QQ 20% arsenic. I can't give you all the details of the present 

 trouble as it would require reams of paper. But about a year 

 and a half ago the ranchers started a new scheme for getting 

 easy money and with the help of lawyers & veterinarians are 

 about to bring suit against the Co for $3,000,000, while ap- 

 plying for an injunction to shut down the mills. Statistics 

 show that stock loss is not greater than usual nor greater than 

 elsewhere in the state. The company is getting advice from 

 Theobald Smith, Welch, Adami, Moore, etc. The greatest 

 veterinarian in America, Dr McEachran of Montreal has just 

 left me. I must tell you more of him sometime, for he is a 

 grand old Scotchman. The farmers claim that the arsenic 

 causes a rotting away of the nostrils of their horses and as here- 

 about they have a peculiar disease of the nostrils, the farmers 

 are making much of it. Dr Gardner of the veterinary school 

 at Bozeman, has been working on the disease but as he is not a 

 bacteriologist, I was sent for. 



I am struck with the fair-mindedness of the company's 

 officials. They say: "If it's arsenic we want to know so that 

 we can make reparation; if not, then find out what it is so that 

 we will not be done." There are a number of suits through- 

 out the country waiting to see how this one turns out. Dr 

 Spelman, who has charge of the Sisters of Charity hospital 

 here, and Mr Mathewson, the mgr of the Co have already 

 started a movement to keep me here permanently. If I can 

 get good pay and facilities for research it might not be a bad 

 idea. There is no bacteriologist in the state. 



I'm afraid this life will spoil me. This matter of living on 

 the best of the land and not paying for it is too much for me. 

 It may make future difficulties harder to bear. 



12 P M — Well, the lab business is going through all right 

 with permission from Mr Mathewson to order any amount 

 of apparatus we want and Dr Spelman hot on the idea of hav- 

 ing it established in the hospital. It looks as though we may 

 work up a good research lab at the expense of Standard Oil. 



On the next day he said: 



To-morrow I move the laboratory, that is what there is of it, 

 into St Ann's hospital. The Mother Superior turned over two 

 fine rooms to me. 



