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The rate of tax is $1.00 on each $1,000 of the total value of a corporation’s capital stock for the preceeding fiscal year ending June 30th, in excess of $5,000. The amount of $5,000 is an arbitrary exemption allowed all corporations. All Corporations Must File Every corporation whether domes tic or foreign, must .file a return, even though it carries no tax due. The term corporation includes associations and joint stock companies. All cor porations claiming exemption must file a return, tlie ^ determination of • liability resting with the commis sioner of inernal revenue at Wash ington, D. C. If any company was not engaged in business an affidavit should be attached explaining the company’s activities. Due Date of Return The return is due on or before July 31,1923, to avoid the penalties for delinquency. Any corporation which fails to, make a return within the required time is liable to a penalty not to ex ceed $1000. In case of failure to file a return on time a 25 per cent pen alty of the amount of tax is added to it. A tax due on a return is payable when the return is filed, or on ten ■days notice and demand from the collector’s office:- Returns should be filed at the earliest possible moment, thus avoid ing the assertion of any penalties for delinquency which are frequently In curred through oversight resulting from failure to file returns promptly. Do not confuse this tax with any form of income tax, nor get the im pression that this particular lax has previously been paid. GIBBONS IS CHAMPION ICE CREAM EATER Shelby, June 20.—Whether Tommy •Gibbons wins the world’s heavyweight championship on July 4 or not, he will still be the champion ice cream eater of the world. No less than a •quart of the frozen cream is consum ed by the challenger ahd when he is mot in training for a battle a gallon is his hsual amount. He said today that he was anxious for the big bat tle to be oyer so he could get back to his gallon a day diet. FOBEGART FOB ■TINS CHOP CROP IS ESTIMATED AT 89 PER CENT OF NORMAL. NATION 90.2 PER CENT Washington, June 20.—This year’s winter wheat crop is predicted at 2.513.000 bushels more than the fore cast of a month previous, according to- tabulations by the department of agriculture as of June 1. The spring crop was forcasted at 34,000,000 bu. less than last year. Montana’s spring wheat forecast is 41.048.000 bushels and the condition of the crop is 89 per cent of normal. Taking the nation as a whole the spring wheat outlook is 90.2 per cent of normal, winter wheat 76.3. The report says spring wheat and oats are up to a good stand in Mon tana. The oat harvest is underway in states of he southwest. Eastern' oats need rain, the department re port observes. The condition of rye is generally good. Two hundred fifty thousand acres of public land in six western states -lias just been ordered thrown open for homestead entry by veterans of the world war. This action of Secre tary of the Interior Work includes 57,300 acres of land in Montana, in the three counties of Teton, Phillips and Fergus. Of the total 37,500 acres lie in southern Phillips county and eastern Fergus, the remaining 19,800 acres in Tetbh. Exact dates for fil ing will be announced by the local land offices, where entry will be made and forwarded to the general land office here. Former service men have prference rights for' 91 days, after which entry is not restricted. METHODIST CHURCH NOTES (Harry T. Stong, Pastor) Morning worship at 10:30. Sermon by the pastor. Sunday School at 11:30. Evening service at 8 o’clock. Bible school each day during t^e coming week. Ladies Industrial Wednesday, June 27th.- \ ' r The fourth quarterly conference will be held at the church on Satur day evening, June 30. The district superintendent will preach July 1 at 10:30 a. m. The first of the three Epworth League institutes which will be held in this state this summer will be ht Neihart, beginning July 9. It is hop ed that a large delegation of Choteau young people will plan to attend. ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH NOTES' Owing to the absence of the min ister from the city, there will be no service in the church next Sunday, June 24th., but there will be the cel ebration of the Holy Communion on the following Sunday, July 1st, at 11 o’clock. The Church School cloesd a suc cessful year’s work last Sunday and will celebrate with a picnic next Friday in the city park. Statement of Condition of OF CHOTEAU at close of business April 3, 1923 RESOURCES 'Cash in vault and in other banks —. --- $115,279.15 County warrants, real estate, etc. ------- -— , 20,889.06 Loans and discounts — 194,064.32 $330,232.53 LIA B ILITIES Deposits ----------------- $269,490.64 Undivided profits-------- 741.89L. Capital and surplus ----- 60,000.00 $330,232.53 . ; ' ' -.Ti- The Woman’s Club is'arranging a program for a Foruth of July, picnic (to be held at the Great Northern Park. Everybody is invited to come and bring lunch. .Lunch w ill be served at o’clock and be sure to bring your, cup