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Indians who had been at Washington
to see the Great White Father. The
story was carrying their anne
Burton was ahead of the wire. AS he
copied the report he looked about the
office and wrcse into the list of names
ne was taking, the names of the men
VINO were working in the same office.
The telegraph editor at the time was
Derks, himself an operator. He knew
Burton's ability and when the COPY
cached him he read the lead" and
"~railroaded" the list of names-sent it
to n printer without reading it.
The next morning readers who went
through the list of names of the Mon
lana Indians who were visiting Wash
Rain in h Face, John c.. Derks, Sit
ting Bull, Albert Hawkins, Two Ar
rows, Bob Fisk, Yellow Feather, Frank
moore, and so on down the list.
On the night of President McKinley's
assassination Leon Shaw was working
the Publishers Press in the office Of
the Montana Daily Record and the
WIRE failed. Just across the street the
Helena Independent was getting the
story over the Associated Press.
Harry Yaeger, business manager of
the DAILY Record, was a shorthand re-
porter. He and Shaw went across the
street and secreted themselves in the
dark doorway of the Independent bust
ness office. From the window above
Shaw could hear the Associated Press
telegraph instrument. He deciphered
the code and as he did so in a whisper,
Yaeger took it down in shorthand and
the two went back to the Record Of
flee with the story of McKinley's as
sassination. Jaeger is now vice pres
ident of the federal reserve bank at
Minneapolis.
Nowadays the teletypes take the
press reports, and when the wires fail,
as they still do sometimes, there is no
operator to go across the street and
"swipe" the story from the opposition.
The old-time telegraph operators are
important part in the development of
| Montana from a wilderness. Without
them the transition would have been
much slower.
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their early struggles and hardships In
making way for the settlement OF a
belt of land, which, but a few. years
ago considered both sterile and bar
rem, has now proven beyond question
to be the bonanza belt. It would also
by a railroad, the energetic manage
ment Of which left but a short dis
lance to be completed before the gold.
en- spike could be driven, uniting al
of that country which Horace Greeley
had reference to when he immortalizec
his name by advising young men tc
go to it. This railroad wiped cut the
American frontier, which Jul Pilgrim
Fathers, but a short time ago, founded
which has so rapidly advanced west
ward before the ak and rifle hot OF
the American pioneer.
Here the gentlemen were thanked
by the president for the honor o n
ferred upon him in placing him at the
head of an organization whose every
member had held his rifle for many
years, always ready to protect a fell
oW-Wayfarer, and whose bacon was
shared to the rind by camp followers.
MIR. Graham was then called on for
remarks, and in a Suave and easy
manner, he stated that in the spring
of 1876 his residence was st. Paul.
Mimi, from which place he proceeded
to Kentucky as a Citizen Inspector,
under directions of the department
commander, for the purchase of 800
horses, to be used in the expedition
planned against the hostile Sioux in
the Yellowstone country. On compile
ton of his duty, he met Mr.. Charles
Brown (now present., who had just
returned from the scene of the Custer
battle, who advised him to push for
lowstone valley in more glowing terms
than did eve Ponce-de-Leon picture
to the queen of Spain the beauties OF
Florida. This advice was taken, and on
the 26th day of August, 1876, the good
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-04-02

Wheaton, later an
insurance man at
Helena and at one
time county COM
missioner of Lewis
and Clark county,,
p. A. Largely and
Sam j. Small.
Quadruplex tables
n the duplex,
mittin the
sending of two e
G on one WIRE
at the same time,
were set up in the
Helena office in
1883.
Montana was at
first in the Omaha
district of which w.
B. Hubbard W a S
superintendent. He
was later
by J. j. Dlckey.
On the completion
OF the Northern
Pacific, Montana
was transferred to
the M n e a p oils
district, of which
I. McMichael was
superintendent. In
the meantime, Sa-
bin was succeeded
at Helena as man
ager by Fredericks
W h o opened the
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-04-02

Frustrated by a storm and the Montana
lines were the only means of communl-
cation from coast to coast. At that time
messages in west Texas destined 10
points not more than 100 miles distant
from the point of origin were sem 10
San Francisco, Portland, Ore, Helena,
Chicago, New Orleans and then TO tnen
destination. The clear dry ar OF cme
less trouble for telegraph lines than
has been the case in lower attitudes
and humid atmospheres.
