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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-08

One morning band Of about fifteen ShoshOnes
rode up to the station. They didn't say much,
Indian-like, but you could they were scalp
hunting. The leader palavered to the squaw to
go with them, but as MeGanless was treating her
all right and she had plenty to eat, she wouldn't
go.
Besides Little Badly and McCaness there
gate and Ralph Lozer. The whites kept their
hands on their guns and a paeface six-shooter
always got lot of respect.
McCanless and the Indians iawed back and
forth quite while about giving up the squaw.
Finally he handed out a sackful of provisions as
a peace offering. The Shoshones grunted among
themselves over that but shoudered the sack and
ambled off.
About dark that night the four men and the
squaw were sitting in the station eating supper.
Suddenly there was a blast Of gunfire from the
walls Of the cabin. The Indians had crawled back
to the station stuck their rifle barrels through
chinks between the logs and pouring the
lead into them before the men knew anybody was
near. Lozer threw up his hands and tumbled off
a bench dead. Apologize was hit pretty bad but
stayed on his feet
-MItA-Apflega+t.- between them Little Badly
and McCanless broke for the door. The Indians
ripped out warwhoop and started after them.
l reckon the squaw saved their lives. She kept
running back and forth in front of the Indians
to spoil their aim and give the whites chance.
Blood was squirting from Appegates wound every
step he took and he weakening fast. After
the three had gone about a quarter Of a mile
Appcgate knew he finished.
Gimme your pistol, Badly he gasped to his
companion.
The rider sawed Applegate's play. It was
part of the code of the West, and he handed over
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-08
"neWs of the States.

Within year after the rush 10 WaShOe started
the new camp was connected with San francisco
by telegraph line of a sort. 1t was strung up
from Old Hangtown across the Sierra Nevadas
into Virginia City. The builder didn't bother to
set posts where the trees were thick. he Just
hooked the wire to the branches. Storms got the
line twisted up in the trees that the boys got
to calling it the grapevine telegraph.
Half the time it didn't work. Then the Pony
Express would beat the telegraph. Bull-whackers
selves to the wire whenever they had a break
down
why fingered they put it thar just a-pur-
pose an OLD teamster said when a telegraph COM
pany man landed on him for cutting down the
line.
From Virginia City east it was still just the
Pony Express-and the Indians.
After Jack Hays and his men battled the
Putes on the Truckee and made good Indians
out of then-the old-timcrs always said t44e-5ff4t
good Indian was dead one-that tribe didn't
bother the whites much for while But the
Shoshones went the warpath in eastern Nevada
TO make up for it. A rider took his life in his
hands every time he swung into the saddle and
started out A trip in the Overland Stage was
just dangerous.
A fellow they called Little Badly" had set-to
with the Indians that sure would have raised his
hair if he'd had any. He was riding out of Dry
Creek The station-keeper there was S. Mccain
less who did what good many of the early
settlers did-took up with a Shoshonc squaw.
This was all right with the squaw, but it didn't
set extra well with her tribesmen.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-08

Father, and When old Whipsar Stumbled
and Redskins Knife Went Up to Plunge Into
His Back There Was the Flash of Gun Fired
at Close Range.
'Thc Indian Jcrkcd and Fen Back Dead.
III 1t Had Been in Little Cdyuse's Makeup to
ECer Smile He Must Hare Cracked Grin Then,
For His Shot SaUcd :hc Life of the Man Who
Had SdUcd His"
dig i'm up an bury Of Bill right up hyar close to
his strike"
Cheers meHt-tif4- 4llf bartender set en- up on
the house
1--WE orter do more'n that" somebody sug-
gcsted It's fittIn for great man like Bill Body
to have a fine monument.
The boys got so worked up over the idea that
they made the rounds of the saloons and dance
halls. When the night over they had collected
a couple thousand dollars TO send away for the
best monument their money could buy.
A crowd started out the next morning with
shovels When they came back that afternoon they
had box full of Bill Body's bones. Most of the
camp gathered to look at the collection. Even
in death there no peace for poor Bill.
Sure had little head, didn't he?' miner
said as he picked up the skull
Every bone in the box was dragged out and
passed around for close inspection. In few
minutes what was left of Body was scattered over
half block
Reckon he died young man" a miner opined,
looking at his teeth.
He wasn't no boss. yuh damn fool. Yuh
CANT tell mans age by his teeth.
Sure well preserved, being dead so long, said
another fellow, as he tapped leg bone against a
hitchng post
That's cause he frozc tdcath.
When the crowd got tired of looking Bill over,
piece by piece the bones were thrown back in the
box The Bodc folks didn't mean any disrespect
They Just figured Bill wouldn't care and | reckon
he didn't.
They gave him big funeral.
1t was quite a while before the monument ar
rived because it had TO be hauled in from San
Francisco by mule team. BY the time 1t came the
camp was stirred up over the assassination of
President Garfield. Bill Body " forgotten.
When the granite shaft finally was put up in Boot
Hill it bore an inscription to honor the martyred
President.
Bill still lies in grave unmarked except for
the sagebrush that grew back on the hillside when
Bode joined the Vests long list of ghost towns.
THE Pony Express and the stage coach held
i mighty big hand in the mining camp pots
Life in Virginia City was game where the stakes
were millions. And it wasn't just the joker that
wild.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-08

