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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-03-19

As | promised to write you when
| left, | will try to comply with my
promise. Here we are in the promised
land that flows with glaciers and
snow slides, the promised land of
gold and precious stones. Alaska has
its faults and merits as well as other
lands. On the coast we find a moist
and temperate climate very much like
that of Washington. Across the
mountain range and the glacier it is
as dry as it is moist on the coast I'M
til we get farther inland, when it be-
comes more moist again. Where we
have spent the summer here on the
Copper river the climate is as delight
full as could be asked for. There was
no rain and not too extremely warm.
Everyone who suffered from catarrh
has been cured. But when we speak
of its climate we have told all the
good features Of this section. 1t is
too dry for vegetation, there is no
timber fit for numbering and as yet
there is not enough development made
to make the mineral u a pro-
fitable field for labor.
would judge that about four thou
sand men came to this place last
spring. They have been spread over
the whole Copper river district from
Chitina on the south to Tarana on
the north and up every tributary of
the Copper.
Gold can be PANIED out in every
river and stream, yes, ever in the
high clay banks, but where to find
it in paying quantities is the quest
ion. The prospecting that has been
done, has been done on the surface
as the water prevents US from going
to bed rock. But | have known of
shafts to have been sunk down forty
feet through earth which vas frozen
all the way except a few feet on top.
At about thirty feet they struck a lay
er of solid ice five feet thick. Some
have built cabins and will wait until
winter to sink their shafts.
Claims have been staked out all
around, but have been proven of no
value. Now those here are losing
courage and are going home as fast
as they came in last spring. Many
have no money to go home with and
are trying to get there at the expense
of "Uncle SAM" About sixty men are
now boarding at the expense of the
government at Valdes.
For my part | intend to stay IN
other year as l have not given up hope
Of finding the yellow metal.
Yours truly,
N. j. Highland
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-03-19
NO Al DUPLICATION

In spite of the very straightforward de-
claration of the State Highway Commission
regarding the five cent tax on gas, there still
appears to be some people in this county
who cannot understand this, and believe
the tax will be ten cents per gallon. If the
Readers of The Herald will study the tele-
gram from the Highway Commission, which
appeared in this paper last week they will
find that the second paragraph reads The
Referendum Bill Merely RE-ENACTS the
five cent gas tax and DOES NOT cause du-
plication OF taxes or any increase"
This tax will be in force and effect from
and after March 3lst, 1881 and up to and
including March 3lst, l94l-a full ten year
period. This part was provided for in House
bill No. 90 and the referendum is merely in
tended to make it possible for the State Of
Montana to borrow funds on the a~nticipa-
ted future gas tax which will be derived from
sale of gasoline. The tax will be paid whether
we vote in favor of it or not, but the matter
OF obtaining funds for immediate road de-
velopment is what is uppermost in the minds
of the automobile travelling public now, and
good roads are needed everywhere.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-03-19

between the girls and the boys to see
which side can keep most of the
rules.
March is the month of wind and
wind-mills. We are reading about the
Dutch twins and have made some
windmills like those seer in Holland.
One of the first grade boys found
a black-throated sparrow and we are
studying about this little birds hab-
its, call, eggs, and have colored some
sparrows using this one as a model.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-03-19
Tissue of June 80, 1880


The party from Milbank and Daw-
son of which Nels Highland of this
city was a member, appears to have
met with disappointment in Alaska,
if the following special to the Journal
from Alaska is true:
"a startling story comes here that
F. w. A.. Poppe of Milbank, who or
gained a large party and took them
to Alaska has been lynched by his
companions. 1t appears that he mis-
represented things in many ways and
promised eachand every man a fine
claim in a rich district on the Copper
river which was unknown except to
himself and the discoverer of it. All
such schemes were worked by Pope
to induce men to go. He took about
forty men well outfitted. On arrival
at Seattle it was discovered he had
secretly insured the mems lives in his
favor. Other things tended to anger
the men against him. When the party
reached Copperriver and found the
conditions so different from what
Pope had represented to them, they
held a trial and condemned him to
death. This sentence was carried OUT
by the emaged prospectors."
NOTE-the above report is not
true as to the alleged l~ynching, as
Poppe escaped from the hand of the
Infatuated band Of men whom he had
lured to Alaska, according to VIM.
Hegland.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-03-19
Prominent in Activities