At that time the operators in the
11eiono relav station were SherwcN9
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Fort Benton office. He in turn was
succeeded by Charles Day in October,
1884 James Swan succeeded Day in
Wild, who succeeded Barney Hughes,
the first manager at Virginia City,
before coming to Montana had been
IN the San Francisco, Virginia City,
Nev., and Salt Lake City offices. Wild
was succeeded at Virginia City by
capt; H. S. Howell, later and for a
number of years connected with the
internal revenue department office at
helena. Wild himself, as stated pre-
WouSly, was manager at Butte for
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many years. The
first r o of tele-
graph operators in
Montana was fol-
lowed by another
equally adept and
expert in h e line
OF work, of whom
there are several
remaining in Mon
tana, but few of
t h e m still tele-
graphing. A m o n g
Montana's press OPP
orators Of 40 years
ago who are still
in Montana but en-
gagged in other lines
of work. are Leon
Shaw, general man
ager of the Billings
Gazette and w. w.
w h e a t o n, city
treasurer of Lewis
town. t h DID,
time Montana press
operators are John
Derks, now sports
editor of the Salt
Lake Tribune and
H Burton of
Butte.
They were O
than experts. They
could take a press
telegram in code,
translate it into
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typewriter copy and carry on a con-
versation at the same time. Often
times the wire was too slow for them.
Once when Burton was taking a report
over the old Publishers Press in the
office of the Montana Daily Record
at Helena, there was a story on the
wire about a delegation of Montana
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stage road was dismantled. With the
completion Of the Northern Pacific in
1882 another line was brought in from
the east, a third when the Great
Northern was completed and since then
Montana has had modern telegraph
facilities.
In 1883 all of the southern lines were
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-17
L. A. LIVESTOCK

Los ANGELES. Jan. 16. UP)--
Trading Moved at q brisk pace on
the Los Angeles stock exchange to-
day In n half-session featured by
southern Pacific touching a new
high for the second straight day.
The stock moved up u to 48.
Barker mothers common also hit
new high Round at 27as. up y.
Elsewher the market was irreg-
ular. Tw fe issues declined, 15
were up At 16 continued unchang-
ed. Noiunt1 reached $4,000 shares.
on n 1Gu3 share turnover Trans
america sal ged off h at 16. Oils
were irregular. Sales included Ban
dini 7is. off Il; Occidental 30. up
.O2is; Republlc 10h. off "; stand
superior ASH down VI wellington
ard 45A upHis; Union 25N off ~;
ltH up and Union Consolidated
Industrials firmed. Creamerles of
America gained y at 6h; Emsco
moved up a point to 10 on 500
shares: General Motors bounced up
tA to 50. and Gladding- Nc Bean was
iup = ~ 2lb. General Paints was
|off 81 14h and Lockheed lost u
9 Edisos, common touched 21%s up
-. "a a
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-17

STEADY WORK-GOOD PAY
RELIABLE MAN WANTED to call
on farmers in Imperial County.
Make up to $12 a day. Write to-
day. FURST & THOMAS, 426
Third St, Oakland, Calf. J17
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-17
Wanted POuLtrU
<)1

WE PAY HIGHEST prices for poul-
try. Blue Front Market, 656 Main.
J22
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-17
NEW YORK STOCKS

NEW YORK, Jan. ie. tuP)-
United States steel common stock
today scared mare than points,
bringing its gain Ter two sessions
10 mere than points. Its gain
helped carry the industrial average
10 a new high since 1881.
sfeel's strength Induced BY buillsh
ntterances on the future b its otn.
Gals led the entire market higher
Republic Steel rose 10 a new high
AT 30A up y. Bethlehem came with
in a small fraction % its high.
Farm shares continued 10 make
wide gains. southern Pacific made
n high in the rails ~ ts@ up ~,
building issues fipned utnities
held small gains. GENERAL Electric
crossed 90 into -nssx high territory
while weaiinEhesiss Electric iumpee
. points. ft.t q
would ~ > .psns s's'' c. for %s1' nee
plant a. clalrson -. and tik.eog<
goo at. lfs Edear. El.epas wsrks IL
announ<ement By Johns Manxills
that u would sp@46 several million
dollars ia espan
outlook fan sou,< satlefactory adj
iustmenf n <he ~'2xs ana hour aues-
uon, M2to>thares contin ued TO act
iabor troubles Corpers we're steady
oils were &teoty 10 firm.
Dow-Jonea M<<Hminary closing av-
srages thoveX Industrial. isB.53 nI
i:zo raliroad 81. 80 MP utiIit,
57.2e up o.21. :
irAnsaetioss approxlmated LIE.
