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1—Southbound steamers In Pauumn canal held up oy slide m uulllnrd cut while northbound vessels are pro ceeding. 2—Department of Agriculture clerks making an estimate of the country's pig. population from reports from the farmers. 3—New photograph of Einil Coue, noted exponent of cure by auto-suggestion, who will re turn to America in January. Senator Johnson Challenges Coolidge and Others to Di rect Primary Fight. STRESEMANN CABINET IS OUT By EDWARD W. PICKARD S ENATOR HIRAM JOHNSON of California, avowed candidate for the Republican presidential nomina tion, has started into make tilings lively for his rivals, including Presi dent Coolidge. lie has warned them tlint he proposes to make a determined fight In every state against \hand- picked\ delegations, and challenged them to meet him in the primaries in a straight-out contest. Ills statement, Issued from Washington, is supposed to have been the result of unwarrant ed Intlmutions that Mr. Coolidge would not make a direct campaign for state delegations, relying largely on delegates from states that have no di rect primaries, and on those which would turn to him after their favorite 6ons have been eliminated from com petition. “I insist that the rank nnd file of the Republican party have a right to express themselves as to the candi date of the party for the presidency,” Senator Johnson said. \I am seeking to have that preference expressed. I shall accept the determination of the voters with equanimity nnd philosophy. I do not fear to go before the people upon that which I believe, nnd no oth er mnn who is a candidate should hesitate to hove those whose support he asks express themselves on his candidacy. “The members of the pnrty, rather thnn a few self-constituted bosses, are entitled to select the candidate. We are going to put it up to the Americnn people. I Insist that all candidates should go before the people on the same principle.\ Senator Johnson indicated that his main fight would be made In such states ns Illinois, Indiana, Michi gan, Nebraska and New Jersey. He is looked on with considerable fa vor by many Illinois Republicans, but must contend with the strong follow ings of Coolidge nnd Lowden. In Indiana Senator James E. Watson says he may become a candidate “if for no other reason thnn to keep the state’s delegation from Hiram John son.\ While he is too radical for such men ns Watson, the Californian is too con servative to suit the other Senator Johnson, Mngnus from Minnesota. That loud-speaker arrived in the na tional enpitnl nnd told the pop-eyed world that Hiram was a backslider from the cnuse of progressivism, that the third pnrty movement was grow ing very strong, nnd thnt the farmers must he given protection ngnlnst their enemies, the grain nnd dnlry com panies. He seems to he right about the third pnrty movement. Indeed, a third party was formally organized in Chicago by n group under the leader ship of J. A. H. Hopkins of New York and the call for Its convention, to be held May 80, was issued. Another meeting of progressive groups was held in Omaha and rep resentatives of fifteen states Indorsed Ford for president nnd cnlled a con vention at Detroit December 12. T T T IL L IA M G. McADOO had his first VV test of strength among the Dem ocrats last week in South Dakota, where the county proposal conventions were held. Ford supporters were his -.chief opponents, and while results nre toot yet quite definite, it appears thnt ttfcAdoo won throughout the stnte hy Bt least, two to one. The Republicans V e re fairly divided between Coolidge nnd Hiram Johnson. Most of the Farmer-Labor conventions named un instructed delegations to the state convention. D ' R. STRESEMANN and his cabinet fell soon after the reassembling o f the reichstag,' as had been expected. «The chancellor made a long and pes simistic;-statement, ..winding np with the declaration thnt Germany’s inter nal condition wns hopeless and that he could not see the slightest prospect of Improvement, and the offer to relin quish office If the reichstag considered it necessary. He was heckled by the Communists and others, and when he demanded a vote of confidence this was refused him by a vote of 230 to 155. He and his ministers at once re signed. At this writing it seems likely that the new chancellor will be either Herr Lelcht of the Bavarian People’s party or Dr. Albert, who was