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T m te Ipokane, a Montana Horse, Won Famous Derby th dinner Ran Against Proctor Knott, an Eastern Favorite, in the Eighties te ace Was Acclaimed to be Most Exciting in Annals of Derby, Was Run in Fastest Time Ms c.------(By HOMER FAUSX) his history, were willing to back him let his steed out for the first time and Jseen that Proctor Knott was beaten i m I “A dozen jumps from the wire it was with hard cash. But the “wise money” the Montana horse responded like the I Kile^’s whip ceased its cruel urging, but I a m ;en that Proctor Knott was beaten, in the east refused to take him ser- superb king he was, sweeping from sev- the rowels of Bames still dug bloody i D. I MORRISON IS DAUGHTERS ARE IV n they came, stride for stride, head 10Yÿy' . enth to third and then to second before furrows in the sides of his mount On i t ’ for head. Then, with a mighty last ef­ This indifference was largely due to the back stretch of the second half- they came, stride for stride, head for fort, lunged ahead and passed the fact that the greatest horse of the mile was reached. head. Then, with a last mighty effort CALLED BY DEATH HEITMAN HEIRS I »Hinder the wire winner by a head!” year, winner of the Futurity and other Still the mighty Proctor Knott held Spokane lunged ahead and passed I And a Montana horse had won the important turf contests, Bryant’s Proc- to his lead, several lengths in front of der the wire winner by a head Proctorun- - , America’s greatest tor Knott, was numbered in the list of Spokane and Sportsman. Entering the Knott pumped out and in second Once NATIONAL MONUMENT WHICH The will of Louis Heitman. pio­ I i ^ïpiorse racing classic, for the first and entries. Prom almost the time of his back stretch, Bames, by an effort, Again four lengths behind, third’Then BEARS HIS NAME IS LOCATED neer stockman who died recently in i i::Mjlast time. entry, the winter books listed him as ! pulled in his mount and the remainder came Hindoccraft, Cassius. Sportsman ON JEFFERSON CANYON ROAD California, was filed in district court I 1 That a Treasure state horse ever so a two-to-one favorite, and only two i of the field immediately began closing and Outbound in the order named at Helena for probate by the co-heirs, N ■ ^distinguished itself at other horses. Young Once Again and | up. Hindoccraft crept by Sportsman Bootmaker bringing up the rear. Time! D A Morrison, well known as the the three daughters of the testator. t ’j __ is not generally Bootmaker, were given the slimmest | and Spokane, but the latter followed 2:344. diseoverêr „f Vainahie Mrs Grace Leuthold of Spokane. y HH known to the new- chance of beating him. him to retain third place. “The result was almost sickening to erties and the cave on the Jefferson Mrs. Corinne Sawyer of Wenatchee, d p| er generations, but Not only was he a Kentucky horse, Now another horse, Once Again, next the vast throng of spectators. Most of canyon road which bean! his name, Wash., and Miss Leila Heitman of y i M any old-time lover but he bore the name of one of Ken- to the favorite in the betting, was given them would rather have seen Spokane died recently from a heart ailment Helena. 5U of horseflesh will tucky s favorite statesman. By Derby his head and showed his flying heels break his neck than the record, and with which he had suffered several The Wl11, dated Feb' 29’ 1932> dis' h M 8S still thrill to the day, with the sons of the Blue Grass to all of the field but Proctor Knott and least of all to win the Derby from years several poses Qf an estate of the value of ..up_ id I memory of one of state betting their shirts and beaver Spokane, the latter once more in sec- Proctor Knott The time is the fastest „ '. i wards of $100,000.” It includes the Heit- t By the greatest races hats on him, the odds had climbed 5 ond place. American derby ever run as it beats ,Morr,son' 79- waa a native of Can- man ranch in Meagher county, stock îr ■I of all turf history, a to -, and not very many takers. Into the last half-mile they swept, the record of 2:36 made by Czar in the ada j! came to Montana as a young jn the Montana Life Insurance com- I |Sj tremendous and In striking contrast were the 1 to 6 and now Bames began to view with derby run at the late meeting of the imaY’ He discovered the cave, consid- i pany. a warehouse and other property M ■j gripping battle in odds against the Montana entry. There misgiving the bulldog tenacity with Blood Horse association.” j ered as one of