"vv sh.fes compared with .4b0 .0eI
ti0ns approxlmated G4a O0o ehare
Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-17
CHICAGO GRAINS

CHICAGO, Jan. 16. (UP)-Wheat
futures ruled easier in a quiet trade
In the Chicago market today. A
small volume of liquidation and stop
loss selling induced by weakness
abroad found the market almost
bare of buying orders.
At the close wheat was off n to
up y cent. May $1.32ss; new corn
was off X to up X cent, May Sill;
old corn was up * to u cent, May
$l.OSA; and oats was off X to q
cent, May 53fs cents.
Opening prices were down major
fractions in response to a decline OF
u to 1h pence. at Liverpool.
Pressure of Argentine wheat afloat
offset purchases of southern hemis.
phere wheat by Italy and England
and prices at Liverpool declined
The Buenos Aires and Rotterdam
markets also closed lower
Corn and oats held with little
change from previous closing levels
additional Markets on Page g.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-17
24 Wnnted. MisceILnneous

II W UTtCCUS NV NVISSLCIEII5tCOUO
~~~~>~-~~~~> S~~~~>~ ~~~o~~-~-~~> ~-~>-~ -~-~~~~~
WANTED-Dead Eucalyptus trees.
P. Dupre, Rt. !, Box 65A, Brawley.
1922
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-17
% For Sale. Miscellaneous

% For Sale. Miscellaneous
B A r G AINS!
Wood circulating heaters ...$l5.00
Cast wood heaters ............-..- $50
Coleman gasoline ranges $35 to 60.00
Kerogas oil range ............. $500
Thor Washer .............................. 1750
VoSs Washer .............................3 $500
Thor Ironer $3.50
Wedgewood gas range .............. 1880
Basement Dept.
1. v. HARDWARE COMPANY
FOR SALE TO MOVE1We have
house 20x26 that would be very
suitable to move on ranch. We
will sell this house very reason
able.
Ell CENTRIC LUMBER g.
TRADING co.
Phone 1892 1409 Adams st.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-17
Market Quotations
LETTUCE PRICE
Federal State Market Service)

Imperial Valley lettuce growers
Phoenix shipped 3s, Yuma 33 and
Florida 2, for a total of 1853. Last
year on the same day 153 carload ds
were sent out. The daily average
during the last 10 days is 152. Val
ley shipments today total 1880.
Early demand was slowl Fridaylwith
prices slightly higher.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-17

FOR SALE
Strictly modern, 7-room house, 3
large bed rooms, breakfast nook,
two bath rooms; kitchen and bath
room tile. Situated in West Olive
District on large corner lot. Price
$6500. Perry Burke, Owner,
Phone Oh
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-17
instruction

UNCLE SAM" 1897 JOBS - Mem
women. $126O-$210O first year.
Yearly Increase. Try next Ell
Centro examinations. Many So
cial Security Jobs. Sample coach
ing = full particulars - list posi-
tions,-FREE. Write Post-Press
Box 947 D. JIG
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-17
FIRST VACATION IN 20 YEARS

ROCHESTER, N. Y, W.p)-Fred-
erick w. Hamilton, 81, Rochester
district game protector, is enjoying
his first vacation in 20 years. He
retired from active service in the
state conservation department to
devote all my energy to living as
long as I can and enjoy it,"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-17
L. A. GRAIN
L. "A. bdNK-
30

Los ANGELES. Jan. i6. UP)-
ssst n. FIRST Natl b7h 6s
af-A-NMssse- '......... lG 10S
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-17

FOR RENT - Comfortable room,
private entrance. Board optional.
IT'S Len Rey. JIG
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-17
Rooms For Rent

ROOM FOR RENT = Extra large,
beautifully furnished. private en-
trance. All modern conveniences.
$500 per week. $4,000 per month.
444 Sandalwood. Jl7
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-17
Markets at
a Glance
IA. INITEn PRESS

Stack, blsbsrs a. !. Steel at new
high since 1891.
BONDS lrregularly higher and
active.
Curb stocks higher and active.
Foreign exchange irregularly low
er.
Cotton firm.
Grains irregular. wheat easy.
Rubber 90 10 points lower.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-17
Situations Wanted

HOLLANDER, 38, single-Good dry
hand mixer wants steady job on
dairy. Post-PresS box 286-B. JIG
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-17
Houses for Rent

FOR RENT-Unfurnished, two bed
room stucco, $500 month. See
owner, 1040 So. 7th. J17tf
The Washington times., 1937-07-02
Be Safe: Not Sorry

HE annual warning against careessness and reckless
l. ness on the Fourth of July is in order
Many folks have heard often that they take it for
granted just as they take for granted the fact that lengthy
casualty lists always appear in the newspapers following
the celebration of Independence Day
Greater attention to the warning would curtal these
casualty lists and make the holiday pleasant for all
concerned
With all but safe and sane fireworks banned from the
District by regulation, the warning against personal danger
IS buttressed by warning against the possibility of
for discharging illegal fireworks.
