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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
Pioneer OF AZ
Years Passes To
Final Reward

One of the long time pioneers of the
Libby district passed to his reward
Sunday night when John Frederick
died about 11:30 o'clock at the Hotel
Richards. Slim as he was known to
all his friends, had been i'll only few
days but had been ailing for some
time He knew that death was near and
was fully resigned to its visit, having
remarked to different ones that he
could not get we'll
The deceased was born in Allegheny
county, Pennsylvania, 81 years ago. He
came to the Libby country in 1891, he
then being young man of 20 years.
At that time he was employed by a
man who had contract for the fur
nishing of ties for the construction of
the Great Northern railroad. In 1892
he filed on the land on the river north
of town where he developed home
and where he lived for many years. In
the early days he was employed in
mining and prospecting and at different
times was interested in various mine
prospects. He also was employed by
the forest service at different times. 1t
is said that he accumulated quite
little property He had never married
and while it is believed there are rel
atives living in the East, it has not yet
been possible to get in touch with them
Funeral services will be held from
the Gompf chapel Saturday evening at
7 o'clock with the Rev r. v Crater
officiating, assisted by the Masonic
lodge, of which he had been a member
for many years Burial will be in The
Libby cemetery
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
Tourists
Are Coming
To Montana
So Reports Publicity Man
After Visiting Many
Eastern CenterS.
CONTACTED 143
TOUR BUREAUS

HELENA, July 16.-Reporting great
interest in Montana and the Pacific
Northwest in all section of the east and
middle west from a tourist standpoint.
Wayne Richardson, of Bozeman, has
returned to the state after 7,000 mile
trip during which he covered nearly
all of the important tourist centers Of
the territory lying east of Montana.
Mr. Richardson was employed by the
advertising committee of Montanans,
Inc, whose members felt that one of
the most important things to be done
was to familiarize the various tourist
agencies with the states vocational ad-
vantages and the accessibility of Mon
tana over the splendid new system of
highways which has been built during
the past few years, as we'll as by rail
and by air.
Mr. Richardson contacted lab tour
bureaus, 40 railroad and air line re-
representatives., 33 automobile clubs,
practically all of the largest news
papers, chambers of commerce and
miscellaneous agencies. The policy of
the advertising committee, according to
officials Of Montanans, Inc, is to see
that all of the publicity matter pre-
pared is distributed without waste. He
carried with him Montana highway
commission maps, inserts and books
prepared through the financial assist
ance of various state departments and
the tourist appropriation passed at the
last session of the legislature, Mon
tana in Rotogravure,' prepared by Tom
Greenfield of Butte, and posters OBJ
tanned from the national parks service.
At each agency only such supplies as
were needed for immediate use were
left and they were instructed to write
Montanans. Inc. for more when needed.
AT that, Mr.. Richardson distributed
nearly 10000 maps, several thousand
inserts, thousand of the rotogravures
and sent home requests for over 5000
OF the new tourist books on Montana.
Mr. Richardson's trip also served to
line up many valuable publicity ave-
nues which will prove of great assist
ance in continuous campaign Of pub
licity which is now being inauguarated-
i am convinced that the trip was
very much worth while. said Mr..
Richardson. The various agencies con-
tacted were more than glad to receive
the information, maps and literature
and extended me the privilege of 60
ing behind the counter and talking with
the personnel which actually did the
directing OF the tourist. | am convinced
that one personal contact is worth 100
letters. Questions covered a wide range
and included the whole Rocky MouL-
tain district
My observations were that the Pac-
ific Northwest is destined for real
tourist business this summer and rhat
if we keep our district before the eye
Of the travelling public we will be
rewarded TO an extent not thought pos
sible by those who are not familiar with
the annual movement OF our population
during the vacation period
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
Tourist Slaps Bear In
Face; Bruin Takes II