According to the Malta newspapers
Ernie Manney, a former P~lentywood
boy is very prominent in the Malta
high school. Recently he played the
leading part in the H. S. class play
there. Quoting from that paper in
part Ernie Nancy, is especially to
be complimented as he mastered his
part in about two weeks time, learn
ing it perfectly and brought out many
a gale of laughter from the audience"
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-03-19
THE GOOD OLD FARM

There are five per cent fewer children
in school in proportion to population IN the
cities than in the country. That is interest
ing, in view of the fact that city school chill
dren are looked up and driven to school by
truant officers, if they show signs of willing
ness to play hockey, while few country dis
tricts enjoy the luxury of a truant officer.
The statistics were cited by Bishop w.
T. Manning, New York, recently in a letter
in which he summarizes some social factors.
The bishop pointed out that the city has a
magnetic attraction for young people. Thou
sands leave their rural homes every year and
seek their fortunes in the city.
But, not withstanding this constant
drain upon the country's resources in mar
riageable population, there are seven per
cent fewer marriages in the city than in the
country in proportion to population. What
is wrong with the city? Bishop Manning
says economic pressure has a deterrent ef-
feet upon young people who otherwise
would marry and found homes.
The farmers complain of hard times
and think they are getting a bad deal, but
the good old farm still vindicates its reputa-
ton as the conservator of the homely vir-
tues.-Montana Record Herald.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-03-19

was written. He was the only man
from Appleton, Minnesota who took
in the Alaskan gold rush and was with
the company from Dawson, Minnesota
that was lured into the wilderness
by F. w. A. Pope, Of Milbank with
his promises of vast wealth. Across
the glaciers my father took the lead
for this company. He was lost on
the glaciers for two days during the
Christmas of '98, and for some time
livedi n snowhuts and melted snow
with candles in order to get drinking
water. He also helped find several
men lost and frozen in ice crevices,
and also helped in the search for the
brave DR.. Logan who attempted to
cross the glaciers alone during a ter
rifle storm, but whose body was W
found. During this period my father
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-03-19
HANS A RARE "YU'EL"-

At the Taxpayers Association meeting
held Wednesday in P~lentywood everyone
present were astonished when ex-surveyor
Hans Rasmussen, and bosom friend of ex-
senator Taylor said the sanest thing that
could be done in Sheridan county at this
time would be for the county to take the
contracts for building the state road through
Sheridan county. A county or its commits
sioners cannot contract such an undertaking
if it is in excess of $4,000 and hardly any
one OF these contracts will be for less than
$4,000.
Verify Hans, hot art a yu'el.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-03-19
OUTLOOK SCHOOL
NOTES
High School Notes

AAi6h oNhOVi 4NOtSo
The seniors have sent for samples
for their senior play. The one they
sent for are Nothing but the Truth,
Clarence" "The Family Upstairs,
"Kempy," and Daddy Long Legs"
The Juniors gave the for their pro-
gram Friday afternoon. The cast was
as follows:
Uncle Dick-Leonard Morgan
Clarence, his nephew-Elmer Boo
Samuel Livingston-Donald Koter-
ba
Mrs. Livingston-1rene Bake
Lottie Livingston-Leona Deck.
The track equipment that was re-
ceived last week are, shot put, dis
Gus, %javelin and vaulting pole. Jump
ing standards are being made and will
be ready for use as soon as the wea-
Their permits.
The Honor Roll for the last six
weeks is Minnie Engler, Ethel Sell
Wig, Emma Wollan, Reuben Nelson,
and Violet Hatvick. Those receiving
honorable mention are Margaret ST.
monet and Annie Selvig.
The seniors have chosen their mot
to and sent for their announcements
lats week.
The Debate team are working on the
affirmative side Of the chain store
question. They hppe to be notified
this week concerning their next con-
! test
The basket ball boys received their
letters and chevrons and are proud
ly wearing them.
First Grade
We have organized a health club
in our room and are having a contest
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-03-19
A GAY LOTHARIO-

