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4 ,144, ` .'s P ; 1 ' ( VOLUME 11. EICALAKA, CARTER COUNTY MONTANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1919. 0 WEATHER PUTS CRIMP IN MANY ; \I have paid taxes here for the past thirty-four years and was never on the delinquent t,ax list,\ remarked a well known taxpayer to Treasurer Connelly the other day, \but I swear to goodness I ddn't know how I am going to make out this year. Possib- ly I can get it at the banlc,\ he re- marked. This is the case with a good many of the supposed well-to-do ranchers of this county. They sim- ply don't know which way to turn. They have had to sell their cattle in order to keep them from starving, (and in most cases they weren't ready for market. The result was they didn't get much more than their ex- penses and saved the cattle from suf- fering untold hardships the coming winter. The price of feed is almost prohibitiire, and where they haven't ihipped they giiNte'to look to the banks to help tide them over. Both institutions in Ekalaka are doing all id their power to help relieve the distress, but there is a limit to every- thing. Possibly the weather man will let up on the winter weather we have heen having and throw,a spoke in the wheel. Anything to fet the cows get down under the snow and get a little grazing. This week the weather has Unproved a lot, a regular chinook hav- ing st,arted last Saturday, and since that time the water has been running in the streets and the fields clearing of snow. To the south the snow is so deep in places that it will be almost spring before it gets melted. Two And often three stratas of crust have formed on the snow, and it is aimost iimpossible for the horses even to get throug to graze. Many of these an- imals have already succumbed to starvation. RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT Whereas, Our Divine Ruler, in His infinite wisdom, has seen fit to re- move from our midst, our worthy Brother, Curtis Daniel Newbury; Be It Resolved, That Beaver Lodge No. 66, I. O. O. F., extend to the widow and relatives of our departed brother, our heartfelt sympathy in their bereavement; Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of these Resolutions be spread on the minutes of this Lodge, and one copy to be sent to the wife of our de- parted Brother, and that in memory of our departed Brother, the Charter of Beaver Lodge No. 65 be draped in mourning for thirty days. Raymond Shelden, DeLoss Hall, George Heggen, Committee. RANGE GAZETTE NUGGETS A man who walked into town yes- terday from near Sykes, says it would be impossible for a horse to get from Box Elder to the Bell -Tower divide, as the snow there is from two to ten feet'deep and Olen are two or three stratas of crust. : • Harry Chamberlain arrived last night with the Ekalaka mail, taking practically all day to accomplish the trip from his ranch with a team. This was the, first mail from any direction since Friday of last week. Mr. Cham- berlain reports a little less snow over Ekalaka way. More snow and high wind during the past week has put the final crimp in live stock conditions hereaboutis The country is covered with one to three feet of crusted -tinow. Unless a general thaw of isome duration oc- curs right away, no stock of any kind can go through the winter without plenty of feed and shelter. Range horses are suffering and, if present -conditions continue, few will be left in the spring. CHURCH SERVICES Sunday School at 10 A. M. Thanks- giving services next Sunday morning. Five to ten minutes will be given by Messrs. Sam Mellor, Aldrich, Prof. Silloway and any one that cares to take part in the morning,services at 11.00 A. M. Christian 'Endeavor at 7 P. M. Topic, \Practicing Thanks- giving.\ Leader, Harold Macdonald. At 8 P. M. the following gentlemen have consented to give short talke, choosing their ovrn subjects: Meseta. W. II. Peck, Ray Sheldesr,- Rudolph Nelstead, and James O'Grady. Good music and singing led by Miss Lure Prest. C. W. Baer. Lewis, outdoor ptotographer. TO ENFORCE THE LAW \Order number four will be en- forced,\ says Chairman Dan Boyle at Helena. Officers o'f the Montana trade commission were assailed from all parts of the state with explana- tions and demands of merchants and mercantile associations regarding their inability to comply with gen- eral order number four of the com- mission, requiring merchants to show plainly the invoice and selling price of all articles offered for sale. \The commission issued the order only after great study of the question and intensive investigation in this and other states and we