GLACIER PARK, July 16.-'It is
dangerous and it is prohibited to feed
the bears read the signs along the
Glacier Park roads.
Don't feed the BEARS" Chief Ranger
Thomas E. Whitcraft emphasizes.
Animal life in Glacier Park" he
says, is more abundant than ever be-
fore. AS the animals are becoming
more accustomed to seeing people and
cars they are to be seen much more
frequently than before Deer feed along
the roadside and bears are often seen
on the highway.
Because of this1H is advisable to
travel under the so mile speed limit
Several accidents have been narrowly
averted because deer have leaped onto
the road before an approaching car
This is especially likely to happen at
night
when one sees game along the road
it is perfectly all right to stop and
watch them or take pictures of them,
but don't feed them, particularly the
bears"
Park Ranger Ray Newbury saw one
car stop on the Going -to-the Sun high
way to watch bear, "The bear" he
said, walked to the car and standing
upon his hind legs surveyed the driver
at close range, there was no danger
then. But after moment the driver
reached out and slapped the bear across
the nose. Although the bear did moth
ing after being struck, the driver GER
tainfy invited trouble"
Because of incidents like the above
Ranger Newbury adds this admonition.
Don't modest the bears"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
Training For Juvenile
Lodge Installation

Charles L. L. Hunter, district repre-
sentative of the A. o. u. w. lodge,
begins today the training of the tenn
porary officers for the new Juvenile
lodge of the A. 0. U. w. order, which
is to be installed in Libby soon. Quite
large membership will be initiated
at the organization of the Juveniles.
Mr.. Hunter has been very successful
in his work in this district and at the
meeting here week ago was presented
with a handsome brief case in recogni-
ton of his work 1t will be remembered
that Montana took the prize for the
most new members obtained during
June and that the district presided over
by Mr.. Hunter had the distinction Of
having won similar contest in the
state. Hence the handsome prize to Mr.
Hunter.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
Entertain at Delightful Affair.

Mrs. James Blackboard, Sr. and Mrs.
James Blackboard, Jr., were hostesses
last Saturday afternoon to large group
of ladies at the very pleasant home of
the elder Mrs. Blackboard north Of the
city. The affair was in the nature of
garden party, the Blackboard home
lending itself SO ideally to such
method of entertaining, with its lovely
setting of wildwood and cultivated
flowers and lawn. The beautiful home
and the garden were lovely with
profusion of flowers, which added
greatly to the beauty of the setting
The afternoon was spent by the ladies
with their sewing and in wandering
over the grounds and in visiting. Re
freshments were served in the garden
at the afternoons close.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
Libby Team Wins
Two More Games

The Libby ball team has added Two
more victories to its list of games
played. In a twilight game last Satur-
day, the locals defeated the CCC team
from Camp So on the Yak, with a
score of to 7, in a seven inning
game. Then on Sunday Libby tangled
with the Troy town team and won
easily with IA to score.
Both games were somewhat below
par in interest The one Sunday after
noon was slow, which was cxcusable
because of the unusual heat of the
afternoon, the mercury being above the
hundred mark.
In the Saturday game Brown and
Baker and Pierson and Baker were the
Libby battery and on Sunday Jackson
and Baker.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
Mercury Climbs 10 lO2.

The hottest weather of the season,
and close to the all-time maximum,
descended on Libby during the past
week. Sunday the mercury touched
1O2, with 1O4 the all-time high. The
hot weather started last Friday with a
maximum of 49, Saturday was 81, Sun
day 1O2, Monday 100, Tuesday 80 and
Wednesday 50. A stirring breeze Tues
day and Wednesday helped to temper
the onslaught of Old Sol.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
Contract For Five-Mi|e Highway
Project Will Be Awarded Soon

Marshall Murray while the two men
were in Missoula recently. This
sector connects with the section now
under construction on Swamp creek
southeast of Libby. The new prof.
ect will be about five miles long.
Right f-way for this project has
been recently purchased for the
county by the county attorney
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
Paul Ross Dies.

