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VOLUME II Bryan Quits Cabinet Bole News ' Washington, June 8,— Bryan resigned today as secretary of state as a dramatic sequel to his disagreement with President W il son over the government’9 policy toward Germany. The resignation wa9 accepted by the president. The cabinet then approved the response which had been prepared to the German reply to the Lusi tania note. Acting Secretary Robert Lansing will sign the docum e n ted tomorrow it will be cabled to Berlin. Rather than sign the document which he believed might possibly draw the United States into war, Mr. Bryan submitted his resig nation in a letter declaring that “ the issue involved is of such moment that to remain a member of the cabinet would be as unfair to you as it would be to the cause which is nearest my heart, namely, the prevention of war.” The president accepted the res ignation in a letter of regret, tinged with deep personal feeling of affection. The letters consti tuting the official announcement of Mr. Bryan’s departure from the cabinet to private life were made public at the white house at G o ’clock tonight. Washington, June 8.—Robert Lansing, successor to John Bas sett Moore, as counsellor of the state department, becomes secre tary of state ad interim tomorrow, when Secretary Bryan’s resigna tion takes effect. He is a son-in- law of John W. Foster, a lifelong democrat and secretary of state under President Harrison. He . has been an international lawyer for a number of years. While there is much gossip already as to Piesident Wilson’s probab'e selection for the secre taryship, it is the president’s plan to make no immediate appoint ment. It would not be surprising if be made no change in the pres- ^.ent status of the department’s ^personnel for two or three months. It is considered entirely prob able that the president will make no shift in his cabinet at all, but will choose a new man to fill the vacancy. In well informed {quar ters it is considered very, likely that he will retain Mr. Lansing as secretary. To do so would re quire search for another coun sellor, a post most difficult to fill. Washington, June S. — The policy of the United States to ward Germany—an insistence on the observation of neutral rights and the safe-guarding of the lives of Americans on the high seas— was determined finally today at a cabinet session. Secretary Bryan’s resignation had been submitted and accepted when the meeting convened and he took little part m the discus sion. The note, which is to be sent to Germany tomorrow, was read over for the last time to the cabinet by President Wilson. Suggestions of some miuor changes were noted by the presi dent. The resignation of Mr. Bryan, who advocated a course that under no circumstances would involve the United States in war, spread the impression that the president and bis cabinet had decided finally that the rights of the United States must be upheld in any eventuality that may arise. While no inkling as to the contents of the note was given, it is under stood that an unfavorable reply will mean the severence of dip lomatic relations with Germany and that attacks' on Americans thereafter might lead to. even graver complications. Miss Bonnie Malone was in Choteau Saturdry (making final proof on her homestead. Miss Martha Swenson, of Northwood, N. Dak., arrived Saturday evening for a few weeks visit with her mother, Mrs. Hal vor Thompson. On account of the bad roads last Sunday the Power team was unable to get here to play ball; but fortunately, the Fairfield team came over and a very inter esting game was played. The score was 2 to 4 in favor of Bole. Next Sunday if the weather is favort.ble »ve will have a game here with Power. Miss Edith Luther who has been attending thè state college at B zen an arrived home Saturday evening to «pend the summer vacation. Jin Wallace and Charley But ler were over on the Teton lust week looking for horses. Miss Nora McCall entertained to dinner last Friday Misses Marguerite and Irene Jones, Nettie Hulberg and Violet Les- trud. Q. P. McElmee1 came up from Great Falls Saturday evening and visited over Sunday with his family. Miss Violet Lestrud was the guest of Miss Ethel Wallace Mon day and Tuesday. Ted Hawley was in Choteau Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Jefferson and daughter, Della, went up to Choteau Tuesday evening. Mrs. Jefferson has been seriously ill for some time but is on the Way to recovery now. Nora McCall left \for \Va- lier Monday where she will visit for several weeks with her sister. Roy Sandberg was a Choteau visitor last Saturday. B. L. Ames was a business visi tor in Dutton Tuesday. Work was commenced on the new store building last Saturday. American in Danger El Paso, June 10.