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The Hardin Tribune (Hardin, Mont.), 17 April 1908, located at <http://montananewspapers.org/lccn/sn86075230/1908-04-17/ed-1/seq-1/>, image provided by MONTANA NEWSPAPERS, Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana.
• 4s , •-.1.••• • • • • VOL. I. NO. 15. THE • . N TRIBUNE. , HARDIN, MONTANA, PRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1 9 08. $2.00 PER YEAR. Spring Styles for 1908 Now on Sale at My Store 4SEE ME PLEASE) JOHN D. LOSEKAMP Clothier and Outfitter BILLINGS erme....erm...%+•-.....4*-......weaga...v.r......a+,-.....tri....41 THE BANK OF HARDIN Invites everyone in the Big Horn valley to open an account I i with them. year. We deposits we pay 5 per cent for six months, 6 per cent for a We are very careful in the selection of our loans, requiring I security with a good margin. i No loans are made to officers and a large reserve is carried, making the bank an absolutely safe place for the deposit of funds, whether large or small. The same consideration is given a small account as a large one. i f Burglary and Holdup Insurance carried and we are members of American Bankers Association. We solicit your business on conservative principles and with safety before profit. Yours truly, E. A. HOWELL, Cashier. . tuRawalvmlatawt+femniseett1weleet+0 - \lesaet.'\\met+ The Montana Saloon W. A. BECKER, Mgr. Diplomat Whiskey. \JUST ttiotrr\ Imported and Domestic CIGARS B udweiser and illings E E R * * I el PORTEI) WINES Corner Central Ave. aad Second Streets. HARDIN, Mont. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••/•••••••• - • - f , .••••• - • , •••••••••••••••••••••••••Tr• - ••• Ceanisoo-•414••• •11.••••••11, I TOWN L I Some Good Locations Still for Sale ei 4 Ditch Work Begins Values Will Go Up L at • RL RANKIN HARDIN, Montana CA -41111011.--4411P11•-0-01•11M-1111304•Ci•0011/4.-4411Nie. AMEIP10-40I1E11•• THE HARDIN BAR ROBERT ANDERSON, Props Carries a full line of Old *Homestead *Whiskey •••••••••iudweiser Beer wierammesw...... WINES, IMPORTED and DOMESTIC CIGARS HARDIN, MONT. meal owner, ,with a ten per cent discount for 'estimated at about 23 feet, which Wati cash. In addition •to this• he medo a ; precipitated inta the channel below modified preposition in regard to pay- the structure. The narrowness of the I merits, to Wit: The canal to be tarned ' river and its interwinding course has over to tilt, association upon its cella impeded the progress of the water and pletion and Peym rits t fall lass of property is anticipated ' due as fast as the canal, wee c.anp1491 in the hare; a,nd villages north of this so as to furnish %Netter for land t cal. city. tignous thereto. In other words, payments would be • (Inc and interest commence the stone we under the Knepper proposition and the maintenance charges would fall upon the association. Under this propasition Bair and Shepherd agree to furnish the right of way and to commence work in thirty days. The price under this was Hardin, Mont. Stock Complete placed $12 par acre, with ten per $ E. C. SPENCER, General Merchandise Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots, Shoes, Clothing. TO BUILD k told the Tribune that his company was anxious to build the canal and that BIG CANAL they would do all in their power to push the same to a speedy completion. O . He even went Sc) far as to assert that, • , providing the people signed up, „ we . would see the water running throngii Bair and Shepherd Awarded the streets of Hardin by August 1st of Contract Thursday. this year. While there has been - nia' ily differ- ences of opinion on the part of land owners under the canal as to the best way to proceed, and on the merits of the various propositions, the action of the meeting yesterday when 19 land owners voted for thet Bair ditch as \ START WORK IN 30 DAYS People Have Choice Between $12 nod $15 Propositions --Means Business Activity In Big Horn Valley. Present indications point to the fact that Thursday recorded the changing point in the Big Horn valley. dose to two years the question in gee minds of all was \Are we going to get water?\ The action of the meeting yesterday appears to have answered in the affirmative. At the meeting of April 4th four propositions were submitted, but dur- ing the interval intervening between -then and yesterday two of these Neel to have been lost in7the shuffle.' It we'll the will of the 'meeting of April aa i lk that the four proposals be submitted to the board of directors of the Big Horn Water Users' Association, the board to puts on 'them and recommend the ac- ceptance of one or the other. On April 11th the board met and decided to recommend the Knepper proposition: provided, that the contract and agree- ment : be examined and approved by the attorney for the etnnpeny. These were submitted to Attoraey johnien of Bil- lings, who advised a numblir of chaneve, and corrections. 