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H e w s o f M o n ta n a i Brief Notes Concerning the I Treasure State J ........ ' KumawiHummwij — u r r U North Montana high schools, it is expected, will hold their annual field meet at Chinook this spring. 'William V. Beers, re-elected mayor of Billings at the recent city election, is the first Billings mayor to succeed himself in 3G years. Figures show that of 222 teachers ■who formerly taught in the schools of Butte, 8S were married and resigned to take up the duties of housewives. A new community center is now at the disposal of the people of Bozeman, with the completion of the community meeting room at the chamber of com merce headquarters. During 30 days in July, 200 Boy Scouts from cities of Montana will take training in camp at Helena, under scout leaders. Executives from Butte and Helena arranged the program. With less than a month left before the opening contests of the season the state university track and baseball squads at Missoula are hard at work in preparation for the heaviest sched ule they have ever faced. The Beartooth mountains have more snow at the present time than at the same time for the past several years, is the gratifying statement, made at Ited Lodge by it. T. Ferguson, super visor of the Beartooth national forest. Winnett fanners interested in di versified funning and who recognize that profit on livestock, dairy and poultry products depends on a ready cash market at all times, recently met to consider plans for a shipping asso ciation. Field’s roadhouse, a landmark on the Stockett-Sand Coulee road, six miles south of Great Falls, was de stroyed by fire recently, according to a report brought to Groat Fails by travelers from Sand Coulee. The build ing was erected in ISuO. At its regular mooting Custer post No. 5 of the American Legion, Miles City, placed itself on record as op posed to the American Legion, de partment of Montana, bringing Jack Dempsey into Montana for a boxing match, prize fight, or other athletic event. Chinook is enthusiastic over the sec ond annual Northern Montana Cora show which is to he held in that city next fall. This was the fooling at a recent meeting of business men hold ,at which time County Agent Gustaf son presented the plan of holding the rt'mw in Chinook the coming year. Bacteriologists and health officers from half a dozen states and tit least one Canadian province, with doctors from many points in Montana, met in Missoula for a two-day conference, on methods of combatting the Rocky Mountain spotted fever, called by Dr. \V. F. Cogswell of Helena, secretary of the state hoard of health. For the purpose of perfecting a strong organization of farmers. It. E. Snodgrass of Musselshell, secretary treasurer of the Musselshell County Farmers’ union, has called a meeting to he held in Roundup April 34. Building operations have apparently doubled in Shelby. Not less than 100 buildings, large and small, are under construction. O. A. Arnet of Clyde Park and sev eral other farmers attended a meeting of the county commissioners in an effort to reopen the question of the appointment of a farm agent. The commissioners, however, maintained the position taken by them last month against the appointment of an agent, saying they saw no reason to change their decision. Opportunity is again to he given Miles City students to attend the citi zen’s military training camp, ns the war department is making plans for the summer. Information has been received that the camps will he held throughout the country the same ns last year, excepting funds available will limit the number of students that can lie accommodated. Eight hundred students will he allowed for the camp at Fort Douglas. One thousnnd pairs of Hungarian partridges will soon he liberated in Montana under the directions of the Montana state fish and game commis sion. These birds, in addition to the HOO pairs which will, to a great extent, take the place of the grouse nnd prai rie chickens, which, in past years, pro vided sport for the hunters of the state, hut whose numbers have been so great ly reduced that they are now compara tively few. Filing an application for Incorpora tion. a group of Livingston, Bozeman nnd Red Lodge citizens have taken the first step toward establishing at Liv ingston a $550,000 plant to produce coke for the smelters, and a variety of by-products, including ammonia sul phate,' benzol, tar, pitch nnd gas. The plant, according to a statement author ized by the incorporators, is expected to be in operation by next October, with an output of liKl tons of coke, for which it is said a market lias already been procured. To aid sellers and purchasers of cat tle and sheep to get together, the Mon tana Livestock Finance corporation is resuming this year the plan of sales bulletins started last year, according to a letter being sent to stockmen of the state by A. T. Hibbard, secretary. Northern Montana will he among the first sections of the state to reaeli per manent prosperity through diversifi cation of farm crops, unlPss all present signs are unbelievably awry, according to a statement made at Havre by Joseph B. Townsend, director of pub licity of the Montana Development as sociation. Appointment of Howard W. Holme* is enief engineer of the state highway :ommisslon to take the office May 15, it $4,500 a year, has been announced at Helena. The first seml-anual dividend of the Montana Mutual Dairy Loan associa tion, established In Missoula six months ago, has been