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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-01-04
Northeastern Com pany
Reports Good Business

The numerous local holders OF
policies with the Northwestern Mutual
Life Insurance Company, of Milwaukee
will be pleased to learn of the action OF
this company in declaring a sub
stantial dividend increase for the en-
suing year, 1885.
The dividend increase will be an
average of 149o over the 1884 dividend
scale, and the sum of over $50, 500 ,0OG
has been set aside for that use in 1885
affecting all policy holders.
New paid-for business in 1884
amounted to 1913, 729, 6O3 for the II
months ending Nov. 30th, an increase
of 224% over like period in 1888.
This company is represented in this
territory by Bert Scholtus, Virginia, as
range agent. The above action attests
to the excellent financial position OF
this old line organization, which is now
entering its 77th year in business-adv
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-01-04

AL Heritage, well known in this city
where he has been employed in the
capacity of public accountant for both
the city and school district, died at
Rochester, Minnesota, Friday following
an operation for brain tumor. The
funeral took place in Virginia on Mon
day afternoon under the auspices OF
Mesaba Lodge No. 222, I. o. o. F. He
is survived by his widow, his father and
two sisters, the father and sisters living
in California.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-01-04

Miss Ann Popovich was hostess at
bridge at her home on Camp Street
Thursday Mrs Nick Popovich was
awarded high honors.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-01-04

Harold Lindbeck spent New Years
eve in Eveleth.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-01-04

petual yield basis.
The forests should be a national asset,
and not a liability.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-17

the impoverished Lena Letto all
these families ate much better
than the families we visited in
Moscow. They were far better
clothed.
They lived in much better
rooms and had more space. Jan
berg and wife had two rooms.
Rants family Of four had two
rooms, kitchen and bathroom.
Lena Letto had only one room,
but there were only two members
of the family. The Moscow
statistical average as about four
persons to the room.
These people were not hand
picked. We saw them all with q
Socialist who wanted to show us
the average. They all read news
papers, go to the movies, seem to
be enjoying themselves.
Poorest paid workers in Reval
are the girls in the spinning mill.
We visited it. They stand all day
long and perform the same un-
ending monotonous motion until
the sight of it makes a spectator
dizzy. They have an unenviable
job. So do textile workers in the
Soviet Union.
Girls in the Reval mill work 8
hours for an average of SO Kronen
a month. Girls in the melange
mill we visited in Ivanovo-Voz.
neShenSk in Russia work z hours
day for an average of $50
roubles a month. This is also the
statistical average wage of all
Soviet industrial workers.
Wages Compared
Careful calculation shows that
the so ESthonian kronen have q
purchasing power just about the
same as the Russian $50 roubles.
Real wages of the poorest Esthon-
ian workers seem to be about the
same as the real wages of the
average Soviet worker.
At that a Reval mill girl on a
holiday could spend the product
of five hours work and have her
choice of At cold platters and eight
hot pots. But the highest paid
man in the Soviet Union could
search new Russia from Vladivos.
tok to MinSk and search in vain
for sexer table.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-17
Naval Reserves
TOBe Feted In
Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, May
II U.N.SO.-Three hundred
Naval Reserves from four Ameri-
can universities will eat "lechon
asado"-barbecued pork in ma
tive style-when they visit here
June 20 aboard six American de-
stroyers, according to plans an.
nounced today.
An elaborate reception is
planned for the students, who
will come from Yale, Harvard,
Northwestern and Georgia Tech
universities.
SenoritaS of the University Of
Puerto Rico have been named
hoSteSSeS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-17

ECONOMISTS call the differ
ence between what the pro-
Queer gets and what the con-
sumner pays the "spread."
What constitutes the "spread"
between the dairyman's cow
and the consumers door
step is as much the concern
of the corporate milkman as
the public he serves.
A breakdown of the difference
between the producers price
and the consumers price re-
veals the milkman's costs of
doing business-to-wit: as
sembly, transportation, pas
teurizing, processing, bot
ting, selling, delivery.
What is left, if anything, is
the milkman's proft-the
residue to which he must
look for his own sustenance.
If profit fails him for long
he is through.
1t is the one vitamin essential
to his economic life.
In Washington this remainder
is about 3 mills a quart.
How to preserve the milkman's
useful service at a fair price
to both dairyman and con-
sumner is the sovereign test
of corporate management.
Were a cut to be made in the
price to the consumer, the
consequence would be in
tolerably disturbing.
The farmer would have to take
less, the milkman's profit
would be wiped out and he
with it, or wages would have
to shrink.
None of these eventualitieS
seem reasonably desirable in
the public interest.
&x1%~":&
PRESIDENT
CHESTNUT FARMS
CHEVY CHASE DAIRY
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-17
WORKERS DINE
LIKE NOBEMEN
IN ESTHON|A

