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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-04-08
ZlIshQbs Of Life We're Jokes to Rufus 7H0mpson

ordered to start a dairy at Fort As
sinnibOine. Young Thompson, a sturdy
lad, feet inches In height, agreed
TO deliver the cows. He drove the herd
to Bismarck, NJ D., and transported
them the rest Of the way by steamer
up the Missouri and landed a job with
the COWS in the creamery.
Rufus showed up, rather inexplica-
bly,, the next year at Maiden, q wide
open gold mining camp near Lewis
town, got a job and spent a year just
shopping around and getting his bear
ings. And in June, 1882, James High
tower, the first settler on Willow creek
in what is now MuSselshell county.
woke up one morning and saw a tent
pitched down the creek. Just what
Hightower, a cattleman, thought of the
young upstart'S announcement that he
was settling there and would raise
sheep, he has not said. But 1t Is safe
to say that his opinion would have
made little difference to Rufus Thomp-
son, who knew a good thing when he
saw it, and who had brought supplies
for year with him in his oxen-drawn
wagon. Later that year he got band
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-04-08

of sheep from Smith Bros. Of Martins
/ dale on shares built a log house and
settled down for the winter.
He evidently wintered well for James
I Hightower, who had moved to the
Musselshen river and established the
NF ranch In the meantime, recountS
/ that in April 1888, Rufus came hob
/ bling in on foot, and Hightower, an
able judge of beef, calculated his
weight at about 300 pounds. Unable to
fathom any reason why the man
mountain should foot it so miles across
the prairie, HightoWer learned the sad
story of a fierce blizzard which had
taken ThompSon's oxen, his only means
of transportation, and drifted them
God only knew where. Since the spring
roundup was at hand, would Hightower
be good enough to have his men look
out for the Thompson oxen and would
Hightower please lend him horse to
get home on? On the second day of
the roundup Hightower's men found
the oxen on Currant creek and rider
returned them to their distraught and
footsore owner.
But Rufus Thompson was to see
many hard winters before he could
settle back into the comfort of his
own bulk In the spring of 1887, he
was short between 500 and 900 sheep.
Afterwards Rufus told friend OF stay
ing with the woollies for two days and
nights, drifting in a terrific blizzard,
forcing himself to stay awake while
icicles formed from his mouth and
eyes and to rest meant certain death.
His warm coat of tallow doubtless
saved his life and his fortune on that
occasion
From that winter when the snow
would have been hip deep to any tail
Indian who might venture out In such
weather for a little hunting, things
began looking up for the Thompson
outfit, and by 1890 the ranch was run
ming 10000 head of sheep on the open
range and the Thompson kitchen was
noted for its abundant and delicious
food Rufus Thompson had a good cook
no matter what. And there was never
man turned away from the ranch
without bellyful and his horses load
ed with all the oats they could carry
besides.
Like most Of the ranchers of his
time, Rufus Thompson did not have
extensive land holdings. The practice
was to own the land on which there
was water and where hay could be
raised, and then to Craze the stock IN
all directions. There were no fences, no
neighborS and no Quarrels. The most
land Thompson ever owned outright
was 2,700 acres. 1t is interesting to note
that when he started out he had no
legal title to his land, having settled
on a squatter's right. This right was
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-04-08
COMES BACK FROM MORGUE
TO CLAIM COMPENSATION

The state industrial accident board
has approved compensation for a
claimant who literally came out Of a
morgue to submit his petition.
The claimant Is Robert G. Kapinos,
Fort Peck, injured In an auto accident
near jamestown, N. D., last May and
thought to have been killed instantly.
In jamestown morgue, KapinoS re-
he had suffered a severe back injury.
He was employed as chauffeur for M
j. Dunn, Fort Peck, and was taking
Dunn to jamestown at the time Of the
accident.
The industrial accident board ruled
that even though the accident occurred
out of the state, Kapinos was entitled
to conversation
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-04-08

