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The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
Western Scenic Beauty
Neglected by Writer'S

Those "great open spaces" are adj
mired by everyone, but few can write
about them in words Of grandeur.
Stewart Edward White was one-and
John Burroughs was another. Villa
Gather in her "Death Comes to the
Archbishop" painted US some pictures
of the wastes of the Southwest; and
was particularly enamored of the topo-
graphical phenomenon called the mesa.
Maeterlinck and Ruskin ought to
have seen our noble western plains.
They are an inspirations worthy of
great prose which is more untram-
meled than poetry. Scenery such as
this may disregard rhyme though by
Coleridge or Shelley himself. Poesy
can sometimes be restrictive of the
flights of fancy. One is compelled by
its strict rules to overshoOt or fall
short. 1t is often pleasing thralldom
but a thralldom, nevertheless.
Some of Ruskin's descriptions of
che scenes Of nature are as majestic
as the Bible in diction, a book he al
most knew by heart; which reminds
US that one Of the signal tributes paid
to the Grand canyon-a feature of the
great open spaces we speak of, was
that of an Eastern visitor who said it
recalled that exalted sentence: BE
still and know that am Godn
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
Tanned Ground Squirrel
Makes Good as Mouser

A golden-mantled ground squirrel,
tanned by rangers at the Dunraven
Pass station, in Yellowstone National
park, not only made al excellent pet,
but also took upon himself the duties
of mouser. At first considerable local
comment was caused by the fact that
that Squirrel, known as Chippie, had
caught a mouse, but Ernest Thompson
Seton, well-known naturalist, states
that this species of squirrel, which is
really a rodent, is in the habit of
catching field mice. Therefore the
step to catching mouse indoors was
not such long one for Chippie.
Chippie made a great hit with the
Dunraven rangers. "Chippie has prov
en- quite bit of company to me-"
said one of them. "He will come
when | call him if he is within hear
ing distance. He shows no fear of
me at all unless | make a very sud
den movement.
"He is as jealous as he can be and
will not allow me to feed another
squirrel at all. He will chase them
out of my hand, then sit up there and
chatter at them to let them know
their place. kansas City Stars Sci
ence Service.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
Invention That Would
Dispel Fogs Awaited

No practical way has as yet been
found for dispelling fogs, declare
weather bureau meteorologists. Many
schemes have been advanced for the
artificial dissipation of fog, but the
places that have always been notori-
Gus for the thickness of their atmos-
phere still have their murk.
Shortly before the World war the
city of Lyons, France, voted money
for preventing the formation of fog
in that city by coating the Rivers
Rhone and Saone with oil. About the
same time the Cottrell process of cleo
trical precipitation, which is success
fully applied in treating industrial
dusts and fumes, was tried on the
fogs of the California coast. but moth
ing seems to have resulted. The ma
val aircraft factory at Philadelphia
has tried to eliminate mists by means
of electrified sprays, but no tangible
results have been announced. Schemes
for draining off fog-laden air from fly
ing fields and for warming the air
over such places and thus causing the
fog to evaporate have been investi-
gated and found impracticable.r
On a small scale and in favorable
circumstances fog can be dispelled,
say the meteorologists, but all known
methods are too costly for commercial
use.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
NEW STATE LAW ACTS
AS CHECK ON FARMERS
Warehousing Act Is Declared to Be
Great Help Says State Visitor.

Montana's most recent contribution
toward farm relief will be of marked
value to the farmer, in the opinion of
T. c. Croll, assistant general manager
of the Farmers Union Terminal as
ISOLATION of st. Paul. Mr.. Croll was a
visitor at the offices of the state de-
partment of agriculture at Helena.
The new grain warehousing act,
passed by the 1929 legislature, Mr..
Croll says, will allow farmers credit
and prevent the seasonal Cutting of
the grain market. Nebraska, Iowa and
Illinois have had such a law on their
statute books for some time, North
Dakota enacted a similar statute last
session and provided $4,000 to put it
into effect. No money was provided
by the Montana assembly.
Under the act, the department, on
receipt of a petition of rs or more
farmers, will send an inspector to ex-
anime the grain in storage. Upon the
result of his inspection, farmers are
issued certificates which, it is planned
they may use as a basis for credit.
In this way, it is expected that they
will be able to secure cash for pay
ment of urgent debts. The law gives
the creditor title to the grain as his
interest appears but the farmer re-
serves the right to fix the time of sale.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
The Names of Indians

