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B. 224, the legis lative reference o f the prohibition, has passed both house and senate, and goes to Governor Stewart in the following form “ Be it enacted by the legisla tive assembly of the state of Mon tana: “ Section 1— Ardent spirit? or any compound thereof capable of use as a beverage, or ale, beer, wine or intoxicating liquor or liquors of any kind shall not be manufactured or introduced into the state o f Montana, except as herein expressly provided. “ Every person who sells, ex changes, gives, barters or dispos es of any ardent spitits, or com pound thereof capable of use as a beverage, or any ale, beer, wine or intoxicating liquor of any kind, to any person, persons or associa tions or corporations in the state of Montana, or who manufactures, or introduces into, or attempts to * introduce into the state of Mon tana any ardent spirits or any compound thereof capable of use as a beverage, or any ale, beer, wine or intoxicating liquors of any kind, shall be guilty of a mis demeanor and upon conviction shall be imprisoned not less than ten days nor more that two years, and shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than three hundred dollars for each offense; Provided, that nothing in this act shall apply to the manu facture or sale of denatured al cohol, nor to wine intended for sacramental purposes, nor alcohol intended for. scientific or manu facturing purposes. “ Section 2—This act shall take effect and be in force on and.after the thirty-first day of December, 1918, provided the same shall be ratified by a majority vote of the people of the state of Montana. “ Section 3.—There shall be a referendum upon this act and the secretary of state is hereby re quired and it is made his duty to submit, in accordance with article V. Section I of the constitution, to the people of the state for their approval or rejection, at the bi- enniul regular general election to be held in November, 1916. * ‘Section 4— Separate ballots shall be used at such general elec tion to be held in November, 1916, which shall have printed thereon the words, the first two of which, in each instance shall be printed in capital letters, as follows: “ FO R P R O H IB IT IO N of the sale and manufacture of intoxicat ing liquors. “ A G A IN S T P R O H IB IT IO N of the sale and manufacture o f intox icating liquors. “ Section 5—I f a majority of the votes at said election shall be in favor of this act. section I thereof shall not be in effect until the thirt*-first day of December, 1918. “ Section 6— A ll acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith, par ticularly all laws of this state and all ordinances of cities and towns relating to the issuance o f liquor licenses, are hereby repealed, after the thirty-first day of Decem ber, 1918, provided this act is approved by the people. ” Deputy County Assessors Assessor John L . Lundgren has announced the appointment of the following field deputies, to take effect March 1st: C. W . Kepple, Dupuyer Ohas. Watts, Conrad Angus Rose, Choteau Stanley R. Foot, Low ry W. E. Logan, Burton bench Robert 0. Scanlon, Porter Deputies at both Cut Bank and Valier have not as yet been named. CANADIAN TROOPS CHEERING KING AND QUEEN. Photo by American Press Association. Farmington Notes Bole News Porter Bench W e wish to correct our last week’s article in regird to sugar beet pulp. It should read: “ Oregon and Washington beet pulp is a standard dairy food. It can be bought for twenty-three to twenty-five dollars per ton.” Quite a difference in the price. Mrs. George Slauger was called to Great Falls last week on account of the serious illness of her niece, Miss Eleanor Slauger. Miss Slauger had been a sufferer from tuberculosis for some ime. She passt d away soon after her aunt’s arrival and was laid to rest last Tuesdav in the family plot at Ulm. Hugh Rose, wife and children, came up from Brady last week to help Olaf Lindseth celebrate his birthday. Mrs. Rose is a daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Ljnd- seth. ...XheLutheran Aid Society will give a basket social in the Farm ington school bouse on the even ing of February 27th. The ladies of the vicinity are requested to come and bring well filled baskets and the gentlemen will miss a treat i f they do not attend to help them in their good work. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ganong were visitors on the Bench Thursday afternoon. T. H. Givens and wife, Miss Rogers and Roger Burrell spent Sunday with the Longmuirs. Miss Rogers possesses an unusually good voice and it is always a treat to hear her sing. Miss Helena Lindseth of Great Falls is visiting her sister, Mrs. Alfred Shib9ted. Miss Lindseth is suffering from appendicitis and has taken a vacation until her strength returns. Lauris Otness went to Great Falls on business last Monday. Little Mary Gertrude Gamble was taken to the hospital in Cho teau last Friday where she was operated on for tonsil and adenoid trouble. She was taken home today (Monday) much improved and her friends are hoping to see a rosy cheek girlie soon. J. W . Kerr and wife were guests of C. H. Connor and w ife of Choteau last Friday. Nels Dorf left for Great Falls today where he expects to undergo an operation for appendicitis. The society 9 f Equity will meet in the East End school house, district No. 8, Saturday after noon, Feb. 27th. Sonny Lindseth is visiting Charley Otness. Invitations have been .issued fo r the first annual ball to be given by the young pioneers of Teton county, which will be held on