I Visitors from Alaska, Hawaii. Mexi-
CO. France, England, South America,
China, the Canal Zone, South Africa
India, Cuba, West Indies and Switzer-
land, as well as every state In the
/ United States, registered at ports of
entry. California sent the most visit
orS with Washington a close second
New York and Michigan tourists were
numerous and Illinois sent more visit
ors than Idaho.
Tourists from California, Washing
ton, New York, Michigan, Illinois.
Idaho, Nebraska, Wyoming, South Da-
kota, North Dakota, Iowa, Ohio, Ore
gon and Minnesota represented more
than half of the tourists visiting Mon
tana last year.
The present day automobile traffic Is
a far cry from that of 1910 when the
trip from Missoula to Butte made
news. OF course, in those days, motor
lists we're considered to be a bit mental
ly unbalanced. No provision was made
for them IN the way of roads and
traffic laws.
In fact, as far as traffic laws were
concerned, the opposite was true. In
1910 motorist was forced to come to
a complete stop when passing a team
of horses and he could not set his
vehicle into motion until the team had
put certain distance between it and
the automobile. Speed limits of six
miles an hour were common In towns;
is miles an hour was looked upon with
horror.
Roads were rutted and sometimes
a mass of gumbo If a motorist ran out
OF gasoline 1t was his problem. There
were no gasoline stations lining the
highways and competing with each
other In enticing the motorist to try
their own special brand of gasoline.
The farmer and his horse took the
place Of the wrecking-service garage.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-04-08
HONEYMOONERS
NAMED MOUNTAIN
WHY MT. CANNON IN GLACIER
PARK SOCALLED REVEALED
TO OFFICIALS

Details Of Just how Mount
Cannon, the high mountain which
stands high above the Goiug-to-
the-Sun highway at Avalanche
creek ia Glacier national park
came to set It's name has Just been
revealed TO park officials by hErS.
w. b. Cannon Of Cambridge, Mass.
Mrs. Cannon has furnished the ma
tional park service a copy of g letter
written by her husband, Or. Walter b.
Cannon, now of Harvard university, TO
his father. According to the informa-
ton contained therein it all started
when the Cannons decided to make q
Donald region In July, 1901. Enroute up
the lake by boat, Charley Howe, a Welt
known pioneer, suggested that anyone
who first climbed a mountain had the
right TO name 1t. He pointed out the
highest Of the mass Of mountains at
the head of the valley, then known as
Goat mountain, and said that no one
nad yet succeeded in stalking claim
to its summit.
Quoting from the letter: This tale
fired Cornelia (MrS. CannOn). She per-
suaded me to talk over with the guide.
Comeau, the possibility of trying for
the top OF Goat mountain. Howe had
assured us that time, water, and vi
tality, were the essentials for climbing
mountain. Time was there, the noun
tain dripped with moisture, and we
thought we could supply the Vitality
Apparently all of the required ele-
mentS were present. Camping for the
night at the foot of the 5,0O0-foot face
OF the mountain, the climb was made
in one day. Upon return a geological
survey party mapping the region was
contacted and ever since this rather
strenuous form of honeymoon has been
commemorated by the name of Mount
Cannon on the park map.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-04-08
HIGHWAY EQUIPMENT
IS BOUGHT nv ST.

State Purchasing Agent I. S. Nc
Guilty. said Montana bought 1888
worth of highway department equip
ment, and that a call for bids on
$11 900 worth of motive equipment had
been made. McQuitty said $4,000
pounds of grader blades and $500
pounds Of scarifier teeth were bought
from the Midland Implement Co. at
Billings for $7,327 and $3.50 plowbolts
were purchased from the Colorado
Fuel g. Iron Co. at Butte for 1855.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-04-08

While Chief Assistant H. H. van den
Bos of the Union observatory in Jo-
hannesburg, South Africa, was exam
ming what might be a new star, an
earthquake shook the telescope, the
star was lost and cannot be found.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-04-08

France honors its gastronomic heroes
and heroines. In q village near Grasse
Is a monument to the inventor of
peach melba; the discoverer Of Cam
embert has a statue at Vimoutiers:
while Madame Poulard, the famous
omelette maker, is enshrined at Mont
ST. Michel.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-04-08

Open discussion can only prove Of
value as prejudice is put aside. AS
Richard Baxter, 18th century mind,
said, I'm a learning way, men are
ready to receive the truth; but In q
disputing way, they come armed
against it with prejudice and ami
mostly"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-04-08
SHELL FOOn

