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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-07-17
Montana Pioneer, Frank Lacy,
Has Witnessed Progress of
Cattle Industry for 81 Years

was as good as another mans note.
Often n of them would ride into
Miles City from the plains, clatter into
a store, purchase 500 worth of goods
and say, nonchalantly, to the mer-
chant:
my name is Tom or Dick or Harry.
I'll be back after awhile to settle with
you"
Then, after perhaps a day or two Of
wild hilarity in town, the man would
disappear, to be swallowed by the linn
itless plains. The merchant understood
that he might not see the lean, over
allied, booted cowboy again for another
also, that some time after fall roundup
that ame cowboy would come riding
into town to pay his bill.
AS I talked to and another Of
the pioneer cattlemen during the con-
vention this spring at Billings I al
impressed by the bright-eyed, youthful
vigor of those men, most Of whom must
years and ten. When I asked MI. Lacy
the recipe for eternal youth he said,
with a twinkle:
vn ,Wor *, hard ms!s live joyously' and sing
It is true, he assured me, that cow
boys did sing to their cattle while rid
ing night herd, adding verse after verse
w A46 A4pV 1eA ~ S44Ay O4VC44s AxXOVSA
by the inspiration of night skies and
the plains stiffness, composing lyrics
that are our only genuine folk songs.
They sang. he said, impelled not only
by the sheer exuberance of youth, but
also because the sound of the human
voices did exert some magic influence
that quieted restless cattle and often
prevented stampedeS.
Speaking of stampedes he said that
often herds did mill about or drift in
a bunch a few miles away, but that
never, in his long experience as q cat
tleman, has he seen OF heard of any
such wild stampede as modern writer's
love to put into their western thrillers
Tor the magazine or screen. The cow
Lacy feels. . was quite interesting
enough, without the establishment or
added glamor of imaginative writer's.
He worked hard, Mr.. Lacy empha-
sized. was proud of his job, and gladly
accepted his wages as sufficient COM
p~ensation for his toll. There were no
organized unions among the cowboys
higher wages or shorter hours. But
life for them. ever when for six
months they didn't ride near a town,
was seldom monotonous. With from
20 to 80 young, active men in an out
ut, they made their own fun. Unwear-
leo after long hours In the saddle, they
told stories-and the typical cowboys
story Is in a class by itse1f-sang songs,
played pranks, practised lassooing and
ran races, looking forward always to
the exciting, climatic event of the cow
boys year-the roundups. |
The genuine western cowboy, Mr..
Lacy recognizes, Is fast disappearing,
along with the unfenced range. In his
place civilization has Brought in q gor-
geously attried man with shiny boots, !
frtnged gloves and snaps, who does
riding on broncs trained to
buck, tor pay. A performance which
has no knship with the old-time, dig
nified profession Of riding herd.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-07-17
Montana
Y nrs
News Items from the Press Of Montana.
JULY, 1919

BUTTE-Jerry Lynch, oldest policeman on
the Butte force. has resigned.
LIvINGsToN-The Livingston payroll Of
the Northern Pacific amounts to 10000
per month.
MSSOULA-Wireless telephone Is being
used by the forestry service in Missoula
county.
butterfly bottles Of colored water were
sold by q sharper to a bootlegger as whisky
recently.
GLAsGoW-William Mccarthy Of Spokane
has purchased the Thomas Dignan irrigated
ranch near here for $l5o,ooo.
BUTTE-William Jennings Bryan passed
through Butte the other day on his way to
the coast.
TWIN BRDGEs-A. J. wilcomb has Just
been elected president Of the State bank OF
years ago.
Judith Basin will average about half q crop.
according to grain experts who are familiar
with basin conditions.
Observation-Disclosures girls are up In
arms because the city council has forbidden
bathing at a favorite winning pool OF the
young women in the Yellowstone river.
LIvINGSToN-Dallas Allen. l4-year-old boy
who disappeared about a month ago. mas
written his parents that he is with a circus
and that the ambition of his young life is
realized.
HELENA-Charles E. Few has been placed
in charge of zone IL Of the American legion,
the national organization of veterans Of the
World war. The zone comprises Montana,
Washington and idaho.
MISSOULA-C. W. Leapheart. who has Just
been appointed dean Of the University law
school, coming from the University Of Mis-
souri, to take this post. was formerly a pro-
lessor Of the University of Montana.
nv,rrr -A,,,ra,n. ..,,t ordor i,c<
issued the Butte and Superior MINING Co.
must pay to the Minerals Separation Co. Of
London between $751; 10000 and $4,000. 600
for INFRINGEMENT Of milling rights.
BUTTE-Joe Podgorski, a Pole who en-
listed from Silver Bow county and was in the
thick Of the Argonne-Meuse battle. has re-
He ran into a flock Of hand grenades
and submitted to seven major operations to
get the iron and lead removed from his body.
HELENA-The Commercial club has In
augurated q Campaign to tear down old shack
relics OF the Last Chance days when the
capital was a placer camp. The state fire
see what kindling should be given over to the
contractors az.
BUTTE-A determined effort is being made
ny various civic organizations to keep down
the prices Of foodstuffs. It Is charged that
whenever wages are raised in the mines
prices Of clothing and food advance in pro-
The miners have asked the Anaconda
mining 90. to put In . company store, long
2 bone Of contention in the old days before
the company went out Of the mercantile
b~usiness. III
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-07-17
frontier forts and thought q real hnsns
would be fine for a change.

