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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-09-10
WE THANK YOU

The Big Horn County Jubiee-our Celebration of Progress
lis a matter Of history and we hope it makes good reading Tor
boxes in the corner stones of those school buildings of Hardin,
Crow Agency and Lodge Grass. We hope we have made good
history. Regardless of this, however, we have not followed a
beaten path in our purposes or plans of procedure.
Many untried experiments were resorted to. In the first
place the Hardin Lions club and Hardin Post No. 8, American
Legion, had never worked together in such an endeavor before
and one get all the money. That kind of a deal is not usually
conducive to a harmonious partnership. In this matter we have
shattered all presidents because, instead of it being disastrous
to either, it has been most helpful to both. The Lions club is an
ganization devoted to the enshrinement of the memory of those
who have served, aid and assist their widows and orphans and
work for the benefit of their living comrades, and if the Lions
club has performed any service in behalf of the Hardin Ameri-
can Legion Post No. 8 toward securing funds for their Legion
building, it has put into practice Its object of service and it mas
to that extent proved its right to continue on.
tional features, under the sponsorship of the Lions club, and the
afternoon and evening programs under the direction Of the
Legion. In the laying of the corner stone of the new junior
high school, Monday evening, under the flood lights, by the
ceremony was performed.
Monday morning the throng witnessed the dedication of
the court house and visited the nearly completed sugar factory.
Tuesday the unusual was witnessed in the Lodge Grass
Little Horn Dam ceremony at Lodge Grass, followed by the lay
ing of the corner stone of the Lodge Grass high school by the
grand lodge OF Masons Of Montana from the same platform and
enjoyed by the same audience.
The corner stone of the Crow Agency public school W RAJ
laid and the building presented by the Montana congressman.
It was accepted through a most earnest and stirring appeal for
education by a full blood Crow Indian, the Superintendent of
the Crow Indian reservation.
The afternoon and evening programs were made merry
for those who sought our gates by the Legionnaires and their
Ladies Auxiliary, with two afternoons of varied and most inter-
esting programs.
wish us to express for them through the columns of the Hardin
Tribune Herald their most hearty thanks to all those who, by
their assistance and presence, made the Big Horn County Jubilee
the signal success that~i it was. f5
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Day Program
Third Annual by Big Horn County
All Clubs Friday, Saturday,
September 1O-11.

The third annual Achievement
Day Program of the Big Horn
County All clubs will be held in
the gymnasium of the grade
school at Hardin next Friday and
Saturday, Sept. 10 and II.
The achievement program will
consist of exhibits by all the All
club members of the county,
judging contests for the girls and
demonstration contests by men,
bers of the clubs.
A dress revue in which the girls
will model in the dresses and
aprons made during the year as
club members will be one of the
features of the achievement.
Again as in former wears a cash
prize of so cents will be given
every exhibitor who exhibits three
OF more articles in the home
economics and agricultural classes.
The group system of Judging will
be- used. Those being placed in the
blue ribbon group will receive $50
extra in prize money. Prizes will
also be given for the best indi-
vidual record books showing sproj-
ects completed. giving cost Of
CAOAA1S VI CdIEylIlS Oh Tile QTOJeCC
throughout the year.
Hazel A. Thomson, home DEM
~onstration agent-at-large will
Judge the exhibits, demonstrations
and assist with the activities Of
the fair.
Exhibits will be placed and
Judged on Fridav. The program If
JUDGING, demonstrations and style
revue will be given on Saturday.
The public and friends of All
club members are invited to at
tend the activities OF the achieve
ment program. Geo. w. Gustafson,
county extension agent is in
charge.
The exhibits will be on display
all dav Saturday for inspection of
visitors,
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Five Miles East of Hardin, Over so
: Years Ago-When Sioux Came
To Steal Crow Horses,

