The Choteau Montanan (Choteau, Mont.) 1913-1925, June 05, 1914, Image 1

e.-f.n i . I , / À \i il <•;- - 1 -. ‘ •' . + * * X - V D „ , *»rt«*«A^4í*t>A»>*A * ’ . * A?.:-«}- *■ < r \ r, f ,. { VOLUME I CHOTEAU, TETON ÇOÜNTY,,: MONTANA, JUNE 5, 1914 NUMBER 49 District Court State News BUT WHERE IS THE RADIUM? —DeBeck in Pittsburgh Times. District court was in session since last Friday, with Judge Ewing presiding, adjourning Monday. Following business was transacted: The county attorney was given permission to file an information di­ rect in court, charging Carl Tuck­ er with the crime of killing bea­ ver. The, defendant entered a plea ot “ not guilty” and was re­ leased on bail. In the case o f the State of Mon­ tana against Lorenzo White, charged with grand larceny, the defendant entered aigplea of not guilty. ^ John Anderson, who w a s charged with forgery, was sen­ tenced to serve a year in the peni­ tentiary,- but the prisoner was paroled, subject to the supervision of the state board of,prison com­ missioners. State of Montana against Mar­ tin Hall, grand larceny, plea of guilty entered and prisoner sen­ tenced to one year in the peni­ tentiary. Conrad Mercantile Co. vs. C. G. Brownell. Demurrer of the de­ fendant overruled and defendant given 30 days in which to file answer. Annie C. Morehouse vs Edward G. Bynum, et al, motion to set aside the default of Lewis D. Matheson, one of the defendants, having been filed heretofore, and the attorney making said motion not appearing, the same was dis­ missed by the court. Kate Langbelle vs. the Town of Conrad, a municipal corporation, the general demurrer was over­ ruled, and the special demurrer to the complaint, alleging that sev­ eral causes had been improperly united in the complaint, was sus­ tained. Robert A. Earhart vs. Clarence Kipple, judgment for plaintiff Henry Beaupre vs. J, M. Wea­ ver, suit on contract. Demurrer of defendant overruled and defen­ dant given 30 days in which to answer. Frances E. Monorty vs. W il­ liam Monarty, divorce. Decree of divorce granted plaintiff. Court adjourned until Friday, June 12th. On W a y to Montana New York, June 2.—Miss Mar­ jorie Dorman, secretary of the wage earners’ Anti-Suffrage league who left on Sunday for Montana to take part in the campaign against votes for women there this summer, will find plenty of opposition from eastern suffragists who plan to start this week on her trail. Miss Ida Craft, who won the title of “ Colonel” in the army o f Miss (General) Rosalie Jones on hikes to Albany and Washington, will start for Mon­ tana on Saturday. Miss Jones started for the west last week, but planned to stop at several cities on the way. Miss Dorman is to be joined later by Miss Clara Markson and Miss Minnie Bronson for a speech making campaign through Mon­ tana, Land Restored Register Binnard and Receiver Freeman of the Helena land office have been advised o f the restora­ tion of a small tract of land, with­ drawn in 1903 on account of the Sun Rivey project. It will be open to settlement on July 20 and to entry and filing on August 19. It consists of the EA NW i, the EA SWA and lots 1, 2iand 3, sec­ tion 31, township 21 north, range five west, and the NA SEA, SWA SEA, section 1, and the El, EA NWA, and the E l SWA, section 12, in township 21 north, range 7 west. Hereafter defendants in the federal courts in Montana, upon whom penitentiary sentences are imposed, will be taker, to Mc­ Neill’s island,22 miles From Seattle instead of to Leavenworth prison in Kansas. Orders to this effect have «been received from the de­ partment of justice by Deputy Marshall McKay. The change is made, it is understood, because of the crowded condition of Leaven­ worth prison. Removal of the office of collec­ tor of internal revenue from Salt Lake to Helena has been author­ ized in Washington, to be made in August, according to Martin Dur- kan of Great Falls, deputy collec­ tor of income tax, who is here to­ day. Quarters will be taken in the assay office building. According to Mr. Durkan, one of the chief arguments advanced for the re­ moval of the office was furnishec by the revenue received, the figures showing that last year Montana furnished as much as both Utah »nd Idaho combined. A tidy little income tax will be received by the state from