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1—J. Ramsay MacDonald, Great Britain’s first Socialist prime minister. 2 —Edward W. Bolt before the seuu torial committee investigating his peace plan contest. 3—The Ivashiko-Dokoro shrine in the imperial palace at Tokyo where the prince regent of Japan and the Princess Nagako were married. Socialist Government Is In stalled in Britain and Has Strike to Settle. By ED W A R D W . PIC K A R D REAT BRITAIN is now ruled by ^ the first Socialist government in her history. Before the great war such a condition would have been al most unthinkable. Today the British people contemplate it without fear, al most with complete equanimity. The program of change went through swift ly and smoothly. The Labor party’s resolution of “no confidence” in the Tory government was adopted Mon day night by n vote of 32S to 250, the Liberals flocking with the Laborites on the division and being greeted with loud cheers by the latter. In the gal lery the prince of Wales and the duke of York watched the proceedings with intense interest. Next day Prime Min ister Baldwin and his cabinet pre sented their resignations to the king, Ramsay MacDonald was summoned to Buckingham palace and asked to form a new ministry, and promptly accepted. His cabinet, as announced and ap proved by the king, was about us had been forecast, the only surprise being the appointment of Viscount Chelms ford, a Tory peer and former viceroy of India, as first lord of the admiral ty. MacDonald, in addition to the premiership, holds the post of minister for foreign affairs; Philip Snowden is chancellor of the exchequer; Arthur Henderson is home secretary; J. H. Thomas is secretary for the colonies; Thomas Shaw Is minister of labor; Viscount Haldine is lord chancellor; Sydney Webb is president of the board of trade, and J. R. Clynes is lord of the privy seal and deputy leader of the house of commons. Two of Mac Donald’s ministers who probably will be mnde peers are Sir Sydney Olivier, secretary for India, and Brig. Gen. C. B. Thompson, secretary for air. There was little or no adverse criticism of the new prime minister’s selections for government positions, even the rabid Tory press commending them. The ministers got busy with their Jobs at once, and parliament was adjourned for a few weeks to permit them to familiarize themselves with their duties. The first serious matter that confronts the Labor government Is the strike of rnilway engineers and firemen, which begnn at midnight Sun day, despite the efforts of the party leaders to stop it. Within a few days the strike hud reduced the railway efficiency of the United Kingdom GO per cent and industry was gravely affected. The trades union congress, whose president is Margaret Bondfield, who also is undersecretary for labor, appointed an emergency committee to Intervene when; the moment is consid ered opportune. Foodstuffs for Lon don ami the other large cities are be ing brought in by motor trucks, and many manufacturers organized fleets of trucks to carry their employees. N ICOLAI LENIN, creator of the Russian soviet government, died on Monday after an illness that had kept him from ids official work for many months. The Red followers of the premier mourned him deeply, passed by tens of thousands before his body where it lav in state in the House of Unions in Moscow, and laid him to rest in the Kremlin. At this writing it is not known who will suc ceed the arch Communist who was abandoning Communist principles in his rule of Russia because, as he blunt ly admitted, they would not work. Probably the new premier will be -Stallin, minister of nationalities, but place may go to Zinoviev or Kam- Uowever, there is said to be a ,,;t in the ranks of the bol- group wishing to con- ’ ~v ’ policies of Lenin , a return to the l-t propaganda |^ng about a oted, too, Moving casus, either exiled by the Stallin- Krassin faction or ill, or both. Some believe he will make a fight for the control of the soviets, but the general opinion Is that his political strength is gone. S ENATOR KING of Utah, who re cently visited Russia, told the senate Tuesday that he believed the resumption of trade relations with that country under proper guarantees would help the Russian people in their efforts to oust the bolshevist regime. The conditions he suggested were that American claims of $707,000,000 aguinst Russia be validated and that the United Stntes be protected against hos tile propaganda by the bolshevik gov ernment and its agents and the Third Internationale. The reality of such propaganda was further established by quantities of documents submitted by the Stute department last week to the senate subcommittee. According to some of these papers, the aim was an “armed uprising” In this country designed to “ destroy the bourgeois government.