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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-10-09

horses was killed and Kit had to wade
IN two feet Of water to cut the animal
loose from the others. The white men
killed two Indians. That checked the
Indians for the time being, but as the
trappers we're approaching q tributary
OF the Madison river, they we're at
tackled again by Indians. They killed
two more Indians there. Later the
same day they we're attacked again.
That time they killed several Indians,
but lost couple OF horses, q total Of
four they had lost in one day.
The Gallatin country was where
Carson intended to spend the winter,
but with hostile Indians on every side,
there was no chance to stop and trap,
so the party just kept on going. The
Indians which they ran into IN the
Gallatin we're Blacdeet, who had been
hostile to trapperS since the earliest
trading post was established at the
three forks of the Missouri by Manuel
Lisa's men in 1903 Numerous trading
posts established there In later years
were failures for the same reason and
scores Of trappers had been chased out
by the Indians. and many killed
On Alder creek, near where Virginia
City now stands, the party encountered
Bannock village. Bridger and Beck
with both pronounced these friendly,
so they thought their troubles were
over. They camped that night near
Lone butte and the next day headed
across the divide in the direction of
Fort Hall, Idaho, where Carson thought
he could organize party Of trappers
big enough to come back and trap in
the Gallatin country that winter In
dams or no Indians
While they we're going through
Beaver canyon in the Beaverhead /
country they were attacked by about /
30 Bannock Indians and killed two of /
them. The Indians killed two of /
Bridger'S horses and wounded Carson |
with an arrow. Drannan credits their I
escape from this band of Indians to /
q binding and furious rain and wind |
storm which came upon them suddenly. /
During the thickest of 1t the white /
men got away. That was their last en-
counter with Indians on their way
% Fort Hall
When they arrived at Fort Hall, three
lays later, they found only about 20
rapperS at the post and none of those
Wiling TO venture into the Gallatin
country because of the presence there
t hostile Blackfeet And they said that
7hen the Blackfeet were not there, the
rows were, and that they were hostile
90.
After remaining at Fort Hall for two
leeks, Carson, Bridger and Drannan
eft for Green river, Wyo., to trap for
he winter. Beckwith left the party and
Tent with another trapper to the Snake
yer, where, they reported afterwards, ,
hey met with good success. Carson, :
ridger and Drannan had poor luck
l Wyoming. They reached Bent's fort l
gain the next June and disposed of /
leir furs. Carson declared that win /
sr's trapping. which he had expected t
} be the most successful of his career, I
as the poorest season he had ever
ad He said that he would trap no 8
lore and went from there to Taos, I
here he had a sheep ranch and where
2 spent his last days. t
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-10-09

Charles Schrage, the genial stew
ard of the Butte EIks lodge, re-
Gently returned from q family re-
union which brought him and his
three older brothers together for
the first time in 81 years.
1t was back in his home town Of
Menasha, Wis, late last month, that
the longtime resident of Butte had
the opportunity of seeing his three
brothers for the first time in six
decadeS-the first time since Charles
was a boy Of nine.
The four Schrage brothers. Frank,
81; George, 70; Edward, rs, and
at Edwards home on the occasion Of
Edwards 18th birthday.
Edward is the only one Of the four
who remained in MenaSha where all
were born. The others struck out to
new fields, entered business for them
selves and are now retired
Frank. the oldest, was the first to
try a business venture when he went
to Chicago in 1876. There he operated
drug store. He is past president of
the Veteran Druggists association Of
Chicago.
George went to Chicago 40 years
ago and entered the ice business. For
the past 10 years he has been president
of an ice company there.
Edward stayed in MenaSha ana
worked in wooden ware plant. Then
he entered the fuel business and later
a wire works plant. He is past city
treasurer of Menasha, a job which his
older brother, George, also once held
George also was chief Of the Menasha
fire department and captain of the
town baseball team.
'Baby of Family"
The 70-year-old "baby Of the family"
Charley as he is known to his friends,
has claimed Butte as his home for the
past 81 years. He went to Chicago
when he was 10. At the age Of SO he
started west, stopped in Butte, liked
it and settled there. He operated
saloon there for a time but for the
past 10 years has been steward of the
Elks lodge.
Charley, a vigorous man in good
health and with a humorous slant on
things, is an ardent Elk. Last spring
he was honored with the presentation
Of q pin for his Is years Of member
ship In the Butte lodge.
He confesses that the reunion with
his brothers was an experience Of his
lifetime. They have vowed TO do 1t
again ia 10 years but Charley hopes
that 1t win come much sooner.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-10-09
HORSE STEALING
CAUSED BATTLE