the state's interesting jn Angeles, agricultural land in '%m ■ which a rank out- had been rumors, though—a few rail which the Montana horse clung behind And so Spokane brought honor, fame i scelllc sf°ts’ wlule developing the Riv- San Bernadino county, California, min- re ■ sider, by sheer cour- birds had witnessed Spokane’s morn- him. For Proctor Knott’s reins were —and. incidentally, considerable wealth i f£Slde Plac“> °!le 01 the “ph 6lainls 01 mg and oil land in Montana, a note for ■ age and stamina, ing workouts with some trepidation— loose now, and he was extending him- —to Montana. It was the one great I ,• e ,y „ ’ ,r year® he “as 06611 i $60.000 executed by the Peshaston :e m I nosed out a bril- and at race time two of the eight self to the utmost of his splendid effort of his career. The courageous I tryJn8,^° j?611 property to the state Lumber and Box company of Washing- Ir, * liant victory over a horses entered were less favored in the strength. [heart that carried him to victory overi°r t0 tlle l6deral government. [ton and a large amount of personal Homer Faust five-to-one favorite betting than the thoroughbred from They went into the back stretch as | the hitherto invincible Proctor Knott1 Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Belle property. 'HI—and broke Kentucky's heart. the west. 20,000 madly yelling spectators stood I was never again to be put to such a j Sutherland of Great Palls, a daughter, | The three daughters who are named The running of the 53th Kentucky Nevertheless, there was little doubt on tb6ir feet and Y^ged their favorite tremendous test. .H- *lng °JL BYtte,’son!, executrices share equally in the estate rlMDerby on May 7 recalls that distant day in the minds of the experts that Proc­ °nr^.They 70011,160 the turn- Brought back to Montana, he was ac- ! 5f5?rge of Mlssoula and Ernest of Great and speciai bequests include a Charles ,if||in the 80’s, when 20,000 dazed spectators The story of that breath taking, heart corded the hero worship that was justly I Russell painting. “The Bear” to a jfflrsaw the little heralded Spokane, prod- tor Knott could breeze through an easy winner. Feeble cheers greeted the ap­ rending finish is better told by that his. Horsemen from every corner of the Although a native of Cape Breton ! grandson. John Heitman Leuthold. an- s. ! net of the western wilds, not only beat sports chronicler of another day, the state journeyed to Twin Bridges to do island in Canada, where he was born i other painting, “The Three Scouts,” to 1- ilthe best the east could offer but shat- pearance on the track of the other seven entries, Cassius, Once Again, Louisville correspondent of the San him honor, and mention of his name June 28, 1852, Mr. Morrison was a de- Mrs. Sawyer, and personal possessions fter the Derby record Francisco Examiner: was alone sufficient to thrill the hearts ; scendant from Scotch ancestry. After j to the grandson. Hearing on the pro- A Sportsman, Bootmaker, Hindoccraft, ^ Spokane was foaled and raised on Outbound and Spokane, but when the “As the head of the stretch was ap- of proud Montanans. That he never I attending public school there, he re- bate petition will be held before Judge |Mthe ranch of Noah Armstrong, near proached, the mighty Proctor began to again so distinguished himself was un- I mained on the farm with his parents 1 a, j. Horskv Mav 14. IMfTwin Bridges. Armstrong had made his handsome Bryant horse came down the falter. Slowly but surely the fleet-foot- important—he had won the Derby and ! until 1871, when he moved to New York j i track a thunderous roar rolled out over ■4- pile in mining and the mercantile Churchill Downs. ed Spokane closed in upon him like a broken the record. He had well earned j and worked for the Champlain lime ; business, .,at Glendale, and the ranch, He was a big horse, and beside him nemesis. Only a length of daylight sep- the right to rest upon his laurels. ( works. He was promoted to superin- j MOISTURE IS BOOM TO ____was a hobby, or rather a necessary ad- Spokane looked like nothing more than arated them, then a half, then as the ------<..