Joshua Wetsit, wife, son, Alex
Dumarce Wetsit, and 3-year-old
grand nephew, Enoch White, As
sinaboine Sioux from Wolf Point,
on the Fort Peck Indian reserva-
ton are among the outside In
dams who attended the Crow In
dian fair at Crow Agency last
week. This was Joshua's first visit
to the Crow reservation. His main
reason for coming was to visit the
scene, where his father, Bowman,
and his companion, Iron Shield,
members of a Sioux party visiting
the Crow country on a horse steal
ing expedition in 1886, were killed
by the Crows in a battle fought
in the Little Horn valley about
five miles southeast of the present
town of Hardin, and about three
miles from Fort Custer, then
garrisoned by U. S. troops.
The two Sioux Indians had tied
their horses at the foot of the
Fort Custer hill in the Little Horn
valley and were lying in the I'M
derbruSh, sizing up the country
with a view to running off some
of the Crow horses, when they
were discovered by a party of
Crow Indians.
Upon learning that they had
been discovered, the two Sioux
made a run for their horses,
which, becoming frightened, broke
loose and ran away, joining the
Crow band of horses.
It was a foggy morning, and
this resulted in their downfall, as
the Crow party had little difficulty
in tracing them by means of their
footprints in the wet grass.
When the Crows neared the
Sioux, who were hiding near the
trail taken by the Crows, the two
fugitives fired on the mounted
party, killing the two leaders, one
of whom was Red Jacket, a
cousin to Bowman. After a skir-
mish of several hours, during
which a number of Crows were
wounded, a Crow who spoke the
Sioux tongue, advanced with a
flag of truce and giving the names
of the Grow killed and wounded
and the number of horses killed
and injured, suggested that they
make peace.
Bowman. learning he had killed
IllS OWL COuSlu, replleu tQaC since
he had been the cause of his
cousins death he preferred to die
and refused the peace overtureS.
Being greatly out numbered by
the Grows, the two Sioux soon
were slain. just as a party CT
soldiers from Fort Custer reached
the scene. The bodies of the two
Sioux were buried near where
they fell by the soldiers.
The Crows credited with having
killed Bowman and Iron Shield
are Coyote, who died only a short
time ago, and Deer Nose, now re-
siding at Grow, the latter plotting
Joshua WetSit over the battle
ground last Saturday morning
and telling him the story of the
fight.
A sister of Joshua Wetsit, Mrs.
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TRAIN ORDERS: LOOK OUT
BUFFALOES ON RI. OF Way

Imbued with the holiday spirit,
or, perhaps, reverting to the an
cient habit of their kind. a num-
Der of buffaloes from the tribal
herd IN the Crow Indian reserva-
ton started from some place to go
to some other place on their
range. Evidently they failed to
consider the fact that the entire
country Is not now, as in the days
of their ancestors, an unobstruct-
ed highway, open to their un-
heralded migrations. Their
thoughtlessness resulted in the
necessity of issuing a special or
der Monday to all . Burlington
trains east-bound from Huntley,
Mont, or westbound from Sheri-
dan, Wyo., to Look out for buf-
faloes on right of way, two miles
west of Grow Agency"
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If. Fish Died
On Saturday
At the Home Of His Daughter, Mrs
T. S. Christian-Had Been Here
Less Than Month.

: I. F. Fish, aged 70 years, died
at the home of his daughter, Mrs
T. S. Christian, in Hardin, Mon
tana, at 4 p. M, Saturday.. Sept.
4, 1897. He had been in i'll health
several months and on August
9th. last, arrived at his daughters
home in Hardin from his home
near Durham, Ark. He was ac-
companied here by his wife, son
Joe and wife and two children.
Mr.. Fish was born in the state
OF Texas, March Is, 1857. He was
married to Miss Rosa B. Russell,
in Texas, Sept. IS, 1889. To this
union were born six children, four
of whom, with his widow survive,
as well as nine grandchildren. The
surviving children are Mrs. F. S
Christian and Joe Fish of Hardin;
D. M. Fish of Florence, Colo, and
H. H. Fish of San Francisco, Calf.
Funeral services were held at
the Bullis-C Chilly mortuary Tues
day afternoon at two o'clock, Rev.
c. L. Shook, pastor of the Hardin
Baptist church officiating. Two
solos were sung bv Mrs. C. AL
BrotherSon. The pallbearers were A.
L. Bonawitz. Lloyd Carper, c. A.
Peterson, Carl Peterson, Melvin
Peterson and George Ransier. IN
terment was in the Hardin ceme-
terry.
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TWO-D JUbuE E MARKS
MILESTONE OF
parade traversed the principal
streets of Hardin.

