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THE EKALAKA EAGLE. SPLENDID PAGEANT IRDSIKED UM TO BLAZE NEW THAI& FROM FIRST MERCHANT AI INDIAN TREATY IN HELENA DEAD GOLD ©AMPS TO IMSSOURII HOVER [IN 11865 I I S. STANFORD TELLS ifW (Leila:RING OF NORTHWEST MA( ei FEET Femme- C el of 1877 Ott IloW 0 ., eviler' 7,000 Armed linlimas Met pi tseteitler Terms \Villa Dominion aoternitient; Sighte that Brought ...title. in October, 1877, at the Blackfoot ( ..esing on the Bow river, eighty le riee north of where the city fo Macleod stands today was . the most gorgeous pageant of I in life on the plaint; that prob- has ever been witneesed by e men. It was the oceasion of .onsummation of treaty No. 7 een the Dominion goverement of eta rind the great confederacy of Nortliern Blackfoot. and the • ..e of savage and barbaric. splint - that were presented during the Ono of the earliest pioneers of Alontana surviving today is William Berkin of Meagher county', %vim was a member of tho famous Montana Vigilantes' organization in the 60's and who was first federal marshal for Montana when this commonwealth waisiadmitted to statehood. At the recent 'Heeling of elontana Pioneere at Butte, Berkin, now in his 95tit year. wee a conspicuous figure. He is ono of the few men alive today who saw life ;Hong the Missouri river in the old fur trading days. Beryl') came to Amerierein 1860 and went to St. Louis, wherli he was employed in a responsible position by John .1. Roe & Co., PUCCI:38801S l0 the American Fur Company. In their employ he went to Fort Benton in July, 1862, and the following year he took the first pack train of miners' toole and eupelles from Fort Benton to Virainitt City, which was struck that hummer. Gold seekers were pouring into Al- der (Dilch and Grasshopper ereek that fall, and many of them were gteatly handicapped in their prospecting and mining operat toils by tire lack of min- ers' took.. Picks and shovels were in (lenient! and very hard to get. as Walla. Walla. Washington, watt the neatest trading point where miners' etipplies were to be obtained. There- fore when the first shipment of mi- ners' gamin arrived at Fort Benton from dewy the river. Berkin wag hur- tled off for the gold camps with a wagon train. When hie train pulled ;into Virginia City itig stock went like ' hot eakee. Pick handles brought $3 apiece; gold pans, $5; shovels, $5; .tobterco, $8.50 a pound. 80111P 1101.11' that he carried went for $50 a eack. Curiously enetigh. however, shoes were not worth as much as they are • ;;sty, and he geld a number of pain; ei good boots for $5 a pair. The Moo . of iterkiii's expedition alongsthe Musselshell river to try to find a bettor road from Veirginin City to the head of navigation on the Mis- souri river is one of the romant•es of the early days of Montane. Denali determined to build a new road, if it could be done cheaply enough. and organized 1I1 outfit to blaze the trail. •I .1. r. stew -else The stors. of that eepedition, as re- - - lated by him. felines: eeeks' gathering mill (lever re. - 1 left Voulder„lefferson county. . %en the government representa- - eh° were the treaty signers. I tinned a Dreaded Alliance re. Itiackfeet confederacy in that eas a proud and powerful inter - .1 alliance of the North and South militates. Being in charge ot the kfeet. the North end South suppu „, am ' aett„g Indian agent. she the Northern Kootennis. the he Utiti allowed to be within the vast ens and the Stonies. Fiercest anti • warlike of all the plains In- -. these northern red men had - known defeat and considered -elves the aristocracy of the : ring tribes of the whole vast ky Mountain country ---which. .1...i. they were. Their warriors had ranged the whole plains country es far sotith as the Mexican line. and there was not a tribe beteeen the Arctic circle nnd the tropics but knew at ti feared the war parties of the leackfect. In the middle 7We. when the seength anti spirit of the Indinns of *Pt