declared at a meeting of its directors. Curtailment of activities of the state highway commission because of re duced appropriations will include the closing of the district office in Billings about April 15, according to R. J. Ephland, district engineer, To reorganize for 1923, the Spring Greek Boys’ Corn club of Custer coun ty, met nt Miles City with County Agent C. M. lerrington, with all of its 10 members present. Each member ¡vill grow approved seed corn this year. A crew of men is working in the canyon of the West Rosebud, near Co lumbus. in tile construction of the Mystic Falls project. An SO-man camp has been established and several cars .tf material have been hauled to the works. Trains will he running on the Mon- tana-Wyoming railroad between Miles City and Sheridan by December of this year, according to George M. IIuss, chief engineer of the new line. Mr. Huss is vice president of the Wyoming company. Construction of a new Catholic high school for boys will begin at Butte this spring. Announcement has been made that subscriptions within a few thousand of the $l«*/,000 sought ns the cost of the new building, have been secured ns the result of an eight weeks’ campaign. At a recent meeting of the Wilsnll Commercial ciub it was decided to make the Shields Valley Livestock nnd Dairy show an annual event. The first show was put on Inst fall late in Oc tober and it proved to be such a suc cess that it wns decided to make it a permanent institution. Announcement has been made at Livingston by Vincent Evans, scout executive, that the tri-count.v council of hoy scouts is an assured fact. This council will he made up of scout troops in Park, Gallatin nnd Sweet Grass counties, and will comprise approxi mately 500 members, under one exe cutive. Montanans will have an opportunity to file oil 330.000 acres of grazing land in eastern Montana this summer, ac cording to information given out from the general land office nt Wash., D. C. Most of the land 3s in southeastern Montana, in Carter nnd Powder River counties. Nearly nil of it has been classified to allow filing on G40-acre homesteads. It is expected that a world’s record output of trout and grayling spawn will he established nt the hatchery nt Georgetown lake this spring, accord ing to an announcement by J. H. Brun son, superintendent of fish hatcheries in Montana. With favorable condi tions it is expected to secure 4,000.000 rainbow trout eggs, between 30,000.000 nnd 40.000,000 native trout eggs, and at least 30,000,000 grayling spawn. A hundred dollars net from five good grade Holstein cows In one month wns realized by Truman Denny of Lone- pine, according to the milk sheet which has recently been summarized and re ported to the state dairy specialist. This includes a net profit of both but ter fat nnd skim milk, after deducting the cost of feed, figuring butter fat at the going price paid by the Flnlns creamery, nnd the skim milk nt 50 cents per hundred pounds. Rfilings merchants, hankers nnd farmers have been requested by At torney General Wellington D. Rankin to submit their opinions regarding the existing freight rates now charged by the various railroads in the state. The data received in the attorney general's office will he used as evidence in a hearing before the railroad commis sion. which will be held In Helena. April 19. in an effort to lower the freight rates on Intra-state freight shipments. Evidence of the great amount ol building that will he done In Miles City this spring, nnd of tlue reawakening activity in all lines, is shown in the fact that some of the more enterpris ing property owners are adding im provements to their homes now, nnd excavations for basements for new houses are being dug in vnrlnus parts of tiie city where new buildings will soon he erected. Houses which have stood vacant about the city during the past several months are rapidly being filled up. Fred W. Handel, lending business man of Musselshell, suffered an attack of heart failure on March 31. nnd dropped dead at the bedside of Mrs. Handel, who had been seriously ill for some time. So severe was the shock that Mrs. Handel died about an hour Inter. Mr. Handel had suffered a heart attack about three weeks ago. and his wife had nursed him through that Illness. Soon after he wns able to be out again, about 10 days ago. Mrs. Handel was stricken with paraly sis, and wns believed to he showing improvement until her sudden death Mr. Handel, with his brother, George W. Handel, had been a resident ot .Musselshell for 3S years. Word has been received nt Libby In the form of a letter from J. H. Brun son. superintendent of fish hatcheries sratine that the fish nnd game com mission has decided to accept an offer of a site for a hatchery there and that it would be Installed. The board of county commissioners has entered into nn agreement with the state highway commission to pro vide for the upkeep of gravel-surfaced highways in Cascade county. The county will pay $0,880 for maintenance during the year nnd the same nmoun* will he paid by the state highway coni mission. 1—Guard of natives for uuval proponj iu j-uiunu, ouiuuu, uuuc. iu.„,uuau . .-u0uoi auiu, uiuy U. S. marine In iSamoa. 