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THE MINERAL INDEPENDENTTheftmLedWatch ThoumELNOSOMEWHERE In America today there is an ancient fold watch— a rare heirloom piece—which fig-ured in a train of events that ended with the death of two men Cu*ter massacre in June,1876. Billy Mitchell of Livingston tells the story Biliy came to Montana in 1874: in the summer he chopped wood for the steamboats Benton-bound up the Missouri river; in winter he hunted buffalo for their hides. He was in east-Montana and in North DakotaIneidduring the time of the events involving the watch—even then an ancienttimepiece“It was in 1874,” says Billy, “that a surveying crew scouting the route of the proposed Northern Pacific railway was camped at an old cantonment north of the Yellowstone and a littlebelow where Glendive now stands. A detachment of troops under Custer'scommand was military guard for the surveyors. In the Northern PacificMy was ‘ a verterinarian namedzinger.•Both civilians and soldiers were .. orders not to leave camp while the preliminary survey was unde except In working partiesquate guard “But Holtzinger and the camp chafed under the restrictioris. They wanted some excitement. One daj they left camp, Intending to go a littleH. They got to chasing antelope soon were some distance away northwest of where Glendlve now Is A band of renegade Sioux, looking foi trouble, came upon them. Both rher were killed.or men to the agency to cause of the delay. Yateslearnthere but few days when the I appeared again. The trader pointed him out to Reynolds, and when he again entered the post he was gra and turned over to Captain Yate the senior officer present.bbed as44aptain Yates prepared for immed iate departure for Port Lincoln, buCAPT. TOM CUSTERBrother of Gen. George A. Custer, who was sent to Standing Rock agency to arrest Rain-in-the-face.“When they failed to return to camp a detachment was sent in search ol them. They were found mutilated and robbed. The bodies were returned tccmo and buriednotipif i*4Holtzlnger’s relatives-in an eastern state wrote to Custer that their unfortunate relative had carried a highly {prized gold watch, a family heirloom; they would like very much that It be recovered and returned to them. Orderswere sent to all posts to be on the lookout for it.‘In the fall of 1875 an Indian entered the poet at the Standing Rockagency in South Dakota and proffered* *or sle or trade for goods.The post trader suspected it was the ioltzinger watch. He stalled the Indian off, and sent word to Custer that te had reason to believe he could reoyer the watch and get a wanted prisoner at the agency.“General Custer, then at Port Lincoln, sent his brother, Capt. Tom Custer, and Pud din'head Charley Reynolds to Standing Rock to get the watch and bnng in the prisoner. Charley Reynolds was a scout who died fighting with Reno's command at the Custer massacre. The men remained for sometime at the agency, but the Indian did not show up again.Becoming impatient, General Custer sent Captain Yates and a* detachment, a note was handed him which said: *“ Do not leave the post tonight/ “Yates heeded the warning andSaced the prisoner under heavy guard, the morning he received another note warning him to stay in the open and away from the badlands for the safety of himself and his men.“Subsequent investigation revealed that an Indian girl, educated at Carlisle, had written the notes after discovering the plot of several braves to waylay and massacre Captain Yates' party and rescue the prisoner. The girl had been much with white people,lained, and didn't want to see ite men killed.detachment returned safely to Port Lincoln and the watch was returned to Holtzinger’8 relatives.‘The Indian thief was placed in them before „ Rain-in-the - Facewho later was to gain considerable fame. * I“Capt. Tom Custer took, a violent dislike to the Indian, and when he was | in charge of the guard and handlinglt;41guar he *Rangers Let Their HairDown and Tell Some ofSeason’s Prize Bonerspm. a Yeuoiaone pSk it I K'M” CP“tures th.down from the season-long barrage of tourist questions and let the cat out ____„visitors pSf. about the toners” the | the bears out?”This year’s award for the most fool-A stock question the rangers have to“What time do they letold as the custom is with the bearsranger-naturalists have a hardi S2£ g,7.»”sy°be,leve *•=can I see the talking bear? After sheYellowstonecertainwas explained that not a bear but \a I floating on the watfer at iranger-naturalist would do the talk- Ss and not nlh fSo/°Uen fr0mcouldiiv pvil 1VOUI AAA VAAV pVW RVmost menial degrading tasks he I devise. Rain-in-the-Face resentedguarcnsoners, he put Rain-in-the-Face; menial deg ise. Rain-in-1 gled out for Tom Custer:yoialso in the guard houseBILLY MITCHELLwoodchopper, railroad worker and trader, now a prominent citizen of Livingston.At Mammoth Hot Springs a manWm? studying the terraces uouwerbuilt through the years by the hot lowstone.springs suddenly asked; “Is there a “What’s that? lime factory on that hlU? | poj^J 5Wa m Hu?* on Sky-Hooks I resting in solitudA motorist on his way to visit theGrand canyon of the Yellowstone I ^erwanted to know “which side of theriver is the cannon on?course, there’s the hardyd gag about the glacial • the canyon of the Yel-99asked a tourist,inting to the huge, roundish boulder ting in solitude among some trees.‘That’s a glacial boulder/* the ran-14that reminded a ranger of thea lady to atime he was directing scenic point. He had told her to followveil, where’s the glacier? Gone back for more boi• ” '■ !