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treasures of the northwest: First by
keelboat, mackinaw and bu1lboat, later
by sidewheel steamers, the American
Fur Co. transported their millions of
dollars worth Of furs to headquarters at
st. Louis. in the years from 1875 to 1855.
Chardon and Benton were established
as the keystones to the empire they
based on beaver, where their managers
and employees made war, peace treaties,
distilled or struggled alcohol and mar
ried Indian women, all with an idea to
add to the profits of the fur company.
In 1880, to save time and expense in
bringing the trade goods to their Da-
kota posts for reshipment into Mon
tana, the company Experimental with
steamer, the Yellowstone, which IN
1882 reached Fort Union. Successive
boats they put on the river came fur
Their and further, until the Chippewa
established the final commercial head
of navigation by reaching Fort Benton
in 1860.
AS the fur trade began to diminish,
a new wave OF adventures TOOK me long
river route to Fort Benton, and estab-
lished that city as one Of the richest
and busiest for its size in the world.
with gold discovered in the mountains
of Montana, every sort of steamer was
drafted to make the long trip from
st. Louis to Fort Benton, WlIn pu!gHle
holdings of mining machinery and decks
alive with would BE miners. bound for
Eldorado. Ten thousand Of them, in
the years from 1864 to 1870, walked
down the landing planks Of steamers
LAYING up at Fort Benton levee, while
the steamers, most of them untitled
for the upper river trade, reaped rich
harveStS.
With freight at 10 to Is 5,,,s cents s, e g
to 5000 each for deck accommo dations.
many of the boats paid for themselves
in one trip. as did the Luella, the treas
ure ship of the gold rush, which took
aboard, in 1866, for the down river
trip, $50 miners with % tons Of gold
dust, valued at 81 ESQ 900. The Luellas
passenger tolls alone ran to $35 900.
The Peter Balen, another Of the boats,
in the same year docked at Fort Ben
ton with 400 tons Of freight pre-
sented a bill of 100000 for transporting
that cargo. Any steamer that stood
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plans under way for the motor
cruiser trip up the Missouri.
ground, of the days when the Missouri
The route Of explorers, course Of the
gold seekers and the road by which
most of Montana's Pioneer Society
members and others early in the state
came to Montana, the Big Muddy was
in the early days of Montana the most
important of all trails leading to this
state.
Lewis and Clark, following the river
throughout its length from st. Louis,
were first up its full length, hauling
the keelboats with their exped ition's
great falls of the Missouri. Hard on
their heels came the trappers, noun
tain men, who were in the Rocky noun
tain country even before the expedition
had returned from the Pacific coast.
The fur brigades, carrying the stories
of the rich harvest of beaver to be
gathered in the mountains of Mon
tana. were the cause of the rapid ex-
pansion of the fur companies, as the
American Fur Co. and the Hudson's
Bay Co., American and British con-
Germs, engaged in a titantic struggle
for the output in furs and robes Of
this region, then source of controversy
between the two countries. With the
dispute finally settled, the Hudson's Bay
Co. withdrew to north of the Canadian
line, while the American Fur Co., left
in possession of the field, ruled the
territory, froze out opposition and dis
couraged free traders and trappers.
To all these American concerns, in
dependent and company employees
alike, the Missouri river was the high
way by which they transported the
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a chance of making the trip was sent
up to Fort Benton in those years when
one trip might pay for the boat two
or three times over and make a profit
for the owners on top Of that.
Nor were the owners the only ones
making money. Pilots were at a prem
ium, and youngsters with one or two
trips up the Missouri were put into
service as master pilots, while the old
hands could write their own ticket
Capt. Grant Marsh drew 81 200 a month
for acting as captain and pilot of the
Luella, while William R. Massie, an
other of the great mountain steamboat
pilots, drew $500 for one trip to Fort
Benton-and lost it all in a poker
game the day he arrived in st. Louis.
The gold placers were worked out,
and as the day of high priced pro-
visions and machinery-of $50 per
hundred pounds of flour, dollar chaw
for tobacco ended, transportation
slumped on the old Missouri route.
From 1870 to 1874 there was relative
quiet at Fort Benton, with few boats
docking,
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In the later seventies lowing herds
OF longhornS began to come up the
long, duty trail from Texas to stock
Montana's virgin ranges, and settlers
of more permanent nature than traders
or argonauts began to come to Mon
tana Then began the final era of Mis-
souri, river transportation.
AS the railroads reached the lower
river towns, one by one, they cut off
and made shorter the long trip to Fort
Benton by river. First st. Louis, then
St. Joseph, Sioux City, Yankton and
Pierre were reached by the roads, and
the river trip to Montana grew short
er. When the Manitoba, now the Great
Northern, reached Bismarck, III, N the
voyage to Fort Benton had shrunk
to 300, and boats began to run on
regular schedules.
The new commerce on the Missouri
river was not so romantic as the fur
cargoes, not so valuable as the golden
treasures of the decade before, but
it was profitable, this business of sup
plying the bullwhackers who freighted
to LeWistown, to the mines at Maiden,
to Helena, and into Canada. With the
Indians on reservations, dependent on
the government for their supplies, the
mercantile concerns of Fort Benton,
by reason of their favored spot at the
head OF navigation, were In q position
to gain the profitable government con-
tracts of the later eighties. The Powers,
the Bakers and the Pecks, the mer-
camille commodores of an inland port,
built fortunes and sometimes lost them,
as Fort Benton maintained its trade
pre-eminence over territory stretch
ing from Helena, Lewistown and the
Blackfoot reservation, far north to
Lethbridge and Mcleod in Canada.
When the Manitoba railroad began
stretching across the prairies and bad
lands of Dakota and Montana toward
Fort Benton, the Peck, the Coulson
and the Baker steamship lines quit
business one by one, seeing the hand
writing on the wall, as had the Diamond
R at Carroll in the early part of the
era-but the last and greatest Of the
river companies, the Benton Block "P'
line, owned by the Powers, held on
and monopolized the river traffic in
its final years. In 1887, with the rail-
road due in Fort Benton that fall
their Boats made thirty trips to Fort
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Benton, while in the following years
they made three, then two trips, be-
fore quitting the unequal struggle, in
1889.
The coming of the railroad in 1887
ended Fort Benton's Importance as a
center of commerce, although the
United States government, until the
Fort Peck dam is completed, recog-
Missouri river.
With that dam scheduled for COM
pletion in August of this year, the race
this summer between the motor cruisers
from st. Louis to Fort Benton will be
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Sound Car Announces
Iii" Old Poker Game
in Bitter Root Town

