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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-09-21
COUI.EE CITY DISPATCH
I. W. (scs) H1tsoa. Editor
Nntered at the postoffice at Coulee
City. WASH, as second-class matter
Published Eyery Thursday Morning
in the Interest of C0ulee City and
the Neixhb0ring Vicinity.

IN the present weller of world
alarm it is a relief to turn to newspap-
en- headlines on such prosaie subjects
as business.
1t is donbly pleasant to find them
referring to increasing prosperity In
our own country. For example, l note
in the papers of the morning O.
which this is written that "the Bur
eau of Agricultural Economics yester-
cay estimated that farmers income
fom marketings in July totaied
1884, 100000, an increase of per
cent above the estimate for june"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-09-21
of the earnings of the Gannett Com

of the earnings of the Gannett Com
before.
Moreover, Roger Babson, Wall
Streets pet economist, has just issued
u statement that the newspapers head
line in this way: Business Near
Best OF 49," etc. "Security holders
are finding bigger checks in their div
idend envelopes this August than a
year ago; the total of dividends paid
were 40 per cent greater for the first
six months in 1899 than for the same
period in 1888" He notes that pay
rolls are up 20 per cent, etc. And he
concludes thus: $50 as the situation
stands today, more workers have con-
siderably more to spend; investors
have a little more money to spend;
farmers have as much money to
spend"
Along this same line, the Treasury
reports show that the $142,000,00O,-
600 gross income of 478.000 corpora
tons was the largest since 1929.
Every now and then somebody
launches a presidential boom fol-
Frank ,Gannett, chairman of the Ma
t'.9nal Committee to Uphold Constitu-
tional Government, which took over
the work OF the Liberty League when
that organization went into pretended
seclusion. Nowadays, Mr.. Gannett Is
sues the statements, while the Liberty
League membership appears on the
contribution rolls of the COP. cam
paign fund, and perhaps elsewhere
The publisher says of the efforts to
have delegates pledged to vote for
him in tie Republican Nat onal Con
vention: 81 am more interested in
p, eserving our form OF government
blin ing back prosperity and provid-
ing Jobs for the millions Of unemploy-
ed than I am in political office"
Senator Robert Taft is, likewise,
only interested in his senatorial du-
ties, which he finds fascinating. Pros
ecutor Dewey of New York finds that
his job as District Attorney. is all
absorbing. In fact, 1 don't know
candidate anywhere who hasn't put up
the same sort Of an argument when
ever his name is suggested in connec-
ton with the presidential nomination.
Nevertheless, each has his manager
and boom promoter, and all the other
appurtenances which go with pre-
convention candidacy. It may be OBJ
pany, Inc, of Rochester, publishers of
10 papers, showed net profit OF
$1,165,OO0 for last year, an increase
Of $4,000 over the net Of the year
served, however, that while Mr.. Can
nett is only concerned with restoring
prosperity and putting the unemployed
back to work, he never has in any way
indicated how he would 60 about ac-
eomplishing these munificent results.
However, he is not peculiar in that
regard among those who devote them
selves to inveighing against the New
Deal
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-09-21
Budget Estimate

Estimate expenditures Town Coulee City Wash
mston for the
hereby given Coule
the Town viii dur
ing the fiscal beginning January M 1910 the amount shown the
itenize
the said viii O'Clock
NJ. Monday, Oeb 1882 the Town Hall building
the Of being heard
CT against any proposed levfes
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Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-07-21
Middle Ages Attempted to Guard From
Infections; Cholera Man Wore Costume

The dangers of contagion have
been known for centuries, but the
use of sensible, efficient measures
to guard against contagion had to
wait for the discoveries of the mod
ern sciences of bacteriology and
chemistry.
An idea of how the Middle ages
attempted to guard from infection
the cholera man" who was called
upon to care for cholera patients is
afforded in the directions prescrib-
ing the costume which the "chol-
era man" was to wear.
To resist the dread disease he was
to be equipped, according to the
best advice Of those days, as fol-
lows:
About his body first a layer of
India rubber, thereupon a large
pitch plaster; on top of this a band
age of six yards of flannel. On the
pit of his stomach a copper plate,
on the chest large box of warm
sand. Around the neck a double
bandage filled with juniper berries
and grains of pepper; in the ears
two pieces of cotton wool with cam
phor; hung on the nose a smelling
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-07-21

