made inquiry. He
learned tina there was a story extant
that a wounded ~prospector, who was
given surgical aid at Fort Phil Kearney
in the late COS and who told a story of
a lost-cabin mine and of Indian butch
cry.
VIII Make Trip
He learned that the half-breed, who,
IN his younger days, had a reputation as
q robber and murderer, a reputation that
is not belied by his o glance,
his cruel mouth or his hawklike visage
of today, was known in southeastern
Montana as having frequently brought
gold to the traders stations, Hoerr said.
I'm going to take a chance" says
Hoerr. Tn going out next June. /
shall play fair with. the old fellow and 1
believe he will play fair with me. 1 hin
our trip will dispose definitely Of further
search for at least one of the lost-cabin
mines of the west"
Despite his advanced age. Mr.. Hoerr
says, the half-breed can still mount q
horse from a standing position, can ham
lhla O ut1n mr. raupIVpr with nnCiHprah Ia
accuracy and has apparently lost none OF
his cunning in wood lore. He may find
the place all right" Hoerr says. A any
rate, 1t is worth the effort"
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-03-09

fund matters that I've just got to go
over. feel like / can't neglect them.
I'll go tomorrow" Tomorrow" said Mr..
Kearney. never came for Billy
All day Sunday n well into the
night Commissioner Gemmell kept at
his poor relief work. He went to bed
late. Were 1t not for his sacrih-
cial devotion to the poor work he'd have
been sleeping in a hotel room at Helena
when the Silver Bow block fire broke
out.
Man Greatly Missed
In the year that has passed between
then and now Billy Gemmell has been
greatly missed in the Butte courthouse.
He has been missed in a good many
homes Of the poor where his little philan-
thropies were done in q quiet and I'M
spectacular manner In relation to his
moderate means he was one of the COM
munity's greatest philanthropists.
Nearly rs years ago he was a member
of a little group in Al Green's saloon on
Main street making merry as the Christ
ing about IN old timer whose lot hac
grown bitter. AS the conversation be-
came mellow and mellower the expansive
spirit of the Yuletide warmed them
Soon they had contributed a purse tC
make the old timers Christmas a happy
n n q little later they decided tt
raise money to bring Christmas provi'
sions into as many. of the community.
poor homes as possible.
Out of that little gathering grew the
Joshers' club, an organization without
an organization. that had neither Officers
nor a membership roll. But every Christ
mas since the Joshers have worked IL
their rather mysterious way and hun
dreds of the city's poor have been giver
baskets with Christmas dinner and fooc
for many ensuing days.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-03-09

dence district and flume and penstock
rippled merrily on the site OF the wom-
ans club in the 800 block on West Park
street. AS q verdant tenderfoot with no
particular means Of support, / spent
many days roaming the gulches and try
ing to fraternize with the Cinnamon.
They were not communicative, except TO
say that the gold was "velly scarce" and
during their clean-ups I could see that
/ was not welcomed These were genuine
pig-ta.led Cinnamon. who wore their
shirts outside their trousers, f%requented
the Joss house ON West Mercury, smoked
two-foot pipes. n of evenings came
over tow to daily with countrymen In
Chinatown, take a draw OF opium or in
dulge in a game OF fantan.
Jim Slade. not the notorious Slade Of
Alder gulch, was working a quarter Of a
mile away in Whiskey gulch; Henry GAL
laghan had a cabin near Silver Bow
creek; Miles Fuller was also working not
far away and Henry Hickman was 'go-
p~hering" with a pan here and there,
changing his location every few days. All
were advanced in years but Gallaghan
had a pension from the Civil war. while
the others had to depend on their in
dustry to maintain q livelihood.
Ground was "Thin"
All agreed that the ground was thin"
and well worked out and that only occa-
sional pockets could be found. All had
stories Of good ground they knew of in
the adjacent hills but which required
capital to operate and all were anxious
to take on q partner with means. Only
three Cinnamon came back In 1895 and
these disappeared when the water failed.
Even then Fuller was looked upon as a
bad man" and was treated civilly when
encountered but otherwise was let strict
ly alone. He and G~allaghan did not
speak, but Fuller declared Gallaghan
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-03-09

