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Evening star., 1937-02-17

home at quittin' time"
"Hmmm" The tall stranger
frowned. The motor of his car was
the seat and shot another irritated
glance at the two mechanics working
under an arc light at the end of the
garage. Then I guess won't be able
to-er-get my tappets adjusted. eh?"
"TappetS adjusted?" Old Jim was
somewhat surprised by such a minor
request at pm. Why couldn't the
fellow wait till tomorrow? mo, sir,
I'm sorry. You see, amt mechanic
myself. Just the night man around
here-sort of watchman is ALL"
"Yeah?" The strangers eyes, dark
and narrow, gave Jim quick glance.
THAT SOP"
X X X
OLD JIM was close to 10, small,
wrinkled, white-haired, and the
mans gaze seemed to be mocking the
fact that such a decrepit old codger
could watch over anything. Jim didn't
like that look.
1CO, LlC 1CUOllcO, lIldO 81.
Those two mechanic ought to be
through in Is minutes or so-and then
they'll be goin' home. And I can't
do thing for you
Old Jim, watching the car swing
out onto the street, scratched his
white head. The wrinkles in his fore
head deepened. Now, what was wrong
with that fellow? Did he have some
thing on his mind? Did he somehow
know that there was about $500 in the
garage safe tonight, ready to be
banked Monday morning?
The telephone, ringing in the small
glass-inclosed Office to the left of the
entrance interrupted Jim's questioning
thoughts. He smiled. The call was
probably from his wife, Miranda,
phoning to say hello-phoning as
she'd done every night without fail,
once at 9 o'clock and again at mid
night, ever since he'd been night man
at the Central garage. Entering the
small compartment Jim answered the
call at once.
Hello, Central garage"
1t was Mandy, all right. Hello,
Jim dear"
y X X X
IKE Jim, Miranda was almost 10,
and her voice was a little feeble;
but to Jim it was as sweet as ever.
"Hello, Mandy"
''How's everything at the garage to-
night, Jim?"
"Oh, everything's just" Old
Jim broke off suddenly as he remem-
bered the stranger in the blue coupe.
He frowned. Was there really some
thing suspicious about the fellow?
Did he
"What'd you say, dear?"
'Why-everything's fine, Mandy.
Everything'S just fine"
They talked few minutes and then
said good-by, Miranda promising as
usual to phone again at midnight.
Afterward Jim sat silent at the desk
in the little Office, his reflections CEN
tered on the dark stranger Even long
after the two mechanics had left he
was still sitting there, desperately try
ing to decide if he were doing the safe
thing in not notifying the police of his
suspicious.
And then it happened.
Old Jim heard a car enter the ga
rage and squeal to halt before the
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moved and the streets repaved until
funds are made available next year
A meeting with Traffic Director Will
liam A. Van Duzer to discuss chang
ing of Eleventh street southeast from
North Carolina avenue to South Car
olina avenue from one-way to two
way traffic will be held sometime this
month, it was announced.
A proposal to raise the salary of the
Commissioners from $4,000 to $4,000
year was not acted upon due to lack
of quorum.
Evening star., 1937-02-17
DAILY SHORT STORY
FORTY YEARS

TT WAS rather
unusual + o r
Dave and AL, the
two young me-
chanics at the ga
rage in Northeast
Washington, to be
working overtime.
Old Jim, the night
m a n, explained
this to the tall,
dark stranger who
bad just arrived in
the blue coupe.
Eyes, sir" he
said, "the boys are
workin' on a spe-
cial job tonight.
One of ollr steady
customers has to
leave town in the
mornin' and had
the bad luck to
crack a bearing to-
day. So the boys
agreed to stay and
fix it. Otherwise
{ h e v we gone
Evening star., 1937-02-17