We understand that Plentywood's we'll
known granny has recently developed
into an amateur "Peeping Tom the stroller.
However, when his better fifteen-sixteenth
received an anonymous missive telling about
his gay hikes, he stayed at home in durance
vile for one whole week. His abb about the
still-hunt was too weak to hold water.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-03-19

regularity carried the u. S. Mail thru
the glacier region Of Alaska. ] re-
member him telling me that in cross
ing many dangerous places he had to
prod his way with a heavy stick or a
spade ahead of him so as not to be-
come %entrapped in one of the hidden
crevices in Alaska's ice mounts.
Yours truly,
VIM. Hegland.
NEAR THE KLONDIKE
Nels j. Highland Tells Of His Expert
ence on Copper River
Tissue of September 20, 1880
Port Valdes, Alaska,
Sept. 5, 1898.
Mr.. McMillen
Appleton, Mimi,
Dear Friend: 4
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-03-19
zeffuB01
A LETTER FROM ALASKA

A LETTER. FKOM ALASKA
Plentywood Herald,
Plentywood, Montana.
Dear Editor:
The editor Of the Appleton, (Minn.)
Press has been kind enough to locate
letters written by my father when he
was in Alaska in 1898, l am asking
If you will kindly publish same.
During lifetime my father spent in
Alaska, his experiences were varied
enough to fill a volumn- He remained
there abouta year after this letter
The Alaskan., 1931-01-16
FILLING PUBLIC DEMAND

There are no more copies of The Gateway carrying the edi- tOrlal about the Alaska Railroad "SnOoper. /" The demand was ex- traordinary, unprecedented in fact. We would have run off sev- eral thousand if we had known the popular appeal. There have heen many felicitations but no new subscribers If you like our paper, subscribe to it; then you won't miss anything Gateway.
 Editors note:-Every so often the Alaskan bumps into the same situation and finds that it would have sold a considerable number of papers more than were run off. But those whocheer one play oftimes forget, and soon. that it takes team work to yin any game. So we are rather rleased to note that our con- temporaries bump into like situ- atiOnS.
The Alaskan., 1931-01-16
CANADA SHOWS BAKED FISTS

If the United States Senate refuses to approve the agree ment, (Sockeye Salmon Treaty between U. s. and Canada) there IS about only one course Canada can take to bring the selfish in terests to their senses, and that $ to abandon the treaty alto- Gether and tell our Canadian fishermen to fish to their hearts content and let the future take care of itself. This policy seems to have the approval of Govern Or Hartley and Senator Jones' but it will mean the end of the Sockeye canning industry of Puget SOund."- The Victoria (B. O. Times.
 The Fraser River is admitted by all of the fishing industry, to be the spawning grounds of the sockeye salmon. For number of years there has been a decid- ed decline in the production of
The Alaskan., 1931-01-16
NOT OF VITAL IMPORTANCE

It was reported that the spill Ter regulation is not of vital i'm portance to local canning inter- ests. Practically all of the traps in this district already make use of the hemp spillers. It is understood that not more than three or four traps in the north end of the district would be af- fected. In the southern end of the district, however, there are many traps heretofore using wire spillers Some of the trap men, according to information received here, have already placed orders for wire for their wants next season. The cost of the hemp spiller is said to be a. bout $50 more that that of the wire spiller. Juneau Empire.
 Why Bother, Then
 If the "spiller regulation is not of vital importance to local canning interests" then why bother with raising objections against the new regulation? In- stead of objecting to the hemp spiller the canners should thank OMalley for ordering that kind of sni]ler. It is a distinct sav- ing to the operator for a hemp splller may be used for three FeaSons at one cost while the wire spiller is made new each season. In other words, while the hemp spiller costs the opera Tor about $150 more to make man the wire spiller, the opera TOT must make three wire spillers during the life of the hemp spil- Ter, A real saving to the industry which should thank rather than condemn MT. O'Malley.
The Alaskan., 1931-01-16
York on the 7th of January