In charge of the propaganda bureau of the Ger man embassy in Washington before America entered the war. Had Streseinann been able to defer the vote in the reichstag for a quarter of an hour he might have been upheld, for the news came, just too late, that the industrial mngnntes of the Ruhr and the Rhineland had signed a treaty with tiie French which is expected to bring comparative pence and prosper ity to the occupied regions, since under it tiie coal and steel plants will resume operations. Ln Upper Silesia the organized farm ers, who are nationalistic, declared a food boycott against the towns until Stresemnnn nnd his cabinet should re sign. Immediately the hungry towns men flocked into the country by thou sands nnd burned nnd looted tiie farm steads. They were fought by tiie junkers and their employees nnd by the police, and there were many fatal ities. The fanners’ organizations, It is stated, could provide plenty of food for all of-Germany until next Murch if they wished, but they will not do so until a nationalistic government Is established. O NCE more the Anglo-French entente, periodically smashed by the foreign correspondents, has been saved. Notwithstanding his fiery and defiant addresses, Premier Poincare yielded to the British view as to what was best to do In the matters of the return of the former crown prince to Germany and the resumption of the activities of the allies’ military con trol commission, and agreed that there should be no threats of sanctions nor anything that might sound like an ultimatum to Germany. The British gave In on some minor points, and thereupon the council of ambassadors sent to Benin two notes. In one the Germans were told that since Fred erick William already had returned, he might remain as a private citizen, but the government was asked to see that no steps be taken to place him on the throne. It was also warned that it must not permit the former kaiser to return. In the other commu nication Berlin was Informed that \the allied governments have decided that the operations of military control and aeronautic supervision must be re sumed without delay under conditions which will be notified to the Germnn government by the presidents of the commission of military control nnd the committee of aeronautic guarantee. “ Should these operations meet with obstruction from Germnn authorities or Germnn nationals, the allied gov ernments intend to take measures which may seem to them proper to assure execution of the treaty.\ It wns understood thnt the Strese- mann government would find the notes from the allies entirely satisfactory. The French press, except the govern ment organs, was not so well pleased with them and the premier wns rather severely criticised for his \surrender.” But from his point of view Poincnre seems Justified. Prime Minister Bald win faces a hard fight ln the coming British elections, and one of the chief complaints against him Is thnt he has suffered so many diplomatic defeats at the hands of Poincare. The latter cannot expect that in the event of Baldwin’s defeat the new British gov ernment will be even as friendly to ids policies as has been the present cabinet. Therefore he could well af ford to give Bnldwln the diplomatic victory of last week. After the Brit ish elections the whole question may be reopened. D ESPITE the misgivings of Senator Lodge, Senator Smoot and some other Republican leaders who fear It mny mean disaster for their party, President Coolidge has decided to sup port Secretary Mellon’s tax reduction program boldly and unreservedly. With a revenue surplus piling np It is the duty of the government to reduce the tax burden, thf President holds, and he Is confident that the radicals will be unable to put any extreme measure through congress. His atti tude toward soldier bonus legislation has not been disclosed, but he probably will follow the example of President Harding nnd Insist thnt if a bonus bill be passed, a means for financing It be provided by congress. J C. WALTON, suspended governor • of Oklahoma, was found guilty of eleven of tiie sixteen charges pre sented to the senate court of Impenon- ment nnd for corruption in office, moral turpitude, neglect of duty anil general incompetence was removed from his office. The vote was 41 to 0, Walton’s one consistent supporter be ing absent. Six of the original charges were dismissed. No evidence for the defense was presented, for Walton