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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14
FUNERALS

The funeral of Mrs Mary Brun- ellie took place this morning at S:3o o'clock from the Belleville Funeral Home, 6S East Clay street to St Ann's church where solemn mass of requiem was celebrated at o. clock by Rev D. A. Lamontagne, assisted by Rev Ernest Boileau and Rev Ubald Laurion. A musical program was rendered by the choir with Adolph Tourangeau as soloist rendering Pie Jesu" and "Till We Meet,in Heaven" A delegation representing the Danes de St Ann included: Mrs George Ouellette, Mrs Joseph Veillette, Mrs Eugene Arcand, Mrs Gideon Beliveau, Mrs Edward Gilbert, and Mrs Louis Thibault. Burial was in St Laurence cemetery, Meriden. The pallbearers were: William Rochon, Wilfred Rochon, Omer Rousseau, George Ouellette. Elzear Baril and Edward Belanger.
 The funeral of Mrs Helena Cuba was held this morning from the home on Bucks Hill to the Greek Catholic church where the Devlne Liturgy was celebrated by Rev Alexander eHiuiHciolL VI DA'u port assisted by Rev Peter Dzubay. senior assistant and Rev Michale e. Dziana of Cleveland, O., junior assistant. Burial was in Pine Grove cemetery with committal services by the officers of the Lit urgy.
 Funeral services for Mrs Anna Bakul Fafier were held in the home on Fourth street this after- noon at o'clock. Burial was in the new Pine Grove cemetery.
 Funeral services for Mrs Cor nelia Puffer, widow of Charles Puffer, were held in the Mulville funeral home last evening. Rev Richard Hegarty officiating. Burial was in South View cemetery, North Adams, Mass, today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14
Police Dept. Going Ritzy-- Erects Information Stand

questions. Softly shading the desk is Q mellow green light. from beneath the shade of which a policeman will shyly peer up at curious visitors as he attempts to solve their problems.
 Doorman Patrick J. Reilly is first to officiate at the in- formation bureau. It will be his task to answer, in sweet and dulcet tones, such ques- tions as "Is' my son locked up here?," "What can I do about some boys who are always breaking my windows?," etc., etc.
 It's a very pretty desk ....
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14
Local Plants NoLU
 ARC. Branches

Termination of the cor porations under which the French Mfg Go, the Water- bury Brass Goods Corp and the American Metal Hose Corp operated, were an- nounced today by the parent organiZation-The American Brass Co. Hereafter the three subsidiaries will be known as branches of the American Brass Co.
 Previously the companies had been operated as sep arate corporations. Coinci- dent with the new setup, the company announced tho change of the French Mfg Go to "The' French Small Tube Co.,"
 The three companies were acquired by the American Brass Co at various times during the past several years and were operated as separate corporations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14

ned this year to upset this recod.
 On October 9th, the last day TOT entering applications of new voters, the registrars office will be open from 3 in the morning untn o'clock in the evening.
 During the period for making new voters the board of registra- ton will sit in the city court room from 9 in the morning to 8 o'clock in the evening.
 The democratic town committee, at its meeting last night to re, ceive the reports of the formal primaries, voted to appoint addi- t;onaI committees to push the work of getting new voters applications out faster.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14

Waterbury's police depart
 ment went more or less effete today as old time members of the department shook their heads in regret at the passing of the good old, tough old days. At the door outside of which there hang the familiar green lights of the police sta tion, there was established this morning an information desk.
 Just opposite the booking desk, the information desk will serve as a querying place for the scores who come into the police station each day to ask sensible or not so sensible
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14
Fall From Veranda
 Proved Fatal To-day
Hopkins St Man Dies of Injuries at Hospital-Found
 By Policeman Week Ago Near Home

rounds. heard the sound of groans from the rear of the Hopkins street home and investigating, dis covered Boccicchio lying on the ground.
 An official investigation will be made of the circumstances sur- rounding the mans death.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14

that he is being cheated can be given by the consumers counsel, which reports regularly on food prices and often notes where they are justified and where not. In case of a particularly serious instance of "gouging," the counsel might publish the name Of the offending individual or firm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14
LITTLE LAD DROWNED