HE STOPPED abruptly as the swell
ing scream of a siren sounded
from outside. Wildly he slammed the
door, jerked the gear lever, began
swerving from the garage.
Jim, an excited, wondering smile on
his face. started toward the scene.
Half way there he heard the telephone
ringing again in the garage. Shout
ing to the Washington police squad
that he'd join them shortly, he hurried
back to the Office.
Hello, Central garage"
Hello, Jim dear"
"Oh-it's you, Mandy!"
Have the police arrived yet?"
Eyes. Mandy, they just Say!
How do you know"
II phoned them, Jim. Oh, I hope
I haven't acted like silly old woman.
But was almost positive something
was wrong at the garage-sc thought
it wouldn't hurt to have the police go
out at once. Why, when I phoned at
midnight you called me Miranda
Darling, that's the first time in 40
years you've called me anything but
Mandy"
tCopyright. 1881
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door Of the small
office. He glanced
up. It was the same
blue coupe, the
same dark stranger
and the man was
leaping from the
running board even
as Jim stared.
X X X X
QUICK as a fash
" he reached for
the top drawer of
the desk, where a
revolver lay con-
cealed. But he was
too late.
"All right, old
fella. Stick 'em
up!" Bsrking cut
the command, the
man strode into
the office and STOP
ped. his pistol
pointed straight at
Jim's head.
Jim, arms raised,
..N-@ -l@,Yx, A. ~
Evening star., 1937-02-17
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Evening star., 1937-02-17
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feet. What do you want?"
You know dam well what want!"
The man jerked thumb toward the
small safe in the corner of the room.
open up-and make it fast!"
A painful sense of incompetency
coursed through Jim's old frame. He
focused dazed eyes on the man. He
said, mo, won't"
Mop" snarled the other. He seemed
crazed with dope or liquor. Listen,
you old half -brain-get busy. Another
crack like that and you're a dead
man." His finger frightened on the
trigger.
| AT THAT moment the telephone
rang. Jim's eyes f1icked to the
small clock on the desk Midnight!
The stranger flung out an oath.
know who that is?"
Its probably my wife, Miranda"
Jim spoke duly. "She always phones
| at"
Yeah? Well, answer it. She'll
know something's wrong if you don't.
Just say Hello. Miranda-see you
in the morning-kinda busy right now,
and then hang up. Make it Snappy!
And talk natural!"
Old Jim lowered trembling arm,
lifted the receiver and, with his eyes
on the mans revolver, said: Hello,
Central garage"
Hello, Jim dear"
Jim took a deep breath. Hello,
Miranda. I'll see you in the morning,
dear. Pretty busy right now"
There was a pause. Then Miranda
said good-by, Jim hung up, and the
stranger came close and pushed the
barrel of the gun into Jim's ribs
"All right now. Move over in the
corner and get busy!"
There were tears in old Jim's eyes
as he rose with the money box.
"Okay. Let's have it." The man
took the box, opened it. surveyed its
contents with satisfaction, then start
ed from the Office. AS he slid into the
blue coupe his eyes and the revolver
were still trained on Jim. Much
obliged, old man." he sneered Sorry
Il can't"
Evening star., 1937-02-17

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Evening star., 1937-02-17

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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-07-02