■ij 6 ■' i mi itWi99ww 'w w ~ — m* m mm rnmm w-w — mm mm--mm —— W Wbeing singled out for humiliation, and he told Tom Custer:* 4Some day 111 cut vourman named Han _ nown along the frontier followed the popular pastimeappropriating to himself every piece ofcould get hisgovernment property hands on. The onlyon. The only thing that____s^iished him from his friends was the fact that he was unfortunate enoughwas beinger. Hanna’s friends didn't want him to go to Leavenworth prison, for he really was a likeable fellow. Spies discovered the guard routine, and a purse was made up to bribe a certain soldier to be ‘looking the other way’ on his tour of night duty on po6t.Hanna’s friends rusned the guard house and secured their comrade. They discovered they would also have to Rain-in-the-Face, too, becausetrail f ______bridge. “Which side of the river is? bithe Dridge on? she asked A ranger who hadof tourists the figi _of the Upper and Lower uusYellowstone river was at a loss to answer this one—“Well, how high would that be at a lower altitude?~ puzzle visitors25 TEACHERS RETIREDThe state teachers’ retirement board at a recent meeting approved the applications of 25 public school teachers for retirement andjust given a group Placed ll Others on the disability Hat The res Of the height I relt!red *e*chers. It was stated, would re-Xwer falls Of the Pensions of approximately $450 a year.A ranger explaining: that It had takenyears to build Old Faithful’s coneWOMEN WHO HOLDcould be removed to Fargo for trial In the spring of 1876 Hanna ancchains. Safely away from the fort chains were cut. Hanna’s friends-Face were chained togethVaudeville Showas Political CampaignAid Introduced hy Claggett in 1870 - - -THE VAUDEVILLE Show as an Aid to a political campaign wasintroduced into Montana in 1870 by William H. Claggett, whoused to be described as “the republican who was elected to congress by Montana democrats. Claggett, who had been prominent in Nevada politics before coming to Montana,shared with James Cavanaugh the reputation of being the best stump?FTaker 1,1 the northwest at that time. When, however, he ran for terriiorialrepresentative for congress againstWarren Toole, he diri rwused for assistance rendered escaslaves dv northern abolitionists end that they might not be capturedthat d—m song wereplyingThepenalties ____runaway slaves.4 Shady song was not popular with the left wing of Price's army,to which many of the early residentsof Montana had belonged.When Claggett arrived at Diamond City Meagher county trading post and mining camp, with his entourage, the committee of local republicans backing his candidacy started out to find asingers andbarred** uClaggett came to Montana in 1867 and settled in Deer Lodge, engaging in the practice of law. Trie following year he toured the territonr with ColMcClure of the PhiladelphiaTimes, making political speeches, ing which time ne made many friendsand achieved a reputation as a speak' was Col. W.uxk care of him, 1— ---------Face was left to shift for himself. He dicta t care about returning to the standing Rock agency to surely be returned to imprisonment, so he struckfor the hills.“He joined Sitting Bull's forces, andfollowed that leader into the Custer battle. v ^“After the battle the threat of Rain-in-the-Face to cut out Tom Custer s heart was recalled. For Captain Custer s heart had been cut away, and his bodywhitilMriitllated. #“Rain-in-the-Face knew, too, the soldier who had ‘looked the other way’ while on guard when the Indian and Hanna were taken from the guard house. That soldier died in the Custer battle, but when his body was foundit was not mutilated, and a ooat had been thrown over the face to protectit from Him.Rain-in-the-Face accomplished hisnge upon his tormentor, and repaid—---A M4V4UU4 O LVAlV,was stumped when one of his audience commented, “Then it isn’t natural!”Playing with FireA lady was watching an electrically-illuminated eruption of Old Faithfulone night and was heard to assureher son. “No, they didn’t light a match to It.A geyser water swimming pool, quite a bit like the pool In the park In your own home town except that it is fed*waler from a geyser, bringsl°rth a lot of queries.it erupt?” asked one young who wanted to make sure she taking no chances. Anothpr whenTHEIR MENNEVER LET THEM KNOWit was suggested that she swim in the pool, ageyser pool, askedous?*«Sanders who afterwards that he was elected to congresshv Mnntono , lt;1nma rnend as best he could by providmt: protection for his dead bodv r5aitliful '****’ the best individual drawing card in the park apparently has lost its attraction for one lady who had seen it beforeWatching Old Faithful spout to its maximum height and then die away_]Jur^Ph, just the same as last yeaI Tie bears also cause a lot of queri by tourists who can't seem to reali are wild animals roaming at larMNO matter how much your back ache* and your nerves scream, your husband, because ho is only a man, can never understand why you are so hard to live with one week in every month.Too often the honeymoon express is wrecked by the nagging tongue of a three-quarter wife The wise woman never lets her husband know by outward sign that she is a victim of periodic pain.For t hree generations one woman has told another how to go ‘ smiling through with Lydia E. Pink-ham’s Vegetable Compound. Ithelps Nature tone up the system, thus lessening the discomforts from the functional disorders which women must endure in the three ordeals of life: 1. Turning from girlhood to womanhood. 2. IVe-paring for motherhood 3. Approaching middle age ”Don't be a three-quarter wife, take LYDIA K. PINK HAMS VEGETABLE COMPOUND andGo “Smiling Througlmm — i___a
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Superior Mineral Independent
Superior, Montana, US
Thu, Sep 30, 1937
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