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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-01-22

for those adventurous souls of sudden
and extraordinary passing who dled
with their boots on.
In a grassy field near the banks OF
the st. Regis river is the Boot Hill
cemetery Of Saltese. Many Of the graves
are crudely marked or not marked at
all. And here, honored only by time
in its flight, lies a varied assortment
of people who gathered from all cor
ners Of the earth in a little frontier
town.
Frequent Professions
The first gentleman to be accorded
the signal honor of burial in Boot Hill
was Chris Daggett. a brave man. Com
pleted in the late autumn of 1891, the
Occur d'Alene branch of the Northern
Pacific was buried in snow the first
winter and was not operated until
April, 1892, when the snow pillow first
cleared the tracks of the winters snow.
On the narrow ascent of Lookout Pass,
Chris Daggett'S body was found by the
pillow crew. He had frozen to death on
the tracks between SalteSe and the
summit of the divide while carrying
mail to Mullan, Idaho.
From that time frequent professions
wendell their way to Boot Hill follow
ing the remains of men who met death
bravely in accident; those who were
slower on the draw than frontier life
demanded, victims of split seconds; sui
cides.
After the railroad built through the
st. Regis valley and into Idaho the i'm
portance of SalteSe as a stage stop on
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-01-22

John Jack" Conley, 80, Indian fight
er. two-gun sheriff during Montana's
early days, and brother of Frank Con-
ley of Deer Lodge, former warden at
the Montana state ~penitentiary, died
a few days ago at Long Beach. Calf.
Conley, a native of Baltimore, Md,
was active in Montana from 1870 to
1905, first with government forces sent
in to keep order among the Indians
and later as sheriff of Deer Lodge
county.
From 1905 to 1925 he lived in Seat
tie, moving from there to Long Beach.
MI. Conley was born May 20, 1854,
and received his education in Balti-
more. He left school in 1871 and
worked on a farm near his home for
one year. The next two years he spent
farming in Wisconsin and rafting on
the Mississippi river. In 1873, Mr.. Con-
ley returned east to Pennsylvania, but
after a year went west again and
worked as s; locomotive fireman for the
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Co.
In 1876 he moved to Cheyenne, Wyo.,
where he vas employed by the United
States government on a pack train
under General Cooks command. with
which he reached the Custer battle
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-01-22

Daniel P. Bailey of Havre has the
unique position of holding two gov
eminent positions, headquarters OF
which are as widely separated as
Havre and Ell PaSo, Tex. Bailey for
many years has been. and still is, Gus
toms agent in charge at Havre. For
nearly three years he has been shifted
on various assignments in the customs
service, while still retaining the title
of the Havre position.
At the present time he is acting sup
e%rintendent of the southwest patrol
district, with headquarters at Ell Paso,
He is in charge of the ITS border pa
trolmen of the customs service in the
district, which extends from Lake
Charles in Louisiana to the Oregon
border and includes parts of Louis
lana, Texas, New Mexico and Califor-
MIA.
Until a short time ago, Mr.. Bailey
had a third government position, being
known as intelligence officer and tech
meal adviser to collectors of customs
on the west coast. AS a partial result
of this work came the years reorgan-
ization of border patrol work and for
nation of new border patrol districts.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-01-22
Havre Mans Experiences
Multiple on Customs Force

Highly thrilling and interesting
events come within Mr.. Bailey's rou-
tine. One of the best of these was the
series of events that resulted a couple
Of weeks ago in the conviction of Marie
Wendt, Eurasian, in Los Angeles, for
smuggling Sc pounds of heroin into
the United States. Marie, who still
awaits sentence, is the daughter of
German-ChineSe father and a Chinese
mother.
Her arrest, which was foiled by an
escape and recapture at New York.
broke an international dope" ring and
resulted in the suicide of two members
OF the ring. ~Bradstadter, head of the
ring, one OF the most famous smugglers
of dope, hung himself in his s~tateroom
on the boat in which he was being
prought back to the United States from
Havana.
Bradstadter had been in Havana and
was headed for Mexico City to meet
two members of the ring. When he
got to the Mexican coast, he was NOT
allowed to enter and had to return
to Havana.
N the meantime Marie had been ar
rested at Los Angeles and a partial
statement had been procured from her
customs men got an Indictment on
Bradstadter and when he returned to
aavana the Cuban government was
persuaded to deliver him to United
StateS customs men, who were brine-
ms him back to New York.
On the other side of the world. DR..
Stoey had for IS years been general
manager OF the Peluma hospital in
Shanghai and for about Is wears had
o teen purchasing agent for the Brad
sstra r q oope crowd. When Marie was
Stoey shot himself.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-01-22
Bv HARLEY RANSOM