\ T EAPOT DOME was the center of great excitement all lust week. The senate investigation into the lease of the naval oil reserve there by Al bert B. Fall, then secretary of the interior, to Harry Sinclair brought out sensational testimony; and the end is not yet, for President Coolldge direct ed the Department of Justice to watch the proceedings and to take sucli ac tion us seemed desirable. Archie Roosevelt, sop of the late president, started the week out well by telling the committee of the suspicious circum stances that caused him to resign from the Sinclair company. He said G. D. Wahlberg, Sinclair’s private secretary, told him $08,000 hud been paid to the foreman of Fall’s ranch in New Mexi co. Wahlberg said Roosevelt misun derstood him, but he gave other dam aging testimony. The committee sum moned Fall from the South and also cabled to Sinclair, now in Europe, to come back and produce his private books and papers. This the oil man said he would do when his business abroad was finished. Mennwhile Ed ward Dolieny, another oil magnate, who is the lessee of a naval oil reserve in California, volunteered to tell the committee nil he could about the transactions. He said that he was the man who loaned Fall the $100,000 which he used In enlarging and im proving his ranch, that he did it be cause he and Fall were old friends, and that he was Innocent of wrongdoing. In December Fall told the committee he had not received money from either Dolieny or Sinclair. Senator Walsh informed the senate 1 that he would propose a resolution au thorizing the President to institute suit to annul the leases and to se cure an accounting of all oil taken from the reserves. He declared that he would seek to have such proceed ings conducted independent of Attor ney General Daugherty. He asserted that there were some features of the Teapot Dome affair “in connection with which the attorney general him self is under some degree of suspicion and criticism.’’ Interviewed in Paris, Harry Slnclnlr snid the whole affair was bunk and politics, that he got the Teapot Dome lease honestly and squarely and that the government received more than its full due for it H EEDING the firm admonitions of the Washington government, the Mexican rebels decided to abandon their contemplated blockade of the port of Tampico, and also they began the removal of the floating mines they had placed in the Vera Cruz, Frontera and Puerta Mexico harbors. The revolutionists claim the occupation of numerous towns, but in the main op erations it seems the federal forces are scoring successes. They have so far prevented the capture of the oil fields and they are reported to be ad vancing steadily on Guadalnjara, whose occupation is expected soon. In an address in New York Secretary of State Hughes defended the adminis tration's policy in the matter of the Mexican rebellion, declaring it to he “ the greatest contribution directly within our power, and in accord with our established traditions and mani fest Interest, to the cause of world peace.” S ECRETARY HUGHES and Ambas sador Geddes signed on Wednesday the treaty concerning liquor search and ship liquor stores, and It will go into effect without waiting for the for mal exchange of ratifications. Under the agreement suspected liquor smug gling craft flying the British flag are subject to search and seizure any where within one hour’s sailing dis tance from shore. Vessels Improperly detained will be compensated for loss or damage. The United States grants to British ships the right to carry sealed stores of ship liquors into American ports. W ITH the opening of the annual convention of the United Mine Workers in Indianapolis the old strug gle between the conservatives led by President John L. Lewis and the rad icals was renewed, and again