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SOO LINE’S TAXES ARE MORE THAN THE INCOMESecurity Building & Loan Assn, of Billings OLD COYOTE WAS

Has Plan Which Satisfactorily Solves the AN ARMY SCOUT Investment Problems of Today

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Asserting the taxes of the Soo line in Montana exceeded its gross earnings in the state last year, representatives of the road appealed to the state board of equalization recently for a “very j material” decrease in the assessment on its property.

George Kingsley and Harry Thomp­son, Minneapolis attorneys, told the board the gross earning of the carrier in Montana amounted to $17,671 last year, while the taxes totaled $24,116.

They declared the net operating in- I come of the entire Soo line dropped from $3,849,115 in 1930 to $110,031 in 1931.

Entering Montana at Westby, the Soo line extends for about 50 miles across Sheridan county to Whitehall, in Dan­iels county.

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FOR YEARS THEY CONTROLLED TRADE IN EASTERN PART OF

MONTANA TERRITORY

FATHER OF ACTOR SAYS GEN. j MILES WAS GREAT COMMANDER

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sociation at Lewistown recently.Among the speakers were the state I

president, Mrs. R. C. Paxson of Mis- i soula; the district president, Mrs. R g Keister of Lewistown;(By PROF. PAUL E. PHILLIPS)

The American Fur company was for many years the greatest power the fur trade of eastern Montana. John Jacob Astor had organized it in 1808 but it was not until 1822 that he established a western department at St. Louis. Bernard Pratte and Pierre Chouteau made many trips up the Missouri and understood the

i great resources of furs in this region.I For 20 years fur traders had passed I the mouth of the Yellowstone unno-

More Road Oiling in State jticed- Ifc w’as ProbaWy Pierre ChouteauRalph D. Rader, chief engineer of the who saw its possibilities. Thei nrst rec

Montana highway commission, reports : ord of a fort here was in 18 further road oiling operations in the { wjs then called Fort y • state by road crews of the commission. | time later it was renamed Port U . In addition to the work between East j Kenneth McKenzie wa® Hi reefed Helena and Winston, road oiling will ( of this region and he probably di e be done in Cascade and Pondera coun- the building of the fort- ties, from Langley’s Corner to Dupuyer, best post on the Missouri a a distance of 90 miles. Oiling will be the(best m the west. It was 240 by 220 done in Roosevelt county from Culbert- feet long and had two huge bastions son to the North Dakota line, a stretch 30 feet high. It was supplied with glass of about 20 miles. In Yellowstone coun- I windows, a fireplace and all modern ty the read from Billings to Custer will I conveniences,” and even contained a be oiled. This is a distance of about 60 j distillery which furnished liquor for the miles. The oiling operations are in- Indian trade. . .tended to keep down dust, form a crust From Fort Union trade was push on the road surface and prevent grid- up the Missouri and up the -ironing. stone. In the fall of 1830 McKenzie

sent an expedition into the Blackfoot country. After going some distance up the Marias they met the Blackfeet, and through the mediation of an old trad­er, won their promises of friendship.

The next year the Americans con­structed Piegan post at the mouth of the Marias and started active com­petition with the British for the Black - foot trade. The Americans used al-

j cohol to win the Indians and the Brit­ish did the same. Piegan pest was soon

! burned but the Americans built a larg- I er post up the Marias which they nam- ied Fort McKenzie. For several years this was the headquarters for the Blackfeet trade..

About 1843 Port McKenzie was abandoned • for Fort Chardon at the mouth of the Judith. This was not a good location and a new post was built about 18 miles above the present

(Bv WILSON A. RUSSELL)LD COYOTE was born at Huntley,

the Yellowstone river 73 years

Miss Lois H Troumbley of Great Falls and c. G Ü Manning of Lewistown.

