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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: large;">Excerpt - Noxon 1910. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Forest fires held the homesteaders captive in 1910. Rain was scarce, leaving the forest tinder dry. With the government beginning to prosecute timber thieves, loggers who'd cut trees illegally found a natural opportunity. Fire left no evidence. Fires cropped up everywhere, it seemed. By early August the air was so smoke laden the sun rose an orange red globe inching across a hazy sky each day, and dropping like a blood red dish behind the mountains each night. The newly organized forest service and settlers alike fought fires throughout the scorching summer.</span><a href="http://www.fs.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsinternet/!ut/p/c4/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3gjAwhwtDDw9_AI8zPyhQoY6BdkOyoCAGixyPg!/?ss=1101&navtype=BROWSEBYSUBJECT&cid=STELPRDB5122866&navid=170110000000000&pnavid=170000000000000&position=SubFeature*&ttype=detail&pname=Region%201-%20History%20&%20Culture"><span style="color: #2288bb; font-size: large;">(*USFS 1910 Commemorative.) </span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Clifford Weare shut down his sawmill, taking his crew of men out to fight fire on July 20th. A month later a forest service crew came to relieve them. Weare's men were exhausted, sleeping only by logs on the ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the 20th of August the wind rose to gale force. For two days along a line from north of the Canadian boundary south to the Salmon River it blew, licking hundreds of little fires into big ones. Fire lines that had been held for days were scorched away under the fierce blast that turned the sky a ghastly yellow. At four o'clock it was black dark ahead of the roaring flames.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The air felt electric, as though the whole world would go up in spontaneous combustion as the heat of the fire and the great masses of flaming gas created tumbling whirlwinds mowing down swathes of trees in advance of the flames. In forty-eight horrendous hours many fires raced unchecked over thirty to fifty miles across mountain ranges and rivers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lyle, Art Yonker, and Minnie Yonker play with Janet<br />Newton and an unidentified lad on the snow pile beside<br />the Northern Pacific Railroad depot at Noxon, one of the <br />remaining twenty-three depot buildings east of the Idaho </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">border in the 1920s.The ghost town of Smeads had only <br />a Boxcar depot, and many other smaller stops were flag <br />stops with no shelter for waiting passengers. The Clark's <br />Fork River and Noxon ferry crossing are beyond the <br />cottonwood trees on the north side of the depot.<br />Courtesy George Jamison collection. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Excerpt: Noxon</u> - </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">September 1,
1925, Noxon's school opened with grades 1-12, and an enrollment of 19 in high
school. Three weeks later, there were 24 high school students. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">During the
early years of the high school, the principal was also part of the teaching
staff. He taught several high school classes, in addition to answering to the
Board of Trustees concerning the school's operation. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Board took
the dominant lead in ordering supplies, personally interviewing and hiring each
teacher, janitor and school bus driver. Board members also scrutinized each
expense before giving authorization for spending school district funds. They
were directly accountable to Sanders County School Superintendent and Sanders
County Commissioners.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">Noxon High School was three years old when,
on September 26, 1925, the Sophomore and Junior English classes published the
first issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Noxon Buzzer</i>, the
school newspaper. Under the supervision of Principal W.A. Rollwitz, the
students dedicated it to "The Bravery Of the Freshmen Class During Their
Initiation."</span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">Jack Olver, </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">first editor of
the</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">Noxon Buzzer</span></i></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"> wrote, "Noxon can be justly proud of its high school. We
have as good a building as any in the county and will compare well with any in
the state in comparison to the size of the town. Excellent teachers, loyal
students and loyal support of the district residents."</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span">The paper included this quip, one of many similar
witticisms in subsequent issues: "We have found out that Ina could not
kill a poor helpless grasshopper. She sure is not chicken hearted."</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On September 18th, "Freshies" [freshman] initiation was a community event, held Friday evening at eight o'clock in the school gymnasium. Each Freshie got an all-day sucker, and were feted for a couple of hours, before everyone had lunch. Dancing and games completed the evening. Among the sixteen students in this early 1920s Freshman Class initiation are Bill Finnegan, Fern McNeil, Anna Mercer, Cora Tempro, Betty Berray, and students whose identities are lost to history, courtesy Jaspar Redfern collection.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Vignette Vol.2 No.8</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Resource: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mona-Leeson-Vanek/e/B001KCEM56/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>BEHIND THESE MOUNTAINS</strong> </span></span></em></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Excerpt: Noxon 1915 - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Families without a lot of interconnections were more numerous, and included the <strong>Hamptons</strong>, <strong>Browns</strong>, <strong>Engles</strong>, <strong>Lyons</strong>, and numerous other early settlers. Many young people, now grown to young adults with babies and youngsters, worked hard to stay and prosper. Most had lived through the devastating 1910 fires and found the courage, or the desperation, to remain. The majority lived in log homes, used kerosene lamps, outhouses, and icehouses. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Year in and year out, they consumed enormous woodpiles. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> and Ruby Fulks, and sister, Goldie [holding baby], </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Mary </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> plus children, Bob, Dan, and Maude Saint, circa early 1920s, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">courtesy Ben F. Saint collection.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Although much ado was made over appropriate attire outside of their homes, men wore durable high-topped leather boots, sturdy, functional pants, and shirts and coats when working in the woods, in sawmills, or farming.<br /><br />Family men enjoyed advantages over lumberjacks, in that their clothes were washed regularly. Itinerant men had only their "bindle", and minimal opportunities to measure up to society's dress codes of the time. Attendance at a Parent-Teachers meeting, church, wedding or funeral, mandated wearing coat, hat and tie. And a suit, if they owned one.<br /><br />The few details that remain about these early settlers presents a glimpse into life in the west end of Sanders County. <strong>Zenus Carmichael</strong>, a harness maker, came to Noxon in 1915. He settled back at the base of mountains in Bull River, and built the bridge linking his 160-acre homestead with <strong>Caspar Berray</strong>'s and <strong>LaFaun's</strong> places. He kept a good, well-stocked root cellar. After the forest service arrived, in 1906 and began installing lookouts, Zenus spent some time manning the Squaw Peak Lookout as an employee of the USFS.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">1920. Excerpt -- Noxon: <strong>Jim Finnigan</strong>, <strong>Strawberry </strong>and <strong>Zin Caza</strong> worked together on log drives on the Clarks Fork River, taking logs downstream to sawmills in Idaho. Jim's stepson, <strong>Carmen Moore</strong>, told how the drunker Zin got, the straighter he'd get, until he'd fall over backwards, and his money would fall out of his pockets. The watching kids picked up Zin's money and gave it to him. But he'd give his coins back to the kids.<br /><br />Carmen said, "That Cabinet Gorge was a narrow gorge. <strong>Jim Finnigan</strong> rode a 25-30 foot pole down through there in the high water once. The water was so high he just went right through on a channel. He had a pike pole to balance himself as he went through." Finnegan's feat was daring, and much admired.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 16px/normal "arial"; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1920. Excerpt -- Bull River Valley: Montana </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mining was well known to be a rough and tough game that wasn't always peaceful. It wasn't unusual for skullduggery to
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prospecting in Sanders County on the East Fork of Bull River, below St. Paul Lake. When King and
<strong>Moore</strong> from Kalispell owned the mine, <strong>Pat Moran</strong> mined with King. <strong>Tom Moran</strong> was
the prospector who lived in the basin that bears his name–<strong>Moran Basin</strong>.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="calibre11">During the fall of 1920, King and Lowry were prospecting on the East Fork of Bull River, high in the mountains below spectacular <strong>St. Paul Peak</strong>. Others were also prospecting on <strong>Milwaukee Pass</strong> below St. Paul Peak. In <strong>Copper Gulch</strong>, below nearby <strong>Chicago Peak</strong>, at the <strong>Last Chance Prospect</strong>, copper and silver were assaying pretty high.</span></span></span></span><br />
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his name was Moran, but I'm not sure. Now they don't know whether someone
short-fused him or whether he short-fused himself. They always did their
blasting at noon. They'd set five blasts and only four went off. He was out of
the mine. Maybe it was long-fused. Anyway, he went back in to see why it [the
dynamite charge] didn't go off. Then it did.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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why he set the trail afire. Well, he said he just accidentally set it afire. So
they couldn't get up there. King told them that the boy was dead.<br />
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"It was about four days before we got in there on account of that fire. I,
and a fella named <strong>Jace Edwards</strong>, and my dad, Caspar 'Cap' Berray, went up there and packed him out.