------[tendent. In 1873 he moved to Chicago,1 WESTERN SUGAR BEETS HgBjunct to his mam hobby, which was a beautiful colt. But looks were de­ head of the stretch was reached a Oll/f A ¥ ¥ TT TD \T Al fUD I where he spent a year clerking for L. B. the raising of thoroughbred horses. mighty roar went up from the field andIII f\ I .1 I I Ik \| IV till I Shepherd & Co., after which he went ceiving. for the next few minutes, in grandstand. The two horses were blend- i. UlAi T LU Rain recently was the best thing that The ranch was later the property of the words of the chronicler, were to j to Laramie, Wyo., and was employed as has happened to the sugar beet crop of ed in one. Spokane had tipped him 4 m rim 1 IinTOAIT Max Lauterbach, now a resident of “mark a memorable epoch in Ameri­ reached.the mouth of the stretch was A1 MAlfc Pill SUN 1 foreman in erecting a rolling mill. The western Montana since the Missoula H® Dillon, and any motorist who has ever can turf history. Never on that his­ next year he went to Franklin, Idaho, factory was established, said Manager passed over the Vigilante trail from toric spot has there ever been so great and spent a year there as foreman in q. D. Keating of the Amalgamated :||| Butte to Twin Bridges will remember “Then began a lull, the like of which construction of the narrow gauge tun- j Sugar company. I f| it by the big round bam which still a Derby, never has that classic race been run with greater credit to the was never probably witnessed on a race 21 NEW PRISONERS WERE RE­ nel, after the completion of which he j The total acreage, for the Missoula tr $ stands as a weather beaten reminder winner.” track before. Three times and three CEIVED DURING APRIL: 14 PA­ came to Montana, arriving at Glen- . factory will be 9.600 acres this season, ’ of the days when monarchs of the horse dive in May, 1875. I it is announced. This is but a few hun- That evidently was before the days of times three, Barnes poised his whip in ROLED AND 17 DISCHARGED ’y world trotted majestically about its mid-air and brought it down upon the A few weeks after his arrival, Mr.1 dred short of last year. Sufficient beets • ÿji sheltered circular track. the barrier. The red flag which was the starting signal flashed and they flanks of his tiring steed. Proctor Morrison accepted the position of fore- 1 wall be obtained to enable the Missoula Billy Dingley helped raise and train Knott never flinched, but took his pun­ The state prison contained 601 man on erection of the Monroe Silver ' factory to have a long run next win- were off, Hindoccraft in the lead and ■ 1 Spokane, and some old-timers main- ishment gamely. prisoners on May 1 as against 607 a Manufacturing company’s stamp mill ] ter, with a job of producing 300.000 Proctor Knott at his saddle girths, »tain that he rode the famous horse in month ago, and there were only with Bootmaker and Spokane close be­ “On they came, stride after stride. As at Dewey’s flat. He next engaged in j 100-pound bags of sugar, the Derby, though the records give the eight white and two colored women mining on his own account, which he i hind. Bames, a famous jockey, was up they became fairly straightened out in H jockey’s name as Kiley. in the cells, as shown by the month­ continued with fair success until 1890, i on Proctor Knott, and he immediately. the stretch, Kiley began climbing upon and improvements made to make ac­ ly report for April of Warden A. B. when he organized the Jefferson Lime f* The late Henry Wetmore, who for sent his mount to the front. The great Spokane’s neck. His mouth was at Spo- cessible the discovery. Middleton. and Flux company, being a one-third years conducted a hunting lodge on horse had won most of his races by kane's ear when the sixteenth pole was The turnover at the prison during President Roosevelt authorized fed- ÏRed Rock lakes, was a resident of the owner and general manager. The prin- I making the pace so hot during the first reached, whip still undrawn and the the month of April was not very large, | eral inspection of the cave with the Twin Bridges section while Spokane cipal works was at Limespur. Mont., L half that it burned up the field behind sides of his mount still unmarked by 21 new prisoners being received, one idea of making it a national monu­ Is; was a colt, and he assisted in the train­ him. The same tactics, it appeared, i rowels. and offices of the company were in ment. Following the xamination, Sen- returned from parole, two from court Butte. i 'll 3. ing of the little thoroughbred. In an were to be tried again, for in spite of j “Barnes, on the other hand, was ply- and one from Warm Springs. During ! ator Thomas H. Carter prepared a bill . old scrap book owned by him he treas- the fact that Barnes held him in, Proc- I ing both ,catgut and steel, and his des- Feb. 3, 1883, Mr. Morrison married ! asking purchase of the cavern for ■ the same period 14 were paroled and 17 3i ured a yellowed clipping from the San tor was a good two lengths ahead as ' perate riding for a moment seemed to discharged. Miss Isabella Cameron, a native of $45,000. Before the bill passed, Senatcr j 'i Francisco Examiner, bearing a Louis- Nova Scotia, and daughter of D. Cam- | carter died and the measure passed to they went into the first stretch. avail, for Proctor Knott managed to Among the men there were 560 white lü ville date line. It told of the 15th Ken­ The first half-mile was covered at a j poke his white nose a scant half head prisoners. 