can see no reason why the order cannot be car - lied out by the merchants,\ Chairman Dan Boyle said. - The merchants protested they can- not mark the stock by December 1 because of the cost and that it will add to the cost of the goods. The commission cannot see that idea. All goods are marked one way or another and -the commission says the public should be given a fair show instead of trying to guess the cyphers and 'codes on price tags. \The order was issued in plenty of time and the merchants may start at once and do it gradually in order that the prices may show and the work be completed at the time set by the com- mission. We have seen price' tags of one kind or another on all articles and now we want to see price tags which give the customers a fair show. It appears to the commission that this step should be taken voluntarily by the merchants years ago. The com- mission is not attempting to work a hardship on the merchants, but we believe in a spirit of fairness.\ CHALK BUTTES I. R.`Shults and son Eber and fam- ily have moved to Ekalaka for the winter. Roy Kopp and wife have moved to their ranch from Timber creek where they have been with their stock all summer and fall. R. M. Griffin has purchased the P. G. Scott farm. Messrs. Young and Naugles passed through this vicinity on their vray to Baker where they intend wintering their stock. John Ready and Anther Ahern are ast to Baker after supplies. Miss Brenniman has closed her school at the Bradshaw school house and has commenced the Cline school. Miss Eva Laird and Craig Pyles attended the armistice dance in Eka- 'aka Saturday night. Mrs. Clara Chapman was in Eka- aka Saturday. Mr. Collins has returned to his 'tome here from Wisconsin where he has been visiting his old home. Harold Shults is home from South Dakota. Charlie Keith has returned from Chicago and Michigan where he has 'nen visiting relatives. James Harkins came through from Baker where he had been for sup- olies and reports bad roads. E. D. Laird was in Ekalaka after :upplies last week. Jack Pierce is in Idaho where he - ntends spending the winter. FORD GOES NINETY MILES ON ONE GALLON OF GAS A dispatch from Rome, N. Y., says: An electrical vaporizer, which takes t,he place of both spark plug and car- buretor in automobile gas engines, has jurst been tried out here. A Buick en- gine equipped with the device made sixty-six miles on one gallon of gas- oline, while a Ford similarly equipped made ninety miles with one gallon. 'The inventor, Clyde '13. White, has sold the patent rights to a Buffalo concern for $35,000 cash, $20,000 in stock and a royalty of $600 a month CARD OF THANKS We take this means of thanking the good people of Ekalaka and vicin ity for their kind words and acts of condolence during the sickness and death of our father and husband. Al - 30 to the people who Rent the beauti- ful floral emblems. Mrs. C. D. New- bary and family. ‘I'HE LOCAL NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK. E. A. Jacobson went to Miles City last Saturday on businese. Gabe Bradshaw was up from Chalk Buttes this week on business. Leonard Burch of Tilford, S. D., was in town this week on legal business. Ike Williams braved the roads and came up from Sykes this week on business. Lisle Hubbard of Elgin was in Eka- laka Wednesday looking after some land filings. Dan Davie' has gone to Chico Springs to receive treatment for rheumatism. Mrs. Ferris of Climax returned this week from a visit with friends at Conrad, Montana. Elmer ThoMpson was in town this week from White Horse, S. D., where he is wintering his cattle. The firemen will hold their regular meeting next Tuesday evening. A full attendance is requested. The estates of Geo. Russell and Isaac M. Schultz have been filed in probate court during the past week. Gene Nevaux, the new barber, ex- pects to move his family down from Baker as soon as he can get a house. Owen Hedges has returned from 'Belle Fourche where he went with la bunch of horses for J. W. Grant & Co. Mrs. Sam Olsen returned this we'ek from Black Eagle, Montana, where she has been visiting relatives for several weeks past. The Corner pool hall has installed an electric piano. In honor of the event they had an orchestra in full swing Tuesday night. Geo. Hobhs and Dr. Sandy of El- gin this week shipped a punch of horses tt Nebraska to winter, Dr. Sandy accompanying the load. Wm. W'Ash, who has been visiting friends in Ekalaka for several weeks past, left last Saturday for Hardin, Montana, where he will visit friends. Gene Neveaux has rented the Olsen barber shop and will conduct a first- class emporium. ;Better go in and