True Rip-Rooring Tales Told From Memory
by One Of the Last Survivors Of the Trail
Blazing Era. When Bad Men. Worse indians.
Express Riders. GoId-Hunters and Settlers
Wrote the History Of Our Plains in Blood
and Puncfuafed 1t With Bullets
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-08


dcd all they had, but the stuff kept going up
ter the specuators'd sold out the miners let the
+ out of the bag. They'd hit rich vein Of gold
|artz shovced the rich stuifatO one side and kept
y secret TO themselves. In the meantime they
IRE buying all the stock they could lay hands on.
The price finally went up 10 $50 share and
|erybody in Bodie was rich. Saloon-keepcrs
|uled out bales of certificates they had taken in
r one drink share Store propretors were
" on paper they figured was worthless Chi
~Iaundrymen discovered they had been paid
|ndreds of dollars for washing few shirts. 1t
|s the only case | ever knew where the pro-
|Dters got stung and everybody else got rich.
While the camp was booming some Of the boys
Il to thinking they hadn't done right by poor old
D Body. His bones had been laying in shallow
lave alongside the trail where he died for more
ban fifteen years.
II figger Bills dcservin' of decent burial" one
|d TO a bunch lined up at bar.
He sure is that, another chImed in. Lets
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-08

The hard-riding boys on the ponies
were the only link TO the outside world at
first They were heroes to the whole camp.
The approach of galloping pony was sig
nal to knock off work and line up for the
HneWS of the States :,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-08

camp from the Forty
miner d a VS. on-and
painted them all red.
EVERYBODY had
l. his pockets full
of mimi & stock IN
those days. 1t was the
same story at all the
camps. Virginia City,
Aurora and Bodie. Au-
rora was about twelve
miles from Bodie Just
inside rhc Nevada line.
Most of the stock
wasn't good for any
thing but wallpaper.
One mine at Bodic
started out as a strict
" wildcat proposition.
The promoters h a d
prospects and a print
ING press. that was
all They put some
money INTO the hole,
but when that ran out
they began payln E
Their men in stock and
it wasn't long til the
town was full of the
stuff. \ share of stock
would buy a drink.
Merchants took it in
trade because every
body was willing to
gamble.
One day the stock
started going up. No
body could find out
why. When it got TO
ten dollars a share
{ n @ promoters UNI
- ctrCC kopt UoiDcr ~,
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-07-17
Montana State Correspondence School Spreads
Educational Opportunities Ouer Big Territory