A slant on modern advertising that
doubtless stirs ghosts Of old-time from
tier gambling days such as the Bitter
Root county knew in the gay nineties,
was observed In Hamilton recently. A
sound car travelled the streets, telling
progress at q local beer place and that
q glass Of free beer went with every
stack Of chips. The ghosts doubtless
sighed for the old times when the dig
nifty OF the grapevine sent q silent call
to the disciples Of the table.
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CASH FOR A NAME

May Fl is the closing date of Louis
b. Zip" O'Neil's $1,000 cash prize
contest for a name for the North
west Refinery company's new gaso-
market in the near future. First
prize, $500; second, $500; third, $500;
your choice of a name should be
short, not more than two words.
Rules of the contest and entry blank
will be found elsewhere in this paper.
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The Democrats Service Bulletins
YOUR HISTORICAL ATLAS IS READY

Here is a new attractively bound book. contain ing g pages (size six inches by nine inches) or maps in four colors. showing the history of 'Ee world in graphic form. from the Chaidean' Elamitic and Hittite powers down to Europe and the United States today. For the United States these maps show the growth of our country from the first grants by King James to the Plymouth and London Companies down to the present. Ihe early colonial grants are shown; there is map of the French and Indian War period; a map oi
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-12
WARDENS' SCHOOL
 CLOSES SATURDAY
Ten New FulI-Time Depu- ties to Be Appointed
 Board Announces