In the system of naming children in
vogue among the old Indian tribes,
the men, and sometimes the women,
changed their names from time to
time. There were two classes OF
names: The names, corresponding to
our personal names, and names which
answer rather to our titles and hon
orary appellations. Personal names
were given and changed at the critical
epochS of life, such as birth, the first
war expedition, some notable feat, and
elevation to chieftainship. Frequent
ly retirement from active life by a
warrior was marked by the adoption
of the name of his son. True names
among the Indians define or indicate
the social group into which q man
is born, whatever honor they entail
being due to the accomplishments of
ancestors. Personal names mark what
the individual has done himself.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
Old Connecticut House

Built in 1859 by Henry Whitfield
and a small group of his followers
who settled in what is now Guilford,
Conn.,, the "Old Stone House" stands
today as monument of substantial
construction.
Its foundation was laid only 10
years after the Pilgrims landed in
Plymouth. It's walls are two feet
thick. Its main chimney is 16 feet
across and is built into the wall it.
self. The fireplace inside was SC large
that a team of horses drove through
the front door, since altered and
made smaller, and out the rear, drag
ging huge logs behind them which,
when in position, were rolled into the
fire with crowbars. Mr.. Whitfield, ac-
cording to the town records, used 40
cords of wood each winter.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
Rhodes Prediction

In Rhodes All Red Route" by Lewis
r. Freeman, this statement is attrib-
uted to Rhodes upon his first visit to
Victoria falls: "Do you know that
The natives claim that they can see far
into the future by looking into the
depths of that big rainbow? :. l
can see two lines of shining steel run
ming from one end of Africa to the
other all the way from Cape
Town to the Mediterranean. Do
you see that bar of red?" (Then the
rainbow glowed a dusky rose where
the light of the setting sun struck
there the smoke of smoldering veldt
fires). THAT means it's going to be
an All Red railway; that it will run
in British territory all the way"
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
Spot Forever Sacred
to Genius of Milton

Queen Anne's mansions, London.
England, occupy the site where stood,
up till 1877, the house in which Mil
ton lived and worked from 1861 to 1900
and where he began to write para.
disc Lost"
A century later it was bought by
Jeremy Bentham, who placed on the
original front facing st. James park
tablet bearing the inscription, "Sa-
cred to Milton, Prince of Poets"
In the garden attached to the house,
which now forms part of the lawn of
the mansions, the blind bard planted
the famous willoW tree beneath whose
shade he used to sit and discuss the
ology with his faithful friend and
secretary, Andrew MARVEL, and which,
carefully tended by Bentham during
his lifetime, was still in a 1ourishing
condition so late as 1860.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
Knowing the Truth

Many feel themselves very conf
IDENTIFY on safe ground when they say !:
1t must be good for man to know
the truth. But it is clearly not good
for particular man to know some
particular truth, as irremediable
treachery in one whom he cherishes-
better that he should die without
knowing it. OF scientific truth, is it
not conceivable that some facts as to
the tendency of things affecting the
final destination of the race might be
more hurtful when they had entered
into the human consciousness than
they would have been if they had re-
NAMED purely external In their &C.
tivity Eliot.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
Constitutional Changes

The first ten amendments to the
United States Constitution were sub
mitted to the states along with two
others, which were not ratified, and
the last ratification by a state took
place on December 10, 1871. The
eleventh amendment was declared to
be ratified on January 8, 1893; twelfth,
September %, 1904; thirteenth, De-
cember IS, 1865; fourteenth, July %,
1868; fifteenth, March 80, 1870; six
teenth, February %, 1913; seven,
teenth, May 81, 1918; eighteenth, Jan
uary 20, 1919; nineteenth, August 20,
1920.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
INSURANCE GAINS
OVER THE STATE
RISKS WRITTEN OVER 1928 ARE
INCREASED S40,000,000