When we got up there to get him of course he'd laid out there and he was in
pretty bad shape. His whole face was blowed [sic] full of rock.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">About the time Harry Tallmadge <span style="font-size: x-small;">[L]</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1917 - Noxon. Excerpt--<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span>Former Montana Forest Service Ranger, Harry Tallmadge, a handsome, young progressive fellow, bought a 1914 Model T Ford from a forest ranger in Troy, Montana. </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Early one morning he started it with a couple of vigorous turns of the crank, climbed in, grasped the steering wheel firmly, and began his journey over the two-rut road through the Bull River valley to Noxon.<br /><br />It was a long trip, and in many ways more difficult than traveling by horseback. Like Clifford Weare and other travelers before him, Harry crammed his felt hat down, jumped out several times, grabbed his axe from the T's toolbox, and, muscles bulged by well-directed axe cuts, cleared fallen trees, limbs and brush out of the road.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> The high-centered Ford straddled stumps that were low enough. To navigate around each yielding, muddy spot, he steered his car off the wagon trail and over faint tracks on burned-over forest slopes, the latter threatening to upset the narrow-tired vehicle. Where warm, spring temperatures dried the road, his tires swirled dust that coated the interior and dulled the shine on brass fittings and car body.<br /><br />Before dusk, flushed with triumph, he waited impatiently at the Noxon ferry landing, hating to wait for the ferry to come from the far side. He'd planned to board the ferry much earlier, cross the Clark's Fork River, and let the resounding putt, putt of his four-cylinder car traversing the uphill half mile wagon road into town announce his arrival. It was close to pitch-black when loggers and miners from Jim Finnigan's Cottage Rooms, Gordon's hotel and Baxter's hotel flocked around the young man and admired his sputtering horseless carriage.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1889 - Noxon-Excerpt:<strong><em>Swan Swanson</em></strong> had been a Lieutenant in the Swedish army. He and 36 others had been shipped from Sweden to Ottawa, Canada, to fight Spaniards, or so Swam claimed when he was 90 years old. He said that just as they arrived, peace was declared. (The Spanish-American War was in progress in 1898, and the Treaty of Paris was signed on December 10, 1898.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Swan smoked a corncob pipe. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">A lover</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">of animals, Swan also </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">usually had a dog</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Swan skipped out of the army, went to the United States and arrived in Noxon early in 1898. At Noxon, he stepped off the train in the wilderness to find only a couple of shacks, the large log building that had housed <strong><em>Tom</em></strong> <em><strong>Greenough</strong></em>'s supply store, and the railroad buildings. The Polk Gazetteer listed Noxon's population at 25, but Swan didn't see them. All he saw was a depot agent and <strong><em>Ed Hampton</em></strong> and a big woodshed the railroad had filled with wood for their steam engines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like other new arrivals, it wasn't long before Swan sized up the opportunity to make his fortune in timber. He went to work cruising timber in Montana for the <strong><em>Goodchild Lumber Company,</em></strong> in Thompson Falls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because the army in Sweden had trained him as a fire fighter, Swan knew timber. A timber cruiser estimated the timber stand conditions, species composition, volume and other measured attributes of a forest system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The only businesses and occupants remaining in Noxon that Polk Gazeteer noted in 1898 were <strong><em>J.H. Hire</em></strong>, nursery, and <strong><em>Andrew Knutson</em></strong>, hotel (this was the railroad-owned section house.) Most likely there were also railroad maintenance crews. However, the exodus was nearly complete, and the forests nearly uninhabited again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The population at Trout Creek decreased to 15, with <strong><em>Pat Kelly</em></strong>, postmaster and saloonkeeper, and NcNeel, railroad agent, along with miners, <strong><em>F. Cameron</em></strong>, <strong><em>M.B. Gray</em></strong>, <strong><em>David Miller</em></strong> and <strong><em>R.R. Schulder</em></strong>, among those still there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1889 - Heron--Excerpt: </span><span style="font-size: large;">Heron was the westernmost hamlet of Missoula County, far removed from county commissioner's meetings. Montana School Trustees determined the selection of the teacher, and the rules to be abided by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> In April 1890, <strong><em>Edward Knott</em></strong>, NPRR division section man, <strong><em>Levi Dingley</em></strong> and <strong><em>Jacob "Kinney" Honberger</em></strong>, saloon keeper, were elected school trustees at Heron. Honberger was also the School Clerk, responsible for paying bills and keeping the school board's records.</span><br />
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<!--StartFragment --><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This photo of one brother is captioned </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">"William Frank Honberger"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">in Eva Honberger's family album, but other </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">members </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">of the family</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">believe it may be Jacob </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">"Kinney" </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Honberger, owner of the saloon</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">[<em><strong>Clara "Eva" Morse Honberger</strong></em>, the wife of Kinney's brother, William “Frank”, kept a wonderful photo album in which she recorded the names of each family member. They never lived in Heron and have no direct ties to Heron or to Montana.]</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The general store of Kinney Honberger, at Heron ...was robbed of goods and money valued at $3,150 by two men shortly before midnight Friday night ... the proprietor and one customer were held up, tied up, and put in the cellar where they finally worked themselves loose and notified Sheriff Hartman... "Goods stolen consisted of $1,500 in Liberty bonds, $700 in thrift stamps, $750 in cash and three cases of whiskey, valued at $80 each." The robbers used revolvers.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Sunday morning Ray Murray, a Milwaukee fireman address unknown and Tom Mays, of Paradise were arrested at Hope and brought to jail ... Murray pleaded guilty.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The other holdup man is Raymond Spoor, of Sand Point, who got away from Murray and Mays. Spoor had the cash, bonds, and thrift stamps. Spoor was clever enough to get Mays and Murray drunk so he could leave them.</span></blockquote>
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Armed robbery was practically unheard of in the valley, however, the residents, whether indignant at, or laughing over, the culpability of their sheriff's deputies, were confident the remaining outlaw still on the loose would be jailed in short order.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1856, <strong><em>L</em></strong><strong><em>ouisa Ann Stone</em></strong> married <strong><em>Jacob L. Honberger</em></strong>, who died in June 1863 at the Battle of
Milliken’s Bend, fighting for the Union in the Civil War. They had three children:
<strong><em>William Francis “Frank”, Flora “Emma”, and Jacob “Kinney”,</em></strong> who was just an
infant less than a year in age when his father died.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Flora “Emma” married
<strong><em>Levi Dingley</em></strong> in 1876 in Iowa, and they had a healthy family of 8 or more
children. Jacob “Kinney” Honberger settled in Heron, Montana after the Civil