A. lterkin, !Member of the Montana Vigilantes, First elareital of State anti Shipper of Firs( copper from Butte, Who Penetrated Dangeroue Indian Oriente) and Had Several Fights With Reds While Trying to Locate Better Road from Gold Camps to Head of Navigation on the Mieemiri River. He le Still Healthy and Acthe at the Age of 04. way of Crow creek ee crossing the Mis- souri river at abour where 'Poston is now. From titere wo wetet up Craz- ing creek to the sunimit, where we found heavy snowdrifts. We had to go over steep mountatins and often were compelled to let the wagon and cement down the hillsides midi heavy ropes. \We went on to White Sulphur Springs and over the trail to where Martinsdale is now located. There were no white men in that country. Prom there we went to a creek about six miles from Martinsdale. It is now called Daisy Dean creek. Next „ non by the te, ,.1 1 it„ men \ l i , , • . . srs ...t . ,. J, el Ili.. P g I I e set reached Hay Maker creek, where melt am! three volunteers. We went leve had eur first spat with the In - there and who survive today. f. of the principal actors in the 'equipped with saddle horses, one wa-Idians. . gon. five yokes of cattle and supplies! Cattle eliesing • .• (if the treaty signing and the . et.: that (ook place in cornices; for the trip, including rifles s and ,. - - We made our camp on March 1. eith it was Colonel James T. a nun unnlfln • ^n P 12- i m u ng l \ w liz er 0 1......tion. two eat‘es of howitzer :any __ lie of the men reported to me tlifit ea..' of Great Fails. then guar- ''':\ grapeshot. '\ one of the cattle was missing. As it .-ler sergeant of (\rroop. the' Ihl .',\. 1 1 and 1 \ ) \ Ises °r bed snowed I little during the night Yoe route Wait 11 - 0111 li011Ider by ' troop of the Northwest Alen:n-1 • we were enabled to follow the tracks 'elite. Colonel Stanford was act- of the Ine,lans who had driven the . 1 edian agent and *had entire ' steer eway from the herd. I picked presects for the Indians. was placed.' et, of thc distribution of the eut six of the men and followed the under direction ot Colonel Stanford Ira ... c ! supplIce to the ettormoue ga- it oming upon the war party in in a stockade on the river bottom. • ;lig of Retinue. and as a result of eith merely canvas strett•hed over he was allowed certain pritileges the goods to protect them trom the !IP head chiefs of the Illackfeet weather. The Mounted Police, with It no other white man Minted the exception of Colonel Stanford, wcie not permitted un the river bot- tom %titian the limits of the canips of the Blacktcet. except Attiring the day. when he had a detachment of troops to aid hint in distributing the tart le of lodges of the Indians. Near the huge camp were trading corrals conducted by two %chile men who both were prominent in Mon - ma. These were John Power of T. Poeer & Brother of Fort Benton; end Cherles Coined. of Conrad Brothers. elm tiled at Kalispell some years ago and was a brother-in-law t I Colonel Statiferd. The mounted policemen were en- trenched at the lower end of the bot- tom. %%here they had 3 cannon a , edited protection in CeSe of freebie a deep coulee. \They had not seet. us yet. but in the excitement one of my men acci- dentally (Uncharged his rifle Just at the moment I was in the net of firing a shot with my arm through IllY bridle rein. The bullet from his gun shot my horse through the jaw and the animal pulled nte down when lie fell. Shooting commenced imme- diately. I noticed one of the men standing heel& me flinch anti I ask- ed. 