Paul Ross died at his home in Libby
last Saturday after a lingering illness
of some time. He was born in Austria
and was 40 years old at his death. He
came to Libby in 1919 and worked as
a miner in this district
He is survived by the wife and two
children, Anna, aged IL, and John,
aged II.
Funeral services were held from the
Gompf chapel yesterday morning at 10
o'clock, with the Rev. R. v. Crater of
ficiating. Burial was in the Libby
cemetery The sorrowing relatives have
the sympathy of the community in their
bereavement.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18


Connected events in the early history
of our state. recited by George A.
Ottawa of Libby, tell of stampede
wild rush Of people without prepare
tion--out Of Fort Benton in quest d
placer gold, to the Little Rockies In
the fall of 1884.
ITS whispering that starts stam-
pede," said Mr. Ottawa. Let anyone
noise abroad about gold being discov-
cred off somewhere and it starts no.
body; but let it be whispered-well,
listen to my story"
You know that Alder gulch, with its
yield Of S30,000,000 in placer gold with
in period of eight years, convinced
thousands Of prospectors that placer
ground equally as rich in gold must
exist elsewhere in the territory.
So one day at Fort Benton in The
fall Of 1884 where | was living tenn
porarly, old Dennis Halpin let me
know his secret by whispering that Bob
Orman had whispered to him that Sam
Cook had whispered to Bob that there
had been new discovery Of gold in The
Little Rockies $50 miles away and that
the government was preparing 20 send
soldiers to keep people out because Of
its being on the Gros Ventres reserva-
ton The Gros Ventres, the Assinni-
BONES and the Sioux were all on that
reservation.
Bob Orman, Sam Cook and myself
Immediately bought four broncs, har-
ness and wagon and loaded the wagon
with supplies. We blindfolded the
broncs, harnessed and hitched them to
the wagon, four men holding to the
green. blindfolded broncs until
mounted the high seat and took the
lines Their binders pulled off, and left
free to 90, they started running and
bucking up the hill toward government
coulee, over which we passed, and or
down to Bill Embertson's ranch, and
still on down to the mouth of the
Marias to Nose Solomons stopping
place.
We intended to stay there overnight
but many teams and wagons were
ahead of us, halted just long enough
for the horses to feed out of nose bags
and for the men to snatch briel
lunch. We did not care to lose any
more time that day, for the fever was
running high in us all, and we moveo
on to 28-Mile springs before stoppine
again People were passing us witt
light wagons, huggies, wheelbarrows
Many were afoot with only what was
in their pack sacks to support them.
At 28-Mile springs we decided t.
leave the caravan and pass south o.
the Bears Paw mountains by Antelope
springs, hitting Cow creek at the bast
of those mountains. 1t was trackles!
Continued on page 81
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18

Contract for another section of
u S. highway No. 2 will be let
about August according to an
nouncement of A. c. Clark, senior
highway engineer for the bureau of
public roads, made to M. D. Row
land, chairman of the highway COM
mittee of the Libby Commercial
Club, and to County Attorney
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
Birthday Party.

A group of ladies passed a most en-
ioyable afternoon Monday at the home
of Mrs. Darrell Shaurette, the occa-
sion being Mrs Shaurette's birthday.
Three tables of bridge were in play
with high score honors going to Mrs.
Rosetta Burke and second high to Miss
Ava FRESHMAN Of Malta, Montana, who
is a guest at the E. M. Boyes home.
A delicious two course luncheon was
served at the close of the bridge games,
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
REQUESTED TO KEEP
HORSES OFF MINERAL AVENUE

The work of spreading the oiled
gravel on the main street of the city,
Mineral avenue, was begun on Tues
day and the completion of the i'm
provement is approaching. Engineer
Small of the state highway commits
sion, resident engineer, states that
the surface of the highway will be
in condition for some time where
it can be easily damaged. Therefore
he requests that all horses be kept
off the street at present, as a sharp
shod horse can do a lot of damage
to a street before the gravel and oil
are well set. The public should take
notice Of this request and comply
Herewith.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
WORK TO START ON
EUREKA WATERWORKS SYSTEM

County Attorney Murray is in re-
ceipt this week Of notice to the effect
that the bonds for the Eureka city
water system have been delivered 10
the purchaser, which makes possible
the beginning of work on the project.
The contractor has Is days after receipt
Of notice in which to begin work, states
Mr. Murray
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
QUARANTINE LIFTED.