ice him about your shave and hair- cut. ltc Frank Snow came into town Wed- nesday and when asked about the roads said he wouldn't like it to ap- pear in print what he 'thought about them. L. J. Pyles this week purchased the Louis Steffan ranch at Chalk Buttes which joins him on the north. The consideration has not been made public. John T. Smith left Monday for Spokane, Wash., and took his son Nim along, thinking it would benefit his health. The latter has been on the sick list for some time. The spell is broken. There was a snow Wednesday night and a full house was the result' For the past, couple weeks the films have not been' getting into town and as a reisul people had no place to go. But t films are here for tomorrow night, and \The Other Woman\ will be the title of the show, It starts at IL o'- clock. • Mrs. Julia Carnahan writes that she has moved from Iowa to Cincinnatti and likes the people of that section. Also to be sure and change her ad- dress so ahe gets the Eagle regularly. Miss Lura Prest has resigned front the public schools on account of ill health. Just what she will do she has not determined, but for the next few weeks will visit friends in the country. Billy Mowbray's friends are wondering what kind • of moonshine he is sampling. On Tuesday ht. claims to have seen a snake crossing the road, and right in town, too. Is that a sign of summer so soon? During the past week the following final proofs have been made before Clerk of Court O'Grady: John It. Jo . hnson, Sykes; Harvey J. Holbrook. Chalk Buttes; Geo. W,. Dean, Ekala- ka; John Rink for the heirs of Geo. W. Rink, a deceased soldier, Willard. Bob Yokley last week purchased 800 sheep which ,he will run on his ranch so . uth of Baker'. There wits a /time when mutton had no attraction for Bob, but times have changed and tthe genial rancher would now just 'as soon herd sheep as any other old thin Baker Times. e town this week took on new life from the way people have been caning in for supplies. Many of the ranchers'•were running pretty close, due to the big snows we have harl. and they either had to. come to town or eat Snow balls. Gasoline and kerosene are scarce articles in this burg. George Dawken came in from the ranch Wernesday for supplies. F. It. Allen and J B. Laitsater were county seat visitors this week for a gew days. • Danee at the Play House ThInks- giving night. Are you going? Ev- erybody will be there. .\AnY mail in yet,\ asked a man on the street the other dai. \Naw what do you want, two mails in two days?\ A report is current that a man was frozen to death in the Alzada country during the recent blizzard, but it can- not be confirmed. Henry Iverson left Tuesday for tinker for a bunch of supplies for his Delco lighting system. He is try - pig to make the trip via auto. The County Treasurer\s office is a busy place these days, as everyone ?who can are coming in to pay their taxes in order to avoid the penalty. The sheep men of the Chalk Buttes section were hit hard during the re- cent storms. One man is credited with losing about 700 and another was hit almost as hard. Frank Dahlberg got tired of wait, ing for supplies for the Postoffice Store, and he and Lawrence Phalen started early Sunday morning for Baker. They returned Wednesday. It is estimated there are 200 tons of freight in Baker for Ekalaka people, And it is almost impossible to get anything out here. Let us all pray for better roads. That State High- way would come in handy now. Gentlemen: After your Thanksgiv- ing dinner you should have one of our fine cigars, and you should buy a box of our delicious chocolates for your wife or lady friends. They have the \Wonderful Centers\ and are ex- eiTsive. Olsen Drug Co.. lc Billy Yates had quite a load Coin- ing down from Baker Monday. There .tete in the crowd C. L. Proctor, Hu- lolph Nelstead, John Brant, Jess ,;rarit, O. A. Dahl, Mrs. Ferris and Mrs. Sam Olsen, all who had been waiting for days in Baker for an op- .iortunity to get back home by the 'first train.