'Aro you bit?' He replied that he was anal I told him to keep on shoot- ing as long as he could. \Ween the scrap was over we look- ed him over and found that the bullet had gone through iris buckskin shirt and burned a red mark on his ram. There were nine Defiant' in the party and we got four of them down in the coulee. They made hurried exits to the 'happy hunting gronnds.' The otiters flcd up the hill on the other side. One W ttttt ided Indian \One of my men, Elmer McLaugh- lin by and myself. (Tossed the coulee and found on the prairie an Indian lyieg face down in the snow. NicLaughlin was going to shoot him to make sure that he wouldn't re- cover but I told him to save his am- munition as we were going after the others who were wounded and were escaping. \We left our horses and took after them on foot. We soon overtook and disposed of thent. When we returned to where we had left the horses the Indian who had been lying in the snow supposedly dead had gotten up and escaped with MeLaughlin'a horse. \I took my itoree and followed him about three miles. I could see blood in the snow occasionally and after a %chile I came across his old flint -lock gun. which he has discarded. I knew then that he was about gone and just before I caught up with hint he fell front the horse. Ile put up Ida hands. saYing 'kaka nopkin.\ which means 'hold on, white man.' \We left camp next morning and went along the Ntesseishell valley to- ward the east end of Snowy moun- tains. We came to a creek tlint flow- ed from the Snoeles and there made camp. There were some buffalo here and one of the nten asked nte to let him halve a horse that he might trs• to kill one of them for meat. Ile did not rettirn In the evening and I Pent two men out to look for him. They found his horse with the saddle still on and. a short distance away. the man was found. lying in the snow dead. Carelees Creek \We buried him on this creek and called it 'Carelegs creek.' because we ?unmixed that this man's horse had Wien with him and that his pun had diecharged itself with the fall. killing hint. When the government surveys HE HE/4105 MONTANA BANKERS There are tour hundred and ten in their reepective communities. and banks iti elentana width manage pro• !accurate information as to the blow- perty of a value of two hundred and holes that are ehowing up in any line twenty-four million dollars. Practi- of business as well as those lines eally all el these banks belong to the which are prosperoug and petrel. Montana Bankers' association. and At the last meeting held early in eugust at Mammoth Springs hotel in Velloestone park. Wilford J. John- son, preeldent of the First National bank of Lewistown, was elected presi- dent of the association. This recog- nition of Mr. Johnson's 28 years of Winking experience, of which 22 years have been in Montann. Is not only a contiviltnent to his wide ac- quaintance anti high standing iti the banking circles throughout the state. but is also n nice recognition of Lew- istown and its ituportance in the Mon- tana banking Hole. Wilford .I. Johneon, Preeident of the Montana Ilankere' A.o.orlatium anti Head ef t he Fires Nati I Bank of I %%isolate Ilse a l' e Crow -foot Lea& Indian% 'Weil ttelsY feelr A thrill who') he Brother, Herbert .1(bilie.mi. Who Tlie chief of all the Blackfeet v.ae t hi n e, of the thunder of the 'tenting thou,' ,, it ept e at i on a „ th e 1,,,„,i_ CroW-foot. a haughty obi warrior. hoofs. the fierce wnr criee of tlte In- i ne e met i„„ cito .„, iiiei \ He on ..aim, with the other chiefs of the va- r (Untie aini their splendid savagery ns th e pitilattelphlit North American, dons tribes. ligneti the treety. they tiered fot ward ets though to a and Who le Nee ( hiet certooniet Hon wide recognition to the Judith The Indinng. sensible of their i real attack oti the handful of whites for the Saturday I.:ceiling Poet. Dalin na one of the greatest dry land' Idrength and power, were rot in nevi who watched their oneomine. (ermine seetines in the i erthwest loo entirftle a mood. They forbad. -- 0 - Mr. Joiteson's bank al Lewistoun spending several years get- when the managers of these banks grew nith the growth of its surround - the raising of anv permanent struct After tire by the whites, so that the collie ling in hnd. Germany has started get together once H year in their ing territory end te Inv occupies a ell lodge was unroofed. The