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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-07-11
First Montana Territorial Judges Were
Men of Unusual Character amd Ability

were sure to %antagonize some persons,
and the combination made their lot
none too easy.
AS 1 have said previously, Judge
MunSOn left a highly remunerative
practice to come to Montana, the Con-
necticut firm with which he became
connected Immediately after leaving
the Yale Law School having the larg-
est docket in the state. On receiving
his appointment from President Lin
coin, he began to make preparations
for the journey. Going to st. Louis,
he took the steamboat there for Fort
Benton, three thousand miles up the
Missouri. Judge Munson has left us
a vivid description of this journey that
is preserved in the Montana historical
records.
The Indians in 1865 were decidedly
hostile, rendering the main western
channels of emigration, whether by
plain or river, unsafe. The officers of
the forts along the river tried to make
the captain of the boat on which Judge
Munson took passage, understand the
situation, but he was not to be deferred
in his purpose to reach the head Of
navigation.
On passing Fort Rice, Judge Mum
son learned it was completely sur
rounded by the Sioux; even pickets
could not go outside its stockades. The
pilot house was inclosed in sheet iron
with loopholes provided for observa-
ton. When the boat tied up at night,
a guard was placed to prevent sur
prise. Buffalo then were plentiful. the
boat being hindered in it's progress by
the great numbers crossing the river.
AT Wolf Point, the wood choppers m
ployed by the boat owners to provide
wood, eked out their wages by trap
ping. When the boat arrived at this
landing there were u wolf ~carcasses
awaiting skinning, all killed in one night.
At Cow Island the boat could go no
further. An Indian agent, Major Up
son., who was aboard, dispatched an
Indian runner to apprise those at FIT.
Benton Of the boats p~redicament. The
runner made the hundred miles and
return in two days, and was o 0 fol-
loved by wagons to transport the pas
Sengers to Fort Benton, where they
arrived safely. BY wagons those Of
the passengers whose destination it was,
we're carried to Helena, where Judge
Munson received his initiation into life
in a mining camp.
Judge MunSOn at NICE entered upon
his duties by calling a conference Of
Judges, to whom he represented the
adyisability of regular criminal trials
instead Of through action OF the vigil
ance committee. The grand jury in
one district was of an opposite opinion.
II said 1T Is better to leave the pun
ishment Of criminal offenders to the
Vigilantes, who always act impartially,
and who would not permit the escape
Of proved criminals on technical or
absurd grounds"
Although Judge Munson had a hard
fight to make, he won out, and before
leaving Helena was presented by her
citizens with a watch and chain as
an expression Of the esteem In which
they held him. He served for four
years In Montana. then returned to
New Haven, where he died at the ad-
vanced age OF 86 years.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-07-11
Radio Company
Seeks PROMISING
Vocal Talent

One of the distinct differences be-
tween the methods of combing the
country for baseball players and for
singers, as the National Radio Audi
ton Of the Atwater-Kent Founda-
ton combs it, lies in the fact hat
every locality in every state will have
a hunter for a singer-as every To-
cality in Montana now has a local
chairman appointed by the Atwater-
Kent Foundation for the purpose.
In baseball the scouts go out from
the big leagues or the minor leagues TO
find players, on notification from some
interested or authoritative sports ex-
perts. In music the National Radio
Addition workers are residents OF the
various localities and get to work in
those localities as they are working
now throughout Montana.
In Montana the local chairman in
clude such we'll known music lovers as:
Mrs. O. F.. Wadsworth, Great Falls;
Miss Phyllis Wolfe, Butte; Mrs. Rosa
monde Scott Glow, Lewistown; Mrs.
Nels Anderson, Forsyth; Mrs. F. F.
Bossuot, President, Montana Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs, Havre; Mrs.
Donald Murray, Miles City; Ralph
Rauh, President, Montana State Music
Teachers association, Billings, Mrs. l..
F. Bruggeman, Baker; Mrs. P. j. Moe,
Glendive; Mrs. Will Whalen, Helena,
Mrs. S. r. Mccarthy, Livingston; Mrs.
Warren Trask, Deer Lodge, and Profess
sor De Loss Smith, dean OF music, Mon
tana State university, Mlssoula.
These local chairmen were appointed
through nominations by Mrs. w. w.
Andrus, state addition chairman. and
Carl j. Trauerman, business manager
and are all at work now preparing
for the local additions for which any
non-professional singer between the
ages of IS and 25 is eligible. Two sing
ers are to be selected by each local
addition to compete through elimina-
ton contests in five district additions
held throughout the country in No
vember. These five competitions will
select two candidates for national hon.
ors. All of the national finalists will
participate in the division of S25 900
in cash and ten scholarships.
Every locality in the state may have
a local chairman and an addition, it
is announced; all that is neces-
sary is to communicate with Mrs.
Andrus at Miles City and she will au-
thorize the addition. The Atwater
Kent Foundation wants every locality
in the country to hold local additions,
Mrs. Andrus states in her announce
ment of the personnel of her local as
sistants. The purpose of the National
Radio Addition is to find, and to en-
large the opportunities of. ambitious
young men and young ONE who wish
to make music their career, the state
chairman adds, and every non-profes-
sional singer within the age limit is
eligible to compete in the local con-
tests.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-07-11

