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KING OF CATTLEMEN'S
HEAVEN.
C(XTT-roCB years ago Charles
AncMinv came riding Into the
v 1 Mttia! ftnllatln . country of
southwestern Montana. Born
on the trail, he rode In an Impro
vised hammock swung at one end
of his father's prairie schooner,
His father and mother i were)
French. They had come til the way
anhnrha Af Paris. Their
wagons ' were drawn by pure-bred
Shorthorn cows. ; In- another sling,
nniiar-tha cui bed. rode a pure
bred Bhorthorn calf, also .born on
the trail.
In 190d He died after a curious.
and occasionally spectacular, series
r.t nna anil llnvni full Shared by
Charles Asoeney, the son. . He has
been dead for over thirty years, dui
the son speaks of him constantly
and tells with a certain brusk re
sentment how his father died.
.- m imm. itiirht In . his prime.
Bight when things were beginning
to work out for us. He went out
one evening to corral a couple of
milk cows. , i His horse must have
stepped in a hole. His pommel
caught him' right In the stomach.
a man can set all tore op that way.
Seventy-six years old. Tough as
hickory. Good for another twenty
venra anvwav. He and I went
through a good bit together.'
-. -. Tha- man . who stands ; thos and
speaks, his arms folded, has come
Into the kingdom his father 'desired.
He is almost a legendary figure in
at.. nai nf thA PnUntTV. Uen told
that yon have . an appointment, to
see him look at you witn a. new re
spect "If he takes to you, all
!,. " aalil fine: "He sixes a man
up first glint If he dont like your
looks, hell Just keep smiling at you,
nt h l. and keen bis mouth
shut tight" This, It turned out was
legend pure and simple; but It
. na hnw how attractively they ro
manticize their mysteries, there
rnnnd the snug valley clty.of Bose-
unnt Clthor man told v. me
how, that very spring, Anfceney had
jumped Bis horse rrom a orms
teen, some say twenty, feet above
... - A . .u: AllatlM
,the nooo. waters m w
1 and brought to shore a cow that
rf han miwHftd into the river.
a 1udee of men. How be had taken
. kn mm hahind the counter of a
m uj ww . ... . .
.nnf nn mndn him his herds
man, sent him east not long after
ward to bid upward or a nunarea
V' ilntlnr. At B hie Short-
horn sale; and how the .boy bad
made good. ,
i nraufhi'r told me: ' "Mr. .Ay
ceney lent a member of our.church.,
! bnno that tie attends any
WW - -7 -
.... n,,t isa wanted to bold OUT
' ' wimvm w ,
Presbyterian Sunday school picnic
and barbecue up on un awuiauu,
Mm unit anil he; cava na Dermis-
ion. He also consented; up con
venience to us. to supply us with
beef for the barbecue: wnen i saw
.w. animal- he'd .butchered
' and fixed bp for ns; I wondered If,
i we'd ever be awe to anoro .
: .. an mnKh mnM thatt W had bBT-
ealned tor. I asked him what wa
' .owed him..' ' - -
with that' cold gray1 eye of Ms and
saldr 'Do you tmna ia go "
' that tronbleWo sell a steerf .
nrati r?harie'. Anceoey - la ac
tri.ii. a iittio like' all that 'Harry
. : Cbilds Is his business partner but
.' .riK.riaa 'a nrene t. ! rules that
' ranch rules It with the sharp eye.
M. and the .quick nana m m -"
. - in hi. Hma a little some-
thing of Indian Insurrections, not
to mentlon-ainoe t n wm
beneficent later activities .of the
Vlgltentes.:' :.:y--4,-
. a ha remains closely Knit,
kard and sinewy. Not such a large
man but a ' mighty : bard ! man - to
shove over. He has a chin built
firmly forward Into a profile that
can seem for the moment bard as
rock. But his chuckle Is one of the
pleasantest sounds Imaginable. ,y v
With onlv foBr months school
ing In business' college during the
winter, of bis twenty-fourtn year
he has trained bis own mind. He
thinks fsst and his speech Is di
rect nd vivid. ' ,
. He took me In a big car up a
mountain to give me a look at bis
place. We got - out and stood at
the high bend of a road. ; Bordering
mountains, dotted with cattle, stood
clear. and 'sharp against r.the sky.