the rad icals met defeat. The test came on their proposnl to reinstate the deposed district officials of Nova Scotia, which was rejected. Mr. Lewis contended that all the officers of the Nova Sco tian body had given adherence to the “ red Internationale of Russia” rather thnn to the United Mine Workers of America. Again the radicals were beaten In the matter of recognition of Russia, the convention voting for recognition in accordance with the policies enunciated by Secretary of State Hughes. I X THE list of congressional investi gations we now come to that con ducted by the senate committee on propaganda which is trying to find out whether or not the Bok pence plan contest was designed to influence the senate to vote in favor of American participation In the League of Nations <>r in the world court. Edward Bok himself wns the week’s chief witness, j and he flatly refused to disclose the amount of money he had contributed to further the contest, holding that the financing of his plan was a wholly personal matter. He did say that he alone had paid the expenses of the contest, that Ellhu Root wns the only member of the jury of award whom he nominated, and that he had left all the details of the affair to Miss Esther Lnpe. That lady also was a witness, but gave the committee little satisfac tion. It Is feared the American pub- attaches small Importance to this , .icular investigation. I N THE wheat stntes of the North west and especially in South Da kota the financial situation is becom ing so serious that government agen cies are moving to the rescue. A number of banks have closed their doors. Eugene Meyer, Jr., managing director of the Wnr Finance Corpora tion, went to Minneapolis to confer with Twin Cities bankers, and the corporation prepared to open a branch Immediately In Sioux Falls. Mr Meyer said: “ Fundamentally, the economic conditions in South Dakota \\ arrant absolute confidence in the future of the state.\ President Coolldge, in a special message to congress, presented his program for relief for the wheat farm ers. His recommendations include; Passage of pending legislation em bodying the so-called Coulter plan for a $50,000,000 fund for lonns to assist wheat farmers to diversify their activ ities. Extension of the War Finance Cor poration, which under present law can make no lonns after March 31, until December 31. Refunding of the pressing past due indebtedness of farmers in the terri tories most severely affected through co-operation of creditors. Restoration wherever helpful of Impaired capital of banking institu tions in the distressed sections. Creation by private capital of a substantial financing corpora n to assist in the plan of reorganiz.. ,on. MONTANA NOTES TREASURE STATE TALES TERSELY TOLD A small cut on a forefinger incurred while building fence developed into blood poisoning and caused the deuth of Callie M. Wilson, a farmer living near Luther. . Twenty-two bob-cats, 4SÍ) coyotes, five mountain lions and two wolves were killed by government trappers in the state during the past month, ac cording to the report of the govern ment predatory animal inspector. With but 19 exhibits in the recent poultry show at St. Paul, fanciers from Glendive won 17 ribbons. There were 2,000 birds entered in the show and Glendive poultry raisers are justly proud of their record. Petitions carrying 0,000 names hnve been filed requesting a special election to determine the sentiment of residents of Silverbow county for or against consolidation of the government of Butte a Silverbow county. The i .e of $20,000 in school bonds was approved by the taxpayers of Sweetgrass at a recent specini election. Improvements in the C. M. & St. P. shops at Missoula to the extent of $90.