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a\' VOLUME EIGHT THE INLAND EMPIRE MONTANA SURPASSES ALL OTHER STATES Leads Every State in the Union in Agricuitural Development -Estimat- ed Wheat Crop of 25,000,000 Bush- els for 1912. Absclutely accurate figures, regard- ing Montana's acreage cannot he given because the tstate has not yet established a bureau for coalecting stattisties in a systematic way stays riot. Shaw. 1 I ow eiv ea infer mat!on obtained from other sources furnishes ,reassonaible bouts for at least rat- leroxinatting the. yields. There are goad reasons for ,bielieving that the wheat -crop for Montana for 1912 will natat fall short of 25,000,000 bushels. and St may exceed that amount even. 'The flax crap should give between tour and five millant bushels. Based on the shipments of grain over the lines of the Great Northern /Railway, the production of grain (since 1910 has multiplied, by forty, en increase that is probably without any parallel in the history of this 'country. 'This increase is ,acoounted for in part by the rapidity of the settle- ment &aloe 1909 and in part by the more than average character of weather conditions. Rains were more %Sian; Usually frequent and timely. The Yields in many Instances were almost 'Incredible. Forty to fifty bushel's. of Warkey Red winter wheat to the acre tape (Pate common. Some volunteer anops have tun trent twenty itie thirty bushel's without ever touching the ground which grew them with plow, disc or harrow. In some Instances twenty-five bushels of flax per acre 'were reaped and yielltle of 16 and 20 'bushels are quite coannion. Where the oat crop was sawn on well prepared bench lands it ran from 50 to 100 Intel - leis per acre. The erops of barley were corresisondingly goad. The crops of potatoes awere uniformly good and the quality ex - \JUDITH BASIN'S WEEKLY\ 4911111•191111119119011 MOORE, FERGUS COUNTY, MONTANA, OCTOBER 3, 1912 eetlient. Excellent fodder corn was raised in many areas, that. gave from ewo to three tons of eared /fodder per acre of excellent quality. In, only two or three Litniee.d areas was She crop injured by the droutle At the present Vine there ie an abuts - ',bailee of moisture in the ground. ITiris means that it the tanners will do their part, Montana may look for- ward to another bumper cues) in tt913. FROM FIRST BASE TO GOVERNOR Billing* Oct. 2 -Billings la thee home of a candidate for governor, said to he the youngest who was ever 11011a - nutted for that imponaant pcsition by political party in Montana in the pensonof Hon. Hanry L. Wilson, one of the Leading members of the I Yellowstone, county bar. Mr. Wilson in addition, to his educational attain- ements, has long been interested in athletics, particularly , baseballi, and, 'haring long held down the initial tasek for the Elk's nine here, his tfrientla are working for hie enactiom, under the escutcheon, \From First ease to Governor.\ Some of his siolitical• opponents have dubbed Mr. Willson as \Bud\ and the \Kid\ candidate, and these are apparently having a tendency to make him more popular than ever, He is 33 years of age, was born in Illinois. )resitied tat Miles City, Mont., for tseven years and came to Billings about 12 years ago. ire '.'keynote\ opeeth as temporary chairman of o be Republican conwentian at Great Valls . brought Wan lite the spotlight tualteigmilid to have best, one of the prime causes of his nomination. I VO HEY IN I CTTLE That there is money in raising stock for the market is evidenced by a few -good sales made by ranchers liviug 'south of town recently. W. H. 'Barney received $1,485 for 11 head of eteere or $135 per head while Clif- ford & Hannah sold 22 head of three year old & for $2,145 or $97.50 per head. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET From Top to Bottom the List is One ThaLShould. Appeal to all Classes --A BriJ Mention of Some of tte Candidates Judge Lew L. Callaway Is ane of the best known and meet kwpulur men in the state of Montana re- gardless of political affiliations. As a candidate for aseociate justice the supreme court upon the Republi- can. ticket he stands for what the !people of all parties desire above all other things -good government. He tis at the present time judge of the ritth Judicial dlatriet of Montana, and the faot that he was, re-elected to that office in. 1908 without aPPOsi- alien speaks for the confidence and esteem in which he is held by the citizens of his district, which eau- boares Madison, Beaverhead Jefferson mount - des. udge Cawty was born inT.uscoia III., Dec. 15, 1868 and is 44 years at' 'Age. When three years of age, 1871, he came to Montana with his par- ents and settled on a ranch in Madison county, and that county has , since been his, home except for three yenta when he was practicing law White Sulphur Splines, and two 'pears when he was a member of the Supreme Court eomanission in Helena. The candidate for associate justice attended school din. Helena in 1876-77, public schools *and also attended the tit Virginia City. He prepared for college at the Hamilton wheal ad*: Philadelphia, and entered the No Disappointment Every housewife wants the best groceries obtainable. You will not be disappointed in the values you get at this store. 