The air af you took It into your
lungs seemed to lift yon from the
ground.' Down . through .bright
green meadows, far oeiow . us,
flashed the fast waters of the Gal
latin, hidden here and there by
groves of cottonwood and sycamore.
In the meadows, which are Irrigat
ed, men were cutting bay timothy
and alslke, seeded Droaacasi rrom
-. I an -maVlinr' nnt 4nKt . In
m .UffABw, ftiw ; l -"
spots 6ut over large acreages, the
unbelievable yield or nve tons to
the acre. Even natural hay In those
irrigated bottoms of -the Fly tng-D
often comes ap to three tons to. the
acre. ' .
Ahaont-inlndedtv Ancenev . stood
there looking over his domain, point
ing bur thls snd mat ana estimat
ing lor me the extent of the ranch
properties: , - r ' " .
i, "Let's see, nows bijj.wu crea
deeded, ' around 200,000 leased;
about a half-million In an.. Stock
water on - every quarter-section
of It except one. Twenty-six miles
lengthways and twenty-four- miles
across at the widest point, vouuw
the river and there's forty-two miles
of meadows. Look now tne menu
ows are locked right into (the range
land. I often think now mucn mat
old Han of mine would enjoy see
ing this sight '
"He Used to teu me; -some any
Wre eolng to own . this wbole
country.' He knew be had a coming
Idea. I wuh he could nave oeen
hara t nee that bunch of catue t
shipped up to Buite yesterday. ' I
bad one weighed .out separately ,
1,820 pounds, grass-made 1" ' '
" Th,e r lying-u cow wwv :.
teen miles up the valley from the
home ranch where tne Dreecung
and show herds some five hundred
bead to all, are stabled. ; Vf drove
np .to the camp and built ourselves
entire In the big stone fireplace of
the )odge,i Anceney bad bean tal
lng of Harcy unnas, am vurwm
f Wonderful fellow I": Now he srild:
.Tou take your pencil ana l u ten
you same more about my Old. Man,
about how strong he was for good
cattle.' He brought a brand, new
Idea, out to this country. All tne
way from France; he and my moth.
niilnff vessel: then across.
the plains, driving three yokes of
cbws aqd a yoke ot oxen, pew im
to Pennsylvania to Mlssodrl to Oen
verI was born at Denver In "67
to Vlrglnln Olty, He oougnt
Major Campbell,' , the first ; Short
born bull ever brought In' Gallatin
City, and started ngni in. num
m..t.AM a V ftvtmmenced fldlns
DUVlwuiH-.' - -
rangiL With blm whea I was Just a
Uttle . chap eleven ywars ma.
used to dose-herd those Shorthorns,
se there wouldn't , be 'any , mixed
blood; and give them salt: and that,
mind you. wag way , ore uw
tun' vmiV .v,.w-..v."i
. "He was getting, even men, w
apiece for pure-bred bulls at wean
ing timer And he was looking ahead
to the end of free range. Way back
then, he'd say : 'Some day U this
country Is going to no renew uu
farmed. 5 Tb man who's really In
the catOe business is going to own
bls "laBd.'-:';:.;V;'. ' . f
A fellow bamed Oole came aiong.
n. f...,t trader, we
asked him, fifty dollars a head for
a. . it i
f cuttle, v
on . That wii
boi- hundrt-i
wi started i
on i 1 patches,
wt a they g't
d': i t Uut fall, a-
the wiiiiur we hand t
Thii'.'s w!in I learned tJ
She i I V. e trailed them to i .