\ Now some of the men want to know why they had to pay their money for the privilege of walk- ing on the public highway. The Community meeting et the i:hurch Monday evening. was well at- tended, the church being filled. The .irograrn as printed was carried out ri full, the talks being mainly on school topics and in discussion of re- ,.ent laws in the interest of educati Patriotic songs were sung by the audience under the leadership of Nliss Prest. Four little boys from the Ekalaka school made a hit by sing- ing a song about Uncle Sam, and there was a beautiful solo by Mrs. J. Emswiler. DISABLED 51 EN TO GE'T AWARD OF INSURANCE I Careful quest in all hospitals is now in progress under the auspices of the War Risk Insurance Bureau to find patients who are permanently dis- hbled and entitled to awards of insur- ance under the provisions of the law. The purpose is to insure every man the payments to which he has earned the right, without subjecting hini to delay or inconvenience. Authorities of the various hospitals were instructed to assemble their pa- tients regarded entit t 0 be class- ed as totally and permane tly dis- abled so that they might b'e examin- ed by a special board of three medical Akers from the War Risk 13ureau and a representative of the Compen- -•ation and Insurance Claims Division. l'his board will hereafter visit the hospitals as often as small groups of lisabled men are ready for examina- tion. It is thought that the number of men in Walter Reed hospital, (Washington, I). C.) eligible for ben- efits tinder the provisions of the law may total 200. After making a survey of the hos- pitals, officials of the War Risk Bu- reau will continue their quest throngh- out the country. It is believed that many men who have a • claim to awards of insurance have not yet been found. The:Red Cross, the War Risk Bureau and the War Depart- ment will co-operate in locating .such 'men and putting their names en .the records. IIave you fire insurance? If not, connect up with theAetna Insurance Co. today. O. A. Dahl, local agent. NUMBER 47 Ammer. THE MURDERS AT CENTRALIA. a FicarrEmorr What can be said of the men who deliberately shot down veteran sol- diers on parade at Centralia on Arm- istice day other than they are mur- derers of a type 'so cowardly and re- volting as to be beyond classification, says the Missoulian. Thaf massacre should mark the Nut of the, W. W. in this country. There must be a housecleaning so thorough as - qo sink this pirate craft , without trace. If there exists so much as a remnant of sympathy for the I. W. W. henceforth, a lunatic asylum is the place for the sympa- thizers. If there are good men in the I. W. W.—ariti there must be some—then they should lose no time in repudiating or withdrawing from that organization. The tragedy at Centralia fixes the limit of endurance. If the veteran soldier, who saved our lives and our liberties can be shot dawn by anarch- ists from ambush, we know that arm- ed rebellion against our government is in evidence and must be dealt with accordingly. \Shoot 'em or ship 'em,\ said Farm- er Sandles in referring to the preach- irs of anarchy the other day before the Farmers' National congress at Hagerstown. That strikes us as good medicine' and we look to the boys of the American Legion part in avenging their rades. Some of our local been telling us that to take actiire murdered com- radicals have Bolshevism is rampant among returning soldiers. lf, by chancce, some of these gallant lads have listened to the shouterp of anarchy and are in doubt, we think their eyes must have been opened by the shooting at Centralia. Also, every community In the north- west had better give heed to this af- fair and set its hotisein order. And t.ve include Missoula in this list. MADE A RECORD ./(sitjhaz,br...rd46114,Lood_Lansa. Piartou troth of Ekalaka, is credited the record of Carter county in entering into the bonds of matrimony. On Monday they confronted Clerk of Court 0% Grady with a request for a marriage license. While Mr. O'Grady was\ af- fixing , his seal to the document he ask- ed them who they were going to be narried before, and on their answer :hat it didn't matter they were inform- ed that a justice was in the next room \Bring him out,\ said the prospective grooin. uWe might be married here as well as anywhere else. Just so we get married.\ Ac- cordingly Justice Voorhees stepped in- to the Clerk's office and almost before the ink was dry on the license they were married. \And may they live IN CARTER COUNTY • Oil its again the main subject in Ekalaka. Not the refined article, but the kind that comes out of the ground at the rate of a thousand barrels a day and makes money while you sleep. The fore part 'of the week Frank Voss received a telegram from the Bell Oil Co. asking for informa- tion as to the condition of the ground for spotting holes for drilling. He answered right back that the condi- tions were favorable. The represen- tatives are now expected almost any day on the ground, and from the fact that they have engaged board with a tiarmer at Medicine Rocks looks aa though they meant business. The test well it!, supposed to he put down in that vicinity and the Jolly Bros. Lave been engaged to haul the ma- chinery from Baker. The Roundup oil field has put new i:npetus in the oil business in this icinity, and it now looks as though tamething would be doing quickly. Alm the:fact that the fluid was struck t less than 1200 feet looks good. Land values in the oil belt have gone ta out -of -eight prices and it really looks like a boom. It will be remembered the Bell rep- tasentatiyes were here , a few weeks ago to spot holes for wells, but the 1 - iow was so deep putt nothing could t 3 done, and they went back to Butte t) wait for better weather. 