Newton, Aug 14-(UP)-Mark eyes Howe. 8, one of seven child. ren of MT and Mrs David Howe Bridgeport, was drowned in Lake Zoar yesterday. He had been dead about ten minutes when a gir found the body.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14
RAINEY TAKEN ILL

St Louis, Aug 14-(UP)'-The condition of Congressman Henry T. Rainey, speaker of the house Of representatives, suffering from an attack of pneumonia in Depaul hospital, today was reported as mot serious"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14
DIED.

BOCCICCHIO-I In this city, Aug, 14th. 1884, Leonardo Boccicchio, of 19 Hopkins St. Funeral arrange ments later.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-14
GOVERNMENT HITS
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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-10-12

Indians rushed out and saw it disap-
pearing among the storm clouds. The
Indian belief made the storm cloud the
Thunder Birds vehicle, behind which
he moved through the air, making
peals of thunder by Tapping his wings
and shooting forth lightning flashes
by the blinking OF his all-penetrating
eyes.
The Thunder Bird was frequently
represented in Blackfeet religious cere-
monies. Its symbol wa painted on
shields, weapons and a clothes for
the purpose of inspiring courage; also
on lodges for the protection of the fam
lily.
This famous mountain also figures in
a story which has to do with the Pie
gan society of Brave Dogs, called Mat
saix in the native language. This So
ciety Of Brave Dogs was composed Of
men of the tribe who were admitted to
membership because Of their proven
bravery in war. One Of the traditions
of the order was that a Brave Dog must
face the enemy no matter how greatly
outnumbered his party may be, and
he could not turn back unless one of
his relatives got in front of him and
drove him back. For this reason many
members of the society were killed in
war; but the Brave Dogs had a great
reputation as warriors, and their enem-
les came to know them as foes who
would fight to the death.
Once, according to n of the old
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their camp below, and now the women
wailing and singing the tribal death
dirge, climbed to the point where the
battered bodies of the mother and her
little n lay. and carrying them to a
beautiful point on the side of the
mountain where they buried them af-
ter the Blackfeet custom. The body
of the young chief was brought and
placed beside them.
The mountain was called from this
time Nin-ais-tukku, which means Chief
mountain.
The Piegans held Chief Mountain in
superstitious awe because they believed
that a great cavern near its summit
was the home of the Thunder Bird,
which caused the thunder and lightn-
ing. Like all of the tribes and nations
which are of Algonquin stock, they had
a myth concerning the awe-inspiring
mystery of nature that causes thunder
claps and lightning flashes. They per-
sonified this mysterious and superna-
tural power in the Thunder Bird, which
they worshipped and to which they
made p%ropitiatory sacrifices.
The Piegans have a tradition that the
Thunder Bird was once overcome by a
snow storm and that he descended into
their camp. Thunder Bird was taken
to the lodge of the head chief, where
many of the tribe assembled. Its feath-
ers had many colors like the rainbow
and its claw were long and green. When
it suddenly flew from the lodge, the
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her, he would find his lodge cold and
empty when he returned and his wife
killed by her own hand.
The young chief reasoned with her,
and finally she agreed that it was best
that he should go without her. So he
started at the head of a fine array of
Piegan warriors. and they met and de-
feated the enemy but when his follow
ers returned to the Piegan camp at the
foot of Chief Mountain, they carried
the body of their leader, who had been
killed in the thickest of the fighting.
When his wife had learned of the
young chiefs death, she became crazed
with grief. or as the Piegans said
touched by the Great Spirit" She
wandered everywhere looking for her
husband, calling his name. Her people
watched and cared for her, until n
day she slipped quietly away with her
baby and was far up tn eside of Chief
Mountain before any one saw her. Run
ners we're sent after her, but she was
too fleet and gained the top where she
signalled to those below in sign langu-
age that she had found her husband,
and they should not follow her. Then
she threw the child far out from her
over the precipitous cliff that forms the
face of Chief mountain. AS the tiny
form hurtled downward to the cruel
