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pOOST,and the WORLD -UP boosts with you; Knack, and you knock alone :VOL, 1 NO. 2 11\1 \ I J 1 uciety — 27'3\0 .0 STANFORD, FERGUS COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1909 ..uy Dm NOT 11,A co - N - 7ENT , 3c opcliak Is Victim of Foreign .Love Arrangements that Fail jo Work IN OLDEN TIMES IT WAS CUSTOMARY FOR THE PAENT TO DISPOSE OF HIS DAUGH- TERS AS HE CHOSE ANO THE CUSTOt, IS ACTUALLY LAWFUL AT THE eltESENT TIME The attempted blending of the old world customs with those of the new as witnessed in Stanford during the past month, affords a display of the pathos of life quite beyond the ordinary, shrouded at least one life ir sorrow and left the viotim an ob- i amt of pity. John Kopchak, whose arrest and incarceration was told of in last .veek's issue of the World, came from that section of the oid country where the heart of the maiden is the prop- ertY of the parent, who bestows it where he will, as a token of friend- ship or cruelly sells it to the highest bidder for cash in hand. John is a Slavonian. Several years ago, in accordance with the rites and customs of - his native land, .Kopchak entered into an agreement with the parent of a handsome lass of his Own nativity, whereby, under the terms of the' covenant, he was given, to have mid to hold, all and singular, the right, title and interest, to and of that tin, :l i i : ain portion of the female char- i n - /ter know as the heart, together t- r t . ith all and singular the appurten- ices [hereunto belonging or in any ise appertaining. The contract being signed, sealed and delivered. - the-wedding day was appointed and sa far things had gone accordiag.to 11 1 '... The imagination is not forced to leap beyond bounds to anticipate the finish. Man proposes and wom- an disposes. They had not consult- ed the lady, who persistently, indig- !toady and victoriously protested the right of anyone to marry her without her consent. At that time, witnesses state. Kopchak, performed in an insane manner, threatened murder and in other ways became obstreperous. Force was resorted to to subdue him. Time reconciled him to his / Court House Is Accepted 1 - --- , C\11 The board of county commission- ers met last week in special session and accepted the new county court house, one of the finest in Montana. It is expected that the building will be ready for occupancy within the next two weeks. The present delay is due to the non -arrival of the fur- niture. The county officers are all pro- vided for by the arrangements of the interior. On the first floor are located the offices of the surveyor, coroner, sheriff, farmers institute ._ rooms andskuliee It room- — ---- Second floor -- Comity treasurer, clerk and recorder, assessor and .._ . rooms of board of commissioners. s. , Third floor—Circuit court room, judge's chambers, clerk of district N court, county - superintendent of I schools and county attorney. Fourth—Jury room. loss, howe/yer, and he again became normal. The recent troubles of the unfor- tunate man are said to he due ‘to a duplication of his experience of sev- eral years ago, and began last fall. It is stated that arrangements were made by Kopchak and his proposed father - in - law to take over a restaurant business in Stanford, he to marry the daughter, and the bus- iness to be run en familie. Again the woman objected, and again the jar s tiethroned Kopchak's reasen. irbpchak, in his normal condition is an industrious and well-behaved maq. He had a homestead near here, but relinquished it during the (Continued on page 6) NEMART Prof. 0. C. Mortson yesterday re- turned from Neiharts and he states that the biggest copper strike ever known in Cascade county has been made n Carpenter creek, a coupk of miles fNeihart, by. David Led- better and frey. A lead foul miles in ength has teen located and fi ed on. This lead, the professor says, is 17feet in width on an average and runs northeasterly and south- easterly an southwesterly with a pitch of abont 22 degrees. The as- says show values running from 24 to 36 per cent copper. The lead lies in a true fissure. A tunnel and a shaft furnish means for development work and it Is stated that 510,000 worth of work has already been done on the lead in Haystack gulch a con- fluent of Carpenter- creek. It is Pro- fessor Monson's opinion that the lead is the same that shows on Sheep creek where he has some copper : claims located. --Tribune (Tuesday). ' I \, L OOK the WORLD over then you will come to Stanford fon your home 5c THE COPY chosen all his cabinet except the iecretary of the treasury. The mem- bers of the official family, as an- nounced are: Secretary of state—Philander. Knox, of Pennsylvania. Attorney