Hartford, Aug. 12.-Adoption of a plan for reorganization of Connec- ticut's game warden force, making possible appointment of ten addi- tional full-time deputy wardens at no additional cost, was announced today by the state board of fisheries and game.
 Reassignment of territories to be Lpatrolled by the eight county war dens and their deputies, making each territory more compact and thus reducing automobile mileage, and appointment of two county wardens as district supervisors to lessen the burden of paper work" on field men are two elements of the plan to increase efficiency.
 The plan calls for @ continuance of the seasonal employment of spe- cial patrolmen on state-leased areas and cooperative hunting and fishing projects. The increase in the per- manent warden force, however, will provide additional patrol of these and all other game covers and fish, ing waters.
 Selectin of the ten new full-tilne wardens is to be made from among the 16 part-time waIdens now at- tending the wardens' school at the Litchfield- Morris state wildlife sanc- tuary.
 Appointments will be announced during the closing exercises at the school next Saturday.
 "One of the principal purposes of establishing the summer school for wardens was to afford part-time as well as full-time wardens an oppor- tunity to become more familiar with the policies and practices of the department" Commissioner Oliver B. Ellsworth stated.
 The school has been entirely suc- cessful and of decided benefit in preparing wardens for the perma- nent force. It is planned to repeat the sessions next year."
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thing" Pat replied with shrug. "They look like bad dreams all right, all right"
 But after that conversation, Pat had moved a cot into the basement storage room for himself, instead of staying at his brothers rooming house, where all his old cronies were won't to gather.
 "The owner thinks 'taint safe to be lavin' the place so unoccupied at night" he explained to Kathleen. "So If ye hear any trompin' around from now on, it's me-" He did not add that he had never spoken to the owner of the building in all the time he had worked there, but dealt entirely with his agent, who rarely bothered his head about anything.
 If Pat was not so comfortable in body because of this self-imposed arrangement, at least his mind was set at rest about the little girl in studio number one. He wasn't go- ing to have her getting all upset by any creaks If he could help 1t, any more than he was going to let her get too friendly with the Duchess and her friends. If he could only find some nice young fellow for her to date, he would have felt better satisfied yet, but so far, none of the tenants of the building had come up to his standard.
 