War, between 1885-1900, along with his mother and his sister and her family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Dingleys came from South Dakota where they were living in1885. The mother, Louisa
Ann Stone Honberger, was living with the Dingleys when they settled in Heron. According
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because Jacob
senior was away at war when Jacob “Kinney” was born, his father and he never
met.</span><br />
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to family lore, around 1935, Kinney encountered some unknown trouble and fled
Heron, Montana for Long Beach, Southern California where he lived at the Savoy
Hotel under the name <strong><em>George G. Grey</em></strong> until his death in 1941, when he died of a
massive stroke.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1917 - Noxon. Excerpt--For a short while, <strong><em>Andy Knutson's</em></strong> election gave Noxonites a safe topic to hash over. Voting precincts and elections, established in the valley more than two decades earlier, made discussing local elections a familiar subject; so discussing local election news was an innocuous distraction from war news and the seemingly endless new restrictions that were changing valley culture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of this pyramid of five young men at Noxon only <strong><em>Don Maynard</em></strong>, <strong><em>Alex Peterson</em></strong> and <strong><em>Joe Bedard</em></strong> are named. The picture, with conflicting information in two collections records them as either NPRR signalmen, or Civilian Conservation Corp enrollees, uknown date, courtesy Don Maynard, and <strong><em>Ruth Mercer McBee</em></strong> collections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Idaho had been declared "dry" at the end of the previous year. Laws affecting alcoholic beverages changed life in the valley considerably. Many wondered how soon Montana might fall victim to such foolishness, however conversing about it was dicey. People had to be cautious about what they confided, and whom they trusted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><em>A.J. Kline</em></strong>, recently from Tulsa, Oklahoma, threw in with <strong><em>Emil Gavin</em></strong> and <strong><em>Alex Davies</em></strong>, and the men soon became Montana Moonshiners, operating three moonshine stills, making "moon" for Spokane markets. Trainmen on the Northern Pacific Railroad transported a goodly amount of their product. The men discreetly delivered it to freight trains that stopped to take on water from the NPRR tank located between Emil's cabin and A.J.'s ranch, near Heron. A small mountain of five-gallon cans rusted on the hill behind Kline's spring, reminders of ingredients for the "moon."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In June 1917, another federal law making it illegal to ship liquor into dry territories for any except medicinal, sacramental or mechanical purposes, caused Montana liquor men who had been doing a heavy business by mail, to shift gears. Dances at <strong><em>Peek's Hall</em></strong> became even more popular than before. Dancing wasn't the main attraction for out-of-staters who returned home with a supply of forbidden liquor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those who knew about moonshine activities turned a blind eye. The old adage applied: "See no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil". Each man's business was his own alone. "Don't stick your nose in my business and I'll stay out of your affairs", was the guiding light of most valley men and women. However, a good many of both sexes cussed and ranted when confronted with legislation that curtailed card playing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ever since men arrived in the valley, card playing had been a favorite pastime. Rummy and solo were played for drinks, cigars or chips in saloons. At Noxon, <strong><em>Charley Maynard's</em></strong> pool hall on Main Street was just east of the store Henry Larson bought from <strong><em>Dr. Peek</em></strong> in 1918.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Charley Maynard's son, Don, a fancy young man, had taken over the business from his father. Lumberjacks from logging camps on Rock Creek hiked to town and enjoyed fellowship with town dwellers, playing games of chance in the evenings, and also on Saturdays and Sundays.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The pool hall issued "hickies," small, pasteboard chips worth a nickel apiece, as winnings for the games. Rummy and pangeni were preferred over poker and other games.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Kids, whose mothers weren't particular where they spent their idle time, used to hang around the pool hall real handy. Some of the fellows, winning a handful of chips, was bound to share generously", <strong><em>Carmen Moore</em></strong> said.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Under the provisions of a law passed by the legislature, and approved by the governor on March 3, 1918, it became a misdemeanor for any proprietor of a saloon, drug store, pool hall or other business establishment to permit these games to be played on his premises.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enforcement of the law meant abolishing the games, or the proprietors could face a stiff fine and imprisonment. Included were monte, dondo, fan-tan, studhorse poker, craps, seven-and-a-half, twenty-one, faro, roulette, hokey-pokey, pangeni or pangene, draw poker or the game commonly called round-the-table-poker, or any game of chance played with cards, dice or any device.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Outlawing slot machines, punchboards and other devices followed, under the anti-gambling law. <strong><em>Sheriff J.L. "Joe" Hartman</em></strong> warned that raids would be made. The penalty was a $100 fine, with imprisonment for not less than three months nor more than one year, or by both fine and imprisonment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This scene from an always popular local entertainment at Noxon is titled "Stick-'em-up" from the play titled "D.F, Tablu Beer Joint" with <strong><em>Kelly Thomson</em></strong> seated at center of the table being the only identified member of the cast in the unidentified location that could have been in Brown's Pool Hall, date unknown, courtesy Ruth Mercer McBee collection. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1918-19 Noxon. Excerpt--Spanish influenza invaded every town in 1918, hitting almost every family through one member or another. No one had ever seen the likes of it before. Worse than any cold, or ague ever known, influenza decimated population the world over. It plagued Americans, Canadians, European countries, and everywhere it raged. And there was no known medication to cure it. One either survived "the flu", or died. Influenza was highly infectious and contagious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The deadly illness brought dizziness, fevers of 100-104, chills, coughing, congestion, aching, lethargy, a dangerously slowed pulse and unconsciousness. Victims vomited and suffered weakness, pains in eyes, ears, head or back, and they hurt all over their body. It made eyes and insides of eyelids bloodshot and caused a discharge from the nose. Fevers lasted 3-4 days. Treatment: Go home and to bed at once. Drink water, use cold compress to head, and sponge lightly with cool water. Wear a mask when attending patient.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"<strong>Sarah </strong>and I were living in a log cabin on Dry Creek. Buck had the post office in his store and I was sworn-in to work in it. I hated to go to Noxon, afraid I might bring the flu back to my family. But I went. They had two Spokane doctors in town. <strong>Mrs. Buck</strong> had pneumonia. They feared she'd die and, in desperation to reduce the fever ravishing her body, put her out doors in the snow, in a tent out back.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Still worried that he might take the flu home to his family, instead of walking the five miles each night to their cabin, Harry stayed in the Montana Hotel operated by <strong>Mrs. Granville Gordon.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Noxon. 1920. Excerpt-<strong><em>Anthony Wayne Saint</em></strong> sold his ranch on Pilgrim Creek for $6,000.00 to <strong><em>H.J. Beal</em></strong>, who came with his two sons, <strong><em>Tom</em></strong> and <strong><em>Johnny</em></strong>.