100 lbs. Beet Sugar for 98 lbs. Rex Flour ( Best Montana) for 98 lbs. Lewistown Belle Flour for 1 Case Utah Tomatoes for 1 Case Nebraska Sugar Corn for 1 Case String Beans for 16 lbs. Fancy Japan Rice for 13 lbs. Small White Beans for 22 Bars Crystal White Soap for 25 Bars Silk Soap for 3 lb. can Richelieu coffee 3 lb. can Chase & Sanborns coffee for 1 46 66 66 \ tea for 1 Box Wealthy Apples for 1 66 Alexander Apples for 1 Pears for 1 66 Crab Apples for Good Pumpkin per pound Good Squash per pound 3 lbs, Sweet Potatoes for Cranberries per quart C . 1 CI let 9 S a Prompt and Careful Service or3 $6.75 3,50 - 3.00 - 2.75 2.40 2.76 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.25 1.15 .65 1835 1.36 2.26 2.00 . 04 • .04 . 26 .15 POWER MERCANTILE CO. ithw i I depart meat of the •University of -'Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1886. Hits 1 'college work was interrupted in, 1887 ! thy lack of funds, and he 'returned to Montana and for two years rode the range as a cowboy, worked in the timber and did everything a ranch hand has to do, to get money with which to complete his college course,- which he • did with honor in 1.891. He began the practice of law in this state August 1 of that year, Unit hats since been either actively engaged in it or on , the bench. In /894 he was elected county attorney of Madison county and served two airt y ears , in 1903 he was appointed to the supreme court commission, hits colleagues being the Hen. J, B. Clay - berg and the Hon. W. H. Fountain. !The c,omanission was made necessery by the congested condition of the court calendar, which held more busi- ness than the regular court could sianeee of. In . 1904 Judge Callaway was elected Judge of the fifth dis- trict, which position he has since held. Judge 'Callaway is merriesd and has fear children, two boast and two girls. His family resides in Virginia City, W. N. Enright William N. (Bill) Enright, of BIM - lags, Republican candidate far state treasurer, proballely enjoys a wider elemental meg utailutanc e throughout the tttlate of Montana than any other nominee •upon any of the tickets plac- ed before the people le, the preSent tampatian. For a dozen years he ran up and down, the state soliciting busi- ness for ,railroad traffic departments, and the rumble of his cheery voice and the contagion of his smile have won for him a wide , circle of fm -lends,. Mr. Enright was here in Perth, Ontario, in 1870, and is of Irish descent. His parents removed to the United States when , he was in, swaddling clothes, and by fair the greater part of his life has been Spent in this country. He caane to Montana sixteen yeas ago as the commercial representa,tilve of the Chicago & Northwestern rallwaY, and for a long time maids his headquar- . .ers In Helena. Later he entered the eantploy of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound 'railway, after that line had been eampleted through to the coast, and during the time he was with that . eompany, resided in Butte. Several years ago he quit the railway haat , 'nese and engaged in the theatrasal business , in Billings whene he has Since made his home. He was ati- pointed receiver of the United States land office int Billings, Web position lie holds , at the present time. He had never held office before his appointment to the land , office. Mr. Enright is married and has four children. Leo H. Faust Leo H. Faust, of Flathead county, Icandida,te for tattooed commissioner ton the Republican state tjelset, was born in Omaha, Nebr., but has lived lInt Montana since 1882. Nearly 15 years of that time has been spent Iaibby, his present residence. , , Prior to that Mr. Flutist lived in Miles City, Lief ngston and Helena. He. Its now one of the publishers of the Western News, A weekly newspaper of Libby, and le recognized as one of 'the Live, up-tadate editors of the 'entire state. Mr. Flatlet was a memiber of the lower hearse from Flathead county during