THE FLATHEAD COURIER Yellowstone Expedition of 1863 Marked by Hardship and Privation; Indians Killed Three NE of the most notable trIpa recorded in the annals of Mon- , s self, he urged upon them the necessity of leaving the camp where they were tans. pioneer days was that a, 11) I -\ the,. Yellowstone expedition at , rett esigns before dark lest the Indians come upon SACAJAWEA COIN Fifteen-Year-Old 0 again. I First Pilot 1863, led by James Stuart and them composed in all of 15 men. The party Sixteen-Day Struggle III I Hunter Bags Bannock April 10, traveled 1,600 rom Liquor For 16 days they struggled on, their IS TURNED DOWN Deer miles, going as far east as the Big weary and jaded and often with- Horn river and returning by way of out era-The men had (wily a small With Small Rifle Soda springs and Fort Hall, Ida., ar- Board Setup ration of bread for themselves. There PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND 'THE riving at Bannack on June 22. The seemed to be no game in the COuntrY• COMMITTEE MEMBERS trip fighting prox- OP- was filled with against At all times they were in close Thomas Hopkinson, 15, got hostile Indians, and many other dan- ACCEPTS POSITION an POSE ISSUANCE his first AS MONTANA !may to bands of roving Indians deer a few days ago. It was a gers and hardships. Three of the every night. At noon three- MANAGER FOR CALVERT expecting attack point buck, weighing 165 pounds. party were killed and more than half on May 28, they came within sight of The Lewis and DISTILLERS CORP. Clark National Thomas is the son of Mr. and Kra. a dozen wounded, the emigrant trail. They crossed the association may have to get along T. Hopkinson The Stuart brothers, James and farther of the Western Fruit Sweetwater river and two miles without a commemorative coin to Express. He did odd jobs Granville, had gone to Bannack in James Brett, telegraph poles, militarY to pay for his .1. former state came upon the the Indian heroine, Sacajawea, who hunting and fishing license. the late auttumi of 1862 from Gold treasurer and prominent Montana telegraph line which followed the road. led the Lewis and creek, to open a butcher shop. They upon Clark expedition After democrat, recently tendered his Within another mile they came across the Lobo trail on their trip having been out hunting all also handled other merchandise, for resignation to Gov. Roy E. Ayers an emigrant train. to the Pacific. afternoon his father got anxious when Granville Stuart, in his "Forty Years as frightened erni- the lad assistant administrator of the Their shouts so the Both the president and members of did not show up about 5 o'clock on the Frontier," tells of making a trip state liquor cuntrol board to ac- grants, that they threw the wagons the House and drove out to meet him or see from Bannack to Gold creek about coinage and weights and what in March cept the position of Montana man- into a circle, thinking they were measures committee at present happened. of 1863 to get a load of goods from the Indians. oppose ager for Calvert Distillers Corp. to be attacked by further issuance of commemorative He met one of the companions of his Worden St Co. store at the latter place, Go the emigants at find- son which was near wherevernor Ayers said he was reluc- The relief of coins. Investigation, they said, shows running toward town who told him tant to accept ing that the party whic had alarmed the practice is an expensive that Thomas got a big brothers had discovered placer gold inl Mr. Brett's re.signationvalueatas one. buck. Mr. Hop- as his services have been of great them were white men, was as gre More than 100 commemorative coins kinson could hardly believe this true 1858. He relates that in this load he , Stuart party in having en- as had two dozen long handled shovels 1 to the state's profitable liquor business, that of the have been authorized by congress. his son only had a .22 rifle. He countered them. The emigrants made None honors a woman. The found, however, that the which he sold for $10 each and 15' but that he was glad to see Mr. Brett together Memorial story was true, secure "such a splendid camp and they all remained association officials thought it was and Thomas, was found in pounds of chewing tobacco for which position." several days, resting and eating possession Lie received $15 a pound. The Calvert company is one of the for time something was done about it and of the deer. He got the big fellow with and the explorers tilting care of their brought forward Appointment