- 000 will be made this spring. When Ed Eyetnun, one of the patrons of the district, drove up to the Fall Creek school, near Livingston, recently to deliver a load of coal he saw smoke coming from the roof. .Investigation revealed the building on fire. The teacher, Miss Evelyn Tocher, marched her children out of the building to safety just before the roof collapsed. The building and equipment were en tirely destroyed. More than half a million barrels of oil have been produced in the Kevln- Sunburst oil field since its discovery in 1922. Of that total 452,579 barrels have heen run through the Illinois Pipe Line company's lines and the remain der used by local refineries. A. O. Tweed, formerly cashier of the Banking Corporation of Montana, at Helena, was arrested by deputy sher iffs in Los Angeles on a telegraphic warrant charging him with receiving deposits in an alleged insolvent bank. George W. Cnsteel, former president of the same institution, was arrested in Los Angeles last week. George I,. Ramsey, manager of the Central Copper company, at Dos Ca- bezns, Arizona, wns arrested in W il cox, Arizona, charged with receiving money in an insolvent bnnk in Lewis and Clark county, Montana. He wns released under $5,000 bond to appear in Montana when wanted. Cumberland Matador, a Shorthorn hull, said to he the “best hull that ever came to Montana,\ has been pur chased to head, as sire, the pure bred herd of the Chnrles Anceney properties near Salesville. The animal wns pur chased from Miller and Sons, of Gran ger. Mo., and has heen on exhibition at Bozeman. The purchase price ran well into four figures it is reported. k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ OVER T H E G R E A T D IV ID E * * * A Concise Recount o f Montana Pioneers Who Have Come to the End of the T r a il k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k G EN.’ LEE CHRISTMAS, one of the western continent’s most pic turesque characters, died last week in New Orleans of pernicious anemia. An engineer on a fruit company s road in Honduras, he was forced to take part in a revolution there in 1S97, and liked it so well that he became a sol dier of fortune and devoted his time thereafter to the frequent upheavals in Central America. He was wound1 ed seven times and escaped assassins a score of times. BARTLES—Fred Bartles. aged 89 years, who settled in the vicinity of Rig Timber in 1875, died at the home of his nephew, Henry Schrneder, on the Sweet Grass. W A L S II— William Walsh, formerly state inspector of mines and national secretary of the old Western Federa tion of Miners, a resident of Montana since 1885. died nt his home In Butte. .N I X —William J. Nix, chairman of the Musselshell county commissioners, who came to Montana with the North ern Pacific in 1879 and located near Roundup, died at the Mayo hospital In Minnesota. BRUOKERT— Albert Brnckert, 83 years of age. who come to -the state In 1.803 from Denver and was the first barber to locate In Virginia City, died at Long Beach. California. He was ■burled'ln^Wttrth Sulphur Springs ceme tery. READ—William Read, well known druggist of the western part of the state, who pushed n hand cart across the plains with the Mormon discover ers of Sait Lake and a year later mi grated to Montana, died at his home in Los Angeles. He wns in business in Anaconda. Rutte, Columbia Falls and Knlispell during his residence in the state. SMITH—Mrs. Benjamin Smith, who, with her husband, settled at Rnders- hurg. near Townsend, in 1S82, died at her home in thnt place. k k k k k k k k ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - f t - k k k k ★ ★ Montana has more miles of ★ ★ electrified railroads than any -* ie other state. ★ • k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k Big Game Multiplying Propagation of big game has been so successfully conducted in Bison Park. Montana, by the national bureau of biological survey thar the park Is now overpopulated. Only sparsely stocked with parent animals at first, herds have now increased until there are 5G1 buffalos, 400 elk. GO mule deer. 20 white tail doer, and 20 mountain sheep. All are American stock, except the mountain sheep, which are Cana dian and which were only recently started with a dozen received from Banff Park. T AUTO IN Roundup Residents Pinned Beneath Car Becked o ff Em b a rkm e n t Escape U n injured k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k k While returning from Lnvinn ★ ★ one evening, the automobile in k k which Mr. and Mrs. John Gran- k k ville of Roundup, were riding k k stalled on the hill west of the ★ k W. G. Jarrett farm. In hacking ★ k up for a new start, Mr. Gran- k k ville ran the car over an em- k k bankmerit. It fell backward and ★ ★ hurled itself In the snow with ★ k its two occupants underneath, k k Unable to liberate them- ★ ★ selves, Mr. and Mrs. Granville ★ k slept all night under the oar