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yielded the most lavish oil flow In fhe
and editorial had been copied and
read all over the country. A stunned
government tried to bring order out
of chaos OF riches. The two thou
sand Osages were swept Off the reser-
walton to make way for the flood of oil
that was transmitted into flood Of
gold. They were transported to new
section called Wazhazhe. which is the
ancient Indian word for Usage.
Agents appointed. Offices estab-
lished. Millions of barrels of oil. Mil
lions OF dollars Millions OF dollars
yearly to he divided somehow among
TWO Thousand 0Sage Indians. to whom
blanket. u howl af sufiica. a NANCY
pony. ii biz Of tobacco. disk Of
peyote had meant riches And now
every full blond. half blood. or quarter
blood Usage was put on the Indian roll.
and every name on the Indian roll was
entitled TO 8 head right Every head
right meant definite share In the mil
lions Five In famlly--five head rights.
Ten In family-ien head rights. The
IndiaA agents office was full OF type
writer's. files, pads. ledgers. neat young
clerks all occupied with papers and
documents that read like some fan
tastlc nightmare. The white mans
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MINING APPLICATION NO. o77755

U. S. Land Office, Great Falls, Mon
tana. November 2, 1881.
Notice is hereby given that The Zon-
olite Company by e. N. Alley, presi-
dent, whose postoffice address is Libby,
Montana, has this day made applica-
ton for patent for the Climax, SYRIA
cuse, Loyal Triumph, Dixie, Patomac,
Yukon and Chesapeake Lode Mining
Claims, designated as Sur. No. 1860,
Libby Unorganized Mining district,
Lincoln County, State of Montana in
the unsurveyed portion of Frac. T. 81
N. r. 30 W., upon which the notice
of intention to apply for patent and
plat was posted October 14th, 1881 and
the original notices of location of which
are recorded in Book Is N. l. at pages
GIL, 616 613 and GIT and Book 43 N
l. at pages 1913, 100, 181 and Isl re-
spectively, records of said County and
described as follows.
CLIMAX LODE: Beginning at Cor.
No ! from which the cor. of secs. 26,
n, q and %, Frac T. 81 NJ r. 80 W,
bears S. 20s08'W., 1228.27 feet and run
ming thence MAS low, 1900 feet,
thence N44o0O'E-, 600 feet; thence
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NOTICE OF SALE.

Notice Is Hereby Given that pursuant
to an order of the Board of County
Commissioners of Lincoln County,
Montana, made on the 4th day of Nov
ember 1881, the undersigned will sell at
public auction to the highest bidder
Tor cash or on such terms as the Board
OF County Commissioners may approve,
on the It'll day of December, 1881, at
the hour of one o'clock P. M. of said
day at the front door of the Court
House in Libby, Montana, all right,
title and interest and estate of said
Lincoln County, Montana in and to the
parcel of land, situate and being as
follows to-Wit:
The East Half (E12) of section nine
(9), Township Thirty-four (34y North
Range Twenty-six (26) West Montana
Meridian and the East Half (El2) of
the Southwest Quarter {SWA), the
East Half Of the Northwest Quarter
(E1aNW) and the northwest quarter Of
the northwest quarter (NW NW) of
section nine 10y, Township Thirty -four
(34l North Range Twenty-six (26)
West Montana Meridian, all compris-
ing $50 acres more or less, with the
appurtenances thereunto belonging.
The said property mas been appraised
at the value of $4,000, the same being
a fair market value for the same. In
case sale is made on term 200 of the
purchase price must be paid at the
time of making the sale.
Dated November 4th, 1881.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
LINCOLN COUNTY, MONTANA.
BY WALTER l.. WOLF,
n12-d3-4t Clerk of said Board
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acres are in conflict with the Syracuse
Lode Of this survey, not claimed, leav-
ing a net area of 11.674 acres claimed.
PATOMAC LODE: Beginning at Cor.
No. | from which the cor. of secs. &c,
27, q and %. Frac. T.31 N.,R.30 W.,
bears S13o 59'E, 2213.87 feet and run
ming thence N. 54o45'W, 137184 feet,
thence N31 SEE, $40 feet; thence
S.57 46 E., 1865 feet; thence S.31 Sc W.,
594.1 feet to the place Of beginning
Containing an area of 17s545 acres of
which 0855 acres are in conflict with
the Climax Lode of this survey. not
claimed, leaving net area of 1860
acres claimed.
YUKON LODE: Beginning at Cor
No. from which the cor. of secs. 26, 27,
% and q, Frac T31 MIRO W., bears
SIS rs E., 1885 feet and running
thence N.54'45'W., 1246.18 feet; thence
MT ZOE, 600 feet; thence S.54s45'E.,
1246.18 feet, thence SGT POW, 600
feet to the place of beginning. Con-
tanning an area Of 17.0O1 acres claimed
CHESAPEAKE LODE. Beginning at
Cor. No. from which the Cor. of secs
rs, n, % and q, Frac. T31 N,R3O W.,
bears S.13'27'409W., 64788 feet and
running thence MAS low, 1900 feet;
thence MT '20,E, GOO feet; thence
S.45 10E., 1900 feet, thence SGT POW,
geo feet to the place Of beginning. Con-
tanning an area Of 1905 acres claimed.
Total area Of this survey claimed is
146274 acres.
M. d. NICHOLSON,
Register.
First Publication Nov 5. 1881.
Last Publication December 81. 1891
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SHERIFF7S SALE.

