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1—Exterior of Cleveland public hall in which the Republican national convention of 1.024 will be held. 2— George L. Wade, Jr., Kansas City lad, who inherits the $10,000,000 estate of his adopted father, George L. Wade, who was killed on a motor speedway. 3—Maj. F. L. Martin, who will command the four army airplanes that will start on a flight around the world April 1. Coolidge’s Candidacy Announced and Cleveland Gets the G. 0. P. Convention. U. S. MEN IN GERMAN PARLEY By EDWARD W. PICKARD T HE Republican political pot was boiling merrily last week. To be gin with, President Coolidge’s hat was cast into the ring by this statement Issued by Frank W. Stearns, the wealthy Bostonian, who for years has been Interested in Mr. Coolidge’s politi cal advancement: \In answer to a Question,. Frank W. Stearns said that the friends of President Coolidge are organizing un der the guidance of William M. But ler, the Massachusetts member of the national committee and a friend of Mr. Coolidge of many years’ standing, who will act ns the President’s per sonal representative. As he perfects the organization he will from time to time make known those in various parts of the country wlto will co-op erate with him in the organization.” Two days Inter United States Sen ator W. B. McKinley was selected to handle the Coolidge campaign in Il linois, which Is considered a pivotal state. National Committeeman W. II. Crocker of California, after a talk with the President, announced that Mr. Coolidge’s name would be on the primary ballots In that state and that his canvass was already being organ ized. Mennwhile the administration hnd let it be known that it believed the Republican national convention should not be given to Chicago and that it favored Cleveland. Ostensibly, the oh- Jection to Chicago wns that It had had the conventions for a good many years and Mr. Coolidge thought the honor Bhould be passed around. Actually, according to the well-posted, the Cool- Idge managers feared the Johnson sentiment in Illinois would be so strong that the convention hall would he packed with supporters of the Cali fornian. Anyhow, the President’s preference settled the contest and when the Republican national commit tee met, Fred Upham withdrew Chi cago's hid and that of Cleveland was accepted. The date selected for the opening of the convention is Juno 10. The committee then proceeded to re scind the previously approved r°form of convention representation whereby the delegations of the southern states were cut down to correspond to their votes. Now, Instead of losing 23 dele gates. the South will hnve IS more than In 1020. The friends of Senator Johnson on the committee hotly op posed this, asserting that it wns the result of a series of deals between the Coolidge supporters and the negro Republican forces of the South. This was denied by the administration crowd, and they backed up their denial by increasing the representation out side the South by 107 votes, these be ing given mainly to states which John son is said to claim as his own. Most of the northern states get three more delegates. Massachusetts gains four, and Tennessee, which went Republican for the first time In 1020. gains seven In the comention of 1024 there will he a total of 1,109 delegates; that of 1920 had 9S4. R ADICAL Republican senators and the two Farmor-l.aborites from Minnesota combined with the Demo crats to prevent the election of Senator Cummins as chairman of the Inter state commerce committee and the deadlock continued throughout the week. The fight on Cummins is due to the fact that he already is presiding officer of the senate. The Insurgents voted most of the time for La Follette and the Democrats voted for Smith orf South Carolina. On Wednesday Smith lacked but one vote because gome of the insurgents shifted to him, but Senator Bruce of Maryland, Demo crat, prevented the coup by casting his -rote for Cummins, justifying his ac- l# v by asserting It was time for the Democrats to quit playing into the hands of the La Follette-Mngnus John- son-Brookhart radicals. Aside from the interstate commerce committee, the entire slate of committee assignments wns approved. Magnus Johnson wns given the place on the foreign rela tions committee which he coveted. In the house the Republican committee of committees gnve .the radicals only such