The copper-bearing lodes are not
closely associated with any exposed
bodies of igneous rock, though they
are of the type formed by ascending
solutions. A rather striking fact is
their distribution along a line that
also marks the boundary between two
formations-the Spokane shale and the
Greyson shale. The vein fractures are
%obliquely transverse to the prevailing
lines of the mountain structure. They
may be simply secondary breaks due
to a movement of the great mass COM
posing the mountain front. Their To-
cation is probably governed by the fact
that the Greyson shale is in general
a stronger rock mass than the Spokane
and hence acted as a buffer against
which the weaker beds were torn.
Doubtless these lodes contain I'M
discovered ore bodies similar to those
of the Argo. The costs reported by
the operators Of the mines in the
region, however, indicate that such
bodies could not be profitably worked
when the price of copper is less than
about 30 cents a pound.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-07-11
Ready For Work

Two old darkies, a man and his wife,
went to New York to look for a job.
They had lived on a southern planta-
ton all their lives, and the city and
its ways were strange to them. Some
n told them that the best thing to
do vas to go to an employment agency,
They stood before the desk in the
office, and gave their names and adj
dresses. The old man was asked what
kind Of work he was accustomed to.
We'll, subj" he said, "mos'ly I looks
fob Massa's Specs"
The employment agent stared at
him, and then turned to the old woman,
What car you do?"
"Moss'ly l Shoes de flies off Missus.'
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-07-11

meet the active opposition of Secre-
tary Meagher, then acting governor in
the absence of my father, Governor
Sidney Edgerton.
So far as Secretary Meagher's part
in this strife is concerned, it should
be remembered he had not long beer
a citizen Of the United States, and
therefore might not have been fully
informed regarding u laws and GUS
toms. However that may be, his open
enmity did not tend to make easier
the tasks of Our judges, who never be-
fore had been 20 hampered by the
civil authorities. In his native land
then under the hated domination Of
England, General Meagher had beer
in active rebellion against the govern
ment, and this attitude of mind may
have become a habit with him not tc
be changed upon his arrival here.
Before the arrival of the fedora.
judges, law, or, more accurately speak
ing, justice, was administered by min
er's courts, and by the vigilance COM
mittee. The former we're democratic
ally conducted, with almost no form
or ceremony, and the latter's verdicts
were rendered in secret, with the SEN
tence carried out expeditiously. Theft
was theft, and the killing Of a mar
murder unless it could be proven done
in self defense, and even in this latter
case the accused might be an unde-
sirable citizen, when his sentence was
Punishment. AS for the others, they
were promptly sent to eternity by the
necktie route.
All this procedure was new to the
incoming judges, as the judges were
new to our people. Naturally the
change to the legal court customs OF
a civilized society would be abrupt
and not satisfactory to everyone. TIC
the criminal element they offered a
respite, the objections made being by
the less informed Of the better ele-
ment.
From this it will be seen that aside
from the question OF politics, the Judges
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-07-11
BY M. e.