York on the 7th of January there were huge drifts of snow which blocked roads to the north Lara1yzing motor traffic. In Buff 4alo, New York ''ileavy snow storms and high winds kept traf- fic in western New York almost at snail's pace today. Both motor and air traffic were affect ed" The North Pole evidently is closer to New York and to the middle west than it is to Alaska Relieve It uIT, Not" MT. Ripley can just make that assertion and have the verif1cation of the entire district of Southeast Alaska.
The Alaskan., 1931-01-16
EDUCATION

Mark Hopkins sat on one end of
 a log And a farm boy sat on the other. Mark Hopkins came as peda-
 gogue And taught as an elder brother. I don't care what Mark Hopkins
 taught If his Latin was small and his
 Greek was naught- For the farmers boy he thought,
 thought he, All through lecture time and
 quiz, 'The kind of a man I mean to be Is the kind of man Mark Hop
 kins isl" Philosophy, languages, medicine,
 law, Are peacock feathers to deck the
 daW, If the boys who come from your
 splendid schools Are well trained sharpers or
 f1ippant fools. You may brag of your age and
 your ivied walls, You great endowments, your
 noble halls And all your modern features, Your vast curriculum's scope and reach And the multifarious things you teach But how about the teachers? Are they men who will stand in Q fathers place, Who are paid, best paid, by the ardent face When boyhood gives, as boyhood can, Its love and faith to fine, true man? No printed page nor spoken plea May teach young hearts what
 men should be- Not all the books on all the shel- yes, But what the teachers are them . Telves. For education is: Making men: 90 1t is now, so was it when Mark Hopkins sat on one end of
 a log And farm boy sat on the other.
 Arthur Guiterman
The Alaskan., 1931-01-16
BELIEVE IT OR NOT

Says a contemporary in Peters burg, Indiana, "Your weather in Petersburg, Alaska, should make a good feature in Ripley's Believe It or Not" This was in reply to our recent comment on the mild winter which has been the pleasure of Petersburg this year.
 While snow storms and bliz zards are raging in the east middle west and southwest Southeast Alaska has been en- toying the mildest sort of winter that could be hoped for in any part of the United States. Except for the short cold snap in the middle of November and a wee bit of snow on Christmas day the weather so far has seemed more like late September or early October weather in most of he western and eastern states. Slight silver thaws which never lasted more than a couple of days, no snow on the mountains to speak of and no cold weather in Petersburg at all has marked the year so far.
 But listen to this in New
The Alaskan., 1931-01-16
RISNNS ARE
 "COLLEGES FOR CRIME"

Dean Roscoe Pound along with various crime commissions and
 social reformers have declared that prisons are colleges for crime" Young men and boys under 21 years of age shunted off into penal institutions com rr;se 75 per cent of the inmatos of prisons convicted four or five times. The unfortunate condi- ton in the prisons is the non- 2enregation Of first-timers with case-hardened violators. A great deal of criticism has been direct cd against this system which throws crime recruits in with hardened criminals. The latest to add his voice in protest is Asa Reyes. former Los Angeles dis trict attorney serving a sentence If IA years on charge of ac- cepting bribe. He speaks as fol- lows:
 Knowing things that I do, it is genuine tragedy for me to sae more young men sent here. Without facilities for proper seg- regation of prisoners, you are simply sending in new recruits for California's growing crime army. It might help if the gov- ernor and the members of the state legislature came here and
The Alaskan., 1931-01-16