general—Ceo. W. Wick- erSham of New York. Secretary of war—J. M. Dickinson of Illinois. Secretary of the navy—Geo von L. Meyer of Massachusetts. Secretary of eemmmerce and labor —Charles Nagle of Missouri. Secretary of interior --R. kts Bol- inger of Washington. Postmaster general -- Frank H. Hitchcock of Massachusetts, Secretary - of agrictilture-Jernee Wilson. The man who will exert the most influeuce over this section of the country is the secretary of the in- ferior who is a western man and is thoroughly acquainted with the conditions. wants and needs of this section. It s is understood that Sen- ator Dixon of Montana, was offered the portifolio of the interior depart- insot but he preferred to remain and serve his constituents in the senate: It is said that the gentlemen from \lontaaa are much nearer the throne room in the coming admin- istration than they were in the Roosevelt.. Coal Chute In Operation The record time of one minute for coaling an engine was made here in the first attempt to use the eoal chute. engine 752 pulling train No. 680 was the first to be served. Chas. 1 Tedhohn pulled\ the string that released the veritable avalanche Of . coal and miraculously performed. ! . the labor that formerly required I two hours to accomplish. 1 ! The evolution of engine coaling has reduced the job to the science of one minute, a \highball\ and they are gone. * SOME BUSINESS .()PNINGS S TANFORD has numerous bt[sitiess openings fof liste men who are able to catch the step and' mnintain the stride set by those . who have already invested in compaeicial enterprise, here. There is not u firtior individual doing business in Stanford who ex- pects, or ever antiicpated, that the trade of the vast area 9f prolific farm lands that surround Stanford riould be monopolized. There are openings in nearly every line of Utile awaiting to be taken advan- tage of. If you, Mr. Reader, or any; of your friends are seeking a a place where one may get in -on the ground floor, here is the place. There4s still room. This ts pot only a good town but it is going to be bigger and better. If you can't mine write to any officer or mem- ber (11 the Stanford Commercial Club and you may tints sacare defin- ite and reliable information regarding any particular- business or profession. TLIE STANFORD CO.MPLERCIAL I Z UB ' T. J. WADD4L, Secretary Taft'8 Cabinet Is Selected • 134Alder of L the Pyramids President-elect Taft, according to The Judith Gap Journal, the pal- e dispatch from Washington, has indium of liberty in the railroad city . down the line, in frantic efforts to build up its home - city, occasionally runs shy of material, Nhich fact, however, should not be charged up to the account of the enterprising jouronl. The staunch friends of our esteemed contemporary in its home eily have noted with some anxiety in the -past weeks the dearth of material for good booster articles, and fearing that they were not giv- ing their illustrious and versatile ed- itor the proper support, last week helped him out with a hotel. Wm. Wheeler, a popular young -man of Stanford, was in the Gap that day and assisted. Note what the Jour- nal said last week regarding his -visit:'Wilhia • - m heeler - of Spokane, VMS -.the city Wednesday . lookingAiver the field with a view tO starting a good hotel. Mr. Wheeler is an ex- perienced hotel man with plenty of capital. He went to Great Falls in the afternoon to look' over a prom- stion there, and if satisfactory ar- rangements cannot be made he will return to Judith Gap and invest his money.\ \ • • The extreme kindess of Mr. Wheel - ;_a• is proverbial of all Stanford peo- ple. who sympathize with the Jour- nal. whose exploit Of -building the pyramids of Egypt is as nothing compared with the task of putting a fIrst-elpss hotel in Judith Gap. NEW TIME .M.A.Y Burlington i ,Coast Trains Will Run Via Stanford an t d ) Judith Basin Watt 131DRUNGTON COAST TRAINS PASSING THROUGH TIIE BASIN IN DAY MIL: TRAVELERS TO GREAT EXPOSITION WILL ALL BEHOLD ITS MANY GRANDEURS On Sunday, February 28, there will go into effect an entire change' of time over the whole system of the GNat Northern's fast mail train, No. 3. This Al affect the mail ser- yive throughout the west. 