MONTANA was fortunate in having
for its first territorial judges men
~ Of unusual ability and unimpeach-
able character. Chief Justice Hosmer,
before coming here, had won a reputa-
ton as a writer, his novel, 1.-THE Octo-
room" having been a best seller in
the North, if such a term had then
been current. He was also an editor,
and a lawyer Of acknowledged reputa-
ton. I knew him we'll, as he spent
several days with us in Bannack. He
was a matches story-teller.
OF Judge Williston l had less person.
al knowledge, and none at all Of Judge
Munson, who was assigned to the Hell
n district, a town l never visited I'M
til 1873. Helena in 1864 was but a
mining camp and in it's formative
period, Virginia City being u me-
tropolis. What I know of Judge Lyman
E. Munson, is gained from the account
he contributed to the Montana his
torical records of his journey to Mon
tana in 1865, his experiences while
here, his charge to the jury in these
same records, and what l learned Of
him from lawyers, and others, who
were acquainted with him.
His appointment by President Lin
coin as associate justice of Montana,
was undoubtedly due to family in
f1uence primarily, his mother having
been a cousin of Edwin M. Stanton,
secretary of war under Lincoln.
He was q man of mature years when
appointed, and Of recognized standing
in the legal profession. He was born
in 1922 in Great Darlington, Mass,
thus being over forty years Of age at
the time Of his appointment. While
not a college graduate, he received his
where he attained standing sufficient
one of it's professors, the Hon. Henry
Dutton, who was later both governor
and Judge of the Supreme Court Of
Connecticut.
Whatever induced such a man to
apply for a position in the wilds of
the West, it is hard to say, but we
infer from the fact that he was forced
by i'll health to renounce the hope of
going to college, that it was poor health
which brought him to Montana. Let
it be borne constantly in mind by the
reader, that while the east offered
brilliant opportunities for lawyers of
Judge Munson'S caliber, here in the
early sixties, they were about as hope
full as they would be today in Central
Africa. Yet here three men of note
chose to accept judgeships with al
most no expectation of gaining envi-
able regulations in their profession,
and certainly no wealth.
Nor was this the worst. All APP
pointees here Of President Lincoln may
be said to have entered an enemy's
country when they crossed the line into
Montana, as most of its citizens were
in sympathy with the South, then at
war with the United States govern
ment. Under such circumstances the
first territorial officials were certain not
to find their assigned duties easy to
fulfill. This both Judge Hosmer and
Judge Munson 0 discovered, but
neither OF them ever showed any signs
of weakening. although they were to
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-07-11
REPORT OF LAND
OFFICE IS MADE
SHOWING LARGE BODY OF GOV,
EMINENT LAND IN GREAT
FALLS DISTRICT
67,7270 Acres Yet Unsurveyed In Total
of 3,762,379 Acres Unappropriated;
Many Final Claims Still Incomplete.

Surveyed and unappropriated lands
in the Great Falls land Office dis
trict at the end of the fiscal year,
June 30, 1929, totaled 3,694,659 acres,
according to the report Of the regis
ter, M. D. Nicholson. Unsurveyed
lands still open to entry in this dis
trict comprise 67,720 acres, making
the grand total Of surveyed and IN
surveyed Incorporated lands $780,
379 acres.
The report also shows that at the
close of the year there were 1908 un-
perfected entries or claims on which
final proof had not been completed
.aggregating 1882, ITO acres.
Total acreage of unappropriated lands
in Cascade and adjoining counties
which are still open to homestead en-
try are as follows: Cascade, 1861
acres; Chouteau, 100000 acres; Teton
rs, 1852 acres; Judith Basin, 4,544 acres,
Fergus, zoos acres; Pondera, 22,68s
acres; Meagher, 1882 acres; Toole
SO ,841 acres. Most of the territory en-
bodied in Fergus county lies in the
Billings land Office district and this
accounts for the small acreage shown
on Mr.. Nicholson's report.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-07-11
To Open AIl-Women Hospital

Designed by a woman, run entirely
by ONE and named for a woman.
the Marie Curie Cancer Hospital for
Women, in London, will be p%atronized
exclusively by m 1t is to be q
radium clinic, and Nine. Curie, Colds
coverer with her husband OF radium,
has been asked to officially open it
next fall. The designs for the building
were made by Miss Elizabeth Scott,
the architect who designed the Shake
speare memorial theater at Stratford-
on-Avon.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-07-11

of 200 feet or more a small put possibly
profitable amount of gold. In places
the diorite stock at the head OF Mon
tana gulch shows a similar alteration.
A diamond-drill core 800 feet long OF
this altered rock is said to have assayed
from 81 so to 81 go a ton in gold. The
exposures of both these bodies are IA
vorable TO cheap mining.
Practically all the millions Of dol
lars worth of placer gold found in this
region came from small veins asso-
ciated with the diorite stocks at Con-
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-07-11

shoots of workable size. On1y one Of
the eopper-bearing lodes. the Argo, in
helsate gulch, has produced more than
small amounts of ore or is developed
extensively. This lode has been
worked at times between 1902 and 1917,
and Inc development workings, which
aggregate several thousand feet in
length. explore the lode TO a depth of
. feet. 1t has produced a total of
about 1000, 600 pounds of copper, the
me- smelter returns being a little more
than $500, 900.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-07-11
Gold Found in Sand Pit