<span style="font-family: inherit;">19.</span> Beal worked as a smoke chaser for the forest service. Tom Beal had a little old Ford Roadster. He put a top on it, and squeezed his girlfriend into the car.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"<strong><em>Mr. Fulk</em></strong> was living across town with <strong><em>Grandma Saint</em></strong>. Mrs. Fulks lived next door to the Noxon school. "'Oh'," I said, "'You're just jealous. Just forget it. He's got to have a place to stay and why don't you get together?'"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"'Ahhh," she said, "I know you damned men! You're just like snakes! The last thing dies about you is your tail!"' </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Yeah, Grandpa Fulk told me that he was extremely well educated as a country gentleman in Missouri. He'd also been given a course in child delivery.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"He always told me, 'It's [Noxon] the hardest place to make a living but the nicest place to live that anybody ever saw.' That was his sentiments on Noxon. They knew it wasn't any place to make a living. Unless you worked for the forest service or the railroad you just didn't have any money to pay your taxes. You could probably grow a living on the place. What you could eat. But you couldn't grow enough to sell to pay taxes.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Nobody ever went hungry in Noxon, to the best of my knowledge. It's just a nice, friendly, comfortable town to live in. We were fortunate, I suppose. My dad was employed as the Ranger. Year 'round. In those days it would have been good money. So, theoretically, I suppose we were almost wealthy, at that time, as compared to the rest of the people in Noxon," Bob Saint said.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"In fact, most people never knew that he had any other name but <strong><em>Strawberry</em></strong>," Bob Saint said. "And <strong><em>Ethel</em></strong> for years had been known as <strong><em>Mrs. Strawberry</em></strong>. If you spoke about Bartholomew, people would look at you blank. Nobody knew any Bartholomews, they were all Strawberrys, Ben Saint said. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"<strong><em>Ethel Bartholomew</em></strong> was very secretive. She didn't want to tell anybody anything! She was very close mouthed. Strawberry would talk. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"My sister, <strong><em>Ethel</em></strong>," <em><strong>Golda Fulk</strong></em> said, "was the one everyone called whenever they got sick. I thought she was the only doctor in Noxon. She was good at it. She was good at everything she did. My sister, <strong><em>Jude (Julia)</em></strong> and Ethel lived at Noxon at the same time. Julia married <strong>Bert Johnson</strong> and then <strong><em>LeGault</em></strong>, then <strong><em>Christianson</em></strong>.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Strawberry sang with the San Francisco Philharmonic previous to coming to Noxon," Bob Saint said. (</span><a href="http://www.sfsymphony.org/About-Us/Mission-History"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">San Francisco Sympony History</span></strong>.)</span></a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"He had a wonderful voice. You'd hear him singing. My God you could hear him for miles. He had a fantastic voice. When he was working you'd always hear him singing. And he had this ST Vitus dance, or whatever it was.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"<strong><em>Paul Nanny</em></strong> worked for the railroad. He ate at Ethel's, in the Cafe. Paul Nanny put every cent he could get into slot machines. Ethel always had one at the counter in her cafe. That's no doubt why <strong><em>Marion</em></strong> [<strong><em>Larson</em></strong>] took care of Paul Nanny's check after Nanny retired."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Noxon. 1918. Excerpt-With all the forces at work in a nation at war, and the dissentions over them, keeping community unity functioning was almost miraculous. That the little Montana hamlets, by and large, accomplished it is a strong testament to how desperately the settlers had to depend on each other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Despite the special needs of supporting WWI efforts Sanders County residents kept working together even while they disagreed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Interest in farm bureau activities was high throughout the west end of the county. It seemed that the government was at last helping the farmer in a constructive way, as <em>Sanders County Independent Ledger's</em> editor was happy to report. He devoted space to the topic two weeks in a row.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"A special meeting of the Noxon Community Club was held Saturday evening to discuss the matter of co-operative marketing of fence posts. At a previous meeting <em><strong>County Agent Hillman </strong></em>had been requested to secure data on this subject, and his report was made at this time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The advisability of forming an association for the purpose of selling direct to farmers was considered, but for the present it was decided to handle it through the club, the county agent agreeing to take care of the correspondence. In the future, if the plan proves a success and the volume of business warrants it, an association will be formed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"It is contemplated to deal through similar clubs and through other county agents organizing co-operative buyers, as it is seldom that individual farmers require carload quantities. The purpose is, of course, to eliminate the middleman and to divert the money he would collect for expenses and profits to the pockets of the buyers and sellers."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">January 17, 1918</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"A telephone message today from <em><strong>F. M. Hillman</strong></em>, who in company with <em><strong>Sam T. Hampton</strong></em> and <strong><em>E. H. Lott</em></strong>, from the agricultural department, is holding a series of meetings in the interest of the farm bureau organization ...</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Successful meetings at Heron, Noxon and Trout Creek ... attendance surprisingly good and practically all favored the plan when once the objects of it were made clear. 17 members were secured at Heron, 32 at Noxon and 22 at Trout Creek ...</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Chosen to represent the communities were: Heron - <strong><em>F.A. Bump</em></strong>, <em><strong>Fred Smith</strong></em> and <strong><em>M.H. Larson</em></strong>; Noxon - <em><strong>J.W. Hammons</strong></em>, <strong><em>Marion Larson</em></strong> and <strong><em>Marion Cotton</em></strong>; Trout Creek - <strong><em>Elihu Wilson</em></strong>, <strong><em>John Larson</em></strong> and <strong><em>A. N. Brooks</em></strong>... "</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1915. Noxon. Excerpt-Sander's County history of spring-time high water spelled disaster for ferries. For many years <em><strong>John Fulk</strong></em> had operated a ferry at Noxon until one spring when high water tore it loose and it was gone, and probably smashed to bits going through the Cabinet Gorge, miles downstream.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then a boat that had broken loose from the Green ferry upstream a year earlier was purchased from <em><strong>Riley Eldridge</strong></em> and others one December "to be installed at Noxon for a ferry." A bridge had been built at Thompson Falls so the ferry was no longer needed there. The US Forest Service at Noxon purchased "the big cable and other paraphernalia on the Thompson Falls ferry from <em><strong>E. Preston</strong></em> and moved it to Noxon "where it will be used by the government for ferry service across the Clark's Fork." <em><strong>Ed Hampton</strong></em></span> <span style="font-size: large;">was to take charge of the ferry business.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><em>Marion Larson</em></strong> gave a Valentine dance in Peek's hall in 1915, giving settlers an opportunity to gather, dance, laugh and exchange the latest news:</span></div>