of A. S. "Bert" Mooney one shot through the James had remained in charge of nation's largest distillers of popular then con- the name of Saca- ribs and into the priced liquor, wounded. The emigrants jawea. as first pilot on the Salt Lake City to heart. the store while he was gone and had and has always backed their way and the Stuart Great Falls worked out the details of the proposed its products with sound advertising tinued on The Memorial division of Western Air city started for Bannack by way of association has asked Express was announced the other day expedition to the Yellowstone country, and customer satisfaction policies. Mr. Bell was Idaho congressmen to sponsor legisla- Brett will springs and Fort Hall by C. N. James, vice president in Although Granville did not make the make his headquarters in Crossing station to have tion In the hope of getting the new charge of trip, he left behind at issue, operations for W. A. E. was financially interested in • wounds treated end York left the but officials expressed doubt the expedition with his brother. Sen. L. M. his that After training Don't Split Your Profits A. Wass, liquor board ad- &arty to try his fortunes in Salt Lake any such proposal would get be- in the Los Angeles For final organization of the ilarty joined on the trail yond the committee, which last session Military school, Mooneyava began his I ty. The party was and start of the trip to the Ye low- McAdow, who accom voted against further commemorative career in commercial tion in 1926 by Perry W. when he atone country, Stuart named a point panied them back to Bannack, where issues. organized the Butte Aircraft on Flying school in Butte, Mont. In 1932 SHIP Rattlesnake.creek and there the 15 they arrived on June 22. ' The Lewis and Clark Memorial as- YOUR FURS met on April 10, 1863, and signed the sociation he became reserve pilot for National McAdow became a notable figure in has as its main objective the Parks Airways DIRECT TO agreement governing the expedition merchant at completion of the Lewis and has flown aircraft and naming James Stuart captain. Montana. He was the first and Clark on the Salt Lake City to Great Falls Coulson, the town which preceded highway between Lewiston, Ida., and airline The party was not as large as had Missoula, since that time. been expected, as several Billings on the Yellowstone, and was Mont. who had opening up profitable The famed Indian is Mooney has flown nearly three- FRONTIER planned to go were unable to reach interested in buried in Wy- quarters of a million mining properties in Fergus county. oming. miles in his 7,000 the rendezvous at the appointed time. Stuart party hours of piloting. A native of Montana, Several of them, headed by Bill Fair- When the members of the he resides TOP Market Prices Bannack upon their return in Salt Lake City where he weather and Henry Edgar, ran into entered is based. Being direct receivers •lin huge out- they were hardly recognizable by their lets, you are sure of hostile Indians enroute to the meet- rags getting the very trig place and were driven back. frien ds . 'Their clothing was in Willow Creek Man top prices for your raw fors. Remem- and they had had neither shave norl ber, not a single penny is deducted Irony of Fate haircut for more than 60 days. ter commissions, handling, shipping or satisfied Learns Sad Lesson anything else. CHECKS AIR MAILED It was the irony of fate that these That James Stuart was not Couple Miss Injury SAME men who had planned to go far first expedition DAY shipment is received. We east with the results of his Par all Parcel post and express on the Yellowstone in search of gold, to the Yellowstone country is indicated You may think charges. Often telegraphed on large stumbled trip it's a good idea to As Rock Hits Car upon the rich Alder gulch by the fact that he made a second destroy old letters, but don't mention lots. Furs held separately and our diggings on their way back to Ban- during the following year. During cheek air mailed with the offer, upon there it to Fred Ballard of Willow Creek. He rear request. melt, while the men who did reach the the 1863 trip the men had been ao knows better. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Jacqueth narrowly , rendezvous made a long and fruitless the Sig Horn harrassed by Indians in Mr. escaped injury while driving over the trip wichout encountering so much as country that they had made only the Ballard was preparing to leave Logan pass road in Glacier FRONTIER RAW FUR:CORP.