k k and the following morning sue- ★ ★ ceeded In digging themselves ★ ★ out. Mr. Granville walked to k k the George Dempster farm, k k while Mrs. Granville went to * ★ the Jarrett place for aid. Neith- k k er was seriously injured. * ★ * ★ ★★★★•*■ k k k k k k k k k k k k k C A P IT A L C IT Y S N O W D R IFT H ID E S FO R T U N E IN PEARLS nigging pearls right In the main street Is an unusual procedure, even In Helena, where wealth Is quite com mon and found In unanticipated places, but M. D. Chntfield Is engaged in that occupation. Recently Ills wife lost a string of pearls. No trace of the prop erty wns found until a pnrt of the string was returned to Mr. Chatfleld with the Information that it lmd heen picked up In front of a business house. A search of the spot revealed a few more of the jewels and then, with sev eral others missing, Chatfleld proceed ed to dig up the ice and snow in the gutter with the intention of melting it down, and, if possible, restoring the string intact to Mrs. Chatfleld. GHOST TO W N IN G L A C IER P A R K A T T R A C T S TO U R ISTS A dilapidated structure containing rusty machinery is all that remains of an erstwhile dream of wealth— an abandoned old stamp mill of a once famous Rocky mountain gold mine— on the shore of Cracker lake in Glacier National park. Hundreds of thou sands of dollars were spent on this mine in the early 90’s before til’s gion wns established as n national park. It turned out that while there was plenty of gold in the ore, the process of extracting it wns too costly to make the venture profitable, so it wns abandoned. The ruins of the old town of Alt.vn lie a fpw miles down the canyon and tales of the riotous life of this mining settlement are now retold by guides taking tourists through the park. In this town the most attractive remnant is the bar of the “ Gulp Gulch’’ saloon. Tourists gather nround this and eat their lunches from it, washing their food down with the sparkling water from McDermott creek which flows nearby. BIR D REFUG E E S T A B L IS H E D IN T H E JEFFERSO N V A L L E Y Through an order of the state fish and game department, a district em bracing about 17,000 acres in the vi cinity of Pipestone Springs, In the Jef ferson valley, has heen set aside ns a bird refuge. It was petitioned for by the owners of the land and is designed to give native feathered game as well as Chinese and Hungarian pheasants, quail, etc., a chance to increase and stock the Jefferson valley und con tiguous territory. C H ILD PUTS ON “ T IN C A N \ H A T ; IS A S P H Y X IA T E D Mrs. Wylie .Howell, wife of a ranch er near Dillon, found her baby, Beulah unconscious with a kerosene can pressed down over her head. Tin child died before medical aid could he rendered. Beulah, aged a year and a half, had heen left to play In a room alone. She apparently selected the kerosene can as n toy, nnd drew It down over her head. It had been part ly filled with kerosene, nnd It is be lieved the vapor asphyxiated her. Another Game Preserve The Elkhorn Springs district near Dillon is to be mnde a game nnd bird preserve if plans formulated and being worked out by Dillon men prove suc cessful. A petition Is being circulated which advocates the plan, and there seems to be no scarcity of signers. Members of the Dillon Rod nnd Gun club, and the Beaverhend Anglers' club nnd others interested in the project are sponsoring the movement. The petition will be sent to the state game commission. T E R M IN A L M A R K E T PRICES O f Interest to Montana Producers Week Ending Jan. 2G. MINNEAPOLIS GRAIN—Wheat. No. 1 Dark Northern, $ 1 . 21 % : corn, 73%; oats. 45 % ; barley, 8 0 ; rye, 06%: flax, $ 2 . 