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<strong><em>Jesse Gage</em></strong>, Noxon's only barber, was turning his business over to his brother, <strong><em>William.</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>Jess Beason's</em></strong> house burned down, bringing to town the insurance agent who inspected the ruins.</div>
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<strong><em>Charlie Ellis</em></strong> had had a narrow escape while coming down the bank to the ferry on the north side of the river with a load of ties. His brakes failed and he nearly ran into the river where the road turns to the ferry.</div>
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<strong><em>Reverend Lang</em></strong> preached twice a month at Tuscor. Prohibition, or the Booze Bill, was to be voted on in November 1916. However, not many believed it would pass.</div>
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">According to <strong><em>Don Maynard</em></strong> the usual number of fights began on the upper landing of the outside staircase ascending to Peek's Hall and more than one tipsy fellow took a rude tumble down them, ending up fighting in the street before the night was over.</span><br />
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* * * * * * * * * * Mona * * Leeson Vanekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13960344550865461358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667630149006442826.post-26381203157777740742014-06-11T17:31:00.000-07:002017-03-13T13:16:22.337-07:00Lumberjacks' Social Status: Settlers of Sanders County Montana: Vignette Vol.2 No.4<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Vignette Vol.2 No.4</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 24px/normal "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong>Families joined through marriage</strong></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 24px/normal "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">1920s. Noxon. Excerpt-<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span>The population, the majority being homesteaders who'd settled in the area scarcely a dozen or more years earlier, eagerly cooperated in any endeavor to benefit their community. They also gathered frequently to dance and socialize. However, there was no comparison between lumberjacks' social status and that of the settlers.<br class="calibre3" style="display: block;" /><br class="calibre3" style="display: block;" />Acceptance into family circles resulted from suitable behavior. Unless personally invited by a stump rancher\logger or businessman to attend, temporary residents didn't set foot in social gatherings.<br class="calibre3" style="display: block;" /><br class="calibre3" style="display: block;" />Some families joined ties through marriage, including inter-related groups around Noxon like the <strong>Bauers, Greers</strong> and <strong>Gordons</strong>, and the <strong>Saints, Fulks, Bartholomews, Higgins</strong> and <strong>Berrays</strong>, and the <strong>Huffmans, Hammons, Bucks</strong> and <strong>Ellis </strong>families. The <strong>Baxters</strong> and <strong>Weares</strong> united through marriage, too, as did the <strong>Evans</strong> and <strong>Raynors</strong>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 24px/normal "times new roman"; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This group of young mothers and children are an example of family relationships, at Noxon, and includes [L-R] <em><strong>Freeman</strong>,</em> <strong><em>Mable</em></strong> and <strong><em>Ruby Fulks</em></strong>, and sister, <strong><em>Golda</em></strong> [holding baby], <strong><em>Mary Hampton</em></strong> [holding baby], <strong><em>Fern Saint</em></strong> [with towel] and daughter, <strong><em>Montana 'Tana'</em></strong> standing between her and Mary, plus children, <strong><em>Bob, Dan</em></strong>, and <strong><em>Maude Saint</em></strong>, circa early 1920s, courtesy Ben F. Saint collection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 24px/normal "times new roman"; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">1924. Noxon Tittle-Tattle. Excerpt-After the Eighteenth Amendment ushered in Prohibition, Noxon had a lady beauty operator and barber for a little while. During the era of flappers, speakeasies and moonshine, young people in the Clark's Fork Valley were as susceptible as anywhere else to its changes. After finishing school at Noxon, <strong><em>Doneita Pringle</em></strong> attended the Schultz Beauty School in Spokane, Washington. Then she returned and did beauty work in her hometown. There was no such thing as a beauty shop in Noxon then. No electricity for permanents and such.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 24px/normal "times new roman"; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Doneita wrote Beauty Parlor Notes for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="calibre5" style="font-style: italic;">The Sanders County Independent Ledger</i>, telling readers about hair care and waves. She visited often with her parents, <strong><em>Mr and Mrs. Burnie Winter.</em></strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Donieta had her barber chair in the barbershop in a front room of the <strong><em>Lena Baxter</em></strong> building, downtown on Main Street in Noxon. <strong><em>George Jamison</em></strong> and his kids, <strong><em>Laura, Loren 'Lanky'</em></strong>, and <strong><em>Walter 'Tag'</em></strong> were among Doneita's many customers.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 24px/normal "times new roman"; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 24px/normal "times new roman"; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Lanky said, "But, Charlie's folks, <strong><em>Andrew and Mary Knutson</em></strong>, wouldn't have anything to do with Doneita. And wouldn't attend the wedding, either. <strong><em>Mrs. S.S. Brown's</em></strong> group met one afternoon. <strong>Mrs. Knutson</strong>, and <strong><em>Katie Engle</em></strong> and the whole group. They knew Mary had no use for Doneita so Grandma [Mrs. Brown] asked Mary if she'd been up to see the bride.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 24px/normal "times new roman"; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"Mary Knutson took her glasses off and wiped them on her apron. They wore aprons when they come to visit," Lanky said.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 24px/normal "times new roman"; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"After she [Donieta] and Charlie married, the barbershop was also a moonshine place. It was a short-lived marriage. Well under those circumstances, it couldn't last. Doneita left Noxon."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 24px/normal "times new roman"; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 20px/normal "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 48px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> The "tittle-tattle" that circulated constantly among townsfolk and homesteaders alike was undoubtedly overheard and absorbed by some youngsters and surely young <strong><em>Charles and Ruth Thomson</em></strong>, who lived in the Bull River Valley far from Noxon and attended Pilik School, were nevertheless attuned to some tales whether they understood the gist of them or not. Essie Thomson Mercer 1924 photograph, courtesy of her daughter Ruth Mercer McBee collection.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 20px/normal "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 48px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> <strong><em>Laurence "Larry" Cox,</em></strong> dressed up here in his Sunday best and possibly on his way to church or a Sunday school class, wasn't immune from rumors and truths because his mother was active in community betterment organizations where news circulated most unrestrainedly, June 1924 photograph, courtesy Laurence "Larry" Cox collection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">[Resource: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mona-Leeson-Vanek/e/B001KCEM56/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1">BEHIND THESE MOUNTAINS </a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">]</span><br /><strong>Weare, Clifford R.</strong><br />1911. Noxon. Excerpt-<strong><em>Cliff Weare</em></strong>, <strong><em>Ed Donlan</em></strong>, <strong><em>Frank Lyons</em></strong>, and <strong><em>Joseph Moderie</em></strong> were the primary sawmill men in northwestern Sanders County in 1911, each struggling to survive a serious slump in lumber sales. Forest management policies that were irritating before the 1910 fire now infuriated them. They objected to the forest service pushing sales of timber upon a broken market. But the dictates of the government were explicit. Federal instructions dictated:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"All timber sale work is urgent; standpoint of economic utilization; increasing revenues of the service; without jeopardizing the fundamental principles of stumpage rates, advance payments, close utilization and proper silvical treatment of the timber stands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Congress expects the service to make good its promise to bring up the total of its revenue to equal that of its gross expenditures. The USFS now furnishes only 1/50 of the total (timber) cut in the United States. It seems reasonable that cut might be increased sufficiently to supplement present revenue without seriously affecting general market conditions."</span></blockquote>