'TIl take off my hat to you oyster
eaters. 1t was all I could do TO eat
three last night"
Weren't they fresh2 What did they
look like when you opened them?"
"Oh, do you have to open them2"-
Exchange.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-04-08
OIL for
Troubled Waters

IN EVERY industrial field, plant super
IL infendents and management executives
turn TO the SOcony-Vacuum Oil Company
with its 20 years. experience whenever a
fabrication problem, great or small, threat
ems TO disrupt operating schedules.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-04-08

Natural water bottles are formed Of
quartz, when mineral matter, under
heavy pressure, cryStallizes around the
sides of a cavity, and seals water
within. Many of these containers are
to be seen in museums, and, when
shaken. the water inside can be heard
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-04-08
GAVEL rs PRESENTED
TO HARLAN E. WELLS

A redwood gaVel, nanufactured from
a typical burl growth found among
the giant California redwood trees in
the world-famous redwood empire, was
presented to Harlan E. Wells Of White
fish, president of the International
-Four States Highway association by
the Redwood Empire association dur
ing the annual convention of the high
way group at Blythe, Calf Wells was
renamed president of the association
for his fourth consecutive term.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-04-08

The saiga Is the only antelope In
the world with Roman nose.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-04-08

AT mine, well or
refinery, Gar
goyIe Industrial
Lubricants can
help you combat
the heat and
wear of netaI-tO-
metal friction.
Equally irnPOr-
tant, they can
make possible a
Lubric alton
profit.
Evening star., 1939-11-05

have against the concrete fortresses
of the Maginot Line, with their in
terlocking fire and frontal fire COM
manding the deep fields of barbed
wire and the fields Of anti-tank
obstacles, through which the in
fantry and tanks must pass before
reaching the Maginot Line. The
little fortresses cannot be masked,
or passed by, as big single fortress
may be, and as Verdun was in the
German Marine offensive of 1914.
They must be conquered, at least a
considerable stretch of them must
be.
"And If Gamelin should smash q
German offensive?"
The answer was that he should
not follow up his comterattack by
an offensive of his own against the
German fortified line or he might
suffer just as bloody losses as the
German offensive.
No more significant item Of mill
tary interest appeared In the past
week than the brief announcement
by the British colonial office that
"all troops leaving India have ar
rived safely at their destination" in
the middle east, which stirs interest
as to how many British and French
troops have been sent to support
the Turks and the little Balkan
states against Germany or a Russo
German combination. A stalemate
on the western front, with action
centered in the near east, is among
the possibilities in this as yet wait
ing war
released BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance Incl
Evening star., 1939-11-05

Chemical Society
Will Elect Officers

The Chemical Society of Wash
ington will hold its annual election
of officers. councillors and managers
at meeting at the Cosmos Club at
BIS pm. Thursday.
Nominees for president include H.
L. j. Haller and r. M. Ham; for
secretary, N. Bekkedahl, and for
treasurer, E. r. Smith. Twenty
four persons have been nominated
for councillors and 18 for managers
After the election, the group will
hear Earl P. Stevenson, president Of
Arthur. D. Little, Inc. Camb&ddge,
Mass, speak on Research in In
dustry."
Evening star., 1939-11-05
Shukespeureon Lecture

Charles Edward Russell will lee
ture on "Shakespeare's Apocryphal
Plays at 3 o'clock next Sunday aft
ernoon at the Playhouse, 1914 N
street NV, under auspices of the
Washington Catholic Poetry So
ciety, it was announced by Alice j..
Du Breuil, president of the society.
Evening star., 1939-11-05
Important Reductions
on Lifetime Furniture During Our
18th Anniversary Event
Hundreds Of Remarkable Values
In Suites and Occasional Pieces