The Federal Land Bank Of Spokane,
a corporation, Plaintiff Against Howard
j. Clough, an unmarried man; Levi H.
Clough, an unmarried man; and Tobac-
co Valley National Farm Loan Asso-
citation, corporation, Defendants
To Be Sold at Sheriff's Sale
On the 22nd day of December, A. D.,
1881, at One o'clock P. M at the front
door of the Court House, in the City
of Libby, County of Lincoln, State Of
Montana, to the highest and best bid
der for cash in hand, the following de-
scribed real estate lying and being in
the County of Lincoln and State Of
Montana, to-wit. The East Half Of The
Southeast Quarter and the South Half
of the Northeast Quarter of Section
Nineteen, Township Thirty seven,
North of Range Twenty seven, West
Of the Montana Principal Meridian.
containing 160 acres, together with any
and all water rights, bitches and ease
ments, including water right located
June 20, 1886, by S. c. Hornbeck on
Campbell Creek, notice of location re-
corded in Volume 16 of Water Rights
at Page 286, Flathead County Rec
ords.
Together with all and singular the
tenements, Entertainments and appurt-N
enances thereunto belonging, and the
reversions, remainders, rents, issues
and profits thereof, also any and all
water rights, water bitches and water
easements thereunto belonging or in
anywise appertaining, which are now,
or hereafter may be used on said
premises, however they may be evil
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s.45 lO'E., 1900 feet; thence s.44sOoW.,

S.45 10E., 1900 feet, thence S. cow.
600 feet to the place of beginning. Con-
tanning an area of 20.659 acres claimed.
SYRACUSE LODE: Beginning at
Cor. No. from which the cor. of secs
26, n, q and %, Frac T.31 N R.30 W.,
bears SIT 52'W., 1803.86 feet and run
ming thence MAS low, 1900 feet;
thence N44'OO'E., 579.2 feet; thence
AS JOE, 1900 feet; thence SD cow,
579.2 feet to the place of beginning
Containing an area of 1898 acres
claimed
LOYAL LODE. Beginning at Cor No
! from which the cor. of secs. rs, 81,
q, and %, Frac T31 N. R30 W., bears
SGT 52'W.. 1803.86 feet and running
thence MA sO0E., 5792 feet; thence
S.45 JOE. 1900 feet; thence S.44sOO'W.,
579.2 feet, thence MAS low, 1900 feet
to the place of beginning. Containing
an area of 19.943 acres claimed.
TRIUMPH LODE. Beginning at Cor.
No. l from which the cor. of secs. rs,
81, % and %, Frac. T.31 N.,R.3O W..
bears $50 08W., 1228.87 feet and run
ming thence N44'00'E., 600 feet, thence
S.45 ZOE, 1900 feet: thence S.44s00'W.,
GOO feet; thence MAS low, 1900 feet to
the place of beginning Containing an
area of 20.659 acres claimed.
DIXIE LODE: Beginning at Cor. No. /
from which the cor. Of secs. 26, 81, %
and %, Frac. Isl N.,R30 W., bears
SD s14E., 26104 feet and running
thence N.57 46'W, 1456 feet. thence
N.31 Sc E., 31G feet, thence SCI o10'E..
145S feet, thence S.31 SOW, 404.6 feet
to the place of beginning Containing
an area of 12076 acres OF which 0402
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eye. travelling down the tidy list, with
its story-book Indian names and Its
hard. cold. mf-ter-of-fact figures. re-
1ected what II read as being too abb
surd for the mind to grasp.
Clint Tall Meat, S523.O 900.
Benny Warrior S192 600
Ho XII all SO. S1f5.SS7
Long Foot Maybe. S3S7.942
The government bought them farms
with their own oil money. and built
big red brick houses near the roadside
and furnished them In plush and
pianos and linolenm and gas ranges
and monographs. You saw their pow
erfnl motor cars. dust covered. whirl-
Ing up and down the red clay Okla
homa ronds--those roads still rutted,
unpaved, hazardous. for Oklahoma had
had no time to attend to such matters.
Fifty years before. whole bands OF
Osages on their wiry little ponies had
Travelled south In the winter and north
In the summer to visit their Indian
cousins Later, huddled miserahly on
their reservation. they Ind Issued
forth on foot or In wretched wagons
to pay their seasonal visits and TO try
to recapture. by talk md song and
dance and ritual. some pale ghost OF
their departed happiness A shabby
enough procession. guarded. fnrtive
smoldering-
Rnt now you saw each Usage buck
In his high-powered car. his inexpert
hands grasning the wheel. his enor-
nous somhrero-larger even than the
white mans hat-fiapping In the
breeze that he made by his speed In
the back you saw the hrilliance OF
feathers and blankets worn by the
beady-eyed children and the great
placid squaw crouched in the bottom
OF the car. The white man driving the
same road gave these Indian cars
wide berth. for he knew they stopped
for no one, kept the middle Of the
road. flew over bridges, draws, and
bitches like mad things.
fTn - oo~t,r,~I>
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denced, togethed with all shares of
stock or shares of water in any ditch
or irrigation company which in any
manner entitle said mortgagers to
water for irrigation or domestic pur-
poses on said premises.
Dated this oath day of November
A. D., 1881.
f. r. BANEY.
Sheriff of Lincoln County, Montana
BY L. G.. SPERRY,
n2b-dl7-4t Under Sheriff.
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ITO be continued.)