greet right In spending several more Montana association th e y ha r e a gi firet prominent plaee in the firanellei at - Store of supplies, brought as food and i squealing about it. hand knowledge of what is twit% on faint of the state. All nigi.t in various parts of the N1..ntana had been broken he war tamp %tete iteatel the drums of the aseinet the whites anti the leer esee- ludiens and the chanting of their lion of disease by oncoming chitin's songs as they danced, interepersed lion. the Northern Illackfeet %%ore eith the occasional neighing of .1.11 in the flower of their strength horse); and the howling of the India'. A'' I pride. and any treaty between aces. As in all aggregations ot men. t's in and the Canadian *coven:men( there %vete redical and conservative hie to be considered and acted upon letuel.tr amone 1110 Inclines. and ureter conditions of their own elutes- rniong teem %sere not Ineking those itig. %the alvocated a massacre of the But there wns one phase of the NOIR(' soldiers instead of Pence chnnge that was beginning to come In itly . The feelinr, among the ever their country that they dread- loollnlea poliaemen. therefore, was ell far more titan they did the war- 1 'lle or some tenseness, and Colonel Making power of the white mate and Stanfor 1. stationed alone in the midet that was tite rapid melting away or of the Indian camp. felt this pant- ile , rand herds of buffalo all over the cuinrly. Plains. Each spring the size of ;the' Donee the days the various tribe!: horde that came back north across engared hi competitive games of war. the Hee from Montana diminished. !saving with the utmost realign' con- tend the food and robes that the tlit•te of war and horse stealing par - buffalo had furnished them and thee - tiee. anti tieing the old fitshioned ancestors became more difficult to !Wilson Bay hikes with trade bulletg. Obtain. Therefore they agreed to in addition to their bows, arrows. consider n treaty which would leeve shietile. and their spears anti war them with ft certain amornt of their chiba. The Illackfeet were among the lend and %could elso assure them of best armed anti mounted Indiana of nlYntentg of food. money and other the plaine and the splendor of their supplies to he furnished by the white Imrliarie limey of skin costumes. or - men's eovernment. They demanded. nemeeted with brightly stained per - however. flint they he altoweil tolcupine quills anti beads, beggared de- eente the spot and to dictate the eon- seription. dileing ender which the treaty-mak-1 One of the tribes of the Bloods was itie should be carried on. :led by :Recast°, or Red Crow. who Governor letird and Colonel Mac- wae so intolerant of the whites thnt eed. the hitter head of the North- he teclined to Remit any presents •I Mounted Police. %%ere the prin-lfrom teem. The cjimax of tite entire creels for the Dominion governntent, itwo sleeks' pnnoriima of savage ;n- and thes . took with them to the treaty 'Man life came when hi% led his young Rrounds on Bow 'Myer. at the spot earners In a dramatic dash through near the ford whieh was called by the the eame of the whites. every Indian Indians \Ridge of Rock.\ three troops etripped and painted for war. and ef the Mounted Police. including their horses decorated in battle style. Troop s c, and Ie. F troop was front coletiel Stanford statee that this wag Pert Calgary MO the other two troops oil.; or the most magnifieent spec - from Fort Macleod t it lee that he ever witnessed. and he Mr. Johnsott became manager of the ring National bank at Lewigton it twelve yestrg ago when the Judith Basin was just bepIIII1IOR 10 rievel0P substantially as a forming center. 