for free coffee. Donations in the way^'di;cream from the farm ers will be thankfully received. A t four o’clock there will be various kinds of races for the children ,as well as the grown-ups. The business houses having liberallv donated in the way of prizes. ; In the'evening a dance will be held a t the Amer ican Legion pavilion. A six piece orchestra will furnish the music- Remember a big time is in store and all are invited, to attend. - ' ■ _ M PENDROY WELL SACCHARINE PROVED SUCCESS FUL AS SUBSTITUTE FOR SUGAR Saccharine, in the grasshopper formula, has proved very successful, according to tests made by Wm. Wiseman, G. -B. Zeigler and other farmers of the county, and gets equally, if not better results than the syrup and is much more handy in its use. About three weeks ago ' the cotmty agent sent out to various farmers of the county a small supply of saccharine and reports from these farmers have been very favorable. In using saccharins one ounce is suf ficient to treat six hundred pounds of bran. With saccharine 550 times as sweet as sugar, this is equal -to five pounds of sugar per one hundred pounds of bran. --- • The substituting of saccharine1'for sugar will not only save the farmers the trouble of making the syrup, but will also cut down the cost of mixing one hundred pounds of bait by thirty cents. In mixing saccharine dissolve in hot water and add to the 12 gal lons of water solution the same as syrup. Womans' Camp One of the East Dutton communi ties comes > in second in getting the names of their representatives to the camp. Mrs. Helen Fleshman and Mrs. Ida Andrews have been selected from that community. The Beck commun ity reports that they will select their representatives Sunday and the Pow er people will* have theirs in before the first of July. Canadian Thistle Farmers of the Burton Bench have manifested considerable interest this spring in fighting the Canadian thistle. A meeting will be called on the bench in a short time to discuss and make arrangements for a cam paign against this weed. It is prob able that no action will be taken this year to enforce the weed law but that several \demonstrations will be put on to show how the Canadian thistle can be eradicated and follow ing this series of demonstrations, the law will be put into operation and everyone will be forced to keep his fields free from this weed. The ex act date oh which the meeting will be called has not been announced, but it Is expected that this meeting will be held in a short time. STRIKES POCKET OF GAS AT 800 FEET; CORRESPONDING W ITH STRIKE AT EDWARDS W E L L t ?A showing of light green oil was reported at 1560 feet in the Gypsy wiell near Pehdroy. The showing was obtained in a sandy lime from 1520 to 1572 feet deep. j The well had a puff of gas at 800 feet which seemed to correspond with that of the Jones-Edwards well near Bynum. The Gypsy is now drilling in the Colorado with casing only as far as 1200 feet. ETNA FLlS LAVA-, 4ILLMNE0 HISTORIC VOLCANO BURSTS FORTH ANEW W ITH DEAF ENING EXPLOSIONS Rome, June 18.—The little village of Linguaglossa on the slopes of Mt. Etna is reported to have been de stroyed by a torrent of lava cascad ing down the side of the volcano. Inhabitants of the town evacuated their dwellings yesterday, amid earthquakes ..and menacing subterran ean rumblings, ef’ei a fiery streak had wiped out the neighboring ham let of Loscoragata. Residents of nearby towns of Cas- tiglidne fled from ther homes today, staggering under the weight of such household treasure as they could car ry, as the river of lava approached to within one kilometer. The eruption of Etna is increasing. With deafening explosions, new cra ters have appeared in the mountain. Vast clouds of dense black smoke are visible for miles. Hot ashes are sifting from the sky over an im mense area. Scores of refugees are trooping down the route leading from the vol cano, while the population of the whole region is terrified. Several units of militia have been rtished to the doomed village of Lin guaglossa from Catania to assist the population in removing furniture and cattle from home3 and stables being destroyed by the hot lava flow. Attorney General Wellington D. Rankin spoke to thirty-five members the pre war basig should be in vogue, loyd Hotel last Tuesday evening. The topic of Mr. Rankin’s address was the Esch-Cummins Act and Mon tana railroad rates. He characterized the railroad rates as being burglarios and exhibited charts compiled from railroad records to show that the greater per cent of commodities are higher in Montana than most of our neighboring states. Mr.- Rakin also pointed out that there was considerable difference be tween railroad valuation for rate making and that for tax paying pur poses asserting that of the Montana roads the Great Northern\ was the most fair, having its tax valuation approximately three-fourths of its rate making valuation. The Esch’ Cummin3 Act was labeled as vicious legislation on the ground that railroad operating expenses have returned to normal and the five and three-quarters per cent profit allowed under this act was an excess and that of the commercial club at the Glen- Forest Supervisor Myrick spoke briefly on fire prevention and the system of fire permits that will be Installed the first of the month In San River canyon. W HO SAYS W A R R IOR W HO “TOOK 'EM SCALP AS ONLY TR O P HY IN PRAIRIE AERENA Washington, D. C., June 20.