— George Marx, an American citizen con victed in Juarez ìecently on a charge of passing counterfeit Mexican money, was ordered taken to Chihuahua today. The Juarez court sentenced Mark to be shot, the sentence being sub ject to review by a higher court at Chihuahua. The order for the transfer was issued by General Tomas Ornelas, commanding the Juarez garrison. When informed of the order United States officials here vigor ously endeavored to prevent its being carried out. An emphatic request was telegraphed to Wash ington asking tne state department to intervene in behalf of Marx. Officials here expressed doubt of Marx’s guilt. American officials who followed the case stated that Marx received $150 in V illa money (about $5 American money) in payment for a watch; that he entered one of the gambling houses in Jnurez, began to play at one o f the tables and was arrested on the charge that the money was counterfeit. Miss Signa Hag land, who grad uated recently from the Teton county high school, returned the first of the week to her home at Cut Bank. S. G. Hodgskiss and wife ar rived in Choteau last evening from their home in Australia, and will visit for 9ome time with Mr. Hodgskiss’ brothers, Archie and Percy Hodgskiss, and at the home of his uncle, Wm. Hodgskiss, of the Choteau House. CHOTEAU, TETON\ COUNTY, MONTANA, JUNE 11, 1915 NUMBER 50 INDIAN TAKES sfO MODERN STEED. ^ . ' , Iin-mo-tan-le, old Indian brave, will attend the Portland (Ore.) Ross festival June 9. 10 and 11 In his “fire wagon.” Farmington Notes c3 (2 1 .. 2 ... 3 .. 4 ... 5..., 0\... THE WEATHER REPORT Temperature I i ill ■ ä i I P5 - o J S £ Z j ri .= O o ....... G3 ..... 03 ... 50 .. 03 .... 54 • • O.' ....... 00 47 42 44 45 41 33 44 T OP 08 17 08 00 00 cloudy cloudy cloudy part cldy part cldy clear part cldy The Auxiliary was a-at.y--m-ew~ nized a week ago and a charter ordered drawn. T 'e same offi cers were retained. The Farmington boys at Bynum . Sun^“ v ,l was threl boys. lW&H did ..vm u gfbave her with us another year but Charles wno had eight suckers to his credit, The Equity and Auxiliary will give a picnic in the Pete Rogers grove June twenty-fourth. The farmers are all smile« «inee June first. Mrs. J. C. Moran closed a very successful term of school in the west end school, district number eight. __ ' ,rt! had .-«ix grades in the school; by her efficient management, every child’s lessons were reeited each day and each little heart was made happy by being promoted to u higher ■de. A t the close, o f school our „ '■ regret is that we can not gjyne. ,The?^6ung ' people who' went from here to help the home team were the Misses Sopha, Amanda and L ily Lindseth, Olga Evjen andiMyra Pierce and the Messrs. Charles Pierce, Herman and Oscar Lindseth, Scoop and Smoky Katbman, Albert and Casper Peterson, Arthur Harrison and Martin Anderson. A il re port a good time. Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Longmuir and the Misses M ary and Dorothy were guests of Mr. and Mr9. Arthur Hirshberg to luncheon and later were guests of Mr. Julius Hirshberg at the Royal Theatre. Mr. and Mrs. Ivor Nassett entertained Mrs. Daley and the Ni9ses Verna and Florence, Mi9s Hildegarde Lindseth and Law rence Nassett to dinner Sunday. Miss Anna Twitchel who has been visiting friends on the bench for the past week will leave for her home in Great Fulls tomor row. What is the matter with having a gopher day? They are cer tainly getting ,very numerous in this locality. I f every man and child would devote one day to exterminating these pests there will be much more grain to har vest this fall. June fifteenth will be good roads day. Don’t our roads need a little extra work on them? A few of the surplus rocks picked off the fields and .hauled to some of the very wet places would be a much needed improvement. Good roads are one of the best adver tisements a community can have. Let's all help. Messrs. John Jacobson, Sam Highland and Oscar Carlson helped M r. Delmer Clark, cele brate his thirty-third birthday last Sunday. Mr. and Mra. Lanris Otness and Charley and Miss Veum