I'm 1888 IN PACKERS Meadow, the
junction of four canyons near the
western boundary Of Montana,
Colonel Myers, pioneer hotel man.
built the st. Regis house which be-
came an overnight stage stop on the
Mullan trail, early military road and
freighting and stage route between
Fort Benton and Walla Walla.
The St. Regis house was located in
q strategic spot, as Packers Meadow
provided abundant forage for the
horses of stage drivers n the mules
of pack trains. Moreover, Lookout pass.
10 miles west, could hardly be under
treacherous rock road over the camel's
hump to the east was Stunned at night
by tenderfeet and hard, experienced
travellers alike.
AS proSpectors gradually drifted into
the Occur d'AleneS in greater numbers,
a small settlement grew up around the
st. Regis house called Silver City, be-
u of rich silver producing mines on
Silver creek in the mountains to the
northwest. When the Occur d'Alene
branch of the Northern Pacific was
built from Hellgate, as Missoula was
then called, to Wallace, Idaho, in 1891,
a construction boom gave rapid growth
to the little Silver City mining camp
and the towns name was changed to
OdtteSe III llOllOT VI d pIOI1uLeIlC NeZ
Perez chieftain.
Saltese differed little from other
railroad construction camps as it spread
and struggled in. mushroom growth
along the projected right of way. Eleven
saloons supplied bottle animation for
the toilerS in the tunnels and along
the steep mountain grades. Here was
INT Of the last picturesque frontier
towns of Montana, careless and care
free, where tomorrow was another day
perhaps. A treacherous knife skillful-
ly welded, or a single shot aimed true,
and for some tomorrow did not come.
Thus hazardous living by perilous la
Dor was heightened by the dangerous
elements of the nights revelry. Entire
pay checks were freely spent in the
short hours of an evenings pleasure
on faro, poker, blackjack, or at the
bar.
Quieter Folk Had Own Plat
But from many Montana frontier
towns Saltese differed in one respect.
1t early layed out the plots for two
cemeteries. One of these, at the east
end of town, was for folks who died a
natural, quiet death. The other was
plotted out at the west end of town
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-01-22

For more than q century after the
pilgrims landed, many New England
settlers had not seen q windowpane.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-04
BY HARRY CRIMSON Sports Editor, NEA Service

Long Branch, N. J. Aug. At might not be bad idea for the New York Boxing Commission to try out Tommy Farr before a jury of his pugilistic peers before permit ting him to get in there with Joe Louis at $23 q throws at Yankee stadium, August 26.
 Indeed, the sock solons only would be consistent in ordering Farr to demonstrate just how well he can fight before seconding his nomina- tion against Louis.
 I cant see that Farr IS any bet ter, or that his record Is ony more Impressive, than that Seaman Tom Watson, who was forced to prove that his qualifications were not too few and far between before he was allowed to square of with Fidel La- Barba at Madison Square Garden early in 1883.
 Watson was British champion, too-at l26 pounds. A former mem Der Of His Majesty'S navy. he was a veteran of 200 battles on land and sea, and was fresh from repelling Mel Tarleton, a countryman of eX- cellent ring repute on this side.
 But the fistic fathers recalled the ancient and honorable Elky Clark down under LaBarba's first left jab in 1926, and forced Watso nto sub- init to what his handler, John Nor timer. considered a 'orrible hinjus- tice.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-04
FAVORITES WIN
 AT FULTON PARK

Fulton Park tennis favorites had little or no trouble winning first round matches matches last eve. ming, with Gordon Riach, pre-tour- ney favorite scheduled to play his first match this morning against N, Wolozin. Last evening John Tata won his first match, 60, 6-2, in convincing victory over Hugh Me- Donald Al Smith returned to form to defeat Sid Luria 6-3, 6-l In a we'll played duel.
 George Backman made his debut with an easy 6-l, 6-l victory over Howie Matzkin, of Connecticut State. Pete Pomponia, ex-Wilby star, won over Bill Bowen. 673. 6-4, Joe Hazel defeated Jim Luddy, 6-3, 6-4, in hard battle.
 Craig Barber won over Norman Rochon, 6-l. 6-3 without much dif- flculty. In the final match, R. Irion defeated George Crandall, 60, 6-4.
 Ray Bates, Frank Phelan, John Millerick and Harry Crandall won by default.
 Today'S Earrings
 s p. fn., John Tata vs. John Mill lerick; 6;l6 p. m., George Simmons vs. R. Frink. c. Chabot vs, Walt Lanone, Al Genua vs. L. Pfeffer, Dom Antonacci vs. Rut Parker. Jack Kel- ly vs. Joe Strogatz, Herb Pinter vs. pntn MeSherry, 2 n m IoA "a. maitis vs. T. Minor Joe Sullivan vs. Jay Weisalburg, Ding" Leary vs, George Mclean, J. Jacobson vs. Russ Mclean, M. Tierney vs. Irving StrogatS,
 At Hamilton: 7:l5 D. m, Mike Fried vs, Tom Boyd, s, Fried vs, Fred Tabshey,
 Tomorrow's Pairlngs
 At Fulton: 6 D. rn., Win Kelly vs. M. Kaufman: r Bergin vs. Fred Kasinski, D. Moffat vs. Joe Miller- ick, Jim Mullen vs. P. Kaufman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-04
BELLUS FAVORED
 TO BEAT BAKER