The last Indian fight In Meagher
county occurred I'm July, 1888. IL
was the result Of a Flathead horse
stealing expedition. The Indians
fOund the whites were bad me6ii-
cineo and reformed their habits
when they learned the outcome Of
the raid. The story comes from
Townsend as follows:
zone night in July, 1883, a small
band of Indians, returning to the Flat
head country, passed the ranch of
Jesse Taylor, one of Montana's old
pioneer cattlemen. They rounded up
large number of saddle horses and
driving them through the Crow creek
valley, crossed the Missouri river near
Toston.
The horses were missed the next
morning by half breed who had them
in his charge. Taylor tracked them to
the river Notice was given him that
the Indians had raided the ranch. A
posse was Immediately formed under
the leadership of William Deadman
and pursuit commenced along the
plainly marked trail.
About shutdown the posse overlook
The Indians who were camped In q dead
camp on Battle creek.
Deadman gave the order to attack.
There was voIey and an Indian
dropped, squaw, the first to feel the
white mans bullet. The Indian band,
numbering seven, put up a lively fight,
but when the smoke of battle cleared
away they were all dead save one. That
vas the last Indian fight in Meagher
county"
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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-10-09

rivers for a time, crossing the latter
and hitting the Yellowstone where the
city Of Billings is now located and the
mountains.
The second day out of General
Harney's camp, the Carson party met
a band Of IL Sioux Indians on the
warpath. The trappers hastily arranged
their horses in a circle and during the
battle which followed killed seven red
skins. The other four got away. That
was the first trouble they had had
with the Indians since leaving Taos,
and it was the last encounter they had
before crossing the Yellowstone.
1t must not be drawn from this that
travel was safe in the country through
which they travelled. But these men
were all experienced on the trail and
knew how to avoid Indians and trouble
if there was any possible way of doing
it. That they were able to travel from
northern New Mexico to the Yellow
stone river, a large part of the distance
through country where the Indians
we're known to be hostile, and do it
with only one fight, speaks volumes
for their scouting ability In fact,
Dranan in his book, devotes less space
to the encounters with Indians than
he does to the routine of trail and
camp.
n Ody d4bCI CIOoolllR t1lG EltOWSJDIlE
river, the trapperS were chased by q
party Of 20 Crow Indians. Carson and
his comrades put spurs to their horses
and ran for five or six miles until they
'eached ground which considered suit
able for a stand against their pIrSuers
Four Indians were killed in the fight
which followed and the rest went
away. Within a few days they reached
Fort Benton. There, according to Dram
u
" would give them information about
he route which they should follow to
each their objective. He relates that |
hey met a distinctly unfriendly re-
,eption. which he attributes to the |
act that. they were strangers in the |
ountry and the desire of the fur COM
'anieS whose men were trapping and |
rading over it were anxious to keep out |
opposition in the form Of independent |
n Fort Benton only two days before
tarting for the headwaters of the
Gissouri.
They went back to the divide be-
ween the Yellowstone and the Missouri
nd headed west, keeping on the high
and to steer clear of Indians. On the
fifth day out of Fort Benton they
Iimbed a divide and looked down into
ne Gallatin valley. They had seen no
indians since leaving Fort Benton.
hey went through a pass which
rannan says that when they reached
the beaver dams were so thick they
ould hardly find a place to cross.
hey tried to ford at a buffalo cross
IL but the mud was so deep they had
, turn back. Just then the Indians
5tacked them.
Drannan's saddle horse was killed.
he white men rode for the open and
way from the brush and then fol-
wed down stream for an hour and /
alf before crossing. When they finally ]
d cross, they were attacked by In |
ans who had been awaiting them on j
lie other side. One Of Carson's pack !
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-10-09
Swiftly
USED NATIVE COAL
e. H. BARTLETT SOLVED PROBLEM
OF HIGH COST OF FORGE
FUEL IN SIXTIES