who was IA years of age, and wanted
to buy her. One young chief named Old
Crow, came to the springs one day
with 100 ponies and 10 mules which he
offered Mrs. Hunter for the girl. Mrs.
Hunter protested to him that, the girl
was too young. Neither Of them be-
ing fluent in the language of the other,
Old Crow thought Mrs. Hunter said his
offer was too little and went away
angry. Mrs. Hunter lost no time In
sending her daughter to Bozeman, out
of harms way. ~
Upon n occasion when a party Of
hostile Sioux was headed in their d.
rection, Mrs. Hunter dashed children to
the backs of horses and then tied her
self to the back Of one, and all swan
the Yellowstone when it was at flood
stage. Upon another occasion she was
compelled to walk from the springs all
the way to Bozeman, the Indians hav-
ing stolen all the Hunter horses. The
Indian troubles finally came to an end,
however, and the Hunters were left in
peace.
After DR.. Hunters death in April,
1894, the springs passed into the hands
Of the late James A: Murray, Butte
mining man and financier, who erected
there a notable hostelry which had
nothing about it to remind those who
sought rest, peace and quiet Of the
perilous days passed there by the Hum
ter family.
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that time rheumatism was unknown
among them. The soil wa cultivated,
however, despite their objections, and
cultivated more and more. And then,
re enough, the rains came more plen-
tifully than previously. While it is not
recorded that the dampness spoiled the
Indians hunting season, DR.. Hunter did
note that the Indians finally became
subject to rheumatism, just like white
men, probably for that reason.
Fol a number Of years DR.. Hunter and
his family spent only the winters at
the springs, going to Bozeman in the
summer to avoid the war parties of
Sioux and Blackfeet Indians which
came into the region as soon as the
Crows had left on the spring hunt in
the mountains. Every member of the
Hunter family went armed.
While the doctor worked in the field,
Mrs. Hunter would lie behind a rock on
a nearby hill with a rifle, keeping a
lookout for Indians. At that the Hunt
ers suffered little from the Indians,
compared to many others. Once when
1000 Crows, returning from their hunt
drove the invading Sioux out ahead OF
them, DR.. Hunters crops were de-
stroyed and his horses and cattle run
off. That was the most serious backset
he suffered from the Indians.
When the Crows came to drink the
waters and battle, the chiefs always
came in advance and stored theil
blankets and finery with Mrs. Hunter
as a guarantee of their good intentions
and protection for the white family
Several of the chiefs became enam-
cured of Mrs. Hunters eldest daughter
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river. On the Platte below Denver they
encountered a camp Of 500 wagons
filled with excited emigrantS bound
for the gold fields. Many of them orig
inally had started for California as
had the Hunters, but having heard Of
the new diggings at Virginia City, had
decided to come to Montana instead
Of going on to the coast. Hunter, too,
changed his goal from California to
Montana, and with a party made up Of
16 men, two women, one Of them Mrs.
Hunter, and their own three children,
left the Platte river just a day behind
q wagon train bound for Bozeman over
the Bozeman trail, and guided by John
M. Bozeman. They followed it all the
way through.
Hunters wagon tram crossed Wind
river July 4, by swimming the horses
and converting the wagon beds into
boats on which to convey the members
Of the party and their provisions and
equipment. July 20, they crossed the
reaching the present site of Livingston
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Hunters Hot Springs Indian Health Resort
Years Before White Man Came to Montana