bottle containing vinegar, and in
the mouth twig of sweet calamus.
"Over the bandage shirt, soaked
in chloride of lime, over that a cot
ton wool jacket and a hot brick and,
finally, vest sprinkled with chlor-
ide of lime. Then mantle made Of
oilcloth and a hat of the same. In
his right pocket he carries one
pound of balm mint tea, a half
pound of carlyme thistle and a half.
pound of sage. In his vest pocket
he carries a bottle containing camo-
mile oil and in his trousers pocket
bottle of camphor.
ION his hat he balances a tureen
of thick cruel, in his right hand he
carries shrub Of juniper, and in
his left hand an acacia branch.
Strapped to his body is a small
wagon which he pulls after him and
in which there are Is yards of fan
mel, a boiling kettle, 10 scrubbing
brushes, 10 bricks, two hides and
a comfort stool. He must wear q
mask made of curly-mint paste and
keep a quarter of pound of Gala.
mus in his mouth"
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-07-21
CHAPTER xxII-Continued

From behind the rock, Brock lev
eled his gun on a black opening
between two giant trunks that stood
like gate posts at the opposite end
of the bridge. Sound of approach
came nearer. The riders would first
pass through hollow where trees
grew thick.
Abruptly horse thrust its white
face between the two trunks. It
came on. Another followed.
"Pardneri"
II see," Breck whispered. He
steadied his aim over the fiat rock
top.
wait till they get on the bridge"
Sierra advised. Call out once. II
they move to break away. let 'em
have it,"
Brock watched behind his sights.
Jud rode in the lead, straight. alert.
Hep crouched in his saddle. They
came upon the narrow bridge with
horses walking nose to tail: reached
the center. Brock rose with a COM
mand that was never uttered.
All in split second the two horses
were plunging on with saddles emp
ty. Though watching the spot.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-07-21

a Bonse4 Fiction SeaiaI
By HAROLD CLAIMING WIRE

Here he had saved Louise from
the cattle stampede. He had car
ried her home in his arms. They
yearned for her now. That day he
had not known what it was to love.
Desperation swept upon him. He
could make life happy for her.
She could paint. They would live
below winters. But summers
they must come back. Realization
of that struck him forcibly. Bound
into his love for Louise, growing out
of it. was a love for the High ST.
erras.
Temple Meadow, since he last
saw it, had changed from fiesta
grounds to hospital ward. He loped
in before evening, coming among
cots beneath the pines where men
lay asleep with arms and faces in
white cloths.
hailed him. Dam me If you don't
look like an old-timer. Mountain
man for surel Son, you've earned a
rest and you'd better grab it. Sims
getting his"
Louise here?" Brock asked, even
before he reached the ground.
''In the cabin. She's all right.
Been worried?"
Brock dropped upon a log, relaxed
tension suddenly leaving him un-
steadied.
Better turn in" Cook advised
him, land count this job done.
We've got some black forest, but
she's otherwise cleaned up" He
paused, drawing an envelope from
his pocket. Here's something for
you. The Senator's party went out
with the first pack train. Had
enough mountains, but he knows a
sight more than when he came in.
I think we'll name trail for him
yet"
Brock tore open the letter. 1t
was from Irene. He expected some
thing, not knowing exactly what. A
change of some sort. But here was
still the evasive writing, poured out
in unfinished thoughts-until the
end. There she wrote: "Arthur is
a dear boy, Gordon. Don't put him
in jail. I lied to him beautifully.
We quite understand each other
now"
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-07-21