A fine line of Christmas cards at the
Western News office Order yours now.
The Washington times., 1931-12-16

When the Chinese this military tank with machine
guns mounted well trained armed and uniformed Japanese
In charge they do notice that it primitive sort of tank
You will notice for this not the kind of tank with cater
pillar traction that roll dtches banks and through
stone walls.
It improvised tank, mounted automobile chas
sis four wheels able to travel except fairly good
roads
But carries unpleasant looking body made of riveted
steel
There is turret with powerful gun that be moved
around to sweep the enemy in any direction
few dozen tanks of this primitive type splitting fire
and bullets with Japanese soldiers inside safe from attack
would be effective in Japan easy seizure of Manchuria
Some Japans tanks may be primitive but there moth
ing primitive mprovised about her flying machines They
are THE REAL THING with high explosives machine guns
and their possibilities in Of need for dropping destroying
gases.
few of them on OCCASION according the Associated
Press wiped 5000 Chinese soldiers unfortunate that
offered good target.
No wonder China begs the League of Nations to and
"do something
The Washington times., 1931-12-16

was darkness in my eyes and
darkness in my heart. But I
said to myself: Even though
this is the end of everything, it
is easier to be here than to be
in the mockery of life. I still
stay here until I have the cour-
age to go back. There may be
a little comfort in being close
to the dead.
I wept as mothers have wept
since Eve first mourned her
murdered Abel. . that old hope
less weeping that never ends
though ones eyes may dry and
one lips may laugh
But when I could weep no
more, I waited. For what? I
do not know. Perhaps for
Death to speak to me.
But Death did not speak. In.
Stead-Life spoke! .
But surely this was a place
of Death? Had I not seen
the end of everything here?
Was not this place proof-were
The Washington times., 1931-12-16
Debts Must Be Paid
With Good Interest

When we speak of "wip-
ing out the debts" we use a
deceptive phrase. The debts
cannot and will not be
wiped out. " They will be
paid by someone-by those
who borrowed the money or
those who loaned it. The plan
is to lift the burden of debts
from the taxpayers of the
ii nations that owe them
and put it on the backs of
the American people.
And the reason this plan
is made is to make it easier
to pay the private loans
made, and in tire case of
G er m ny. almost forced
upon it, by the international
bankers in New YORK.
It is well to bear in mind
that there is no proposition
to reduce the debts or to
scale these debts GoTn 10
the "capacity to pay" They
must be paid with good in
tereSt.
The Washington times., 1931-12-16
Government Loans
To Europe