Special savings again this week on thou
sands Of dollars worth Of artistic and de-
pendobIe Lifetime Furniture. Suites and
single pieces for all types of homes, all
types Of personalities and all types of
pocketbooks. The young couple with q
modest budget will find that they can buy
genuine Lifetime Furniture for no more
Evening star., 1939-11-05

than they might pay for furniture Of no
particular name or distinction And the
greater purse will find furniture os fine as
their hearts desire. Savings now are
worthwhile. Assortments ore Ioroe and
interesting. Tomorrow-first thing in
the morning participate in these 45th
Anniversary savings. Decorator Service.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-01-12
INFLUENCING THE PEOPLE
(The MINNEAPOLIS Tribune)

Senator Gerald P. Nye of North
Dakota yields to none in his devotion
to the cause of peace. His leader
ship in the munitions investigation
and his concern over the neutrality
law bear ample testimony to that
rather obvious fact. On his brief
visit to Minneapolis last week, how
ever, the North Dakotan expressed
views as to the preservation of peace
on which there is certain to be wide
divergence of opinion. A popular
referendum on war declaration is the
surest way of keeping the peace, Mr.
Nye repeats. And then he makes
this startling statement:
''It is impossible for those who want
war to influence the people, although
it is none too difficult for them to
prevail upon the Congress-"
Senator Nye will have hard time
proving his contention that cit is i'm
possible for those who want war to
influence the people" Stirring up war
sentiment is about the easiest assign
ment the propagandists undertake
1t is regrettable fault in human ma
ture, but an unacceptable one none the
less-the ease with which hate is
engendered as compared with the
difficulty of promoting tolerance and
mutual concession. Examples are
superfluous, but in matters immedi-
ately at issue one should prove con-
vincing. How easy is it to win even
hearing for Mr.. Hitler and his Nazi
policies with the average American?
1t can hardly be done. And yet how
quickly sources of friction can be
magnified into demands that war
be waged
81 doubt very much if referen-
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BY NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL

dunn law had been in effect in 1917"
Senator Nye said during his stay here,
eff we would have found ourselves
involved in the conflict, and I think
the same would have been true when
we went to war with Spain. Why?
Because the people of the nation
don't want war and won't be easily
led into it. That can't be said of the
Congress"
Mr.. Nye is absolutely right in say
ing that the people of the United
States don't want war. But there is
no basis whatever for believing that
he is right when he says that cit is
impossible for those who want war
to influence the people" If there
be those who want war-and the
senator's munitions investigations in
dictated that there usually are-then
they can certainly work upon the
people in influencing them to be-
lieve that war is not only inevitable,
but really to their own best interest
Isn't that the reaction already so
general? There are even arguments
that war is necessary to win peace.
And the plea that war must be waged
to save the democracies from the
relationships wins popular support
despite our recent and convincing
demonstration that one waged to
make the world safe for democracy
was complete failure in that, as
in other detectives.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-01-12
STAY AT HOME
(Springfield Advance-PreSs)

(Springfeld Advance-Press)
We were disappointed in President
Roosevelt's message to Congress.
After twenty years of peace talk, he
urges another preparedness program.
Aren't we falling victims to lot of
propaganda? Germany and Japan
are rafting their sabers. Mussolini
is talking fight. Let's mind our own
business. Those nations are not
threatening us. England and France
naturally want us to prepare to help
them if and when the next war
breaks out in Europe. We helped
them once and what did we get for
our trouble? Republication of loans
and heaps of insults. Now they are
nice to us again. The reason is OBJ
viouS.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-01-12

neither chAias nor Japan wanting
peace, the world may as well right
now adjust itself to the prospect
of a long drawn-out war; For
China will not surrender, and Japan
will not stop until China has sur
rendered or has been compelled to
surrender. 1t is pretty widely be-
lieved that Hiranuma intends to let
the Japanese armies conquer all of
China and-keep all of it.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-01-12
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
Continued from Page y

