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of someone coming up behind them and
hastily concealed themselves as several
Indians rode by On some OF the cap
tured animals. Reed was about to FIRE
at them, but Brewer persuaded HIM
not to do so. The next day they went
on to Fort Custer and reported the
killing of Roper. A force was sent out
and brought in his mutilated body n
also recovered his papers.
Burnstein's horses were not recov-
cred and he was left stranded. Finally
officers at the Fort gave him $50 and
he joined a family who were going -
Bozeman. Years after, a letter came
from Helena to Mrs. Schock setting
forth that Burnstein was making claim
for pay for his outfit from the gov
eminent under the provisions of a law
regarding damages from Indian raids
and asking that she sign certain afh-
davits in regard to the loss of the
horses. Whether Burnstein ever real
lied on his claim, Mrs. Schock never
learned.
Shortly after the episode on Wolf
creek, the Reeds went to Coulson with
the hope that Mr.. Reed would nno
work at the saWmill which P. w. Nc
AdoW had established there. He was
unsuccessful, however, and they finally
went to Saltwater, near the present
Columbus, where they remained during
the winter, helping Dutch Pete" and
Dutch Bill" otherwise, Peter Bronson
and William Clauson, who ran a sta
tiOn and store there.
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who is still living in Billings, has a
wide fund of information about days
on the frontier and can tell many en-
tertaining anecdotes of the men and
women Of those stirring times.
Mrs. Schock's male relatives on both
sides OF the house were English and
Scotch seafaring men. Her grand
father was lost at sea while in the
African trade. Her father ran away
to follow the sea when 10 years old.
While serving on a man-of-War, he was
badly crippled by the breaking of a
mast. He came home to Liverpool
and the family were in Strengthened
circumstances until a shoemaker taught
him his trade. The shoemaker was a
Mormon and after a few months his
pupil was won over to the Latter Day
Saints, too.
Emigrate to Utah
MY father had always been a hard
drinking man but after that, he never
touched liquor or tobacco again." Mrs.
Schock says. MY mother told the
neighbors who criticized that a religion
that would make a man give up such
habits must be a good one" When
she IA 16 years old, the family with
w IVAN AoAiOc Va ~ tlllo COu1l-
try and settled in Utah. The immi-
grants arrived in Salt Lake City in
September, 1869. A brother of her
father had arrived in Utah a few years
before and had settled in a fruit val
ley near Salt Lake City, where he had
a farm with an abundance Of peaches
and other fruits. The young English
girl and her sister worked for a year
or so in the home of a bishop of the
church and then came her marriage
to Mr.. Reed.
For several years after their mar
riage, Mr.. Reed worked on stage lines
out OF Salt Lake City until the building
of railways curtailed this work. Then
he had charge of the stock for the
Northwest stage line at Summit which
was near the Utah and Idaho line.
In April, 1877, with Thomas Nichol-
son and William Ferguson and their
families, they started out on the long
trek to the Black Hills, where gold had
just been discovered. They went by
way of Ogden and the Green river
where they found the water SO high
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that the ferry boat had been swept
away. After waiting for some time,
they crossed the river with their
wagons, although the stream was still
fairly high. On their way, they passed
several places where Indians had
camped less than a week before and
one abandoned camp where there were
a number of sweat houses. They also
passed where a stage barn had been
burned and a broken stage abandoned.
Dull in Deadwood
At Deadwood, they found times were
dull and miners were selling their hold
i1gs at half what they were worth.
They went on to Centennial Prairie
three miles away where 80 emigrant
families were camped. Reed and his
partners had brought along some farm
tools with their wagon outfits. They
found a chance to make ONE money
cutting hay in a meadow about a mile
away. One moved the hay, another
raked it. while the third hauled it to
DeadwoOd where it brought 500 a ton.
While they were at Centennial
Prairie, there were reports Of a family
Of five, women and children, who had
been killed by the Indians and there
was much excitement for a time. Final
ly, after the excitement had died down,
the emigrant part decided to move to-
gether to the west. Some were lured
by talk of gold in the Big Horn moun-
tains. A man named Wustum had
told how it was possible to raise big
crops without irrigation in the yell
loWstone valley and the Reeds and 10
or IL other families decided to go
there. The Fergusons did not go on
with the party.
A man named Burnham who had
had considerable experience on the
plains was chosen captain. He showed
the others how to make a corral of the
wagons with the tongues all in the
inside and to dig rifle pits for protec-
ton at the different encampments. he
divided the men into four companies,
A, B, G and D, and each night rs men
were put out as scouts.
Attacked BY Indians
On the third day out while camped
on the Redwater, about 3 o'clock in
the morning, they heard some n yell,
Friend or foe" Then shooting began
along the bluff and Don five cowboys
came riding in, drawing the fire of sur
rounding Indians who were planning
on attacking the camp. There vas a
large rifle pit near the wagon of the
Reeds. Mrs. Reed, wrapping a blanket
about her, scrambled into the pit which
was soon crowded with the Women and
children Of Is families.
About 10 o'clock the next morning,
the Indians began WhoOping and yell
ing as they tried to stampede a bunch
Of cattle and drive them down among
the horses which had been placed
along a bank below the pits. Captain
Burnham urged them not to get excited
and the men turned in to repel the at
tack. Some of the shots came close
and one Dutchman with a magazine
gun, when he had several narrow
escapes from bullets, exclaimed: THAT
Indian has got just as pod a gun as
l have and he is looking right at me-"
Finally the Indians drew off and
crossed the river. They were seen to
be carrying one of their men who from
the blood tracks had been badly wound
ed. A horse was also found which had
been shot in the head. Mrs. Nichol-
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The name California is
important. No imitator
can put that on his prod
uct.
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NOT STICK LEFT
OF GHOST TOWN
ROBAR, NEAR GLACIER NATION
AL PARK LONG SINCE
PASSED ON
Once Popular Town Was Located
Where Roosevelt Trail and Custer
Battlefield Highway Unite on Way
to Glacier National Park.