Stones recently taken from q sand
gravel pit near Saltry, Ireland, are
believed to be pure gold. Tests made
by local chemists have supported the
opinion and samples have been sent
away to be analysed. Offers from
large firms to mine the precious metal
already have been received by tho
owner Of the pit.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-07-11

Suffering from a painful eye trouble
a cat recently walked into q London
hospital and hunted out the emergency
officer. who ordered treatment that
cured the animal.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-07-11
So There,

Foreigners in Italy whose patriotism
moves them to display their national
flags outside private houses or apart
ment windows, must also show the
Italian tri-color by the terms of a bill
sponsored IN the chamber Of deputies
by Mussolini himself.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-07-11
No Sale Here

Office Boy: There's a salesman out
side with q mustache.
Boss: Tell him I've got a mustache.
Judge.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-07-11
Solved

Solved
Young Miss: And next week I'm
sailing for Paris to get my clothes
Grandmother: Eyes. yes. I Won
dered where you'd left them."-Schnec-
tady Un~ion-Star.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-07-11

Fear of Poisonous Reptiles Largely
Eliminated BY Medicine for, Vaca-
tionists; Retains Power for Five
Years and Is inexpensive.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-07-11
100000 Spider Webs

700, 600 Spider Webs
Nearly roc, 900 spiders would be re-
CURED to produce a pound of web, say
European scientists who have expert
mented with the substance as a sub
stitute for silk.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-07-11

The area contains two groups of
lodes, one of which is valuable for gold
and the other for copper. Most of the
known gold-bearing lodes are found in
the vicinity of York and in two small
areas in the Confederate Gulch dis
trict. The York area includes the
Golden Messenger. Old Amber, and
several other mines. In addition there
are several prospects farther east, in
Guiding the Lee Mountain and the A.
j. White, Jr, on the ridge east Of
Hellgate creek. The area is a rather
narrow belt about is miles long, in the
middle of which are the quartz diorite
bodies referred to as the York group
of dikes. One Of the Confederate Gulch
areas is on the ridge north of that
gulch at Boulder creek and is known
as Norris Hill; the other Is on the d.
vide at the heads Of Montana, Cement,
Benton, and Johnny gulches. Each
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-19
FARM c. OF c. OPENS.
D. c. HEADQUARTERS.
National Organization to Pro-
mote Agriculture Moves
Offices to Capital.

The American Chamber of Agricul-
ture, which has been in course Of Or
ganiz2tion for the past year, was
launched as a national organization at
the agricultural congress of landlord
farmers and business executors Of the
Southern, Southeastern and Southwest
ern States, held at Atlanta, Ga, last
January.
Temporary national organization
headquarters until today were located
in Atlanta, when the national organi-
Zation departments, including executive
and editorial, were transferred to WASH
ington and are being established In the
National Press Building, Atlanta re-
naming headquarters for the South
eastern zone.
The American Chamber Of Agricul-
ture is the first chamber Of agriculture
ever established. The chamber will op-
crate along lines similar to the usageS
Of chambers of commerce, devoting its
major activities to agricultural, farm
ing and farm life affairs. Briefly, the
objects, aims and purposes OF the cham
Der are:
Each State will have its own unit, or
State chamber, and have representation
on the national board of directors. The
seven regional zones are so located geo.
graphically as to expedite chamber work
in all States.
A canvass is being completed Of men
eligible to membership upon the ma
tional advisory council of the chamber,
which will embrace representation from
each of the regional zones.
A conference OF officers Of the cham
Der will be held in Washington early
this Summer.
Among the officers elected at the
launching Of the chamber are Gov.
Hartman Of Georgia, vice president; s.
Odenheimer Of louisiana, planter, vice
president; Gov. Byrd Of Virginia,
vice president; william G. Chase,
executive vice president; Senator Smith
OF Georgia, general counsel, and G. G.
Calhoun of Washington, associate gen.
eral counsel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-19