Premiums amounting to $17,312,-
931.62 were paid last year by citizens
of Montana for insurance protection
from 453 organizations operating in
the state, George P. Porter, state
auditor and commissioner Of insurance,
reported recently.
Risks written by fire insurance
companies on Montana property in
creased nearly $40,000,000 over the
previous year and totalled $349,386,
81. The premium paid for this pro-
lection was $5,357, 003.53. Losses were
unusually high in 1928, being II per
cent above the 24-year average, Mr..
Porter revealed. Of the premiums
received, 603 per cent, or $3,231,-
1889, were paid back to policy hold
ers for property destroyed.
Mr.. Porter reported life insurance
premiums in Montana exceeded 1927
premiums by more than 100000 and
totalled $S,495,924.32. Losses paid
policy holders amounted to $2,047,-
255.58, and $1,067,7 59.75 was returned
to policy holders as dividends. Using
the population of January l, 1923, as
estimated by the division Of publicity,
department of agriculture, co-operat-
ing with the bureau of vital statistics,
there was on December 81, 1928,
$609.32 insurance per capita or total
&c life insurance in force in the state
of 1892, 8,981.12. Payments made
for fraternal insurance amounted to
$1,316,910.2S and losses paid Montana
members during the year, $1,O13,-
591.12.
All other classes of insurance, he
disclosed, collected premiums of ST.
143,003.49 and paid policy holders
1851, 277.44.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
Finer Than a Hair

To study wind velocity and direc-
tion the United States Department of
Commerce has its own tunnel of winds
where various tests are conducted.
One of the latest is that of measuring
wind velocity by means Of an electrical
ly heated wire and five-tube amplifier.
The wire is about one-fifth of a hu-
man hair in diameter.
The experiment was designed to re-
produce the condition of flow around
airplanes which move in ripples and
waves. Cumulative methods of meas
uring the amount of these disturb
ances are now made available for the
first time.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
Robbie in Hard Luck

Five-year-old Bobbie seemed greatly
grieved by the illness of his big seven
year-old brother. No one had time
to notice Bobbie. He decided to help
with the housewOrk, but his sister
kindly informed him that he was too
young. Then he attempted to play
but was told not to get his toys out
and dirty up the house. Daddy, see
ing him seated, almost crying, in a
corner, took him on his lap.
"What's the matter, little felIowT
asked the father, sympathetically.
81 amt got nothin' to do, and no
body'll let me do it"
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
Regiment's Wooden Sword

Whenever the Tenth infantry of the
United States army appears on parade
either at its home station, Fort
Thomas, Ky, or in Cincinnati, near by,
one noncommissioned officer always
marches along carrying wooden
sword
This sword was carved from a tree
which still stands at Devils den, on
the Gettysburg battlefield, where the
forerunners of the present regiment
took part in the decisive struggle. The
sergeant who has served longest in
the regiment Is accorded the honor
of carrying the sword.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
Ancient Sanitation

Ancient Rome was far better sup
piled with water and public baths than
modern London. The ancients, like us
moderns, combated fever by draining
towns and marshes. The greatest ply
sicians of the past, among them Hip
pocrates, the "Father of Medicine,"
recognized that prevention is better
than cure. They anticipated the teach.
ings of the New Health society, and
we can learn a great deal by studying
their writings.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
Have to Begin Somewher,

Mother little school teacher comes
along, and she says in a kittyfied
way that because of is as good as
a lot of the rest of the English that
we sling in the paper. Well, suppose
it is, sister; if you are going to start
a reform and make a general clean
up you gotta begin somewhere, amt
you?-Yakima Republic.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
Languages in Mexico

The Mexican embassy advises that
of the 100000 people living in Mex
leo, 100000 speak Spanish. Fully
so per cent of those speaking Spanish
read and write it as we'll. The re-
naming 100000 speak a dialect and
in this group very few read or write
either Spanish or their dialect
Washington Star.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
Health Hint

