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THE EHALAHA EAGLE. to ; I ; • • STATE BOOSTING TO BE DISCUSSED PROGRAM Fon ANNUAL ISIEMING 014' tX)MAIERCIAL SECRETAR- IES AT GREAT FALLS. Various Subjects of Vital Importance in Developing Resources and Possi- bilities of Montana and in Promot- ing Welfare of Every Community Will Be Considered. Important subjects dealing with the progress and development of Montana will be discussed by the con- vention of commercial club secretar- ies, which will be held in Great Falls, Dec. 10 and 11. The program for the meeting has been completed by A. J. Breitenstein, secretary of the Great Palle Commercial club, H. H. Robinson, Becretary of the Miles City Chamber of Commerce, and D. D. Richards, secretary of the Missoula Chamber of Commerce. Charles D. Greenfield of lIelena, state commissioner of agriculture and publicity, will talk on \Mon- tana's Prosperity, Development and Growth.\ Sam Josephson, secretary IA the Roundup s Commercial club, will lead a discussion on '\the Self Education of the Secretary.\ Alfred Atkinson of Bozeman, food commis- sioner for this state, will give an addrese on \Pood Conservation and Winning the War.\ L. E. Jones, sec- retary of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, will have a paper orf \Agricultural and Commercial Co- operation:\ Proper Boosting Letters. D. D. Richards, secretary of the Miseoula Chamber of Commerce, will lead a discussion on proper letter writing and correspondence emanat- A. J. Breitenstein, Secretary of Great Falls Commercial club, host to Alontana Commercial Club Secre- taries. ing from a commercial club, and Montana good roads will be discussed by Robert S. Phillips of Butte, sec- retary of t the Montana Good Roads association. J. A. Harader, manag- er of the Bozeman Chamber of Com- merce, ;All handle the question of \Securing and Entertaining Conven- tions.\ W. G. Ferguson of the edi- torial staff pf the Great Falle Tri- bune, will pfepare a paper on \News- papers' Attitude Towards a Commer- cial Club.\ Raymond II. Hough, president of the Red Lodge Chamber of Com- merce and a director of the Montana Retail Merchants' association, will treat the subject \The Relationship of a. Montana Merchant and the Com- mercial club.\ II. O. Frobach, man- ager of the Three Forks Chamber o( Commerce, will read a paper on \What the Small Town Commercial Organization Can Accomplish.\ Developing County Fairs. W. E. Orrison, secretary of the l'slalta Commercial club, will lead a discuesion on \How to Serve the Re- tail Merchant.\ George Klotz of I3utte, racing 'secretary for the Mon- tana state fair, will talk on \flow Fairs Develop a Community.\ It. E. Cunningham, assistant secretary, and J. W. Goodman, traffic manager, both of the Great Falls Commercial club, will speak on \Patriotism\ and \Traffic Affairs\ respectively. About twenty secretaries are ex- pected to be present at the conven- tion. Op the first evening of the con- vention,' the annual banquet of the commercial club secretaries vvill be held, and the following day an op- portunity will be given all delegates to visit the copper and zinc smelters and the hydro -electric power develop- ment ttt Great Fralls. Meteor Plows Ground. STEWART REVIVES CIVIL WAR PLAN NAMES OFFICIAL VISITOlt TO CAI,J4 UPON MONTANANS IN SERVICE. • Frank D. Brown of Philipsliurg Se- lected to Represent Governor in Personally Calling Upon Treasure State Soldier Boys and Looking After Their Welfare. In appointing Frank D. Brown of Philipsburg, president of the Mon- tana Society of Pioneers, as official Franic D. Brown, Named Visitor to Montana'Soldier Boys by Governor Stewart. vieitor to represent the governor and call upon the soldier boys of Siontaska at the various cantonments and army posts. Governor Stewart has revivea a custom in vogue during the civil war. It was the custom in the days of the rebellion for the ' governors of the various northern states to name some prominent and influential citi- zen to make trips to the battlefronts and to the various camps where union soldiers were quartered as a personal representative of the state's . executive to carry a greeting from their home state and to see what the folks back home might do to make the life of their soldier boys more pleasant. In Mr. Brown Governor Stewart has found a patriot well qualified for such work, as Mr. Brown is not only a Montana pioneer, but lie is a veteran of the rebellion with a rec- ord for bravery and service in the 60's. He has already prepared to make his initial visits, the first of which will probably be