representation as they were en titled to by seniority. The Democratic representation wns Increased in pro portion to their increased strength in the house. P RESIDENT COOLIDGE submitted to congress the budget for the next fiscal year, proposing a tax reduction of more thnn $300,000,000 and a cut of about $275,000,000 in the cost of gov ernment. He recommended a revision of tlie tax laws along the lines sug gested by Secretary Mellon. lie also took another rap at the proposed bonus, asserting that there is no sound reason for it and that compensation should be limited to tire war incapaci tated and wounded. An additional $1,000,000 for prohibi tion enforcement Is asked of congress, President Coolidge stating that a con- sidcrnhly enlarged field force should be provided. He added that he would present to congress soon a supplemen tal estimate of $20,000,000 mainly for additional vessels for the coast guard, \for the purpose of combating more thoroughly rum running and unlawful Importations.” If this appropriation is granted the President said he would ask for an additional $0,000,000 later for a similar purpose. M ORE than 2,000 nominations were sent to the senate by the Presi dent, ninny of the nominees already holding ollice under recess appoint ments. Among the appointments were: Frank B. Kellog to he ambas sador to Great Britain; Richard M. Tobin of California to be minister to the Netherlands; Frank McManamy of AVashingtnn, D. C\, and Mark W. Pot ter of New York, to be members of the interstate commerce commission; George It. James of Tennessee and Edward II. Cunningham of Iowa, to ho members of the federal reserve board; and Edward P. Farley of Il linois, Frederick I. Thompson of Ala bama, and Bert E. Haney of Oregon to lie members of the shipping hoard. The nomination of Waiter L. Cohen, negro, to be collector of customs at New Orleans was made despite the protest of t he two Louisiana senators. .Senator Shipstend of Minnesota and eight others voted against tiie con firmation of Mr. Kellogg’s appointment to tlie Court of St. James, but the Kite in his favor wns 70. PREM IER POINCARE, probably be- * cause of the prospect of a Labor government for Great Britain, is re laxing his opposition to an unrestricted Inquiry into the German reparations question, and its a result the United States is to participate, unofficially, in snob an investigation, to be made by two committees selected by tlie reparations commission. The allied governments and Germany requested tills, and President Coolidge announced that lie approved ‘of participation by American experts. One of the com mittees is to examine the German cap ital abroad, and the other is to en deavor to find means of balancing the German budget and of stabilizing Ger man currency. Tlie American experts presumably will be approved if not chosen by tlie President. Among the names most prominently mentioned are Gen. Charles G. Dnwes, Mortimer L. Selilff and George M. Reynolds—all eminent bankers. In Paris It Is hoped General Dawes will he asked to serve because of his experience In handling budgetary problems. Meanwhile the German government announces that it is dead broke, and it lias decided to make a world wide appeal for financial aid suf ficient to carry it through tlie next year. The German banks and industrialists refuse the gov era- ernment further financial help and taxes are not coming in. Minister of Finance Luther told a conference of German editors that the government could not possibly meet the 87,000,000,- 000 gold mark ($21,750,000,000) bonds outstanding, and that the cabinet Is preparing a law whereby all these old debts, Including the war loan, would be paid in paper. Under the provisions of this law the government will repay more thnn $20,000,000,000 u;ar loan and other debts for less thnn 3 cents on the dollar. U NLESS another coalition govern ment can be arranged, Great Britain may find it necessary to Hold another parliamentary election in the near future. In the new parliament, which meets January 8, neither of the three parties will have a majority. After Prime Minister Baldwin had talked with King George and the party leaders had held many conferences, it wns announced that the Baldwin cabi net would continue until parliament had assembled. About the same time the Labor party chiefs announced that they would undertake to form a gov ernment if called upon, with