rocks, the mother leaped to her death
hundreds of feet below.
The tragedy had been witnessed by
almost the entire Piegan band from
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chiefs, many summers ago the Piegans
were encamped at the base of Chief
Mountain when they were attacked by
a war party Of the Pend d'Oreilles. The
first Piegan warrior out of the camp
to meet the attack was a Brave Dog
named Nose, and in a moments time
he was far out ahead of the rest of the
fighting men. His mother, Red Flow
err, saw his peril, and knowing the rules
of the society to which he belonged, she
realized that his only chance for es-
cape from death vas for of his rel
atives to risk death by riding out ahead
of Nose, and turning him back.
Red Flower quickly united q pony
that was picketed near her lodge, and
in a few seconds was riding out ahead
OF the assembling warriors to rescue
her son, who stood far out alone, shak-
ing his val rattle and haunting the
Pend d'Oreilles, calling upon them to
send out their best warrior to fight him.
But the Pend d'Oreilles declined the
challenge and a dozen of them started
out to get his scalp.
It was a race between the Indian
woman and the enemy, and she won.
Riding in front of her son she struck
him four times, as the rules of the So
ciety required, before he could turn
back. Then he jumped up behind her
on the pony and they dashed back to
the line of the oncoming Piegans form
ed for a charge on the Pend d'Oreilles.
The latter were soon defeated and scat
tered with heavy losses, and because
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Later Frank Reinig, who lived on
the Dearborn, his wife and son Will,
played the violins, and a MI. Connors
played the concertina.
II think the majority of we old tim
ers look back with pleasure upon those
days spent in Nelson gulch. Many of
the men that mined there are now
wealthy. There vas plenty of gold.
"And we homesteaders did not do so
bad. Most of us sold DUR ranches, after
we had improved them.
AFTER we sold our ranch we went to
Missoula where we lived two years, then
we went to Idaho. My husband had a
small ranch near Standpoint, Idaho. He
died on March 10, 1929. I am the last
surviving member of our family and
am now alone"
Mrs. Blackstone is keenly interested
IN current events, and reads much. She
has never worn glasses. Her apart
ments are in the Brown block She has
a multitude of friends.
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In all the length and breadth Of
Montana, there is perhaps NO single
landmark that was better known to
tho Blackfeet Indians in The early
days or to the pioneers Of that part
of the Northwest, during the old
staging and freighting days, than
Chief Mountain.
Situated four miles south Of the Can
adian border and plainly visible from
the north end of st. Mary's lake IN
Glacier National park, this peculiarly
e-shaped mountain holds many a
forgotten secret and is the subject OF
many an interesting Indian legend.
Chief Mountain stands far out to the
east of the main chain of the Rockies,
appearing to rise from the plains very
abruptly, and around it is woven more
of the mysticism and history of the
Blackfeet nation Of a~borigines than Is
associated with any other mountain
that stood within the domain claimed
by the warlike people. The saddest OF
these legendary stories of this age-old
landmark was once told by n of the
old Piegans chiefs, as follows:
In the old days, there was a young
man of the Piegans who was noted for
his bravery in war. He soon became a
leader among the young men and, after
q time. he was made a chief
About this time, he fell in love with a
Piegan maiden and married her. The
young couple were very much devoted
to each other, and the young chief. al
though he possessed enough horses to
entitle him to other wives: refused to
take others. the two living alone.
Soon, the Piegans became engaged in
a bitter warfare against their always
enemies, the Crows. At first. the Pie
gans we're successful. but there came a
time when a great war party that had
started out to punish the aggressors met
with disaster. The Crows killed the
entire party with the exception OF six,
who were each wounded.
This young chief was then called upon
b. head another party against the
Crows. out of vengeance for the practi-
cal determination Of the previous force.
He prepared an expedition. The morn
ing he was to leave. his wife came to
him and informed him that if he went
at the head of the war party. she must
also go. This he forbade. and she in
turn said that if he went alone without
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BY H. T. BAILEY

