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a VOL. I. NO. 20. MELSTONE, MUSSELSHELL COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1919 PRICE 5 CENTS BLACK' MELSTONE, MONTANA We are putting in a complete line of General Merchandise and want to figure with you We don't claim to be selling at cost, but we cab sive mow* for you. Watch for Our Big - Announcement Yours for a Square nerd. Smith's Old Stand J. W. BLACK, Prop. A. F. WARNER, Mgr. 1UMNAMMAAM 04.444.440.4.4.4.1.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.44.4•4+++.4.4.4.4.4•4.4.4.444.44.4..H.++++++44•++ F. M. WALL COMPANY General Merchandise ---CarrieS 'lie Largest Stork of -:Furniture, Rugs, and Bedding:- --In the Musselshell - Exclusive Jobbers of Clear liavana and Domes- I tic Cigars Special Attention Given I. ,14111 Orders F. M. WALL COMPANY -syn. Ever)thint; for Ever . tbo(1)\ Roundup, Montana Telephone No. I tktifttitttitt.H.+1 , 4* , 14/1.q. , 144” - tge.H.1 ,, i-1 ,4 1. No Matter %at You Do 44 44 44 44 44 4. 4 4 OR HOW YOU EARN YOUR LIVING Some of your money to the Intik for the benefit Of some one else --the money you your grocer, butcher or (clothier. etc.. voes to the bank every lime- •why not put some there your- self, for your benefit, in fact it is it safer and better way to put all your earnings in THIS HANK and pay all bills by elieek. No expense to you, and for every cheek you write it is the best proof of your expenses hying patil we act us your hook -keeper. C. W. GREENING, Coble Melstone, Montana X4 , 44+44++++++44+441++ 44+4444+++++X 4 wane, CLARK & fEL TON BoINKERS 4 • i When at the County Seat •. Always wake it a point to go to • • • • • • • • • • • • • • fad Poe and (Mottling gtore Which is the areateet and Most Progressive Men 'a Store in Musselshell County. Postoffice Next Door Roundup, Montana - - $.44-••••••••••••••••••++++++•, • t•lialr• • • i MELSTONE BILLIARD PARLORS I 1 : BILLIARDS AND POOL i Meletone'e o4Anitisettiont Hall. The Place you an Enjoy Yourself at Any Time. Z 4 Friday will'be designated as Ladies' Day r. TA Open Day and 'Tight Confectionery, Cigars and Tobacco‘ 4 t .t t s. tt s. t ..stess-t-S-4fes++++•efe4tf+ff1+t-i-ttit /4+4+4+1 STOPS DIVORCE CASE TO WED Butte Judge Halts Proceedings to Oblige impatient Boston Girl. The unusual spectacle of a divorce proceeding being interrupted to allow a marriage ceremony to proceed was witnessed at Butte. P J. Maxwell, aged ta3anty-elght years, and Miss Margaret Marshall of Boston, aged twenty-nine years, secured a license to wed. Then they asked Deputy Clerk Jerry Shea If a Judge pouid not be secured to perform the ceremony at once. Thar were igesa.hearry and informed the clerk they could uot wait. Judge BraCternan was engaged In heariqg a dfvorce case. Time proceedings were halted by obliging attorneys until the judge retired to his chamber and per- formed the coreruony. WILL TUNNEL TO THE ORE More Development Work Started on Missouri Group Near Libby. Work has been, started by the own. ers of the Missouri group of mining claims on a tunnel to crosscut tilt ore vein, which Is known as one of the best in Lincoln county. The ore bear- ing outcropping is from ten to twelve feet in width, average assays showing values of jon In silver and lead and about $20 in gold to the tow Lower down on the mountain a tunnel was run in on the ore vein for 100 feet and a good showing was obtained, al- though the ledge at that point was only about two feet wide. The ore as- sayed 1148 in gold and $117 in silver and lead to the ton. The Krone con- sists of seven claims. owned by Dun• can McDonald, George McKay and S. 0 Ratekin. ASKS DAMAGES OF $10,000 Butte Woman Alleges Clerks' Wnion Picketed Her Store. Miss Elizabeth O'Boyle. a Butte inerateet, has begun snit - for 1110, , 100 damages against the Butte Clerks' union as the alleged result of the union having picketed her place of bust. ness, n small grocery store, because she did business after 6 o'clock Ac. coraing to Miss O'Boyle a man entered her building and declared he was starving. importuning her to sell him some crackers. She di and Mime- dlately after the ('it rks . union de( lded to picket in plat e Aa the re , nit of being shot by a rine in tne II:01.k of her yeanger sis- ter GI:10 , u Yotl ten rears oi.1 ter of alr and Mrs Minor York, who reside %s em of died at IIIS holqiital The h'-. r' were playing with a 32-calibet rifle and it was dis- charged. The bullet entered the le't side a few int hsa below the heart 41 Fires Target Gun at Burglar. A bloody trail. which the pollee nue- ceeded in tollua mg for more than a mlie out of Kalkpell, gave mute evi denial of tht. theioughness with whirl: Mrs E. It Knott dealt with a burglar who att em pt