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<strong><em>Ranger Granville "Granny" Gordon</em></strong> <br />
Although the Forest Service was having almost more problems than they could handle, a sense of humor was evident on the Cabinet National Forest. While <strong><em>Ranger "Granny" Gordon</em></strong> poured grain into his horse's feed stall, which was nothing more than a wooden box attached to a tree a short distance from his tent in a forest campsite, he consider how to sum up his 1911 annual report.</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-baNnk8L1B_U/U4FoXjBIMgI/AAAAAAAABZw/fK4TbbXTgFc/s1600/07-NS1600FR22+1ST+USFS+CABINET+FOREST+RANGER+GRANNY+GORDON+w+PACK+STRING+IN+CAMP+GORDON.jpg"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="241" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-baNnk8L1B_U/U4FoXjBIMgI/AAAAAAAABZw/fK4TbbXTgFc/s1600/07-NS1600FR22+1ST+USFS+CABINET+FOREST+RANGER+GRANNY+GORDON+w+PACK+STRING+IN+CAMP+GORDON.jpg" width="400" /></span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> USFS Ranger <strong><em>Granville Gordon</em></strong> breaking camp with the horses packed with tents and gear ready to head for the Ranger Station, ca. 1911, Granville Gordon photograph, courtesy of his daughter Blanche Gordon Claxton collection. <br /><br />When Gordon returned to his headquarters at the Bull River Ranger Station the report he penned said,<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"All funds short due to 1910 fire. We who are left of the Cabinet force this winter (1910-11) are hardly more than a corporal's guard and from present state of finances, it looks as though we might have to live on salt char and hominy before grass grows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We HAVEN'T HAD A RANGERS MEETING FOR THREE YEARS, and the outlook is not good for one in the near future. There have been two reasons for not having more rangers meetings - when we had money enough, we didn't have rangers enough; and when we had rangers enough, we didn't have money enough, and now we have neither one. However we are going to have one before next Christmas if we have to catch char for our meat, kill bear for the grease, shed tears for the salt, and assemble on foot."</span></blockquote>
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Spring work at the Bull River station consisted of Ranger Gordon exerting some of his energies on the 'Jungle,' which in future years is to be called a clearing.<br /><br />Also, during that first quarter of fiscal year 1911, 29 timber sales were made, valued at $5,550.21 (consisting mostly of fire-killed timber). 3,220,000 feet saw timber, 1,241 cedar poles, 70,152 cedar posts and 16,332 railroad ties. They were mostly small sales to local parties, except for the sale of 2,700,000 feet of fire-killed timber on Marten Creek, which was sold to <strong><em>G.S. Burrill</em></strong> of Sandpoint, Idaho. Burrill began with a large crew, also cutting a large private timber sale.<br /><br /><strong><em>R.A. Lauderdale</em></strong> of Norman, Washington, bought a large sale on the East Fork and Upper Bull River; estimated at 1,271,000 feet of saw timber, 3,144 cedar poles, 175,000 cedar posts and 7,971 cords shingle bolts. The forester optimistically wrote in the journal, "He undoubtedly will put a large crew to work soon."</span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oMHf98Stndo/U4FpLwljkTI/AAAAAAAABZ0/QJ7EF1vvLh0/s1600/08-NS80FR10+WILSON-GARDNER-BAUER-GREER-BEASON-C.+BAUER-LOCKMAN+MENFOLK+BAUER.jpg"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="336" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oMHf98Stndo/U4FpLwljkTI/AAAAAAAABZ0/QJ7EF1vvLh0/s1600/08-NS80FR10+WILSON-GARDNER-BAUER-GREER-BEASON-C.+BAUER-LOCKMAN+MENFOLK+BAUER.jpg" width="400" /></span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> It's unlikely any of this Noxon area group of friends and relatives worked for Lauderdale busy as they were establishing their homesteads. The group includes <strong><em>Harry Wilson, George Gardner, Granville Bauer, Chess Greer, Jess Beason</em></strong> and daughter, <strong><em>Nora, Clayton Bauer and Earl Lockman,</em></strong> ca. 1912-14, courtesy Clayton "Clate" Bauer collection.<br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The first ranger meeting on the Cabinet National Forest took place June 2l, 1911. <strong><em>Rangers Brown, Clark, Gordon, Scarlett, Saint </em></strong>and <strong><em>Bushnell</em></strong> spent 4 days going over fire problems, tools caches, fighting, patrol and fire reports, office files and procedures.<br /> </span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xVVTi2z8kKQ/U4Fp0pT2E5I/AAAAAAAABZ4/gRcBy00X46o/s1600/022-11-NS1600FR25_GRANNY_w_USFS_CREW_THOMPSON_FALLS_RANGER_STATION_ca_1912.jpg"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xVVTi2z8kKQ/U4Fp0pT2E5I/AAAAAAAABZ4/gRcBy00X46o/s1600/022-11-NS1600FR25_GRANNY_w_USFS_CREW_THOMPSON_FALLS_RANGER_STATION_ca_1912.jpg" width="400" /></span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> USFS <strong><em>Ranger Granville "Granny" Gordon</em></strong> (on the left) is the only identified man in this group of foresters at Thompson Falls Ranger Station, ca. 1912, courtesy Granville Gordon collection.<br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1921. Heron. Excerpt--Throughout 1921, the <em>Sanders County Independent Ledger</em> continued to report mining news and local comings and goings, but for some unknown reason failed to report the worse wide-spread disaster in Sanders County, Montana, since 1910—the catastrophic fire that burned Heron, and surrounding areas that had not burned in the earlier conflagration. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><em>Georgia Knott MacSpadden</em></strong> wrote in her diary,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"In 1921, sparks got into a sawdust pile at the sawmill on Elk Creek. Fire got away and burned right up to the Heron Store. When the wind changed, firefighters were able to save the store by keeping the roof wet."</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">Georgia, a young girl at the time, had gone to get the mail in Heron. Returning to the Knott ranch near the mouth of Elk Creek she saw the fire begin growing up the mountain. By night, it had engulfed the entire hillside. Smoke hazed the sun for three months. The Knotts had gravity flow water from a spring, with little force to it, but it was the only place in Heron that had running water in the house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Georgia's aunt <strong><em>Bessie</em></strong> had just purchased a new mattress, made in sections. The <strong><em>Knott family</em></strong> hurriedly took it out to the garden and spread green grass sod over it. Household dishes, silver, and everything they could bury were spaded under the garden soil.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Heron stores and saloons burned," Georgia said. "The NPRR backfired at the wooden trestle to save it, and that kept the fire from reaching the Knott's ranch. On our front porch, at midnight, you could read a newspaper with the light from the fire."<br /><br /><strong><em>Ruth Dettwiler</em></strong> said, "Our cousins were visiting from Plains. We saw the big black smoke from the fire across the river. There were coal storage buildings in Heron and they blackened the sky as they burned. Our parents weren't home, but they'd instructed us what to do in case of fire. Take all the furniture into the cellar. Put wet towels over our heads and get out into the fields away from any buildings that might burn."