July 80. Coming up Wind river the
wagon train came upon a party. OF
freighters, the members of which had
been masSacred by Sioux Indians. The
next morning the Hunter party met
q band of Indians and thought a sim
liar fate awaited them.
A young man named Porter volun.
teered to leave the wagon train n
meet the Indians to determine their
intentions. If the Indians were hostile
it meant his death. The fears OF the
party were allayed, however, when the
Indians shook hands with Porter and
acted friendly. The Indians remained
with the wagon train for some distance
and one of them tried to steal one OF
ing him out of camp rolled in a 'blan-
ket. He would have succeeded had no
the lads sister seen his feet sticking
from the blanket roll as the Indian
started to leave camp, and gave the
alarm.
It was while the wagon train was
camped along the Yellowstone that d..
Hunter went on the hunting trip which
led him to the hot springs and where
Indians camped. The training Of the
white doctor told him the value Of the
discovery. He believed that he had
found a gold mine different from the
pick and shovel kind, and so .staked his
claim. After doing so he continued on
up the valley with the wagon train
and arrived in Bozeman Aug. 4. There
they overlook the Bozeman party be-
hind which they had been travelling all
the way from the Platte river. They re-
manned there long enough to witness
the erection of the first house built in
Bozeman, by Bozeman and two COM
panions named Beal and Rouse.
The Hunter party continued on to
Virginia City. From there DR.. Hunter
and his family went on to Helena with
in q short time. They hit Last Chance
Gulch during a flour famine, when the
only staple article of diet was meat.
Mrs. Hunters children cried for bread,
but there was none to be had until a
bull train came in from Salt Lake City
with q load of flour.
In 1870 the family moved from Dia-
mond City to Bozeman and in that year
DR.. Hunter built a house at the hot
springs. That wa the real beginning of
Hunters Hot Springs. The building
erected there in 1870 was one of the
first in the Yellowstone valley.
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The doctor constructed a dam be-
tween the cold creek and the hot creek
and in the resulting pool of hot water
both white men and Indians bathed
for years. It was the beginning of DR..
Hunters sanitarium. In 1873, with lum-
Bozeman and $50 a thousand more for
hauling it from Bozeman to the springs,
he built more pretentious lighthouses.
DR.. Hunter always gave the Crow In
dams free run of the springs and pool,
and they did not seem to resent his en-
croachment into their country. The
only thing they objected to was the
cultivation of the soil. They said that
would bring rain and spoil the hunt
ing season which extended from May
until winter.
Indians Subject to Many Diseases
The Indians, DR.. Hunter soon learned,
were subject to many diseases, but at
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Years before the white man came
to the northwest the Indians used
to carry their sick to the place
now known as Hunters Hot
Springs, 70 miles east Of Livingston,
to bathe in and drink the hot and
healing waters The hot springs
t EG n M Sis~ Of f tSe yesr h h1n r. e Of
the members Of that. tribe would
camp there. Even the wild ami
mails were partial to the place. In
the early days herds Of elk num-
bering In the Thousands have been
seen to 20 past the cool waters Of
r the Yellowstone river to drink at
the hot springs.
The springs were Of course known to
the white travellers through the !,
the place from q commercial stand
point and with an eye to their future
development, was DIR. Andrew Jack
son Hunter, In the summer Of 1854.
He and his wife and family were at the
time travelling with an emigrant train
from the states into Montana territory.
The doctor had left the wagon train
Of hundreds Of Indians at the springs
which afterwards bore. his name. There
were many sick among the red men,
and these invalidst the doctor saw car
ried into the pools Of hot water by
their companions, to be benefited by
their medicinal and curative qualities.
Before continuing to Bohemian with
the wagon train, DR.. Hunter staked a
claim which took in the ground upon
which the hot springs were located. It
was seven years later when he returned
there to begin the development Of the
spot as a health resort and sanitarium,
but he hung onto the ground during
all those years. He lived to see Hun
ter's Hot Springs one OF the most
widely known and best patrontzed es-
adjustments of its kind in the inter.
mountain region, but the years he and
his family labored there were years be-
set with both hardships and dangers.
Practiced Medicine in Missouri
DR.. Hunters home had been in Cal
loWay county, Mo. There he not only
practiced medicine, but owned land and
Slaves. The Civil war took his slaves
from him, and without them his farms
were only bare fields. Facing the ruin
which had overtaken him with the
courage Of. a pioneer, he loaded his
wife and three small children into 9
wagon. and on April 2, 1864, started
for California. With scores Of other
outfits they trekked over the old all
fornia trail which followed the Platte
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Mustaches are returning to favor in
England, Mayfair h~airdressers report.
They were approved by the late King
George v.
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other parts-as if they'd been built
with an actual plating of oil that can't
separate can't thin out and burn
right up. Neither is it going to run
down every time you stop. Then you
can't make any "dry starts" with OIL
Plating, and right there is where engi-
neers say you will end a good half of
all thewear you used to get in Summer.
The less wear, the less oil your engine
eats. You'll get on to this yourself,
fromyour cool quiet Oil Plated engine.
And that's how I make another good
friend for Conoco Germ Processed oil.
The Bismarck tribune., 1937-07-13
STATE TO ESTABLISH
HAY CUTTING CAMPS
Farmers Will Cut Feed Who're
Plentiful in N. D., Be Fed
From Wagons

Governor william LANCER asserted
Tuesday the state emergency commits
sion was transferring 5000 from the
emergency fund to the state treasurer
to be used to establish drouth relief
camps for farmers to cut feed In areas
where abundant rains have fallen.
A committee consisting Of Alex
Lind. Williston, president Of the North
Dakota Farmers Union: Oliver Rosen-
berger. New Rockford, president Of the
State Holiday association, and w. e.
Hopes, Darlington, representing the
governor, was named by the emer-
gency commission to set up the new
program.
Langer ordered Adjutant General
Heber L. Edwards to make available
Is rolling kitchens from national
guard equipment and sufficient cooks
tn take care of the "chuck wagons"
The governor explained the commit
tee Is making arrangements to set up
hay cutting camps on state lands In
areas where abundant rain has fallen
and feed Is plentiful.
Farmers OF drouth counties will
then move their mowers to these areas
to cut feed to winter their livestock,
he said.
The move was made to aid farmers
Cf williams, Mckenzie. Divide, Noun
trail, Burke, Sioux, and Grant coun-
ties where there Is not sufficient feed
or pasture lands for starving live
stock.
The Bismarck tribune., 1937-07-13
63 Planes Poise
49,. For Last Search
Navy Aircraft to Comb sc, 900
Square Miles in Hunt for
Lost Aviatrix