Friday evening, March 5,1915, at the W eaver-Crossen hall in this city. Tickets, $1.00 per couple. Sapper at the Glenloyd hotel, 25c per plate. This promises to be one of the very best dances ever given in Choteau, and if you hap pen to be one of the “ young pioneers” you should make it a point to be in attendance. Mrs. O. J: Nordhagen visited with the Lestrud family Wednes day and Thursday of last week. The grand opening of the W h ite House hotel, which was held last Wednesday evening, was attended by a large number of people. The people enjoyed themselves dancing, and at mid night a delicious lunch was served. A sister of Mrs. W . D. Luther, who has been here on a short visit returned to her home in Wyoming last Monday. Lars Nassett, of Farmington, was a Bole visitor Monday. Dr. Jones, who is teaching in Fort Shaw, visited here with his family from Saturday till Mon day. . Messrs, and Mesdames Bunday and Hayes attended the play given- in • tUe-Q a-U-lu&fc -Sat— urday evening. Merrill Luther, who is attend ing the high school in Choteau, visited with his parents from Sat urday until Monday. Mr9. C. E. Sandberg very pleasantly entertain ;d the Ladies Auxiliary last Saturday. It has been reported that W. D. Luther had a runaway last Tues day w ile on his way home from Choteau. Particulars are not known. Don’t fail to see “ Brother Josiah” Friday night. Admis sion will be 50c for adults and 25c for children above twelve years of age. There will be a dance after the play. Mrs. John Zimmerman, of Fairfield visited at the Wallace ranch last Thursday. C. B. Jackson, of Choteau, is visiting with his son, Earl Jack- son, for a few days. Compensation Bill Passed Helena, Feb. 22.-- By a vote of 25 to 6, substitute for S. B. 167, the only compensation measure that has been submitted to the present legislative a s s e m b l y , passed the senate this afternoon. The upper house spent practically the entire afternoon in considera tion of this measure and it was passed without an amendment. Senator Kane offered several amendments but they were voted down by a heavy majority on each occasion. Senator Annin, Kane, Oliver and Taylor, the pro gressive members, voted against tho bill, as did Vagg and Willett, two republican members. The roll call by which the bill passed the senate follows: Ayes— Abbott, A s h b r i d g e , Brewer, Bownlee, Burlingame, Byrnes, Cato, Clake, Darrocr, Fishbeck, Gallwey, Haley, Hogan, Junod, Larson, MacKenzie, Mc Cone, Meadors, Minor, Muffly, O ’Shea, Parker and Stevens Total 25. Noes— Annin, Kane, Oliver, Taylor, Vagg, Willett. Total 66. Mrs. J. A. Penroy went to Great Falls on a visit to her niece, Mrs. P. S. Mitton. School will be closed Thursday and Friday as the teacher go*s to Conrad to fcuke the examination. Miss Myrtle Heden spent the week end at the Porter ranch. Miss Edith Nyberg came over from Choteau on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. N.v- berg. Mr. and Mrs. O ’ Neil of the Soutn Bench entertained a few of their friends to a card party last Thursday. The Porter Literary Society met in the school bouse Saturday evening. Owing to the cold weather we missed quite a few of our members. A good program was given, it follows: Music by Flora Nelson and Ruth Recitations by Maud Arnet, Imogen Hannum, Ethel Nybery and Ruby Simons. A paper read by Mrs. Geo. D. Porter (The coming out.) and one by Thoa. Live (How to start a cat farm.) A dialogue was given on woman’8 rights by Fuller Harri son and Orville White. A dialogue was given (applying for a situation) under the super vision of Miss Heden, teacher of the Lincoln school. Those taking part were: Misses Emma and Neva Nelson, Mary Kangley of the Lincoln school and Ruth Hale, M yrtle Nybergand Blanche White of the Porter school. A beautiful scarf drill wa9 given by the Misses Nelson, Kangley, Hale, Nyberg and Ruby Simons. Miss Heden drilled her pupils for tne drill but owing that three failed to come three Porter school girls took their part. The drill showed the audience what children can do with a few min utes training. Civil Cases The following civil cases have been filed in the office of the clerk of the district court since our last report: Western Loan and Building Company, a corporation, vs. J. Henry Russell, administrator of the estate of Ida Russell, de ceased, J. Henry Russell, Conrad Townsite Company, a corporation, and L. E. Nelson, foreclosure of mortgage. Filed Feb. 20th. Rogers Templeton Lumber Co., a corporation, vs. L . A. Gardner, lien. Filed Feb. 20th. Fritz Ott vs. John C. Taylor, appeal. Filed Feb. 23rd. Rogers Templeton Lumber Co., a corporation, vs. Henry Mun son, lieD. Filed Eeb. 23rd. A. M. Snyder vs. E. J. Steve's, appeal. Filed Feb. 23rd. Charles Gies vs/ A. Albert Fisher, foreclosure. Filed Feb. 24th. Nicholas Mueller, Jr., vs. Nich olas Moeller, Sr., suit to quiet title. Filed Feb. 24th. Conrad and Sugar The following item is copied from the last issue of the Rocky Mountain Husbandman of Great Falls: “ In discussing the sugar beel problem with Robert Kelly of Conrad that gentleman said that when the time came to build beet sugar plants that Conrad had 175, 000 acres to put in sugar beets and could supply half a dozen factories.” In view ot the fact that the Con ”ad commercial club (so-called), recently refused to enter into any agreement to canvass that section to have the farmers enter into agreements for the cultivation of sugar beets unless the promoter of the sugar factory pledged him self that under no circumstances would the factory be located at either Great Falls, Simms or Cho teau, is