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ERECTING MODEL Nj. p.
FARM ON FAIR GROUND

HARLINGEN. Nov. 2S.-The model
farm IL the Missouri Pacific rail-
road is being erected al the Valley
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Officials Of the Missouri Pacific
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BIRD DISTRICT COURT
Hidalgo County

SUNS fIItUs
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west one-half OF lot 22l, portion
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last night: second. highest tempera-
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at s a. M; fourth. rainfall past -
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COUNTY COURT AT LAW
John kleiber, Judge

Court action:
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Jose PARA and Florencia Mullet.
Luciano Nillanueva and Petra Ra-
mirez.
Asumcion Anroya and MaNimiana
Gonzales.
Jose Martinez and Isabel Castillo.
Pedro Perez and Norciseo CarmOna.
Emilio Sada and Antonio Mendoza.
Il. L. Naseleff and Elizabeth Doris
Wills.
James Thomas jefferson and Santos
Eva LoZano.
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Cameron Courts
2sTH DISTRICT COURT
4. W. Cunningham, Judge

SUITS tlled.
o. {. Beman and Allie Beman. suit
for divorce.
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I03RD DISTRICT COURT

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COUNTY COURT
d. q. Dancy, Judge
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Mcky. deceased.
In the matter Of guardianship Of
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(By w. w.