Days when Nelson gulch was the
scene of vast placer mining opera
tons in 1871, and life on a home
stead, in the wild Dearborn country,
in the early COS were reviewed by
Mrs. F. E. Blackstone, daughter of
Hezekiah Hardgrove, Montana pio-
neer. With his son, James, H%ardgrove
came to Helena, Sept. Is, 1864. James
went back later to stay with the fam
lily until his father could bring them
to their new home.
It was in 1871 when Mr.. and Mrs.
Hardgrove, their son James and their
three daughters took what was then
known as an emigrant train to Corrine,
Utah. From there they staged to Hell
ena, making the trip in four days and
four nights. There were II passengers.
Mr.. Blackstone recalls.
Mamie Hardgrove (Mrs. Blackstone)
was the youngest child. Her sister,
Amanda, later became the wife of Mr.
Mike Geary, prominent Montana pio-
neer and miner; and another sister
Frances, married John Short, who was
then mining in Nelson gulch. Several
years after his death Mrs. Short mar
r1ed herman Lydolph.
Owned Mine Claims
Mrs. BlackStone's father owned sew
eral mining claims in Nelson gulch,
and their cabin was at the mouth of
Christmas gulch. Hardgrove sold one
Of these claims to his son-in-law, Mike
Geary. It was on this claim that a
nugget valued at more than 81 $50,
was found by Geary.
II remember the day he took the mug
get home. He told my sister to close
her eyes and hold out her hand. She
did so. Then he dropped the heavy
nugget into her palm. It "a egg-shaped
and as smooth as if it had been pol
ished by a jeweler.
"Of course my sister was made happy
by the lucky strike, and the value OF
the nugget added materially to the
cleanup.
"Our claim was in a beautiful To-
cation. We had a fine garden and
raised strawberries, %currants, also goose
berries, IS well as other garden truck
Zone day my mother and I were
alone in the cabin. There was a terrible
storm followed by a c~loudburst. Within
a few minutes water was flowing into
the cabin. It was 81 feet deep in the
kitchen. We escaped by a side door
The cabin was seriously damaged, SC
father built a new cabin. The large
dam that stored the water for placer
mining wa q fair-sized lake.
"A few years ago some friends tool
me up Nelson gulch. I wanted to find
the old cabin. When I was a little Cir
the trees were small shrubs, and there
wa considerable brush. Now there are
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PECAN Indians Held Did Chief Mountain in Superst;t;ous
A,Ue as Home of "Thumder Bird; Story of It's Naming

