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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-05-18
Old Washington Hand Press
Given to State University

An old Washington handpress. relic
Of early days in Montana newspaper
history, began a new phase of It's life
recently when it was assembled and
put on display in the Typography lab
oratory Of Montana State university
new journalism building. The press
was given to the university last fall
by Fred J. Ward, editor Of the Meagher
County News, an alumnus Of the jour
nalism school,
First brought to Montana In 1888,
the press was used at White Sulphur
Springs by Alex Rhone, pioneer editor,
In the first election campaigns Of the
new state. In 1892 and again In 1894
1t was taken out of storage for short
periods to print the Meagher County
News which was then actively engaged
In the fight for the location Of the
state capital.
In 1896 the News ended publication,
and the press was stored until 1901
when Mrs. M. E. Mackay began to
print the Meagher County Republican.
For 80 years 1t pressed that paper,
until, in July, 1884, Fred Ward pur-
chased the paper and renamed it the
Aleagher County News. Last summer
the press was again taken out Of stor-
age and moved to the university as
Wards gift.
Manufactured by the Marder Luce
Co. the press is one Of very few Of
its kind left. Dean A. L. Stone Of the
journalism school spent more than a
year tracing its history, which is now
complete. The press viii remain In the
journalism building as a part Of the
laboratory display which
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-05-18
GOATS WILL FLY
TO NEW LOCATION
GAME BOARD WILL TRANSPORT
TEN ANIMALS BY AIRPLANE
TO CRAZY MOUNTAINS
Big Timber SpOrtsmen VIII Contribute
$500 Toward Project and VIII Trans
port Goats From Landing Field to
Point Of Release

Some time this summer 10
mountain goats VIII fly from the
FIathead national forest to 3 new
home In the Crazy mountains near
Big Timber. The Montana fish and
game commission VIII match Big
Timber's contribution toward the
project, according to word received
here.
Big Timber's goal is $500 and the
state board has promised to add an
other $500, to bring the fund to 81, 900.
Under the program as 1t Is now
outlined, the commission viii furnish
one deputy game warden to assist In
trapping the goats in the Flathead
national forest and If possible take
motion pictures Of the undertaking.
The supervisor Of the Flathead ma
tional forest viii be responsible for
general supervision Of the project from
He win construct traps at suitable
places within five or six miles Of the
Holbrook landing field on the South
Fork of the Flathead, or at a better
location, If 1t can be obtained. Pack
and saddle stock for the project and
for transportation of the animals from
the point Of capture TO the landing
field will be furnished by the forest
service. Arrangements for plane trans
portation Of the goats win be made.
The Big Timber group Is to furnish
from landing field at Big Timber to
the point of release, near the Brannin
ranch.
The supervisor of the Absaroka for
est win select the release point and
construct holding pens and thereafter
make periodic check Of the welfare
Of the animals.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-05-18
By ERIC THANE

Most trusted of the early fur traders
was Andrew Dawson, of the American
Fur Co. Not only did the Indians trust
him, but they became to believe he had
supernatural powers. They decided he
could even change them into any ami
NAL he chose.
him he wished to be changed into a
white horse. Dawson told the redskin to
come to the post in the evening: the
Indian came, and by that time 1t was
showing heavily. which exactly suited
Dawson's purposes and was seemingly
made by his order. The Indian was
stripped naked and was picketed like
a horse a short distance from the
After being out for some time, the
Indian came into the post, almost
frozen, and said he had changed his
mind and did not want to be a white
horse or any kind of a horse If that
was what a horse had to undergo.
Dawson was born in 1917 in Scotland
In 1843 he landed in st. Louis with
rs cents-50 cents of which he gave
to the cabman and 25 cents to the
locksmith as he had lost the key to
his trunk. His rise in the fur business
was rapid, especially when 1t became
known that he was trustworthy and
fearleSs-so fearless that upon one oc-
casion he carried, all alone, a large
copper kettle that was In need Of re-
pairing. from Fort Clark to Fort Union,
a distance Of 200 miles at time when
the Indians Of all tribes killed white
men whenever they found them. The
copper kettle was really guise to cover
the real design, the important dis
patches he tried to keep from the
emissaries of the Hudson's Bay and
other rival fur companies
KaaSc
It was at Fort Union that Dawson 4
and Alexander Culbertson, another /
famous trader, became acquainted. I
Dawson was transferred to old Fort /
Benton In 1854 and directed to make
q brick fortress of the place, because
many Of the former wooden forts had
been burned and destroyed by the IN
dams.
Dawson employed sun-dried bricks.
In the making Of them there was one
gigantic negro called ''Nigger George"
who could make three times as many
bricks as any other man, or could, as
Dawson. put 1t. "do three days work
IN one"
while Dawson was in charge of Fort
Benton, many important persons visit 4
ed the place, Of whom not the least
was Count Koskiosko, grandson Of
Count KoSsuth. the noted Polish pa
trtot. KOSkiOsko was a congenial soul
but loved whisky a little too much, so
was nicnamed Count Cask Of
Whisky"
Dawson had many narrow escapes.
One fall he was taking freight from
Fort Union to Fort Benton He and
bis men had stopped at a camp of
the River Crows and had as was the
usual custom distributed a few goods
and bartered for some robes and
DeltrieS
A young Indian IN idle curiosity
climbed on the side of the wagon, and
when they started, the wagon jolted
and he lost his hold. He fell between
the wheels. The heavily loaded wagon
passed over his body and killed him.
Instantly there was an uproar and
Dawsons whole outfit was at once sur
rounded by an Infatuated mob demand
ing PREPARATION for the death Of their !
;omrade. A young Mountain Crow was I
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-05-18