the estate of A. N. Brady of New ^Tork, who left 12,500 shares of Anaconda stock, valued at $34 a share, a total of $421,600. The income tax Montana collects will be not less than $4.216 and per­ haps as much as $20,000 depend ing upon the relationship to Mr. Brady of the beneficiary. Deer Lodge will get 40 per cent of the tax and the state 60 per ceut. There were 795 births in Mon­ tana in April and 453 deaths, ac- coi ig to the monthly report of the. .ate board of Health. „Hel­ ena had 20 deaths and ' l ’o'births. Communicable diseases were re­ ported as foilows:Smallpox, 141; scarlet fever, 83; diphtheria, 15; typhoid fever, 34: measles. 187; cerebro spinal meningitis, 1; spot­ ted fever, 3; tuberculosis, 22; whooping cough, 4. The treasury department has received applications to approve the organization of two new national banks in Montana, and they will undoubtedly be ap­ proved. They are the First National Bank of Paxton and the First National Bank of Ryegate. Each has $25,000 capital. Billings, June 1.—The Billings Journal today announces transfer of business, good will and fran­ chise to J. M. Kennedy, state commissioner of agriculture and publicity, and Thomas M. Swind- lehurst of Livingston. T h e change is effective today, and the Journal will hereafter be demo­ cratic. The Journal is an evening paper and has been published by the Gazette Printing company. Helena, June 2.—Montana may return to the old convention system of selecting its candidates and there may be no initiative measures submitted at *the fall election, if the “ dope” of M. Mc- Cusker, secretary of the Peoples’ Power league is correct. He states he has received information that Attorney General D. M. Kelly will shortly render an opin­ ion bolding the iniative and refer­ endum amendment to the consti­ tution to be invalid, because in its adoption provisions of section nine of article 19 of the constitution were not observed, in that the amendment was not advertised three months, and whereas two should have been submitted, they were incorporated into one. “ No request has been made to me for an opinion,” said Attorney General Kelly when asked in re­ gard to the matter. It is rumored that one of the chief reasons why the matter may be brought up is because of the OUR COUNTY EXCHANGES Mr. Everette White of Augusta passed through here with a crew consisting of six riders and camp wagon, in charge of about 6U0 head of Texas steers belonging to Burke Bros., of Helena. The cattle were being taken to the Black foot reservation where the\ will be ranged. - Bynum News. Word was received here yester­ day that Fred Hess, who had been employed by the Montana West­ ern Railway Co. at different times during the past two year«, and who left here last winter, was killed on May 19, near Spokane, Wash. Fred was running a gravel train for the Great Northern Ry. Co. No particulars of the acci­ dent were available. The body was taken to his his home in Men- omonie, Wis., where it was buried. —Valerian. E. C. Flickinger, civil engineer of Kalispeli who has been engaged on the street improvements, on Tuesday went about twelve miles north of Conrad, where he will survey and lay out anew townsite orB. R. Fowler. The location of the new town is surrounded by a good farming section and a grain elevator will be built among the irst buildings —Conrad Obser­ ver. Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Longtnuir, who reside eleven miles east of Grady, entertained the following guests at their rauch home Sun­ day: Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Mo- Jermand, Mrs. Reynolds and daughter, Miss Christiana, and Mr. and Mrs. Jos. A. Whetstone and son, George.