~ NJAMIN WEST WILSON. mining
* operator n promoter who died
- recently in Butte at the age OF 81.
thirty years ago was one OF the
most noted football players In America.
Playing as halfback with Cornell univer-
sity in the fall Of 1897. his fifth year. by
the way, under the tutelage Of Glenn
Pop" Warner who for nearly a quarter
of a century was football mentor first
at Cornell and then at Carlisle Indian
school and who is now coach at Stan
ford university in California. Wilson
proved to be a wonderful ground gamer
against Pennsylvania, Princeton and
other big eastern elevens which Cornell
met that fall. He vas mentioned for
the All-American in that year and had
he played another season In the east
undoubtedly would have been named on
that mythical aggregation for 1893.
He chose, however, to come west, and
enter the semiprofessional field for two
years. after which he devoted his time
and in Madison county, in which latter
section he had interests at the time OF
his death.
Wilson, a nephew of the late "Tama
jim Wilson, secretary of agriculture I'M
der President Mckinley, Roosevelt and
Taft, was born in Tama county, Iowa.
He was left an orphan at an early age
In 1C ul1A WV VSAO - = SO
the family of their uncle, who for many
years was head Of the lows State Agri-
cultural college at Ames, Iowa. Ben VIII
son attended that institution and gradu-
ated there in 1896. receiving the degree
OF Bachelor Of Agriculture.
Warner Takes Wilson East
1t was while there that he first became
interested in football. Pop" Warner was
coaching the Ames team at the time.
The Ames college in those days ran in
the summer and had its long vacation In
the winter. That gave Warner oppor-
tunity to coach two can during the
season. After finishing up at Ames he
would go to Cornell, where he became
head coach in 1897. and where in that
year he took Wilson with him..
At Ames Wilson and his cousin, big
Jim" Wilson, now dean OF the South
Dakota college Of agriculture at Brook
ings, played end. They won for the
Ames team It's first fame among the big
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the Butte club was in its glory and the
season was a financial failure in Butte
as well as in Anaconda.
Back to the Mines
When the season was over Snelson
went to work in the smelters and Wilson
and Keller went back to the mines In
Butte.
The next year Keller and Snelson
signed to play with the University OF
Washington team, but hen Snelson
reached Butte on his way to the coast
he decided to remain in Butte and play
the nex fall with a team Sam Davis
planned to organize. On the strength
of that Davis, a mining engineer, got
him a job in the mines, but the team
never materialized Keller went on to
Washington and played the season Of
1900 with the Huskies. The next year
he went to Alaska andw as killed in q
mine accident at Treadwell island. Will
son and Snelson made a prospecting trip
into Madison county and during the
summer Of 1900 Wilson became familiar
with the mining region where he was to
operate for the remainder of his life. A
younger brother, Harry, joined Wilson
hat summer while he was camped at
Mammoth. and died there a few years
later as the result Of ptomaine poisoning.
1t is related of Ben Wilson and Smell
oOlli llliO Oillt dullllB Vic Sulllllltl "a
1900 while they were camped at Mann
moth. they walked from Jefferson Island
home, a distance of 81 miles, after a trip
to Butte, and raced each other at top
speed for the last 200 yords to prove that
they were in good condition.
Wilson organized the Bismarck Mining
company. established an office in Butte
and one in Jefferson Island, rs miles
from the property n the ore shipping
point. and was still president and man.
ager of the concern at the time of his
death. An older brother, Eugene, died
or the pacific coast 20 years ago. None
of the Wilson brothers were ever mar
ried.
1t Was Tough Game
In the days when Wilson played foot
ball, the modern safety appliances were
unknown. About all the players had to
save them from hard knocks was long
hair. When, in the fall Of 1899, Jack
Mahoney, who previously had suffered
conclusion Of the brain from a hard
tackle, appeared On the Anaconda field
with the Butte team with a nose guard
and head harness, he had his cheek bone
broken tackling Sam Emmons. The only
two points unprotected on his face were
his two cheek bones.
Wilson's football religion was when
his side had the ball to take it ahead,
when the other side had it to throw
them back with 1t. Guards back and
tandem plays were ~favorites. Wilson wore
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W ~ Famous Football Stars 80 Years Ago. Was Pupil W
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representative OF the Burlington rail-
road, although q resident OF Anaconda
where he later served as postmaster, came
TO Wilson and Keller representing a group
OF Anaconda people. and made them q
proposition to go to Anaconda and or
ganize and play with a football team that
fall.
They grabbed it. :.
BOYS, we're fixed for the winter" said
Wilson after Daniels had gone.
"You fellows may be, but this Ana
conda proposition doesn't help me out
any" said Snelson
why. you're in on this" replied VIII
son.
You're crazyl I can't play football"
said Snelson.
Anybody can play football" asserted
Wilson, IF he's built right physically
and has the nerve"
The upshot Of 1t was that Wilson and
Keller talked Snelson into going with
them to Anaconda, where he posed as a
football player from the University OF
Iowa, where he had previously graduated
in pharmacy and where he had Rayed
| one game with his class football team.
His class, by the way, he often has told
since, was composed of 10 persons, IL
men and a girl. Eleven men played on
the team, the twelfth was on the side
lines in uniform praying that no disaster
| would call him into the game, and the
girl rooted"
Wilson insisted that this was sufficient
foundation for a semiprofessional career
on the gridiron and thereupon began
the most intensive course in football In
struction hat any man perhaps ever re-
ceived.
Coarse" In Football
In the narrow quarters of their room
| Wilson n Keller taught Snelson the
tricks Of the game, passing the ball, fall
ing on it, described tackling, hurdling,
with pencil INC paper illustrated plays
and counter plays. Snelson went to Ana
| conda n got away with 1t and lived
| there for several years afterwards, but
he never told any of his Anaconda friends
the actual facts OF the matter for several
years.
On that Anaconda team besides Will
son, Keller and Snelson, were Tommy
Bird, afterwards captain Of the baseball