payment under the present Triple-A
program.
can operator who farms one tract
IN the program and another tract out
side Of the farm program under the
name Of relative or friend Is defeat
ing the entire purpose Of the act" Nc
Kenna said. The county committees
In the state have been instrumental IN
framing these regulations and, with
few exceptions, farmers throughout the
state believe these rulings necessary to
make their cooperation with the AAA
effective, McKennR added.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-05-18

includes several historically interest
ing exhibits
The Washington handpreSs operates
on the same principle as the Guten-
berg press of five centuries ago, all
though its particular system Of levers
and screws was not developed until
about 1900. The business of printing
a newspaper on the press Is a labor
ious process. and about 100 sheets per
hour was the average speed Of the good
presSman OF its day.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-05-18

ments. He neglected to close this door,
and in the dark he fell into the cellar,
where he lay all night, too stunned to
help himself. He was discovered In the
morning, so weak and paralyzed that
the effects of the shock never wore
off. In the summer Of 1854, finding it
impossible to continue his position, he
settled the affairs Of the American
Fur Trading Co., and returned to Scot
land, where he died on the 18th OF
September, 1871.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-05-18
Spokane Group Buys
Mine Near Wisdom

broker, recently announced he and q
group Of associates had arranged for
the purchase of the Carrie Leonard
gold and silver mine, IS miles south
west Of Wisdom, in western Montana.
Huffman said the purchase would
be made from Charles Pierre Of Ferry,
Wash, formerly of Butte, but the
amount TO be paid was not disclosed
He said the owners at one time re-
fused an offer of $4,000 for the
'from $3.50 to $500 per ton"
Evening star., 1940-05-04
VALUES WORTH SEEING
3409 18th STREET

u block west of Conn. Ave. and
Ordway ST.. near Uptown TheaterD
2 rooms. dinette, kitchen and bath,
$50 so
3 rooms. dinette. kitchen and bath.
$3.50
Electric refrigeration on house
current. Modern plumbing
newly decorated Resident mgr,
EN-, 020S.
Evening star., 1940-05-04
SEDGWicK GARDENS
3726 Conn. Ave.

Foyer, living room with Murphy
bed. bath. dinette. kitchen,
inclosed porch, southwest ex-
posure. $3.50.
Foyer. living room with Murphy
bed. bedroom. bath, solarium,
dinette and kitchen. $3.50 and
$50. so.
RefrigerAtion on house current,
secretarial switchboard. Garage.
Res. mgr. Mrs. Louise Guest,
WO. 4l60.
Evening star., 1940-05-04
1925 18Th STREET

Corner 18th and L Sts.)
Living room. bedroom. bath and
kitchen.
Resident manager.
Evening star., 1940-05-04

1928 18th st. NV.
cluded In rent. Resident manager.
rms. kit. d. .. and bath $50. 90
With sun porch and foyer---$7O.O0
Evening star., 1940-05-04
470l CONN. AVE,

Large foyer, living room. dining
room. 2 bedrooms. bath. porch,
dinette and kitchen. Refg. on
house current Elevator. Sec.
switchboard. Garage. Res. mgr,
EN- 0S03.
Evening star., 1940-05-04
DOWNTOWN

UU7 Ifh ST.
/ room. Murphy bed, bath and
kitchen. $4,000.
Gas furnished for refrigeration
and cooking
Evening star., 1940-05-04
4514 CONN. AVE.