parade traverSed the principal
streets of Hardin.
There were various floats, auto
mobiles of various vintages, BIZ
cycles, tricycles, children's vehicles,
beet wagons. cowboys. cowgirls, a
good delegation OF Cheyenne In
dlanS wearing the same clothing
they had on at birth, with the
addition of breechclouts, and with
their bodies painted in variegated
hue, and last. a clown.
The following parade p~artici-
pants were awarded prizes in the
respective classes:
Bicycles-Dorothy Gardner,
Lodge Grass, first, $3.50; Ruth
Lewis, Hardin, second, $3.50.
Tricycles--Mazie Bouton, Hardin,
$3.50.
Clown-Mrs. H. D. Hudson, Hail.
way, IS.
Child's ~wagon-Sido Thompson,
Hardin, $3.50.
Beet wagon--Adolph Schaak,
Hardin, first, $40; John Schaak,
Hardin, second, S..
Best float-Alfred B W a II,
truck bearing prize car. first, SIC:
Buster Cole, old Model T Ford,
second, S..
Oldest ear operating on own
power-Mrs. j. w. Berns, McRae,
1915 Model Dodge. S..
Most unique entry FLOAT or
otherwise) by any community out
side Hardin-Halfway. old Yellow
stone Transportation coach. haul
ed by a span of ~grotesquely harness
sed mules driven by Mrs. Happy
Humphrey. first, Sis; Hawaiian
outfit, second, $40; Frank Pierce
of Billings in child's automobile,
gas power driven, third, IS.
Best COW outfit-Shorty Eckroy,
Hardin, COW pack outfit, IS.
Best coWgirl-Gale Ottun. IS.
Monday afternoon at the Big
Horn county fairgrounds. at 2 p
M, the Billings Motorcycle club, a
dozen strong, provided several
thrills, daring motorcycle riders
crashing through a billboard at
top speed; crashing through a wall
of fire; doing fancy trick riding
standing up, standing on head,
etc., and they put on three thrill
ing motorcycle races, several times
around the track.
The half-mile boys pony race
resulted-Burl Hodges, 10, of Half
way, first, $3.50; Chas. Secrest, 8
Hardin, second, IS; John Turner
10, Tullock, third, $3.50. EGd
Randall, II, and Marvin Turner
IL. we're the other entries.
The half mile horse race result
ed-Paul Smith, 1st, 50; John
Macleod. second. So. Harold Bow
ers was the other entrant.
Row Barnard, janitor at the
Hardin grade building. was award.
ed the Hardin Hardware bicycle
J. Harry Sharp of Lodge Grass anc
his two trick horses performed
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Dr.. S+rang
Quits Hardin
Returns to Ilwaco, WASH, Whence
He Came Here. Will Resume
His Old Practice.

DR.. and Mrs. D. M. Strang left
by auto, Wednesday morning, for
1lWaco, Wash, where they will
again take up their residence af-
ter having resided the past four
years in Hardin. where DR.. Strang
has been associated with DR.. L. H.
Labbitt in the Hardin Clinic and
Mrs. Strang has filled a promin-
ent place in the social life of the
city. DR.. Strang vas called back
to his old home town to take
charge of a new hospital there
and also has repurcha I'D his old
pratice, which he sold when he
came to Hardin.
During his four years residence
in Hardin DR.. Strang enjoyed a
lucrative practice. He took a prom
inent part in the civic, fraternal
and social life of the city. He is
the present president of the Har-
din Lions club and is chairman of
the board of the Methodist church.
Both he and his estimable wife
made a host of warm friends in
this community who will keen,y
regret their departure, but wish
them Joy and prosperity.
j. C. Walker, one of the early
day farmers of the Big Horn val
ley, about six miles south of Har-
din, but for the past couple Of
years residing at various points
in Idaho, California and Wash
ington, latterly at Pasco, came ir
Saturday for a brief visit in this
community and to look ate.
business interests.
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After Five Days nlness-Victim
Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Here Saturday.

It was with a distinct shock
that news of the death of Mrs.
Esther Kelley was received by the
people of Hardin, Thursday after
noon shortly after one o'clock. Few
there were who knew that she was
i'll, as she had been attending to
her duties as late as last Saturday
and appeared to be in her usual
robust health. She was taken sud-
denly i'll last Sunday afternoon
MI. and Mrs. Henry G. Campbell
Of Wyola came to Hardin Monday.
Mr.. Campbell returned to his farm
home and Mrs. Campbell remained
to nurse her daughter. Despite
medical attention, she grew stead
lily worse. Early Thursday morning
she passed into a coma from
which she never rallied. The cause
of death was given as encephalitis.
Esther May Campbell was born
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Thousands Attend the Programs at
Hardin, Lodge Grass and
Crow Agency.