—Brady Whet­ stone. Miss Gilman, one of the teach­ ers in the high school, left Tues- dey morning for a short visit at Great Falls. We understand she will return to Choteau in a few days and will spend the summer at the Geo. Miller ranch. threats that if the Kelly boxing bill is repealed at the fall election, the initiative and referendum amendment will be tested in the courts If then held invalid, all the expense of submitting the compensation act, the farm loan, the general license tax, and the consolidation bill-—providing suf­ ficient signatures are obtained— and the Kiiey reference bill will be wasted. Orders for Encampment Company M., X. (î. M., has re­ ceived orders to attend the an­ nual encampment of the National Guard this year at Fort Wright Reservation which is located about four miles from Spokane, Washington. The camp will commence on July 24th and end on the 31st. Regular troops from i-’ort Wright will leave their quarters and go into camp with the militia of the states of Washing­ ton. Oregon, Idaho and Montana. Company M. will entrain on July 22nd in order to be in camp on tary maneuvers which combined with the scenic beauty of the country and its nearness to Spo­ kane insures the militia boys a good time while on the encamp­ ment. Captain Verge is now making a canvas of the company to ascertain how many can go. There are a number of new appli­ cations in to join so that Company M. should be able to .attend in full strength. Company M. will have one distinction that no other organization will have and that is a band. The Choteau band are all members of the militia com­ pany. It is planned to add con­ siderable instrumentation to the band before the encampment so that the band will make a credit­ able showing while on the trip. The fact that the Great Falls bnosters pronounced the Choteau band as the best one they heard on their trip is pretty good evi­ dence that Choteau will receive some good advertising from this trip. There are a few' vacancies in company M.nnd if any young linen of good standing wish to join the Company in time to take in the encampment they should report at the drill hall not later than next Tuesday evening at 8 p. m. From now on until the encamp­ ment every member of Company M. will be expected to attend t lie drills on every Tuesday even­ ing or else furnish the command­ ing officer with sufficient excuse for not doing so. Deeds have been filed in the o f- tij-c of the clerk of Teton county conveying from the Couch Invest­ ment Co. to S. S. Hobson and Jas. B. Elliott, 7,289.27 acres of land south of the Teton, formerly a portion of the old ST ranch. The consideration named in the deed is $1.00. School Funds Transferred At its regular session yesterday the board of county commissioners ordered the county treasurer to transfer to the treasurer of Toole county the balance due the school districts formerly in Teton county, but now in Toole county by virtue of the recent county division, as follows: No. 8—cenerai .................................... S 3296 12 No. 6—slnklnfft................................... ' 1222 94 No. 17-treneral................................... 1480 53 No. 17-^lnklne .................................... 3392 55 No. 17—building................................... 0 22 No. 21—gen o m i .................................... 486 37 No. 21- sinking .................................... 241 03 No. 22—general . 141 78 No.29—general ................................. 315 74 No. 35- g eneral .................................... »6125 No. 38—general................................... 2189 02 No. 38 -sin k in g ................................. 140 47 No. 39- general .............. 300 21 No. 41 -general .................................... 941 23 No. 41—building .............. .. 1080 00 No. 41—sinking ......................... . .. 135 98 No. 4G-genernl ................................... 241 44 No. 49—general .................................... Cl T o t a l ..................................... #10537 89 Trinity Sunday June 7th is Trinity Sunday, and the same will be. observed at the Episcopal church. Members of the choir will be present to give appropriate music. Let the con­ gregation turn out to observe the one day which is one of the great feast days of the church calen­ dar. Those who believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ should manifest their fuith on this day. Rev.L. F. Haley, Pastor. Flour Mill Leased. The Choteau flour mill has been leased by the McGlynn brothers, L . S., T. G. and M. M., who will at once resume operations at that institution, and “ Star °f Teton” flour will be made and placed on the market within a few days. The ■ McGlynn’s are experienced mil­ lers, and, as the plant is equippec with first-class machinery it is only reasonable to expect that a high grade of flour will soon be placed on the market. The people of