Large foyer. living room. dining
room. 1 and 2 bedrooms bath,
porch. ample closet space: garaEe.
Refg. on house current. Elevator,
secretarial switchboard. Res.
Mgr. Woodley 4471.
Evening star., 1940-05-04
1900 I4th STREET

LaIEe foyer, living room, l. 2 and 3
bedrooms, l and , baths inclosed
porch and kitchen. Refg. on
house current. Elevator. Garage.
Res. mgr.
Evening star., 1940-05-04
25l7 X ST. NV.

Electric refrigeration.
: rms, KIT. and bath S45 90
Evening star., 1940-05-04
GARDEN TOWERS

Gas refrigeration. Elevator. Resident
manager, DI. 267S.
! rm., kit. and 80
Evening star., 1940-05-04
Vernon HoII

TZTV I'm u. NV.
1 room, kitchen, dinette and tiled
bath; Murphy bed. In modern fire-
proof bldg, near Mass. Ave, within
walking distance Of downtown.
$3s up
Evening star., 1940-05-04
252O L ST. NV.

alton included in rent. Near stores
and TRANSPORTATION. Res. mgr.
$4,000
Evening star., 1940-05-04

CONTINUED a yszt PAsa)
Evening star., 1940-05-04
WISTERIA MANSIONS

TTVT MOSS. Ave. NV.
| room, Murphy bed. bath and
kitchen. Refrigeration on house
current. Elevator and switch
board service. Resident man.
ager,
Evening star., 1940-05-04

3S25 DAVIS PL. NV.
Gas. electricity and refrigeration IN
cluded in rent.
Liv. rm... DR.. rm.. Murphy bed kit..
Evening star., 1940-05-04

1100"HI LUVAID 81. N.Ws
Gas. electricity and refrigeration IN.
ciuded In rent. Resident manager,
MI. 676o.
I rm.. kit. q. .. and bath---S4e.bo
Evening star., 1940-05-04
1921 COLUMBIA ROAD

Combination living and dining room.
]. 2 and 3 bedrooms, bath. porch
and kitchen. Elec. refg on house
current. Resident manager.
Evening star., 1940-05-04
FULTON COURTS
255l 18th St. NV.

Reception hall, living room. bed
rooms. bath dinette, kitchen and
porch. SR5 90 and S67 80.
Electric refrigeration. Resident
manager.
Evening star., 1940-05-04
2I0o 1sTH. ST NV,

ssH sS .e1 cn noq,s .r1ie.
dent manager, HO. $500.
Evening star., 1940-05-04

IL NICHOLSON ST. NV.
Gas refrigeration,
rm., kit, d. q. and bath $40 90
3 rms, kit, d. q. and bath--S47,6O
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-01
Golfers SIOsh in
Flooded FairWay

Your golf game had to be as
water proof as a ducks back Sun
day morning but lot of them tried
it anyway.
Rains that bobbed over low spots
in the town Sunday morning, dump
ed deluge over the Country Club
golf course too, in the short span
of little more than an hour had
given the course real water haz-
ard.
Bernard Schoenhoff, who with a
bunch of the boys was waiting the
rains letup, says that soggy fair
ways, sploched with puddles and
pools, didn't stop the boys from
following the rains wake.
On number one fairway, just
below the traps to the green,
a 40-foot pool rose miraculoUsly
as the best wate4r hazard this
course has ever had. The boys
say It was waist deep. No one
was certain just who tested its
depth.
Similarly on fairways going to
number two, four and five holes
were standing with water. After
five holes the first round golfers
after the rain gave it up. It's true
that the cups were full and over
flowing.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-01
200 Jam Park
Daily in Heat

The heat wave, now broken af-
ter running of six straight days,
had one beneficial effect. 1t kept
supervisors at the City Park in the
recreational program buster than
proverbial bees and ants.
An estimated total from sup
ervisOrs in charge Of both
games and swimming set the
daily figure of participation at
200 during the hot spell
Harold Rasmussen, looking just
a bit like a boiled lobster after his
first week as swimming super
visor at the beach had this to say:
There were easily 100 in daily
during the hot spell. But it fell of
much in the three days last week
when cool weather broke it."
Rass will be on this week yet,
filling out two weeks to complete
an eight weeks program at the
beach. Mr.. and Mrs. E. D. Harvey
had been hired for the first six.
Whether Harold's tenure at the
beach would end Sunday was not
quite definitely assured this week
The City Council had hired him
for two weeks, but if warm wealth,
err continues suitable for swimming
some further action to patrol the
beach may be taken. But there has
been no announcement. This year
the weeds, that usually bring late
July and early August dog days
and set up a stump to good swim
ming, came early. Observers say
that the worst of it is over and the
lake is clearing rapidly. They say
too that the weed siege came near
ly month earlier than in other
years.
WPA recreatin leaders directing
unorganized and organized games
in the park have been busy too
They have found in their program
widespread interest and they will
continue it, with a probable lay of
during the days of the Stearns
County Fair. They've found deep
seated appreciation in the young
sters who attend, they say, evil
denced in the fact that after three
other years they are still attending
Everything is moving along
first rate" one supervisor said.
1--WE have few squabbles. Oonce
in while brother and sister feud
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-01