rendering it all the more susceptible to
drouth damage.
When the dry years came in the '30's
the grass lands and pastures, having
been overgrazed for years, succumbed
entirely to the devastating effects Of
the drouth.
What had been in years past lush
grass range became as bare and de-
void of grass as a well travelled road.
1t was feared for a time the grass
would never come back. The cattle
growers we're again forced TO sell their
herds due to lack Of feed, and since
every Montana grower found himself
in the same boat there was a rush TO
sell. Prices, naturally, swooned.
The cattlemen suffered great losses.
But again there was a lesson to be
learned from mother nature. In the
forced selling of their livestock the
growers culled the poorest critters
from their herds, keeping only the best
blooded stock for a basis upon which
to rebuild. And while these great num-
berS OF cattle which had been sold on
an over-sold market were absent from
the ranges the grass was given an OPP
portunity to stage a comeback.
Slowly the roots Of the grass took a
years has been repeatedly moistened
by rain and snow.
. Grass Recovered
The recovery of the grass continued
steadily until this spring it was pro-
nounced by experts as being as near
/ perfect as it could be-
Snow continued to protect the grass
until late in the spring, and meanwhile
hard winter had almost exhausted
I the cattle growers feed reserves. A
little thin but nonetheless tough, the
Montana purebreds emerged from
their winter quarters to fatten on the
lush meadows.
In connection with the irrigation
improvement program of the last eight
years there also has been stock water
ing projects. Some six thousand OF
them have been constructed as a forth
fication against future dry years.
The rebuilding of the drouth depict
ed herds of Montana has continued
apace since 1888.
In 1899 the value of all cattle as Of
January l had increased to s56,O18,O00.
BY 1910 the value was listed at s52,-
10000 and in 1941 it had increased
to SCI ,O58, 900.
On Jan. l, 1912, the value of all cat
tie was listed at S80,024 900, and at
present, due to increase in prices Of
cattle and to building up of quality,
their value is conservatively estimated
in excess of S1OO,OOOOOO.
The record of livestock actually sold
on the public market since 1888 is re-
vealing. 1t increased progressively from
slo,382 900 in 1888 to sl3,273 900 in 1885,
to 1874 900 in 1910 and to SIG, $780,
900 in 1941.
This year it seems safe to predict
that more than s50,OO0,0OO worth Of
Montana cattle and calves will be sold
on the public markets, and, with the
demand growing due to the war, the
figure could easily far exceed $780,
100000.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-07-17
Stock Outlook Is Best
In History of Montana

ed and extended through the expendi-
ture Of nearly Is million dollars for
the experimenting and broadening of
the states irrigation facilities.
1t has contributed greatly TO a feel
ing of security among the stockmen
who formerly were obliged to depend
almost entirely upon the whims OF the
weatherman for reserve feed for their
stock
Now the many broad irrigated VAL
leys of the state insure the production
of adequate feed to put Montana cat
tie through long and tough winters
like the one just ended.
When Montana range lands emerge
from under the snow in the spring in
excellent condition. as was the case
this spring. the cattle growers are just
that much better off. For, in the larger
sense, it is from the millions of acres
of Montana,s uneXcel!ed range lands
that the livestock gather their greatest
nutriment and strength.
Grass Greatest Asset
Montana grass, one of the states
/ greatest assets, is considered to be the
most nutritious in the world, especially
I that which grows so luxuriantly in the
| high mountain reaches and in the Big
/ Hole basin, from which, during the
shipping seasons, more than 1000 car
/ loads of CRASHED cattle are shipped
monthly.
| For that matter, on an average, q
freight train load consisting of IS cars
of cattle leaves Montana every day fol-
markets in the east and in the west
the majority of them now going tt
the western markets.
More and more of Montana's calves
and beeves are being fattened in feet
pens adjacent to the pastures anc
ranges where they were raised. Here
again the extension and supplemental.
ton Of Montana's irrigation waters ha!
made a new source of added wealth tt
the cattle grower. The irrigated land!
provide year after year without fail
good crops of grain and hay needed
for the fattening of livestock.
Such crops as corn, barley, oats, al
falfa and tame and wild hay grow lux
uriantly in the irrigated valley, ant
60 days feeding after the cattle com,
off the range in the fall adds from
Sl3 to $50 to the value Of each critter
Heretofore stock feeders in the mid
die west and other localities wher,
grain is grown in abundance had beer
skimming off this cream.
The cattle industry has made a mir
aculous recovery from its low of 1895
following four years of drouth. whel
there were only 100000 head of cattl
in the state. They had reached tn
unprecedented low value of s31,217
600 that year.
Continued Prosperity Seen
Other points of low ebb in the cat
tie industry had been 1919 and il
1926, the year, strange to say, the live
stock population hit a high for al
time, totaling 2,75O,0OO head of cattle
But on Jan. of that year cattle wer,
worth only s11.5O per head.
There is every indication that tn
cattle industry Of the state, riding a
present on the crest, will continue in
definitely in a healthy condition. Tn
hard lessons of the past have beer
taken to heart. The tremendous herd
of cattle of 1926 far overstocked tn
states valuable range lands, cropping
off the grass close to its roots, thu
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-07-17