frontier forts and thought q real hnne
would be fine for a change.
Katie Stewart Horner had it. Hhe
and her husband lived in Bismarck,
where he entered business, for more
than SO years. There General E. s. God
frey, who had been Horner's troop COM
mander and who had known Katie as
a child, came to see them. There Ser
geant Horner, respected citizen and re-
tired merchant, treasures an honorable
discharge, signed by none other than
the officer who became Gen. Hugh L.
Scott. Alone now, the veteran takes
many trips, such as the one to Califor-
mia recently, where he visited his for
mel officer, Colonel Varnum, shortly
before the ~latter's death.
If I'd had a horse that trip, I'd
probably be dead, Horner always in
sists, "but I rather think I'd like to
ride a horse in the parade this summer,
beside mi of the old Indians we fought
that year.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-07-17
By EDNA LAMOoRE WALDO

a morse: a A0fsc: ! AAaS
for q hOrse!" may have been the
prayer OF young Jacob Horner that
summer Of 1876 as he truged over
the dusty western trail in the wake
Of the It'll cavalry, forcing one
heavy riding boot ahead OF he other
and remembering bitterly the rides
he had been promised, down IN st.
had had a horse at that time, he
probably wouldn't have spent this
past winter in California Nor would
he have taken part in the comment
Grafton Of the Goth anniversary Of
the Custer battle in his own town
of Bismarck this summer.
Powder River, let er buck!" might
be a better slogan for this well-groomed
best Of health, for he doesn't look as
though he had ever stared either a
hard-tack or a Redskin in the face.
Jacob Homer, c%avalryman though he
was, was one of a small group left be-
hind at Powder river, with the in
.fantry,- to guard supplies while. his
at the Little Big Horn. All this simply
because horses for the recruits had
failed to arrive and Custer at the last
moment had decided to take all the
men out of Fort Abraham Lincoln.
Jacob Horner was day behind
the Indians several times that summer
but he got plenty of action the next
year against the Nez Perces, reaching
Fort Lincoln in December, 1877, only
to be told there yer no available quar-
tiers nearer than Fort Rice, another
30 miles down the Missouri. After that,
he served in the Black Hills, marched
to Fort Seward at Jamestown, Dakota,
and again through the snow to Fort
Totten, in the interior on Devils Lake.
There he attended a school for non
commissioned officers, for he had been
trouble, and served out his enlistment.
A hitch in the army was five years
in those days but Horner liked it well
enough to have re-enlisted had not
his bride thought differently. OF
course, he had a horse by that time.
Like many another young man, Jacob
world, although his family background
hardly made that necessary. Born in
New York city, he was taken as a
child back to the family home In the
wine districts of Alsace-Lorraine where
he was educated in q French school,
picking up, as all children in those
of German besides. But America beck
oned and he returned here as soon as
he was through school. A visit to his
parents in 1874 ended by his taking
the southern route home and approach
ing the United States via Havana,
Cuba and New Orleans. Working in the
French colonies of New Orleans and
other Louisiana cities and later in st.
Louis, Horner finally met some soldiers
bound for the Indian campaign. By that
time, he had a good Job, many friends,
tailored clothes -. but the troops were
bound for the wildS of Dakota terri
tory. He did not know where that was,
nor did they, but it was a place he had
never seen. He joined the It'll cavalry.
He gave away his clothes right and
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-07-17
By GLENDoLN DAMON WAGNER