fires in one canyon, spots fared fur
ther on.
Toward noon he rode to a bald
knob, hoping to get some idea of
their position. He was half an hour
in climbing up and found that the
point which had seemed so high was
still lower than those around it. He
sat numbed in mind and body. In
another day the whole South Sierra
would be stripped. Only miracle
could save the forest.
He did not believe in miracles,
though as he rested on the knob
there sounded far-off droning. II
puzzled him; recognition of its mag
ic came slowly. Then suddenly he
knew. Not the miracle of rain from
cloudless sky, nor an unseen hand
beating back the flames. but of a
winged man.
The droning surged into a roar
as white ship burst through rolls of
smoke. 1t shot close over his posi-
ton and he read the letters: USFS.
From somewhere word had gone
outsidel
Swept with grateful impulse he
lifted clasped hands high toward it.
The plane banked as if answering,
circled, and upon passing once more,
dropped long white ribbon, Breck
rushed to it, found a small bag
weighted with sand, then a tube Of
paper.
"Relief," it said. coming in from
Sequoia."
Swinging upon Kit, he raced from
the knob and shouted the magic
word to his men below. They've
got us located, boys. Well get re-
lief now"
The planes promise was not fui-
filed through the afternoon nor in
the first hours of dark. But about
midnight Brock saw back fires
springing up over ten mile front
both north and south, and by morn
ing the line was almost solid. Hun
dreds of men must have poured up
Kern River gap under the air pa
trolls direction.
It was little before midday that
lean, brown-faced man rode in
at the head Of an emergency crew.
He halted among Jackson's cow
boys and swung of. 81 guess you fel-
lows have had enough of it. Is
Breck here?"
Brock went to him.
"I'm Green" the man said, "from
Sequoia. Well finish this. Cook
says for you to meet him at Temple
| Meadow"
Ibid you get the call through
Rock House Station?" Brock asked
his first thought for Louise.
81 don't KNOW" Green answered
l Fear shot strength into Breck'i
deadened body. He threw on nil
saddle and rode ct once. All thu
| way - he climbed . summit thef
dropped into Long Canyon, . dreet
eoa6ed him g. a familiar spot =
| - canyoo melnenfarilV turned ~
thouUhts = anoehss ~.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-07-21

sides that, she had to get old Tom
and the Senator out"
He mounted, giving orders, "You
ride that north canyon. JIG and
some of his boys are up there. Slim
and will go to a bunch working
on Nine Mile. Do what you can;
God knows we're blind without a
wire to Kern Peak"
What they could do was little
enough. Brock realized that when
he came upon jackson and a hand
full of cowpunchers. The cowman
met him, grim-faced, as he said,
'We've done our damnedest, Rang
err"
Brock took up his tools and
plunged into the endless job of clear
ing brush. But only giant, able to
tear trees by the roots, could have
held the blaze that swept steadily
upward. Night came; men had to
sleep. They dropped on the ground
for two-hour turns, Brock waiting
until his legs collapsed beneath him.
Dawn rose over that most desolate
of sights-a mountain range being
laid waste. Throughout the morn
ing Brock flung his wearied crew
against the line, yet they were
blocked. Even as they built back
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-07-21

..What about Art?" Brock asked.
'The doctor packed him down last
night. He'll pull through.
81 mean what are we to do about
him."
Without hesitation Cook answered.
"Give him a chance. You're fin
ished with the Tillsons. Hep was
the one. Ask Louy."
But when Brock found Louise, It
was not to ask her that. She came
from Temples shanty, softly clos
ing the door. Her eyes welcomed
him, yet were filed with trouble.
"Your father is worse?" he asked.
She nodded. 1.-THE fire was too
much. He shouldn't have gone"
They moved from the cabin and
Breck led her into the pines where
the words would not carry back.
Louise, I'm going to send your IA
Their out. I know surgeon. He'll
do wonders"
She stood with eyes averted,
though one hand clasped his tightly.
"While he is there" Brock con-
tinued, "you and I will work two
jobs-the forest and the ranch" He
hesitated. It had never occurred to
him that it would be hard to tell
this girl he loved her. Now he
seemed wordless. He wished she
would help. no
She looked up. "we?"
That was enough. His arms swept
her close. "We, yes, you and I to-
gether. Louise! I love you, want
you always" All at once words
rushed too swiftly where there had
been none. 1--WE can live the life we
have talked about. Outside, then
here. You need not answer now
not until you know more of me-"
''Know you'll" Her eyes and her
voice checked him. Don't I know
you? Haven't you shown me what
you are, over and over again?"
but nothing of who am" he
asserted.
"And of course that matters!"
doesn't it,"
mo" Gently she lifted her hands
to his face, drawing him down. 'Not
here nor any place I know Oft And
if you want my answer at all, take
it now"
1.-THE ENID
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-07-21
ADVENTUROUS
AMERICANS
By
Elmo Scott Watson
Indian Painter