Is John Cotton, a junior in high
school next year, who is just about
the coolest fellow under competi.
ton for his age you've seen.
He's got that lank build that makes
him supple enough for most ath.
letics and doesn't hurt his golfing
swing. And he and John Whit
son battled it out for medal play
tournament with net 70's the other
day. And the latter John looks
like material as well. There
are probably plenty others but
these have been called especially
to our attention.
Yep, I'm going to throw my fish
ing tackle away, arm myself with
a Louisville slugger and just sit on
the lake and wait for 'em to come
up. Sunday at Birch Lake the
kid brother, Jim, and Kenny Fors-
berg were out in a boat. There
was no tackle in the craft and
they weren't particularly interest
ed in fishing at the moment.
Suddenly they spied a fish lolling
about on top of the water. They
sped in the general direction, crack
ed the fish over the head with an
oar and down he went. He reap
peared and with Kenny's shirt as
a landing net they scooped it into
the boat. . And guess what. The
prize was an 8 pound 6 ounce WALL
eyed pike. His trouble was that
he had swallowed a fish reviving
interest in the old maxim that the
eyes are bigger than the stomach
anyway. The payoff is that for
hours Mick Hansen and Buss Dez-
iel had really been fishing that
part Of the Birch Lake.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-01
The COnmOn-tater
Chuck Rattle
Side Chances at Main Street

Side Chances at Main Street.
Ten years ago in Glenwood group of country
bankers gave birth to an organization. They were
not only country and therefore rural and earthly but
they were small business and Independent. . Bob
Berry, since with the state banking department, was
It's first secretary After three years they handed
the secretaryship to Ben Dubois temporarily. Ben
DUBOIS has been temporary secretary to the indie
pendent Bankers Association for seven years.
Nerve center to the organization is UMPIRE
tentious office here in Sank Centre from which
radates in streams of mail the inertia which gath
ers, and at the same time molds, sentiment among
the bankers CLAIMED by the union. If the office
that was chiseled into neat little in the
back Of the First State Bank building this year.
nerve cell center to the body banking; then Ben
Dubois is its dynamo. In the past year he has
made four trips to Washington by plane meeting
a tremendous volume of mail to some $4,000 on the
mailing list. This singular item makes Ben Dubois,
the postmaster, his own best customer
In the office are reams of correspondence a
mimeograph, secretary, and from this flood of
mail that tributaries the width and length of the
land comes sentiment. Sentiment of the independent
banker Then with this composite opinion of his
group neatly digested and cataloged Ben is off to-
Washington hot footing it in the direction Of legis
latve action. Upshot of this intense activity this
year, perhaps, certain susceptibility to illness
and he found himself flat on his back with danger
touch of pneumonia. They scooted him off to
a hospital for safe keeping
Back from his illness, Ben faced correspond
stack that must have rivaed the post to Mata
Harris Tamour department. But carrying
during that time son, Pat, over six feet, and
quite arduous his father in the program of
the organization . To his lot has fallen the job
of membership and organization. He becomes con-
tact for organization that today has stretch
ed to 800 members in ten years Their organization
rolls into thirty states of the union, pours mail to
several thousand of bankers, keeps constantly in
touch with the situation in Washington, spends
several thousands on the advancement of its pro-
gram through it's secretary each year. . But, as
to any and all organizations finance is the bugaboo
Says Ben the organization could easily whip the
tar out of so thousand yearly. This year the
organization sees it's proposals before congress
gushing, before it gets committee reading, in
dsinteresed hands in the press of defense needs
But legislation no, the independent bank
assembled has become force. And directing
a large part of that force is Ben Dubois whose office
is the most far-reaching in it's sentiment molding
factors than any in the hamlet
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-01