Ramsay MacDonald at tlie head. The prospect is that soon after parliament meets MacDonald will propose an amended address to the throne and that this will be of such a nature that the lib erals cannot refuse to support it. This would mean the overwhelming defeat of tlie government and the Immediate resignation of the Baldwin cabinet, followed by the summoning of Mac Donald to form a new ministry. But this, too, would be a minority govern ment and could be ousted at any time by a combination of tlie conservatives and liberals. C ENSORSHIP of the news from Mexico makes it difficult'to', learn just how the revolt against President Obregon’s government is progressing. If tlie information given out by the rebels is correct, it is doing very well. Indeed, it may be that Obregon will have been overthrown before this reaches the reader. Revolutionary armies from various quarters were moving on Mexico City last week, and it wns said De la Huerta lmd an nounced that he was in control of the country and had begun appointing his cabinet. However, tlie latest dis patches at tlie time tills is written say Obregon has checked the rebel ad vance from the west. Gen. Angel Flores dealt the rebellion a blow by renouncing ills candidacy for the pres idency nnd casting in his lot witli Obre- gon, for lie is believed to hnve tHe sup port of Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Tumaiill- pas and the federnt district. An upris ing of tlie Yaqui Indians probably was squelched by the execution of their chieftain. A MONG those taken by (loath last week three are worthy of men tion in tills column. Two were Ameri cans—William A. Pinkerton, head of tlie detective agency that boars his name nnd hero of many exciting stories of criminal life; and John It. Uatfiom, editor of the Providence (R. I ) Jour nal, an eminent newspaper man who, during the first part of tlie World war, obtained numerous \scoops” concern ing tlit? activities of Germans in the United States. The third was Baron Sliaugiinessy, chairman of the board of directors of the Canadian Pacific rail road, who is properly regarded as one of tlie builders of modern Canada. NE of the worst wre- ks in the hls- tory of the New York Central lines occurred at Forsythe, N. Y„ when one section of the Twentieth Century train ran into another section which had stopped after hitting an automo bile. Nine persons were killed in their berths nnd about forty were injured. Darkness, fog and an engineer's neglect of warning signals were blamed for the disaster. T ) ENITO MUSSOLINI, premier of Italy, believes he and Ids Fascist! government hnve proved so acceptable to the country that it is no longer nec essary for him to exercise dictatorial powers. Therefore, at his request, the king hns closed the present session of parliament nnd new elections will be held, probably In April, at which Mus solini will ask Italy to appro\e his acts by returning him to power as premier. There is no sign of organized opposi tion to him. E RNEST CHUAnD of Lausanne was elected president of the Swiss con federation for 1924. The Swiss parlia ment, which chooses the president, gave him 189 of the 219 votes. The new vice president is Jean Jiusy of Fribourg. . ■ B B B B B k i i i a i D a B i i i i i K H i i i B i B i i a a i a i i i c i i Treasure State Tabloids BBOBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBlIBBBBBBHBBBBIflBBB Two thousand and sixty-fOur jack rabbits bit tlie dust in the vicinity of Carlyle, when two 28-man teams en gaged in the Carlyle Rod and Gun club’s annual hunt. The team enp- ta'ned by Reese Owens won by slaugh tering 1,063 jacks while G. C. Lithisers’ team garnered 1,001. G. T. Davis nnd D. E. Cooper look high honors with 204 rabbits, while R. B. McLernn won the booby prize by killing two. Believing that the demand for car bon black is increasing a number of Baker business men have organized the Baker Carbon Black, Inc., and are filing articles of incorporation, accord ing to word received here. Gas from Baker field wells will be utilized by the concern. At the annual meeting of the Asso ciated Industries of Montana held in Helena, N. T. Lease of Great Fails was elected president; George F. Shea of Billings, vice president; Frank Bogart of Helena, treasurer; and George I Martin of Butte was re-elected secre tary and manager. The jury In the cases o f R. B. Noble, J. C. Peters and