You're taking double chance when you light the big
salues drop the loud torpedo make the odfashioned
American noise in any other way-you may lose finger
or an eye and you may have to pay fine
Under the circumstances by far the best thing do in
celebration would be to attend of the many community
celebrations held throughout the city and yourself
with a few fireworks of the HARMLESS" type.
Let more and less sorrow be your motto over the
weekend.
The Washington times., 1937-07-02

been a man turning gently in
the breeze. Lyncfling was the
only way cattle thieves could be
dealt with then, when the law
was mostly conspicuous by its
absence or with crooked SheriftS
sometimes in with the thieves.
Thu rustler rode with his life in
his hands and knew it every
minute. The old-time cattlemen
hadn't much use for jailS or
courts. They took the law into
their own hands.
But time has changed all that.
Ire modern rustler is not the
hard hombre of the familiar
estern novel. He's slick fell
low, up in all the modern
dodges-with forged bills of sale
and fast automobiles and a
ready market. He's more Of the
city gangster type, and, as a
matter of fact, many tough guys
from big Western towns have
gone into the cattle-rustling
racket.
The losses run into millions a
year in the big beef-raiSing
States of the prairie country,
and the ranchmen are again be-
ginning to make their own law.
Lyrching is gone. All that rus
tiers fear now is a fine or a jail
sentence, and they laugh that
oft Just the other day the sher-
if of the Huerfano county, in
Colorado, ordered ranchers and
cowboys to shoot any ruStlers on
sight. And that's what they are
preparing to do out on the lone
prairie.
Vigilantes are organizing, and
the Stockmen's association are
importing range detectives. as
they did back two-Score years
ago. In some sections, rewards
of $1,000 a head have been Of
fered for the capture of any
cattle thief, dead or alive
preferably dead. Less trouble
and expense.
Curious how things will swing
back to the old models when
similar sets Of circumstances
are at work. Back in the seven.
ties and eighties, the heyday OF
ranching, that hard-boiled, owl
boot rider was the picturesque
villain of the day-an unforget-
table character of fact and fic-
ton. The ranches were enor-
nous spreads. often taking in
half a million acres with free
range. The King Ranch, in
Texas, at one time encompaSSed
a million and a quarter acres
and today holds at least a mil
lion. under Robert Kleburg.
There were few towns. no
telephones, and, usually, no laws.
The rustler had it easy. With
changing times came the growth
of towns, fences, motor cars and
more valuable stock. And the
rustler changed his style to suit
conditions. But we're back
again to about the same old
pattern, with different weapons
and implements, and once again
the rancherS are riding the
rustlers' trail.
The Washington times., 1937-07-02
Words of Wise Men

to those whom they desire to
SGpercede.-MarcuS AureliuS.
If you have done an honor
able action accompanied by
hard labor, the labor is over,
the honor remains. If you have
done anything diSgraceful with
pleasure, the pleasure is over,
the disgrace administration.
How easy it is for one benev-
olent being to diffuSe pleasure
around him; and how truly is a
kind heart a fountain of glad
ness, making everything in its
vicinity to freshen into smiles!
Washington Irving.
knowledge will not be &C.
quired without pains and ap-
plication. 1t is troublesome
and deep digging for pure wa
tiers; but when once yea come
to the spring. they rise up and
meet you.-Felton.
The Washington times., 1937-07-02

OF sudden, out of the black
night, come wild yellS and the
cracking of ASS and a rush Of
night-riders. The cattle get to
their feet and stampede in ter
rOr, and the buckaroOs, caught
in a trap, are shot down. And
next morning the Lazy s finds
itself short of hundred head Of
good beef critters worth $50 a
head.
That was the way the rustlerS
often worked it in the old West.
But times change and so does
the technique of cattle:stealing.
The rustlers ride again. Tram
pas and Steve are on the boot
owl trail, their long ropes loop
ing, and there isn't much that
the Virginian can do about it.
For the up-to-date ruStler of the
Western cattle country works in
fast motor trucks. He's out for
calves and, when he finds an
unguarded herd of beef, he
rounds up the calves and drives
them into the truck and is away
at 60 miles an hour over good
automobile roads to his hide-out,
or to a dishonest market waiting
for just such goods.