South Norwalk, Aug. =Betting odds favor Johnny Bellus, New Ha- ven Pole, at s to 4 to wrest the New England lightweight title from South Norwalk's Phil Baker in their l2- round titular at the State street stadium here Friday night.
 The wise money will be riding on Bellus, who has flashed meteorical- ly in the fistic heavens of late while Baker has been suffering reverses. Bellus' recent sensational wins over Lew Feldman, Joey Costa, and Ed die Alsek. three reputable combat ants, sent his stock soaring and earned him the favorite's spot.
 Experience will be the biggest fac- tor in Bakers behalf. The doughty South Norwalk scrapper has met the best in his division, including Champion Lou Ambers. Pedro Mon. tanez, and several others. While Bellus has engaged several of the higher-up lightweightS, for the most part they do not compare on even terms with the top-flight scrappers Baker has tackled, however, regard less of the opposition, Bellus defi- nitely has been waging a classy brand of warfare and, what Is most important, winning. He has evi- denced potent punching power In thrice dropping Feldman and in putting both Costa and Alzek to sleep. Just how well Baker will fare against such sturdy humping makes the Friday battle a very in- tereSting affair,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-04
PUBLIC PARKS
 STARS vS HILLS
Benefit Game on Friday at Hamilton Park; Work.
 out Tonight

Considerable baseball talent some of 1t ready to move up to City Amateur play next season will be on exhibition Friday night at Hamilton Park in a twilight game featuring the Public Parks All-stars against the Washington Hills, the annual affair In which the junior loop asks and gets a little help from the senior circuit so that 1t can finish out its season without being drowned In red ink.
 On The Hop
 Rajah Ralph Mastrianna of the Parks circuit has lined up a formid- able array of talent from his loop which may give the Hills more than a little to worry about relative to winning the game, whichit is hoped will be well-supported by the fans as the cause is a most worthy one The Hills are to be commended for agreeing to the game, which will, incidentally keep them on edge for their important tilt with the Hearts next Sunday with second place in the City Amateur League at stake.
 There are some fine young players coming along in the Parks League who will me seen against the Hills and including Philibert and Bour- nival of St. Anns; Malinowsky and Jarvis of St. Stans; Lacilla and Dunn of the Wilson A. C.: Juliano and Ella of St. tucy's Damelio and Romeo of the 0 and c Juniors all of whom will get together tonight at Harilton Park ct 6 o'clock to work out for the game Friday evening.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-04
The PAYOF::
Louis Target Admits He Is Tough, So Let Him Prove It - Catcher Has No Business in Ring
 With Champ at $23

I for nothing more exciting than the boat ride.
 Watson stood up by beating La- Barba and went on to stir up plenty of trouble for Kid Chocolate.
 FarrS rather bad case of sun- burn thus far has prevented Am- erican critics from getting much of a line on the man from the Welsh coal pits. Perhaps 1t was due to the fact that they see so little of the sun in England that in his first workout at the Kennel club here he toiled without the protec- ton of a sweatshirt in an uncover cd ring.
 But even when the sunpurn wears of, Farr will have to engage couple of good sparring partners to show anybody anything. In his appearances to date, he has worked with Bob Scully, a light-heavy- weight, and George Daley, a light weight. members Of his party, and with Johnny Briggs, l6o-po,lnd negro whom he must have found on the beach at Long Branch,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-04
Lawlor Lauds Local Matchmaker For Initial Ring Show