team at Michigan university and a mem
Der of the Atlanta ball team OF the
Southern league: Dick Kilroy, from Trim
ity university, Dublin, then principal OF
the Anaconda high school, Montana
jack" Sullivan, who later won consider
able fame in the prize ring and who at
one time fought Stanley Ketchel; Bar
ney Bernier, a boilermaker; Bill Living
ston, a smelterman; Jake Rentz, a smell
terman; Fred Inman, a college player;
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couch as long as you use 1t. / was very
happy there and learned to be a good
cook. The nearest town was 80 miles
away and every two weeks they had q
dance. Saturday mornings / would start
of In the saddle, take a bath in the
creek near the town and stay until the
dance was over. / used to dance every
dance. Some OF the boys and girls rode
SO miles to those dances. The folks were
kind Of religious and as Sunday dancing
was not approved Of we used to stop the
clock at IL O'Clock and dance until morn
ing. After a nap / would ride back to
my school and bachelor quarters.
10Y Eats Mattress
"One Sunday / got back quite late and
found an inmate in my cabin. A COW
had pushed the door open and had raised
the dickens. First she went after the
bacon because it was salty and then she
upset the table with the dishes and
knocked down the stove. The IGOR had
closed on her and she couldn't get out
and would you believe it that darned
COW had eaten my nice mattress to the
last straw. The cabin was SO disordered
and dirty I had to sleep ON the board
floor of the school with my saddle for a
pillow. Next day the pupils helped me
clean up and gather another mattress
full Of hay SO we didn't have much class
that day.
Children have their own sense OF hui
NOR and got a great kick out Of the COW
eating up the teachers bed and I was
leased about 1t as long as l remained in
that part OF Missouri" The DID mans
eyes grew pensiye. They were good chill
dren. l wonder what became OF them.
I've often hoped to run across some Of
them later in life but / never did"
Such memories threw q glamor over
the old gentleman's sunse days and l
could tell he was happiest when he re-
called them.
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OF the Butte team upon that occasion
who are still residents Of the mining
city, are Col. D.. Gay Stivers, attorney for
the Anaconda company, and Charlie
Blackburn. Other members were big
Jim Hooper, a Michigan School of Mines
Michigan man, Sandy" Mcpherson, Don
ellis and G. W. Snake" King. The
late big Bill" Slater. who for many
years afterwards was a member Of the
Butte fire department was also a mem
Der of that Butte team. Stanley Pierce,
Percy Laswell and j. "Nutty" Braham,
were the names of other enrolled on the
eleven of Butte who had q hard time
getting games because of their prowess.
Upon one occasion the club offered
$4,000 fiat to the Yale team to come to
Butte to play, but the offer was refused,
Played Noted A~ggregations
Games were played with the Denver
Athletic club, the Olympic club of San
Francisco, the Reliance Athletic club OF
Oakland and the Multnoman club of
Portland. The greatest rivalry, however,
was with the Anaconda professional foot
ball team backed by h late Marcus
DAILY. which was recruited largely from
among college and athletic club players
of the Pacific coast. Wilson never played
with the Butte team. He played a nun
Der of times in Butte, but always against
the Butte team, twice with the Ames
team, once with the Deadwood, s. D.,
team n several times with the Ana
conda team.
1t was in 1898 that Wilson and big
BIZ Keller, a University Of Nebraska
tackle, organized a professional team IN
Deadwood, S. d. They started on a barn
storming tour. played the Butte team
and went on to Salt Lake. There they
went broke" the team disbanded and
Wilson n Keller rode the rods back to
Butte and went to work as miners.
Wilson's favorite theme regarding his
~favorite game, football, was that any
one could play the game" II he was phys
ically equipped for 1t and had the nerve.
In 1899 he was given an opportunity to
prove hat assertion, which he did, at
least to his own satisfaction.
In Butte in the summer of 1893 hs
was Joined by Pete Snelson. present
managing editor of the Great Fails Tri-
bune, but at that time a drug clerk and
former student Of mining engineering at
Ames while Wilson was there. At Ames
Snelson played on the college baseball
team. captained hen by c. c.. Mills, now
postmaster at Big Sandy, Mont. ust out
Of the army following the Spanish-Amer-
lean war, he arrived In Butte after G
summer on a Wyoming roundup, ready
for almost anything. Jobs were scarce
Keller had a job in a mine, but Wilson
and Snelson "rustled" the mines relig-
iously without being able to catch on
Snelson having previously ascertained
that there was no opening in Butte fol
a drug clerk.
Why Keller Quit
One day Keller electrified them by an
nouncing that he had quit his Job. They
l oCRad whu He rpn1iod that he hod hau1Ir
| to depend on 1t so much that he found
himself wondering what he would do Il
he lost it, land" said he. whenever 6
man begins to feel that way about a Job
it is time for him to quit it."
While the two were still arguing with
Keller about the unsoundness Of hi:
theory, Phil Daniels, at that time Butte
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Barney Fitzpatrick, later chief of police
OF Anaconda and the two Emmons boys,
Sam and Bob, Anaconda products who
both turned out to be stars. Mike Lynch,
afterwards player-manager of the Ia
coma baseball team in the old Pacific
Northwest league, turned out for prac-
tice a few times.
The season was a financial failure be-
cause sufficient games could not be OBJ
tanned. There were two teams in Butte,
the result of a split in the former or
ganization. One of them was captained
and managed by big Jim" Hooper, the
other by Percy Benson, a former captain
and quarterback from the University of
California and now a druggist in Homo
lulu. With Hooper's team were Bill Sla-
ter, Walter Brown of the University of
Minnesota; Sam Davis from the same
school; Jack Mahoney, kicking fullback
from the Reliance Athletic club and va
rious other veterans. Benson had on his
team 'Nutty" Braham, Paustian, Kitto,
Van Meter of Michigan and other old
time players, but the quality of the
games was not up to former years when
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JUDGE W. H. HUNT
PLANS TO RETIRE
FORMER MONTANA JURIST NOW ON
U. s. CIRCUIT BENCH ABOUT
TO RESIGN
Has Been District Judge, Member Con-
stitutional Convention and Legislature
United States District Judge and Gov
ernOr OF Porto Rico