Going into the summer season with
hopes higher and prospects brighter
than ever before in the history of the
state. Montana cattle growers are an
swering the about demands of war for
more and better food. State stockmen
are believed to have the brightest out
look in history
With the addition OF some 100000
calves to MCntanas cattle population
this spring. bringing the total close to
two million head, the value of beef on
the ho0f is estimated to have passed
the one hundred million dollar mark,
surprising the all-time record of 1919.
But the dire fate which awaited the
states sJCckmen on Jan. ! of 1919
when the value of cattle was fixed is
only a remote possibility today.
Before the dry and hot summer of
1919 had passed Montana stockmen
had been forced to get rid of more than
100000 head of their cattle on a forced
market at ruinously low prices. Other
Stockmen who elected to attempt to
feed their stock through the winter
and bought feed were hit even harder,
for feed, in addition to being costly
was difficult to get.
Three years of drouth and contribut
ing factors had almost wrecked the
dryland farming business in Montana
in 1919. But it had taught the farmers
a lesson which they remember poig-
nantly to this day. Since then they
have gone through a drouth period al
most equally as disastrous. And 1t is
only now that the cattle industry is
coming back into its own and is being
re-established on drouth-proof basis
The painful and costly lessons taught
by the drouth of the '20's, combined
with the postwar deflation, and the
drouth of the '30's, combined with the
! general depression, has brought about
drastic change in the economy ano
| the farming and stock raising practices
of Montana agriculturists.
This new procedure, involving a com.
bination of dry land and irrigated lanc
operations, is in effect today through.
out the state. 1t has been greatly aid.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-07-17

mOnlIlS ago ana SlllCe llleIl 1 nave
been on a frame made of canvas
and iron. My head is lower than
the rest of my body so that Is
why my writing isn't so good.
My doctor told me If took up
something would get my mind
off myself and Miss Bangs was
kind enough to offer to help me.
She is very sweet girl and has
tuberculosis of the hip. She is in
a cast, and flat down like myself
but she never gets blue like I do.
She went to Missoula to the uni
versity the year of 1888 and her
brother goes there now.
Six months later the following was
written:
Oct 81, 1941.
My dear Miss Crowley:
I am sorry to tell you that
Peggy McCaw passed away on
Oct. 20.
1t is still hard to believe. The
only consolation is the thought
that it's better for her suffering
and waiting to be over now, if she
couldn't get well. I had always
hoped that she could, of course.
She had such encouraging reports
just last summer.
You can be sure that your
friendly notes helped Peg all dur
ing the time she was taking
courses under you.
Very sincerely,
DOROTHY BANGS,
Supervisor.
At Anaconda we find a boy WHIT
northern Montana rural communitie.
to the smelling city to obtain employ
ment. Financial reasons compelled
him to leave the ranch before he hae
completed high school, In this new To-
cation the hours of work did no
permit him to attend regular higf
school classes. The principal of tn
Anaconda high school advised him tt
complete his high school work by cor
respondence. The boy enrolled for sew
eral subjects.
The State Industrial school, an in
stitution for the rehabilitation o
youth. is located at Miles City. Tt
provide educational opportunities TO
the boys with diverse interests ant
varying aptitudes, Mr.. Winters, presi
dent of the institution, has permitted
few of the boys to enroll for stat,
correspondence courses with the loca
authorities acting as supervisors. Som,
of the former industrial school boy
who received part of their schooling
in this manner are now doing salts
factory work at the State university.
Plains Community Aided
Seventy-five miles northeast o
Miles City, and 500 miles east of Mis-
soula is a small community which
goes by the name of Marsh. 1t is s
typical western plains community
some years blessed by abundance ano
some years stricken with drouth ant
adversely. After a number of the par
ents of this isolated community clothe
shelter, feed, doctor and give thei
children an elementary school educa
ton, they are frequently financial.
unable to bear the expense of sending
three, four, five or more children tt
some distant high school, as the,
reach high school age Yet, it fire.
quently happens that some of the mos
promising children of the state ar
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-07-17
LESS SPOTTED FEVER