 K ATHLEEN, herself, was en- IN tirely unconscious of the anxi- ety she was causing her Irish friend. He was very careful to be always quite casual and unconcerned when he was talking with her. She would have been surprised to know why he so anxiously scrutinized every new tenant who moved in.
 Then the very small studio across from the Duchess's big one was taken. Kathleen realized this first when she saw a black and white terrier go pelting past her up the stairs, and heard him scratch at a door which was promptly opened for him. Soon typewriter, a steel filing cabinet and a big table were carried in. These seemed to belong to a tall, young man, with fair hair and nice upturned smile, who ad- dressed the dog as Schmatz.
 Kathleen became quite absorbed watching the moving from her win dow, wondering who he could be and what kind of work he did. I'll ask Pat the first time see him" she promised herself and turned back to her desk.
 Pat himself lost no time looking over the tenant. About that dog
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artists she runs with callin' her the Duchess, has got her to thinkin she really Is one to be orderin' folks about like she had a right to-"
 When the upstairs window was jerked open again, Pat finally dropped his broom and stumped up the steps. He knocked on the door of the studio directly above Kath- leen's.
 You certainly took your time, Patrick" the Duchess addressed him in a scathing tone as she let him in. She pointed long amber cigaret holder at him accusingly. She was dressed in black satin pa- jamas topped by gold embroidered Mandarin coat. This made her un- naturally light hair and hard young face look especially artificial.
 Pat gave her quizzical grin. Sure. Miss, it's meself now who's seen the time whin I'd bounce right up If the gurls called, but I aint as spry as I used ter be. Where ye think ye'd be wantin' that couch?" He looked disdain- fully about the huge cluttered room. It had been the ballroom of the old mansion, that was now the studio apartment house. Except for one small studio, it extended across the entire top floor.
 THE Duchess went in for sur IL realist painting on an extensive scale. Fantastic canvases lined the walls and leaned at all angles against odd pieces of furniture. Weird, shrieking colors ran rampant in vivid daubs of paint, the draperies and the rugs, giving the place a feverish, maniacal aspect.
 "It's big pain in me neck" Is the way Pat had described the studio to Kathleen once. And the same goes for that gurl and her rummy friends. Watch yer step now. Miss Kathy, around her. She aint for the loikes O Ye."
 "Oh I'm much too busy during the day to have time to get very well acquainted with the people who have studios in the house, Pat, :" Kathleen told him. Besides, they all go home at night, so I never have a chance to be very friendly with them. Sometimes I think 1t would be nice to have someone to talk to. It wouldn't be SO lonesome and, well-it's kind of jscary staying alone in the building. It's so old 1t creakS. Often I imagine I can hear footsteps upstairs, when I know it's empty"
 Likely as not it's thim pictures O the Duchess doin' a jig or some
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now" he began. T don't know what the agent will say. He-'
 Why bother to. tell him? What he doesn't know won't worry him." the young man answered with a grin. "Ill promise good behavior-no barks on the part of Schmatz. The little rascals lots of company for me. l don't know anybody here. I've just come to the city you know. You wouldn't make me get rid of him would you?"
 Pat decided he liked his friendly manner. Well, we'll be tryia' the pup out" he promised, leaning over to rub the dogs ears. "What'd ye say yer name was now, Mr.-Mr.-'
 "McTavish, Bob McTavish. l write detective yarns for living"
 "oh ye do." Pa. carefully filled his pipe while he reflected how well the strangers fair hair would go with Kathleen's black curls. What a foine lookin' couple they'd be maxim now. He lighted the pipe and re- marked, T suppose ye wouldn't be mindin' meetin' some ither writers thin?"
 Well don't know" Bob told him doubtfully. "Why?"
 "Jist wonderin':" One of Pats eyes closed to shut out the cloud of smoke that wreathed upward from his pipe.
 (To Be COntinued)
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Application yesterday by Mrs. N. Lorene Kiely, of 325 North Main Street for appointment as guardian of Shirley Daley, 4, was looked upon today as the preliminary to the fil- ing of huge damages suits against the Creamery Service, Inc. of Brooklyn, New York. Mrs. Kiely has also asked the New Haven probate court to appoint her administrative of the estate of her late brother, James J. Daley, Shirley's father.
 Lone Survivor
 The Creamery Service, Inc, are the owners and operators of the heavily laden milk truck which crashed into the Daley car near Lib- erty, N. Y., on August 4, and left Shirley Daley the lone survivor of a family of five. Her mother, two sisters and grandmother, Mrs. Cath erine Daley of North Main street were instantly killed by the horrify- ing and terrific impact. Her father, James J. Daley, New Haven reil- way mail clerk, died the next day as result of the injuries.
 No definite steps toward the filing of court actions can be taken un- til the preliminary procedure of ap- pointment as guardian and admin istratrix has been completed.
 Procedure
 E Local attorneys were of the opin- ion that the civil actions based on the tragedy would be filed either in e New York supreme court, or a United States district court within the New York area. The reason Is said to be that unlimited claims for damages may be made in New York. while in Connecticut the maximum claim in a death action is limited to $i5,000.
 As yet no applications have been made for appointment as adminis- trator of the estates of the other victims of the crash. With the ex- ception of Mrs. Catherine T. Daley, all applications must be made at the New Haven probate court. As Mrs. Daley was a resident of this city, Judge Dennis J. Slavin will hear any application on that meas ure.
 Recovering
 Shirley, who was practically or- phaned by the accident which oc- cured on the New York-Buffalo
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Tragic Deaths Lead
 To Court Actions
Appointment of Administrator Prelude to Damage
 Suits For Five Deaths in Daley Family

road, few miles from Liberty, N. r., is now in St. Marys hospital where she Is reported in a flair" condition, and recovering from a crushed left leg and facial con- tusions.
 Mrs, Kiely.s application as stated in last evenings Democrat, will be heard in New Haven probate court by Judge John I. Gilson, Tuesday morning at Ii o'clock and no op- position is expected. Attorney Rich- ardson Bronson of the law firm of Bronson, Lewis & Bronson of this city represents Mrs. Kiely.
 The driver of the milk truck, John Morin, 35, of 5l0 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., is being held on a homicide charge and will be pre- sented before the Sullivan (N. Y) county grand jury on the charge.
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PUBLIC CONCERT
 AT FULTON PARK
Fulton's American Band to Present Attractive
 Program Tonight

Under the direction of Rocco Pa gano, members of the Fulton Ameri- can band will give a free concert at the Fulton park baseball dia- mond this evening at o'clock. Tn the event of rain 1t will take place tomorrow evening at the same time.
 The complete program has been announced by the director as fol- lows:
 Chicago Tribune. .......
 .'.''''.'.'..''' CHaHlperS Overture-FeSt ....... w. Seltner Selection-The Fortune Teller ..
 ................ Victor Herbert Songs from the old Folks. Lake Selection-El Trovatore .... Verdi
 a. Pilgrim Chorus ... Wagner
 b. Trombonia .... Dunmars American Patrol ............ Lake Concert Waltz
 The Wedding of the Winds. Hall Serenade in the Night .....,....
 ............ Arr. by R. Pagano Hunting Scene-Descriptive Num- Stars and Stripes Forever . .Sousa
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Beginning a Different
 Sort of a Story Written in a Different Sort of Way
Chapter I