Frank Lacy, owner Of the Lacy
cattle ranch, is a true westOnian.
Although born in Oregon he, like
so many of DUR Montana cowboys,
spent his boyhood in Texas. 1t was
in 1884 that he followed the north
bound trail from Texas to Montana
with a bunch of horses, and here,
also following the example Of many
young Texans who had needed the
call Of Montana plains, he re-
remained. For So years he has been
identified, in one way or another,
with the Montana cattle industry,
sharing its vagaries of prosperity
and misfortunes, taking things as
they came with true cowboy phil
osophy, hot. dry summers and
bleak, range!ess winters, Or wet
winter ranges thick with feed, but
all the while fighting through,
never admitting defeat He has
proven himself among the fitteSt
who have survived in the cowman's
eternal fight against nature.
During his first three years in Mon
tana, from 1884 to 1887, Mr.. Lacy
worked as a cowboy for the Okalaie
company. whose cattle were distin.
guisned by the Camp Stool" brand:
Then he purchased his W ranch near
A~AAA
the west as the Lacy ranch"
Naturally, Mr.. Lacy has witnessed
many changes in the last 81 years and
these changes have not all been La
provements on a vanished order of life.
Civilization, he feels, with some regret,
has come to stay, and has brought in
its wake all the attendant progressive
movements-the railroad, telegraph,
telephone, automobile, irrigation, pros
rn~NYyc Gnaah fnprSNc o~I rna~yy nN~o
munity centers dotting plains that a
half century ago were peopled only by
cattle, buffalo, wild horses and a type
of men typical of the west, fruit of the
west-the cowboy.
But civilization, MI. Lacy feels, has
transformed the true cowboy, that
Woodworking, hard-riding, singing
child of the plains-into a spectacular
Snowman, and he rather deplores the
change. Fifty years ago, he asserts,
there was no showing off. In those
early days cowmen took their work
saffi1egsl sn and hi lGoked sn npoa II as n e dig-
sion. The wrist watch was no part Of
their equipment, for their duties were
not regulated by any eight-hour-day
schedule. They ate when they were
hungry-that Is, If it CHANGED that they
could spare time to eat when they were
hungry. II not, they waited until they
could. Eighteen hours at q stretch in
the saddle was not an unusual day for
them. And there weren't many Of them
who boosted ownership Of 80 hats and
425 boots. A half century ago the Or
binary cowboy didn't often have enough
clothes to flag o train. .
Nj. Lacy feels that they were, for the
most part; 9 clean, fine, honest speci-
man Of manhood, those cowboys who
from Oregon or Texas to contribute
toward the advancement OF Montana.
They were proud Of their honesty and
took pride In knowing that their word
Evening star., 1936-01-12

No. 2 company, directed by Lennox
Robinson. Meanwhile the top per-
formers went to Cork and played:
Autumn Fire" IT. C. Murray, re-
vival, Mr.. Dolan.
Drama at Inish" CRobinson), re-
vival, Mr. Dolan.
Juno and the Paycock" (O'Casey),
revival, Mr. Dolan.
Noah" (Obey), directed by Mr..
Hunt
THENCE the thespians went to Bel
fast. where they presented Drama
at Inish," Juno" and The Plough
and the Stars" all produced under
DolanS guidance. On returning to
Dublin, Noah" was staged again, with
Mr.. Dolan in the title role and Arthur
Shields playing Ham" The Dolan
performance was rated by many critics
as far superior to John Gielgrid's
limning of the same part in the Lon
don production. Later, in their home
town, the players put or Saint in a
Hurry, new script; Summers Day."
another one receiving its introduction
to the country: thereafter came The
Shadow of a Gunman." a revival,
while Lennox RobinSons THE Critic"
held the spotlight during Christmas
week. About week age the first
Shakespearean presentation appeared.
1t was "CoriolanuS, drama more or
less unfamiliar to the bard's public,
but avidly favored by college dramatic
societies and others who are trying
their wings on Avon poesy.
These transmutations in the Abbey
seem a trifle remote at present, yet
eventually they will mean quite as
much to many Washingtonians as if
our own National Players suddenly
decided to produce the works of Cliff
ford Odets, Representative Sirovich
and Morrie Ryskind all in the same
season. Just when this city will first
view the new players repetoire it is
impossible to say. A New York journal
reported last Summer that they would
visit again this year, which obviously
they will not
MISS O'CONNOR sounds a vaguely
oiscouraging note when she re-
marks: I'VE are all dying to be back
in America again-but heaven knows
if we ever shall. now that things are
so different" Offhand. we would guess
that they surely will, ior the very good
reason that America will demand their
return IN one of the loudest artistic
rlamours ever raised this side Of Soho.
Meanwhile, if even season without
the Abbey distresses you, it is possible
to catch glimpse of an Abbeyite here
and there in America Maureen De-
laney played a featured role in His
Family Tlee" with James Barton, and
is now bound for the R-K-O studios
again 70 appear in pictures. Denis
O'Dea had part in the best of 1855
cinemas, 1.-THE Informer," and he, too,
is in the States, cast in a New York
stage play (the name of which we do
not know. Until the whole company
returns, the most rabid of us fans
may be able to subsist on a diet of
two members. We trust we will not be
starved too long.
Evening star., 1936-01-12