19 colored and 12 orientals. eron of West Bay, Cape Breton. Mr. j the court of claims, where it still rests. tucky Derby, a memorable race won by terrific pace, and Proctor Knott, Hin- I to the front. Immediately, Kiley flashed » Statistics appended to the report cov­ Morrison was identified with the Ma­ Later Mr. Morrison was appointed is? a noble horse. doccraft and Bootmaker swept by the his whip and then began a bloody tat- ering the past 10 years or more, since sons, up to and including the Royal i custodian of the cave by the late Ste- ;- >ÿ ' Spokane saw little or no action on grandstand in the order named. Sports- too on the parts of both, records were established, showed that Arch degree, and the Odd Fellows. phen T. Mather, director of the na- ’.1 eastern tracks before his great test. man then put in his bid, passing Out­ “There was the silence of death in sentences have been suspended upon The cavern named in Mr. Morrison’s ; tional park service. Mr. Mather visited HP He had raced in the west, however, and honor was discovered in 1889, when he I the cave years ago and said it w’as the bound, Once Again and Spokane . the grandstand. Every eye was watch­ 1,192 prisoners and only 65 have been MS his owner and trainers had the utmost Kiley, Spokane’s game and crafty ing the desperate battle and breathless­ received at the prison for violation of located the Riverside placer claim in most beautiful he had ever seen, urg- |j9| confidence in entering him in the jockey, had been playing a waiting ly awaiting the end. It came soon. the rules. The total paroled was 4,327, Jefferson canyon and organized the1 ing it be made a center for tourist derby. Montana men, too, familiar with game. Now, as Sportsman edged by, he “A dozen jumps from the wire it was and 182 returned from parole, or 4.2 lime and flux company. This was 14 ] travel, percent. miles east of Whitehall. In the lower part of the cave is heard & A United States patent was obtained ; a sound like waves beating against a In New York state's first co-operative for all the holdings and later an ex- | rocky beach. It is caused by subter- bull association, 17 dairymen have the tension, known as the Limestone Placer ' ranean streams 248 feet below. The use of three bulls, each animal worth claim, was located. It was while stak- official name of the site is the Lewis "There’s a $320 for an investment of $56. ing that claim that the cave was found, and Clark cavern monument. Mr. Morrison noticed an eagle at rest Due to specimen hunters destroying if What poultrymen are doing in Iowa in front of a large hole in the face of formations in the cave entrances were Death Message ■ is seen from the report that egg pro­ a lime cliff. A large chasm was found, barred by concrete and iron doors for ■ ■■ 'Mi duction there per hen on the average A rope ladder was made and he de- several years. The public was readmit- 5*1: farm has increased from about 60 eggs scended the precipitous channel for ted when Mr. Morrison was appeanted a:: for This Man, SS-, to 95 per year. 1,000 feet. Large chambers were found custodian. we must eateh him when he comes through here" ATURDAY, MAY 28, PROCLAIMED P0FFY DAY M \ » ■ ’M f •:-sW£j ft % f w ‘ Sf - : • J■I $• $ m V> M 3$ * ’ P m ■ f x:. & m -,