Only about one-third as many Rocky
mountain spotted fever cases have &C.
CURED in Montana this year as at
this time in 1871, DR.. B. K. Kilbourne,
state epidemiologist, reported. Two new
cases, one in Caster county and one
in Powell, brought this years total
to 80, compared to Sc a year ago.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-07-17

The 100000 sheep in the United
States produced 385,0OO,0 900 pounds Of
wool last year.
Evening star., 1942-06-19
Masonic Home Pageant
To Be STAGED Today

The annual benefit for the Masonic
and Eastern Star Home is sched-
uled to get under way at p m. today
with a baseball game between two
sandlot teams at Grifith Stadium.
The program was scheduled to 60
on despite the threat of rain. 1t will
include a pageant, three-ririg circus,
band concert and the crowning of
the 1912 Queen of the Night of
Thrills" The various uniformed
bodies of the Masonic fraternity, the
Order of the Eastern Star, Almas
Temple Shriners, the Grotto, the
Tall Cedars of Lebanon, the Order
of De Molay and Jobs Daughters,
will participate in the pageant and
drill.
Several bands and military units
from posts near Washington also
will march in the parade, including
the band and men from the l76th
Infantry Division and the 703d
Military Police Battalion. Following
precision drills by many of the uni
formed Masonic bodies, there will be-
q circus of carnival acts on three
special stages erected for the event.
Washington radio announcers will
give the spectators commentary on
the events over a public address
system. George E. Davis is general
chairman.
Evening star., 1942-06-19
Miss Wells in Minneapolis;
City Club Chairmen Named

bino" pin, which is the official
insignia Of the Grandmother s
Club.
The new baby Is being named
Helen.
With women's clubs attaching
increasing Importance to news
paper and radio publicity, the Sc
lection of publicity chairmen re-
ceives careful thought from newly
elected presidents.
The Women's City Club press
relations will be directed next
year by Miss Blanche M. Crapo,
according to an announcement
by Mrs. Burnita Shelton Mat
thews, the president.
Mrs. Matthews also appointed
Mrs. Sydney r. Jacobs rs chair
man OF the clubs Red Cross
Committee, which will hold an
all-day work program each Mon
day throughout the summer at
the E street chapter rooms Of the
District Red Gross.
Although she hasn't completed
her committee appointments, Mrs.
Clyde M. Hadley, new president
Of the Washington Branch of the
American Association Of Univer-
sity Women, has chosen Mrs.
John M. Durbin to head its
Press Relations Committee.
Evening star., 1942-06-19

laKlng ner nrSC vacation In
about two years, Miss Margue-
rite M. Wells, president of the
National League Of Women vot-
ers. is spending the holiday with
members Of her family in Min
neapolis.
Kept at national headquarters
here last summer when the
leagues campaign Ito win the
battle Of production" was at Its
peak. Miss Wells also changed her
plans for q Christmas trip after
our entry into war.
With the organizations war
time program fully developed at
the recent Chicago convention
1t had been initiated IN Janu-
ary-she Is now able to enjoy a
postponed reunion with her sis
ters and brothers and nieces and
nepnews.
incidentally, Miss Wells has
headed the league for the past
nine years, having been re-elect-
ed for her fifth two-year term at
the recent convention.
Before her departure she SUI
pervised the preparation Of two
new broadsides issued this week
as a part Of the league series de-
signed to interpret current gov
ernmental issues to the public.
One, Forced Savings" discusses
the pros and cons of compulsory
war savings, while the other Is
entitled: Wanted: Clear Cut La
Dor Policies"
A past national vice president
OF the Grandmother's Club, Mrs.
Ernest Humphrey Daniel is
proudly announcing the arrival OF
q third grandchild-a daughter
born June IA to her son and
daughter-in-law, 1t. Col. and
Mrs. Humphrey Daniel of Falls
Church.
The baby's father is now with
the Once of War Plans Of the
War Department.
Members OF the club already
know about her other grandchil-
dren, Eleanor Dimitry and Fred
erick Humphrey Cook. daughter
and son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Baldwin
Cook.
The arrival of the third
grand" will entitle Mrs. Daniel
to add third bar to her "bam-