The man who first solved the
high cost of blacksmithing In Mon
tana by using native coal In his
forge, was A. HI. Bartlett, an artisan
who came to Virginia City in 1865.
Prior to that time he had been in
both California, and Nevada, and
In the latter state worked on a
mining claim with Marcus DAILY,
who developed the Butte copper
mines.
At Virginia City Bartlett opened a
blacksmith shop. Much of his work
was welding the heavy tires on the
old Murphy wagons, the huge vehicles
used in freighting merchandise across
the plains. 1t was a tough job to heat
them with the charcoal which the
blacksmiths used; expensive fuel, too,
because it had to be Imported.
When two proSpectors discovered a
vein Of coal in the upper Ruby valley
and brought some of it to Virginia
City to be tested, Bartlett tried it in
his forge, and found that when mixed
with charcoal 1t gave him better re-
suits than he obtained with charcoal
alone. He "Staked" the prospectors to
From then on he did all the tire work
in Virginia City, whether setting, weld
ing or making new ones.
1t is related Of Bartlett that on his
83rd birthday, years after he had re-
tired, he went to the Virginia City
shop which he had formerly owned,
donned snithy'S apron and shod a
by no means gentle horse, just to
prove that he still could do it.
Bartlett was born at Salisbury, VT,
Nov. is, 1913. The following year his
parents moved to Granville, NJ Y, then
a manufacturing center. Shortly after
ward his father went on to Ohio, leav-
ing the family in Granville. The elder
Bartlett died in Ohio within a short
Time Mrs. Bartlett and her two sons
remained in Granville, where E. H.,
when he became big enough. was an
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-10-09
WHITE PINE RUST
NVADES GALLATTN
PARK OFFICIALS, FOREST MEN
ARE WORRIED OVER RE-
CENT FIND

White pine blister rust, dreaded
foe Of western Gimberlaud. was
found few days ago Ia the
Callatin forest near Ennis-fhe
first time the tree disease has been
located east Of the continental dli-
vide and west Of the Mississippi
river, says III. Z. Swanson. regional
director, and e. L. Joy, assistant
regional director of the north
western region Of blister rust con-
troll of the United States forest
service, both Of Spokane.
Inc men made survey Of the area
and found blister rust on wild clIrrant
bushes in four locations, one within
the Gallatin forest a mile above the
Bear creek ranger station on Trail
fork Of Bear creek, a tributary of the
Madison river, about Is miles above
Ennis.
Discovery Of the infestation caused
alarm that the great scenic recrea-
tional value of the white pine in this
area will be destroyed. The discovery
Is also giving worry to Yellowstone
park officials, for there is a possibility
the blister rust may attack white pine
in that area.
Already at work in this area are
three beetles which attack mature
.rees. Blister rust attacks young and
nature trees, so seedlings from beetle
destroyed trees may also be killed.
Blister rust affects only five-needled
1ineS, which are classified as white
1ines. 1t will not attack local lodge
)ole pine. There are two species of
White pine in the Gallatin forest
umber pine and white bark pine.
While these trees do not have much
'alue for lumber or timber except
IS railroad ties or fence posts, they
10 have much scenic value. Great
roves of white bark pine are found.
t attitudes above $500 feet. They are
distinguished by their candelabra-
haped crowns.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-10-09
Christmas Dinners Were SKINNY When
Santa Claus Used Freight Wagons

dition and wagons in repair the year
around.
So passed the last Of the Montana
freighters.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-10-09
OIL for
Troubled Waters

IN EVERY industrial field, plant super
intendents and management executives
turn to the SocOny-Vacuum Oil Company
with it's 20 years. experience whenever a
fabrication problem, great or small, threat
ems TO disrupt operating schedules.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-10-09
Brothers United
After 81 Years