'The im -I teat Northern carries the heaviest portion of the United States mail f ro m St. Paul and the east into Montana and any change which im- proves the service is of disticnt him- oortanee and of wholesale interest to the entire state. The train Will leave St. Paul daily at 10:20 p. in., and will arrive at Seattle 12:55 noon of the fourilm day.. The new schedule will be two hours faster than the present one. The run from St. Paul to Seattle will be HOSPITAL Miss Rose Clevelan graduate trained nurse, who fist the few years has been locatetI at Lewisto accompanied by Mrs. E. N. Akeley, was in Stanford this Week looking over the field with a view to estab- lishing a hospital hero. Miss Cleveland F. tile:1 to the World that she was favorably im- pressed with Stanford and - would erect - a hospital - building at once. - F. W. Mitchell,' on \behalf of the townsite company, donated a lot for the institution, and it is thought the building will be one of the first ert(%1 in the qpring. (I after getting her Mona tminier way, and making ar- unveil - mews- te lease the Cartilege proPtIrty as a temporary hospital, t • returned to 1.owistown, stating .. Rile would be in Stanford within a week - end would shortly be prepared for the reception of patients. Stanfoisi is considered ideally located for the financial success of a hospiml. SIMOZT..1=1.1C2S1 f.-tVraValCJINMS , THIS STORE WILL APPRECIATE YOUR -PATRONAGE Stanford DEALERS IN Mercantile Company GENERAL MERCHANDISE OF EVERY DESCI? I f HERE IS THE BEST LINE . OF f A .1L M2111111,111111111111111211WICEMSSMIMILCIMIRWil 'IL air .1[11 11 ‘6\,0) line Also Hapg Good Enough Plows Best Ever Plows otary Dutchman Plows Western Queen -Walking Robin Hood Walking Country Road Walking d Sidehill Plows, Hancock Disc Plows and liver Chilled Walking Plows Disc and Drag Harrows, Grain Drills and Seeders, Feed Grinders an Mills The Famous Studebaker and Webiz:r litia„ons These Implements will give you the best satisfaction; you know. what they are because your neighbors are using them 100 Sets of Work and Driving Harness Just Received OATS, WHEAT and ALFALFA FOR SEED Call on Us. We are headquarters for Farm Implements Stanford Mercan STANFORD, Company. t) NT A N A t E , made in sixty-four hours and five minutes. The new hour of depar- ture will afford connections with about twenty trains from Iowa, Min- nesota, Wisconsin and the east which at present reach St. Paul after the departure of No. 3. A decided advantage of the new Schedule i R that the grain field a and mountain scenery of Montana are passed in the day time. No. 3 will arrive at Havre at 3:50 it. in. connecting with time Montana Central train for Butte. This train will reach Great Falls at 9:25 6. nt - thus making close connection with train No. 242 on the Billings & Northern for Stanford end other points in the Judith Basin. Leaving St. Paul at 12:20 at night, or rath- er in the morning, let us say_ Mon- day. passengers would dams take their Tuesday dinner at Hotel Stanford. On May 23rd, the Great , Northern's famous Oriental Limited will run out - of Chicago on the tracks of the Burlington to St. Pell,' and from e over the Great Northern -main line to . mist, thus affording a through fast tra from the Windy City to Seattle. Also about May 23rd, through service will be established from City to Seattle - via Billings, - Sftutford-and-ShelbYalull(!ti011- %VOA 'bound • Fjurlingtoa trainv. pass through Stanford ahout 7 p. and will reach Shelby in the early morning, there taking about the present schedule of No. 3 on the main The east bound through train will pass through Stanford about noon, having a schedule that will bring it into Shelby in the early morning and Billings at 6 p. Thus the Judith Basin will be ! ; i Hied with two daily daylight • ;, whose passengers will be of - :1 the pleasure of beholding the ; and most olific virgin ,•10111,1 - y (01 earth. A New Real Estate Firm .Jas. A. Weaver and 'John C.: Bebh st - Lewistown, were here this week and completed arrangements for the real estate business which they will i!lqitute here at once. A lot on the north side of Central avenue, has been porchased and a Hilding will at once be Crected suit - lie for the occinunoiation of the I !0isiness: The firm muffle will be . Weaver .& Hebb and the business will be t ,-tiled \livestock loans, real estate- — and ittsuranee;,. .. v 1 — As - wt1t - be'rvit6d\iti their airver- tisernent on another page of the 1 World, Messrs. Weaver and Bebb - . have been for 20 years residents of ' Fergus county, and ' are well ac- quainted with its resources. - Ten thousand acres - of land was listed during their short stay here. 1 Good Wheat and 23c Wool 1 W. B. Peck, the well-known and l prosperous Wool grower, returned t he first of the, week from Great 1 ' 1 oils, where he spent the greater surtion of the winter. 0 Nit - . Peck is very enthusiastic of i ite outlook for Montana for the i !.0iming season. He says that there ; ver was a better wheat showing : and he thtsrefore predicts a bountiful •! crop in all portions of the Basin. Sheep and all livestock has win- tered well and with no looses at all. With the winter well toward its fin- ish, Mr. Peck may well feet elated, for he believes 23c wool will be rot alized. . •