Honolulu, July 13.-(R-The great
est war air force ever assembled for
a peace-time mission-63 planes
was poised Tuesday ready to skim
along the mid-Pacific equator in the
navy's last search for Amelia Earhart,
missing II days.
II weather conditions are favorable
the planes will zoom from the air.
craft carrier Lexington to survey an
area Of $1,000 square miles centering
about bleak Rowland island.
It was Rowland island, a dot of land
rising but two feet above the water,
that the aviatrix and her navigator,
Frederick J. Noonan, aimed for when
they took off from Lac, New Guinea
"a flight Of 2,570 miles. The last
radio message on July said they were
within 100 miles Of their goal, that
they couldn't see land and that their
fuel supply was almost exhausted.
An area Of go miles wide and 600
miles long extending north and south
from Rowland was mapped for the
first days survey In the hitherto
fruitless search.
While the Lexington neared How
land after journey from San Diego,
the coast guard cutter 1tasca, pioneer
In the vast hunt. headed toward the
Gilbert islands, 600 miles west Of How
land.
Thousands Of square miles Of area
In every direction from Rowland al
ready have been searched by three
planes from the battleship Colorado,
now en- route back to Hawaii.
The Bismarck tribune., 1937-07-13
Loyal TROOPS OPEN
THERE.FR0NT DRIVE
Government Planes Bomb Rebel
Positions in New Display
Of Strength
(By the Associated Press)

Government offensives hammered
iasurgent lines Tuesday on three
Spanish fronts. =
Eye witnesses said the fighting was
a completely new phase Of this war
in size and intensity" Government
troops were supported by air power
the central government has not
shown before.
Waves Of government fighting
planes bombed ir1surgent positions on
the Madrid front, forcing tnsurgent
motor conveys to cover and prevent-
ing them from moving reinforcements
to the front at villaneuva Del Par
dillo and Brunette.
Asturian, Basque and santander
troops braced to resist insurgent Gen.
eralissimo Francisco frances west
ward drive across SPANS northwest
ern ledge when they saw government
airplanes, for the first time, bombing
and machine cunning enemy posi-
tions.
Air raids lasting 10 hours were said
to have destroyed insurgent en-.
trenchments on four peaks between
Somorrostro and Valmaseda.
France officially suspended interna-
tional non-intervention control Of her
Spanish border at noon, fulfilling .
decision announced last week.
The suspension did not mean. how
ever, that the border was opened to
passage Of men or munitions. Mobile
The Bismarck tribune., 1937-07-13
JUNE one OF FIVE
WETTEST MONTHS
2.74 Inches Of Precipitation
Over Average Registered at
Weather Bureau Here

Though no rain fell in Bismarck
during the last nine days Of June.
the first month Of summer was one
of the wettest In the history Of the
local weather bureau, according to
the bureaus monthly meteorological
summary.
Only four times has the June, 1887
fall Of 500 inches been exceeded -
1890, 1914, 1924, and 1885. Greatest
June fall Of those years occurred in
1914, $50 inches.
The June precipitation total was
2.74 over the average. and 5.52 inches
more than fell in the same period q
year ago. Last years June total OF
.47' inches was the dryest in the his
tory OF the local weather bureau,
whose readings go back to 1875.
There were rainy days during the
month, 8 cloudy days, IL partly cloudy
days, and 10 clear days. The sun
shone 81 per cent Of the possible time.
Average temperature for June was
64.6, with q maximum Of 80 recorded
on the 23rd.
Highest wind velocity for a sus-
tained 5-minute period was 81 miles
an hour, on the 5th. Average hourly
velocity for the month was 80 miles
an hour.
Thunder storms occurred on June 3.
4, IL, l3, Is. 20 and ~. There were
seven light frosts.
Though June, 1896, was the driest
In history, records reveal that on four
other Junes precipitation totaled less
than an inch. In 1857 the fall was
IS: in 1918, 50: in 1919. .63: and In
1921. 90.