the Seventh legislative as - notably, being one of the two Bile - iceistgful candidates - that year, 1900, on the Republican ticket. Railroad' testis - lefties], has been a. hobby with Mr. Palest, and. when he was In the legis- lature lie was recognized a's . on, authority, and, Ids advice sought, on, matters, pertaining to legislation touching the transportation, systems, Of the atate. Prior to Mr. Faust's candidacy tor the railroad commissionership, North- westenti Montatet has, never b4en given recognition of partieuler value by .any political party • in, Montane,. Mr. Faust is well known throughout the state, and in those countlea Where he Is best known it is stated What his popularity is Such as to in - 'sure hian the eapport of the voters 'without repaid to party Haas. Mr. Faust is one of. the proudest family men kb Montann, as may be judged from a response he recently made in answer to ; the question: \Are You a married Man?\ \Yes replied he, \and I have four children', and each one of them Is worth a million, of anybody's money, and . then some.\ • 4 Lewis Terwilliger Lewis Terwilliger, IRepablieaa eandidatte for state superintendent of 'public instruction, is, and has been for the past nine- years, the head of the public schools of IsSeingston. pur- ling nearly a quarter of t century devoted to educational work in ail eta bronches, Professor Terwilliger Gas kept abreast of the times as Gave few of his colleagues, and he 4103 contributed greatly to the labors nit the , educational associations of %national scope , whose endeavor it Gas been to perfect the.public school system until the high schools of to- day excel the colleges of a few de- eades ago. • Professor Terwilliger was born on it farm , near Maple Rapids, Clinton county, Michigan, August 1, 1869. He was educated in the district achoels of his native county„ the Maple Rapids High School and the Ferris Institute at Big Rapids, AIWA. He has lived in Montana ter the 'park eeventeen years. Prior . to coming to this state he vete engaged in teaching school fin •:Miehigan, in the grades, :Ind for five year's after coming to Montana his work ,was imi similar departments. Per the past twelve years he hase been engaged In high school work. Hits broad experience as a teacher, %principal and superintendent, make him Ideally fitted to 'take Ms, place at the head of the school system of (Continued on page 8) NUMBER 5 STATE LAND SALES BREAK ALL ROMS Many Thousand Acres are Being Sold and Prices are Good -The Fergus County Sale to be Held on October 23-60,000 Acres to be Said Montana.'s state Land Sales al- ready hare established a record for this state. Its three days 35,319 acres of the 41,000 offered for tale Itu Cascade county were sold; the average pritee ,paid being 1116.$8 Per acre. Some of the land was bid Ile as high as $38.00 per acre, which is a record price for Montana and show that James J. Hill knew /whereof he spoke in hist 74th birth- day aaniverstaaa speech when, be predicted am, amazing future far the tetate of Montana. A striking feature of the State Land Sales was that bidders wero present front all parts of the United States, showing that wide spread interest is being concentrated its the development of the Treasure State. IR Teton county, 16,270 acres were sold of the 23,000 acres uttered for sale; the average price paid by bidders in Teton county 'was, , $16.32 per acre -the highest land, going at $36.00 41111, acre. More than one thou- tsand bidder's were present at the soles in these two counties. Al great many local farmers were among the buyers of this land. Throughout the entire state there are 300,000 aeree at laud to be sold by the last of October. The sale of state Land si this county is to be held at Lewis- town on the 23M of this nauttle at which time about 60,000 acres will he put up for sale. The laud ranges in price from $10 to $60 an acre and It is expected that this male will be recordhreatker. BUYS STATE LAND Clyde Grove of Moore. spent Saitlir- tlmy in town, cat his rettuus fr'o'm Great Falls, where he attended; the laud sale. Clyde and Martin. Grove bought 185 acres of state Land, ad- joining their ranch south of Geyser. - Geyser Times. YOUR CARELESSNESS is the only reason why you have not yet rented one of our private deposit boxes, and put your valuables and papers -will and deeds and contracts in our fire and burglar proof vaults. The rent of a private box for a whole year costs only $2.50 and up. TODAY, bring in your valuables and rent a pri- vate box. Let OUR Bank be YOUR Bank. 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