fate of Europe, and it is possible
that he will give hints at it when
at the end of this month he addresses
his shadow-parliament, the power
less Reichstag, on the occasion of the
sixth anniversary of his taking over
the government of Germany.
Spanish Picture Changed.
On former recent occasion Mus
solini found it necessary to respond
favorably to Chamberlain's demand
that Italian volunteers, fighting in
the armies of the Spanish rebel gen.
eral, Francisco Franco, be withdrawn
Slowly and very reluctantly Musso-
lini kept his promise, in part, for
he ordered 10000 of his men home
and thus made it possible for the
new Anglo-Italian treaty of friend
ship to become effective.
Chamberlain was reported as quite
disappointed that Mussolini sent for
only 10000 when it was matter OF
general knowledge that there were
many more thousand Italians fight
|
it was thought early this week that
the Briton would ask his Italian host
to do better.
1t is not likely that more Italians
will be sent back right now, for
Franco needs all the support he can
get. His offensive in Catalonia,
with Barcelona as its ultimate goal,
had been going very smoothly, quite
satisfactorily until something unex-
pected suddenly happened, and that
was the government troops started
an attack on the Franco army in
southwestern Spain. He had not
looked for anything like that; in fact,
he was continuing to draw fresh re-
serves from that sector for his Cata-
lonian campaign, and now he finds
himself not only cut off from those
reserves but also in a position where
it becomes necessary for him to take
large army groups away from the
Barcelona sector, where he can hard
ly spare them, to the southwest.
Sterner Attitude.
Reference has formerly been made
to the attempts of Wang Ching-wei,
former Chinese premier, to start peace
negotiations with Japan. They didn't
get very far, for two reasons: One
was that China's present government
completely discouraged such at
tempts and proclaimed to all. the
world that they were unauthorized;
the other, that Fumimara Konoye re-
signed as head of the japanese gov
eminent because he was too liberal,
too gentle, to suit the purposes of
the all-powerful military clique at
Tokyo.
Konoye was Immediately succeeded
by Kiichiro Hiranuma, a man wide
ly known for his fascist sympathies,
his dictatorial methods. He at once
made it clear that he would adopt
an attitude much sterner than that
of his predecessor, and that he would
carry on the war, relentlessly and
with more intensified energy than
had been displayed so far.
| Under these circumstances, that is,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-01-12
SOPPING OR PARITY

Editor Askov American:
The economical problems confront
ing us since the invention of ma
chimes, which made hard labor and
human suffering unnecessary-is,
what are we going to do with human
labor that is replaced by labor
saving machines. Closely connected
with that problem is, and what are
we going to do with the machine
made products that unemployed labor
needs and is not able to buy.
This critical question concerns
more the one-third of the nation than
it does the two thirds who are doing
very well; better than ever before,
but want to be protected for the
consequences of their own made
laws and regulations.
Probably this people knew how
fatal these regulations worked upon
the one-third of the nation who are
not able to help themselves by a
democratic way.
Every other attempt this one-third
has been trying was condemned and
called undemocratic.
This left the poor minority nothing
else than to sacrifice comfort and
necessities to the benefit of the two
thirds. If this is democracy 1 call
it capitalistic democracy.
Another democracy is to give no.
body advantage over one another,
but claim for everybody good
days work and good days living.
With no difference whether mental or
physical service was rendered.
The overlap of earnings of some
should be applied for those whose
work and pay day do not need a
decent living.
What is the use to pay or receive
more money than is necessary to
reach this objective?
Cooperative ownership of machines
and factories by producers and con-
sumers with an honest division of
the products and work alike for all
men and women, with no difference
in earnings for mental or physical
labor rendered in that service. This
is what l call Social-Democracy.
Public opinion is annoyed by strikes
and sit-downs because it loses a lit
tie comfort, but does not realize that
one-third of the nation is deprived
of all comfort during a lifetime.
Republicans are sopping on all ad-
vantages labor has gotten by force
and by law.
Pardon me to ask that same pub
lie opinion what it ever did to inn
prove the economical conditions of
labor without being forced.
Philanthropy cannot make good
what is pocketed by unfair practices
committed by capital.
Consolidation, civil merit service,
overlapping functions reduced and
putting new men into old systems
does not change capitalism.
If all this is considered sound bust
ness in government administrations,
beneficial to all people in the states
I declare it must be mighty good
improvement for all the people to
have overlapping salaries reduced,
and this money applied where low
salaries do not meet both ends.
How about a little more parity on
that, and next, what about dividing
the work that machines are not
yet able to do, amongst all of us, by
installing shorter work day.
It's about time that public opinion
speaks whether they want sopping or
parity.
JOHN NIEBOER.
Hinckley, MINI.