United States Circuit Judge viii
liam Henry Hum Of a Francisco is
about to present his resignation to
President Coolidge. Judge Hunt Is 20
years old and so entitled to age limit
retirement, but i'll health caused his
decision to resign.
Judge Hunt had a notable career in
Montana, being closely identified with
political activities in the early days. Be-
coming collector OF customs for Montana
and Idaho in 1881, he held that position
until 1885; was attorney general Of Mon
tana, 1885-87; member Of the constitu-
tional convention. 1884; member Of the
legislature, 1889; Judge Of the first judi
cial district, 10000; justice Of the state
supreme court, 1894-1900; secretary OF
Porto Rico. May 1900-August, 1901; gov
ernor of Porto Rico. August, 1901-July
A, 1904: United States district Judge,
Montana district, 1904-10; associate JUS
tice United States court of customs ap-
peals, January, 1910-February. 1911. APP
pointed United States circuit judge, De-
cember, 1910.
Judge Hunt was born in New Orleans
Nov. s, 1857. He was educated at Hop
kins Grammar school, New Haven. Conn
He entered Yale in the class of 1878, but
Ill health prevented graduation. He holds
an honorary degree, M. A., from Yale.
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from Butte to Los Angeles over the San
Pedro road which he had built across
the trackless desert. The train was
stalled for several hours by a washout
and w. A. suggested to his auditor,
James Phillips OF Butte, that they take
a little walk up a canyon, as there was
plenty Of time.
Following a stream they encountered
two placer miners, working with pan and
rocker. The senator stopped to talk and
was greatly interested in their work.
Finally he asked If he might pan a lit
tie to see If he could find 'colors.' Sc
lecting a point where h bed rock
emerged at a sheer bank he filled his
pan and was soon smashing the gravel
around in veteran style.
Get any ~colors, Pilgrim" inquired
one OF the miners.
The senator came back with the pan
t~riumphantly. He not only had found
colors but there was a neat little circlet
Of golden CLEANS emerging from the
black sand which accompanies nearly all
free gold.
Dimes on Flaptacks
1t wasn't a sensational streak but it
showed good ground-better than the
miners were working on and they moved
their rocker over to the CLARK prospect"
The incident tickled the old man i'm
mensely, merely showing the old timers
that he knew how to pan.
When did you birds eat?" asked one
Of the miners. If you're hungry there's
some brug up at the cabin. There's some
s ssP!s'h batter and bacon Help your
The senator eagerly accepted the invi-
tation. In the spick and p a little one
room cabin the coffee pot was soon hum-
ming and one OF the miners came over
and handed them a couple OF trout he
had caught h a morning. The senator
did the cooking n mad o piquant
lunch OF hot cakes-or rather flap jacks
bacon and trout with fragrant coffee.
Phillips says the senator ate the hearth
est meal in weeks n when he finished
he washed up the dishes and put every
thing back in It's place. The miners did
not know they were entertaining q multi
millionaire nor did Clark disclose his
identity. What pleased him most was
the fact that the miners moved to the
spot where he had prospected and that
he had shown Phillips a few things, espe-
cially the trick OF Tipping a fiapjack in
the air and catching 1t on the u%ncooked
side.
Bidding his pioneer friends goodby
they were surprised to find that he lett
q $40 gold piece In each palm, while
complimenting them on their true from
tier hospitality. According to Phillips
the incident seemed much more import
ant and interesting to the senator than
the deal involving millions, which had
occasioned the trip.
While the senator was naturally a busy
man, he was extremely punctilious about
his correspondence and answered every
letter no matter how trivial. Indeed he
managed to see everybody who had ac-
tual business with him. I never had any
business with him but he used to tell
Phillips to tell me to come up and visit
with him. when he was in Butte. When
he talked OF the 'old days" or his youth,
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every one in the outside room could wait
or postpone their business to another
day. When he had a spare hour he liked
to drop into the commissioners office In
the courthouse. The commissioner
would suspend official duties while the
old man would tell stories and before he
finished he would have an interested
audience.
When He Taught School
Once, visiting with him in his office !
asked: Senator. were you ever a school
teacher?"
He laughed.
"In tell you q funny story about that
said the senator, and you can write 1T
any time you want to. You know I
came west from Collinsville, Pa, pretty
young and went to Missouri. / struck
q settlement where there were quite a
few children out no school facilities so
the settlers offered me the Job teaching.
/ was rather modest but they said the
three IRIS" were all that was needed
and they dug up some school books they
had brought with them.
II patched in a cabin and taught
school in a sort OF barn all that summer
On account of the great distances there
was no winter school, just from May to
October. / think / gave satisfaction and
my dozen pupils were anxious to learn
which is q great help in teaching. Later
| vent to Colorado where / worked at
day labor, though / was always looking
for something better. From Colorado /
came to Montana and learned to swing
a gold pan at Bannack and never forgot
how.
when I started my school l had no
furniture, but / made 1t after a primitive
fashion. / had no bed and l made my
own mattress out Of freshly moved grass.
There is quite O trick about making q
good mattress with a wool sack. A lit
tie sweet clover makes 1t q perfumed
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a wide belt with a handle on the rear.
With a lighter player carrying the ball
and hanging fast 10 it, he would plunge
down the field, hurdling, trampling and
tearing through all opposition. Teams
were heavier then than now. Hooper's
1899 team had a line that averaged 208
pounds 10 the man. Wilson was six feet
tall, weighed 1876 pounds in his prime
and could run 100 yards in eleven sec
onds. His cousin Jim was his twin IN
size, strength and speed.
1t would be interesting to hear Pop
Warner tell of the game he played in
Butte in 1895 or 1896. He often said