to Camp Lew- is, where the national army mem- bers from Montana assemble. BRITISH BORN IN STATE FOR ARMY CANADIAN OFFICER ESTIMATES THAT THERE ARE OVER 5,000 r MEN ELIGIBLE. Lieutenant J. M. Donaldson, of the Canadian army, who has been snak- ing a survey of Montana fel' , the British war office With the idea of determining how many unnaturalized British born subjects, elegible for ar- my eervice there are in the state, has about completed his work. His es- timate is that there are sufficient men for five full battalions of 1,200 mon each. Lieutenant Donaldson says that everywhere he has been received with courtesy by the authorities and he is pleased with the attitude of a large proportion of the Englishmen and Canadians in the state with re- gard to service in the forces of Great Britain. \Officers have been detailed to other states, and it is possible to raise a very considerable force, if there are as many English born Bub- jects in other states as there are in Montana, in proportion to popula- tion,\ he stated. Canada's 'Wonderful Record. Canada, with a male population of about 1,500,000, has considerably more than 425,000 men trained and under arms, a considerable propor- tion of whom are in overseas serv- ice. The dominion proposes to raise an additional 100,000, and is putting into effect a conscription law for this purpose. Ileretofore her forces have been raised by the volunteer method, with results that are almost past be- lief. With the 100,000 conscripts Canada's contribution to the British forces will amount to one man in three in the dominion, with the lame, halt and blind in the discard. A giant meteor, which fell in Fer- Canada's General Electi(m. gus county, is believed to have dug look like Conscription is the issue of the two great furrows that cracks; in the earth, which recently general election which is to be held were found in Fergus county. in Canada December 17. Fiallowing the example of England, Sir Itolwrt Borden, premier of Canada and the leader of the conservative party, is endeavoring to form a union govern- ment, in which both conservatives and liberals will participate. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the old time liberal leader refuses to accept the arrangement, and iss leading the cam- paign in opposition. Many of his Office: 102 1st National Bank Building Sifton, premier hf lberta, have ac - former colleagues, riuding Arthur cepted the Borden idea, and are sup- porting the union candidates. 01(1 Nafional Life Insurance party lines are obliterated. For in- stance, the Calgary News Telegram, always heretofore a etrong conserva- tive paper and a supporter of Bor- den, la supporting Sir Wilfrid Lau- rier, while the Morning Albertan, strongest liberal newspaper in west- ern Canada and heretofore devoted to Laurier and his policies, is advo- cating the cause of union govern- ••••••••••••...... ment and Borden. Great Falls Brick & Tile Co. GREAT FALLEi, MONTANA Manufacturers of LIGHT, BUFF AND DARK FACE BRICK, FIRE BRICK, BUILDING TILE, HOLLOW BLOCKS, FIRE PROOFING, DRAIN TILE Company of Montana Legal Reiserve Company writing the moat liberal policies on the market. ASSETS OVER $600,000. Home Office DALY BANK !WILDING Butte. Mont. CAMOUFLAGE?WELL ASK DAVE HILGER! ST. PAUL ' PAPERS GIVE MON- TANA MAN REPUTATION THAT PROVES COSTLY. Ile Is Now Trying to Slip the )(tuck to Bruce Kremer and Get Back Part of What He Spent Living Up to Reputation of National Committee - Man That Was Thrust Upon Him. Dave Hilger of Lewistown returned last week from a trip emit, and as.he was sitting in the card room at the Judith club the day after his arrival, he heard a granger from Utica in- quire from a, mining man from Gilt Edge what that new European word is that he had been seeing in all the war stories lately, but couldn't pro- nounce. \I reckon you mean 'camouflage',\ said the mining man. \That's her,\ said the granger. \I thought at first it was sense kind of cheese, but it seems not. Just what does it mean?