Cruising Timber in Montana: Settlers of Sanders County Montana - Vignette Vol.1 No. 11

Vignette Vol.1 No.11
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1889 - Noxon-Excerpt:Swan Swanson 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.)

Swan smoked a corncob pipe. A lover

of animals, Swan also usually had a dog

or two, courtesy Ruth Mercer McBee

collection.

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 Tom Greenough'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 Ed Hampton and a big woodshed the railroad had filled with wood for their steam engines.

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 Goodchild Lumber Company, in Thompson Falls.

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.

The only businesses and occupants remaining in Noxon that Polk Gazeteer noted in 1898 were J.H. Hire, nursery, and Andrew Knutson, 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.

The population at Trout Creek decreased to 15, with Pat Kelly, postmaster and saloonkeeper, and NcNeel, railroad agent, along with miners, F. Cameron, M.B. Gray, David Miller and R.R. Schulder, among those still there.

 

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Montana School Trustees: Settlers of Sanders County Montana: Vignette Vol.1 No. 10.

Vignette Vol.1 No.10
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1889 - Heron--Excerpt: 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.

In April 1890, Edward Knott, NPRR division section man, Levi Dingley and Jacob "Kinney" Honberger, 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.


This photo of one brother is captioned "William Frank Honberger"
in Eva Honberger's family album, but other members of the family
believe it may be Jacob "Kinney" Honberger, owner of the saloon
in Heron, Montana.

 

[Clara "Eva" Morse Honberger, 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.]

According to The Sanders County Ledger, July 7, 1919,

"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.

It later developed there were three men in the party and they walked to Heron and escaped the same way, going to Clarks Fork and Hope, Idaho. 

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.

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.

Roy Hart and Jack Prouty are on the trail of Spoor and it is likely that he will soon be in custody."

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.

In 1856, Louisa Ann Stone married Jacob L. Honberger, who died in June 1863 at the Battle of Milliken’s Bend, fighting for the Union in the Civil War. They had three children: William Francis “Frank”, Flora “Emma”, and Jacob “Kinney”, who was just an infant less than a year in age when his father died.

Flora “Emma” married Levi Dingley 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.

Flora "Emma" Honberger Dingley

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 to unsourced information, Louisa died in 1889 in Spokane.

Louisa Ann Stone Honberger

Because Jacob senior was away at war when Jacob “Kinney” was born, his father and he never met.

According 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 George G. Grey until his death in 1941, when he died of a massive stroke.

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Montana Moonshiners: Settlers of Sanders County Montana: Vignette Vol.2 No. 6.

Vignette Vol.2 No.6
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1917 - Noxon. Excerpt--For a short while, Andy Knutson's 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.

Of this pyramid of five young men at Noxon only Don Maynard, Alex Peterson and Joe Bedard 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 Ruth Mercer McBee collections.

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.

 

A.J. Kline, recently from Tulsa, Oklahoma, threw in with Emil Gavin and Alex Davies, 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."

 

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 Peek's Hall 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.

 

Saloonkeepers weren't the only men reaping profits. With the right connections and a bit of daredevil nerve, enterprising young men pocketed more money than working for the forest service allowed.

 

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.

 

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, Charley Maynard's pool hall on Main Street was just east of the store Henry Larson bought from Dr. Peek in 1918.

 

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.

 

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.

"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", Carmen Moore said.

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.

 

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.

 

Outlawing slot machines, punchboards and other devices followed, under the anti-gambling law. Sheriff J.L. "Joe" Hartman 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.

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 Kelly Thomson 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.

 

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Spanish Influenza: Settlers of Sanders County Montana: Vignette Vol.2 No. 5.

Vignette Vol.2 No.5
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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.

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.

Desperate counties passed laws. trying to curb influenza's spread and Sanders County Independent Ledger told readers late in October, 1918,

"Emergency regulations providing for, among other things, the closing of schools, theaters and places of public amusement and prohibiting of public gatherings upon the outbreak of influenza in any Montana community."

Late in 1918 Noxon and all the little hamlets along the Clark's Fork River were hard hit. Harry Talmadge was making posts on Dry Creek for Jim Saint when the storekeeper, George Buck and his wife both got the "flu" and sent for Harry to tend the store. Harry said,



Harry Tallmadge, ca. 1916-18

"Sarah 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. Mrs. Buck 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.

"I told one of the doctors I was afraid of taking the flu back to my family, handling all the stuff in the post office. He told me to get a fifth of whiskey and take a swallow of it once in a while. So I did."

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 Mrs. Granville Gordon.

In the Montana Hotel. Mrs George Phillips, ex-wife of the NPRR telegrapher, and Elmer Angst, a 19-year-old man from Thompson Falls who had been living in Noxon working for Marion Larson, both died of the flu. But Harry never got it.