Of his bravery and his part in the fight
after his rescue, the chiefs changed the
name Of Nose to Brave Dog.
In later years, this same old Chief
Mountain has stood out as q beacon for
many border outlaws, both Canadian
and American, who were in the act OF
escaping Justice from n side Of the
line to the other. Many a horse thief
and many q whisky trader, hard-press-
ed by q sheriff or marshal has ridden
for miles with Chief Mountain in view,
knowing that it stood only four miles
from the Canadian line-which spelled
safety . Many a Canadian fugitive from
justice has beaten the relocated
mounted police to the line in a desper-
ate race for freedom.
Following the Battle Of the Little Big
Horn, Sitting Bulls warriors rode
straight for the Canadian line, and
parties of them headed for Chief
Mountain, knowing that beyond it was
sanctuary from the ~blue-coated United
States cavalrymen. During the follow
ing year, 1877, Chief Mountain saw
struggling Nez Perez warriors who had
escaped from the scene of the Battle of
the Bear Paws after Chief Joseph's sur
render to Miles, trooping past to safety
on the Canadian side.
In the early nineties, Little Bear and
Rocky Boy, with their homeless band
of Crees and Chippewas, were escorted
to the Canadian line by Lieut.. John J.
Pershing, and turned over to the
mounted police as escaped Canadian
Indians. In a few weeks, these same
Indians rode back past Chief Mountain
and headed into the mountain defiles to
the southwest on their return to Mon
| tana.
Today, silent and mysterious, with its
wealth of historic legends, old Chief
Mountain stands as ever, a sentinel Of
the border, but instead of watching
mounted red warriors of the old days
riding by with scalps dangling from
lances and coup sticks, or wary out
laws within sight of this silent sentinel
of the plains.
The newly constructed and hard r.
faced roads throughout the length and
breadth of Glacier county, Montana,
have rendered Chief Mountain easy of
access to automobile tourists and no
trip to Glacier park is complete with
out a visit to this historic sentinel Of
the border.
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Old Time t
Peace Officer Dies

George Williams, whom every old
timer in the Sidney country and in
many other parts Of Montana knew
well, was buried at Sidney recently. Mr..
Williams died in a hospital in Missoula,
his body was sent to Glendive, where
funeral services were conducted in the
Elks home.
The body was then brought to Sidney,
where 1t was placed in the cemetery be-
side that of Joe Egge, another old
timer and close friend of Mr.. Villains.
MI. Williams came to this part Of the
country In about 1894 and made his
first trip up the lower Yellowstone val
ley In 1885 with a cattle roundup which
headed this way. He was sheriff Of
Dawson county when the county COM
posed about one-third Of the entire
state. He had lived in the western part
OF the state for several years, in the VIC
Unity Of Missoula.
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Story of Old Montana Is Told
by Daughter of State Pioneer

tall trees and everything has changed.
I did not recognize the place. After
much difficulty I found the old cabin
site. A pile of stones-the remains of
the old c~himney-was all that was left
of our home.
When I grew up, I met Mr.. Black
stone and we were married. My hus-
band mined near Park City. Later we
moved to the Dearborn country where
We took a homestead and we lived there
for nearly 20 years."
The Blackstone homestead was be-
tween the north and the midle fork of
the Dearborn river, about IS miles from
Helena. The nearest doctor was at Au-
gusta-30 miles distant. Wolf creek was
Is miles from the ranch.
Deer Plentiful
Deer browsed about the cabin, and a
tiny fawn came to the cabin day
and refused to leave. Prairie chickens
and grouse we're abundant, but there
were other things more urgent in Mr..
Blackstone's life than hunting.
There was a cabin to build. Miles of
poles for fencing to be cut and placed.
Land to be cleared. And an abundance
of wild hay to be cut and stacked.
I'VE went to Helena about four times
annually. It usually took a day and a
half to make the trip to town. We
camped by the trail at night. It re-
quired two days to make the return
journey, as DUR big farm wagon was
filled with supplies. Our nearest neigh
Dor was my brother, James Hardgrove,
His ranch was about a mile and a half
from our ranch.
Settlers Come In
"Our life was that Of the average
homesteader. We were happy. OF course
we all worked hard.
Settlers came into the Dearborn
Then the children began to grow up
and the settlers faced the need of a
little amusement. When we first locat-
ed on the homestead. we young married
folks met at the schoolhouse. It was a
log building about IL feet long and 1C
feet wide. But we soon outgrew that
The children wanted to learn to dance
That was some job. You know I am
quite a small woman, and it was some
job dragging some of those big six
footers around the room teaching them
to dance. But they soon learned, and
then there was no place large enough
to dance in.
"A new schoolhouse was needed. Then
one day my husband met a butch OF
settlers at the postoffice, and he told
them he would cut the logs and have
them sawed, and pay for the saving
If the other settlers would agree tc
haul the logs to the SchoolhouSe and