Carbolic acid poisoning is perhaps
the commonest Of all poisonings. A
half ounce of sulphate of soda In
glass Of warm water should be given
as quickly as possible and a physi
clan called. Afterward, vomiting
should be induced
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
Keen the Mind Active

Avoid stagnation of mind as you
would the vilest plague. If you are
content with such, then you are
through. Never forget, "He who ceases
to grow greater becomes smaller; stag
nation is the beginning Of the end."-
Grit.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
ThankIess Jobs

More human energy in proportion
to results obtained is expended in
housework than in any other phase of
modern life-Farm and Fireside.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20

Americanism: Posing as highbrow,
envying the lowbrow who's able to
drive a more expensive car.-Little
Rock (Ark.) Democrat.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
First Bird Reservation

There are now 70 bird reservations
in the United States, Pelican island
Fla, which was established in 1903,
being the first.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
Honor Is Delaware's

Delaware was the first of the IS
original states to ratify the Constitu
tion, Rhode Island being the last.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
Think 1t Over

Take away from our hearts the love
of the beautiful and you take away
the charm of life.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
First American Coinage

The first United States coin was
made In 1893.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
Nugget of Wisdom

Beauty, like sorrow, dwelleth every
where.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20

Millions for Food
1t is estimated that people of the
United States spend $49,000,O00 a day
for food.
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY
 ACCOMPANIED BY EULOGIES

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12-13. lR -Lincoln's birthday was accom- panied by eulogies of the emanci- pator in Congress. but there was no appreciable slowing down of activities which will end with adjournment on March 4th Sen. Shoot of Utah, eulogized Lincoln to the Senate. Moore of Ohio, read the Gettysburgh address to the House and thereafter there was a brief tribute; then work went forward as the Senate tackl- ed the Caraway bill, preventing future dealing in grain and cot ton. The House considered the eighteen million dollar appropria- tion for the legislative branch of the government. Chairman O'Con- nor of the Shipping Committee. told the Senate Commerce Com mittee that the board had decided to sell the steamship Leviathan and ten other government vessels to New York interests, for six teen million dollars.
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16
WANT LEGISLATIVE
 SUGGESTIONS FROM BOARD

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. P-- The Senate called upon the Federal Reserve Board to suggest legisla- tion to check the increase in hrok- CTS loans which the board complain ed of last week in letters to mem bers of Federal Reserve Banks. ex- pressing the view that little good but no harm could come from this course"
 Glass. of Virginia, assailed the stock exchange as "a gambling institution in its entire structure" Hefiin introduced resolution to tive remedy. which was adopted without a dissenting vote.
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16
LINDBERGH ARRIVES AT MIAMI

MIAMI, Florida, Feb. 13, lP)- Colonel Charles Lindbergh closed another page in aviation history when he landed here, ending the round trip flight from the United States to Panama and return with the first air mail. Enroute back the Colonel decided to take a look over the Honduran coast for possi- ble landing places for future planes and caused some anxiety when the flyer arrived al Havana yesterday on the projected schedule, while the world sought news of his where abouts. Lindbergh calmy alighted on an isolated lake on the West coast of Cuba to refuel.
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16
SAYS ALASKA WAS GATEWAY OF EARLY .iSIATIC
 IMMIGRATION

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,. Feb If, R)-Edward Moffatt Weyer, an- thropologist and archaeologist for the StollMcCracken expedition, which explored the Arctic last Summer on the schooner Morres- sey, last night described his dis coveries in Alaska of prehistoric, villages which yielded hundreds of relics new to science.
 TalFing before the Yale Anthro- pology Club. be described Alaska as the probable gateway through which passed early Asiatic immi- grants and where the first scene in human history in America took place.
 For month Weyer and two companions were encamped on the site of an ancient village on the Alaska Peninsula During eleven days of this period with provisions for only four days, the group, is plated by storms. dug clans on mud flats to exist.
 On an almost inaccessible sum- init of a precipitous island in the Aleutian group, the expedition dis couvered graves containing mum mics of unknown age. and by req son of careful preparation. the bodies were in remarkable state of preservation. These graves af- forded the first comprehensive in- formation concerning this type of burial in the Aleutians before the introduction of a higher civilisa- tion.
 Later, for sx weeks. we investi- gated the Boring Straits. Part of this time was passed on Diomede Islands. where dwell the most pri- mitive Eskimos in the Arctic. talk ing moving pictures.
 Weyer told the audience: "The American continent is younger, with regards to human occupants.
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16
LINDBERGH ENGAGED
 TO MISS ANNA MORROW