151 view of this fact the hoard at the meeting yesterday* re- ported that they did not tetre to recom- mend either of the prepasitimes at that time and that they w mid refer the matter back to the memhers of the associatien. Mr. Knepper and hie attorney, Mr. McCoy, were preeent and the latter nauneed that Knepper & Co. would be willing to 'make the .changei aeggaeted in the contract. Messrs. C. M. Bair - and R. E. Shepherd of Billings wire present in the interest of their proposal, . and it was decided by the meeting that • as long as bath parties were .present it ' I -would be bettor to have them Note\' their offers direct to the meeting. Mr. McCoy, for Knepper & Ca, stat- ed their offer to be as follows: Con- crete headgate, steel flumes or siphons, the ditch large enough to carry ample water for all the land under the canal. They to famish and provide right of way across the Indian lands.. The price was set at $11.50 per acre, with a ten per cent. discount for cu,sh, A cash payment of $15,000 was required, ; Mr. Shepherd restated their former offer of $15 per acre, which include 1 rete conc work throughoat where nec- essary, supervision and maintenance over the canal for IS months after com- I pletion,•and to be paid for in ten annual installments, the first tl'f' Which would be due one year from -April let of the year the water was used by the land agai nst 4 voting again t, would ind a eate that the large majority were in- fluenced to accept this offer under - the belief that it meant water at an earlier date than by the acceptance of any other proposition. In dollars and cents the cost will be about the same, and the fact * that these gentlemen are heavy land owners themselves is a good guarantee that the canal will be all that could be expected and a credit to the contractors as well as to the valley at large. Heretofore the Tribune has refrained from espousing the cause of any particular proposition, but now that the ... Bair & Shepherd canal has been chosen as the favorite this paper believes it to be the duty of every loyal citizen to shed his linen and • booet, for the enterprise that peens everything to the people of this favored valley. The time to ktitx:k has passed. Let the will of the majority ; rule. Stand squarely for your mem good, the good of the country as a whole, the intereets of your town; and all concerned. Boost, boost, and watch results. Many regrets are °sere seed • over fas feilnee of Mr. Kiiepper to aecure the r ontra c t. That he did not is nothing ta his discredit. as he has shown him- self to be'e, Man in every partivalar and will always be held in high regard by the people here with whom he has been dealing. He has assisted them meter hilly and the emelt' favor will alwaye b e remembered. While the people rejoice at the prospect of securing . water at au 'early day, still they do net fail to re - cull fact that Mr. Knepper has been in a large uteaaure responsible for push- ein . g the matter to a speedy comension. And now for a better country, for a better town, and a proeperons and con- tepted people. Book the booster and knock the' kiloideer. Hanger Dam Bursts. rn every town and village on the Mis- souri river in northern Montaea the residents are terror stricken and are fleeing to the hills to escape the flood caused by theebreaking of the 70 -foot dam at Hauser Lake this afternoon, sags a. Helena dispatch &kid la.4t Tues- day. The town of Craig, in Lewis and Clark county 40 miles ,froni Helena, is now more than 20 ;feet under water and from every indication thousands of dollars worth of property will be swept away. The 400 inhabitants of .the town ate camping in the hills to- night. e. • Without warning the great dam gave way shortly before a o'clock this afternoon, Bending a volume of water, I cent discount for cash and no web pay- eileelalt-•41Nelelelaiheh , •eleiteiteitezi.elhit‘ilaeneiheVeh %WO& ' lueras required. -. After some discussion a metion was XXXICKX XX412110CX made to accept the Bair proposition — 11 and the question Was put to a vote by ballot, resulting in 11) votes for and 4 . _ against, .The chairman annannced that according to the vote the Bair Zit Shep- F Feed,Livery&Transferc herd proposition had been aceepted. 0 Mr. Bair made a cash deposnt of $25,- 0(X) in the Bank of Hardin an a forfeit FRANK BODE, Proprietor, providing they did not (-ointment* work RI thirty days. First-Class Turnouts to point e on the Reservation or any place you A committee of three. c aisieting of wish to reach. Teams with or without drivers. Prompt serv - ice. C. A. Cobbs,' G. A. Thenate anti E. Itathbone was appointed to mile -ass the Express and Dray Orders Promptly Done valley and obtain the signatures of ke , land owners to the contract which will XXXXXX 2 .P, he done - early next week. A committee of twe on right ef way the reservation wee also appoint- ed. On thin committee are aid Rank- in and J. AV. Vandivier. who will com- mence their work at owe. ; , In icconvermation with Mr. Hair after , thermeeting ieljeented that gliatleman s-a.a. below a.a.a.kaakkkaaa.aaaaaata • • • The Tribune for Job Printing ••• • • IL • • • • • • • • • • V. • ; The Haaser Lake dam WM 490 feet long and 