Mike Shannon, veteran Glacier
park guide, has brought to life a
Montana ghost town, which he says
was long since forgotten.
"~Forty-six years ago Robar, located
near Glacier park where the Great
Falls Glacier park highway crosses
Birch creek, he says, was a flourish
ing western town. Today there is not
one stick Of timber or a habitation In
sight as far as the eye can see over
wind : swept plains as evidence that
there ever was a town.
THE businesses at Robar were SELL
ing whisky and gambling. Blackfeet
Indians from the reservation. Bloods
from their Canadian reservation n
wandering Crees bought food n
blankets and celebrated. AS many as
200 Indian tepees at a time used to be
pitched in a big circle on the flats east
Of the town.
The cheapest whisky wa used Tor
this trade and saloon keepers added
q generous amount of water to each
bottle as 1t was drawn from the barrel.
Indians would form q big ring on
the ground within the tepee circle and
a quart bottle would be started around,
each Indian taking a drink. At a big
gathering 1t would take several quarts
70 make the round once. When the
'1lre water had begun to produce the
usual results. the dance and songs
would start around the bonfire.
Members Of the. tribes would tell
tales OF the great deeds they had done.
STORES led to Dragging, Dragging to
rlghts, and these would gradually IN
voive entire families. Before morning
saloon keepers would lock up supplies,
Darr1cade buildings and refuse further
trade.
10 the north, in Canada, where
local option was practiced, there was
q Dig demand for whisky, but the
Blackfeet Indian reservation had to
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DECAMP RESTORES
RUSSELL PAINTING
DAMAGED BY WATER, SMOKE AND
HEAT IN HELENA HOTEL
FIRE
Finding of the Trail, One of Best
of Paintings by Late Cowboy Artist,
Despite Fire Damage is Now Fully
Restored.