salmon from that area. The pro- duction of sockeye salmon in the Washington area is negligible as return of salmon in the district depends upon the propagation of salmon in the Fraser River area. The American pack is taken from the salmon in the Straits of Georgia and that area tribu- tary to the Fraser River. In oth- CT words, the Canadians are breeding the sockeye salmon for the American packers and fish ermen. This is not only recogniz- ed by all in the industry but a clarion call has been sounded for enactment of a treaty be- tween the United States and Ca nada to protect and conserve this species of salmon. This has the support of the Pacific Fish arman, a number of the Puget Sound packers and the United States Bureau of Fisheries. The treaty has been presented to the Senate by the Canadian Gov nment, for ratification, suff1- cient pressure has been put a. gainst the trety by American in terests to prevent it's ratifca- tion.
 Without the British Columbia spawning area the industry would long since have been des- troyed. The American spawning area can take but small credit for the continuation of this in- dustry. The only credit that the Americans can take in this fish cry is it's rapid depletion through intensive fishing. Neither coun- try can build up this industry the help of the other. On the one hand are American interests selfishly holding up the treaty in order that they may continue to secure dividends on capital invested at the expense of Canadian propagation and cost of propagation; on the other hand we find a Canadian fisheries department that is every honest effort at conservation of what was once a f1ourishing industry.
 In event the Canadians take off all regulations which now preserve the industry it will only be a matter of time when there will be no more sockeye fisheries about which to make treaty.
 Ratification of this treaty by the United States Senate will put the entire industry on par with the Canadian system of regulation Certainly the Cana dians will not lower their stand ord of conservation to that of the American system therefore it is natural to expect that the American system Of regulation lIcGt then be :.'aised to that of tn2 Canad;ans'. For which req son it would be a mighty good t'ling for the Senate to ratify he treaty at an early date.
The Alaskan., 1931-01-16

looked over San Quentin's popu- lation. They would see mere boys-more than a third of San Quentin's population, thrown in
 to daily and deadly association
 with confirmed and hardened terminals. There can be only one }result-nine out of ten of them ! go out of here smart and crafty
 crooks"
 Duty to Youth
 Oft times youngsters with an
 over-abundance of pep and vii
 tality get into trouble and are
 thrown into the class marked
 "no-good." Oft times kindly ad-
 vice and help and direction will Straighten out young lives which
 would otherwise go on the rocks
 of moral destruction. Instead of some "big brother" taking hold of these instances we hear that they ought to be sent to the ipenitentiary or to the reform school" And there the duty to society is ended. But not the lesson. Such course of action is merely the evasion of the respon- sibility of properly meeting situation in the life of the youngster and the sending him
 to damnation.
 Evasion of a responsibility is an answer to a question. It is the dodging of a responsibility and throwing that responsibility up-
 on others who care not much 2bout the individual cases which come under their direction.
 It is much better to be a "big brother" than to "just send em
 to the reform school' where in
 most cases the tender young lives become schooled as smart and crafty crooks"
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-16
NEW YORK SOCIETY MATROu GETS DIVORCE
 EUROPEAN EPISODE

NEW YORK, Mar, Is, (P)- Mrs. Athony J. Drexel Riddle, Jr., secured a divorce decree at sec ret hearing in chambers of Su- preme Court Judge Graham Wit schief. In the party that &C., companied Mrs. Riddle here from New York were two men supposed to be witnesses imported from Germany.
 Grounds for the diverse against MT. Riddle were said to have been based on episode in Germany last September, but the name of correspondent was not revealed. Outside of this the arrangement had been fixed it is reported.
 Riddles are prominent in so- ciety in Newport, Philadelphia, New York and Palm Beach. Mrs. Riddle who was Miss Mary Duke before her marriage could not be reached for comment. Mr. Riddle is in Europe.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-16
DISTRICT ATTORNEY REMOVED FROM JOB
 BY G0v. ROOSEVELT

NEW YORK, Mar, IS, P)-The removal of District Attorney Thomas Grain for incompetent inefficient and futile conduct" of his office was requested of Gov ernor Franklin Roosevelt by of ficials of the City Club. Cover nor immediately announced that he will appoint a commissioner to- investigate the charges, which, if substantiated, would permit re- moval of District Attorney and ap- pointment of another to fill un- expired term.
 Charges were forwarded to Dis trict Attorney Grain who said they were unfound and pro missed to answer and refute them lat proper time"