Mrs. W. Scott of Great Palls

The plan of the Security Building & Loan Association of Billings, Montana, offering as it does, absolute safety, the best dividend return possible with safety and availability of funds in case of need, satisfactorily solves the problems of the average investor who has from a few hundred dollars to several thousand j ago. dollars and who desires to receive these very essential benefits. Effective April ■ I had often heard of Old Coyote and 1st, 1932. all membership and service fees were entirely eliminated by the Secur- ; his sendee in the army, so one day I ity Building & Loan Association, thus making available the unexcelled service decided to take advantage of my ac- of this strong institution to everyone without cost. When comparing the record quaintance with him and I visited his of the Security with all other types of investments available during the past few home in St. Xavier and persuaded him years, it has proved to be without question, the very best for those who to go with me down on the banksox wish to receive the maximum earnings possible with absolute safety and con- the Big Horn river for a picnic. The

i old gentleman was glad to go, and, after a bountiful lunch, cigars were passed and Old Coyote announced that

• j he was ready to talk.** We had a most enjoyable visit. He

j j told me how, as a boy, he had seen I plenty of buffaloes—big herds would 1 sometimes require two weeks to cross I the river; one herd he distinctly re-

j members took three weeks to cross.He was in Yellowstone valley at the

time of the Hay Corral fight. Reports of the fight differ. Some say there were some 2,000 Indians fighting; others claim there were 25 Indians. Old Coy­ote says he got his information from the Sioux and that there were 200 or 300 Indians in the battle.

Be that as it may, it was one of the greatest Indian fights in history. Nine soldiers and 10 civilians stood off a band of Indians from 9 o’clock in the

1 {morning until 6 in the evening, when the Indians were glad to retire. Three

Interior view of the home office of Security Building & Loan Assn., Billings i white men were killed, and Old Coyote

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waselected secretary and Mrs. Cassandra Mm Phelps of Hobson, publicity chairman M

Missoula’s invitation for the meeting was indorsed.

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First Hail Storm ReportedState Hail Commissioner E. K. Bow­

man who is visiting farming sections in the southern part of the state on matters relating to hail insurance in a letter mailed to his office at the cap­ital reports the first hail storm of the t*i season in the Hardin, Big Horn county region. He wrote that a heavy rain and hail storm took place there recently. || Crops are not high enough at this sea- son to be injured by hail, but the rain did some damage to roads. He also said that the farming season is much ad­vanced and that the grass is better »1B than it has been for years at this sea- ilS son. ’

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marketing associations showed a com­bined increase in membership of more than 30 percent during the past year, and did a gross business of more than 22 million dollars, according to J. j. Tobin, state director of markets. Com­modities produced by members of these associations included grain, sugar beets, vegetables, turkeys, milk, creamery products, onions, potatoes^ wool, seed potatoes, melons, fruit, live­stock and poultry.

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Three Road-Oiling Crews Working Three road-oiling crews of the state

highway department are at work and a fourth will soon begin operations, Ralph D. Rader, chief engineer, said recently. Oiling is in progress on about 20 miles of road between Culbertson, in Roosevelt county, and the North Da­kota line, in the vicinity of Billings and between East Helena and Winston. The crew at Billings will oil the road from Billings to Custer, a distance of about j 60 miles. The fourth crew will oil from j Langey’s corner, in Cascade county, to 1 Dupuyer, in Pondera county, a distance of about 90 miles.

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venience. Hundreds of people have taken advantage of this plan during the past few months, opening up passbook accounts for the accumulation of savings or making a lump sum investment of amounts from $50 up to several thousand dollars.

The Security Building & Loan Association of Billings has successfully with­stood the acid test of time and conditions as a sound and profitable investment for a period of over thirteen years, and has throughout this period maintained its excellent service for thousands of members. The principal of Building & | Loan is fundamentally sound, and this coupled with the unusual conservative j policies and management of the Security Building & Loan Association, makes it j outstanding among financial institutions in the entire northwest and it has become Montana’s largest Building & Loan Association.

A large percentage of the business carried on with the Security Building & Loan Association is by mail, and the service of this strong institution can be had for your savings and investments simply by dropping a card or letter in the nearest postoffice. Under the Security Plan, investing by mail becomes safe, convenient, and profitable as well as strictly confidential.

The unexcelled record of the Association, its conservative and efficient man­agement. and its present splendid financial condition, gives a real meaning to its slogan "Save and Invest Your Money With the SECURITY and be Safe.”

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DilimPhillips Farmers Busy Seeding

Beet seeding is in full swing in Phil­lips county after a delay of nearly threeweeks because of rain. About one-third I Fort Benton and named Port Lewis, of the beet farmers had beets planted ! Soon this post was moved down the before the rains started and their crops I river and in 1850 was renamed Fort are growing rapidly. Frosts failed to Benton in honor of Senator Benton of hurt the seedlings and danger of se- Missouri, the champion of the fur vere frosts is believed over.