Through ability of Ralph DeCamp,
one of Montana's artists, the paint
ing, Finding the Trail" the work of
the late Charles M. Russell, cowboy
artist, las been completely restored,
following the Harvey hotel fire in
Helena last July, when it seemed -
be completely ruined by smoke and
water and the blaze, which raised
blisters on it in several places, par
ticularly along the upper edge.
The owner, Harvey Fister, who had
a number of works Of art displayed
in the lobby of the hotel when the fire
broke out, saved several of the pic
lures, but among the lot which were
believed to be damaged beyond repair
was the Russell painting, regarded by
many persons as the most valuable in
the collection.
Finding the Trail" which is an Old
painting "a by AZ inches. in size, typical
Of the work of Russell, shows a party
OF SquaWS and papOOseS afOOt n on
horseback, following the trail of the
hunting party engaged in killing buff
faloes. In the old days, women and
children followed the hunters, skim
ming buffaloes and cutting up the meat.
When they finished at the scene of a
killing, they passed over the prairie
and foothills to the locality where the
hunters had again overtaken the herd
and continued the slaughter.
The painting shows women and chill
dren picking up the trail which has
been designated by. the hunters, who
have hung a piece of red cloth on q
bush as a means of guiding. Tho
Montana landscape, Indians, ponies
and the inevitable wolflike dogs are
portrayed with the fidelity and color
which characterized all of Russelps
work.
When the fire damaged the paintings
in the Harvey hotel last July, Find
ing the Trail was regarded as stained
by water and smoke and heat beyond
restoration. Mr.. Fister went to Victor
KOhler, who, after an examination,
said he believed, except for an inch Of
the canvas next to the upper frame,
the stain could be removed.
Completely Restored
He did an excellent job and then
consulted Ralph DeCamp. MIR. De-
Camp, who was a lifelong friend Of
Russell and at the time of the latter's
death had planned with him to share
in the painting of a picture, Russell
to put in Indians and horses against
a landscape by the Helena artist, was
skeptical whether the picture could be
restored, but he undertook the task.
The result is hat Finding the Trail
now appears in all its former beauty.
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be crossed to reach Canada. II 8
smuggler was caught, he lost his load
and he went to the penitentiary.
"Robar was the center of an i'm
mense cattle country. A number Of
big cattle outfits were on the Black
feet reservation and others ranged to
the east. On occasions when wagon
trains camped in the vicinity, there
would be hilarious nights. with hun
dreds of dollars on gambling tables.
There were organized gangs Of horse
and cattle thieves, with headquarters
at Robar. Teton county, which in
those days comprised seven Of the pres
ent counties, Toole, Pondera, Teton,
Hill, Liberty, Cascade, and Glacier, had
q sheriff and a few deputies at Fort
Benton, which was then the county
seat. There were a few justices of the
peace at some of the other widely scat
tered towns, Depuyer, Choteau, Havre
and the like, but with such a great
territory to cover, law enforcement was
feeble.
I'm 1884 there came drifting into
Robar a party of three men with a
string of mules they had stolen IN
Canada. Description Of the mules had
preceded them to a few OF the regu-
lar inhabitants of Robar, ~bartenders,
gamblers, and cattle thieves, many OF
whom have since become industrious
and respected citizens. They organized
a committee, representing themselves
as vigilantes, but n Of the mule
thieves overheard part Of the onver-
sation and told his comrades, who, be-
ing well armed, strongly barricaded the
log cabin in which they were spending
the night.
when the pseudo v~igilantes sur
rounded the shack they found them
selves unable to storm the barricade
and get the men SO they entered into
negotiations instead, promising the
three men a trial at Fort Benton. The
men gave themselves up at once but
instead of keeping their promise, the
vigilantes took the three prisoners to
a spot half a mile I'D the creek from
the present road crossing and hanged
them to a cottonwood tree, not for the
sake of law but to procure the mules
and sell them to their oWn profit. This
false committee was arrested and taken
to Fort Benton for trial, but because
lack of evidence the case was dis
missed.
Three unmarked graves in willows
at the edge of Birch creek are the
only evidence at the spot of this hap
and the cottonwood tree has
long since been cut down." !
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son was wounded in the foot by q pull
let while sitting at the door OF ner
wagon.
Shortly afterwards some men WIN
two wheel carts came in and told OF
finding some hunters cabins that a
been broken into, and hides and bunalo
robes destroyed and the food In the
cabins taken. These men were gong
to Deadwood and some men OF the
party with two wagons decided to go
with them. Just as soon, however, as
they got on the fiat a mile or so away
from the camp, the Indians rode down
and attacked them. The men at the
camp could see the Indians Us they
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hat he was wearing. He got to a
with portfolios where he stood
OF several Indians. Some of the men
from the camp discovered him later.
a little distance away, they found a
dead Indian in the front. Don't be
Of that man, he is a good Indi-
an, he told them.
In some way. the report got to Dead
that the camp was surrounded by
Indians. The next afternoon, rs men
over the hills from the right.
Through field glasses, it could be seen
That they were whites with saddled
horses, and cheers went UP as they
came in. That night, travelling by
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moonlight. the emigrants went three
miles to the little town of Spearfish
and from there they travelled IN to
Belle Fourche. A number of the Dead
wood rescuers continued with them.
Among them was DR.. w. A. Allen, vet
eran Billings dentist, who was made
second in Command to Burnham.
While near Belle Fourche, three men
were out cutting hay. One of them,
a heavy-set man, went up to a hill
with field glasses. A band of Indians
came up behind him and shot him in
the back of the head. The other two
became separated as the Indians were
robbing their wagons. One of them,
a boy of 16, hid in a %haystack. The
other, after vainly trying to find his
companion, made his way back to the
emigrant camp. A party went out and
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W lille carrying
mail b e t W e e n
Coulson and Gus
ter, Mr.. Reed mar
rowly e S c a p e d
drowning in a
creek freshet and
died a month or
SO later from the
effects of expos
ure.
His young wild
ow, after support
ing herself for
more than a year
at old COulSOn,
was married to
John Schock who
a t h e ferry
there Mrs School
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''7ow
he's ALWAYS
hungry"
says WESTERN mother!

