Show SHELBY WANTS TO A APPEAR P PEA R RAS AS BAD TOWN Boosters Believe Wild Atmosphere Will Please Visitors BY T I L FIELD GREt GREEN FIELD Copyright 1922 1923 GREAT PALLS FALLS Mont June Shelby 9 9 northern Shelby northern Montana oil to tOan n which three o months agO craved nation wide Ide publicity and andi andIs h i now getting It-Is It It Is a town toan be- be bet beti be between t ti tween pen two desires It wants want a reputation for tor sufficient to hold Its among other law abiding north north- northwestern northwestern northwestern western to towns tons ns yet It would not mind it if fight fans tans who are plan plan- planning planning ning fling to attend the Oib Dempsey bona bone bons battle on the Fourth of ot July continue ue to 10 belIe believe bellese e that mat 11 it be a reincarnation of ot a Montana mIning town of oC the early culy seventies Some of oC Shelby s a publicity a writ nt- nt have been reckless in imply Imp implying ing that gambling drInking and andred andred red ned lights are as ItS common up ther there thereas thereas as 89 hair on a II dOK dogs s lack hack with Ith the result that Attorney General Genera Wel Wel- Wellington Wel- Wel Wellington Wellington lington I D Rankin brother ot of Jeanette America s first congress congress- woman congress oman this wee week Instructed cit and county officials at the oil town to clean clan up o or he he- a would stop the championship bout on the theory that It would be a n pUblic nuisance Raids were we're immediately started and were In progress tor or H 24 hours but only a few tew persons ere acre not arrested arrested not any more In Intact tact act than would have hase been a a a rested In any other Montana Mo lana town should similar raids be conducted 1 WILT WILD TO TOW TOSS V s Shelby has legitimate claim to being what an nn easterner would call a 0 wild wild to town loan n and ond It can contInue cor to be such and keep a the law for tor federal state and county enforcement office cannot remove remo certain inherent conditions which existed at Shelby long before beCore the big fight as aas thought of ot and will III exist long after aCter the fight has passed Into his his- histOry his history tory Cabarets and dance halls have been built since Inee the bout bet beta een Dempsey and Gibbons Gibbon vias stas signed up In anticipation of oC brisk busi busi- business busi- busi business business ness Immediately preceding and the tight fight and It Is true that these have hav been erected with the lew of oC giving the atmosphere of oC a 0 frontier town ton In the early da s but prohibition officers ha hae haa haI e been vigilant and so far tar no flag flag- flagrant flagrant I rant violation of oC law has been noticed When Montanans recall that I General Rankin has his eyes eye's fixed on the seat scat of oC United States Senator Thomas J Walsh after aCter 1924 It Is more easy ey for Cor or them to understand why he rushed In Into Into Into to print so quickly on his clean cleanup cleanup cleanup up order Mr 1 Rankin Is It not on I oung good looking and single but he Is adept In other methods of oC winning women's votes otes I Contender Tommy Gibbons ar- ar ar arrived rived In the oil city this week and started Friday CItizen hl hao e donated him elaborate quarters quarters quarters for tor his indoor wor work and he be 88 sass Mrs Irs Gibbons and the children nill III live lie 11 e until after atter the tight fight In one of the few Ce magnificent residences Shelby has The Gibbons family arrived with Ith almost a aa a of ot flowers lowers which were ere put on their train In St Paul by l admire admirers GOES E B SY E SY For nearly three weeks week Cham Cham- Champion pion Jion lon Dempsey has been taking It easy at his training quarters In InGreet Greet Gret Falls For several se days he was fishing on the Dearborn river In the heart of the Rocky moun- moun mountains moun mountains This river nier one of the tha be best t no n mountain trout streams In Inthe Inthe Inthe the state was as named In JUlY 1803 by Lewis and Clarke Clare for tor Henr Henl Dearborn secretary of ot war ar In Thomas Jeffersons Jefferson's cabinet be- be because be because cause It was a handsome and bold stream m W 1 bile hile ot on this trip be he captured a young oung eagle In a daring fight with Ith Its angry mother a teat feat that I has bas won him almost almot as IlS much ad- ad admiration admiration ad admiration front froni Montanans 1 as th the ringI I records in the squared ring I On a ledge near the top of oC a dizzY dizzy cliff a 0 few tew yards ards In the rear ot of the mountain cabin which Dempsey occupied there was as a nest of a a huge American eagle which had been raising havoc with the poultry owned by Ho Howard ard Bow Bow- Bowman Bowman Bowman man who ho was as Mr 1 Dempsey's host field glasses It could be seen that there a were ere oung eagles In the nest and Dempse se told Dow Bow men n I I 1 sure would like Ie to get one of oC those young devils Bo Bowman Boman man hastened to dissuade him telling him that it couldn't be done or the tho nest neat would ha hao hae e been cleaned out long ago ogo But Jac Jack didn t listen he ho figured and aad It was Yes not Ion long before beCore he had It doped out He explained his plan Bo Bowman man listened Cro frowned ned And objected but finally finally- ga gase gae e In In another quarter of oC an hour Dempse Bowman Boman and two of oC the ranch hands equipped with tout stout ropes were we're climbing up the bac back backof backof of oC the mountain cliff from Crom which point the champion was lowered over the side down to the ledge by b his three fearful companions Ill Ia GRABS EAGLE rAGLE At first the eagle was nowhere In sight Suddenly Bowman shout shout- shouted shouted ed a to warning Tho watchful mother had seen the hostile move move- movements movements movements ments and was as heading for fer the nest like a bullet Dempsey shout shout- shouted shouted shouted ed to lower loel nay away and he made the nest neat just Jut In time to grasp a n tal fagot ot from the tho structure before beCore the tho big bigbird bigbird bigbird bird reached the spot Utterly de- de devoid de devoid void of fear lear and nd nd ready to go the limit for tor her brood the mother wheeled heeled and swooped Tho The cham cham- champion plop pion brandished his club and yelled A As Jack picked up one of oC the cheeping youngsters In she sheI caine The champions champion's perfect tim tim- timIng timing tim timing I ing of blows blow was sac hi his salvation He hit bit her squarely and the tho tight right was wasI nil all over I The young yeung eagles In his eon coa coat the hampton champion was pulled up and he breathed it A sigh of or relief to be b on sate Ce territory again And so 80 the bulldog the champion champon Hereford bull and cow at Great rails Fulls park parle where here Dempsey trains have hase a new a a geLl re l American eagle encle u |