went fishing in the lake near the Henry Holm farm last Sunday. They were all unsuccessful except S h e a n d h e r ca p a b le , h u s b a n d h a v e b e e n e m p l o y e d to teach th e F a r m ' in g t o n sc h o o l n e x t y e a r . O u r b e s t w i s h e s g o w i t h them a n d w e h e a r t i l y c o n g r a t u l a t e th e tru s t e e s a n d p a t r o n s o f th a t d i s t r i c t in s e c u r i n g th e m to in s t r u c t th e ir c h i l d r e n d u r i n g the n e x t sch o o l y e a r . T h r e e o f h e r p u p i l s fro m o u r sc h o o l to o k th e e i g h t h g r a d e e x a m i n a t i o n s a n d p a s s e d w ith g o o d g r a d e s . H e r e n t e r t a i n m e n t s w e r e f a r a b o v e th e a v e r a g e . L a s t F r i d a y e v e n i n g th e c h i l d r e n u n d e r h e r c a r e g a v e th e f o l l o w i n g p r o g r a m : Song ................ Am e rica .................. Audience Reading..................................At the Concert Dorothy Longmuir Reading ............................... My First Speech Anna Nasset Reading..............................My Pa. He Knows Charles Otness nialogue. .......................................... Gossip Six « iris Recitation.... A Count of the Fourth of .inly Haakon Jackson Song .................... My Rocky Mountain Horne Dorothy Longmuir Instrumental Duet— .................... Mary Longmuir and Hildegarde Lindseth Reading .............................. An Owl Problem Lily Jacobson Recitation .................... Why She is Thankful Inez Lindseth Dialogue....................ine ways of the World Five Roys Tnstrumental Solo ........... Lawrence Nasset Reading ....................... An Irish Philosopher George Lindseth Song .................................................. Anothers The Girls Reading . .........................................Complaint Clarence Jacobson Pantomlne................The Coon Woodchopper Lawrence Nasset and George Lindseth Solo ............................................ Little Major Dorothy Lindseth Song .............................. Ain’t I Feeling Good George Lindseth and Lawrence Nasset Instrumental D u e t ........................... Selected Hildegarde Lindseth and Mary Longmuir Recitation .................................... Grandma's Cake Lawrence Nasset S o n g ..................... Dear Old Neyr Hampshire The Boys Reading...................Why My Teacher Knows Dorothy Lindseth Song ..........................................Annie Laurie A. O. Longmuir Song................................................. Peaceful Night The School J u n e 7, 1915. Naturalization Papers Declaration to become citizens of the United States have been filed by the following: Peter Kuperna, a native of Hol land, residing at Bole. .Albert Fellers, a subject of Canada, residing at Choteau. Bynum Hon. J. G. Bair of Choteau transacted business in Bynum Wednesday. Mr. Bair expressed surprise at the rapid and sub stantial growth of our town. Albert Thorbahn of Blackleaf was a Bynmti visitor Wednesday. It is reported that publication of the Bynum News will be re sumed next Thursday or Friday. Connor & Sons’ big new ga rage and machine shop is new under roof and the work of lay ing the concrete floor will be begun at once. The machinery has already arrived and will be installed as soon as possible. Fred Reader, who has been con ducting a restaurant, bakery and meat market in the Zweisler building, has leased the .dining room of the hotel Bynum, which* will be operated as a cafe. He will serve regular 35c meals, but there will be no limit to the bill of fare. Anyone not wanting a regular meal can order anything he wants. In otner words, he gets what he pays for and pays for what he gets. The new cafe will cater especially to the trade of farmers and laborer«—the overall trade, literally «peaking. Mr. and Mrs. W . M. Watson have gone to the mountain« tor a lev» »lny8. Cha«. A. Franks made a bu«i ness trip to Great Fall« \\ edne«- day. Albert Beitlich is reported to be seriously ill with heart trouble, having been removed from his home at Spring H ill to the Con rad hospital. He will be brought to his home again Sunday. Mrs. Jane Tobin, known to all the community as Aunt Jane, died at the home of Mrs. Martha Weyman, north of Bynum, on Wednesday. She was nearly 90 years of age, and has been con fined to her bed for more than a year past. Funeral services are to be held at B.ynuin