KATHLEEN O'SHAN, head IN tossed back to face a sud- den summer breeze, ran up the flight of rough stone steps to her studio, and butted smack into the jan itor, who was sweeping.
 "oh, Pat, I'm sorryl" she exclaimed. Did - did l hurt you?"
 "Ye didn't damage hting, Miss Kathy, but me smoke" A smile wreathed the little mans ruddy, dried-apple face. He retrieved his stubby pipe from the grass beside the walk. "A washin' won't be hurtin' 1t now, I'm thinkin'. Got a lot O rhymes to write today? Ye seem in a great hurry" His shrewd squinting eyes noted her strained frown.
 "Yes. I've got to write a lot whether I have them or not. That rents almost due again you know, but it's awfully hard to think about love this kind of weather"
 She pulled of her beret and let the wind whip her black curls as though 1t might bring her an idea.
 Her blue eyes with their long curling black lashes gave her face an appealing look, which made the old Irishman say reassuringly:
 Sure now, Miss Kathy, it's the good saints themselves will be havin' ye under their care. Don't ye be worryin' yer pretty head none." He grasped the broom and attacked the steps as though he were dsposing Of all earthly cares.
 But after the door closed behind tho girl, he stood in deep thought for moment, his thick finger tamping down the tobacco in his pipe. Then he shook his head wor- riedly and glanced at Kathleen's window where he could see her al- ready bending over her desk.
 "Tt's too young she is to be fightin' aginst the world all alone. Thin little rhymes she writes don't pay any more than enough to keep body and soul togither. I wish" ITS thoughts were interrupted H by 6 high-pitched voice above 1 his head. as a young woman, with an amizing shock of fuzzy plat mum blond hair, leaned from a window.
 Patrick, I want you to come up and move my couch. just can't abide it where it isl My nerves are all ajangle looking at that north | wall. Hurry!"
 Sure, and I'll be tearin' me shirt | now, Miss, to git there" answered the janitor soberly. Then as the window banged shut, he shrugged and leisurely went back to this | sweeping, muttering, "She said the same thing last wake whin moved | that couch, and she'll be sayin' 1t again mkt wake whin I move 1t. If | the gurl would try combin' her hair now, 1t might help her nerves. Thim
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they are aliens. these physically able direct relief mon and women may be given WPA jobs.
 If such a change goes into effect the number of persons on direct re- lief will be lessened and sf.e local relief load will not be at great. There have been ee aliens found on local WPA rolls In that lnvestlRa- ton which was also completed yes- terday by the members of the local stan.
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SURVEY
 COMPLETED HERE
WPA Supervisor Finds 75 Male, 46 Female Appli.
 cants Eligible

An investigation of the direct re- lief rolls at the local welfare depart ment, brought about as the result of a request of state WPA supervisor of intake and cartif1cation Frederick McGarry, has been completed by the members oe the local stan, 1t was annouMoed this morning by Mrs. Margaret verdon.
 The check-up of the current files showed that there are 75 men physi- cally fit for work and 46 women. There have been no statements is- sued from the state ofice in regard to the reason for this statewide in- yestigation of physically able men and women on direct relief to date.
 There are indications, however, that with 1,To8 persons to be dropped from the state roles because
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COW CALLING IN LIMELIGHT

Chico. Cal. CUP)-Cow calling has been less publicized than hog calling. but it seems that 1t exists. Repeated blasts from the engi- neer's whistle on the Sacramento Northern railroad failed to stir a COW that was grazing on the tracks. Then a cowboy on the train turned loose a Tarzan-iike COW call that worked.
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SUIT FOR s2sS COST s4ss

Mt. Vernon. o. (Up)-Arthur Phillips went into court with $265 law suit against the Knox Na- tional Farm Loan association. To- tai costs in the case, assessed against him after Federal Land bank attor- ,neys had appealed successfully to the U. s. supreme court. amounted to $44S-not including attorneys fees.