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His mother had died sud­ Patients at United States Veterans’ Hospital at Fort Harrison near Helena, making poppies to be sold by Montana auxiliaries of the American Legion on Poppy Day, Saturday, May 28 I' denly. His family was per­ plexed about notifying him, for he was "somewhere on iBf % W oco Travel Bureau, and every Poppy day, just one day out of the welfare programs. This procedure is to industriously engaged in making the the way to California,” Just Conoco attendant is the trav- 365 in the year, means to the average be followed again this year. flowers that are to be sold to the peo- 5 person the purchase of a crumpled bit Contributions given on Poppy Day P^6 °I the state on that day which has where, nobody knew. have earned a Nation-wide eler’s well-informed friend, ii reputation for the Conoco of crimson crepe paper with a small are disbursed in the communities in become universally known as Poppj They did know, however, he If you are planning a motor which they are raised and are prorated daV• The sale is conducted under the Travel Bureau and its ser­ piece of pocket change. Every day is was motoring over a route se­ trip, write us where and Poppy Day in the United States Vet­ as follows: Each auxiliary unit keeps sponsorship of the state department of lected by the Conoco Travel vices. when you want to go. Or fill erans’ Bureau hospital at Fort Harri­ 50 percent for their own rehabilitation fbe American Legion auxiliary, and it I and child welfare work and sends 50 ls announced that the veterans have We do more than furnish in convenient application at son, Helena, where the stiffened fin­ ii Bureau. So the death message gers and numbed hands of the hos­ percent to the state department. The made more than 75.000 poppies, for wired to Albuquerque, road maps, help choose any Conoco station. We will pitalized heroes of the World war care­ which thev have received more than was state department then places 20 per­ $ New Mexico, which was on routes and supply other send you a Conoco Passport, fully fold the materials into shape, pre­ cent in the state rehabilitation fund $1,000. “Saturday, the 28th day of May, is that route. travel information. We look 1932 road maps and other paring for the one day of street sales. and 20 percent in state child welfare upon every Conoco Passport travel information. Our ser- Poppy Day will be Saturday, May 28, funds, sending the remaining 10 per­ decreed as Poppy day in Montana, on * The Continental office set this year. cent to the national organization. which the people of every community holder as a personal friend vice is absolutely free . . . will be given an opportunity to demon­ } Conoco station attend- The success of the rehabilitation and every to be served in every way maintained for the benefiit A veteran receives a penny for each strate their patriotism by buying and ant in Albuquerque looking child welfare programs for the next possible. Every Conoco sta- of American motorists by poppy he makes and only the veterans wearing the little emblem which sym­ for the traveler. All day who receive no compensation from the year depends on the one-day sale of tion is a branch of the Con- Continental. bolizes the bravery, the sufferings and Conoco men asked motorists government, or a small one, manufac­ memorial poppies, Saturday. May 28. the sacrifices of the men who played so It also will help to relieve the veteran their names. And finally the ture the poppies. A penny a poppy is vital a part in the World war. A simple not much, but to the hospitalized vet­ on whom the United States depended act, the purchase of a poppy on this right man was found, the in 1918, but who is dependent on the eran means something he can give to occasion, but it speaks volumes by way message delivered to him. An his dependent family, or something he United States now. of encouragement to the survivors of unusual incident. Just one of can use to purchase clothes, shoes and Governor J. E. Erickson, in a state- j the great conflict, reminding them that many out-of-the-ordinary ICONOCO other necessities or modest luxuries. ment in which he emphasized the op- I their sacrifices have not been forgot- happenings, however, that Last year more than 12 millions of portunity offered the public to demon- j ten by a grateful people and renewing TRAVEL BUREAU poppies were made by veterans in hos­ strate its patriotism, designated Sat- the promise that their cause shall al- urday, May 28, as Poppy day. The state- ways be near the hearts of their fellow DENVER, COLORADO pitals in the 48 states and Alaska, Ha­ waii and Panama. After each veteran ment follows: countrymen. received his share the proceeds were “For several months the disabled ex- ”1 entertain the hope that the people turned over to the American Legion service men ât the United States vet- of Montana may make Poppy day this A NATIONAL SERVICE MAINTAINED BY THE CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY auxiliary for rehabilitation and child’erans’ hospital near Helena, have been year the most successful ever known,”

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