E. R. Funk, officials of the Commercial National bnnlc, of Great Falls, closed, on trial in the fed eral court for the making of false en tries in the bank’s books, returned a verdict finding Noble and Peters guilty, and Funk not guilty. The Roosevelt county treasurer’s of fice has been the busiest place in Pop lar recently for the reason that a ma jority of the taxpayers left their visit to the office for tlie last few days al lowed by tlie law. Thanksgiving day a total of $122,500 came in, while $19,- 000 was received1 the day following. Damage estimated at $50,000 was done by a fire, the most destructive in the history of Hinsdale, that threat ened the entire town. The flames, fanned by a high wind, came near getting out of control because of a shortage of water. The Bridge above Emigrant known as the six-mile bridge, lias been de- -stroyed by fire, supposed to have been caused by some fisherman who built a blaze and neglected to extinguish it when he left the scone. The fire cost Park county $10,000. Seth Orrin Danner, recently sen tenced to hang for the murder of John A. and Florence Sprouse at Central Park, was denied a new trial by Judge B. B. Law in Gallatin district court. His attorney will appeal to the su preme court. Forty-five dollars Is the value of a bushel of wheat raised by J. R. Jones of near Pendroy. The wheat was ex hibited at the State fair, the Coast fair, nnd other places and won premi ums to that amount. Lake county’s official records are complete, the work of transcribing the records from those of Missoula and Flathead counties having been finished recently. Four months was used in the work of making the transcription. Out of a total of 73 cases of viola tion of the national prohibition act, 70 convictions were obtained in the fed eral court session that closed in Butte recently, according to John H. Slat tery, United States district attorney. A thief recently robbed a vacant house in Livingston of all door and window frames nnd plumbing fixtures, Including a bath tub. He left the wall paper on the front room, it is reported. Two months’ work will see the com pletion of the N-Bar ranch irrigation project, which will water 5,000 acres of land near Iloundup, according to re ports from there. Fifteen hundred dollars was the re sult of the first week of a campaign to raise $3,000 fo rthe conduct of Boy Scout work In Park county. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ * • ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ * * * MONTANA PIONEERS ON * * T H E LAST LONG TR A IL * * * PHIPPS1—Charles M. Phipps, 85 years of age, who located in Reeds Point 44 years ago, and recently moved to Bozeman, died nt that place. NELSON— Mrs. Christina Nelson, wife of Andrew Nelson, prominent ranchman near Livingston and a resi dent of that section for 37 years, died at tlie ranch home. ROOSEVELT— Ferdinand C. Roose velt, one of the state’s pioneers, audit or of Cascade county for 20 years, died nt tlie age of 85 at a hospital In Great Fnlls. STARRELL—George Purnell Spar- rell, G8, one of the oldest members of the Society of Montana Pioneers, died at his home nt Jefferson Island after 43 years residence there. DALE—John Dale, a resident of Livingston for 32 years, died at his nome nt that place. PAUW EKT—Henry der Pnuwert, Sr., aged 90 years, who located In Pease Bottoms, near Hyshara, In 1881, died at the home of his son, Henry, in Sarpy valley. MILES—Joseph Alfred Miles, who came to Montana from Missouri in the early sixties, and carried mall from Missoula to Plains before the railroad, died at Camas Prairie where, during late years, he had been extensively en gaged in raising cattle. A G E D M il 1 0 D E F IE D 1 0 R O A D IS H ID S I S < * '• *>• Tore Up Railroad Tracks and Held Crew, off Land With Rifle to Enforce Settlement E. E. Thompson, aged homesteader )f near Whitehall, Roosevelt county, pleaded guilty in federal court in 3reat Falls to the charge of obstruct ing passage of United States mail,and tvas sentenced by Judge George M. Bourquin to pay a fine of $25 and the costs of prosecution. •Thompson’s arrest came about be cause of his claim the Soo railway de clined to make an adjustment follow ing the destruction of ills irrigation ditches in constructing the roadbed. Failing to get a settlement, lie tore up a stretch of track, moved his shack onto the roadbed, hoisted an American flag over the roof