had withdrawn his counsel after announc ing thnt he could not stand the “ hu miliation of an unfair trial.” His at torneys, however, intend to try to carry the case to the Supreme court of the United States. A grand Jury in Oklamoha City considered the evi dence on which the deposed governor wns convicted and Indicted him for criminal offenses. D R. FREDERICK A. COOK, the Arctic explorer who, gained no toriety by his bogus “ discovery” of the North Pole years ago, and who of late has been a spectacular denier in oil stocks, has come to the end of his rope. Tried before Federal Judge Kll- lits ln Forth Worth, Tex., for misuse of tiie molls in connection with the operations of the Petroleum Produc ers’ association, of which he was the sole trustee, he wns found guilty and sentenced to fourteen yeurs nnd nine months in prison and fined $12,000. Nineteen co-defendnnts were also found guilty. Judge Klllits ln pnsslng sentence denounced Cook scathingly for robbing widows and orphans, con cluding: “ You ought to bo paraded as n practical warning in every state where you have sold stock.” S ECRETARY OF COMMERCE HOOVER says the government Is not considering any plan for the relief of the hungry people in Germany, though several persons have talked of the matter with the President. As to whether relief is needed, Mr. Hoover says the breakdown in distribution, coupled with considerable unemploy ment, has caused suffering ln the poor districts. Uncertainty of business life lias multiplied many times, but Ger many as a whole is still a powerful country iu business, agriculture, and trade. Purchases by Germany from the United States ln the first six months of 1923 aggregated more thnn $143,000,000, or about 570,000,000 gold marks. The Industrial plan of Ger many Is better than It was before the wnr, nnd there is even dnnger that It is overdeveloped. Crops throughout Germany nre reported generally good, in some Instances being the best for fifteen years or more. Major General Allen’s committee for relief of hungry German children is all reaily to open its campaign for the col lection of funds from Americnn citi zens nnd It Is announced thnt at least $10.000,000 will be needed. The Amer ican Friends service committee will ad minister the fund and the German gov ernment will kindly attend to the in surance, warehouse and other over head charges. F RIENDS Of Corea In America, who nre organized, have filed with Sec retary of State Hughes a formal protest ngnlnst the alleged murder of about 500 Corenns during the great earth quake nnd Are in Tokyo and Yoko hama. Dr. Floyd'W. Thompklns, presi dent of the society, who signed the pro test, declared an eyewitness snw 250 Corenns “bound hand and foot, placed on an old Junk, covered with oil and burned alive.” What Secretary Hughes can do about it Is not indicated. K ING ALFONSO. Queen Victoria and Dictator Primo Rivera of Spain all went to Italy last week and were received by King Victor Em manuel and Premier Massolin! with impressive ceremony, it was said a military alliance between the two countries would be signed to balance the alliance between France and Jugo slavia. News of M ontana B r ief N o t e s Concerning the T reasure State The county' commissioners of Fer gus county have ruled thnt the petition for the. creation of Petroleum county out of part of- eastern Fergus was suf ficient. A special election'to pass up on the proposition will be called, to be held not less than.. 90 days nor more than 120 days from this time, and it is thought that it will be fixed for early In March. Three big grain freighting outfits with 16 horses, were mixed up In a bad runaway accident at the railroad crossing\ in Harlem when: the horses became frightened at a locomotive whistle. One of the horses was killed, five were badly crippled nnd one of the drivers had his leg badly hurt when ho jumped to the ground from' his high wagon. The telegraph line from Dixon to Poison has been completed and tele graph service begun; Construction was started November 3 and the work rushed, the crew averaging 10 miles a day. No new poles were set, the wire being strung on those of the Northern Pacific. To purchase a carload of high grade Guernsey cnttle for Hinsdale dairy men, George H. Webster, chief of the divisio not dairying of the' state de partment of agriculture, has gone to Eau Claire, WIs.” The territory south and south-east of Plentywood will he