e d to enter her residence She was nv. - aisened by stealth!. noise• and. loadimt a target gun. fired through the door, then .M;ed her bus band The thief Is believed to have been after a large amount of mom-% supposed to have been taken home la -Mr Knott. alio is propr.etor of a theater. Lighted Dynamite for Pillow. wtot a n t Ki,er, sixty years old, a pio neer plospet tor, who In, t pent bi- life In a frcltbes search of tho moIl. tains of Madison county for gold, bill ed himself In hl s cabin near Siker Star by lighting a Mick of Onamite and laying ids head upon It as if .t were a pillow Not a fragment of hi , head was found, and the cabin ws - blown to pieces. Butte P.oneer Woman Dead. Mrs. Elsa Godfrey. aged fifty, prom Mont In the society of Butte in III - earl)' tattling camp dam (Implied dead permission to sleep nights in the year while seeking alms. The death of her husband, which was tenoned by re verses, brought her to a sate of pov orty and frequently he would ask permission to sleep In the county jail Jail Breakers Sentenced. Fred Thompson and Ed Sayres, who escaped from the Oallatin county jail 'lust before Christmayinel were later teraptured. have ben sentenced to ale mouths each on that charge They had been arrested for assault with III - tent to commit robbery. Republicans Meet' In April. ' Charles A. 1)urs. Republican state committeeman for Park county, fin - nouneed that the Republican state convention to choOse delegates to the Republican national convention would be held In Livingston In April. The Turkish forces resumed their yeovement against Ohirgarish, a small Oasis about twelve miles front Tripoli, which has been the scene recently Of numerous engagements between the Turks and Italians, and at the same tinie another force of 3,000 Turks and Arabs delivered a 'determined attack Oh Ainzara, some miles inland. The fierce Italian artillery are, however, eernpelled the assaulting forces to fall back toward the south and southwest. Mutineers seized Juarez. Mex., just Roans the line from El Paso, Tex., aid In drunken frenzy looted the town Eight persons are known to have been killed in the overturning of the municipal government and in the promiscuous ,firing which continued for twenty-four hours Other wounded are believed to be secreted in private houses. It Is pre featly certain that the Brit- 14 stettin Genoa of the NVilson line , tiered tiring the recent storm with her crew f twenty-four. N5'reck- age from the ve el has been picked up on the coast of net - wick:Mire, Scot- land. The vessel left Blythe oh Jan, 15 for Riga and has not Mime been re - pert ed. A strong Turkish band attacked a Bulgarian monastery on the border of the tIskup and [stip districts In the Vilayet of KOSSOVO. 't'hey bound the Utile Inmates and conducted them into the church, where they decapitated them. The bend then desecrated the church and plundered the monastery. Owing to the grave situation caused by the general strike at Lisbon,, Portu- gal, the constitutional guarantees have been suspended and martial law pro- claimed. The city has been handed over to the keeping of General Carval- hal and troops surround the town. Drowned by brushing water four- teen mernbers of the British navy sank to the bottom of the sea in the bat- tered submarine \A 3\ when that craft was mutinied by the gunboat Hazard off Portsmouth, Eng. Fire destroyed the Woodside plant Of the Acadia Sugar Refining company It Halifax, N. S., entailing a loss of lime than $1,000.000. One employe WIN - burned to death. Another merlons bomb outrage oc- ourr d in Macedonia by a - hick a large Ne i a and FO intn.d T i Rr e jit . T en policemen were . lakili lle Duke of Fife, brother -In-law of King George V of Great Britain, is deads l at Assuan, Upper Egypt CONGRESSIONAL DOINGS, The Democratic metal tariff rest Blom to make reductions' averaging 3S per cent from the existing steel and Iron duties of the Payne -Aldrich law. passed the lower house of congress by a vote of 210 to 109 Republican ef• forts to an:end or debate the bill were brought to a tuidden end alien Demo- cratic, Leader tinderwooil refused to permit the offering of further amend- 'trent\ anti forced the limit,. to vote upon the. 1111.11 passage of the bill wenty Pregreesive Republicans voted for the niea , tirt. Senate Republican progressives are ' split over the Democratic bill on thi Iron and steel ---ehedirle and there Is :I good prospect 'hat the IIICaSIJIP Illay never go to 'Ito priaident for his sig- nature The placing of Iron ors. on the free 1:st IA the featrite of the bill tnat has CallSeil trouble to the progres4.ve ranks S. nators La Follett. 