life. There are % dancers with the
company and special music has been
created for the production.
Critics have persistently likened
Miss Schoop's art to that OF Chaplin,
for, like him, she tells a story OF the
meek. the disinherited and the inno-
cent waging their small battles with
the world and dreaming their small
dreams. Like Chaplin further, she
achieves her results through comedy
through warm, all-embracing carica-
ture which never wounds nor insults
but brings to audiences the joys Of
recognition.
The program to be presented by the
Trudi Schoop Comic Ballet comprises
two ma tor dance comedies. One, en-
titled AT the Advertising window" 4"
enacts the drama behind all the class
ified ads which swarm into news
papers. In this the pathetic COM
cdies and small tragedies Of the hu-
man race are illustrated. There are
the lady looking for a companion, the
restauranteur seeking singer, the
secretary, the housewife, the cook, the
buyers and the sellers-all hoping and
seeking for something to happen as a
result Of the cold typographical state
Evening star., 1936-01-12
Today's S Film Schedule

LoEw'S FoX-"RiffrafI. at .. 4:3O,
1.1O and $50 pm. Stage shows
at j:45. $50 and $40 pm.
PALACE Tale Of Two Cities" at
-, 4 20. O:o5 and 9:iu pm.
cCLUMBIA-"In Old Kentucky" at
=. 4, $50 1855 and 9:55 pm.
R-K-O KEITH S-"Masnihcent OBJ
session. at :45. 3:4i. 5:43, 1:42
and 9:4l pm.
EARLE-"Mary Burns, Fugitive" and
STAGE shows. continuous. afternoon
and evening.
OPOLrTAN-"Capt Blood" at
=, As. 6:55 and 9:25 pm.
BELASCO-''La Maternelle at $50.
5:21. 1:34 and 9:41 pm.
LITTLE-"The Informer." at .. 400,
5:44, 7:4S and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1936-01-12

when the current attraction. "a Tale
Of Two Cities" ends its run. Clau-
dette Colbert and Fred MacMurray
who scored as the battling romanticsts
in "The Gilded Lily" again are
teamed and Robert Young makes up
the threesome.
I'm Old Kentucky" will remain at
Loew's Columbia through Tuesday
night and will be succeeded We'd
nesday by "Ah, Wilderness" Metro
Goldwyn Mayors perturbation of Eu-
gene O'Neill's great American comedy
drama. Wallace Beery, Lionel Barry
more, Eric Linden, Aline Mcmahon,
Spring Byington and others are in
the cast.
THE Informer," nominated by New
York and local movie critics as the
best film of 1885, will again return
to the Little Theater this week. 1t
opens today and will be shown
through Wednesday. "Tillie and
Gus" costarring W. c. Fields and
Alison Skipworth, will open Thursday
and will play through Saturday.
Evening star., 1936-01-12

Victoria watches the Prince Consort
as he Shaves himself-an authentic in
cident. according to Mr. Housman.
The eternal ingenue which is the most
dangerously fascinating Of Miss Hayes
predictions here elreatens to betray
her. She becomes that charming
thing-"a nimble kitten with ball Of
yarn" For all you or I know Victoria
was cute and cunning on her honey
moon, but Mr.. Housman and tradi-
ton suggests that she was neither.
Miss Hayes makes her both, indicating
perhaps that she, too, is clairvoyant.
MR.. HOUSMAN was canny in his
dramatization Of this compar-
atively trivial incident. 1t has in it
all he needed to show the tight-willed
little queen-whose repressions and
sanctities were to give name TO an
age-made suddenly thrall to the
simple masculinity of a handsome and
noble man. A thralldom that was to
last her life and color he, every subse-
quent action, political as well as do
mestic. Miss Hayes in the scene.
turns on all the faucets of her super
ingenious lure. She appears in the
dressing room of her young husband.
not as startled and happy bride, but
as little girl out of a nursery, escaped
for the moment from her governess.
And I would not have her otherwise.
Evening star., 1936-01-12
Coming Attractions.