of his dwelling and asserted that he wns standing on his constitutional rights while he stood with a high power rifle in the crook of his ann and persuaded a crew of workmen of his determination to pre vent restoration of the rails. For seven days he stood guard, during which time Soo trains used a point out of rifle range for its western terminus on the White-trail branch. Thompson was finally lured into town and there his arrest was affected. After a few more skirmishes with Thompson tlie road succeeded in re pairing its track and restoring train service into Whitehall. Without tak ing into consideration the merits or demerits of Thompson’ grievnne against tlie railroad, the people in that vicinity showed nn Inclination to pay marked respect to the old man during the period of armed hostilities. OFFICERS RAID TW O UNIQUE DISTILLERIES A T ST. IGNATIUS Sheriff Kelly arid Federal 6fficer Jack Curtis, ‘of St. Ignatius, put two moonshine outfits out of business dur ing the week, nnd confiscated a con siderable quantity of liquor. They walked under cover of darkness through mud and rain and surprised Bert White ns lie brewed his moon shine over an oil stove in a deserted shack which had only three walls. White was arrested on a similar charge recently, but was released be cause of Insufficient evidence. Another cleverly concealed under ground establishment was discovered on the farm of W. L. Benedict. The officers had searched the premises without result until they discovered a tumbledown shed on the edge of a pot hole. The shed was bare on the inside except for a piece of rope. Pulling litis they sprang a trap door which led to an underground passageway. This passageway led to a -cemented room in which a complete still wns set up. A three burner oil stove cooked the mash nnd 25 feet of copper coil was laid out into the water of the pot hole nnd hack again where the con densed liquid dripped into a stono crock. Three gallons of tlie finished prod uct was brought in by the officers, along with the stove, boiler and other equipment. ★ ★ ★ ★ * ★ ★ ★ ★ k-k-k-k-kk-k-k-kk ir k ★ MONTANA OIL NOTES * k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k Drilling has been resumed at the well of the Absarokn Oil eompany- Florence Oil and Gas well near Baker. The well is said to 5 ROD feet deep. Security Oil Limited o f Calgary, Can., has spudded in a well, Kevin- Sunburst field. Homestnke Exploration company is moving 3,000 bnrreis of its stored oil In the Kevin-Sunburst field to its leased refinery nt Groat Falls. An agreement lias been entered into between tli Glene Homa Oil syndicate and the Oil Springs development whereby the latter will drill a well on tlie Glen Horn« ground, offsetting the Glen Homa No. 1 well near Buffalo. The well of the Gypsy Oil company, nortli of Pendroy, has struck sulphur water at 3,4S0 feet and it Is reported will be abandoned. According to announcement from Shelby the so-called “ Stevenson” com panies will probably move their gener al headquarters from Great Falls to Shelby. Mid-Northern Catlett No. 5 well came in ns a producer, making 90 barrels in 18 hours. The well is lo cated on the west dome of the new extension area of the Cat Creek field. k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k ★ * ★ Butter is manufactured on a ★ ★ large scale in 47 places in Mon- ★ •k tana. One hundred ninety per- •* k sons are employed nnd product, ★ ★ Is valued at $4,219,000 yearly. ★ ★ * ■ k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k Good Showing at Libby Mine Two samples of ore taken from the No. 2 lead In the Lukens-Hazel mine at Libby and sent to Spokane for an assay show high values in gold, silver and lead. The report from the as- sayer shows one sample contained $2.48 in gold, $45.33 in silver nnd $39.15 in lead, a total of $SG.9G. The second sample contained $2.48 In gold, $45.40 in silver nnd $41.58 In lead, a total of $89.52. Further work on tills lead shows a good volume of ore, all of It appearing rich In values. NO PETITION NECESSARY FOR PRIMARY. CANDIDATES U NDER the amended primary elec tion law all that Is necessary for candidates to do to get their names on the primary ballots is to file an appli cation, If for a state office, 'with the secretary of state, and with the coun ty clerk and recorder, if for a county office, and accompany the application with a filing feet which equals 1 per