IThe Soviet Workinom1n la
borS hours for q piece of black
bread, but in ESthouid, the
poorest eat like mobiles of old
imperial Russia, according to
H. r. Knickerbocker in the
fifth article of his Baltic Sc.
TieSJ
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-17

The important casual
coat with the little boy
collar fastening with
two buttons at the
neck. Novelty white
wool. Sizes II to IT.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-17
WHITE Summer Glove

Novelty weaves with smartly flaring cuffs of or
CANDY or lace; pu-ons with fringed cuffs. All
in white and at 81 you'll want several pairs to
keep you fresh on hot days! Sizes 512 to 8....."
LANsBURGHS-STREET FLOOR-GLOVEs
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-17

A. One-strap sandals with
side buckles and cut
out vamps and white
patent leather trim
ming. Dress heels.
B. One eyelet ties in white
kid with perforations
on the vamp and quar-
tiers. Continental heels.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FLOOR.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-17
Grand WHITE Swagger Coats

and-going- places white coats! Nubby white woods,
kitten-soft angora, corduroy, basketweave with
tricky new fastenings and smart Details Fully
lined, of course. Sizes IA to 20, and "a to A.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FIOOR-COAT DEPARTMENT
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-12-20

went about with white faces and kept
their children inside with doors locked.
Men stood guard at night, guns loaded
and ready. And the agitated Montana
plainsmen sent plea after plea to
Washington for help. When Secretary
Webb finally came to Billings in re-
Spouse to their prayer he said: Il am
puzzled. Since 1910 the Crows have been
friends of the whites"
On October II, General Sheridan
started west to investigate the wide
spread trouble among the Indians. BY
October 26 two companies of infantry
arrived at Fort Custer from Fort
Keogh, one of cavalry from Fort Nc
Ginnis and two from Fort Mckinney,
all under command Of General Dud-
ley. Under that date we read: mo
such preparations for war have been
made since 1876" Meanwhile Sword
Bearer and his swelling band were en-
camped at 4O-Mile ranch close to Fort
Custer.
From all over the reservation, the
peaceful frightened Crows, quite as
troubled as the threatened whites, were
crowding into the agency with their
families, begging for protection. They
were between two fires-the divine
power of Sword-Bearer and the belch-
ing of the whites.
Chief Pretty Eagle was greatly trou-
bled. The soldiers insisted that he give
up Sword Bearer. Again and again
he went to the mad young agitator,
pleading with him to surrender, eau
tioning him that nothing but calamity
could possibly come from his wild re-
bellion. But the young medicine man
would not listen. He was insane with
the zest for power and victory, intox-
icated by his first taste of successful
leadership, and on fire with hatred of
the whites.
It was a grave situation and required
careful handling. The government de-
sired to avoid, if possible, any conflict
with the peace-minded Crows. Chief
Pretty Eagle said to General Arm
strong:
1.-THE Crows do not want to fight the
whites but are afraid Of the medicine
man, Sword-Bearer, who says that I'M
less we join him he will destroy us. He
him. The gun of white man cannot
harm him. The very ground is now
shaking before he does his great deeds"
The Crows at this time were in de6-
perate need Of q wise leader whose in
fluence might counterfeit that Of the
shrewd insurgent and the whites, equal
ly desperate, needed an arbiter who
could make peace with the Crows be-
fore the tragedy Of war could occur.
So both Crows and whites turned with
one accord to the only man who might
successfully perform this difficult task
the subchief Plenty Coups. But. at
this most critical period in the history
of the Crows, when his peoples need for
him was vital, Plenty Coups could not
be found. Under date Of November,
1887, we read: Messengers have been
sent to call in all the Crows to the
agency. It is hoped they will come
peaceably. If not Plenty Coups will be
sent to influence them"
And under date of November 4, we
learn: 'The Indians are all at the
agency except Plenty Coups." No n
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-12-20