Co.matchmakers Mickey Dance and Bobby Kelly of the Waterbury A. c. have booked another grand assortment of fistic talent and early indications are that the program will surpass last weeks top-notcher. A total of $500 additional seats have been installed about the ring side at Randolph Cloves field and with the arrangements, the man agement can accommodate close to 4,000 spectators in a comfortable manner.
 Considerable praise has been di. rected at the club during the past week by State Boxing Commis- sioner Joseph Lawlor for the com inendabie way the initial program was run of and he Is confident that the matchmakers win continue the good work.
 New London's POT .uguese middle weight flash, Tony Andreas, will hold a slight advaE tage when he squares of with Your 2 Bumbo, New Haven worthy, in one Of the feature bouts. Andreas has been moving right along recently, compiling record that would do an experienced professional justice.
 Return Go
 It will mark the second time that the two have met, their first meet ing in New Haven several weeks ago ended in a draw. Since that night, Andreas has been gunning for another shot at the New Haven Italian, claiming that he was robbed of the decision. Many of the fans sitting in on the show that night were of the same opinion and the draw verdict was far from popular.
 Tommy Ciarlo, Waterbury Italian lightweight sensation, will have to be at his best for his bout with Chick Harris of New Britain. Like the. preceding attraction, this too will be Q return affair, neither being able to boast superiority due to a draw decision. It was a torrid af- fair though and a carbon copy is expected tomorrow night. Ciarlo showed we'll last week in his win over Joe Grenier, also of Water bury.
 Dick Turcotte, the Waterbury lightweight favorite. and one of the states leading fighters, Is booked for a match. His opponent has not been selected as yet. but 1t Is likely that he will draw Wally Pipp, of Willimantic.
 Tom Collins, Waterbury negro, is scheduled for a mixing with Dick Middleton. New Britain welter- weight: Al Kogan, New Haven fiy- weight. faces Phil Harris, New Britain; Tommy Tucker. Waterbury featherweight, will take on Joey Marcus, Windsor Locks; Sammy Mammone, Sta mford bantam weight, meets Henry Davis, New Britain; and Joe Grenier. Water bury, will attempt to take the meas ure of Joe Polowitzer. Windsor Locks. Polowitzer defeated Grenier at savin Rock last week in a great battle.
 Several other good bouts are in prospect and tickets for the show may be obtained in advance at Muliigan's restaurant or Nick's newsstand.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-04
Today's Sport
 Parade By HENRY McLEMORE tUnited Pveas Stais Correspondent,
United Press staa Correspondent

Newport, R. l., Aug. 4--(UP)- MT. T. O. M. Sopwith of Upper Tuffngham on-Tharnes, England, should get hep to himself.
 He emerged as an Americas cup challenger in 1884 and has raced eight times. Six times he has been beaten. Two of the defeats were humiliating, measured in miles or minutes.
 To explain his numerous failures Mir. sopwith has criticized, not in the order named, the following things:
 1. The wind.
 3. The water.
 3. The tides.
 4. His sails.
 5. His opponents tactics.
 6. His boat.
 2. And finally, the lowly lobster
 pot.
 I believe 1t is time that MT. Sop- with broke down and, pointing a finger at himself. cried;
 "Jaccuse."
 Has 1t never occurred to him that he, MT. T. O. M. Sopwith, of Upper. Tuffingham. on -Thame, is the an- swer to why Endeavour I was thrashed in four of six starts in 1884, and Endeavour II was crushed in the first two starts of the current cup series of Newport's golden triangle.
 Has 1t never occurred to him that his seamanship-which is that of Q child's compared to the cold, faultless helmsmanship of Mike Vanderbilt, is to blame for defeats that in the long history of the races has no parallel,
 Well, If these things haven't oc- cured to MT. Sopwith he is per- haps the only man in Newport that they haven't occurred to. This writer is no yachting expert-far from 1t, in fact-but he believes the yachting critics here for this series share one thing with the 50,000,000 Frenchmen-they can't all be wrong.
 All through the 1884 Americas races the men who know the sea and sails said MT. Sopwith had the better boat and lost only because of amateurish handling of the wheel. And since this series start ed I have heard nothing but criti- cism of his seamanship. Indeed, during all the eight races l have reported, never have heard one complimentary thing concerning the Englishman's way with q boat.
 AS a result, am convinced that the man Is a very ordinary sailor. Not a bad sailor, no, but one who has come along too fast: made too quick a move from the minors to the majors, so to speak. You can't find a competent critic who won't tell you that a man like Sherman Hoyt, say, couldn't have taken the wheel of Endeavour II and made her real and substantial chal- lenger. The fact that Hoyt did take Endeavour I, an inferior boat to Endeavour II by Sopwith's own ad. mission, and lick Ranger, would seem to prove that the skipper means very much indeed.
 Instead of hauling Endeavour II out of the water yesterday, and searching her bottom for an ,ex-' planation of her slowness, MT. Sop- with might well have bought him. self mirror, and, posing in front of 1t, sought the answer to his fail- ures in the reflection. It doesn't stand to reason that Charles Nichol- son. designer of Endeavour II and a man who has no peer as e class J architect, could have sent down the ways a boat as ineficient as
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-04
MANAGERS SET
 TO END SEASON ON NEXT SUNDAY
Hearts, Hills Meet for Sec Ond PIaceSeveraE Ex-
 hibitiOns Booked
By JOHN A cLuNEY