In the Magazine of Wall
Street, in the current issue,
is very interesting and il
Eliminating chart showing
Just what the debts mean.
It shows that, exclusive Of
loans, the war ost the
American people $26,645,-
100000.
We spent this money, and
at the conclusion Of the war
we did not ask or take a
single inch of territory or
demand from Germany a
single penny Of reparations.
All the nations thai are onr
debtors took both.
Then we privately loaned
Germany, through the bank
ers here, $1,253. .00O,O00 on
long term credit and $780,
100000 in short term credit,
making the private loan to
Germany $2,OO3, 900. 900.
During the years Ger
many paid in reparations
2.O69.OOO,O0O to the nations
that are our debtors. She
paid these nations just $66,-
100000 more than she bor-
rowed privately from us.
We got on the debts ali in
significant part of the money
in reparations to the ma
tions that owe us; and we
loaned privately to Germany
$2,000,48 900 more than the
debtor nations have paid us
on our debts.
Turning from the private
to the Government loans to
Europe: we loaned the
debtor nations $9,s5o,000,-
600, which, with interest,
amounts to $12,7O4, 0G0, 900.
This money out Of the
pockets of the American peo-
pie went to France, England.
Italy, B el g u m, and tie
others.
The Washington times., 1931-12-16
Fiscal Relations
Mapes Report Unfair and Illogical

The Mapes Committee has carried out the orders given
by the House when it created
It has sought and found additional tax burdens to
place upon the District without demonstrating that additional
taxes necessary
has arbitrarily and without setting forth any reasonable
justification recommended decrease in the Federal Govern
ment share of the Districts from $95ooooo to
$650OO00
The Committees report sets illogical arguments based
upon false premise and fortified with questionable figures
Apparently the committee decided back into its problem
instead of approaching it from the front
It first recommends and increases the old
Then it its subject and away slice of the
Federal share of District expenses without attempting
to show scientific base for its conclusions in this regard
The committee finds that other communities groanng
under excessive burden Therefore the District must pay
taxes and be made to groan also.
Figures submitted to the committee tending to show that
District residents already paying taxes comparable to
those paid by residents of other communities cast aside
with little consideration
Likewise the committee dsregards the data submitted to
it by the Federal Bureau of Efficiency But the District
knew that it would do this because the Bureau took arer
view of the question. .,-
The committee does lip service to the aspirations of the
people Of the entire country for beautiful capital But when
the time in its report render genuine service to those
aspirations aside by declaring in effect that they
not contIOute 1nancaAy 10 realize tnoe
Governments stake in the District through this
at legitimate estimate of the Nation share in local maine
nance and upkeep.
The committee simply says that the Nation should for
time at least contribute something and then fixes its figure
at $65o0O00.
Not content with simply setting this figure and recommend
ing the and additional taxes suggested in the report the
Committee holds out double warning to citizens Of the
District
The double barreed threat there although explicit
is to the effect that the real estate tax for the
left at its present figure may be seriously boosted in the
near future and that all Federal aid may be withdrawn
On the whole the Committee has done just what might
have been expected by group appointed under the conditions
which resulted in its naming
Given chance to make valuable contribution much
hut
the position long taken by the House and bitterly intel
ligently opposed by the Senate.
One hundred and years ago today the colon
Boston held tea party which marked milestone on the
pathway of representative government.
CARRIED Indians they rebeled against taxation without
representation and tossed King Georges taxed into the
harbor.
Times have changed and have the minds of But
Washngonans will sit compacently by and let the Mapes
committee fo upon them this overpowering tax burden
framed behind doors which closed their petitions and
representatives.
With all their powers of argument and persuasion citizens Of
the District will protest against this latest manifestation Of
legislative tyranny.
The Washington times., 1931-12-16
ONCE-OVERS

body thinks anything about 1t
except in this slow town.
There is not the same degree
of obedience to your requests.
Later hours are kept, and
some advanced ideas" are pre-
sented to you.
You wonder if you made a
mistake in sending that boy or
girl to college.
From your standard of judg-
ment, he or she is not so fine d
person as either seemed to be
before they went,
Before your denunciation IS
too vigorous stop to realize that
the boy or girl of college age is
an adult now-no longer q
child
The Washington times., 1931-12-16
WISE WORDS

Selfishness is the only real
atheism; aspiration. unselfish-
ness the only religion.
-Zangwill.
Where there is much pride
or sef-conceit there will be a
great desire for revenge.
Schopenh auer.
Take away from our hearts
that love of the beautiful and
you take away all the charm Of
life. Rousseau.
There are only two qualities
in the world: efficiency and in
efficiency; and only two sorts
Of people; the efficient and the
inefficient. Shaw.
Excess in nothing-this / re-
gard as a principle bf the high
est value in life. Terence,
The Washington times., 1931-12-16
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