01 Win cousin and Clapp of alltineada tire posed to Dee iron ore Th4 pemoon approprlatien bill. car rying about $IS2.e00.otiO, passed the lower house of congress by the ve,te of '..!1!. to 33, after seseral South ',.rn pria,, , rats had ulemanded it rol: . all voti A pro% Won excluding pen ale) the tIol of the Fmte -ziates wa, •lefeated la N 160 10 12:: - the till L i a ,i, s u i e, se. II•fi I Veil penaion an' n ,- des who Pt bale been 10,1 hit allied in different titles 'that per tent of pie I of the 'United States Steel corpo; . ttion lii the l'ittAturg fllorkt earn less than the actual cost of subelstem e of the average American family In Pittsburg was a calculation made at ihe steel trust hearing at Washington by Louis Brandei-i, attorney for the ins -call gating committee. A resolution expressing opposition to the third term Idea. Introduced' in the house by Representative Slayden of Texas, is expected to lead to a dramatic demonetretion apropoe of the movement that has been started to nominate Theodore Roosevelt as the Republican presidential candidete this Ye t 4 i, r 'Ith nstirarices from senate insur- gents tl - wt nothlng but the president's veto can prevent theapi•r sugan for the consumeis of the (\tilted States the Democrats of the house ways anti means committee have agreed upon a reduction of ainioat 511 per cent in the duty on sugar. The waYat rioting of the Lawrence (Mass.) textile strike, Involving 20,000 persons, occurred when street cars were held up and stoned by mobe- which refused to let operatives go into the mills. Anna Lopizeo, an Italian woman, was abet and killed She was a 'striking mill blind and It is believed the shot was not intended for her. • • • • 4 Dairying on 4 4 the Dry Farm. + By M. L. Wilson, Assistant Su- 4 perintendent of Dry Farms, Montana Agricultural College. ++ e• + +4 Grain farming Is an uncertain propo anion in any country, and especially st in the semi -arid regions. In 1909 East ern Montana raised a bumper crop; in 1910 the crop was almost a failure on account of drought; and this year IL many sectiona it was no better than last. In most of Montana, grain, vifth the exception- of flax, is low in price while butter retails for 55 cents pet pound and eggs for 60 cents per doten A large amount of the butter used in the state is shipped in, anti yet there .. lit tto section that offers better oppor tunnies for dalryIng„ than do the plains of this state. EXAMPLE. Mr. William Loons) , settled on a homestead In Valley C017.11 ty four years ago. Three years ago he raised a good crop, but the Inat twc have been very poor. Mr. Leonard says that he would have starved out If it were not for his Cows lie had two Shorthorn cows, just fair intlivid uals, of the milking type and three heifers of the same breed. These calved early last spring and below are the receipts from the sale of cream after he purchased a small cream separator: June. Second week :15 50 Third week 17.40 Fourth week ----------------1100 July. First week Second week Third week Fourth week :13.70 13.29 11.40 16.20 August. First week $13.40 Second week 13 Si) Third week 10.80 Fourth week 11.70 September. First week 1110.20 Second week • lett). Third week 11.70 Fourth week 12.30 The total sal a of milk and butter from there the u -owe front Feb. 1 to Nov 1 unmounted to $2aul.b0. HOW THE COWS WERE MAN. AGED Mr Leonard made a ecw stable of sod RIIII old logs so that the cash outlay for building watt practical- ly nothing. Ile fenced sixty acres of bitt c!alm with a three harb-wire fence and used it for a pasti:re part of the time The remainder of the time the cows ran fit large on the unfenced hotnete:til land neattsy They had plenty of good. liar water nod In the tot summer inentbs could go into the sod shed cf they listcd In August the cows' were fed some coral corn as a soiling crop. DRY FARM SUBSTITUTES FOR HAY. One °tilts non that is often ra`ard to keepIng eoas on the plains type of dry firm !and Is lack of hay. Native gat, while It makets a rich hay. scar( el:- ever yiel , :a over two - think f - t ton per acre This, we be- Ifeve. Is i•OT'.• Of the SITTIO•ut of the dif ficulti.. to be met; and Sir. Leonard met it by groa'r.g corn fodder. The sea SOU 4'1 far below normal as atOrn year, but n14 fodder made 1.7 tons per acre Small graln will be raised on . urn laral next year; and expert. heIM 1-5 .'d that clean corn groiind t.!--iimirla to small grain as de--; sat •r , :er fatinw. Mr. Leonard rn D en t \ vi e . ty. It a us drille.1 with a onediorse corn e:.