\ Up spoke Dave Hilger. \I'll tell you what 'camouflage' means,\ he said. \Three weeks ago I started for Atlanta, Ga., with the other mem- bers of the Montana Tax commission to attend a meeting of the tax com- missioners of all the states. But I never got to Atlanta, for by the time I had reached St. Paul I was hit hard by an attack of tonsilitis and got so sick I had to go to the hospital. I want to say right here that I never felt any sicker. \Now it happens that I have three nephews in St. Paul, who are all doc- tors, so you can imagine what chance I had. They had a consultation of the family physicians and I was out - David Hilger of Lewistown. voted, with the result that the bal- lot showed three to one in favor of cutting out my toneils. I was on my back for three weeks. Newspapers Heard of Him. \In the meanwhile the newspapers had got hold of my name and they had a story which said that David Hilger, a retired capitalist of im- mense wealth who was also national democratic committeeman from Mon- tana, was ill at the hospital there. Now that statement was 'camouflage.' \Well of course the hotel people saw it and I had left a reservation for a room with them, to be turned over to me when I got out of the hoepital. They decided that a retired capital- ist of immense wealth couldn't get along with one room, so they gave me a suite of three. They kept them for me all the time I wae in the hos- pital, too, and only soaked me $16 a day for the accommodation. In the hospital I heard my nurse telling another nurse in the hallway that she had a Montana millionaire for a patient and that she would un- doubtedly get _a whale of a fee for saving hie life. The other hospital attendants all showed that they ap- preciated my position in the financial world, with the result that this 'camouflage' cost me about $100 ex- tra at the hospital. Bell Boys Laid for Mas. \Aa soon as I got back to the ho- tel I found the 'camouflage' working fine there. In addition to the fine suite of roome I found every employe from the desk clerks to the elevator boye politer than forty baskets of chipe, and all inquiring after my health. I'd be srhamed to tell you what the tips I had to pass out be- fore I left amounted to. The day before I pulled out for Montana an- other Montanan happened into St. Paul and put up at the same place. Before he had been there an hour he had the notion fixed in his head that I had bought the hotel. \So much for the camouflage. It INIMMININA GOVONG THE RED MAN CHA c Gibson Relief Expedition Reaches Box Elder On the old Fort Assinniboine military reserva- tion, a few miles west of Havre, now transformed into a state agricultural experiment station, there is a considerable acreage set apart in the rolling foothills as a reservation for the wandering band of Cree and Chippeway Indians under Little Bear, who have been outcasts of the plains since the Mel rebellion in Canada in the early 80's. These In- dians are said originally to have been Canadian gov- ernment charges, but when Louis Riel, the pictur- esque half-breed, took up arms against the domin- ion govermnent, IAttle Bear and his followers joined the ranks of Riel's warriors. Wolsey, the famous British general, was sent against Mel and defeated him. The half-breed leader and many of his followers were captured and met death on the gallows or before a firing squad. A price was set upon the heads of many of the Indians who follow- ed Riel. Little Bear, who was a fierce and resource. ful warrior, fled to Montana, crossing the line in the main range of the Rocky mountains in bitter winter weather. Nearly dead fmm starvation they reached the Flathead valley, Frank Linderman, now a resident on the shores of Flathead lake, was then a hunter and trapper in the Flathead country, and it WM he who saved the starving Creee and Chippewas frosts perishing, by furnishing them with elk and deer meat. They never have forgotten this kindness, and to this day consider Linderman the greatest of white men. After that, although they were eventually par- doned by the Canadian government, Little Bear and Isis band refused to return to Canada, claiming that they wore not Canadian Indians and that before the Mel rebellion they had crossed into Cfnada from Afontana. The United States government, however, refused to recognize them and for years they sub- sisted as beat they could, wandering over the coun- try. As Montana became more thickly settled they found it harder and harder to secure food. A spirit of humanity prompted Frank Linderman, W. M. Bole, editor of the Great Falls 'I`ribune, Senator Paris Gibson, Theodore Gibson and others to- take the matter up with the Indian department at Wash- ington in an endeavor to get the Indian outcasts a tract of land where they e,ould live. Their effort\; resulted in a portAon of the Assinniboine reservation being set aside for them. Here a portion of Little Bear's band are trying to fight off starvation, but aside from the land, they have been given little assistance by the government. Rations have irregularly been supplied to the older Indians by the Indian department, but many have starved to death or died of