cent of tlie annual salary of the office sought. Candidates seeking places as delegates to the national conventions and candidates for presldentlou elec tors must circulate petitions and ob tain signatures equaling in number 1 per cent of the party vote of 1922 for representatives in congress, but ‘ no more than 500 signatures are required, and no filing fee will be charged. Only for the presidential preference primary nre nominating petitions re quired to have signatures, and the same rule applies to presidential elec tors and delegates to the national con ventions, but for state candidates, In cluding candidates for United States senator, representatives in congress, governor nnd supreme court judges, no nominating petitions are required, according to the provisions of Mon tana’s primnry election law as amend ed by the legislature last winter. Whether the new rule will increase the number of candidates cannot thus far be determined, but the legislature when it amended the primary election law to that effect predicted it would not orily increase the number of candi dates, but would also, as a re~ult, in crease the revenue to the state and counties. Petitions did not mean any thing, the members of the legislature considered. Candidates for county office must file before July 24, 1924, and candi dates for state office before July 16, 1924. The presidential preference primary election this coming year will be held on May 27, the statewide primary elec tion on August 26, and tlie general election on November 4. INCOME TA X REPORTS FOR MONTANA T HE records of the bureau of in ternal revenue show that the indi vidual, corporation and partnership net incomes in Montana for 1921 amounted to $87,632,063 upon which a federal income tax of $1,619,591 was paid. There were 30,907 personal income tax returns representing a net person al income of $81,527,062. Personal in come taxes i ■- the state were $1,051,- 863, of which $72o,o31 was paid in nor-' mal taxes and $331,u.\* in urtax. Joint returns of husbands u. R wives numbered 19,259. There were also 2,041 returns from men, heads of fam ilies; 409 returns from women heads offnmilies; 13,064 returns from single men; 1,991 returns from single women and 143 returns from wives having separate incomes from their husbnnds. SUPPLY OF LABOR MEETS DEMAND O NLY one city in Montana reports a demand for labor in any of the larger enterprises and most of the cities report a considerable surplus, ac cording to the monthly summary of , the division of labor of the state de partment of agriculture, based upon reports of large employers of labor, public and private employment agen cies and county agents. Butte is still cnlling for 1.000 skilled miners, nt $3.50 to $6.50 contraot, and $4.75 company account, but reports a ‘‘very marked” surplus of common labor. AUTO ACCIDENT DEATHS TO T A L 43 IN STA T E F ORTY-EIGIIT deaths in Montana last year were due to accidents caused by automobiles nnd other motor vehicles, according to bureau of the census figures. The number for 1921 was also 4S; 1920, 45; 1919, 44; 1918, 64, and 1917, 59. The states with a lower number last year were Delaware with 24, Idaho, 21; Vermont, 39, and Wyoming 2S. MONTANA RANKS FOURTH ELECTR ICITY PRODUCTION M ONTANA in October produced S4.505 kilowatt-hours of electric ity by wnter power, ranking fourth in tlie nation, geological survey figures show. California led with 345,576, New York was second with 285,480 and Washington was third with 102,418. N. P. ORDERED TO CONSTRUCT SPUR T HE railroad commission has or dered the Northern Pacific Rail way company to construct a track from its main line to the town of Stevensville. The line, termed n spur, will be approximately two miles Iri length. The railroad company is or dered to report to the board before February 1 next, the route and line which it will utilize In compliance with the order. RECOMMENDS COMPLETION GREAT FALLS HATCHERY I N HIS November report to the state fish nnd game commission, Superin tendent of Hatcheries J. H. Brunson recommends completion of the Great Fnlls plant, and if the commission car ries out the recommendation Great Falls will have a $10,000 hatchery. The present hatchery at Giant J Springs has been closed for several months, since the water line became clogged and caused the death of thou sands of fry which had been Intended for planting ln^nearby streams.