MEXICO CITY. Fab. 13. (P)- U. Ambassador Morrow announc- ed the engagement Of his daughter Anna. aged 22, U Colonel Charles Lindbergh. She is now here at the The young couple. first met when Lindbergh made his nonstop flight from Washington to Mexico City year ago. Miss Morrow won the scholarship prize of Smith college, where she graduated last year.
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16
OFFICIALS RECEIVE
 THREATENING LETTERS

MEXICO CITY. Feb. i4. LPj- President Gil and Gales received threatening letters while there also were found unexrlcded bombs in the residences of prominent members of the Nationalist Revo- lutionary Party. which is pledged to preserve the policies of Obre- gon. Calles letters also threat ened the kidnapping of Gales daughter. Ernestina. who is the wife Of Thomas Robinson. a New York business man. who is now in Mexico City on business.
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16

than the Eastern hemisphare. The very first immigrants, the fore-run- ner of the American Indian, doubt less came from Asia. Thus Alas h, which lies much closer to Asia than any other part of the Ameri- can continent. was probably the gateway through which passed these early immigrants. The North western corner of North America, therefore, can be regarded as the first scene of human history in America.
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16
THURSDAY (TElEGRAPHIC,
ALLOWAY ABANDONED
 IN UNIMAk PASS

SEATTLE, Feb. 18th, R)-25 men on the freighter Meiyo Maru are fighting to save the ship from the fate of the freighter Alloway, which is 6 storm tossed derelict in Uninak Pass, manned only by 8 mad oiler who refused to aban- don the ship with his thirty-three companions.
 With her engines useless and apparently broken at number two hatch. the AIeiyo is attempting to h",d her own against a gale which Is pounding her on the rocks. The tiring fight is being watched from the steamship Nankoh Maru which did not dare to go closer for fear of being dashed against the Meiyo Maru.
 The steamship Illinois, which was rushing to her assistance was forced to take refuge over night in Uninak Pass, near where rode the Alloway with nothing but her anchors to save her and her solitary passenger from de- struction. She is branded as a menace to navigation by Captain Healy Of the freighter Montauk. who rescued her crew when he lost a daring attempt to save the ship. He refused to risk his ship and crew to save oiler Foley of Seattle. who was crazed by five days and nights of hardship in which the Alloway men fought vailianr but losing battle against the relentless storm. He drove off his companions when they at tempted to force him into life boat.
 The Alloway was taken in tow hy the Montauk after the steamer Bronncv became unable to man. age her in ninety mile wind. But as they neared the haven where the freiehter could anchor until the storm subsided, the tow line ripped in two and the steam CTS crashed into each other in Unimak Pass. The Montauk fn- ally backed away with damaged superstructure and the midship bulkhead damaged. but it was inn posEilbe to maneuver her in the pass. The anchors of the Allo- way were dropped to hold her of the rocks, as the crew took to the life boats.
 The crew were picked up by the Montauk exhausted, but safe, and the Montauk turned toward Dutch Harbor. leaving the oiler and the illoway to their fate.
The Nome nugget., 1929-02-16
GOT LINE ABOARD ALLOWAY

SEATTLE. Feb. 12, R-A radio dispatch from Dutch Harbor late today said that the Montauk got a line aboard the Alloway late today and was towing her toward Dutch Harbor, two hundred fifty miles away. The message read: Mon tauk has towline on Alloway. We may not have steam enough for radio or steering gear in few hours. Keep in touch with Montauk. She may loose us or have to let us go. Hope not. If cutter Chilan keeps coming it may not be So bad. East gale blowing. Rough seas. Baro- meter still falling"
 The Chelan. which left Seattle Saturday, will not reach the Allo way until Thursday.