2— William Paul Ilaslillo Jarrett, new delegate to congress from Hawaii, and his wife. 3— Architect’s drawing of the $ 10000 , ,01*0 American national cathedral tljat is being erected in Washington. Plans of Communists for Anti- American Drive Revealed in Foster Trial. LEGAL PARTY MERE SHIELD? Rising Price of Sugar Causes Investi gations— Early British Intervention in Ruhr Situation Is Possible— Russia Condemns Catholic Pre lates to Death—Packing Concerns Merged. By EDWARD W. PICKARD t * * A RE you and your friends * J * * aware of the persistent and * * insidious campaign that is being * J carried on by the communists, t * bofshevists, radical socialists and * J other varieties of “ Reds\ in the t J United States with the purpose J i of undermining and destroying t * the government? Are you fully J t awake to the danger, or do you t J believe there is no danger to * t America in the work of these * world revolutionists? J I N THE opinion of the American of ficials and many other citizens who are well informed, the people of this country are not devoting sufficient thought to the doings of the “Reds” in the United States under the Instruc tions of the third Internationale whose headquarters are in Moscow. If the information supplied by secret govern ment agents and used by the prosecu tion in the trial of William Z. Fos ter and others for violation of the Michigan anti-syndicalism law is to be relied upon, the Russian Communist organization Is planning a great anti- American drive for the Immediate fu ture. A call has been sent cut for a Communist convention in May to con sider the organization details of a le gal political party under which the Illegal activities of the Communists may be sheltered. The call, which is signed by John Richards, says In purt: “Under good and bad leadership It (the Communist party) remains our party. Within our party we are bound together by common alms, with com mon hopes and aspirations. Our party is a world party under the guidance and discipline of the Communist In ternationale. “The executive committee of the Communist Internationale has mads a decision for our section, the Commu nist party of America. (This decision is for an open political party and an underground true Communist party functioning as one). Not one true Communist will desert or lessen his activities. We shall unite to carry out the decision.” Minutes of the governing body of the third Internationale, presented at the Foster trial, show that the Workers’ party In America was created by de cision of the Internationale. The docu ment, discussing the American situ ation, says: “ Under existing circum stances It is impossible for the Com munist party in the United States to be a legal pnrty. Of course the party can develop open labor organizations, such as the Trade Union Educational league, of which Foster Is secretary. It can even build legal revolutionary workers’ organizations. It must also launch a legal party with the purpose that the communists can enter openly its ranks without permitting the police to know which of the members are Communists and which are not. “But the underground organization, whose membership consists entirely of Communists, must not he liquidated. On the contrary it must be built firmer and stronger. “It Is the duty of the Communist party to defeat by any means that may be necessary the capitalist govern ment attempts to confine the revolu tionary parly to the underground chan nels. In carrying out those Instruc tions, the Communist party must guard itself against the tendency to •epudlnte or neglect the Illegal work— the tendency to become legal in fact.” Last week the chief witness in the Michigan trial was Charles F. Rutlien- burg, secretary of the Workers’ party. Through his testimony was developed the main part of the defense—that the legal party is all there Is left of the Communist movement In America. I NDIRECTLY connected with the “Red” cumpaign—but connected, nevertheless, in the mind9 ol thinking persons—are innumerable circum stances, events and superficially harmless movements and propa ganda. The leaders of the Re publican party are realizing that the party is being endangered by the activ ities of the radicals who remain within its ranks and apparently would be glud to have them get out and into a third party of their own. The current number of the National Republican, the semi-official organ of the Repub lican national committee, contains an editorial In which this paragraph ap pears : “Radical organizations having their headquarters in Washington have been advising their Socialist devotees to ‘bore from within* the existing old parties, with a view to revolutionizing the principles of these parties while retaining tlielr names. Republicanism has stood for about all the ‘boring from within’ consistent with the preser vation of the party. “The Whig party was compromised out of existence and that fate is pos sible to any party whose really loyal leaders and members will not battle the hostile invaders who have come through the wall under the camouflage of a Trojan horse. It Is not too much to ask that men who claim to be Re publicans should believe In the funda mental principles of Republicanism and not look upon the Republican party merely as a convenient means of get ting their names on the public pay roll.” P RESIDENT HARDING, while In St. Augustine, let it be known that he thinks the statement of Attorney Gen eral Daugherty, that Mr. Harding would be a candidate for renomlna- tion and would have no real opposition, might better have been withheld for the (present. The President In his study of the situation Is understood to have singly in his mind the two re maining years of his administration and to feel that proper solution of the problems they will present should be subject of more thought than what is