served by two tri-weekly mall routes to be estab lished from the Plentywood postoffice after January first, according to ad vices from Washington; The new routes will serve 187 families and are the first to be established out of that postoffice. Quick work of the fire department saved Deer Lodge from what would have probably been a disastrous fire, recently, when two frame buildings back of'th e state prison caught fire and an 8,000 gallon gasoline tank in the Continental Oil Co. station was threatened. The tank and its con tents were save although all the paint was scorched from the tank by the heat. Four hundred gallons of mash, two stills of 30-gnllon capacity and a quan tity of other illicit booze manufactur ing paraphanalin were confiscated when officials of Valley county arrest ed Jesse Fisher and George Brown at their ranch ln the badlands 75 miles southwest of Glasgow. This Is one of the largest moon plants ever taken in the northern part of the state. . Thirty head of range horses were sold at public auction recently at the Dome mountain ranger station near Carhella by United Stntes Deputy Marshal W. C. Packer, of Helena. The horses were rounder! up by the forest service trespassing on the government nntionnl forest, nnd were sold under nn order of the federal court. As the result of the explosion qf a 55-gnlJon barrel of gasoline, which was ignited hy n spark, or heat generated by trying to drJvp in the drnln-pipe plug which wns stuck, John Grady of Conrad Is dead. Denth followed in juries which necessitated the amputa tion of the deceased’s limbs. Miss Bertha Rich has been appoint ed pastor of the Methodist churcn at Sumatrn anil Ingomar hy the Rev. R. C. Edgington, district superintendent. Miss Rich Is a graduate of the Chlcugo trnining school for home and foreign missions, is a licensed minister, nnd a deaconess of* the denomination. She has also had experience as a teacher. Mrs. Emma Ennis swallowed the contents of a bottle of poison nnd died In the arms of her husband a few min utes later when he returned to the fafm home near Out Bank, following a dance at a country sohoolhouse. The sixteenth annunl convention of the Montana Implement nnd Hardware association will lie held in Billings February 6 and 7, 1024. Tt is expected 100 representatives of the association will attend. Recently the Sidney school board re mitted $5.000 to the state land board for the redemption of bonds Issued in 1915 and due in 1025. A year ago $3,000 worth of bonds were redeemed a year ahead of maturity. Nail in Brain Causes Death A tenpenny nail, propelled by the explosion of a .22 caliber rifle car tridge from which he was endeavoring to extract the powder, caused the death of Robert Isaacson, 13-year-old high school student of Great Falls. The boy died at a hospital soon after he had been wounded while playing with the cartridge In the back yard of his home. At first It was thought that penetrated the boy’s brain, for there wns n wound In the right eye. The autopsy disclosed that the wound was caused by the nail, which had Im bedded itself in the brain. “ Simpson” Sentenced to Pen John D. Sykes, Jr., embezzler of $24,000 of the funds of the Citizens bank of Elizabeth City. N. C., and who came to Montana In 1921 nnd lived for nearly *wo years In Sun River canyon under the name of Dave Simpson, has been sentenced to serve a term of from one to three years ln the federal peni tentiary at Atlnnta, Ga. He wns taken back to North Carolina a few mouths ago. Sykes admitted his identity as soon as he wns taken Into custody by the officers. He blamed a woman who had boon living with him. BILIK V \ STATE FOOTBALL G li Outplays' Anacorfda In Fast Open Game at Butte Before 7,000 Spectators; Score 30 to 6 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ * A * ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ With the weather ideal for ★ ★ snappy football thé husky wear-\ ★ ★ ers of the Orange and Black ★ k from Billings demonstrated to k k 7,000 football fans at Clark k k in Butte, on Thanksglv- ★ k- ing day, that they had the k k championship scholastic, team k k of the state when tliéy de- ★ ★ feated Anaconda, 30 to 6. The ★ ★ bleachers and grand stands ★ ★ were packed with people from ★ k Butte, Billings, Anaconda and k k nil sections of the state, making k k up the largest crowd in the his- k k tory of state football, and the k ★ best team won in a game that k k was