'rhe Milwaukee railload was building its western extension at that time and the Great Northern Wart also building its line from Great Fallg to itillingg Both of these systems itelpe.1 to de- velop the Judith Basin rapidly and Lewistown inintediately became one of the towns of the state %%here PX- perimenis in farming. in dairying anti in the development of diversified stock ownership for fanners were not things which were read about in farm journals end talked about in a hazy fashion but were worked out in mi- 1 tint practice and developed by herd , knocks to a point %here they became workable and praetical and profit- able. Lewistoun bankers niGerails were couceitted in these lines of ef- fort and their asgletence anti whin. and money went far In solving the problems that a few years later brought not only stnte wide but ea - IN I. esse ill %NCI:. 1:1 . 1.1.II - ____ , 11.11t1i..s \V. l' 111 011' , ,liN AND IIIS I' VI'llEit III 11:1 l'irisT STORE 'Careless Creek' In their report. were made, this creek WH8 called ;within; in November, ___....______ \We moved from here around the 1..,,,ie„., 1 ow 1 . . . Ilisetieti I ies Winter; Hae Been east end et' the Snowy'rnountains met \ 4 „ 1, isaident si tedieti n I oUtily For cremated a creek now known as Fee ' sn ' i 11 '\mrie'l Miners There ed 'Creoked Creek.' On s accouet et Willow, and went down another eau- ' the. men being snow-blind, I had to Mew. yea,.. leave all but two eight miles up from _ _ ..___ ______ Crooked Creek. These two and in% - eel( made it to the mouth of the .Alus- 1 , . --• e ii.reeieer., •,y1, 0 e „ t h eelsbeit, where it empties into the' ' !'! !! ' • Si Ale , . ;:. S heme sen , in Ise( , lir, Ilf -, • Geld\ sight. Miesouri river. The river was break -- 11 1 ,:::: '... 1 \! 1, r;-.. i , : , ' , I i. s .t .r , :i l li ., ile o i l. e' l is i111 , , .ego .. ing up and there was a series of itn-l'\:\ '\\ 's mense ice gorges which made a grand! ''' I \''' ' it' 1 ' h = , le!se , \retris riled last \We went sock to get the rest of 1:g. m . ' , ..' st G. ege e! 7:;. the men and prepared to start on our i ,, . 1- \rrel' , :: ( e 0 a 11 ( ! , :;.: ti : I t tics fst a n i ii . d iy se of t_ return trip. We made camp on thel 'r°\''''!;reee sne tosneers. His great banke of a small creek %Odell is a ; Pra\\ila s her eame ei America from tributary to Flat Willow creek. IterelS\ti\ (1 we were again attacked by Intlians,i 1 , 1 ,e g l in _viridrie, mei les grendiather, a large band of vvitat we supposed \\ 1 \' Thorsreee• 1 , 0 ,, . it censpiceous the . er !Hovel! , . tee°, eieee he eas the crawl down the creek, fighting were Blackfeet Indians. We had to! 1 : i ' r ui s t 1 1 o v l b :: eliere ne ll'ocatPri. liroi One ef the first ‘ ; ', .t71 ' ;:r ! fil il ' l i c1 71: el 7o ' e l :it t ; best we could until da'elight. three elite. mei: iv ille (entre) part \Here we lost anotiter man. After of Ohio. lie ...;, . .. , 011Ile.r minister the Indians had been driven oft we or the. -.it for more went back to camp and found that in.eaci.il_nv ,,i ,1,,. (.,, V9,, ,, l Ztrlr . i it miseionary, they had killed all of our cattle. They titan set yi.:,r.-• ‘t , ro• eve of ec. the heti also taken all of our horses but old threo, which they had somehow over - preacher as seen !rola his looked. They had rendered the wa- horse and 10 . 11.-.. A erother of Enis spokes in the wheels and bad sawed gon useless by knocking out the Thompson le.e.e te he lee :.ears of age t :111 :\ I il l es a N t e \ * ) . t1 T 1( i i enc ' i f p ' s \ ( 1,1 :i 4r at ' i l d ie b 1 10: 11 1a 9 th 9. - the axle ot clic gun carriege mid i spiked the gun. .er. Milton 11. :irriveri at Virginia \Ail of r o7 isi c0 11 okin S g t\1 :t n easile had tether made a trip !City in September. leet. it:tripe made rthe trip le.. OX te:,111. After it few s b t ee o i n on. dest ‘ r \ o , ur ouj ay pr u o i s; i l i si: ii i n t s_ i teo s eet e hee ti l l , jetrteert i i , t , , , ,,,,. whi!