ample evidence than Mr. Kelly, in his interview with the Husbandman, failed to state the real facts of-the situation. As a matter of fact Conrad never could and never will be able to furnish 175,000 acres of irrigable land for the cultivation - o f sugar beets. The small amount.pf land in that section now 110367 irrigation, to gether with their inadequate water supply, proves conclusively that Conrad cannot furnish enough beet acreage to supply even one factory, else they would have been very anxious to “ get busy” and not only furnish the beet acreage asked by the representative of the company, who is looking northern Montana over with the view of locating a plant in this section, but would have gone the promo ter one better and furnished „agreements sufficient to insure the location of the factory at their town. They failed to do this, because of their knowledge that they could not deliver the goods. The town at the “ tail end of their big dry” irrigation ditch was always strong on talk,but weak on doing things properly. With the Choteau country it is vastly different. W e have the land, plenty of water and a bunch of intelligent and progressive farmers who can and do “ deliver the goods” whenever called upon to so. Crop failures on the lands of our irrigation farmers is an un known quantity, while at the “ till end of the big dry” failures are the rule, not the exception. That’s one different e between Con rad and Choteau. Butte Socialists Name A Ticket Butte, Feb. 22.— Socialists of Butte, rather than to permit the selection of their candidates for municipal office at the regular primary election, conducted a ref erendum ballot la^t night at which they named a full ticket for sub mission to the voters in the com ing April election. Mayor Clar ence A. Smith was re-nominated for the executive position, he winning out over his only oppo nent, George R. McDonald, by a vote of 142 to 105. Alderman Frank Curran was nominated for city treasurer and Police Judge Thomas J. Booher led the opposition for police mag istrate. For aldermen of the various wards the selections were: First ward—Peter C. Sullivan. Second ward- H. J. Wright. Third ward—Leslie Betchel Fourth ward— Edwin Duncan. Fifth ward— No selection as to leading candidate, Sam Johnson, lacked two votes of obtaining a majority over the total vote of his opponents. Sixth ward— Mrs. Edwin Clinch. Seventh ward— Arthur Cox. Eighth ward— George L . Breit- haupt. Gen. L. W . Cooke Dead The following account of the death of Gen. L. W . Codke was copied from the San Diege, Calif.T Daily Union, of Feb. I6th: Gen. Lorenzo W. Cooke, Civil! war veteran, Indian fighter on the plains during the late sixties and early seventies and one of the sea soned commanders of Uncle Sam’s» fighting men sent to the Phillip— pines after the close of the Span ish-American war to put down the insurrection, died at his home in this city yesterday after an illness of five weeks. General Cooke, who o v a s 6T years old, was one of that \\fast fading “ old guard” of the United States army who fought as volun teers in the Civil war and then en tered the regular armv. He was born in New York state, but the war between the north and south found him fighting with the thirty- seventh Wisconsin as a private. He entered the regular army as second lieutenant of the Third in fantry and rose to tho rank of captain in the days when promo tion was 9low‘í He was a major in the Twenty-sixth infantry, lat§r lieutenant colonel in ,,the same regiment and in 1906 was re tired, after forty year’s service in the army, with the rank of briga dier general. The famous fight at Camp Sup ply, Kansas, with the unruly Indians of the middle west gave him a chance to distinguish him self. The out break of tho Span- ish-American war found him on the sick list, but the Phillippite insurrection found him on the fir ing line. He distinguished him- sels.during General Lawton’s first northern campaign in 1899 around Agat, San Rafael and Baliaug, and during the withdrawal from San Miguel to Baliaug he commanded the rear guard in four separate engagements in one day against the insurrectos under Aguinaldo. The same year, with a detach ment of the third infantry, he won a decisive engagement against Aguinaldo at Pie del Pilar, near Quingua, and later with the Thirty-sixth infantry he did splen did work in dispersing insurrecto bands in the southern provinces. In 1901 he was in command of Malulos, the former capital of Aguinaldo, and was successful in keeping that district peaceful. General Cooke (then captain in the Third infantry) was acting U. S. Indian agent at the Blackfeet agency from 1892 to 1895, and was also stationed in Montana at Fort Missoula and Fort Ellis with his regiment from 1877 to 1885, and is well and favorably remembered by many old time Montanans. He made quite a reputation for himself while agent at Browning, and was acknowledged to be one of the very best men ever in charge at that place, by both the Indians and many of the white residents of that section of the country. Epworth League The Epworth League extends heartfelt sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Wilson in their sad bereave ment by the death of their daugh ter, Georgia Ruth Wilson.* who was a member of our organiza tion. Mrs. Lamka will conduct the devotional service next Sunday. Her topic is “ Winsome to Win some.” Junior League at 3 o ’clock. Epworth League at 7 o’clock. W e have jusff received a full line of harness, collars and sweat pads and all harness accessaries. Get our-prices before buying. R os 3 Houck.