With the 1887 City Amateur League baseball championship de- cided, and the Al Jarlett protest withdrawn, the road was cleared this morning for a series of exhibi- tion games intended to help the "On to Dayton Fund" and, by the same token, keep the North End Thomas club on edge until the time comes when the boys will make their bid for a national championship
 Incidentally, the Recreations and Brooklyn A c. managers agreed to termination of the regular 0. A. L. season next Sunday, at which time the Sacred Hearts and Washington Hills will play at l:30 o'clock to be followed by the Tribunes and North End Thomas club at 3:30 D. m. Those two games are expected to settle second and third place in the league and if another game is nec- essary, President Ed Fitzpatrick will decide the time and place, having been given authority to do so by the six managers at c meeting held in the Elton last evening. the final managerial gathering of the season.
 Plenty of Action
 And now for the exhibitions: To- morrow, Thursday night, the King ston Colonials, one of the best New York state teams will meet the Sa- cred Hearts at Hamilton Park in a twilight game, scheduled for 0:30 o'clock. On August 18th the Thomas club may 90 to Bristol for . night game with the West Ends of the Bell City. On Sunday, August 18th, a double-header is booked for Ham, ilton Park, the Ethiopian Clowns to meet a City Amateur League All- Star combine in the early game, the starts" to be composed of players from the Washington Hills, Sacred Hearts and Tribunes while the Thomas club tangles with the Bor- neo Cannibals in the main game, the visiting teams rated winners Of l34 of 196 games since last season.
 WhiskeF Men Coming
 On Friday night, August 20th, the famed House of David combine will be brought to this city for a night game under lights at Hamilton park against the Tommies, while on Sum- day, August 22. the Brooklyn Royal Giants will tackle the Thomas club at Hamilton Park. Last but not least, ae tha avHaihttlASa nakAA.,nAA .k~.. A.. at present is the New York Police, booked for Waterbury August % against the new league champions, with the Waterbury and Torrington Cops to meet in a preliminary game. All in all, 1t Is one of the most ann bilious schedules ever mapped out by Waterbury team in many Q year.
 One of the results Is bound to
 be the acquiring by the Tommies
 of valuable baseball experience
 against classy opposition that will
 stand them in good stead when
 they start shooting for the big
 prize in Dayton.
 Brooklyn Day" scheduled for next Sunday was postponed until next season at which time the B. A. C.. celebrates Its 50th anniversary when the Hamilton Park celebration will be more appropriate than at this time.
 Manager Johnny Rock of the Tribunes considered protesting the use of bat boy Cavalieri by the Washington Hills but the league by- laws forbid him from presenting the matter at this time, and his action was withdrawn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-04
DAILY SOFTBALLERS
 ARE PARISH CHAMPS

George Daly'S team practically clinched the championship of the Sts. Peter and Paul softball league Monday night when they defeated Billy Kern and his crew by the score of l0-8. Bill Fitzmaurice and Ray Wrenn's teams are tied foi second place, being three games in back of first place.
 The annual clambake of the league will take place this year at the Paradise Grove on the Meriden road on Sunday, Sept. l2.
 The schedule for the remainder of the week is as follows: Wednes- day night, Wrenn vs Cody. Friday night, Fitzmaurice vs Shaw.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-04
PAGE DEAD

Pittsburgh. August {. - (UP) -- Johnny Page. Chicago lightweight fighter, died last night in St. Fran cis hospital of a brain concussion suffered in a fight at Hickey Park arena Monday night.
 Page died without regaining con- SciousneSs.
 He was knocked out in the ninth round of scheduled 10 round bout with Eddie Zivic, Pittsburgh fighter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-04
Farr Stymied by Sunburn and Lack of Sparring Mates

Watson's trial was conducted in a smoke-filled St. Nicholas gymna- sium. The seaman was notorious ly slow starter but he kept three fairly good boys in there places with Q sizzling right hand in going two rounds with each.
 Yet the jury remained out until the commissioners foregathered the following day, and for that length of time it was feared that Sailor Tom might have come to America