THE early painters of American
India, life were all adventurous
men. but John Mix Stanley had
more than his share of perils and
narrow escapes from death.
Stanley first became interested in
Indians in 1888 and went to Fort
Smelling. Mimi, to paint them. Dur
ing the next eight years he made
frequent visits to picture the tribes
OF the Southwest. In 1916 he Joined
the famous march Of General Kear-
ney and his dragons from Santa
Fe to San Diego. during which time
he laid down his painters brush to
take up a gun and fight in several
engagements.
The next year Stanley found more
excitement awaiting him in the
North. He narrowly escaped being
in the Whitman massacre when that
missionary, his wife and II others
were killed by the Cayuses in east
ern Washington. He had another
close call when he returned to San
Francisco to take ship for New York
via Cape Horn, for he arrived just
too late to go aboard. That ship was
lost at sea and was never heard Of
again.
In 1858 Stanley was appointed art.
list to the expedition sent to explore
route for a Pacific railroad from
ST. Paul to Puget Sound. After a
series of adventures with that expe-
dition, he returned to the East,
where he died in 1872. The last
years of his life we're saddened by
the loss of more than $50 paintings
Of Indian life which he had spent
10 years in making and which were
destroyed by a fire in the Smithsoni-
an institution in 1865.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-07-21

Brock scarcely caught a glimpse of
two bodies hurting downward into
the gorge. He whirled to Sierra.
Sierra faced him. Neither had shot,
yet the mountains still echoed to
the crack of guns.
"Rifles!" Sierra gasped. Back of
usi"
Breck turned. 1.-THE nesters?"
Up the bank behind them, horses
were being hard-ridden to the crest.
They passed over and the sound
died.
Sierra leaped from the rock. ''No
use following up there nowI We've
got to get out of here. That fires
travelingi"
wait" said Brock. II want to
be sure Of this"
Them two didn't live to hit bot
toni" Sierra flung out. Come
on!"
But Brock ran to the bridge, knelt
and peered over. Only white wa
ter. foaming through jagged rocks
Of the gorge, met his eyes. He
stared at it, drawn tense by vision
Of Hep Tillson's treacherous face.
The man who had killed Jim Cotter
was deadl
"Pardner!"
Brock sprang up. Sparks were
eating the cloth of his shirt. A red
wave curled over the opposite ridge.
We've got to move" Sierra
shouted. Cook will be needing US
bad!"
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-07-21
CHAPTER XIII

Cook did need them. They
climbed ridge east of Sulphur and
looked across to a small round
meadow halfway up Kern Peaks
flank Fire had already swept two
sides of Indian Rock. The blaze
coming up at their backs would soon
complete the circle All the country
for miles both north and south lay
under smoke.
''Sierra swung from his horse
Fought to begin here and make our
firebreak on the way down." he ad-
vised.
II was past noon when they had
finished break and rode into camp.
Cook was there.
saw you coming" he said brief
II. ITS . good job you did yon-
der. How about the Sulphur bust
ness?'
s'Nesters saved US q couple Of
ahots," was Sierra's laconic report.
ssWhsre's Louise?" Breck asked.
se0ons out. It looked like we were
eofnG - b surrounded and some
ons knd - reach . telephone. She's
eBy1ng - make Il TO your station. "
ssIAock House?" Breck gasped.
e(3oo1 0odl" He looked south into .
- - azseks. s-xhnt whole trail's
$3.50 0Rol''
a - =. ca admistsd.
2 o1.oune - - - ~ -
l111113 - - aDnee . ~ -
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-07-21
Smart Patterns II,
Midsummer Styles