RETTE DAVIS. cast as an actress
who is one of the country's fallen
idols, rescued from the depths by a
young architect, Franchot Tone, is
starred in Dangerous" new Warner
Bros. film, which opens next Fri
day at the Earle Theater Margaret
Lindsay, Alison Skipworth. John FL
dredge and Dick Foran are others in
the cast. Cross and Dunn will head
line the vaudeville portion of the
entertainment and the other stage
acts will be the Twelve Aristocrats.
with Nyra Nash Hal Christy and Co.,
and the Unique Walkmirs.
What goes on behind the scenes
at a radio station during the broad
cast Of a weekly amateur hour is
depicted in Millions in the Air"
Paramount picture, which will be the
next screen attraction at Warmers
Metropolitan Theater, opening Fri
day. Most of the action takes place
in radio studio, which is a dupli-
cate of Radio City's largest broad
casting theater, and the cast in
cludes Wendy Barrie, George Bar
bier, Eleanor Whitney, Willie Howard
and Others
Frank Bucks newest picture, Fang
and Claw" bringing to the screen his
hair-raising experiences in collect
ing wild animals for geological parks
throughout the world, will be the next
bill of entertainment at .R-K-O
Keith's Theater. The film will be
shown as soon as the current Mag
niflcent Obsession" completes its run.
Victor McLaglen, whose great act
Ing in "The Informer" has earned
him the accolade of the Nations
critics, is starred in Damon Ruuyon's
professional Soldier" which opens
At Loew's Fox Theater next Friday.
Freddie Bartholomew shares top hon.
ors with McLaglen, and Tay Garnett
, directed the film. Kazanova and her
'Tziganes, direct from New York's
French Casino, will headline the stage
show, and Charles Carlisle will be
the added attraction.
"The Bride Comes Home" story of
q girl who battled her way to the
altar, will be shown at Loew's Palace
Evening star., 1936-01-12

tural expression
W h | c h Tru d !
Schoop and her
c ON i C B a ! ! e t
bring to the Ma
tional Theater
tonight at $50
O'Clock, has made
the creator wide
ly known in Eu-
rope, the Orient
a d now in
America.
The spectacle
Miss Schoop pro-
vides is some
thing of a new
diccoUcry in the
Evening star., 1936-01-12

The answer comes today in a let
ter from Dublin, penned by that most
charming of correspondents, Aideen
OConnor. The youngest, newest and
one of the most popular of the Alb
bey's first string company Miss OCon-
nor borrowed time from repetory to
advise us that the State Theater has
changed its face. Once devoted solely
to the production of native dramas
and the encouragement of Irish au-
thors, the company has undergone
revolution. Shakespeare, Shaw, an
occasional continental playwright. now
find Interpretation in the sweet
tongue of Erin. When next the Alb
beyiteS return to Washington twhere
they are rated as one of the steadiest
and strongest boxoffice draws of the
decade) we may see Barry Fitzgerald
stuffed with pillows and roaring
through Falstaff, or Arthur Shields
gloomily eloquent as Hamlet. The
fair and intricate mantle of Candida
may rest upon Miss O'Connor's
shoulders, or be intrusted to one of
her compatriots while our favorite in
formant impersonates a sly continental
heroine.
WE ARE not advised whether this
Nv departure from tradition was
direct consequence of the Silver Tas-
sic" squabble. 1t is possible the Abbey
board resolved to free itself from the
obligation to produce controversial
Irish plays. The easiest way to do
that would be to fill the seasonal
schedule with a variety of English,
French and other scripts. Then
drama which promised to ruff1e tenn
pers and embarrass the state spon-
sors could be shifted forward into an
other Winter. by which time it might
either have lost its sting or the author
have been prevailed upon to recon-
slider some of his more explosive state
ments.
Again it may be that the board of
strategy merely decided Ireland was
not turning out enough material 70
deserve the undivided attention of one
of the greatest acting organizations in
the world. The directors may have
felt the need for new fields to play in,
new peaks to ascend.
Whatever the motive, the Abbey
has reformed its policies Hugh Hunt,
an Englishman. has been imported to
specialize in the new brand of pro-
auctions; LennoX Robinson handles
the fresh Irish product and OCCASION
ally tries his hand in the continental
line (Mr. Hunt the while experiment.
ing with Irish lore), and Michael
Dolan stages revivals. Under this
regime, Miss O'Connor reveals that the
Abbey has conducted itself thusly dur
ing the latter days of 1885:
First production, Village Wooing"
and Candida" &C. 3. S., directed by
Hugh Hunt.
Cat and the Moon" (Yeats) and
Courtesy of Mary Doyle" (McNulty),
revivals, staged by Michael Dolan.
"Parnell of Avondale" (Fearon), ,
Mr.. Hunt.
Drama at Inish,' performed by the