(r.irr about the 15th of May and wit, ,•ufrhar , - , I three tlineA. HALF SUGAR BEETS. Mr Leon- ard plaided three•foerth a of tin sere to half ragar tiecta. These beets are riornetIme.4 called haltbreeda. stock sugars and sugar mangcls. They are a cross beta een the white niangel and the sugar beet. They get site and weight from the mange]. and rIchtleaR anti sugar from the sugar beet. These that Mn Leonard raised yielded about ten tons per acre and would run up to 10 per cent sugar. These beets he stored In c relic cellar and is feeding them to cows ard pigs this wIner. The ground en %inch these beets) were raised Whil plowed early in the spring Just as deep as five horses could pull A fourteendnch sulky plow. It WRS double-dIsced and worked 'until It was as floe as an onion bed. The seed was drilled with a Planet, Jr., garden drill, In rots two feet apart. about May 1. The plants were spaced out to the width of n garden hoe and thinned out to one beet In a place. A . dust muleh was kept on all summer. The Mon- tana Agricultural College Is recom- mending these hal:breed beets. SMALL GRAIN HAY. Mr. Leonard raised some Canada field peas—some with.oats,whIch he cut for bay. The yield, however, was light and he says that he expects In the future to stick pretty closely to the corn and half sugars. COWS SAVED THE DAY. \No I Would have starved out If It hadn't rr: ' a•I • , - been for the cows,\ said Mr. Leonard. \It is kind of discouraging to a fellow wken be puts in a lot of money to come out here and is paying out mon- ey all the time and has nothing coming In. I.have not received a cent for ms crops in two years. But the cows pay all the store bills and I ant getting ',ore land broken all the time, so that it Is the two old cows and the three heifers that saved the day for me. I am not a dairyman, but I believe there are thousands of dry land farmers in Western Montana who could profit front my experience\ 4. + Straw as a Protec- tion for Fall Wheat. + + By F. 8. Cooley, Superintend- + ant Montana Farmers' Insti- .1 - tutee. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rev. Mr. MeCannahey of Raker is authority for the following experIcnce with fall wheat In Central North Dako- ta: During the early part of the win- ter three or four years since we spread straw thinly over twenty acres of fall wheat, covering about one-half the area sown. Tills held the snow and thus afforded protection to the wheat plants later in the spring. As a reatilt the teelity acres upo'n which straw was spread yielded twenty-eight bush- els of wheat per acre, while the unpro- tected portion of the field had pram no crop. The advantages of fell wheat in re' glens of scanty rainfall are appareat. By gcttine, started in the fall and growing early in the spring the crop matures before the extreme drouth of late summer. Wherever fall wheat succeeds, dry farming Is a success The yield of fall wheat Is much larger than that of spring wheat. The har. rest and aorkftig season Is also pro- longed. Another advantage in musing straw as a protection for fall wheat is the sav• Ing to the land of so much erganif n Ater, with its fertilizing material and humus, instond of sending It up in smoke. The labor is not great. Tot -o tonit of strew -per acre can -be put op .wiehout strlat,eeegtaer Labor; aOpe man and team should cover twill te', four acres per day. It Is done during the winter season alien tinte is not very valuable. If the result of straw protection is to make twenty -live bueheis of fall wheat, as agalaet twelve of spring wheat sown In the ordinary way, It will pay 1121S to 140 per day for the time of putting it on. ss Anyway the plan is worth a fair trial where fall wheat Is uncertain and Is far better than the common waste- ful practice of burning straw stacks. KEEP THE WEEDS DOWN. On unerepped spots in grain fields, along dItchea and fences, bum fence corners and other parts not -easily am , cessIble with the ordinary farm ma- chinery, we frequently find that fan weed plants are left to mature seed. Thle Is often- espectaliy noticeable along tent - es in othereise well man- aged fellows. These pla es should be WEEDS ALONG A FENCE. carefully watched and all weed plants destroyed before any seed boring, A few fully developed plants which may have ripened along the fence, blowing &TORS a fallow or grain field, may scatter enough seed to Infest a consid- erabie area of land wnieh had been kept free front weeds during the sea- son. WATCH THE WASTE PLACES AND KEEP THEM CLEAN. SPROUTING SEED POTATOES - --- Practice is Common in Beat Produc- ing Sections. One Arent advantage of 'Montana ,and Northern states In respect to potato 'growing Is the cool winters, with perfect conditions for storing seed. Seed kept at about freesing temperature is better than that held Over in warm places. Northern seed owes much of Its value to this fact. Sprouts shonld he kept back on seed Potatoes Whenever !bee* start and C011Lintled On last page. • 4