on tne twenty-third day of la's ("s
broke even, rve never owned a
sheep since. , " '
"Our first real-experience , on the
boeir range came In the winter of
We borrowed, a lot of money
and bought 12,000 head of' range
cattle" up In Oregon. We unloaded
and branded at Billings and started
turning loose fifty miles, north We
got a permit to put Uiem across the
Yellowstone late In- November, , a
five-day drive. The first iliree days
It was warm-nd Jnlcei then; It
turned bitter cold andsnowed.. Too
could ride a horse at lope; on the
crust - We came ontt with seventy
six bead.; V A,-, -,V
"That put us 'way in debt, but the
only thing we cbqld do was to Stick
mi. . 'A. rrintm of ours soiu a iumo
nif want in with na. This time It
was horses. .We bought a thousand
haaii nf pMvherons fifteen. : six
teen, seventeeq-hundred-pound stuff
the cleanest lot of horses you ever
saw, ; We took over 100 acrea In
the Gallatin valley and. Stock up to
OAMi haail In all. ?: Wt save B ten
year mortgage' at 12 per (ent lnr
terest The principal was 8125,00a
"At the end or twelve year we
hnrt nniri nn sss.000 and kept no
that interest . Then , It developed
that tha nwner had-a nephew who
antntaii . ta nave m horse .ranch.
Along comes the sheriff with an at-'1
tachment Well, sir; we waiaea on
that ranch with $5.73 between us.
I had the seventy-nve cents. iuy
niri Man. had the five dollars; ' A
. 'We walked Into Bozeman' and
knrmvni t!.000 on our name and
nerve. ' Father took the train to St.
Paul to see about getting some sec-
tinna nf j-allrnad land. I ' TOOK a
horse and rode west !t bought, up
i nm hnarl of cattle at fourteen dol
lars a bead and drove them back
Seventy-five miles of that drive ras
across desert without water. ,.
; vThia time we sot started on
nart Af this land where,! m now.
nrnnriorfiii . . mttla countrfk' Grass
here seems to have more In It than
It does other places.' We don't bave
ta faaii ffralri. not even to our sad
die horses or to our, work horses,
even In harvest; and our cattle go
to the finest hotel and dining-car
trait. . nnr posts are low. , rm nan.
dllng from 12,000 to 20.000 head of
cattle with two cowooya to neip me
and a couple more to belp the montb
we brand. We brand around 70 per
cent of our calves. Our losses on
range are only of 1 per cent We
raaii ha richt throneh every wln-
I ter ho matter- what the weather Is,
but- apart rrom mat wot uiki w
nearer to tb old .range way,', I
guess," than anywhere else In Mon
tana, s ' t "
"At the time Father got hurt In
1900 we could see daylight ahead.
By 1910, after a few more little nps
and downs, I was out of debt and
going good. , - That was when I got
after Harry unuas, my paruier, iv
iwma In with me.
"Harry owns the hotels, the trans
portation system and, as tne saying
naa Avarvthins , but tbo rattle-
nairaa tn VellowBtone park. ' A lot
nf nnr beef toe tO blS hOtelSk ?
"I bad - been wintering some
horses for: him, and be liked the
way they looked when I took them
v.t. tn Mm lif tha anrlnit. .
" ' " 'What do you feed those horsesT
i.. vaf ma I told him: . Not a
thine ' In God's-world but grass.
n.m. iiiian anmatima and . see.
' "Sure enough, one day down, he
came, I hooked a span or muies to
spring "wagon and after lunch we
J.a nn m m af the high oolnts.
aald: Mr. ChUds,. there's the
Mnaat atrotph nf natural cattle coun
try in America right there before
your eyes. I own a good oyt or it
It's, making me money. ' Now, you
4a na in with me and well own
the whole thing and run good stuff
on It and. make a real tning -oni
i "He rumbled arouna anout now
be didn't want any more ranches,
that he'd lost money on every ranch
haM aval Awnajt. 1 .
u'We won't lose on this one, 1
v 'What "do :yoo mean we T .. be
'.m -. hnt ha had begun. to take the
fever. He'd pointed out a 8,000-acTe
nlana nana anil a 6.000-8(70 pleCO
thara ' and want to' know what
we ought 'to be able to ettor it
A h,t an nntlnn would ... COSt
Pretty noon we'd arranged that t
was to buy options on about 80,000
acres wlthm the next feur days.