70 feet high, and was con- structed of steel and masonry and one of the finest structures of its kind in 'the world, was completed last year eta coet . of more than $2.000,000, and developed a horsepower of 25,000 which was utilized in operating the various power plants in Heikki' and the Butte mines and the Amalgamated Copper company's smelter plants Anaconda. The construction of the dam created a lake covering 20 square miles, and as a result of the break in the dam has caused the water in the lake to recede rapidly. The dam will be immediately re- built and will he a greater and stronger strnct ore, Manager Enright of the Family theater has made a find She is Miss ; Anne Stewart, who has been participat- ing in the performance amatenr night. She give.) a skirt dance, a serpentine dance and Kings popular songs. It is safe to say that tBillings has never seen a performer, who could get - the money, if properly touted on a large vaudeville stage, as Mime Stuart. She is lunch after the fashion of the famous Cherry sisters, only far ahead of them. Her performing is such that no man or woman who sees it can not help but forget all else. That she is an attraction at the Family is shown by the large attendance when she is advertised to appear. Agriculture in Montana. Daring recent years attention has been drawn to the possibilities of agri- culture in Montana. and in -every sec- ; tion of the state save the mountainous regions, farming will the chief in- I dnstry of the Treasure State fie all - thne to come, mays an exchange. Montana was named the \Treasure ; State.*W5 prestune. on account of the fart that its wealth is largely made np ; of mountains of aipper. gold and sap- phires. Little was thoaght of ttgri- caltnre at the time when that app I Miss Stuart is a newspaper WOILIall and a printer. She formerly conduct- ed a paper fn Bear Creek, but it is safe to say that if she - continues as she hie) started she will be able to muke more money on the vaudeville stage tha4 in the noel -vapor busi- ness.. - -Billi Gazette. The Year The State Grows. • Announcement by railway men that' tranecoetinental roads operating in thie mid adjacent states will bring the-ttiand botneseeker excursions to Montana this fail means another increase in popn- Teton. This class of settlers is the high- est the commonwealth can secure. They are. as as a rule, of the sturdy middle class. Ability to make the trip preesapposes some means. They come. not to speculate. but to bnilehomes and develop farms. After a year or so. they bring in their train all those trad- ers and dames which minister to their wants and they eonstitute additions that will endure So long It8 tiff) nation endures. \ I It would be interesting to note. .if the figures were readily obtainable, the towns that have sprung up in this state since the last census wet; taken. The reapportionment of congressional dis- tricts should give Montana another vote in the electoral college and another congressman. The state has not ad - yawed by leaps and bounds, but its growth has been permanent and its future has never been brighter than it is this year, when restricted candlitions east • ere driving the enterprising into this section of the United States.-- Butte Inter -Mountain. The Rig Horn vpller ehnnld come in mountains, its greatest treasures Will come, from the soil, as the result of the labors of the husbandman. Agriculture being theoldemt of the arts, and, conducted by the most con- servative . clam of people,' is naturally the hardest to persuade into new grooves and methods, and until the last few years there has been little or no fundamental change in farming. Machinery has been improved, but not on the farm, and the only effect of modern machinery has been to en- large the extent of ground which one can cultivate, and thereby te reduce the cost of cultivation. The advent of modern machinery has not brought any change from tra- ditional Methods or ideas, but one effect has been, indirectly to improve the conditions of the farmers, so that they have had less of pinching times and have been better able to spare the boys and girls train the farm to attend the agricultural schools and univer- sities. They have returned .to the home- steads filled with new ideas and meth- ods, and are making changes such as have never been known in the history of husbandry. At the farmers' institutes the Peden - - title terme which are lavishly used would , have been incomprehensible jargon te the farmer of thirty yeers ago. In the old days the farmer who kept a dairy milked the cows, sold the milk, and that wan all there was \-to it. He now studies the chemistry of food products to determine how to get the right content of butter fat, and he knows when he is getting it and when' he is. not. Out of all of this scientific enthnsi- Milt agriculture has given only - the first hint of what the progress that is coming in the oldest of the arts will be within the present generation, There i;-; abet - Ant* no doubt that I with Montana sunehine,' - with an I abundance of witter for irrigtethm, with mixlern method.) of . coi?eerziag the moisture for dry farming an With scientific methods in all of its phases applied, the Treasnre State will take rank with - the leading agricultural states of the union. - tion was bestowed upon it. In future for ft good share of new people looking years, however, while gold, copper, mil- for homes in the west.. In this valley ver, coal, sapphires etc. will still be we have the land, the soil, the, climate, dug from the everlasting hills and and everything required to e a cality attractive to the I I seenktr. But we must ithove life and •activity. Few people care to settle in a commun- ity where there is 'nothing doing.