to happen to him personally In 1924. Mr. Daugherty has made It plain since giving out his statement that it was not Inspired by the President. Last Tuesday Secretary of War Weeks made substantially the same predic tion as did Mr. Daugherty. In his opinion Mr. Harding will have no oppo sition in the party convention except possibly that of Senator La Follette, representing the radical elements of the party. B 5T THE death of Senator Nicholson of Colorado and the Imminent ap pointment of a Democrat to succeed him, the Republican majority In the senate will be so reduced that La Fol- lette’s radical bloc will hold the bal ance of power. Woodrow Wilson tele graphed to Governor Sweet urging the appointment to the senate of Huston Thompson, one of his warm supporters and now a member of the federal trade commission. William G. McAdoo has asked the governor to give the place to Morrison Shaifroth of Denver. Mr. Sweet says he will take his time in filling the vacancy. Mr. Wilson’s action Is taken by many as an Indica tion that he is ready to, resume the leadership of his party, if the party Is willing. R ECENT increases in the retail price of sugar, with predictions that the commodity would soon sell for 20 cents a pound, have given great concern not only to householders gen erally but especially to politicians. The Department of Justice has been Investigating the truth of charges made by the People’s Legislative service that sugar manipulators have conspired to rob the people of millions of dollars; and in response to the assertions of certain Democrats and others that the rise is due to the Increased duty of the Fordney-McCumber tariif law President Harding instructed the fed eral tariff commission to ascertain the facts, promising to reduce the tariff If It were found excessive, as he is au thorized to do. It is understood the commission has decided the advances in price have nothing to do with the increased tariff and will recommend nc reduction of the duty. A LL opposition parties in the house of commons made a massed at tack last week on the British govern ment’s policy of inaction in connection with the Ruhr situation, and the debate brought out a statement Indicating that Intervention by Great Britain mav come in the near future. Chancello* Baldwin, speaking for Prime Minister Bonar Law, said: “The government could have done nothing more than It has done. Premature Interference bj a third party In any dispute inevitably leads to disaster, but I believe the moment may come when our services to our allies and to Germany may be of immense value. The moment we believe that an intervention suggestion or anything else in the way of a step towards settlement may prove suc cessful, we will act.” Rosenberg, German foreign minister, says Germany Is ready to negotiate with France without waiting for the French to get out of the Ruhr, but he thinks it will be months before any arrangement is placed under discus sion. Premier Poincare says he hopes Germany will yield before the end of May, but when questioned sharply by the opposition In the chamber he de clared France would engage in no conversations with Germany, direct or Indirect. “It Is odious to attribute to France designs of annexation,” he as serted, while the radicals laughed. “We went into the Ruhr to get repara tions and for no other reason. We will leave the Ruhr when Germany pays and not before.’\ Socialists of England, France, Italy Belgium and Germany, In conference in Berlin, devised a reparations pro gram to be submitted to the convention of allied Socialists in Paris. Their plan embraces these main projects: First, that the reparations total be based on the reconstruction costs of northern France and Belgium, that the sum must be fixed by a special commis sion, and that it must not include pen sions and similar charges. Second, that some settlement of the Interallied debts, including money owed to the United States, be ¡reached In connec tion with the reparations problem. Third, that England and Italy and, if possible, the United States, join In guaranteeing France's security against German aggression. S OVIET Russia last week was on the verge of committing an act that would have outraged the feelings of the civilized world. Archbishop Zep- liuk and Mgr. Butchkavlch of the Ro man Catholic church were tried before the Supreme court in Moscow for counter-revolutionary, activities and were found guilty and sentenced to speedy death. Protests were received from Poland, the United States State department and the pope, and Russia’s amnesty department committee grant ed a temporary stay of sentence and referred the appeals for clemency to the central executive committee. It is predicted the Bolshevists will be satis fied with the deportation of the church men. T WO of the world’s greatest pack ing concerns, the Armour and Mor ris companies, were consolidated last week after months of negotiation. A new holding corporation was formed with a capital of $550,000,000. Morris & Co. was purchased by the North American Provision company, a sub sidiary of Armour & Co. of Delaware, in turn a subsidiary of Armour & Co. of Illinois, for approximately $27,450,- 000, payments to be made In cash and stock. With the liquidation of Morris & Co., Armour & Co. will have total assets of approximately $530,000,000, according to available balance sheets of the two concerns. In 1921 the ag gregate sales of the two companies were approximately $880,000,000. S ARAH BERNHARDT’S astonishing fight for life