Two of the largest crowds seen
in Hardin in several years were
those of Monday and Tuesday in
attendance at the Big Horn
County Jubilee and Celebration of
Progress. Everything went off
without a hitch and judging by
the comment after the events,
everybody was well satisfied with
the program.
The first thing on the program
was the inspection of the new Big
Horn county court house, a
d. M, Monday. After the hundreds
in attendance at this feature had
passed through the three floors
of the beautiful 100 x 108 foot
stone structure and admired the
interior of this modern home for
Big Horn county'S officials, 4
speaking program was put on at
the entrance to the building with
County Attorney c. C. Quinn act
ing as master of ceremonies. In
teresting talks were made by
Louis DeNayer of Billings, district
administrator of the w. P. A,
who appeared instead of State d.
rector Joseph Parker of Helena,
who had not arrived at Hardin at
the time this number was called:
by County Commissioner B. H.
McCarty and by Congressman !.
F. O'Conner.
Following the dedication of the
court house, the large crowd, in
automobiles proceeded over the
newly oiled Crawford avenue,
which is the main thoroughfare
down the valley a mile, and thence
east over a newly oiled highway
to the 81, TOO, 900 Holly Sugar Cor
poration factory, which is the lat
est word in sugar refineries in the
entire country. Arriving at the
factory, the crowd was shown
through this modern mill by
guides. With I. v. Morris, superln-
tendent of the factory, acting as
master of ceremonies, the follow
ing speakers we're introduced and
each spoke briefly: Val Kuska,
colonization agent for the c. B. &
@. Railroad Co.; J. A. Koebbe, vice.
president OF the Big Horn County
Beet Growers Assn; Hon. Jas. F.
OConner, congressman from this,
the Second Montana congressional
district, and w. L. Lawson, vice
president of the Holly Sugar Cor
poration.
At noon, the biggest and best
parade ever had in Hardin took
place under the direction of Earl
A. Sibley. Headed by Hardin Post
No. 8, American Legion and the
Legion Auxiliary, with music fur
nished by two brass ,bands-the
Billings Rotary Boys Band, under
the direction Of Prof. Clavidetcher,
and the Hardin School Band di-
rected by John H. Stovall-the
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c. B. e. @. RAILWAY OFFICIALS
TAKE IN HARDIN JUBILEE

Several officials of the Burling-
ton railroad arrived in Hardin
Monday morning aboard their
private car: w. E. Fuller, assist
ant to the vice-president, and in
charge of traffic, Chicago; Cal ].
Rohwitz. freight and passenger
agent. Omaha; Val Kuska, colon
ization agent. Omaha; AK. Hep
perly. agricultural agent, Denver.
g.. R; Glover. assistant general
freight agent, Omaha; L. w. john.
ston, division passenger agent,
Billings: D. J. Nelson, assistant
superintendent, Sheridan, Wyo.
They came here to visit the Big
Horn County Jubilee and Celebra4
ton of Progress, Monday and
Tuesday Of this week. J
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VISITS SPOT WHERE .
Sire SLAIN BY CROWS

Henry Blacktail of Wolf Point aud
her husband yer here two years
ago, and were shown over the:
scene of the fight by Coyote. In
accordance with Indian CUSTOM.
Coyote at that time adopted Mrs.
Blacktail and her brother, Joshua.
Wetsit, as his own, because he had
slain their father. Joshua Wetset
was disappointed in not being
able to greet Coyote, his adopteH
father, not learning of his recent
demise until his arrival here.
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COMEDY AT THE HARDIN
BAPTIST CHURCH TONIGHT

This Friday evening beginning
at 8 o'clock, the young people Of
the Hardin Baptist church will
present the comedy entitled, Call
1t a Day." with twenty-five char
acters in the cast. This play IS
full OF laughs and fun and promis-
es a good evenings entertainment.
Following the hours fun, there
will be a business meeting of the
church. The public is invited.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-09-10

William ]. SWEET, aged so, and
Pauline N. Goodrich, aged 80, both
of Livingston, were married at
the office of the clerk of the dis
trict court, Sunday evening, Sept.
5. by Robert A. Vickers, justice of
the peace, Mr.. and Mrs. E. w.
Lansing of Billings, witnessing
the ceremony. MI. and Mrs. SWEET
left Immediately after the cere-
mony for Livingston, where Mr..
SWEET operates a tonsorial parlor.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-09-10
MRS. ESTHER KELLEY
DIED Here THURSDAY