full of thrills and exciting k k moments in spite of the uneven- k k ness of the score. Displaying k k a superiority ln every depart- k k ment of the game. Billings, k k after breaking up Anaconda’s, k k passing o f f e n s i v e , mixed ★ ★ straight football, cross bucks ★ k and forward passes fnto an at- ★ k tack that carried them to vie- k k tory in a manner that left no k k doubt in the minds of the ★ k throng as to why .the Billings ★ k team won. . ★ k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k RICH DEPOSITS HEMATITE FOUND WEST OF STANFORD Estimates thnt deposits of iron, long known to exist In the Little. Belt moun tains west of Stanford, contain mil lions of tons of hematite ore, a va riety valuable for the manufacture of steel, nre contained in a bulletin just issued by tiie United States depart ment of the interior. The bulletin deals at length with the location, quality and quantity of the deposit. Although development work has been very limited the govern ment’s survey disclosed different units of the deposit ns each . containing in excess of 1,000,000 tons - o f ore, with the notation that “ development mny well reveal ore in much larger amounts.” The width of the ore hody nt the surface reaches a maximum of 50 feet. The depth Is undetermined, hut is known to reach 125 feet in places. The bulletin reproduces the results of 26 analyses, which show that the ore runs from 34.88 to 67.00 per cent pure hematite iron with slight traces of phosphorus, silica, nnd in two in stances n trace of lime. The sulphur content Is not given except in two In stances where It is remarked that there was none. New County Election Set • The county commissioners of Fer gus county have issued a proclamation calling the special election on the pe tition for the creation of Petroleum county for February 23. The -proposed county, with the ter ritory eliminated, will have a little more thnn 1.260 square miles and the valuation considerably exceeds the re quired limit of $4,000.000. Winnett. is situated near tiie center of the pro posed county, a very little to the west and south. The Musselshell river con stitutes the eastern boundary of the proposed county. Starting nt a point between IS and 18, It runs west six miles; north six miles; west diagon ally two miles north of a line between 17 and 18; four miles east and a little south of Valentine; east 12 miles; south two miles; east six miles, where it stsikes the original line of the pro posed county, south six miles, east five miles nnd south about 30 miles to the boundary of Musselshell county. This gives n pretty compact body of land, there being no objection to it on the ground of Its shape. Simms Woman Champ Turkey Raiser When it comes to turkey raising. Mrs. George LnRue, pioneer ranch- woman of Simms, has everybody out classed so far ns advices up to date Indicate. Mrs. LnRue set three turkey hens last spring nnd raised 00 big birds that could stand on the ground and fly to the top of the LnRue barn as ensily ns nn airplane could. Mrs. LnRue has nlrendy sold $190 worth of turkeys nnd still has a nice number left for Chrlstmns selling. Pondera County Ships Turkeys More than 16,000 turkeys were raised in Pondern county this year ns against 3,000 In 1922. Forty-two thou sand pounds of turkeys were shipped from Conrad to Chicago, one carload being valued at $12,000. Sixty-five per cent of the birds graded Np. 1. and the price received-wns 33 cents a pound, three cents higher thnn has been paid for other Montana turkeys this year. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ k k k k k k k k k WIFE MARRIES AGAIN AS ★ ★ HUSBAND AW A ITS DEATH * ★ ------- ★ k While her husband, Seth Or- ★ ★ rin Danner, lies in a cell await- * k ing execution for one of the ★ k most brutal murders ever .re- k k ' corded in Montana, his wife, k k Ivn Danner, 22, was married In k ★ Butte to James Troglia of ★ ★ Three Forks. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ * ★ ★ ★ ★ FIGURES REPORTED . H AJL'damage: done to Montana crop» was-more ’ severe this year . than, in any recent year, according 'to a partial report\- made by the Montana hail Insurance department. The pre liminary statement issued for 1923- shows tiiat “ there was an. increase o f 141 in the number of farmers insured, this year over 1922. Also 3,000. more acres of grain were covered by Insur ance.” “As in other years the.grain most widely insured was wheat,” the report shows nnd continuing: \ ' 1 “Only once (191S) since the depart ment began operation, has such a high percentage of loss claims been filed. In 1918 the number of loss claims filer! was 43 per cent of the number carry ing insurance while the past seasoa was 42. “The following table gives the most Important ’ facts regarding * the 1923 business .compared with 1922: A tabulation of the business done by the department during. 