came to an end last Tuesday, and France, and with her all the world, mourned the passing of the greatest actress of the age. While messages of condolence by the thou sands poured In from every land, the body of the Divine Sarah lay in the rosewood coffin she had made for her self many years ago, and on Thursday, after a most Imposing funeral, she was laid rest In Pere La Chaise. News Notes of The Oil Fields j Drilling operations are reported to be under way at the Dry Porks well, three miles north of Conrad. Another carload of drilling equlp- cnent has arrived at the location of the- test well to be drilled by the Circle Oil company about 20 miles north o f Carter. All through the winter a building program has been going on in Cat Creek by the big oil companies, which, signifies that they contemplate perma nency In the field. The Sunburst Refining company an nounced it will triple original plans for the plant it is erecting in Great Falls because of the increased produc tion in the Kevin-Sunburst field. The Homestake Exploration company is reported to be drilling at about 2,300 feet on Its well on the Bowdoin dome, having passed through caving shales which caused trouble for some time. The Ohio Oil company has been» awarded a contract to drill a well on his ranch, 10 miles from Zortman, Phillips county, by James Pewitt of Havre. Work is to commence about July 1. It has been announced that construc tion of a $75,000 water pipe line in the Kevin-Sunburst oil field will be started! by the Homestake Exploration com pany as soon as material is on the ground. According to a report issued by gov ernment officials, following a survey of the country that lies between the Little Rocky mountains and the Mis souri river, the structures are very favorable for oil. Several oil companies are said to be negotiating with land owners in the district south of the Little Rocky mountains, in Phillips county, for acre age, and considerable development is looked for this season. The bringing in of the Newman welT In the Kevin-Sunburst field makes three good wells In the Hogan group- It is estimated that the Newman well will prove about as good a producer as- the Hogan No. 2, which is probably a, 250-barrel well or better. The derrick and rig irons for the new rig of Kenneth Frazer and associates on Bear’s Den in northern Liberty county are now on the grounds and the new rig will be ready to spud in soon, according to John Holman, in charge of the drilling operations. Tapping of a chalk bed of unknown depth in the Genou well of the North- field Oil company, 38 miles north of Great Falls, has caused considerable Interest in the north part of the state- Oil men claim tlint the prospects for production nt this location were im proved by this development. Prospecting for oil Is to be again resumed near Riverton, Wyo. It Is reported that about May 3 drilling will start in the Burley dome that w ill prove the worth of another of River* ton’s possible oil fields. It is said tlint the drilling contract has been let nnd the tools and equipment are on their way to Riverton. Lease on 120 tank enrs to be avail able between May 15 and June 15 has been closed by E. Ag Wyat, general manager of the Sunburst Refining company, with the General American- Tank company. The lease Is for a period of two years and will include both clean cars for distributing the products nnd cars for carrying crude and fuel oils. Plans by the Frantz corporation and ‘ other old line companies operating la the Cat Greek field to test out the third sand early this spring lias caused many to recall the assertion of Geolo gist Von Hagen that “ Cat Creek Is fed from Flatwillow”. Oil men are under the Impression that heavy gusher pro- duction will he tapped in the third sand in the field. Analysis of the gas of the Kevin- Sunburst field as produced by the Ohio-Berg wells near Shelby shows that carbon monoxide, the element which produces the poisonous effects In all artificial gas nnd much of the natural gas, Is entirely absent, which „ solves the reason why persons have been able to work about the gas wells without ill effects. According to reports the Absaroka Oil company has struck oil in a cap rock fissure on the McGinnis dome near Ingomar. No estimate of the quantity has been made but there is sufficient showing to prove oil in pay-*\ ing quantities beneath the cap rock. It is said. The Absaroka company is at present drilling at Ingomar and also near Baker and in the east Cat Creek district. Reports from reliable sources are that the Deverenux Oil company is to resume drilling the deep test well of the company in the west end of tlie Cat Creek field. The Devereaux test is considered one of the most important In Montana as deep production on their location, if successful will prove up an immense field In the lower sands and start a drilling boom to the north of Winnett greater than the original Cat Creek boom. With the opening up of spring mak ing development work possible, the oil fields in the Roundup district are showing renewed signs of life and act ivity. Two deep tests are assured for the Devil’s Basin, and work on these will be under way within a short time. Drilling at the Black Hawk well la\* the Cat Creek field was resume* a? ' the 2,900 foot level, April 2, according to a report from Field Superintendent Kistner. The well closed down last winter due to cold weather and the fact that ice gathering on the tool* and floor made It Impossible to oper ate. a m m S B S S S S —•— M r .. limn