Dry land farmers find farming con­ditions ideal. Wheat is reported up in McKenzie in 1830 built Fort Cass at some sections of the county but most | the mouth of the Big Hern. As the of the farmers have delayed because ' trade shifted, other posts were erected of late issuance of seed loan checks.

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tai If the0227 First Ave. So., Seattle, WashingtonJ Of the 9,548 births registered by the

state board of health last year, 8,954 were of the white race and 594 of other races.

A classification compiled by Lucien L. Benepe, deputy register of vital sta­tistics, shows 519 Indians, 50 Mexicans. 12 Japanese, 2 Chinese and 1 Filipino,

i Glacier county led in Indian births,; with 90, while Roosevelt was second, with 88, and Big Horn third, with 83. Indian births ace listed, for 21 coun­ties.

Sixteen Mexicans were born in Yel­lowstone county and nine in Carbon. The two Chinese births were in Lewis and Clark and Silver Bow counties. The latter was the birthplace of the one

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from time to time. Fort Van Buren at the mouth of the Tongue river was built in 1835 and abandoned in 1843. Port Alexander was erected opposite

says 40 Indians were killed. He visited | effort to make it. t*le mout*1 F-o^bud about 1839the battleground a month later and |______________ ;______________ and abandoned in 1850.saw the bodies of 8 or 10 Indians. i _ . The last American Pur company post

Five Years in the Army j Beware of all vast schemes of re- on the Yellowstone was Fort Sarpy,Old Coyote served for five or six j forming mankind. Such things arc done built about 1850, some 25 miles below

years in the army, was in three fights | Piecemeal. the mouth of the Big Horrp It wasagainst Indians but never heard of old Covnto th* mninn nrim abandoned about 1860. The fur tradethe Crows fighting the whites. He ° ,yC ^ from Ts a °n the upper Missouri declined afterheard about the gold expedition from nJ"ly carne t1?™ Asla’ tney werei 1837. By 1860 there were only two Bozeman to Wolf mountain in 1873. He retain3snmp°nr^ ft™/^ n°Wl P°sts in Montana: Union and Benton,was with General Miles in a battle at old Cwote Ls hved a long and use Union was t0 fali in rUinS bUt FOrtthe head of Clark’s fork with the fl n^^d has Lve^been olid bv the Benton was to survive as the head of

nmrt°ne Hrawpahwe Wifh General government for the suffering has steamboat navigation on the Missouri,officer was killed. He was with General ° ^«i- 4-i_endured in behalf of the white man.Ciook at the Battle of the R>osebud. ttq • 11.. fnfvm*. _r ■ i_;i.j„ „ j■mere he was wounded in the right îîep °f 9sf cbl^r“fshoulder, a bullet passing through his ^ ^father of One of insbody. Prom that time on his right arm Ä

_ u,, •»„■j tt pii ucatea man. He entered school at theMi es wa8s U ePgreates?and be?t gen Crow A^ency wben he was 7 years old, cral he ever mef spent four years there’ four years afc

People are prone these days to crit- and was graduatedize Indians and young people are ^e Ba-skeU institute four yearstaught that all good IndianTare dead, enqulvalent a, 127grad®Here is an Indian that left his red an engmeer by’trade andbrother and fought with the white man ^l!1 at Croaw Agency/ Hf10 days before the Custer battle. He * h Ag6nCy SChO0\saw Taylca- after his jaw was shot off ^ be J°»Md the movies-spent when he tried to go over a ridge. The *" Hollywood: r®ntel,aSioux made a run for him,, but the ““age and lived m the suburbs. His bugler sounded a charge and the sol- J? f f,tarred, 111 ^ Indlan Play, Be- diers dragged him back just ahead of Wtut« Came,” Barneythe Sioux. Old Coyote was wounded p«1 o PartJ>fT^e Indlan vlUlanin the next charge. The Sioux were t , . ^.?y®re<l Wagon, fighting for land. They drove the m Thf, Eagla and phe PawnCrows cut of their own country, and 'vas Paftly photographed m thewhen General Miles and others at- ™°untams.tempted to disarm them they went on uCoyote„fee s ,tdat plle Indlansthe warpath. | have been well cared for by the gov-

In discussing Indian customs. Old ' anci are bettei\ off than theyCoyote informed me that in the early I, years ago. The white mandays matrimony was a simple thing ;ba? done the prows justly by help- among the Indians. A man and wo- i î0!,10 retam the land and liveman simply agreed to get married and j „ *tamy’ .proceeded to live together. If they did ,„hPPS :SmaP,,Scott Leavitt recently not get along well, they agreed to part 1 educed a bill in the house of

and she went her way and he went his.There were no court fees and no law­yer. This accounts for the relation­ship among the Indians being so mixed.