 
Montana Hotel in Noxon, Montana, ca. 1918. Courtesy Blanche
Gordon Claxton collection.

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Just Like Snakes: Settlers of Sanders County Montana: Vignette Vol.3 No.4

Vignette Vol.3 No.4
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Anthony Wayne Saint
Noxon. 1920. Excerpt-Anthony Wayne Saint sold his ranch on Pilgrim Creek for $6,000.00 to H.J. Beal, who came with his two sons, Tom and Johnny.19. 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.

The log house north of Katie and Earl Engle was Mrs. Saint's house. Mr. Fulk lived there with her in their old age.

Clifford Weare said, "Old John Fulk, the eighty-year-old ferry operator said, 'You know, Cliff, I've always been pretty good. I never had many bad habits. And what I did have, prohibition's got one, and old age got the other one.'"

"Old lady Fulk, she always thought I was just right," Clifford said. "I was nice to her, you know. She was old. One day I said to her, 'Why don't you and the old man get together?'"

"'He's a livin' down there with that old woman,"' she said. '"And he never comes near me!"'

"Mr. Fulk was living across town with Grandma Saint. 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?'"

"'Ahhh," she said, "I know you damned men! You're just like snakes! The last thing dies about you is your tail!"' 

Weare laughed heartily as he said, "I never forgot that! You'd have to know the old lady to appreciate the joke, you know. Hahaha."

Bob Saint said, "The last few years that Grandmother (Saint) lived there Grandpa Fulk lived with her. He and Grandma Fulks never could get along so when Grandma Saint moved in to the west end of town he just simply moved down and lived with her. And Grandma Fulk stayed on her own place up there next to the school.

"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.

"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.

"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.

Ira Bartholomew?

"In fact, most people never knew that he had any other name but Strawberry," Bob Saint said. "And Ethel for years had been known as Mrs. Strawberry. If you spoke about Bartholomew, people would look at you blank. Nobody knew any Bartholomews, they were all Strawberrys, Ben Saint said.

"Ethel Bartholomew was very secretive. She didn't want to tell anybody anything! She was very close mouthed. Strawberry would talk.

"My sister, Ethel," Golda Fulk 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, Jude (Julia) and Ethel lived at Noxon at the same time. Julia married Bert Johnson and then LeGault, then Christianson.

"Strawberry sang with the San Francisco Philharmonic previous to coming to Noxon," Bob Saint said. (San Francisco Sympony History.)

"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.

"Paul Nanny 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 Marion [Larson] took care of Paul Nanny's check after Nanny retired."

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Montana Farm Bureau Activities: Settlers of Sanders County Montana: Vignette Vol.2 No.4

Vignette Vol.2 No.4
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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.

Despite the special needs of supporting WWI efforts Sanders County residents kept working together even while they disagreed.

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 Sanders County Independent Ledger's editor was happy to report. He devoted space to the topic two weeks in a row.

January 10, 1918

"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 County Agent Hillman had been requested to secure data on this subject, and his report was made at this time.

"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.

"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."

January 17, 1918

"A telephone message today from F. M. Hillman, who in company with Sam T. Hampton and E. H. Lott, from the agricultural department, is holding a series of meetings in the interest of the farm bureau organization ...

"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 ...

"Chosen to represent the communities were: Heron - F.A. Bump, Fred Smith and M.H. Larson; Noxon - J.W. Hammons, Marion Larson and Marion Cotton; Trout Creek - Elihu Wilson, John Larson and A. N. Brooks... "

These quickly became an organization of local County Extension Clubs to aid farmers.

When Montana became a state, certain lands were reserved as land grant colleges with income from them pledged to aid the people of the state in all manner of educational endeavors. The county extension agent literally meant extension of the college to the people.

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Disaster for Ferries: Settlers of Sanders County Montana: Vignette Vol.1 No. 9

Vignette Vol.1 No.9
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Fulk, John

1915. Noxon. Excerpt-Sander's County history of spring-time high water spelled disaster for ferries. For many years John Fulk 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.

John Fulk, Noxon ferryman, ca.

1920. Courtesy Benjamin F.

Saint collection.

Then a boat that had broken loose from the Green ferry upstream a year earlier was purchased from Riley Eldridge 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 E. Preston and moved it to Noxon "where it will be used by the government for ferry service across the Clark's Fork." Ed Hampton was to take charge of the ferry business.

 

Marion Larson gave a Valentine dance in Peek's hall in 1915, giving settlers an opportunity to gather, dance, laugh and exchange the latest news:

• Jesse Gage, Noxon's only barber, was turning his business over to his brother, William.
• A teacher's training and bible study class was organized to meet on Wednesday evenings.
• Jess Beason's house burned down, bringing to town the insurance agent who inspected the ruins.
• Charlie Ellis 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.
• Reverend Lang 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.

According to Don Maynard 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.
 

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