Efforts have been made to simplify
the Chinese language SO that ideas may
be expressed with the use of reduced
number Of characters, but 1t is yet far
from simple. A Shanghai firm has been
three years making a set Of type and
the job is only about half done. The
same character must be made in five
different sizes and each of the charac-
tiers must be photographed upon ths
type base and cut by hand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-19
NEBRASKA WIFE TRADERS
SENTENCED TO 10 MONTHS
Plea That Mates Would Become
Destitute If Deprived Of
Support Fails.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LINCOLN, Nebr., April 19.-The
Bennett, Nebr., wife traders-Otto Slade
and Horace Reed-have been sentenced
to 10 months in Jail, despite the plea
that their wives faced restitution If
deprived of their husbands support.
Judge Broadly, in passing sentence
late yesterday, cut two months from
the maximum penalty Of years i'm
prisonment, because of the fact the
men had pleaded guilty to statutory
charges.
The men, who have been reconciled
with their wives, told Judge Broadly
that their families are In want. Mrs
Slade recently appealed to the county
commissioners for charity, and was re-
fused. The women now are at their
respective homes as wards Of juvenile
officers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-19
.BYRD'S EXPEDITION
HAILED AS SUCCESS
Lieut.. Adams Says Results to Date
Justify Scientific
Venture.
sy .tha Associated press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April l9-Comdr. Rich
ard E. Byrd's 82-man expedition al
ready has accomplished enough scien-
tifically To justify itself, Lieut.. Harry
Adams, the first member OF the explor-
ing party to return to New York, said
last night.
Adams, third mate of the Eleanor
Boiling. who arrived here tonight from
the Pacific Coast, said Comdr. Byrd
and his crew now are dug In for the
long Antarctic night. AS soon as it is
light again, he added, they will 20
ahead laying bases toward the South
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-19
HELEN NOR GAN, VICTOR IN SUIT, ]
IS THROUGH WITH. NIGHT CLUBS
Entertainer, Acquitted in Nuisance Case,
Weeps as jury Returns It's
Verdict.

posture, but began to weep softly, and
finally broke down and cried without
restraint.
Her acquittal was the second defeat
suffered by the Government in two
weeks in cases against Broadway night
club hostesses. Last week Texas Guinan
was found not guilty Of maintaining q
nuisance at the Salon Royale.
Miss Morgan did not testify. The
only defense witness was her manager,
Myron s. Nentham, who said she was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-19

only an employe Of the club and had
q contract calling for $1,25o a week.
]. Arthur Adler, defense attorney, In
arguing to the jury, assailed the large
sums spent by prohibition agents at the
club and asserted they had been out
to get some one OF prominence whose
name would appear on the front page"
Texas Guinan yesterday was denied
an Injunction to restrain police from
enforcing the 3 am. curfew law on
the Club Intime. She maintained that
the club. as part Of the Hotel Hard
ing, was exempt from the regulation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-19

Pole, 600 miles away, at 10O-nile IN
tervals. Two bases already have been
completed.
Forty-two men are remaining at the
Antarctic base, Adams said; others are
In New Zealand with the ships, and 10
nave taken leave of absence to come
to America for the Winter. Most Of
them win return with him In Decem-
Der, Lieut.. Adams stated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-19
Fashions that
Serve at ennis


Serve at | ennis
Tennis costumes should be Of classic
simplicity in line. and white although
color smartly dots the courts. Circular
fullness or pleated skirts are a matter
Of personal preference-and line with
a swing at the back is excellent for the
game. Shorts and polo shirts are ex-
ceedingly new-and low-backed frocks
are liked by women who wish to sun
burn.
Shorts. of linen, with Upper and narrow
belt. $3.50.
Imported Polo Shirts. of wool. $l0.75.
Antibe Shirts. of Isle. S..
Crepe de Chine Low-backed Frocks,
with bows, $3.50.
Pique bow frocks. $3.50. ~
Wool Turnover Socks. $1.75.
Lightweight Tennis Oxfords, $1.75.
SPORTSMAN, THIRD FLOOR.
WoMEN'S HOSIERY, AISLE No. II, FIRST FLOOR
WoMEN's SHOES THIRD FLOOR.