limited that he had hidden for he was
not the man to flee from danger or to
Shirk his duty. Down in the valley
It was rumored that Plenty Coups had
Joined Sword-Bearer. At that POSSIBLE
ity. strong hearts quaked with terror,
Tor, with his influence aligned against
them, their peril would be doubled. The
questions were on every mans lips:
Where is Plenty Coups9 Why doesn't
he Gomez" He was not at his lodge.
He was not at Pryor. No one in Bill
tngs, Fort Custer or through the valley
a seen him. Chief Pretty Eagle sent
out runners searching for him. with
every taut day of waiting the situation
became more strained for both Indians
and whites. Terror-stricken Crows
burrowed far back into hills away from
the barking cannon that threatened
them. Pretty Eagle persistently refused
To give up Sword-Bearer. Reluctantly
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-12-20

The other faction had for its leader
a young, ambitious Crow, Chees-ta-
pah. later known as "Sword-bearer."
Sword-Bearer itched for power. He
burned with hatred of the whites. He
envied Plenty Coups his growing in
fluence among the Crows.
He saw no reason why he could not
make of himself a second Sitting Bull
and lead the Crows to a victory as COM
plete as the M against Custer. He
must have been a very clever, willy,
Sword-Bearer, quick to play upon the
superstitions of his people and to bene-
fit therefrom. He posed as a medicine
man, imbued with divine power, and
often, it appeared, luck was with him.
Once, while out with a small band of
hot-headed warriors, he prophesied a
storm. It CHANGED that soon afterwards
a storm came, with loud thunder and
heavy lightning. The crafty Sword
Bearer did not fail to make use Of the
situation. 1T was I, Sword-Bearer, who
brought the fire from the Blue" he
shouted. His young satellites among
the Crows began to believe him invinc-
ible, a messenger sent straight from
the Great Spirit to lead them out of
their gruelling servitude to the whites.
They did not doubt his story when he
assured them that once as he was up on
the mountain top making medicine,
the skies opened and the Great Spirit
sent a sword down to him from the
Blue. They were ready to follow him,
with his magic sword, wherever he led,
and his way led them into open hos
tilities with the pale faces.
BY late summer of 1887 Sword-Bear-
er, then about 26 years old, had under
him $50 armed young bucks, with new
arrivals coming daily from other tribes
to join his band. They fortified them
selves in the mountains above the Lit
tie Big Horn. Down in the valley the
rumor spread rapidly among the uneasy
settlers that all the Sioux tribe and the
Blackfeet and the Cheyennes vert
joining with the hitherto peaceful
Crows to exterminate the whites and
recover their buffalo ranges. Women
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-12-20
Frenchtown Area Will Have $500
Acres of Dry Land Under Irrigation

When the afternoon sun Eliminates
the entrance TO Hell Gate canyon,
the scene is remarkably beautiful.
This little settlement held its iden-
tity until 1865. With the invasion of
the vigilantes and farmers, they
christened the now thriving modern
city, Misscula. This is one of the
natural gateways through the noun
tain trails. Its wall rises abruptly
from the level floor, their lines sOf-
tened by their covering of trees.
All day, these blankets of pine, fir
and tamarack lie dark and somber up
on their steep-pitched resting places.
The dense green is almost black in the
shadow of Mount Sentinel. Another
famous settlement f1ourished during the
pioneer days in Montana, called
Frenchtown.
This vas made famous by Montana's
bad men," Indian uprisings and the
pony express. These areas will pros
per again. Not through the ill-gotten
gains of Montana's bad men," but
the governments irrigation project,
which is now being christened French
town Irrigation project.
Seventy-five hundred acres of this
land will be irrigated, all owned by in
dividuals and while there will be di-
versifiied farming, it will be chiefly
used for wheat. The reclamation ser
vice first became interested in the fall
of 1888. Says Ex-senator Donlan: THE
preliminary estimate of costs being
$180, 900, the allotment is $240, 900, OF
which $50, 900 is for drainage, which will
not be used at the present time. The
cost will be met by forty-year payments
with interest. Nick Burgraff of Idaho
Falls, Idaho, has a contract. While
it has not been approved, they are ex-
pecting the approval soon. The ditch
will be completed in IS days and water
on the ground by May Is, 1886. It will
cost rs cents per acre to pay the debt
to the government, plus 80 cents per
acre for maintenance. There was an
appropriation in 1919 by congress for
$500 to see whether or not the Grass
Valley ditch could be estimated. At that
time the cost was estimated at 1913 ,O0C
which was too much and again came to
life in 1888, at which time it was ap-
proved by the Public Works administra-
ton in December.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-12-20