at Buffalo, Wyo., May /, 1896, the
eldest of four daughters of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry G.. Campbell. Her
childhood "a spent at Buffalo,
where she passed through the
grade school and into high school,
graduating from the HOLLYWOOD,
Calf, high school in 1914, and a
couple of years later from a Los
Angeles business college. Her pa
rents moved from Buffalo to the
Big Horn valley in the spring Of
1916, and she came with them In
1917 she was married to Mint
Kelley, who died some two years
ago, in Colorado.
Mrs. Esther Kelley was a very
capable and efficient accountant
and bookkeeper and had held po-
SitionS in most of the county Of
fices Of Big Horn county. At the
beginning of the depression she
was in charge of the federal re-
lief office in this county. She was
for many years an assistant in the
Office Of the county clerk and re-
corder. and at the last primary
election was a candidate on the
Republican ticket for nomination
to that office.
She is survived 'bv one son, Pat
Kelley, aged ID; her parents, MI.
and Mrs. Henry G.. Campbell of
Wyola; and three sisters, Mrs.
Harry Wyatt of Elma, Wash; Mrs.
A. H. Post, wife of the head OF the
agronomy department at the Mon
tana State College at Bo7eman,and
Mrs. O. A. Lammers, wife of the
agricultural agent at Jordan. She
also is survived by several aunts
and uncles, among them Mrs. r.
p. Dandy, wife of the deputy game
warden at Buffalo, Wyo.; Mr.. and
Mrs. Charley Tomkins of Story,
Wyo.; Mr.. and Mrs. Arch Tomkins
and. David Campbell of Arvada,
Wyo. 7
While arrangements have not:
yet been completed for the funer-
al, it is probable that services will
be held in Hardin Saturday morn,
ing at 10 o'clock at the Hardin
Methodist church by Rev. A. B.
Hubbard, pastor of the Baptist
church at Lodge Grass and Wyola,
and that the remains will be taken
overland by the Bulls rilly Co.
to Buffalo, Wyo., where services
will be held in the Methodist
church at 800 o'clock and inter-
ment will be made in the Camp
bell family plot in the Buffalo
cemetery.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-09-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Damn re-
Gently moved to Paris, McCone
county, from Soap creek. Mrs.
Damn motored over to st. Xavier
Saturday after some of their farm
machinery. She reports weather
dry and hot and crops short. The
place they r living on they pur-
chased from Arndt Kalberg, who
homesteaded it several years ago.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-09-10

S. L. Weir has been enjoying
visits this week from his son,
Webb Weir, wife and children
from Rapid City, S. D., and from
his daughter, and grandson of
Helena.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-09-10

L. S. Garfield, a former news
paper man, now in charge of the
commissary department of the c.
B. q @. construction gang at Dun
more was in Hardin Saturday and
made the Hardin Tribune Herald
office a pleasant call.
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Start Placer, ,
Operations
Big Horn Canyon Placer Mining
Co. Now Operating Dragline
North of Canyon.

Several truck loads of mining
machinery have passed through
Hardin during recent weeks en-
route to the holdings of the Big
Horn Canyon Placer Mining Co.
at the Big Horn canyon, a few
miles south of Hardin.
The company not only is going
to ouerate the placer ground in
the Big Horn canyon a short div
lance above its mouth, but also
has leased several miles of land
along the Big Horn river, north of
the canyon. One of the machines,
a dragline, it is reported is already
in operation on the o. E. Ander-
son land about one and one-half
mile this side of the canyon.
It is said that tests of the gravel
on this land, the mineral rights
of which were reserved by the In
dian department when the land
became white-owned property.
yield very good prospects, and it
will not be surprising if, within 4
comparatively short time. exten-
sive placer mining operations will
be carried on by the dredging
method. It is understood that the
company is about to let a contract
for the building of a dredge for
this purpose.
Some idea of the vastness of
the placer project on the Big Horn
river is given by J. F. Sperry of
st. Paul. president of the new Big
Horn Mining Co., who at present
is at Hardin and who says that
the program includes not one but
several dredges, and a cyanide
plant to treat the black sand Con-
c%entrates. The company has 100
miles of dredging ground, and
when in full operation it is sx-
pected to be the largest operator
of its kind in the state of Mon
tana. Ground has been tested and
much of it is high grade, as high
as $500 per yard. 1t is estimated
that the average gravel will run
better than ST. 90 per ward. The
total available yardage is not
fully known vet. as tests are still!
going on, but many millions of
wards have been tested so far.
Dredging will start as soon as the
dredges are erected, and the
cyanide plant will be built at once.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-09-10

Miss Edna M. Tobias, after
sending the summer vacation at
her home in Seottsburg, Ind.
returned to Hardin a few days
ago to resume her duties as one
of the teachers in the department.
of the Hardin grade school.
Leonard Derwood Mclean. aged
%, of Beloit, Wise, and Miss
Nellie NorcrosS. aged %, of Sheri-
dan, Wyo.. were married by
Robert A. Vickers, justice of the
peace, last Sunday morning. Sept.
5. at the Office of the clerk of the
district court, Mrs. Mabel Brekke,
deputy clerk of court, issuing the
marriage license. The ceremony
vas witnessed by Frances Nor
cross, sister of the bride, and Al
bert F. Scherry, who accompanied
the couple to Hardin. They left
Immediately after the ceremony
for Sheridan.
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