54 . CHICAGO LIVESTOCK— Cattle, $7.50-$9.50; hogs, top, $7.35; lambs, $13.G5; ewes, $S.25. PRODUCE—Eggs, 39% ; potatoes, $1.35. t = > ? K State Capital N E W S ASSESSORS M E E T TO DISCUSS T A X M A T T E R S W ITH nearly every county In Mon tana represented, the assessors jf the state held their annual meeting In Helena. Due to the senate’s not having adjourned, the meeting wns nekl in the governor’s reception room at the state house. It had been in tended to meet In the senate chamber. The assessors convened in this meet ing under provisions of the session law of 1923 which requires them to- meet every year with the state board of equalization. J. W. Walker, chair man of that board, presided. The meeting is provided by law for the as sessors to confer with the state board and to receive instructions on fixing tlie assessment of inter-county prop erty. The meeting of the assessors will continue Wednesday. Governor Dixon in addressing the assessors expressed pleasure because of the complet representation of the state and pointed out the difficult tasks Imposed upon the assessors, who are the officials that are required to provide for the state’s revenues. He also mode a comparison between the system provided for by the state tax commission which he considered an improvement over the old system when the board of equalization was com posed of five officials who were chiefs of the state house departments. R O L L C A L L ON S T A T E F A IR VO T E T H E'FO L L O W ING roll call shows how the members of the house voted as to whether the state fair should continue as Montana’s greatest ngr ilturak advertising medium, or whether it should close shop and pro claim to the world that Montana is bankrupt: Ayes—Andrus, Arnold, Barnard, Ber ryman, Bohling, Bray, Buell, Carlson of Gallatin, Cavanaugh, Clarke, Cronk, Davis of Fergus, Davis of Wibaux. Dean, Denny. English, Flynn, Fulsher, Gullirlge. Hamilton, Harris, Hawley, Holton, Joffray, Johnson, Kelly of Sil ver Bow. Kennedy, Kenyon, Kinvtlle, Larson of Richland, Lease, Leavens. Lemmon, Lohle, McCormick, McLeod, Maury, Murphy, Mushhaeh, Myrick. Nelson. Oker, Pope, Rodgers, Sclmrni- kow, Seidensticker, Smith, Spencer, Stoddard, Strange, Swift, Taylor, Troy, Wold, White, Znclc, Mr. Speaker—57. Noes—Armstrong, Benedict, Bosley. Brnndjord. Burke, Buttelmnn, Cady. Carlson of McCone, Dell, Duffy, Elli ott, Fncey, Goodman, Hanson, Hoff man. Kelly of Pondera, Larsen of Sher idan. McCarty, Perrine, Pilgerain, Rnsinusson. Ridle, Roscow, Ruffcorn, Smethurst, Stoner, Terrett, Tierney— 28. Absent nnd Not Voting—Andrew, Baker. Bergstrom. Boorman, Brieker, Buchanan, Cnplis, Cowley, Glllln, McAfee, O’Connell, Os thy, Peden. Sandy.—14. D IX O N P U T S O K ON S IX T E E N SESSION B IL L S G OVERNOR Joseph M. Dixon has signed the remaining 14 hills passed by the recent legislative assem bly. I-Ie4 had previously signed two hills. The .total appropriated In the 10 hills Is given ns $0,456.655.67. The hills, ns introduced in the amounts ns left by Governor Dixon after his veto, carried $0,40-1.107.37. There wns a net reduction of $7,511.70 by the special assembly, aside from amounts substi tuted therefor by the assembly general appropriations to he used for the com pletion of a building at the insnne asy lum. $40.000, nnd of a building at the state tuberculosis hospital $10.000 nt Galen. From the original total, too. the legislature paid several deficiency claims incurred by the regular session. M E M O R IA L ASKS A ID FOR CROW C H ILD R E N A MEMORIAL asking congress to require the Indian bureau to pay for the schooling of Crow Indinn chil dren in Crow reservation school dis tricts, was forwarded to Washington r>y file state legislature. In 1920 the- federal congress gave the-state of Mon tana some school lands in the Crow- reservation, conditional upon Crow Indian children being schooled with white children. This threw the ex pense of 131 Indian children upon the white school districts, at a cost of from ?200 to $300 per child, and the districts have, because of adverse financial conditions, been without money to meet this charge. M O N T A N A SECOND IN S ILV E R O U T P U T G OLD and silver production of re fineries of the United Stntes last- rear showed substantial increases over :he preceding 12 months. Figures on production of silver by- states nnd territories are given: Ariz. _$ 5.930,062 Mont. 11,637,030 Calif. 3.067.374 Nev. _ S.G15.740 Colo. .. 4.597,822 Utah _ 10,020,074 Idaho 6,422,240 NEW F E D E R A L JUDG E V IS IT S C A P IT A L C HARLES N. PRAY of Great Falls, who has heen appointed Montana’s- second federal judge, was In Helena listening in on judicial procedure in Judge George M. Bourquin’s court. The trial was that of a man charged- with making liquor. As there will probably be several trials of tills kind during the next few years, it is gener ally conceded that Judge Pray could do no better than observe this kind o i a case.