Charles Schrage, the genial stew
ard of the Butte EIkS lodge, re-
Gently returned from family re-
union which brought him and his
three older brothers together for
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-10-09

BEAD the Classified Advertisements
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-05-28
NEW RULING is
MADE IN STATE

The Maryland State Board of
Health has voted to recognize bur-
ial permits from Pennsylvania,
Virginia. West Virginia. District
of Columbia and Delaware, accord
ing 10 announcement made here
by local undertakers. Heretofore
it has been necessary for under
takers bringing bodies to Mary
land across the State line to OBJ
tain a burial permit in Maryland
IS well as in the State in which
the death occurred. This proceed
IRE involved inconvenience to I'M
dertakers and to families of the
deceased and occasionally result
ed in violations of the law.
The local registrars in each
county of Maryland have been re-
quested to forward to the State
Registrar list of cemeteries
within the district in order that
each cemetery may be notified Of
ficially of the change.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-05-28
RIIU,DING PERMITS
FOR MAY $4,000
Two Fine Dwellings And
Mission Church Includ-
ed in Buildings

building operations in Hagers-
town during the present month
aggregate a total of $4,000 ac-
cording to permits issued at the
office Of City Engineer Lyon.
The permits which include two
fine dwellings, and a church, fol-
low:
Gas Home, Inc. two story dwell
ing Country Club Heights; Cohen
Bros.. Inc, dwelling and garage
irwin avenue; Farm and Forest
Products Co., two-story dwelling,
Garlinger avenue, near Guilford
avenue: A. A. SCHUYLER, veneer
storeroom, sol Vine St.; Roger @.
Cook. two concrete block garages,
AZ Broadway; James B. Cole, to
remodel dwelling into apartments
and stOreroOm, 81 E. Franklin St.;
Mrs. J. A. Mason, addition to sun
porch, 228 South Prospect street;
Full Gospel Mission, temporary
frame church, George ST., between
High and Wise, streets; Charles
NJ Weant, filling station, 1921 w.
Washington ST.; Orville d. Fox
garage, 1906 Hamilton Blvd; San
to Gallo, addition, Franklin and
Foundry Sts.; Merle Reese, two
story building for dwelling, Flor
ida avenue.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-05-28
TATE CUBS GOING COOP

The Tate Cubs, formerly pIay-
ing under the Cabbies banner, are
going great guns this season, and
are earning the representation Of
being hard-hitting outfit. They
have not yet tasted defeat COM
ing through with three wins out
of as many starts. Last year they
were the play-off champions CT
the Industrial League.
The Tate Cubs are sponsored by
the Tate Ice Cream Company, q
local industry operating reteil
stores in Maryland, West Virginia
and Virginia.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-05-28

"To have earned more than we
have received is better than to
have received more than we have
earned"
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-05-28

"Cne's success in business does
not always determine his value to
family, the community, the church
and the world"
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-05-28

If w look down, our face is in
the shadow; if we look up, it re-
fleets the sunshine that falls upon
it.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-05-28

A Greencastle abbattoir set a
new high record in slaughtering
and prepared for shipment 419
calves in one day.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-05-28

knowledge and timber should
not be much used until they are
seasoned.-(H olmes).
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-05-28

Watch The Globe Grow
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-05-28

Blt for
0
ect
toni college is nosc
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-05-28

Watch the Globe Grow!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-03
Revival of Utility Construction
Taken Upat White House Meeting
Conference of President and Commonwealth and South
Head Looks to Lower Electricity Rates and Peace
Between Administration and Utities-SEC Warns
Wall Street to Mend Ways

Washington, D. G. (ILNs)- Three
very important incidents in relations
between the federal government and
large financial powers occurred in
Washington in less than "a hours.
One was an interview which gave some
slight promise of peace between the
New Deal and the electric utility indus
try and also looked to revival of util-
ity construction One was an exhaus-
tive report by the New York state
power authority on utility propaganda
and misstatements on power costs and
other matters. And one was a state
ment by VIM. Q. Douglas, chairman Of
the security and exchange commission,
warning Wall street to mend its ways
p. d. d. or have them mended for it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-03
CANADA SEEKS
Uniform Old Age Pension
Plan