</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">The 1921 fire destroyed more than one sawmill, and thousands of acres of the finest timber standing. <strong><em>Flave </em></strong>and <strong><em>Jesse Lee</em></strong> lost 40,000 cedar posts. By the time the flames died in 1921, very little was left of Heron.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sawmills were never rebuilt. The timber was destroyed, and many families left the area. However, the greater loss to 32-year-old <strong><em>Patrick Duffy</em></strong> was his wife.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"My mother was crying and screaming in the back bedroom when the last baby was born in 1921. It was when there'd been a forest fire. When I asked where the baby come from, he [Dad] said the poor little thing was out watching that fire. For years and years I believed him! Dad raised us nine kids but never remarried again. He had a wonderful sense of humor."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Resource: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mona-Leeson-Vanek/e/B001KCEM56/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1">BEHIND THESE MOUNTAINS </a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">]</span><br /><strong>Charley Maynard</strong></span><span style="font-size: large;">1918. Noxon. Excerpt-Ever since men arrived in the Clark's Fork Valley, card playing had been a favorite pastime. Rummy and solo were played for drinks, cigars or chips in saloons. At Noxon, <strong><em>Charley Maynard's</em></strong> pool hall on Main Street was just east of the store <strong><em>Henry Larson</em></strong> bought from <strong><em>Dr. Peek</em></strong> in 1918. Lumberjacks from logging camps on Rock Creek hiked to town and enjoyed fellowship with town dwellers, playing games of chance in the evenings, and also on Saturdays and Sundays.<br /><br />The pool hall issued "hickies," small, pasteboard chips worth a nickel apiece, as winnings for the games. Rummy and pangeni were preferred over poker and other games.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Kids, whose mothers weren't particular where they spent their idle time, used to hang around the pool hall real handy. Some of the fellows, winning a handful of chips, was bound to share generously", <strong><em>Carmen Moore</em></strong> said.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">This scene from an always popular local entertainment at Noxon is titled "<em>Stick-'em-up</em>" from the play titled "<em>D.F, Tablu Beer Joint</em>", with <strong>Kelly Thomson</strong> seated at center of the table being the only identified member of the cast in the unidentified location that could have been in Brown's Pool Hall, date unknown, courtesy Ruth Mercer McBee collection.<br /><br />Enforcement of the law meant abolishing the games, or the proprietors could face a stiff fine and imprisonment. Included were monte, dondo, fan-tan, studhorse poker, craps, seven-and-a-half, twenty-one, faro, roulette, hokey-pokey, pangeni or pangene, draw poker or the game commonly called round-the-table-poker, or any game of chance played with cards, dice or any device.<br /><br />Outlawing slot machines, punchboards and other devices followed, under the anti-gambling law. <strong><em>Sheriff J.L. "Joe" Hartman</em></strong> warned that raids would be made. The penalty was a $100 fine, with imprisonment for not less than three months nor more than one year, or by both fine and imprisonment.<br /><br />Under the provisions of a law passed by the legislature, and approved by the governor on March 3, 1918, it became a misdemeanor for any proprietor of a saloon, drug store, pool hall or other business establishment to permit these games to be played on his premises.<br /><br />Opinions were voiced cautiously. To speak out in protest of a law was to risk censure, or even being branded as a traitor. Patriotism fever flamed as hot and charring as kerosene lamp wicks, during 1918 when valley men were being drafted to fight WWI, and loosed self-serving attitudes and actions.<br /><br />Deviation from majority sentiment brought swift penalties.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Vignette Vol.1 No.7</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><em>Berray, Caspar and Jim</em></strong><br />Late 1800s. Noxon. Excerpt--Three hundred and fifty mining claims, dating from 1887, were recorded in the 62-square mile area located on the Idaho-Montana border between Lightning Creek and Bull River. Many mining claims were in the southern Clark Fork Mining District, plus deposits near Spar Lake.(43) Occurrences of gold, silver, lead, zinc and copper had been reported.<br /><br /><strong><em>Caspar "Cap" Berray</em></strong> and his brother, <strong><em>Jim</em></strong> met a placer miner who had been shot at repeatedly during the Coeur d'Alene miners' war. The yarn swapping helped prevent them from getting the mining fever.(35) but the placer miner was still looking for trouble.<br /><br />At Noxon, <strong><em>Jim Freeman</em></strong>, <strong><em>Jim Miller</em></strong>, and <strong><em>Clark</em> </strong>recorded the first mines in the area. Freeman's prospect was at the head of Copper Gulch, Clark mined at the head of Rock Creek, and Jim Miller developed his mining prospect on Pilgrim Creek, about three miles southwest of Noxon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This mine in Rock Creek was to the left of the <strong><em>Salisbury Mine</em></strong>, ca. early 1900s. Identity of miners and exact location of the mine are lost to history, <strong><em>Earl Engle</em></strong> family picture, courtesy Stewart and Agnes Hampton collection.<br /><br />Two mine dumps in the Pilgrim Creek area are on the north side of the road, opposite the <strong><em>Stover</em></strong>, or <strong><em>Mountain Home Ranch</em></strong>, on Pilgrim Creek. The abandoned adits are located about on the section line between Sec. 26 and Sec. 35, T. 26 N., R. 33 W. The sum of the work Jim Miller did on another claim, located on Prospect Creek near Thompson Falls, Montana, is recorded in Bulletin 34, May 1964, by Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, Butte, Montana.<br /><br />Downstream from Noxon, at Smeads, a man named <strong><em>Haycock </em></strong>now owned the shingle mill. <strong><em>William H. Smead</em></strong> had built. He was peg-legged, having lost his limb in a mining explosion. A dynamite accident had blown off both his hands and blinded one eye. His partner took care of him just like a baby. They had an old team and continued to prospect.<br /><br />Most of the miners left the mineral outcroppings in the Clark's Fork Valley. The initial frenzy resulting from early prospectors' discoveries in these Bitterroot and Cabinet Mountains had begun to fizzle. They had proven to be sporadic and misleading because numerously faulted rock formations had broken the minerals into scattered, unreliable veins. Rich minerals ended after only a few feet of exploration; dashing a prospector's first giddy belief that unending wealth would be easily taken.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><em>Captain Peter Weare</em></strong> and his wife, <strong><em>Emma</em></strong>, came to Noxon in 1900. Weare, a 50-year-old veteran of the Indian Wars in Nebraska wanted to prospect the mountains around Noxon. Emma was 45. When they came to Noxon they left behind two grown sons, <strong>Major </strong>and <strong><em>Clifford R</em></strong>., who, with his own family, was living in Minon, Wisconsin, working in the lumber business.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> 1911. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Missoula, Montana. Excerpt--"In addition to six U of M professors, class instructors included Supervisor <strong><em>Dor Skeels</em></strong> of the Kootenai National Forest, Supervisor <strong><em>Mason</em></strong> of the Deerlodge forest, <strong><em>C.H. Adams</em></strong>, Assistant District Forester in charge of Grazing, <strong><em>J.T. Jardin</em></strong>, Grazing Inspector, <strong><em>F.E. Bonner</em></strong>, Chief of Geography, <strong><em>R.B. Adams,</em></strong> Superintendent of Telephone Construction, and <strong><em>Messrs, Henderson and Clark</em></strong>, Assistants to the Solicitor in District No. 1."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>William, 'Bill' Hayes</strong><br />Dissention between sawmill owners and workers had been brewing for years and now was rapidly building to a major confrontation, and in larger mills, northwestern Montana employees were becoming more heavily involved. (*Industrial Workers of the World.) However, there were sawmills such as <strong><em>William 'Bill' Hayes'</em></strong> fairly large sawmill on the farthest place up Pilgrim Creek, in the mountains south of Noxon, that remained unaffected by the developing turmoil.</span><br />