exposure. Many of the band are scattered at other points over the state, and some have been employed steadily at various occupations for months, maintaining themselves and their women in comfort. But there is great need of clothing for the In- dians on the reservation, and persons who have clothes of any description that they are willing to contribute to save these red people from death and sufering daring the cold winter weather are re- quested to communicate with Theodore Gibson, Great Falls. Recently one of the Gibson relief ex- peditions arrived at the reservation, and the scene that ensued is shown above by Joe De Yong, the clever Choteau artist and protege of Charles M. Russell. IN VALLEY WHERE CUSTER FELL CROWS WOPED OUT LARGE BAND OF ASSEINNOBOONE WARRIORS In the valley of the Little Big Horn, on almost the IMMO field where Custer and his gallant troopers went to death and where Reno and his brave rnen stood off thousands of at- tacking Sioux for two days, in 1817 the Crows and Assinniboines fought one of the most terrific Indian bat- tles in the history of warfare between Indian tribes in the northwest. It was a hand to hand struggle that lasted for hours and ended in al- most the complete annihilation of the attacking Indians from northern Montana. It was fought before the terrific slaughter of Crows, which oc- curred a few years later, and the de- fenders greatly outnumbered the at- tacking party. In those days the., valleys; of the Yellowstone, Big Horn and Clarks Fork rivers were the favorite hunting grounds and battle fields of Indians and ninny engagements took place there between warring and horse- steejing parties of various tribes. The famous battle was the outcome of one of theso small encounters. Crows Kill 80 Assinibolnes. About the year 1816 as the Crow camp was slowly moving down the Clarke Fork in the winter, the war- riors in advance discovered some 30 Assinniboines on foot croesing 'he ice. •The Crow in advance, who was well mounted, immediately charged them alone, but only 'succeeded in displaying his courage as the Assinni- boines stood their ground and re- ceived him with a volley that quickly drove him back. Hia comradee quickly rallied to his support and after a sharp and spirited contest the Assinniboinee were killed almost to a man. This ill-fated band had gone forth on a horse -stealing expedition against the Crows and ste time wore on and they did not return the Assinibolnes beoame convinced that they had been cut off and resolved on a terrible re - certainly cost me enough, and my venge. They would rally their hun- only chance for a come -back is to dreds, nay thousands of warriors, write to Bruce Kremer in Butte and proceed against the Crow village and tell him he can have his job of na- wipe it from the face of the earth. Ilona' democratic committeeman Prepare For Great Raid. back if he'll pay the bills.\ \Well said the granger, \I guess I know what the camouflage is now, but I don't believe a cow man would ever call it that.\ Site for Fish Hatchery. The new government fish hatch- ery in Glacier national park will be located near Glacier park station on the bank of Midvale creek. Work of construction will start in the spring. For a time there was a grand mus- tering of the Assinniboine hosts. The sqtihws dried meat and ,rnade moc- casins, the warriors prepared their weapons, the chiefs harangued and medicine men practiced their sacred arts and prophesied success in the undertaking. At last they started, nearly one thousand warriors on foot, traVeled rapidly until they arrived at the bOr- dere of the Crow country. The scouts( were out and presently re- ported a broad lodge trail leading ••••••••••••a••••••••••••• across the Big Ho rn frons Clarks MONTANA AND EASTERN Fork. It was quite recent and they had 011 1 V to follow this to arrive soon CORPORATION in the vicinity of the object of their search. Lewistown, Montilna \FARM MORTGAGE LOANS\ Correapondence Invited. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• The Assinniboines were in good spirit and sufficiently confident of success, but to give the finiehing touch to their enthusiasm, the prIn- cipal chief prepared an even more convincing test. Placing a large stone before him on the ground, he said to his attentive host: \All the omens have been in our favor, but we are now near the vil- lage of our enemies and I wish to as- certain if still the Great Spirit is sat- isfied with us and will give us vie - HIGHEST DAM FOR MONTANA PROJECT ONE OF LARGEST RESERVOIRS IN WORLD PLANNEI) FOR SUN RIVER. Montana will have one of the high- est dams in the world when the Sun River project is fully developed. The dam will be situated in the northern end of Lewis and Clark county, 30 miles northwest of Gilman. As yet no definite action has been taken towards building the dam, in which are to be stored between 300,000 and 400,000 acre feet of Wfl- ter from the upper reaches of the north fork of the Sun River. The ex- act location of the dam has not yet been decided, but will depend much on the amount of money available for Its construction. A number of eXplor- ations have been made, diamond drills having been sent to bedrock at a number of places, and several good sites have been found. East of Main Range. The big dam would have to be sev- eral hundred feet high, and about as long, this being made neceesary by the typography of the country. The reservoir would be on the east side of the main range of the Rockies, very near the top. It is likewise probable if the Sun River project III fully developed that the waters of Bowl creek and Basin creek on the west side of the divide, in Flathead county. will be diverted to the east side to irrigate Sun river lands. The Greenfield division of the Sun River project is due to be completed next year, and 50,000 to 85,000 acres will be put under the irirgation ditch- es in the project by next year's work. On Nfilk River Project. The lower part of the Milk River project should be completed next year. This part of the project is ap- proximately 75 miles long, extending from Dodson to a point below Glas- gow. It is estimated that it will ir- rigate 65,000. The ditches of the lower project that were in use last summer were of great benefit to the farmers under them, as there was suf- ficient water for all purposes. Water is now being diverted from St. Mary's river in Glacier park from the Hudson river drainage to the Milk River project. This made it Crow nation, but sent out small raid - possible to supply the lower Milk Riv- ing and war parties -t* hackle them er project this, summer. and steal horses. tory. If now I can carve this rock with my sc,alping knife, it is proof of his favor and we may attack the Crows without hesitation.\ So saying he drew, the keen edge of his knife across the stone and it passed through it as though it were soft clay and the stone lay divided before the eyes of all. Such a token could not be gainsaid and the Assin- niboines pressed on Assured of an easy triumph. Terrific Combat Starts. This was in the summer of 1817 and the Crow village to the number of a thousand lodges, was then lo- cated upon the Little Big Horn river. Few war parties had gone forth and there were nearly three thousand warriors in the village at the moment the Assinniboines drew near. Crow hunters discovered their approach and flying to the village sounded the alarm. In those days the Crows were proud and confident of their strength and never permitted their enemies to travel all the way when they sought a contest. A few moments sufficed to pour forth their hundreds of war- riors, eager for a conflict, and the Assinniboines soon found that they had a Ilfe and struggle before them. The Assinniboinee song) t the tim- ber when the Crows by their [super- iority in numbers were able almost to surtound them and the thickets of the Little Big Horn rang with the shouts of the contestants as the Crows pressed fiercely forward and the Assinniboines, having no choioe between fighting and death, resisted with desperation. Crows Win the Battle. Superior numbers on the part of the Crowe told in the struggle and after a few hours' fighting they car- ried the field, the small number of Assinniboine survivors fleeing in every direction. They found shelter in the:.brush thickets and under cover of night, which was rapidly ap- proaching they managed to escape to safety. No quarter W1111 asked and none was given in the struggle. When the fight wee over only two prisoners; were in the hands of the Crows, hut the bodies of the dead Assinniboints were strewed over the battle field. These two prisoners were haled before the s chief of the Crows and they were questioned as to the real objective of the expedition. The two Mated candidly that it had been the destruction of the Crows. They also said that only a few of the attacking party had escaped alive. The two begged to bo permitted to follow their tribesmen, but the sentence of death was pronounced upon them and that same day they were taken to the border of the valley and killed. The fight was ao costly to the at- tackers that nes* thereafter did the Assinniboines in mass go against the