Mayor McCully announces that the
quarantine that has been in effect in
Libby for several weeks was lifted last
Saturday. The number of scarlet fever
cases has been reduced to one, and 1t
is now considered safe to terminate the
quarantine against children congregat-
ing in public places.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
Orchestra Will Tour Country.

Harold Gompf has recently purchased
large auto bus and expects to start
tour of the country with his orchestra
about September /. Nine members of
the orchestra will be from Libby and
five other musicians and entertainers
will be engaged elsewhere, making a
troupe of fourteen. 1t is planned to tour
Montana first.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
FOREST ROAD CREW WORKING
IN NORTH END COUNTY

The forest service has a crew Of Is
men that has been working throughout
the Rexford district for the past 10
days. There is five-mile project to be
built on the Dodge Creek Yak Sum
nit road. Then there is work to be
done in the Sutton range district and
later a one-mile project to complete
a road into Trego These are all forest
protection roads.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
Auto Down. TO- Foot Grade.

A car driven by Harvey Brown Of
this city went off 10-foot bank by
the Lake creek bridge early Sunday.
Brown received minor injuries. No.
other occupant of the car was hurt.
The accident is attributed to a loose
steering gear.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
CLUB WILL MEET
TONIGHT IN CITY HALL

Cards are out announcing the regular
monthly meeting of the Libby Com
mercial club to be held in the city
hall tonight at 8 o'clock. Committees
are expected to have reports ready and
the usual grist of important business
will be transacted
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
ANNUAL CAMP MEETING
STARTS FRIDAY NIGHT

The annual camp-meeting Of the
Church of God will begin its sessions
Friday night at 5 p. m. The session will
consist of 10 days, seven days devoted
to the general assembly and three days
to the Young Peoples meeting. Min
listers from all parts of the district will
be in attendance.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
Twilight Baseball Saturday.

The Libby town team will tangle
with team from CCC Camp No. 40,
on Keller creek, next Saturday night
on the local diamond. The game will
be called at $50.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
George Ottawa
Tells Of Early-Day
Gold Stampede
BY CHARLES w. HUTTON)

(The following is another article by
c. w. Hutton Of Libby picturing early
Montana life. In this one George A.
Ottawa tells of an early-day gold rush
in which he participated Editors
Note.)
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18

piled, Well it may seem so but that
pays your way across four bridges and
10 miles of highway" We drove on and
found that he spoke the truth. The
highway was built up apparently just
out Of the water. And on each side of
us there grew heavy marsh grass that
was as high or higher than the car in
many places.
In a short time we drove out of this
district into higher ground. The high
way led us through an entirely diff
ferent country. The flat land of the bay
district gave way to gently rolling hills,
with rather deep little valleys between,
And hills and valleys were covered
with mass Of beautiful green trees,
trees of oak, birch and maple, with here
and there a mixture of pine. And
through this district our eyes enjoyed
a very pretty sight and one that
elected comment from all of us.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
A Red, Red Soil.

The soil in this district was almost
the exact color of the red tiles SO fire.
quently used for roofing on city build
ings, a sort of bright red. The high
way consisted of cut and fill, cut and
fill, as it followed its way through these
hills and valleys And the color scheme
was perfect. The side of the cuts a
bright red, the line of the highway the
gray of concrete, and livid and lus-
cious greenness over everything the
beautiful freshness of spring, with the
hills clothed in verdure and the green
grass running right to the highways
edge, Gray of the highway, red Of the
cuts and glorious greenness over all
We pronounced natures color scheme
perfect and lovely
For number of miles we continued
through this delightful environment
Suddenly we rounded a wide curve
and there right before us was large,
handsome and apparently new steel
bridge. 1t was brilliantly white, with
apparently not stain on it. New con-
crete approaches were also attractively
white AS the car tipped up to make
the bridge, our eyes lifted to the Top
Of the structure and there lettered in
gold across top beam were these
words; way down upon the Suwanee
river" We all exclaimed We were
crossing the famous river, the river
about which we had sung since child
hood days
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-07-18
A Fine Bit of Water.