1922 and 1923 shows thnt although . the loss was. greater in the latter year the cost to the insured was less. In 1922 the num ber of farms insured was l,2Gi with« a risk of $1,458,144.00, from which pre miums amounting to $137,144.00 \Were- collected. Three hundred seventyTsixr claims for loss wore filecU_constituting; tiiirty per cent of the insured. In 102.. the number of farms insured was* l,*i2 with a risk of $1,116,245.00 from which $111,459.00 was collected ln premiums. Forty-two per cent of the insured made claims for loss. But re gardless o ftlie lower amount of In surance written and higher percentage of loss the Insurance premium dropped from $10 per acre in 1922 to $7.50 p e r a o re in 1923. A storm of unusual scope and sever ity and which caused the heaviest losses of the season to the department, occurred on July 16. It started-west of Three Forks and swept in an easter ly direction past Ringling, Harlowton, Ryegate, Roundup and Forsyth, finally dying out somewhere south of M ile» City. In some localities the hall killed chickens, turkeys, rabbits and even sheep. The damage was staggering for the fanner’s grain in a path vary ing from one to eight miles wide and in places an additional parallel strip o f hail was thrown ln for good measure. PORTRAIT NOTED INDIAN IN STATE MUSEUM A MONG the portraits of characters who have figured in pioneer.life in Montana on display In the rooms o f the state historical society at the state- house is one of Chief Gall, master mind and leader of the Indians in the Custer fight which resulted ln the massacre of General George A. Custer nnd his entire command on July 2, 1876. This portrait was procured v»v t’u; D. F. Barry, photographer in West Su- historical society just recently from perior, Wls., who reproduced It from a photograph he took of Chief Gall some years before the CusVer mas sacre. Barry was located in Blsmark, N. D., In the early seventies, and being friendly with many of the Indian chiefs in that part of the west he was able to obtain many original photo graphs. His studio in W est. Superior probably contains more photographs and views taken from life among the Indians than any other place iu America. VALUATION o f p o w e r PROPERTY INCREASED V ALUATION of the operated prop erty of the Montana Power com pany and its subsidiaries, the Great Falls and Thompson Falls Power com panies, for tax assessment purposes is fixed at $53,984,103 by the state board of equalization. This, does not Include locally assessed nonoperated property such as real estate, which includes dam sites, hotels, and certain city property, or solvent credits. - The lo cally assessed nonoperated property is given, in a brief statement issued by the board, at $2,090,351 nnd solvent credits are said to total an additional .$5,277,920, the latter amount being sulF ject to readjustment. While the three figures are not totaled by the board for the reason that they are not classified by law as a unit and are not used as an entitl by any taxing agency, either county or state, the total on which the Montana Power company would be re quired to pay taxes as a system would be $61,352,374, an Increase of $15,- 785,390 in assessment for 'this year •over last year. * PIONEER NAMED CUSTODIAN OF STATE G. A. R. RECORDS O NE OF Montana’s pioneers, W. CL Lewis of Helena, a veteran of the war between the states, has been ap pointed custodian of the records of the Grand Army of the Republic in the state capitol. He succeeds Dr. George H. Taylor, who died recently. After the war Mr. Lewis served with General Custer for five years. He brought his family to Montana in 1880, driving overland from Kansas. SHANNON WAS A GOOD PRODUCER I N THE third quarter of 1923 the earnings of the Shannon mine at Marysville were $52,499.80, according to' the report of the Bames-King De velopment company, operators of the property. During this period 3,232 tons of ore w e r e mined and mUlea.” G ro§£ bullion sa le s w o re $86.277.80.