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<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="242" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1zrKNRZn2TE/U1SbQHBg8zI/AAAAAAAABYY/eFstafSQjII/s1600/008-13-NS409FR35_MARTHA_EVANS+SONS_WALTER+WARREN.jpg" width="400" /></span><span style="font-size: large;">William and Martha Evans stand beside their wagon while sons, Walter and Warren load hand-split cedar posts from deck to wagon. They stack it as high as their team and the Noxon ferry can handle, for the journey to the Northern Pacific railhead in Noxon, circa 1915-16, courtesy Edna Evans Cummings collection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Martha Evans and sons Walter and Warren alongside of their hand-split cedar posts, piled to await transport to the Northern Pacific Railroad siding at Noxon, Montana, Sanders County, Montana, circa 1915-16, courtesy Edna Evans Cummings collection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Charlie Knutson</strong><br />Miles upstream from Noxon, high in the Marten Creek drainage, lumberjacks, dissatisfied with wages and living conditions, began talking strike.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Charlie Knutson said, "I think the big White Pine Sash Lumber Mill strike started out in 1916. Yes, that strike lasted for a long time. I think they founded a book, "The Union", on that strike up there. I used to go up to Tuscor quite a bit to the dances held by N.J. LaRue, who run the store there. He gave dances all the time upstairs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"I helped take the railroad [in Marten Creek canyon] out right after the strike. I believe A.C. White owned that mill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Coxey's Army, a kind of union type army came into Noxon. Oh, there was a big bunch of them. I don't know how many men went in the army, but there was a big bunch of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"There was a branch of them went all through the country. But Noxon didn't seem to favor them too much. They wasn't [sic] too keen on them. The army couldn't get out of there right away. So they greased the rails from Noxon on up, to stop the train, and got out of there that way."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Northern Pacific Railroad Engine No.6 on siding at </span><span style="font-size: large;">Furlong, in western Sanders </span><span style="font-size: large;">County, Montana, </span><span style="font-size: large;">ca. 1915-16.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">1917. Noxon. Excerpt--Picks swung vigorously in the frosty January air. Three men carved out a grave for <strong><em>John Schiller</em></strong>. He had the audacity to die when the ground was frozen as solid as the rocky Montana mountains sheltering the wee cemetery, hewed from shrub covered forestland a half-mile up Pilgrim Creek Road from Noxon.<br /><br />The old, gray haired, German had lived up along Bull River, the ribbon-like northwestern Montana valley two miles as the crow flies from the buildings huddled near the Noxon Depot on the Northern Pacific Railroad tracks. But twenty-miles by cold sleigh, and colder ferry ride across the Clark's Fork River, up the riverbank, across the flats and railroad line. A stop at <em><strong>Charlie Maynard</strong></em>'s Saloon. Warmed inside and out, the driver snapped reins on tired horses, and a growing crowd followed the sleigh to the cemetery.<br /><br />Two feet of pure white snow muffled the laughter of the burly, young homesteaders, recounting John's most daring exploits. He was one of their own.<br /><br />"<em><strong>Old Man" Green</strong></em>, with his wife and three little kids, <strong><em>"Dutch" Henry Scheffler</em></strong>, a butcher from Helena, Montana, who kept a passel of dogs, and <strong><em>Pete Hatch</em></strong>, a man referred to as "<em><strong>Old Man" Hatch</strong></em>, had been Schiller's neighbors for a time. Schiller, a frequenter of dances in Heron, had also brought beef to market there in earlier days. Until the forest service had "reserved" part of <strong><em>Marion Cotton's</em></strong> homesteader lands, and built a ranger's headquarters next to his place, in 1908.<br /><br />The pick handlers recalled McJunkin had been the first one living and logging in the Bull River Valley, sixty some miles south of the Canadian border, before Schiller wandered in. Before the forest service existed. Before there was any road at all.<br /><br />McJunkin had a sawmill.<strong><em> Doc Smith</em></strong> acquired the place when McJunkin pulled up stakes and left. Smith let Green and his wife have it. Greens burned out and moved to Heron. Marion Cotton and his partner, <strong><em>Tom Moran</em></strong> took up the place next. Then the forest service snatched it away from them eleven years ago. John had neighbored with them all.<br /><br />Now a cold arctic storm had ushered in 1917. And they were burying "Old Man" Schiller in the Noxon cemetery.<br /><br />Bull River Valley would never be the same.<br /><br />But then, would anything be the same?</span><br />
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Late 1920s. Noxon. Excerpt--After <strong><em>Walter Lake</em></strong> left forest service employment and moved to Noxon, <strong><em>Walt McClung</em></strong> was Ranger <strong><em>Benjamin F. "Ben" Saint's</em></strong> man at Bull River.<br />
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<strong><em>H.R.</em> <em>Bob Saint</em></strong>, Ben's son, said, "[Walt] McClung was a big, black Indian. Just as black as they come. His brother was great big man, too, only he was blonde and blue eyed. Their dad was full-blooded Irish and their mother was full-blooded Indian.<br /><br />"He [Walt] built the road into the <strong><em>Heidleberg Mine</em></strong> with a pick and shovel and a box of powder. He worked for my dad for years and years. He was an excellent worker as long as he kept sober. He had the Indian trait that he could not handle liquor.<br />
<br />"<strong><em>Clyde Scheffler</em></strong> lived just above the Bull River Guard Station, right at the mouth almost, or just up on the East Fork of Bull River," Bob said.<br /><br />"[Walt] McClung used to tell about when they came to town one time in the winter. They come in on the sled. And, of course, Scheffler got drunk. Walt said they started up the canyon [Bull River Valley]. 'My God,' McClung said, 'about every half mile Clyde would fall off the sled. And he'd lay there and yell until I'd stop and go back, pick him up and help him up on the sled.'<br /><br />"Walt simply got tired of it after about four times. About the fifth time Clyde slipped off again and started yelling, Walt said he just took the axe off the front of the sled, you know, and went back and said, 'I might just as well kill the son-of-a-bitch here as anyplace'.<br /><br />"Walt said, 'You know, Clyde got onto his feet and got onto the sled and no more problem until we got home.' It just tickled McClung to death."<br />
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<strong>Clark, Jack</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1929. While building the first highway through western Sanders County, west of Trout Creek. Excerpt--<strong><em>Clifford R. Weare</em></strong> said, "<strong><em>Jack Clark's folks</em></strong> lived on the north side of the Clark's Fork River, in a big white house at the bottom of the hill on the mouth of Swamp Creek. When they were building the highway, Jack's dad got into a row with the state engineers. He didn't want them to go through his orchard. So he planted Mason jars of dynamite out there. Buried it." Years later, when Weare recounted the story, he laughed heartily. "Hahaha."<br /><br />"When they plowed that first jar of dynamite out, they quit! Hahaha. Everybody got off Clark's land! He was an ornery old cuss. I knew him. That was as far as the road came west from Trout Creek for a long time, right there. They quit right there."</span><br />
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