RESOLUTION PASSED BY RETAIL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION AT

HELENA ASK REDUCTIONS

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and every man owes the world the wa:iiIf” (By Our Helena Correspondent) ! oldl

HELENA—Resolutions asking city, county and school officials of Helena and Lewis and Clark county to re­duce expenditures by at least 10 per­cent were passed at a meeting of the Helena Retail Merchants exchange.The resolution recited that other

businesses have been forced to curtail overhead costs and there is no reason j Filipino. The 12 Japanese births were why public officials, supported by tax- | registered in 10 counties, payers, should not do likewise. Copies were mailed to the city commissioners, county commissioners and the Helena school board.

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Reductions in Dawson county of 10 percent in the assessed valuation of grazing lands and 20 percent in that of non-irrigated farm lands and town lots have been ordered by the state board of equalization.

The board has also ordered a cut of from 10 to 15 percent in the taxable value of dry tillable lands in Prairie county. After taking this action at Glendive and Terry recently the board held a hearing at Billings on proposed assessment reductions in Yellowstone county.

j Scattering a hatful of gold nuggets j over the governor's desk, “Bud” Story 1 of Bozeman, more formally known as I Nelson Story Jr„ recently provided I striking evidence of the productivity of Madison county’s gold deposits.

Story and his associates are here for a conference regarding their operations on state land. In the chamois bag the former lieutenant governor carried to show his friends at the capitol that the sands of the famous Madison coun­try are not yet panned out, were nug­gets ranging from the size of a pea to nearly as large as a crab apple. He said the value of the lot was somewhere between $900 and $1,000.

Great Northern Asks for ReductionsDeclaring the assessed valuation of

the Great Northern railway’s property in Montana should not exceed $60,000,- 000 for 1932, representatives of the road told the state board of equalization the gross revenue of the system in 1931 was 26.58 percent less than that of 1930. Last year, the valuation of the line in this state was fixed at $86,794,824. The board also heard the application of the Burlington railway for a cut in the as­sessment. Figures were presented to show the road’s net operating income throughout the system decreased from $27,956,064 in 1930 to $20,506,917 in 1931.

Another resolution condemned the proposed increase in postage rates on first class matter and telegrams will be sent Montana's congressional dele­gation. Frank Bogart spoke on the proposition, pointing out that first class mail now is handled by the gov­ernment at a profit of $50,000,000 a year.

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Bank of Great Fails MALT. . rep­resentatives to provide for a pension for Old Coyote, J'An opinion of the Cascade county

attorney’s office that a bond issue can­not bo issued to pay operating expenses and to cover expense of taking care of the poor is agreed in by the office of Attorney General L. A. Foot, it was learned recently. The issuance of such a bond issue was considered by the county commissioners with a view of spreading costs over a period of years rather than making a large tax levy for poor purposes in any one year.

The Cascade county commissioners submitted the matter to the county at­torney with a view of determining whether issuance of such bonds would be permissible.

Last year a heavy levy was made for poor fund purposes and in the opin­ion of the board, according to the county attorney’s letter to Mr. Foot, an equal levy this year might result in many taxpayers being unable to pay their taxes. If this levy could be cut down or partly eliminated, the board is of the opinion that many more peo­ple could pay their taxes and further the sale of the proposed bonds would provide sufficient funds to care for the poor.

In response to the letter of Cascade County Attorney Frank P. Gault, Mr. Foot wrote as follows;

“I have your letter regarding a pro­posed bond issue to cover the expense

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I spent the entire afternoon visiting with Old Coyote, and he told me the legend of the creation of man as hand­ed down by tradition among the In­dians. It doesn’t vary much from the story given us in the book of Genesis.

It seems that the Great Spirit took some mud and a little sand, mixed them together and moulded it into the form of a man. He breathed into it the breath of life, and in that way man was created.

The Indian, through his tradition, has a good story of the biblical flood. He says that once the earth was cover­ed with water, as is proven by seashells and petrified fish frequently found tops of the mountains.

The Crows have wandered as far south as old Mexico, and it is said that frequently on the sand plains they found seashells they think must have been deposited at the time of the flood.

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