\ It is within the power of the peoph4 now here to start the ball to rolling and make this one of the busiest and most attractive communities in the entire west. Put your shoulder to the wheel and push and Weed for the immediate construction of the. irrigation system for the valley, and that once started thte rest of the good things will emus i* rapid succession. I., J. B. Herford Sheriff. Saturday morning the board of coun- ty commissioners appointed J. B. Her - ford sheriff to succeed Jamas T. Webb, the appointment going into effect, at once. Ifferford was a member of . the posse that surrounded the murderer . of ex -Sheriff Webb in the sheep wagon on the Thompson ranch, and stormed the wagon with bullets until Bickfourd finally succumbed. He is a derhocrat and has resided iu Billings since 1888, land has filled the office of county Maur - - l imy and was for six years city attiritey for Billings. The newly appointed slier iff is well known and highly regarded I in Yellow4om. county • and announces that he will follow the policy of Sheriff Webb for the strict enforcement of the law. Some serprise resulted from the Iseleetien of Mr. Hem -ford by the board, at that body is composed of two repub- licans and one democrat, and was reas- onable to' sam»se that the majority would select; a man el their own polit- ical faith. in this instance tha matter of politics appeare tehave been dropped and the selection made with a view to fitness and qualification. Bankers Oppose Measure. • The Aldrich currency bill now being Icensidereel by the heuse committee on ' bunking and currency has met with op- poiition from the clearing housee and national banks in practically every city in the country. Even the state banks and, the trust companies which 'are not' directly calcyrned in the act have voic- ed their diepleasure at the proposed law. A canvass of the national banks et , the country .-thlws practically every one On the Vaudeville Stage. team the result of the Aldr!eh ae; if it heroines a le w. Tee me e prominen t exception t ) this - -the only large city institution which favors the hill—is a large Washington • institution, which has millions of gevernment bond; ie its vaults., - • • , There are some bauksre throaglwat ' the canary whoedineugh opseettel ta , the bill hi some places, aro willing to accept it as a temporary geerd against * repetition of the recent panic,' bat the majority declare it to he not ••inly a useless bat a harmful meesare. • Even duets who look ripen the ..art i as it passible measure of relief declare it must be ehanged in nattily details to evade iejary t 1 the financial' elude ' tions. Tee opp osittea centers on sec- . none 8 and 11 of the act. The that named sectioa is that which provides that the t, etntry hunks carry• 12 per east of taeir cash reeere_, in their vaults, and the last named or hibits the invastuaent of any. baalee . fends in it corporation or association in which the .officers if filo bank are interested. The reserve provision, the opposing bankers declare, woald mean the • with. .drawal of large amounts of cash -from circalateet and would result only in a greater stringency. The only 'hanks I 8!' that will net les.,42jara.l by this- pre- viseee the ban'eers of the smaller cities say, are th ev. in the lame reserve cities, such as New York and Chicago. They declare that the only person ti gain if this section becomes a law will be the- large bondhaltlere. who teeaki tedoed to baild up extra reserves. . Section 11, referthig tm tile Item to • corperetione ia wiach the bank 0.2i- ; ; vials are interested, is oppueeel Oa tee ; ground that mm wiii force the reargue ieation or the directeratee of 'vett- c.dly all of the 'large carp eratiotta They add that this provision wonkl Work ; against the seleetiaa of high chit; bale- : new+ 'num as national bent - threetees, in that they would Dot be winkle t : give up, their can:le:44e ov.th proeSte ljnstitutimui in order to qualify as hdd- era of office in the honk direct eretes. The banke . rs. under t•:14 leksi of - th ae • in the larger valet are beteltag erery effort to defeat ehe mateare. Trio ften- store and cangreeemen faint ceeh dia trict are being argeel ee date it it a El the clearing ha-ree weaseattoae many et thhcLtI IsevO preeera 1. to !send delegatiens to Wathinet me:slew test ti thehOefeeereinmittete •••. P•7s bar