Choteau and surround­ ing country should patronize the mill to the exclusion of all others, as the successful running of the flour mill in this city means a great deal to the community. Boost for “ Star of Teton” flour. Dune Stewart passed through town yesterday on his way home from a short business trip at Great Falls. The new fixtures for the Cho- teau Drug company, consisting of handsome show cases, counters, prescription case, etc., are being installed this week, and gives the store a very pleasing appearance. A new and up-to-date soda foun­ tain will also be added as soon as it arrives here, which will probably be in a day or two. The fixtures now in use will * be shipped to Bynum, for the drug store to be opened there in the near future. The committee having the Fourth of July celebration in charge have been circulating their subscription list among ‘ the busi­ nessmen in town during the past couple of days, and have already Secured several hundred dollars for that purpose. While the pro­ gram has not as yet been ar­ ranged, it is known the exercises will consist in part of a parade in the morning, participated in b.v the band, Co. M., X. G. M.f the volunteer fire department, autos, etc., and literary exercises at the court house at 10:3<>. A couple of ball games will be played in the afternoon, and sports of va­ rious kinds will be held on Main street in the evening. There will also be a big free dance at night. Music will be furnished all day by the Choteau band. Admitted to Citizenship Last Friday, m the district court of this county, fourteen persons were admitted to citizen­ ship of the United States by Judge Ewing. The application of three were continued and four were dismissed. The new citizens follow: William Guthrie, of Scotland Miss Madeliene Jellestad, of Norway Micheál James Sullivan, of Ire­ land Andrew Strenge, of Hungary Nils Dalsboten, of Norway Jacob Meyer, of Holland Peter Schubert, of Holland Lars Victor Mattson, of Fin­ land William Stoner, of Canada Carl August Hane, of Sweden David Svenby, of Norway Olav Ingebritson, of Norway William Elgin Smoke, of Canada Candidates for office under the new primary law, including jus­ tices of the peace, constables and also precinct committeemen, with­ out legard to party, sex, color or previous condition of servitude, may now obtain the required petition blanks by applying to the county clerk’s office. The pri­ mary nominating election will be held on Tuesday, August 25, and petitions must be on file with the county clerk not less than 15 days before the date of the pri­ mary. Naturalization Papers The following have made appli­ cation before Clerk of the Court Gibson for citizenship papers: Oscar Block, a subject of Canada, residing at Cut Bank. Declaration to become citizens of the United States have been filed by the following: George Lombness, a subject of Norway, residing at Brady. Owen Martin a subject of Ire­ land, residing at Dutton. Civil Cases The following civil cases have been filed in the office of the clerk of the district court since our last report: H. J, McGregor vs. M. O’Neal, appeal. Filed June 1st. The St. Anthony and Dakota Elevator Company, a corporation, vs. A. E. Wilbur, debt. Filed June 3rd. Wagnild--Gewald Wednesday evening at 1108 Fourth avenue north in Great Falls, Rev. George Edwards offici­ ating, Otto Wagnild of this city and Miss Hattie Melvina Gewald, of Collins, were united in mar- riige. They were accompanied by Alf Wagnild and Miss Magda­ lene Wagnild, brother and sister of the groom. Both bride and groom »re well and favorably known in this city and vicinity. Mr. Wagnild uas held a responsi­ ble position with the Choteau Mercantile Co., for some time past, and the bride was an operator in the local telephone office. They will make their home in this city, and will occupy the Anderson . residence now occupied by Carl Dotterer and wife. We extend learty congratulations. To Adjust Indebtedness Helena, June 3.—As a commis­ sion to adjust the indebtedness between the newly created county of Toole and the parent counties Hill and Teton, Governor Stewart today appointed Judge J. B. Les- ie of Great Falls, Frank B. Lin- dermau of Helsna and H. F. Gnth of Shelby. the 24th. Fort Wright reserva- | tion is an ideal place to hold mili-