—The Interior department might act offici ally in the event of an Indian upris ing, but it has no jurisdicticpi over pale face prize fights In any of the states, not even in the matter of granting special permission for cer tain Indians to leave their reserva tions to attend them. Washington officials were flabber- • gasted today on hearing of a satirical letter written by Chief Lying Down Bear Face, known as the warrior- philosopher of the Glacier National Park. The old Indian is rather face- ticious, it seems, in making formal request for leave of absence' from the reservation to attend the Dempsey- Gibbons fight, July 4, he characteri zes the “muffled hand to hand com bat” as a sham affair compared with real Indian fighting of his early days, according to the translated letter dictated in the Blackfeet tongue to an English-writing Indian police. It is quite possible much of the best of the aged Red Man’s wise words were lost by his crude means of transla tion. However, there is no doubt marked change has come over the fight game since Uncle Sam forced Bear Face to quit the big Montana aerena as an Indian fighter more than fifty years ago. Bear Face, with the Blackfeet, fought many battles against the Sioux tribe on the bench lands adjacent to where Shelby stands today and his only trophies consisted of the scalps he took with an occasional bow and arrow or bowie knife taken from the vanquished foe. “All different today,” he ruminates “Civilization call ’em sporting event now. Big herd of people go see “hand to-hand battle and even pale warrior struck down is brought back to* life and handed heap big bag of wampum. Hub, pale face funny people. Bear Face is an intelligent Indian. He is one of the few remaining In dians of the bow and arrow days. He ls about 9S years of age. He has taken a keen interest in the Dempsey-Gibbons prize fight. I-Ie recently appeared at the Glacier Park reservation agency headquarters to make request for leave of absence to attend the bout. He was jocularly told to write to the Great White Father. Bear Face figures, in his Indian way of calculating, that it will be a good fight because the combatants are to be paid so generously for fight ing. In the days of his prowess as SAME REGULATIONS TO GOVERN AS W E R E IN FORCE LAST YEAR It will be necessary to secure camp fire permits for the period from July 1 to September 30 by all persons de siring to camp within the Sun River Canyon on the Lewis .& .Ciark Na tional forest from the forest bound ary to Arsenic Creek. Supervisor Myrick, at Choteau, Montana, stated that the camp fire permit system worked out very satisfactorily last season and there was practically* no inconvenience in getting one. The regulations of the secretary of agri culture prescribes that all or any part of a national forest may be des ignated as an area on, which the building of camp fires is not allowed without first obtaining a permit from a forest oclcer and makes it unlawful for any person to build a camp fire inside of this area without first ob taining a penntt for the same. The forest service has made ar rangements whereby permits may be obtained from Allan’g Hotel or from a fire patrolman who will be assigned to the Sun River canyon.' These per mits cost nothing and obligates no one to do more than he should be willing to do to safeguard the lives and property of other tourists and settlers in that vicinity as well as the timber of the forest. The forest service has made con siderable improvement on the road leading through the canyon and campers coming to that region will find the accommodations much better than formerly, since approximately one half of the distance between the forest boundary and Allan’s Hotel has been regravelbd and is now In excellent condition. JOHN EMERSON AND ANITA LOOS’ OWN PRODUCTION John Emerson and Anita Loos, the deans of scenario writing, are the authors of “Red Hot Romance,” their own production, which will be shown as a First National attraction at the Royal Theater on Wednesday, run ning for two days. The story is a satire on the \ro mantic” type of tale - which shows young and heroic Americans inter fering in the politics of small though mythical kingdoms, outwitting the army and winning the daughter of the king. a fighter, he says, he would have fought any two Sioux warriors single- handed with bowie knives for half a million dollars less than, these pale face battlers are to get for fighting each other with \padded hands.” Citizens State] Bank CHOTEAU, MONTANA OUR DIRECTORS: G. M. Coffey ? Y' :*j P . H. Crossen George F. Miller Wm. Hodgskiss James Eckford We specialize in all departments of.. Commer cial Banking and offer service consistant with safe banking.