1 IG OIL STRIKE AT ROUNDUP The Van Dusen Oil Co., at a depth 1,175 feet, has struck a high gralle o. light oil at Roundup, with a fluid r oduction estimated at 1,000 barrels. C 'eat excitement prevails at that place and a big boom is expieted , r3ult of the discovery of oil in that .‘ allinkrA.C.AlPs4X of. this !city hold 'leases on 3000 acres In the vicinity of the new well, and Mr. Jack Mellor left Tuesday for Roundup to look after their interests there. Jemes Warren is another Baker man wl'o controls several thousand acres oc leases in the new oil field. The finding of oil at Roundup means much to the state and especially t,o •the Baker field. The indications of the Baker field corresponds with the It•aindup field and we may rest assur- ed that within a short time drillers be at work in this vicinity. A , c_ent, geological bulletin issued by the government gives a good report lot this field and speaks very encour- 1 agingly of the prospects ofr oil in thia locality.—Baker Times. happily ever after,\ is the wish of thel Eagle. 1 WILL PITT ON MINSTREL SHOW 'I he boys of the High School nie ,busy puttin the finishing touches on for their minstrel show, which wilt lie held at the Play House on Satur- day evening,_Nov. 29th. That it will be a good one goes without saying. 1 (Glen Westphal has the boys in chaige and expects them all to give a gird account of themselves. A geneinl admissiSii fee of :35 cents will be ! charged to children and grown-tio3. 'rile proceeds will pi) towards the int..- 1 ket ball team the boys and girls hat e organized, and everyone should turri out and show their appreciat ion. Nothing less than II packed hoteai will satisfy the boys, and they at - billy selling tickets now. After show a big dance will be held, and 11 , A , gills will serve supper at Mumerly's restaurant. • NUTICE County Teachers' Examinatiiiii will he held December ith, lith, and Ctli at Elialakii. Anyone wishing to write who has not already notified tie: of the Sallie 11111Si COM(' tO Ekillakt1 tO 110 so. Present Summer School ('redit at ex- amination. Mrs. DeLoss Hall, Co. Supt. of Schools, Carter County. 2t Mr. and Mrs. DcLoss Hall have gone to Hibbing-, Minn., for a couple weeks to visit with relatives. NOTICF, All completed work left at my shop after 30 days will be sold for the ,charges against it. John Daly, Black- tstii ith. For Sale—One..saddle, two bridles, 011C saddle blanket tr\quire at Raqi- me House 46-tf. The \Big Kid\ braved the mud and slush and drove his truck to town this week from Chalk Buttes. I,AKESIDE (Too late for last week.) \Snow Snow, everywhere. On the iriand and in the air.\ A foot deep ad still a comin'. If Ekalaka merchants don't get in -I supply of \grub\ pretty soon there will he a lot or starved honyocks on his side of the divide. Sam Hamilton and Alfred Cline helped Mr. Dogan take one of the lat- ter's strayed cows home. Mrs. Michael Moolick is home again after a month's stay in Miles - ity where she has been at the bed- •ide of her brother. Lisle Hubbard left Monday fbr Ba- ker with a shipment or cattle. Gerald 11(.11)4.'11 as far as Ekalaka, returning aoine the next day. Nlable and Amy LaBreck visited a •ew days with home folks last week. Lost, strayed or stolen—J. C. Trier and G. A. Scruggs, last seen roing towards Ekalaka looking for Flour. • Wm. Nly6 . rs from Beaver Flat neighborhood spent Sunday night at the Loehding home. Some of the men are improving the time by 'taking advantage of the leighing and recent nice days, and ire hauling wood. Mrs. Fred Loehding returned Sun- day from the Harry Myers home. -le,. left her (laughter recovering nice- ; y from her recent sickness. There will be a big dance at tho Play House on Thursday evening next (Thanksgiving). If the instru- ments arrive there will be a Jazz or- •hestra to furnish th6 music. Any - ow there will be good music. You . now they always have a good time i the Play House dances and every- ! b( !:. away happy tn the thought they have had all the dancing they want. \tlangements are being mado r o e a midnight supper; •