LLOYD is absolutely the pic
II ture of health again." says
Mrs. P. Koless, 446 West 91st Place,
Los Angeles. "A few weeks ago we
had to force him to eat: now he's
always hungry.
Il knew what to do when he be-
came bilious, half-sick and l~istless,
because we've always known about
California Fig Syrup. Lloyd's coated
tongue and bad breath cleared up
with the first few spoonfuls; and
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IN THE spring Of 1877, James H. Reed
and his wife went with a small party
: across the plains from southern Ida
no to the Black Hills, where, finding
conditions not to their liking, they
joined a company going to the yell
lowstone valley which they reached
early in the fall after several skirmishes
with Indians. About two years later.
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knelt down, holding their horses by a
line over their arm as they shot.
-Four Bodies Found

TUT l1OUIcS COULU
One young fellow came back toward
the camp on the run with three Indi-
ans behind him. Eight or ten men rode
out to help him. He had dropped his
gun in his fight. The Indians, think
ing they had him, spread out to get the
ponies of the party but when they saw
the men coming from the camp they
left and the youth escaped. The men
discovered the bodies of four men,
scalped and literally shot to pieces and
several dead horses. The sides of the
wagon boxes were riddled with holes.
Another man, who was a reporter,
got out Of the range of the guns, al
though one bullet went through the
crown and another the brim of the
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in just a few days his stomach and
bowels were acting perfectly. He's
gaining right along now"
California Fig Syrup has the full
endorsement of the medical world.
A pure vegetable product, loved by
children. A gentle, but thorough
cleanser OF a youngsters system and
agentle energizer for sluggish bowels.
A stimulator for tagging appetites
and digestion; a help in building
sturdy limbs and robust bodies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-13
.LUDENDORFF SEES
HUGE WAR IN 1882
German AnnihiIation Predict
ed Within Few Weeks After
First Attacks on May I.


BERLIN, November 13.-Another
great European war in 1882, resulting
In the humiliation Of Germany, is pre-
dicted by Gen Erich Ludendorff In a
pamphlet published yesterday
In the 93-page pamphlet, the one
time World War military giant ex-
presses the belief that the war, begin
ning May /, 1892, will find Germany,
Austria, Hungary, England and Soviet
Russia opposed by France, Poland,
Czechoslovakia and Rllmania.
He visualizes Germany as the battle
ground Of the nations, with her cities
RACED by air attacks, her civilian popu-
lation left TO its fate. and the nations
youth perishing in masses on the battle
fronts.
Although he believes the war will last
only few weeks. he imagines Berlin
held in vise-like grip by the enemy
forces, who mercilessly drive the fugi-
tives back into the citys confines to die
of starvation.
He sees German culture as receiving
Thirty Years War surpassed.
pamphlet, recalls that Adolf Hitler, at
the time of his ahortive putsch in Mo-
vember, 1923, selected Ludendorf as his
minister of war with the object of or
Ranizing a war Of revenge"
The Socialist organ thinks Luden-
dorffs predictions must be very unwel-
come to the Fascists. II the next war is
to be one such as he predicts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-13