General Dudley admitted that arrests
must be made ven at the cost of war,
but postponed action. hoping for Plenty
Coups. 1t is remarkable how the quiet
force of that grave man was felt by
whites and Indians alike. BY this time
Sword-Bearer's little day of glory was
waning. He had to admit defeat. On
November 3, 1900 Indians were con-
gregated at Crow, and Sword Bearer
and his followers we're with them.
Arrests were to be made as soon as
Plenty Coups arrived. Still the mystery
Of his disappearance had not been
solved.
On Nov. 5, Secretary Webb sent
q welcome dispatch to Mayor Goss of
Billings: Fight this afternoon. Sword
Bearer and two Indians killed. One cor
poral and two soldiers wounded. Bal
ance Of Indians captured. No further
cause for ALARM"
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-12-20
WHEAT SUPPLY
BELOW AVERAGE
(MONTANA STATE COLLEGE)

The world supply Of wheat outside
Russia and China is estimated at a.
399, 900, 900 bushels by the United States
bureau of agricultural economics. This
is 1857, 900, 1000 bushels less than a year
ago, and 535, OOO, 900 bushels less than
the 1928-32 average. Little likelihood
ports from overseas countries this sea-
son compared with last. The increase
In European requirements this season,
estimated at 100000 bushels, prob
ably will be covered by increased ex-
ports from Russia and Danube basin
countries.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-12-20
~Flying Bird, Young Crow Indian Maiden,
Was First and Last Loue of Chief Plenty Coups, Although
Great Joy or Deep Grief Came to Him, He Wanted to Sha,
by GLENDOLN DAMON WAGNER

co-author of Blankets and Moccasins."
Author Of "old Neutriment."
Most of US who knew the late Chief
Plenty Coups think Of him as an
cid, bent, shriveled, weary man. al
most blind, ready and willing to cross
the slippery Log over into the Hap
Hy Hunting Ground. We think Of
him also rs q great chieftain, q brave
warrior, q wise diplomat, a patient
seeing him in his latter, feeble days,
knowing that he had been married
many times, could suspect that with
m that worn frame beat q young
heart still warm with the first rO-
nance Of his youth.
In n of his are talkative moods he
confided to a pale-face friend Just q
short time before his death that his
first love had also been his last. He
had given her a poetic name that
seemed to him to suit her because her
young, light feet, in the tribal dances,
were like small, flying birds. He called
her Flying Bird" She died while he
was still a young man, before the vic
tories and the honors that were to be
his had come. And so, according to the
ethics Of his tribe, he married her Sis
ter and, after that, another woman and
another.
But" said the old Indian, gravely,
AL through my life, whenever great
joy or deep grief has come to me, I have
wanted TO share those things with my
wife, Flying Bird. Often I have gone
up into the silences of the mountain
to commune with her spirit, and COM
fort and courage have always come
to me-"
Flying Bird died in 1887, and that
was a memorable year, marked, for the
Crows and for the white settlers of
Montana, with excitement more than
tinged with fear, for it was in the
fall of that year that the peaceful
Crows threatened insurrection, bring
ing wildly back to the terrorized minds
of the whites the awful massacre on
Custer hill and menacing them with
the same fate.
Pretty Eagle was then chief of the
Crows. and under him were two rival
political factions. The one, headed by
the sUb-chief and warrior, Plenty
Coups, advised the prudent policy Of
permanent peace with the whites.
"Not," Plenty Coups said often, "be-
cause We consider their ways better
than ours, but because they are strong
er than w and therefore our only
hope of survival is to submit to them"
And to this our most of the wise
ones Of the tribe aligned themselves.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-12-20
GRAZING DISTRICTS APPROVED