Ed, the younger, Gaspard has
equipped himself with a pair of
mud shoes for traversing
swamp land and facilitating fall
hunting. The gadgets fit
one on each foot with a con-
Meeting tie to keep the operator
from doing spread eagle. Pro-
pulsiOn Is by paddle. Ed
thinks they're the cats.
Brother Bill Is skeptical. Said
he, Hell think they're battle
ships when he goes to turn
around for a duck" :.
Lloyd Blycker The couldn't do
1t now and says SOY holds a
Renville county record in
track with q discus toss that
has stood unbeaten for seven-
teen years. And 1t still tops
the field!
Every once in a while in golf pol
up some of the younger elemen
who seem to have some of thu
things that conspire to make goot
golfers given proper development
and sensitized interest in the
game. . Right now on the board.
are a couple younger fellows wht
look like they might have the swing
that will carry them on. One
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-01

Oscar Is Dead
Long Live Oscar
Roller Skater Goes
Thru City On Tour
Ed Gaspard's Mud Shoes
Blyck's Record Still Tops
COlton-WhitsOn Pair Are
Top Ranking Younger Golfers
Please Pass Me the Oars
Oscar was as nice a little guy
as ever tried to bite your hand off.
He was a handsome young blade
of a turtle with a shell that would
wallop the heck out of an Is inch
width. -. Today Oscar is no more.
Oscar was the mOst-traveied,
most pampered shellback that
ever thrust his ugly little snOut
out of Sank Lake. In fact the
day that he stuck 1t out Of the
lake mite too far began his
travels, his pamperings, ulti-
mately his death. :.
In a period of four days he trav-
eled so much about this Main Street
that could he have returned to his
friends he would have been, with
out doubt, the toast of Sank Lakes
Turtleville. But he never went
back; he never saw the water
again. He became Turtleville's
prodigal son-who never returned.
:. It all happened when Shorty
Bokinski caught Oscar from his ma
tive habitat. Oscar didn't mind ter
ribly, but he had ways of letting
the boys know they couldn't pull
the weeds over his eyes. He Kissed
vociferously and rammed his neck
out and into his shell. 1t was wiser
not to be too close. ..
Shorty introduced him rather
informally to Mickey Hansen.
In fact Oscar was introduced
informally throughout, but he
got around to make a lot of
acquaintances. So Informally
in Mick's case that when Mick
looked down on the ground be-
low his fixing a tire there was
Oscar. Mick looked at Oscar.
Neither spoke except Mick
who didn't wait for formal
handshalxing. Oscar didn't like
that display, labeled It an un-
friendly act and was all set to
declare war.
When Mickey saw what friend
ly beast Oscar really was. that he
was usually trying to bite only
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-01
f Ss;.,S Centre SPORTS a d ;ss 7 %:st

your hand anyway, he put him in
Tim O'Gara's car. Tim put him
out, ungracefully, fear. Gus OF.
to took our friend in; and Oscar
wandered down to Harry Knapp's
feed store. Returning from there
he was put in Pike Meals car. Then
he was tossed into an unidentified
coupe from which he escaped to
find his way back to Ernie Borg
mann's station. There he died. .
And so we wrote his obituary-the
most travelled of turtles. Today
there is great mourning in Turtle
vile where they are chanting (pro-
viding they know Oscar is dead
Long live Oscar. :.
Into town last Wednesday
night limped middle-aged
man, wearing shorts and puff
ing black cigar. :. 1t was
hOtter'n four quarts of sea-goin'
rum and the traveller was hot
and Drowned to a turn by the
sun. He looked like u brides
second attempt at keeping the
toast from burning. He was
On-Of all things-rOller skates.
:. He said that for publicity
sake and the fact that "he had
nothing else to do" he was on
a years tour of the 48 states.
:. Three months Of the tour
lay behind him with Los An
geles the jumping off spot. He
had skated from that point. Six
weeks before he left he had
trained to get In shape, and
now travelling light, his special
ly enlarged wheeled skates are
carrying him over the country.
-. He's looking for an adver-
tising sponsor.
When he got here one of the
wheels on his skates was giving
him trouble so with a hammer he
tossed it back into shape. The
wheels are 2 and a quarter inches
in diameter, especially designed 50
that pipe of that dimension can re-
place worn out tires. He says
he makes up to a 100 miles daily,
averages about 500 a week. Wheels,
without rim replacement, are good
for about 600 miles. He carries no
spare wheels, and the skates are
fastened to his shoes. In the
trip from Los Angeles he ran into
only some 10 or Is miles where
skating was impossible when he
hit gravel roads in Idaho. I'd
say the man had large order.
You'd have to have a lot not to do
to try such travelling.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-01

FISHING TACKLE THAT'S EFT
FOR FISHING. HI L l. e r. u ID
HARDWARE. Adv.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-01

has to be Strengthened but that's
to be expected" he chuckled.