600 damage suit against the National
Better Business Bureau. Motion Picture
Producers and Distributors of America,
VIII Hays and others.
The suit sought 1895, 900 actual and
$1,000 900 punitive damages for alleged
criticism of the Aim "InRagi" Samuel
l.. London, attorney for the film COM
pany, said settlement had been made
out of court In which there was no
monetary consideration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-13
Eloquent Actor
Turns Out to Be
Bryan's Grandson
John Bryan, Playing Role
in Shakespearean Drama,
Is Descendant of Orator.
RY the AssocIated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 13.-The elo-
quence Of the gallant young Lorenzo
who woos Jessica, daughter of Shylock,
In the Merchant of Venice" at the
Civic Theater, has been noted by the
patrons of Shakespearean drama They
have glanced at their prog ans, have
discovered that the actors Aame was
John Bryan and then have forgotten.
How he came by his eloquence was
none of their concern, but the secret
of IL, perhaps, was learned Tuesday
by them as well as by members of the
Shakespeare company when 1t was re-
vealed for the first time that John
Bryan" is a grandson Of the late Will
liam Jennings Bryan.
Preferring to make good without using
hts family connections, John Bryan
found his own name suitable for a
stage name also. His identity might
have remained undisclosed but for a
visit to him by his mother, Congress-
woman Ruth Bryan owen of Florida
The Lorenzo is her son by former
marriage. He was born John Bryan
Leavitt, but was adopted by the organs
and called John Bryan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-13
Pun Gives Fire Alarm

DEXTER, Mo-, November IS "a
puppy owned by H. Reed yesterday was
credited with giving the alarm Monday
night for fire that destroyed several
small buildings on the property of Mrs.
J. M. Cook. The dog first went to
Reeds bed and awakened him. Reed
then turned in the alarm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-13

Apple Association. who originated the
scheme, said the men over q period OF
three weeks had been earning from SO
to So day, depending on their loca-
tons and their salesmanship. Mean
while, the wholesale price of apples has
jumped from SITS to $3.50 per box, and
still there are profits.
From the Battery to the Bronx and
from river to river, the unemployed are
collecting their nickels from business
man, housewife, clerk and stenographer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-13
BOUND OVER TO JURY
Woman and Two Men Held in Con-
nection with Cigarette Robbery.

A woman and two men were bound
over to the grand jury from Police
Court yesterday in connection with the
robbery of II cases of cigarettes, valued
at almost 1000, from q B. g. 0. Tail
way freight car.
Mrs. Ollie Boxwell and William b.
Hutchinson, the former AZ years old. Of
4l9 Third street southeast, were
charged with receiving stolen property,
while charge Of HOUSEKEEPING was
placed against Edward Anderson, 81
of the 500 block Of Thirty fourth street
southeast, whom Detective j. F. Box
well said entered the box car.
Police reported that 10 cases of the
cigarettes were taken out Of the city
and burned.
Indiana now has 40 cooperative gas
oline filling stations operated by farm
organizations In as many counties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-13
JOBLESS SELL 5000, 900
APPLES TO NEW WORKERS

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November I3.--In the
name of unemployment. 5000 jobless
men have sold some 100000 apples on
the street corners of New York, keeping
away both the wolf and the doctor.
Joseph Sicker of the International
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-13

Hayden Lake. water source for farm
efs in the Couer dAlene, Idaho, district,
will have a clay covering placed on
its bed to stop heavy seepage through
its present gravel bottom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-13

Business Is good and customers are
generous, but there are rumblings Of
trouble-the apple ''racketeer' is on the
Job.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-13
MONTANA HAS SNOW

Almost Is Inches Reported 70
Miles North of Great Falls.
GREAT FALLS, Mont, November 10
lP).-Snow fell ever most of Northern
Montana late yesterday and last night.
Almost Is inches of snow was reported
between Conrad and Brady, 20 miles
north of here. Glacier Park was COW
cred with about IL inches. AS much as
8 inches fell along the Canadian line.
The temperature was about 35 degrees
above zero.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-13
MNGAGr" SUIT DROPPED

Dismissal Asted of 1896, 900 Ac-
ton by Film Company.
LOS ANGELES. November l3 A9.-
Congo Pictures, Limited. producers OF
"Ingagi," filed request in Superior
Court today for dismissal of its So. $685.