„ tiir, non ficulty to Boulder and a rhort time: orn d uoi n e lu o l went to Emigrant. reelerie tor a site dilater I took one man, saddle horses; r oe eesiness, (it, j, , ,nii71' , eeertly and pack horses, and brought back eater to Virginie (So. 1 tete. mortsi t o the cannon, which was made of brass Last Chaece Gill... eta. li he.: just and weighed about 180 pounds. This; been struck by cosatit rine his ictrly, was returned to the company abd was and there they MS1! toe: oeseeel the taken (loan the river by steainboat to St. Louis. \The rest of the articles, two cases of graee shot, two cases of shells. a grindatone, log (dieing and much other stuff, we cached under i he bank of a tributary of Flat Willow. This caehe was discoveeed a .•hort time t11•0 by my . gon, T. A. Iterkin. anti other people living near the place on Flat Willow.\ The contents of the cache was later presented to the state historical FO- ciet:. • and are now on display in lied - first store and minces' beiving house in the gulch November ie. ts,ei few months later John Watson esee- ed groeery store, wheel eaS sk!( - '01,11 PIMP Of 1) , 1'.. till site of Helena. Th0. Thompson , remained et ie.st Chance till Manes 1Se:5. e hey !. Went tl) G mining. Later the fsther 10 , • I on ranch near .1. fferson. ell. he oecupied fee 15 years. %vhen he boucle the .11Ien elsee tie- Medi- son river. ena. In 18:40 charbe , \\* ; • .; Berkin Wag the man who shipped 1r a I . 0 „,„,, e ,„ 1 ,,,,,. 1 ;rks. the first copper ore from Ballo. seme ... h „ re ile , tied in . . . • i in years after the experience narrated Pell at the ate to ree %ear,. above. Ile located the Mouittain o Chief mine anti took out several ton- ,..., N „ I 1 „ ‘i . mi . ! 1: le ‘„\\ \ of ore. whielt he shipped from Butte. , „ ., purpose. to Boulder, builkiing ft road for tee ete-t , I I( let, sorsa t e t 1 . s‘t e L i t At a sessien s .. emit t From Boulder the ore was hauled tat Corrinne of Mortarri last , ....--1:. ii rell Thomas by buil teams which ller- Carter. Q. , 71 Of i 11 ,. !:i!.' ;este , ' States kin wns then operating for the Amer- ee l , :ter Trse...e H. tesi e . '‘ 44 ad - lean Fur Contpany. Shipment was made by railroad from Corrinne to mete ,. e. pe t ers: .e es. sir. carter \VAS taint In !tenet i in lse2 lie grad - the Atiantie coast and by steamship to Swansea. Wales. where the near bated from Gesrgetoen Vnivereity. cst smelter was loeated. Berkin still Washineten. D. c.. with a dceree of has in s hit possesgion a copy of the A. It., 1 ell. A. el . in 1' , 7. sed look MR lav. duifrec , Irl 1917 bill of !tiding. which he received from the railroad company. and the other Attortite certer .1:1 .t lieetenant papera In the deal. In the :kir sent.. a. il it _ the war. The ore was smelted in Wales and :erring et liOly Field T.% :eel in the transacti , m netted Berkin a like active •rvic. - ; erth tee A. 1' P He profit. Was tibehargee. Fehreary 11, 1919, on his realise to thc l'ilit.el States. ,.. 0 , 01 1 \ ii , F.Gas e m EANs A Re ‘N il! prat tie.> in ileSe .t. o (,INGER .{1.1\: HIGHB.U.I. NOW. Cartanza is awful slow about fix- ing the date for clean-up week In Mexico. \liam and eggg—and let the eggs come light\. That's in the original -me- - The tranglatIon IP: \Scotch highball —and not too much ginger ale.\ It Is in several former !alining of Billings, now become lunch counter - and soda returnable, that a code eys- tetn of ordering IP III vogue. accord- ing to detectives who testified at sev- eral recent bootlegging hearings there. AP the retell( of the hearings $10.- On0 worth of conflecated ehiskey Is to be deetr iyed 6 Per Cent Farm Loans ---No Commission Write for inf..cmath , r. and name One hank corre••11“.1(11.f11 in yOnr eoin- minify. who aaalat you In ac. .. 0e t ur Vhoist , 11111. their aertbe rude, s,se,nment Per , ervial , n TIIF Stri•t Vs% I , \ \ V'k; !:g7.IN In:7e .'M'e7s:17. - : 7 :=7,:=..72S1. - fe're-- - 7 - ) At the Beginning and the End of the Day re! There's health and corn ti)rt in the truly All-American table beverage— The Original Po STUM CEREAL Bid your coffee troubles 0 good-bye by joining the I great army who now drink 0 Postum instead of coffee. Two sizes. usually sold at I5c and 25c. Ever\ AN here at Grocers. :LreSte - :slerrs's eeSe.- eeessaSeaeese.