Then he saldj ;. '
"what are ton asking forviny
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strength.
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The voyage of Vii.
guiting in the fllscov ?
western America, was
der of Empress EU .
and thus added to t: i
of Russia. Thirteen j
Kartnv' coasted noi.
enough to satisfy hlms.i f
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" Snnflower' Not Art!
The sunflower that Is r
called the Jerusalem art.
not an artichoke, and does t
from Jerusalemthus glv!
crete example of the im t
imi nntnaa. It IS S It
North America, and was cu Ivuad
by the Huron Indians.'
, 'Growth of Garlic '
Garlic differs from most r'uints
in that It makes most of Its mowth
during the cool weather. The old
plants die each year and the new
generation starts growth during late
fall or early winter and In turn pro--duces
underground,, bulbs In early ;
spring. "
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', Garros Drift About
Harvard scientists say "Minute
Juniata axnelled by -a person la
coughing, sneezing and talking do . .
not fall immeuiareiy w "
but evaporate and may leave b ; '
lnfecttve germs which drift t ;
alive In the air for many hours.-
" Rosalia Stone
, The Bosetta stone, found near the
jtosetta mouth of the Nile, Is a slab
n.i,aa i holirht. two feet four . ,
and one-half Inches in breadth and
eleven Inches in thickness. . tne
date of the inscription corresponds .
to March 27, 195 B. O. ' ,
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ua nf Candidates
0ben Is no provision of the Con
stltutlon requtrlng the President
.-a maa'PiiAairient to be from dlf- i
BUU iimi . ; ,
ferent states; tn 1840 Harrtion and
Tyler, both born in Virginia wer
elected President and. Vice Presi
dent , " i, , i j i
v; Horsapow' of Mulas, Horsa
A- Testa have shown that a good, -nair.
of horses or- mules can
20-horse power and many goo 3
bave shown 25 to' 8Q-horse
for short periods. - i
, Arts of Cuba -
The area of Cuba Is 44.164 squ -e
miles. , Thus It is slightly lav r
than the state.of Ohio . In lengtn it .
wonld reach from New Tort to Cob
cago. .(: . " j, ( '
' Urds Like to Dswt
. Most wild birds have a fondness
for dusting. Ashes, dry earth, dust,
the crumbling woqdjpf rotten loss
and even ant hills are nsed for th!.
purpose. " "i
'V' ' 300 Days of Hail
i i Hall storms sometimes last (o
three weeks In the region of Ore
Horn,' In some years the number
of stormy days of this "type total
800. ,., ' , - ' C ; ;
Meaning of Florida '
' The state of Florida derived Us
name from the Spanish words "pas
cua florlda, which means "feast
of Bowers." - . - ' -
. ', Have Taki It '
"You got to be a good listener
' dese . days," said"" Uncle Eben.
."Taln't no use to talk back to a
radio set"
Vltamla C In Annies
Experiments Indicate- that soraet
varieties of apple contain more, vita-
mln 0 than others.
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Anvthinv to Plnase, - -
"Call tne a taxll"
"O. K. You're a taxL" Pearson's
Weekly. , ,
nartnershlp ' In - your placer
named the figure...; I ; j i
"WeH, he, said, tneres
between ;us.' H reached In - his
pocket and pulled out a Uver dpi.
lar. What do you ta.Whe .wld.
beads or tallsr .
. "It took my breath right , out of
me. I told him I was too poor a
man; I couldn't be putting $14,000
tha turn nt a iHilniu ' . . ' '
. " -Come on, be said. If you're
going to play witn ,me- you ve got
to be a sport' , ...... , ,
"Deads 1" I said. -i
"It came beads. ; We've been, part
ners . nineteen years now. A won
I derful fellow 1 Tou ought to kn
him." . ' . ,
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l-rcl'oa CLAIM IKIV MAN .w. . WlTAU SEEMS VER.Y a.TRANSfcr .
f THRSVM A FLOWsTR. AT YOU .1;,, To VtflTVl WHAT 0WT
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