X \ 4
Reports coming to this writer
from the cattle country say that
ruStling is on the increase.
Whole herds have disappeared.
Big ranches and little spreads
have been badly hurt in Kansas
and the DakotaS, and up in
wyoming and Montana. The
rustler of the nineties was a
picturesque outlaw (Trampas
of THE Virginian" was a good
specimen, a game rascal who
took what was coming to him
without a whine when he got
caught.
And the punishment in the old
days was swift and salutary. A
rope over branch of a cotton
wood and something that had
The Washington times., 1937-07-02

fore knows a little bit about
publicity.
This being his first term in
the House he has come to the
conclusion that his District
needs a little publicity. Going
a little further than the mem.
bers who merely talk about the
wonderful things the boys back
home are doing he has decided
to let the other members Of
Congress see for themselves.
Beginning July 6 and rum
ming to July 10 he is going to
hold open house in his office.
The invitation sent out to col.
leagues reads like this:
II have gathered together q
number of samples of the prod.
ucts manufactured in my dis.
trict - the Third District Of
Michigan-which 1 believe you
would appreciate.
81 am holding open house in
my office, Room 1913, Old House
Office Building from July 9Th
to 10th, and cordially invite
you to call and receive a bag
of samples which has been pre-
pared for you.
Trusting / will see you some
time during the week, l am
paul w. SHAFER."
So far the House Members
have been given blocks of salt.
cups of coffee, flowers. and other
such gee-gaWs.
SINCE THE DISTRICT COM.
MISSIONERS are diplomat.
cally following the orders, of the
House and Senate in drawing
up the tax proposal for this city
for 1898, there has developed
only one way to find out what
they really think about the sit
uation.
Commissioner George E. Allen
has been spending his time at
the House and Senate hearings
"doodling." That is, in the words
of Mr.. Deeds. making those lit
tie scratches on a piece of paper
that signify just what is rum
ming through the mind at the
moment.
Russell Arundel has just fin
ished a book on the Goodies" Of
any number of great men all
explained by a psychiatrist. Mr..
Arundel should get a couple Of
samples from Mr.. Allen and
have them examined.
The Washington times., 1937-07-02

sharply to the attention Of Great
Britain our feeling that the
Mandate is not being admins
tered as it should be :. To this
end, we shall do all we can to
fulfill the international Obliga-
ton, to which our Government
is a party, to establish the
Jewish National Home in Pales-
tine, with full justice to MOSlem
and Christian in the Holy Land"
And it was Senator Warren
r. Austin of Vermont, diStin-
guished member of the Judi
ciary Committee, who first out
lined the legal ground for the
action now taken by the Zion
iSt convention. Reported Sena-
tor Austin in the New York
American:
"The Government of the
United States became a party of
the Mandate by virtue of the
Americana ritiSh Palestine
Mandate Convention of De-
cember 3, 1924 signed by Frank
B. Kellogg, United States Am.
baSsadOr to Great Britain, and
Joseph Austen Chamberlain,
British Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, and properly
ratified by both Governments"
The clauses of the treaty
quoted by Senator Austin stipu-
late that "the United States
consents to the administration
of Palestine by His Britannia
Majesty on condition that no
change shall be made in the
terms of the Mandate unless
such modification shall have
been assented to by the United
States"
Fortunate as the Jews Of
America are in having the back
ing of American public opinion
for the maintenance of PaleS-
tine as a Jewish haven, their re-
Sponsibility in this hour of
worldwide Jewish distress is
graver than ever.
The Washington times., 1937-07-02
British Labor Bars Reds

HE purge of Communists from trade unonsm has become
i major objective of organized labor in England
The latest example the denial of the right of Harry Pol
lit Communist to represent the Boermakers' Society
delegate to the Trades Union Congress.
Politt, first barred by the Executive Committee of the
Society appealed upsuccessuy to the membership of the
Union.
This action recognizes Communism an ENEMY of or
gained labor fact fully supported by Russian experience
Communism gained its in Russia through the workers.
but the ABOLITION of organized labor the FIRST
ACTS of Communism
There no labor unions in Russia
There would be any country ruled by Communists
In England America the Communist effort is to use
trade unonism vehicle of convenience to BORE FROM
WITHIN.
1t would destroy labor ruthessy in England and America
as has in Russia its end gained.
British unonss have the recognize the nstru-
ment of their intended destruction.
The lnsdious undermining of organized labor is being
attempted in the United States American labor should
RECOGNIZE and FIGHT THE GROWING MENACE.