The Montana grazing commission
has approved grazing districts en-
braclng 1880, 900 acres Of land, it has
been announced by Nick w. Monte of
Miles City, administrator of the board,
He also added while attending q meet
ing OF the body that he expected l..
100000 more would be added within q
short time. The districts already n
ated carry the following livestock:
23.46O cattle; l33.O40 sheep: $3.50
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-12-20

In the meantime, James Campbell
and Bill Hamilton had gone ia search
OF Plenty Coups. They found him high
up in the mountains, unaware OF the
terrible need of his people for him. He
was mourning, in solitude, the death OF
his wife, his first and only love, Flying
Bird
Evening star., 1935-09-08
By Marsery Rice.

rangement which is ideal for drawing
the desired comparison. On the one
hand there are green lawns, open
spaces where children play on the
grass under the trees, and a large,
modern brick apartment house con-
tanning number of low-cost apart
mentS.
Across a fence is an old-fashioned
slum. All the dirt and general bro
ken-down appearance which charac-
terizes such places is well brought out
in the diorama. Children play in
the narrow courts and above them
clotheslines exhibit ragged garments.
Under the windows steam shovel
wheezes and puffs at an excavating
job. Garbage cans line the alley
which runs past the place, and alto
gether it presents an unforgettable
picture of the sort of dwelling in
which people should not have to live.
Mr.. Plastow and his assistants have
added to this diorama not only move
ment, as used in the practical minia-
ture steam shovel, but changing
4ISiIIo' uCNlCc "lliCll COlIliIlduuS dC-
tention. In this model day and
night follow each other within a cycle
of about one minute, showing the
contrasted buildings by moonlight as
we'll as by sunlight.
Through the working of an auto
matte control, the sunshine which
first floods the diorama gradually
fades into twilight and darkness, at
the same time that the moon comes
out and street lights are turned on.
Bright and cheerful lights appear in
the windows of the modern apart
Evening star., 1935-09-08

ment and feeble kerosene lamps slim-
mer in the slum. One by one the
lights in the homes are extinguished,
leaving only the lighted elevator shaft
in the modern building, and then the
darkness gives way to dawn. The
steam shovel, which stopped with
the dusk. begins its work again and
the spectators stand fascinated. Most
of them remain to watch the model
through another light cycle or two.
TT IS hard to understand why such
an instrument of education has
been overlooked these many years,
but the fact is that diorama making
has been practically non-existent in
this country since before the turn
of the century. Dioramas have been
used more or less extensively in
Europe ever since about 1878, when
two Frenchmen put sky behind
model they were making and orig
mated the idea of providing atmos-
phere for their work. The British
Museum has made extensive use of
this form of art, and many English
youths have been enticed into going
to far-off Australia by the attractive
dioramaS of the colonies created by
the museum for just that purpose.
None of the European models made
use of animation, however, as far as
history shows.
The Chicago Fair was the signal
for the revival of the diorama busi-
ness in America, and the managers
of that great exhibition brought an
expert from London to make some
dioramas for them. At the same
time Charles Plastow, who was then
living in Tampa, Fla, got the idea
Evening star., 1935-09-08

A DIORAMA maker, says Mr.. Plas-
tow, must be half artist and
half mechanic, or better yet 40 per
cent artist and go per cent mechanic.
A person whose artistic leanings over
shadow his ability along mechanical
lines is likely to use too much painted
background and not enough modelled
and constructed foreground detail. The
Interior Department dioramas. follow
ing Mr.. Plastows formula, show only
painted sky, with occasionally few
trees or mountains on the fat surface.
and everything else modelled in three
dimensions.
Diorama making is just as inter-
esting as it sounds. There are no
rules to go by, or practically none, and
each separate model presents new
problems. The first step in any job is
getting the information which it is
planned to present. Then the manner
of presenting it must be worked out
and plan drawn.
Mr.. Plastow frequently makes a
small postcard" model in addition to
drawing a plan. Such a model, which