IF YOU'RE looking for q gra-
l cious, sophisticated afternoon
fashion in women's sizes, you will
be delighted with 1763. Cut on
true princess lines, it is beautiful
ly slim and graceful. The shirred
vestee and narrow roll collar give
q pretty, soft, dressy touch, and
it has the simplicity that you like
in midsummer. For this, choose
silk crepe, georgette or chiffon.
Dutch Mode for Tots.
Cool comfort and cuteness for
tots is assured by 1765, a simple
pattern including playsuit, pima
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-07-21

fore and air-conditioned little bon
net. You can really make whole
summer-full Of daytime clothes
for your little girl, using this one
easy design. It's so quick and
easy to make. Bingham, linen,
percale and seersucker are nice
cottons to choose for this.
The Patterns.
No. 1853 is designed for sizes "a,
SO, 38, 40, AZ, A, 46 and 48. Size
SO requires, with short sleeves, 4
yards of 80 inch fabric without
nap. " yard of contrast for collar
and vestee.
No. 1765 is designed for sizes I,
2, 3, 4 and S years. Size 2 re-
quires la yards of IS inch mate
rial, without nap, for pinafore, u
yard for playsuit, " yard for bon
net. 8k yards of braid or bias
binding.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept, Room 1924,
211 w. Wacker Dr., Chicago, Ill.
Price of patterns, is cents Gin
coins) each.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-07-21
Confederate Mail Runner

TOR 10 years before the Civil war
Absalom Grimes was a Mississip-
pi river pilot, running between St.
Louis and St. Paul. At the outbreak
of the war he enlisted in company
of "irregulars," raised in Rails
county west of Hannibal, Mo-, to
recruit the Confederate army. One
of the members of this company
was a young fellow named Sam
Clemens. Years later Mark Twain
referred to his short and inglorious
military career" in that company
which decamped hastily at the first
appearance of an enemy force and
soon afterwards disbanded.
Grimes then volunteered for serv.
ice as mail carrier between the
Missouri and Kentucky troops in
the Confederate army and their rel
atives at home. II was an extreme.
ly hazardous duty for It meant 60
ing through the Union lines at the
peril of capture and execution as a
spy. During the siege of vicksburg
he ran the blockade successfully by
wiring his mail in tin boxes to the
bottom of an overturned skiff and
floating beside II among the Union
gunboats until he had passed them.
Grimes was repeatedly captured
by the Union forces and twice he
was sentenced to death. He spent
several months in the old Gratiot
prison in St. Louis and was there
under sentence Of death at the end
Of the war. However, his life was
saved by an unconditional pardon
issued by Abraham Lincoln-among
the last acts Of mercy performed
by ths President before be vas ~
. Wssssss nswspsess uaAsa
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-07-21
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Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-07-21
() y!sB 81
s<nrinrI EsanIrr, ~
PUBLIC OFFICIALS

"OUR representative government,
can only exist upon confidence
in public officials. That confidence
must be restored. Il can only be re-
stored by business-like conduct Of pub.
lie affairs. John ". Brick
er Of Ohio.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-07-21
Aguinaldo's Captor
IN 1901 America had a new nat

N 1901 America had new nation
al hero-"a little man with a
slight limp. with Vandyke beard
and a sense of humor that bubbled
in him like the effervescence Of
wine" His name was Frederick
Funston, former student at the Uni
versity of Kansas, newspaper re-
porter and member of filibuster-
ing expedition to deliver to Cuban
revolutionists FIVE Hotchkiss guns
for use against the Spanish. He
was made captain of artillery and
in IS months fought in % engage
ments. Then the Spanish put
price on his head and he barely
managed to escape and return to
the United States.
At the outbreak of the Spanish
American war Funston raised reg
iment of Kansas volunteers and was
made its colonel He was sent to
the Philippines and aided in the
capture of Manila. In August, 1898,
Emilio Aguinaldo started an insur-
rection against the new masters Of
the islands and for the next three
years leu tO,OUV hliCIlSdh ooiuiCiS
and their native auxiliaries mer-
ry chase.
Finally he was located in SOUTH
ern Luzon and Funston, by now
brigadier-general of volunteers.
formed a daring plan to capture
him. Taking two captains and two
lieutenants, Funston led party Of
80 Macabebe scouts toward Agui.
naldo's hiding place. They were to
pass themselves of as detach-
ment of insurgent Tagalogs who had
captured these five Americans and
were bringing them to Aguinaldo.
It was a risky business for. every
thing depended upon the faithful
ness of the Macabebes.
But they played their part to per-
lection and the American "cap-
tives" were delivered to Aguinaldo.
Then they revealed their identity
and calmly informed Aguinaldo that
he was their prisoner.