Greater efficiency in the admins
tration of pensions for the aged in
Canada was sought at a conference
inst held in Ottawa between officials
of the Dominion government and the
provincial governments.
Under the Canadian old age pension
system the Dominion government
pays seventy-tive per cent of the cost
OF old age pensions, the provinces
paying the remaining twenty-five per
cent and running expenses under the
existing arrangement which provides
for administration Of old age pensions
by the provinces.
This plan has been applicable to ali
provinces since New Brunswick start
ed participation in the pension plan
July l, 1886, and Quebec August l
of the same year.
Estimates for the present fiscal
year, which ends March 81, 1888, Gov
ering 146,524 pensioners, fixed the
Dominion's share of old age pension
cost at s27, 100000 compared with an
expenditure of $21,149,351 for the last
fiscal year
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-03
Miners and Operators Want
Bill to Stabilize Anthracite

Washington, D. c. (ILNS)-A joint
conference of United Mine Workers
officials, anthracite operators and
congressman from Pennsylvania just
held here decided to draw up a new
bill to stabilize this industry, and pre-
sent it to the regular session of con-
gress. Thomas Kennedy, secretary of
the UNIV and chairman of the meet
ing, already has named the committee
to draw up this legislatiin.
The UNIV is cooperating with the
anthracite operators and John L. Lewis
has suggested that the RFC make
loans to some of these operators, who
otherwise would be obliged to close
down.
1t is believed probable that state as
well as federal legislation will be need
ed; and if this becomes clear, the COM
mittee will draft both.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-03
Green Declares Federation Opposition to Meas
ure in Present Form, Scores Government
Boards and Calls for Changes to Shorten
Work Periods Because of Business Decline.

Federal Boards Sharply Criticized
5. The federation feels that the
basic changes necessary to preserve
the objectives of the bill can receive
the required thorough consideration
only before the house labor commit
tee, and therefore recommends that
the draft be sent back to that COM
mittee for amendments or for the sub
stitution of new bill.
The denunciation of government
boards in general and of the NLRB
in particular is even stronger in the
text of the letter than in the official
summary given. In the text of Mr..
Green's letter to Mrs. Mary Norton,
chairman of the house labor commit
tee, he says that any such plan is
fatally defective" He declares that
the NLRB has:
Brought turmoil into industrial re-
lations, has usurped the prerogatives
of the courts essential to the preser-
vation Of our democratic form Of gov
ernment, and has jeopardized indus
trial freedom and initiative"
Lewis Gives Qualified Backing
John L. Lewis has given the wage
and hour bin a qualified approval,
and strongly urged its passage. He
says that it has limitations which
Tabor cannot permanently accept,
but:
Recognition of the principle OF
federal prohibition of starvation
wages and oppressive hours Of work
is of such transeendent Importance,
and the direct benefits Of the legisla-
tion will be so great in the area to
which the present bill will apply, that
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-03

Washington, D. c. tILNS)-Presi-
dent William Green, of the American
Federation of Labor, has repudiated
the wage and hour bill now reposing
in the pigeonhole Of the rules COM
mittee Of the house, and demanded
that it be sent back to the labor COM
mittee for complete rewriting. The Of
fetal summary Of his objections to
the measure follows:
/. The federation cannot and will
not endorse the bill until it has been
changed OF amended to preserve its
fundamental objectives, without pos
sibility of distortion, as the construc-
tive force contemplated by President
Roosevelt's message of May "a, 1887.
q Recent experiences with the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board and the
present business recession have com
PEELED the federation to qualify its
position of last August that the bill
was fairly satisfactory to labor"
For Amendments to Shorten Hours
3. The federation feels as a result
of the administration Of the national
labor relations act by the National
Labor Relations Board that it is no
longer safe to permit a government
board of that kind to make the many
determinations necessary in the adj
ministration of the fair labor stand
ards bill as now written.
A. Because the unemployment prob
lem is rapidly becoming more serious
as result of the present business
recession, the federation believes the
bill should be amended to provide for
a shorter work day and a shorter
work week.