and inter ment made in the Bynum ceme tery. Civil Cases The following civil cases have been filed in the office of the clerk of the district court since our last report: Carl T. Foormau vs. Erick J. Landin and Christina Landin, his wife, the Montana Brewing Co., a corporation, and Max Kahn, doing business under the name and style of Kahn Bros., fore closure of mortgage, Filed June 5 th. Halvorson & Co., V9. Mary T. Lawler, abstract of judgment. Filed June 7th. O. J. Kettlesrud vs. H. .7. Narveson, abstract of judgment. Filed Juno 7th. William D. Shartnan vs. H. J. Naryeson, abstract of judgment. Filed June 7th. Baneroffc-Whitney Co., a cor poration, vs. Irvin C. Kartack, suit on contract. Filed June 10th. The county commissioners have given John R. Gleason, public administrator, and Mrs. Nellie R. Brown, county superintendent of schools, a 60-day leave of absence, with permission to leave the state for that period. Mr. Gleason left Wednesday with Mrs. Gleasor., for Rochester, Minnesota, where it is thought she will enter the Mayo Bro9. hospital for an operation. Mrs. Brown and her daughter,. Miss Hazel, will go to California in about ten days to visit with Mrs. P. H. Crossen at Long Beach They will be ac- companied on the trip by Mrs. G. M. Coffee and P . H. Crossen. Choteau W ill Celebrate A committee of the business men have been busy this -week soliciting funds for a Fourth of July celebration in this city this year. While it has not been pos sible for this committee to see all of the business men, during the short time they have had at work, sufficient funds have already been pledged .to insure the success of the undertaking. It is the inten tion to devote two days to the occasion—July 3 and 4. These dates have been decided upon so as not to conflict with the celebra tion at Bynum on July 5th. A good program will be arranged, consisting of bnsebull games, gun club shoot, horse races, foot races and other sports, and will be pub lished in next week’s Montanan. Watch for the announcement. The Butte Socialist Plant Dynamited Butte, June 11:— At 2:10 this morning the plant of the Butte Sociali-t, on South Main street, was wrecked by an explosion, presumably by dynamite. The building took fire and was burn ing fiercely when the department arrived. The nature of the ex plosion has not been determined but Patrolman Olson, one of ttie first on the srene, declared that he smplled giant ponder smoke. Th * building inside is a mas« of debris and the front w «« liui'od into the street. A gallery at the rear was blown loose and fell on maehiner.v below. It is the opin ion of the police that the explos ion took place in the rear of the building as thut portion is the worst damaged. A t a late hour this morning the firemen and-police were conduct ing a joint investigation, but at lust reports had not found any thing which resembles a bomb. The upper story of the building was not badly damaged, although roomers were awakened by the explosion. Epworth League Next Sunday will be the last service of the Epworth league for the summer. Although we have some 40 members in town, it seems that the twenty who left are the life of our league. W e are sorry it has to be this way for we could accomplish much during the summer. A t the monthly- business meeting held last Friday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Lamka’s resignations were accepted and Maude Wilcox elected as presi dent, Gladys Whitacre as junior superintendent. Miss Whitacre was also elected as a delegate to ¡state convention at Helena to represent the junior league. The junior league will continue throughout the summer. On Thursday n “ Story Hour” will be held for the children from 4 to 10 years old, in the church. W e wish to interest the children in junior league work and we would be much obliged if the parents would send the children to league and any other meetings we may have An order was made by the county commissioners this week to the effect that hereafter in all cases whenever the holder o f a retail liquor license iii Teton county shall desire a renewal thereof to conduct such retail liquor business in the same loca tion, not within the corporate limits of an incorporated city or town, the county treasurer shall notify the applicant that a new petition will be required for the renewal of such license, in accord ance with the provisions o f sec tion 4, chapter 87, of the session laws of 1915.