And it was lovely stream. Many Of
the streams of the South are muddied
by the run-off from red soil, the water
being a pale pink But the Suwanee
was different. 1t was clear water. The
stream was some rs to 100 yards wide
and bank full The banks were covered
with trees, from which low hanging
branches touched the waters surface.
This gave an effect Of the stream low
ing through channel Of green leaves,
very pretty sight, We all concluded
this lovely stream was worthy Of the
famous song which it had inspired
This little incident brought 10 my
mind a pleasant memory Of something
had once read Schumann- Heink. the
great contralto, was in the height Of
her fame and glory. She was touring
Europe singing before crowned heads.
Arrangements had been made Tor her
to sing privately before the then great
kaiser Of the German empire She sang
Continued on page d
Evening star., 1935-03-14

With the entire works of the Ma
tionals' little ball club on the scene
now, the practice field over by the air
port looks like some sort of a mass
meeting. Even the sidelines by the
club house are unsafe. Young hope
full hurlers are heaving balls from all
angles. pop flies md line drives cloud
the bright spot in the sky where the
sun ought to be-
Heinie Manush has broken all
existing records (for hin) in the
matter of smiles. He was seen to get
rid of two smiles and one actual grin
the first day Of his appearance And
later he broke down completely and
showed both uppers and lowers. In
fact, he was in such good spirits he
said good morning to a newspaper
man. His Winter at Palm Beach GER
tainly has not been spent in vain. He
has acquired one of the tannest tans
this scribbler ever has yearned for.
The natives here think he is Cuban
rookie Griff picked up in Harlem dur
ing the off season. The owner of the
local screaming screen house has issued
special orders that Heinie not be Jim
crowed when he applies for admission.
Outfelder Jonathon Stone now is a
home owner and comes to Biloxi with
the brilliant idea Of utilizing all the
broken bats as picket fence for his
new tax-ridden little nest. Griff hopes
he won't even get gate post.
Things really are booming in big
way. There is more gaiety in the old
burg than has been witnessed since
Camp Griff opened for business.
Evening star., 1935-03-14
Nobody Giues McCou a Tumble, but Old Man
Of Pitching Peak Declares He's Improved

say, as he did sweet piece of relief
pitching against the Giants in that
sad 1888 world series.
Il mean that my arm is far better
than at any other time" Alex ex-
planned. You'll recall that after the
world series I had an operation on
my elbow. Well, it did not seem to do
me much good last year The arm
stiffened and I never could get 60
ing the way I wanted.
TITS different now. The old arm is
as loose as ever and l can send 'em
through right well. But they never
say anything to me at this camp un-
less they need somebody to shoot EN-
TO the batters."
Then Harris yelled "McColl," and
old Alex trotted to the hill to show
the swingers he still had something
left in the ancient soupbone.
The Nationals are getting gobs of
batting practice these days. They
were up there swinging for more than
two hours yesterday and every one of
the veteran fingers in camp, as well
as several rockies, had turns on the
mound.
Evening star., 1935-03-14

ITO KEEP the minds of his charges
upon the game and the i'm
portance of getting into condi-
ton early, Frisch is working his team
harder than any outfit this observer
has seen in Florida. There are two
workouts daily. The driving. energetic
methods of John Joseph McGraw
prevail under the regime of Frisch.
This team must realize 1t cannot
win this year on its reputation" says
Frisch. "As a matter of fact We we're
lucky last season. 1t will be battle
all the way for us again
Frisch thinks his club will be
stronger. perhaps steadier, but can
didly fears the Giants He rates Bill
Terry's club at least a full notch above
any other rival.
Dizzy Dean is more confident the
Cardinals will repeat than he is of
his own ability to touch 80 victories
again. He admits he will be lucky to
collect 25, and figures the aggregate
output for the famous brother act as
40 or more"
Paul Dean, the silent half of the
combination, should have a better
sophomore year than he enjoyed as a
freshman He won 19 games last sea-
son despite poor start and twisted
ankle.