1 WEIRD tale Of blood and reasure
II 1t is a story Of fabulously rich gold
~ workings somewhere in the noun
tain Businesses between Cooke City,
Mont, and Sheridan, Wyo. The story.
which goes back to the gold rush days of
the west, deals with the massacre of four
prospectors and the wife of one of them
by a band of renegade Indian breeds
and Of the later murder Of two Butte
miners.
The story, as it falls from the lips Of
a beady-eyed. cross-breed Mexican, Cree
and Grow indian now "a years old, seems
to carry conviction to its hearers, &C
cording to W. B.. Hoerr, oil a h has
spent years among the Indians and who
is impressed with the sincerity of the
tough old redskin sinner h speaks of
human slaughter as indifferently as he
would of drowning a kitten.
If the story is true-and there are
some corroborating circumstances
somewhere along the banks OF the Little
Big Horn there is a lost cabin" mine
where "one days work is enough for a
load of groceries and a two weeks
drunk" according to the calculation Of
the old warrior, who boasts that he was
one of a party of breeds who sent the
little group of prospectors to the happy
hunting ground and who killed with his
own hand the two Butte miners because,
he declares, they were trying to double
cross him.
That lost cabin mine is one The
whites will never steal from the Indians -
the half breed told Mr.. Hoerr. They got
everything else that we had. The man
who gets the secret of his mine must
play fair with me" The old half-breed
in mellow mood recently told his story
of the lost" mine to Mr.. Hoerr at
Browning, Mont.
Indians Story
Robbed of its fourishes, the story of
the lost cabin mine, as related by this
mixed-blood Indian, whose name is with
held out Of Difference to the wish of Mr.,
Hoerr, is as follows;
In 1867 a group of half-breed Indians
who, because of their white strain, had q
keener appreciation of the value of gold
than had the red men, came Upon the
little party of prospectors who were TAX
ing out liberal quantities of gold from q
quartz deposit which "jutted out of the
side of q hill above a stream"
The breeds attacked, killing foui
men and one woman A fifth miner
escaped. though badly wounded, anc
made his way to Fort Phil Kearney
where his wounds were treated.
The breeds" piled the bodies of the
slain in the cabin and set fire to The
building. They filled up the holes made
by the prospectors, but, on account Q.
the in which the quartz veir
protruded from the bank, could not en-
tirely obliterate all signs of human &C,
~tivities. 1--WE did our best" says the ole
warrior, land we did we'll enough tina
nobody has ever bothered the plac
since"
The murderers were later on to b
driven into Canada, where they took III
with the Blood Indians. The sole u
vivor of the raiders is the author of thi
story.
Enough for a Drunk
81 go back many times" he said. "Al
ways 1 bring out enough gold for q Loaf
Of groceries and a two weeks drunk"
Some years ago, age beginning to tell
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-03-09

bRPtu W - %f' NNB>
1t has Just become known to the
friends of Billy Gemmell, former mem
Der OF the board of commissioners of
Silver Bow county who leaped to his
death a little more than a year In an
effort to escape when the building
burned in which he ro0med, that he
came to his end by reason of his devo-
tiOn to the poor of his county. He
had been urged the day before to go to
Helena to appear before a legislative
committee In behalf of certain pend
Ing bills in which Silver Bow county
was interested, but delayed going one
day in order to %straighten out matters
having to d. with the poor fund.
The story was told recently by Tim
Kearney, chairman Of the board, who was
associated with Gemmell as a memb
OF that body.
Most people don't know" he said,
that Billy met his death because of his
interest in the poor and the poor fund
work of this office. 1t seems like kind
OF q mean trick of fate that a fellow
who did 30 much for a good cause should
be cut of because he kept on working
at it. It's hard to figure out" And then
he told a story.
The newspaper files as well as the rec
ords of the commissioners show that q
JNaA Abo VA kiS
tine kind old Billy Gemmell leaped to
his death from the window Of his room
in the Silver Bow block. The building
was on fire and his room was fun OF
smoke. He believed that escape through
the halls was cut off and that the only
remaining exit was through the window
OF his room, which was on the fifth door
So he threw q mattress out, wrapped his
bed clothes about him and jumped. A
few minutes later firemen found him In
the stump between the Silver Bow block
and the adjoining building.
Tim Kearney's story
This is Mr.. Kearney's story. The trag-
edy occurred at about TAO o'clock Mon
day morning. III fire which caught Mr.
Gemmell in sleep broke out relatively Q
few minutes before in the storeroom OF
the building.
The state legislature was In session
and there were several measures pending
that were of considerable Importance to
tho county governments. On Sunday
the day before. Mr.. Kearney urged MIR
Gemmcll TO accompany him to Helena.
I'D like to make the trip" Billy Gem
NELL had said. but there's some poor