not all graves proof-that there
was nothing more, that life had
ended?
Yet here, in this place of
Death, Life spoke!
Clamoring Voices
Up from that soil beneath
my face, rose a Thousand tiny
voices. Clamoring voices. :.
triumphant voices. announc-
ing themselves. . asserting their
right to life.
Vigorous voices of the roots,
spreading themselves eagerly,
stubbornly, through the earth,
seeking life.
Delicate, trembling voices of
the grasses, thrusting them
selves up into the sunny air,
quivering with the pale, green
tides of life that flooded their
stems.
Shrill, urgent voices of the
tiny grubs and insects, moving
along their secret tunnels.
building their swarming, micro
Scopic cities
And deeper than all, more
insistent than all, the voice
of the earth itself. The voice
of the old, old earth, that had
known so many deaths. that
was of itself formed of the de-
posits of death. yet which
was alive in every clod and
cell!
A Place of Death
I had lain my face upon the
earth. thinking it was a place
of death. thinking to find
the cold, still peace of death.
But instead heard the warm
and vigorous voice of Life. :.
like a great song going on and
on. saying that nothing ends
nothing dies -. life only
sleeps to wake again. Aand
casts it's body as a shell.
I haG gone out with my grief
to find the dead. But I could
not find the dead. Nor any
proof of death. I had only
found life-life swelling, wax
ing. leaping. sworming over
those very mounds set apart
for death.
I had cried-"God, give me a
sign to prove my darling lives!
A sign to prove that, somewhere.
he has found a better chance
a sign to prove that love
is not in vain-give me a sign,
God, so I can go on!"
But no sign came.
Only the grass rose quiver1ng
from the soil
Only a rose bloomed on a bar
rem bough-
Only butterfly broke from
its chrySalis y rested an
hour in the old-new air E.
spread its bright wings and
once started flight.
There was no other sign.
Was that enough?
(Copyright 1891. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1931-12-16

MYTH the country in a
w condition of collapse
under the Hoover policies, or
the party that has been in
undisputed possession of all
branches of the Government
for II years and until a few
days ago, it is amusing to
note the strategy of Admin
istration supporters in Con-
gress and the press.
One day after the Presi-
dent reported on the estate
of the union under his
regime and was forced to
admit that the state of the
union is exceedingly bad, the
Presidents party in Con
gress and his apologists
among the newspapers begin
clamoring for the Democratic
program.
1t required a long series Of
measures violative of eco
nomic common sense to bring
the country to its present
low estate; but in "a hours
and even before they have
had the opportunity to study
the Presidents plans sub
mitted to them, the Demo-
Gratis, without the presidency,
without the Senate, are
called upon for complete
program.
Naturally, the Democratic
leaders are not impressed by
this sudden fury for "ac-
ton. " The same critics, in
cluding the newspapers, have
been the loudest in ieering at
the plea that Congress be
called in extra session to
"get down to work" during
the last nine months. Per-
haps now the Democrats may
be permitted nine days.
The Washington times., 1931-12-16
No Extension of the
Moratorium

AS to the President s pro-
gram on the moratorium and
the debts, one thing is GER
tain: Notwithstanding the
pronounced opposition of
the Senators to tie mora
torium propose d by the
President as soon as he got
Congress off his hands," it
will be approved for the one
year. The fact that the
debtor nations have done
nothing as a result Of the
moratorium to have made
it worth while has alienated
some Senators who favored
it at first. Bur the nation
was pledged by the Presi-
dent without consultation
with Congress and the ma
tion's pledge will be made
good.
But there will lie no c&-
tension of the moratorium.
The European discussions Of
the meaning of it al leave
no doubt that over the sea
it is taken as a st t'p tcward
the cancellation Of the debts.
That the President s, pur"
pose in asking for the re-
creation of the World War
Foreign Debt Commission is
to provide through its recon-
mendation an. excuse for
asking a further reduction
in the debts amounting IN
the end to a complete trans
fer of them to the American
taxpayer, there can be no
doubt.
Senator Borah in announc-
ing his opposition says:
I'VE adjusted the debts
on the basis of caDacr,y to
pay and cancelled about
seven billion dollars in OBJ
The Washington times., 1931-12-16
Remove Mr.. Moses From
The Path of Business

Possibly something can be
done toward getting down
to work if the reactionary
wing of the Republican
party in the Senate will with
draw Senator Moses from
the contest for President pro
tenn so that the Senate may
be organized and get down
to business.
Days have now b en-
wasted to force the label of
sons Of wild jackasses" on
the Senators from agrIcul-
tural communities through
the election of Moses.
Enough time has been
wasted on this Republican
quarrel which is holding up
public business.
It is time for them to take
; a leaf from the book Of the
Democracy in the House,
where personal ambitions
were subordinated to the
public good; remove iIr.
Moses from the path of busis
ness and get down to. work.